is
proof-dated 15th year 11th moon 15th. Tam Shin's hands received it. The name of the Yan Wo Chan did not appear. When I heard
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 16 8.
of charges
"MUTINY-ON-THE-HIGH-SEAS,-
The Sikh guard, Jandno, is reported to be improving, -There have now been three escapes this year from the chain-gang, a fact which cata for explanation. It is attributable to several causes in the first piece, as Major-General Gordon has epeatedly pooled out to the Government, we see hy his published reports, the then have of arranging-schemes of escape, which, they could not do if confined separately. Then again luger and is necessary, when the ging entployed in a pince close to a beach, where junks can be anchored ready for these desperate, fellows, men who have lived by pitcy and robbery all their life, to escape by if they can demountain crater. so by simply overpowering or killing
of
We see on reference to a recent map that the name given to what we have called Chung Hue Island is Tsing 1, otherwise Black Mount. "I ithout one-third the size of Hongkong:
Thomas Watson, the following during and THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL he could ret some nicinber of the Legislative
On the passage out to Manila of the British the note was bad I went to the Hongkong Bank.four-masted sailing ship Childwall, Captain I was asked did you take the mote? I said yes. He (compradore) said you must pay the money back. I said it is ne concern of mine. I paid the money to the customer. The Bankman'
I said asked me is the customer here or not, he is just returned from Penang and gone to Canton said wait till the Customer comes
OR
FRAMWAY,
The central rail for shi
the daily business of life, and who on the top of the massive Roman Catholic Sanitarium with the the mountain, from twelve to eighteen hundred bright blue China Sea in the back ground and it Sun sign the paper-which was los Fung appear. Proceedings, which were delayed Him Nam, Assistant Grosperitate of the Bongomewhat by Mr. Dennys' absence, commenced
feet above sea level, could enjoy the salubrious distant horizon strangely lifted upto an apparently kong and Shanghal flank recognised the note, by the magistrate reading over the "charges-
climate, the green bille and the bracing southernmost unnatural.clevation. Lema, Lomma, the and said that it had been brought to him by to the prisoners, who objected to the case a man who said he was from Yan We Chan, being opened till their solicitor appeared in
bresce coming uninterruptedly in from the ocean. islaids and inlets of the Ladrones and other groups to go abroail and see for himself the mountain the time and trouble of the ascent. Taking a but he failed la recopais. He said that it Court After some further delay it was reported
Considerations such as these induced Mr. Smith complete a picture grand of its kind and well worth was the same note that is brought by Lo Shing that Mr. Dennys, had thrown up the case for isis
minute inspection of nearly all that the modern operating wire cable, with one and which was bought by the Hongkong Bank chents, when the prisoners were asked endivi-
miway contrivances in other lands: Alter a glance in the Engine house we find the
Sun came with the or He states pietatem arreply to qualing dually to lead gjurity pleaded guilty of the first
world could show him he at last reacted Mount and a que ver ches with its diameter of our from him said the note was his, and that they charge only refusal of duty-several of them
Yesuvius, and when his pet scheme was started wheel, round which, for greater security against kept an inn, and in a few days would pay the declaring that was because the ship was astute
he had, the tramway constructed on very "rendering," one or two extra turas have been 10 the descending ear by its other end; thus money to the Wing Fung. He says he did not for three or four days that thay refused to go to
nich the same plan a the celebrated line which laken, and then led out again to be attached work; three of them alleging they refused duty
runs from the ancient plains of Herculaneum up hear Lam Sun say the note belonged to a cus
He calculated that with dual rope so does the other descend, and by tomer. Chan Akit corroborates the story of the under the pressure of their shipmates. The names
to the summit of that most famous and historic as one car coines up and shortens its indivi of these men were Custer, Daly, and Thomas
warder no more than from thirty o forty fomilic living the act lengthen its own attachment till the lower accountant and master of the Native Bank as
at "the Peak, the annual expenditure seven terminus is renclied; if one car stops for any to the representation made by Tam Sun as to Mr Wilson, in stating his case, shid the prisoners
two. The blame for the success of this latest the master and to the signing of the paper. For in the dock were accused of four of the worst
