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the trip in question he stopped the engineer when approaching the wharf, an I passed within eighty yards from the Douglas buoy. He then heard the look-out call out to him to go to the lest, as there was a sampan in front. He did so, and grazed too brat, capsizing it.
The case was than adjourned until to-morrow.
THE FLOODS in North CHINA.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1890.
measures taken will insure our regular supply of gas, the deprivation of which would have been severely felt, and the Directors of the Company. deserve credit for their promptitude.
The Cemetery itself is unfortunately covered!, as it was in 1371.
Like an island in the sea stands the Po Wen . Shau Yuen, the new Collega on the river bank, its Immunlly being due partly to the height of its foundation, and partly to the substantial embankment thrown up round it. It is wonderlul indeed how effective these simple contrivances are, for on the opposite side of the river the Military School, which was so easily inundated by the last floods, has been kept perfectly dry by the good, earth-work which was thrown up round it after that valuable experience,
The progress of the flood on the north, or east, or left bank of the river has been even more disastrous than on the right bank. The exten- sive plain between the French Marsh and the river was flooded from several sources, and, others from a buge gap cut in the outer wall close to the railway bridge; through this for two days the waters rushed with all the features of a rapid-the roar being heard at a considerable distance. Cutting the creek stream at right. angles the combined floods seethed under the railway bridge and rapidly rose to the level of the military road which runs from the city to the Arsenal and Camps. This, although 6ft, above the level of the plain, is into a wash, and should the slightest breeze arise will inevitably be totally destroyed, as the waves attain considerable siz and force, having so long a "fetch," in a northerly or north-westerly blow,
The quadrangular plain which contains the Camps and brick kilns bad complete exemption from water till Thursday; and would have had it still but for the supineness of the Chinese authorities and the incompetence of the gangers; on Thursday a wet mud will (ao dry material being then obtainable), three feet high and three feet broad, was thrown up to keep back the waters threatening the plain from the moal-] this proved ridiculously inadequate, and on Thursday, at three a.m., the pent up foods. broke through.
So far they have been kept from evading the Arsenal itself, but how long this great centre of labour will have exemption is uncertain. The Camps, the Arsenal, and the Railway are now the only land visible on the left bank.
The water has been practically stationary since Thursday night, neither rising nor falling. The river level varies a few inches, but on the average is 2 feet 6 inches above the water on the plain. The Grand Canal level is of e urse the same as that of the Peiho into which it falls, and as it still pours its waters on the plain the fact that the rise of the latter has been arrested seems to show that the water is finding an equivalent outlet somewhere. Reports came yesterday from Paitangkou, where steamers now discharge, that ile water had begun to pour from the plain into the river.
The water is up to the City walls but it cannot get through; the gates on the south and west sides are closed and dammed up. The Viceroy's Yamên, situated on the father side of the Grand Canal is, however, under water.
According to the recollection of "the oldes inhabitant, and from certain marks on stones and wails, the height of the present flood is about a foot less than the great flood of 1871, and as the Taku Road as well as the roads within the British Settlement have been considerably raised, since then by repeated layers of macadam, the inconvenience to foreign residents is not nearly so great now as on the former occasion,
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“PHRA CHOM KLAO" Captain J. Fowler, will be despatched for the above Port, on FRIDAY, the 15th instant, at
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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, Hongkong, 11th August, 1890.
means can be speedily found for shipping their
coal from Luiai.
The gaps made are as follows:-Ten gaps between Hanku and the first bridge towards Lutai from 6ft, to Ifift, in width; between the bridge and the second, flood opening there are iwenty-two gaps of from 6ft. to t5ft. Near the camp bridge thre openings one of 75ft., and one of over 200ft., and a number of smaller ones. Between the camp bridge and Lutai there is one opening a quarter of a mile in length, the upper
JAS. EDWARDS, Proprietor.
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several places with his company in pursuance of his business. He intended to remain in Calcuus during the whole of the ensuing cold season. He bad no fixed dwelling or residence in England or elsewhere out of British India, and Calcutta was his present d'imicile. Mr. O'Kinealy submitted that, reading the two affidavits together, his Irdship should dismiss the application on the defendant's affidavit, on the ground of the insufficiency of the affidavit.
