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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMITE D,

DISPENSING CHEMISTS, &c

MANUFACTURERS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1891.

The Honghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1891.

THE GAMBLING ABORTION.

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ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Missin steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and 10.30 8.m. on Sunday, to convey mén ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12:30.

· criminal offence, if our German MISSRS, Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Irlands

debarred by law from Canadian Pacific Line, informus that the steamer Hafavin, from Vancouver, had arrived at Indulging in chass or any other game Yokohama, and left for this port, vis Kobe and of chance and skill for stakes exceeding Shanghai, to-day, the price of a bottle of soda-water, if the members of the Club Lusitania run the risk of imprisonment for playing ten-cant HEMISTS AND AERATED WATER THE latest published and half-a-dozen in strict law habitual criminals for playing pool, or if the habitues of the City Club are mes amended Gambling. Ordinance is one

fifty cant poker? The whole thing is of the weakest specimens of legislative ridiculous and unworthy of the serioas shreds and patches that has ever been attention of sensible men, If there must offered to a very wearied and long suffer-

be special laws for the Chinese, then let the ing community. We have not been

Government go ahead and make them informed on whose shoulders lles the responsibility for piecing together this bot-carefully and fairly weighing the rights and potch of legal incongruities and faming ignorance of the true position and actual requirements of this colony as to preventive legislation in regard to gambling, but

DAKIN'S

SELTZER WATER, CONTAINS THE TRUE SELTZER SALTS.

Makes a more palatable drink with spirits

than Soda Water.

NO LOWERing tendenGP.

́IN · LARGEST SIZE BOTTLES,

CENTS 50 PER DOZEN.

At the Magisimacy this. murning. before Mr Wise, Habibah Rahamin, a Hebrew lady, was charged with creating a disturbance at th Synagogue early this morning. Mr. S. P. Marcus, assistant in the office of Messts. E. D. Sassoon & Co., said the defendant and her husband formerly lived in the Synagogue, bu were turned out because of the disturbances the defendant made on several occasions. Mr. R. but until some actual necessity arises, priviléges of institutions and Individuals.J. Stellins gave carréharative evidence, and the magistrale bound Habibah over in a sum of §zi surely the Europeans in the colony can be left alone to enjoy their social amusements us they please, so long as they neither

to keep the peace, both in and out of the Taber- nacic, for six months to come.

whoever the official may happen to be, we') outrage public morality, nor infringe the Limited, was held at the Company's office al

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AN extraordinary general meeting of share holders in the Douglas Steamship Company.

noon to-day, for the purpose of submitting for confirmation the five special resolutions relative to alterations in the Articles of Association,

meeting. To-day there were present:--M251rs which were passed on the 28th ultimo by the shareholders then assembled at an extraordinary

S. S. Benjamin, R. K. Davis, R. R. Burder, 1. Ryrie and C.. Holliday (consulting committee); H. Cox, D. Gilles, J. F. C. da Roma, H. Craw

in this journal on the 28th ultimo, were put in special resolutions, which were published in full. the meeting seriatim, and unanimously con-

áre exceedingly sorry for the verdancy he displays and respectfully offer him our | heart-felt sympathy, What he knows and what he doesn't know about gambling would doubtless fill a large-sized book; is even a greater menace to the civil rights T. E. Davies (Chairman); D. R. Sassoon, P. but surely before any man, no matter how Nox. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL technically clever in abstruse questions of

legal procedure, attempts to make a special will see his way, to summarily withdrawford, J. Meier, and J. H. Lewis (Secretary). The

(Telephone No. 60.)

Hongkong, 13th April, 1841.

