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ciled at Bowrington, an infinitely better site than that over the fentering swamp down west. The weather, too, is not so cold, so that the attend TR U. S. S. Monocacy returned to Shanghai anco is sure to become better, both in numbers from Chinklang on the 77th inst.
and in quallly.
Tur body of the Japanese stowaway Kaksınura Masamichi, who jumped overboard from the steamship Zambert on the 12th inat. has been recovered by the Police ard identided by hit confrère who is now in gaol, on remand. A portion of an lion chain was found attached to one of his ankles. There will be more about this fettering business in the sweet by and by.
~HIS is a sweet and exceedingly palatab. Shanghal, Mr. J. W. H. Jon, of the I. Tiku last week and 13 Inches thick farther up himself loose in the M. C. Daily News ** THE Kobe Herald of the 15th instant staten
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The Honghong Celegraph.
LATEST Intelligence from Wenchow is to the eflect that there were threatenings of an antf Christian slot there. The up-country chapel of the Rev. Mr. Soothill had been, attacked by a mob, and the general prospects were the reverse of encouraging.
SHALL-POX is still claiming victims in the capital of Japan. Same 54 persons were attacked ~~HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1892 by this dreaded disease there on the 5th last
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
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Tun N. C. Daily News of the 20th inst, says with reference to the recently published
Banking Corporation:-
and out of 1,376 cases reported since the 1st of last month at have succumbed. Sixly fresh cases were officially reported to the capital on the 7th last.
THE export of tes from Japan' for 1801 was as follows:-25.124,928 lbs. from Yokohamas, 15,052.550 lbs. from Kobe, and 1,199 141 lbs ibs. Shiruoka Ken stood bighest, sending out 15.260,067 lbs. and then came Mie Ken with 6,486,868 lbs,
bas
UNDER the somewhat bair-raising beading The Waruch Blood-Money, a correspondent let
follows Now that the indemnity for the Wasuth massacre has been paid at Hankow, it will be interesting to ascertain at how much English lives are priced. The Hankow Consul has received a good deal of praise for what he dens in connection with this atrocious afinit, but it seems to me that he has not been very successful-which may ret perhaps te his fault-la ble support of British prestige. One of the speakers at the Hankow meeting the other day most truly said They had een two member of the community brutally butchered at Wastah, and that not only without the guilty being brought to punishment, but also without anything to
having been purpose dane as yet to prevent the repetition of such outrages any day 1 and any of them might be the next victims."And yet the Conmal gets praise far this miserable fasco (Let us hope that the next victims of Chinese violence will be better prepared for their asiallants than were our Wusuch."
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hat serious fighting is reported to have taken place at. Himeji, according to a telegram de patched at toto this morning. The disturbance thera broke out last night, nt a place called Tahara, in Shinto-gun, Two factions, exch numbering some thousands of excited people, met and fought, the village of one party being literally besieged. Things are said to be almost as bad in Shiklast-gun.
Ir Cardinal Manning was an ascetic at all be certainly did not belleve in making his guests- oce occasion, and bas left In "Hortus Inclusus" ascetics also. John Ruskin dined with bim on a record of the bill of fare. "And I lunched with Cardinal Manning," he writes, and he gave: ruck a plum pls. I never tasted a Protestant plo to touch it. lovely soap, toast beef, hare, and currant. jelly, puff pastry like Papal pretentions you ard but to breathe on it and it was nowhere
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served cherrick liko kisses kept in amber; and told me delicious stories all through lunch. here in Ruskin is a connoisseur in matters Alimentary, and has buried many of his thunder bolts at Italian cooks, especially the Venetians who, he says, "live on cigars and garlic, and have no tarte in their mouths for anything that God makes nice. Except for the Naughty Pantomime !
