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"curves of stability "whose clear meaning can only be got at by the hacking and chopping of logic Those actual facts we have before at clearly and surely in Hongkong and Manila as in London or in Cadiz, and they are, that ninety-nine steamers out of a hundred are not considered wife and acaworthy by experts, or by professional seamen, without weight of same kind in their holds whether that weight he called cargo, coal, water, or ballast, is of little consequence in this case as long as the terms of the contract did not prohibit its use."

Un Filipino "takes H.M.S. Inconstant as one example to illustrate his arguments, but is he aware that the Inconstant has upwards of 300 tons of fron ring put into her bottom between the timbers, in order to effect a greater amount of stability than her lines and model give her --this does not mean that the ship would not stand up without it it is put into her to make assurance doubly sure against all accidents and Trials of storm and tempest :-to make, in fact, the vessel seaworthy. Sea going ballast or weight of some kind is, indeed, such a necessary part of a vessel's outfit that it is as requisite as any other part of her equipment before she can proceed to sta; and if this were not so, why should the most eminent shipbuilders fit their vessels to carry as much as 250 tons of water Talks, which nearly all first class steamers of 12co ions invariably carry, and for the accom- modation of which great expense is incurred. Finally, if the owners of the Filipinar did not require her to carry that which all other steamers do carry--whether it is called ballast, water, cargi, stiffenlag, or iron slag is no matter, why did they unit to mention it in that carefully drawn out specification where nothing is ever omitted which is considered essential, and nothing put in that can be fairly objected to? The specification said: notblog about putting Tutailing the hold, remarks your correspondent; well, it probably does not say anything shout lifting the anchor to the bows, putting the chain cable into the locker, placing the captain or sonne officer on the bridge; yet he will hardly seaworthy without such matters being carried intain with reason, that the ship could be out, and as placing stiffening weight in the buldas long as it does not exceed one quarter the vessel's register-tonnage-is a common and custetary proceeding in order to ensure stability, the builders can well-maintain they had a perfect right to apply it and particularly since their cract with the owners did not prohibit it.

I am, Sit,

Your obedient servant,

– ཏཐཱ ནྟི NAUTICUS.

**

Hongkong, April 14th, 1888, SEARCHING FOR Å TELEGRAPH CABLE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 14,

'epended on this end "giving" to extra pressure. Having cut the cable the 3finin returned to the buoy of the first grapnell rape, and on getting the end on board led it to a great steam winch with a barrel six feet'in diameter, when the work of heaving in at once commenced. The drum commenced revolving at helf past one in the alternoon and atten minutes before eight the old cable, which had been laid fully two miles below the surface of the Atlantic for a period of nearly 20 years, was at the bows. Upwards, of two miles of the end part had to be picked up, and as it came in around the revolving drum, and was stretched along the deck, in regular fakes preparations were being actively put forward by the chief electricians for sending a report of their success to London. The telegraph office-a very complete one-was stationed amidships and on the instant of the end appearing it was seized, taken into the office, and a long report sent through it to the home office; after which the business of splicing in the new length com menced, by one expert in splicing attending to the core and another to the outside yarns. On the work being finished and trated the cable was again paid out, and the ship headed for a shallow part of the Banks-where picking up would be more easy-at the rate of from 3

to 4 knots an hour. Arriving in shallow water the new piece of cable was cut, from the part remaining in the tank, and thrown overboard, duly buoyed. The work of grappling for the old cable at once commenced and on being found and pulled up, duly spliced to the new end lying at the buoy, and the job thus completed which had taken well nigh two months of valuable and badly spared time of the Telegraph Company, The Minia now makes her head quarters at Halifax.

THE UNCHARTERED " BANKS" OF SYDNEY,

with

•

that when he went to cash a friend's cheque he would not be elbowed by a burger seeking to hypothecite," use the elegant Mr. Mortimer Franklyn's physe, the proceeds of nocturnal pin der. Then would public men cease to excite suspicion by permitting their names to be advertised as "Directors of grandly-titled, and

triengely cuprinet pawnshops-H04/96804

"A PERFECT LADYA NA

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relish of what is decent, just and amiable perfects.

