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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1890.

A BREWERY has been started in Manila by Mr. THE floods in Tonquin are abating, and the natives are busy sowlag fresh crops, the fields E. M. Barrello.

having been enriched by the mud deposited.

THE Austrian corvette Farana isshortly expected in Singapore from Australia.

THE railway material expected at Haiphong has arrived. It comprised 2,000 tons of rails and rolling stock, including two locomotives. LAST week some Chinamen out East Point way

had an argument with bamboos. The police gathered in two of the disputants, and they were admitted to bail by the Magistrate next day. This afternoon (7th inst.) one of the two went and died, just to get somebody charged with man- slaughter, and two men have been arrested. RIFERRING to a debutante behind the footlights, the dramatic critic of the Sydney Bulletin gaily remarks: "Miss Young, who is making her malden efforts in "Boccaccio," is the stage-

struck daughter of a Melbourne jeweller. She shapes nicely, in both senses of the term, ard promises to produce a distinct impression in tights." A distinct impression, in tights "is decidedly good.

THE Nansing, according to the Comercio, hrunght away over three hundred Chinese who had been ordered to clear out of Manila because they had not the usual papers. Our contem porary finds comfort in this exodus of idle pagans.

THE Scottish Oriental Steamship Company's vessel Mongkut. Captain Anderson will leave for Vancouver on the 21st as an extra boat for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company, believe. She will stay over there, being intended by the Scottish Oriental to engage in the coasting trade,

A TELEGRAM has been received in Singapore by the local secretary of the Raub Australian

Syndicate that the boxes of specimens sent dawn hy Mr. Bibby crushed gi ounces of gold to the ton. These samples, the Free Press says, were of coarse stone on the leaders, and the result given must not be taken to imply more than it

states.

We learn that the English firms in Manila are heavy sufferers by the recent fire there, as most of the property destroyed was stored in Chinese shops, the tenants of which, only being slightly insured, are unable to pay for it. An eye- witness describes the attitude of the Spanish officials as most indifferent--they would hardly ring the fire-bells even..

We regret to learn that a telegram has been Captain Paterson, of the A. & S. Highlanders, received from the Malay States to the effect that *porting excursion in who has been an a that locality, has met with a deplomble accident whilst out elephant shooting. He was charged by a wounded elephant and severely, hat, we are glad to say, not dangerously hurt. Full details are expected by an early steamer.

IN Mr. Rodger's Report on the State of Pahang for 1889 we find that important prospecting and mining grants were made, amongst others, to

Messrs. D. E. Caldwell and C. L. Gorham of Hongkong. Dan and Charlie's gold mine is somewhere in Ula Luit and we expect to hear very soon that these enterprising local pioneers of progress have "struck ile" and then, of course, the usual prospectus and that wild rush for shares in the new company at a fabulous

so long been famous.

THE LAST OF THE " FILIPINAS.”

At noon to-day (gth inst.) a cheque for $110.000 was handed to Mr. Gillies, the manager of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, in ex- change for the well-known gunboat Filipinas. An hour or two later Mr. W. G. Brodie, who had made the purchase on behalf of the Siamese Govern ment, whose Consul he is at this port, went over to Hangham in company with Mr. Gillies and a of the vessel in the name of the Siamese small party of gentlemen, and took possession Government. The "white elephant" was hoisted, amid considerable enthusiasm, and instructions given to Mr. Ramsay, who is now in charge, to erase the present name and substitute Makut Rajakumar, which will be the future designation. of the new Siamese flagship. This done, and the anus of Castile replaced by those of H. M. King Chulalongkorn, the return of the royal mission to Japan, which will accur towards the end of this month, will alone delay the departure of the vessel to her new sphere.

The net profits for that period, including $141,31047, balance brought forward from last account, after paying all charges, deducting interest paid and due, and making provision for doubtful accounts, amount to bad and $1,249,943:81, of which after taking out remaneration to Directors, there remains for appropriation $1.239,943.81.

From this sum, the Directors recommend the payment of a dividend of one pound and ten $100,000, and a bonus of one pound per share, shillings per share, which at 4/6 will absorb which will absorb $266,665.67.

The difference in exchange between 4/6, the rate at which the dividend and bonus are declared, and 3/41, the rate of the day, amounts to $224,974-20..

They recommend transfering $200,000 to the credit of Reserve Fund, which with instalments of premium on New Shares, $682,137.20, will then stand at $5.482,127.20.

The balance, $48,302.94, to be carried to New Profit and Loss Account.

