Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMIST S. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS.
JE devote special attention to this part of
Wour business, and our process ensures a perfect filtration and purification of the water, and thorough saturation with Gas.
Our plant comprises some of the largest and finest machines ever shipped from England, and embraces a combination of all the most modern Improvements for filling corked bottles or syphons. Our machinery is fitted with tin-lined tubing, and the fact that our Waters are free frem metallic or any other contamination is certified by Messrs. Hassall and Clayton, Analysts to the City of London,
The following are manufactured daily:- AERATED WATER, GINGER ALE, SODA WATER,:: LEMONADE, TONIC,
SELTZER, LITHIA, SARSAPARILLA,
Our Asrated Sarsaparilla is prepared from a Adid extract of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla made in our own laboratory, and is not merely a flavoured water as so many brands of this popular beverage are.
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. [53 Hongkong, 14th April, 1890. WINES AND SPIRITS.
BY APPOINTMENT,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1890.
INDIA.
BOMBAY, April 11th. Lord Harris has arrived in Bombay and was received with the usual honors on landing,
Lord Reay leaves on Saturday. Replying to an address of the Corporation Lord Harris pro- mised attention to the housing of the working classes and the completion of the harbour
defences.
GERMANY,
LONDON, April 11th, The new Military Bill will demand an extra credit of between forty and fifty millions of markq,
AUSTRIA.
April 13th.
A NEW steamer for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire -the Singan, 1,000 tons-arrived from England to-day. She is intended for coast traffic,
AN Emergency meeting of Zelland Lodge, No.. 525. E... will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zeuland Street, on Thursday, the 24th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
William Robert Needham, Accountant at the
buildings will probably permit of occupation at an earlier.date.
WORKING ACCOUNT.
Mr.Francis, in opening the case for the defence, said he would show that Lucas had no small amount of property and funds in the bank.
The Directors regret that the first year's work New Oriental Bank, stated that $125 on the arding shews a loss of $5,514 34, which however in- March, on 5th $70, on 4th April $95, on 8th
cludes the Preliminary Expenses, amounting to April $55, on 11th April $50, and on the 12th-
$2,114.22. Owing to the damage caused by April $323, were paid in. Up to last night fully heavy rain storms in May the Tramway stopped $500 stood at credit of the prisoner. The account running for two months during the best scason was opened after the fire. Prisoner had no
of the year, and the Hotel receipts' suffered in account before the second of March.
consequence.
M. VICTOR ROQUE, one of the captives held by the rebels in Tonquin recently, arrived here
James Edwards,proprietor of the Marine Hotel, yesterday from Hongkong, by the Maria. He said he had known Lucas for some years. He was is a deaf, white-haired old millionaire, who basa general store-dealer and small loan maker evidently aged a great deal during his recent He had a booth at the Race-Course. He believed privations. He wouldn't be interviewed, though. Lucas had money. He knew that Lucas was net
a popular man. THE E. & A. 5. S. Co. steamer Tannadice arrived to-day, so that three vessels belonging to that Company were in harbor together. She brought back the thirty victorious Macacost soldiers who had decimated Timor. The heaviest, of them weighed eight stone nothing.
Riating continues in Vienna.
SPAIN. Serious anti-Carlist riots have broken out in THE B. N. Borneo Herald of the stint. publishes a circular issued by Capt. Dorff, of the Valencia; the garrison is kept under arms.
Memnon, before leaving Sandakan. It was an invitation to excursionists to visit Hongkong to see the illuminations, the great attraction being the "opportunity of gazing
PARLIAMENT.
A Gladstonian has been elected for Carnarvon District in place of Mr. E. Swettenham, Q.C.
PORTUGAL IN AFRICA.
April 14th. A large armed Portuguese expedition with arilllery has started up the Shird river, it is be lieved, with the purpose of attacking Mponda.
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GERMANY IN AFRICA. German Influence has induced the Sultan of Zanzibar to withdraw the concession of the A. S. WATSON & CO., LD islands of Manda and Patta from the British
(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
Africa Company. The latter's proxy has HONGKONG.
declined to accept the withdrawal.
TE invite attention to the following old Wanded Brands, all of which are of ex- cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
In ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired.
Orders through Local Post or by Telegram receive prompt attention. PORTS (For Invalids and general ušel),
F'er dozen
Case. Per Bot
A Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule
.....$10
B Vintage, Superior quality,
Red Capsules.............................. 12
C Fire Old Vintage, superior J
quality, Black Seal Capsule 14
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Portled)
18
SHERRIES.
