operations of the Syndicate in opening up the Jungle country. Two'places are being worked but there is more ground at present being opened in the original opening, (the Raub hole,) but eventually, Mr. Bibby thinks, that the new Westerly lode will be the principal, because now it is looking very lavourably, and it is being followed up, and no they are gradually traversing downwards, its stone should improve in rich ness. In this new lode they have struck the actual reel, which gives promise of big /return. The Raub hole is not a lode, but is a formation of a lot of very rich leaders. The water proves very troublesome, but owing to the peculiar formation of the place cannot be avoided, but must be met with powerful pumps. In driving the main cross-cut in the Raub hole, they are getting a lot of water into the mine independent of the floods, and Mr. Bibby thinks they are opening a new tract of country, but when they got the country properly explored, it will then be known where to follow up Speaking as to the transport of gold to Singapore, Mr. Bibby said it would be just as convenient to take the route via Kuala Lumpor as go down to Kuala Pahang. The Resident has kindly offered a Sikh escort whenever required. Mr. Bibby has an impression that the Pahang Govern- ment would do much better by giving greater attention to river transport than so much to the proposed railway schemes. Small draft steamers with a high rate of speed are all that are neces- anty to place Pekan, Pahang, and all its neigh- bouring dependencies in communication with the outside world. In conclusion, Mr. Bibby said his opinion'af Raub is how very much more favourable than before; the prospects of Raub ure better now than they ever were before. Eventually, he believes that Raub will be a very extensive place, but of course very much depends on the way it is worked, and if they go and rush and "fool" the money away, the end may be anticipated; "but that will not be while I am there," said Mr. Bibby,
AN EXPERIENCE ON THE CHINA COAST.
PERILS OF THE EMIGRATION TRAFFIC,
About a decade ago I was third officer of the steamer Hoskyns, and I'll take my departure bearings for this yarn from Foochow, where we were lying for the off-chance of a tea cargo. We had been five weeks at an anchor off the Fageda Hill, and had seen vessel after vessel chartered at ever decreasing rates as the season advanced, loaded and clear, while never an offer was made. for us. News of this was wired home, and one fine atorning we were told that we had been chartered to run for a large Chinese firm in the emigrant trade.
The old Hoskyns was as clean as a new pin, her trucks were two glistening balls of gold scintillating in the sun, her to-gallant, topsail and fore yards shining with goed black paint, topmasts and to'-gallant mast nicely varnished, and her lower masts and blocks all neatly painted with what we call "fmast colour "a sort of drab), and all the delicate tracery of her standing and running rigging taut and even against the back-ground of the sky. She was as neat and clean as a church on deck, and below no one ever saw a 'tween-deckso showy.
In anticipation of a teá cargo we had laid in stone ballast, stowed as only Chinese stevedores can slow it, all along the lower holds; in the tween decks themselves we had painted the hatch combings chocolate, the skin of the ship a delicate maiden's blush, as the mate poetically put it, and the stringers were a dark blue which was very effective, and the light steel deck was chunammed fore and aft. In fact,, never was a cleaner ship put to a dirtier trade, as anyone who has ever carried Chinese emigrants will assure you it is,
We were ordered first to Amoy, and were there some little time, and thence steamed down to Swatow, where we moored ebb and flood off the Emigrant Depot. Some of the ship's company' nearly lost the numbers of their mess here one afternoon. It was just at the turn of the ebb that some seven or eight of us went in for a swim.
Quite suddenly the out-going tide gathered sirength, and there was a simultaneous awaking to that fact, and some funk there- at. All struck out together for the side ladder, and of course neatly drowned one another in their effort to climb up. I sang out to the men to let the boys up first, and hailed the deck for the ears of some lines, which were quickly chucked to us and in a very few minutes we 'were all standing breathless on deck.
