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FROM enquiries made on beard one of the river boats we fearn that there is quite un epidemic of small-pox in Canton si the present time. THE port of the Pańaroekan, Java, has, we learn, bees thrown open by the Dutch Government to the Import trade and to ships of all nations, Hitherto export trade only, has been carried on at that place.
H.M.S. Pigmy came out of dock at Nagaraki on the 24th February, the repairs to her keel neces- sitated by grounding in the Inland Sea haring been completed. The Pigmy will come on, të Hongkong,
AN Emergency meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, E.C.. will be held in the Freemasons Wall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 6th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
WE would recommend the handsome volume Chinese Characterisilos, by Arthur H. Smith, to all our readers. It should be to the library of every foreign resident in the Far East. Mr. Smith's sketches are admirable pictures of -No liqueur being added, the process of modern Chinese life and character. re-corking is very rapidly effected, so svolding A GOVERNMENT potice will be found in our Tai 03 of carbonle acid gas-the most
advertisement colomas notifying the public that Champagne should always be drunk cold; but on and after. Saturday next, and unill further
property of Champagne. to ball freeze a light, delicate wine by putting is notice, the water supply will be shut off from the whole town between the hours of to a.m. and 6 into an ice-pait for the best part of an hour, to top, and between the hours of 9 pm, and 6 a.. destroy all its Gas vinous properties.
In former years, when heavily Liqueured Champagnes were alone obtainable, a good freezing was necessary to hide the nauseous sweetness of a ten per cent. dose of sugar-candy and alcohol; but consumers now demand a wine free from unnatural "sweetness alcohol-a sparkling vintage which can be taken freely at luncheon or dinner, and which will improve, rather than destroy, the appetite.
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Tax return of shipbuilding in the United Kingdom, recently to hand, show that the new vessals launched up to December" 31st, 1890, represented a total of 1,171,119 tons. During the previous year the total were 1,303,933 tons compared with 963,887 in 1888, and $75,050 tone in 1887.
Nowy was received by, wire in Shanghai sa
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Cochin-China, the Philippine Islands, Carea, Nos 21 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. | February 26 h of the death at home of Mr. W. THERE is little doubt now, says the Nagasakt | Ford, No. 44 is sald.to be the chosen one." and beneficial effect on education in Hongkang.
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We hear that the small engineering shops in this colony are experiencing anything but a prosperous time. One firm at Yau-ma-ti had to shut up skop a few days ago, the wages of the workmen for the month of January not being forthcoming, whilst a like company at East Paint, that recently presented a rather poor report, Is in somewhat similar straits.
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Heaven on the Soochow Creek.
Editor of the Amsy Times has evidently a warm appreciation of the merits of this journal In the Tiwas of February 24th he says We offer our congratulations to our esteemed con- temporary, the Hongkong Telegraph.. For the past ten days, it has been a marvel of news, general and local, well-written articles and bright and interesting matter. We repeat trite assertion when we call it one of the best British papers published either in or out of Great Britain,"
Tia from the Shangkat Mercury of Feb. 26th: The China Navigation steamer Nanchang, wallet coming up the river from Bayd's New Dock in tow of the tag Fukiss this afternoon,
inte the steamer Cass, which was lying at anchor off the Deck. The Ceas paid off all her chain cable to avoid the mishap, but in this endeavour both she and the Nanchang got foul of the barque Walter Seigfried. The Cass lost her gangway ladder, but beyond this litte further damage wai done,"
J. S. BURDON, Bishop, Chairman.
H.M.S Severn, Capt. W. H. Hall, left for Amoy the School by a few months. I did not seem this morning.
