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second, thus winning the match with 57 ions to spate. Laon, for the home team, carbalbuted a plent score of 124. Reediman making 73, Jarvi: 40, Hill 60, Tord Geo ge Giffen 75. The Gelding of the Sydrey team was greatly admlied,
THE" RAVENNA"""CRISHIMA” COLLISION.
FINDING F COURT OF INQUIAV.
The finding of the Nival Court of Inquiry with regard to the Ravenna—Chishima colision was delivered on the 28th alt,
The Court assembled at a p.m. and the President (Capt. Castle) read the fading as follows:-
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in Yokohama. These present at the Council were Commander Dewn, of the 1st Bureau, Naval Department, the members of the Chishima enquiry committee, Lieut-Commander K hu ag and Lieut. Tauchiyama, tate of the Chishima Ran, According to the Nicht Nicht the chief point discussed at the Council was what wis to be done in the event of the finding of the Bish Court differing materially from the opin- ion formed by the Naval Department in the matter. The Naval Court or Commites of Enquiry at Tokyo, so far as we can learn, has not yet finished his slitings, and on the afternoon of the 37th, after the meeting of the Council above, referred to, the petty officer of the Chishima, Shimk zu, wis examined by the Commitee.
The Nippon of the sgth alt, states that the Naval Department have lodged a clsím against the P. & O. Company for the value of the Chirkima Kan and that unl the Company contents to pay the amoual an action will brought in H. B. M. Court.
THE "ZAMBESI" "HOKUMON”
COLLISION.
The Adverthier gives the names of the mem-- bera of the Congt as follows (—
Finding and order of a Naval Court held at Yokahanin on the 20th - 24th, 27th and 2816 days of December, 1993, to investigate the circumstances attending a colll:ion between the British steamship Ravanna of Glasgow, official Bumber 82.300, and the Imperial Japanese cruiser Chỉiking Kan on or about the 34th day ¡of November, 1892 whereby serious damage to the Ravenna ensued; and to enquire into the conduct of the master and cre-fiof the Ravenna;"
The Ravenna is a steam vessèl of 3256 tons The Court of Inquiry to investigue the clr registered tonange,
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⚫umber 82,300 and cumstances attendi-p the collision between the belonging to the port of Glasgow.. It appears | British weimship Zambest and the Japanese from the evidence given before the Court that ́ste-mshia Hakumon Maru which occurred on the sailed from Kobe on the 29th November | the 9'8' of Dicemb`r in Tokyo Bwy below bound for N gasak with cargo of merchandise Tomioka, assembled on the 30th ulo, at and with about 150 muls on board, all told, out Yokohama. of whom 23 wire passengers. That on the morning of the 30 h. Nov-mber at about 420 a.m., the Ravenna's or urne was $. 40 W. true, speed 12.5 knots; Taurushims Lih in sight right sbead distant 141 15 miles, no other lights In sight, and the deck in charge of Mr. G." W. Brown, chi fficer, No ni cenificate 0658; he | pilotage was being conducted by Kran¬ Yoshib-1, ficensed pilot for the Island Sex. Mr. G.Alderton filth officer, No. of certificate 02415, was on the lookout on the forecastle head, and both the 'steaming and side lights were burning brightly, About4.20 am Captain Prowne (thamistes) No. of cerificatc 12193 having been eleven hours on deck, left the bridge and thed to his cable (situated on the upper d-ck 62-feet baft the bildgċ); about 455 am) ke fole the shacle of a collision and besid one blast of the steam whistle on which he instantly rushed an deck and was met near his cabin door by a Lascar who reported the shinh cứị xión. Capt. B owne Immediately shouted below i "Send all the passe vers on deik" and then ran forward to
the bridge and in the gnes wae gaire slowly stern and as the ship had 1 st her w y he stopped them. Cant in Bowne then ordered the boas away, viz: the mail or accident boar, No. 3 le boas, a gig and a jolly brat. The remainder of the boats he ordered to be lowered in a lae with the rail so as to be ready if neces sary to embark the passengers. The boats had been previously ordered away by the chief officer." The Captain mexi turried his xitention to the damage done to his own ship and having assured imself that she was not in immediate danger decided to remain on the scene of the disaster, which he did. The boats appear to have been dispatched promply and after being away from 30 to 40 minutes anved the Caponto, Kaburak! Makoto, the French guarantee enginer, Francols Estenui and 13 seamen, also sub-Lieutenant Tauchiyama Te sugo, who had climbed into the damaged bew of the Ravenna, was discovered and taken en bard, Short y before daybreak all the boats returned and were holated up excepting the mail bost which was again despatched to make a further search in charge of Mr. Alderton the fifth officer but fi id- tog no one he lined the Ravenna itom in Hotire Bay, whither Caprain Browne únd pro- 'ceeded to a safe anchorage in consequence of the damage condition of the ship.