After two or three days, during which a Doctor -an Irishman, more power to him and several Chinese bigwigs examined the ship to their own and our skipper's mutual satisfaction, our orders were received to take in the emigrants. We had gangway ladders shipped fore and aft on the starboard side, and shortly after 4 p.m. the passengers were seen coming off to us in huge sampans. We counted them in on each gangway, men, women and children, and after about an hour's struggle were able to draw breath, as they were all aboard, yfo souls all told. After certain amenities had passed between us on the one side and the Doctor and the Chinese bigwige on the other, and the receipts, etc., were signed, all for the shore left; and after a few preliminary snorts and gasps our windlass com- menced to unmoor us and then heave up our kellocks for us, and in 20 minutes we were slowly steaming out of the harbour.
It was shortly after 7 p.m. when we left Swatow; so alter making over the watch to the mate hurried aft to get my dinner over, and then a
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hatches tarpaulined and battened down, and the only man to be seen, the old carpenter in his oilskins dripping with sea water and his long grey beard recking like a wet swab, as the wind blowing it over his shoulders carried the salty drops into my face.
I shut the door as down w nt her bows again into the sousie, and quickly dressing myself ( got out on deck, to lend a hand where necessary. suppose that down below in the fore 'tween deck, the Chinese must have been frightened out of their acuat apathy; for soon after I got on deck we heard a steady thumping under the fore hatch, and before the carpenter and I and some hands could skate away formed, up went one corner of a hatch, and like bees from a hive the poor scared Chinamen poured an deck. A big green sen swept over the fo'cistle head at the same time and came pouring over us, sweeping the long tailed Johns aft, into the two alley-ways under the bridge, and knocking not a few of them down below again. But fortunately none of them went overboard.
As quick and as well as we could we got the hatch on again, tarpaulined and well battened down, with the cleat wedges driven in taut, To prevent such a thing happening again forlard, the old man told me to roll one corner of the main batch tarpaulin off on the after combing, so as to leave a few square feet free for ingress and egress, and to make all safe as possible. Whether he was right or wrong in doing this I won't offer any opinion, but the immediate consequence was that semies of Chinamen were soon crowding every pince of shelter on deck, such as round our cabin doors, under the bridge deck, and aft along the engine room deck house and fidicy, all as tea-sick as mortal men could be. I was glad when eight bells went, and I was able to get out of it a bit by having to take the bridge.
We were in a succa trphoon, the skipper told me, and standing on the upper bridge with my eyes to wind'ard, I can assure you I was afraid to open my mouth for fear I should never shut it again. I had never seen wind blow like it before. You could not breathe without turning leeward to do it, and as for speaking, even under the weather cloth we could scarcely hear each other's voice.
The wind had shifted into the nor'ard and east'ard clear of the land, and had raised a very heavy sea, and we were going about quarter speed, heading always about a paint to the east'ard of the seas, and were thus able to stand it better, and to keep us from flooding the decks fore and aft, as making our course, which was to the south'ard, and therefore running before it was out of the question with that sea on. During my watch the wind shifted somewhat, and after noon lessened in force a little, and towards 4 o'clock went into the east'ard. It had been nearly dry all day, with occasionally a little rain and two heavy bail squalls.
In the second dog-watch it blew up again as hard at ever from the south'ard and castard. with drenching heavy rain and lightning every raseconds or so. The old man ordered "stations," which is synonymous with "quarters" aboard a man-o-war, and made up his mind to run for shelter under the lee of a small island off Hong. kong named Junk Island, as we were drifting close in shore then, which was dead to leeward
of us.
they would to us, and as the police launch was waiting, our dear old chief led the way, and,. shouldering a dead Chinaman reeking with cholera, carried him down the gangway ladder, and I and two or three of the men, British sea- men, followed with the remaining three or four dead bodies. The launch took the cutter fa tow, and off she went with her dreary load,
Many mare Chinamen now contracted the disense. On deck and in the 'tween-leck the supercargo and I went round regularly, giving medicine, etc., but we seemed to do no good. Once they felt they had it, they simply lay down wherever the could find a corner to crawl into Round the deck, under the bridge, everywhere, in fict, where a man could lie, as he thought, ndisturbed, were to be seen men dead or dying
of cholera.
