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Entimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMIT E D, DISPENSING CHEMISTS, &c. Sole Agents for Hongkong and China,
FOR
"LÉMOINE" NATURAL CHAMPAGNE,
Without Liqueur.)
AWARDED PRIZE MEDAL, PARIS, 1889.
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pagne are:-
and. Is Delicacy, due to the first pressings only of the grapes used: the later pressing make the wine rough and coarse, and necessitate the use of liqueur.
3rd-1 Natural Dryness, which is not Rive, making it more appetizing than satisfying.
4th. No liqueur being added, the process of re-corking is very rapidly effected, so avoiding the large-loss of carbonic acid gas-the most raluable property of Champagne.
DEATH.
On 6th February, suddenly, of apoplexy, on hoard the P. & O., steamship, Ganges, jamis K. SMILLIE. Buried at sea.
he
Honghong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 37, 1891.
THE P.&O. S. N. Co's steamer. Teheran leți Singapore yesterday morning for Hongkong The Police in the city of London, would appear be a very degenerate body of men. A week of prayer was recently set apart to be devoted solely for their spiritual welfarel
THE members of the Hongkong Athellic Club will have their first 'buting' to-morrow on the race-course. The sports are to commence at one' o'clock and given fine weather an excellent day's amusement can confidently be expected. The prizes will be presented to the winners at the close of the sports by Lady des Voeux.
Anad." from an Australian paper:-
A Widower ins children), aged al, having a complain out of Nie'late wife's effects (waist, w1 inches), deslees to negotiate with a Young Lady, with final result to Matrimony Must be tall, dark and sedate; experience Indispensable Phoca exchanged if wished. Fides, Waskaringa
We reproduce this gem to give any tall, dark and sedate girl in Hongkong, who possesses the necessary experience desired by "Fides," chance of applying for the billet.
possibility in Banking speculations as BARING Bros slip the other day clearly enough proved they will then cheerfully face the ordeal of blank ruin. But yet, it must be confessed that a safe and solid banking business, energetically worked is more reliable than risky silver deals, even with Mr. THOSIAS JACKSON at the helm. We will say nothing of the skeleton accounts published; if they sult the share-black. holders and come within the requirements of the law, nobody else has any particular
barefaced monopoly which continues in the Directorate; it is highly detrimental to the interests of the Bank. The Court of Directors
THB, Superintendent of the P. & O. ́S. N. Co., Informs no that the Company's steamer Ancona } lekt Nagasaki for this port at 5 pan. yasterday,
As inquiry was held by Mr. Wodehouse to-day respecting the death of Tal. Mun, a marrie woman living in Pound Lano, who died on the 18th ins from Injuries received through the upsetting of a kerosine lamp in the night of the gih inst. His Worship returned a verdict of accidental death.
WE are silll" "gåthering Information about the paces of a borst as they are really visible to the eys, and still the information gathered in discan- certing to our conventional notions. The latest rectification is furnished, says an exchange, hy M. Otterheim, Vice-President of the Verailles Photographic Society. He has taken such series of "shots," at a trotting horse, as prove
air at A certain stage of the movement. One the incredible assertion that all fis feet are in the would have thought this a physicst impossibility in trotting, when the body is not stretched out, and the action of the forelege, as of the bind, is not uniform. Have any of these painstaking
Champagne should always be drunk cold; but intain fee-pull for the best part of an hour, is to to half freeze a light, delicate wine by putting it
destroy all its fine vinous properties.
In former years, when heavily Liqueured HE abore named work, muhlished at the Champagnes were alone obtainable, good THE
freezing was necessary to hide the nascos Office of "THE HONGKONG
sweetness of a ten per cent dose of sugar-candy TELEGRAPH,"contains a Directory forthe Ports and alcohol; but consumers now demand a wine In the large portion of Asia comprised between free from unnatural sweetness or alcohol- Penang, in the Straits Settlements, and the sparkling vintage which can be taken freely at Northem Chinese Ports, including Władiwostock. luncheon or dinner, and which-will-Improve, ordinary" profit-of-nearly sixteen hundred | reason to complain. But we don't like the unknown behind the footlights at the Garrison and the left fore-leg point backwarde. So far a
Formosa, the Treaty Ports of China and Japan,
Cochin-China, the Philippine Islands, Corea, British North Borneo, the British Colony of Hongkong and the Portuguese Colony of Macao. It contains the Principal Treaties between Epean countries and the United States and the countries East of the Straits, including the Treaties and Conventions between China and Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia,, the United States of America, Braill, Japan, Peru, Spain, and Portugal; together with conditions of Traic, and the Port, Customs, Consular, and
rather than destroy, the appetite.
