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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1891.
The Honghong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 39, 1891.
"MAN'S INHUMANITY TO MAN"
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Tuz same old thing, I suppose!" Such was the satirical comment of the Secretary of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, on learning. that the senior officer of the Fleet, Capt.
death JOHN P. HOYLAND-Whose recorded on Monday last had been removed from the steamship Fatshan on a stretcher to the Government Civil Hospital, suffering from a severe attack of pleurisy, aggravated by a general break-up, which eventually caused his death. The remark was not a judicious one; it was totally uncalled for, and had circumstances been otherwise, it was in shocking bad taste. The Secretary of the Steamboat Company enjoys the reputation-whatever it may be worth- of being the cynic par excellence of this Nos. 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL colony. The words of wisdom which fall
Hongkong, 13th April, 1891.
IN LARGEST SIZE BOTTLES,
CENTS 40 PER DOZEN.
(Telephone No. 60.)
BY APPOINTMENT,
from his lips like glittering dewdrops are no doubt treasured by an admiring Board of Directors; his opinions, to use MACAULAT'S well-known phrase, may be "acidulated with scorn" and still may be the virgin metal believed in by some
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD shareholders, but we fall to see how he
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HONGKONG.
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cellent quality and good value for the money,
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The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate prices.
In ordering it is only necessary to state the same and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired."
is going to justify, giving him every licence and every possible advantage available, the gross, and bitter and cowardly insult he offered to a man who was practically on his death-bed and who for the long period of nineteen years had been a most faithful servant of the Company which pays Mr. Thomas Arnold his very handsome monthly stipend. In England the remark which opens this article, under the circumstances would probably have subjected the speaker to. personal violence of a serious character, In Hongkong it will possibly lead to an Increase of salary; but to those who know the truth and are not altogether debased $1.00 from common manhood, that famous saying of Rouxar BURNS about "man's inhu- manity to man" will inevitably press upon 135 the memory when the Secretary of the Steamboat Co,'a charitable comment upon 1.50 an old and trusted servant who had practically died at his post, comes to be carefully and dispassionately analysed 0.60 and considered.
Orders through Local Post or by Telegram receive prompt attention. FORTS. (For Invalids and general use.)
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Per dien
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"The same old thing, I suppose! The meaning is only too obvious, its brutal heartlessness leaves no room for further question, But where is the justification ? 1.00 Ay, there's the rub, Mr. Secretary. For nineteen years JOHN HOYLAND served the Steamboat Company faithfully and, well; he was blown up in that wretched abortion of a steamer the Yotra and 1.50 only saved his life by ya miracle; he walked the streets of Hongkong on
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his uppers for many months through the base ingratitude of the Directors; for nearly $450 seven years afterwards he commanded
5.00
the Company's steamers in a manner that 7,50 12.00 has never been excelled; against the advice of his best friends he stuck to his post, after his health had exhibited evident symptoms of an impending collapse, until Nature fairly gave way and he had to be carried, as on that fatal night the 24th February, 1884, to the Government Hospital, where he died two days ago, a victim to his own exaggerated notions of duty and to the gross neglect of the Directors of the Steamboat Company, who ought to have relieved him from duty weeks ago. And his requieto from the official representative of the Directors was that chaste specimen of cynical philosophy," the same old thing, I suppose!" For shame!
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to more kindly and obliging
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obliga the Secretary of the Steamboat Co. with our version of the wisdom of the great Latin philosopher and avans, and to be able to convince him, that to carry into affect the cynicism in which he appears to delight, a man must be as insensible as a granite rock.
TELEGRAMS.
A CHILIAN IRONCLAD DESTROYED, LONDON, April 27th. A torpedo demolished the Chilian insurgent ironclad Blanco Encalato and 200 men perished
OBITUARY.
Count von Moltke,
The CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES, ■ forced entry for, and open only to winners at this meeting; optional for the winners of the Consolation Cup and the Roadsters' Piste, not exceeding 14 hands 3 luches in height; weight for Inches
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
Judge.)
a per acale: entrance, The 15: winners of (Before Mr. B. J. Ackroyd, Acting Pulse two races, Tis. 15 extra; of more than two races, Tls, 40 extra. One mile and'a quarter. Mr. Sassoon's sk. Hero....iml. 1 Mr. Sassoon's br. Zephyry_2
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TrrOcean Steamship Co.'s steamer Bellerophon left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 5th prox.
