Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMITED.
DISPENSING CHEMISTS.
SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS.
STRINGENTS, DIARRHŒA & CHOLERA
REMEDIES, &C.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1890.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Foochow Ecke reports unother rise in the price of rice, which is now dearer by some eighty cents a picul.
THERE was a 'fair "house" at the Theatre last night, when Miss Plzi1ted's Company gave A very miscellaneous concert.
THE Amoy "sports", have subscribed for 14 griffins this season, and racing in Amoy promises to be very good at the next meeting.
We learn that the steamer Tongrkan, 19 days
out from Bangkok, put into Touron after the gale a fortnight ago, and "left a day or two ago for here. As she would encounter the recent "blow" she is supposed to have gone to Heihow to re-coal, which, as all the fuel there has been exhausted, means considerable delay.
questions.~~There being none, be proposed their adoption.
Mr. Dick seconded, and the motion was agreed
Plaintiff was then called, and stated that he was secretary to the Masonic Club. In 1888 be bought Inland Lot 441 at Kowloon, and in November of that year commenced building to." operations, engaging Mr. Hancock as architect, He promised to build the house economically, and only charge five per cent on the contract, instead of the usual seven per cent which other architects charged. Witness had
Mr. Coughtrio proposed the confirmation of Mezama. Sassoon and Gillies as members of the Consulting Committee, and their re-election, together with Messrs. "Dalrymple, Davies, and
I veteran of the sea, Captain'T. A. Christensen. and $12,000 at the time out of the.
Dlanged experience of this spidemie in Informs us that the Company este sin THx steamer Gass, from Shanghal, in crossing in his seventieth year. Fifty-three and a half build a terrace, of which in gave lines should
AKIN'S CHOLERA ELIXIR.—A pro
India, its home 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 directions accompany each bottle. Fer bottle, $1.50 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's Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spasmodic. This reliable remedy has long been used throughout the East as a stand-by in
THE Superintendent of the P. & O."S. N. Co."
left. Singapore for this port at 3 p.m. to-day.
THE Stanley Shockings attempted to play "The Bells" at Yokohama, with Mr. Fletcher as Mathies. Comment would be súperduous.
COLONEL VIRNER CHATER, the popular "chief" of the A & S. Highlanders, returned to the colony this morning by the English mail steamer Rotta.
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the bar at Tamsui on Sunday afternoon, the 5th inst., a high sea running at the time, lost a Chinese steward, who was washed overboard The body was found the following morning. Such beary weather, says the amoy Times, has not been known at Tamsul, it is said, for the last fourteen years.
ASING vessel belonging to Messrs. Bon & Co., of Singapore, left that port some four months ago for Tamani, with a cargo of timber for the Governor of Formosa, and has not been seen of heard of since. It in feared that the vessel has OWING to the continued drought, the authorities heen lost with all hands. A large junk also left Singapore about the same time with a similar
MISSVAN TASSELL,the aeronauteas,was to make her last balloon ascent in. Shanghai last Saturday at Chang Su-ho's garden in the Bub- bling Well Road. She guaranteed that she would jump from the balloon at a height from the ground of not less than ona mile. UNDER the heading "A Veteran of the Sea" the Japan Mall of the 4th Inst. says:-A veritable leaves Japan to-day by the P. & O. Company's for the land. He told Mr. Heacock his circum-
is now. and he witness
plan, but no specifications. Hatold witness that the houses would cost about $4.500 each, or about $17,000 in all. Witness asked if he could not build one house, and he was told "No," it would | be very expensive. Another plan was made, but witness, did not approve it. Eventually a plan was approved, and the site levelled, at a cost of $316, and in May 1889 a contract for the erection of the house, at a cost of $5,320, entered into. The work was to be complet don the 30th November. Mr. Hancock promised to as ist him in getting a mortgage on the property as soon as the roof was on.
In January he sent witness accounts shewing the cost of the work, which he accepted, except the item of Mr. Han- cock's own fees, as that would involve his paying to be re-made by Mestra, Danby, Leigh, and Orange, at a coat of $100, although Mr. Hancock was told to get everything ready to get the house passed. It was only passed last month, several applications from in dividuals wishing to tenant the house, being received previously. In June he tried to get the house passed, but was informed that no plars the drains had been submitted by Mr. Hancock. Mr. Wolff was offering $70 a month. Mr. Apcar also made an offer for the house at $55, in June. Witness agreed to take the offer, but Witness did not see. Mr. Apcar again. He afterwards wrote to Mr. Marten and told hi not to let the house to Apcar, as he wanted to live in it himself. He was willing to let the house at first to Apcar. Mr. Hancock fixed the value of "Glenthorns" at $80 per month. The bouse was now let at $60 per month; witness paying the taxes.
