"curves of stability "whose clear meaning can anly be got at by the hacking and chopping of logic Those actual facts we have before — na ciently and surely in Hongkong and Manila. as in London or in Cadiz, and they are, 'that ninety-nine steamers out of a hundred are nos consírlerakenfe and scaworthy by experts or by professional seamen, without weight of Hind kind in their holds whether that weight be called cargo, coal, water, or ballast, is of little consequence in this case as long as the terms of the contract did not prohibit its use.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 18.
'epended on this end "giving" to extra pressure, Having cut the cable the Mind returned to the buoy of the first grapnell, pe, and on getting the end on board led it to a great steam winch with a barrel six feet in diameter, when the work of heaving in at once commenced. The drum commenced revolving at half past one in the afternoon and at ten minutes before eight the old cable, which had been laid fully two miles below the surface of the Atlantic for a period of nearly 20 years, was at the hows. Upwards of Iwo miles of the end part had to be piekert ug, and Un Filipin "takes H.M.S. Inconstant as one as it came in around the revolving drum, and example to illustrate his arguments, but is he was stretched along the deck in regular fakes aware that the Inconsinnt has upwards of 300 preparations were being actively put forward by tans of iron slag put into her bottom between the chief electricians for sending a report of their the limbers, in order to effect a greater amount success to London. The telegraph office-a of ability than her lines and model give her? very complete one-was stationed ataidships and --this does not mean that the ship would not on the instant of the end appearing it was stand up without it; it is put into her to make seized, taken into the office, and a long report assurance doubly sure against all accidents and sent through it to the home office; after which the Trials of storm and tempest ;--to make, in fact, the business of splicing in the new length com vessaf senworthy Sea going ballast or weight menced, by one expert in splicing attending to of some kind is, indeed, such a necessary part of the core and neother to the outside yarns. On the a vessel's outfit that it is as requisite as any work being finished and tested the cable was ether part of her equipment before she can again paid out, and the ship headed for a penced to sea; and if this were not so, why shallow part of the Ilanks where picking up should the most eminent shipbuilders at their would be more easy-at the rate of from 3 to 4 vessels to carry as much as 250 tons of water knots an hour, Arriving in shallow. water the ,hich nearly all first class steamers of new piece of cable was cut, from the part 120 lbs invariably carry, and for the accom-remaining in the tank, and thrown overboard, muction of which great expense is incurred. duly baoyed. The work of grappling for the old Finally, if the owners of the Filipinas did not cable at once commenced and on being found requate her to carry that which all other steamers and pulled up, duly aplicctl to the new End lying do engry--whether it is, called ballast, water, at the buoy, and the job tus completed which cargo, stiffening, or iron slag is no matter, why had taken well nigh two months of valuable and diel they omit to mention it in that carefully badly spared time of the Telegraph Companys drawn out specification where nothing is ever The Minia now makes her head quarters at enitted which is considered essential, and Halifax, nothing pat in that can be fairly objected to?" The specification said nothing about putting built is to the hold, remarks your correspondent; wrth, it probably does not say anything about fing the anchor to the bows, putting the chain -pubisistabusjacker,-or-placing the captain.or same officer on the bridge; yet he will hardly maintain with season, that the ship could be sawery without such matters being carried eat, and as placing stiffening weight in the hold as long as it does not exceed one quarter the vessel's register tonnage is a common and customg y-proceeding in order to ensure stability, the badders can well-maintain they had a perfect ght to apply it--and particularly since their cttract with the owners did not prohibit it.
I am, Sir,
NAUTICUS.
Your abedient servant,
Hongkong, April 14th, 1888:
SEARCHING FOR A TELEGRAPH
-CABLE
THE UNCHARTERED " BANKS”
OF SYDNEY..
that when he went un en ba frizyda cheque he would not be cleared by a bugger seeking to hypothee ste to use the elegant Mr. Mortimer Franklyn's phrine, the proceeds of nocturnal pla der. Then would public inen cease to excite suspicion by permitting their names to be advertised as "Directors of grundly-tiled and
rangely continued parwostrops===effaldet
relish of what is decent, just and amiable perfects the character of a gentleman," wrote Lurd Shaftesbury, and we still not go far wrong if we accept these qualities as those that perfect the character of a lady.-S. F. Chronicle.
