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In the large portion of Asia comprised between Nov. 22 & 24. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Penang, in the Straits Settlements, and the Northern Chinese Ports, including Windiwostock, Formosa, the Treaty Ports of China and Japan, Cochin-China, the Philippine Islands, Corca, British North Homeo, the British Colony of Hongkong, and the Portuguese Colony of Macao. It also contains the Principal Treaties between

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WINES AND SPIRITS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THERE will be some tell-tale powing" at the

Race-course to-morrow morning.

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TEX German gunboat Wolf, Commander Heliboff, arrived In port to-day from Japan.

FOUR minutes of absolute silence is mid to be the funniest thing in a successful New York play.

DESERTERS from the German Army pass into Franca nearly every week. They take service in the Foreign Legion and are sent to Algeria or other parts of Africa.

A "PICK-UP" cricket match will be commenced to-morrow at fi a.m. Members. desirous of playing are requested to be on the' ground punctually at the appointed hour.

LOVERS of the Rugby game will be pleased to learn that the return match between the Hong, kong Football Club and the United Services has been fixed to take place at the Race-course on Thursday next.

THERE will be an emergency mécting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1026, in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 11th instant, at 8.30 for p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited,

A KISS valued at $3,000 was forcibly stolen from Sophie France by Soloman Ovisit at Akron, Ohio. Both are over sixty years old, and are well known and, generally respected. The coy maiden charges young Solomon with assault and battery in forcibly kissing her and putting his arm around her, c. 'Tax half-yearly report of the Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank will be found in another column. It will be noted that the net profits for the half-year totalled the magnificent sum of $1.567.440.41. How this huge profit as earned will doubtless be explained at the

An Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, Letland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited,meeting of shareholders, STATISTICS show that the Jew, from hereditary and hygienic training, has a three-to-one better chance than a Gentile of old age. It's a cold day when Moses gets left."

A MATCH at football under Association rules will be played at the Happy Valley on Monday after noos, between teams representing the "Service" and Hongkong Football Club respectively.' A close game is anticipated.

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DYING MILLIONAIRE-I have been much in litigation, always successful, too, and I feel that I owe everything to the lawyers, I want them to have all my property, Attorney-Abl You wish me to make's will, ther, bequestbing- Dying Millionaire-Cutting off my relations and bequeathing the money to charitable institutions.

Public nerics-Te whom it may concurs.-1 hereby give notice that any person acting on my shall, unless signed by me and witnessed by my arents as under, will we be recognised, Ches Ateak, Ageni, Jas. Rom.

A LONDON society paper observes:—The lady. The game commenced punctually at a quarter who wore a low-necked dress at the theatre to five o'clock, the Clah kicking off from the night, and forgot to take the porous planter off Bowrington end, the Navy having the advantage her back, attracted in good deal of attention. It of a very slight breeze that was blowing in the was a lovely plaster.

direction of Wang-nel-chong village. For the first few minutes the. Navy held the adraninge, ENGLISH "she is wrote " by the Chinaman Cooper being particularly prominent, their abroad. The following 'ad' which appeared in all opponents, owing to the absence of one of the Sydney paper was evidently intended to go half-backs, playing a man short in the scrim. straight to the point at once, but it seems to mages. The Club forwards, however, quickly

lgang and dodge sound corners badly t

settled down to work and the play became more even, the, leather being kept well in the Centre of the ground. Ahout five minutes before half-time, Greston, who was playing centre three-quarter, after a capital rus, very Wa have received the MS. score of a new wallz unselfishly passed to Aikinson, close to the composed by Mr. N. Kuchwaldr. M. M. Navy's goal line, who took possession of the which bears the inking title of "The Hongkong" | ball and secured the first try for the Club, Race Waltz. The opening bars are perhaps | Burn, however, falled at gaol. The battle new slightly suggestive of the confusion inseparable raged fast and furious, but the repeated asmaulta from the starting of a crowd of obstreperoux of the Club players would not be denied, and Mongolian ponies, but gradually the time becomes Fearon, getting well placed, danbed in and easier and the tune smoother, then drifting scored a second try amidst applause. The place on through airs that, have rather a fimiliar kick was this time entrusted to Ezekiel, but hé sound about them, it winds up with a finish likewise failed to convert the try into a quel in which, both crack of whip and clang of saur. Nothing farther was obtained, and at kalidimo are not only heard but are almost felt. The the Club were leading by two tries. work has been dedicated to the Jockey Club by the gracious porlasion of that august body, the Stewards, and should have a' ready sale in the

