Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMITED, 1
·DISPENSING CHEMISTS. SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS,
ASTRINGENTS DIARRHEA & CHOLERA REMEDIES, &c.
AKIN'S CHOLERA FLIXIR.-A pro-
DAN CHICA Of this spidemic1
India, in home and histh-place, has proved beyond all doubt the efficer of this remedy, which combines in a concentrated form the medicinal agents which have proved most useful
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1890.
THE annual general meeting of the members of the Cricket Club is to be held on Thursday afternoon. The principal excitement will be in reference to the Lawa-tennis rules and rulers
Vide advertisement.
OUR Shanghai morning contemporary is glad to hear that the dispute between the oplum impor. ters and the dealers regarding the terms of sale of the drug, has been settled, importers agreeing to allow three months' credit. AN adjourned Convocation of St. Andrew's
Chapter, No. 218. S.C, will be held in
Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 18th instant, at 8 for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited.
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum forthe week ending Sept. 14th, ard: Europeans, 161; Chinese, 2,249 total, 2,410, AN Emergency Convocation of Cathay Chapter, No. 1165, will be held in the Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 19th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm, precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited.
SENIOR VALDEZ, Portuguese consul at Shanghal, goes home next month for a holiday. A contemporary says that he will be greatly missed by the Portuguese community, as he very popular, both socially and officially. In the future, in all Government documents and official publications in Canada, such words as favor, labor, honor, etc., must be spelled with favour, labour, honour, and not as hitherto, after
In arteating the rapid progress, of that fatal WITHIN Six yeara Italy has increased her the "," according to the English usage, as
'malade, and in combating it when developed.
Full direction -ccompany each bottle. Fer bottle. Ar to and $3.
Cholera Pills are made from an old, well-tried formula, and are most useful in the early stage of an attack. Per bottle, go cents.
Dakin'a Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spasmodic. This reliabla remedy has long been used throughout the East as a stand-by in Cholera and Diarrhoes. In bottles, 35, 75 cents, $1.to and $2.75-
Dr. Rubini's Essence of Camphor-Valuable for simple Diarrhoea, nad in the earlier stages of Dysentery and Cholern. Per bottle, 50 cents.
Fluid Extract of Indian Bael (prepared from the unripe fruit of the Egle Marmelos).
Of great servies in Diarrhea and Chronic "Dysentery. Per bottle, $1.
military expenses 35 per cent. and her naval The increase in the expenses 123 per cent. Austrian budgets for these expenses has been respectively 43 and 32 per cent. Germany has added eg per cent to her army expenses and 38 to her naval outputs, and France only 3 and 17 respectively.
THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High. landers will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess, this evening, commencing
at 8 o'clock J
Overture......le Macon"
Valse Selection Crane
Soleculen
„Guny, The Grand Duchess Tehach "Venns Reigen Auber,
Follatalsetti "Robert Bruco" Bonisson,
KRIPS has been nabbed in Korea, and Count Popow, alias Detective Pole, won't get the $ices Dieteric Rael-A highly agreeable and natri- reward offered for the arrest of that now notorious tive diet, particularly recommended in derange-swindler. On the 12th inst. Mr. Tsai, the ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and magistrate of the Shangbal Mixed Court, received A telegraphic despatch from Yuan, Chinese Irritation of the bowels.
This preparation has been in use in India for Resident at Seoul, stating that Krips had been thirty years, and is there regarded as a spectac arrested and handed over to the custody of the
German consul at Chemulpo... in Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Per tin, $1.
THERE seems to be a suicidal epidemic in Yokohama, as well as in Hongkong. On the 30th ulta. Lieut. Turner, of the U. S. corvette Omaha, shot himself, in a store, and three days later a Jew named Leonard Tobias, staying at, the Grand Hotel, bought a very large quantity of goods on credit at the various stores, and the same night, after trying to chloroform his wife, shot himself through the head.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED. (Telephone No. 6a)
No. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. Hongkong, 1st September, 1890. [53
- BY APPOINTMENT.
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS,
the American style.
