Intimations,
A LUXURY FOR THE HOT SEASON.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1889.
may yet remain to-be-divulged. In the disputed transaction between Mr. POTTS and Mr. RUSTOMJER We do not for a moment contend that the strict duty of
were not aware on March 23rd of any legal combination having been formed by their clerks or employés, they are aware of it now, and as such action cannot but
H.M.S. Merlin and Satelite returned to Shang- TITE Portuguese gunboat Rio Lima and the hal on the 5th fnst.
French cruiser Chasseur arrived at Shanghai on the evening of the 5th inst ACCORDING to the Shia Pao, the grateful rains which have at last falleh at Peking, were the esult of the bringing thither of a famous iran
on the 17th ultimo, Here certain high ministers of State were appointed to offer incense and long hoped-for rain began. Such is the prompt prayers to it night and day, and on the 19th the
YESTERDAY a coolle took another coolic, deceased to Mount Davis, to put him in the "bury-hole.”. In doing so he contrived to open an old grave, and scattered the remnants of a previous defunct over the neighbourhood, A lutong hauled him up for his sacreligious conduct, and he was taken before Mr. Pollock to-day. He said that
them back. Mr. Pollock disapproved of his playing Hamlet on his own account, and fined him $5.
AKIN'S new "Lonfih" BATH BRUSH, the. Acting Chief Justice went beyond have tended to the detriment of the Com- THE whole foreign community in Peking with tablet, which was brought to the Ta K'o Tien he only pulled out the big bonus, and would put
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explaining to the jury the purely legal aspects of the case; his lordship, no doubt very properly from his point of view, stated in effect that he knew of no law which prohibited the employés of a public company from utilising for their own. benefit information with which they became NAIL and SHAVING BRUSHES, SOAPS, acquainted in the performance of their
PERFUMES and SACHETS,
duties. Neither are. we acquainted with any such prohibitory enactment, outside the unwritten but universally recognised laws of honour and common honesty, and if Mr. Justice Fielding CLARK had thought It necessary, or been called upon to deal with this particular malter as a question of commercial morality, we have no doubt whatever that his views would have been broadly and substantially identical with those so frequently enunciated in these columns. We think we may safely venture to believe that the Hongkong commercial world will without delaydistinctly and firmly use its whole influence in putting a stop once and for all to such dishonest and unscrupulous breaches of confidence as those so intimately connected with the "ring" in Ropes, and we therefore
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pany's interests, it is not too much to ask that effective measures be adopted to prevent a repetition of such scandalous conduct.. Had the General Agents and Consulting Committee of the Rope Manu Iacturing Company, Limited., recognised their obligations to the shareholders and to the public three months ago a very great deal of most unsavoury disclosures would have been avoided; but they either could not or would not see what was patent to almost everybody else in the colony, and the discreditable case of POTTS 7. RUSTOMJEX is the direct result.
We have dealt at greater length with this part of the case than we at first intended, but its importance as regards the commercial morality of the Colony will prove our justification. It must not for a moment be inferred that the employés of Messrs. RUSSELL & Co are the only persons similary placed who have been mixed up in illegal combinations, who gamble wholesale in shares as if they were millionaires, and who dishonestly and dishonorably make use for their private purposes of confidential information that
A CHINAMAN having died of cholera near Shanghai the other day, the natives said he was killed by the "thander" during the storm...
the notable exception of the Customs and some others, are reported to have migrated to the hills. WITH the view of putting a stop to Sunday work at the docks, the Bonbay Port Trust have recently raised the charges from thirty to twe hundred rupees.
It appears that Mrs. Maybrick, now in Liver- pool gaol on the charge of poisoning her husband, is a niece of Jefferson Davis, the once famous President of the Confederate States.
GOVERNOR SIR JOHN POPE HENNESSY WAS xpected to arrive in London from Mauritius at the end of June. His intention is to retire from the Colonial Service and re-enter parliamentary life.