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CANTO Imuris telegram from London: Messrs. Jas." Whittall & Co, are reported to have wired on the 18th inst. Prospects are encouraging} mill working well. Prodaction daily is estimated
to, too tons. Estimated profit is not less than this concem I would like to know when this £2 per ton. As a pretty large shareholder in estimated profit of a per ton on a daily out put of a hundred (or even fifty) tona iz ilkely to see realisation. If an exact date cannot be ventured on safely, perhaps Jardine. Matheson & Co. would state approximately when the good days doubtful about these extraordinary estimated are coming I. must confess to being very
SINGAPORE is quick to follow Hongkong in the one direction in which the Isle of Fragrant Waters did manage to be foremost in-good work, namely, in the Sunday Cargo.working magnificent gold ring set with pearls and
There is now an "active Mer brilliants. The coolles in the neighbourhood business.
sy it dropped from the clouds and they stand cantile Marine Association in Singappie, and ing for more. Owner can have it on applying introduced in the Straits Legislature on all yet with months open and eyes skyward, watta similar organisation has been formed In Penang; and already a bill has been at the Daily Print, If not claimed, will be
fours with Governor Des Voeux great pawned for 6d.
beneficent work. The Straits Times says "It has long been the policy of England that the ACCORDING to a report in the Piking Gunette, free labour of free, adults shall not be controlled Chang Chib-tung, Viceray of the Hu Kwang, by legislation, and that the observance of the 6,300,000 6,506,596 of the troops in Hunna be instructed to bring It may, therefore, be contended that while the 120,371.155 109.301,476 with bira from Canton the garrison of the Bogue legal enforcement of Chilstian custom is every 16,013,606 22,615,984 Forts. It is evident that Chang has more faith where an error, it is doubly so in lands where 819,375 1,715,743 | In bis old Cantonese braves" than in the the bulk of the people worship after the Hunan rabble soldiery of whom we have heard fasblon of Buddha and Mohammed. Per- 29,658,845 24,097.478 much these past few months.
sons of a thinking babit can therefore, 4,748,317 5.279,614
have little sympathy with the Bit entitled 56,682,137 161,229,770 Thus the Hupaa-The lakes in the Imperial to be morally wrong and philosophically The Lad's Day ́Ordinance.” It seems 61,986,341 $9,915,445 zardens, have been frozen and the Emperor,
unsound. It creates injudicious anomalies. since the and day of the present-year;-has-been "PROFIT AND LOM ACCOUNT.
is no sufficient reason why a scamtprofit, having good cause to remember the Dr.
riding in sleighs over them daily. The sleighs should be subjected to a form of religioas content promises for last November, which to signif are beautifully made and richly ornamented, and that a landaman would resent. Thus we object correspondent can baly wait-and hope. Every cantly proved of the ple-crust order." "Our Dividend (& bonus is
are dragged over the ice by swift-running to the Bill as a whole. 1,185,366 eunucht. Daring the first six days of the new
And, having then
one in Chins knows that the princely house Reserve Fund......
300,000 year theatricals were played in the palace. The entered a protest on behalf of Christianity, of has never been mixed up with anything in the Written off Bank pre-
Emperor generally attended, accompanied, by discuss the Bill as one that must become law. of these fine days it is quite un the cards that freedom, and of philosophy, we proceed to shape of a failure-well, hardly ever-and one miset
princes, dukes and Ministers of State.
The good people of provincial England have Imuris scrip will be boomed up to $10 per share, Balance carried for
spoken: Lord Knutsford,bears; and Sir Cecil ward
Smith obeys." The Straits Times crowd are nothing not erratic, and their effusions are a sufficiently ridiculous self-condemnation. We must decline to argue the point with a set of little boys of Straits Times calibre-time is ten
Cash
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39,997 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. Cr.
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THE bird of freedom does not yet seem to have come to roost in the fair land of Nippon, and the press censors of that country are no doubt congratulating themselves on the extent of the work of waspension in which they have been engaged, for we learn that no less than 22 papers have been suspended wikin 41 days, although several of them have since been released. A contemporary wonders how many more will satisfy the rapacity of the Argus-eyed scrutineers.
THREE stokers of the troopship Himalaya took rickshas down to the Sailors' Rest isst night and
valuable.
