them. The exits in the houses were shockingly small, n crying fault in most Chinese houses and how the large number of inmalen got out in safety is almosts wonderful as some ofthe escapes
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1888.
the Abyssinia, Batavia and Parthia. The line. was opened by the departure of the first-named from Hongkong last May. She left Yokohama June 1st'and reached Fort Moody on the 14th of
referred to above. That our firemen should that month, making the run over in 13 days and
MANILA NEWS.
(Translated from Manila Papers.)
present pace of the electric telegraph between
Andon and Dublin, where the Wheatstone. instrument is employed, reaches 462 words; and thas, what was regarded as miraculous sixty
century..
The new cirit Governor of Manila-is-Senior-year nga bas nltipled a hundredfold in half a
A slight shock of carthquake occurred at Nueva Cáceres, in the Philippines, on the night of 10th
nst.
A ball was given on the toth inst. by the fficers of the Chilian corvette Abins to several Pesidents of Manilaude
be called upon, to their own imminent danger, sala hours. No subsequent steamer on the line, José Pastor v Magan. save the lives and property of natives who are has essayed to cut down that record, TE entirely indifferent as to the construction of their Abyssinia left Port Moody on her return trip houses and the handling of lights, is a matter June zist. A stenner has come and gone that should attract more attention from the monthly ever since. The line has now been in authorities than has yet been bestowed on it; full operation for nine months, say, from July The ruins are still smaking, having been over- 1, 1887, to March 3, 1888, and it is of interest to run by cocoa-nut oil, which streamed from a note it effect on the business of the steam lines number of casks that were smashed by the running out of San Francisco to China, namely failing of a wall.
the Pacific Mail Company (American line) and the Occidental and Oriental Company (British line.)
- CHINESE RENDITION CASE.
r
The case in which a passage heat was attacked in Chinese waters on the 23rd March, 1886, when the servant of a Mandarin was killed while in charge of his master's luggage, was resumed this morning at the Magistracy before Mr. H. E Wodehouse. Mr. W. Wotton appeared for the Chinese Government and Mr. J. F. Webber for the defence.
Inspector Swanston slated:-When I arrested the defendant on the 30th April for robbery and murder. I had the other case in my mind, in which a pawn shop was attacked on the 8th March last in the Sun Ui district of China.
I
Makin Shing, cross-examined by Mr. Webber: was first employed in the He Chang shop on the and moon of the roth year, at $5 a month. On the 13th March, 1886, I first went to Canton, where I remained, till March 22nd. On the 16th I collected the 200 tacls from the Fook Loong shop; they paid in silver dollars and, brokon silver; there was no aycee the greater part was in coined silver. I don't low the difference between a Mexican dollar and a Japanese yen. I left Canton on the 17th of the month by the passage boat; the captain's name I do not know. I paid twenty- five cents, and left Canton at 3 pm There were about go passengers, but no women... The Lan Choy told me who he was while I was getting a light from him. When the pirates attacked him they said "whose luggage is this?" and then one of them fired a small gen at him They landed me at Chak Chow, about 15 miles from home, to which I walked, and remained there till next morning when I went to the He Chong shop and told them that I had been robbed by people on board the junk. My uncle made a complaint to the district Magistrate at Sun Ui. I have no uncle in Macao nor any relatives there. Nobody gave me any money for giving evidence here, and nobody told me what to say-no Chinaman.
and killed him.
Each of the two lines out of this port has four steamers in commission, those of the Pacific Mail being City of Peking, City of New York City of Rio de Janeiro, And City of Sydney, and those the Occidental and Oriental being the Belgic, Gaelic, Oceanic and San Pablo, (lately lost) the first named three being under the British flag and the last named under the American flag. The two tines alternate trips with each other and work in perfect harmony, and the service is tri-monthly. California has therefore eight steamers in the China trade and an average of three arrivals every mouth against British Columbia's three steamers and one arrival every month. This has been the condition of things for the past nine months. The British Columbia steamers have been well patronized from the start in coming. over, and during most of the period have gone back well laden. This has been especially true during the past six months. The steamer which lek Port Moody for Yokohama and Hongkong last week is reported to have been unable to take all the freight that was offered her.
From January to April 3.390,405.piculs of rice were imported from Saigon, ngainst 3,892,082 Juring the same period in 1887.
The death is of Captain Enrique Rodrigues the Rivern, of the Spanish Royal Navy, Secretary to the Manila Naval department.
