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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

DISPENSING CHEMISTS, &C.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1891.

demands immediate redress. It is understood at Cape Town that Lord Salisbury has only remonstrated with the Portuguese Government regarding the Agnes affair. A mass meeting la to be held at Cape Town to protest against the laaction of the Imperial Government, and the

South Africa.

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of speculation is nevertheless understood dint of hard work the shares of the to have been indulged in by more or less National Bank of China, which were far influential operators, especially in Bank more than fully applied for, have been shares, and something very like an inspired forced down to 277 per cent. discount, "Corner"-Inspiration in matters concern and there are numerous Richmonds in ing the private business of the Hongkong the field struggling might and main to and Shanghai Bank has, alas, for a vary strangle the promising infant at its birth. newspapers talk of lowering the British flag in long time past been of only too frequent ~HEMISTS AND AERATED WATER occurrence is rumoured to have been hopelessly "bust" owing to that unfor- tunate and totally unforeseen and unprovided for Parsee fallure in Bombay. Who led the attack against the "buils"?

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but considering the most satisfactory and universal support the new concern has received from all classes in the commercial world both in London and throughout the Far East, and the promising field of to five thousand Boers arranging for a trek in

THE BOERS ON THE WAR-PATH.

April 23rd. There is intense excitement at the Cape owing.

Mashonaland. The High Commissioner of

nation would regard the trek as an act of bestülity, and the President replied that the trek would be stopped.

LORD SALISBURY'S ATTITUDE. The Marquis of Salisbury has demanded au explanation from Portugal regarding South African affairs, and awaits a reply before taking action. The political situation of Portugal is very critical.

THE Agents (Mesir. Adamson, Bell & Co.) inform us that the steamship Tartar leit Singa pore for Hongkong this afternoon, ----

ALLEGED OUTRÄGE BY A CHINESE CUSTOMS CRUISER.

The Chinese Customs' blockade of the part of Hongkong has once more given rise to trouble and, if our information is to be relied on, serious (complications are not unlikely to arise between that energetic Service and the Hongkong Govern®

The Siamese Government lavito tenders in the Singapore papers for the supply of 1,500 chests opium for one year, or 135 cheats per month.

THE new Deli Race Club it appears, hat modelled itself after the rules of the Penang Turf Club. It does not intend to bave races for first-class horses, and sets its face against European

A short time ago--about three weeks accord. jockeys riding. Members will pay a subscription |¡ing to the statements of the Customs officials— but no entrance fees.

a Chinese two-masted junk left Stanley, with a cargo (it is alleged) of 144 bags of saltpetre,

We observe that our well-known local dentist, Singapore. The Straits Times, in reviewing the subscription griffins, says Dr. Poate his secured a nice-looking little galloway, which he has named Strike, that is likely to make a bold bid for the Malden Stakes.

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As an outcome of the late visit to Slard of the heir to the Russian throne, bis⋅ Majesty the King has been offered the Order of St. Andrew His Majesty will be invested with this most by the Czar, according to the Bangkok Times. distinguished Russian order by the newly appointed Russian Ambassador to China, who Is shortly expected in Bangkok, en roula to take up his new post

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all, and some teels of silver, variously estimated ' in value from $10 to $80. For reasons which will be obvious later on, the destination of the junk remains for the present an open ques, tion, although we understand she wis bound for Swatow; but what is claimed to have been ascertained is that the vessel-which had conformed to all the regulations of this colony--was forcibly scixed in British waters, in within a few hundred yards of the British colony Sbingshimoon Pass, just off Cane D'Aguilar and of Hongkong, her crew and all on board put in trans, and the junk towed to the Chinese Customs' halk, which is anchored at Lai-chi-kok. Subsequently, It abpears, the captured crow were taken through British waters in a Chinesa Cruiser to Kowloon city and there lodged in the filthy pigsty which serves the purpose still a close prisoner-held as a hostage, it is of a gaol, and in which the captain of the junk is said, until the owner of the cargo comes forward craft was a smuggler and that a cargo was belag to the mandarin's yamén and "admits that the uran" when she was seized. This artifice triffe too transparent, and will scarcely induce

