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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1892.
vaunted General Managers and their Secretary 7 The prevaillog oplalon amongst shareholders Is that a very grave mistake was made in the appointment of Messrs. Amboid, Katberg & Co. General Managers, and thai the sooner the mistake is rectified the better for the future of the Company. Why not dispense with overpaid General Managers,, who cannot assist the Company in any way, but on the contrary swallow up whatever Hiile profit may be made, and appolat a capable and active Secretary to manage affilm generally and work up a business connection }
Farther comment is unnecessary, but perhaps you may be able to inform us whether it would not be possible and advisable to carry est such
scheme as I have suggested
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Yours faithfully,
DELUDED SHAREHOLDER. "Hongkong, October 6th, 1895. [We ceased to be a shareholder in the Green Island Cement Co. years ago and have na personal interest whatever is its success or otherwise. But we nevertheless, know all about the concern, from its inception up to of a few other local matted ability businesses the present time, and the record, like those that could be named, is a decidedly shady ane. However, If the shareholders of the Company, as stated by our.correspondent, are ... dissatisfied with the present general mausge- ment, the remedy la in their own hands. We not aware of any great difficulty to prevent Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co. from being fo the management, but the
by: weather finlag quickly, a bark's upper salls on port beam; La Balayana has proved herself a splendid sea boat. At foam. glorious weather In every respect, steaming through extraordinary overfalls and smooths: noon, weather and sea all that could be desired, 160 miles from Hongkong and 55 miles from Pratas Island: Made eight bells, and pat her head off the land, About 30 mins, p.m., I noticed the revola- tions decreasing in number, but thought perhaps clams bad grown on her bottom, so I took no Dotice: sbortly after, hearing a big row about the engine-room skylight, went to inquire into It and found the Spanlib engineer quarrelling with the Chinese ditto; they both told me there was ng water in the boiler. The Manila man vowed the ship would blow up directly, and unida we bad best get into the boats as "quickly as possible. I knew by the constantly decreasing number of revolations that we had passed the blowing up point in happy ignorance, and reckoned we ought to have gone up about 1
it 145 I asked the native why he did not draw the fires, open the safety valve and the commas. nication with the cylinders; he would do nothing, aaying drawing fires would increase the danger, About now the engines stopped, sa-1 imow I would not get my Golden Harp test journey fannel burst its stays and went heavenward ons Inch, then dense smoko, and little fames camo heat up the skylight over the boiler, caused by the 1 of the boiler, which must have been pretty waYKO by now, firing the felt between the toller and Its outer casing; the boya again wanted to leave the steamer, caying shewason fire, but, knowing there was nothing there to fire except the boller packing, I told them I would kill any man who went near the boats; and then we poured two or three bucke ́s of water on the casing carefully, which extingulubed the fire. The Chinamen soon recovered from their panic, and I got them to draw the fires, certainly a quarter of an hour alter the engines had stopped Soon after the manhole was opened, and abso lutely no water found in the roller. I looked into the boller, ao did the Manila man (who had been sent over from Manila by the owner to look after his faterests), who then asked me to have the boller filled through the manhole. I advised him to let the boller cool a bit, but he sald "po, can do" co we filed it and relit the fires, but the water ran out through the tube platen so fast that it was impossible to get steam, and fires were again drawn, Mr. Owner's Man now.requested me to put back for Hongkong; I acked him what was wrong with the boller and he replied he did not know, I said "I am going on towards Manila, ard you will find out what-is wrong with the boller and repair it if you can; if you came to me and tell me you cannot, I will consider about putting back."
& Cole.
on
warning all Chinese merchants under threats of Imprisonment and fines not to have any business dealings with us. A copy of this proclamation was sent to Mr Watters with a request that he would ask the Viceroy to get it withdrawn and compensation made us for loss of business, etc., caused thereby. His reply was to the effect "I'll do nothing of the sort."
In consequence of all this Lekin persecution, sided by the open hostility of the British Acting Consul-General, I have been obliged to withdraw my house in Canton; but if there is justice in England I look to Mr. O'Conor, the New Minister to Chies, to dispense a little of it in my direction. When he arrives here he will be asked to enquire into all the particulars of my various claims.
