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Intimations,
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED.
CHEMISTS.
MANUFACTURES OF AERATED
WATERS; -
THE Factory is fitted with a powerful Steam Past of the most replete and modern description. The whole process of manufacture is under the continuous supervision of a qualified English Chemist..
The following are manufactured daily :- AERATED WATER, GINGER ALE, SONA WATER,
LEMONADE,
TONIC,
SELTZER,
LITHIA,
SARSAPARILLA.
PHOSOPHOZONE. DAKIN'S PHOSOPHOZONE.—A Delightful Tonic Reverage, free from Alcohol. Since its Introduction to Public Notice as a First Class Substitute for. Alenholic Liquors, it has gained great popularity, and deservedly so, and we look -forward with contence to its general adoption where a pleasant stimolant beverage is required, without those injurious after effects common to Alcoholic stimulants.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,
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NOTICE.
THE HONGKONG TE
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
HIM.S, Firebrand felt Shanghai for Tientsin on the 13th inst.
A TELFORAM has been received stating that the China Merchants' Co.'s new steamer Hsin-yu, which left Glasgow on the sth inst., arrived at Port Said on the 17th.
last.
GRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1889.
H.M.S. Porpoise was af Hankow on the 14th SAYS a Yankee paper: "The Prince of Wales wears a sash upon his summer costume. It is insinuated that be should also wear blinds upon bis summer conduct,"
THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer, Tele- machus, from Liverpool, left Singapore this morning for Hongkong, and is due on the 28th inst
A LONDON medical man says Be careful in your dealings with horse-radish. It Irritates the stomach far more than spice, and an overdose THE China Merchants' steamer Kang-ding, will bring on an unpleasant sensation for days. Capt. Holmes, well known on the MacWe note from a Singapore paper that our Canton route, arrived here this morning to gigantic and genial friend, Lieut. H. C. Metcalfe, undergo the usual overhaul.
of the Northamptonshire Regiment, has been appointed Acting Assistant Superintendent of Police nt Penang
A REGULAR meeting of Victorin Lodge, No.
1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited."
THE body of Mr. Robertson, who was drowned alongside the steamer Yokohama Maru in Nagasaki on the 5th instant, was found floating: an the 8th instant very close to where it went down.
THE Sessions are adjourned until the 9th November, about which date the Japan is expected, and the case against the four men charged with stealing opium can be proceeded with.
THE Superintendent of the P. & 0. S. N. Co, courteously informs us that the steamship Coromandel, with the next English mail, left Singapore for this port at 9.30 am, to-day.
As will be seen from the advertisement, the Lorne Athletic Club, connected with the Argyll Assault-at-arms in the City Hall on Saturday and Sutherland Highlanders, will give an evening, the 16th proximo, tmder the patronage of H.E. the Governor, repeating it on the Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday evening following. As an out-come of the clan fights between the Chu and Huang clans, near Canton, noted by us a short time since, we hear that the Provincial Goverment has ordered the two villages in question to give up all their fire-arms and ather OWING to the death lately of the Prefect of promulgation of the order, on pain of being visited Implements of war within a fortnight from the Canton, an Imperial decree dated the 17th inst.by the troops to enforce the decree. appoints Mr. Tsu Wei Cheng, a Taotai in rank, to fill the vacancy. We believe this new apprintee is a protege of the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung.
An Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No.. 525. E.C, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 24th instant, at 5 for 5 30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited
THL Nagasaki Exdress says that the working of the Yayeyama coal mine, in Okinawa Ken, THROUGH native sources, our Shanghai cantem-owned by the Mitsul Bussan Kaisha, is reported porary the Afercury hears of a dreadful disaster
to have been stopped, and the machinery, etc., near Wenchow. The country in and around transferred to Miike. The reason attributed is that district is flooded, and many of the poor that the unhealihiness of the climate causes so people have been rendered homeless account
much sickness amongst the colliers. of their houses being inundated. Latest news states that a village near Wenchow has been
families have heen drowned.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. washed away by the floods and five hundred
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS. ·
SEASON 1889-1890:
WE
E have just received our New Season's importations, direct from the best Growers In England, France, and Germany, and are now prepared to execute all orders received for same with prompt and careful attention...