YU SUL WAN' AGAIN,
Ya Man, contractor, sought to obtain payment of $766.40 and costs, for which amount he had gained judgment against Yo Sul Wan in a dy heard in December, 1889. Mr. Hastings appeared -for-plaintiff, and Mr. Caldwell represented. Iwa Chinawomen who claimed certain shares which plaintiff desired to distrain on.
Increase in the majority of cases, and I think, It not at all unlikely that some of the officers con- cerned have made arrangements in anticipation of this sanction, and would have ground for very serious complaint if those who have made to them what was practically a conditional promise should, by now deprecating the sanction of the Secretary of State, endeavour to preclude the condition which is alone required to render that promise binding. As the Estimates which contain these increased salaries are only voted for liberty to reconsider the position with referer.co ore year, the Council will, of course, be at fall to the Estimates of 1892, and public officers will understand that though these salaries may be
M. DE LANESSAN has been nominated Governor- Rranted the defendant had left Hongkont, remuneration, in so far as action on General of Tonquin, in succession to M. Fiquet, and is expected next month.
THE agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) Inform us that the steamship Empress of India arrived at Vancouver yesterday. She left Yako bama at 4 p.m. on the 17th fast,
An Emergency Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 218, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 4th proximo, at 8 for 8.30 p.m. precisely Visiting companions are cordially invited.
Alukong yesterday alternoon arrested a Celestial in the act of disposing of obscene photographs to some European boys near St. Pauls' College, At the Police Court this morning Mr. Wise sent the defendant to gaol for a month with bard labour, without the option of a fiue,
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Mr. Hastings recapitulated the facts of the case, and said that since judgment was and Mr. Ewens had acted for him bere, settling claims against him, etc. This claim had never been settled, defendant saying it was unjust. On October 21st, 1890, a prohíbstory. order was issued on Mr. Ewens, and 1700 Green faland Cement Co.'s shares in bis hands were attached. On October 27th a summons was taken out by plaintiff for the sale at the shares and the recovery of the debt, but it was not put into effect, and nothing further was done then. On March 12th, 1891 a summons was taken out by the claimants asking that the prohibitory arder on Mr. Ewena be annulled. Another summons was then taken ost by the plaintiff, practically the same as before, asking why a sufficient number of Green Island Cement Cd: to defendant should not be sold to realise $179. shares in the bands of Mr. Ewens and belonging the amount of judgment debt and costs. Then an order was made by the Court that the claimants should pay the amount into Court,
the
fixed at a given amount for this year, it does not follow that they will remain at that figurs for next or any subsequent year, should the circumstances of the Colony require a reduction. But for this year. I regaid 'heir part of the Council is concerned, as definitely fixed, and any attempt to lessen it now would seem to me something very like the repudiatlon of a contract. And I, of course, use here. the word "contract" not in its strict legal sense, bat in the sense of moral obligation. It is, trast, needless for me to express my utter disbelief that the honourable member who
originated, or those whose who supported, this If they drement would have had any part in it, had regarded it in this light; and yet I am bound to say that if the extremely lugubrious picture which the honourable member has painted of the condition and prospects of the Colony weren correct one, there would be at least ground for arguing the existence of the repudiation--but breach of a legal contract, viz.: condition which would justify will not any inability to pay other equally binding obligations in full. I am sure that the honourable member had no intention of this kind; and I gather that Mr. Ewens, called by Mr. Caldwell, wated that
his object was simply to show our inability to he originally held 1.700 shares on joint accoun! pay these increased salaries in permanence in with Yu Suf Wan, but all in the name of witness, the absence of additional taxation. But what By defendant's direction, he afterwards held ever may have been the honourable member's some in trust for Ho Tang and some for Wong Intention, the effect likely to be created by Teng Ko (the Chluawomen) but none for defen. | his speech; if unanswered, is far beyond this? dant. He did not know of any pecuniary trans-and as 1 regard injury to the credit of the Colony action or consideration to balance this transfer. as likely to inflict greater loss upon the colonists Cross-examined--Witness had no knowledge than that involved in these increased salaries, that Yu Sul Wan left the colony to escape n even when coupled with the locreased Military warrant for his arrest on charge of forgery.Contribution, I have deemed it my duty to There was an action by Yu Hok Lin against examine this subject calimsy and deliberately in him, and a writ of foreign attachment against all its various bearings with a view to determine his goods. Witness did not know whether the whether the picture of our position as drawn by actions brought against him had anything to do the bonourable member is a correct one, and I with the transfer of the abares: After the must now make a short further, trespass upon transfer, defendant wrote to witness directing your time in the endeavour to present to you the
result of that examination, the sale of some of the shares, as he was "hard
THE Lawn Tennis doable handicap will be played on the Cricket Ground during May, entries for which close on the 4th prox. Conditions: Choose your own partners best of five sets; handicappers will be appointed by the Com-up." mitter; entrance fee $1. Members wishing to cater will find lists in the Hongkong Club and Cricket Pavilion.
