commenced to make the inquiries at once. I did not see the master then, hat on the following morning. He was the first one from whom I Inquired about the matter. He gave the same account as he has done to-day. He mentioned to me the contractor during the course of bis statement and I sent for him. He gave the same account. To my knowledge there is nothing to make me doubtheir evidence. The whole of the top floor came down on the first.
Mr. Wodehouse then said he wanted a man stationed on the premises on the removal of the property by the Insurance. Company of the contents ofthe top floor, and Jospector Hennessey said that he would place a constable on the spot at that time.
Mr. Naudin-The stock-list I saw was a number of articles to be sold on retail. There was no 'value set on them.
The inquiry was then adjourned until next Thursday at 10 o'clock, or after the premises had been cleared, for further evidence to prove the truth of the first and second witness's statements,
chinese charaCTERÍSTICS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1889.
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Za-dup's Advertisements.
CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS T JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,
VIA
THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY AND OTHER CONNECTING RAILWAY LINES & STEAMERS.
"HE British Steamship
"PARTHIA,"
3.127 Tons Register, Wallace, Commander, will be despatched for VANCOUVER, BC. via KONE & YOKOHAMA, on THURSDAY, the toth October, at Noon.
To be followed by the S.S. "BATAVIA," on the 14th Oct, and S.5. " ABYSSINIA" on the 7th Nov.
Connection will be made at Yokohama with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports, and at Vancouver with Pacific Coast Points by the regular Steamers of the Pacific Coast Steamship Company and other Steamers.
Through Passage Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.
175,00
First-class Fares granted as follows To Vancouver and Victoria...(Mex)$110.00 To all Common Points in Canada Į and the United States.LTEKİN To Liverpool.................................. $20.00 To London..
******, 325.00 To other European Points at proportionate sales. Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Service, and the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be obtained on application.
Entinations.
THE SHARE LIST IS.OPEN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. -
THE HONGAY LIME AND CEMENT
WORKS, LIMITED,
TO BE INCORPORATED UNDER THE COMPANIES ORDINANCES 1o64-1886,
CAPITAL
.....$250,000, DIVIDED INTO 50,000 SHARES OF $S EACH. Pavable $1 on application, $1 on allotment, Balance as required, at one month's notice. One half of the Shares is held by the Directors and their friends and will be allotted in full; the remainder are now offered for public
subscription in
Tonkin
and Hongkong.
DIRECTORS:
msķīmations
NOTIFICATION,
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER ARTILLERY,
J.
“HE drill season of the above Corps. will
Commence on the 1st October.
11. Surgeon CANTLIE will attend at Head Quarters EVERY FRIDAY EVENING at 6 O'CLOCK to inspect any gentlemen wishing to join.
III.
Intending members on passing medical Examination will be enrolled and passed on to recruit drill at once, *-
IV.
Any one who has previously been an efficient member of a Volunteer Corps will not be required to drill until Novembe; but it will be to the
early possible.
A. LIEBARD, Esq of A. R. MARTY, Esq. advantage of all such new members to enrol as H. F. HAYLLAR, Esq, C.E.
C. GRANDJEAN, Esq. CHEONG KAI, Esq.
FUNG WA CHUN, Esq.
LO TSUN HING, Esq.
A. B. RODYK, Esq.
• C. VEZIN, Esq.
* Join after allotment.
BANKERS:
THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK CORPORA- TION, LIMITED.
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*.. SOLICITORS: MessIs. CALDWELL & WILKINSON, Hongkong. P. DEVAUX, Esq., Haiphong.
CONSULTING Engineer, H. F. HAYLLAR, Esq.
GENERAL AGENT ;
Consular Invoices to accompany Cargo des- tined to Points in the United States, should be sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to A. R. MARTY, Esq., Haiphong and Hongkong, Mr. D. E. BROWN, District Freight Agent, Vancouver, B.C.
Freight will be received on board until 4 P.M. on the 9th Oct.
All Parcels must be sent to our Office and should be marked to address in full; and the same will be received by us until 5 PM, the day previous to sailing.
