kutimations. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,
DISPENSING CHEMISTS. SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS. ASTRINGENTS DIARRHEA & CHOLERA
REMEDIES, &c..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1890.
BIRTH.
At No. 7, Cheloo Road, Shanghai, on the 30th August, the wile of A. FULLER, of a daughter.
MARRIAGE.
At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the and September, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A ARTHUR KNIGHT GREGSON, son of the late Henry Gregson, J.P., of Lawlynn, Northumber land, to LOUIE HEMBER, Wuhu.
. DEATHS.
At Chefoo, on the 28th August, the Rev. Dr. A. WILLIAMSON.
At Herschell Park Slough, Bucks, England, AKIN'S CHOLERA ELIXIR-A pron the 19th July, HENRY EVANS (late of Shang- Dyed experience of this epidemic in ni), in his 69th year. India, its homes and birth-place, has proved beyond all doubt the efficacy of this remedy, which combines in a concentrated form, the medicinal agents which have proved most useful in arresting the rapid progress, of that fatal malady, and in combating it when developed.
Full directjun accompany each bottle. Per boule, $10 and $3;
Cholers Pills are made from an old, well-tried formala and are most useful in the early stage
of an att ck.. Per bottle, sa cents.
Dakin's Chloradyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spandic. This reliable remedy has long. been used throughout the East as a stand-by la Cholera and Diaries. In bottles, 35, 75 cents, $1.10 and $375,
Dr. Rubini's Essence of Camphor.-Valuable for simple Diarrhoea, and in the earlier stages of Dysentery and Cholern. Per bottle, 50 cents,
Fluid Extract of Indian Bacl (prepared from the unripe fruit of the Agle Marmelos).
Of great servic in Diarrhea and Chronic Dysentery. Per bottle, St.
At Newchwang, on the 28th August, JESSIE DRUMMOND, the beloved child of John and Maggie Ferguson, aged one year all but five days.
At Shanglial, on the 31st August, THOMAS OscoOD SUMMERS JENKINS, youngest son of the late B. Jenkins, D., of Charleston, S.C., aged
40 years.
At Cheloo, on Sunday, 31st August, DURRITT HOLDEN, infant sos of Edwin Holden and Jessie Burritt Smith, aged 11 months.
The Hongkong Celegenph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1890,
terms, then the marine officers must adopt the course recommended by their President, Capt., S. ASHTON, at last Saturday's meeting of the Association and demand extra pay for Sunday work. And In the event of that reasonable request being refused, the inevitable will have to be faced once and for all, and in any struggle that may take place in the Far East between ship-owners and their officers, the victors will be. the coalition that remembers and acts up to the old proverb-Unity is strength.
TELEGRAMS,
SILVER PURCHASES.
LONDON, September 5th. The Treasury has decided to make average monthly purchases of 4,500,000 ounces, instead .of $4,000,000 annually.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE will be a game of polo at Causeway Bay to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 5.15 o'clock. THE Consul for France has notified the local Government that the blockade has been removed from the harbours of Cac-ba.
THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Peshawar, with the next English mail, left Singapore for this port at 0.30 p.m. to-day. OUR Shanghat morning contemporary under- stands that Mr. W. S. Ayrion will be the next British Assessor at the Mixed Court there, in succession to Mr. George Brown, who is about to proceed home on leave.
CHAN AFUK, convicted at Singapore the other weighing in his shop in Teluk Ayer Street and day for selling unstamped Instruments for
also for using an unjust daching, was fined $40 on both charges. Chinn Afuki The name seems a familar one. We feel certain we have come across it somewhere.
A PROMINENT missionary Bishop, in the course of an address at some function the other day, alluded to his "younger and rasher days," A naughty "man-about-town" suggests that "my lord" was erroneously reported, and says it should have been to his "younger and masher days," that his lordship referred! Ye-es, very likely.
THE Acting Colonial Secretary notifies in the Garefie that in future no permit will be granted to the public for connecting house drains with the Government sewers. All such connections by the Water and Drainage department, on will be made in accordance with the regulations receipt of an application to the. Resident Engineer, Beaconsfield Arcade.
THE U.S.S. Palos left. Kobe on the 27th ulto for Chemulpo direct. She will remain in Korea dintil about the middle of November, when she goes to Tientsin for the winter.
