Extracts.
KATE.
There's something in the name of Kuto
Which many will condomu; But listen, how, while I raine
The Laits of some of them.
There's deli-Kato a modest dams,
And worthy of your love;
She's nice and beautiful in tram?,
a tantLo pvt leve
Communi-Kate's intelligent,
As we may well-suppose:
Her fruitful wind is over hent
On telling what she knows.
• Thora'a intri Kote, she's an abazare,
*Tio lard to find her out, For obe is often very aure
To put your wise to rant.
Próvari-Kate's a stulburn maid, She's sure to have her way: The conning, caviliniz yoaug jadu
01jects to all you say,
There's alter-Kate-n perfect pest, „...
Much given to dispute;
Her prattling tongue em never rest,
You cannot her zuľute.
- There's dislo-Kate quite in a fret,
Who faita to gain her point; Her face is quite unfortunate,
And sorely out of joint.
Equivo-Kate so ono will woo. The thing would be absurd; She is so faithless and antymo,
You cannot take her word.
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ing Houses, removed from town, per cent. j perennim, Other dwelling House and strict- ly as such, and their contents. Godoins Ofoes, Shops, &6., and
their contents.
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its victims by millione. Now, indeed, the GETTING RELIGIÓN. The Methodista, both whits and black, ont of all life on the earth draws on apace. have a peculiar intonation when they bold The resisting medium, from the increased forth, which is claused by the singular al proximity to the sun, grows rapidly much sition of the syllable "er" to the end of al- denser, and its effect is proportionately in-
is told of one of creased. most every word A
The hont and drought become A story is shows ministers, who, in expatiating upon the more and mero insupportable. Rain and horrora of
dow fall no longer. All springs of water of everlasting condemnation, which doe thoad near the close of their terrestrial Jour-fall, and the rivers dwindle down to ney must expect, Folated to his own gedreamlets, and trickle slowly over their
exclaiming: "Look at that ole man- stong boda. And now scarcity of water is at with one foot in the grazeer, and the added to scarcity of food. Those who escape} but-ar! Bat the chief feature of from the famine perish by the drought, and. all this
worship, i sect, in their forms of
is the those who escape from the drought are singing of hymns; their voices no very revorved for a fato oro awful yet. Tor melodious, and religious nuak (as they un-time indeed the fow remaining inhabitants derstand it) has a pecaliarly fascinating and of the earth are partially sareened from the Exciting effect on them. They have on these overwhelming power of the sun by cecasions no books or instruments: One of
canopy of cloude, From the excessive the ministers, attire in a very long frock etaporation, thick columns of mist coat, with velvet collar, sang out in a clear constantly rising from the surface of every voice four short lines of an extempore bymu, lako and every see, and forming into dense with the refrain, "Oh! don't you believe in banks of cloud, which hang like a funeral pall this word of God p This was taken up at over the dying earth. But soon the sun auce by the congregation, and repeated a scorches up these vapour banks and dissipates great many times occasionally a line of theilen into space ne fast as they can be form. hyun would be changed, but the refrain reed by evaporation. Thou the fiery or shines
As I could not take in out mained the same.
in nuttarable splendour without the the extraordinary antics of all the engimunity lig cloud-wreath to interpose between
lightest once,
I fixed my attention upon a young himself and his victims. Then, truly, the negro woman near me, dressed in a black heavens become as iron and the earth as silk skirt, white muslin body, and ornnuient brass. Then the last denizens of the world ed with a huge chignon, urentopped by a are stricken down and consumed, the last little straw bat, with gaudy ribbons. When traens of organie Hife are blotted from its the singing began she followed her leaders" surface.From The Romanceof Astranomy," at Grst quietly enough, gently beating the by R. Kalley Miler. tine of the refrain with one foot, but the she voraes were being repeated she grad-u- ally beenane excited, her hands and elbows
Yes, Milton was a Puritan; one, who in- teeping time with her feet, then outo, siend of trusting himself, and his hopes of slapping her hands on ber kacs and hips, the universe, to second-hand hearsye, 976 then proceeding to sway from side to side, tams, and traditions, had looked God's Word then to jump up from the ground, her hands and his own soul in the face, and determined and elbows and head still keeping time to the to act on that which he bad found. And refrain,
Oh (with a yell) don't you therefore it is that to o opon bis works at believe in the word of God?" (the tune of stray page, after those offeminate Carolists, which closely resembled that of the Campis like falling asleep in a stifling city drawing- town Races.). Glaacing round the enclosed
Toom, amid Rocaco French furniture, not without untidy traces of last night's ball, in au Alpino valley amid the their dark skins and white eye-balls and scent of sweet cyclamens and pine bougha, teeth prominently displayed by their deli to the mise of trickling rivulets and shutting
