A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,
GENERAL CHEMISTS,
AND
Manufacturers of the following AERATED WATERS, viz: -SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA,
AND POTASH, LEMONADE,·· GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
Deliveries in Town and Harbour from
7 AM to 7 P.M.
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Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.
HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
.HONGBONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,
SHANGHAL
CANTON DISPENSARY,
CANTON.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, JUNE 24π11, 1881.
piece to their expenditure? Any concession of the nature referred to, was however distinctly refused; and consequently dozens, we might al- most say hundreds of householders, who, would gladly have paid a reason. able rate for gas, were compelled to content themselves with kerosene and other oils. The Chinese are pro- verbially the most conservative race of people on the face of the earth, and possibly on account of their, almost invincible prejudices against foreign innovations and inventions, the support they have accorded the Gas Company, has throughout been of the most lukewarm description. But is it not reasonable to infer that
practical John Chinaman, notwith- standing his reputed conservatism, would have jumped at the chance of getting gas on his premises, could he have effected any saving in his household expenditure, or received any palpable advantages by favoring the change? It is of course under- stood that we are referring specially to the shop-keepers, or middle-class, as no man it his sober senses would recommend, the introduction of gas into the wretched hovels of the "howers of wood and drawers of water" of our community. past history of Hongkong clearly enough indicates that the approval of any foreign introduction amongst the Chinese, has become a simple question of profit and loss, and it is therefore on purely mercantile grounds that this Gas question should be argued. Now why should be such an expensive commodity in this colony? Coals are a principal
gas,
The
ras
in the manufacture of agent
and as a matter of fact, good coals can
chased some time ago by the same. gentleman-are intended for a simi- lar purpose.
A meeting of the Legislative Coun- cil will take place this afternoon at 2.30.
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We would remind our readers that the Band of the 27th Inniskillings will play in the Publie Gardens at 5.30 this afternoon.-
The German corvette Freya, 8, Kap- itain-Lieutenant von Lepel-Gnitz, left yesterday forenoon for a crise.
"
The s.s. Cleveland went into the
many or too large nails; 4. Applying shoes too small and removing the wall of the foot to make the feet fit the shoes; 5. Rasping the front of the hoof. The shoe should give the foot a level natural bearing on the ground Calks are hurtful, and may easily be dispensed with if the shoes have a concave ground surface, and the frog is allowed to come fully in contact with the ground."--
Having some practical knowledge of the subject we can heartily endorse Mr. Fleming's remarks so far as they go; but they hardly go far enough
"
for
our rather extreme views. Agreeing with the well known writer Free-Lance," we consider horse Cosmopolitan Dock last night, and shoes, in úny shape or form, except- theMitsu Bishi Mail Co's s.s. Niigata ing in special cases of break-down, Maru was docked at Aberdeen this
such as a strain of the suspensory morning. The Meath goes to Kow-ligament, as an unmitigated nuisance, loon on Monday,
We beg to state, in answer to numerous inquiries from shipping firras, that our special scale of charges for Shipping Advertisements, which has been fixed at a uniformly low. rate, is now in the press, and will be circulated in the course of a day or two.
.
There have been rumours, floating round the Colony for a considerable. time, that a project for the establish ment of an opposition Sugar Refinery, supported by Chinese money and under Chinese auspices, but to be directed and managed by Europeans, has become un fait accompli. We are unable to trace the origin of the report; but as we happen to know that an engineer, who was for some considerable time in the service of the East Point Refinery, has lately gone home commissioned to select a complete plant for a Sugar Refining Establishment, we consider it likely that in this instance, rumour does not lie.
LATEST COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
Friday, June 24th, 1881.
One o'clock P.M Bauks are again on the downward line, for although a few cash sales at 104 were booked yesterday afternoon, there are shares on the market this morning at 103, with no buyers at that figure. It seems difficult to understand why this particular stock has been fluctuating to such an extent lately, and oven gentlemen. who have the reputation of being inspired, appear unable to account for it. One of the supposed acute division offered to bet yesterday that Banks stood at 130 per cent premium before the end of the year. He may be right in his belief, but struck us at the time that a really sharp man, if he had good grounds for actually believing what he so confi dently asserted, would have quietly invested the money he was anxious to wager, in the Stock at its present quotation. Nothing doing in Docks, although there was some talk yester- day of business at 59 for the end of August, which, however led to no The following interesting para-practical results. The Hotel. Com- graph is taken from one of the Sanpany's Shares are again firmer, aud Francisco newspapers A
sellers at 95 are not numerous, or some transfers might be arranged. All other stocks remain at nominal quotations.
and their general use totally unne- cessary. They are frequently the cause of breakdowns in racehorses, and unsuspected, lay the germs of numerous diseases which are attrib- uted to other causes. One of these days we shall "
open out" subject.
on this
Shares.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Shares-103 per cent. premium, sellers. Union Insurance Society
Canton- $1,625 per share ex dividend.
