Intimations.
· DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMIT E D, CHEMISTS.
AERATED WATERS.
UR plant comprises the latest improve
ments, and is one of the most complete and efficicat ever shipped from England.
The Purity of the water is certified by analysts. The construction of the machinery and system of manufacture in force ensures cleanliness and absence of all contamination in the finished
waters,
The quality of the Soda Water is equal to that of the best English makers.
The Flavour of the syruped waters is equal to any produced in England or abroad.
Soda and Aerated Wwater supplied in Bombay sized bottles only, unless the ordinary size is specially ordered.
Coast Port Orders carefully packed and des. patched by first steamer after receipt of order.
(Telephone No. 60)
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,
·Hongkong, 28th April, 1890.
DY APPOINTMENT.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. ESTABLISHED AD, 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.
OUR AERATED WATER MANUFACTORY | is replete with the best Machinery, embodying
all the latest improvements in the trade. The greatest attention has been paid to appli- ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.
LARGE BOMBAY
" SODAS"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
Carnot left. Marseilles in the iron-clad Formid. abk, and has arrived at Corsica, attended by the Freach fleet. '
THE TYPHOON SEASON.
The Spanish Consul kindly forwards a telegram which states that this morning a typhoon existed in the Southern China Sen, moving W. N. W. in the direction of Paragus.
Dr. Doberck adds, in his weather report, that "the barometer continues falling in Hongkong (to-day It is 29.#4) owing to the approach of the depression announced yesterday, which appears to be moving north-westward in the China Sea."
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE French trade with Yunnan is lacreasing On the 14th ult, eighteen junks, laden with ten,
etc, and $150,000 worth of tin, descended the
Red River to Hanoi..
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FAMINE is reported from several provinces in Upper Toaquin, and the missionaries are doing
out rice.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Verona left Yokohama for this port, vis, ports of call, at daylight to-day,
BIEN INJURED AND MISSING.
excess of any net result to which the company has before attained.
Our new additional premises in Queen's Road will shortly be ready for occupation, and will give us room for further expansion, and enable us to exercise a more efficient supervision over our stock.
The net profits of the company for the twelve months under review, after providing for all bad EXTENSIVE FIRE THIS MORNING. and doubtful debts, and Including $1,081.53, brought forward from last year, amount to $82,4138. We paid an interim dividend of 7 percent. in November last, absorbing $35.000 00, and I now propose to pay a further dividend of 7 per cent. (making 14 per cent. for the year), which will absorb $35,000.00, to carry $5,000 00 to reserve fund to meet contingencies or for equalising dividends (in accordance with clause 16 of article 113), and $5,000.00 to the general insurance fund, leaving a balance of $1,413.88 to be carried forward. capital receives the benefit of the total dividends capital, although we did not have the use of the carned in 1889, on the same footing as the old new capital until July last.
The new
the Mamion early this month for delivery at Sandakan.