DIRECTORS.

Mr. B. Layton and Mr. W. G. Brodie have resigned. The Directors invited Mr. A. McConachie to join the Board, which appoint ment requires confirmation at this meeting.

AUDITORS.

from the west coast of Africa. The Peacock is appears in another column. The secret of the Premium for which Hongkong speculators have the Germans on the Caroline Islands. Estimates Phineas Ryrie and Mr. Fullarton Henderson,

H.M.S. Mutine, stationed, in the Straits Settle- ments, has been ordered to England, and will be replaced by the Peacock, at present en route A vessel of the same, class as the Redbole, now on the way from Singapore to Hongkong via Labuan, at which latter place an attempt will be made to recover the stem pinnace lost there some time since by the Hyacinth,

THE P. & O. steamer Bombay appears to have been particularly unfortunate in the harbour this trip. On the 7th inst., when leaving the Kowloon wharf, she fouled the German steamer General Werder and tore away several of the stanchions from the latter vessel's quarter. It would seem as it Hongkong harbour were too small for the Bombay, and there was a universal sigh of relief amongst masters of ships when she took her departure.

WITH reference to the Sianiese Concessions of which so much has been heard lately, a Mr. W. Barne writes to a Singapore contemporary under date July 27th:-"I have received by this mall an intimation from Baron de Overbeck, that in the event of any attempted sale of the Kabin Gold event of any attempted once enter a protest in London. Baron de Overbeck, is an Austrian, and therefore the protest will come from the Austro-Hungarian Government." ELEVEN hundred taels of opium were seized at the Canton wharf on the 7th inst: by excise- officers, just as it was being brought on shore from the Macao steamer, the Kiukiang. It was carefully stowed away in a box encased in another box which was inside a travelling trunk, We hear that the Opium Farmer's men are specially alert just now respecting Macao steamers, owing to the fact that large quantities of the drug have been coming from there lately. THE Government of Hongkong are keeping the Dock Company busy. Among the orders they have placed with the local ! Lairds" are—two 65-ton wooden lighters, for carrying stone for the Praya Reclamation; a steel pontoon, carrying an cight ton crane, to be used in placing the stones in position on the sea-wall; a tow-boat go feet long, with engines of 30 horse-power; and a new hospital hulk The last-mentioned will be something like the Meance in appearance, and will be af wood, with steel frames. Her length will be 175 feet, breadth 30 ft., and moulded depth nearly sixteen feet. She will have two decks, and about a dozen cabins. She will be ready about the end of the year, and, we believe, will be used as an infectious diseases hospital, instead of the present building on Stone-cutters Island.

Horse Bazaar,

THE adjourned meeting of the members of the Jockey Club, for the purpose of arranging about the griffins for next year's Races, was held this afternoon (8th inst.) in the Hongkong Hotel.-Mr. J. Grant, who presided, invited suggestions, inj response to which Mr. Fraser-Smith, in the absence of any other proposal, moved that the Club again entrust the matter to the Shanghai the same terms as before. The two or three times they had done so, he said, they sent a very fair class of ponies down, and good racing had been the result-in fact last year five or six of the animals were fit to run against the best ponies here.-Mr. Dick seconded, and the motion was agreed to-The Chairman announced that the list would be kept open some lime longer, although 28 ponies had been subscribed for, in order that any new- comer might add his name if he desired. The proceedings then terminated.

A CORRESPONDENT writes to the Singapore Free Press-Jelebu and Sungei Ujong have sustained a serious loss by the terrible death of Mr. F. C. While, Collector and Magistrate of Jelebu, on Sunday morning, July 27th. At about a.m. he went out hunting, with a pack of dogs, accompanied by three Sikhs and one or two Malays and Chinese; at 8 am, the dogs | found a small pig, and brought it to bay in some thick undergrowth. When running forward to kill the pig with his hunting knife, Mr. White was shot through the heart by a Sikh, standing on the other side of the dogs and pig, and fell dead instantly. It is supposed that the Sikh fired at the pig, but missed it. The funeral took place at the Seremban cemetery the following morning. The coffin, which was covered with The Union Jack, and decorated with several beautiful wreaths and crosses, was borne to the grave by eight Sikhs, and a body of about 8o of the Sungei Ujong Sikhs and Malay Police were in attendance. Mr. C. G. White and a large number of friends followed, and the service was read by Captain Mackenzie. Mr. White had lately been appointed Collector and Magistrate of Jelebu, having formerly been Collector of Land Revenue in Sungei Ujong.

