mention, and that was if, as the Surveyor- General said, the Tylam supply could not be laid down until the arrival of the pipes from England, why were the pipes not made here. He had no further 'remarks to make, his chief reason in rising being to call their attention to the evils of tree planting on the water bed.
Dr. Canilie said he was sure the members had all listened to the Surveyor-General with great interest and would thank him most sincerely for the information he had given them. He though the Surveyor-General had told them all they could possibly expect that the filtering beds would be made as soon as possible, that all that could be done in regard to turning the Tytam supply into the Pokfolum piper had been done. and that all possible steps as to purifying the water were being taken. All they could do now, he thought, was to assure the public through the Sanitary Board that everything was being done that could be done. After the Board meeting last week the Sanitary Surveyor rather sat on him for not knowing where the Tytam water was distributed and thought that he should not have taken up the question at all unless he knew where the Tylam water had gone to. He had no means of knowing. It bad nothing to do with the question to-day, but it would satisfy the public very much if they only knew where to find the Tytam walet, and he believed means were being taken for shortly distributing it freely by temporary arrangements. He was sorry he was not pre- sent in time to make a remark on the reply of the Governor to Dr. Hartigan. He understood no remark had been made on it by any other member, and he thought it a pity it should pass without some remark. He thought on reading the communications everyone would see what Dr. Hartigan was it and what was meant by, His Excellency... Dr. Hartigan's case was that muddy water was not as good to drink as clear water. What the Governor wanted to know was whether there was any organic impurity contained in the water. As there was no evidence of any organic impurity being contained in the water His Excellency said the was easily removible and was being removed. When Dr. Hanigan made the statement the water was dangerous to use-well, he thought every one would see that muridy water was not so good pure water for health; but Dr. Harigan owhere made the statement that there was any organic Impurity. After what had been said the Board and the public would be perfectly justified in coming to the conclusion that the water from Pokfolùm was perfectly sound and only suffering from a fault that was easily removable and was being re- moved. Looking at the correspondence in a brond light, one side said the water was very bad, and the other side that It was very good. Both statements, it seemed to him, contained truths: the one that the condition of the water arose from a removable cause, and the other that there was no organic poison. As a Board they had to look at it in that light, and hope the correspondence would lead to good. They were assured the removable cause referred to was being dealt with, and that was all they could ask. He did not know whether he would be out of place now in asking the Surveyor General about the accident that had taken place in connection with the Tytam supply.
cause
The President-He cannot be expected to give you any information on that head now,
Dr.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1889.
Bank Premises and Furni. ture at the Head Office and Branches
65,836 18
£11,813,033 18
£
3
J. d.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST DECEMBER, 1888.
To Interim Dividend, for the Oct. 24, 1888.
half-year to 30th June last, at the rate of 7 per cent. per zanum...yourAPE
Dec. 31.
To Amount written off Premises
Account.... Dec. 31. To Balance at date proposed to be dealt with as follows:- Dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, for the half- year to date...£28,000 a Reserve Fund 25,000 o O Officers' Super-
O
annuation Fund 5,000 ◊ Profit and Losa
0
Cr.
New Account.. 9,097 12
Dec. 31 1887.
By Balance brought from last Dec. 31 1888.
Account ............nipe
By Gross Profits for the year, after providing for bad and doubtful debts £197,766 9 0 Deduct
Expenses of Man
agement And General Charges al Head Officcand Branches
105,916 6 7
Net Profits for the year........
28,000 0.0
·5,000 0:0
67,097 12
8
£ 100,097 12
8
£
d
8,247 10 3
91,850. 2
100,097 12
5
*
-£250,000
art, and it is certain that a collection of stamps is-like a shelf of books of the Mazarin Bible, Rommant de la Rose, Valdarfer Boccaccio, or Patissier Français order-a parlous treasure to preserve in a house where fire may consume or thieves break through and steal. They cannot be stowed in safes warranted to keep them unscorched, and in any other receptacle £50,00ɔ
Intimations.
HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS
COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE..
worth of gummed labels is assuredly in danger.OWING to a Landslip, which has damaged
A set of imitations which might easily be sold far as note would afford all the information ever likely to be imparted by all the treasures of the Ferrari, the 'Galliera, the Rothschild, the Taplin, the Hill, or the Philbrick, collections.— Standard.
everywhere and the drowsy, sleepy crowd did no! seem to care that I stopped and looked at them. "This is, however, only one of hundreds of opium shops in Shanghai. I have visited another den upon leaving this big one and I found it nearly as large. It is said that China uses $100,000,000 worth of opium every year, and it is rightly called the curse of the people. Opium is now grown in every province in China. The seed of the poppy is sown in November and its juice is collected in February and March..
"The Chinese are naturally, opiums smokers, but it is due to the foreigner that the drug has become a national evil. The officials and the Emperor saw the danger before it came, and they tried to keep the opium out of the Country The English, however, who were bringing in large quantities from India, were making too much money out of it to let it go, and one of the most disgraceful pages of history is the record how John Bull, philan11aving been a great sufferer from pulinonaty thropic and moral, as be pretends to be, forced China to take a poison which its officials knew would degrade its people. The Emperor of China at the start taxed the consumers of opium
and threatened them with death, Opium smugglers were seized and tortured, and the native dealets were executed. The Chinese, however, could do nothing with the foreigners, and they became the smugglers.
the Permanent Way the CARS WILL NOT RUN until further notice,
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co,
General Managers. Hongkong, 29th May, 1889.
1664
Dr. Knott's ANTIPYRINE."
(Dose for Adults 15 to 35 grains tray),
THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites in Wasting Diseases is shown by the accompanying state- ment' from D..C. Freeman, Sydecy, Aust. :- attacks and gradually wasting away for the past that far have medierent pleasure to testify the most approved and most efficacious
the has given me great elief, and I cheerfully recommend it to all suffer- remedy in cases of HEADACHE, MIGRAINE,
TYPHUS, ERYSIPELAS, NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, FEVER,
gin a similar way to myself. In addition I Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. would say that it is very pleasant to take. Any (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China. (Advt.
To-day's Advertisements.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
"The Government then appealed to the for eigners, and one of the Government Com- missioners asked the English merchants to give up their opium that it might be de strayed. They gave up 20,000 chests, warth $11,000,000 China refused to pay for it on the ground that it had not authorized its Commissioner to demand it, and that the epium.. was smuggled. For this the British went to war with China, and through this war opened most of the ports. They made a treaty in which opium was not mentioned, but at the making of which the Chinese undoubtedly asked them to prohibit it, and which they refused. At present the United States is the only country which has made' a treaty by which it is unlawful for its citizens to sell oping to the Chinese, and the Captain St. Croix, will be despatched as above poison is now brought into China by the millionsTO-MORROW, the 31st inst., at NOON, instead of pounds a year. The Chinese, finding that of as previously advertised. thry could not prohibit it, have begun to raise il themselves, and, as above stated, it is now grown in every one of the Chinese provinces.".
ASTOUNDING FACTS ABOUT STAMPS.
KKSERVE FUND, Balance at 31st Dec, 1888. £225,000 Amount now proposed to be
added....
25,000 L,-、----*Lན
As a contribution to the history of human folly, London, and April, 1889.
the prices which a parcel of old postage stamps Examined and found correct, according to the has just realized at a London auction are not un Banks, Vauchers, and Securities at the Headworthy of notice. The collection consisted of Office, and to the certified returns made from the 286 lots," the most valuable being a set of rare several Branches,
British Guiana labels, and for these the bids ran to figure, which must seem to any one not bitten with the mania ingle less than monstrous. A "blue four cent" of 1836 excited cager competi- tion, and was finally knocked down to a dealer for £37. This specimen, however, had been used so that when a stamp "much finer," and without the defacing marks of the sorter. on its surface, was put up,, there'
W. VANNER,
Auditors.
MAURICE N. GIRDLESTONE,
THE MOST GORGEOUS OPIUM PALACE IN THE WORLD.
good fortune to come across palaces devoted to the business; on the contrary, without any ex ception whatever, the public bouses used for oplum smoking ve been badly lighted, badly ventilated, evi melling dens, with tawdry decorations, and fith on every side. However, the experiences of the New York World cones- pondent have been of quite a different order, as will be seen from the following recital of a visit he paid to this noteworthy example of Oriental splendour:-
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND CALCUTTA Owing to the inclemency of the weather, THE Company's Steamship
"WINGSANG,"
This Steamer has Superior First Class Accom- modation, specially constructed to meet the requirements of tropical climates.
