To-day's Advertisements,
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK- ING CORPORATION.
THE DIVIDEND declared for the Half-year ending 31st December last, at the RATE of ONE POUND and TEN SHILLINGS, together with a BONUS OFTEN SHILLINGS STERLING per Share of $125 18 PAYABLE on and after MONDAY, the 18th day of February, current at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for WARRANTS,
By Order of the Court of Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Manger. Hongkong, 16th February, 1901.
INSURANCE HOLIDAYS.
TOF Union INSURANCE
OFFICES will,be CLOSED for the Tran- snction of Public Business, on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, the 19th and 20th instant. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Agents,
CANTON INSURANCE Office, LI General Managers,
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO.,
LIMITED.
For the UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY or
CANTON, LIMITED,
AV. J. SAUNDERS, Secretary,
For the NORTH-CHINA INSURANCE CŨ, 1.57,
W. H. PERCIVAL, Agent.
For the CHINA TRADERS' Insurance Co.,
LIMITED,
W. H. RAY,
Secretary.
For the YANOTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION,
LIMITED,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents.
For the CHINA FIRE INSURANCE CO., LD,
GEO. L. TOMLIN,
Secretary, Hongkong, 10th February, 1901.
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THEATRE ROYAL.
BOXING TOURNAMENT. (Opek in All-Comers, to decide the Bond file Championships).
28TH FEIRDARY, 1ST & 286 Marcil. Under the Management of Mr. C. T. ROBINSON. VALUE OF PRIZES, OVER $2,000
GIGANTIC ENTRIES. FEATHER WEIGHrts (126 lbs.)
T. Lavless, Hand, Jew.P., #. D. “Davis, E. Co.,
R.W.T.
J. H. Brin, U.S.S. Brooklyn, to J. Jago,
H.M.S, Centurion,
T. Mathews, Band. RW.F, 2. C. A. Bowley,
Taikoo Sugar Refinery.
J. Vein, H. M. Naval Yard, v. W. II. Creasy,
Seige Train,
Reserves Tin Bailey, H.M.S. Undaunted,
and H. K. Remedios.
LIGHT WEIGHrs 140
T. Baddeley, Sapper, R., 2. W. Thommas, B.
Co., RWB
T. Phillips, MS, Argenant, v. J. Sandford,
B. Co., R.W.F.
Geo. Smith, H.MS. Conturion, 2. W. Foster,
HM.L. HM.S. Terrible.
T. Harvey, R.MA., H.M.S. Tiziana 25. Kia-
zey, U.S.S. Bennington.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1901.
To-day's
Advertisements.
HARMSTON'S
CIRCUS
AND
ROYAL MENAGERIE.
TO-NIGHT! TO-NIGHT!!
INTERNATIONAL TUG OF WAR.
THE CHAMPIONS. 12ND BOMBAY INFANTRY,
versus
15TH SIEGE TRAIN (S.D.)
H.M.S. "CENTURION," (BYR)
VEERI
THE WINNER.
DEATH.
At 7 am. Today, at No. 1, College Gardens, Upper Albany Road, MARY, the heloved wife of James H. Cox, in her 61st year.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, SATurday, February 16, 1901,
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
WISE AND OTHERWISE.
THE Hongkong Volunteer Corps parade all †"£100,000 of the War Loan which we applied units at 9.30 on Tuesday maming for firing for. These securities have been written down practice at Repulse Bay, Launches leave to the prices ruling on the 31st December. Bills
The manure tanks to be foukt Discounted, Bills Payable and Bills Receivable (213cMurray Pier at ten o'clock. FLE the Governor, all show a shrinkage on the figures given in the
Insani dotted about the Chinese garden
tary
and fields are neither beautiful fron H.E the General Officer Commanding and last Report, The stagnation of business in the
Fickles. a spectacular nor odoriferous poin Staff will be present and a good muster is ex-
North of China fully accounts for the falling off. Indeed a very much more serious interruption to the Chinese heart and to serve more pur
of view, but they appear to be dear pected.