Mr. Apcar having replied, his lordship with costs, and certifying for counsel:
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【T is hereby notified that the FINAL CALL of Five Dollars ($5) per Share is payable to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation on or before TUESDAY, the 26th instant.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 11th August, 1890.
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stones of the masonry thrown down, and the delivered judgment, dismissing the summon that all goods are being landed at their ·
woodwork cut At the bridge beyond Hanku, twa squire stones from the top and all the planking are gone.-Chinese Times.
THE CROFTON v. HAYES LIBEL
SUIT.
CHINKIANG...
(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT.)
risk, into the Godowas of the Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained,
Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before NOON, TO-
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining after the 19th inst., will be subject to rent.
The following account of the floods at Tien tain we take from the Chinese Times-The cessation of the rain during the greater part of Sunday fed the delusive hope that we might escape the threatening deluge, but when it was resumed with redoubled force early on Monday morning, the arst, the situation_soon_became desperate. The whole of the French Settle. ment was then found under water, Consulate and Naval Secretariat included Tho buildings of the French Syndicate were scarcely accessible, and rafts were navigated about the streets. Ai for the jeny buildings which ornambat the French bund their occupants were shut in between two ficods, the one that threatened them below and the one that made cascades through their rafs and ceilings. So rapidly did the waters rise that no general precautions had been taken, and the excitement was excessive during Monday and Tuesday, every one seeming to do what Was best to protect his GWD property, regardless of consequences to the contrary.
Whether in making extempore embankments or in cutting through existing ones, sauvé qui peut was the only principle which could be followed. The first specific disaster was the breach, or overflow, or cutting of the right bank of the Peiho at the Korean Consulate, which occurred on Monday, and sent an immense volume of water into the lowlands which meist the kastern suburb of Tientalle salt heaps on the opposite side of the river were threatened, the lower portion of their contents being actually reached by the water before any- thing effective could be done to protect them. Some years ago the country was deliberately put under water in order to save these same salt heaps, and the like policy would have been followed in the present cass If the impetuous stream had not got ahead of the slow cerebration of the Salt Commissioner. The whole area on the left bank enclosed by the mud wall of Sankolinsin❘ was flooded on Monday, and the large population which has grown up there within the last few years were washed out of their houses. The area is bisected by the railway embankment, Imagining, quite fruly, that this embankment and "mud" wall" dammed the body of water to their detriment, the people, with the tacit sanction of the authorities, cut through both, and allowed the rapidly rising water to burst into the open country, where it wastes everything it encounters and where it will remain probably for years. A second breach had been formed on the right bank, whether by nature of man's hand, near to Messrs. Maclay & Co.'s premises, whence the water found a tempting outlet into the plain through the hollow space which adjoins the Viceroy's and the London Mission Hospitals. These easements, with the numerous breaches made in the higher reaches, in the Huenho, Yuenho and Peiho seemed to take so much pressure off the Tientsin Rench as to reduce the level of the river between Monday and Saturday
7th August, 1890. by seven inches, and portions of the French
Before Mr. Justice Hill, of the Calcutta High The pr ss of China, native and foreign, dailyDAY. Settlement has appeared above the water. But
Court, on July 16th, an application by the defen given accounts of the dreadful Boods now the fate of the low grounds at the back of
dants in the above samed suit was board, calling prevailing in puts of China. Kiangnan is the British Selement and City was sealed by
upon the plaintiff to give security for costs. is suffering from drought. Throughout this their low level, for at the two breaches at
Me. T. A. Apear, instructed by Messrs.section of the country hundreds of acres of grow. Machinkew (which have since been closed) there
Dignam, Robinson and Sparkes, appeared for ing rice, as soon as the pond supplies of water are was a drop of several feet from the river bauk
Captain and Mis. Hayes, and Mr. O'Kinenly, exhausted, will beparched, unless a timely rainfall instructed by Mr. Younan, for Mr. Crofton, M. relieve the distress. A few more days of diy to the adjoining land. The receiving area was so extensive, however, that no visible im-
