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Today's Advertisements.
ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS
OF THE
FOOCHOW
TEA IMPROVEMENT
COMPANY, LT’D. INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES OR DINANCES OF THE COLONY or Hongkong, 186 TO 1890 BY WHICH THE LIABILITY OF STARRHGLOKUS IS ĮLIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF THEK SHARKS,
CAPITAL:—$130,000, HONGKONG CURRENCY, Divided tato 5.000 Shares, of $50 each, of which it is proposed to large at present the sum of $135,000 in 2,500 Shares of $50 each, and the balance of $125.000 la 2,500 Shares, as may be bereafter determined so.
Of the 3,500 Shares now to be based, 500 Shares, which will be fully paid.up, will be taken by the vendors, in full payment of the properties, businers, goodwill, machinery, and affects purchased from them by the Company, and the remaining 1,000 Shares ar: now offered to the Public.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1897.
JI
To-day's Advertisements.
the number applied for, the surplus will be
Co-day's Advertisements.
credited in reduction of the amous payable on THEATRE allotment.
Forms of application for Shares can be ob tained from the Comp›zy's Secretary or Bankers,
It is intended to register the Company at once and coples of the Memorandam and Articles of Association of the Company may, be inspected on application to the Secretary of the Company's Solicitors.
Hongkong, 20h October, 1897.
[1851
IN THE MATTER OF THE TRADE MARKS ORDINANCES Nos. 16 of 1573 AND SO OF 1895,
AND
IN
THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION CM BK- HALF OF STOLTERFOHT & HAGAN FOR LEAVE TO REGISTER A CERTAIN TRADE MARK
NOTICE is hereby given that HERMANN STOLTERFORT of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong Sole member of the fire of STÖLTERFÖHT and HAGAN carrying an business at Victoria aloresaid and elsewhere as & Merchant and Commission Agent under the styls of STOLTERFOHT and HAGAN has, 6.. the 17th day of August, 1897, applied to Hils
1100 of $100,000 in 2,000 Shares of $50 each Excellency the Governor of Hoogkur for lenge payable as follows!--
$10 per Shire an application. $5 par Share on allotment.
+
$10 per Shire 3 months after allotment and the balance as thereafter' required. DIRECTORS.
GUSTAV THKODËR SIMSSEN, Esq., of Messrs. Stemuren and Kroho, Foochow, Merchants. ERNEST JOSEPH Mog, Etq, of Messrs. Dodwell,
Carlin & Co., Foochaw, Merchants. WILLIAM GRAWAH, Esq.. of Messrs. Jardloc, Matheson & Co. Foochaw, Merchants. RICHARD HENRY WALLACE FRASER. Eig., of
Merns. Fraser, Raminy & Co., Faochow, Merchants
MICHAEL GABRIEL KISSELRYT, Esq., of Messrs. Tokmakoff, Holotkoff & Co, Facchow, Merchants.
'
That'
LUI YUTH YIN, di Foockow, Merchant. HUANG PAI AN, of Foochow, Marchant,
SECRETARY. WILLIAM PITCAIRN GALTON, Esq., Foochow, BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARKING
CORPORATION,
-SOLICITORS, Merin, DRACON & Hastings, Hongkong.
to acquire ===**= going carcern the business of Tea Planters and Tes Merchants heretofore carried on by the Association called "The Foochow Tes Improvemení Company” at Focchow and Pabling in the Fabklen Province of Chios.
to register a certain TRADE MARK in the Register of TRADE MARKS to the office of the Colonial Secretary
The Colony of Hongkong
CITY HALL
THE
ROYAL
HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB.
Will give two Performances of SIDNEY GRANDY'S COMEDY 'A Pair of Spectacles,”
он
TUESDAY, 9th November, 1897,
AND THURSDAY, 11th November, 1897.
Doors Open each Evening 845 pm.
́Performance, at 9.15 p.m. PRICES, DE $37. $2 and $1. Half-price to the Pit for Soldiers, Sailors and Police in uniform.
