body in such a manner as made it appear doubtíol whether our valuable aids of the Cor- tome would not remain for a “full due” on the | opposite side of the river, as, with a riotous mob front and rear, where were they likely to be? Mr. Bourne's suggestion was carried by accia mation.
On the motion of Mr. Von Best, seconded by Mr. Brockelmann, it was agreed that all the members now present do now sign their names, promising "pull devil, pulf -baker" they`would all pull together as one man in case of emer gency. The vigilance committee was then elected consisting of Mr. Alfred Rewo, Dr. Schrameler, Mons. Recharme, Mr. Lefrentz, Mr. Karanjia
This was naturally supposed to have completed the object of the meeting, when a German gentleman at the table startled the audience by asking the question who was to give the order to fire. This appeared to be a knotty question for our Teutonic friends, and it would seem as if German law, certainly not German practice so far as my experience goes, is somewhat vague on this point. Mr. Bourne however was again | able to expound the British law on the point to the effect that if you saw a party in the act of slaying you had a right to slay that individual, but if he was only attempting to break into a house well then you had to wait and ask the ¦ Consul. This exposition apparently relieved the minds of all, whether French, German, or British. But I imagine when a riot takes place no hard and fast rules can be observed and no fine distinctions drawn, and therefore it is simply Bonsense talsing such questions. An act of slot In China against foreigners to to all intents and purposes an act of war. As a general rule you give the order to fire when the first shot or the first attack is made by the enemy in such cases, but it is pure balderdash if the faw bere necer sitates one in case of riot running to the Consul when one stes rioters breaking into one's com patriots houses. We on Shameen certainly don't want or intend to shelter ourselves, like Parnell, under "Kitty's petticoats." So passed aif one of the most numerously attended, well conducted, and sympathetic meetings ever beld on Shameen, and the principle that "Union la Strength" was recognized throughout, I would add that Mr. Commissioner Unwin courteously informed the meeting that at an interview with the Viceroy that afternoon His Excellency depre- cated any serious cause for alarm, and antici
pated that he would be quite able to suppress any
trouble whatever. It would appear that the northern disturbers have sent inflammatory placards down here. But to be equal to the occasion the Nam-hoi and Pun-ya Magistrates have issued proclamations that anyone found Fasting inflamimatory placards against foreigners will by order of the Viceroy be summarily decapitated.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1891.
increase of about" Th. 3,500 (say a per cerit.), while in export duties there was a falling off of nearly 8 per cent. On the other hand, curiously enough, import İlkin showed a decrease and export likin an increase. But these differences were after all trifling and went far to adjust each other, the only serious falling off to be accounted for, if possible, being that in opium. What explanation can be offered will be found below when speaking of o
oplam itself.
As already stated in the openlig paragraph, the figures in the tables show a very large increase in the value of Imports, due in the main to the excess of rice and paddy limported in 1896 as compared with the previous year. Making allowance for this, howeve, as well as for the falling off in opium, the figures still show a satisfactory growth of the trade in general merchandise. Cotten plece goods of all kinds, for example, have advanced from over 63,000 pieces to nearly 99,000 pieces, while kerosene all has increased from over a million gallons in 1889 to not far short of 7 million gallons in 1890, and this notwithstanding the "Battery Tax of 40 dollar cents the case (about as per cent ad valorem) which was imposed from about the middle of the latter year. Metals and woollens also show considerable increases in the aggregate, though the latter do not figure up to any great amount in these latitudes. On the other hand, cotton yarn has diminished from 16,640 plcals in 1889 to 5,600 pleuis la rego. Thit, however, is not a falling off to be lamented over, as it simply means that the article has been imported in greater quantities in foreiga vessels to the Treaty ports to obtain for it the advantage of the transit pass for conveyance into the interior. In goods of Chinese origin imported from Hongkong there has been a fall. off, but not to such an extent in the case of any particular article as to require comment,
Exports show an increase in the aggregate the most noticeable advance being in white raw silk, which increased from 2,000 pleuis to 1889 to 3,500 plculs in 1893. Silk plece goods have also advanced (by nearly 30 per cent. in value), and the same may be said of cassic lignea, fans, flab, fruits, fire-crackers, grasscloth, medicines, paper, fecah provisions, and brown sugar. On the other hand bamboo-ware, china ware, clothing, glassware, mats, samein, wild allk, white sugar, and tobacco have fallen off.
