To-day's Advertisements.
JUBILEE,
LODGE
OF INSTRUCTION.
THE REGULAR MEETING of the above Lodge of Instruction will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, TO- instant, at 8 nr 8.30 NIGHT, the 4th P. Visiting Brethern MM. are contally invited.
A paper will be read by the Secretary, Ancient Craft Masonry."
Hongkong, 4th October, 1890.
HONGKONG CLUB
NOTICE.
'N EXTRAORDINARY
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A MEETING of the Members of the GENERAL
Club will be held at the CLUB HOUSE, OR THURSDAY, the 19th October, 1899, at 5 PM...] for the purpose of confirming or otherwise the RESOLUTION passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 3rd instant. »
By Onler,
C. D. GRACE, -Secretary-
Hongkong, all betaler, 1899
FOR MANILA, vis AMOY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1899.
To-day's Advertisements,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM BOMBAY AND STRAITS. HÈ 1, & 0.5, N. Ca's Steamship,
"TIENTSIN,"
THE
Consignees of Cargo by the above-namud 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 Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark hy mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the
Goods not cleared by the toth instant, at 4PM, will be subject to rent.
Goods are landet.
►
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in
any case whatever.
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the dainage ob days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which tained from the Godown Company within ten
no Claims will be recognised.
R. A. RITCHIE
Superintendent, Hongkong. th October, 1899,
Dow
THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA: TION COMPANY, LIMITED.
XOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
I
£12542
FROM LIVERPOOL,
(Taking Cargo at through Rates for Lontoo | THE Company's Steamship THE Steamship
"SALVADORA,” · Captain Guitesolo, will be despatched a love on FRIDAY, the 6th instant, at 2 PM, instead of as previously notified
For Freight or Passage, apply to
"BRANDAO & Cn, Agents.
Hongkong, 4th October, 1899.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL.
▶HE Company's Steamship
THE
"SARPEDON."
Captain Gaier, will be despatched as above
on FRIDAY, the 6th instani,
For Freight, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong 4th October, 1899.
· DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL TH
[*HE Company's Steamship
* HAILOONG"
Captain · Robson, will be despatched for the above Ports, en SATURDAY, the 7ili instant, BẸ TO A.M.
For Freight or Massage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Ça General Managers.
Hongkong, 4th repaber, 1899.
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CHINA NAVIGATION-COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
THE Company's Sreaniship
» SUNGRIANG,”
"Captain Moore, will be despatched as aluwe
tin MONDAY, the oth instant.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer.
The Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light
For Freight or l'assage, apply to
RUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agents
"OANFA,"
having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risks into the Godowns of the Thongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Kowloon, wheure delivery may be obtaine
No Claims will be adimitted after the Confs. have haft the findawns, and all Claims must be sem in to the Office of the Undersigned before Noon on the 13th instam, or they will not be recognized.
The Hongkong Telegraph
LOCAL AND GENERAL. Tux U.S.S, Oregon leaves Manila for this port i resterday. ⠀ on the zoth.
|THE Right Rev. the Bishop of Victoria was † 1898, on the extension of the "Colony, which
anning the passengers who left by the China | under Expenditure" reads --" The cos
adminitomis äre Police Surveyors Miscellaneous
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1899 THE mortality of the City of Bonifay continues citizen of the United States, with, a capital of
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS,
to increase.
Iris stated, says the Japan Daily Mail, that ar
three million yes, is making arrangements to. start a large beer brewery in Japan The place chosen will probably be-Iwanuma, in the vicinity of Sendai. Investigation are now in H.M.S. Cadranted sauls for Manila on Satur progress to determine the quality of the soil. day nest to relieve the Entrmion,
and of the water.
THE new bridge over the Goouti at Lucknow will cost Rs. 115,000
Marash, in Poruk, has been overwheimal with floods which are said to have risen several feet in height.
