Entimations. DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS.
Selections from our Wine and Spirit List -
"SCOTCH WHISKY,
The finest quality obtainable, guaranteed 7 years old.
Per bottle $1, dozen $to.
COGNAC,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890.
Barendas was supposed to have taken refuge ia Manila, and to request that he be arrested and detained on a criminal charge, the Spanish Consul duly placed himself in communication' with the Manila Government, and with most satisfactory resulin. This
THERE will be a game of Polo on the Race course on Tuesday next, the 20th instant, at
5.30 p.m.
We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.) that the Glea liner Glenshiel, from London, left Singapore Yesterday afternoon for this port.
AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS, afternoon the Consul received a telegram from
His Excellency the Governor-General to the effectA BAZAAR in aid of the orphans in charge of the that Zelindo Maria Barradas, a Portuguese Italian Sisters of Charity, will be held at Camons Gardens, Macao, on the 13th June next, which subject, had been arrested and was detained in is expected to prove a great success, the Macao the public prison at Manila, in accordance with community baving promised their hearty support. the application made from Hongkong. His STANLEY'S Optra Company, having gone from Excellency further added that unices an applica. Pedang to Deli, had to postpone their first Extra-A pure genuine grupe spirit matured tion for the extradition of Barradas was officially appearance in Singapore until this evening, made, the prisoner would be set, at liberty, They will consequently be about a week later in wood,
Per bottic $1.50, dozen $16.
Needless to say that a proper application for in arriving in Hongkong than previously the surrender of Barradas, on a charge of Amontillado, a natural wine, old bottled, dry, embezzling the monies of the Hongkong delicate flavour.
Money Order Office, will quickly be made, if Per bottle $1.10, doken $12: · Purple capsule. Tawny with age, fine bouquet. Per battle $1.25, dozen $14.
SHERRY,
PORT,
CLARET, ST. JULIEN, An excellent Dinner Wine. Per bottle $0.75, doren $8.
(Telephone No. 60.) Nos, 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
Hongkong, raih May, 1890.
WINES AND SPIRITS.,
BY APPOINTMENT.
announced,
4
OUR Macao correspondent writes that Mr. Gutterres, the officer in charge of the Govern- ment Telegraph and Telephone departments, for reasons not made public attempted to commit suicide by poisoning himself on Sunday inst. Fortunately the rash act was discovered in time, and the prompt administration of drastic remedies counteracted the effects of the poison. Gutterres is now slowly but steadily recovering. POR Lan On, who was, much to his disgust, banished from our midst some time ago, feeling very home-sick, wife-sick, family-sick and all sorts of other sicks, plucked up courage and re-entered this colony a day or two ago. Madam Lan, however, did not relish the return of her dearly beloved and he was "run in. A cruel minion of justice sent him into gloom for the period of twelve calendar months, adding 4 modicum of physical exercise-professionally known as "hard labor"to keep him from wearying, And this is a free British colony Hai-yah!
· CIVIL PROCEDURE BILL.
vaccinated two Chinese constables and three The Attorney General moved the third reading | infants. [Ses certificate attached.] In some of this Bill which, he said, had not been subjected cases the lymph had been, transmitted success- to certain proposed, alterations. The bill wasively through 51.calves. pass...
A list of expenses will follow in a few days but I must point out that I have been disap pointed by the non-arrival of the proper vistores, the price of which is included in my original estimate.
I have the honor to be,
Your Obedient Servant,
THE MAGISTRATES DILL. The Council resumed committe on this Bill Section Bo, after some discussion as to the power of
a mafistenie to deal summarily with anses of robbery on the high seas, was altered so as to empower magi trates to sentence perious guily of indictable offences to twelve, instead of as heretofore, six miniha imprison.at
WHIPPING YOUNGSTER<
The Attorney General μ of os d tharff section 86, which provi tes that juvenile thieves may be whipped, the words "any raavilt occaining actual bodily harm or any indecent assault, should be added as offences rendering the offuder liaule to be whipped. He contended that the imprisonment of a mere boy far some freak of temper was very undesirable. The
CHAS, VIVIAN LADDS, M.R.C.V.S1,
... Col. Vet, Surgeon, CATTLE DISEASES ORDINANCE AMENDMENT.
