the duet "Ah! I have sighed to rest me" could scarcely have been improved upon-in fact, until the appearance of the Count di Luna on the stage everything was well nigh perfect. In the last scene "Home to our mountains"
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was given in splendid style by Azucena (Miss Flacher) and Maurice (Mr. Stockwell)-although the latter might move his "tilt". more than he does, and show little more vivacity. The death of Leonora was very well acted and might have been improved upon if Manrico had given her a little more moral as well as physical support,
Miss Sherwin played Leonora in her best style and showed acting capabilities to a far greater extent than she has hitherto done. Vo cally the part filled her like a glove which meant that her singing was well high faukless. Miss Fischer made a handsome gipsy and sang her music wall, but might with advantage practice "all" à la Mrs. Langtry or Mary Anderson. She got down on her back in rather a soft manner last evening, but this can be remedied. The Count di Luna was only fairly well personified by Artbur Sheiwit, while Sfaxrice had a capable exponent in Mr. Stockweil as far as singing went although he did not seem to, have his heart In the acting,
To-morrow evening "The "Daughter of the Regiment" will be put on the boards, and as assistance has been promised by the Band of the A. and S. Highlanders (including a distin guished new member they have recently picked up) a capital performance may be expected.
DEATH OF JOHN BRIGHT.
A telegram in another column announces the death, after a long and trying illness, of John Bright, "the tribune of the people," and one of the noblest figures in English political life during the present generation.. The following sketch of his political career appears in a recent edition of "Men of the Times:"-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1889.
LATE TELEGRAMS,
PARIS, March 9th. There has been a continuous run on the Comptoir D'Escompte de Paris, and a rush has been made to sell Comptoir and Metal Com- panies shares, in both of which a heavy fall took place yesterday. The Copper Syndicate Are arranging for modified contracts, and the Copper Companies, have agreed to reduce the price of output.
ST. PITERSBURG, March 9th. A Russian conversion tonn of one hundred and seventy millions of gold roubles has been issued..
ROME, March 9th,
It is announced here that the King of Shoa has declared war against Abyssinia.
March 15th,
More wreckage and some letters belonging to an officer of the Duke of Bucelench have been washed ashore on the Sussex coast.
warm. Even in the depth of the dog days, it is not uncommon to see boats loaded with auch numbers of passengers that there must be barely room to sit or to lie. "No westerners would tolerate such crowding, yet the Chinese do not appear to mind it. Occidentals like to have their dwellings
Co-day's Advertisements.
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Hongkong, 29th March, 1889.
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE.
establishment at Hongkong, in the WE have this day ned a Branch of our HONG of SWEE CHEANG ENG, No. 48. of Mr. ONG YEW TIN, who will sign for the Bonham Strand West, under, the Management
Firm..
Intimrations.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
No. 135.
HE following is published for general
information. By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 19th March, 1859.
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·NOTICE TO· MARINERS.
ALTERATION OF LIGHT,
HONGKONG.
N and after the 1st day of May, 1889, the Light exhibited at GREEN ISLAND will show as follows:-
Wire from 5. by E. E. through East to N.W.
(Bearings are magnetic and taken froin Sea.
RED between S. by E. § E. and 5:5,W. } W.
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CHINA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
FROM this date, and during the absence of JAS. D. COUGHTRIE from the Colony, Mr, GEORGE LOMER TOMLIN has been appointed ACTING SECRETARY to the Company.
Hongkong, 16th March, 1889,
P. RYRIE,
Chairman.