As for Mr. T. Watters, I have received nothing but incivility at his hands during my business experience in Canton, and privately be has treated me, with the utmost discourtesy.
Yours faithfully.
JGHN ANDREW, for ANDREW & Co. Hongkong, 7th October, 1891.
TO FAR CATHAY.
I.
IN THE BEGINNING,
"Old" as we think ourselves as a maritime nation, we are but as babes and sucklings com pared with Chins. In the very dim and distant. past, known vaguely as "prebistoric days," the Par
Hindustan traders of Chloa made their way to
Indeed, there is a pronounced resemblance be tween the Chinese Junk and the Egyptian Nile boat of to-day which suggests common origin. This was long before the Western traders found their way to Far Cathay, which they regarded as an inaccessible region of silk and gold.
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easy to handle. An ordinary some will carry a thousand chests of tea, and having so opper sails, requires fewer bands to work ikan'a two. or three-masted junk.
What were called war-junks were often neither more noh less than pirate-ships-vousela beating' the appearance of innocent traders but well armed with cannone"
Numerous instances might be given," says Lindsay: "of their marauding attacks upon the defenceless trading vessels of all nations, especially when a rich booty la anticipated. In such cases, their practice is to sail to windward of their prey, sheer alongside, and if the weather perralts, throw from the masthead stink-pots an board of their victims. The atrociens smell from these pots, is certain to clear decks and drive the crew below, so that the Chinese can thus generally obtain a footing on board without opposhian."
The point is that this mode of fighting from the same kind of ships was practised two or three thounod year ago, just as in our own _time. Of course, the Chinese bave got hand- some steamers of their own, thanks to the ChİBR Merchants' Association, and sizo a fine (II badly wanned) fleet of steam war-vessels—but the trading-janks are stil of the old, old type, and monopolise the bulk of the river traffic and the const traffic between non-Treaty ports.
This:}^ntreuiarkable thing” „about Chinesa exclusiveness-which, as everybody knows, Is about the most exclusive thing in the world. When the Treaty parts were opened, nombers of sailing-craft of all sizes, and all flags, were despatched to the Chinx sexs, to catch a îbare
sent out from England ranged from 150 to 300 Long, and some of them did very welf Indeed, easily paying for themselves in one or two voyages. But they were loaded by European fis-the Chinese shippers always preferring the native Junks.
such a step is a matter entirely and Ceylon, and even to Arabla and Egypt of the counting and Indo-China trade. Those for the consideration and decision of the shareholders. Our correspondent, who is an old and influential resident of Hongkong, when
randverti
Messra. Arabold, Karberg elessness in connection with the Green Inland Cement Co., would appear to have forgotten that in this peculiarly con- stituted colony public companies are usually ran for the beneft of the general managers and not in the interests of the shareholders, Ed., Hongkong Telegraph.]
TRANSIT PASSES IN THE LJANG- KUANG.
TO TER KONTOR OF THE " HakaKING TELEGRAPH.”