"wrotd: Lord the character of a gentleman," Shaftesbury, and we allall not go far wrong if we accept these qualities as those that perfect the character of a lady,-5. F. Chronicle

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CATHAY CHAPTER

No. 1165.

Auctions.

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY TO BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY.

To be SOLD" by PUBLIC AUCTION

pursuant to Decree of the Supreme

Coult of Trongkong made in a caule”. TAM EKWAN SHL77 YAU MI HO, No. 43 of 1878,5

AN EMERGENCY CONVOCATION of the with the approbation of the ACTING CHIL

Justice by Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG the person' above Chapter will be held in FREEMA- SONS HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING,ppointed by the sail Court upon the respective Premises on the days' hereinafter, mentioned, the 14th inst., at 8.36 for 9 O'CICK precisely.

viz.:-- Hongkong, 14th April, 1888.

[410

FOR:SBANGHAL.

THE Siganship. THE

"AMOY," Captain Köhler, will be despatched for the shove Patron MONDAY, the 16th instant, at

For Freight or Fassage, apply to 4 PAL

SIEMSSEN & Co.

4413 Hongkong, 14th April, 1888. »

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND {CALCUTTA.. THE Stenmiship

A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS...... Napoleon I spoke with the voice of prophecy The standards of perfect ladybood valy in when he denounced his British enemies as a different countries and in different times. Wanation of shopkeepers, and in the shopkeeping instincts of the Englishmen lio the uhlimate ruin have no reason to believe, for instance, that the of his race. The day has long since come in Sultan's favorite, who dyes her finger nails with Britain when wealth accumulates and men decay, henna, who passes her days in smoking roac davored tobacco and taking cat napa on piles of and antinppily the check which the accumulation cushions, and who thinks it the correct thing to of wealth has received of late years has done go about the house in diaphanous trousers and nothing to retard the dry rot which is eating away.

the life of the once sturdy Anglo-Saxon people bare feet we have no reason to believe that in Three-quarters of a century of prosperky as Turkey this person is not considered to be a perfect lady. The chief squaw of an Indian almost utterly wiped out the harrliest portion of village, the wife of a robber baron,, the the nation, and the past few years of disaster and shrewish "Virgin Queen," naughty Miss Helen of poverty have only accelerated the process of extinction. Since the days of the 'Napoleonic Troy, grim-visaged "George Ellie and the. terrible Katherine of Russia may al have been warn the peasantry of the three kingdoms-the perfect ladies, but they represent such n diversity section which supplied the vast armies that did Struggle have been replaced by a horde of of quality that it would be impossible to deduce and suffered so much in the great Peninsular from it anything like a canon, for guidance,

comitantins where there is an aristocracy, such knock-kneed, attenuated mowa oties; and, the

men, who deteriorate as England, the occident of birth enters largely

ARRATOON APCAR,".. into the question of who is a larly and who is udt, agricultural districts are fast degenerating into a There, good breeding, as it is called, is said to be tangled wilderness. The Highlands of Scotland, Captain J. G. Olilent, will be despatched for an csscutial, and an essential that can only come erstwhile the home of the bravest sad bardiest the above fonts, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th from ancient and worshipful parentage. In this men whoever breathed-have poured their popula-inst, at Nos.

For Freight or Passage, apply 16 democratic country of ourz it would be ranked log into the cities of the Lowlands, and from thefa

DAVID SASSUON, SUNS & Co., as an offense to say that no woman could be a Ceks have drifted away to foreign lands. They

Agents, lady unless she had a genealogical tree or could have been driven by thousands from their hones, and their farmis have been turned into grouse hang the authenticated, portrait of her great-

Hongkong, 14th April, 1888,

[412 erindfather in. the library. We believe, or at

inoors, on which the vulgar Smiths and Robinsons of the Stock Exchange, the pot -SFRAM-TO-BOMBAY, VIA-STRAITS. "Teast we profess to believe in an equality af uirth," and declare it to be a national principle that one bellied monty-getters whose patriotism is man is ns grind ns another. It would surely ensured by commission, and the state of THE F&O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

#T " (HIBET" follow from this that we must also believe that the financial market, roam shout in ridiculous garments and make uncouth efforts to shoot every man's wife is as good ns. every other man's

the 19th April, at 3 PAL equality goes all the way through our daughters more than the soldiers whom they sent to wife and that this great and glorious relative birds; and the able-bodied inhabitants of will leave for tlie above places on THURSDAY, these once-teeming lands now, number Hule

E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent. and our sisters aril our cousins and our aunts.

