the clergy being forbidden to wear it. In shape it was more like a bonnet than a hat for it was tied under the chin, and was worn in beating and outdoor sports to protect the hend trom the wind and weather-a very necessary precaution when it was the fashion to wear the hair in long ringlets. that were apt to catch in houghs of trees, or get blown about by the wind,
The first mention of hals in European literature is in the "Romance of the Rose, where a lady is described as wearing a hat, instead of the universal." wimple, or veil."
lying clupper in Hen ăn vette. .
Sur la quimpla eus couvert sa testa " But it was evidently only a vagary indulged in by those who were wealthy and of high degree, for it was sufficiently rate to be remarked as part of the royal wardrobe of the Empress Isabella, sister to Henry III., who appeared in a hat on some ceremonious occasion, probably in the winter, as she wore it over the "peplus," a much-exaggerated wimple, covering head, shoulders, and neck, and only worn in cold weather, or as a means of disguise, for she is mentioned as having laid aside both that the people might see her face. Chaucer, in describ- ing the Wife of Bath says she was "wimpled well," and had a hat upon her head as broad as a buckler or target----
Upon au ambler masily she sat
Ywympled wef, and on her head a hat A broda sa in bokcler or a carga,”
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1888.
is to attract, and, when she has attracted, to enchain. Firstly, then, a head-dress should set off and should draw the eye to the nobless portion of the face. It ought to conceal a bad outline; It should display a fite ono.; it should not deform the shape of the head; it should, in colour, enhance the complexion, whatever it may be, and 'throw up' the hue of the hair. Secondly, it ought, of course, to be a pretty object in itself, and made of handsome materials. I occupies the place of honour in the whole toilette, and is not, like the skirt, liable to collect the dirt off the ground, nur, like the bodice, apt to be hidden under a bushel; it is always con- spicuous, and has a character to keep up. It might, therefore, with propriety be the most expensive part of the attire. Thirdly, and in addition, we may just hini-we hope without offence that if it can be useful and comfortable, it is just as well.
and other masters" are announced "to be sold by auction after a new method-that is, by lowering down from the price net till the first bidder speaks to have it at the last-mentioned- price."
A writer in the East Anglian of 1869, in a. list of seawords and phrases in use' on the Suffolk coast, has the following: "There were the squires on the beach, but I took heart and talked to 'em like a Dutch uncle." The use of this not very intelligible phrase is by no means confined to the Suffolk const. The expression often heard, "Thank heaven it is no worse," is sometimes called "Dutch consolation."
"Illue" is a favorite adjective in slang phrases, Schoolboys, in their own choice dialect, talk af "blue fear" and "blue funk." The indefinite period known as "once in a blue moon" is a favorite with Miss Braddon, if one may judge by her frequent use of the expression, The moon will doubtless not be blue until the Greek Calends, or, as they say in Ireland, tilt "Tib's Eve," whenever that may be
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Hongkong, 26th October, 1888,
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Let us lay these sensible injunctions to heart, and reflect how we further the destruction of a becoming ensemble by the trying, nor to say
Swift, in his "Polite Conversation," a wonder- ugly, style of present hats, Walk throught the streets sharply on the watch for a picture af ful series of dialogues, crammed with the collo N.B-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH A MEDALLIONS. beauty to carry home as a refreshing memory. quialisms current in the early part of last century, uses the strange expression, "to blush like a 'You will pass scores of girls whose garments represent a substantial cbeque, yet whose faces blue dog," meaning not to blush at all. More might serve a writ of libel on their hats for
than a century earlier, in the "Apologic for the the cruel injury, they do them. Look at the School of Abuse," pablished in 1579, Stephen how you will, they are hard, unbecoming, and Gosson speaks with similar meaning of blushing inartistic. Even the prettiest face looks ill."like a blacke dagge. Both expressions appear used, while the plain otic looks plainer; compare to be equally meaningless. the just proportion that delights the eye will the present monstrosity that rises like a mis- shapen sugar-loaf, solid and serious, ita cumber some brim turned up like a gutter of unequal width, and called a brim; then it is beautified (save the mark 1) with ribbons and feathers till it towers above the head, and as a consequence sunshade
handles are rapidly attaining the dimensions of scaffold poles, hats continue rising, and the lighthouse style of coiffure is being generally adopted in swagger circles," so says a London paper. But to return to the cardinal sin, how long are we to endure these trying hats? How long sacrifice the ghost of rosy checks our enervating climate allows its on the altar of insensate fashion - We rejoiced in the advent of sailor hats and Gainsboroughs, two shapes that give piquancy and grace to almost every face, and from them we rush to hard unbecomingness, utterly regardless of the truth that it is every woman's duty to make herself as pleasant an object of admiration as is consistent with her position and surroundings. There is left one consoling reflection, a reaction must follow, and
To drink "till all is blue" is an old-established euphemism for getting very drunk. Ford, in the "Lady's Trial" (1839), says: "We can drink till all look blue."