His lordship thought the question arose how far such letters could be evidence against the claimants.
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Molike, Hellmuth, Count Van, Chief Marshal of
the German Empire, Chief of the General Tax Banual general meeting of shareholders of Staff, was descended from a well-known Meck-St. John's Cathedral will be held in the yestry lenburg family., and was born at Parchim, of the Cathedral to-morrow, at 5.30 p.m. Oct. 16, 1800, in the neighbourhood of which place his father, a former officer of the Mel- erdori regiment, possessed the estate of Gnewitz, Soon after Hellmuth's birth his parents settled down in. Holstelo; and thus | the boy, in his twelfth emself, in the barracks went to Copenha. Ren
in order to devote there, to the military profession. In 1833 he entered the Prussian service, as a lieutenant in the 8th Infantry regiment, and studied in the Military Academy. The war bad nearly rained his parents, and the young officer was thrown entirely on his own, resources. After having spent some time to the School of Divblon of Frankfort-on-the-Odes, Malike was entered into the General Staff. In 1835 he undertook a tour in Totkey, which brought bim under the notice of the Sultan Mahmoud, who advised with the young Prussian officer on the reorganisation of the Turkish army. Moltke remained several years in Turkey, and
A YUNNAN correspondent writes to L'Avenir in 1819 took part in the campaign of the Turksenkis that a revolt has occurred in the in Syria against the Viceroy Mehemed Ali of prefecture of Pou Mon Yem, and two civil Fgypt and his adopted son Ibrahim Pasha, mandarins killed. The Viceroy has sent 2,000 In 1845, having returned to Prussia, and
men to quell the outbreak. He adds that there published au account of his Turkish experi- has not been a drop of rain all winter, and the ences, be became adjutant to Prince Henry of Prussia, then resident in Rome, and siter bis oplum crop has been completely lost. death, in 1847, was engaged in connection with the general command on the Rhine, becoming, in 1848, a member of the Grand "General Staff, and in 1849. Chief of the Staff of the 4th Army Corps. In Magdeburg. In 1758 he was advanced to the rank of Chief of the Grand General Staff of the Prussian Army, and in 1859 became a lieutenant-general. In the Austro-Italian war Moltke was present in the Austrian head quarters. After the con- clusion of peace, be spared no pains that her will interest those who go down to the sea in might folly develop the capacities of the ships to know that Capt. Ambrose Clark, anthor Prussian General Staff and the Prussian Array of the recently published nautical work "New When the war of 1864 against Denmark Navigation," is the recipient of a congratulatory broke out, Moltke sketched the plan of the
letter from Commander A. C. Johnson, R.N., campaign, and assisted in its execution, acting late chief instructor of navigation at the Royal similarly in the case of the war of 1866. The Naval College, in which the writer endorses the whole plan of the Bohemian campaign was
author's theorico in extenso. due to the Lieutenant-General, who was per- sonally present in the battle of Königgrätz, which be led, and in like manner arranged the bold advance of the Prussian columns against Olma'x and Vienna, and negotiated the armistice and the preliminaries of peace. For these services be received the Order of the Black Eagle, and a national detation. To "Father Moltke" (Vater Moltke), as he was familiarly termed in the German army, and bis brilliant strategy are ascribed the splendid victories of the German arms in the Franco- German war. He was practically the Com mander-in-Chief. The whole plan of the campaign was due to him. In recognition of bis unrivalled services. Moltke wat made the allowing a quantity of ashes to fall into the little more vigilance Yu Man, the plaintiff, might of the depressed condition of the Colony, would Chief Marthal of the German Empire (Sept 1871), again received a national detation, and was created Count in 1873 The illustrious Marshal, who was generally regarded as the first strategist of the day, received from the Car the Order of St. George, the highest military decoration of Russia, to Oct. 1870; and from his own sovereign the Grand Cross of the Order of the Iron Cross, March 22, 1871. An English translation of his "Observations on the influence that Arms of Precision have or Modern Tactics," was published at London in 1871.--Man of the Time]
SHANGHAI SPRING RACE'S.
