Intimations.
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
LIMITED,
CHEMIST5, : &C.
EUCALYPTUS OIL AND
F
INFLUENZA.
Of all the preventives, OIL OF EUCALY-
PYTUS, either disguised under fancy names or in its pure state, has earned the most pro
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1892.
BIRTH.
E, O. LINDSTROM, of a son,
DEATHS.
unNG the passengers on the Embrass or Yapan to China wat Mr. Fred. W. Jneger, war and special correspondent to China, who is the Inventor of the "F. W. J." magazine fire-arms. AN Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 25, EC will be held in Freemasons Hall, for 5.30 pm, precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
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The P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Niram left Singapore for this port on the 13th inst, at 3 pm. On the morning of the 7th inst. the ice was five Inches thick al Takuz ́a`north-west galo was blowing and the Feibo was full of drift ice.
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soldier, for snatching earrings from a woman in the theatre at Ap-il-chau, to be imprisoned for six months and treated to twelve drops of raitan, administered externally.
IT is stated that among the birthday present sent by the Empress-Dowager to Viceroy Ll Hung-chang was a robe made of the throat by special permission from the throne, and it is sking of sables. Such a robe can only be warn
the most valuable of all furs.
"We thought__not. Assistant Harbour-muster
locum tenens at the Pest Office. It is qake Robinson expressing his frank opinion heut refreshing to find Governer Str William
what would have been a barefaced job. Whe told the China Maff numbskull that Mr. Hastings "was to act for Mr. Tewers? Probably be imagined at bet wile really ought not to
to English. Of course, there is this differ- At Shanghai, on the 8th March, the wife of ence that Trinidad is a British colony; while Hongkong— } The effect of this English training on their national lately been sternly At his residence, 18 Klakiang Road, Shanghai, character has on the 8th March, ISAAC EZRA, ugeil 47 years.' demonstrated in the matter of their At 45, Broadway, Shangbal, on the 8th March, drunken and dissolute Judge; for the people 1892, MURIEL ANN, the infant daughter of Alfred actually had sufficient Saxon courage and Zetland Street, on Monday, the 21st, instant, at MR. Wodehouse this morning ordered a Chinese Hastings, R.N., will not be Mr. A. K. Travers and Esther Ann Getley, aged 61 months. Independence to boldly say what they thought. In British Honduras, too, (note - strong accent on the "British") the people had within the past few months a serious grievance imposed upon them in the young of a large sum of money against the wishes of the ratepayers, by order of the autocrats of Downing Street. What did the people of British Honduras do? Did they grumble, and wrangle with each other, and cower abjectly while the Governor lectured them as if they were naughty children? Well, hardly. They had had a purely English education,
Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1892.
EDUCATION IN HONGKONG.
THE education of the rising generation in Hongkong Is under the control of a
We regret to learn that a telegram was received this morning from Shanehal nanouncing the death of Mr. R. E. Wainewright, an old Shanghai realdent and one of the ablest and most successfel lawyers in the Far East,
REPORTS current in the colony regarding the position of a number of well-known realdents in volatlan to the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank and certain gigantic share transactions are en con. flicting that we hold off for fuller and more reliable detail
FROM the commencement of the present out- break of small-pox at Yokohama up to the and ult. 7,001 persons were attacked in Yokohama of whom 310 died. There were 62 fresh cases, 41 recoveries, and 13 deaths from the malady in the capital on the 5th instante
be at large in these ticklish times.
The Straits Timer says, apparently without any idea of being fanny, that by the death of a lending chisen of Hongkong" varancy bas accurred in the membership of the Municipality there. The Daily Preis names ra, desirable candidates: Me, Mackintosh, resident partner. of the firm of Means Butterfield and Swins, and Co. Mr. J. J. Fancli Q.C. and Mr. N. J. Ede, secretary to a pabile, company," What's the matter with our Goat?
fessional and lay support, and up to the present department nominally presided over by not in the matter of language only, for In the Police Court to-day before Mr. Wodehouse to October last, but the Corean Government Mr. A. G. Wrod of Messrs, Gibb, Livingston
ceitainly seems to have vindicated the claims put forward in its behalf."—Chemist and
Druggist. Feb. 6th, 189a.
DAKINS' STANDARD
BRAND OF EUCALYPTUS
OIL.
Battles, go cts. and $1.00
Nos. 22 & 24, QUFEN'S ROAD CENTRAL A. S. WATSON & CO., LP.
