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A. 4. WATSON & Co., Ltd. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

8th August g

BIRTH.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, lác8.

THE opera bouffe company-the Estudiantina Espanola have lately been giving performances to crowded houses in Manila,

A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge. No. 165, will be heki in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 16th in tant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

LADY CLEMENTI SMITH, wife of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, who has been at Ceylon for some time in consequence of ill health, returned to Singapore on the 31st ullo, perfectly restored; The many friends and acquaintances of Larly, Clementi Smith in this colony, and their hame is legion, will rejoice at this good news.

Musical Comedy and Opera Company will We woull reinind nur readers that the American.

repeat, at the Theatre Royal, City Pall, this

evening, Sydney Grundy's successful comedy "Arabian Nights." The comedy will be pre- eeded by a conceit, in which the leading mem bers of the Company will take part. This attractive programme should ensure a crowded house.

We are informed by the agent of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that, the Cam- pany's steamer Maria Tereta left Singapore yesterday for this port

A TELEGRAM dated airo the 32nd ulta, says :-- The dervishes attacked a village a little north of Wady Halfa and killed twenty villagers. Licut Colonel Wodehouse, of the Royal Artillery, succeeded in driving the dervishes over the hills with heavy loss

FROM the returns compiled by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, it appears that there were 377. vessels under construction, of 608,118 tone gross, in the United Kingdom at the close of the second quarter of this year. In the corres ponding quarter of 1887 the number was 281, of 418,645 tons. The number of steel steamers, was 245, of $23.416 lons, as compared with 160, of 327.737 tons, last year.

A

THE export of tea from China to Londos during the present season amounted on July the 28th

to-

Shanghai.. ...32 million lbs. Foochow...........16 Canton....... 6. 2

Total......54

23

"

For the week endled July 7th fifteen foreign vessels, including; five Norwegian and Swedish, three German, two Dutch, one Spanish, one For the same period the figures were- Italian, and one Portuguese, were reported

At Fanghow on the 28th July, the wife of as shipwrecks. Only eight British vessels Cha Lês Kisa, of a daughter.

were wrecked. Twenty-seven collision cases were reported, including zo off the United Kingdom. A Norwegian vessel was lost off England, with all hands, except one man.

Shanghai............33 million Ibs Foochow.....14

14

11

Canton............. 7

1

#

Total......$4

elegraphllowing says the Foochow Eche of the this morning before Mr. Sercombe-Smith charged

„E moever Tuyashay, Augustā, 1998.

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters)

BRITISH NORTH BORNEO.

Losnos, August 7th. Sirhines Fergusson states that negotiations continue for the extension of a British pratecto tate over North Bornen, Sarawak and Brunei.

DEATH OF GENERAL SHERIDAN, General Sherid in is dead,

Ilu Men of the Tions? we find the following brief highy of the famous American suklier whose death, expected for some time prast, was wiral vestenfy-General Philip Henry Sheridan was hoes in Somerset. Ohio, March 6, 1821 He gracated at the Military Academy at West Pointin 1813, and served on frontier sety in Texas for nearly two years, and in Oregon finin 1855 to 1861. On the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed

Quaresmaster of the Army of South-Western Missouri, and in April, 1861, Chief Quarter master of the Western Drpariment. In May 1862, he was appointcil Colonel of the and Michigan Volanteer Cavalry, was commis sioned Brig-General of Volunteers, July 1, 1862, and, after a brief period, was put in command of the 11th Division of the Army of Ohio. Te comm inded a division in the Army of the Cumberland; and, at the battle of Stone River, Dec. 31, 1852, saved the army from rout by his stabbin resistance For his gallant coeduct he was promoted in he Major-General of Volunteers. In April, 1964, he was called to the Amy of the Potomac by General Gran), pot in command of the, Cavalry Corps, and within the month of May, June, and July, besides protecting the flanks. of the army and reconnaitring the enemy's position, was successfully engaged in eightren distinct actions. On the 4th of August 1864 he was put in command of the Army of the Shenandoth, and soon after of the Middle Military Division, where he gained severni. succes en over General Early, for which he was made a Brig-General of the United States army, and in Now, following was made Major- General, He joined General Grant's Army at Cily Pol, whence he started, March 25. 1165.ta ike the final blow for the overthrow af Geral Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. He fought the battle of Dinwiddie Court House, March 1, and that of Five Forks, which recess tated Lee's evacuation of Rich mond and Petersburg, April 1, and as the Army of Northern Virginia fled, he constantly attacked and harassed them, and compelled. their

