Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED
DISPENSING CHEMISTS.
SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS.
ASTRINGENTS, DIARRHEA & CHOLERA
REMEDIES, &c.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1890.
The Henakona Lelegraph
Howarowa, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, *800
THE INDO-CHINA S. N. CO., ED.
A CORRESPONDENT writes from one of the Coast ports: -
A YOUNG woman at Madison, being frightened, screamed loudly and dislocated her jaw." There is a moral in this calc.
THE Spanish Consul informs as this afternoon that another typhoon exials in the Pacific, E. of Luzon, direction North-c 1st,
A CORONER'S Inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of the late Mr. H. P. Tenuant, will be held at the Magistracy at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning.
A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, | S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 12th instant, at 8.30 for
? P. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially
invited.
A NEW 'printing and publishing company on a large scale is about to be formed in London. The two printing houses whose shares are quoted in the market-Cassells! and Waterlon Brothers--pay dividends of 18 and 21 per cent. respectively; quite handsome enough returns to tempt others into the field. Bringing to bear all
$16.51 which was on the fasian table. It appeared to him that any one could have entered the house and joined in the game just as ho and his comrades had done. Witness was a perfect stranger to the house and its keepers. He had never been, there before.
P.C. 178 and 223 corroborated the evidence of the first witness.
the harbour from where a magnificent sight of the town is obtained. From the sanie postion the view at night, when the streets are fit up with gas, and each house has its lights, is simply charming.
The first street close to the harbour side which runs parallel to the hill is called Praya, where there are godowns, factories, shipping offices, hotels, and some Chinese shops. The next parallel street above the Praya is called the Queen's Rond. It is the principal business thoroughfare, where thete la immense 'traffic all day long. The City Hall, the Court-house, the
auction rooms, brokers' places of business, offices, etc., are all there. Other parts of the city are more or less bay and bustling. Rents of houses in Queen's Road are very high.
THE Victoria Recreation Club Aquatic Sports, the inventions of the age, the company propose first floor, together with Detective Sergeant banks, merchants' and solicitors' offices, shops,
held this afternoon, were an unqualified success, off to-morrow afternoon. A report is held over until tomorrow.
CHOLERA Pro in the of
It is always refreshing to rear your criticisms and the scrutiny you give their accounts. Might longed experience of this epidemic in India, its home and birth-place, has proved that the public would value a few beyond all doubt the efficacy of this remedy, remarks from your orn on the last report of the which combines in a concentrated form the Indo-China S N. Col. It would be interesting medicinal agents which have proved most useful to enquire why this Company, managed by the "princely house" of Jardine, Matheson & Co., In arresting the rapid progress of that fatal
can only declare a 3 per cent, dividend, while the malady, and in combating it when developed.
China Merchan's' Co. ran earn 10 per cent, the Full directions accompany each bottle. Per
China Shippers' Mulut S. N. Co. 9 per cent, and bottle, $1.50 and $3.
Cholera Pills are nade from an old, well-tried
formula, and are most useful in the early stage
of an attack. Per bottle, so cents.
Dakin's Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spasmodic. This reliable remedy has long been used throughout the East as a stand-by in Cholera and Diarrhoea. In bottles, 35, 75 cents, $1.co and $2.75-
Dr. Rubini's Essence of Camphor-Valuable for simple Diarrhea, and in the earlier stages of Dysentery and Cholera. Per bottle, 50 cents.
Fluid Extract of Indian, Bacl (prepared from the unripe fruit of the Egle Marmelos).
Of great service in Diarrhea and Chronic Dysentery. Fer bottle, $1.
Dietetic Back-A highly agreeable and nutri- tive diet, particularly recommended in derauge: ment of the digestive orgáns, looseness, and iritation of the bowels.
This preparation has been in use in India for thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific in Diarrhea and Dysentery. Per tin, $1.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED.
(Telephone No. 60.) ·
Nos, 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
Hongkong, 1st September, 1890.
