THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1891.
STEEPLY-CHASE. (HALF-MILR)-9 Jumps, H.M.S. Imperituss was docked at the Admiralty Prize presented by J. Y. V., Vernon, Esq. A-Dock, Kowloon on the and inst, where she is to go farce which had not even any redeeming through-ap extensiva overhaul. element of fun in it. Five men started in what was more an obitacle race of a childish nature
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City than a steeplechase. Jackson won easily, with
Hall Museum for the week ending March 1st, are: Laling a fair second.
CONSOLATION RACK-129 YARDS-Post-Europeans 188, and Chinese 2,237: total 2,425 -Entries. Open to all competitors (except those In cents Nov. 7, 7. and 12) who have run but sint won a prize. Prize presented by the Hon. P. Ryrie. This event was won easily by R. P. Robinson, A. Denison and, and C. Aliken 3rd.
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The prizes were presented to the winners by Lady des Vœux,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S. Rambler, on surveying service, arrived at Singapore on the sand ulto,, and after coaling, left for Colombo on the 24th.
THE London Gazette of January 23rd contains the announcement that the Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. C. P. Chater is
H.M.S. surveying vessel Egeria, Camd. A. M., Field, arrived here on the morning of the 1st last. from a surveying cruise at Vereker Shoal, and left gain on the and for Sandakan where she will be engaged on similar service.
The salvage operations on the sunken Turkish man-of-war Ertegrou! are stated to have been more successful than was anticipated. Most of the stuff of any value has been recovered, and an attempt was to be made to raise the old hulk itself, on the 1st lust.
It is officially notified that the Governor has granted two months' leave of absence on half salary in addition to four months' vacation leave to the Hon. F. Fleming, Colonial Secretary Consequent on Mr. Fleming's departure, Mr. has been appointed Acting Colonial Secretary,
The appointment of Mr. George Horspool, Acting Deputy Superintendent of Police, to be Acting Captala Superinicadent, has been officially gazetted. This is a step in the right direction | and one that, we trust, will be consistently followed in all departments of the Govemment Service where the deputy is capable of taking over and efficiently performing the duties of his immediate chief.
THE German steamer Triumph, Cant. Bras, arrived here early this morning (Feb. 28th, being towed up from Haibow by the steamer Alwin The Triumph ran on some reefs in the Hainan Straits on the 15th inst., breaking her stern-post and damaging her rudder. She was towed into Holbow by the German steamer Activ the following day, and will go into Kowloon Dock on Monday for repairs."
THE destruction by fire of the Dutch mail steamer Sumbawa in the Moluccas, was owing to a lamp boy on board pouring petroleum inte lighted lamp. The oil in the lamp nght fire, the boy fell down, and the flames spread so fast that quenching them preved out of the question. The passengers and crew saved were consumed. Those rescued reached Sours bays on the 8th February. The lamp boy was burned to death.
cles on the Board and considering oiber matters. I may begin by saving that meetings, both pri vate and public, of the committee took place, and in consequence of various resolutions come to negotiations have been entered into with a leading hotel-keeper in this colony to lease the restaurant and a portion of the Peak Hotel, say the basement, containing the billiard rooms, the first floor, containing the private dining roomi, the large dining room, and ten bedrooms. Negotiations are being carried on, and the result of them, although not certain seems rather favour able. That will leave forty bedrooms for the Hotel Company to let, either furnished on unfurnished. and we propose to advertise the fact of these bed- rooms being to let at very cheap rates at as early a date as possible. Until arrangements
bave been made that are now being proceeded
Consul at Hongkong for his Majesty the King W. M. Deane, Captain Superintendent of Police. themselves in the boats, but the mails and cargo ; and in that case Mr. Anderson will remain on
of Slam.
THX monthly competition for the Faki Challenge Cur, presented by Dr. Noble, took place on last Saturday afternoon and resulted in a win for Lieut. E. A. Martin, R.N., with a score of 47 points. Eleven members competed..