Waterloo. The Highland regiments of the

Hongkong th April, 1888"

KUCANADIAN PACIFIC, LINE: TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,

VIA

1414

THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY '

AND OTHER CONNECTING RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS.

*HE British Steantship

BATAVIA”

2,650 Tons Register, Wattim, Commander, will be despatched for VANCOUVER,· B.C KOBE, and YOKOHAMA, on THURSDAY, the rath May, at TuRa PM.

To be followed by a Steatner on the 1st June de "TARTETA" on the 21st June Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, and at Vancouver with Pacific Coast Points by the regular Stemmors of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and other Steamers.

IN

2;

THURSDAY,..

the 3rd day of May, 1888, at 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON. FIVE LOTS - VERY VALUABLE BLOCK, of BUILDINGS situate on. MARINE LOT : No.- 4A, -- MARINE · LOT. No. 125A, and Section B of MARINE LOT No, 4, and in the best and most Central· Chinese business portion of the City, and with frontages to thice Important Public" Sticets, vix :—Bonham Strand, Wing' Lok -Street and Cross Street and comprising ;- Nos, and a Cross Street/and Nos. 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33, and 33, Wing Lok Street. -and--Nos, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, nud: 45. Bonhum Strand Owing to the favorable situation of this property the owner or owners thereof can always count upon securing good tenantsg aler

ON

FRIDAY,

the 4th day of May, 1888, nt 3 CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.,

IX SIX LOTS the VALUABLE PROPERTY situate on INLAND LOT No. 2ajn in the best part of Hollywood Road and compsis ing Nos. 259 al 211, Hollywood Road, and. 15 2 3 and 4. Ng Kwai Fong, also the

Hnce storied house No. 131, Hollywood Road, situate on the RemainingPortion of Inland Lot No. 384 and the three houses Nos. 14,0 16, and 18, Possession Street situate on Inland Lot No. 212€ and the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 1130,

-

'08'

SATURDAY,

the 5th day of May, 1888, at

3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.

IN ONE LOT PIECE of VACANT GROUND registered an INLAND, LOT No. 472-and silimte at Bowrington, between Matheson and Percival Streets andisüüable for the erection of Kerosine Godawns.

Xi

The sale plans can be seen at the Office of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors and

Particulars and conditions fald may be at Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, the Auctioneer.

WOTION & DEACON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of obtained on application at the offices of Messrs. Messrs. CALDWELL & WILKINSON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of Mr. EWENS, Salicitor, Hongkongs of Mr. WEBER, Solicitor, Hongkong, and of.

Dated this rath day of April, 1858. Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer.

ALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registrar of the Supreme Court.

Starting a deposit and discount bank, or any alleged institution of the sort, is mere child's play specially favoured by an indulgently interpreted in Sydney, wherein all manner-of-imposition-is law. An oyster-shop in a third-rate sucet is