WINES AND SPIRITS.
JE invite attention to the following Brands, Wall of which are excellent quality and
good value for the money,
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
is only necessary to state the
In ordering
THE Corcan Government offered to purchase the steamship Dalcki Taiko-maru of the Talko
·Kisen Kaisha, and the steamer ran between various ports in Corea for some time subsequent being unable to pay for her, the Dafckdreturned to Osaks lately, and is now running between Osaka and Okams, Poor Cbao-hsien 1 Why don't you stir up your Yankee-doodles to do something for you? A subscription ball or a big "tea-Eight" would do for a start.
SHAMEEN HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
Dr. E. J. EITEL, a German ex-missionary, and comprising, in addition to the English staff, thirty-three Chinese teachers. Under this Board there are two large Government schools, where English and Chinese education is administered in alternate deses by a large staff, the majority being Chinese. There are also several schools connected with religious institutions St. Joseph's College, which is not English bur and Germans, with a minute microscopic, Į very much off coleur, lately-report says he has of Conservatives :-During the last sixty days, Mr. AE. Skeels, (director) Mesura, J. J. Francis,
Portuguese; St. Paul's College, Bishop BURDON'S own pet failure, which is now defunct, or at least in a state of coma; Victoria English School, a really good and well named school that is doing admirable work; the Diocesan Homa and Orphanage, hall English and half Chinese Instruction; the Baxter 'Girls' School, a amall semi-private seminary; and the Wesleyan School, entirely
Chinese. At all of these institutions, except the Government English School, a hybrid, Solecist kind of "English" is taught, a perfunctory manner. and in such that almost as soon as the pupils leave school they revert entirely to their
that is really the smallest part of edua saller who has been in the Sallers Home aver cation; but in spirit, in manners and five weeks and two others a freight each were customs as far as could be-in ideas they fined $2 for being drunk and creating a serious were as Anglo-Saxon as HAMPDEN him disturbance in that establishment yesterday. In self. They said what they thought, and default they all went to a happier lend for seven
days, they got what they wanted. Here, in Hongkong, go per cent of our population are Chinese, 9 per cent Macaenese, and the remaining one per cent. is divided among Indians, Persians, Armenians, fragment of ' ដ alleged English community which is lost in the crowd. Our educational system is truly well adapted for such & Colony-half of our children are taught Chinese, In French, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese convents, daughter went to marke, with baskets of goods On Saturday » Chinese woman and her little under a German Minister of Education!ver their shoulders, end by recident one of
TELEGRAMS.
BELFAST ELECTION.
LONDON, March 11th.
.
Si. H. Drummond Wolf (Conservative can- didate) has been returned for Belfast.
PRINCE GEORGE'
The Prince and Princess of Wales bave left
JAPANESE presa censors are wieing with their
A LEADING citizen of this colony, who is well- Philippine and Russian confrères in the known in many public capacities, and who has persecution of newspaper proprietors and especially distinguished himself as a philen-editors in a manner which should satisfy the threpist of the pre-Adimite school, has been most despotic of monarchs as well as bigoted been suffering feufelly from insampin. We are from the beginning of the year op to the 4th not surprised. A piliów stuffed with unsecured inst, there have been forty of the vernacular. overdrafts is scarcely conducive to peaceful papers suspended in the Land of the Rising Sun, thirty-eight for having proved detrimental to the peace of the country, and two for publishing suspended are the principal leading papers of the matter clensive to morality. Among those various districts, no place having escaped the plying and spying of the cenenes.
lumbers.
