Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,
C. HEMISTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1890.
there is no question of negotiating with Portugal THE city of Jerusalem covers about three regarding stoppage of vessels.
hundred acres of ground, and at this time has an estimated population of 40,000.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. SEVERAL interesting items have unavoidably
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS. been "crowded out" of this issue.
WINE & SPIRIT IMPORTERS.
CHAMPAGNE LEMOINE,
VIN BRUT,
CUVEE ROYALE.
A TEXAS debating society, according to Siftings, recently bad for a subject, "Is it proper to sound the r in dorg 7";
IT is notified in the Gazette that Monday the 26th (Whit Monday), will be observed as a holiday in the Government departments. THE Stamp revenue for the first quarter of the present year totalled $51,393.18, as against $50,787.09 for the same period in 1889, showing a net increase of $6o6.29
DOCTOR C————I have wondered if it be possible for there to be any lawyers in Heaven. Leamed
never be able to find them.
We are sole Agents in China for the sale of Hall Museum for the week ending May 18th, 10.C.—It is really a pity to u ink that you shall
this splendid wine.
It is supplied regularly to the households of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, to most of the leading Clubs in London and the provinces, and is also largely patronized at the military and naval stations at home and abroad.
It is a Champagne of the highest character, absolutely, natural, without either artificial sweetness or dryness, and we can confidently recommend a trial to all judges of good wine. Per Case i dezen qts. 322; per bottle $2. $1. 1.873 i
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D'APPOINTMENT,
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City total, are:--Europeans, 169; Chinese, 2,097 2,265.
MESSRS. Butterfield &,Świre inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Menelaus, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due on the 25th inst. PROMINENT English citizens of Montreal claim that the English-speaking population of that city is not diminishing, but on the contrary is increa sing and holding its own with the French.
MR. J. D. CLARK, the editor and proprietor of the Shanghai Mercury, arrived here this fore- nnen by the Messageries Maritimes steamer Oceanies. Mr. Clark proceeds home for a six months' holiday.
WE are informed by the agent of the Messageries Maritimes that the Company's steamer Cale donien, with the next French mail, left Saigon at noon on the 18th, inst., and may be expected here on the 21st.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. POMPOUS Senator (to meek and lowly newspaper
ESTABLISHED A.D. 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 nimost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.
LARGE BOMBAY
ordinary size.
"SODAS"
Wx read that there are in Boston about thirteen hundred Chinese, for the most part engaged in wrestling with Boston's soiled linen "for a con- sideration," collecting thereby "Belican" dollars | to take back to Ctial
THE new pier at Kowloon Point was opened for public traffic yesterday.
THAT veteran marksman Mr. E. L. Woodin made a "best possible" at 650 yards in the fi st stage of the competition for the Kwoon Kwan, Yeen Challenge Cups on Saturday. Shooting with a match rifle Mr. Woodin pat on ten" bails" -in succession.
out through his forage cap. He submitted that the prisoner, shet at the constable with intent to de him grievous bodily harm and thereby make
his own escape.
This having been amply corroborated by the esilence of the constable himself and two Chinese witnesses, and the jury having found prisoner guilty; His lordship passed sentence of ten years.
TRE EAST BURNEO PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED.
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A meeting of shareholders in the above pany was held at Miss Caibh, Livingston & Co's offices at noon; to-day. There, wens pre- sent: Mr. B. Layton (Chairman); Messrs. WH. Ray, W. fold, S. L. Dirby, C. A. Czwin and C. F. Harton, Secretary, The resolutions pid at the mireting held on the 8th instant were read and confirmed, thereby "authorizing the Directors to borrow the sum of $50005 by the creation of Debentures bear-
interest at $12 per cent, per annum,"
DECTIVES Staunton and Melver lelt, yesterday per steamship Diamante for Manila to apply to the Spanish authorities for the rendition of Z. M. Barradas, the late gay and festive Superintendent of the Hongkong Money Order Office, who is "wanted" for getting considerably mited up as to the meaning of the terms meum et tuum. THE Singapore Free Press of the 12th inst. says:- At about nine o'clock this morning the signal "PC" (Want assistance, mutiny) was displayed from the flagstaff at Fort Canning, the signal officer having repeated it from a vessel in THE Messageries Maritimes Co.'s steamer the Roads, the British bark Kelvin. A boating Oceanien, whi h, arrived in port from Shanghai from H.M.Ś. Redpole was at once sent off, as this morning, made the run under 53 hourswell as two boats from the Marine Police Station, fast travelling considering that the steamer was | Arriving on board the Kelvin they found that never asked to do her best.
the "mutiny "was all over, and that the only disturbance had been occasioned by the second mate, who had been indulging too freely last night in Singapore whisky. The officer had always bare in good character and was dis- missed by the Master Attendant with a caution.
