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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITE D.

DISPENSING "CHEMISTS.

WINE AND SPIRIT DEPARTMENT.

HISKY, SCOTCH. F. O, S. DAKIN,

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Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.

Hongkong, zoth October, 1890.

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BY APPOINTMENT.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1890.

have now reported that they consider the King | H.M.S. Severn is expected to go up the Yangtse to be in such a state as to totally incapa-to-day for about a fortnight, arriving at Shengisnt

on the spring tides at the end of this month. citate him from governing and the Ministers

concurring the latter requested the Chambers to take the necessary action. The Chambers have now decreed that the King is unable to Favern and resolved that * Regency be nominated forthwith.

[The Queen-Regent will be assisted by a Connell consisting of nine prominent Nether- landi (already appointed) five of whom occupy high State offices.]

THE VITU AFFAIR.

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October gist. During the storming of Vitu on Monday last a number of the enemy were killed but only few men belonging to Admiral Fremantle's forces were wounded. For the Sultan's capture reward of ten thousand rupees has been offered.

THE NETHERLANDS. From Thursday last the Dutch Council of State exercises royal power, pending the nomias- tion of a regency which will probably take place within the next fortnight.

November 8th.

YACHTING ACCIDENT.

Viscount Cantilupe was drowned while yacht- ing at Belfast.

THE TYPHOON.

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We are informed by the agent of the O. & 0. S. S. Co., that the steamship Belek, with mails, &c, from San Francisco to the 21st ulen, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow.

As will be seen from an advertisement in another column, the Hon. C. P. Chater und Mr. Thomas Jackson are moving the Government to organise | public meeting for Saturday next, to see about celebrating the fabilee of the Colony.

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THERE are but a few hours more in which to obtain Christmas presents for the old folks at home, so that the many who intend-sinding n photographic groups of local scenes which Mr. Griffiths annually arranges, should see about getting them to-morrowW.

salection of the varied stock of seasonable

VICTORIA Gaol is gradually filling with gambling club managers, accountants, crimaps, cocks, et This morning four of there social Aoc E. parzeltes balling from Hollywood Read, and two from Station Street, were drafted from the Court into the felon's cell; their establishments having been raided by the police last night. The rule was Winely run over these miscreants in "double quick" time.

A TELEGRAM Was received at Shanghai last Thursday reporting that the Wenchow, bound o Shanghai, had collided with the Toosan and runk at the Newchwang Bir the previous morning. The two vertelt appear, to have been ITALY AND GERMANY-

bound out, and the Toman having grounded, Another Signor Crispi and General Top Caprivi have the Wenchow ran into her stern.

telegram; received later, states that the Wenchow bad a cordial meeting at Milan..

left Newchwang at 9 o'clock on Wednesday and bad been in collision with the Toonen, that she was ashore in the river, and must be lightened. From this it appears that the accident is not so serious as at first reported...

A VERY brilliant afterglow was witnessed at Shanghai, on the evening of the 1st inst, at half past 6 o'clock, and also on the sight of the 3rd. The horizon to the west of Shanghai had the appearance of an immense fire and was like what was witnessed there lo 1883. Quite a number of people who saw it on Saturday were under the Impression that there was a fire raging in the distance. The afterglow in 1883 was traced to the Krakaton eruption, and the NC. Daily News prophesies that in a few days they will hear there has been some similar volcanic d'atur- bance..

The Spanish Consul kindly forwarded the following telegram, received this morning "The typhoon is in the neighbourhood of Manila, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. It is travelling at the rate of 10 miles an hour in

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

AN Emergency meeting of Victoria Preceptory, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, dt 8.30 nr 9 o'clock precisely, Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.

H.E. L'U, formerly Chinese Minister to England, &c. having been received in audience by the Emperor, returned to Shinghal by the Harting on Saturday (nd inn.) and is coming to Canton as Governor of the Kuangtung province.

THE bankrupt Krips was removed from the gaol, where bebashitherto been confined, last Tuesday, to the Shanghai General Hospital. He is said to be in the last stages of donsumption, and is given a week to live by his medical attendants, according to the Mercury.