We are informed by the agents (Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.) that the steamer Arra- toon Apear, from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port to-day, and may be expected on or
about the 18th inst.
We read that the work in connection with the rebuilding of the British Consulate, lately burned down by the Chinking rioters, has commenced, the preliminary survey having been made by Mr. H. C. Collins, of HM's Office of Works. IT is stated that a squadron of five Japanese war vessels, with a number of naval officers, intended proceeding from Yokohama to Chiclon early this month, in order to be present at the maneuvres of the Chinese fleet at the latter port. HIS EXCRILENCY Hsuch Fu-ch'eng, the newly- of the Emperor on the 13thult.," and after receiving his final instructions was granted two months leave of absence before proceeding to Europe.
response of this tablet to the prayers' of the faithful"
REFERRING to General Kennedy's successor na Consul General for the United States at Shanghai, the Shanghai Mercury says that the new A FRIENDLY shooting match has been arranged occupant of the post, Dr. J. E. Leonard, is a for to-morrow between. the Garrison Shooting medical man by profession, but has been long Club and the Sergeants of the A. & S. High-associated with the press of Minnesota, being landers, commencing at 3 p.m. Teams to be Editor of the Rochester and Minnesota · Post, twelve aside; Wimbledon marking; distances and also President of that state. He is about go 200, 500, and 600 yards; 7 shots and sighting years of age, and has had some experience of shot at each distance. No auxillary sights will be official life, having been formerly Consul at allowed. This is the first competition between Leith, and afterwards Consul-General at Calcutta. the Club and the Highlanders, and a good After leaving the latter port he visited Canton match is expected.
and also Shanghai as a traveller, so that he will not be absolutely making his first acquaintance
IT is stated that some sales of new ten ex Moyuse give losses of ad, and 3d. a pound, and that buyers are shewing great indifference. The NC. Daily News hears of the following actual
Cost in Hankow Tls. 37, sold at 1/%
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THE steamers Smith and Cass, of the Formosan Trading Company, which were placed under the ma of Messrs. Melchers, & Co., of
have now, says the Shin Pao of the zand ulio, been transferred to the control of Governor Liu Ming-chuan, who has appointed' one of his officers as Chief`Manager." "A new regulation has been promulgated, interdicting. the further issuance of free tickets for indigent official passengers. This was formerly allowed, with the view of aiding expectant and other officials who were unable to pay for their passage
and thus gives us an advantage which enables confidently submit that more than sufficient | belongs to their employers. There is appointed Minister to Great Britain, had audience of fulfilment of his treaty, which was equally practice. For this reason this privilege has been
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us to offer our Constituents the benefit of a con. siderable reduction in the price of all Specialities of our own Manufacture or putting up, as com- pared with similar articles sold elsewhere.
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cause has been shown, not merely to justify, scarcely a public company or merchant's but to compel the General Managers and office
in the Colony
where share the Consulting Committee of the Hong-speculating is not rampant, to the neglect. kong Rope Manufacturing Company for of legitimate business. Private merchants their own credit to take such action a e no doubt quite capable of safeguarding that any more","corners" rigged by their own interests, and can protect paid employés will be rendered an themselves from this moral pestilence in impossibility. But even in reference to the manner they think best, but with public this disgraceful exposé we cannot altogether companies it is quite another affair. The acquit Messrs. RUSSELL & Co. and the duties of directors are perfectly clear, and members of the Consulting Committee should be carried out unhesitatingly and from some measure of blame. They without fear or favor. Every instance of had ample and timely warning of the share gambling, of illegal combination, of formation of the "corner." but they quietly betraying the secrets of the office or the shelved it; they were publicly questioned manufactory, or of associating with the and challenged, after having been formally low and disreputable touts who crowd and respectfully requested to Investigate our streets in the guise of 'brokers,' should dealt with by instant charges which it was notorious were only be summarily too well founded, and they responded by dismissal. That such a policy is an a feeble exhibition of combined virtuous immediate necessity has been made Indignation and bluft. Being paid servants abundantly clear by the astounding of the Company, both the General disclosures in Ports z. RUSTOMjEE, and its Managers and Consulting Committee were general adoption cannot long be delayed, bound to protect the interests, of the especially as it is notorious that there are shareholders, no matter what private or other instances now in existence almost personal considerations intervened. Let equally, if not fully, as bad as that us see how they did it
extraordinary "corner."