The Reuter's telegram which we publish today is certainly the most warlike that has been so far received, and the general opinions is that war can no longer be avoided but is
The wages
of skilled and unskilled labour in inevitable. This feeling is particularly strong | India show a general tendancy to increase. in mercantile circles, for the merchant and
Lage: munders of Lening-stricken people con- banker pay more attention to the rise and fall of Consuls than to the rumours of hostile time to arrive in Bombay from famine areas. attitude, which may often be exaggerated. THE scarcity of water in Marwar and Bikaneer Consols may be regarded as the business is said to be very great, and in some places it man's barometer. They fall for story times is being sold! and rise once more when the political horizon clears. The rumour that a further issue of Consols to the value of twenty-five millions sterling is contemplated is looked upon us serious, for it is hard to believe that such an enormous sum would be required merely for the coming war in the Transvaal, and folks are asking one another whether this may not point to other complications of which at-recent-floods in the Southern Shair States present we know nothing, it must be bong have swept away, all bridges beyond the in mind that many thinking men are of opinion that Russia is only awaiting an opportunity to strike at us when we are engage with some other Power and our attention thus diverted from her movements" At all events, nothing is inipossible nowadays and nobody can predict into what other com plications war with the "Transvaal may not let us
:
GERMANY AND THE TRANSVAAL.
Yesterday's telegram announcing that General Jounnar had arrived at Volksrust with four thousand five hundred 'mten, including five hundred Germans, appears to have aroused ponsiderable comment as to No fire bisurance has been offerted, and any
the attitude to he assinied by Germany in Gonds rentaining in the Godowns after the 10th the event of hostilities. We have heard the instant will be subject to rent.
opinion. expressed that the presence of these
All broken, chaled and damaged Goods are for be left in the Clowns where they will be examined on the oth instant.
Is Poona city-plague is raging with unabated fury, and all efforts to cope with it seem doomed to failure.
Salween River.
THE Rangoon Tramway, since it started some 16 or 17 years ago, has never paid its share- holders a dividend.
A tazelle extraordiatry to hand this morning proclaims Newchwang a port at which com tagious disease prevails.
THE captured cruiser Isla de Laser is now assuming quite a ship-shape appearance and should soon be ready for sea.
At the close of the year 1898 ibere were 180 factories at work in Bengal, to having been opened staring the year, and three closed.
case of Mrs. W. J. Robinson, who charged her husband for assault, again comes up for
WE are advised by the Acting Secretary of the Panjom Mining Company, "Limited, that a telegram from the mines, was received this morning, giving the result of the September elean up, as follows-The Mill tun 29 days, crushing 3,350 tons, yielding 179 ounces smelted gold, concentrates produced, 40 tons, prospects at Cuban mines are encouraging. For the purpose of encouraging tmding by Russian steamers between the Black Sea ports and the ports in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, owners all the Suez Canal dues from January the Government will refund to Russian ship.
next for a term of ten years. Hitherto, the the Volunteer Fleet cruisers, Government has paid half the canal dues for
Fr is stated, says the Nagusaki. Press of Sept. 29th, that during the past two or three weeks more than twenty persons in this town have died from hydrophobia and that any persons are still under medical treatment. The aum
daily, in spite of the action of the police, who ber of infected dogs is said to be increasing
on Wednesday last destroyed no less than twenty stray animals.
WE notice that the ticket collectors on the "Star" ferry launches are now supplied with punches, and passengers are requested to sec that the tickets given to them are duly punched. The coolies going from Kowloon to Hongkong now pay at the turnstile, but on the return trip fares are collected on board. Would it not be
more satisfactory and cheaper to collect all fares at the Kowloon end? Whether going or coming the coolies have to pass. the turntile "Out" were in use on the arrival of a launch. the one ticket collector could do the work with
14,400.
• 24,657
When the work of survoy has been completed
Totul........ $72,280 such a large staff of surveyors, will be unneces sary, but it is important, as has been pointed out, that the land under cultivation should be surveyed as quickly as possible. Miscellaneous expenditure has been estimated at a high figure, as unforeseen expenses are sure to be large when the territory is first taken over," and on what basis the said estimate was ar will the hon member inform the Council how rived at, and state whether the Hon The Captain Superintendent of Police was satisfied that the said estimate of $33,223 per annum Territory seeing that in the statement of ex- would be adequate to efficiently police the New
penditure in connection with the New Territory - total of expenditure amounts to no less than for 1898 laid upon the table: to-day the grand $346,629 17 of which the Police expenditure, actual and estimated, for April to December
Secretary lay upon the table a statement 1898 is $88,972.107
2-Will the Honourable the Colonial
shewing the expenditure incurred by the Colonial Government in consequence of the Tebellious disturbances and the armed Chinese opposition to British occupation of the Torri- tory leased by the Imperial Chinese Govern ment per the June Convention of last year?
it
that the Government were not sooner in Through whose omission or neglect was formed of the presence in and around. Taipohu of 2/3000 armed Chinese, with guns, entrenched and in position, which must have taken several days' preparation, and what precautions, if any, were taken to find out the actual condition. of the Chinese on the orders of and in" the new territory between Mirs Bay and Deep Bay before ordering Luncheon for a large number of invited guests, effecting insurance on, the, S/S Huukord for the trip to Mirs Bay which did not take place, opening ceremony at which it was proposed to and making elaborate arrangemets for the hoist the British Flag at Taipohu on 17th April last, all which ringements, after con- siderable expenditure was incurred thercon," had at the last moment in he abandoned?