DEAR SIR-I was pleased to see from your leading article in last night's issue on the Transit Pass question, that you have called attention to the apathy and indifference on the part of the Acting Consul-General at Canton in the interests of British merchants on this subject when dealing with the Chiness officials. As you have brought the name of my firm forward as being one of the sufferers by the seizure and confiscation of The wind being N.E. 3, we set salls and certain goods by the Lekin authorities while proceeded on our 5.E. course, going one under transit passes to the interior, I consider knot; her salis, like those of all steamers, it my duty not only to confirm what you have revery small, but she had 8 swning curtains forcibly expressed, but further to expose the cach 15 feet by 44 feet, and we sawed 5 of them treatment which I have received at the hands of together for a square foremail, put one on the foot of Mr. Watters. On the roth February last my firm the ford irrazil another on the foot of the male wrote to the Acting Congi-General, Informing trysall, and one on the foot of the boat's him that 300 cases of kerosene all had rait, lashed the boat's mast to the stern been seized while in transit, at Wa-chau-foo In and set the wil on it, and put the jib Kwangs, and the man in charge Imprisoned; on the main stay. We now went two knote but after a deal of correspondence he refused to an hour; the Manila engineer bad collapsed represent our case, to the Viceroy with the entirely, sea sick, and at midnight the Chinaman | object of getting the goods released and our ser-
I have to be a very,
on vent Watters' contention farmer occasional told me it was impossible to being that the goods belonged to Chiqete and he repair the damage as they had not the necessary could not interfere. tools on beard being then about 180 miles S.E. of Hongkong and 470 miles N.W. of Manifs, and wind very light and not to be trusted at this season, I wore ship to N.W. by N. At to am. on the 22nd, wind NF, Increasing
wind N.N.-Easterly, and big eap.m., having got propeller discan Bected "she went & kno's) in lat. 20.08 N. and long, 115 25 F., 130 miles from Gap Rock, breeze Increased to a fish gale with a big regular ses, and listed until a p.m. an the 23rd, when Great Ladrone Island was in sight, beating N. by W. distant 30 miles; we were then 60 miles from Hongkong. The wind now fell fight, and the current drifted us to the entrance of Namo harbor where we had to anchor at 7.15 pm. on the 24th, to prevent drifting on, to the rocke S.E. point of Hancheup Island, which I did not intend to go beyond.
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"It is not easy to get there," wrote Arrian of Alexandria, and of those who attempt the few are ever seen again. Once a year journey there come to the borders of Thina a set of fil. formed, broad-faced, and fiat-nosed savages, who bring with them their wives and chlidren, and carry great burdens in mats. (Tartars) They stop short at a certain place between their own territory and that of Thilas, where, seated on their mats, they celebrate a kind of festival, and then, having disposed oftheir goods, of which their atk is the chief, to the people of Thina, they depart to whence they came. The country situated beyond Thina is unexplored; either in consequence of cold and severe frosts, which render travelling thither very difficult, or because the Immortals have so willed it.?
But if it was difficult for Egyptians (who were always bad sailors) to get to China, it was easy enough for
One would have thought the Chinese builders would have taken a hint in marine architecture from these craft, but their practical points were as much, lost upon the Mongolian as were the ately curves of John's great Indiamen, and, still later, the marvellous fines of the world. renowned tea-clippers. So far as we know, the Chinese never went in for the purchase of any. thing like our crack tallers, and their first ven- tare in steamers was doubtless in 1875, when the China Merchants Steam Navigation Com- pany was formed to compete with the Euro. penins, or at all creats to keep the counting trade from them.
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Intimations.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
SHANGHAI.
THIS long established SELECT Family Hotel, situated on the Bund, facing the river, in the centre of the Settlements, has lately undergone extensive alterations, and is now fitted with. the latest modern improvements, including Bath and Dressing Rooms ATTACHED 10 Saltes and Single Rooms, with hot and cold water lald on, DOUCHE, SHOWER SPRAYS, etc., and keated to a comfortable temperature during winter.
SEPARATE ROOMS FOR PRIVATE DINNER PARTIES, &+c«
The Electric Lighting now partly laid on will be completed during this year, 1892. An Assistant will attend-on_Passengers: by:Mall-Steamers: N.B.—TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS ––“ CENTRAL, SHANGHAL."
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F. E. REILLY,
THE
PROPRIETOR.
HONGKONG HOTEL.
TELEGRAPHIC-ADDRESS, "Kremlia !~—-A. D. C. Coda.—TELEPHONE, No. 32.