of business than we have experienced might poses than one. A short time back 1, passed ROUMANIA's impecuniòsity, it is said, las led Hand and Transit were unusually large at the have been expected. Cash and Bullion in
by one of these pits, which, in addition to the to the sacrifice of her peerless oak forests. A end of the year. At this time last year couple of dead dogs and a pig. A few days usual stinking slush, contained the bodies of a contract has just been entered into for the from this chair your attention was directed afterwards i passed the same tank and found culting of half a million oaks under disastrous to the important and increasing trade that the contents had been baled out and re- conditions. Every tree with a diameter of half interests in the North of China, and their pal-placed by a quantity of Chinese cabbages ayard and above may he felled, the uniform /pable expansion with the extention of sailway undergoing the pickling process,"I am not enterprise that region. Unfortunately the price to be about 125, per free, and the. con- outbreak against foreigners has rudely disturb.
sorry now that I have never been tempted to taste this Chinese delicacy. tractor to have the option of rejecung one fourthed for the time being this most desirable advance of the trees having only the minimum diameter of half a yard. In these forests are thousands of trees, from one to two centuries old, and of majestic growth. All are doomed.
THE OPERATIONS IN BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.
LONDON, February 14th. Seren columns under the supreme com- mand of General French are driving 6,000 Boers towards the south-eastern corner of the Transvaal. A big success is expected.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. The King and Queen drove to Parliament Captain M. CADOGAN, RW., has kindly in great state. The King wore Field Marstruck by a piece of steel. The Admiralty had
shal's uniform and the Queen was in Royal consented to act as Referee.
robes with a diadem, The King read the opening speech.
THE GREAT PROGRAMME AS USUAL.
Box Office Plan:-ROBINSON BIANO Ço, Queen's Road.
POPULAR PRICES. SOLDIERS and SAILORS of ALL NA. TIONALITIES, admitted to CITAIRS and STALLS HALF-PRICE.
ROBERT LOVE...............Manager. Cul. Chas. 13. Hicks......Representative. Hongkong, 16th February, rgot.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
104
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND'
SINGAPORE,
THE Company's Steamship
"CHELYDRA,"
| having arrived on the above Parts, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after NOON, the and instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into Godowns at East Paint..
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Hills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Getieral Managers. Hongkong, 16th February, 1901, [216
Intimations.
EYE SIGHT.
Mr.N. LAZARUS, Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES
at 16, Queen's Road Central,
(R. HOUGHTON & Co.). (Nearly opposite the HONGKONG HOTEL) Business hours:-9 AM to 5 P.M.
GREAT proportion of cataracts and
Reserves-W. Barrett, Sapper, F.; Pie. A disenses affecting those advancing in life B. Moore, A.U.C., C. Morriss, C. Co.,
'Sergt. Davis, R.,W F.
MIDDLE WEIGHrs 138 (165.) Thos. Phillips, MS. Argonaut, v. W. 5.
Bailey, Hongkong.
E. Mansford, HMS," Argonaut, v. 1. Rurus,
U.S.5, Albany,
Sergt. Jones, R..., . E. C.-Duficy, USS,
Brooklyn.
J. W. Newman HMS. Terrible, 59. Bols Ber.
wick. Taikoo Sugar Refinery. Reserve Gen. Smith, 11.M.S. Centurion, HEAVY OR CATCH WEIGHTH,
McMurray, 25th Co. S.D.R.A., P. Copl., Aldridge,
25th Co. S...
Jack Gorman, Harmston's Circus, 2 Bob
Savidge, H.M.S. Goliath.
J. H. Tibba, U.S.S. Brocklyn; v. W. S. Bailey,
Hongkong,
POPULAR PRICES. STAGE RESERVEU SEATS.....$10 Season.
Do. . Do.
$4 per Night. $3 and $2. ....St.
DRESS CIRCLE
PITT
BON PLAN NOW OPEN AT ROBINSON PLAND Co.
Hongkong, 15th February, 1901,
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INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION ́
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA.
THE Company's Steamship
#LOONGSANG,"
Captain Weigall, will be despatched as above. on FRIDAY, the and instant, at 4 P.M.
This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is filled throughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers."
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Hongkong, 16th February, 1901,"
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the eyes-the many years of Eye Strain' ending in serious founs of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.
Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi-
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report tayo:~~
On the 16th 1.41.55 a.m. baronietric changes are slight. The high pressure area still coveri China, and pressure probably remains low over E. Japan. Moderate to fresh monsoon on the cbast, and in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast:-Moderate N.E. winds; fair.
LOCAL AND CENERAL.
TUESDAY and Wednesday next are to be Chi- nese New Year holidays and the local Banks and Insurance Offices will be closed.
Tua sixth of February was the 83rd annivers- ary of the seulement of Singapore. All the public buildings and steamers had their flags and bunting flying for the occasion.
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Tuzre having been an outbreak of cholera on the East Coast of Somatra, the Straits Govern- ment has declared the ports between Langkat and Asahan infected places under the Quaran. tine Ordinance
THE death is reported at home of Captain R. Farquhar, formerly of the "Ben" haer Benledi. Capt. Farquhar, was well known in Ilongkong and Japan poris, having been trading to the East for many years.
THE hospital ship Gwalier says the Shang Hat Mercury, is en route to China from India for the second time. According to present arrangements she will now remain in Chinese
waters fill the withdrawal of the Allied troops,
THE Band of the Royal Welch Fusiliers will
play at the Hongkong Hotel this evening, from
8 to 9.30 p.m. P***
PROGRAMMI.
the March...” Galory War March “........ Wachaelis. Seferian flakton Ball" Melly.
"Svengali
Rueden. -Selection." La l'ecube" ...Odenbech.
Song Tailers"
Picfaltirani. Three Dance...." from Meby Vill...German.
BAR
Descriptive. Hasanit "Spladen.
The Lords of the Admiralty were last ninth in the Portsmouth Country Court, under the Workmen's Compensation Act. A fitter employed in the dockyard had lost the sight of one eye, in consequence of being
offered him work at lower wages, and promised him compensation, but he desired to have the latter question settled judicially. Judge Gṛe said he found, as a fact, that the offer of the Admiralty was an unreasonable one. awarded the applicant seventeen shillings a week, which was 50 per cent. of his wages. Leave to appeal was given.
Не
MR. HENRY DALLAS Company according to Shanghai papers lately received are playing every evening to bumperhouses there. He still adheres to his usual custom of three nights for every piece, so that everyone may get a chance to see the different pieces so well acted by him- sell and Company, San, Toy was advertised for the 11th and 12th of this month, to be followed by the new favourite, "The Belle of New York," and" Floradora "the latest London success and now performed for the first time in the East. The Season there concludes with the charming musical opera, The French Maid. Mr. Dallas hopes to visit Hongkong the end of this month, when he will certainly get the warm welcome which lie deserves. AT the Harbour Office yesterday before the Hon. Basil Taylor (Acting Marine Magistrate) Leung Fan, captain of the licensed lorcha, On Hing, And Leung Kit Shang, captain of the licensed torcha On. Fat, were charged that they did unlawfully obstruct the southern fair.
way on the 11th inst. at Victoria harbour. The first defendant pleaded not guilty and the evidence of T. Austin was heard. He said that on the 11th at 5.20 p.m. he found the southern fairway blocked, with junks. He went in a sampan and told them to shift. The defendant refused to do so. He was anchored about 150 feet from the Praya Wall. The second defen dant pleaded gulity. It was a similar pase to
the first. The people on board the junk refused to move when told to go.. Both were convicted and a fine of $5 or in default of payment, im- prisonment with hard labour for fourteen days,
was inflicted in each case.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
The seventy-first half-yearly general meet-
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Our American cousins are famous Tall for all stories and I think the fol Story, lowing is a fair specimen of exag
geration-A couple of American tobacco planters met on an Atlantic liner and in the course of conversation commenced to compare notes on the locust,
commercial aspects there, but when the pre- ent negotiations are satisfactorily concluded and the country has had time to recover from the mvages of war and famine, I make no doubt that all favorable predictions will be amply fulfilled. Central and Southern China have fortunately been spared the borrors of war political atmosphere there has naturally bean a and want, but in the unsettled state of the
FIRST PLANTER-Well, sir, I went to bed diminuition of credit in Native trade circles," on Monday night with as fine a crop of ter- which has told unfavorably upra the import baker in my fields as ever you wished to see.. Trade and curtailed the off-take very consider-Tuesday daylight, down comes a swarm of ably, making a serious difference to Importers, locusts, and in ten minutes I hadn't er leaf er consequent advance in value has prevented the The fact however of the shortage of Cotton and
*terbaker left!