Masonic.
they please. The Chinese do not care for the shade of trees about their houses, byt much pro- fer poles covered with mats. Those who are KARRACHI, March 8th.
unable to afford such a luxury, however, and At the request of the Government of India, who might easily have a grateful shade-tree in is Excellency Lord Reay will preside at the their cou-yard, do not plant anything of this opening ceremony of the great Railway Bridges it, but content themselves with painegranates at a little distance from those of the nearest Z ET LAND uver the Indus at Sukkur; the ceremony takes arsome other merely ornamental shrubs. When neighbours, for ventilation and for privacy. The place on the 27th instant; Lady Reay accompawing to the fierce heat, the yard is intolerable, Chinese know nothing either of ventilation or ies His Excellency. Afterwards Lord and Lady they go and sit in the street, and when that is of privacy, and they do not seem to appreciate Reay proceed to Quetta. The Bishop of Lahore sufferable, they retire to their houses again. these conditions when they are realised. Every performs the religious ceremony. Rupes five Few houses have a north door opposite the main le Chinese village is built on the plan of a itousand have been sanctioned for the purpose. entrance on the south side. Such an arrange city without any plan. In other words, the An official in the South Arcot district has ment world produce a draught, and somewhat dwellings are huddled together as if land were siscovered that the rots, in that district have diminish the aniseries of the dog-days. When excessively valuable. The inevitable effect is heen told that on a certain day, of which due asked why such a convenience is not more to raise the price of land, just as in a city, though notice will be given, they must all refuse to pay common, the frequent reply is that we do not for quite different reasons. Hence narrow courts, lnd tax and be prepared to stand by their have north doors" North of the thirty cramped accommodations, unhealthful over refusal, and that if all combine thus, the British seventh parallel of latitude, the common sleeping crowding, even where there is abundant space will be deprived of funds.
place' of the Chinese is the k'ang, a raised to be had close at hand and at a moderate *brick-bed composed of adobe, bricks, and rate. A Chinese guest at a Chinese inn heated by the fire used for cooking. If there enjoys the bustle which is concomitant upon happens to be no fire, the cold earth appears to the arrival of a long train of carts, and falls a foreigner the acme of discomfort. If the fire asleep as soon as he has bolted his evening happens to be too great, he wakes in the latter seal. His fellow traveller from western Chines part of the night, feeling that he is undergoing a lies awake half the night, listening to the process of roasting. In any event, the degret and squeals that last as long as he keeps his champing of three score mules, varied by kicks of heat will not be continuous throughout the night. The whole family is huddled consciousness. These sounds are alternated by together on this terrace. The material of which the beating of a huge wooden rattle, and by the is composed becomes infested with Insects, yelping of a large force of dogs. It is not and even if the adobe bricks are annually uncommon to see as many as fly donkeys in removed, there is no way to secure immunity one inn-yard, and the pandemonium which they from these unwelcome guests, which are fixed occasion at night can be, but faintly imaginéir Occupants of the walls of all classes of dwellings. The Chinese are not unaware, as M. Huc hat Other universally prevalent animal infestations mentioned, that the braying of this animal can there are, with which most Chinese are very be stopped by suspending a brick to its tail, but LONDON, March roth.
familia:, but there are few who seem to regaid repeated enquiries fail to elicit information of a There is much anxiety regarding the safety of parasites as a preventible evil, even if they single instance in which thething has been actually the steamer Duke of Buccleuch, whose lifeboat are reco nised as an evit at all. The nets done. The explanation is simply that a Chinese has been washed, ashore on the Sussex coast which are used to keep winged torments at does not particularly care whether fifty donkeys The anxiety is increased by the fact that a colli- bay, are beyond the means of all but a minute bray singly, simultaneously, or not, at all. No sion is known to have occurred in the neigh-fraction even of the city population, and so Occidental would be likely to remain neutral on hourhood.
