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for the middle-men, that is, for the native merchants who go into the tea districts and buy the tea from the growers, and then re-sell it to the foreigners in Hankow, and the result is that this year the number these middle-men his greatly increased, and competition between them, will be very keen., it is said, however, they are to work in accordane with a well defined system, and if they adhere to this they are not likely to lose on their sales to the foreigners. China invariably obtains her best knowledge in the bitter school of practical experience and neither the government nor the tea men yet appre- ciate the fact that China bas strong con- petitors for the diminished share of the ten

flavour différent to India ten, | as undoubtedly it, does, but to those who-an accustomed to Indian tes, the China leaf is as unpalatable as the Indian tea is to those who are accustomed to the China product. Indian- tea is winning the public taste, and it has made rapid progress during the last three years, and the less importance of China tea is plainly demonstrated by the waning interest in the Annual rush to Hankow. The old glory of the custom is no longer a put of it; it has departed, never assuredly to return, and the journey is now a despondent one, whereas before it was all an gay, joyous and brilliant.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1889.

effort to have a disturbance by the roughs of only astonishing that crimes are not twenty Amay. Several of these rowdies came with times as numerous as they are. But despite vitriol, and threw someon the tents; one of the this energy of the police, how many a black deel miscreants was caught in the act and got a well rests hidden, buried torever in the slums of our deserved thrashing, but his friends, to make | great town i

"During these reflec'ions, little reassuring as capital out of the incident, made him sham as if he was dead and had him enriled about through they were, I gazed after my guide. Decidedly it was a poor drvi; that I no longer daubted. 1 the dense crowd of Chinese outside the entrance to the tent Very soon stones comntenced to fly was on the point of stopping him and sending about and the Chinese began to shout "ta, ta" him on his way with a few shillings. 1 was and to pull up the bamboo fence, but owing to the almost ashamed of my suspicions. But with a action taken by a few Europeans who went skill undoubtedly acquired by long years of among, the crowd trying to quieten them, the exercise, the beggar advanced very rapidly, turn. better part of the Chinese left so as not to being from time to time to make sure that I was implicated in the row. The American Consul following. snon put in an appearance, and by the deter. At length we crossed Covent Garden marke

crowd.

which you all know Seven Dials. The adver. ture commenced to only half-way please me

"Are we far from your room still P I asked catching up the beggar. I haven't much time |to špared

remained unmoved. The pistol being loaded with several bullets, in the American fashion, the marksman fired successively five more shots. Not one of them strayed from the path taken by its predecessorE.

The doctor laid his hand lightly on the man's shoulder, saying, "Stop a moment."

The marksman turned and, with a movement of the head, gave consent. His bearded face wore an expression that was energetic, but of the deepest, melancholy.

Then the doctor led me to the other end of the court and showed me, behind the misk, the iron plate which protected the wall. In the middle shane a round spot, made bright by the continual smashing of the leaden bullets.

"Look," said the doctor, pointing to the exact

in the mask. "You see that every ball passes through there. It would be impossible to find one anywhere else."

ing opposite her, Joaquin Ventura was pointing the pistol straight at her forehead.

"He fired-Josefa fell lifeless to the floor, "When they loosed the corpse of Josefa from his armis, in which he clasped her desperately, Joaquin Ventura was insane.

"Was it crime or accident? Heaven knows. The affair was allowed to drop. In Paris the dead are soon gone. The first excitement over, the two principals of this bloody drama were soon forgotten.

"Since then Joaquin Ventura has been in the asylum, passing half of his time in aiming at the plaster mask. Once he happened to, break it, and the accident plunged him in a delitium that lasted a week. Except for this, he is as inoffensive as you see him now."

trade thai.yet, remains..open to her. China ten muined stand he took quickly overawed th and Long Aere, and entered that hideous quarter correspondence of this shining spot with the hole We once more entered the court and found the

may posses

NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

A Chinese merchant of Canton named Chung Shi-liang has obtained a monopoly of making paper by machinery at Canton for 10 years. paying a royalty to the Government of $1,000

year.

