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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

DISPENSING CHEMISTS. SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS. ASTRINGENTS, DIARRHEA & CHOLERA

REMEDIES. &c.

CHOLERA ELIXIR.--A pro.

DAKIN'S Cxperience of this epidemic in

India, its home and birth-place, has proved beyond all doubt the efficacy of this remedy, which combines in a concentrated form the medicinal agents which have proved most useful in arresting the rapid progress of that fatal malad, and in combating it when developed.

Fall directions accompany each bottle. Fer bottle, $rigo and $3.

Cholera Pills are made from an old, well-tried formule, and are most useful in the early stage of an attack. Per bottle, zo cents.

Dakin's Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodynt, and Anti-spasmodic. This reliable remedy bas long been used throughout the East as a stand-by in Cholera and Diarrhces. In bottles, 35, 75 cents, $1.50 and $2.75.

Dr. Rubini's Essence of Camphor-Valuable for simple Diarrhoes, and in the earlier stages of Dysentery and Cholers. Per bottle, 50 cents.

Fluid Extract of Indian Bac! (prepared from the unripe fruit of the Egle Marmelos).

Of great servics in Diarrhea and Chronic Dysentery. Per battle, $t.

Dietetic Bael. A bighly agreeable and nutri tive diet, particularly recommended la derange ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and irritation of the bowels.

This preparation has been in use la India for thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific in Diarrhea and Dysentery. Per tin, $1.

DÁKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED.

(Telephone No. 6p.) ..

Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkang, 1st September, 1800,

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890.

THE word "honeymoon," a fair correspondent Informs uk, is derived from the German and has its significance from the fact that, the Germans fermerly drank mead sweet liquid made of honey for thirty days after the wedding. ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30.

We read that the Nicaragua Canal Company

bas purchased the seven dredgers, forty lighters and other property belonging to the Slavin out fit, which was used on the Panama ditch, and the whole property will be towed to Greytown and put into active service.

This is the latest journalistic outrage perpetrated at the expense of a defenceless pubile: Hallo, "I'm going old man, what's your hurry?" down to kill the editor of the Telegraph. I seat a communication in, signed 'Honestas, and he coolly added an extra to it."

WHILE Sarah Bernhardt was laid up with a weak knee it was rumoured in America that the

·leg would require amputation. Barnum, It Is said, at once cabled over an offer of a large sum for Sarah's shapely supporter after removal, which he intended to embalm and exhibit,. Bernhardt didn't accept,

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He had a drop too much. You say your friend died because be indulged in a drop too much "-"Yes, poor fellow. He was hanged." A VERY Daughty Hule boy of fourteen years of ago was amongst the fits at Mr. Robinson's ever this morning, where his weeping mamma charged him with robbing her of three dolars worth of odds and ends. His Worship sent the young scamp into retirement for the next five days, during which period stalwart gaoler will administer to him twelve strokes of the rattan. HERE is a very Important legal judgment to which we would direct the attention of local lawyers. A Chicago judge has decided that an agreement for the consideration of $1 a week, by which a man was prevented from undertaking a certain kind of business for a stipulated time, was not binding, because he mortgaged hi Überty of action and, practically, his means of earning a livelihood.

It seems that epaulettes which make modern naval and military uniforme a ridiculous spectacle, were first ordered to be worn in 1785, but had apparently been optional a few years before, as Nelson wrote to his father in 1783:-"Two noble captains are bere they wear line epaulettes, for which I think them great coxcombs, You may suppose I hold them a little cheap for putting on any part of a Frenchman's uniform." THE Melbourne Age has got itself into a rather 'eep hole by priating warp to the effect that Yankee Consul in Melbourne had fed from 4400 debt. Next day the Consul turned up smiling at his office and informed the inevitable interviewer-not necessarily for publication but a guarantee of good faith that he had been on view at Government House for some hours during the time of his alleged "disappearance. A will for libel was, at latent dates, in process of manufacture, and the Editor of the Age was Tur Makut Rajakumar otherwise the Fenquiring how the--something then things and iwashas been turned into a botanical garden their way into the paper. According to spicy all to-day, and will be flaminated with the rumour, an unreliable fade, by the way, there

was a lady at the bottom of this trouble. electric light and lanterns to-night, to-morrow night, and on Monday night, in honor of the King of Slam's birthday. She will leave here about Tuesday, and await Prince Bhanarangsal and his party at Saigon...

