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Notices to Consignees.

Notices of Firms.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Houses and Lands.

TO LET. ONSIGNEES, of F (B in diamond) MOM and after this date, Captain I. C. Toupied by Mesers ARXHOLE, KAS- THE BUSINESS PREMISES, formerly

NOTICE

NOTICE.

660/879-20-Bales "Merchandise per

SAUNDERS will undertake the Business. "PAREJERO," shipped by Messrs A. of my Marine Surveying at this port

H. J, DRING, Marine Surveyor, Fouchow, August 1, 1867.

NOTICE

DURANTY & Co, of Liverpool, are beruby informed that the same bave been landed and stored at their risk and expense.

ROB. S. WALKER & Uo.

Hongkong, July 2, 1868.

HE following cases have been landed for the ral and expour of the Consignees, who are requested to take immediate delivery.

Ex" Tigre," 5th December, 1867

1 Basket Feathers

Ex "Djonnai,” 7th January, 1868, 1 531.

1Case Pupor

Dinnai,” 8th June,

NO 120/122

Hoogly,

P&S 479

1. Elastics.

"O. BERTRAND,

Principal Agent.

WITH reference to the above, this

W business hitherto, carried ou by H. J. Daire, Eat at Fooctor will be conducted by the Undersigned...

J. C. SAUNDERS,

Chop Ming:

Pagoda Anchorage.

Fonchow.

Foochow, August 1, 1867.

NOTICE.

3 cases Sweetineals | 11K RYLE BOLME has been admitted 3rd July.

a partner in out Firn.

·GLOVER & Co. --Nagasaki, January 1, 1867.

Hongkong, July 4, 1868.

P. M. §. §. Co.'s Sra

NOTICE.

DRG &c., consisting of Dwelling House, Offices, and spacious Godowns.

Possession to ba had on the 1st March. Apply to

JOHN BURD & Co. Hongkong, February 22, 1868.

TO BE LET.

Furnished or Unfurnished. HE Dwelling HOUSE in the Albany at present occupied by Mr N. R. Masson, Occupation can be had in a few weeks, Application can be made to Mr MasSON at the Albany.

Hougtong, Soptember 25, 1867.

TO LET.

COLORADO MR HENRY LISTON DALRYMPLE Bra C, Hook & Co. Possession

FROM YOKOHAMA AND SAN FRANCISCO.

ONSIGNEES of Largo by the above- named Vessel are requested to send in their Bills of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature, and take immediate de- livery of their Goods.

Cargo not called for within 24 hours after the arrival will be landed and stored at risk and expense of Consignees

GEO, F. BOWMAN, Agent

Hongkong, July 7, 1888

ONSIGNEES of Cargo per Company's

Steam ship"HOOGLY," are requeat od to send in their Bills of Lading for coun- teraignature and take immediate delivery of their Goods before the 1st of July next, or they will be landed and stored at their risk and expense.

C. BERTRAND, Frincipal Agent. Hongkong, June 7, 1868,

Notices of Firms.

NOTICE.

HAVE this day established myself as a PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, AVER4OB AD- JUSTER and GENERAL COMMISSION "AGENT:

O LANGDON DAVIES

2 Club Chainbera, Hongkong, July 1, 189

1898.

NOTICE.

is authorised to sigu oar Fiza per procuration, at Fooohow from this date.

BIRLEY & Co. Hongkong, June 3, 1868.

NOTICE,

SAVE this day established myself at this Port he a Public Tea Inspector and General Commission Agent under the Style or Fizini of JOHN ODELL & CO.

JOHN ODELL Foechow, April 13, 1808,

NOTICE

16jal

FROM and after this date. Mr GEORGE F. BOWMAN will act as AGENT of the Pacific Mail Steam-ship Company at this Port,

8. L. PHELPS, Agent, Hongkong, August 15, 1807.

NOTICE,

HE Interest and Responsibility of Mr

TFRANCIS PARBY and Mr THOMAS

SHYTE in our Firm cessed on 31st Decem

ber, 1867, from which date the Partners are ME CHARLES WILSON Mubray, MT ÁRTHUR SMÍTR and Mr THOMAS PIXE

BIRLEY & Co. Hongkong, June 16, 1868,

Houses and Lands.

