ICHOUFU, SHANTUNG.
December Loth
THE ANTI-CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT.
The disturbance north-east of here to which your correspondent called attention in a recent letter anent an exciting experience, of three of us, foreigners, still continues. No more Pro. testant stations have been involved, largely because there are very few of our stations in that region. The storm centre, lies, roughly speaking, half-way Netween this place and Chingtao and embraces north-west Johchao, north-eastern Chuchou, and southern Chuch- *Eng
"In the region defined neatly, if not quite every, Catholic station has been attacked and. 'robbed. It is said that forty or fifty Christians have been injured and at least tivo of them have been killed outright,
*
THE LOCAL OFFICIALS ARE POWERLESS to punish the offenders because of the lack of military force and their failure to act is inter- preted by the rioters as a proof that the officials are in sympathy with the crusade against the foreigners and their adherents. The situation is a critical one both from the religious and from the political stand-point..
A weiyuan who proves to be our whilom Chinanfu acquaintance Wang Tsing-chun bas been sent by the Governor to "settle the trouble. He has gone in company with Bishop Anzer to Jhchao city to investigate the outrage upon Father Stentz and to go into the whole matter. It is said that soldiers are, on the way from Chinanfu.
BROKEN PROMISES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1898.
JAPANESE JOTTINGS:
From Japanese Papers)
THE IMARI RAILWAY,
It is stated that official permission Has been granted to the Kyushu Railway Company for its proposed purchase of the Imari Railway...
THE USE OF INDIGO, A
It is reported that the lye Weaver's Union, after making a series of investigations have decided to prohibit the use of indigo as a dye from next year,
YA TIDAK WAVE.
On the 14th inst. a tidal wave broke over Kisen, Ominata and several other coast villages in Iwate Ken. No particulars of the damage done have been received,
THE HUSSO-CHINESE DANK. A Japanese paper learns that the Russo- Chinese Bank. has decided to open a branch office at Kobe and that the bank has, for that purpose, leased some 600 tshbo of land at Sakayemachi, in Kobe.
THE PRESS LAW
The Government has decided to revise the Press Law with a view to enable foreigners to become publishers or editors of newspapers in Japan. A bill for that purpose ras submitted to the Imperial' Diet on the 15th inst
A NEW BATTLESHIP,
j
The firm thereupon brought a charge of fraud against Nakagawa
THE SOKO KAISHA CASE
Intimations.
NEW YEAR HOLIDAY,
Onahe 16th inst. in the Kobe Chiho Rai-S bansho, Mr. Yonezawa Chojiro, who is alleged TN acconlance with ORDINANCE No. 6 of 11875, the Endermentioned BANKS will to be the principal offentler in the Hyogo Soko Kaisha frauds, was sentenced in default to im- | be CLOSED for the Transaction of Public prisonment for four months with hard labour
1899. on a charge of having infringed clause 5. of Business, on MONDAY, the 2nd January; Article 10gr of the Commercial.Code and clause 6 of the Law No. tor of 1890
For the CHARTERED. BANK OF INDIA,
AUSTRALIA AND CHINA,
TE SANSOM,
Acting Manager.
CORPORATION,'--
The facts laid before the Court were that the Specie Bank demanded payment of a promis sory note for Y31,300, issued on the 29th June For the HONGKONG & SHANDHAL BANKING last, and that the accused suspended payment on the afternoon of that day. Nevertheless he
T. JACKSON, failed to report, the fact to the Kobe, Chiho
Chief Manager. Saibansko within 5 days as necessary under
For the NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA,
LIMITED, Article 979 of the Commercial Code, and as he
G. W. F. PLAYFAIR, did not appear to defend bis conduct he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment as
Chief Manager. above stated. Mr. Yonezawa has absconded.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT SANNOMIYA,
A remarkable accident to a train occurred on the night of the 14th inst, on the "Anamon bridge, close to Sannomiya station, and a most serious disaster perhaps was only narrowly averted. An Osaka train, due at 6.30, mn into a goods truck near the bridge, sending it with such force against the wooden mil that it fell A Japanese paper learas that the Govern over into the street. The passenger train ment has recently placed an order with a ship-fortunately was brought to a standstill, and the building company in England, for a battleship passengers were spared any more serious of some 45,000 tons displacement, with a speed experience than the shock caused by the of 18 knots.se
impact. A conlie who was loading the truck has since died from injuries received. Both his legs are stated to have been broken. There is often a good deal of traffic under the bridge and it is marvellous that the fall of the truck was not attended by any more serious canse- quences. One man who happened to be passing had a narrow escape.