On, the scs-a-amp 1 Such was the expression applied by Dr. Cairns to our old friend Sir Geore Bowen then Governor of Victoria, when a Presbyterian Assembly deputation offered to walk on him at twelve, and he requested them to make it eleven because he wanted to go to the races. It was a very cold day when Sir Guah got left.

THE China Mail's cock-and-bull story about the

A WILD WEST editor puts it thus pathetically

you bave frequent headaches, d'xiness and fainting spells, accompanied by chills, cramps, corns, bunions, chilblains, epilepsy and jaundice, a sign that you are not well but are liable to die any minute, Pay your subscription year in advance and thus make yourself solid for good obituary naïfce.»

being terminus, but merely a port of call, it was of the utmost importance, that vessels calling here should be despatched as quickly posible. He was willing to admit that, but contended that owners could so ron their ships as to avoid being in Hongkong on Sunday. Colombo was by no means a terminus either, but there laws were enforced not with A view to wringing from owners exorbitant fees. but far ile purpose of diminishlog labor on board ships on Sunday. He did not think it necessary to make owners pay stiff fees for working on Sunday but he submitted that British officers, who were just as much entitled to their Sunday as any other subjects of the labour. It was not their duty, strictly speaking, Queen, should be paid well for Sunday, extra. to work in port on Sunday,

MASONRY, says the Bibare Boomerang, hus been the great instrument in the secularisation of Italy, of France, of Spain. Whether we approve of it or not, there is the fact. It has gone into the heart of Catholicdom. It has passed with noiseless trend into the Vatican itself and has snatched the crown from a It is to Masonry and its manifold monarch of Spain-because she followed the priests. ramification that the political changes of the past half-century on the European continent are DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, adoption of, was to cause the cessation Sonday largely due; for on the continent af Europe, Masonry it a fighting organisation and not, as it is in English-speaking countries gorged with. this world's goods and stunned by fat princes of the blood royal sitting on its head. And if Orangemen think that the directors of the

THE LONG DROP. The centre of Hongkong was virtually a desert from three o'clock this afternoon, every body bad gone to see the last of Spencer, the parachutist. The attendance on the Race course a was gratifyingly large, but the free view from

the upper roads had its attractions also, we regret to say. The hour or two before the ascent The traffic in coolies between Macao and was occupied by watching the great balloon Mexico is attracting considerable attention on slowly inflating, and a lot of grotesque smaller the part of the Hongkong Government, in con-ones losing themselves. The daring little faller nection with which H. The Administrator's was the centre of attraction, of course, and the visit to Macao to-morrow is significant. There excitement was very great, but as the appointed are arveral ships fiting cut here for the traffic, time passed, and he was still on terra firms, it to and the first thing that will happen will he their began to subside. When he did get everything the coolics to "let go," people were as little seizure. The Middle Passage doesn't run through arranged, and, at 5.45. gave orders Hongkong, and these people have got to remem- ber it.

tired. For dearly three-quarters of a minute The Chairman anid it was clear from the the balloon rose, pearly straight overhead, and remarks of Lord Knutsford in the House of Lords that at present there was no hope suddenly it heeled over, the occupant was seen to drop, as promised, like a thunderbolt, for for legislation on the subject, and the only some couple of hundred feet, amid the hi-way to obtain their Sunday was to induce the yabs 1 of the multitude, and then floated Chamber of Commerce to press for legislation gradually downwards into the Parsta Cemetery upon the matter, so that no foreign ships would on his aerial support, the collapsing balloon be allowed to work on Sunday any more than to do anything which would be detrimental to slowly following from its altitude of some 1.500 British vessels. The Association had no desire the interests of owners. The object of the feet. Further details will be given on Monday.

resolution, which he was about to move the

Catholic Church don't know all this and 'dra't sixe Orangeism up at its true worth and Masonry at i's worth, they cin stand by and see how the world moves, for time revels all things.

