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JUDGE AND JURY.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1889.
The present method of filing vacancies in the Judicature is therefore faulty for two reasons In the first place, the Premier, for the time be
Nearly 700 years have gone by since Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury, backed bying, practically makes the appointment, and, in the barons, seruted from King John a chatter the next, not only is life the limit of the term whose most famous clause rends No freeman of office, but the difficulty of getting quit of an incapable or unjust judge is well nigh insupers shall be taken, or imprisoned, or N or outlawed, or banished, or in any way destroyed; able. Both objections would disappear by re- nor will we pass upon him, nor will we condemnering the Premier of the great responsibility him, unless by the lawful judgement of his peers,
now imposed upon him and by restricting the renure to a définite period. The latter could be or by the law of the land. Of the monarch
a complished with no difficulty and the former 'himself, who was obliged to swallow this extremely bitter pill, a contemporary chronicler with little. By electing the judges as in America a stop would be at once put to any possible wrote:-"Foul as it is, hell itself is defiled by
favouritism or prejudice on th part of the per the fouler presence of John. That ruler is further alluded to in the following manner by one
son who happened at the toment to be the of the ablest and most impartial bfrecent British Crown's chief adviser. Up the details of such elections it is necessary to enter. Once grani historians" He stands before us polluted with
the principle that no office so high as that of a meanness, cruelty, perjury, and, murder. Anegant in prosperity, abject in adversity, be judg. ship should be at the disposal of a single neither conciliated affection in the one, nor politician, and mens will qu ckly he discovered excited esteem in the other" But for the for securing, the best man willing to undertake priest Langton, who cheered the nobles when the duties.' their hearts failed them, Magna Charta would not, have seen the light when it did. It was, the concessions' wrung from the for swore monarch in his abjectness would have become so inuch waste paper but for the provid
A
ential interposition of glutony or poison, which
afforded him an opportunity of testing, the truth of his brother,' Cœur de Lion's, statement --- "We came of the devil, and we shall go to the devil." For the kuave John no sooner escaped from the barons' clutches than he induced his over-lord, the Pope, tarescind the Charter.. He then invited the sweepings of the Continent to England for a little relaxation in the throat-cut ting business, much as his ancestor, the Con-
queror, had done 150 years before. He would probably have succeeded in his criminal inten- tions of destroying both the Charter and thost who demanded it," but for the providential infer- ference already mentioned. In an article deal. ing with modern judges and juries in British colonies, it is necessary to make some reference, however slight, to the circumstances from which the "palladium of liberty" originated.
Down almost to our own day the clause in the Charter which asserted * We will sell to no man, we will not deny to any man, either justice or right," was all too frequently honoured in the breach rather than in the observance. Under the Tudors and the Stuarts trial by jury was often a farce, ending in a bloody tragedy, Indeed, for nigh two centuries State trials generally meant judicial murders. For acquitting
Close upon the method of appointing judges comes the equally important question of their powers and duties. Indeed, in some respects the subject of power and duty is of far greater moment than that regarding the mode of appoint."
Today's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW.
THE Company's Steamship
-"HAL/HONG,"
THE
Captain Harris, will be despatched for the
bove Parts, TO-MORROW, the 18th instant,
DAYLIGHT.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
(1030
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Rongkong, 17th August, 1889
DOUGLAS STEAM.SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR AMOY AND TAMSUI
Company's Steamship
4 FORMOSA,"
entinations
CONSULAT DE FRANCE À CÂNTÖN.
VENTE AUX ENCHÈRES PUBLIQUES, EN CHANCELLKHIR,
LE & NOVEMBRE, 1889, A 10 HEURES DU MATIY
ES baux emphyteotiques (pour 99 ans) de
D. viata cum de terrain qui constituent a Concession Française de Shameen, (Canton),
S'adresser, pour connaitre les charges et Daditions de l'adjudication, á In Chancellerie ht Consulat Général de France à Shanghai, et A celles des Consulats de France à Canton et Hongkong.
www
SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION,
IN THE CHANCELLERIR OF TUR L'ONSULATE, on the 6th November, 1889, at 10 A.M.,
Intimations.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
OTICE is hereby given that the Ordinary
Half-yearly MEETING of the SHARE HOLDERS in this Corporation will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, on SATURDAY, the 24th day of August current, nt 12 O'CLOCK
of
NOON for the pu pose of receiving the Report
Court of Directors together with a Statement.
the
of Accounts to 30th June, 1889.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
G. E. NOULE,
Chicl Manager.