and ran her nine knots with consummate oase, } the children can scratch together. Any fater- She has plenty of beam, is of light draft, and | mission of this labour is scarcely less in checke has a roomy cabin forward. Her chief duty upon the means of existence, than the interrup will consist in carrying surveyors up rivers tion of the work of the "hread-winner himself. and along the coast of Borneo. Added to In this dismal struggle for a basket full of leaves : this there is the steam-laurch Salama, the pro- | and weeds, the children, of China expend perty of the Sandakan Tobacco Planting Com: annually incomputable millenniums of work. In pay, which is ready to be shipped on board the midst of such a barren wilderness as con- stitutes the life of most Chinese children, ahy- thing which breaks the dull monotony is welcomed The yards at Yau-ma-ti present a very lively with keen joy. The feast-dats, the annual or appearance just now, our Chinese ship-builders semi-annual fairs held at same neighbouring baving their hands pretty full One of them, town, an occasional theatrical exhibition, and the unfalling succession of weddings and funerals, A Lung, hasa useful-looking two hundred tonner broad, and is being built to the order of Mr. of daily toil Midway between the most impor on the stocks. She is 135 feet long, and 17 feet all serve as happy reliefs to the unceasing grind Kow Hong Take for the Straits Settlements trade.fant and the least important of these relaxations With 80 H.P.she is expected to do ber so knots. is to be reckoned the chance arrival in the Ab Lung is also building a sixty-ton schooper on village of a foreigner. By that subile instinct a special desigo, for a copra merchant in the which philosophy det ir ar nothing to explain, Caroline Islands. She will be fast, of light all the children in the country-side seem to have draught, and well-fitted to cruise in the shallow ascertained the fact of this arrival simultaneously, no matter what p ́ins the traveller may, have waters of the many, islands, Other Chinese builders arc putting together schooners taken to conceal himself in his conveynace. and launches ranging as high as fifty tons They gather with the keen scent of the buzzard burden. The most interesting of these is a waiting for the expiring camel, and every move- order of Mr. Saruki, a Japanese, who for some fifteen ton pearl fishing schooner bailt to the ment of the strange bring is a source of keen joy to the gathered multitudes of children, whose joys five years has been engaged, with marked success, are of the fowest and most inconsid rable type. in the Australian pearl fisheries of which Fett Whenever the traveller in the inn-yard is tempted Darwin is the head-quarters. Suzuki tells to emply his wash-dish on the ragged 'swarming us that he and some two hundred of bis coun- crowd of eagerly curious youth about him, let trymen are now making a very good thing him pause to reflect, that for them life has at out of the fisheries, where Europeans prefer best not too many pleasures, and that one of Japanese as divers, to the exclusion of all these is the foreigner, necessarily transitory and other nationalities. The schooner was to always inscrutable, and not to be rudely taken be launched to-day, and is to be towed from those who are best qualified to enjoy him. $500,000 00 | down to Port Darwin by one of the When tempted to hurl objurgations at the too 132,974 60 regular liners. This is, "we believe, the firs pervasive, the too curious, the ton irrepressible, 44,649.29 instance of a vessel being built in Hongkong for but obviously happy Chinese children who the const trade and fisheries of Australia, Altoge- swarm about him, the Occidental tourist might ther, it looks as though Hongkong is developing do well to recall an observation made hv A into an important centre not only for shipping criminal in an English police court. When generally, but also as a prt where ship-building imposing the sentence, the justice reprimanded is carried on in a very creditable manner.
the prisoner for being drunk and disorderly and for miscellancour cracking of the skulls of innocent spectatork. The culprit replied simply ; Yes, yer 'onor, but it's a par att as never ‚ rejoices 1”—N, C. Daily News.
(To be continued.).
been audited by Messrs. Edward Moore & Son The company's accounts in Landon have Chartered accountants, and these at the head office by Mr. A. W. Maitland.
After nearly-if not quite three months freedom from alarms, an extensive fire occurred this morning, in the principal Chinese street- Bonham Strand West, No. 68. The flames were seen by the Police on the higher levels nearly a quarter of an hour before the fire-bell rang, the Watchman on the look-out being probably asleep. The result was that, by the time the Brigade got to work, the building a three-storeyed one myriad sparks being carried an immense distance was wrapped in flames from top to bottom, the
by the strong breeze. The contents of the hong THE sentences passed upon earring snatchers is were varied-pickles, hides, glue, etc., etc., being getting hotter and hotter. Lately one of these stored on each floor, and burning fiercely. A daring scoundrels got four months, then another copious supply of water was readily obtained soon followed him into H. M. Ho for six
Hongkong, 1st May, 1890. from the Harbour, but No. 68 was hopelessly 1-by Mr. months, and to-day one was senter Wodehouse for nine months. All with well-ablaie from the outset, Soon after the outbreak
DECEMBER 31ST, 1889. merited H. L
five coolies were scen standing at the upper
Liabilities. windows, unable to escape, and when the flames,Capital account........... leaping upwards, made them desperate, they Local and general liabilities............. dropped into the street, where they lay, helpless Billa.payable.......... and unconscious, until taken to Hospital by the Permanent rea-rve fund .$140,000.00 Police. Their injuries are all serious. Two Reserve fund to meet con- tingencies or for equaliz traders are believed to have been' in the house,
ing dividends......... General insurance fund... and are still missing.