SAYS the Japan Mall of the 23rd ulto,Court Ito's attack of influenza seems to have been exceptionally severe, but happily he is now recovering fast. Countess Ito and Mrs. Suye- matsu Kencho are now laid up with the same malady.
THE British steamer Denbighshire, Captain Gedye, which arrived here on the tst inst, from
officers and crew on board who are to bring out a Japanese man-of-war, which at present is being built in Germany.
TELEGRAPHIC news reached Penang the. other day that a terrible case of amok had occured le Lower Perak (place not named), five person having been killed and thirty-one so badly wounded that the medical officer holds out no hopes of their recovery, Inspector Evans, the Penang Gazelle ways, with a party of police and followers to the number of 300 men, bad gone in search of the murderer.
On February 11th, news reached Macassar of the loss of the Reynir, one of the Packet Navi- gallon Company's steamers, owing to striking on a reef near the island of Segorie In the Moluccas. No lives were lost. Close by the spot which proved so fatal to the Reynest, the
while on her voyage from New York to Ningpo with 29,000 0:10s of petroleum.
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A YOUKO European has been sentenced to thres years rigorous imprisonment at Selangor for fabricating false evidence "tending to seriously affect the social reputation of a Government official." The Straits Times remarks that this sounds odd." It sounds so odd that it is to be hoped our Singapore contemporary will leave no stone unturned in obtaining full particulars of the specific charge for which this young European has been consigned to prison for three years,, The social reputations of Goverament officials would seem to be precious commodoties la Selangor.
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Expenses, Retaining Fees,
alse is what is due from the Chinese `to Stationery, &c., and Special
foreigners on the baldest ground of reciprocity,' Charges appertaining to Agències in Great Britain .................................ónus
47.917.62 and if it be not accorded, the obligation could be Commissions............ 39.697.13 profested like a dishonoured bill which the holder Balance as above..............
285,007,23 keepà in hand until it suits bis convenience to fake further action. Discussion in such a caso $ 464,916.98 would tend to weaken the claim if not to condone the offence, and compromise would. be an act of real disloyalty to the civilized world, and to posterity. This no mere figure of speech, for the tenure of any office is always brief, and the officials hold their powers in trust for the genera tions to come'ninch more than for the one that is passing away under their eyes. Foreign nations can get along very wall without their Ministers resing the Emperor of Chinn, and if either by his own will or through the obstruc tiveness of his servants access to him is not made cary and honourable, why should foreign ers trouble themselves at all about the matter ?.... It is an affair between the Emperor and his own.
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E.&O.E. Hongkong, 27th February, 1891.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO,
General Managers We have examined the Books and Vouchers of the Company, and certify that the above Statements are in accordance therewith.
G. S. COXON, A F. HENDERSON, J Hongkong, 27th February, 1891.
Auditors.
· THE FUNERAL RITES OF PRINCE Ministers, and might very well be left in their.
CH'UN
We are indebted to the N. C. Daily News for the following translation of a memorial, published: in the Paking Gazette of January vịth :-
Prince K'o-chia and his colleagues submit
with to induce the contractor to take a mortgage for his debt, of course nothing can be done, but we are now negotiating with the contractor, and we hope the result will be favourable. The only elect Directors, I am very happy to be able to thing the present meeting has now to do is to
the Board and Mr. Anderson also. Mr. Ander- state that Mr. de Sonnaville has agreed to join son, in case of need, will take the management of the Hotel and act at the same time as secre- tary; but we hope the need for this will not arise, the Board. If he is to act as secretary, then he will resign from the Board. It will be under- stood that Mr. de Sonnaville in elected in place of Mr. Ede, who did not offer himself for re-election.memorial in which, in compliance with instruc Mr. Ewens proposed that Messrs. Stokes, de tious conveyed in a Decree Issued by H.M. the Sonnaville, and Anderson be elected as Directors. Empress Dowager on the 1st of January last, Mr. Farlane seconded, and it was unanimously they report upon the mourning and other rites carried.