the pirl's baskets got in the way of a Celestial Sullivan. He at once hit the girl on the nose. and then proceeded to wipe out the mother, who was beginning to make remarks. He was -arrested, and this morning-the-magistrate-put-
bing away for three weeks' hard,
An adjourned extraordinary meeting of this Company was held to-day. Mr. R. Framer Smith presided and there were also present Harms, Ohly, Schwencke, and R. C. Hurley (secretary),
The Chaliman sald, that the most important business before the meeting was the election of new board of directors; but unfortunately no shareholder was qualified for election, so that Mr. Skeels and himsell would have to continue in office unaided until the ordinary general meeting next July. Both were anxious „to escape that responsibility, as they contemplated THE Shanghai Mercury of the gh fast, says leaving the Colony at an early date. However, We regret to have to record the decease of one
there was no alternative hut to continue. of the most respected members of the Jewish
¡Mr. Francis paked why the directors had not community, Mr. Isaxe Ezra, which took place last night, from Bright's disease. Mr. Ezra has recommended somebody for election, as under THE Perseverance having been thomurhly been in Shanbai for 19 years as an aplum the articles they could have done. refitted by Musers, Gro. Fenwick & Cn. resumed merchant, during which long and was equally could be elected. They would have been only The Chairman said they knew of nobody who period he berea running on the Hanekong-scan route a couple high reputation for integrity,
esteemed for many acts of generasity and kindlas glad, but they had nobody to recommend as of days ago. While she wrs Iv'd up the busch
near. He leaves a widow and a large family. qualified and willing. Then, with reference to Wing Yuen was put on the route and seems to
to whom we tender, in common, we are sure,
the dividend, that was a matter for discusalon if running. Put just why the Chinese Customs
strongly advised that the decisration of div d-nd ¡ people should inske the little vessel stop
be left to a future date. Very little se dy money | Chung-chow end Malno-chow we fail to compre-
was available at present, though no deuht'a in hend, unless it be that they are "spolling" for a
small dividend could he p:id. It would strengiben the portuon at the Company to let that stand over, but of course that was for the shareholderm to decide. There were five other subjects-- Holmes & Rodyk's sccount, the "Hongkong Trading Co.'s sccount, the late Mr. Pliman's account, the question of forfeited shares, and tho Icebnu.e property in Canton. The directors, after mature con-ideration, did not propose enter into discussion of these questions,
unless the sharebelders wished for detailed information. All the parties (rxcept, of coame. Mr. Pitman)
coale and ng eed that the matters,
name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, | native Chineso or the Macaòdialect as their for Mentone with the special object of enabling have done so well that her owners still keep her with all who have had any, relations with the they chose to make it ang but the directos
and initial letter for quality desired."
PORTS. (For Invalids and general wie),
}
Per dér.
Cast.
A Allo Douro, good quality,
Greed Capsule ..................$io
B Vintage, superior quality,
Red Capsule
C
Fine Old Vintage, superior
quality, Black Seat Cap
sule
12
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) .............. 18
SHERRIES.
A-Delicate - Fale Dry,-dinner
wine, Green Capsule...... 6
B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
wine, Green Seal Capsule 7.50 C Manzanilla, Fale Natural
CC Superior Old Dry
Sherry, White 10
D
Natural Sherry, Red Seal
Capsule .............. 10 Very Superior Old Pale Dry, choice aid Wine, White
Seal Capsule dious 12
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry,.
very finest quality, Black
Seal Capsule (Old Bot-
CLARETS..
Per
Case.
I dox.
Quarts.
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
Red Capsule ...............$4
Per
1.10
language of daily use, and when required
Prince George to recroit.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
to attempt English they can only speak with difficulty a ridiculous and uncouth Bot. jargon. Even the few English children
who attend most of the schools in this THE managers of Woodyear's Circus are $1.00 colony grow up lamentably ignorant of ranging for a grand assault-at-arms, to be held their own language and literature; In this week. All the athletee of the Colony are speech, and more seriously in manner, anfavited to compete in tugs-of-war, boxing, fencing. English pupil of a Hongkong school and other sports. The entrance fees will be 1.as unpleasantly resembles a half-casie. This
fact is not so apparent to residents in the small, ad god prizes are offered, Full details colony as to strangers, who have often will be announced to-morrow, 150been known to express considerable surprise that the education and training should be so un-English, in its results If 0.60 not in its professed intentions. At the last prize distribution in St. Andrew's Hall, one 1.00 by the unnatural pronunciation, the stiff, unfamiliar utterance, and the perfectly mechanical and unsympathetic use of the 1.10 English tongue, which even the best pupils
0.75
1.10
TOW,
THE Rev. Mr. Muirhead writes on the 8th Inat to our Shanghai morning contemporary re "the Hunan Publication "I have news from respectable men from the capital of Hunan that Hankow slating that it is reported by two Teng Mou-hua and others, the nublishers of the vile papers, have been apprehended, that the blocks are all destroyed, that no one dares past un the placards in any part of the the city, and that Chu Han himself would have been seized had he not been taken (?) 1. It is to be hoped
deceased g ntleman, our deepest sympathies The interment took place this shernoon at the Hebrew Cemetery, Bubbling Well Road, and was largely attended.