Alythwoode The men of this country are geterally dirious excitement, making thou appear like Lunters, boneath the dark cathedral nieles of Gaytaye viled by foreign observers into two great howling demons; but the over inermaing mighty trees, and here and there, above Craigiuri
frenzy of the objent of my special attention thom and beyond, the spotless peaks of ever Cephrones types: First, the athlet, musenter, square-faseinated mo so, that I felt I must watch shouldered type; a sort of reapcetable Guy the crisis of this extraordinary fanaticises by Jasting show while far beneath your feet The hemisphero of earth in clearest kon, „ Livingstaue, strong, stendy, rest, and this time the strings of her but bad. become
Stretched to the ampleat reach of prospect,. ambitious, prebing his way sturdily alongs
lien in the narrow grove, or speciality be loose, and that Blimey covering was hanging
following t Tip over her back; the chignon, selected, riding ferody onward, neither motion of the head it was instened to, bound. Take any-the upst barkueyed passage of looking to the fight nor the left, and crush-
the "Paradise Lost," and seo the freshness, jug, unylap, a few weaker brethren nadered up and down like a self-acting intoxicated Couns, the Allegro," the "Peuseroso door-knockery but the wearer was completely the sweetless, the simplicity, which is atrange his heavy but good fighter and an ho oblivious of personal appearance, and an
corabined with the pomp, the self-restmint, bat possible a harsh, father, a older party, standing by, whose antics were the earnestness of every word: take him even hand. Second, the phlegmatic still in the first stage, calmly placed her as an experimentum crucis, when he trenches type, hey, dull,
dull, overhden
den with adipose hand over the top of the young ncgross's
heathen aud Lissu, au accolator of facts, but utterly head, and, watching her
when upon ground opportunity,
questionable, and trios the Court devoid of the power of generalisation; hence, the
poeta at their own weapons Kuacker Tosu with a jerk, dexterously un-
Or whether (us sume unges sing), a man of great information that fits booked . tid placing it on the best me, The frolic wind that breathes the spring.
iaken at second-hand a good
Zephyr, with Aurora playing: As ha met her once a-Maying, There on beds of violet blus, And frost-blown roses wasbed in dow
There's vindi-Kate, she's goal and time,
esl
And strivea with all bef might
Her daty Bothfully to do.
And butts for the right.
There's rusu Kato, a country tase,
Quite fond of meal sernes
She likes to ramble through the guise,
And through the evergreens.
Of all the muidens you can fail
There's zund like edu-Kotei
Because she elevates the und,
And aims at somebbing great,
WHAT OUR FOREIGN CRITICS
THINK OF US.
on this kind, pleasant, and hospitable in
OTI
MILTON'S POETRY.
square, I saw that most of her co-relity and awaking
indulged in the same expressions of
the
hand then, esntinued her singular devotions, bile the young fanatic's contortions at last
his fat way, a keen nan in business, but becue convulsive arosysms. I havs been
churchgoer, a justice of the peace, mayhap M.P., bet a ball dog withaL-Dickens's All the Year Rouni.
white Methodists get ;
but a
it as oscited
fusta
ly
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At Reported by Chicots in the 29th April, 1870.
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COTTON GOODS,
YARS, No. 6a 2..por pfoul $112.50 à 41200
18 α 82... 1748 12...
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simply' blaid and incapable cut of it, a be- told that ious rites, but I doubt that But why quote what all the world knows? liever in all insafar articles of faith, a steady over their red woman couli'go through hero shall we find such real thirth, ease; Actr
such contortious except, perhaps, in the con vulsions of "tetanus," without breaking her sweetness, dance and song of words in any-Alwa spine. It was almost exhausting to watch thing writtan for five-and-twenty years before America
to him? Tree, he was no great dramatist. Anon the progress of this cingular performance. He never tried to be one: but there was no Auro
Aubbartou which was brought finally to a crisis by the Poverty, nyepleadi" poverty, is by no devotee bounding uy some four feet-from the one in his generation who could have v
to either "Comus" or a Samsou
"Bonnie Dunkeld round, with a wild shriek, her beels almost And if, as is commonly believed, and as his Bun Case touching the back of her head, and fuel countenance seems to indicate, he was heavily to the ground with a thud. At first eient in humour, so were his contemporaries, Condor
hal been inclined to think the girl was
SPLENDID POVERTE
- meins exceptional in this highly prosperous
country, 17 confined to any particular rank in life, audits varieties foron a curious but The variety of its treatment, painful study.
poor themselves--is even more. in-
all
dearer than bread or
I
Insurances.
defi-
0. Christine Conchita
Henry
B. Martin
Chas, Swith
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A. Larrabe
Kroll
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I Running between Canton and Macao.