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUES for ordering. from (containing hints for garden 'ing) will be sent post free on application,
ORDERS FROM ONE PERSON Ž5 TO $10 ALLOWED 25 PER CENT, DISCOUNT. ORDERS FROM ONE PERSON OVER $10 ALLOWED AN EXTRA-5 PER CENT. DISCOUNT,
SINGLE PACKETS AT LIST PRICES.
WE GUARANTEE That all seeds sold by us shall prove to be as represented, to the extent that should they not -do 10, we will replace them, or send-other-seeds- to the same value. But we cannot guarantee the crop any further than the above offer, as there are so many causes which operate unfa. vourably in the germination of seeds in a tropical climate, over which we have no control. Among the causes of failure may be mentioned unfa vourable weather, which is one of the most important. The soil may be in proper condition when the seed is planted, but the weather, which follows may be too wet, which will cause the seed to rot; or it may be too hot and dry, which destroys the germ before it shaws itself. The soil may also be unfavourable for the variety of seed planted. And lastly, the seeds may be and are frequently destroyed by veriain of various kinds. Such occurrences are beyond the power of man to prevent, and for which we cannot be responsible.
-Hongkong, 3rd September, 1889.
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A PROCLAMATION by Yeu Ch&-K'ai, Acting Futni of Kuang-tung, gives notice of the approaching birthday of Her Majesty the Dowager Empress of Chine, on the tenth day of the tenth meon,-Saturday, November 2nd- and orders that commencing from the 7th day (31st inst.) up to the 13th day (November (th) no criminal cases shall be tried by the officials under his jurisdiction, as a token of respect to Her Majesty.
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8.15 o'clock. The following will be the programme :- Overture.Rowin's "Stabat Mater "......... Moriadantoj. Valec............." Auke folu“ ...................
Waldteufel! Select Ine Falks"...
Chasulgue. Air and Varie..."The Harmonium Blacksmith"...Handel. Musical Episek...A Hunting Scene"..................Bucaloul.
Early morning, the meat, on the scent, the run, Tallyho, full cry, the return home,
LAST night's blow, which. Dr. Doberck, from his palatial retreat across the water, foretold as a north-east wind coming down a steep gradient, seemed to fall down pretty heavily No material damage is reported, however. To-day, our Observer informe us, is damp, and cooler." We pay about $6,500 a * overcast, year for this. Hi-yah |
the bolt of Jove had biarated that heath-it Te a streak of lighting had struck the Rialto—if could not have looked more desolate than it did to-day, The few remaining brokers were atrag gling around the billiard room, or hanging around under the verandah like wet hens, with apparently not a ray of hope or a dollar's worth of business amongst them. Who wouldn't be a broker?
FROM the native papers we learn that in Kansuh visited by, a severe hailstorm accompanied by province, the district of Lan Chou-fu has been heavy min, and that during the storm many houses were levelled to the ground on account of the heavy weight of the hall, some of which were blocks of ice as big as a man's fist. Many of jured, and the crops are all damaged. the cattle were killed, and scores of people in
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THE Brazilian arvessal Almirante Barroso left Singapore for Java on the rốth inst.
DR. FOCKE Consul General for Germany, returned to Shanghai from Hankow on the 17th inst.
MR. M. Boyd-Brdon, late Acting Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai, has been transferred to Newchwang..
THE British barque Omegn, from Hongkong te with a damaged rudder. Honolulu, put into Shanghal on the sath inst..
It is reported that the British war-vessel Conquest and Swift will de stationed; at Shanghai during the ensuing winter.
་:ན་— THE French Government, when it takes posses sion of the telephone in France, proposes furnishing the service to the pubile at cost price.
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"I SEE in the dictionary that honest means chaste." Then Browne must be honest. He was chased all the way to Canada by the police."
LATEST, Shanghai papers to band state that at that port, almost immediately, in H.M.S. Rear-Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon was expected
Alacrity.
RIDER HAGGARD is in Assyria making studies for a new novel. This is Assyrias matted for his readers, who have not yet recovered from the
nightmare caused by "She",
the Garrison Theatre, telling our military friends Dr. Cantlie was on the war-path Inst night at all about "Scottish Song and Story."! We learn that, the lecture was an unqualified success.