Why, of course, the locaf operations open to its enterprise, it will Cape Colony, Sir H. B. Loch, telegraphed to the Mr. Poale, bas taken a hand in racing at 24 piculs of sulphur, 128 cases of kerosene leviathan of the Rialto. When the clever take more than the feeble and factious President of the Transvaal that the British (in their own estimation) would-be mani-opposition of a few Hongkong share pulators of the Hongkong Share Market jobbers to crush it in the bud. But why this spiteful opposition from the Court of get into difficulties through their own Directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai anserous and asinine blundering, as Bank and their obsequious satellitos and common rule they shed bitter tears, loudly time-servers, to a legitimate enterprise proclaim that they have been victimised whose opposition they pretend can do by that irrepressible and all-conquering their vested interests no harm, and with speculator, and offer payment of losses whose leading supporters they are in doubtful written. promises; but when they happen, by some wonderful stroke apparently on the most harmonious terms? of luck and por favor of the inspira- Bank of China not been started, the .It is positively certain that had this National

Nos sa & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL | tion" above referred to, aided by

[37 special privileges as to overdrawing their great local Bank would have had Hongkong, 13th April, 1891.

to face the determined rivalry of a generally decrepit and doubtful accounts powerful German Bank in Hongkong without tangible security of any sort, to in the very near future, and even now it get that astute gentleman into a corner is by no means certain that opposition in they cheerfully annex his dollars and

that direction will not be realised before rejoice exceedingly. And then they call

(Telephone No. 60.)

BY APPOINTMENT.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

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ESTABLISHED AD. 1841.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED.

WATERS.

Our New Factory has been recently reĥltad with automatic Steam. Machinery of thi latest and most approved kind, and we are will able to competi in quality with the best, English Makers.

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised "In the manufacturt throughout, LARGE BOMBAY

"SODAS"

We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the mrdinary site.

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 thefull amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.

April 24th.

PORTUGAL BACKS DOWN.

Portugal has assured the Marquis of Salisbury of the free navigation of the river Pongwe, and

bas ordered the release of the crews of the captured steamers.

FURTHER OUTRAGES.

Ar the Sanitary Board, Meeting on Monday, the orders of the day will be:-Report of Committee regarding site for Vaccine Institute. Agenda-Colonial Veterinary Surgeon's report for 1st quarter, 1891. Motiality Returns for weeks ended the 18th and 26th April 1891. Two petitions praying that accommodation be granted petitioners in the new laundries. Superin tendent's Report for April, 1891.

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him bad names, ay, even those who make many months have passed. In addition Messrs. Colquhoun, Pawley, and the officers of THI Police appear to have at last opened their be sufficient warrant, according to their own view,“

their livelihood out of his patronage, and lavishly enjoy his princely hospitality. It is not so very long ago that certain caterie of adventurous wire-pullers tried to leave our old friend high and dry on a big gamble in Banka; they had everything on their side calculated to secure success--the Grand Panjandrum, the #inspiration" of some of the other honest, conscientious and stable Directors, in addi

tion to all the brokers who wanted a job,

some of whom, by the way, are good fellows, whilst others are only fit for mops to clean the Queen's Road gutters with The "bull" movement on this particular occasion didn't quite come off; the versatile manipulator from India's coral strand hasn't been sculling round, Hongkong share politics for over a quarter of century without knowing something, and when assumed to be completely at the mercy of the "bulls" he had four aces up his sleeve, and when the crisis came he quietly checkmated his adversaries and

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to all this it is puzzling to 'reconcile with common sense the inconsistency of the renowned Court of Directors in their war of extermination against the projected National Bank of China, while they allow several distinguished members of the Court, apparently without one word of remonstrance, to actively direct and support various other banking oppositions already existing in the colony. But then consistency, like many other, esteemed qualities which are sadly lacking, is not one of the strong points of the omnium gatherum majority of nondescripts who have done so much lately to bring the Directorate of the Hongkong and Shanghal Bank into well-deserved contempt. That these would-be autocrats, who claim to absolutely control the business affairs of Hongkong, and more especially in regard their proper bearings is a matter of to sbare transactions, will be brought to

April 28th, The British Consul at Delagon cables that

the Chartered British African Company were brutally assaulted by Portuguese. British lives unsafe.

