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Klitmations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMIT E D, CHEMISTS. ཡ--'ང་
complainte ; INFLUENZA.
COLD IN THE HEAD. CATARRH.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1890.
department; the chief engineers naturally protested, and as their protest was ignored" they appealed to the Australasian Marine Engineers' Institution. The Council of that body supported the chief engineers, and demanded that Messrs. HOWARD SMITH
DAY BROS les suitable to the & Sons should give a written assurance to at once recall the objectionable order, alleging that the action of the Company was a reflection on the engineers, who are entitled to have full authority in their own department. At latest advices from Melbourne, Messrs. HOWARD SMITH and Sons had taken no individual action in reference to the ultimatum of the Engineers Institution, but had decided to
DAKIN BROS remedy is prepared from a prescription of Si R. MARTIN which proved exceedingly effectual in cutting short attacks of these troublesome complaints.
In Bottles at cents 50. $1.
ANISEED AND DAKIN TROTHERS!
„LICORICE COUGH BALSAM. For the relief of all Cainrthal Complaints,
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GREAT Britain employed over 10,000 more men ia 1888 than in 1887 in its coal, iron and other mineral beds.
WE read that Watts, R.A., the famous artist who was once husband of Ellen Terry, has decided to give his paintings, about fifty in number and including portraits of some of the most celebrated
spared to add to the comfort of the many goests.
Væay enjoyable, if not uitm-select, was the quadrille party given by the staff-sergeants and sergeants of the A. and S. Highlanders to their frients, in the City Hall, last evening, The staircase and ball-rooms were prettily draped with Bags and evergreens, and no, pais had been A plasart programme was provided, and the Regimental band, which occupied the orchestra,
colleagues will at no distant date have to an-spirit to the end. Sergt. Maler Williamson and HOME papers say that M. de Lesseps and his acquitted themselves much better than usual, with the result that dancing was kept up with nounce the abandonment of the works on the his staff deserved universal,thanks for the hos Panama Canal. The subscribed capital is nearly pitality shown, which contributed greatly to the
general, success. exhausted and it seems impossible to raise any
men of the time, to the National Gallery.
mo e.
AŃ American contemporary tells us that one of the missionaries of the China Inland Mission, a Scoren gentleman worth $1,000,000. is living in China on 25 cents a week, using all his fortune in the work. Who can, this wonderful apostle of philanthropy be ?
such as Conghe, Colds, Hoarseness, and Sore act in concert with the Steamship Owners L'HOMME PROPOSE, etc.-Diffident Woper-In September la
ness of the Chest,
In Bottles at cents 50, $1.
DAKIN BRÒS, OF CHINA, LIMITED,
LONDON-HONGKONG-AMOY.
(Telephone No. 60.).
Hongkong, 26th January, 1890.
WINES AND SPIRITS.
BY APPOINTMENT.
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Association of Australasia, And so matters were at a dead-lock.
It is stated that the feeling amongst shipowners and steamship companies agents in Melbourne is that it would be impossible to interfere in any way with the supreme power of the captain, on. board ship, and we really cannot see how
any
other conclusion could be reasonably arrived at. For the safety of passengers and the efficient management of the
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. vessel it is indispensable that plenary
(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
HONGKONG.
JE invite atention to the following old cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the mast noted Shippers,, are imported in wood and bottled
W landed Brands, all of which are of ex-
Resin nedering it is only necessary to state the name and a tire of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired,
powers should be vested in the commander, who, whilst at sea, carries the whole of the responsibilityTon his own shoulders, To divide the authority on board a steamer
could only lead to eternal trouble and
dissension.
What is that French proverb, Miss Clara, about man proposing, but a higher power disposing? Miss Clara-I've forgotten. But don't you think that niore men might propose if they tried? (And he acted on the hint.)
Ar the Sanitary Board meeting to-morrow the Orders of the Day will be
Report on the sanitary condition of the Kau- lung Peninsula.
