all took part in the rendering. Where the general level of excellence was so high, it would bisinvidious to make comments. It is to be hoped that our Shakespearian Society will give frequent opportunity for displaying the histrionic talent that is in our midst, and make it a point to issue a general invitation of the whole com. munity to enjoy the feast of intellect. It will be seen from the above that we are not without resources within ourselves to drive aull care away, or devoid of a desire to cultivate the finer feelings. Shanghai Courir,
FORMOSA.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1889.
old Melton days. Puck had some lines last buined 24 tons of the best bituminous coal overý spring as follows:
I'm a gray hunk that's created, I am. T'ana Ellisand that's tested, I am.
And when I awoɛp down,
I'm the bons of the town. I'm a dalay, a follar, I am, I am. There is slang in every word almost, "Boss" from the old Dutch baas—a master.
A drunken man is said to be "loaded for bear," a very heavy charge, and if a man has murderous intent he is "jumping on your ⚫ecktie." As in the old sample of American humor, of the man who was so tall he had to go up a ladder to shave, himself, all American Sumor is full of exaggeration.
English slang is brutal, as it is all rot," etc. Like other dialects, slang increases its store of Tamsui rốth Jan. 1889. words by formation at home and adoption from The steamer not leaving so carly as expected,abroad. Looking at it philologically, we must I am afforded an opportunity to give you a few admit that English, already, a most copious lingunge, is in a freely growing state and cap.. qdditional items af news,
able of adding to itself by almast any process found in any language of the whole world, old
The German schooner Johanna Kremer at- rived here three days ago from Forchow, with a cargo of poles.
The British gunboat Cockchafer, which leaves day for the scene of the wreck of the Anglo- dia takes the second mate of that ill-fated vessel on board.
The loss of the Anglo-India was not known in Amoy when the steamer Fookien left that place, and grave fears are entertained that the captain and his boat's crew are lost.
There was a heavy gale blowing during the night of Sunday to Monday, from the north eastward, and since the vessel was seen on fire, early on Monday, it is presumed that the rest of the crew must have abandoned the wreck during the night.-Mercury.
SEOUL.
or new.
The abbreviation or contraction of words (a most effective agent in the development of words) is seen at its best in slang. "Cah," "bas," and "mob," from mobile, the fiery crowd, a mob, were originally slang formations.
Slang is delicious in the mouth of a very refined person, and they tell a good story of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who was asked by a lady to say something beautiful about her piazza, Well, said the ready wit, "I think it is a bully piaz" which had the full element of wit in it that was unexpected.
24 hours, and were often short of steam. The roal cost $2.80 per ton, and the labor, including removal of ashes, made the total expenditure (34 hours) $825. The consumption of petroleum for the same period of time is 76 barrels, of 42 gallons each, at a cost of $5 cents a barrel, the total cost. including labor, being $45.30 per day (24 hours), a saving of $34. go, equal to 41 per cent. They have an abundance of steam, and always under a constant pressure. The arrangement of the furnaces was designed by H. Barr, the Superintendent of the works. The result obtained in the heating furnaces has been equally satisfactory. I notice that a patent was issued to Barr on the 2nd. inst. on the method of arranging furnaces for burning crude petroleum."
MOTHER SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLS,
FOR
CONSTIPATION, SLUGGISH LIVER, &c., Unlike many kinds of cathartic medi. cines, do not make you feel worse before you feel better. Their operation is gentle, but thorough, and unattended with dis- agreeable effects, such as nausea, griping pains, &c.
SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLS are the best family physic that has ever been
Other phrases might be mentioned which have a real meaning. Thus, the "devil to pay and no pitch hot" comes from a certain seam in A vessel which the sailors call the devil," and which they have to fill in. From its awkward-discovered. They cleanse the bowels from all irritating substances, and leave them in a healthy condition.
ness to ca1k occurs the phrase.