A Delicate Pale Dry, dinner wine, Green Capsule.......... Sa erior Pale Dry, dinner
6.
wine, Green-Seat Capsule...7.50
C Manzanilla. Pale Natural
CC
Sherry, White Capsule..... 10 Superior Old. Dry, Pale
Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule..
D Very Superior Old Pale ald Wine,
Dry,' choice
White Seal Capsule.........................
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry. very finest quality, Back Seal Capsule (Old Botilia)
CLARETS.
བ.
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THE CENTRAL ALLIANCE.
It is denied that General Caprivi, Count Kalnoky, and Signor Crispi will meet this summer.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Rohilla, with the next English mail, left Singa pore for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday.
A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge. No. $1.00 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 forg o'clock precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited."
1.10
upan ROYALTY
not often given to people in this isolated part of the Universe!"-The Harald regrets that nobody thought the game worth the candle.
IT may interest some of our readers in Japan to know that Mr. Rapp, auctioneer, testified in the Wanchai arson case this morning that most some hundreds of cases-of the "kill-at-fon yards" brandy which sells at about one dollar and sixty cents per case of doren bottles-; is chiefly bought for sale in the land of the Chrysan- themum. An inspector of liquors seems as necessary an official as an inspector of nuisances in the land of Dal Nippon, and possibly in Hongkong also. Such brandy cannot be fit for human beings.
THE Legislative Council will bave to appoint a
crank-killer. A despatch from Port Townsend says that Miss Regina Rothschild, a young lady of that city, started from there on March 15th on a tour of the globe in an attempt to beat all previous records. Citizens have subscribed $3,000 towards the trip. Miss Rothschild will travel castward over the Canadian-Pacific, and expected to leave there on the same day that George Francis Train was announced to sail from Tacoma westward. Miss Rothschild expects to make the trip in sixty-one days.
Is our Police force degenerating? Yes'enlay a European constable was remanded on a charge of assault, and a Sikh on suspicion of "squeezing," and to-day Mr. Wodehouse had a Zukong belang ing to the Water Folice before him, accused of highway robbery. The prosecutor, a hawker, pro-id that on Sunday morning he was going along the road at Yau-ma-ti, with $3 in his hand, when he met the prisoner, who demanded his money, and took the three dollars off him. The prisoner's excuse was that the man owed kim some money. He was remanded,
1.25 BARNUM is nothing if not original. He
poses, as a novel feature of the World's Fair of 1892, the securing from the Khedive of the 1.50 mummy of Rameses if (the Phardoh who perse
cated the Israelites), and the exhibition of the relic under a guard of Egyptian soldiers,
0.60
THE Duke of Connaught forwarded to Shanghai, 0.75 from Nagasaki, through H.B.M. Comaul-General, two large photographs of himself, one for the outgoing Tactal Kung, and the other for the incoming Tantal Nich. They were accompanied by autograph letters from his royal highners.
1.00
1.00
THE Rangoon Gaselle understands that Mr. A. R. Colquhoun has received a valuable. post in the South African Company, having been ap pointed Superintendent of the rich and fertile province of Mashonaland. It is stated that his 1.52 emoluments wil be about two thousand sterling
-Per Case, Per Case.
dox. • dos. Quaru Pictu
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
Red Capsule
$4
B St. Estephe, Red Capsule ... 4.50
per annum.
THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- landers will play the following programme at $4.50 the Officers Mess, this evening, commencing
5.00 at 8 o'clock:-
C. St. Julien.....
7
D La Rose
7.50
17.00
Per dos
Сало.
BRANDY,
A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
Capsule.....
..........$12
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
C Very Old Liqueur Cognac
Red Capsules
14
18
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1872, Vin- tage, Red Capsule, ... 24
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thorne's Blend, White Cap
{ sule
8
B Watson's Glenorchy Mellow Blend, Blue Capsule with Namé and Trade Mark...... 8 C. Watson's Abelour-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark... D. Watson's HKD Blend of
the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule... 10
Pet BOL
Match.....
"Militatron qona ..Gounod. Vaise.cate
Deutsche Herren "
„Straus Selection.........
'Clivetto".....
