Intimations.
GINGER ALE.
WE
hayo always made good GINGER
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ALE, and we are now making the best. At various exhibitions and competitions in London and elsewhere, GINGER ALE made by the formula we now use has won 32 Prize MEDALS and CERTIFICATES of MERIT,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892.
WOODYEAR's Circus, according to papers received to-day, was still scooping in the shekels at Singapore.
MR. Frater, lato British consul at Swatow, was a passenger to Lordon by the P. & O, steamer Gangas yesterday..
H.E, the Governor Inspected the Hongkong Regiment at Kowloon yesterday afternoon, and expressed himself as highly pleated.
Truese por am Mainbique, expected in Singapore from will probably come on to fair Macao,
sly
She
The silk ex Empress of India, from Yokohama September 19th, was delivered in New York on In 1890 competed and won against FOUR of the morning of October 8th, making the passsge
j in just nineteen days.
the most famed Belfast makers.
The Analyst's report:—
"It is of unexceptionally good quality,” · "Particularly pleasant to the taste."
"Decidedly tonic and sustaining."
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"In every respect most satisfactory."
ARTHUR HILL HASSAL, M.D.
The ideal temperanceTM beverage.
„DAKIN, CŘUICKSHANK & Co., LD,
Victoria Dispensary, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong. 17th October, 1891.
(30
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD,
have just received
ex Steamers "BENLEDI" and "GANGES"
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their first shipments of
XMAS CONFECTIONERY
Consisting of :- CHOCOLATE CREMES, VANILLA
LINES, SUGARED ALMONDS, BURNT ALMONDS, NOUGAT, JUJUBES,
&C.
TURKISH DELIGHT,
PARISIANS,
&c.,
We are Informed by the Agents of the Austrian- Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Elektra, from Bombay, left Singapore yester day afternoon, for this port.
ACCORDING to the Singapore Frit Press, the amount of cola in circulation in the Straits Settlements is estimated at $7,500,000, the aggregate note Isaɑo being *$5,250,000, THX steamship Pelluz was towed over to Kowloon Docks this afternoon. The China Navigation Co's Australian Iner Ching-te will undeck at Aberdeen early to-morrow morning. ON account of the Band of the Shropshire Light Infntry playing at the "Assault-at-Artus" on Filday, the 2nd proximo, the danes on the Barrack Square will take place on Monday, the 28th inst.
THE Russian ateamship St. Petersburg. will be a day or two fram Singapore with 580 human beings on board, which a credulous Stralis contemporary describes as "passengers for Vladivostock, "
A REGULAR m-eting of the Diligentia Lodge of
Instruction will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 1st proximo, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting.brethren are cordially invited.
MESSES. Ricco & Co., the well-known wine mer- chants and storekeepers, have forwarded three PRA-imples of tasteful and prettily arranged Almanacks and block calendars, in original
DELICIOUS FRUIT JELLIES. ASSORTED PINEAPPLE, LIME, DAMSON, GUAVA, RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRY, PLUM, &c.
CALLARD AND BOWSER'S BUTTER SCOTCH, ALMOND ROCK upd EVERTON TOFFEE.
CADBURY'S CHOCOLATES in great variety, CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS, MUSCATELS, ALMONDS AND FIGS
FANCY BOXES.
A large "and varied Assortment of
ARTISTIC DESIGNS.
XMAS CARDS, ENGLISH, JAPANESE and CHINESE, a splendid selection.
'TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS,
A LARGE STOCK WILL ASSORTED.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG" DISPENSARY, Established A.D. 1841. Hongkong, roth November. 1803,
and really admirable designs. THE Orents! Bank premises in Colombo, lately bought for £12,000, have been let to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank for seven years at Rs. 15,000 per annum preity liberal ront considering the hard times prevailing.
THE Straits Independant indicates that Willard's Opera Company, greatly strengthened both in artistic talent and repertoirs, will shortly via! Hongkong and the Far East generally. *Vera' and her pereonial smile will be gladly Į welcomed back by iccal masherdom.