tempt must not be altogether. laid upon the years ago in reaching the top, of residents purpose, so must the other. At the point where the, delence. Tam Sun said he was assistant possible offences of which scauien could be accountant at the Yan Wo Chan; that Cheung guilty, they had confessed to refusing their duly shoulders of the officers in charge. The place and visitors,.amounted to figures approaching the cars pass, the line is doubled, the action of where the gang was working was a comparatively $45,000-nearly all paid over te chair-cublier shunting slug performed by ordinary switches, at a most critical time in the history of the
at Kennedy Town, in the distressing and objectionable bu,iness of each attended by Chinese, who have been well Sing Nam came from Penang on 22nd December and on the 24th December gave him the 50 voyage, namely, while the Childwall was lying arrow ledge on the note to get changed, and he took it to the Wing stranded on a reef. of rocks and when the The warders had to be amongst the prisoners hunan transport. And taking these figures, in drilled into their duties. The idea of the Fung Bank. He says that he asked the Bank ship and her cargo, as well as the lives to direct their work, and the nature of the ground addition to the highly probable augmentation of designer of the line appears to have been to let. ar through fashionable and popular resorts, the Road as high up the face of the induntain as accountant what he would give and he said $750 and fortunes of everybody on board, deputed prevented most of the sentries from standing trafic inseparable from most railways running to his tramway spring from the terminus on Garde projector felt that bis scheme was all but certain possible, and on coming to the first overhanging and he look the note back without saying any entirely on the zealous, and hearty exertions of in places cominanding the position. A sudden
of success. The summers on the Peak were, he cliff, a "beedling crag" against which no human thing. He says he went a second time and said every individual who had attached his same to her combined attack was not easy to prevent even my customer is unwilling to give it for so much articles. The further charges of assault, insubar- when the officers, as in this case, were in.a
measure warned of it. As for the wild shooting, knew, from eight to ten degrees, cooler than the endeavour could inake progress, to then swerve money will you give more. They said they would dination, and attempting to scuttle, came under make inquiries, it might be worth more went the category of mutiny, than which there was no upon which many severe cominents have been atmosphere in the town, and the air iomcast to the right to the westward-and so complete scanian could made; we would point out that in some degreeably lighter, puter and less oppressive, whilst in the ascent at a more gradual angle by skirting away leaving the note with them and left it there more heinous offence of which for five days. He says he went again on the 25th be guilty. The latter charge, that of attempting it was excusable, in an exciting moment like winter the climate was such as to induce most of the spurs of the precipices, Such an iden that. It is proverbial that in engagements the residents to contentedly reinain, where they has been carried out, and it required but one were. Having opened communications with the trivial cutting, through the groin of a project. Dec. and asked Akwong how much? He said to scuttle the Childwall while she was lying at $285. 1 anid 1 had no authority in the matter anchor in the harbour of Manila could be clearly not one bullet in awo hundred reaches the
individual aimed at, and we can hardly expect engineers and builders of the Californian high ing spur; the, sest of the line either runs and would wait till the customer canie back. substantiated, and but for the existence of that men who are onpracticed, half-choked, or level lines, Mr. Findlay Smith then addressed on the surface of the hill-side or has been The nature of the ground nút He had gone to Canton. He returned on the forward bulkhead would have resulted in the 28th Dec, On the 26th Akwong came to my foundering of the vessel, as it was, the fore in motion can aim very 'acciately. The Sikh himself to the Hongkong Government, his first. cnbanked. shop and said is the customer back-ndd $3. peak was flooded, and the ship thereby placed in suntries, it is true, are ex-soldiers, but firing at letter, being written in May, 1881, and his admiting of a straight course for the line, there that makes 288. This was at ar n-nobody great peril. After some discussion with the runaways in the moment of surprise is not the petition pointing out that "as public requirements was nothing for the designers to do but accept a