Upon the suggestion of Mr. Francis, who was seconded by the Acting Registrar General, it was decided to send to the Government the whole of the papers and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's report upon this subject, together with recommendation that the maximum amount of compensation for animals slaughtered during the March epidemic outbreak, should be raised from
a
has not already been done. It is, however, fag, will call alongside any vessel hoisting code 'A CORRESPONDENT writes: "The Washington / Proper punishment in such cases was the birch $50 to $200 as Buggested by Mr. Ladds.
quite on the cards that the Manila Government may raise objections to banding over the pre- cious person of Mr. Z. M, Barradas. It would appear from the Governor-General's telegram that Barradas, who evidently knows what he is about, claims to be a Portuguese subject, and unless this claim can be set aside Lait is more than likely that insurmountable difficulties may be raised as to his extradition to the Hongkong Government. The question of jurisdiction may arise, and it is hard to say what view the Manila judicial authorities will take of a case which they may decline to recognise as coming under strict laternational law. course, it is to be hoped that the Governor General of the Philippines will see his way to banding over Barradas to the Hongkong police officer who will leave here by next steamer, on
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD (ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.)
HONGKONG.
invite attention to the following old
of
TOMORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam Junch carrying the Bethel pennant C, to convey men ashore to 1 a.. service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about 12.30.
LAbouchere says that English M.P's on the Conservative benches are much better looking than those on the Liberal side of the House. Of course, they are for ornament and nat use of the Legislative Council.
theke some of our Hongkong official members
!
Post announces that the Russian Goverment
has invited Cal. Perry S. Heath, a well-known literary authority in the United States, to ac company the Grand Duke Alexis to Siberia next summer, and has offered him a royal pass' to visit all the prisons. It is stated that this step is taken with a view to have presented to the the Siberian exile system and of the penal American people a very different description of establishments there from that which has re-
Ir will be observed from a notice in our adver-cently been so extensiv ly published at home and dising columns that the bath-houses which proved abroad. Some years ago, under similar official such a boon last summer to residents of, and patronage and guidance, an English clergymas, visitors to, Macao, bave again been opened by Mr. Henry Lansdell, was permitted to visit Mr. T. J. Collaco, whose efforts to provide Siberian prisons, and with the result of a very suitable accommodation for bathers merit hearty laudatory account of them being published by support. THE bodies of an ex-policeman, named Fun Shin, Kwong, and a girl, named Ma Lin Kwai, were found floating in the harbour last night by the water police. The bodies were in a decom- posed state. As far as is known at present there connected with
W landed Brands, all of which are of exprima facie evidence of his crime being adduced, are no suspicious circumstances connected day.
cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
that traveller. In like manner it is expected that Colonel Heath's personally conducted tour may alto iesalt in a similar eulogistic verdict on the exile system. Mr. George Kenana has been lecturing almost every night, for many months past, in the chief American cities upon the thus, as well as by his articles in the Century darker aspects of Siberian prison life. He has magazine, made a deep impression upon Ameri- can public opinion; and this circumstance having become known to the Russian authorities, they have decided to counteract this feeling if
The clause was amended as suggested,
At section 94 progress was reported, when the Council adjourned until Friday' next the 23rd instant at 3 p.m.
MEETING OF THE SANITARY BOARD.
The Sanitary Board met yesterday afternoon when the Hon. S. Brown (President); Major. General Gordon, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police; Hon. N. G. Mitchell-lones. Acting Registrar-General: Dr. Ayres, Colonial Surgeon Mr. O. Chadwick, Mr. J. J. Francis, QCM Wong Shing and Mr. Hugh McCallum, Sanitary Superintendent, were present.
