No.: 7649.--FEBRUARY 27, 1868.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
Ill. 8 degrees below.
entrusted to the Sorcerer were bith appre- | for its object the best welfare of the under boys inexperienced in preparing for such i of 50 and 51 they related to comparatively stitious reason, they are bound to be from at Qaincy and loss of life in our own and covers the time from November 2
It looked as if this Bortorer night have ran
repetition, so far as its capital rendering and interpretation wore concerned. The
VANDERBILT IMITATING MAD LUDWIG
whole of che, principals were called before supplies of material ordered with the view of afternoons, but in the forenoons Mr. supplied from the Cosmopolitan Dock no have another curiona custom which haadwig of Bavaria, W. Vander. Vibat oWNCES, SHpping in the United
Ex
tho
occasions, while the gage which wore any course they take or recommend has the faults which would be expected from items he might say that with the exception given to understand is for a certain super-groes below at 7 o'clock this morning, and included a period since the exuttons of our last troify with the Chinese Empire The effering scene in which J. W. W. disappears to the published accounts will allow that, since short time that had been available for such alors they would not have formed the sub- and none will enjoy good health and fortune country something dreadful to contein (880, the date of snch treaty, to August priate and exceedingly well put. The taking (Applause.) A reference to the examinations, especially considering the small amounts, and possibly if they hadstond New Year's Day till the 5th of the moon, nether regions was also much better arrang December 1885, the sum of 820 360. er proparation. But, with all their painject of abtion to vary the report of the sales thin absurdity has been observed, plate. All through the grost North-west 1882, a period of one year, eight sunthe ed this time then it was before. Mr Graps including the free grant from the Imperial spoken and therefore valuable criticism, the Registrar, but a very large tunstautin Most houses prepare beurehand a supply there seems to be but one story that of all eighteen days, when the arrivals b of 8100.000, 2490,860, has ommittee feel that the Reports are such matter for discussion mise enter Han. bf small cakee for them, and wich beggar mest unparalleled void, stonded by high scanr alone at the port of San Francisco (The Vicar) could not be improved at Gove writ off the book value of thes they can regard with satisfaction, and and it had been thought right on behalf of receives one after a sour has. Leku sung at winds and causing terrible distress. Many reachou 45,685, or an average of 2,326 per either in his staging or actingho was ben
and although the hat they record the initiation of an entirely the City of Peking that than other items the door congratulating the harsa river lives have been lost in Minnesota, Dakota, maath Notary (Mr.Crowe) had lostompany's detenta to bas booniew departure in the education of the should also be included. Item 15 related and giving him all good wishya, After The Not perfect.
and Nobraaks, and in Kansas Montane
THE BURNING OF THE
The American ship John 7. Berry from to engine room stores. The evidence given number of these cakes have been collected, thousands are suffering for want of food his heuring-horn, but was
W otherwise
quito expenditure ou equal to the occasion.
latge, your Directors are of opinion that it Colony. "Encores were the rals, not the excep- has boon fully justified by the great devs. The marked intergy of the teaching before the Registrar consisted in the first sales is made of them and eaten it is said and fuel and in some counties of that Philadelphia for Hyogo, was burned on/"
1uring tin งาน tinn, and indeed we have not roun a moro loptaunt of the business. enthusiastic audience in this Oolony before...:) period, the liabilities have been incre staff has caused the Committee much place of that of M da Champanix's affida-they cou-ider this will undoubtedly preserve 7 Statu nid is neled te mire the people from January Uth in latitude 34 dog, eouth and longitude 163 deg. cast: Fourteen of the anxiety during the year. In consequence vit and slag his cross-examination, the them from alekanes throughone the year actual starvation
srow landed at Nambuser Head. A boat who might make a by the sum of 8420,869, but against this of illness in the Head master's family it ovidence of bir Burnie, who surveyed the This should deserve the attention of somo ite 500 or 400 might, as soon as its re- suoant, in uidition to the outlay ou became necessary to engage, ons of the abin that of Mr Brower who also surveyed entorpring quit which would commich say to-morrow: Not content with leasing gamuot Watts, of this city, ie of the bes-
chief
New York, January 10;The World will with eleven other is missing. The Chi patent medicine of it
cago Times: Boston special, maysCaptain the new dock and improvements, wo have Masters of the Central School, who was her, and that of M. Loris who was
The stores were of the Saghalien.