A PEKING Correspondent writes to our Tientsin contemporary-The Seventh Prince, the father of the reigning Emperor, has had a relapse of his old malady-paralysis. He has been under the treatment of one of the students of the late Dr. J. K. Mackenzie. The attack came ES he was going to the Yames, and his case was. however, is to the effect that he is much better. thought to be hopeless. Later intelligence,
The loss of Prince Ch'un would be a severe blow to the progress party in China, as he is at one with the Viceroy Li Hung-chang in his favorable attitude towards Western improve ments. It is to be hoped he will recover, as the Empire can ill afford to lose men like the Seventh Prince, especially so soon after the demise of the Marquis Trêng,
the signatures to it of the great majority of captains and officers frequenting this port, as also the autographs of a great number of residents on ahore. This pétition he presented to our Governor, Sir William Des Voeux, and from what we now learn by recent home advices, it is patent that Sir William has given the matter his earnest consideration. Accord ing to these advices we find that Sir William Des Voeux has been in communication with the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Lord Knutsford, as also with Sir Cecil Smith, the. Governor of the Straits Settlements, who, by the way, is well-known to all old residents of this colony. I am quite sure that these experienced statesmen have thoroughly weighed this im- portant question-a question which seriously affects every member of this Association. But notwithstanding all that has been done we find that their Excellencies have come to the con- clusion that it is not wise to introduce compulsory legislation at the present time. This is a great disappointment to us as a body of officers, for we reasonably expected, or rather hoped, that our appeal would result in decisive and much-to-be- desired action by Her Majesty's Government. However, the reverse la the case, and as abedient subjects of Her Majesty we must virtually abide by their decision although differing from them in our opinions. Now, Mr. Goldsmith having done. his utmost, backed by the unanimous approval of British officers, we consider that we have a right to do the best we can for ourselves—joint action having falled this Association having been formed with the express object of maintaining the proper dignity of the profession and improving the condition of its members, morally, socially and of certificated British officers have a perfect right
Dietetic Bael-A highly agreeable and nutri- SUNDAY LABOUR IN HONGKONG / Hall Museum for the week ending Sept. 7th, arc; THz Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- custody any one who came to redeem certain intellectually. I say again we as an Association
tive diet, particularly recommended in derange- ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and irritation 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.)
HARBOUR.
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City
Europeans, 153; Chinese, 1,729; total, 1,878. Thx Superintendent of the P, & O. S. N. Co. informs us that the Company's steamer Teheran THE Sunday Labour question in Hong-left Bombay, for this port on the 6th inst, at kong has assumed a new phase by its 2 p.m. adoption as an important portion of the platform of the Hongkong Mercantile
landers will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess, to-morrow evening, com- mencing at 8 o'clock:-
│·
Overture......Zammı " Valsesia e la Commse"
Silver Chimer Selection...... Cavalina Glurana D'Arca.....Venil, Selection...... Dorothy
Herold, Cante
Rice,
..Cellier.
PEKING was visited by a terrific storm on August 33rd. Many huge trees in the surrounding ANOTHER opportunity for the "Great Unpaid "
Two "boys" and the "bar-boy" of the Stag Hotel were among the delinquents brought before Mr. Robinson as the Police Court this morning, their offence being that of unlawfully possessing a pocket-book, three pawn tickets (for watches) and a dozen Mexicans, the property of Frederick Carvalho, late third officer of the British steamship Nansing, who is himself at present in gaol, awaiting trial at the next Criminal Sessions, owing to it having been found out that he "lited" and pawned Mr. Lemm's gold watch and chain a few days ago. transpired in evidence that the master of the Fow On pawnshop had instructions to give into watches which had been stolen from Europeans and in consequence thereof the two prizoners, one of whom went to that shep with a pawn. ticket bearing Carvalho's name, found them- selves locked up. The "bar-boy" had been instructed by Mr. Olsen, the manager of the Stag Hotel, to send the pocket book to the Central Station a week ago, but did not do so, and was brought to Court as a witness in the owing to lack of sufficient proof of guilt against them, but considered the evidence of the "bar- boy so unsatisfactory, and evasive in the extreme, that suspicion chiefly rested upon him, However, as he was not before the Court he could do nothing in the matter but discharge the accused, binding the first defendant over in one surety of $50.to be of good behaviour for three months. It was his (the Magistrate's) opinion that the accused had acted under the instructions of the "bar-boy," After that expression of opinion the bar-boy, upon leaving the Mogist acy, was arrested and charged with the larceny of the articles in question,
to do the best we can for ourselves.
