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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL AGENCY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1896.
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THE UNITED ASBESTOS ORIENTAL
AGENCY, LIMITED. DODWELL, CARLILL & Co,
General Agents.
Hongkong, gth September, 1895.
NOTICE
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HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF
-COMMERCE.
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the MEMBERS of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on THURSDAY, the 17th September Instant, at 3.30 F.M. in the CHAMBER ROOMS, CITY HALL, for the Paiposasa!!!--
Protealing against the scilos of the Tele- graph Companies in suddenly raising thefr Rates for Europe and America 37% and 43.26% respectively;
and
Nominating a Member of the Chamber for
E. RALPHS, ALCM,
DROCKIAN SCHOOL,
West Point, Hoogkoa Hongkong, 9th September, 1898. [1409
Intimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG..
AERATED WATERS.
SIMPLE AERATED WATER.
SODA WATER
LEMONADE.
appefatment to the Legislativa Connell G With referance to the latter, any Member having a Candidate to propose will please communicate with the Secretary on or before Noor of MONDAY, the rath September, in order that the necessary arrangements for s hallot may be made.
By Order,
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 9th September, 1996. [1416 SHORTHAND AND BOOK-KEEPING: ·
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No fees payable unless successful Apply early, as Advertiser will shortly leave the Colony.
Address
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clo Hongkong Talagraph Office, Hangkang, g'h September, 185. Frare
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNESS.
HE following CARGO, aniass claimed
The SEVEN DAYS, wit be SOLD by AUCTION for benefit of the concerned :-
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Hongkong, g' September, 1896.
EXCEPTIONAL NOTICE.
BROWN'S
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FAMOUS 4 CROWN WHISKY.
LTAVING made an arrangement with the
H
1 Manufacturer to purchase in large quan-
titles. I am now in a position to reduce my price for this
CELEBRATED WHISKY
from $10.50 to $10 per Case.
*INGER ALE
SARSAPARILLA,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HOWORONG, WIDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1896,
the recent disturbances there, of which so
FROM the latest Japanese reports it would❘ WRITING on the 6th ingiant aur Amoy correl | appear that the Chinens population al Formóm | spandent reports that there can be no question numbers 2019,841 and the aborigines about about the plague having completely disappeared 60,000,
from that port and the towns in the vicinity in which the disease raged a few weeks ago. Ms. J. G. SCOTT, CLE, will be placed on special duty in Rangoon for same months in connection with the compilation of the Burma Gawitter, when he will return to the Superinten
MR. ELTON, the Chaplain of Sandakan, will shortly visit Hongkong to amange about the stonework for the windows of the new church he is building in the conltal of British North Barnen.
M. Dobabjer's gaidences have been busy at Kowloon for some time priding out chrysanthe- mums, and there can be little doubt that a fine show of these beautiful plants can be looked forward to with confidence in the coming seaEOD.
hip of the Northern Shan States-Bauge
Timst.
We learn from Formosa that Dz. Meyers, of Takao, has been engaged by the Japanese Government as Medical Inspector of troops,
NORTH BORNEO NOTES.
(From our own Correspondent.)
SANDAKAN, September 3rd. The tobacco planting season on the Kina Batangan so far has been a very good one, calling is to progress on wil the estates, and H matters go on for the next few weeks as at present there will be bumper crops, and provid. ing prices for North Borneo tobacco remain unchanged, there will be large profits for the
plucky ploneers who have stuck to their us. In Mallada Bay matters are mach
the same
the Kian Batangas, except that they were having a prolonged
THE JAPANESE IN FORMOSA. We published yesterday, by special permission, a letter from Mr. Jas. W. DAVIDSON, the Special Correspondent is Formosa of our valued contemporary the Dally Press. It is a perfect defence and justification (by A
gentleman well acquainted with the country and with the people, and a keen observer) of the action of the Japanese · leaders and Japanese Yet 1893 there was invested in England in new | hospitals, etc, ni a salary al $5,000 per annum, draught when last heard from ; but it had not soldiers in Formosa la connection with enterprises of all descriptions nearly 26 millions and that he will be attached to the Stiff of done much harm so far, and cutiing was in pro much has been said and written by people of pounds sterling. In 1894 the amount rose to the Governor-General at Taipeh, the capital. If greas and most of the crops already aniely who do not disclose their names and who first hall of 1895 to 791 millions, of which 11
31 milions; in 1895, to 53 millions, and in the this is true the Japanese are to be congratulated, stowed in the drying sheds. fall to give any evidence in supporti
foz there can be no doubt that, in this respect, of the charges they make against | millions went into "likes" alone ?