far as we know are rarely heard of elsewhere. such a question. That this feeling is not con- Sandflies and mosquitoes are indeed felt to be lined to any particular stratum of the Chinese a serious nuisance, and occasionally faint efforts social scale, might be inferred from the circum. are made to expel them by burning aromatic stance that the wife of the leading statesman of weeds, but these pests do not annoy the Chinese China had at one time in the vice-regal yamen a thousandth part as much as they annoy about one hundred cats! The Buddhist religion us. One of the typical instances of different s responsible for the reluctance of the Chinese standards of comfort between ourselves and the to put an end to the wretched existence of the Chinese, is in the conception of what a pillow pariah dogs with which all Chinese cities are infested, yet the trait of character thus exhibited ought to be. In western lands, bag of feathers, adjusted to support the head, is not so much Chinese as Oriental. Mr. J. In China a pillow is a support for the neck, Ross Browne, who was once Minister from the United States to China, published an enter- either a small stool of hamboo, a block of wood, or more commonly a brick. No Occidental taining volume of travels in the East, adorned could use a Chinese pillow in a Chinese way with drawings of his own. One of these repre- without lorture, and it is not less certain that no Chinese would tolerate under his head for ten varieties of lean and mangy, dogs, which was sented what appeared to be a congress of all minutes the bags which we use for that surpose, offered as a general view of Constantinople. We have spoken of the singular fact that the The same cut would do good service as a sketch Chinese do not weave wool. It is still more of many Chinese cities. The Chinese do noi unaccountable that they take no apparent interest appear to experience any serious discomfort from in the feathers which they pluck in such vast be reckless and irrepressible barking of this vast army of curs, nor do they take much account quantities from the fowls which they consume.
of the really great dangers arising from mad wadded bedding, by employing feathers timing, and the cost of the feathers would Under such circumstances, the remedy adopted be little or nothing, since they are allowed to is often that of binding some of the hair of the blow away as beyond the use even of the strict dog into the wound which it has caused, a economy of the Chinese. Yet aside from salt curious analogy to the practice which must have to foreigners, we do not know of any use to originated our proverb that 'the hair of the same which such feathers are at present put, except dog will cure. The death of the dog does not that the larger ones are loosely tied to sticksdo seem to be any part of the object in view.-N. serve as dusters. To an Occidental, the ideal C. Daily News. bed is at once elastic and firm. The best example of such is perhaps that made from what is known as woven wire,' which in recent years: has come into such general use. But when one of the finest hospitals in China was, furnished with these luxurious appliances, the kind hearted physician who had planned for him, was disgusted to find that as soon as his back was turned, those patients who were strong enough to do so, crawled from their elastic beds, down upon the floor, where they felt at home I
Chinese houses are nearly always ili lighted at night. The native vegetable oils are exceed. ingly disagreeable to the smell, and only afford sufficient illumination to make darkness visible, The great advantages of kerosene are indeed recognised, but in spite of them, it is still true that throughout enormous areas, the oil made from beans, cotton seed and peanuts continues to be used, long after kerosene has been known, simply from the force of conservative inertia, backed by profound indifference to the greater.com- fort of being able to ice scarcely at all. Chinese furniture, strikes a westerner as being clumsy and uncomfortable: instead of the board benches THEATRE
Mr. Creagh, a landlord at Quinn, in County Clare, was shot at yesterday while driving to Church, and grievously wounded: His sister, who was with bins, was also seriously wounded.. No arrests have yet been made in connection
with the crime.
PARIS, March 11th.
pillow is
"The Right Hon. John Bright, M.P., was the son of the late Jacob Bright of Greenbank, near Rochdale, where he was born, Nov. 16, 11. Having received the rudiments of a substantial English education, he entered his father's busi- nes and became a member of the firm of John Bright and Brothers, cotton-spinners and many. facturers of Rochdale. Ata comparatively early age he began to address local audiences on social and politico-economical topics, and he delivered, at a literary institution in his native town, a series of lectures embodying his reminiscences of a Tour to the Holy Land in 1835. Though he had taken part in the Reform agitation of 1831-2 Mr. Bright first distinguished himself in political life by becoming in 1839 one of the earliest members of the Anti-Corn Law League, which grew out of an association formed in 1838 to obtain the repeal of the Com Laws. In April, 1841, at a bye-election, he stood as a candidate for the representation of the City of Durbam, but was defeated by Lord Dungannon, a Conservative any of the charges, but himself proposed a plan It would be exceedingly easy to make up dogs, which are not unfrequently encountered.