IT may interest the handicappers to know that a very dangerous candidate for next year's Vele- Tan's Race at the Athletic Sports will be the THE Switchback railway, with its attendant THE Nagasaki.. Rising Sun of the 16th inst. "Maiden Libeller." But, Maister Bain, it is a dissipations, will inaugurate itself on Saturday, says :-According to the Nicht Nicht Shimben, very wicked circumstance to be practising such D. V. and weather permitting. By special request Mesars. Hunter and Company, of Kobe, have sinful things as running, on the Sawbath day. we have leaned the world-renowned office mooie taken the lead in promoting an association to be especia" for an elder of the kirk who has just As a crowning altraction, and we believe we are called Japan Steamship Company. The capital left that holy edifice. Oh I an appointment to not exaggerating when we say that for anybody is stated to he a million yes, and the objeca tiffin and lawn-tennis "jamboree" at K who is "fond of the sort of amusement there of the enterprise is to undertake the carriage loan, and you didnt want to lose the 1.15 Bowrington will be just the place for them.
of merchandise and... passengers between launch! Just so the old hymn, James,-"ah } Japan and foreign countries: Our Tokyo con-
let us be joyful.", THE Shanghai Mercury of the 18th inst. has temporary asserts that, according to report, the the following:-There is a rumour current that shares of the company have been fully subscribed an alarming outbreak has occurred at Ichang, by foreigners, and that Mr. Hunter himself will and that the populace, who are very turbulent shortly proceed to England to effect the purchase in that place, have killed a mandarin, and also of ships. It is expected that the company will that a large number of troops have been ordered commence operations next spring. In proceed from.. Wuchang the scene. None
some time, and with your permission". we will take them as read. You doubtless perused the accounts with interest, and will have noticed that there is a balance of T 178,250,66, still remaining at credit of 1888 account, while the settlements since entered armount to Tis: 30,000, The liabilities outstanding are considerable, but it is hoped that the out-turn will be favourable, and in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Association, a resolution will be brought forward presently, empowering the Directors to close accounts for the year. soon as may be practicable. For the current year the premis to goth Jone show an increase of Tis. 60,000 over the corresponding period of the last year. Losses aggregate Tis. 30,000 more, and the balance carried forward. shows an excess of Tis. 37,000 while the 'premia and losses entered in the books since 30th June, compara favourably with former years. The the triennial revision of the shore list, and after Directors, as provided by the Articles, have held duly considering the Report presented on the business contributed, have decided, in the exercise of their discretion, that it is not desirabla
occasion, I have no further remarks to make, to make any alteration in the register, on this
as the accounts speak for themselves, but I shall be happy to answer any questions you may desire to ask, before putting the first resolution to the meeting.
The Chairman then moved." That the Direc- tors' Report and Accounts to 30th June last, as now presented, be adopted and passed."
Mr.. F. H. Bell seconded the resolution, which was carried.
The Chairman moved-"That the Directors be authorised to close up the accounts of the year 1888 as soon as it is found practicable, and outstanding liabilities, the balance which may that, after making due provision for claims and be found to have accrued in respect of that year shall be dealt with in such a manner, as under the Articles of Association seems advisable," usually adopted. remarking that the resolution was the one
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was carried, and the meeting, closed with a vote Mr. A. G. Wood, seconded the motion, which
of thanks to the Chairman.
'THE BORNEO HOTEL AND STORE
COMPANY LIMITED.
Report of General Meeting of shareholders held at the offices of the China-Borneo Company, Limited, Sandaka, on Saturday, 7th September, 1989.
(Chairman), W. Rigby, A. H. Mitchelson, There were present Messrs. E. F. Abrahamsan, (directors). J. H. Walker, H. B. Dunlop, W. B. Fryer. P. Mathie, Chan To Pin; E. M. Ashness, Gah Tek Sing, and F. Bayley (Manager).
