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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMITE Ð ̧ CHEMISTS.

AERATED WATER MANUFACTURERS.

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WINE & SPIRIT IMPORTERS.

CHAMPAGNE LEMOINE,

VIN BRUT,

CUVEE ROYALE.

We are at Agents in China for the sale of

this splendid w ́ne.

It is supplied regularly to the households of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh, to most of the leading Clubs in Landon and the provinces, and is also largely patronized at the military and naval stations at home and abroad,

It is a Champagne of the highest charpeter, absolutely natural, without either artificial sweetness or dryness, and we can confidently recommend a trial to all judges of good wine. Per Case 1 dozen qis. $12 ;.per bottle $1.

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$1.

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Telephone No. 60.)

No. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong, 20th May, rƐon

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BY APPOINTMENT.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED

WATERS.

THE HONGKONG 1

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1890.

| protest if he had appended his name to the column of contemptible insinuations and bare-faced falsehoods he has been permitted to Toist on that limited section of the community which endures the tedious infliction of reading this blot on reputable journalism; hut this "Decayed Broker" Inckert the courage of his opinions, and in playing the part of the anonymous llbeller,

wrote himself down a miserable craven and hypocrite, He opens the ball by clumsily trying to induce the belief that he Is an Asiatic, hut,"like "all"shallow rogues of his class, forgets his part ere the play is half-finished, and opens the door to a very shrewd guess as to his identity when he tells us in familiar phrase that it is now about time the "brokers”had a rest"

a sentiment, by the way, in which we heartily acquiesce. The "Decayed Broker" openly asserts that the brokers in this colony have been characterised in the columns of a certain local newspaper,

meaning the Hongkong Telegraph-as rogues for whom hanging is too good unprincipled scoundrels, and a good deal more to the same effect, and protests against what he says is an "outrage on a respectable body of men whose probity is unassailable." We respond to this by. giving both the writer and publisher of the letter in question the le direct, and if the former will favour us, with reliable assurances as to his identity, it will be OUR AERATED WATER. MANUFACTORY | our pleasing duty at the earliest possible is replete with the best Machinery, embodying opportunity to effectively convince him

all the latest improvements in the trade,

of the grievous errors into which he The greatest ntteation has been paid to appli- has fallen. In the meantime we need ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap-only say on this point, and we challenge able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers. Our Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed, anywhere.

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.

LARGE BOMBAY

"SODAS".

We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDER.S. whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving atter receipt of order.

FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and

denial of nur assertion, that the respectable and recognised sharebrokers of Hongkong have never once been attacked in these columns, nor have they, individually or collectively, been abused and held up to contempt and ridicule. The China Mail's Decayed Broker" says the community have been told that "share-brokers are unprincipled scoundrels." Who told the community this? The Decayed Broker" himself-certainly no such grave charge

this journal. ever appeared in

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exercised their ingenuity in circulating, per favor of "Brownie "and the "Maiden Libeller," insinuations" of a more or less vile description against certain leaving local capitalists and share operators. The Praya Reclamation scheme, the Tonquin Coal Mining Co, the Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., and the Hongkong Land Investment Co., have all been made the basis of hints and innuendoos of a damaging character by anonymous scribblers who lacked the courage either

charges

to formulate distinct

or to

acknowledge their own identity, Of this type of depraved animal ·"A Decayed Broker" is one capital specimen, and his foster-brother the ubiquitous Brownie Is another. And they are apparently well

matched.

TELEGRAMS

FRANCE AND CHINA.

HANOI, May 21st, ".

A decree approving the connection of the orquin telegraphs with the Chinese lines for eriod of fifteen years is officially published.

DEATH OF A FRENCH ADMIRAL Admiral Petit Thouars, commanding the

Mediterranean Squadron, has died suddenly at.

Toulon.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE German corvette Sophie arrived to-day from Swatow. THE new Betish cruist Mercury, Capt. Balfour. arrived tr-day from England, having left on the 15th March.