Nos. 22 & 24. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
use the expression of an American news- Į paper, was it made out of a deal in silver, just as though the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank had been a syndicats of American bonanza mine-owners and senators and representatives in Congress "? This question, would probably have been considered more important had the "deal" gone the wrong way, and that it might THE ordinary half-yearly meeting of share very easily have miscarried, the recent HE Special Features of this Pure Cham-holders in the Hongkong and Shanghai vagaries of the silver market plainly Perhaps the vast 1st.Its entire freedom from the usual augar- | Banking Corporation will be held at the enough Indicate. candy, ect., consequently it is fresher, cleaner, City Hall at noon to-morrow. No doubt majority of the Bank" shareholders' will | and more wholesome than the Liguar the attendance will be worthy of the say that they don't care a straw by what champagnes.
occasion; If it isn't It ought to be. With means the money is made, so long as it net profit of 81,715.743-39. minus appears as profit in the accounts! They $148.302.94 brought forward from last may be right-who shall say? And should account, as the result of the six months' | a "Black Friday" come-always a working, there can be very little room for grumbling-excepting from those who have been unfortunate in their speculations in Bank shares, and as they are not in the favored division of toadies and tuft-hunters they don't count, and they can howl until they are black in the face without eliciting a single expression of sympathy, Nothing succeeds like success in this life-especially in Hongkong; but when the success of the men who are reputed to have mainly benefited from this extra- thousand dollars comes to be closely analysed it is found to amount to very little. Dust and ashes.
The Report, as a report, tells the share. holders very little; it couldn't tell thema very much less. That is the acme of business diplomacy, according to the lights A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. of the worthy gentlemen, or most of them,
(ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
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most phenomenal, in more ways than one, of Far Eastern banking Institutions. Possibly the Court of Directors knows just as much as and no more than the shareholders of the Bank's true state of affairs, and if the honorable members did know anything they are far too Innocent, with several noteworthy exceptions, of giving it away promiscuously. By the way, "Court of Directors" can hardy be said to be a modest title for the nominal directors of even a comparatively important colonial bank to assume; it reminds one so forcibly of that Imperial $1.00 autocracy the old East India Company; but then, Hongkong is noted for its own kind of peculiar modesty, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank is, the Mecca of the classes. It would, however, 1.50 have been just as well if this Report had 'said something about the Bank's affairs and a6o general prospects; and given some informa- tion regarding several shady transactions ofthe past half-year. The Manila bolocaust 1.co might have been expected to merit
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THERE should be lots of fun at Bowrington to gentlemen tried their experiments on a man run- night, when Professor Uakichi will don the warping ? It seems kely that both his feet are off paint of his forefathers, and throw down the the ground at once when he goes his hardest for glove to all the gladiators of the universe who "spun," but one can hardly believe that he may be present in the circus. Uskichi is a has no pied à terra whatever when travelling at formidable looking youth but nevertheless we the pace equivalent to a horse's trot. However, hope to see his challenge accepted. He prefers we are bound to credit anything in the way. It is the catch-as-catch-can method of wrestling, but of new doctrine on this question after wh doubtless would be ready to accommodate any strange things have been proved. aspirant to hippodromic fame who cares to try really comforting to find that the tradi
-tional representation of a trotting horse is not altogether wrong at all prints, as in the case of galloping, cantering, Jumping, and so forth. actually point forward, while the right bind-leg The right foredes and the left hind-lede
description may be trusted, our artists are only inexact is one detail, berides that fundamental error of representing two feat on the ground.. All the legs are "spread that is, we presume, whirling about, lastead of keeping the balance by moving underneath the body.