Seats can be booked at the Threatre on and sher Thursday, the 4th November. Booking Office open from 10's.m. to 4 pm.
Hongkong, 30th October, 1897.
HONGKONG SMOKING
CLUB.
[τός,
CONCERT
THE Ansual General MEETING of the above CLUB will be held, by permission,
In the name of STOLTERFORT and HAGAN. | in the CITY HALL, on
The said TRADE MARK has been or is in- tended to be used in respect of the following goods :-
Chemical substances of all posts.
3. Medicines and drugs.
3. Raw or partly prepared vegetable, animal and mineral substances used in manufar- tures, photography or philosophical research, and anti-corrosives,
4. Uqwrought and partly wrought zastais.
4. Machinery of all kinds.
6. Musical Instruments.
7. Horological instruments.
& Instruments, apparatus and contrivances for surgical or curative purposes or in relation to health of men or animais.
9. Cutlery and edge tools.
10. Metal goods (Including lamps, needles and
umbrella frames).
MONDAY, 8th November, 1897, al 5.30 p.m.
E. W. MITCHELL,
Acting Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 30th October, 1897. [1658
EOTHEN MARK LODGE, No. 164.
REGULAR MEETING of the above
A LODGE whl be held in the FRM Ass HALL, Zetland Street, an FRIDAY, the stb November, at 8.30 for 9 mm, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 30th October, 1897. [1853
Intimations.
MARRIAGE,
At the Beltlak Conzulate, Kobe, October 18th, by Mr. J. C. Hall, and, afterwards at the Union Church, by the Rev. H. J. Foss, M.A., CHARLES TEWAITES to Letitia JánE CAHELDU.
Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1897, SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON, G.C.M.G. At the reassembling of the Legislative Council on Monday last, H.E. the Govern- or, in introducing the Estimates, took occasion to give an account of his stewardship, and review the history of the Colony during his term of office, which is soon, to expire. He is not the man to adopt the same tone as the
Emperor " of Korea, who proclaims
We have relgued so many years without We have not succeeded in ruling as we
should f When we contemplate this we are so dir- tressed that the sweat of shame'suss down har bick! Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON is not built that
kay musli!
the epidemic which was so near. Then are exceedingly glad to see that the when the plague did reach Hongkong, the authorities, have at last awakened to the alarmist note was sounded again, and was fact that something of a fetid'nature exl:te officially decried -until the Colony was in hereabouts and that it requires removal, V the throes. The disease had been in the but may we be allowed to suggest that city two months before the authorities the Praya is not many hundreds of yards would confess it. Afterwards, when the in breadth, and that although we fully sp Government had folded its hands and preciate their kindness in baling out the looked on while private individuals fought dare we say sewage?—yet, to deposit it and defeated the epidemic, the time came just across the road appears to be rather. for measures to prevent a recrudescence; an Irish manner of remedying the evil. Professor KITABATO, Dr. Yes, the Curely the fith could be easily carried to body, made a boat as it is collected, and dumped well | Hongkong doctors is
representations, not unanimous for they ont at sen. The small was strong enough quarrelled a good deal-some were yesterday, but -to-day, what with the more sweeping than others, but all odours rising from the drain as its contenta were emphatic-and the Government were stirred up, and from the puddle of did nothing, or as near it as possible, black mad deposited on the Reclamation, and so of course the plague returned, as it was well nigh unbearable. One might had been expected by "everybody whose wall imagine that some unscrupulous and opinions
worth having." Sir enterprising bacteriologist was trying how WILLIAM Roamson raight as well say it many species of fever he could breed in was not within the power of human fore the vicinity. It would be Interesting sight to contemplate the repayment of the If the authorities would publish a table gold loan. His complacent platitudes are of the diseases contracted by the coolles enough to make even a Chesterfield say employed on the work day by day, and
vulgar and scurrilous" things.
