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GENERAL CHEMISTS, --
AND
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Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 19TH DECEMBER, 1881.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-MONDAY, DECEMBER 19TH, 1881.
nonsensical rigmarole, about land- lord's privileges in distraining, for reat, &o. He concludes his commu- nication in the following strain :—
Heaven, and the other place. We should readily give the China Mail'a correspondent the benefit of any doubt which might exist as to his bond fides, if we did not so completely There are other advantages enjoyed see through his little game. His by the landlords of this flourishing diplomacy is coarse, and wanting in Colony, bat I need not mention then. tact, and his literary style is so un-
Ou the whole I think that buying pro- mistakeable that it must have been party in this Colony is a safe invest- in one of those moments of weak-inont, and no fear noed be outertuinel
that its value will depreciate, ness to which all great men are oc- casionally subject that he ventured to thrust his precious head right into the lion's den.
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"The man of many names mits that Mr. Alford's remarks re the sales by public auction of the two properties alluded to above," are in- teresting and instructing," but he considers that "there are some facts which should be mentioned in con- nection with those sales." We ra-
ther incline to the belief that Mr. Alford gave us all the facts we are ever likely to get on the subject. However, since "A.B.C," puts him- self to the trouble of spinuing a yarn, we may as well give it as much publicity as possible. He states:--
It was known that the sales wore or dered by the Mortgager, and it was supposed by many that they would be withdrawn at the last moment, as we
Vico-Adeniral G... O. Willes, CB, paid visits this afternoon to the Prince Pogarchy and the Stesch.
The visitors to the City Hall Musoum for the week ending 18th December were:-European, 233; Chinese, 2,201. | Total, 2,431,
We observe by the Government Gazette of Saturday last, that a new table of postal rates will come into operation on and after January 1st 1882.
p.m.
Now for a fow facts. It is not lation of the Colony is increasing by tendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. that true, even admitting that the popu- We are informed by the Superin-
thousands every year, that the num- the Venetia with the next English Mail ber of houses in the colony for Chi-left Singapore for this port yesterday nese are limited. It is positively the 18th instaut at 5 ridiculous to assert that any wealthy Chinaman will invest in houses when he can obtain double and some- or land to return him 5
times treble that rate, with excellent security, without the least difficulty. We read in the China Mail a few
per cent.
We are informed by the Agents, Mesars. Gibb, Livingston & Co, that the steamship Benldi left Singapore for this port on Saturday last, and is das here on Christmas Day.
The Russian frigate Prince Poyarsky, Captain Tirtoff, arrived here yesterday, and after anchoring sulated the port, the admirals, and the various flags represented by the men-of-war now in harbour.
The distribution of prizes at the Public School, St. Paul's Cobage, will take place to-morrow, Tuesday, at 11.30 a.m. If he can possibly arrange it, .. the Governor has consented to present the prizes,
The Fly, 4, double-scrow composit e gun-vessel, arrived here this afternoon froin Foodbow.
Some 500 Chinese of various occupa. tions assembled in the compound at the Central Police Station this morning, as candidates for the temporary lukong force, which it has been decided to or- ganise to assist in keeping the peace during the stay of the Detached Squad- год. We understand 60 men woro Be- lected a few days ago, whịch, with the 100 picked this morning, ought to meet all requirements. Some of the old lukongs have ventured to express their opinions that they will have more trouble keeping those "special oon- tables" in order, than with the rest of the native community.
VICTORIA REGATTA.
for the first few strokes the boats were
strictly level. After rowing about a hundred yarde Fisher and Angier, who were pulling in excellent form, took a slight lead which they gradually in- creased to the half distance, where both their opponents were in difficulties. From this point the leaders drew clear away, and, rowing steadily to the end, won with consummate ease from Levett and Murray by about eight lengths, Raok and Holliday were beaten off, Time, 8.27.