A LITTLE girl fell down a well in a lane at the there by er mother this afternoon, drowned. back of Howard's godowns to-day, and was found

"CRIMEA" War was declared between the Allied Forces (rest Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia), and Russia, on the 26th Match 1854.

THE cable between Hongkong and Haiphong, which has bren so frequ ntly out of order litely, is to be partly renewed, a fresh length bring

now on its way out,

THE communication from "A Merchant nt advertisrmer - not otherwise. Y koh ma" we shall be glad to publish as an A cwspaper printed in Hongkong is scarcely the proper vehicle f "sh wing up a commercial grievance

THE establishment of a vaccine institute will be considered by the Sanitary Board to-morrow. 'A CANTON correspondent informs us that the usual spectacle of a ling-cht was witnessed there a few days ago, the victim being a man who bad murdered his step-father. He was lashed on a cross, his nose cut off, cheeks alashed, pieces cut out of the arms, legs, and back, and, after other, nameless, cruelties, stabbed to the heat, and his head severed. The executioner then disembowelled him, and with fine humor flicked the bystanders with the reeking entrails, Our informant adds that among the spectators | were two Artillery officers from Hongkong, one of whom fainted at the sight.

PATRICK HIGGINS, a private of the A. and S. Highlanders, was "docked", before Mr. Wode house at the Police Court this morning, charged with attempted larceny, assault, and disorderly conduct. It was shown that this strictly scrupu lous youth entered a tore in the Canton Bazaar stopped by the shopman, a Chinaman, smashed last night, lifted a bottle of lollypops, and when

It over his head, He then, together with a com- panion, rushed out in the street, followed by the shop assistants, whom he assaulted. His Worship fined him $45, together with four dollars costs; or in def ult two weeks imprisonment with hard labour.

A STATEMENT has been published, so says the Mercantile Marine Service Association Reporter. 10th-effect that the total approximate value of merchant navies of the United States, Fre, Germany, Italy and Russia, taken together, is £33,000,000. This is a vast sum, but it is only 2,000,000 more than a third of the total approximate value of the British merchant navy, The latter is valued at £93 000,000. The value of the French merchant navy alone is only £9,700 000-less than one- tenth of ours 1 The Russian, German, and other merchant navies are not worth talking

about yet.

Messrs. Wotton and Deacon) appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Francis, Q. C. (instructed by Mr. Ho Wysan), defended. The case was part heard yesterday...

Capt, Burnie, Lloyds Surveyor here, called by the plaintiff, said that he inspected the Pollux on the 26th February last. He found a hole on the port-side, about five feet above the water- linci

.

Cross-examined-I could put my finger through the hole, but the whole plate was damaged.

The manager of the Tok Ki firm, who chartered the Pollux, said that after the collision the defen dant asked him to settle the case, cffering two or three hundred dollars. Capt. Heliers refused. as the damage would exceed a thousand dollars. John Walters, second mate of the steamer, identified the junk by its number and flag.

Mr. Francis, to save time, admitted that the

junk was alongside the steamer at the time, but submitted that it was a physical impossibility for the collision to have occurred.

The defendant was then called, and stated. forward. There was no collision at any time. that the junk salled to the steamer, and moored

After some further evidence the case was again adjourned,

His lordship stating that the assistance of an assessor was desirable, to enable the Court to determine certain points more clearly.

BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE

OFFICERS' ASSOIATION.

On the 16th instant we stated that an

At last night's meeting he following resolutions were carried unanimously

1.That full publicity should be given to the society proceedings; and that their assemblics be open to members of the Press.

II-That notices of meetings shall be advertised in the papers.

II That all British certificated officers. whether in home-going or coasting vessels, be eligible as members of the Association.

IV-That Tuesday and Friday shall be the days fixed for meetings of the Association.