Eighty highway robbers were executed on 26th April outside the Süan wu Gate at Peking. All had been concerned'in robberies of travellers to the shuth of Peking, accompanied with loss of life. All went to their doom, singing in a defiant manner.

At a meeting of the community held at the Amoy Club, it was decided to have the usual Regatin on the 24th May.

I send you a copy of the minutes of a meeting in ra the Seamens' (lab), held last Thursday, "As I spoke I drew out my watch, an excel." Another meeting has been a lled for to-morrow Text chronometer of Dent's, of considerable night to decide on the opening of another build-value. Looking suddenly up I surprised ar ing outside the missionary influence. T'helieve ugly, covetous" glance beneath the beggar's

bushy eyebrows, hat over $500 have been already subscribed.

CHINKIA

(FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT))

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Oh, bo. I said to myself, that's a mighty young eye for an old man.'

"Marvellous "I exclaimed; "what strange. story-?"

"Come," said the doctor, "I will tell you within."

We regained the vestibule of the pavilion and there Dr. Noirot told me this extraordinary story, the detonations of the madman's revolver. while behind us, at regular intervals, we heard

The name of this unfortunate man," said my host, is Tonquin Ventura, a Spaniard or Mexican, I do not know which A Mexican, I and rifle generally come from the New World. should judge. These experts with the revolver Moreover, this one came from America to France.

matkaman pulting his weapons in order.

"Not a shot, has missed the target, has it?"

*Inquired the doctor, affably,

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The man raised his head, and, pointing to the plaster mask, said in a hollow voice, “Not one they are all in the center of the forehead. Baltimore American.

THE BANK OF AMÝTERDAM.

SKETCH OF THE FAMOUS DUTCH MONEY CENTRE.

"My suspicions returned with triple force: but often our paltry pride overrules our better judgment, Marcover, with the Seven Diak quarter had returned the bustle and noise of Tandon life Laughs and shouts greeted us on On Saturday night last a horrible murder of a all sides from, the public-houses and bar-rooms. You might have seen him last year at the Alcazar coins of all nations and give warrants to those

of the neighborhood.

6th May, 1889.

of Chinaman was committed to the suburbs of this port near the "Ladies' Home." The victim' was stripped and mutilated in a dreadful way: Officials were investigating the case yesterday in spite of the weather thousands came to see the poor creature. The murderer cannot be found. There are a great many upicious Pitch persons in Chinking just now. We hear more cursing than we did before the riot, and some foreigners were stoned as they were passing by the West Gate of the city on Saturday.

The officials have forbidden the annual pro- ression of idols (known here as the To-tin-u) this year: the proclamation forbidding it was put The new Envoy to the United States, Spain up last week. This is one of the greatest gas and Peru is Tsui Kwah-yin, who holds the days, in this part of central China, and natives from all points congregate, ostensibly to see the rank of an Imperial Preceptor, a member of the Han-lin college. He has had a button of the nintheon disgorge itself of its dust-covered second rank conferred upon bim on bis appoint divinities: this year the hope of foreign leot ment, which has been officially notified to the would doubtless attract many in addition, and foreign Ministers at Peking by the Tsung-like Magistrate made a good move when he put Yamen.

his foot down on the whole business. It would

Ning-kwo Fu, in Anhui, an important town, 144 distant south from Wuhu by land or by water, is in be connected with the latter town by

telegraph, Foreign experts have been engaged to survey the route: The Viceroy Tseng has resolved on this step by the advice of the military authorities, the country near Ning-kwo having caused them considerable anxiety of late by its

be hard to find a worse looking set of men than the present transient population of Chinking affords. It is well to have a man-of-war here all the time. The Swift is now in part.

tinned by H.B.M. Consul Mr. Oxenham in his The crops throughout the large area men-

report; and noticed by you in your editorial of of the 4th instant, are excellent,' There are more wheat and barley in the fields than I have

"I determined to push the adventure to its end, the more so as my companion new turned to me and said in his cracked, faltering tones:

"Here is my homie, gentleman! He signed through the half-open door of a dilapidated building and tasted una rickety staircase with the agility. I had before remarked. I had diffi calty in following him in the nauseating obscu- rity. The smart tap of his crutches sounded on the steps and served as my ruide.