R. C. Kwong, but who subscribes himself Kwong Ki Chiu on the title- page, is the editor of a dictionary of English phrases, with illustrative sentences. It is the first book of a Chino-American literature which may present some interesting features. The frontispiece is a portrait of a. good-looking, intellectual Chinaman, with a large, round head. Mr. Kwong was a member of the educa-China Traders Insurance Company's tional mission to the United States, Slures $1,700 per share.
1,125 per share. and is also the compiler of an Eng-North China Insurance Company-Tis. lish and Chinese dictionary. The work under review exhibits the un-Yangtsze Insurance Association-Tis.
810 per share, wearied application which is charac- teristic of the Chinese literary class: Chinese Insurance Company, —$312
per share, Sales. There is not a sentence in the book On Tai Insurance Company, Limited which does appear to have been care- fully weighed and examined. It will be found. of advantage not only to Chinese students but to those The promised concession by the
whose native tongue the English is, Hongkong and China Gas Company, Limited, is unmistakeably a sign of
The language so abunds in idiomatic phrases, the original forms of which the times. According to advertise-
have long since been forgotten, that ment, "From the 1st proximo, and
Something very like a burlesque Mr. Kwong's labors cannot fail to be until further notice the charge per 1,000 feet will be $3.50, instead of
on that so-called palladium of British generally interesting. The book is divided into idiomatic phrases alpha- $4 as heretofore. It has taken the
liberty, trial by jury, occurred at a directorate of the Hongkong and
Criminal Sessions, held in a well-betically arranged, colloquial phrases, China Gas Company a very long time the Company through their fears of known Irish city a short time ago. slaug or cant phrases, and various Hongkong Gas Company's Shares-
other phrases and words. We append a sample of each class:.
Songhong Telegraph.
HONG KONG, 24TH JUNE, 1881.
be procured at a comparatively slight advance on home prices. Manual labor is certainly far cheaper hore than in England, and we have yet to learn that the European members of the Gas Company's staff are paid such enormous salaries as to justify a charge of $4. per 1,000 feet for a very inferior article, which can be supplied at home of excellent quality at from the to four shillings, It may safely be asserted that a Board of Directors in Loudon is not com petent to manage properly a business of this description, and in Hongkong it is likely enough that this is the root of the evil. A reduction of 50 cents is certainly a step in the right direction, although after all, it is a paltry concession wrung from
According to American News papers, the United States contains no less than 962 daily papers. Of these 115 are published in New York, and Pennsylvania runs a good second with 98. Some idea of American enterprise may be gathered from the above figures.
The prisoner at the bar, indicted for stealing a mare, appeared on the evidence to have not the ghost of a chance of escaping penal servitude. The jury were, however, equal to the occasion, the foreman in returning a verdict, answered the usual query in solemn tones as follows: "My lord, we find the man who stole the mare, not guilty.”:
to find out, that, by keeping the opposition. That their fears are well price of gas at an unprecedentedly grounded seems certain, as the in- high, and unnecessarily exorbitant troduction of the electric light into rate, they have been simply cutting Hongkong, can only be a question of their own throats, losing thousands a few months. The great improve of dollars per annum by a short- ments recently effected in electric sighted policy, which was apparent lighting by Edison, Siemens, and to everybody but their own sapient others, distinctly foreshadow the selves. As this gas-question appeals general use of the most improved directly to the interests, and the system throughout the world; and pockets, of the general body of our as the movement is daily gaining community we need make no excuse ground, at the expense of gas, in all for alluding to it in these columns. the large cities of Europe and Amer. It is a matter of history that, ica, we may reasonably expect to during the past few years, recom- see a project on foot. here," before mendations innumerable, vivu voce, the close of the current year. Of its and by the medium of the press, adaptability for our colony, if the have been laid before the autocracy newspaper reports are to be credited, who regulate our gas supply, advo- there can be no doubt whatever, and cating a reduction on the regulation as it can be provided at home at a four dollars per thousand feet; but far lower rate than gas, we can con- like the famous laws of the Medes fidently look forward to the time, and Persians, the edicts of these all when our houses will be satisfactorily potent Gas monopolists, were practi-lighted at a nioderate cost. The cally unalterable, It was quite Hongkong and China Gas Company useless explaining that, the various Limited has grown wise and consider mineral oils although considerably ate all at once; but it will be found cheaper, and capable of emitting a that both their wisdom, and their light in every way equal, if not super-anxious desire to please the Hongkong ior to gas itself, were the source public, have come rather too late. of so much trouble to household- ers, and the cause of so much petty pilfering, amongst native ser vants would be almost universally abandoned in favor of the cleaner and more convenient system of light- ing, if the cost of gas could only be brought within reasonable limits. Can it boquestioned that a concession in this direction on the part of the
1. Paring of the solo and frog: Gas Company's Directors would have materially increased their annual re-erly occupied by Easton & Co., as 2. Applying shoes too heavy and of turns without adding, a ten cent an ongineering establishment-pur- a faulty shape; 3. Employing too
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
To take time by the forelock-To make prompt use of anything; not to let slip an opportunity.