-M-E-E-Abrahamson-read the notice calling
ACHINKIANG correspondent writes to a Shanghai contemporary The mob are beginning to show their teeth again, and the civil force, at present at any rate, is placed at defiance. Ifthe sagacious "Robert" opens his mouth, and in a weak mo ment murmurs move on," he is promptly order, are not required, and he takes the tip and leaves for the next street. The nests that harbour the rufaans of riot, are still doing well, and another entertainment, similar to the last, may shortly be looked for; the voice of the gambler may nightly be heard, and if he is unable to put up, trouble results. If you walk the streets with only being insulted, you may paid-up capital of the Compatty for the four consider yourself lucky.
of the river steamer agents here, however,-have--SAYs,the-Shanghai-Mercury-al-the-14th-inst;--|-informed that his services, in the direction of THE Shanghai Mercury of the 15th inst, says : any information of such an occurrence, and we We regret that very bad news has been received -We are glad to learn on good authority that give the rumour for what it may be worth. from the province of Fuklen. While for thou- the volte face in Peking with respect to the
sands (7) of miles around Shanghat the country Peking-Hankow railway will not affect the im HEAVY rains are reported from Borneo, and the is flooded, yet the province of Fukien is suffering mediate extension of the Tientsin railway to Kinabatangan, amongst other rivers, bad risen. from drought. We hear that no rain has fallen Tongchow, and the work is being steadily pro- From the Melapi Estate accounts of the crop since the early part of August in that district. ceeded with under the direction of Li Hungare good, and planting was going on slowly but On the 26th of August the officials áll prayed for chang. Large quantities of rails and materials satisfactorily. From the Songei Koyab, owing rain, but their prayers were of no avail. The (of French manufacture] have been carried to to the rising of the river Koyah, a number of the heat has been very great and nearly all the creeks the North by the Poochi, and the expressed fields had been flooded, but it was the intention and wells are dry, and many people have to,tra- wish of the Emperor to see the work pushed for. of the Manager to replant them. As regards vel a great distance to get water from the large ward rapidly is bearing fruit,
the crop, the appearance and quality of the streams. Some of these are stopped and robbed plants on this Estate were excellent at the date of the waier they are cartying. The fields in a of last advices.
greater part of the province are literally baked with the heat. Many of the people have died through the want of water.
THE ardour of the criminal cinssen in this colony appear to be considerably dampened whenever Hongkong is favoured with rainy weather. This morning not a single case was up before the Police Magistrates to enliven the dismal court. room and its forlorn-looking precincts, and so the only magistrate present, Mr. H. E. Wode house, occupied himself with hearing sworn information from that detestable class the informers of the Detective department; Mr. E. Robinson, the other Magistrate, was absent, being agreeably occupied otherwise at the We beg to call special attention to our NEW Supreme Court on a civil case.
PATENT DRYING .OTTLES which have been specially. designed and manufactured for us. By the use of these Bottles, CIGARS, SEEDS,
to the destroying influences of moisture can be kept in good and perfect condition.
Whenever or wherever the atmosphere is sur charged with moisture these Bottles will be found invaluable.
A FURTHER hearing of the supposed attempt at piracy on board Messrs. Butterfield & Swire's steamer Sonchow will be made to-morrow, the 23rd inst. at 2 pm, at the Police Court, to enable 1 the Captain of that vestel to appear and give evidence in the case. The remainder of the evidence yesterday, which we were not able to publish last night owing to the lateness of the hour, was that of the quarter-master of the steamer, who proved the picking up of a stink. pot by him which had been thrown overboard by one of the alleged pirates, and which led to the search for them being instituted by the officers of the Spichow.
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Mr. J. Fielding Clark, Acting
Chief Justice.)
The Sessions concluded to-day. The jurors were-Messrs. H. S. Stringer, KP. Dipple, A. Mair, E. M. Hyndman, R. J. Gomes, S. E. da Luz, and P. F, do Rozario,
The
A QUEER CASE,
Wong Achang, a coolie, was indicted for. criminally assaulting a young married woman. The Acting Attorney-General prosecuted.- prosecutrix's evidence was very interesting and would probably send our circulation un reported, but anybody desirous of wallowing in the details will find them outlined in the Daily Press of the 16th ult., and they can be amplified by almost any of the jurors not called, for hardly finished, and there was a very fair audience of other business men.
