of dealing with this water presents great" difficulties, but energetic measures are being taken. This inhabitants of Inawashiro and the adjacent district escaped with their furniture at the time of the eruption, as though a military invasion had taken place. The wounded are receiving trentment at the School-house in Inawa- shiro. Their condition in shocking. Some have. factured skulls; others, broken limbs, and the faces of a few are battered so as to be unte cognisable. At present the number of patients is 20. Owing to scarcity of medical aid great is experienced in ministering to their difficulty wants. There are about 1,000 persons in need of help, but means of relieving them are at hand, I append a table showing the numbers of killed and wounded. It shows that some places escaped comparatively uninjured. But on the other hand, a few villages were completely over whelmed. Up to to-day (16th) the corpses-ro. covered number45. Three hamlets near the village of Hihara are said to have buried altogether, together with the whole of their inmates:-
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 30, 16 8.
The Secretary read the advertisement calling the meeting and the minutes of the previous meeting.
Inti nations,
Insurances.
YANTED A FOREMAN ENGINEER to THE NEGLECT OF LIFE
On the motion of Mr. D. dus, the report and able tones here in England, more than 3000 should arise, and many of the ladies availed take charge of a General Repairing shop
accounts as circulated, and, published in our issue of the 17th inst.) were taken as reud.
The Chairman, in calling attention totheitem of stock as per inventory, $60,511.25," pointed out that the stock of the company was taken at the lowest market price. The directors had not taken into consideration the market value of the material-only the cost of importation. In reference to the Kobe, property, he referred to the advantages to be gained by its purchase, was a most valuable property, liaving a frontage of three hundred feet on the water, and being adjoined by deep water. It was surrounded on three sides by the railway compound, and had been obtained at a very reasonable figure indeed. The plant, material, and buildings had bech got for actually less than the buildings were put up for. He added that, as many small steamers good deal of frequent Kobe, there must be engineering work to be done.
Mr. Lawder was sure all would agree with him in endorsing that paragraph of the Directors? Report which congratulated the shareholders on the success of the company during its first year, a success which he thought, and he was sure all present thought the same, was entirely due to the energy of their managers. He would not be thought invidious, he felt certain, if he especially named Mr. Center as deserving the thanks of the shareholders.(Applause.) He had much pleasure in proposing that the report and the accounts be adopted.
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precisely and my family were enjoying at once considered advisable by the agent to keepthe Indo the unprec. dened and astoundingsexperience of China Stearn Navigation Cos. Steamer Puenwo listening to Elson's own familing and unmistakin the port all night, in casa further trouble
miles from the place where he had spoken, themselves of this hospital shelter for the night. and exactly in days after, the voice having A meeting at the Consulate under the auspices meanwhile vasged across the Atlantic ocean. of 11.B.M's" "Consul, Mr. Ayston, resulted in a This first phonogrant, as Edison puts it, tells foreign patrol being maintained all night, the me amongst other things of interest that this Customs property being of course guarded by instrument contains many modifications of tunt the Customs Staff. The mob did not appear which was shown at the Electrical Club in New be a viciaus crowd but seemed mainly anxious Vaik a few weeks and, an widely reported by the to make a demonstration, though the constant press. In several long phonographic communi- patrot of the foreign residents no doubt served cations to me, no single woud of which had to grently to sestrain them. be repeated in order to be clearly understood by every person present, including a child of 7 years, Editan mentions that he will send me phonegehms by every mail leaving New York,. and requests the to coitespond exclusively through the medium of the phonograph, humo rously remarking-in-this-connection upon the advantage he will himself derive from the sub- stitution of phonogramıy for a style of writing not always too legible.