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY, LIMITED,
The following is the first report of the Board of Directors to the ordinary meeting of share. holders to be held at the Hongkong Hotel, at noon on Saturday, 24th May, 1890:--
Gentlemen,-Your Directors have now to lay before you a Statement of Accounts for the period ending 30th April, 1890, together with a report from Mr. Wickham, the Company's Manager. 1. Mr. Wickham, who had a good deal to do in looking after and testing the Electric Company's Plast purchased in England, arrived here on 17th, March last, and at one took over charge of the Works. The Buildings are now in a fair way towards completion, and the first instalment of Machinery, including the Engines and Boilers, have arrived; these fatter have been taken to the Works and are ready to be placed in position as on as the foundations and settings are Lines for the Are Lamps will be commenced. completed. The work of erecting Poles and
again refr the consistently with efficiency, so that your Directors. immediately and everything will be hunied on, hope to have the Light in full working order in
A STUPENDOUS DIFFICULTY,
Mr. McCallum read a despatch received from the Colonial Secretary respecting a difficulty which the Board had found in regard to common lodging houses, wherein the Colant to be ritain Secretary the jurisdiction of the said Board. After some discussion it was decided matter to the Governm nt with further detailed Board was. These explanations would be in this connection.
as the man's guilt is as clear as the light of day; but to prevent any miscarriage of justice in a THE Sikh constable and Chinese Intong who case which is essentially, for many reasons, of were committed for trial at the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court the other day on charge vast public importance, we would strong of receiving bribes, are in luck's way. The practicable. Hence the proposal to Colonel explanations as to what the real difficulty of the the Autumn, -* In ordering it is only necessary to state impress on the Hongkong Government the Attorney General Is of opinion that the case is Heath, The Post states that he has not yet drafted by Mr. Francis, who tendered his services the came and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, absolute necessity of taking every precaution to and initial letter for quality desired.
satisfy the requirements of the Spanish Courts, Orders through Local Post or by Telegram not merely as to the prisoner's identity, his crime, receive prompt attention.
and his running away to evade justice; but also PORTS. (For Dalíds and general use.) ·
asto his nominal nationality. Is Barradas a Portuguese subject? We doubt it very much.
A. Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule
Fer doin
Case, Per Bot
$1.00
1. to
1.25
B Vintage, Superior quality,
Red Capsules
12
"
C Fine Old Vintage, superior
quality, Black Seal Capsule 14
D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra
SHERRIES.
CC
superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled)
A Delicate Pale Dry, dinner
wine, Green Capsule.........
B Superior Pale Dry, dinner
18
a.
wine, Green Seal Capsule...7.50
He has been an employd of the Hongkong Post Office for nearly twenty years, and it is more than doubtful if his name will be found registered in the archives of the Portuguese Consulate- General in this coliny. So far as Barradas is personally concerned it would not matter ten
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one that can be summarily dealt with, and therefore has remitted it back to the police magistrate.
ACCORDING to reports from St. Petersburg, the visit to Berlin of the Prince of Wales and the German Emperor's utterances on that occasion have been the subject of much comment in Russian Court circles, as the rapprochement which has taken place between Great Britain and Germany seems to be causing some uneasi ness to the St. Petersburg Cabinet.
definitely resolved to accept the Imperial invita tion, but has it under consideration." Perhaps Lansdell will give us the truth later on. He ought to in the interests of humanity.
MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL.
A meeting of the Legislative Council was held yesterday afternoon. There were present His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Mr. F. Fleming) the Acting Colenial Secretary (Mr. W. M. Deane), Mr. S. Brown, Surveyor-General; Mr. W. M. Goodman,
Acting Registrar-General Mesare. P. Ryrie, A. P. MacEwen, C. P. Chater. J. J. Keswick, Ho land, Acting Clerk of Councils.