In criticising the Chinese Customs Gazelle for the last quarter of 1891, the Shanghai Marcury remarks: It is certainly a convincing proof of the disastrous effects upon trade of the antl. foreign fermentation along the Yangture to find that, with a few exceptions, all the River pode abow a serious diminution in the volume of irade
OUR Shanghai maining contemporary of February 19th bai the following is the ex-con stable Tatlow of shooting fime:-"On Wednes dar morning a foreign police man aimed Tatlow went on doly on the Bund at 6 o'clock and relieved another policeman. Tatlow disappeared soon afterwards, and nothing farther has been beard of him. Yesterday morning,
however, while Liddell Bros. & Co.'s tank at the foot of Foochow Road was belog examined by an clothing in it and later on the belt and baten employd of the firm, he found a policeman's case of the missing man. There was no known
Balance brought for-
ward
113.872 148,303 1.25 Net profits. for six
months.......JARJE 705,503 1,567,440 Some explanation should surely be made to the shareholders, as to how it is that, with a larger capital and considerably larger liabilities to the public, the net profits are considerably a6o less than half those made in the same quarter of 1890; while it is only by reducing the amount on the 31st December, 18gs, that the directors 1,00 | are able to pay a dividend of Lt. 101, per share agulost a dividend and bonus of £3 per share for June-December, 1890,"
The explanation suggested by our Shanghai:contemporary may or may not mesimates on to the fight; but the force 648 to T. 191,418; the new port, Chung year ago Tatlow accidentally shot a comrade 1.10 be forthcoming, but is not the Editor of the amphed, and the three men were run ln and king, appears with a substantial stim to fix med Breslau, and the lamentable dccurrence
as carried forward to one-fourth that carried forward then had an argument as to the fore, employ for the last three months of 1891, a compared reason for Tatlow to go away suddenly, -
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their feet and other implements to convince the coolles of their error. The police arrested two of the tarr, and the third nobly stond by his chums and tried to rescue them. A number of other bluejackets round about cheered their
this morning fined in all $5.
while le
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THE following appears in the Peking Gosaits of January 2nd-Ll Han-chang, the Governor. General of the Two Kuang, reports that in December 1882, the candidate for an officers appaintment, Wei Chen-shang,
the charge of
coast-guard boat ching, and crulaing on the consts Kwangiung and Haloan, he saved 55 persons from the British merchant vessel Palatine, stranded at Hsi-sha, on Hainan. Memoriallet recommends that Wel should be promoted to a captaincy of the first class, on the first vacancy occurring. Rescript:-Sanctioned. Referred
to the Board concerned.
North China Daily News aware that the self-constituted autocrats of this public corporation actually took upon themselves Case to remove the Bank's standing advertise adament from the Hongkong Telegraph because this journal predicted about a year ago what has actually taken place F It is a fact, $4.50 anyhow. To be consistent the Directors of the Bank, must also "boycott" the North China Daily News-but will they go so far? We doubt it, as popular opinion seems to be that personal ill-will on the part of certain members of the Board and not any desire WHEN a certain Colonial Governor recently to protect the interests of shareholders-took flight somewhere in Barataria the train Bot, although the latter duty is what the drew up at an inland station thronged with the asual mob of sightseers.. No preparations had Directors are so handsomely paid for been made to adorn the station before the Queen's performing dictated dog-la-the-underated passed through, get when that dis- $1.30
at the carriage. manger policy which has brought the window and began his flatteries, bis first remark 1.40 individuals indicated into such well-merited was to thank them for decorating the stallon in his honour. The crowd thought it was a sarcastic 1.75
moved away and they "came to the mystery, was soon solved. The signalman's red and green dags were carelessly hung on the wall and the Governm had mistaken them for loyal bunting'!