Then, to make matters worse, some half crazy lunatic started the idea that the ship was cursed. and that we were going to take them to the Spanish Islands as slaves. Those who were well went scowling round the decks, lncking at us with menacing gestures, or gathered in groups. seemed to be concocting some crime or other.
Our old skipper, who was a choleric old chap,. then got all Hands aft, carrying the carpenter's tool chest and the cook's irons with them. We blockaded the two alley ways round the after deckhouse breast high with casks. mattresses, etc., served out rifles, ammunition, cutlasses, etc., all round, and kept three men on sentry go, one in either alley way, and one on the break of the pop,
NEWCHWANG.
horse-dealer who, outside his trade, knew nothing. No modern men of culture would pre tend, in mere perfectness of form, to rival the (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.).
old Greck athletes, who intellectually were pro- NEWCHWANG, September 10th.
bably animals, or the Berserkars, who were for The August rains have passed without much the most part only hard-drinking soldiers. The damage, and the new beans will probably be royal caste, which has been coltivated for 1,050 on the market, by the end of the month.
years, seldom produces beautiful men, and still This year's harvest is estimated to yield of seldomer beautiful women; most princesses, siac-mi a full crop, Kaoliang, seven-tenths; though sometimes dignified, having been beans, six-tenths ptobacco and indigo, onetenth marked, as to features, by a certain ordinariness Of last year's beans to-fifths are still unsold. aften, wanting in the poor, and especially the Prices of beans and cakes are weak.
poor of certain districts, like Devan in England, Freights.We anticipate a good deinand for and Arles and Marseilles in France. Devon is no the south from roth Uctober to the end of the better taught than Suffolk, but mark the differ season, and is likely that tonnage will be wanted ance in peasant forms. In the last century, the to carry millet to Tientsin. Shipping in portablest men in Europe were remarkable for a certain Hoihow, Triumph Doris Yannan, Cilo, superfluity of flesh, of which Gibbon's face is the Sebastian Bach, Anna Bertha Basuto. best known and most absurd example; and in Waratah Maru is chartered at 15 cents, to Hongkong.
Arrivals to date are 200 steamers and 40 ships, against 123 and 20 last year -Mercury
PEKING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT),
12th September, 1890.
I arrived here to-day from Tientsis after a journey that gave me an opportunity of seeing
the recent floods. The country between Tientsin what fearful devastation had been caused by and Ma Tao, a distance of 160 i, is still.com-
To-day's Advertisements.
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N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above ALORE will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 27th instant, at 8 for 8.39 o'clock precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited, Hangkong, 27th September, 1890.
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STEAM TO MANILA, VIA AMOY.
"NANZING,"
Captain Galsworthy, will be despatched as above, on MONDAY, the 29th inst., at 3P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
our own time, intellect, even hereditary intellect, THE Steamship is constantly found dissociated from good looks, and even from distinction, some of the ablest men being externally heavy and grass, and some of the ablest women marked by an indefiniteness of cheek and chin as if they had been carved by the fingers in putty. No stranger ever saw Tennyson without turning round, but Browning would have passed unnoticed in any English or Austriant crowd. The air of physical refinement, which is what continuous culture should give, is precisely the air which is often lacking among the cultivated, as it is also in many aristocratic or less hereditary culture, it is doubtful if it families. Indeed, though caste must mean more secures beauty. It does not in the royal houses,
Then we ran the Jack up to the main tolealpletely flooded, and the tops of the trees and and in any regiment, though an officer or two
lant mast head, and the Police launch steamed off to us, and on our telling them the news, five police cuiters were towed off and a patrol was kept up round the vessel all night.