WINES AND SPIRITS.
BY APPOINTMENT.
HONGKONG.
[sa
the Hamburg, Chinese Coasting line 7 per cent.
Can it be that the earnings of the Indo-Chin Co. are all absorbed in "princely" commissions 1 London, when its sphere of operations is in Why should the Board of this Company be in
China ?
The Shanghai Water Works Co. found it very detrimental to their interests to have the directorate in England, and I fancy it must be so to the shareholders of the Indo-China S. N.
Co.
This is a temperately worded letter, and as the writer has for years been a share- holder in the Company we are of opinion that his remarks are from every point of view thoroughly justified. As we do not happen to have the Directors' reports and statements of account since the formation of the Company available for reference, a searching criticism of the kind suggested by our correspondent is, at all events for the present, out of the question; but there are nevertheless several points raised to which some reference may fitly be made. It certainly does appear a strange thing that the Indo-China Co., supported by the all-powerful influence of Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., which in itself is a factor that should command success, only capable of paying a paltry dividend A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. of 3 per cent per annum-and to do even this the sum of £3.216 had to (ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
be transferred from the Underwriting Account to the credit of Profit and Loss-, while the China Merchants' Co. earned to per cent., the China Shippers' Mutual 9
placing a like amount to Reserve, and the Hamburg-Chinese coasting sleamers per cent. It is explained in the Directors' report that this wretched result was principally owing to bad times, a reduced native trade, scarcity of money, the high price of coals, and increased competition. This catalogue of drawbacks might have some weight, and would probably be freely $1.00
accepted as a satisfactory explanation, 1.10 were it not quite apparent that the other companies had to experience and contend against exactly the same difficulties, And surely the influence of JARDINE, MATHESON, 1.50 & Co. on the coast of China is even in these degenerate days equal to that of 0.60 either of the companies named!
0.75
E invite attention to the following old W lauded Brands, all of which are of ex-
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CARDINAL MANNING's aversion to strongdrink in every form is so great that twice in articulo mortis he has refused stimulants, and he alludes triumphantly to the fact that he got well ench time as proof that stimulants are never necessary, $300, fine, or two months' imprisonment with hard labour, was the fiat of Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning upon an emaciated Celestial who was up for having 144 taels of raw opium in his possession without a valid certificate, THE invention of two new musical instruments is announced, one of which is a bass fiddle big enough to make a little cat-boat-fourteen and one-half feet over all and eight and one-half beam. The artist who plays it uses a ladder to get up topside..
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LAST yest France produred only 23,000,000
hectolitres of wine and she alone consumed
45,000,000 hectolitres. As to how the necessary amount for exportation is made the foreigner can console himself with the fact that he is more apt to get good wine than the Frenchman, the genuine article standing exportation much better than adulteration.
March....... Lancer's
Valso Polka Quadrille.... Galop
ret
.."Dauntless"
The Mikda
Jato Sailors"
Lea Sauterele .."Araberken Narren."..
Borgisseau. Bucalossi, Crewe,
Delbruck, ...Budik. „Gung'l..
public than has hitherto been possible, and towards this end that marvellous invention, the Linotype composing machine, is to be exten- sively employed.
more than half our own. The births of men
William Stanton, Detective-Inspector, said he organized the raid on the Hing Kee Club, in accordance with recent instructions to prosecute public gambling clubs in that particalar heigh- baurhood. When he entered the room on the
Melver, he observed the prisoners under arrest, and fantan counting-boards and slicks on the tables, The. Hing Kee Club bad been in existence for about two years. The first floor was protected by a strong iron-bitred door, which he caused to be removed to the station, as evidence in the case. He produced papers seized on the premises.
Hung Kwan, Police Court interpreter, said that the account papers produced by the last witness were records of gambling affairs. One of them specially referred to parkas gambling.
Mr. Caldwell was about to proceed with crass. examination, when his Worship remanded the case until 11 o'clock to marrow.