"Boxing the compass" comes from the Spanish borear to turn round. "A cock and bull story,
term now applied to amy rambling tale,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) -
gil January 1899. On the 24th of December between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. the dwelling-house of the German Lega-lustrates, the contempt felt by the learned for tion was entirely destroyed by fire; save the furniture of the dining room and the contents of the cellar, mostly everything was saved.
Rumours about a Loan of three million dollars having been negotiated for the Government are afloat, but until confirmation of this reaches us, we should say,
we are rather inclined to doubt it. New year has set in here with snow and ice, the lowest reading of the thermometer so far, is 9 Fahrenheit.
Four new "workers in the field" and a mining engineer are among our latest, arrivals; and a
farmer to take the place of the late Mr. Jaffrey is shortly expected.—N. C. Dally News.
TIENTSIN. 1:
5th January, 1889.
Up to the 3rd, instant the winter was very mild, and until the 31st December very little and that only small drift, ice was seen in the river.
As the tides generally have been high at Taku owing to the prevailing winds, vessels might easily have come to our bund on almost any day between the gth and 31st ultimo. On the night of the 3rd instant a gale from the north-west brought snow and cold
We are glad to hear that His Excellency the Viceroy has almost recovered from his disorder of the focal facial nerves. He has throughout his illness kept at work without intermission, testifying to his vigorous physical and mental constitution. We hope in a week or two to be able to announce his perfect recovery.
Some poor and homeless people flock into the city from remote districts, but on the whole, there is much less destitution in the province this year than has been the case for some time, The poor people, are fed by the numerous Chinese charitable associations, and the Viceroy and his officials have given considerable gifts of money to provide food and clothing for the tinfortunates.
A deputation from the China Railway Com- pany, consisting of Taotai Wo Ting-fang (Mr. Ng Chop) and some of his co-directors, accom- panied by Messrs. Kinder and Cox (engineers), have visited the lines of road between Tientsin,|| Yang-sun Ho-hai-wn, Chang-kin-wan, and Tung- chow, to select the route to be followed
and the site of stations for the railway. A preliminary survey was made at the same time to ascertain the general conditions of level, em bankment required, bridges, etc., ' The local officials, town and country. people, gave the deputation a very warm welcome, and at cach resting place sent in large gifts of provisions of meat, poultry, vegetables, fruit, elc., of excellent quality. So far as can be seen no feel ing hostile to the projected line exists; on the contrary, the people desire to have one. We have no detail of the course selected, but bear that at each stopping place good sites have been chosen for the stations. At Tungchow, in parti- cular, a most convenient piece of ground was obtained for the terminus, situated between the West Gate of the City and Pa∙ll-chias.-Chinese Tintes
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CURIOSITIES OF LANGUAGE.
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The best remedy extant for the bane of our lives-constipation and sluggish liver.
the ancient beast fables, which were the delight of mankind in the lower grades of civilization through the Middle Ages. Many words of this class, had not their origin been noted down,
These Pills prevent fevers and all kinds would have remained in the language as undeci- pherable mysteries. But we cannot find the of sickness, by removing all poisonous etymology of everything.
matter from the bowels. They operate briskly, yet mildly, without any pain.
SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.
Lithium is the lightest metal known and is
worth $160 per ounce. Gallium is the castliest
metal known and is worth $3,250 pernunce.
Señor Piedrahita, an electrician of Bogota, has patented a telegraphic device which works with- out batteries. He claims that it will revela. tionize telegraphy.
A brother of Lord Wolseley, Frederick Wolseley, an Australian squatter, claims atten- tion for having invented a sheep-shearing
machine, by which one man can shear 140 sheep
a day clean as a whistle.
An ingenious mechanic has invented a new screw-balf pail and half screw. Two blus of the hammer, two turns of the screw-driver, and it is in. It has a holding power of 132 pounds in white pine, a gain of forty-four pounds over the holding power of the present screw,
A joint-stock company will soon be formed at New Britain, Conn., to manufacture the new explosive, "extralite" recently invented by a druggist's clerk named Ericson. It is reported that the French Government has bought the right for that country, paying $200,000 for it,
Porous terra-cotta is manufactured of clay and sawdust, The clay, and sawdust are mixed together, very much as ordinary bricks ; in the burning the sawdust is entirely consumed. The terra-cotta weighs but one-third as much as brick, is absolutely fire-proof and is a non- conductor of sound.