PLAIN ENGLISH.
A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS.
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CATHAY CHAPTER,
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Hongkong, 14th April, 1858,
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FOR SHANGHAL
"AMOY,"
Captain Rhler, will be despatched for the above Portfon MONDAY, the 16th instant, at 4 PM.
SA PERFECT LADY"
Napoleon I spoke with the voice of prophecy. The standards of perfect ladyhood vary in when he denounced his British enemies as a
nation of shopkrapers, and in the shopkeeping, hiffelent countries and in different times. WA
instincts of the Englishinen lie the ultimate rain have nbireason to believe, for instance, that the
of his race. The day has long since come in Sukan's favorite, who dyes irer finger nails with
Britain when wealth accumulates and men decay, henna, who passes her days in smoking and unhappily the check which the accumulation flavored tobacco and taking cat nåps on piler of cushions, and who thinks it the correct thing to about the house in diaphanous trousers and hare feet-we liava no reason to believe that in Turkey this person is not considered to be a perfect lady. The chief squaw of an Indian village, the wife of a rubber baron, the shrewish "Virgin Queen,"naughty Miss Helene Troy, grim-vis George to and the terrible Katherine of Russia may nil ince been perfect Indies, but they represent such a diversity af quality that it would be impossible to deduce from it anything like a canon for guidance.
In countries where there is an autocracy, such as England. the accident of birth enters largely to the question of who is a lady and who is not. There, good breeding, as it is called, is said to be in essential, and an essential that can only come from ancient and worshipful parentage. In this deinocratic country of ours it would be ranked an offense to say tha: no woman could be a lady unless she had a genealogical tree or could, hang, the authenticated; portrait of her great- randfather in the library. We believe, or at lenst we profess to believe in an equality of birth, -and-declare-it-to-bea-national-privicípis-that-one-
in is no yondas austlier. It would surely follow from this that we must also believe that every man's wife is as good as every other man's wife, and that this great and glorious relative equality goes all the way through our daughters
of wealth has received of late, years has done THE Swanship nothing to retard the dry rot which is eating away the life of the once sturdy Angle-Saxon people prosperity has Three-quarters of a century of almost utterly wiped out the hardiest portion of the nation, and the past few years of disaster at Poverty have only accelerated the process of extinction. Since the days of the Napoleonic wars the peasantry of the three kingdoms-the section which supplied the vast arnica that, di and suffered so much in the great Peninsular single-have been replaced by a horde of
is
ck-kneed, attenuated men, who deteriorato in agricultural districts are fast degenerating into a the atmosphere of overgrown cities; and the tangled wilderness. The Highlands of Scotland, erstwhile the home of the bravest and burdiest men whoeverbreatlied-have poured their popula. sing to the cities of the Lowlands, and from them
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HE Steamship. T
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Celts have drifted away to breign lands. They bave been driven by thousands from their homes, and their farms have been turned into grouse noors, on, which the vulgar Smiths and Robinsons of the Stock Exchange, the pot bellied money-getters whose patriotism is e3sured by commission and the state of the financial market, roam about in ridiculous garments and make unch-elf-uts-to-shoot will leave the above places on THURSDAY, birds; and the able-bodied inhabitants of these once-teeming lands now number Fide the 19th April, 3 POL
nore than the soldiers whom the sent to: Waterloo, The Highland reginets of the
Starting a deposit and discount bank, or any alleged institution of the sort, is mere child's play in Sydney, wherein all manner of imposition is specially favoured by an indulgently interpreted
And nur sisters and nur cousing and our aunts. law. An oyster-shop in a third-rate street is