(By telegram.)
(Special to the Hongkong Telegraph.)
THIRD DAY.-WEDNESDAY, 29TH APRIL. The GREAT NORTHERN PLATE, value, Tis, 100; for ponies that have run at this meeting weight for luches as per sesle ; winner of one race at this meeting under a mile, 7lbs, extra, two such races, rolba, extra ; entrance, Tis, 5. Seven farlongs.
Mr. Harvey's ch. Sterling, 11st. tib.......... I The PARI-MUTUEL CUP, value, Tis. 200, added to a sweepstakes of Tie to each: second pony to receive 30 per cent,, and the third pony 10 per cent of the stakes; for: China ponies; -weight for inches'as për scale ; gríffius at date of entry allowed riba; non-starters and winners at this meeting, 7lbs, extra. Ong mile and a half.
Mr. Waveny's bl. Noirmont, rist, 4lb. costumi 5 The "SANS SOUCI" CHALLENGE CUP; Value,
Gs. 1001 presented by D. E. Sassoon, Esq.; for China ponies that have never rua previous to the tat January of the year in which the meetings are held; to be won at two consecutive meetings by ponies, the bond fide property of inches the same owner or owners; weight
as pir scaley winners of one race, 5bbs extra; two or more races, 80s extra; Griffss at date of entry allowed 5bs; Nonstarters at the meeting excluded; entrance 11s. 10 the first pany to receive seventy-five per cent, of the entrance fees, and the second pony twenty-fire per cent, until the Cup, is finally,wom, when cent of the entrance fees, and the third pony the second pony shall receive seventy-liva per twenty-five per cent. Que mile and a quarter, Mr. Hampton's gr. Comus, rost, solbyjczyman I The MANCHU STALES: value, Tis. 100; for China ponics, bona fide griffins at dale of entry, that have run and not won a race; weight for Inches as per scale; entrance, Tis. 5. One malis and a quarter,
Mr. Kilmun's gr. Pit-a-pat, rost. 6b The YANOTSZE STAKES! value, Tla. 150; for China ponies; weight for inches as per scales winner of a race of two miles or over, 5D*. Extra : Entrance, Tla. 5. Two miles and a
A JAPANESE named Okamira was charged at the Magistracy this morning, before Mr. Wite, with allowing three dogs to be at large uamuz rled, one of them having bitten a child, seven years of age, on Monday last. The defendant admitted the charge, and pleaded guilty to a previous conviction. The magistrate imposed a fine of $5 and ordered the dogs to be shot.
CAFT. BROWN, wharfinger, Kowloon Godown Company, charged four bontmen at the Palice
Court this morning, before Mr. Wise, with
harbour. The prosecutor said the men were allowed to go alongside steamers to get ashes. but, through their neglect, a large quantity fell overboard. The magistrate fined each of the offenders a dollar, as a caution.
AT the meeting of the Legislative Council to morrow, at 11 am, the Order of the Day will
be:-
"Questions of which notice has been given by Honourable P. Ryrie and Honourable H
Whitehead.
First reading of a Bill entitled " An Ordinance to restrict the Loading and Unloading of Cargo on Sunday in certala waters of the Colony,"
Committee on the Bill entitled "The Gambling Ordinance, 1891,"
The claimants were then called and gave evidence at some length.
and
In approaching the subject of the honourable member's speech, I am bound to bear testimony ability, and to admit that the painstaking research of which it hears evidence, has brought. forward facts well worthy of reflective considera- tion; but on the other hand, as the result of my examination of the question, I find it impossible Mr. Caldwell then addressed the Court in to regard it otherwise than as the address of an support of the claim of Ho Tung and Wong Teng advocate which, to say the least, makes the Ko, contending that the transfer of the shares to most of the facts adduced in favour of his view, them was a bona fide transaction for valuabl: and-entirely ignores all those which tell Ta consideration and not at all designed to elude favour of the other side. In order to heighten the law. Yu Sul Wan had all along shown ato effect of the gloomy picture which (whatever desire to meet all just claims.