honest to ask for subscriptions from the public for an Institutien which was evidently in a A LARGE Chinese funeral, with all its attendant WHILST prowling about Hollywood Rand yester.moribund condition. Paraphernalia, was seen wanding its way West
-The hope of the Committee has always been day afternoon Inspector Quincey and Sergeant this morning followed by a number of European laddan bailed up coolie who was carrying that the school would ultimately become self-
box on bis shoulders. Upon opening it indies, who it was understood were als slonaries. The deceased, we hear, was a partner
found
Endowment Fund was started, and from time to lot of brand new steel type, "leads adoring. It was far this purpose that an pens, visiting cards,
of the Government and prbate friends the "portern could not give a satisfactory explanation of his persuasion · school might have been established in Home of auch useful articles, so was carefully escorted of its own, with an efficient staff. Appeals to this to the Central Station, and faced the music is end were made for about ten years. At last, in the Police Court this morning. Formalevidence 1889 Mr. Balilios mest generously offered to of the arrest only was heard to-day, and the case "srect a. suitable school" building, and the was remanded until Thursday.
Government was asked to grants site on favour. able terms.. IN · consequence,
however, MISS LINN, an Adelaide milliner, the other week withdrawal of $1,000 from the Endowment Fand secured 100 from Mr., Alford, a pure and inno mentioned above, It was THE Chiasse Government, according to report,cent-looking clerk in the sacred land, for breach what was left of the Fund, to purchase the site,
was not found per
ponible, with is said to be very desirous of having John of promise and alleged seduction. The lady is and as from the
numbers
and F
the financial posi Russell Young appointed Minister to Feking, a fetching blonde, aged 23. The defence was tion of the school there seamed no hope of vice Colonel Denby. That, says a San Francisco pecallar: Mr. Alford said he could not marry carrying out the proposed scherms or of its ever for Mr. Young. Of course wa want to send a Alford, who at one time held the high and mighty could not be
his charmer because he was related to Deus | becoming self-supporting, Mr. Belillos oder
definitely sccepted.cl arsens grafe to any court, but the United position of Bishop of Hongkong, Great Casar! The Committee are painfully conscious that Stales, 4t China, should select our representa- What next? We remember Blahop Alford, as the closing of the school will ban real foun to the his time, but this country was unfortunate in its tainly cannot remember anything in that partic. English boys here who need such an education tive in this case. Burlingame suited China in no doubt will many of our senders, and we cer Colony. There are and always will be, many Minister.
olarly ablute member of the holy church to make ns this school has striven to give, and are not SAYS the Chimera Times-Baron vor Seckens us yearn to claim close relationship. Anyhow, likely to oblain it in any other school in the dorff, German Contal for Ticatsin, has returned the ex-Bishop's relative bad to sate up too for Colony. The cost of efficiency is, however, too to Tientsin from his expedition to South Shantung, where he has visited all the stations THAT Indefatigable, able and highly popular Government or the public, or both. These seems
bla llitle somance, and it was cheap at the price. great for a school like ourn to meet, without con finval and large supplies of help either from He had some rough experiences both in travel duties of Acting Registrar-General until quite The Committee offer their warmest thanks to of the German Catholic missions in that province, public servant, who so faithfully discharged the Impossible, and therefore the school must close: and in trouble with the anti-foreign spirit of the recently, and who now bosses the show at the subscribers for their kind and generous help for me a city he was literally beselged the Colonial Treasury, is very busy at the to the school during the last ten years. The he succeeded in making satisfactory arrange of rearing sacking pigs, full-grown pige, aged school is to close. Good work has been done for a time in the hostelty. Eventually, however, present in making inquiries respecting the cost money expended has not been lost because the meats with the Governor at Chinan-fu, by which pigs, and, in fact, all sorts and conditions of that by means of the money subscribed, and the It is hoped that the bad feeling-between the highly interesting genus known to the ancients efficiency of the school during the last 5 years missionaries and the literati with cease,
as sus poreus. A pig farm, is, in fact, to be has been acknowledged freely by all. During established at Little Hongkong and Sergeant these years the Public School has had a marked Rising Sun of Feburary 25th, that the barquee for the stifling sum of $150 per month will To Mr. Bateman, therefore, and all who have Charley, which left Nagasaki for Shanghal with virtually give his time to the rearing, breeding, assisted him, the thanks of the Commilites are In connection with her, it is stated that when she the honourable the Colonial Treasurer happens a cargo of coal on the 8th ulto, has foundered. and fattening of piga pro bono publice. How due and are hereby publicly, tendered. was the German bargas Sin her captain made to be entrusted with the matter of making up
On behalf of the Committee, an attempt to scutife her, and went into the Shanghai tiver reporting that she had foundered, estimates in connection with the Pig. Farm is another ofthose mysteries for which the Hongkong hat she was found by some of the pilots still inner circle" has long been considered wander. afoat, with anger-holes through her side, and fully prolific. The idea of a pig farm lá a good brought safely into port. The captain was after- wards tried in Germany for the came, and better were the matter left entirely in the hands many respects, but we think it would be of imprisonment.