Cholera and Diarrhoea. In bottles, 35, 75 cents at Foochow are offering prayers for rain, and | cargo for Tamsul, and arrived thero safely within having returned to Europe, he took command of commission on commission. The drains had al
$1.50 and $2.75.
Dr, Rubini's Essence of Camphor.-Valuable for simple Diarrhea, and in the earlier stages of Dysentery And Cholera... Per bottle, so cents.
Fluid Extract of Indian Bael (prepared from the unripe fruit of the Ægis Marmelos),
Of great service in Diarrhoea and Chronic Dysentery. Per bottle, $1.
Dietetic Bael-A highly agreeable and nutri- tive diet, particularly recommended in derange ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and irritation of the bowels.
from the 8th to roth inst.,' pig slaughtering was totally probibited.
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two months.
T & Naval Court he'd at Hanoi on the 27th ult, A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, French corporal and seven soldiers belong S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetlanding to the and battalion d'Afriqu were tried Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. by court martial for deserting their post on the visiting brethren are cordially invited.
frontier at Lint-son, and attempting to enlist la the Chinese service, in May last. One of their sumber told them that there was a standing offer of $586 and a rank in the army of the
if they deserted with their arms and the application for enlistment to Colonel Quan, who #ccepted them, but they were recaptured by French troops next day. The Court condemned the corporal to death, and the others to various short terms of imprisonment.
WI are asked to state that the general meeting
years of his life were devoted to service at sen and for thirty-eight years he was a master
the mariner, during of command be never lost a ship or a spar, never
whole of which
long period
lost a man overboard, and never had a vessel touch the ground, truly a wanderful record. He came to the East twenty-six years ago (1864) iz command of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Corea, but resigned in Hongkong and returnd to England. Four years later (1868) he brought out the steamer Courier for Messrs. Walsh, Hall & Co., and commanded her on the Chinese. and Siberian coasts for a year and a half, for the
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of the fur trade. In 1869. be com manded the Vulcan, a German steamer belong. ing to Messrs. Kniffler & Co., and in 1870, the Princess Royal, an English steamer char- tered by the French Government to run between Marseilles and Algeria. He next commanded the Crusader, plying between Glasgow and the Black Sea-the Crusader, by the way, is still running and was recently in Yokohama-after which he came (1874) to Japin and, entering the Mitsu Bisht Ca's service, commanded several ships in succession, the last (Waba word fars) for 123 years. Captain Christensen then passed into the service of the Japan Mail Steamship Company, and lately commanded esteemed by his employers as an officer of exceptional ability, he leaves a record of which any seaman might well be proud. We believe that his present purpose is to settle in Scotland, where we trust that he may enjoy many years of comfort and happiness.
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Mr. Byramjee seconded, and it was agreed to. » Capt. Anderson proposed; and Mr. Ho Kun Tong seconded, the re-appointment of Messrs. F. Henderson and G. S. Coxon as auditors, and with the announcement that the 'dividend WATPALLA would be ready to-morrow ike proceedings terminated.
YESTERDAY'S LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
The following proceedings - were unavoidably emitted from the report of the Council meeting in last evening's issue:-
THE DANGEROUS GOODS ORDINANCE. The Acting Attorney-General—I beg to move the second reading of a Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 8 of 1873, entitled The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873. The reason of this amendment as follows. Section 8 of Ordinance 8 of 1873 empowers the Governor to make, revole, and vary by-laws for regulating the place or places at which ships carrying dangerous goods are to be moored any of the harbours of the Colony, and are to land their cargo, and for regulating the time and landing. It has been found that it is also very mode of, and the precautions to be taken on, auch desirable to regulate the shipment and tranship
only with the landing, the Governor could make arisen whether under that section, which deals
any regulation for the shipment or transhipment. Therefore this new section staten it shall be lawful for the Governor to make, revoke, and vary by-lawi for regulating the place at which ships carrying or about to carry dangerous goods are to be moored in any of the harbours such goods, and for regulating the time and of the Colony, and are to land, abip, of tranship mode of and the precautions to be taken on such landing, shipping, or transhipping.