The annual meeting of shareholders was announced to be held on March 25th, and some days previous to tlist date a letter was addressed by a shareholder to the General Managers, requesting that an inquiry should be made. Into the truth or falsehood of a report that the notorious "corner" in the Rope Company's shares had originated with and been carried into effect by employés of Messrs, RusSELL & CO. No direct charges were made against indi- viduals, but Messrs. SUEWAN, POTTS, DUER, and Watson, and the Compradore and Assistant Compradore of the Firm, were indicated as probable members of the combination. In reply to this communica- tion Messrs RUSSELL & Co. stated on March 23rd that some of their clerks had been purchasing Rope shares and contract- ing for shares for forward delivery; but they denied that they could find anything that was not honorable or could be prejudicial to the interests of the Company, and distinctly repudiated knowledge of "any Illegal combination having been formed by
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clerks or employds of our firm." No fauft could possibly be found with this
and satisfactory answer to the request for
At Shanghai, on the 3rd July, Mr. FERRIS, explanation, prima facit it was an absolute
of a daughter,
DEATHS.
At Chefoo, on the 23rd June, PHYLLIS, daughter of Edward and Marion Stevens, aged 4 years.
an inquiry-but was it true? In fact,
(To be concluded.)
TELEGRAMS.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.
PARIS, June 29th. The French Government refuse to acquiesce
July 2nd.
in the conversion of the Egyptian Debt before the evacuation of Egypt by the British.
THE SHAH. *
The Shah is expected in London, THE FRENCH COLONIAL VISITORS.. The missions from Cochin China and Annam
have arrived in Paris.
TERRIBLE COLLERY EXPLOSION. An explosion of Gre-damp bas occurred in the mines at St. Ellenne. Two hundred workmen were killed.
EGYPT,
LONDON, July 9th,
It is reported that 5,000 dervishes are marching northward. Colonel Wodehouse is following in steamers and strong reinforcements of Egyptian and British troops are proceeding to Aarouan.
MR. GLADSTONE ON BIMETALISM. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter condemning Blistallam.
LONDON lelegrams of 5th July received in Shanghai quale the Tea market as quict for black leafs, depressed for red leafs, and unchanged for greens Sille was dull, although bath French and Italian crops were about one-third below last year's.
THE Chinese Times says that the rains which have fallen between Tientsin and Peking have rendered the roads so bad that the couriers are delayed between two and three hours, some times not reaching Tientsin until after six o'clock in the evening.
OUR Shanghai morning contemporary reports of more sales of icas ex fayune, and very irregular they are, ranging from cast to a loss of 41d. per lb. The worst feature of the London market, however, is that, according to a telegram received on the 5th inst. from a large firm of importers, deliveries of China tea have fallen off fifty per cent.
that information has been received from London
INTERNATIONAL business, says our Tientsin con- temporary, does not suffer from the absence of so many of the Ministers from Peking, because at the present moment there is a general dead- lock in diplomatic matters. The Tsung-l Yanen will simply do nothing. The stern and the suave are alike held at bay, and the Chinese Ministers smile a stereotyped non possumus to everything that la proposed, no matter how plain and simple.