Re-exports as such are not declared at the
Kowloos Customs Stations, there being no system of dmwhacks in operation such as obtains at the Treaty ports,
The only traffic of the nature of a coast trade which is taken note of by the Kowloos Curams is that carried on in junks which pass and report at the stations on their way from one port to another on the coast or up the Canton river and its branches. The whole trade is not one of great dimensions, but such as it is it is on the Increase, bavlug expanded from something less than rẻ million Lacis in 1889 to over 21 million taels in 1890. The most important article taken note of is salt, while other commodities which reach respectable figures are split bamboo, firewood, gassware, packing mats, live pigs, and wood poles.
Inland Transit, as the expression is under stood, that is, the conveyance of merchandise to and from the interior under transit pass and on payment of half the tariff duty, is defined by Treaty, does not take place in connexion with the Kowloon Customs Stations, which are not Treaty ports. Asxplained above, the Kowloon trade is entirely a native one, governed by native rules which do not provide for the composition of all inland taxes by a single fixed payment at the port of entry or shipment.
land river carriage either from Swalow or; Canton. Similarly, over a year ago a much larger amount of opium "paid "duty and likin at Changchow Station to the westward than at present. It would appear that districts to the westward of Macao which at that time obtained much of the opium they required from Hongkong have since procured a large proportion of it in the ocarer market of Macao, avoiding in this way the dangers of the long sea foamer While the causes mentioned have had their effect, these can be no doubt that the fluctuations in the opfum importation have also been closely influenced by the varying fortunes and activity of the smuggling organisations. My predecessor, n his report for 1889, was able to record his opinion that smuggling was not very rife at the close of the year he was reviewing" but the fears be at the same time expressed of a develop ment of the illicit traffic, should necessary Colonial legislation be delayed, were not long in being realised. The decision of the Supreme Court Hongkong in November 1889, regarding the Interpretation to be put upon the word "chest" la the Oplum Ordinance, gave great encouragement and a fresh impetus to smuggling enterprise. The decision laid down that as the Ordinance was worded a "chest" did not mean a chest with Its full quantity of opium still in it, as was suppered and intended, but only the quantity usually spoken of as a "chest," and that it was no breach of the Ordinance to carry oplum into, within, and out of the colony in separate balls or parcels, provided only care was taken to keep ne many balls or parcels in close company as usually go to make up a chest. The smugglers finding that the law of the colony did not, as they and everybody else had supposed, prevent repacking in small parcels, and being thus relieved of all risk of being interfered with by the Hongkong police, soon set about perfecting their organisation for smuggling on a large scale The varying success with which smuggling has been carried on bas had, as might be expected, its effect on the legitimate trade in oplem. But, to judge of this one must not look at the Kowloon figures alone. So many districts in the Kwangtung province can receive their supplies of oplum with almost equal facility and convenience from Canton, Kowloon, or Lapps, and a portion of the trade can be so easily diverted from the one to the other route, that more correct conclusions can be drawn from the study of the statistics of the three custom houses combined than if looked at separately. When thas combined it is seen that during 1869, while the virtue had not yet gone out of Opium Ordinance, the average weekly entries at the three Custom-houses equalled 321 picuis acarly. During the first two quarters of 1890 this average had already fallen to 306 plculs; while durlag the third quarter, when smuggling across the frontier was most rampant, the weekly average fell as low as 269 piculs, to rise again during the fourth quarter, when that, smuggling had been stopped, to 310 plculs; and it may be added that during the first quarter of 1891 the weekly average has been as high as 332 piculs, and is continuing to increase. Ordinary commercial vicissitudes may have had something to do with the fluctuations in the legitimate trade, but it is scarcely possible to assume that these fluctuations could have synchronised so closely with the changing fortunes of smugglers without there having been some conexion of cause and effect between them.
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SIMLA, June 4th. Further papers laid before Parliament, state that Palken Kahar, who saw Mr. Quintos killed, deposed that the British officers had half an hour's conversation with the Jabraj and Senapati and were then seized and killed. The Manipuris first cut off their hands, then their feet, then their heads. Their bands were tied and then cut off, then their fret, were cut off as they stood. Mr. Quinion was killed first.
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A company of soldiers whilst being drilled near Berlin to-day was struck by lighting. Several of the men were severely injured, many A of them remaining senseless for a long time.
LONDON, June 9th. Sir Edward Clarke, Solicitor-General, in his & reply for the plaintiff in the baccarat libel case, urged that young men after a convival evening were hardly able to observe overcarefully.