Then follow illustrations of various kinds in which in one case at least,
the subtlety of the phrase partly escapes the compiler, viz., "Took time by the forelock starting for China by the next mail steamer-I let no time be wasted, but started for China by the next mail steamer."
;
Tis. 148 per share. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company's
Shares- $1,000 per share, sellers. China Fire Insurance Company's Shares
-$300 per share, sellers. Hongkong & Whanipoa Deck Com-
pany's Shares-54 per cent prem. sellers.
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam- boat Company's Shares-$31 per share premiam. China Coast Steam Navigation Com-
pany Tls. 162 per share.
$82 per share. Hongkong Hotel Company's Shares--
$95 per share, Sales. China Sugar Refining Company, Li-
mited-$187 per share. China Sugar Refining Company (De-
*bentures)-3 per cent premium. Hongkong Ice Company's Shares-
$126 per share, sellers... Hongkong & China Bakery Company,
Limited-$42. pershare. Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1874-(Nominal). Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1887-(Nominal).
On
The Japanese Government, always ready to move onwards with the
Of the hooks-Unhinged, disturb. times, have just made a very sensible speculation, for the purpose of im-ed or disurdered. (a). She had news proving the breed of horses in Japan. last night of the loss of some funds Several Japanese gentlemen, acting and did not sleep much; and this for the Government, have recently morning she is quite off the hooks- purchased at a high figure in Ken-She is quite unhinged this morning, tucky, six thoroughbred colts, which, and mentally disordered because of we believe; are now en route for the the loss of some property and a sleep- "Land of the Rising Sun" It is less night." reported that the freight of the ani- mals from Cincinati to San Francisco amounted to some $600; so that by
Hoodlums (Pacific Coast)-Unor- the time the colts reached Yokohama, they would represent a large sum ofganized gangs of bad, vicious, crim-
inal boys and men. (a) The Hood-On money. However, the Japanese are to be commended for their foresight, lums of San Francisco hate the Chi- as the introduction of thoroughbred nese-The street ruffians in California stock must in a few years greally hate the Chinese. improve the breed of native horses. The real value of such an improve ment can hardly be estimated.
We hear on good authority that
Mr. George Fleming, a great au- the two lots of land at Bowrington, thority on Farriery asserts that the purchased on the 20th inst. by Mr. C. P. Chater, are intended to be shocing of horses is attended by utilised for kerosene godowns. The many evils which may be enumerated Old International Ice Company's as follows: premises, and those adjoining, form-
This is very fair, as is also the following, upon which the Chinese editor was pretty sure to alight,
LONDON,
Exchange.
Bank Bills, on demand,
3/81
Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight, 318 Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, 3/8 Credits, at 4 months* sight,
Documentary Bills, at 4
months' sight,
On PARIS,--
3/9
Bank Billa, on demand, 1 poz
Credits, at 4 months' sight,...4.73 On BOMBAY,
On
Bank, 3 days sight,.
CALCUTTA,
225
Bank, 3 days sight....
SHANGHAI,
2257
Bank, sight,
*
721
Private, 30 daye' sight,
73
We are inclined to think that Mr. Kwong in time will have to enlarge his definition of this word. The re-
Anything new or fresh this morn- mainder of the work must be regarding?" a reporter asked in a railroad": ed as more padding. It consists of office. "Yes," replied the solitary Chinese proverbs, Latin and French occupant of the apartment. That is chronological sketch of it?" queried the reporter, whipping proverbs, the Chinese Empire, with brief bio out his note-book. Said the railroad graphies of Confucius and Jesus, ex- mana edging his way towards the door: "That paint you are leaning against." hibiting, however, no originality or breadth
al, and the reporter is in gaol,- American Paper.
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The railroad man is now in the hospit