Audran. Parialna
Donizetti. Chorus from.t
Crainer. Selection "The Jacobite
Bythe Attorney-General.-Lucas madeanoffer to him to furnish his hotel with liquors; but no thing came of the offer.
Charles David Wilkinson; solicitor, said he possessed several promissory notes amounting to about $1.000. belonging to Lucas.
The board anticipates that the expenses of carrying on the business during the present year will be considerably reduced, and is of opiston that the prospects of the Company are favourable.
DIRECTORS,
Mr. Alexander' Findlay Smith having retired from the Board on his departure from the Colony Mr. Tas, Anderson was invited to take his place. In accordance with Paragraph V of Clause XV of the Articles of Association Messrs. P. Ryrie and J. B. Coughtrie retire, but being eligible offer themselves for re-election.
AUDITOR,
By the Attorney-General. If these notes were paid they would amount 10 $1,000.
The accounts have been audited by Mr. Inspector Swanston, called by His Lordship.Fullarton Henderson, whose appointment requires said Lucas' booth at the race course was used for confirmation. gambling, and selling sweets and liquor. Money was not taken in his booth-it was arranged by tickets.
If he had taken away.
Mr. Francis said the prisoner was constantly bringing debtors, Chinese, Indians, and others, to Court, and was therefore very unpopular. There was a great difference in a man selling fire to his honse, to destroy it, and setting it on fire for the purpose of defrauding an in- There was "an entire surance company.. absence of motive in this case. There had been no attempt on the part of the prosecution to prove that prisoner was in any kind of distress or in poverty. the most valuable property before the fire then the case would bear a very bad aspect, but evidence showed that Lucás did not do so, The prisoner was in passession of money at the time of the fire and was probably making money at the races in his booth. To obtain a conviction the prosecution must prove that Lucas himself set fire to his premiss. There was a great danger of injustice to a prisoner where prelimi- nary enquiries extended over a long period, or, as
in this case, where the fir; enquiry was peculiarly deficient and irregular. It was quite possible that some of Lucas' numerous enemies rushed into the house as soon as it was broken op-n, and with a view to causing suspicion to rest up: i prisoner, themselves threw kerosene about. He sub- mitted that it was highly probable that the fire in the boxes and on the clothes was caused by sparks from the burning door; the fire must have been started, at the door, and from the outside The evidence of the police would have been more useful and it been more straightforward
He and much more free from ex ggeration. admitted that the circumstances of the case were suspicious, but contend d'that there'was no conclusive evidence to prove that Lucis was the only man in the house and that Lucas caused the fire himself.
After a reply by the Allarney-General
His Lordship summoned up. He told the jury. that they must be reasonably satisfied of guilt and not give a verdici hastily, up `n mere suspicion. At 4'30 the jury retired to consult privately. returning at 5.15 pin, wab a verdict of not guilty" by fuur to thise.
A CHINESE SULLIVAN,
FROM two different parts of the world, South America and British North Borneo, stories come of advantage being taken of the cannibal pro- pensities of white ants to compass their des iruction. One writer says that his house was threatened with total destruction by this plague of the tropics, when he made a paste of white
A Chinese pugilist who ought to have a go at ants and arsenic, which the ants eagerly devoured, Sullivan, or Morse, or the ninety inch waisted and in a fortnight the house was entirely cleared party who used to live here, exists at Yaumati of the pests. In this case, we may suppose that He is not happy-first because he is in the bands the house got a bad name among the white onls, of the police, and secondly because he has a rival. so that they left it after many had died. In the He is a professor of boxing and fencing, as under- North Borneo case, however, the narrator talks stood by the Celestial athlete, and yesterday he of extermination, which seems as impossible gat a man to write the following for him :- with white ants as it would be with mosquitoes. Having been informed that a man named Lau He is a planter, and he says he pours a sold-A Kwan, who keeps a place at Hungham, where tion of corrosive sublimate into the ants' habitat, he instructs pupils in the art of fighting and One of the ants eats a particle and dies; self defence, boasts that he has no equal in his then others eat the dead one and, the dying, are profession, and that he is a perfect Hercules in themselves eaten, with further fatal effecin. The strength, and offers an inducement in the flavour of romance about this story is very strong, shape, of $10 to anyone who has the but no one need be disappointed, for we are
courage
him at the
manly simply left face, to face with the old truth that there is no remedy for white ants.
