To-day's Advertisements.
LODGE OF
PERSEVERANCE
HONGKONG, No. 1,165.
THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1897.
To-day's
Advertisements.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEKS.
"HE P. & 0. 5. N. Co.'s Steamship
"MANILA."
A REGULAR MEETING of the bore FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, COLOMBO
be held in the FREEMASONS' HALL, Zetland Street, TO-NIGHT, the rốth Instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are codially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 16th October, 1897,
THEATRE
CITY HALL TO-NIGHT,
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ROYAL
(SATURDAY), the 16th October, 1897,
19.35 P.M.
THE CINEMATOGRAPH!
: THE CINEMATOGRAPH! ¦
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"HE_lateniimproved projecting machina in
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which the vibration so noticeable and try. Ing to the eyeals now entirely eliminated.
VIEWS OF THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUMLEE IN LONDON
will be the special feature of the entertainment. The following interesting scenes will also be shown :--
A dispute between Biegellats.
The “Boiro," Spanish” Dance.
Pinca de la Concorde, Pails.
French Caralty returning from Drill;
Love Sea-Columbine and Clown.
Arrival ofile Czar in Parts,
Pleasure Boats on the Seine.
Children playing on the Seashore.
The Nui Maid.
The Lightning Artist,
Arrival of the Express Train.
The Magician.
Pixco de la Republique, Paris,
Workmenicaving a Factory,
The Haunted Castle.
A Troubled Dream, and a series of pictures
depleting the
QUEEN'S JUBILEE PROCESSION IN
LONDON,
INCIDENTAL MUSIC
AND
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and-dalivary can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed. .. This vessel brings on Cargo :-- *
From Madras, ex 5.5. Sacundra. Optional goods will be landed here unless Instructions are given to the contrary before 4 P.M., TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the sand (nst., at 4 P.M., will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in Eny case whatever.
All damaged Packages must be loft in the 'Godowns and ■ certificate of the damage obtained from the Godown. Company within ten days after the Veisel's arrival here, miter which no Claims will be recognized,
H. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, 15th October. 1897.
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Intimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
SIMPLE AERATED WATER, SODA
ODA WATER.
The Theatre will be illuminated between each GINGER ALE.
USUAL PRICES.'
Senta can be reserved at Messrs. ROBINSON
& Co'r.
JOHNSON & CHARVET, Proprietors.
Hongkong, 16th October, 1807.
PROMENADE CONCERT
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Insid of the Funds of the
BONGKONG LADIES', BENEVOLENT SOCIETY
to be held at the HONGKONG VOLUNTEER HEAD. QUARTERS,
(Kindly land for the occasion)
ON
TUESDAY, the 19th October, 1897, 31 0.15 P.M.
PROGRAMME :—
PART 1.
1. March.... Pore la Victoira '.........Grand.
The Bind.
#. Quustelte. A sad disappalatment 'McCheane. "Messes Mirrow, Hill, Grace and Barrett, 37 Selection od Faust Sum......Gounod.
The Band. f'Oh! How I love Thes'1
4. Song
LEMONADE.
SARSA PARILLA
RASPBERRYADE, &C.
DAKIN, CRUCESHANK & Co.'1⁄2 WATERS are made under the constant rupervision of a duly qualified English Chemlet and will bear compa. thson with the best English Manufactures,
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUES, Masses and other Large Consumers.
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Wanroque, 1st March, 1897.
NOTICE!
THE Hongkong Talerapph is for sale at
TEN" CENTS PER COPY at the HONGKONG HOTEL and from the
TELEGRAPE'S NEWSBOYS
who call at Pedder's Wharf, Murray Wharf and all the hotels in Wanchal and the City of Vic toria every evening. It is also procurable, at to cents per copy, from the
---TELEGRAPH'S-GIGMEN-AND A NEWBBOY ---- who call on board all vessels arriving in the
•{(Opora "Clave Te} H. Passy. waters of the colony.
Mr. A. C. Van Nierop.
