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necessary, we took up our guns, and getting all our servants on deck to make a great show of strength as possible, awaited the result of this move. Fortunately for us it was successful, and go to our great joy the junks turned on their heels-I don't know what the equivalent nauli cal expression would be-and left us to pursue the remainder of our trip in peace. The pirates, seeing we were prepared to fight, and fearing that they might be drawn furiber up the river than was consistent with their own safety, pro- bably conclude the game was not worth the candle. If we had fallen in with them an hour Booner, we might have had a different tale to tell, ns, soon after, some of our missionary friends who were on the island with us, and who scouted the idea of danger from there fellows, were captured by them. while on their way back to Ningpo, and plundered of all their belongings, besides being subjected to most ignoininous treatment. On reaching Shanghai we found we had been objects of great solicitude to the community, as we had overstayed the time we had intended to be abrent, and it was feared we had either. been wrecked in the typhoon which had occurred, er fallen into the clutches of the pirates, who it was known had returned from the north. Indeed, a gunboat was about being despatched to search for us, and was sent out a day or two after, when news of the mishap which had befallen the missionaries reached here."W. S. Wetmore," in N. C. Daily

News,

CHUNGKING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1890.

the wrinkled, square toed, and not-too-highly And then they looked at each disfend boots other. Involuntarily their tongues crept into their cheeks, and they stealthily exchanged winks. If they had given expression to their thoughts in words, they would bave joined in a chorus of "He's a deep one that-on for busi- ness,"

Mr. Uilick looked round. ""Good evening. Ren- tlemen," he said in a thick voice, and He smiled, or rather distended the corners of his mouth. showing a horrible double row of blackened grinders, apparently well worn and blunted by a constant grip en pipe stems. "Wh t'you have? It's dry weather this. Very warm," he added, raising his soft hat by the crow, and extracting a farming ted spun-silk banana, with which he mopped his hend. "Something short, shall I say, gentlemen ?" The riding fraternity #gain exchanged glances, there was no doubt of it they were all agreed there was something on. As Dumpy said to little Snuffle afterwards:"1 was sattin that old cove was a knowing one, and wasn't here for nothing: hut who'd have thought he'd have played that game! Iam blessed I

He wasnot, as it happened. Dumpy was wrong; he was not, blessed, but most terribly cursed in' the sequel; but I am anticipating. Strong whisky cocktails seemed to meet the geneal demand, and after their consumption the coldness and suspicion which Mr. Ullick's appearance first gave rise to gradually wore off ander the mellowing influences of the spirit.

"That'il be a race worth winning," he sold in an absent manner,

"Which is that ?" queried Snaffle.

"It's a toss up between that horse of the Crashers, what's his oame'? and the Canterers mare Cosette," said D. mpy, "that's why, I suppose, there are only two starters rest scratched

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

"Oh, the Pitcher Stakes, only three starters January 31st.

four hundred rupee stakes, and three lotteries On Sunday maning, January 26th, Bishop worth in all 3,500 rupees. Worth pulling off," Coupat, the Catholic bishop resident in Chunghe added musingly, 'Nearly 120 to : chance king, passed away. He had been in poor health against my little horse. for about a year, and a severe fit of coughing brought on a hemarthage from which he died. He was in his 48th year, and had been bishop eight years. His body lay in state for a day or two preceding the burial many taking advantage of the opportunity to view the remains. He was widely noted for his prudence and sagacity, an had managed the affairs of the mission with masked ability,

An interesting incident of the bishop's early life is worthy of note. Once while on his way up the river the bont in which he was making the voyage was wrecked in the great fin d'an, and a fellow priest sank in the stream. Being a good'swimmer, Père Coupat instantly plunged into the torrent in the endeavour to save him. The effort was in vain. His com; anion wis drowned, and he himself ame very near sharing

no good wasting beponies for nothing, and spoiling them for the other events. Three starters make a race, no it'll be run right enough,"

"Any of you free for that race?" Ulick enquired indifferently, "I'll give fifly rupees to the man tha ride my little hoise Grampus."

Fifty rupees for a mount in a sky meeting was not to be merzed at; bu the jockeys wouldn' bite. Again they scanned their tempter, and again the farrive wink went round. Something up." they sensoned. "We'll keep cut of it. Not good enough, so early in the season, ton fle's a deepone, he is!"

Entinations.