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The Solicitor General produced a great sena R tion in Court by declaring that the removal of Sit W. Gordon-Cumming's name from the Army Liat was impossible, if the names of the Prince of Wales and General Owen Willems were to be retained.
The Wilsons, he further said, were originally mistaken and afterwards sought to entrap the plaintiff. The adding of the counters was explained by Sir Gordon-Cumming's system of play. The charge of withdrawing counters, which he admitted was not similarly explainable, had been abandoned. It was impossible to understand General Owen Williams, Lord Coventy and the Prince of Wales. bellering a comrade gulity on such evidence. The whole affairs was evidently a sacrifice to save the Prince of Wales.
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The speech was was greeted with applause in Court,
June 10th,
On the baccarat libel case" being resumed
to-day, General Owen Williams claimed the protection of the Court, declaring that Sir Edward Clarke, in his reply for the plaintiff yesterday, had accused him (General Williams) of dishon curable conduct.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, however, declined to hear General Williams.
The papers, commenting on the baccarat libel action, mostly concar with the verdict. In all the articles the connection of the Prince of Wales with the scandal is criticised
The Times says what most distresses the pub- lie was that the game was played with counters belonging to the Prince and that the Frince's set are a gambling, baccarat-playing set. It would rejoice to learn that His Royal Highness had undertaken, like Sir William Gordon-Cum- ming, never to play cards again.
The Times says it is mischievous, even dangerous, in these days for personal defaults to shock the monarchical principle.
The Standard is equally strong. It is inadvis able, it says, that the Heir to the Empire should gamble in mized company, travel with his own baccarat counters and become involved, how ever innocently, in transactions leading to accusations of cheating, to midnight conclaves, to public scandals and to actions in the law
Various rumours fill the alt, the latest to-day being a contemplated attack on Honam opposite
June 25th. Since-writing you yesterday particulars have reached me of an unfortunate occurrence almost on all fours with that of the Hankow tragedy of 1883, and which no doubt has contributed to the uneasy feeling in this neighbourhood of the past few days. It would appear that a Portuguese watchman of the same of Jesus, who did not set up to the principies of his glorious namesake, on Monday last had a quarrel with an Itinerant fruit or cake hawker on bound the H. C. & M. S.. B. Co.'s vessel Honam, the cause of which is said to have been a demand for money from the Chindman, who oljected and in consequence was assaulted. The Chinaman retaliated, and Jesus, finding himself going to the bad, is stated to have drawn his kulfe and eitber stabbed the man or else he wounded himself in
A very considerable increase in the junk the scuffle Fortunately the wounds are not
traffic
courts. lawards and outwards past the different considered fatal, and Jesus has 'skedaddled. It stations has been recorded. The total number is particularly unfortunate that rach aneccurrence of entries of junks and Kowloon steara should take place at such a moment, when the launches combined, which 1888 was 47,581 slightest spark will kindle the smouldering flame and in 1889, 54,091, rose in the year under into a blaze. There is no doubt these Portuguese review to 63,250, or an advance of 17 per cent. watchmen on board the River steamers are too arer last year. The steam-launches included in handy with their caner, hands, and as it proves the figures are the ferry-launches which ply knives, although the Captains, it is only fair to between Victoria (Hongkong) and Kowloon city, do everything possible to check and which are occupied solely in pausenger them and immediately punish them when traffic. Deducting these steam-launch entries, any complaints are brought to their notice. in the aggregate 7,088, there remalo 55,162 All kinds of rumours are flying about; entire of junks, of which 42,833 bad cargo on Shameen, according to one rumour, was to have board and 13.329 were in ballast. Of the ballast been attacked at 2 a.m. this morning, but need. entries two-thirds were on the outward trip, that manifest other than a true stalement of the cargo sample all imported teal. less to say things then and now are as rerene as is on their way from China to Hongkong. Of usual. A mandarin has been depated to see to the junk eatrics 60 per cent, were at Capsul- the removal of nil insulting placards against moos, 20 per cent, at Focchow. 13 per cent. at foreigners, one of which, torn down yesterday Kowloon, and y per cent, at Changchow. The was illustrated with a headless foreigner, as direct Junk traffic between Hoogkong and Macao," both ways combised, which had been indicative of the authors' desire or intention.
1,350 fa 1888, advanced from 1,574 in 1889 to ROWLOON CUSTOMS REPORT""
1,623 to 1890. During the year three junk trips were made in each direction between Hongkong FOR 1890.
and Annam, and two junks cleared outwards with declared destiration for Singapore.