The third of the trial heats to decide the competitors for the Ladies' Purse, was rowed over the mile course, from Yow-mah-tee to a boat moored a few days back that a Chinese millionare was coming from Java to invest one
hundred yards past the Government million dollars in the purchase of
Coal sheds, about five o'clock on Sator- day afternoon. houseproperty. Was that statement
The two seconds in made with the intention of causing a
the previous day's trial were opposed rush by excited gamblers on the many
by Ruck and Holliday, who, with the eligible properties at present on the
advantage of weight on their side, were market unable to find purchasers, or.
supposed to possess an undeniable. what was its aim? Was it merely a
chance of success. Levett and Marray had also admirers, a report that Angier the ubiquitous "A.B.0"? It seems "feeler" to open the door for
had strained himself during his hard race against Sampson on Friday, ap- exceedingly like it. When weal-
We are enabled to state that au apparently extinguishing the prospects thy Chinese intend spending a peal has been allowed against the recent
of the light-weights, notwithstanding million dollars in house property, or decision in the case brought by the Act- that they had exhibited, far and away in any other class of business speculaing Oom nissioner of Customs against the best form in the first heats. There tion, they do not generally publish the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
was a good deal of delay in getting the their intention in a public newspaper. Corporation.-Hingn News.
three boats in line, and as it was blow- We know one energeric " party in The steamer Meath came out of the ing quite cold on the water the whole this colony who purchased (f) certain Coinopolitan Dock yesterday, making of the competitors must have been property for something like $22,000, room for the American barque Ceylon, start was effected, the whole of the oare nearly ohilled. Eventually a good and re-sold (?) it within a few days for and the British_barque Lota. The $29,000. This was a splendid busi- German barqne Harmins and the Bri- striking the water simultaneously, and ness-on paper. Gambler No. 1 of tish barque Irazu were docked at course paid bargain money ม่ specu-
Kowloon on Saturday evening. The lator No. 2 had no money to deposit, stenuship Tannadice was undockel at and as he failed to obtain a third Aberdeen this morning, aud the Ger
man barque Occident went into dock. dupe at an advanced rate he grace- fully retired, and left the original purchaser chewing the cud of bitter reflection. As the property if put up to public auction would probably realise about $12,000 at the extreme outside, it is not to be wondered at that "A.B.C" and other interested Our readers have doubtless often parties are trying their hardest to read in the Londoù newspapers about stem the torrent, And they will try a very common trick practised by in vain. The bubble is completely "sharps" on the ignorant portion burst, and house property is bound of the community, called the "con- to find its proper level. A celebrated fidence dodge." The person who English Judge once left the whole of signs "A.B.O." in the China Mail, his fortune to the nation to be ap- is evidently trying on the "confid-plied for the purpose of clearing off
There is a statement in one of the ence dodge with those residents in the National Debt. A brother lawyer Osaka native papers that the Princes were tattooed in Kioto during their re- on hearing of this remarkable bequest cont visit to that city. So many an- Hongkong who have any interest in landed property. Although we have observed that his learned friend nouncements of a similiar kind have it before us in black and white that might just as wisely have attempted been made-probably an average of two the two properties sold by public to stem the Thames at Blackfriars operations for each port the Princes vi- auction on Friday last had deterio- Bridge with his full-bottomed wig.sited that it is hard to conjecture how rated to the extent of 41 per cent, in The application of this anecdote to one case, and 47 per cent. in the the case in point is obvious. "A.B.C's" othor, on the prices paid only a few inspired communications to the China months ago, this man has the bare- Mail have about the same chance of facedness to assert that in his belief reviving a mania for house-proper "after the present difficulty about ty, that the learned author himself getting money is over, the high value has of succeeding to the Dragon
Throne. of property will not only be main- tained, but will still rise, though not so rapidly as before." If the public have any doubts as to the identity of this "artist,"--which is hardly likely,
after the present difficulty about getting money is over, the high value of property will not only be maintained, but will still rise, though not so rapidly as before.