Apcar said that he appeared in support of a weather will entail a vast amount of suffering summons calling on the plaintiff to give security during the coming winter. The Magis rate of Chin- pression was made in the level of the water in the plain during Tuesday, and from all that was A tremendons anti-railway excit ment has to the satisfaction of the Registrar for the pay. Kiarg has forbidden the slaughter of animals, known then it appeared that if these outlets had been got up at Lutai, which has led to the de- ment of all costs that might be incurred by in the brpes of obtaining rain, but so far with be stopped, as thay might easily have been, siruction of a large amount of property, and the defendant in this suit. The action was one Rule success. The writer has often suggested to the plain might have been saved, at any rate seriously compromised the safely of foreigners brought by Mr. Crofton, who was the proprietor the Chiness the probability of a more desirable that portion of it which is within the Western employed on, the line. It was alleged by the and manager of a theatrical company, against the issue to their petitions if, instead of forbidding are of the mud wall of Sankolinsin. It is true people that the railway embankment was dam defendants, Matthew Horace Hayes and his wife, the butcher, they would prohibit the keepers of that from an overflow at the Everlasting Bend, ming back the flood water on the north of the Mrs. Alice Hayes. The first defendant was the opiuma hells; the increase in number of there two miles by road and about three by river Pehtang, to their detriment. There was no real editor and proprietor of a paper known as Hayes' death traps in the past few years has been ap- below Tientsin the water wat pouring into the foundation for this as there was at the time a Sporting News, and the second defendant was palling It seems that the poorer the people country between the canal which skirts the race temporary difference of level of only 15 inches contributor to that paper. The plaintiff seemed become by successive droughts the more aplum course and Sankolinsin's wall, and on Tuesday between the one side of the railway and the to have taken offence at certain priticisms which they require to satisfy the abnormal craving. it was beginning to break over the Municipal other, while the only property which was in jeo. appeared in Hayes' Sporting News, and he had At the South gate the Chinese have been in a rend leading to the race course. Whether from pardy and could be protected was some mud brought this action for damages against the state of trepidation for several days. A beast these various sources sufficient water would huts in which certain camp followers, who are. defendants for the recovery of Rs. 15 000 The called by nativen k'eu-t'eu-hu ban for two years come into cover the inner plain in rear of the
not on the muster roll, are housed. There defence denied that the words to which excep- endeavoured to devour children. Last year a settlement was a subject of anxious speculation were in the immediate neighbourhood ample tion was taken in the criticisms were defamatory; boy was dragged away from home and severely on Tuesday. It was all a question of the levels, facilities for the passage of the water, they pleaded that the publication was band fide, bitlen, but was saved by the Chinese lighting about which people generally bad no very clear two Blood openings in the railway embank and that the statements made was a fair and fires and thus frightening the beast away, ideas. Conjecture was set at rest however by ment, of Izo Teet, each, and one bildge of legitimate criticism in matters of public interest. On Sunday the writer was requested to the advent of a new factor which was signalised 30 feet, say nothing of the Hanku bridge It arose out of a performance which the plaintiff's go and see a child to years old who had on Wednesday morning. The water had been over the Pebtang, 718ft wide. Had there been come any proposed to give of Shakespeare's been seriously injured by the tiger, He visibly rising in the ditches of the inner plain, anything to be done to mitigate the effect of the "Midsummer Night' Dream." Mr. Apcar then had been attacked in daylight whilst cut- when the report came in of a break in the bank flood or to save life or property, the railway read the affidavit fled by the defendants, which, ting grans. Early on Monday morning, in com- of the Grand Canal to the westward of Tientsin engineers were ready to do it in a scientific amongst other things, stated that the plaintiff pany with Dr. Edgar Woods, I started for the about 17 ii, at a place called Tassochihk'ou; manner with the micimum damage to the line was formerly an officer in her Majesty' 65th place. Upon arriving we found the patient lying The break was variously reported at 400 and and the maximum benefit to the people. Not- Berkshire Regiment, from which be retired many on a bed, terribly lacerated. The tiges had 1,400 feet in length, and the level was said to be withstanding this the mob, assisted if not led years ago, and since then he had become a pro-crunched his head and bitten him viciously in 3 feet above the plain into which the water was by the soldiery at Lutai, made an organised fessional actor, and had for several years past several parts of the body. Now in the chance flowing. This immense body of water made attack on the got bridge, which they attempled