TO LENT.

16ssp

HE. whole of the Flour now

TE have authorized Mr CLAUS BUDDE1 cupied by the Undersigned, situat

to sign our Firm from this date.

DREYER & Co,

Hongkong, January 1, 1888.

NOTICE

THE Interest and Responsibility of Mr FERDINAND NISSEN in our Firm ceased. on the 30th April·last.

The Businen will in future be conducted under the Style and Firm of

ROBERTSON & Co.

in which Mr PerER GABAIN has been admitted a Partber.

NISSEN & ROBERTSON. Ningpo, May 9, 1808,

NOTICE

10ag

interest and responsibility of Mr. W. VAN OOEDT in our firm cessed on the 1st January, 1860, 210

BOSMAN & Co.

Hongkong, November 19, 1867.

Have this day established myself as a Ge- neral Commissjoni Merchant under the

style or firm of VAN UONET & Co.

(Sd). W. U. VAN OORDT,

Yakahama, October 24, 1867.

NOTICE

ed at Peddar's Wharf, comprising Dining Room and Fantry and fifteen Bed Rooms.

Alse, One half of the First Floor suitable for Offices

THOS. HUNT & Co. Hongkong, May 13, 1868.

LIGHTERAGE AND STORAGE.

.tf

THE Undersigned will undertake to land

Cotton, Rice, Goals, and other Mer- ebandise, in their own Boats, and to receive the same on STORAGE in First-class Gra- nite godowns, on Moderate Terme

ROB. S. WALKER & Co. Hongkong, March 4, 1866,

TO LET.

THE OFFICE and GODOWN sitnited at the corner of Wellington and Aberdeen Streets, and at present in the occupation of Mesars ELHORST & SANDERS,

For particulars, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co. Hongkong, March 6, 1865.

NOTICE.

TO LET.

E desirable PREMISES on the Queen's J. MORRAY FORBES is autho-Road, Jatoly in the occupation of the| rized to sign our name at Canton from Asiatic Bank. this date.

RUSSELL & Co.

China, February 16, 1868.

A. B. Tollius GlozeneAMP,

Mbeing from this date interested in our Firm, will sign the same per procuration. REYNVAAN BROTHERS & Co. Hongkong, June 1, 1868.

Jeep

NOTICE,

Mas admitted a Partner in our Firm R BENJAMIN ROBERT STANFORD

on 1st January, 1888,

J. McDONALD & do, Shipwrighta.

Hongkong, May 1, 1888.

NOTICE.

lag

Y Business, as Ship and Insurance

For particulars, apply to

SMITH, ROHER & Co. Hongkong, May 18, 1868.

... TWO HOUSES TO BE LET. DECENTLY pnt in thorough Repair, Bi. tated on the Rise of TEM HILL, Westward, and an easy distance from the Queen's Road. Apply to

KIR BARRINGTON,

Wyndham Street." Hongkong, May 19, 1968.

L'IRST Rate ROOMS for Offices or Dwel- ling HOUSE for Families in the Queen's Road, No. 92, with new Verandah. The whole in a thorough state of repair.

Apply to

Menara Wa. SCHMIDT & Co., Gunmaker.

M'Broker, Commission Agent, e. hitherto Hongkong, May 20, 1868.

carried on by myself, will henceforward be conducted under the style or Firm of J. S. Hoog, Sor & Co.

$. BOOK. Hongkong, September 23, 1867.

NOTICE...

E connection of the Undersigned with the Firm of Messrs Taos. Horr & Co.

desses from this data

JM. ARMSTRONG.

Hongkong, May 1, 1888.

NOTICE

HAVE established myself at this port as General Commission Merchant, under

he Style and Firm of GIFFORD F. PARKER

& Co.

GIFFORD FORBES PARKER.

Saigon, December 20, 1867,

NOTICE.

R FERDINAND-NEBEN and Mr Hewston HOFFI's have been authorized to sigu

our Firm here and in Cluss from this date.