to be paid to the memory of His Imperial Highness Prince Chun. The Book of Rites prescribes that a person who passen by adoption into another family should observe mourning for one year for the death of his own father or mother, and this is the term which the memoria lats venture to think should, be observed on the INSURANCE COMPÁNY, LIMITED. present occasion, lo accordance with the principle adopted by Her Majesty the Empress-Dowager in deciding that Prince Ch'in should be The following is the report for presentation to styled the late Father of the Emperor. The
annual meeting, to be held at the offices of the
are the various points of ceremonial In connec Company, Pedder's Street, on Saturday, the 7th tion with the last rites to the memory of the March, 1891, at noon
Ulustrious dead which the memorialtate, after. careful consideration, venture to submit for adoption.
Fullarton Henderson as auditor, which was Mr. Stokes proposed the election of, Mr. seconded by Mr. Parlane and carried.
The meeting then terminated,
THE HONGKONG FIRE
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But it behoves the foreign governments at home to take note of the attitude of the Peking Government ;, and if they were well advited and could afford, and the turmoil of Western politics, to bestow an occasional quarter of an hour'on the consideration of their. Chinose relationE they would surely mete out to the Chinese representatives at their respective Courts the exact measure of courtesy, which is shown to the foreign representatives in Peking. No com plaint could be made of such even-handed reciprocity, and were it but honestly adopted by the Great Powem'it would not be the foreiga voz Ministers who would have to sue for civility in Peking, but quiie the contrary. The Western- Powers have followed a diffareat praciple of Chinese envoys the ordinary courtesies action to this, and not content with showing due to their position have heaped special favours on their heads, and-It is not tow strong a word to use-have bebaved obsequlously to them. Guards of honour, special trains, royal visits, their very servants worshipped, and the philistine brood of English mayors following the Chinese Minister about with their fawning addresses-these are the circumstances which
idea that they can treat foreigners as they please from the highest to, the lowest. It is to be hoped that same day they may be undeceived. without a catastrophe: and they will be, if foreigners are but true to themselves, and if their rulers do not forget the dignity of their. own countries Chinese Times.
Japan, bound for London, has the Japanese German vestei F, C. Works was also wrecked, who receptly arrived in England from Tientsi the shareholders at the twenty-second ordinary term of mourning being thus fized, the following have puffed up the officials in Feiding with the,
THE well known Telegraph cable steamer Recordar was stranded on the Madge reefs, off Thursday Island, on the morning of February 6th. After considerable trouble she WAS "kedged off the reef two days later. The damage to the steamer had not been ascertained when the mail left, beyond that she had knocked off three blades of her propeller.
THE Man Wong Aman, recently arrested by
•Inspector Stanton by virtue of a warrant issued at the instance of the Chinese Authorities, who allege that the prisoner committed piracy and murder within the furisdiction of the Emperor of China, was identified on the 2nd Inst. by five Chinese witnesses for the prosecution. The case stande remanded until next Monday the
9th instant.
Good news from Punjors. The Singapore Fre Press of February 23rd says "We hear that favourable news has been received from the Jalis mine, near Punjom. A large quantity of store has been struck going to dwt to the 100. The lode or reef appears to tend in the.direction of the old Punjom Company's property. It is to be hoped for the sake of the latter" that better times, long in coming, may be not far off, If there proves to be anything in this surmise,"
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A CHARMING old lady who turned up here on the Pasig from Canton on the rat last., was pounced upon by Constable Macaulay who found 110 tacis of opium amongst her goods and chattels, As the fair five-and-fifty couldn't disprove the charge of belag a sly opluim dealer's medium she had to leave fifty Mexicans with the fashion-" able young man who does the shroff pidgin at the Magistracy, before the co-stable and the magistrate were willing to cry quits with her. The drug was, as per usual, confiscated
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Tux Chiness Times tells a yarn about a child
who when asked how her own country compared with China, replied in the language most familiar to her: Yew flex wu H:. Yn it ww len, THE Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Cricket which may be roughly rendered: "In the one there is heaven (or sky) without earth; in the Club informs us that he has just received and
The General Managers have pleasure in sub- secepted by cable, a challenge to play sa Eleven other, earth without heaven." The expression, composed of the passengers and officers on board according to cur Tientsia contemporary, Bus-mitting to the shareholders the twenty-second the Canadian Pacific Co.'s new liner, Emprass rates the epigrammatic power of the Chinese Annual Report of the Company, of India The Empress of India is due here on language, and does credit to the observing power of the infant. It is certainly true, adds the Sunday the 2nd Instant, and the match-which will doubtless create a good deal of interest, that la this province at all events, it is only in the sky that one sees anything worth will probably be played the following day, "
looking at.