a large mad
ad ready sale. an asset of $144,526, represented by extra kindly lont by the Government for the engineer
On the 15th of the moun the Chinese na of the fairy-like palaces of the late question what over that
appears to be further dispused to adopt States, has heen vary unfortunato during the curtain by usne, and we are almost saving time in the building of new vessels. Bateman was single handed with fire there wae no certain that no such hantur bis ever been We have now determined howover that this diff rent standards of scholars. Even under they corresponded with the stores that been in vogue for couturice, and that is
circumstances Mr. Batom would had been in the vessel. The algun was
was burning,
monarch. If we are to believe the Eng. the owner of aevon full-rigged ships affcat, o origin of this was bestowed by a Hongkong audience within item shall be considerably reduced. Mr
the Alfrid Watts, bound, from Philadel the memory of the oldest resident
ception has ben taken to the payment of u have been very much over-worked at $2300 Mr de Champsaurs Bridaṇre” on doors. The of wood in front of their some of the eccentricities of that illfated past low weeks. A month ago he was and Major Jopp were also called, burts to contributing sharch Iders; but I through the year, and the Committee fuel this point he took to be of a rather formal misunderstanding between two neighbours lish journals, the Frough actor Cegaslin when the nowa camo that one of them, Orange and the lendor of the Orchestra rophed go eat only say that until the Articles of a apoi that an addition to furth coicing of the there thing I wie anda vit he slimed that thrangh their children, and as a roving at Constantin performance during his stay
a complement of officers and a grew u behalf of his hard-working colleagues by ation shall howing to the audience from his conducter's bound to make such a return Groty at schly necessary forthe efficiency of the the things were lost or destroyed, bat | one had a coffin misdó and careted into the at Constantineple on board the Alsa, at pris for Evoro with a cargo of gasoline and
on to atata that he left this matter house of the other, who at once had it the sole audience. The charge for this par-boring have therefore again invited They dividend. Mr. Jones of the Central School to give entirely to the two ports Messrs Burnie breton in piecce and burnt to aahes at this
aity before vable dispatch from neat. His Excellency the Governor was months before dejun, the bonus has his holp in the afternoons of four days in and Brewer who surveyed the vessel, and door, in order to clear the house of the bad tormance was 83,000, Little Josof Boff the news of the loss hardly reach.
was paid $3000 last Saturday to furnished of course taking into cnsideration the evi luck.-Fooches Echo,
that the thip red D. announced. Cf the chief engineer.
music at a musicale given by ats Cham
Mes Cornelius London dence
Me do
Snowa, bound from San Francisco to Queens. Vanderbilt in this city town with a full oarge of that in effect sai
of wheat, had run peaux"
as the stores bad:
SUICIDE OF A Lcuis futton Vera urm of the British navy The loss of these two Ane ships,
Falmouth January 20.Rear Admiral aahore on the Iclsh coast during a teasy galo,
And vessel, Cargo and cran
crew were all
together committed suicide here to-day in a fit of inaanity.
with their crews, had hardly been heralded to Boston before intelligence came from Nowenstle, New South Wales, that the ship John T. John T. Berry had been burned at sea, and officers and seamen wore missing, while the remaining fourteen had been saved. The Berry was bound from Philadelphia for Caption Waits, being such a heavy owner
boon made as
bea
altered, the
be
any
Associ-
AFF
presont; and from the unusually crowded Ou the present
small as possible. The item the week, and he has entered on his work house, we prokame that a most substantial
But oren this can only be considered a includes, in addition
is evident that expedient, It is and rent and taxes, which this
the nal disbursements of the Secretariat, thero
charitable institutione for
was given.
Saturday,
COURT OF INQUIRY.
a course was steered for the Three Chim
Bluff passage.
The
Court,
P
tp
At
sagzin
treat
there was no
evidener really on
be held liable to
other
gere
and
for
ala
which Mr and MTS
Vanderbilt constituted a
BEAR ADMIRAL.
VANDERBILT AND ASIATIC RAILWAYS.
WITH LAKOMBY..
owners and agents forgotting, thist
Washington, January 18.-The Govern etc., would increase the trallio very of State that it has renounced the protante
Most globe trattera and
con rate over Dahomey
which
it neaunied by a
27 men, had been lost with all on
all riske himself, and therefore never, had
Quotations HONGKONG, February 27: OPIUM--Now Fatna, cash,... 404/4888
Old
New Benares, caah, $30
nali
Bum will be placed at the disposal of the of Olice Expe what may be termed tomporary, baino lack of pupils if suitable ) been lost or destroyed he had purchas
Fooohow. Remnants of the got old times, if popular and: truly succeful performance durable sures For the large staff of premises and a large staff of teachers word new stores according thithe merits and -de thing
so good, seem to draugsta whom the
The school might then be then he added that he left, the the exigencies of buai- provided..