For Freight or l'assage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers.
Hongkong, 30th May, 1889,
STEAM TO MANILA, VIA AMOY. Owing to the inclemency of the weather,
HE Steamship,
THE
"NANZING,"
|
rs
HOOPING-
COUGH, and many other complaints. It is
also the very best Antiseptic. Highly recom-
mended by the medical Faculty. To be had at. every reputed Chemist and Druggist. Ask for Dr. KNORR'S 'ANTIPYRINE! Each Tin
bears the inventor's signature " Dr. KNORR”
In red letters.
Supplies constantly on hand at JUSTUS LEMBKE & Co., Hongkong and Shanghai- Solo Agents for China! Beware of spurious imitations !
Hongkong 29th May, 1889.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
f330
SPOON COMPETITION-500 YARDS,
[645 W 1st June, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M.
JILI take place next SATURDAY, the
A SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkang, 28th May, 1889, -,
NOTICE.
Captain Talbot, will be despatched as above, on SATURDAY, the 1st June, at 2 P.M. (a)
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 30th May, 1889.
WANTED.
[556
AN ENGLISH MISTRESS, for the whole A or part of the day to TEACH EURASIAN GIRLS in the Victoria House and Orphanage.
Apply to
Rev. J. B. OST, West Point. Hongkong, 30th May, 189.
[665
INTIMATION.
158.
PRIVATE BOARD. and RESIDENCE at
Mrs. DOHM'S, Queen's Road East, No. 135. Good accommodation for Families and single parties. Moderate charges.
P. BOHM.
*ENERAL Employment and Intelligence Office, Queen's Road East, No. 135, Information given of Situations offered and of suitable applicants for Situations.
WANTED A 10-20 roomed house in a central position. Offers to be sent to above Office,
Hongkong, 17th April, 1889.
NOTICE.
·
FE beg to intimate to the Public that we
of the Store of Mr. J. F. SCHEFFER, and to solicit a share of their patronage.
As we are expecting long invoices of multifari. ous Goods which will render our Store replete By the kindness of Messrs. A. S. WATSON & Co. orders for AERATED WATERS-can-be- with Articles in keeping with our line, we can supplied.
"Confidently warrant entire satisfaction-in-the
execution of all orders sent to us.
CARMICHAEL & Co.' Shipchandlers, and
CRUICKSHANK & Co., Lid., .JAS. SHEPHEN, Acting Manager.
Hongkong, 30th May, 1889,
[665
PUBLIC AUCTION. THE QUEEN'S ROAD FLOOD.
From Messis, W. FOWELL & Co., to Sell HE Undersigned has received instructions by Public Auction, on
SATURDAY,
There is a good deal of truth in the saying that
was nothing left but for the buyer of the 637 one must go abroad in order to obtain particulars of what takes place at home. Now we venture specimen to acquire it al 13 advance. Atter to think that very few residents in Hongkong or this a strip of four one cent magentas, issued in the Coast Ports of China were aware of the fnci- 18:1, on the original, envelope, from-the-same- presuming it is a fact that "the most gorgeous colony, at £7; four of the one-cent. 1853 issue Dr. Cantlie-What I wanted to ask was opium palace in the world" was in Shanghai,at i cach, and a pair of four-cent. magentas, whether there will be any interference with the
But the correspondent of the New York World thirty-three years old at Liz, are barely worth Tytam water supply. I thought the Surveyor in that port has discovered this palace and notice, though their prices are so much in advance General might say In a conversational way gives a most elaborate description of its
of what the first owner paid for them over the what will be the probable effect. We don't
Post Office counter in Georgetown. Yet a book gorgeousness in a recent letter. Of course, the want to have another water question, with angry World's correspondent is above suspicion so
of 4,000 old issues of English stamps--postage, WE the Undersigned having received con- aiderable damage to our business letters in the papers, and I think if matters of
far as truthfulness is concerned-at least we will revenue, law, bill, railway, and receipt-brought | premises, shall be compelled to CLOSE TO. this kind instead of being-I will not say slurred give him that credit although there are a few less than eight guineas, and a thousand Mexican MORROW for repairs, but shall be OPEN on over, but apparently slurred over, by this Board, statements in his despatch which require a good ones only £65s., while a collection of 380 Russian 1st of June as usual. were taken up at the time it would be better. deal of swallowing by those acquainted with the local stamps seemed, to the uninitiated, to be We cannot expect any full information, but if actual history of the opium traffic in China. The simply given away at go shillings. We may, bow
ever, take it that this collection, large as it is, did the Surveyor-General could give us any idea as to present writer bas visited a goodly number of what is fikely to happen it would be a great benefit.opium divans in Hongkong, Shanghai, and else- nol,rven, Ifgenuine, contain any of the rarer ones. The Surveyor-General-It is not from anywhere in the Far East, but has never yet had the For, as the student of M. Koprowski's volume must be aware, some Russian stamps are so wish to withold information that I am unable to answer Dr. Cantlie's question here. After the
scarce as to cause the most ardent collector meeting is over I shall be happy to see Dr.
