Intimations.
DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA, LIMITED; CHEMIST Ś..
WINE & SPIRIT IMPORTERS.
Selections from our Wine and Spirit List —
* SCOTCH WHISKY,
The finest quality obtainable, 'guaranteed 7 years old,
Per bottle $1, dozen $10.
COGNAC,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1890.
The Ho Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 11, :890.
TELEGRAMS.
THE STRIKE IN IRELAND.
LONDON, May 5th. The Irish railway strike is ended.
THE LABOUR MOVEMENT. The Labour demonstration in Hyde Park on Sunday drew the largest crowd ever witnessed. Extra-A pure genuine grape spirit matured it, is estimated that thres hundred thousand
assembled. The proceedings were orderly.
"The eight hours movement and attendant Per bottle $1.50, dozen $16.
strikes are extending throughout Europe and SHERRY,
in wood.
Amontillado, a natural wine, old bottled, dry, America. delicate flavour.
Per bottle $1.10, dozen $12.
- PORT,
Purple capsule. Tawny with age, fine bouquet.
. Per bottle $1.15, dozen $14.
CLARET, ST. JULIEN,
An excellent Dinner Wine.
Per bottle S0.75, dozen $8.
(Telephone No. 60.)'
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, 12th May, 1800.
WINES AND SPIRITS,
HY APPOINTMENT.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.) HONGKONG.
sa
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WE mitt Brands, all of which are of ex- JE invite attention 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 most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices
16In ordering it is only necessary to státe 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 use.)
Cain. Per BOL
Par deren
A Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule $10
B Vintage, Superior quality,
Red Capsules....
12
C Fine Old Vintage, superior
quality, Black Seal Capsule 14
A Delicate Pale Dry, dinner
wine, Green Capsule......
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) ne
18
SHERRIES.
6.
B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
wine, Green Seal Capsule...7.go
C Manzanilla, Pale Natural
сс
Sherry, White Capsule... to. Superior Old Dry, Fale Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule..
D Very Superior Old Palc
Dry, choice
old Wine, White Seal Capsule........
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Olà Bottled).
CLARETS.
THE SILVER BILL
May 11th.
The chief opposition to the Silver Bill arises from the persistence of the silvermen not sup
porting the clause providing for redemption of Treasury notes with silver bullion.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE P. & O, S: N. Co.'s steamship Thibat left Singapore for this port at noon on the 13th inst. TELEGRAMS were received in Shanghai on the roth inst, announcing the opening of the tea market in Hankow.
THE Mutual Shippers' steamship Moyune passed Chinking for Hankow on the 8th fast, under charge of Pilot Mobsby, to load new teas for London
A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, 5.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall. Zetland Street, this evening, at 8 for 8.30 o'clock precisely: Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
THE notorious Social Purity advocate, Mr. Alfred 5. Dyer, is amongst the passengers on board the P., & O. steamship Thames bound for Bombay We wish him bon voyagées | MESSRA. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Dardanus, Capt. Purdy, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due on the 19th inst. We are informed by the agent of the Occidental. and Oriental 5. S. Co. that the Company's steamer Oceanic, leaving here on the 22nd inst., will call at Kobe, en route to Yokohama and San Francisco.
$1.00
AN Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No.. 1.10 $25, E.C. will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Tuesday, the zoth instant, at 1.255 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are
cordially invited.
1.50
0.60
0.75
1.00
IQ
1:00
14 1.53 Рет Сало Рег Сале
dor. • dok. Quarts. Pinta.
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
Red Capsule
$4
B St. Estephe, Red Capsule ... 4,50 C St, Julien.....
D La Rose
BRANDY,
A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red.
Capsule........
7
... 1
Per dia.
C.
..$12
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
14
C Very Old Liqueur Cognac
Red Capsule
18
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old
Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vin-
tage, Red Capsule
24
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thorne's Blend, White Cap-
sulc
8
B Watson's Glenorchy Mellow Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark...... 8
C Watson's Abelour-Glenlives, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark.....
8
D Watson's H K D Blend of the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule ... 10 E Watson's Very Old Liqueur
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule 12. IRISH WHISKY.
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule.....................................
8.
