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Eutimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO.

AND

CHEMISTS,

FAMILY

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, DRUGGISTS' 'SUNDRYMEN,

PERFUMERS,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1883.

had the approval of the entire mercantile.com munity. The Company subsequently applied to the Chamber of Commerce for support in its application to the Government for permission to lay a cable across the harbour. The Cham ber, in the first place, wrote to the Com

uniform tariff

On bringing this under the notice of the Tuz Naghraki Express understands that an- Wa Hop Company, Mr. Ho Axxi, the other attempt is about to be made to raise the managing director briefly disposes of it wreck of the M.B.M. Co's Sumida Marn, by thus-It is false. The Canton Tele-nicans of lighters.

A NIGHT WITH HASELMAYER.

(BY AN OLD STAGER.) It requires a great attraction in the exhibition line to drag "An Old Stager" from the comforts of a cool verandah and a comfortable "long proverbial wild horses could not manage it some tincs,hawever, the last appearance in this part of the globe of the world-renowned Professor and Madame Haselmayer, was something so far out of the ordinary run

*"show" - that' I could of travelling resist the temptation of passing a couple of hours studying the wonderfully clever illusions of the greatest of living prestidigitateurs. Accordingly I turned up at the City Hall with my usual punctuality, where, notwithstanding the trying weather, a very fair house had assembled, in- cluding a goodly sprinkling of the so-called softer

not

'courage and judgement, as he ought, before? taking upon himself to represent us, to have con aulted us before-land and tave made himself uc- qualhted to a certain extent as to our views and as to what amount was likely to be raised for the poned till the 24th instant to enable Dr. Hal memorial in question. That meeting was jina

subscribed by the Chinese. 1. may mention that was proposed as a member of the mentorial committee, but I declined to stand in conséquence of the alight which I considered had been cast on the Chinese,The question, I have already

DISPENSING pany through its manager asking whether the graph Company has never entered into THE Courier states that about 40 natives have chair" after a heavy dinner in the dog-days-the to give some idea of what would be the amount

Company were prepared to give certain guaran-any agreement with 'the E. Extension A died from cholera in Shanghai since the begin: tees-Firstly that all messages conveyed over &C. Tel. Co." So much for the manifestoning of this month. Four deaths occurred in the line would be sent at secondly, as to whether all lines of maritime of Mr. WALTER JUBD. On further injury we. Hongkew on Tuesday, the 17th inst." communication would be entitled to pass their find that since the opening of the Wa Hop We read in a Shanghai contemporary (the messages over the land line of the Company Company's line on the 9th inst, the amount Courier) that a Chinaman in the Settlement land, thirdly, whether the Company would give guarantees that all reasonable regulations of the due by the Company to the Great Northern who was bitten by a mad dog two months ago,

died the other day from hydrophobia, Hongkong Government with regard to the cable for the transmission of messages amounts would be carried out. The manager promptly

to 8:65,66-and the amount paid in cash The Shanghai Gas Company, to encourage the gave the requisite guarantees, and the Chamber of Commerce then wrote to the Goverment, to the Eastern Extension $604,89. Com-employment of gas-engines and cooking stoves, warmly supporting the application of the Com-

IMPORTERSAND EXPORTERS

OP

MANILA CIGARS, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

AND MANUFACTURERS

ailuded to as having been put to Dr. Ho Kai op- Collect a larger subscription than the foreign peared to me in this light. If the Chinese can community they will be allowed to co-operate in erecting the two memorials; but in event of the Chinese subscription: being found less than that of the foreigners, they will be re quested to do their best with regard to the Sir

pany for permission to lay a cable across. the ment on the above would be superfluous; I have decided to reduce the price of gas supplied sex. After our popular local neaestré, Signor Richard MacDonnell: memorial and leave the

great surprise the announcement that the home

will doubtless find no difficulty

AERATED WATERS. Government had declined to accede to the ap-in forming an opinion as to the cause of

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

plication, without giving any reasona for their refusal. I think the decision is a most de plorable one, and to use a Chinese expression, is calculated to blacken the face of this colony. On the one hand we have a British minister. at Peking using every effort to induce the Chinese Goverment to consent to the laying of an English cable to various open ports along the coast of China, and we know the ebloquy with which the Chinese Government is loaded because it refuses to adopt Western methods of progress; and now we have the spectacle of the Government of this colony refusing to lend its support to an enterprise, which has for its 13 object the laying of a cable across this har

THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, 24, Nankin ROAD, SHANGHAI,

BOTICA INGLES A, 14. ESCOLTA, MANILA.