this motive) it has pleased him to draw, be han Mr. Hasting replied, pointing out that the instituted a contrast between the present (as he transfer document made no mention of any would seem to allege) abject position of the value received, or any valid consideration for colour, with that portrayed by my to-called the transfer of the shares. It was, according to
"brilliant" despatch of October 1879, and he the evidence, only after the present proceedings unmistakeably conveys the inference, though he had been institated that any corresponding does not actually say so, that the description transaction took place, showing that the transfer
there given was incorrect. In one passage, if was only nominal, and was made to shield Yacorrectly reported, he alleges himself to be almost quoting my very words when he says Sul Wan, who all along really owned the shares. as shown by bia letter directing the sale of them.
that I referred to a vast commerce " in a healthy reviewing the facts admitted, decided that the hearing or reading these words prospects His Landahip, in giving judgment, after, briefly state of progress, with prosperity extraordinary
Now any one prospecte magnificant,}} defendant had made every effort to meet all claims through Mr. Ewens' and that with magnificent (which, by-the-bye! never used) tas contrasted with bis subsequent representation have seized the money in Mr. Ewens hands and infer that I had dealt largely in prophecy as got his debt paid. - As to the transfer, that was letter from defendant after the transfer, this is not only not true but in one important not shown to be anything but genuine. Tie regards the immediate future, and that such pro
phecy had beca falsified by the event, whereas directing sale, was not evidence. The con-
I sideration received in return was at a later pect the exact opposite of the truth, date, but that was satisfactorily explained by indeed referred to a trade as apparently in defendant's mother and He Tung, who seemed a healthy condition of progress, despite the rest trustworthy. The case might have been settledictive measures against Chinese in the United aally out of Court, but his Lordship had to States and Australia, and the decline of the tea decide on the facts and the law; judgment for trade, the full effects of which I mentioned as having not then been fully felt-and this claimants, with costs.
reference "I shall 'presently give reasons for believing correct-while I expiemed no doubt that land would, in the course of time, become more valuable than it was then, and this I Earo still stronger reason to believe now. But, with reference to, the immediate fature, I most dis tinctly expressed doubts whether speculation had not andaly raised the prices both of shares and of land, and plainly Intimated the possibility of who had been speculating beyond their means, reaction and consequent distress to all those So far from parinking largely in prophecy, whether about the immediate or distant future, my despatch dealt almost exclusively with facts. not one of which, in so far as I know, has ever been impugded; and the only passage other than those referred to in, which the fature was touched upon. at all was the following);—” As far as is known all, or nearly all, of these com panies, especially those whose field of operations is Hongkong, have good, some of them excellent, prospects of success," And even here I am not expressing my own opinion, but (as fa abewa from the words "as far as is known") the opinion of the community, and that I was entitled to infer from the prices of the shares and the fact. that no note of warning had anywhere been sounded. It is true, that I expressed no diasent from this opinion, because I had no reason to do so, and it would have been presumptuous for
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OUR OPTIMISTIC GOVERNOR:
REPLY TO MR. T. H. WHITEHEAD.
Mr. F. H. May, private secretary to H.E. Sir G. W. des Voeux, forwards the following cop
SEVERAL noisy and gaudy Chiness procession have been roaming about the colony during the past two days, to remind our Chinese fellow. realdents that the annual fete of the Queen of of some remarks which His Excellency had Heaven commences at Chek-wan to-morrow. Intended to make in Council"— presumably at The usual exodus of the "Great Unwashed' the last meeting. We commend their careful has been going on to-day, numerous crowded peresal, withholding our own.comments for the junks and steam-launches being, specially chartered by speculators for the purpose of present ----- carrying worshippers to the shrines at Chek-wan. Thieves and vagabonds of every description have, of course, also repaired thither in the hope of making a "lle-back pile..