The supercargo and his three or four mates were inside the barricare, and our old man nearly brought matters to a crisis during an altercation the supercargo and a very mutinous and excitable Chinaman who was gesticulating and apparently using fercible and not very polite language. The skipper climbed over the barricade, and with a wild rush. scattering å group of chattering on-lookers, he fairly chucked the malcontent back to us inside, and was over again in a jiffy. Before we could stop him he had whipped the Chinaman's pigtail over the shearpole of the main rigging and have the astonished Johnnie fairly off his feet, amid his pitiful vells for mercy and the frantic howls of his friends for'ard of the barricade.
all
water have a peculiarly, forlorn and desolate appearance. From Ma Tao to Péking, a distance of 8a, the prospect is something
have more. cheerful, for the waters. subsided, and the signs of life and husbandry are returning to the fields; carts are passing freely back and forward along the roads, and the people are. setting to work to repair Between the ruin caused by the inundation. Ma Tao and Tientsin I counted 18 breaches in in the banks of the Peiho River, four of which are very large, measuring from 300 to 400 feet in length, longer in fact than the breadth of the river itself, and very deep.
To-day His Ex. Sir John Walsham received an acknowledgement from the Tsung-1 Yamba for the gold clock presented by her Majesty the Queen, through bira, to the Emperor. The present, which is valued at £1,500, was accom- panied by a despatch from her Majesty, con- gratulating the ruler of China on the attainment of his 20th birthday, and wishing him a prospereus reign.
The supercargo interpreted to us that they all expected we would cut his head off at once, as such summary justice is de rigeur
5.1.H. Prince un has now quite recovere! in China. But when they saw that we did not do that, but slacked the man down again tile his recent illness and is again able to his feet touched the deck, they seemed appeased perform his multifarious duties.
The French Admiral left here on Tuesday and ready to acknowledge the justice of the
with his suite for Tientsin.—Aercury. punishment. At any rate quietness with the gathering gloom of night seemed to fall on them all, and they cleared off for ard..
All through that night the three sentries were kept on duty, being relieved every two hours, and one of us officers was always up with them. When we all entrenched ourselves aft, one quartermaster who appeared it was left locked up in my cabin, stretched out on a settee, and since about five in the afternoon none of us had seen him. My watch that night fell by lot from three on in the morning, and after taking a turn mound the poop and alley ways to see all right, I master. We agreed that we should find out how he was, but all thought it unsafe to go along the crowded 'main-deck, in case we should be set upon, as without waking up some one else, only one of us could be spared to go.
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splendid men will be found greater among the non-commissioned than the commissioned officers. Why not? Just as no man can by extent of culture, even if continued 'for genera taking thought add a cubit to his stature, so no tions, can make straight hair wave, or reduco high cheekbones, or cut sway a hanging lower lip, or refine that most frequent of drawbacks, a cheek without contour. We might as well say: that it would nier colour, which, as far as evidence can prove, is independent of everything, whether mental or physical in influence, except possibly and that as yet is only a guess-of ages of hereditary starvation. It is not, perhaps, to the injury of the world that the effects of culture should be thus limited. We rather dread the spirit of caste as an operating force, believing that it tends to a segregating exclusiveness, and already we see that the world is dividing itself into two classes-those who speak with the trained voice and those who do not-the members of which instantly recognise each other, even in the dark, and have very little in common. If the cultured were likewise the beautiful, and the uncul- tivated the ugly, the Qajen would indeed be raling two nations more widely apart than, were ever the rich and the poor in Mr. Besant's novels. Already mèsalliances are growing, fewer, and it is considered as monstrous for the educated to marry the ignorant as ever it was for nobles to marry plebeians. The separating influences from which the world is never free are strongly at work again, and new Brahmins are looking down on new Pariahs with a contempt which is only externally gentic. That spirit needs no remember occasionally that science can no more intensification, and it is not a bad thing to make a Circassian than a one-legged race, and that the physical attributes, like the grace of God, are independent of thinking. If they were
knew the coast well; none better. We could spoke to one of the sentries about this quarter- novelists, are apt to make intelligence and good hot, we should some day have a race of heroes
I shall never forget standing by the indicators, near the old man, as we ran that night. He
not see literally our hands, before us. It was dark a Erebus. The rain fell like a shower bath about us, and I verily believe, though the old man kept giving a course to steer by from time to time as we made our way in, that it was the vivid lightning showing us the rocks around us, and the passage between them, by which we were brought safely into the anchorage. Few Captains would have dared it, even knowing the passage as our old man did. We had a roaring typhoon behind us, huge cross scas rolling after us, and nothing but black dark ness ahead to make the knowledge of many rocks around have double terrar for us from the momentary gleams we got of them in the life of each flash of lightning. But all's well that ends well, we anchored in safety under the lee of the island, in water like a mill pond, and by mid, night there was not a breath of wind stirring. The sky was clear and bright with stars, and all was calm and quiet as the hush of a mighty desert.
