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burned their fingers very severely, but that a large number of very shady trans. actions could be traced in connection with

TIE Agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co) inform us that the steamer Lennox left singapore for this port to-day, the 30th January,

WE learn by wire from home that the trial of

Guiteau, for the murder of President Garfield, has terminated in the prisoner being found guilty. IT is announced in the Garelle that Mr. Adolph André, Consul General for Austro-Hungary, has reported his resumption of the duties of the Con- sulate at this Port.

auditors, directly challenged the remunera-THE telegraphic rumour we published the other day respecting a financial crisis in Paris has been tion of the Directors themselves.

It may be accepted as a standing rule confirmed. The collapse in speculation is now the same, which reflect anything but credit that gentlemen of high social standing will stated to have been caused by the political crisis seriously affecting stock exchange operations. on those concerned in the business. It has not devote their valuable time to the direc-There may be some truth in this statement; but been broadly stated that the rather un- tion of the affairs of a public company un-it is quite certain that recent notorious gambling seemly proceedings at the shareholders' less properly remunerated. In all transac-transactions on the bourse, which have been the meeting may be safely attributed to the tions of commerce the laborer is worthy talk of Europe, must be held mainly responsible large amount of depreciated stock at pre-of his hire. There can be no doubt for the present dead lock. sent on the market; but that, of course, that it would be possible to obtain must be taken exactly for what it is worth, as it may likely enough be an ill natured and interested rumour passed into currency for a special purpose. It is perfectly cer- tain that, during the height of the house property scare, it was generally believed in the Colony that the Directors of the Hotel Company had received a substantial offer from Chinese for the Hotel, and that nego tiations to effect the transfer of the pro- perty were being carried on. This was known comedy "Moncy," in discussing the gage; but it was found during his absence that at last approaching a crisis.

a Board of Direction for the Hotel Company at half the amount paid to the present officials. But would it be advisable, or expedient, to replace the gentlemen of high commercial standing who now occupy the directors' chairs, by officers of less experience, and lower social standing? That is a-question purely for the shareholders to decide. The profes- sional philanthropist in Lord LYTTON's well:

salary paid to the Speaker of the House of Commons stated that he considered the right honourable gentleman very much over paid, and added confidentially that he had a brother-in-law who occasionally took the chair at vestry meetings, who was quite the Speaker's duties for half the present salary of that important functionary. And

A RATHER ingenious robbery occurred on board the Fut-we, one or two voyages back, which is worthy of record. It appears that a "small" mandarin took a passage down the river in this boat and slept in the ordinary passengers' cabin. He had with him a small box which contained Tis. 100, which he made a pillow of. The next passenger to him in the sleeping compartments was one of the onlinary class, and had a large box of luggage. At one of the ports the "ordin- ary" went on shore, of course leaving his lug.

the "Mandarin's box had been broken open and the tacls extracted. On the compradore opening the box of the missing passenger it was found to contain about ten dollars' worth of goods, and as he took away good interest for the same, probably lie will not return to claim his baggage. China New Year is close at hand, therefore we

understood to be no idle rumour, as it emanated from an authority which could not well make a mistake. In the com- mercial columnofthis journal we repeatedly urged the Directors of the Hotel Company to [7 close with any legitimate offer they might

receive for their property. We knew the willing to sacrifice himself by undertaking would remind intending passengers to keep a true character of the speculations that were going on in house property in all parts of the Colony, and as the rumoured amount tendered by the Chinese for the Hotel ap peared to us to be far above its actual value, we strongly advised the Directors to take the tide at the flood. It is a matter

The Hongkong Telegraph property finding a purchaser

HONGKONG, MONDAY, January 30, 1882.

at an almost

THE Ministerial Bill has been rejected by the French Chamber of Deputies, and the members of the Ministry have in consequence placed their resignations in the hands of the President.

A TELEGRAM from London dated the 7th inst slates that further re-inforcements of treeps have been ordered to proceed to Dublin without delny.