ADVANCE Lusitania! Portugal has the honour of possessing a female ball fighter, by name Clotilde Mestrik. She has practiced for bull. fighting only since last April, yet is wonderfully erat in the arena. At her debut in Oporto she killed two more. Our friends in Macao she killed two bulls, and a week later in Lisbon ought to try and get Clotilde to pay them a visit, THE great potato blight in Ireland took place on August 5th, 1846, and the famine began a few weeks later and lasted through the greater part of 1847, during which time, It has been estimated, about one militon two hundred and fifty thousand persons died of starvation. The population, which was increasing up to the time of the famine, has been decreasing over since. In 1841 Ireland had 8,196,597 inhabitants; in 188t. 5,141,983, while they went below the 5,900,000 mark in 1888, and In 1891, when the they will be under 4,500,000. next national count is taken, it is estimated that
MAX O'RILL, the well-known French writer, in a letter to the New York World, gives his opinion of woman's intellectual ability in the no more think of imitating Miss Fawcett's exploit following language:-I only hope women will than men did of imitating Captain Webb's when when he swam across the Channel. She may have proved that women's brain is not inferior to man's (a fact which nobody doubted), but a hundred lady Wranglers will never prove that woman's mission in the world is the same of man' In the animal kingdom, starting from the lowest organisms, where you and difference between the male and female hardly perceptible, the further you go up the scale the more accen tuated becomes the difference between the sexes, In man and woman the dissimilarity is most the farther they will remove themselves from
maddening time when share gambling was the most popular, if not the only form, of public worship. He was credited with having "cleared" something between $75,000 and $100,000, and, of course, although ignored when he was cent less, he was made a great deal of by toadles and tuft hunters after he had a big cheque book, and yes, damma if, with other luxuries, he must needs Indulge in the extravagance of
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, 30TH JUNE, 1890. To Charges Account................
Remuneration to Consulting Committee for 12 months to date „Auditors [ "$...........................*** "Remuneration 10 General Ma
nagers for office expenses, &G, for 12 months..............................
Balance.
well, we needn't go into details. Those who tun may read those who don't can give their
With an establishment which was popularly rivid Imaginations a turn. And so Apcar, who
known as "No. 44." and there he is credited extracted from with having, at lightning speed, transferred the shekels of silver he, had the talons of the Philistines into-well, yes, into
Juliet nothingness. Apcar's a charming hours from the orange groves of California, and although her name was Eva, not Juliet, we are quite willing to believe that it was a case of--
can only be a mere youth, became associated By Balance of Profit and Loss 30th
many
Twe souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that best as one."
Was
Times changed, and Mr. Apcar's good fortune others who couldn't ante up when called on, and his easily-earned fortune melted away like changed likewise. He had to share the fate of
a snow-ball in June. It would serve no useful end to latrude into the man's inner life, although an invaluable moral is clearly involved, but we can in a few wards describe the anti- climax to the tragedy. To-day the fair Eva was to leave by the for San Francisco. Financial arrangements were not unable to raise sufficient funds to pay his chére satisfactory, and, in plain English, Apcar was
detertained to shoot bimself. He met his cousin in amid's passage money and expenses. And so be
scot a bullet through his head. And that is the the street this morning, bade him a kindly good. bye, went home and wrote several letters, and then whole story. As we have already said, it points a moral. We may find time shortly to elaborate that moral in the plaincat of plain English.
THE DOUGLAS, STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.
The following is the report for presentation to the shareholders at the seventh ordinary general meeting, to be held at the offices of the Company, on Saturday, the zoth day of September, 1890, at noon-
The General Managers have now to submit to the shareholders their report on the seventh year's working of this Company, ended 30th June, 1890. After paying all running expenses, Committee and Auditors' fees, there remains a premia of insurance, remuneration to Consulting
the Articles of Association, it is proposed, with him. Electric flaids of the same name the consent of the shareholders, to appropriate
this amount as follows:-
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June, 1889.....
Profit on running the Co's steamers to date.....
Profit, on coals supplied, to stcarers ...ANYOS
Profit on wharfage
Profit on Hongkong moorings,
Profit on Tamsui moorings......