HOW TO ACT.
Marine Officers' Associatlon, and it is country were blown down, and the hailstones to distinguish. themselves. Mrs. Anne Young case. His Worship discharged the two "b?X5" } much as possible, with needless Sunday labour
were half-an-inch in diameter.
Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. hardly too much to say that the practical | Wz are informed, by the agent of the Messageries cating liquors at No. 284 Queen's Road West,
Hongkong, 1st September, 1890
WINES AND SPIRITS.
BY APPOINTMENT.
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abolition of this anything but creditable relic of old time slavery in a British colony has at last been placed within measurable distance. For the work that takes place in Hongkong harbour every Sunday requiring shipping offices being kept open and shipping clerks busily engaged-there
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. is absolutely no necessity and no justifica-
(ESTABLISHED AID, 1841.)
HONGKONG.
invile attention to the following old Wanded Brands, all of which are of ex- cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the the ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quality of Wine or Spirit.wanted, and initial letter for quality desired.
best growths at moderate prices.
Orders through Local Post or by Telegram receive prompt attention. PORTS. (For Invalids and general use.)
A Alla Douro, good quality,
Gtren Capsule
Per deres
tion. The loading and unloading of cargo could be just as easily and economically managed without either delaying the ship or infringing on the, all but universally recognised right of every man who works hard six days in the week to have a day of comparative rest on the seventh, Employers of labour, ship-owners, agents, etc., pretend they don't see the force of this sort of argument, but it is merely their innate modesty which makes them try to resemble NELSON before Copenhagen. Care. Ter BoThey do see it and recognise its absolute truth. but this obsolete fetich is a very $10
$1.00 ancient article of faith, and with "the classes it is so hard to get out of the old groove. It was just the same with the carly closing movement at home thirty years ago. Employers held up their hands in horror and shrieked when early closing and a weekly half-holiday were 6.60 proposed as a rational concession to the masses who tolled in offices, warehouses, shops, etc., from dawn on Monday morning 100 until Saturday at midnight; the proposed changewas predicted to ruineverybody and 1.00 everything-It was a radical infringement
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D Very Superior Old Pale Dry. choice old wine, White Seal Capsule........
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)
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on vested rights, the rights of capital to control labour in a fashion that was pure slavery; but the change was made notwith- standing the employers' opposition, and 1.5o the whole world knows the beneficial Per Cass. Por Co. results. And so it must be with Sunday labour in this colony. If those who control shipping interests here will, lasist or $4.50 shutting their eyes and remaining obstinate
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A Hennessey's Old Pale, Red
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Maritimes that the Company's steamer fraou- addy, with the next French mail, left Saigon for this port at 5 a.m. yesterday.
Tux formal opening of the Shanghai race-course for training purposes was postponed from the 1st to the 2nd inst., out of respect to the memory of Mr. T. O. S. Jenkins, an old Shanghai racing man, who died on August 31st.
THE japanese colliers are regarding mining
operati. us in Toaquin with much apprehension as a coming competitor in the Hongkong tons of coal annually to Hongkong, market. At present Japan sends about 350,000
A MOBI of 68 promising griffins arrived at Shanghai from Tientsin by the steamer E? Dorado on the 1st inst. Owing to the floods in and around Tientsin, the griffins are later in arriving at Shanghai this season than usual WE are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.) that the China Shippers' Mutos! S. N. Co.'s steamer Oopack, from London and Liverpool, left Singapore for this port on Satur day last, and may be expected on or about the
12th inst.
THE Acting Spanish Consul received a telegram from Manila yesterday morning, which states that a third depression had been gradually surrounding the island of Luzon since Saturday. The centre was far from Luzon, and the direction S.E. and N. to N.E.
THE Harbour Master (Commander Rumsey,
R.N.) states that recent operations in connection with the establishment of the Gap Rock light- house have disclosed several dangers close to the Rock. Shipmasters are therefore advised not to approach on either side neater than one and a half cables.