THE beat in Shanghai lately, is stated to have been exceedingly oppressive, and has been attended with fatal results in several instances, On the morning of the 7th Mr. V. M. Marcussen succumbed to heat apoplexy, and on Sunday evening last a boarder at the Sailos Home, named Lawson, was attacked with the same fatal illness and died within half an hour. Lawson, lately mate of the steamer George. who held a Hongkong Master's certificate, was
THE Chinese Times says that Wednesday the 19th June was a day of very high casterly wind in Tientsin, with overcast sky, and in the even.
ing there was a heavy downpour of rain. In Peking there was a dust storm, and no rain. Between these places, in the neighbourhood of io-hai-wu, there was a dust storm followed by crops to pieces within the area, of its operation, The fall of bail stones did not last many minutes, but the effects were severe.
a most destructive storm of hail, which cut the
THE Shin-pao says that the Kiangsi and Ting- chow men of Fukien who were in league with the Kolao Secret Society, terrorising the natives of the Yen-ping Prefecture in the latter Pro vince, sacking likin offices and yamêns, burning people's houses, and behaving generally very like organised rebels, have been completely routed and dispersed by the large body of troops sent against them by the Viceroy of Foochow There was a short engagement, in which one of the outlaws was killed, and one Imperialist soldier. Twenty men were captured, and by the Viceroy's commands, (solicited by telegraph), decapitated immediately.
"I AM something of a liar myself,” said a genial fabricator ence, but for a real thorough-going concocter of fanardi commend us to the
At No. 1, Seward Road, Shanghal, on the Certainly not in intention we feel 'assured } cable from London, dated yesterday, stating that | affliction which has its head-quarters in Lower
6th July, 1889, Narcus Vilhelm MARCUSSEN
MARRIAGE,
At St. Joseph's Church, Shanghai, on the 2nd instant, by the Rev. Father Colombel, MARGARET ISABELLA, eldest daughter of T. M. Campbell, 1.M.C., to J. B. Roche, L.M.C.
that it was.
Mercury writes under date the 6th inst.:-The THE Ningpo correspondent of the Shanghai weather here has been intensely hot. I regret to state that Mr. J. Deas,, the British Consular constable, has died of sun-stroke. He appeared to be quite well when he returned home from the Consulate at noon to-day. About 12.30 he started yards from there he fell down. He was at once off for the Consulate again, and when about 100 placed in a long chair and carried to his home. Dr. Daly was in attendance and did everything he could, but without avail, for the patient died. shortly after reaching his house. The funeral took place at 7 p.m. at the New Cemetery.
A HORRIBLE case of attempted cannibalism, the Hu Pao says, has occurred at Pao Shan Hion,
Thotal at Shanghai, and fatterly Provincial
THE Chinese Times says Missionary grieve ances from the provinces, both Catholic, and Protestant, are accumulating pretty rapidly, while no progress is made in disposing of them, One Minister is reported to have made an almost and from the mainland. It was discovered, abject proposal for an irreducibly small measure tickets and then sold them, a highly detestable however, that certain officials applied for these
rejected by the Yamén as if he had made exces- sive demands. He offered to accept in each withdrawn, all will be required to pay their fares province any locality selected by the Governo an equal footing. ment, no matter what its drawbacks, and there we learn from the Shen Pao that on the 30th to confine the missionaries of his nationality; fane there appeared three Imperial Edicts but in vain.