THR fiftieth half-yearly balance-sheet of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation handsome dividend will be seen in the item- "Bills discounted, loan and credite," which Amounts to $63,880.173, as compared with The far-seeing $55.615.066 last half-year Chief Manager saw the rise in silver betimes, MR. Wodehouse held an inquiry at the Magis. tracy on the 9th inst, into the circumstances attending the death of John Maloney, a Naval Yard constable, who died whilst bathing at Kow. loon on the 2nd inst. After hearing the evidence of a sergeant of the naval police, who stated that the deceased suffered from heart disease, his Worship recorded-finding of "Natural causes." OUR exchanges from Manila report that on the toth alt, at nine p.m., a fire broke out in Rosario Street, in a small tobacco shop. Fanned by a strong breeze, the fames quickly enveloped the surrounding group of flimsy buildings, and before

long several streets, were ablaze. The troops

and naval forces were called out, but they did not succeed in suppressing the outbreak until midnight. The loss is estimated at half a million dollars.

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Tur wife, daughter, and little son of Li Pi Tsz, the notorious highway-man who was yesterday (8th inst.) handed over to the Chinese Authorities, were up at the Magistracy betimes this morning The woman started yelling and screaming and abusing the police for not giving her due notice that her dearly beloved husband was going to be passed over. She beseeched Mr. Wodehouse to give her a letter for the British Consul at Canton whereby that official would be induced to use his good offices to obtain for her a last interview with Li Pi Tz, prior to his execution. His Worship graciously acceded to the unusual demand, and the unhappy woman went on her way rejoicing.

THE Zafiro brought over eight shipwrecked sailors from Manila on the 7th inst. They belonged to the American ship Panay, which was lost about three weeks ago down in the Philippines in rather an extraordinary manner. She had been lying in Manila Bay for about seven months, waiting for hemp to boom. As it didn't, the captain decided to take her round to Iloilo in ballast, and engaged a rattletrap old coasting steamer, the Taurat, to low her round. All went well until night, when a strong breeze sprang up, and the steamer could scarcely get along. About 4 a.m, when to windward of one of the islands, the captain of the Taurus'decided to cut the Panay adrift, and. after whistling twice, this was done. The crew of the ship tried to keep her off the rocks, but she quickly drifted ashore and became a total wreck. The captain is now in Manila trying to obtain redress.

WE are given to understand, says the Shangha! Mercury, that several members of the Imperial Maritime Customs service have been detached for duty in Chungking, from which we may assume that the port is at last to be declared open to Foreign trade, but, of course, it is impossible to say to what extent until the Convention on the subject has been made public. We assume, however, if the statement generall current be true, that steamers will not be allowed to go to the new port, and the principal business of the Foreign Customs officers will be the issuing of transit documents for goods going to points further west, and which will be brought up to Chungking in native-built craft, Junks and boats. We understand that Mr. H. E. Hobson, who has been in charge for some time of the Ichang Customs, will be the first Commissioner at Chungking, his place at Ichang being taken by Mr. D'Amour, whose place at Harkow will be taken by Mr. R. J. Abbott, who has been appointed Deputy Acting Commissioner. We further bear that Mr. Edgar, Commissioner at Chefoo, is going home on leave, and that he will be succeeded by Mr. Caral

IT is by no means an unusual thing for the irrepressible globe-troter to write columns of twaddle, for some English provincial paper, of his experiences after one day's sojourn in the city of Canton, and we have known one or two of the genus even go the length of making return trip by the Powas an excuse for folding two or three volumes of babyish prattle on long suffering public. But until last night (6th Inst. we certainly 'could not have believed that there existed an idiot so thoroughly demented as to send such cheap ciap-trap to a Hongkong news- paper-the China Mail to wit. Some fanatic, whose friend incur a serious responsibility by allowing him to be at large, writes to the fall abou! the Shamien, Ab Cum the guide, the boat-girls, the Roman Catholic Cathedral, slipper boats, the Oriental Hotel, and other wonders of which nobody in Hongkong, of course, ever heard before--and his starting yam is to be continued." The maniac who wrote such trash for Hongkong readers, and the numskull who published it, each deserve a statue, somewhere out of sight on Price's "white elephant "at

,

A MEETING of the Sanitary Board was held On the 8th instant. The results of their dell berations were. That the Board found they had no power over ships coming here from infected ports, and resolved to ask the Govern- ment to give them the requisite authority condition of the focal cemeteries.-3. On M That the Board had no power to regulate the Chadwick's house drainage report it was decided to leave the amendment of the bye-laws to that gentleman.-4. His main drainage report was generally approved, and-stbly, a vote of thanks was passed to him because he was going away shorily.