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The increase of the population in England and Wales is still very rapid. According to the statistics for 1885, recently published by the Registrar-General, the births in that year were 885,179, and the deaths. 517,068, an increase of 367,211 within the twelve months, without allow ing for immigration, That is a good solid colony added to the population every year. The total number now exceeds 29,000,000, or six times the population of Ireland, which was once much exceed those of women by 16,411, so that the THE STEAM LAUNCH (COMPANY, disproportion between the sexes in favor of women is due entirely to emigration and occupa- tions abroad. But for these intervening causes
The following is the report of the Board of the number of the sexes would be nearly equal, Directors to the third ordinary half-yearly the excess of male deaths being more than four-mecting of shareholders to be held at the Com- teen thousand. At the present rate of increaSC
pany's office. 9, Praya. Central on Thursday, the the population of England and Wales will in
11th September, 1890, at 4 pm 1970 be at least sixty millions--rather a formid- able prospect if it were certain that the rates would keep steady. There is, however, nó certainty of the kind.
THE latest news from Hongay is most encourag- THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will playing; a Haiphong merchant who very recently the following programme at the Barrack Square, visited it, after an interval of two years, writes this evening, commencing at 7,30 o'clock: that the wilderness is quite transformed into a basy scene, 1,500 or 1,800 Angamites and Chinese being hard at work mining. The houses of overseers, engineers, etc., surround the matshed inside which M. Bavier Chauffaud passed so many anxious hours at the outset; there is a hospital, and slaughter-houses, and work- shops, and the villa of the director-no longer tenant of an attap hut. A large space has been left for the storage of the output, dear where the huge cargo-boats lie, There are already several thousand tons of coal in stock, but sales will only be commericed when the production is 1000 tons a day. At present it is about 150 tons. The ball metres, but at Marguerite it is 45 to 48 average breadth of the veins is two to two and a
metres, the largest.vcin known. The Courrier d'Haiphong regards Hongay as the Lancashire of Tonquin, and prophesies that before long the pirates will abandon their rifles for the more certain remuneration to be gained by pick and
shovel.
LIMITED.
The Directors beg to submit to the shareholders the report and statement of accounts for the half year ending 30th June, 1890.
ACCOUNTS.
After paying all running expenses, salaries, repairs, and all other current out-goings there remains a balance at debit of Profit and Loss account of 3692.58, which includes the item of $297.25 paid on account of accidents to sampane, junks, etc., and the balance of $1,097.55 at debit of last year's account.
The Working account of last year shewed a loss of $1.097.55, while the account for this half- year shows a profit of $918.21, which is more' satisfactory.
BUSINESS.
The contract entered into with the Ho-gkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, has, so far as the day service is con cerned, proved satisfactory, but the Company has sustained losses from accidents on the night service which have seriously affected the net result,
Hiring The receipts have not been up to the former six months, owing to the continuous
wet season.
DIRECTORS
There are no tram-cars, omnibuses, or public vehicles of any kind drawn by animals, owing to the steep and narrow reads, " All going about up and down town-and there is a good deal of it- is done by means of jinrickshaws and sedan chairs. Very few European residents have their carriages and horses; they can go about in cer- tain localities only. To a foreigner who uses it for the first time this rickshaw driving is very jolly. The rickshaw is a two-wheel large-sized peram- bulator, with a hood. It carries one person, and is drawn by oce Chinese coolie. It is by no means slow locomotion.. A Chinese coolie is muscular, robust, and strong, and he runs his rickshaw with one passenger, just as well as an ordinary victoria in Bombay runs with a horse. He takes you a distance of a mile for only five cents.
The chair, corried by two coolies, is a square seat for one person, with a top, and moveable covers on three sides, fixed in the middle of two long wooden poles, which become narrow as they reach the end, and which rest on the two shoulders of a coolie in front and another in the rear. Rickshaws run easily on'level roads, but for most of the steep streets these chairs are used, which two Chinese coolies carry to any height admirably without any halt or fatigue. The sensation one feels when he takes his seat tor the first time in this Chinese chair is peculiarly pleasant.
