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Kutimations.

NOTICE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDITSDAY, MARCH 21, 1888.

This was no doubt mistaken policy, but it what the entire cost of the dock would be, night have been justified had it been to which the Chairman replied that the rigidly adhered to. However, as usually ‘original estimate of $370,000 quadrant has been the case, the Dock, Company did | to something like $350,000, not fight to the bitler end" on the enntrary they made a most humiliating A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD surrender, and on the 31st December, 1880, purchased the. Cosmópolitan. Dock for $400,000, or exactly double the amount for which the property could have been secured A few months previously. Since that time a- súm of about Bro0.000, taken out of the Company's earnings, has been written off the value of this dock, money which. with proper management, ought to have been available for distribution, to the shareholders, or for the consolidation of the Company's interests in some other

HAVE JUST RECEIVED THEIR ANNUAL SUPPLY

of

L

A W N

GRASS

and

SWEET CORN,

for immediate sowing

orphing, 2nd March, 1888.

SEED

THE HOLIGKONG DISPENSARY,

lirection..

.

We have quoted this instance of gross mismanagement to show that the short-

By the adoption of the Report last quoted the shareholders sanctioned the construction of a new dock at a cost of $350,000, of which £25,000 were to be contributed as a free grant by the British Admiralty, in addition to a loan of £20,000 on exceptionally favorable terms. The necessity for a now dock was certainly not generally recognised, but it was felt that the Company was in a position to well afford the expenditure of about $200,000 for what might in course of time prove useful if not a profitable source of revenue, and it was on this understanding that the scheme was adopted. And what has been the result Either the shareholders were grossly

Our in Dakota the mercury stands at 53 drz. below zero. The favorite salutationis, Strupper, your nose is froze

ONLY a short time ago the late Emperor of Rostock, Mecklenburg, a letter of congratulation Germany addressed to the Masonic Lodge at

on the seventy-fifth anniversary of as founda. He said: "Frecusonry constitutes a true element of the religious sentiment, and works for the

well-being of humanity,”

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A CHINESE seaman, aged 26, was charged at the Police Court this murning, on remand, with |_ bringing a girl only 15 years of age lato the Colony, and detaining her for unlawful purposes. Lo Akiu, the complainant, said that the prisoner, from her home at Sa Han on the 14th just, and along with several other men, took her away

brought her to Hongkong by way of Canton, arriving here on the roth by the river steamer Hankow, She was accompanied by defendant and two assistants-the others, having left at Canton," ani only 15," said the ile girl, and have lived all my hic at Sa Han with my mother Father is dead. I did not want t leave home, and prisoner sajd in answer to my supplications that we were on our way back home." Mr. Wise remanded the case till March 27th.

THE Bishop of Rochester was his clergy and taity to be wary on the subject of church defence. "Any moment a chasm may yawn under our feet, should personal ambition or party tactics make the privileges either of the Church of England or the Church of Scotland a good rallying cry. If the Church in Wales is thrown

THE Manila Comercio publishes a telegram to to wolves, we know what will follow,"

the effect that General V. Weyler y Nicolau THE Daily Press must be bard up for local has been appointed Captain. General of the matter when it has to specially paragraph the Philippine Archipelago. His Excellency was bitten by cbody in the tongkong flotel got born at Palma in Majorca in September 1838;

a dog and that a certain medical

was promoted to the grade of casign after practitioner was called in to canterise the wound.completing his infantry course at Madrid; waś whey tranny tell me expectant pubite sent out in 1863 as Captain to San Domingo, when the agricultural Editor intends to be where for bravery in quelling a native irisurrection vaccinated?

he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1873; he was then commissioned to restore

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THE CHINESE INSURANCE,

COMPANY, LIMITED,

The fallowing is the report for presentation to the seventeenth ordinary meeting if shareholders to be held atthe HentlDffice of the Company at Hongkong, on Friday, the 23rd March, 1888, at

12 o'clock noon!--

The Directors have now..to submit to the shareholders a statement of account, showing the result of the Company's working for the twelve months ending 31st December, 1897.

The premia nett for that period amounts to $306,381.71. It is with great rejet that the Directors have to announce considerable losses, arising chiefly out of the winding up of thứ Working Account of 1886.