the meating, which he said was necessary in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company. He was glad to state that all... the capital had been subscribed, and that the Company was doing well; after carrying forward a respectable balance the Directors had decided to declare a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, or $1) per share, on the
months ending June 3th, 1889. The dividend warrants would be ready on the 15th instant He further stated that the Directors hoped to close a contract to level the Hotel site in a few days, and that the plans were being prepared by Messrs. Danby and Leigh, of Hongkong.. The Hotel would consist of so bed-rooms and com modious dicing, billiard, drawing rooms and bar, also a store; the building was well planned. A vote of thinks to the, Chairman was pro posed by Mr. Fryer and seconded by Mr. Bayley, and the meeting terminated,
THE CHEFOO TELEGRAPE CONVENTION.
and GOODS of all kinds, which are susceptible thought to quiet the mob' by giving them the Chi fetly, 'Just below Shameen. The contract One antique Parsec, in excellent English, excused one of them left the Court until the case waTsung-li Yamen had empowered Li Hung-chang--
A. S. WATSON & Co., IIMITED.. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 3rd September, 1889.
BIRTHS.
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At 49, Broadway, Hongkew, Shanghai, on the
13th instant, the wife of D; MCCALLUM, of a son. On the 16th instant, at 3, Siking Road, Shanghai, Mrs, MARIE ROBDE, of a son,
The Houghing Calegarİ
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1889.
TELEGRAMS.
THE CZAR IN BERLIN.
BERLIN, October 12th. The Czar met with a cool reception on his arrival at Berlin. His Majesty is staying at the Russian EmbasLY.
to cherish it as a legacy from his ancestors The Czar returned thanks and specially toasted Princé Bismark.
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THE CZAR IN BERLIN.
LONDON, October 14th. The coldness of the Crat's response to the Emperor's toast produced a marked effect on the assembly. His Majesty whilst speaking
THE floods in and around Ningpe, the Shanghai Mercury says, have rendered upwards of 10,000 people homeless, and they being in a state of destitution went in a body to the magistrate of the 5a Ch'i district and pleaded for help. Hr
paltry sum of twenty cash each, but be was mistaken, for the people clamoured all the more after receiving it. After giving away about $600, the magistrate shut the Yamen gates to prevent the people from taking charge. We expect when the money that was doled out has been spent, there will be trouble if the people's wants are oot more liberally attended to.
AMONG the disadvantages of civilisation in the For Fast are that men sometimes sink into being brokers, or else get rung into the fury-box every other Sessions or so. Brokers and jury- boxes are the bitters of life in the rollickingOrient. | To-day all the jurors summoned for the October Sessions ought to have attended, as per the gratuitous advertisement we
and our con- temporaries gave to the Government, but some of them didn't, The only inference, of course, is that they don't take any local paper in, and that the other man had it when they called at the Hotel. Anyhow they did not attend. The result was that a jury riddled out of a nondescript crowd had to be taken, and even they did not all succumb without a struggle. himself because he didn't know the language. The Acting Chief Justice did not follow a pre- cedent, and tell him to sit down and study it, but warned him that he wouldn't get off that way again. An Englishman protested that he had served once this week, but as half of his brethren in misfortune bad also done so, the cold stony car end of the Sessions his lordship had a talk to of indifference was turned towards him. At the
two or three Jurors who had been wrated at the them very gently.. But the jury-list wants some- beginning, and had since arrived, and he scolded
The undersigned, being desirous of celebrating the event of the Stefano do Lusitania" looks very grand in it, thing doing to it, "Maximilian Ferdinand root somstant some Bay and loadira sporta in she alongside of "John Smith," but he is generally a
season of swimming bath by setting up on the "Dow shape of swiming races, and other acrobatic and athistic sports, badly-adulterated Chinaman who doesn't know respectfully soilds the gentlemen ethacribers to his bath-hus a thousand words of either his mother-tongue or establishment to contribute with some prize objects of whatever descripilan, for the sole purpose of awarding to all those whm his father-lingo. There are heaps of good men toe, who are -ding to encourage the proposed scheme will in the colony who never take a turn at jurying, Mindy forward thair presents to the undersigned before the chand dozens more who oughtn't to be allowed. lover, and while avelling himself of the occasion, the under
Tur Canton authorities have decided to build a lot of new houses on the new hund at the Tien price is to be Tis. 250 for each hoose which are to be thirty feet deep and of two storeys. These houses it is intended to rent to traders for shops, at five taels per month, each house. We hear also that a number of Chinese dealers in foreign goods in Hongkong have signified their intention in rent the new houses and open branch stores In Canton. The Viceroy has given the Board of Reorganization (Shan Hon Chu) the duty of
AT the Sanitary Board meeting to-morrow the collecting the rents. orders of the day will be →
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1. Mr. Ede will move,-
That the Sanitary Superintendent submit to the Board, at an early date, a report shewing the manner in which the public Jaundry work of the Colony is at present carried out, and giving any suggestion he may have to make for the regulation and Improvement of the public laundries:
2. Correspondence regarding Final Disposal
of City refuse.