On dit that, the net profits realised by the Company Hongkong and Whampoa Dock during the six months ended the 30th June amount to the large sum of $1700. The report that the Directors have decided to recom. mend a dividend of only 5 per cent. for the half resuming all this to be true, we consider that year has not given universal satisfaction; but, they have acted wisely and consistently sticking firmly to the policy of writing off as much as possible until the cast of the Admiralty Dock in the Company's books has been brought down to the equivalent of the earning powers of that expensive enterprise..

It may be interesting to briefly recapitulate the history of this maiden war-vessel. In 1886 the Excellentissimo y Illustrissimo Señor Don Fray Pedro Payo, Archbishop of Manila, raised a Patriotic Fund in the Philippines in order to man-of-war to resist the suspected designs of present the Government of those islands with a

were supplied by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company for a vessel of the Scout type, and at length a contract was made, the priceagreed on being $112 odo. A Commission ofdelegates came over from Manila, and supervised the building, and in February, 1887, the Filipinas was launched. In our account of that function we gave the following particulars :-"She is built of mild steel, and for offensive purposes has been fitted with a powerful ram projecting about four feet from the stem, and which will be entirely under water when the vessel is at her proper draft. The vessel's principal dimensions are:-length over all, 186 feet 6 inches; beam, 23 feet 6 inches; depth moulded, 18 feet 6 inches; and her draught when in working trim will be 10 feet. She will have twin-strews, and be schooner rigged, her two pole-masts being made of steel, 62 and 65 feet in height respectively, with a fighting-top on the mizen. Her two pairs of compound surface condensing engines are of. 560 horse power indicated, and the cylinders are 15 and 40 inches, with a stroke of 13. According of 12 kans per hour, and judging from her to contract the Filipinas must steam at the rate yacht-like lines and the specially-designed powerful machinery, she will exceed this without difficulty. Her two boilers are also of steel, 8 feet 9 inch and 9 feet 6 inch diameter respectively, constructed to bear a working pressure of 120 lb, to the square inch, and there are six furnaces to each boller. The quar. THE musical critic of the N. C. Daily News hitters for officers and men leave nothing to be off the weakness of the Stanley crowd in very desired, and the whole of the fittings, of the nest style, in his notice of their extraordinary latest patterns, are in the Dock Company's best rendering of " Paul Jones." He said that "the style, which is equivalent to saying that they entire company, excluding the orchestra, laboured cannot be surpassed anywhere. All the vessel's under one great disadvantage" which consisted appliances are of the newest designs, and include "of the inability of the vocalists to sing." Cochrane's patent donkey boilers for supplying "There was," he remarked, "a dead level steam for working the pun.ps and the electric of mediocrity about songs and choruses alike light. Ample provisions have been made for that was really depressing." We ventured to dealing with fire, and to ensure safety as far as say that Sir W. Robinson's so-called patriotic possible the vessel has been divided into sir ballad "Unfurl the flag," sung by one of Stanley's water-tight compartments. The Filipinas will nightingales, was second-class rubbish, and the carry five boats, including a steam pinnace." obese impresario went back on us by stopping his six dollars per week advertisement. He also, to all appearance, went back to, not on, the Editors of the N. C. Daily News and Shanghai Mercury after their adverse but fair and outspoken criticisms of the performance of "Paul Jones". Mr. Stanley's company make a very much worse show in "Les Cloches de Corneville" and "Olivette" than in a specta cular olis like "Paul Jones," but somehow our Shanghai colleagues discovered that the tune- less artistes could sing after all. Funny, was it not? We could a tale unfold, if it were worth while-which it isn't.

The accounts have been audited by the Hon.

H. L. DALRYMPLE,

Chairman.

Hongkong, 7th August, 1890. ABSTRACT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, HONG-

KONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

30th June, 1890. Liabilities.

Paid-up Capital ...$ 7,500,000.00 Instalment received

an account of Ist call on new shares 438,010.47 Instalment received

on account of and, 3rd, and 4th cali on new shares...

Reserve Fund.....$ 4,600,000,00 Instalments of pre-

+

230,052,08

-$ 8,168,062.50

mium received on new shares 25 above..........ETTY 682,127.20 Marine Insurance Account....... Notes in circulation$ 6,478,448.68 Deposits..... 93, 101, 200.47.