also note the number of cases of fever His Excellency further refers to the that occur in the surrounding offices. Improved sanitary condition of the Colony Could not the Medical Officer of Health and the increased vigilance of the Sanitary be prevailed upon to laspect this new place Board." As we have said, Sir W, Rosm of fally? We know that he is not afraid to speak plainly and to the point when occasion arises, and if ever occasion arose It has arisen now in the form of a double-barrelled, stak, the presence of which we believe even a P.W.D. official would hardly dare to deny. It is said that the "drain which didn't” has been taken? out of Mr. BowoLEX's control as the F.W.D. found that Mosers. JanDİNE MatHxion & Co.'s drains run Into fi
sre
way, the wig of Cores, while verbally son has a rich vein of most cynical satire, disagreeing with his fulsome flatterers, which crops out perhaps without his know- practically endorses their adulation by ac- ledge. This sharp dig at the poor morl. cepting the new title they propose, and bund Sanitary Board Is almost too spiteful rewarding the proposers." The King of to be his own; he must have got it from Mr. Hongkong does not take the trouble to Coorxa. The improvement in the sanitary simulate self-depreciation. Presumably condition of the Colony consists in blocking he sees through all the sweet things that up the outlets of drains and then saying sre said to him, for it takes a very dense they are not there, and calling people person to believe a toady, and Hongkong names if they complain of smells. A medi- is a toadies' paradise with Government cal gentleman says there is at a certain House as its centre. He knows all about polat a smell strong enough to knock a that, of course, and with a cynicism that man down and pick his pocket; &liovern- serves them right her takes them atment official says there is no smell, and so their word, and says with General STAN- that settles it-until the choked-up sewer LEY of Penzance, (who by the way was is unearthed and a shipload of sewage is caught by the pirates in the act of telling laid out on the roadway to shed its sweet- an awful whopper) "I know I am the ness on the desert air and demonstrate the finest Governor that ever sat a
true inwardness of "Improved sanitary conditions." In future ages, when Hong kong ranks with Nineveh and Carthage and the lost and forgotten cities of Peru, some Colonel NORTH of Macaulay's Maori Empire will make millions out of the here. His Excellency is
11. Precious metals and jewellery and Imitations DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & gee," He suits Hongkong people; he
of such goods and Jewellery,
12. Manufactures from mloerál and other sub-
stances for buliding or decoration.
13. Goods of any description menufactured from
caoutchouc, India rabber or gutta percha.
14. Arms, ammunition and stores,
ig. Silk plece podku ana na goods of all
kinds.
18. Articles of clothing.
19. Substances used as food or as ingredients In- food (including butter, margariné and other substitutes for butter and preserves and
· biscuits).
COMPANY,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
"IMPLE, AERATED WATER.
SIMPLE,
SODA
Recent experiments in the manufacture of 20. Detergents, illuminating heating of lubricat. GINGER ALE
los carried out by the Association at Pahling with the aid of Machinery have been attended with mech ruccess, inasmuch as tess of greatly Improved character and quality have been pro- duced, and it is therefors considered that the capital a larger steae han now served whe's played is various
scale can be parts of the Faakka Provines. In this connec. tion, It should be stated that the Chinesa Government Officials have shows themselves favourably disposed towards the Company, and have expressed their intention to protect and manist it in every wậy.
Ing oils, and starch'blue and other prepara- tions for laundry purposes,
11. Tollet articles, preparations be the tenth and
hair and perfamed asap.
22, Games of all kinds, archery, fishing tacklo
and
23. Walking sticks, brushes and comba.
14. Skins wawrought and wrought and articles
made of leather,
45. Tobacco, whether manufactured de unusanu-
factured,
A Facsimile of the said trade mark can be seen on application at the office of the Colonial Secretary of the Colony of Hongkong or to the undersigned.
Dated the 20th day of October, 1897.