Next morning was fit for a painter's dream, Everything ashore looked bright and fresh after the rain, and the scent of the trees was as sweet as an English May.
We turned all hands up early, weighed and steamed into Hongkong harbour. There we❘ saw that the recent blow had evidently been felt somewhat, as sampans were lying about bottom upwards and broken, on the long stretch of embanked roadway facing the bay. Some vessels bad dragged their moorings; a few of the go. downs towards the Chinese quarter of the town had lost their corrugated iron roof; and ashore. we heard that the water had poured down the sides of the hill like cataracts, flooding the streets for a time.
By instinct the bumboatmen seemed to know we had Chinese passengers aboard, as shortly after the kellock had emelt the bottom we were surrounded four and five, deep with them, selling smelling dainties that only a beathen Chinees, as Jack calls him, could eat, and also milk, frult, and vegetables galore.
An enormous trade was done, whether the bumboatmen were honestly paid or not I cannot say. but they never ceased offering their wares, each man extolling his own with stricks of expletive, as he saw another apparently more prosperous,
I remembered, however, that the mainstay led down close to the skylight over my cabin under the bridge, and that I could open this skylight from the outside: o telling the sentries to keep an eye on me, I went up the main rigging, and slid down the stay safely on to the bridge deck, and then in two minutes had opened the skylight
and was in my own cabin.
There I found the quartermaster stretched out asleep on the settee, looking quite well, with a warm perspiration on his face. I awoke him and he said he was as right as ninepence and would come aft with me. I gently opened the cahin door and looked out. Everything was quiet. Close to the door were two: dend China. men, three or four yards off, abaft the bake- house, was another, and behind my cabin were three mare; six in all within a radius of four yards from the door. Placing a spare revolver I had brought with me in the quartermaster's hand, we stepped out, locked the door behind us and without any molestating quietly walked aftanjustly, as we think-to be his own missing link) and were over the barricade in a brace of shakes.
Next morning the Chinamen came aft, look gas penitent and miserable as possible, and begged us to have the dead removed. The supercargo assured us that there was now no more fear, so we let go the Johnnie who had been, tied up by the pigtail all night, and he seemed deeply grateful that his life had been spared.
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indeed, stalking among lesser men, as Kingsley depicts his Goths stalking among the far more quick-witted and better cultivated Alexandrians. An entire race like Alexander the Great, the man in whom, of all mankind, brain-power and physique were united in their highest perfectness, would soon be more intolerable than the "Venetian" aristocracy whom Mr. Disraeli derided, denounced, and worshipped,~Spectator.
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To-day's Advertisements.