POSTAL RECEIPTS.
The total postal and telegraph receipts of the Government during November last amounted to 1,916,653 yen, showing a decrease of 57,760 yen in the figures for the preceeding month and an increase of 989,110 yen over the returns for the corresponding month of last year.
JAPANESE BANKS. ~·
Meanwhite the people at Hochialog who treated so cavalierly your correspondent and his colleagues have concluded not to keep their written promise to make good the damage
The total number of various banking firms which they committed, and on the contrary, have made two more armed raids upon then existence at the end of November last, was defenceless Christians with the result that the 1,789, with an aggregate capital of 383, 768,. Christians have most of them fied for their 334 yen. These figures show an increase lives, and everything they have in the world, of 6 in number of banks and also an increase with the exception of their humble dwellings, of 3,746,710 yen in the capital over the returns
for the preceding month." has been taken from them. Their case is truly pitiful.
CENERAL
Our prefect has promised that justice shall be done but until more force puts in its appear ance I fear that he cannot compass it.
A German priest whose Chinese name is "Wên" has been compelled to leave his post in north Chuchou and take refuge in Chuchou city.
• F
The movement is distinctly anti-foreign and must be dealt with sternly if the position' of foreigners in this part of the country is to re- main tenable-N. C. D. News Cor.
THE SULU ISLANDS.
THEIR STRATEGICAL IMPORTANCE.
BRITAIN'S PRESENT INTERESTS,
A correspondent of the Globe has given an interesting summary of the relation of Great Britain and the Sulu Archipelago. In the course of his letter he incidentally corrects some obvious historical misstatements that appeared in an carlier article in that journal froin another source. He evidently fears that the train of circumstances now occurring will be allowed to proceed too far without some thing being done; and that, ultimately, a crisis may be brought about somewhat similar to the recent incident at Fashoda. Cowie harbour and the Sulu islands, he pointe aut, command the trade routes between China, Australia, and the great trade emporium, Macassar, in Celches; yet the people of England are under protest
STUDY OF ENGLISH.
In view of the operation of the new treaties in July next, the Nagasaki Post and Telegraph Department has, it is said, decided that the clerks in the Telegraph Department shall un dergo a course of instruction in the English language. To this end, the services of 'n local English teacher have been engaged,
THE FORMOSA CABLE.
}
The negotiations in progress between the Japanese and the Chinese Governments con. cerning the ownership of the submarine cable between Tamsui (Formosa) and Foochow (China) have been concluded, with the result -of-the-payment-of-$100,000-by the Japanese Government. Upon the payment of this sum, Japan will assume possession of the cable.
ACCIDENT TO A STEAMER.
A telegram has been received from Okinawa stating that the Nippon Shosen Kaisha's steamer Busku-maru (1,239 tons), which left Moji the other day for Foochow with a cargo of coal, sustained great damage to her full during the voyage and has been compelled to put into Akakina, one of the Loochoo islands, for repairs,
THE BANK OF JAPAN,
Two bills concerning the Bank of Japan have been introduced in the Diet by the Government. The one provides for extending the normal limit of the issue of notes on securities to 120, 000,000 yen. The present limit is $5,000.000 yen, and the proposed extension has been re-. commended by the High Council of Agricul ture, Commerce, and Industry. The second bill imposes a new tax on the Bank, estimated to yield about 1,200,000 yen a year."
THE NIPPON YÚSEN KAISHA.` According to the latest returns, the Nippon
KONE'S WELLS.
The result of the examination of the water out of the wells in the city of Kobe, recently con- ducted by the Kabe City Office, is not very satis- factory. It shows that of 6,704 wells which were examined the water of only 1,978 was found good to drink without precautions, the water of 1,599 injurious unless filtered, the water of 226 injurious without being boiled, and the water of no less than agor wells to be injurious to health
THE SPINNING INDUSTRY.
