We have sent to San Francisco for a patch, the color of our pantaloons, and when it arrives and is welded on the spol Richard will be him. self again and ready to rustle at funerals or address public meeting on the topics of the day.
MUST TAKE THEIR CHANCES.
Three times during the last month we have surprised curself and the public by mopping up the floor with assailants, while on two occasions we have ignominiously took to flight. We state It as a physiological fact that there are times when we had as hef fight a dozen men and other times when we'd run from a good-sized boy. Partice planning to lick us must be prepared to take their chances. We may fight like a lion or run like a jack rabbit."
"THE COLONEL HAS GONE." "Tony society pretended to be all upset fast week because Colonel de Claire was arrested for sethief and taken to Nebraska to stand It was only a pretence. We have known onths past that the Colonel was a beat and postor, and many others hare known it: Ent us an order for a new hat as soon as he d here, and thus put us under obligations give him away. The hat grew old and a time, and as the Colencl didn't a cash subscription we felt that we tope enough. We just dropped of Henry county, and a week
Já. dince.
d the irons on."
every evening after 6. We there are parties in this town fe in and subscribe for copies Our terms are $2 per year,
**NOT ON HIM." **There are no flies on J. M. P. Brayton, Esq., who owes that beautiful ranch commonly known as Jackass Dell. He entered our office the other
day and left a peck of potatoes of his own raising His wife is one of the handsomest women in the West, his daughter the finest singer and musician, and the gentleman himself ought to be President of the United States. It is to such go ahead, enterprising men as Mr. Brayton that Arizona is indebted for her prosperity. We call attention to the two-eluinn ad., which we have inserted free, of the fact that Jackass Dell is for sale at $10 an acre. It's worth five times that..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1889.
left its fallen, cities as allent monuments to the millions of the dead.
But the Hunt disappeared and the Hunnish Empire fell into fragments, and for 800 years more Europe remained undisturbed by the tribes of the far East, Asia had sent out such innumer able hordes into the West and had shed the
Ivy-green India cashmere composes a lovely toilet, this lined down the fronts with pale-]: golden-green surah, the Russian gulmpe and close second sleeves under the open ones of cashmere made of green and gold matelassé silk,
Violet-colored Henrietta cloth over a kiltıd
skirt of réséda shot with golden fawn-colored A falle forms a beautiful toilet for five o'clock tea, gold and shaded tints in violet, résida, and golden brown, showing delicately in the embroi dered bands on the silken blouse and petticoat,
Artificial French flowers delicately perfumed and a bit wiled-looking, creamy and so lifelike as to tempt one to sniff their linted petals, are noted on imported dresser from the best Parision houses. Natural flowers in evening dress are, however, greatly preferred, and those who can afford these expensive adornings use natural blossoms and foliage all winter.
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Co-day's Advertisements.
ST. GEORGE'S HALL
CONC
ER
will be given in the above Hall, THIS EVENING, :: February 27th, In Aid of i THE HONGKONG BRANC-1 OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS' FAMILIES AÍÐ ASSOCIATION.
Under the Distinguished Patronage of Mrs. GORDON CAMERON, Mrs. MAXWELL, Mπ. BELL-IRVING,
&
&c.,
PROGRAMME:
PART I.
bland of her sons in so many bitties that her turbulent tribes required rest, and until the advent of Jenghiz Khan she busied herself with no more schemes of conquest, Part of the great Mongolian brotherhood eked out a precarious existence as herdsmen on the steppes of Tartary, And the remainder of that once warlike race vegetated on the fertile lands of China and forget, the traditions of their fathers in the peaceful monotony of agriculture and commerce... But at the beinning of the thirteenth century came another great awakening. All Turtary_rolled down upon China; all China and Taitary
Buckles fasten the belts of Empire dresses, together rolled down upon. Europe and reduced two-thirds of that continent to the rank of an they confine the graceful Grecian draperies
"art" tea gowns, or are
set in the Asiatic dependency, and the civilised West awoke in frenzied panic with a firm conviction that the midst of long loops of noire ribbon. A girl K-Overture, Semiramide, BAND of H. M. S.
