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To-day's Advertisements..

FOR SWATOW AMOY & FOOCHOW.

The Steamship

"KWANGTUNG,"

Captala PITMAN, will be de-

To-day's Advertisements.

spatched for the above Porta THEATRE

on WEDNESDAY,, the 2nd' Proximo,

Daylight.

For Freight or Pasmge, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.

Hongkong, January 31, 1876.

FOR AMOY

The Steamship-

At

f.2

"ESMERALDA," Captain THEBAUD, will be despatched for the above. "Port on or about THURSDAY, the 3rd

Proximo

For Freight or Passage, apply to

A. MÃOG. HEATON,

Agent.

Hongkong, January 31, 1876.

fe3

FOR SWATOW, AMOY & BOUCHOW.

The Steamship

"DOUGLAS,"

Captain BURNIE, will have

ROYAL, CITY HALL,

HONGKONGUE

THE CHINA MAIL.

To-day's Advertisements.

DESIGN

NOTICE

ESIGNS for the Construction of a WATHEDRAL OKURON th SAIGON are Invited by the Government of Saigon. The cost of erection is estimatiki.

at 800,000 fox Plans and Designs will be -exhibited on the tal of July, 1870, and a premium awarded to the two designs ad- Budged to be the beat by the jury.

The condition of the competitien may AVE CARSON'S MINSTRELS be seen at the China Mail and Daily Press DAYE

offinge ; also at the French Consulate,

Hongkong, Jandary 31, 1878.

This Evening,

January 31st, 1876. POSITIVELY THE LAST NIGHT BUT

LONELY

The Company leaving per 0.8. B. Priam, on 4th February PRICES TO SUIT THE TIMES DRESS CIRCLE, 2 DOLLARS.

STALLS, 1 DOLLAR.

DAVE CARBON

AB

DRESS

BHIPPING.

JAS ARRIVALS.

1e7

Jan. 31, Himalaya, British troop-ship, 8483, Wi B. Grant, Jamaica Nov. 12, Trinidad 17, Barbadoes 29, Maita Dec. 19, Fort Said 34, Aden Jan. 1, Singapore 22;

MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW.

Jadi Miscellaneous.«‹ The Transfer Books of the Victaria Fire Tysurance Company of Hongkong *Limited, in Liquidstlen, will be closed

from this flate.

TO ADVERTISERS.

•

[No. 8929-JANUARY 81, 1876.

ving at times of grave inconvenience to A Telegram has been received adylaing foreigners, subject a passably honest the arrival of the Profile Mail 8.5.- Co's w fraternity to most unjust depredations.

steamer City of Peking at Yokohama on Saturday last from San Francisco, and Ir will be noticed by an advertisement that she would probably leave for this pbet in another column that the Freholi Go-To-morrow (Tuqsday), Verument invite competitive plans for

the erection of a Cathedral at Saigon. An operatie troupe which arrived on SaturTM,

It is requested that all advertisements be copy of the conditions (which can be sent, when practicable, by the early terus of the paper.

my to allow of

seen at the China Mail and Daily Press day has made arrangements to give diz offices, and at the French Canadhitey in-performances at the City Hall Theatre, forms us that the competition is open to commencing next week, .... Details will short- the 1st July 1876, upon which date, and ly be published.

The publication of this las dommended for fourteen days afterwards, all the [al 7.35 p.m.-

BIRTHS At Shanghal, on January 23rd, Mrs H. KROнOrr, of a Son.

At Shanghal, on January 24th, the Wife of Dr H: H. WIN, of a Bon. Jan. 81, Asia, Danish steamer, 380, At Chefoo, on January 3rd, the Wife of Molsen, Saigon Jan 22, Rice-W PUSE. T. HOLWILL, of a Daughter, TAU & Co.

Jan. 31, Bombay, British steamer, 1827,

Tal-P. & O. 8. N. Co.

immediate despatch for the HAMLET AND OTHELLO. Smith, Shanghai Jan. 28, Malls and Gene

above Ports.A

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. Hongkong, January 31, 1876.