THE HONGKONG ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS,
The following table shews the results of the 64-Pdr. R.M.L. Gun Competition camed out at Stonecutter's Island on the 21st instit
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plaintiff, and Mr. Isanc and Mr, Mitchell for the defendants,
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Mr. Hood stated that the defendants were a banking company, incorporated in New South Wales, but which cartled on business in Mel- bourneas well as in Sydney. The plaintiff was also A resident in New South Wales. Evidence.had been taken on commission in New South Wales to prove the plaintiff's ense, and a reference had been made to the fact that the plaintiff was an informer, and it was said that no encouragement ser should be given to him. On the contrary,
be (Mr. Challege Hood) contended that every consideration should Cup be given to the plaintiff, for this company was one of the companies which the Victorian Act was passed to deal with; for it would be found that the subscribed capital of the company' was £10,000 in shares of each, the called-up Capital was tos per share, and the real capital was about £3500. Of the shares Mr. T..S. Rich- ardson, the manager in Sydney,, held 4900. The defendants had thrown every obstacle. against the plantiff proving the technical evidence by commission in New South Wales. It was even objected that the defendants were not incorporated in New South Wales.
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Corp. Powell, J,
Tax Engineering Journal for December has the following -For some the past there have been very contradictory advices in relation to the Chinese railroads Nearly a year, ago the proposed extension of the Tientsin line the only railroad in China-was stopped after work had been 'actually begun upon it
new start was taken, and it was stated that the construction of á very important trunk line extending from Peking across the country to Hankow, a dis- Gunner Josepha tance of about seven hundred mileg, was ordered and the necessary surveys were. begun. The latest news, however, aunasices that the party' which is opposed to the intraduction of railroads and other foreign inventions has succeeded in carrying its point, and that the building of this 10ad had been indefinitely postponed. What the result will be it is impossible to say, but there is no doubt that the progressive party; headed by the Vicesoy, Li Hung Chang, will use every effort to secure the execution of the first decree and the building of thé road. Any! innovation in China has to encounter such an enormous opposition from the rooted political RATHER serious fire occ red at the Peak you- │terday at noon. It started in a matshed on the
and social prejudices of the people that the in- troduction of railroads is no easy task. Peak, Building Company's property at the Peak, and as water was practically unobtainable it destroyed seven huts, containing a large quanti.
WHEN the law fails to protect a man from insult, we ve 'ture to think that taking the law into ty of clothing, tools, and timber, valued at $3,000
pac's own hands is excusable," if not legally or $4,000, and all uninsured. The police were
ju tifiable. The man Oscar Brandt, excluded considerably assisted in the labor of checking the progress of the flames, by three men belongJockey Club for all-efficient reasons, has lately from the Stand aid enclosure of the Hongkong ing to the A. and S. Highlanders.
done his ruting" from a ricksha in the vicinity of the rck Reck. Now Brandt has The following bit of poetry, cut from the New
a rericet right to wake up his position there York Tribune of some years ago, shows what a
humor we have
Report having reference to certain recom mendations of the Fever Commission.
Report having reference to the contravention Section 74 of the Health Ordinance. Report on Markets, &c.
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THE FOOCHOW TEA TRADE,
The Foochow Echo of January 18th says:- With the departure of the Telamon, the tea The shrinkage of the tea trade in Foochow is an season may be considered closed at this port.
surely it is time both for natives and foreigners object of interest to most of our readers: and
led to this, and see if some remedy cannot.be to turn their attention to the causes which have applied for the future.
Thus far we entirely agree with the views by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the of the Steamship Owners' Association, butit best growths at moderate prices.
cannot be denied, and must not be lost sight of, that the engineers, to a very consider-gim Ahle extent, have reason as well as justice Orders throu Local Post or by Telegram
on their side. It is just as indispensable percive promor tention
for a chief engineer to have full and PORTS. (Far Invaiuls and generál use.)