V-That membership cards be printed, and issued to all members with a view to facilitating. the enrolment of fresh members in poris other than Hongkong,

Association under the above name would bold its first meeting in the ensuing week, for the purpose of properly constituting a society which should protect its members from the ever-increasing evil results of dis- union amongst officers of the British Mercantile Marine in, all parts of the world. We now attended meeting of officers was held at the bear that on Tuesday, the 20th instant, a well-

Victoria Hotel, when all present enrolled them. The Prking Gazette of April 19th saya-Forselves as members of the Associon, and paid some months past the Canton authorities have their entrance fee. Sizce that date the shipping piracy which is so prevalent in the surrounding members of the Association, with the result that, been making active exertions to suppress the

in poit has been well canvassed by many

waters. The coast of the Kuangtung province at the society's temporary head quaters in High bas, it is stated, been infested for many years by Street, a second meeting was held last night organited bands of pirates, whose ravages have when a large increase to the list of members devastated the whole country along the seaboard. was registered. The total membership now One of the most notorious of the pirate chiefs, amounts to 170-not bad work in fifteen days. Tang-lu-yü-ch'ü1, who has a long record of At this mate the promoters expect upwards of 400:

on the rolls by August. crime embracing, plunder, murder, resistance to the Imperial troops, and innumerable other offences, has at last fallen into the hands of the anthorities and suffered the extreme penalty of the law. With him were captured five boils, federates, all of whom shared his fate, and a vast eight other ringleaders, a great number of con- quantity of weapons and ammunition. Inresponse to an application from the Viceroy at Canton the Emperor has been pleased to sanction the promotion of nearly a dozen of the offic rs whose services contributed to this happy resuli. “

HERE is one of Sir "Gush" Bowen's family yarna-a very old chesnut, by the way-whilst he was Governor of New Zealand :-Among the loyal Maori chiefs invited to meet the Duke of the treaty of Waitangi, in 1840, and who had ANOTHER DEFAULTING OFFICIAL. Edinburgh, was one of the original signers of |··

ever since been a firm friend of the English. Governor Bowen: One of the Anglican biabops afterward said "Do you know, air,

Yesterday afternoon a warrant was applied the antecedents of that old heathen "No, for at the Police Court for the arrest of C. J my dear Bishop, was the reply, "but I do Xavier, clerk and messenger in bankruptev know that he brought goo of his clantmen

in the Supreme Court, for embezzlement. into the field to fight for the Queen, so I invited was lemporarily refused, but was granted this THE Bu ish and g voksel 2. Ring, lad, n with' per leum from New York, grounded on shie

him to meet the Queen's son," "Well," con- morning. The details of the embezzlement are south east side of Stonecutters' Island, whilst

linued, the Bishop, “when I first arrived in kept secret, but we understand that Xavier was New Zealand that chief came me and said entrusted with a number of execution warrants rating the harbour last evening. With the assista ce of two steamlaunches she was soon

that he wished to be baptized. I knew that on Saturday, and collected on them at least liberald. Fortunately the bot'om at that point

he had two wives, so I told him that he $1,000-possibly several times that amount. is sandy, and no serious damage was done.

must first persuade one of them to return Having done so, be visited the Kowloon City to her family. He said he feared that gambling-hells, and speedily lost it. He returned A'SHANGHALwit writes that when the platform would be difficult, but that he would see what to the colony, and was in the office yesterday collapsed, on hi h the 350 Conference mission- could be done, and come back to me in two-morning, but afterwards disappeared. Saurder's compeurd. the hapless victims fell arics were big photographed the other day in

months, When he returned he exclaimed police have been searching energetically for him

Now, missionary, you may baplize me, for I all day. "upwards" and not "downwards "as erroneous-only have one wife. I asked "What have d. scribed in the Shanghai newspapers. He done with our dear sister, your first wife ? He does not, however, say which side was upwards. replied, smacking his lips, I have eaten her!! THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High- A WUHU correspondent of the N. C. Dally landers will play the following programms at the Officers Mess, to-morrow evening, com. mencing at 8 o'clock

"La Pille Berrer"........... Adam. Overture Valso................ Rosau aus dera SusterSt

*****Strauss. Section March" The Turkish Patrol Michaells.

"Tolantha"....

