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A. weak solution sprinkled on the floor will drive away flies and mosquitoes.
Used in the daily bath in the proportion of a table-spoonful to a large lub of water it is very refreshing; it has a highly beneficial effect on the health and prevents contagion.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1889.
THE Amy Sherwin Opera Company, according to latest advices, were playing to good hausts in Singapore.
We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardine, Exchange Matheson & Co) that the “Glen" liner Gin- gyis, from London, last Singapore on the roth Inst. for this port.
A "HUSH-SHOP" in Tai-ping-shan was raided scited. The owner was fined $40 at the Police this morning, and sixty odd jars of eam Court by Mr. Pollock, and the fery fluid confis cated.
YESTERDAY WAS a busy day in the Grol. The six men who were sentenced at the recent Criminal Sessions to terms of penal servitude, on Sikh constables at Yaumati, were brought out with two floggings cach, for a murderous attack to "eat eel," as the playful Chinese term goes. Three victims. had to receive 36 strokes cach, and the rest at each, with the prospect of 18 many more sometime during the next six months.
The departure from the colony of the, Han, the We applied to H.E. the Governor for permission Surveyor-General has again been postponed, to send a representative to be present at this probably in view of the New Reclamation exbibition of modern barbarity, but were refused, banquet to the honorable gentleman! Har the Ordinance. No more word of the public as the function was a strictly private one. Yet legal gentleman "weakened" arid zone back understand, that several civilians were allowed, on his ancient "pal", and client? It looks to the authorities that it if worthy of her like it but it is, under all circumstances, just as
is
well that Mr. Price should be permitted to leave consideration whether the system of secrecy the stage he has so long adomed without any with regard to public departments, and more especially the gaol, has not prevailed long enough,
unnecessary fuss, The Sir Jaw Bowen banquet and whether the ventilation through the Preasrepeated would be too much-even for the Hon.
the Surveyor-General. (of various important matters at present secretly conducted of inquired into would not be advantageous? i the Government afraid of brutalities carried out under legal sanction being tive of the Press admission to the Gack on this thoroughly exposedthat they refused a representa- occasion ? It looks remarkably like it.
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eminent professional experts who have at various times being engaged in the DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, exploitation of the. Pahang concession--on salary, or commission, or out of pure L'IMITED, CHEMISTS.
philanthropy, and also on certain special information alleged to have been supplied DISINFECTANTS, confidentially by directors and other
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equally well informed person. And it is to open the eyes of these possible dupes SOLUBLE CRESOL,
that we reprint in another part of this issue a charming little story-for which we are indebted to the Brisbane Boomerang showing how bogus gold-mines can be floated and kept aflost for a considerable time on the strength of experts' reports and the naïve simplicity (?) ofprofessional directors. Of course we do not for one moment compare the dead-and-gone "Golden Fleeco" of the story with the very much alive Punjom treasure-troves, nor is any direct analogy intended to be drawn. between the whisky-inspired evidence of the AustralianTMM/SPUGGLKIES and Ar JENKINSES and that supplied to the WK find the following in the Sydney Bulletin:- According to a cablegram lately published, "the Hongkong public by the professional gen-Pall Mall Gazette objects, to the surrender of tlemen who have been mainly responsible half-a-million miles of country in West Australis, to 40,000 people." It is very good of the Pall for the somewhat suspiciously frequent all to take an interest in the matter, and no booms" in Funjoms. That the respective doubt we should be pleased to lesin that that journal is keeping its eye upon this Continent. reports of Mr. M'SPUGGLES and, let us say But, all the same, we would be glad to know Mr. HAUGHTON, the talented experton whose what in the whole earth the Pall Mall has got advice the Punjom Company was floated, to do with the matter. It doesn't own West bear a strong outward resemblance to anything. England doesn't own West Australia, Australia, and, consequently, it doesn't surrender each other may be true enough; but that is either. All it possesses in that colony is a doubtless pure accident, and, after all, it is certain privilege by which it is able to prevent the people governing themselves, but as its not on paper but in the gold-bearing reefs authority does not go much beyond this it that the precious metal must be looked for, has only a vested right to, keep things in a As will be seen in the story of the hideous muddle without being able to put them straight. England surrenders this right "Golden Fleece," that apocryphal mine because things are getting a sultry that if The following kinds are those in most general failed to realise expectations; how much doesn't knock under something will shortly happen, and under these circumstances the use and demand ;— *
Gaseife has no cause to get into a perspiration. Watson's' Pure Transparent Sbap.