PROPRIETORS....................................................THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
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"THE HONGKONG HOTEL—the most commodious and best appointed Hotel in the Far East, THE SONGéqualled ccommodation to travellers and others. It is situated in the ferte of the town, opposite the General Post Office and the Hengkong Club, adjacent to Pedder's Wharf (the principal landing stage of the Colony) and in close proximity to the Banks mod Shipping Offices, The HOTEL STEAM LAUNCH Coneys passengers and baggage to and from all Mall Steamers. THE TABLE D'HOTE, at separate tables, is supplied with every delicacy, the exists being
under experienced supervision. THE BED-ROOMS, with adjoining Bath-rooms, are lofty and well ventilated, open on to
spacious Verandahs, are lighted by gas and fitted throughout with electric communicators: The Reading, Writing and Smoking Rooms, Ladies' Drawing Rooms, the new, Bar and public
BILLIARD ROOMS (Six English and American Tables) are fitted with every convenience, bandsomely appointed GRILL ROOM, where chops, steaks, &c., are served it any, hour
Adjoins the HOTEL, and is under the same Management.
A
The
from, or a nineteenth century form of, the old This Company, again,' was but an evolallon Hangs or syndicates, who have managed the principal part of the trade of China for innumer. able centuries, and from whom it is thought wa
NIGHT PORTERS and WATCHMEN 156 continually on duty, the Chinese tout the den of our ancient gulide-the precursors
spread themselves over the Eastern waters, and they dia 10 two or three thousand years ago in vessels which, according to the descriptions of old writers, rem to have been precisely, of the same type and build as their junks of to-day. In these past centuries they were more enterprising than they are now, and they cultivated the outside world before the "foreign devils" ever ventured to their shores
to cultivate them.
we can
Leaving those vague and unsatisfactory times enfled preblstorie, Lowever, trace the Chinese in the first half-dozen centuries of the Christian era practically monopolling the maritime trade of the East and perhaps the overland trade too. They were the Portugu:se and the Dutch of the time meralsl shrewdness of the other. The Roman records of trade with India are said to extend over five centuries, but the Romans were outrun by the Ferslane, who had the advantage of the rivers uphrates and Tigris in distributing their traffic, but who did not touch certain branches, commercial monopolists of Asia.
"knots; noon-2991 th big swell, kolpg four | oll, with a despatch to the Wu-chau-magla'rató | --wish all the enterprise of the one and the com- |
We lowed the atramer Into Mamo Harbor next morning, and I bargained with the head man of Namo. to send one of his fishing boats to Macao with iwo my men, whom I seat to Hongkong with letters, to walt at Macao until they returned there, and then bring them back to Namo, for $35 as security for payment of these services the Old Rooster insisted on having my watch and chain
which I let him have conditionally that he allowed me to wind the watch daily, which he did. Mymen returned in the steam launch Kwang Pingato a.m.onthe rat October, bringing me some Mexicans, &c. I went ashore and redeemed my watch and chain, and felt Name' at Ir a.m. in tow of the Kwong Pings we anchored at Talkam at 7.30 p.m., proceeded at 3.30 am. on the and, and nachored at Wanchalataam. on Monday the October, having had lovely weather since midnight of the 20th September. Sometimes there wasios moct, sind sad sea, and sometimes not enough wind, but we only shipped heavy water once, fed sight over uf, doing no damage, and when a disorderly son came yawing along very Hille went below, the engine-room skylight being closed on the weather alde, and there being no fires, none could be 'doused. Now let us ba joyfull
N.B.-The Balayana sails for Manila is a day or two, so if you or any of your friends have A sluggish liver, coms long; your livers will be lively enough before you get far in the above named packet,
J..SPEECHLY Captain.
Hongkong, October 5th, 1892. THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT WORKS, TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Honaxows Tulsaxark."