Sulfann Description Selection............"Romi¬ls.ences of all Nationa"Godfrey. ·

placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and sine we have alluded in anything but l'eged to exist is Yokohama

when received in good order.

the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties Battering terms to the crowd of nondes- SIGNOR Snura M jeroni, assisted by the members of the Shangit i Amateur Brumati". Counterfoil Order Books supplied an applica-cripts who throughout the gambling mania

Club Ludy amateurs, performed Şardou's of last year made day hileous and them-"Fedora" at the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai, selves a public nuisance in Queen's Road last night. These talerted artistes interd producing Federa" end "Jrylousy" in this

tion,

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY. HONGKONGCentral; but these persons could not

And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

The following is a List of Waters,always

kept ready in Stock:-

PURE AERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

LITHIA WATER

SELTZER WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER.

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

fairly be described as representativeshare- brokers in nine cases out of ten they were mere touts, Jackals making a feverish living from the offal thrown to them by such philanthropists as the "Decayed Broker and his particular school. It is likewise true that, when young lads and old men, temporarily mad with the wild infatuation of reckless gaming, were giving up their clerkships and other permanent occupations in commercial houses in order to join the hungry army of loafers in the passages of the Hongkong Flotel, this journal denounced such folly Is in, no uncertain terms, pointing out that a crash was inevitable and that the result to many would, be ruined homes and

No Credit given for bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.

A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, China, and Manila.

elp starving wives and children. There were

HORORONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28. 8,0

Most things in this weary world change in the ordinary course of events, but the deadly dullness of the China Mait, like TENNYSON'S brook, goes on for ever. Day after day, with tedious iteration, the "Maiden · Libeller" pursues the even tenour of its uneventful course in trying to instil into the vacuous mind of the "one

was such a superior article that it equally defied the march of grim old time and the inroads of that custom which engenders familiarity and breeds contempt; the variety of our evening contemporary is not infinite, and it has recently beer admirably displayed by a holy contributor

other evils pointed out and forcibly denounced in these columns; timely words of warning and advice were frequently rendered, both to juvenile speculators and the menol straw who called themselves brokers, but all in vain; they were doing wonderful business on paper, and now they are like the anonymous oracle of the China Mail--decayed brokers.

colony at the end of text úcu ber,

News writes under date the zoth inst.:-Yester- day evening we experienced a thunderstorm of unprecedented violence. The whole forenosn had been oppressively hat, the thermometer registering 95 deg, in the shade. The storm burst without the slightest note of warning, and with such fury that the shore for some distance was simply strewn with wreckage. Among THR Peking Gapelle of the 20th instant reports the various craft lost during this storm was trouble between the Chinese and Koreans at a the once famous "Yellow Haliku "the pro- place called Chiu Tank u, on the Valu River.perty of a local gentleman. The loss is much The th unies originated in a disp te about the rights of the Koreans to cut timber in the locality, and sever Thurs appear to have been commencement of strio difficulties between lost in the fracas. We fear this is only the China and her vassal, There is a limit to

patience.