passession of any days of the Huns had returned, and that the who can gain banners of the invading Mongols would ere long loom in the shape of knee-buckles, old paste By kind permission of H. E. Vice Admiral Sir be visible from the walls of Paris. But Jenuides, or the square antique brooches' of her
Nowell - Salmon & Officers H. M. S. Imperieuse, died before his work was done, and the yellow great-grandmother, is in possession of a set of
fa. Neugierige, Schubert Mr. C. hordes who might otherwise have camped in ornaments that, although of silver, are now. 2.—Song
16. Ständchen, Schubert LAMMERT London and made Britain a province of Asia, worth their weight in vold."
3-Violin Solo, Moderato Adagio p. Rona and handed down Mongolian manners and
Concerto.. Rondo con spirito f customs and superstitions to the Englishmen of
M. VON WILLE. the present generation, retired eastward once
(a. Life, Blumenthal) more. They left behind them a strong, Asiatic
Song The Clang of the Miss STOPANI element in Russia, which has never since been
wooden shoes, Molloy
Miss STOPANI S-Trio, Maiden Fair, Haydn Mr. C. LAMMERT
Mr. GRACE
wholly eradicated, and to this day more than
half Europe is under the dominion of a mixed race which owes its Mongolian taint to the great inroad of six centuries ago.
Two centuries later, the Western branch of the Mongol nation was again. traversing the familia road towards Europe, and for the third time it seemed that the high-born ladies of France and England were about to, be sold in the slave markets of Central Asia, and that the Asiatic nomads would presently obliterate European civilisation and reduce the earth to primeval chaos. The Christian world collapsed in terror before the spectre of rain which was looming up in the East, and for a while it appeared asifthe whole civilsystem of the Aryan race was about to fallal most without making an effort in its own defence, It is net for us to suggest that other farmers.But the desperate struggle maintained by Bajzet, bring us in potatoes, batter, carrots or apples."the Thunderbolt," and his ally, Stephen of Such as do will find us ready and willing to give Servia, gained a little breathing-time for the them from one half a column to three columns of notice in return, and in our most cheerful vein," paralysed nations of Christendom, and Timour, like Jenghir, died in the middle of his conquests and left no adequate successor. For the third time Europe was saved by an accident from sinking to the rank of a mere outlying province of the Mongol Empire; and since then the dangers of Asiatic conquest have steadily recded, until the heritage of Shem has begun, in its turn, to fall a pey to European adventurers and the once dreaded. Mongol has descended in the social scale till he is estermed as the meanest of the human species by those whose fathers fled in hundreds at the sight of a solitary yellow spearman, and abandoned their cities at the first whisper of the Asiatic's approach.
THE MONGOLIAN OVERFLOW.
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Pretty afternoon dresses are made of lawn. gray, tan-colored, dark-blue or gelden-olive French camels-hair. The graceful home toilets are quite artistic and picturesque to effect, being cut in princesse fashion and slightly trained; others are Grecian in style, the clinging draperies arranged with consunimate skill and beauty. There are silken or tinsel girdles at the waist, and soft Grecian draperies over the chest,
Pure golden-yellow is a favorite color in the gorgeous and expensive brocade brought out this season," "Dawn," an exquisite shade of rose gliminering with gold, is another popular ground for the lovely Marguerites, roses and other'small flowers, while the Pompadour bro- cades, with these same backgrounds, show garlands of flowers, white nd silver roses of natural size, and moss rises and leaves, trailing vines in glittering green and gold rinsel, and pomegranate and lobelia splays in heavy embossed weaves or a surface of thickly repped (aille Francaise.
Very lovely Pompadour brocades in medium large designs, on grounds of rarest pale, shreny tints, are this season in high vogue for brides. maids' dresses The maid of honor invariably wears cream-white broende, the bridesmaids wear variously litac and silver, rose and golden olive, blue and gold, te v-rose and pale Nue green, etc These gowns are short, tailor-made, and in Directoire fashion, opening down the frants ver~| skirts of lace, mounted on plain silk foundations the shade of the ground of the brocade. Trish diamond buck'es are used on the picture hais, the slippers, and at the neck of the Directoire overdress.