making the following appointments in conse quence, of the death of Taên YU-ying, the Viceroy Governor of Hunan, is made Viceroy of Yunnan of Yunnan and Kweichow:Wang Wen-shao, and Kwelchow, the Governor of Yunnan, Tan Chun-pel, acting as Viceroy until Wang Wên shao's arrival. The Provincial Treasurer of Hupeh, Kual Te-pino, is transferred to Formosa in the same capacity, and the Provincial Judge Hupeh as Provincial Treasurer. The post of of Yunnan, Teng Hun-hai, is transferred to Provincial Judge of Yunnan thus left vacant is given to Taen Yi-hsi, the younger brother of the deceased Viceroy, Shao Yu-lien, formerly
-Treasurer of Formosa, is promoted to be Gov |ernor of Henan, but will first proceed to Peking · ·
to have an audience of the Emperor. only some tens of from Shanghai, where there Look on this picture-extracted from Prince shen Taar, which feeds and educates pauper Peking - The banquet that we are celebrating is a benevolent institution called the Chung-Ching's speech at the Imperial banquet at
children. A proprietor of some public baths was to-day is a token of the friendly relations that either attacked by homicidal mania, orpossessed have existed between us for so many years past, by a superstition that to eat a child would cure and is an augury of the perpetual maintenance him of an illness from which he was suffering of these friendly relations, in the days to come, and so he bought from an old woman a child while the recard of this auspicious gathering will which was being taken to the Ch'ungshen find a place in the histories of foreign countries, T'ang, and hired a Hupeh man to kill it. The On the tablet which is to be seen on the portals. murdered child was discovered by a man em-of this Yamén four characters are inscribed ployed by the bath-proprietor, deposited in a Chung-wai-shih-fu (May all prosperity attend larger ready for cooking. The persons con- Chinese and Foreigner). The banquet of this cerned in this extraordinary murder have been day renders this sentiment especially appro
priate." And on this paragraph from the Chinese Times of June 29th :-"The annoy AT the Summary Court this morning, before Mr.ance of having large bricka dropped from the Justice Wise, Mr. A. Levy was summoned by city wall on the heads of those passing below is one of his chair coolies for nonpayment of wages, is more and more experienced by foreigners.. The coolle said that after working seventeen days Several parties have been attacked in this way he was discharged because he wanted leave, on lately, and the amusement is becoming fashion- account of having the gout. The Judge asked able. The bricks of the Peking walls are of ; where he had it. The coolie pointed to great size, and one of them falling on a man's his left leg. He was requested to get into the head from a forty-feet height "would most open space in the centre of the Court and pro- decidedly leave an impression. One gentleman duce the gout. He hesitated, and blushed a just escaped one the other day, but the brick dark brown.
"Lifty up," ordered Mr. Levy, lighted on the head of his horse, which was felled He lifted, and showed a stalwart limb in the best to the ground "The friendly relations that, kind of condition. Mr. Levy,' in defence, said according to Prince Ching, have existed between that the coolie was late, and because he Chinese and foreigners for so many years past, threatened to "dock" him he went away. He certainly assume a peculiar form in Peking. had only worked twelve days, and was entitled to $185 He would give him $2., Plaintiff having signified that he would take that. Mr. Levy handed it over, magnanimously remarking that to shew there was nothing low down about him he would give the other 85 cents to the poor-box.
arrested.
..
A MILITARY correspondent writes:--The “Wan- derers' performance in the Garrison Theatre, postponed from the previous Wednesday, was most successfully given on Saturday night, The attendance was not all that could be desired, Mrs. Power's topical song had to be omitted owing to the accompanist not turning up in THE following appears in the Skik Pas of June time; otherwise everything was gone through 20th :—As a sign of the advancing civilization of more than satisfactorily. The opening piece, Formosa, the local authorities there have con- The Pride Kerry" is new and is as fresh, jointly promulgated a stringent proclamation, and bright a piece of literary work as can well enforcing various sanitary measures. These be found. Not much plot, perhaps but depen« orders emanate from the chief authority of the dent on the characters and the diction. It would Island, Governor Liu Ming Chuan, who evinces, be hard to say which of the three parts, the by his every act, his strong determination to irascible old frish Squire, bis dashing fox- convert Formosa from being a haunt of savages hunting niece, or the bashful young "English to a land of peace, order, and cleanliness. These officer, claims the most interest, as all are loci orders enjoin the cleanliness of all the streets sively drawn, and in the hands of Mr. and Mrs. and market places in the various towns and cities Austin Power and Mr. Durand found splendid. of Formos”, and all rubbish and other foul mat-exponents. Mrs Power, Indeed, fairly surprised ters are to be removed. The sewers are te be her hearers by her singing; every note of her speedily cleared, to prevent the rise of pestilences | really remarkable regliter sounding out clear and from poisonous vapours and stenches. The local silvery like a. magic fute. (We would like to authorities are to exercise strict «urvelliance over | know what was the highest note in that “Bird " the enforcement of these orders and the occup- song); In spite of being hampered by having ants of buildings shall be responsible for the to accompany herself, her vocalisation was as
Infringement of this rule will meet with rigorous cannot but think the omission of her topical" punishment.
song wise any„low, as such clap trap is unworthy whof so legitimate an artiste, As Oliver Twist
LOSS OF THE " ANADYR."