After paying a personal visit to Wu-chau-foo I returned with documentary proofs that the Can ton Lekla Office had sent a steam-launch from Canton to follow up the cargo,bout containing the to seize the cargo and arrest the supercargo in charge, shewing clearly that these goods were intended to be seized before they left Canton. I gave a copy of this despatch to Mr. Watters, but still he refused to take op my case upon his iginal grounds, although he could not dispute the fact that I had bought the cargo in Hongkong, imported it into Canton and there sold it, accompanied by a transit pass to take it to Wa-chan foo, I made no secret that I had been paid the purchase money before the kerosine left Canton, bat as the buyer was promised free transit into Kwang, the interest of my firm did not Cease until the goods bad arrived at their destination free of duty, and as they had been seized for escaping duty en route, which I had paid, I informed him that I looked him to protect that interest. Still he refused to assist us, About the 30th April the supercargo who had been imprisoned was released and returned to Cantos, after having had to pay over $400 to secure good treatments and in order to st further press our claim 1 took him to the consulate-general, when he was questioned by Mr. Walters, who after the interview Informed rae he would represent my case to the Viceroy, Since then, however, nothing has been done, and I understand the oil has been confiscated and sold,
of both Limited Liability Companies and Trade -Unions:----
The Chinese understood the strength of combination long before the western nations did, ad also the science of banking and the arl of adulteration. They have developed in the latter accomplishment more than they have in their schemes of Guance, which are silll about cambrous as when their junks monopalised the trade of the Persian Gulf-Fairplay.
DEAFNESS AESDI UTELY CURED.—A Gentleman who cured himself af Deafness and Naires in the Head of 74 years standing, by a new method, will be pleased to send full particulars free. Address HERBERT CLIFTON, 8. Shepherd's place, Kenplagton Park, London. S.E., Eng.—[Adit,
To-day's Advertisements.
which the Chirese kept all to themselves as the VÍCTORIA I CHAPTER,
No. 525. REGULAR....CONVOCATION
Thus then, from 1,800 to 1,200 years. 8g5, one may say that the Chinese had the best of the overland trade between the East of Asia and Turkey, and there are indications that the UCAR CONVOCATION of the Chinese merchants' "drummers" of the period sons HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, even reached the towns on the Caspian Sea, the 7th instant, at 8.30 for a n'clock precisely.. both on its western and northern shores. But Visiting Brethren are condially invited, further than that it is a historical fact that in the
Hongkong, 7th October, 1893. sixth century as many ** 400 Chinese vessels were seen entering the Persian Goll, bound for various ports, what time the Celestial Emperor DILIGENTIA was receiving envoys both from Bagdad and Constantinople.
This is rather a long time ago, it must be con- fessed, and makes one reflect that the P. & 0. and B. I. stealer routes are not so new after all. The more one studies them, the more one sees that they just follow the old, old lines of the oldest trade routes in the world.
Whether the Chinese ever get so far dowɑ as the Cape of Good Hope may be doubted, but there is reason to believe that they reached as far as Madagascar, long before the Portuguese got round the Cape; and perhaps when the ships of Solomon were running down under Admiral
About the same time sa the seizure of this cargo at Wuchau a notice was posted outside | the door of the Lekin Office in Canton, offering a reward of $50 each for the arrest of my compradate and bla gong taida and was afterefroms on the wands facreased to $100 each, and now the from Solala, on the Mozambique Coast, the $1,000 for the latter. These facts have from have been competing to keep down freights to amounts offered are $1,500 for the former and Janks of the Chios merchants of the period may time to time been represented to Mr. Watters Bushire and Muscat and Jeddah. and his protection asked, but without any satis What were these vessels like? If one can factory result,
depend upon
old drawings and the descriptions of old wilters, very much as they were when wo began to shove them aalde with steam-and that is not so long ago. And this is what they were then like, to use the words of a practical writer
On the 17th Juss my firm notified Mr. Watters that 414 bales of India cotton yarn, three bales of T-cloths, and a csie of white shirtings, under Our Transit Fasses, were seized and two men Imprisoned at Linchao'; they had been consigned to us by a Hongkong firm who asked us to obtain transit passes to Linchao; indeed our names were embodied in the bills of lading by the river steamers which brought them from Hongkong, I personally pointed out to Mr. Waiters this fact, to shew him that we alone had control of these goods, and also offered documentary evidence that we had paid freight, duty and transit duty, and that the Transit Pass was In our name. His answer to my request for protection of the goods i represented was
decline to take up your case and refuse to help you to any way. The consignees have since had to pay le 13,800 to have the goods handed over and the men released.