STEAM TO STRAITS AND BOMBAY, Calling at Colombo if sufficient inducement offers. THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
"TEHERAN,"
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Men who dislike female education-and they exis, though the class is rapidly diminishing when they grow spiteful always assert that it is only the ugly women who learn hard, and that the most acessful among them would exchange all their triumphs in the schools for the gift of beauty, Novelists, on the other hand, who are supposed to be observers, and especially female looks, especially in men, supplements, and even in many cases causes, of each other. Miss Eronte created a passing admiration for intelligent ugliness; but her successors have reverted, and their heroes, military or clerical, are as remark
ble for their clear-cut features as for the incisive and original thoughts of which we hear. There is absolutely, so far as we knew, no sufficient ground for either nasumption, and certainly neither can be justified by a priori reasoning. Boys and girls alike study, for the most part either because they wish to succeed in life, that is, to earn independent incomes, or because they have the instinct of students and never think of their own looks in connection with the matter. Some women thay, a little later on-the inborn desire to attract inferiority of one kind by superiority of another," acting as a spur, and urging them to remedy as it also urged that unusually ugly person, John Wilkes ; but they begin their course before personal vanity has any decided power. As
atter of fact, in both sexes successful students have been occasionally noted for unu ual physical beauty (inke Crichtonand Lady Mary Montagu), and for exceptional absence of form (take Socrates and the philosopher who was said-
The truth we take to be that the modern world almost unconsciously confounds expression with beauty, and fancies that Because intelligence in most cases produces expressiveness-there are marked exceptions therefore, there must be some intimate relation between beauty and intelligence, or even a much more remarkable arror, the passession of knowledge. There is, however, no such law, and no reason why there should be, the power of the brain, The Police launch came off to as soon after and the shape of the bores and flesh, being Captain C. D. Sams, will leave for the above daylight, and told us that the Quarantine almost entirely disconnected. Beauty is a places, at NOON, on SATURDAY, the 4th Hospital. was ready and the Assistant Surgeon result of race, of circumstances, such as personal October. in attendance, and that we had better send off freedom and mode of life, and of continuous the sick at once. Well, we got two more boats dier, not of intelligence, and still Icas of into the water and (ourselves, as not a China- the acquisition of knowledge, which latter can man would assist us) put some 33 or 34 more only benefit the individual, whose features are dead bodies into them, with the supercargo's fixed past serious change before study is even mates to act as "Committers to the Deep," and commenced. A man or a woman inherits his or we drew a breath of relief as the Police launch ber face, and mental habitude, though it may steamed off with them, with a firebar slung to greatly affect its meaning, can no more alter its each to sink them.
shape than assiduous training can turn a smooth fox terrier into the wity kind Airedale, It may even be doubted, strange as many will deem the assertion, whether continuous education will them to the hospital, After this was done we landed produce beauty, whether the growth of intel- on deck, and with a steam pump and a long result which we notice the authors of Utopias bose thoroughly washed the ship down fore and always assume, as if it were a scientifically aft, main and 'tween decks; and then, when we demonstrable consequence of the new society, decks with damp straw, brown paper, and, best in Nyassaland, on whose looks even missionaries could not get her cleaner, fumigated the 'tween The most beautiful black race in Africa, a tribe
grow eloquent, and who are really a of all, buckets of coal tar were placed all ever, relays of men arriving with red hat fron to plunge- perfect as bronze statues, are as ignorant as in and cause the bealthy fames to permeate the fishes, and though they have discovered atmosphere all round. We also painted her the ate of fire, bave never risen to the concep tween decks with diluted carbolls seld, and in tion of clothes of any kind. The Otabeltan, fact did all we could to stay the plague, and, when discovered, was as pacultured at the thank God, succeeded, as not another seizure Papuan now is; yet the former approached as occurred. Of those that went to hospital only one nearly to positive beauty as the latter does to recovered, and the surgeon told me that if they positive deformity. The keenest race in Asia, ZETLAND ence contracted the disease, they were so weak and, as all who know them assert, the strongest from long travel to the emigrant depots that in character, the Chinese, la decidedly the ugliest it was almost impossible for them to pull through. of semi-civilised mankind while the Hindoo, if That night all was peaceful and quiet; there sufficiently fed, is, even when as ignorant RE an gratulated ourselves that our troubles this trip Circassians, who know nothing, and are rather were probably over. I fancy, it was the immense stupid than exceptionally intelligent, are phys! SONS HALL, Zetland Street, on WEDNESDAY, quantity of green fruit consumed, on stomachs cally a faultless race, far more 10 than the the 1st October, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely. thoroughly emptied by sea-sickness, and that Germans, who though the best trained people Visiting Brethren are cordially invited,
(1357 when a certain time had elapsed and the cause in the world, display a marked commonness of Hongkong, 27th September, 1890..
