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THE

CHINA

Established February, 1848.

MAIL.

With which is incorporated The " “Hongkong Evening Mail and Shipping List."

Vor.XXX1I. No. 3967. 五十月三年大十七百八千一英

AGENTS FOR THE CHINA MAIL,

LONDON-F. ALGAH, 8, Clement's Lane,

Lembara Street, GEORGE STREET, 30% Lernhill. GoubON & GOTCH, 121, Hol- born lill, J.C. BATES, HENDY & Co., 4. Old Jetory, B.C. SAMUEL DEACON & Co., 100 & 164, Leadenhall Street. NEW YORK-ANDREW WIND, 133, Nas-

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sau Street, AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA, AND NEW ZEALAND-Gozbor & Gosch, Mei-

Intimations.

NOTICE.

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1876.

forgive him, but inflict a small penalty by way of a small warning,

This is suffi

It so happened, luckily, that Mosses Thang and Woo's magnanimity proved to MAN'S character should be judged be as expansive as the sea and as capacions from what it has been before, and by mater was put an end to us that the in means elegance or worthlessness çan be discerned. A story should be judged vient to shew that Mesars Taang and Shun by its true or false bearings, so that right are peaceful and quiet men, and that they and wrong may be distinguished. These have done a very good sot. But Lai Ming remarks apply to the case in which Messrs Chun is a man who is very much conceited (tit, the night pedestrian who thinks a Tong Chun Yee and Woo Lin Tak were, on the 27th day of the 10th moon last year great deal of himself), and one who falsely (24th November 1575), slandered by Lat dilates in satire and raillery. He begat fifo in a very mean position, and is not of ing Chun. Mestra Taang Shun Yee and Woo Liua respectable family (t, the descendant of Tak have been residing for more than ten the pure and white). While in a monial years in Hongkong and have always been position, he, moreover, offends his supe- employed in representing Nam Pak Hongs riors. Therefore it would not be arbitrary in their transactions with foreigners were he torbe banished beyond the While their character stands high, their con- frontiers, nor would it be too much were duct is excellent, and they have for a long he to be put to the sword (lit, under the time back been respected by both Chinese 8x0). Now that he is only fined in so and foreigners. They have not only not smail a aum, it is indeed his good fortune: borne a name that is approaching to any that he has escaped greater consequences, thing improper, but they have not in the course of all their actions done anything objectionable. Unexpectedly, however, COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS. slander came upon them unawares, but of

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bourne and Sydney. SAN FRANCISCO, and American Ports

generally-Bras & Box, Sun Frari CHINA-Swatow, CURLER & CAMPERLL

Amoy, "GILEB & Co. Focchow, HEDGE & Co. Shanghai, LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., and KELLY & Co. Manila, C. HEINZER & Co. Blacao, LA. DA

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banks.

course, when virtue stands high, reproach will come. They were therefore falsely NUGRPORATED BY NATIONAL DEURBES OF charged by Lai Ming Chun's letter, which

"TH AND 8TH MARCH, 1848,

BY IMPERIAL DEOREES OF 25TH JULY, 1854, AND 81ST DECEMDEN, 1866,

Recognised by the INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF 30TH APRIL, 1882,

French Sterling, PAID UF CAPITAL,...80,000,000 3,200,000 HESALVE FUND,..............20,000,000. 800,000

HEAD OFFICE.14, Rua Bergère, Paris, LONDON AGENCY.-144, Leadenhall St.,

E.O.

was void of all truth, with selling people for emigration abroad. They are indeed la bouring under a false imputation from which it is now difficult for them to clear them. selves. Our office, therefore, in punishing Lai Ming Chun for having done what he

ought not to have done, ozdere him--and he

Consents-to pay the sum of $600; tue amount of legal expenses; he has also by way of punishment to pay $25 into the Poor Box for the benefit of the Hongkong Poor. He is further punished by having to pay the expenses of advertising in the Chinese aud foreign newspapers in the Colony, three of each, for the period of one month, a notice which will bring before the public his sin in this defamation. Reparations like these will, perhaps, allay, in a men- sure the indignation which Messrs Tsang and Woo feel.

When a man finds fault with others

ONE WHO UPHOLDS JUSTICE-

mal9 Hongkong, 19th Feb., 1876..

* This has reference to a Chinese stery, which, in its moral, is very similar to the Frog and Bull story in Esop's Fables-Translator.