THE "Drains" experts are still in full swing outside our mansion in Pedder's Hill-that is to say, two men and one small boy are struggling to accomplish something-heaven alone knows what. And the air is filled with balmy odours, and half of the members of our staff are suffering from malarial fever,
A COPPER-SMITH who have a brick-bat at Mr. A. G. Robbins' bead yesterday afternoon, which struck him a atinger on the car, simply because he was forcibly ejected from his premises at West Point, was "docked" before Mr. Robinson to-day, who requested him to ante up three dollars, or in default do ten days in.H.M. Gaol. THE " boss" of that fool's paradise in Queen's Road Central where an old gardener went in with
has expressed a desire to sell and retail intoxi.
under the sign of "The Welcome Home," and a meeting of Her Majesty's Justices has there fore been convened for this day week to decide whether or not Anne is a fit and proper person for the business,
A FEW days ago (says the Ceylon Observer) our readers will have observed that Mr. W. Smith, of Belgravia, advertised for "A Second-hand Copying Press." Here. is one of the replies,
printed verbatim et literatim
Si-Having end la examiner that you Required x necond hand Copying Press,
beg apply to the Post and I shall thank you what aallery will begiven.
**Your Most Old servant,
"I, C. GOONRW AKO BHI,”
THEsteamer Chungking, on arriving at Shangh'
i
from Tientsin on the 3rd inst,, reported having
passed the China. Merchants steamer Hata ashore on a sandbank about two miles to the north of Bush Island. The Hatan was badly aground, being piled up so high that the lower blade of her propeller was visible above the water. The Mercury says it was supposed the
vessel get ashore during the heavy rain squalls
on the night of the and inst. THE lively little vixen who forgot herself so far as to lavade the Bench last Monday was again, in company with her "mash," the subject of inquiry by Mr. Robinson at the Police Court this morning. The young lady's papa said he
one more
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VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB AQUATIC SPORTS!
The second day's aquaticsports of the Victoria Recreation Club drew a very large attendance of spectators on Saturday afternoon. The water was rather lampy, but the records were generally ahead of last year's, every event being wel! contested,
The swim under water was competed for by
M. Fredericks, G. C. Hayward, B. Grimble, C. T. Kew. F. White, W. Stopani, and J. T. H. Sample. Kew, covered 59 yards, or nearly a length and a half, being a yard further than Fredericks reached last year. The last-named swerved in his course this year, and was credited with 166 feet only in consequence. Grimble was a good third.
A host of little 'uns started in the small boys' two lengths' bandicap, but after much splashing and excitement the three scratch "men" ended ahead, I. Carvalho being first and I, Miller second. Time 1 min. 393 secs.
25 brought out nine competitors, and with more The two lengths' handicap for members over judicious handicapping a good race would have resulted. At the end of the first length, however, the result lay between Messrs. C. H. Grace (3 secs.), E. J. Meugens (4 secs.). H. C. Manning (4 secs.), and J. M. Lning (3 secs.). Grace had some difficulty with Meugens, and the finish was smartly contested, Meugens being an excellent second, and Laing a bad third. Time x min.
The high dive was competed for by five youths Hayward, and another. White's form was much admired, and when Fredericks, splendidly as he dived, was adjudged winner, there was some dissatisfaction."
would cause his wayward daughter to go into the country for a while and would not press the charge against the naughty sailor man who had "spliced" her without the parents' permission, Result case dismissed. Miss Lum Yum and her very sweet-heart left the Court in triumph, while the crotchety old "pa" muttered a blessing through his few remaining teeth. SEVERAL letters have reached us from Whampoa regarding a query which appeared in our issue of the 23rd ulto, as to the hoisting of the German flag at the Chinese Customs station there. We are always very glad to publish letters from corespondents on matters of interest, irrespective of our own views, but in this affair the question was really too paltry for special notice. It 28 secs. appears that the little son of one of the Customs' officials had hoisted a small boat's Bag (German)Fredericks, White, D. Grimble, G. C. on a pole in his father's garden, and this was observed by somebody coming down the river from Canton and construed into instance of German arrogance. And that is all. THE N. C. Daily News of the 3rd inst. says: Old residents will regret to read the notice in
Evans, late of Shanghai. Mr. Evans estab lished himself first in Hongkong in 1853, and in Shanghai in 1855. He and his son (who died
past of his campaign against the Taipings. Mr. Evans made a fortune in Shanghat and went home for good in the sixties, but he suffered reverses and came out again, determined to retrieve himself, which he did by his bakery and the Empire Brewery, of which he was the founder. His wife died in 1885, and he obtained special permission for her to be buried in the old cemetery, in the grave of her son. In 1886 Mt. Evans sold out his business here to the Hall and Holtz Co-operative Co., and retired finally from China, being married to the widow of the late Dr. Hopkins soon after he arrived at home, He leaves a widow and one daughter, married, who has been living with him at home for some years. He was a man of sterling character, well known, and respected by all who knew him. He had attained in Freemasonry the highest degree possible to a commoner.