"Edison has sent for our annusement numaṛous musical records of great interest and beauty from the pianoforte, cornet and other instruments- anlos, ducts, Pic, many of which, he tells me, Juve been repeater several hundred, tines. Altogether, our experiences of the day have been so delightful and unusual, not to say supernatural, that it would inske it difficult to realize that we have not been dreaming, so interesting withal as to make it seem a duty, as it is a pleasure, to communicate the above to your widely read paper, which 3 have so frequently observed to chronicle the works of the author of the unpar Mr. Center thanked. Mr. Lowder for his kindalelled triningsh of mind over matter. All honor remarks, but thought he personally had done to Edison." no more than the rest of the directors. Greal part of the success of the company had been due the cff sts of Mr. Kildoyle, ably seconded by Mr. Charlesworth, secretary-(Applause),
Oshukozaya 16) These are said to have been Akito 13 completely averwhelmed & Tesoro...... 6) their site terredine a bit At a spa called Kawakami there were; it is said, some Afty-five visitors, all of whom, were pro bably killed. At another spa, Iwahashi, about thirty visitors were staying, and they also are supposed to have perished. Report further says that on the morning of the disaster, several farmers from the villages around went out within hornes to cut lodder in the hills, but there is un. certainty, about their number. 2.
Mr. Johnstone seconded.
Mr. Lowder's motion was put to the meeting and carried unanimously,
The Chairman then called attention to the paragraph in the report as to the retirement of Messrs. C. D. Harm and J. S. van Buren.
Colonel Gotrand adds the following postscript: "It may be intersting to add that the above communication was spoken by me into the
We do not anticipate further trouble and trust that we shall have a quiet Sunday.
To-day's Advertisements.
CAUTION.
OME ROCKS near the CANTON STEAMER
SON, PERLASTEL), at about 5 PM, on the 31st instant. All persons on shore or in boats are warned not to approach too near the spot.
By Order,
W. M. DEANE, Captain Superintendent of Folice. "Hongkong, 30th July, 1888.
0751
THEATRE
ROYAL
CITY HALL, HONGKONG,
phonopaph, and written from the phonograph's TO-MORROW EVENING, dictatilia by a member of my family, who had, of course, na previous experience of the instru meal."
EL Paso (Tex.); June 27th, The Mexican freight 'depot and the adjoining Mr. Dodds asked whether there was any building of the. El Paso and Del Norte line were special object for having two directors in Hong-boned this evening; also about seventy freight kong, and whether that obj et had been served. cats. A huge amount of freight was burneit.
The Chairman saki there was a special object, The evimated foss is $200,000. and it had been accomplished.«
Mr. Dodds proposed the re-election of the five remaining directors,
Mr. Lowder seconded, on the understanding that it involved a geruanent reduction of the number of directors.
Mr. Johnstone pointed out that as the remain- ing five directors did not retire, there was no necessity to leappoint them.
Mr. Dodd's motion was then changed to reað as follows: That the number of directors for the coming year be limited to five."
This was carried.
Mr. Lowder proghsed and M. Hepburn seconded the re-election as auditors of Messrs. H. A. Herbert and O. Keil,
This was agreed to,
In reply to Mr. Dodds,
The Choya Shimbun, immediately on hearing of the eruption, despatched a special reporter to the scenes who returned to the capital on the 19th inst. According to his account the villages round Bandai-sau heard strange rumbling sounds and felt shocks of earthquake from the 13th. These phenomena continued intermittedly for two days and nights, but not being attended by any serious result, no great disquietude was felt On the muming of the 15th, at about 8 o'clock, the smaller Bandai-san trembled and roared as though a hundred thunderstorms were com. bined. Almost immediately afterwards ashes began to fall; the sky suddenly grew dark, and the rumbling sounds continued, accompanied by violent earthquakes and the flare of dazzling fame. The crest of the smaller Bandai-san appeared to be lifted bodily upwards and then to fall again with a tremendous noise. Then followed slidwers of red mud mingled with large stones, spreading havoc around. Such, indeed, was the nature of nearly all the matter erupted, rad med without small stones, but accompanied occasionally by heavy rocks. Above the mud fell a few inches of ashes. In five villages, Iwase, Yozan, Wakamiya, Mizito, and Hibara, the greater part of the houses were buried to a depth of from 7 to 20 fest. The state of the bodies recovered is terrible. Some are literallyings, material, &c., amounting to Sr.goo. cut to pieces; others are parboiled so that, it is On the motion of Mr. Lowder i vote of thanks ecarcely possible to distinguish between men was accorded to the Chairman, and the meeting and women. A few corpses were found suspended terminated-Japan Mail. in the branches of trees which had caught them as they fell Up to the 17th the number of bodies recovered is 476. It is believed that 61 still lie catombed,., The wounded number 411 Eighty-seven houses have been destroyed. The inhabitants of Inawaahiro and the adjacent villages fed to Wakamatsu and other, places when the eruption occurred, but on the arrival of the Governor at the scene of disaster and the gradual rubsidence of the commotion, they recovered confidence and returned to their homes. We have yet to learn the harrowing details of individun! suffering caused by the calamity. The Mainichi Shimbun mentions one. A woman fled from the eruption with her child tied on her back. As she stumbled onwards, a large, red-hot stone flew past and smashed the body. Its blood was scattered all over its mother's body, but she, strange to say, escaped uninjured, and carrying herred burden managed to reach Wakamatsu.