Bills Payable (including drafts on

London bankers and short sight drawings on London office against bills receivable and bullion shipments) Profit and Loss Account....

Arrets.

99,579,649.15

19.778,786.43 1,249,943.8:

$134.308,569.09

Cash, Investments, viz. :--

4100,000, 28 per cent. Consols. 150,000, 3 per cent. Indian Government Sterling Loan. The above lodged with the Bank of England as a Special Lon. don Reserve...$1,475,000.co Rs. 5,000,000, Indian 4 per cent.

Govt Loan 2,195,945.00

Credits, Bills Discounted, Loans

Bills Receivable,.. Bank Premises...... Dead Stock,

and

the Guards and the men they are supposed to command. Whoever is at all acquainted with the superficial nature of these, as compared with the comparatively close intimacy between officers and men necessarily characteristic of other branches of the Service, will have little difficulty causes that might, and probably have, led to in forming a fairly accurate opinion as to the this really regrettable and unparalleled occur- rence. Of the many privileges enjoyed by the detrimental to the true interests of the Service than that system' under which a great majority officers of the Brigade of Guards none is more

of the officers of a Battalion may all be on leave at the same time, those nominally not on leave being required to appear in barracks as seldom as possible, and then only to rush up to the gate. in a private hansom, attend a show parade and be dry-nursed." through a few elementary movements, and hurry off in the hantam. again, the whole affair being simply "a beastly bulsance, don't you know." This reprehensible and dishonest system effectually prevents the establishment of that degree of sympathy and goodwill on the one hand and confidence and respect on the other that must neces- enjoined by the regulations of the service, the sarily exist between officer and mass if, as latter is to regard the former as his natural protector from unjust, harsh, or unfeeling treat- ment. When a soldier conceives himself to be in any way aggrieved, and it may be incidentally. remarked that the British warrior has a singti- larly keen scent-for-a grievance"-in fact he is never happy until he gets one-he is directed to bring it to the notice of the captain of his company, but the guardsman kaows how fruit- less it would be even were be to nurse big wiath to keep it warm until that officer returned from bunting expedition to the Rocky Mountains, an exploring tour to the Andes, a ride on a bison through Asia Majör, er a tramp with an adven- turer through Almost Darkest Africa in search of an eminent Bashaw.

A man with the 'enlarged ideas' a traveller of this kind must necessarily have imbibed cannot be expected to wax profoundly enthusiastic in the redress of a grievance which consists in having been "put- down for a new tunic, Sir, an' this 'ere on't word twice, Sir, jest.for this 'ere small mark inside the elber as was done by, my new,sister's black kid gloves, Sir, the first time she wore 'em." No, it is not the captain nor any other of his com pany officers who, as a rule, belong to about 5,282,127.20 four different companies in as many weeks

250,000.00 but the Adjutant who is the injured guardsman's judge of appeal; and as that autocratis nine times oufoften the party "against whom he would com- plain, it will readily be understood that this unique privilege' la but seldom taken advantage of. Occasionally It will happen that the command of a battalion will fall into the hands of a strong- willed, self-reliant man who will himself exercise all the authority of his position, tolerate no Interference or suggestions from his subordinates, Consult, no convenience or comfort' other than bis own, and insist upon a strict, undeviating observance of the regulations both in and out of season. If he is also experienced in dealing with men, and punishes justly, 'not arbitrarily, be will probably be both feared and respected by his men, but if he lacks experience he will certainly punish.both unjustly and arbitrarily and will as certainly be both. feared and hated. That some thing of this sort existed in the Grenadier Guards seems not, altogether improbable, as the men appear to have awarded their commanding officer in particular an enthusiastic if not pre- cisely a respectful reception, but had there been 3,610,945.94 a reliable and experienced staff of non-commis sioned officers in the Battalion matters would 63.880,333.06 have never gone the length of an open mutiny 46,855,982.20 of an entire Regiment. It is, however, notorious 930,454-63 that the non-commissioned officers of the Grena 106,504.90 dier Guards, from no fault of theirs, are much.

inferior in these most important qualifications to their comrades in the other two Regiments of Guards, and quite unqualified to temper with discretion and moderation the vigorous, unrea soning discipline'ofa tyrannical or inexperienced superior, et

$18,914,358.30

$134,308,569.09

SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION, 30th June, 1890

Dr. To Amounts Written off:---

Remuneration to Directors.....$

£1.10 per Share on '; To Dividend Account: 60,000 Shares £90,000 @ 4/6...$400, Bonus of 1 per Share on 60,000 Share= £60 000