Among the curious facts brought out at the late congress on tuberculosis was that persons who have had small-pox arc peculiarly liable to tuberculosis, M. Landouzy stated that for this reason persons pitted with small-pex should never be employed around the tuberculosis wards of hospitals.
The News and Journal of Chicago is waging war against the cigarette. It claims that every sample examined was made of imperfectly fer- mented tobacco; that nearly all had an undue proportion of insoluble ash, and that several kinds were steeped in an injurious substance and were impregnated with dirt in varying proportions,
If you take a severe cold, and are threatened with a fever, with pains in the head, back, qud limbs, one or two doses of SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLs will break up the cold and prevent the fever,
A-coated tungue, with a brackish taste, is caused by foul matter in the stomach. A few doses of SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLS
will cleanse the stomach, remove the bad taste, and restore the appetite, and with it bring good health.
To-day's Advertisements.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND
NAGASAKI..
(Passing through the INLAND SEA.) E. Company's Steamship
by to A.M.
"GENERAL WERDER," Captain W, von Schuckmann, will leave for the above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 27th instant,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MELCHERS & Co., 'Agents. Hongkong, 26th January, 1889),
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI. THE Company's Steamship
THE
"BRAUNSCHWEIG," Captain H. Büdeker, will leave for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 27th inst, by 5 Aube.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
"MELCHERS & Co Agents. Hongkong, 26th January, 1889.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP BRAUNSCHWEIG,"
1
14
Mails
STEAM FOR
SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MALTA, MAR- SEILLES, GIBRALTAR, BRINDISI, ANCONA, VENICE, PLYMOUTH,
· AND LONDON; ALSO, 'DOMBAY, MAĎRAS, CALCUTTA AND AUSTRALIA.
1 N.B.-GARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF PORTS, MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, 'HAM- BURG, NEW YORK AND BOSTON.
SPECIE ONLY LANDED AT PLYMOUTH.
HE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM-
NAVIGATION
COMPANY'S Steamship "BENGAL," Captain W. Barrait, with Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for LONDON, VIA BOMBAY and SUEZ. CANAL, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th January, at Noon.
Cargo will be received on board until 4P.M. | Parcels, and Specie (Gold) at the Office until 4.M., on the day before sailing.
*Mails.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE:
STEAM FOR
GENOA,
SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ,
PORT SAID, BRINDISI,
ANTWERP, BREMEN AND HAM- BURG, PORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC PORTS;
ALSO,
LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS, GALVESTON AND SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS.
THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL AT SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERS
AND LUGGAGE.
N,B.-Cargo can be taken on through Bills
of Lading for the principal places in `· RUSSIA.
Silk and Valuables for Europe will be transhipped at Colombo; Tea and General CargoN SUNDAY, the 17th day of February, for London will be conveyed vill Bombay with-
1889, atro A.M., the Company's Steamship aut Imanshipment, Artiving one week later than "BRAUNSCHWEIG," Capt. H. Bödeker, with by the ordinary direct route via Colombo.
MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE & CARGO,. For further particulars regarding FREIGHT and will leave this Port as above, calling at GENOA
Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, PASSAGE apply to the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Office, Hong. Cargo will be received on board until 4 p.m., Specie and Farcels until 1 p.m., on the 16th of kong.
The Contents and Value of Packages are re-board; they must be left at the AGENCY'S Office). February, 1889, (Parcels are not to be sent on
quired to be declared prior to shipment.
Shippers are particularly requested to note
Black Bills of Lading.
Contents and Value of Packages are required.
The Steamer has splendid Accommodation
For further particulars, apply to
FROM BREMEN AND FORTS OF CALL. the terms and conditions of the Company's and carries a Doctor and Stewardess.
