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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1889.

quickly bring his libellers to terms, and it may be possible that the Shark Fishery Company will recognise the necessity of vindicating its bona fides in a court of law."

The remarks 'referred to indicated that Captain WALKER was a scoundrel of the first water, that he had sold the Wandering Minstrel to some persons in

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THE French gunboat Chasseur, Capt. Bugard, THE P. & O. 5. N. Co's extra steamer Brindisi, arrived this forenoon from Macan

from London, left Singapore for, this port af 6.30 p.m. yesterday.

THERE is a water famino in Bangkok, and cargo- boats have to bring a daily supply to the city from the river, above Paknam. Absence of tain is the cause of the scarcity,

The Siam Mercantile Gazetle of the 4th inst. states that a few cases of cholera are occurring daily at Bangkok, but that the disease seems to be of a mild type, as the deaths-are-not-name- rous

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MESSRS. Willard and Sheridan's "Fun on the Bristol" company were performing at the Opera House, Brisbane, at the end of April.

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MR. S. Brown, our new Surveyor-General, amived to-day by the D. and O. steamship Oceanic, from San Francisco, vid Yokohama.

THE steamer Pechili was floated off Drinkwater Point on the 6th inst, and, after xe-shipping her cargo, proceeded to Tientsin. Luckily the vessel sustained no damage.

altered by inserting therein in lieu of the words Five Thousand Shares "the words "Fifty Thousand Shares,"

Mr. Lee Sing seconded. Carried: Mr. Cohen moved-That Article No. 124 of the Company's Articles of Association be altered by inserting therein in lieu of the words "Four Hundred Thousand Dollate" the words "One" Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars," and

in lieu of the words "Three Hundred Thousand Dollars" the words "Five Hundred Thousand

Dollars."

apparent in the present system with the view to its suppression or the adoption of remedial measures. For it would be a crying evil if wo import to the higher levels the risks of disease that are so painfully apparent in the lower.

(Here follow the signatures.)

THE PROPOSED DIRECT CABLE TO SINGAPORE.

Mr. Yee Sui Wan seconded. Carried.

The annexed correspondence on the above The Chairman intimated that the resolutions subject has been forwarded to us for pub- would require confirmation at a meeting night hence, and hoped those present would licstlan Attend.

fort.

Special Cones are prepared for the Destruction | Minstrel had been insured in this colony. THE General Managers (Messrs. Jardine, Mathe-around Murray Fier. Yesterday Lieut. Waser. time ago with reference to a fourth steamer to

of Bugs, Fleas, Mosquitoes, Cockroaches, etc.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY TO THE CHamber

son & Co.) inform us that the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Wingsang dilaw demanded thirty rents, stol because he a new steamer which was intended for that line. to transmit to you, for the consideration of the from Calcutta, left Singapore for Hongkong this moming.

We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardine, the South Pacific, and had settled Matheson & Co.) that the "Glen" liner Glen- down in a land where he had no post-alloch, from London, left Singapore yesterday

for this port, and is expected on the 23rd Inst. The authority for these office address. damning insinuations was said to be Mr. A. S. MURRAY, who is agent at San Terebene, fodine, Sulphurdus Acid, etc., for Francisco for the South British Insurance Co., in which concern the Wandering

The object Mr. MURRAY had in view can hardly be doubled; the Wandering Minstrel had been amissing for a long time under what appeared most suspicious circums- tances, and suspecting or believing that some foul play had been at work, he vished to avoid paying the Insurance If possible. And in offering a reward for any information of the barque's where ab uts the Agents of the South British Insurance Co., was well within his rights, but in giving as a fact to a reporter of the San Francisco Daily Examiner the inference that Capt. WALKER had committed a

Extra large Cones for disinfecting Hospital Wards, etc. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

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HONGKONG.

(Telephone No. 60.) Hongkong, 18th May, 1889.

