Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMITE, D, CHEMIST S,
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.
WINE & SPIRIT IMPORTERS.
CHAMPAGNE LEMOINE,
CUVEE ROYALE.
VIN BRUT,
We are sole Agents in China for the sale of this splendid wine.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1890.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Nizam leht, M. L. S. WILBURN, one of the Westinghouse Bombay for this port at noon yesterday,
Tin German #exmer China changed hands at Yokohama and hoisted the Japanese flag on the 1oth inst.
ONE of the By: men who jumped out of the top window of 68 Bonham Stand, during the recent fire, died this morning from the injuries be received.
IN consequence of the distress caused by the high price of rice, the Japanese Gwernment has determined to throw open its granaries in Osaka and T kin
Electric Company's electricians, arrived yesterday. by the City of Rio de Janeiro. His destination is Canton, where the Company are putting in an incandescent plant with a capacity of 1,500 lights.
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SAYS the NV. C. Daily News of the 19th May:- | Vice-Consul at Chemulpo, has arrived at Shang- Mr. H. E. Fulford, who has lately been H.M.'s hai on his way to Chungking, where he is to re-open the British Consulate." It is improbable that at this season of the year he will be able to get to his past in the'junk to which the Foreign Öffice has now reduced the treaty right, and he will most likely have to go overland from Ichang..
It is supplied regularly to the households of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duka of Edinburgh, to most of the leading Clubs In London and the provinces, and is also largely MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the by the steamship Changaka next Thursday, 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 1 dozen qte. $22; per bottle $2.
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Canadian Pacifiċ 'Tine, inform us that the steam- ship Abyssinia arrived at Vancouver on the 22nd Inst. from Yokohama,
We understand that His Excellency the Adminis- frator (Mr. E. Fleming, C.M.G.) will proceed to Canton on Monday next, to may an official visit to the Viceroy of the Liang Kuang.
A COMPLIMENTARY benefit to the ladies of Hudson's Surprise Party, who leave for Australia
tendered by a number of Hongkong amateurs, will be given in the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on Thursday, the zoth last. A varied programme has been arranged, full particulam of which will be shortly announced. A plan of the Theatre is now on view at Kelly & Walsh, Ltd., where seats, may be booked.
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. A REGULAR meeting of Zelland Lodge, No. 525 blading was started at $1,000 and went rapidly will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, Hongkong, zoth May, 1800.
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on Monday, the 2nd proximo, at 9.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited
BY APPOINTMENT.
FIRST crop teas have arrived at Foochow in large quantities from the different districts, and A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. the Eche understands that it was the intention of some of the tea hongs to send their musters out on the 19th inst.
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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 wreck of the Ulysses, as she now lies at Koshima, Miwagaki-mura, was sold at Kobe on the 3rd inst, and fetched a very good price. The up to $12,000 by thousands, then it advanced more steadily by hundreds, and the lot was, ultimately knocked down at $29,400, to ■ Japanese syndicate. They in end to float ber by blowing up the rocks by which she is surrounded, with dynamite.
A COMPANIONSHIP of the Order of St. Michsel and St. George is a very doubtful honour, but in the case of our latest local recipient of that gia shop decoration we are glad to see that Mr. W. M. Deane's lengthy services in Hongkong have, recognised by the magnates of the Colonia! after years of studied neglect, been at last Office. Mr. Deane is cap of the oldest, as he is about the ablest, of our local Government offi. powers that have been" that his eight and twenty years of useful work in this colony have been so long ignored.
A SILVER lode in the Toad Mountain mining section of British Columbin was recently disenvered, which stayed from $5 to $15,000 to the tan. This is expected to develop into one of the most productive silver mines that has The greatest attention has been paid to appli-ever been discovered in America. It lays overcials, and it is certainly not creditable to the ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to Punjom, anyhow, 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".
We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
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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.
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
LITHIA WATER
.. SELTZER 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, China, and Manila,
THE
FIRE AT THE HONGKONG
DISPENSARY.
AT the Police Court to-day a coolic named rung Chu was committed for trial at the next
Criminal Sessions, by Mr. Wadehouse, for ob-
taining two catties of tobacco from the Ki Sam shop. East Street Festerday, by means of a forged order. Bail was granted in two sureties of twenty-five dollars each.