A a matter of fact, it does nothing of the sort. abandoned by its distressed and despairing proprietor; the situation is not good enough to tere is a legil equality in this country which sent day are filled with weds youths ensure the small amount of patronage acquired us enty man on's plane so far as court, uffice. Picked up in the slums of Glasgow, the for the successful conduct of business, to the political preferment are concerned, but there men, who were once-the-main-defence of treir shutters are put up and the place becomes no such thing as an all-round social equality. country, are gone forever. The warlike pests vacant. A lemonade-man comes along, but his That would simply mean commenisin. We of Ireland have been weeded out 'til the offers to." sling squash" meet with no response, have among us those who are proud of their tire population of the island is little more than half its former number, and all the bith, those who are proud of their accomplish-Government watches the process of matioital and be also abandons the premixes. Then a Chinaman looks at the place with a view to ments, their position or their money, and they decay unmoved, and advises the scanty remnant me these things birth, accomplishments, posi- running it as a fan-dan shop, but the prospec. is not encouraging, and he declines to venture. Yetties and money as a step which places them of the nation's life-blood to migrate and leave Britain to her fate. When the Crofters f ative tisuse whas not not so lowered. In the Lewis appealed recently to the blue-blooded " the era of glory for that shop is at hand. Aben with a reasonably English or even aggressively | Basy FlaniganefTehama Street may consider female win professes to own their native island, English-name, the face of a thrice-convicted thief, havadas Mes-Hant-TomorMts-Maneye and the voice of a Dutch German Jew comes into lags of Nob hill, but in practice etsy, knows asked for soine concession to enable then to live in the land of their, valiant fathers, she ne more have, that equality. The Submarine Telegraph Ship đổinia, Captain possession. He reforms the front of the premises; that she can Samond Trot, was sent away from London during puts in large plate-glass windows, frosts the glass reccnized, than she can.convince her neighbors replied that they should go abroad and abandon the latter days of last year to search for. pick thereof, and upon it inscribes the legend that the Juxuriant hair she wears on Sundays is their empty country to the kites and crows. ap and repair a deep sea cable which had been Hemispherian Loan, Mortgage, Discount these she ties up in a little har I knot on all the and when the Tury Government was invited to laid about two miles under the surface of the Deposit. Financial and Mercantile Bank and other days of the week. In revenge for this social interpose, it replied through the mouth of ocean since 1969. This cable belonged to the Palent Resurrection Day Building Society irreconcilability etsy--and all of her kind Duscher Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, hat the only remedy for the 'evils under Brest 5 Pierre Anglo-American Company, (Limited). Capital £2,000,000. Office-hours calls herself a lady, and sometimes a perfect lady. which the impoverished Celta laboured was auf its actual distance down, at the defective to to 10 to 12 noon, and 8 to 10 p.m. on She speaks of herself and favorite crony as "me port, which the ship had been sent to examine, Saturdays. Directors: Grasper O'Greedy, and another lady and when she is arrested for emigration, and that they should use their strong was just 13,000 feet. The electricians having Esq., Hardup Scratcher, Esq, Leonidas Wash disturbing the peace by holding a pitched battle arms to enrich and defend some foreign land. In this peculiar madness Britain stands solitary determined how many miles from the shore ington Ananias, Esq., Barabbas Horny hand, Esq., in the front yard with her husband, says she does station the defect was, orders were sent to and P. N. Threemonths, Esq., William Jobsou, not understand why the officer should have among the nations of the parth. She alone the Miniato go to the place, grapple for the Manager. Balaam Sass, Secretary." Then he run' her in when she was behaving herself endeavours to get rid of her defenders, and seeks, by sending away her hardy peasantry, to tursi calle, cut it while at the bottom, pick up thers inside. and waits. Likely as not he can't like a "perfect lady." This is not an extreme case of the abuse of the ward, and in every.
