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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-FRIDAY, JULY 8TH, 1881.
practically, under all Governors, although of course all representatives of the Queen do not achieve the same amount of success or popularity; which by the way, are two very dif- ferent things. It is indisputable that, casy going Sir Arthur Kennedy, at- tained a degree of popularity amongst Europeans in Hongkong which Sir John Pope Hennessy can never aspire to, although it can hardly be doubted, assuming that both men did their best for the colony-cach one ac- cording to his own respettive concep- tions of his duty to his Queen and the British Empire-which of the twain has been the more successful in governing Hongkong, according to Downing Street ideas. We are prone to lose sight of the fet, that what we have frequently considered Governor Hennessy's irritating and uncalled for interferences, not only in the various government depart ments, but with institutions such as the City Hall Library and Museum, have almost invariably received the support and sanction of his superiors at home, which points out the pro- bability that a good deal of what has rightly or wrongly been termed an invasion of inherent European rights, may have been directed by the Secretary of Stato. At any rate, it cannot be denied that. Governor Hennessy's policy, which has been condemned there in the strongest terms, can claim to have received the, approval of both Convervative and Liberal Cabinet Ministers.
couple of days previously and little was known about him. While at work on the forecastle, in an exposed position, he was suddenly struck down with sunstroke and expired soon after. He was about thirty-six years of: Inquest has been ordered by the Coron- er to be held on the body at the Gov- ornment Civil Hospital this afternoon.
age.
An
Wo understand that the whole of the
shares of the proposed Trainway Com- scheme, will be offered to the public, pany, e. the amalgamated low-level and that no appropriation of shares will be made to any favoured few. This course of action is, we think, most fair and straightforward, and is a proof of the bona fides of those promoting the scheme. Indeed, the promoters, so far as we can see, are merely running what preliminary risk there is, for no- thing-public spirit and a desire for the improvement of property generally being the only motives apparent. The promoters of this scheme might almost command success.---China Mail.
and when such is not sufficient to meet the undertaker's charges the balance has to be paid by the Cap- tain of the company, or troop, to which the man belonged. We are therefore glad to see some action is about to be taken by a practical soldier to put an end to such a dis- graceful state of affairs. Things, however, were much worse than this
We are glad to hear that news of a few years ago In the old days of reassuring, character has reached the soldiering each man on joining the copy regarding the condition of Ge- head quarters of the late Honour-neral Garfield. From a cablegram able East India Company's Servico which arrived in London on the 6th at Warley, was mulcted the price of just. he was said to have decidedly im his coffin from the amount of his proved. This would seem to indicate enlistment bounty; and Her Ma- that some hopes of his ultimate recovery jesty's troops on arrival in India, are yet entertained in America. Jamaica, and the Bermuda Islands, had the same charge made on their pay at their first monthly settlement of accounts after landing, This was taking time by the forelock with a vengeance, a grim satire on the niggardliness of Great Britain to her hardy sons, which, despite the serious- ness of the subject "cannot fail to raise a smile, but was most certainly ill calculated to inspire the men with any degree of confidence in their foreign service prospects; in fact, they were treated as if there was no possible hope of their being ever able to leave these foreign stations. Nor was this all, for we have even heard men make complaint on their return (The verdancy of our evening con- to England, that the cost of the coffin temporary is quite refreshing. Busi- which they had paid for, and whichness men will hardly be surprised to fortunately they had not required, learn that the whole of the shares had not been refunded to them. will be offered to the puble, instead We have no trustworthy information of being appropriated to a "favored as to whether, when men died in few." Tramway shares, with a very front of the enemy, and received remote possibility of a five per cent the scant but only burial the cir- return, are scarcely good enough for cumstances of a campaign permitted, the favored individuals referred to. the amount formerly charged for How throwing the whole of the their coffins, but not expended, was shares in the market of what, on the ever credited in their non-effective face of it, is a profitless speculation can be a proof of the bona fides, and accounts.
straightforward course of action of the promoters, the China Mail does not condescend to explain. The vague allusion to the "preliminary risk" (what is the preliminary risk?) is another emblem of journalistic innocence." The promoters of this This will prove a considerable scheme might almost command suc- addition to the soldier's income un-cess," as our contemporary observes, less an equivalent reduction in coin but they seem determined to try the is made, as on the occasion when experiment with other peoples'money. the free ration was sanctioned. The If our readers are anxious to know free ration consists of 1 lb. of bread why the promoters are running all and lb. of meat per diem, every
this risk (1) in the public interest, other article, vegetables or gro-
they might gain some information ceries, having to be provided by the by perusing a letter written to the ill timed interference in what was men's messos. Prior to this, 4 d. Shanghai Courier, which we re-pro- not a Government institution, lay at per diem was charged, certainly not
duce in our correspondence column. the bottom of the mischief. Although an exorbitant price, but when the Ed. Hongkong Telegraph.) His Excellency's fition, so far as the free issue was made, a reduction of Museum is concerned, has been nearly that amount was made in the sanctioned by the Secretary of State, Regimental Pay of all ranks, and, it is really a very paltry matter. from the term "free ration," the pub- That Sir John Hennessy has vindiclic generally believed that the sol- ated a principle there can be no dier received every article of food at doubt; but it may be gravely ques-
the cost of the State.