B John Jameson's Fine Old,
"Green Caprule.amanı 10 C John Jameson's Very Fine
Old, Green Capsule............ 12 GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY, fine old, Red Capsule, with Name to GIN.
A Fine Old Tom, White Capsulc.4.50
B Fine Unsweetened, White
Capsule......
.........4.50
C Fine A. V. H. Geneva.........5.25 RUM,
Per Bot.
THE Mutual Shippers ten steamer Moyune came nut of Boyd's dock, Shanghai, on the 5th inst., after having four new manganese bronze blades put on her propeller to replace the old. steel ones, which had been on two years, and were badly honeycombed.
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On Sunday afternoon another sturdy little craft turned out by a local Chinese bullder, Alung of Yau-ma-ti, went on her trial trip. She is 75 feet long, b 13 feet six inches 'broad, with a mean draft of four and a quarter feet. With 80 Tested on the dry of mine knots easily, This vessel is built entirely of teak, has a roomy cabin forward, and has been engined by Tal
Sing & Co. of Kowloon.. She has been, we understand, sold to a gentleman who will take her down to Bangkok.
plaintiffs and Dr. Ho Kal, instructed by Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, was for the defendant.
Ma, J. F. WEBER appeared at the Police Ceart this morning and applied to Mr. Wodehouse on behalf of a Chinese constable named Lo Shing, who is charged by fuspector A. Mackie with Mr. Francis said that the plaintiffs entered receiving bribes from gambling-house keepers, into a contract with the defendant on the rath that the case should be committed for trial before December, 1888, to pull down the foundations a jury. His Worship granted the application. and rebuild four house in First Sire:t, the property of the defendant. The contract to SAYS the N. C. Daily News of the 8th inst.: price was $3.900, of which $500 was We learn that the Klukiang tea market opened bid when the houses were pulled down, on Tuesday with a sale of Keemuns, the prices $50 when, the floors of the new buildings ranglag hom Tia, 371 to 43% per picul. There were laid down, and the remainder on com was no news of Ningchows in the telegram.pletion of the contract. The time which the The Hankow market is expected to open in a 'work was to occupy was six months and day or two, and some Oanfas reached that porta half. The plaintiffs proceeded with the work, yesterday, and some other sorts are due there pulled down the old buildings and began re- to-day. So far as is known, the quality of the building, when they were stopped by the Govern
ment Inspector of Buildings, who ordered the tess is considered favourable.
work already done to be pulled down and the foundations reconstructed. "The plaintiffs pulled down the new work and the defendant then engaged another contractor to put in the new foundations. Afterwards the plaintiffs pro- ceeded with the work of rebuilding and had nearly completed the whole of it when, owing to the great rain-storms at the end of May last and the falling is of an adjoining house, the whole work was destroyed. Plaintiffs afterwards were ready to proceed with the rebuilding of the houses, but the defendant always refused, and still refused, to allow them to do so. The plaintiffs therefore claimed 31000 damages for breach of contract. The defendant admitted the contract but held that the collapse of the houses in May last was due to defective construction, and that he never, stopped the plaintiffs, from proceeding with the work, but, on the contrary, had urged them to do it as sooD IS possible. It would be for bis lordship to consider whether they were prevented from carrying out the work or not. He submitted that the damages were as low as it was possible to assess them.
Ma Ka Taing, a contractor, stated that Seng Mi Nam was the name of his shop. He contracted with the defendant to build four houses in First Street. He commenced work DA the Izth of December, 1888. After working for about two weeks the defendant told him to stop work. He resumed building, operations on the 3rd February, 1889. In con- sequence of the rain-storm on the 30th of last May, the latrine next, to house No. 31, which he had built for defendant, fell down, and the house No. 31 also tumbled down together with part of No. 33. Nos. 35 and 37 were intact, with the exception of the cross beams, which fell ow ng to the collapse of the scaffolding, After the houses fell in he told the defendant that he
Our Shanghai moming contemporary of the roth inst. has the following:-"The funeral of the late Mr. Pilot Brand took place yesterday afternoon, the Masonic ritual being used. Some thirty-five Manous in regalia, attended, as did some fifty or sixty others. The deceased was a member of the Ancient Landmark Lodge, Massa- chusets Constitution, and the funeral was the second with Masonic ceremonies that has been held at Shanghai. In the other case the deceased had also been a member of the Ancient Land- mark Lodge."