And while we are on this subject we may men- (Unscented),
tion that we object to the surrender" of the Glycerine Soap.
Pall Mall to its present proprietor. We don't Shaving Soap,
know who he is and we never saw him, but wo bave exactly the same claim on the Pall Mall that England has on West Australia-namely, the right of discovery-and we are as good at objecting as anybody. England,, in common with a score of other countries, discovered Australia when it belonged to someone else, and we discovered the Pall Mall-the copy we found on top of an ash heap--under sirailar circums- stances. There is a lot of logic in this view of the subject if it is looked at properly.
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paying gold has been extracted from the much-belauded Punjom we have no. positive information, But if our readers will carefully study the "Floating of the 'Golden Fleece'" they may succeed in fathoming the lesson its publication and the foregoing comments are intended to convey.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
AT the Sanitary Board meeting to-morrow the only business will be the letter of the Acting Sanitary Superintendent, forwarding a draft Bill
to amend The Public Health Ordinance, 1887.
AN Emergency meeting of Zetland Lodge, No, [5525, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland
·Street, on Friday, the 15th instant, at 8.30 for 9 Pm precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially
The Hongkong Gelegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1889.
PINJOMS continue the mystery of the hour on the local Stock Exchange. One day they are quoted at something like $80 per share, and the next, without rhyme or
invited.
We regret to note that small-pox is gradually Increasing in Singaporeand surrounding districts.
The police state that on an avenge one person daily is admitted to the hospital suffering from this complaint.
AN Australian paper says that the Union Insur ance, the Canton Insurance and the China
Traders had each a line of £1,009 on the cake of the ship Killachan, which sank in the English
with the steamer Nertid.
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BALANCE SHEET.
Cost af land.................... Costoffactory, machinery,
&C .......................$148,482.07
Additions in 1886 .
9 935.11 Additions in 1887 ... 166.40
Less written off for de-
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106.96 fession-a gentleman, Glancing, at myself in my elegant pier-glass, upon my soul I believe I $64,498.54 am beginning to have a decidedly William-the
Norman-descent appearance.
Three years ago, however, I don't think I was 20,000.000 very aristocratic in appearance. I certainly was never seedy. My heels never went too far down and I could always manage to keep a decent bead-covering. But the fact is that I was ' just one of those men who are generally decent in appearance, who manage to scrape along and
their way, but never have too much money... to spare from their paltry £3 a week or such like screw. And with the memory of that dull time on me, I sit down to give a short sketch of the way in which I managed to settle down to this comfortable, easy life which I now enjoy..
$158,583.5874
140,000.00
46,639.88
preciation in IP85, $5,414.14; in 1887. $3,169.44! in 1888, $10,000.00 yumaskini 18,583 58 Value of rope, hemp, &c, in godowns Value of consignments....$ 54.927.16 Less advances on same.... 9.247.30 Insurance premia appertaining to. “2004
1889.NE Sundry debtors Cash at factory.
45,654.95 845.28
49,744.21 25.00
$291,932.3
Capital, 3,000 shares at $50 paid-up. $150,000.00 Due the Hongkong and Shanghai Due General Managers................
Banking Corporatio 101,267.70 Sundry creditors.ICTURESQUARRIE Balance of profit and loss account... Unclaimed dividends...........
2.129.45 3,663.87 35.713-79 157 50
$-02-932-33
THE WAR IN NORTH BORNEO.
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I was coming up from Sydney in the Dartoo about three years ago it must have been while she was a very new ship, I fancy—when, sitting" in her rather uncomfortable smoking room I sud- denly recognised in my single fellow 'smoker an old schoolmate, Tom Hughes by name: Our pleasure at meeting was mutual, "and when we had had a whisky bought up and had talked over old times, I ventured to ask Tom what he was after.
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"Well, I have had a couple of years' very poor
have been backed by some Melbourne and times in mining in New Zealand and am on my way up to Queensland to have a shot at it there.
Sydney men for the last five years and did pretty. well for myself and them up till my last New boom is coming and so, you see, I want to fix up Zealand tour, but they think that a Queensland
some of the good things in time."
But," I asked, you have never been to. Queensland before, and you will hardly have de cided to which part you will go, I suppose!"
MR. HENRY NORMAN sends us the following noter" Four words in yourparagraph of Tonquin Commandant Baudert was killed' that's all. news yesterday nazrate a fact which, will have spread dismay throughout the Protectonte.