This morning Mr. W. H. Ray, manager of the China Traders Insurance Company, received a At the general meeting the the Messageries Maritimes steamer Anadyr had Wyndham Street. In its mid-day extra to-day (Great Northern Telegraph Co.) Aged 38 years. question was again raised, but without any received confirmed confirmation during the day, rumour in town to the effect that the well-
| been sunk in the harbour at Aden. The news | thê China Mail stated that there was #a street and sewers adjoining their dwellings, bewitching as her winsome, happy face, and we definite or satisfactory result. The Chair: but it was learnt that the mails and passengers known steamer Afghan had been lost." The ́man (Mr. W. H. FORBES) hedged himself had been saved, From the supplementary agents for the Afghan are Messrs. Butterfield behind the alleged indefinite character of telegram, which states that the Asedyr bad and Swire-they have heard nothing about been run into by the Orws, belonging to the it. Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co. and Gibb, the charges, but plainly stated that if any same Company, we infer that the former Livingston & Co., chartered her last trip, and person connected 'with his office had been vessel was at anchor. M. Champeaur, the will probably do so again when she arrives guilty of misconduct he should have get here has wired for particulars, but as the they have heard nothing about it, although
or compelled to take strong
message will have to go via Persia there will the latter firm had a cable from the owners only likely men to know the agents of the leading insurance offices are in ignorance of the loss, so that we are reluctantly compelled to conclude either that the editor of the Archimedean lever referred to has been getting his leg pulled. "at the Club, or else that he strongly resembles the individual whose sentiments head this paragraph.
The Hongkong Celegraph elegraph
LOCAL AND GENERAL. KOREA is going ahead, The Seoul Club is the latest innovation at the capital of the Hermit
Kingdom.
bachelor,
she had not much to do Mr. Power's Dodger monopolising all the fun (and it was delicious) but as Rebecca Hamped in "Home Ruia" she gave another fine character study as the strong minded female who makes her poor husband nurse the baby till his friend Wagstaff (Mr. and he tums the tables on his wife," A similar episode occurs in The Serious Family " if we remember rightly, but differently worked out, We hear that the little company are too scared to try the Garrison Theatre again, although it is certain the house would be crowded The entertainment, however, is quite good enough to fy higher, and a night or two in the City Hall ought to recoup them for their lossER.
AN EXTENSIVE CASE
pisosan egg
THE long talked of opposition by Chinese, to the Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Steamboat Co, Limited, has begun to assume a practical shape, at last. We understand that the first steamer has been ordered from England, through a local commission agent, and that the vessel is to be
He could not, however, find that any
of somewhat smaller capacity, but of greater power, and lighter draught of water. The HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1889. of their employés had misbehaved. This
steamer is to be built in England strictly in meeting was held on March 25th, and
accordance with Board of Trade regulations. THE ROPE "CORNER" CASE,
on the 12th of February, alx weeks
Boilers already commenced are being constructed previously, Mr. C. A. TONES, a partner in
by blessrs. Kwong-Hep Loong of Wanchat and (Continued from yesterday.)
