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THE Tite Barnacles of London town are at it again and have now decreed that in future all sailing barges-whether going "acrost" or not-must cep oficial loge, with entries of births and mar- riages occurring on board, employment or death) of Lancars, and any refusal in take lime juice, also particulars of load line, free-board, etc., etc. As the load line is generally at a point somewhere on deck, and as the free-board will thus be a minus quantity, it should be rather good reading this official log of the average bargee who'is "not much of a scholard," We would like to see him

sit down and write it up.

Be thought to lie smugly ends, Tillable from shipboard to view land, Hit a rather targa shrink bill was due And a warrant was it, addressed

A highly popular and generally esteemed nisist- ant in a local princely house departed from this island on Saturday last without any ostentatious flourish of trumpets. Festing that an address would be presented to him, he contemplated leaving unobtrusively, but some "d-d good natured friend" blew the gaff," and, as our poet suggests, the address was presented after a short pedestrian exhibition in which the minion of the Supreme Court had much the best of the finish. The illuminated scroll presented to the dear departing one was hurriedly replied to, the notes which the highly popular gentleman used being presented to the deputation. As eighteen,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1888.

THE recently appointed Director of the Yellow River Works, the present Governor of Canton, fs, the Shen Par says, daily expected on his way to his new post. Wu-ta-chèng is a native of Soochow, and began his official career as a member of the Hanlin. Previous to being sent to Canton he was Assistant Superintendent of Trade at Tientsin.

THE wreck of the steamer Deutschland, the Shanghal Mercury learns from Japan, has been sold at auction to an enterprising Japanese for $500. It is reported that the foreign share holders in the vessel were fully insured, and that the Koreans have lost everything. The log-book of the steamer is said to have mysteriously disappeared.

THE China Mail advocates-and the Daily Press, of course, follows suit the introduction into this colony of 25 and 50-cent pieces. No more idiotic ipse dixil than this has ever emanated even from that stilted ass "Brownie," and we are quite sure that the Government will treat such a suggestion with the silent contempt it merits. If the Hongkong Executive were very badly, in want of funds to carry on the machine of Government, there, might be some excuse for introducing these superfluous monetary tokens as a matter of expediency; but as Lister's money-box has been lately filled

or twenty more "deputations” were by this time' | to over-flowing by contributions of a more, or waiting at Pedder's Wharf, the youthful,celebrity less shady character, there is really no excuse embarked somewhere in the vicinity of Wanchai. | for flooding the town with clumsy and useless Who will be the next?

THE honic papers are recording a remarkably first passage through the Suez Canal of a Chinn steam clipper, "The Glinogle, we are informed, hoincward bound with teas of extraordinary piquancy and purity from the Flowery Land, entered the Canal on the 1st July, look on board 1,600 tons of coal and left the Canal also on the 1st July," Allowing pineteen hours for this vessel's passage through the Egyptian ditch, would give her about five hours for the handling

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'coins which would only lead to public, incon venience. Hongkong has already had fifty-cent pieces, and anything more hideously ugly in the shape of coinage has never been seen here or elsewhere. We have at the present time silver tokens representing five, ten, and twenty cents respectively, which, if available in sufficient quantities-and they certainly ought to be if the Government is alive to its own interests—, fully answer the requirements of the colony. As regards the

dollar coinage, if the local Banks cannet see their way to issue something decent in the shape of one-dollar notes-and we would suggest that the paper coinage of the Japanese Government should be taken as a model, the question may

free from objection, an arrangement based on them has, nevertheless, been arrived at which- practically secures the object in view, vir: the improvement of the Southern approach to Hong. kong, by the erection of a Light-house and the maintenance of a Light at a point where this convenience to shipping has long been very urgently required, and on the site which all competent authority regards as the beat for the purpose.

This arrangement is not in all respects auch as might be desired; but there is excellent reason for believing that it is the most favourable that can be obtained, and that unless it were accepted, the attainment of the end desired would 4 again be indefinitely, postponed.