It would appear from this as if Irish affairs were

WITH further reference to Irish affairs, a special telegram was received from London on saturday, evening, announcing that an informer had re- vealed to the Government the existence of a wide-

Cork, and Clare. spread and dangerous conspiracy in Limerick,

Ir is hereby notified that Mr. Ceo. H. Bateson

watchful eye on their belongings-Shanghai Wright, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, who

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so, no doubt, we could find la Hongkong | THE Times correspondent at Naples writes on rising and ambitious would-be directors November 28th:-"What is here known as the who would be glad to fill the chairs of Mattia process was brought to a close this week

at Patenza. It was a lottery case in which their is notified in the Gazette that Her Majesty's Messrs. BELILIOS, RYRIX, Horrius, and

Government had been defrauded of two millions Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies has

eloquent defence, and of a crowd who as usual sympathised with the guilty, a verdict was brought in against them. One man was condemned to twelve years' hard labour, and two to reclusion for two years. The principal, De Mattia, has made himself scarce, but a severer sentence, it is expected, will be pronounced against him this week. There were signs of ill-humour in court, says the reporter, when the verdict was given, for the sympathies of a crowd are easily awakened, to say, 'The dead are dead; we must help the and as in cases of murder they are accustomed living, so in cases of fraud they say, 'He who robs the State robs all-that is, he robs no one.""

on the 23rd instant.

THE Shanghai Courier, of the 25th instant, noting the arrival of the Fuh-woo, from Hankow says that amongst her passengers was Tastai Liu, of Taiwanfoo, He brought with him his family, servants, and a body guard of forty soldiers. The Tautai will leave for Foochow by the first China Merchants' steamer.

of fact that the scrip rose from about REINERS for half salary. The ex-consult of life, or 80,000, by three or four men, of whom been pleased to grant to Mr. C. V. Creagh, dollars per share to 117, and we think it ing director of the. Cosmopolitan Dock De Mattia, said to be a priest, was the chief. It Deputy Superintendent of Police, an extension of will be conceded on no other grounds than Company might, if properly solicited, give is to the credit of the jury that, in spite of an three months' leave, on half salary, commencing

a portion of his valuable time and energies the reported certainty of the Company's to the affairs of Hotel for $250 per annum, and there are others equally well and fa- fabulous figure. After a time the property vorably known who might also be relied bubble burst; the opportunity of selling the Hotel to advantage-if it ever existed upon. That, however, is also for the con passed away, with the inevitable result sideration of the shareholders. that the stock became so greatly depreci- ated, that the quotation in the share list has for a considerable time past been of a most nominal character. The Directors Hotel Company, Limited, held on the after-were blamed in no measured terms for al- noon of Thursday last, the 26th. Instant.lowing the golden opportunity to escape There is no use disguising the fact that them; with how much justice will be best the harmony and mutual good fellowship discovered by a reference to the speech which have for so long characterised the delivered by the Chairman of the Board, business relations existing between directhe Hon. E. R. BELILLOS, to the half yearly tors and shareholders, not only in the miceting of shareholders. Hotel Company, but in all other joint stock

Tuz staid decorum which generally marks the working of our entire commercial sys- There is not space in the compass of an ordi- tem received a rude shock at the ordin- nary advertisement to detail all the informationary half yearly meeting of the Hongkong introduced into the work, but it may be fairly asserted that no such Directory has ever been