THE AUDACIOUS ARCHIT, CTS. The Superintendent laid on the table a letter from the Colonial Secretary enclosing certain letters which His Excellency had received from
DIRECTORS,
Mr. A P. Stokes having left the Colony, Mr. H. P. Tennant has consented to accept the vacant scat in the Board and his appointment requires confirmation.
In accordance with the Articles of Associa- tion. Mesars, H. L. Dalrymple and L. Pinecker retire, but being eligible offer themselves for
re-election. W
AUDITORS. Messrs. G. Stewart and G. S. Coxon retire, and offer themselves for re-election, by the shareholders.
H, LDALRYMPLE,
Chairman.
Hongkong, 14th May, 1893,
A HUMAN form has recently been discovered at Pompeil under a doorway, which clearly shows the sandals on the feel, and, what is extremely 1.50 cents if he got clear away and passed the
remainder-dl-his-days writing-Portuguese A Naples archic logist supposes it to be one of 0.60 verse in some uninhabited island in the wide the Alexandrian colony stationed at Pampeli
Pacific; but a very much larger issue than is during the period of its destruction. It is evident | Kai (unofficial members), and Mr. F. A. Hatt-the report than he could' discover. He did not 0.75 epresented by this miserable specimen of that the minn was flying with a bundle, and fell
depraved humanity is at stake in the present inquiry. The Hongkong Post Office and its difctors and managers are on their trial, and to do 1.00 it and thear full justice we want the confession and evidence of Barradas, Therefore, we trust the Hongkong Government will leave no stone
uncommon in such remains, a pair of trousers. Attorney-General; Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, that after carefully perusing the report he had Capital $300,000, divided into 30,000 shares of
C Manzanilla, Pale Natural
Sherry, White Copaule..... 10 1,00 Superior Old Dry, Pale Natural Sherry, Red Seal Capsule....
D Very Superior Old
Pale
Dry, choice old Wine, White Seal Capsule........
E Extra Superior Old Pale Dry, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule (Old Bottled)
A Superior Breakfast Claret,
10
unturned to prevail on the Governor-General of the Philippines to send us back our much lamented Superintendent of the Money Order 1.52 Department by the earliest steamer available.
IA
For Case
dor, Quarts.
For Case.
dor,
Fists.
CLARETS.
Red Capsule
$4
$4.50
B St. Estephe, Red Capsule... 4,50
5.00
C St. Julien *****
7
D La Rose
7.50 12.00
Fer dak
Caso.
BRANDY.
Capsule.....
$12
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
14
C Very old Liqueur Cognac
Red Capsule
Bi
18
1.25
1.50
A Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old
Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vin-
Par Bot.
TELEGRAMS:
GERMANY.
BERLIN, May 7th. The Emperor, speaking in the Reichstag, said that any displacing of the present balance of power would endanger the equilibrium which forms the basis of the peace policy of Germany. $1.10 He announced a new, Military Bill and measures
for the protection of the working men,
tage, Red Capsule
24
2.00
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thome's Blend, White Cap-
sulc
0.75
B Watson's Glenorchy Mellow
0.75
8
Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Marke...... 8
C Watson's Abelour-Glenlivet, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade MarkOYOTA
D. Watson's HKD Blend of the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule... 10.
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule 12 IRISH WHISKY.
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule...
B John Jameson's Fine Old,
Green Capsule...nonen
C John Jameson's Very Fine
8
10
Old, Green Capsule......... 12 GENUINE BOURBON WHISKY, fine old, Red Capsule, with Name, to GIN.
A Fine Old Tom, White Capsule.4.50 B Fine Unsweetened, White
Capsule
0.75
STANLEY AND ROYALTY,
LONDON, May 7th. Mr. Stanley has visited Her Majesty at Windsor. He was received by the Mayer and was driven in the Queen's carriage to the Castle, The Royal Geographical Society has presented a special Gold Medal to Mr. Stanley. FRANCE AND EGYPT:
where he dined and slept
May 8th.
The Egyptian Government has accepted the French modifications of the scheme for the 1.00 conversion of the Daira and Domain loans.