herself into a nation of clerks and shopkeepers two ends,-and-splice-in-about-twenty miles of raise the price of a box of matches until a ૧ new length section. Some twenty days depositor comes along, and if an intending day life we meet with a score of instances and bowed-down, spirit-broken factory operatives Not only in the mother country does wealth accu- after receiving his orders the Captain of borrower saunters around in those early times where a theoretical equality, has led to the
mulate while men decay, but the process of decay the Mtata found himself and his ship in he has to wait until a depositor planks down abominable assumption of that high title -a perfect lady, It is the lady with the
is urged on by the Legislature of the nation, and Lat 42 30 N., and Long..46.30 W., or just enough to supply, the berrower's requirements
the producers are driven out to make room for a title on the London side of the Grand before the loan can be effected. It is a litle washing," the lady who cooks, the "lady Banks of Newfoundland, and with one of the bit wonderful that customers don't oftener selling needles, and so on through the whole the non-producers--the agriculturists are expelled hardest jobs before him that had ever beeh realise the actual position of these fearfully and stupid list. We all know it is wrong, and that by the greasy traders, and the mongrel race of committed to his energies. He knew that he had wonderfully made institutions. Just Intely a laundress, and peddler are the proper and decent stakbrokers and jobbers. London, where the reached a geographical point somewhere near temporarily impecunious suburbanite arranged terms that should be used, but we hesitate atinoverished blood of the citizens was formerly the defect, but within three or four miles he could to borrows on the security of a second their apparent bluntness and suffer the term recruited from the cart-hore and the plough, is not he certain for, even if his own observations mortgage over a time-payment semi-grand "ady to be dragged into the mud. There are now over-run by thieving Greeks from the Levant, and by German and Hebrew adventurers, and a of sun, moon and stars were correct to a mile, piano. The security was duly signed, and ladies who cook and wash and peddle, but one these by whom the cable was laid might have been
the usual 60 per cent. and expenses agreement need not be a lady to do these things. The nondescript race is arising to succeed the men of even a dozen miles in error. The first business was prepared, but still the bank failed to produce the people generally snemployed are women: good, the mountains who once fought Britain's battles so to get a series of soundings over a patch of the sex dollars. Day after day the borrower applied in honest, faithful, energetic women, but they are successfully against the world. The mother country offers a premium for national decay, and sedul covering 25 or 30 square miles. The new vain, until, when nearly a week had elapsed, not ladies. sounder was an oblong bar of iron weighing the bank official handed over the amount partly
ously cultivates the dry-rot of greed which makes about 32 lbs. attached to a pianoforte. wire in in shillings and half crowns. Whether he had
money take the place of men and which crowds the sinewy peasant out of the land to make room such a way that when lowered to the bottom burgled a church robbed a saveloy-stall is not
for the stunted cotton-spinner and his lazy master, the end would job into the ground a series of known, but appearances seemed to clearly indi- small steel tubes, which while releasing the cate either one or the other of those felonies,
and as she sows the wind so she will reap the heavy sounder would themselves bring up a Yet this was a "Bank" with an alleged capital
whirlwind. The gradual extinction of the specimen of the mud. During the first cast of of heaven knows how many thousands, and with
producing classes of Britain must inevitably end in the bottomless pit of national ruin. There is not this "lead it took just zam: 10s, for the weight a full-blown directorate of not unknown, men,
room in this world of strife and aggression for a to reach the bottom, a distance of 2007 fathoms.Where the alleged capital gets. to is always a Knowing now the depth and the character of the deep; mystery to those who put any faith in
nation of shopkeepers-Sydney Bulletin. ground, a big pear-shaped buoy, was cast over-prospectuses. The only preliminary expenses board and moored at that depth with a mush-in starting such a show would seem to be the room anchor, firmly to the ground. This buoy was made of boiter plate iron, and fitted in such a way as to exhibit two large lanterns; for the Mina'a work was to be carried on night and day. The first length of mooring was 45 fathoms ofchain, next 10 of patent rope then 110 of pure Manila and above that others of various kinds, to reach the surface, 4 being now ready the Sitnie was steamed off at right angles to the Fay of the cable, about five or six miles, and aunther buoy put overboard ns landmark, other buoys were placed in other places and the field for work thus kept within known limits. The grappling iron was then put The facility with whicheven politicians actually over the bows and from the northern limits in Parliament can be sometimes induced to of the field the ship steamed slowly southward. lend their potential names to public shams This grappling iron has four arms, about a of the incorporated company order, is one of foot long, joining a shank of about four feet. In the peculiar features of the unchartered 'banks" cach crutch formed by these arms is little and philanthropic institutions. The