THE captain of the ship Peter Stuart, whose chief-officer lately fatally shot at sen 成功 agressive seaman named Curry, deposed at the log book shortly after, the occurrence, but di Inquest that "be made an official entry in the not read it to Curry, as he was unconscious and utering great pala." Ireland was Ireland when England was a pup, and Ireland shall be Ireland when England's busted up, etc.
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We have received from Measts, Kelly and Walsh a very handily bound and clearly printed copy of "The Magistrates' Ordinance, 1800,"with notes and references and a copious index, by Mr. Andrew J. Leach, barrister-at-inw. Mr. Leach bas evidently devoted a good deal of time to this only of the legal fraterity, but of the community at large. That is about all Mr. Leach is ever likely to get as a recompense for his labours.
Our correspondent "Free-trade" may set his mind at rest. The Pasig affair has not escaped our observation, and we have not been "squared” to let it slide. "As soon as we are in paísession of the whole of the correspondence connected with the case, which was read in Court but by some means or other escaped the notice of the. usually long-eared short-hand reporters of our morning and evening contemporaries, this most flagrant attempt to maintain a monopoly on the Canton river by, what a Hongkong special jury has unanimously decided was a baseless cons piracy, will be fearlessly and firmly dealt with. Roma was not built in a eleven weeks in a gasl hospital at a time when constant radical attendance and care were require a lot of shaking off. But we don't intend to accumb this journey; not even to oblige those who so handsomely offered to subscribe, towards an omate tombstone in the Happy Valley, with our many virtues inscribed thereon. We have some work to do in Hongkong yet, and we mean to do it; no "Free-trade" needn't feel alarmed that we have either "lost grip" or have Joined the gutter-snipes. We only need a few days more.
and the effects of
1859 ACCOUNT.
The result of the year's working shows a balance at credit of $187,674, which sum, with the approval of the Consulting Committes, it is now proposed to deal with as follows :- Reserve Fund....$3.95.00 Bonus to Contributing Shareholders 39.023.00 Dividend of $18 per Skare...
MORTGAGES.
144,000.00
I-The term af mourning being one year of twelve months, it is respectfully suggested that in accordance with usage, His Majesty should go into deep mourning for either 11 or 13 daya' as Her Majesty the Einpress may be pleased to 'decide.
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II.-After putting off bis robes of deep mourn- ing is Majesty should, it is suggested, be asked to have his head shaved.
ILI-When a Prince of the first order dies,
CHINKIANG. ›
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
February 18th. New Year has now been fally introduced amidst the rattle of fire-crackers, and the nolue
$187,874.00 the custom is to hold no Court for three days.sabating, to be renewed again, however, at the
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Whether this term should be extended on the present occasion in honour of Prince Chan is The General Manager and Consulting Com-respectfully submitted to the decision of the mittes are satisfied from the valuations made by Empress-Dowager. the Company's Surveyors in Shangbal and Hongkong that the properties held by the Com- pany are good for the advances made, although considerable depreciation has taken place in Hongkong.
CONSULTING COMMITTEE.