serious effects to those interested in Cotton goed; which must otherwise have followed, and the trade is in a sound, if slow, condition. The period under review from a monetary point of view has been an interesting and exciting one. Silver fluctuated more than it has recently done, uncertainty and unrest pre- vailed
am glad to say opportunities for making money were not few; they were taken advantage of with the favourable results we return of Sir Thomas Jackson to the colony in are able to place before you to-day. On the October last, Afr. H. M. Bevis, the acting manager here was transferred to Shanghai; the manager there Mr. Wade Gardner going home on leave. It is, I am sure, quite needless for me to say that we were all glad to welcome our old friend Sir Thomas Jackson back to us in renewed health and strength to take | charge of the affairs of the Bank, which he has judgment managed for us. To our manager so long and with such conspicuous ability and in London, Sir Ewen Cameron, to Mr. John Walter and to the staff generally our best" thanks are due for the real and attention they have all shown to our interests during the last appeciation of their services by our proposal of year and we have endeavoured to shew our a bonus offso-per cent. on the salaries of the staff, which I have no doubt will meet with your condial approval. (Applause). Before moving the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be pleased to answer any questions.
There being no questions the Chairman proposed the adoption of the report and accounts.
Mr. R. K Leigh said:--Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen, I have much pleasure in seconding will only say a very few words. The Report the addoption of the Report and in doing su is, as usual, a very fine one and the more so, when you consider the large decrease in trade that there must have been owing to the troubles in North China. The remarks of our Chairman regarding the building up of the reserve fund are of great importance, esp cially to a Bank whose very life is its capital and every ad- dition to its reserve is adding strength to its resources and enabling it to earn more It is really like calling up more capital with this great difference, that while each addition to the reserve assists in carming a dividend, none has to be paid on it, and there fore more for the orignal share capital used to be told that Banks would be all right as an investment if it was that the bottom would
drop out then in the event of a war. Since then we have have had the war in South Africa and are now practically at-war with China, yet Banks, in the beginning of 1899, were $435- per share. In 1900 these were $541 and to.
SECOND PLANTER,-Well, sir, one mornin' I got up to see a swarm er locusts just comin' on ler my plantation, an' in five minutes they'd cleared out the whole tarnation crop, and, sir, them all-fired insees just sat along my split rail fence after and squirted terbaker juice at mei
F.-Well, Sir, two years ago I was cressin' the pond in a clipper ship and, 'bout noon, a little cloud, but as big as a hand, showed up. on the skyline. In ten minutes that cloud an before you could spit more'n twice they'd came down on the ship as a swarm er locusts stripped every stitch er convas from her.'
S.P.-What did you say was the date er that. swarm, sir? Yes, well, I was goin' the other way about that time in a steamer, an guess we fell in with your locusts, for, by glory, sir, they was every one of 'em dressed in canvas breeks.
to officers
There is a little story going the Sermon round of the fleet which is too or Smoke?. goud to be allowed to pass unre-
corded bere. certain Captain of a fast and furious cruiser is
It appears that bit of a martinet and has the King's Regula captain, has a great aversion tions engraved on his heart. Now this spicking in their cabins, and to check this pernicious habit ordered that the curtains of all officers' cabins were to back when he went the rounds on Salur- be pulled
day This elicited an objection from the Padre, who explained that he always wrote bis sermon on Saturday and having his curtain pulled back would distract his mind and inter- the large congregation of officers, the Padre rupt his work. Thus it happened that of all
during inspection. Inspection day came and was the only one allowed to sport his curtain
of strong tobacco. All the officers curtains with the captain and an overpowering smell
were pulled back and not a pipe or cigar was. approached the fumes grew more pungent and to be seen. As the domain of the Padre was when his curtain was gently pulled aside, in order that he might might not be disturbed in his great thoughts, his Reverence was discovered quietly sitting back and pulling at the biggest the Captain said to the Padre and the Padre's and blackest pipe to be found in the feet. What reply are not on record. But the Padre's curtain is now pulled back during inspection, and nobody seems to have noticed any falling off. in the eloquence of the Sunday sermon,
A Cat Story. Augustine, the Kilburn Parish A correspondent of the St.