The open two lengths' handicap was quite equal in interest to any of the events, twelve competitors starling. An exciting finish was F. Grimble and W. Stopani, who ended in.
min, 10 secs.
I counsel you to discuss amongst yourselves the advisability of asking your owners to give you extra (double) pay for extra labour on Sunday. 1 consider you have a right to do so. 'Not that you wish thereby to put this extra pay in your pockets, but that you wish to do away, as (Loud applause). That, I think, you have a right to do. It is my firm' ópinion that you have a right to do this because you'll only be asking for that which men somewhat similarly situaled as yourselves already have conceded to them. I refer to. Europeans in this port who are engaged in directing Chinese workmen, and in this connection I specially refer to foremen in the employ of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company. These men, such as engineers, shipwrights, moulders and boiler-makers, are indeed well educated. They are "picked " mea from home, experts at their profession, who came out here on fixed liberal salaries and are granted double pay for Sunday, and all overtime, work. I think therefore that you will be perfectly right in asking for and expecting extra pay for unnecessary labour on Sunday-the working of cargo in port on Sunday. (Hear, hear). I know a good many of these Dock employees and have asked them for their opinion on this very ques- tion, and they all assured me that they would The Sunday is as dear to us as it is to them. rather forego the extra pay than work on Sunday.
I will now ask you a question, as a representa- tive body of officers, and I want you to answer
me truly and conscientiously, "Which would you rather receive, extra pay for Sunday lahour or be sure of your Sunday to yourselves? (Shouts of "free Sunday," "no Sunday labour" and Applause). Continuing, the speaker said-I am informed that the members of the Public Works Department of this colony receive extra pay for Sunday and all overtime work. I am confident that in asking for this extra pay from your owners you will, in respect to unnecessary Sunday labour, carry with you the full sympathy not only of men similarly situated as yourselves, but also of the general public as well. I don't
say that you should ask for this at once, for it will be better that you should discuss it amongst your- selves at ordinary meetings, so that every member may have an opportunity ofexpressing his candid opinion upon the subject. Should owners concede this extra pay it will be a small step gained towards what we still hope to allnin, the com- pulsory cessation of labour in this harbour on Sunday (Loud cheers). That, gentlemen, is all You can do at present to forward this Sunday labour question. I don't think you'll get much money by the request for extra pay, but you'll be pretty sure to get more Sundays to yourselves (Laughter and applause), for it will be the object of owners and agents to avoid this extra pay if possible. By doing as I suggest you will receive the tacit gratitude of all shipping clerks and all people on shore who have necessarily to attend to the business of
another column of the death of Mr. Henry witnessed between F. Lamm order namcn be presumptuous on my part-and say that I
in
unnecessary Sunday labour on board ship (Applause). On this question I would go further than the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith-although it many entirely disagree with their Excellencies who have laid it down that compulsory legislation in
SUIC, bo beneficial.
5.00 and obdurate to the voice of reason30 and came out shortly after minus all but the 12.00 and common-sense, they must submit clothes he stood up,in, was charged on remand of fever many years ago) were with Gordon during ten heroes, and the winner, Private Marrison, this connection, is inadvisable. It would, I am
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14
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18
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Red Capsule..................................
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to-day, before Mr. Robinson, with drugging and robbing the old chap. He was discharged, owing to lack of evidence to prove that such act was committed witkip his fin-si-kuk ranche.