surrender at Appomattox Court House, Ag1 g. 186 He was assigned to the Command of the Military Division of the South west, June 3 and of that of the Gulf, June 17, 1865. Under a new reorganization of the Military Districts and Departments, he was assigned to the Department of the Cult Aug. 15. 1-66, and in March, 1867, to the fifth Military District (Louisiana and Texas). President Johnson bring displeased with his administration, transferred him, Sept. 12, 1867, to the Department of the Missouri, where be continued until March, 1869, when, by the promotion of Sherman, he became Lieutenant- General, and assumed command of Western and South-Western Military Divisions. with his headquarters at Chicago. On the retirement of Gen. Sherman (Feb. 884) Gen. Sheridan succeeded to the command of the Army, with bead-quarters at Washington.]

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(From Straits Times) MR. MANDEVILLE'S MURDER.

LONDON, July 31st. A Jury has returned a verdict that the death of Mr. Mandeville who was imprisoned at Tulla. more frant with Mr. O'Brien was caused by unjustifiable treatinent in prison.

THE GERMAN EMPEROR. The Emperor leaves Copenhagen to-day for homu,

August ist.

our last issue-

•135,183 lbs. 160,630

6,100 2,848

| might be other claims on the ship. When getting her cleared an Admiralty, order was applied for by J. 11. Smith, and her departure prevented. He saw Mr. Caldwell after that-he seemed quite indignant, and said it was not a volld claim.

By the Attorney-General. After the finals attachment nothing was done, because he believed that nothing could be done. He believed that Mr. Melbye acted in good faith throughout; he would rather, not say anything about anyone clse. Ile bad learnt that certain arrangements were pending at the time, of which he knew sothing. Subsequently he wrote a letter to the de. fendant demanding $18,000, in the course of which he stated that if the contract had been carried out the steamer could have been sold for $35,003, as of that time the war between France and China was going on, and steapiers were bringing high prices.

said that he was in command of the Estrella Captain Koch, recretary of the German Club, whilst she lay

Harbour. About the end of May he was in Mr. Rapp's office when Mr. Melbye came in and asked for the dollars that were owing, saying "the_Estrella is perfectly free." Mr. Rapp said " All right, but how about J. H. Smith? Have you settled with him too ?" Melbye replied that he had; that Smith wanted security, and that he had been perfectly satisfied, therefore Kapp was quite safe in paying the $10,000,

By the Attorney-General-Witness was not on board the Estrella when the Pilat fish was ready to take her out. It was about five in the

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A COOLIK was dragged up to the Police Courting. Mr. Rapp gave instructions to get the

anchor up as quickly as, possible. ··

Shek Ching Chuen said I live in Hongkong, and in March 1885 gave instructions to Mr Rapp to buy the Estrella for me for $20 cày, I paid that amount to him. I contracted to sell the steamer to another Chinanian, for $35,000. I got the vessel long after the contracted time, and had to sell her for $12,000. The difference was caused by the suspension of: hostilities between the French and Chinese in the interval. Several people had been after her. before. I leave the estimate of my loss to the Counti

4th. inst., is the Tea export from this port since by Sikh constable Babador Singh with exposing a number of indecent photographs for sale in Queen's Road West on the 9th inst. The constable said that he saw the accused exhibiting the photographs to a crowd of about thirty people, to whom he was offering them at three cents each. On seeing the police, defendant snatched up his goods and chattels and started running away at a 2.10 gait, which, however, only led to his discomfiture. In answer to the beak," the unfortunate admirer of the nude said that he was walking along the street and found the pictures on the road-way; he saw people picking them up and he did the same. Three months hard labour. What a cruel world this is, to be sure. Has that Sikh policeman, likewise that young "Daniel come to judgment,” ever heard of the indecent pictures in puris naturalibus to be nightly witnessed in Graham Street af a trifle over three cents a show? No! Then they have still something to learn.