ZOBIEMSSEN & Co.-

Hongkong, May 12, 1868.

NOTICE

19ag

THE Partnership between the Under

signed, and ir AvoUST WICTREE, Mr ROBERT CARNICK DONALDSON MOFFAT, and

Mr TRANE BORNTRAEGEE, lately carrying

TO LET.

HOUSE in Spring Gardens, containing four Rooms and Out Houses; Rent, $28 per month.

Apply at the Victoria Foundry. Hongkong, March 12, 1808,

TO BE LET,

WO Now and Strong GODOWNS on

Marine Lnt No. 63. Apply to

OUR Large ROOMS on Second Floor above the Offices of the Undersigned, 44, Queen's Road, at present occupied by

taken on the 1st of January, 1868.

For Ternia, do, apply to

G. DUBOST & Co. Hongkung, November 6, 1887.

Docks,

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.

CAPITAL $750,00)...... ̧¡!! IN 1,500 SHARES, OF $600 EACH,

THE COMPANY'S DOCKS at ABER

DEEN and WHAMPOA are in full working order, and the attention of Ship- owners is respectfully solicited to the advan- tages which there. Establishments offer for tho Dooking and Repair of Vernels,

The following description of the Premises is: submitted for the information of the Poblic

ABERDEEN DOCK. .DOCK No. 1.

Built of GRANITE.-

Length,

Breath,

330 feet.

Depth of Wacer at Spring Tides, 18,

do, Neap Tides, 16

錄

NEW DOCK, No. 2.

Built of GRANITE.

Length,

400 feet.

Breadth,

Depth of Water at Spring Tides, 24

Neap Tides, 21, This Dock is now under course of con struotion,

WHAMPOA DOCKS. DOOK 4.

Built of GRANITE,

Length,

560 feet

Breadth, Depth of Water at Spring Tides, 18ka 17,

do. Neap Tides, 134&15,,. This can be used either as one or two Docke

DOOK B

Bait of GRANITE.

Length,

340 Fort; Breadth,

60 Depth of Water at Spring Tides, 18

do. Neap Tides, 15" The above are the largest Decks in Chine and they are fitted with every appliance in the way of Caissons, powerful Stoom Pumpe, dc., to ensure safety and despatch in work,

DOCK C

Bailt of WOOD.

Longth,

New Advertisements.

"GREAT WORLD CIRCUS.

THE First Grand Performance will be given in the Pavilion, on the Parade Ground,

THIS (TUESDAY) EVENING, July 14th, 1868, when all the great artistes of this Mammoth Establishment will appear.

Performance commance at 9 o'clock. Hongkong, July 14, 1868,

FOR SHANGHAI.

The Steamer

New Advertisemets,

PACIFIC MAIL. STEAM SHIP

COMPANY,

No. 1594-Jour 14, 1868.

QUOTATIONS.

HONGKONG, 14th July; 1868. $627 Old, OPIUM.--Fatua, Now, ....

Benares, New, 617 620 Males, ...

665 COTTON-BOMBAY,

16 a 20 CALOUTTA,

Exchange.

16 a 19

467

HERMANN" from Yokohama, in contemplated sending the Steamer about August 10th, on a voyage as far North as Castries Bay, In this voyage the vessel will touch at Hakodate on the way North, and at the principal Coal producing localities accessible on the Islands of Yeaso and Sagbalin; and will remain at the differ- ent mincs long auough to ship a quantity Bank, & months' night, of coal.

Credits, G jul15

Returning she will reach Hakodadi about On Calcutta, 3 days' sight, Rs. 251 a 238- the 10th September, and Yokohama ahont Bombay, 3 days' sight, Rs. 230 the 20th, in time to connect with the C-Bar Silver, If dwts. B., 10 per cent pre "Shanghee, 3 days' sight Bank, Tis, 751

8 per

per cent. pre, 23

pere p.

COPERNICUS,” hourly expected, will be do patahod for the above port,

pany's Steators leaving Yokohama for San | Bar: Francisco September 25th; and, for Hong Syces, kong and Shanghai the 37th Idem.