3 Third Report of Committee considering Contract Specifications.
4 Correspondence regarding Surveyor's actions. 5. Re-consideration of Standing Orders for the guidance of the Market Staff,
6. Correspondence.regarding the local cultiva tion of Calf Vaccine Lymph.
We have received the following "Express," which we think is worth reproducing:-
should have distinguished themselvas in the competion. All
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begs to, convey, bærela his basi acknowledgments and
Macao, 14th October, 1819.
T. J. COLLA.CO.
the
he was anxious to
the prisoner not guilty by a verdict of six to one, After a very short consultation the jury found whereupon the prosecutrix shuffled back into the witness-box fadignantly and, bursting into tears, asked his lordship" what he had let the man ge for Inspector Hennessy gently but firmly led, her out, and the prisoner left the dock, 44-*
The Sessions then adjourned..
THE BREAKDOWN OF THE
"WHAMPOA
Mercury of the 16th inst.) was sent today to The following telegram (says the Shanghal
Commerce. We are glad that the Chamber is Colonel Denby by the Shanghai Chamber of taking action in the matter, and we think our readers will agree with us in saying that if the to sign the Convention, as has been stated by the Tientsin paper, there would have been no
when there was no further necessity for conceal necessity for the remonstrance, as the Yamêre would have long since let the cat out of the bag, ing the truth. This certainly gives the lie direct
to the Tientsin organ
forwarded to us for publications a
The following telegrams have also been kindly
Chamber of Commerce, Shanghal-Have wired Whisham to stron⚫ly protest against rumoured convention becom Telegraph Companies and Chinese Gorenament Boe Chamber's despatch ain December, eighty inven.--Chamber Commerce,
Hongkong. 14th Octalexg.
MINISTER DENEY, DOYEN DIPLOMATIC BODY, TEKIN.'. May this Chamber ask for information about position of Tolo graph Conreation This Chamber, desires to protest strongly The Sunghiang has not yet arrived with the against ita adoption if that fe likely to happen. Hongkong Chamber vessel, which is more than 1 week overdue, Commerce, Shanghal, sil Occobar, 1889 ** Whampoa. We fearn that the latter unfortunatelegraphed British Ministar also protesting strongly-Chamber of bad her rudder broken off in a heavy gale about
heavy
THE HONGKONG CRICKETERS. Mr.A. K. Travers, the Secretary of the Hongkong CC., has received the following telegram from Shanghai, under yesterday's date --
"Match again. postponed play impossible Wednesday," to-day or to-morrow. We hope to make a start
CHINESE CHILD MURDER.