be the exorbitant passage prices fra thrown open to all d'asses of European to the surveyors. The substantial avid after all, the woro
At therefore, on these items. WAS that Foochow to Hongkong and to Shanghai, TUE LOSS OF THE 8.S. SWATOWess its Hongkong require more than ace
or mensary in similar establish children under cortain conditions customary
what did it single tiernt from this to Hongkong, are con of the surveyors, neuta at homo. It must be borne in mind present the master and his family want tul Me Basi ho "did, not that is fur distance of about 600 miles, ·Constantinople, Jaunary, 18-On. Wed-
pelled to live at a distance. The 10 in amount that these expenses. ard,, great extent Paul's Cullers are not sufficient even earvey the engine room sturus; and so far stiil costs 860, whilst a passage from Hondaday night, on the occasion of Mr VBA- that even of the men forming her crew of
ruationt, and must bringurred whether
on that point. kong to
in the finest Mail Servili'a visit here, the Sultan trougly Shanghai in A Marine Court of Inquiry, to investigate the Docks are arty employett or not Th for the school that now exists, especialty It must be inferred that there was at work to 93:
mers comes to only $40 for a voyage of 12 the circumstances connected with the loss lay on the Filipinas,' and is otherwing the name building. If a suitable building genoral des raction of the greater part of undue it is, in the Banderbilt pleaded that his visit, was Hyong with a cargo of refined petroleum
of urged the American millionairu to tako upon itom of Sandry Dubtes includes the actual with an Anglo-Chinese School carried un
Siles
himself the construction of Asiatic railways Me Wines, of the a.s. Steatos, was held at Swalow on tiefly composed of the amounts exponded were erected, sousisting of school-roumns for these stores. Now the contention on the steamers we need not pay extra
One of pleasure, not of business, and that The Court consisted of Melon work in progress, but not completed on 100 be58, 19iku house for the master, and i half of the City of Pelin was that it was nor for a servant, but these items are the lind no opportunity to study the entlines of vessal property, always proferred to tako,
The an addition to the present staff made of one obvious that among all the stores doseri- ready more than charged for in our own
bod there must be a considerable num- pago,
the suggested scheme, This Sultan has is not reasonable to (president); Mr F. D. Goddard, master of is now set dawn funt about theFilinings or two masters, the school would be well thor of some value, and if they were comped people in the bailties to forwarded to Egypt to :Bir Naŭderbilt all his ships insured.. R. M. Mansfield, H. B. M. Acting Const the date of the closing of the bucks.
unfortunate dispute
the Supreme
worthy
Public ber of its same as the Hongkong
to worth something that ought to
to have nar
savo pay for wines and for a boy's passage, the papers bearing on the question, exprèse- the British steamer Namon; and Mr J." Court, aul until it aħnil have been decided, it Sehoil. It would then be in a position teen allowed for in some way, either when they may not choose to take either. ing the hope that if not diaposed to under.
to ba independent of the help by subscriptions McKechnie, master of the British stemmer
obviously be most improper to Namhiang. From the ovidenes it appeared attempt to discuss its mo its in a public for which the Committed are reluctantly handed over to the City of Pekin? or in To general argument in favour of the take the railways, Jay Gould, now in AN IMPORTANT Discovery is sunounced for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, that the steamer left Swatour at & pan, on raceting. An idea ja said to exist among compelled annually to appeal. Hongkong some way set off against this large claim: present syatau in, that even at the ruling Egypt, may not be disinclined to take them in the Parid Figaro, of a valuable remody
is assuming a very y important position in the The particulars under the item referred to high prices the saloon passengers de not up.
The discovery was 22nd inst, and after pussing Bill Island some of the Shareholders that the Capital
8410, to oil
PORTUGAL WILL HAVE NO DEE TO DO and premature decay Old Mexico; i hardly the of the Company should be increased by East, and, with such a large number of En-were-enator mil
mado made by a missionary in The vessel struck on the issue of new sintes: hot in this has geish and other Europain residents who al 1776 lbs., 72 large sponges wasto pay the company any, adeqaste returna ;
saved him from a miserable ofistence anp of the South-East end of only receisly been done and the Capital is most settle here with their families the understood how the last mentioned articles cheaper tickets, same as chicap postage cient of Portugal has notified the Secretary an early grave. We learn that the Rev. Half-Tido Reef
Public School for their children/should be allowed to were 441 lbs. of fox nothing even
loomsbury Square, London, W.G., will Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions. Namea, at 8.30 p.m. Shu rapidly filled now very large, the Directors are of opinions wanto!
to the Caleny. If it
4 f they wore wer with water and taking a strong list to star- that the sounder policy would be to gradual. / would be a repron the Building (homp rope Yuod at $154; 451 lbs. cotton and the coast pares treaty concluded in 1885. The efforia of Bond the prescription, free of charge, on board aank in about fifteen minutes. Thoro ly wri
write down and pay off our overdrafte. suitable site could be secured.
The rope, $200; these seemed to builaius which scienti was a moderate North-East wind at the as to the tate of debentures, the Board could be commonest forthwith.
heavy expense, and r denta at the out time and the sky was momewhat oversaal, consider that it is more advantageons to Committee would therefore, in addition to could hardly be an astroved scientiously, chielly on account of Portugal to control the King of Dahomey receipt of a zeif addrossod, stamped enve- -
water or if hours, porte aoner take for a continuance of the an being ador
up river than pay and abolish human sacrifices and other bar lope.. after doliborating on the evid-arrange with the Bank for the Company's
debsanoat the present, carnestly arið · ence, suspended the Captain's certificate for requirements 7 per cent, unless deben to the public spirit of Hongkong to after referring total said that with regard fident that the increased number of passen-fore renounced the protectorate and declared
no account was given of them, so ilearly for a chori
ans across the set aroue customs have proved unsuccessful, to several other small items Let the rates be reduced, and we are wa-
and the Portuguese Government has there six months.