The Secretary of the Hongkong Cricket Club needs lessons in consideration. Until it appeared in the Singapore papers Hongkong had no idea that the following kind invitation, or the reply to it, had been sent -
Singapore, March 18th, 1899. To the Secretary,
to meet
art and bead his arm-bis' strength being equal to several bundred cattles,
1
P. RYRIK, . Chairman.
Hongkong, 16th April, 1890.
STATEMENT. OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ANDING DECEMBER JIST, 1889. Liabilities.
Captial
45,000.00
1,000 shares cach deemed to be
paid up $15 alloited to A Findlay Smith as perprospectus.$ 15,000.00 3,000 shares each paid up $15 alloted to the public............ 1st Instalment of 1st Call ọf $1.
upon 4,000 shares.....$20,000.00 Less amount unpaid..... 6.865.00
Debenture Loan-
650 Debentures each $100 hinded A. Findlay Smith as per pro- Hongkong and Shanghat Bank Cuz-
rent Acc juni
Property
Assets
13,135.00
650.co 2,921.13
$141,036.13
Amount paid A. Findlay Smith for Land and Building taken over as Der prospec'us ..........$ Amount since expended on the New
Buildings.......KATETUSPAI
Furniture
St ck...... Sundry Debiors
Profit and Loss
Dr.
WORKING ACCOUNT.
To Provisions, Wines, &c.
Chirges..........
Cr.
Salaries and Wages........................... Preliminary Expenses..
By Revenue
Interest
98,000.00
ון
12 712.00
12.07 64
10.740.74 1,611 41 5.534-34
$141.036.13
$13, 65 36 8.244.12
·6,77 3.91. 2,114-22
$35.29861
..$ 20 374-53 363-74 106,00
Scrip and Transfer Feen. Amount carried forward to a new. Account commenta
$35,798.6r
Fearing that riots are likely to ensue, the magistrates have ordered the public houses at Bootle to be closed, and have billeted troops upon the premises.
March 17th, The Times states that the present struggle between labour and capital is likely to be the greatest the world has ever known.
The Porte, acting upon pressure brought to hear by Russia, refuses to recognise Prince Fer dinand as ruler of Bulgaria.REA
The colliery owners in the Bristol district and parts of Warwickshire, Nottinghamshire, Lan- cashire, and Yorkshire, have conceded the demands of the men, the number of colliers thus affected being 30,000.
It is announced that a modus vivendi bas been arranged respecting the fisheries dispute between France and Newfoundland. It is based on the status quo of July, 1889,
In explanation of the Newfoundland fisheries dispute, it would appear that the French, who nwn the small islands of Miguelon and St. Pierre, off the Newfoundland coast, hive alleged viela ions of the rights of French subjects in Newfoun land simultaneously complained of the Newfoundland waters, and the Legislature of
French encroachment on their fisheries. In the year 1887 the Legislature of Newfoundland. pressed upon the Imperial Government a grië- vance relating to the fisheries, and the encroach ment upon them by French subjects. A bül dealing with the matter had been disallowed by the House of Commons. Diplomatic 'action resulted, but the desires of the colony remain unsatished, owing to the state of our relations with France. In 1889 the Government of Siz Robert Thorbura appealed to the peopleno a plat- form comprising almost all the recent events in the colony. The Bait Act forbidding the sale of bait to French fishermen, who being bounty- aided were able to undersell Newfoundlanders. in foreign markets, was the principal subject of contention. After being vetoed by Imperial authorities it was finally allowed on the earnest petition of the colony. It deprived a number of colonists of their livelihood, but is said, despite conflicting testimony, to effectually handicap French fishermen, with corresponding benefit to the islanders. Through it the value of the fish product of Newfoundland has been increased 20
March 19th, The French papers consider that Prince Bis- marck's resignation of the Chancellorship is a guarantee of peace...
per cent.
There is less excitement in Berlin than is any
other of the European capitals.
in
The people in Berlin express great confidence the Emperor William.
-The Bourse has not been affected by Prince' Bismarck's action,
Strong pressure is being brought to bear upon the Emperor William to secure a settlement of the present political crisis in the affairs of Prussia.
The Liverpool dock bourers on strike are. resuming work.
Great distress exists amongst the families of the men who have been so long on strike in Liverpool Mi
In Lancashire and Cheshire the col-owners are obdurate in refusing he demands of their wo kmen now cut on strike, but in Leicester the
owners are yielding to the men,
As a result of the increased price of coal and its scarcity the shipping of the port of Hull. has been largely affected.