For information as tp Passage or Freight apply to
ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,
'Avents
77 h September 1996
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS. OTICE is hereby given that the Sixteenth Ordinary Yearly MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of the Society will be held. at its Head Office, Hongkong, on THURSDAY. the 10th October next, at NOON, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors together with Statements of accounts for the year 1888. and for the half year ending 30th June, 1889.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Society will be CLOSED from the rot to the 10th October, both days inclusive.
By Order of the Board,
as it will hold, even, at the extreme upper end of its course, where it is so narrow that the smallest boats can birely pass each other. As additional water comes continually, and in ever increasing deluges, it is as we have just remarked wholly impossible for a rivulet lika this to convey such torrents six hundred miles, and then safely turn them over to the over. burdened, Peiho at Tientsin. The result is that during the month of August in each year the banks of the Weiriver, throughout all its devious and extended course, are lined with thousands of anxious villagers watching the rising of the Blonds, which it is well understood will bring ruin somewhere. The long neglec'ed banks are now the oughly guarded with a posse at every paint of danger, and as the waters rise an inch, enrth THE is heaped up with the most reckless prodigality. to the additional height of another inch, or evon two... In many places which have been the scenes of breaks in other years the embankments are double. Sometimes there are villages between these outer embankments and the river. If the banks give way at this point, the wretched villages are put in soak, with no possibility of relief till the waters have gone down in the autumn. The district wholly outside the bank will not allow the villages inside to cat the great plaiN OF CHINA AND ITS RIVERS. the bank and let the waters out. In one case By the Great Plain of China we mean in along the line of the 'canal' a few years since. general terms all that portion of the empire six villages found that they were half drowned which is north of the Yang-tze-kinpg, east of the in a pocket of an embankment of this sort, and mountains that bound the provinces, of Hensa made a vigorous effort to let the waters out and Chib on the west, and south of the The principle on which the officials proceed mountains that separate Chihli from Manchuria. is that water must be allowed to take its Here is a very respectable area, which may be course (jen shui ping in.) But long be roughly spoken of as twenty degrees of Istitude, fore the officials had an opportunity to act, in length, and perhaps ten degrees of longitude the people in the adjacent district arose in force, in width. By examining a good Chinese map, picketed the bank with watchusen and resisted this territory is seen to be traversed by a great all efforts to cut it. This resulted in several variety of streams, all struggling under the battles, in which many lives were lost, and an greatest difficulties to make their way to the sea. interminable inwault which dragged its slow Of a few of the many rivers which occupy this length through many courts, and as the fruit of extensive tract, foreigners know a great deal which many persons got at least heavy damages. too much. Since the introduction of the tele- The case became such a famous one as to give graph and the dispersion of foreigners all rise to .༣ theatrical exhibition, in which the over the interior of these provinces, a great dramatii personae were copies of those in the deal more attention than before has been paid to real case, The exhibition was of course not inundations due to overflows of the Yellow River, given in any village near to the scene of the real Twenty years ago, these occurrences were drama, but for those at some distance it had an scarcely noted, because to foreigners they were interest not to be found in representations of scarcely known. Now, the moment an outbreak events belonging to the T'ang or the Ming occars, the news is telegraphed all over the dynastics. For that matter, however, there is world. Some have an impression that the de- every reason to suppose that just such scenes were enacted in both those dynastics and in al! vastations of the Yellow River have been-un- usually destructive within the past thiny years, others before and after, for the laws of nature but of this there does not seem to be good evid, me tolerably uniform, and the behaviour of the ence. In one of Father Hue's volumes containing Chinese is scarcely less so. Fresh illustrations an account of Catholic Missions, it is incidentally of these principles have been afforded during mentioned that a terrible flood, caused by the the past weeks in north-western Shantung. The 'Grand Canal' has been full to its brim. Yellow River, took place in the year 1703, and that there was such distress that the Emperor Thousands of excited villagers have hung over Kang Hsi took the matter in hand, and turned it the bank, watching every symptom" with over to the priests, who went to work on is syste- most anxious interest, for the f-sues were matic plan which was very commendable. Perhaps almost those of life and death. Each day the this was the first time that foreigners had been water rose, and each night it rose yet more. the agents for giving famine relief in the Celestial The excitement began to reach the point of law- Empire. But because the Yellow River is the leasacas, when about the 20th of August the principal offender among the streams of China, word was passed along that the water was fall- and has, earned the epithet (first bestowed, we ing. If it has gone down an inch at such a believe, by an Emperor) of China's Sorrow, it time, this is held to be an almost infallible sign must not be overlooked that the great plain to that a break has taken place somewhere. For which we have referred is full of Yellow Rivers, such a river to fall even an inch by a normal and that each one is as like to the great prototype process is a difficult feat. Then the people are as a little scorpion is like to its dam. Is the happy, shoulder their shovels, and go back sing, summer, these innocent-looking streams wending to their homes, regardless of the fact that their humble way along in such a modest fashion the three breaks which have occurred, one above that it is hard for a flat-bottomed boat to get any. Liu Ch'ing and two far below it (one on each where. In the early spring, when the snows melt, side of the river) mean destruction to a vast area. the streams are fuller with the proceeds of the We are safe, and that is all that we can look out mountain snows from far off regions. But it is not for In China the governmental providence till late in the summer, or more probably early in that takes care of those who are too ignorant or the autumn, that the real character of the rivers too feeble to care for themselves, is wanting. To
They all have the same defects. appear.