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On resuming the Club representatives played somewhat wildly at first, so that the Navy again showed to most advantage, and at one time seemed very likely to score. The local men soon rented down, however, und with a deter- The troopship Himalaya, with military and mined rush carried the ball well into the Navy's Aval reliefs for the Far East, arrived at territory, the excellent play of Simpson at half- orders to leave Singapore with two compahles of

across the ground Atkinson passed to Dow, and Independent on the 20th January says:" There the 18th Regiment for Penang on January 30th, the latter, continuing the run, secured a third seems to be a gloomy future for the European returning thence to Singapore and then coming try for the Club Again the kick at goal failed, SMITH ( Yankee)-It is ridiculous to any that Mining Companies in the district of Batangas to Hongkong. For this port the Himalaya the hard state of the ground preventing accurate Yankee Invaribly answers a question by ask-Padang, Perak." Why don't ther get Becher has a contingent of 302 officersand men, namely: placing. Some briak rallies now ensued, but ing another. I don't believe it." Jones (ditto) down there to put things straight for them? His 209 Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 152 men Neither do 1. By the way, what'll you take for Punjom experiences, especially in the prophecy for the Royal artilers, 97 fax the Royal the Club continued to hold the upper hand and that hous? Smith-What you give !

Dow, after another gond run, got well behind, but line, would prova invaluable.

Engineers, six members of the Medical Staff, two he was at once tackled by two of his opponents, Playing Othello ance, Barry Sullivan,' while THUS the Singapore Free. Press of the 29th, armourers, and one of the Ordnance Store Corps.a maulin goal resulting, and as the Club player There are also on board Staff-Surgeon John failed to touch dewa' nothing was scored. For valoly clamourlag for the handkerchief ade alto:-"Concerning yesterday's reference to a sacred by Desdemona's use, was met by the small parcel of gold from Ketchau received in Dudley, for the Yokohama Hospital, and Lieut.

the rest of the game the Navy played up much- starting adjuration from the gallery: Never Singapore, we now hear that the stone from

better, but they were unable to make any mind the wipe, sir, blow yer nose any'ow, and which it came was actually put through the mill

impression on their opponents' defecco, and a gft on with the play."

at Punjom and not reduced by hand at the mire

very pleasant contest ended in a decided victory Itself. Again it appears that the ten tons of

for the Club by three tries to miễ

The terms were:- hardly be described as being "of the same quality. That quantity, it seems, has not been taken from the "rich streak," but it has been taken from some thirty tons of ore from different parts of the, mine, and is now belog passed through the mill at Punjom as a trial crushing of the average stone. It will be a good thing for the future of Ketchau should the operations at Bukit Siam continue to fulfil the hopes that have been formed upon the recent promising fied in that part of the Concession."

A PERAK Correspondent writing to the Strati Singapore on January'soth. She was Junder | back being especially consticuous. After a run

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TELEGRAMS.

GERMANY AND THE SILVER QUESTION.

LONDON, JEDurry 27th. Duding the debate on the sliver question in the Reichstag, the Government declared that change in the standard was unnecessary,

THE BEHRING SEA DIFFICULTY.

January 28th,

The United States Attorney-General has filed an answer in the Sayword case and maintains that the seizure of the vessel was legal, and that the Washington Count has no power to any the decision of the Sitka Court; the jarlsdiction of the latter depends on the extent of the domain of the United States in Behring's Ses, and that in a political question,

GERMANY AND THE STRAITS OF MALACCA

Sir James-Fergusson has denied that Germany is trying to obtain the cession of a Siamese part in the territory to the North of Penang.

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Ashton), which arrived berethis morning, reports that a Russian frigate was in Foochow on the 4th instant, and that H.M.8. Redpole was lying at anchor in 'Amoy when the Hallam sailed thence for Hongkong yesterday.