names bation that has a spring behind it. The angle of Sir Henry Parkes, Jacob Garrard, and J. of the aim is so small that a heavy stone H. Young no doubt availed to catch many could not get into it far enough to reach the victims on behalf of the Australian Mutual button; but when the cable being searched for, Prudential and Medical Assurance Company, is caught by the hooks or arms, it touches Men were enticed into that trap only to find, the button presses it down and closes an electrical when the thing burst up, that the alleged security crcuit through a copper wire running up afforded by those magnificent names was through the grapnell rope, and a bell is set valueless for all practical purposes. The members ringing on deck. But the men in charge of the named certainly were paraded as directors, So, too, with the lady. We poke fun at the grapnell are generally able to tell what the book but when the crash came each pleaded ignorance Iden of class and grow angry when caste is has hold of, without the aid of the bell. They an ignorance apparently born of sheer care: spoken of as an existing institution, but it would judge by the strain on the rope which is also lessticas of all the peculiar transactions recorded be all the better for us if ur aristocracy of indicated by a dynamometer on deck. The against the Society. And so it has always been. perfect ladyhood were a little more respected and. ordinary strain on this indicator is about st There never yet was a public company swindle extended. It is no easy thing to be a perfect tons when the grapnell is dragging smoothly so gross as to be unable to embody, for a time lady. To paraphrase Thackeray, but very slightly: ever a smooth, hoitom, as the vessel forges at least, the name of a designing or foolish "Perhaps a lady is a rarer woman than some of slowly ahead. Sometimes in catching a rock member of Parliament in its directorate. And us think her to be. Which of us can point out an arm may be broken off, but this is until present laws are amended all through, it is many such in his circle, women whose aims' are
In the first trial of the finds safe to prophesy that there never will be,
generous, whose truth is constant and not only it took the grapnell 2 hours to descend Fortunately for the 200 per shent harpies, the constant in its kind, but elevated in its 13 000 feet, and the rope is made of wire and laws relating to basks are in New South Waler degree; whose want of manners makes hemp intermixed with each other. The dragging in a ghastly state of confinion. The statute 4 them simple and unaffected, who began on the day of arrival, but they swept Vic. No. 13 has been amended by 42 Vic. No. look the world honestly in the face with an backwards and forwards over that desolate. 21, the Inter Act making the word "bank equal, womanly sympathy for the great and the Bid of water, for 10' days before the bell rang. include all institutions receiving money on small? We all know a hundred whose dresses score who have excellent Once during a gale, they had to let go the deposit but as the former Act had already been are well made and a grapnell repe, buoy it, and go away to the amended by 7 Vic. No. 15, of which amendment manners, and one or two happy beings who
A first bij Luoy and heave to, taking care to 42 Vic, is entirely oblivious, there would now be in what they call the inner circles, and have keep it in sight all through the gale.. On some doubt as to the possibility of applying the shot into the very bull's-eye of fashion and the cuth day of dragging, the bell rang, provisions of any one of the three Acts against society, but of hdies,, how many? Let us take indicating that the cable had been hooked. The philanthropists of the 200 per shent species. The a little scrap of paper and cach make out his
tor rope was again let go and buoyed. The Courts, in any case, would be bound to apply the list." Minta steamed away two miles along the course laws in the manner most widely contrary to the It is indeed nextgent thing, bls title of of the cable, and prepared her cutting granell, laws of common-sense, and therefore it would be a perfect Indy. It requires not only education which is exactly like the other, only that the hazardous business to trust to any statutes now in to begin with, but reading, good company crutches have their upper surfaces abarpened force. What is wanted is a law providing for and reflection to finish out, that education. like the blades of a knife, and when catching deposit in the Treasury of say, 20,000 an a It requires a woman to be honest, full of the cable, and bringing a strain on it, the heavy condition precedent to the opening of any tact, gentle, generous and to exercise these pressure at once cuts the wire. Dragging had now Institution desiring to do any banking business qualities in the most graceful outward manner.. to be commenced afresh, but very soon the cable then there would be none of these unchartered. It wants "much good sense, some good was hooked and cut. As it had been at the "Banks" carrying on lucrative businesses on nature and a deal of self-denial," It wants bottom for nearly 20 years they were afraid to the security of equitable liens on the family firdesse and propriety in bearing, a regard for attempt pulling up the first bright hooked in case Irons. Then would the Bank safes cease to corum, proper deference to the world's good of it breaking, but on getting hold of a part near bulge with bills of sale over Brimmagem watches opinion, virtue and decency in private life and "The taste of beauty and the fe a free end not more than two miles away, they and wheelbarrows then could a man be buto civility in public.
Ebt often.