A CHINAMAN who was tallying coal on board the steamship Ghaars yesterday thought nothing would be easier than to "fix" the third officer of the vessel on a charge of malicious assault; so he took out a summons The defendant stated that the complainant who was" aqueezing” in weight. gave him ample provocation and called him very bad names; but that he merely "knocked" the. Johnny in self defence. Mr. Robinson, after hearing the evidence of two of the Ghasse's quarter-masters, dismissed the case
with costs,
INTELLIGENCE received in Shanghal from Kiuklane states that the crop of teas this season is rather under that of the previous year, and is much coarser and not so clean. On account of bis all the common teas had to be re-picked. At the time of picking the leaves there was much rain, and the pickers could not sift out all the unfit leaves and sticks. The market fluctuates very frequently, but on an average it is some thing like Tis. 33 to 34 pp. for black tea, for green tes about Bo cash per catty, for Ningchow about go casă per catty, and Geemen, 80 cash per catty
We have been cruising round the colony to-day with our little gun in search of Mr. Patrick Cafferty, the "poor ould saitorman" who got us on the blind side yesterday and succeeded in securing the publication of a letter setting out the alleged grievances of an injured seaman against the boarding officer and manager of the Saltors' Home. After interviewing Mr. Moir, the Superintendent, and Mr. R. F. Taylor, the board- ing officer of the Home, the conclusion has been forced on us that we have been grossly victimised and that Patrick Cafferty is a fraud and skunk of the first water. And that is why we have THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High-been looking for him. We are on Patrick's track and if we can only run him to earth he can rely on having a pleasant time of it.
OUR good young man was clean of the track vesterday when he mistook the present Sir Bartle Frere, now residing at the Hongkone Hotel, for the grand old man who at his death held a faremost place amongst British statesmen as an advocate for the spread of Christianity and the advancement of civilisation.
landers will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess, this evening, commencing al 8 o'clock :-
Or Fra Dissin".
"Fi Thorado"..
fieletion.......
***...-Auber. Royle. .Sullivan.
a
THE Penang Gazette publishes particulars of severe engagement that took place at Edle on April 10th between the Dutch and the Achinese. It appears that the Dutch, having been previously warned by the enemy that they would be attacked during the Mahomedan fasting month, were prepared for it. Instead, therefore, of merely contenting themselves with repelling an attack, as was often the case, the about on the hills not far from Edie, set out to meet them, and after a de termined fight, lasting for about three hours, succeeded in putting the enemy to flight, The loss of the Achinese was two stockades and forty men killed, while the Datch bad only four men wounded, one of whom was a doctor, who was shot in the stomach. More fighting is expected.
must have more time. That was the reason why the defendant told him to stop work, Defen- dant, through Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, wrote to bis security "man" on the 6th of July, 1889 pressing him to prompt the plaintiffs to go on with the work. He did not go on with the work because the defendant would not give him more time when he asked for it.
member of the House of Commons will meet Mr.Stanley at Dover to-day. "The new smokeless powder called Walthamite, manufactured at Waltham. factory, has been tested with the magazine rifle with excellent results and marvellous accuracy up, to one thousand yards.
The Prince of Wales unveils the Gordon Memorial at Chatham on the 19th proxima.
A railway strike in Ireland has originated at Cork and is extending throughout the Southern and Western districts. Railway traffic is in peded in Limerick, Fermoy and other counties"
DARMSTADT, April 26th, Queen Victoria drove out this afternoon with the Emperor and Empress, and dined with them in the evening.
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ATHENS, April 27th. In a report on Egyptian finance, presented to Parliament in a despatch from Sir Evelyn Baring to Lord Salisbury dated 26th February it says that the continuance of the British occupation is of paramount influence, and is absolutely necessary to the conditions of progress and reform in Egypt.
LONDON, April 27th. At the annual Civil Service dinner, Lord Wolseley, who presided, made a speech in which he dwelt upon the necessity of having an efficl ent army, and ridiculed the idea that if the Navy was defeated England would be compelled to surrender. There were, he said, always ample provisions for eight months in store, and more over it would be imposible to blockade all our ports against supplies coming in.