Pas- Mexicans, sengers leaving the latter-named places by Gold Leaf,

Australian Sovereigns,

on or about Friday, the 17th Inst.

tho Steamers July 15th will have a few Gold Bur, 98 touch, For Freight or passage, apply to

daya to remain in BIRLEY & Co.

Yokohama

English Sovereigns, Persons desiring au eutire change of cli- Hongkong, July 14, 1868.

mate, can secure it by taking this voyage; HE Undersigned will sell by Public while excursions may be made as the Steamer will remain several days, at diffor- Auction, ou

ent ports, to take in coals.

THURSDAY,

the 16th July, 1866, at 12 o'cluck, at his Sales Room, COMMERCIAL BANK BUILDINGS,

An Invoice consisting of a handsome Assortment of Clocks, Time Pieces, &c.

Assorted Lastres. Vases.

Discount,

H. & W.pos dark,

par

... 22.60 p. tl.

4.54

4.52

VG 14

Old, 15 per cent pr. Do. do. New, 7 per cent pm. HI.& 6. Bank Shares, Old, 23 per cent pr

Do. do. New, dip. e.

pm. Union Dock Shares, ... 17 dissout.

Temperature.

HONGKONG, 14th July, 1968.

A.M. 3 P.M. 925 Barometer, .... ... 29:884 29.788 $475 Attached Thermometer, 82

From

Yokolisma, Hongkong,

RATES OF PASSACK,

To Hakolate. To Cas

trics Bay

$170

Do.and return,...$115 $296 Do. Shanghai,

Do.

$315

and retura,

$365

$176

$276 Dry Bulb,

83.0

02.0

Wet Bulb,

77:0

81.0

and retum,..

$280

Cups and Saucers.

Nagasaki,

$140

$240 Maximum 8. Rgr.,

96.0

Do.

and return,...$230

$800

78.0

Fancy Boxes

Hiogo,

115

215 Max, Sun's Rays,

149

100 doa Eau de Cologne.

Muge

Albums,

50 doz. Wine Glasses.

Umbrella Frames.

· Lamps,

Brass Hinges,

Brass Bolts.

Locks.

Basins.

Calcine Glass.

Dish Covers:

Double barrel Fowling Pieces. 300 Rifles..

300 boxes Brown Soap.

100 cases Brandy. Barrels Porter.

Ale,

And to sloss a consignment, a few cases

of Port Wine and Amontilado.

TERMS OF SALE. Cash before delivery in Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7.

J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer. Hongkong, July 14, 1868.

WANTED.

july 16

Minimum S. Rgr.,

$365 Minimum on Grass,

Do. and return,... $206 Passengers going for the round voyage, beyoud Hakodata, are expected to live os board till the ship again reaches Yokohama

at no additional expense.

For passage, apply to

GEO, F. BOWMAN, Agent,

Praya Weet.

Hongkong, July 7, 1868.

CHRISTADELPHIAN SYNAGOGUE.

QUEEN'S ROAD,

tif,

Opposite H. M. Naval Yard. (CHRISTOU ADELPHOL EET on the first day of the week at 11

Mat, for the breaking of Bread and of Prayers, Acts. 2-42. And at 4 P.M., to reason out of the Scriptures, if those things name of Jesus anointed) are 40. Acts 8 (concerning the Ringlom of God and the

12 ver.

Hongkong, June 7, 1808.

*** 74.0

vind, above,... 0.00

Previous Rain on Grou,, 0.00 24 hours. Force, Cloud, Ozone; Weather.

No. 1694.-Jozy 14, 186

esc

that whereas the Mayer was prosecuted not having done abongh, the as-Gore has been charged with doing too much

Me Justice Blackburn admitted, thi was impossible to draw the line criminal cosponsibility began, and said the question of criminality in each pau lar oase necessarily rested with a jury Mir Eyre lind noted with loss firmnes massacre of St. Domingo might have. repeated, and if the Governor had from the colony he would most assu have been put upon lus trist in the cut for neglect of duty. No one, # Nevs, ever deserved better of his g then Mr Eyre; none have ever met

treatment. Dismissed from off the Home Gavernment and Forced retirement, he has been made the abi unrelenting persecation by men whose duct is condemned by the entire ina their follow-countrymen. Let us hop the name of humanity that this unfortu gentleman will now be left in peace.