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Captain W. McC. F. Castle, R. N., H; B. M. S. Leander,
J. Tranp Frq., H.B M. Consul at Yokohama, Lear. C. Hayei-Sadler, R. N., H.B.M.S. Leander,
Captain Haller, of the steamship Tartar: The Mail saya the Court was constituted as follows:="")
James Troup, Eq. H.B.M. Consol, President, Arthur Hayes Saler, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., H.M.S Leander,
David Stoast Bailey, Esq., master of the British steamship, Tartar, ..E I. 'cheand, E-q.. Clerk of the Court.
Master at Arms, Mr. Afred Unger, R.N. H.M.S. Leander,
Mr. Lowder appeared on behalf of the master, mates, and crew of the Zambest.
The vidence of Capt. Edwards, who wis on `he bridge at time of cófialen, was that the two steamers were red-to-red and quite safe, when sadderly the Hekumos turned sharp round and ran Into the Zambers at right angles, The niher evidence from the Zambesi was exactly the same.
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who cared himselt at Deafness and Noises in the Head, al 14 years standing, by n new methed, will te rieved send foll particulars free. Addres HERBERT CLIFTON, 8. Shepherd's place, Kernington Park, London, S.E., Eng.—(Advt.
REGISTER.
· 8th January, 1893 --At 4 p.m.
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nd found it impossible to complete her eassy, Ingle-d of the intended original paper, she gave selections from Things Chinese, a book recently Rhode laland was the last State In the Union issued by Mr J. Dyer Ball of Hongkong. The to that upon a property qualification sea con i society prefer selections from purely native dition of suffrage. In 1886 the law requiring that books which have a'kind of wild game flour, voter be the owner of property was repealed. and at first the reading seemed to be too much The word "bay," used with reference to ke a cold hash of time fowl. But as the read. horses, did not signify a celer eripigally, but ing proceeded, it became plain that the book wat first applied to a breed of horses tos light to FAŻNA COAST METEOROLOGICAL was full of just, accurate, and well-considered billed brown and too brown to be called red, descriptions" that are 2. true of things the area of Newfoundland lo 40 200 square in Soochow as el what Mr. Ball bas miles, with a population of about 200,000. WAN for thirty years heen olasvig lo Honghi addition Canada will have an area of abrut kong and Canon. When the reading was st ded 1,550 cao quare miles and a population of the score of heaters all felt that they had been 5.200,000. The United States, including Alasks;
struct d as well as entertained. Under the bus in area of
3:570,000 square miles. head of etiquette, Mr. Ball refers to the rash young men who, many years ago in South Chine, met an old man, x-Chinein peisint, carrying a heavy burden along a narrow path." Ha demanded that the young feigners should give him the road. They refused, and in the course of the quarrel that followed they strack him with their walking-caues. Dr. Du Bose mensioned the fact, not s'ated by Mr. Boll; that ene of the yourg men, seeing that the village people who promptly came to the oid min's 'ald' meant murder, offered ten thousand tsels for his life: all in vain. The people seemed to think that, as dead men tell no bles, the safest plin would be to kill them all, and acted accordingly.