THE CANTON DISPENSARY, CANTON.

·THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is requested that all communications rela ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph"

and not to the Editor.

Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor" and not to individual members of the staff.

colonial disgrace."

bour, notwithstanding the fact that reasonable guarantees have been given for the protection of the public. Sir, I can only say that I hope you will be able to give us some explanation which will relieve us from a position which I believe to con as it at present stands, of national and In seconding Mr. Johnson's proposal, Mr.. P. Rrkie confessed that at one time he shared the view taken by the Government as he was then under the impression that, the Great Northern Telegraph Company

all this trouble, which has already so pre- judicially affected the general commercial interests of this Colony.

TELEGRAM S...

LONDON, July 21st, THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT. The mortality from cholera in Cairo amounts to 140 daily.

to

1,000 cubic feet.

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THE Nagasaki Rising Sun of the 14th instant, says "On Sunday last, the newly appointed The sand Regiment and a detachment-of-the-Catholic Bishop for Korea, Rev. Father Blanc, 60th Regiment at Cairo have been ordered to was duly consecrated by Bishop Feltean in the local Catholic Cathedral. The ceremony was a Suez..

THREATENED BLOCKADE

In the French Senate the Minister of Foreign Affairs said he would not hesitate to establish a blockade if any power supplied Annam with

arms and ammunition.

Communications intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of good faith.

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-had claimed to have a monopoly of land-will leave the Cosmopolitan Dock to-morrow. graph will always be open for the fair discussioning all marine cables on the coast of China; by correspondents of all questions affecting public but as that notion had been exploded by interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res- reliable information which had been furn- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

ished him, he cordially supported his col- league's action. His Excellency in reply

TO ADVERTISERS. 'Advertisers are requested to forward all notices Intended for insertion in that day's issue not later

than THREE O'CLOCK so as not to retard the early publication of the paper.

remarked:-

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE Spanish steamer Churrute will go over to Kowloon Dock, and the British steamer Danube We are informed by the agents, Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co., that the steamer Benglor left Singapore for this port on the 22nd instant, and is due to arrive here on or about the 29th. THE River steamers White Cloud, and Kinng chow have suspended their trip to Macao and Canton respectively, owing to the impending bad weather and have gone over to Yau-ma-il for

very impressive one, and lasted over three hours There was a very large congregation of native converts, and a number of foreign résidents present

WITH reference to the report of the Hankow

correspondent of the Couries, mentioned in our

MacDonnell, as we all know, patiently listened to

final result was that Shek Lok and his associates were found to have been falsely accused," "and

and granted the prayer of this petition, and the

these engines and stoves, the first of

the foreign community as was at first proposed." masterly (ashion, the curtain rose, and Professor: I think that almost all of you will ses the matter August next. The rate will now be $4,50 per by playing a selection from one of the operas in a Haselmayer introduced himself to his audience

in the same light as I do myself, and I repeat that SHE is definition and demolishment by the Oba wonderful knack of quickly placing by Dr. Ho Kai being asked at that meeting how in a few well chosen words. Herr Hascimayer a distinct slight was cast upon our community sirver: "An agnostic is one who asserts that himself on good terms with the spectators he in much we would subscribe. I will now ask your it is impossible for us to know anything with tends to astonish and mystify, an invaluable gift attention for a time while I mention some of the certainty. If he knows that, then he knows which very few public performers possess. In things done for us by Sir Richard MacDonnell a very few minutes he was distributing cards and Sir John Pope Hennessy, who really did something. And if he knows something, he is

amongst the audience, pleasantly chatting not an, agnostic,"