removed, no more seizures occurred. feature, as if the great sculptor Nature had used Fumigation we kept up day and night until-our- good clay, but taken no trouble about the model. arrival at Singapore, where, after one day's ag. Some of the very ablest among them quarantine, we received pratique, and landed the belong to the fat-nosed, paffy-cheeked, loose ST. JOHN
of the emigrants, less three old oplum-lipped variety. The keenest race in the world, and eaters only, who had died on the passage down; probably the one most susceptible of culture, the mere living skeletons, And I can assure you presents few types of beauty, being usually that every man aboard thanked God that the stance hook-noted and Babby-cheeked, though In physique, as in thought, that race occasionally throws out transcendent examples. The tamed Well, there is my
Then we put the 18 or 19 sick into another boat (and here the Chinamen did help us), and a police cutter towed us ashore and we removed
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agents.
(1351 Hongkong, 27th September, 1890.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW,, AMOY & TAMSUI,
THE Company's Steamship
"HAILOONG," Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 30th instant, at NOON.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co,
General Managers. Hongkong, 27th September, 1890. [1353
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG, AND SINGAPORE.
ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
JAPAN" are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at their risk into the Hongkong and Kow- loon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at West Point, whence delivery may be obtained, Carge remaining undelivered after the 4th prox., will be subject to rent, ance has been effected.
Consignees are also hereby informed, that all claims must he made before the departure of the steamer, otherwise they will not be entertained.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
No Fire Insur
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 27th September, 1890. [1352
THE IMURIS MINES, LIMITED.
THE FINAL CALL of Five Shillings per her, 1890, and Shareholders are requested to pay the same to the Undersigned by Bank demand draft on London in favour of ourselves, on or before that date.
Share will be closed on the 1st Novem-
All Calls unpaid on the 1st November, will be liable to interest at the rate of eight per cent.
per Annum.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agents.
[1350 Hongkong, 27th September, 1890.
SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE DES CHARBON.
NAGES DU TONKIN.
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME, with a capital of France 4,000,070,
Issue of 6,000 Debentures of One Hundred Dollars (Halphong currency), each bearing interest at the rate of $8 (Haiphong currency) per cent, per annum,
Applications are invited for $250,000 (Haiphong currency) in 2,500 Debentures of Ona Hundred Dollars (Haiphong currency) each. THE Debentures are payable on the gath
September, 1896, or on such earlier day as the principal monies thereby secared shall become payable in accordance with the conditions endorsed thereon. A form of the
Debenture can be seen at the Head Office in Hongay and at the Branch Office of the Company at Hongkong.
E. L. WOODIN,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 27th September, 1890. [1355 The Debentures form part of the above lesze of 6,000 Debentures, and will be issued at par for UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF
sums of $100 (Haiphong currency) each, and CANTON, LIMITED.
will carry interest from the 30th September, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
1850, at the rate of $8 (Haiphong currency) per Ninth Ordinary Yearly MEETING of
OTICR is hereby given that the Seven- cent per annum, payable half yearly on the 31st the SHAREHOLDERS of the Society will be March and the 30th September in each year at the 13th October next, at Noon, for the purpose
Theis very great sickness the long day previous smoke, as it was my first watch, that is from Baturally encouraged the emigrants to eat anumberofthose that were well, got the remainder ligence will even in ages yield the physical held at its Head Office, Hongkong, on MONDAY the Head Office in Hongay or at the Branch
o'clock to midnight.
At eight hells I relleved the mate. He told plenty, now that they were riding so peacefully at anchor, and doubtless much balf-ripe or rotten Guit and bad milk were consumed.
me the passengers were all below, to keep a good lookout, gave me the course, and made off for his cabin. The night was bright and clear then, sea smooth, and a crisp breeze, blowing, just enough to let us all know we were alive, and to keep the cobwebs out of the to gallant sheave-hole. The skipper wat keeping the deck with me, and it struck me he seemed uneasy and suspicious, at what I couldn't make out. How ever, a little before four bells he sldled over my way, and told me to keep a sharp eye all round, that the glass was falling more than he liked, and to call bim If the breeze freshened at all and at any rate to be certain to turn him out at eight bells.