On the plains of New Mexico, are forests of a growth known as thread and needle trees, says the New York Telegram. The tree partakes of the nature of the giantic asparagus and has

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The ordinary general meeting of the share holders of the above Company was held at noen those present were the Hon. J. J. Keswick day. Mr. T. E. Davies presided, and among Hon. P. Ryrie, Mr. D. R. Sassoon, (directors Messrs. D. Gillies, H. L. Dalrymple, H. Crawford, L. K. Davis, E. Jones-Hughes, J. H Cox, J. F. C. de Roza, J. A. Gomes, R. Lyall, and J. H. Lewis (Secretary.)

labour while acting la concert with shipowners As much as possible. He proposed "That in view of the fact that the sum and substance of official and public opinion generally was to the effect that the cessation of labour on

could only be effected by the Chamber of board ship on Sunday, in Hongkong, Commerce, this Association decides that special representations should be made to the Chamber of Commerce with a view to the holding of a conference between delegates of this Association and the Chairman of the said Chamber."

Mr. Stainton seconded and the resolution was carried unanimously,

Mr. Chapman then preposed that "the Chamber of Commerce consenting to the con- ference this Association be represented by the President, Captain Ashton, and two or thres members to be selected by the Committee."

Mr. Gale and Mr. Bowker seconded and the motion was carried unanimously.

The regular business of the Association having bres disposed of the meeting closed with a

A. S. WATSON & CO. LD long of the Turkish man-of-war-Ertogroul finde have means. But the majority are la s starving | this to loosen It from the tough outside pahaps be not unreasonable to hope for an condial vote of thanks to the Chairman/

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED

WATERS.

Our New Factory has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved kind, and we are well ab'è to compete in quality with the best

· Rxglish Makers.

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 botiles as heretofne, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers per to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDERS. whenever niacticable, vie despatched by first strainer leaving aher receipt of order,

FOX COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empiles when received in good order.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-

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Our Registered Telegraphic Address is, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

The following is a List of Waters always kept ready in Stock:--

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PURE ÁERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER

LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

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 nover used again by ds.

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

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TO SUBSCRIBERS, Babarbers to The Hanghong Telegraph are impecabilly reminded that all Subscriptions are payalia in advance.

TO ADVERTISERS.

fed period will be continued until countermanded.

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HONGKONG SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1890.

no rellable confirmation anywhere in town. The vessel has been regularly lost every three months since she left Constantinople-she can get loster than Emin Pasha-bat our contemporary, is playing the thing too low-down when it works in half a column of the moth-eaten details. on every occasion,

THE Tientsin SAA Pas of August 21st says

In the suburbs of the capital the distress caused by the flood is very great. The people are suffering from want of proper food. Food of all kinds is now very scarce, even for those who condition. Several days ago a man was leadlog girl of about 13 years old into one of the brothels to obtain money, a that he might keep his family from starvation for a abort time. Some families are selling young widows at cheap prices to those who are in quest of second wives. It is heart-rending sight to witness such things May their suffering soon be reltered by charitable be more earnest in the relief work." The Govein ment ought to enjoin on officials a more rigid discharge of thele duties,”

large, thick, fleshy leaves, resembling one of the cactus fimily known as the "prickly pear." The needles of the needle and thread tree are sel along the edges of these thick leaves. In order to get equipped for sewing it is only necessary to push the tharn needle gently backward into the fleshy sheath covering of the leaf-and then pull it from the socket. A hundred fine fibers adhere to the thora like spider webs. By twisting the needle during the drawing operation this fiber can be drawn out to an indefinite length. The action of the atmosphere toughens the minute threads amazingly, to such a degr e as to make a thread twisted from it, no larger than a No. 40, capable three times the tensile strength of common six- | cord thread. The scientific name of this foreign

wonder is Tentvana Mucadica.