For London

Per Diomed, ....... Per Merionethshire, .

For Continent

Per Diomedispa

Per Merionethshire, y

For Sydney:

Per Afghan,

For Melbaume-

Per Afghan,

.249,856.

...718,104

For Adelaide -

Ver Afghan, ...............

For Queensland Ports:-

Per Afghan,

131,024 i

193,303 !

170,876

For Canada -

Ver Albany,

For United States :- Per Albany For Kobe :-

Per Allany,

tra

10,075

3,367

jr

The following statistics of the value of Imports into and Experts from the Philippine Inca: published by the Manila Diário, show an en couraging increase in the trade of the neighbour ing Archipelago

1876..... 1877. 1878

IMPORTS:

1879

1880

1861

18-2 1883

188 1885

1885

EXPORTS :

1876

1877

1878

1879

1880

18.2

183

4884

1886

$11,987,000

19.$35.000 17.291,000 18,031,000 25,486,000 30,777.000 21,260,000 2',308,000 21,246,000 19.171,000 20,073,000

$14,837,000 16,362,000

17.470,000 18,813,000

***** 23 450,000 *****.24,579,000 ***** 2,673,001 26,380,000 22,672,000 24 553,000 29,711,000

SAYS the Chinese Times:-The amount of squeezing that goes on in a Chinese prison is appalling, and surprising ingenuity is brought into play by the warders and others to extract money almost invariably forgets to fee the night watch from the unhappy prisoners The new comer

racket is kept up just outside his window that sleep min. The consequence is that such a terrible is impossible, and he speedily apologizes for his forgetfulness and makes good the oversight. If the coolie who cleans out the cell is not satisfied, he goes about engaged in entomological research, and introduces his horrid prey to the number of two or three hundred into the apartment of his victim, who is then only too glad to call his services into requisition, even at an exorbitant

price. Many of the warders and servants are criminals who have escaped capital punish- ment by the omission of the Emperor to mark their names for death, when the list for the autumn executions is submitted to

him. This list, which sets forth, the name of

the criminal, his crime, etc., is in three parts, The first is the list of new cases; the accond the cases which were not marked the previous year; the third the cases which have escaped marking for two years. It is said that the Emperor marks about eight_names in len, and that a man who escapes the first time is safe from subsequent, marking, although he has to go down to the execution ground on the two following years. The list is brought from the palace direct the place of execution, and until its

By the Attorney-General-1 intended to sail her under a foreign g because France was at war with China, ̈ If-1 had not sold her 1should have freighted her with war-tnaterial

They recommend transferring $100,000 to the Credit of Reserve Fund which will then stand at $4,000,000

The Balance of $10.441.36 to be carried to New Profit and Loss Account.

DIRECTORS.

Colony,

Mr. Hoppius has resigned on leaving the

to fill the vacant seat. His appointment requires The Directors have invited Mr. N. A. Siebs confpmation at the meeting,

AUDITORS,

The Accounts have been audited by thi Honourable Phineas Ryrie, and Mr. Fullarton Henderson.

JOHN BELL-IRVING,

Chairman

Hongkong, 7th August, 1888.

·ABSTRACT" OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

30th June, 1888. Lilities.

Paid-up Capital ....... Reserve Fund..... Marine Insurance Account Notes in Circula-

tion ..................$ 5,448,320 83 Deposits... 74,384,963.06

Bills Payable (including Drafts on London Bankers and Short Sights Drawings on London Office against Bills Receivable and Ballion Shipments) Profit and Loss Account...........

Assets..

Cash.. Investments, viz.—

£100,000) 21 per cent. Consols,

·£150.000, 3 per cent. Indian Government Sterling Loan. The above lodged with the Bank of England as a Special: London. Reserve. $1,462,857.14 5,000,000,

Rs.

Indian 4 per

cent, Govern-

ment Loan... 2,195,945.94

Bills discounted, loans and credits Bills Receivable... link Premises............ Dead Stock.......