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second lot of Subscription Griffins for the Hongkong Jockey Club meeting of 1891, which arrived from Shanghai by the staimahip Fook sang to-day, were drawn for at Mr. Kennedy's Horse Repository this afternoon in the presence of a few of our local "sports." From a hasty' examination of the ponies we judge they are a trife better than the first shipment, being in a | much better condition. Unfortunately their times have not yet been received. The drawings resulted as follows:-

Colour. ..........fl. N. J. Gresson,

ch......... D. Nowrojen. išiemuno Bi. .................... R. E. Torg.

dun. J. J. Keswick.

H. Happius. F.H. Hohnke. H. 1. Scott, H. Norman,

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Owner.

THE "Blue-funnel" steamship Manelaus, which arrived at Shanghal on the 3rd inst., brought up news of the sinking of the pilot boat. S. C. Farnham, (Na, 6). The Mercury says that the steamer had, contrary to her usual custom, come up from Hongking without a pilot, and the Captain thought he would probably meet one of the Company's pilots before he got into the river. But not picking up one after he had got as far as the Tightship, the Captain concluded that he had passed the pilot-beat outside, and turned the steamer round again towards Gutzlaff. It was. blowing hard at the time. The S. C. Farnham was lying at anchor, and by some explained accident the steamer came right down upon her, striking her, we believe, nearly amidships. The boat at once commenced to make water, and her occupants, Messrs. Hjous berry and Sutton and the Chinese crew, were taken on board by the Menelaus, which anchored alongside. The boat kept afloat all night, only sinking on Monday morning in 4 fathoms of water..

Mr. Dyer Ball, our indefatigable Chinesinologue, author of no less than ten valuable aids to the acquisition of the tongue of the heathen, has blossomed out in a new line. After devoting himself to the Improvement of the mind in the ten volumes before referred to, he has now turned his attention to the grosser needs of his fellow-barbarians, and with the assistance of his latest production, an English-Chinese cookery book, containing 200 recipes in both languages, we can now get our cook to fill a long-felt want. It will no longer be necessary, to vex the spirit with frantic attempts In imprets on the conk that he must take the eyes out of a rabbit before cooking it, or that a pudding gains mate flavor than is desired it boiled in his (the conk's) stocking

Chinese for the menial's behoof. And now Mr. Dyer Hall ought to lay the keel of a little tractlet which would convince the pagan chef that he should bring the live fotels home from market in separate basket fam the bread and vegetables, and if possible the author might Convey to him huy horse-beef at three carls and "pattee that it is sinful to hock" as prime veal at 17 rents. We gladly pay $i to Messrs. Kelly and Walsh for the cock brok, but something on the lines we have indicated would be worth $37 25.

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Sir James Russell advanced the same argu-been successful in getting together an "eleven" ment

to come bere and play us, towards the end of the year. We look for your arrival on oth

December.

Air. Francis replied that they might as well charge the Postmaster General for forwarding letters which contained lottery tickets,

Sir James Russell asked what the object of the Ordinance was, if not to prohibit such agencles? Mr. Francia contended that if the Legislatura had intended that they would have set it out In the Ordinance. The agent of an agent was not necessarily the agent of a principal. He insisted on the Ordinance being literally interpreted.

Sir James Russell did not trouble the Acting Attorney-General to reply the Court was satisfied that the appellants had broken the law, it being clear from the Ordinance. There bad been an attempt to evade the Ordinance, but it had not succeeded, the Magistrate taking a commonsense view of the case.

Mr. Fielding Clarks concurred-it had been ́admitted that the appellants' sole business' was to receive applications fər tickets and distribute them when they arrived, which was "dealing"

In the sense of the law,

The appeal was therefore dismissed, with cosis.

THE FATAL EXPLOSION ON

A JUNK.

50 soon as convenient I shall be glad to have the names of your team.

The following are the arrangéments for Cricket Matches, and the dates :

Dec. 3rst,and Jan. 1st, '91.

Perak v. Colombo. Friday, and Jan. and Saturday, 3rd Jan. Straits Settlements v. Hongkong, Monday, 5th Jan, and Tuesday, 6th Jan, Strails Settlements v. Colombo, Wednesday, 7th Jan., and Thursday, 8th Jan, Hongkong v. Colombo. Friday, 9th Jan, and Saturday, 10th Jan. S. C. C. v. Colombo, We hope these arrangements will suit you. Do your best to bring down a Lawn Tennis pair, and we shall be able to work in a couple of L.