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A YOUNG and promising member of the Police Force named Sullivan, a native of London, died at the Civil Hospital, of consumption, last night. The funeral, which was largely attended by deceased's comrades, took place at the Protestant Cemetery, Happy Valley, this afternoon,
ADA MAVIN—we remember Ada when she was the bright particular star of Tommy Hadson's Surprize Paily away back more years than we' _care_to_count—with her "Folly" Company of variety artistes will probably visit Hongkong, Shanghai and Japan dusing the current season. AT the Supreme Court this morning the second or statutory meeting of creditors of C. J. Bateman, school-master, was held. The resolu tion to accept a composition of $70 per month for two years was confirmed, and in due course the Court will be asked to sancion a deed of composition la accordance therewith.
THAT entburlastic Yolary of Saint Fantan, Olga Dubola-a clever artists and accomplished planiste-didn't think it good enough to show in Penang, and shook the mud of the place from her little tootales with all possible despatch. Olga was sight. They prefer the skirl of the bagpipes to any other kind of music in Penang.
THE Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30pm
Polka........... Of wo Go”.................Coot. Quadrille......" Olyɛıplı "............
Valse............Cordova”.
Schottisch... Suney Hours"
Vai........
.....Williams
..Gomes, Smith
Lancers. Top of the Morning "onWillama,
L'Etoile Polaire
Quadrila... New Promosade Fells.Black and Tan "
Waldroufal
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IN reference to our remarks on Dr. Clark and the Christian Endeavour Society, one of the baly brethren of that body has written us a most i [4 abusive letter, containing expressions which we thought were only used by the Phillatines. If this saint has any lnfluence with the Lord, we are damned. Our correspondent omitted to give his name, but he used H.K. and Kowloon Wharf
-Brown,-who, however, asya-he-was-not-the-
wilter.
The Hongkong Telegraph.
elegraph. tionery, and wrote exactly like a Mr.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892.
TELEGRAMS.
› THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.'
LONDON, November 17th. The delegates from the Latio Union States
intend to meet at Brussels, in order to concert action, prior to the meeting of the International Monetary Conference.
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BALFOUR GETS THROUGH,
November 18th. The petition against the election of Mr. A.J, Balfour, Secretary for Ireland in Lord Salisbury's Government, for Manchester (East) kás been dismissed.
THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY CONFERENCE.
November 23rd. At the opening of the Monetary Conference the President of the Belgian Council of Ministers declared that the solution of the questions to be considered llos in the establishment of an International agreement such as that which
· regulates Telegraph, Posts, etc......... [Way doesn't Renter tell us what dear old Mts, Gamp think is the most practical solution of this important problem?-Ed. Telegraph]
LOCAL AND GENERAL-
The Omanic meat into dock at Huoghom yesterday.
IMURIS" again on the boom, and business done as high as $2.75 per share. Who is it?
MAILS Due to fear be
Singapore (Bexledi) q6th instant pe -Amr.{C. of R. de Janeiro) 30th M
Bombay (Shanghai) 2504th-prox.
A GENTLEMAN named Crick has performed the Vanishing Act and left a few small amounts owlog. The V. R. G. hai his name posted as a defaulter. He was storekeeper to the Canadian Pacific Co., and went away, on the Prfank,
We observe from the Singapore Free Press that our talented friend Mr. Kob Cheng Sean, the late Hongkang 0,lum Farmer had arranged to lecture the other night at Singapore at the Chi- nose Educational Institute on “Oplum"; but owlag to Mr. Koh's unavoidable detention in Hongkong the function had to be postponed antil after Christmas,
TEX Band of the 1st Shropshire L. I. will play the following programme in the City Hall, to-morrow, in connection with the French Convent Bazaar from 4 to 6 pm,
Overture........"La T'es de Potsdam” ........Richarda. Balaction..........Rigoletta "com.is,
Verdi Yala (Spanish)....." Cordom ".......... Cân Ootam Intermezzo.........." Cargileria Rusticana Mascaral. -Salaction,
"LA Balls Holena". Offeebach. Are Marion Bach's Prehade Sacred Boax... Nueroch
Oazmod. Intermezzo.........." Bal Kalants............... Jazma.