been associated with theatrical companies. He for some enterprising sportsman to distinguish itself rapidly felt, and it was a wonderful sight to destroy, but of course entirely failed to make was now residing in Calcutta, as a temporary himself. The people say the brute is gray in to see the steady but stealthy rise of the vast any impressed on so solid a structure. They resident, for the purpose of giving theatrical colour, has a large tail, is not afraid of dogs and glittering mass. Not a breath of wind rippled next, on Tuesday last, took-forcible possession performances. The defendants believed that is as big as a cow-N. C. Daily News. The surface, and to see the mud villages, grave of the embankment, and spite the remon. the legal domicile of the plaintiff was in the mounds, with here and there a group of ponics stances of the foreign employees of the railway, United Kingdom, and that bis permanent. on the higher spots surprised at grass and they cut it through. It was explain d to them residence. if he had one, was out of British atolidly swishing the flies from their fanks with that their ostensible cbject would not be served India. Mr. Apear next to the two paries, and their long falls, unconscious ofthe rising danger, by this act, and the water-level at Lutai, 3 between the attorneys of the two
to see these all placidly mirrored in the silent distant, was actually not lowered by it one inch. said that the plaintiff did no possess any im. water it required an effort to realise the irresisti- But there is reason to soppose the flood was moveable property, in British Indian and cosy ble force of this remorseless element. By mid-made partly a pretext for, and out-break of, would be unable to recover from him any costs day the water had covered all the roads in the enmity to the railway which the commanders of that might be incurred in the suit. Mr. Apcar inner plain, except the Cemetery Road, but the the troops at Lutsi were not flipleased to see
was abu to re.d the affidavit of Mr. Taku Road remained dry until Thursday mor- gratified. Slight as was the difference of head, Crofton, when Mr. O'Kinealy, interrupting, said ing, when its sanctity was also invaded. During the water of course soon made havoc with the that his learned friend had no right to read the the whole of Thursday the water rose steadily soft material of which the embankment ik con plajat (f's affidavit. Mr. Ascar fald that what over the lower portions of the Taku Road, Messrs. structed, and the railway line has been con
he submitted was that, even after his lordship Mackenzie & Co.'s premises were completely sequently destroyed for several miles. Sab had heard the affidavit of the plaintiff read, It China-[Advs. surrounded, and from the Meadows Road to the sequent to the above upwards of 40 cuttings could not be said that the plaintiff was residing in British India within the meaning of section Kuanglung Road it washed the back walls of were made for no purpose but wanton destruc.
380. The learned council then read a Judgment Mesars, Cordes & Co., Dr. Irwin, and Messrs. tion, for the water was level on both sides, and Falkoff & Co, a premises,
Bi Sir Charles Sarjent, reported in Bengal Law the seven miles of railway between Lutzi and Hanku have thus been practical y destroyed Reports, III. Bombay, page 327. There, Mr. without rhyme or reason.
Apcar submitted, the circumstances were very much stronger in favour of the plaintiff, because he had a place of business in Bombay. Although ST. JOHN a native of Cobul, he had bit munið gomastka and immoveable property in Bombay, and at the time was residing in Bombay, but still he was ndered to give security for the defendant's costs. Mr, Apcar piled several other English cases, the Lald down by Sir Charles Sarjent, and he asked his lordship to make an order that the plaintiff should give security for costs..
STOPPAGE OF THE TIENTSIN.
RAILWAY.
Various attempts had been made for aeveral days previously to wreck the trains by placing obstacles on the rails, the object being apparently to gain possession of the embankment, the only dry ground in the country, on which some thou sands of men, women, children, and cattle are now encamped,
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Hongkong, 12th August, 189o.
All claims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the igth lust, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 12th August, 1800
Triza
UNION LINE.