the while, and performing some of the 90 work on behalf of the Chinese community. I do come to the following summary of the most wonderful sleight of hand tricksly ever sean, People often ask how he manages to benevolent actions of the two Governors whose do such seemingly wonderful things; they might merits we are met here to discuss. In times gone. spare themselves all trouble in the matter as by the mutual intercourse between Chinese and The closer they watch, investigate and think, the foreigners was of such a nature-as-10-render further they get from tire truth, Professor Hasel-communication between those who were looked mayer as an exponent of feats of sleight of hand down upon as being the lower classes of the or leger-de-main, is certainly a. gem of the first Chinese, and the officials governing Hongkong, of Sir Richard MacDonnell, that worthy gentle- water. That trick of changing the block of malter of extreme difficulty. Upon the advent wood and the orange from one table to another without touching them is very cleverly worked man took pains to make himself acquainted with but "An Old Stager" fancies he has spotted the general views entertained by the Chinese the mystery. There were lots of other wonderful community, with the apparent desire of giving those views a fair measure of impartial considera THE steamer Posang, which arrived at Shang-

illusion in the first half of the programme tion. With reference to the grave doubts which hai on the 19th, reports passing a three-masted but space will only permit me to briefly refer existed as to the justice of the punishments steamer, with-yards-on-foremast, having a yellow to the "Cabinet Mystery. The particulars awarded to the well-known Shek Lok wat and black funnel similar to the C.M.S.N. Co.'s of this apparently marvellous exhibition has been others who were convicted of a serious crime, steamers, about 30 miles E. by S. of Bulloch-so frequently described that it would be only many of you will remember that amongst the waste of time going into details, especially as we lower orders of Chinese irrefragable proofs ex- Harbour, heading about S.E. S., under fore should be just as far from the truthas ever, as tosted that these alleged criminals had been and aft canvas and apparently not steaming. the means by which the accomplished Madame

and accordingly a petition was forwarded to seconds in getting rid of her fetters, and working. Sir Richard MacDonnell who, as Governor of of any kind. The Posang hoisted her flags but got no reply Haselmayer succeeds in the course of a few falsely accused and most unjustly sentenced, her way out of her temporary prison.. The i the Colony, directed the then Chief Justice to re- plauded.

and to bestow greater attention to the evidence lusion was of course loudly and deservedly aptry the case in which these men were implicated The performance on the stylocaffe by the Probefore the Court in all such important matters as fessor was as clever as of old, and invoked an those whereon human-life depended. Governor enthusiastic encore, which was graciously ac excited a vast amount of curiosity, and when he ceded to. Psycho, the automaton whist player, and partner landed the odd trick in a very evenly played game, the audience showed their appre temporary animation to the figure, by a torrent known to His Excellency, and the people who had falsely accused the previously condemned persons of applause. I heartily sympathised with the ciation of the inventive genius who had given were duly released upon the facts becoming Professor when be introduced Psycho. On res were in their turn punished to the full extent of which the rigid Justice of Govenor Mac take part in the game of whist with the automaton, Donnell's administration in the matter "was questing three gentlemen to step on the stage and the law. Since this circumstance took place, in person in the audience of the "greaser" persua conspicuously displayed, a wholesome tatue man was not an engineer but a "grenser" pure who might have otherwise falsely accused colony I regret to say either mistook the insense of peace and security, was felt by the peo and simple, of a class much too common in this their fellow creatures of wrong-doing, and ag vitation, or made the strange blunder of fancying ple that had been hitherto unknown. The that he was, by any stretch of imagination, within slave wade of the colony, otherwise known as a measurable distance of having anything in com-selling pig's children," and the cruelty and ty mon with gentility. However, Mr. "Greaser" be-

ranny attendant thereon, which of themselves haved like a hog and a "greaser" and had were greyous to both eye and ear, was ther

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1883.

accordingly to retire ignominiously from the papao and bther places with equally For Haselmayer bad announced that he their bead quarters. Sir, Richard MacDonnell, Oxg of the most inexplicable acts of Her So far all scents plain sailing-excepting stlong typhoon," said the man, as he regained we refer to the British Consul at Chefoo. Some would explain the mystery of his wonderful on becoining thoroughly acquainted with this time ago, we read in that "milk and water paper" "Goblin Drum," and he kept his promise most state of affairs, at once grappled with the Majesty's Government in connection with the refusal of the Secretary of State to