(971
Hongkong, 1st August, 1889.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
Intimations,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. WANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF HONGKONG.
A VESSEL capable of being fitted up as a
Hospital Hulk.
Build-Wood throughout, or Composite, latter preferred; 600 tons (or over) register; in thoroughly sound condition,
Tenders should be addressed to the Colonial Secretary, and should give the following particu- lars-vizi, Name, Port of Registry, Official Number, Class (if any); when and where built; and price required.
The Government does not bind itself to accept
Of the leasehold (for 99 years, lots of land which NTR of states of the corportion the lowest or any tender.
constiture the French Concession of Shameen (Castor),
Apply, for particulars and conditions of sale, to the French Consulate General at Shangha
und to the French Consulates at Canton and
Par Ordre,
the pad erstitious has been the reverence Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Hongkong
Ports, on MONDAY, the roth inst., at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LÁPRAIK & Co.,
L'Interprete Chancelier, General Managers:
LFLAYELLE, Honghong, 17th August, 1889, [1032 THE HONGKONG AND AVHAMPOA LOCK
STEAM TO. MANILA, (VIA AMOY.)
COMPANY, LIMITED.
hitherto paid in legal matters to everything emanating from Britain that the plenty authority delegated to the English llench in times gone by and so rarely exercised to-day has been copied in Australia and is not suffered to fall into desuetude. The grave scandal arising from the unwarrantable imprisonment of a citizen for A long period at the caprice of a bad-tempered. public servant is unknown in the tiny island of THE Steamship
NANZING,"
Captain Thomson, will be despatched as above, on MONDAY, the 19th instant, at NOON.
For Freight or Passage, app'y to
. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 17th Augus), 1889. (1029
"GIBB" LINE.
whose imperial mantle we Australians are still content to be the hem. That an official, in consequence of occupying a raised seat in a medium-sized room supposed to be open to the public, and privileged to wear a mantle whose high colour is brought into aggressive relief by the character of the droll head-covering above it, should possess the further privilege of combining in himself the quadruple offices of judge, Jury, prosecutor, and witness, is absurd. on the face of it. Why such an obvious abuse | FOR QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY has been tolerated, so long is incomprehensible, except on the ground that what is everybody's business is nobody's. Three cases have recently occurred, in Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland respectively, which illustrate in a forcible manner the inexpediency of placing the citizen's liberty and good name at the mercy of
AND MELBOURNE, VIÀ FOOCHOW. (Taking through Cargo for ADELAIDE, TASMANIA,
and NEW ZEALAND.)
THE British Steamship
"GRAZEE,"
10271
[OTICE is hereby, given that the REGIS-
will be CLOSED from SATURDAY, the 10th to SATURDAY, the 4th day of August (both days inclusive) during which period no transfer of Shares can be registered.
By Order of the Court of Directors,
G. E. NOBLE,
Chief Manager. Bongkang, 1st August, 1889
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THE HALL AND HOLTZ CO-OPERATIVE COMPANY, LIMITED. DRAWING OF HEBENTURES. OTICE is hereby given that One Hundred
THE Certificate of 57 Shares in this.Cont. Debentures in the shave Company will
pany numbered 129°/1317. 2911/5, 10,221, 7536, 2705/2717, 11,31 5° 2417/2445. Standing in the Register in the name of Dr. A. 5. Gomes, having been LOST, natice is hereby given that a New Certificate for the said 5 Shares will be issued fourteen days hence, and that the original certificate, unless produced within that period, will thereafter be held by the Company as hull and void.
"D. GILLIES,
Secictiry.
Hongkang. 6th August, täg.
Sot HONGKONG, CANTON AND, MACO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED,
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,
OTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA-
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton in the reign of the any ose man, however distinguished. For it Captain Scotland, will be despatched as above, ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
should never be forgotten that no individual or
clique ever yet obtained unfettered power without abusing it la Victoria a map of good character and report was sentenced to a molly's imprison- ment and a smart fine withour trial. In New South Wales a person, whose tipsiness was possibly the result of a conspiracy, secured a year's incarceration to think the matter over, The monstrous Wilson-Cooper case in Queens. land need not be dwelt upon. In all these cases
on MONDAY, the agih inst, át 3 P.M.