In this view of thelarrangement, the Governor feels bound to make public acknowledgment of the service rendered, in devising and proposing it, by Sir Robert Hart, the able Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Customs, who' interest of British trade while at the same time has thus found the means of furthering the loyally conforming to the very natural and intelligible prejudices of the Chinese Govern

Bicht,

this beneft has been obtained, the Governor And while recognizing the means by which desires also to express his regret that any words used, or reported to have been used, by him in Council in connection with this question should have been considered as reflecting upon His Excellency Sir John Walsham, Her Majesty's Minister at Pekin,

Nothing in the knowledge of the Governor has furnished any ground for such reflection; on the contrary he considers that Sir John Wal aham deserves the thanks of the Colony for taking the only course which was at all likely to achieve success, and for thus bringing to a satis factory termination a question which has been the subject of much futile correspondence with his predecessors.

On the whole, business and trade are getting more lively and increasing constantly. I may be permitted to say, however, that to a large extent it is a question of Agency. I will recur to the absurdity of having a telegraph operator" as a shipping agent, in my next epistle.

The weather has been splendid here; on one occasion we had go deg. Fahrenheit during the day; the highest during the night has been 76 6 deg. We best Chefoo. From the papers! see that the Japanese Flying Squadron has les Shanghai for North. Here we have only one Japanese man-of-war in port. She got foul of the U.S.S. Faninda the other day, remaining foal of her for about five hours, until steam could be got up. Some of the head, gear of the Juniata, including her jib boom, experienced rough handling.-Shanghai Mercury.

ATTACK ON FOREIGNERS AT

WUHU.

A correspondent writes from. Wuhu to our

Shanghai morning contemporary under date. August 22nd-

occurred to-day in Wuhu. It appears there is a A serious affray that might have ended fatally very large and well organised band of thieves in the port, who seem to set all law at defiance, and whose principal object is boarding steamers on their arrival and robbing the passengers, This has been going on for a long time, but through the timidity of the Taolai and his underlings their daring is getting beyond allcontrol. This morning one of these men was caught red-handed thleving on the steamer Peking and was at once confined by the officers of the steamer; his comrades, alter trying to rescue him in vain, went on shore and with the hope of intimidating the few foreigners of the port, waylaid and attacked the second officer and quartermaster of the steamer as they In connection with, this Gap Rock arrange- were proceeding to the Custom House to clear ment, this Governor had hoped to be able to her. The second officer defended himself bravely secure another improvem nt in the lighting of and having wrenched a sword from the hands the approaches to Hongkong, by the removal to of one of his assailants, kept them at, bay, Waglan Island of the Light-house now at Cape. although badly wounded on the hand and bay, D'Aguilar. But, though his efforts in this direc-It might have fared much worse with him had tion have so far proved unsuccessful, he does not Captain Gregson and some of his men gone not propose to relinquish them, if such course to his assistance. he approved by the Council.

The erection of a light-house at Waglan would be far less difficult than at Gap Rock; and it is possible therefore that the Chinese Government might be more easily induced to undertake the work with its own staff, if a suflicient subsidy were promised by this colony.

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·Co-day's Advertisements.

STEAM TO STRAITS AND BOMBAY, (With option of calling at COLOMBO should inducement offer.)

THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship

#KASHGAR"

will leave for the above places on SATURDAY, the 1st September, at NóŋN.

E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent,

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Hongkang, 28th August, 1888. STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, VIX NAGASAKI

AND KOBE.

(PASSING Through the Inland SEA.) "HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship ››

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5th September.

" BOKHARA "

will leave for the above places on' or about the'

E. L. WOODIN, Superintendent.

Hongkong, 28th August, 1888.

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STEAM TO SHANGHAL HE P. & Q, S. N. Co.'s Steamship.

"ANCONA"

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will leave for the above place about 24 hours atter her arrival with The outward English Mail.

.E. L. WOODIN,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 28th August, 1883.

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MARSEILLES, MALTA, GIBRALTAR. - BRINDISI, ANCONA, AND LONDON:

ALSO,

MADRAS, CALCUTTA `AND AUSTRALIA.