"At the third story the beggar stopped; heard him feeling about in the dark, then came

rund of a key to ning in a lock. tenhling voice; I will light a candle

One moment, my good gentleman, and the "Some grennds passed then the dismal glimmer of a tallow candle it up a room which

struck me as tolerably spacious,

"The beggar, had slipped behind me, and I now heard the sharp click of the key in the lack,

"1 had expected to find a sordid, miserabl hole, fitted not with broken stool and a bundle of straw in the corner for a bed; instead of which he room was furnished with a certain degres of luxury, and the r was covered with rich

carpet.

you have drceived me!"

**What does this mean?' askel in stupor

where he gave four or five exhibitions. All Paris would soon have been running to see him if an accident had not suddenly interrupted the catertainments. But I ought to go back to the beginning. There is a story connected with all this, which I am sure that I alone know, having been able during the six months he has been with me-thanks to certain things he has let fall during the attacks of delirium which come over him now and then-to ascertain the details. So I will tell it to you as I interpret it, sure that I am not mistaken.

"Joaquin Ventura, when he came to Paris, Jozefa. She was a superb creature, hardly 10 was accompanied by a young woman named years old, with the form of a statue and the face of a goddess. One could admire her every evening at the Alcazar, where she appeared clad in the scant costume of a page-tights of pearly gray showing off the pure lines of her beautiful limbs and delicate ankles, doublet of black velvet, supple, and gave to view a neck as proudly arched which imprisoned a bust as well defined as it was and bewing a head of as noble poise as that of the huntress Diano.

week the

disturbed slate. The Yangtze telegraph line is seen for years. Rain has been falling at inilet in his hand, his face covered with pencilca picturesque costume, which brought out in bold

undergoing repairs under the supervision of a foreigner, Mr. Bojesen,

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vals for some time, but to-day the sun is out, In another ball-month if continued rain does not rust the crops, the Chinese will he rejoicing is an abundant harvest and thankfully worshipping The Taung-li Yamen have notified the foreign the Buddhas, a procession of which the man- Ministers at Peking, that Chên Kin-ming, a darin says in his proclamation is "a trangras- Mandarin of the second class in the official | sion of the law"-Suf-chee-ying-sun-choi-ul- hierarchy, Provincial Judge of the province of | pin-kon-jai.—N. C. 'Daily News Kiangsu, (promoted lately to that rank from Taot'ai of Chinkiang) has been appointed Chi- nese Minister to Great Britain, France, Italy, and Belgium. The ex-Minister Liu is now Governor of Kwangtung province. The new nominee is said to have resigned owing to health, and the post of Minister is vacant.

There are many tigers in the mountains some 30 li from Amoy, and at present there is a regular enthusiasm for tiger-hunting among the European residents. Many of them have engaged country-people at besvy pay to give them notice when they see a tiger, and if pos- sible to barricade the entrance of the cave into which they have seen, one go with brushwood and thorns. Last winter the chiefs of Tek-kee (Tait & Co.) and Kee-cheong (Russell & Co.) each shot a tiger, and on zoth Apill a foreigner in the Customs killed one in the bills at the back of Koolangsoo. On 28th April another was killed by a member of Hip-loong hong (Fearon, Low & Co.) on Tal-wu Shan, weighing over 200 lbs.

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VENTRILOQUISM.

At the famous Strand tavern, the Coal-hole, in London, we gathered together one evening, laughing over the amusing scenes of ventrile quism with which that clever comedian, Toole, had just been edifying us.

A journalist present complimented him some what ironically on what he called his "little society talents,"

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"These same little talerts." said Toole in grave tone, "have sometiines a great utility in life; do not despise them. An infinitely shall talent may save a world of trouble; nothing is unproductive here below, Let me give you' a simple illustrition"!