Like the other branches of trade, the passenger traffic has also increased during
Bay.
In his report for 1890' Mr. Commissioner McLeary Brown says:—
The value of the whole trade which passed through the Kowloon Customs stations In 1890 shows a marked increase over that of any previous year recorded, having been Tls 38,593,133, as against To. 33,215,916 in 1889, an increase of Tis, 6,376,216 (say nearly 20 per cent.), and Tls, 35,298,315 in 1888, an increase of Tis. 4.293.837 (Bay 9 per cent.). This advance has taken place in the face of a falling off of over Tis. 370,000 in the value of the oplum Imported. It must be pointed out, however,
and outwards having been 640,955. as
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No native oplum has been declared at the Kowloon Stations during 1800, nor are they any data obtainable to show what amount of it, if any, has been consumed within the district.
The work at the several Stations was carried on satisfactorily during the year. The trade is of great importance to all con- cerned, and no efforts have been spared or considerations neglected by which facilities could be extended and delays avoided, as far as the equally imperative duty of safeguarding the revenue would allow. This is fully recognised by the honest trader as well as by the smuggler, The Stations being mere places of call, not of final discharge for cargo, it is never possible to verify more than a small percentage to mani- fests an actual taily of cargo. Masters and shippers know this, and it is pleasant, therefore, to be able to record that the instances are rarc in which attempts are discovered to make the on board.
The Daily News says the Prince of Wales is bound to live a simple, pure and cleanly life, as rigorously as if the obligation were embodied In the Constitution. It is in fact, the Daily News thinks, grotesque for the Prince of Wales to be seen carrying gambling materials like à Maho- medan carrying his prayer carpet.
The Famer's Gaselia says the Prince of Wales should rule his private life with more decorum, sobriety and aclf-restraint, and should imitate the purity of his mother's court,
Government Inspectors have been appolated in nearly every port in the United Kingdom to
June,irth.
FROM HONGKONG TO SHANGHAI shire, resulted in a defeat of Yorkshire by forty
IN THE NINETIES.
A gentleman who vouches for the truth of the story sends the following to the Shanghai Mercury-We left Hongkong in Messrs. S. & Co.'s fine new steamer For the first two days all went well, and we began to flatter our- selves that we should beat the English Mail, which left Hongkong with us, Our captain smiled a smile of sweet contentment; already
in anticipation be grasped the agent's hand of Congratulation. But, ales! for the vanity of wishes! On the third night we anchored off Tong-ting in a dense fog. The fog prevailed and thickened the following day. Our captain looked glum. But now comes the bistory and adventure, which but for the fog would never have happened. During the day wa observed numerous suspicious-looking junks cruising around the abip. There were night of them in particular, each having on board about a dozen piratical and ferocious-looking fellows. menacing altitude, and when ordered off became abusive. Finally they anchored aatern in a cluster and appeared to be holding council of war. Great consternation prevailed on board. Our brave captain boldly declared that he had never seen such a thlog during the whole of his 30 years' experience at sea.
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five ruins.
News has reached Mozambique that the Chief Quasela with four thousand followers has revolted against Portuguese rule and has declared in favour of the British, Portuguese troops have been sent to quell the revolt.
The following la the result of the race for the Ascot Gold Cup run to-day:~-~-
The Ascot Gold Cop, valus 1,000 sava, given from the fund, with 200 sovs for the second and too sors, for the third, added to a sweepstakes ́ol to sova, each, he R. About až miles,
Lord Hartington's b. c. Morlon by Barcaldine Chaplet, 4 Year Hagioscope-Mathilda, 4 years. 2 Mr. Lascelles' b. c. Queen's Birthday by
nandez-Chérie, 4 years........................