FOR HIOGO AND YOKOHAMA.
THE Steamship
at 4 P.M.
"TETARTOS,"
Captain W. äreltung, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 16th instant,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Con
Agents. Hongkong, 17th August, 1890;
FROM
SINGAPORE.
"HE Steamship THE
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* TETARTOS," Captain W. Breitung, having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading to the undersigned for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along- side.
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MEETINGS of this Association will be held at the MARINE HOTEL, every TUESDAY and FRIDAY, at 8.30 P., instead of, as beretofore, at a, HIGH STREET, West Paint.
CHESNEY DUNCAN, Hon. Sec.
(1159 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
Hongkong, gth August, 1890.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary Half-yearly MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 23rd day of August current, 13 o'clock noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Court of Directors together with a Statement of Accounts to 30th June, 1890.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager, Hongkong, 1st August, 1890. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
"OTICE is hereby given that the REGIS
NTER of SHARES of the Corporation
will be CLOSED from Saturday the 9th to
Saturday the 23rd day of August current (both days inclusive) during which peribd no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Director,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manager. Hongkong, 1st August, 1890.
[119 HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
UNION LINE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"HE montbly Competition for the FAXI CHALLENGE CUP, will, take place HAMBURG, MIDDLESBRO' AND SATURDAY next, the 16th inst., at 4.30 P.M. Position-Standing, at 200 yards, Sitting or kneeling at 300 yards. Entrance Fee, 30 cents,
blembers are informed that the Association Range has been lent to the Military for the 13th and 74th inst.
CHARLES FORD, .': Hon. Secretary, pro tem. Hongkong, 17th August, 1890.
183 NOTICE. "THE Undersigned beg to inform their friends
the store, No. 66, Queen's Road Central, lately they intend to continue the same kind of burl occupied by H. FOURNIER & Co., and that
ness under the style of
J. ROSSELET & Co. Hongkong, 11th August, 1890,
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NOTICE
The steamer is berthed at Kowloon Piers and Cargo impeding her discharge will be at once landed and stored at Consigates' risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will be effected. presented to the Undersigned on or before the All claims against the steamer must be a3rd Inst, or they will not be recognised.
RUSSELL & Co.,
Agents,
[ri69.
Hongkong, 12th August, 1890.
THE SHAMBEN HOTEL AND LAND COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
is hereby notified that at a Meeting of the Directors of this Company, held THIS DAY, & FINAL CALL of FIVE DOLLARS per Share, was made upon all the Members and that the same is payable to the undersigned, at the Registered Office of the Company, 3, Beaconsfield Arcade, on or before THURSDAY, the 1st day of August next,
but they have reopened
THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING ·
COMPANY, LIMITED,
N accordance with the provisions of No. 121 of the Articles of Association, the General Agents have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND of 4 per cent. for the half year ending 30th June, 1890, on the paid up Capital of the Company.
Dividend Warrants payable on TUESDAY the 19th August, will be issued to Shareholders, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 9th to 19th instant, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 5th August, 1890.
[1143 TENOGRAPHER (French and English),
That the General in command at Lutsi either decisions in all of which were the same as that LODGE will be held in FREEMASON:*/ interests, and expenses, owing upon or in respect good Spanish Correspondent, works Rem-
instigated or connived at these proceedings of
As the water threatened the Taku Road the only practical measure of defence which was organised was n dam hurriedly run up from the corner of the compound wall of the Japanese Consulate across the Taku Road, and carried outside Mr Tenny's house, the Flour Mill, and Mrs. Moore's dairy, to the archway of the mud wall over the race course Road. This clever place of extempore engineering was probably due to the sharpened ins facts of the Jesuit mis- sionaries, who own an immense amount of house property within the protected area, and whose the troops seems to admit of no doubt whatever; receatly erected houses on the French Conres and a rather serious feature in the case is the sion had been mercilessly flooded the day before voluntary or Involuntary supineness of the In thus defending their own property, the good Viceroy, who when appealed to for help to savG Fathers also protected a vast number of Chinese the railway property maintained, like Chung tenements, and also much foreign owned land, how in 1870, an attitude of strict reserver, thus godowns, and houses which are included in the repeating on a more important scale the history section, the Taku Road gateway being high of the destruction of the Fejho bridge gne year enough to keep out the water on the sids. The go inner plain was rapidly filled from the outer plain entirely through the openings at the Hals lives of the railway employées were threatened.