That concluded the plaintiff's case.. The Attorney-General, for the defen lant, stated that the case for the defence, as far as it relied on the representations on which apparently the plaintiff relied; did not raise very substan- tially the allegations put forward by the plaintiff. these representations were made in goud faith, under an amicable arrangement. They admit- ted giving an undertaking that security should be given, and that was fulfiled, but they did not say that the ship had been released, or the plaintiff was indired to pay the second security given."Withregand to the allegations that

that the representations were mud in good faith. instalment by misrepresentations, the reply was An unmistakeable chnge of deliberate fraud had been brought against sun one. The plaintiff Te amounts written off- was absent, and the charge lay between his "ent and solicitor.

His Lordship asked Mr. Francis if the para. graph in the petition, to the effect that the plain tiff made certain representations" well-knowing that they were not true" would be left in. Did the plaintiff wish to prefer a charge of that kind? Was it advisable to retain the words-2

Mr. Francis:-I will consider,

the rest of his reply until Mr. Francis had made The Attorney-General preferred to post pose up his mind.

and strong there was the greatest and most Mr. Francis-Well, I will answer you straight deliberate misrepresentation possible.

His Lordship doubted whether, it the plain- till knew the representations to be untrue, he

could recover.

The Attorney General further submitted that the deeds had been delivered, and the ship actually given over before any action was taken to detain her, the payment of $5.000 by the plaintiff to Mr. J. H. Smith, was not denied, all

the plaintiff to do so. The original claim was somewhere about $1,000 or $1,500-why should he have paid $5,000 7

MONSIEUR ALBERT SCHUMBERGER, of the arrival neither criminals n'or officials know who the defendant said was that he did hol authorise Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris, was taught a lesson at the Police Court this morning which

we trust he will take to heart. There is no

nation in the world for which we have a greater admiration than the French; but Frenchmen are universally admitted to be wretched colonists, and M. Albert Schumberger which name, by the way, sounds more German than French-appears to be a fair specimen of that overbearing cha racter which has made the name of Frenchman so universally detested in the Far East. Monsieur Schumberger dined at the, Peak Hotel last night and was conveyed to that model establishment in an outside chair, borne by four coolies. He arrived there at 7.30, and told his coolies that their services would be required at so o'clock. The coolies having plenty of time to spare, came down town to have their dinnes, but on returning at 9.30 found their employer walking home," and on reaching the Hotel their chair was amissing. It was eventually found in n ravine on the south side of the ridge, in a state of wreckage which cost 80 cents to put right. Monsieur Schumberger said that on coming out of the Hotel and finding the chair coolies absent, he gave the chair a shove out of the road. The Magistrate thereupon requested him to ante ap $-but in all seriousness, Mr. Sercombe Smith, was that sufficient to meet the requirements of jus ice? Had a Chinese coolle acted in like manner, you would have sent him to gaol for a month; why make a difference? Is there one law for the rich and another for the We are sadly afraid that Mr. Sercombe Smith poor in Hongkong? If looks remarkably like It. is a great mistake as a dispenser of public

Justice.

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are to die; the unhappy victims only being sure of their fate upon hearing themselves called out to pay the last penalty. The prisoners who very easy existence, and, as they are employed135ths in the ship! According to Mr. Rapp he escape are imprisoned for life, but they have a

His Lordship anid that Mr. Smith claimed 2. of the prison and share in the squeezes, they had at one time claimed $16,000.

often amass considerable wealth.

SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before the Hon. 7. Russell, Acting Chief Justice.)

THE "ESTRELLA" CASE. The adjourned bearing of this case was resumed. Mr. Francis called

was then prepared. Mr. Caldwell i

79,733,282:88

11,427,802-4 720,141,36 Sto531,527.18

$8,741,367-51

they refused. The cholera got worse, however, and then the Egyptian Government asked for the doctors to come, and agreed to pay them. I wasn't sorry that they did pay them, for they gave much more liberal terms than our own Government. "Speiling the Egyptians" han always been fair, and I think we managed to do little that way. The twelve doctors who went out we were under Mr. Guy Hunter, who since were called the Twelve Apostles "-(laughter):