EXPENDITURE ON DEACONSFIELD.
Uption Cargo will be forwarded unless | five hundred Germans with the Transvaal bearing at the Magistracy to-morrow morning and were the "in" turnstiles closed while the strongly advised by the Hon: The Attorney
notice to the contrary be given before Noun TO-DAY.
Bills of Lading will be mantersigned by
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co, Agcals. Hongkong, 4th october, 1890.
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"NOTICE TOY CONSIGNEES.
S.S. AFGHANISTAN," FROM NEW YORK, STRAITS AND 'MANILA,
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed. that all Goods are being Runded at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong an Kowloon Wharf and Bindown Company, at Kowloon, wheme and or from the whives delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admittel after the Gonds have left the Clowns, ami all Coods remaining undelivered after the ith instant, will be subject
be All Claims aguest the Steamer must sented to the Undersigned on or before the ith inalant, or they will rim he recognizeul,
to rest
pre-
All hroken, Chafed, and damaged Googls are Jan Tube Tue seu Crowns, where they will le egumpal on the 11th tastain, an
.
No Fire Tayunonce has been affected, Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
HODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Akents. Hongkong, 4th Dewber, 1899,
AN-APPEAL.
THE SUPERIORESS of the FALIAN CONVENT, CAISE ROAD, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong, 4th October, 1899.
Hongkong and the Post Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- she will be pleased to receive arders for all kinds
TION COMPANY.
STEAM FOR
FIUME AND TRIESTE.
Italy
of NEEDLE WORK.
Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on ohl ones.
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ya Wei to England as private secretary, re Mk. Claude Ley Kum, who accompanied Kang
turned to Hongkong to-day by the Empress of China.
fortes shows that thu Power wil threw in her lot with the Transvaal and will back up President KRUGER. We do not think that this will prove to be the case, however. It must be remembered that every able-bodiest citizen between the ages of sixteen and sixty is required to take up arms when the State is threatened and therefore the five hundred Germans to whom Renter allufles are, in all probability, merely carrying nut their duty to the country in which they happen to reside. In every country are to lie found aliens of various races who would take arts against any other pation than their own in defence | 22nd September.
A CORRISPONDENT to an Indian paper writes. The English Midland Railway has just ordered four sleeping cars from the Pullman Company, Chicago.
SI ROBERT HART returned to Peking on the 20th September from Peitain, and 31r. Bax
rmside left Tientsin for Weihaiwei in the
ease.
A CORRESPONDENT asks us if it is the inten- tion of the War Office to use the London bus and tram horses for cavalry mounts in the Transvaal We do not think so. We can hardly imagine the colonel of a crack cavalry regiment giving the order to charge by the words "all full inside," and certainly some such tactics would have to be adopted with bus horses. They will probably he intended for transport purposes, so if our correspondent contemplates joining the Transvaal force in the fear being mounted upon a bus horse or even a capacity of a. lancer or dragoon he need not
of their adopted hours, and it is therefore. T. Kew and Noble were the captains of the wrong to Mane a whole nation for the acts aside teams which met for a game this mule. of a few. It is gut likely that these five i hundred Germans represent a tenth of the afternoon. Mayson and Lieut, Greene are the German inhabitants of the Transvaaland the fant that they have thrown in their lot with President Racos cannot be taken as proving conclusively the attitude of Gerasy,
THE BOER FORCES.
Vrykend, where a large Boer camp is being formed, is situated in the south-east con of the Truusvaal on the Umvolosi river, some little distance within the Transvaal border 11266 and above Ulundi, which is in British Terri tory up the same waterway. From this point Dundee, where some of our torps have been stationed on the Durban-Juan nesburg railway, could apparently be easily reached, or a descent could be made Into. Zululand. Mafcking, as we have before pointed out, is situated in British Bechu haland and is connected with Cape Town by rail,.so it is presumable that troups can be sent there at short notice, so long as they are available at the latter place. Volksrust. mentioned in the telegram we published yesterday, we have been unable to discover upon any map of the Transvaal obtainable. ļaut it is must probably in the near neighbou hood Charlestown, the frontier station on the Durban-Johannesburg line. Appa. rently it is in the neighbourhood of Mafeking and British territory near Majuba Hill that the Boers are planning their system of attack or defence as the case may be, and at which- ever point they commence hostilities we have a railway to defend and keep open order that our supplies may not be cut off.