TAE CHINESE INSURANCE COM- PANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

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NO is horeby given that the Fifth

Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders of the above Company, will be held at the Head Office, Victoria, Hongkong, on FRI- DAY, the 24th March, 1576, at 8 o'clock P., for the purpose of receiving the Re port of the Directors, together with a State- ment of accounts to 31st December, 1875.

The Transfer BOOKS of the Company will be closed from the 11th to the 24th Marob, both days inclusive. By Order of the Board,

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OLYPHANT & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, March 6, 1876. mo24

› ÁĢENCIES. - At Nantes, Lyons, Max

sailles, Brussels, Bombay, Calcutta, he ought in the fret iustanes to e-HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK St. Denis file de la Réunion,) Hongquire whether he himself is unblemish.

kong, Shanghai and Yokohama. LONDON BANKER, Bank of England,

Union Bank of London,

HONGKONG AGENCY, ...

at the offices.

INTEREST ALLOWED [Current Deposit Account at the gate ON

of 2 per cent, per annum on the monthly minimum balances, and on Fixed Deposits at rates which may be ascertained

CHR. DE GUIGNÉ,

· Manager. Offices In Hongkong: Bank Buildings,

Queen's Road, Hongkong, May 14, 1875. · HONGKONG & SHANGHAI ING CORPORATION,

od.

Now Lai Ming Chun, as a man, is not one who is numbered among: the gentry, nor is his name pronounced by the lips of the illustrious. Yet be falsely

COMPANY, LIMITED,

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

D. GILLIES,

Secretary. No. 2, Club Chambera, Hongkong, February 29, 1876,

In the Goods of OAPTAIN LAWRENCE YOUNG, Deceased,

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dilates in slanderous language and spreads DIVIDEND Warrants for the Dividend diffusedly by word of mouth stories to the to 31/75, at the rate of $10 per detilément and pollution of (the good name bhare, can be obtained at the Office on or of) Messrs Tsang und Woo. It was right after 29th February, therefore that Messrs Tang and Woo

By Order, sought to sue him in the Courts of Justice, and he was on the eve of being punished by the utmost penalty of the law. Fortunately, however, Mears Tsang and Woo's magna nimity in expansive as the sea and as capa- nious as the ocean, and they deal with people liberally; with that end in view, they therefore profer, instead of pnaf shing him, as he rightly deserves, to for give him of the enormous crime of which he has been guilty. Having BANK-litigation now, they have no resent- ment against any one, and by so doing, they cherish the friendly tie that exists amongst the Chineas clans. They have also shown that in doing this they are inflicting a lenient punishment for the sake of a grant warning. They are indeed fully austaining the benevolent principles of the great men, and for this set of theirs, may the happiness for good fortune) of Messra Tsang and Woo never grow less,

PAID-UP CAPITAL,...5,000,000 Dollara RESERVE FUND, 100,000 Dollars.

COUET OF DIRECTORS, Chairmasi-E. R. Bezzzzos, Esq. Deputy Chairman-AD ANDRÉ, Esq.

J. F. Coupes, Heq, |S. W. POMEROY, Esq. H. Horrius, Esq. F. D. SASSOON, Esq,

A, MOIVER, Esq.

CHIEF MANAGER

Hongkong,

Shanghai,

сеавей

THE UNIVERSAL CIRCULATING HERALD (TSUN WAN YAT PO).

CLAIMS ALL Personas having any

against the above Estate are requested to send in Particulars of the same to the Undersigned on or before the 22nd day of April, 1876.

And all Persons being Indebted to the said Estate are requested to Pay to the Undersigned their several Debts without delay.

STEPHENS & HOLMES.

Solicitors for the Executors.

2, Club Chambers, Hongkong, February 22, 1876.

Notices of Firms.

NOTICE.

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Hongkong, February 19, 1876. mo19T Have this day authorized Mr J. Y. V. SHAW to sign my name per procura

A. MAG. HEATON. Hongkong, January 1, 1876.

NOTICE IN EXPLANATION OF A JAMES GALIO, Esq..

SLANDER. Manager.

UE principles of right or wrong will WEN CAMERON, Esq. Te real themselves in concse of time, LONDON BANKERS, London and County and this saying is dearly set forth in the Bark

History of China. When undue reliance is placed on statements by word of mouth, good argument is always wanting, and this He what the Book of Changes has always guarded people against. If a man is not guilty of anything seriously wrong, is it likely that he will submit himself to be. kiled f

HONGKONG..

