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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1880
THE Chinese cruisers Ting Yuen, Chun Yuan, Ching Yuen, Chik Yuen, King Yuen, and Lu Yen left Amoy for Foochow on the sand inst.. A "PICK-UP" Cricket match will be commenced at 11 am. to-morrow. Members who have signed the lists are requested to be on the Ground punctually.
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THI difference between a Christian and a cannibal has been described by a popular dean in these terms: "One enjoys himself and
other enjoys other people.
THE agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) inform us that the "Shire Line steamship Carmarthenshire, from London, &c., left Manila yesterday afternoon for this post. THE Highlanders had a field-day this afternoon. Several companies attacked Mts. Kellett and Gough, in the same way as the operations against Mountain Lodge were conducted. CARE of PropertyYoung wife (at a ball-You are improving wonderfully as a dancer. Don't you remember how you use to tear my dresses? Young Husband-Y-e-s; I wasn't buying em'
MR C. D. Harman, ngent of the O. & 0 S. S. Co., informs us that the steamer Belgie, from San Francisco, has arrived at Yokohamaa and will leave for this port to-morrow." THE Canadian Parliament at its last session appointed a commitee to inquire concerning the existence of tuberculosis in domestic animals, with special reference to the question whether the disease can be communicated from such animals to human beings,
THE Siam Mercantile Gazette states that Mr. Ross, late chief engineer of the steamer Pakshas, left Bangkok on the oth inst. by the steamer for to erect the machinery in the gold fields of the Bang-ta-pau, at which place he has been engaged Siam Gold Mining Company.
colise of a few generations. Insuperable | obstacles bar the progress of the expounder of a religious doctrine who attempts the conversion of the native, masses to his particular creed by the simple means of persuasion. The yawning abyss which separates the doctrinarian from his un- lettered audience can never be bridged over unless by some more human and natural points of contact, and these are precisely brought on by those tradal and industrial connections which a civilised nation establishes with the un-civilised, Trade is invariably accompanied by a certain degree of racial sympathy
it may interest some of the short-sellers in the Steam Launch Co.'s shares, who are "under a cloud," to know that it has been decided in an and general civilisation; mental progress
English court that a creditor who touches a follows in its wake, then comes a
debtor on the shoulder in a public place and superior standard of morality, and
requests payment of an account, offends under kindled
the law against abusive and insulting behaviour. finally religious feelings are by as natural, a process as heat, and
MR. James Francis writes that he is endeavour. electricity are communicated by contact. The higher civilisation of China which: "Good-bye, wilcy; if I'm detained by ing to organise an influential Committee to raise business and can't come home, I'll send a telebscriptions to form a fund to be applied to the we are pleased to call Christianisation,gram. She (frigidly): "You needn't trouble, mission of Pundita Rama Bai, the philanthropic should follow but never precede com dear. I've got the telegram. I took it out of Indian lady who was in the colony the other day. Mr. G. Stafford Northcote has consented your pocket an hour ago."
to act as honorary treasurer, and will be glad to H.M.S. troopship Tamar, Captain Basil E. receive donations, Cochrane, R.N., anived this forenoon from Portsmouth and ports of call, bringing reliefs to the garrison and Naval Station, consisting of 217.and 261 passengers respectively. MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the ship Parthia left Vancouver for Japan and Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- China on the afternoos of the 22nd inst. The silk ex Parthia was delivered in New York on the 21st inst.
mercial relations.
The slowness of
missionary work throughout China, as well as in other parts of the world, is simply due to the mistake committed in reversing this order of things.
As this Colony stands out prominently FAMILY, DISPENSING, & GENERAL as a centre of trade and civilisation throughout China, we may justly con- gratulate ourselves and our local enter- prises upon the brilliant future that is in store for us and them. While the Colony progresses and new undertakings and companies are organised, and our external trade increases apace, the veil which overhangs our continental horizon is gradually being rolled up; our increasing enlightenment, which may appropriately be symbolised by the blaze of Electricity, may be taken to be, as a beacon which will In due course light up all our neighbours.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25; 1889.