'An interesting football match under Rugby rules was played at the Race-course yesterday after Boon between the Royal Navy and Hongkong Football Club, the latter proving victorious by three goals to wil. A report of the play is published in another part of this issue.

BUSTS were out a while ago and hips in, tow positions are reversed. Such lightning displace- ments of matter Are more unaccountable to science than any alteration in the earth's surficè, and cause the uninitiated to look on a woman

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Laird, R.N., who is commissioned to H.M.S. Swift. SOLICITORs who draw up bills of sale would inre need of extmordinary exactitude in langu ago if the Court of Appeal had accep'ed's con- testion of counsel who recently andeared for a The Club-J. Armstrong (back); J. M. Dow. Bournemouth cab proprietor. Among the goods War). Greason, Dr. Atkinson (three-quarter on which a bill of sale had been given was a backs); G. M. Wheeler, F. T. Simpson (balf- vehicle which is known in Bournemouth a "backs); A. M. Marshall, E. Ezekiel, H.W.Sinde, double bath-chair," but which was daierited 24.T. D. Horsfall. J. Anderson, E. C. Fearon, H. a four-wheeled carriage. It was contended that Burn, and I. H. Sample (forwards). the bill of sale was bad because the vehicle was inaccurately and insufficiently described, although it was wat denied that it had four wheels and was drawn by a horse. Lord Esher, In giving judgment for the plaintiff on this as well as on another point, said that any descrip tion was "sufficient, if, when the bill of sale was compared with the actual state of things, the articles were identified as far as was reasonably practicable." He gave the supposed case of 1 dairymald who gave her cows names.

Royal Navy-Egerton (back); Cobbe, Oliver (half-back) Cooper, Steveas. Kiddle (three quarter backs); Chown, Smith, Liversedge, Cox, Foster, Lync, Maclachlan, Sumner, and Hales (forwards). } Umpires-Royal Navy. Dr. Eames, R.N.

Football Club......Mr. L. Middleton. Referee................

.................Capt. Butcher. On Monday a match ender Association rules, The Club The Services, will be played, and

Thursday next has been fixed for the return game (Rugby) between the Football Club and

THE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.

THERE is an unmistakable degree of Chinese New Year (happy new year and kung-hi fat- chol, etc.) about China Town. The streets are crowded, with the Great Unwashed of all sizes, ngas, sexes and stations of life. Some in price less silken robes, others in plain cotton, padded clothing, and others again, in the grensy garb with a what's-real-about-you expression.

of wharf labourers, hawkers, sailors, mechanic RESPTCTING the Government hospital hulk United Services. THE wealth of France is computed to be

The side walks And Tai-ping-shan kabitués. $45,500,000,000, that of the United Kingdomare covered with the stalls of sweetmeat, fruit, cake, toy, tin-ware and flower vendors, and $48,000,000,000, and that of the United States $70,000,000,000. It must ba barae in mind

of the lot the last named are by far the most attractive, some of their chrysanthemums being that the population of the United States is 50 per cent, greater than that of France or Great exquisite developments of nature and well worth Britain,

the trouble of a walk down to the Strand to see. The shops, too, and "largee man' hongs are dressed up; flowers cards and ribbons being conspicuous features of the decorations. There is not, however, nearly each a brilliant display in the costly floral line as in former years, and this fact, added to the unusually large number of Chinese bankruptcies recorded during the past Year, failures amounting in all to about $300,000, fell its own tale-the Chinese la common with Europeans have, in fact, felt the wave of com- mercial depression which has had such dis- ustrous effects in foreign circles in various parts of the world during the year of Grace 1890. Bad as tologs may be down Bonham Strand way, we doubt not that our native friends will exhibit their usual hilarity on Monday next-- the first day of the first moon of the seventeenth

THE Dell Courant of the January 24th, mates that until further orders from the Government a Holland, to which authority the matter has been referred, foreigners will be allowed to take out and concessions or transfers in East Sumaira as hitherto, notwithstanding the regulations to the contrary.

