Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER
THR Sultan of Johore was expected to arrive at Singapore from Muar on the 6th inst..
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that the barometer is falling in Luzon and in
south-eastern China, apparently owing to a
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SPEAKING of the sloth, a cynic raya, "He moves suspended, sleeps. anspended, rests suspended, walks suspended, and, in fact, passes bis life in suspense, like a young clergyman distantly related to a blahop."
HOME papers received: by fast mail report a shocking railway accident near Dijon, in France on the 5th ulto., resulting in 40 persons being injured and ra killed; Lady Bowen and bertwo daughters, Miss Agries and Miss Zoe Bowen, who were passengers in the fatal train, were slightly injured.
JAMES KELLY, Esq, loafer and drunkard, will not be put in the stocks after all, as threatened by Mr. Pollock last week. He is going to trans- natives will not revel this time in the degradation fer his valuable self to New Brunswick, and the
of the discindant of a line of kings, and hearing penalties of idleness." After all, apart from the bis everlasting howls confess The pains and question of Kelly's deserts, it is just as well that matters did not go so far, for the sake of the notional reputation.
A.COOLIE was charged before Mr. Pollock this hand at deciphering the mysteries in which
THE Macao Independents has been trying it morning with gambling and biting an Indian Governor da Costa's recent recall and the Colo- constable's finger. He was thimble-rigging in a native street, and when arrested by the sikhnial Secretary's dismissal are said to be involved. evinced a desire to "chaw him up." He got off defence of its fallen idol, and the only explana- The semi-official organ takes up the cudgels in very easily with a fine of $3.
tion it finds for the present state of things in the governmental circles of the Holy City is that Senhor da Costa, for having sided with his brother, the ex-Governor of Timor, in retaining in Macao the few Timorenses who are said to have been implicated in the murder of the late Governor Mala, has forfeited the favours of the Lisbon Colonial Office. The Bishop of Macao is said to have employed all means in his power to bring discomfiture on Governor da Costa, and a Rev. Simead's arrival in Lisbon, and his intriguing at the Colonial Office are assigned as the true causes of Senhor da Costa's present disgrace. We beg to differ from the fade pendente, The public of Macao, who are well aware of the friction which has lately existed between the Governor and the Municipality, are of quite à different opinion. They very justly Secretary's dismissal to their illegal interference attribute the Governor's sudden recall and the with the rights of a properly constituted Corpora- tion. Senhor da Costa's deserts in this line Office on being informed of the dangerous state wore as clear as noon-day, and the, Colonial of things in the governmental circles of the Holy City, lost no time in removing the evil by the root by suspending an autocratic Governor Colonial Secretary, and peremptorily dimissing an evil-disposed
WE hear that the Countess de Bardi, who, with [s Count de Bardi, arrived the other day by the Messageries Maritimes Stenmahlp Saghallen is the daughter of D. Miguel, whilom King of Portugal. After the Constitutional war waged by D. Pedro IV against I). Miguel, the latter was obliged to abdicate and leave the country in 1834. He died in Germany a dozen years ago, leaving a great many adherents in Portugal. THE Singapore Free Press reports that one of the Chinese passengers on board the steamship Glenroy, which arrived from Amoy on the morning of the 4th inst, jumped overboard after.
The Houghoug Felegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1888.
TELEGRAMS
(Reuter.}
THE CESAREWITCH.......
LONDON, October Toth,
..First.
Second. Third.
Tenchreuse Millstream.......
Trayler ri
EGYPT.
army.
(From Straits Times.)· GENERAL BOULANGER.
PARIS, October 4th General Boulanger has returned to Paris and will recommence the campaign forthwith.
the steamer bad come alongside the wharf, in trying to escape from the clutches of a depot keeper who was ready on the wharf waiting to receive his living freight. The man, it appears, had not paid for his passage. picked up out of the water and was found none The worse except for some cuts on the head
He was soon
which he must have received by striking against
'the ship's side.
"It has been decided to increase the Egyptian National, has written to M. Pasteur offering to M. PAUL FOUCHER, formerly editor of the place himself at the disposal of M. Gamalela, the Russian savant, who says he has, by the application of M. Pasteur's methods, discovered a means of vaccination for cholera. M. Paul Foucher is ambitious of being the first buman being on whom the efficacy of that vaccination is to be tried. M. Pasteur congratulates him on LOCAL AND GENERAL.
his courageons devation to science, and assures him that M. Gamalela will be touched by the VISITOR at cannon foundry-This is all grand, offer, coming as it does from a journalist occupy- stupendous, astounding. But where will youring an eminent position on the French Press. occupation be when universal peace prevails? Proprietor of works-Casting cannon to cele- brate it with, sir.