many a heartache in bis futile endeavours to Cantlle and give him all the information in my
obtain a specimen which will pass the narrow power, but as this is a subject with which the
scrutiny of the expert. These and all other Sanitary Board has absolutely nothing to do
high-priced stamps are forged wholesale, and should be entirely out of order in introducing it
with such ingenuity that only the experienced connoisseur can detect the knaveries. The pre- here and would fail in my duty as a public servant in communicating information in this
sence of such impostors, in the company of honest way instead of through the proper channel.
specimens is the reason why the amateur at Dr. Cantlic-1 only asked, not as a duty of
sales finds, to his amazement; a wretched square- the Sanitary Board, aut in connection with the
inch of gummed paper going for a thousand limes Surveyor-General's previous reply. I only wish
its weight in gold, while he can secure an album the Surveyor-General-well out of it.
containing it, and a host of similar rarities, almost at his own terms. The collection of M. Philippe de Ferrari is said to contain a quarter of a million specimens, and to be worth almost as many pounds. Mr. Philbrick is understood to have sold this wealthy Parisian virtuoso one collection for £10,000, while Sir Daniel Cooper, an Australian collector, wisely transferred to the same gentleman the fruits of sixteen 'years' hoarding for £3,000, Mr. Burnett's albums are currently reported to have brought some- thing like L22,cco, and it is nothing uncommon to dispose of a respectable, but by no means remarkable, set of stamps for £500, £700, or £1,000. The collection made by the late Duchess de Galliera is affirmed to have cost, up to the year 1883, in acquisition and arrangement, not less than £57,000, and the value of the 3,000 volumes in, which it was contained has since that date been put at £13,000 more. Yet it is believed that both in England and on the Con- tinent there are public and private boards very little inferior to it in interest and value. At the Paris Mint there is a remarkable collection, and that of the Admiralty is famous throughout the world, while the Rothschild collection, in Paris is so costly that the owner, with the true jealousy. of the collector, reserves the pages containing his rarest specimens for the delectation of special
The Surveyor-General-So far as I know, the question of water only comes before this Board in reference to iis purity not with reference to destruction of works, and it is for that reason I would be entirely out of order in entering on the cubject.
The Board then adjourned.
CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA Ở CHINA. The following is the Directors' Report presented at the Thirty-fifth Ordinary General Meeting, in London, on the 17th April, 1889-
The General Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account to 31st December, 1888, now sub. maitied, show that, aficz providing for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits, with the addition of £8,247 101, 3d. brought forward, amount to 100,097 125. 8d. After deducting the. Interim Dividend paid in October last, and writing £5,000 off Premises Account, the present balanca £67.097 128.84., out of which the Directors propose that a Dividend be declared for the second half of the year, at the rate of Seven par cent, per annum, free of Income Tax also that £25,000 be added to the Reserve Fund, making it 250,000; and that 5,000 be added to the Officers' Superannuation Fund, leaving a balance of £9,097 128, 80, to be carried forward.
Mr. William Macnaughtan and Mr. William Paterson now retire. by retation. The fanner, greatly to the regret of his colleagues, is pre- vented by the state of his health from continuing bsservices as a Director. Mr. Paterson offers hmself for re-election.