Mr. Stanley and his companions, in company with, Lord Wolseley and others, arrived in Lon- dan yesterday afternoon, and met with a most enthusiastic welcome from immense crowds assembled to greet him. Mr. Stanley with Dr. Parke, Sir W. Mackinnon and Sir Francis de Winton, started in the evening for Sandringham on a visit to the Prince of Wales, and will slay there until Monday.
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THE YANG-TSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LD., IN LIQUIDATION.
A general meeting of shareholders in the Yang-isze Insurance Association, Limited, was held at the office of the Secretaries, Messrs.. Russell & Co., Shanghai, an the 7th inst., to receive the report of the Directors and statement of accounts to 30th September, 1889, and also to receive the report of the liquidators. There were present Messrs. C. Vincent Smith (Chair man), G. H. Wheeler, J. M. Young, E. O. Arbuthnot, and R. Simpson Shaw, (Directors), A. C. Hunter, W. S. Jackson, John Chambers, H. J. Such, H. J. Dyer, and V. D'O. Wintle (Secretary), representing 4,796 shares.
The notice convening the meeting having bees read,
The Chairman sald-The only business before the inceting is to pass a resolution to be proposed by myself and seconded by Mr. Young That the statement of accounts to be submitted to this His lo-dship at once acceded to the request meeting be approved and adopted." amidst much laughter, during which his lord-ing you to pass this resolution, I shall be
happy to answer any questions. ship retired and Mr. Francis repaired to cham-
No questions being put, the resolution was put bers leaving his client, the unhappy contractor,
to the meeting and carried rem, con. completely thunderstruck
At this juncture Dr. Ho Kai, amidst consider able commotion, applied to his lordship far judgment with costs, upon the ground that the plaintiffs' case had collapsed,
LATE TELEGRAMS.
Before
The Chairman said that concluded the business of the meeting, but he would mention that it would be well for the shareholders to send in the, old certificates for exchange, as they were coming ia rather slowly.
A general meeting of shareholders in the Yang-taze Insurance Association, Limited, in liquidation, called by the liquidators, was held on the thinst. at 2.30 p.m. at the office of the iccre
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THE OPENING OF CHUNG-KING,
"The Archibald' Little writes to The Times as follows
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In reference to the interesting article which appears in your issue this moming upon "the elevation of. Chung-king to the rank and privie. leges of a treaty port," I should like to point out that the sale of our pioneer steamer to the Chinese Government can hardly be regarded as "a compromise" as far as the Chefoo Conven-" In buying our tion generally is concerned, steamer, which they did absolutely without any conditions attached, the Chinese simply relieved themselves from the immediate, pressure of our demand to run, which, backed as it was by our Foreign Office, was becoming inconveniently urgent. Bat, seeing that our Minister in Chloa continued to be baffled by Chinese imperturba bility, and that after three years' active negotia. tion the matter (much as in the Tibetan difficulty) bad at length arrived at an absolute impasse, our, Foreign Office considered that, with the steamer out of the way, negotiations would proceed more freely; and we see the result in the new convention of which you have just given us the news. The Chinese have opened the port of Chung-king at once, without waiting for the navigability of the Upper Yangtsre by steam to be proved, which it was bound to be an a "condition precedent? under the terms of the original convention ; and, on the other hand, the demand for immediate permission for steamers to run has been waived. All depends under what conditions this concession has been allowed, and of these your telegram does not inform us clearly. One can hardly believe that our Minister in Peking, knowing the Chinese character, would agree to the time for placing steamers on the route being left absolutely to the discretion of that Government; and I cannot bat hope that we shall find, when the terms of the new clause are published, that a definite limit has been fixed, after which British steansers will be allowed to make the attempt.