Rossini
PART II.
Imperieuse.
BAND of H. M. S.
.-Selection, Figaro, 2-Song--Odins Meeresriit. Mr. C. HIRST
Mozart........ Impericuse.
3.-Song
4Song
Loewe
[a..Ave Maria, Gounod, Violin obli-
gato-Mr VON WILE..
b. Dear Heart, Tito Mattei.
Mrs, G. CoxON, 16. My love is come. Marrials. Ja, May Dew, Sterndale Bennett.
Mr. GRACE, *
5-Pipes. THE PIPERS 1st Bn. Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. By kind permission of Col. Forbes-Robertson and Officers 1st Bn. Argyle and Suther- land Highlanders.
Dan's open at.......
To commence at......
8:30 PM ...9.00 P.M.
Tickets-82 cach, can be obtained at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH, LD,
"Hongkong 27th February, 1889
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION. WEEKLY SPOON COMPETITION.
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EOTHEN MARK
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OF HONGKONG, No. 264.
REGULAR MEETING of the above
A REGULAR
in FREEMASONS
HALL, Zetland Street,, THIS EVENING, the 27th instant, at 8.30 før 9 O'CLOCK precisely.'
Hongkong, 27th February,,,1899.
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'LUZON SUGAR,REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
"HE SEVENTH ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at the Office of the General Agents, Pedder's Street, on THURS- DAY, the 7th March, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the General Agents, with a Statement of Accounts, to the gist of December, 1982,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the zand February until 7th March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, 'General Agents. Hongkong. 19th February, 1889
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THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPÁNY, LIMITED.
TH
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. THE SECOND ORDINARY ANŃUAL . MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Company will be held at Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON, & Co.'s Office, Pedder's Street, on WEDNESDAY, the 6th March, 1889, at 12 O'CLICK (NOON), to receive Statement of Accounts and Report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1889.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company. will be CLOSED from WEDNESDAY, the 27th instant, to WEDNESDAY, the 6th day of March sext, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
ISAAC HUGHES,. Secretary. Hongkong, 19th February, 1849
NOTICE.
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COMMERCE.
THE KN the Hongkong Genera!
HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Chamber of Commerce will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 6th March, at 3 30 P M., a
ENTRANCE FEE 10 Cents, payable on the the ROOMS OF THE CHAMBER, City Hall, for the
Ground, next SATURDAY, 2nd March, at 4 O'CLOCK. One Sighting lot allowed.
Carbines allowed Two Shots extra on
THURSDAY AFTERNOON the Range is reserved for Practice at 800 and goo Yards.
A: SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 27th February, 1899.
158 FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA. THE Steamship
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No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining after the 5th proximo, will be subject to rent at the rate of one cent per package per day.