Profiton 1,144 Unallotted Shares Balance of Suspense Account, Oriental Bank Corporation................... Bonus on Swatow Insurance contributions ne
Interest Account
3,973-94
2,000,CX 500,00
colony, which can well be applied to native description of the horrible state of affairs in that
bakerlea bere. He anys
"The bakeries of this town are, with one or two exceptions, in a most deplorable and insanitary condition. The floors of but few are paved, some are mud, and the majority trodden 10,000.00 earth, all equally dirty. The tables are generally caked with stale flour on the top, the skies and 114.547.64
legs being in a filthy condition; one had a larga 131,021.58 heap of refuse beneath it. The walls throughout
are black, dirty, and stained with the marks of the cockroaches that disport themselves amid: 1,760.48 the loaves and flour. Eight bakeries are dark
and badly ventilated having low ceilings and 73.858.96 stifling atmosphere; men working here must, and do, sweat profusely on to flour and dough; com 5.743.18 ment is unnecessary, lo a few the latrines are 3,771.30 on the same level and open directly into the bakehouse, the raised temperature of the latter 1,909.10 place tending to draw the effluvia in,
1,200.00
"In another house there was a 4 gallon tub 25,915.70 of arine standing in the middle of some fables upon which deugh was being mixed. The tables 10,403.08 which receive the dough are universally used
as dining tables, and frequently became tem 3.46 porary bedsteads; in one place I found two 6:396.32 coolics suffering from severe fever sleeping upon them. The bread before being baked is generally 131,031.58 covered in cloths, usually very dirty, and one baker told me be changed them once a year; be
T owned to having them washed occasionally If an act were passed making it compulsory for bakeries to be properly paved, fitted, lighted, and well ventilated, I believe that cleanliness would follow, at least the sanitary authority would have far more control over them.”
We have compared the above Statement with the Books and Vouchers of the Company, and have found the same in accordance therewith....
JAMES H. Cox R. LYALL Hongkong, 13th September, 1890.
Auditors,
CHINESE BAKERIES IN HONGKONG.
In
Our New Faciery has been recently refitted a powder for small arms has been discovered marked. The more women seck to resemble matt, net profit of $114.547.64, and in accordance with for raids upon the homes of peaceable.illagers
with automatić, Steam Machinery of the
latest and most approved kind, and
we are well able to compete in quality with the best English Makers.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost cars and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout. LARGE BOMBAY
"SODAS"
We continue to supply large bottles as beretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-
tion.
It is stated that, so far, perfection has not been A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. reached with any of the smokeless powders. They do not keep well, and have a tendency to absorb moisture, the result being a change in the ESTABLISHED A.D.'1841.
rate of burning and consequent pressure In the gun. In the course of experimenting, however, marvelous results are beingobtained. In France which behaves in exactly the reverse manner from ordinary rifle powder, the pressure being greater at the muzzle of the rifle than at the breech; and velocitles of over 4,000 feet per second have been obtained with the bullets.
great all wells of the Caspian beginning ARE the to show signs of exhaustion? The question is 10 Important that it is no wonder that a recent rumor that the wells are "giving out" caused uneasiness in the great commercial port of Batcum. The simple fact, however, that the quantity of crude oil produced last year exceeded that of the year before by more than a million and a quarter of tons suffices to show that the panic had no real foundation. It seems to have Arisen solely from the circumstance that in spite of the greatly increased yield prices were rising, Mr. Peacock, our Contul at Batogm, points out that there are other important petroleum fields along the Caspian which will be available when- ever the present district begins to fail. This crisis, however, certainly exhibits no sign as yet The same authority tells us that besides the many still productive pumping wells near Bakn, there are three fountains at the old place spout ing with unabated force, and yielding daily the enormous quantity of more than 5000 tons. THE detectives had an unpleasant task before them this morning. A band of robbers attacked the house of a Canton trader, in the Santak district, some four months ago, and after over coming the resistance of the inmates looted the place and carried off a little boy about two years old. For his ransom they demanded $4,0-0, saying, in one letter, that to such a rich man as the father the money was no more than taking a hair out of the bead. He offered $200, all he could raise, ineffectually, and was still threatened by the hrigands, who signed their notes "the several brethren. This morning Detective Inspector Stanton, with Detectives Hadden and Melver, Sergeant Hall, and one or two Chinese, went to a house in New Street, where they had been informed the child was detained. Hadden and Melver went on the roof, whilst the others ascended to the third floor by the stairs. By a ruse they got the door opened, and before the Es two men inside could grasp the situation they were handcuffed. That a desperate resistance would otherwise have been made is certain, revolvers, swords, daggers, much stolen property, At Shanghai, on the 11th September, Mrs. &c, being found in the place, besides letters shewing that the band levied blackmail CARL JANTZEN, of a daughter.