י.
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme on the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock:-
March......" Nannie wilt thou gang wire”....Wakeles...... Lancer "Faust up to date".... Valse ......* The Dificent” wa
Conte Polka Go ar you please Quadrilla Lebts c
of Londo Calop... Charlotten"
.......................... Fahrbach,
.Bergen,
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS, General Manager.
Profit and loss,
forward......$1,031 63 Profit and loss. 81,333.25
Ad interim divi.
dend of 7 per
cent, payable
in November;
1888 $15,000.00 Less amount
unclaimed... 2,663.50
The Brigade, directed by Superintendent A TERRIBLE affair nearly came off at Hanoi fast Wodehouse and Assistant Superintendent Hors- month. Two brokers had a discussion about pool, were working, heroically, hoping to con
fine the fire to the one building, when suddenly the merits of the Government, and from argu. ments got to challenging each other. One was flames burst.out from the hong next door but a dab at fencing, and the other was a crack pistol-one-No. 73. The breeze that fanned them was shot, so to equalise matters it was agreed that they so powerful that they quickly enveloped that should shoot each other dead with rifles. Just place also, and it was only a matter of a few in time one of them "took water," however, and moments before the intervening premises followed: The scene was the most brilliant they still live.
witnessed for years, the huge white Rames, fed on the great stores of combustibles within,
leeward behaved splendidly, although thehot blast roaring in the wind. The firemen who were to almost burnt and blinded them, great flakes of burning material whizzing past, and even the powerful jets from the hose blowing back upon them. The three buildings seethed again, the water apparently taking no effect-indeed | Stock in trade successes. All were well-played, the cart being it impossible for a single drop reach upheld by Mrs. L. E. Watson, Mr. M. S. the central part. The whole street, which is Hackett, Mrs. 5. Kjeller. Sun. Clerk J. Coccupied by the richest hengs in the Colony, Watson, Serg, R. L. Grestock, m.-Sergt. F. including the Opium Farm, seemed doomed, but, Hunt, St. Sergt. J. Tennant, Corp. A. E. Crouch, hour after hour, the engines steadily drove a and Mr. J. Dade.
dozen streams against the blaze, and although the three hongs were reduced to mere shells by day-light no further damage was done. Water is still being poured on the ruins, which will probably burn until Sunday or Monday
THE dramatic entertainment give in the Garrison Theatre inst night by the Military Mummers attracted a consi rable audience, and was highly successful. Maddison Marton's short comedy "Woodcock's Little Game" was the principal item, but, judging from the continual laughter, the farces The Area Belle" and, even
10,000,00 $,000 00
$ 82,413.88
Assets.
1 We continue to supply large battles as more so, "Brother Bill and Me." were the chief the great. depth from front to back made Building improvements beretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order,
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order. 3
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica.
tion.
Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
The following is a List of Waters always kept ready in Stock:-
PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER. LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
SELTZER WATER
LITHIA WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
TONIC WATER ·
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE. No. Credit given for bottles that look dirty, or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us,
A. S. WATSON.& Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, Chins, and Manila,
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
THE Messageries Maritimes' vessel Arethuse, which got aground off Hoihow last month, has been safely floated. The operation would pro- bably have been performed earlier had not the anchor broken when Leaving her off. 350 bags of rice had to be sacrificed to lighten her, and much of the remaining cargo temporarily unleaded, and even then the French gunboat Chasseur, and the Chine e'man-of-war Chento had to render assistance. Her trouble did not and there. On arriving at Haiphong the Customs officials discovered 1,290 tacls of opium, brought from Hongkong by a sailor, for 'n Chinaman. Both were arrested, and proceedings taken against the vessel for $103,000 penalties.