N.B.-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR BATAVIA, TRIESTE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK AND BOSTON.

SPECIE ONLY LANDED AT PLYMOUTH.

The matter was at once reported to the British Consul by the Company's Agent, at whose suggestion the steamer was kept until the Taolai was communicated with, and the case put before him. After two or three hours' detention theTHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM

NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Taotai sent off a force of men and the thief was

Steamship "CATHAY." Captain J. P. Hassall, with Her taken to the Yamên.......

Majesty's. Mails, will be despatched from this usual Ports of call on WEDNESDAY, the 12th for LONDON direct, VIA SUEZ CANAL and

September, at Noon!

It is to be hoped this will have a salutary effect, and that this disgraceful state of things

of the large shipment of black diamonds, which would be inken in at the rate of more than 300 tons per hour. This is unusually smart, and delightful enough to make us rub our hands with jubilant glee; but still we are not satisfied, we "business arise whether they are entitled to the special and men" out here in China. What we want valuable privileges they enjoy at the public arrangement respecting it should meet with the the second officer were armed with swords and

and what we must demand of China-going

skippers is that there shall be no stoppage in Egypt of any kind. They must get through the Canal in half a day, and as for coal-why, do

expense! A very large number of one-dollar notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank now in circulation, nearly all of which bear the lovely

without it. A detention of five hours employed in autograph of "James Greig, Chief Manager," are a disgrace to that high toned institution. Their such trifling, as cursing and swearing and gnash-albinces is simply disgusting, and they can ing of teeth, and licking and kicking the Egyptian jellaheen at Port Said, is a ruinous waste of time only be safely handled with neile gloves. We If the ships wont steam without coal they had know that the Bank staff enjoy no sinecure and boter engage a modern kind of Archimedes who are pretty well engaged during, and frequently can pick the tramps up in bis arms and dump" enough after, the recognised hours of business their durned cargoes on to the deck of the tea but still Mr. Jackson can surely see his way to boat, and let her get away without any further fooling. Old ladies at home can never stand calling in these tattered and evil-smelling rags the stress of waiting five mortal hours for tea and issuing something worthy of a great and which is always piquant and pure.

prosperous corporation like the Hongkong and PROTESTANTISM in Spain leads but a dull and Shangbai Bank

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

{Bofore Mr. A. J. Leach, Acting Puisne Judge)

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MUSS WING LI Kox. This was a clalm brought by D. Musso & Co. merchants, West Point, against Ng Li Kok, trader, Queen's Road, for $568, money lent. There was a counter-claim for $455, damages by loss of sale.Mr. Holmes appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Wilkinson for the defendant. On several occasions last year the defendant stored quantities of matches in plantiff's godown, and borrowed money them, giving promissory notes, payable on demand In June this year payment of the last note was demanded, amounting, with interest and godown charges, to $1053. He did not pay, and after successive notices he was told that the matches would be sold. They were accordingly sold, and realised $547, leaving $565 due. In defence it was admitted that the money was due, but it was further alleged that notice was given to plaintiff that the matches had been sold by them by suction for about one third of that defendant for $1508, which he ignored, selling amount. Hence the counterclaim for $455. being the difference between the debt of $1053 and the amount that would have been realised by the sale. The case was adjourned.

But pending any such negotiation, the issue of which would of course be uncertain, thi Governor considers that there should be no delay of the work at the Gap Rock, if the Proval of the Council, and receive the sanction

of the Secretary of State.