THE steamship Dafila, well known in this colony, has changed her name and flag. She now flies the Spanish ensign and is known as Nossa Señora de Loreta She arrived here from Manila on Sunday last.
THERE will be infantry field firing from the beach at Ly-ee-mun on Thursday next between the hours of 4 and 6 p.m. All ships, juoks. and other vessels are cautioned to keep clear of the range.
correspondent)-I can give you no information on any subject, sir. The correspondent-Beg
THE Russian cruiser Moskwa, of the "Do- pardon, but hadn't you better resign and go to
brovoluse Flot," anived here yesterday from school
for awhile?
Odessa. She has at least too soldiers on board, We are glad to note that Signor and Signorailway materials and some officers. The Ariol Majeroni, with the assistance of members of the with 2,000 should be here is a few days. This Shanghai Amateur Dramatic Club, will perform looks very peacefu!] Sardou's "Federa" at the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, on Monday the 26th ínat. ACCORDING to telegrams from Hankow, received in Shanghai on the 11th inst., the tea market was active and the quality of the staple good. Upwa ds of Tis. 3,000,000 worth had been settled, and buyers were eager to purchase.
LATEST news from the Raub mines is of a very satisfactory nature. The manager reports that he can easily keep down the water in the mines with the pumps now in use, and that his driving operations are being continued with gratifying success
"ZAZEL." the woman who gets her living in England by being shot out of a cannon, appeared before a Parliamentary committee recently to testify as to the condition of child acrobats. She made a very good speech in favor of added pro-
IT has been discovered that with the new English magazine if the first shot almost always goes wide, and it is alleged that the soldiers relieve that it will not shoot well unless the frer breathes sharply down the barrel three of four times before using it.
THERE is a religious revival among the London cat's meat men. Those who live in the northern part of the town have decided to trade no more on Sandays, and the owners of cats are begged to purchase pussy's Sunday dinner on Saturday.tection for the children. We continue to supply large bottles as
MR. KINDER and Mr. Cox, according to the heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the Shanghai Mercury, left Newchwang some days ago to commence the survey of the railway through Manchuria to Kiri. A large body of Chinese officials, escorted by soldiers, left some whenever practicable, are despatched by first days before to prepare the way for the surveyors steamer leaving after receipt of order.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and ITER LAING, an alleged Scottish centenarian,
A CERTAIN paper in the Far East, so says an placed on board 'ship at Hongkong prices, and was recently banqueted on his hundredth birth-American exchange, is called the "only reliable" the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties day. Someone who thought, however, that because it is the only one that can re-lie-that when received in good order.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-Peer was mighty hungry for his years he was is tell the same old lie over and over again. the parish register, and found that he was without Hashing. Does the cap fit either of our born in 1801. Mr. Laing will again centruniate local contemporaries? Surely not! eleven years from date.
tion.
COAST PORT, ORDERS.
Our Registered Telegraphic Address ls, "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
SARSAPARILLA WATER ·
LITHIA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE,
HUDEN'S SURPRISE PARTY arrived here from Japan (via Shanghai) this morning by the French mail steamer Oceanien, and will give a farewell performance in the Theatre Royal, City Hill, to-morrow night. An attractive programme has been arranged that ought to ensure a crowded house. Particulars will be found in our adverti- sing columns.
THE Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury, writing under date the roth instant, says it is rumoured in that port that a communi- ca ion has been received containing the intelli- gence, that a letter has been sent from Korea to The Chinese Government, stating that Korea and is prepar ng to throw off allegiance to China. If this is true there are stirring times it hand.
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A THOROUGH-PACED scoundrel named Fong Asing was sentenced at the Supreme Court this morning to two years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a little bay from his parents. There are two more cases of this kind which will be tred during the current Criminal Sessions.
CHARLES Lever oner said that the man who would quarrel with a member of the police force should have a skull of triple thickness. Pre- sumably had he been writing of our Hongkong hobbies now-a-days, be would have said that the main question should have a skuli solid all the way through.