But the war-scare had subsided-the Govern ment of the Philippines wanted to "cry off," and suddenly Captain Lopez, who was to command her, raised a lot of petty objections, finally asserting that her metacentric height was unsatisfactory or in plainer phrase that she wouldn't be steady enough. So the purchasers would not take her. Litigation ensued, and an immense amount of expert evidence obtained by both sides in Europe, at a cost, probably, of a lakh of dollars. In the meantime the Archbishop died, which further complicated matters, and there is no telling where the matter would have ended if it PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT, HONGKONG AND had not been that the Russian Government, the Viceroy of Canton (hang Chih-tung) and A CASE of considerable interest to people engaged the Siamese Government, had not ruade in- in shipping mattets occupied the attention of Mr. quiries with a view to purchase. Señor Ramirez y Arellano, on' behalf of the subscribers to the Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning (gth inst.), when Mr. A. P. Guttlerez, Deputy Superin-Patriotic Fund, came over, and the triangular tendent of the local Mercantile Marine Shipping negotiations ended, as everyone knows, in the Office, appeared to prosecute Paul Hansen, master acquisition of the vessel by the Siamese Govern of the British bark S. H. Wappius, for sailing ment, at a cost of $rio,coo. The Spaniards from Hongkong on a six months voyage have lost about $25 000 by her; the Dock Com. on the 11th of April last without a properly pany are relleved of a burden-and the Siamese certificated chief officer, contrary to British Ship have got a bargain. ping Laws. Mr. Johnson (Crown Solicitor) appeared for the prosecution and Mr. Wilkinson was for the defence. John Duff, second officer of the steamship Tairang, was called, and stated that Captain Hansen offered him $too to sail with him as chief officer as far as Feochow, whence he would send him back to Hongkong as a first class passenger. Duff therefore "signed an" the articles as chief officer on the 1st of April after which the captain gave him, $50 and told him that he need not be in a hurry to join the ship, as he would notify him to join the ship in due course. On the 17th of April witness went to look for the S. H. Wappius but found that she had sailed-Mr. E. J. Meugens, second boarding officer of the Harbour Department, deposed to the S. H. Wapplus having sailed on the 17th of April. His Worship, by request of Mr. Johnson, adjourned the case until Thursday afternoon in order that the evidence of Mr. J. Edwards, with whom the witness Duff was Hiving last April, might be forthcoming for the prosecution,

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THE FATAL EXPLOSION AT STONE-CUTTER'S ISLAND.

At the Magistracy on the 9th inst. Mr. Wode house continued the Inquiry into the circumstances attending the death of a Sikh constable at Stone-cutter's Island on the 24th ulio. which was caused by the explosion of a Hotchkiss shell that the deceased was driving into a plank, for the purpose of splitting it into firewood,

T. T. Riddell, Master Gunner in the Royal Artillery, said he was stationed on Stone- cutter's Island on the 24th altimo, and war in charge of the ammunition stored on the Island, including the Hotchkiss shells. These were stored in boxes each containing eleven 6lb, shells, He had counted all the boxes in the store and ascertained that no shells were missing according to the number received The fragments and served out for practice.

Не

4/6 266,666.67.

To Dividend Adjustment Account :---

Difference in Exchange 4/6, the

rate at which the Dividend and Bonus are 'declared, und 3/49, the Current rate of the

· day...pouluagain penya.........

To Reserve Fund............ To Balance carried forward to

next half-year ...

Cr.

Should the commanding officer, however, ba a weak, vacillating, inexperienced man, taking 10,000.00 little or no interest in his duties, or in the welfare and comfort of the men under him. the real functions of command will in all probability devolve upon the Adjutant, who may in tum, be dependent for guidance upon the serjeant major, or upon an ex-serjeant major in the Quartermaster, while If the serjeant- major's wife, or the Quarter-master's lady, he a good-looking, intelligent, and energetic person abe will have the lot under her thumb, when the Battalion would be conducted on a Happy Family sort of basis highly conducive to the comfort and contentment of all ranks, which would be assured so long as a certain three quarters of a pound of meat-with bone- developed into a substantial joint exe reaching Its destination, and that at the weekly issues of fuel a certain lady received a Benjamin's share thereof.

666,666.67

224,974-20 200,000.00

148,302.94

1,249,943.81

...8: 141,310.47

31st December, 1889....... By Balance of Undivided Profits, By Amount of Net Profits for the Six Months ending 30th June, 1890, after deducting all Ex penses and Interest paid and das 1,108,633.34

RESERVE FUND.