Ten individuals were recently apprehended at Cavite, in the Philippines, on suspicion of having Chinese itinerant vendor, after murdered robbing him of all his money.
A decree has been enacted providing for church, burials in the Philippines. Chapels are to be built inside the cetacterics, and corpses will be exposed therein, to undergo the requisite ccclesiastical nummeries, previous to being confined to mother earth.
PRACTICAL SCIENCE,
MANY BITS OF KNOWLEDGE WELL WORTII HAVING CURIOUS AND SUGGESTIVE.
A Philadelphia oculist declares that the use of opera glasses strains the optic nerves and injures the eyesight.
Professor Swing's essay on "Christian Science" has-certain-merits. Here it is: (1) It is not Christian; (2) it is not science.
The United States Navy Department has adopted aluminium bronze for the propeller blades and rudders of some of the new war vessels
Dr. Lloyd Francis gives cases in which inmates of St. Andrew's Hospital for the Insane at Northamptonshire have been greatly benefited by outdoor labor.
It is estimated that to collect one pound of honey from clover, 67,000 heads of clover muss he deprived of nectar and 3,750,000 visits from lees must be made.
For cement to make joints for granite monu- ents, use' clean sand, twenty patts; litharge, two parts; quicklime, one part, and linseed oil sufficient to form a thin paste.,
Immer the abstication of glass boosing-les- boards continues to increase, this being especially the case in those business structures in which the cellars are used as offices. In one of these the. whole of the ground in front is paved with large qures of roughened glass imbedded in a strong iron frame, and in the cellars beneath there is zufficient-light without gas for business purposes. Though the first cost of glass is much greater, is almost unlimited durability is greatly in its favor.
Forests are known to diminish evaporation and preserve moisture, and this has been explained by the lower temperature and greater humidity which exists under their shadows. The most important factor in the production of this state of affairs is, however, the resistance which is offered to the winds by the woods. The force of the winds being greatly reduced under the trees, the air is changed more slowly and the moisture less readily carried away. increases in the vicinity of a forest. During the The quantity of rain
rainy season the moss and herbage of woods store up the moisture for consumption during the dry season, and growths are permitted to flourish in regions where it never rains except in the fall and winter, as is the case on the coast of the Caspian Sea.
An important process has been patented within a few months past that bids fair to revolutionize the band whisky trade of the country. Its purpose is to "age" whisky speedily, something that has been often tried but not accomplished without impairing the taste or quality to such an extent as to render the process of no value. The newly patented method is simple and inexpensive, consisting only in the injection of pure air, so diffused that it touches every particle of the spirits. Henry Glass, a chemist of Christian- county, Ky., is the inventor. For a year past some of the best whisky-makers in the country have been experimenting with the process in a small way, and they concur in the opinion that with three months treatment new whisky in odor and color becomes equal to the best three to five-year-old goods, and without loss in proof and quantity. The method is now being tested in a large way at the distillery of M. P Mattingly of Owensboro, Ky. Its success in all particulars would work a radical change in the price of this staple.
It is natural to inquire whether this traffic represents new business, or whether it has been drawn from the older lives. China and Japan have just about the same amount of tea, silk, rice, oil and other produce to send to America every year, and the opening of a new steam line must divert something from the older lines. Of course, the addition of one steamer every month in this farge carrying trade cannot make a great deal of difference with lines previously in opera- tion, but the Canadian Pacific people are not ikely to always remain content with a single steamer every month. Thus far they have received ten steamers from Hongkong and Yokohama. The next move, of course, will be for a semi-monthly service. We do not know that the California stean lines have as yet seriously felt the encloachments of the. British Columbia steam line, though there has been a considerable falling off in the value of our exports as compired with the corresponding period in to China and Hongkong in the past nine months,
A Braziban physician has discovered that a hypodermic injection of two grains of perman 1886-87. The comparison is as follows:
ganale of potash to a drami of water is an -1886-87. 1887-88. Quarter ending.
antidote for the bite of a rattlesnake, $.697,945 A French scientist advances the theory, that TH September 30$1,204,680 December 31 „de.............. 1,195,598 1,080,707 obesity is a nervous disorder, and should, be March 31.................. 758,253 563,820 treated by avoidance of mental and physical fatigue, and a diet of eggs, soup, milk, rice and potatoes.