reform the water-ways is prime necessity, but. They are too long, they are too shallow, and when the magnitude of the problem is considered, it is seen to be almost equivalent to the reforma- they have too much water for the area, and besides this, they all flow through a country tion of the empire. And where is the bold man which is too densely populated, and where a that looks for that --N. C. Daily News. disaster is sure to mean actual ruin. What we now hear of the havoc wrought by the Yellow River in only a unnscript on a large scale of what is accurring in many places all the time, during the early autumn months, but on a small scale.........__The_difference is that in the case of the lesser streams we do not hear of the results, and therefore they are unno iced. But there is hardly any year in which, by a careful search in the documenis published in the Peking Garetle, one' cannot satisfy himself that there has been very serious damage entailed by many of these streams. When we consider how very small a part of the ills of this sort are noticed in that journal, and how little la told of what is mentioned, we have an inkling of what the Plain of China must annually suffer from its rivers. These streams are all of them dyked's that is to say, there are earth works along th sides, which are supposed to restrain the water But it is a singular and a universal fact that during the season when these dykes ought to receive the closest attention they get almost none, They are crossed in all directions by roads, and the banks are imperceptibly worn away. When "Nobody seems to desiah a report," continued Brother Gardner, "but I will make one fur de a torrent of water descends, with filtle or no warning, these low places invito an over-dow, bebefit of de club in gineral. All money paid and they receive it. It may not be the into dis club pass de hands of de Secretory, whe business of any particular official to see makes a record an' keeps an account. When he that the roads have been raised, and the pays ober to de Treasurer he takes a receipt, consequence is the flaoding of thousands of De Treasurer passes de cash along to de Finance acres of, excellent land. This has actually Committee, makin' a record an2 takin' a receipt. taken place during the present year, in the case De Finance Committer make a record, an'de of a small channel originally deg for an overflow cash am put in de safe. Dat safe can't be to the Grand Canal. The officials, who were opened onless de three members of the committee doubtless promoted for their success in dealing | are present, each wid his key. De hall am with the work, contrived to execule it in such guarded day an' night by a watchman, who has way as to accomplish no valuable result what orders to shoot any one pusson of de committes over. The channel is too arrow and too shallow, who approaches widin fo feet of de safe. to be of any impor ant use when the foods really De cash is counted an' a balance stricken once come. Another danger to river banks mil over a wɛele, an' dat cash an' dat·balance has to agree the great plain arises from the excavations of to a cent or dar am a row, We her now in bank wild animals, of which there are a variety. They an' in de safe a leetle less than $2000, an' all appear to be of the ground for and badger type, accounts her bin audited and passed as correct and abound in any place which is not liable to
up to date, be disturbed, auch grave-monnds, and river. "De system under which our forces am banks. It seems likely that some of the sudden, taken in, paid out or held may not be as good as destruction of river banks, which appears at the dat of some banks, but up to date we haven't time to be causeless, is in reality due to the subter, lost a penny, an' no one has been branded as a ranean labours of these mischievous quadrupeds. thief or emberter. If dar am any furder in- The insinuating waver find no dificulty in formation wanted, I shall be happy to furnish it. penetrating ready-made apertures, and before Would Brudders Feastock and Cahoots like to any one knows what is going on out of sight, a examine de books an' papers, fur de last nine whole. embankment is ruined, and a fertile | years ?”