Among the neglected and unnoticed items of cable intelligence published within the last few weeks in the Australian daily Press, there appeared a brief message in which it was announced that the Russian Government liad a'last taken alarm at the ceaseless influx of Chinese emigration
As in dress, so also in hair-dressing, women into Siberia, and that decisive measures were
of sense and taste, are consulting the suitable being taken to drive the obtrusive Mongol back
and becoming in their methods of arranging within his own borders. The statement at the
their tresses. Less of false hair is worn now moment attracted little attention, and within 24 But Mongolia, after four hundred years of rest, than in many years, but there is no fixed hours it was dead and forgotten. The leaders is waking to, new activity, and the silent, inert | m-de of adjusting the coiffure as in other days. of public opinion were busy at the moment pressure of her myriads is ogain beginning to be | It may be high, low, medium, flat, puffed, publishing ponderous columns of details felt on the outlying borders of the European braided, banget, frizzed or waved, and yet be about the squabbles of the doctors, who states. The huge reservoir of yellow humanity in perfect accord with the easy requirements of attended upon Kaiser Frederick in his last is beginning to overflow once more, and, in modern fashion. A woman with a high, pro illness, and were wrestling with diagrams of obedience to the unwritten law of history which minent, expansive forehead will not arrange her different parts of that unhappy monarch's inside; has so often carried her armies westward the hair à la Pompadour because her pretty neigh- the cables were occupied with valuable informa- | vanguard of the new invasion is showing itself bor with an oval fresh. face and low fore- tion about the Prince of Wales, who was under on the frozen steppes of Asiatic Russia. The head adopts this fashion. She knows that it. stood to be pursuing the harassed bear amid the time is already within measurable distance when does not suit her style, and that it will never snows of the Austrian Alps; and the European sheer pressure of numbers will force the Mongol add to her attractiveness 10 drag ber hair straight
"AFGHAN," correspondents who furnish literary nourishment race to seek for wider fields, and the only outlet back from her face. She simply shadows, softens „for the Australian intellect were engaged, as for her surplus millions is in the West. India, Bur- and relieves the amplitude of her brow by the Roy, Commander, will be despatched for the usual, on drivelling obituaries concerning the mah, and Stamate already densely populated; the aid of gracefully falling, light, fleecy locks, and Above Ports, TO-MORROW, the 28th instant, at latter end of some venerable flunkey, who had difficulties experienced by a non-maritime pec- thus she fulfills a duty she owes to society-at- DAYLIGHT been Gold-Stick-in-Waiting for So years, and ple in seaward emigration renders it impossible large by looking her best. The general contour
For Freight or Passage, apply to had doddered for three-quarters of a century for the nation to find any spificient outlet in the of the face, its sharpness or roundness, a broad
ADAMSON, BELL & Co., among the half-dressed seraphim of the ballet.
islandr of the Pacific; a d the only remaining or contracted brow, the shape and natural.pone
Agents. The stream of dreary imbecility which is opportunity lies in a moviment which will attack of the head, the nose--Grecian, Roman, tiplilted,
Hongkong, 27th February, 1889 daily issued under the misleading title of Russia at her weakest point and force the icy pugged, pointed or flat—and various other con
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. foreign intelligence" was, as usual, in full Colossus back upon Europe. The resolution of ditions and surroundings must cater into the flow, and amid the popular excitement aroused the Muscovite Governmentto oppose the Chinese important question of hair arrangement, and
STEAMSHIP " AFGHAN," by elaborate reports of the rheumatism of fifth-invasion with the bayonets of her soldiers will fashion never did nor can invent an infallible FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL, PENANG rate monarchs in low circumstances no one cared only increase the pressure upon the frontiers of rule which all women may follow blindly and
AND SINGAPORE. to know that Asia was once more threatening to the empire and hasten the ultimate catastrophe. successfully, move down on Europe as she did in the prehis-For a few years, or a few generations more, the
There is a bewildering and exceedingly novel that all goods, are being landed at their “ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed toric days of the Scythians and the Huns. The yellow mea may continue to increase and mixture of the stately, the artistic, the picturesque social and political life of the present decade is multiply within their own borders; and then the and the bizarre in the gowning of the present risk, into the Godowns of the Kowloon Wharf a thing of shreds and trifles, and the men who Chinese dominion will be eaten up by the multi-brilliant season. Beauty is adorned very much and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence make history as history is understood by the tude of its own population, and absolute hunger daily Fress--are busy laying foundation stones, will force the Celestial hordes to spread regal brocaded garments à la Pompadour, fitbitional cargo will be forwarded unless notice to her advantage just now. whether robed in and/or from the wharves. delivery may be and opening flower-shows, and otherwise endeal themselves over the empty plains of Siberia, garbing for the minuet, dia bébé in filmy gauzy vouring to be a grandmother to the human race, and try conclusions, with the autocrats of St. draperies with flowing sashes, full shits and to the contrary be given before NooN, TO- and while they revolve in their petty orbits the Petersburg in a struggle for the ownership gathered low bodies à fa Grecque, with curves. DAY. tired old earth is getting ready for another of the earth. The raw material out of which and folds of seductive grace, or à la Directoire, convulsion.