$1,749.948.81,

Some years ago one of the battalions of a. certain Regiment of Foot Guards possessed in its Adjutant an exceptionally smart and efficient officer, excellently well qualified for the post he held. But without at all intending It, or thinking that he was so, he was a military martinet, petty tyrant of a most exasperating kind. A hopeless enthusiast in his profession, his restless, fidgetty, inquisitive nature was continually entangling kim in the meshes of some new and totally impossible system of drill ho wished to bring out. Day after day every available man would be, wanted for drill at hours they had always been permitted to regard as their own if off duty. All the time-honoured Institutione

peddling, meddlesome Investigation by this $5,483,127.22 energetic afficer, and revised and Improved so

$4,600,000.00

of the shell produced appeared to be there of an exploded six-pound Hotchkiss. did not know how the shell came in posics- aion of deceased, it could not be one from the To balance on 30th June, 189085,482,127.20 peculiar to the Battalion were subjected to own stores. It might have been one which had missed fire. He only arrived in the colony on the 21st of June last. His idea was that it was either a fired shell picked up, or a blind shell dragged ashore by fishermen in a net, and then picked up by the deceased. It was more pro- bably a fired shell than one that had ricocheted. Inspector Mathieson said he was of opinion that the shell had been dragged up by fishermen and by that means got on the island, and was picked up ultimately by deceased. He did not think it would occur to fishermen to sell the shell as old fron.

His Worship said he did not think it possible to purage the inquiry further. One or two of the wiinesses had given evidence which proved con- dusively that there had been no carelessness on the part of the Royal Artillery, whose stores were in good order when a special check of the receipt and expenditure of Hotchkiss shells was made lately. The shell must have got on the island in some such way as two or three of the witnesses had suggested. The cause of death was the accidental explosion of a 61b. Hotchkiss shell, as to the possession of which by the deceased there was no satisfactory evidence forthcoming,

By Balance on 31st Dec., 1879 By Instalments of Premium re

ceived on New Shares of

By Amount transferred from Profit ́and Loss Account .......................................

683,127.10

200,000.00

$5,482,127.20

H. L. DALRYMPLE, ST. C. MICHALISEN, Directors. T. E. DAVIES,

T. JACKSON. Katanga Chlef Manager. AW. MAITLAND,VT

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A SHANGHAI Contemporary learns from Peking that early last month the two sons of Sir John Walsham, the son of Col. Denby, with Mr. Tratman, of the British Consular Service, while enjoying a swim in one of the numerous streams

much that they entirely disappeared. Any in the Western Hills, were overtaken by a

privileges the men had previously enjoyed were sudden storm in which the rain descended in a

In like manner improved so much as to be transformed into sources of continual annoyance veritable deluge, Before they could regain the

and mortification. The Internal arrangements bank, their clothes were washed away, and

of the barrack rooms in particular received carried down the stream never to be seen or worn, by their lawful owners again. A dog

special attention, weeks being spent in experie belonging to one of the party was also carried

ments directed to the discovery of the best method THE notorious murderer and burglar, Li Pi Tss,

away and drowned before his master's eyes.

of arranging the spare articles of clothing on the shelves provided for that purpose." Thess for whose extradition the Chinese Government

The weather was fortunately warm, but it was

experiments resulted in partial, If not complete, applied in June last on the ground that he

nevertheless a highly uncomfortable, not to

falure, however, as their author appeared to be committed several murders and burglaries nest

say shocking predicament in which the four

unable to decide what affect it would have in a Canton last year, was handed over to the

unfortunate bathers found themselves without

European crisis if a part of blennial trousers o Chinese Authorities at one o'clock on the

clothes, shoes, and not even a smoke, away upon the alde of the mountain, with a long distance

were placed on top of a pair of annual trousers, 8th inst. He was taken from the gaol to Peddar's | Causeway Bay, *

between them and their homes, which they

Chief Accountant.

or vice versa, or if the efficiency of the British. Wharf by a strong guard of Sikhs and

We have compared the above Statement with Army would be more effectually secured by Europeans commanded by Acting Chlef Inspector CURSES both loud and deep have been general clearly could not face as they were. No budding Craddock, with Detective Inspector Quincey, De- throughout the colony amongst shareholders of diplomats surely ever found themselves in such

year's tusie over last year's. Then having tective Sergeants C. Haddon and J. Melver; and the China Sugar Refining Company, Limited, a sorry plight, and almost before they knew it

the Books, Vouchers and Securities at the Head placing last year's tunic over this year's, or this P.S. Harkins. Upon arrival at the wharf the since it was known that the interim dividend night was upon them. Like the primitive

Office, and with the Returns from the various

Sup point, he would be horrified and disgusted to doomed man was placed on board the police had been fixed at the (comparatively) beggarly examples of our progenitors they were forced by

Branches and Agencies, and have found the sate succeeded in partially settling way, the latter

PRYRIL Auditors.

find in the very next room he entered two men launch and taken off to a Chiness gun-boat rate of 4 per cent, for the half-year, on the paid- the cold wind that sprang up at night to take

to be correct.