of some enterprising private individual or to a public company, instead of being dependent on official bolstering, as appears to be the case at the present time at all events. All that Mr. Mitchell-Innes and Sergeant Ford know about would fill a very large valame, and the sooner pig breeding, added to what they don't know,
over the better it will be for those who expect, men of experience in the business take the thing 'to beseft by the undertaking. SEVERAL weeks ago we intimated the likelihood of this colony being visited by Harry St. Maur's Comedy Company, which has for a long time past been playing with great success through- out Australia. We now learn that, all being IT may interest our fair readers to know that the well, the Company will probably open here for a hypodermic blush is much in vogue in fashion short season early in June. Mr. Erskine Scott, able circles Just now, and in the case of drama ton with the once popular Mascotte Opera com who will be wall remembered locally in connec where the moral is rather too suggestive it is
bination, and who is now business manager to Mr. absolutely Indispensable. It is brought about by injecting a little colouring-matter lato each
St. Maur, writes from Adelaide that the Comedy Company intended opening in Sydney for a six cheek, and for two hours it gives the wearer a
look of offended sensibility and soft confusion. After which they would perform for a similar
weeks engagement in the middle of Then it fades away, and leaves her with a wild, period in Brisbane, and then, come straight on greeny-yellow aspect, as if her dinner were in Insurrection on the surface of an internal sen, to Hongkong. Mr. Scott says the St. Madr Comedy Company is the strangest that has ever and abe is blinded by the glare of her own nose,
travelled. . It' comprises Mr. Harry St. Maur, Mr. for the colour rushes to that organ, and resists any known form of medical treatment short of Christie Murray favorably known as novella murder. Ten years hence, there will be an
and author, Miss Florence Seymour (an old Impression abroad that beauties of 1890 were a
Hongkong favorite), Mr. Gea. P. Carey, hard-dalaking race, and many of them will Australian's leading low comedias, and thirteen adopt the faith of St Peter, and hide an hope-er well and favorably known artists. The repertoire is an extensive one and Includes, lessly inflamed proboscis in a quanery,
such novelties as "Jim the Pannan," "Betsy," "Brighton. The Candidate," " Pink Dominos," and other London Criterion comedies, in addition to Mr. Christle Murray's productions, such, as "Chimes," only recently produced, "Little Lord Fauntleroy," "The Fatal Enor," etc. The Company proposes playing for a month fa Hongkong, devoting a couple of months to our School Fees
****$2,538,00 friends in Shanghai, and then dolug Kobe Subscriptions................. 130.00 and Yokohama, afterwards revialling " Fragrant | Grant-in-ald (School portion) Streams" on route to Singapore and India, Mr. for 1887
Fund
sentenced to a term of
A LITTLE girl, aged about 10 years, the daughter of a journeyman tailor, who was lost at Happy Valley during the races, was found by defectives Hadden and Quincey under a stack of coke in a marine hawker's store way down Praya West, this afternoon. She was concealed in a clothes- basket behind the foel, and, owing to the fact that she dare not cry for help, was all but over. looked by the officers named, who having got scent the whereabouts of the missing one, fairly tamed the place up-alde-down whilst pursuing their search. The hawker and missus are now in goal, and will appear at the magisterial levar 20-morrow morning.