A MATCH between the Hongkong Cricket Club and the Ladies' Recreation Club will commence Players are
at 11 am sharp to-morrow.
We are informed that most of the vessels composing our China squadron will return to this station in about a couple of weeks. H. M. S. Tax Straits Times' says that telegraphic com- Satellite left yesterday for Nagasaki.
munication in the Indian Archipelago will shortly are actively going on for laying a cable between undergo an important extension. Préparations the Java Coast and the important port of Macas sar, in the island of Celebes. The cable steamer is expected to arrive there this month. The
It is anticipated to be in readiness by the 1st being actively proceeded with by last accounts. works on the telegraph station at Macassar were
November next. A cable to Macassar has long been under consideration, but oficial inertness could not be moved sooner.
Five hundred and fifty-eight Chinese coelies arrived in Singapore on. the morning of the 4th inst, from Swatow, in the British steamer
Glenroy.
AN English antiquarian has been delving among old newspaper files, and has discovered what be printed in a newspaper. It appeared in the says is the first commercial advertisement. ever fercurius Politicus, of London, dated Septem: ber 30, 1658. It ran as follows: "That Excel- lent, and by all Physicians approved, China
Sultaness Head Cophee House, in Sweeting's other nations Tay, alias Tee, is sold at the Drink, called by all the Chinéans Tcha by the
Rents, by the Royal Exchange, London." At the date of this advertisement tea had been used in England about forty years, but the price was QUA morning contemporary's paragraphist who extremely high, often reaching £20 per pound. so verdantly reproduced the gist of a correspond- BISHOP Medeiros, of Macho, arrived in Singa ence from Kobe to the Shanghai Progresso pore on the and inst., and was received by a relating to the Europeanising movement which deputation of the congregation of St. Joseph's is going on in Japan with respect to dress,Church. An address was subsequently pre- habitations, manners, etc., has evidently never sented to him by the prominent members of the been in the Land of the Rising Sun, or read Lusitanian Church, most of whom are Hindoos anything about that country. which is going on in Japan is not a thing of these Portuguese Church dignitaries parading The change and Malays. It is exceedingly farcical to watch yesterday; it commenced twenty years ago, and about India, the Straits Settlements, and China it is fast progressing. Any foreigner who lands and calling everybody a member of their diocesan Jn Yokohams or Nagasaki, will incet hundreds flock. The Church of Portugal being a word void of well-to-do Japanese in European, costume; frock coats and tall hats are specially prevalent in Tokio among the Government Officers of all ranks, the dignitaries, the Ministers of State and the nobles they are the site qua non of propriety and etiquette. Ladies although some of them look mere frights in of tank are all dressed à l'Européenne and such attire, still the tendency is to persevere in it. Without questioning the aesthetics which pre- ticate an universal spread of European altire and sides at this dress reform we may safely prognos modes of living in the 'Ultima Thule' of the Far East, with what results we leave it to our cotton spinners and woollen merchants to decide. But to quote as news of the day, in a newspaper of Advanced Hongkong, a reference made by a Kobe Macao-correspondent to a Shanghai paper, anent this well-known process of dress-transformation
in
Japan, to make that the subject of a paragraph
that the Japanese are exchanging their native- from a Kobe correspondent of the Progresso in more or less the following strain-We learn
costume for European apparel, and are getting
Europlenne this, we maintain, is an unpar donable case of verdancy. Our morning con- temporary may, however, be excused on the plea childhood, it is now raving of Japan. that having fairly entered upon its second
WE would call attention to the important Indian requested to be punctual. By kind permission of the $850,000, surplus balancer in Indian, All these Indian faces have the same set, stern
telegrams published in another column, by which it will be seen that General Graham.com pletely defeated the Thibetans after a short engagement on the 24th ulto.