"Some years ago I was passing one evening through Drury lane on my way to the Gaiety Theatre, where I was at that time playing a role.

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"My attention was suddenly attracted by a pathetic voice imploring charity. I stopped and looked around me. The voice proceeded from a misshapen being, apparently a cripple, crouched of those winding alleys so numerous in this populous quarter. His white hair and beard and his cracked voice indicated clearly that the beg a few pence for a poor old man, sir,' said

was an old man.

the tremulous voice. I am cold and hungry ob, so hungry! I have eaten nothing since yesterday."

"The sight of a young man, however, miserable be must have been, would not have moved me. Old cockneys like me are too well posted on all these borrowing schemes, which flourish in our town, but this decrepit old age and horrible deformity filled me with com- passion.`

"I returned toward the dear The old man had vanished; a man in the virar of life, a wig

wrinkles Tonked up, at me and laughed.

You look surprised,' he said, in a mocking "There are miracles still in our days, you

tone,

see. My good legs have come back to me and

my crutches-look there 1"

"He painted toward the corner near the door.

"Well, what do you want of me? I asked, resolutely..

"I want you to lend me your watch,' impud- ently answered the man. Mine happens to be at the jeweler's just now, and yours looks like a'

time. telerably good one. I'll warrant, it keeps good

"She was not wanting in admirers, to tell the truth, and in less than fashion had been established of going to see the splendid Josefa assist in the exhibitions of that celebrated marksman Joaquin Ventura.

"She was truly an exquisite sight in her

relief her strong, yet delicate; beauty, as she took her stand in the dizzle of the footlights, with arms crossed and head erect, while at fifteen paces Joaquin Ventura leveled the vainly menacing pistol at her, and with infallible aim pierced a card held between her fingers, cut off the stem of a pipe at an inch from her lips, or broke a nut-sbeli poised on the top of her head. "The slightest tremor of the marksman's hand and the glorious creature-1, But the hand of Joaquin Ventura never trembled.

Far back in the Middle Ages, Venice had established a bank which should receive the

persons who deposited such coins, which ware rants should circulate from hand to hand, just as bank notes do now. Three centuries after the Bank of Venice was founded a similar in. stitution was established at Genoa, on a some what similar basis. In 1609, the year of the truce, the Bank of Amsterdam was founded, and before the end of the century was known to have metallic deposits with it to the amount f. $180,000,000-a treasure more prodigious than any European financier at that time thought could be possibly accumulated. The notes issued by the bank were supposed to be, and in specie or metallic money deposited in the strong- theory were, exactly equal in amount to the

room of the bank. But the notes of the bank

always bore & premium, due to the convenience and the absolutely guarded-security which the holder of the note possessed. Then the bank charged small sum on every account which was opened with it, a small sum for negotiating bills and transferring balances, besides a profit

which they derived from their own subscribed capital and their customers' money at call,

The bank was under the management of the Amsterdam corporation, the chiefs of which examined the treasure annually, and made oath

that it was of the full amount at which the managers of the bank affirmed it to be. It was seen that the well-being of this great commercial center was so much the interest of the Amsler- dam municipality that they could be more safely' trusted with the control of the institution than any state official, could be. When nearly a century afterward, the project of starting a great central bank in England was entertained, it was thought for a long time that the system under which the Bank of Amsterdam was managed should be the imodel of a bank to be established in London,

In the end, and fortunately so,. other counsels prevailed, for in the seventeenth century. London had not been so completely educated in the principles of commercial honor as to make the Amsterdam experiment a safe or convenient, mode for English practice. It is

of the Bank of England were Flemish settlers in

To-day's Advertisements.

LITÉRARY SOCIETY,

M LECTURE AFT8, Bank Buildings; THIS

[R. J. J. FRANCÈS, QC., will deliver a

EVENING, the 16th May, 1889, at 9 O'CLOCK, on "A visit to Borneo."

Hongkong, 16th May, 1889..

PERSEVERANCE

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LODGE OF

HONGKONG, No. 165

A LODGE will be Beid in FREEMASONS REGULAR. MEETING of the above

HALL, Zelland Street, THIS EVENING, the 16th inst, at 8.30 for 9 O'CLOCK precisely.

Hongkong, 18th May, 1889.

THEATRE

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ROYAL

CITY HALL, HONGKONG.

ADAM E

LADY

CORA,

THE GREAT AND ONLY"

ILLUSIONIST,

will give her SECOND ENTERTAINMENT,

in the

ART OF LEGERDEMAIN, . THIS EVENING, the 16th May, 189.

With Change of Programme.- HET DO NOT FAIL TO SEE HER, All Classes of Society are pleased with Madame's Performances,

The Press are unanimous in her praises, and the Public endorse the opinion of the Press.

Admission, $2 and $1,. Soldiers, Sailors and Children half prices.

Open at 8.35. Commence at g'p.m. Plan and Tickets at Messrs. KELLY & Walsh, LIMITED,

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Hongkong, 16th May, 1889.

BEST

MACAO ROTISSERIE, No. 2 & 4, RUA FORMOSA.

DEST BRANDS WINES and SPIRITS, ENGLISH ALE and 'PORTER. TIFFIN and DINNER to order.

MISS C PALMER, Proprietrix.

Macao, 8th April, 1899..

Consignees.

CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

COMPANY..

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP "PARTHIA,”

1607

FROM VANCOUVER, YOKOHAMA, KOBE,

NAGASAKI AND SHANGHAI,

"After all it was but one man, and a struggle tance, as the couple came from one of these remarkable that not a few of the first directors HE above Steamer having arrived, Con.

man to man demands but ordinary courage."

"But my pseudo-praybeard drew a revolver from his pocket

No, said he, holding the muzzle to my face, the watch and the purse first..

"I drew back, Indignation and anger at

letting my eclf into such an absurd trap almost suffocated ine; but what could I do against this man armed ?

"All at once an idea occurred to me.

"Imp of Satan I'll catch you yet!" called out a gruff voice behind the beggar.

"Instinctively he turned around. I seized the oppertunity to rush upon him and snatch the revolver from his hands.

"My turn now!' said I, holding the revolver under his nose. Open that door this instant or I will blow out your brains/

"The robber looked at me with a stupid air. He was a resolute fellow without a doubt, but were too much for him. Growling savagely like a bulldog he opened the door and slammed the donr niter me.

and with some difficulty gained the street.

Feeling my way along I found the staircase directed my steps at once toward the Strand. arrived a half hour late at my theatre, where signed the greatest inquietude at my non-

"What relation did this beautiful girl bear to him? The question was of small impor-

countries where the official will patch you up at a cross-roads a marriage which is quite lawful that joaquin Ventura warshipped this woman as an within a radius of thirty leagues. But certain it is

idol. To convince one's self of this it was only from his eye as they waited in the green-room necessary to notice the angry glance that shot. for their tum to go on the stage, if a gallant should crowd a little too near the beauty. Jealousy Insanely and you know whether itse Othellos from beyond the sea have a patient bumor.

"Joaquin had to suffer tortures, for his com- panion, as crquettish as she was beautiful, She would dirt with the arst man who caught seemed to amuse herself by exciting his jealousy. her fancy, knowing how, with the strange (acci- nation of the daughters of her country, to fan love and to set it adame, and caring little for the pangs which this compromising behavior the manager of the Alcazar stopped her as she came running with a merry laugh from a circle

of admirers.

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"Mile. Josefa,' he whispered in her ear, you dught to take care. This man holds your life in his finger's end this evening'

"Josefa burst into a laugh. He kill me,' said she, shrugging her shoulders; "he loves my beauty too much to want to spoil it.*

London, who, driven out for their religion, brought over with them the intelligence, sagacity and integrity, of Netherland finance.

The reputation of the Bank of Amsterdam this year Louis XIV, having secured by heavy received a remarkable confirmation in 1672. In bribes the complicity and assistance of Charles

of England, declared sudden war on the Duith, it was, perhaps, the most infamous war ever waged, the most unprovoked, and the most unexpected. The King of France was at this time at the height of his Bow The King of England had been in what was supposed to be afterward William III of England, was his m alliance with Holland, whose stadtholder, nephew. The administration of Holland was in the hands of the brothers De Witt, who were supposed to have been wilfully negligent of affairs when the war broke out. The Dutch were them, and the political enemies of the De Wills goaded. the populace on into murdering the two statesmen a crime to which. It is to be feared William was privy, and by which he certainly profited. The Dutch saved themselves from permanent ruin by self-inflicted calamity. They cut the dykes, inid the country under water and baffled the invader. They punished Charles, or rather his people, for the latter's perfidy. Now in that crisis there was a run on the

A letter from Amoy says:-The native bongs at Amoy make very little profit by their com- in the corner of an archway leading into one the revolver and the mysterious voice together inflicted upon the unfortunate man. One day panic-stricken at the calamity which came on mission on Tamsui ten brought to Amoy and sold through their agency; and if they make farge advances to the Tamsui teamen, they are very apt to suffer in case of a sudden drop in prices. On storing tea, however, they make a good steady profit by godown hire. This year the "Jui Yun" Long of Amoy formed a bold Idea it announced to the teamen of Tamisul, that for all teas sold on commission for them by the "Jai Yün "at Amoy, an advance of yo to to per cent, on the value would be made to them by that enterprising firm, and interest would be charged at the rate of only g or to per cent. instead of 15, the ordinary rate; and that storage charges or godown hifc, including Insurance, would only be $5 per 1,000 boxes, which is the ordinary charge not including insurance.

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The head of the Jui Yün is the comprador of a bank, and having by these favourable terms induced the principal teamen of Tamsul to dis- pose of their tea to him, he was able, storing their tea in the bank premises as security, to make advances of money to them at great profit to himself, for he obtained it at 6 per cent. and charged the Tamsui teamen to. This exempli fis the proverb; "He who bas long sleeves can posture prettily, he who has long capital can do Eusiness profitably," Jui Yün's speculation was however not without grave risk to himself supposing the lea-market bad weakened, so that he could not make the 20 or 80 per cent. of the total value necessary to repay him for his advances to the teamen,

"What misery exclaimed, gazing at the old man. Is it possible that you are condemned to begging at your age? Have you no sons or daughters!

smothered tone, as if ashamed to acknowledge not as yes, gentleman,' said the beggar in a the truth, but they have abandoned me.'

"It is infamous!' I added..

"And I drew from my purse a half crown. "As I handed it toward the beggar my cus-, tomary suspicions seized me. Ferhaps, after all, it was a made-up cripple. We actors are not the only ones who know how to disguise them #elves.

I prefer to assist you more effectively,' I remarked, after an instant's pause, 'You have a refuge somewhere? A home? Where do you liret

*The earnestness with which he responded occurred to me after the adventure was over ; at the time I laid no stress upon it.

appearance.

I kept the revolver as a tribute of war' And you see," continued Toole, "how my little talent of ventriloquism that night helped me cut of an ugly scrape."

A MADMAN'S TARGET.

I had just completed a tour of the great gardens which surround the sanitarium of the celebrated

physician was telling me the bistory of the case insanity specialist Dr. Noirot, and the famous of a certain inmate whom we had just met in one of the walks among the trees.

"And every evening she stood before the muzzle of the pistol with the same calm indiffer ence, her yelvet eyes fascinating her chafing lover as the eyer of the lion-tamer subdue the rebellious bruie..