Magazine, relates the following -
I once had a cat which always sat up to the
citte a deficiency in the form of the eye requir."THERE is just this difference between us," ing of shareholders of the Hongkong and ing Classes only to correct and cure.
continued the preacher, "you are a soldier of Shanghai Banking Corporation was held in the look as if war had knocked the bottom out of his neck, and his plate and some fish. He
Mr. LAZARUS Supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.
ADVICE FREE.
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WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
SCOTCH WHISKY.
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B.-WATSON'S
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City Hall, to-day. Mr. N. A. Siebs, Chair- Hell and I am a soldier of Heaven.” Tommy's man, presided and the other gentlemen were eyes opened a degree wider. There was a Messrs. A. Haupt, P. Witkowski, J. N. Goos- pause. Then up spoke he who had acceptedman, R. M. Gray, R. Shewan, A. Raymond, the Queen's shilling. Oh, you are a soldier H. W. Slade, D. M. Moses, Hon. J. J. Keswick, (Directors), Sir Thomas Jackson, (Chief Mana- of Heaven," he said slowly; "well, it that's so,
ger), Captain A. Tillett, Capt. F. D. Goddard, all I've got to say is, you're a darned long way H. N. Mody, F. Henderson, Hon. C. P. Chater, from barracks,"
C.M.G., Ho Fook, C. S. Sharp, G. M. Bain, J. H. Lewis, R. C. Wilcox, R. K. Leigh, J. R. | Michael, G. L. Tomlin, M. J. D. Stevens, H. Humphreys, E. Georg, S. Hancock, H. A. Chinoy, J. N. Chinoy, C. J. Gonsalves, A. Sharp L. J. C. Anderson, C. Palmer, E. S. Joseph, Dr. A. 5. Gomes, B. Layton, R. T.. Wright, A. G. Wood, E. Pabaner, D. D. Gazder, G. Medhurst, S. S. Benjamin E. Kelly J. R. M. Smith, W. Á. C. Cruickshark, W. H. Ray, J. Kennedy, W. Lysaught, Lau Wai Chuen, 'Chan Sai Ki,
A CONTEMPORARY, says the Singapore Free Press, tells this rather good Tommy Atkins yarn. At a review at Aldershot; two foreiga i princes, not knowing their way, drove up to a sentry and asked: "Do you know where the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York is?"- "No, Sir," replied the sentry, "I don't know myself, but I'll ask my mate. He know all the public houses about here."
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS:-The Post
THE new battleship Montague, building Devonport, is to be launched during the week in March. The Moningue is 405 fet long, which is five feet longer than any ysel yet launched from Devonport Dockyard By the time she takes the water she will t/more forward' than other battleships have een at the launching stage, as her bridges fd other 15.00 portions of her superstructure are factically
complete.
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STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. PLYMOUTH AND. LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, GLENORCHT are high chess Soda In the billiard room at the Centr Police Sta-
PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS),
*HE Steamship
THE
* PARRAMATTA,”
Captain C. T. Denny, R.N.R., carrying Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for
BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 2nd March, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.
THORNE'S BLEND and WATSON's
Sham Kim Sai and others.
The Chairman said-Gentlemen, we have the pleasure of laying before you the accounts of a dry successful half-year's working. The
day they stand and at $567This does not them, and if England will only insist on her rights and the opening up of China to all alike, the expansion of trade will be enormous, and with it I feel sure the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation will be found well in the van of Banks. (Applause.)
The motion was carried unanimously. The appointment of Mr. Paul Witkowski as director was unanimously confirmed on the notion of Mr. Palmer seconded by Mr. Ray
The Hon. J. J. Keswick and Mr. D. Mr Moses were unanimously re-elected as direc- tors on the motion of Mr. Lewis seconded by Mr. Hancock,
Mr. Henderson and Mr. C. S. Sharp were re-elected auditors on the motion of Captain Tillet. Capt. Goddard seconded and it was carried unanimously.