The Working Account of 1987 has conse. quently been very much reduced, showing a credit balance of $24,285:4

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Out of this sum the Directors now propose to.. pay $9.000 as. 3. per cent. interest to share. holders for the last half year (making, with the .3 per cent paid for the first six months, 6 per cent. for 1887) and to leave, the remandier of the

current risks.

balance to be dealt with on the expiration ef

DIRECTORS.

The Cengkong Welcorant comings of the Dock Directors are not misled, or the Directors' estimate was THE Paris Temps of February Toth states that order in Cuba, where he distinguished himself their seats at the Board, and it is the sad cluty

flosakove, Wednesday, March 21, 1888.

THE DOCK COMPANY.

(Continued)

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plants of yesterday's growth, but that they have been flourishing apace for many years. And now let us tackle the latest incubus, that piece of senseless folly which has so materially assisted in bringing the Company to its present unsatisfactory state, and in making the Directorate the chrisa very easy-thing-to-make-vagurjeer and bye-word of the colony-we mean Charms of a general character against the new Admiralty Dock. Of the many the Directors of the Dock Company; hut

follies the Directors have been responsible- is quite another thing to prove the for this is by far the greatest and most alleged anisaianatement, neglect of duty; costly, especially as its prejudicial effects do we can fancy hearing one of the

on the scture prosperity of the Company are ravije drele who, to use the expressive ifikely to prove of a permanent character, Beranenýhate inelegant language of the late

The first indication the shareholders

great activity prevails at present in the French naval arsenals, and that in pursuance of the Ministerial orders the ships belonging to the fighting fleet have been made fit for active service. The journal adds that in a few dry

time the state of the naval stores will be far more

isfactory than at the beginning of the year

Reuter

based on an exhibition of professional

during the rebellion and was raised to the incompetency for which there can be no

rade of Brigadier General and finally to that of possible excuse. In the Report for the

Leutenant-General; in 1880 General Nicolau was appointed Governor-Gengial of the Canary year ended the 31st December, 1886, the

Islands and subsequently the title of Marquis shareholders were curtly informed that the

to be a pronounced liberal in politics, and once of Tenerific' was conferred on him. He is shid total cost of the new dock would amount to

offered himself as a candidate for the portfolio about $750,000, or more than double the THX Coylon tea industry has already assumed of War in Madrid. His nomination to the original estimate. No explanation was large proportions. There are probably now Governor-Generalship of the Philippines is said 200,000 acres of ten planted in Ceylon, giving to have been hatied with satisfaction by all given of this extraordinary increase until employment to 1,200 Bitish managers and the meeting held a few weeks since, when superintendents and 00,000 British THE Courrier d'Haiphong is of opinion that

classes at Manila.

from India and Ceylon. The probable export the Chairman (Mr. BALL-IRVING) stated that of tea from Ceylan in 1897 will, it is said, be Monsieur Constans' assertion to the effect that it was to a great extent accounted for by 10,000,000 pounds, art by the end of the at a distance of 4,000 leagues from the metropolis there ought to be no governors nor governed, the addition of fifty feet to the dock's length, century 100,000,000 pounds,

hut only brethren, is controverted by the severity. which involved a further outlay of about As will be seen from a molemeal in and her of arts, as instanced by the following occurrence $100,000. Why this additional fitty feet column, the Hongkong Rifi Associ tiun will Un the night of the záth January, Victor-Loisy holl its fifth priz; competition at Kowloon on acaule dealer of Hanoi, was journeying from had been found necessary Mr. BELL-IRVING Friday and Saturday, the 30th and 31st inst., Thanh-hoa to that city, and arrive at Ninth

binh with a herd of, 135 oxen" and tivo bulīalões, lid not state, although the extra outlay of | and on Monday the 2nd April. The farge sumi

of competitions will be open to all comers. Full the weather and the depredations of the pirates, to have suggested the necessity for some particulars of what should prove the most explanation. And, to be hyper-critical interesting wapinschere ever held in the cul

he applied to the cominander of Ninh-binh for |; permisión to enter the town and pass the for once, we may point out that this extra

will be shortly announced.