Fo the Court-I was taken out of the passage boatand put into a junk, of which there were two alongside. The pirate boat was long, in the ball, without masts, and without deck, propelled by oars and with about 18 or 19 men rowing. There were other two men there, one of whom was steering, The master of the -servant who was killediwan on the passage boat. when I left; he liî' 'ñ' mandarin. I came to Hongkong on the gth April of this year; I was never here before. I live now at the Yan Wo Chan boarding house with a man from Macao, who brought me here. I left my business shop because there was no opium business going on, IF I saw my property I should know it again; my jacket was plain dark blue silk with brass. buttons, and waistcoat of blue silk lined with colton, I had also a blanket-which-I-could--Decrease; quarter-ending Sepir-30, '87...$506,735 recognize.
Decrease, quarter ending Dec. 31, '87... 114.891 ¡Decrease, quarter ending March 31, 88. 104,433
The witness was here hows the contents of sorge boxes, spread out on the floor of the Court, but failed to recognize anything.
Mr. Wolton, addressing his Worship, said he was trying to get other two witnesses from the shop where the present witness came from; that the Mandarin who was in the passage boat was dead and, of course, could not be called, but that some time would elapse before his witnesses would be available. The case was then further remanded until Friday next at 3
Par
· CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily padomo the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.]
VOLAPUK.
To TETOR OF THE "HOHanong TelegrapH," DEAR SIR,The writer of the article on Volaplik contained in your worthy paper of the 11th inst., questions the veracity of my state ment as to the number of partisans of the new universal language. The article is evidently the production of a correspondent who has read
Total $3,168,551-$2,342;472- Our trade with Japan for the sanit period has not varied much, the total for the past nine months having been $579,653, against $573,530 in 1856-87. The falling off in the exports to Hongkong and China was the heaviest in the first quarter of the operation of the new British line, and was the lightest in the second quarter, as follows:
Total..............
$826,059
The heaviest item of freight from this port to Hongkong and China has been flour. It is known that Oregon is making an effort to capture this trade and, wrest it entirely from California millers. It is also known that the Canadian Pacific Company is offering strong inducements to Oregon millers. Wheat is always cheaper in Oregon than in California, and of course Oregon millers can undersell those in this State. As a result, the British Columbia steamers are taking a good deal of flour from Oregon to Hongkong. Fortunately at present there is only one steamer per month out of Port Moody, B. C., and though of late these steamers have not lacked for flour freight, the effect ba shipments from California has not been felt to any appreciable extent.
..
The four shipments from San Francisco to Hongkong and China for the past nine months, during which the British Columbia steam line has been in full and successful operation, compare a's follows with the corresponding period in 1886- 87, when no such line was in existence: Quarter ending- 1886-87. September 30. bbis...... 90,404 December 31 139,631 March 31 ... 8832
1887-88.
146,613 58,527
but the preface to my first book on Volapük and has not seen my second pamphlet which I give the names of the principal lenders in Europe. To satisfy your correspon dent i enclose a circular issued by the French Volapük Society and containing the names
Total................ 310,887 300,883 of the lenders in the chief cities of the world. The comparison shows a loss of 10,000 bbls. You will notice in the 1st the names of or about what a single steamer would take. The officers, traders, journalists, professors, engineers, above totals cor prise all the shipments from this port. If we deduct the shipments made by sail, bankers, judges, priests-in short, of men of all professions. I should gladly send you docu-it will be found that the steamers have carried ments, letters, cards, books, newspapers, from in the past nine months within 1,363 bbis, 38 all parts of the world, if you would promise to much as they did for the same time in 1885-87. return them to me after perusal. So much coa- For example, the ships Oregon and Annis cerning my colleaguer.
Johnson lelt here in November and December. 1884, with 40,247 bbls. for Hongkong, whereas the three sailing vessels which have left here in the post nine months for Hongkung took out only 32,626 bbls. Deducting these totals from those given in the above table, we get at the flour shipments by steamer as follows
1886-87
As the article In question might leave the readers of my writings on Volapük under the Impression that I have been somewhat exag- gerating the facts, I feel bound to inform you that the figures given in my book emanate from a document, edited by Schleyor himself, the Weltsprache-Wandkalender des Jahres 1888" or Wall-calendar for the year 1888 in which it is stated under paragraph 11 that "the knowers, promoters and friends of Volapük amount to one million two bundred thousand (1,200.000.) "
the
1986-87.