1.10
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
0.75 MONDAY next being the day specially set aside for the celebration of the Queen's Birthday, and 1,00 a public boliday in this colony, there will be no
Issue of the Hongkong Telegraph.
1,10
"AN OLD Sportsman's" views of the recent 1,00 5h ghai Spring Race Meeting will appear in our
next issue,
0.40
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suffocated.
THE directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland have issued a new rule, forbidding "ny officer in their se vice having a salary of less than £150 per annum to many. An officer of the Dublin bank has sent a spirited protest against this to the Freeman's Journal, in the hope that the shareholders will interfere, He says the rule mean life-long celibacy to the bulk of the officials, as 120 per annum is the maximum paid to clerks.
We learn from Macao that a Commission has bern appointed to investigate the lamentable state of the eastern side of the Praya Grande, and to report on the best means of remedying its present insanitary condition at low tides. The fearful stench at this part of the city had been a grievous and dangerous nuisance for years past, sa that it is carnestly to be hoped the Commission will strongly recommend the immediate adoption of effective measures to remove what is 'a aland- ing menace to the health of the community, THE recently-published. "Reminiscences of Empress Eugenie," by Madame Carette, a lady in waiting, are extremely interesting. Napoleon III. first saw Eugenie at the Paris Grand Opéra, it a performance of "Gullla me Tell." The Emperor wanted to get her an his mistress a course to which he was urged by his dear friend, Fleury--but his other friend, De Moray, was all in favour of marriage. Napoleon married her a month after he first saw her. She was then 28 years old, and bewilderingly faminating with her light golden hair and lovely sea-blue eyes, It is the practice of the teachers in the Wash ington public schools to give out to their pupils brief extracts from the best poetry, and ask them to reproduce the idea in their own language." This not only familiarizes the pupils with the best literature, but teaches them to read under standingly and to write each in his own inde pendent style.. The other day a teacher gave out the following lines from Longfellow;
MINUTES.
$10 each. STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS FOR THE PERIOD ENDING APRIL 30TH, 1890, Liabilities. Capital:—
25,564 Shares each $6
paid up........$153,384.00 4.3 Shares cach $2
paid up 55 Shares unallotted
Messrs. Danby, Leigh and Orange: Bird and Palmer, and St. John Hancock, architects in this coleny, wherein the writers protested vigorously against the teneur of the Superintenden: a report. "Mr. Francis indirectly asked Mr. McCalldm for explanations; but before he could speak Mr. Chadwick stated that it appeared to him n matter for which the Board, as a body, was fully responsible, seeing it had pared the report
In this opinion Mr. Francis concurred, adding arrived at the conclusion that the gentlemen who wrote the letters had found much more in
think the complaints were at all Justifiable.
Major-General Gordon said he quite agreed The minutes of the last meeting were read and with Mr. Franels. It was contended that Mr. confirmed.
McCallum bad cast serious reflection upon the architects of Hongkong; dur, so far as he could see, the Hongkong architects were not specially mentioned, the remarks encompassed architects generally. He could see nothing
30,000 in the report to afford reasonable crounds Billa. Payat for these architects' complaints.” It - wan bé knew, always dangerous to allude to a particular class of people, but the observations did not bear unfairly upon Hongkong archliects." He submitted that all Hongkong government officials get "hard hit" at times, are subjected to abuse in the newspapers, but always take it quietly, [Then, how much more should these architects.. who are not lofty Government officials, submit tamely to unqualified criticisme by tankerous, crochety, officials?-Ed:] Hethought the conduct of there architects was quite unjustifiable.
DEATH OF THE MARQUIS TSENG,
The Acting Colonial Secretary, by direction of His Excellency the Officer and Administering the Government, laid on the table the copy of a letter received from H.B.M. Minister at Peking in reply to the telegram of condolence forwarded, in the name of the community, to Peking on the 44th ultimo, in which the Minister stated he felt sure that "this mark of sympathy will be appreciated no less highly by the Imperial Government than by the family of the deceased statesman."