Wednesday last, when only about forty miles to rigged, but carried away and an attempt to sleer by windward of the Frata Shoal. A jury rudder was steaming stern foremost was Ineffective. As the decreasing in China cannot be answered in the The question as to whether Infanticide is vessel was evidestly quiteuncontrollable, steaming in circles in the heavy sed, her only chance was affirmative here in Shansi. It is terribly pro In drifting, and she fuckily drifted out of danger | valent here. One man who had been in the from the Shoal On Thanday moming the employ of a foreigner for two years and had life-boat and search for help. He accordingly set because, as he said, he could not afford to feed second officer, Mr. Groves, volunteered to take a received good wages put hir little girl to death
off with a boat's crew of six Chinamen, and after her. A woman, without solicitation, told one a tempestuous passage, alternately sailing and of the foreign' fadies that she had killed five rowing, reached Swatow on Fridayat midnight. As children in order to go out as a nurse, and the 200 passengers on the il'hampoo were already that her husband compelled her to do it Yes, the Sungklang, tying at Amoy, being at once help it. A man, who passes for a gentleman on short rations, prompt measures were taken, it was a great sin," she said, “but I could not
cover several days, and there was
sitting in my court one evening, volunteered blow last night, it is possible that the passengers girls to die for want of care. “Only a small may have had a pretty bad time of it
matter. We just wrapped them up in bed clothes and very sa they were gone." "Do you not know that it is very wicked to do such things I asked. "Yes, I know it," he replied, and cara no money, and as we already had two but I am a poor man; girls are a great expenso we concinded we could not keep any more. The testimony of a Chinese teacher is as follows: and even people in pretty easy circumstances. “Infanticide is very common among the poor, There is hardly a family where at least one child has not been destroyed, and in same familles four or five are disposed of, - Nothing can be done. As soon as the little ones are born they are fald aside and left to perish. Girls are more often destroyed, but boys also are very often killed, The officials know it, but say it is something The eleventh ordinary general meeting of the which they cannot control. Another man, who Norh Chica Intornace Company, Limited, was is now a member of the Christian Church, F. H. Bell, D. Brand, H. R. Heath, A. C. West And once more woman said, that it wan bald at Shanghai, on the 16th Inst. There were says that to his village there hardly a family present-Messrs. E. H. Lavers (chairman) that has not destroyed two or three children. all, A. G. Wood (Directors) J. M. Young, F. Cvery common for poor people to go into rich Bishop, R. Frands, H., Price, W. Lamond Jr families as yet purses because they received W. Church, C. Möller, A. S. T. Clifton, Wel b, good wages and that they often des royed R. D. Starkey, and WH Percival (Acting their babies that they might do so. Such Secretary), representing 1,3.9 shares, Satate of things le terrible in the bettene.
The notice convening the meeting having been and the worn feature about 1 read deepest in Corby indagaththere seems to be no public of Indi
The Chairman said—Gentiem
fald Gentlemen, this macting science against it even all is convened for the purpose of submitting to you otherwise respectable people looki the report of the Directors, and the statement, matter of dries, I had koo what such thin of accounts of the Company to the 30th June last, which have bees in your posaduzion, for.
mast thanks to all the gentlemes who have so highly cous Thit Kuangbao tells the following amusing ohmied twards the joraintance and support of his stable story A man named Wong hearing that the Bureau of Police, at Canton intended to engage a number of men as barrier-gate watchmen, with pay at $3.50 per mensem and a badge A PIKING correspondent writes that a Tartar thrown in, expressed a wish the other day to Lieutenant-General's suite, returning from one enroll himself as one of these guardians of of the Mongolian dependencies was searched on peace. The wish being over-heard by a neigh entering the Ch'ung Wen gate at Peking the bor, the latter immediately manufactured a Times under date the 7th inst-By the death DR. MARTIN writes from Peking to the Chinese other day, by the guarda stationed there to pre-counterfeit badge, and pretending to be to hot vent smuggling, and the searchers were rewarded baste, knocked at Wong's door and asked him of Hai-chen on Friday last, a career of unusual by finding nearly two thousand ounces of opium to lend him five dollars on the strength of the At the Banquet at the Palace the German brightness has been suddenly cut short. In 1870, concealed amongst the baggage. As the watchman's badge being placed in pawn and re- Emperor hoped that the friendship of a century the deceased won the degree of Chilfan, or M.A returned official was of pretty high rank, and deemable within five days, in default of which would always continue, and said he was resolved and in the following year the doctorate and moreover a member of the Imperial Cian, the | Wong could keep the badge and get the object of } telegraphed to go out in search,” As that may, the foformation that he had allowed two of his