Indifferent to the sig by the Spanish" Yusen Kaisha at present possesses 66 vessels, of the peace treaty of The Protocol of 1877, recognised by Spain and of an nggregate tennage of 190,544 If the the Sultan of Sulu, ensured to England and proposed law concerning tonnage dues is Germany freedom of trade in Sulu and its passed by the Diet, the shipping company will dependencies, Palawan and Balabac; there is be compelled to pay dues amounting to some danger that the advantages of that treaty will 57,163 yen a year. In view of this, the Nippon he lost in the provisions of the new treaty. Yusen Kaisha, a vernacular qurnal states, is The question for the Foreign Office is this, to endeavouring to obstruct the passing of the bill sec whether, under the new arrangements through the Imperial-Deit. England stands as she did before--with perfect freedom of tmde'in Suju, Palawan, and Bala bac. Is the condition of things between England and Sulu and its dependencies, Pala: wan and Balabac, to be continued as under the Protocol of 1877, or will there, under the new arrangements, be duties placed on British goods as there are now in the United States?
The people of Sulu are the vikings of eastern seas. They are intellingent, inderendent, and daring and they live a free and happy life.if used under any circumstances. It is an old civilisation, the product of the Myssulman faith and though the innovations of western civilisation are making way, the vices of the west have not yet taken root, Polygamy and slavery flourish in Sulu, vet the lower people take kindly to them still Some of them are bom slaves, others are stolen into captivity, and others are slaves from debt There are in Sulu two classes-the hillmen, the tillers of the soil; and the coast people, the toilers of the sea. In the Royal Botanic of rice from the island of Sulu. The
does not Sultan of Salu
care to have his pearls sold, he looks an them as hic perquisites, yet they do find their way out of the country, and they are known in London and sold as the "Manila" shell These pearls are the finest in the world. In the days of the East India Company, these eastern sea- vikings Otted out their fleets in Sulu and Infested the whole Archipelago, the coasts of the Philippines, the whole coast of Borneo, and Celebes, They were known to have gone as far as Singapore and Bangkok on the one side. and New Guinen on the other. It was only When the British finally established a station st Labuan that, from fear, they began to be less violent. There was for long a continuous and
It was reported a short time ago that a number of spinning companies had succeeded in getting a loan of 1,000,000 yen from the Specie Bank for a term of six months from January to June next, at a low rate of interest, in order to facilitate the export of cotton yam to Hongkong and Shanghai. It is now further reported that these companies fnd, the sum inadéquate for their requirements and that in consequence they are endeavouring to obtain an trying to extend the original term for payment of the first loan.
NOTANDA
CALENDAR,
DECEMBER
Meteorological means based on ten years "observations to 1593.
..29.818 B01.
Barometer Thermometer.
Humidity Rainfall
WEATHER. REPORT.
Barometer.....
Thermometer Humidity Rainfall...
..77
8.38
For the 'MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA
LIMITED,
́J. THURBURN,
Manager.
F
•
For the BANQUE DE L'Indo-CHINE,
J. G. F. AUGUSTIN,
Manager. For the BANK OF CHINA & JAPAN, LIMITED,
HONGKONG,
E. L. HUNTER, Manager. For the YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LIMITED,
CHOH,
Agent. For the IMPERIAL BANK OF CHINA,
E. W. RUTTER, Manager. Hongkong, 28th December; 1895.
NEW YEAR HOLIDAY.
HE Undermentioned INSURANCE
Torres
[1522
e CLOSED for the Transaction of Public Business, on MONDAY, the 2nd January, 1899 :--
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents..
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LD. General Managers.
Entertainment.
THEATRE
CITY HALL.
ROYAL
WHAT OLUB THE HONGKONG AMATEUR DRAMATIO will produce à Pantomime entitled, "THE YELLOW DWARF.'
or
*HARLEQUIN THE KNAVE OF HEARTS,
and the
FAIR PRINCESS.* On the following dates
THURSDAY,
5th January, 1899.
SATURDAY, 7th MONDAY, 9th WEDNESDAY, 11th SATURDAY, 14th
The TICKET OFFICE at the Theatre will bc OPENED on THURSDAY, the and Dec, at 10A.M. and Seats can be booked from 10 A.M. 104 P.M., every day; SUNDAYS); and GENERAL HOLIDAYS excepted.