Many things w
were of course stolen, and the
AX
PERSEVERANCE
kara
LODGE OF
HONGKONG,
of
It is further notified that all shares not fully paid up on the sist day of August shall in. accordance with the Company's Articles of Association be forfeited and legal proceedings taken to enforce payment of all calls, instalments,
such shares at the time of the forfeiture, By Order of the Board of Directors,
Cast day on J, A, BARRETTO,
Secretary, Hongkong, 19th July, 1890..
da THE BHAMEEN HOTEL BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON, HIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably Tuftuated within a few minutes walk of the
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ington typewriter rapidly, SEEKS SITUATION. Advertiser is an Englishman aged at, Can furnish good references and testimonials.
Apply to
MH. HALL, c/o Honghong Telegraph Offion, Hongkong, roth July, 1890,"
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Luans, which could easily have been blocked. The whole district seams for the time abandoned residing out of British India: Mr. Ogineair A LODGER, MEETING of the above ter Steamer Wharves, is now open to receive RAHTJEN'S ANTI-FOULING was pouring in like a millrace, when chairs and ] notion that the high authorities are strong enough which amongst other things stated that HALL, Zetland Street, on SATURDAY, the furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting are now being sold.
Mr. O'Kinesly said that he was not going to put forward a pics of ad misericordiam. He would simply ask his lordship to dismiss the application with costs on the ground. that it did not come within the meaning of section 380 of the Civil Procedure Code, The learned counsel then read section 380, and said that there: was affidavit which stated that the plaintiff waw not a single word in the defendants joint.
afterwards read the affidavit of the plaintiff
peacock's feathers and red tasselled cavaliers, to control the troops, if not the peasantry, han arrived in Calcutta in the year 1878 with his began t career along the wall ina stage of aimless received an unexpected shocking wife. They had ever sinceresided and travelled disarray.
The Tongshan Colliery is of course stopped, together in different parts of India, and had only and 3,000 men, thereby thrown out of work, been out of it on three occasions,—once when Nothing can be done to repair damages till the they went to China with his company to give water subaldes, and the loss to the railway in the performances where they resided for about six meantime cannot be less than Tis 15,000 per months, and twice when he proceeded to Eng month, while the cost of repairs may be put down Jung, These two visits to England occupied at the least at Ti8, 50,000. As for the Mining | only two years. He had his head-quarters in Company their loss will be enormens, unless British India, front which place he had visited:
but no thought was given to this until the ficcd to anarchy or military missile, and the general
Another excellent plece of work was the prompt protection of the Gas Works, when the Cemetery Road was threatened. Improvised embankments weld throws up just in time, for before they were completed the side of the Gas Works was only approachable by wading through a foot of water. Now it is believed the
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MATE POSITIONS. The Bed-rooma are cool, airy and comfortably Other makes than our original Manufactura Rooms, and accommodation generally will be The genuine and only Composition connected foudd equal to the best Hotels in the Far East. with Mr. RAHTIEN himself is HARTMANN'S The Table D'iloto is supplied with every RAHTJEN'S and packages are marked with these luxury in season, and the cuisine is in experi- | words and Trade Mark an open hand in redi enced hands,
Wines; Spiritä, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best
REJECT ALL OTHERS, quality only,
will be held, in FREEMASONS" Visitors.
16th Inst., at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely,
Hongkong, 12th August, 1890.
11374 THE HIOGO HOTEL CO, LIMITED, NTENDING Applicants for Shares, especially for small amounts are reminded that she Subscription List will CLOSE TO MORROW the 13th inst juga deng
BY ORDER Hongkong, 19th August, 1890,
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Agents in Hongkong T. BLACKHEAD & Co. Hongkong, guth July, 1890,