Takao's los (and it will be a great loss) is the Japanese Government and people. In in notified by Mr. J. M. Beck, the Manager-
Taipeh's'gain. Mr. DAVIDSON has personally visited ali in-Chins, that telegraphic communication is the districts affected by the late rebellion.again interrupted beyond Oaks by an inunda For the first time we have a connected his- tion, and will probably not be restored to-day tory of the outbreak and of its suppression. Telegrams for Yokohama, Tokio, Hakodate, There is not a trace In this narrative of the rebellion having been provoked sic, will be posted by mall steamer from Kobe by any deliberate ill-treatment of the Inhabitants by Japanese soldiers or coolies. It seems to have been the natural result of the nooupation in 18sumcient force to control a country inhabited by a hostile race, strong believers in themselves and In the superiority of the Chinese-ever all other peoples, agalost a foe they hated and despised and of whose power
at noon and g. p.m. to-day | Japin time,
DURING the six months endlog the 31st Jaiy last, the exceas of importa over experts in Japas there had been an increase of 293 müllour over amounted to over 337 milions of yen. In 1854 1893, and in 1895 an Increase of 272 millions
first six months of this year, over es millions of aver the imports of 1894. Of the increase in the
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Wa understand that it le probable La! Mit, the robber who shot a Hongkong detective a few weeks ago in order to prevent his arrest and who was subsequently arrested in Chinese territory by Chinese constables assisted by one our Chinese detectives, will be brought to Kowloon to be beheaded on Saturday, the 13th fustant, Due notice of the arrival of this ruffian will doubtless be given to the focal authorities. He may be brought down on Friday evening, and if so he will be made exactly one head shorter
One or two small companies are belog started Kudat with local capital-a launch and tongkang company, and a planting concern. I look forward to success for these companies, for when local money is put into any concern it generally indicates that the favestors know what they are about and that there will no waste.
Mangrove bark is now being brought to the Bakau works in Sandakan, by steamer, from us far down the coast as Tavio. This industry is looking up and is increasing in Importance day by day,
Coffee, gambier, and cocoanut planting pro- grosses steadily in the Sandakan district, Gambler bolling is continuously carried on,
and the regular coffee picking season will com mence abortly, with Increasingly favourable
RASPBERRYADE, &c. and energy they had no knowledge, and represented raw material, coton, and wool of rain the beat is excessive and quite a number of prospects, for the trees are crammed full of
Manager.
Armakong, end May, 1901.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
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Katton oral matters to be sent to "The Kilner" and Communications Interded for pblication must be sooompeated
not to individual merabers of pha xtaḥ,
by the same and address of the writers, not necumacity for publication; but as evidence of good faith,
Whilst the columns of in Hanphone Triggraph will always Sope for the fair discussion by correspondents of sõi quaations the Editor do not in any way hold himself responsible for opinions that expressed,
TO ADVERTISERS.
Advertisers are requested to formed all notion loaded for insertion is that day's lure it is that Three o'clock as as
vot to reted the' sarly publication of the paper.
Advertisements and Subscriptions which is not pedared for
and the greater portion of the balance repre- vented machinery. ACCORDING to late files of Yokohama papers the Japanese Ministry is being reconstituted because there are, apparently, in the Government party
FROM Amoy news comes that owing to the lack than he now is at an early hour on Saturday,
Europeans are down with fever. The residents of Amoy are not the only dwellers in the Gorgeous East that have cause to complain of the exces siva heat. From Pakhol and Heihow reports of a similar nature have reached us, wille es
beautiful fralt.