of
A GOOD deal of credence was attached to a rumour in shipping circles to-day relative to the with- drawal from the Canton river of the China Mar chants Steams Navigation. Company's steamer. Kiangkwan. The Klangkwan is at present in dock undergoing a general overhaul, but whether or not she is being "done up" preparatory to a THE report of the Registrar of Joint Stock Com trip North, for the purpose of resuming duty on pantes in Singapore shows that during last year the Yangtze, we are unable to say positively, five new companies were registered, the Straits There would appear, however, to be some truth Steamship Co, the Castlewood Planting Co., the in the mmeur respecting her having bees Sambas Pie Co., and Howarth Erakte
Syndicate the Sings the China Merchants' office we were told that "bought off the Canton run. On inquiry at Lid. During the same period five companies no direct reply could be given, either in the have also been wound up, the Pakan Baroe affirmative or negative at present. At all evests Planting Co., the Borneo and Malay Steam. Chinese fares by the Henam, Fatsham and ship Co., the Singapore Tramway Co, and the Hankow have been raised to fifty cents, whilst Rawang Mining Co. The Registrar says be the Pawan continues to run opposition to the has reason to believe that same companies Pasig at the reduced tariff-twenty cents. The are pot carrying on bustness, and that some have new Chinem-owned steamer is rapidly belpg been merged into new companies, and he there fitted up at Wanchai, and is expected to" shortly fore proposes to take steps to enforce the take her place on iké river, Ordinance...
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Hongkong, 10th February, 1891.
The following Tables, shewing the bulk of Income and Expenditure since 1886;taken from the Annual Reports, explain and justily the above Statement of the Committee:
1896,-Altendance 57.
Incomia.
-$4,316.38
Subscriptions 1,850,00 School Fees....................................$1,858,00 Interest of Endowment Fund, 598.38
Expenditure, Allowance to Mr. and Mrs. Salary of Mr. & Mrs. Bateman$1,590.00
Passages of Mr. and Mrs
Bateman for furnishing...... 18a00 Bateman from England. Books and Stationery Carried to Endowment Fund. 200.00
909.20 -419.67
-$3.898.87.*
1887. Attendance. 48. The falling, off, as compared with last year was attributed to epidemic of fever, and the leaving of several pupils for England. School Fees,..................$1,184.00
Income.
Subscriptiat 1,8x5.00 Interest of Endowment Fund,
699.66
Expenditure. Salary of Mr. & Mrs. Esteman$1,920.00 Rent for Mr. & Mrs. Bateman
for 9 months.mon $40.00 Assistants
110.00 Fassage of Assistans from
England
371.92 Stationery & School Materials, 196.70 Canied to Endowment Fund 1,000.00
-$4,591.66
-$4,138,6a
1988. Total number on School · Roll 66. Average attendance 55.
Income.
306.15
719 58
-$4.943-73
St. Manz is trying a risky, experiment in coming interest from Endowment but if the company is a really high class one, to the Far East with such a numerous following and the female element is a prominent, feature,
Expenditure.. a big financial success is likely to be the result | Salary of Mr. and Mrs. Bate
HONGKONG PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Head Master,-C. J. BATEMAN,*? Formerly Head Master of Modern Department, Trent College, Notts; Head Master of Alsop's Foundation School,
Barton-on-Trent Head H
Master of British patla
Orphan Alylum; an epito bad
Slough. Second Master-G, M. EYRE WHEELER, Late Third Master of St. Augustine's School, Dewsbury, Yorkshire.
Salary of Miss Bateman, Musi
33.00 Salary of Assistant Master... 525,00 Rent of Head Master's House 720.00 Special donation towards Men ́ dical expenses of Head. Master Garcia School material and books ... Carried to Endowment Fund
150.00 298.58 200.00
~$4,383-58
1889-Total number on School Roll 58. * Average attendance 45,
Encausa. School Fees, Subscriptions...