are likewise being constructed strictly according 'As the jury decided, and on the evidence RUSSELL & Co.'s who specially looks,after
to Board of Trade regulations. From the plan CHIARINI'S CIRCUS, according to arrangement, no other honest course was left open for the affairs of the Rope Manufacturing will leave Shanghal for Yokohama to-morrow, A LARGELY attended meeting of the shareholders to us, we think the vessel is well suited to and specifications, which have been submitted them, that a confederacy had been Company, had sold to Mr. Parts, a clerk the 13th inst
in the Taku Tug and Lighter Company was the requirements of the Inland river trade. established for the special purpose of in the employ of the Firm, 420 Rope ACCORDING to latest reports from Hankow the held at Tientsin on the 25th ult, Mr. J. Stewart in this neighborhood, present and future, and raising the price of the Rope Company's shares at 17oper share, although business riots there have abated, and no damage worth in the chair, at which it was decided to transfer that in the vessel the Steamboat Company will
the undertaking to a proposed Taku Tag and at last find any antagonist they cannot afford to "At the Summary Court this morning Mr. Lighter Company, Limited, for the sum of Tis. | despise with Impunity. : The new Company will Webber applied on behalf of the plaintiff, in the shares to a fictitious value by Mr. R. had been done the same day at 8120, Mr. mentioning has been done. SHEWAN, the Secretary of the Company, Toxas stated on oath that he did not know A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 400000, the shareholders accepting payment of start with a moderate capital invested la case of Pliman Wotton and Dracen, for Mr. Porrs, and other employés of the Mr. Ports was buying for himself; but he did 613, S.C. will be held in Freemasons Hall, their present shares of which there are 3,000 suitable vessels, and it sensing to be seen whe farther time in which to amend the weit
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this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock by scrip of Tis. 300,000 in the new Company. ther the Steam Boat Company, with Its Mr. Deacon objected, on the ground that the General Agents, In addition, to a Tavored not say who Mr. Ports was buying for, nor precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. The meting then resolved. itself into a meeting enormous capital, expensive management, and writ was filed as far back as the aand June, and of the new Company, when the proposed terms comparatively speaking, abortions of vessels, there had been and adjournment already, Me circle of outsiders (of whom more anon), did he explain how it was that he accepted his Messus. Adamson, Bell & Co., agente for the were accepted. Some discussion then took place will be able quite to hold the sway on Pitman really spread his cause of action over the Including certain share-brokers and as clerk's cheques on the Oriental Bank for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam as to making compromise with the opposition the Canton river it claims as a vested whole world-It was quite unique in that way. this finding legally means in plain English amount of the purchase, the trifling sum of ship Fort Fairy from Yokohama of the 26th company but as to this there was not that right. Possibly there is no Company in the very probably had great difficulty to finding
nito, has arrived at Vancouver on the soth inst. unanimity which had prevailed up to that time, Far East, which by its aggressive attitude, para cause of action, and to chase it over to the w that every one of these persons is llable to 871,400. If the General Managers of the
the chairman and Mr. Collins Rating that in monious conduct, and indifferent management of Kwai Vilo, and to Paris, and Singapore mis THIS morning a warrant was sent to the Police spite of diminished rates, the gross and net has deserved so litle consideration from the box very amusing, pursuit, but the case.com be criminally prosecuted for conspiracy, Rope Company were unable to see any for the arrest of four marines, and a sinner on results of worlding showed a better result, then pablic and yet has prosper, d to largely in spite hardly bokep over anill be found it. Ho we do not hesitate to raise the question of harm in a transaction of this sort, no stragglers from the Victor Emmanuel. This that of any other four months since the formation of itself, and we shall be surprised to find If the to have deterated what be in going to que the responsibility incurred by Messrs, surprise need be expressed at the extra aftemoon four of them were arrested on the off the, Company, and the directors had the new. Company, conducted upon economical liner for before he famed the writ, and then filed hie RUSSELL & Co. for what has already ordinary attitude they have maintained Stapley Road-the fifth had "straggled beyond atmest confidence in the continuation and and liberal and considerate treatment of fractions H. (Mr. Deache) had 5c objection to t transpired, as well as for anything that throughout these proceedings. If they man recall, having died, probably through increase of its prosperity. After the usual votes employes, will not care a fair share of the pupiletite being ended, but he desired the cas
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of thanks the meeting adjourned,
support