LIME-KILN CLUB FINANCES.
THE PRESIDENT EXPLAINS THE SYSTEM OF
KVEPING THE HARD CASH.
N. J. EDF,
Secretary. Hongkong, 27th September, 1889, ·[1195.
Intimations
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
THE KWOON KWAN YEEN CUPS.
J
"SECRETARY AND OFFICE:
J. A. BARRETTO, Esq.
7, D'Aguilar Street, PROSPECTUS..
THIS Company is formed to purchase and THIS
enlarge the Cement Works known as The "Societé Française de Fabrication des Ciments & Chaux "Hydrauliques & Produkts Chimiques du Tonquin" situated at Hongay.
V. Expresses of Drills, etc., will be issued later on.
By Order,
H. T. HAWKINS, Captain, R.A..
Adjutant, Hongkong Volunteer Artillery.
Head Quarters, Hongkong, 16th Sept., 1899.
NOTICE.
[1193
AN INTERIM DIVIDEND for
last six months from 1st March to 31st August, 1989, will be payable at the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK on 1st October prax.
Dividend Warrants to be had at this Office. CRUICKSHANK & Co., Ld.,.
JAS. STEPHEN, Acting General Manager. Hongkong, 24th September, 1889.
KOWLOON HOTEL.
J. C. L. ROUCH...............MANAGER.
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WINE and SPIRITS of the best quality,
ENGLISH & AMERICAN BILLIARD TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS LAWN.
Hongkrop. 21st Janitary, 1880
Masonic.
FITA
LODGE
OF HONGKONG,
No. 618, S.C.
The property is held under a concession from the French Government and is of 60 acres in area with sea frontage and is admirably situated, having an approach where vessels of any size ST. JOHN con anchor easily. There is also a practically inexhaustible supply of lime and other materials requited for cement making on the spot. Coal, the principal item, is to be had near and cheap, As a matter of fact veins of coal have been dis- covered on the property to be purchased by this Company. It may be stated that the Charbon- | HALL, Zetland, Street, TO-MORROW, the 28th nages du Tonquin's property is. Immediately | instant, at 8.30 for P.M. precisely. Visiting
Brethren are cordially invited. opposite that of this Company,
Hongkong, 26th September, 1889. (1189
N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS*
Highly satisfactory reports on the cement and hydraulic lime have been given by the French Government and local authorities here; and these can be seen, at the offices, where samples also ZETLAND may be had, Samples are now being submitted to the Government for approval. Whilst this Cement is considered as good as that supplied by the Green Island Company, as regards cost it is cheaper.
The cost price is $1.25 a cask in Haiphong and $1.50 here. It can be sold in Indo China for about $5.20 a cask and in Hongkong al $3.50.
Without taking into consideration the Hong- kong market, there is consumed in Indo China alone, according to official reports; 22,000 casks per annum.
There are no legal objections to an English
The purchase money has been fixed at $83,000, of which $25,000 is taken in shares.
THE Second Stage of the Second Competi-Company working the concession, with its Head
tion will be shot off TO-MORROW, office in this colony. the 28th instant, at 245 P.M., commencing at goo. Yards. Entries for this Stage clase on FRIDAY next, the 27th instant, at 5 P.M. Entrance Fee 30 cents.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, 21st September, 1889. [8] CHINA AND JAPAN TELEPHONE
COMPANY, LIMITED.
Owing to the embarrasing condition in which the Rev: Fenstock found himself at the close of the last meeting, the members generally predicted that he would never enter Paradise Hail again. They were disappointed, however. He was on hand at the asual hour, his phix wearing the THE serene and self-satisfied expression babitual to it, and he had nothing to say out of the usual line. When the meeting opened, Brother Gardner looked up and down the aisles as if searching for some one, and finally inquired;
"Does any member of dis club desiah a report as to our fansbul standin "?"
No one replied. Penstock had a very innocent look, and Judge Cahoots was busy paring off his corns with a jack-knifẹ almost as long as his arm.