FROM The Newspaper Presi Directory for 1890 we ascertain that there are now published in the United Kingdom 2234 new papers, distributed as follows:-England-London, 478; Provinces, 1290-1768; Wales, Eg; Scotland, 194; Ireland, 190; Isles. 23. Of these there are--144 daily papers published in England; 6 in Wales; 19 in Scotland; 15 in Ireland; 1 in British Isles. On reference to the first edition of this useful Direc- tory, for the year 1864, we find the following inter cating facts-viz, that in that year there were published in the United Kingdom 551 journals; of these 14 were issued daily-viz., 12 in England [ and 1 in Ireland; but in 1890 there are now established and circulated 2,334 papers, of which no less that 185 are issued daily, showing that the press of the country has more than quadrupted during the last forty-four years. There are 1752 magazines, including 430 religious ones.
It is requested that all communications relating to Subscripilons, Advertisements, &c, be addressed in the "Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" and not to the Editor,
Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor" and not to individual members of the paff.
publication; but as evidence of good faith.
A RICKSITA accident, which fortunately was notat; just opposite the Chartered Bank in Queen's Road tended with serious injury to the occupant,occurred
The ricksha was going along at this afternoon.
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The cause of the fire is not yet ascertained, but there are some queer circumstances. The master of No. 68-Kwong Ping Chow-usually sleeps on the first floor, where the outbreak occurred. He was not there last night. He had effected in- surances to the extent of $41,000, divided between the North German Fire Insurance Co. (Mesir. Melchers and Co., agents), $16,000. Lubeck Fire Insurnace Co.,(Messis. Schellkass & Co., agents),
10,000 ; and the General Life and Fire Assur- ance Co. (Messrs. Reater Brockelmann and Co., agents), $15,000. The extent of the insurance on the other houses has not yet been ascertained, A Magisterial Inquiry will be held to-morrow,,
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WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS AT KOWLOON CITY.
:32,336.50
Goodwill and trade marks Bills of parcels (amounts due from
customers) ... Cash balances Bank balances
3903 85 18,973.84
Investments in public companies.. North China Insurance, & Hongkong
155,000.00
59,077.38
$882,701.27
22,877.69
-700 00
Fire Insurance ........................ Fire insurance (bilance of premis)... * Leaseholds (business premises). Sundry debtors......... ........................ · 10,687,45 Branch adjustment account
1,783-77 Inland lot No 17 and buildings, bar-
gain monty...STATISTISPYWA 25.ora oo Inland lot No. 19 and buildings.... 159625.60
$882,701.27
PROFIT AND LOSS. Dr.
To depreciation account To General Manager.......... To balance
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE CHINESE BOF.
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OUR INSECT FOES.
Life in the "Gorgeous East" is not all beer and skittles, as no doubt most of us have long ere this found out. One of our greatest plagues is certainly the mosquito, Bad as he is out here, he is not nearly as had as the American that it has been put on record that hunters when "Skeet." which is such a venomous little wretch, obliged to camp out in a swamp all night bave preferred to coat themselves at least all the exposed portions of their bodies, face and hands- attacks. The male gerder has heen applied with tar, in preference to bearing their envenomed
above to the mosquito; but this is a gross libel on him, as he is quite a harmless creature, and it is his weaker and better? half that does all the mischief. The male mosquita is not provided with the necessary piercing and suctorial organs wherewithal to pump up liquids, it is only the wife of Mr. Mosquito that is so furnished."
The question has often been asked, What do masquitos live on when they cannot obtain mammalian blood to suck? There is, not the smallest doubt that not one out of myriads of mosquitos ever tastes blood, even the chance of so doing, and it is equally certain that their natural food in the perfect or image state is the juice of plants. It is quite an accident that a mosquito finds an unfortunate animal to feed on, and if it gets the chance is makes an utter beast of itself on this occasion, filling itself out to such an extent that it more resembles those sausages, made of pig's blood, one sees at home, thân a well conducted mosquito. However, Nemesis follows the glutton, as Mrs. Mosquito, very so01 after auch an unholy feast "gives up the ghost from over-eating, and the verdict recorded Invariably is "Serve her right."