but myself was there.. I told him the note Court on points of law bearing on the case, Mesane thing n'a shooting at a target in cool blood. in the growing prosperity of the island would be devious path; the wise hawser being supported belonged to a customer and I wanted to change Wilson asked for an adjournment, when his What the inquiry may elicit or result in may effectually served by the construction of lines of and held in the centre of the rails by a great for Ilm. Orthezeth told the customer ofthe. Warship remanded the prisoners till Monday at not be known for some time, but it is to be trataway, and that having regard to the configur-number of pulleys of an ingenious construction, 2 p.m., giving directions that the three hien who hoped that dus recognition will be given to the nation of the island, the nature of the cliniste, which, always holding the rope down in the offer. He sail exert yourself. I saw Akong on the 29th-and-we-bargained for $293They did had pleaded refusal of duty under pressure from brave and timely help rendered by Foulkes, and and sanitary and economic considerations, the required position, relense it on the approach of -to-one or two native pulsiners who, we wire-rape system of some of the American cities the cars to which the end is attached. As an not ask me for any security and I did not give their shipmates, be kept in separate celis. ·
qnderstand, a isted kiln.
offered indubitable advantages, cic. To this extra precaution against the rope breaking the any. I gave a receipt for the money Chui Wing
petition nn answer was received from the Governor, cars-as an afterthonght-were fitted with two
·Fang-shop-a-note. Australian, L50. This note
Sir John Pape Hennessy, through the Colonial powerful steel clip breaks, arranged to grasp Secretary, informing-the-petitiotter-that--by central rail and to act at all times and under all going through the necessary forms of procedure circumstances of langer, by simply releasing the there would be nothing to stop him from pressure of a lever held always under the charge obtaining leave to carry out his ideas; provided of a brakesman.
purpose is finaly attached to the steepers by Council to take charge of the requisite bill. steel bots and clamps, At present the ling has mutinous conduct took place amongst certain
No sooner, however, had the question been no-intermediate stations, but as traffic increases. members of her crew. The vessel har arrived the Indian or near the equator in
mooted in the Council, and of course in the or if necessity demands, it is proposed to have A BRIEF HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. ocean, in longitude about 83 degreg east.
public papers, than suddenly a rival company stopping places near the Kennedy and Plantation. when another vessel supposed to be home. ward bound was spoken. Captain Watson After many disappointing delays, perhaps sprang into existence, or perhaps it might more Roads. In the event of suddenly, requiring te beck. The master knew that the Customer had having three stowaways on haard his ship, and inseparable from the peculiar nature of the Properly be said that certain gentlemen in the stop-ns happened a day or two back the man syndicate to control everything of this kind with the engine house, and thus effect his desires. given me the note to change but it did not pass finding his water and provisions growing some scheine, the steel-wire rope tramway to Victoria colony proposed to form themselves into a in charge of the curcan communicate electricall what scant, determined to send the supernumeries Cap has at length go fairly to work, and witch appeared to them to have money in it. M.J. F. Houlton was the indefatigable resident through his hands. He says he left the note at the Bank, from 24th to 29th and that the on board the passing vessel if her captain we are pleased to len has secased the con-
In June of that year our projector was not a engineer who carried out the surveys of the little astonished to receive a letter from Mr.K. line. Mr. Jes Anderson, the constructor. Customer told him he could do so; witness said would consent to receive then With the fidence of the. Peak residents, as well as all
classes of the commity, and is earning. Alford, who signed himself the Secretary of superintended the work from the beginning and he had dealings with Bank and had trusted object of ascertaining, he got out one of bis
the "Hongkong and China Tramway Company, has overcome every one of the legion of difficul- them. I said to the master that I was going to boat and sent the chief oficer tu communicate.dividends at a rate which perhaps not even iis inust sanguine projectors had the reinalest''iden
containing a proposal for "amalgamation," and ties which almost daily cropped up and which get a note changed. It was a large amount. An arrangement with the other captain having