The Mail says

The prosecutors have strained the vilege of calling a governor to accou the utmost-have had perfect freedo invoking the law against him; and b law alone have they been beaten. 01

which they were animated, spirit by

It seems to not care now to apentable. But a a have been simply

is raised by their proceed question

to which we first drew attention, and has at laat begun to attract general u Is it lawful for a number of person

conspire together for the purpose of purpose ot secuting a public oficer, exelting P opinion against him, and collecting to maintalu a harassing litigation Ellors of their efforts should not blind

precedent

public to the danger of the preced

which cannot be contemplated

遇

one

out a

a real fear that, on fatura ocens

men may be detarred from performing

S. YP.

Fine.

and

THE CHINA MAIL.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1868,

THE MAIL DEPARTURES. THE agitation set on foot to effect an alteration in the time of despatching the mails has, it would appear, begun to bear Julzy

fruit, though, like the article named in that very familiar figure of speech, the progress to be made commences with a

PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF HONG KONG, &o, &c. TESSES FLOYD & Co., are now pub most gradual inorense. The very incon lishing a series of Views of Hongvenient hour of 7 A.M. hitherto fixed for Macao, Canton, Amow, Swatow and

experience, new

Bro

WANTED, by a ContemPLOYMENT troued by Bar Optical Instruments, by the mai's departure has been substituted or the best Opticians of the day, and includo by A.M. Concession which is hardly

an angle of 100 degrees, or three times the

in a good Mercantile Honan, in China, Japan.

Address Z, effice of this paper. Hongkong, July 10, 1868.

jy17

THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM BOAT CO., LIMITED

NOTICE

HE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Cum- pany will be closed from the 20th day of June instant to the 11th day of July prozimo, inclusive,

By order of the Board of Directors,

AUGUSTINE HEARD &Co., General Agents. Hongkong, June 17, 1808.

Irjal

THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND

amount of subject of the ordinary lenses to be mooived with lively thanks on the now in use in the East, heuce the unneces- part of those chiefly interested. The Postal aary joining to make a complete picture.

We intend to reduce the price to about 50 authorities will not be spared the neces per cent. (to Subscribeza only) from our sity of keeping upon the establishment

Gentlemen

anal selling Phing to subscribe will during the night, nor are the P. & 0.

please call at our Establishment, where the Officials likely to benefit particularly by Photographa can be inspected and further the extra time accorded. Even the Bri- particulars ascertained.

ttish merchant, that iniquitous hidividual.

Hongkong, 21st May, 1868,

NOTICE

for whose behoof the alteration may be

THE Undersigned have been appointed presumed to have been made, will scarce. Agents at Hongkong. Canton and ly thank any one for thus prolonging Macao for the UNION OF HAMBURG the hour of departure, while no possible UNDERWRITERS, and beg to draw

MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LIMITED, attention to 566-68 and $127-141 of the good sau accrue from the alteration. The

200 feet,

Depth of Water al Spring Tides,

do.

Noup Tides, Fitted with Caissons and Steam Pamps.

DOCK D.. Length,

164 feet, Depth of Water at Spring Tides, 12.6, Neap Tides, 9.65

do.

120-feet.

DUCK B. Length, Depth of Water at Spring Tides,

do. Neap Tides, D. and are Mud Docks available for small vessels, at very low rates.

WORKSHOPS.;

The Workshops on the Premises, both at Aberdeen and Whampoa, possess every appliance necessary for the Repairs of Ships or Steam Machinery. The Engineer's Shops are supplied with Lathon, Planing, Screw Cutting Punching Machines, &c., &c, capable of executing work on the largest avale, and Blacksmith's Shops are equally well supplied with plant, and the work is sutirely carried on under the Supervision experienced Europeans.