PREPARING FOR ACTION.

April 29th. H.M.S. Raleigh bas left Cape Town for the East coast of Africa, conveying field guns and stores.

The above telegrams, one or two of which have already appeared in our columns. show the political situation in regard to South African affairs, as between Great Britain and Portugal, There can be no doubt that the alleged brutal treatment of Mr. Colquhoun and his colleagues bas greatly intensified the position, and rendered an ultimatum from Lord Salisbury to the Portuguese Government almost a certainty.-Ed, Hongkong Telegraph,]

THE INDIAN TROUBLE.

April 30th.. Manipur was occupied unopposed. The enemy

fled,

THE TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.

The Two Thousand Guineas, a subscription certainty, and that at no very far distant of 100sovs. each, hall forfelt, for three year olds date. The selfish, tyrannical and utterly colts gst, fillies st.gib.; the owner of the second

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animals. Yesterday morning at the Magistracy eyes to the cruelties lnflicted by Chinese to

two mess were each fined $7, for cruelty to pigs, and this morning another Celestial was charged. with crucity to a cat. An Indian constable stated that the defendant was dragging the cat along could surely draw his own cat, not being Belcher's by a piece of twine Defendant pleaded that be Battery, but Mr. Wise imposed a fine of 37, with the alternative of a fortnight's imprisonment.

SAYS the N. C. Daily News of April 28th "We understand that the Deutsch-Asiatis he Bank has succeeded in effecting a loan for ten years of some £50,000 to the Tartar General at Foochow, interest at 69 per cent, and principal repayable in gold. The loan fasecured by Haikuan bonds and an Imperial édict, and is not only a provincial affair. It is needless to say that the Bank found no difficulty in getting it promptly taken up at home, and that it was not put on the open market."

FOUR, burglars tried to break into the Central Police Court at Singapore, last week, and half killed a Malay constable who objected. How the idea can get about among Asiatics that the Police Court contains treasure trove, says the Straits Times, it is hard to imagine. Had the men succeeded in getting in they would pro- bably have found nothing but few partly

the owner of the cargo to walk blindly Táto the tiger's den. Of course such an admission would

junk and cargo and visiting the smugglers with for the Chinese authorities confiscating both all the pain and penalties of Chinese law; but It would be no justification, for deliberate piracy in British waters, and that is about the strength of the indictment. Singolarly enough a case almost of the Chinese authorities is concerned, has been on all fours with this one, so far as the action causing some excitement in Canton lately, and has led to some spirited despatches between Viceroy Li Han-chang and the British Consul. General. That case, however, is of far too great importance to be dealt with in thle brief report, and It is only referred to as a fresh proof of the constant aggressive, and utterly unjustified inter- ference by the Chinese officials with the trade of this colony and the Treaty ports, and the rights of foreigners in their commercial relations.. With Chinese subjects..

Shortly after the seizure the 128 cases of kerosene ofl were sold at Kowloon, and yesterday afternoon the junk, with the saltpetre and... sulphur on board, was towed over from Lat-chi- kok and made fast to the Douglas' Co.'s wharf, The cargo was quickly landed into Mess Line, Crawford & Co.'s auction room, where it was sold to the highest bidders, the junk being finally put up and knocked down to a Chinese named Kong Kee for the nominal sum of $18.

The men on board the Customs cruiser deny" that the junk was seized in Shingshimoon Pass or in British waters, and contend that when · . note books of evidence, containing accords of Fo-low-mun Pass. However, as we learn that witnesses.

Counterfoil Onder Books supplied on applica- "cornered” them to some purpose. Ha unjustifiable absolutism which a majority korse to receive 300 sovs, out of the stakes; and veracions informations, and a fow theistrates' captured she was making her way through the of these paid servants of the shareholders the third to save his stake. Rowley mlle (one the accumulated lies of thousands of Asiatic the Acting Harbour Master of Hongkong has was supposed to have short-sold,” and i have initiated and carried into effect. Inile and 17 yards).—86 1ab1.