night under cover. To reach the town he had to pass through the military route, on the SICKNESS Insurance is meeting with some favor bonders of which M. Trémoulet, the vice-resident. in Leipsic and other German cilics.. The law bad planted several beds of flowers. The cattle authorizing the operation of such companies dentet placed his coolies along the route to permits the insurance, to all classes of 'hand- įgirêvent the animals from trampling-down the workers except clerks and salesmen, but these vice resident's jessamines and roses, but the may be luctu fed by tocilarheity. The action "lever of hotenical beauty game on the scene in of this law is váy noticeable in the tax for

Sie fous Suur, has "made his pile" outrvived that the Directors contemplated

ks triumphantly declaiming on the the construction of this new dock was by groo ooo of other people's money ought $1,:00 will be given is pngs, aut a number Unable to find a shelter from the inclemency of

Club steps. No doubt there is a vast

difference between making a charge and proving but those self-opinionated forums who pretend to know so much

|ne, Report for the half-year ended June th, 1882, which was signed by Mr. H. Hortes, as Chairman of the Board. It

was in these words :-" The Directors are

about the affairs of this particular joint engaged in negotiations with the British lty feet of, useless duck does not account to

strek enterprise, and who have been so early in ventilating their opinions in and mut of season." "might have known by this time that every allegation published" in this journal would be borne out by undoubted and absolute proofs. We have in the plainest language possible expressed eur belief that the present most unsatis- futory conlition of the affairs of the

Admiralty for the construction of a Dock at Kowloon capable of receiving the largest ships of HM's Navy the agreementis not yet signed, but the Directors have every reason to expect that the negotiations will

brought to a satisfactory conclusion At the meeting of shareholders held on August 28th the only additional information

a great extent' for the increase of $400,000 on the original estimate.

The foregoing is the true history of the 'much talked of Admiralty Dock, and we venture to submit that a more complete chapter of bungling and blundering would be difficult to find. Where does the responsibility rest? We unhesitatingly

contradiction. Had the dock cost, the at first

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downpur of rain and tuli Lisy to joke

Mr. H. Foss and Mr. M. Grote have resigned.

of the Directors to announce the deaths of Mr.

Lee Tuck Cheong, and Mr. J. A. dos Remedios, who have been valuable members of the Board for several years. To fill some of these vacancies the Directors have invited Mr. Lou Wi Chen, join the Board, and their appointments require Mr. St. C. Michaelsen and MrF, Dodwell, to

the confirmation of the shareholders,

Mr. J. B. Elas and Mr. Fằng Tang relire in

rotation, but offer themselves for reselection.

AUTORS,

The-accounts-have-been-audited by Mr. F. Henderson, acting in 'Ms. T. Argrid's absence, Board, to fill the vacancy caused by the death and Mr. H. U. Jeffries has been elected by the of Mr. L. Hauschill, who for thirteen years hand faithfully-filled that office.

The Directors have much pleasure in ricem mending the re-election of Mr. thes Arnold and Mr. H. U. Jeffites, as auditors.

ST. C. MICHAELSEN,

Chaitan Hongkong, g h March, 1828.

BALANCE SHEET, JIST DECIMBER, 1887. Assets.

Cash at Head Offer : e In current account with Hongkong

& Slaughsi Bank...$ 2,2045 Lonton Agency :-

5 Bands Chinese 7 per cent, Luan 1885, Series Adamon ........... £7,:86 5.0 Ty Bonds Chinese 6 per –

cent. Load 1885

1454 911

cent. Loan 1873 1,126 15 11

in self and his cattle to sleep with the devil Honda Japanese 7 per lies coucher au diable--and threatening to throw him into prison unless he cumplied with that pleasant injunction.. Laisy and bis 137 head canopy of heaven, in a tremendous downpour of cattle camped out the whole night once the

Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company Vouchsafed by the Chairman was that the say with the Directors, and challenge at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, of rain. On the morrow 20 oxen fell sick, and

site for the new dock had been granted by

i mainly due to the gross mismanagement the Colonial Government on, the terms of Company only $200,000 as

of the Board of Directors, and we will now

represented, there-would-have-been-some-

sed to amply substantiate and justify the half-year ended December 31st, 1882, hope, not of its paying its way but of its not

director the business as suited their own

† the original agreement. In the Report for

it was staldd that--"The negotiations with the British Admiralty for the construction of a new duck at Kowloon have not been finally concluded yet, but the Directors

proving an old man of the sea' to the other establishments; but $700,000 in the Dock. books, which is the latest official estimate, must for years prove an unbearable

maintaining the sick poor, it having decreased 11,673 marks, in Hamburg in one year. The total number insured under the law is 4,294,173 or 91.7 per 1,000 of the population The following will be the Orders of the Day to be held on Friday next at 4 p.m. :- f. To go into Committee on the Bill entitled The Rating Ordinance, 1888.. 2. Third reading of the following Bills :-

(a.) The Stamp Duties Amendment Or-

dinance, 1858. (b.) The Trees Preservation Ordinance,

1888,

----

A FIRE occurred in Hangi on the 4th inst., seventeen native houses being burnt to the

by nightfall two of them died. On the next day six more were left on the route, and the herd reached Hanol_after_Baving lost 26 oxen and one buffalo,

£10,067 10 10

*@ 1/4 $60,405.24 17 Bonds Chinese 8 per

cent Loan 1884, A... 8,500 00 Securities in Hongkong :- "145" Bonds Chinese o

Tug hearing of the suit The Douglas Sican ship Company . W. Cruikshank, $5154, was resumed this morning at the Summary Jurisdic-8 tion Court, before Mr. A. j. Leach, Acting Puisne Judge. Mr. Wotion having concluded his case for the plaintiff Company, Mr. Webber addressed the Court for the defence. He submitted that his

5,96.4.08

per cent, Loan 1884 R $72.536.38 13 Bonds Chinese & per

cent Loan 1884. C...... Bonds Chinese 8 per cent. Loan 1885. 189 Bonds Chinesey per Share in North China cent. Loan 1886, E...

Insurance Company, Limited macularsen

4,074.30

68,694 6.1

68,905.24

277.78

152,547.18

90,000.00

7,500,00

notions and exactly as they thought, it entered iniù for the excavation, 'the building wonderful monument of Hongkong enter houses located between the moat and the canal.ordered by Mr. Noodt for the manufacture of Mortgage On Property in H'kang..

without the slightest regard for the views or wishes of the other Directors or of the shareholders at large. It is possible.

of the sea-wall and the supply of timber fur the coffer-dam,”

"It would'thus appear that the Directors were so infatuated with the new dock scheme that they actually commenced its ronstruction, and entered into contracts for the excavation, the building of the sea- wall, and the, supply of timber for the offer-dam, before the negotiations with the Admiralty had been finally concluded or any agreement signed; in fact, at that time à sun of $5.025 had already been expended on work done. At the half-yearly meeting held on the 7th March, 1883, no reference whatever was made to the Admiralty Dock.

(To be continued.)

TELEGRAMS.

~(Renter.)—

RUSSIA AND BULGARIA.

LONDON, March 19th. M. Nelidoff has requested the Porte to summon Prince Ferdinand to leave Bulgaria.

THE EMPEROR'S HEALTH,

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which

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665.25

591 86

5,647.68

S. S. Sea Gull:—thors of 2,386.18. Office Furniture:At Head Oflice... Stamps-On hand in London and

Hongkongne Bills Receivable................ Accounts Receivable:-- Outstanding Premia, Head

Office.................#8 12,907.83 Interest accrued to date... 8,972.81 Due from Agencies, &c... 192,501.79

214,47443-

$571,928 33

Liabilities.

$1,500.000

$300,00 1,00 28,711.50

may profsatile, that these self-constituted gulcerats had absolute belief in their own infallibility, and merged the interests of the shareholders in their own with the most excellent intentions; but as neither the statutes nor the Company's Articles of Association confer absolute power on any individual, the autocratic assumptions of authority referred to were, to say the least, illegal and unwarranted. The legal definition of the powers of Directors in joint stock companies is one of the safeguards of the shareholders, but in this particular Company it is a safeguard that has frequently been quietly set aside and ignored without hesitation. This in itself is mismanagement and neglect of the interests of shareholders by their pald instance where an autocratic assumption of the Admiralty, to which reference has of power, by the supineness of the other been made in previous Reports, although members of the Board, was 'exercised to formal agreement has not yet been the prejudice of the Company to the extent signad. Under this agreement the Com- THE Electrițal Review,says medicine can be the export duty on that article of produce. It is nature previous to shipping them; he was Hongkong Salaries..................... 11,816.01

The latest bulletin respecting the health of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany states that he is able to sleep well.