You
The antiquity of some of the common street sayings and phrases is surprising. The clegant retort, "You're another " is a case in point. Readers of "Pickwick" will remember the famous quarrel between the friends. Sir," shid Mr. Tupman, "you're a fellow | "Sir," said Mr. Pickwick,, you're another1" There is an amusing use of this expression in "Tom Jones." You mistake me, friend," cried. Partridge. "I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said that your conclusion was a non sequitur. are another," cried the sergeant, an' you come to that. No more a 'sequitur' than yourself" lut the saying is much older. In the earliest known regular English comedy, "Roister Doister," by Nicholas Udall, published about 550,, Ralph says: "If it were another but thou, it were a knave" to which his antagonist replies in latter clay phrase: "Ye are an other your selfe, sir.. The common expression, "to
play.
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and graceful line that will make us look as a what's what," is also found in this early S
and graceful outline that will make us look as though we had been somehow rejuvenated.
•Which doth aven beauty bedodify.'
And most bewitch the captived eye."
When a tramp puisues his weary way along the dusty high road, or a denizen of St. Giles prowls about the streets, he would describe him-
-" Moree Bealiba,"îa Sydney Morning Herald, self as "padding the hoof" but he would not
SLANG PHRASES.
This must surely have been the muse that inspired the inventive genius of Beach's hat..
Up to the 15th Century the wearing of hats was regarded as a mark of rank and distinction: They were first made of velvet or silk, but about the middle of the 13th Century, a "hatte of beaver" was worn by some of the nobles of the jande mett at Clareddon," and in 1340 Froissart speaks of hate and plumca worn at Edward's Court. In the rath Century the scarlet hat was consecrated the use of the cardinals by Pope Innocent IV.
History repeats itself, and the present towering headgear is only a repetition of the fashions of the 15th Century when Isabella of Bavaria indulged in such extravagance of dress that the doorways in the palace of Vincennes, where she held her court, had to be made higher and wider to admit the headdresses of the Queen and her ladies: Then, as' now, Paris was the centre from which all changes of fashion emanated; and, by and bye, a wave of this fantastical folly reached England, and called forth the biting satire of one Philip Stabs, who, in his "Anatomy of Abusca," wrote scathingly upon the mode of headdressing then in vogue. The hair was "curled, frizzled, and crisped, laid out on wreaths and borders, and from one ear to the other, and Jest it should fall down, it was underpropped with forkes, weirs and I cannot tell'what.", Then, upon the toppes of these stately turrets, stand their other capital ornaments, a French hood, hatte, cappe, or kercher, and suck like, whereof some be of velvet, some of this fashion, and some of that; and to such excess is it growne, that every artificer's wife almost will not sticke to goc in her hat of velvet every day. Every merchant's wife and meane gentlewoman, in their French hoods, and every poor, cottager's daughter's daughter in her taffeta hat, or else. at least, well-lined with silk, velvet or wool taffeta."