F. HENDERSON,

with only one tunic each. Any arrangement where a doren Celestial. braves, armed to the up capital. If this were not a religious paper refuge in carer and under projecting tocks, where

Hongkong, 7th August, 1890,

whatever in such a case as this would involva teeth, took over charge of this long wanted" we might feel disposed to quote a few of the they parsed about the most wretched night oftheir

want of symmetry and uniformity in appearance terror of the Kuang Tung province. The prisoner choice utterances that have been freely indulged lives. Meanwhile the sojourners at the Temples became perfectly pallid and somewhat excited in by disappointed holders, but as matters stand, were in a terrible fright about the non-appearance

THE GRENADIER GUARDS that could not, in the Interests of the Service, when be found himself in the hands of his

and the safety of the Empire be tolerated for a we leave the China Mail to sing the praises of of the four young gentlemen, and search parties

EMEUTE

me moment.But how to meet the difficulty | countrymen, and once or twice looked about the princely house and Mr. E. R. Belilies, were sent out into the storm, but they could find him with an air of desperation which clearly Chian Sugars, by those in the swim, were freely no trace of the wayfarers, who in the dim uncer

Aged Certainly all the men with only one tunic each bespoke his desire to make a dash at his captors prognosticated only a few short months ago as tain light of the morning got back to their

The unfortunate catastrophe that has over might be collected in rooms by themselves, or, The fiftieth report of the Court of Directors to taken the and Battalion, Grenadier Guards, and only that the regulations prohibited it, a second and die in the freary of a life and death struggle. certain. to reach, and be actually worth, $350 homes footsore, weary, and suffering from their But he hadn't the heart in him to try it, per share, What a falling off, dear brethren, unwonted exposure. One of them was so that the ordinary half-yearly general meeting of which has not only procured if a sentence of runle might be fasted pending their becoming and soon succumbed to the inevitable-heavy when offers to sell at $166 on the 6th lust were he had to be supported by a Chinaman who had shareholders to be held at the City Hall, on banishment to the aftermost ends of the earth entitled to it, or, only that the House Guards manncles, and chaining to the deck like a dog, disdainfully ignored! And yet people marvel met the wanderers and was nearly terrified out After he was safely chalned up, our guardians of that share speculation in Hongkong, has been of his wits at first by their appearance, and pro- Sturday, the 23rd August, at noon, laas but has lost to it what will no doubt be felt people would be sure, to raise once mapida much more keenly, namely, the favour of objections to such a course, they might be dise the peace took their leave of the genial skipperstone broke" for months past. That result bably took them for an entirely new tribe of follows is a

countenance will na more shine on it, might, if The tremendous difficulties bristling round these of the gan-boat, and before they reached Peddar's was inevitable, and China Sugars were: a western barbariant, whose only garb was what To the Proprietors of the Hongkong & Shapghat George, Ranger, the light of whose subleand charged, the service for the good of the system; Wharf observed that the little craft was under principal, factor in the general collapse of the nature gave them. The absence of tomahawks Banking Corporation, way and heading for Canton, at full speed babble speculators. It is to be hoped that the and such uncomfortable looking implements, Gentlemen,The Directors have now to the authorities desired, be made to sarre good points were only equalled by the obstacles he where Li Pi Tas will soon receive his quiring severe lesson taught by the bitter experiences of however, reassured him and he went to their submit to you a general statement of the affairs purpose in forming the alien d'firs of in searche" encountered in carrying out a series of experiments and enter a long, though probably undeserved the past twelve months will not be entirely lost assistance and Kelped the feeblest of the party of the Bank, and balance sheet for the hall-year by inquiry into the whole question of the suture with the prisoners and others daily belag of the relations that exist between the officers of brought before hins for a multitude of reasons. ending 30th June, 18ço, rest.

sight of when things takon changs for the better. home,

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THE HONGKONG' AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.