received a K. C. M. G for his valuable work. We started in the usual way from Charing Cross, crossed the Continent, and shortly after wards landed on the shores of Egypt, having our first touch of quarantine at Brindisi, where we found that the authorities, by their precau tions. evidently believed the cholera germ could travel 100 yards. We landed at Alexan- dria, and were, at once quite full of Egypt, only one of us having been East before. We expected a guard of hongur, or at least a high official, tol meet us, but neither, turned up, and we put our luggage into vehicles and were carted off to a hotel. This hotel was remarkable as being the only one not destrayed in the bonbardment the 7,500,000,00

previous year. That was a rather, chilling 3,900,000.00 reception, but, we found afterwards, the Arabs 250,000.00 did not want us, and that we had only been

sent for on the strong recommendations of the English. The natives, said "Last year was Arabi's year, and you came over and killed us, and now you send twelve dociors, and the cliolern, to kill the rest" (laughter). The Consul did not know what to do with us, having had no instructions, but at last telegrams, came from Cairo ordering ton of us to go there and the other two to stop in Alexandria. We were like soldiers-everyone wanted to get to the front, and we had to decide it by ballot at last, when, to my delight, I was among the ten, and was allowed to leave my pleasunt quarters and run the risk of catching cholera in Cairo. We left by train, changing half way to another train, which stopped 200 yards away, that being the distance the Egyptian germ was able to travel (laughter). In Cairo we found the Government were in no hurry-"Come to-morrow "Buccra bucera " always the same in Turkey or Egypt. I had the honour of being held in reserve, and was looked on as being rather lucky, Three days later a -message came that cholera was raging in Kafr Said, and we were told to pack up. The reserve very quickly-in fact I went first (laughter). Tasked several peopleif they knew the place? Oh yes, know it well." "Where is it?" Tasked. "Ah You see I've only been past it;". 46,191, 87.18 could go by train, so I got a dragoman, tint is 3.658,803.09 no one knew where it was. At length I found I 43.946,286.53 to say, a professional-well, I should not like to 877.412.60 say thief, but professional swindller of the first i16,469.89 class (laughter). This one got a considerable. sum of money out of me before. I knew where I $103.531,527,18 was I set off at night with him, and I noticed: my colleagues shook hands with me very warmlys and silently, as though they didn't expect to see me again. That was encouraging, ch! My medicine supply I mostly carried in a volunteer havresack I hard; it consisted of twa or three hundred opium pills, which you will have become acquainted with during the late cholera scare here, and two three rolls of sulphur, which I thought might be useful for fumigating with. Then I had a beautiful little box, like a jewel-case, stocked with all kinds of medicines, and provided by the Egyptian Government I have no doubt the drugs were excellent, but I never had a chance of testing them. As we left the station I put the box in the rack overhead-it was the only thing I had to look after. I fell asleep, and awoke in a few hours. seeing some grinning Arabs inspecting the by lamplight. I got up, and looked for the "jewel box," but it was gone. I suppose the guard bad come through (they walk along the trains there) and, seeing me asleep, and the box there, had taken it. I hope he took some of the contents, and that they did bim good accordingly, However, there I was, in the middle of a desert, at two or three in the morning, with only same opium pills and sulphur to treat a crowd of cholera patients with! I was guided across two or three miles of sand, and reached Kafr Said at last, and found a hut reserved for me, some kind friend having pat some whisky and soda on the table. I couldn't sleep, though, for the frogs-they are infinitely stronger, vocally, than their Hongkong brethren. And it was fearfully hot.. I don't know-I was new to the tropics then--but it seemed to me ten times as hot as

PR FIT AND LOSS AUCOUNT, HONGKONG AND ! HANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. 30th June, 1888.

Dr.

Remuneration to Directors To lividend account:-

£1.10 per share on 60, 00 shares £90,000 4/6, in mem

To Dividend Adjustment Account :—

Dierence in Exchange between 4/6, the rate at which the Divid. end is declared, and 3/0, the Current rate of the day. To Balance carried, forward to next To Reserve Fund,.......... *****

half-year,.

Cr.

By Balance of Undivided Profits, 31st December. 1887.......

By

Amount of Net Profits

----$20,903.51

for the Six mo the end. ing 30th June, 188, after deducting all Ex- penses and Interest paid and due

بز

699.537.85

RESERVE FUND.