systematically. The little boy was safe, however, and the old hug who acted as hostess having been annexed by Stanton, after a short scratch. ing match, the let were conveyed to the Police Station, and afterwards brought before Mr. Robinson, who remanded them.
Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus
will receive prompt attention.
The following List of Waters always kept ready in Stock-
PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER
LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
SELTZER WATER
LITHIA: WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE. No Credit given for bottles that lonke dirty, or greasy, or that appear to have been stand for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.
ove another; electric fluids of opposite kinds attract each other. Most of the women who
To place the amount of $66,838.08 to Reserve have made a great name for themselves by their brain work have been so many good wives and Fund, being the equivalent of 8 per cent, on the values of the steamers, wharf, moorings &c. on the 30th June last, and to pay a dividend of 41 mothers last to the world, and in these days of cheap and noisy notoriety especially sweet are the words of the post of antiquity who said that per cent on the capital of the Company, absorb the best women were those the world hearding a further sum of $45,000.00, and leaving a
balance of $2,709.56 to be carried forward. least of"
It will be observed that the profit resulting amounts to $73,858 96 only, which is certainly from the working of the Company's steamers somewhat disappointing, and-which-must be entirely attributed to the general diminution in the volume of the coast trade during a fall half of the working year, the only satisfactory feature being that, in the opinion of the General Managers the Company's steamers have steadily continued to secure their full share of such carrying business as offered. Moreover, for the first few months of the year, the high price of coal was a some what serious tax, and a more or less fitful opposition on the Tarauiline bas to some extent reduced the steamers' earnings in that quarter.
As stated in previous reports, it was the intention to transfer direct to the Reserve Fund the amounts accruing from sale of the 1,144 shares originally unallotted, and from the closing of the Oriental Bank Corporation Sus pense Account. It appears, however, that this course can hardly be followed under the strict letter of the Articles of Association, and these sums have accordingly been included in Profit and Loss account as shewn.
The efficiency of the Company's fleet has been maintained upon the usual scale, and it may be mentioned that Lloyd's No. 3 Survey upon the Thales, referred to in the last report, has been postponed, and will be held during the next few months.
The amounts appearing as Freights dus and Accounts receivable on 30th June have all been collected since that date.
CONSULTING COMMITTEE,"
(BY OUR SPECIAL INQUISITOR.) As busy crowds daily and nightly pass along Queen's Road, cu Broadway" as some people ironically style Hongkong's principal thorough fare, little do they conjecture the infamous state of affairs which exists in the narrow bye-ways and streets to right and to left of them. Anything like the infamy, degrada tion, rascality and lawlessness which exist in certain parts of the City, which I have recently visited and specially investigated, is incredible to those who "with the eye have not scen; and with the ear not heard." those slums youths and young girls, in many cases the offspring of European fathers, vie with each other for supremacy in vulgarity, and vice of the most revolting nature: cut-purses an ruffians haunt these places and concoct plans ear-ring snatchers and other similar lawless
on the mainland, from whom they steal money, jewelry, clothing and even children (the latter often held to ransom in Hongkong) and who in many instances commit most brutal murders, of parents before the eyes of their children and presence of their parents. of xens in the Here, too, are to be found the kidnappers, swindlers, pirates, slave-dealers, members of the White Lily and Triad Societies, Taz-fah and Pak-kop-plau "sharps," gambling hell" runners (the "bosses" live in foreign able parts of the city) police Informers, and all hongs in some instances, and in other respect- that is low and vile in about the lowest form of so-called civilization known (or rather unknown) to the world. And it is in the very midst of all this recking fith and squalor that we find the Chinese Bakeries, respecting which I propose to lay bare what I consider very necessary Information.