For the same abovementioned reason loaded carts are also drawn by men; even road-rollers are drawn by men and women.
Chinese coolies, unlike their brethren in India, never carry any load on their head. They in- variably use, Lavar—a bamboo put on one shoulder with weights to carry, hanging by means of strings or ropes from either ends. By
this means each Chinaman carries heavier weights than an Indian coolie on his head. Women never carry their infants and children on their arm. They tie them up with a piece of cloth on their back, and thus leave both their hands free for any other work. I have seen boatwomen rowing their boats standing with their children tied upon their backs. With Towing and general trade is very satisfactory the constant swing of the boatwomen's body. and shows a decided improvement.
who generally row their boats from behind. in a standing half-bent posture, moving their Messrs. J. W. Noble and A. G. Gordon have back is, rocked to sleep. Even girls, hardly eight whole body with each stroke, the baby on the
ments require confirmation.
The retiring and ors, Messrs. Lyall and Downes, offer, themselves for re-election.
J. W. NOBLE,
Chairman.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT 30TH JUNE, 1890.
Assets.
$48,691.51 2.157.16 5,000
The same being specially selected by our percent, the Douglas Co. 8 per cent, after known as the "lamp of expiation," in the palace SUICIDE OF MR. H. P. TENNANT. | been invited to join the board and their appoint-years old, carry their younger sisters or other
cellent quality and good value for the money. London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
In ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired."
"Orders through Local Post or by Telegram
receive prompt attention. PORTS. (For Invalids and general use.)
Per Bot
A Alto Douro, good quality, Green Capsule ..........................
B Vintage, Superior quality.
Red Capsule.....
For dosen
.... 12
C Fine Old Vintage, superior
quality, Black Seal Capsule 14 D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled)
SHERRIES.
CC
A Delicate Pale Dry, dinner wine, Green Capsule.....
18'
6
B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
wine, Green Seal Capsule...7.30 C Manzanilla, Pale Natural
Sherry, White Capsule...... to Superior Old Dry, Pale Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule.....
D Very Superior Old Pale Dry, choice old wine, White Seal Capsule.........
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Scal Capsule (Old Bottled)
CLARETS.
10
14
Fer Case.
dot,
Quite.
$4
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
Red Capsule
B St. Estephe, Red Capsule... 4,50 C St. Julien «unnimodum. 7 D. La Rose
BRANDY.
Per doz COL
A Hennessey's Old Pale, Red
Capsule..............$12
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
14
C Very Old Liqueur Cognac,
Red Capsule....................................... 18. D Hennessey's Finest Very Old Liqueur Cogeac, 1872 Vin tage, Red Capsule ......
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thame's Blend, White Cap- sale.
1.25
dox.
Plats.