deplored, as, from a picturesque point of view, Wahu is thus robbed of one of its most striking floating attractions. All efforts to save her yards of the shore. The crew were, however, proved unavailing. She foundered within a few rescued with some difficulty, as they determined to stand by the sinking boat while there appeared the slightest chance of saving her. Here I must THE N. C Daily News of the 23rd fast, says; add a word of praise to those members of com- The Moyun will probably leave Hankow munity who so willingly volunteered their to-day or to-morrow with a full cargo at £a a services in rescuing life and properly during ton. The other vessels do not appear to be doing this storm; and especially to the gentleman much although their rate is only 30. The who, with a coolness which, even under the Antenor is competing lor s-co-d pace and the Glen boat his far obtained but ille cargo, desert him so ably directed the movements of most trying circumstances, never seemed to dorinta probability of a still further the "rescuing party." Occasionally above the might be heard giving orders; and then, often at the risk of life and limb, seeing that they were carried out effectively. In many less deserving cases the Humane Society's medal has been awarded, but the heartfelt thanks of the Chiasse, on whose behalf Els services were enlisted, are hisample reward. The great quantity of wreckage in the vicinity of the Swedish and Norwegian Consulate is accounted for by the deplorable fact that the sailors of these most unfortunate boats mistook Consul Krips' lamp, which burns with exceptional brilliancy, for the beacon-light, some distance further up the river. The raftsmen who were endeavouring to collect their timber, which

mall at Woosung,"

News was received in Shanghal on the 22nd inst, of the death at Hankow of Mr. Hugh F. Ramsay, an old resident of that port, and previously of the firm of Gilman & Co., Shanghai, Mr. Ramsay, says our Shanghai morning contemporary, was one of the best known men In the north of him, and was universally liked and respec ed. He will be very much regretted by a large circle, and the most genuine sympathy is felt, among all who knew him, for his widow and children,

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The

THE STANLEY STREET FIRE.

A

MYGLERY,

on the cook-house of the Club, which faces Stanley Street. He then knew' that a fire had becuried in Stanley Sinel. He at once called ull the staff sleeping on the same. Boor as himself. When dressed he ran up Stanley Street quickly. This was about two minutes after he heard the first noise. He then observed that he upper part of the glass over the door-way, n Stanley street, was missing, and the flames were briching, forth over the street from the window aperture. There was also a window, facing Stanley-street, on the second floor. It was intact, but flames were clearly observable inside. No other roonis had caught at that time, He was told that a Zukong had gone to the police st/tion. He did not attempt to break open the Stanley-street door. On the night in question he had not been asleep up to the time of the fire, owing to the cxcessive hent. He could account for the noise of something burat ing by the heat of the fire inside the building making the windows break. The fire could not have broken out on the basım ɑnt, beccuse totally destroyed, as well as the carbslic the sulphur found there would have been

acid. Neither sulphur nor carbolic acil are explosives. Sulphur can burn only when Bet on fire. Neither of them could in themselves have stuffed the fi e There was a gas-jet at the bottom of the stairs leading to the basement; tho, ap was foup I turned off. There was nothing to show how the fire originated on what storied it. The stitcase was wailed down every Saturday. He canie down from the top of the Building on Saturday the 17th instant at half past five in the washing and he was sure that there were no pack afternoon. The stairs were then wet frm recent

ages about the stairs. The building was finally. closed at six o'clock that evening and nobody, could have "bren in the premises until the following Monday. Every precaution agains: fire was taken by causing employé s to leave the premises before night-fall. There was no rubbish building was throughly cleaned out every day. or old paper allowed on the premises. The His firm had nothing to guide it respecting the cause of the fire.

At this juncture his Worship, in adjdurning he did so owing to the mysterious nature of the the inquiry until Wednesday next, stated that

affair, and in order that he might himself inspect the premises. He hoped that by adjourning the Inquiry romething might transpire which would throw light upon what was now a complete mystery

TIENTSIN spring rACE.

MEETING.

FIRST DAY, THURSDAY, 15TH MAY, 1890. Tzu-CHU LIN STAKES; value Tis. 75. Half- mile; entrance, Tis, 5 ; weight for inches as per seals.