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Hongkong, 17th February, 1890.

Entimations.

HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

EX

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ORDINARY MEETING of the Com- pany will be held at the Company's Office, No. 14, Praya, Victoria, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 3rd March, 1890, at 3 P.M., when the follow- ing Resolutions will be submitted:;-

That the Company do barrow from the Hongkong. Land Investment and Agency Company Limited, the sum of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars, bearing interest at the rate of Seven, dollars per cent. per Annum, for such a period on such terms and conditions and to be secuted in such a manner as the. Company's Directors shall think fit, and that for that purpose the said Directors' do cause all necessary deeds or documents to be daly executed.

TO-NIGHT!! 2.-That, at the end of Article No. 11 of the Company's existing Articles of Association, 'there be added the following words, with the following marginal note, that is to say, Limit on holding

No Shareholder, whether an in- dividual, Firm, Company, or Car- poration, shall be entitled to hold at any one time more that: One thousand Shares.

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LODGE,

the same fate. He was carried about two miles caricature of hum nity, with legs and arms.the quite relieved à his ten rupees were safe, And Thomes with lifeboats propelled by the reaction named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS'

down stream before he was picked up, in an almost exhausted condition. The result was n severe cold and serious lung trouble for a year: or two. It seems probable that his lungs had never become fully strong-since

.

Ever since the flot here the Catholic mission. aries have been living in rented quarters. Hor. ever, during the last year or two they have been gathering material, and the rebuilding of their burned residences is progressing rapidly.

During the last nine days of the Chinese yeir the four Protesiant missions here held union native meetings. Much good is believed to have been done thereby, and the meetings are likely to become an established institution.

The London and the Friends' missions have not been here long enough to report memben, but the China Inland and the Methodist missions are having grallying success in their work. They have together about 100 members and adherents, the number having about doubled during the year.

And so the Kuling is no more I pray you pause, dear friends, That we may turn aside and weep a little space. After having been kept oscillating between hope and despair for two

This was alamming, and the quotation was tubbed from the board. A few minutes after- words, when Mr. Bowles timidly, a ten-spee note crushed in his hand, whispered, "Gram- pus, what adds he received the answer, A small riding boy, a little black monkey, a

"Can't do it, sir, book midc Poor Bowler felt

thickness of an ordinary man's thumb clad in

now he could talk of his uansections in the casicus linen breeches and gaiters, and old disbitering as well as the lottery table to his C.rded button-boots to which were attached a admiring and envious brother second lieute pair of rusty spurs, the whole fragile dirty edifice pants. crowned by a gunner's forage cup embellished by bazaar lace, was slouching in the shade of the doorway, and had evidently been drinking in the conversation, for his eyes twinkled when he heard the offer of the mount refused. If he

could only get the chance 1

Mr. Ullick was too much of a politician to press matters Whatever his game was, he bad no intention of showing his hand just then. "Well, good night, gentlemen," he said, draining his plass, and replacing his villanously greasy hat carefully or his head. "It's getting lale. Hope we'll have good sport to-morrow," and he chuckled involuntarily.

It was barely audible, but his audience heard it, and they wagged their heads maudlinly and sententiously, as he left the room. Snaffles first broke the silence. He's a deep one that,” he

hiccuped out. A sentiment Dumpy emphasised | by solemnly expectorating on the floor, and viciously picking his teeth with the straw of a Trichy.

M. Ulick sported much the same get-up as he had worn at the lotteries the previous evening, with the exception that a large courier bay ws suspended across his shoulder. Any one loo ing chastly would have noticed that the strap appeared very much strained and evidently had to support a considerable weight, But no one paid particular attention to him, and the courier bag passed unremarked. Tang, tang, rings out the noisy bell-they are weighing out, Grampus's jo key, as his master predicted, had to carry a precious lot of weight, but by means of sufficiently large pockets the lead was duly Grampus's girths as the horse was approaching stowed away. Mr. Ullick pressed close to

the paddock gate, and.a keen observer might have seen him transfer from his person aundry pieces of lead to the saddle cloth.). Curious you think, shrugging your shoulders, can't be afraid of wasting in that thing in jockies. Knows his awn business no doubt, and you pass on.

Grampus as he went past the grand stand in a

years, we are now plunged into the depth of the curiosity and speculations he had oribuse ungainly canter caused considerable amuse-

almost impenetrable gloom.