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The ran on the Comptoir is exhausted, and a recovery has taken place in its shares on the Bourse on it being famoured that influential action was about to be taken to meet the copper collapse.
BOMBAY, March 11th.
It is currently reported that grave treasonable practices by the Maharajah of Cashmere bave The British Resident has been discoveled. questioned him, and he did not attempt to deny
to abdicate the Gaddee. The Resident is on
bis way to Calcutta. We are on the threshold of an ugly case which, in the sequel, may be fraught with large and important consequences. Colonel Nisbet, Resident at Cashmere, is now on his way to confer with the Viceroy regarding the discovery of certain correspondence revealing a long course of treasonable designs on the part of the Maharajah, who will probably abdicate.
CALCUTTA, March 11th.
Orders have been received in Camp Lungleh not to advance until the permanent post is completed and rationed for seven months for three hundred police. Great disappointment is felt by the troops, as there will probably be no time to do any thẳng, this year before the rains
get in.
March 1th.
The Viceroy leaves Calcutta m the 2nd of April. He will visit Allahabad and Lucknow
on his way to Simla.
The budget discussion will probably be post- poned to the twenty-seventh instant.
LONDON, March rath,
In the House of Commons last night, Mr. Stanhope, Secretary of State of War, presented his Army Estimates andin doing so explained the system it was intended to adopt for the defence of the Kingdom, whereby the rapid mobilisation of our frices would be ensured. It was, he said, intended to establish three entrenched camps in case the necessity should arise of having to defend London.
Lord Cross, Secretary of State for India, replying to a question in the House of Lords, said he was discussing with the Government of India whether it was possible, to enlarge the graving dock at Bombay so as to make it available for the largest class of men-of-war.
and Protectionist. His Lordship wection which thereupon, ensued in July of the same year Mr. Bright was returned by a majority of 78. He continued to sit for Darham till 1847, when he was returned for Manchester. He made his maiden speech in Parliament on Mr. Ewan's motion for extending the principles of free trade, Aug, 7, 1843 During the interval between his election for Manchester and the accession of the first Derby Ministry to power Mr. Bright's' activity in Parliament and on the platform was vaned and continuous. In the House of Com mons he proposed to apply the remedy of free trade in land to the state of things which produced the Irish farmine. He appealed unsuccessfully, for the dispatch of a royal commission to investigate the condition of India, -and in 1849 he was appointed one of the members of the celebrated select committee of the House of Commons on official salaries, In the legislature and in the provinces, especially at Manchester, he co-operated with Mr. Cobden in the movement which the latter sought to create in favour of financial reform, mainly with a view to the reduction of our naval and military establishments. In 1851 he voted with these who attempted to censure Lord Palmerstos in the Pacific effair; and in 1852 he took prominent part in the welcome given to Kossuth by the advanced Liberals of Lancashire. On the formation of the first Derby Ministry Mr. Bright aided in that temporary re-organization of the Ali-Corn-Law League which the acceptance of free trade by the new government afterwards rendered unnecessary.
He was re-elected for Manchester, after a contest, at the general election of 1852. With the accession of Lord Aberdeen's ministry to power began the discussion of the vexed Eastern question, bis share in which alkensted from Mr. Bright many of his former supporters, Mr. Bright denourced the policy of the Russian war with energy, but his" protesta against it were stopped by an attack of severe illness, and just as the war had been brought gold standard. to a close, Mr. Bright was compelled to forego all public action, The news of the defeat of Lord Palmerston on the Canton question reached him while in Italy, in March, 1837. Although he had necessarily taken no personal part in the debate or division which produced Lord Palmer ston's appeal to the country, yet he expressed his estire approval of the vote of censure which ind been proposed by Mr. Cobden, and seconded by Mr. Milner Gibson. At the general election that ensued, Manchester rejected both Mr. Bright and Mr. Milner Gibson by large majorities. A few months afterwards, the death of Mr. Munte caused a vacancy in the repte sentation of Birmingham the constituency invited Mr. Bright to become a candidate) be was elected in Aug, 1857, and has continued to represent that borough down to the present time. After 1857 his name was mainly identi- fied with a scheme for the reform of the electoral representation, by a wide. extension of the sarage and a more equal distribution of the seals with reference to population, and alterations in the law of entail. He was an uncompromising advocate of the North during the civil war in America, and after the close of the struggle he renewed the agitation for reform. He visited Ireland, and was entertained at a banquet Dublin, Oct. 30, 1865, on an Invitation signed by upwards of 20 Irish Liberal members of Parliament. On Nov. 3, 1868, he was presented" with the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, and in the following month he accepted office under
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BUCHAREST, March 13th.