Mr. Heister's Schlingel, 155lb..............Owner t' Mr. Herbert's Plush, 16115.Mr. W. H. Forbes a Mr. Sebrof's Beaver, 155lb.Mr. J. M. Dickinson 3 Mr Sevilla's Buffalo Bill, 161lb....Mr. Denby a Mr. Nadin's Sur set, 1581b...Mr. Cave a Mr. Alexander's Mazurka, 155lb...Mr. Michie o "Mr. Delting's Groszherzog, 173 b

Mr. Hutchings o

Ti-e 591 MAIDEN PLATE; value Tis. 200; first Pony, Tis. 150; second Pony, Tla. 50, One mile. For ponies that have never run before; weight for inches as per scale; entrance, Tls, 10.

Messt Startseff and Irwin's Rurik, 164lb...

Mr. Sasioen I Mr. James Block Prince. 161lb..................

Mr. J. M Dickinson, a Dr. Frazer's Nerphyte, 161lb. Mr. W. H. Forbes 3, Mr. Growler's Happy-go-lucky, 164'b........

Mr. Kruger o

Mr. Detring', Freiherr, 161lb...Mr. Hutchings o Mr. Tricolore's Kaiser, 155lb........ Mr. Cave o

Time 27.

VISITORS' CUP value Tis, 100; presented by visitors of Tientsin; one mile and a quaster; weight for inches as per scale. Entrance, Tis. 5. Messrs. Staxtsiff and Itwin's Ascold, 161lb...

Mr. Sassoon* Mr. Sebrof's Materialist, 1581b.........

Mr. J. M. Dickinson's Mr, Detring's Herzog, 158b...Mr. Hutchings a Mr. James' Discard, 16116. Mr.W.W.Dickinson o

At the Magistracy this morning Mr. Wode-Prince Lobanow and Mr. Denby's Mitsorg, house continued the inquiry into the circum- alances connected with the fire at Messrs. Watson Company's warehouse in Stanley-street, which occurred on the morning of the 19th instant."

161lb..............................Mr. Denby o Mr. Julius' Glenlivet, 1581b...Mr. Kruger o

Dend boat stakes divided:

Time 2.46, PRIKO STAKES. Value Three quarters of a mile. this meeting Bibs. cxtra. Entrance, Tis. 5. Weight for inches as per scale. Winners at Mr. Detring's Sandgraf, Talb...Mr. Hutchings I Mr. Herbert's Plush, 161lb... Mr. W. H. Forbes z Mr. Sebrof's Beaver, 15516, Mr. J. M. Dickinson 3 Mr. Nadia's Sunset, 1581b..............Mr. Cave o Prince Lobanow and Mr. Denby's Mondstrahl,

155lb..........................Mr. Denby o Mr. Elroy's Fugitive, 155lb... Mr. Ford a

Time 1.31

Henry Chandler, assistant in Messrs. Watson and Company's warehouse, said that during the past few days they had been engaged in remov- ing the debris from the bottom of the lift Underneath the rubbish, which consisted of broken wood from the upper part of the building, they found 23 five-gallon drums of carbolic acid, one keg of rock salt, and the remains of some oil, with five broken bottles therein, a quantity of port and sherry, a bundle of rock sulphur on the floor. These things were wire springs for bellows, and a small cake of underneath the lift and staircase which encircled.

and a half. For Ponies that have never run the lift shaft, and bad been originally stored in the warehouse. They did not decisively account before this meeting. Weight for inches as per for the origin of the fire. Nothing had

scale, The Winners of the Maiden Plate to. yet been found which accounted for it. It

carry 7lbr, extra. Entrance, Tls, SE appeared that the fire originated close to the Mr. Sebref's Daydream, 1581b... Stanley-street door, apparently underneath Mr. Fraser's Neophyte, 161lb..............

Mr. J. Dickinson I

only slightly scorched, whilst the timbere neare He thought so because the godown door was

Mr. W. H. Forbes a the Stanley-street dear were completely burnt Mr. Detring's Burggral, 1581b...Mr. Hutchings 3

NORTHERN CUP. Value Tls. 100. One mile

have been on the floor, where found, in the

Mr. Krüger o first instance. He could form no idea as to the Mr. Tricolore's Reichskarzler, 16719...........