As a matter of fact, it does nothing of the sort. abandoned by its distressed and despairing. proprietor; the situation is not good enough, to There is a legal equality in this country which sent day are filled with werdy youthis ensure the small amount of patronage required pur's every man on plane so far as enurt; office ficted up in the slums of Glasgow, and the for the successful conduct of business, so thened political preferment are concerned, but there men, who were once the main defence of their shutters are put up and the place becomes, is no such thing as an all-round social equality. Country, are gone for ever. The warlike peasants vacant. A lemonade-man comes along, but his That would simply incan communism. We of Ireland have been weeded out till the offers to "sling squash" meet with no response, have ninong us those who are proud of their entire population of the island is little more and be also abandons the preinises. Then a birth, those who are proud of feir accomplish than half its former number, and still the Chinaman looks at the place with a view to meats, their position or their money, and they Government watches the process of nalist tunning it as a fan dan shop, but the prospect is use these things-birth, accomplishments, pasi decay unmoved, and advises the scanty remnant not encouraging, and he declines to venture. Yet tinn and money-as a step which places them of the nation's life-blood to migrate and the era of glory for that shop is at hand. Amen above those who are not so favored. In theory leave Britain to her fale. When the Croft rs-of a reasonably English or even aggressively Betsy Flannigan of "Tehama Sirect may consider Lewis appealed recently to the "blue-blooder" English name, the face of a thrice-convicted thief, herself as good as Mrs. Flaut Ton or Mis. Moncy-female who professes to own their native island, and the voice of a Datch German Jew comes into-bags-of-Neb-hill-but-in-practice Betsy, knows asked for some concession to enable them possession. He reforms the front of the premises, that she can no more have that equality to live in the land of their valiant-fathers, she puts in large plate-glass windows, frosts the glass recognized, than she can convince her neighbors replied that they should go abroad and abandon thereof, and upon it inscribes the legend that the luxuriant hair she wears on Sundays is their empty country to the kites and crows, and when the Tory Government was invited to Hemispherian Loan, Mortgage. Discount the same she ties up in a little hard knot on all the interpost, it replied through the mouth of Deposit Financial and Mercantile Bank and other days of the week. In revenge for this social Ratelier Balfour, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Patent Resurrection Day Buikling Society irreconcilability Betsy and all of her. kind-

that the only remedy for the evils under (Limited) Capital £2,000,000. Office-heurs calls herself a lady, and sometimes a perfect lady which the impoverished Celts laboured was to to to to 12 noon, and 8 to 10 p.m. on She speaks of herself and favorite crony as" me Saturdays. Directors: Graspor O'Greedy, and another lady," and when she is arrested for emigration, and that they should use their strong Esq., Hardup Scratcher, Esq, Leonidas Wash disturbing the peace by holding a pitched battle arms to enrich and defend some foreign land. In this peculiar madness Britain stands solitary ington Ananias, Esq., Barabbas Hornyland, Esq., in the front yard with her husband, saya shaxloes and PN.. Threemonths, Esq., William Jobson, not understand why the officer should have among the nations of the earth. She alone Manager. Balaam Sass, Secretary." Then he run her in when she was behaving herself endeavours to get rid of hen defenders, and seeks, by sending away her hardy peasantry, to turn sits inside, and waits. Likely as not he can't like a perfect lady." This is not an extreme herself into a nation of clerks and shopkeepers raise the price of a box of matches until a case of the abuse of the word, and in every- depositor comes along, and if an intending day life we meet with a score of instances andbowed down, spirit-broken factory operatives. borrower saunters around in those early times where a theoretical equality has led to the Nol only in the mother country does wealth accu- he has to wait until a depositor planks down abominable assumption of that high title mulate while men decay, but the process of decay enough to supply the bonower's requirements perfect lady. It is the "dy with the is urged on by the Legislature of the nation, and before the loan can be effected. It is a little washing," the lady who cooks, the "lady the producers are driven, out to make room for bit wonderful that customers don't oftener selling needles," and on through the whole by the greasy traders, and the mongrel race of thenon-producers the agriculturists are expelled realise the actual position of these fearfully and stupid list. We all know it is wrong, and that

sto Rebrokers, and jobbers London, where the wonderfully made institutions. Just lately a laundress; and peddler are the proper and decent overished blood of the citizens was formerly To other European Points at proportionate: temporarily impecunious. suburbanite arranged terms that should be used, but we hesitate af

rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officers now over-run by thieving Greeks from the Levant, and by German and Hebrew adventurers, and a Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be nondescript race is arising to succeed the men of obtained un application, the mountains who once fought Britain's battles so Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des.. successfully against the world. The mothercountry tined to Points in the United States, should be offers a premium for national decay, and seduf-

sent to the Company's. Offices, addressed to EOTEN MARK LODGE ously cultivates the dry-rot of greed which makes Mr. D. E. BROWN, District Freight Agent, mooty take the place of men and which crowds Vancouver, U.C. the sisewy peasant out of the land to make room Freight will be received on board until

All steel faust be sent to our Office and for the stunted cotton-spinner and his lazy master, on the 9th May. and as she sows the wind so she will reap the whirlwind. The gradual extinction of the should be marked to address in full; and the producing classes of Britain must inevitably end same will be received by us until 5 FM the in the bottomless plt of national ruin. There is not day previous to sailing

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apply to

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First-class Pares grapted-as-fullowa - of Steamers.