Pet duzent uncontrolled authority in the engine-room
"Came Per Bol
as it is for the captain to he autocrat on the ....$10 $1.00 | bridge. The chief engineer is held
responsible by the owners for the efficient Tux annual meeting of the Committee of the was astounded to hear Brandt shout out from his markets of the world,
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Crop Cireale
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Four doctors tackled Johnny Smith,
They blistered and they bled him: With squills and anti-bilious pills
And ipec they fed him. They stirred him up with calomel,
And tried to move his lives, But all in vain 1 His little soul Was wafted o'er the river..
-if he does not obstruct the traffic, and so long as he behaves himself; but the moment. he infringes rither of those st pulations, he becomes a nuisance and a fit subject for the attentions of the police. And we beg to direct the attention of the police authorities to this vulgar ruffi n's disgraceful conduct. Yesterday morning Mr. C. H. Hutchings, the well-known Shanghai gentleman jockey was riding a pony round the course, and when near the Black Rock
caign of vaninge a torrent of vulgar abuse. Mr. Hutchings stopped his pony a d'meditated for a moment whether it was waith while to dismount and take the law into his own hands;' for tunately he decided that meddling with such a person was not good enough, and so contented himself by reporting the occurence on his return to the Stand. We don't objici to Brandt witch-
One step in the right direction has been andoubtedly taken by the Governor of Formosa, who intends to stait a model Plantation, and make lea after the Indian fashion, under the vision of an expert from Assam, who has, years however before China can be expected to we believe, already arrived, it will be many follow in this course; and in the meantime, what is to be done to prevent China ica, and Foochow leaf in particular, from losing all position in the
The Chinese authorities must bestir them selves: for the last thirty years, they have been content to sit down and pocket the duty of Tis. per pical, with happy indifference as to how the cultivation of tea was being cared for. Now that the duty receipts have fallen fully ga per cent in the short space of half a dozen years, culture of tea should be more cared for, the they may awake. It is imperative that the
plantations properly weeded, and the plants renewed from time to time, and not all wed, as we are informed in many distrias, year after year to take care of themselves.
conduct of his department, and should therefore, whilst under the captain's orders as to all matters of importance, be free 1.50 from interference in the working details. There can be very little doubt that the 0.66 oflicious interference of captains with the details of engine-room management has cause no end of trouble on hoard ship, 100 and for this reason it is perhaps a matter for congratulation that the Australasian 1.00 Institution of Marine Engineers has taken the bull by the horns' and insisted un having the vext question of the respective powers of captain and chief engineer clearly defined. That it would 1.52 be utterly impracticable to divide the in my time. The Governor passed on and left right hand; had both of Harry's fives 'been at into the bands of the banks, and advances made
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authority on board a steamer even the most rabid of engineers must allow ; and on the other hand there are but few $1.50 captains who will not readily admit that $any interference on their part with the 12.5 departmental details of the engine-room is
750
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TELEGRAMS.
GERMANY.
LONDON, January 27th. The Reichstag has rejected the Socialist Bill.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA. The treaty of extradition between England and United States is still under consideration by the Senate, but what has been published expressly excludes political offences,
IRELAND:
FRANCE.
A SUBSCRIPTION fancy dress bali-the first for nearly
A decade is being organised for St. Valentine's Day, and our costumiers are
work. Several sele up to the eyes in
ing training operations salong 18 he conducts himself properly, but when he grossly insu'ts a member of the Hongkong Jockey Club, as was the case yesterday, for the evident purpose of proveking a breach of the peace, it is high time to show this person that even he, with all his brazen impudence, is not outside the law. Hutchings ought to apply for a summons against Brandt for using
Mr.
peace, and have him bound over
Having induced the authorities to work in the themselves are largely to blame in having given right direction, we won'd suggest that foreigners
when contracted for, they were stored in foreign
Formerly, on the arrival of the teasin Fonchow,
system, they go to the premises of the Chinese godowns and insured against fire: under the new hong that has bought them, or arr inged with the growers for their consignment such premises are generally uninsurable.