FOR SHANGHAL

The British Steamship

"CHOCUS,"

Tor, Master, will have quick despatch as above,

For Freight or Famage, apply to

WE PUSTAU & Oo/j

Agente. Hongkong, January 31, 1870. GERMAN STEAMSHIP "CROOUS,"" Toy, Master, FROM LONDON VIA SINGAPORE,

NOTICE.

IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE the vast multitude expected to be present, it was first intended to raise the Roof, but- difficulty in RAISING THE WIND having occurred, it was dropped-Nor A ROOF, but the idea....

GREAT PAINS will be taken to keep the House warm, and all the Little Pancs that are now broken will remain se, in order to afford a free ventilation.

THE ARRANGEMENTS will not be under the direction of a Committee of Gentlemen from the Hongkong Hotel.h !

REGULATIONS.-Carriages will please set down Heads East, taking up Heads West Talls behind)-Chair Coolies on tie theirs up.

On arriving at the doors of the Theatre, the Audience will purchase their Tickets (if not previously provided with them) and

YONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk in the Godowns of the Under elgued, from whence delivery may be ob-proceed tained.

Consignees wishing to take their Goods from the boats alongside the Wharf, are at liberty to do so.

Goods remaining in store after the 11th February will be subject to rent.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded' unless notice to the contrary is given until 12

'olook on the 1st February,

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

WM. PUSTAV & Co.,

Agente. Honkgong, January 31, 1876,

PUBLIC AUCTION,

£11

to sell by Public Alsotton, HE Undersigned has received in

THE

on

SATURDAY,

the 8th day of February, 1876, at his Bales Room, Queen's Road Centralj at 2.p.m

The whole of the HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE of Major BRADSHAW and Dr'MOFALL, of H. M. 80th Regt., who are leaving the Colony, consisting oft

Green Rep Covered Couches, Arm Chairs, Settees, Drawing-room Chairs, Marble top Centre and Side Tables, Tea Poys, Pier Glasses, Chandeliers, Curtains, sto, etc. Dining Tables and Obairs, Whatnots, Sido-boarda, Book-osser, Kn- gravings, Ice Chests, Plated, Crockery and Glass-ware, etc., etc. Portable Iron Bedsteads and Mattresses, Wooden Bed steads complete, Wardrobes, Chest of

IN A GRAND CAVALCADE

TO THE INTERIOR,

די

At the conclusion of the Performance, and Drivers are requested to keep their

the Audience will retire in the same order,

Horses' Tails Behind as before," Chair Coolies, theirs ditto. Immediately after the Audience have gone out, the Gas will go out also, after having obed A DRILLIANT ILLUMINATON, during the evening, almost equal to A GRAND DISPLAY OF "FIRE. WORKS.!!!

The Clerk of the Weather-has-been- Tele graphed, consequently a fine Night may be expected.

PROGRAMME.

PART FIEST.

Mr. CARSON will preside at the Pianoforte. Introduction, Instrumental

Overture (Sonnambula)...

DAYE CARSON'S Minstrels, The Twins.minionDave Carbon, Kina Me Mother, Kiss Your

Dazilong

....MrG.H. HENBL Touch the Harp flently. MrJ. C. TALBOT. The Hongkong Swell........DAYE CARSON Don't Forget to Welte......Mr G. H. HENKI.

ORIGINAL ANGLO-INDIAN SKETCH, THE DAK GBARRIE

·Dave Paxson.

INTERVAL OF TEN MINUTES,

PART SXCOND,

Drawers, Marble-top Washstands and Aria, La Fille du Regl

Services, Sofas, Marble-top, Toilet Tables, sud Glasses Ladies' and Gentlemen's

ment...............Mr. D. CARSON.

PAGANINI REDIVIVUS, ---

MR. G. H. HENBI.