This steamer has superior accommodation for First-class Passengers.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co,
Managers. Hongkong, 17th August, 1889
1984
WANTED.
the verdicts of juries should have preceded the A STEADY WELL BROKEN PONY, with
sentences of the Courts.
bigot Mary, five of the jury suffered eight months' imprisonment and a fine, in our money, of £2,400 apiece. Bacon, the "wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind," never refused a bribe, while the justice meted by Jeffrey will keep his name infamous for all time. During the last century, too, and even well into this, the manner in which juries were sometimes, addressed by arrogant judges goca far to show that human institutions, however theoretically admire "fail in compassing the objects for which they were established when the men who
The conviction is growing apace that the preside over or govern them are arbitrary or duties of a judge should not only be greatly corrupt. It was long thought that the dignity of a court, and justice between man and man, could circumscribed but should be confined to explain only be secured by investing the presidingng, and deciding. law-points. With the jury official with almost plenary powers; by allow would rest the dual offices of finding verdicts and ing him a wide latitude in the performance of apportioning sentences within prescribed limi's. As matters stand at present's convicted prisoner's his duties and by surrounding him with the
punishment not fafrequently depends on the tawdry tags and trappings which were supposed to impress the vulgar with a sense of awe. This Judge's digestion or temper. On the one hand Rhadamanthus may be the victim of a accounts for the fantastic tricks played by men
billous attack, on the others, his wife may who, placed in positions whence removal is
have been unconciliatory at breakfast, or his next to impossible, deck themselves in the bizarre habilimenisol medievalism and frequent ment to roller-skating. In either ense the daughter too demonstrative in her attach- ly shock the public conscience by the ecce prisoner will probably obtain a few extra tricities of their behaviour or the capriciousness years' servitude owing to causes with which of their sentences. From various manifestations
be is quite unacquainted. All this would be of a high-handed arbitrariness shown by the Australian Bench it would appear as if the time obviated by throwing on the jury the responsi
bility, not alone of deciding the question of had fairly arrived where he deltolt of innocence or guilt, but of recording the sentence the appointment, powers and duties of both
in the latter case. Senti nces so recorded would judges and juries should receive a thorough almost certainly be consonant with the prevailing That a radical change is imperative will be public opinion, and not violently antagonistic to it, as they so frequently are at present. The denied by few who have paid any attention to body to which the momentous question of guilt recent judicial doings. To begin with, the
or guiltlessress is referred might safely be method of appointment is fundamentally vicious. entrusted to affix an appropriate penalty in the It is not meet that a mean and scheming politi-event of conviction. At any rate society would cian, hoisted for a brief period into place by a be saved from the capriciousness so common Parliamentary intrigue, should have the power to reward a firm supporter or remove a dangerous opponent by kicking him upstairs, so and landing him on the judicial lobby for a life
overhaul,
time. Most colonlal judges are men by no means distinguished for exceptionally high at tainments or rare moral qualities. Many of
now-a fi fulness which to-day astonishes by the insufficiency of its punishments and to-morrow disgusts by their savagery-Sydney Bulletin.
SCOTT's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, is the most valuable remedy for Consumption, Scrofula, General Debility, | Warting Diseases of Children, Chronic Coughs, and Bronchitis that has ever been produced, It is very palatable; it is very fattening and strengthening. It will ease at once the most ylalent cough and will give both comfort and strength to the sufferer, It possesses the com- bined virtues of there popular remedies in their fullest form. Any Chemist can supply i-A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.~[Adut.
SADDLE. Address staling price
0. M. ANDERSON,
I. M. Customs,
Kowloon, Hongkong, 17. August, 1889
TO LET.
of the Company will be held at the Company's 'Office, No. 18 Bank Buddings. Queen's Road, Hongkong, on TUESDAY the 20th August, 1889, at 3 O'CLOCK PM, the objects and business of which meeting will be to submit for con- firmation the special resolutions passed at the meeting held this day.