the armies of the coming crusade will be with no drapings whatever, and so on through Periodically, ever since the days when his formed is practically the same as that with which the varied list of styles and effects, Recamiers torians first carved their early records in hierogly. Jenghiz and Timour achieved their conquests, invndle the ball-room, and Eighteenth century, phics on the huge monuments which still strew and the Mongol, alone among the races of man- features blossom out at high teas, weddings and the land of the old Assyrians and Hittites, the kind appears to be immortal Other nations receptions. Alady in these days of independence Mongols have been accustomed to orerflow into have lived their little span and died and heen and originality in dress, can wear a costume the West, carrying terror and destruction along buried, and have left no traces except, here and with a bit borrowed from this epoch and that with them. Even before the days of Moses, Fgypt there a crumbling pyramid or an undecipherable century, and withal he well dressed regards was overrun by a barbarous horde that descended inscription, but the Mongols, by whatever name the toilet entire. For instance, a laughing like a rolling torrent from the Enstern deserts and they have been known, date back beyond history young society belle last week declared that she trod the civilisation of the Pharaohs into ruins, and hold out fair promise that they will live until at the moment was attired in a very English and then vanished away as mysteriously as they history itself passes away. And signs are not walking jacket with French round hat. Her coat came, leaving behind them only a hideous wanting that the hour of their supremacy is again had a Louis XIV waistcoat and a deep Russian memory of slaughter and desolation. They approaching. The races of Western Europe have collar of sealskin. Upon her hands were tan bequeathed no records to state whence they had their day. France has grown, barren and gloves of Danish kid. She wore pointed Chinese came or whither they departed, but history already shows indisputable signs of national walking boots, and carried an Alaska-sea muff and legead assume them to have been a decay; Spain and Portugal are two ruined There was a border of Venetian embroidery on fragment of the great mixed race-haif Mongol, shadows slumbering among the wreckage of their her camel's hair gown, of dark Roman red, and half Tartar-which raged and seethed in the former greatness; Italy is tottering beneath over her arm, for the wedding journey she was cauldron of Central Asia and every now and then the weight of the new-born dignity which her about to take, was an Irish peasant's cloak, made overflowed in a torrent whose foam was buman: degenerate sons are no longer able to support. of tough Scotch tweed.—N. Y. Post. lives. A thousand years later the mysterious Germany and Britain are alike eaten up by the visitation rushed down a second time upon the hunger after "trade;" and the empire of the shores of the Great Sea, and the warriors of warlike Ottomans is a dying idiot and bangs on If the sufferers from Consumption, Scrofalu and Josiah strained their eyes from the walls of the very verge of the grave. The shadow of General Debility will try Scott's Emulsion of Jerusalem as they watched the countless host Russia is cast over them all, and behind Russia Pure Cod Liver Oil. with Hypophosphites, they of the yellow men sweeping contemptuously past lurks the Nemesis which will yet overtake the will find immediate relief and a permanent their feeble little city on their way to the Nile, Muscovite power-that national symbol of benefit. The Medical Profession in the various and the priests burnt incense and offered up stemity, the silent, undying, unconquerable countries of the world universally declare it a sacrifices in the Temple through a weary vigil Mongol. The policy of China may be one of remedy of the greatest value, and ́as it is very of six-and-twenty years, and Implored the for- peace but she cannot control her destiny. The palatable it can be readily taken by the most gotten God of Judah to save their lard from the road to Europe is already beaten hard by the sensitive stomach, and will never fail to give unknown terror which had crushed the surround-feet of the countless Mongol armies which have relief and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist nations in the dust. The wave spent itself traversed it in the past, and over the same road