SIR-Belog aware that you are, like myself, an unfortunate shareholder in the Green Island Cement Co., Ld., I should be greatly obliged you could enlighten me on a few points in connection-th the working-not of the works at Macka, which I belleve are well and ably managed but of the Office here Lu Hongkong.
Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co were appolated and are General Managers of the Company, for which services they receive fre “On the 4th July wo advised Mr, Watters that per cent. on all sales, and I think on all toco cases of kerosine under our transit pass purchases likewise. What do they give or do had been seized by the Lekin authorities At in return for this handsome commission) All Yaes-Kong and brought back to Canton, that I can see they have done is appointing where it is lying at present in the godowas Secretary who, it appears to me, expects to get belonging to the Lekin Office. The two Largs orders for cement in the Clab Germanis supercargoes were arrested and put into prison, or on the steps of the Hongkong Cigb. Is this where they still remalo. This cargo was Secretary looking after the Interests of share. Imported by us to Hongkong ex Wondering holders when loxfing about between these two. Yew from New York, sold to be delivered to Clubs? I think not, and I bave lately heard pen-Kong and part of the purchase money still some very strong opinions expressed by other remains unpaid. We received a reply, to our shareholders to the same effect. He seems application for protection about two months sorely in want of a lule more exercise, and if he later (aged August) to the effect that the Acting went raund the town endeavouring to obtain Consul treneral was satisfied the cargo belonged orders from Chinese contractors and others to Chinese and that we had no interest in it.
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LODGE
OF INSTRUCTION,
REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS! HALL, Zelland Street, on THURSDAY, the 13th intant, at 5. for 5,50 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
11000
Hongkong. 7th October, 1892. DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSU),
HE Company's Steamship.
"WAILOONG,"
Captain Rosch, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SUNDAY, the 9th instant, at Day- light. ******
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. -' Hongkong, 7th October, 1892 [1001
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
SYDNEY, MELBOURNE AND
ADELAIDE.
Caling at SAIGON SINGAPORE, TOWNSVILLE ́and NOUMRA (ŃEW CALEDONIA) and taking. through Cargo for NEW ZEALAND, TAS MANIA, &c., 800, CHE Company's Steamship THE
“SAKATA MARU "
will be despatched an abors on THURSDAY, hearth laast
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GEO, K. STEVENS,
[1002
en Agent, bar Hongkong, 7th October, 1892
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
WINES & SPIRITS are selected by an Expert and the BEST BRANDS only are supplied. HYDRAULIC ASCENDING ROOMS of the latest and most approved type convey passengers
and baggage from the Entrance Hall to each of the fire floors above.
Hongkong, 12th February, 1892.
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For Sale.
FOR SALE..
TPAS" ANTIFOULING COMPOSI
TION FOR SHIPS' BOTTOMS.
· PERFECT ANTIFOULER AND QUICK DRYER. For further particolare apply to
SHEWAN & CO. Hongkong, 17th September, 1992. [930
THEY LEAD THEM ALL
THE CELEBRATED
CALIFORNIA WINES, from the well-known Vineyards of Mears, KOHLER AND VAN BIRGIN, San Francisco, and JULIAN P. Surru (Olivina) Livermore, Callfornia.
Guaranteed to be Pure and Unadalterated,
R. TUCKER -Manager,
Wotels
1108
HAUENSTEIN'S HOTEL,
AMO Y.
THIS First-class FAMILY HOTEL L
situsted on the beach at KULANGSOO, and bas First-class Accommodation for Visitors. An EXCELLENT TABLE 11 kept, and WINES, SPIRITS, and MALT LIQUORS of the very best quality,
Terms Moderate.
R. HELLWIG, Proprietor.
Amoy, 1st September, 1891.
WINDSOR HOTEL, (in Connaught Buildings), QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG,
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"HE Private Hotel heretofore carried on in
TWINDSOR HOUSE 81 now been
removed to CONNAUGHT HOUSE.