By Order of the Board,
T. ARNOLD, Secretary.
Hongkong, 3rd August 1889
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HONGKONG, AND WHAMPOA DOCK
'COMPANY, LIMITED.
Ordinary Half Yearly MEETING of (1031 SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company, No. 14, Praya Central, on MONDAY, the 26th August, at 3 P.M., for the purpose of receiving the Report of the
TOUSE' No. 1, "CAMERON. VILLAS," Peak
H East. One spacious five-roomed House
at Mount Kellet Peak, Gas laid on.
NEW HOUSES on “BELILIOS TERRACE,” Robinson Road.
Apply to
BELILIOS & Co. Hongkong, 17th August, 1889.
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WANTED.
OR
The Hongkong Telegraph, ARABLE SHORT HAND REPORTER, who is a paragraphist and reliable proof-reader. Apply, with full particulars, to
smart
THE EDITOR, The Hongkong Telegraph,
Hongkong, 31st July, 1889.
Notices of Firms.
NOTICE:
THE PARTNERSHIP hitherto existing be between under the Style of MORRIS & RAY has been dissolved this day by Mutual' Consent
AG. MORRIS, E. C. RAY.
Hongkong, 31st July, 1889.
them have been politicians who entered Parlla- ment to benefit themselves. Nor can it be said that in the majority of cases their departure from the Legislature seriously injured the cause of progress. Had they retired into private life on leaving, the country would have had no cause for regret. In some instances, indeed,
was not so much their descent from one bencat of another to be deplored. Human nature is pretty much the same the world over. Ambitious men are fre- quently unscrupulous, and will continue so to the end. Let us suppose, then, a Premier who was at once ambitious, vain, and unscrupulous-the CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL future under the Style or Firm of RAY and
combination is not so rare as many imagine- and the question naturally arises; "Is it prudent to entrust such a man with the power of reward. ing a friend or removing an enemy by raising him to a position where practically be can flout public opinion during the term of his natural life ?"
REGISTER.
16th August, 188g-At 4 p.m.
Wind.
STATION
Biblipostack......
الاسدي
Kokin Shanghai AUSUT
Halphong Botime Strolla..
There is a growing belief that the theory of life-appointments to any posts is intrinsically unsound. That the practice is frequently attended by grave irregularities the experience of centuries goes to show. For a long time Monarchy was thought superior to Republicanism-it is thought gong so still by the idle and ignorant--chiefly because of its assumed stability. With a throne in the possession of a particolar family-ascatto which none but certain members of that family could aspire-it was thought that no bad men would aim at the supreme power which was out of their reach ; that there would be na civil brawis and. few foreign once. The incorrectness of this view notorious. Most of the wars which have | Wilianstuck desolated provinces and arrested the advance of
Tokio Nagasaki. civilisation have been caused by dynastic disputes sharghal... engendered by the minority of princes or by the Amy .....
Hongkong intrigues of favourities. The assumption that
Halphone society is more stable when the chiel magistrate | Holme......
Manila... holds his position for life than when bis tenure of office is limited is contrary to experience. As with monarchs io with judges.
It is unwarrantable to suppose" that justice would suffer, if those who administered it were appointed for specified terms, which might be renewed in the absence of legitimate dissatis faction with the administrators!). It may be sild that judgeships of limited duration would not be sufficiently attractive to induce able men to leave
exper
17th August, 1889-At jo Lo,
STATUIN.
The barometer has rises and gradients are very moderate, Cloudy, warms, and rather damp weather prevails along the const 1--Bammster reduced to level of the sex in loches, tentha and lundredths. *Temperature in the shade in degrees, “ah. mohity-Humidity, la percentage of antiation, the kimnidity of air snarrated with moisture belog 100. Diraction of the wind to two polata, 5.-Forts of the wind according to Beaufort scale. 6-State of the weather, & Blussky, e Detached clouds, of Dricating mis, / Vog, z Gloomy, & Hu, Lightolog Overcast, Paming showers, e Squally, Rain, Snow, i Thunder, Vilty, Dew wai}, y¬Rala in inches, testha and hundretiki/
W. Douzace.
the Bar for the Bench. To this it may be, Hongkong Observatory. 17th August, 1889
answered (bat even, now it is not the foremost barristers who secure the higher appointments, and that the highest skill in advocacy does not necessarily carry with it a Judicial mind that many of the leading advocates firmly decline to go up, and that a limited tenure by no means precludes re-appointment should the judge desire it and his conduct walls in office justify it. Some "of the "higher officials of the Chun, the Governors of vast and populous colonies, haveto content themselves with commissions which only good for a certain number of years. "The tenure that satisfies the superior officer should pertainly be good enough for the inferjos, žin
+
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,
(*) (Fr in Macon, Geo, Falconer de Co,'a Register.)