Powerful Lifting Shears stand on a Jatly alongside where vossels aan lie in 24 foul water and take in or out boilers, maste &

BOILERMAKERS DEPARTMENT The company in addition to executing GAVIN THOMPSON, Repairs are prepared to teader for supply at Gran, LIVIN 18TON & Co.'s.ing now Boilers to Steam-ships for con.

£ |structing which they live great facilities. "Hongkong, December 18, 1867.- -

TO GET,

FOUNDRY... COMMODIOUS HOUSES, situated in Morrison Hill, commanding a thorough view of the Harbour, with Stables, &

Apply to

THOMAS WALLACE, East Paint Godowns.

- Hongkong, June 6, 1868,

TO LET.

HE OFFICES situated in Queen's Road, formerly occupied by Messrs LYALL STILL & Co.

Apply to DANA JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

East Point, June 15, 1868...

STORAGE FOR OPIUM,

16rap

Iron and Brass Castings, either fur Ships or general purposes, avecxecuted with the utmost despatel.

STORES.

The Company's Stores will (when Te quired) supply at moderate rates all this necessaries for Shipwork, such as Paint, Copper, Canvas, &c, ko.

...STEAM TUG.

The Company's powerful Steam Tug Fame (100 Horse-power nominal) is always in readiness to Tow Sailing Vessels fron Hongkong to the Dock free of charge, and Retus,

For further particulars, apply at the Office of the Company, d'Aguilar Street, Hongkong.

NOTICE

HE Ordinary Half-yearly MEETING of Shareholders of this Company will be bell at the flies of the Company, Victo- ria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 11th day of July next, at 3 o'clock in the after noon, in accordance with the provisions of the Articles of Association

By order of the Board of Directors,

AUGUSTINE HEARD &o,, General Agent. Hongkong, June 17, 1869. jul17

HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO. - STEAM-BOAT COMPANY, LIMITED.

-NOTIE.

ON and after the 1st of July, one of the

Company's Steamers will leave Hong- kong for Canton every morning, at sight o'clock, and returning leave Cautop at 12 o'clock. The service will be performed by three boats, however, instead of two, and one boat will alwaye lay over a day in Hongkong for the convenience of shippers of freight.

By order of the Board of Directorя,

AUGUSTINE HEARD & Co.,

General Agents. Hongkong, June 20, 1868.

NOTICE. HAVE established myself from this date as Shipcbundler and General Store- keeper under the Firm and Style of

L. FRICKEL & Do.,

at the Premises, lately occupied by Meesta DE SILVER & Co., Queen's Road Central,

LEOFOLD FRICKEL Hongkong, July 1, 1868

NOTICE

Aug]

Removed to the late premises of the HE OFFICE of the Undersigned has been Agra Bank, Queen's Road.

LANDSTEIN & Co. Hongkong, June 344,* 1868. - .

REMOVAL.

"Allgemeine See Versicherungs Bedingun

gen von 1887," according to which all great object, we should think, of any documents to substantiate claims against modification of the existing rules would the Union of Hamburg Underwriters t must bu certified by the Agents, or they will not be recognized.

SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, June 10, 1868.

be that of dispensing with night work, Yet the change from seven to nine AM- does nothing to weet this desirable end- Bep16

Six, eight, or ten hours' difference in the time of departure would be a real boon and one which we may hope will oven

R GLASSE boge to inform his Patrons Mand the Public that he has just

ERECTEDA now American SODA WATER FOUNTAIN in anticipation of the hot tually be conferred. But the present Season just at hand, TONIC DRINKS and beverages ICE COLD and around change, though a satisfactory indication with all the various Fruit Syrape of the that the renionatrances of the Colonial purost kind tau at any moment be had at

Postmaster General and the P.&O. Superintendent bave received some atten- tion, is of but little use; and if there be

THE VICTORIA DISPENSARY, Hongkong, April 16, 1868.

YHOICE BALDWIN APPLES, $0.60

PER DOZEN. loe House, July 2nd, 1868

FOR SALE.

Ex "SCAWFELL." DASS'S ALE in kilderkins. D Bara's ALE in bottles, quarts.

Apply to

G. DUBOST & C

· Hongkong, June 10, 3868,

LATEST SHIPPING.