The following will be the "Orders of the Day" at the meeting of the Legislative Council on Friday next:-
FIRE IN STANLEY STREET.
DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $100,000 About a quarter to two yesterday morning District Watchman No. 7 discovered fire in Mestra. A. S. Watson & Co.'s store in Stanley Street. He at once reported it at the Central Police Station. The flames had got a consider- able hold of the upper part of the building (the second, third and fourth storeys) by the time the Fire Brigade arrived, which they did with marked promptitude after the alarm bells had rang out their stirring chimes. The fire blazed | fierbely for about an hour, owing probably to the chemicals and other combustibles stored in the building. Immediately to the west of this godown is the back part of Messrs. Powell & Co.'s establishment and to the cast the large new | premises of the Hongkong Dispensary, now in course of erection. With the greatest difficulty the firemen sace eded in confining the fire to the building in which it originated. The three upper floors, which contained drugs of various kinds, were completely gutted. In the basement (2) If it is the intention of Government to take of the store wines and spirits were stored, and any steps in regard to the celebration of the had the flames got down to them the conse Jubilee Day of the foundation of the Colony.quences would have been very serious indeed 4-Committee on "The Magistrates' Bill."
1. Report of the Finance Committee (No. 9-90)
2.- Honourable the "Attorney-General will more That the Council adopt the Report of the Special Committee appointed to. frame New Standing Rules and Orders,”
3-Hon urable P. Ryrie, pursuant to notice,
(1) If the Executire will furnish the Council will ask the following questions:-
with any information in regard to the reported defalcation in the Money Order Department of the Colony.
AMERICANS, says the N. Y. Star, are great readers, and hosts of them spend their evenings at home engrossed in the work of some favorite author, or in many cases with periodicals of every description. Generally this occupation is pursued in a recumbent position and without any regard to lights or shadows, and the reader is continually complaining of dull pains in the head and loss of vision. This can be remedied in a simple manner by holding the book or magazine in such a position that the light from the gas or lamps will fall over t'e 1-ft shoulder, and there will be no further cause for complaint of bad eyes or sick head-aches by reader Ap plying the same rule on wet, dark nights when crossing the streets, it will be found that hidden pools of water will be revealed, and the pede strian's journey made much more exdurable and
with less provocation for swearing.
THE Viceroy Li Hung-chang, a native paper says, has memorialised the Throne that the late Marquis Tseng's public works may be recorded and kept in the Government archives. The Emperor in an Imperial Decree, dated the 24th of this moon, orders the proper officials to take note, of Viceroy Li's communication and see that it is carried out. The Emperor further recognises the services rendered to the country, by the deceased diplomat, and mentions that he was once a member of the Board of Revenue, member of the Tsung-li Yamen, also Minister Plenipotentiary to foreign countries, and further more, helped to frame the rules and regulations for the new Board of Admiralty, which were admirably carried out. All these offices are to
the deceased Marquis, so that his records may be handed down to further generations. This is indeed a unique acknowledgment of the services of this Chinese official
By 3 10 am, all danger of the fire spreading was over, much to the relief of the astonished residents of Stanley Street, many of whom promptly moved their valuables to another part of the colony. Mr. Talbot, secretary of Messrs A. S. Watson & Co. was the first to give the alarm to the members of the establish ment, being aroused by the election of the fire on the houses opposite. He said he beard what seemed to be an explosion and supposed it pon sible that the fire could be traced from the gas meter at the back of the blocked-up door-way. Quite close to this door there is a lift ronning from the basement to the top of the building, with à staircase winding round the lift chamber. Fire originating near the bottom of this opening would naturally rush upward by the force of the current of air generated. Another version is that the fire began in the basement and that the noise Mr.: Talbot heard was the fall of the lift when the rope was burnt. The surrounding buildings are somewhat damaged by water. The goods in Messrs. Powell's back store, the roof of wh ch is said to be somewhat leaky, are much spoiled by water. The Chinese and Indian sheps fronting Queen's Road, at the back of which is the borst store, also suffered from the water, but the damage is not great. There has not yet been time to estimate the value of the goods burned, but the loss will not be much under $100,000. Messrs. Wat.on & Co. are fully covered by insurance in the office of the Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.