Evidencs taken on commission in New South Wales was then put in with the view of showing that the company was incorporated there, and that the company had a branch office carrying on business in Melbourne, The defendants, however, objected to a great number of the questions put to the witnesses, and to the produc tion of documents. Mr. T. S. Kichardson, the manager in Sydney, declined to stale whether the management of the bank was practically entrusted to bim by the directors; he objected to state whether the bank had drelared a dividend, He objected to answer several similar questions, on the ground that any answer he gave might criminate the company and himself. His brother, Mr. W. Richardson, acted as manager in Mel- bourne till about March inst, and since then Mr. witness named Earl Likely, taken in S,dney, was Allen had acted in his place. The evidence of a to the effect that he was in the employ of the December, 1888, till 15th March, 1889, as a clerk, defendant bank in Melbourne from the 3rd
Deposit and Discount Bark. The witness said he was new employed in Sydney at the Colonial
that the Foreign and Colonial Bank carried on business a 42, William-street, Melbourne. There was a brass plate with the name of the bank outside the door. Til January, 1989. Mr. W. Richardson was employed with him. Then
there was Mr. Matthew M'Fire; and there was a boy. The duties of the bay were to go round to the ships and distribute the cards. He had no- said that as clerk he used to receive money for thing to do with the bank. The witness Likely the bank an deposi:. The money was pid is him over the counter, He had received in- strictions from the managers, Mr. W. Richard- son and Mr. M'Fie, to alter the advertisements. in the Melbourne papers.
One of the advertisemen's was headed "Head office, Circular Quy, oppsite Custom-house, Sydney, capital 500.000," Then followed the names of the directors, with a statement that the first dividend was at the rate of 85 per cent, that the bank undertakes the exchange of including the coinage of all foreign nations, in meney, both international and intercolonial,
addition to usun! and customary ban ing business. Deposits received, 12 months at 7 per cent, 6 months at 6 per cert., 3 months at per cent, and the office was at 43, William- street, Melbourne,
Charles S. Allen, manager of the defendant bank in Melbourne, said that the defendants The accounts were operated upon by cheques.
Mr. Hood asked the witness if he produced the books of the bank in Melbourne,
The wine's said he did not.
Mr. Hood said that he had been subpoenaed to produce them.
Mr. Justice Williams sald that the witness must produce the books. If necessary, he would adjourn the case for a year, but he would find a did not produce the books. The case both in summary way of dealing with the witness if he
Sydney and here was conducted in a disgraceful way of the part of the defendante. All sorts of
technical objections were taken, and attempts
made to suppress books and documents,
Mr. Isaacs said that he would admit the fact. that there had been advertisements in the com
pany's books, and also that the company had paid for them. ****
After such a year as 1879, when it has been Mr. Alfred Priestley, manager of the Federal reliably c-lculated that the local tea hongs have Bank, was called as a witness, with the view of lost $300,000 amongst them, to say nothing of showing that a branch manager of a bank in the loss of the teamen and growers, we fail to another colony would have the control of the see that there is sufficient security for the share-insertion of advertisements in the place where he holders of a bank in the more recent method. wan manager, but Mr. Isaacs objected, on the We do not enter into the duty question, giound that the corporation could act only Every Government has a right to its own fi.c through its authorised agent, and the agent here arrangemepis ; but it certainly is an anomaly for was M. T. S. Richardson, the manager in
ii. shipments to be made, (as we are credibly Sydney; and the practice of other banks could informed has occurred lately), where the export not bind these defendants, duty amounted to almost the value of the fea; will have to bear a burden, for duty on that side, and on arrival in England, the same produce of just double its market price.
Mr. Hood submitted that the evidence was It was admitted that the bink manager inserted receivable as to what a bank manager could do the advertisements, and that he had paid for them out of the Lark moneys.