BY APPOINTMENT.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

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law seriously affecting the rights and liberties of an entire community, he ought to possess some actual practical knowledge of what he is trying to accomplish. The gentleman who drafted this Ordinance, and we say it in all seriousness and with dus respect, only too evidently knows nothing

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. whatever about the inner circles of social life"

ESTABLISHED AD. 1841,

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

in Hongkong; he ignores the fair and legitimate privilege of every citizen to a certain amount of license in his personal amusements; he wantonly attacks every branch and form of sport and pastime that are inseparable from a Briton's life all the world over, by making it a criminal offence to indulge in what has ever been held to be an unchallenged right; and winds up by proposing to invade the sanctity of our social institutions on grounds that are alike The purest ingredients only are used, and the childish and absurd. And he is not even consistent in the work he has done so badly,

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

English Makers....

utmost care and cleanliness are exercised

"In the manufacture throughout.. LARGE BOMBAY

"SODAS"

We continue to supply large bottles as beretofore, fres of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the

ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.

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

Counterfoll Onder Books supplied on applica tion

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

The following is a List of Waters always

kept ready in Stock -

PURE AERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER

LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TOMIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE.

No Credit given for bottles that look dirty, or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as, such bottles are never used again by us.

A. Ś, WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Hongkong, China, and Manila.

For Sale.

READY.

NOW

[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.]

* THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST”, FOR 1891.

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We shall return to this subject in our proposed Bill, which in its amended form next issue, and deal with section 3 of the

of the people than was the original draft. It is to be hoped that Governor or Vaux

this most foolish Ordinance, as it can only lead to universal dissatisfaction without serving any useful purpose whatever.

TELEGRAMS.

THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.

LONDON, April 9th. President Harrison has refused to sanction any parleying with Canada regarding the commercial treaty. It is believed that the President resents the Canadian electoral attacks on America.

THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

The Argentine Government has decreed that the two State Banks shall suspend payment of feared. deposits until June. A great commotion is

MURDER OF A COMMISSIONER.

and party had been murdered at Manipur is now The report that Mr. Commissioner Quinton

confirmed. A punitive expedition is advancing from India to Burmah

THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA.

April 10th.

The Portuguese have stopped all traffic on the Pungwee until the British Africa Company evacuate the Massikesse territory.

THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

The decree issued by the Argentine Gorem meat has been well received at Buenos Ayres,

AUSTRALIAN FEDERATION. The Sydney Convention, before cipsiog, adopted a Charter which requires ratifying by the Colonial and Imperial Parliament.

In the preamble of this precious Ordi- nance we are told that it is expedient to. consolidate and amend the law relating to gambling and common gaming houses and lotteries," and the reason why this is expedient is because the wording of a section of Ordinance 13 of 1888 has been considered rather ambiguous and has led to different decisions from the magisterial bench. And that hall. There has been no increase in common gambling in Hongkong for the past fifteen years outside the mushroom crop of so-called Chinese Clubs which have sprung up in all directions, to whose existence we have so frequently directed the attention of the Government and insisted on the supervision of the Police. It

true thero has been wholesale Massas. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Telamon, from gambling in the Share Market, causing Liverpool, left Singapore for this port

yesterday wide-spread ruin throughout the colony; afternoon, and is due on the 23rd but the leading operators in that business Ox her last voyage to Vancouver the Canadian and in the floating of bogus companies are. Pacific liner Batavia, Capt. Hill, went ashore men in high places, honored visitors to Columbia river, but was towed off the following on. March 19th near Tongue Paint on the Government House, confidential chums of day without having sustained any damage.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) inform us that the steamship Palkon left Sings pore for Hongkong this afternoon, and is dua on the 24th inst.

firined.

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GOOD whisky to those who like that genuine product, and their name is legion in this colony is an exceptional treat in these days of whole sale adulteration, and low prices. But good whisky is to be ablained nevertheless, and doubtless in most of the leading establishments In Hongkong. Messrs. Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co. have sent us samples of a new brand, n Canadian whisky, bottled by Hiram Walker & Sons, of Walkerville, Ontario, which combines all the qualities of first-rate and properly matured whisky. The nge of the liquor is stamped and certified on every bottle, so that the purchaser knows exactly what he is buying, and can make little mistake either as to quality or price. The sample we have "gone through" is most mellow and pleasant-tasted, and we are certain will commend itself to all who give it a fair trial. MRS. JAMES BROWN-POTTER, who is shortly expected in this colony, is said to be the youngest Cleopatra" on the stage, and Madame Sara Bernhardt, who is forty-six, the oldest. W. we do know that she is slightly over seven, and don't know Mrs. Paver's exact birthday, but