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THE Northern Pacific Company's steamship Tacoma, which for some time past been under going heavy, repairs and extensive alternations at Kowloon Docks, will, preparatory to taking her place on the berth for Tacoma, son a trial trip round the island to-morrow, leaving her
rage at 10.15 am. The Tacoma, bell known as the Canard liner Batavia, has been tric formed foto galte a new ship of the most approved modern style, and will certainly become a favorite with passengers between here and Tacoma. A full report of the craise round the faland will appear in our next fasue. THE following paragraph from London Tra? is, to say the least, highly suggestive of what might beand unhappily tanol-1 will ask those of my readers who did not happen to see the Pall Mall Gasette of last Thursday to kindly cast their eyes on the following record of a year's and then to try and guess what that class to doings of one particular class of the community,
Breach of promise.......................................... Cruelty to animals.
Backrupts ............
Elopements59.........
14
18.
#54 17
13.
Drunkenness .................................... « 121 Assaulte.....****||
........... 100
Various other charges
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His Worship-Supposing. I had not time to get to my destination: Where does the Ordinance show that the movement must be completed 7
Mr. Johnson tu reply said that he could only go on qualing the Ordinance,
Mr. Dennys said he did not see he could add much to what his Worship had said. It was unreasonable to say his client was bound to arrive at his destination befors 6 pm-the Ordinance and its schedule did not set forth anything of the kind.
CANTON TO LIN-CHAO.
(Continued)
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passing these, giving us but it le room, and had
Mr. Joaquim In introducing the resolution we got under some of them the best would most id :-Before I approach the discussion on the certainly have boon swamped. As there is no position of the Company I must disclaim any towing path through the Sheep's Loup Pass, our intention of belog cerional, and I trust robe of only propelling power was the boat hook at present here will indulge, in personality, but, against the sides of the pass, and peling. At to on the contrary, wifi enter into this matter calmly a.m. wa reached the northern entrance to this and in a businesslike spirit. This Company has pass, 019 the left bank of "which" li bzen' in existence since 1885 and for at least ball the Lin-chao Pagoda and half an three years now we have had no declaration of hour later arrived at the city of Lin-chto.
dividends. Business has been such as to pre- To correctly or effectively describe the valley | vent any division; in fact we have made nothing His Worship-I fail to see there has been any on which Lis-chao is airusted requires a mpré | but on'the'contrary as I shall proceed to polat offence agalost the law. The case is dismissed, experienced and much readier pen than mine, ut, we are going very much backwards and, but the aplura will be retained until the prosecn- but in order to convey some idea of its unless the shareholders "agree that the time has. tion have had the usual time granted for appeal. appearance, I can only liken it to an immense came to stop the operations of the Company, we handsome revenue from the Opium Farmer and with huge mountain ranges all round, the of shareholders have arrived at the conclusion Yesterday the Government, who get a amphitheatre, forty or fity miles in dlumeter, shall be landed in disaster, and that the forty who would be in a bad way without it, decided northern half separating the province of Kwang. that it is time to liquidate will be shown for the that no further steps to mulct the Farmer tung from that of Hunan, Lin-chao, being the following ficis. Proxies are now registered in my and obstruct bis legitimate business should terminus of 'a large water course from Canton,name in respect of 5,365 shares all in favour of be taken and they therefore notified the is necessarily an important distributing centre liquidation. I hold in my bends proxies in respect Captain Superintendent of Polles that for trade, the principal forsign imports belag of 1,300 shares which the Secretary ban refused the oplum should be st once uncon. Indian cotton yarn and kerosine oll. Not only to register, acting under legal advice, on the ditionally returned to the "Ratepayers' Friend," | does it supply the whole of the fertile valley in ground that these proates were m de in which was, we are reliably informed, done this which the city itself is situated, but it also favour of John P. Joaquim who is not a member morning, and Government no doubt apposed absorbs the general trade of the entire southern of this Company, though I painted out to him that the restitution of the oplem would end the portion of the Honan province. I found that that it was a mistake, and that the letter to me of the kind it would soon die the death of a transit passes from Canton, unmolested by the meant for me. They are all in favour of liquids. affale and like other disgraceful fiascos when goods were allowed to come up under covering there proxies show that they were nine days wonder. But, if our information is harples of the Lekin department, that tion. I also hold proxies in respect of 5,900 "alone" "doubled | shares which the Secretary has also refused to reliable, Inspector Mackle, the worthy Chief of the trade In cotton yarn in what can but be described as most faiquitous