tares would be taken up a 6 per cont which preal
General The of the chief
body
itself absolved from all, responsibility for is not at all likely hope, Gentemnou, that provide the means for placing this school, the Attor
will well re-pay the shareholders. cear Cape of Ander
these remarks moet generally the points now in its 9th year, on a permanent and into items 50 and 51 the City of Peking could
not be
the 60 days. of China sends her first delegate to the chief the future notion of Dahomey. Got 12, AS cover, Mr Alex.
dopondent Secretary
The Committen Good Hope on Friday opening and brought that have been raised; bat the
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE REPORTED TO BE are taking the difficult demurrage charged at the rate of 6d. per Council of the American M. E. Church. into Swatow on Saturday. After having will be prepared to give further explanations
composed of over four hun
STARVING IN TURKEY, KAR boon identified by the Osptain and chief about the accounts to any Shareholder who question of a site into earnost consideration. ton, and if His Lordship decided they were This Council
Committee: E. J. Ackroyd, Es; Hon. Felda should be disallowed
liable for that then the charges for the s.dred lay and clerical delegates, chosan from Boston, Jananry 18. A dispatch has res- mate, the remains were interred in the Bakmay apply to him. I am pleased to be able
ched the rooms of the American Board of chio Comotery, A boat was said have
state that all the Company's Establish J. Boll-Irving; Bishop Burdon (Chairman);
Mr Ackroyd sail hafore he would enter a church membership of two W. H. Forbes B. H. M. Buntington, monte are in first rate working order, been picked up by somat Chinese fishermon
T Jackson, Esq.;
ROY
W. Jen into the various items he would lay before (2,000,000). Thouative chosen is the Rev. koy, stating that 10,000 people are starving and towed into Tatapo Creek, but it was notable of turning out, as we have recently Esq.;
M.AGR. Lammert, Esq Hon. the Court known whether this was the lifeboat in
It is perienced, quite as good work as home ning
the ago and has rendered faithful and efficient is also reported that the famine at Adina in in England to guide the cost as low when the ex- . and at
Ray, J Ost.
Courts in
in dealing with appeals against ro- service. He now goes as the choice of the Central Turkey still continues, and the porta by the Registrar and Merchants.
re-them
them in America. Ho will be but one in Head-master of Modem Department, Trent
Christians College, Notts; Bead-master of Alsop's ferred to several authorities was that the the four hundred; yot this time is not dis- Foundation School, Barton-on-Trent; Bead: affirmative proving the report is wrung tant when the millions of Chinese
Fushington, January 12.-Senator Mil must be clearly established, the presump-will have their own chief council, and re-
chell delivered in the Senate to-day an able tinn being in favour of the report. It was ceive paternal delegates from Amories. Ar speech on the Chinese question. He made therefore not tho
minion of the opinion
Authorities old tina friend
goes as interpreter,! with-
or three very strong points. First, he point which such reports out whom the delegate would be to Ameried out that wherever the Chinese colonized that the inquires on
adeaf wan, and as dumb, wore based were superficial as his friend
as one
a country they left it impoverished. Bie had aid it was in this caso Thaling, with before then, been informed that the second point was a
very graphic description. he referred to
Again
of the manner in which all Chinese legis. several authorities with the 699.6% 1,815.00ing that the suffering party in a cass of in the hands of the officials as before. This
dafented. The following is
is his account of 2,184.00 this kind had a right against the wrong. tice the information came to us from an
that proceeding door. of restitutio integrum and if
if authentic source, and we bear that the news The diplomatic rose, whether originst $4,808.84 any difficulty in fixing the amount of the leaked out from a Yamen in the city. If the fertile and able brain of the Chi-
demurrage arose, that
ing that diety must not be the report has any foundation it will no
uese Minister at Washington, or in those to the disadvantage of the sufforing
another in the ring party doubt cause but to that of the wrongdoar The Messu tur e donne le relativist to of some of his acsociates and friends, pan
rosuit
trons of his sumptuous and generous dinner had no doubt a larger to the Government treasury or
dealers, ab geries Company 1,92)
On-demand, number of ships than they actually re we fear that the nest Convention has able, and whereby our distinguished and
a de Secretary of State was.
On Calcutta 60
quired, and WA8 therefore, in their totally destroyed the teade in the Indian
and Congress houd-winked, it is.
mite
Wire, 50 $2,030,00 || power to replace this vessel temporarily drug, and has offcotively opened up a large material to argue. It is enougle fri kuow On demand.