Association, convened for this evening at the This preparation has been in use in India for of the British Mercantile Marine Officers logly crossed the frontier and sent an the Omi Maru. Universally popular and highly could not because the house. was not ready, ment of such goods, and some doubts have
Marine Hotel, Is postponed until to-morrow evening.
thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific ia Diarrhoea and Dysentery. Per tin, $1.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED. (Telephone No. 60.)
THI Queen-Dowager of Korea, who died some two months ago at the age of four-score years and two, was to be buried at the ancestral tombs [ra
near Seoul to-day, with great oriental pomp and
Nos 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Hongkong, ist September, 1890.
BY APPOINTMENT.
ceremony,
ACCORDING to the, N. C. Daily News the steamship Arkin Maru was purchased at public auction in Shanghai on the morning of A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. the 8th inst. by Messra. Farnham & Co. for taels 27,000. Mess. Hopkins, Duan & Co. 1841.
were the auctioneers.
ESTABLISHED A.D.
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
WATERS.
THE Model Settlement is to be congratulated. The Gorski family, well known in connection Our New Factory has been récently refitted with the recent criminal prosecution of Mr. Syed
with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and mart approved kind, and we are will able to compete în quality with the bât English Makers.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout. LARGE BOMBAY
" SODAS"
We continue to supply large betiles as heretofore, fra of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.
Mahomed Alsagoff in Singapore, Intend to settle in Shanghai, their passage money being delayed by the Government of the Straits Settlements. Six fish-dealers and a chandler were fined five dollars each, at the Magistracy to-day, at the Instance of Inspector Stanton, who proved that they were in possession of "squeezé" scale which ran from two to twenty-two per cent lä favour of the seller; and only five per cent to the good of the buyer, when they bought,
THE Singapore Frie Press of October 6th ways: The crew of the British ship Earl of Zetland came ashore yesterday in a body, and decline to
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We read that the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd Steam Navigation Company at Trieste has been transformed into an Austrian Company, A Hungarian subvention of four hundred thousand florins a year is to be given to the Adria Steam ship Company, which is rather an English than Hungarian undertaking. The Lloyd, now enjoying the Austrian sabreation, is intended to Company is to extend Western traffic, to which promote the Eastern trade, while the Adria
end twenty new steamers are to be chartered or newly built in England. If this plan, which finds' favour with both the Pesth and Vienna Hungary, and indirectly also between Austria Governments, can be realised, trade betwear and England and the English Colonies, wit receive a great stimulus.
REFERRING to the depredations of a dog in the neighbourhood of Lab-kee-tab, Kulangiu, which is creating havoc among the fowls and ducks belong to the Chinese residents there, our new Amoy contemporary says there is a doubt about the animal belonging to the signalman at the sgstaff. The wonk by all accounts is "go- body's dog." Whether this is true or not, it is a known fact that, between the signalman and the
dog a kind of friendship exists. The signalman feasts upon the spoil purloined by the dog, so we are told. An attempt was made the other day by some Chinese to kill the animal, but the signalman interfered and pleaded for Its life, alleging that his sumptuous and cheap mode of living would be at an end should it be destroyed.
THE TYPHOON.
The typhoon which was signalled here an Sunday night and yesterday gave steamers coming up the coast, judging from those that have arrived to-day) a severe shaking up hard at Halgan, the typhoon having passed to Dr. Dobcrck writes that last night it was blowing
the southward.
The P. & O. steamer Rosetta, Captain E. Crew, which reached port carly this moming, 24 hours overdue, reports encountering a
typhoon in latitude 20.30 north. About 10.30 or 11 o'clock on Sunday night the galo set in and continued until about 4 o'clock in the morning, three boats on the port side being carried away. Owing to the heavy seas breaking over the ship water was continually pouring down through the stake hole and readered it almost impossible to keep the fires going and steam up.