Another theory which is afloat respecting the possible origin of the fire is that one of two coolies who were lately liberated after "doing" six months for larceny upon Messrs. Watson & Co.'s premises, purposely wet fire to them out of pure how the origin of this fire is wrapped, as džual in such cases, in a good deal of mystery.
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LÅTE TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, April 21st. Sir Andrew Clark is engaged in London promoting a scheme for the construction of A railway from London to Singapore. He advocates that by the construction of this railway the Australian mails can be sent Singapore, thence to Fort Darwin, and forwarded to the Southern Colonies by the Trans-Continental railway.
The labour troubles are spreading af Vienna, The German Government havë introduced a Labour Bill providing for the classification of all trades, and arbitration in all labour dis
pii*cs.
Great preparations are being made by the German Government for an African Expedition. On the motion of Bishop Moorhouse, the Labour Conference at York passed a resolution favouring the establishment of Boards of Can- ciliation, to arbitrate la Labour disputes,
A riot has occurred amongst the miners in Silesia.
'April 23rd.. The Agcats-General representing the Austra lian Colonies have expressed themselves in favour of the postal reductions which have been so eamesily advocated by Mr. Henniker Heaton, but they state that their respective Governments fear to risk the heavy losses which the Post- master-General anticipates would be the imme- diate result.
A hundred and twenty houses occupied by Jewish traders have been fired and destroyed at Sandee in Galacia.
The relations between the British authorities and the Portuguese in East Africa are extremely bostile.
Owing to the riotous: behaviour of the Socialists, the eight hours demonstration through. cut the States had to be suppressed.
Seventeen thousand weavers at Multhaussen, Germany, bave struck work.
Mr. Parnell opposes the Irish Land Parcbase Bill, as he does not consider that the question has been dealt with sufficiently fully,
THE SINGAPORE TRAMWAY:
COMPANY.
A POLYGLOT MEETING.
A SHAREHOLDER EXPRESSES BIS OPINION ABOUT THE DIRECTORS.
A meeting of the Singapore Tramway Com- pany was held in the office of Messrs. Syme & Co. at noon on the 12th inst.. where there were present:-Messrs. Bonington, Cuthbertson, Stringer, Gaggino, and Captain Blair (Director), A. Padday, S. Katz, J. F. Nicholson, J. Bastiani, and Ebramsab.
The notice calling the meeting was read, and the minutes of the last extraordinary meeting were read and confirmed.
Mr. Conington said the only business was to confirm the resolution passed at the last meeting; he proposed "That the Company be wound up voluntarily under the provisions of the Com pañies' Ordinance of 1889, and that the Hon'bla Joba Burkinshaw be, and is hereby, appointed liquidator for the purpose of such winding up."
This was seconded by Captain Blair and carried,
Mr. Bastiani, who spoke in Malay, said that out of the 5,020 shares of the Company 1,000 had never been issued, and he wanted to know the reason.
Mr. Conington said the Directors had no power to issue more than 4,000 shares at that time,
Mr. Bastiani said he wished to express his opinion of the Directors and he expressed it rather forcibly-in French.
There being no other business, the meeting terminated.-Straits Times.
RAILWAYS FOR CHINA.
No Credit given for bottles that look dirty. will place herself under the protection of Bussin, | A CHINESE paper, tells us that Viceroy Chang] be recorded, and an honorary title to be given to spite. We merely report this as a rumour. Any | Thursday (May 15th), and which has since been
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, China, and Manila.
FIRE AT THE HONGKONG
· DISPENSARY.
THE Hon, W. Long, M,L.C., the well known Sydney capitalist and racing man, who has been [s admitted as a barrister but has never practised, was asked in the witness-bex, the other day, to give from memory the contents of a certain Irgal document. He endeavoured to comply and added apologetically :" Although a barris Saiemons, QC, there are plenty of barristers like you, Mr. Long."
THE upper floors of our Stanley Street THE
Warehouse were destroyed by fire carly this morning.
"The damage will not materially interfere with
our local business.
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The Soda Water Factory and plant are intact and the manufacture of Aerated Waters com- menced at 7 o'clock this morning as usual.
The Dispensary and General Store have not been affected by the fire, and business will be
transacted as usual..
A 5. WATSON & Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 19th May, 1890,
MARRIAGES,
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Tientsin, and afterwards at the Union Church,
to ANNIE MARIA DOREY, eldest daughter of William Dorey, Esq., Strood Green, London, N. On the 7th May, at Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A. ROBERT WILLIAM LITTLE to EMILY (MAX)
EVERETT.