The Roumanian Government have submitted a Bill to the Chamber of Deputies proposing a
PARIS, March 13th."
The agency of the Copper Syndicate has been transferred to Messrs, Matheson & Co., who will sell on behalf of the copper companies, Existing stock in the meanwhile will be withheld and worked off gradually. A curtailment of the out put has been arranged,
LONDON, March 13th. Earl Compton, the Gladstonian candidate, has bren elected for Barnsley in place of Mr. C. $. Kenny, the Gladstonian member, who has retired. Mr. Wentworth, the Conservative can- didate, who also contested the seat, was defeated by a majority of 2,551 votes,
March 14th.
At yesterday's sitting of the Parnell Commis- slon the evidence on behalf of The Times was concluded. Sir James Hannen, President replying to Sir Charles Russell, sald that he had not yet decided whether an interim report should be made on the "Parnell" letter. The Com- mission then adjourned until the 2nd April.
The Standard has published a telegram stating that Austrian troops have taken up posts of observation along the Servian frontier in view of the crisis consequent on King Milan's abdication.
VIENNA, March 14th; /
The telegram published by the Standard staing that Austrian troops were taking up posts of abservation along the Servian frontler officially denied here.
ST. PETZEBBURG, March 14th,
LONDON, March 15th.
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Mr. Gladstone, as President of the Board of General Rosenbach, Commander-in-Chief of Trada. After being absent from the. Houre of the troops and Governor-General of Turkestan, Commons for some time in consequence of severe illness, he was compelled to reifte from office in Left St. Petersburg to-day for Tashkend, and will Dec. 1870, His health having been partially inspect the Afghan frontier en route. restored, he was in Aug, 1873, appointed to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster in Sir John Gorst replying to a question in the succession to Mr. Childers and he held that post Government of India attach very little femper House of Commons last night, said that the until the Liberals went out of office in Feb. 1874 tance to the Cashmere letters which have come When the Liberals returned to power in May, 1880, Mr. Bright was re-appointed Chancellor of into Colonel Nisbet's possession. the Duchy of Lancaster." On July 17, 1881, he announced in the House of Commons that he ca had resigned his office and retired from the Cabinet because he differed from his colleagues on their policy in Egypt which led to the bombardment of Alexandria. On the question of Home Rule for Ireland, Mr, Bright supported.
the Unionist opposition to Mr. Gladstone's Billy
and his denunciations of the messure went far
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
INDIFFERENCE TO COMFORT AND
CONVENIENCE,
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on which our ancestors used to recline, the Chi- ness are generally content with very narrow ones, and it will not be surprising if some of the legs Are loose, or are so placed as to tip off the unwary person who seats himself when there is no one at the other end,
(To be continued.)
SCOTT's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites acts both as food and medicine. not only gives flesh and strength by virtue of its own nutritious properties, but creates an appetite for food that builds up the wasted body. Read the following:-"Scott's Emulsion is in my opinion an excellent and valuable compound, I have given it to consumptive patients and have been delighted with the results obtained. It is pleasant to the taste and can be borne by the most sensitive stomach."-E. A. Rodway, M.D., Butter-Knowle, Darlington, Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents.in Hongkong and China-Advut.