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:
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Brandao & Co
Formosa
however, lay there most interested-ikutamaning, but when three wonen laid hold with the solo 'exception of Cartwright. Created Ware
of the prostrate body as they would a corpse, Witty he could be, and hitter: but he did Day Dan sinactive. In London alone, a floating DAS and carried it out of the enclosure to a neigh. Dot live in a really humorous age; and if he Don Eariqne of over ove hundred thousand men, women, and childreu, of their hapsemiosite openly proclaim aring tent. I'leant over the girl, and foli bas none of the rollicking fun, of the fox. Ellen Rickmers
her eyes and Leeth were bound pappy, at least he has none of the lowed a little way and enjoy the hospitallow ities, in one form of the other (so denly gaite sbut, white foum escaping from berolecone gibber of the ape-From prized RAV our coroner), of their respective ps, and her nails almost dug into her and Parilans," by Charles Kingsley. workhouses. Of sonras the provincial guests clenched bands. There was no imposition
Blanket, It is understood that the French Guvern. Heru auubor by
hundreds of ore. She would be laid out on a many
meat will not do mnel to support the approach. Iuverde avio het hend and lips bathod, and left to recovering London International Exhibition, but will Jenug tamaande. But when we consider the very
Jessie MoDonald many obstimits and incorrigible pour, who, in her swoon, rising from her prostration devote its energies to the Vieans Exhibition.
THE SAN JUAN BOUNDARY-A message has Kedar Like our needlewomen, steel their hearts bruised and weak, but envied by her kind,
walio because
she had got religiou !"-Front been received from Her Majesty's Minister at Kien-Wei against, the guardians' float-pols, the aruy
· Our American Cousins at Home."
Washington reporting ibat the abarts defining Lola grows into a countless host of living skelo-
the San Tush water boundary were signed on tous, thinly but decently covered with the
the 30th March. *kin of
THE EARTH'S CHANGES. Moriely.
For nicat (and God knows they are dear enough) The term in which the final destruction of,
forsitare,"
the cup of
of our earth is spoken of ia Scripture, and the ar the few "sticks of non-cleemosenary tea, the father's Bible, and comparatively short existence which seems the mother's chion, the social pipa not neces to be in Providence destined for it, render it sarily contried to Sunday or Christmas day, pretty certain that this globe at least will and the converse ranging over a wider field ut meet with its doom in the above-men-
THE than fat of stages of me. And eigned tuner (Laplaco's hypothesis.] But Undersigned having been appointed Scotland Agents in Hongkong for theabove Com. See Bello yer they are thin cauugh as they sit there, as aneh an event is not only a perfectly pospany, are prepared to grant Marine isko sten Mew
Shooting Star watering their tow-leaves or their beer, and sible one in the economy of nature, but an arrent rates. Making believe" at eating bulchera-mestasolute certainty supposing that the resist
cut of the doubtful scraps they have collecting medium were allowed time enough to do or but that eling to the fat that they are its work, it may not be out of place to pause still metalers at. The outer world, said to the for a moment and consider what is involved
that
they my one day take a better in such a catastropha Let us think, for pico in it. Foor things!. they do not often example, wint the case would be with our Read the papers, and so are not troubled in own earth, if no speedier destruction were to THE Understgued have been appointed Agent for the above Company at Hong. their winds by crowner's quest law, and it come upon it from so
some yet unanticipated | miraculous Many kong, Canton, Foshow, Shangbai, and Han Obase will cover them all less when Death, and possibly knocking as the door," shall find them “at centuries no doubt it may be many wil.ow and are prepared to grant Insurances at Fort William hrane," and seated in splendour to receivsleniums-would elapse before the most de- Current Rates. HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.
Lope
cause.
hit hovet cult. Who shall presans to least observatious could reveal the working
LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARINE Orade
INSURANCE COMPANY.
AIGUSTINE. HEARD.Co
if 471 mgkong, 6th March, 1869 WANURESTER FIRE ANSUKANUN COW- PANY OF MANCHESTER AND LONDON.
