to doplore the loss of a large num bor of men, instead of ono 'coolie, is meroly a lucky chance, Had the roof fallen in a little later in the day, when the moss-rooms and canteen were open, the whole of the occupants of the building would most certainly have been killed or seriously injured. Au inquest will ho hold to-morrow on the body of the unfortunate man who has lost his life, when it is to
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4mm, 1881.
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LATEST COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE.
Tuesday, October 4th, 1881.
One o'clock P.M.
Wo very much regret that the gallant commander of the Chawo lost his life whilst pursuing the brigands to their fastnesses on land, His body, which had been lying in the long-boat of the Cha-w for eleven days, was brought up to town this afternoon, and the Customs flag was lowered to half-mast. Captain Yoop-foo was a Cantonese, spoko English very well, and was much liked by all, both foreigners and nati- bo hoped that the whole circumves, who knew him here. The pirate stances connected with the case will chief is reported by two of his prison-uod rate.
ers to have boon wounded by a ball in be closely inquired into.
the chin and knoo. The Cha-wo and Yuan-kal have returned (not having comploted their task at all) for rein forcements we must suppose, as they can hardly havo ran short of ammuni- tion. It is a great pity, and I think a polish off this rufian and his band. shamo too, for them not to be able to
THE NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE. COMPANY.
The following is the Report for pro- sentation at the seventh ordinary meet. ing of the shareholders, to be bold at the offices of the Company, Shanghai, on Wednesday, the 12th instant, at 2.30 p..
The directors have pleasure, in pre- senting to the shareholders thoir report together with the audited accounts and balance sheet of the company for the half-year ended 30th June, 1881.
-1850,-Since the date of the last mecting the dividends then sanctioned lavo been paid, viz., Tls. 75 per share -Tls. 75,000, and 25 per cent. return to the contributing shareholders Tis. 275,848.92. The balance to the croit of this year as shown by the annexed accounts is Tls. 66,500.94, payments
of claims since the 30th June amount to Tis. 11,304,72, leaving Tls.53,496.22 representing the undivided profits, and it is hoped that salvages to be received will be sufficient to meet any further claims which may arise.
The directors propose, with the con- currence of the shareholders, to close the accounts for 1880 as soon as prac- ticable, and would recommend that, of the sum then found available, one-thir! he placed to credit of the reserve fund and the remaining two-thirds be dis- tributed as an additional bonus return
in proportion to the premia contributed by the respective shareholders.
1881. The business for the half- year under review is considered satis- factory, there being a balance to be carried forward from the working account of Tis. 413,688.18 to the credit
of the Company.
RESERVE FUND.
The amount of this fund, it will be noticed, now stands at Tls. 238,600,
There are not afow idle but hold hands
glad to have a brush with this gentle in Shanghai who would, doubtless, be Luan: for much less than $5,000. The Cwa-Using has not returned yet.
THE VICEROY OF INDIA.
The Weekly Register of August 18th gives an appreciative and anthontic sketch of the Marquis of Ripou's career, the writer showing in many of its do tails a thorough acquaintance with his subject. This periodical, which now ranks as the organ of the Roman Ca- tholic laity, has evidently come under. the direction of an editor who must command the confidence of the influ- ential classes of the community whose views he apholds, for there is a spirit of enterprise and improvement now visiblo in every pago, while it is said that many of the contributions are from the pen of Cardinal Manning. The writor gives an account of Lord Ripon's family, and meations that he is a des- condant of John Hampden on his mo- thor's side, and of Oliver Cromwell on his fathor's, the boy finding, neverthe- less, a godfather in George IV., after whom he was named:--
"The future Viceroy never went to
chul, bat.educated himself with the aid of tutors. A great reader, he has hud the regret in taking office of noces- sarily curtailing the time once devoted to books. His mind early took a poli- tical bias, and he found his way into
A fair amount of small transactions have been recorded since we last wroto, although no movements of importance have yet taken place. There was a slight. run on Docks yesterday after- noon, and they jumped, after sales at of shares changing hands at the last- per coat. premium, to 45, a number
However, buyers wore soon tired out and the stock closed very weak with plenty of sellers at 14. So far as we have been able to ascertain, there has boon no business done this morning. Chinose Insurance showed rather better buyers offoring 305, without, however,
which changed bauds at 975, and we inducing holders to soll. one small lot of Hongkong Fires
done this morning in China Fires at quote this as the closing rate. Busi- noss to a very small extent was also the old rate, 295 per share. Steam.