DEATH OF

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Jan. 81, Ceylon, British steamer, 1100, J. Orman, Yokohama Jan, 25, Mails and General. P. & O. 8. N. Co.

* MARRIAGE On the 19th Doomber, at H. B. M. Consulate, Newekwang, J. J. F. BANDINEL, to JANT GILL, ·-

beginning to show agus that it may yet become a place of pleasant resort. Mokt of the trees are thriving capitally, and a few years hence the garden will be ́n decided feature of the valley,

designs submitted will be publicly as THE Wong-nel-chong valley public garden hibited at Saigon. A jury of seron memberg nominated by the French Cochin Government, will decide on the merita of the respective plans; and that which shall be deemed the most satis factory will receive a prize of 8,000 one of 4,000 francs or $800. These We understand that Kiung-chow, the chief francs (about $1,600), and the next but

prizes will only be given in the event of

there being at least four plans presented port of Hainan, is about to be opened to for the approval of the Committee; British trade, and that a Consular officer. which reserves the right of assessing will be stationed there so soon as the new what sums shall be paid as prizes should cesary arrangements shall have been made the number handed in be lesa. Un- by Sir D. Brooke Robertson. Is la ru

Jax 81, Cyticus, British afeamer, R. H. THE CHINA MAIL. successful designs will be returned to moured that Mr RJ, Forrest, Vice-Consul

Joy, London Dec. 7. via Bingapore, Gene- ral—WM. "PUSTAU & 00.

SÅR: DEPARTURES,

Jan. 80, H.M.8. Lepoing, for Amoy.

30, Lunalilo; for Kelang, 30, Yesso, for Swatow do, 31, Mentalsh, for Yokohama.

31, Menelaus, for Shanghal 81, Ly-se-mden, for Salgon. 31, Tris, for Singapore. 31, August Fredrich, for Whampoa

VAR FÖLEARED." Tartar, for Tientsin Wealthy Pendleton, for Rajatig (Borneo), Rajah, for Swatow,

PASSENGERS.

their authors, those selected becoming

the property of the Colonial Government, at Canton, at present: Acting Consultat and subject to any alterations &c, it may Ningpo, is the Consul elect. see fit to make in them. Should the

Ir is stated that the Siberian local authori. ties haya despatched an official to: China to

designer become the architect of the building, the amount of the prize will ba deducted from his commission.

The building itself, we learn, is to be engage workmen for the construction of erected at a cost of not over 800,000 barracks in the provinces of Amour, sud france-about $160,000-not a very sur large sum for such an edifice, but enough

to pay the cost of a Cathedral which will Visirous to Kowloong City will observe do credit to the Colony. As some guide that a substantial stone wharf has replaced to residents here, we may note that the

HONGKONG, MONDAY, JAN. 31, 1876. A RESIDENT in this Colony desired a few evenings ago to cross the harbour from the Kowloong side aftor night fall, |Some dificulty was experienced in find- ing a boat willing to accept the job, even though paid for in advance, and the carious unwillingness shown by a class of people who are neither indiffer ent to money or given as a rule to an over-lazy life led to enquiry. The would-be hirer was then informed that covering cost of our City Hall building the old time rickety bamboo jetty! This the objection raised referred to the fre- was 896,000. The printed conditions sign of improvement would seem to imply ARRIVED, Einalno, Compton C.quent petty pirated commited tight, give full particulars of the arces to be practical progress on the pace of Gol Fran Offloers, 2 Ladies, 2 Officers shildren; 797 upon unprotected sampans or pullaway building is to include either one or two 8. Dickins, Lieut. Col. Commanding, 80 within the boundaries of the harbour, covered, and other measurements. The of Kowloong celebrity. Rank and File, a women and 97 children. boats; and this extraordinary statement towers, belfries or domes, calculated to