days past that a gallant wartier, not ahog.ther A RUMOUR has been buzzing around for some
Theatre, who departed for home by the trop ship Himalays last Sunday, forgot, accidentally no doubt, to square up the accounts of some race-lotteries, of which he was in charge, before bis departure. The amount said to be wanting has been variously stated at from $800 to $1,600. It is also stated that the forgetful gentleman' memory will be painfully jogged on the troopeth arrival at Singapore, and that he will probably be officially requested to return to Hongkong by the trooper due bere neat mouth. These rumours course, given for whatever they may br REG,
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THERE is no end to the drivel of the cablegram fiend, and hiɛ parochial intelligence rises superior to all considerations of ime or space or ordinary buman probability. For instance, says the Sydney Bulletin, the following mighty hunk of lore comes out as a recent sample ---
H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence, who yesterday
is a strong one no doubt, but it might be materially strengthened by the introduction of new blood. No valid objections could be raised to the re-election of Mr. W. H. FORBES, head of the eminent firm of RUSSELL & Co., nor of Mr. J. S. MOSIS, of E. D. SASSOON & Co.'s; but we fail to see that Mr. H. L. DALRYMPLE, who represents nothing of the slightest import ance to anybody but himself that we can find out, has the slightest claim to a seat at the Board. That he is a protégé of JARDINE, MATHRSON & Co.'s should mean nothing-although that all-powerful house did actually try to get him into the Legislative Council; at all events, it should mean less than the very necessary explanations that are required from Mr. DALATEPLE, and which we should demand were we able to be present, of his connection as promoter and director of THE lines of Lord Hopetoun do not seem to have been cast in pleasant places, since his certain companies in British North Borneo, arrival in Victoria, for we are continually hearing Labrador to the Skager Rack, and even- whose histories, are certainly not beyond of some mishap or another occurring, where
recesses of the heavens; but when everything. suspicion. It would be interesting to the ever the duties of the noble lord lead him in his the Pole Star is drifting away, into the far
Belf
sacrificing mission as Governor of that the last and gone the "kawlinies"
will public to know how much promotion money, colony. Nor do those of his suite appear to be still remain, loyal to England, for Carrington If any, this Chairman of the Hongkong and much smoother, for at a recent inland cattle dropped in: af be, was going past Shanghai Bank pocketed out of the North show one of the cidrs who had resolved to be
affable to the degraded inhabitants, approached s mentioned the fact. Borneo ventures in which he was an active wild-looking bush gentleman and said: "Haw. Century and a half ago most of North America was or passive partner; how much he had to my dean friend, can you oblige me with a match" "You can have fifty fliming matches, disgorge when these vaunted El Dorados you gory beggar, and welcome," responded the proved will-of-the-wisps, and what interest son of the soll cheerfully, and then while the our opinion the high-born person was staggering under this he still retains. In shareholders of the Bank would do well to blast of friendly profanity that the officer dropped let Mr. Dalayuple #slide' from the Court his cigar and fled to escape the flames. - of Directors and put in his place either Mr. DATID GILLIES, of the Dock Company, or Mr. JNO. D. HUMPHREYS', of A. S. Warson & Co., men of position and character whose influence and great wealth could not fall to prove of material Bank's assistance in increasing the business.
THE Avenir Militaire contains some unkind remarks on the Italian Arday, said to emanate Provincial Grand Minater of the Freemasons for Belshing, warmly Government, he says, will ere long present to remain loyal es England. from a correspondent in Rome. The Italian Carringten, in reply, predicted that tu. Sosh Wales, Lord Parliament new-B lls for considerably augment. For ever and ever! Lord Carrington has said ing the financial and military expenses of the it with a weary yawn upon his open countenance, country. The obligation to military service will and, the poor little duke, whose face is as be raised from nineteen years to twenty-five, as expressiontess as an Aftican's feet, has accepted it is in France and Germany. Let us not be the statement with a profound "haw," and the so, let her augment her war effective; she will has published it; and therefore Time petrifies alarmed by this increase. If Italy chooses to do cable has endorsed it, and the S. M. Herald still lack cadres. Her territorial soldiery is and Progress falls into a cataleptic state, nothing but a mass of people badly armed, badly and Change becomes unchangeable for ever Everything else in earth and taught, and very little disciplined. This soldiery and ever, will certainly not frighten us, even though itses and aky is unstable and transitory. The bills are being fast frittered away and washed should have five or six classes more.