MR. E. W. MAITLAND, Hon. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial Hospital, begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the hospital
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WHAT HE MEANT TO SAY. I
Before proceeding to the Orders of the Day I deem it right to refer to a letter which I received a few days ago from the Unofficial Lerabers, informing me of their intention to memorialiae the Secretary of State to the effect that the colony is not now in a position to pay the increased salaries of officials which recently pasted the Council, and requesting me to notify the Secretary of State by telegraph of this intention, and of their wish that he should with bold his sanction of these increased salaries until their memorial shall be received skin
In reply I caused a letter to be addressed to theme with regard 10-purely mercantile matters to Unofficial members to the effect that I hoped express oplalons opposed to those of a within a few days to be able to Inform them of mercantile community. But even if the the course which I should pornue after giving anticipation had been my own, I am by no. this important matter my full consideration.
means sure, despite the honourable member's In reply to a further communication on the statements, that I should have much cause to subject from the Honourable Mr. Ryrie, I regret it. For I find some 26 out of the 35 informed him of the substance of the grounds companies referred to are not only carrying on business with a paid up capital of 63 millions, on which I felt bound to decline sending such a bal appear to be on a sound fooling. From the telegram, and I now proceed to state them in:
VAING of the shares, the greater portion present fall.
big dental and of the capital mentioned appears to have been As to the first reason, viz.: that from a despstels well invested, while others of these |_ companies, already received from the Secretary of State it though their shares at this time of depression may be expected that the decision on the subject are at a discount, cannot be yet anld to be of salaries will be received very shortly, and failure, as they have not yet had time to fully that therefore any telegram of the kind would text their capabilities of success. It is no doubt arrive tou lats, it is necessary to say anything true that seven of the companies referred to, not farther, but as to the other the second reason many" as stated by the honourable member, Mr. F. A. Cooper, Water Authority, informed further foformation may seem to be required are in liquidation, but even as regards there, ai It is scarcely necessary for me to remind you | well as tome of the others which, have not yet a representative of the Telegraph this afternoon that during the year 1889 there was appointed a been successful, it might very possibly have that the water to the Tytam reservoir is not Committee of the Council for the purpose of been said, not without a certain correctness, on being diminished by the new system of supply enquiring into the salaries of the public officers, their being launched, that their prospects were
and that Committee, composed (with the excep- good, as their failure i adopted since yesterday- one hour's supp'y tion of the Chairman) exclusively of Unofficial have been due to faults of management or failure may comparative in all the principal districts throughout the city. members, eventually recommended unanimously insufficiency of capital. And in confirmation It may therefore be taken for granted that no a large increase of the salaries of a great many of this view it may be observed that the exter farther reduction in the supply to the city will be officers, and votes generally in accordance with prises of some of these companies in guidation, test my, and that we can hold out for an heteror the Secretes pa staples for festares the. Borneo Planting conspasies almost indefinite period as we are now going specially authorised by the Secretary of State, haye,. I am faformed, only quite recently
were in October last, during my absence from persons outside the colony who sufficiently on. He contradicted the rumour that, the
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gaunimously passed by this Council. belleve in their prospects to pay a considerabl Government had chartered several, steamers for In view of the apparent unanimity of the Council sum for, their properties. Mentionfug these the purpose of supplying condensed water to that these increases were only a matter of Justice things by theway, an oral hing some justification, portion of the colony-such a step being to the officers concerned, and in view of the face) mot of my own, but of what I intended to convey unnecessary so long as the dally supply from the principle of a general increase, there would companies, I must now point out that the that the Secretary of State had not disapproved: as the public view of the prospects," of i. theme [Tytam does not dimialah tka ruSATTA MİRZA
seem to be a great probability that his lordship aggregate capital of the companies referred to wjiä sanotion ad Ignat a part of the recommended! which have: filled, of the shitur of which new
Steamboat Company-no man living has, done more for the interests of his employers and not one has been so scurvily recompensed. "The same old thing, I suppose,” sneerod His Mightiness the "mere scribe". of the Company--the description is Mr. BELILIOS', chairman of the Company, not ours-when he learned that Jour HOYLAND, after half a life-time's hard work in the service, had been carried to the Hospital-to die. And we repest "for shame!" HOYLAND and the present | Hr. Charley's bay Irkdale, (late Glenlivet). writer have had a dispute, extending
111. 4iba...................................... over some years, over a well-known THE CONSOLATION CUP value, Tis zoor for ponies that have run at this meeting and mot won a race; weight for inches as per scales Passage from "Horace ;'t we never could satisfactorily settle it, and it is too late entrance, Tis. 5. · Once round. 'now, but we hope one of these days, to | Mr. Neptune's bay Resolution, 1186 Tiziana 1 | appreciably/
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