For Asia, Mr Matheson, and 8 Chinese, Per Bombay from Shanghai, Mesars was confirmed by the police to whom he carry a Cathedral peal of belle. As for AR race for a Cup presented by the MacLean, Gibby Jackson and Kaiser, His applied for aid in obtaining a bost under style Roman or Gothie will be preferred Storekeepers will be mailed on Saturday Excellency Schastkoff, Rev. & Jenkins, 2 circumstances of some necessity. Now, to Renaissance, and we can only say that next over a harbor course. We unders European deck and 20 Chinese,

il, as we are nasuri, the assertion be if the work when completed bears com- stand that as many of the axtaribera true, that petty piracies are matters of Parison with the new Cathedral at Can to the Cup as can be gocommodated frequent occurrence within the harbour tou, it will be creditable to those con on board the competing rechts will be of Hongkong, the matter is one which earned in its erection. That the Saigon invited, and the race is fired for Satur calls for the immediate attention of Government should have invited our both the Police and Harbour Master's Colonial Architects to compete is a satis day with a view to their convenience. The departments. The piracies alluded to factory proof of its liberality of view; Cup (which, by the way, takes the form of seem to be rather those merely of well- and it will be odd if, after our own City handsome time-piece) is on view at Messen manned boate upon otaft of the same Hall has been erested from the designe Falconer & Oo's. size, but with weaker crews, than attacks French Colony should be constructed of & Frenchman, the Cathedral of the by armed vessels involving loss of life, DEPARTED.--Per Fesso, for Brator, But they are none the less piratical, after thong of an Englishman, Fortu Master T. Ramsey) for Amay Mr Tinasmuch as the object is plunder and nately we have enough residente of the Ortuno; for Foochów, Mr 8. A. Joseph,

Per Mensaleh, for Yokohama, Mrs Mats, the unfortunates who suffer from it are profession to make the competition in Messrs Sakata, Marakuchi, and Japanese. quite justly objects of commiseration.teresting, and we doubt not that their

Per Lycamioon, 80 Chinese,

It may puzzle some people to under contemporaries at Shanghai will also for stand how such robberies are effected, ward designs. inasmuch as the harbour is very care fully patrolled by police boats which speaking from porsonal observation-- we should say performed their duties in a very satisfactory manner.

Per Ceylon, from Yokohama for Hong. kong, Mr-S. W. Thompson. Mr Rankin, 2 distressed British seamen and 4 Chinese, For Southampton, Mr Gibson and Mrs Rankin,

Por Oructie, from London, for Shanghat, Misses Knight and Goodman, Mrs Geld spink and chlid For Nagasaki, Mesars Davis, Abrahams, and Gunter, For Yoko hama, Mr Hayman. From Singapore, for

Hongkong, Mr Howe.

SHIPPING REPORTS.- H.M.S. Himalaya reports: Singapors to Hongkong had strong N.E. winds with heavy head sen.

The Danish steamer Asia reports: strong N.B. winds with heavy head sea the whole

passage.

ご

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THE SPIRIT OF THE MORNING" PRESS.

Tau regularity of Holt's ocean steamers, and the fair time generally made by them from port to port, are beginning to earn for them a reputation as mall-carriers, Many residents now forward their private

correspondence by those vessels, and save considerably by so doing, This is not, however, the only advantage to the public presented by the presence of these steam- Their commanders are ever ready

ery.

to oblige when occasion offers; and we

But it THE Press alludes to the paraliol drawn by appears that the harbour thieves have Bari Carnarvon between Gibraltar and The British steamer Bombay reports: a habit of warning their victims that the fresh monsoon with line weather through-slightest outery will result in their being Hongkong, and admits that up to a certain remote with pleasure the double-in- out the passage..