REFERRING to the visit of the U,B,S. Padrzi to
Bangkok, the Siam Fra Frest of March zrd -During the short stay of the USS Piret, Bangkok has been more or less the scene
of a series of mild dissipations, Colonel Boyd. the U.S. Mintster-Resident, set the ball rolling by a dinner on the aand Instant, and from that ilme dancer, dioners, balls and receptions have
followed each other in a rapid and bewildering succession that threatened destruction to many old residepts, and disvater to the officers of the Patral, Lieutenant-Commander Mackenzie and bis
A TELEDRAM is published in several Tokyo stating that the Willie Reed from New York for Hyogo has foundered near Kober-universal voice has been heard, and the evil-genial officers, bave contrived to make them
that this is the case, and that
has been suppressed.”
to
be arbitrated
selves very popular during their abort slay into the Company. Practically both Holmes & difficulty that they!
could not help being almost painfully struck | Hell Museum for the week ended March 131b) THE Japanese and' their 'Parliament pro taken heart invitationsave been able to meet the left the matters in the bands of the Board. One
THE returns of the number of visitors to the Chy are:-Europeans, 1591, Chinese, 1,579; total 1,731.
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THE Canadian Pacific Rallway Co.'s Royal Mail #teamer Empress of China left Vancouver on the
hama on the 25th.
in a filendly way, and there was no doubt what ever that they would it be settled alle factory Bangkok, and it has been with the greatest ||***
Rndyk and the Hongkong Trading Company had which poured
poured in upon them her matter was before the meeting-to electan from all sides. Being Americans they sose to auditor i but b fore proceeding to that, if there the c
occasion, and the way in which they con. was any question about the affairs of the Come trived to distribute themselves here and there pany, or the working or mangement, he would through Bangkok is beat expressed in their own
glad to answer it. He would, however, depre-
likely to lead to disputes. The meeting was a Creation."
businear mreting, and it was to everybody's
and honestly. interest that it be carried on amicably, smoothly,
of the best English school in the colony afternoon of the 11th inst, and is due at Yoko-Executive has been entrusted to a House of figurailve and romantic language. "It licked cate any discussion or controversy that was
were unable to overcome. There is not, it may safely be sald, one instance in the whole history of Hongkong, of a Colonial child, with an exclusively Colonial education, 1.as who if placed among a hundred ordinary Per English children, could not be instantly Case identified by speech alone--or rather by 2 doz. mutilation of speech.
Plats.
$450
B St. Estephe, Red Capsule... 4500
C St. Jullen, Red Capsule... 7
This exceedingly unsatisfactory result of our fifty years' efforts is easily explained and perhaps can be abundantly excused, For, in the first place, it is unreasonable
12.co Are
D La Rose, Red Capsule'...... 11
MADFIRA, HOOK AND CHAMPAGNES.
2
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE VARIOUS BRANDS
IN STOCK ON APPLICATION.
Per doz
Case.
BRANDY,
A. Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
C.pauleuc ....$13.
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capiale
C Very Old Liqueur Cognac,
Red Capsule
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old
1872
15
20
Liqueur Cognac, Vintage, Red Capsule 30
➡COTCH WHISKY.
A Thorne's Blend, White Cup-
ule.......Ansa
8 Watson's Glenorchy, Mellow Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark... 8
C Watson's' Abeleur-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name
and Trade Mark. & D Watson's H K D Blend of the Finest cotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule so E Watson's Very Old Liqueur Sculch Wbirky, Gold Capsule names. 13
IRISH WHISKY.
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capaule
mzi B
B Jahn Jameson's Fize Old,
5.75
9.75
Ir is reported that Mr. Ed. Robinzon, barrister at-ta, will succeed Mr. A. G. Wise at the Magistracy. Mr. Wise intends to leave the colony on a two years' holiday early next mostb.
A REGULAR meeting of the Eothen Mark Lodge, No. 264, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precively. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
IT may possibly interest somebody to know that Mr. Richard F. Drury, assistant erginger in the Public Works Department, returned to the colony and resumed the duties of his office on the sth fast.