T. matches as well as the cricket.

We hope for a favourable reply from the Hon. Sec., Victoria Recreation Club're a boat's crew,

Yours faithfully,

GRÓ, P. OWEN, Hon. Sec., S. C. C.

A. K. Travers, Esq., Hongkong,

Mr. Wodehouse held as inquiry at the Magla- tracy this morning into the circumstances con-

LATE TELEGRAMS. nected with the death of James Moore (Customs officer), Ho Choo, Leung Kwał (Customs

LONDON, and October, employés) and Un Taz Yau, merchant,

Mr. Cartwright, the leader of the Liberal party which occurred within forty-eight hours in Canada, has made a speech in which, he After an explosion of gunpowder on board a junk, which the deceased Customs officer denounced the fiscal policy of Government, and was searching at Cap-sui-mun on the night of urged unrestricted reciprocity with the United the 1st Inst., full particulars of which appeared in our issue of the 3rd Inst.

Slates.

At a banquet given at Montresi in honour of Sir A. P. Caron, Minister of Militia, a grand loyalist demonstration' was made in favour of the Queen and the Emperor. Mr. Bades Powell, who spoke, said that England would spead her last drop of blood in defence of Canada,

October 23rd. The report which has lately been current, that he Grenadier Guards at Bermuda were to be relieved at once, in without foundation,

Mr. Roby, the Home Ruler's victory at Eccles, is attributed to his accepting the eight hours Bill and thus securing the miner's votes.

THE PENANG OPIUM FARM.

We regret to state that the second action by the Attorney-General against the late Opium Farmers has come to an untimely end. The action was instituted to recover $389 401.63. loss sustained by the Crown on the re-letting of the Opium and Spirits Farmis, and the defendants were called upon to shew cause within four days, why judgment should not be entered for the This action was instituted on the Assistant

IN the Southern Philippines so few gunboats are stationed that piracy among the Mahomedan Islanders begins to raise its head again. At Izabela de Basilan and Zamboanga, two Spanish settlements there. the colonists live in dread of piratical attacks of which they have been Tur steamers Fuhwo and Glewear passed the warned by friendly natives. In the island of Glengarry. Captain Webster, badly ashore on Mizamls, the pirates have become se emboldened the directions are plainly set out in cold about there, with the result that a terrible of the Crown Sults Ordinance XV of 1876, for Actron Shoal Inst Thursday. She left Shanghal by impunity that, not long since, they entered village where the inhabitants happened to be the previous day for Wuhu, whither be in church, and killed zo persons. Twenty persons proceeding when she got on the shoal, on which

were carried away captive, mostly young women she grounded in a fog,

and boys. The pirates lost four killed,

THE Woh correspondent of the Mercury: writing on the 4th November, says: The expare tation of rice la still brisk. Thirteen steamers have been despatched with full cargoes for Whampoa and Canton. The LC.S N. Co. have had the Hen's share. Freights have gone up from 12 chedarins to 16 per pical. The steam- ship Glentern is loading at the latter rate.

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anders will play the following programme at THE Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High-

the Officers Mess this evening, commencing at 7.45 o'clock :-

Overture..." The heman Giri "Balfo

"Seires d'Fle" Ruddi-orE". Serenade,.....Stanchen Selection....Doris ".

Waldleafsl Sullivan. Schubert. Colilar.

The Shanghai Mercury of the 6th Inst, says!- The brothers Pereira are leaving to-morrow on the Fooking for Macao, there to be tried on the charge of arson. Shanghai is also getting rid of another reprobate tomorrow, in the person of Charles Keller, allas "Count Popow," whore sentence of deportation is at last to be put into effect. He leaves for Hongkong in the Altanower.

MISSRS. Schelhas and Cols hong was the scene of an interesting international "scrap" two or three days ago, the final round ending at the Police Court this morning, where Mr. Wise did the needful as judge. It seems that Mr. A. Holman landed Ho Wan Tano, Mass. Schellass's office-boy, a atinger on the left lobe, whereupon the celestial dashed at his man and, letting out, with right and left in true Slavinic style, made things preity hot for the "fallin man" who finally banged his antagonist on the blinker with such violence that, he could barely ece his way up to the Central Station, whither he repaired and took out a summons for assault against the valiant SazoR. Result: The foreigner slang two Mexicans into Her Gracious's Treasury, and cleared.