This morning one of the light-fingered gentry, who was up before Mr. Wodehouse, was jailed for six months, with a fair modicum of hard bour thrown in four passer la tembs-for breaking open the box of a tenant of 31 Jardine's Bazaar, and 'lifting' therefrom $125 worth of jewelry, money, and clothing,
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EARLY this morning the police found an old woman lying on the floof of her house, in the western district, bound hand and foot. She had
heen robbed during the night of some $400 and although not being gigged-she, had been raising an alarm for several hours, and several men employed by her slept in the next room, they professed entire ignorance of the affair.
We have run "Patrick Cafferty" to earth. Patrick is not an Irishman, but a mean Scotch- man who is anything but à credit to his name, We shall give him until Tuesday next at noon to make amends for the cowardly libels he has forwarded to us under false pretences; if he fails to do so, we sadly fear that "Patrick" will very shortly have to bid good-bye to his many friends for an indefinite period.
A CHINESE paper says that a foreign Com- missioner of Customs will shortly leave for Chungking, and a foreign Custom House will be established there the same as in the other ports, bat no foreign boats or vessels owned by foreigners will be allowed to trade there yet.. Chinese boats may fly foreign flags (and most probably will be owned by foreigners or under [S foreign protection) and may trade there.
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A YOKOHAMA Contemporary says that the author of the "Light of Asia" is engaged upon a new poem. It is to be called the "Light, of the World." Already some three thousand lines are 'written and it is just possible that the work may be concluded before Sir Edwin Arnold leaves Japan, where a period of quiet and leisure has enabled him to put into connected form thoughts that have been with him for the past twelve years. The purpose of the poem is to represent the scheme of Christianity as it was conceived by its immortal founder; to clear away the dis- figuring and confusing elements that have grown up about it in the course of half civilized cen- turies; to reconcile it with modern science, and to still the strife of dogma, superstition, and error that obscures its true character,
ACCORDING to The British Manufacturer, between Amoy and Foschow a great deal of very valuable iron exists, which, though not yet analysed, has been examined by Europeans, and is reported to be, without doubt, of the best quality. The vein is at least five miles long, and runs parallel with an extensive scam of coal. The ridge which contains it is 600 feet high, and about a mile and a half wide at the base, and nearly the whole of the mass is iron are, which appears at the surface and is clearly exposed to view. The supply seems practically inexhaustible, and the facility with which it can be worked by simple carting away with practically no waste, renders the deposit exceedingly valuable. The coal already alluded to is also abundant, and of good quality, and systematic working of both minerals would, according to an English expert, who has visited the spot, be extremely profit able,
To-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel, fing, will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey men ashore to 11. a.m. service at St.-Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about 12.30.
Tax Japan Gazette of the roth inst, says — very seriens affair which has occurred at Yokosuka Just before going to press, we are informed of a during the past few days. While the work of dis. charging cargo from the Glendon was proceeding notices in Japanese were conspicuously placed on aud near the ship_prohibiting smoking, we presume from what followed-a very necessary precaution considering the awful disaster which à match or any lighted substance might cause in such a pitce as Yokosuka dockyard and with such cargo as kerosene about. At all events, a coolle was discovered in the act of smoking on the vessel, and our information is that a police. man standing near seized a block of wood and struck at the coolle with tremendous force braining him on the spat,
THE Missionary Conference at Shanghai last week was nearly degenerating into a prize-fight. The subject on the fatis was "The Attitude of Christianity towards 'Ancestral Worship,” but that was nothing compared with the attitude of the delegates immediately after the debate got under way. Our Shanghai contemporaries do not say in so many words that Bishop Burdon got his bell-topper caved in. or anyone had a piece of old red sandstone take him in the abdo men, but it is certain that, everybody stood up, and if Mr. Stevenson hadn't suggested that it was hot, and the sun had got over the fore-yard-or whichever is the missionary way of putting it there would have been trouble. The conference at any rate hastily adjourned after a short prayer Next day, among the correspondence read, was hat "lost in the accident yesterday," "Accident" a letter containing a request for the return of a
is good. As Truthful James says in "Society upon the Stanislaus"—
www........................ it lena tha proper plan
.. For any missionary gent to whale his fellow-raan.".