A DISPATCH from Portland to a San Franciscs 1 people and the Government, The public should I of sustaining a weight of five pounds, about for heavy permanent repairs such as DEW

contemporary, dated the 18th ulto, says :--- "Parties who are in a position to know state that the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company secured their full demand of.$10,000 per month So indestructible by wear or decay is African from the Pacific Mail Company for keeping their teak-wood, that vessels built of it have lasted steamers away from San Francisco. We fully one hundred years, to be then broken up belleve the Canadian Pacific Company compro- only on account of their antique mould or defec mised matters for a very much smaller amount than that named by the Portland correspondent.tive salilug qualities. This wood is one of the most remarkable employed in the human indus. tries for its great weight, hardness and durability, its weight varying from 41 to 45 pounds per cubic foot. It works easily, but from the large quantity of allex contained, the tools for working require to be hard, and even then are subject to severe wear. It also contains an oil which pre- vents the iron spikes and nails driven into it from rusting. The East India teak-wood is somewhat lighter and easter worked, and also. from its salicious qualities, a perfect germaclde to marine life, so destructive to other woods. It requires from sixty to eighty years for growth sufficient for ship-building purposes, and is largely in use in English ship building,

"WHEN you tam var away from me, Donald, drink and R. Harvey & Co.'s Dundashill Sne, old, matured, and mellow whisky every evening at regular intervals from 8.until 11, and then when your lips touch the quaigh you will know that I, far off nnng the bonale hills of Scotland am also imbibing their Scottish nectar, and thinking of thee," said Flora Macgregor, an eloquent Highland lassic and an uncommonly good judge of whusky, to Tonald MacTavish, as she bade him goed-bye on Greenock Pier. whence he took passage for Hongkong, to join the far-famed police force of that colony. G Rennie Stewart, of 12 D'Agullar St., is the focal purveyor this celebrated tipple.

The Sydney Bulletin relates of Frank Lincoln, who gives his second show here, in the City Hall, to-night thus :--Heand Mrs. Brown Potter-were engaged one Saturday evening by Mr John Incob Astor to amure some of the New York newspaper runners at the Home which the Astors had provided out of their wealth. There were some pretty hand eld cases amongst these runners and they stood Lincoln fairly well, but when the beauteous Potter up-ended herself and said in her loveliest amateur voice she hadn't got very far as a pro. then and we aren't pre pared to say she has since—“Well, boys, what ibalt I give you," one old cully remarked, “ob give us a rest and sit down ; we are so tired."

A THOROUGH "bad egg" who had been twice flogged and jailed for earring sustching, was put on the "stand "before Mr. Robinson at the Police Court this morning and there charged with snatching, one Ng Asup's, oral aspendages way down Wanchai last night. In defence the scoundrel had the cool impertinence to submit that "he thought he waya “bit off his chump," was suffering from an affection of the spleen, and had been advised to jump into the Bowrington canal. He was on his way to the canal when

Advertisers are equated to forward all podloss fatended for basertion in that day'a lexus not faise that Thres of Clock she dropped across the complainant who set up a sot to read the early publication of the paper.

Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not nedared for yell which so scared him that he ran like The Honghene Telegrad has the larger circulation of ay race-pony While running huge Indian Ragliak nampa pabirked in the Far East, and is therefore the arrested him. It was preposterous to charge him medium Zor Advertisers. Terms can belaarst application with earring snatching!" His Worship promptly The Hengheng Tileeragića nambar at the Tulephone Castral falled him for six months, with hard labour.

Our further inquiry to-day we find that the extraordinary account we gave yesterday, of a ship's crew being actually without food here, is by no means exaggerated. The Sara Mercedit left Peru for here thirteen months ago, and after arriving took a cargo for Qoinhon, In Tongain On the way sheencountered very bad weather, and put into Saigon in a leaky condition. Toecrew had to appeal to the authorities there to get the necessaries of life, and on returning here in July the captain went ashore, sick. The men have much as ten months' pay due to them, and in addition to that have for two days been unable to get provisions. The Conant, the Harbour Master, and the Police hare alike refused Mid, and to the eternal disgrace of a British Colony, eighteen men are in that ship to-day without money, food and, almost, clothes, They are advised to sell the ship, but in the absence of instructions from the alleged Consul they are afraid. Will His Excellency the Administrator sce to it >

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TELEGRAMS

LOSS OF THE "TAURUS* 'CONTRADICTED.