# 1956 Hoogkone, 15th October, 1868.
NOTICE.
Pactole Salvadora
Pehl Hofman James Peter Hartana Silverwright
A. Ergaiaga J. Ollivand Hormazale Holcomb. Goggin J. Kaey Sorandber Mullen
954
Fren, bi 831 Landstein & Co
Amr, ach Brit. bk
Brit, bi
78 B. F. Field
Adu
+A Bols
252 Direks & Kruger 457
197 | B. Vincent & Co
A MOY.
Adella Caroline Coulonkyle Daphne Flensburg
MoCastin Tecn
Happ
Gulm wycen
La port 10th April, 1873.
Brit, ah Amr. bk Gur. seb Brit, b
636, Boyd & Co 334 Boyd & Co 274
Paneday & Cio
279 Boyd & C> 173 Peterson & Co
$65 | Peterson & Co 356
Chinese
Boyd & Co Pasedag & Co 194 | Boyd & Ca
Nor, sch
Koedth
Dan. bk
G. T. Roy
Fraser
Brit k
Hube
Brwon Schierloh Zetterlaud
Nor, hk
44?
Gor. bk Sium, bk
245
Sun Francisco
San Francisco
907 Jardine, Matheson & Co Keelung
165 Vogel, Bagedorn & Co
618
Chinese
411 Chinese-
795 Jardine, Matheson & Co
261-Brandno & Co-
-323 Bourjan & Co
782 Muster---
Sumatra
St. Mary
Undice
Willbela Windward Tronie
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2072 Russell & Co
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Jobanneen Stazzard
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Amir. Ek
Jan
John Adams
Webstor Purebase Stroud
Fren. 5 292 Sicmasen & Co.
RECEIVING VESSELS & HULKS. Pow. Mag 283 | Harbor Master Holk 1000 P. & 0:00
318 Water Police
Fulk
Loniba Meridian
Brauni Georges & fred Forget-me-got Rolling Wave Zieko
FOODHOW.
I port on 18th April, 1873,
Sfaster Master 831 Master
Amr, ach .270 Monter Brit. bg
19 John Silverlock & Co
Jurgensen Oneanon Roost Hall Soaplebora
Ger. bg Fron. bi Ger. bk
107
495
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at
lift the veil from this or that skeleton, and of the ysterious agent. But at
once zacasure the height from which some astronomer dotects
minuto change in
it has fallen, and count the places in which the elements of tho earth orbit which
it is broker? This one was rickety from its cannot be accounted birth, and owed nothing to its rurals but ordinary perturbations, and to is inperfect formation and evil example. Tt to the belief that the resisting motion is and after this date, a Discount of 20
of the
compelled
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
AROM
Name,
Rig.
H. M: S. SHIPS IN THE CRINA SQUADRÓN.
Captain
Where At.
when
was physically impossible for it to earn beginning perceptibly to influence the planet, publicly announced, money make tissue; mind and body This discovery, alike refused to share any responsibility of its could not fail seriously to impress the most future existence with the soul, which had to thoughtless of hearers. The first step has fight the battle of life aloue. And this bus been taken by the earth on its way to a THE QUEEN INSULANCE COMPANY Doro been wastel by an accident, or stripped by Goon as fearful as the imagination can paint, disease. And his other bas had its dainty and as inevitable us the unchanging laws of desh picked off by misfortune, at it is called, nature en make it. Still generation after by the fangs of the law, or, sharper than generation passes away; the end is-visibly THE Undersigned baring heen appointed storact
Agent for the above Company at this Iron Duke serpent's tooth, by those of sozue relative or no usarer, and but for the figures of the port, are prepared to grant Folicies against Fire, Laven
Mendeo friend. There they all bang swinging on astronomers the whole thing might be to the extend of £10,000, un Buildings or ou society's gibbet, their spare clothing dupping denounced as an idle fable. But not the Gooda stored therein, in the wiatry wind, offenders against the 1983
doca the
destroyer fulfil unseen 1983 euroly erood of Manxwor, which counts poverty his mission; and in time the effects
per cent, on the current rates of Frezin
will
be allowed to all contributors.
doub, ec, gun V8.
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120
Comr. Patterson
Shanghai
ROBERT S. WALKEE & Co.,
Agente, loyal Insurance Company, admas 1162: Rongkone. 34th Jane, 1972,
Adverture
ec. st. transport
2
100 In Reserve
Hongkong
Steam Corvette
14
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Hongkong
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doub, eo. ad vi.