For this reason the proposal recently made (with a view to save time in construction) for placing a flashing light at Waglan and a fixed light at the Gap, will require to be abandoned and it is deemed to be on the whole expedient to revert to die original plan of a flashing light at the Gap. Pinced at the same height there seems to be no doubt that a flashing light would be much more useful than a fixed light; and apparently Sir Robert Hart, whose experience on the subject is entitled to very great' weight, is of opinion that the greater height required for the former is a disad vantage which would not be sufficient to outweigh this'superiority,

The two Light-houses, if we should succeed in obtaining both, would thus be more costly than|| would have been the case if the Governor's pro- posal to include them in the same arrangement had met with success; but considering that there now annually enter the Port of Victoria vessels with an aggregate measurement of nearly six millions and a half of tons (a tonnage, it may be remarked, which according to the published returns is larger than that of the Ports of all the British Possessions on the Continent of America and larger also than that of the total of the threa leading Colonies of Australia) and considering that the Southern is, if anything, the most important of the two approaches to the Island, it may be taken as certain that no expense which is at all likely to be incurred can be otherwise than very inconsiderable by comparison with the advantage gained in the saving of time alone, and without reference to the losses of vessels directly attribut- able to the absence of lights.

The cost which would have been saved to the

shipping trade, if a Light at the Gap Rock bad been provided at the time when the subject was first mooted, would now amount to a sam which could probably be only expressed in hundreds of

thousands of pounds; and the Governor trusts, therefore, he has reason in congratulating the Council and the Colony that a want of such very great importance is at length to be supplied.

COREA.

will be put an end to,

I may mention that the men who attacked daggers, and evidently meant serious mischief.

Our little community is quite upset-by this, and we should be very pleased to see a gunboat in the port. I cannot conclude without expressing the satisfaction felt at the prompt measures taken by our Consol, Mr. Mansfield.

[H.M.'s gunboat Cockchafer has left for Wuhu, and we also learn that a Chinese gunboat has proceeded to that port.-Ed.]

TIENTSIN.

18th Aug., 1888.

Last week, in our obituary notice of Mr. Blow,

we said his brother Capt. Blow was Senior

Commander of Trautman's steamer line. We should have said instead that Capt Blow was Micine Superintendent.

Heavy but not violent rains have fallen during the week, and the low-lying districts between this city and Peking are covered with water, but although the river is beginning to swell, no overflow from the Peiho has yet occurred." Enough rain has now fallen, and the farmers are hoping for a spell of dry weather to ripen the abundant growths of grain, roots, and fruit.

The Leesang broke up completely in the gile we recorded last week, and nothing can be saved from her. She was a very fine vessel, and as was shown by the strains she bore on the rocks, was of very strong construction.

We are sorry to say that a valuable set of pumping apparatus, made expressly for salvage operations at sea, sent from Shanghai to the steamer Leesang, was lost when that vessel Broke up.

The Yung-ting-ho has broken its banks, and part of the country near to Peking is flooded. The damage done, so far, is not serious.

A very serious accident has occurred at the Ping-tu mines. A charge of dynamite for blast ing did not explode at the proper time, and when a party of men was sent to withdraw the fuse and replace it with another, an explosion took place, and a number of people were killed and wounded. Lidstone, the foreign mining engineer, received serious injuries.

The Ping-tu mine is likely to be given up, it is said. The outlay on the works has been con-

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Insurances.

THE NEGLECT OF LIFE

ASSURANCE,

``HERE is no feature of our civilised life that

THERE is no fear of non with more force than the neglect of LIFE ASSURANCE. · BY payment of a small quarterly subscription any tuan of good health can secure a very large sum to his family in case of premature death, yet hundreds of families brought up in confort perhaps in luxury-are left in extreme poverty every year from the bread winner having a man lives up to his income, knowing well that neglected to assure his life. In the East many

if death cut him off suddenly, his wife and children would be lek almost wholly unprovided: for. All this, can be prevented by Life Assurance.

"EVERY FACILITY In connection with Life Assurance Business is afforded by

THE STANDARD-LIFE OFFICE, one of the largest and wea'thiest of the Provident Institutions of the United Kingdom, Forms of application and all information will be promptly afforded on application to any of the Standard Company's Agents, or to

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Agents, Ilongkong. Hongkong, 29th June, 1888.

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STRAITS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED,

STRAITS

RANCE

ASURAN

SFIRE

HNGKONG CONSULTING COMMITTEE:- Set, Esq., Messrs. ED. SCHELLRASS & Co.