THE above named Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godown's of the Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be landed here in Hong- kong unless notice to the contrary be given before 2 P.M., TO-DAY, the 26th instant.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
after the 2nd February, will be subject to rent.
examined on WEDNESDAY, the 6th February;
at 4 P.M.
All Claims must reach us before the 7th February, or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance has been effected,
· Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 26th January, 1889.
CHINA NEW YEAR BANK HOLIDAY;
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N No. 6 of 1875,
Oftentimes disease, or partially decayed food, causes sickness, nausea and diar- rhen. If the bowels are cleansed from this impurity with a dose of SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLS, these disagreeable effects will vanish, and good health will result.
SEIGEL'S OPERATING PILLS prevent ill- effects from excess in eating or drinking, A good dose at bedtime renders a person fit for business in the morning.
These Pil's, being Sugar-coated, ara pleasant to take. The disagreeable taste common to most pills is obviated.
FOR SALE
BY ALL CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS,
AND MEDICINE VENDORS.
:
PROPRIETOKS:
A. J. WHITE, LIMITED, LONDON, ENG.
John J. Kierst, a New York architect, has been at work for twenty-five years on a plan for an improved tenement house. Conceiving a theory as to the circulation of pure and foul air heldut.]. determined to experiment, and the result is a $100,000 block of flata in Brooklyn. The bealth officials pronounce his plan a sUCCESS.
Blacksmiths who sometimes get hold of fractious horses will appreciate the device of a Sidney, Ohio, man; The invention is a horse- shoeing rack and consists of a pen, readily adjustable to the size of any animal, and in which a horse can be securely fastened, the rack being made so that it can be readily taken down and moved out of the way.
A point for blacksmiths from the Scientific American: Take a battery or magneto machine, one that gives a light curient, say such as can only be felt with moist bands. Attach one terminal to the animal's bit, the other to the
shoe. If the horse suffers from the shoe or nail
Today's Advertisements.
OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO. CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND EUROPE; VIA
THE OVERLAND RAILWAYS,
AND
be will squirm under the test, if there be no ATLANTIC AND OTHER CONNECTING
Some of the prettiest accrets and curiosities of language come to us from abroad. How does the word fiasco, Italian for flask, happen to mean failure? Because the Italian glass-blower, trying to make a plate of glass, falls, and throwing the glowing mass back into the furnace, he blows common bottle, or "fiasco"; it is a flask and airritation he will pay no attention to it. failure.
Why is a wicker-covered jug called a demijohn? Because it comes from the Persian glass-blowing town of Damaghan.
One definition of slang Is that it is low; some-
thing vulgar; something to be avoided. But that is not all; it is a working dialect; language in smock-frock; a condensation, the beef jelly of speech, Bret Haric and Joha Hay have made It poetical, What should we do without the homely passed in his checks"? It brings the tears to our eyes in Jean Bludsoe. How cruid we give up." Wiggles," that exquisite symphony played on the jewsharp and the bones ?
The merit of good slang is that it touches the pendulum between a smile and a tear.".
Our mother tongue is a great bond even when we put it to misuse; a familiar misuse, freighted with domestic intimacy, with the every day epithets and homely laughter.
Slang may be primitive, but not necessarily volgar. It may arise from a-mlatake, but if it emveys an idea, If It has humor-éspecially American humor-it is not bad, As, for instance,
E. Woody Boyaton of Portland has invented
STEAMERS.
travel 200 miles an hour. Under the middle of
"bicycle locomotive" which is expected to THE Steamship the boiler is one glant steel-tired driving-wheel, It is eight feet in diameter and was cast at the Portland Company's foundry last summer. The tire is deeply grooved and on either side of the great driving wheel is a crank, to take the place of the treadles of a common bicycle.
AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT.
In a New York bospital they are raising a
child that was prematurely born, in what would
be called an incubator. On account of the difficulty that was experienced in keeping the delicate little individual's temperature to the proper height to preserve its life, a box with glass- front and top was constructed and piped so as to be kept warm by the circulation of warm water, and within this upon a little couch the baby lies and thrives, apparently as well as its more fort unate fellow beings.