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Co-day's Advertisements.
ROYAL
CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
Under the distinguished patronage and in the presence of
H.E. Sir G. W. DES VŒUX, K.C.M.G.,
AND
LADY DES VŒUX.
TO-MORROW EVENING,
SATURDAY, the 30th March, 1889,
EOTHEN MARK
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OF HONGKONG, No. 264.
REGULAR MEETING of the above
MTN in FREEMASONS HALL, Zeland Street, TO-MORROW, the 30th instant, at 8.30 for P.M. precisely.
Hongkong, z2nd March, 1889.
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Intimations.
THE CHINA BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.
“HE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING of the above Company will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, TO-MORROW, the 30th instant, at 9.30 P.M.
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co, Agents in Hongkong and China. Hongkong, 11th March, 1889
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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
MONTHLY HANDICAP CHALLENGE CUP AND A PRIZE OF $5.
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200 AND 500 YARDS, ENTRANCE FEE 50 CENTS.
HE first Competition will take place TO
MORROW (SATURDAY), 30th March, at 3.30 p.m.
Intending Competitors must send in their Entrance Feel to the Honorary Secretary before 4.o'clock p.m. next FRIDAY, 29th inst.
Members who have not paid their subscription for the current year will not be allowed to compete.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary..
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cjo Hongkong Club. Hongkong, 23rd March, 1889. THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA:
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE, DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, will be held at the Registered Office, of the Company No. Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, on THURS DAY, the 4th day of April next, at 4.30 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, when the subjoined Reo lution, will be proposed.
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The remaining portion of the whole circle is obscured by the Island itself,
The illuminating apparatus is fixed dioptric of the fourth order, elevated 95 feet above the sea.
K. MURRAY RUMSEY, Ret. Com,, R.N., Harbour Master, &c. Harbour Department. "Hongkang, 19th March, 1889.
[382 THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL.....$2,50,000. PAID UP CAPITAL
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
1,250,000.
Hon. J. BELLAIRVING, Chairmau. Hon. C. P. CHATER, Vice-Chairman. Mr. E. A. SOLOMON:
Mr. J. S. MOSES.
Mr. S. C. MICHAELSEN.
Mr. G. E. NOBLE,
Mr LEE SING,
Mr. POON PONG.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. THE objects for which this Company is formed are to transact in the Colony of Hongkong and its dependencies the purchases. and sales of Property, to advance monies on Mortgage, to undertake the Management and Agency of Estates, and generally to carry on any business in connection with Landed Property.
The fullest information can be had on applica- tion at the Company's Offices, "No. 7, Queen's Road Central.
ALEXANDER LEVY, Secretary (pro tem.)
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Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, zoth March 1389
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
· AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE is hereby given that the STATU-
TORY GENERAL MEETING of the Company required to be held within four months after registration will be held at the Company's Registered Office in Victoria Buildings, No. 7, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 6th April next, at 12 o'clock
Noon.
And Notice is further given that an EXTRA- ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Company will be held at the same place, on the same day, at 12.15 o'clock pm, when the following Special Resolutions will be proposed, viz:-
-That the Capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $5,000,000 by the isus of 25,000 New Shares of $100 each, on which New Shares a First Call of $50 per Share shall he paid as hereinafter provided, and the balance of $50 per Share shall be payable in such amounts, at such times, and on such conditions as the Board may determine, and that the Board be authorised to issue auch New Shares at such a premium (not exceeding $50 per cent.) as it may think fit, auch premium to be paid on Allotment.
