Council, and consequently the circumstances con- cerning him, which might otherwise have been passed over in silence as merely one more proof of The incomprehensibleness of law and the value of Acts of Parliament as an agency for turning the human hair grey, deserve a certain amount of Borrowful attention. Ah Toy was one of 268 heathen who arrived in Port Phillip by the steamship Afghan "and, to quate the elaborate language of the Full Court, he was then an Immigrant arriving from ports beyond Victoris within the meaning of the clause of the Immig ranti Statute, 1865, and the Chinese Act, 1881," This one solid fact is almost the only circum stance concerning Ah Toy which, has not been overturned and trodden out of all human shape by British precedents and the warring complica tions of international law. According to the Act. however, the Afghan was only permitted to carry 14 Chinese in all, and Ah Toy, being one of the surplus '253, fiund his attempts to land frustrated by a gentleman who is stated at length to be "a Collector of Customs within the mean. ing of the last mentioned Act." The fact that he is allowed to remain "within the meaning of the last-mentioned Act" is also pretty nearly the only consolation which is left to this harassed and frantic official. These two gentlemen then cleared the decks for litigation, and, after several preliminary proceedings, the matter was referred to the consideration of the Full Court.
The Act under which the proceedings were taken has the advantage of being one of the clearest and most definite upon the Victorian Statute-book: I's two principal features are that it imposes à poll-tax upon the intrusive China. man, and that it strictly limits the number which any vessel may carry in proportion to her ton- nage; and having laid down these two circum- stances in a manner which seems to the comman, ordinary mind of the lay student almost rudely emphitic, it walks round them and hammers
them in, and hits them wherever it can reach them. Even under a compound legal system which almost invariably resolves that an Act of Parliament means something entirely different from what it says, ând never by any chance says what it means, the matter appears to be ton simple for dispute. But under the searching eve of the Full Court difficulties speedily arose, and these astounding clauses in the Chief Justice's judgment are the beginning of the trouble:-
The fence on the legal punds to the action in beth kapeeta rests partly on the riveriai alieg tion, hat the sets enmpirined of were dans in obedience to the Intructions of her Majesty's Victorian Government, but the pleadings, Are silent about any advice given by her Majesty's (invernment to, or entamanila given to iiem by, the Governor of Viesorix. 1. has been argued that it iconsletent with the allegations in the pleadings, that thự Governor was never advised of this matter by the Ministers, and did not at any ilme sunbocks or mailly their act. The Atheney- General contended the under the conkitu inaalavuzem of Victoria the premgatives and powers of the Crown of England might be e mid-red Indifferenity to be setiad either in the Govenue as sh repres nensive ufths Comm, or is the members of her Majesty's Goverment for Virtuela. In England, all pregatīvas and power of government Ara 1 dged alla ely in the Sovereign, The. Sovereign's resp mikla adidaces have an legal power of enter. ment whatever vested in them They have the right to adving the Sove sign, sodīt 1. their duty to abey and cany into execution the act and encastads of the Sovereign founded upon such adrien. The Costitution Act. Following the English exempl, creates and vests in the G wemay pero in powers, but none in his advisers. The Governor, appointed by the Sovereign, derives his constitu tonn powers fom the Caution Act to which the Sovereign A lot. The Viet «rian. Ministers are appolated by the Governor.. They have no legal powers of government whatever vested in them be the Costurion Art. They have the right to exercise functions of advidor the Governor na the representativa, of the S-reveien in the exercise of his statutory powers, and shale duty is to obey and carry late eloqurdni the, set and commanda of the Governor founded upon such advice
From this elaborate slatement of the case several things become evident England, in her steady. and fossilised adherence to the outward signs and symbols of the Dark Ages, although now a con- stitutional country still preserves the forms of absolutism, and consequently "all prerogatives and
powers of government are lodged absolutely in the Sovereign. Therefore the Victorian Full Court wants to know if the Governor, as the representative of the glorious muddlement of British law, gave any "commands to the Vic. lorian Ministry and if it was in obedience to such commands that the Chinese Act was first drafted, Failing positive evidence about these commands it becomes a question whether the Act is worth the paper it is written upon. This bald state ment of the position of affairs cast a new light upon the advantages of Constitutional Govern- ment in a colony where the laws are interpreted by the light of the appalling collection of dusty precedents and contradictory statutes which England has stored up in the lamber-room of ber collective intelligence for a long succession of ages, and though the presence of the Act upon The Statute-hook might be accepted by any un professional mind as sufficient evidence that it was deagged though.all its stages.fn.due course the Full Court apparently experiences a serious `doubt upon the paint.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1888.
I should like to know if it is true that of the £1.500 paid by, the manager of the Alexandria. Palace for each of Baldwin's balloon events the professor himself only gets one-third of this surn. Baldwin's middleman must be even more greedy than most of his kind, which is saying a good deal.
J. J. Tissott, hitherto chiefly known as no ilustrator for the Boulevard and Salon, has taken a new and somewhat surprising departure. He is engaged upon a pictorial life of Christ, to he illustrated by some 250 paintings, and leaves next Monday for Jerusalem, where he intends to sudy the archeological details. It is said that Tissott has an idea of becoming a monk: whether from religious or artistic motives I am unable to say.
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Among the transactions of the recent Church Congress at Manchester which have not received as much attention as they deserved was a paper by Rev Grant Mills on the liquor traffic among the African natives. Among other interesting facts this paper showed that the total exports to Africa by the leading exponents of civiliation during 1887 amounted to 1,618.one gallons. This quantity was divided among the different nations. The exports of Germany were 481,400 pilons; United States, 747 36 gallons; Uniler Kingdon, 398 98o galions, and Portugal 645 gallons. All the German liquor was exported from Hamburg and Bremen, and we all know what that implies. The gin and rum are. said to be occasionally, used by painters for turpentine, It is recorded that a gorilla which had been procured at the Gaboon river died on the way home and in arder to preserve the body Propoly it was placed in a cask of trade rum, but when the cask was open d'ai Liverpool it was found.at the hair and skin of the gorilla had been burned as if by vitriol and that the body was in a terrible state of putrefaction.
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pitiable conclusion was expressed in the bitter vail of a Banco Court in its agony 1-
We have no legal-means of preventing cargoen of'ation convicts, fent to-morrow, from lansing on tese shores, l'his miserable resolution was carried by a large najority, Chief Justice Higinbotham and Judge Kerferd only dissenting and the Court, having nered judgment on behalf of Ah Toy, the same
The Times offered briefs some time ago to wing
a Chinaman within the meaning of the #tatute," and having anfixed preity nearly every. the Irish Attorney-General in connection with
Бе 'hing which made it worth anyone's while to he Parnell Commission. Notwithstanding the white man in Australia, rested from its labours.tempting fee of 5000 guincas he refused the The one tangible result of the case is that the brief, his arrangements not admitting of, a hinaman and the British Constitution must go prolonged absence from Ireland, gether. The latter is evidently too uncertain for use in an emergency. The painstaking study of six Jadges has only succeeded in revealin its immense capacity for prohibiting everything that the present position of Australia demande, and it presents no points of any kind to compen Inte for these deficiencies. It nullifies Australian legislation against the Chinese, unless such legis. larion is "commanded" by the Governor, and if it is "commanded"it nullifies it all the same, prohibits an Australian Cabinet from "ady sing " the Governor on the subject, and chokes off His Excellency, should he manifest an inclination to listen to such advice, and it prevents either the Cabinet or the Governor "advising" the English authorities on the subject. It casts discredit on the Victorian Chinese Act on the ground that it's presence on the Statute-book is not sufficien! evidence that it was approved by the Queen's representative, and it further lays down the law that it wouldn't matter a Chinese curse even if it were so approved, as it requires the direct sanction of the Queen herself before it can become law. Furthermore, the Queen's sanction wouldn't make any difference, because the Act itself is based on advice tendered by the Victorian instead of the Imperial Cabinet, and unless the imperial Cabinet can be induced to move in the maller nothing can be done. And lastly, even when the Imperial Cabinet does move, it is doubtful if anything will ensue, as the odds are ten to one that the British Constitution has mixed things up till nel her the Queen nor the British House of Commons. has any authority to act at all. All these were the gratifying results of a very brief investigation, bat, the research of the six judges utterly failed. to reveal any provision for doing something which might possibly compensate for those vast resources in the way of preventing anything being done. A Constitution which presents features so eminently fitted for sitting ill and doing nothing is evidently unsuited to a progressive land, and either the elaborate affair must learn to move or Australia must move without it. The latter alternative is the more probable of the two, The British Constituting is in many pieces as befits a weapon of such imposing calibre, and it is more than doubtful if any living statesman could gather up all the fr gments and set them in motion, Possibly something may some day be done with it, but it would be a work of tune, and Australia, with China at her gales, has little to spare. The resolution that the Mongolian must go remains as firm as ever; and if the British legal system cannot provide the machinery to make him start it-is just possible that the Victorian Full Court may yet find scope for its talents in considering another and a more portable Constitution that of the United States of Australia.—Sydney | the 13th December, at THиEK P.M.
To be followed by the S.S. " ABYSSINIA" STANDARD LIFE OFFICE his pulpit for a sermon in aid of the Associaton, Bulletin.
on roth January and S.S. "BATAVIA * on 7th February.
-JOTTINGS FROM TRUTH"
Mr. Labouchete telegraphs to the San Fran cisco Chronicle under date October 18th -
The relations between the German and Eng. lish courts have latterly become something more than strained, and Blamarck is furious against this country, which will doubtless before long have excellent reasons for deploring the blunder ing fatuities of our royalties in their dealings with Emperor William. I shall be surprised if the Emperor's visit to Rome does not lead to coldness between this country and Italy. The Emperor does not disguise his hostility to Eng land, and particularly toward his English rela tives, and I hear he did not respond with any cordiality to the Emperor of Austria's efforts to bring about a reconciliation between him and the Prince of Wales. The cordial reception of the Emperor by the Italians could hardly have been taken as a personal compliment to himself, as they know nothing about him. It was: political demonstration against France and in favor of the triple alliance, which is designed to keep-France-in order.
I hear that the Emperor'staur through Austria and Italy will cost not less than than £40,000, and the amounts which he has given away in
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Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.
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SHAREHOLDERS OF List of their are hereby requested to Contributions of Premia for the year ending 31st December last, in order that the proportion of Profit for that year to be paid as Bonus to Con- tributors may be arranged, Returns not sent in before the gath instant," will he made up by the Company, and no subsequent claims or altera- tions will be allowed.
By Order of the Directors,
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JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Secretary. Hongkong, 1st November, 1888.
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,
ADJUSTMENT OF BONUS FOR THE YEAR 1887.
SH
·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 Profits reserved for Contribu- tors may be arranged. Returns not rendered prior to the 30th day of November next, will be adjusted by the Company, and no claims or alterations will be subsequently admitted,
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IN THE
It is formed for the purpose of aiding the Wives and Families of men of all branches of H. M. Forces now serving or why shall here- after serve in Hongkong or in the Straits Seitlements, and co-operating generally with the Parent Association in England, by collecting funds and furnishing, Information about the families of soldiers and sailors serving here, who may need assistance at home,
The Association in Hongkong is under the management of a General Committee consisting of-
Mrs. CAMERON,
Mrs. MAXWELL,
Mrs. BELI-IRVING,
Mrs. BURDON,
Mrs. CRASTER,
Mrs, MACKINTOSH, Mrs NOBLE-
President. Vice-Presidents.
With Mr. THOMAS JACKSON AS Treasurer, and the Undersigned as fonorary Secretary,
bhich following extintor from the Rules is
publishet for general information --
5.-Any person being a member of the General or any branch Committee, being an annual. subscriber of not less than five dollars to the funds, shall be a member of the Association.
6-Any donor of not less than Fifty dollars, and any person who shall bave collected and paid to the funds of the Association a sum of not less than Three hundred dollars, shall be a Life Member.
7-Every Regiment or Ship which shall contribute a sum of not less than fifty dollars, and every Incumbent who may grant the use of and from whom a like sum of not less than fifty dollars be received shall also be Members of the
TAKEN OUT BEFORE 15TH NOVEMBER NEXT, Ássociation,
will rank for two years Bonus at the next
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
Proposal Forms and Tables of Rates on
.application.
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Agents.
Hongkong, 23rd October, 1883.
NOTICE.
Silk and Fre Crackers
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THE Undersigned respectfully inform the
8-Every Member of the Association shall have one vote at the Annual or any Special Meeting of the Association. A Regiment may vote by its Clanet and a Ship by its Captain or other Commanding Officer; or in either case by any Commissioned Officer in Her Majesty's Army or Navy, nominated in writing for the Regiment or Ship by the Colonel, Captain, or other Commanding Officer.
9-All annual subscriptions to the Association shall become due on the rst day of January in cach year, and shall be paid to the Treasurer or the Bankers of the Association; Members joining the Association after the 30th of Septem- ber shall be considered as becoming subscribe:s from the 1st day of January following.
LIFE MEMBERS. Lieutenant-General CAMERON, C.B. The NORTHAMptonshire KeGIMENT. MAJOR CHURCHILL, 58th REGIMENT, No. 5 BATTERY, 1st Brig. E. Div., R.A. Na. 7.
1st Brig, W. Mrs. GRANVILLE SHARP. Honorable H. LAyton. THOMAS JACKSON, Eq. Honorable C. P, CHATER, H. N. MODY, Esq. Honorable J. BELL-IRVING.
presents to the sovereigns and their officials should be marked to address in full; and the Foreign Merchant in Canion that for the E. R.. BELILIOs, Esq.
A little further on, however, it transpires that whether the Governor "commanded" or did not
· "command" the Act is equally useless :—- .
Is the allegation in the presses case thai cha mapanathis Mislar whom he visited is something fabulous. The and Her Majesty's Gorg ninest for Victoria have ratified and Emperor took with him from Berlin eighty anomici of the petant the defendoar la prevenil the pinlode from finding, rqui elest in an allegation that Her Majesty has diamond rings, 150 silver stars, fifty scarf pins ratified th Get Has Her Majesty's Chernment for all richly j weled, thirty diamond bracelets, six Vierain power to advise the Crown through the representative
splendid presentation words, thiny large
in Virtarik upon a quesins of this end, so as to take that an act of State which tinet Her Majesty's action or aut ority, photographs of himself with the Empress and expressed or implied would one beans of State! I am of points her children all in gold frames, thirty, gold that these quesinas mynt le answered in the negative. Victoria, like other self-governing British colonies dependency of watches, with chains, 1000 cigar cases with Great linin It possesses by state of law very large and, in my coinion, almost pleary power of internal self-wemment
Imperial arms and monogram in gold and twenty stars in diamonds of the orders of the Black and Red Eagle/
Jus all the prot gailves and give a of the Basuriga are not vested by law in the reptesentative in Victoria; nor can all of them by valia subject of advice to the Chivernor by the Queen's Ministers
for Victoda The prerogatives of war and pests, segotiation and The manuscript diary of the 1ste Emperor trenty, together with the p wer a estering into relaciona diplomacy or trade, holding communication wit other independent comprises thirty-two thick quarto volumes. The Si, 14 menne oralf of hich power to do an get which thi Emperor desired that part of this diary should e medinis un set of Rihto appears to be naneted, hays not been be published at a suitable period. He appointed vaited la the Governce of Victoria bylaw expressed or implied.
Empress Victoria his literary executor, and left From this further view of the circumstances it her the whole correspondence and papers. appears that after all the Governor is not so large Nothing could have been more awkward for the a person as he might appear, and that "Her Empress than Professor Geficken's amazing Majesty's Government for Victoria is a very indiscretion, as there was a regular formal under small concern. For not only has the Cabinet standing between her and the Emperor William no power to introduce, or the Parliament to pass,vis. Prince Bismarck-that no part of the an Act of such viral importance to the country as
diary should appear for several years to come, the measure providing for the exclusion of Chinese and that care should be exercised in the selection immigrants, but neither has it any right to advise of extracts for publication. The Governor on the subject, while the Governor
in his turn has no authority to listen to any The appointment of a housekeeper for Windsor advice, even supposing it should be offered by a Castle, which became vacant on the death of Minister bent on working permanent and fatal Mrs. Henderson, is one of the best things in the damage to the British Constitution. In fact, Queen's gift, for there is not only an adequate. among all the parties, concerned, not one le salary, but an excellent apartment in the castle. allowed by law to do or say anything whatever valuable perquisites and numerous privileges in the matter, and everything assumes an unfixed When royal personages from abroad visit the and unsatisfactory condition which makes it Queen at Windsor a handsome' present to the evident that either the British Constitution must housekeeper is a matter of course. Emperor be sacrificed by the colonies, as being deranged, Nicholas gave her 1000 and Emperor Napoleon impotent, and permanently anworkable, or else a couple of splendid diamond bracelets,
until the end of time, pro
Freight will be received on board until 4 F.M. on the 12th December.
All Parcels must be sent to our Office and
same will be received by us until 5 P.M. the day previous to sailing,
For information as to Passage or Freight, apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.'
Agents. Homplenne, 15th November! TP88
BELILIOS TRUST, No. 2.
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"HE Annual Compention for BELILIOS
past twenty years they have carried on business in silk piece-goods In Sal-Hing Street, Canton, under the chop signification of “TSUN'SHING,"
and venture to believe that the superior quality of their goods have given universal satisfaction to their customers. In order to avoid possible
T. MADALS CO PRIZES will be held as imposition they have considered it indispensable
under :-
to prefix to their designation the surname of the head of the arm, "CHAN" and henceforth the Firm's signification, in the silk branch, will be known as “CHAN TSUN SHING.” ... ►
Further, in respect of the Fire Cracker branch,
which hitherto has been carried on under the
E: MACKINTOSH, Esq.
J. HOLLIDAY, E‹q,
Į`J. FRANCIS, Esq. Q.C..
G. E. NOBLE, Esq
Amusements.
THEATRE
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CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
TUESDAY,
the 20th November, 1888.
HE AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY
THE
AND OPERA, COMPANY,
(Under the direction of Messrs. WILLARD and SHERIDAN), Will arrive by P. & O. Steamer from Shanghai and open-as above for a Short Season, with A NEW AND EXTENSIVE REPERTOIRE,
including
"IL TROVATORE,"
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The Plan may be seen and Seats secured at
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Auctions.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
THE following Particulars of Sale of Crown Land.by Public Auction, to be held on the spot, on
MONDAY, the 19th day of November, 1888, at 4 P.M., are published for general information. By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, *Hongkong, toth November, 1888,
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Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 19th day of November, 1888, at 4 P... by Order of His Excellency the GOVERNOR, of Thirty-six Lots of CROWN LAND, at Vaumali, Kaufung, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75. Years.
No, of Saic.
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JNO. J. FRANCIS, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 13th November, 1888. [116130 SANDAKAN, BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. CIRCULAR, title of "MAEN SHING," under which we have THE opening of BRITISH NORTH BORNEO as an English Colony by the BRITISH acted as sole dealers in Canton for many years
NORTH BORNEO COMPANY dates from 1881, and during this period our chop, by reason of and recently the English Government bave the superior quality of the Ingredients we employ assumed a Protectorate over it.
as well
ENGLISH EXAMINATION FOR BOYS,-THURS- DAY, 17th December next, 9 30 AM. to I P.M. ENGLISH EXAMINATION FOR GIRLS,
THURSDAY, 27th December acxi, 2 to 5 PM. CHINESE EXAMÍNATION FOR GIRLS, FRI-
DAY, 28th December next, 7:10 5 P.M. These Examinations are open to any secular who, during the last six months, was a regular attendant of a School (whether public or private) in the Colony,
Intending candidates should send, to the Inspector of Schools, on or before 17th instant, their names and certificates of attendance at
as the first class character of cur mann-wing to the few Members of the Church of
it bas, prior to this, been found impos shy, specifying also any optional subject they facture, has maintained its pre-eminent position, sible to collect sufficient funds to pay a resident may wish to take up.