The Chinese boy can seldom get access to ronning water; that is to say, the propattion of Chinese who can'do so, is infinitesimal. Most of them have no laket, rivers, or ponds in which they can plunge and learn to swim, or in which they can fish. The village mud-hale is the nearest approach to the joys of a watering-place to which Chinese children can ordinarily aspire. These excavations represent the hole or the pit, whence the material for the village houses was originally dag. During the summer time, these pits, many of them as large as a dry-dock,' arc $474.379 89 filled to the brim with dirty water, and at such 4:381.17 times they are sure to be su.rounded by 100,000.00 groups of children clad in the costume of the garden of Eden, enjoying 'one of the few 79,463 47 luxuries of their mundane existence. When the
boys are too large to indulge in this amuse meat, there is much reason to fear that most of them have taken their last bath, no matter to what age their lives may be prolonged 1 If he cannot fish, neither on the Chinese boy go 2,590 27 | 2-hunting, for in the most populous parts of the 853.60 plains, of which so large a portion of the empire is composed, there is nothing to hunt. A few small birds, and the common hate, seem to constitute the objects most frequently bunted but except in the case of the limited number of those who make a business of securing such gathe to sell as a means of support, there are very few persons who devote their energies, to any form of hunting. Indeed, the instinct which Is said to lead the average Englishman to remark "It is a fine day, let us go and kill something," la totally lacking in the Chinese. In those relatively limited parts of the empire where 2.492.31 ice forms to a sufficient thickness to bear 3600 00 the weight of human beings, one does ser 81413 88 considerable frolicking upon frezen rivers and ponds. But the propulsion of the ice-sirds with passengers is a matter of business with those One of the most interesting discoveries we owe boatmen who during the season of navigation to the microscope is the fact that the female have no other means of earning a living, mo:quito is furnished with a gizzard very similar Chinese children do not take to them as our in its construction and uses to that ofthe common boys do to sleds, and even if they wish to do so, for garden fowi, Blood to our unassisted eyes their parents would never dream of furnishing appears to be wholly liquid, but is not so in the children with such an fcosted simply for reality, being largely composed of tiny grains or amusement. To cam one, as a boy at home molecules of solid matter, which, small. though earns a sled, or a pair of skates, by doing extra they be to us, are much too large for the delicate work, by picking up old iron, and other digestion of the mosquito if swallowed whole, so similar expedients, would be for a Chinese they first pass through the gizzard, and are there lad at once a physical,
ground up before reaching the alimentary canal, psychological, a moral impossibility. If he lives in a treaty- port, where he becomes infected by the example of foreigners, the Chinese boy may not im- probably be seen laboriously pushing himself over the ice on one skate, his unoccupied leg. being beld up, like that of a contemplative The coast trade of Borneo will shortly head are relatively scanty and uninteresting, there goose. But if the amusements of the Chinese further developed by the assistance of a handy
is one feature of his life which fa a fixed fact, and upon which nothing is allowed to intrude. This wkhin any given area is literally incalculable, but it may be safely laid down as a general trub, that by far the larger part of these children are
revealed numerous fireflies in the room. This for the greater part of their time made to do
was too much for our sailors, they rushed out of. some useful work. This will not of course ha. always true of city children, for the reason that they've come now to hunt for us with lanterns " the room, while one exclaimed "By Jaipers, to them there is frequently no work open, but it the country. There is scarcely any handicraft in either their blood has lost much of its pristine is a generalisation that holds good anywhere in residents, as a rule, take but little notice of them, which even the very smallest children cannot be richness on first landing in India, or they have utilised, and it is for this reason in part that become so thoroughly inoculated with mosquito hereditary occupations are so commonly the rule, poison, that the stings are hardly felt. I! It was The child bred up to one mode of physical activity not for the poison that these little, nuisances is fitted for that, if he is fitted for nothing else. If instil into the wound when they plunge their per the son of a farmer, there is a very small proboscides into the skin, no one would mind portion of the year during which there is not them much, and goodness only knows why they
and then poisoning us into the bargain.