Our correspondent asks, and we think
THE judicial error of which the man Borsas, lately-liberated-was the victim in France, has brought to the front an old custom of the courts of Venice. There, when a prisoner is about lo individual, dressed in a long black gown, walks be condemned to death, a tall and ghostly looking majestically to the centre of the court-room, bows solemnly to the Judges, and in a cavernous voice pronounces the following, not over-startling words: "Remember the baker!" Then he bows gain and stalks away. Just three hundred years ago a baker was executed in Venice for a crime of which he was not guilty. When bis innocence was fully established the Judges who condemned him gave a sum of money to the city, the interest of which was to be devoted to the setting up and perpetual burning of a lamp, of the Doges. It is still burning there. THE Sanitary Board had a jamboree this after noon, the chief subject of their deliberations being the drainage of the Hongkong Hotel. We don't wish to have any controversy with our excellent Diend the Chairman of the Hongkong thirking that the drainage of Pedder's Hill is, at Hotel Directorate, but we take the liberty of the p esent time, a very much more important matter than the to do bt desirable object of imparting an altar of roses rdour to the only first-class hotel in the Far East," Unless the drains outside sanctum are very shortly closed, somebody's scalp will be a way he won't like. We don't think the Surveyor General has shown us half the consideration we, as tax-payers, are fairly entitled to; and we are quite at a loss to understand why the Secretary of the Sanitary Board has not long cre now tabled a m'aute about the victims in Pedder's Hill who for ever two months have been suffering a regular bell upon earth by virtuo, of Chadwick's new and improved sanitary system. There was a lot noon, and drainage bye-laws, public latrines, the East Point stinks, cow-sheds, mortality returns, and other similar cheerful toples were discussed with that humorous abandon for which the members of the Sanitary Board have made themselves quite a same as the only local rivals to the First Grave-digger in Hamlet. HIRE are some specimens of Mr. Josh Billings philosophy-
A
raised" in
Our
Shortly after nine o'clock this morning the distressing news became known that Mr. H. P. Tennant, the senior resident partner in the firm of Messrs. Gibb, Livingston, & Co., had com- The report proved only ton mitted suicide. true, Mr. Tennant being found dead in his bath- himself through the right temple with a fowling Toom at the office, Ice House Lane, having shot pieces. For some time past it had been noticed that he was depressed in spirits, but it is believed that particulady bad news awaited him when he reached his place of business this morning, he having, as usual, come down from his residence at the Peak by the 8.30 car. One theory is that the firm had lost heavily over transactions in this season's tea through the rise in exchange, and another that defalcations by an agent in the north had just been discovered. These are, of course, mere rumours, but whatever the cause, it is certain that after remaining in the office for a few minutes, Mr. Tennant went to his bed- room on the third floor, and taking a fowling- piece that was loaded in both barrels, discharged one, close to his right temple, blowing his brains who at once rushed to the godown to see if any. thing had fallen down, and on returning saw blood dripping from the flooring of the verandab above. He at once alaraed Mr. C. F. Harton and Mr. S.-L. Darby, who rushed upstairs and discovered their chief lying dead on the floor in the bath-room, with the gun resting between
AUDITORS..
Value of steam launches..... Sundry debtors.......... Hongkong Hotel 6 % debontures (12) Furniture Preliminary Expenses account......... Cash on hand............ Coal on hand Stationery on band Balance of Profit and Loss account
Liabilities.
Subscribed Capital -
2,000 shares at $50........$100,000 of which $30 on each share has been
paid up.....
very fairly, if the earnings of the Indo- more talked about by the sanitarians this after out. The report was heard by the compradore, Sundry creditors 3499)
1.00 China Co. are absorbed in commissions to the General Managers. We regret Loo being unable to answer the question, but Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. could, and in our opinion, whatever that may be worth, they ought to answer it. The princely house we are, however, bound 1.50 to say, whatever may have been its short- Fer Case. comings and they have not been few-
has alwaysacted with exceptional liberality towards the various companies entrusted $4.50 to its management, and although the 5.00pickings," say from such companies as 7.50 the China and Luzon Sugar Refinerles, hava been exceedingly handsome, it cannot be denied that in times of adversity the "muckle hoose" has invariably come to $1,10
the rescue in most practical fashion, Al as the same time a full statement of the commissions received by Messrs. JARDINE, 1.50
MATHESON & Co, from the Indo-China Co. for the last year would not be out of place,
12,00
Par Bot.
24
2.00
X
0.75
B. Watson's Glenorchy Mellow Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark...... B.
C Watson's Abelour-Glenilvet,
Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark...
8
D Watson's HKD Blend of the Finest Scotch Malt
sa 10 Whiskies, Violet Capsule E, Watson's Very Old Liqueur
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule 12 IRISH WHISKY,
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule.....
John Jameson's Fine Old,
Green Capsule..
12
C John Jameson's Very Fine Old, Green Capsule......... GINUINE BOURBON WHISKY, facold, Red Capsule, with Name. 10 GIN,
A Fine Old Tom, White Capsule.450
B Fine Unsweetened, White
Capsule ......