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HONGKONG, No. 1165:

the defect, but within three or four miles he could to borrow on the security of a second- their apparent bluntness and suffer the terni-rectinted from the cart borie and the plough, 15 the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the 16th

**

Just as there is a stupid, sickly affectation of the word lady' for everything in petticoats, so there is a most marked and unaccountable objection to the word 'woman. He is a brave man who not only appreciates the distinction between lady and woman, but who also has the courage to emphasize or even to employ that distinction in his every-day conversation. The word is shunned as though it were a term of reproach instead of which it is a sensible, natural, generic term, and no more of a stigma in its distinctiveness than boy, or saddler, or girl, or seamstress. It is about time this falso feeling should be abandoned:

The Submarine Telegraph Ship Minia, Captain Sanuel Trott, was sent away from London during the latter days of last year to search for, pick up and repair a deep sea cable which had been Jaulatuut two miles under the surface of the ocean since 1869. This cable belonged to the Brest St. Pierre Anglo-American Company, and its actual distance down, at the defective part, which the ship ind been sent to examine, was just 13,000 feet. The electricians having determined how many miles from the shore station the defect was, orders were sent to the Minia to go to the place, grapple for the cable, Gut it while at the bottom, pick up the tivo ende, and splico in about twenty miles of a new length section. Some twenty day after receiving his orders the Captain of the Minia found himself and his ship in Lat 42. 30 N and Long. 46.30 W, or just a little on the London side of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, "and with one of the hardest jobs before him that had ever been committed to his energies. He knew that he had reached a geographical point somewhere near not be certain for, even if his own observations mortgage over a time-payment semi-grandlady" to be dragged into the mud. There are of sun, moon and stars were correct to a mile, piano. The security was daly signed, and ladies who cook and wash and peddle, but one, those by whom the cable was laid might have been the usual 60 per cent, and expenses agreement need not be, a lady to do these things. The even a dozen miles in error. The first business was prepared, but still the bank failed to produce the people generally so employed are women: good, to get a series of soundings over a patch of the sea dollars. Day after day the borrower applied in honest, faithful, energetic women, but they are covering 25 or 30 square miles. The new vain, until, when nearly a week had clapsed, not ladies. sounder was an oblong bar of iron weighing the bank official handed over the amount partly about 32 lbs. attached to a pianoforte wire in in shillings and half crowns. Whether he had such a way that when lowered to the bottom burgled a church or robbed a saveloy stall is not the end would job into the ground a series of known, but appearances seemed to clearly indi: small steel tubes, which while releasing the cate citber one or the other of those felonies. heavy sounder would themselves bring up a Yet this was a Bank with an alleged capital specimen of the mud. During the first east of of heaven knows how many thousands, and with this "lead" it took just 24m: 10s, for the weight a full-blown directorate of not unknown men. to reach the bottom, a distance of 2097 fathoms. Where the alleged capital gets. to is always a Knowing now the depth and the character of the deep mystery to those who put any faith in ground, a big pear-shaped buoy, was cast over- prospectuses. The only preliminary expenses board and moored at that depth with a mush-in starting such a show would seem to be the room anchor, firmly to the ground. This buoy gilding and adornment ofthe magnificent window was made of belles plate iron, and fitted in such front which is always a prominent feature of these a way as to exhibit two large lantems; for the nondescript banks, Blazoned lies on frosted and Minia's work was to be carried on night and painted glass, and magnificent titles engraved on day. The first length of mooring was 45 fathoms perpetually refulgent brass seem to appeal with of chain, next 510 of patent rope, then fiet of pure irresistible force to small capitalists who wish to Manila and above that others of various kinds, to invent their meagre savings at several per cent. reach the surface. All being now ready the and to unfortunate slaves of misfortune who are Minia was sienmed off at right angles to the willing to mortgage the equity of redemption of

the-household- Iny of the cable, about five or six miles, and

ing-machine at 100 per cent, per annum or over. The gorgeous window is a another busy put overboard as a landmark, other buoys were placed in other places and trap to catch the unwary, and the names of the field for work thus kept within known politicians is a part of the swindle finita. The grappling Iron was then put