CONTRA. Cr
$89,505.19
'By balance forward
$ 1,081.63 By net earnings in Hongkong, China,"
London, and Manila .........
87,424-56
$88,306.19
JNO D. HUMPHRIYS, General Manager,
SHIP-BUILDING IN HONGKONG.
by the caine and address of the writers, not nacemarily for Communications laterded for publication must be accompanied
be open for the fair discussion by correspondents of all questions the usual speed with a Chinawoman as occupant, with opium. Their queues were braided with Company. She was known as the Puguos is his work. The number of Chinese children
Whilst the column of the Hongkong Telegraph will always
Affecting public interests, it start be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself responsible for oplatons thus expressed.
TO ADVERTISERS.
insertion in that day's laue pot ister than Thron 'Clocit sa as not to retard the early publication of the paper,
Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a fred period will be continued until countermanded,
little steamer, the property of the China-Borneo
A SICKENING SCENE.
Yesterday at noon a number of war junks arrived in Kowloon Bay, and the mandarin in command visited the Hip Toi. As a result of their interview the latter official quickly called out his ragged army, who, soon lined the evil-smelling beach in their thread-bare array. At 3.30the object of the turn-out became apparent, several boata putting off from one of the Junks with scores of soldiers, guarding six dirty, unabaven wretches in baskets, bound for
degree, but none appeared to have been dosed execution. All looked emaciated to the last
strips of white cotion, on the "tabs" of which formerly the Estrella, and was lately sold by were written their rames and crimes. The Mr. Kwong Sing, of Haiphorg, to Mr. Abraham executioners-two fellows wearing white jackets, for the company. She is undergoing and straw hats, their quenes wound sound the extensive alterations at the Kowloon Dock, which should make her a very comfortable little ship later to keep them from blowing away--had been waiting on the beach for an hour or more, handing for passeng is of all classes. We understand their swords around to be examined by the crowd, that Captain Shepherd has been appointed to salutes from the Yamaa announced that he steamer put on the Branco Coast and Sule an Inspection which evoked frequent feats. When the command of this steamer, victims were coming asbore they bastily line was the Normanhurst, go tons, which has recovered their weapons, threw away their now become inadequate for the trade. From cigarettes, and walked to the water's edge to a small seed springs up a large tree, and there meet them. The prisoners were placed in two seems to be every prospect of this enterprising lines just above the bigh-water mark, and each Company developing import int commence by it executioner t ok one line, first removing his policy of giving traders every oprortunity for ex broad-brimmed hat. The first head in the first tending their business, high, though insignificant
The first
Many amusing stories are told with regard to mosquitos. One young lady on her first voyaga: oat to India was told that a mosquita was a grey creature with a long proboscis. On arrival of Madras she saw an elephant on the share, and declined to land for fear of so huge a mosquito. Two-Irish sailors once went to bed in the same room witha light; but with no mosquito curtains, They were soon disturbed by the mosquitos, when one of them suggested that the light should be put out so that the intects would not be able
to find them. This was done, but no sooner did they douse the glim, when the darkness
Mosquitos are, no doubt, troublesome, but old
when suddenly the axle broke, the wheel ran ahead of the conlie, and the fair passenger was pitched our on the road. She landed gracefully on her hands and knees, appeared somewhat Advertisers are requested to forward all actices intended for surprised, and then walked off, none the worse for her experience. It is a marvel to us that. there are not more ricksha accidents, seeing the miserable springless rattlestraps plying for hire in endless numbers all over the colony, It is but seldom that one strikes a good ricksha in this part of the world. Apparently they are limited to Japan, Shanghai, and the Stralis,
A5 untanned bools are quite the rage in Europe, and cur swells are rapidly following the lead of the old world in this trifling matter of dress, it [ is possible that the following may prove of liae flew off like lightning, but the blow at the in many instances, is still impitant to struggling some definite work for film to do, by way of should add insult to injury by first dining off us
more or less interest:-The authorities at Eton second was less effectual, the neck not belog quite and Sulu, The new steamer will probably be assisting in the cultivation of the land. This is
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1890.