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with the corresponding quarter of the previous year when there was no abnormal trouble: Of these exceptions Shanghai heads the flat with jump from Tis, 1,680,653 to Tls. 1.745:5173 Newchwang comes next with a rise from a
credit, upan
he had been so inclined be could have quitted the force openly. He left all his belongings at the Central Police Station. It is sarmaleed that he has drowned himself, and the river in the vicinity of the Foochow Road pontoon is being dragged in the hope of finding the body. About
Ths. 69.519, an encouraging
advance the previous quarter's collection. Chefoo is believed to have greatly preyed upon ki
mind
Tatlow, as reported in yesterday's issue, shows un factease from Tix. 79.898 to Tis. 93,589;
gave himself to the Hongkong Police at the
He WAE Kiukiang from Tls 183,894 to T. 190,9511 Central Station yesterday evening. Tamsti from Tis. 130.431 to Tis. 148,893 Introduced to Mr. Wiss at the Police Court this and Tainan from Tle. 97238 to The 100453 morning and is now lying off in the remand cells At Ichang, which was in a chronic, siste of ferment during the latter part of the pending further developments. Apparently he only a little more can be charged with damage or theft of Crown year, we find that the trade was o than one-fourth of what it was in 1890, the export property (bis uniform) or possibly with breach. duty alone dropping to Hk. Tir. 2,468 from Hk. of agreement in running away ; but more likely Tis. 36,436 in the last quarter of 1800, while the be will be allowed or assisted to go to England. returns ander every other heading record a corresponding decline while at Hankow there THE following additional particulars of the were almost twenty thousand taels collected in recent thooting case at Yokohama will be read export daty
Chinking and Wohu.were each with interest by those who were acquainted with also short about twenty thousand thels in the both Lieut. Hetherington and his unfortunate collection, as contrasted with the corresponding victim. A special telegram to the Hyogo News quarter, and the mandarins of these places have dated Yokohama 15th February reads as the satisfaction of knowing that this is part of follows:-On Saturday afternoon Mr. Gower the price they have to pay if they allow their Robin met by Lieut. Hetherington of the while driving, in a degeart on the bund, was
who fired three shots At
him, people to break into riot and outrags on
Mr. Fors, of Kobe, who was sliting low ranch for their while certainly: paylag rather us Marion
nearly next Mr. Robinson" Ove of the shots entered Mr. Robinson's thigh, and lodged in the body. Apropos of our recent Race Meeting and commonsense supervision of, and legislation in wataken to the United Club, Several Sonday morning, but relapsed in the afternoon zabjained "para" from the Sydney Bulletin has and died at 17.30 in the evening. Lieut much sense and force in it:The Victoria Race Hetherington is under arrest on board the Club Committee recently sent a circular to every
# | Marion. Inquést, at two this afternoon registered trainer, jockey and book-make in the Intense feeling of excitement bere.” province warning them that their licences
The same paper adds 1-A terrible tragedy has be revoked if they maintain any professional connection with unregistered meetings. The been enacted in Yokohama A United States rapid increase in the ranks of racing loafers naval officer, acting under the mad impulses of around Melbourne quite fustifies this autocratic lesionsy, fired at and shot man whom he Legislation. In every big city there are hun deemed a rival to his wife's affections. One dreds of men ready to throw up work and dege cannot but sympathize with Mr. Robinson, who nerate into followers of the turf, provided recently visited Kobe on the becasion of the
football
off in the match, in thus being - prime, if manhood. The infuriated busband,
too much
contempt both here and at home. How-Talon to the oversight, but when the train regard to betting on the Sport of Kings" the doctors were called,Mr. Robinson rallied on ever, we do not propose criticising, for the present at all events, the Bank's latest statement of accounts, nor of dealing with thevery suggestive summary compiled, by a 475 gentleman who is evidently an expert, for RIFERING to the following staiement made to the Shanghal paper; the Chairman at the Mesars P. I. Bisset & Co's Shanghai Share 75 meeting convened for Saturday next Report of January 19th me to the Hongkong and
Shanghai Bank's report: The result of may have been instructed to make half-year's working has been 31 lakhs of dollars; everything as clear as day to the of the 5 lakhs will go to contingency account
to meet bad and doubtful debts, a dividend satisfaction of everybody concerned, and 63 10s. will be paid, and $31,000 Carried the supply of petly meeting the sufficiently
who now stands branded as a murderer, WAS If he should, through soma slip of memory, forward-the Mercury pertisently more
more racing, the more followers or hangersion
gentleman holding the high position, of a forget to do so, perhaps there may be one the information supplied by the firm mentioned
remarks:- How erroneous and misleading w there will be to give a seedy, rattlsh, blasphemous B
taint to those big turf shows which have hitherto eutenant in the United States navy. By pro shareholder present with the courage to may be seen from a comparison of the statements been accepted by the publicat large an excuses for fession he was a fighting man, but he stained 1.10ask for a few explanations which certainly contained in their report with those in the Bank's
fitful bursts of decent dissipation. For business the fair escutcheon of the country whose uniform report now published. Another prominent
reasons, pure and simple, the V.R.C. and Windred he wore, by his cowardly act. Whatever the ought to be forthcoming! We shall son.