a fauteuil in the Hanlin Academy, Rising guards only detained the smuggled opium, but his ambitions too. Wong knowing that his neigh rapidly through various grades of the official did not dare to strest any one. As we are bor would not have the wherewithal to return bierarchy, he became successively President not allied to Royalty, we are sorrow to bear the loan,
and AS of the Metropolitan Judiciary and President of that no one has been arrested, as smuggling obtain the satisfaction of strutting about town the Board of Civil Appointments, the highest of means defrauding the revenue and if the as a Government Watchman, eagerly accepted the Six grand Divisions in the Imperial Govern revenue is defrauded, there will be no moory the pledge and lent the five dollars with ment. But little over forty years of age, and to lay the rails of that much-considered Feking out any demur. At the expiration of the five days. anticipated for him the full honours of a Grand
to the dominant race, his friends Harkow railway which we are anxious to see in as the borrower of the five dollars did not reture,
a more tangible form than on paper. Secretaryship in the near future. He was abort
Wang went to the Bureau of Police and reported himself as ready to do or die " for his country. of stature, broad shouldered, and robust, fitted SEVERAL planters at Marudu Bay, in Britishs An examination of the counterfeit badge being apparently to bear the burdens of State for many North Borneo, have written a letter to the Dell made, Wong was told that his country was not
induced, it is said, by over-exertion another the outside public. In refatation of rumours to but as he seemed so much inclined to "chow on A year; but he succumbed to a lingering diacase, Conrand to set the former country right with ready to lose such a valuable life as his yet, instance of the" struck eagle," who see his own the contrary, they point out that in healthiness chow" Government rice, the opportunity would feather on the fatal dart. To foreigners he is Maradu Bay compares favourably with Delig be given him by lodging and boarding him, freeof known chiefly as one of the nine members of the and that the coolies have adequate medical charge, at the Namhol Magistrate's quarters Tsung-ll Yamen, or Council for Foreign Affairs, attendance. The Government lend the planters set specially aside for such swindlers as Dignified and courteous, it is something to be able to say that in this capacity he was not unfavour desertion, which has, in consequence, almost enlightened as to
now more effective assistance against coolie he appeared to be. Wong now thoroughly. the nature of the badge ably known. It cannot be affirmed that bis views cessed. On the other hand, the opening up of placed in pawn on his hands, enden. were other than conservative; but his mind wAS singularly open and candid; and the writer has of labour, sickness, deter on, art crop, maller have been sent to interview the Namhsi Magis new estales encounters difficulties from scarcity vored to rise and explain," but he was not allowed to do so, and would most assuredly more than once had occasion to admire the pointments which render the first crop breadth of his ideas. He was one of a very few than might be expected under ordinary circum trate on a charge of trying to "utter" counterfeits officials who have acquired a comparative stances. It is no wonder that two companies, had not it been known amongst bir peighbors mastery of the map of the world, and I remember. Anding these obstacles insurmountable, gave it
that he was an honest man, and they came in a to have seen him pass his hand over charts (in up. They have, however, learned experience body and gave the Police Authorities a bond relief) of Asia and Europe, naming mountain site to be valuable in subsequent efforts. The guaranteeing that Wong wad not what he ranges, and pointing out boundaries with a planters in question point out that Mattudu Bay seemed. So the poor fellow was allowed to readiness that told how fully he appreciated the does answer requirements judging from the go, but the end is not yet for we have it from altered position of Chius, and the new respon reasts gained on the Ranow Estate, the only the Editor of the Kuangée, that Wong's ife ibilities of her statesmen. The well-wishers of one which has been carried on long enough ever since this affair, domands nightly from him China have res on to lament that a man so well upon a large scale. The tobacco grows there the five dollars he promised to give her to buy a fitted to guide her councils has been struck down has been favourably received in the European new dress, thus making lile one long misery for thus prematurely
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The Russian Press expresses content with the Czar's reception, rod is convinced that the inter- view will strengthen peace.
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. A Gladstonian has been elected for North Bucks.
[At the last general election, the division refamed Mr. E. Hubbard, a Conservative, by 4,466 votes, against 4,389-cast for his Home Rule opponent. The electors on the register exceed 11,000 in number.]
(From N. C. Dally News) THE JAPANESE MINISTRY,
YOKOHAMA; October 14th,
Count Ito Hirobumi, President of the Sumitaw (Privy Council), bas resigned. Important changes in the Ministry are now pending.
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