4120 Come. J. B. Barnett
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Hospital
Hongkong
doub, so. gun vl.
4120
dodb, sc. iron ab. 14 800 Capt. W. Arthur 'gon-vessel
ordered to Hongkong
Electra
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Harmve
Amoy
80 Lieut. Which
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Military Hospital! —
Hongkong
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Brit, k Brit sh Ger. bl
SHANGHAI.
In pori on 19th April, 1873.
The names of the numerous, steamers. tuja, small craft, and receiving hulke employed on the Yang-tras are not included in this
tabia
Air, bk 510 Chapman, King &Cs
319 J. H. Muck e Amr, k Brit. bik 380 J. 8. Baron Dan. bk Brit, hk
257 315
Ed. Subelibas & Co
Wo. Pustau & Co
542 Morris, Lewis & Co
880 Jardine, Mathieson & Col
497 Wm. Pustan & ̈Oc¬
of
his
to every eye. The
tt 241 Hongkong, 22nd January, 1670.
CHINESE INSURANCE COMPANY,
among her last favourite sins. Aud who work becoms
can tell, as the air stirs the rage which serve sun's disc is
tem for clothing, and shows here and there tensity of biftly enlarged, the in-
be
(LIMITED).
NOTICE
Midge Mosquito Upasu Princess Charlotte Rinaldo Kingdove
and beat are increased, gaunt Exne instead of a well-turned limb, the length of the year is diminished. At what are they feel, and how they shrink first the change of climate is a pleasant and
N conformity with the Special Resolutions Thalio more and more into themselves to avoid grateful one, except between the tropics, and to and confirmed at the Extraor Thistle farther detection and expose? If the evou there it is not so worked as to be very dinary Meetings of Shareholders bold on the Zebra P life a sin, it is, alas, an in- severely felt. But slowly and surely the in- 23rd March and 13th April, altering Clansas he cand of humanity, and we fluence becomes more potent, and when we Nos, 103, 104, 105, 107, and 161 of the Articles should like, in a certain scrise, to ace the look again some ages later, the faces of the of Association, (sach changes to take effect mau, above the scudition of a street beggur, intertropical regions is scarcely recognisable. from Jat January, 1872), the Net Profits of the who would be willing to stand either at the The rich vale of the Nile, the fertile plains of Company will, from that date, be distributed
i Albert Memorial or at Aldgate pump, and the Ganges, the cotton plantations of the as follows, viz.: make public confession that he purse,
bave disappeared; the sandy deserts aguth hia stomach, is but indifferently filled He of Africa and Asia have extended their would, to be sure, infallibly be given into bounds and stretch without an oasis for of custody for (ity thorough in a royal park or in a either side of the equator. The inbubitants Rae case might be; but rolrent, some to the north and some to the neither this, or the consciouses that his south, but the fiery belt between steadily. indirect appeal would be abortive, deters bin pursues them, and mile after mile, league from taking a course which he avoids be-after league, falls under its devastating sway crust simply it would make bin either an Same ages more pass away, and when
or ridiculous. And look again the vineyards of Spain, the olive. of Italy, The fig-gardens of f Turkey, their cities yet stand with sil palaces, their gorgeous
more flao uususpected holes.
are gonglendid
34
tf 718 Nongkong, 17th April, 1872,
CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
N conformity with the Special Resolutions City of Easter
object of public bus to be pitied, be shuas groves much as man ridicule even more, which make us feel that, re after all, shore is a ridiculous side to poverty, their on which the darning and the patching show temples, but they are like Tadmor in adopted and confirmed at the Batrace Lintia
Mr. Scott the wilderness-cities without inhabitants.dinary Meetings of Shareholders hold on the Prince Albert cheapening a herring in Clare-market before Look again, and Mont Blanc has dost hie 1st and 15th insounts-nitering Ulauses Nos. 150, Sea Gull he was called to the bar, and Lord Eldua diadem of snow and rears his head, a bare 131, 139, and 135 of the Articles of Association, Thales buying a salmon at Grove's, after he was cone of granite, above the dry and rocky such changes to take effect from 1st Novem nade Lord Chancellor, are two very different. table land which was once the Merde Glace,ber, 1871), the Net Frofits of the Company will, Georges
ple, although in both cases the immediate Look again, and our own land has, in its from that date, be distributed de follows, vir: object that of reducing hanger by a fish turn, become a burning desert. And now dict--was the same, for a man does not dine the whole inbabitants of the globe are col upon a salmon, whatever he may be suspect lected in two-narrow circles around either ed of doing on a herring. And the inevitable pole. The ice and the snow bare disappear- inference in the former case would be fatal ed, and the frozen plains of Greenland and customer in the eyes of his tradesman, Labrador teem with tropical vegetation. udless he would produce a patent of nobility But the narrow limits of the habitable varth wherein to wrap up the blaster, and convey can no longer support this vast intresse of
home-Tinslegs Alagasina
to the
Two-thirdz 12/3rða) ka all contributors, whe| Lizzie-
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4120 Com Ban.Pitzinaurice Kobe
6 400 Capt.B.E. Woollcombe Eingspora
4120 Comar. H. K. Leat on passage to Fobow
200 Com. Hon. A. Denison Hongkong
FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR IN HARBOUR.