5. Piccolo Dus,'Les Oiseaux de Passage'.Kling. Corporal Harper and Musician Lytton.
& Quartetta. The Evening Bell '...Frans Abt. Messrs. Mirrow, Hill, Grace and Barret.
7. Cornet Solo...... Serenade...........Braga. Musician Haley,
5. Soop... To Akben from_Prison '...Whitfield, Mr. C. H. Grace.
p. Valve Brillante, (Op, 18)..........................Choplo,
The Band.
INTERVAL.
PART IT.
1. Grand Millary
'The Battle
of Waterloof The Band,
Eckersburg.
Potpoun
Synopsis.—Daybreak ; morning Gan 4 4.M.— The Reveille tounds. The Camp in metlon-
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With the Bad permission of Col. Guidon"] and the Offices, the Baod of the P.W.O. (West Yorkshire Regiment) ander the conductor bip of Me. W. G. ÏENTLEY, A R.C.M.) will zurlit in the 'above programme and will also play the accompaniments of the songs.
TICKETS, $1 each, may be had of Masura. ROBINSON & CO., who, hava kladly lant a plano.
Hongkong, 16:1 October, 1897.
THE
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~HAREHOLDERS are taformed that a lotter
Shas been stceived from Hr, CARL GEORG
NB-The Telegraph's newsboys and gigmen
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have received special instructions to charge only to cents per copy for the paper and if they ask for 20 cents it is done in violation of their instructions, and the Manager will therefore be glad to hear from anyone who is asked to pay more then fex cents.
All complaints respecting Irregularity in the delivery of the Taligroph to subscribers of a regards any overcharge by the newsboys' or gigmen should be addressed to
The Manager
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH " OFFICE. No. 8, Peddar's Hill. Hongkong, 12th October, 183.7
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WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY,
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COMMERCIAL AND STATISTICAL PAPERS.
No. 1-APRIL, 1897.
Being reports of meetings of Companies and Corporations for periods ending 31st December, 1E96.
This pamphlet is published for, the conve alance of the Commercial Community and is for sale.
Entimation.
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
BY, APPOINTMENT.
WINES & SPIRITS.
JE beg to call attention to our PRICE
W LIST OF WINES AND SPIRITS
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Latters on Editorial matters to be next to **The Editor" nad ant by tackyldani mambers of the stuɛ.
Communications ideal for publication must be accompanied by the wave and Ride of the pertes, on Decay
pabession but as weldmage of good faktis
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBEX 16, 1897.
THE ESTIMATES.
The Estimates are out at last. That is to say, they are out of the printer's hands and into the hands of officials and unoffi 1.36clals, but are not yet published, and we
VINTAGE, superior quality, Red
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REUTER'S MESSAGERS.
THE VENEZUELA ARBITRATION,
LONDON, October 14th, Professor Maertens of St. Petersburg Univerally has been chosen an umpire in the Venesuelas Arbitration. The Court of Arblitation will avsemble la Paris next"kutuma.
MOVEMENTS OF THE MEDITER-
RANEAN FLEET.
It the recent triennial examinations; for what' Is called the "M.A; degrno” at-Paking, over | 16,000 candidates competed, but only 73 ware auçosssful, and of this small sumbar Kwang- tung han un tower than 27.
A FarSH survey of the railway track kom Shanghai for about a műs out towards Woo- sung will have to be made, because the wooden posta," driven several fest into the ground, to mask the conte, have all been stolen.
Five British war-thips have sailéd from Malts This P, & O; slommer Mandio, which arrived
to Alexandria.
RESIGNATION OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. The Master of the Rolls has resigard,
BIMETALLISM. The Times stalas that a letter is being drawn up for the purpose of expresslog the grave objection of the majority of the leading City man to any Government movement in the direction of bimetallism.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE English mall is due to-morrow moɛn'ng. The buying rate for sovereignn is $10,20 per £. A RANGDON cricket teams is to visit Calcutta in December,
H.M.S. Pique went up to Shanghel on the oth and will wlater there.