10,000,00

+

400,000.00

200,000o 100,00.00 10,411.36

$220.441-36

$720,441.36

$720,441 36

came out

here.

Mr. Francis Taking the value of the ship at To Balance on 30th June, 1F88...$4,000,000.00 Nile, and the place I had been sent to. We

$29,000, 2-135ths would be worth something over $5,000.

The Attorney General:-Just $400 (laughter) -After dealing with the various items in the petition be denounced the, "bogus" claim set up in Admiralty for the purpose of detaining, the ship as an abuse of legal power,

Mr. Francis said that it was done with the cognisance of the Chief Justice.

He

The Attorney General did not, think so. continued that Mr. Rapp had not come out of the affair spotless he would have been very glad if the steamer had got away.

His Lordship-I wish she had (laughter), ' The hearing was adjourned until to-morrow,

IN BANKRUPTCY. ·

E. AND G. HAYMAN, Mr. Wilson applied for the adjudication of E. and G, Hayman, dress-makers, Wellington Street, as bankrupts. The cause of bankruptcy, he said, was a number of suits which had been brought against the firm recently. The creditom were nearly all Frenchmer,-Granted.

Re LAM CHING PO.

. $4,000,000.00

By Balance on 31st December, 1887 $3,900,000.00 By Amount transfered from Pront

and Loss Account

100,000.00

$4,000,000.00

J. BELL-IRVING, 1 H, LDALRYMPLE, Directors. J. S. MOSES,

T. JACKSON, Chief Manager. W. GASKELL, Acting Chief Accountant

We have compared the above Statements with the Books, Vouchers, and Securities at the Head Office, and with the Returns from the various Branches and Agencies, and have found the same to be correct.

P. RYRIE, F. HENDERSON, Hongkong, 7th August, 1888.

Auditors,

"MY EXPERIENCES IN EGYPT!

In the morning I had my first view of the

went to the town, to look for a house, but wo found all the buildings just mud huts, where the At last I saw a house I thought would do,, and natives crowded together in an incredible way

sald to the dragoman that we would take it. He tried to prevent me, but after some trouble wa moved in. I found it had been a pasha's re- sidence previously. I then went out to look for cholers patients, and went all through the town Mr. Holmes, solicitor, who stated that on the

asking, through the dragoman, where the sick 30th March he saw Mr. Rapp, who instructed

people were. But every where I was met with the witness to act for him in the purchase of the

reply "Mafceih "there were none. But, said I Estralia. Witness saw Mr. Caldwell, the

there are; for two friends had telegraphed that an solicitor for the vendors of the steamer, shortly

enormous number of deaths had occurred, and afterwards, and in the course of the conversation

help was pressingly needed. Bat the Arabs·· that gentleman said there had been some trouble

were very frightened, what with the war and the. about the ship, and action taken by Mr.

cholera. I found the Hospital at last, it was a McGregor Smith and Mr. J. H. Smith, but

but with a lot of patients in it, not one of whora that, as solicitor for Mr. Onit, he had

had been attended to for three days 1 There caused these actions, to be discontinued, and

were a number of beds in the place but none occupied, all the patients lying on the sand.. I that there was no valid claim against the ship. Witness's impression was that the claims

thought that was a terrible state of things had been abandoned, and that there was

and I set to work to put them back into their no incumbrance on the vessel. A month later

beds. I put on in, and covered him up, and be heard of an attachment having been served

then another, and a third, and thought I was was agreed that Mr. Melbye should give a bond on the ship, and on seeing Mr. Caldwell it

El Hakeem Cantlle last night recounted a found all of them but on the sand again I getting on nicely, but when I looked back. I Mr. Mossop applied for the adjudication of disjointed, rapid, and highly-interesting series of found that two Arab doctors had been to see to Mr. McGregor Smith. A deed of transfer am Ching Po, merchant, 60. Bonham Strand, anecdotes of his experiences as a surgeon in them, but their way of visiting was to plug their bankrupt. Mr. Walton opposed. Mr. Mossep Egypt, before a large audience of soldiers in the nostrils up with camphor, light a cigarette, put wd the ethnie pfattachment before making said that a previous application had been refused, Garrison Theatre, Surgeon Major Lewer: pre- their heads fast round the corner of the door, A CORRESPONDENT writes from Swatew to the the assignment to Rapp. On the 37th May he and was now renewed. Shanghal Mercury under date the ard ulto. wrote to witness that he had cleared the ship of His Lordship said he should certainly refuse sided, and Colonel Storer, the Rev. M. Wanas and ay "Yes, he's got cholera's give himso-and- There is nothing of importance doing here; all locumbrances, and that he would be ready mente against him, he had not a single cent to