CLEARED,

Sumade, for Canton,

Pepit, for Manila.

Yokohama, for Yakebama. Orpheus, for Manila.

19jul

POST-OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS. MAILS WILL CLOSE For SHANGHAI, NINGPO, NAGASAKI

& YOKOHAMA,- Per P &0. Contract Packet "GAN GES" Tomorow, the lull instant, Correspondenen may be posted in this tight-box from & P.. this day until 4.M. To-morrow, the 15th instant. For SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW, july15 Per " YENNO," at 2r Mon Thursday,

the 16th instant,

E have Removed our Office to Gage Street No. 5, opposite to Messis P. P. DELODE FRERES & Co.

REYNVAAN BROTHERS & C Hongkong, July 1, 1888.

na Business in London and China under THE Undersigned le prepared to STORE will take them back or to Sea at reduce Agents will be responsible for any!

the Firm of TRAUTMANN & Co., has been

disolved from the Jet Instant by lapse of on prepizes situated on Fraya Central.. time.

TRAUTMANN

july 22.

H J.-F. Shanghai, June 16, 1868.

NOTICE.

will continue to carry HR Undersigned

the Business of their inte Firm, at Shanghai and Tientsin, under the same and Style of TRAUTMANN & Co.

SUITE. TRAUTMANN,

R. C. D. MOFFAT.

Shanghai, June 18, 1968.

july 22

“Opinim in a first class Granite Godown

CHARLES RIVINGTON, 3 St nley Street. Hongkong, June 6, 1868.

TO LET HE Large Matshed No. 3, at Pokefulum, containing live rooms with out-houses Stables attached.. Wator laid,

JOHN 9 LAPRAIK, Beerstury,

N. The Comalgutes of Master of any Fessel seeing reason to complain of the work tone in the Ducks, us in any way respectiv the Dock arrangements, a could audress the Secretary on the subject when their com- II. PESTONJEE SETNA, plaints will receive the immediate attention of at Messrs P, A, O. CAMASKE&Co,' Office the Directors of the Company.

Hongkong, June 2, 1868,

Hongkong, October 18, 1906

For particulars, apply to

NOTICE. NEITHER the Undersigned nor his Dobin contracted by the crew of the French barque Feix Bernabo,"

E. CORNILLON, Master of Falia Berinuku.!! Hongkong, June 30, 1962.

- at 5 a 11.

Cargo per Mail sleatner Culumbian. -- Malta Optain for Hongkong, 484 chie,

for Shanghai, 630

tf Cotton

Persian Opium,

Treasure Froti England to Hongkong,

Marseilles to Do.

WANTED. MONNACE to Swatow and Atony for Two Hundred to Three Hundred Tons of Dead Weight to Swatow and Four Hundred Tous to Amoy

ROB. S. WALKER & O6. Hongking, June 19, 1808,

1,114chts. 500 bales. 68 olite.

Intermediul ports to Do. England to Shangbai,

£ nil. £ vil. $121,000,

Marseilles.to

£ nil £.nil.

to Yakobama, £ 1,000,

nay real desire on the part of the home anthorities to meet the views of the Colonists, they will accede to the request embodied in the memorial of the Chan- ber of Commerce and fix the time of leaving at some post-meridian hour in the working day.

GOVERNOR LYRE. TRE refusal of the Grand Jury, to find a true bill against ex-Governer Eyre, puts a stop certainly for the time, and it may be hoped for ever, to the disgraceful proceedings of the Jamaica Committee. prosecution. Punch bas an admirable cartoon of the ghost of Palmerston ap- pearing to Disuell and reproochfully asserting that he would not have left the preserver of Jamaica in the lurch, and the sentiment thus implied will, we are bap py to believe, be eclord by the majority of British subjects in all quarters of the world. It is difficult amidst the mase of spirited and forcible gomment which has filled the columns of nearly all respect able journals in Great Britain to select a piece for quotation, but in default of others we extract two paragraphs-one from the Morning Post and the other from the Dublin Evening Mail, as embo dying in the most forcible and satisfactory language the ideas which we so heartily

ndorse. The Post says

The diffulties which beset the path of s man who, like Mr Eyro, is called upon to adopt extraordinary measures för the stip pression of disturbances and the preservas Hou of the poace, were well illustrated by Mr Justice Blackburn in referring

to the of the Mayor of Bristol for not prosecution haring acted sufficiently euergetically in endeavouring to suppress the famous riots which took place in that town some fre and thirty years ago. The only difference between that case and the present one is

duty to the imporilling of public inter

her Majesty's subjects-Dy

at the cust of NY

the prospe

to face suoli a combination.