are not supposed to know anything about them. We can go to half a dozen gentle- 20.40 1.70 men who will be kind enough to tell us all we want to know, but they add "Don't say I told you, whatever you do!" There B SUPERIOR PALE DRY, dianer
wine, Green Seal Capsule.$10.80 $0.00 is as much mystery made about the Bud C MANZANILLA, PALE NA-
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so much fuss about what is really a matter NATURAL SHERRY, Red Seal Caprate...
of common knowledge; to say "If your make use of what I tell you I can never tell you anything again; much loss that 1.20 would be! We are officially Informed that we cannot be permitted now to see the Estimates (though we have seen them) "as it is not in accordance with-precedent:hurt- 30.40 1.70 If precedent is necessary before a thing can be done, Noлu had no business to build the ark, and ADAM had no business
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THE two Chinese charged with receiving stalen property in East Street were brought up at the Magistracy to-day and remanded for a week. THE Bishop of Rangoon, while driving in his carriage a few days ago, was overturned and his coachman was killed,"bat"ibo_Bl„kop” was net
TEAMS from the H.K. F. C. will play an latar-
club match, under Association rules, at Happy
p.m. sharp.
to speak to Eve without an Introduction. | Valley, on Monday afternoon, Kick-of 81,445 If a thing must never be done till there is a precedent, why was the earth created? And why does it go Pround? When Estimates were first print- ed, such a thing had never been done Capezio $6.96 $ 7.56 $0.60 0.35 | before. [Easy logic, adapted for the Civil C ST. JULIEN, Red"
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Service] To openly let the public have 9.60 0.75 0.40 this information without any surreptitious DLA ROSE, Red
Capsule...... 11.95 13.92 .to 0.60 nonsense would, admittedly, do no harm, SAITE FOY
7.30 7.92 0.60 0.35 and would probably do some good, since CUES Canna
4.50 10 44 080 0.45 there would be so much the longer time CHATEAU D'AN-
for public consideration of the Budget; OLADE........ 1320 1440 1.10 260
and the Government would be doing a CHATEAU HAUF
BRION
sensible thing. But there is no precedent RIVET 18.50 19.30 1.60 0.80 for that
The Government has Itself broken-the rule, and deserves congratulations. Or ginally it was intended to increase the taxes by three per cent, namely from 13 per cent. to 16 per cent, to punish the Colony for insisting on a reduction of light dues as per contract. The Budget was carefully framed so as to depend on a minimum revenue from land and other sources which can be used much or little
CHATEAU
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last night, reporta heavy N.E. gule and high and confused seas from Macclesfald Bank Hong- kong. At gamto-day Gap Rock and Cape D'Aguller reported strang N.E. breeze, and rough sen.
OWINO to the unfavourable weather last night the open-air Charity Concert, to have been held at the H.E. V. C.'s headquarters, had ngala to be postponed. The date has now been fixed for Tuesday, the 19th lost, und if the weather than is unpropitious the concert will be held in the City Hall
THE Band of the West Yorks Regiment will play the following programme at the Officers' Mess
to-morrow evening 1—
Wedding March Kuyanthe... Wader Iphigenia an Aulds.....Glock Sacred Chorus ruwvanamla Pärlik,uqunannos Romla! Election Le Roi de Lahore Met
Or are the Qu
The following Churches will make collecilena to-moriów (Hospital Sunday) on behalf of the Alice Memorial and' Nethersolà Hospitals >— St. John's Cathedral, Volon Church, St. Peter's Chorek, St. Stephen's Church, Wesleyan Church, Bethesda (German) Chapel Wesleyan Mision Chinese Church, To Tsal (L. M. 5. Chinese) Chapel, Hakka Caniches (Basel Mission, Chin- ese), and Baptist Mission Chinese Church. ACTING Sergeant Williamson proceeded against offenders were fined soms ranging from $5 to & number of street obstrursionlets to-day and the
$10. P. C. Coults had an offender in the same class, a builder, who was allowed till Wednes By kind permission of Colonel Cordon and day next, to clear a lot of bricks, &c., from the. Oficeri 1st Bn. (P.W.O.) West Yorkshire Regi-side channel in Aberdeen Road. P. C. Walters ment, the Band of the Regiment will play at had a like'care from 'Kowloon, but as there was the Peak Club this evening, from 9 15 p.m. to a doubt as to the ownership of the property, the
Ckes was remanded till Tuesday, 11.15 p.m., weather permitting."""" We have received a copy of the P. & Q. Co. Time-table, showing the proposed movaments of mail steamers for the year 1898 in accordance with the new and accelerated services which have been arranged in accordance with the terms of the new contract with the Governmunt, In the Cricket Match to-day between the H.K.C.C. and H.K.F.C, the latter bitted ärst, making 138 (A.. G. Ward 47 and C. W. Gordon 383 The Cricket Club scored 188 In their first Inal:gs (Sercombe Smith 39, Laugharne 18, Cox 27 Johnstone 22). As 5.30 the Football Clab bad ist (bree wickets for 15 runs in their recond lasingu. The H.K.K. band played daring the afternoon and there was a large attendance of spectatoes,"