Mr. Justice William admitted the evidence, subject to the objection,
Hongkong 'Amalur "Athletic Sports look, place yesterday evening at the Victoria Recreation Club The accounts for the past year were duly passed, and. Mr. W. H. Young, an old L. A. C. sprinter of renown, was elected Hon. Sec. for the chewing season The Sports, os at present arranged, will be held on Saturday te Bih March. Amongst other valu1le prizes, three splendid Challenge Cups have been presented by well-known local patrons of athletics, WHEN Lord Onslow visited the New Zealand West Coast Goldfields not long ago he was scrosted by a miner, who, in the language of the country, invited His Excellency to "have a wet," The invitation being declined with some hauteur, the digger remarked, "Oh, I suppose you are one of these Salvation Army coves. You couldn't { a breach of nguage calculated to provoke the severest, biow to the tea trade here.Years received deposits and kept current accounts, nut on more side if you was the Governor of New in substantial securities. We suggest this, when every mercantile house used to make advances to the tea bongs, some especial object Zealand himself, but you can't convert me, don't remedy because Mr Hutchings, through a recent you think it! I've seen too many of your kidney accident, has temporarily lost the use of his or class of tea was contracted for: but lately competition has thrown this business liberty, we might, and probably would, have by them have been to such an exost as to give the digger talking.
recommended a more drastic cure for a complaint these hongs too much capital, and have led to that will have to be eradicated by some means or other. If Brandt would only give "An Old such eager buying in the country at the time of Sportsman" half a chance to teach him a lesson picking, that a crop is often spoilt by the avidity in plain English somewhere in the vicinity of the leaf to pass, before he makes terms with the of a grower allowing the proper time for pulling are being formed, we understand; one lot the Happy Valley we are quite sure the course buying hong of brokers were going to impersonate the ❘ of Instruction would be thoroughly appreciated, characters in the trial scene in "The Merchant and nothing extra in the shape of brokerage of Venice," only they all wanted to he Shylock, would be charged. as the easiest, and it has fallen through. Never- A WRITER in the London Telegraph tells us how theless, the affair promises to be a very great
to make a cup of tea. He says;—It seems a success. There is going to be a similar "fantasia" at the Lusitania Club, about the same date, and simple thing enough; yet of the millions who the Macan "Carnival," commencing on the 16th,
use this refreshing and agreeable beverage a will be the excuse for either two or three costume
very small proportion understand how to prepare it. But if not properly rande tea is deprived of balls. The "warned-off" is going in his "libel
A great deal of its value, and sometimes rendered suit," we hear,
absolutely injurious. The water to be used TITUS a correspondent:-If you have occasion should boil, and it should be poured on the tea to mention the capital of Brazil and wish to be immediately it boils; if allowed to overboil, the exact, you must say Rio de Janeiro and pro- peculiar property of boiling water which acts upon tea evaporates and eventually disappears. nounce it Reto day Hay-nay-ray.oh. That is
Tea should not be a decoction, but an Pan-American. It means River of January,
infusion. If allowed to sew it becomes says that when the Portuguese little better than Tradition
a decoction of tannic Twelve fresh Irish counties have been mariners who discovered the Brazilian coast
acid. Tea that is overdrawo is hurtful 0.75 proclaimed.
passed through the narrow gateway to the harbor and saw the beautiful bay in the amphiprecise number of minutes which should be to the nerves and to the digestion, As to the theatre of mountains, surrounded by eternal verdure, they thought they were entering the devoted to the process ofdrawing, some people will mouth of the fiver that would lend them to the day five minutes, some seven, some will perhaps go as far as ten, but cirr experience is in favor of Enchanted Land, When they discovered their mistake they were so disgusted that instead of six; this suffices to bring out the flavor, quality naming the river after the Saviour or one of the and strengib. Just as much tea as is wanted saints they simply christened it the river dis thould be made no more Make fresh tea as often as it is required. The replenishing of the covered in January. However, the city has a
able. As the thorough heating of the PUNJOMS are once more on the beam." A street salled "Street of Good Jesus," and others ca pot with fresh hot water is very objection- called St John the Baptist, St. John the
receptacle is of the first importance, the teapot
Mr. Isaacs submitted that there was no case wink is as good as a nod to a b'ind horse,
Evangelist, ete
should be made thoroughly, hot before the
poved against the defendants, and that the statute did not apply to them. The principal. known Bishap of Peterborough, is not pre preferred to all others by many connoissant.
provided that the provisions of the Act should "BETTING."