can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited) at last, however, and the tide of armed men rolled the Mongol myriads must overflow in the future agents in Hongkong and China-{idot. back again to the steppes ; and then the Eastern to spread fear and desolation among the decay. monster lay comparatively quiet for another ing nations whose weary hands cannot hold much 1000 years, till the Huns began to be heard of longer the sceptre of the world's supremacy.a on the outskirts of the Roman empire, and the Sydney Bullitts. hated features of the Mongol race raised a new alarm in Europe. The squat, misshapen dwarfs who pouted in myriads round the coasts of the Caspian: aroused "first derision and then alarm. The Ostragothe rose in arms to oppose them and were almost wiped off the roll of nations; Goths and Bulgars, Greeks, and Italians went down like chaff before the Asiatic hordes; the. tribes of the Lower Danube were rolled | plays a more important part than color. back into Germany, and the shattered, frag- Magnolia and japonica are the newest shades ments of Germany were swept across the in cream-white, and the new reds are called Rhine into France, and, finally, the Franks stood Veronese, Sultane, Mephisto and English cherry. at bay with the Hunnish army in front and the For full-diets wear are queonly looking Paris THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP sea behind, and for the, moment it seemed as if | gowns, made with velvet corsages in Pompadour the nations of Western Europe were destined fashion, with deep square open, neck, and short to find a common grave in the Atlantic. The sleeves, desperate valour of the Frank turned the tide at last, but it was only resolved by, a hair's-breadth that a branch of the Mongolian race was not to rule by the Seine and the Thames, and even when their strange, harsh, monosyllablie tongue, had been forgotten, and the last of the Asiatic spears had drifted back beyond the Vistula and the Danube, Europe continued to watch in terror for the second coming of the strangers who had turned that sontinent isto s smoking ruin, and 5 mini-precious kidescent stones:
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THE FASHIONS.
scen in water-rushes,"
The new reed-green is of the pallid gray green There is quite a rage for the downy feather boas for opera wear, WORDEN
In the costumes of the present day, nothing
Co-day's Advertisements.
FOR SHANGHAI,
THE
HE Steamship
"NINGPO," Captain F. Schulz, will be despatched for the above Port, on FRIDAY, the 1st March, at 4.9.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hg'mur, 27th February, 1889. MAR 265
· COMPANY, LIMITED,
MAM FOR MANILA, YIA AMOY.
"DIAMANTE
Many young ladies prefer the jaunty Marquise THE Company's Steamship and Montrose street jackets, that fit very snugly, to the long enveloping Newmarket or Directoire sunouts. These are certainly very coming to Captain McCaulis, will be despatched for the trim, youtkial forma, potongan ke Jasbare, Forts, on SATURDAY, the 2nd Instant,
Buckles,” in a variety of shapes, are made of at 48.12. repousić silver,, plala silver studded with Irish For Freight or Passage," apply tot la diamonds or blacke bížiliants, cut steci, and old ivory surrounded by, a narrow circle of enamel or
Hongke
RUSSELL & Co
February,
General Managera.
All Claims against the Steamer must be. presented to the Undersigned on or before the 5th proximo, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. · Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
ADAMSON, BELL & Co,
Agents.
1237 Hongkong, 27th February, 1889.
STEAM FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG. COLOMBO, ADEN, PORT SAID, MALTA, MAR- SEILLES, GIBRALTAR, BRINDISI, ANCONA, VENICE, PLYMOUTH,
AND LONDON; 'ALSO, BOMBAY, MADRAS, CALCUTTA and AUSTRALIA.
purpose of receiving the Report of the Committed and passing the Secretary's accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1884.
By Order,
F. HENDERSON, Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1889.
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HE HONGKONG-AMATEUR
ATHLETIC SPORTS.
·TO BE HELD, ON THE RACE COURSE MEADOW,
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SATURDAY,
the 16th March, 1889.
Held under the Laws of the Amateur Athletic Association, open to all Gentleman Amateurs
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
RACE PONIES, HACKS, &c.
LANE,
CRAWFORD will hold their ANNUAL AUCTION, TO-MORROW,
the 28th instant, at 4 O'CLOCK,
& Co.
at the Fountain, opposite the CITY HALL.