It was a pretty warth evening when I started out to visit the Chinesa bakeries of Hongkong, the thermometer registering 799. in my sitting room, which is situated in one of the coolest parts of the town. Business had to be attended io, however, maskes the heat, and so, after covering my clothes with spirits of camphor, fortifying the inner man with a stiff nobbler of whisky, and providing myself with some of the strongest and most fragrant cigars procurable in the colony, I started forth on an inquisitorial expedition..
To sum up the whole thing, as regards these Chinese bakeries, it may be said they have walls leaking and grimy celling, olten very low, ventilation and light almost absent. In fine, smoke, unclessness and stinks unendur -able in certain quarters, particularly close to the oven, are the caracteristics of the places visited. Not in one instance was there any thing like the air, space, light and absence of latrine proximity that would supply the elemen- tary conditions to be demanded in bread making.
Hongkong, however, is not without some redeeming features in the bak-ry line, as a visit to the Hongkong and China Bakery at Wanchal, or to Mr. Dorabjee's establishment in Queen's Road East will quickly convince the most sceptical. 1 dropped in at the latter place the other day and found airy buildings, machinery clean as a new pin, the tables as white as hande could make them, the employées clean and healthy in appearance, and the floor in use Perry's best. Cockroaches you will find in all Eastern bakeries, but in this establishment, of resident of this Colony by the way) these insects which Mr. Ruttonjee is foremans, (a 52 years were fairly conspicuous owing to their absence. Captains and officers of merchant ships may be interested to know that a good deal of the ship- ping is supplied with Chinese-made bread through the ubiquitous, albeit strictly scrupulous, John Compradore.
At an early date I propose baving a run round the laundries of Hongkong, which are undoubt edly in a very insanitary condition. By so doing light may be thrown upon the cause of the spread of some revolting skin affections with which some Europeans now occasionally suffer.
CHINA AS SEEN THROUGH
OCCIDENTAL SPECTACLES.
It is a matter of every-day observation that what is peculiar to China is almost incomprehen sible to those who have never lived in China- ar indeed a part of it is incomprehensible even to those who have lived there for a long time. That the intertor politics of this empire should baffle the understanding of the "well-read man" of other countries is not surprising, but it is not to matters of this sort that we now refer, but rather to the manners and customs of the people, It is at this point that the greatest interest in any foreign land, is displayed. The constant appearance in Occidental journals of paragraphe China and the relating to China and the Chinese, is a proof Chinese is unfailing. At the same time, the that western interest in The first bakery 1 “struck” was a shanty in quality of the information conveyed is often Hollywood Road-a very respectable neighbour to surprising that we are obliged to read a hood. On entering the shop my attention was paragraph twice, to be sure that we have not been attracted by myriads of cockroaches, dies and deceived by an optical illusion. Every reader other insects to the walls and ceiling, which will be able to recall many such newspaper collection of them; he will have an entertain- were indescribably filthy to the floor, caked with items, and if he should be so judicious as to make the accumulation of dust, flour, drippings, saliva and tobacco ashes; to the oven and ment always ready for the next company who kneading tubs, all in the same apartment as gather at his parlours. Of this general class of the shop itself, and encompassed by walls 24 paragraphs is the one conveying the information feet in length by about 14 feet in width, at the that the Chinese pay a doctor by the year, with further extremity of the establishment. Above the understanding that he is to guarantee bis all this vast accumulation of filth were the patients good health. If the patient is taken ifi, sleeping apartments of the master baker and his the doctor is fined according to a sliding scale, and the amount is deducted from the sum due when to him at the end of the year. This plan is awing The mixing-up process was in full entered. It consisted of a lot of semi-nude found to work well for both parties, and, gives coolles operating dongh in deep tabs, the excellent satisfaction. This makes a very excessive. heat making the sweat-stream down | good item, but not so good, upon the whole, an another class, which deals with known facts their heads, shoulders and bodies on to the
in a still more fresh and original manner. "stuff" that on the morrow was to be sold'in half-pound loaves as good and wholesome Thus: "In China, where labour is cheap, a man bread. The tables used for rolling out" the will sit all day chinking gold pieces in a leather dough were as filthy as anything of the kind bag. At the close of the day the gold pieces could possibly be, and it must have been many are as good as they were in the morning, and months since the scrubbing brush had been in the man bas enough golddust from washing the contact with them,
leather, to pay him, for his work." There are many possibilities to the man who can compile an item like this, and the method described opens also many possibilities for China which wo should like to see tried.