were perhaps inseparable from such a schem Witness said at the Police Station the Cus- been come to, the three stowaways were ondered of in their wildest fights of fancy. The line also to make his pet scheme a kind of branch
was informally opened by His Excellency Sir
of the new Company's larger undertaking. It undertaken in this distant outpost of British. tomer told how it was, that be asked the to collect what clothing they had and to get inte
was about this time that the Hon. P. Ryrie | enterprise. master to give the note to Tam Sun to take and the boat, then lying under the quarter waiting to William Des Vecur, accompanied by his family
appears to have joined hands with Mr. Smith, change.Cheung-Sing-Nam-from-whom-the-receive-them--Instead of obeying the order the and party of friends, on the 28th ultime, and on- note was got by the assistant accountant of the interlopers again stowed themselves away, this the 20th was thrown upen to the public, no fees, and the third item in the rival proposition was
30th
that Mr. Ryrie and Mr. Smith should become: AN Important Discovery is announced in the Bank, says he gave it to Tamn Sun to get change time down in the hold amongst the cargo-the being charged on the opening day. On the and that he said to the master that he had ship not being full. An attempt to disloge them May it commenced its career as a money inaking Co-Promoters of the "Hongkong, and China Paris Figara, of a valuable remedy for nervous Tramway Company," with seats on the Board. debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a mission- given the note. He went to Canton in the night resulted in the ringleader of the three, rushing at enterprise, with the best wishes of the entire com
These proposals did not appear to meet with of the 2 th December and returned on the 28th the chief mate with a crowbar and felling him to nunity of the island, many of whom doubtless
ary in Old Mexico; it saved him from a miser- the deck. The second male as next attacked look forward to possessing, at no disinnt date,
very hearly reception from Messrs. Ryrie and and got the change and went back again to Canton on the 29th December. The note he either by the same scoundrel or by another, and their own houses at the Peak with the assurance
that the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury proposals submitted merely indicated an inten- - says he got from a Penang trader to buy goods alt but brained with a formidable blow on the of a ready ascent into a purer and balmier Smith, who informed the rival Company that the able existence and an early grave. We learn
head-also from a crowbar. Captain Waison atmosphere than that which at present they exist. for him and he bought them and paid for them.
tion to promote the very same object which Mr. Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC, On that day-the 30th May the cars
Findlay Smith badheen Labolously working at will send the prescription, free of charge, on with the proceeds to Kum Chun admits that only having his two wounded officers, and the under. he knew of the vote having been given but did master of the other ship having meanwhile come leaving at intervals of filleen minulls, cartelar a long time previous, and that the terms receipt of a sell addressed stamped envelope. not see it or give authority. Tam Sún' also sald' on board, he requested the latter to take charge of fewerthan 600 passengers, a total we believe far in
finite to warrant them either in withdrawing from he did not tell the Bank the name of the Cus- his ship, while he made a single-banded attempt excess of the calculations which first induced submitted were somewhat too vague and inde- tomer. I have ret out the evidence at great to have his orders carried out. Proceeding the enterprising projectors of the Company to their own special undertaking or merging it into put their ideas futo practical shape. From June that of the new Company. But on the 16th July of length because alic difficulty here is like that into the hold with
1st to the preseal date the number of passengers the same year a "Revised Proposal" was drawn which mostly occurs, víz, to arrive at a panied by one of the mates, who had recovered,
has averaged yoo per day, all bent either on conclusion as to the exact facts. The quef Captain Watson hailed the three men who, were
out and submitted to Messrs. Ryrie and Smith, tian to be determined is: Did Tam A Sun stowed away in a dark corner, to surrender, or he business pleasure in reaching the health
to which those two gentlemen finally attached agree with the plaintiff that if he bought the would shoot Getting no answer, but knowing giving breezes and deliciously cool and bracing their signatures, and by which, they consented note-it would be paid by the master of the Yan the men were there, he let drive one piece climate of the mountain ranges.