E. L. REUTER, Esq., Messrs. Pusray & Co.

"HEAD OFFICE, SINGAPORE. STRAITS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED. Subscribed Capital ..... Paid Up Capital ..... Reserve Fund........................ 85,000 T. RISKS to nil parts of the World at THE above Company is accepting MARINE

CURRENT RATES,

$3,000,000 600.0x0

STRAITS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

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STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Office, Hong-Paid Up Capital ........... kong.

The Contents and Value of Packages are re quired to be declared prior to shipment

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Black Bills of Lading..

E. L.. WOODIN, Superintendent.

P. & Q. 5. N, Co.'s Office, Hongkong, 18th August, 1888.

NOTICE.

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Hongkong and China from 1st Tanuary, 1888.

E. D. SASSOON & Co. Hongkong. 28th August, 1888

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RELIABLE

CARRIAGE PONIES.

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AND

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Entimations.

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE DIVIDEND of 3 % or $3.75, per

Share for the six months ended 30th June, 1888, declared at To-day's Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting, will be payable at the Premises of the

Subscribed Capital...

..$7,000,000 400,000

THIS Company is prepared to Issue POLICIES against FIRE on Foreign and Native Houses, Godowns and their contents, at CURRENT RATES.

All Contributors of Business in the above Two Companies participate in the Bonus whether Shareholders or not.

JOHN ANDREW;: Agent, Office, 24, Queen's Road, Opposite Hongkong Hotel. 1710

Hongkong, 17th July, 1888.

NOTICE,

$1,000,000,

HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, THE

LIMITED.

CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.

The above Company, is prepared to accept MARINE RISKS 1: CURRENT RATIS on GOODS, ke. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies.

WOO LIN YUEN, Secretary.

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HEAD OFFICE,

No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST,

Hongkong, 1st February, 1882.

GENERAL NOTICE.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

LO YKUK-MOON, Esq.

EF. SING, Esq................... Lou Teo SHUN, Esq.

cheerless life owing to the ignorance and bigotry of the masses as much as to the narrow-minded and selfishly constituted laws which regulate: religion amongst the Latin races. In Great Britain, the United States, Germany, Holland, and all the Baltic provinces where Protestantism is the religion of the State, all other creeds and denominatious of Christians are on an equality before the law. In Spain, however, and in Spanish Colonies, religious matters are carefully and jealously watched for the benefit of Roman Catholicism and apparently for the disadvantage of all other creeds. The appeal of two Protestant professors at Madrid, who were condemned to imprisonment and to pay heavy costs for having refused to salute a Catholic priest bearing the Viaticum to a sick person in Madrid last April, has been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Justice. The Court held that the inferior Court rightly interpreted the existing penal code enactments against persons committing acts of disrespect to the State religion. The same Supreme Court decided some time ago that the Public Prosecutor in Corunna must bring to trial some Catholics who entered a Protestant Chapel with their hats on, insulted the Pastos, threw the Bible on the floor, and trampled it under foot. The trial was held in that case, but the offenders escaped punishment, after committ- ing one of the grossest and most aggravated

Chemulpo, 16th August. insults ever wrought against religion hy a civilized or supposed to be civilized people.

Of late there have been many rumours about newly-discovered rocks in Korea. If these were ONE of the most remarkable coaching achieve-

true, then it would be singular that the Korean

The manufacture of brown or "cocoa” gun- ments ever known has just been accom-

coast navigation should have been so singularly powder will soon be commenced at the Arsenal on plished on the London and Brighton road.

free from accident, as until quite recently the north side on a large scale, all preparations A wager of £1,000 to £500 was made

actually has been. There is perhaps no safer being in a forward state it is most decidedly not less safe than the China Chinese, a correspondent writes to us -It is the navigation than that along the Korean coasts; With reference to the omnivorous habits of the that Mr. James Selby, a well-known whip for the last quarter of a century and a driver on