394.00 Sundry Amounts due..... 192,031.50

———— 193,025.50 25.995.49

that opinion nothing extenuating nor setting down might in' malice.

It would appear that at various times in the history of the Company certain members of the Board have exercised powers that were almost absolute; the expect to come to a favourable settlement tax on the Company's resources. And, ground in the short space of an hour. The next client could not be made responsible for the gentlemen we refer to managed and shortly; meanwhile the work has been it is even stated by persons not altogether morning a house contiguous to the Annamite explosion which occured in the parcel room of Treasury took fire, but the condagration was the steamship Formosa on the morning of the commenced, and contracts have been grant of the matter that $1,000,000 speedily checked. On the same day a haystack 26th December last, in Swalow harbour. There Fixed Deposits

will not cover the total expense of this in the Rue de la Volaille blazed away with such were in that room besides, his client's box With Hongkong & Shangbai Banking

a fury th the flames rapidly spread over all the of chlorate of potash, sulphur and other chemicals Corp, Hongkong prise. From these facts we leave those On the 6h another confiagration took place in blue, red and green lights, the ship's own blue Linterested-to-make-their-own-deductions, the Pavillons Noirs. No loss of life has been and red lights, the "flare-ups," and a package of

and now proceed to deal with another reported.

empty cartridge cases with their caps on. "The branch of the subject.

IT is somewhat singular that the most gorgeously defendant had used every precaution in having dressed person in the Spanish court should his bottles containing the chemicals alluded to be the use of the infant king, a comely properly wrapped in torrugated paper; each woman in face and form. Ordinarily she wears

ingredient was put inside a separate bottle, a rich velvet skiri, with two broad bands of

was properly corked and tightly gold round it, a blue velvet apron, also trimmed capped, and the various botiles were securely with gok, and a bodice of black velvet, fastened packed in a deal casc of the size of an ordinary cigar box, one foot in length, six with lowly silver buttons, which open an an inner bodice of fine lawn with lace. Round inches in breadth and three inches in depth. her neck are five or six rows of coral beads; and

The defendant sent this box to the plaintiff she wears long earrings of the same material. Company's office, declared its contents as drugs A rich silk handkerchief is fastened over her

valued at $5, and obtained a parcel receipt for dark hair, which she arranges Mad nna fashion

it. He, Mr. Webber, would bring suficient | Capital in front. For occasions of state there are other

evidence to prove that the ingredients thus Paid up costumes more handsome, as handsome, says produced the explosion such as it occurred Accounts Payable-

packed could not have get mixed together and Reserve Fund... the chronicler, as any the nobility wears.

on board the Formosa, with all its corre Uncollected Interest War THE Indo Chinois of the 26th February calls spondent damages and losses. The defendant was rants...... attention to the evil effect of the customs tariff then examined at great length, and stated that in Cochin China, in the direction of curtailing during 21 years of his connection with chemicals the cultivation of rice. The heavy import duties of all descriptions, he had never seen or heard on the articles which Chinese dealers used to of chlorate of potash and sulphur producing a Balance of Working Account ........ 24,285.84 barter to the native cultivators of that grain violent explosion, unless when intimately mixed have so raised prices that holders of rice refuse and submitted to considerable friction" or to a to sell unless in case of necessity. They find sudden concussion. He had declared his

parcel Unless the Government takes counteracting packed went under that denomination. Under measures in time, the area under paddy will cross-examination by Mr. Wolten, witness said Shareholders' Interest 1--- * shrink very steadily. In time to come this will he was not aware of an ordinance compelling Interest to 31st Dec, 1886 $15,000.00 .. to 30th June, 1887 9,000 00 tell seriously in lessening the revenue from shippers of dangerous articles to deciate their expected that this source of income would show sur

sure the articles were not of a dangerous nature

London Office Expenses and Salaries 1,904.35 last year a falling off, amounting to one and :

Ea unless they got intimately, mixed together, and half millions of francs. The yield from the this was prevented by the way they had been Eglish Branch Office Expenses......