Feast of Lanterns on the 15th, after which the Chinese will resume regular work. It will take about a month's time to get the "enthusiasm." birthday on the cth. This fact was thoroughly out of their bones, The God of Wealth had a impressed on the writer's mind by a very pitiful incident. Two boys went to a temple to wor ship. After performing the usual ceremonies one of them went outside. During his abacacot the clothes of, the other bpy, a little
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useful compilation, and deserver the thanks not almost an absolute necessity to keep life together, left the Colony, Messrs. F. T., F. Foster and C. roourning the Emperor should, it is love Cellow only eight years old, caught fire,
A TELEGRAM from Hobart (Tasmania) states that a court-martial into the charge of breach of discipline against Lieutenant Oliver, of H.M.S. Penguin, has resulted in that officer being dismissed from the ship, and ordered to forfeit five months' seniority. The charge against him Was for having prejudiced good order and discipline by forwarding a letter to the Com-TAKEN as a whole, the Pension Regulations mander containing frivolous and unfounded affecting the subordinate officers and constables charges against his commanding officer, Com. of the Hongkong Palice Force, published for
general information to the Government Gazett mander W. Osborne Moore,
of Saturday last, are contemptibly mean and unworthy of a Government that has an important responsibility towards the public in providing men of good character as members of the Force. Compare this beggarly screwing down of the privileges so scurvily thrown at the rank-and-file, who are only paid enough to keep body and soul together, with the lavish provisions made for the and then marvel if you can, that European police higher ranks, the drones of the Civil Service, officers desert and "clear out" for Australia witkort tuck of drum, whenever they find out the nakedness of the land. Hongkong Commis
ions are almost always bare-faced shamis, or cast-iron frauda, and we like them not; but the European Police question is becoming so serious that we would strongly urge Governor des Vieux to appoint a Commission-not of bralaless officials and worn-ext unofficial time-servers, but of men with active minds and independent opinions" who represent the community-to investigate and report upon the whole subject,
THUS.our Tientsin contemporary-A gloom OUR French friends apparently are unaware that our man-about-town sometimes goen afont. On has been cast over the foreign residents by the
the rst inst, he passed the French gun-bout Vipère, death of Mr. C. L. Farrar, son of the Archdeacon,
which arrived in port at dusk on Saturday from an sastatant in the Imperial Customs. He was B young man of great spirit and promise, and Amoy, and noticed a canvas screen spread around his early death is deeply regretted. The funeral her bows. For no other motive-some might name it impertinence-be took a peep and found scarpenter working under the screen repairing the stem which was considerably damaged, and the bowsprit was non ait / Vipire had been fa collision with something or other on her voyage down, and her commander doubtless wished to keep the affale un sacrèt,
-service at the British Legatlon at Peking, on the 5th ulto, drew a very large number of sympe- thizing friends, most of whom followed the coffin to its resting place in the cemetery outside the walls. The flags of all the foreign legations were holsted half-mast. A telegraphic mesange from home was communicated to Mr. Farrar, a few hours before he died.
THEY say that a lot of the Anointed Heads of Europe, Serene Highnesses from the same sphere and much like gaudy persons, are about to present Wales" with a round robin, requesting him not to know his bosom friend Baron Hirsch, the banker, any more; to which the much harrass- ed Koming K." will probably reply with a request to be bought out of his financier's tolls.
Unless somebody does something pretty soon we
shall bear of Hirsch floating the Heir-Apparent as a limited liability company on the Duc of Plaza-Toro system, and what joy this would bring to our local Enancial world, some members of which arem willing to sell their seals for the privilege (7) of becoming Royalty's parasiten,
now
Evidently the
THE Trung-ll Yamén have returned an absolute refusal to the demand of the Foreign Ministers to be received in audience in the Imperial Palace at Peking. The Yamen say this holy of holles cannot be entered without the formality of the k'o-fou. Now then at last, comments the Chinese Times, the significance which the Chinese stiach to a reception in the Servants! Hall is thoroughly exposed, and the Foreign
representatives are to be congratulated on their
avoidance of the traplate which their predecessors fell eighteen years ago. The decision is
momentous one for the Chinese Government, Involving, as we believe, though it may we remotely, the fate of the Empire.