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Mr. BELILIOS opened his address by al- luding to the very points we have just been discussing. "You are doubtless aware" he observed, "that a lull prevails in the market for landed property just at present. Perhaps some of the shareholders are dis- appointed because the premises remain unsold. In this connection have to assure you that no tangible offer was ever made for the property to the directors. We had intended to consult you so soon as a reliable offer was made, but this never came to pass." It would therefore appear that all the semi- official reports current a few months ago, as to the various offers made for the Hotel, probability, in view of the large public in- were nothing more or less than pure fabri- terest at stake in other companies, which cations, stock exchange rumours circulated renders the hostility to the Directors of the for very evident reasons. We are not Hotel Company, and the views they have aware to whom responsibility should attach expressed with regard to their rights, for this piece of "ulling and bearing" privileges, responsibilities, and their re-finesse, nor, is it our business to enquire. muneration something for more than a If speculators choose to rush blindly into petty squabble inaugurated for interested time transactions of this character without THE PORT, CUSTOMS, CONSULAR, motives, and maintained for the mere sake taking the slightest trouble to thoroughly of factious opposition. It may not be un-investigate the actual state of affairs, they interesting to take a cursory glance at the have only themselves to blame when the actual position of the Hongkong Hotel crash comes. It should never be forgotten Company, and the general proceedings that in the great game of speculation, no which are supposed to have led up to the matter whether it be in bonds, shares, Emente of Thursday last.

stocks, property, horses, or even in matri- mony, we cannot all be winners. There must be losers, and people who lose sight of this self-evident fact, have no room to complain, if the cards do not always turn up trumps. Mr. BELILIOs distinctly stated that no tangible offer for the Hotel was ever made to the directors. It would be Interesting to know if any offer was made, and if so, the particulars of the same. It wasno doubt gratifying for the shareholders to learn that the directors were on good terms with the lessees, and that Messrs. DoRABJEE and HING KEE continued to do

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The Hotel Company is supposed to possess a nominal capital of $200,000, represented by the Hotel property, made up by 2,000 shares of $100 each, the whole of the shares having been paid in full. The Company possesses no reserve fund, paid a dividend of two and a half per cent. for the half year just ended, and is in THE

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On Wednesday, 21st December, a meeting of the seismological society of Japan was held in

There is another point which has struck us, and that is whether the affairs of the Hotel Company could not be satisfactority conducted on a different principle-without the active assistance of any Board of Di- rectors. The hotel is leased for a term of years, and until the expiration of that term the work of directors can only be of a most nominal character. The Company's se- cretary has the accounts and balance-sheet the rooms of the Imperial University in Tokiyo, to draw up half yearly, and the supervi sion of this would appear to constitute the Mr. Hatton, the President, occuping the chair. entire labors and responsibilities of the paper. by Professer Ewing, describing some Board. As the affairs and prospects of experiments in electricity and magnetism, was followed by a Note "On the transmission of the concern are not particularly bright.or flattering, we can easily understand a gene-H. S. Palmer, R.E. In 1874, whilst Major vibrations produced by railway trains," by Major ral desire that the income should be judi- Palmer was in New Zealand in charge of the ciously applied on principles of the most British Government expedition to that colony for rigid economy, consistent of course with observing the Transit of Venus, he had to choose

the special requirements of the Company. a site for an observatory near to the Burnham The idea conveyed in the above sugges-Railway station. As it was found that passing tion is also for the shareholder's considera- tion.

trains, although at a distance of 400 yards, produced agitation of the surface of a dish of mercury, experiments were made to determine what depth of excavation would be necessary in order that the foundations of the instrument. piers might be secure from such disturbance. The result of the experiments was that the dis- turbance was found to diminish with the depth, the bottom of an excavation 38 feet deep, the and that, when the dish of mercury was placed at sun's image, viewed by reflection from it with a portable transit instrument, showed no sign whatever of disturbance. In connection with these experiments Major Palmer incidently men. tioned a curious fact which came under notice some years ago at the Greenwich Observatory. The observers found that, from time to time, at

A NOTIFICATION appears in the Ganelle as follows:-With reference to paragraph 5 of the Hongkong Postal Guide, it is notified that sugar,

soap, and candles must henceforth be regarded as objects which cannot be sent by post. The for- warding of samples of these substances, even enclosed in tin boxes, is therefore prohibited from this date.