Thirty thousand mili hands have been thrown out of employment owing to the same causes.
Coal is being retailed în London at the rate of
:.
5.534 34 43 per ton.
The death is notified of John Rogers Herbert, R.A.
The Comte de Paris has expressed his warm approval of the action of the Duc d'Orleant, and, in consequence, the spirits of the French Royalists are said to be rising.
I have compared the Accounts with the Books and Vouchers at the Company's office and found them correct.
F.. HENDERSON, Auditar. Hongkong, 16th April, 1890. ̧
CORRESPONDENCE.
'(We do not necessarily endorse the 'opinions expressed by
Correspondents in this colums),
i.
THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL,
TO THE EDITar or the "Honawona Tiliazaru,, . DEAR SIR,—I have received for the Funds of
Now I, Hok o Chua, have travelled over many countries of the globe, but never met a the Hospital- man who is so boastful and proud of his supe.B. F. Koranjia, Esq., (Canton)........ riority in his profession. I. also, have some K. W. Koch, Esq. . knowledge of fighting, and therefore write this T. T and post it up, so that all men can see me chal lenging him to meet me at the spat la front of the Kwan Yun Tempo, Hungham, at 5pm this day (and inst.) man against man," there to try with me his skill in fighting, and the result of the test will be to settle beyond a doubt who is the b st 'man, If this Lau Kwan refuses to come out then he is R vain boaster and rank coward, and he must clear out of the place altogether, for he is only an upstart, and, when put to the test, a baby at heart-therefore not fit to associate with respectable men. I hope all people will excuse
50
10
Jno. J. Francis, Esq, Q.C Augusto J. do Rozario, Esq................... and $489.97 as the result of the concert given by the pupils of Signor Cattoned, 333 tickets
concert amounted to $137.63,
ld realized $737.60, and the ex enses of the
Yours faithfully,
THE Hankow correspondent of the N.C. Daily. $1.10 News writes that quite a spurt has been given to imports, which have had the benefit of very 1.25 cheap freights, but holders of last year's goods are not particularly pleased. The battle of the 1.50 steamer companies will only give natives a temporary advantage, and unfortunately it is easier to lower freights than to raise them after. 2.00 wards when owners have kissed again. Mean- while the losses will be considerable if the competition continues to the bitter end, which 0.75 will be when natives and their goods are carried "fier." At present with good management the rates are high enough to prevent much loss, but 0.75 it is a great pity that the large companies have fallen out, for it means ruin to the shareholder whatever the result may be to the managers. 0.75 Can any body of steamer owners imagine that
they can secure the monopoly of the carrying Club. I trust there will be no difficulty in came. Dated this 3rd day of the 3rd moon Hok trade? When they have ruined their opponents 1.CO at a cost of, say, Tl. 3.000,007, will they be able to reenup themselves for this loss? It is not to the advantage of the public that there should be a monopoly, and without the support of kindness zhewn to us in January last. Unless both the challenge and its author. He, together Captain Helms, arrived from Sydney and parts shippers, etc., a monopoly is impossible.
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur.
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule 121.to IRISH WHISKY.."
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule........
B. John Jameson's Fine Old,
"Green" Capiule......................
0.75
10
1,00
C John Jameson's Very Fine
Old, Green Capsule......... 11 GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY,, fincold, Red Capsule, with Name o
1.10
GIN,
A Fine Old Tom, White Capsule.4.50
B Fine Unsweetened, White
Capsule....................450
C Fine.A. V. H. Geneva.........5.25
RUM.
Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule go.... 12'
1.00.
0.40
040
0.50
1.00
Hongkong Cricket Club. DEAR SIR-I am directed by the President and Committee of the Singapore Cricket Club to invite the Hongkong Cricket Club to send a team to Singapore to play the Strails Settlements some time this year. The Committee would suggest date either early in June or during the month of August, but they would leave it an open one to suit the convenience of the Hongkong Cricket ing out the arrangement made when I was in Hongkong that your Cricketers should pay us a visit as early as possible, as we are all here very anxious to shew our great appreciation of the the match takes place before October some of us who played at Hongkong may have left the Straite.