Charges.... import duties to the end of last year have been packed. Mr. R. Fraser, assistant in the Victoria a deficit of some. 800,000 francs. The losses he had superintended the packing of the bottles, London Committee Fecs

-Commission and was of opinion that it was impossible they Directors and Auditors Fees undergone by other classes of the business.com- munity have been considerable since the new could have been broken during the passage from tariff came into force. Sensible people in this port to Swatow. The corrugated paper Expenses, and Loss on Sale of S.S.

Sea Gulla France ace clearly that it is high time to alter wrapper protected avery part of the bottles and

Exchange or unikimin kisassai prevented them from coming into contact with Had and doubtíu) debts written off 2,360.51 a customs system which has worked so un- satisfactorily. Persistence in the course hitherto each other, or with any foreign substances; taken will inevitably prove ruinous to the Colony, there was no chance of their contents becoming Losses Account 1876......$

mixed together and producing the explosion MI SHELTON HOOPER, valuer under the Rating complained of. Mr. W. E. Crow was then called Ordinances, at the Police Court this morning to give his opinion, as an expert, concerning the summoned a Chinaman named Ng Wong, of 30 explosive nature of chlorate of potash and sulphur. Wellington Street with unlawfully and knowingly He had seen these ingredients used in the returning false particulars of the rents of certain manufacture of coloured lights; although great asses Account (887. houses belonging to defendant in Queen's Road danger attended the mixing up of them together, it Balance and Tung Sing Lane. Complainant said he sent 6th inst. to his house in Wellington Street, asking so mixed up as to be liable to explode. The Balance brought forward from 1886...

was highly improbable that the quantities packed the accused a printed. form by the past on the Lup by defendant in separate vessels could get for the rentals of seven houses. On the 17th vibration of the ship would require a friction Previls Account i defendant brought back the forms all, duly filled produce an explosion

We next find, in the Report for the half. year ended 30th June, 1883, which is signed by Mr. F. B. JouNsoN, that the Company pledged to go on with the new dock, The Report says: "The Directors have

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

servants, the Directors; but we will give one concluded the arrangement with the Lord's His Excellency the Governor, Lady Des Voeux, their branch of industry becoming unprofitable. os containing drugs, because the articles therein

of about a quarter of a million of dollars.pany will undertake the construction In 1878 the Cosmopolitan Dock was the of a Dock of very large dimensions

and family arrived last evening by the German mail steamer Preussen. Major-General Cameron, Dr. Stewart and a few other officials received the Governor at Murray Wharf.

Bills Payable .......

property of Messrs. SPRATT and EMANUEL, at Kowloon, and to give priority of ip. Experiments show that there is actual estimated at 700,000 francs. These figures show Dispensary, was next examined, and stated that Survey Fecs

to

$571,928.33

WORKING ACCOUNT.

-$ 24,000 01

goo.co

5.97.1 37 2,69,83

8.306 70

3.150

3,400.00

1,377.0 1,613.70

111.27 263 97

1884 ...

1,884 24 640.:6.

· 1886 \............. ̈¥82,9;5-57

185,875 81. ∙163,690 18 24,285 84

introduced into the human system by electricity. The electrodes of a battery are saturated with the selected remedies and applied locally to the

absorption of the medicine into the system, and was rynning an active but unremu- entrance at all times to H.M.'s ships nerative opposition to the old established of war, in consideration of which the THERE will be an exhibition in Paris next year intended to illustrate all the religions of the Dock, Company. Times were bad, rates Admiralty will pay towards the cost earth, past and present. Idols, manuscripts and the sum of £25,000. all tangible symbols of religions wil. be shown in so low that docking and repairing ships of construction

the museum building, which it is expected will beft no appreciable margin of profit, and, and make a further advance on loan to cost $200,000. One-third of this is to be contri. as usual under such circumstances, money the Company of £20,000, bearing interest buted by the Government. wasight at least the proprietors of at 4 per cent., principal and interest to be Tux Mexican Government has recently issued the Cosmopolitan Dock found it so. Under redeemable by yearly Instalments extend an edict to the effect that ne more permits will this extreme pressure these gentlemen, ing over a long period. The Company be granted for bull fights on week days. The people may have them on Sundays to the top of nitor trying every expedient that could be will have the privilege of docking H. M.'s her bent, but it has been found, necessary thought of to keep themselves afloat and ships of war on the China Station, unless to restrict them to the Lord's day, because thousands of working men and women were in tite over the bad times, were compelled exigencies of the service, campel them to do the habit of neglecting their daily arocations to come to terms with the more powerfat elsewhere. Considerable progress has been