Just as there is a stupid, sickly affectation of the word 'lady for everything in petticoats, so there is a most marked and unaccountable He is a brave objection to the word 'woman.' man who not only appreciates the distinction between lady and woman, but who also has the courage to emphasize or even to employ that distinction in his every-day conversation. The word is shunned as though it were a term of reproach instead of which it is a sensible, natural, generic term, and no more of a stigma in its distinctiveness than boy, or saddler, or gilding and adornment of the magnificent windowgirl, or seamstress. It is about time this false front which is always a prominent feature of these feeling should be abandoned; nondescript banks. Blazoned lies on frosted and painted glass, and magnificent titles engraved on perpetually refulgent brass seem to appeal with irresistible force to small capitalists who wish to invest their meagre savings at several per cent. and to unfortunate slaves of misfortune who are willing to mortgage the equity of redemption of the householding machine at 100 per cent. per annum or over. The gorgeous window is a trap to catch the unwary, and the names of politicians is a part of the windle,
Another offender in the mis-employment of words is he or she who speaks of "my lady friend. It certainly cannot be contended that this is used as an evidence of respect, because very often the lady friend" is some one to whom not very much respect is due. Besides it is an unnecessary solecism, for if the friend is present she will show for herself whether she is lady or no, and if she is absent when referred to she should be indicated by name or mentioned simply as "a friend,"
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It is not that the world lady!-is something taboo. We simply object, in its too constant use as likely to destroy its value. It is like the employment of the titles professor' and 'doctor.' Every man who can draw a tooth or a com calls himself doctor, and every man who can feel a man's head-bumps or shave a dog calls himself a professor. Properly speaking, a doctor is one who has the well-proved right to practise medicine/'not, dentistry and chiropodistry, while a professor is he who has a chair in a university. The property is debased by being made common, and the position robbed of its honors by persistent misappropriation.
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Tuens
"THIBET"
.E.. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong, rath April, 1888
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Auctions:
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY
·TO BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY.
20 be SOLD by' PUBLIC AUCTION
To pursuant to ‘a Pétrée of the Supreme
"Court" or "Fröngking, uvide in a cause ·TAM KWAN SHI 7. YAU MI HO, No. 42 of 1878, with the approbation of the ACTINO Curlers, JUSTICE by Mr. J. M. And the person app by the said Court upon the respective Premises on the days bercianfter- roentioned, VIL: --
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the 3rd day of May, 1888, at 13.0'Clock in THE AFTERNOON.
IN FIVE LOTS the VERY VALUABLE
BLOCK of BUILDINGS
situate on
* MARINE LOT No. 44, MARINE LOT, No. 125A, and Syction is of MARINE LOT No. 4, nad in, the best and most. Central Chinese, business portion of the City and with frontages to three important. Public. Strects viz-Bonhain Strand, Wing Lok Street and Cross Street and ammprising :- Nos.1 and 2 Cross Street and Nos. 21, 23, 25, 27, 20, 31, and 33, Wing Lok Street and Nos. 35, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 45. Bonham Strand. Owing to the favorable situation of this property the owner or owners thereof can always, count upon seturing goal tenants:
ON
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IX SIX LOTS the VALUABLE PROPERTY "sumie an*INLAND-LOT NG, 2050 in the best put af Hollywood Road and compuis- ing Res. 209,and 211, Hollywood Road and
23, and 4. Ng Kwai Fong, also the drce strated bruse No, 132, Hellywood Road. -sitaate-on-the--RemainingPortia-of-Inland
Loi No. 384 and the three houses Nos. 141- 16, and 18, Possession Street situate on Island Lot No. rtac and the Remaining - Portion-of-Igland-Leu-No-2120,
UN
SATURDAY,
the 5th day of May, 1884, at 4 O'CLOCK IN THE ETERNOON.
IN ONE LOTAPIECE of VACANT GROUND registered as INLAND LOT No. 473 and situate, al Bowrington between Matheson and Percival Smeets and suitable for the erection of Kensing Godowns..
The sale plans can be seen at the Office of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors and
Particulars and conditions of sale may be Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, the Auctioneer.
WOTTON & DRACON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of obtained on application at the offices of Mesere. To followed by a Steamer "...Messrs. GA÷DWELL & WILKINSON, Salicitors,-- on the 1st June & PARTHIA on the 21st June Hongkong, of Mr. EwENS, Solicitor, Hongkong, Connection will be made at Yokohama with of Mr. WEBBER, Subcitor, Hongkong, and: of
Dated this 12th day of April, 1888. Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, and Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer at Vancouver with Pacific Coast Points by the
ALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court. regular Steators of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and other Steamers.
Through Passage Tickets granted to Englund, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.
First-class Fares granted as follows: To Vancouver, and Victoria...(Mex.)$160.00 To San Francisco......