We traced
boats and Banks have not been on-
quirol about; bat IIotels are in do- mand at 113, and we fancy business may be arranged this afternoon at a slight advance on that rate. Sugars have hoon dabble in at 160 per share, but there are still sollers who would be glad to close if offers wore forthcoming. Other information will be found in apponded list of qustations, corrected up to time of going to press.
Shares.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Sharos-112 per cent. premium, Sellers.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS. Oct. 3, Pei-ho, French stoamer, 2,078, Pasqualini Shanghai 1st Oct., Gonoral.-Mossagorios Maritimes
Co.
Oct. 3, Fu-you, Chinese steamer, 920, Groad, Shanghai 30th Sept., Gen. oral.-C. M. S. N. Co.
Oct. 3, Cleveland, British steamer, 719
N. Harvey, Keelung 30th Sept. Coals. Jardine, Matheson & Co' Oct. 1, Chen-to, Chinese gunboat, from
Ly.es-moon.
Oct. 4. Breconshire, British steamor.
Williams, Singapore 27th Sept., General-Adamson, Bell & Co.
DEPARTURES.
Oct. 3, Hardwick, British steamer, for
Oct. 3.. Mirzapore, British steamer, for
Shanghai,
Europo, &c.
Oct. 3, Cheang Hock Kian, British str.,
for Singapore.
PASSENGERS.
ARRIVED.
Per Fr-you, Chinese steamor, from Shanghai, 66 Chinese.
DEPARTED,
Per Pei-ho, French steamer, from B. Carreaux, F. Pontoiannel, Mr. and Shanghai.-For Hongkong, Moss rs. Mrs. Miranda, and 3 Chinese; for Saigon, Mr. Losvoabes; for Naples, Mr. Union Insurance Society of Canton-Otto Auz; for Marseilles, Mr. F. Green.
$1,670 per share ex dividoud, China Traders Insurance Company's
Shares-$1,600 per share. North China Insurance Company-Tis.
1,125 per share. Yangtsze Insurance Association-Tls.
830 per share. Chinese Insurance Company, -$305
per share, Bayers. On Tai Insurance Company, Limited —
Tls. 150 por share.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Company
Shares 975 per share, Sales.. China Pire Insurance Compay's Shares
-$285 por share, Sellors. Hongkong & Whampoa Deck Com- pany's Sharos-44% promium,
Sellers.
for Singapore, 784 Chinese.
Per Cheang Rock Kian, British str.,
Per Mirzapore, British steamer, for Europe, &c. From Hongkoug for Southampton,, Mrs. Windram and 4 children, and Mr. W. Hudson. From Shanghai for Southampton, Messrs. Bornoz, R. C. Wales, W. Harrison, J. Wilford, and 13 seamen.
TO DEPART.
Per Hoogly, American ship, for Now York, 1 European.-
Mr. Groenberg and 3 Chinese.
Per Emuy, Spanish str., for Manila,
Por Darlington, British steamer, for
after crediting it with Tis. 60,000 in public life in 1849 as attaché to Sir Hongkong, Canton & Macão Steam Singapore, &c., 20 Chinese..
accordance with the resolution passed at the last meeting..
DIRECTORS.
Mr. David Brand and Mr. A. G. Wood have been elected members of the court in the place of Mr. Willian Braud and Mr. A. McLeod resigned, which appointments require the confir mation of the shareholders.
HEAD OFFICE PREMISES.
The lease of the Company's premises having expired and renewal of the samo being found impracticable, it was deem. ed expedient to secure the property by purchase, which it is hoped will meet with the approval of the shareholders; the cost thereof will appear in the accounts for the current half-year.
By order of the Court of Directors,
HERBERT S. MORRIS, Secretary,
FIGHT WITH PIRATES NEAR NINGPO.
Tho Ningpo correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, writing recently to that journal, tells of a fight with a des. parate band of pirates in which several lives were lost, including the captain of the Imperial gunboat Oha-wo. These frays are happily of rare occurrence in the present decade, but the story plainly shows that the spirit which was rampant in the days of Messrs. Mah-chow Wong, Sam Kwei, Eli Boggs & Co., many years ago in the South, still remains, if only in remuant form,
in the North:-*
Henry Ellis's special mission to Bras
sels. Three years later he enterod Parliament for Hall as an advanced Liberal, and afterwards sat for Hud- dorsfield and for the West Riding of Yorkshire. He first distinguished himself by the admirable manner in which he organised the Voluntoor. movement when Under-Secretary for War, under Lord Palmerston. After- Wards, while Secretary of State for India, he did equally good work, and gained experience of enormous value to him in the post he now holds. He served as President of the Council in Mr. Gladstone's Administration from 1868 to 1873.