THE burning of the Kee Chong Filature at Shanghai the other day was generally attributed to incendiarism. The N. C. Daily News now anys that an examination of the premises after the fire leaves no doubt that the place was willfully fired. One of the floors was found to have been saturated with kerosene at certain spots and the planking much burnt, as if a fire had beer kindled. A native living close to the Filature says he smelt smoke at about nine o'clock on the night of the fire. We understand that a reward of $500 has been offered for information leading to the discovery of the culprit or culprits.
to the fortier in re. Nobody, not even the men who suffer most by this Sunday labour, has any desire to give offence to their employers or to cause the 1.25slightest trouble or inconvenience in regard 1.50 to business arrangements. They are ready and willing to meet those whose interests they are paid to safe-guard and protect on a common platform, and to make every reasonable concession that may in any way be calculated to place the matter on a footing satisfactory to all concerned. But 6.75 the fat has irrevocably gone lorth that, whether by amicable arrangement or an 675 open war between shipowners and their D. DOBERCE reports to-day that at 6.4.p.m. on
employés, Sunday labour on board ship aturday the following telegram was lasued:
"Bad weather may be
in the northern expected 1.00 in Hongkong must cease. If the members
of the Mercantile Marine Officers Asso. Yesterday on the 7th he gave directions to hoist the Red Ball. The depression has moved ciation remain true to themselves-and | westward in the China Sex, and the weather if they don't the Association and Its is bad in the Gulf of Tonquin, Cool and wet weather prevails' in southern China and a.75 pretensions are a hollow sham-they s.E. breezes in the China Sea-Many of the 1.00 should experience but little difficulty in vessels arriving yesterday and to-day report high obtaining from shipowners the inestimable winds and heavy seas, the Nisam passing a typhoonic disturbance between here and, Singa- boon of one day's rest in seven when they porc, working north-west. The Haitan, which left yesterday morning, had to put back, the 1.00 happen to be in this port.
squalls being furious to the eastward,
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We do not advocate this change, we never have done so, on religious grounds, THE Chinklang correspondent of the Shanghai. Mercury writes on the rat last:-The British 0.40 although the Rev. Mr. GOLDSMITH has Consulate, which has been in course of erection 0.50 made out a very good case from his point this past twelve months, to replace the building of view. When all other laborers are which was looted and burnt by the mob during the late riot, was occupied to-day. The new enjoying their "one day of rest in seven,” why should sailors, whose toll is alike buildings gire quite a handsome appearance dangerous and arduous, be the only galley to the port, standing on the verge of a wide slaves' in the world? That is what we upland, from whence can be obtained a view of the surrounding country and the mighty Yangtzo. should like to have satisfactorily explained, It is in contemplation to build a new American The opinions of Governors des Vœux and Consulate on the site of the present building, SMITH that it would be unwise to stop which is situated outside the Concession.—The Sunday labour by legislative enactment, weather has already began to set in cool in the can carry but little weight with those who moming and evening. Our hills are beginning are acquainted with the subject; as regards to display the autumnal tints, and are being Lord' KNUTSFORD's opinions, if he ever horn of their verdure. The past summer has had any, they may safely, be ignored. If been pleasant and cool, and only on one or two occasions has the thermometer registered over
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the Government will not legislate for go in the shade. The health of the foreign this grlevance, and if the ship-owners community has been excellent, but a deal of and agents refuse to come to reasonable | sickness prevails among the native population,
THEY have a new poet running loose in Shanghai just now. He doesn't appear to be very dangerous, but he might become a raging latest, which he sends under the heading-
THE NEW PANACEA. Gentle reader--
If you're bow'd down with grief and sorrow, And dread the thought "to meet to-morrow," Take my advice, and tea cents borrow, --
And have a switchback ride., "Cures all diseases,” there's no doubt, (Except perhaps a chronic gout), Beats "Seigel's Syrup " out and out,.
A switchback ride.
Perhaps you's feeling awful mean, You may be troubled with the spleen, And often to the doctors been
Try a switchback ride..
See youth and beauty at the station, From every land, of every nation ; Their Irresistable temptation,
A switchback ride. -“Lady Mary's”often there, Besides innumerable fair,
Enjoying that amusement rare,
A switchback ride.