371.02 without mach trouble, but this large trade in the native article.
lust
in all legislation the interest of the
the On Blungha flout of ships implied the employment Some tinio go we mentioned that the
On demand, .... people of this country in connection 540,0n of a larger capital time they might Arsenal authorities had commented to Chinese affairs was defeated, while the 30 days sight
otherwise require to use, and was not build a dock below the
Pagoda feland for 83.59 be turned to the advantage of the the nccommodation of the largest Iragonterprising Chinese empire, through its Gold Leaf, 100 fine.
at Washington, pockets the snug Soveroms. 200.00 wrongdoers Besides there had been more clads of the Chinese Navy; but the found. linister at 250,000 in 30in of the peo-
little azm of 69.94 wear and tear
tour among their vessels is constations, which have already been begun, e plo's money from people's treasury, and
Temperature now considered inadequata by H. E. Adased it for what purpoaca, no one knows, (Taken at Mars Falconer & L'o.'s Premises, quence of the disablement of Babgatien 42.15 bad been interfored of their vessels miral Ting, to admit the entrance of such
which the chief engineer was or not.
cap
And
twalve thousand ministers and millions Foreign Missions from Mardin in East Tur-
not known whether the second mate was in ease of bringing vessels out to the East E. LO' Pecretary A retirar); Hon. been establish principle which had Sia Sek Ong, who was ordained twenty years there, and calling for immediate relief." It the same boat. The Captain states that akon into account; and this chicfly be Hewi-master-C. J. Bateman, formerly his principle with regard to which he re Foochow Annual Conference to represent number who are suffering increasca daily.
J
cond. officer and twenty-nine. Chinese mber of its members to nine, 'the ob- master of British Orphan Asylum, Slough. This, we believe, was tho ohiof engineer's in the shape of work, which might Balance from last year,
first trip on the Stoutow. Mr Wylie, whom ro montioned on Friday, na being chief en neer. left the vessel before this voyage,
ulko.
Receipts.
from the time the seerud mate luft the cause of the greatly improved machinery bridge to sound the holds he never saw him lately fitted up. The Board has been ask
coxpediency of increns
of increasing ngais..
The lost and missing from the ed to consider the wreck include the chiol engineer, the so-
ject being to secure and consolidate support Since the mataber was fixed at whore.
Company has
Carront account....... 43.15 seren, the business of the Company much increased, and its interests may be Cash in hand
Fees outstanding... served by making the additions, enggosto Interest... The matter, however, rests a with
the share- holders. It will be observed from clause Subscriptions 55 of the Artioles of Araociation that the School Fees,.......
from time to number of the Directors may from time be determined at any ordinary meet-
Expenditure.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOUE COMPANY, LIGHTED. The ordinary yourly meeting of the share holders of the Hongkong and Whampoa
of the Company. I cannot conclude Dock Company was held at the ice of theses observations without placing on r9- the Company this afternuou. The Hon, J. cord an cxpression of the regret which the Salary of Head Master,
12 months at S1 Directors feel at the great losa anstained by Bell-Irving resided, and there were also the Company in the death of their bonk-Salary of Assistant Mas-
$80..... ter, 2 months at presant Mesci L, Fossncoker, B. Hop-keeper, Mr Hauschile, who was for mary
of Extra Master... years a zealous and devoted survant. Ba Salary pius, E. L. Woodin, W. H. Forbes, S. C.
proposing the adoption of the Passage for Assistant..... fare formally Michaelsen, T. E. Davies, (directors); Hon. Report and statement of accounts, I sbull Rent of Head Master's house, 9 mouths at $60 P. Ryrie, Messrs E. Georg, A. McCona-be prepared to answer any questions relat chie, F. Dodweli, J. H. Vox, J. F. O. ca ing to them that may be addressed to nio. Expenses of Cambridge
Examina Tatrige
Roza, J. M. V. de Figueiredo, Dr Gomes, asked whether with the in-Towards now!
Dr
would bo
The
13.03
CALB 40 8"
We have
THE UNITED STATES, AND CHINESE IMMIGRATION.
New Malwa, cash, 560. Allowance, Tael... 12 Old Malws, cash,... 580 Allowance, Thols, 10/20. Persian, Oily, caeli 600 Allowance, Taub... 16,32 Persian; Paper tied 640 Allowance, Taels, 16 Exchange. HONGKONG, February 27.
On London.
Bank, Wire,
11
On dermand,
30 days sight,
4 months aight,
Cradite, Documentary,
54.009 110:18 tio question of dein view of shaw collection of Lekin on opium will be placedation at the last session of Congress was On Paris
Printing, and
196.70 and the al
School Materials..
Robert Howie, E. B. Jorcy, F. T. P. Fo-crease in the number of directors there Prince.. tor, H: Crowford, A. E. Vaucher, li. Drode, A. & Garfit, R. Audrow, J. A. do Carvalho, A. S. Cohen, N. D. Ezekiel, G.
increase in the directors' fees. Stat Chairman That is a question I have net considered (Laughter),
fees I
Dr
T, Westaby, J. Harmon, C. Beorman, Ret there is an increase i
Goosmann, P. Jordan, H Kuhlman, D. McCalloch, . Murray Bain, F. Hendor sou, H. N. Mody.