go to the bull-ring. epposition, and they offered to dispose of made in the construction of the Dock, and AccoRDING to a Saigon contemporary, satisfac their dock and premises at Sam-sui-po up to the 30th June, the sum of $44.841:08 tory news has been received regarding the up, returning $60 for the houses in Tang Sing produced by artificial means to cause the At Head Offee & Agentles $689,561.29

progress of the scleatide researches now being Lane, and $130 for the two tenements in Queen's substances to ignite. Assuming that the vessels | Less ¿ to the Dock Company for the sum of had been expended upon the works."

This interesting statement was supple- conducted by M. Fournereau song the famous Road, For No. 1, the rent should have been had been broken and small quantiles of each Re-insurance and Return $200,000.. It was a glorious opportunity

ruins of Angkor in Cambodia. M. Fournereau,' || 8166,and for No. 2, $143. For the other houses material had got mixed together and exploded, - Promian... 382,679.38 for the Duck Company, as at one blow they intnted by somo valuable (?) information who was despatched by the French Government the tent with from $130 to $175. The accused that partial explosion would not communicate to would have secured a serviceable dock elicited at a meeting held on the 20th to on antiquarian-investigations-at-that-explained-to-complainant that some-of-the-floors the whole-mas, at-this, not-being-mixed, would ancient seat of civilization, arrived there the were vacant. On being further questioned the not be in a state of explosivences. Assuming, far below its value, and extinguished an August, 1883, by Mr. E. GEORO. The other day after encountering great djculties on deceiver said that his rent collector had morcover, that after the explosion all the articles' opposition that rendered a profitable Chairman (Mr. F. B. Jonsson) expressed the way, owing to shortcomings in the means of filled up the form--not himself, and that in the parcel room had been found intact, such working of their own establishments next his satisfaction that all arrangements communication. He now writes enthusiastically at present that individual was ill and could as the caps, and the red and blue lights, and akat of the artistic and architectural wonders of Aug. not attend, or it would all be explained beauti- only the box containing the chlorate of polash door to an impossibility; but what was had been concluded with the Admiralty ker. He has already made several important fully. On the 19th of March he came back to and sulphur had been destroyed, witness would the result? The co-proprietor of the authorities, although the agreement had discoveries Plans of the principal buildings at the charge and said the returns were quite in strongly suspect the contents of this box to the Back Vouchers and Securities at Heart Cosmopolitan Dock who waited on the not yet been drawn out, and he assured Angkor have been dran out, and the explorer accordance with facts. In answer to the Magis have exploded. Captain Roy, of the steamship Fonds and with the Returns received fram

→ han called in the aid of photography in depicting | trafe, this morning, defendant said that in chose." «l/ybes, baving deposed as to the perfect safety, ariput Agencies," "and"hereby certify the same Chairman of the Board with his offer to the shareholders that the dock would be the wondrous sights be beheld. His researches, quence of family liness be bad entrusted the with which he once carried 100 kegs of chierile to be correct sell, was haughtily informed that it could constructed at a moderate outlay and would the fo-Chinois remarks, entall heavy drain sheets to his agents, who were responsible for of potash together with 120 bag of sulphur not be entertained and that the Dock he capable of taking in the largest Iron-Bu the finances of Cochin-China, which cannot the returns an assumption which Mr. Wire did from Yokohama to Kobe, his honour adjourned but be unwelcome to the ' economical party now not entertain, but fined the accused $700, being | the further bearing of the case 'UD”10,15 R.m.

$100 for each house,

l to-morrow, Company would fgn to the bitter end clads afloat. Mr. Gong wished to know at the head of affairs.

not be "sufficient to

Warrants lapsed under Sec-

306,8

tion 98 of Articles of Association... (196'00"

$452.415-33

We have compared the above statements with

SAML J. GOWRY

Sucretary.

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Auditore,