we are looking forward to her" "Cleopatra "— remembering the semantion she made by her most realistic Impersonation of the character in New York-with as mich impatience as the most enthusiastic bald-head in the front row of the stalls when a hallet is on the fagis. Mrs. Brown-Potter's company got into some trouble in Bombay owing to billing a show for Good Fiday-they are apparently as moral and the case with the elect of Hongkong-but the religious in the upper circles in Bombay as is

fault was not the lady's, and she came out of the hurly-burly triumphantly. We learn from an Indian correspondent that Mrs. Potter is supported by an excellent all-round company, that Hongkong play-goers can confidently look forward to a series of high-class representa tions of the legitimate drama. Mr. Crofton and Miss Emily Blaine made a favorable Impression here over a dozen, years ago, and Mr. Kyrle Bellew has undoubted claims to be considered one of the best actors in his line on the English stage.

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THE Russlanman-of-war Koreyais, which arrived in Shanghai last Sunday, callided. with the Klutoan Lightship that morning, the lightship losing her bowsprit and being driven from her moorings. The man-of-war had one of her of the blades were broken off one of her propellers, boats and some of her mils smashed, and two

MR. E. W. MAITLAND, Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial Hosplal, begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospital: -Messrs. Grupp and Co., tas; Mesars. Cawasjee Pallanfee and Co., $35 Hugh McCallum, Fq., $25; C. Palmer, Esq. $zo; A. Turner, Esq., $10 ; J. M. Armstrong. Esq., $10.

SUPREME COURT.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS...

·(Before Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Pulene Judge).

The April Sessions opened this morning, with two cases only on the calendar. The Attorney. General (Mr. W. M. Goodman), instructed by Mr. Stokes (Acting Crown Solicitor) prosecuted, The jurors were Messrs. Olto Gschwind, F. F. dos Santos, F. de Sales Botelho, F. Korn, A. G. Stephen, S. do Rezarlo, and A. A H. Botelho.

..CUTTING AND WOUNDING,

Nan Aki was found guilty of inflicting numerous wounds on a fellow-lodger during a quarrel on the a'th January. Sentence was deferred.

THE D'AQUILAR STRIKT ROBBERY. Fan ki, at the time of his arrest employed na a tukang in the Water Police Force, was indicted on three charges: firstly, with rebbing the -person-of-one-Leung-Aching, -living-at No. 50. D'Aguilar Street, on the 8th of February last, secondly, with stealing from the said bouse Jewellery to the value of £650 and a Hongkong and Shanghai Bank deposit-note for $500; thirdly, with receiving a diamond ring well knowing it to have been stolen.

After hearing the evidence the jury unani nously found the prisoner guilty on the first and second counts.

Sentence was deferred until Monday,

H. G. BROWN AND COMPANY, LIMITED.

of the speculators hastened to the beach, whence we could see three large gunboats steaming into the bay in single file. The excitement was revived, inquiries from Chinese with totally. blank minds elicited the Information that “ Ke

two or it might be twenty-five. A couple of men "several-heads were to fall, but it might be

sal on an embrasure of the wall, besting n gong and cymbals to welcome the approaching M'ghtinesses, and as the vessels muchored a few hundred yards off regular, asiyees were fired, and answered by sounds as of burst paper-bags frem inside the walls. The appearance of the place began to brighten un; a few banners, bearing hieroglyphics of mystic import, were planted on the willa; and two or three hundred it braves," with percussion muskets, and banner, and no officers, streamed out of the city and meandered airlessly along the beach right up to the boundary between British and Chinese Kowloon. A less unlikely place for execution. could hardly have been relected. The broken' ground was liberally heaped with foul matter of all kinds, and the flies rose in clouds as the soldiers and spectators took up their points of Vantage. Five o'clock came and went ; rain begin to fall thinly, the light wared space, and all the curinin did not rise on the tragedy,