Putty ed to
o and Repairs uncollected... wo night do without them Fee
Disbursements...... The Chairman According to the articles Carried to Endowment
FOR... of Association, the dicectors may with the
of the shareholders sot auido cach Balance, Current accuint*8 51.23 sauction of your $1,000 as reinuueration to each of the Foco utatanding
Cash in hand them in sich a directors, to be divided among the
as the Board shall determine. You manue too it is a matter for the shareholders whe ther they will have more directors or not.
maquer as
The Chairman said-The Report has buen in your hands for some time, and, with your permission, we shall as usual take it as road. The earnings during the past six months have not been so great as during some previous corresponding periods, and the balance available for distribution is proposed the adoption of the roport and necessarily less also, although a dividand of counts. 4, for the half year canant be considered
try. The earning
so very qusatisfactory.
After waiting for some time and there being no further questions, the Chairman
Mr Mudy seconded and the motion as powerparried ananimously.
large, and t the Mr McCulloch: I beg to propose that this of the Company 18, now under rusionmenting give power to the directors to in reduced revenue of
keep of
thesa
the periud
* U.
|
118.00
1.05.
*Inc'uding $38. 27 shown below.
Endowment Fund.
Dr.
vious statement... Total of fund as per pro. Transferred from working -
account....
count
Or.
is chiefly attributable to the prevalent de-grease their number to nine, should they sire to curtail the usual outlay on the upthin it advisable to do so, that number to bo the maximum and fire to be the mini- f steamers, in consequence of the
15 Bonds China Inn C. low freights ruling, and to the absence of marine disasters, which have in
Mr P. Jordan seconded xud the motion and B na per last ac- so considerably to our former years added so
was carried. Although however the Bevenue of Mr Kyrie proposed that Mesars W. H1 Bond Chios Loan C. Company
purchased.... has experienced some fluctua- Forbes, E. L. Woodin and S. C. Michaelsen tion during the past ten years, that it has should be confirmed in their seats on the On fixed deposit with H.
K & S. Bank.. steadily progressed may be seen from the board to which they were provisionally ap fact that while the
27968 earnings from let
from ist pointed in consequence of the retirement Balance on carreat ac- July to 31st Lecember 1878
count only $173,866, these for the commuted to of Messrs Huntington, McIver, and Grote
BAINS.
the
Mr George corresponding
soconded, and the motion was
Mr McCnachis proposed that, in accord.
period of 1887 exceeded $680,00, or nearly was carried
times as much de mentioned:
foor
roport,
1
ly opened for business
the
the
AC
ting other
acn-of-war with a
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$3,104.14
LATE NEWS.
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*
1887 the average number of Arrivals an
had
Ibeen
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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
AT 4 PM, TO-DAY SAI Barometer Temperature Humidity
Direction of Wind Force Weather
$0.06
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Hongkong Observatory, Feb. 27, 1888,
OBINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
FEBRUARY 20, ---At 4 2 ke
.with. His tearned
tically restored by the Chinese Ministry BANKETE hed to give them, nodomurrags d iron-clads, so the work will have to be com- and the for, lollars recently so diploinn- 01.50 friend wished in
at menced de niza. at
the Treasury of the United States, simply the leasingerion Com- simply because 8.00
cunning Another ahip, but there was not mine with once 1,000.00 a single caso nor a principle in law which which arrived at Matson from Amay, sailed China.
The third point Senator Mitchell made would him there. He referred his yesterday for Shanghai, where they
support him
in almost as great numbers as before the Lordship to the case of the Black Prince with the exception of the Iron-clads, he was that the Chinese still continue to come 170.28 on this point which was on all fours with overhauled at the Kaou-Chang-Meow dock. Restriction Act went into force. Ho sald
the prezent case.
caze'decurrage where they will remain three or four weeks Commencing with the In that
year 1852, when tho 84,808.84 was allowed from the date on which the before proceeding up north-Fordiare first Chinese immigration of any conse
reasol would have sailed up to the
the dato
at Echn.
and and was for the
quence was bated in this which she actually did sail, that was
ing with the year 1880, or of that whole time she detaines in consequence
was
of the treaty, in all a period date the year, of the on that even if the detained!
collision. In this case the principle
of twenty-eight years, ten months and
ཡ་༣ was laid
We take the following items from Ame seventeen days, the average number of abip wore replaced by another ship
Chinese arriving annually at the port of 88,861.54
ing to the mine owners, the owners risan exchanges brought on by the City of San Francisco stone was 8772, or a monthly had still a right to
He Rio de Janeiro to damutrage. 1,000.00asked that the same principle
should be
average of about 730, total during that period of 353,080 whereas in the six SPAIN ORGANIZING A HERONG, MILITARY. The contention of the Case. applied in this $9,864.07
other aide was altogether.
popoacd
years, seven months and thirteen days EXPEDITION AGAINST MORGUNO. to the he had referred to. Surely it could not London, Jan. 20-It is stated that Spain commencing with November 17, 1880, the casca
iction of Chineso be expected that the Messa jeries Company is organizing an expedition for Morocco to date of the treaty with China having for its
purpose the restriction: be obliged to have a large portion consist of 15,000 men.