In another column will be found the Report and Accounts of the Canton Insurance Office, Limited, for presentation to shareholders at the annual meeting which is to be held on the 27th inst. at the office of the General Agents,
SENIOR da Costa, ex-Governor of Macao is expected here on Sunday the 14th inst. by the
Tuz Straits Times informs us that at the meet ing of the Singapore Legislative Council held months, His Excellency the Governor stated on the 4th inst. after a recess of about six that the revenue for the year up to date warranted next year a prospective excess of $577,000 over the revenue as in the Esti-into the habit of giving quadrille parties, etc. mates framed a year ago, but yet last year's sum will not be realised by about $80,000, owing to the Telik Ayer Reclamation having been delayed. The excess of revenue over expenditure (leaving out what is known as dependencies) is set down at $336,000 which THUS a writer in Harper's Magazine for swelled the surplus balances to $1,158,000 September:Hindoos, coolies, men, women and buc at the end of the year, including the children-standing, walking or sitting in the sun, The Land Revenue has progresively increased squatting, with bands clasped over their black dependencies, these will stand at $1,773.410. under the shadowing of the palms; men during the past five years, from $109,000 to knees, steadily observe you from under their $152,000, the estimate for the forthcoming year white turbans-very steadily, with a slight scowl, has approved of a large portion being remitted to the keen, strong gaze is not altogether pleasant. Government loan notes, the Secretary of State expression, the same knitting of the brows; and London to be invested there, a step, says our contemporary, which by reason of their pay-surement-measurement physical and moral. In It borders upon hostility; it is the look of mea- ments in London ought to meet with approval. the mighty swarming of India these have learned The growing increase of the Settlements is the full meaning and force of life's law as we further confirmed by the vast increase in Occidentals rarely learn it. Under the dark the shipping The entries last year show no forehead with its fixed frown the eye glitters less than 8,948,600 tons, an increase of 215,854 like a serpent's. Nearly all wear the same over the previous year, and cargoes to the value Indian dress, the thickly folded turban, usually of 3:63,664,131. The Native State come in for white, white drawers reaching but half way an appreciative notice in connection with the down the thigh, leaving the knees and the Sealous complaints keep reaching us from expansion of local trade. A vote is asked for legs bare, and white jackets. A few don long These are babagees, priests. All the men look a Supreme Court, and for landing improvements tall; they are lithe, very slender, small-boned, Blakang Mati. at Penang and a time ball for shipping on but the "imbs are well turned. They are grave, talk in low tones and seldom smile. Those you THE murderous attack perpetrated by a band of Mussulmans; they have their mosques and the see with very heavy, full beards are probably
amptonshire Regiment their Band will play of Colonel Anderson and Officers of the North during the afternoon. The following are the
elevens-
B.K. C. C Major Churchill (1816) [Capt.} G. Pett May Falansion, R.E.
V. A. Casur Hawkins.
F. W. Firth.
E. O Smith {z},
Dr. Sparrow, R.N.
Akan.
C. P. Fedlar (58th!
11. Roblins A..S.
Cap. Stanley, O.S.D.
L. R. C
J. Coxon (Capt.) Seroombe Smith
E. Higginbotham, (38th).
E. M. Hair, RE,
F. Maitland.
de C, Scanlan, A‚3⁄4‚5,
11. Johnston (seth),
Majai Miles, H
A. A. Loyd (s8th).
A. Tomes,
A. G. Stokes.
straggling would be descendants of Vasco da of all meaning, it is a standing wonder how the
Gama can pride themselves in their allegiance which is generally represented by individuals to an institution which in rotten to the core, and who are far below the mark of Apostles though they glitter with the pomp and circumstance of demigods.
A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Straits Times' steamers by electricity may be considered 'n from Colombo:-The modern system of lighting great development of science, but until some dependance can be placed on the control of the machinery which produces the electric force, the side light and mast head light should still be by the combustion of some oil; for during the passage of the M. M. steamer Orus, the whole ship was in sudden darkness, including mast
head and side lights, for about a quarter of an
sion, it was an awkward time for many. machinery. Considering the dangers of colli- hour, owing to
Candles were at once lighted in cabins and saloon, but the three principal lights of a steamer going about 14 knots an hour were not so readily replaced. All's well that ends well.
some breakdown in the
*
men
THE GANG ROBBERY AND MURDER.
Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima, and will proceed Hung Ham-otherwise the..Docks-about the the Volunteers, also for a Consul at the Court of blue robes and, wear a colored headdress. rice-pounder from Taipingahan, and the other
want of market accommodation there.