2 That of such New Shares 13,500, or (as the case may be) a number comprising, or equivalent to One New Share for every complete number of two existing shares, be offered to the persons who on the and day of May, 1889, shall be the registered shareholders of the existing shares, in the proportion of one new share for every complete number of two
Should the Resolution be passed by the required majority it will be submitted for Con-existing shares, and such offer shall be made by firmation as a Spécial Resolution to a Second Extraordinary Meeting which will be conse SHERWIN,quently convened.. distinguished PRIMA DONNA of. COVENT
GARDEN, HER MAJESTY'S, CRYSTAL PALACH, &C., Acknowledged by. Press and Public to be the most accomplished Lyric Artiste who has ever visited the East, (and this opinion has been endorsed by the leading papers and the public of Hongkong).
The greatest objections which westerners have to Chinese dwellings are undoubtedly the damp- ness and the cold," Of the radical error in the construction of buildings, which economises in the foundation, we have elsewhere spoken, The inevitable and permanent result is damp. Deas. Floors of caul, or of imperfecily burned brick, are to most foreigners not only sources of
A MY great discomfort, but extremely prejudicial to health. Not less annoying are the loose doors, the resting on pivots. The double leaves of these doors admit the cold air at each side, at the top and at the bottom. Even if the cracks are pasted up with, stout paper, a door is but an imperfect protection against the bitter winter weather, because no one will shut it. It is almost impossible to teach Chinese to keep an outside door shut in winter. The notice which a business man posted on the outside of his door, "Everybody shuts the doors but You," would be a gross falsehood in China, where nobody shuts a door. A Chinese dwelling in winter always appears to a westerner a thesaurus · of discomfort, on account of the absence of artificial heat. The vast majority of the people, even where the winters are severe, have no other heat than that modicuma obtained from the fuel burned in cooking, and which is conveyed to the k'ang. This is the point of minimum. discomfort in the establishment, but to Occid- entals who wish to feel positive heat from some source diffusing itself in grateful currents all over the body, a Chinese k'ong on a cold night, is a very inadequate substitute for the chimney-corner, or for the stove. In regions where coal is accessible, it is indeed employed as feel, but as compared with the whole. country, these districts are very limited, and the smoke always escapes into the rooms, which becomes gradually filled with carbopic acid gas. Charcoal is very sparingly used even by those who are in good circumstances, and the danger from its incautious use, like that from the use of coal, is very great. The hollies are 10 uncomfortable that at home if the weather in can put on. When abroad, they have no more 'cold the inmates often wear all the clothes they
to add. “Are you-cold ?”, we ask them. "Of course" is the constant reply. They hava never been artificially warmad, in an acci dental sense, during their whole lives. In the winter their blood seems to be like Hongkong, 25th March, 1889. "water in the rivers, congealed at the surface, and only moving with sluggish current underneath.
Assisted by her ENGLISH OPERÁ COMPANY, ·
TO-MORROW (SATURDAY) EVENING, the 30th March, GRAND REGIMENTAL COMMAND,
1 NIGHT. Under the Patronage of Col. FORBES-ROBERTSON
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and Officers of the A. & S. Highlanders. Donizetti's entire Comic and Romantic Opera THE DAUG ITER OF THE REGIMENT, with the assistance of Members of the Band of the A. & S. Highlanders, by kind permission of the Col and Officers.
RESOLUTION, That the Capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $600,000 legally current in the Colony of Hongkong by the creation of 20,000 New Shares of $to each. Subject to any direction to the contrary that may be given by the Meeting sanctioning the increase of Capital, all New Shares shall be offered to the Members registered on the day of the confirmation of the resolution in proportion to exiging Shares held by them, and such offer shall be made by notice specifying the number of Shares to which the Member is entitled and limiting a time within which the offer if not accepted will be deemed to be declined; and after the expir- ktion of such time on the receipt of an intimation from the Member to whom such notice, is given that he declines to accept the Shares offered, such Shares shall be dealt * with by the Directors in their discretion, Dated the aand day of March, 1889.
By Order of the Board,
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hereafter will take place on MONDAYS, Owing to many requests the Performances, THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS,
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MONDAY, the 1st April, ' GRAND SCOTTISH NIGHT, focluding Scenes from Sir WALTER. SCOTT'S
THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR.