is, we believe, in the winds of many

is,

a conviction that Mr. petent persons a Mr Taylor, and Mr Buxton, with solleagues, as amenable to the com Jas. The Government may be called on an early day, to say what the aim the law actually is.

LOCAL.

The Straits Times has the following:

We have been favored with a copy & Madras Times of the 20th instant in a private telegram is given as follows:- "London, 17th Jur

Jobu Bright is dead.”

So far from throwing any doubt this intimation, the editor in anothe -lumn gives a lengthy obituary notice o departed stateemant, as he supposes, which we learn that John Bright is 87 that he made his maiden speech in P ment on August 7th, 1843, from which his has been a most native public lite in and out of Parliament. The wrik the Aladras Times well says in conclu his article that: "In John Bright Eng has lost one of the eminent illustration a patriot that the prescut age has s Parliament one of its most elogj and influential orators; and the liberal ty the very apostle of liberalism.

In this fchomezia, which w ceived to-day, however, the editor pi out what we had certainly overlooke Mr Bright made a motion in the Hou Commons on the 17th! Here is

ia this this brother's exp dras editor's joke at

In memoriam Jobi --Bright.—Fro A local privala telegram received

editor to

would

leade

us to

tamporary, and which forthwith an

the old Men

the Times, learn that Jobn Bright, the patriot, it Our own intelligence, combined with believe that this eru orator and quondam demagogue, th

yet speaketh in the flouse of dead, топа It is perhaps due to his being however, that his motion with respe Nova Scotia has been rejected. We not for a moment question the authent of our contemporary's "private" Inte tion. We prefer a miracle to anythi outrageous..

THE following account of the accide the Surat which appeared in the Co Obsarger has not before been publish Hongkong, and points to a new sour danger with moveable fan sorewa:-

The Surat left Gaile on the morni the End Instant, and immediately en tered heavy, we rain, making it var weather outside the har accompanied

for serable

The secon

the passengers.

was worse than the first, as the wo appeared to be doing its very best ag us, proved by the fact that the su steamer of 500 horse-power, was una

miles in nocomplish mora

int that houry. At times, in the height of the the vessel appeared

to be going

only 3 knots an hour.

On Friday morning

third day out, whilst the bulk of the engers wers at

all were

Ou ru

breakfast, a sp

by a crash in the stern of the ship, immediate rash of the water.

to the head of the stairs leading to the

er saloon, we were all aturmed at aceit lumes of

water rubing in. Ste were buriedly dispatched for blankets officers sent off in search of carpentar engineers. Meauwhile the water ro pidly, so that when the men waxo res begin operations, they were waist All this time the leak was not actua sible, boing hidden by the stairs le from the

upper saloon, so that the las

4 steps had to be removed, as well as

planking. When this was done, about 4 feet long by blo

inoles in

was discernible. At first the effor block

the hole were unsuccessful.

built of five-eighth inches interior edge of the tole was bi and very jagged, making it dificult to at; the bosts of the ship were being got ready from the outset fastenin done and masts and oars put to, afou breakers of water.

It was of cou anxious time for the passengers, no th of them were nervasarily i state ertainty as to the extent of the t

the inminence of daag however no exaitenant, invalids aui quietly

waiting; the others working fully at the pumps and

Cor brekets. Ing that there was at one time a pro of all having

to take

to the boats, the of the people on board were singulas lected.

As soon as the accident ore the steamer's head was put about for and, thanks to the wind and sea Di ber favour returned zomerbay at tì of 12 knots an hour. The cause Hr we more the endition of the

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