Mr. Cave o origin of the are unless it happened that a train had been laid Inside the Stanley-street door,

Time 3.17 leading down from the street, and fired. He VICEROY'S CUP: presented by H. E. the

kaw no traces of such a train.

Thonias Henry Talbot, manager of the Hong- kong Dispensary, stated that he under stood the difference between combustibles of all kinds, including those articles which are fiable to spontaneous combustion and those Hable to combustion after ignition. He had examined the things at the bottom of the lift, none of which were liable to spontaneous combustion, or

Viceroy; value, Tii, aco.... Two miles. To be won at two consecutive meetir ga, or threa. times to all by a Pony or Ponies the property of the same owners. The winner at each meeting to receive Tis: 50 from the Raco Fond.ant1 the Cup is finally wong weight for inches as per scales entra ce, Tls, 5 Mersin, Startseff and Irwin's Boyarín, #581b.)

Mr. S281000. I

It will be news to most of our readers that operators would rather have the reader" that sleep of weariness which, to names of any of these so-called scoundrels (the unattached regiment of brokers paraphrase SHAKESPEARE, can snare upon a flint. The infinite variety of CLEOPATRA, whose offices are in the gutter of Queen's according to a tradition that will never die. Road) 'on a contract, as a responsible/reduciton in freights, The Moyne will take a roar and din of the elements his stentorian voice away. Non of the things enumerated could Mr. Growler's Happy go-Lucky, 161lbo

party, than, the actual. buyer or seller, however good the position of the latter may be; "that" these share brokers, without a single exception, have faced and paid the heavy losses imposed upon them them last year by unscrupulous operators;" that not a single broker has escaped from who claims to be "a Decade Broker," the colony to evade his debts; that the China Mail's "Decayed Broker" and all We have given this person his full title as printed in the Ching Mall, but generously others of the same kidney have met their making allowance for what is doubtless a obligations like honorable

are quite impoverished themselves by paying losses typographical blunder, wa willing to admit that he intended to caused by principals who have absconded, describe himself as "a Decayed Broker," and that they will continue to beggar themselves in like fashion to the end If the error in orthography, was his-well, it makes no difference, 'tis of the chapter. These are all pretty But to drop little fictions which will deceive nobody; badinage for a moment, this man who they will not benefit the cause of the claims to be a broker, aided and abetted school of brokers who can no longer find by the Editor of our contemporary, whose a haven of refuge in the vestibule of the journalistic ethics are on a par with Hongkong Hotel, nor will they affect the his, independence and ability, rabidly interests of the reputable-share-brokers of indulges in what he describes as a protest the colony. against himself and the rag-tag and bob-tail crowd of which he is so eminent

human nature to err.

member #

as the 13th inst. the Tegrane Coal-mining men and Company held a meeting at Haiphong. M. L

Pila, who presided, said in his after-dinner speech that they had already secured the support of the French Navy and the Messagerier times the biter Company ha ring stated because of the facility with which they could the Hongkong-Haiphong line almost entirely now obtain coal at Tostaner as to be attract a large number of steamers to coal there, hoped that the fine, well-sheltered harbor would and so avoid the dangerous Straits of Hainan, Tax following Hankow tea statistics for the 16th May are taken from the N. C. Daily News

What was the real object of "A Decayed Broker's " venomous outbreak being pilloried in the China Mail? The cause is not far before the Hongkong public. Let us to seek. Our evening contemporary place this Decayed Broker" and his for reasons not difficult to understand, alleged grievances under the searching has constituted itself the complacent light of independent criticism,

mouthpiece of two or three individuals not together unconnected with local share dealing, who have for months past

The China Mail's correspondent would have given greater weight to his so-called

Onafak ̈· Ningthow & Dopack Cons Kommim Hochem I-chess, Ichsets Echoes, Febris 31,316 45,650