In acknowledging receipt of thies highly coloured sheets of pictorial advertisements from, the Straits Timas last week, we eeronesasly stated that a Hongkong paper had published some thing of the same sort not long ago. We find that the "bobby daşıler " has not yet been pab fished in Hongkong; arrangements were made by were induced to supply pictures and make our contemporary, and confiding aderusers contracts for fabolous sums of money-money enough to buy us say average Eastern Dow peper and give it working capital to rival FA Timsi-money enough to keep pace with Kos' fruit fall and Pears' soap in the matter of com palling the hole world's attention--money enough (if judiciously applied) to boom the Hong kong industries: bigher than the premium, on gold-money enough to retain the services of a at will, and the expenditure was allowed ACTING Inspector Hall and his "mratle men Chodasaburo, to make the pictures artistle
Briton Riviers, a Phil May, ind a-Takabashi ... to total nearly half a million dollars more ralded a gasbilag shop, 48, B: Street, Quarry amusing, and so farid that the beholder would than the revenue on the old bails, so that Bay, at 7am.to-day and bagged fifteen players, the Hargkong pictures have not yet fished on lola the Blue Ribbon Army in holy terror. But on increase of taxation should appear Inevitable. We were informed a fortnight. The men are nearly all employed at the Sagar the awe-struck gaze of the wandering world, and ago that the increase was not settled," Works and go in for about three days' fantan the bloated capitalists who allowed themselves
● he talked over ura fccling unzione, not last the and we accepted the statement as nothing each month, when they are paid. The chief more than a matter of form; for we knew offender was finedito, in default six weeks; pictures fall to turn up, but last they turn out violent vermilion vexations. If anybody In tage, Red Captale. 36.00 3.00 that the draft estimates had been put to- thres were "bound over for six weeks, one was terested would like to see how the Singapore gether on the basis of à 15 per cent. dircharged and the others worn ened $5 or four-pictures have turned out, we are always ready in
oblige. assessment, and there is no precedent for teen days. estimates to be materially altered once the A NAVAL AND MILITARY RIFLE MERTING is to THE total value of Nagasaki's exports and lase official" mind is made up. There are
ports during September amounted to yes 437,457 by held on the Naval Range at Kowloon, and yen 817,131 respectively, the excess of fe plenty of precedents for gto being added or deducted here and there, but there is no Thursday, the arst instant, to commence at ports over exports belog yes 379.764. precedent for alterations running into lakhs 12.30 p.m. sharp. There are 15 events, and the A THORNE'S BLAND, White Cap
of dollars. We have reason to believe eattles clore at 6 p.m. on the 18th Inglant, All sule....$10.80 $0.5o this daring reversal of practice is due to H. entrance fees must be sent to the Hon. Sec. on 45 per cent, and 30 per cent., 3rd 15 par cent. of entries (to per cent, going towards working expenses), No 3rd psiz: woless 6 entries; if leas than 6, the 3rd prize to be given to the fand Rules can be seen at Committee test. Bisley rules, service positions. Ridis:-Lee-Metlord. THX vagrant Chinaman seems to have as great predilection for the water as an otter when he is being paramed. P. C Hogarth, of No. 7
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C WATSON'S A÷ILOUR-GLIN- LIV.T, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark 12.00 D. WATSON'S HKD BLEND OF THE FINEST SCOTCH MALT
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not to know, was impressed with the fact x.co that an increase of taxatlon would be a violation of his pledges; and that he there- upon ordered the sheet to be balanced In 1.20 some other way, chiefly by drawing more extensively on the land revenue. His Ex- cellency deserves full credit for what he has
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THE Hon. Treasurer of the Allee Memorial and Nethergale Hospitals begu to acknowledga with thanks the following" donaifans to the fands of the Hospital -
Bridley & Co.......$1} Owen Ordish...........imandum. 10 THE fallowing are the newly-elected officers of the Kowloon Football Club-Mr. George Wil son. Cap'mins M. R. Smeltie, Vice Captain, and Mr. W. Moore, Taimiain! Police Suller, Hon. Secretary and Treases. Practice will commence about the beginning of next month.