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A HINT to Hongkong firms. At Singapore, on the 31st ult., the firm of Behn, Meyer, & Co, importers and exporters, commemorard their jubilee by presenting to St Andrew's Cathedral a beautiful service of altar-plate, consleing of a chalice, pater, and flagon, the former jewelled at the stem and the whole of solid silver, engraved with ecclesiastical symbols.. It appears that for many years, while resident in Singapore, Mr. and, to was his own words, "the gift is in grateful Meyer was a regular worshipper at the Cathedral

| remembrance of benefits received therein, as also a thank-offering for the continued prosperity of his firm in this Colony."

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A CURIOUS example of Chinese etiquette la given in the latest Peking Gazette, which says:The Viceroy at Canton forwards an application from General Hsieh Hung-chang, who is now serving in Hainan, to alter his name to Haich Te-lung. In a letter which he recently received from his home in Hunan, the General has been informed that the family register contains the name of a remote ancestor which is identical with his own, and in conformity with the rule which forbids that the surname of any member of a former

be employed by his descendants he now aiks sanction for the proposed change of designation,-Granted by Rescript.

generation should

THE last published transactions of the Batavia Society of Arts and Sciences contain a paper on explorations in Netherlands, New Guinea in which the writer, the Resident there, draws attention to the wholesale slaughter of the birds in that quarter which are marked out for des truction by their brilliant colour and bright plumage. The natives with their_anews_do little havoc among them, but trained hunters from the Moluccas have terribly thinned the number of feathered inhabitants with powder and #bot. The consequence is that birds are hardly met with on the seashore, and the work of des truction now goes on so actively inland ibat, in a short time, these splendid specimens of feathered said that their feathers get turned to account in adorning ladies' hats,

SUBSCRIBERS TO "THE HONGKONG WITH resp:et to the news telegraphed to us creatina will become practically extinct. It is

TELEGRAPH* ARE MOST RESPROTFULLY REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS

MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE.

BIRTHS.

At Shanghal, on at November, the wife of Mr. FRANK T. E..SOUTER, (eldest son of the late Sir Frank Souter, C.S.I., C.I.E.), of a 208.

A Chinfle paper says that every Governor, Viceroy, and Tartar General throughout the of Works to make an accurate survey of the land whale Empire, has been ordered by the Board

within bis jurisdiction, for the purpose of enabling the Roard to make a new and reliable map of he Chinese Empire. In accordance with those instructions, all such persons have issued the necessary ouders to their own subordinates, the District Magistrates and Tipsos, each of whom will measure the land under his control, and make a plan of it. All those plans after die examination and comparison, will be sent by the District Magistrates to their respective overenrs, at whose hands also they will undergo a thorough inspire-ion, after which they will be sent up to Peking, where they will be finally tested by the Board of Warks, and when all the separate plans have been examined and compared,-~*. stupendous labour-a map of the whole Empire | will be drawn up from them At present there are eighteen provinces in China, not counting, Kirin, Sinking, Ning.gno-tab, Mongolia or Kash- garis, which are all to be entered in the new map. Requisitions have been forwarded to Tientsin, Shanghai, and Fonchow, by the Paking authori ties, for a number of talented stude; ts and clever draughtsmen, to make the new map, and compute accurately the present area of the Chinese Empire.

SUPREME COURT

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION.

(Before the Full Court.)

A NOVEL ARGUMENT.

amount claimed, and execution issued therefor.

Treasurer's certificate as coming under section 2

an "ascertained" surn.