March rath,
THE Glenfallsch, which arrived at Kobe on Saturday the 5th inst, reported passing a deeply Maruto Sakl. It is probably the Willis Reed, bound to Kobe from Philadelphia.
it
Mr Francis asked that any communication from Helmes and Rodyk or the Trading Com- pany bearing out the Chairman's statement be lead to the catering.
to task by the Spectator, thus:-The Japanese find their Parliament rather unmanageable. Deing the most Imitative of races, they have adopted representative institutions, and the power of making laws and controlling the
Commons. It appears that the Members betook business systematically, refused to vote supplies which stated, in effect, that the German Consol themselves at once to agitation, obstructed all in our issue of theath last, a paragraph appeared even for the ordinary business of the State, and at Amoy had endeavoured to prevent the mate declined altogether to allow the proposed expen-offthe barque Batute from Joining the Chinese diture for the relief of the sufferers in the pro- transport Frickiu a second officer, and had vinces ruined by the earthquake. The Mikado baa accordingly sent them home, and though a lined the sum of $50, balance of the male's
Wages; "farther, that the matters in dispute had Tha Chálman sald he would read one letter, been referred to Berlin. From two'independent - which he would not have read but that it referred new Parliament will probably be summoned, it
sources we have received assurances on which to himself personally, and to the question of bl will be under materially modified electoral con
we can rely that these statements are absolutely status as director, which. Mr. Francis had often- ditlaas, the Government elther intervening as has wet done yet, or decreeing a modification of inaccurate and do Mr. Feladel, consul for Ger raised somewhat offensively.. According to this the suffrage. Meanwhile the expenditure for the many at Amoy and one of the ablest and most letter Mr. Radyk said he would leave the matter straightforward members of the consular body of Sit Ning Kuk.enilrely to Mr. Fraser-Smith, Imperial decree. The fapanese differ widely in the Far East, a grievous injustice. We are to deal with as between man and man, and ha from all other Asiatics, but it is in their greater informed that no objection whatever was raised had every confidence in so doing. Further, resemblance to clever children, and clever to the mate of the Baruto shipping as board the there was 'a letter from the Trading Company children do not make the most efficient electors. Chinese transport, that his wages were paid in about the outstanding balance of $1,400 in.. They naturally love poiss, and desire above all due course, and that as a matter of fact he did dispute. The manager pro fem, wrote that he Join the Felchis and is now on board of her lo was quite willing, lefprevent disputes, to accept Formosa. Under these circumstances we have some $700 to complete the account, to regret exceedingly that such mis-statements should have appeared, in our columns, and can only say that they were applied to a member of our staff in apparent good faith and, so it was alleged, at the special request of the late mate of the Basuto,
things, more cake...
the year
..
Mr. Francis. said that what Mr. Rodrk had
said about Sit Ning Kuk would not affect the Holmen and Rodyk account.
the school, and such is the preponderance | laden ship at 6 am, on the 4th instant off accounts had not been made up duri there amiss to reproduce briefly, the gist of a paragraph the Company, and so there was that amount, for
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to expect that where the nationalities Government Gazette of Saturday distressed districts has been sanctioned by
that George Thomas Michael of a hundred to one, the language and the O'Brien, Esquire, C.M.G.. has been duly awarn
represented in the proportion informs us
in as Colonial Secretary of Hongkong.. So mote mental habit of the minority could remain it 6:1 unadulterated through generations. Six purely English children, going to school Per every day among six hundred others, BOL mostly Chinese, cannot be expected to retain the national tongue or characteristics In their absolute integrity. They cannot $0.20 help learning some Chinese; even if It were banished from the curriculum they 1.40 would plek it up in play hours by associa
ting with Chinese children; and thus they cannot help acquiring English with a Chinese accent. They do more-and this 2.5 is where a very straight and stiff line should be drawn-they learn Chinese in 0.75 of Chinese in their whole education that they prefer and find it more natural and easy to speak Chinese among 0.75 themselves How often does it happen that an English or s Portuguese mother, who understands something of Chinese, speaks in English or in Macaosse to her child, and is answered in Chinese-in the 1.00 speech that comes most readily to the tongue? We refer to speaking, as that is the most noticeable instance; but more 5,10 serious is the hybrid, half English education of the mind, the unsatisfactory, nondescript nature of the way of thinking into 0.75 which the child grows. This is not an 1.00 English colony, it is polyglot, and the MR. H. E. WODEHOUSE, police magistrate and Chinese preponderance in youthful educa.rounced eat of