And when we tend that Professor Thwing subse; quently objected to Mr. Delorme being engaged to photograph the assembled Stigginses "be cause he was always desecrating the Sabbath" making the celestial hosts gnash their teeth, by "taking" groups on the day of rest-we smile the scornful smile of the unregenerate, and write a large cheque to start a Society for Feeding Menageries with Missionaries.
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OUR readers will no doubt remember, says the Foochow Echo of the 17th inst, that, some time ago, we made mention of the intention of a few up-country teamen establishing a tea warehouse at this port in order to enable them to sell their tess direct to foreigners. The scheme was not entirely abandoned; but owing to the heavy losses the promoters sustained last year it has remained in abeyance. From what we, now learn, this scheme, which by the way has come again under consideration, is to be on the co-operative principle; and, amongst other novelties in the working of it, the services of a foreign tea taster are to be engaged. It is calculated that if this project becomes an accom- plished fact, teas will pass into the hands of foreign buyers at a far lower cost. The charges of tea hongs, to commissions to middle men, and other heavy expenses they have had to meet are said to be enormous, and there would be a saving to the buyers to this extent, or to the greater part of it at least. It is calculated that as much as two millions of dollarsers paid, ons way and another, to these middle men every tea Weason! Though the promoters fully expect that | the new scheme will meet with strong opposition at first from the existing old fashioned tea bongs, it should not be successful, Foreign merchants we see no reason why, under good management, will certainly hail any change that is to carry with it a lower cost of tea. The arrangements between the Tea Guild and each firm of Mer- chants with regard to weighing and the general conduct of the trade of the port, as well as the `compact between the Tea Guild and the Chamber of Commerce seem have worked so well that it is difficult at the first blush, to see how this new co-operative society is to work separately to the satisfaction of all concerned. It is true that an independent agreement could be made between this new Society and the Merchants and Chamber of Commerce, on the same
But we are touching on a point not included in the scheme; the promoters 4.497 by any rules or regulations. Whether they will be strong enough to act quite independently, and whether such freedom of action would meet the That the tea bongs have fattened at the expense approval of foreign buyers remains to be seen.
of the leamen ever since the trade commenced fi certalu; and it is equally certain that if the services of these middlé men could be dispersed with, the cost of tea would to a great extent be
OUR Shanghai morning contemporary gives the following Hankow tea statistics for the 15th inst
Danfa& Ningthow & Oopack Ouam. Keement
-chests chess chests, chest
last reported 33.970 26 340 56.096 3,250 lines that in force with the Tea
Arrivals as}
Arrivals since...76,561, 108,510 105,070
Total.....110,531 - 134850 161,166
16,900 Guild,
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THE RICHMOND TERRACE ESTATE AND BUILDING
CO., LIMITED.
The ordinary general meeting of the share-. holders of the above Company was held at the offices, Queen's Road, to-day. Mr. J. D.. phreys, G. C. Cox, Mancell, Sutton, Talbot, Humphreys presided, and Mesars, H. Hum Clements, Nobbs, etc., were present..
The report was adopted on the motion of Mr. Mancell. seconded by Mr. Nobbs.
The Chairman proposed the re-appointment of Mr. A. W. Maitland, which was seconded by Mr. Sutton, and agreed to."
The Chairman added that he had intended to lay before the meeting the projects he had in view for the further advancement of the Company, but his time had been so occupied of late, in consequence of the recent fire at the Dispensary warehouse, which bad entalled an immense amount of extra work, that be was compelled to await another oppor- tunity of doing so. He would, however, let the shareholders know his views by circular, and if, as he believed, they were in accord with him, a meeting to consider the matter would be held in due course.
The proceedings then terminated.
The coming week's business will, doubtless afford matter for subsequent comment.
Yours faithfully,
-N. C. Daily News.
AH-WHY, !
RACING IN CHINA.
OPENING OF THE HANKOW TEA blue ribbon, until these later times when the
MARKET.
HANKOW, May 13th
The annual campaign on the Yangtze has commenced and is proceeding with a vigour that already eclipses all pre-existing records. This is a year undoubtedly of big things: a big crop : big prices: big profits to teamen: big hearts and big expectations all round. Let us hope that it will be rewarded with what, at present, looks beyond all hope, big mercies.
But the position of affairs is n very serious consideration for the buyer of tea for shipment to England. Inasmuch as the London trade no longer require finest tea, the difficulty at once presents itself of answering the simple question What is a safe basis on which to begin to buy for the home market?" A few fine teas will assuredly pay, profits, but it will be a veritable "leap in the dark" for those who first attempt to solve the "safe basis" riddle...