to amalgamate their tramway scheme with that We Chan, and, had he any authority to make of lead, when out rushed the leader of the
month Messrs. Ryrie and Smith, who appear, in such an agreement-either express or implied band with his crowbar uplifted, but being
of the rival concern. On the zoth of the same authority. This was not an obligement of instantly covered by the mate's weapon he
a measure, to have been reluctantly forced to changing a note as a favour as alleged in the dropped the bar and shouted "I surrender." petition. The plaintiff got $15.68 for business; The three men were now taken on deck
compliance by a stronger body of workers, pr supposed workers, were not a little astonished to serve another communication from Mr. Alford it was a purely business transaction,, and was and on being led to the waiting boal, a member there anything in the course of business between of the crew-a bad character stepped out of the
informitig them, with regret, that the general body the Yan Wo Chan and the Chinese Bank ranks, and demanded that the stowaways should that would justify the Chinese Bank in saying be permitted to go back to the forecastle in order
of his promoters had not been able to see their that the master of the Yan We Chan had clothed
to collect certain missing articles of clothing.
way to ratify the instrument of amalgamation his assistant accountant with, and hired him out when having got the men into that sanctuary,
and thas Mesers Ryrie and Smith were again left to themselves to carry out their own Tramway. to the Peak undisturbed and unfettered by as having, general authority to make an agree they again defied Captain Watson to remove ment such as is alleged in this case, I think them. The whole crew appear to have been in not. They never had such a transaction before a semi-state of mutiny and it was found frequently
jealous rivals.or other syndicates" although by an arrangement under which power for both the He had exchanged gold and local notes, but necessary, after that, either to put some of them not Australian ones, and then he was not in irons or to confine them in cabine
Low Level Tramway scheme, of which Mr. Alford was Secretary, and the High Level Tramway. considered as acting for his master or by his
should be obtained under one bill, and their part orders. But did the plaintiff give the assistant
THE ESCAPED CONVICTS.
(Messrs. Ryrie and Smith's) assigned to them by accountant express authority in this particular
deed, which was afterwards accomplished. Per mission from the Government was not given to case? After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that he did. It is admitted that There is very little additional new respecting
construct the line till March 2nd, 1885, when the he knew at the exchange of the note, and that it the convicts who escaped from Kennedy Town
survey was at once taken in band by Mr. G. F. was left behind by the custemer, and that he had yesterday morning. They are undoubtedly gone. been spoken to by the cashier about it. It would They had an hour's start of the first pursuing alle appear that the cashier said that he bad party, and so managed to cross the island asked the master of the Yan Wo Chan to have and get across to the mainland in a boat Smith, who was subsequently joined by the lion. Ordinances and 18 of 1883 The it changed, for him. The Native Bank witnesses which was in readiness. The police deserve. Kyrie, bothwold residents in Hongkong, to be all swear to the fact that Tam Sun had said Bit every praise for the energy which they the sole projectors of the undertaking and to be master sent him, and that he would not say any displayed. Within a few minutes after the about the only two men in Hongkong who had thing about an offer until Ife told his master, nor news was received they were armed and ready,originality, boldness, confidence, and calculating whether the Yan Wo Chan would agree to refund and when they reached the Island, which is powers sufficiently advanced and correct to push in case of non payment. They also state that he about twelve or fifiten; miles in circumference, the enterprise to a prosperous issue, first as an came back and said his master agreed. Tam Sua's they dispersed and searched with the utmost engineering succese, and finally as a financial conduct also at the Hongkong Bank goes for activity, although it was known that the convicts triumph. The chief originator and projector of
The residents of Hongkong will know that something as well as the statements of the master had a fonded rifle in their pusscasion Where the idea, Mr. Findlay Sunith, had been travelling of the Yan Wo Chan in March, when application the great mistake was made was in landing ou several separate occasions in America, as well the lower terminus of the tramway is in St. was made for a refund. In the result I have where they did. A stern chase is a long chase, as part of two winters in Europe, during which John's Place, Garden Road, just above the The