INTEREST ALLOWED

N Current Deposit Accounts at the rat 0

of 1 per cent. per annum on the daily balance.

On Fixed Deposits :-

For 8 months, 2 per cent, per annum.

4 per cent, * 12

ō per cent.

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Loval Bills DISCOUNTED. Oredits granted on approved Securities, and every description of Banking and Exchange business transaoted,

Drafts, granted on London, and the shief Commercial places in Europe, India, Australia, America, China and Japan.

JAMES GREIG,

Chiey Manager,

Offices of the Corporation,

No, 1, Queen's Road Bast. Hongkong, February 17, 1876.

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE DIVIDEND declared for the half- year ending on 1st December last,

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at the rate of 912 per cent, per annum, say

With regard to Lai Ming Chun, he is indeed a bare-faced fellow, and one who

tion..

NOTICE.

Undersigned have entered into Co- partnership from the First day of January, 1876, in the Business of Ship-: brokers at this Post, under the style of MORRIS & Raz, na

A G. MORRIS, E. Q. BAY. Bank Buildings, Hongkong, February 8, 1876.

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NOTICE.

Mr

TE have Established branches of our has no regard for anything. On the 27th Wim at Haiphong and Hanoi. day of the 10th Moon last year (24th November 1875), he slandered Messrs. B. CONSTANTIN is authorised to sign by Tsangahun Yea and Woo Lin Tak by false. pfocuration in Tonquin Jy accusing them of being engaged in the

LANDSTEIN & O nefarious trade of selling people for the Hongkong, December 81, 1875. piirposes of emigration, and that in their transactions they were in fact kidnappers, And finally, he recorded the same in the Tsun Wan Yai Po, (The Universal Circulat- | ing Herald), so that blessrs Tsang and Woo had thought of suing him before the local authorities, so that he might be punished

Auctions.

PUBLIC AUCTION. HE Undersigned has received instruc

for labelling people's character. Forcions to sell by Fablic Auction, on tunately for him, however, Lai Ming Chun learnt in time of his own wrong in

MONDAY,

alandering the character of good men, and the 20th day of March, 1876, at Noon, now he has voluntarily consented to pay the penalty of bearing the legal expenses in at the Cosmopolitan Docks, Kowloon,— the sum of $500, and to pay also (into the poor box) $25, for the relief of the Hong kong poor also, from his own funds, to pay the costs of intorting in the Chinese and foreign newspapers, three of each, for

the period of one month, an article, in

Four Worthington Pumps

Boller.

Donkey Pump.

Exhaust Pipes

Suction do,

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Auctions.

GENERAL WEEKLY SALE.

ANE, CRAWFORD & Co. will sell by Public Auction, at their Sale Room, Praya, on

FRIDAY,

the 17th March, 1876, at Noon, Electro-Plated Table, Dessert and Ten Spoons, Table and Dessert Forks, Mar. malade Pots, Sardine Boxes, Butter Dishes, Trays, Cash Boxes, Watch Chains, Spectacles, Brass Candlesticks, Framed Engravings, &c., ke.

Also,

100 lbs. Turkey Sponge.

5 casks Claret.

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50 Portland Cement.

Iron Chests,

2 Marble Mantel Pieces.. -Old Tom, W

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·do., And,

1 6-Oar Gig, complete.

Published every Evening.

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For Sale.

TAKASIMA COLLIERY. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

Agents.

FOR SALE.

TRESH Takasima, COAL, in lots to

suit purchasers, Lanes, Handpicked, Double-screened at $8 per Ton. SMALL, at $6 per Ton.

Apply to

T. G. GLOVER,

No. 7, Queen's Boud and at East Point. Hongkong, December 8, 1875.–

WASHING BOOKS,

(In English and Chiness,)

WASHERMAN'S BOOKS, for the use

of Ladles and Gentleman, are now ready at this Office-Price $1 esok. -

OHINA MAIL Office.

in Mexican Dollars, weighed at 7.1.7.

TERMS OF SALE.—Cash before delivery | ====

The Lot or Lots, with all faults and errors of description, at purchaser's risk on the fall of the hammer,

Hongkong, March 14, 1876.

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PUBLIO AUCTION.