Shippers to England will do well to bear in mind that they are confronted by two very great and very great and very real dangers. In the first place the London trade will be but too well aware that at the best it will only receive a second-class article from the North of China. It will have to content itself exactly with the teas the Russian buyers are kind enough not to want. It will, in fact, have to comfort itself with the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table.
It will have to bear in silence the reproach of the unsentimental broker: "Do you expect us to pay up for sweepings, when we can offer our clients the good things from India and Ceylon ?"
The trade will "tumble to "the situation,, Fancy poor England having in such a marked manner to play second fiddle in a trade which for years and years has been so emphatically her own? „Tis sad indeed to summon · úð, remembrance of things past.
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And a second fact for shippers not to lose sight of is this; that Foochow teas are said to be of extra good quality cost Tis. 10 to 12 per picul less than” last year, and that. Foschow buyers have no fear of competition from the collectors for the Moscow and Nishni Novgorod markets. It is quite possible, then, that if Foochow teas are good and cheap, they will be taken at home in preference to unenviable ship menta from Hankow. Now a word or two as regards the situation here. There was no delay in opening fire; the enemy was attacked at once. chops of Keemun were shown in Kiukiang on A dozen chops of Ningchow, and some 40 the 6th inst, but the non-sanguins buyers there, uncertain, of the safety of the basis," only took four parcels of the later description; and those at the not out of the way prices of Tis. 37 to Tis. 401, the tael prices being about to per cent. under those current last season, but the laying down cost equalling that of last year by reason of the high rate of exchange.
The next day, the 7th, musters were shown bere, and although there was exhibited the usual "sweet, reluctant, amorous delay" during that afternoon, business commenced in real cartest on the 8th, and has continued with a growing vehemence ever since, A great expert has just pronounced the "rush to be the greatest 'on record, calminating in the fiercest excitement, abatement."
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The Spring Campalga which has just culminated in Shanghai, and will be finally closed by the Tientsin meeting next week, has: been everywhere well fought, and proves that there is no flagging in the public interest in this noble pastime. The most brilliant affair of the whole year is beyond doubt the meeting in the Happy Valley in February, where the fine display of beauty and fashion is fitly set in the most picturesque of race-courses, and where the brightness of a garrison town and naval station, added to the social resources of a real live Government, contribute clements of pleasure which are necessarily wanting even in the largest of the Treaty ports. Nor is the Hongkong meeting less important from the racing man's point of view, for not only is it the parent of all the race meetings in China, but It has maintained: its pre-eminence unimpaired through all the changes which time has brought from the days when thorough-bred English horses and high caste Arabs such as they could not afford to keep in India, competed for the
native stock has driven all aliens from the field; a type of what is said to be going on in the human sphere also in the chief business centres. And as the climate of the extreme South only admits of one meeting in the year the whole force of the sporting community is concentrated on the great events of February. There is little induce- ment therefore for" holding over "griffins; twelve months is too long a shot. The business, too, is conducted in a more thorough manner in Hong- kong than anywhere else. There being no private training grounds everything has to pass under t's public eye, and whether it be due to this or to the fortuitous combination of literary power with love of sport, the training notes which appear in the Hongkong Telegraph are the most workmanlike of their kind we have ever seen. The principal competitions are necessarily the same in Hongkong, as in Shanghat, but the field is much larger, and the excellent system they have of importing sub- scription grins secures to so many people an even chance on such moderate terms as in at- tract small owners, who, in Shanghai, would be deterred by the necessity of paying high prices for single ponies, relying on their judgment at first sight for the selection, In.racing as in other things there is safety in numbers, for no man's skill is infallible in detecting beneath the Janky quarters and shaggy hair ofthe wild animal ashe comes from the Mongolian plateau the quall- ties of the future winner of crack races. By a fluke any one may pick up at any of the ports, but most easily in Tientsin, a cheap pony that turns 'out a racer, but whoever aspires to the honours of the turf must proceed on a more systematic plan, and buy many in order to choose a few. What distinguishes the sport of racing in China: from that of every other country we know of is the inexhaustible supply