interview at Venice Dun Carlos de-migration, and ending with June 20 of their cap
capital lying idle for fiß daga with- In ab out compensation. He submitted that theclared that Spain must become one of the defendants
with regard ic the other itome great European powers; that her navy meat nually at the port of San Francisco
and that obli. 12,414, or au average monthly 552.16 had brought forward no proof which could be
strengthened, immediately
was essential. Thu during that poriol of
of 1034 and a fraction, induco His Lordship to
to alter the report of gatory military service was the Registrar.
present monareby, he said, was unfitted to aggregating in that period of restriction by The Attorney General having briefly re- carry on the work before it, and unless it treaty and the Restriction Act 8229, an excess in that time of average monthly plied, Hia Lordship said he would consider was replaced, he was strongly of the upinionvals over that of the preceding years the matter and give his decision later. that a republic weld soon cotas. The
Wl'ostock, 30.05) Spanish Future lay in Morocco and South Dictioned of 309, and an excess anuually of 3656,
Toldó America, Don Carlos expressed his readi- over the arrivals of previous years
Nagamki.. 30,56 ness to fight in the Sparish ranks the moor nearly 50 por
art
since the Restriction Shanghai.. 30. called.
Act of 1882 went into operation From Amoy..... INTENSE COLD IN THE UNITED STATES Fort Keogh (M. T.), January 20.Fort August 5, 1883, to June 30, 1887, a period Hongkong 30.1 rated an immense amount of excitement Keogh can probably claim the honor of of four years, eleven months and twenty-five Haiphong and confusion, and up to 3 am on Sunday the wildest range of temperature of any days, the whole number of arrivals hy Bolinao. 29,96 80 last the people is the streets were in a place on earth. On the occasion of the steamer alone was 36,666, a yearly average Manila..... 29.93 00
storm of last week the thermometer of 7462, end a monthly average of fial and FEBRUARY $7.
us number of arti- Wloslock, 30.00 260 Daring
ring a whether holding a friendly conteres
of only
and 80 not, or dunending, dont, the nativos: use the hot weather of last summer it ranged monthly rival during that period of about Nagasaki. 30.18 45 from 120 to 130 above. This makes ourteen less than the arrivals for the three Shanghai.. 50.30 87 most abrsive language to each other. To foreigners the many Chinese feasta range of 195 degrees during the year. The fourteen. appear ridiculous, but this one most com- mend itself to all men, and that is the set tlament of all just and lasful debts, for should this not be effected, the result is
Iargee losem face of the
defaulter Fondants in this suit Mackoyd, in: Celestials think that if all the rites that are from Vertallion, D. 2. Over Girly persons gate of 22,809 in those three years, but the The barometer has fallen and gradients structed by Me Johnson, of Mesara Sharp marked out for their New Year's Day are were frozen to death in Lake county, and inufficiency of the Restriction, Act has been are moderate for N.L. winds, the dishes
This demonstrated beyond all question, authorities sro suppressing new. Johnson and Stokes, appeared for the properly carried out, luuk, richness, posi- the plaintiffs and the Attorney General, in con, and posterity will come pooring in on rumor lacks confirmation.
rays, especially by the increased numbere traced by Me Wikon (of Maasra Wotton them. But alas we have seàn hundreda. The therinvineter indiested 80 Corrann During the two past years, in eis Ens and cool, but rather damy">
1,170 00
38.27
$0,864.67
Examined with vouchers and found cor
thenow dock is expected to regular ance with clause of the Articles and St A. LATER, Secretary & Treasurer.
the end of eistion, the Hon. . Bell Irving and Me ul, and
your r
will Directors trust that H. Hoppius, the retiring directors, be re- prova a profitable source of income. The elected."
cout
JAMES H. Cox,
*
Auditors. ARTHOR K. TRAVES, Hongkong, February 3rd, 1888.
fact that the British flagahip, and other ves- Mr Dodwell seconded and the motion
sels of a similar class, have been obligen E, George proposed that Mr Arnold
Lo carried, go to Nagnaski to dock, clearly demon- Mr strates the absolute accommodation, the nation for such and ME. T. P. Foster be re-cleatod audi-,
of
which
cannot
The total
Over
Do
fully discussitors of the Company
be usefully
Mr Garft seconded and the motion ras
this dock is considerably carried. originale
of thi
the ur
estimate; but this is t to s The Chairman intimated that the divid
great extent accounted for
bed for by:
the addition
of 50 feet to its lungih, which involved warrants would be ready to-morrow,
further outlay of about 3100,000. When.
the dock
ck is finished, it will stand in the THE HONGKONG PUBLIC SCHOOL. Company's books at about $700,000 and,
considering its great socommodation; I do of this school for 1887
The following are the report and accents
not think that this value can be t
can be regarded as
excessive. Notwithstanding this, however,
I
with
nuo to write
Permit
us vironmstances
SUPREME COURT.