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know is often done in such cases. Thus, Bone persons who would have gone to the anation did not take the trouble of "A. B. C.," the gentlemen with attending, and, as I am told, the attan- many aliases, who during the past danco at the auction was not large. few years has had the free use of the When the result of the sales was known col mas of tho China Mail for his
a friend of mine expressed his regret scurrilous criticisms (?) on most pub-
that he was not present at the auction, lic questions, has had the impudence as he said he would have given four or to set himself up as a competent
five housand dollars more than each of the two lots had fetched. The present authority on "Landed Property." In the last issue of our evening com-
time is not a good opportunity for sell- ing property, as some imprudent persons temporary he comes up to the scratch smiling, acting his old rôle of chases, and they are now looking about have recently made some heavy pur. the wolf in sheep's clothing. When
for money to complete them, bat Ican- the house property mania was at its not believe that the value of landed pro- height in this colony, fostered and
perty in Hongkong has gone down da- encouraged, we regret to say, by the ring the last few months as much as 40 pusillanimity of our local contem- per cent, as the tendency of Mr. Alford's poraries (for reasons with which we letter would lead one to think. Ou the are perfectly acquainted), we repeat-contrary, I am inclined to the opinion that edly pointed out to our readers that the whole business was a gigantic sham and swindle, and quoted facts within our own knowledge to prove our assertions. We publicly pre- dicted in these columas, months ago, the inevitable end of the gambling in property, and who can deny in the face of recent proceedings that our opinions have been verified to the letter? Mr R. G. Alford's doubts as to the genuine character of the extra linary rise in the value of pro- perty were published so far back as May last, and, notwithstanding that this gentleman's views were serious- ly called into question, as he expres- ses it himself, experience has prov- ed that they were well founded. It is a fact that Inland lot 202 in Queen's Road, was purchased in the sumner for $35,500, and sold on Friday last for $20,500, showing a clear loss of $16,000. It is also true that Inlal bos 929 in West Street, Taipingshan, bought a few months back for $18,000, only realised at public auction $9,500. Surely these actual transactions speak trumpet tongued for the naelves, and must convince all unbelievers, if still
any exist.
As that very worthy gentleman, he late lansatal Sunnel Butler, ex- presselit in his "Hudibras "
their attention" is directed to one or
two idiosyncracies in the China Mail. Who is the correspondent to our evening contemporary who uses the editorial "we"? What well-known "He that complies against his will, public character uses the expressions --Is of his owà opinion still,”
we have purposely italicised in the Now that is the exact position evid-
above quotation so frequently, that eatly taken up by the enterprising they have become part and parcel of "A.B.C.," otherwise "X.YZ," &3. himself? Who is it? Why "A.B.C."
" Old Salf interest is apparently at the
"X.Y.Z."
Resident": bottom of this miserable huckster's and a score of other aliases. feeble and fruitless attempt to further
"A.B.C." favors the readers of the gull a public whose eyes have been evening print with what he terms opened rather rudely to the true cha- his "reasons" for entertaining the belief that property will still rise. racterof a body of rascals who have for months past been fattening at the They are briefly: the population of A.B.O." Hongkong is increasing by thousands expense of honest men. may possibly be a good enough sort annually; the number of houses in of man-as men go in these dread the colony is limited, consequently ful times--one of those unique cus- reat is high; the wealthy class of tomers who takes up an opinion Chinese have begun to invest their rightly or wrongly, and refuses to money in landed property in the Co- be moved one way or other by, all lony as it roturns 5 per cent, per an- the combined elements in Earth, num; and a long ungrammatical and |
The Gazelle announces that H.B. the Governor has, in accordance with the provisions of section 6 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1875, directed that Christmas Eve, Boxing Day, Tuesday, Dicambar 27th; and Monday, January 2ul, be observed as public holidaya throughout the whole of the Govaru neat Dapart ments.