-SINGAPORE,- PENANG, RANGOONY Ladies and Children's Undeé:clothing Chit- COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KARACHI, ADEN;dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery,
Materials can be supplied, if required.
The Superioress will also he must grateful for any Pankit, or ild ENVELOPES to be made inte Books for the Children of the Pair Schools, wh are taught by the Sisters.
Haugkung, zzıd April, 1892.
(Taking Cargo at through rates to South Africa, PERSIAN GULF, RED SEA, BLACK SEC LEYANT and Annevnte Power
IE Company's Steamship.
THE
MARTA VALERIE," Captain A. Fellner will be despatched as abiye un WEDNESDAY, the 11th instant, PM. Silk and Valuables are tamshipped an arrival at Brombay into an accelerated liner,
For information as to Passage and Freight, apply to
SANDER, WIELER & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 4th October, 1899. ] 35712
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE
. [Calling at Trson, PORT DARWIN & QUEENS. LAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo 10 ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND,
·TASMANIA, {G}+
THE Steamship
* EASTERN,"
Captain Ellis, will be despatched as above
Con "ERIDAN, the zoth instant, at 4 P.M.
This well-known Steamer is specially fitted far Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham- ber which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi sions, le, &c., throughout the voyage.
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light.
A Stewardess and a duly-qualified Surgean Tare carrier.
'A.--Return Tickets issued by this Com pany to and from AUSTRALIA, are available for return by the Steamers of the CISA NAVIGA- TION COMPANY and vice versá.
For Freight of Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,
Agents.
Hongkong, 4th October, 1899.
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TION:COMPANY, LIMITED.
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VIA STRAITS.
FOR MARSEILLES AND LONDON.
(Tidking Cargont through Rates for LIVERPOOĄ, GLASCOW, CONTINENTAL PORTS, JUVER PLATIL, &c.)
TE Continy's Swanship
"OANFAR
1. A. Davies, Commander, will be despatched as above on or about the 5th November.
For Freight, &c., apply to
HOLLIDAY, WISE & CO, Agents. 1ongkong, 4th October, 1899,
Entimation.
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IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS
BRANDIES.
A. Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
Capsule
B.-Superior Very Old Cognac
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Very Old Liqueur Cog- nac, 1872 Vintage, Red Capsule -
V.V.O.-E.-Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1862 Vintage -
Per Doz.
$13
$ 21
$24
$36
$48
All our Brandy is guaranteed to. be FURE COGNAC, the differences in
price being merely a question of age and vintage,
the Powerful and Terrible had landed a naval brigade at Durban to aid in protecting the railway until the arrival of the amy corps which is being despatched from Englands or until the arrival of the Indian contingent:
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
leaders to-morrows
KOBLRT LOGAN, engineer, of the steamship Taiton, was fined $2 this morning at the Magistracy for being drunk and causing a dis
turbance in thie sticets.
To: proclamaijos making the Bombay Mint branch of the Royal Mint for the coinage of gold will not be settled for some time owing to legal and technical difficulties. ARRANGEMENTS are being made by the tili tary authorities for a camp at Delhi for a party Ang hul tronomers who will visit India during jctober on a scientific mission. Is a case at Penang to be referred to the full court of appeal, an important point had hech raised as to whether a defendant had the right
to cruss-examine his co-defentiant or no
theatre was situated on the river banks. Some
In view of the Goverment having been
General to accept the compromise offered (the acceptance of which would have saved the Ratepayers great deal of the $10,744.19. ultimately expended on repairs to the building named Beaconsfield, and $9,351.70 on iligation in connection therewith) baring rejected the advice of their legal adviser, and having elected the Hon: The Colonial Secretary inform the to take the case into the Supreme Court, will Council on whose opinion the Government; acted in the matter?