THE "DOOKAL" EXPE↑ SES, His Excellency the Administrator
Was
glad to say that the extra sum-from two to three thousand-to which he referred on the 12th of last March had not been exceeded. As the Council would see the extra expense incurred was something over $2,000. He regretted that the original vote had been exceeded."
The matter was referred to the Finance Committee.
NOW FOR FAIR-PLAY I His Excellency begged to mention to the Council that, in connection with financial minutes, he had given instructions for all such minutes to be forwarded to hon, members three days prior to meetings, in order that they may" know what moneys are going to be asked for." It appeared to him that the system in practice of readlog these minutes at the commencement of a meeting of Council and asking members to agree to the sums required immediately after the discussion of public affairs, was not altogether reasonable. Hon, members could not be too careful when young public montes, to know the reasons for which the money wai demanded. It would be more satisfactory to the Government to feel that every opportunity was given to un-official members to examine the reasons on which demands were based. Circumstances might arise in which money would be reggiied to meet an emergency, and in such caser the vote would be asked at the same time as minutes were presented in Council But One little fellow brought in hip translation, such cases would be quite exceptional and beginning (
extreme. Hew sof opinion that it was only fair that unofficial miembers shoud know the reasons for which money was naked,
I heard the trailing garments of night
Sweep through har marble balla;
Law bersable sicirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls.
bard the long talla of her nighablit
Scratch along the sco- floor.
to.
VICTORIA COLLVOR "FIASCO.
A further sum of $3,670 for repairs to the roof of our new $250,000 College (toy) was agiced His Excellency stated that inquiries were in course of progess respecting the monies repairs to this (phenomenal) college.
can-
The President considered that Mr. McCallum should have an opporturity of replying to the architects' billets dous, but Mr. Francis thought such a course could only be adopted in the event of the Board being diasastisfied with the Super intendent's report. He again submitted that there was nothing in the report which called for explanations. The complaints of the architects
were made without sufficient reason:
The Colonial Surgeon was of opinion that what Mr. Francis had said was O, K. and that the architects seemed desirous of fitting the cap on their own heads (laughter). (A BARRAT
The Vice-President then moved that this Board having read the Sanitary Superintendent's Report and the whole of the correspondence in connection therewith, is of opinion that there is nothing in the report to justify the complaints
·made,”
Mr. Francia seconded and it was carried ném,
con.
YAU-MA-TI'S NUISANCES. Regarding the petition of the residents of Yau-ma-therein the petitioners sought for the removal of the bouts' breaming grounds because they were deemed a nuisance, Mr. Francis explained that the breaming operation was not in itself a nuisance; it was the filth and rubbish thrown out by the boats at time of breaming (barning) that caused a nuisance, and it was this collateral nuisance that should be guarded agalost.
Property
148464926
Assets.
8,763.00
-$162,146,00. 62.938.92
$215,084 92
Cost of Land and Buildings to dates 16,705.87 Plant and Machinery:-
Cost of Plant and Machinery to date 61,621.50 Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, De- Wposit Account
...... 100,000.co Hongkong and Shanghai Bank,
Current Account...mpn 40955-33 Balance carried to Working Account 5,802.22
$225.084.93
Web WORKING ACCOUNT.
Dr.
To Preliminary Expenses.......$ 1,178.10
Stationery................................................. Charges, Crown-Rent, Advertise ments, &c., saúttelame
........
To Passage Money of Staff from
London to Hongkong.. To Office Expenses
Telegrama................
Salaries
966.10
643.97
1,065.00
1,700,00
$60.34
996.54
$7,610.03
By Interest .........sumuonnonadjem : $1,701,31 | By Scrip and Transfer Fees..............an 106.50 By Balance carried to a New Account -5,801.22
$7,610.03
fake pa We have, compared the Accounts with the Books and Vouchers at the Company's office and found them correct,
G. STEWART, Auditors, G. S. CoXON, J
ENGINEER'S REPORT.