THERE is neither chance nor circumstance re corded in the world's past history—no matter how extraordinary, that does not sooner or later gaiz ita parallel, and it is with no small amount of bas recently occurred in a munnery at Canton, and concern that weread of a miracufans birth that which, strange to say, has been received in the
The distress in the neighbourhood of Tientsin, Bays our Northern contemporary, has reached its extrame polat, and every day there. are numbers of starving people literally dying of famine to be seen in the foreign, settlements of Tientsin. Visits to the villages near the Race-course reveal indescribable misery, the fatuates in many cases being not merely with mut food, but absolutely without clothing. The women huddle together in their cold cottages, days of old, she is driven from her virtuous
split of the present age, and instead of the poor mother up for the adoration of
reeding genersilons, we would i
appear
to be the custom observed in a similar case in
anable to put their heads out of doors for want retreat amidst a storms of fire crackers, and, most of a tag to cover them. These poor wratches
cruel of all, the scoffs and the joera "of wicked are within three miles of the Town. Hall where
unbelievers, all the charity meetings have been held, and if there is any overflow of cash from any relief fund, public or private, it were surely well directed towards such strictly local distress.
"THE North China Desk Hong List for 1891" has been courteously forwarded to us from the office of the North China Herald, Shanghai. It comes rather late in the year, but that is owing to the desire of the publishers to include to it a lot of information that was not svallable until well on 'la Jacuary, and which is of paramount Interest Id Shanghal, for which Settlement this general guide is specially compiled. In addition to a plan of Shanghai and its environs, and a fairly accurate rasp of Chios, the "Hong List contains a directory of Shanghal, the Northern Chinese Ports, and Cores, and a vast deal of useful Information, regarding the Chinese, Government departments, high provincial to thorities, Custom's regulations, etc., etc. This Bundy guide should be in every office in the Far East.
ALICE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL...
Stațiifies for Fibruary, 1891. In-Patients remaining in Hospital on tet
February
In-Patients admitted to Hospital daring
February 2014
Total number treated as Ja-Patients............114
Of these there were: Discharged cured pomimo Discharged relieved
Discharged on other grounds Died In Hospita).......................
32
7
4
4
In-Patients remaining in Hospital on et
March çarpayı sopara 67.
Out-Patients, new cases in=372 Out-Patients, roturn visits...............sço,374
Total number of Out-Patients' visits....646 Operationsvirajov:13
Viccinations 12. Dental cases ma Casualty cases nóminasip
Jöш C. THOMSON, MA. M.B.,
Superintendent.
THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED,
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Mears. S. G. Bird and A. P. McEwen baring J. Holliday have been nominated to the vacant seats, and their appointment now requires to be confirmed. The present members, the Hon, C. P.Chater, Mess, J. S. Moses and T. E. Davies, offer themselves for re-election.
AUDITORS,
The Accounts have been’audited by Mesits. G. S. Coxon and Fullarton Henderson and their re-election as Auditors of the Company is recommended.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
Emperor is humbly requested to wear ordinary IV. During the period of one year the mourning in his private apartments. This should not, however, apply to hír visits of respect to the Empress-Dowager, to the reception of his ministers la audience, or to the transaction of public business. During the period of deep pay a dally visit to the residence of the Prince and pour oblations before the remain. all other ceremonies of this kind being performed † and before help could be secured, he was so by Frinces and Nobles deputed to act on behalf badly burned that he died before night. of His Majesty. The Board of Ceremonies. should decide upon the etiquette to be observed usual in desperate cases the Chipers asked the when the members of the family meet together foreigner to help, and as usual the foreigner want · in mourning for the dead.
to the village; but arrived too late. The poor boy V-It Is respectfully suggested that the had died from the shock, and a strange scene important State functions at the temples of his occurred at the place! About one hundred people ancestors and at those of Heaven, the Sun, the Mons, and the Earth should, during the above were waiting for the father to arrive with the General Managers,
perfod of one year, be conducted by the Emperor foreigner, and an old woman had been deputed to In person. On all ordinary occasions of worship Break the and news to the man, who is a start Hongkong Fire Insurance Company, Ld the Emperor's duties should, for one year, he fellow about thirty years old. Upon receiving the- Hongkong, 27th February, 1891.
performed by proxy.