'Cuisine under European management, Exch
Pure BLACKBERRY BRANDY and fresh Bed-room has its own Bath-room, Hot and Cold Consignments of BARTLETT SPRING
MINERAL WATER by each Steamer. Prices forwarded on application to
"MACONDRAY BROTHERS & ̃Cố,"
Commission Merchants, No. 30, Water Street;
Yokohama, Yokohama, 12th August,*1892.
FOR SALE.
“HE SCHOONER
"MONTIARA,”
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AS SHE NOW LIES IN YAU-MA-TI BAY,
Beam 3000! Depth of hold 2 feet. Registered Tonnage
175. LONE, capacity of the ffontiars has been increased to (Owing to recent alterations the carrying about 120 tona dead weight.)
The Montiara was bulit in Singapore, is most solidly constructed of teak throughout, with fron wood frames, has recently been thoroughly overhauled under experienced European superis- tendence, and is now in excellent condition. She is very fast saffer and a most suitable vessel for the Canton kerosene trade, or would make a first-class lighter,
For Particulars as to Price, &c, apply to
water. Passenger Elevator to all Floor
Charges from $2 per day upwards. - Special Rates for Families or Permanent Boarden. Offices and Rooms to let Unfurnished, |and Rooms with or without Baaad, by day or month, Apply at the Office, No. 37, 3rd Floor,
1843 Hongkong, 23rd August, 180x
THE SHAMEEN HOTEL.
BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably - situated within a few minutes walk of the River Steamer Wharves,' is now open to recalea. Visitors.
The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accomantodation, generally will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East, luxury la
The Table D'Hote is supplied with every
sexson, and the "cülsine is in experi- . enced hands.
Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best- quality only.
A WELL APPOINTED BILLIARD-ROOM,
A. P. DO ROZARIO, Manager, Honela, at September 1802
BAY VIEW HOTEL.
R. FRASER SMITH, MR OSBORNE begs to remind the Public Hongkong, 17th May, 1991.
6, Pedder's HitL
that every possible arrangement, bas been made for the comfort and convenience of 1525 Visitors to this popular Summer Resort, *BAY VIEW" occupies the best situation on the Shan-k-wan Road, commands an excellent view of the Harbour, and is always open to the cool breezes from the Southward Steam-launches can at any time come alongside the jetty adjoin. ing the spacious lawn.
FOR SALE.
THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT "CHOP CHEUNG,
AS THEY LIE AT ABERDEEN DOCKS. -'
'HE the Chop-chasing "were
hours.
Hongkong, and May, 1802
PEAK HOTEL.
"Chinese junks vary in size from 120 to even r,oootone, but as they standhigh out of the water,FOR their capacity seems greater ; they are usually fitted with two or three masis, and their calls are furled or unforsed like Venetian blinds. Those built and equipped for war, are somewhat superior in strength and in speed to those employed in commerce, bet in general the decoration and design are similar. The merchant-vessels are provided with ports, so as to carry guns. The most remarkable features to their bull, are the abrupt and flat termination of the bow, together with the absence of a bowsprit. A strangely fashioned contrivance answers the purpose of a
The Cuisine is unrivalled in Hongkong, and windlass. It is affixed to the outside of the bow,
T Consuucted by Mes Cupchenly the best Brands of Wines, Spirits, Cigars, by means of which the anchor is weighed. As
Private Dinners of among the ancients, an eye is sometimes painted
Wanchal, and are of the Compound Inverted etc, are kept in stock. Cylinder Direct-Acting Surface Condensing type,
Tidas prepared in First-class style on the upon the bows of the war-janks. The lower part of the stern is either entirely hollowed out in
Cylladers 201 and The Crank Shaft 2 with a strakce of 26. abortest notice, and Meals can be served at all
Is 6" dia. at the Crank pin an angular form, or being dat in its primary
andy" dia. at the journals. The H.P. Piston construction, has in its centre, & recess of
Rod that description. Within this is a second hollow
is "3" and the LLP, 34" dia. The Piston or chamber, rising the whole height, sedly now NOTICE is hereby given, that unless such and Connecting Rod bolts are a dis, Air Panop