The bar below, upon the green, With cards thereon "No chits," "Ice cream," Where thirsty folks may there be seen
Having a drink out of the Big Bottle. Around, pavilions doth appear With folks Inside a swilling beer, While lovely maidens wander near,
"Dead gone " upon the switchback,
The four lengths' race for soldiers attracted certainly shewed some good form, his time being 2 min. 433 secs. Privates Deacon and Dodd took second and third places respectively.
The small boys' race fell to a tiny swimmer named D. Alves, and the two lengths competition in ordinary costume was won by F. Lammert to min. 41 seca, C. Aitken being a fair second. Nine tried for the "Consolation" handicap, two lengths, Aitken pulling it of lo 1 mín, 21 secs., Perkins second,
The sports concinded with an impromptu display of diving and swimming by some of the very recent generation, and although not on the programme it was watched with much amuse-
ment and interest.
Zi
BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION.
THE PRESIDENT ON THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.
THE BENEFITS OF STOPPING IT.
I honestly believe that it Sunday labour afloat it would result in lasting benefit to was compulsorily stopped both ashore and
the inhabitants of this colony. I belleve
that if the Government of this Colony passed such an Act, the Act to come in force say one year after its passage through the Legislative Council, the Chinese themselves would have time to weigh this question, and might be by that time assured of the benefits of such legisla tion, My experience of Hongkong has not been brief, it has been that of a great number of years, and I can truly say that I have never known any innovation in the law to be passed which was of lasting benefit to the Chinese in particular, that was not virtually forced upon the community. Doubtless as soon as the first inkling of such a law was caught by the masses weshould hear an outery and wail from the entire Chinese community, who would urge that the foreigners were trying to forceupon them laws which were entirely opposed A special meeting of the British Mercantile to their religious instincts, and would go on Marine Officers' Association was held at thic to predict that by the passage of such Marine Hotel, Prays West, on Saturday evening, laws the colony would be utterly ruined, the 6th instant, when Captain Samuel Ashton, We should hear that every shop-keeper, labourer, the President, delivered "a very interesting contractor and boatman would be robbed address upon the much vexed question of of 52 days' pay every year! Gentlemen, I've Sunday labour. There were present in addition heard such walls, such lamentations before... to local members of the Association, representa. these baseless forecasts of uiter ruin, In fact tives of the Australian and Shanghai Officers! whenever any great innovation of the law is. Associations.
forced upon the Chinese they invariably object to it. I remember about the year 1565 a great fire occurred in the west part of this colony. All the Chinese quarter, in fact the whole town from the great cross roads for at least three-quarteis of a mile, the bouses were razed to the ground. Captain Ashton, who on rising was greeted it was, in fact, ons of the largest and most with hearty applause, said:-Gentlemen, to- disastrous fires ever known in: Hongkong. In night I am going to give you my idens upon the the fire of 8, too, the Chinese much-vexed question of Sunday labour on board heavy, sufferers because they were not insured. ships in this barbour, a question which the Rev. They did not understand the system of insurance A. G. Goldsmith has striven so hard to settle then, as they do now. But the losses by fire did. in a manner beneficial to all sca-faring men', 1, not worry our Celestial friends nearly so much as myself, believe in the fourth Commandment, and the fact of a law being passed which enacted that I think thai those who rigidly obey it will be the Chinesa tenements should be constructed healthier, wealthier and wiser in the end. I in modem style with fire-proof walls, etc., etc,: intend to review this question to-night in all its The Chinese offered atrentous objections to this, bearlogs, in as far as I am able to. The question and all sorts of ridiculous rumours of calamity has become one of great, and I may say burning, floated about. However, the houses were built Importance not only to us out here but also as now seen and no great ruin, in fact no lose at to thousands, of our fellows at home, I've all, befel this colony. The upshot was that the already said that the Rev. Mr. Goldsmith has Chinese themselves admitted that the new Isw worked very industriously, with a view to was really very beneficial in its operation. I have causing a cessation of needless Sunday labour known of overal outcries and prognostications
The Secretary, Mr. Chesney Duncan, having read the bye-laws respecting the conduct of meetings, and a it of those who had been appointed, by ballot, members of the General Committee-
were
In this part of Hongkong. He drew up a of utter ruin raised in this colony respecting
| lengthy petition upon the subject and obtained | certain' ordinances before the Council. Buch.