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A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 22nd instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

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A COOLIE was charged before Me. Wodehouse Wanchal. He was sent out on the 11th inst. to-day with stealing $481 from'a merchant at

with the money to pay bills, and returned yesterday with a tale about having been robbed of nearly all. He was remanded.”

criminal breach of trust, he certainly A WEEK ago an old woman fell down some stairs committed a very grievous injustice and a gross error of judgment.

in a house on Hollywood Road, and died shortly afterwards. To-day an old man fell down the stairs of a house two or three doors away, and received fatal injuries. A fund is now being calamities of the sort, but there will continue to be no hand-rails, and the stairs will still be at the old angle of 60 degrees.

SAMPAN MEN are about the most impudent, extortionate fellows to be found, especially those

of H.M.S. Matine, hire one to take him off, the distance being not very great, but on the way the

could not get it refused to either go an or returri, so Mr. Wasey had to pull the boat back himself of, his companions in crime were fined for The rascal was fined $10 this morning. Several defacing the numbers on their boats, and other

offences.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

(Before Acting Chief Justice Fielding Clarke.)

The May Sessions were opened this morning,

Mr. Danby asked if the directors had given

OF COMMERCE. I serous consideration to the suggestion which appeared in the Hongkong Telegraph some

Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 17th April, 1889. run to Macao ?

SIR, Adverting to previous correspondence, The Chairman replied that they had ordered I am directed by His Excellency the Governor She would be called the Ling Sho.

Chamber of Commerce, the caclosed copy of a Mr. Danby then moved a vote of thanks to

letter from the Managerin China of the Eastern proceedings terminated. the Chairman, directors, and secretary, and the Extension, Australasian and China Telegraph Company Limited, and the Great Northern Telegraph Company of Copenhagen, on the subject of a proposed direct telegraphic com- munication with Singapore, and to state that the offer now made differs from the previous one inasmuch as having all the advantages offered tion with an island of rapidly growing im by the latter, it includes also that of communica- į

ARREST OF AN ALLEGED

ABSCONDER. .

When the Changsha arrived here early this morning from Australia Inspector Corcoran was waiting for her with a warrant for one Arthur Edward Bold Hornblower, who, the Melbourne police had telegraphed, had absconded with £2200 belonging to the Bank of Victoria, and was sup- posed to have taken a stecinge passage on the Changsha under the name of Graham. On making inquiries a, steerage passenger was

along with his luggage, to the lock-up, and name, and he was arrested. He was transferred,

the rest of the cases had been disposed of. He was a slender young man, very respectably dressed, and betraying no signs of anything but

Portance, in which Hongkong is likely to have special interest.

I am to add that His Excellency. Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon has, since the date of the last correspondence with the Chamber, impressed on the Governor the great importance of a second line of communication with Singapore, being of

there being eight cases, with fourteen prisoners found to be on board, having booked under that opinion that, even if the line were cut after a

for trial.

The following were the jurors :- Messrs: A, J. Palmer, V. Remedios, I. M. Lilley, and Lau Pong.

might be worth to this Colony more than the declaration of war, the passage over it of a single message to the effect that war was imminent,

The Shark Fishery Company being a and Indigestion, and is specially recommended local enterprise in which the colony had started to chin-chin, joss, and avert further D'Almeida, F. M. Gutierrez, W Wilson, W. taken before Mr. Wodehouse this morning when whole of any subsidy that has ever been asked.

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May, 1889.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS."/

Triegraph” and not to the Editor.

an interest, we made every possible inquiry into the truth or otherwise of the serious accusations against Captain WALKER, SO foolishly reproduced from the San Frän- cisco paper by our local contemporaries; but for a time without result. Neither the Manager of the Shark Fishery Company nor the Agent of the South British Insur- ance Co. would give any information, although both these gentlemen appeared to believe that, a report that was current to the effect that Captain WALXER had sold the Wandering Minstrel at Callao, Peru, was well founded. However, on May 1st a representative of this journal interviewed Capt.. Duncan of the barque Kalakana, which had recently arrived from Honolulu, and on that date we published his statement of what he actually knew of the Wardering Minstrel. Captain DUNCAN stated that the barque had cleared early last year for French Frigate Shoal and Midway Island, where he ought to have filled up in about three or four months; but nothing had been heard of the vessel until Autumn, when

reached , news Honolulu, and was published in the papers there, that she had been sold in South America. Further that a Captain CAMERON, who had shipped as third mate on the Wandering Minstrel in Fonolulu, had written to two well known residents there stating that he had set up a hotel at Port Townsend, in Washington Territory, having received $1000" bonus" from Caplain Walker.

TUL Sydney Morning Herald of the 26th April says:-By the outgoing steamer to-morrow, the Changsha, one of the China Navigation Com pany's vessels, there will be a well filled saloon Twenty-four passengers had booked up to yester. day, and as she calls at several of the Queensland ports en route further additions will probably be is a little remarkable that the Chinese are still made. In connection with this China trade, it

leaving Australia without regard to the dimbili. thirty, which is many times more than she ties as to returning. The Changsha takes away brought to Australia.

YESTERDAY afternoon Mi. Spooner, chief excise officer to the Opium Farm, went down to Quarry Bay with a number of excisemen and some police, under Acting Inspector Hanson, to raid the quarters of the coolies employed in and around the Refinery for opium. All the coolies | turned out, to the number of about three hun dred, and armed themselves with bambons and stones, as on previous occasions. Just as they Me. Spooner quietly pointed his revolver close were about to commence an onslaught, however, to one of the ringleaders' face, and they quiet- ened down like magic. Very little opium was found, as it happened, but the keeper of an illicit divan was caught, and fined $50 this morning.

SAYS a letter from London to the New York: Sum-For years the life of King Milan has been one of profligacy and violent excesses. He shared with Prince Rudolf the honor of being the most dissolute man in Europe, and the violent death of the Crown Prince of Austria, at. the culmination of a career of debauchery leaves the throne to go off with the heavy undoubtedly affected the King of Serviš. · "Milan

featured, but majestic-looking, Mme Chris. tich. She has a lot of money from her father, who is a banker in' Constantinople. The pair will settle down in some quiet spot in Greece. There is a Mr. Christich, but he is of the

THE HONGKONG HOTEL ROBBERIES.

case of war the line vid Borneo would be of Sir Nowell Salmon is also of opinion that in special value as being near the route of the trade

Leung Yau was in-tinted for stealing a gold disgust at being mistaken for an absconding between China and Australia.

watch and other articles, the property of his employer, Mr. Fullarton Henderson, from the Hongkong Hotel on various occasions last month. He nl ated guilty on all the counts, admitting that he took the property to pawn, but saying that he did so to send money home, as bis father was dying, and that he intended to redeem everything.

His Lordship said he was in a position of offence, and he would be sentenced to fifteen trast-he betrayed it, which was a serious calendar months' hard labor on each count, the terms to be concurrent. The property was to be returned to the owner.

· KIDNAPPING.

Kwan Ta was indicted for kidnapping a girl aged five years, and sentenced to three years imprisonment.

The sessions are adjourned till Monday.

HONGKONG CANTON AND MACAO

STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders. was held at the Company's offices this afternoon, for the purpose of considering a number of special

resolutions.

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The Hon. P. Ryrie presided, and among those present were Mesari, E. R. Belilios. J. J. Francis, F. Games, (Directors) Danby. F. Henderson, Cohen, Ozorio, Rustomjee, Arm- strong, and a number of Chinese shareholders, convening the meeting,

Mr. T. Arnold, (Secretary) having read the notice

The Chairman said: ese resolutions are of themselves pretty explanatory of the object of the meeting. You are well aware that the object of the directors is to strengthen the Company. It is on the cards that there may be new routes of communication in connection with the Canton

bank clock.

Inspector Corcoran stated that by virtue of a warrant issued in pursuance of a tel gram received from Melbourne he boarded the Chang- sha this morning, to look for a steerage passenger named Graham. He found that the prisoner had taken a passage in that name, and arrested him. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the charge.

Mr. Wodehouse asked the Inspector to read. how far it answered the personal appearance of the description' given in the telegram, and see the prisoner.

Inspector Corcoran said it described him as being aged about 25, height 5ft. Rin. (Prisoner :-- I am sf sin.) slender, dark, allow complexion, dark moustache and side whiskers, dark mu dy eyes, dark under eyes, and good manner,

His Worship, after looking carefully at the prisoner, said that if any mistake had been nude he was very sorry, but he was afraid nothing could be done until they got further information from Australia except remand the case. He supposed the prisoner was not in a position. to find bail here.

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Prisoner-Well, I have £20, but I shall want

"His Worship:-Oh 1 £20 would not nearly cover that: the larceny with which you are case for a week now, and if we are able to go os charged amounts to over $2,000. I remand the

with it earlier we will do so.

Prisoner 1-Can I make application for my sketching materiale ?

His Worship thought it would be better for all his property to remain in the hands of the police at present. He asked the Inspector if the prisoner's clothes had been examined

Inspector Corcoran replied that they had, and only a gold watch, gold ring, and a penny found

The prisoner was then removed.

man wanted. The telegram says that the It is almost certain that prisoner is not the absconded bank clerk in ane Arthur Edward Bold Hornbuckle, who cleared out with £2,200, and a reward of £250 is offered for his appie.

Under the circumstances His Excellency the Governor would be glad to receive the views of the Chamber on Mr. Judd's communication. "

I have, etc., "

FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.

To the Secretary, the Hongkong General

Chamber of Commerce.

THE MANAGER OF THE EASTERN EXTENSION

TELEGRAPH CO,, TO THE COLONIAL : ·

SECRETARY.

Hongkong, 6th April, 1889. SI-I have the honor to state the following for the information of His Excellency the Governor :—

It will be within His Excellency's recollection that in 1885, 1886, and 1888, the question of a cable from Hongkong to Singapore, not touching on Foreign territory was considered by this Government, without however any definite deci ision being taken.

I am now instructed by my Directors to inform His Excellency that the Authorities of British North Borneo have addressed them with a view to the extension of our system to that place by means of a cable from Singapore to British North Borneo, touching en route at Labuan and Sarawak.

opportunity would be afforded, by continuing Should this arrangement be carried out, an the new cable from North Borneo to Hongkong, of giving this colony direct communication with that rapidly developing country, and at the same time providing, that alternative route to Singa pore, touching only on British territory, which has been so generally recognized as politically and strategically important."

I would point out that the existing cables are amply sufficient to carry considerable increase", of the present traffic, and as the additional traffic due to the establishment of the proposed new cable would be entirely insignificant in propor me to state that the extension could only be

On the strength of this report the shadows, a nebulous and misty character, and province, and that we may require a flotilla of bension, The prisoner hardly corresponds to fion to the, large outlay, my Directors instruct. that part of him which has a tangible existence boats to carry on the trafic. Therefore the one of the particulars of identity, except that ? | carried out in consideration of the undertaking

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impression became general that Captain | is understood to be quite ready for a divorce. WALKER had betrayed his employers' and committed most scandalous breach of trust; but we are glad to say that all such beliefs are entirely unfounded. We received by the Qwic this morning the,

Hawanan Gereite of April 9th, which contains a full report of the wreck of the Wandering Minstrel on Is Midway Island, of the privations suffered by Captain WALKER, his family, and crew, during a fourteen months' sojourn on that desolate spot, and of their ultimate rescue and arrival at Honolulu. This report will be found in another part of this issue, and we need only how express our gratification that our confidence in Captain WALKER's good faith has been so amply vindicated,

It is requested that all communications relating to Subscriptions, Advertisement, &c., be addressed to the "Manager, Honghen

Latters on Editorial macts to be set to "The Edit and Communicatione Intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and addrese of the writers, not necesary for

mat to individual members of the staff.

publicadon ; but an evidence of good faith.

Whilst the columns of the Hongking Tulagra will always

be open for the fair d'acumulen by correspondias "of all, questions fecting public interests, 11 must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way bold himself" vesponsible for apinions thus expressed.

TO ADVERTISERS. Advenisers are requaalad to forward all nodces intended for lasertion to that day's issue not later than Three o'clock so xa not to retard the early publication of the paper.

Advertisement and Subscriptions which are nos ordered for fixed period will be continued unt?? countermanded.

The Hanging Telegraph has the largest creuiation of any English newspaper publiabed in the Far East, and is therefore the best medium for Advertiana, Tare can be learnt on application. The Honghang Tilegingk's number na the Telephons Central Exchange li No, 1.

TO SUBSCRIBERS, Subscribers to The Hunghong Teligradh aon respectfully reminded that all Subscriptions are payable in advance,

BIRTH.

A MEETING of members of the Jockey Club year's race meeting was held in the Hongkong Interested in the Subscription Griffins for next Hotel this afternoon. The Hon. P. Ryrie pre sided, and there were present Messrs. Max Grote (Acting Clerk of the Course), Jas. Bell-Irving, R. Fraser-Smith, D. McCulloch, F: H: Hohnke, N. C. Murray, John Andrew, S. J. Danby, and J. unanimously decided that the contract for Armstrong. After some conversation was supplying the griffins for the racing season of 1889 should be again offered to Messrs. Symons and conditions as last year-namely, that the Sewjce, of Shanghai Horse Bazaar, on the same griffins, carrying rost, should be able to do t min. 40 secs. for six furlongs, and be landed in Hongkong at a cost not exceeding $150 for each pony that no discards from training stables be included in the mob and that. Mr. H. J. H. trials and pass the ponies that accomplished the Tripp should have full authority to check the distance in the stipulated time. Several members expressed satisfaction at the manner in which the Home Bazaar had. carried out the contract during the past two years. The list was then passed round and 36 subscriptions were taken up in a few minutes, the extreme limit for each H.M.S Swift was at Chinkiang on the 11th subscriber being two griffins. It is expected inst.

that at least fifty ponies will be subscribed for,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

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COURT NEWS.-The Governor came down town THE Siam Mercantile Gazetta of 4th inst. has to-day and had a tooth taken out.

We regret that, owing to unusual pressure on cur space, the telegrams received by the American mail have been “crowded out" of this issue, They will appear on Monday.

AN Emergency Convocation of Victoria Chapter, No. 535, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, At Iz, Caine Road, on Saturday, the 18th of Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock May, the wife of CHARLES V. LLOYD, of a precisely. Visiting companions are cordially daughter.

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the following:-"Frederick A. Hitchcock, the engineer who is alleged to have fired a revolver at Captain Anderson of the Oriental Hotel on the 25th April, was arrested the same evening and brought before Mr. E. H. French, Acting British Consul next morning and charged with the offence. Mr. Child appeared for the prose several witnesses had been examined the further cutor, the prisoner being undefended. After hearing was adjourned till the following day, when further evidence was adduced,

The prisoner was then cautioned in the usual way and asked if he had anything to say, but he

emergency being a steerage passenger-the only one

the Changsha

and other circumstances such

being subsidised by the Goverments interested.

I have, etc.,

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directors wish to prepare for such There is also another very favorable feature in this movement, in that it has attracted the support

I would mention that the subsidies named in That is his story, given with every appearance of the leading Chinese residents in the Colony, of truth --My name is John Ferdinand Lemm, my letter of April 14th, 1888, were for a duration as it does that they have come forward with the am an architect. My people are well-to-do all our actuarial calculations are based, and I That, I consider, is a very great feature, showing I belong to Suail's Bay, Balmain, Sydney, and of 20 years, that being the period upon which intention of supporting the Company, which as there, my brother-in-law, Mr. E. H. Buchanan, am now instructed to enquire whether the you know, has for many years conducted an being Mayor of Balmain. Until recently I was Government of Hongkong would be disposed to excellent business, and one which we are anxious employed in bis: office, but hearing glowing grant a subsidy for 20 years for this purpose, to keep against all comers. Hence the advisability accounts of the prospects in my line in China

and if so, of what amount. of the step which we are about to take. It might and Japan 1 decided to go and see. My fatherAs I gather that one of the objections taken ments for this large sum which we propose to benefit, to as 1 was not over affluent I took a proposals was that the advantages were purely be said that it would be difficult to get invest said I must make my own way, for my own by the Chamber of Commerce to our former add, but I and my brother directors are confident that there will be no difficulty-It will be easily steerage passage giving an assumed came political, I would now beg to point out that the that invested, and the chances are that with Graham in order that any of my friends who present proposition, if carried into effect, would might see the name would, not recognise me. subservé both political and commercial inte increase of business and other circumstances Up to my leaving I heard nothing of any restr. which need not be meatloned, there will be no the Changtha at soon as we got out that my diminution. We hope so, and we feel we have a

absconding bank clerk I told the officers of

ground for that hope. I think this sum with which all along. It is written in my indentures, my Bame was Lemm, and was known by that name we propose to augment the capital of the Com-masonic diploma, business accounts, cures, me as I said before, is a sound and good one, and linen, and painted on my baggage, all of which The Hon. F. Stewart, LL.D, Colonial Secretary. pany will be readily forthcoming. The concern,

letters, engraved on my watch, marked on my is capable of extension to a very considerable can be easily proved in five minutes. degree, I do not think there is anything else to add, except that we are getting out a new boat now, which we expect will beat anything that ever ran out here, and we may have occasion for others. She is almost completed-at any rate her keel is laid and her construction proceeding. What we may require in the future, though, the future will decide, but meanwhile, by taking the steps we propose we are prepared for any eventualities.—He then proposed the first resolution, which

and we understand that cablegrams have been Mr. Webber has been retained for the defence, already despatched asking for details of bis identification as Lemin

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The following petition, which speaks for itself, has been forwarded to His Excellency the Governor by a number of residents at the

WALTER JUDD, ...

Manager-in-Chinn,

Eastern Extension Australasia and

China Telegraph Co., Ld.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO THE COLONIAL SECRETARY. Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce,

Hongkong, 11th May, 1889.

acknowledge receipt of your communication of SIR,On the 17th April I had the honour to

12th idem banding copy of a letter from Mr. Walter Judd, Manager in China of the Eastern Extension Australasia and China Telegraph Company, being in continuation of previous correspondence from that gentleman and having reference to a proposed special cable between this Colony and Singapore.

Since the date of my letter, as above, the sub- 'lect of telegraphic communication with Singapore hands of the Committee of this Chamber, and has again received-careful consideration at the

am directed to state for the information of His Excellency the Governor that though circum stances have somewhat altered since the 31st July 1888, when" they had last the pleasure of

cient importance to accessitate any modification consider the changes are in themselves of suffi of the views then expressed. Verseke

At Bangkok, Siam, on the 30th April, of INSPECTOR Cradock and Detective Inspector replied he had nothing to say at present. He who, on the 7th day of June, 1889, shall be with ventilating traps, and the air around these Faddressing you'on the same subject, they do not ́

Mann went by the mail to-day, on leave. Mr. cholera, MRS. SARAH JONES SMITH, the wife of Mann carried away with him a very handsome the Rev. Samuel J. Smith, aged 77 years. ivory-handled cane, presented by the Chinese

detectives as a souvenir..

The Honghong Telegraph

CAPTAIN Metcalfe's many friends in this Colony i will hear with regret that he is retiring from the service, his voyage in the O, and O. steamship Oceanic, which arrived in port this morning, being the last in that line.

A MAT-DAO merchant in Square Street bought a quantity of half-burnt bags that had been salved from the recent fire in Wile er Street, this week, and 1 st night some sparks that had been smouldering in them burst into flame and burnt

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1889.

On March 29th we wrote as follows:--

"Why did we not, like the Daily Prair and Chino Mall reprint the remarks made in the San Francisco Daily Examiner regarding Captain Walker and the local Shark Fishery | the lot up. Company's barque Wandering || Minstrell Simply because we did not with to publish, TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 without the alightest cause or justification, o'clock the steam launch carrying the Bethel gross and cowardly libel on a man whose flag will call alongside any vessel bolsting code reputation, so far as we knew, was untarnished, pennant C, to convey man ashers to 11 am. * If Cap ain. Walker ever returns to this colony service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returns

we have not the slighest doubt that he will very ing about ra.30,

as follows:That the Capital of the Company be increased to the sum of $1,600,000 Peak:- by the issue of 40,000 new shares of $20 each, which shall be fully paid up as hereinafter pro- others respectfully beg to call the attention of The Undersigned, residents at the Peak, and vided and that the Board be authorised to issue such New Shares at a premium of $15 per the new drainage at the Peak. This hew the Government to the unsatisfactory state of Share such premium to be paid as hereinafter system, which was laaugurated towards the provided...

midd'e of last year, appears to perpetuate all the Mr. Sia Asing seconded, and it was adopted. evil smells that exist in the lower levels of the Mr. Bellos moved the next resolution-That town. The various roads along which the under the said New Shares be offered to the Persons ground sewage is carried, are thickly studded

at two securities of $300 each. The trial can-is the proportion of one New Share for every gases which escape from the sewers. Children then was committed for trial the bail being fixed registered Shareholders of the existing Shares, vents is seriously contaminated with the fetid not take place until the return of the steam-existing Share, and such offer shall be made by are most liable to contract disease owing to the ship Pakshan, as two important witnesses a notice specifying the number of New Shares foul afr reaching them in a concentrated form, The suggested connection of the proposed cable, are employed on board of that vessel which each such registered Shareholder shall while the tendency of children is to play around with the promising territory which British North Hitchcock was well known in Hongkong be entitled to take up, and limiting a time within these openings. whout a dozen years ago, when he held the which the offer, If not accepted in writing and

LAWRA Borneo has now become la no doubt a factor of Without any idea of posing as experts in the very considerable commercial Importance, but position of second engineer on board the accompanied by the full amount of $20 per Share, matter of drainage, we cannot but apply come the Committes are hot of opinion that it in any Chinese Revenue criuser Shßn-ch), which yessel will be deemed to be not accepted, and all non monsense to the evidences that surround us. It way lesicos the obligation attaching to the was then officered by Europeans under the accepted Shares shall be disposed of in such a acems as if the area of the Peak is perhaps more: Imperial Government to do all in its power to direction of the Inspector General of the Chinese manner, at such times, and on such conditions peculiarly fitted than any other part of the island increase the effectiveness of two such important Imperial Maritime Customs. If we remember as the Board may determine. A premium of $15 for open surface drains. These in this tropical coaling stations as Singapore and Hongkong. || rightly Hitchcock had to leave the Shin-cht for every such accepted Share shall be paid on climate, are innocuous, for the deadly fermentar! These views are strengthened by the fact that owing to alleged neglect in reference to the vessel's the 1st July, 1889, and, if not then so paid, shall tion that takes place in almost all covered drains the Home authorities readily admit the necessity boilers, at the time she was thoroughly over carry interest at the rate of $8 per cent. per is avoided. If objectionable matter becomes for complete effectiveness at Eastern coaling hauled and repaired by the Dock Company at Annum until fully paid, Waterdeposited, it is in sight and can be removed stations, and the Compitice of this Chamber Jardine's patent slip, The Shfs-chỉ, by the Mr. Danby seconded, and it was agreed to... not so with the underground system: On the therefore still deprecate the appropriation of any bye, was the last vessel that used Jarding's slip Mr. Gomes moved-That all premis on the score of cost, let alone the question of efficiency, portion of the Colony's revenue to subsidising a

institution closely identified with the names said New Shares be carried to the Depreciation the exposed dvala is superior to the subterranean special cable oriente of John Jack and other Hongkong worthics of and Insurance Fund mentioned in Article No. sewer Substantially constructed side gutten

have th bygone generation. Hitchcock had the name. 122 of the Company's Articles of Association... would, in our opinion, meet all the needs of ther of being a decent little fellow, and we regres ta Mr. Poon Pong seconded. Cariled.

Locality at a comparatively trifling outlay wi fearn that he has got himself into such serious trouble,

Mr. Henderson moved That Article No. 90. It is our earnest wish that the Government

of the Company's Articles of Association be will carefully, connder the, defacts that are Hon F. Stewart, LL1

Colonial Socres