The property to be acquired from the Asso- cialios in consideration of the allotment of the seo folly paid my shares comprises the good Will of the business and all its Trade Marks and Chops, the Association's lande in the Fobkien Province of China with a Factory, house for the|| 1636) Chloeia Manager, office, and ‹ colle quarters; also a new "Venetian" firing machine, zad three new rolling tables, and a sifiing machine, the whole being worked by a water wheel 12 fact in diama
b. anda seel broad s also s Campbell's Oli Englan, to horsepower; one Davidson's Shrocco, two Blackman's Fans, and one Davidson's Custer; also 4,400 Wuthering Trays and Stands, and Scales and requ'alte godown appliances also a cash balance at the credit of the Associa- tion amounting to $1,795.16. The land will be vested in two Chlacsa shareholders as Trustees for the Company.
The Chinese głowers'in the vicinity of the Factory have slwiga been willing sellera of grave lost, of which an ample supply is at nil Umes available for manulieture-
At regards the prospects of the financial suc Case of the Company, the Direc'on would par Eicularly draw attention to the advantage Chlas
now has over India and Ceylon in cheap-silver; This inlly compesistes for the taxation which China tes bas at preserk to base. The cheap. mesa of land, the low souls of wages, and the cellent quality of Chinese labour are likewise facts which cannot be overlooked.
The Machinery has been created by and is in charge of a realdani English Engineer, who is the Company's Property Manager, und has for soma peres been in charge of a tua factory in
The Chinese Manager was recently sens, to Caplen by the Association, where he bad prac dical experience in tos making.
It is proposed to take over the business as
going concers as from the 10th Tsly, 1897, and to enlarge the existing factory at Fehling, and establish other factories in suitable districts.
The Contracts affecting the Company consist ́of an agreement dated the rgth day of October, 189%, made between the members of the Associa Hon of the one part and Gustav Theodor Blemssen, Esq for and on behalf of the Com pany of the other part, being the agreement for ike purchase of the properties, business, and premises to be taken over from the Association, A copy of this contract calf be seen at any branch of the Hongkong and Shanghal Back- lag Corporation or on application to the Scre tury or ike Company's Solicitors.
„There are other arrangements and contracts --In "existance, the benefits and obligations ol which are to be taken over by the Company, pack as an agreement to pay the Chinese Manager a bonus of 3 per cent. on the Cem- pany's net profits for the first year | contracts gagtor clerks, serante, and emplojes, and Waer contracte, :;}! Fuck KEYED gementa and contracts come within Section gy
of Ordinance
}
JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER, Solicitors for
Kum. SILTERFORT & HAGAN.
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
TOTICE la bereby that the Reglators
NICE le benchy elven CARY GUIDE CLOSED from THURSDAY, the Tith Novem bar, to SATURDAY, the 13th November, both days Inclusive, during which perfed no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Board of DirectoH.
JAMES & DUNCAN, Secretary. Hongkong, 30th October, 1897, [1651
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
LIMITED.
I
FOR TIENTSIN (DIRECT).
THE Company's Steamship
"KWEIYANG," Captain Outerbridge, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, the Sih Novembr.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents Hongkong, 30th October, 1897.
DOUGLAS. STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
WATER
LEMONADE.
the musica, now in Course of formation
It formed that Victoris may now be regarded as one of the best drained cities east of Sues and that fin domestic santiation witi compare favour ably with that of any of the large cities of England.
REUTER'S MESSAGE.
GREAT BRITAIN AND TRANCE IN WEST AFRICA
LONDON, October 25th, The Tempy apprehends that a serious crisis is imminent in West Africa uzless restraining peders are given immediately to the armed forces on both sides.
. It is stated in Paris that owing to complications in the Lagos Hinterland, Franch re-inforcements have been siệt to Dakomey from Senegambla.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Tax Englishmail is due to-morrow morning. Tax bwying tate for sovereigan is $10.33 per §.