•vices,
LIADILITIES AND ASSETS, 31ST DECEMBER, 1888,
·To Capital paid up in full ................ Reserve Fundame Notes in Circulation........ ...Current Accounts
Fixed Deposits Bills Payable, and other Sums due by the Bank.. Due to Agents and Corres. -pondents comman
"
, Profit and Loss luonumor
مجھے
225,000 0*0.
676,639 76 1,608,572 4 10 3,578,030 16 1
4,834,361 19.0
23.53 18 2 67,097 Iz
"I visited last night the biggest opium den of the world. It is situated on the edge of this great cosmopolitan city of Shanghai, in which Chinese rowdies from all parts of the Empire congregate, and where the Chinaman has learned to play billiards, to drink whisky, and to practice the refinements of Western as well as Eastern vice. This opium den is three stories high, covering what would be nearly half an American block. Ils entrance is lighted with the electric light. The ceilings are of richly carved wood, and the finest of Chinese lamps, each of which cost hundreds of dollars, throwing a soft light over the hazy smoking crowd within. There were, perhaps, a thousand smokers in this den when I visited it last night. There were the pompous mandarin in gorgeous silks beside the half-naked coolic in ragged cotton. There were loose women and desperate-look ing men quiet, Intellectual scholars and wealthy Chinese merchants. All stopped under the electric light to buy little pots of opium as thick as molasses, and each holding about what could be crowded into the smallest of our American individual salis. The coolie and the mandarin were charged the same for their opium, but they paid different prices, according to the rooms which they occupied and the pipes which they used in smoking. The cheapest cost about tea cents a smoke, and the dearest was sold for not much more than fifteen cents. The pipes, however, were different. They were about two feet long, with a big, round bowl set into the handle. The mandarins smoked pipes of ivory, some of which were elaborately carved, while the coolles were satisfied with plain pipes of wood. The receipts of this opium den are said to be more than one thousand dollars a day, and I am told it is always full.
friends.
The prices given at the recent sale are said to be the highest ever paid for single stamps, We doubt whether this is correct. The 15 and 30-cent Réunion stamps bring to the New Brunswick 5-cent stamp, with the head of O'Connell, is rarely paited with under 30. The set of four 1852 Hawaiian stamps are valued 4399, and
the 1st June, 1889, at 2.30 P.M., at their Premises, Victoria Exchange.
WITHOUT RESERVE. SUNDRY PIECES of FURNITURE, PIANOS, CARPETS, OILCLOTH, TRAVEL- LING BAGS, and other GOODS, more or less. damaged by the food,
..
TERMS OF SALE.—Cash on delivery.
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer. Hongkong, 30th May, 1889.
Intimations
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
General Compradores.
Hongkong, 77th May, 1889. .
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
AN
CANTON, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS
SIX
Auctions.
VALUABLE SALE OF DESIRABLE BUILDING SITES AT THE PEAK,
MR. GR. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
will sell by Auction on the site,
אס
SATURDAY,
the 15th June, 1889.
VALUABLE 'BUILDING KNOWN AS SECTIONS OF RURAL BUILDING LOT No. 61.
SITES
"HIS Property is within a few minutes walk
To the runway and has been divided
The
into Sections of an average ares of 5,000 square feet to meet a present and increas ing demand for ECONOMICAL BUILD- ING SITES.
whole of the Earth work and retaining walls have been completed and the sites PREPARED. FOR BUILDING in the most approved mantier, and the whole “. now forms one of the most desirable sites at the Penk.
Conditions of Sale, Plans, Particulate and the fullest information can be obtained upon application to
Mesars. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors,
35. Queen's Road;
Mr. W. ST. JOHN H. HANCOCK,
CE, F.R.ID A 3, Beaconsfield Arcade ;
or
TO THE AUCTIONEER,
Duddell Street,
Hongkong, 25th May, 1889.
THE
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG
AND
[647
KOWLOON
WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY,
LIMITED..
MR
R. EDWARD OSBORNE has been appointed AcrING' SECRETARY of the above Company from this date.
J. J. KESWICK, Chairman. Hongkong, 1st May, 1880",
(520
RICHMOND TERRACE ESTATE AND BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that Mr. ALFRED HENRY MAÑCELL was this day appointed ACTING SECRETARY of the above named Company, and will sign for the same in that Capacity until further notice.