To think that money could have bought that noble vessel, which had been sacredly devoted to the purpose of opening West China to a world's commerce Surely another steamet will be built (we hope a better ans). Surely the commercial interests are strong enough to com- pel attention to their demands. Is the English man so easily outwitted in diplomacy and to readily intimidated in a game of bluff ?. C. Daily News.

The "deep one," impervious or unconscious ginated, stumbled down the steps of the verandah into the darkness of the night. "It's on," he muttered to himself, "fairly on, don't see how it can miss. Pity that lad of mine is laid up, must get hold of somebody to ride who ain't too parti cular. They are a nice soft lot," he continued turning round and looking sneeringly into the Club House where the soft ones, regardless of the scathing criticism that was being passed on them, were di igently endeavouring to transfer 'rupees in their neighbour's pockets from their QUEER TALES OF OUR STATION. Own. "A fine lot of pigeons; them, to pluck,

THE HITCHER STAKES

!

Yes, I think I'm safe enough if I only had my Boy on his legs again.”*

"You want riding-boy, sahib ? I very good "Twelve hundred rupees in the lottery and boy, sir," interrupted our little brown friend, who Grampus for sale! Now, gentlemen, any bid bad been lying in wait behit d the shades of the for Grampus? Can't stay here all night. That door. "You want good bry, sir, I ride Kingston well-known horse Grampus." There was a sabib's hyne, win race for master. murmur round the room. "What's Grampus? "You're one of Kingston's boys, are you Who does he belong to?" "Here you are," said Ullick, regarding tim, suspiciously with his says the auctioneer, reading fom his card of | keen litk eyes, "If you are as knowing as enhits. "Grampus, bay, country-bred hore, your master, you'll do. If Kingston were bere 133, property of Mr. Ullick" "Who's Mr. I'd bet he'd twig, but he'll have no use for Ullick was the general shout. In our station, you now Jexpect, for some time." Kingston had been warned off for raping, and the old rascal chuckied to himself.

Master, I do anything master wishes," replied

the little imp.

ment and derision. All the race officialı had

ushed in the railing to see the race. I was known to be'a neck and neck business between the Canterers and the Crashers, and much money had been laid on the result. The bookies" forsook their packing cases, the clerk of the scales was talking eagerly to the judge in his box, all had left the paddock except Mr. Ullick. There was a shout "They are off." He gave one hurried look and dived into the weighing-room, and almost immediately re-appeared closing the snap of his courier bag.

It was a race; such a race as our station has not seen for many a long day. Neck and neck tame the two favourites down the straight, men and horses straining every nerve and muscle. The Canterers win? The Crashers! There

was a roar of excitement as the horses dished passed the box. Grampus, whom no one noticed, came in some twenty lengths behind; his dirty little fockey sitting crouched in his saddle like a monkey on a rail. UP went the numbers-a dead heat! This was unsatifactory, the match would have be ridden off again, and so it was, but that in outside my story,

"How long they are weighing in! What's going on in the paddock? The stewards are leen rushing to the weighing-room.

And then the story leaks out. The favour

we all know each other, and a stranger at our meetings, well frequented though they are, is

"I am Ullick," said a short very rare. thick-set man, with a brown beard, keen eyes that looked furtively beneath' shaggy eyebrows, and a general appearance of cross between a traveller în seeds or manures in the old country, and an Australian here dealer. "I am Ulick," he repeated, pusblog bimself forward is the table and looking round | sumjowad" defiantly, "and that horse Gumpun is mine." The samjowing process was carnest and "Oh I remember," chimed in our sporting lengthy, and appareatly when they parted, subaltem, who was generally locked upon as su master and man had arrived at a distinct under oracle in these matters in our station, and whose standing, although the former looked rather horsey proclivities were undeniable. "I remen- dubicusly at the frightened and anxious ap. ber-saw you up on the course this mornlag:|pearance of his young accomplice. "He'll funny-looking bute of a hone your's, goose run straight," he muttered "till I am gone any rumped, cow hocked, ewenecked and a glasseye how. Gad he knows I'd wring his neck The weights must be wrong,"

"Yes, you'll do," mused Ullick, "but the weight you'll have to carry a terrible lot. Ates have been disqualified-lbs. underweight, lot of lead wanted to square you. I'll try you, and the race is given perforce to the despised you young ruffian. Come here," he added, Grampus. In vain the clerk of the scaleranserts raising his voice threateningly, "come and be he was most careful that no mistake could have

been made.