The "Blue funnel" steamer Dardanu, Captain T. Purdy, which arrived this morning, has apparently fared much worse than the Rosetta. Captain Purdy states that after leaving Singapore they experienced nice weather all the way up to latitude 19 north, with a high steady plans. On Sunday night, about ro.30, when in latitude 19 north a fierce gale set in from the west south west, and by 12 o'clock they were in the typhoon. There was a dead calin for about two hours, the barometer having fallen to 29.28. The air, was full of birds and insects of every description, which left dead upon the deck in before they were clear of the typhoon, which was evidently travelling rapidly. Tremendous Bess swept the deck of the vessel and it was feared that considerable water got into the hold. The fore part of the deck house was burst in, and the captain's room converted into a swim- ming tank, all his clothes, papers etc. being almost ruined with the soaking and swashing The Captain speaks in the highest terms about in salt water to which they were subjected of the manner in which the thip behaved,
Cross-examined-He borrowed $5,800 from Mr. Chater at different times to pay the contrac tor, but the house was his (plaintiff's). He bought the land out of £1,500 that he got from England. There were 35,000 square feet in the lot. : The original estimate for the house was $5.300. He never saw but one set of estimates, which were not reduced by some $11,000. At one time, when negotiating for the safe of the property to Mr. Holmes, be put the matter into the hands of Mr. Hancock for that purpose.
His lordship—If Mr. Hancock 'was acting as & land agent then the charge would be fair, otherwise the claim for it would fall through.
Cross-examination continued-He thought he was dealing with a gentleman, so he did not take special notes of all that was passing. The absence of such notes would account for what appeared to be defective memory. When the Miliary Authorities raised questions respecting some of his property he wrote to Mr. Hancock instructing him to intercede with the Govern meat in his behalf, for which services he expected to have to pay. He never intended going on with the six houses, he had not the means. He left the arrangements of dralas etc. entirely. to Mr. Hancock.
The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded.
Mr. Ryrie I do not see any regulation for the class of boats that may be used. I consider that should be a very important part of this Ordinance, for at present very dangerous boats are used. Some time ago I myself saw a boat near the Magazine at Stonecutters' Island filled up with powder almost to her mast-head, and I believe the people were smoking. It brought it to the notice of the Council at the time and it was understood a special class of boats were to be built for moving powder, but that has never been done, and I think now, when we are going to amend this Ordinance, is the time when we should deal with the matter, 1 saw the boat myself with barrels of gunpower piled half-way up her mast and sailing amongst the shipping. A great thing I think is to have proper boats to convey gunpowder.
The Acting Attorney-General-I am some- what out of order in rising again, but I merely rise to state that everything the hon. member has mentioned can be dealt with in the by-laws. His Excellency-Tha hon, member does not Mr. R. K.Leigh, of the firm of Danbrand Leigh, said was instructed with reference to the oppose the second reading, I understand
Mr. Ryrie--I do not oppose the principle. house in question in the end of July. Mr. Hatherly came and asked for a permit for His Excellency-Then I think the best thing the occupation of the house. I went and looked |, would be to read the Bill a second time, and when" over them, and 'practically superintended the we go into committee we can discuss what is altering of them. The drains were taper pipes, { desirable. according to law. The drain discharged itself into the ditch at the side of the road. The water from the bathroom ran' down the surface drain to the same place, and could not legally have been used as I first saw it. After our firm had submitted new plans for sewers, the proper certificate from the Sanitary Board was obtained. The contract price was $170. We consider it a part four daly in drawing up plans to get them accepted by the Sanitary Board, and obtain a certificate of fitness for babitation,
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and go back. They assert that they have been MATAH SINGH, P.C. 603, is a capital fellow and thousands. It' was about 5.30 in the morning I very inferior, and the joints were 'not cemented
COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order. placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Emptles when received in good order.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica
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Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
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PURE AERATED WATERS
SODA WATER
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aboard eleven months without a day's leave, and further they demand that their former mate be given charge of the vessel, instead of the man who was appointed captain.
ARTHUR Hollier, who forged the signature of the Chief Clerk of the Public Works Department last month, with a view to obtaining board and lodging at the Marlie Hotel, was brought before Mr. Wise at the Police Court to-day, when the case was re-heard, by direction of the Acting. Attorney General. It resulted in a sentence of
three months' Ward labour in H. M. Gaol
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well worthy of being immortalised in the columns of the Hongkong Telegraph ; for it is be who has taken the initiative in suppressing those importunate chair and 'ricksba "coolies who ara un'intolerable nuisance to visitors to this colony, Yesterday Matah grabbed half-a-dozen of there obstructionists whom he observed, barring the way of a lady and gentleman coming out of the notice of Mr. Wise at the Police Court today: Hongkong Hotel. They all came under the
and were compelled to ante-up a couple of dollars a piece. In view of the Exct that the average chair-coolle is a member of a powerful guild, we would suggest that the minimum tariff
for similar offences should be ten instead two
Mexicana.