The compass plant of Asia Minor, known all along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and'as for cast as Arabia and Persis, is men. tioned in the Bible where the prophet refers to that senseless thing which is more stable than man, ina moch as it always pointed in the one
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The Vienna Academy of Sciences is about to Mr. Leng, the bicyclist, made successfully the publish the Etruscan ritual book, which was Journey of thirty miles along the Grand Candiacavated in the wrappings of a mafimy last from Sonchow to Weosieh, on Monday, 26 h year by Professor Krall This book is the only D ember, and on Tuesday 27th, left Woosleh surgivor of the famens Eusican literature of for the next station, Changchow.
divination and ritual of which we hear so much In the Latin classics, especially in Cicero and "No sensible person will ever wear a single -eyeglass unless he is blind of one eye. Its use means that one is neither employed nor’unem- plored, but engaged in ceaseless, though nо. doubt unconscious efforts to see as much is l more favored fellow. This strain'ng is as barm ful as anything could well be, and cannot fall to lead to the gravest results.
PAOTING EU.
("N. C. DAILY NEWS" CORRESPONDENT.)
December 13th. '. The river has closed this year with a snap ke the jaws of a vice, imprisoning a number of boats at the head of navigation, and holding in its clutches not a few cargo boats en route to Tiemain, to the immense inconvenience of all concerned. A week ago the country was covered with a fall of snow, and for two days or mare the vast dust-beap of the plain was transformed toto the likeness of happier lands in the West. It has vanished now, however, and once more an unbroken, level of ploughed fields stretches on every side to the horizon, as brown and cheerless and dull a prospect as any country in the world could show.
Uncertain ramours have reached the city within a day or two of another outbreak in the South.
No fear is felt here, however, on account of the presence of n Chinese man-of-war detalled for our protection through the winter: she presents a truly formidable appearance, mounting an The captain of the Hošumin (1 Japanese) ancient smooth-bre of the size of a duck-gun forward, and garnished aft with a sheaf of rusty wme that the two steamers were green-to-grekes. She appens to be able to furtish and that it was the Zambest that went wrong. The finding of the Court is not yet to hand.
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In the northern part of Pero, in what is other wise an arid desert, the celebrated "rain tres" grows. This species, Batas vapero, though not large at of much commercial value, is a veritable South American wonder, having the extraordi Hongkong Observatory, 9th January, 1893 nary property of condensing what little moisture there is to the atmosphere so as to chase a con- tinual mist to exide (seemingly) from Its leaves and branches.
The horseshoe superation is very old. The ancients believed that iron as a metal had un- known powers, and would drive nails into their walls to keepff pestilence. It has always been thought uncommonly lucky to find a fiece of the metal, and as horseshoes were the form in which it was most frequently found, the supersti thus regard came to be transferred from the material to the shape.
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In point at fict, however, it is not reassuring GENERAL DECAPITATION DAY AT effect open the immense amount of material teady to hand for a rebellion throughout the whole extent of this staid province. Particularly in this vicinity the: Sheng Hsien sect has under
Highest open air temperature on the Ilhame in¶t its luflenco a surprisingly large proportion of
Lowat open-fr tampiratore on the bọ Among the great men of the world blue the people, and the power of lis leiders is
W. DORKACE. eyes have always predominated, Socrates, Honghang Observatory, 9th January, 1893. unquestioned. Some instances of this have Shakespeare, Locke, Bacon, Milan, Goethe, come to Hght of late, but the most surprising Franklin Napolean and Renan all had blue eyes. illustration of it is furnished by an incident The eyes of Bismarck, Glad tone, Huxley, occur ing twenty years ago, not far to the south Virchow and Buchner are also of this color, and of Proting Fo. The leaders of the sret pre-all the Presidents of the United States except claimed that on a certain date a flood of waters General Harrison erjoyed the same cerulean
The 16th day of December last, or, properly speaking, "any dre coresponding to the luns: calendar of the 8-h day of the roth man of each year, is what is termed smong Peking nife'ala "General Decapitation Day"
The evening before the anniverary of last year's "black calendar, in obedience to an order from the Board of Parliments, the police magistrates of the five divist na
or arrondissimants wou'd devastate the country, and only the faith color to their optics.
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Parisians ent nails an a delicaer. Berlin will have an electric L tord.