Three weeks ago I was standing with him on the very edge of the Francò-Chinese frontièr and · he was painting out to me the direction in which he intended to advance against the band of pirates. In two or three days,' he said with a smile, I shall go out and say box-four to them. I photographed him standing field-glass in hand looking across the frontier, with bis little staff around him. That will be a dramatic picture,' he said; you'll send me a couple of copies. est-ce pas ! And I have them just ready to end to bim He was full of confidence in his advance with 150 men of the Foreign Legion THE BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY 20 tt-Croydon, I think it's called--and I see. Chinese, and the result ass showed that his and 200 Annamites against 500 well-armed plans were well-laid. But his own bon-jour to them has proved to be 'good-bye to us. Madame Baudart was with bim in the citadel of Moukay-the only lady within 200 miles, and she was in ill health. His sad death will be a loss to Tonquia in more ways than one, for the hostile press in France will not be slow to point out afresh-and with much truth-how far off the pacification" of the country is, when important and well-guarded points is the first to the commander of the troops at one of the most.
be sacrificed."
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A CURIOUS sort of a shindy occurred up at the Albany on Saturday, and led to a little washing of dirty clothes at Mr. Pollock's tribunal this morning, Thomas Moscrip, a foreman of works engaged in supervising the erection of some houses there on behalf of Messrs. Bird and Palmer, architects, summoned Tang Yun, a car. penter, for asulting him. A cross-summons also heard, Mr. Webber appearing for Moscrip in both cases. His story was that about noon on. Saturday he went to the houses to examine the work when be met Tang Yun, who called him a foul name, A DECREE of the Emperor in the Peking Gastie took off his cont, and struck him, knocking him records the closing of the great breach in the down. Tang Yun further seized a canying. embankment of the Yellow River near Chong pole and struck him on the foot, making it swell, Chou in Honan. The officers previously entrusted and, when he ran away, threw bricks after him. with the task having failed in their efforts, to
He got assistaube, and complained to the con accomplish it, they were superseded last summer, tractor, but could get no satisfaction till he took and Wu Ta-ch'èng was appointed Acting Director- General. On the 11th of January operations out the summons. Then the contractor told him to withdraw the case or he would bring up all were sufficiently advanced to allow the opening the Chinamen to swear that he had assaulted of the canal, intended to conduct the water away from the gap. On the 17th the embank them. Moscrip, in cross-examination, denied that he had ever received any "cumshaws" from the ment heads were united by cables strefied contractor he had had $25 and furniture offered across; and on the 20th, after two days and to him, but had refused them. He had accepted of unremitting exertions, the narrow opening
several camphor-wood boxes from Tang Yun, completely closed, all the waters in the river, but wanted to pay for them.-The constable. flowing away by the old channel. The Emperor proved that Mescrip was hurt when he complained feels that this speedy success is due to the to him on Saturday.-A fine of $10, or two months' unseen aid of Heaven and the Gods. As a sign Tibetan incense, which he desires Wu Ta-ching down boards when Moscrip came behind him of bis deep gratitude, he sends ten sticks of imprisonment, was imposed. In the cross- summons Tang Yun stated that he was putting
the temples of the River Gods in the vicinity of there had been any previous disturbance. The the works. In recognition of the promptness and contractor was called by Mr. Webber, and sagacity displayed by Wu Ta-cheng in the per denied that he was puting in "jerry" work formance of the duty entrusted to him, that because the contract was unprofitable and officer is given a button, of the first class, and is likely to lose him $20,000 if done according to confirmed in the appointment of Director- General of the Yellow River. The Provincial specification. Moscrip had frequently asked him Governor, Ni Wen-wel, receives back the rank for presents, and Messrs. Bird and Palmer had and the button of which he had previously been equally frequently complained of the inferior deprived, and the Board will select some substan-work-The Magistrate dispassed the case. tial reward for bestowal upon him. Four bigh officers, Li Hun-taso, Ch'eng-fu, Li Ho-nien, and Plan.Chun-wen were punished for their failure
reason as far as anybody appears to know. I. Channel on the 4th ulto, after being in collision to offer with prayers and thanks on his behalf at and struck him with his fists. He denied that
they drop to 855; and thus the game of see-saw goes on day after day. These extraordinary operations can only have one reasonable construction placed upon them; they indicate plainly enough that this sensational stock has been and is being used by inspired jobbers in a manner highly suggestive of that old- fashioned pastime of shuttlecock and battledore. But the game is not, a fair one to the rank and file of the share dealing fraternity; to them Punfoms can scarcely fail to prove a dangerous agnis fatuur, as they are in the exact position of a card player "bucking up" against a packed hand. The ultimate results of all this reckless and blind speculation cannot fall to prove disastrous; to what extent the inevitable crash will affect public intereste is at present uncertain, but Punjoms will not be the only local stock affected when the day of reckoning does arrive.