:
We cannot but think that the troubles in connection with the City Hall Library and Muscum, have been magnified into ten times the amount of importance they deserved. The whole business has been a storm in a teacup a difference certainly; but only a difference in sentiment. It will hardly be asserted that, had the City Hall Committee acquiesced in the wish of the Governor and thrown the Library and Museum open every day to all classes of ratepayers, the Europeans would have suffered any real hardship by the concession! We sometimes, not very often, look in at these admirably kept institutions, but we rarely meet any Europeans; therefore the objections raised to HONGKONG, 8TH JULY, 1881.
Chinese were simply founded on The despatch from the Earl of sentiment, and cannot be maintained on any other grounds than a wish Kimberley to H. E. the Governor, to be strictly exclusive; and if we referring to the memorial addressed
mistake not, a personal irritation at to the Secretary of State for the Co-what was considered the Governor's lonies by the Hon. W. Keswick, on the subject of the City Hall Museum, which appeared in our yesterday's issue, must have come upon a good many, as it came upon us, in the light of a great surprise. It appeared to us, judging from press utterances, and the general expression of public opinion heard everywhere where the subject was discussed, that Mr.
tioned whether it would not have been more politie to have allowed the 'change, which was inevitable, to gradually take place in its own good time; the more especially as the concession gained in the teeth of European opposition is practically of comparatively trifling value to the
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A still further resolution in the fol- lowing terms is to be moved: "That the customary food of a sol- dier shall be entirely provided by the State, and not as at present, partly by the State and partly by the sol- dier's daily pay."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The following is the programme selected by the Band of the 'Royal Iuniskilling Fusiliers to be played in. the Botanic Gardens: this evening:-
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LATEST COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
Friday, July 8th, 1881.
One o'clock F.M.
We made allusion in our yester- day's commercial article to a large business in Banks which was im- pending, and which we were then unable to particularize. There was a large commission on the market to procure Bank Shares for September, and it was partially executed during the day, 500-at-109 being secured. ..........Faust. The buyer was ready to go on, but Gavotte..." Imperiale" Valso ..." Dolores"............ Waldteufel. he could not be further accomodated Selection Il Trovatore". Verdi.at the price, We have also to record Valse ...Autumn Flowers"...Werner. a few transactions in this stock at
Thos. J. Hassard, Band Sergeant.
March The little faded Flower" Hecker,
Overture Zampa
.......Herold.
We hear that the general repairs to the Spanish transport Legaspi, now in the Cosmopolitan Dock, will amount to
Keswick's memorial was almost cer- tain to receive the favorable consi- deration of the Downing Street au- thorities. We are much afraid that in this Colony far too much import- ance has been almost invariably at- tached to the weight which the names of even the most influential of our local magnates, would be
Chinese, and as the mode in which likely to have, attached to any do-it has been obtained is not unlikely cuments, differing from the expressed to engender bad feeling among the policy of the local Government, for-
opposing classes. warded to headquarters. This has been proved times out of number in late years, and never more cous- picuously than on the occasion of our great open air demonstration, when resolutions, passed by almost the entire European population of Hongkong, received the scantiest of a soldier's funeral shall not be meed of consideration possible from defrayed: as at present, by a first the magnates of the Colonial Office, preferential charge on the sum real- It cannot be denied that this isised by an auction of his under- not a very satisfactory state of things clothing (the cost of which has al- for our influential residents, to whom ready been deducted from his pay), the colony owes so much of its pre-
from or any savings he may sent prosperity; but as Crown Col- the Regimental Savings Bank; but onies are governed on general prin- that all soldiers shall be buried at ciples of a most autocratic character, the cost of the State." and which permit of no outside in- terference, there is very little prospect of any change for the better, until the system of government is entirely altered. It is exactly the sAMO
The following resolution accord- ing to the latest homo, papers to hand, is shortly to be moved in the House of Commons by Major-close on $13,000. General Burnaby :
That the cost
have in
At present it is the practice to de- duct the cost of the coffins of men who died in Her Majesty's service from their hard-earned savings, oven to the disposal of their personal effects,
A meeting of United Service Lodge No 1341, will be heat this evening at 7.30 for 8 p. precisely. In addition to the ordinary business of the Lodge, thoro will be initiation and raising. Visiting brothron will as usual receive
cordial welcome.