"..
· PRODUCTS OF COAL-
“BELGIC"
will be despatched for San Francisco, vid Yokohama, on WEDNESDAY, the 13th Feb.,
at 1 P.M.
Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports.
AU PARCEL PACKAGES, should be marked to address in full ; and the same will be received at
the Company's Office until Five P.M. the day previous to sailing.
$200.00 350.00
First-class Fares granted as follows :--- To San Francisco..................................... Te Son Francisco and return, available for 6 months........................ To Liverpool.........................................................`325.00 To London................................. To other European Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service and the Imperial Chinese Customs, to be obtained on application.
.............................. 330.00
A ton of coal yields about eight thousand cubic we get from the negroes a phrase for success, feet of gas and 1,500 pounds of coke. The purl Passengers by this line have the option of "He takes the cake," or, "He is on the roof" fication of gas furnishes forty-five galions of proceeding Overland by the Southern Pacific applied to a conceited success, which is admir- | ammonia water, from which is obtained sulphate and Connecting Lines, Central Pacific, Northern able. Our language is rich in a rollicking of ammonia for agricultural purposes and about | Pacific or Canadian Pacific Bailways. swagger of strangh words, and of perhaps some- one hundred and thirty pounds of tar. It is here Passengers, who have paid full fare, re-embark times effective bad grammar.
that the operation becomes especially interesting, ingatan Vrancisco for China or Japan (
MODERN INSTANCES..
the Undermentioned BANKS will be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Busi- ness, on 'THURSDAY NEXT, the 31st January. For the CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF
INDIA, LONDON, AND CHINA,
JOHN THURBURN,
Manager, Hongkong. For the CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA,
T. H. WHITEHEAD, Manager, Hongkong. For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION,1.
J
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager. For the COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS,
CHANTREY INCHBALD,
Agent, Honekong,
For the NEW ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION,
LIMITED,
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E. W. RUTTER,
Manager, Hongkong. Hongkong, 26th January, 1888.
HONGKONG`LITERARY SOCIETY,
"HE NEXT MEETING will be held on MONDAY, January 28th, 1889, at 8.30 P.M. in the CITY HALL.
MR. FRANCIS, Q. C., will deliver a LECTURE os CROWN COLONIES.
Hongkong, 26th January, 1899.
THE
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION....
Wake place next SATURDAY, 2ND JEEKLY SPOON COMPETITION will
February, 3.30 P.K., 500 Yards range—to Shots. Entrance Fee to Cents, to be paid to the Register keeper on the ground before firing.
A. SHELTON, HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 26th January, 1889,
Intimations.
NOTIFICATION,
CUSTOM HOUSE,
Kowloon, 23rd January, 1889,
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“HE CHINA. NEW YEAR· HÓLIDAYS, Twill be observed at this Office and at the
E. L. WOODİN, Superintendent.
F. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office, Hoppkong, 17th January, 1879.
U. S. MAIL LINE.
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPÁNY
NEW YORK,, VIť OVER. THROUGH T
LAND RAILWAYS, AND TOUCHING AT YOKOHAMA, AND SAN FRANCISCO.
'
HE U.S. Mail Steamship
THE
"CITY OF NEW YORK"
will be despatched for San Francisco, ved Yoko hama, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th February, at 1 F.M,, taking Passengers and Freight for Japan, the United States, and Europe.
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 21st January. 1989.
Notices of Firms.
MR
NOTICE..
R. MARCUS AARON SOPHER bas been admitted a PARTNER in our Firms in Hongkong and China from the rst instant.
S. J. DAVID & Co. Hongkong, 21st January, 1889.
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NOTICE..
THE INTEREST and RESPONSIBLITY of Mr. D. A. TROTTER in our Firm ceased on 31st ultima.
Mr. F. W. BRUCE, and Mr. G. U. PRICE have this day been admitted PARTNERS in our Firm. :
TAIT & Co.