into the sea, and the sea is silling up into new mountain ranges, and England itself is dissolving and sinking into the Atlantic, till in coarse of time there will be nothing but water from
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Twz physicians of Berlin assert that their practice has fallen off 25 per cent since Koch's operations began, and, consequently, they demand from the
Government free lymph.
THE Hungaran Government favors a scheme for an electric railway between Vienna and Bude-Peath, a distance of rgo miles, to ras single cars every ten minutes, like a street service, in two hours and a half,
wine, Green Seal Capsule...7.50 C. Mantanilla, Pale Natural
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Pale Superior Old Dry, Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule........ninguna, 10 D Very Superior Old Pale Dry, choice old wine, White Seal Capsule......... E. Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality,
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PC PC whom, we are afraid, were induced to part with the major portion of their shares before "Lucky" JACKзox's silver venture turned $4.50 out trumps-, asking us to criticise the 5.00 report, the loose management of the Bank, 75 the exceptional favors shown to Directors and their creatures, the uses sald to be made of the Bank's capital and influence by private speculators for their own personal $1.10 advantage por favor of the powers that be, 1.as the skeleton accounts presented, and various other grievances, real or imaginary. 1.50
One correspondent from the Coast Ports, who says he has, been for years a large 100 shareholder, hopes and feals confident that "our trenchant pan and fearless voice will ays once more show to the world what is being dane by a crew of monopolists who" az etc., etc., etc. This gentleman and our other doubtless well-meaning correspondents are altogether in error; "our trenchant pen and fearless voice” must not be relled on in future to carry out the free-lance policy that | hasreceived such beggarly appreciation in '1.10 | the past. Where purely public interests are
Involved we shall be to the front as of yore; by the Macao Water Pollce during the past We hear that the twenty Namos pirates caught but shareholders of public companies, three weeks, are to be binded over to the 0.75 so far as we are concerned, will have to Chiness Authorities at Canton early next week, 100 fight their own battles the best way they the latter having applied for their rendition, 1.10ean. When our personal interests are concerned, the "fearless voice" will have Its any as firmly and decidedly as ever it had, but we have no intention of any more fighting the battles of the half of Hongkong against our own interests, for the doubtful honour of being left alone in opposition against a whole Court of Directors,' with
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"CLARA," said Nellie, dropping the fashion paper she was reading, "what would you do if you had a moustache on your lip?" "After he took it away I should tell him that I preferred to be married in June."
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JUDGE (to witness)-Who are you? Witness (who is a physician)I am an insane expert, your Honer. Judge (with dignity)-Oh, you are? Wall, get out of this. We don't want any crazy people giving testimony in this court,
remark he asked him to have a drink in such a
Melba is not what may be accurately called a MADAME Patey, we read, says that Madame great singer, but she has of course, a very fine voice, a perfect method, and above all, she has fallen into splendid hands. The De Reiske brothers have taken a great interest in her, and have been of infinite value to her in the develop ment of her exceptional gifts, and Royalty has #taken her up" and she is quite the herpfoe of the hour. She has been to Windsor once or twice and to Marlboro House as well, and is now turning things upside down In St. Petersburg, where not only common mortals have become enamored of her, but even the great White Car has been seen to toss his charas high in mid-air and to command silence whilst he yelled Adrava to the top of his bent. Madame Melba, other wise Mrs. Arrastrong, was but recently a well known figure in Melbourne, where h
where her people, are engaged in ordinary trade.