Dr. Magee, the well; tea is put into it. The earthenware teapot is
Banks and Currency Act, passed in 1866, se sin. It is, however, a prime if the State and it is supeifluous to say that what-
over utensil is used for this purpose should be Mr. Justice Willams, on the 16th December, exiend and apply to every company, flim, or says so, and, perhaps, the State should; for it doesn't seem to conduce either to useful immaculately clean. Tea is an extremely delicate against the Foreign and Colonial Fxchange individual engaged in the ordinary business of industry or to high monetary ethics." Holding article, is susceptibility to the odors of com- Bank of Australasia to recover penalties for banking by receiving deposits and issuing bills or notes payable id the bearer at sight or demand, somewhat different views from the Alshop, medities nearitisa sourceofd inger and deteriors breach of the Amending Banks and Currency
There were various other provisions in that statut Vicar Meland, of Haverstock Hil, lout 4000 tion, as it readily takes up the smell of coffee, Stature of Victoris, 1888. The plaintiff was by operating on the "Universal Stock Exchange,
cocoa, spices, cheese, bacon, or other articles of Frangis W Addy, of Sydney, accountant. which applied only to the Victorian banks. Butthe pronounced odor, The complaints sometimes Sectia of the Act provided that If any Amending Act of 1888 (No. 1002) was passed, A-d having lost, repented him of what
made about tea would probably not arise iff banking company publishes by advertisement which brought foreign banks under i è operation, Į he had done, and appealed to Justice Kekewich
to get him back his lost cash. The Justice, were always kept in places free from such contary statement of the amount of its capital which Section 2 of the Act: 1,903 enacted that the pro however, very unfeelingly described the issue as ginn. Tea should be stored in a warm, dy is misleading, or to which the amount of nominal visons of the principal Act shall extend-and merely whether in there gambling transactions place; unnecessary exposure to the air should or authorised capital is stated without the words apply to every company, firm, or individual be avoided. Even when jecurely packed in the nominal or anthorised, or words to the like effect, banker trading in Victoria engaged in the the defendants had gambled according to the
der rules of the game, and decided that they had. leaden chests in which it arrives in England, so as to show that the amount of capital is only ordinary business of banking by receiving
authorised, or in which the amount posis and issuing in Victoria or elsewhere bills On Mr. Medland explaining he" would not back the change from the glowing heat of Eastern nominal
b rec," because that would be immoral skies to the damp and humid atmosphere of this of nominal or authorised or subscribed capital to or actes payable to the bearer at sight or on de "I don't see the diff rense, quoth Mr. Lockwood, imate deprives tea of much of its beautiful stated, but the amount of the pald-up capital mand. In other words they were placed on the WE observe that Capt. Lew Buah, of Pagoda.C." Neither do I," rejoined his lordship. So fragrance. Tea of much better quality than is not stated, every such company for every such generally dispensed at our rajyay stations and offence shall be liable to a penalty of £10, to be Anchorage renown, has arrived here from the Vicar Medland was nonicited..