traders camo during that time and setled in these proxies were granted contained no power. the Water Felice, and those who backed him up itself in six months and over 1,000-Hananera | register, as the Powers of Attorney under which election of the main supporter of the Govern-Lia-chow for the purpose of entering into that of representation at Company meetings, and ment, will find themselves in the cup this trip, business. The land rangs from Lin.chso lauty members who own about 2,000 shares aro for an action is pending for $20,000 damages, across the mountain range into Hunan, a pars precluded from granting me their proxies as the text of the Oplum Ordinance there would seems to each man carrying at out four bundles of coton-readed, because, under Sec. 58 of the Articles and in view of the Magistrate's decision and the about 600 feet high, is dens by coolle labour, votes in respect al ibere shares car mot be be every prospect of the Farmer making our excel- yarn er one cass of kerosene. Before trinit of A sóciation, to enable the holder to vote, ha lent Wafer Police bitterly regret the day when pastes were introduced into Kwangung. must have been registered at least slk wreks they neglected legitimate police work and seized unan drew her supple from Hankow | prior to the meeting at which he intends to twelve chests of oplum and Impounded it without and Kiskiang, where pses were allowed vote. My friend, Mr. John Fraser, holde proxies
■ tittle of evidence to show that the owner of and even Lin-chao was deperdent upon the in respect of 3,300 shares, all I am informed
naw myself a in favour of liquidation Members present. the drug was in any way loftloglog the laws of northern provinces tuleed the colony.
quantly of kerosine, amounting the several here and in favour of liquidation hold another. hundred cases, being brought into Lin-case from 3,000 shares. So it will be seen that the great the north, which had been forwarded from majority of shareholders view liquidation wit
with Kinking ander transit pass, after a journey favour. The statement shewing the position of overland of at least sixty miles. The price then he Cemany at the 30th of September put for was $275 case, while under a trandit-pass from ward by the Directors amply justif›a thể setion Canton-1-would have been-prepared to lay-it of the shareholders who als gel-the-requisl. With daylight on the 19th June we commenced down at $2. however, the mardarios bavetion of this meeting. A co parison of that towing and soon opened out a fertile valley. decreed, in the face of treaty obligations; th: t
tatement with the B Jance Sheet made up to The chief industry in this district is the cultiva-transit passes are to be abolished in Kwang- sion of sugar cane and Indian com, and as the tung and the growing trade of Lin-chao with land is high, there is no sice grown in the neigh- | Canton in Iɔdian yam and kerosing is for the bourhood. The river got shallower, narrower, time being stopped, and swifter as we went along. During the morning the village of Mapos on the west bank was passed, and about a mile further on the large town of Taiwan was sheam to the east- ward. A short distance, say a mile, above Taiwan we met with more rapids, the country getting hilly again, diversified by small culi vated plains on the eastern bank of the river. At noon we entered a narrow gorge between grass-covered hills, the sides being symmetrical at a height of about 1,000 feet, with the excep- tin of thres ne-ks at the upper end which appear to be goo feet higher; these peaks are which rise from the water's edge, and there are barren and covered with Inimenes boulders deep ravines between, in which bamboos and some larger trees of varicat descriptions are conspicuous. This is named the "Three hill gorge." A few hundred yards further on a succession of rapids were encountered, with uge socks appearing above the water, barely leaving space for our boat to get in between High mountain ranges, covered with. brush wood, appear on both banks, occasionally approaching the river and forming na11OW passar-and-agalo--retiring to a distance of about so feel, the "Intervening space being a and planted with wegetables. Many water-falls are to be seen coming down the mountain sides, and one I especially noticed had a clear drop of from sixty to seventy feet into the river, The scenery Improved in grandeur as we advanced, one mountain P ak rising from the river to heightofat least four thousand feet, the bass being covered with brushwood and creepers, whilst the tranquility), XVI. (offences affecting the humain peak is a picturesque tower of blue slate. The body), with the exception of appearance of the country continued much the same all the afternoon. fo the evening the crew Sections 363 to 369 (kidnap of our craft was increated by the arrival of three ping and abduction), 372,373
men who were sent down from Lin-chap to help | and 376 and XVIII. (offences relating to docuthe night at the small village of Yau Chuca on our boat along a little faster. We anchored for ments and to trade or pro- the western bank. perty marks). trial. In this enlightened colony of Hongkong These offences are now withdrawn from jury trial by jury-especially by a packed joy of the kind the Hongkong Telegraph is so well Acquainted with are you listering, friend rellyjoss has long been recognised 80 a bowling fraud. Why doesn't Dr. Ho Kal, whose legal knowledge is kept far too much In the background, arouse himself and justify his position in the Legislative Council by entirely reforming our existing most unsailsfactory jury system ?
Would you say, 'now, that this might be the year's record of a parish in Whitechapel, or of some brutalised manufacturing district, or, any, of the dustmen and scavengers of London, or the inhabitants of her Majesty's prisons at large ? None of them. It applies exclusively to the clergy of the Established Church, and, what is more, it has no pretensions to be a complete re- turn, but is merely a summary of the cases which one gentleman has gleaned day by day from the newspapers,
a Madras Times says that trial by jury in that city has proved defective on many occasions and In Bengal it is apparently still less satis factory. At any rate the Lieutenant-Governor has ordered its partial abolition, Under former rulings trial, by jury was applicable in certain districts mentioned to offences defined in the following chapters of the Indian Penal Code,
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Chapter VIII. (offences against the publle tranquility), XI. (false evidence and offences against public justice), XVI. (offences affecting the bumin
bodyl XVII. (offences against property)
and
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XVIII. (ffences relating to docs
ments and to trade or property marks).
This ruling has now been revoked in so far as it applies to offences under :-
Chapter VIII. (offences against the public
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,
FINANCE COMMITTEE. COFICIAL SALARIES REDUCED.
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(To be continued.)
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necezartly endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondants in this column.]
SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE. HARBOUR. To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph."
the 1st December, "F91, according to tha Dire gore themselves, shows the our gross assets AT $10.000 le's on-the_3b.Senten ber than they were on the 31st December, 189; hat, when we compare this st cement and the Balance Sbret of the 31st December 1991, Hem by item, the position in my humble opinion appears that the Company is really $5700s pinter and worse off ver the 9 months working of 1991, and we have to bear in mind that 1897 has been a very good year so far as fires are concerned.
September at $215, o aduction of Sarongs her 1891, mortgagra stond at $6.2001 on the gath
on the other side we find an addition of $50 000 ta Municipal loans, leaving net reduciton of $75 000 in the solid targihle assets of the
On the 31st December, rgt, ou fixed. Deposits stood at $255.000, nn th: 30th Speme ber at $195,000, a irdaction of $60 000 On the SIR-While going and the shipping in bar-31st December 1891 corrent account stood at. bour last Sunday in the hops of geling gand $25.294 333 on the rh September 11419 916.56, crowd of officers and min to come to Divine.eduction of abeu $5,000. On the 31 Decem woul; have been surp sed in se alt fahou Sovice, those on the mission launch Dayspring going on a float that rem & to be illegal, and I therefore swilia you this no'o with's view tr expiring what seems to me to be a growing evil. First of all, the holds (not the burkers) of the steamer Hongay were being thoroughly cleaned || out and at the officers of that ship busily engaged in superintending the work-to none of them could dream of going to Church. Then on steaming round to Quarry Bay it was found that the employés of the greut "Talkoo" hong were discharging-sugar-from-foo-ton-lighters, Presumably the sugir had recently been dis- charged Into the lighters from the steamer Shan, fang then alongside the Refinery wharf. Over the way, at Kowloon, scores of coolies were chipping, bammering and printing on board the Chios Navigation Cofa steamer Chingtu, with the officers looking after them, though apparently no superintending the wok, for she was at the
time in the Dock Company's bands.