"One evening, when the names of Joaquin Ventura and Josefa had blazed out from the boards of the Alcazar hardly a week, a gentleman of distinguished appearance entered the green- room and went straight to the young woman. She uttered a little cry of surprise and held out her hand for him to kiss the tips of her fingers. Joagiun Ventura, who was talking to the manager, wheeled and suddenly turned pale. The stranger was a rich American, whose assiduous attentions to Senorita Josefn had

signees of Carge are bereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Counter- signature, and take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside. will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Vessel

expense.

ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong. 13th May, 199

F33 PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship

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"CITY OF SYDNEY." The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along. side,

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignets' risk and expense.

CHS. D. HARMAN, Agent Hongkong, 13th May, 1889.

Notices of Firms.

NOTICE.

Te

ook toe lasted me. Bilet city magistrates THE Undersigned has This Day Started as took the alarmed depositors into the treasury

of the bank and showed them its store untouched.. Among the pieces of money which lay there were masses of coin which had been scorched and half melted in the great fire which many years before bad occurred in the Stadthouse, The panic was allayed, the merchants were satisfied and the reputation of the bank became higher and higher,"

To-day's Advertisements.

made somewhat of a sensation in New York. It was on his account, indeed, that the markuman had contracted for an engagement in Paris and hastened bis departure from America. Now, this man took it into his bead to pursue them— GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. for It was undoubtedly for Josefa alone that he had come to Paris. It had only been a matter INFORMATION has been received from

TNE of finding out where she had gone and of taking the MILITARY AUTHORITIES that ARTİL- passage on the next steamer. That night, when LERY PRACTICE will take place from Lower Joaquin and his companion were alone, a terri- Belcher's Battery, between the hours of 4 P.M. ble icene took place."

and 7 P.M. on the 17th instant.

The line of fire will be in a North-Westerly direction from the Battery,

"But most tragic was the end a week later. Ever since his arrival the American had followed In the footsteps of Josefa. Joaquin Ventura had tried to compel the manager to exclude him from behind the scenes. But entering the manager's office with his hat in his hand the American came out putting away his pocket-book, and the question of bis exclusion was dropped.

"You notice how haughtily that one saluted us?" sald the physician he imagines himself a great personage. He thinks he is the son of heaven-the Emperor of China† You could make a quarto volume out of the dispatches, confidential letters and diplomatic instructions he gives to the head warden every day to be forwarded Marquis Tseng, his embassador,"

At this moment a pistol-shot rang ost seemingly only a few steps in front of us, I expected to be enlightened as to the What is that?" I cried, clutching my host's genuineness of my beggars the slightest hes. arm "has one of your patients made away with Itation on his part would have put the' on my † himself 7.” Since the opening of the tea season at Tamsui, guard at once.

Dr. Noirot smiled. "No," was the reply: the Douglas Co.'s steamers have been carrying

“Not over a quarter of a mile from here," reassure yourself. It is another very curious many Chinese passengers between Aoy and replied the cripple. I will take you to my

case which I am going to show you," Tamsul. The lowest fare is $7 to Tamsui from lodging, air, if you like.

And, turning off to the left, he led me in the direcion of a small pavilion, half hidden behind Amoy, and $4 back to Amoy from Tamaul Owing to excessivo rain in spring, the picking

a cluster of trees. Unlocking a door, he led me of the young leaves was deferred too long; when

through a narrow hall, at the end of which 1, fine warm weather came the leaves were mostly

found myself in a long court surrounded on all no longer amall. Fise young leaf is therefore

sides by high, walls. At one end I saw a tall rare and correspondingly dear, The Amoy. "The beggar started off on his crutches, man dressed in a manner which in some part- native merchants whose business during winter dragging after him two stumps of legs, and with iculars resembled the costume of the Mexicans, had been in the main a losing one, were looking a hundred protestations of gratitute made in a standing with his back to the wall. Just as we forward to the opening of the ports of Tientsin warm and fervent tone, and mandavered rapidly entered he was the act of rising his right and Newchwang, expecting to recoup themselves along the muddy and slippery sidewalk of hand, in which he held a pistol, and undisturbed by the export of sugar to those places. In this Drury lane.

by our coming with a firm grasp he took aim. I they were disappointed, as Amoy and Taiwan

“It was a dismal' London winter evening. A followed the direction in which the pistol was sugar of all descriptions sold at these nuthern thick, humid fog hung heavily over the pointed. At twenty paces in front of him, at the ports at a loss of ten per cent, instead of a profit macadamized pavement. By the dull, yellow foot of the opposite wall, was a white head, Fortunately the year's foreign trade was success light of the street lamps the passers-by had the with a black hole in the center of the forehead full, and compensated them in great measure aspect of phantoms.