LONDON, September 18th. The reported loss of the Austrian warship Taurus is stated to be unfounded,

RESIGNATION OF THE PORTUGUESE

MINISTRY..

THE following communication, which seems to us very fair indeed, has been forwarded to us: It has been alleged that there is systematic over pressure going on in the Schools of the Colony and to such an extent that the health of the youth of the Colony is being undermined by it To test the truth of this allegation and to ascer tals, in case there should be serious over Pressure, the classes of school-children parti- cularly suffering from it, arrangements are being made for a thorough medical investigation of the health of the boys attending some of the principal Boys' Schools of the Colony. The investigation will be conducted by Dr. Cantlie, who has kindly volunteered his services for the purpose. It is to be hoped that Managers of Schools and parents of school children, for whose special benefit this Inquiry is to be held, will give every facility to the proposed medical examination of their children. The inquiry will be confined to the principal Boys' Schools whose Managers court it, and no child will be medically examined whose parents or guardians disapprove of it

Tum great difference that exists between the act of sharing hands and most of the other methods of salutation, is that it is expressive of equality between the two parties, and, as a rule, the others are not. In the one case, both the men. stand erect, and salute exch other equally i whereas in the case of Orientals and of savage people, one man stands and the other abases himself before him. The Oriental uncovers, not his head, but his feet, and bows down to the earth, often spreading his hands out in a fashion suggestive of the most uiter helplessness. The South African will pick up handfuls of diet and rub them upon his stomach-surely the most humillating proceeding, and one most destructive to a white waistcoat; but, happily, that is a garment which the untutored savage seldom, if ever, wears. Another tribe in Central Africa, the Batoks, or Batonga, roll themselves upon the ground, slapping their thighs violently, and crying out at intervals, Kina Bombo - particularly inconvenient ceremony. But these to the santations of savages, and probably. they are inspired by very much the same feeling as those of animals. In Hongkong we merely nod and say "chin-chin,

Ma. WODEHOUSE had quite a time of it this morning at the Magistracy in connection with thres "deads "one a European the others Chinese. The first inquiry was in connection with the circumstances attending the death of a young drummer named James Carey, who was found drowned near MacGregor Barracks on Wedacsday last. The evidence shewed that the deceased, while drunk on the night of the 17th instant, went on board three junks lying abreast of each other at the bamboo pier near the Barracks. He sat down for a while on the outer jank, and when making his way back to the pier he slipped and fell between two of the vessels into the water, sinking immediately, The body being recovered by the police an hour afterwards. A finding of "accidentally drowned" was returned. The other two cases, of a coolie and a little girl, were then disposed of findings of "accidental death" and "found drowned" being returned, respec- tively. The coolie, it transpired in evidence, was killed by a large stone falling upon him while engaged in some excavations near the Ko Shing theatre; while the little girl accidentally fell over the Praya wall and was never seen again until floating, dead, on the surface of the water near the Harbour Office on Wednesday Afternoon last.

ONWARD!

Nations need new constitutions Every hundred years or so, If not granted revolutions By denial swiftly grow ; Statesmen ruling by traditions

Cannot see with modern eyes, And they know not man's transitiona

Make new sentiments arise. - Ruling powers are merely fictions

Meant for plunder-seeking hands, If they cling to old restrictions

Of the people's new demands; Laws which suited ancient nations Will not do for men always ga What were dreams are aspirations,

What were hopes are creeds to-day.. Nature meant us for prograsion, Else we still were troglodytes, Every day leaves an impression