$2,078.00 932.00
AVEESEL laden principally with beer was recently We read in home papers that Sir John Pope wrecked at the month of the Swan River, Western Hennessy is one of the most talked about, and, Australia, and the dreary city of Penth foresaw & shall we say, beat abused politicans of the beur. cheap drunk such as no inhabitant had Many people bava been asking whether his gren in his wildest moments ever dreamed of proposal to relieve the Sovereign and members before. Every man who could raise a boat was out Sahing for beer, and people who had no boats of the Royal Family from all religious disabilities WAS made seriously. It was sad that great couldn't swim went forth on rafts and gates and awan and dived in starch of beer, men who pressure had been or would be brought to bear planks and everything else that would float, and the Hongkong Fablle School are compelled to
It is with sincere regret that the Committee of Grant-in-ald for 1/88,240,69 to induce him to withdraw it, and the question, dragged the beer of the bosom of the heaving announce to subscribers and parents of puplishment Fund,
Interest from Endow-- was raised whether his motion would be in o
*560.00 One paper
claims to be in a position to stated. And then, jest when the drunk was fairly that the School must be closed on the goth of Four Bondi draws from Ve that the proposition was placed on the paper in i progres, the police came down with an Jane next.
Endowment Fund,ne 2,000,00 good faith, and that Sir John certainly intends intimation that beer fannd drifting around at sea
The following Statement, giving the re
reasons te propsed with it, though it should be observadi † was the property of the Crown, and so the grass | óf this step, is snhaviited by, the Committed galary of 'Mr. Bateman (Mrs. Expendliure vanished away, for the Queen bad confiscated in response to an application from him, to the withered, and the tower faded, and the sunshine In January, 1889, the Head Master's all the liquor that was left. Evidently her Committee, was rained, notwithstanding the Gracious, propresented abroad, has an eye for serious loss to the School of Mri, Bateman's anything that la drinkable, but the next time a services at the end of 1888, and it was also detez- wreck takes place at the Swan River, Victoriained to hand over to the Head Master what by the grace etc., may do salvage duty herself. ever portion of the Government Grant should Her loyal subjects are fealing tired.
fall to the School in addition to his own share.
retirement at Mr. and Missy Hateman, and 1895-Attendance between 30 and 40: Mrs. engaged from England, partly because of the partly in the hope that by this step the Bateman returned to the School to teach the School
would attract more pupils. The total younger bayssandales responsible was $4 Boo for yearly salaries and School Fees $1,666,00 amount for which the Committee thus became house allowances alons. Unhappily, lastead of
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At Yaen-Ming-Yuen Road, Shanghal, on the that it cannot be moved unless Mr. Gladstone's 26th February, the wife of R. LAWRIE Surre, of | Diß in read a second time," 1 daughter, stillborn, prematurely,
THE old Cinque ports of Sandwich, the entrance to which is obtained through the River Stour, has been the scope of a most interesting dia covery. The river changed its course the other day, and laid bare a vessel in excellent preserva. tan The buried vessel was of foreign build has become a venerally accepted fact, all the A second Moster was at, the same tiran
ridently Italian, of several hundred year of 200 The local bistory of Sandwich has it that yon years ago, in the reign of Henry Vill, Italian vessel belonging to the pope sank at the entrance to the then fourlahing port of Sandwich. The sand slited round the wreck and formed entrance as to ruin the navigation of the pert, bank, which eventually so blocked up the which dealised until it reached its prosent in #galficant condition.
HONGKONO, TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1891,
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
published, either in Hongkong or any other part where on the Nine Pins whilst coming to Heat We leam that the French gunboat. Vipère van kang from Amoy, on Saturday. She will ge late cock for repairs.
"THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND THE German man-of-war Alisandrins was HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers docked at Kowloon yesterday, faides the place Special Advantages as an Advertising Mellom. Li has an extensive circulation in all, Ports of the Sophis, of the same aguadron, which has between Singapore and Nowchwang, in the undergone a slight overkant,
preilinary heats of the boxing and fexcing wall tepih, nice can be decided at the City
to-pight, were carried out at the gymnasioce fast evening in the presence of
Bateman having resigned)..$2,250.00 Salary of Mr. Wheater. 1.440.00. House Allowances for 2
Masters... 1,050,00 Passage of Mr. Waceler from
England ..
́ ́346.91' Stationery and Books
219.05
Income.