MR. PERCIVAL SPENCER'S (the aeronaut) energetic mannger la very much troubled in his mind as to the probability of a large free audience witnessing the daring balloonist's ascent next Saturday from that convenient colge of vantage, the Bowen Boad, which overlooks the Happy Valley. We don't know, of course, but should Imagine that such a fear is quite groundless- a paying audience is that is so far as concerned. Doubtless there will be scores of people, perhaps hundreds, on the Bowen Road next Saturday afternoon, but we hardly think there will be very many who under any circum- stances would have patronised Mr. Spencer's entertainment, And it must, not be forgotten that the Hongkong public have a perfect right to witness the balloon ascent from the Bowen Road, or from any other place in the Happy Valley they may think it to select. Mr. Beytz-Roper (Mr. Spencer's manager) laughingly remarked yesterday that he would arrange to have a photograph taken of the "dead. heads" on the Howen Road, but he will scarcely attempt to carry out this novel idea. It wouldn't pay him if he did. Mr. Spencer must just take his chance with the exclusive privileges he has been fortunate enough to secure. He is the first public performer that has ever obtained a show ground on the Hongkong race course, and it is long odds, that he will be the last. It can never be too clearly understood that the race-course, stands, and enclosure are the property of the members of the Hongkong
The Committee now consists of the Hon. Jockey Club, and that the centre of the Valley is at present the common recreation ground of the Hongkong public. And however much P. Ryrie, Hon. J. J Keswick and Mr. D. R. family.
willing to assist professional Sassoon, who now retire in accordance with the artists in every way possible, we are compelled Articles of Association, but being cligible, offer to draw the line when public rights are themselves for re-election, being infringed on. And in the concession to Mr. Spencer we consider that a dangerous precedent has been established, as any travelling circus or other outdoor show would have fair claims to the same privileges. But this sort of thing must be stopped, once and for all. That the community will largely patronise Mr. Spencer's daring exhibition can hardly be doubt. ed; that the performance is worthy of support la quite certain; but in future the private interest of A “ONE-HORUL SHOW » has never been a startling any individual, however deserving, must not be permitted to interfere with public right. The success in this colony; quantity rather than Cricket Ground and the Happy Valley are the quality, specially in the matter of nicely only pases in the desert of Hongkong to which fitting tights, has been the great attraction, the community has any claim, and unless under But Hongkong has never yet been visited very exceptional circumstances they must not by such a versatile master of art and mimlery be diverted from their legitimate purpose. For as Mr. Frank Lincoln, the only rival of
Mr. Spencer's "show," Causeway Bay would and legitimate successor to the great Maccabe have fulled him far better than the Happy Mr. Lincoln, who is advertised to give enter Valley, and had that monument of Mr. J. M. tainments in the Theatre Royal, City Hall, Price's reckless fally been selected for the para- HONGKONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1890,
on Thursday and Saturday next, le described as chute descent, we would not have been worried "the American humourist," which description, LOCAL AND GENERAL.
taken by itself, would in this colony be, the over a dozen letters from Jockey Club, enthusiasts, golfers, cricketers, etc, etc, who reverse of an attraction. American humour, want to know far more than we can tell them.
unknown quantity to the H.M.S. Swift left here for Amoy this forenoon. so-called, is an
primitive Methodists who form the back- of this important commercial em- THE latest Spanish census, taken in 1887, giver bonn
thing incomprehensible population of 17,550,116. The gain in ten porium; it s
even to our fax-famed office goat, but years was only 951,905.
A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,
Hongkong, China, and Manila.
BIRTH,
DEATHS.
At Gap Station, on the 13th inst, ARCHIBALD, second surviving son of John and Annie Swans
F1311 ton, aged 5 years and 9 months,
At Chefoo, on the and inst., ELIZABETH MABEL, aged thirteen months; and on the sth Inst, EDITA VICTORIA, aged 2 years and 11 months, the beloved children of John and Louisa Wilson, Nlogpo. ·
The Hongkong Telegraph
THE oldest man in Great Britain is Hugh McLeod, Scotch crofter, who was born on the 24th November, 1783. He lives in county Ross, and is still healthy and vigorous.
we may be
ANOTHER TRAGEDY, ·
AUDITORS.