Stewards, owners, riders, backers, all rush to the committee-mom to lodge fatile objections, and to discuss with much heat and anger the untoward dinguement. Only Mr. Ullick-he remains impassive, close, to the door of the weighing room. It is empty. He darts it, and reappears closing his bag as before.

was the

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time of vessels pissing through the Suez Canal The electric lights have redused, the average

from 37 hours 57 minutes to 22 hours 32 minutes. Edinburgh will be a working ship railway in A novel feature of the coming exhibition in which the vessel will be immersed in water while upon the car.

No. 1026.

REGULAR MEETING of the above-

22nd instant, at 8.30 for 9 O'CLOCK precisely Hall, Zetland Sirect, THIS EVENING, the

Hongkong 22nd February. 1990 1322

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED:

FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY.

In the chest air subjected to test for the THE Company's Steamship causes which produce the dimming effect of haz there were about 34,000 dust particles found in each cubic inch.

•

It is said that 10 per cent, of ainm, sdded to plaster of Paris while being burned, renders it as hard as marble on setting, and capable of taking a fine polish.

mis the rods to move freely within it, is simple The new metalle packing for piston rada per-

and strong, and may be removed and taken to pieces with ease.

introduced in the shape of a device consisting of A color test for railway employes has been a revolving series of colored glasses lighted from behind by a flame and tinted like the lamps of the signal boxes,

In tanning by electricity the ordinary tan liquid is employed, and the hides revolve slowly through it, while the current from a dynamo traverses the vat and helps the tannin to com. bine with the gelatine of the skin.

Experiments with a new explosive called ecrasite, which is to dynamite as one hundred to | sevenly, have recently been made in Austria, and are said to hate succeeded so well that the invention has been purchased for military pur.

·poses exclusively.

The German naval authorities are said to have been making experiments låtely, with a torpedo boat built of compressed paper. The vessel is eleven feet long, and was found to show great strength, and more elasticity when rammed by

another boat.

Iran rails, said to be the largest ever manu- factured, have been turned out by the Phoenix Roll Works of Pitsburg. They weigh 92.000 pounds, are 142 inches in length and measure 48 inches in diameter. They were made for the Cambria Iron Works.

When Sir J. Herschel was defending the character of astronomical science in view of an

emer of nearly 4,000,007 miles in estimating

the sun's distance, the correction was shown

to apply to an enor of observation so small as to be equivalent to the apparent breadth of a human hair at a distance of 125 feet.

To place telephone wires under the ground and maintain the same efficiency as in overhead lines would require an insulation on each wire of over two feet in thickness. Instead of getting fifty pairs of wires into a three-inch pipe, as at present, a tunnel occupying half the street would be required for one cable alone.

"DIAMANTE,"

Captain G. Tayler, will be despatched for the above Ports, on MONDAY, the 24th instant, at 4 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

RUSSELL & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 2nd February, 1890.

FOR SHANGHAI,

THE Steamship

at 4 P.M.

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"YANGTSZĘ," Caplain C. W. Tönningsen, will be despatched for the above Port, on MONDAY, the 24th inst,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SIEMSSEN & Ca. Hongkong, zznd February, 1890.

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FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA. THE Steamship

"ALBANY,"

Captain Porter, will be despatched for the above Ports, on MONDAY, the 24th inst., at 3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

ADAMSON, BELL & Co., Agents. Hongkong, aand February, 1890.

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shares

3.That Article No. 49 of the Company's existing Articles of Association, with its marginal note, be cancellet, and that in lieu thereof the following Article and marginal note be inserted, that is lo, say, Number of vote

ta which share.

[491-Every Shareholder (if duly holder entitled, registered for ne month previous to the Meeting at which he claims to vole but not otherwise), shall, have one vote for each share up to' ten and one vote for every complete additional number of ten shares. 4-That immediately after the Company's next Ordinary Half-yearly Meeting, Article No. 93 of the Company's existing Articles of Association be cancelled, and that in lieu thereof the following be inserted :-

"No Person shall be eligible to the Office' of Director unless he be the holder of at least fifty shares."