POLICE LAUNCHES: A
With reference to Financial Minute No. 12 in which the. Governor recommends the Council to vote a sum of $1,500 to cover the cost of three steam launches required by the Police in the waters of the New Territory, will The Honorable The Harbour Master inform the Council
Wether tenders for the construction of the launches have been invited from the various Shipbuilding institutions in the Colony?
A FIRE sedurred last Tuesday morning at Chinese matshed theatre in Canton, The fire resisted the efforts of the local fire brigade, although the supply of water was good, as the
2-If so has any tender been accepted and of the sparks from the burning building fell if accepted what will be the cost of the re- amongst the flower bongs that were moured spective launcties?
3What are the sizes of the hulls and 'the' close to the shore very soon igniting them, and engines? they in their turn ret fire to the steam-Will they be composite built or will the launches. We believe that the loss of life must fines be of hard wood? be considemble as the theatre was crowded at the time, but up till now we have not been able to find out the extent of damage done or num.
ber of lives lost.
5.If of the latter will the curved frames be natural or cut from straight timber?
6-Whether launches constructed with cur ved frames cut from straight timber will be as serviceable and as durable as composite built
launches P
Whether launches with frames of wood are more costly than those with steel frames? and
Whether Experts in Shipbuilding would straight timber? pass launches built of curved frames cut from
It is calculated that during the week preceding August Bank Holiday quite 20,000 cycles were taken out of London by train. The trallic from all the London railway stations was greater, than during the Whitsuntide holidays, except in of cycles banked was only 207 compared with the case of London Bridge, where the number 563 at Whitsuntide and 661 at Easter. THE AMERICAN TRANSPORT "TAKTAK." Waterloo Station, of course, fed the way with A REGULAR meeting of the Jubilee Lodge of 4,300 cycle bookings. The only railway comter inform the Council of the circumstances
2-Will the Honourable The Harbour Mas Instruction will be held at 5.30 pan, in Free-pany, however, that especially catered for the under which the Government refused clearance masons Ball, Zetland Street. The Secretary Cyclist by issuing special tickets for rider to the American Transport Tatrar on 13th will read a paper upon "Ancient Craft and machine at a reduced far was the Masonry,"
September last, and granted clearance to the said Transport on 14th idem without hey hav appreciated. During the week preceding added in any way in Hongkong to her. ing Bank Holiday the Great Northern issued 2,914 such tickets m King's-cross against
life-saving appliances? 90 at Whitsuntide. So, while the improve-5.
ient in cycle trafic at Waterloo, where there is no special provision for the great army of wlicemen, was only 300, the improvement at should be some sort of evidence that cyclists King's-cross, where there is, was 1,920. This are really worth catering for by the railway companies.
THE Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decided, we understand, to allow a discount of 15 per cent. on passenger rates between japan and Marseilles, in view of the coming Paris Exposition.......... –
18 a suit against the Bombay, Baveda and Central India Railway' in the Bombay High airt, the representatives of a passenger who was killed in the Golwad collision obtained a decree for Rs. 7,5exi.
Tas carnings of the Indian railways have been steadily improving during the past two months, the receipts from 1st July to 19th August being eleven lakhs better than those of the cor- responding period fast year.
Mi Compertz had his hands quite full at the THE TRANSVAAL CRISIS. Magistracy this morning in disposing of charges LONDON, October 21f. against Chinamen and others, for hawking and The Goverment have, notified the Quibus plying launches without licences, drunkenness, (and P) Tramway Companies that they may re-obtaining goods ander false pretences, etc. quisition their horses. "
Various reports concur that the Boers.are rapidly massing near Charlestown and Mafe. king; the fatter place is especially exposed to attack. Scarcity of water in Rhodesia and Bechuanaland is causing much anxiety.
THERE are now twenty-two patients, three of whom are women, in the smallpox hospital at Balestier Road. says the Straits Times of September 25th. A fortnight ago, there were twenty patients. There have been no death in Consels fell yesterday Li, mainly owing to a
the hospital from this disease during this period. general impression that an issue of £45,000,000 T: Government of India Mint authorities. is impending. The Queen's Privy Council will have approached the Kolar Gold Fields Mining meet on Saturday and Parliament will probably | Board with a view to ascertaining the fineness be convoked on the 17th instant.
of the gold produced in india, so that they may judge the cost of minting. If the gold produced is absorbed in India, it will add considerably to the profit of the nines.
TYPHOON WARNING.