. In any case, it is satisfactory to know that a twentieth port has been added to the nineteen already open, and that in the richest and one of the most interesting regions in China. That after fourteen years' interval, the clause in the Chefoo Convention regarding the opening of Chungking no longer remains a dead-letter is mainly due to the attempt of the Upper Yang- tsze Steam Navigation Company to give it con- crete fort by building the steamer they have › since reluctantly been forced to sell,
The article in The Times referred to abovej je ;
and commenting on the new arrangement, says
Chinese steamers are to lead the way. When they have commenced Englismen may follow, That there may be no future uncertainty on the subject, new clauses are introduced into the Chefoo Convention of an explanatory and a con- firmatory character. Above all, a fresh treaty the want of a centre for the expected trade. port, Chung-king, has been opened to supply
Unless upon the 'clear assumption that foreign goods were to circulate freely and largely along the course of the Upper Yangisze, the elevation of that town to the rank and privileges of a trealy: port would have no sense or meaning. The reservation of the beginning of steam intercourse with the interior to the discretion of Chinese admifnistrators is obviously the weak point the arrangement. Experience proves, that their usual conservatism will induce them to seize every pretext for postponing the date. Whatever the merits of Mr. Little's steamer, its transfer to them, and the price' they have paid for it, will not act as material incentives to haste. Many years ago the Chinese Government railroad, with its plant, and bas contentedly allowed them to rust away. The possibility of a repetition of the same conduct on the Upper Yangtze is to be regretted. It would have been a grave mistake in the British negotiators to afford an opportunity for it bad there been any alternative. Practically there was none, An extortion from China of a grudging and morose assent to the entrance of British steamers into the waters of the interior would have been of would have been regarded as a sign of defeat, and been resented accordingly. Offended Chinese.
NEW YORK, April 24th. The Republicans of the House of Representa- lives and of the Senate have agreed to a basis for preparing an amended Silver Bill, which directs that the Treasury shall purchase from time to time silver bullion of the aggregate of farlès, Messrs. Russell and Co., for the purpose bought, it will be recollected, a line of
four and a half million ounces free silver monthly, issuing in payment thereof Treasury notes tang. ing from one to a thousand dollars, redeemable on demand at the Treasury.
The basis of the am nded Silver Bill provides that the Treasury shall purchase silver at the market price, which however shall not exceed ane dollar for three hundred and seventy-one and a quarter grains of pure silver.
| of submitting the accounts of the Association for the nine months ending Sept. 30th, 1889. There were present Messis, C. Vincent Smith (Chair. man), G. H. Wheeler, J. M. Young, E. O. Ar- buthnot, R. Simpan Shaw, A. C. Hunter, W. S, Jackson, John Chambers, H. J. Such, H. I. Dyer, R. C. Renny,, H. E. R. Hunter, and V. DO. Wintle (Secretary), representing 4.948
shares.
violence on the body, which was in an advanced Dutch, on seeing the Achinese scattered Bury 'notes shall be receivable for all public dues, by the liquidators is the same as that passed at little real benefit. The arrival of the vessela
Henry VIII" Euph. Sola "Love'i nid sweet song "...Molloy. Select........"Reminiscences of Wales".....Godfrey. THE body of a European was found floating at $4.50 Passir Panjang (Singapore) on the morning of 5.Co the 6th inst., which is believed to be that of Dr. 7.59 Luning, the missing medical officer of the steam- 12.00 ship Sammerfeld. There were no marks of sge of decomposition, and was destitute of
othing with the exception of a white shirt. : $1.10 THE establishment of a properly constituted Hongkong Stock Exchange has again been 1.25 indefinitely postponed. At a meeting of repre- sentative brokers held yesterday it was decided 1.50 to abandon the project for the present and to advise His Excellency the Administrator to that effect. It is argued that as there is now no 2.00 share business in the colony, there is no use for a Stock Exchange-and to another much needed reform has been allowed to collapse.
0.75
1.00
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MADAM CHIM, a native lady in the fortfes, was fairly knocked out last night by Mr. 0.75 Ip. the lively little wife of a shop runner. resident in Third Street. They had a regular "set to " until called to order by a 0.75 Sikh constable. Both of them were up before Mr. Robinson this morning at the Magistracy and bound over to keep the peace for six weeks, The old lady, who had a conspicuous black-eye, thought the young woman should have had 1.Io month's hard labour, and no doubt she deserved it. ACCORDING to the Mercury, the recent visit of Sheng Tastal to Shanghai was, at the instance 0.75 of Li Hung-chang, and for the purpose, as a Director of the China Merchants Company, to negociste and make some mutual arrangements with the foreign shipping companies for inform charre for freigh's and, passengers, an to try and put a stop to the ruinous competition with each other which is now going on. But should the negociations fail, our contemporary under. 0.4stands, it is to be war to the koife. 0.40 THE Supreme Court was the scene of great o.go amusement this morning when the learned Q.C.