Ho Sing, captain of the junk, said that his vessel was a regular trader between Fahkin and Canton via Hongkong. On the 1st ist, about half-past four in the afternoon he was towed by a launch from Hongkong to Cap-sui-mun. His Junk bad 8,000 plculs of salt which had been shipped at Shaipos and he carried 23 hands, all told, including his wife, a passenger and blm- self. The armament of his vessel consisted of 14 riffes, to catties of powder and 5 cattie's weight of bullets. At Cap-ul-mun he dropped anchor at the usual place near the Customs station, and reported his arrival to the Customs there. One European and two Chinese officers came on board shortly after dark, with Chinese lanterns in their bando. The foreigner went into the cabin, and the two others stood outside. Witness had six flasks of powder in his cabin and a small pillow-box containing about 100 charges of powder. The European opened the pillow-box, and witness warned him that it contained powder That officer, however, said "no fear," and, with a view to examining it carefully, took the candle out of his lantern. The 'candle was burning dimly, so the officer flipped off a piece of the wick to make it burn more brightly. The piece of wick fell on the floor and ignited the power scattered

explosion occurred. The explosion injured' ; twelve of the junke's crew, including witness, an well as the three Customs officers. They were

Mr. Van Someren yesterday moved the Court all very seriously injured. After that he and ten |to set aside the whole of the proceedings, with of his men got on board the launch that had costs against the Crown, on the grounds of towed them to Cap-aut-mun and it took them to irregularity, inasmuch as the action was in trath Hospital, where one of the men died in three of the Ordinance, as the sum claimed, Hongkong. They were taken to the Tung Wahan action for daminges for breach of contract, and the Crown should have proceeded under section the course of a few hours, Witness's cabin' was situated in the after part of the vessel. There though calculated by the Crown officers to their was no powder in the hold of the ship. The own satisfaction, was not an amount agreed to by the Farmers; and it was not an “ ascertained" explosion did not injure his junk" at all, He was not smuggling anything at the time sum within the meaning of section 2. Under of the search. The three Customs men were section 3 the Farmers could defend the action without fexvė; under section a they could only killed; that was to say they died from the

do so after getting leave, and terms might be effects of the explosion. The injured Custom's men were taken off the junk in their own boat,

impored on them. The wilt of summons also` was not correct in form, as It included both shortly after the explosion. At the time of the

alternatives under sections two and three. - accident his vessel was about 50 chrungs from Cblaese territory. It was not registered in Hongkong, and he did not "clear" her at this port because he was merely pausing through the waters of Hongkong en route to Canton, The reason why the Customs people were more injured than the junk's crew was because they were stooping down, searching, and were nearest to the powder, Three of his sailors had recovered and gone to Canton, while the others were still in hospital. It was not his fault that the powder was scattered about his cabla, themselves when rummaging about, in searching, At this juncture the inquiry was adjourned size dia,

because the Customs officers had done that

THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION.

Mr. D. Logan, the Solicitor-General for the Crown contended that the rum was an "RECT tained" sum within section a. He said that the certificate of the Assistant Treasurer shewed this

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Mr. Justice Wood considered the claim was for an "unascertained" sum, and the action should have been brought under section 3 and not section 2, and set aside the whole proceed. ings, with costs against the Crown. Government do not strictly follow the form and It is indeed very extraordinary that the procedure provided by Ordinance of their own enactment, and managed to make such a mess of their actions in this important case-Penang Gasnite, October 27th.

FORMOSA,

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT). At a meeting of the British Mercantile Marine

Kelung, November 7th. Officers' Association, held last night at the

There is no mistake about it. our Governor. Marine Hotel, Captain Ashton presiding, the following letter, as reply to the Chamber ofle in trouble at present and it will, to a great Commerce's despatch of the 31st ultimo, was | extent, depend on the Imperial Censors, who wa drafted after a good deal of discussion :—

BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS'

ASSOCIATION.

Hongkong, 10th November, 1890.

E. MACKINTOSH, Esq. Chairman,

shortly expect to arrive from Foochow, what our fature will be. The new coal mine syndicate has been stopped from carrying on its work, and the reason scem' to be that a report bas bren sent up that Earopéans had put money in it, They had just begun to get everything in proper working order at the old mines, and to start work General Chamber of Commerce, Hongkong. st Wang Wang in the new mines ; they had very SIR-In acknowledging receipt.of and thank nearly settled an order for collier steamers, and ing you for, your letter of the 31st ultimo I for proper coal lighters and they were on the have to say that this body considers your pro- whole going to do something under the able posal Impracticable, for the following reasons leadership of the Managing Director, Mr. Tasi In the first place no individual officer Is Ying-wel, to bring us out of our present stagna sufficiently independent to make individual tion, when this sudden and unexpected order application to his owners for exemption from stopped everything. When we consider that it would be running a personal risk to himself wonderful to see how things have been going on and raise coal from great depths, it is certainly duty on Sunday. We consider that in so doing Pays in other parts of the world to sink shafts which in undesirable.