Dr. Charles Tucket of St. Louis believes that the theory that human beings should sleep with their undies lying north and south has its found. ation in true, scientific facis.
An eminent physician recommends that all the wood used in the interiors of houses, and all the plain surfaces of plaster be thoroughly oiled, and varnished, so that the power of absorption of foul air and gases be destroyed.
Some of the heavenly bodies are inclined to be fast. Meteorites someti, co attain a velocity of 180,000 feet per second. When passing through the air at this rate the friction is so great that the air is heated up to a temperature of 10,800 deg. Fahrenheit.
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A Cleveland, Ohio, steel mill has put up a big magnet" extended on a chain from a crane which, when charged with electricity, does the work of fifteen men who were formerly employed to lifting billets to railroad cars. Aboy can run the new labor-saver.
The microphone, an instrument constructed to magnify slight sounds, can be made so delicate that the imperceptible noire made by drawing a hair over some part of it resembles the harsh grating of a saw, or the footsteps of a fly may be augmented into a loud tramp,
Professor Elisha Gray's new telantograph is said to produce at one end of the wire an exact facsimile of the writing of the message-sender at the other end. An artist may draw a picture with the pencil in Chicago and it will be repro. duced synchronously by the pencil in New York. Dr. Leon has been making an extended inves- tigation of the amount of iron in milk, and finds that cow's milk contains more of this constituent than either bunian or asses' milk. In asses' milk he found o.caas per cent. of ion, in human inilk 0,0015 per cent. and in cow's milk 0.0040 per
'cent.
Two hundred and seventy-one asteroids bad been discovered as, last account Tenants of planets, thought by some to be the remnants of formerly existing, but now exploded, larger planet, are constantly receiving new additions to their numbers by the discoveries of later observers.
Now that every thing is being done by electricity, it is not strange that the fisherman should utillize it. A small battery is attached to the rod, and near the book is a small electric light. The fisherman' lights up his lamp, and the unusual phenomenon attracts the fish. The baited hook does the rest,
To-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAL. THE Steamship
"PEKING," Captain G. Heuermann, wil be despatched for the above-Port-on-TUESDAY, the;zand-inst;-at- 4 P.M.
** [518
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co.
• Hongkong, 19th May, 1888.
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY, THE Spanish Steamer
T
“DON JUAN,” Captain Marquez, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 24th inst., at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to.
BRANDÃO & Co.,
Agents.
¡
Hongkong, 19th May, 1888..
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FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE, & YOKOHAMA. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
‚ “ KASHGAR ".. will leave for the above places on TUESDAY, the 29th instant, at DAYLIGHT.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. Hongkong, 19th May, 1888.
U. S. MAIL LINE.
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. THROUGH TO NEW YORK, VIA OVER- LAND RAILWAYS, AND TOUCHING AT YOKOHAMA, AND SAN FRANCISCO.
THE U.S. Mail Steamship
Auctions. THREE DAYS AUCTION.
NOTICE.
THE
HE UNDERSIGNED HAS RECEIVED
INSTRUCTIONS FROM MESSRS: KUHN & CO.; ÚN ACCOUNT OF CLOSING BUSINESS,
TO SELL.
at their Premises,
-24, BANK BUILDINGS,
opposite
THE HONGKONG HOTEL,
NO
MONDAY,
the 21st May, 1888,
ON.
TUESDAY,
the 22nd May, 1888,
ON
WEDNESDAY,
the 23rd May, 1888, Sale to commence each Day at PM, sharp.
THEIR WHOLE.STOCK, comprising:- A Most Valuable Collection of ANCIENT and
:
MODERN JAPANESE CURIOS and WORKS of ART, including many very rare Specimens of OLD JAPANESE PORCELAIN, LACQUER, BRONZE, ARMOUR and ARMS, GENUINE SATSUMA, SATIN and SILK TABLEAUX,
Intimations.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM-
NEW AND
SHIP COMPANY.
ACCELERATED DIRECT SERVICE TO
LONDON VIA MARSEILLES
FROM
JAPAN AND CHINA.
ON the 19th May at NOON, and fortnightly
Ahereafter, until further notice, the Com- pany will maintain a DIRECT SERVICE between Hongkong and London vía Marscilics, This improved service will abolish all Tran- shipments, and it is intended that it shall maintain a high reputation for quick transit, careful delivery of Cargo, and for Passenger accommodation and cuisine,
The attention of Passengers is specially called to the greatly improved second-saloon accom- medation and attendance.