By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. GILLIES, Secretary. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1890. (316

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED. NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

ORDINARY. YEARLY MEETING THE SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company No. 14. Prays Central, on MONDAY, the 24th inst., at 3.10 P.M.; for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1889.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the roth to the 24th instant, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. GILLIES, Secretary Hongkong, 1st February, 1890.

NOTICE.

THE STEAM LAUNCH COMPANY,

LIMITED.

1890, at 4 P.M.

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NOTICE TO. CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP "ALBANY," FROM

NEW YORK.

ONSIGNEES of Cargo are requested to

send their Bills of Lading to the Under. THE SECOND ORDINARY MEETING of the Company will be held at the Hong- signed for countersignature and to take im-kong Hotel, on TUESDAY, the 25th February, mediate delivery of their goods from alongside. Cargo impeding the discharge of the Steamer will be at once landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will be effected. in immediately.

All claims against the steamer must be sent

ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1890. Faro

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the ruth to the 25th inst both days inclusive. By Order,

A. G. GORDON & Co., Ltd.,

Managers. Hongkong, toth February, 1890. [271 CHINA SUGAR REFINING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. TSHAREHOLDERS is the above *HE Twelfth Ordinary Annual MEETING NFORMATION has been received from the Company will be held at the Office of the Military Authorities that ARTILLERY General Agents, Pedder's Street, on THURS PRACTICE will take place from Lyemun Cen of receiving a Report from the General Agents, DAY, the 6th March, at 11.30A.M., for the purpose tral Battery, between the hours of 9 am. and ap.m., daily, (SUNDAYS and THURSDAYS with a Statement of Accounts to the 31st excepted), from MONDAY, the 24th instant,.

December, 1889.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the 'Company fire will be in a North Easterly direction from the Battery; also on TUESDAY, next, the 15th 6th March, both days inclusive. instant, from Kowloon West Battery, between the hours of 3 p.m. and 6 pm, in a Westery direction from, the Battery

on the near side" The man nodded, that's and throw him down the nearest well if he gener drelsion; but how about Grampus's goin desh and strength upon it is very wonderful.. until MONDAY, the roth proximo, the line of \ will be CLOSED from the s1st February to the

him." "Well, gentlemen, "Impsilently shouted the auctioneer, Here's the owner of Grampus, and you have heard the description of the noble animal. Now, then, how much for Grampas? Going to the drawers-once, twice." "Five rupees, chimes a little voice from the further end of the room, and a youth in a white shell Jacket, looked up the table and then cast his eyes down, his face suffused with blushes at having Attracted so much attention, "You naughty boy," said a brother officer chaffingly "if you gamble in this reckless way I shall have to write to your governor." "Traive hundred and five rupees in the lottery," angs out the auc- tioneer, no bids? "Tea rupees, muttered Mr. Dilick, edging his way close tothe forum. "Now then, Bowles," abouts the presiding genius to the blushing youth,not going to plunge any further ? "Bowles smiled inmely and "shook his head. “No advance on ten rupees -once twice, gone."

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dared, that's sure, and he swore deeply and strongly, and turning on his heels, he plunged into a ticca ghari, and was drivin home to dream of the next day's work,

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rider? He weighed the same, both out and in. Bother Grompusi test the weights. The weights were tested and found absolutely correct No use, nothing can be done. The bagman slips off with his boy and bis pony and duly receives his winnings. Our honomy secretary, some three months afterwards, received the following letter dated from a settlement in New South Wales :--

The fates were kind to our monsoon meet. ing, A heavy shower of rain had fallen during the night, and the atmosphere, considering the time of the year, was cool and pleasant. The Course itself was a Bille stiff, but then, that

Dear Sir, I am much obliged to your station was to be expected and had been discounted In backing our fancies. The grand stand was for the handsome way they put me on my legs very full. The male element of course predo. at your Monsoon Meeting, and I write, from a minated; but there was a sprinkling of ladies feeling of gratitude, to wars you how it was who, if they lacked colour in their cheeks, done-in case another chum comes round, See endeavoured to compensate for its want by I changed the 8-stone weight for one I had brilliantly trimmed hat and gay sunshades and weighing albs, under, after the weighing out. gowns. The refreshment tents of the regiments After the weighing in, when you all went shout- and batteries of our station were there vying ing to the steward's room. I just did the swop with each other in their attractive hospitality, again. Of course, I made my boy albi, over Two bookles,” who, seemed to be doing a fair weight before he went on the course. And there business, were present shouting the odds with I was I hope to be able to send you a sum of

in this find are not the loudly clad brazen- which 1. should like called the “Gampus throated gentry of the old country! They Stakes "catch weights, Write me here.-I present here a sober and respectable appearance, am, yours truly, Abraham Vllick. and might easily be mistaken for members of This letter was laid before a specially con oar judicial bench, or some equally sober branch vered meeting of the stewards of our Station of officialdom.