Which some higher thought invites; Each socceeding generation

Leaves the footprints of the past, Shaping for itself a station

Further upward than the last. Who shall fix the limitation

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The Chairman said-Gentlemen, the report and accounts have been in your hands for some few days, and with your permission we will follow the usual course and take the same as rend. The working results now before you are, as stated in the report, not very satisfactory, but of course the earnings of the fleet depend upon the conditions of the...coast- ing trade, which is always afluctuating quantity; and as we have recently gone through a period of some, depression it may improvement in the near future. I would say just a few words on the subject of the Reserve,

althoug it may be hardly necessary, as most THE WESTERN EDITOR HAS HIS probably you are all aware of the facts to which

TROUBLES. I would draw particular attention. This fund is, as a matter of fact, hardly of the nature of a proper cash reserve, but represents amounts put by each year to cover depreciation and pay bollers &c., and is liable at any time to be extensively drawn'upon for such purposes, and may add will be drawn upon during the year now current, As is shown in the balance sheet, part of this fund has already been invested in the purchase of new steamers and from its nature you must see that it will not go on increas. Ing to an indefinite extent, for as it grows at will the amounts added decrease, inasmuch as the 8 per cent is calculated upon the values of the Company's sleamers, &c. less the amount of Reserve. The permaneat wel fare and stability of the Company must of course be the first encern of the management. It world naturally be a great pleasure to be able to pay a larger dividend, but I think you will admit that the Compay's best interests are being cared for, more especially upon the present occasion, when, the chief addition to Reserve comes from extraneous sources and not from working profit. I don't think I need add more, but if any shareholder wishes for Information I. shall be pleased to answer such questions as he may desire to ask.

Mr. Gomes asked if, considering that the result of the year's working had been somewhat disappointing to the shareholders, it would be amins to ask the general managers to forego something, in view of the large commission they had drawn in past year? Other general managers had done it.

The Chairman did not feel able to entertain the suggestion, but at the same time agreed that Mr. Gomes had a perfect right to make it. He did not know that that course had been followed In other companies.

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Mr. Gomes also pointed out that as business. had been so slack it was inexpedient to despatch the steamers so quickly alter each other as had

been done.

We catract the following from the last issue of the Arizona Kicker :---

THEY GOT LEFT. Feeling the need of a few days' rest from brain work, wo bled ourself to Jim's Penk last week, to remain about ten days. Soon after supper a stranger, approached us and gave us a hint that the boys were planning a serenade, and that we had better have a speech ready.

In this western country some words have a serenade" may mean double meaning. sweet, soft music by the band, with a call from a lot of jolly good fellows, or it may mean a visit from the gang who are provided with a rope but no music. In order to be on the safe side we took up a temporary home in a thicket, and from thence discovered that this was to be a rope serenade Some of the boys from Johnson's ranche had determined to lynch us as a great moral warning, but, while they were hunting for us around the hotel we were meandering through the jack-ploes and midnight darkness to saler quarters," a inet Panties"

In one sense, we don't blame the boys so ranch. "An occasional hanging adds iest and gusto to this western tile, and it is very rare that the victim's friends can claim that any mistáko was made. In another sense the boys are to be blamed for their lack of taste. We have it on good authority that they meant to hang ua with an old mule-chain. There were thirty of them in the crowd. We make no boasts, bat let our readers watch for developments. We'll have sheriffs and detectives heresster at least thirty-one of them, before the week is out, and then we shall :borrow a shotgun and go on a hunt after the odd one.

SOLD AGAIN.

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Our esteemed contemporary has made another dismal failure. On Monday he came out in a

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Wharton shooting case and tried his best to prove that we had an active hand in it and were reponsi hit for Judge Johnson's death. At the coroner's faquest, held on that same afternoon, Maj. Blias, testified:

The Chairman-That is an expression of opinion in a detail of management Short of laying a steamer upthey could not do otherwise Mr. Games suggested that one be chartered, The Chairman was quite agreeable if Mr Gomes would make an offer. Aldape

Mr. Gomes asked if another steamer was to be purchased should the Thaler was sold ?