JNO. D. HUMPHREYS, General Manager. Hongkong, z2nd May, 1889..
I
NOTICE.
[658
HAVE this day started as a BILL and
STOCK BROUER,
A. N. E. JUDAH.
[660
Hongkong, a9th May, 1889
NOTICE.
M'
R. CHARLES SANER POWELL ' was admitted a PARTNER in our Firm on the 1st April, 1889.
BROWN & Co.
Amoy, 16th May, 1889.
[650
[651
N INTERIM BONUS of twenty per cent upon contributions for the year 1888 las been declared.
Warrants may be had on application at the Office of the Society on an after ist May.
By Order of the Board,
VEREIN BREMER
SEE VERSICHERUNGS GESELL- SCHAFTEN..
THE
Macao.
N. J. EDE,
Secretary, Hongkong, 16th April, 1889..
[473
I
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
[667
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL PAID UP CAPITAL RESERVE FUND
...$5,000,000,
valezisemme 2,500,000.
1,230,000,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hon. J. J. KESWICK,)
Chairman.
(Bremen Underwriters).
}
HE Undersigned have been appointed AGENTS at Hongkong, Canton and
MELCHERS & Co. Hongkong, 25th May, 1889.
NOTICE
[646
HAVE appointed Mr. F. JONES HUGHES my attorney, to act for me during my temporary absence in Japan.
H. G JAMES. Hongkong, 23rd May, 1889.
Insurances.
THREE IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THE
NOTICE is hereby given that MONDAY
NEXT, the 3rd June (5th Moon 5th Day) Hon. C. P. CHATER, Managing Director, STANDA being the CHINESE DRAGON FESTIVAL, Will be observed as a HOLIDAY at the Kowloon Customs Head Office, Hulk and Stations; all examination of Cargo and Clearance of junks will be suspended on that date.
F. A. MORGAN, ' Commissioner of Customs for Kowloon and Districts. CUSTOM HOUSE, Kowloon, 28th May, 1889.
[663
A. S. WATSON; & Co., LIMITED.
NEW ISSUE.
12,000 NEW SHARES of
THRISSUR of 10 DOLLARS HACH at a premium of too per cent. will be payable Five Dollars Application and Fifteen Dollars on Allotment.
And Notice is hereby given to the Public and to the Shareholders, that APPLICATIONS for SHARES in the said ISSUE will be received by the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION in Hongkong, until the rath day of June proximo inclusive.
Applications must be on printed Forms, which can be obtained at the HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
JNO. D. HUMPHREYS, General Manager. Hongkong, 29th May, 1889.
[662 CANTON, AND HONGKONG, MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. TOTICE is bereby given that an EXTRA-
The Audits, Mr. Willlara Vanner and Mr. Passing the electric light you enter hall after the four British Guiana of 1850 are worth £75 Maurice Nelson Girdlestone, again tender their hall filled with hary fumes of sickly smelling Then there is the 1847 Mauritius stamp, printed vapor through which the rays of gorgeous lamps from a wood block-in two issue-one worth s struggling and their way, and cast a weird, penny and the other twopence, when first issued, ghost-like air over the smokers resting below. and these are so seldom met with nowadays that we believe £teo has been paid for one of them. 800,000 a o The smoking compartments are divided into
cells open at the front and separated from one Old black Brazil stamps are priced in cata another by gorgeous carvings of teak-wood, logues at from 20 to 50 shillings apiece; the which, colored with the smoke of thousands, has green and yellow ones of Buenos Ayres bring turned from a rich brown to an oiled jet. Each as high as 65, while the red ones mount to £6. cell accommodates two or more people and the The vermilion one franc. French stamp of 1849 most of the men I saw smoking were in couples, bas often been sold for to, and the "V.R." On each side of a Hule glass lamp the men lay black English penny stamp, which was in circu on red cosbions, sometimes dropping their feetlation a short time only, is not considered dear THE upon a chair and resting their beads on blue at something like the same price. But the pillows, each about a foot square and a foot long. rarest of all English Post Office literature of this The most expensive of the compartments had sort is the Mulready wrapper on India paper, £11,813,053 18 3 cushions of fine relvet and the frames of some issued in 1840. Of these there are said to be NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING Labilly on Bits Receivable re-discounted, C2,015,519 890, of couches were inlaid with mother-of-pearl and only six or seven in existence, although £25,000