of the SHAREHOLDERS in the PU-143" dis, by 13 stroke, Single Acting Circalating H18 commodious and well appolated the keel to the bottom of the quarter-gallery, TOM AND SUNGHIE DUA, SAMANTAN MINING Fump 8" dia. by 15% stroke, and Double Acting HOTEL, situated at a height of 7,550 feet within which the rudder moves, and is protected COMPANY, LIMITED, as have not yet appiled for Feed and Blige Pump (one each) 3" dia. by 13" above sea-level, having been Leased by the from the violence of the sea. This rudder in 5
the Ordinary and Preference Shares in the or, & it, in length, and is managed by ropes only, shore Company. In accordance with the notice. These Engines have been very little used and Now Opest and will be run in conjunction with Proprietors of the VICTORIA HOTEL,” Is une of which is fastened to the poop an of the Liquidater of the Puros AND SUNOHIE are in thoroughly good order. occasionally, to lift it out of the water, with a DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED,
The Boiler of the Horizontal Muldtubular their HOTEL in Queen's Road, thus enabling view to its preseuration
This was the junk, so far as can be learned, or before the grst instant, accompanied, so totop... Its dis. is soft, a" by git, o" long, external
dated the 7th July last, send in applications on type, with three Famaces and vertical Dome on them to offer special inducements to Visitors and
Residents. a thousand years age, just as it is the junk the applications for Ordinary Shares, with the measurements Furnaces, att. 7 dia. Dome, Redecorated, and Refurnished
The HOTEL has been thoroughly Remorsind, using cement'ia piece of walling for orders to f-- On the 30th July,¿mp" agafa wroja to Mr. 10 is, however, room to doubt whether it with Interest thereen at the rate of $10 per cent. 44” dla by sft, high ; Tubes, 18g in number by
payment of Furry Cunts per Share together come to him, he would be blessed with less of Watters that too, cases of kerosine, which
There
A New and Handsome BAR has been opened het superabundant weight he now carries about, were sold by me to be delivered free of duty was in junks or in somas that the Chinese from the 8th day of August last, the said Shared Sex dia. It is in fairly good condition, harles on the Basement, while a new BAR and BIL
recently undergone considerable repair and LIARD-ROOM have been erected on the main at Nanning fod in Kwang-al, bad been seized by reached the Persian Gulf and the African holders will be deemed to have abandoned their would last in active service for over five years Boot bon the new Machinery was erected and the the Lekin official ex Posts and brought back to Coast. The soms la more ornamental, pahaps, rights thereto, and the Directors of the above The Engines and Boller can be Laspected on: CHOPS, STEARS, &c, can be served at en pat largely increased, a ready said would be Capices here the supercargo was imprisoned than the junk, bet is more of a sea-going craft, Company will proceed to allot, or otherwise application to the Superintendent at Aberdeen dound for the cement that could be made, and tortured and where he is still condued; Up with one maat only, instead of two or three disposs of the same as provided by the said Docks, nonpro
Company's Articles of Association. But is it not the case that the Company's stock the present time have received no answer masts like the junk, d of cement is constantly increasing. It is to my Applications for Fedress.
· It is with tas somas that the Chlouse conduct Dated Seventh October, 1891,
For further particulars, apply to rumoured that before long the factory will either For the past three months a implanation much of their present trade with Batavis, the
By Order, corporat
R. FRASER-SMITH, *s,bave to cease production, entirely or to curtall 11 | lensed by the Governor of Kwang al has been Philippines, Annam, etc., perhaps because they
B, Padder's Hi, Tagy considerably? Is thlu'noi 150 fayli of pur 1 posted up at ali ike Lakin stations in the province) | kre" so papacious for their tonnage, as well as i 1009]
Mongkong, 19th May, 1892,
At the last general meeting we were told that
A. O'D. GOURDIN,
stroke,
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any hour and a
For full Particulars as to Raton, &c., apply to *VICTORIA HOTEL, WA
DORABJEE & HING-KER. Bang, at Lesines.): Hongkong, Fath August, 1898)