of the raw material, Nowhere in the world can race-horses be bought so cheap at all times as here, and the constant arrivals of rough griffins of every colour under heaven imparts a species of Interest to the sport which is probably hot found in any similar degree elsewhere. In selecting and educating there wild, raw-boned steeds there is abundant scope for the exercise of judgment, adequate reward for careful management, and the element of pure luck which upsets every calculation, but which on that very account possesses an irresistible fasci pation for the many. Independently, therefore, of the proud ambition to own a race-winner, the culture of the griffin is capable of affording a considerable amount of pleasurable excitement of a promiscuous sort. The speculation as to how he will turn out, the effort of imagining the transformation when the gaunt frame-work shall be built up with flesh and muscle, of trying to penetrate the vell of the future, and in the mind's eye tracing the dotted line which is to mark the form of the perfect animal-is undoubtedly enter talning. So are all the stages of the process of development, the same in the general, yet so various in the detail. The disappointments which are incessant add zest to the pursuit, for though griffinism truly has more pangs and fears than wars or women bave,” yet the future bolds infinite possibilities, and there are always good fish in the sea. Those who are so happy. as to be able to train and ride their own pobles no doubt get the most enjoyment out of the
fined to jockeys or even to owners, but is shared. in by a considerable section of the public. Nor is the interest of the public all platopic, for by means of lotteries, betting machines, and the various devices which cause money to pass from pocket, to pocket during the race carnival, the public contribule very materially to the supply of the commodity which is said to make the more to go. In the large posts this element of gambling is large enough to create prices which supplement, sometimes in an important degree, the official prizes offered by the Race Clubs, for although outsiders are not always disappoloted to their hopes of winning a big lottery the balance of advantage isso clearly with those who not only know the capabilities of the horses, but can also control their running, that in the long run the lion's share of the public money must fall - to the owners of horses. Without this fluctuating fund, Indeed, it is safe to consider that the sport could not be kept up with anything like its pres sent spirit, or to anything like its present extent. Even with these supplementary contributions it is certain that horse racing is far from self-sup- parting.. "Now and again an owner may make a big haul, and some exceptionally fucky indivi- dual may be able to leave the table with money 'In pocket butonthe average the expenses, which are continuous, must always depress the scale. A brief experience is usually sufficient to teach the most sanguine competitor for turf honours that it is an amusement which costs money, and some-
upper floors of our Stanley Street bonrder at St. Joseph's College. The lad, only Settlements. 79,112 89,200 118.1 19.150 intend, we understand, to, work quite unbound an exdtément which as yet shows no signs of sport, but the pleasure is by no means con-
Warehouse were destroyed by fire early this morning,
The damage will not materially interfere with our local business.
A MOST unfortunate bathing accident, with fatal result, Happened at Macao on the 16th inst, to the youngest son of Lieut, Maher, who was a twelve years of age, was bathing with several of his companions, and in taking a plunge struck an unseen rok, thereby stunning himself and breaking his skull. His body was not recovered until the following morning. This sad event has cast quile a gloom over Macao,.,
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The Soda Water Factory and plant are intact, the Co sular Court at Yokohama, on the 7th and the manufacture of Aerated Waters com- instant, Robert White, third engineer of the Abyssinia, was charged with having been druck menced at 7 o'clock this morning as usual,
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on duty. The evidence showed that accused The Dispensary and General Store have not while on duly in the engine-room had quitted been affected by the fre, and business will be his past and gone to his cabin about three o'clock on the "mo ning previous to arrival lu Yokohama, the ship being at the time in a heavy 504. The surgeon testified that when he 'examined' accused a short me after he was He was much under the influence of drink. severely censured, and committed for three months,
fransacted as usual,
A. 5. WATSON & Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 19th, May, 1890.
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,
Present Stock 31,312 45.650 41.979 54,653 The sharp campetition of the last few days for Hankow district teas appears to be wearing out, and in some cases a décline of 6 to 8 taci
Keemuns are in favour p.pcl can be recorded
with English buyers, and are taken as soon as Ningchow crop is very undesirable, consisting offered at fully firm rates. The residuum of the mostly of tarry, burnt, or overkept teas.