1:
Coasts have been connected in the centre of the country; but this by no means implies that tole grams can be transmitted, because as fast as
The telegraph lines' from the East and West
'no men of sufficient ability to assume the duties far as Hongkong is concerned we are fairly melt-is merded in one place it is broken by falling
of superintending the Financial and Foreigning away, fevers of almost every description are
trees in another, besides which the effects of
I from the Inbabitants, and at Lokang Policies of the state. The Government' can prevalent and almost every other resident met ƒ leakage in the dense wet forests have yet to be
obtain the services of Counts Matsukata and Okems, but the entrance into office of Ceent Okuma means the exclusion of Count Itagaki and a quarrel with the liberal party, to which the Marquis Ito could not, in honour, consent. IT is rumoured that a well-known Hongkong
clear that where the Japanese are known, as in Chungwa and in Lokang, the Chinese are attached to the Japanese DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO. WATERS are rule, and are content with it and ready made under the constant supervision of a duly to support it. The rebels abandoned their qualified English Chemist and will best compa-attack on the former city because they met rison with the best English Manufactures.
with no encouragement and no asalstance Special terms to HOTELS, CLUES, MESIes and where the Chinese residents were in other Large Consumers.
number sufficient to have wiped out Any complaints should be addvernd to the all Japanese authority without outside ald, they afforded no countenance to rebola, raised volunteers to aid the Japanese, and were punished by their own countrymen by the burning of the greater part of their town. At Hoonlin, where the Japanese were only 250 strong, all the eco has ordered a full set of apparatus for destruction of life and property was the working the Roetgen Rayz. When it anives we work of Chinese, and the atrocities com- will be able doubtless to ascertals, with reference mitted by them on Japanese and Chinese to certain of our high government officials, alike were indescribable. If the city is whether they are vertebrate or invertebrate now almost a desert, Mr. DAVIDSON gives animals, and whether the cavities in their skulls, the real reasons for it. All, or nearly all, where bralos are usually supposed to be, are the inhabitants were in league with the empty or filled with something more solid than sfacting public interests. It must be distinctly understood that rebels, either by force or with their the ordinary grey matter found la the craalums own free will. The sufferings of the
of ordinary mortais. The experiment might first peacefully disposed Chinese were the
be tried on the members of the Sanitary Board! result of the action of their own country. men, who tolerated nothing. In the shape of Tar "bine fannel" Huer Deucalion arrived neutrality and forced all alike to support from Sandaken this morning In command of that their cause. Mr. DAVIDION gives two popular and skilful mariner, Captain!B. Branch, versions of the burning of Taa-e-tun and who has for some years successfully run the leaves his readers to take their chalce. Afewnow. We hear that she is not quite as salt Of his selection there is no doubtable as is desirable for the ever-incremaing timber although the Daily Press in its leader trade on account of the small dimensions of her yesterday does not agree with him. The Japanese account is absolutely consistent with the entire history of the rebellion, and the destruction of the village was fully justifiable as an act of war. The Chinese account Is one of the silly stories they habitually Invent and probability that one can hardly Imagine tell to Europeans, and so remote from they believe It themselves. All we know of Chinese doings on the northern frontiers of Tonkin justifies us in belleving the very worst that can be told of them. They may be patriots Aghting in a good cause. They may deserve every support and encouragement in endeavouring to their methods are most barbarous, and right to cry out when the fortune of war neither they nor their friends have any turna against them. Mr. DAVIDSON's report is a complete Justification of our disbelief in the charges so warmly pressed against the Japanese by our local and some other Far Eastern contemporaries.
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
ded period will be continued until couléemanded.
| The Hongheng Telegrad has the largest circulation at any
English paper published in the Far East, and to thermory the best media for Advertisers, Terms can be learnt on application. The Hongbong Trigrada'y anuber at the Telephone Central Exchange No. z. Taleempla dras pui3 Tilagraph," Hongkong.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT.
ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841.
MANUFACTURERS
OF
hatches, which delays the loading and discharg: lag of heavy logs. Her passenger accommo. dation, however, is greatly superior to that of the popular, sibelt venerable, Mamnon, so what she lacks in one way le compensated for in another. The British Minister has address the following Commerce letter to the Shanghai General Chamber of
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ascertained.