To attempt to convince people against their will we have long since recognised as a hopeless task. And the small army
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Regimental Sports to-morrow:-
March.
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Sleeping Mazzle........... Valentia rences of Scotland"... Godfrey
* Tabies of Mountain and Gles"...Broadhurst Selection Quadrilla 1. Prince Charlie" Vise Scotch eautes" Galop
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"Good night an 1 jay be wipa "Martin
THEoutput ofthe Miike coal mines hau, according to a Japanese contemporary, lately been averaging 1,200 tons daily, as werke is continued day and night. Two hundred horses are constantly mine, and it is expected that when a recently, employed in the conveyance of the coal from the discovered seam is opened out the present production will be doubled.
A CORRESPONDENT not long ago usked us what a "dog-walloper was. If the gentleman will walk past the Hall & Holtz Co,'s establishment he will see a very five specimen of the genus, the first, we think, in the Far East. It is a gorgeous creature in a helmet and boots, carries a stick, and has great difficulty in preserving a dignified demeanour when a group of Chinena urchins stop to regard it wistfully.
to close the breach befare last summer. As the portion of the embankment constructed by them has stood firm, and the whole work has now his grace to them and remit their penalties been completed, His Majesty in pleased to extend Li Hung-tao receives back his rank and the batton of which he was deprived. Cheng-fa is released and takes the position of Expectant Provincial Judge. Li Ho-nien is also released, and his title and decoration are restored to him. Fan Chun-wen is raised again to his former rank; a substantial reward will be given to him, and he is for the time retained at Chêng Cho
to attend to the embankments.
AUSTRALIAN CRUISERS. - : The Admiralty Dust, H.M.S. Stagnation" Sung nightly with great enthusiasm by the prasant First Lord and the Chief Speratory Do ye want to know what's a first-class craf'
For a home or a foreign station
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFAC-
TURING COMPANY, LIMITED.
The following is the report for presentation to meeting to be held at the office of the General the shareholders at the fifth ordinary general Managers (Messrs. Russell & Co.), on Monday, 25th March, 1889-
BLAME FOR THE WAR,
(FROM A SARAWAK CORRESPONDENT.) On the 12th February, Acting-Governor Hamilton of Labuan, accompanied by the Datu Bandar of Sarawak, went over to Padas. They had interviews with the officers of the British North Borneo Company and with the Resident, Mr. Daly, and afterwards proceeded to the house of Pangeran Shabandar, about a mile distant. After a friendly talk, the Shabandar engaged to leave for Brunel and take the bone of contention with him, namely, the murderer, the cause of the war. Hostilities then ceased between the opposing parties, and both were bound by promise to keep the peace till enquiries bad been made in Brunei about the affair.
"Well, no, I dont know yet where I will prospect, but I daresay I will gather some news of the colony in a month's residence in Brisbane. There's some talk about a place in the Gulf dis
there's some excitement about Kimberley." Dut I don't fancy either much. It's a goodiah bit off and will be pretty expensive. What I want to get on to is a middling good patch close to civilisation where, at any rate in the prospectus, the working expenses will be low and the staff plentiful."
"Something like the No. 1 North Phoenix," 1 suppested.
I think I know the mine you mean," he said. "At Gymple, isn't it 7"
I nodded. "Well," be continued. "Jimmy, old boy, it isn't every man's luck to drop on to a No. 1. North Phoenix, but if I can strike anything at all of that class of reef, whether there is much gold in it or not, I will make my pile. The fact is, some Acting Governor Hamilton returned to Labuan of my men down South have been hit pretty on the fath, and on the 15th a steam launch was hard lately and they must recoup themscives, sent for Pangeran Shabandar, who went to Brunei and as their names are good they can pop off a the following day with the murderer. Mr. Daly, mecentable thing at any figure they like, when Resident of the Padas Besar district, His High-this expected boom comes. Of course, when ness the Rajah of Sarawak, and Governor they make money so do I. And what I want Hamilton were there; and the Sultan arranged | now is—a reef" And he tipped me a gentle
wink, to bold an enquiry on the zoth, which was done in a full Court
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At this enquiry it was set forth by numbers of witnesses that the murder was committed in Padas Damit, oat of the jurisdiction of the British North Borneo Co.; that both the murderer and the murdered man, two brothers, had always lived in Padas Damit; that the murder was committed a year ago, and that a squabble about a debt was the origin of it.