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of Peking brought thirty crimin I carts, anderful few who prepared themselves for its coming eicht of xxy black-obed men, to the by building boats, could escape-like another people standa gales of the ten-ian, or "celestial prison," Noth from the ruin that would ove take the o the Board of Punishments, where they were
land. Boats were built in immense numbers, and made to wait until the dawn of the eventful far and wide provisión was made for the fated day. The number of car's showed that there day. It came and passed, to the confusion of `were be thirty condemned criminals of both
those whose sirks, ready provisioned for a voyage, arxes, who were to undèren the last sentence
stood unconcealed before their doors. Many the law that day, two b'a-ked-robed men
broke up their boats at once, bot every bere and escortlar each condemned criminal from the there in that district you still come across them cart to the spot where they were to be made half-decayed and used for all sorts of purposes, rcquainted with knife or card, according to the but generally more or less disguised. Under its degree of punishment they weTO sentenced various names, this sect, distirally regarded to undergo. The wor's "Chan" (hehead) as sedulous by the au ho.itles, is constantly and "Chisa" (sirang!) were `danbed || widening its influence, and occasional incidents Abrush like the above reveal the strength of its hold
upon the masses.
written in red ink with
A Swiss has fost invented a clock that talks. In Glasgow 15 740 women havo municipal suffrage.
A fierce anti-British Republican sentiment le reported in Portugal.
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The Princess of Wales wears gloves which
There are 950.000 persons, go per cent mien, in 875 Ruvion jula, built to hold 570,007.
Nineteen thousand cooks are turned out an nuilly by the model kitchen schools of London, Abbot 40,000 people in England nay a guinés crests on their stationery and plate,
year for the privilege of displaying their
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According to the evidence as the Ravenna og first sering the red light of the other vessel adopted the cor ct course, according to the #Rules of the Road" we cannot consider the action of this ship to be the primary cause of the collision. When collision was imminent at the time when the Ravenna blew one blast of ber whitle and put her helm, hard-a-port, the light immediately after left the Ravenna no response of the other ship in showing her green
option in the use of her, halm; but had her englses then been instantly aropped and reversed the effects of the colision night biye been modified. We do not attach voy blame for the collision to the master, chief officer and others on duty,
Some days ago, in a village 9a fi to the west, a systematic attempt at per colon of the members of the Christian church in the place was made by several local bullies, Browheating and bullying wereal keresorted to to force the con attended with Idolatrous ceremonies, from which hy treaty they are specially exempted. The matter was brought to the notice of the hilan magistrate, by whom, without any further ques sioning, immediate redress was promised. The native pistor was assured, furthermore, that on any repetition of such disturbance, a simple state meat to that effect from him would secure prempt atention. The incident would be not worth mentioning did it not bring to light the fact that af every obscure hstes in the province, periodics! inquiries are made by the government at Peking firms the judgment of a recent correspondent as to any exhibitions of lack of barmony between Christians and those of other religions. It can-
that extraordinary efforts are being made by the government to avoid so far as possible all religious outbreaks.
From the evidence of the following p raons viz, the chief officer, the fifth offerr, the pilot in bis cerified statement made before H. B. M. S. Consul at Nagasaki, the quarter-master of the walch and the A. B. on hi lorkeat it appears they all heree that at about 445 am. on the morning of the 30th Novèrnt er oth a white ad red light wy ed little on the part how and that the Ravenna pared to degrees, then steered a cousas and mer agalą poried;'an the | -not red light got adart the ther apparently on the faces of the condemned, showing the starboarded. When the ni hry chip's three 1 ghis manner they were to make their exst from were seen the Auurona's beim was put hard a ¦ this world. The gruesome procession started part and one blat on the seam whistle was | at 7 o'ch ck in the morning from the gates of the blown the other ship attempted to blów brṛ| prison, escorted by nearly a thousand armed whisle which was choked with water, and police, and winding lis way slowly through Ravennu's engines were stopped and belm on the alert, though the morning was a bitterly reversed at the moment of staking and also the cold ors, It arrived by 8.10 orlock at the whistle blown. At the time of sulking the excatlon ground outside the H den-wu" gate, Ravenna's head was N. 84 W.