TELEGRAMS.
EAST AFRICA.
LONDON, April #gth, It is understood that Sir F. de Winton is to
Governor of the East African Company.
be
natives and Chinese immigrants, both in Borace and Harrow have given instructions that she pupils Cut through. The man therefore fell forward on
no doubt true of farming everywhere, but the ans. at these large public schools shall not wear the his face. The swordsman passed on and lopped ready for sea in about a mostb.
There was not long back some discussion In failing industry of the Chinese and the heavy now fashionable brown "untanned "leather boots off the third head, and then returned to the
Irrespective of these Borneo coasters, six pressure of the common poverty give to this fact the Indian newspapers as to what teful purpose with ordinary attire, as they do not consider them second man, who was bleeding borribly. Lifts steamers of from 200 to 5oo tons register call
an emphasis not so strongly felt in other inndr, orquitas serve in the economy of nature. becoming or dignified babiliments. Fashionable ing the bead by its queue he began sawing at the regularly at Sandalean and other Borneo ports: But even if the work on the land were to be all Nextly every one had given up the conundrum, they undoubtedly are, so much so that one of the throat, the victim, rolling his eyes meanwhile in They are the Rana Banfermassin, and done, which is never the case until the winter till Mr. Thomas, of fish fame, stepped forth as large manufacturers in the Haymarket informed a most agonised pay. The vertebrae had not Memnon of Messrs Holt's line, and the Hong has actually set in, there are two occupations at their champion, and pointed out that but for the a Pall Mall Garelle reporter, "We can hardly been severed by the first stroke, and for fully Ann, Paknam and Royall, belonging which the children may be act any time, and at mosaito very many young fish would fare but- get them made rapidly enough for us. We make three-quarters of a minute the executioner was to Chinese and Germans. It is rumenred which more myriads of young persons are badly, as they live almost entirely on the larg them of Russia leather, but they are really only carving the neck all round it. At length, drops that the Normandy (Holts' Line) will be put o
probably employed, than in any other portion of of mosquitos. Every one, of course, knows that the eggs of the mosquita are laid in water, until the head rolled off. The prisoners in the Messrs. Russell and Co's Australan liners fuel and collecting manure. In a land where ¡tion? light, easy, and cool," Another noted shoemaker said 'They are fashionable, good and lasting, second line, who had witnessed the horrible call at Sandakan on their way to the Antipare the expense of transportation forbids the the life of the insect is passed in that but are not suited for town wear except with morn scene, were then dealt with by the second exech but, to the regret of the Europeap meichar 15, ac of coal in places distant even a few miles element, in which it attains its fall siz+, never Ing costume. We make them of Bordeaux leather, tioner. The first and third were decapitated they never drop in on their way up. Ware from the mouth of the pit, it is necessary to growing any more ofter leaving it, except in the RAILWAY STRIKE IN IRELAND, principally for the country, India, and the colonies. expeditiously, but the second required two they to do so large quantities of canned meat, depend upon what comes bom the soil in any natural way above-mentioned, when it happens to meet with an unconscious animal on whom it particular place, for fuel to cook the food and There is a railway strike in the South of The advantage is that the Bordeaux, when it is strokes. Five minutes later the beach was pererves, flour, &c, would be imported direct, scratched or cracked, will take blacking as well deserted, the heads and bodies 1ging as they as they can now only he had at Broco
furnish such warmth as can be got. Not a stalk, can exercise its gormandizing powers, and then it Ireland, and all traffic is stopped entirely.