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EARLY this year political exigencies necessitated took to be SELTZER WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
TONIC WATER
GINGER ALE
GINGERADE,
No, Credit given for bottles that look dirty, or greasy or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used
again by vis.
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MARRIAGE,
At the German Chapel, Hongkong, on the 14th inst, by the Rev. J. Chalmers, London Mission, JAMES MACDONALD, Engineer, I.M.C., to ELIZA, eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Riddock, *Engineer, Hongkong.
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At Kobe, on the 4th October, the wife of EDWARD A. ST. CLAIR SMITH.
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On the 6th Instant, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, WILLIAM HUGHES CLAYSON, Coastguard Com missioner of the Chinesa Imperial Maritima Custom Service. Aged 48 years." (By tale gram),
THOSE who have seen that Archimedean lever the Amoy Gauette will understand to what a fever-heat journalism is getting at Koolangsoo when we have to announce a new venture there, 'styled the Amay Times and Mercantile Gazette. It is a hardly-looking little weekly, though that sounds paradoxical, and the price, 30, cents a copy, brings it within the reach of any million
About 60 miles from Hongkong, they sighted what at first appeared to be a very large junk, but which afterwards turned out to be a large sailing vessel with only her portion of her fore- mast standing, on which a small sail was hoisted. They burned a "flare-up," which the Captain a signal that they wished to
The
little ship was a
track of steamers west of the regular
The German steamer Falkenburg, Captain Fredericks, which anived this forenoon from Salgon, reports having encountered a severe north east gale early yesterday morning in latitude za north, in which her cargo (rice) was shifted, giving her a heavy list to poo
the recall of Admiral Teixeira da Silva, after he || be reported. had governed Macao for a few months. The same exigencies, shortly afterwards, conferred. the post on Senhor Custodia de Borja, a fierce looking little Portuguese then commanding the gunboat Tefe. He deferred accepting the rank until he had put in his full time as captain, which period expired on Saturday, and in the meantime Col. Ferreira administered the Govern ment of the colony. The English mail to-day brought the papers accrediting Sr. de Borja as THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High Governor of Macao and Times, Enroy Extra the ship sighted by Captain Purdy is one of those ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of H. M. the King of Portugal to China, Japan, and Siam, and that grest little official will take office on Thursday afternoon, with much pomp. He is a Tory, if politics are of any consequence in the Dead City,
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landers will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess this evening, commencing, at 8 o'clock a
March......."Militaire",
„Goused. ..Catbubur Ronial „Lortzing,
Valio.........." Vİnsana”.............. Selection....."Comte Oryza Alta..........."Der Wildschut Belection......Medans Favart“ „.......................... Fezbach
THE body of old Tom Carter, the big West Indian negro who has been so familiar a figure in this Colony for the past 30 years, was, wo regret to leam, found floating in the harbour this the morning. Tom was last seen alive at Marine Hotel, Praya West, last Sunday night
about 10.30 pm when he was walking in an easterly direction. The night was very bolsterous one, the seas breaking clean over the Prays, and by some means or other the
THEY keep op having their "Hitle affairs at daylight on the turf down Tenguin way, and, what is more, they are getting so careless as to even draw "bleed." M, Saintenoy, adminis trattur, went out with M, de Foyard, magistrate, on the 3rd Inst." and now the former wears his arm in a ling. Two lieutenants had a turn-up | poor old chap fell into the harbour and, as is next morning, and one was twice slightly wounded: The Progres de Saigon says there ara more agaires d'honneur in the alt. What a sanguinary creature it is, to be sure.
The sailing ships Mary L. Stone and the Luren both left here on the rith inst. for Calcutta and New York, and it is not at all unlikely that two. She was apparently headed for this port when sighted.
The British ship Thermofyla, which arrived from Singapore to-day, met the typhoon in lat, 1y N., but reports no damage.
Yesterday a large Chinchew junk, which was sighted by the launch Sun Mak off Kao-yl-chao Island, bottom up, was towed into Aberdeen. Nobody was found on board, and there can be but little doubt that all hands have been drowned.
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
consider the $50 charged by Mr. Hancock for running levels etc, was too much. Architects are entitled to charge 5.a on the cost which, in this case, was 8350; and I think $150 would be a fair charge for the plans produced. All the charges should be counted as covered by the 5 per cent, commission.