broker here gave the profits at 16 inkhe, while only one Shanghai broker put the profit at the clubs are bound to aim at preventing their solid sature of the dead man's offence, be it real or correct figure of 8 lakhs. These little discretions from being scared off by the discovery smed, or be it the worst crime, one mag CAN
that the social standard
of race-goers is getting combat against another through his wife, it was pancies certainly make a serious difference to lower. And if the inevitable tendency of unworthy of a naval officer not to have given his Investors who take all such statements on esregistered meetings to create miserable victims some chance of fighting for his life... trust, and they ought to be explained,"
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The subject is a delíeste one to deal with. A at they swarm in and out of race-tratas, men who wantonly tampers with the affections THRIX Chinese dead-beats went into a watch save the moralist a shocking examples of amanded woman, and induces her to defile maker'w-shop down West yesterday and asked of what betting brings us to) they ought to her husband's honour, is committing as cowardly to be shown some watches. The proprietor of to wiped out, anyway. Also a zumber of deed at if he shot a man ansted, for he is the shop, German or something of that sort, small, registered meetings where robbery is attacking the busband's most cherished posses
as Hife as wrangling, and blood and hair fly on, bis fale name, in such a way as to leavs got out of his case a few cheap tin things of the Waterbury breed, but these ware not good abemt at the alightest provocation, might vary bim defenceless Whether the deceased had for suspicion given Lient. Hetherington most
CAUFE well be wiped out: st the same time. --The enbagh; bis customers demanded No. 1 plece.
race-meeting of
in that which will probably be d
the inquest, or disclosed at The worthy watch-maker recognised one of the desirable, class gentlemen as a
a former allent, who had assisted stalas to the dignity of a social function, and the absequent legal proceedings, but it is AT the Police Court to-day six men were charged rabbery at his shop, so he sent out quietly where the impetuous bank-clerk is not quits out evident that the latter had reasons, which he Finest Old Jamaica, Violet ¦''.
considered conclusire to deliberate murder
of Robinson' with running a totalisano, gamba for the police. While he was keeping his vifitors of the inficance of his "people. Moreover Capalenium, 14, Good Leoward Island...$1.50 per Gallon. the Treasury
allons and fines aggregating 300 had to be paid into engaged feasting their eyes on his treasure, Hitle bit of much function every now and then is as before he served
[sport. A man who is a berline mast sooner or lates somehow a policeman was caught and brought much as anybody requires. It is the cant of LIQUEURS.“
along. One of the three men belted at once, but ing papers that the demand creates the apply. As rouse la vengeance one of the husbands he has a matter of fact, supply acts as an evil stimplant made a cuckold, and that vengeance will be the other two were safely landed. They were being on
takes of the offence, in this case the premises for unlawful purposes, and
Hetherington to consider death the only up of a licensed gaming table. for couple of even enough to stand drinks round at the The magistrate generously offered to let them Menach. But the too constant presence of offence was, or rather what be believed it to be, go if they could get security for good behaviour, inducements to bet on horse-racing, creates a may readily be coticeived, for a man does not betting habit, and transforms a certain number shoot another in cold blood, and render himself but as he would not take, fg cents they had to go to gael, one who had a previous conviction of what might be harmless supporters into liable to the extreme penalty of the law, unless against him being sentenced to six months and hangers-on, who sillmately ding their 14 sport the injury is one which no reparation can effo tan ether to thress Pads
down into the gutterne stand grand no wifely penitence wipe outissez
A SQUADKOW of Japanese war-vessela la expected
Dr. Siegert's """"Angostura", here before lon” “A couple of the skips are at charged befors Mr. Wise to-day with itled: not enervate the industry of a country, nor
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Bitters, the PRICES ON APPLICATION,
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would
to demand.."One State lottery every year would: Pasorate to the view which the person so- present in Shanghai, the Admiral's broad penz want they only had. 59 cents among them of the annual sub-turn»-Australia ( into a adequate punishment, and what the nature of t
flying on board the corvette Kaferazi
A REOTLAR Convocation of St. Andrew Chapter, No. 218, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Haily Zetland Street, this evening, at 8 for 8.30 o'clock pracitaly, Vielding brethren are cordially farited.
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