AT Port Darwin the other day, An Ng, a China" man, got manled to a young girl of his own nationality. After the marriage he didn't speak a word to his bride, but got up at four o'clock in the morning, and said he was going for a walk. Shortly afterwards his body was found floating in the harbour,: The local Celestial idea is that a devil pan sway with him,

THE tenth annual report, together with a state-year of Kwang So ment of accounts for the year ended the gist December last, of the General Managers of the Hongkong Ice Co., Ld., will be found in another column. A dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum speaks volumes for the earning powers of this most useful local industry, and both General Managers and shareholders are like to be congratulated on such a splendid result of the years working, especially considering the low price at which tubic Broughout the tinued to supply ice to the public throughout the summer months,

The General Managers beg to rubmit to the shareholders a statement of account for the year

1890,

ivgisia, built by the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, which was launched yesterday afternoon at Hungham Docks and christened by Lady Des Vaux, wa are been favoured with halk of the following dimensions: length over all, the following parilcu......s:-She is a composite

The following is the report for presentation to' 185 ft.; breath to water line, 30 ft and depth the shareholders at the tenth ordinary annuaÍ moulded, rg ft.5inches. She has two decks and is fitted up in allar manner to the hospital hulking, to be held at the offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on Saturday, the 14th February, Meanes. At the fore past of the upper deck are the 18gt, at noon! quarters of the officer in charge, consisting of bedroom, sitting room, and offices. Abaft of these are half a dozen rooms, measuring 15 ft. 13ft, made on either side of a wide passage. and other offices are situated still farther alt, as The dispensary, bath-rooms for the patients and also a large space of open deck, the with of the hulk, abaft of which are European quarters forthe assistants and "boys." To the Tower deck two large companion ways are fixed, baying teak rails. The lower deck is lighted and ventlisted with skylights and windows on erch and the whole of the rast space can be made foto rooms for the accommodation of the rick by means of moveable screens. The rooms are large enough to accommodate four patients in each, and it is estimated ar many as eighty patients could be provided for. She is ballasted with concrete aud cast-iron cantilege to a draught of 8 feet, and will ultimately be mopred off Stonecutters' Island,

Owing to part of the Company's premisen la Ice House-Lane being vacant since 31st March last, there is a considerable failing off in revenus from that source.

The quantity of Iço disposed of is identical

Deducting $10,000, amount of in- with that of the previous year. terim Dividend of 8 per cent, paid on 7th August inst, and including $7,896.78 brought forward from last year, the balanen at, credit of Profit and Loss Account $34.505.78 which, it is recommended, should be

To pay a final dividend appropriated as follows

share (making #4 per cent, of 16. per cent, or $4 per for the year).............................$20,000.00

To apply towards reduc- tion of Property Account... 14,000.00 and to carry forward to next account.

MR. JOHN CALDER SWANSTON, late Inspector of Folice in charge of the Wanchai District, who died this morning, was one of the oldest, most respected and deservedly popular members of the Police Force of this colony. He arrived here on the 5th of January, 1872, and was then but nineteen years of age.

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EXTENSION ACCOUNT. The total amount expended in connection he served in the local force, John * time risked his life in brushes with this account up to 31st December last is desperadoes who infer: this colony and its imme. $21.366.35, and it is estimated that at least diate neighbourhood, for which he was long $5,000 more will be required to complete the

go awarded the coveted prize-the gold medal Improvements now beleg effected. for gallantry. Many are the meritorious services Reserve and Depreciation Account $12,000, recorded at this officer, and the stories told of

air machine, the refrigerating portion of which was disposed of as old metal.

It has been considered advisable to write off

THUS the "Sasalety" comespondent of a Sydney contemporary anent. the ladies" cricketing campaign which was carried on in that city recently With a note of pained enquiry ran- aleg through her dulcet volce, yours truly rises to ask how it comes that a troop of presumably rational girls are ever persuaded to play cricket in public? The "Sydney" and "Probable" teams which met on the Association Ground on Boxing-day and the day following were a sorry sight from their sunburnt cheeks to their heel- less shoes, and as they swaggered (doesn't a " PENDRAGON" asserts that glove fights are far woman just wag her bicle draperies when she more brutal and dangerous than any mills in thinks she is mannish) cut into the shimmering the 'o'd style. This merely bears out an opinion heat at the hot hour of noon each day, one couldn't lengthily expressed in the Sydney Bulletin over help wondering where the fun of the thing came twelve months ago. The reasons for this con- is. And the attitudes) The pose of one energetic clusion were simply these: the gloves increase she-fielder suggested the "heney-pots of child the reach and punishing power. Protected by hood with the suggestion of the last position of