103, and also at 1033 cash. Banks are now firm at 104 premium, and no sellers at that figure. Docks remain moderately firm at 56, a few sales having been booked since we last wrote, without altoring the quotation- in any way, although there are still sellers, for cash. Sugars are very weak at 178, and it would take very little to send this stock to a much lower figure now that the shares are once on the downward line. In yesterdays' issue wo stated that China Fires had been sold at 300 Ex Div; this of course was a slip of
The list of sudden deaths which have taken place amongst us lately is still being added to, and another falls to be the pen, and should have been recorded as having occurred on board Chinese Insurances. A few China the American bark Xenia, Reynolds, Fires have been sold at 295, and Mastor, on Wednesday afternoon. The they are still on the market at docoased in this instance, F. 1. Jonson, that price. Hotel Shuros remain as a Swodo, bad only joined the ship a before, and nothing, has been done
in Steamboats since we last wrote. The Ice Company's stock stands at 1271) and a few sales were bookedő ► yesterday All information respect- ing stocks not mentioned in the fore- going remarks may be gathered from appended list of corrected quotations.
Shares. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Shares-104 per cent. premium, Buyers. Union Insurance Society of Canton- $1,625 per share ex dividend. China Traders Insurance Company's
Shares-$1,700 per share, North China Insurance Company--Tls.
1,135 per share. Yangtsze Insurance Association-Tis.
820 per share. Chinese Insurance Company, -$300
per share, Ex. Div. Sales. Ou Tai Insurance Company, Limited-
Tls. 148 per share. Hongkong Fire Insurance Company's
#
Shares- $1,000 per share, sellers. China Fire Insurance Company's Shares
-$295 per share, sales. Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Com,
pany's Shares-56 per cent prem, Sales,
Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steam-
boat Company's Shares-$31 per share premium, Sellers. China Coast Steam Navigation Com-
pany-Tis. 162 por share. Hongkong Gas Company's Shares-
$82 per share. Hongkong Hotel Company's Shares→→→
$97 per share, China Sugar Refining Company, Li-
mited-$178 per share, Sellers. China Sugar Refining Company (De-
bentures)-3 per cent premiam. Hongkong Ico Company's Shares
$127 per share, Sellers. Hongkong & China Bakery Company.
Limited-$43 per share, Sales, Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1874-(Nominal). Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1887-(Nominal).
On LONDON,-
Exchange.
Bank Billa, on demand,
3/82
Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight, 3183 Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, 319 Credits, at 4 months' sight,... 39 Documentary Bills, at 4
months' sight, ****
On PARIS,
Bank Bills, on demand,
3/9
.469
Credits, at 4 months' sight, ...4.79 On BOMBAY, -—-
Bank, 3 days' sight,...
2253
On CALCUTTA,—
Bank, 3 days' sight,
225
72
On SHANGHAI,-
Bank, sight,
Private, 30 days' sight,
Hongkong Temperature.
(Taken at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s
Register, Queen's-road).............
HONGKONG, 7th and 8th July. BAROMETER-1 P.M..........
.29:892 Do.
4 P.M................29.870 THERMOMETER-1 P.M............89.
Do. Do.
Do.
4 P.M.............90.
1 PM (Wet bulb) 83. 4P.M. Do. 82.
BAROMETER-9 a.m. THERMOMETER A.M.
.29.958 ..85.
Do 943 (Wot bulb) 81. Do. Maximum
.90. Do. Minimum (over night) 83.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
July 7, Dolo, British steamor, 645,
Thompson, Bangkok, 29th June, General Tong Fat. July 7, Fu-yew, Chinese steamer, 920,
Groad, Sanghai 3rd July, 4.30- a.m., General--C. M.-S. N. Co. July 7, Yec-Tay, Anamese, 1200, Les
Tung Tak, Kwang, Man, 1st July, Sugar &o.
July 7, Ping-on, American steamer,
175, A, B, McCaslin, Haiphong 2nd July, Pakhoi 4th, Hoihow. 6th, and Macao 7th, General, Russell & Co. July 7, Chen-to, Chinese guuboat, from
a cruise.
July 8, Hoikow, British stonmer, 890, TShaw, Chinklang 3rd July, Rice.-Butterfield & Swire,