245mm letefligence he lensed into tha air like one shot, VI-On · first day of the New Year the and rushed to his house, but before be could- Emperor should celebrate the usual rites at the reach the door four or fivo lusty villagers Tang-tră in full robes of ceremony; and his visit had him down and troceeded to take him to the to the Empress-Dowager on the same day should ancestral temple, From the dust, and din the be made with similar ceremony and be accom-fact was gathered that the clan did not wish him panied with music. When receiving the New to look upon the face of the dead child until he Year's congratulations in the Tal-ho Tian the had been exhorted by the elders.. fest be should Emperor should wear court dress, but whether, infure the other bow who went with the deceased when he ascends the Throne, the congratulatory" to the temple. The foreigner was cordially address should be read and the music played, | invited in to rest, and refresh himself, with some is a question which the memorialists - world | bond-water tes and soft balled eggy. Wishing to respectfully submit to the decision of H.M. the wee the outcome he entered the halland discovered Empress-Dowager, moda, bodhpurs in the bereaved father seated in the centre, and
VII-As regards the wine, meat, ingots, paper, cash, and all other articles required for performing the sacrificial rites on the first and second occasions, as well as at the removal of the remains and at the intervient, these are points toi. be arranged by the Board of Rites in accordance with the custore nexally followed is the case of Prince of the first degree, toolid ja VIII-Whether the Emperor's name should be inscribed on the Elegy and the Epitaph leja pelot 'on which the memorjaileta ''can' 157,874.00 presume to offer no suggestions, and respecte teristic of good sea to sco good qualities in ing which they would bumbly solicit the others, however degraded they may be. There Instructions of Her Majesty thà: «Empressi
BALANCE SHEET, DECEMBER 3187, 1890. Dr..
Liabilities.
1,056,049,00 7,092.70 58,726.1
Capital Subscribed...$2,000,000.00 Amount paid-ap.............$400,000.00 Reserve Fund... Accounts Payable Uncollected Dividends Working Account, 1889- Balance from last a/c. $303,149.10 Add-Sundry Premis,
&c., since collected... · 59.89%,35
$363,247-55
Less-Losses and other Payments$158,706.55 Remuners- tion to Consulting Committee
& Auditors, 6,657.00
-$175,373-55
Net Profit for 1889 Working Account, 1890:- Amount brought forward from
bolow
Cr.
Asuta.
about a dozen old men and women comforting him. He was held down by the stout young men who had seizeck him at the, ärati After a while w place was given to his mother, who in a pitiful toda informed him that it was Heaven's will and that the fire was God's fire (Fo-zun, a fire sup- posed to be inextinguishable by man) and that “ he must not blatae any one. In the course of time, the poor spilaw, became quiet, Strange Indeed, but the sympathy was real,, Tears weig seaming down the cheeks of many and there was anguish of mind among all. It is characë
285,807.83 Dowager. The characters for "Prince Chae-sympathy, real and unaffected, among this should be elevated two spaces above the column: people, and foreigners, as good men, ought to $1,994,749.05 in all documents submitted to the Throne. w zote it, to effect the many bad qualides of this
book-cursed psóplevetida qa
Cash, on Current Account with
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking, Corporation...........................................$
Casa in hands of General Managers Fixed Deposits -
Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation 4128:9++++b)196 New Oriental Bank Corporation,
Limited
Mortgages --
In Hongkong....