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officer wakened fac, and told me that one of the The following morning very early the chief, quartermasters was very ill with cholera, and to go ashore at once and fetch off the doctor.
I hadn't the least idea where to go, so after same time knocking about, during which I got wet through as it was pouring rain again, I roused some European at a big chemist's, and be very kindly sent off for the doctor for me; so I returned aboard.
There I found that the poor quartermaster was dying, and that several Chinese were daw with the fell disease. The doctor came off shortly Before six bells the wind did begin to freshen, after in a steam launch, ordered us to fly the though not in squalls, but with a regular, ever- quarantine flag and steam over to and anchor. off Stone Cutter's Island, the quarantine ground, Increasing strength, and by seven bells, it was blowing a fresh to' gallant breeze. I turned the where there was a hospital, and that an assistant old man out, and we found the glass still falling. surgeon would be sent over shortly... He told me he did not at all like it, especially After we had anchored at the Quarantine as from the weather. quarter the heavens wete Station, we laid the quartermaster's bedy on the being all clouded over with a dense blackness bridge, covered with the old Union Jack. Poor that seemed to bode nogood. Aloft the sky was fellow he was quite young, a good steady still clear and studded with stars, and the sea seaman, and the son of a boatswain of a we was only just rippled at the breeze was from of known old London ship. Early in the aftemonn At I was relieved by the a police launch steamed up abreast, keeping second officer, and tired and sleepy, I rolled into 15 or so fathoms away from the ship, and hail
Ing us, told us to put whatever dead we had into my bunk and dropped off to sleep.
As we kept three watches my next furn on deck one of our boats, when they would tow us only was at 8 AM, but I woke up somewhere about and we could bay them. We carried the
of receiving the Report of the Directors together Office of the Company at Hongkong, upor with Statements of accounts for the year 1889 presentation of coupons annexed to the Deben- and for the half year ending 30th June, 1890, res .. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from the 4th to 13th October, both days inclusive.
By order of the Board,
N. J. EDF,
Hongkong, ayth September, 1890.
Secretary.
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No. $35.
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was no more cholera aboard; and we con. Animal, almost invariably handsome, The named Lodge will be held in the FRIZMA
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6 o'clock, with the ship tumbling about; and the quartermaster's body reverently into the cutter trip was oVGUARU LI. and I can assure you §. Arabs of Egypt, who seem to posseis póor brains
roar of water rushing down the alley.ways beside | and then told some Chinamen to carry their
own dead down, but they relased point blank. I have told you, nothing but the truth from my cabin door. I got up and looked out, and I saw away for'ard the toʻgallant fo'castle lifted Our supercargo, a very gentleman's Calea beginning to end. Oh I all right, thanks, I do and, of course, have no education, are often high in the air as she rose to a ses, with the water man in vain ordered them, but not a bit of feel little dry certainly here's luck To pouring off it in cataracts, the fore and main head would, they pay to bim any more than ❘ CHERTLER
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OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C
Amed Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS NEMERGENCY MEETING of the above- HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY NEXT, Villag Brethren are cordially invited." the 30th instant, at 8.30 for 9 PM. preclely
Hongkong, syib September, 1895,
The property of the Company has been con veyed to the Hon. CATCHICK PAUL CHATER 21 a Trustee for securing the payment of the principal monies and interest payable in respect of the Debentures,
The equivalent of $100 (Haiphong currency) must be paid for each Debenture on allotment.
Failure to pay the sum due on allotment wil render the allotment liable to cancellation.
Forms of Applications may be obtained at the Branch Office of the Company at Hongkong,
Applications will CLOSE at NOON, on TUESDAY, the 30th September, 1890, By Order of the Board of Directors,
CARL GEORG,
Secretary, Hongkong, 27th September, 1890.
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