made in the London office of the Chartered Co., Fresh discoveries of gold are constantly being
in the streets looks as though a trip to Japan is about the only thing likely to keep his body and soul together for a month longer. THE Times on the 22nd August stated that Lord-
bạt next to nothing is known about it out here i In the Governor's absence the authorities Salisbury informed Li Hung-chang that he have been exciting themselves again prer that tavoured the principle of an increased Chinese restlerin Mat Saleh, whom they tried atcon- tariff, but must consult the Chambers of siderable expense to drive lato a corner.. When Commerce of Shangkat and elsewhere before fairly Jammed, Mat Safik walked through the consenting. Li Hung-chang urged an immediate camp at night and so got away and is said since decision in the matter, stating that Great Britain had already conceded the same thing to Japan tions, pointing out sa a proof that he could to have reiterated the purity of his inten- without an equivalent, Li Hong-chang has easily have ent several threats had ko stated privately that Chios will not abandon the wanted to do so. The Gɔrenment do not Hang-chang le charmed with his stay in Inland duties for a mere increase of tarifi. Like all there little asts, and are making England, but leaves without having ordered anything whatever.
more elaborate preparations for his capture—or removal,” as the Irish dynamitards pat it. Amongst other things, a reward of $700 (elds WHAT wi!i hysterical Exeter Hall enthusiasts | the N. B. Herald) is offered for him. This is have to say to the news received to-day from Borneo by the Deucalion, that the Government
rather a mean way of doing things which ought to be altered ; and it is to be hoped it will be of North Borneo have offered a reward of $700 when the "ad" catches the Governor's eye. The for the head of a poor old Chief, named betting, to the meantime, is 5 to 1 that they Mat Saleh, who is alleged to have defed the authority of the Government and to have evaded months.
don't catch this slippery customer inside 3 or 4
many attempts to Indaço kim to fender bis sub. mission to the powers that be and become a peaceable subject of the Queen-Empress. The unfortunate and misguided Chief is being hunted by savage and blood-thirsty Dyaks, and good Dess know what excesses they will be guilty of before the head of the Chief is brought in, Where is the "unfversal protector ?"
The report of the Chartered Company's meet- ing in London is very amusing. There is no doght of the exmestness of the endeavours of the people there to push the country on, but the means proposed are simply grotesque. The whole thing pats ane in mind of a game of bliad- man's-buff, where the blinded person goes groping about helplessly and when he names a person, caught more by good luck than good manage- THE following is taken from the notice conven-ment, he invariably names the wrong man. The ing a meeting of the Sanitary Board for 4:15 to Chartered Company is in need of a "strong morrow afternoon —
man,”, gifted with sound common sense, at its head. In the hands of a determined man'whose word would practically be the law of the realms
ORDERS OF THE DAY :--fl.
As a further concession I have pleasure in AERATED WATERS. free their country from a foreign yoke, but his Lordship Informing me that the Postmaster Singapore; (2) Papers having relarence to the there might be a big boom in all things
stating that to parchavers of twelve cases at one time or within a year I will
PRESENT AN EXTRA CASE FREE OF COSE.
89.30 for CASH. Special Quotations for Clabs and Hotels.
H. RUTTONJEE,
13, D'Agullar Street. Hongkong, 9th September, 1895. [1410
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL
THE Company's Steamabip
"HAILOONG,"
OUR AERATED WATER FACTORY fitted with the best English Machinery, embody | Jug the intest Improvements in the trade.
The Purest Ingredients only are used, and the atmost Care and Clesulisens exercised to the Manufacture througkom.
The Water used is proved by repeated | Analyses to be Absolutely Paze.
For COAST PORTE, Waters are packed and
Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, mod
Ports on FRIDAY, the rith Inatant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Con. General Managers. Hongkong, 9th September, 1896.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA
THE Chartered Steamship
"KANGRA,”
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Captain G.D. Clarke, R.N.R., will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 15th Instant, at Noon.
Yor Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONG, & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, gth September, 1806. ΓΕΑΣΗ
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA
TION COMPANY.
(UNDER MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN
GOVERNMENT).
STEAM TO SHANGHAI AND KOBE
THE Company's Steamship
"MARIA VALERIE,*
Captain Felipes, will leave for the above places
on or abont WEDNESDAY, the 16th instant.
For Freight or Parage, apply
SANDER & Co.
Agenta.
Hongkong, 9th September, 1896.
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR HAVRE, LONDON AND HAMBURG.
THE Steamship
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"BENVENUE," Captain Sarchet, will be despatched as above on or about the 18th instant..
For Freight of Pasenge, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
Agents: Hongkong, gik September, 1896 [1417
the full smount allowed for Pakages and Empties when received in good order. Counterfoil Order Books suppiled on application. Our Registered Telegraphic Address is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG,"
And all signed mtamges addressed thus will receive prompt attention.