Mr. G. M. Bain-I would ask you, gentlemen, before we part, to pass a hearty vote of thanks to the Board of Directors, to the able Manager and to his staff. This is a proposition which requires no remarks at all to commend it to you. The report, the result of the combined
find a combination equal to the one I have what they can do. I daresay you could not mentioned outside of London, perhaps not there, and I ask you to give the Board and the staff a hearty vote of thanks for their services. gentlemen. Many thanks for your attendance, The Chairman:-That is all the business,
WATER RETURN.
dinner table with me, and had his napkin round
cular, and behaved with extraordinary decorum. used bis-paw, of course, but he was very parti When he had finished his fish I sometimes gave him a piece of mine. One day he was not to be found when the dinner beli rang; so we began without him. Just as the plates were being put mund for the entrée, puss came rushing upstairs and sprang into his chair, with stopped he dropped a mouse on to his own two mice in his mouth. Before he could be plate and then one on to mine. He divided his dinner with me ás 1-divided mine with hiin.
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Cat stories are very much to Another the front just now and are being told with as much gusto as the London Correspondent of Spart" & Gossip. dog yarns lately so much in vogue, says the That genial novelist Christie Murray is res posible for one or two more or less truthful. ones. He relates for instance one that illus. trates the power, of the herb Valerian. Cats are fond of this herb, delighting in its odour
Level and storage of water in Reservoirs on the 1st February.
it is occasionally prescribed in nervous diseases. drunk on the smell of it. Humans for whom
do not appreciate the scent by any means. The tastes of men and cats differ. Mr. Murray tells of a dear old maiden lady who had three however, jealous of each other and she grieved cats that she loved fondly. The cats werė,
greatly at their want of sociability, as evidenced in their continued quarrels. The old lady also had a hearth-rug of rare pattern and thickness of which she was very proud. A scapegrace: nephew knew these things, and also knew the power of the herb Valerian. So he sur LEVEL.
reptitiously sprinkled the precious hearth- 1900,
ng with some of its tincture. That day f 24 below 25′ 31′′ below
the cats had been as unkind as usual to overflow. + Loverflow
each other in the breakfast parlour. When, 23 10" below
8 below however, they paid their regular afternoon Loverflow
45′ 3′′ below? 21' 2" below the old lady's, amazement, ceased. They paid
{overflow.
visit to the drawing-room, their animosity, to
Tytam......
Pokfulam..
cheung,
overflow STORAGE GALLONS,
1900.
1901.
Joverflow
1901.
204,365,000 42,860,000
Office will be entirely closed on Tuesday, the 19th inst. Should the Empress of Japan arrive largeɓalance carried forward on the join June efforts of the Board and its staff, has shown you and apparently getting something akin to
in Bofit and Loss Account ($1,717.543.39) and ou that day the-mails brought by her will be the bandsome, profits realized during the half. kept over to be dealt with on the following yet left the Directors with a very considerable morning. On Wednesday, the zoth, the offices to distribute for the period ended 31st will be kept open from 7 to 1.30 am. for the ecember 1900. Subject to your approval. jey propose to pay a Dividend of L110/- per despatch of the out going German mail. The mare, pay a Bonus of tof per share, place to Money Order Office will be closed on both Reserve Fund $1,000,000 and carry forward the balance of $1,410,372.65. They also propose clays.
to give the Staff of the Bank à l'onus of 10% on their salaries. It will be seen that the Bank continues its prosperous carcer. Its business is constantly increasing, necessitating our con tinuing to add to our Reserva Funds, which are so much additional capital on which we have not to pay any Dividend. It is a sound principle that a Bank's own funds ought always bear a fair proportion to the funds of, the public entrusted to its safe keeping: Our Capital is ten millions of dollars, Wong-nai say one million sterling, this is all we have to pay dividend upon, but our sterling reserve of one million, and our silver reserve of three millions of dollars including the amount we pro pose to add for last half year, together with what tion yesterday, Police Constabl/Hook, who Whiskies, of greater age thun most joined the Hongkong Force March last,
we propose canying forward to New Profit and Loss Account leave us with funds of our own brands in the market.
and who owing to an affection the lungs has to the extent of $14,410,272 89 £3,441,027.