LANE, CRAWFORD, & Co.. Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 26th February, 1889.
A
+
IMPORTANT LAND SALE
AT KOWLOON..
[ast
VALUABLE BUILDING ESTATE
will be offered for Sale by Auction, BY
G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer,
UN
THURSDAY,
the 7th March, it 2.30 ..
Comprising:
EIGHTY-SEVEN LOIS, known as Sections 1, 2, 3, &c., of Inland Lots 570 and 571, Yau-ma-tee, with extensive frontages to Robinson Road and other Public Roads, and excellent building siles already levelled for Building, Shops, Dwellings or Magu- factories.
Fullest particulars, including Plana · and obtained on Conditions of Sale, may be application to
HENRY J. HOLMES,
Solicitor,
54. Queen's Road;
W. ST. JOHN H. HANCOCK,
C.R., F.R.I.B.A.,'
3. Braconsfield Arcade.
or to the Auctioneer, Duddell Street, Hongkong, 20th February, 1889. [335
A usements.
ROYAL
WENU'S
MARIONETTES
AND
GAIETY COMPANY Will have the pleasure of appearing on TO-MORROW EVENING, the 28th February, 1889.
IN THE
THEATRE ROYAL, CITY HALL,
In their mirth provoking entertainment;
consisting of
THE ITALIAN FANTOCCINI,
THE CHRISTY MINSTRELS, and the beautiful Pantomime of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.
Changing into the HARLEQUINADE,
after which
MRS. AUSTIN POWER,
will appear in her.
"TOPICAL SONG"
CAN'T GET A GOOD NIGHT'S REST."
The whole concluding with a grand TRANSFORMATION SCENE.
Entitled
OF STALACTA.
who are Members or visitors of the Ilongkang THE PALACE OF DEW DROPS IN THE GROTTO Club, The Club Germania, The Hongkong Cricket Club, The Victoria Recreation Club, The Ladies Recreation Club, and Commissioned Naval and Military Officers.
The following is the list of Events, viz.:—- - Y¡—100 YARDS FLAT RACE (Winners -
at previous meetings at Hong- kong or elsewhere penalised it yards), .........
......... 2 prizes. 2-PUTTING THE SHOT (16 lbs.) Win- ners at previous meetings at Hongkong or elsewhere penal- ised foot)...... 3.-130YARDS FLATRACE, (Handicap), 2 4-TOSSING THE CABER, (Open),... I 5.--Hran jump, (Winners at previour
meetings at Hongkong or else. where penalised 2 inches for one win and one inch adili- tional for more than one win), 1 5.—4 mile Flat RACK, (Ladles Pura-), (Winners at previous meetings at Hongkong or elsewhere penalised 10 yards for one win and 5 yards additional for more than one win} 7.-THROWING THE CRICKET BALL (Winnem at previous meetings penalised 5 yards)
8.-EXERCISES ON
CHANDELLETTYSKLAN
1
THE GERMAN HORSE, ****** 9–) MILL. FLAT RACE, (Handicap), 2 10-MILE FLAT RACE. (Open to N. C.
O.'s and Men of Her Majesty's, Imperial Services, including Police)......
andana 2
11-120 YARDS Hurdle Race, (Winy ners at previous meetings penalised 5 yards for ons win, 2 yards for each succeeding
12-BOYS' RACE, 100 YARDS (Open) (Competitors must be under to years of years of age), ............. 3 13-VETERANS' RACK, 120 YARDS
`N,B-CARGO CAN BE TAKEN ON THROUGH BILLS OP Lading for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULI PORTS, MARSEILLES, TRIESTE, HAM- ||BURO, New York, and Boston, SPECIE ONLY LANDED AT PLYMOUTH. HE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Steamship
(Open), (Competitors must be Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this "SHANNON," Captain C.R. Edwards, with Her
35 years of age of upwards of for LONDON, VIA BOMBAY and SUEZ
10 years residence in India, China, or the Tropics, ............... CANAL, TO-MORROW, the 28th, February, 14-LONG JUNF, (Winners at previous at NOON, instead of as previously advertised
meetings penalised 6 inches), 1 Cargo will be received on board until 4 P.M: | 15-THREE-LEGGED RACE (post Parcels and Specie (Gold) at the Office until
eatrice), 1:16-SMALL Girls - Race (handicap) 4 PM, on the day before sailing..