The following le a List of Waters always kept ready to Stock !--
PURE AERATED WATER,
SODA WATER,.
LEMONADE,
LITHIA WATER,
POTASH WATER,
SELTZER WATER,
ŞARSAPARILLA WATER,
TONIC WATER,
GINGER ALE,
GINGERADE.
No Credit given for Bottler that look dirty or gatásy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of containing Aerated Waters, as such Bottles are never paed again
by
LI HUNG-CHANG, 2*
routs to Vancouver.
LONDON, September 7th,
THE TSAR'S VISIT TO GERMANY.
Peking, 15th August 1896, Secretary of State your communication of the Sir, Having referred to Her Majesty's azad April last, on the subject of the reported intention of the British Postal authorities to make Hongkong the terminal point of the new mail
AOENDA (1) Letter from the Hon. the contract for China, I have received a reply from
Colonial Secretary concerning: cholers In General has not recommended any such change, taking of a census before the end of the current Bornean; but without such a head-pleca we and that in advertising for such contracts, malls between Colombo and Shanghat I shall tenders have been invited for conveying the (3.) Analyst's reports on 17 samples of are bound to do the tortolte act and be ever-
water from wells in Victoria and Hunghom ; (4) lastingly at Poverty Polat,” teal obliged to you if you will make this known August, 1896 ↑ (5.) An application to be placed Mortality Reture for the week ended the oth to your Chamber and to the public in general-an the list of contractors capable of carrying out I have the honour etc,
CLAUDE M. MacDonald,
hours drainage works ; (6.) A report concerning certain premises which are unft for human
To those whom it may concern the following habitation. from the Sandakan Herald of it September WHO wants to " protect" Samos ? Who wants should prove very interesting, and if they are wise in their day and generation they will see toto cover that group of picturesqus. Llands with hideous coal-skeds? Some one is hankering it that there is no further causa for such com-
„ANOTHER TELEGRAPH
GRIEVANCE.
SQUEEZING MERCHANTS IN BORNEO.
Sandakan, September 1st. charges for local and coast-port telegrams by Some weeks ago, in noticing the reduction in Li Hong-chang has arrived at Tosunto in plaints :-Captain Branch of the Memnon, who after it; but whether the so-called Ring of the the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, we has so popularized that steamer, has been trans. lalands la golog to becomes full-fledged Yaniree, incidentally suggested that the rates for long- ferred to the Deucalion, Captain Reese taking the
an out-and-out German, or a tarnsties Britisher | ronta telegrama also would bear reduction. At Is is pretty hard to say. There are some that moment it was impossible to forecast the to Germany as a pledge of durable peace in Mogrridge, now chief officer of the lattes, will about five weeks ago the various factions it would now, however, appear that this desirable The Russian Press dwells on the Tary visit Memnon to Hongkong. It is probable that Mr.restless spirits at Apia, the capital, and probable date of our being placed is direct tele- Europe, which will enable the Continental become Captain on her return voyage. Apropos kad almost come to blows. At that time, consummation of the telegraph company's work graphic communication with the world at large. Powers to thwart Britlah designs in the Fat of this we cannot congratulate our HongkoDE) the fand in Bamos between the German partian. Í is within what Mr. Gladsinne calls “ measurable
"The Tsar has started for Kiel
friends upon their arrangements for examining of the population and the British and American distance of accomplishment. Under these cte and passing officers. For three trips sometimont realdents was daily incressing in bitterness. The British North Borneo will be affected much more cumstances the personal Interests of residents in an officer cannot be examined because the Gemains would not attend the Quam's birthday than heretofore by the telegraph tarii. Very examiners are "sileep or on a journey" &c
East.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Shaoghal Bank shares is £43.
Vids *ad” ve special meeting of Chamber of Commerce to be held on the syth Instant,
THE latest Loudan quotation for Hongkong and. We are rusty, la `quotations as a dilapidated celebration, and the warship Falkɛ actually urgent messages are doubtless now despaicked:
copy only does duty for all our legal processes, the festivities.
left the harbour to avoid participation in to the nearest telegraphic centre-Labuas: But, But seriously, is it possible that Hongkong can
Os the Fourth of July between walldug into an office, a hundred yards. as everybody knows, there is a vast difference. away, to send a telegram sad posting it to s distant official, never sure last the accompanying postal endar be quite comect-the vagaries of divided words being past all human understand. the telegraph administration as to whole and ing-and whether or not a directionTM" for cash
Tan Bangkod Timis hears that the bubonia plagge bas made lis appearance in the viciulty of. Nongksion, on the Mekong River, where the | nativas are dying off in great numbers.