In
a
February, the old market being pulled down, contract was made with a Chinaman to build a
new one, with so stalls. It was getting on finely until the workmen put their employer in gaol for not paying their wages. That stopped the work, and to-day the hawkers have to go
Kedah, a science Master for Raffles Institution,
to
$296,677.77, out of which the sum of $201 677-77 has already been paid for Dividend of to per cent, to shareholders, and a Bonus of 20 per
the Reserve Fund the sum of $74,ces, thereby cent. to contributors of premin. The balance of: $94.005, it has been decided, subject to the
increasing it to $304,000, and paying a further approval of shareholders, to dispose of by adding
the total interest for the year $7 per share, dividend to shareholders of $2, per share, making equivalent to 14 per cent, on the paid up capital. of the present year, after making allowance for The estimated profit on the Working Account: all known losses, claims, commissions, and doubtless give general satisfaction. charges, is $437,321.48, a result which will
...
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
their seats on the Committee, and the Honourable During the past year Mr. W. H, F. Darby and the Honourable F. D. Sassoon have resigned B. Layton and Mr. E. A. Solomon have been invited to take their places. The appointments Members; Messrs. Rytic, Dalrymple, and of Messra, Layton and Solomon now require to be, confirmed by the shareholders. The other
selves for re-election, as under Section 15 of Bottomley, retire, but being eligible offer them the Articles of Association, 5 members have
financial year. to be appointed to serve with the Chairman" on the Consulting Committee during the ensuing
AUDITORS.
Owing to the retirement of the Honourable absence of Mr. A. Coxon, the accounts now A. P. McEwen from his post as Auditor, and the in conted inve been nudited by. Mr. E. J. Coxon
mittee recommend the election of Messrs. G. S. conjunction with Mr. Fullarton Henderson, The General Agents and Consulting Com- Coxon and F. Henderson as Auditors of the
Office.
JARDINE, MATHESON & COlje
General Agents,
Canton Insurance Office, Limited. Hongkong, rath October, 1888.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST DECEMBER, 1887. Liabilities.
Outstanding. dividends,....... Capital subscribed,.................$3,500,000.00
Amount paid-up, Bonus on contributions not yet col-
lected, Balance of Working Reserve Fund,
Account,
$500,000.00
$296,677.77-
Lets Dividend of 10 per cent. paid to share- holders and bonus of 20 per cent, to, con. tributors of premia... 202,677.77
Assits
$830,201.82
Cash; da Current Account, Hong kong and Shanghai Banking Cor poration ..........................................$ 20,726.43. Fixed Deposits"
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia
and China-
750,000,00
105,000.00
85,000.00 129,450.00
garments Chartered Mercantile Bank of
Indian Government Stock, (4 per India, London and Chino. Indian Government Sock, (4 per
cent. Loan, 1865)
cent Loan, 1842-43) Chinese Impezial Government Loan, Chinese Imperial Government Loan,
* 103,5:0,00
tuusa". 63.479 16.
To
11
WORKING ACCOUNT.
nett premin received less returns. and re-insurances......
Interest (LLRÄCKLIS
Exchange...
Transfer fees...
43,767.xx
$83020182
803.444.83
936.08
199,59
94.00
8868,674-50
losses and claims under Policies $453.997.52 charges, including survey fees, Agents' expenses, &C. ona mu
Commissions Balance as above.
60,309 77 296,577.77
$863,674.50
About eight o'clock last night Detectives 176..
the police, were on the look out for the thieves, and 219 made a very smart capture in connection Hongkong. They, in common with the rest of with the late gang robbery and murder at Little
when a Chinaman named Man Chang Arrived
the station the contents of the bundle were 1886......................... st the jetty at Yaumati, where they were, from the ferry-launch. He had a bundle of clothing with him, and was arrested on suspicion. At
of the articles stolen, and notwithstanding-bis | Ant found to correspond with the description Interest accrued but not yet payable, 16,116,69 his protestations that the clothing belonged to his wife he was locked up. A dagger was also found on him. This morning two more
were seen On suspected, they were approached, when one of the ferryboat, having apparently come from Chim-sa-choi. Being them, throwing a dagger into the water, jumped overbeatd. He was hauled out, and the other man arrested. The first stated that he was a to Lisbon vid Marseilles by the Messageries steamship Ava, leaving this on the 17th.
refused to give any, address. More of the By stolen property was found in their possession, HAVAS telegrame to the 22nd September, in the
Mr. Wodehouse this morning, together with the and accordingly they were brought up before. latest received Saigon papers, announce that the
man previously captured, on a charge of burglary French Parliament will meet in extraordinary
and murder. session on Tuesday next, when important questions relating to French Indo-China will be Carting their stock about the streets because the ruffians at Little Hongkong on Wednesday night cry of the muezzin sounds.. thrice daily over the Little Hongkong, and on the night of the rots with the Books, Vouchers and Securities and
Chan Ayau, a very old woman, said: reside, Government can't see its way to finish the suggestive of many a thought. If bands of vast cane fields. Some shave-Buddhists, or inst, about eleven o'clock, was sleeping on the found the same quite conect.