Now, what I want to know Is-can such
labour, especially the discharge of cargo frem large 650-ton cargo-boats be carried on here on Sunday with impunity, and if not, why should it have been done at Quarry Bay list Sunday,?
Yours faithfol'y,
ANTI-SLAVERY. Hongkong, 24th November, 189a.. Nose of these 'seem to be definitely, within the
law,-Ed, H.K. T.]
THE SINGAPORE INSURANCE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
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THE COMPANY, TO. BE, LIQUIDATED. In accordance with a requlation sent in by a number of the shareholders to the directors on the 28th October, an extraordinary general meeting of the above-named company was held at the Exchange, Singapore, on the 18th Inst. for the purpose of considering the following resolution ---
mpany. The sum 'claimed as an asret as Balance of Income account, we mail sakuma exists merely as book debts, and I think the Directors are bound to inform as what these debts are and who are the debtors It is matter of pub fe notoriety that on the goth September there was a heavy claim mending through the loss of the steamer Anglin—about $15,000, and then here Fire Claims pending. attract $5,000, If these claims have bren deducted from this Balance of Income Accoust we have $139 000 claimed as an asset, to be accounted for. On the 31st December last there appears in the Balance sheet the fallowing Items:-
Agents Balances ...................§48 712 Sundry Debtor. 21 894 Office Furnitu............................................. 1.906 Total $71.522
I should like, Mr. Chairman, to know why these items are not specified' In the statement before us and how is the difference between *130,000. Balanca of Income Account and $72,522, the amount of these items, accounted for. If this #139,000 is represented by Sundry, Debtors we ought to be told how much of it is really recoverable.. How much is due to Tan Keng Cheow, whose mortgage I understand ban lately been purchased, and how much by Lee Reag KestTo me the real poaldon of the Company appears to ba. as follows. Our caplisi is represented by cash and investments ; now, to get at a proper valuation of our mortgages book value we all know we shall never we must allow at least 25 per cent. off "thetr realize the book value of these mortgages. There is our property; I can say by the time the new offices are completed they will cost us whole property, at the price you pay for the about $5,000, and then you may value, the land. Agafest cutstanding claims and liabilities. and unexpired policies, we have therefore nothing but book debt, undry debtors and interest accrued but not collected. In fact if we are now involved in a big fire there is not a dollar to pay claims without trenching into the Investments which really represent the Company's capital. I may say, Su, that If the Directors had been able to meet us to-day, shewing that the Company since the last general metling bas added to its income and has added to its cash sancts, we would have given them our hearty pagport, but in face of the fact that in nine." $583 520.00
months, the cash assets:havs, been reduced by 11,875.00 no less a sum than $57,000, I shlak it would be 1317.00 madness to go on longer. and I there'ore pro
pose the resolution which appears fo the notice calling to-day's meeting.
It had rained heavily all day and during the on June 26th we found that the elver had risen night, and when we got under way at daylight about three feet, with a tremendous current which made our crew doubtful of being able to get the boat through some of the narrow passes farther up. After proceeding about two miles we passed the district town of Yuen Shau-on, on the eastern bank, opposite to which are soma strong but shallow rapids. By the aid of our extra crew, however, little trouble was experienced in getting over the difficulty. The country presents much the same appearance as that traversed the previous day, with the exception of a largo plain of carefully cultivated land on which Yuen Shan on is built. This town, like all district capitals | in the Kwang tung province, is conspicuous by Its hall dosen square pawn-shop_towers, a few police guard boats, and Pagoda. The population amounts to next to nothing-and-the-country a miserably poor. On the western bank, some two miles beyond this district town, is the village of Sicu, Taw, where several boats were loading coal for Canton. On making inquiry I that this coal comes from a mise or quarry on the other side of the mountain range about two miles distant, and has to be carried overthe bills by coolles. It costs there about $3 per ton and fa is sold in Canton to ateam launches and Chisere reduc.men-of-war at $6, Thess black diamonds' in
appearance are much the same as good Japan Capital pald up................. coil, but the primitive method of mining added Reserve Fond.................. to manual carriage make the lamps smaller. Dividend acteunt dist Doslog the day we had to ascend series of rapids and about 4 p.m. entered the Tal: Lee-hop; or Large Sall pass, a. most picture que gorge between two perpendi cular walls which bave the appearance of having been built by masonry, about 300 feet high and overgrown with long grass, shrubs and creepers. The scene was most flective, with numerous waterfalls from the high land behlad, maklog a brilliant background. This narrow pase is Only
That the Company be wound op voluntarily under the provisions of the Companies Ordin ance, 1889.11
Mr. J.-F. Craig presided, and there was a large attendance.