We hear of telegraphic advices from the North stating that the winter so far has been unusually mild, so much so indeed that the Feiho river between Tientsin and Péking has not yet been frozen over. It is therefore believed that the But this is evidently mere conjecture based on opening of the river will be later than usual. the mildness of the season.

THE programme for the Hongkong Race Meet- ing of 1882 was issued this afternoon. Although there is a perceptible falling off in some of the old standing dishes, such as the Wong-nci-cheong Stakes, Garrison Cup, Derby, and Foochow Cup, alarge increase in the griffin races more than makes up for the absence of old ponies. In the Challenge Cup, a forced entry, the names of no less than 65 ponies appear, as compared with 55 in 1881. The subscription griffin races are extensively patronised with 24 in the Valley stakes, and rate sport. We shall deal exhaustively with the German Cup, events which should produce first

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THE Pester Lloyd says that Ferdinand de Lesseps has been an Othello, though without the miserable ill-luck of shakespeare's swarthy hero. Like Othello, he won his present beautiful wife by the narration of his adventures and dangers.

In conclusion we would venture to express a hope that the mutual bickerings and recriminations indulged in at the last meeting will be conspicuous by their absence to-morrow afternoon. Whatever differences of opinion may exist between directors and shareholders can surely be amicably arranged and adjusted; or, if that be impossible, the usual course under such circumstances should be pursued legitim- ately, without offensive expressions being used on elther side. The disagreeable and personal character of some of the allusions

considerable intervals, there would be an even- M. de Lesseps is now on the verge of eighty, but made last Thursday were altogether un-

the collimation error of the transit circle by ness and freshness of youth, and he has been necessary and in very bad taste, and it is the when the usual observations for determining in spite of his great age he retains the hopeful- means of reflection in a tray of mercury could compered, in this respect, to Pythagoras, Titian, therefore to be hoped that feelings of self- respect, and remembrance of what is due not be taken, on account of the constant trem-and Alexander von Humboldt, and even to those to the Company and to the public, will pre-bling of the surface of the mercury. For some heroes of Indian legend who enjoy their life twice vent what may be a stormy meeting, from time the staff were greatly puzzled by this pheno- over. At the age of sixty-eight M. de Lesseps menon, until at length, a series of the dates of was left a widower, and had a troop of grown-up degenerating into vulgar rowdyism.

its occurrence having been obtained and ex sons and daughters. some few years after it was amined, it was found that these dates coincided reported, to the amazement of the world, that with the public and bank holidays. On those the septuagenarian had married a young creals days crowds of the poorer classes of London maiden of astonishing beauty, who has since flock for amusement to Greenwich Park, and a brought him six children. In a certain Parisian favourite pastime with the young people, often family, where M. de Lesseps often visited, there prolonged until after nightfall, is to clainber to wasa bevy offive sisters. The old man delighted the top of the steep slopes of the hill on which to gather them around him, and relate stirring the Observatory stands, and then, joining hands episodes from his travels. One day, while speak

threes, to bolt precipitately to the ing of his experiences in Palestine, he said that in twos bottom, where "as may be imagined; they he had undergone great dangers, and difficulties usually arrive all in a heap." Hundreds join in amongst the Arabs because they could not this sport every fine evening, and the result, as conceive how a man could live without a wife." shown by the behaviour of the mercury, is to set The prettiest of the sisters innocently asked, the whole of Flamstced fill in a tremor which "Why then, do you not marry again " "Be- does not subside until early next morning, many cause I am too old," replied M. de Lesseps. hours after the people have left. After these "Besides," he added, "if I were to fall in love two papers there was a lengthy discussion. with a young girl, it would be absurd to think that

IT is reported that a change of some importance is impending in the constitution of one of the coast steamer companies at prescat having Its bead office at shanghat. The head-quarters are to be removed to London, the local shareholders paid off, and the Company re-organized in Eng- land under the auspices of the present agents. If rumour is correct there are other changes likewise impending regarding another line of steamers running on the waters of the great blue river.