· IN VICE-ADMIRALTY. (Before the Hon. J. Rusell, Acting Chief Tristice.) Monday, Feb. 27.
THE 'SAGNALIEN AND OTTY OF PEKING
CASE. This was a motion on behalf of the de-
THE CHINESE NEW YEAR AT FOOOHOW. The Chinese New Year Carnival, with its preparation and settlement of accounts,
iment
he was
most disorderly condition, for it matters 65 degrees below zero
the
How has i
at bea
∙Loing an i
anaus!
Nitation,
recent storm was one of the severest, if not years of 1877, 1878 and 1879, the years prior Amby......
10 Am
x
the most severe, over known in this ragion. the dataof the treaty. The average arrivals Hongkong 21 68
St. Paul, January 20-An evening paper at that period by ateamer during the thres Haiphong. 30.19 64 90 *** figures the loss of life in last week's blizzard years immediately prior to the adoption of Bolinao. 30.42977
995 A dozen now cases are reported restriction measures were 7633, or an sggre Manila 30.02 82 69 wan
*
Weather
. Довенск,
Hongkong Observatory, February 27,
Government Aotrosenter,
The Committee of the Hongkong Public
varin think it will be advisable, consistently Behool stemit their eighth, Angual Report
fair return to aharalulders, to
to conti
and statement of Accounta
ountry, and the history it dora The affaire of by Company has The storage allendance throughout the and Deacon'a uffice) for the defendants and thousands who do observe the rules below zero hare this morning. The State of Chinese in
has been AR A slight falling off as The Attorney General said this was a very strictly and are no better in all respects Board of Railway Commissionere inrest of Chinese immigration to this country,
1. BanoMarsh, reduced to 53 dagasca Führezi- motion to recently been made the subject of cou- coropared with 1896 is accounted for by the
of auffering from scarcity with a single extation, not excepting the the reports the report of the Acting Re. to vary
the more they believe in their superstitions of fuel
Manitoba although it
Railroad, which has been port of San Francisco, or 1675, when and hundredths notice not possible to
and untrustworthy they Colony during the nomer and autumn the 88 Saghalien sad the 8.8. City of Pethe more
average number of 1. 12MPERATUKE, ie the shade lu degreat. They found o 18,021 came, has criticism in
in detail. I. BRY FAnd The The Commitee are glad to mant wan delverad on 10th June 1887-
a month is nut to be wondered at blockaded for a fact that several pupils left kine. The case was tried here and judg besonte, or the
by steamar at the port Fahrerbelt suffering, b policy for England. han baerthe
supply is running from Keral
but the oost. 1 a people whose whole soal, body and
boon as great as to the 8: Enemies, in partage of extusation, Kåre but about, vory low Generatioce the Directors to pursue the core tee note up the in. By the judgment the City of "ering was brains are compised of nothing a double the fotce:
that the numbers are azain Un by Captalu Talbot, viz, not to pay extravagnat dividends: but i donated to two mined in the bullision of the dity and superstition the first do prom mouths of the year:3867: Ach/ humility of .Nr. saturkled-end solution
has been
mint in the local newspapers, epidemic of f-ver, which prevailed in the gistrar in the case of the collision between they were years ago, in fact it seems gated to Brown Valley branch of the Year: 108 when 20,076 arrived at the nalt, and to the level of the was in inches, tenths?
here
the
mention that it he
of
commended
held
I to bo in fanic and the assessing
this f
independent Ereminations. The
The Upper ferred
to the Registrar of the Court. The first
ccasion,
do
we see
day of the
Crowds of
to
-has
Fording to the steamer pango list the are 100
6. Fouch or WIRH, Bootding 16 Bensfort
On Saturday morning t
what woon he fresh in the memory of some of you, cahoot was examined at the close of the items in the report objected to ware those tangas and beggars gving round to the
10 January 20-Maravila at the port of San Francisco for the DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points. pressure has, on more than one occa
en bronght to bear by Shareholders upon Midsummer Term by the Syndicate of the numbered 15 16 17. 21 22 235, 26, foreign honga for & few cash, which if you prints throughout the Northwest six montha ending June 30, 1887, were clo
11,147, at the rate of $2,291 sunually, To announce the arrival of another coll shap and 81 The total the Directors to divide a larger eum than University of Cambridge, and the whole 20, 41, 47,
smontit fused, they demand with euch impuderice In Iown the thermometer last night ranged or 1857 and a fraction per month. But, or WHITER. & Une shy, & the Board deemed prudant. Is aliould be was examined at the end of the year i cinimed was in france 149,115, 12 nd apparent right, that it is best to satisfy from 30 to 30 degrees below. The high anca before in the history of Chinese in monedaude, d drizzling, rain, fog, 9 klogy, by to the United States was that squally rain, anew, uuder, e vinillisty mecessarily have a considerable stake in the The Reports of these Exainstions have 38-763. 18, with interest at the pan population also go ent begging at this laying trains very generally. At Lizoil, class of immigration a large, and it is a Company; and you may restaured that already been published. They point out rate of 8 per cen.
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