WE regret to state that robberies in banks, stares, the Temperance Union, that such was the case: faithfully, although I gravely doubt if any of the evil, taking it,in band insuch a masterly manner·

spectators were much wiser after he had finished. the history of Hongkong is undoubtedly concede what was patent to the meanest the refusal of the Secretary of State to capacity could only prove beneficial to the etc., from people visiting those places for busi. we did not believe it, but just took it for their The strange hieroglyphics on the blackheard, as to set the fears of the people completely at

of Hongkongness sanction the landing in this colony of a commercial interests submarine cable to connect the land line Practical people in this Colony are not to quent. This is the latest. One day last week We published a letter last night from a corres-unknown tongue, his speaking gestures with theith the evil in a like manner and so have it

a gentleman from Formosa, who is now staying pondent at Chefeo, asking if it is customary for divining rod, and above all, the roll of the be blamed if they ask why this mercantile at the Hongkong Hotel, had occasion to go to British subjects to pay a tax to the British Gov-theaters commed a colerable explanation of the mystery to those who previously knew all community should be made to suffer for the Hongkong Dispensary on business and had erament for keeping on hotel, &c.? Were we in about it. However, the evening's entertainment the rivalries of two opposing Telegraph with him $300, in two $100 notes and the balance the place of hotel keepers we would refuse to pay was a capital one, and was apparently highly Companies and the supineness, stupidity or in small notes. Upon leaving the premises the such a tax. The Consul is not placed in the appreciated by a delighted audience.

State and his wire-pullers, Great Northern Company constructed the Canton-Hongkong line; the Eastern Extension were supposed to have been slighted. and left out in the cold, and so troubles arose. Mr. BULKELEY JOHNSON expressed our views of the matter to the Legislative Council-views which have on

· TO SUBSCRIBERS.

shelter.

With regard to the matter of the Wa Hop Telegraph Company, I take this opportunity of stating that there is no objection on the part of the Colonial Government to that 'Company lay- Sub- loon to this City--a distance of about four miles-left Chefoo to finish her survey of the approaches. publishing a cable from the present terminus at Kow-THE British surveying vessel Flying Fish has receive instructions that all applications in connec

But the Imperial Government have given strict to Seoul We hear the work is being carried- oblige by tion with the subject of telegraphic exten-

out in a very superior style. It is to be hoped sion shall be referred for consideration to the the new charts may be soon in the market. Secretary of State for the Colonies. Accord-

The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 Pat. Arrangements have been made to scribers in the central districts who their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK

at once communicating with the Manager.

BIRTH.

columns yesterday, to-the-effect that the China Merchants Co.'s steamers Kiang-yang and Kiang-kwan (1) at present laid up in Shanghal, were to be employed running between Hong kong and Canton, the journal above named has

entirely without foundation. instituted inquries, and finds that the rumour is SURENDRO NATH BANERJEE, editor of the journal Bungat, has been sentenced to two months' imprisonment for contempt of Court, by Morris, one of the Judges of the High Court of Judicature, in which he compared him to Judges jeffreys and Scroggs. During the proceedings the court was guarded by a strong body of police, owing to a riotous crowd having assembled out-

ingiy, the late Administrator of the Government WHILST a ricksha man was having a bowl of publishing a libelled's attack on Mr. Justice -sion-engineers are not to be offended as this has been instilled into the minds of those

At Chefoo, on the 12th instant, the wife of JAS. (Mr. Marsh) so referred the first application of KIRKWOOD, I. C. N., of a daughter.'"'.

the Wa Hop Telegraph Company. The reply was to this effect; "Her Majesty's event com bave thought it well, in view of the present com- plicated condition of telegraphic arragements in China, that the permission which has been ap plied for should not be granted." I have re cently forwarded for favourable consideration a second application from the Wa Hop Telegraph Co. That is how the matter stands how."

The Hongkong Telegraph

The

congee this afternoon at a stall on the Prays, the wind caught the hood of his vehicle and drave it towards the water with such velocity that but for the philanthropic assistance of some coolies who happened to be close by, the two wheeler would have got a ducking, as the shafts were the only available parts to hold on to from the shore. Hal-yahil too muches, Mercury, is trying to make a name for himselfge, amidst the jeers of the audience Prof wicked, reputations, wherein the kidnappers had

his 'ricksha.

side.

ANOTHER British official, says the Shanghai

rest and furthermore, communicated with the

of the Canton-Hongkong Wa Hop Tele- graph. Company at the terminus on the Chinese mainland with the city of Victoria. This exhibition of childish perverseness, for it is nothing else, on the part of Lord something worse of the Secretary of gentleman in question found that the money he position he holds to tax British subjects, but to fessor addressed a few kindly words to the audi- pirks.had been abducted from their native shores KIMBERLEY, who was at the time Colonia! Secretary, cannot by any possible means be attributed to reasonable political causes; we are therefore constrained to believe that his lordship's judgment was either warped or misled by gross misrepresentations from the Hongkong government, or underhand influences of a powerful character were at

see that they are not imposed upon. He is paid to look after the rights of British subjects: He, of course, accounts for the tax to the Legation.

it in a separate account, so that it can be pub Then we suppose the Consular auditor will pat lished in the estimates, say as "Taxes collected in China," which will surprise those who criticise the estimates in Parliament.

work, which ultimately induced the Im- several occasions been aired in these most unheard of dodges to show credit balances THE Japan Daily Herald says:-Most of the have had the pleasure of knowing them."An the Chinese Hospital in order that everything

perial government to issue the meanest and most contemptible ukase we ever ro- member to have seen associated with a Liberal government in free and enlightened Great Britain,

For months before the edict of Lord KINDEELZY was published; prohibiting the landing of the Chinese company's cable on this island, it was currently reported In the Colony that such prohibition was certain to be enforced. That was a plain proof in itself that powerful influence of some kind or other, both within this Colony and in England, had been invoked to per petrate a must contemptible act of injustice. What that powerful underhand Influence was, everybody knows right well; but nobody cares to open out their minds on the subject.

What are the facts of the case?. At the meeting of the Legislative Council held on the 20th inst. Mr. BULLELEY JOHNSON in asking that certain correspondence be tween the Government and the Chamber of Commerce, relating to the matter, be laid on the table said :-

"This motion of which I have given notice, asking that certain papers connected with the. application of the Canton-Hongkong Wa-Hop Telegraph Company to lay a cable across the harbour be laid on the table, has for its object to elleit from Your Excellency some declaration or explanation regarding the circumstances of the decision which has been arrived at with regard to the application which I have referred to,

in order that the colony may be rescued from what I consider. to be a position of very great discredit. The Canton-Hongkong Telegraph Company is, as everyone knows, exclusively a Chinese company, formed for the purpose of connecting Canton with the opposite side of the harbour by a land line of electric telegraph, and for the further object of connect Canton with the maritime cables which have their terminus in this port. 1.believe the Com pany's application for support to the administra tion of your predecessor met with a promise of very cordial support, and I believe that promise

completely eradicated. He further enforced strict prohibitive regulations upon vessels ine tending to traffic in coelies, forbidding them to these rules being issued the coolie trade" enter into the port of Hongkong at all. Upon At the conclusion of the performance the Pro. became virtually dead as far as Hongkong and Macas were concerned Women and young bad with him upon entering the store had dis

ence, thanking them heartily for their patronage to become prostitutes for worse in foreign lands, are to be compared with the males kidnapped to appeared. There were a number of Chinese in

and support. He niso gracefully alluded to his

foreign lands to became laboring slaves, their fates in Hongkong, and said that he was "bidding the Dispensary at the time. The matter has

obligations to the Press, expressed his own and and when the sufferings of these unfortunates were fac morn deplorable. But since Sir Richard them good bye for ever." And 10 this accom- MacDonnell promulgated the Coolle Trade Pro- been placed in the hands of the police who are

Madame's thanks for many courtesies received

endeavoring to find the missing money.

plished artiste, who may be truly said to represent hiblive Ordinance & the people have experienced the power of thought the magic of the mind, that sense of protection which had been to them with his talented wife pass away fromthis colony hitherto unknown and they consequently regarded HONGKONG share investors and speculators

bearing with them the good wishes of all who hum as their benefactor. The establishment of would appear to be wasting their time and ener gics "bulling" and "bearing" and trying the

Old Stager" sincerely wishes them bon voyages might be done to alleviate the sufferings of those and continued success and prosperity

aulicted with disease and which has borne good. at settling days-if the share liat published by English Admirals who have flown their flags on

fruit as can be seen in the result that almost columns-and stated the case with perfect that most reliable of eastern newspapers the this station have been excessively popular, but fairness and with moderation. The result China Mall is not a delusion and a snare. In the same can scarcely be said of the present CHINESE MEMORIALS TO GOV. Innumerable liver have been rescued from a premature grave, was also to some considerable ERNORS MAC-DONNELL AND

extent due to Governor MacDonnell, who warmly is inevitable. Lord DERBY is quite a dif- the latest share list published by our evening Vice-Admiral, and it is but rarely that a mall

HENNESSYLASH supported the project, and gave to the

Chinese ferent person from his predecessor; the contemporary the closing canh quotation of arrives from any of the coast ports but what

jasa piece of ground for the purpose required, and Wa Hop Company are certain to obtain the Hongkong Fires is set down as $350 per share there is some complaint of his vagaries. This

cially connected himself with the leading GREAT MEETING AT THE TUNG WA HOSPITALL

These yof the Colony has onler that his privilege they ask for a privilege which it and the last dividend proportionate to that figure, time it is the N. C. Daily News which com-

A specially convened meeting of the leading these troubious times, when a collision may break

might be furthermore pushed forward. was a dishonour to the British Government that for the year 1881, is fixed at $80. If these plaine, and apparently very sensibly, that just at

themselves. Any visitor can look to refuse in the first instance, During the figures are accurate, substantial fortunes ought construction of the line it was broadly to be made with far less. trouble than is usus out at any moment, and when masses of Chinese Chinese residents of the colony was held on The good works accomplished by this Hospital

with the share dealing community. We were soldiers are encamped in the neighbourhood of Sunday the 22nd inst at noon in the hall of be speak

has governed, and I leave them" to`szy hinted to the principal Director of the Wa under a sort of hazy impression that the dividend Shanghai, all the ships of the fleet which possess Tung Wa Hospital for the purpose of considering around and see the rules by which the institution Hop Company that if he took the contract of $80 was paid on shares of the value of con any strength, and which would be enabled to proposal that the Chinese community should erect whether these rules are not good ones, and from the Great Northern and gave it to siderably over $1000; but then the Ananfar and land a body of man in the event of an mirute, auitable memorials to Sir Richard MacDonnell whether they have not been faithfully carried

are at once called away to dance round the Vice and Sir John Pope Hennessy as a mark. the Eastern Extension, all opposition to the "the inventor of Gribble" ought to know best,

Admiral at Chefos. Probably at the time they nition and in appreciation of the great ser landing of the cable in Hongkong would SAYS the Shanghai Mercury of the zoth inst: are wanted down south, they will be up at Bar- rendered to the Chinese interests of Hongkong be withdrawn. The Director declined to The Council had a special meeting (on the racouta Harbour, or some other place where no during their separate terms of services as do anything of the kind, and we know Si-yung case) last night, during which they telegram can reach them. As for Japan, one gunernor of the colony. There was say what has since happened. Another equally celved the correspondence from the Senior Consul. boat distributes itself as well as it possibly can amusing Incident is worth mentioning. They took a most ill judged stop, by sending in between this port and Kobe whilst from some Since the opening of the line the Wa to the city at 10 p.m. the required guarantee by whim of the Admiral-Nagasaki is entirely Hop Company has received several the bands of the Superintendent of Police, with ignored. If may be that a powerful squadron is broad hints from government sources to ten constables, to ask (7) for the rendition then sent out here simply to do escort duty to the again officially apply for leave to land and there of Si-yung. The whole proceeding admiral, but if an admiral is so precious that was extremely injudicious, particularly the this is requisite, it would be better to do with the cable in Hongkong; and it is a prac display of force. The Tostal refused to deliver out one and we are almost, tempted to make the