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of hard facts-figures which cannot lie-is, so well. The present lessees of the Hong-YESTERDAY we published a paragraph to the to say the least, passing strange, Thekong Hotel are deservedly popular public effect that a gun accident had happened at Wuhu, wherein a Customs Officer whilst out Hotel has been leased to the present lessees men, and the community must be glad to for a period of five years at a monthly ren receive such authoritative evidence of their shooting, by accident, shot his wife.. According to fonn, the officer in question placed his re- LARGELY ORDERED IN ALL PORTS mistake in estimating to a fraction the real character of the institution has been vastly Customs pending the inquiry into the affair. The possibility of applying some of Professor Ewing's observed his questioner. Lesseps told his young value of the scrip, as the liabilities of the improved under the present régime, and natter was duly brought before the Consul at discoveries to the solution of problems in practical listeners about the rose of Jericho, which, after Company, and other items of expenditure there was certainly room for improvement Wuhu, and after full investigation, the official, engineering, Professor Paul spoke at some length being dried and placed in water, again bursts are as well known as the amount of in- and without wishing to be captious, we Mr. Ramasse, was exonerated from all blame, on the subject of earth-tremors, in the investigation but into bloom. Soon afterwards he obtained come.. It is not so long ago since Hotel think something more might be done to and reinstated in his position-Shanghai of which he himself had made many experiments. one of these roses, and presented it to the young Professor Milne referred to experiments on artifi girl In a few days she appeared with the re Shares were a drug in the market at some place the Hongkong Hotel on a level with Courier, 1

cial earthquakes made at the Akabane works in blossomed rose in her hand which she gave to thing like 50 per cent discount, and it is similar houses of entertainment in other An extraordinary marriage which deserves special Tokiyo. some of the disturbances were caused the honoured guest, saying at the same time, likely enough that but for reported pros- commercial centres in the Far East.. It is note, was celebrated at St. Xavier Chapel, Wan- by dropping a heavy iron ball from a height of "See what a miracle the water has effected upon pects of being able to dispose of the difficult to comprehend the motive of Mr. chal, yesterday afternoon by the Rev. Father about 35 feet. Others which had been made the rose; it is the blossoming of love in old age." property on most advantageous terms dur- BELILIOS's allusion to the decoration of the Vigano. The bridegroom was a sprightly youth quite recently had been produced by the exple. Their eyes met, and M. de Lesseps, 'believing sion of charges of dynamite. These latter ex- that his Desdemona had a meaning in what she ing the property manis amongst Chinese Hotel during the visit of the Princes, un-of something under thirty; the blushing bride a speculators, the stock would have been less the Company paid for the illumina dashing widow who had seen sixty summers and periments, which gave very large motions of the did, quietly said, "If you really think that you quoted at that rate at the present time. It tions, which is hardly likely, and under winters come and go. What brought June and ground, were very kindly undertaken by Mr.. dare venture to share the remaining years of an perhaps it will be better not to attempt to guess. Nobel & Co. The point to which Professer it is very uncertain whether the bald projector cannot be disguised that during the period existing circumstances, the proposal to and November together it is difficult to say, and John Reid, a representative in Japan of Messi old man, bere is my hand." But for his marriage of insane speculation, to which we have al- increase the auditors' fees would appear The bride had the pleasure of greeting round the Milne especially called attention, was that deep would have undertaken his laborious task at luded, the stock of the Hotel Company was to have been I timed and injudicious, marriage table, her venerable mother, one of her ground had an effect in partially cutting off the Panama. She is always at his side, and has made the medium of most reckless gam- This was apparently the last straw wanted daughters, a dozen grand-children, and two great-vibrations, the ground behind it being as Pro been his chief help and support throughout his bling, and it is perfectly certain, not only to break the camel's back, as Mr. TAYLOR, grand-children. The strangely assorted couple fessor Ewing remarked, so to speak in shadow arduous conflicts with politicians, money-lenders,

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