Flying Fit relating to the coast navigation The latest charts by the Cantonese and Fukienese only who are believed the Brighton road for the last ten years, would

to S801" are safe as long as mid-channel snakes, cic, and a favourite dish par excellence "Approaches to indulge in such delicacies as dogs, mice, not complete the double journey in eight hours. votes of money, including $13,000 for the drain-

courses are kept; but if it is thought proper at a great banquet one going by the name of to do otherwise, and. "close-shave" right Mi Chi. Two young baby mice, blind and un condition. The coach left the famous for shooting to be competed for by the Police; "White Horse" Cellan in Piccadilly at 10 sm. $335 for a new dagstaff at the Harbour Office, Bristol or Korea. There is no Press in Korea, on his plate. In the middle is a dish of honey except the Royal Gazette, published daily, in (Chinese name M) into which each of the guests in charge of Mr. Walter Dickson, one of the and $10 to pay for having the Crown lands at

which minor affairs of unimportance are not dips the unfortunate victim, enveloping it in a the Peak watched, to prevent their being removed owners of the coach, who took up the wager on surreptitiously.

even discussed, but merely cursorily mentioned. sugary shroud before consigning it to his rapa Mr. Selby's behalf." "The first change was made The Hon. B. Layton "wanted to know "if Therefore to a large extent we are helpless, as clous maw. The Chi is said to be onomatopoeia at the "Herse and Groom," Streatham, where His Excellency had really meant it when he unless the independent Press in China and being slowly ground by human molars."

far as an expression of public opinion goes, for the dying protest of the infant mouse while the change of horses and the re-starting of the ordered that mendicants should not be arrested, coach occupied exactly 47 seconds. The changing and that joss-paper and banfires should be burnt recently brought into notice in Korean waters mest made at Cheng Chou, begun last autumn Japan grant us space. None of the rocks We learn that the whole of the new embank- at Patcham also took 47 seconds, and the longest in the street. stoppage on the journey, including attentions

His Excellency said he did, and explained can be said to have been unknown; quite the and carried on to the last at a cost it is said of D ESIDENTS in the Colony would materially A Gardens, at the western end of the Praya.

THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

The whole of the members of the Council met this afternoon, after about six weeks holiday. Ms. Francis was present-fortunately in the capacity of silent spectator. His Excel lency appointed himself clerk and read some very interesting correspondence which he had written, to a style which nearly obtained an encore for him. He recommended various

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

siderable; the returns, which were never large,

are absorbed by the Taotai's numerous relatives, and at any rate, the mine, which can only be made to give a small profit by being carried on carefully and economically, now loses money on every ounce of gold raised."

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPO M'

RATION on and after TUESDAY, the 28th inst.. and Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants at the Company's Office No. 14, Praya Central, Hoogkong.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

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D. GILLIES, Secretary, Hongkong, 27th August,. 1888....... HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

THE DIVIDEND declared for the half-year ending 30th June last at the rate of (110) One Pound and Ten Shillings Sterling per Share of $125 is Payable on and after Corporation, where Shareholders are requested

The weather was fine and the roads in excellent age of Wong Nei Chong valley, $46 for prizes or left, then the consequences must be taken, in able to crawl; are placed before each guest alive MONDAY, the 27th instant, at the Offices of the

to the horses and the bearings of the coach, did why. It took him twenty minutes to do so, but reverse.

to apply for warrants,

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By Order of the Court of Directors,

T: JACKSON,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 25th August, 1888. COLLEGE OF MEDICINE FOR CHINESE.

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aid the Senate of the College by forward- millions of tacls, has been completely swept ing to the ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL not occupy more than a minute. A little delay what he conveyed was, respecting the first ques Her Britannic Majesty's ship Rattler being away by the surging torrents of the Huang-ho. was caused once la getting the gates of a railwaytion, that he had ordered the sick, inme, and now in these waters, it is to be hoped that she As the floods rose it was seen the strain became GLASS, JARS (for Museum purposes).