client gave himsel! Clean away while in the witness box. Dr. Ho Kai, for the defendant, claimed judgment like a shot, which Mr. Acting Justice Wise promptly granted amidst great laughter. Mr. Francis' client claimed from the defendant the paltry sum of about a thousand dollars, owing to alleged breach of contract, but when exhibiting himself in the box, he stated clearly that they did not commit the breach complained of! The learned Q.C. made him self scarce in the quickest time on record, while the smart witness stepped down" gracefully with bended head and ashy countenance, Tableau!
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Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule.................... 121.00 Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon. LIQUEURS.
Benedictine Curagoa Chartreuse
Maraschino
Herring's Cherry Cordial Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, &c.
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BIRTH,
At No. 18, Nanking Road, Shanghal, on the 5th May, 1990, the wife of Capt. J. W. CUMMING of a daughter.
DEATHS.
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Wanchai Road, on May 13th, MARY At 145, E. L.HEARD, aged 6.
The funeral will pass the Monument a 8.30 o'clock to-morrow morning..
At 21, Boone Road, Shanghai, on the 8th May. 1800, EDWARD ARCHER BRAND (Lower Yang 30 Pilot), aged 63 years,
THE Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders announce another grand smoking concert and variety entertainment, to take place in the City Hall on Thursday the 22nd lost. The pro- gramme will include reel and clog dancing, boxing, gymnastics, conjuring, character songs, comic duets, sailor's hornpipe, etc., etc., and the object of the show is to get sufficient fonds to provide summer quarters at Mount Kellet for the wives and families of the Benedicts of! the regiment. The object is most praiseworthy. the entertainment will be a most enjoyable one, and we have therefore no hesitation lo soliciting the hearty support of the com munity. Tickets may be obtained from the Officers and Sergeant Major of the Regiment, the Hongkong Hotel, and at the door of the Theatre on the night of the performance. The admission to the dress circle is one dollar to the pit, for sallors and soldiers (in uniform) only, twenty
A CORRESPONDENT, who says he was "An Eye Witness," calls attention to the very different rec:ptions accorded by His Excellency be Administrator to the Turkish and French Admirale respectively. He says that when the Turk arrived at Murray Wharf, there was not a soul to receive him, and not even a chair or umbrells, so that the gallant old warrior had to walk all the way under a blazing sun from the landing place to Government House. But when Admiral Besnard landed yesterday he was met by His Excellency's Private Secretary and Aide-de-Camp, with chairs and all the other official paraphernalia we are accustomed to see when distinguished visitors arrive in aur mids, Our correspondent asserts that the distinction drawn between the two Admirals was invidious: well, perhaps it was, but as we are not acquainted with Government House ctiquette, we have simply allowed "An Eye Witness" thing in a good-natured growl at the powers that be, A MACAO correspondent writes-There is still absolutely nothing doing in this city, and burlaces appears to be going from bad to worse, During the past fortnight a couple of telegram have been regaived from Llabon ennobliag some of our Mscao residents. Baron da Senna Fernandes has been promoted to Viscount, the title to last for two lives, and Senhor J. C. P. d'Assumpçao, of the Revenue Office, has been made a Baron la recognition of his long years of service in Macao. It is rumoured here that the next official to jalu the ranks of the Portuguese nobility will be Mr. A. G. Romano, consul-general in Hongkong. It is, of course, very widely known that the throne of Portugal is now in the reatest peril, and that a revolution is almost ourly expected. The Ministers, therefore, in view of this threatened danger, are trying to strengthen their ranks by creating barons, knights, etc., almost wholesale. Some of the new chivalry, it must be frankly admitted, ars very unique specimens of what was once recognised as the proudest mobility of Europe. A Mr. Ferreira, clerk in one of the Sugar Refineries in Hongkong, has been created knight of the Order of Nossa Senhora da Concelgao da Villa Vicosa Latest news from Lisbon shows that disaffection, is widespread throughout. Portugal, and that the Court party fear the worst.