-country is in consequence laid waste. The bais Both the gentlemen named declined with mountaina send down their torrents into the thanks, and the regular order of business was narrow channels, which in a few hours are filled | proceeded with.—Ditroit Free Press.
to the brim. Running water does not flow very swiftly in such insignificant and tortuous chane nels, and it is utterly out of the question for a-Y such water-course to carry off all the water which iv entrusted to it. Each of the rivers which finds an outlet at Tientsin flows through a great stretch of plain, and although the number of affluents is trifling, as discharge pipes for such an extent of country thay are each of them a complete failure. The longest of them all is the most southern, which like all Chinese streams enjoys a great variety of nemenclatore. It in called the Yu-ño, or Imperial river, the Vin- liang-hs or grain-transporting river (though this is also applied to a wholly different water-way in
··Honan, south of the Yellow River); and the **Grand Canal,' though the true Canal ends at Lin Ch'ing, about a thousand If from Tientsio. Still another name for the stream above, the mouth of the real canal is the Wet river, and there are many other local Appellations. From: ¿Tientsin to the head of navigation on this small fiver is a distance of twenty-six Plages, or reckoning saverty is to a stage, more that eighlean handred / When the heavy summer rains come they ßll this river from bank to bank, just as fail
To-day's Advertisements.
STEAM TO MANILA, (VIA AMOY.) THE)
Steamship
ΤΗ
NANZING,"
Captain Thomson, will be despatched as above, on MONDAY, the 30th, instant, at 3 P.M,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Agents Hongkong, 27th September, 1889. (1194
WANTED,
TOR The Hongkong Telegraph, CAPABLE I SHORT HAND REPORTER, who is a smart paragraphist and reliable proof-reader. ✨
Apply with fall particulars; to
COCHEM THE EDITOR
The Hongkong Telegraph.
Hongkong, 31st July 1889
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IST of Subscribers to the HONGKONG
TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.
1.- Hongkong Telegraph " Office, 2.-Cantlie, Dr. J., Queen's Road, Cowie, Dr., Queen's Road.
Hartigan, Dr.. W., Queen's Road. 3-Cantlic, Dr. J., Victoria Peak. 6,---C. & J. Telephone Co., Ld. 7-Poesnecker, L., Robinson Road. 8.-Amhold, Karberg & Co. 9.-Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. To-Chater and Vernon.
11. Peak Hotel & Trading Co., Queen's Road, IZ.-"Daily Press," 13.-Russell & Co.
*
14.-E. E. A. and China Telegraph Co., Ld. IS-Central Police Station. 16.---Watson & Co., A. S., Ld, 17.-Douglas Lapraik & Co. 18.-Butterfield and Swire. 19.-P. & O. Steam Navigation Co. 20.-Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co, Ld: 21-Cruickshank, Wm., Pedder's Street, 22-China Mali."
23-Jordan, Dr. G., P., Pedder's Street. 24-Hongkong and China Gas Co, Ld... 25.-H. & W. Dock, Aberdeen. 16.-Alice Memorial Hospital. 27-Holliday, Wise & Co. 28.-Holliday, F., Victoria Peak
I z-Peak Hotel,
29- Peak Hotel &Trading Co., Craigieburn, 30-Chine-Borneo Co., Ld, Steam Saw Mill 31.-Gibb, Livingston & Co. 32.—The Hongkong Hotel, Public Telephone 33-Hancock, W. St. John H., C.E. 34-Cruickshank, Wm., Victoria Dispensary. 3.-Brodie, W., Residence. 36-Ab Yon & Co., &c, Fraya Central. 39-Mackintosh, E., Residence, 40.-The Bomeo Co., Ld.. 41.-Adamson, Bell & Co, 43.-Dodwell, F.
43-Jordan, Dr. G. P., Residence.
44-Government House.
45-Hughes & Ezra,"
46.-Belilios & Co,
47-Belilios, E. R., Kingsclere,
48.- Do. Victoria Peak, 49--Carlowitz & Co.
50.The Imports and Exports Office, $1-Morris & Ray, 52-Layton, B., Residence. 33-Judd, Walter, Victoria Peak. 54-Webber, J. F.
$5. Hartigan, Dr. W., Residence, 36--Victoria Hotel, Public Telephone, 59,-Soy Sing.