Like all other articles of dress, hats have won historical renown through being significant of party feeling and political or religious difference, They were the distinguishing feature of the Cavalier and Roundhead factions; they were made the emblem of the strong reaction from wild profigacy to puritanic asceticism. The infamous cap of Liberty" of the French Revolution, placed menacingly on ill-fated Louis' bead, was emblematic, too, of a deeper corrup- tion which had its root far down in the conser- vation of a national recoil against tyranny and Ore of the oldest of our popular expressions wrong-doing, which influenced as much as any is "by hook or croak." A variety of guesses, other vagary of life. The custom of taking the some extremely wild, have been made at the hat round for collections arose from a practice origin of the phrase. One connects it with the among sea captains of taking their hats round, names of two Judges in the time of Charles I, after a long voyage, to solicit a gratuitous gift named Hooke and Crooke, the idea being that what was lost by the ruling of the one might he for his care of them during the voyage. As organisation is the secret of modern success, gained by the decision of the other. But, unfor fashion no longer creates itself out of the whim-tunately for this theory, the phrase is much sicality of some popular beauty, or Bonanza queen. It, emanales now. from a ring of Parisian milliners, whose artistic instincts and education are bound down 'by so many other considerations that their taste has really very little scope. They meet in solemn conclave expression occurs in the writings of Wickliff. many months before the new fashion is to be The most probable explanation traces the origin pat upon the market, and decide shape, style, of "hook or crook" to the earliest forest custom, and colour in the most arbitrary manner. Proin virtue of which the tenants of bably a certain amount of philanthropy is thrown had the right of taking "fire-bote," or wood for into the scale, by which they consider the means firing, by book and by crook. What could not. of saving wholesale manufacturers from loss by be gathered with the hook might be reached and utilising the last season's stock. But in such an pulled down with the crook. age of utility as this, we may be sure that philanthropy bas its marketable value like every thing else; and, if we could lay bare the secret of those conclaves, we should find the whole question of beauty and utility is made secondary to monetary considerations. We make ourselves attractive or the reverse according to the amount of blind faith with which we accept the dictum "What is, is best."
THE ORIGIN OF POPULAR SAYINGS.
The great bulk of common words, that is, words in every day or ordinary use, may be regarded as consisting of two classes, the colloquial and the literary. No hard and fast line can be down separating one class from the other, but roughly speaking, the division is sufficiently accurate. Attached to the colloquial section of the language are two important but ill-defined tributary classes of works. The larger is known as lang, while the smaller consists of dialectical forms and modes of speech. Interesting as both these classes are philologically, there are yet many other points of interest and instruction-historical and anti- quarian-presented to the view of the student, and more especially in the case of slang and familiar words and phrases.
know that he was using a phrase which, with slight alteration of the verb, dates from the time of Shakespeare. Beat the hoof" is, the older form, and in "The Merry Wives of Windsor' Falstaff says to his page, Robin: "Trudge; plod away o' the hoof; seek shelter, pack!" Most street expressions and popular cries are not so intelligible nor so long-lived as these men- tioned. Many of them are simply idiotic, and after a very short circer of popular favor give place to others equally senseless- the Year Round.
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P.&.O. S. N. Co.'s Office, Hongkong, 25th October, 1888
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AN Important Discovery is announced in the Paris Figaro, of a valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature "ary in Old Mexico; it saved him from a miser- decay. The discovery was made by a mission- able existence and an early grave. We learn that the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C., receipt of a sell addressed stamped envelope; THEATRE
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older than Stuart times. Archbishop Parker, EOTHEN MARK writing to Sir William Cecil in 1565, says of a certain Dr. Caius that his pupils intended "to win him in time, by hook or crook, the master's room;" and 'two centuries earlier than this the
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A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 26th instant, at 8.30 for 9'O'CLOCK precisely. feudal lord. Hongkong, 26th October, 1888.
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Another ancient expression, still occasionally used, is to "dine with Duke Humphrey," or, as it is now sometimes more shortly phrased,
dine out," in both cases meaning not to dine at all. The old Cathedral of St. Paul was in times past the regular meeting place for business and for pleasure of the citizens. Within the professedly sacred walls traders met to bargain and to deal, gallants strutted up and down the central aisle to exhibit the bravery of their apparel, advertisements were exhibited, servants When the hired, and assignations, made. dinner hour came, the throng of business men and gay idlers speedily, melted away until only the unfortunate ones, who had not the price of a dioner, remained, to walk out the interval and enjoy a Barmecide's feast, where, it was mis takenly suppose lay buried the bones of Hum- phrey, Duke of Gloucester, youngest son of Henry V, famous for his hospitality, and known as the good Duke Humphrey. Nashe, in "Pierce Fenilesse,” 1593, says: "I retired me to Paules, to secke my dinner with Duke Humfrey." Dr William Chambers, in his "Historical Sketch of St. Giles' Cathedral," Edinburgh, says that a similar pleasantry prevailed concerning the tomb of the Earl of Murray in that ancient building. and he quotes a minor Scotch poet named Sempilie, who makes a hungry, penniless idler say i
I dined with saints and gentlemen, Fan sweet Saint Giles and the Earl of Murray.
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For Freight or Passage, apply to
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CITY HALL,
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CITY HALL, HONGKONG. Programme will be published in a future issue. Plan of the Theatre can be seen and Tickets- had at Mesars, KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED.
PRICES OF ADMISSION :- Dress Circle and Stalls...................$2,00
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HAREHOLDERS in the above Company are requested to furnish the Undersigned with a List of their Contributions for the year ending 31st, December last in order that the distribution of the Frafits reserved for Contribu lors may be arranged. Returns not rendered prior to the joth day of November next, will be adjusted by the Company, and no claims or alterations will be subsequently admitted.
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General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld. Hongkong, 15th October, 1888.
PROSPECTUS.“
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CAPITAL: $750,000 (with power to increase), divided into 7.500 shares of $100 each,
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If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full.
Share Lists will CLOSE on 14th November, 1888.
DIRECTORS:
WILLIAM ADAMSON, ESQ., (Mesars, GILFILLAN WOOD & Co.) ANDREW CHRPIE; ESQ., (The BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED) WILLIAM DOUGAL, ESQ.. (Manager, CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA AND CHINA.) HON'BLE. FINLAYSON, M.L.C.
(Messin. BOUSTEAD & CO.) ..
J. P. WADE GARD'NER, ESQ. (Manager, HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION).
HON. H. W. GEIGER, M.LC.. (Agent, PENINSULAR AND ÜHIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.)
W. E. HOOPER, ESQ... (Messrs. A. L. JOHNSTON & Co.)
O. MUHRY. Esq. (Messrs. BEHN, MEYER & Co.)
THOS, SCOTT, ESQ., (Mesirs, GUTHRIE & Co.)
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Assuming that "beauty is valuable or worth less according as you invest the property to the best advantage," and that it is not only the duty of every woman to look as well as nature intended she should, but a great deal better where fortune has been niggardly or fate unkind, the question of hats and bonnets is a most serious one, especially now when the "red rage" has become such a mania that it has passed all bounds of moderation, and,likeevery excess, has passed from 4 striking fashion to a hideous monstrosity. Red, ef, wherever we turn, without even the relief of a graduated shade of tones, it is all one conspicuous blaze of weak red, that is death to the most beautiful complexion. For some time it was a perplexing puzzle to account for the number of white faces this winter: why there should be an air of sickly hot-house growth or factory pallor about the faces walking through our streets; but it is quite explained since the idea occurred that crazy fashion was at the bottom of it. This "red Tage can casily be amplified (or contracted) into an economical desigo to work up past fashions and utilise straws gone yellow by The adjective "Dutch," by what seems a dyeing them a colour sufficiently distinctive to somewhat curious caprice of popular taste, is hide all blemishes. The edict went forth that used in a variety of common phrases, to denote red was to be worn, and we obey implicitly something interior, or to some extent contempti without the smallest consideration of appropriate ble. A "Dutch concert" is one wherein each ness. And the result is that red meets us at man sings his own song, or each performer every turn, not merely in a towering hat of plays his own tune, at the same time that his hard; unbecoming shape, but in the dress, parasol comrades sing or play theirs, Scott uses the even gloves. From this halo of Mephisto termin "Waverley" in describing the boisterous phelian flame peer forth pallid faces, bleached revelling that led up to the famous affray in
Datch ST. JOHN into ghastliness by contrast; or muddy skins, Luckie Macleary's change house. that look the more turbid by comparison with courage perhaps, refers in part to the the clear red or yellow-haired, yellow-skinned "Hollands which so often inspired the pot-valor girls, whose straw-coloured eyelashes and so characterised; but is also, no doubt, like. eyebrows become painfully accentuated and other of these phrases, a witness to the long- expressionless them.
An authority on dress as an art speaks most The Dutch their wine and all their trendy lose, decidedly on the use of this colour. The reds Disarmed of that from which their courage grows admissible in close proximity to the fact must says Waller Fielding in Tom Jones" speaks be arranged with caution. The red in the face of "Datch defense in the sense of sham is usually easy to extinguish, while persons who defense.Dutch," or "Double Dutch," is often are very florid must be even more careful what, used as a synonym for gibberish, especially reds they use than pale people. She goes on nowadays with reference to the prattle of young A woman's head-dress may not be so Important children, Dutch feast” is a phrase nOW
and
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Agents.
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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.
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sion will be forwarded from BANJOEWANGIE to THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING THURSDAY ISLAND by steamer "DACCA," expected at Banjocwangic TO-MORROW on THURSDAY, the 1st November next, at (SATURDAY) AFTERNOON. From Thursday 4 PM Island messages will go forward by wire to
Hongkong, 17th October, 1888.
THE destination.
WALTER JUDD,
LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, Manager is China. Hongkong, 25th October, 1888,
INCORPORATED BY ROYAL CHARTER,"
3. A.D:" 1730. THE Undersigned having been appointed MENT, are prepared to issue, POLICIES, or INSURANCE I CURRENT RATES, payable either bere or in London, and/or the principal Eastern and Australian Ports: se DE MA
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HEAD OFFICE: SINGAPORE.
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NOTICE.'
THE MASONIC CLUB, L'MITED.
1986, of the Shares Nos. azi/2/0 in this Club, standing in the name of Mr. J. S. THE CERTIFICATE, dared 9th August,
WYLLIE has been LOST, and if at the expira- tion of One Week from the date hereof the above document be not forthcoming another Certificate will be issued by the Club and thereafter no other will be acknowledged.
W. F. HATHERLY,
Secretary, Hongkong, 22nd October, 1888.
NOTICE.
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THE "PEIHO TUG AND LIGHTER COMPANY"
RE still prepared to Lighter Ships or A Steamers at the TAKU BAR, for Thre Dollar Cents (30) per piculi
Owners or Agents of Steamers or Vessels are requested to notify the Undersigned by telegram or otherwise, the date of departure of their vessels, so as to enable him to do the work quickly,
Unnotified work at the Bar will be done at the current tales of Five Cents per Picul (10).
JAMES WATTS, Manager. Agents, Tientsin.
Messrs. WILSON & Co.,
Taku, 13th October, 1888.
'ONGKONG RIFLE
PROGRAMME OF THE SIXTH RIFLE MEETING,
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ASSOCIATION.
TO BE HELD AT KOWLOON,
:
ON
FRIDAY, the 9th November, and SATURDAY, the roth November, 1888. AGGREGÁTE VALUE OF PRIZES.”
Competitions open to All-comers, I. ALL-COMERS.-1st Stage, distance yards. 2nd Stage, distance 300 yards. No. 0 shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, 30 cents at cach. Unlimited entries, but competitors not allowed to take more than one prize at each distance. zo prizes, presented by the Associa Lion; aggregate value, $122.00.
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2. ANY RIFLE.-Distance, 800 yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes. 3. ASSOCIATION-FOR ANY RIFLE-DIG- tance, 900 yards. No. of shots, ten. Entranco fee, $1.00 Two prizes.
4 CADET'S PRIZE — Presented. —Open to pupils of Hongkong Public schools under 16 years of age. Rifle, Rook Rifle under 40 Cal Distance, about 150 yards. No. of Rounds, 7 and one sighting shoot. Four prizes..
Competitions open to štemiders,
5. PRESIDENT'S.-Distance, 300 yards. No.. "of shots, seven. Entrance fee, $1.00 Three
prizes.
6. QUEEN'S 1ST STAGE-Distance, 200, 500 and 600 yards. No. of shots, seven at each, Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
7. QUEEN'S AND STAGE-Distance, 500 and 500 yards. No. of shots, ten at 500” yarda," fifteen at 600 yards, ¿Two prizes,
8. QUEEN'S 3RD STAGE-Distance, 800 and 900 yards.. No, of shots, ten at each, Entrance les, $1.00. Two prizes,
9. LADIES'-Open to Lady Members or their nominees. Distance, 300 yards. No. of shots, seven. Entrance fee, none. Five prizes.
Aggregates open to All-comers.
10. VOLUNTEER AGGREGATE-Restricted to efficient Volunteers whose respective scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00 Three prizes. -*-
I. CIVIL SERVice Aggregate.-Restricted to members of the Civil Service whose respective scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest- aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes. 2. POLICE AGGREGATE,-Restricted to the members of the Police Force whose respective/ scores in the 'All-comers' make up the highest aggregate. Entrance fee, $1.00. Four prizes,
"13. ALL-COMERS' AGOREDATES—For com petitors whose respective scores in the 'Any. Rifle' and 'Association, make up the highest aggregaten. Entrance fee, $1.00. · Two prizes.
14. LONG. RANGE AGGERGATE-Für · com- petitors whose respective scores in the *Any Rifle' and 'Association' make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
Aggregate open to Members;
15. FAREWELL CUP.—Silver cup presented by`. the Civilian Members of the Hongkong Rifle Association. Open to the Officers of the 58th. Regt, and to be won by the highest aggregate score made in the rat Stage Queen's. Entrance fee, noder -
16. NURSERY AGGREGATE.—Restricted to com- petitors who have never won a First or Second prize at any previous prize meeting in Hongkong and whose respective scores at 200 and 500 yards in the Queen's 1st Stage make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00 Two prizes.
· 17. HANDICAP AGGREGATE—For competitors whose respective scores (with monthly challenge cup points added) at 200 and 500 yards in the
HIS COMPANY has been formed for the purpose of supplying the want which bas been felt for many years past, of a well-planned Queen's First Stage make up the highest and well-fitted modern hotel of sufficient dimen-aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
18. QUEEN'S AGGREGATES.-For competitors sions to accommodate the large and constantly whose respective scores in the Queen's throa growing passenger traffic through Singapore, as stages! 'make up the highest aggregate. 1st well as supply the great demand for temporary Stages 200, 500 and 600 yards and Stages or permanent residential chambers.
Singapore is the chief town of the British 500 and 600 yards, 3rd Stages 850 and goo Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements, and is yards, 1st Prize, Silver Cup presented, value a leading place of call and coaling port on the $100 9 money prizes, value 8100
And in connection, with the above, 3 EXTRA great steam lines of communication with the Far Money PRIZES for aggregates in 1st, 2nd, and "East. It is moreover the centre of an extensive
trade with India, China, the Dutch Indies, the MA
Alto, A MATCH RIFLE with 300 rounds of The present hotel accommodation in Singa scores in All-comers, President's, and 'First' „dija, jammunition, presented, for the competitor whose Philippines, Siam, and other countries. pore is quite inadequate, and it is proposed to and Second Stages make up the highest acquire the fine site now partly occupied by the
POOLS at 200, 500 yards and Saucer, Open to all comers, M.H. Rifle or Carbine.
Conditions &c.
HOTEL de L'EVROPE, and build thereon a hoteli.gregate. Winner of Cup excluded from taking of much larger dimensions, and greatly improved, this prize Entrance fee, $2,00,000 construction and arrangement. Fully detailed Target. Open to all-comers during the meeting. SWELF-STAKES at Running Man and Vanishing. plans have been prepared and the 'engagement Any Rifle of a first-class Manager is already secured.
Prospectus and. Forms of Application may be at any Agences of Company's Bankers, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BAME- ING CORPORATION and the CHARTERED BANK OFNDIA AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA, or Mr. D. MCCULLOCH, DAN MEMB
A certain number of Shares will be reserved byplantar constipasi have to pay
1. To avoid delay, intending competitors are trongly advised to enter and obtain tickets for
By the livery ofred that surrounds standing batred and enmity between the Epg named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS? a steady, oleji, Agenta, pulang died by the Directors for Allotment to Hongkong Secretary, Hongkong Club
pallah and the Dutch
N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above
HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 30th Instant at 8.30 for 9 F. - precisely, Visiting Brethren are cordially invitedi
Hongkong, 26th October, 1888.
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1 per cent, extra for the difference in Exchange between this Port and Singapore.. Hongkong, 16th October, 1888.
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the various competitions before the date of the meeting. Application to be made to the Hon. ai Post entries will be accepted on the ground. Sights Paper or sliding wind-gauges on above, are not alloweden * Persons wishing to join the HR: should send their names, with that and seconder, to the Hon. Secretary than Thursday, noon, 8th Nov
JANTED to purchase, in a good situation in The above programme 11*
Macao, Small FAMILY RESIDENCE Programmes will be issue
as her head, but there can be ne doubt that what obsoleto It was formerly applied to an enter-A SINGLE ROOM, suitable for Bachelors Steamer lying in the harbour, or comingcommanding asca-view, Price must be Moderate for thres
she chooses to wear on her head, and the way
in which she chooses to wear it tantly affer the Impression she makes on others, usually like something which gives them piquancy, and above all, conspicuousn Save not to be blamed for this WAY
'tainment where the host got drunk before his
guests. Dutch suctions are well known.
In the Daily Port of April 11, 1724, there is a curious' advertisement of such sale, perhaps the first of the kindős though not under that Morty-four paintings of the best Italian
Rent moderate.
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Apply 10
AB Office of this paper..
Hongkong, 26th October,
to the Undersigned;
Hongkong, 19th January, 1858
with full particulars, by letter only, to
Co Honghong Teagradh On
Hongkong 15th September, 1888