As well as I could judge at that distance, it was for their losses in the North China trade.

*From the doorsteps and windows of the a plaster cast of some classic Grecian type—that miserable houses in the alleys and courts through of Diana, the huntress, I thought, want which we passed gaunt, pallid faces gazed out He fired. The head did not stir; he had upon my, and cut-throat countenances with' | evidently shot yards wide of the mark ---" wolfish eyes gläred out into the night...

Americani Look whispered the doctor. “Is it not

AMOI,

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

"Amoy, 13th May, 1889

Very well!.. go ahead.; I will fellow,' I answered.

In spite of my familiarity with the dark sides | strange ? He never misses a shot.".

of I could repress thrill of “What mean

Un London, life to my reveald not be mando yo every one of the balls strikes pleasant to cross this quarter of London in the in exactly the same place in that hole in the dead of night,UNGANTAR forehead, which is not as large a as a silyer

dollar On of

The steamship Chrywes left this morning for Shanghal, taking away Chairini's Circus, After a stay for about three weeks aged en Therp was every appearance at the laas por la admirably organized, for, considering the wide. The man had taken another pistel from his, Kamance on Saturday night of a determined | spread misery and degradation in London, it is belt. "Aguiis he fired, and, as before, the target

Not that but we must acknowledge our police

"That evening, when Josefa was undress- ing to don her page's costume, Joaquin Ven- tura saw a paper fall from her cortage, He quickly snatched it up and read it; it was a note from the Americas, offering to run away with her the next day.

"When he came down into the green-room the brows of the marksman were fiercely knitted and his lips compressed, He took a revolver and aimed at his own image in the glass to try his band. It was without a tremble,

Five minutes afterward he was on the stage and the exhibition had begun. As he turned about behind him, in the scenes he saw the

Just then Senorita Josefa planted herself before him,

nut shell placed on her arms created, and the curved

loving smile. Whom did she smile at At the man who was behind him ? Joaquin under stood it well from the direction of her look. Suddenly, her eyes tuming to Joaquin, she ceased to smilemim shade passed over her face. -- Stand-

All Ships, Junks, and other Vessels are cau-) tioned to keep clear of the range,

By Command,

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FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary, Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 15th May, 1889. '.

FURNISHED HOUSE IN HONGKONG AND BUNGALOW AT KOWLOON. OR June and July, the semi-detached

Also a HUNGALOW (no · sleeping Rooms) Lawn Tennis Ground, Garden, &ei, 14 acres, on the Austin Road, Kowloon, with use of 2 Rick-

bas and a Chair.

For particulars, apply to

COMMISSION AGENT.

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NOTICE. HAVE This Day admitted into PARTNERSHIP Mr. S. W. COXON, and the Business will henceforth be carried on under the name and Style of "E. & S. Coxon,"

ERNEST J. COXON. Hongkong, 14th May, 1889...

NOTICE:

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PHIPPS, PHIPPS & Co.. Foochow, May, 1889.

THE

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HONGKONG AND WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED

Mapointed ACTING SECRETARY

of

the

R. EDWARD OSBORNE has been

above Company from this date.

J.J. KESWICK, Chairman. Hongkong, tat May 1889.

Intimations.

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

FHOUSE NO. 2, West Villas, cande Road, SPOON COMPETITION 300 YARDS,

A JAMES H. COX. 41.Queen's Road, or at above, i

(608 Hongkong, 16th May, 1889.

NOTICE.

WILL

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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY;

LIMITED

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