Mr. J. Gretton's ch. c. Gonsalvo: by Fer-
PARIS, June 11th,
that the greater part of the increase represents and to the stoppage of the privilege which Janks Towards nightfall they approached the ship in a } expedition whick started for the interior of Afilea
the year, the total numbers carried inwards against 603 971 in 1889. In 1888 the members were about 2,500 higher than last year, due to very large passenger movement which then existed part Fotochow to and from places along the east coast, the figures for which declined from 73.114 in 1888 to 46,372 in 1889 and 27.177 in 1800. This rapid', filling off has been no docht due to the recrudescence of piracy in the deeply indented bays to the cast of Hongkong with valuable cargoes then possessed of having themselves towed by seam-launches through these unsala watera. The traffic past Chang, chow has also fallen off, but to a less extent, and probably largely from the same cause-an in creased fear of piratical attack. On the other hand nearly socce more passengers paased Capsul moon in 1800 than in 1889, and the excess of thora who landed and embarked at Kowloon in 1890 as compared with the previous year was over 45,000. The above figures show what an extensive passenger traffic is kept up between the Colony and the neighbouring mainland, even with the slow, uncertain, and unsafe means of communication at present available, and there can be little doubt that this traffic will increase manifold as soon as the lumbering junk has been replaced by lines of suitable craft propelled by steam and piring regularly between Hong- kong and the principal ports on the coast.
Treasure does not seems to be carried by Janks in these waters, or not in quantities to make it an article of freight of which statistics can be collected,
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A report has reached Loando that the French
last July, under the command of the Explorer Crampel, has been massacred and eaten by a tribe of cannibals in the Matonra country.
Sir W. Gordon-Cumming married an American heiress on the morning of the roth inst..
The following is the remalt of the race for the Ascot Stakess-Houndediich, west, Plate, second, Bormucido, third,
The travellers by the Orient express train, who were recently taken captive by a band of brigands, have now been released,
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The crew and passangers mustered aft. Rißes and revolvers were served out, but, to this dis« masy of all, it was found that the only cartridges on board-Snider-were atterly useless. in the rifles-"Marini Henty." However, the revolvers were quickly loaded; the coglucer grasped, his hot-water hose and each one stood to his post, Scorr's Emulsion of Fare Cod Liver Of with WILLARD firmly resolved to do or dle the former for & Hypoph wphites, is more reliable as an agent cholce. The excitement was intense. Two in the cure of Consumption, Bronchitis and ladies fainted, and were promptly carried below.
General Debility, than any other remedy known At length, after a torturing five minutes, just to medical science. Read the following -"I as the pirates were preparing to board, our bave prescribed 'Scott's Emulsion' and have gallart skipper, considering that, after all, also taken it myself, and can fully endorse the discretion is the better part of valour, resolved opinion that it is both palatable and efficient, to steam ahead and take all the risks of the and can be tolerated by almost any one- rocks, by which we were surrounded, With a especially where Cod Liver Oil itself cannot be howl of disappointment from the pirates we borne," MARTIN MILES, M.D. &c., Stantonbury, gave them a parting shot and more than one Bucks Any Chemist can. supply A. S rascal war seen to throw uphis arms. The tide
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the excess of foreign rice imported in 1800 over 1829. While as a matter of commerce rice pays the merchant as well as any other article, the necessity for its importation is not mark of prosperity in the districts requiring it, which are themselves rice-producing. The greatest part of the recorded increase was in foreign imports under which heading the rice brought in is included; but native imports also show an increase of nearly 13 per cent, and exports of about 40 per cent.' There was therefore as regards the general trade atlafactory advance all along the line. It is worth pointing out that of the goods dealt with during the year, about 776 per cent, passed through Capsulmooz, 12 per cent. passed Fotochow, and about gå per cent. reported At Changchow, while a trifle over i per cent. (FAY TH. 420,000) represented the total value of the commodities which passed in either direc tion between Hongkong and the city of Kowloon, The regular reveque collection, as shown in the tables, fell off in 1890 as compared with 1889 by about 77. 6,700,- oF SAY about 1 per cent, on the figures of the latter The total Importation of foreign oplum fell year. The totals compared do not, however, from 2,453 plculs in 1889 to 1,810 plculs Include the amounts collected as Granary tax on in 1890, a decrease of 643 piculs, or nearly rice and paddy, which are allowed to be exported as per cent. The causes of this heavy falling within certain limits and under express permiss off when viewed in connexion with positive it, so we soon were out of sight. Peace was don for the use mainly of the Chinese residents Increases at Swatow on the one side and restored. Dinner was severed, and we found our In Hongkong, who-les-some-purposes-prefer-Lappa on the other, and-a-comparatively-lightappetites not in the least affected by our recent native rice to foreign. If the Granary tax be decrease at Canton, are not easy to race. Two narrow escape. included in each year's figures, it will be seen reasons have been assigned which, accounting The moral of this is -Owners and captains- that the gross total taken by the Kowloon office to some extent for the falling off at Kowloon, look to your "Sniders" and "Martinis. Our in 1890 exceeded the collection of the previous also go to explain the increases at Swatow and captala had piezasctly informed us that arms and year by about Tit. 2,200, but fell short of Lagpa. Prior to 1800 much opium paying duty ammunition had been put on board when the Bigares of 1888 by over Tis. 37,000, Asst Fotochow found its way to the east coast in ship was launched two years previously, but he Between 1889 and 1890, the difference in the Junks, which were then permitted to engage the had quite forgotten to examine them. This, I fear, collections, taken in the aggregate, was trifling's services of launches to tow them to their destins la but too often the case. After recent piratical but on examining some of the headings in detail, cons, or at least part'he places w. To were exploits on the China coast, still freak in the marked fluctuations have to be noted. The dangerous from the presence of pirates.