BIRTH.
Chih-tung's new colton mill plant has arrived al Wachang per steamer Kwongchang, but there is a such lot of machinery that the Chinese, are greatly puzzed over the different parts and the name of each, and are at a loss how to commence patting it up.
A STORY is told about a Vankee dude who stumbled by mistake, in a fog, into the pit of the London Lyceum, in mistake for the Gaiety, and sat out Irving's Macbeth. He gave an oracular Scotch pices lead themselves quite so readily to burlesque as others."
A FRESH OUTBREAK.
Fire again broke out in Mestre, Watson & Co.'s premises in Stanley Street at a quarter past eleven last night, It was in the fourth storey and appeared to be caused by the wind passing. through the open windows and thus tanning into flames, the smouldering embers. The Fire on the spot in less than eight Brigade was minutes, the police detachment smothering the
water from the Tylam'main.
The important news which we published on fully confirmed, respecting the despatching of M. Kinder, Engineer in-chief of the China Railway Company, and his assistant, Mr. Cox, by His Ex. Ll Hung-chang to Manchuris, for the purpose of surveying the railway to Kirin, Indicates a fresh departure in the Railway ques- tion. This move by the Viceroy of Chibli can hardly have been made of his own initiative. It is obvious that in ordering the survey of this line he is carrying out instructions from head-
ter, your Honor, l'am no lawyer." "Ab," said opinion-“ Rather funny, but I don't think these † reckon the other talent, and probably the latter blaze in a few minutes with a powerful jet of quarters in Peking. We have learned upon
MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY.
THE famous Colossus of Rhodes, which was made of bronze and was seventy cubits (or about 105 feet) in height, was says a writer in Binch woods, twelve year in making, and is said to have cost only 300 talents, or about £75,000, if we reckon the "Attic talent, ar 102,000, if we talent is to be reckoned in this case. At all events, the so-called Colossus of the Sun, in the Capitol, which was a bronze figure of Apollo, only go cubits or forty-five feet English-high, brought by Marcas Lucullus from Appollonia, in Pontus cost foo talents, which, if reckoned even as Attic talents, would be over £125,000, and it would hardly be probable that the Colossus at Rhodes, which was twice its height, could have been executed for so much less. But this is a trifle compared to the price The Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High-paid for a colossal statue of Mercury, made for the city of the Averni in Gaul, by Z-no- Landers will play the following programme at the Officers Mess, this evening, commencing darus. Qa this work he was engaged for ten years, and the cost of it was £335,000. What the gold and ivory Athena of Phidias in the Partheno, or bi Zeus at Olympia, cost; The gold is stated by an. Pacient author. employed on the moveable drapery alone of the last. The four best spores are appended Athena was over 40 talents in weight of un slloyed
The Penang Gassile says that "during the stay of Stanley's Oners Company at Penang they were that last year $1,000 persons who had no chafer entertained almost nightly at supper by the 31,000 who had been for a time settled in the United States returned to young bloods of the place. At first nothing but champagne was drunk at these jolly feasts, but remain in Canada. Australia and the Argentine in the last two or three occasions: cash being Republic are now the most formidable.com- tess plentiful and credit at a low ebb, the hosts petitors for emigrants which Canada bas to only provided their fair guests with shandygaff. contend with in Europe. Such at least isthe yarn that is going the rounds in Penang." What a fall was there, my brethren. Champagne to shandygaff. Great Caesar's ghost, what next?