The Brit. steamer Ceylon reports: passed thrown overboard, while the well-known point the comparison will hold good. Ar stance furnished the other day by the well- French Mall steamer bound in, off Vries dislike of Chinese to play the part of rangements have now been made to prevent known and popular asptain of the Menelaus. Island on 25th; on the afternoon of same informer still further accounts for the the violation of our waters round Gibraltar Captain Crompton brought up the Brie day passed Japanese steamer Tabor; bad silence usually preserved regarding such And if this has been found necessary, it is bane's mails from Singapore free of charge, fine weather up to noon on 26th, then had occurrences. In fact, were any report to doably imperative that action should be and on continuing his voyage to Shanghai, strong N.E. gale with heavy sea and thick be made, the boat looted would be -a

marked object of revenge and as the taken to put a stop to the aggresive and he took on the Djemnat's mails to that After passing the Islands had strong N.W. the latitude of Turnabout, thence bad wind or two men, with women or children to Oustoms Authorities in the colloation of Ma Dare Camon gave his second entertain. winds with heavy beam sea until nearly in rows of the majority consist only of one unlawful course puraned by the Chinese port on the same liberal terms. from the N.B. which gradually moderated complete the number, they would have their revenue. The Press most strongly ment on Saturday evening, when, in addition no chance against the unprincipled ras denies the sight of the Hoppe's araisers to until arrival this morning at 7.40.

SEDAN CHAIRS, and a Semi-grand THE LIFE, LOVE, MARRIAGE, AND weather, came through Southern Fassage

PIANO, by Otto Bros.

At 3pm A Dog Cart, Pony and Harness, complete; a Basket Carriage and Harness, complete; Saddles and Bridles, etc., etc,

See Catalogues.. TERMS OF SALE,—Cash before delivery -In Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7.

M. GUEDES JR., Auctioneer, Hongkong, Jan 31, 1876.

PUBLIC AUCTION..

feb

THE Undersigned has received instruc tions from Messrs AR KING & CO.,

to sell by Public Auction without re -serve, at their Furniture Depot, No. 2,

Zetland Street, on

MONDAY,

the 7th day of February, 1876, at 2 o'clock p.m.,

The whole of their well-selected Stook of English and Colonial made Household Furafture etc., comprising

English made Mahogany Drawing Room Suite, Colonial-made Drawing, Dining and Bed Room Suites, in Green Rep.

*OTHEL L ̈0,"

BY DAVE CARBON.

Owing to a previous Engagement at the THEATRE HORAL, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, Madame PATTI cannot be present, but has deputed Mr J. O, TALBOT to appear in her stead. Couplets de la Faurette L CAID, Men. D. CARSON. Part Second will terminste with an Original Minstrel Act, entitled “LUCINDA SNOW;

OB,

THE RIVAL LOVE ES

AF INTERVAL OF FIVE MINUTES. ・・・

The Evening's Entertainment will conclude with DAVE Cansas's Original' Comie Sketch (Scene, or anything you choois to name it), taken (a long way) from SHAKESPEARE'S ADMIRED PLAY OF

HAMLET

HamletimDAVO CARSOR. Polonlus.....Mr G. E. AENEI. Queen Bir J. C. TALBOT,

hot... MT MADISON OBRAY, Terminating with

AN OLD TIME WALK-ROUND,

,,

Keep this Bill, and show it to your Friends, and tell them to meet you at the

THEATRE ROYAL, CITY HALL,A

English made Walnut Cheffonier, with glass, English made Mahogany Telescope Dining Table, English and Colonial made. Teak and Rosewood Sideboards, Wagons THIS (MONDAY) EVENING, Jan. 31st and Side Tables, Marble Sideboard with

Class, Double-wing Wardrobes, English Made Mahogany Wardrobes, English Walnut Centre Tables, Colonial made Marble top Centre Tables, Teakwood Marble top Wasbatands and Tolst Ta- bles, Tollet Glasses, Glass Book Case, English made Card Tables, Iron and Wooden Bedsteads, Pier Glasses, 2, 3, and 4-burner Gazaliera, Gas Brackets, Clocks, Carpets, Engravings, Oil Paint.. Ings, Office Desks, Copying Press, Din mer and Dessert Bets, Glassware, Plated

One Piano, by Stodaft, New York. One Plano, by Collard & Collard,

Cottage Plano, Catalogues will be issued.