DOORS OPEN EACH EVENING, at 8 P.M.
"PERFORMANCE at &30 PRECISELY.
Stalls and Dress Circle Pit
..$3
Half Price to Soldiers and Sailors in uniform
to the Pit.
Late Trams to the Peak a quarter of an hour after fall of tlie curtain.
E. W. MITCHELL, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.
Shipping. STEAMERS.
E
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, ^- LIMITED.
FÖR MANILA, (DIRECT),
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE Co., THE Company's Steamship
LIMITED.
W. J. SAUNDERS,
Acting Secretary,
"SUNGKIANG,"
Captain Dodd, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 29th instant, at Noor
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF For Freight or Passage, apply to
CANTON, LD.
W. H. PERCIVAL,
-TO-DAY:””
On date at
On late t
Agent,
4,17
NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE CO., LD.
.30.14
30.03
64. 63
W. H. RAY, Secretary,
TO-DAY.
Chinese-róth of rith moon of 24th year of Wednesday, 28th December, 1898
Kwang-si, Moon-Full Moon 7hr. 16min. a.9. High water-Jorning.tohr. såmin. Skr. 47min. Afternoon Low water-Morning ghr. 47min. Afternoon. phr. zmin. ANNIVERSARIES, 1851-Great fire in Hongkong; 477 houses
destroyed. 1857-Canton bombarded by Allied forces of
Great Britain and France. 1879-Tay Bridge disaster; 70 lives lost. 1883-Loss of the Hwai Yuen with 280 lives.
TO-MORROW.
Thursday, 29th December, 1898. Chinese-17th of F8th moon of 24th year of
Kwang.all.
High water-Morning ........ttur. 29mins
Aflinicon ghr. 17min. Low water-Morning ....... 4hr. 13min. Afternoon alır, gamin. ANNIVERSARIES,
r170-Murder of Thomas à Becket in Canter-
bury Cathedral, paran 1809-W. E. Gladstone born. 1843-Gwalior, the "Gibraltar of the East"
taken by the British." 1848-The Pope Deposed by the Roman
Assembly.
1850-2nd Kaffir Wacommenced. 1854-The Taipings blocked the Canton river
and defeated the Imperialist feet at -Whampoa 1857-Magazine Hill, Canton, captured by the
British and French forces,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE, French (Laos) 1st prox Australian Changsha) 5th prox American (City of Peking) 20th prox.
*
Tur Agents (Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.) inform us that the Ben Line steamer den Fed from Antwerp and London, left Singapore for this port to-day the 28th instant,
*
WE are informed that the Messageries Mari. times Co.'s steamer Laos with the next French Sunday the 25th instant, via Saigon,
-
CHINA TRADERE INSURANCE CO.,
LIMITED. SHEWAN TOMES & Co.,
Agents,
YANGTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION,
LIMITED.
G. L. TOMLIN,
Acting Secretary,
CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LD, W. H. T. DAVIS, Manager,
THE STRAITS INSURANCE Co., Lo. Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.
NAVY LEAGUE.
[1496
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 28th December, 1898. "GLEN" LINE OF STEAM PACKETS. FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Steamship
TH
-“GLENAVON.......
Captain W. Pichie, will be despatched as above
on or about the 29th instant...
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JÄRDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
'Agents.
[1397 Hongkong, 16th December, 1898,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
[1491 FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND
PORTS, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE AND
DINNER TO LORD CHARLES BERESFORD.
DINNER will be given to LORD A CHARLES BERESFORD, by the HONGKONG BRANCH of the NAVY LEAGUE, in the CITY HALL, on TUESDAY, the 3rd of January, 1899, at 8 PM. All Mem bera and Associates who wish to be present are requested to send in their Names to the Undersigned as soon as possible.
E. W. MITCHELL,
·Hon, Secretary, Hongkong, 27th December, 1898. [1527 THE HONGKONG COTTON SPINNING, WEAVING AND DYEING CO., LIMITED
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the FINAL INSTALMENT of $30 per SHARE on the shares in above COMPANY becomes dus on the THIRTY-FIRST day of December next, and PAYMENT thereof must be made to the BANKERS of the Company, viz, the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BARKING COR- FORATIÓN és or before that date.