Total...247,220,000
55,643,000 ABELOUR-GLENLIVEr is a very old now been ordered home, was threcipient of the The shareholders will fully realize the wisdom
of their sanctioning large additions to the Consumption of Water in the City of Victora Reserve Funds in prosperous half years, ten- and Hill District during the month of January. Peat Whisky, (smoky) and could not substantial sum of thirty-fire vereigns, and a now be replaced in stock at the price.ing in Chinese characters, fealth, happiness, Capital, a course which would be a handicap Consumption 98183,000107;199,000 gallons handsome silver-mounted king stick beardering it unnecessary for the Bank to increase ita D. is well known for and prosperity," given to ba by his comrades on dividends in years to come, Comparing the Estimated
in the force. Chief Detetive Inspector Han Report with the one issued to 30th June 1900, pupulation Fixed Deposits in Silver and Gold together show Consumption son made the presentarií, p
a decline of 510,571,344 mainly owing to the
per head
15.52 $165. gallons enhanced value of money in London, enabling per day. For the pleasure of thowing a former's fox
Consumption of Water in Kowloon Peninsula Terrier over, a veranih, which resulted in the rates of interest and to the withdrawal of Govern during the month of January
Que Silver Deposits and Current Accounts
1900.
FOOL. together, show an increase of 5856,64600unts Consumption.). 8049,712 11,040,000 gallons mystic hero Vistian Society for the Prevention of Crue to Animals of 5836,632. The Estimated
Sterling Reserve Fund Investments are almost popilation was able to have Chinese boys perpetrator exactly as list stated the only differetice being Consumption
According to the Reuter's tele of the deed, find ten dollarght the Mixed £4,000 under the heading of Other Sterling per head 9.37 12.3 gallons Indefinite gram which you publish, seven Court on Thurshay last. The city has once Securities-same being à profit on an exchange
British Columns have driven,co gain to thank a foreign layor, coming for Loan. Under the heading of Console Colonial water is of excellent quality.
of 2.3/4% Consols for a similar nount of War The Government Analyst reports that the Boxers into a corner, and a big success, is anticipated. Requer does not prétend to stale ward at great personal invenience and and other Securities there is an increase of
which side is to have the big auccess, and if De attending the Mixed Count dive evidence. $1,195,353 mainly owing to an allotment- of
Wet ju ja the swill, it would be veryuni
Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, its fine flavour.
and Tea for London (under arrangement) will"
be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer
proceeding direct to Marseilles and London;
E. is of superb quality
vid Bombay with Trapshipment conveyed and pronounced by lead-dog having one of it legs broker save Sport Ps, the day before sailing. The Contents and ing local connoisseurs tond Gossip of the 10th justi, de Shanghai
Parcels will be received, at this Office until 4
Value of all Packages are required.
Shippers are, particularly requested to note be the best brand in the the terms and conditions of the Company's Bills of Lading.
For further Particulars, apply to
A M. MARSHALL,
Hongkong Market.
Acting Superintendent. A. SAS 10. LIMITED,
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
Hongkong, roth February, Ton
Depositors to find investments yielding increased
Tylam...210,880,000 Pokfulam.. 36,340,000 Wong-nal- cheong
nil-
per day
.1900,
104,000
27,700.
1901
8,418,000
210,000
28,900
R. D. ORNSBY,
Water Authority,
all their attention to the hearthrug. At first they lay on it and purred contentedly, Then by degrees, as the smell of the Valerian tincture warmed them up, they got lively. They arched their backs, purred and smirked and rubbed their heads together. Then they pawed the rug all over, tried various attitudes, rolling on their acks and even trying to stand on their heads. The old lady began to grow alarmed, believing them to have suddenly gone mad. Her belief was made cortainty when they started as with one chasent to tear the pattern
off the precious rug. The wool flew in clouds, the cars meenwled at the top of their voices, and the old lady screamed for help. When it. came the rug was destroyed and the cats were removed clinging frantically to its fragments. Since then the old lady has tabooed cats and taken to canaries, A marvellous change in the ferants mind, and, as Mr. Murray Bays, a remarkable illustration of the power of the,