-60.-Dakin Broș, of China, Ld.
61. —Stevens & Co., Gen. R.
63, ndaj Residence.
Subscription to Exchange $80 per Annum.
This includes a large stock of raw material, coal, cement, lime and bricks. Should the Company at any time Increase its capital, one fully paid up share la added to the purchase money for every ten shares issued. With the present capital the Company will be able to turn out 50,000 cals of cement a year, as well as hydraulic lime, fire bricks &c., in large quantities, The following contracts have been entered
into :-
(1) Contract dated 27th July 1889 between C. VEZIN of the one part and ARTHUR B. RODYK of the other part.
(z) Contract dated 6th August 1889 between ARTHUR B. RODYx of the one part and J. A. BARRETTO 4 Trustee on behalf of the Company of the other.
These together with the Memorandum and Articles can be seen at the Solicitor's office.
Applications for shares must be made on the printed form, and forwarded to the Bankers where share forms may be obtained) together with the amount payable on application.
Hongkong, 20th September, 1889. [1169
SHOOTING GALLERY,
T No. 35, Wellington Street, under the
A UNION CLUB.
Opened from 10 AM. to 3 P.M., and from 3 to
13 P.M.
Hongkong, 9th September, 1889,
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MESON'S PRIVATE BOARDING
RESIDENCE will be in future conducted under the name of WINDSOR HOUSE.
WINDSOR HOUSE HONGKONG, No. 8. Queen's Road Central, PRIVATE BOARD
And FAMILY HOTEL
AND RESIDENCE,
|
This establishment is situated in a most central position, opposite the Telegraph Office and two doors from the Chartered Bank. It offers first class accommodation to Residents and | Travellers, has a spacious Dinning Room, and a large umber of well furnished bed rooms with all comforts. A good table kept.
Table d'hote-Breakfast, 8, 10 AM; Tiffin, IP.M.; Dinner, 7.30.
Board by the month, day, or single meals, at reasonable rates.
✓ Arrangements can be made to gervo nienis in gentlemen's quarters.
Continental languages spoken,
MRS. BOHM, Proprietrix. Hongkong, 28th August, 1889.).
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NOTICE,
NG SUI-SHANG begs to announce Mthat in compliance with a suggestion
made to him by Mr. MITCHELL-INNES, he has now opened an AGENCY for the supply of CHAIR: COOLIES at 4, Gough Street, 1st Floor, and in prepared to supply them on the conditions and at the råter mentioned in Mr. Mitchell-Innes' circular, copies of which can be had on applicar tion to the Agency. He trusts that the Agency may be the of putting an end to the sent unsatisfactory, Mate of affairs by supplying
Subscribers will oblige by Correcting their Masters with Good Coolles; and at the same
Lists accordingly.
A. SANDFORD,
Hongkang, 8th April, 1885,
No. 525:
LODGE,
A REGULAR MEETING of the above
Auctions,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
No,'401.
"OVERNMENT Notification No. 391 of the Get is hereby, cancelled, and the following is substituted in lieu thereof.
By Command,
ARATHOON SETH, for the Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, 21st September, 189. (1156 Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be held on MONDAY, the 30th day of September, 1889, at 4.30 PM., by Order of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government; of One Lot of CROWN LAND, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 999 Years.
The Government reserves the right of way through this Lot as shown on the plan.
No. 1,219
Tramway... 20x 253
116
128
25,995
120
5,199
Sale.
No.
Registry
Locality.
S.
fect. feet feet.
feet
Inland Lot
diately East of the Road and imme South of Kennedy:
$
$
N.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
Boundary Measurements. Contents in Annual Upset
W. Square ft. Rent. Price
Insurances.
£1,000 STC. Payable at Age 55, or
at death if previous (even if that event occurs during the first twelve months)-may
be secured by a payment at the rate of 1-
per quarter commenced at age
(o. b.)
named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS £7 HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY NEXT. | £ 8–14 the 1st October, at 8.30 for 9 PM. precisely.10 I Visiting Brethren are cordially invited,
£3 Hongkong. 26th September, 1889 [1190 £17 15 27 12
To be Let.
TO BE LET.
2.