At length, about 5.30, the stream of messengers between the Yamen and the shiny were reen returning, fallowed by a high officint dressed in red, riding on a venerable pony, and attended by a body of heralds and guards. The soldiers on the beach began to clear a space in Aceldama, and my comrade and myself clambered on to a sort of mud-and-pebble shanty which aff vrded u central view of the clearing. As the procession advanced along the somewhat distant pier wa could see a crowd of boats patting off from twe of the gun-vessels and rowing quickly towards on. As they were beached the degen soldiers in each hauled out one two pilable-looking objects, whom we could see, even through the thick dirt which coated their faces, were grey with terror. Each had his hands bound behind him, a chain round his neck, a sort of pennant tuck in his quere-presumably setting out the nature of the crime alleged to have been committed by him and a wooden tally, with more writing on it (a means of identification, I was told) was tied to his plestall. All but one of the nineteen could walk, and although they were said to have had oplam given them they seemed fally 'nlive to their position. The man who could not walk was brought ashore squatting in a big basket,” ard was tumbled out in a line with his eighteen fellow-victims. He seemed to be in a state of collapse, for on being ret on his knees he at once keeled over on his face, and, being unable to regain his equilibrium on account of his hands being tied, remained grovelling until lifted for the fatal stroke. As the long line of victims was being Earranged, which was done amid much vocifcm- tion on the part of the masters of the ceremonies, the mounted official and' his suite of attendants drew up at one end. and the excitement. grew Intense. Nineteen men knelt in a fine in front of us, taking their last look at the earth which was ́ ́ko snon in receive them, and the fital moment approached. The men who had been getting long clear space occupied only by the score the condemned in 'position relfred, leaving A of prostrate wretches, a couple of paces apart. An excited individual, whose turban proclaimed him a native of Fokhles, advanced to one end of the death line, carrying a heavy Iron sword. Standing over the first man, the executioner lifted the rude wrapon bigh aborr his head, there was a flash, a slicing sound, and the brad fell with a thud on the scanty Yarf. At the same namest the assistant executioner, who had hold of the man's shoulders whilat the stroke was made, pushed the trunk forward on to the head, leaving viilble only the quivering wound, from which i torrent of blood spurted a foot distant. Not a

The second ordinary general meeting of shareholders of the above Company was held at the Hongkong Hotel at non to-day. There were present:-Messrs. C. S. Sharp (Chairman) B. Layton, H. I Dalrymple, C. S. Buff, Solomon and L. Hallward (Secretary),

The Chairman såld -Gentlemen, the report and accounts have now been in your hands arme days, and with your permission we may take them as read, These have purposely been made os full as possible and leave but little to he said to supplement the information given therein. You will notice that we have now written off the balance of cont of the Sofid, which was lost at the end of 1989; we recovered but little from the wreck and have credited to stock of stores the small amount represented by value of the salvage. The business of the Company continues is a flourishing state, and of activity in the timber market in China, which we are hopeful of seeing shortly some renewal

may enable us to considerably increase our turn over, which was disappointingly small last year. The contracts in hand will keep the ERW. mill at Laguimanoc in fall work well into October next. I may say we have new enquiries from some shareholders as to the nnasibility of declaring interim dividends. The Company's Articles of Association certainly give power to do so, and we shall endeavour to make arrangements to give effect to the, expres- sion of opinion on this bead should the position, of the Company seem to warrant such a course at the end of the present half-year. Before proposing the adopting of the report and accounts I shall be very happy to answer any questions shareholders may wish to ask. -There being so questions the Chairman pre- posed the adoption of the report and accounts ¦

Mr. Solomon seconded, and the motion on being put was carried unanimously.

Messrs. Dalrymple, Sassoon and Layton as the Mr. Salomon proposed the re-election of consulting committee.

Mr. Barff seconded, and it was carried. Mr. Barff proposed the re-election of Mr.

the Official Phalanx, philanthropists of the | Taz German gunboat Wolf, which left Shangbat printing of the same must have cost a small Fullarton Henderson as auditor.

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Mr. Solomon seconded, and it was unnu!-

The Chairman said that concluded the business of the meeting, and having announced that dividend warran's would be ready on Tuesday morning the meeting closed,..