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way m devata avarage of five persons le a house, this makes 70,000 pesos ge d-shed tow
sala............USES SPARATATION PRO 15.00. 1.25 done, and if we have occasionally to say Station; at 5*40 a.m, to-day saw a sospiclaui look. | TELEGRAMS from the front sometimes contain VERY OLD SCOTCH WHISKY 14.40 1.20 unkind things of him, It gives us so muching Celestist passing the French convent, on todisbing pieces of information, says the General Elles and concentrated his forca emoj The enemy are heard advancing-To horse - DICTIONARY can compare, with the Newty and lowest priced Whisky is of excellent quale commend his action. In fact, we are en challenged the man, who at once dropped his ard-s-trail tucher from the reane of Colomel Our is the more pleasure when we can cordially Praya East, carrying two ell drame, 'The officer Bombay Gasitia's wa are informed by wire that Advance of the British Army in Brigades-They
He took a bee-line Woon's action i? The telegraph staff is so aPRT- engage tha usamy with varying sucesso, but
market. We recommend our customers not to couraged to renew our suggestion, that the burden and made off, - siimately su victorious-Fight of the enemy
be deterred by the lowness of price from trying Governor might immortalise himself by for the German Pler and made a beautiful worked fast now that we must learn to take this them all. For a soda whisky, Thorns's Blend winking at the deletion of the per garth soon got la porralt in a
dive, breaking water many yards away. Hoot of thing philosophically. ** and Grand Victory March of the Brilleb, con-
and Watson's Glenorchy are squal to any cent. military penalty on all the Colony's and after a long chase he found his man, RECENTLY & Kobs florikigha-man, hearing tha cluding with the " Conquering Hara."
Abelour-Glenlivet is a very old Peat Whisky municipal works. Of course there is no (imoky) that could not be replaced in stock al
who was well-nigh "done," c'logie; to the one of his iraternity was wanted le a mívate the price. D and E are too well known to seed precedent for this, unless the historic propeller of a launch moored off Fenwick's works, capaci y, duly made application, writes "FAG. (811 comment.