Jade. In some of the private rooms I noted women worth were issued, and the last which changed of the Company will be held at the Company's By Cash in hand and at Bankers 1,152,285 16 lie down while smoking. They bend themselves ridiculous price of Fort Queen's Road Central Victoria, Hongkong sid smoking with the men. Oplum-smokers always hande brought, If our memory is not at fault, the Registered Office, No. 18, Bank Belldings,
Bullion bei
...............403,258 13 7 spoon fashion as they manipulate the opium, It would be difficult to find a parallel for this on MONDAY, the 3rd Jane next, at 1z0'CLOCK Government Securities 310,438 1r draw it into their lungs and blow it out of their folly in its more extravagant developments. NOON, the objects and Business of which Meet Advances and Loans 3,074,203 47 nostrils. In some cases I noted large rooms in Large sums are, of course, given for coins-asing will be to submit for Confirmation the Buls Receivable mad other sider which private parties seemed to have assembled American dollar of 180g is now saleable at more Special Resolutions passed at the Meeting held Sums due to the Bank. 6,089,265 16 3 for an oplain smoke together, and I passed this too simes its original value. But a called this day, bokep 3gp Due by Agents and Correa E through every hall of this large oplum joist and tion of coins is at the worst, worth the weight of By Order of the Board,
THOS ARNOLD, spondents.................................... SET 517 10 7 did not see a bit of disorder. Your oplum smoker the metal. The same cannot always be said
Secretary Balances between the Head: s
La different from the drunkard. Opium calms | for rare stamp.The fashion may go out
Hongkong, 10th May, 1889.
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Vice-Chairman. E. A. SOLOMON, Esq. J. S. MOSES, Erq.
5. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq. G. E. NOBLE, Ezq. LEE SING, Esq. POON FONG, Esq.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
year by year.
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LIFE OFFICE.
-HALF A MILLION STEERING pir annum is being paid in Death claims 4-THE FUNDS IN HAND amount to up.. wards of Six Million and Three-quarter pounds Sterling and have increased so per cent. in the last 15 years. 3-THE LIVES who die are annually replaced by more than double the number of fresh carefully selected lives. THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED,
Agents, Hongkong.
GENERAL NOTICE.
[ONEY advanced on Mortgage, on Land, 659—3] Mand Buildings,
Properties purchased and sold, Estates Managed and all kinds of Agency and Commission business relating to land, etc. conducted.
Full particulars can be obtained at the Com. pany's Offices, No. 7, Queen's Road Central.
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary, Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1889
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DES CHARBON- NAGES DU TONKIN.
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY,
(LIMITED.).
TAELS 600,000, EQUAL TO ****
CAPITAL
$833,333-33- RESERVE FUND „Donantekra $318,000.00
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
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LEE SING, Esq. LOU. TEO SHUN, Esq.
Lo YrUK Moon, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEI,
NOTICE is hereby given, that the FIRST MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., taken.
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS, will
be held at the Company's Office, Hongey (Tonquin) on FRIDAY, the Thirty-first day of May, at NOON.
BUSINESS---- |**
To receive the Report on the state of the Mises, and to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors..
The owners of at least Twenty Shares to bearer, in order to have the right of attending either with the Undergoed, A. SHANGHAI the above Meeting, shall deposit their Shares Manager of the HONGKONG AND BANKING CORPORATION, not later than Fifteen Days before the Meeting, and there shall be delivered to them a card of admission to the Meeting dia de Mar By Order of the Board of Directors, A
GS ALEXANDER LEVY !
WmSecretary, Hongkong, 20th April, 1889.
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CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST, Hongkong, 17th December, 1885. ··(858
THE
NOTICE,
“HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY
LIMITED,
The above Company is prepared to CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED
VALKINE RISKS at:CURRENT· Rates:00/Go
Policies granted to all Parts of the payable at any of its Agencies
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