E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent.
Hongkong, 8th May, 1898.
F
NOTICE:
14x8
enience of Customers, the pro- OR the Convenience
ductions of the "CHINA SUGAR RE- FINING COMPANY, LIMITED" can hence forward be obtained by RETAIL, FOR CASH, at No. 3, PEEL STREET, at the same prices as
at the Refinery; or Retail orders will be delivered at addresses in town on applicants forwarding their monthly requirements in writing direct to the Refinery at East Point.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 27th July, 1985,
[24 HONGKONG TIMBER YARD, "WANCHAL
REGON, PINE SPARS AND LUMBEN
ALWAYS ON HAND.
L. MALLORY,
Proprietor
SCREENS, EMBROIDERED LADIES and GENTS' GOWNS and JACKETS, QUILTS, BROCADES, CABINETS, and a great variety of ELEGANT and USEFUL ARTICLES. The Pair of Magnificent (all cut Bronze) CANDELABRA for 42 lights, and the TWO EXTRAORDINARY WOOD CARVED FIGURES (The wild-man of the woods and the. Frog god will also be offered at the Sale.
On view on FRIDAY the 18th and SATURNO W DAY the 19th instant.
Catalogues will be issued previous to the sale.
22 with, but
READ Y.
PRICE ....................FIFTY CENTS.
STORM
G. R. LAMMERT,THE LAW OF
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, roth May, 1888.
*PUBLIC AUCTION
OF STEAM LAUNDRY MACHINERY.
To sell by Fublic Auction, on
[496
HE Undersigned has received instructions
MONDAY,
the 28th May, 1888, at 2.30 F.M., at the late STEAM LAUNDRY WORKS,
Bowrington..
(FOR ACCOUNT OF WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.) PATENT MCALPINE WASHING
MACHINE.
WASHING
2 PATENT ROTARY STEAM WASHING
MACHINE.
1 PATENT 108" DECONDUN IRONING
MACHINE.
I PATEN'S 54" DECÖNDUN IRONING
MACHINE..
1 PATENT MANGLE..
1 STARCHING MACHINE.
! SQUEEZING MACHINE.
1 BLUE RINSER and
STOVES.
I CORNISH BOILER.
IRONING.
in the EASTERN SEAS,
-by
W. DOBERCK, GOVERNMENT ASTRONOMER,
MAY BE PROCURED AT
Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Hongkong,
IT.
Lane, Crawford & Co.
h
PJ
G. Falconer & Co.
#0
H
C. J. Gaupp &.Co.
#
„E. Blackhead & Co.
Heuermann, Herbst & Co.
More & Seimund.
H
MacEwen, Frickel & Co.
Mr. W. Brewer.
The "Hongkong Telegraph" Office
Messrs. Quelch & Co., Swatow.
Mr. N. Moalle, Amoy.
Messrs, Hedge & Co., Foochow
Mesara. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, Shanghai. Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, “Yokohama. Hongkong, 40th September, FR86
N
NOTICE TO MARINERS,
No. 217
CHINA SEA.
SHANGHAI DISTRICT,
SOUTHERN' ENTRANCE TO THE YANGTZE.
~ OTICE is hereby given that on account of
a.recent survey of a section of the southern entrance to the Yangizo-having shown that a Middle Ground or Shoal, from 2-10 to 9-10 mile in width and having from 6 to 18
1 DOUBLE CYLINDER HORIZONTAL | feet of water on it, stretches nearly 7 miles in a
ENGINE.
.
TERMS OF SALE,-Cash on delivery.
south-easterly direction from a point N, 64° E., distant 2.1-10 miles from the Riutoan Beacon, and that the channel to the north-eastward of this Middle Ground is wider, deeper, and more direct than the one on its south-western side... the following changes have been made in this 1515 vicinity-m.
G. R. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Hangkong, 18th May, 1888
To be Let:
"CITY OF NEW YORK" will be despatched for San Francisco, vid Yoko-. hama, on SATURDAY, the 9th June, at THREE PM, taking Passengers and Freight for. Japan, the United States, and Europe.
Through Bills of Lading issued for trans- portation to Yokohama and other Japan Ports, to San Francisco, and Atlantic and Inland Cities of the United States, við Ovpeland Rail- ways, to Havana, Trinidad, and Deuterata, and to ports in Mexico, Central and South America, by the Company's and connecting Steamers
Through Fassage Tickets granted to England, A ICE HOUSE BUILDINGS. France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.