performance of Neuson-at Copenhagen To-day, for unlawful possession of the off drams in the Chrontils.. "How much do you want ?M can be 80 regarded.. But we live the palatorial artist" was sentenced by Mr. saked the lady of the house, Taistoen yem,
Wodehouse to 14 days) hard labour, dos in a time of precedent-making. There
dead, and to dine with the cook." "Dine with IRISK-
the cook ?" "Yes; I always make a point of A JOHN JAMISON'S OLD, Green
has been an unprecedented fall in ex-P. C. O'SULLIVAN, at the Magistracy to-day, dining with the cook where I mengaged." Capsule increas
......$1300 $1,00|change, and the Hongkong ratepayers proceeded against a sampan owner for taking "Oh," mild the lady, slowly, “you do." Well, JOEN JAMESON'S FIZ OLD,
suffer Individually and collectively; pauengers from a prohibited place. At 11 p.m. I'm afraid you won't sult. You too, we want a Grean Capsule..... 15.00 1.25 each firm, each resident is feeling the C JOHN JAMESON'S VERY FIND
handicap more and
on Thunday the offender took three Europeans Jinrikisha-man who will diss with the family." more heavily, OLD, Green Capsule saiu 18.00 $tigo
from the wooden structure between the Bank Wire the pat twelve monthú the return of All these are very fine and old. C has been and the Colony is burdened with a
Wharf and Market Wharf. He called on the the great water companies show that 14,500 new stocked in Hongkong in wood for over 20 years, gold loan, forced through the Le- there belog into wale for Irish Whisky in the gislative Council by Sir WILLIAM ROBINION boatmen to stop.. They did not and the con-hauses bays been balit in London. The grual Colony,
In spite of the earnest warnings of perhaps stable jumped for the boat and went into the equal incresss of buildings te 1,000, bứt the rotning show the building operations isst year o waler. Belaga Corkonian, the P. C. could ot CB. the ablest finncler in the East- a man who drown but it was a tough time for him in the
have been on a more, extended reale, At the at any rate has not more than two equals heavy break until one of the avengers hauled In his mastery of the silver question. him aboard. He then found that the ton's There was no lack of precedents for thus number was very carefully concealed by out Namo and Trade, Mark.$15.00 1.25 inviting and then flatly ignoring sound and tarpaulls. The defendant made an ingenious Some of he houses would be bulli only to re
place old ones that this Les not reprosant GIN.
do Bot, valuable advice, and the results are of a defence and suld he huuled the constable aboard.
the increase of population; but it means naver. A FINE OLD TOK, White
not unprecedented nature, for disaster This did not avail and the Magistrate said it was thetess the ballding of a whole town every past, Capsule
...............$ 7.30 $0.50 | usually follows in the wake of amateur avory had case. He faed defendant $to and 2 For Unsweetened, White
Weaty Short List, dated MR. ERICH GEORGE Withly rise and fall of silver is the purest Two employees of a tinsmith, in business in wook under review has been fairly scive and the exchange-gambling. Speculating on the subsequently his license was cancelled.
October 16, Kys that business during the gambling, every bit as bad as that which Keswick Street, Wanchal, were to-day charged market closes rock thonger" although FIEST OLD JAMAICA, Violet,
has ruined the Hongkong police force. at the Magistracy with demanding money, with all remains sights. A raile extensive busines Caperla animammamu$15.00 $1.23 But the Government gambled without GOOD LEEWARD ISLAND
600 having to bribe anybody, and now it is menaces, from their late employer, they being has been pat through fe Panjome at 841 to 84
for ordinaries, med st $1.45 to
$440 GOOD LEXWARD ISLAND ......$1.50 per Gal.
not the Government that suffers, but themed at the time. The master tinker and for
ference shares, stock closing. LIQUEURS.
taxpayers. It is poor satisfaction to the gave evidence that the defendants came at the lower rater. An extraordinary, général BLACKBERRY BRANDY. Hon. T. H WHITEHEAD that he can now twice to the shop armed with revolvers and meeting of shareholders will be beid on 17th words, and demanded three or four dolars, and instant to consider a proposal, for the re- to him to tell his colleagues what or money most. Their wages being aired is intended that fuaks now Compsey the prefer
·-over- | the 'dally papers give. they deserve to be told, for their feeble drawe their request was refused. Defendante support of his protest. The evil is done, desied having overdrawn their wages and said once shares will remain the same, while there ma and the only profitable thing to do now is they were not aimed. They only asked for number.bf.adlessy shores will be taken with a to remember the lesson so dearly bought money due to them. Mr. Wodehouse remanded further liability of 84 per skate, of walch $1. wil The Government and the weak-kneed the case for a week. Inspector Mann, who had be called cap if the reconstruction, schem
casrge of the proceedings, asked for substantial carried Charbonnaganz hava tukin, a sudden members of the Opposition will probably ball, but hisWorship said he would not demandspart, and after water at $57 and Boot the stock not profit by the lesson, for that would be it. Bail of ese suruty of Say onih was alowed jumped to asins së Bron, at which inte shir ja contrary to precedent.
the Company's bianager, at the Mines, which can be seen it the Company's Office.
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