BONGKONG OBSERVATORY NÉPORT.. The Observatory report says:~~
THE Kanogafuchi, Colton-Spinning Company On the 4th at 12.5 p.m. the barometer has of Japan has concluded the negotiations com- fallen on the Chien coast, and over the Philip Smaller quantities and sample pines. The depression seems to be situated menced some time ago for the, purchase of bottles will be supplied at propor-Westerly direction. The highest pressure lies
dear "N. Luzon, and probably moving in n Kashu Spraming Company, of Sumimichi, in the province of Kawachi.. The Kashu Com- tionate wholesale rates..
over N. China and Japan.“ Gradients inciderate to rather steep, with strong monsoon on the pany as a capital of 500,000 yea ́ and its milt
east generally and gales in the part of contains 19309 Epistlus the China Sea. fair, squally.
We guarantee our Winesaud Spirits to be genuine only when bought direct froni us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports
A. 8. WATSON & Co., Limited, QUBEN'S ROID CENTRAL:
FORECASTS-Fresh N. winds;
WARNING FROM MANILA. The following telegram has been courteous ly forwarded to us by U. S. Consul-Generi R. Wildinan
MANILA OBSERVATORY, October 4th, 9.50 am. Typltop in Pacific, East of Luzon
A NORTHERN contemporary reports that Messrs, Jardino, Matheson & Co. for Messia. Chas, Cammell & Co. have secured the con- tract for 6,086 jons, of ráils and fastenings to be delivered at Tangku next April. Their tender was £49,750 199, d., Messrs. Maud for Krupp & Co. being the highest, 655,543 179.
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VELS
HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
nuch
Hongkong, 4th October, 1819.
The Hon. T.-H. Whitehead, pursuant to notice asked the following questions
(1) Has the attention of the Hondurable the Colonial Secretary heen directed to a lead- August 9th, and will the Honourable Member ing article in the China fall of Wednesday, inform the Council) Is it the intention of the Government to appoint, & Commission to enquire into and report on the alleged land" jobbery in the Colony's recently acquired territory, referred to in the said article and |_widely and publicly spoken about ? <
Answer
to be conveyed into the New Territory to be posted and placarded in the various villages and towns therein ?..
Answer
This afternoon a meeting of the Hong kang f.egislative Council was held in the
The answer to Question is in the negative. (2) Wis the late, Tung Cheung entrusted by Council Chamber at the Government Offices, there being present His Excellency the Govist arith certain Government Proclamations the Government on or about the 17th April ernor (Sir Henry. Blake, G.C.M.G.), the Hon. H. Stewart Lockhart C.M.G. (Colonial Secretary), the flon, H. F. Pollock (Acting Attorney-Generat), the Hon. R. Murray Rumsey (Harbour Master), the Hon. A. M. Thomson (Colonial Treasurer), the Hon. R. D. Ormsby (Director of Public Works), the Hon. C. P. Chater, C.M.G., the Hon. Dr. Ho-Kai the Hon. E. R. Belitios, C.M.G., the Hón. T. H. Whitehead, The Hon. J. J. Keswick, the Hon. Wei A Yuk, and Mr. ft. F. Johnston,
(Acting Clerk of Councils.)
The following papers and statements were laid on the table :--
rations in connection with the disturbances on Further papers relating to the Military Ope
the taking over of the new territory. issued by the Magistrate of the San On District English Translation of the Proclamations and the Viceroy of Canton regarding the New Territory.
In reply to Question th, I beg to refer Honourable Member to paragraphs 52 and 53 of the Correspondence laid upon: the table at the Inst Meeting Council,
deceased undertake the mission without an (3.) If so, underwhose direction did the. arined escort
Answer ME, PORN
The answer to Question 2 in that at the inge stance of the Colonial Secretary one of the copies of the Proclamation posted and he Gentry of the New Territory undertook to have cairusted the duty of posting some of them to Tang Cheung
near the village of Un Long on 17th or 18th (4) Is it true that on the said mission at or
April last the said Tung Cheong was foully and brutally murdered
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Statement of extra Expenditure under Sub- lead "Miscellaneous Services (Other)," Statement of Expenditure on Pingue. Statement of Expenditure (actual and
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What remuneration, if any, has been The following were laid on the table, put p the deceased's family before the Committee and passed:
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The Hon. T. Whitehead commented on the Finance Report; his remarks will be given in to-morrow's issue.
The Hon. T. H. Whitehead gave notice of the following questions
NEW TERRITORY EXPENDITURE NEW TERRITORY EXPENDITURE,
Will the Government
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