In Foochow ...oposa In Amoy
..$763,167.60
$9,000.00 20,000,#0 In Shangkel ................. 594,787.01
Chinese Imperial Government
Lean, 1856
A Shares in the China Fire Insurance Company, Limited................................................ Steam Fire Engines ...............in Accounts Receivable,
The adjourned' ordinary, yearly meeting of shareholders in the shore Company was held at To the Hongkong Hotel on the 28th uffo. There were
80,343.55 1,542.40
275,000.00
50,000.00
THE AUDIENCE QUESTION AT
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On Sunday night about fifty houses were but - with;“ God's fire.?. Everything was almost desə - troyed but there has been no loss of the rapartede." The fire originated in a coal store, and like the Tinghal fire, by an overturned " keraseña lamp). On Monday the smoking rulas - Last week wa mitte some observations on seemed to be given up to the bergara and this subject from the Chinese point of view, oralaren Many stores were consumed, as the fre éccurred in the bustest, part of the city, t at least from the point of view of Chinese stal-chaphos, and the writer saw. hat. Interests. From the foreign aide there, 11] commuusad hamn, fruit, and other things carried virtually nothing to be said that has not been of a great quantities by the riffent, The Chinese waie grumbling at foreigners for bring. said repeatedly in these columns during the past in kerasens to China, but they will learn after three years. It is the foreign governments while from experience that kerosene ali didera especially those of England and France, which materially from bean oll, just a foreigom 1,436,954,61 | srp mainly to blame for the neglect of this ques: difers from Chinaman-not to push the tion during the past thirty years, and all the analogy ton fára a 13; 240 19 là hay 35,335.57
Great Powers have shared, to the fall in the rest 157.00 possibility for the recent attitude of the Chinese 3,000.00 It was of course useless for the Ministers, in 110,616.97
Peking to assume a strong position unless they $1,994.749.05 were supported by their governments, and for all that we see at present no satisfactory solution
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The US, man of War Monocacy arrived on the miniversary of the riot. Your corresponde was apprised of this fact by an Englishman with a jay beating face. Let the retailer of the old “Ansericas Navy " Joko mota tale." "The #priz" just on, and the SAD of this joke is full in the and Chinese too, perhaps) will enjoy its green Toota 4. Era long it will bud again and foreigners of the question at faste la likely to come out of freshnessparkle tak m anything in the nature of negotiations carried on id Peklog. Indeed it is not very obrique what"|| turus and Re-fasurance.................$ 341,158,51 there le to negotiate about. Elther the Calacio 133,504.23 Government desires to behave as a civilized Exchange papagaamullus
„151,24. Transfer Fees
Pawer, or it does not, and any chattering about 173.00
tila, ceremony) me that, would seem like $464,936.98 Chinese way of triffing with the mala
tion. The usage of civilizat 92,355.03 all known to the Chiesa es
WORKING ACCOUNT, 1890. Nett Premia received, less Re-
SAVE the Shfufco-"On the 16th mito, what might have been another slot took place in Chicklang. Some native pligrims were passing the concession when one of them stooped dowa and picked up a nail in front of a house. Chinese policeman seeing the act immediately arrested the pilgrims and charged, him with the theft of the nail. On the way to the pollon station "the pilgrims gathered to see the arrest. At last, the crowd reached the number of one te two thousand people. Shouts, cries, curses, and imprecations were showered upon the policeman,
Interest............ as well as broken tiles and stones... The British | present :—Mess. J. B. Coughtile. (Chairman), Consul and the Chinese: deputy of Foreign | C, Ewens, J. A. F. de Sennavilje (Directors) ; A. Affairs, at once sent guards to quell and disperse F. Stokes, W. Farlane, F. Daver, and J. Wheeley the mob Result: The nail-picking pigdm.was forth-with released from the station and the crowd became quiat and turned away. It is time ipe. the Municipal Council of Chinklang to instruct the police in their service in the proper duties. that become a constable, if they wish to avoid distú scer and trouble in future.”
(Secretary),
The Chairman sald—The, business of- this
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meeting is to take up the position of affairs as By Losses and Claims pald welch tham this day fortuleht, when the share Charges, including Salaries holders elected a committee to confer, with the "of "Assistants and Surveyors, Diretors for the purpose of filling up the vacan». ] / Haul of Qffort, «Virs : Brigadé-
Ministers in Western countries! 1 Ter.'s good many
According to a Chinese netice, the people of thirty-six villaren were to have met yesterday at the Goddess of Mercy bill to consult about the and rain and harvest. For the last six yours there has been much adfering from drought in this strict, Prayers for zaio have been fra but chewers have been received the answers to their pray Sently something Is wro
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