The Chairman rejoined that that was a matter for future consideration.He then moved the adoption of the report.

I was sitting at a table in the Red Cross saloon with the editor of the Kicker. We were there to talk over the McKinley Bill and to take the initiatory steps toward establishing another Sunday, school. Judge Johnson came in.. Ho was pretty drunk. He saw Bot Wharton at a

of the Kicker, kindly asked him to put it up, and offered him a year's subscription to the piper to go home and take a nap. The judge refused and pressed forward to get a shot. Next moment Wharton dropped him." ded

Mr. Dalrymple, in seconding,' said that contable beyond us and pulled his gun. The editor sidering the unsatisfactory state of trade during the past year the report was exceedingly good, The dividend of course was not a very brilliant one, but looking at all the circumstances itwas all they could expect. The shareholders must be gratified to learn that all the accounts up to Juno had been collected, which reflected great credit on the management,

The motion having been adopted, Mr. Gillies proposed the re-election of the Hon. J. J. Keswick, Hon. P, Ryrie, and Mr. Sassoon, as members of the Gosenliing Come mitter,

This was the truth and the whole truth, and yet our jealous,pated contemporary, koping ha had a bold on us tried, bla bardest to make out that but for us, there would have been no shoots ing. We used to refer to him as toothless, knock-kused, bow-legged, lop-cared, · hump- backed, white-livered, cross-eyed, and so on. We have a mortgage on his whole out-fit, and M. Davis seconded, and it was egeed touring We used to threaten to foreclose on it. We used Mr. da Rom moved, and "Mife Crawford to meet him on the street and scare him inte seconded, the re-appointment of Massi. J. H. | kneeling down and' begging our pardon : Wa Cox and R. Lyall sa auditora, which was agreed now let him baye his own way. Some day we paint will bury him in our private grave-yard-sOMIS The Chairman, in thanking those present for day when he has tired as, completely out,

Page IV ARK WRONG. attending, hoped that Mr. Dalrymple's apprecia Live remarks were endorsed by them, and announced that the dividend warrants would be ready on Monday. ·

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To man's upwards destiny I' Who shall make the demarcation

*Tween the Now and the To Be? Onward is the Inspiration

Of the millions »ll around, Onward is the exclamation

Which the bygone ages sound, The Sanitary, Board met yesterday afternoon. Some correspondence with the Government in respect to the quarantine regulations was read Mr. Francis expressed the opinion that the Board had neither men nor m-ans to 'deal with an outbreak of cholera, and, Mr. Ede pressing for provision being made in advance, the Secretary wes instructed to And out what was needed. A letter from the Colonial Secretary, pointing out that the bye-laws for the prevention MARINE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION. of adulteration were insufficient, was read,

A meeting of the above named Association putting water in milk was adulteration, and in

Several legal opinions were given as to whether LISBON, September 18th.

In consequence of a split among the supporters of the African Treaty between, Great Britain and Portugal, the Portuguesa Ministry has resigned.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SER JANKS RUSSELL was to leave Nagasaki to-day for Hongkong.

The Government gleamer Fame (Captain St. Johny will proceed to Macao to-morrow morning carrying His Excellency the Acting Governor cho goes there on a short official visit, returning to Hongkong the same day.

THE public will not forget that Mr. Lincoln is going to tickle the effcle East at nine to-night punctually. As there is no chance of his being daveighed into shewing again, beleg retained for soyalty on Monday night and shewing in the Shameen Hotel at Canton on Tuesday. You

"GE KUJUS LAIKOTAR

A THEORY OF EVOLUTION, Way back in those archaic days when time for

man got ripe, A tailless apo sat on a tree and smoked a penny

pipe. And an he smoked, lo I thought began. He knew

that he enjoyed. (Be not surprised at this. You see that ape was

authropoid.) Thus thought began, and thought is all that So be it known that thus in smoke the human

TECO.began.

`makes a man a man,

But mark how in a circle move all subluxaTY

things.

Events, like smoke, resolve themselves into ex-

panding rings And as the smokey's pipe made thought, and

thought created man, The diarcus shall take him back to just where

Es began.