The Court also is said to have pronounced the Pangeran Shabandar innocent of the charges brought against him by the British North Borneo Co. The Ministers of the Brunei Government stated that the Pangeran had always been a faithful subject to, as well as a Minister in, the
Brunel Court.
Pangeran Shabandar, according to our corres. pondent, has offered to leave Padas Damit if the British North Borneo Company will fairly remunerate him. It is to be hoped that this will be arranged, though unfortunately it is somewhat late in the day.→Straits Times.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, February 19th The fanatical Mahomedan students, who are known here as Softas, have been issuing seditious pamphlets and placards against the Sublime Porte; many of them concerned in the agitation have been rested and sent to exile in
the interior,
LONDON, February 21st. Mr. Gladstone has arrived in London from. Italy for the reassembling of Parliament.
and March.
Mr. Morley's amendment to the address was rejected by 339 to 260.
Mr. Parnell spoke, the whole Opposition rising and cheering him; he said he felt confident that the English in the near future would affirm the We have the pleasure to submit to share-justice of Ireland's cause, and would perceive holders the usual statement of accounts of the that granting to Ireland the control of her own Company made up to 31st December, 1888. affair would not endanger the Empire, but would The gross profit amounts to $52,580.00 and, be only just to the smaller country which would after deducting balance at debit of last year's give all required safeguards. account and wilting off $10,000 from the value of plant and machinery for depreciation, there remains a net profit of $35.713/79 to be appro- priated
It is proposed to deal with this amount as follows i
To place to reserve fund...$12,000.00 To pay a dividend of 12 per cent... 18,000,00 leaving a balance of $5,713-79 to be carried forward to credit of next year's account,
Owing to the unusually high price of hemp at Manila the factory was closed in November, the
· FLOATING THE " GOLDEN FLEECE."
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Now, I had hitherto paid very little attention to mining matters, but I knew from the rapid way in which a few years before ) had seen some of my acquaintances become opulent without, so far as I knew ever having handled a drill er a hammer that it was not at all necessary to leave town to go in for "mining" and, as Hughes seemed still the same old free-hearted fellow that he was in our boyhood's days, it seemed to me that I might manage, cultivating his acquaint- auce, to get into the secrets of the pactoliag stream. So after some more conversation I eventually asked him to make my little cottage up Enoggera terrace way his home while ha stayed in Brisbane, an offer which he accepted. I had also a hazy remembrance of having some years before, while travelling with doctor for one of the life assurance companies, had pointed cut to me by a young stockman whom we had fallen in with on the road between-well, we'll. say Tambo and Springsure a formation which he said he thought was a lode but which healso informed us had been unsuccessfully prospected while he was a bit of a boy. It seemed to me ahat if Hughes wanted a big reef this was just the thing that would suk him; and so, when sac night shortly after we had arrived in Brisbane, brought the matter up in a casual kind of a way; we settled down to smoke on my verandah,
Of course Hughes pricked up his cars a little when I mentioned this big reef. "Out Tambo way, you say ?" he queried. "Well, I don't know but what I might take a look at it if you will
come out with me and show it. That is out in the direction of the opal country, isn't it?”
"Yes," I said, "I think there are opals out there, something forber west than that though." "Well," he replied. "Suppose we go up by tail next week some time to Roma and hire a buckboard and drive out to take a look at it?"