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At Shanghai, on the 5th instant, the wife of / Wuhu correspondent writes that; at Taipingfoo, public works, and the military contribullon, with keeping as agency for the sale of lottery British Chinese-owned steamers in the Straits or

ALEX, CUSHNY, Jr., of a son,

DEATH.

At 48 Broadway, Shanghal, on the 4th November, HARRIET JOHNSTONE, widow of the Late James Colgan, in her góth year.

MARRIAGE.

At the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, on the 1st November, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., HARRY J. SHARE, to ELLEN M: THIRKELL,

ALTHOUGH we entirely support the action of the anoficial members of the Legislative Council in dealing with the Estimates for 1891, we cannot but smile when we compare the following utterances -

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here, with all North Formosa fall of cost right to the surface, and of so good a quality that even the surface coal worked by hand by the natives, is saleable.

have seen some very severe criticisms over his The Governor is in trouble' at present, and I doings in some of your contemporaries lately, Will you allow me to try to look on the other side of the question} [Certainly. Ed},

Mr. Francis, Q.C., (instructed by Mr. Mossop) maved for leave to appeal against the decision of Mr. Wise, Police Magistrate, last month, in sentencing three Chinese to one month's 'im- prisonment on a charge made by Inspector Matheson of keeping a Weising Lottery agency. Mr. Ackroyd, Attorney General, (instructed by Mr. Johnson) appeared on behalf of the Crown.

Mr. Francis said that the men were charged

Secondly, some shipowners might graciously under Ordinance 27 of 1883, (which amenited grant such request where others would object Ord. 9 of 1870) their fence being that of For instance, owners of foreign steamers or, hay, the maximum penalty other trade might, we think, be very likely to object tickets, for which was six months' impilsonment. The case, In the event of such objection we can only view as stated by the Magistrate, was that on with alarm difficulties between individual officers the evidence of Inspector Matheson the appellants and owners which we, as an Essociation, kept an agency for Wel-sing tickets, on the 9th and

Since our present Governor took charge of 11th September, at 216 and 218 Queen's Road. studiously wish to avoid.

In conclusion we may add, that the British The lottery was conducted at Canton, under the Mercantile Marine officer is not a man who Formosa, and it is as you know, only a few auspices of the Chinese Government and there

would stand by disinterestedly whilst foreign Years ago, the following works have been carried were eleven offices for the sale of tickets. The

interests were, in any way, gaining advantages out A telegraph cable has been laid to connect appelants were conn cted with eight of these ever those of his employer. We take pride in the island with the mainland, sad soother to depots, the modus operandi being for them to

our ships and our work, and would rather work connect that important naval station, the Pes receive applications for tickets in Hongkong, on Sunday, or any other day, than see our cadores (Makong Harbour) 'with Auping, tele- forward them to the Yan On Tal, a general post employers suffer. But it is not necessarily graph lines have been constructed and are kept office in Canton, whence they were sent to the admitted that either public or private interesta In good working order with an efficient staff, all distributing agencies. There the tickets were'

over the island. A postal service has been the present time, how and in what way the allotted us spplied for, and returned to Yau On / Would be prejudiced were labour totally suspen? established all through the island, which works.

Tai, who sent them down to the appeilanis, fromed on board ships in this port on Sunday.

very well a railway has been sanctioned, right whom the applicants received them, with any

through from Taiwan to Kelung, It is opened for Yours faithfully, change there might be. Mr. Francis contended

traffic on both sides of Taipeh foo and in being that they did not keep a lottery agency,

extended at both ends. Surveys have been but simply a post-office, The Crown might

made for making Improvements in the har polet out that that was. an evasion of

bours at Takow and Kefung. In Kelung, iTamani, and on the Peicadores good forts are the Ordinance, but that was just the reason he was there, moving for leave to appeal. If a

being built, armed and furnished with all the inewest modern inventions in arms and. alber man walked through an Ordinance he was

equipments. When such extensive worka háva' scot-free. Interpreting the words punished, but if he went round it be escaped

The following letter has been received by Mr. been and are in hand, no wonder that here and Ordinance strictly, the appellants could not be | A. K. Travers, bon, secretary of the Hongkong there inatakia are made, some money lost or said to be dealing in " Wel-sing tickets, in any Cricket Club - pe capped dragon squeezed. But I don't think that anybody hera SINGAPORE CRICKET CLUB doubts for a moment that the Governor fights My Justice Clarke-They get the applications

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against auch things with all his heart... It is not long ago that he had, a' (ungling (general) ber and the money and send them to Canton, and.