Hongkong, 10th May, 190. To the Directors of the Hongkong Electric Company, Limited HANN BİRAZY
We would remind our readers that the Military 0.40 Mummers" give their final performanso this the rules forbidding their entering that cabin." which hayd been, and may yet be, required for removing the breaming ground from Yau-mail, enter into negociations for the necessary
**$4.50
0.50
1.00
season in the Garrison Theatre to-night, com mencing at 9 o'clock.
C Find A. V. H. Geneva.......5.25 RUM.
Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
Capsule
No shere business calling for special remark has Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon. been reported to-day. Everything is as dead as LIQUEURS.
ditch water. The Green Island Cement Co. Benedictine Maraschino
will form the subject of our next editiorial, deal Curaça Herring's Cherry Cordial Ing with the mysteries of Hongkong joint-stock Chartreuse Dr. Stegert's Angostura enterprise..
Bitters, &c.
BIRTH, At Swatow, on the 15th May, the wife of Mrs. L. HARSLOOP, of a daughter.
[773 DEATH...
At Chester, Pa., U.S.A., on the 7th April, the wife of L L BUSH.
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The Hongkong Celegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1890
BARRADAS ARRESTED IN MANILA,
We are indebted to the Spanish Consul. at this port for information of the arrest of Z. M. Barradas, the absconding embersler of the Money Order Office, by the Spanish authorities at-Manila. On receipt of an application from the Hongkong Government to advise the Governor
the
THE MONEY ORDER OFFICE ROBBERY. The Hon. P. Ryrie gave notice that at the next meeting of the Council he would asic ---
J. Whether the Government w furnish the Council with Information respecting the reported defalcations in the Money Order department of
the Post Office ?inte
II. Is it the intention of Government to take any steps respecting the celebration of the Jubilee of this Colony ?
Zoling on FACTS PROMISED..
MANY years ago when our recent visitor, George Francis Train, was in Australia, the captain of an ocean steamship was fined heavily in court for electing on his latest voyage six male passengers from the ladies saloon of the steamer, He had not enough cash to pay the fine and could not raise it. He could not appeal and the delay in sailing would ruin him. Train, who was a spectator, stepped forward and gat permission of the court to advise the captain in private. After a lapse of half-an-hour he returned, and was about to address the court, when one of the magistrates taked where the captain was. "I don't know," said Train, "he is no client of mine. I left him outside." Search was made and a line of black smoke in the offing showed that the captain was off for England. THE Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says they are "going ahead". In Algeria in the matter of duelling. Two Republican Journals having fallen foul of each other, three gentlemen on the staff of one newspaper challenged the when the same number of their confrares on the other organ to mortal combat. The cartel was accepted cheerfully and the preliminaries of the encounter having been duly arranged, the duels were fought on it, each couple undertaking to settle their little affair apart from the rest Swords were the weapons selected, and at the given signal they all get to with a will. It is relief to learn that all the six quitted the field after the engagements without having sustained any very serious damage. The secretary of one Journal wounded hid adversary in the breast The Attorney General in moving the second one of his colleagues also piercing his op reading of An Ordinance to amend the law with ponent in the forearm. The third gentleman on reference to the falsification of accounts "ald, this paper was not so successful for he was that in drafting this Bill he had endeavoured to wounded in the arm but the honours of the day follow closely the wording of the Imperial Act fell to the Depiche: Algerienne, two of whose which had been in force in England for the past men emerged triumphantly from the ordeal at the 15 years with great advantage. The bill was expense of their rivals on the Radical Algerian. | committed and passed, m
THE Hongkong, Canion and Macao Steamboat Co's new steamer, expressly built by Messrs. Ramage and Ferguson of Leith for the Hongkong-Maelo route, left home for this port on the 7th fast. All being well, she should arrive in Hongkong late in June, MR. ROBINSON dropped heavily upon a puffer of chfrage police Court delinquent was up charged with being in possession of two mace of prepared opium. Fifty dollars, or three months" said the genial dispenser of Police Court justice. WITH reference to what we said yesterday about a Portuguese clerk, the employé of a public company in Hongkong, having committed forgery,
our inquiries have not been to antisfactory as could have been desired. How ever, we understand that the colprit, where alleged offence in forgery in connection with cestala shares of the Austin Arms Hotel Con L."skipped" the colony two or three days ago, Ou office goat is still on the war-path, trying is level best to obtain all available
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PATENTS BILL
Dr. Ayres--The boat breaming is no more of anuisance than the docks.