- WHOLESALE EXECUTIONS AT

KOWLOON CİTY. ******

We have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of "Observations made at the Hongkong Observatory in the year 1879" by Professor. W. Doberck, Director of the Observatory. This is a most elaborate compilation. of about 150 foolscap pages, containing full particulars and reports for 189, in addition to the Professor's statistics of magnetic observations and weather annual departmental report, and other informs been entailed in collating and classifying such a tion, An immense amount of work must have

tremendous mass of figures and statistics, and the

undoubted scientific attainments and the admir-mously agreed to. fortune. We readily recognise Mr. Dobérek's able work he has achieved in these purely scientific observations; we admit the bird labour he has gane through and the exemplary patience he lias shown in getting out this book-but is the game worth the candle? So far as the citizens of Hongkong are concerned the magne.is about as much practical use as a new history observations and weather reports for 1889 aro of the Deluge would be. It seems a great pity that the Professor's painstaking and doubtless

NINETEEN PIRATES DECAPITATED, profound researches into meleorological science are not better appreciated in Hongkong than is The long-expected sometimes happens, as WITH tar in their eyes our landlords lifted up

care, but it would be useless to deny that the Homer sometimes nods, and in view of the many their jelot and several voices and cried: "He and the Observatory specially constructed to to the date of the holocaust which was looked general opinion is that Dr. Doberck was engaged disappointing rumours there have been lately as damned us for the sewage and now be sucs us give typhoon warnings, and not to compile for in Kowloon City it is perhaps excusable that ing little tale which we will relate one of these printed years afterwards. This latest Govern-issue, that it had been again postponed. The for the damage." And thereby bangs an interest magnetic observations and weather reports to be we were led to facorrectly state, in last night's days, for the edification of the Sanitary Boardment publication may interest scientific societies Lateness of its occurrence alone provented as and the benefit of the Hongkong public,

la Europe and America, but its usefulness to from giving the full description so dear to the THE Ciurevitch left Foochow last Sunday after. | Hongkong is not apparent.

morbid public sa hour afterwards. Our special noon for the Side Saddle. The Russian men-of-

horrors-monger sondu⋅ the following account of wat Korsysts and Mandjour and the German

the scene gunboat fifis were to go down and meet him there on Tuesday, to accompany him to Hankow, but owing to the accident to the Kereyra, is le probable she would bave to return to Shanghal for repairs,

H. Z CHANG CHIH-TUNG is still pursing bis 13th Inst, sets forth a petition by him asking progressive policy. The Peking Gassifs of the that the Provincial Examiner of Hupeh be allowed to proceed by steamer to Chlachow and Ichang to conduct the examinations. The Emperor granted the request.

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quiver was seen, nor a cry heard; if there was it was drowned by the walling blast blown by the "heralds." Stepping over the body, the executioner advanced to the second victim, who had witnessed, with sgonised gaze, the fate of his neighbor. I never realised before what force there was in the Gilbertian couplel

*Awaiting the sensation of a short sheep shock,

From'a chaap and chippy chopper on a big black block.” Number two hadn't much time to think of that, though, for in ten seconds more "the sabre tree, cut cleanly through, his cervical vertebræ," And so the sanguinary work went on; was plucked out and thrown down in front, the moment's grace whilst the pennant in each quene

hair colled up to leave the neck bare, and, with unvarying regularity, the "short sharp shock" was given until the prostrate wretch was reached, the fourth in the line., He was jerked hybrid order, moralists whose notoriously last week for Amor, returned to Shanghai and is

up by his scanty queur, which seemed to ne to be pulled out by the roots, for again he fell for. Immoral pecadilloes are winked at because now in the Old Dock for repairs. On the way they can act the lap-dog and cavalier servients Barren Islands, and damaged her hall so badly

ward,evoking a loud curse from the executioner. down she ran ashore on some rocks off the

The delay was but momentary the end was the as they can play lawn-tennis or golf-and on the port side that four plates will have to be

same. On and on went the butcher, performlag they are untouched by the new Gambling

renewed.