it again. These was a man with four judg.cott, and others also had seals on the platform.. so." The poor fellows had been without water everything is jogging along in the smooth-worn to sign the deed of assignment next day. At a

The Chairman, in introducing Dr Cantlie, or anything for two or three days, which proves old groove. The weather is exceedingly hot, subsequent interview with witness he repeated pay with, and he wanted the law to protect him said that they were all very grateful to the Rev, that nothing is first rate treatment for cholera which, however, is nothing more than can be the assurance. On the faith of that witness from paying one if he had. There was no

M. Wannacolt for the excellent series of enter (laugliter). Next day a soldier told me there was tainments he had been good enough toorganise | Japancae, all females, have established them and a bill of sale was drafted. The payment of expected at this time of the year. A number of advised Mr. Rapp to complete the purchase, reason for the adjudication and there was not

cholera in a house, and I went and asked. selves here, and have started business. Their $10,000 that day was made in consequence of

they had been of a most varied character, No, there was none. It was the first a single dollar to go to anyone. Unless it could combining amusement with instruction, and native house 1. had been in, and weat be shown that the Court was obliged to grant all would be sincerely sorry to hear of all over rummaged the mud-walled living room presence appears to be anything but desirable. the impression that the ship was free. Witness the application he should refuse it. I do not know if they have a tight to realde hers clearly understood that the claims of not only

his approaching, departure. Dr. Cantlin was peered into the loft overhead, which was filled or not, according to the treaties between China McGregor Smith but J. H. Smith also had been

already known to them from his interesting with dried camel's-dung-the only fuel there le and Japan; there is no Japanese Consul here, and abandoned, Mr. Caldwell, whenever the matter

lecture on what he might call the Soldier's there, because of the acarcity of wood-and they are represented to be the very acum and was touched upon, invariably ignored the claim

quadrilateral "beef, beer, baccy, and barracks, finally I found a men lying in the straw in the refuse of their unfortunate class, escaped from the of J. H. Smlib, as being invalid, He told vigilance and authority of the Japanese Consu- witness that he had authority to give security

(laughter) and they would undoubtedly listen buffalo's stall, very bad with cholers. I had to his experiences with much attention,

found out where the patients were bidden, and lates in Shanghai and Hongkong. In Swatow for any claim on the Estrella up to a certain

way in which he had been, impressed, by the You see the people were afraid of me until they Dr. Cantile, having divulged the summary after that I always looked in the straw first, they are a regular pest in every sense; owing to smount. "On the roth June the bill of sale was

Rev. Mr. Wonnacott, as a substitute for Surgeon found I did not kill them all-not all (laughter) the public scandal of their very presence, and signed, all the parties being present. Witness

Yarr on that gentleman's departure on a richly The Sheikh's wife fell Ul, and by good luck-a horrid diseases, in most malignant forms, of was then under the impression that the Estrella To the Proprietors of the Hongkong and earned holiday, proceeded as follows:-These thing like that does a lot of good-1 gave her. which they are said to be the loaibsome vehicles. had. been released from McGregor Smith's A.fallen Magdalen is often an object more of attachment.