with three daughters-in-law and two children, at We have compared the above Statements erection, which would only take a few days.sult willages in the outskirts of the city, and fatam never. Very comely some of the women by hearing a noise. I lit a paper torch, and saw marauders armed to the teeth can with impunity followers of Hindooism-but the children of ground floor of my house when I was awakened This principle seems to have been acted upon in Hongkong in providing market accommodation. we have had no end ofcases of this nature to record
·ERNEST J. COXON, The old Central market is almost pulled down it assuredly high time we looked more carefully tantalizing veils, a costume leaving shoulders, him. They then broke open my boxes and those ESTIMATE OF WORKING ACCOUNT TO THE 30TH
are in their close-clinging, soft, brief robes and about twenty men coming through the roof
FULLARTON HENDERSON, J as such a dirty, insanitary set of shanties to the abandoned condition of the outskirts of arms and ankles bare. The dark arm is always of my daughter-in-law, and put the contents into a Dr. SEPTEMBER, 1888,
There was a coolle in the court, and they shot, and we deserved to be-but no new premises have yet Kowloon, and above all, to the sea approaches to tapered and rounded, the silver-circled ankle mat bag. They asked me and my daughter in To Fremium account been provided, and the stall holders have to the south-western side of this island. There are always elegantly knit to the light, straight law. If we had any money. We said "No" and locate themselves where they can. A row of strong detachments of the garrison in British foot. Many of these slim girls, whether stand they searched my daughter-in-law and took away very permanent-looking temporary stalls are Kowloon, and that accounts for the comparative ing or walking, or in repose, present perpetually robbed us of property worth about $100, about our silver bangles. They then went out, having being built on piles over the Praya mud, but security enjoyed by the residents on the studies of grace; their attitude when erect 868 in money, $50 of which belonged to me. they are yet far from finished. We expect they neighbouring peninsula; but our south-western always suggests lightness and suppleness, like They had torches, and were armed with swords, Central market, and represent so much public This time Litle Hongkong has been the scene of passes, carrying at her hip a very pretty naked heard the shot that killed the coolle, but did not
revolvers, and daggers, and threatened to use CP money wasted through lack of common-sense on
robbery and murder; who can positively say baby. It has exquisite delicacy of limb; its see it fired, the gate the part of the powers that be.
that the daring cutthroats who swarm in tiny ankles are encircled by thin bright silver SAYS the Straits Timers Too much facility is their beads to attack some of the outlying villas, statue of Kama, the Indian Eros. The mother's our neighbourhood will not eventually take into ega; It looks like a little bronze statuette, a afforded gbarry syces to swindle unsuspecting overhanging Aberdeen or Stanley Aberdeen Arms are covered from elbow to wrist with silver strangers arriving by French Mail and North Dock itself, unless efficiently protected, would bracelets, some flax and decorated; others coarse, German Lloyd steamers at Borneo Wharf Abe at the mercy of these prowlers of the round, smooth, with ends hammered into the Witness continued: I heard the coolle beating most audacious swindle was perpetrated by one of dark's life and property in general, and of the form of viper heads. She has large flowers of a drum to give an alarm before he was shot them on the 3rd inst, upon three young Europeans Chinese residents in particular are placed in an gold in her ears, a small gold flower in her very The robbers were in the house about three thema young Switzer, and the other two Germans, western coast. It is time stringent measures not seem absurd; on these dark skins the effect identify the prisoners as having taken part in who arrived by the steamship Saghalian, one of awful jeopardy all along our unprotected south delicate little nose. This nose ornament does quarters of an hour. Identify the goods who asked to be driven from the wharf to the were employed by the Police to render every is, on the contrary, pleasing, although bizarre. the robbery I do not remember ever seeing them produced as part of the stolen property. I cannot Hotel de l' Europe. The syce made the demand inch of outlying ground in the Colony of Hong-All this jewelry is pure metal; it is thus the before. The coolle who was murdered was of $3 each, and they, not knowing anything kong as safe as it is, or ought to be, in the City coolies carry their savings; they do not learn called Chan Atul, and was a sort of general
brought on for discussion.
By kind permission of Colonel D. G. Anderson, the Regimental Band will play in the Public Gardens, on Sunday, the 14th Instant, from 9 till to p.th. The following will be the programame:
"Dia Felsen...Adam.