Tax cry is still they come " It is only a few months ago since two new local joint stock companies were sprung on us, namely, the Austin Arms Hotel Co. and that mons parturiens kind of an under- taking the Steam Launch Company. The Praya Reclamation schéme had been started before on a gigantic scale, while in another direction four other public companies were organised almost simultaneously with the above, viz., the Société Française des Charbonnages du Tonkin, the East Borneo Planting Com- pany, Messrs. Cruickshank & Co., Limited, the Songei Koyah Planting Company, and later on came the China-Borneo Co. And now we have another and not the least of these enterprises brought to a consumma- tion-The Hongkong Electric Company, Limited. We need hardly say that, no better guage of the wealth, the spirit of enterprise, and the progress of this distant outport of British trade could be found than in the extraordinarily vast num- ber of commercial undertakings which have recently taken their rise in our midst. If any one would take the trouble of aggregating | the paid-up capitals of all our local public Companies-a by no means difficult task, and tack on to the sum total the probable. realisable capital of all the private firms, native, British and foreign, also the value of the floating and the landed property, he would be able to form a fairly approximate idea of the real value of a Colony which appears on the charts as an almost imperceptible dot on the ocean, and which has, moreover, been saddled with the anomalous name of a "coaling station." It would be an easy, and an interesting task to demonstrate to the world, and to the omniscient Lords of the Admiralty in particular, what this coaling station possesses besides coals, and to what extent it should command the attention and solicitude of the Home Government.
The increase of these local public undertakings is a sure pledge of our future prosperity both as a British trading emporium and as the pioneer of social progress in South China. Trade, Industry, science and civilisation irradiste from this rocky island over the neighbouring popu, lous centres of Chinese life and activity, and with the increase In the facilities of Inter-communication, we may safely predict that the awakening of a great portion of the Celestial Empire will be mostly due to the civilising elements dispensed and the influence exercised by Hongkong. What
missionaries have not been able to accomplish after centuries of apostolle labour, trade, the steam engine, and electricity will eventually achieve in the
then.
A NEW YORK exchange, with a fine touch of sarcasm, says Scotland Yark detectives have not yet discovered the fiend who lately murdered six abandoned women in the heart of London, but the Times has affidavits to prove that Mr. Parnell is the guilty man."
EVERY Chinaman has to have a happy new year, either at his own expense or somebody else's. Several robberies from European shops and houses have been reported to have occurred, Last night Mr. Wyllie, superintendent of the Peak Tramway, caught two "boy" in a room, the doors to which they had locked, trying to
FRW of the crowned heads of Europe have been
more fortunate than King Christian of Denmark, One of his daughters is Empress of Russia, and another is likely to be the future Queen of Eng land, while one of his sons is King of Greece, and another is the husband of the only daughter and heir of the King of Sweden. And now his grandson, the Crown Prince of Greece, is to marry the Princess Sophie, sister of Emperor Willam. If dynastic alliances could assure peace between nations, such widespread marital relationships would surely afford the necessary guarantee.
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By the Court :-Osborne sent, the awning at the same time for the same reason. The boxes were moved in the afternoon. I got the screws and bolts from men-of-war as they were paid off-from the surplus stores. Petty officers, such as carpenters' mates, gave them to me. I asked for them because some times I need one to mend a chair, or a picture. I think the boatswain's mate on the Audacious gave me the canvas, I am allowed canvas for my bed when I shift to Kowloon to do duty. The flannel is cheap stuff I got it to wash the floors with. I got it from the boatswain's mate on the fagpie. It was condemned, and would be sent back to the Dockyard. I have been in the joined the Dockyard in 1881. Police force and the Chinese Customs since I
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race is sure to produce, an interesting atruggle. Last year's winner, Joker, will again face the starter, and he may be opposed by Leap Year, Gridiron, Forerunner, Scalletta, Claverhouse, and three or four griffins. It will take a good · pony to beat my old friend "Croppie a game pony that can stay for ever. I don't know why the Canton Cup this year should have been confined to griffins instead of to residens as has hitherto been the case, and I certainly can't see that the change is an improvement. This race used to be a capital test for griffins and luckless maidens, and it is surely short-sighted policy making no provision whatever for the latter class. With 20 entries there will no doubt be a big field and
good race, but it would be just as well if the. Stewards of next season could see their way to John Osborne, Dockyard constable, said:- returning to the old conditions.. The Stirrup joined the Dockyard in May last, and lived with Cup, presented by Mr. T. Jackson, whose genial the last witness. The awning is my pro-mile and open hand will be greatly missed in perty, a sailor on the Audacions made it the years to come, has obtained 19 entries, and for my boat. He told me he had taken ought to prove one of the most exciting events the stuff from the stores. He was not a parti- of the day. The distance is one mile and three cular friend of mine, but I saw him in the Dock-quarters and the probable starters are Orlando, yard sometimes, and asked him if he could get me one. I told him not to get it in any way there would be any trouble about. I gave him several drinks for it. I sent it away with search for the blankets. Ramsay suggested Ramsay's boxes a few days previous to the that I should do so. I was a turnkey in the Gaol before I went to the Naval Yard.