First-class Fares granted as follows
To San Francisco...............................................................$200.00 To San Francisco and return, Į
available for 6 months............ 350.00 To Liverpool...................... 325.00. To London...
emişinin 330.00
( ́an.' board undi 4 P.M.
The theory of evolution, or the gradual development of man from the lower form of animal life, has received another supporter in the person of Dr. Williams 1. Bryant, who has just discovered that valves exist in the portal veins of very young infants, which disappear in the adult. These valves were formerly supposed to 1887-88. exist only in beants,
Dr. Renk of Munich has been experimenting Total flour exports, bbis....310,867 300,883. Flour by sail... 40,247
32,620 on the utility of the electric light, from a sanitary standpoint, in the National Theatre of Munich..
To other European Points at proportionate Flour by steamers 170,610 268,157 Ho found that the electric light had hardly any
rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers Your correspondent calls the daily papers
Ifluence on the deterioration of the air, wheress The importance of four freight in making up the gaslight raised the temperature of the room Imperial Chinese Customs, to be obtained on of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the "fountains of news" but it is clear to me that he does not often draw from those fountains, our export values to Hongkong and China will
be seen in the annexed statement for the nine deprived the air, of its oxygen and rendered it else he might have noticed articles in favour of months ending March 31st
injurious by increasing the carbonic c acid, espe
Passengers,
whi have paid full fare, re-embark- Volapük in the Graphic, the Athenæum,
cially in the higher regions.
for China or Japan (or ing Pall Mall Gasitte the London Daily Free
1887-89. The Westinghouse Electric Company has just vice versa) within one year will be allowed a Press, Chambers Journal, to speak only of All exports $3,168,531 $2,342.472 completed an incandescent lamp which is ex discount of 10 per cent. This allowance does English home papers that have been shown Flour exportsmuna, 1,236,913 1,203,909 pected to give better results than any lanip now to me, Newspaper have enough to do with
in use. Formerly a lamp which burned Soot apply to through fares from China and
Jagon to Europe, they cannot give all their time to Miscellaneous exports.$1,931,618 || $1,136,563 hours was considered good, but the new ond is
reight will be received on one an Volapük. They have announced its birth, they It is not our four trade with China that is expected to burn easily from 3,500 to 3.000 hours the day previous to sailing. Parcel Packages will will watch its growth, and if it proves a worth responsible for the difference of 8826,000 less on without discoloration. Discoloration has been be received at the Office until 5-P,M; same day } less invention they will reglater its burial. the nine months, as the flour shipments show a stumbling block in the way of incandescent all Farcel Packages should be marked Meanwhile Volapük has in the world 15-news- loss of only $31,000. This loss has been more lamps ever since they were invented. papers entirely devoted to the defence of its than offset by quicksilver shipments. In the The paper doors now coming into use are dress in full value of same is required. cause and the propagation of its principles, and past nine months we have shipped 4 TT5 flasks claimed to possess the advantage over wood of its followers are not characterized by narrow quicksilver to Hangkong, valued at $181,917. neither shrinking, swelling, cracking nor warping views and huge pretentions, like your corres whereas no shipments of this kind were made in They are formed of two thick paper boards, ponient, but by a spitit of international frater the same time" in 1886-87. – It is evident that stumped and mounted into panels, and glazed nization, the love of peace and the patient most of this difference of $1,000,000 in our China together with glue and potash, and then rolled parseverance which leads to success. -
trade in the result of ssened shipments of through heavy roilers. After being covered with ́31 am, Dear Sir,
Eastern freight, such as ginseng, abeelings, dryn waterproof coating, and then one that is fire goods and general manufactures It is quite proof, they are painted, varnished and hung in. Yours truly,
possible that some of this Eastern freight has the usual way. ka V]. A. VAN AALST.
been diverted in favor of the British Columbia ateamer but most at the loss, we fancy due La the fact that leas freight of this description has gone out of, the country to China. A magnesium actinic compound, the most rapid- the tea-carrying trade, the British Columbia steamers have cut more, largely into the Soer traffic than into the through traffic by way of San Franciico; Up to March 20, 1888, the len arrivals at New York for the season, via the Stice
Amay, 17th May, 12885.
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND CHINA.