"WHERE is Oscar Brandt?" is the question ofthe hour on the Rialto. We are rauch afraid that Oscar has grievously disappointed the Hong. korg public generally, and his Honor the Acting Chief Justice in particular. At all events his former haunts know him no more in this colony and we are credibly informed that he has "gone where the wood-bing twineth," leaving many anxious inquirers to bewail his absence, And yet only a few short weeks ago-wide the Acting Chief Justice's eloquent summing up to the jury in Brandi p. Fraser-Smith, he was the soul of honour, the incarnation of solvency, the living embodiment of injured Innocence--and what is be now ? The rascally theif he has been for years past, the petty porlotner of paltry trifes in a public store, the cost this journal about two thousand dollars in damages and costs-thanks to the thing they call British justice in this colony for publishing the truth about a common swindler who ought to have been serving a term of penal servitude years ago.
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
The first ordinary meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held at the Hongkong Hotel at noon to-day. Mr. H. L. Dalrymple presided, and Messrs. H. P. Tennant, E. T. Davies, L. Paesnecker, G. S. Coxon, F. H. Cross, H. Wicking, C. A. Orono, J. F. C. da Reza, W. H. Wickham (manager) and C. F. Harton (secretary),
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Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Telegraph will alway the flames from spreading, In a few minutes convicted perjurer in the witness box. And it do not think I can supplement the information
not to fadridunt members of the star.
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Lye Haughang Geingruph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1890.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
LAST night, a few minutes after nine o'clock, an outbreak of fire occurred in, No. 12, Kwong Yun Street, occupied by a vendor of loss-paper, crackers, bombs, &c. Assistant Engineer Camp bell, who happened to be near, at once rushed to the premises and took steps to prevent the brigade was in attendance, pouring copious streams of water into the house. The contents of the place were of a highly inflammable salute, but owing to the marked promptitude of the brigade, a serious conflagration was averted, the outbreak being suppressed in the space of some twenty minutes. The damage is estimated at $1,000, covered by a policy of the Queen Insur- ance, Co. Messrs. No. ton & Co., agents.
Tur Skin Pao of the 17th lust, reports the death at Hasgehow, Horan province, of fits Excellency Pan.yulia, The deceased was a member of the A SUIT, The Chinese Insurance Co. v. John Board of War and Admiral of the Yangtste river. Andrew, heard in the Summary Jurisdiction Pan first served under General Tsang Kwo-fan Court and reported in our issue of the 16th Inst., against the Taipings, and when the rebellion was is likely to lead to some interesting developments. at lis height he was ordered by General Tang, Mr. Andrew is a much injured individual, and in conjunction with Yang (now Viceroy of Messrs. Watton and Deacon are eminent Kanso), to take charge of the navy on the solicitors who, in our opinion, have been caught Yangtete river and suppress the rebellion along tripping very badly. Mr. Jno. J. Francis is a its basks which he did with conspicuous success barrister-at-law and a learned QC, and a pretty. When peace was restored Pan was promoted antart member, when fairly on the job. But wo to various responsible posts, but he never took up leave the further elaboration of this by no means many of these on account of having much work unimportant topic until we see what steps along the Yangtze river to re-establish differ- -are likely to be taken to show up ent naval ports and stations for the defence of growing evil that ought to have been pipped the river ports. He also took a part in the late in the bud years ago. Some Hongkong solicitors, Franco-Chiocso war, managing the supplies for and their methods of doing business, are likely the Canton province. Everywhere he to have a pretty lively time in the columns of different officiils held him in Eigh respect, and weeks. We have bided our time with exemplary he was coming. But Pan was somewhat ant!-
our
For this "rollen state of Denmark" buyers for Russia are alone responsible. But as usaal froid bien insouciant.
ile portent leur responsabilités avec un sang.
Prices have hourly advanced until Tix. 68 has been notched for a first-class Ning-chow.
Regarding quality, opinion is divided, but the general impression obtains that the Ningchows, as a class, are inferior to those of last season, the liquor being dull and dead ; that Keemunt are quite up to an average, and are the safest and most reasonable investment for the London market ; and that the Hankow district teas are superior all round in make, infusion and purity; and that "car" is conspicuous by its absence.
Purity is the characteristic of the crop. But purity will be no avail when it is left, as it may in a few months be left, unaccompanied by its Bandmaidens, strength and flavour.
Prices for finest grades, have advanced on 1 opening rates Tls. 4 to 10 per picul, except for Keemuns which are slightly easier. Teamen are exultant, and it is held that a profit of Tis, 1,000,000 has already gone into the pockets of the unsophisticated native, whose trade, he has for the past twelve months been assured, has parsed beyond redemption..."