refreshment rooms can be bought at 21 per recoverable with full costs of suit by any Igen North Captain Lew Buah is one of the ablest
A SHOEMAKER named Henry Miller, who died pound A pound of tea would make 128 cups, péribo who may sue for the same." It was Ihat month at Cincinnati, left four daughters, This is considerably less than a farthing per alleged by the plaintiff that the defendants had three of whom were step-sisters and cousins of tap, You may well ask why is it that we should published statements of their captal which were cach other, whilst the fourth was not only step-be still charged 4d and 6d for a little hot milk misleading, as implying that the defendant had
amoyst of nominal capit, or authorised capital, All the banking companies were on the same originally married one of three sisters. This lady tannins lightly flavored with undesirable pald-up capital of £500,000, and in which the
was" galed without the words nominal or footing, whether they were Victorian or foreign, Authorised, or any words to the like effect, so as If it was intended that section of the Act of to show that the capital stated was only nomiazi 1888 should apply to foreign companies, whether or authorised, and in which the amount of the they issued notes or not, it wou'd have said so. paid-up' capital. was not stated, "it" was also Mr. Hood submitted that the defendants wern. alleged that the defendants had pablished adver- |·lfable under the Act. Section a of the Amending tisements of the amount of the capital which Act is only pending the provisions of the were misleading, as implying thatthe defendants principal Act to every banking company. In had a capi al paid up of £500,000, and in which Victoria. In the principal Act it was provided the amount of the authorised capital was stated, that the Act should apply to every company, but the amount of the paid up capital was no firm or Individual engaged in the ordinary stated. The plaintif claimed 2160 for 318 business of banking by receiving deposits and publications, at a penalty of to cach, The de Issuing bills notes payable to the bearer at fendanta denied the statements made in the sight or on demand. Section. 4 provided that statement of claim, and pleaded that if the the company should at the close of business on advertisement were published it was not done each Mondly" prepare a statement of weekly by their authority Sy
· average assets and liabilities. Section's provided Mr. Hood and Mr. Leon, apponted for the for the publication of quarterly statements
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officers in the Chinese Navy, ARFGULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 218, S.C will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zeiland Street, on Tuesday, the 4th proximo, at 8.30 for 3 p.m. precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited.
says
A MATTER of considerable interest to the
died in giving birth to a lule girl. He bic shipping world has recently been occupying public attention in Australia. The marine THX dulness of the Rialto was varied to some quently married the second sister, and, strange extent this afternoon by a fight. It was only a to say, she died in exactly a similar manner, engineers in the employ of the well-known one-round affair between two Chinese brokers, after being married but one year. The shoe- firm of W. Howard Smith & Sons have over a question of commission, but it created no maker was still a young man, and soap married demanded that in future the chief engineer end of amusement and excitement among the the third sister. She lived with Miller for three year, when she too died, leaving a baby girl. polyglot crowd that were near enough to see.
All of the three little girls were living, but the on board ship shall not merely be head A CORRESPONDENT s.nds us a jugubrious wall grandfather bad died about a year before, of his own department, but shall be entirely to the effect that never in his lengthy experience Miller soon married his mother-in-law. But ten independent of the captain. From what in this colony bas he found money so tights days after the birth of a little girl she died also can gather, the question was has been the case lately. We don't publish bis and two months afterwards Miller himself died. letter, as the tightness of money is only too All of the four children are alive, and in addition raised in consequence of an order having universally known. We know it from the diff to the, curious relationships mentioned above, been given to the captains of Messrs; culty our shroff experiences in collecting out there was also the fact that the last of Miller'
standing subscriptions. The payable in wives was not not only sister-in-law to her own HOWARD SMITH & SONS, Steamers "to
advance clause will have to be rigidly enforced daughter, but, step-mother to her own grand.
children. check the work 'in -the engineers' unices matters take a turn for the better shortly,
we
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not cousully endorse the opinions expressed by
Correspondents in this column."
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STANDS SCOTLAND WHERE IT DID? To see Exptor or more? Ho akoyo Taungraziam SIR-Is the Hongkong St. Andrew's Society dying a natural death? A cold and miserable annual meeting, a still more miserable ball on St. Andrew's Day; and no celebration of Burns anniversary would almost lead one to think so.. Scotchmen to the front 1
Yours truly, A
Hongkong, 30th January,
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Perhaps this may meet the eye of some of our legislators for a cheap breakfast table; at all events we bone that our few general remarks may awake sufficient interest in all concerned as To lead to a more prosperous commercial future for Forchow.
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A BANK SUED FOR PENALTIES.
VERDICT FOR £4180:
Suprente Court of Victoria at Melbourne, before A very important action was brought in the
Me Priestley then stated that it would be the duty of the bank manager (when a ranch was est blished in another town) to look after the advertisements.
This closed the case for the plaintiff..
me footing as the Victorian companies were, but lo no different position. There was no reason why the Act should apply to foreign com. panies if it did not apply to Victorian companies. It did not apply to a company which did not fasie, bus or notes payable to the bearer at sigh) or on demand. There was no evidence here that the defendants issued such nocebite