TRRES OF JARE Cash before delivery in Merican Dollara weighed at 7.1.7. All lots, with all faults and errors of description, at purchasers risk on the fall of the hammer.

J. M. ARMSTRONG, Hongkong san 03, 1876,

Then

replace it in your pocket, for the first

man you meet 100 YEARS HENCE

give you a Dollar for it, making it Equivalent to a FREE ADMISSION !!!

On this Momentons Occasion, the Portals will unfold at 8, the Trouble will begin at 9, and the Agony will culminate Hongkong, January 31, 1870.

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NOTIFICATION, COPY of the Jure List for 1870 is posted at the Supreme Court House for inspection Notice of any inadoracle, omissions, objections, &c., mutt be given to the Registrar on or before MONDAY, the 14th day of February 4.IN, 1878, in accord ande with the provisions of Section 8 of Urdlands No, Li of 1804

It is further notified that fio petion whðar knitteda on the Hat na Juror will be

POST OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS." MAILS WILL (LOBE) For SWATOW-

1

subject zistive junk-owners to illegal ex. tofthe usual arousing "hits" and songs, the cabinet and handcuff tricks were performed.

TIME FLIES," says the proverband aotions under peril of confiscation. This The man in the box disappeared as myste--

the 1st Feb. For SWATOW, AMOY & FOOOHOW-moutha have come and gone. A 002- Per EW ANGTUNG, at 6 p.m. To templation of the colony being visited by

morrow, the 1st Feb

MAILS BY THE ENGLISH PAUKET

he leaves the Colony,

this it does with such rapidity that the as is well-known, has been done in ignų. commercement of the (possible) typhoon merable instances, and heroin consists oneriously as before; and Mr Carson promised Per RAJAH, at 9.30 am. To-morrow season will be upon us ere four more great point of difference between the two to divulge the secret of the illusion before

The arbitrary conduct of the another such fearful hurricans as the Spanish Customs Anthorities is bad enough, storm of September 1874 naturally leads but the Chinese system is altogether dit.. M's Transport Himalaya, with the one to ask what has been since done to ferant, and is not only exasperating to a

Officers, men, women, and children of the The English Contract Packet. OZYZON provide proper apparatus for saving life degree, but also productive of serious injury 28th Regiment on board, arrived in port ...... will be despatched with the Mails for

Europe, do on THURSDAY, the in much ergencies. The Hongkong to legitimate trade. It hopes that Bir to-day from Malta via Bingapore Bbe Brd Febrtiary.

Humane Soalety has indeed done a good deal ALFRED LISTER,

Postmaster General General Post Offee, Hongkong, Jan. 20, 1878.

18

MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES PAMET,

The United Staten Mail Packet GARZZO, will be despatched on THURSDAY, the Srd February, at8r.. with the Malin

DIAGA VALFRED LISTER,

Postmaster General, Getieral Post Office, Hongkong, Jail 18, 1876.

the

بینید

It has enrolled a number of Thomas Wade will give the matter his most reports all well on board and that there have capable and energetio residents duly pro earnest attention. One thing It trusts he been no cases of sickness during the passage. Considering that thereare lucluding crew➡ vided with life belts, ropes, &c., and baa will not do, and that is to consent to the

established a regular system of stations, matter being referred to a Chinese official opwards of 1200 souls on board, this speaks Bat it has not nor do we urge that it to inquire into and report upon. This will well for the health of all concerned and for is its duty to do so-provided anything

in the shape of a lifeboat. This is, we only lead to further delay and leave the

the arrangements made by the authorities.

We are given to understand that the troops should say, a matter of official concern, question where it was before.

will be landed from the Himalaya 16.1 To those who urge that lifeboats are use. less during typhoons we may point out

pm. to-morrow, and that the man-commis that their assertion applies only to the

sioned officers and man of the 30th will time when the wind and sea are at their

give their comrades of the 28th a hearty height. No doubt even a lifeboat could Canton states that it has been rumoured reception in the shape of a dinner. The

THE HONGKONG NATIVE PRESS.