his dreadful work so efficiently that the scene al mest lost its horror. My friend, erstwhile Romeo, Ordinance, because they are the privileged

was sufficiently self-possessed to follow each class in a British colony where, by, an

blow with sincere plaudits; he forgot that a life was being sacrificed in admirallon of the dexterity Is amusing fiction which deceives nobody,

with which it was done, and alternated his sofis everybody is righteously supposed to

voca exclamations of "good shot," "well hip” be equal in the eye of the law,

with apt quotations from Shakespeare. Especial Interest was centred in the twelfth man, a good- The only Gambling Ordinance required

looking, elderly individual whose full beard and here is one, and it could be clearly

of western blood to some degree. Who haway well-shaped features proclaimed the admixture expressed in a few lines, to put a stop to

on what be had done, I did not gather. His the Chinese nuisance which, by the

was scarcely complete, the decapitation, though sufficient for the purpose, neglect of the Police, that is to say

not quite severed, and consequently the head Deck being by the wholesale bribery of the Chinese

did not disappear beneath the body as in the element in the Force which is admitted to

other cases. The blood-spout which immediately have existed, has led to all this trouble

obicnted the features, however, prevented any THERE would appear after all to be something

observation of the expresslyn "being made, and palaver. Properly constituted Chinese,

substantial in the scheme of our fiery and Yesterday afternoon will be a memorable one, Number sixteen was an object-looking sid Clubs, and we know half a dozen such in the

ustamed friend, Citizen George Francis Train, in Kowloon City as a day of blood. For the Celestial whose death was evidently not long to run a line of steamers between Tacoma and past few weeks detectives, reporters, and sight-anticipated, Seventeen was bungled slightly, colony in spite of the frothy declaration to

Hongkong, via Japanese and Chinese parts. sears have been daily flocking over to that Dirty and Eighteen was even less fortunate, the heade THIS Valuable Work, with many NEW the contrary of the well-meaning but exu-

When George was over here last year he brought Hollow in the hope that they would witness the man having to saw the flash to sever the head, berant and indiscreet Registrar-General, Tax last Ballimore Americas to hand contains on this side of the Styx to convince us that tribunal at Canton on a batch of men for part and rolled, with glazed eyes and quivering muscle latoplay an eloquence that is probably unequalled fulfilment of the capital sentence passed by the which, as in the other case, was left uncovered, have just as much right to exist as the an interesting description of the execution at Tacoma was the coming port on the North Pacific cipating in the Nomsa and other piracies.Thein plain view. A fresh weapon was called for, Hongkong Club or the Club Germania; an eye-witness, Mr. J. Crawford Lyon. It is Vancouver, as high as the pyramid of Cheops, was to be on Saturday afternoon, on the authority three brought by an attendant. With this the Kowloon City about a year ago, contributed by and would smash up San Francisco and word went round yesterday morning that "it" and a Japanese sword selected from the two or Its members have a perfect right to invite coincidence, doubtless, that he should have We accepted these assurances with our of the Grand Fanfandrum himself hence the final stroke was given, but the arm of the law friends, and they can play cards, dominoes, seed precisely the same words as we did in our customary suavity, but we thought Train was or any other Chinese game of chanceorakill this globe-trotting eye-witness" is very well-matter of fact, regarded his emphatic on the spot stated that before night the men completed the heralds changed their walling

account of the affair, but we rather fancy that shooting very wildly all the same, and s

mistake in the Telegraph last night. Bet in the was weakened, and the body fell over against afternoon a brief scrawl from a reliable:friend the one next to it, Just as the tale was always excepting fan-tan, pao-iis, or any named.

prophecies as the mere exuberance of a would probably, have.. arrival - and: f,been monotong ta: a long shilil blast, and the game where every player has not an equal THE Choral Society will perform Burnand's verbosity that we have never seen equalled. despatched, and I at once left for the scend soldiers, turning to the water, discharged their Messrs. Heuermann, Herbst & Co. chance, and there must be no banker and ¦ Sullivan) at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, this Recent advices from. San Francisco indicate willowing and scratching all over the bench; k | crowda?WeˇEtropeans had to cross the line

comic opera. "The Contrabandista (music by wasthed in the famous "crank's madness. I arrived; the ubiquitous pig was alternately and the officials at once left the