race meetings, and it was unanimously resolved that no notice be taken of Mr. Ullick's letter, and that every effort be made to keep secct the facts therein Garated, as tending to bringridicule on them-the stewards. This motion was carried

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Grampus was the last hone on the list, and such energy as they could master, "Bookies"money by your next meeting to found a cup,MEETING of the MEMBERS of the

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the paper was closed. Again the merry dice railed and our station's gamble went on far into the early hours of the moning, and no one thought more of the bagman and his pony. Was It not a certainty for Cosette or Twistergus, Why, they had been sold for two hundred and fifty and three hundred rupees aplece, and the owners The great race was the Pilcher Stakes bad claimed ball, Mr. Ullick, on registering his “Fity to one bar iwo," our bookies" were bid, slipped off quickly to the bar, where one or shouting Even money about. Cosette and that two jockeys were doing their chances for the horse of the Crashers-the Lord alone knows morrow, by quafileg unlimited quantities of very what they call it,”.“Fifly to ons: Grampus." sem. con. Unfortunately some of the stewards highly coloured brandies and sodas, and paling : “I'll take you,” said our old friend of the pre-were married men, and as the story leaked out mas it is to be hoped they never pulled on a courie, vious evening quietly, "What in sir?” said the perhaps it is better under these circumstances at the huge coirsely-smailing vegetable which clerk of the pendi...“ Filles,”; “Cash, sir," - that it should be made public as a warning: to passes muster for tobacco in our Eastern Empire. He wasn't the sort of cust, to book, "Twenty all stewards and honoraty secretaries of race They eyed the new comer furtively, from the black five to one, Grampus," the betting was coming meetings, and in particular to their clerks of the selt leli hat, dows the ill-fitting white clothing so | down. "I'll take that too," quoth the owner, | scales-Morning Post

GENERAL CLUB, advertised to be held on MONDAY, the 24th inst, will not take place.

By Order,

C. H. GRACE,

Secretary. Hongkong, aand February, 1890, 1334

TO LET, AT THE PEAK.

"REGGAN": formerly cocupled by T

Jackson, Esq.

For one year from sat May, 1890.

Apply to

PLARNOLD, KARBERG & Co. Hongkong, aand February, 1890,

cautioned to keep clear of the range.

All Ships, Juoks, and other Vessels aro

By Command,

W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary. Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, aand February, 1890 1332 HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

THE

THE DIVIDEND declared for the half-year ending 31st December last at the rate of £1.10, together with a BNUS of 10 per Share of $125, are Fayable on and after MONDAY, the 24th day of February current, at the Offices of the Corporation, where Shareholders are requested to apply for Warrants,

By Order of the Court of Directors,

G. E. NOBLE Chief Manager. Hongkong, 22nd February, 1890, 1333

ZETLAND

No. 535.

LODGE

A REGULAR MEETING of the abor

A LODGE will be neid in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the 3rd Maich, at 8.30 for 9, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited, "

Hougkong, azad Fobruary, 1890,'

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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., General Agents. Hongkong, 14th February, 1890. [293 LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,

LIMITED. NOTICE.

THE

~HE-Eighth Ordinary Annual MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above Com- pany will be held at the Office of the General | Agents, Pedder's Street, on THURSDAY, the 6th March, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the General Agents, with a State- ment of Accounts to the 31st December, 1889.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st February to tha 6th March, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, General Agents. Hongkong, 14th February, 1990. [294 MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ·

ASSOCIATION,

UNTIL the NEW PREMISES are ready the

above named Institution will be carried on at Nos. 3, 4, and 6, High Street, above the Government Civil Hospital.

Good Accominodation for M. M. Officer.

Terms Moderate,

JAS. EDWARDS,

Proprietor.

A. CLARKE, Teacher of Officers and Engineers.

bak. Above Address. Hongkong, and September, 1889.