at 8 o'clock
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An inquiry was held before Mr. Wodehouse at the Magistracy this morning into the circom- stances attending the fire in Stanley Street yesterday morning. After taking the evidence of Mr. Talbot, and Mr. Allen, the coolie who put the lights out, the Chinsman fa charge of the godown, and the district watchman which threw no light upon the origin of the fire-His Worship saj som d the inquiry until Tuesday the 27th instant, at 10 o'clock,
The 9th competition for the Kwoon Kwan Yeen Challenge Cups terminated on Saturday. fhand Yarda. Total Total,
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a single lock on the head of the Zeus at Olympia weighed six minge, or about the value of nearly dis
5002. For the famous statute of the Diado menos, which was a bronze figure of life siz representing a youth tying a fillet round his bead, Polyclcitus received 190 talents, or about
BETWEEN 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon and eleven at night, a big haul was made by thieves on board the steamablp Diamante. It appears that the Chief Officer, who went ashore at about 4 o'clock on Sunday, left the key of the treasure On the 15th April, at H.B.M.'s Consulate," room hanging up in his own cabin. The thieves | THX river steamer Pakin met, the Glengarry 32 gold, according to Thucydides, whose exactness
must have taken the keys, deliberately opened by the Rev, A. King, HENRY ST. CLAIR KNOX, the treasure room and taken away two boxes of the Mayans yo miles below Hankow at midnight | be‹ quivalent to some £16,000 in coin ; while
on the gih, and the Glamorganshirs 120 miles money, amounting in all to $1,176. As soon ne pailge became aware of the affair, below Kinking on the 10th at pm, The at about nine o'clock on Sunday. Detectives. Mogul and Antenor passed Chiokiang for Han. Haddon and Quincey boarded the ship, searched how on the 13th inst., to load tea, the former for here from stem to stern but without being abic | Odessa and the latter for London. to gain any clue. The Diamants let for Manila
THE Garbon bonored Her Majesty's birthday yesterday,
yesterday by a general parade, which was wit-425,000. At Tamsui, on 6th May, the wife of EDWARD OUR Shanghai morning contemporary gires the nessed by many thousands of spectators. The following Hankow tea statistics for the roth shipping in the Harbour was gally decorated STEVENS, of a daughter,
with bunting, and the customary saintes were May
Dania & Ningthow & Comm Ospack.
Kamu Hobow. fired. In the evening His Excellency the comes, jachts. Administrator gave a dance at Government cochosts. elegrapų Arrivals since?
House, which was numerously attended. opening... 61,070 49,900 109,050 4570
Our Shanghai contemporary the Mercury hears that the German Bank has concluded a loan of The 400,000, on a goki basis, at 6 per sent, with Chang yao, the Governor of Shantung, and another for a similar amount with Sheng Factal on behalf of the Chinese Telegraph Administra- tian, on a like basis. In neither case was an Imperial edict obtained, and the loans had been in the market for some time.
The Hongkong Helegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1890.
TELEGRAMS.
THE SILVER BILL
LONDON, May 10th. The Senatorial Republican caucus has abandoned the bullion redemption clause. It is believed this will facilitate an agreement, .
May 16th, The debate on the Silver Bill continues.
Settlements 1 37,100 23,560 539:4,500 since opening f Present Stock 33-970 25.340 55,095 3250 "The market la at present entirely in the hands of Russian buyers, whose prices for Hanke district lens, and fine and fincat Mingchows, quite preclude English houses from operating in these kinds.
Tar Singapore Tramway Company, after a short and unsatisfactory career, has collapsed. At a meeting of shareholders held on the tath inst. a resolation to wind up the concern under the Companies. Ordinance of 1889 was confirmed.. A novel festure of the meeting was the attitude of Mr. Bastiani, who gave the Directors a bit of his mindia two languages-Malay and French, The Straits Timar says that Mr. Bastianí expressed his opinions of the Directors rather forcibly whilst the Free Press considers that
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief Justice).
MURDEROUS ASSAULT.
Mr. P G. Colign
(Martini-Henry)
Is Stop..