6
2
4 1024va2+<pa
G
..25
35
FTER the Policy has been three years in A force-should the Policy-holder wish to
discontinue future payments-he will be entitled to receive on application a Free Paid-up Policy
IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE on Cuing for proportionate amount of absurd at us after
Road, a large well-furnished; room with Bath-room attached.
Terms moderate,
Address
A. B, C.,
c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 26th September, 1889. (1191
TO LET.
WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
For instance a man who had at 45, fire year's payments would be entitled to a Paid- up Folicy for £soo free of future payments as explained in Prospectus.
Note-It is an advantage to effect Provisions | of this nature early in life. By delay the rate of | subscription increases; Death may occur before the Provision is effected, or Health may fail and render the life ineligible for Assurance,
THE BORNEO COMPANY, LIMITED.
Agents,
TO. 4. QUEEN'S GARDENS, Rent $90 810-2] No Taxes
Apply to
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G. C. ANDERSON, 13, Praya Central. Hongkong, 4th June, 1899. TO LET.
FROM 1st August, 1889, either with or with
out Machinery, the Company's spacious GODOWN and YARD at Bowrington known as the Hongkong Steam Laundry Company, (Limited)."
A. O'D. GOURDIN, Manager. Hongkong Steam Laundry Co., (Ld.) Hongkong, 24th July, 1889.
gab
THRE
TO BROKERS 'AND OTHERS.
·PHREE ROOMS TO BE LET in VICTORIA BUILDINGS, on Ground Floor, and 'with separate entrances, at $45 a month each,
Apply to
ARTHUR B. RODYK, *, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong, ayth August, 1889.
(1055
THE
TO LET,
STANDARD LIFE OFFICE.
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877
..IN HAMBURG. THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS · against "FIRE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, ist July, 1889.
GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE: ASSURANCE COMPANY IN
LONDON.
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*HE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Company, are pre- pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE and LIFE at Current Rates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & Co. Hongkong, 1st July, 1889.
NOTICE,
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"HE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
THE
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED......................$1,000,000,
TOP FLOOR of the premises in ICR The above. Company is prepared to accept. HOUSE LANE belonging to the Hongkong | MARINE RISKS at CURRENT RATES on GOODS,
Ice Co., Limited, suitable for Offices, Possessione. Folleles granted to all Parts of the world
payable at any of its Agencies.
on 1st October, next,
Apply to the Manager at the Depot or to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co,
General Managers, " Hongkong, 27th August, 1889.
(1069
TO LET,
ROOMS in "COLLIOR CHAMBERS.
No. „ SEYMOUR TERRACE.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. *** Hongkong, 20th September, 1889. T13
TO BE LET.
THIRD FLOOR No. Disddell Street, containing 4 large light and airy rooms, 2 small rooms, and a bathrooms; Gas and Water fald on. possession.
Rent $70 per month. Immediate
Apply to
B.," c/o Hongkong Telegraph Office. Hongkong, 11th July, 1889.
[869
TO LET.
TOUSE No. 1, Surra's VILLAS? Maga- sing Gap, a spacious five roomed HOUSE,
basement and outhouse, excellent view
time affording the latter regular employment Expected to be ready 1st August pert.
with
Nill The Agency will also be prepared to: supply Jinsickalia and House: Coolies if desired.
Hongkong, 28th August, 1889,
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Apply today andy A. BLACKHEAD & Co. Hongkong, and July, 1889, 12 walked Was
WOO LIN YUEN
Secretary,
HEAD OFFICE, No. 4, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST, Hongkang, 1st February, 1882.
· · GENERAL NOTICE: THE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, (LIMITED.) CAPITAL TAELS 600,000; } $833.333-33 $118,000.00,
EQUAL TO 1997** RESERVE FUND.
· BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
LEE SING, Esq. sta LOU TWO SHUR, Esq.
Lo YEUX MOON, Esq.
MANAGER.—HO ‘AMEL,"
MARINE GOODS, AG,
at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
world.
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST, Hongkong, 17th December, 1885.00),(1091)
G. FALCONER & CO., VATCICTURERS ON JEWELLERS.
and CHRONOMETER MANU.
NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, "CHARTS and BOOKS, No. 48, Queen's Road Central [742
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