The List of entries will be CLOSED on in the markets of the United States of America; WEDNESDAY, 28th instant.
Now, however, owing to the strenuous efforts exuinination, will be forwarded to each candi, our goods have been attempted, which has for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Further Particulars, as to place and rules of but lately numerous fraudulent imitations of of, THE RIGHT REV. HOSE, Bishop of Singapore, Labuan, and Sarawak, the Society date.
Copies of the Scheme can be obtained on necessitated, in the interests of the public, our parts have granted 200 a year for five years application to the Inspector of Schools.
establishing a new Fire Cracker brand that will towards this object as well as Missionary Work. THE TRUSTERS,
The Bishop bas selected an experienced Chap BELILIOS FUND, No. 2.
hereafter be known as the "CONSTITUTION” | Jain, but the salary being, insufficient, an extra Hongkong, 15th November, 1888.
Cracker. It will be recognised by our old funds sufficient for the building of a Parsonage. amount has been promised locally and also established mark underneath, viz., No, Golden Funds are, however, earnestly required towards Dragon chop and our new prefixed title "CHAN the erection of a Church and School,
KUR KARCINOL RE The smallest contributions for the above will. MAIN SHING" at the bottom of the label of our be thankfully received and acknowledged by... Fire Critckers
the Chinese must have free access to Australia hear that the marriage of Prince Alexander The clause last quoted from the ponderous of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Prussia Judgment of the Full Court Indirectly suggests will probably take place within the next few that the Victorian Chinese: Act, if distinctly: weeks in the private chapel of Windsor Castle, Z ETLAND assented to by the Crown, might possibly acquire of course without any state ceremony. some status which would make it useful for -other purposes than that of being deposited at the back of the grate, but the depths of the incoherent and upfzable are not yet reached, and there are mher resources in the British Constitution which make it still more impossible to do anything without falling over some and quated precedent of the past. These transpired towards the end of the judicial circus, when Mir, Justice Williams rose to take
Wisather the premgestive of right to exclude slisca' oraz stand. jo England, and whether, lë ia avar esleted; 82 has nos fallen late"
The learned gentleman then proceeded to tread put this" Kentimeni, with the view of extract) all the moral nourishment 3 contained;, rently his final,
uthori
as that claimed existed.
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The Palazzo Rezzoniso at Venice, which has been purchased by Browning for 5000, le on
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LODGE
No. 52.
above
N EMERGENCY MEETING of
the grand canal and is a vast building which was will be in Forte ARONS erected early in the seventeenth century. It is
in the Renaissance style, and has a magnificent HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW EVEN- facade covered with immense heads of men and ING, the 16th November, at for 5.30 PM. animals. The ceilings of the principal talous precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited, are superbly palated and decorated. The Palazzo Hongkong, 15th November, 1888. [1166 Rezzoniso har for some years been occupied by "a"number of artists, and several families have lived in it, but all the tenants have now departed. Browning doen not intend to rexido permanently- in Venice, but will merely pay frequent visits to his son, for whom the palace was bought.
ST. JOHN
LOD GE
OF HONGKONG; No. 618, SC,
N-EMERGENCY
Abode it be held
the above FREEMASONS
Gypsy wedding took place recently nEAT which excited great interest in the
urch was crowded. HALL, Zetland Street,
(na mid lane instant at 830 lfor:
big | Visiting Brethren are cordially!
Hongkong,tsih November, 1888
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for Silk Branch
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Chaplain
PL.B. VON DONOP,
Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, ~Church Clergy and School Fund,
BIRLEY, DALYMPLE & Co,
Agents, British North Borneo Co.
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Third Street
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TO LET.
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Apply to
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TO LET, FURNISHED.
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st November, 1888, 01107 FOR
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