His Lordship said that his view of the case, so far, was that the 5 per cent. which Mr. Leigh mentioned, was a fair charge, and this, with a small charge for the plans of the terrace, which was not included with the $150 for plans, was sufficient.
Mr. Leigh, moss-examined, said he was not prepared to swear that the sewer drain was
actually connected with the kitchen drain pipe He jumped to that conclusion from what he had sen.
Mr. Francis then said that if his lordship would grant an adjournment, he had no doubt the pariles would come to a settlement out of Court,
The case was thereupon adjourned until
Thursday forenoon,
CANTON INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
The Bill was read a second time.
His Excellency-Perhaps if the hon. member would consult the Attorney-General between ibis and next meeting we might go into committee then instead of doing so to-day, so that if there is any provision it is desirable to introduce, It can be inserted.
Mr. Ryrie--The Attorney-General says it can be done in the by-laws.
The Acting Attorney-General-Gunpowder la dealt with under another Ordinance, the
Merchant Shipping Ordinance, which provides that The Governor in Council is hereby on- powered to make rules and regulations for the proper carrying out of the provisions chapter, including the storage of gunpowder on land, or Its carriage within the waters of the Colony,"
this
His Excellency-Well, perhaps the best course would be not to go lato Committee to-day and in the meantime the hon. gentleman can consult the Attorney-General,
THE RATING ORDINANCE.
The Acting Attorney-General-I beg to move, the second reading of the Bill ́entliled' “An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 15 of 1888 entitled The Rating Ordinanco, 1888, There
· are several verbal alterations, but there is one of some importance which was the cause of this amending Ordinance being brought in. Under the definition clause in the Rating Or dinance of 1888 the word “owner” included the agent of and owner or landlord who is absent or required to furnish the assessor within ten days under disability. Under clause he may be
the
now known, was drowned. Tom's profession (Before Mr. Pulding Clarke, Puise Judge). A. Cruikshank, C. C. Anderson, H. W. Dick, Brequired to furnish the returns, and as I was not
AN ARCHITECT'S CHARGES, Ms. W. F. Hatherly sued Mr. W. St. 1. Hancock, architect, for $1,000-Mr. Bowles appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Francis, QC, (instructed by Mr. Reece) defended. There was a counter-claim set up for $550.
particulars specified in schedule A, which relate to the situation and size of the house, and another section provides a punishment for Well, horrect particulars. what has happened has been as follows, When any owner had any reason or parposa to The ninth ordinary general meeting of the furnish false returns, in order to put his rent shareholders of the about Company was held at
down, he caused those returns to be furnished by noon to-day, at the offices of the general his agent. If the returns passed, well, so much managers, Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co. the better, his house was rated at the low rent. The Hon. J. J. Keswick presided, and among mentioned, but if it was found out and the max those present were Hon. P. Ryrie, Messrs. He who made the return was prosecuted he said Dalrymple, D. Gilles, D, R. Sassoon (consulting "Ob, you can't punish me, because the owner is committee) J. J. Bell-Irving, J.-B. Coughtrie, W. present in the Colony and he is the person Byramjee, J. S. Chattoo, McK. Rais, WJ the person required to furnish them you can't Greason, R. H. R. Burder, Ng Awel, Ng Tong, panish me, it is mainly, to correct that that Fung Kee, etc., and G. J, Volich (wetrotury), this Ordinance bas been introduced. The The Chairman sald :—Gentlemen, considering occasion has also been taken to make a few that 1889 was one of the worst years experienced clerical amendments. In order to meet the by underwriters during the last quarter of a practice I have mentioned a new section is sub- century I feel certain that the Report is presented stituted for section 43, and a sub-section punishes Will give satisfaction to both shareholders and any person who shall knowingly fartish any contributors of business, aliko, for ater the pay» | false or Incorrect particulars. These two al- ment of a dividend of 10 per cent, on capital, terations, will I think, put a stop to the offences and a 20 per cent, bonus to contributors there we are trying to suppress. is a balance of $167,555 6x loft for present The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded, and disposal, which amount we propose lo divide as the Bill was read a second time. follow aby paying a final dividend of 4 per cent. The Acting Attorney-General proposed that Reserve Fund and carrying forward New Account $54,555.61 to provide for possible. The Acting Colonial Secretary seconded. contingencies. must congratulate the share. His Excellency if there is any hon. member bolders on the fact that our Reserve Fund has who would rather not go into Committee on as now reached the limit allowed by our Articles of Ordinance so soon as it is read a second time I Association, viz $500,000, and I feel sure you shall always be glad to hear any objection te that effect. The difficulty: I feel is this. The
was that of a ship-wright, and fer some years past he picked up a precarious living by doing odd jobs, such as caulking and planing, on board sailing ships. In port. The keen com THE claim by the Shanghat Tug Boat Associa petition to which he was subjected in his line of business by the Chinese, especially of tion against the underwriters of the steamer late years, reduced him to sand straits, Packing, which vessel was burnt op the and he lived chiefly upon charity during the last Yangtze on May 20th last, ham, says the ly. G. three year of his life. Blessed with a robust constitution and foo muscular body, this wall Daily News, lately been settled by the payment from one of the Indies was often of great assis of Tis. 250. The amount claimed was Tance to the Police and Fire Brigades, 3,000. The underwriters, it will be remembered, balig foremost in backing up the officers sent a representative in the Fuhlai to bring in" of the law at all hazard. Many are the acts the hull, but it was found to be already in pos of gallantry which the police and fremen tell of Sydney and New Zealand papers please | session of the Rechtl, by "which" tug it was the plucky old man, yot the least amongst which tiop of that Court. The facts were as follows | to our shareholders, adding $83,000 to the the Council go into Commitiée.