But it must now be admited that there Appearances were certainly not procaiting when rifles in regular volleys. The gunbasta replied, the spot, Not so the no commissions charged. And what harm evening, commencing at 9 o'clock. Last night's can such clube do either to publie morality drese rehearsal is stated to have gone off most that a line of steamers between Tacoma skin guard, with his firelock and ambreling was of corpset telore we could do so, and bven or to public interests? It is the dons where successfully, and to have greatly delighted the and Hongkong le quite probable in the very the only representative of the law's embodiment; Romeo was in a hurry to leave. The Chlutse large audience of dead-heads present, The near future, The San Francico Commercial the walls were deserted, sare by a damsel whom spectators had no such scruples; they strolled everybody could go into and gamble to admirable dancing of the cockuca was one of representing the interests of Sir William Pearse, in the impassioned language of Heace and names of the delinquents were writtett, Joking News of March 201 says:—"Mr. Marshall, a frivolous friend frightened away by addressing about, examining the wooden, tags on which the thely heart's content, where fan-fan was, the features of the representation, and this item was in Victoria on the 13th inst, for the purpose altogether it looked as if

à If we should draw bank. and chattlag as they did so. Once I was through, openly played and winked at by the police, is certain to create a furors to-night,

of learning the inducements offered for the A score or so of foreigners brokers and meme though, I hastered after the group officials

ཐ་ that caused all the mischief, and is in these THE Sanitary Board will meet on Monday next.catablishment of a line of steamships between bers of the Imperial Maritime Customs were whom I found near the gates. On the way

The Orders of the Day ares-A Bill for providing Tacoma and Victoria, and Japan and Chins, among the disappointed-in fact they were, the overtook the exccutioner, whose swords his hot-beds of vice and these alons that against abuses in connection with the erection The contract with the Canadian Pacific is ended, only ones interested, for the natives, young or attendants were carrying. His shoes were wanted dealing with by special legislative of public latrines Agenda-Letter from and it is the Intention of Marshall's company to old, evinced no more interest or expectancy than red with biod, and a great gout had splashed enactment. Where was the necessity for microbiological Institute at Balgos, Letter from Tacoma and Hongkong. He left for Tac-ms the circumstances there was no resource, but to andis answer to my inquiry if he would sell the Honourable Colonial Societary regarding make a contract, if possible, for a service between if capital punishment were unheard of: Under, his check. He seemed drunk with excitement, Interfering with properly constituted, well Hears. Danby, Leigh and Orange regarding and expects to make a successful deal, The Walt, and the squalid Monte Carlo reaped a fairly sword, shouted out something which raised, a conducted Institutions, against which note condition of house drains at 33 to 37, Mosque the owners of the; Parthia, Abyssinia, and frivolous companion--having method, in his $75 Wallis still bargaining we reached the dralesge of Austin Areas Hotel Report as to inference, we draw from this paragraph is that good harvest during the next hour or so. My laugh among his followers, and then demanded complaint had ever been made? What Street, and 1 to 4, Kil Yaen Lane, Surveyor's Batavia intend, if possible, to establish a new madness-had just worked off a bad dollar on gandy chairs in which the principal officials were "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH * OFFICE, advantage to pubile morality will be report for tat quarter, 1891. Colonial Veterinary trade for these steamers her the Hongkong. an unlucky number, much to my admiration, talding their seats. The Cathayan ✨ Koich

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gained if whist in the Hongkong Club at satu dae works crded the 4th and stin April, three Empresses," And there may be millons Hastily snatching up our own and several other on the pony, and, sinking on oneknes twice, cried Surgeon's report for 1st quarter, ilgi, Mortality. Vancouver route has been monopollaed by the when the boom of a distant gen was heard, stopped a little distance, away from the rider Hongkong, January 19th, 1891, | anything over tan-cent points is declared | 1590,

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