The usual annual meeting of the members of the Club Luisitano, for the purpose of electing officers for the ensuing year was held on the evening of Saturday last. The following ren-
tlemen
were elected :-Committee; Mesare. M. C. do Rozario (President), J. L. §. Alves, Antonio dos Remedios, J. P. da Costa, (H. Secretary.) C. Danenberg (Hon. Treasurer) and Financial Committe-Messrs. J. A.
dos Remedios and P. A. da Costa, Au litors: -- Movara. A. F. Alvos and
A, A. dos Reme lius.
there can be any more space left for fur- ther puncturings. In the meantime it is very unlikely that anything of the sort has occured at all, and the old saying, "assing is believing." is peculiarly ap-
plicable.-Hiogo News,
The Bazaar in aid of the Asile de la Saints Dufance was hold in the City Hall on Saturday afternoon. H.E. the Governor accompanied by Lady Hon
easy, arrived shortly after 2 o'clock, the band of the French frigate Themis playing the National Anthem as H.E. entered the building. Immediately after entering St. George's Hall, His Excellency declared the Bazaar opened without any formality, and in com-
ping with his young son paid a visit
PYGMALION AND, GALATEA,
The Willard's Wanderers Company made their third appearance before a Hongkong audience, at the City Hall, on Saturday night, in the famous my. thological comedy, "Pygmalion and Galatea," originally played at the Haymarket Theatre, London, when Madge Robertson, Buokstone, W. H. Kondal, and Howe. appeared in the cast. The body of the theatre was well filled, and there was a fair sprink- ling of theatro-goers in the dress circle. The comedy is founded on the well- known story of “The Monarch of Fair Cyprus Iale" who, wearied of beauty's wanton amile, but still wishing some- thing to love, retired into seclusion, where he modelled a statue of surpass- ing loveliness, which he prayed the Gods to inspired with life. The Gods of course answered his request, but the story is too well-known to require detailed description. The performance on Saturday night, although somewhat ambitious considering the limited re- sources at the company's command, was in many respecta creditable to all concerned.
Miss Beresford is entitled
to the honors of the performance, her laten showing a great deal of dramatio very intelligent impersonation of Ga
power. Mr. Willard, although not quite a Pygmalion to the manner bora, proved himself a thoroughly good and versatile actor in a rôle quite differ- ent to his usual line of business. The
to the various stalia, at most of which The official trial. trip of the cruiser he was a liberal purchaser. The stalls Fuh-man-tsai, built to the order of the were arranged most conveniently on Imperial Chinese Castorns by the Hong- all the four sides of the room, and the kong and Whampoa Dock Company, display of the numerous fancy, useful Limited, cune off on Satur lay after- and ornamental artioles was 6 most minor female characters were oredit. noon. Mr. Woodruff, Commissioner of artistic ons. Lady. Hennessy was inably filled, Miss Vernis showing ability Customs at Canton, and Mr. Mundo, charge of the refreshments, and the as Cynison, while Mesdames Lyle and Harbour Master were on board rope-other ladies assisting were Mesdames Carlton strengthened the cast as Daph- sonting the Customs Authorities; and Ackley, Anton, Coron, Cloath, Fraser- ne and Myrine; but the amateurs Mr. R. Cooke, Acting Secretary of th Saith, Fleming, Gonsalves, Horrmann who assisted were hardly up to the Dock Company and Capt. . Burnie, Lemaire, Mayer, Alinada-Remedios, mark, and the representation suffered Surveyor for Lloyds were also present. Rozario, Scott, Squier, an1 Vogel, The trial was ran through the Ly-ea-large aumber of visitors were present repeated this evening.
The comedy will be
moou Pass six miles out and in, and | during the afternoon, and we are glad proved a complete success. The vessel to learn that the proceeds of the sale steamed the first half of the journey will amount to a considerable sam. 6 miles 1 furlong-against the tide in The Bazaar will be re-opened at two 32 minutos, and the return in 28 mi- o'clock this afternoon, when it is hoped nates thus making 121 miles within the the whole of the artiolos romaining hour.
unsold will be satisfactorily disposed of.
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in consequence.
We must bora romark that the pay- ment at the door of a dollar does not eutitle persons to distarb either audi- ence or actors; the former attend the
theatre to see and hear, the latter are attempting to gain a livlihood, and we trust that the next time the few wite,