brought to Shanghal as a derelict
On Monday, the 13th instant, at her residence No. 3, Belvedere, Bonham Road, BLANCHE MARGUERITE, the beloved wife of Wm. E, Dougherty, aged-27.-2
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„HONOKUNG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER~14,-1890,-
TELEGRAMS,
THE SILVER MARKET.
........LONDON, October 11th,
The United States Treasury bought on Friday 300,000 ounces of silver at 110/70 to 11890) (
Mr. Bowles sold that the amount sued for was made up of a claim for the return of $195, com- mission paid, and $948, being the amount of damages sustained by reason of the defendant's negligence and want of-skill, the amount being reduced to $1,000 to bring it within the jurisdic was his farce personal onslaught agains: upwards || Early' Iast year plaintiff bought some land at of 150 Russian men-of-war's men who were Kowloon, and employed the defendant to erect a VERY few men, young or old, barn crowded so indulginglas free fight with the police, in Queen's house on it, the contract price being 85,330, and Road Wes', some eight years ago Seizing the time for completion September last. It was many important events into such a short space congable's truncheon,
Tom Launched in, actually only finished in January this year, but of time as has the young Earl of Rosslyn, During the space of tea short minutes not until last month that a certificate of fitness the current year he has qualified for had the Roosides in full flight, while his for hablation was obtained from the Sanitary will all agree in the advisability of giving us at commission' in the army; been gesetted to one weapon which he kept ever after ametupel, loss of rent damage claimed were made up of an early date power to further increase this Ordinance is read on Monday, it is not published Cialde of gore that proved conclusively for the intervening months, the Fand in such manner as may be deemed best until Saturday, and therefore hoo, members have of the regiments of Goards; engaged to Miss Low heavily the algeer's hand had Allen defendant having neglected to send the plans to in the interests of the Company. With regard only about forty-eight hours to study the Ordia Violet Vyner, daughter of that well-known upon the rank and file of the Philistines, the Sanitary Board for approval; and of the to the present year's estimates the balance at ance, and they may not feelthemselves altogether sportsman, Mr. R. C. Vyner; resigned his com Thomas was admittedly anything but a Good cont of re-constructing the drains after the work credit is, as you have no doubt already perceived, prepared to go into Committee on an Ordinance mission without ever having joined his regitnent Templar, but for all that the general public can had been taken out of his hands, and given to about $53,000 less than at corresponding immediately. It has been read a second time. If, married àla glancée, the joint ages of bride and but look askance upon those who knowing of the firm of Danby, Leigh, and Orange The period last year-I am glad, however, to be able. however, the Ordinance la merely a formal one bridegrooms being under forty 1 registered his his public services and indigent circumstances, return of commission as demanded on the to inform you that ng losses of importance have or does not contain any points of importance racing coloure; and finally, through the lamented allowed him to virtually beg from door to door, ground that by the professional scale here he occurred since the publication of the accounts, there can be objection to going, into: Commilleg death of his father, anoceed to the loss old Tons has gone to rest at the ripe age was only entitled to five per cent, on the whole Before proposing the adoption of the report at once, but if it does 1 talak it is not desirable
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