Lord Ripon's mission
to Washington on the Alabama disputa during that period will be well remem- bered. It was not thought at the moment that the bargain struck with the United States Governinout was one very favourable to this country, but, as time has proved, is has bound Eng- land and America together in bonds of amity, which a pact more flattering to ourselves might have failed to do. Lord Ripon, though the heir to splen- did titles and broad lauds, was always proud of his position as a representa tive of the people; and when he was summoned to the Upper House as Earl of Ripon on the death of his father in 1859, he playfully complained that he had been disfranchised. In the aume year he succeeded his, uncle as Earl
de Grey, and bore the double title of
Earl de Groy and Ripon till he earned NINGPO, 27th September..
his Marquisate in 1871. At that date In my last I wrote you that a
be had beon-married exactly twenty certain pirate Wang or chief had
years his wife being Henrietta, oldest. been making his presence unplea-- sautly folt in our neighbourhood ro. daughter of the late Mr. Henry Vyner. While in office Lord Ripon has been cently, and I now write to report not a little aided in making his party that the Chinese ram gun-vessel Cha-wo, together with several other popular by Lady Ripon, who was al- gunboats and mandarin junka, have ways a favourito with society, and few been engaged with theso pirates, bet crowded with sympathetic guests than recent receptions have been inore ween the 1st and 25th instant, at and round about Tai-chow Bay; most of the fighting had to be dous in boats as the water was so shallow. The gan- boats lost about twelve men, they say, bat, as usual, have, of course, killed scoros of the pirates, from all accounts,
hors."
The fact that women who wed once and who are widowed are apt to wed again, only proves the force and the ovil of habit.
Loat Company's Shares--$25 per share premium, Sollers. China Coast Steam Navigation Cora-
pany-Tis. 162 por share. Hongkong Gas Company's Shares —
$85 per share. Hongkong Hotel Company's Shares
SHIPPING REPORTS. The Chinese steamer Fu-yew, from Shanghai, roports left Shanghai on the $113 por shace, Buyers. 30th Sept., had light and moderate N. China Sugar Refining Company, Li-E. winds to Turnabout; theuce to port
mited-160 per share, Salos.
had fresh N.E. monsoon and cloudy. China Sugar Refining Company (De-
boutures)-3 per cent premium. Hongkong Ice Company's Shares
$1274 per share, Sellers, Hongkong & China Bakery Company
Limited-$50 per share. Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1878-14 promium, Ex Int. Chinese Imperial Government Loan
of 1881-34, premiam.
OB LONDON,-
On
Exchange.
3/83
Bank Bills, T.T., Bank Bills, at 30 days' sight, 3184 Bank Bills, at 4 months' sight, 3/9 Credits, at 4 months' sight,... 3/93 Documentary Bills, at 4
months' sight,... PARIS,--
Bank Bills, on deinand,
3/9/
......4.67
Credits, at 4 months' sight, ...4.79 On BOMBAY,- Bank, T.T.,
On CALCUTTA,
Bauk, T.T.,
a SHANGHAI,
Bank, T.T.,
Private, 30 days' sight,
223
223
722
734
Hongkong Temperature. (Taleen at Messrs. Falconer & Co.'s
....
82.
81;
Register, Queen's-road). HONGKONG, 3rd & 4th Oct. 1881- BAROMETER- P.M.
..29.964 .Do. 4 P.M.... ...29,950 THERMOMETER- P.M.
Do.. 4 P.M..... Do.
1 P.M. (Wet bulb) 75, Do. 4 PM.
Du. 75. BAROMETER-9 am.
.80.032 THERMOMETER-) A3, ....78. Do, 9 A.M. (Wot bulb): 76.
MAILS.
The following mails. will close:- To-day, 4th October,-
For Hoihow and Haiphong, per
Brutus, at 5 p.m.
To-morrow, 5th October,-
2.01.
For Nagasaki and Yokohama, per Malacca, at 11.30 a.m. For Straits and Bombay, per Geelong, at 11.30 For Swatow, Atuoy and Foochow, per Thales, at 5 p.m. On Thursday, 6th October,-
For the United Kingdom and Eu- rope, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Bur- mah, Ceylon, the Australasian Colonies, Pondichery, Madras, Cal- cutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar, par Peilo, for printed matter at 10 am, and letters at 11 a.m. For Bangkok, por Danube, at 5 pm.
On Friday, 7th October,-
For Amoy, per Diamante, at 11:30
"
***
On Saturday, 8th October,-
For Saigon, per Pernambuco, at4.30
p.m.
On Friday, 14th October,-
For Kobe and Yokohama, por Ni-
igata Maru, at 3.30,
.p.m.
On Saturday, 15th October,-
For Japan, San Francisco, the United States, Canada, Honolulu, Peru, &o., per City of Polving, at 2,80
p.m.