1396
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 30th November, 1898. THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LIMITED.
No NOTICE is hereby given that under the powers conferred by the SPECIAL RESOLUTION passed and confirmed on the 5th and 25th days of June, 1897 the Under- signed General Managers did on the 30th day of November, 1898 make a FINAL CALL of $5 per SHARE on account of the price of the New Shares issued in pursuance of such account of the PREMIUM for each such share and that such CALLS are PAYABLE at the OFFICES of the General Managers, No, 2. Praya Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on the 1st January, 1899.
LAUNCESTON.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"TAIYUAN,"
Captain Nelson, will be despatched as above, on FRIDAY, the 30th instant, at Noon,
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer. The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provis ions during the entire voyage,
A duly qualified Burgeon is carried and the Vessel is fited throughout with Electric light.
N.B-Return Tickets issued by this Com pany and from AUSTRALIA are available for return by the Steamers of the EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN S.S. Co. and vice versa. For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
[1469 Hongkong, 27th December, 1898, NAVIGAZIONE GENERALE ITALIANA, (FLORIO & RUBATTINO UNITED COMPANIES.
STEAM FOR.
SINGAPORE AND BOMBAY. Having connexion with the Company's Mail Steamers to ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, MESSINA, NAPLES, LEGHORN and GENOA,
ALSO
VENICE and TRIESTS, all MEDITTERRA. NEAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANTINE and SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS up to CALLAO.
Taking Cargo at through rates to PERSIAN
GULF and BAGDAD,
ALSO BARCELONA, VALENZA, ALICANTE,
ALMERIA and MALAGA
THE Steamship
"BORMIDA,"
|
Consignees.
AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM, NAVIGA, TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEÈS.
FROM TRIESTE, FIUME; PORT SAID, ADEN, BOMBAY, PENANG AND SINGAPORE, THE Steamship
VINDOBONA,”
having arrived Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being tanded at "their risk into "the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This vessel brings no Cargo P
From Trieste, S.S. Amphitrite transhipped at Bombay
From Venice, er S.S. Carlett and Massimi- lane, transhipped at Trieste.
Optional Cargo will be discharges here unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the office of the Undersigned before Noon on the 28th instant, or they will not be reconguised,
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and ay Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 28th instant will be subject to fent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SANDER, WIELER & Coj - Agents,
Hongkong, 22nd December, 1898. -* [1465- UNITED STATES AND CHINA-JAPAN STEAMSHIP LINE.
FROM NEW YORK AND STRAITS. THE Steamship
T
.1
"INDRANTZ
having arrived from the above ports, Con- signees of cargo by her, are hereby informed that their goods, are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Coj: Limited" at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained. Optional cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary, be given before Noon TO-MORROW.
Cargo remaining undelivered after the 29th "instant, will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance has been effected, Consignees are requested to present all claims for damages and/or shortages not later than the 5th January, otherwise they will not be recognised.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON, & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 3rd December, 1898.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBRO, LONDON AND
SINGAPORE::
THE Steamship
"RADNORSHIRE," Captain Vyvyan, having arrived from the above Eorts, Consignees, of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed at: their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited at Kowloon and stored at Consignees. risk and expense.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining. undelivered after the 1st January, 1899, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 31st instant, at 2:30 PM. No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO, Agenta.
Hongkong, 27th December, 1898
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES?"
THE P. & O. S N. Co's Steamship
THE
"CHUSAN
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS, Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods. are being landed and placed at their visk in the Hongkong and Kowloong Wharf and Godown. Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo:
From London, &c., ex $.S. 'Ròme From Persian Gulf, ex S.5. Assyria and Ribua
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary before 11 AM, on the 16th instant,
Goods not cleared by the rst January at 4 PM will be subject to rent.
ཏྠཱ་
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.
Gardens at Kew, there are twenty varieties additional loan of 1,000,000 fen, and are also Mail, left Singapore for this port at 6 pm, or RESOLUTION and ¤ RINÅL CALI, of 5:on Captain Delaya, will be despatched as above Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob
MOJI COAL
The total uantity of cual exported from Moji from the 1st to the 15th lost amounted to 33,737 tons, with a declared value of 225,457 yen. The particulars are as follows t
Quantity Value
усп
tona.