The facility will whichever politicians actually. It's not that the world lady is something over the bows and from the northern limits in Parliament can be sometimes induced to taboo. We simply object, to its too constant. of the field the ship steamed slowly southward. lend their potential names to public shams use as likely to destroy its value. It is like the This grappling fron has four arms, about a of the incorporated company order, is one of employment of the titles 'professor and "doctor.' foot long, Joining a shank of about four feet. In the peculiar features of the unchartered banks" Every man who can draw a tooth or a corn calls each crutch formed by these arms is a little and philanthropic institutions. The names himself doctor, and every man who can feel a button that has a spring behind it. The angle of Sir Henry Parkes, Jacob Garrard, and J. man's head-bumps or shave a dog calls himself of the arm is so small that a heavy stons HL Young no doubt availed to catch many a professor. Properly speaking, a doctor is one could not get into it far enough to reach the victims on behalf of the Australian Mutual who has the well proved right to practise Nagsak button; but when the cable being searched for, Prudential and Medical Assurance Company," medicine, not dentistry and chiropodistry, while Shanghai. is caught by the hooks or arms it touches Men were enticed into that "trap only to find, a professor is he who has a chair in a university. the button presses it down and closes an electrical when the thing burst up, that the alleged security The property is debased by being made common, circait, through a copper wire running up afforded by those magnificent names was and the position robbed of its honors by through the grapnell rope, and ashell is act valueless for all practical purposes. The members persistent misappropriation ringing on deck. But the men in charge of the named certainly were paraded as directors, grapnell are generally able to tell what the hook-but when the crash came each pleaded ignorance has hold of, without the aid of the bell. They ignorance apparently born of sheer care. by the strain on the rope which is also lesstics of all the peculiar transactions recorded Indicated by a dynamometer on deck. The against the Society. And so it has always been ordinary strain on this indicator is about 31 There never yet as a public company swindle tons when the grapnell is dragging smoothly so gross as to be unable to embody for a time over a smooth bottom, as the vessel forges at leas the name of a designing or foolish slowly ahead. Sometimes-in-catching a-rock- member of Parliament in its directorate. And an arm may be broken off, but this is until present laws are amended all through, it is not often In the first trial of the Afinia | safe to prophesy that there never will be.

it took the grapnell 2 hours to descend Fortunately for the 200 per shent harples, the 13000 feet, and the rope is made of wire and laws relating to banks are in New South Wales hemp intermixed with each other. The dragging in a ghastly state of confinion. The statute 4 began on the day of arrival, but they swept Vic. No is has been amended by 43 Vic. No backwards and forwards over that desolate. 31, the latter Act making the word "bark fd 5 water for 10 days before the bell rang. Include all fostitutions, receiving money on Once during a güle they had to let go the deposity but asthe former Act had already been grapnell rope, buoy it, and go away to the amended by Vic. No. 15, of which amendment first big buoy and heave to, taking care to 42 Mic, is entirely oblivious there would now be krep it in sight all, through the gale On some doubt as to the possibility of applying the the tenth day of drugging, the bell ring provisions of any one of the three Acts against indicating that the cable had been hooked. The philanthropists of the 200 per cent species. The

bound go and buoyed The Courts, in any case, would

apply ured rope was again. Mugia steamed away two miles along the course Inws in the mannet most)

tary to the of the cable, and prepared her cutting prapkeli, lawn of common-sense. which is exactly like the other, only that the hazardous business to crutches have their upper surfaces sharpened force What' is wants like the blades of 'a' kulfe, and,

the cable, and bringing a strain on

pressure at once culs the wire, Di

to be commenced ifresh, but very

was booked and cut.