Ar the Police Court this morning Captain Peans of the steamship Garife was mulcted in the sum of to because he dropped his mand. book close to the telegraph cable,
not raise thres master mariners to hold the the same thing occurred, and not a single German attended, although the day was ascessary examinations? Or are they in the celebrated with more than usual defar. It is hands of a favoured two or three whose con reported that the Germans are still using every woolence must be consulted, although the endeavour to have the German language in unfortunate candidates can only present theEM
selves at certain dates depending upon the rival of the steamers 2. If so the regulations should be amended. An examlalag Board should
́sit once a week at least.
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MEMORANDA.
TO-MORROW,10th September. M,-English Mall closes, Noon-Roselia salls for London,
It was rumoured in town this afternoon that's private wing har been received stating that Gabdeur (Canadian) bast Stabbury (Australian) | 11 In the sculling match on the Thames on Monday 4.15 for the Championship of the world. "Tuake dollars or fourteen days" was the magiriarial prescription made out by Captain Hastings today for eight votaries of fan-ian who were" roped in " last night by the lynx-syed Inspector la charge at Aberdeen.
KESERS Benjamin, Kelly and Potts in their Weekly Share Report issued at 5 pm, to-day. state that it is rumoured the Douglas Steamably Company will show a trofit for the year ending 30th June of $247,000, out of which it is proposed to pay, a dividend of, 13 bar omt, place 140,000 ko zubarys, welch of $56,000 for depreciation, (s1 und curry forward B21,000),
A. 8, WATSON & CO., LD, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. (Mangkong, 4th July, 1896,
Meeting of the Sanitary Board, FRIDAY1th September. Indian and Tacoma malis dans The Transfer Books of the Douglas Steamship Co, fad, close from this data to the 26th fast, Inclusive.
duced as the official language there. One of only will be obeyed, the local papers, the Herald, from their point of ... Assuming therefors that before long we skali view happens to be contumacious, and the Gerbe able to send a message direct from the mans, with their Cansul at the head, are moving alloe put upon his letter, the present tariff will "New Hotel to London or halsward" na 198 heaven and darth 10 being about its downfall, before long become a matter of some intérest in The German warship. Falke in will there, and | several inhabitants of the East Coast, as well is expected to remain matii relieved by the from a commercial point el view the marcantile
us to
to the Goremment itself. Naturally, however, Barrara Mr. Churchill, the zawly appointed community sccupy the first place in telegraphic. United States Contal-General, arrived by the antimation. Now, we note that the very | Alameda the other day and entered upon the | west tarif and sketch map secmily fasued: duties of his office. A slight outbreak between ❘ by the Company gives the charge per word to
Europs at 13.20-in other words about 78, 12: lives of the siral parties occured a few nearly as fluctuating exchange permits to t weeks ago. The affale was serious enough, but calculain. We submit thas thile charge, excapé without political algulficance., Ste people warn for telegrama" of grave importance, is almost wounded, same seriously, and six or seven probibilve: No doubt Banking and Insurance houses burned down. The local paper ways agencies would pay it if a telegram were nécess Noon-Belgic leaves for San Francisco, vid Chief Justice Ide kas almost finished his sy To Blogspots the cost la 80 orain and to the other Malayan posts Br, except, to Panang, Investigation of land, claims and expects to which is $1.30. Even in them last named čar shaka the den of Sanica off his feet by the end |--as these charges are above any payment for Daylight-Tacoma lexwas for Victoria, BC, and of the year,. He, kaaf earsed the respect of all, the local service from Bandaian to Labuan-the Transfer Books of the Calna Trade Insexists in virtue of the jealousies of the Great between the despatch and delivery of more ima both foreigners and Samasse, Jamos evidently charges are too high to secure the minor class of
telegrāma wäick till in the spats tone afforded anos Caj Lid, closed from this data to nich Lark, imafunker.
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SATURDAY,-12th Septeraber. French and American maila dne.
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SUNDAY,--13th September,
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