Hongkong Shanghat Manila Foochow
21,080 7,177
· 147,750 45,877
2,600
1,460
140
Chafoo
700
Total 33737225,457 These figures show an increase of 572 tons in the quantity and an increase of 25, 100 yen. in the declared value over the returns for the first half of the preceding month.
OPENING OF DOCK AT KURE.
desultory, warfare between Spain and the Sulus in the attempt of the Spanish to put an end to the piratical attacks on the coasts of the Philippines, The Spanish pught to assume sovereignty over them, often, but, the British Persistently refused to recognise the Spanish The opening ceremony of the Nu, a dock at claim over the group. In 1877, the Protocol Kure was held on the 14th inst. In the presence was signed securing freedom of trade in Sulu of Admiral Inouye, the Commander of the to England and Germany, In 1878, Spain Kure Port Admiralty: General Yamaguchi, the forced the Sultan to become her subject, and Commander of the Hiroshima Army Divizion pald him a pension of 2,4000 dollars. The and many other officers and officials, – it was Spaniards have a settlement on the island of arranged that the battleship Fashpia should Sulu situated on an unhealthy swamp and enter the new dock as the first vessel on that garrisoned by 800 soldiers, and there are smaller. / day, but the heavy gaje blowing, provented the Settlements on other three of the islands. The arrangement from being carried out. The [slands of Sulu appear to ha ne unheakly | maximum tength of the new dock is 3253 feet, to the Spaniards, as Fashoda je to "the the maximum breadth at the upper and 25 feat French, otherwise, there would not be|11 inches, and at the lawet end 8 feet 5 inches, the stipulation, for payment to the Spanish The dock cost. Y800,000 to build and is the soldiers as if they were on active service. But largest in the Far East, a like Fashoda it is of importance to England as a strategical point with the Bay of Cowie some forty-miles distant from the nearcat Sule Island, and with_the_railway connecting the Ray of Cowfe with the coal fields of the pro- vince of Brunel, the Sulu jalands could be made untenable to any nation other than England. The United States is not a free trade-sountry and, by whatever friendly means England may bring it about, it is accessary, that she should see that the free trade between the Sulu islands and their dependencies, Palawan and Balabac, secured to her by the Protocol of 1877 do not under the peace treaty of Paris become to her a dead lestar,
****
AN IMPORTANT CASE FOR FOREIGNERS
The bearing of the charge against a Japanese trader named Nakagawa fchlar, living at Otamachi. 2-chome,. Yököligna, who was prosecuted by Measts Kingen and Ecux, No. 877 Settlement, was recently concluded. The criminal action was rejected, the court holding that the accused, had only incurred a debt. was stated that the accused on the 13111 August purchased indigo valued at 1,093.79: yep from the foreign firm, and paid the amount: by a chequs on the Mitaul Band on the 15th of the same month, When the foreign firm presented the cheque It was found that the accured had no cash in the bank to meet it,
*
THE G. N. Co.'s steamer Changsha from Aus- trallan ports, left Port Darwin for this port yesterday the 27th instant, and may be expected here on or about Thursday the 5th proximo. HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNE Isidoro Pans........ œ.
Kowloon Dock. HIGMS. Kaizer... Chutkan.es
Bygdo.
HA.G.M.S. Morus...
HJ.G.M.S. Gefion Ask HIG.M.SK Haiphong ........ Athenian Hala
Isla de Cuba: Isla de Luzon Amigo pig!
·Pakihan Hankow Hailan
Arrivals
F1
SWATOW
Cosmopollian Aberdeen
Dec. 25 Haimun...Hongkang.... M. & Co.