The Hon. Secretary, Hongkong Cricket Club, ... headed for having drawn inore, pay than be had distribute the tickets and change when they are returned-if that isn't "dealing in" them DEAR SIR Thanks for your letter of the 17th soldiers for he keeps a mandarin of good what is it

inot. Wenro all vary glad to hear this you have i famly and well connected with indivential people,

last week of the blowing up of the Govern ment powder mills at Taipingfoo on Sunday morning the and inst., with the loss of 300 lives

AT the meeting of the Legislative Council on and the wrecking of all bouses in the vicialty, the Shanghal Mercury says that fifty persons are Thursday, the Orders of the Day will be:— sald to have been at work in the mills at the Financial Minutes. time of the accident. Of their remains, only Mr. P. Ryrie will move the following resolution: two legs have been found. Another gunpowder-That special committee, consisting of the un- explosion took place in the city of Pa-chow, officiel members and the Colonial Secretary, he situated in the north west of the province of appointed to examine into the details of the Ashwel. One half of the city is said to have Estimates for next year, mainly with a view to a Our contemporary's fall consideration of the salaries quendon, the been destroyed by fire. which is about go if to the N.E. of Wuhu, 1,000 full powers to call for papers and information,

and to furnish the Council with a report. houses were destroyed by the explosion on the and Inst. The cause of the explosions is at Mr. T. H. Whitehead will ask the following question: Will the Government lay on the table present unknown.

full report of the proceedings of the Law Revision Commission appointed on 13th August, 1882, to prepste and report upon Drafts for A revised edition of the Ordinances, and for amendments of the same, incorporating the results of auch recent Imperial legliation as appears applicable to the circumstances of (Hongkong Legislative Council, Nov. 'roth).

the Colony, and providing for Improved pro Hon. P. Ryrie (moving that the Finance Com-

cedure in the administration of Justice," and mittee do not deal with the Estimates)--On the

A statement showing the total cost of the Com- formation of the Finance Committee we were

mission since the date of its appointment until told to follow Singapore. I think it will be found in the despatches if you go far enough

money has been spent, the work accomplished, back that we were ordered to follow what was

and about the fims when the edition of the done lu Singapore. Of course there is a difference Ordinances now being printed will be published, now that the Finance Committee is open to the reporters of the Press, but I think it be found also the cost of the edition being printed,

Second reading of the Bill entitled "A that the original idea of forming & Finance Com Ordinance to amend The Cattle Diseases, mittee was that we were to follow Singapore.

(Singapore Legislative Council, Get, geth), House, and Markets Ordinance, Mr. Shelford (speaking on Supply) said that they had the model colony of Hongkong, where the Finance Committee held its meetings in public. He copaldered that that was a customi which might very well be followed here, so that THE KING OF THE NETHERLANDS, the public might have an opportunity of judging Owing to the continued serious, illness of His for themselves as to the money spent in the course of the year, whether anticipated in the Majesty the King of the Netherlands the

Estimates or not, Hp hoped that his remarks Chambers were last week summoned to consider | would lead to what had bien jong nocoumty, alist defen should be taken, „The Eaters? Vhy MẤT.

The Honghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER:11, 1590,

TELEGRAMS

THE VITU MASSACRE,

LONDON, October 30th. The forces landed by Admiral Fremantle having captured Vitu bave since burned it.

*1887.7

Second reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Chinees Emigration Consolidation Ordinance, 1889.

Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Public Health Ordinance of 1887,"

Second, reading of the Bill entided. “An Ordinance to amend to Arms Ordinance of 1889.

Committee on The Appropriation Bill, 1891." Third reading of The Supplementary Appro- priation Milly 1889.*

of the

I am, Sir,

"SANDEL ASHTON, President.

THE INTER-PORT CRICKET

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