Fiere the officials sppointed by Imperial decire to superintend the executions were already rested, decked in flaming robes of red, in the matched erected for the purpose, and as the criminais presented themselves beleze the fficials they were made to answer to their names for the last time, in reply to a query feam the officials in gursion, and were then pussed on by the black-phed men to the bung from the waist downwards Rhe executioners, also draped in sad lastings, which Ankles. Those destined to be decapitated were led to a spot thout thirty feet from the superin, pending mandarin's shed, and the moment they kreel down, the flash of a sword in imutediately seen with a downward pass and a bead rolla n foot or two from mỹ trunk less body; while the criminal destined to suffer by strangulation is led to po near by where two men stand ready to bind their victim to the post, A alīkussh | ~ There are over seventy miles of tunnels cut in ly then pigsed jo an instant crosswise arepod❘ the solid rock of Gibraltar, the criminal's neck, and the men tcking bald of each end of the Bash to which is attached a short piece of rounded wood, like a rufe hot only siz inches long, "a long tug and a tug together" at each end finishes the life of the condemned. No veil of cloth is placed over the condemned's face so a gausily sight soon presents fiself to the. spccator, apar of eyeballs almost ready to drop from thely s-ckets, and a toppe banglog two or three incher long out of a meath where the roots ara casily discernible, Halland hour's hard work by experienced hands soon made an and of the thirty criminals, and the execuiipa. ground was soon strewn with bodier, like the remains of a | battle-field, where they were lait by the execu. doner's escort and officials fast as they bad fallen. Immediately after the departure of these men the plice became crowded with relaɖves
We find that proper discipline appears to have been maintained on board the Ravanna and that every assistance practicable was sendered towards exving the lives of the Commander and| crew of the other vessel. That in accordance with the powers.contained in Sec 263 of 17 and 18 Vic. C. 104, the costs, amounting to £15, 191 814, Signor of the proceedings before ing sald Count be paid by firorge William Frederick Browne, the master of the Ravanna, the party thereto, and he is ordered to pay the said amount accordingly.
The expenses of the Court fixed at £16 191 818 ($197.07) as approved. Dated at Yogohams this 26th day of December 1892.
Wm, MCC. F. Casilo, Capiała R.N., H.M.8. Leander at Yokobami,
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Janie's Troup, H. M. Contul at Yokobama. C. Hayes-bindler, Lleu). R.N, H.M,6. Leander at Yokohama..
Geo, J. Edwards, Master of British steamship Zambsit
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More than 700 biographies of Columbus have been written in various languages:
The United States maintains lights on 9,959 miles of coast and river navigation."
According to the latest authority there 50,000 muscles to an elephant's trunk.
It has been observed that the only fresh-water fish in the Canary Islands Is the cel.
Women of to-day ure, on an average, two inches taller than they were twenty-five years ago,
In 1880 there was but one cremation society in the United States's now there are in all thirty-two.
Electricity, where uniretarded by atmospheric Irfluence, iravels at the rate of 258,000 miles a second,
The Egyptians and the Phoenicians are joint cisimahls for the honor of the favention of water craft.
Mr. Lowder-The fact that he has to pay the and friends of the criminals, who are allowed to costs of the enquiry does not reflect upon Čays, təka away and buy the bodes of those Browne. It is in accordance with the Act of beheaded, Immediately after decapitation; but Parliament, is it not, Sir, that the appilcant for those strangled are compelled by law to lie for
Court of Inquiry should pay the costs; bui | twenty-four hours before their relations can claim || finest Swiss watch. there is no refi cilon upon him?
and bury the ghastly remujos-Shanghat |
The President-There is no, reflection upon | Afaresiry
The Court then rose,
SOOCHOW.
(N. C, DAILY NEWS CORRESPONDENT.)
December goth.