as Cheap Amoy
Dec
IM
is Devawongst .....H long. ...B. & 8,
Paoting. Wuhu......B. & S
27 Singan Wuhu B&S, Bay Mathew Mag, Bangkok "").B. & S.
27 Choysang Hongkong.....), M. & Co,
for Agents, Departures
26 Hatun Amoy M. & Co. 27 MachewHongkong...B. & S 27 ChoysangShanghai J; M. & Co. PORT-CAFIOR, Lepawongse Parting, Sin
PASSED THE CANALIVER Outward Nov, aand Flintshire's Nov, 29th Gisela, Benledi. Dorothea Rickmers & Dec. oth Tantalis, Dec 9th Sikh, Socotra, Vladimir; Dec 13th Patroclas, "Norman Isleri Dec. 16th Sarnia, Vine Branta Deg at Prin, Ettrickdale, Dec. 23rd Wennington Hall, Tonkly,
Homeward-Dochaoth Andalulá. Stolberr, Dao, pard. Dardanus, Warpedon,
Glene
Upon payment of such calls and production of the certificates for the shares in respect of which the same are paid, fully paid up Certifi cates will be issued in exchange for provisional
scrips.
Dated the 1st December, 1898.
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., "General Managers.
WORTH A GUINEA A BOX.
BEECHAM'S
PILLS
FOR ALL BA
BILJOUS AND NERVOUS DISORDERS
* SUCH AS
PATION, SIGK HEADACHE, CONSTIPATION, WEAK STOMACH; IMPAIRED DIGESTION, AN
DISORDERED LIVER,
AND FEMALE AILMENTS. ANNUAL SALE 5 MILLION BOXES
50 Cents per Box.
Prepared only by the "Proprietor 19- THOMAS REECHAM, St. Helens, England.
- SOLE AGENTS for HONGKONG and the EMPIRE OF CHINA, I
HTS WATKINS & CO. APOTHECARFEE HALL, 66 Queen's Road, Central, Hongkong..
USED FOR OVER 20 YEARS,
With the Utmost Suce
on SATURDAY, the 31st instant, at Noon.
At BOMBAY the Steamers are discharging in
VICTORIA DOCK.
For Further. Particulars regarding Freight and Passage, apply to
CARLOWITZ & Co., ·
Agents.
(1526 Hongkong, 27th December, 1893. THE SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRAD-
ING COMPANY, LIMITED... "SHELL" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR LONDON (VIA SINGAPORE.)
THE Company's Steamship
"ELPHINSTONE" Captain C. Abbott, will be despatched as above. on or about the 31st inste For Freight, apply to
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ARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co.,
Ag Agents, Hongkong, 17th December, 1898,
CHINA- NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA,
"HE Company's Steamship
"SHANTUNG,"
Captain Frampton, will be despatched as aboye on MONDAY, the 2nd January, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to:
~~ BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,"
An Agents, Hongkong, 24th December, 1898.. MOGUL WARRACK MILBURN LINE FOR NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL E THE Steamship.
MOGUL REUS will be despatched as above on or about the
12th January, 1899, S.S.ENERGIA? * About 19th Jan, 1899, GR 5.3.PATHANN
316 n. 1899, -Thoroughly reliable preservative for Wood | S.S, "ARGYLL" frth Feb., 1899. and Stone against White Ants, Decay, Fungus S,S. SIKH
28th Feb., 1899 Rot and Dampness
For Freight or Pasanger apply to mult
BOSDODWELL, CARLILL & Co
Hongkong, azth December, 1848.
„Al Sola Agents for Chiña, LUTGENS EINSTMANN; & co Hongkong, 11th September, 1896 119.
All damaged Packages must be left in the.
tained from, the Godown Company within ten; days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised,
HA RITCHIE,
Superintendent Hongkong, 27th December, 1893.3 [1•w 5
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES..
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGPAORE.
THE Steamship
"KOHINUR": having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are heraby-informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongsider
Cargo Impeding the discoarge or reniaining on board after 2 P3 of the 29th instant, will be landed at Consignees risk and expense into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited.
Cand.
Consignces of Cargo from SINGAPORE PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE
DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside such Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel
will be lad
expanse
No Fire Insurance will be
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Hongkong, 27th December, 1898.
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SERRAVALLO'S
FERRUGINOUS
UININ
"THE GREAT AUSTRIAN TONIC
PERUVIAN BARK-AND-IRON.
Over 300 Medical Certificates notifying Ita great STRENGTH DIVINO PROPERTIES and at the same time being ofan.
-EXQUISITE TASTE. Sole Agents for Hongkong
AN ANS, WATSON & Co. Hongkong, 16 September, 1996.