W RAY nul continue Business as SHARE, WITH Reference to the above Mr. E. C. SHIP, & GENERAL BROKER. Mr. GEORGE
HENDERSON WATT has been admitted a Partner and the Business will be conducted in
WATT.
4
E.. C. RAY, GEO. H. WATT
Hongkong, 31st July, 1889.
NOTICE.
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י.
HAVE this day commenced business as a SHARE & PROPERTY BROKER & GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.
Hongkong, 31st August, 1889.
NOTICE.
Directors, a Statement of Account to joth June, 1889.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 12th to 26th August, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
D. GILLIES, Secretary.
Hongkong, 8th August, 1879, NOTICE.
THE CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
[1003
N accordance with the Provisions of No. tar of the Articles of Association the General. Agents have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND of 10 per cent. for the Half Year ended 30th June, 1889, on the paid up Capital of the Company.
[1910
be DRAWN for at the Head Office, Shanghai, on TUESDAY. the 20th day of August, 1889. at ELEVEN O'Clock 18 The ForÈNoos,
W. HAYWARD,
Secretary. Shanghai, 4th August, 1989.
SHANGHAI LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY, LIMITED. SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL... ..... Tls, 1,00,000. CAPITAL PAID-UP
Tls. 600,000
BOARD OF DIRECTORS!
J. S. PURDON, Esq, Chairman, of Messrs.
MAILAND & Ĉs.
H. R. HEARN, Esq. of Messrs. ALFRED
DANT & Co.
E. J. HOGG, Esq.
JOHN WALTER, Esq., Manager the Hoxo-
KOND AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR FORATION.
י,
By.Command,
FREDERICK STEWART, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 12th August, 1889.
NOTICE.
THOMAS KERR & Co.
(1025
NGINEERS, BOILER-MAKERS,
ΕΝ
AND
CONTRACTORS,
YAU-MA-TI ENGINEERING WORKS,
Kowloon.
H
Hongkong, 6th June, 1889..
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TONGKONG HIGH LEVEL
WAYS COMPANY, LTD.
TRAM-
TIME TABLE. :
WEEK DAYS.
8 to 10 A.M., every quarter of an hour. 12 to 2 F.M. every half hour.
4 to 8.RM. every quarter of an hour.
THURSDAYS.
NIGHT TRAMS at to 30 and 11 P.M. SUNDAYS.
10.40. A.M.; 12 to 1.30 P.M. every quarter of an hour.
4 to 8 P.M. every quarter of an hour. 9, 10, 30.30, 1 TH
Special Cars may be obtained on application to the Superintendent.
A. G. WOOD, Esq., of Messrs, GIBB, LIVING-Coupons and Reduced Tickets at the Office.
STON & Co.,
Single Tickets are sold in the Cars; Five-Cent
BANKERS:
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.
LOANS made on MORTGAGE ON LAND,
BUILDINGS, &c.
PROPERTIES bought and sold.
ESTATES MANAGED and all kinds of LAND AGENCY and COMMISSION business conducted. GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,
*
Agents.
(938
Shanghai, 19th July, 1889. THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT "AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL..........$5,000,000. PAIN UP CAPITAL, 2,500,000, RESERVE FUND
1,250,000+
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Hon. J. J. KESWICK,
Chairman.Managing Directors, Hou: C. P. CHATER,
Vice-Chairman.j
E. A. SOLOMON, Esq.
J. S. MOSES, Esq.
S. C. MICHAELSEN, Esq.
G. E. NOBLE, Esq.
LEE SING, Esq..... POON PONG, Esq.
BANKERS.
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HANKING CORPORATION.
MACEWEN, FRICKEL & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st May, 1889.
HONGKONG TIMBER
YARD, WANCHAI.
REGON PINE SPARS and LUMBER
Always on Hand.