Shanghai Banking Corporation. are purely personal reminiscences don't know some pills that cured her. After that I had great Neither Mr. Cakiweil or Mr. pity than of scorn or detestation; but women of Melbye had informed him that the vessel had mit to you a General Statement of the affairs of know by-and-bye (laughter and #Hear bear of complaints. After describing, the manner of Gentlemen, The Directors have now to sub- exactly what I'm going to tell you, but you will numbers of patients suffering from all sorts the most degraded kind, not driven by dire. not been released, or that a new attachment was necessity or sheer despair and starvation to lead threatened He first heard on the 11th June ending jothi Junc last,

the Bank, and Balance Sheet for the half-year In the year 1883, there was a serious outbreak burial, and his system of wholesale fumigation a life of sin, but for the love of gain, should be that she was still detained, and wrote to Mr.

of cholera in Egypt one of the most serious by burning tar barrels in the streets, he con- taken care of by the authoritfiles of their own Caldwell, asking if the ship was yet free, and if $20 903.51 balance brought forward from last newspaper reports, gathered from Arab sources, clean-they had not been cleansed since the The net profits for that period, including that had been known for a long time. The tinted-The ricat thing was to get the streets STORMS have lately been raging in the provinces country and be sent back to Dai Nippon they security had been given to Mr. J. H. Smith account, after paying all charges, deducting stated that in Cairo alone there were in one day Plague of Egypt. It was done, however. An of the Philippine Archipelago causing, con- should not be allowed, to the utter disgrace of Next day he saw Mr. Caldwell, who assured him interest paid and due, and making provision for a thousand deaths, and that was believed to be order had been issued by the Government, before siderable damage to agricultural property. At Japan, to be preying on other people instead of that it was all right that the ship was free, and bad and doubtful accounts, amount to $720,441.36, under the mark. Various parts of the city, bad that, that no fruit should be eaten, and that the Balangs, on the 30th wito, after heavy rains, their own contrymen, as is the sickening state security given to both the Smiths, On the 16th of which after taking out remuneration to to be burnt on account of their unwholesomeness, sheikhs were to see to it. The first morning. there was an overflow of the Talisay river, and the of things in Swatow, where no other Japanese Mr. Caldwell, replying to a letter of the previous Directors there remains for appropriation and you can, imagine the look of devastation my tragomans brought me a water-m adjoining village and country were inundated to residents exist, except repulsive case days eat been accepted by the Registray, and From this sum, the Directors recommend the the inhabitants had nearly all died. These

that the 4/10-441.36

melon for the depth of three foot. Several houses were female This is delicate topic to touch security had been

them Pas with whole quarters destroyed where destroyed, but no loss of life was reported. The upon, but if these remarks should lastigate the ship would be released next day. He relied payment of a Dividend of Oac Pound and Ten reports came to England, and the English insisted, and I ate Next day, he gave some

ate that and he would get no pay, but whole Islet of Santa Rosa was, flooded by the the Japanese officials, to whose Copular on those assurances. Mr. Caldwell advised Mr. Shillings per Share, which will absorb $400,000 Government' asked for doctors to go out and more, saying it. would do me good. overflowing of the river San Mateo, The steam Distict Swatow belongs to take action, a sip

The difference in Exchange between 4/6, the treat the people.The Egyptian Govendient morning he said "Now, you are not

The third launch Plasin was thrown into a paddy field, in the right direction towards removing a most

rate at which the Dividend is declared, and 3/0, at first refused this help, and wabled the English why not let the people have it? It if ber with this but was subsequently floated.

glaring nudeance would be made, '

the rate of the day, amounts to $300,000; Government to pay the doctors, but of course meat and drink, and if you take it away they foxd

The Emperor is at Friedrichsruh. PARNELL, AND THE MODERN JUDAS: In the House of Comm-ma Mfr. Parnell charged Mr. Chamberlain with betraying Cabinet secrets to himself and others when he was a Minister of

the Crown.

Mr. Chamberlin repudiated the charge.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,'

Tire Chinese corvette Kwang Kap, 'arrived this

forenoon from Cantan.

Messrs, Adamson, Bell & Co. inform us that the sidanshup Waverley left Singapore for this port to-day,

THE report and accounts of the Hongkong and Shanghal Banking Corporation, to be presented to the shareholders at the ordinary half-yearly meeting to be held on the 25th inst, are published in another column,

Rapp to get the Estrella away whilst she was free. Mr. Rapp seemed surprised, and wanted se know why. Mr. Caldwell replied that there

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI »

BANKING CORPORATION.

Court of Directors to the ordinary balf yearly The following is the forty-sixth report of the general meeting of shareholders to be held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on Saturday, the 25th August, 1888, at noon-