not readily become useless from sprained careered from Dan to Beersbeeba drove home i knuckles, &c. The naked hand produces a cut the truth of the saying that women can't run minal classes who had good cause to talk of and when strongly used, the glove a bruise, and the Women and cows" once wrote Mark Twain, fear the wiry Inspecter, are legion, and it is doubt, latter is the worse. In the ring days'aman (or was it Josh Billings)) "shouldn't raa-they fal whether the sorrow which is experienced, on the one hand by many owingto the fors of a could slip down and end'a round. Now he must can't," One cricketeress in navy blue made Lace his opponent, for the to seci. afford po

1 very decent score of rog on the first day, faithful friend and fearless public officer, relief. In the old days he fell on grass. Under and res on the second, and as she cleft the air, maltitude on the other hand, whose haunts are is not exceeded by the joy of the unwashed Quegasberry rules he goes down on hard boards. | bat in hand and half a yard of stocking showing

at every convulsion, one felt that Australians are in Tal-ping-shan, Sau-ki-wan, Yau-ms-il and THE Case of Abraham Wilson, private in evidently not all born tired. The "Frobabies other select localities, However that may be F. Company of the A. and 5. Highlanders, who won by 339 raus, and there were only seven

the wide-spread regret occasioned by his death was arrested and brought before fr. Wodehouse goose-egge made on both days. The attendance was manifested at the funeral this afternoon by on the 31s' ultimo in connection with an

on the last day was very good, but society didn't the large number of members of the Face the unprovoked asisult made uponan Indian const-air its summer complexion ja the ladies' reservo. Masonic fraternity, of which the deceased was an honoured member, and the general public, able on the Kennedy Road, was concinded by the Female cricket Isn't going to be fashionable.

who paid a last tribute of respect tothe memory of | nagistrate to-day. The Acting Chief Manager of the H. K. and S. Bank, it wil be remembered. THE supply of rice from southern ports, Saigon, the indefatigable inspector. For the past twelve appeared in the scene on the Boiler Bangkok, etcy less by no means brenthe man, he the recessed ball been legs good This Fitness described a court how he to such a sadden end as was predicted some deal, but rallied continually; the last attack of found the gallint 4 sodjer battering the police- months ago, when rumours of drought in Siam cold on the lungs, which turned into plearly, man, who was senseless, with his own baton. and Cochin-China were floating about the grain proved too much for him however, and after strug The case looked serlaus enough for the soldier markets both here and in Canton, During the gling against hope, as it were, for the past week he gradually sank into a comatose state at about until this morning, when two privates from the past fortnight steamers coming in from the South regiment appeared to give evidenca es bis have brought up good cargoes of rice and two o'clock this morning and never recovered behalf succeeded in proving an alibi, paddy, and the Sithan, due early next week, consciousness, passing away quietly at about a The Magistrats discharged the prisoner will bring fall cargo of the Chinese staple quarter past fire and leaving behind with apparent repetapce, commenting in of life. Rates of freight too have advanced widow and two little children severe terms, upon the cowardly assault and enduring the past week in sympathy with the the evidence of the

to witnesses.

them, the fist holds goid much longer and docs | a leap-frog back, and the way the batewomen fron-sides,' as he was 'nick-named by the' cr balance of estimated cost of the absoleto dry

advance is the price of rice both here and in the neighbouring province, where the second crep

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The Editor of The Waycraze Herald (Georgis proved an utter failure. First quality rice is now THE ROYAL NAVY v. HONGKONG FOOTBALL

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PROPERTY ACCOUNT, The General Managers suggest, for the

approval of the shareholders, that the balance of $14,000, recommended to be appropriated out of Reserve and Depreciation Account, together with the year's profits, be transferred to this account, to reduce the balance to the approximate value of the Land, Buildings and Machinery swned by the Company.

**NEW_AMMONIA COMPRESSION MACHINE. The plant connected with this machine, 'it is anticlosted, will be in working order in time for the summer demand, and should turn out as much ice as both the old machines combined.