The upshot was that one fine morning we left Roma, behind a pair of serviceable screws, in a pretty atout-looking buggy, containing blankets and tucker to stand out a week's trip. The day was clear. A heavy thunder-shower which had
fallen the night before had levelled the dust and on the gum-trees and vines pearly drops were still hanging, while the green turf was springy as an English lawn, 1 did not feel at all sure as to my ability to pick up the lode, except at one special place, where I remembered the small creek had cut into the gully and undermined a large gum-tree, causing it to fall across and forms a natural bridge. I calculated that it would take You may think, dear friends, as you walk us close up a week before I could sun up the old down the newly-made roads in the "Turtle Dove landmarks, unless, indeed, inck would come my Estate," just as you come out from the dusty way and allow me to tumble across them. And highways of Woolloongabba, that that new villa | this, strange to say, was just the case. The with its broad verandahs,its bright cream coloured third night out we camped as it began to get chimneys, shiney roof, and two-acre raddock, dark and in the moning, on going along alitile licked into the semblance of an ornamental years, the Golden Fleece.
per many garden, may be rather showy. But when the Hughes did not go into any great fever over hot Queensland sun and the heavy tropical rains my "find" but after something like six hoars have beaten down onit for a year or two, causing examination of the ground, in which he showed the bright paint to get toned down a little and me a great many things which I never had seen the plants in the garden to become a little more before, be lit his pipe, sat down without saying matured, when the lawn has been rolled regu-& word and, after apparently ruminating over the larly for a season or two and the careful old man matter for half-an-hour, looked up at me quietly whom I have engaged as man-of-all-work has | and saidí... Yes, that will do, I thinks and got all the little etceteras fixed up about the we can play our cards rightly, we ought to do it place well, I hope it will then be one of the this time," fuit, most elegant residences which no auctioneer I need pot detail how we "pegged out* and
of "operators" in this colony whore almost have ordered the same precautions to be taken Why, then, come give a look, mates, fore and aft. Company supplying, its customers' wante from about one-fourth of which is gradually "being creek for a bucket of water, I found, after i
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CHOLERA is reported to be prevalent in Cam bodia. The Spanish Consul at Saigon, on hearing of a death, that occurred among some recent arrivals from the former port, communi- cated the fact to the Manila authorities, who
with vessels arriving from Cambodia as with those hailing from Zamboanga in the island of Mindanao, as reported by us yesterday. ANOTHER Injustice to Ireland. Christopher Mc Quail, a young seaman from that distressful country, took a ricksha the other day and told the coolle be would pay him "to-morrow. The coolla applied for the money at the Sailors' Home next morning, and got warmed up by Christopher for his presumption. Mr. Pollock ordered the patriot to give the rickshasman $1,10, and pay a fine of $8, or go into quod for a month.
We are informed that the following hours will be observed in closing the mail for Europe per P.&O. steamer Pekin, instead of those pre viously notified:-Europe, &c., India vía Bòm- bay-Parcel mail for Bombay closes at a p.m. Late letters 3.0 to 3.30. Supplementary mail on board till three of departure. Extra postage 10 cents. On the 13th, Cigars at i p. Papers, p.m.; Letters, 3 p.m.
undivided time, attention, and energy are exclusively devoted to gambling in stocks and shares, are, in their own estimations at least, so abnormally clever and far-seeing, that it sounds almost like prasumption for an outsider to hint that the foundations on which they base most of their speculations are of that sandy description so slightingly certain well known parable. But it is a fact nevertheless, and we have no hesitation in saying that a very large majority of the recent sensational sales and purchases of the Punjom Co.'s shares by the outside, public had no better justification than hearsay, or mere imagination. It may be true that these shares wil in time prove to be worth $1,000 apiece; but from present appearances and so far as can be seen
THUS the Avenir du, Tonkin : Contrary to what by the naked eye, their value' to-day has been reported in the French papers, Lun. is quite an unknown quantity. "Follow vince of Quarg si a part of the year, and the vinh-phuoc is not dead, but resides in the pro- my leader" has been the watchword other part in the Prefecture of Linchao, two of the punters and touts who obstruct days fourney from Moa-kay. The old "phoque" that busy portion of Queen's Roads the best of health, and has had a fine e recently built for one of bis daughters, Central opposite the Hongkong Hotel, who is married to a son of General Fong, the and the policy has not always proved a conqueror of Lang-soo, Lau-vinh-phuoc is now resting on his laurels in the boson of his family, success. However, what we have actually and shows no inclination to recommence his been leading up to is the confidence former adventures. A Paris newspaper, says reposed in the Punjom mine on account that he has been mistaken for the Viceroy of Tonquin ; this is a bit of information that cannot of assumed favourable reports from the surprise any one,
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At Her Majesty's ship Stagnation. Every inch of the hull's our own design, Her plates are as thick 18-ą waler ; While her belt, just down to the water line,
Makes her cheaper, my mates-and safer! Then her bow and stern are planned with a skill
That should rouse an enemy's wonder po For as soon as they're hit they' quietly fill,
Come off in a lump and go under. No matter the moment peril, she spots, She can heap on her coals in plenty, And make at high pressure her thirteen knots,
While the foe that's in chase makes twenty, And if through her boilers x shell goes clean, She'll run out her gups-when the fact she'll glean
And she's forced to offer resistance.