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Through Bills of Lading issued for trans- portation to Yokohama and other Japan Ports, to San Francisco, and Atlantic and Inland Cities of the United States via Overland Rail- ways, to Havana, Trinidad, and Demerara, and to ports in Mexico. Central and South America, by the Company's and connecting Steamers.
Through Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines THE INTEREST and RESPONSIBILITY of Mr. of Steamers.
First-class Fares granted as follows :---- To San Francisco........................$100.00 To San Francisco and return,
available for 6 months
Amoy, 1st January, '889
NOTICE.
THEODOR JOHANNES ENGEL BRECHT VON PUSTAU in our Firm in Hong. kong and China ceased on the 31st December, 1888,
F48:
PUSTAU & Co Hongkong, 1st January, 1889 HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
350,00 To Liverpool..................................... 325,00 To London..
...330.00 To other European Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the application, Imperial Chinese Customs, to be obtained on MR. G. E. NOBLE has been appointed CHIEF MANAGER of the Bank from the Passengers by this line have the option of Tat January, 1889. proceeding Overland by the Southern Pacific and Connecting Lines, Central Pacific, Northern Pacific or Canadian Pacific Railways.
+
Passengers, who bave paid fall fare, re-embark- ing at San Francisco for China or Japan (or vice versa) within one year will be allowed a discount of 10 per cent. This allowance does not apply to through Yares from China and Japan to Europe.
Freight will be received on board until 4.P.M.. the day previous to sailing. Parcel Packages will be received at the Office until 5 PM. same day; all Parcel Packages should be marked to ad.. dress in full value of same is required.
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des- tined to Points beyond San Francisco, in the United States, should be sent to the Company' Offices in Sealed Envelopes, addressed to the Collector of Customs at San Francisco,
For further information as to Passage and Freight, 'apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 50A, Queen's Road Central.
C. D. HARMAN,
Agent Hanahong 17th January 19.
CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP: COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,
VIA
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND OTHER CONNECTING RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS.
HE British Steamship
“BATAVIA,"
THE
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 31st December, 1888.
Nos,
To be Let.
TO LET,
WITH EARLY POSSESSION.
OS. 1,7 and 4, QUEEN'S GARDENS.
Apply to
G. C. ANDERSON, 13, Praya Central. Hongkong, 24th January, 1889.
TO LET.
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"WO ROOMS, No. 13, Shelley Street, with Tor without BOARD,
Apply.to
A. B. C clo Hongkong Telegraph Office, Hongkong, 9th January, 1889.
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TO LET, FURNISHED,
1
AT the Peak "Durfond," A FIVE ROOMED HOUSE with Tennis Court. Possession from the 15th instant to the 31st March, 1889, or 1890.
Apply to
Į. Y. V. VERNON, Hongkong, 3rd November, 1888.
TO LET:
Tthe Peak #LA HACIENDA, formerly
Customs Stations from the 28th day of the 12th 2,558 Tons Register, Auld, Commander occupied by Sir George Phillippo.
Moon, at 3 P.M. to the 6th day of the 1st Moon, will be despatched for VANCOUVER, B.C February Forenoon inclusive; and during that the 7th February, at 3 P.M. at 11 A-29th January Afternoon to sth via KOBE and YOKOHAMA, on THURSDAY, period all Shipment, Discharge, and Examina tion of Cargo will be suspended.
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FA, MORGAN, Commissioner of Customs, for Kowloon and District. HONGKONG TIMBER.
YARD, WANCHAL 4 REGON TINE SPARS and LUMBER
Always on Hand, dekad met
2. LA MALLORY. Hongkong, 24th June, 1881.
NOTICE:
"
To be followed by the 9.9. “ FARTHIA”: on 7th March and S.S, “ABYSSINIA" on 4th' April
Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, and at Vancouver with San Francisco and Pacific Coast Points "by the regular Steamers of the Pacific Coast Steamship. Company and other Steamers,
Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers, an
First-class Fares granted as follows point To Vancouver and Victoria...(Mex.)$16000 © TOM DEN FTó-San Francisco...un' 175:00
To all Common Paints in Canada Į
and the United Statesmanääosin fg: 230.00 To Liverpool... Ta London..