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Another, offender in the mis-employment of words is fic or she who speaks of my lady friend." It certainly cannot be contended that this is used as an evidence of respect, because very often the "lady friend" is some one to whom not very much respect is due. Besides it is an unnecessary solecism, for if the friend is present she will show for herself whether she in à lady or no, and if she is absent when referred to she should be indicated by name or mentioned simply as "a friend."

So, too, with the lady. We poke fun at the idea of class and grow angry when caste is, spoken of as an existing institution, but it would be all the better for us if ur aristocracy of perfect ladyhood were a little more respected and extended. It is no easy thing to be

a perfect lady. To paraphrase Thackery, but very slightly! Perhaps a lady is a a çarer:woman than some of us think her to be. Which of us can point out many such in his circle, women whose aims are generons, whose truth is constant, and not only constant in its kind, but elevated in Ita degree; whose want of manners makes them simple and unaffected, who can look the world honestly in the face with an equal, womanly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose dresses are well made and a score who have excellent manners, and one or two happy beings who in what they call the inner circles, and ba? shot into the very bull's-eye of fashion society, but of tattics, how many? Let us take a litle scrap of paper and

paper and each make out

It is indeed on, exigent thing, this title of fect lady. It requires not only education "with; but reading, goods company. tion to finish out that education.

vashan to be hon Mall of

An Important Discovery is announced in the Paris Figaro, of a valuable remedy for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, and premature decay. The discovery was made by a mission- ary in Old. Mexico; it saved him from a miser- able existence and an early grave, We learn that the Rev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansicos, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C, will send the prescription, free of charge, on receipt of a self addressed stamped envelope.

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL

Amoy Halphon

Manila

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Manil

REGISTER...

13th April, 1888,--At 4 pm.

14th April, 1888. At 10 sm.

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galore, in the fallada, in stieprosy Fah.

moleture, being 10 Direction.

Tag kha gaind: Moboriting to

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4 F.M.

FOR SALE, CHEAP!

EVERAL RELIABLE HACKS

AND

CARRIAGE PONIES.

ALSO,

A First-class London made BOG-CART

AND

THREE BASKET CARRIAGES;

ail in good order. For Particulars, Apply to 19.

No. 6, PEDDER'S HILL Hongkang, 20th May, 1886

*** Intimations.

THE NORTH CHINA INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE EIGHTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the Head Office, on WEDNESDAY, the 25th April, 1888, at HALF-PAST TWO D'CLOCK PM for the presentation of the Report of the thctors and Accounts to the 31st December, 1837 the declaration of Dividends, the election of Directora and Auditors for the current year, and the transaction of any other buslacus which -may-to-transacted-at-an-ordinary General

REGULAR MEETING of the above LODGE will be held. in FREEMASONS'

instant, at 8.30 for 9 P.M. precisely.

Hongkong, 12th April, 1888.

OF HONGKONG, No. 264.

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ALOERGENCYMENT IN FREEMASONS

HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY, the 19th instant, at 8.30 for 9 F.M. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited. 1413

Hongkong, 13th April, 1688...

To be Let,

TO BE LET.

FOUR-ROOMED HOUSE at the PEAK.

Possession from 1st May,

Apply to

R. MURRAY RUMSEY. Hongkong, 13th April, 1888.

TO LET

ENTRY, 1ST MAY.

No. 4, WEST TERRACE.

Apply to

408

G. C. ANDERSON, 137 Praya Central.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1888,

MACAO.

A

TO BE LET UNFURNISHED OR PARTLY FURNISHED, BUNGALOW," " opposite the Public Gardens, at the westem end of the Praya Grande. Excellent water supply, and Servants. quarters attached Rent very moderate.

Apply to

AA. DE MELLO & COM

Macao: MEN

Macao, 3rd April, 1888

R

STO LET 4

"OOMS in "COLLEGE CHAMBERS."

GODOWN - Ice House-LA

TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company occupied by Messrs. BUTTERFIELD

will be closed from the 12th to the 25th instant,|| from the 1st May;"> both days inclusive

By order of the Court of Directors

POPIS OM ALEX ROSS,

#Secretary Shanghai, 4th April, 1888:

·F368

AGENS Apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1868

E396

in England wish Chlidrenyto

XCOMMODIOUS

ICE HOUSE BUIL

HONGKON ARD