L 'MALLORY. Hongkong, 24th June, 1881.
Auctions.
PUBLIC AUCTION
OF
1783
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY.
HE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by Public Auction, op.
TUESDAY,
ΤΗ
the 20th August, 1889, at: 3 F.M.,
on the Spot, ALL THAT PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, Registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT No. 428, with 13 Substantial Three- Storied HOUSES newly erected thereon, and measuring North 115' 2" on Island Lot No. 429, South 14' 8" on Cross Street, East 99 feet on Sui Kal Lang, and West g feet on Albany Street. Total. Area 11,378 square feet, and Annual Crown Reat $174.
Dividend Warrants payable at the HONGKONG MONEY advanced on Mortgage, on Land, ALL THAT PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND,
and Buildings.
Properties purchased and sold. Estates Managed and all kinds of Agency and, Commission business relating to land, etc,
& SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on the 16th instant, will be issued to Shareholders on the Register on the 24th August.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company conducted. will be CLOSED from the 10th to the 24th instant; both days inclusive;
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
'General Agents. Hongkong, 31d'August, 1889.
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
DURING the Paris Universal Exhibition of
1889, files of the "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" will be kept at the Office of our. correspondents, Messrs. AMADEE PRINCE & Co., 36, Rue Lafayette, and also at the Pavilion of the Republic of Guatemala in the Exhibition, which may be consulted at any time by visitors from
the Far East.
Subscribers to this journal may have their letters, papers, etc., addressed to the care of Messrs. AMADEE PRINCE & Co., whose services will be placed at the disposal of all Inquirert.
Hongkong, 11th March, 1889.
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FOR SALE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Full particulars can be obtained at the Com pany's Offices, No. 5, Queca's Road Central.
A. SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary,
Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, 3rd May, 1889
THE DAIRY, FARM COMPANY, LIMITED.
(532
OTICE is hereby given that 4,000 SHARES
(New Issue) of Sto each in the above Company are offered to the Public by Tender upon the following conditions,
The Company shall not be bound to accept any Tender unless such Tender be more than 9to per share, All Tenders to be on forms to be obtained from the Company, to be accom. panied by Cheque and to be forwarded in accordance with the instructions contained in the said forms on or before the Twenty-first day of August, 1889. The Tenders will be opened on the following day in the presence of two Directors.
If a Tender be not accepted the amount of cheque accompanying such Tender will be re-
WATERBURY WATCHES, turned,
MARQUIS.
(95*
$3
R. THOMAS EDMUND DAVIES is
MR.
this date.
I
admitted a PARTNER in our Firm from
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co, Hongkong, 1st July, 1889,
NOTICE.
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HAVE This Day Established myself at this Port under the name and Style of PUSTAU
& Co. as MERCHANT & COMMISSION AGENT. →
I have also Opened a Branch House under the same name in Capton,
TH V. PUSTAU. Hongkong, ist August, 1889.
NOW READY..
"THE 'CORNER' IN ROPES."
L963
FULL REPORT in Pamphlet form of the sensational trial, POTTS v. RUSTOM. JEE, together with the History of the # Corner," and other interesting particulats a
To be obtained at Mesir. KELLY & WALSH, LD. Mcasts, LANE, CRAWFORD & COLTEMPA W. BREWER'S ; the HALL & HOLTZ CO-OPERA” |TIVE-Có.; Lỗ. ¡and direct from the Office of
“THE HOMOLONG TELEGRAPH IS SUPE
PRICE .........FIFTY CENTS, Hongkong, 16th July, 1889, :
the Handiest, Cheapest, and "Beat Time-keepers invented.
for each Watch.
Payments to be made as follows: $4 per share on tender, $3, plus the premium, per share PRICE THREE DOLLARS LACH $3 on receiving nolice of Allotment, and the remain-
ing $5 one month after allotment, REPAIRS NEVER EXCEED 50 CENTÍ
The TRANSFER BOOKS will be CLOSED from the 14th to the 21st of August inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
E. W. MAITLAND,
Secretary, Dated the 7th day of August, 1889.
Orders from Outports to be accompanied with Remittance for Cost,
THE MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA, (Sole Agents in Japan and China' for the Sale of the above Watches,)
10, QUIIN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Opposite Marine House. Hongkong, soth August, 1888.