After all said and done ther." are nothing like figures to substantiate one's statements, and the few submitted are not without inle.est, The Kiaklang teas...139,773 ag'at 119,1353-ch, 189 Hankow teas... 186.790
47,43
times a great deal of it. But on the other hand, with fair, knowledge of the business, much care, and a modicum of good luck, the deble balance may in most cases be reduced to "less"sum" than would be ́required to keep a steam yacht. ::Of course in 'racing, as in every- Kiukling teas for 804 agst 59.158 ch. 1889 thing else, she long purse must always, cæteris
326,563
The Chairman proposed that the report be taken as read, and added:---Since the figures were audited we have received payments of the call of $4 on 276 of the 4381 shares mentioned, and the unallotted shares have been arranged for, and will be credited to the Company in due course. {
contained in the Engineer's report attached, | fotal snivals to date arepmbine giving, as it does, a concise history of the work done since the foliation of the Company in the early part of last year; it touches on all the really Important points connected with the enterprise, and I hope that, in about four months, we shall be in a position to start the lighting of the area at present arranged for with the Gvernment, I will only add that your directors hope that the Hankow lens...114183 general body of our shareholders will give the Company their solid support, and by their example encourage, the general public to adopt electric lighting in every possible way. With this co operation assured I look forward to a successful carcer, and to the eventual enlargement of the area under this light, which will materially add to the profits of the undertaking. I shall be happy to afford any further information desired.-There being no questions, he then proposed the adoption] of the report,
The settlements are 3-***
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166,978
215987
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abuso,30 a symilii Sipkesec.
Yanglawtangs 1996.
paribus, bave the advantage of the smaller ones; and this advantage has sometimes been "Bo conspicuous AF to excite a certain resentment, and provoke outery against monopoly-which li acomplete misnomer. This feeling found expres sion in Shanghal at the recent meeting there, and our esteemed contemporary in a leading article deplored, the black shadow of the "leviathan stable," which, it was said, depressed all the would-be moderate competitors," and spoiled, aport. The feeling also finds facit expression at the finish of each race when the Mr. Coxon seconded, and it was agreed to,
**leviathan heade the ruck. It is a natural feeling, The Chairman then proposed the confirmation Figures like these are eloquent enough. The but not altogether reasonable; and the resale of the appointment of Mr Tennant to the Board, bulk of the crop comes from the Human and of these very faces in which the successes in succession to Mr. A: C. Stokes, absent. Hupeb districts, and such prices as Tik 40 for "of the leviathan, were but moderate in propor
Cheongsoukals, Tis: 38 for Yunglowtungs, Tis. tion to the large staka he had in the Mr. Wicking seconded, and the matter was agreed to. He also proposed the re-election of Kokews are no unsound basis on which to place so bad for small owners, as it appears to be. 35 for Sungyangs and Oanfas, and Ta, 30 for meeting, shows that the case is by no means
Tangsal 34 mp3 Sungyang..math #34 51/0): No sottiesasią. OAD t a 30 milos a 1/5/ Shaplami ž3) za 18 muziki = 1/4k.
MONDAY, Dext (Whit-Monday), being a public the Hongkong Telegraph during the next few all evfl-doers were terrified wherever they heard Messrs. Dalrymple and Pocançeker to the Board the, safe prediction of an overwhelming first A stable may be too large for the management
holiday, there will be no issue of the Hongkong Taligraph.
pailence and at considerable cast ; now it's ont and we trust and believe that our efforts to put THE Foochow Race Club are to hold a Scurry down legalised robbery in Hongkong will not
bo'm.de in vain. Meeting on Tuesday next.
foreign and opposed to foreign aides a cand telegrams in his life, but preferred always to send a courter, though the matter might be over 10 urgent
Mr. Quorlo seconded, and the motion was crop, moradias de madera of one man, unless, he has a leviathan's head as
As
adopted.
pe Chairman having proposed the rounds to freights well they look dicky. Not appointment of Mr. Stewart and Mr. G. Coxon London will probably, soon have an opportunity auditors, which Mr. Davies seconded, the of forwarding that cheap purchases at a cheaper
rate than present quotations, proceedings terminated♫
well, at purse, and the larger it becomes the chances of winning and the better, the relative chances for outsiders For It is apt to be over. looked that these large, stables carried on with
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