Mr. Webber, then submitted that he had proved the ownership, and shown that Mrs Ramsay could not be found guilty of receiving the goods, even if they had been stolen, Mrs.. Lucas was quite ignorant of the contents of the boxes. If anyone was guilty it was the men who had given evidence, and it was for the Government to take any further steps they might decide on. The articles had been small gifts from condemned and surplus stores, and had been accumulating.
His Worship found that the first defendant, being a married woman, was not guilty in law, and with regard to the second defendant there was not sufficient evidence of guilty knowledge, Both were then discharged.
SPORTING GOSSIP.
Gridiron, Forerunner, Mont Brévent, Claver house or Lochinvar, and several others. If Dehance is sent out to tackle Orlando the Champ- ions will be greatly discounted, but I fancy the other until they meet in the Challenge Cup. twe Tientsin "cracks will steer clear at each At present I would rather not venture to touch the Compradores Cup for subscription griffins (37 entries); and must held over dealing with the Second and third days' events until the form has been a little more developed.
I am glad to say that a race for the Tonquin Subscription Arab horses has been arranged for the Off-Day. Mr. H. N. Mody, with his customary liberality, has promised a Cup, and the Clerk of the Course, although with considerable reluct ance, has granted the use of the training course on Wednesdays and Saturdays. The conditions are a subscription of $5 each (to go to the second horse), weight 11st. ylb., distance one mile; and the following entries have been made up to dlate
Mr. F. H. Hohnke's gr. Almansor. Mr. H. T. S. Green's gr. Bar Silver. Mr. R. Fraser-Smith's gr. Roderick Dhu. Mr. N. R. S. Crawford's gr. Gamecock ...Mr. Paul Jordan's gr. Excelsior. This ought to be a novel and interesting, race. Any other entries sent to me will be duly acknowledged.
open a combination safe. They got six weeks' shillings because poor little Sam aforesaid hadnt published in this journal-and in this journalshould be provided. I am sorry to have to say
each.
A GENTLEMAN named Carter was hauled before the judicial adversary in Melbourne the other day, and accused of his son :Samuel not having attended school the requisite number of days in the half-year. The defendant sorrowfully pointed out that his son Samuel wasn't attending school any more because he was dead and gone, and then there was a long pause and the engine of the law had a rest. After a spell, however, it rose up refreshed, and fined Mr. Carter five attended with sufficient regularity before he died --and the astounded parent paid the fine, and ARCODEACON Farrar and the Bishop of Peter-tottered away to make room for the next case. borough complain, we read, that their sermona The law is mighty and is bound to prevail every are printed without their knowledge or consent, time, or burst. This is inexpressibly sad. The Founder of the Christian religion was never so shabbily treated by the publishers of His day, we feel convinced. His sermons were printed per special arrange- The United States Senate has voted the Tariff meat with Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, who paid a lump sum down for the copy bill by a majority of three.
right, on the understanding that they must bring out the Word in cheap editions. And now we The Germany Federal Council has approved have the Archdeacon and the Bishop spreading glad tidings against their will, without making a stiver out of the saved souls. It's disgusting, that's what it in t
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The Dervishes have again become aggressive.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. THERE will be a game of Polo at Causeway Bay to-morrow, at 4 p.m.
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THE Hongkong Volunteers intend having six Sunday" Spoon" competitions, commencing on the 27th inst
THE half-yearly report of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., will be found
in another column.,
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THE mestizo Marcel, who ran about Lascar Row on Sunday with a big knife, cutting people, got six months this afternoon,
THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Dardanus, from Liverpool, left, Singapore this morning. and is due here on the 1st prox. THE Bangkok Times learns that an Electric | Lighting Company is about to be established in Bangkok, and that the necessary plant is already on its way out.
THE members of the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society will celebrate the immortal memory of Robbie Barns by a dinner at the Hongkong Hotel this evening.
An Irishman named Morten saw a blanket fall out of a window in the Queen's Road Barracks the other day. He got six weeks, to-day, for picking it up to restore to its owner.
A REGULAR Convocation of Cathay Chapter, No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetiand Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting companions are cordially We have been making inquiries regarding the extraordinary boom in the shares of the Hongkong Steam Launch Company, Limited, to which we referred last night, and have, not wout considerable difficulty, succeeded in obtaining certain information which, however, we pieler holding over until to-morrow. Ifway of the victims of this rascally "plant" will send us particulars of their operations, with names, etc., we will accept the same in confidence, and use the information at our own risk. At present we are strongly of opinion that the thimble niggers of the local Share Market have on this occasion gone a tride too far, and if we can manage to bring the house of cards they have no carefully constructed tumbling about their cars, shall, consider we have performed a useful public duty,
AVERY perplexed and persecuted potentate is the Sultan of Turkey, whose finances are at s very low ebb, so much so that he that he can scarcely show his Sultanic proboscis outside the palace gates without being dunned by soldiers for arrears of pay or by private persons who have made advanges for his household expenses. In fact the cooks and waiters have struck once, and the harem experienced the indignity of being boycotted and starved into the bargain. The Sultan has recently appointed Agop Faths
EUROPEANS who have been foolish enough, either in youth or age, to tattoo themselves like Fiji Islanders, Patagonians, or any other race of picturesque savages, may be interested to hear that Dr. Variot of Paris has discovered a simple, but effective method of removing red or blue pictorial devices from the human skin. His modus operandi is to pick the marks or spola with needles until the blood flows, then to inject tannin, and finally to cauterize with nitrate of silver. Very little inconvenience is felt by the marks extend over a large surface. The wounds person operated upon, unless, of course, the caused by the pricking and cauterization become black for a time, then tum red, and after a month or so the parts which have been treated are almost indistinguishable from the adjoining fiesb.
Should, the raia that now threatens keep off, the race-course will be available for galloping to-morrow morning, when some capital sport that the training track has become as hard as a turnpike road, and is quite unsafe to gallop over. So far the lame uns have been very few, but indications are not wanting that the ranks will shortly be increased to an alarming extent. It is quite evident that a large sum of money will have to be expended on both the training and racing tracks during the coming summer. The Wong nei-chong reclamation is a capital thing, but it can scarcely be regarded as an uomixed blessing to the local racing world. The re-turfing of the portions of the race-course that have been raised is anything but satisfactory; however, we must try and do the best we can under the circum stances.
AN OLD SPORTSMAN.
The entries for the Hongkong Jockey Club Meeting of 1889 far exceed the most sanguine seccasion of the so-called leviathan" stable anticipations. It was general gossip that the would prove a crusher, especially as regards the open events; how ridiculous such prophecies were is clearly shown by the programme only-on Wednesday last. I have been told that Mr. Sassoon decided to deny the light of his countenance, or rather his peacock- blue and old gold" colors, to the Hongkong races in consequence of certain animadver- sions which were passed on his racing policy a year ago both by the press and the public, and I do not doubl, the accuracy of the state- ment. Mr. Sassoon, who has been a mest princely supporter of racing for the past two or three years, is of course a free agent, and can do whatever he thinks proper with his own cattle; but if it be true that he has abstained from sending his "cracks" 10 take their chance at Wong-nei- chong this season out of pique at public and private criticism, then I can only say that "the leviathan's" notions of sport are scarcely likely to find favor either with sportsmen or gentlemen, interesting and as successful without Mr. Sas-HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO However, the races promise to prove just as
sdon's valuable patronage and co-operation as would have been the case bad that gentleman been one of the many Richmonds now in the field. I am nevertheless very glad to hear that Mr. Sassoon, whose Quixotic ideas regarding certain comments made last March about the in-and-out running of his ponies I never could understand is expected here next Monday, and that he will ride for a young and rising owner whose success would be hailed with great enthusiasm.
I have neither time nor space to-day to deal with past grievances, so must at once plunge in medias res in relation to the entries. The Wong-nei-chong Stakes, one of the most popular events in the programme, has secured 22 entries, as against 18 last year. Dunkeld, second to Merry Monk in 1884 and 1885 and winner in 1886 and 1887, is again a candidate for hotors, and singularly enough is the only pony in the list that appeared in last year's entry. The speedy chesnut looks big and well, and it
Hongkong, 25th January, 1889.
STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, ·
LIMITED.
The following is the report of the Board of Directors to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders, to be held at the office of the Company, on Saturday, the 2nd February, 1889,
at noon :-
The Directors beg to submit to the Share- holders' the Report and Statement of Accounts for the half-year ending 31st December last,
After paying running expenses, salarics, premia of insurance, repairs and all other outgoings, there remains, including $2,968.98 brought for ward from last account, the sum of $108,500.22 at credit of Profit and Loss Account. From this sum the Directors recommend that a dividend for the half-year of 7 per cent. Capital, or $56,000. and a bonus of 1 per cent, or $8,000 be paid to Shareholders, that $20,000 be placed at Credit of Depreciation and Insurance Fund, and $5,000
THE Bangkok Timer of the gth inst. saysThe latest news about Mr. Köhl, the adventurer who "skipped" from Chantaboon in the Governor's boat, is that he landed somewhere near Camput in the guise of a shipwrecked "milord" who had lost his yacht in the Gulf of Siam. He was forthwith kindly taken care of by the French authorities, who supplied him with funds and a first class passage to Saigon, where the British Consul generously put the man up, at his own house, introduced him to several friends at the opera, and prevailed upon the authorities to go so far to send out gunboat to look for the man's supposed yacht. This is net all, nor. it is even the most, for Mr. Köhl, to back up his little tale, if he did not actually defraud, went very close to it by borrowing money from several persons. is quite on the cards that he may at Credit of Equalization of Dividend Fund (which Inst the British Consul did what he ought to have rival Coroner's performance of winning three will then stand at £235,000, and $45,000 respec- done at first, viz, telegraphed to Bangkok, and
am told that Lively), that $2,500 be written off the value of we fancy the reply be received must have
the Iron lighter Sun Lee, leaving a balance of astonished all Saigon. The French authorities also seem to have acted with supreme stupidity
$17,000.22 to be carried forward to new account. The gross receipts on all the lines compare in this matter, for it would have been very easy
favourably with those for the corresponding six for them to have wired to their officials in
months of 1887. Bangkok and so at once have been informed of the truth about Kohl. What will now become of this roving spirit we do not care to prophesy, but that he will not be easily let off in Saigon is
certain.
THE ALLEGED DOCKYARD
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At the Police Court, this afternoon, Mr. Pollock had the case of the two Fortuguese women who were charged with receiving property from the Dock Yard again before him.
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I in succession. Mr. Buxey has a flyer in either Bombshell or Skipjack, and Mr. John Peel is such an expert in turf nomenclature that it would be very strange indeed were Fleet Foot to belle his name. Mr. Humphreys has ten griffins entered and is almost certain to find a dangerous candidate, and 1 have noticed a speedy dark, grey in Mr. Sid's team that will take a lot of beating, Altele (late Con Impeto), a clinking half-miler in his best day, seems off colour, Gone Away is too slow for this sprint, Exeter is as thin as a hurdle and will scarcely get round by race day, Rosy Morn will probably be outclassed, and of Mr. Tell's lol Maloja, winner of the Northern Cup at the Shanghai Autumn Meeting, is the most reliable over this distance. It is yet too soon to make a selection, but my present impression is that Dunkeld will have most to fear from Maloja and
SAYS the Sydney Bulletin:-During the last 38 years that dull old woman of war, the Duke of Cambridge, has received from the British nation half a million in grants for his services in being alive and related to a monarch; £40,000 di Colonel of the Grenadier Guards with some one else to do the work; £110,000 Commander- in-Chief of the British Army, from which he bolted on the only occasion that he found him- self under fire: 15,000, as Ranger of aundry royal parks which would get along quite as well without any ranging at all. Also he has had the use of a palace free of rent and taxes; and though old age is upon him, and he tatters in his uniform while striving to fix bis bleary eye on some autumn-manœuvre tha he wouldn't understand though he lived to be 600 and upwards, he still hangs on to his multifarious "perkisits" and gives satisfactory promise that he will draw them till the end of the century. THE article in last night's China Mail regarding M. de Mayréna, the King of the Sedangs, is like the former attacks made by this religious journal on that gentleman, a tissue of barefaced falsehoods, published out of sheer malice. થો "Another King" has not gone into exile, as the gutter scribe of the China Mail gleefully records. M. de Mayidna has gone to Paris to assert his rights, and where he will have some chance of obtaining fair play and justice. With his influen tial connections in the French capital, there seems no reason to doubt that his position and claims will be fully vindicated. And when he does return to this colony, which will probably be in about four months' time, the cowardly libeller of the China Mall will summarily be called to account. We should do it with a strong horse-whip; M. de Mayréna will take criminal proceedings for defamatory libel. As we have already indicated, our contemporary's latest attack on the King of the Sedangs- prudently made after that gentleman had left the colony-bristles with inaccuracies and ignorance. The writer is as weak in his geography as he is reckless in his alleged facts. He does not even
Mr. Webber, for the defence, said there was know where the Sedang country is. The one reader of the Ching Mail is aanted that if the no denying that the articles found were the pro-
Last year there were 19 entries for the Ashley cruiser Filipinas had been purchased by the perty of the Crown, but on behalf of the two un Cup; this season there are no fewer than 32. King "it could never have even reached the fortunate women be submitted that they had The old ponies are Silken Mead, Defiance, country unless it was transported overland." The acted under the power and subjection of others: Venger, Viking, Pacolet, Honesty, Bandeirao, Mékong, by far the largest and most important Mrs. Ramsay, the first prisoner, was the wife of Vendetta, Forerunner, Precursor, Ganges, Wild river in Indo-China, russ right through the a: Dock Yard constable, and the things were Dash, Dunkeld, Mont Blanc, Mont, Brévent Sedang country, dividing it from Slam, and is taken from her house to the house of the second Maloja, St.. Gothard, Exeter, Rosy Morn navigable far beyond Stung Treg, the chief town defendant. Even going so far as to admit that the Lochinvar (late Herald), Gone Away, and in Sodang. It is further untrue, as affirmed by things were stolen, which he did not, if he proved Bicycle. It is not an easy task to say with the China Mail, that M. de Mayiéna attempted that they were not got illegally, if not legally,
to start a company in this colony with the they could not be found guilty of receiving stolen any degree of accuracy what are likely to run for professed fetention of working his newfound goods-certainly Mrs, Ramsay could not this event, but the winner, ought, to spring from St. Gothard, Bandsman or Honesty, and country." He merely wished to form a syndicate receive stolen properly from her husband, Defiance. to prospect the country, and agreed if their report in law, as the articles were not house was favorable to grant certain concessions. bold articles. He asked for the acquittal
There is a slight falling off in the Derby entry And the China Mail writer ought to know, since of the second prisoner on the ground that
she knew nothing about the contents of the as compared with last year, 26 against 30, but he claims to have taken so much interest in the King's personal affairs as not to be ashamed to pry boxes. There was a difficulty in proving this, in all probability there will be more-starters into his private life, who he took home for as Mrs. Ramsay's husband could not give than the nine who faced the music when Leap supper, and other details which only a hypocritical evidence on her behalf, but he could do so for Year galloped his field to a stand-still, I can say nothing about the form or prospects of any Pharisee and blackguard of the deepest dye Mrs. Lucas, would have had the andacity to set out in print, Joseph Ramsay, constable in H.M. Dockyard, of the competitors; they are a good looking lor that the syndicate in question has been duly
all round and the race promises to be very formed and the agreement signed. Had M. de
open one. The pony most fancied at present is Mayrena been the adventurer and swindler bebas
Mr. John Peel's bay Challenger, but what his been called by the Chins Maff he would have
claims to favorittem may consist of is beyond my ken...He is a long striding pony and in taking style, and that is all I know about fime Twenty-nine entries for the Lusitano Cup show. decided Improvement on the at of 1888. The pick of the bunch in my opinion aro Defiance, US Bandaman or Vendetta, Forerunner, and the pick of Mr. Tell's probably Mont Blanc Ther: Dec 31, 1888 LIABILITIES. may, of course, be a griffin colored capable of
$10 each, fully paid, upacar making rings round the veterans, but I doubt it Amount of Capital, 40,000 Shares of much. The Valley Stakes with its entry of 36 Arhount at Credit of Depreciation and ponies- lie with last year is still a mystery.