The Chinese Mall ways a report. from

MAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET. —

French Contact Pasko NADYA have done nothing from midnight till 8 that Kwok Sung To, the Ambusendor elect Agmalaya will go alongside the Flor.

will be despatched on THURSDAY, at, of the disastrous night of last Sep to England, is not likely to go on his mis the 10th February, with Malls to and tomber twelvemonth But for four, son, he having tried to excuse himself on Aw order of the Queen in dounoll, dated through the United Kingdom is £ve, or even seven hours previous, to the the ples of sickness. It is also rumoured Oct. 28th 1875, extending to Datob vetasin - Marseilles; to Europe, Saigon, Bin- great gust, when every sampan and pull- "gaporu, Galle, "Madras, "Calcutta," Bombay, Aden, Subs, and Alex Andris

-ALFRED LISTER,

Postmaster General General Post Office, Hongkong, January 27, 1876.

£10

away has crept to the safe shelter of the thuit Ow Ngok Long, the Commissioner the advantages of the Merchant Elipping Wong-nei-chong canal, and when house of Education resident at U. S. A, in ilkely 1869, with respect to geasurement, is gigs are hoisted up as security as is to succeed him. Nothing definite, how pablished in Baturday'a Gamite, found possible, a life-boat may be most uesful A steam life launch, would, in

Ever

has been Heardi. The Chung Ngoi San Po notices the bad faot; be more useful still. In many cases cessful trial of the engines of the ironclad

even the advice which could be com

The Universal Circulating Herald has no editorial to this issue,

100AL AND GENERAL,

General Memoranda. veyed to vessels in the harbour would be recently launched at the Shanghai Arsenal of the utmost value. So too, just after It says this is a most hopeful beginning for WEDNESDAY, Job, diag

the worst is over and when the ses la Chine Daylight Eungtung leaves for Batow, yet too high to permit of ordinary bosta

Amoy and Foochow TRUZADAY, Feb. 8

putting out many a lie might be saved by the prompt aid such & launch might Noða Hüglich Mall leaves for Ports Fender, The Comtfiunity has come for: of Call and European ward to do its part let the Government 3 p. id. "Oteldəntal & Oriental §. 8. Uo.s excuded from service on the ground of any 23 Stanmor Gaile leaver for Yokohama exemption to which he may be entitled, brand San Francisco, KAME on the ground of any want of dualideation, p.inAnnual Meeting of the Hong unless such exemption shall have bein kong General Dhamber of Commerde claimed And entablished, 62 siba want of at City Hall qualidation duly proted, at or before the sime Alove #peolded

V.S. HUFFAL

Deputy Registrar.

Hongkong, January

Bemeralla loathe for Artoy un or about

this date Transfer Books of The Hongkong, Fles Insurance Company, Limited, cložed

slow its appreciation of the spirit aler played by doing likewise, (About 82,600

We have to woknowledge with thanks the readipt of the Customs Medical Reports for

the Half Year ended the 30th September, 1875, forming the sixth Pars of the Customs Gegatte; 200, 97, July-Sept

Boar parts of our city are bagloning to prosetti an altered appearance. The fow of hutses In Bridges Street, lias been 25- placed by domiciles for the hebliation of

would furnish an admirable boat with The sleather Fusheng has gone round to Chinese, and they are already coupled, all possible improvements,

cals wijo steal their little property. We

Aberdeen Dock.

are quite sure that neither of the dense will be a parade and inspection of the parimente we have named would neglect Volunteer and Government Fire Brigades to take proper measures if informed of

From this data to 17th February, In the fact and we therefore draw atten at the Central Fire Brigade Station &

tion to giroumstances which, besides pro- | pm, 10 Jomar

The large budding in Wellington Street, which wall once osupled by the Falloo lords, and was subsequently the Hotel de

Fretice, has been pulled down, and on one

half of the granted a row of Chinese houten lisa been already built on the other half