The Fleance Committee met this afternoon, the Colonial Secretary presiding there were ANOTHER exchange fasc. Cefalu also present the Colonial Treasurer, Registrar The Calcuits Tramways have issued AD General Director of Pablic Works, and interim report in which they intimate that the Harbour Master and Messrs. Chater, Whitehead balarce of profit in rupees would admit of an
Ho Kal, Belilios, and Bell-Irving, ad interim. dividend, but that the rate of exchange to much that it would not be worth dividing, li remitted, so that the Directors do not consider that it would be the interests of the
Company to make the payment. The reduced advance in the price of forage, but our net revenue is said to be chicfiy due to an
advices do not point to the same conclış, on,"
ANOTHER case of the "Vanishing Act "os the tapis, but-
Walt till the opera is peer; Wait till the opera is done, The Johnny's been living in clover And his man
Well, Christopher Columbur, after centuries of neglect, has recently been having a good time in the land be didn't discover, and we would rather not say any more fast at present. This is a conundrom, for the correct solution of which we liberally offer two old postage stamps and a had ten-cent piece the latter handed in the genuine article by à Hongkong policeman.
Chairman had no vote at all, so that the On the first divtefon it was found that the Unofficials were in a majority.
The Committee resolved to recommend tion of all official salaries to the rate existing before the all-round increase made in 1890.
The Committee also rejected the votes for cadets, and for the assistant police magistrate.
Full report held over,
·ANÒTHER OPIUM FIASCO. .:
INSPECTOR MACKIE "LEFT,”
At the Magistracy on the xyth Instant Wong Ng a servant, sppeared on remand before Mr. HE. Wodehouse to answer to the charge of removing is chests of Patna oplum after prohibited hours in the waters of the Colony, contrary to the provisions of Section 6 of the Ordinance of 1891. Mr. A. B. Johnson, Crown defended, and after patient hearing the Solicitor, prosecuted and Mr. H. L Dennys preposterous farce, for such the whole prosecu
few hundred yards' in length, and then the hills on both sides retire from the banks to some distance, but a mile farther on they again close on the river, where another similar pass has. to be gone through. This is named the Tong Koon or Copper Jar gorge, and is to every way similar to the one just described, the hills of which are a little higher. The village of Tong Koon How is situated at the northern Mr. Johnson-My case is that the oplum la entrance to the pass:~~We, were favoured with B. Lucu, 1873:-They Acting Administrator quesiton had not reached its destination. It was a fair wind all day, but the strong current to the is Licat.-General W. G. Cameron, C.B., com- in process of being moved after 6 p.m. contrary manding the troops, who has the reputation of to the ordinance. If the opium had gone to the almost dark when we passed through the Las river militated against rapid progress and it was being thorough good soldier, but most West Point factory it would have been all sight Pch. Long Gorge, a very narrow and pretty pass unpleasant one, with a marvellous capacity for It might have remained where it was, at the between two thickly, woaded mountain ranges,
all sorts. Alla office hours are generally start of a junk in a bost, long time and then-and-anived at the sillage-of-ang-So-Tang from 9.10