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Blood ain't nuthing; munny or clothes is what tells
Suckcess is a coquet, and a bashful lover never wins her.
It is hard work for us tew luv a man who has no faulis nor failinga.
He who sues for suckcess don't get it so often az he who demanda it,
Thare are but very phew men whoze wisdum lasts them their lives out. watchword ov mere charlatans.
"Reform! Reform!" This is too often the
No woman yet waz ever satisfied to be a prude who could be a successful coquet.
Flater is just like the cheese of ennything else we deal in-the supply is alwas regulated bi the demand.
Thare is a time for all things-thare it a time tew pray, and thate is a time tow say amen, roll. up yure sleeves, and pitch in,
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infants on their back.
Hawkers of every description throng the streels of Hongkong from morn till dead of night. One has seldom to go to shops or bazaars to buy his eatables. From early morning vendors cry out to sell their fruit, fish, fowls, vegetables, even beef and pork, and cut and dried birds, animals, and reptiles of all kinds too numerous to mention, which these Celestials use for food. Not only light refreshments and drinks of all descriptions are sold by hawkers, but even cooked food-complete Chinese meals-kept bot 35.00 by burning stoves curied at each hanging end 924-40 of a kavar, in easily obtainable at the end of
16.51
every block at any bour of the day and till 12 at 3740.20 night. A dollar has a hundred copper coins called cents; each cent gives ten Chinese coins 692.58 called sapdkds. For one sapéd a poor Chinese can get something to eat; and for three or four 967-377-36 sapákás he gets his small quantity of boiled rice
10,00
$60,000.00
7.377.36
$07.377.3
and a little of insipid fish and vegetables, with some pickle, or some sweet juice, which form bis one meal, with which he is content for the major cortion of his working day. This he gets at any time of the day and in any quarter of the town. He and his wife have hardly any necessity to conduct their culinary operations at home. So simple and so poor are human beings in this quarter of the globe...
Their dress is withal so simple. They wear
WORKING ACCOUNT FROM IST JANUARY TO 30TH no head-dress. Most of the poor people have half
JUNE; 1890, INCLUSIVE,
Dr.
his legs. The customary coroner's inquest will Profit and Loss Account, bebeld at the Magistracy at 19 o'clock to-morrow morning.
their body naked, the other half is covered with a loose and short pyjama, al dark-blue cotton $938.22 cloth. But each Chinaman, however indigent, carries a fan, and fans himself in the midst of $918.12his arduous work. Even when a set of Chinese
coolles, like our navigasies in Dombay, carry a
The news was received with deep and universal regret by the business community, with whom Mr. Tennant was a general favorite. He was Net earnings of steam launches to date...$708.70 heavy weight suspended by a rope hanging from.
Transfer fees............... Interest account..........
a native of Yorkshire, and about 46 years of age, about half of which time he had spent in Foochow and Hongkong. An enthusiastic sports- Net coal carnings..... man and a shrewd business man, he leaves an unstained record, and a large clrcle of mourning friends,
In the world of sport Mr. Tennant will be greatly missed. For many years he was the acknowledged "crack "jockey in Foschow, and it is not paying him too high a compliment in saying that in his prime he was capable of holding his own with the best riders in China. A first class judge of the Chinese race pony, the opinions of the popular wearer of the grey and rose" on all racing matters were deservedly held in high esteem, and although of late years increasing weight prevented his appearing in the saddle, he took the same keen
sport he loved so well, Henry Prince Tennant will be greatly missed in China'; he, was a thorough gentleman, a true sportsman, and an
4.ca a pole, each end of which presses his shoulder,
96.11
*109.41
$918.22
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT 30TH JUNE, 1890, Dr. Amount brought forward from Ist
statement.
Collision Expenses account.... Bad debisg+4
Auditors fece...