SUPREME COURT..
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wisa, Acting Putini -
Judge)
*MA KA TBING AND ANOTHER 4. CHENG ---
Mr. Francia, Q. C instructed by Mr. Bowles of Masers Wotton and Deacon, appeated for the
The amended Silver Bill provides that Trea part of the lawful reserve in and are to count the national Banks. The Treasury will coin such portion of the purchased ballion as may be required for the redemption of notes.
VIENNA, April 24th Four thousand workmen have made a demon- stration at Biola in Galicia, where they amashed the windows and wrecked the taverns of the town. The military were called out and being resisted by the mob opened fire on them, killing several and wounding many.
LONDON, April 24th.
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Sir John Gorst, replying to a question relative to the destruction of a temple at Darbunga, sald Lord Cross sees no reason to interfere in the
matter.
BRUSSELS, April 24th,
Premier said that King Leopold proposed that In the Belgian Chamber of Deputies, the the Congo State should become a Belgian colony and Government, he said, at a later date would submit proposals to the Chamber on the subject
officialiam can always discover, in the
Mr. G. H. Wheeler, one of the liquidators, said-I have to state that the account submitted the previous meeting. A final meeting will be held, probably on or about July 1st, of which meeting a month's notice will be given, and at that meeting a statement of accounts covering miscellaneous elements it rules, fuel to raise a the whole period of liquidation will be submitted dangerous flame against foreign communications. The Chairman-The only item that is left out. In the circumstances of the present convention in this account is the remuneration of the liqui-it will have no ground for anger, and little for daters, and it is proposed by Mr. H. J. Such and mistrust. If it be satisfied and amicable, there seconded by Mr. John Chambers, "That the
is to fear that, the population inland will remuneration of the liquidators for their services not be. Provided it be suffered to consult its own instincts, the Chinese people is Inclined to in the winding up be fixed at Tis, 600,"
The resolution was carried and the meeting goods and their purveyors are sure to find a welcome gladly foreign commerce. Western terminated.
willing and an eager market wherever the ad- THE YANG-TSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LTD.ministration abstains from whispering words of A general meeting of The Yang-taze Insurance suspicion. So far as the information from At a banquet given to merchants and bankers Association, Limited, was held at the office of Feking and Shanghai indicates, English mer at the Mansion House, Mr. Goschen made a the Secretaries, Messrs. Russell & Co., on the chants are at full liberty forthwith to charter speech in which he hinted at the probability of 7th inst., for the purpose of a statement of the and freight Janke Thangh the carriage by a reduction in the income tax if there was a position and working of the Association being sailing-boats is necessarily much slower, and, surplus next year. The duty of Government, he laid before the shareholders. There were present therefore, more expensive than by steamers, said, was so to conduct affairs as to ensure the Messrs. C. Vincent Smith (Chairman), G. H. the concetton, even so-limited, is great and prosperity of the Empire and to maintain Wheeler, M. Young, E. O. Arbuthnot, and R. valuable, if China loyally interpret it, and it relations, with our colonies in such a state of Simpson Shaw (Director) A. C. Hunter, W. S. Englishmen avail themselves of it with energy cordially that they would always welcome the Jackson, John Chambers, H. J. Dyer, R. C. and promptitude. The Yangisse has a course Renny, H. E. R. Hunter, E. V. Brenan, and Vof fible: less than three thousand miles, and British dag.
D'O. Wintle (Secretary), representing 4,952 for twelve hundred of these is navigable by shares.