CANTON.
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THE NEW ORIENTAL HOTEL, (FORMERLY THE CANTON HOTEL.), Opposite the Steamboat Company's Wharf,
THIS HOTEL, which has been partially rebuilt and thoroughly renovated, and now offers the best accommodation for tourists and visitors to Canton, will be re-opened on the 20th Instant.
A first class table kept, with WINES, SPIRITS, etc, of the best quality only, and the charges asp extremely moderate.
A WELL FURNISHED BILLIARD ROOM.
AF. DO ROZARIO,
Canton, 11th June 1889.
Manager,
KOWLOON HOTEL
L. C. L. ROUCH............. MANADIK.-
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'NOTICE.
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T. J. COLLACO, 【OUSE AGENT, AUCTIONEER, SHARE
CHANT and Proprietor of the Macao Bath-house. Bathing Tickets for sale until October 31st.
PRICES
Season (for married couples) $2,00 Season (for single persons)......... 1.00 Single Bath......................................................ne 0.10: Towel................... ..... 0.05 Refreshments supplied on Sunday Mornings from 4 to 8 A.M.
15 Cents.
Registered in the Land Office as INLAND LOT No. 429, with 14 Substantial Three- Storied. HOUSES newly erected thereon, and mensuring North is 10" on Mariné Lot No. 116. South r15" 21" on Inland Lot No. 428 Enst 103 feet on Sul Kal Lane, and West 108 feet on Albany Street, Total. Area 12,477 square feet, and Annual Crown, Rent $190.
ALL THAT PIECE or PARCEL of GROUND, Registered in the Land Office as MARINE LOT No. 116, with 11 Substantial Three. Storied HOUSES newly erected thereon, and measuring North 116' 5" Fraya East, South 5' ro" on Inland Lot No. 429, East 101 feet on Sui Kai Line, and West 99 feet on Albany Street. Total Area 11,512 square feet, and Annual Crown Rent $190.
The above Lots are held from the Crown for the Remaining Portion of the unexpired term of 999 years.
The above Lots will be subdivided into 40 lots, which will first of all be put up and after. wards, if necessary, each of the said lots No. 16, No. 428), and No. 42g, or the remaining portions thereof, will be put up as a whole.
For further Particulars of the Property, and Conditions of Sale, apply to
ARTHUR B. RODYK,
Solicitor to Vendor, *2, D'Aguilar Street
or to
C. F. HAYLLAR,
Architect,
or to
G. R. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer,
Duddell Street,
Hongkong, 9th August, 1889,
TO BE SOLD
BY
1957
PUBLIC AUCTION, by Mr. H. N. MODY,
Auctioneer, on
MONDAY,
the 16th August, 1889, at's P.M on the Premises, ALL THAT VALUABLE. LEASEHOLD.
Residential Property situate in Garden Road, Victoria, Hongkong, opposite the Albany and known as "Harperville" and comprising Inland Lot No. 1,atz and Section C of Inland Lot No. 648, with a total area of 19,100 square feet. There is
a good, tennis lawn attached to the [ogo House and the usual servants' quarters. The
premises have a frontage to the Garden Road of. G. FALCONER & CO., 227 feet and the Ground la adapted for building WFACTURERS and JEWELLERS.
AJATCH and CHRONOMETER MÁNU. | a Terrace of Houses theresni. NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
CHARTS and BOOKS, No. 48, Queen's Road Central (742
"REMOVAL
Coffee and Biscuits Macao, 7th August, 1889.
RS. BOHM'S PRIVATE BOARDING
VINE and SPIRITS of the best qualiMRESIDENCE has been REMOVED WENGLISH BAMERICAN BILLIARD
TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS to No. 8 Queen's Road Central, opposite LAWN,
TELEGRAPH OFFICES
Hongkong, 31st January, 18891
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Hongkong, 27th July, 1889.
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The Property is held from the Crown for the residues of two several terms of 999 years each and will be sold subject to the existing tenancy. thereof Particulars and Conditions of sale may: be obtained, and the sale plan, inspected at the Offices of
Meurs, WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors, 35) Queen's Roads
NASZYCH THE AUCTIONEER, Hongkong, sath August, 1859.
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