Silk and Valuables for Europe will be
(Competitors must be under
7 transhipped at Colombo; Tea and General Cargo
years old)............... for London will be conveyed via Bombay with. 17-220 YARDS FLAT RACE (handicap) out transhipment, arriving one week later than 8 MILE FLAT RACE (winners at by the ordinary direct route via Colombo,
previous meetings penalised 100 yards for first win and 50x yards additional for each suc- ceeding win)igusamanos. 2 19-CONSOLATION RACE (120 yards)... 1 20-TUG OF WAR, (International) 21-BICYCLE RACE (1 mile) Start on
For further particulars regarding FaxiOHT and PASSAGE apply to the PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Office, Hong- 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 Brick Bills of Lading
E'L WOODIN, Superintendent,
P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Office, az Hongkong, 37th February, 17
FLUTTER MAN TO LETS
A beach cat positions of the Colog
PART :of, ■: HOUSE in ons of
Rooms and Garden,
Apply to
Kodek:
Office of this paper, [as Hongkong, 17th Feb usy, 18595
Reserved Seats may be secured and booked
at Messrs. KELLY & WALSH'S, LD.
PRICES OF ADMISSION : Dress Circle and Stalls.......$1.00 Pit .........
Children half price, Soldiers in Uniform will be admitted to the Pit at half price,
C. DERMER, Manager.
Hongkong, 25th February, 1879.
[250
Insurances. £1,000 STG. Payable at Age 55, or
at death of Brevious (even if that event occurs during 'be first twelve months)-may be secured by a payment at the rate of 1-
per quarter if commenced at age Z7 7 6
£'8 14 £10 11
+
217 15 8 Lay 12
20
25
30 3
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FTER the Policy has been three years in
A force should the Policy-holder wish to
discontinúe future pay.benis-he will be entitled to receive on application a Free Pald-up Policy for proportionate amount of the Sum Assured. For instance a map who had assured at 45, after Alve year's payments would be entitled to a Paid- up Policy for £500 free of future paymcats as explained in Frospectus.
Note-It is an advantage effect-Provisions of this nature early in His. By delay the rate of subscription ingroases; Death may occur before the Provision is effected, or Health may fall and render the life ineligible for Assurance.
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED, 659-2]
Agents, Hongkong. GENERAL NOTICE 2
THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.)
CAPITAL TAELS 600,000, EQUAL TO 3346 RESERVE FUND
$833.133-334 $318,000.00,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
1
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2
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LO YEUX MOON, EIŞ.
MANAGER-HO AMEL
MCURRENT RATRE to all, parts of the
"RISKS GOODS, &c. taken
worid
HEAD OFFICE, 8' & 9, PRAYA WEST. Hongkong, roth December, 1984.
NOTICE.
Saddle) (Post entries) is 2 Eotrice to close on Friday 8th Maych. Competitors are requested to send in their THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY, RACKS, as early as possible,
entries WELLINGTON BAR-
as
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LIMITED.
3The above order of events may be changed CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED.$1,000,000 the Committee this proped to send in their. The above Company to prepared to accept
Entries for races on forms which are obtainable or WEDNESDAY, and after) at the CRICKET PAVILION, MORETKELLY & WALSH, and Messrs, LANE, CRAWFORD & CO
* GEQ, BRAMWELL Gri
* Land Northamptonshire Regt,"
Hongkong, 18th February, 1889/
MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATE; on Goods, &c. Policies granted to all Parts of the world payable at any of its Agencies, detect
WOO LIN YUEN
Secretary,
HEAD OFFICE
Queen's Road Wen, 1st February, 1882.
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