Nation. Tons.
2000 200 0.S. frigate U.S. gan-boat 410
SHIPPING IN THE CHINA WATEES..
Brit. str
180 Agbeong
STEAMERS. 787 | Order Brit. atr 69 Acheong
Bril, tz
81 Lape, Crawford &,00
Brit. str 775 D. Lapraik & Co
SAILING VEREIN.
650 Carlowitz & Co
Brit. ab 691 Aog. Heard & Co
Gen. bk 314 Chinese
205 Arubold, Karberg & Uo
CANTON
H.J.O.M. H.1.0.M. H.LOM. j.b. ELLO.M. g-b. 1.1.0.M.g-b
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ther shareholders or not, in proportion to Rubicon the net amount of premis contributed by each.
Qas third (1/3rd) to Shareholders generally, An-la
according to the number of shares held by Ching-Sing each.
Oben-ti “AUGUSTINE HEARD &.. Chen-to
General Agents. | Chun-hoi if S1 Hongkong, 16th February, 1879. population, and famine begins to mow down
Brikch
g.b.
Customa Chop
Laid up
Melvilto
NATE Hospital
Dr. Loney
Bongkong
NORTON, LYALL & Co.
4120 Comdr. Grant
Singapore
4
60-Lieat. Comiar. Bond
Singapore
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10
-
Lieut. Cour. Fairlie Commodore Sbortt
Hongkong
Hongkong
7 200 Gomr, Farsous
Yokohama
9100 Acting Comar. Dicken
Amoy
Saluwis Teazet
2250Hos. 3. O. Littleton
Amoy
Alexandra Amey Trader
Kubl
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Name,
Two-thirds (rds) to all contributors, who ther shareholders or not, in proportion to the net amount of premis contributed by *egob, One-third (1/3rd) to be carried to the Reserve
Fond.
OLYPHANT & Co..
General Agents.
Hartford
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Shalimar Tiptree
Flag
Vessel,
Captain.
& Trg.
Zons
*Conrignacs.
Destination
WHAMPOA.
Captain.
Eastern Star Ellon Hood Emelie
Abbeti
Harrington
James Taton
Gosher McKenzie Caster
Pr. Halk
Jurgen
R. O. McCauley
Lord of the Isle
Petrie
Byron Wilson
Manitu
Store sh
Maria Luz
Hereitra
Paracoa
Brit. bi
481 | Order
Parmenio
Cocorana
Brit. bk
369 | M. Verney
Stapleton Howell
Holk
1557 Wiluin & Robison
Store sh
1650 P. & C. Co
YOKOHAMA,
In port on 4th April, 1973.
Brit. bk Hulk Haw. bk Dan.. bk Ger. br
Brit. bi
Store sh
Brit. bk Brit. bl
Ger. bk Brit. bk
306 | Order
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350 Order, 214 Order
925 Order. *
$42 Order
1016 Walsh, Hull & Oo M. J. B. N. Hegt. Strachan & Thomaß
400 571
380 Watab, Hall & Co
280 Order 817
Walsh, Hail & Co
369 H. Cook
Peni, br. 870 Captain
SHIPPING IN MANILA HARBOUR.
Versels.
Captain.
Flag & Hig.
Tons.
Consignses.
Aurorita Candelaria.
Span, bx
Span, bk
130 407 F. Hoyra
Swith, Bell & Co
Olarke
Brit.: hk 648 P. Hubbell & Co
Faiza Alhan
Brit, Li
563 D. W. Morton Clark
Gravina
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246 F. Maunz
I. Hermanos.
Span. E
348 J, Lars
Panay
Span, otr 316 F. Reyes
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Span, atr
106 F. Boyes Span. Uk604 | S. Rubido. Span. bt 402 | M. Niete Brit. atr 573 M Pickford & Co
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