9 to 4, during which time the brillant goodness knows what would have been done opposite to which are some magnificent water- staff have to sit in, their reats, waiting on the with it. The object of the ordinance was to pre- falls. Here we anchored for the night. Wa off-chance of being required; he writes all his rent the oplam from being moved in the dark, under way early on Tuesday morning (Jone 2101) got minutes himself, and after a four or five hours" It would have been possible to have got down and in the course of an hour entered the field-day will turn sound to his Adjutant-General to Pit Lam in kalf an hour, but for some reason "Sheep's Loap "Pass, a narrow gorge, about with, How K-1 hope you have plenty of the man in charge stopped and made fast to a twenty feet wide, which leads through a range of work for me to-day," which hardly suite Every | juok. The facts show the oplum was packed in high mountains. The name in tself is sufficient brass-bat, as the various changes at the Castle of a very suspicious manner, and it is well known to indicate the nature of this pass; the sides ard Iste will show," This may be all quite correct, but what the object of the amended ordinance is perpendicular to a height of from three to four Cameron is a Brat-clean workmkd all the sanse, The movement of oplem means the transport of asndred feet, overgrown with grass and creepers, and in the event of war would be found one of it from one place to another before prohibited and powerini waterfalls coming from the high Briain's most reliabla 'commandern,
bours,
land above," "Much care, had in hq,onerzienā Iq
Oux old friend General. “Activity "is manfully upholding his reputation, gained in Hongkong and elsewhere, at the Cape. The Hawk, in - then was, concluded thus :— referring to the absence in England of Sir Henry
The directors had pablished the following statement showing the pasted softhe Company axnestly as can be estimated at 30 September 1892, including all known losses up to that dato -
14_prel 19. ESTIMATED POSITION OF THE COMPANY, ŠA
AT 30TH SEPTEMBER, 1892, 205
Liabilities,
Cast
Balance
Assets,
On. Aixed Deposit with ... ..
•Banks ....
***$195,000,00 On Current Account"
On
with banks...... 19.926.56
Dividends" with" Banks ä.....................
In hand ne
Mortgages, in Sings-
Por
Chinese-1
*7. per cent, Loan HEW
$719,200,00 21,936.90
Shares In China Jasare
ance Com......... Singapore Municipal .
LORD...
At
595,612.00 $107.061.70
Mr. Pertile, in seconding the proposal, sald:
I beg to second the resolution just proposed by 103.474.72 Mr. Joaquim and as I think he has said more
than is necetuary to show you the convenience or, better, the necessity to carry this resolution, I shall not trouble you with my poor English for more than one or two remarks," " In has been' said that the Company is solvent. Of course it- ia technically solvent as long as there is a penny. ¦ of our capital left, but every· business manu will 3317-73 Magrethat, practically and morally, are 181.20 Insolvent at this very moment. Teken En round 216,337 49 figures, the expital is $600,000 and the assets, its according to their book value, ste $700,000.
This
ringloden, however all premium collected; qavanjþgainst which a large risk' is stili running. Wa duits do not know how much, with our bid luck, we MVP: might lose on such risks, but any how we know, that to relosure this risk, would cost us about ||$100,000) Anoth ̈r $100,000, we - Vahruld have to wika, eff to put our mortgages bad debt, and office property to their real value and there wa are left with only $500,000, "OYÉ NOT COOTSIMTUxaour expiat: Bar, pentiruen, I think that lo dicussing the solvency of: 378,340.21 Insurance Company, we should take the capital Inno account whatever, but put the shureholders agaleat this capital as every other en ditor. The "Niks | capital of un Insurance Company is hot like that;
of nitridingų or. Industrial Company, whe torrida shareholders know, beforehand that itzwili be used to buy or sell on more or less sprealatíva principles or to procura, expensive machinery, Our capital is not actually required, for the $703 674 ya carrying on of the business. Promiuma mea paid. Ɛnkoudy whân ikuriais boglasį and, if $ie braaloves
908.310
30,00000. Perang Municipal Loxs58B00.00 “Kext Property in Slogne, RevAUR
pare Income Account
manu ·55,475.00
Balance of Premium-
after deduction of and latereit Accounts
expenses and calmas paid and pend. ing dumaan
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