Box plan at Mesirs. KELLY & WALSH's, LD, where Seats can be secured in advance for any night of the Season.
other Prices ms igual
Soldier in uniform gà cents to Back Sealy,
Doors open at 8.30 to commence at 9 P.M.
HUGO GORLITZ
Manager.
MAKA
A. O'D.'GOURDIN. Secretary,
"KONGKONG AND CHINA GAS. COMPANY, LIMITED. THIS Company would desire their Customers who are suffering from bad light or defective burners, to notify the same to the Undersigned, and steps will be taken with all possible despatch to remedy the defects pointed cut,
Upon Application, and where required, ordi- nary gas burners will be supplied and fixed free of charge, ...
Special burders and globes will be supplied at cost price, or an loan at a nominal rental
The Gas Fitting Department ofthis Company is under thoroughly efficient European superví, sion, and all orders and complaints will receive 180 prompt attention.
F. W. CROSS,
Manager, Hongkong, 12th March, 1889. [ENDED BU KOWLOON HOTEL.
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́dwellings, it is no wonder that a certain Tastal who had been abroad, remarked that "to the
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JC. L. ROUCH...MANAGES
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REGULAR CONVOCATION WINE and SPIRITS of the best quality
to ensure its rejection and the subsequent retura] comfort ́is exhibited as much in their houses a more comfortable ihan his yament In speaking held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zelling) AVENGLISH & AMERICAN BILLIARD
of a Unionist majority to Parliament, Mr. Brgbt | In their dreas. In gider to establish this pro- of the Chinese, absence of nerves we have Wa elected Lord Rector of the University of position, it is necessary to take acequnt not of "already had occasion to Loʻng on the Chinese · Street, on, MONDAY NEXT, the 1st April, at Glasgow, Nov. 15,- 1880, collection of his | the dwellings of the poor, who att forced in exist fedifference to crowding a U Boro. As soon. 8.30 for 9 FM, precisely, Vishing Companions TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS If speeches on Questions of Public Policy " was, an they can, but rather of the habitations of the weather becomes cold, the Chinces huddle, are cordially invited.
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those whose circumstances enable them to do as "legetter as a mailer of course, in order" to "kcep Hoogkong, 29th March, 1889,
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a notice specifying the number of new. shares which each such registered Shareholder shall be entitled to take up, and limiting a time within which the offer, if not accepted in writing, will be deemed to be not accepted. The First Call of $50 on every such accepted share shall be paid at the time of acceptance, and all such non- accepted shares, and also the remainder (if any) of the said 12,500 New Shares, shall be disposed. of in such a manner, at such times, and on such. conditions as the Board may determine.
3-That the remaining 12,500 new shares be offered to the Pubile in such a manner,
at such times, and on such conditions ie the Bourd may determine, but so that the First Call of $50 per Share on these remaining 13,500 shares shall be paid on Application..
4-That all premia on the said New Shares be carried to the Reserve Fund mentioned in Article No. 98 of the Company's Articles of Association.
ALEXANDER LEVY, Secretary (pro, tem.) Hongkong, 27th. March, 1889
THE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE THIRD CALL OF TEN DOLLARS per Share is due on the 2nd day of April, $839, as per Article No. 33 of the Company,
Sherebolders will please pay the amount due upon their Shores to the HONGKONG AND BHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
By Order,
AG. GORDON;
Secretary. Hongkong, rath March, 1889, CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED,
ADJUSTMENT OF BONUS FOR THE YEAR, 1888,
"ONTRIBUTORS, to the above Office are requested to furnish the Undersigned with a List of their Contributions for the year ending 31st December, 1888, in order that the Di tribution of Bonus may be ananged. "Rehirns not rendered prior to the 30th day of March Instant, will be adjusted by the Office, and ino Claims or Alterations will be subsequently
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Agents, Canton Insurance. Office, Limited, [370
admitted.
"Hongkong, 1st March, 1889:
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