43,979 14,653. 119,059 167,200 170,700 19.550

Stock as last 1 reported...! Toʻal arrivals Settlements ardship. ments since penn Suck 20,947-43,319 44773 10050

98,112 123,971. 135.937: 9,500,

Pure tes me becoming scarcer daily and invals of these meet with a ready market at sellers' prices Stock of Kluklang tea consists m sly of Ningch ws. Ķcemuns are freely, taken as soon as offend the last packs from this disulet are now coming ini

the stormt had scattered far and near, presented

spontaneous explosion. None of them could

Messrs. Slavist and Irwin's Dyr 1581......

a somewhat weird spectacle, as they fitted to. have been the cause of the fire. He had a Mr. W. H. Forbes 2 and fro by the light of their torches vainly trying found nothing indicating the origin of the Mr. Fraser's Wpodranger, 1641b... Owner: 3. to collect their property. The storm commenced fire, but had formed an opinton. He thought Time 4-34ke Ma about 7 o'clock yesterday evening, and lasted it began about two feet below the Stanley HONG CUP: presented by the Hongs of Tiertsint about two hours. It opened with a furious squall street entrance landing, because the whole value Tis. 250. A forced entry of Tie, s cach which appeared to sweep everything bodily of the wood-work of the stairs at that for all ponies except Griffins entered at this before it, but ultimately settled down to a meat point was consumed and the wooden uprights meeting Optional to Griffins, @ First pony, to terrific thunderstorm. The lightning was most of the lift were also destroyed, in addition to toomed out distinctly, and then daskeess again. suffered severely. The only way It could have halls weight for inches as per scale,

Brecelya 60 per cent,; second pony, 25 percent-1 vivid; for a few seconds at a time everything which the granite wall in that locality had and third pany, 15 per cent. One mile and a The cries of the boatmen in distress, tha caught there was by some liquid poured under Mr. Sevilla's Ratiboiseur, inky blackness of the night, all combined to tiles and down on the staircase. He saw Mestre, Star auff and Irwin's Ascold. "61lb.. booming of the thunder, the vivid lightning, the the door, whence it would run along the spoke

Mr. Hutchings. form a picture not easily forgotten. But this no sign of that baving been done. If anything

Mr. Blascon sterm proved no exception to the rule, and was had been poured under the door and then set on followed by a calm..

fire it would have ignited the wood-work of the sinis, It was possible that the liquid would have come into contact with the wood work of the lift previous to falling down the stairs; and thus the break occasioned by the drop from -step to step would have been avoided, & This, therefore, showed that although the fares Before Mr. Fielding Clarke, Acting Chief might have been checked by a break at the steps.

SUPREME COURT.

IN VICE-ADMIRALTY.

"Justice)

TAPA COLLISION, CASE.

Mr. Tricolore Kalter, 1581b........Mt. Cave 3 Mr. Julius's Glenlivet, 158lb......Mr. Kruger a

Time 3.201

SECOND DAY-FRIDAY, 16TH MAY, 1990. TIENTSIN FERRY, & Sweepstakes of Tis 10 each, with Th, 100, added; first pony to receive 60 i per cent, second go per cent, and third 10 per cent. On mile and a half for ronies that util it might have set the lift on fire. have never run before this meeting; welgbt- His bedroom, was on the second floor, of their stane; winners of one or more races to carry house, opposite the Club. A few minutes before 6lbs, extra,STAREMON

Julius Wel Sing, owner of the steamer Pollux, two o'clock he heard a bang, and almost imme- Mr. Frater's Neophyte, 1941),...ASIA sued the owner of the Sung Hing junk for diately afterwards the breaking of glass. He

Mr. W. H. Forbes. damages caused by collaton on the sarth opened his window at once and am looking into Már. Sebrer's Daydream, 160lb, February Insti: Mri A. J. Leach (nstrusted by i the slavel-be observed the reflection of fire | Se

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