Cr. Amount brought forward from working
account.........................
and it would give general satisfaction to virtew I have seen men affeckt the rake and interest that he had done from boyhood in the Balance carried forward to new account".
shareholders.
There are hipokrita in vice az well or in
the roue, where best holt was the katekisui,
If all the vanity should leave this world balf the virtow would go with it. Thare is no telling how menny oy us are simply proud of our
various vistews
The things in this word that are the best done show the least signs or thor, yet they are the most diffikult to do. The reason or this z bekause they are so natral,
We frankly confess that we cannot see the utility of the head-quarters, the dires: 0.75 torate, of the Indo-China S. N. Co, being in London, while the Company's entire 0.75 business is Chinese.. The line between
Hongkong and Calcutta is not worth consl-Tur two confidence men run in yesterday 1.00dering, but If it were otherwise it would not charged with drugging and robbing a returned in any way affect our contention. All the emigrant from Australia of the thirty sovereigns and two ounces of gold dust in his pocket, were shares of the Company, outside JARDINE's, again brought before Mr. Robinson at the Police are held in Hongkong and China, and Court this morning. Mr. Mossop and Mr. Caldwell 75 why it should be considered necessary appeared for the protection and defence respec- tively. After undergoing a long cross-examina
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honest man.
The funeral cortège will leave the Mortuary Chapel, Protestant Cemetery, at 6.30 o'clock this evening."
E. & O. E.
918.72 693.58
$ 1,610.80
A. G. GORDON &
CO., LTD Managers. We have compared the above with the books and vouchers of the Company and have found
the same in accordance.
R. LYALL, LACLY DOWNES, Hongkong, 29th August, 1897.
Auditors.
and he goes at a rapid pace to get rid of his burden soon, he fans himself while thus going— a sight that greatly amused me.
དྷྭ
A Chinaman, according to a prevailing custom, never wears a beard ́or moustache 'until he be- comes a palernal.grandfather. Services of bar- bers are, therefore, always in great requisition. There are barbers' shops in most of the streets, where shaving operations are carried on, not 1,09755 only during the day, but up to 9 or 10 o'clock at
297.25 night. i 16.00
Certain streets of Hongkong, exclusively and 100.00 thickly inhabited by the Chinese, resound at night with promiscuous noises of the continuous $1,61080 beating of gongs and playing of fiddles and flutes and crackers peculiarly Chinese, and they create a pandemonium. Houses in the narrow streets, windows, and balconies are luxuriously lit up with Narrow streets are coloured paper lanterns. foll of passer by. Eating, drinking, gambling, gossiping, swearing, flirting, prostitution, and Imaginable sorts of degradation which buman Itle in subject to are conspicuously perceptible in nooks and corners of those low quarters in the district of Hongkong called Tal-ping-shan, named by the Chinese "The Hill of Great. took a walk in these streets one evening Peace a strange misnomer. I purposely
to get a correct idea of Chinese low life. My curiosity to further study this por |:tion of mankind induced me to enter, one of |:these infamous houses. But lol the moment I set my foot in the room on the ground floor, to my sudden surprise and great amaze- iment there was Gry of "Fire" in the house, which gathered together scores of people at the A Purice faveller, who recently visited this lobby. I immediately saw an elderly man with 1. to have an expensive Board of Directoration the complainant said that the 30 and and Secretary in London in addition to two ounces of gold dust were the residue of
colony, has been giving the Times of India bisan ndmi able presence of mind put a thick piece bis earnings during eighteen years of toll in
notions of what he saw-and likewise of a good of some gunny cloth on the burning object, General Managers here, is a problem we Australia. He had, during that period, occasion
many things he didn't acc-in Hongkong. If which prevented the conflagration at once. As 1.00 have never been able to satisfactorily ally remitted money to his aged parents, but
this latest historian were a mere common or a foreigner, finding myself in this awkward pre- garden globe-trotter we should not think it worth jdicament, I was mortally afraid of being robbed solve. There ir a practical solution, but the coin stolen from him ho had brought
over for the purpose of sending a few happy. F. C. a52 stated that at 9.30 p.m. last night while to reproduce the report published by our on the spot; but as soon as the throng et the the shareholders must take the initiative, weeks at his ancestral home prior to taking what he went In company with other lukongs to 103 Indian contemporary, but the fact of his being a lobby dispersed, I found my exit in the open street, he felt sure would be a last farewell of his papa Wellington Street, and on going upstairs saw a Parsee is more than a sufficient justification for and abandoned all idea of "studying mankind." and mamma in this world. Detective Inspector number of people in a room gambling some at so doing. The Parses traveller discovered a There is alwayen great dread of fires in Hong TELEGRAM'S.