HONGKONG &WHAM FOA
NEW DOCK COMPANYAYDAN
LIMITED.
CHIPMASTERS AND ENGINEER'S SHIPMAS
for from this last named product are obtained vice versa) within one year will be allowed and are respectfully informed that, if upon American slang has a strong local flavor, as seventy pounds of pitch, eighteen pounds of discount of to per cent. This allowance does "Do you catch on "—from a habit Americans creosote, pine of aphths, thirteen of heavy oils, have of turning after railroad trains and "He six of cuphthalice, four of napibol, two of alisa- gels there" also from the railroad. They also rine, about one each of phenol, aurine, aniline fake of the star boarder, and the star love the substance to which, we are indebted for so match evidently from the flag. “You'll get wonderful colors), ten ounces of tolnidine, six of
and Harrison - is "booming" come from the pageES PETROLLUM AS FUELS sodid of a blizzard or of a cannon ball booming A correspondent of the Electrical World though the air. He was hands down is at writes as follows: "The Detroit Steel Spring from the old pollice reverto, also from the Works of this city have used petroleum for kg that a prize fighter drops his hands when | eighteen months under eight boilers of 95-horse- Aalten." Painting" the town "red" is from power each. The following figures refer only to Coriolanus,”... It is also found in England in' | ibe bollers, six being used at a times. They
their arrival in this HARBOUR none of the not apply to through fare from China and COMPANY'S FOREMEN should be at hand, Japan la Europe, -
Consular invoices to accompany Cargo des. ORDERS FOR REPAIRS; If sest to the HEAD ined to Points beyond San Francisco, in the Office, No. 14 Praya Centmi, will receive United States, should be sent to the Company's prompt attention, he bo Offices, addressed to the Collector of Customs,
For further information as to Freight or Passage, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 504, Queen's Road Central and made
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Hongkong, 36.3 January, 199
“left” is a railroad simile; and real estaté "boom, anthracine and twelve of toluendan Francisco.
300.00 305.00
Apply to
H. N. MODY; Victoria Buildings.
Hongkong, 4th December, 1888.
TO LET.
FFICES and GODOWNS, now occupied by the MESSAGERIES MARITIMES Co. being No. 8, Praya Central.
Possession from 1st February next. The Premises can be Let Partly,
Apply to
LAI HING & Co., No. 153, Queen's Road, Central,
or to: `C. EWENS,
Hongkong, and January, 1889.
TO LET.
To other European Feinta at proportionate tates, Special reduced rates granted to Offers ROOMS in College Chambers,” of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be obtained on application,
Conmilar Invoices to accompany. Cargo des- tinéd to Points, in the United States, should be seat to the Company's Offices, addressed to Mr. D. E. BROWN, District Freight Agent, Vancouver, B.C
Freight will be received on board until 4 1.14. on the 6th February. §- All Parcels, must be sent to our Office and In the event of complaints being" found should be marked to address in full; and the secessary, communication with the Undersigned same will be received by us until 5 PM. the
day previous to sailing, requested, when immediate steps will be taken For inforation as to Passage or Freight, to rectify the cause of dissatisfaction.
apply 10
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.
Hongkong, Toth January, 1879
D. GILLIES,
Secretary
Apply to fren
DAVID SASSOON SONS & Co. Hongkong, 12th December, 1888.
NOTICE
OR the Convenience of Customers, the pro- For the CHINA SUGAR RID FINING COMPANY, LIMITED can hence forward be obtained by RETAIL, FOR CASH! at No. 3, PERI, STREET, at the same prices a it the Refinery, or Retall orders will be delivered at addresses in town on applicants forwarding their monthly requirements in writing direct to the Refinery at East Point MANGA JARDINE MATHESON & Co., Vedic General Agents. Hongkong, 37th July, 1885,