CALCUTTA, June 27th, The inonsoon rains are a fortnight overdue, wing to the delection of the current to Burmah- where a heavy rain has fallen for ten days. The, crops prospects in Besgal, especially as regards tice, ale extremely serious on account of the drought, and prices are rising.
BOSTON, June 27th. "Wilcox" contibutes to this week's Congres gationalist a bit of most interesting war history, which pubably has never before been made public. The purchase pf zilesča 'was authorized by Congression the recoinunciadiation of Secretary Seward and for reasons which did montecul adequate. The fact seem to have been that the great sam of the purchase money, $1,200,000, | was not paid for 'Zilaska at all.
There was at one time imminent danger that England and France would unite in recognizing
The Chairman said the Kobe property had cost, exclusive of buildings, $4,200; the build-the Confederacy mul in raising our blockade of
NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL
The Pacific Mail S. S. Co's steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, Capt. Wm. Ward, with the American mails of the 30th utto,, arrived in We take the harbour yesterday afternoon. subjoined telegrams from our American ex- changes
LONDON, June 27th, English aid is coming to the help of the Nicaragua canal. For some time past agents of rival schemes have been over here urging the co-operation of British shipowners. The ship owners have given careful consideration to all that has been urged by the various canal agents, and as a result of these deliberations, which have extended over a year, upwards of sixty of the leading shipowners and merchants of the United Kingdom held a meeting at Liverpool yesterday and pronounced their decision: K. R. Lockelt, of Liverpool, was chairman, and those present were unanimous in passing the following resolu tion, which was greeted with enthusiasm, being moved and seconded by the Chilian Consul, Themas Bain, and Henry Shield, the head of the Liverpoci iron works.
This meeting of merchants and shipowners of the port of Liverpool, having heard with satis- faction the explanation given by L. L. Blackman, President of the American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company, relating to the plans of the company for the construction of the Nicaragua ship canal, and having regard to the opinions expressed by James Abernathy, C.E., and Sir George Brice, C.E., of London, past and present Presidents of the institution of civil engineers, to the effect that after a careful examination and comparison of the various plans for the construc Lion of an interoceanic ship canal across the territory of Nicaragua, they are satisfied that the plans submitted by Blackman are preferable to any others, both as regards the working and maintenance of the canal, its cast of construction and the time required for its completion, and owing to the great width of the waterway and capacity of the locks proposed the canal will afford ample facilities for all traffic, however great, that may pass throught it as will possess the great advantage that vessels can navigate at or near full speed and pass each other with out damage or delay, which is not practicable in the usual type of canal of restricted width;
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JULY 31ST, 1888.
HE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY
AND OPERA COMPANY,
Directors
(Mr. PEMUERTON W. WILLARD.
» JOHN F. SHERIDAN. Will appear as alxrve in PAULTON & JAKUBOWSKI's Comic OPERA IN TWO Acrs, ENTITLED
ERMINES
CAST OF CHARACTERS. Marquis De Ponvert ...Mr. H. M. IMAÑO, Eupene
CHARLES FISHER, Chevalier..
WHIFFEN CRIPPS. H. HASSAN, J. MANNING. A. Surch.
De Brissac Dufois ............. Ravannes) Two Cadeaux Thieves 1 JOHN F. SHERIDAN, - Captain Dellarney......Miss ARLINE PEERS,
VE A PATEY, MAUDE HARE. -* FLO. MORRISON, G.WHITEFORD. EVA LEAMINGTON. .......Conductor..
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THURSDAY, AFUN ON THE BRISTOL,"
the Southern ports. Our navy way small and the demand for armed vessels along our im mense coast was so great and sudden that no resort was left but chartering or purchasing with JOHN F. SHERIDAN in his original imper-
abroad.