memory of all, total amount of duty and Alcin collected on opium the end of 1859 this towing privilege was with captains of steamers to take onlinary precautions arely it behoves, owners and 1889 2, In round numbers, Tis. 370,000 dinwn by the Canton authorities with the view, for protection. A few armed and determined Captain S. Ashton, will be despatched for the
1890 only 724. 199,000. This falling off it was sated, of compelling the trade to make of Tis. 75,000 was targely made up for by the use of the inland routes. The way by ses Chinese, accomplish a great deal against Increase in the collection under the heading became in consequence unsafe, as it did also for hopeless. What might have been our fate had arms the case were indeed Ching-fel, which wielded some 71s, 68,coo more the passenger, traffic, and the districts which we been entirely helpless, and at the mercy of tu 1890 than in 1889. In general import duties, formerly obtained their plans by the direct san dona fide pirates--and they exist-I leave your Jhat id, not including optum, there was a slight! recte wies conspelled to draw their supplies by renders to imagine.
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Today's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW. THE Company's Steamshly
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abore Forts on SUNDAY, the a8th instant, at
For Freight or Passage, apply tom vindo na Daylights: @hers lahir dengaran. DERMAYAN
WEMA DOUGLAS LAFRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong ujth Jüney alon
21 ARTISTES
of
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COMPANY.
· EXCEPTIONAL VOCAL' ABILITY,
* Have arrived per S.S. Pakin,
And will give thair Opening Performance vi
LE above.
WEDNESDAY, the zat July,
in Von Suppe's Great Opera "BOCCA CC 10*
Season Ticket Coupon (of Twelve Tickets) available for any of the Company's Perform-i ances, $24.
GENERAL ADMISMON 3-83, $a.and $1.
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· Limited, for Season Tickets only,, till Saturday negg, inclusive, da b
PEMBERTON WÄWILLARD, Hongkong syth June, 1891. -
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A
GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS
ofthe
ance with the Company's Ordinance of 1865 to 1800, to be held on the Evening of WEDNES DAY the 8th day of July, 1897, at the Rooms No. 16. Praya Central, at 8.30 p.m.
The farther business to be put before the Meeting will be the Committee's Report on the progress of the Institution to date.
"Though the business is confined to Members | soley, the presence of all Engineers Interested
will be cordially welcomed by the Committee. W. H. WALKER, Secretary,
16, Prays, Hongkong, 25th June, 1801.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the SECOND
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company, will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, en SATUR- DAY, the 7th July, at noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors, together with a statement of accounts to goth April, 1891, and electing Directors and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 28th June to th July, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS, F. HARTON,
Acting Secretary. Hongkong, 25th June, 1891.
Intimations.
5: THE NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
Cors
PENDING the arrival of the Acting Manager
and the Completion of the Bank's Per- manent Offices, the PAYMENT of the SECOND, CALL of (62) per Share has been POSTPONED until FRIDAY, the 1st July, 1891.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
L DOWNES. Hongkong, 18th June, 1891. HONGKONG AND.CHINA GAS COMPANY,
| 195, AMPAKNIT smut A-LIMITED.
CHE TRANSFER-BOOKS-of-this-Company-
CLOSED from the 15th to the oth inst, both days inclusivo,
F. W. CROSS, Manager. Hongkong, 16th June, 1841.
the
NOTICE.
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE.
1873
WING to the COMPANY'S REMOVAL to their Steam Factory at Wadchal at end of the current month, their large and splendidly made Stock of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE at their Show-room, Connaught House Queen's Road Central, is now offered dorish month at greatly reduced prices.
KARINBURK FURNITURE Co., LD Hongkong, gali juna, algi.