That they won't carry half the distance. What's the odda? Old-fashioned, useless, con="
demned
Let them burst! Why? Don't they serve their
On Inquiry, searching, Judicial,
friend, The permanent Woolwich official |
SLOTO,
With ships and with guns, not as those of yore, Did Nelson make all Europe caper ?" That's true; and these here, by which we set
Exist only yet, matesman papar {. But contracts are placed ; and, fifty years hence, Should ten be required for sudden defence,
If work goes on fairishly steady
It's possible one may be ready ! ! And she'll be my mates, quite a first-class craft,
And a credit to this here nation; :-) · So let the salt breezes three stout cheers wait.
For Her Majesty's ship Stagnationibus
HENRY LEAH!! in Sydney Bulletin.
stock, but the market there now seems to have become more settled, although the price of hemp remains high, and as the stock of rope is con- siderably reduced and orders are accumulating, it has been decided to resumo work this month,
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
In accordance with the Articles of Association Messn. D. Gillies, J. S. Mosts, and T. E. Davies retire, but being eligible offer themselves for re-election,
AUDITORE,
The accounts have been audited by Messrs. T. Arnold and G. S. Coxon, who are recom manded for re-election,
RUSSELL & Co General Managers. Hongkong, 9th March, 1859.
ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST. DECEMBER, 1088.
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
can clap his eyes or in a five-mile radius from got our claim duly registered, or how we put two the Exchange, I have had a good deal of or three men on to bold, the ground; but I may trouble in fixing on a name for it. In the Grat just mention that, somehow or other, Hughes flush of my newly born wealth I thought of managed to get a telegram despatched to the christening it something Hice "Nugget Villa" dallies down South to the effect that or "Five-ounce House," but my wife declared It is reported that a reef of great width and that while that might be all right enough for richness has been struck in the Western district men who had no further ambition, yet if-1 of Queensland by a party supported by Melbourne
meant to have a go-in again for higher game capital. A as I had said I would alter a year or two, 1 must Coming down to Brisbane, we settled the choose some aristocratic name to head my notes details of the business. Hugher and I each had | paper with. Eventually I thought "Alcester" | a paid-up- eighth and six-eighths we gave to would do. It's the name of an admiral or some Hughes, backers. His rough outline of the thing or somebody, I believe; it sounds soft proposals for Boating were Mining Co and it's English, you know."
Golden Fleece Gold Company;
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Balance at debit 31st December, 1887.8 6,856.37 Interest ....pazos správnom sve
7,842.88 Repairs and maintenance of machinery
and buildings ................
2,231.14 Amount written off factory buildings.
I think I may say without boasting that, capital £200,000; in 200,000 shares of cach, machinery, &c., as depredation for
inside, Alcester is just as comfortable as any of which half were deemed paid up, - the other 1868
10,000.00 villa in Australia. Its drawing-room is a model half contributing: 36, on application and 3d, on Amount written off an à doubtful debt 73-46 of good taste. Its dining room is as handsomely allotment, i Consulting Committee.......... 1,000.00 filled, as could be wished, Polished floors, Auditors.ytäby est saoiatus
400.00 parqueterie, silky rugs, gently-tinted walls and Loss through removal of plet..................... $11.00 harmoniously, stained glass give it a pleasant Balance ...................emeranians 35.713.79 quiet appearance of comfort, and elegance and
certes, if the bills I have paid have been cons- cientiously made up, the furniture should be good stuff at any rate,
$64,498,54
A very good suggestion which he made to his friends was that they should pay in £1000 to the credit of the company's "account" before floating and transfer this money with the rest of the sasets. This, afer some little consideration, they did As Hughes put it, this made the affair look so genuins that all doubts as to the
Balance of working account . $50,499.04. This then is the abode of your humble bond fides of the vendors was put at an endea Profit on comments outstanding on the servant, who is just 35, short, rather inclined to
≥31st December, 1887- vanummer 13,893-14 | baldness, slightly- nervous-looking and by proe,
Our first care on reaching Brisbane, and after communicating withour Bowkern Erbeniczny was ter
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