Duting the first year of the operation of the Can dino Pacific Railroad between Port Moody, BC., and Montreal, Canada, the company, was
cintent to feed its ling, with Teh, Silk and other
Canil, had been 710,535 pkgs, against 1,071,889
At the recent Press Club banquet an instan tanchis photograph of the people present was made by, the use of an unusual, amount of
dry plates and the quickest working Morrison's instantaneous wide angle lenses. Over two hundred people were present, and the result wom very satisfactory. The faces of the guests were as well taken ns in an ordinary instantaneou
photograph taken in the dry line,
ad
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des- timed to Feints beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices in Sealed Envelopes, addressed to the Collector of Customs a: San Francisco,
For further information as to Passage, and Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 5A, Queen's Road Central,
BARANG. D. HARMAN,
Hongkong 19th May: 1888.
JOHN
"OF HONGKONG
No. 618, S.C.
star AN EMERGENCY MEETING
products from China and Japan by sailing vessels. pkgs for the same time, in 1886-87, showing When the first electric telegraph was esta inst year the company dispensed with said ves" loss of 361,354 pkgs, or nearly 40 per cent. The ohshed the speed of transmission was from four scle and Inaugurated a monthly steam Hoe? For steamers arriving at San Francisco have brought to five words a minute with the g-needle instru- this service, three steamers were chartered, in about the same quantity as in 186687-Saumonts. In 1849 the average rate for newspaper England and sent out to Chiom These were Franciica-Bulletina
Yan memagos Was seventeen words-a minules The
SONS HALLA Zetland Street, on the 21th instant, at 8.30 for o Visiting Brethren are cordially Hongkong, 19th May, 1888:
of the aboy
TO LET.:
COMMODIOUS Suit of OFFICES in the
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON, 13. Praya Central. Hongkong, 22nd March, 1888.
TO BE LET.
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A SEMI-DETACHED HOUSE in Richmond Rooms, 3 Bath Rooms and convenient Out Terrace,-containing 6 Comfortable
Offices..
A New Story has just been added to the Servants Quarters
Apply to
3.
MR JOHN WILLMOTT, Hongkong Dispensary. Hongkong, 34th April, 1888.
TO LET.
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[OOMS'in "COLLEGE CHAMBERS,”
GODOWN in ICE HOUSE LANE, laicly occupied by Mesare." BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, from the 1st August.
"Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS, & Co Hongkong, and May, 1888-
MACAO.
TO BE LET UNFURNISHED, OR - PARTLY FURNISHED,
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Public
"BUNGALOW, in opposite the
Gardens, at the western end of the Praya Grandes Excellent water supply, and Servants quarters attached. Rent very moderate
Apply to
BETA À DE MELLO & Coll
Macao 3rd April 1889.
"KIUTOAN "LIGHTSHIP.
This vessel has been moored in 4 fathomi off the south-western edge of Blockhouse Shoal, with the Kiutoan Beacon bearing S, 71* W, distant about 3.1-10 iniles.
MIDDLE GROUND UPPER BUOY.
A RED and, BLACK vertically striped - Buoy, surmounted by a DLACK triangular cage, has been moored on the north-western end of the Middie Ground, in 3 fathoms, with Klutoan Beacon bearing S. 653° W., distant about 3.1-10
miles.
MIDDLE GROUND LOWER BUOY. A RED and BLACK vertically, striped Buoy, surmounted by a DLACK diamond-shaped cage, has been moored on the south-eastern end of the Middle Ground, in 3 fathoms, with House Island Beacon bearing N. 23° W. distant about 4.2.10. miles.
BLOCKHOUSE SHOAL BUOY. This Buoy, No. 2 in the published List for 1888, has been removed, w
Vessels entering by the channel to the north- eastward of the Middle Ground may now keep the Tungsha Lightship bearing 9. 55o E. till she is 8 miles distant, and then steer to pass '2 cables to the south-westward of the, KrurOAN.. | Lightship; after which they may steer to make a course N. 56% Will the small Kiutoan Beacon bears S. 45°W. **
All bearings and courses given are magnetic, and the depths are for low water spring tiden,
Vessels
CAUTION
should not attempt to pass to the north-eastward of the KIUTOAN Lightship in her present position.
By Order of the Inspector General of Customs;
A. M. BISBEE,"
Coast Inspector.
Imperial Maritime Customs,
Coast Inspector's Office, ***
Shanghai, 1st May, 1886.
FOR SALE, CHEAP.
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