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Masonic.
PERSEVERANCE 175.00
300.00
To all Common Points in Canada)
and the United States........ To Liverpool... s. 300.00 To London...
........ 305.00
To other European Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be obtained on application,
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des tined to Points in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to Mr. D. E, BROWN, District Freight Agent, Vancouver, BC,
Freight will be received on board until 4 P.M. on the 9th May,
All Parcels must be sent to our Office and should be marked to address in full; and the same will be received by us until 5 P.M. the day previous to sailing..
For information as to Passage or Freight, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co., **
Agents. Hongkong, 14th April, 1888
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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
13th April, 1888.--At 4 p.m.
STATION.
Wiadivostock Toklo Naald... Shanghal, Amy fforikoag Halshoog Bolinas Manila
10.23
30,08
Wind.
14th April, 1888,-At ro n..
STATION.
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Shangamot
Tangkas lininin Halphon
Manila idėjomepa
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ESTATE 24 hours
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TO-DAT Barginatering áM,
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HACKS
A First-class London made DOG CART
AND
THREE BASKET CARRIAGES,
all in good order.
For Particulars, Apply to
No, 6, PEDDER'S HILL.
Hongkong, 10th May, 1886,
Intimations.
THE NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED. :
LODGE OF
HONGKONG, ***No. 1165,
"RÉGULAR¦ MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS"
HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the roth: instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely.
Hongkong, 12th April, 1888.
EOTHEN MARK
(402
LODGE
OF HONGKONG, No. 264.
N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above
A Lobce will be held in FREEMASON'S HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY, the 19th instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. Visiting
Brethren are cordially invited, Hongkong, 13th April, 1888.
To be Let.
TO BE LET.
[411
FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE at the PRAK.
Fossession, from 1st May.
Apply to
R. MURRAY RUMSEY. Hongkong 13th April, 1888.
(408
TO LET, ENTRY, 1ST MAY,
NO 4 WEST TERRACE,
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON, 13 Praya Central.
Hongkong, 13th April, 1888.
MACAO.
·[409⋅
TO BE LET UNFURNISHED OR
.PARTLY FURNISHED, BUNGALOW, opposite the Public. Gardens, at the western end of the Praya Grande. Excellent water supply, and Servants T MEETING of the quarters attached. Kent very moderate.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
HE EIGHTH ORDINARY GENERAL
be held at the Head Office, on WEDNESDAY, the 25th April, 1888, at HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK P.M., for the presentation of the Report of the Directors and Accounts to the 31st December, 1887 the declaration of Dividends, the election' of Directora and Auditors for the current year, and the transaction of any other business which
may be transacted at an ordinary General
Meetinga da ANA
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the sath to the 25th instant, both days inclusive. ma
By order of the Court of Directors.
ALEX, ROSS,
Secretary,
Shanghai, 4th April, 1888.
A
Apply to
A. A. DE MELLO & Co.,
Macao. Macao, 3rd: April, 1888.
TO LET.
ROOMS in "COLLEGE CHAMBERS."
GODOWN in ICK HOUSE LANE, —Litely occupied by Messrs. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE from the 1st May.
· Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & CỔ, Hongkong, 3rd February, 1888.
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A
LADY residing in England wishes to have Two or Three Children to EDUCATE with here.
Careful training, with the advantage of FRENCH and GERMAN, TAUGHT in an English,
Good references required and exchanged.
Apply to
7 LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.. Hongkong, 27th March, 1888,
(348 HONGKONG TIMBER
YARD, WANCHAL. REGON FINE SPARS AND LUMBER
ALWAYS UN HAND.
Hengkang,
·June, 1886,
MALLORY
Proprietor.
TO LET. COMMODIOUS Salt of OFFICES in the
ICE HOUSE BUILDINGS.
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON,
Hongkong, 22nd March, 3yn Central,
1888
"TO BE LET Unfurnished with Tennis Court."
0.5. Richmond Terrace, a FOUR-ROOMED
NHOUSE, with Three Bath Room
No 6Richmond Terrace & SIX ROOMED HOUSE, with Three Bath Roonis:75
A New Story has just been added to the Servants quarters of both houses
APPY to
Hongkong #zilə
JOHN WILLMOTT"" Hongkong Dispensary
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