se any other boot, and so may be quite worn fell, and as they will probably be until to-morrow, ports in small quantities, of inferior qualities, and
not a twig, not a leaf is wasted Tven at the only its stomach that swells till it almost bursts out. We do not and that the untanned boots if anyone cares. to go over and see for him at famine prices. The Hongkong and Whampoa best, the products of a field ill suffice in the item from overmuch stuffing,
Dook Company have a very useful liule, gun of foal for the wants of those who own it. The Ladies, of course, suffer much more than men interfere in the least with the ordinary black boot self,
best on the stocks at Hungham, built to the Chinese habit of constantly, drinking hot water, from these little forments, as their skins are order of the British North Borneo Gwernment which must be furnished afresh as often as it much more tender, and at dinner parties and extreme breadth 12f depth moulded of. 6ir vast amount of fusi, over and above what would to attack. But it is on the feet, ankles and legs. mean draft with coal and water on board zit 3in. be strictly required for the preparation of food, that they suffer most, and to such an extent is Her frames are of steel, and decks and woodwork. The collection and storage of the fog supply is this the case that new-comers have frequently of Manija hard wood. Her engines are of the anafinir second in importance only to the gather not been able to get on best or shop for days triple expansion direct actiog type. With 240 ing ofthe crops. But in every pliage, a consider after a frat attack. It is by no means an H. F. she will develop a speed of about 11 knots, abie although varying proportion of the population uncommon thing for ladies, to have made a She is to be christened the Petrel, and will be is to be found, who own no land. These people kind of muslin bag inte which to thrust their feet launched about six weeks hence, plek up a precarious living as they can, by and the ends of their skirts, when seated at But there are not all the steatters just now working for others who have land, but their table, this completely bailes the would-be preparing for service Is Borneo waters Two remuneration is light, and often wholly inaulmarauder
Gnats on the continent of Europe are often bailt here to the order of Mr. MacGregor Smith clamouring to be filled. ↑ For the fust wherewith quite as bad as mosquitos in India, especially by Mesure. A. G. Gorden & Co, Ltd,, for the to cook the exiguous supplies of this uncertain in the south, Spain, France, and Italy and oftan of the year's working,, which is considerably la | Borneo Government-went on her trini trip, food, the family is wholly dependent upon what : in county places in England, Indies audi qhildren
suitable to fine, dry weather, and are then very ping the queue, he struck the neck repeatedly the Borneo-Manila line this year. Some of the planet, These two occupations are gathering usually stagnant water, and that the greater pore..
(From the Courrier, d'Haiphong). FRANCE.
PARIS, April 17th.
trade. I may tell you that you will not see any of
our very 'swel' men wearing them in Piccadilly
Despatches from Senegal announce the/ or the Row only those who like to ape the swell. 4. S. WATSON AND CO., LIMITED. | Her length between perpendiculars is 102 feet cools, and for each chance comer, consumes other social gatherings they expoco mare surface
occupation of the capital the kingdom of Ohmadon (7 Dahomey) by the French troops, which will considerably influence the develop
ment of the Soudan.
A well-known military bootmaker said-'A great number of untanned boots and shoes are worn by Americans, who always like anything extraordi nary and striking. But the really fashionable perle will soon give them up now that the guinea-a-week city clerk has taken to wearing them and making them common, Of course many men wear them to make believe they havo been to the country or have been to India; but that sort of thing will very soon kill whatever them. I do not think there can be any perms saluted him at Toulon, the Admiral presenting nent place for untanned walking boots and shoes, an autograph letter from the Klag of Italy, M, except for India of the souride?
PRESIDENT CARNOT.
A April 22nd, The President has been enthusiastically
The report of the General Manager of the above Company for the year ending the gist December, 1889, for presentation to the share holders at the ordinary general meeting of the Company, to be held at the Hongkong Dispensary, on Monday, the 12th May, is as follows
I beg to lay before you a statement of the the year ending the 31st December, 1889.
received everywhere." The Italian squadron fancy the true fashionables may, have had for company's business, with a balance sheet for days ago the Ospreyma fine little steam-launch ficient for the food supply of the many mouth?
You will, I hope, he satisfied with the resul