Our Government, therefore, contracted for n large and powerful Russian fleet. The vessels appeared on our coast, and for a considerable time were hovering about our northern harbors. There was much speculation as to their object, but at last they departed as mysteriously as they came.
The dreaded exigency went by. It had become evident that no foreign Government would side against the United States in the struggle for national existence, but the contract with Russia remained to be met. The expense of maintaining such a flect in idleness was heavy. The whole bill amounted to $7,200,000, and Russia wanted the money.
The situation was very embarrassing. It was not safe to acknowledge to the country that so large a sum as the bill for this flect was wanted for a dead horse." A danger had been feared, but had passed away. The enemies of the administration would have made the land ring with their complaints at such extravagance.
Soth matter, hung on from month to month, and year to year. The embarassment was apparent
at St. Petersburg It was, therefore, finally agreed that a bill should be urged through Can gress to purchase Alaska: for the amount of the Russian claim. There were rumours touching the odd $100,000 as there had been among the people on the Atlantic coast touching the errand of the fleet itself. Alaska, therefore, virtually was thrown in at the settlement for a 'debt contracted for a totally different purpose.
General W, T. Sherman after the close of the war made a considerable tour abroad. Among other cities he visited St. Petersburg, and was received and entertained with high honors. The fact as given above he received hers from some of the highest officers of the Russian Govern- ment. When he expressed his surprise they were equally astonished that he was not already familiar with the whole matter.
KIUKIANG.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Kluklang, July 22nd, 1888. The extreme heat we have been patiently enduring for the last fortnight, may have been partly the cause of the following little trouble, which, however much such affairs are to be regretted, has anyhow given us something to talk about,
sonation, The Widow O'BRIEN.
Prices $3, $2, and $1.
Plan at Messra. KELLY & WALSH'S, LD.
All communications to PEMBERTON W, WILLARD, Hongkong Hotel,
Hongkong, 30th July, 1888.
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FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
THE Steamship
"MORAY," Captain Duncan, will be despatched for the above Ports, on the 1st August, at 4 P,M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 30th July, 1888.
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Address
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1733 HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY,
LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS, ‚¦
FORTY-FOURTH. ORDINARY THALF-YEARLY MEETING of SHARE HOLDERS in the Company will be held at the Office of the Company, No. 7, Queen's Road Central, on FRIDAY, the 3rd August, at 12 O'CLOCK NOON, for the purpose of receiving Report of the Directors together with n Stale- ment of Accounts, declaring a Dividend, and
Electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 21st instant to 3rd August, inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
T. ARNOLD,
Secretary,
Hongkong 14th July, 1888
[703 HONGKONG AND, SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
beby
NOTICE
given that the
·ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET ING of the SPÄRLHOLDERS in this Corporą. tion will be held at the U. (TY HALL, Hongkong, 04 SATURDAY, the Fwenty-fifth day of August, al TWELVE OKLICK NƯỜN, for the purpose of receiving the Repot of th: Count of Directors together with a Statem et ol Accounts to gath June, 188..
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th July, 1888.
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CORPORATION.
NOTICE is hereby Piven that the REGIS
TER OF SHARES of the Corporation will be Closed from the 11th (SATURDAY), 10 the 25th day of August next, both days inclusive, during which period no transfer of Shares can be -registered.
:
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 27th July, 1888.
NOTICE.
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STEAMSHIP "BATAVIA," SAN FRANCISCO, VANCOUVER, YOKOHAMA, AND. KOBE,
HE above Steamer having arrived, Con
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Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
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ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 30th July, 1888, .
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
NOTICE.