The Accounts have been audited by Messrs, J. H. Cox and R. Lyall, who retire, but offer
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., themselves for-re-election.
General Managers.
BALANCE SHEET FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30TH JUNE, 1899. Assets.
To
บ
Haitan, Haiphong," Halldong, Value of the Co.'s steamers Nomeo, Thales, Formosa, and Fokian
$1,083,100 00 Value of wooden wharf ..........
Value of buoys and moorings at Swatow, Amoy, Tamtal and Hong- kong, and steam
launch...gjinit
20,000,00
13,391-34
The Hongkong and Shangbal Banking Corporation....
The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Deposit & Interest
..Cash Account
"Freights due 30th June, 1890... Sundry Accounts Receivable...
"
Value of coals in godowasing Value of 1 capstan and I shaft in hand........
Liabilities.
Capital Account :-
14,000 shares at $50 per share. Underwriting Account of the Co
Fund » Reserve
30th June 1888 ...$ 208,580.73 »Amount written off Profit and Loss Account on 30th June, 1889 ********
Shortly after eleven o'clock this morning a It has an existence, and so we must brace up our hastily pencilled note was received by Miss Eva nerves, devote a week's study to Pack's Bad Saunders, at her residence, 44 Gage Street, Boy and the Detroit Free Press and put up from Apcar Gabriel Apcar, share-broker, in which with it, However, Mr. Frank Lincoln who, he told her to "clear out at once, as he had According to dear old Gladstone, compritshot himself on account of some troubles with laughter and the People's William's risible his "d-d landlord.” Almost at the same time A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, faculties are not easily set in motion-is not the the servants at Apear's residence the first floor No. 1165, E.C., will be held in Freemasons ordinary Yankee droll, he is more than of No. a Shelley. Street-heard the report of
Mr. a revolver, and on entering the room found By Hall Zetland Street, this evening, at 8,30 for mere successor to Artemus Ward
bost him lying by the side of his desk, bleeding a polyglot performer, o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially Lincoln is
from a small bole in the right temple. The Invited
in himself, at accomplished musician and H.MS. Rambler was under orders to leave actor, the prince of living mimics, and be pro- police warp hastily communicated with, and Shanghai last Saturday to finish her surveying vides two hours' wholesome and refined enter prompt assistance warrendered in the meantime who happened to be in the vicinity. Apcar was in the vicinity of the Chusan Islands. She will tainment that will do his audience more good by a military surgeon (Dr. Burroughes, we believe) then come on to Hongkong to "pay off" and be than a three months' sojourn at the Peak, with
quite unconscious, the small bullet having, un all the drugs in the pharmacopoels thrown in, re-commissioned,
We haven't seen Thursday's bill of fare-it was afterwards found, passed nearly through his "ABSALOM, is that you?" called out Mrs. Rambo ought to have been widely circulated ere this head, Drs. Cantlie and Hartigas arrived a little from the head of the stairway, "Yeah,m'dear," so cannot deal in detail with a programme while later, and, after the throng of spectators came from the ball below where Ms Kambo that is certain to be attractive, but we can say had been cleared away by Detective Inspector was endeavouring with great earnestness to that Mr. Lincoln's reputation stands high in Quincey and Detective Hadden, they wem able grasp the stairpost as it flew past him in one of England, and that he has just concluded a most to extract the ball, and send Apcar to the Govern A bewildering revolutions. Icah mel" "And successful season, extending over eighteen ment Civil Hospital, where he died at 4-30 thin
old story you are drunk again! O Absalom!" "No months, In the Australasian Colonies. Those afternoon. wrong me, Nanshy, he mumbled, much hurt at of our readers who enjoy a thoroughly good the cruel auspicion, "It's nothin' in th' worl' m' eventog genuine fuo, should not fall to book dear, but nervosle proshtration! I'm a lil bit seats for Mr. Lincoln's debut on Thursday mormore nervosa i bit worse pr-pr Kelly and Walsh, Limited, have a plan of the “prosh-trated’a vonal Thassai, Nanghy
-Thanire,
Needless to say, it is the old, old story. Apcar, who had been a resident of Hongkong for some half-dozen years, was a very lucky speculator in the reign of lunacy which held this colony so wompletely in jhráli some twe yamn ago, thas ↑
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The most recent fastance of paragraphy of this sort which has chanced to fall under our notice, we clip from the Journal which claims the largest circulation in the United States, amounting, f we recollect aright, to more than 400,000 coples a week. The subscribers to so widely circulated a periodical ought to get the very best, and as a rule they do so, as witness the following:
CHINESE REPARTIES..