the Fire Brigade, is officially narounced to have resumed the duties of these 1.10tion is just as great as it was fifty years two offices-the Editor of the Government Garsifs is evidently not a top-sawyer in English It is urged that unless the Chinese gramimaron the Ixth inst. language is taught in the Government schools, Chinese parents will not send their children to them. Yet in the 450 049 Straits, where the Chinese might claim 430-that there is more necessity to keep their so language in the schools on account of the greater chances of its being lost outside, there are hundreds-nay, thousands, moreTM 1.00 probably-of Chinese children who attend purely English schools In preference to Chinese, and who grow up without ever learning a word of Chinese. In Trinidad, as we have learnt from a gentleman recently imported from that place,, the natives are mostly French and Spanish, but have to learn English in preference yet both Brench and Spanish are much easier than English, and might naturally miles or an don't seem to bother the Chixati be expected to supplant it, whereas Chinese few extra buckets of coal and there you are 1 Is infinitely more difficult, and should as a This ship was built in Glerga' in the your Of mere matter of natural selection giva way | eighty ninewand don't you Sergei It,
BEFORE MR. WODEHOUSE to-day Li-chu-leong: late aplum dress farmer at Yau-ma-ti, prosecuted his shroff, Lal Wing, on a charge of embezzling $8o between August 5th, 1891, and February
The Chairman explained at same length thatthe AT the Magistracy to day before Mr. Wise, Fong 271b, 1891. The farmer stated that prisoner
Holmes and Rodyk dispute was identical with ~o was, in deisult of paying $100 fine, sent up was employed to collect all money from the
the Sit Ning Kak maiter and nothing else was for three months for having contraband opium eplum shop after the farmer had received a . Tur latest Yokohama bust-no fo thma referred to 1 dia not dispute the claim on them for $1,350,
and bis pay was one fourth of all
ta dispute between them. Holmes, and Rodyk in bis possession to the weight of 37 tacls on surplus
stipolated
som-210 a month. When the in the Fadas Mall - We know not how much calls on shares; they held the money against books were made up on February 29th, at the reliance may be placed in the statements of the their claim of $600 in the Sit Ning Kük maşter, end of the term of the farm contract, it was vernacular press about the failure of Menara. E, † which they
had no right to do. found that the year showed loss of $250. The
B. Watson and Company, but so many persons Mr. Francis said there was no doubt the $500 are Interested in the event that it will not be was paid by Holmes and Redyle on behalf of anil now. The agreement was that were no profits, prisoner got no pay, but did not in the Shogy Shimpo, a journal generally well the Company to settle somehow, have to make up any loss. He did not contribute informed. The Skogyo says that the unfavour The Chairman said that was entirely wrong. We note that Mr. B. C. Howard, who has been pinter making up the accounts, able state of the foreign rice market fast year Sir Ning Kuk had not take preceedings, thigh acting as agent at. Yokohama for the Pacific prosecutor went over-them-with-prisoner. There supplemented-by-successful speculation.in: he threatened, and Mr. Rody's of his own-free- Mall and Occidental and Oriental Steamship was $80 das from the latter, which he refused other directions, resulted in less of 15 milion will paid him the amount. Companies since the death of Mr. C.D, Harman amount, and offered to pay at $3 a month, to pay. He admitted having received the
yes for the firm, the principal creditors belog Mr. Francis Will you read anything in the the Mitsol Bank (10,000), the Hongkong and Company's records proving that 7. B. has been confirmed in the appointment.
which the prosecutor refused. After the hearing Shanghai Bank, and the Chartered Bank.. The The Chairman-No. You can see the records, of plaintiff's evidence, defendant stated that assets are put by the same authority at half a il
if you choose to look, You can have the minute under the contract, if any oplem shop ceased to millen gew, and it is farther uriented that many book, but it is not advisable to read minutes do business he was to carry it on himself for the friends are endeavouring to keep the company before a public meeting. farmer, paying the regular fee and receiving one afloat, the creditors generally, with the exc p- › Mr. Francis ; 3 his is a meeting of the company, fourth of the profit, If any was made. He that tion of the foreign banke, beleg, in favour of and there is nobody supposed to be here but carried on one shop in Tal-kok-tsal, but had pot that solution, The banks, however, are not sharebelders. I do not know by what authority pald the monthly fee. The case was remanded disposed to be lenient, inasmuch as Mi. anybody clac-by whose authority, may I ask until to-morrow, hall $100.
Watson had been actively organising, and had are the reporters of the press allowed
allowed here at preelved the appointment. rival banking enterprise, focal agent for, a private meeting at
Green Capsule Id C Joan Jameson's Very Fine
Old, Green Capaale ...... 13 Genuine Bourbon Whisky, fine old, Red Capsule, with Name anṣnaut 30
GIN.