Professor Huxley asys that an oyster is a far more complicated piece of machinery than the During last: 1,000 years there has been only
The Spanish Cabinet will ask the Cortes for
1. Bertaining The Poing to Columbus,men of London disreputable and even revolting. are supponing themselves by means which are
New Zealand has set apart two islands for the préservation of its remarkable wild birds and
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The word "preface, used in the beginning of other day, followed by a lap-dog without messle PRICE ...............................TEN CENTS, meal, and was equivalent to "Much good may whose balocsa le is to takepp stray dogs! The the usual rates certa
At two ladies begged the pollen to order the man so
The Nippon states that Japanese naval men are very dissatisfied with the finding of the Brisiah Haval Court of Enquiry in the Ravenna Chishima collision, and also complain of the action of the Court in not permitting Japanese On Thursday, 29th December, the Soochow witnesses to remain in Coun during the exami missionaries had a meeting of their iterary nation of other witacises, while the foreign society,They were kindly entertained by the witnesses were not debarred from remaining Rev. and Mrs. Baille, who gave a boxrty wels | it do you." --Wälle evidence was being given by others. come 10 all who came, inclusing guests from
On Tuesday December 27th a special Council Woosish and Changan (Drang 7ob), and a from left to right, Lut the time was hen the of the peiliogers, the policeman ald that, in Tikgraph has by far the largest circulation of Most of the writing in the world is now dens gir the dog op; but having no lies of the rank-Advertisers are reminded that the Hongkong was held as the Naval Department, Tokyo, for table-full of little folka, The literary entertain majority wrote and consequently read, from retain the dog they must follow him to the police any English newspaper published in the Far the purpose of discussing the proceedings at the mant was provided by Miss Atkinson, who right to lelt pollo en el per voi koffee. This they Ald; and, with many excuses, East THIS 15 GUARANTEED. Terms of Naval Cours of Enquiry into the Ravenna, intended to read a paper upon a Chinese book. Chishima collision held at HB, M. Consulate | Wat she has sight dayachpois, te superistand, i tha tuiksy wás domestigated by the Indians l'of the animal;
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Hongkong/rgt: O'cjaber, 18917-
P.M+
Mr. SASSOON'S CUP will be Shot for on SATURDAY, the 14th Inst, Ranges 200 and 300 yards. Time, 3 PM
ED. ROBINSON,
Hon. Secretary.
Est.
Hongkénne, 7th Januny, 1897-
PUBLIC AUCTION. ·
“HE Undersigned, has received Instructions from the GOVERNMENT of HONGKONG
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON
TUESDAY, the 31st of January, 1893, AT NOON,
at his SALES ROOMS, Queen's Road.
A LARGE PORTABLÉ STEAM FIRE ENGINE, by Messic. MERKYWEATHER & SONS, with patent quick Steam-Raising Boiler, complete.
TWO FIRE MANUAL ENGINES, by. Messi. SHAND & MASON.
AND
Particular of these Engines can be obtained upon application at the MAGISTRACY, to the Superintendent of the Hongkong Fire Brigade.
TERMS OF SALE: -Cash before delivery. All Lnts with all faults and errors of description at purchaser's risk on the fall of the hammer,
J. M. ARMSTRONG,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, 9th January, 1893.
ST. JOHN
(85
LODGE
OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C,
REGULAR MEETING of the above
A LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS
HALL, Zetland Street on THURSDAY, the 12th fact, at 8.30 for 9 nm. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Wanbeno gth January 1793
PERSEVERANCE
LODGE OF
'82
HONGKONG, No. 1,165, EC. REGULAR MEETING of the abors
A LODGE will be held at the FREEMASONS
HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the 16th, Instant, at 8.30 for a pm, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 9h January 1843
CATHAY
LI CHAPTER
No. 1165.
REGULAR CONVOCATION of the
A bovenste will be held in the FREEMA
SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 17th lust, at 8.30 for 9 pm precisely. Visiting Companions are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 9th January, 1991
NOTICE
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To be Let."
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Praya Central, 16
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LAUTS, WEGENER & Co.. Hangkong, 6th January, Rog
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY,
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OR OFFICES and for CHAMBERS on theGround and First Floors of the HOTEL facing Queen's Rond and Pedder Street, With immediate entry if required. For particules, apply to
Secretary.
R. LYALL, Hongkong, 8th December, 1892,
TO. LET.
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OFFICES in No. 4, Praya Central (lately occupied by Messrs. Gilman & Co.),
No. 1, PEDDER'S HILL,
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WE WITH IMMEDIATE POBSESSION..
Dalin Bros. of China, Limited.
HE Large Handsome SHOP, No. 14, Queen's Road Central, lately occupied by
Alto, Two Largs AIRY ROOMS on the Top Floor
jof above...
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