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good authority that when the Viceroy recently visited the capital to accompany the Imperial procession to the Eastern Tombs he was dis- appointed in his expectations of being able to bring round Prince Chun in favour of his long- dreamt-of line to Tungchow. But with the terror of the Muscovite approach along the Trans- Siberian Railway in his heart, the father of the Emperor, whose inclinations are martial rather than commercial, turned a deaf, ear to the representations of Zi as to the advant- ages of the extension of the present railway system to within a short distance of the capital, and the result of the Interview, or HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. | rather the series of interviews, was disappoint ing to the Viceroy. The fact is that tho Tungchow Railway, after being duly sanctioned, has been indefinitely, sheived, and the ideas of the High Authorities in Peking with regard to railways have undergone another change since they were disturbed by the news of Russian activity with the Trans-Siberian Rail. way. There can hardly be any doubt that the latest development is intended as a counter-blast to the Russian railway care, which has afforded a bealthy stimulus to the railway party
In Peking xod has forced many of the billerest opponents of the iron horse to recognize in railways, not thels enormous potentialities from an industrial and civilizing point ofview, but their absolute necessity as a means of defence against both internal and foreign foes. The railway, which now seems to have a better prospect of being proceeded with than any of its more recent predecessors, would be of vast importance as a strategic line, connect- |ing, as it would, the present small railway system which the Viceroy has had constructed, with the large fortress and city in Manchuria, and bring. ing that vast, region into, rapid communication with the capital. As matters stand at present the great Songari river, which is the principal artery of Manchuria, is free to the access of ibo Russian Amur steam Boilla, while the vast region is inaccessible, except by the slow cart road, to the forces of the Chinese, and, there is nothing to prevent er even attempt to oppose a Muscovite coup in this direction. Time after tims has the danger of leaving this valuable position at the mercy of a possible enemy been pointed out by friendly advisers to the Chinese Government, but, until the next warning, prov mired to be from the pickaxes of the Russian engineers, the men antrusted with the defences. of the Chinese Empire closed their cars and their. eyes to the fact that they were dwelling in a fool's paradise. Beyond yea or nay, "it was because of the news, some six months ago, of the intention of the Chinese Government to construct a line of railway through Manchuria from Kaiping, that their line through: Siberia, psteusibly as a pre. cautionary measure. Recognising from this the immense strategic importance of the Manchurian line, the High Authorities in Peking evidently determined to take it seriously in hand. That the chief constructors of Li Hung-chang's rail. way should be so soon despatched to begin a
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Wong Tang Shing, a coolie, was indiced with having fel-plously shot at John Green, P. 7o. with intent to do him grity as bodily harm.
The Attorney-General (Mr. W. M. Gordman) - Singe prosecuted The Clerk of Arraigns (Mr. Sangster) read the indictment the first count of which charged the prisoner with having feloniously and maliciously shot at John Green (P.C. 70) with intent to do him grievous, bodily harm also with having malicicusly and fel:niously wounded the said John Green.
The jury were Messrs. R. R. Jukes, H. R. Cotterwall, J. Gow, A. F. dos Remedios; C.H. Rogge; J. A. Barrettor and E. Hayad. The Attorney General in opening stated that on the 28th April at about 8 pm, while Constable Green was walking through Tai-kok-tsos in British. Kowloon, he met the prisoner and another man
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CORRESPONDENCE,
"[Via do not necsamelly ankarna tha ogħaloes expenseed by Correspondents Ja this columa).
THE curtain was lifted on Saturday night at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, to a rather thin house which had assembled to witness the performance of the Military Hammers His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and a few Military and Ciril ENGLAND AND ITALY.
officials, were the sole occupants of the dress Count Crispi stated in the Chamber that com-
circle when we arrived on the scene. "Chiselling plele accord exists between England, Austria
and Uncle" were the pieces played, the plot and Italy to prevent any rising in the Balkans,
in both being pretty much the same, e. g. to menacing the peace of Europe. He also
deceive an old uncle and make capital out of him. declared that a complete agreement had been come to between England and Italy, and that The acting a souniformly good throughout that nothing can be done without the concurrence of it would be invidious ́to draw distinctions, and | his criticism of the management” cannot be re--| man-carrying a bundle. He asked them to i for the fands of the Hospital from His Excellency ardused the Russians to renewed activity with
though the two farces were not such as to call forth any very marked display of talent, there was evidently plenty of it on the boards, The beats certainly appreciated the evening's enter tainment and it is to be hoped that the financial success was equal to that of the performance
self.
England.
THE PREMIER ON THE AFRICAN DIFFICULTY.
May 18th. Lord Salisbury declares the Zambest and Bhird countries International highways, and that
peated, as too sweeping for publication.". It allow him to examine the contents of the would be interesting to know what this gentleman bundle, which they refused and at once actually did say about the Tramway Company struck the constable. The latter immediately directors, and if he thinks it to forward us a tried to seize the men, when a scuffic copy of his remarks at the public meeting easped resulting in the arrest of the prisoner either in Malay or French, we shall have no after he had shot at the officer at close quarters, hesitation in publishing them pro bono publice. the bullet grazing his right temple and passing
THE ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITA!! TOTETOR OF THE "HONGLOwa Telegraph," -DEAR SIR,-I have received the sum of $100 the Hon. Francis Fleming, the Officer Adminis- tering the Govemment, and
Your's faithfully, PNG KE E. W. MAITLAND, A Hon. TresspERY," dware Alice Memorial Hospital." ong, 20th May, 1890: