the address on the eve of his deputure, on the site of the old Harbour Office,
Captain hom getr, who was muchrmifcetud muid Gentlemen,—I-thank you most sincerely-for- the very kindly feeling which has brought so many of my friends' together to present me with this too flattering address, and its accompanying substantial gift, which I shall dispose of in such manner as you desire. Nothing can be more gratifying to a Public Officer than to know at the end of a long career that he has won the good will and approbation of the community amongst whom he has worked. I am greatly pleased to see in this room so many of my colleagues in the government service, gentlemen with whom, in the Course of iny public duties, I have necessarily been brought much into contact, and who have alwayshadily aided me with advice. for which Iglailly take this opportunity of thanking them. The government of the colony is much bene fitted, and the public are better served, when their officers work together for the common good, (applause.) I ace before me a community of all nationalities second to none, for perseverance. intelligence, uprightness and energy, and the result of these good qualities cannot be better exemplified than by a short review of what has been effected during my time, to raise Hongkong to its present high position in the family of British colonies.
The day I arrived here in January 1858, I saw the P & Memner Cadiz, of 481 tons leave the harbour with the monthly mails for England At the present day you have subsidized lines of barge steamships of as many thousands as we then reckoned hundreds of tons capacity under the Aurritan, Austro-Hungarinn, British, French Gennan, and Italian Angs connecting us with Kumpe and America. Other steamship lines Connect us with India, China, Japan and the , Australian (rilonies, and we have telegraphic communication to almost every place of import ance in the world.
For wint of dock accommodation I have seen ships * hove«lown' for repairs. Now you hare magnificent docks at Kowloon and Aberdeen, one of which is of sufficient ̄size"lo"take"in"any" of our largest battle ships. On your shoïes you have a splendid array of piers, alongside which heavily idea steamers lie, and discharge their Cargos into extensive warehouse's conniceted
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1888.
name unknown, off Portland at 33.m., sustaining the loss of three stanchions, hulwarks on stac board--bow-jibboem rearried-uzway-uzikend shifted out of place, and anchor thrown on deck; damage to schooner unknown.
The Admitally, bave just issued the second edition of the China Sea Directory" The information contained in it being, chiefly derived from the reports of officers employed on the China station, and the information is carefully put together, and shows the various routes that can be used by ships of various drafts between the actual coast line and the shoals and rocks at a distance therefrom.
The following appointments, hava beên made at the Admiralty :-Fleet Paymaster H. B. Robinson, to the Empiricuse, Assistant Pays masters Frederick F. Í Ryan'and B. L.. Hopkins, | to the Impérieuse; Henry W. Braddon, to the Alacrity; Clerks, R. 1. Lee, George, E. Coleridge, W. H. Franklin (Assistant), nad P. L. Ling (Assistant), to the Impérieuse, supernumerary; Sub-Licut. Allen F. Hunt, Gerard J. Sands, naval cadet, Commander Frederick, P. French, and Rev. Hugh K. Mos e, B.A., and Staff Engineer Frederic George Whitaker, Engineer Harry Howard Meadus, to the Empiricuse, all to date March 1st.
The
The periodical public sales of Silk commenced on the 16th inst, and are concluded quantity offered was about 1,500 bales China, 140 bales Japan, 400 bales Canton, 120 bales Tussah, and 40 bales Bengal Raw Silk, with the equivalent of about 120 bales of English grown Silk. The attendance was rather under the average of late years. The biddings may be considered to have been fairly good, and a con- siderable proportion the Silk printed found buyers. Chinas sold somewhat irregularly, bui Cantons were in good demand and' realised full prices. Deliveries 1st to 16th inst., China 688, Japad 49. Canton 167, Tussal 142; total 1,046 bales.
in excess of the wants of the outside world, he
Indian tea
continues in brisk demand, as prices are still at a very moderate standard. in Ceylan there is no change.
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On being asked if he had anything to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, t ferme Yomer satrast ptend polity may load, because i have heard the evidence against me, And find myself quite unable to rebut it but I trust your lordship, will believe me when I declare, as I do most solemnly, that I have not the fristest recollection of what I did on the afternoon' of the 25th February after leaving the And I pray that your lordship Astor House. will be as merciful to me as you can..
His lordship in passing judgment, said-There is no doubt that you have been well advised to plead guilty. The evidence in the depositions takeo before the inagistrate is so clear that no jury could hesitate for a moment in finding you guilty. It is now my painful duty to pass senteare upon you, more especially, painful because of your fang services to the Court. The crime with which you are chargid is one of the worst kariwa to English law, and it is aggravated by the position which you, up to recently, held. I have alrely read the evidence which has been handed in, and listened to your statement, and there is nothing in either of them which to my mind affects the charge, and I cannot pass a less sentence upon you than one of penal servitude for five years.
'The Prisoner 'seemed to be astonished at the sentence. An application was afterwards made to the Chief Justice to allow the prisoner to be nered without being maneled but his Lord- hip said that the jailor thust act upon his own discretion. The prisoner was lien handcuffed ‚ and removed.-N. G. Daily News.
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might he supposed to be ahfe to discriminate between the different qualities of educated for. faizoryctitrio by se menu certain that they | have attained to this power, The names of half-a-dozen prominent individuals in the Chinese "Governinent service, at home or abroad, might be mentioned who have evidenced tumentable incapacity to distinguish gold from tigsel among their foreign acquaintances, and if at any time the task smuld devolve on the Ministers of the Tsung-li Yamén to fill vacancies, a thing which has never yet occurred, the effect may be akin to that of a committee of blind men choosing
·wall-paper.—Chinese Tímės.
TIENTSIN
"March toth, 1888. The little tow-boat the Sea Gull, belonging to the new Taku Lighterage Company, passed over the bar and entered the l'eibo on the 6th instant is said two sailing vessels of suitable draught and cargo capacity have been bought to come here, be dismantled, and fitted to serve a lighters. is also said the new company will at a future time enlarge its fleet,
Co-vap's Advertisements.
1. PUBLIC AUCTION,
THE Undersigned has received instructions from H.M. Naval Store-keep r to Sell by Public Auction, on
TUESDAY,
the 27th instant, at Nook, at FLM. Naval Yard, SUNDRY NAVAL AND VICTUALLING CONDEMNED STORES, Comprising:- OLD IRON, PAPEṚ STAFF, HOSES, CHOCOLATE, FLOUR, BISCUIT DUST, IMPLEMENTS..
&c.
St.,
&c., TERMS OF SALE-As Customary.
J. M. ARMSTRONG,
Government Auctioneer. Hongkong, 20th March, 1888.
The river band is now, thanks to the energetic and practical Municipal Secretary, Mr. Smith, in EOTHEN MARK
betler condition than ever befire. The steamer piers have in some cases been renewed, others extended and strengthened, and the bund is in
Masonic.
CA HTAY*
I
No. 1165.
CHA
REGULAR CONVOCATION of the
A chapter will be held in FARRMA-
SONS' HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the 36th inst., at 8.30 for 9 PM. precisely.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1888,
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Or
ENGLISH, AMERICAN AND HONGKONG MADE HOUSEHOLU FURNITURE,
PIANO, ORGAN, &C.",
132; T
LO,D GE
OF HONGKONG, No. 264,
REGULAR MEETING of the above
excellent order. The lighting still leaves sore- thin the desired, but we hope the beautiful A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS
new lamp posts, cast at the Takut Dock, and fine specimens of iron founding, will soon have sone foun of coal, oil, or hydrocarban gas, fur illuminant.
which have been here during the winter-most- On Monday the 5th inst, the two guolioats welcome guards, the Vibre and Merlin, re- moved the mat sheds which housed in their decks, and in a few days bath craft will be com- pleted for sea, coaled, painted, and ready to go to their appointed stations. The behaviour of the men, both French and English, are most scher two crews has, throughout, been admirable, The and orderly, and the community will be sorry. when they depart. The officers have the respect and regard of all residents.
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HALL, Zetland Street THURSDAY, the 29th instant, at 8.30 for 9 PM precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hongkong, 20th March, 1888.
Amusements.
THEATRE
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HE Undersigned has received instructions from H.,SMITH, Eaq, to Sell by Public Auction, on
THURSDAY,
the 22nd March, 1888, at 2 P.M., at the Under- signed's Sale Rooms, Duddell Streek,-
THE WHOLE OF HIS ELEGANT AND SUBSTANTIAL FURNITURE,
comprising —
GARNET REP COVERED DRAWING ROOM SUITE, English-made MAHOGANY CENTRE TABLE, SIDE & CARD TABLES, PICTURES, ENGRAVINGS, MIRRORS, LACE CURTAINS, CARĶĒTS, RUGS, &c.
American-made BLACK and GOLD CHEFFONIER, PLATE GLASS BACK.
COTTAGE PIANO by APOLLO & Co., SPLENDID PALOUR ORGAN by HAMLIN & MASON, with extra stops..
ROYAL neatly new.
CITY HALL, HONGKONG,.
THUR DAY,
the and March,
AND
AM | AMILTONNU “MUSICAL BOUQUET
COMEDY COMPANY.
ENTIRE CHANGE OF PROGRAMME.
NEW SONGS!
NEW DANCES! THE BAND OF THE 58TH REGIMEN F.-
TH
NOTICE.
THE NEXT PERFORMANCE
by THIS COMPANY WILL TAKE PLACE
taken in a body to visit the Fangshun when she The pupils of the Naval School should he
comes into port. This vessel has been fitted with quadruple expansion engines, said to be very beautiful and perfect in design. The steam carried in the steel boilers is of very high pres- sure, probably at least 18 pounds. It is ex- pected that the vessel will show an extraor dinary economy of coal consumption. With English coal the consumption would probably not exceed 13 pound per hour per indicated horse-power, but of course with Japan or Kaiping SATURDA Y NEXT. engines, however, will no doubt run on two. coal no such result can be obtained. The new
thirds of the consumption required for the old engines.-Chinese Times.
* APRES MOI—,"
During the winter a great quantity of sub- stantial landing stages have been made by. Rumours which have gained some currency, carpenters employed by the Municipal Council, not wholly unauthorized, have set people think so that it will be easy, in latore to leave a vessel about the position and prospects of the fnor to go on board in safely and security, The perial Maritime Customs. To the present gene-convenience of the solid and commodious landing ration the Custous" is so such a part of the platforms is very great. Inthe_Tea_market for China grown, life-time-when-there was no-such-institution der of things, that the idea of there having interest has taken place, and the extreinals low can only be realized by an effort of historic quotations (for common) fail to induce boomy
mory, The institution moves on its way generally. The scarcity of good and for tekee soli mojestic smoothness, like one of time vast imore apparent, and counia-inds improving price, with the piers by a system of rails. Your water Though it would seen Tea is being cut
ups, which are pclled at high speed saire an audible sound or a tipple on the supply, at one time procured from small wells, prices, at which common has lately bean selling dozein that is due the grand sanplicity . Dibisan either case to the perfection is shortly to be brought to your doors by means will after this season, so far as thin is gon of that splendid' monument of skill and untiring cerned, prevent its leaving that goaty, where
of 4 sentit, and the 'disargangenent of some energy, the Tytam-works. Your roads ar
pation of the jutenal machiiey would soon there is a population to take off any surplusest the turbulest nature of the forces which are imere sing in numbers, and where you can now easily walk, we older residents had to climb,
China has a good opportunity to recover its lost
held in control. The Foreign Customs, exutic I recollect your fureshore as little better than ground as their mode of manufacturing te leaf in its cuig, is still atfen in its character, nor a shelving slimy beach.. In its place you have is, at an rate, quite as good as the present are its masa deedy attached in the shit as to grand Praya, shortly to be father extenderline-mate teas of Ceylon, and a consuet, - dey she storms which may her after a stail it. into the sea, making room for the large and able quantity of Indian ten is also deteriorated
The one ground of the acceptance of the institu- still incre sing population of the colony. Then the process of manufacture
by the Chinese Government is, of course, its power to supply the much, and ever more signal station at Victoria Peak was for a long period the only building above the level of Caine
‚moided gish; an indispensable function which is Read, now Robinson Road, constructed in 1862,
not likely to be so well plowed by any oiler is well lined with houses, and a small colony is On the 13th instant there was launched from
agency. The structure which has been erected rapidly extending itself from Victoria Peak to
Messrs. Robert Thompson and Sons. Southwick on this foundation of financial necessity prosesses Mount Gough, and Mount Kellett.. Your means yard, Sunderland, a steel screw-sicanier, for the interesting and novel.characteristics, being of communication win the higher district will Nippon Yusen Kaisha Steamship Company, machinery for such a purpose. Considering that infer aurique exsimple of the use of foreign I trust, soon be complete and the power of Tokio. The iniluwing are her dimensions steam will then convey you, after the day's Length, 3314. breadth, 4aft.; depth, 261f
the Maritime Customs.forins the brige between labours, to the health giving breezes on the Built to class too A 1 a Lloyd's, under special
twa juist heter gruenus systems of polity, the hills above us. Your public gardens were made survey. The vessel has cellular double bottom only huk which, as yet, connects the archaic in my time and reflect the greatest credit on for water bailast, six bulkheads, four large civilization of the oldest living empire with the those who converted the rough granite laden hatchways with cargo parts, four horizontal curents of modern fe, the need of satiest and hillside into the handsome terraces, and planted steam winches and donkey boilers, Mesars.
skilful guidance through the various crises of its ti e noble trees and beautiful shrubs which now Clarke, Chapman, Parsons, and Co.'s patent history must be obvious to all. Of the many windlass and steam-steering gear, large-house on dangers which at in its path the chief was. Your commercial progress is so vast that the deck alt for captain and passengers, protected perhaps that of foreign interference, which, how. toanage arrival in the colony is now over by a neat cape covering the stern; bridge amid,
ever, was also the first to excite alarm, and to be 6,000,000 tuns annually, or nearly double what ship goft, long for accommodation of officers and creafter removed for ever, Originally the Com- it was 16 years ago, and, as long as the freedom engineers, and large top-gallant forecastle for missioners or as they were then called "Ins of the part is not interfered with, that progress Crow. The engines are by Mr. John Dickinson,pectors of Customs were the nominees of the must continue.
In retiring from the colony after a lengthened Monkwearmouth, and will indicate about 1,400 three Treaty powers; and if the Institution had not at an early period cast the slough ofthis capable of driving her 10 knots, period of service, I do so with much regret, but and she has extra large boilers.
internationalism what a turmoil of competing family ties call me home, and I also feel that it
officials there would have been! One Minister
"TAISANG " is time I made room for a younger man.
will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the The following is a description of one often meddling merely for the sake of having his Through my long career here I have endez- tank locomotives, recently built by MessrЯ. Ginger in the pfe; another pursuing the men-
21st inst., at P.M. youred in perform my duties! impartialy, and Nasmyth, Wilson and Co., Limited, Bridgewater dicant policy of facing his nationals into the
This Steamer has Superior First Class Accom- without fear or favour, neither leaning to the Foundry, Patricroft, near Manchester, for the service, which by such means would have been-modation, specially constructed to meet the right nor to the left of a straightforward line of Imperial Railways of Japan. The engine, which strangled in its inf.nry. Other dangers of a legal requirements of tropical climates. conduct, and your presence here 10-day assuresis for the 3ft. 6in. gauge, is carried on eight as well as a political nature had to be examined,
For Freight or Passage, apply to me that my efforts have not been entirely in wheels, viz, two pairs of driving and interme
faced, and ovcicome before the machine could
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., vain (applause.) If, in the course of my service, diate wheels coupled, one pair of leading wheels, be reduced to perfect working order, and the
General Managers. I have unintentionally offended' any one, I hope and one pair of trailing wheels, the later being outcome of experience and prescience combined
Hongkong, 20th March, 1588."
[297 he will kindly forgive and forget the past, fitted with Webb's system of radical oxie-boxes.. has been the centralising of full power and Your beautiful hills, valleys, and bays will The cylinders are 14in. in diameter and adin. authority in the hands of the Inspector-General.
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS. never be effaced from my memory. I have stroke. The valve matin is constructed under So far as the management of the very large and FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE, & YOKOHAMA. received much kindness and forbearance at your Joy's patent. The coupled wheels are 4, 4in. widely diversified staff of the Customs is con- hands, and I thank you heartily for it. I must in diameter, and the leading and trailing wheels cerned the rule of Sir Robert Hart is more now say good bye,' with a hope that Hong- are 3ft. tia. The heating surface is equal to absolute than that of any patentate perhaps kang will flourish and continue to make the 724 square feet, made up of tube surface 654 in the world. Nothing short of this could ever rapid strides it has hitherto done; and that the square feet, and firebux surface, 70 square feet.
have held the institution together these thirty community will ever enjoy good, health, pros- The grale area is 12 square feet, and the capacity years, and the personality of the chief may be perity and happiness (great applause)
of water tanks 1,000 gallons; the fuel tanks.
truly called the keystone of the arch, and In response to the Chairman three cheers contain 45 cubic feet, The working plea constitutes the strength of the structure. were given for Captain Thomsett and another preasure is 14010. The weight of engine in full for Capt. Thomsett's family.
working order is az tons, of which 20 tons are on the coupled wheels. These engines are of a similar type, but larger than some locomotives built by Messrs. Nasmyth, Wilson and Co. for giving excellent results, the same railways, and which, it is reported, are
adorn that portion of the Island
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.
The P. & Q. S. N. Company's steamship Venetia, Capt. F. Cole, with the English mail of the 17th ulto, arrived in barbour this fore- noon. We take the subjoined items from the London and China Express2–4)
Buffs (East Kent Regiment)-Edmond Guy Tulloch Bainbridge, in succession to Lieut. G. V. Dauglish, promoted.
Staff Engineer John Kimber, R N., died on the sth inst, at Grove-terrace, Southsea, aged forty-four. He entered the service in March 1865, and retired in July last year. His last appointment was to the fidge, on the China Station.
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Limited) have received instructions to build a steel steamer of about 1,800 tons, and of similar dimensions to the Devawongse, built by them a short time since for the Scottish | Oriental Steamship Company (Limited),
The P. and O. steamer Massilia, which has arrived at London from Australia, collided with a barque early on the morning of the roth inst. aff Dungeness, and stood by her for some time to render assistance, which, however, was not required, as the barque was only lightly damaged.
horse-power,
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Messrs. Hall, Russell and Co., Aberdeen, launched from their yaid on the 11th inst., steel screw steamer, named the Choy Sang, to the order of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company, The following are her dimensions -Length over all, ayo feet breadth, 35 feet; depth, 25 feet 6 inches and 1,900 tons gross register. This vessel has been built under special survey to claps too A at Lloyd's, and will be fitted with triple-expansion engines of 300 horsepower nominal, two steel boilers with a working pressure of 150 lb. per square inch, water ballast, patent steam windlass, steam wlaches, atcam-steering gear, crane for lifting anchors, steel maste, and all the most approved appliances for facilitating the loading and dis- charging of cargoes and, navigating the vessel She is constructed with a topgallant forecastle and bridge-bouse, in which the superior and peity officers are accommodated, and a large deck-house alt, in which accommodation is pro vided for first-class passengers. The whole of the 'tween decks are available for steerage passengers, and are well ventilated and lighted through the side with opening scuties. The con struction and outfit of the vessel and engines have been carried out under the supervision of Captain George M'Bain and Mr. Lang, engineer. Mrs. Keswick.
It is the
Also, however, its weakness. personal accidents in absolute government that counterbalance its advantages of clearness, con sistency, and promptitude, for individual men are not immortal, though the race may be; and you may have Commodus succeeding to Marcus Hurelius. In the use of the Customs account must be taken not alone of the risk directly incidental to any change in the also of the hostile in tences which may be personnel, but lurking in the shade, only waiting-such-a-con- venient occasion to become active. Whence these influences may proceed it is not difficult 10 divine. It is impossible for example, but that the Customs establishment should passions of the Chinese and between the excite bath Jealousy and envy, the ruling whole crowd of provincial officials who see their dearly prized prerogatives usurped, and those of the central circles who may aspire to a share in directing the machine, the Maritime Customs may be considered to be between the upper and the nether millstone. There is, no doubt, a disparity of alm between those who would desire to restrict the operations of the Customs and those who would grasp at what they would consider its emoluments, yet they are enemies who may both have to be at the same time, Gratitude is not a platit which flourishes on Chinese soil, and the eminent services which the Customs have rendered to the Dynasty would scarcely form, a. defence. against the sap of intriguing mandarina. Nor would the danger of modifications in the con- stitution or administration of the Customs pre- judicing the interests of the Empire restrain its lept in be mind, regard the welfare of ment with less solicitude than their awn
encountered
Co-day's Advertisements.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION
COMPANY, LIMITED,
CALCUTTA!
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, AND
THE Company's Steamship
THE Steamship
"GLAMORGANSHIRE,”
the above Ports, on the 27th instant, D. Davies, Commander, will be despatched for
This Steamer has superior Passenger accom- modation.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
· ADAMSON, BELL & Co,
Agents. Hongkong, 20th March, 1888.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
4
06
"The 24th March,"
Full particulars on Thursday,
Box plan now open at Messrs. KELLY &
WALSH'S.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1878.
· Insurances.
GENERAL NOTICE.
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THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
CAPITAL
TAELS 600,000, 1833.333-33 $247,000,00
EQUAL TO **** *ESERVE FUND
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. LEE SING, Esp Lou To SHUN, US
Lo YEUE MOON, ESQ
MANAGER.--HO AMEL
ARINE-RISKS on GOODS, &c., faker at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
MA
-
world.
HEAD OFFICE, & &-9, PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, 17th December, 1885. (877
THE M
NOTICE
"HE; MAN ́ON"INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.....................
..$1,000,000
TEAK & EBONY SIDEBOARD, DINING- ROOM SUIT, DINNER and DESSERT SERVICE, CUTLERY, GLASS & PLATED
·WARK, FENDERS and IRONS:
IRON BEDSTEADS, LADY'S DOUBLE WINGED WARDROBES, MARGLE TOP WASHING-STAND and LADY'S DOUBLE WINGED DRESSING-TABLE, BEDROOM SUITE, CHANDELIERS, LAMPS, &c.
PARLOUR and COOKING STOVES, &c. Catalogues will be issued prior to Sale and above will be on view on WEDNESDAY next.
TERMS OF SALK-As Customary.
G. R. LAMMERT,
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Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 19th March, 1885.
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PUBLIC AUCTION
40
י
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PIANO,
&c.
&c.
TH
&C.,
HE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by Public Auction, on SATURDAY,
the 24th March, 1888, at 2 P.M., at the Residence of Captain W. E. CLARK, No. 31, West Villa, corner of Pokfolum and Battery Road West, THE WHOLE OF HIS HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
ROMAN SATIN COVERED DRAWING · ROOM SUITE, MIRRORS, PICTURES, CARPETS, RUGS, LACE CURTAINS, BLACK and GOLD CORNICES, BLACK & GOLD CANTERBURY, etc. COLLARD & COLI AD, nearly new.
MAHOGANY COTTAGE PIANO by
EXTENSION LINING TABLE, CUTLERY, CROCKERY, GLASS and PLATED WARE & DINING ROOM FURNITURE, LAMPS, etc.
DOUBLE IRON BEDSTEADS, SPRING MATTRESS and HAIR MATTRESS and PILLOW, LADY'S WARDROBE DRESSING TABLE with MIRROR, MARBLE TOP WASHING-STAND & BED ROOM SUITE,
ICE CHEST, COOKING RANGE, RICK SHA, LADY'S CHAIR,
&c.,
SLC4
Catalogues will be issued prior to the sale and the above will be on view on FRIDAY NEXT,
TERMS OF SALE-As Customary,
G. R. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, 17th March, 1888. -
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
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THE following Particulars of Sale of Crown Land by Public Auction, to be held on the
MONDAY,
This above Company is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS at CURRENT on &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world spot, on [323
payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN,
Secretary.
THE FIFTH PRIZE MEETING
be held at on FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, the 30th and 31st March,
and MONDAY
the 2nd April, 1888.
For Members and All Corners over $1,200 will be given in Prizes..
HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST. Hongkong, Tat February, 1881.
antimations.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
the 26th day of March, 1888, at 3 PM, are published for general information.
By Command,
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The SHOOTING will commence e ch day 15 EXCELLENCY SIR & WILLIAM
at 10 AM,
Programmes and Entry Forms" can be obtained from the Undersigned on and after. MONDAY, the 26th March, 1819.
A, SHELTON HOOPER, Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 20th March, 1888.
1324 SOCIETE FRANCAISE DES CHARBONNAGES. DU TONQUIN."
(SOCIETE ANONYME).
CAPITAL
.......FRANCS 4,000,000 DIVIDED INTO 8,000 SHARES or FRANCS 500 EACH.
DES VEUX, K.C.M.G, will return to the Colony by the German Mail Steamer Preussen, expected here on or about WEDNES- DAY, the arst instant, and the Community are invited to attend His Excellency's landing. which will take place at Murray Pier abortly after the Steamer's arrival.
By Command,
ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th March, 1888, THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
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THE FIFTH ORDINARY GENERA
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will
The Porpoist, cruiser of the third class, was.The christening ceremony was performed by enemies, who, it must alway the govern. HIS Societé is being formed for the purpose/ be held at the Office of the Company, Praya
commissioned at Portsmouth on the 15th inst, by Commander White, for service on the China. Station. Before proceeding to her destination she will make under the new arrangements a continuous four days' full power trial of het machinery.
The second steel twin screw steamer, ordered from Messrs. R. W. Hawthorn, Lesla & Co (Limited), Newcastle, by Messrs. Russell & Co, of China, for the Formosa Trading Carpara. tion, for the mail and passenger service between the Island of Formosa, Shanghai, and Tientsin, is expected to be launched next week..
The Steam Navigation Company of the Amoor announce that they propose to commence next summer a service between Stretinsk and Ner chinsk, on the upper course of the Shilk It is also said that on the banks of this river-weils bave been discovered, about twenty miles from Nerchingk, and that these will greatly facilitate the service of the steamers
The ship. John, Nicholson, krom London for Hongkong, pus into Plymouth on the 16th in and reported having collided with wschoduer,
CRIMINAL ASSAULT IN SHANGHAIL
On the rath lost, in Her Britannic Majesty's Supreme Court at Shanghai, before Mr. A. R. Mowat, Acting Chief Justice, Thomas Hore late Usher of H.B.M.'s Supreine Court, was indicled for a criminal assault on the 25th day of February on Chen Tung chi, a girl of about nine years of nge,
The Coal Mines cover an area of about 15.000 Hectares, and the Concession will be conveyed to the Seclete by the Concessionnaire as som as the Societé is formed,
Of the 8,000 Shares, 4,000 are offered for public subscription, at par, on the sand and 23rd days of March, 1888, and the amount there of is payable on application
of working the COAL MINES at HALONG family fortunes. For reasons which it is BAY, TONQUIN, under a concession granted by superfinous to explain, the acind of Chinese the French Government in Tonquin to Monsieur official ambition is the handling of large sums BAVIER CHAUFFOUR as per Acts dated of money, and that the solid part of the Im-Hanoi, the 28th day of March, 1887, and the 5th perial Revenue, amounting to Ts.20,000,000 day of August, 1887. annually, should pass through the hands of foreigners who keep and publish exact accounts, "must to the average official mind appear like a waste of the opportunities whicir a benevolent Providence bas placed in their way. Obvious as it may be to outsiders there is no reason to suppose that the Chinese official classes, clever as they are, have any true apprehension of the cause of foreigners being capable, and themselves incapable, of collecting the maritime revenue. And if even they do recognize a certain apitude in foreigners which is lacking in the natives, just as in former days they recognized the military prowess of foreign officers, it does not necessarily follow that they penetrate to the bottom of the question Mr. Wainewright handed in two affidavits to They are rather apt to think that one foreigner show that the prisoner had been drinking hear lyvery like another. Those Chinese officials ga the day of the occurrence.
who have travelled and resided: much abroad
The Court was crowded, and a panel of twenty five jurors was summoned.
Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown Advocate, ap peared to prosecute, and Mr. R. E. Wainewright appeared for the defendant.
Captain McEuch was present on behalf of the police
The Indictment having been read and the prisoner asked to plead be immediately pleaded
guilty o
why
Forms of application can be obtained from Mr. BAVIER CHAUFFOUR, 7, Queen's Road Central, to whom the same must be returned" when filled up and signed; and where also the Articles of Association of the Societé in formation can be obtained by the intending Shareholders. Payment for Shares applied for must be made to the COMPTOIR D'ESCOMPTE DE PARIS, Hongkong, as Agents for the BANQUE DE L'INDO CHINE who will grant receipts for same.
Hongkong, 20th March, 1888,
Central, on FRIDAY, the 23rd March, at THRE O'CLOCK in the Afternoon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers declaring a Dividend, and Electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 9th to 23rd instant, both days inclusive,
_____ RUSSELL & Co
General Managerne, Hongkong, 6th March, 1888...
[372 HONGKONG AND WE MPOA DOCK COMPANY; LA TED;" NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. ONTRIBUTING SHAREHOLDERS are requested to send in a Statement of Business Contributed during the Half Year ended 31st December, 1887, on or before the 3rst insty of which date the Accounts will be closed V-By Order of the Board of Directors, PALMA
D. GILLIES,
Secretary Hongkong, 15th March, 1888,
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ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 17th March, 1888.
[312 Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 26th day of March, 1888, at 3 P., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern ment, of Thirteen 'Lots of CROWN LAND, at Long Tom, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong-
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