No notice was taken of the Doctor's profound Gentlemen-Scoot after the Company was remark and the matter ended in a resolution to started in February, 1889 Instructions were sent the effect, that the Board saw no tonton for home to Messrs. 1. A. Gibb & Co, London, to and had no objection to the extension of the machinery and plant for supplying the Electric ground to the northward, but considered the site Light, and J. W. Hart, Esq, MI.C.E., was suggested, to the south, an unsuitable," which appointed the Company's Consulting Engineer was carried unanimously, oth Med In London. After negociations with Messrs, NO MORE SMALL POK, STAR}}, · Johnson & Phillips, their tender was accepted on special report upon the table, which shows that on the 1th July, 1889,
The Superintendent then laid the following the arth May, 1889, and the contract was signed the brat of lymph can be cultivated in this When I arrived home during the first week in colony
July, considerable progress, had already been Į VACCINATION. AFV rated kunde is the designs of the machinery, much of REPORT OF IMPORTANT, EXPERIMENTS Which was specially designed for the Company. Sirave the honor to report for the infor-During the Autumn of 1889 considerable delay mation of the Sanitary Board that, in accordance wax cxperienced fo obtaining raw matcilla for with their instructions, I commenced in February manufacture, both owing to the numerous strikes last series' of experiments, with a view to which then took place, and also on account
His Excellency said he was not ja s position to answer the hon, member's first question at once, but inquiries were being mide, and he hoped to be able to lay the facts of the caseroving the practibility of cultivating vacineof be unprecedented demand for electrical before the Legislature at the next meeting. He lymph in the colony, and I am glad to be able machinery and materials used in its construction, to say that the results fan last year were Every effort on the part of the manufacʻurers would say, however, that defalcations hid taken place which required Investigation and such satisfecio: I am of opinion, that the direct was made to complete the contract at as early a inquiries would be made. In the laterim. He system of inoculation to the best, as the lymph date as possible, and to attain this end, many of Excellengy was causing such inquiries to be being taken straight from the calf to the arm has abes men were working ove time until op.m. made as he considered necessary for the as not the chances fun tergoir g the various changes The Bellers and Engines, which were consiructed being.
which often take place when stored in tubes; in Manchester, were also delayed, by the Ga besides which, lube lymph is very uncertain and Stilkes at that place, and by the difficulty of irregular in action, and obtaining materials for manufacture for some time with a success rate of about go After transmitting the lymph from calf to calf per cent. I was enabled by the kindness of Dr. Thomson, Alice Memorial Hospital, to test its effect upon children. Tep infants were vaccinated with lymph Laken from The first, shipment of machinery left London calf under my supervision, and the results were on the 21st February, to the ss. Banlarig, and good the vesicles developing very well- [See arrived in Hongkong on April rath. Since then contificate from Dr. Thomson attached. On all the heavier parts of the machinery, including May 5th, the lymph was put to a further test by Engines and Bollers have been taken up to Dr. Atkinson, Government Civil Hospital, who I the buildings at Wanchaf
The Ordinance for granting patents for faven: tions within this colony was passed without amendment
FALSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS BILL.:
presence of bit.J. W. Hart and myself on the The Boilers were finished and tested in the
24th December, 1889, and two of the Erginca wele Inspected and packed in the middle of January, 1890k
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