Insurance Fund.............................................. Springinsfeld Kingeraft, Ormonde, Glencairn, Amount at Credit of Equalization of Talimas, Wiseacre, and half dozen more are - Dividend Fand considered to have chances, but as so fast Sundry Crediton galloping has yet been indulged in, everything Amount at Credit of Profit And Loss it mere guess work quest
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said I joined the Dockyard in 1881. The second defendant is a widow. The articles pro- duced belong to me, with the exception of the boat-awning, which belong to Dock-constable Osborne. They were given to me by boatswains mates, &c, in ships paying off.
as Finance Minister, and the consequence was surely tried to raise money by his promised that the reformer counseled the Sultan to raise concessions; but he made ng such attempt. He money to balld railways, and it is said that | asked for nothing "anti-his-bona fides red His Worship warned him that his statement the Seligmans and their wealthy American been clearly established and the enterprise he might be used against him.
Witness continued l have had some of the followers have secured most favorable terms for proposed was thoroughly tested and shown to be a new line, but Turkish agreements are scarcely genuine. That be may have acted foolishly in things seven years. I got the length of flannel worth the paper they are written on, The deficit some respects during his stay in Hongkong from H.M.S. Magpie-it was condemned stuff. in the budget for last year was 500,007, probable enough, but we doubt if the Ching. I got the new canvas from the boatswain's mate and no means are available to provide against fall's self-constituted censor is so immaculate on the Audacious. I did not pay for the gave it me for my bed. I put them in a box. The It if the present system of abuses be continued. a being that he can afford to throw myd et an Economy in certain departments, or reorganiza-erring brother. The Ching #fail oracle says he boxes taken to the second defendant's house tion, with strict control and regularly in pay- cannot conceive, even supposing M. de May were my property. I did not tell my wife where ments, to maintain Turkish credit abroad, in one's conduct to have been perfectly straight; I got the stuff from. I ordered the boxes to be suggested as of the first necessity for recovering how any speculators in Hongkong could have sent to the second defendant's house, I did not an equilibrium. It remains questionable whether been induced to embark in such an enterprise tell her what was in them. Osborne lives with the salutary: advice of Agop Pasha will be That merely proves poverty of conception and me. The reason I seat the boxes away was adopted, considering the powerful influences further shows that the writer knows nothing that there was a repost, that some blankets were militating against reform in a department which whatever about the subject which he pretends to missing from the Dockyard, and they were is a hotbed of filldit galo to so many,
| elucidate los the benefit of the public.
going to search the married people's quarters.
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The Foochow Cup has secured 25 entries, one more than in 1988, and this popular two-mile
During the six months under review, the Fowan has been decked for the usual annual Government Survey and overhaul; the Kiung chow, White Cloud and Honor have also under- gone necessary repairs and the alterations to the Hongkong Wharf mentioned in the last report have been completed. During the current half-year the Kiukfang Fatthan, and Henan will have to be docked for survey, and the latter vessel will probably require considerable repaire to her keel-plate: The Pewan will be fitted with an Electric Light Installation at an estimated cost of 500, and repairs to the Canton Wharf to the extent of about $1,500 are needed. The cost of all these repairs, it is anticipated, will be amply covered by the amount which it is proposed shall be carried forward to new account.
The retiring Auditors, Mesars. A. O'D. Gourdin and F. Henderson, offer themselves for re- electioner
P. RYRIE,
Hongkong, 25th January, 1889. Dec 31, 188 ASSETS. Value of 5 Steamer and the of the Fatskan......................................................
Value of Wharves............ Value of Cargo-boat Value of Iron Lighter Sun Lee, one Value of Coal and Stores Value of Machinery
Chairman,
Value of FurnitureMÜmum Value of Shares in Public Companies Chinese Bonds, (at par). Fixed Deposits with Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation. 13 Sundry Debtors Interest ccrued to 31st December.... Cash on Current Account with the
14,000.00
50.00
$7,500.00
9,071.96
-5,214.73
250.00
2,847.99.
57,000.00
49,711
Hongkong & Shanghal Banking Corporation, 72,147.72 Premium on Marine Policies unex
10,631.66 pired..........
3,741.50
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