Exbindíture.
decreased. This was atributed by Mr. Bateman, Salaries and House Allowances
increase of pupils the number actually
World over, and especially locally, that a police man's life not a happy ones and her auch more truly can the same be said of a broker's their being under the friendly shadow of the War
e refer particularly to those who live and have Clock Tower, and the verandahs of Queen's navigate the following ukase which has been Road, who will be sorely pressed to circum posted up all over the colony
asin 1889...comisioni 4,800.00 "Whereas it appears that the side-walks of
at the beginning of last year (1890) to the opening
559.70 Queen's Road Central and of Pedder's Straet are Victors College with ita atractive quarters Books and Stationery wi
and large o staff of teachers, and the raising of the frequcally obstructed by persons collecting in efficiency of other schools in the Colony All numbers and standing loftering thereon, so as these schools charge: smaller fees than3 the a to throng and obstruct rack thoroughfares to Pablle School could afford to ask. If an increase School, it must come
portant consideration. In 1889, therefore, while
Australasian Colonies, the United States, and "CAN nothing more be done for the prisoner, Large-sumber of spectators. The bezing, taken || the annoyance of those desirous of legitimately was to come to the mail lees are an im
WHA ENDOWMENT FUND.
||1883-Donation from E R. Bellion,
· Esq; invested in Chinesa Imperial the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges Mr. Brief I fear not, sir,”. "The legal all round, was a great improvement on that using the same. has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate expedients are all exhausted, are they ""No, of interest was evinced in the proceedings by the Captain Experintendent of Palice directs that as the income both from fees and donations was 1883--Increased by other donations to Bonds." Interest zuły to be used shewn at tao last competition, and a good deal Now by virtue of Ordinance to of 1869 the from the class with
for School Terms can be leamed on application.
bat the prisoner's money În.”
generi pahile in the first light-weight heat or on the by smaller than, in 1889, the expenditure was so 188 Suggestions for the improvement of this work Ax adjourned Convocation of St. Andrew's Baberwards defeated by Richardsos, who also of Queen's Road Central and Peddar's Street.
beat H. Chandler, the former lettering or standing in thronge on the side-paths large that the treasurer was, compelled to draw 1685 are respectfully solicited..
Chapter, No. 21, S.C., will be held in war Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, to-morrow krocked C. Robinson
aut. Rodger whipped A persons dianbeying this direction are liable $1,000 from the Endowment Fund to meet it. 1886-
Last year (1800) was the only year stace the Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE. / evening, at å for 8.30 o'clock precisely, Visiting | Legs, so the final now lies between, the former sa conviction to a fine or imprisonment, ## } opening of the School when no Subscription List› |
companions are cordially invited.
and Richardson. - In the heavy weights Wark provided by section 5 of Ordianace to of 1859. defeated Laing, and Rodger "ald up" Stewart,
(Signed) · W. M. DRANT, DURING the last voyage of the steamer Railz | Rodger in causequence is eligible for both the
Captain Superlatendant of Fallon." up to Canton it is reported that an out-bassk of light and heavy weight montests; in the former, This is all very wall, and the massure would some unknown disease occurred amongst these stated, he will moet Richardson and in the perkape work to the comfort of the general public passengers, only made of whem, however, died latter Work. The faal in the fencing lies if it were: Impartially, anteced. But wil kr before ranching Casten.
between Blade and Laing,
be done 1 Flime will thow,
?
sat the various
MENTS may be sent to the Agents a Ports, or to the Office of:
THE HONGKONG TELEGR MAANA PADDER'S HILL, HONGKOS ( † Mongkong, 19th January, 1893.
-$5.365.96
00.00
(6.00)
385,00
9914 Was sent round to the Community. In the pre 1889-Decreased by $2,000 to 7,914-80. vious years: (1889) the Subscriptions only 1690-fold amounted to $93%, and eyed this yaua waS COL lected with great dificulty floo, had the jist ben sent round, subscriptions to the amount of $1,000 or even $1,500ma vam unlikely figure to Ja
sound only have delayed the diócing of Bank
STATEMENT BY TH JACKSON, ES OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OF SCHOOL. WOW RYTM Decaxars, 1890.:
Balance na por Paso Manliusis
J
$