time he visited and made himself conversant Cathedral, and immediately abreast of Kennedy's caine to the conclusion that Tam Sun said he and, handicapped as they were by the delay acted under the authority of his master in and by their accoutrements, it was simply with nearly every existing method of railway Hirse Repository. The exact distance from From the the upper terminas by way of the road, (which December, and that he really did so act, although hopeless to think of catching the men, employed for mountain scent.. It suita both to deny the authority now. He Inspector Harapool certainly directed the original Clay Street, and subsequent schemes, in is not straight, but has two beads in it, the first gave a receipt he admits as proof which launch which accompanied him to go round to San Francisco, to the two or three methods in. to the south west and the next to west-south- corroborates the statement of the bank people the other side, bit there were hardly any Sturborough and ab on to the Rigi, Monterey west) is 4600 feet, or just under nine tenths of in their version of what took plate, and the men angboard, and these did, not land Lucerne, the Rhine and Mount Vesuvius, Mr a mile, and the difference in sititude between present change of front is perhaps not unnatural and sedish on the northern side. The police Smith made a thorough inspection, and returned, the two points is 1207 feet. The escent is made in order to escape a llability which the Boarding should have been conveyed round to the further to this colony quite convinced that the enterprise in sineminutes and the descent in the same time, House no doubt feels it should not be saddled extremity, then, intercepting the runaways, would succeed in Hongkong, and that in any both cars being connected-by-the same rope with The owner of the note, is here, and be securing them would only have been n.quesilon case it should be aliempled although the which, leading round a revolving drum in the will doubtless indemnify the Boarding House of time. As it was they were landed at the foot European population was small and was not engine house, has its two ends secured to the but I am satisfied the Native Bank did not know of a high, precipitous bill, at the spot where the increasing very last. The difficulties of over ascending and descending cars respectively. the scruples of nerveus people had to be The steepest gradient is in a and the easiest, Cheng Sing Nam in the matter, and that they junk was beached. The men, bath as their considered, with him but for a moment, and was after the bend to the westward lins been made The give credit to plaintiffsthrough his agent, who and Sikhs, swarmed up, but many a sob hand express authority, to bind him. Judgment teil confessed. A long expanse of irregular quickly settled by the marurance, that half a and the, Gap: I approached, in 25.
successful trips, up and down, would compel eleven short bridges which cross the mountain as we mentioned yesterday, for a lundied men to lie safely in. Still the police want theid, lor as a matter of fact, the proportionate the various roads leading to the east end of the on,1 after hour, trying every bush dong after strain upon the rope is by no means so great as island and to the mountain top, are constructed of our reporter-the only one with them was tired that which is brought to bear on the tackle of an wrought iron girders but the line runs under out, The few miserable villagers they met could ordinary bute "lift and only in proportion to the some of the roads as well as under the aqueduct tell then nothing except that they were half an ratio of the grade, while a wire cable tested up to road from Tytam The motivo power for hout behind their game. Traces were found a breating strain of 55 tons is certainly an ample operating the two cars cutleists of a pair of multitubular Sixteen of the crew of the four-masted sailing mile or twolland, and these were taken up lygiamantee of seculty against a strain which compound horisontal engines with ship Childwall this afternoon appeared on two or three Afghan conétables, who followed should never exceed five tons. boilers, each of 40 nominal home power, having remand at the Police Court; before Mr. Bercombe them with singular skill and rapidity Fill someThe Tramway has been spoken of as a financial a handsome and substandal appearance, and Smith, charged by the master Captain Thomas blond-stained clothes were found.These was triumph, and certainly up to the present time we standing within a brick building erected at the Watson, with refusal of duty, assault, lasub ex unine for bullet marks, but none were found find ourselves justified in employing a phrase to top of the Gap and at the very edge of the ordination and attempting to scaule the ship so it is probable that one of the convicts cities encouraging and high-toned. All such railways mountain slope. From this station is obtained the former thing offences.committed on the high, fell and cut himself or bled froin an old wound require the greatest care and caution in design-magnificent view over the northern and acas between the 11th and 10th May last, and, At length in the evening, the other end of the Ing and constructrug, and so far, it has been southern baritans With an altitude of about found that the Peak tramway can, with ordiitary 1207 feet, the Peak itself, nearly Boo feet higher The latter in Manila harbour on or about 19th island was reached. The pursuing
an engineering cess appears still lofty, while the grand harbour May. It will be remembered that these men completely worn out they had
lopks ten times more expansive and the ships have been brought from Manila where the Ince mara and had walked
Hand steamers antall indeed, and at long distances milos monly us Childwall still remains to this part, for trial, quite twenty
apart. The city of Victoria; dying immediately!