=PLMS. Lénkud arrived here this afternoon from
is genial, sociable, ornamental, and be accepts homage without a sign of protest. Whether he sults Hongkong itself is an- other question, He says he does, and he zmu w Antlemenity to say otherwise. Very well, so be it; we would rather be all that, than be as his own inti- mate associates in Hongkong, obsequians to him and scandal-mongers about him, We would rather be rude to him than go about the town telling other people, the It says very little for the other ditles, Frockow. giddy things we have known him do at then, and nothing at all to the point. If dinners and card-partles; if we refrain Hongkong is ruined by epidemics, THE Americas mall steamer City of Peking is from putting any of these amusing anec- | It is but a poor consolation to be told | dus here on Monday from Shanghai. ** dotes into print, they are public property that the system is better than other places SEVERAL chair coolles, charged with “rushing" ASPBERRYADE, &c. none the less, thanks to the "friends" have. Is it as good as we want, or as
whom he cultivates, and they do not make good as we can get? Why, It is not as pedestrians by F. C. Lipplatt, were to-day fnsă him respected. With all his affability, Sir good as the system in Malay villages, $250 each, DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co. WATERS AT WILLIAM ROBINSON has played skittles with where the houses are built on plies over made under the constant supervision of a dy the dignity of his position more than any running water. qualified English Chemist and will bear comp other Governor of Hongkong ever did, or rison with the best English Manufactum.
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES andelse his bosom friends are lars as well as other Large Consumers. day complatuts should be addresses to the Manager. Rongkong, fat March, 1897.
SARSAPARILLA RA
[1506]
TO SUBSCRIBERS. . SUBSCRID NES TO *THE HONGKONGe TELEGRAFH" ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY
ALL SUBSCRIPTION
REMINDED THAT MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE,
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED:
́ESTABLISHED AD. 1841.
WINES & SPIRITS.
AUL "there are selected by our London House, bought direct at first hand, imported la wood and battled by auricires, thus saving all [1555 intermediate profis, and enabling, us to supply
| the best growths at MODERATE PRICES,
* FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL
THE Company's Steamship
I
"FORMOSA,"
Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the above Porison TUESDAY, the and November,
Daylight.
For Fraight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.' General Managers. Hongkong, 30th October, 180%;
(1657
NIPPON YUSEN: KAISHA, JAPAN-BOMBAY LINE. MONTHLY SERVICE. (Under Mall Contrack)
FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO AND
BOMBAY. (Taking Cargo on Through Blils of Lading to JAVA PORTS).
THE Company's Steamship
#YAMAGUCHI, MARU,"
No.1 of 1877 of the Legislature of Hongkonf. Captain S. Kawamuro, will be despatched as all applicants for shares shall be deemed to have *walved the insertion of the dates and names of | above Ports on TUESDAY, the sad November,
the parties to any such arrangements" or" con..
tmcix und fo accept the above slatemontá
| '16's suficient compliance with that section,
and applications fogphates will only be accepted
to
this provision.
Ang for shaten should be forwarded,
"while the amount payable on applica- tha. Hongkong sæt Shanghai Banking Corporywatnabé haute, or to' la Branches at Hockey, or to either of Is
London, Lyons, Hamburg, New York, or San its agents at Sydney or Kalonina,” on – or baloch,the 1201 day - of
at Noon.
(1619
For Freight or Farage, spply to
NIPPON YUSÍN KAISHA. Hongkong, joth October, 1897,
MOGUL WARRACK-MILBURN LINE. FOR NEW YORK, VIA SULZ CANAL -
Steamship
*CROHARTY, Gto sall about 4th December, 1897. 5.5,"SIKH," to mail about 17th Dec, 1899.
For Freight or Passage, apply to -
DODWELL, CARLILL, & Co..
.
PORT after removal should be reated a month before use. When required for drinking at ance it should be ordered to be decanted at the Dispensary before being sent out. SHERRY.—Excellent Dinner and After Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are
sneaka
The French mall stammer Brasat Simons" mili leave Singapore at to put to-night for Hong.. kong vis Saigon, -
THE Amateur Dramatic Clair announce two par- formances el "A Pale of Spectacles man dy 9th and 11th prox.