THE open question as to the relative value of Lloyd's covering notes, and policies issued by Incorporated marine Insurance companies, seems to be favorite one among shippers and insurers, Much has been heard of Lloyd's injudicious rate cutting and general methods, but the following expression By Fairplay condenses the whole matter admirably, That paper says:00

According to the annual report of the Com- mittes of Lloyd's, the securities held on behalf of the depositing underwriting members are valued at £2,695,160, while the guarantees held from the non-depositors amount to £1,144,500, making together £3.893,660. Seeing that the non- depositors mutually guarantee one another by policies, it is conceivable that in the event of a large number of underwriting failures, the realizations under the guarantee policies might fall considerably short. Commenting on the Lloyd's figures the underwriter of a company || states ~

The amount held by the Committes of Lloyd's forms a reseren fand for the members of Lloyd's in their collective, but not in their individual, capacity; and on the same basis the reserves of Lourteen Marino companies in the city amount approximately to £4,000,000—-vis, say, capital (paid up), £3,000,000 reserve fund, 3,000,000. Independent of this sum, the capital, uncalled | but avaliable la case of necessity-amounts to

betwien £7,000,000 and £8,000,000, HAVE

THE BRITISH MERCANTILE

was held at the Marine Hotel, Praya, West, Last

Those of our citizens who are asserting that our late trouble with the postmaster was caused by jealousy of his position on our art are doing. usa grave injustice. True, we were a candidato for postmaster, and true, also, we are a mighty "sight better man for the place than the present

incumbent, but we are not falous. Wanamaker refused to appoint us, and wa refuse to wear Wanamaker's clothing

far, so 's an even thing thus

we shot of a part of his left ear angi banged him-

The trouble, began as -2005; 83; this ; man D the end Mr. Francis moved, and it was resolved, night when the general discussion upon the that the Government be recommended to adopt Sunday Labour question closed with the passing entered the post office. He held back our mail and

Several oferent fon in connection therewith. The chair made us wewy, in many other ways, We hap the English law on the subject complaints of bad smells. &c., baring been was taken by Mr. H. L. Newham, who called pounded him half to death one day, and for two. dealt with, the Sanitary Superintendent's report upon Mr. Chesney Duncan, the Secretary to months be was a model postmaster. Then he for August was read. His principal complaint read any special correspondence which he might got sissy and shot at us, and we left a bullet in was that much uncleanliness was noticeable bo in possession of relative to the persion a day. He then got on his car and tried to prick the at his shoulder, i. That lasted him until the other around the hawker stalls, and as the shop. In response Mr. Duncan said the Row, Mr. us with a bowie knife, and in sheer self-defense keepers complained of the competition by peripatetie vendors he asked for Instructions Goldsmith had kladly favoured him with an how to deal with them. The opinion of the extract from a letter received by him lately, with the butt of the revolver. It was in the ing majority of the members was that hawkers were from Mr. Lang, an Important: Liverpool terest of the whole public. He'll be on deck in a necessary suisance. It was ultimately decided hipowner, who stated that he never allowed a week, and for the next three months he'll work to clean up more frequently the localities which Sunday labour on board his ship and sill ho'bad' like a steer and be as pleasant as peaches. 3 they patrolled, and that complaint be made to never found himself a lower thereby. Mr. Dancan the Government that the regulations were not also said he was in possession of correspondenpa properly enforced-On the motion of Mr. Eda, from the Government of Ceylon which showed seconded by Mr. Francis, the Sanitary Super that Sunday Jabour on board ships in intendent was instructed to report on the Colombo harbour as prohibited except upon condition of Chinese bakeries, and Dr. Cantlle payment of exorbitant special fees, Ascalo gave notice of his intention to move for a report of these extra charges he now held in bil on the condition of nerated water establishments, hand. One of the leading arguments against the attempt dairies, and preserved provisions establishments, cessation of Sunday labour in Hongkong was, pas an Act There was no other business of public interest,! he understood, to the effect that Hosglong nosi the legal

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