The accounts have been audited by Mr. Thomas Arnold, and the General Managers recommend that be should be re-elected Auditor.

JARDINE, MATHISON & CO.,

General Managers, ̧ Hongkong, 5th February, 1891, t

THE HONGKONG ICH COMPANY, LIMITED,

Property Account

$149.368.0

Invested in Hongkong Fire InamranCO,

Company's Share at......... Cash on hand

330.00

173.25

Hongkong and Shanghat Ban

Current Accountan Ogutanding Accounts .... Accounts Receivable... Ice on handitteriske Extension Account.

22.360.33

$196,$44-47

D-Liabilities.

U. B.) is a pious man who, range to say, was $2.32 per pleal, seconds' $2.25, and thirds! at one time upon the stage. From that elevated | 31.82 per pical. The causes of the rise in the position, however, he fell, and going from bad to

price

of rice are numerous, but amongst the most The third struggle for supremacy under Rugby worse ultimately became a religious faustic noteworthy are; firstly, the large importation rules between the above naused tests took place and, in what he terms consistency to the from Yangtaze porta consequent on the failure at the Happy Valley yesterday afternoon in the Convictions of his altered state, be holds forth in

of the Kwangtung and Fukien crops; the presence of a large number of spectators who the following airain!" From and after this date, increased cost of rics imported from Siam exhiblied a lively interest in the various phases the columns of this paper will be closed against and Saigon caused by excessive demand, and, of a game that was thoroughly well contested opera, theatre, and circus advertisements. The lastly, the fact of Japan Importing large from start to finish. Ofthe two previous matches THE PORTUGUESE DIFFICULTY.

Editor feels that he cannot comply strictly with guantities from Hongkong awing to the mansually the Club had the advantage, winning the first by Sir James Fergusson, Under Secretary for his Christian profession, the aims of the Church, large export of Japanese rice to Europe, and the one goal whilst the second resulted in a draw On Foreign Affairs, says that recent events render it and the religion of Jesus Christ, by selling his fear that the stocks would become dangerously this occasion the Navy had evidently done overy improbable that the British Government will colemas for advertising such amusements, there short ere the first crop in 'or is gathered in thing possible to enable them to equalise matters, Suggestions for the Improvement of this work agree to any future convention as favouring the by drawing revenue from them. This canclusion With the opening of the Tientsin river early and with this determination had got together sa

Portuguese claims to the south of the Lambast has been arrived at aber = day of thought and | next month and the consequent large exceptionally strong team, which included tapidem haud de 9: are respectfully solicited.

prayer, and while this course may cause some export of Yanglaze-grown tribute rice to new three-quarter hack (Cooper),ho played Loss financially, and severe criticism generally, the north of China, the price of the article well for the United Services in the match lest he belloves that God and the Christians of Way will, we are informed, be sure to advance at Thursday The Club combination presented

will sustain him." "After a day of thought least 59 per cent, and remain so, with an formidable array of talent, so that an exciting and prayer is good, albeit not quite original, upward tendency, for fully three or four months. contest was relled on as a certainty.. Owing to and his belief that the "Christians of Waycross Already a good deal of distrexa prevalls in the the assessesable weather--the afternoon, was will enstain him,agalast uzobable financial loss province of Kwangtung, and no winter advances close and muggy, with the thermometer standing ip ayaa better. Chustianity kan evidently talows it is probable that the endorings of the lower at ya, I was arranged to confine the play dem rock in Goegja,

classes will be very nunsa,

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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" PEDDER'S HILL, HONGKONG. Hongkong J9th January, 1891,

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

Feburary 4th, Canada has decided to negotiate for a Treaty of Commerce with Americà.

CHILL

The Regulars have regalood Valparaiso,

Cross

Capital Account Reserye and Depreciation

Accouation...........$46,000.00 Less For Depreciatios la valor of obsolete Dry:Air: Machine disposed of: „;," 12,000.00. Accounts Parables Profit and Loss Account

34,000.00 *3,038 69

34,305.75

*$165344-47

DANAS PROFIT 'AND LOSS ́ACCOUNT. To Salaries, Wages And General