·LAND AND PROPERTY.

received instructions to sell by ANE, CRAWFORD & Oo have Pablia Auction, on

TUESDAY,

the 21st March, 1876, at Noon, on the

Promises,

All that piece or parcel of GROUND, registered in the Land Office as Section B of Inland Lot No. 684, and known as

« Overbeck Court,” situated in the rear of

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shipping.

Steamers.

FOR. MANILA, The Steamship

"ESMERALDA”. Captain THERAUD, will be despatched as above on FBI- DAY, the 17th Instant, at Noon.

For Freight or Prange, apply to

A. MAOG. HEATON. Hongkong, March 13, 1876.

No. Police Station, Caine Road, with at 3 p.m. the Six Messuages or Tenements standing thereon,

Annual Crown Rent, $9.72. TERMS OF SALE -One-half of the pur

chase money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance on completion of the Deed of Transfer, the expenses of which to be paid by the purchaser

The Property to be at Purchasere risk on the full of the hammer.

For further particulars, apply to

LANE, ORAWFORD & Co. Hongkong, March 11, 1876. mo21

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For Sale.

FOR SALE

UNDERMENTIONED LAND AND BUILDINGS,

AT HONGKONG 1– INLAND LOT 82.--The well-known House and Offices lately occupied by Messrs A. Heard & Co., adjoining the Cathedral Com- pound.

The Ground below the masonry retaining wall-of-the-above, abutting on the Queen's

Road

Annual Crown rent, $390.48.

MARINE LOT 11T, WANGHAL-First-class and extensive Godówne,

Annual Crown rent, $324,

INLAND LOT 501,-Situated on the Bon ham Road sue one of the finest sites for Villa residences in the Colony. Annual Crown rent, $79.78.

FARM LOT 11, POKFOQZUM, adjoining Mesars Butterfeld & Swire's premises.

Annual Crown rent, $25.

! AT KOWLOONG 1- MARINE LOT 4-With a frontage of 100 feet on the Praya, and with an area of

80,000 fost

Reduced Annual Crown rent, $10,

AT YOKOHAMA 1- Los No. 6 No. 27 In the Foreign Settlement

No. 6 is situated on the Bund, and sothi prises an eight-roomed Dwelling House, de tacked, with Garden all round, Oflen, Go- downe, Servante' Quarters did. Outhouses. Area 1,064 Tenbos of 80 square feet,

FOR MANILA, The Spanish Steamer

"LEONOR"

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will be despatched for the above "Port on FRIDAY, the 17th last.,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. Hongkong, March 13, 1876.

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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA

The Steamship

ARRATOON APOAR," Capt. MoravISH, will leave for the above Porta DA SATURDAY Next, the 18th Instant, at

p.m.

Despatches will close at 2.30 p.m. For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, March 9, 1876..

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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND

CALOUTTA

The Steamship

"PENGUIN,”- Captain" COWELL, will leave Kurts on

for the above

SATURDAY, the 18th Instant, at 3 p.m. Despatches will close at 2.30 p.m. For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, March 9, 1876.

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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. ⠀

FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL The Company's Steamship TRANSON DIUMED”. will be despatched on or about the 22nd Instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, March 14, 1876.

PRICE, $24 PER ANNUM.

Shipping. Sailing Vessels.

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

The 41 British Clipper Ship

"SYDENHAM,”.

FRANK BRISTOW, Master, will load for the above Port, and will have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, March 4, 1876. ..

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

The A-1 American Ship:

"LATHLET BIJEL," Ray T. Lawis, Master, will load for the above Forly und will have quick despatch,

For Freight, apply to

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VOGEL, HAGEDORN & O Hongkong, February 1, 1876.

FOR PORTLAND (OREGON.)

The A-1 American Ship

SAMUEL GREED Warts, Master, will load for the above Port, and will have

quick despatah.

For Freight, apply to

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & 06, Hongkong, February 1, 1876,

FOR NEW YORK...

The A-1 Amarican Ship-r "HAZE," ** WILKINSON, Master, will loadi here and at Whempos, and will have quick despatch as above,

For Freight, apply to

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co. Hongkong, February 1, 1876.

FOR LONDON::

The A1 British-Ship,

"SARAH NICHOLSON,” 933 Tons Register, Captada SELKIRK, will load here for the bove Port, and wilt have quick despatch.

For Freight, apply to

VOGEL, HAGEDORN & U.. Hongkong, February 5, 1878,

FOR SAN FRANCISCO. The 1 British Ship

SHALIMARZ

WALKER, Master, will load here for the above Port, and

wall have quick dispatch.