eets the eye with a new beauty, possibly, from this point, than anding on the Gep The
revolver, and accom
Though there are perhaps few things impossible to the energies and intelligence of the civil engineering experts of the present day, and though this mountain tramway has its counter- part in various other regions of the world-and therefore as an engineering problem was nó novelty to some men-its practicability was nevertheless a much debated question in Ho kong when the scheme was first proposed, and doubts were generally expressed as to the enter prise ever paying its shareholders a fair return on their investiments. A few, however, had confidence in the scheme, but the vast majority shrank from becoming interested in an under- taking the prospects of which appeared so doubtful, even after its utility and importance were admitted. But, although, as we have said, there were many who even refused to believe in the practicability of the wire rope system, all were ready to admit that a tramway to Victoria Gap would be one of the greatest boons which sanguine speculators and expert rajiway ་ constructors could confer upon a colony which atill far back in the rear rank of modern civilis- ation. It remained for Mr. Alexander Findlay
Boulton, C.E. It took from May 1881 to this dafe to put the bill through, and to obtain the Royal assent; and powers were finally obtained work of constructing commenced at the lower end of the line, tenders for which were advertised for on 26th March, 1885, when Mr. Sun Shing's contract was accepted for the first section and afterwards for all the other sections.
DESCRIPTION OF THE LINE:
for plaintiff with coats, interest from 19th March. ground lay before them, with Riding,plathe desired, confidence and reassure the most stans and gullies on the hill side, as well as
THE BRITISH SHIP "CHILD WALL
CHARGES AGAINST THE ---
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hour
and that they have on two different ocasions. They were rewarded by heutig already been before Captain Rumsey RN
Marine Magistrate, who, Anding the charge
against them of a serious character sent the case
to the Police Court for tilal Mr FH 0.
Wilson of Mess. Woiton and
¡cops, appeared
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To-day's Advertisements.
PERSEVERANCE
Co-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAL
THE Steamship
Captain F. Schula, will be despatched for the
For Freight or I'assage, apply to above Port, on MONDAY, the 18th Inftant, at
" 'SIEMSSEN & Co. to., instead of as previously notified.
Hongkong, 16th June, 1888, .
1599
UNION LINE. *FOR SINGAPORE. “HE Steamship
**ERISIA,"
Captain. Cobb, will be despatched for the above
For Freight or Passage, apply to " Port, on MONDAY, the 18th instant, at 3 P.M. instead of as previously advertised.
RUSSELL & Co.,
Agents.
(593
Hongkong, 16th June, 1888.
:
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY, HE Spanish Steamer
"DON JUAN," Captain Marquez, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 19th inst., at 5 P..
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BRANDÃO & Co.,
Agents.
:
Hongkong, 16th June 1888.