March Far Away"...
Relasfrer,
Overture Mecalust.
Vales... Selection Biadame Favart"...Offenbach. Valss."Gondoller" Roeder,
JOHN Moran, Bandmaster.
We learn from our Singapore exchanges that the
Interest account Exchange acco Transfer Fees
marriage of Captain Reginald H. Cholmondeley, will ready about the same time as the new approaches are in a sad state of abandonment the paise of a perfect dancer. A coolie mother them when they asked us for our money, I By Losses account....
and battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, and Miss Florence Mills, took place at Tolmera on the 5th September. Captain R. H. Chol mondeley, who has been in the Regiment since September 1876, and who obtained his company in July 1884, is about to retire from the Service. He was aide-de-camp to Sir F. A, Weld, G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Straits Settlements, from June 1883 to March 1885.
A CURIOUS instance of the autocracy of the Chinese mandarin is reported as having occurred the other day. The head-man at Kowloon City was going back to that place from Hongkong in the ferry-launch when the money-collector asked him for his fare. He refused to give it at first, asking the man if he didn't know who he was. The disrespectful fare collector intimated that be didn't know him from a crow, and, when informed, instead of being paralysed with awe, still insisted on getting the ten cents or what ever it was. The proud possessor of the red button paid it in ominous silence, and no more was said. On arriving at Kowloon City he went up to the official shapeen and sent a file of qoldiers down with orders to fetch the captain and ticket-taker before him. This they did in inary way that is to say they old not Hill their
the
andarin summarly sentenced then to receivg a dozen strokes of the
and wher
way over humoros
'he would
tes-ket
pass on their old
robbers entered, and from appearances it was Inspector Gauld explained that the coolle slept underneath the grating by which the
shot, as the bullet entered his body downward from the breast
Opposed that he was looking up when he was
servant. He was fo or 60 years of age, and
Charges, accoun Re-intrance
„Commisilon aco
Estimated balance at
Hong
A
Derbys
Auditor
October 12th, 1888
JARDINE, MATHESON, & CO
General Agents, Canton Intarance Office Limited,
NDIAN TELEGRAMS:
September aand? under Major Keith
Regiment, surprise
Vimis Bridge" early emy relired that Kup
of the place or its customa, imagined from bls of Victoria itself. Them are ways and means to trust the banks until they become rich. worked for me over thirty years, He was shot A, with two, was and i company of the cool way, of asking that it was the correct to effect this without much expense of money or There is a woman going to market, a very deadı? fare. Our contemporary adds "Might we increaseof men in the Force. Two steam launches odd little woman is she a Chiaoblanco-a-Inspector Matheson asked for a remand, li suggest to the President of the Municipal with goodly contingents of armed policemen could coole or a Malay halfbreed? I do not know, order that the other men might be arrested Commissioners to have placed, in prominent very easily be sent cruising about Little Hong- She wears one loose soft white garment, leaving The case was remanded till the 18th Inst positions, notice-boards in the principal Euro-kong, Aberdeen or Stanley every night, theirmen arms, ankles and part of back and bosom pean languages stating the distance to the landing now and then and scouring the neigh exposed, like a low-cut sleeveless chemise, but chief hotels in town and the fares to be paid for bourbood whenever necessary. Had one of these less long. Her whole figure is rounded, compact,
CANTON INSURA being conveyed thither. It would be a great police launcher beeg in the vicinity of Little admirably knit, and her walk is indescribably advantage to foreigners who cannot read the Hongkong on Wednesday night, we would lay eight, supple, graceful But her face is queer; small-priated list of fares posted up inside the wager that either the deed of plunder and murder is an Oriental grotesque, a Chinese dream, ghames, which very often even English travellers would not have been perpetrated, or do not notice. We think our Singapore frienda
per-blue eyes and blue-black brows and hair, very are better off than ourselves in this matter we
high and broad cheek bones. Singular as it i hotel, this face has the veritable drauft in heathoritier the advis
of
61 fares prominently pla very chair and Jinrickaha that plies for the exact distances and,
Our campan
lo a similar manne
be now lying ja the quaite
dangers that may
think the powers ume by the forelock and initia
is a very young and very fresh face,
40ig, black, silky, lashes give pleas
of coast protection not only sufficient for the most
t requirements buti
continge
don against. color, clear and
peculiarity she has it
almost exactly the cald
the shareholders at
The following is the
meeting, to be held at the
gents, on Saturday,
General Ap
the
D