wala siya da deteamers It is the most important of reache Chairman said-At the statutory meeting country travers is dotted at frequent The netice convening the meeting having been Chinese rivers, and penetrates and con
njects regions of enormous wealth. The held on 11th November last, the Directors intervals with rich and populous cler latinated to you that they would lay before you The soil almost everywhere is fertile, and the in or about the month of April this year a state cultivators are industrious. Its basin of more ment of the position and working of the than half a million square miles would, if trade Association. You will of course understand with Great Britain were properly developed, keep that the figures now before you are estimates: the mile and furnaces of the whole United The first report and working of the Association Kingdom in constant employment. But it must to 31st December, 1890, since its reorganisation not be forgotten that, while the pice hitherto has and incorporation under the Companies never been as fast as the pioneers of commerce with, the articles of Asociation, beaub. all the obstructions and impediments, an Ordinances, Hongkong, will in accordance desired, the progress has been continuous. With mitted at the ordinary general meeting immense distance has been traversed in the past reserve fund now before you will be moment of time.si On the whole, it can scarcely Aptll or May, 1891. On referring to the Half-century, which, for Chinese history, is a be said that any advance made has ever really been lost The Chinese people have gradually noticed that the balance at credit of reserve land, after providing for capital of $800,000, was
learnt to valtie", and crave tecreased intercourse 8559081.12, and now, after estimating certain receipts and payments, and deducting the cost with the outerworld, and
grow familiar of a dividend of $6 a share under tais acerunt,th, and in favourably disposed to foreign The dividend declared wanan large a one as the reservexitself has evidently begun to be the balance is estimated to stand at 8:10,617,55% ideas Of Late years the wall of official Directors considered prudent, and preserving breached The Court no longer studies only. intact the reserve fund of at least $500,000. In how to repolse the approaches of. Western our prospectus of Feb, 10, 1889, we represented civilisationIts efforts are chicfy concentrated that a $100 bare in the new Association would be on the appropriation of allen ideas in such a warb an equivalent to the then value of the old way as to keep for fiself the direction of them." share, viz, Sroo plus proportion of Reserve By The young Emperor continue to confide in the $63.50-8 63,50-Tie. 118.52, The year 1889 sagacious counsellors who have shown that must be looked upon as an unprecedentedly they are not liable to any ignorant panic at the BERLIN, April 25th. disastrous one to marin's Insurance interests. It | consequences, to national independence, of the The Emperor Willam arrived at Darmstadt, began badly, and December 1889, also January enjoyment of modern mechanical inventions. and dined with Queen Victoria this evening, and February 1890, brought their full share of Li Hung-chang's influence, to particular, plainly WASHINGTON, April 25th. casualties. As for the business of the company, remains undiminished; and it will have been The Coinage Committee of the House, of It is at present going on in a perfectly intactory, obselved with pleasurethat he has been selected. Representatives his authorized the Chairman to "way. Our premium Income Increasing, for the high honour of accompanying his master on the solemn progress, now being made, to the to Congress the amended Silver Bill, gradually, and with ordinary good fortune wo ain telegraphed, in place of Mr. Windom's shall do well As this is only a statement, and eastern Imperial tombs. defed billed
explanation of how we stand there is no resollte KOTA | LONDON, April 16th, tion to put before the meeting, but T box
Sir Arthur Havelock has started for Ceylon. glad to answer any questions sharehold Lord Wolseley, General Brackenbury, Sir sent may wish to ask, basgion
the listellaz Donald Stewart, Sir Francia de Winton, Sir No questions being asked, John Fender, Baren de Worms, and numerous i terminated,—NV, C, Dally Newi,
LONDON, April 25th. The debate on Mr. Parnell's motion for the rejection of the Irish Land Bill was continued in the Commons last night. Mr. Gladstone strongly apposed the bill a d said that the guarantees for British credit were inadequate. Mr. Pamell's alternative scheme, he considered, was not clear and therefore it was impossible to discuss it The debate was adjourned till Monday next, and At a meeting of merchants connected with will be concluded on Thursday, India, it was decided to strongly oppose Mr. Goschen's proposal for a new Hall mark on plate of the rupes standard, imported from India. The meeting urged that it was desirable to refer At meeting held at Fxeter of the British the subject to the Indian manufacturers, Commitee of the Indian Congress, at which Sir John Phear presided, a resolution was agreed to urging the recognition of elective principles in the India Councils Bill
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Sir John Gorst replying to a question, said that the total savings effected in 1887 in accordance with the recommendation of the Indian financial committee was Rs. 1,095,868.
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wa at the dawn of a new era in Chids ? Like the Pall Mall Gassite. The new Chinese Minsiter to the Court of St James's is shortly expected in London / and persistent tumour hág kiven, tongue to a statement that the new Minit” Le means a new polley, Sanguine people have