With a horrible crawling sensation all over me I.quitted this bakery (save the mark) and after lighting a fresh "weed" wended my way down several dark bye-ways which were reeking with 6lth that emitted most unwholesome gases, until Upper Lascar Row was reached, where four very similar bread and bun making 'manufactories were inspected. Here again the scenes were most revoling; cockroaches, rats, fleas, filth of every description close by the dough troughs and ovens, filth, recking filth, wherever you changed to look, with the strong smell of sour yeast and decomposed slops, continually entering one's nostrile until, almost fainting, A traveller who hit penetrated into the interior was glad to back out into the street to get a of China relates, that, among the learned and gasp of fresh (7) air,
Determined to go.the whole bog cultivated classes of the region be visited, it is bog," I next, at considered beneath the dignity of any person of some risk to life and limb, got down into Lower quality to make a jest, to invent a repartee, or tö 154,979.86 Lascar Row where other, bakeries of a similar originate any sort of pleasantry whatever.
Inasmuch, however, as it would be rather dull, 5.149.08 type were visited, the condition of which can when people are la company, if pleasantries and 83,124.24 better be imagined thas described 39 553 56 There was just one redeeming feature in these bright sayings were dispensed with altogether, 7,998,10 bakeries and it was this, that although they made it is the custom for each Chinese gentleman to two qualities of bread the flour was not of Chinese, carry in his pocket a wrliten collection of jokes 1080.44 but San Francisco manufacture. The best of flour and happy quotations, which he has either copied however, if made up" under such conditions, out of his books with his own, hand, or, what is $1,445,120.55 | cannot be very first class food for Europeans, more common, purchased at a book-seller's on and it struck mees strange, indeed, that bakeries bis way to the party be de so situated should be able to find a good market was for their products. This conundrum explained by the fact that general storekeepers and provision dealers buy their bread from these dens, and sell it to "house boys and other domestics of Europeans who, in their turn, charge "master" full price for it, thus making about two cents profit on each loaf consumed by For instance, the company are going to a
$1,000,000.00 26,173.41
72,434 50
281,015.23 24,384-27
1,760.48
Sundry Accounts Payable Profit and Loss. Account sath Jun- 1889 brought fore ward
Balance 30th June * 1890
114447.64
$1,440,120.55
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The witticisms in these collections are come veniently classified and indexed, and the Chinese gentleman, when the occasion arises in company for saying something remarkable, has only to take out ble little book, select the proper observation, and, Indicating it with his
Enger pass it to his neighbour.
the family. The system in vogue of trusting magnificent dinner of bird's nests garnished with, Implicitly to one's "boy", to supply the tables rice, fricassee of rats à la Kubla Khan, and so a pernicious one, and this visit to these Chinese forth. A stout mandarin, who takes precedence bakeries has confirmed me, and my readers too of a stout poel literary men rank second only I hope In that opinion. The boy will buy to mandarins in China--gravely shows the part, is the cheapest markain, and agreganda bocadi na he paries in front of him, this felicious extras.. the cheapest is the Chinese general storekeeper, from kis note-book of familiar quotations from whom he can get a commission on all he boys as well as pront by charging his master Europeas bakery prices; whence he assures him bir bread always comes note, who lat
The Health Officer in Bingapore, who lately went in the question, gires the following, mandarin for
Abard passed by more fat than bard bercoms,
The poet smiles deferentially then he takes oat. his own dole-book; opens it, and putting" his finger on a line, shows it to the stom