MacEWEN FRICKEL & Co.
GENERAL STOREKKEPER), ŠO. TAVE FOR SALE.
HAVE
Groceries.
Crosso & Blackwell's, Colebrated House- hold Storos.
John Moir & Sons', Colebratod House- hold Stores,
American Stores of all descriptions. Huntley & Palmer's BISCUITS & CAKES, BUTTER, Danish French, Philippe
& Canaud's PATES &..
CHUTNIES & CURRY ∙POWDER, TEYSSONEAU'S
FRUITS in juice.
COFFEE, SUGAR, &c., &c.
Wines, Spirits, &c. CUTLER PALMER & Co.'s "CARTE BLANCHE." HEIDSIO & Co.'s MO- NOPOLE, pts. and qts. ADOLPHE COLLIN'S BOUZY CABINET.
MUMM'S (JULES) CHAMPAGNE
. pts. and qts.
NEYEN'S (BODEN) BOUZY,
pts, and qts.
EXTRA SEC, quarts. Charles Heidsiecks's WHITE SEAL, pts. and qts. VEUVE: OLIQUOT PON- SARDIN. pts. and qts. Theophile Roe- derer & Co.'s VERZENAY MOUSSEUX, pts. and qts.
Krug's CHAMPAGNE, pts. and qts.
OUTLER PALMER & Co.' CHAT- EAU MOUTON, LORMONT, pints,
and quarte.
ARAUZAN (Chateau), pints and quarts, ERMITAGE LUDON. THIBŒUF (Chateau), pints and quarts. CHATEAU LAROSE (Curcior & Adet's),"
pints and quarts. CHATEAU LAFITE, pints and quarts. IRES GRAVES, pints and quarts. BREAKFAST CLARET, pints & quarts. OLD INVALID CLARET.
St. JULIEN, &c., &c. Breakfast Claret.
Burgundy, Hock, Sherries, &c. Chambertin, Chablis (White), Liebfrau
milch, Hockheimer, Niersteiner, Stein-
berger Cabinot, Rudesheimer Berg, Koninia Victoria Berg, Chateau Yquem, Grand Vin, Haut Sauterne Marsala, Saccone's Palo Dry White Seal Sherry, Yellow Seat. Amontilado Sherry, Cutler Palmer
છે.
und Co.'s Sherry, Invalid
Port (1848), Hunt's Port.
Brandy, Whisky, Liqueurs, &c. 1, 2 and 3-star Hennessy's Brandy, La Grande Marque Brandy,
• Cutler Palmer & Co.'s
Brandy, Rouyer Guillet & Co.'s Brandy,
1 to 4 stars; Finest-Old Bourbon Whisky, highly recommended, Kinaban's LL Irish Whisky, Jamieson's Irish Whisky, Royal Glendee Whisky; AVH Gin, Swaine Boord & Co.'s Old Tom Gin; La Grande Chartreuse, Green and Yellow, Maraschino de Zara, Curaços pints and quarts; Angostura, Boker's and Orange Bitters,
&0.,
&c.,
&0.
BASS'S ALE, bottled by Cameron and Saunders, pints and quarts. GUINNESS'S STOUT, bottled by E& J. Burke, pints and quarts. PILSENER BEER, in quarts. DRAUGHT ALE and PORTER, by
the Gallon.
Fine ALE, bottled by MacEwen, Frickel & Co. ALE and PORTER, in hosgheads*
Erated Waters. SODA WATER,
LEMONADE,
TONIC WATER,
SARSAPARILLA,
&c., &c., &c.
The Finest Stocks of CIGARS, CAVITE CHEROOTS, PRINCESA CHEROOTS, PRINCESA CIGARS, AROCEROS, VEGUEROS,
&c.
&c., "PERFECTION" All Specially Selected. EMPRESS OF INDIA, and Best NAVY.
STATIONERY, BOOKS &e.
"Franklin Square" Library,
Seaside" Library,
Harper's Half-hour Sorics.
French Novels.
Medical Works.
School Books.
Presentation Books.
Works of reference &c. Stationery for Ladies and Office use. Direct from the manufacturers the best
and Cheapest in Hongkong. Special orders in this line excuted on
very moderate terms. Papers ruled to any pattern and stamped
Plain, cameo or relief. Dies engraved to order. Office requisites
of every description. Milner's Fire Proof Safes, Cash and Doed.
Boxes, Brushware. Outlory, Crookery, and Glassware. Builder's Hardware material, Sporting Guns. Revolvers and Sporting
ammunition,
Sailmaking and Rigging promptly, exu-
gubed.