1. (3)--ILLUSTRATED PAPERS and Books for the crossing open at Crawley, but with that exception lazy who infested the colony to be carefully may be able to spare the time to sift this matter dangerous, and L'Hung-isao, who was 70 or Bo

Student's Reading Room and Library, there was no unfavourable incident. By the route dumped on their native heath again whenever a little. The only steamer ever lost in Korea so from the spot, was sent for in hot haste, but

Address:JAMES CANTLIE, taken the distance to the "Old Ship" at Brighton they were caught, instead of filling the Gaol with far, was not lost on an unknown, bit on a well before he could arrive the whole bank went

Hon. Sec, to the College. is calculated at 54 miles from the starting point in cholera. As regarded the joss-paper interpella-known rock. The Rattler has gone with despat-down before the flood; of the 8,000 lineal feet of Hongkong, 7th August, 1888. London, and the down journey was completed in iion, he had learnt that jess-paper, &c, was ches to Chefoo, but is expected back again to a the river wall recently completed not one fach 3 hours 36 min. to sec. Not more than a second's burat ever since Confucius, and he wouldn't stand few days.

remains, and the waters are pouring through the

FOR HIRE. slay was made in Brighton" the team being. by and see the police running-in the Chinamen

There are rumours about Chinese troops being immense gap into Honan unchecked. From Boo immediately turned round and started homeward. who burnt it now. Pro aris #1 fods-Hi-yahl massed on the Siberian frontier; I should like to to 1000 labourers, who were on the bank, were kept under steam off Pedder's Wharf and When It is remembered that 108 miles had to be The magistrates had better mind, for it wouldn't ask where are they to come from? Who is to also swept away and drowned. The volume of covered in the time, or an average, including do. Here, he looked severely at the Hon. B. pay them? And when the Cossacks put in an silt-laden water now covering the country and to stoppages, of 133 miles an hour, it wil be seen Layton, who looked overcome, and said no more, appearance, who will get their rice cooked, if some considerable extent entering the Yangtze, the task was not an easy one. When the coach

will, there is every seaspo to fear, in a few drew up again in Piccadilly it was found the.

months make known ita coming by forming bad distance had been covered in exactly 7 houja

aboals between the Lang-shan and the sea. The and 50 min, or ten minutes under the time.

conservation of the Yangize, by far the most im allowed. The horses, all in splendid training.

portant artery of the Empire, and always increas and handsome" and valuable "animals,"" were

ing in importance, may then become a burning changed sixteen times during the journey. The

question, far transcending in moment the reclam - fact that the attempt was to be, made to win a to the Legislative Council this afternoon pa la are struck off, they are packed together, sealed ation of the Huang-ho.

and the regular business went on swimmingly.

THE GAF ROCK LIGHT-HOUSE.

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"The following message from H Excellency the Governor on th above subject was presented

any? The American military instructors are doing good, vigorous work; one of them in away to Japan to recuperate his over-worked health.

The Mint is in fairly good working order again. It is run by natives and they strike off copper coing about the weight of the coin, it is rumoured, they are not particular. When a hundred pieces

up and sent to the King. Perhaps His Majesty would prefer to take too English sovereigns, instead of 100 Korean coppers! --

There is no political news.

bet which so many sportsmen had previously The Governor has pleasure in directing to be declined, had become extensively circulated, and Jaid on the table the further correspondence fat many, points along the road there were great" (other than confidential) which has taken place number of cheering spectators, while at the on the subject of the proposed Light-house at Piccadilly renderyou, the Cellart, there was a the Gap Rock

I'm sorry the Chinese steamer calling here laige, gathering of sportsmen, who heartily Though, nous of the alterative propos is does not carry balf as much cargo as the Japa- eneratulated Mr. Selby on his achievement recently: mubmitted by the Governor to the | ncse doj my own ideas on this wubject I propose and on his good luck in thus winning 41,000; 5) Chinese Government were considered altogether to ventilats in a future letters-

We much regret that Mr. Allan C. Wylie died after a short illness on Friday the 17th-Inst The deceased

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