and
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also in a state of eternal loyalty to the British Crown, and most of South America was as devoutly attached to Spain; and 200 years ago
England was the perpetual pensioner and dependent of France, and 600 years further back she was the humble slave of Normandy ́and,was to remain so for ever and ever; and
in a still more remote year she was loyal to Rome with, a loyally, that was to endure through ell time and 'eternity, but all these things, died bound one country to another since the first away, and every “loyal" sentiment that ever beginalog bas proved more transient than a snowball in Gehenna, or a vague hypothesis written upon the sea in letters of faim. But though nothing else is pertaudent, the loyally of, the colonies is to keep on through aÚ ages, for, as already mentioned, Camington has said it, and the flea has shaken, its foot at the stars and told them to keep where they are till further orders, and the dy has grabbed the tall of the universe and is hold. ing it steady. It is a joyous thing to possesS BY moch information, and when we consider what à benp, Carrington knows, we feel and 'over the Ignorance of the prophets and the desperate stupidity of the apostles, for they could only see a few years ahead, while Baron Smith glares down an unending futurity, and is either three parts omnipotent or else an as
THE SONGEI KOYAH PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED,
Fox some time past the Siamese Government has been seriously thinking of establishing Legation in Washington, to be quite separate from the Legation at London, and the scheme has now became un fast accompli by the appointment of H.R.H. Placo Chanthat, who The second ordinary general meeting of share- holders in the above named Company was held at is empowered to praceed to Washington and there take charge of the first Slamese the office of the General Managers, No. 6, Ice Legation ever established in America. The House Lane, at noon to-day, for the purpose of idea is a good one and will prove cof value
to Siam, for she has always receiving the report of the Consulting Commitee, been on the best of terms with the Americans with a statement of accounts for the year ending and the appointment of Prince Chanthat to the 30th November, 1890. There were present :- post of Minister Plenipotentiary is in itself Messrs, C. S. Sharp (Chairman); W. B. Layton, guarantee of success. The Bangkok Times W. Wotton, H. L. Dakymple (Directors); S. I.
one of those enlightened Blamesolid says that be
The Chairman said he had to apologize for the
who le quite capable of representing his country's Danby, L. S. Perry, N. J. Gomes, S. A. Joseph,
to the level of economic statistics, the country commercial and political interests in any foreign A Lun, and L. Hallward (Secretary), land, and in this age, when everything is redacad which shall fail to be so represented will inevit ably fall behind in the competitive race.
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fate Kowy which the report: had been placed in the hands of the shareholders: It had been drawn up, however, as soon as possible. - It was necessary to get certain information, both from London and Sandakan before closing the report and that accounted for the delay. He regretied the report and accopata were not very brilliant, but all they were better than be anticipated af one time: Certain additional items of informa tions which were required by the Board before drawing up the balance were would be found in the sheet, to hand, and shareholders. He had nothing further to say except to express his great ragget unfavourable appearance of the accounts. The 1889 crop, be begged to add, had been sold la Amsterdam, at 70 guilder cents per pound, s was reported on the 12th instant by whe.. That as a better price than they expected it to felch, The total valde of the sales was not stated in the dollars, because they were not yet position to estimate the charges that would
at the
ANOTHER Social purification scheme is being MANY of our readers will doubtless be surprised hatched in England under the fostering care off to learn that the Bluebeard of the nursery story was a real character named Giles de Laval London clergyman, who has the support of a Marshal de Reis, a soldier of France at the close of the fourteenth and shout, the beginning of by member of parliament. The idea is to ren en opposition show to that of the Salvation Army ranks and the services of Mr. Ex-com- the fifteenth century. He was a man of great missioner Smith, who lately seceded from that wealth, but squandered his estates in dissipation
and then, "toʻrecruit his resources, resorted to body, are being ssxiously sought after.
chemy. He had several musiciants in the search for the philosopher'mon, and the diabolical ANOTHER new training ship for prospective rites employed by the searchers demanded the saflors of the Siamess Navy is, says the Bangkok blood and hearts of young children/Boys and Times, now being got ready at the Royal Dock girls of the neighbourhood were, on one pretext Yard, and le a few weeks "more will be put on or another, enticed into his power, and then the active list. We refer to the Thoon Kramon, put to death under dicumstances of great very serviceable salling vessel which has crucity, Plastly, the disappearance of children Authoritter of the long lan at anchor totally neglected, but is became so numerous t now being renovated, and at very smail province and of
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