From researches made by the Tokió Geological Bureau we learn that ancient histories do not record any eruptions at Bandai-san. In a book called Karo dan, however, it is stated that the mountain was once in a flaming condition and that the country about its bases, to a distance of Torf, abounded in sulphur, from which poisonous vapours ascended. The same authority adds that since the formation of Lake Inawashiro the flaines and smoke had ceased and noxious gases were no longer generated. Another book (Toraku Ryoko-dan) says that from a lofty peak named Bandai-san, situated on the edge of Lake Inawashiro, Bames emerged and the smoke seemed to scorch the firmament. A similar state ment occurs in the Ou Beranshi. These records and evidence obtained in tu show that the mountain was an active volcano within historical times. As regards the effects of its activity, no information is on record. The "Geography of Aizu" had this passage In ancient times there was a landslip ai Bandai-san. The Su-gawa river was dammed by it and. Hibara was inun dated." Neither the date nor the cause of the catastrophe is given, but the village of Hibara seems to have suffered then just as it has done now. Generally speaking, the districts bordering Kaga, Etchiu, Ecbigo, Echizen, Usen, and Ugo Are liable to accidents of this nature. An old work states that in the year 806 A.D. a lake was suddenly formed with an island in the centre, and that the lake in the present Inawashiro and the island Okina-jima. We have further the following records with regard to places in the district surrounding Bandai-san:-In the sum mer of 1595, a large pond, the Shirogi-numa, at Numajiri-tage, was almost obliterated. In August, 16, a great earthquake, occurred in the district. A mountain crumbled away, and the course of the Hibashi river being obstructed, lake called Yamasaki was formed, In September, 1831, a food devastated the country. The great earthquake of 1611 did The meeting regrets to learn that owing not confine its, ravages to the creation of one mainly to the existing dispute between the Gov new lake. The crumbling of the hills dammed ernment of Nicaragua and America concerning another stream near the village of Ittau and threathe concessions granted by the Government to new lakes made their appearance. Again, the the company, the carrying out of the project has falling rocks. blocked up the channel of the Age hitherto been delayed, and trusts that the Gov- gawa, and a water-fall to feet in height wa ernment and company may speedily settle their froduced, Between 1751 and 1763, a mountain differences and that the undertaking may be near the village of Banzalya crumbled away placed on such a basis that ample security will and a lake was formed.
be afforded for capital seeking to be invested in connection with it. All the money necessary to build a canal la connection with the previously secured American capital has now been pro- the United States in completing the world!
The Society of Authors, of which Lord Tenny. by our municipality for the benefit of the weATY son is president, has resolved to invite James traveller, into the river, cheering loudly as the Russell Lowell and all the other American beautiful chairs sank beneath the yellow waters authors in London to a public banquet on July of the muddy Yangise. They smasked nearly. a5th, in recognition of their efforts made in all the windows of the fine new godown belong. behalf of an international copyright, sing to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., also as
Colonel G. E. Gourand, writing from Little many as they could get at of the windows in Mr. 750 Mento, Upper Norwood, S. E. ways: "Ar 2 Campbell's tea house, the railings in front of the o'clock this afternoon, at the above address, I house occupied by Mr. Simpson, commissioner of had the honor to receive from Edison his first Customs, were torn down and most of the street perfected phonograph, which, on the authority lamps broken. Of course the ladies were fright voice, communicated to nie by the phonograph foreigners of the male persuasion gallinily PRICE $200. Itself, is the first instrument of his latest model patrolled the bund fo
from
the Tactal, with that has left his hands, and is consequently the whom our consul bad been in communication, firm to reach this country. At 105 o'clock | arrived and apparently pacifled the mob, batit was
All these accounts go to prove that the Bandai- san district used to be actively volcanic at not very, distant, dates; and that frequent subter- present time cannot, therefore, be greatly
Resolved, "Thatra ship canal across the ter- ritory of Nicaragua constructed according to the plans which have been submitted to the meeting by Blackman, president of the American, Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company, would be of the first importance to commerce, and especially to the commerce of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and to that of the United States of America.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo per Steamship "CITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO " The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Coun signature, and to take immediate delivery of their, Goods from along
The following patients out of many hundreds have sent unsolicited acknowledgments of the benefit they have derived from the use of our Pebble Spectaclet-
The Earl & Countess Lindsay, Queen's Gate, London, S.W.A
Lady Kemball, 79 Queen's Gate, London, S.W. Lady Emily Digby, Coventry, England.
S. R. Groom, Esq., F.R.G.S., Barrister at Law," Singapore
All Contributors of Business in the above Two Companies participate in the Bonus" whether Shareholders or not.
JOHN ANDREW, Agent, Office; 24, Queen's Road, Opposite Hongkong Hotel.
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THE
NOTICE.
MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
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CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED...$1,000,000.
The above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT "RATES on GOODS, &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN, Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEIN'S ROAD WEST. Hongkong, 1st February, 1882.
GENERAL NOTICE.
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No.. 525- REGULAR MEETING of the above
NEXT, the at August, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. HALL, Zetland Street, on WEDNESDAY precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially favite. 1738
The native authorities being short of funds decided to increase the tax paid by junks cons veying tribute rice to Tientsin... The crews of these junks, of which a very large number are anchored in our port, resenting the additional impost, refused to pay, and have consequently been detained here over three weeks. Their angry feelings were further excited a short time back by the rather rough treatment experienced by side. vome of their number at the hands of the múní-
Hongkong, 26th July, 1888. Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel cipal police, for insisting on walking on that will be landed and, stored at Consignees' risk part of our beautiful, bund reserved by order of and expense. our city Fathers for the exclusive benefit of foreign residents.
CHS. D. HARMAN,
Agent.
Yesterday morning, therefore the malcontents
Hongkong, 30th July, 1888. commenced gathering, and as soon se they thought their number sufficiently strong, vented
NOTIFICATION. their spleen on all the property they could con-
CUSTOM HOUSE, veniently get at. They broke down a consider-
Kowloon, 30th July, 1888. able number of young trees planted with a view to affording a pleasant shade to some, future Reneration of Customs House Officers; they NOTICE is hereby given that FRIDAY NEXT, the 3rd August (6th Moon and threw
THE EMPEROR OF CHINA, will be observed an a HOLIDAY at the Kowloon Customs and Stations. All Examination of Cargo and Clear ance of junks will be entirely suspended on that date.
rancan changes occurred. An eruption at the 1.vided, and England will prove a good second to the elegant iron seats, generously provided | 26th day), being the BIRTHDAY OF HIS MAJESTY
wondered at.
YOKOHAMA ENGINE AND IRON WORKS, LIMITED.
The first annual general, meeting of share- holders, of the Yokohama Engine and Iron Work Limited, was held on July 10th in the Chamber of Commerce Rooms, Among these PS James, J. Rickett, J. Padua, 5. D. Hep present were Messrs. A. Center, J. F. Lowder,
W. Bennett C D Hall burn J. Johnstone, hurton, B. Gillett, F. Gillett, O. Keil, E. Bland, J. Canis, E, Kildoyle (manager) G. Charles
of Edison e own statement, là his own "familiar, cord and cqually of course all the available
that has been seen outside of his laboratory, or About noon deputations
worth (secretary) Mr. A. Center took the
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F. A. MORGAN, Commissioner of Customs.
FOR SALE.
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LAWRENCE AND · MA-YO,
Ophthalmic OPTICIANS A^ (Opticians to the Principal Ophthalmic Sur- geons in England and India.) ÖFFICES :-OLD BOND STREET, Londoní
3 & 4 HARK STREET, Calcutta... 22 RAMPART Row, Bombay. Hongkong, 24th July, 1888.
[732 BOWRINGTON FOUNDRY, EAST POINT, HONGKONG..
A. G. GORDON & CO.
AZ G. GORDON & Co, are prepared to jak undertake every description. 7 o ENGINEERING * and SHIP-BUILDING WORK, both loaf and ashore, on most reasonable terms.
PUNCTUALITY AND FIRST CLASS
WORKMANSHIP GUARANTEED,AM bendite, mn 20 "KETTMATEL FURNISHED FOR THE CONETRÜC
TION OF STEAM LAUNCHES, REPAIRS TO THE ENGINES AND BOILERS OF STEAMERS CASTINGS,
Hongkong 1 January, B8B/SPRÁ
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
HAVE This Day Established myself in this Colony as a CIVIL ENGINEER," ARCHITECT and SURVEYOR.
A. DENISON AMM, Inst. C. E. 61, Queen's Road Central
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Hongkong, 2nd July, 1888,
PIANOS FOR SALE,
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ON HIRE. special appointment to H.E. the Governor of Hongkong, Sir GRO, BOWEN, G.C.M.G.
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PIANOFORTE TUNER AND REPAIRER,
Job opposite HONGKONG HOTEL Queen's Road, Hongkong, 19th July,838