Stanton then staled that the house where the fantan, others at paikan. The first defendant, great many peculiarbles in the masters and kong Fires occur every now and then, they plaintiff was said to have been drugged was Tong Man, appeared to be manager, and the customs of the colony, etc, etc., which will come say, and when there is a fire, not one or two PORTUGAL,
known as a fin-si-kuk, house, which" meant
as news to many of our readers, especially to houses, but whole long streets are burnt down, other two were acting as accountant and "boss" swindling den purporting to be a of the paikau tabit. Witness and the other old residents-however, we will let him tell his There is an efficient and well-kept fire-brigade,
own tale ;-
with three or four steamers ; but owing to sleep passage broker's establishment, but in reality lukongs who accompanied him were allowed to There enter the house without being challenged by the Aden of thjeyes and impostors.
The town of Hongkong is built partly on the and narrow roads and manual dragging, it is so were five such houses in Hongkong to his watchman who was posted at the top of the long level base of a large and lofty, hill running difficult to takes a fire-engine to the spot at once, (witness's) knowledge. A stranger would, by stairs. The watchman · evidently' ́had, no from cast to west for about three miles, and, and hence the destruction.REA observing the signs and placards both in and suspicion, for in addition to entering partly on the gently sloping side of that bilPublic prostitution, however, is not located in opiside such places, naturally jump to the con- the room he and his companions Joined. The buildings, therefore, stand in seven or eight one street or district. European, American, clusion that they were bond fide panungs-broker's in the gambling for about ten minutes, rows, one above the other rising tier upon tier.Japanese, and even Chinese houses existe id offices. Witness was then about to go into when suddenly the people took fright and tried to the height of several hundred feet above the streets where respectable, middle class foreigners to bolt. Witness at once arrested, the first sea level. To enjoy a bird's-eye view of this and Chinese merchants realde. As, for instance, details respecting the Erst defendant's record when Mr. Caldwell objected. His Worship, at defendant, and other lukongs seized the other picturesque town thus situated one should get in the close proximity of the houses occupied ikis Juncture, remanded the case antil Monday," | two, one of whom attempted to plak up the into a ferry boat and go to the opposite side of 1 by the firms of Messta, Cawasjes Pallonjea &
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DEATH,
At No. 6, Ice House Lane, on 5th September, 1890, HENRY PRINCE TENNANT, of the firm
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LONDON, September 3rd, The King of Portugal is suffering from typhoid
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LOCAL AND GENERAL
AN adjjured Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 218, S.C will be held in Freetnasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at. 8 for 8.30 o'clock precisely, Visiting com- pani ns are cordially invited,
A RAID ON A CLUB (?). (
Tong Man, Tong Yuk, and Ma Chau, who' described themselves at the Police Station as carpenter, rape-maker and cook respectively, were arrested at the Hing Kee "Club," to 3 Wellington Street, at a quarter to ten last night by Chinese constables in plain clothes, under the personal direction of Detective Inspector Stanton and Detective-Sergeant Melver. The three prisoners were brought before Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning and there charged with keeping a public gambling house. Mr. Caldwell, of Messrs. Caldwell and Wilkinson, defended.
HONGKONG; AS SEEN BY A PARSEE