It is pleasant to contemplate the nume- rous signs of progreat in the colony, the new Central Market, waterworks exten- | But this is of minor importance. The slon, Praya reclamation, shipping returns, Individual bulka larger in a small com- kerosene tanks, sugar works, etc.; but munity, and there is no such thing as what has His Excellency to do with them ? private life in the Far East, but what They are not his work; they lilustrate how we have to deal with is His Excellency's the colony has been getting on although official conduct. The most he has done he is here, not because he is here. The has been to twiddle his thumbs while important public works which he enume-Tan annual general meeilor of the Hongkong - the Colony worried along as best It could; rates so sonorously were planned before Smoking Concert Club will be held in the Cây and the greatest praise he has earned has he was mentioned for this post; the Hall on Monday, the 8th pram, at 3.35 p.m. been for not interfering. On the other private enterprises owe him nothing. We
man and woman, charged with having and a woman's death by malpractices, were to-day committed for trial.
band, the principal point against him is must give the devil his due; the Governor The Band of the West Yorks Regiment will play that he failed to interfere on occasion. In has not wrecked any of them, as he the fallowing programme at the Officers' Memi fact, the Governor has not governed. He perhaps might. Also, he has not Inter-u-marrow evening sem
which he omitted to specify, and there are hundreds of other things he did not do In fact, his merit has isin in letting alone, as his demerits have been aina of omlazion.
Drattare memorizeriestabat Mater munnenklerente
* (written in homage to Rossini) Caprice Harolque Le Reveli da Kontakt Barende mangan Shtand til katakitazamı Çatmod Ret Machines of Haydaroong Winterbarton
has stood by and looked pleasant, almost fered with the H. & S. Bank dividends, Invariably. There are advantages to him- nor the Dock Company's reserve fund, self and to the Colony in such a policy, but there are also opportunities thrown away. | For instance, in his review of the past six years, he refers to the gold loan which he suggested in his first address. The ne- cessity of a loan was not questioned, but the advisability of having it in gold was doubted. The Colonial Secretary, Sir O'Baixy, in introducing the Loan Bill, figured out that a gold loan, being at a lower rate of interest than a silver loan, would be preferable as long as the dollar ty an extra 171 per cent, 817,150, for Tax Commition of St. Andrew's Ball hava múða was anywhere above 21. 6d., and he military purposes, because the Governor arrangements for three Practice Dancen In ika laughed to scorn any idea of a fall below did not defend Hongkong as did ble conchy Hall, on Fridays, rath, rgth, and noth that. Some of the Unofficial Members frere of Singapore. In Singapore there is November at 5.30 p.m. The Dances being gravely protested that even if this was a meanness enough, in making the subscriselly for the practice of Scotch Rosie and correct calculation, a gold loan in a silver-bers pay for the ground on which to Caladonians, in view of the Ball, the Committee using community was a gamble, and ought | erect a Jubilee Memorial town hall, but
CHAMPION high kichers, expert shin-penters and What he might have done li particu- all sorts sad conditions of football players will larly Illustrated in his peroradon, In be glad to know that a consignment of the very reference to the Jubliee subscriptions, kad ef boots which the best International The Colony raised 898,000 and the Gov-players recommend as i̟he most suitable for the ernment promised a vote equal to whatever game has been received by Messrs. W. Powell the subscriptions might be; consequently & Co, of Quem's Road Central, Pids adr't. the ratepayers have to pay for their loyal- |**
not to be undertaken by a Goverment. that is simply taking money out of one hope to have the pleasure of the company of us PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalis, to be bad on The Telegraph also protested, but is not pocket to put it in the other, since the com- many of their Ball Guests as flad it convenient
Application.