A Fine Old Tom, White Cap-
sule
B Fine Unsweetener, White
Capsules
C Flos A. V. H. Geneva was
RUM...
Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule .......................... 12
1,00
Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon LIQUEURS.
Benedictine Maraschino Curzcon Heering's Cherry Cordial Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura
Bitters, cc. "PRICIÓ ON APPLICATION,
WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISDED AD, 1843, Hongkopp, 4th February, 1892,
ago.
MR. CORCORAN, the inspector in charge of iba Water Police, will leave for home to-morrow on leave of absence. Inspector Mackle, at present, at West Point, will assume charge of the Water Police, Mr. Mann, from the Central, succeeding
Sandy! at West Point.
A coÓLIE was sent to gaol for three months by Mr. Wodehouse to-day for anatching a cap from the head of a child in Wellington. Street yester day. The prisoner had only bren a few days out of gael..baving-committed a similar offence Jau, aind for which he got a month, Try, try again,
A CORRESPONDENT ask 2,10 dote, as an itera all Co.'s steamer China, which was scheduled of extraordinary local, interest, that the Pacifis to leave San Francisco for Yokohama direct, was at the last moment, at the animous request of the numerous unblemen and gentlensen passen- gems, diverted from her course and ordered to this sho preceed to Honolulu. Notwithstanding t turned up to the harbour bright and early yester,
aboad ach odma time. A spun matter of a few hundred
ay morning, about thirty-six hours
THE Bes of Curios has taken a musical writer and composer on its staff. The following touch- fur ballad may be sung by a quartette with chorus. The tune is, somehow, very familiar, but we cannot reproduce it, having no music types:
CLOSE THE SHUTTERS, WILLJE'S DRUNK.
Whisper sefly, hear them weeping, Listen to the sad refrains. Little Willie nw is sleeping “And at last is fide Trom pain.
Home he brought his birthday with him, "His tank was full of Highland cream
The floor arose and wrestled with him For things are'nt always what they seem,
He broke in pose, his head ba busted, As he struck tie wardrobe door; Mad dogs and monkeys be mistrusted And the soakes upon the floor, When he wakens on the morïOW, Willie's head, will be so sore j Remorse will mlógie with his sorrow,
And he'll swear of just once more.
[CHORUS]
'Only once more, love,
Daly once more i
The Chairman)-—It is not a private meeting' It is a public meeting of shareholders, and we do not choose to read the minutes of proceedings of the directors before a public meeting.“
THUS the V. C. Daily News, referring to the recently appointed Balilih Minister to Chins :— Mr. O'Conor was only in charge of the Legation Mr. Franch-I don't care whether you do or for a short time previously, but it was long not, I state distinctly, that I defy you, Mr. enough to make all what had any business Fraser-Smiths, to publish any minutes bearing
what you i have said...
with Feking regret blended a
sincerely and there is equally sinc
sincere
tion at his return. He is young,
ang clear-headed,
energetic, with officient comprehension
The balman-I call you to order.
· Mr. Francis: { decilas to be called to order. The Chairman-You are out of order: I am
of Chinese alficial nature, and diposition to chauth of this niceliak,
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get business done. When he was at Peking hoMr. Francis Well, you are not the whole would not merely answer official despatches, but mosting, and if the shareholders wish to heat he would take the trouble to write private, hates | what I have to say you can't prevent it. even to people with whom he had no personal The Chairman-3 shall be glad to hear you acquaintance, telling them how their business if you keep within the besede of decency, was going on. Such a man is the man for My Franch-1 will try to be as decent as China's "Le will
not
allow himself to be lalled possible. I say a summons was taken out and to sleep by the narcotic influences that bang so proceedings commenced by Sit Ning Kok to heavily over Legation Street, Peking, but wo recover $650, and be held to hands for that look to him to Infuse an unwonted energy into amount receipts--printed forms, as "for shares Sir John Walsham's colleagues, if such a feasts! and for calls on shares which he had applied for, possible. After all, the people he has been Mr. Fuman and Mr. Skɛels saw them banko dealing with at Gefle the more than "IKI" Orientals so that the experience he gained them before at Peking will have been added to, mot impaired, by the half-dosen yours) interval that |, kas sinos slápond, myslight
After a little discussion Mr. Francis said he had Mr. Pitman's willten statement that he had #received from 8## Ning: Kui Sóqo" for skäret