I mm, &c,
F. V. HORNEY, Capt. Singapore Cricket Club. Hongkong, April BIA 1890. - To the Secretary,
Singapore Cricket Club, DEAR SIR, I am directed by the President and Committee of the Hongkong Cricket Club to acknowledge the receipt and to thank you for your friendly challenge of the rath March which I vary much regret to say we are unable to accept cannot possibly get leave as they have already been to Shanghal this season. I have delayed answering your kind invitation before until I patch a team or not.
!
E. W. MAITLAND,. Hon. Treasurer, Alice Memorial Hospital.
Hongkong, April zand, 1790.
Lo Chun," The placard attracted a good deal | NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL. of attention, the writer having many supporters- and pupils, but very soon the police annexed with the baby at heart," were arraigned before Mr. Wodehouse this morning, and remanded
PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING. COMPANY LIMITED,
The report for presentation to the shareholders of the above Company, at the first ordinary yearly meeting to be held at the City Hall,on Saturday next, is as follows
In accordance with Paragraph 2 of Clause XX of the Articles of Association the Directors now beg leave to submit to the shareholders year 1889.
|
The E. and A. 5. S. Cols steamer Tannadica,
of call to-day. We take the following telegrams from our exchanges :-----
- LONDON, March 14th, Sir Arthur Havelock, K.C.M.G., late Governor of Natal, has been appointed Governor of Ceylon
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Mr. W. H. Smith, the leader of the House of Commons, bas stated that the Government fatends to submit to Parliament à ́motion to secure the earlier closing of the session. The motion will be in the direction of that which was submitted to the House by Sir G. O. Trevelyan, Mr. W. S. Caine, M.P., states that Mr. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is in favour of the Imperial Parliament being dissolved after Easter,
Lord Randolph Churchill has refused to resign. his seat in the House of Commons owing to the limited character of the censure that has been passed upon him.
The strike of coal miners has benefited the Durham and Northumberland collieries.
The Lisbon press express a desire that Forlu- gal should cease diplomatic relations with Eng- land. In their comments the press make an attack upon the Prince of Wales.
"It has been discovered that the British fag was hoisted outside. Bri ish territory in Africa, and on land which England admits belongs to Portugal.
Another anonymous gift of £50,000 has been made for the establishment of a convalescent bome.
The American laundrymen in San Francisco have conlcaced with the object of underbidding the Chinese
A number of Niällist prisoners, under sentence of banishment to the Folar coast of Siberia for the offence of establishing a printing press at Irkutsk in Central Siberia, refused obedience. The men barricaded themselves in their bilson and fought desperately, killing several troops. Finally the troops prevailed and the prisoners were massacred.
Thirteen thousand imported labourers are now employed in the Liverpool docks,
March goth,
The Executive of the American Federation of ' Labour, has decided that the carpenters shall
Serious disturbances" have taken place in Liverpool in connection with the dock labourers strike. The unionists have attacked the non-demand the concession of eight hours if suc.
cessful, it is arranged that the other trades shall, A body of you troops have arrived in Låverpool | take up the agitatios in succession,ŽURN.
unionist, labourers.
A NORTHERN Contemporary hears from Burmah that arrangements have now been made at Bhamo by which the old road, known as the Ambassador's Route, from that place into China, has been reopened for trade, after being closed for more than twelve years on account of the number of petty chlefs' territories through which It passed, and the absence of any one chief powerful enough to guarantee protection to the caravans. The road follows the south bank of the Tapeng until it enters the Chinese Shan States, Under the new arrangement all the chiefs agree to protect the caravans in their respective Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon territories, to keep the roads in repair, to desist -The members of the team though anxious to go their report and statement of accounts for the so successful that they secured passertion of the Conference at Berlin has resigned, owing to
from the practise of demanding presents, and to refer all disputes to the British authorities at Bhame. The tolls are all to be collected at for the purpose of division in proper and stated proportions. If any chief should break the agreement be will be liable to lose his share and to be further punished by the British and his fellow chiefs. Moreover, the Government agreed to add to the toll fund a sum of vs rupees for every hundred pack animals reaching Bhamo. by this route, and to afford protection to the tribes entering into the agreement against all hostile attacks. On the other side, the Chinese merchants agres to use the road, and to (Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chiy the progress he could during the winter months
LIQUEURS.
Benedictine Maraschino Curagoa Herring's Cherry Cordial Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, &ze.
s}
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1890. -
TELEGRAMS.
MR. STANLEY,
LONDON, April 9th.
Mr. Stanley has left Egypt for Brussels.
GERMANY.
PROPERTY.