among the Governor's "friends." The munity is paying itself, for its own land; to stiand, dollar is now somewhere below as, and the subscribers are not made to pay toll Wa publish to-day the shridgeä pelkpectus of a likely to stay below; and so, on the Govern- on their own generosity as well. Here we sew Company that is being fouth ander vary ment's own showing, the gold loan was a fare worse, because we have a King Loo favourable auspices, Tor years past there has big mistake. As remarked above, the he called himself King Wizzix the Fifth bisa gres falling off in the Chica tan trade, Governor did not govern; and perhaps he a few days ago, but that was at the and until quits recently all, ketempts to induce did well to let somebody else make the "Royal" Hongkong Golf Club, where ha mistake. But he missed an opportunity; had just been unanimously voted a jolly the Chinese to improve the get-up and divor he might have used his power and obtained good fellow, and he reciprocated by call-of the fragrant leaf by the use of machinery Ing the members "all that is best of the have falled, the conceited and ultra-osservatfre The next thing His Excellency says is youth and maturity of the Colony" It was natives, backed up by ignorant and bigoted a misreprepresentation as bold as the typical; our ri faintant spends his time in officials, abesimely refusing to take any pat "Chater promises."
giving and receiving flattery, with an oc" | in the introduction of the kind of machinery *It was nat within the power of kuman fore. Casional pause to snarl at any who do not which has counted for so much in obtaining sight to contemplate the exceptional circumse | fawn on him, while the Colony gown its tances which inte vened at this juncture and own way ungoverned, and su próspers. absorbed the entire amount of our credit ba- lances the plague of 1894 and its recrudescRSON in 1896" etc.
tree Karen Wines. CLARET,Om Clarets, including the lowest
priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the jalës of the grape and are not artificially made from raisins and currants, as la generally the case with Chang
Hongkong market,
a silver loso.
4.
· THAT NON-EXISTENT DRAIN,
Do I sleep? Do I dream f Do I wander and doubt ? Are things what they seeni ? Or is vixions about ý
high prices for Indian. And Caylon tesa in tho London, and Continental market.". Let you," however, son of ther: foreign tax merchants at Foochow managed to import sousa tez-making machinery őƐgads the leaf in-tumed, ost - was very favourably, sebartad on by Mincing Lana chairers who shongly advised that every effort should be made to subiune large quasilske
iture is Chias. Premiere
Wines. BRANDY--All our Brandy le gusranteed to be para Coguac, the difference in pekes being merely a question of age and vintage, Very well, we are Inhuman, for we did WHISKY.—All _oại Whisky ls of excallant foresee liy and in effect it is our painful quality and of greater aga than most brand, duty to say, even at the risk of being to the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY | vulgar etc., that His Excellency says what masked "E" is universally popular, and ls is untrue. Years ago—almost a genera la cur town drainagu system a šaffury)=y pronounced by the best local connoissen warned the Government that unless some-
don-Dr. Arazs in an official report Orkas the blocked culvert broká aut 2:
Such was our lavoluntary parody upon | manufacture of 5 by Koropian, mad to be superior to any other brand to the thing was done to cleanse the filthy dens BEET HARTE's lines as we passed along the one larm scale być the rockaw
of the Chinese quarter Hongkong would Prays in front of the P. and O, officer tale Imprsyement Company Lad, a conarra that be ravaged by some terrible epidemics morning, for although we were well aware, asd undagbladly, height sapeprofi and nothing was done. Afterwards, from having been told so by a prominent nagyment, an'ii, win be of reuilemen he time to time, warnings of the same purport Government official, that there was not, Pramachar, make a peso
thor:ughly under tand the few husínosy (and £tg- appeared in the press andinofficial reports; had not been, and could not be a blocked; apply of laattt should prore, ¦ sa close as the end of 1893 Dr. Cantzan dralo in the vicinity, yet we distinctly stwi
made a most emphatic declaration that with the editorial eyes, and anised with|with "the colony deserved to be decimated for the editorial noss (which we may kin well | 207 lis dreadfuf dirtiness.” And in December remark has not been trained by the b callid attention to the alarming reports odoriferous black alkum being removed and January the Taligraph several times Sanitary Authorities) bboketa fall of from Yunnan, Pakhol, and then Canton, from an excavation and dumped in [s! and urged the authorities to take note af I'm Ɛheep, on the Paolamation. WO
We only guarantee our Wines and Splits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the
Coast Parts.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DIEPENBART sith Gutəkir, 1897,
Under the