For Freight, apply to

RUSSELL & Co.

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Hongkong, March 4, 1876.

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

"""The "A" I "American Ship

"NIGHTINGALE," PALMER, Master, will load here, for the above Port, and will

have quick dispatch.

For Freight, apply to

RUSSELL & Co."

Hongkong, March 4, 1876,

FOR SAN FRANCISCO.

The American Ship

"SUMATRA,"

MULLIN, Mastez, will load here! for the above Port, and will

have early dispatch.

For Freight, apply to

KARUSSELL, ✯ OS, Hongkong, February 23, 1876,

FOR PORTLAND.

The A1 German Bark

"CENTAUR," "OFFERSEN, Master, will load here for the above Port, and

moz will have immediate dispatch.

For Freight, apply to

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

FOR SHANGHAL Taking Cargo & Passengers at through rates for HANKOW, NINGPO & PORTS IN *JAPANS

Annual Ground rent, $289.79,000 No. 27 in separated from No, 6 by Wafer [[: Street and comprises large Tes Firing and other Godowns, Floss Elk Preas, Compra- dore's Quarters, Stabling and Fire Engine House. Area, 554 Trubos

Ground rent, $164.97 per annum. Applications for purchase, or further in- formation, to be made to

J. WHITTALL, T. G. LINSTEAD, Trustees A. Heard & Co's Estate,

23, Queen's Road, Hongkong. Hongkong, February 1, 1876.

FOR SALE

The Company's Steamship

NESTOR" will be despatched on about the 22nd Instant,

4'p.m.

For Freight or Fausage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, March 14, 1876,

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FOR SINGAPORE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE,

200 Cake DLARET from BORDEAUX (Calling of Bora, COOKTOPHE DAY

Apply to

LANDSTEIN & Oo. Hongkong, March 10, 1876.

UC DE MONTEBELLO CARTE

order to redeem himself from what he has TERMS OF SALE-Cash before delivery been guilty of. But this nevertheless, in Mexican Dollars weighed at 7. 1. 7. would not sotually be saticient to cover All Lots, with all faults and errors of D BLANOBE OHAMPAGNE

$3.75 per paid-up Share of $125, is payable the enormity of his mu The reason description at purchaser's risk on the full on and after FRIDAY, the 18th Instant, why Mesora Tsang and Woo condescended of the hammer.

at the Gffices of the Corporation, where to these terms was because they had been Shareholders are requested to apply for

Warrants.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

· JAMES GREIG,

Chief Mariager,

Hongkong, February 17, 1976,

A Steam Launch will leave Feddar's advised by intimate friends, who urged Wharf for the Docks at Half-part Eleven that, inasmuch as both, parties were China- men, how could they, Messrs Tsang and 'clock Woo, have the heart to see him (Lei Ming Chun) put in a gaol of the foreigner 60 that it would be far better that they should

J. M. ARMSTRONG,

Auctioneer, Hongkong, March 10, 1876,

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Quarts, $15 per saan (1 doren.) Fints, $16

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5 per cent discount on 25 case.

Bourbon

WHISKEYES

$12 per ones (1 dagen) FOR SALE BY

HEARD & Co. Hongkong, June 22, 1873,

LAND BAY, BOWEN and KEPPEL BAY,

to land Mails and Passengers.)

The Eastern and australian Mail Star Co.'s Steamer

"QUEENSLAND," Captain CRAIG, will be de spatched as above on SATURDAY, the 20th Instant, at Noon.

For Freight of Plasage, apply to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, March 14, 1878.

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RUSSELL & Co. Hongkong, February 28, 1876.

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

The A1 American Ship

MARY WHITRIDGE," CUTLER, Master. will lead hars for the above Port, and will

have quick dispatch.

For Freight, apply to

RUSSELL & Co Hongkong, March 9, 1876.

FOR HAMBURG, The A1 German Barque

NICOLINE

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318 Tons Register, Captain AHLMANN, Will load bera und at Whampoa, and will have quick despatek as above,

For Freight, apply to

ARNHOLD, KARBERO ♣ Co.,

Agenta.

Hongkong, February 23, 1876.

· FOR MELBOURNE & SYDNEY,

The A 1 Barque

Porta,

SPIRIT OF THE AGE," Captain Joansos, will have quick dospatch for the above

For Freight or Passage, apply to

·ROZARIO & O

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