Bhamo, and periodical meetings of chiefs called was able to say positively whether I could des- is larger than was originally, anticipated, the The floods in the valley of the Mississipp! have the month of April at Cannes, in the south of
I am, &c.
ARTHER A. TRAVERS, Secretary, Hongkong Cricket Club:
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
Fustice).
THE WANCHAI ARSON CABE,
city to assist the police in maintaining order. It is reported that the Marquis of Lothian will succeed Lord Carrington as Governor of New The Indians of the neighbourhood made an attack upon the town of Huanta in Peru, not far South Wales inland from the city of Lima. The atack was The French Socialist delegate to the Labour town, which they gave over to sack. In the serious disagreement with his colleagues. conflict tod of the Spanish inhabitants were In an examination into the bankruptcy of Lord The cost of the Contract for building the Hotel murdered and
Deciburst, it was proved that his debts amount to March 15t
25 000, his assets to £500. The Starquis of Salisbury; proposes to spend reason being that upto consideration it was found undesirable to extend the old building and
France, on account of his heathersto new plans more suitable for the purposes of the Hotel were adopted The old building known as the Peak. Hotel has already been removed was found necessary to do this at once because the Government required that all earth-cuting and tipping should be completed before the raing season, and in order that the Contractor for the new buildings should have full scope to make all
it
proved disastrous. At Memphis the rives is 40 miles wide, and an extensive area of country is
inundated.
According to latest accounts, however, the food is reported to be subsiding
The engineers strike is extending, and men are coming out at Hartlepool and Middlese borough, moc ARAW-AR
The Boer borgbern of Pretoria, the capital of The Rev. John Willldin Horsley, Vicar of the Transvaal Republic, offer to avenge its Tinity Church, Woolwich, has declined to accept insults offered at Johannesburg to their president, an Australian bishopric, which was offered to Mr. Kruger, by a resort to sims against t
foreign population, he cannot repre him,
A pugilistic encounter has taken place at San President. Kruger has succeeded in allaying Francisco between Murphy, of Australia, and the warlike feelings of the citizens of Pretoria, Warren, an American boxer. Murphy knocked He declares that the majority of the Inhabitants of Johannesberg are friendly to the constituted his opponent out in four rounds.
Thirty thousand englucers at Newcastle-pantharides of the country and that the Insuite Tyne and Stockton have struck work for fewer to himself and the earing down of the tag of
hours,
Pay cight annas for each pack animal and
The Directors are glad to say that the work two for each coolie. Of the advantage of this
has progressed favourably; and it is hoped that a arrangement. to trade (there can be no doubt
portion of the Hotel will be ready for occupation whatever, and it seeths to meet the peculiar
The hearing of this case was resumed to-day, by June next, Gym difficulties of the position very skilfully. In the the Attorney General (Mr. W. M. Goodman), Craigieburne first place the villagers were always demanding prosecuting and Mr. Francis, Q.C. It was considered desirable that the Company presents for allowing caravanstopass; the caravan
March 16th, men themselves, when they felt strong enough, instructed by Mr. Wilkinson) defending should have temporary premises suitable for The Reichstag is summoned to meet on the quarrelled with the people; the Chinese tried to HC Rapp appraiser, gave evidence Visitors, during the building of the Hotel,und con
The students of porto presented petition to cheat the tribes in the tells and the tribes brought respecting the valuation taken by him of consequently Mr. Thomas & lease of "Craigleborn false charges against the caravan men. In this tents of Lucas premises in Wanchal,He was taken over by the Company. It was for a King Carlos, asking for the removal of the Way a caravan of several thousand mules.might placed the utmost value of the contents at $722, term of three years, by which time it was estimat exequatur issued to the British Consul in that be stopped for days. But now these disputes Lucas might possibly make that amount out of ed the Company Hotel would be completed city, authorising him to exercise his powers
and be in thorough working order; the progress The King has decided to comply with the are to be referred to Bhamo, and the stoppage the things
Other evidence followed,
that has been mando however with the new request contained in the petition, }) of caravans will cesso,
6th May.
AUSTRIA.
A serious strike and rioting have occurred Vianna
the Republie at the latter town' were the acts of bat a few drunken rowdies., - Owing to the miners! strike in the coal districts thers are now half a million workpeople thrown
out of employment in Lancashire. Ten thousand colton looms are Idie gely
The supply of gis in the north of England is becoming reduced in many places to half the extent of the wetsal supply.