So far the working of the Wa Hop Co. has met with satisfactory results. But another trouble appears to have arisen in Shanghal. We have before us an "express" dated Shanghai, July 17th, which reads as follows:

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quite as well as, and at much less cost than, a Vice-Admiral."

tical fact that the application has been the men, and we suppose, imitated at the impor same suggestion that a post captain once did, renewed at the request of the Hongkonging force sent to his yamen, said that it would vis, that if economy is the only thing to be Government. One may well ask-Whatnot be safe to send the prisoner through the ex-studied, a captain could command the squadron cited crowd, which he presumed would be out does all this mean?

side. We are inclined to believe that had one of the Consuler body gone to the yamén with one.

EXPECTED TYPHOON. constable, Si-yung would have come back as 16- a.m. to-day. The Toatai has promised to deliver. him to the proper authority-the Chichsien. This

The following telegram, received from Manila, Mandarin has been telegraphed for, and is now was courteously forwarded to us late last night on his way from Shanghal. When the Chelsien by the Harbour Master: A typhoon is raging arrives, Slyung will be handed over to the to the N.N.W. of Luzon near to the coast; its custody of the Municipality, who will of course direction seems to be W.N.W., it is, however, be responsible for his appearance when required, rather uncertain." A heavy breeze is at present The Chelsien may be expected here to-morrow blowing in the Harbour, and from a low bare morning. Si-yung tias been well treated; he has meter and other indications it is not unlikely not been in chains or tortured, and the Total is that severe weather is imminent. The typhoon very indignant at the assertions in the foreign gun was fired at 11.53 am and the janke and press that he had. The prisoner had been sent other small craft are already, secking shelter at to the Tantal in the regular way, through the Causeway Bay, Yau-ma-ti and other havens of

shelter Mixed Court.

EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRALASIA, AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY, The Canton Telegraph Company having failed to observe the terms of an agreement made with the Eastern Extension, Australasia and China Telegraph Company, the latter Company cannot accept telegrams to pass over the Canton line. Such messages should, as previously, be ad- dressed to Canton post Hongkong,

WALTER JUDDY

Superintendent.

By order,

e

Well, Sir Richard MacDonnell misthorised; the Tang WaHospitain Gove sinounting to the handsome sum:- d'and ten thousand dollars; the which was to be devoted to meet expenses of thi

wretched and needy, and in.

unfortunate dead. Suc kus - were incurable had their.

rest by the knowledge that ranted sufficient Donnell had

ance present, including nearly the whole of the principal Chinese merchants and other com merial notabilities in the colony. Dr. Ho who appeared at the Kennedy Memorial Meeti Chinese community, it may be noted, in the City Hall as the representative of the conspicuous by bit absences. On the motion of Mr. Lee Tuk Cheong, President of the Tong Wa Hospital, Mr. Ha Amei, the ex-president of the institution, was called to the chair. In intros docing the subject Mr. Amel, (speaking in Chinese of course) delivered an eloquent address of which the following is a translation

Gentlemen, In rising to speak on the subject for which we have met, I shall first ask Mr. Wel Yuk whether the memoranda in the record book of this Hospital is supposed to be a translation of the speeches made at the City Hall on the ocation of the Kennedy and MacDonnell Memor rial meeting at which Chief Justice, Sir George Phillippo acted as chairman, Me informed wis that the memoranda la record of whattook place at that meeting,

after reading (opinion: the record I have to say that? remarks passed at that meetin cast upon the Chinese At the question Dr. Ho Kail was slaked, stead of asking, the gentleman question as to how much the European could subscribe, simply said he could what surrount the Chinese could subscribe as there of ware so few of them present

could the Chinese wubscribe

berisi Chinese mind. Such matters às

the act inity: ibit?

tell

& be and

could not answer the question ithout cons that

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