* Intimations,
-HONGKONG, CANTON_AND_MACAO. STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.
EXCURSION TO MACAO,
【EATHER perinitting, the Steamship W
VV HONAM" will leave Hongkong 10- MORROW, the 17th instant, at 9 A.M., returning from Macao at 9 P.M.
First Class Fare to Macao and Back $2. Second Class or Single Fares.
Chinese Servants' so Cents each, way. No Chits will be taken.
T. ARNOLD,
Secretary:
Hongkong 16th June, 1888,-
THE HONGKONG HIGH LEVEL TRAMWAYS, COMPANY,
LIMITED.
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"THE Public are respectfully informed that the FEAR TRAMWAYY was OPENED
for Public Traffic on WEDNESDAY, the gotli May
The CARS RUN as follows between JOHN'S PLACE and VICTORIA GAP :
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8 to 10 AM. every quarter of an hour. Mato 2 P.M.
half hour, .4 to 8
» quarter of an hour. SUNDAY S. past 12 to past one every quarter of an hour, and from 4 to 8.Pevery guter of on bour
Single Tickets iné oblüge in the Cars. Gentlemen are requested NOT TO SMOKE in the first-class Compartment
H Tickets. for a trips up and 30 trips down, First-class, at $13.00; and Tickets for six trips up and six trips down, at $2.50; Five-Cent LODGE OF Coupons and Reduced Tickets may be obtained
nt the Office of the GENERAL MANAGERS,
[539 Hongkong, 14th amsales an HONGKONG & CHINA GAS, COMPANY, COMPANY:
HONGKONG, No. 1165.
LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS"
A REGULAR MEETING of the above HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 15th instant, at 8.30 for 9.O'CLOCK precisely.
Hongkong, 16th June, 1888.
THEATRE
1591
ROYAL,
CITY HALL, HONGKONG, - FOR A SHORT SEASON ONLY
COMMENCING
THIS EVENING,- the 16th June, 1888.
NORTON'S.
WORLD OF WONDERS.
WASH
FAMOUS
Combination of superlative excellence, and beyond comparison, including the following - WORLD RENOWNED ARTISTS AND
"STERLING NOVELTIES I
MR. & MRS. WASH NORTON, Refined Sketch Artists.
be CLOSED from the gth to the 23rd "HE TRANSFER BOOKS of fili Company
instant, both days inclusive.
F. W. CROSS, Manager.
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Hongkong, 8th June, 1888.
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED
HE Company is prepared to Tranship Cargo THE
Point to any Steamer in the harbour, and to bring Cargo across from Kowloon to any place- on the Praya at the usual rates.
ISAAC HUGHES,
Secretary
By Order,
Hongkong, 20th April, 1888.
HONGKONG TIMBER YARD, WANCHAI. OREGON PINE SPARS AND LUMBER
ON HAND.
L. MALLORY,
Proprietor.
Hayleigh Tinaj ekki
THE MONARCHS OF GROTESQUES, THE HARVEY BROTHERS (WILLIAM AND CHARLES). Great Original Egyptian and Oriental N O W
Necromancer,
The
ACHMED ALI BEY,"
In his unique Entertainment of Egyptian, Arabian and Hindoo Illusions,
ALBERT LINTON, ASSISTED BY MISS HAIDA. Wonderful Young Lightning Sketch Artist.
PROFESSOR ALFRED JENSEN.
GALATEA,
The animated Statue.
MR WASH NORTON,
In his Astounding Quick Changes. ZITKA, THE ENTRANCED LADY Or Floating in the Air, &c., &c.
PRICES OF ADMISSION
Dress Circle and Stalla
P
1.00
Seats can be reserved at Mass. KELLY & WALSH'S, LISIITED, under Hongkong Hotel
Doors open at 8.30 Pat, Performance.com- mences at 9 O'CLOCK
CHAS, DERMER}
General Agent.pin
Hongkong, 16th June, 1888,
RONG RIFLA
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