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Our Registered Telegraphic Address is,

And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

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PURE AERATED WATERS

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"DISPENSARY, HONGKONG" combination went actively to work to and supporters of the Bank, has excited Mr. J.H. Houldsworth's b.c. Orvieto, by Bend it was on this assumption that the inspired | dealing with their employers, the client. Lord Alington's br. c. Common, by leonomy-

create a fictitious quotation for attlement

a fooling of wide-spread indignation and day. But notwithstanding the tolls that general disgust; complaints are heard Lord Durham's ch.c. Peter Flower, by Petrarch were being woven closely around him, the Croesus of the Hongkong Stock Market from every side of uncivil and uncourteous treatment, and the names of Directors was quite cheerful and kept on selling who hold their heads high amongst Bank shares with such vigour and displayed

their fellows and such an amount of confidence in the policy heir of virtue even if they have it not, are assume a anulling

was pursuing that a scare set in, and the

in connection freely bandied about omniscient Corner" took fright when with transactions which are the reverse they found the stock steadily depreciating

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THE Japanese cruisers Hiyal and Konge left this morning for Japan.

TONG KING-SING, who has been in very poor

considered it his duty to investigate the seizure. and to report it to the Government, no doubt the true state of the case will shortly be elucidated.

Tur Nieuwsblad learns that a German firm in Batavia has applied for one of the islands on the const for the purpose of preparing copra. They will work in combination with a Hamburg firm MOBILISATION OF THE TROOPS.

and a capital of 500,000 guilders will be invested In the baslaces. If this concession is granted, application will be made for other lelands on, the west coast of Sumatra, German 'colonization" 'steadily increases, and in the near future threa-

tens to become as serious a danger in British, French and Dutch colonies, and in Chinese Treaty ports, as the flooding of California and the Australasian colonies by nomadic Chloese.

OUR"£40,000 WORTH.

Yesterday afternoon and evening the whole of the military forces in Hongkong were mobilised, for the purpose of a grand demonstration of the defensive force of the colony, presumably for the benefit of the latest drafts from home. All the

No Credit given for bottles that look dirty, in spite of all their exertions in a contrare of creditable. Many of the financial health lately, left Shanghal for Tientsin on the THE Ida Poli Rosa Concert: Company have bad forts were fally manned by the Royal Artillery,

or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Contenied

Aerated Water, is such bottles are never used again by us.

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

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

troubles which have so demoralised the | 28th ulto,

THE evening service at the Cathedral int further notice (beginning to-morrow) will com mence at 5 p.m. instead of $45 pm.

FILLIS' Circus is now performing in Singapore. Whether or not this aggregation of talent" will

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a very poor season in Singapore The Strails and the A. & S. Highlanders were also stationed Times states that on April 23rd they "repeated at the various points. The men were in full kit L'Elisir d'Amore in the Town Hall to a small, for active service, and only three companies were but appreciative zodiepce, consisting chiefly of lelt In town. After various exercises, including Sir Frederich and Lady Dickson" and "thely night signailing, the defenders returned to party." Our contemporary farther remarks flat barracks about ten o'clock. Hongkong was "the inhospitable treatment which the company saved.

has received is a slur on our music-loving com munity." We fear that Singapore and Hong-

kong are very much on a level, us regarde appreciation of high-class music,. "The Stanley Awfuls" hit the popular taste exactly in both places.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necenally endorse the opinions expressed

Correspondents in this columa).

direction. And what happened then?local Share Market are attributed by Was it not a matter of common knowledge those whose judgment is entitled to respect, and general gosip that the would-be biters, who had got so severely bitten at to the one-sided methods adopted by the grost local Bank in dealing with Its 15 their own game, invoked the kind offices constituency; favoritism is stated to have of a certain omnipotent and ubiquitous been rampant and a general state of Bank official to save them from being affairs allowed to exist that is certainly

visit Hongkong this summer in yet uncertain. completely smashed up, and that the great neither In keeping with banking traditions CHIEF JUSTICE O'MALLEY, of Singapore, had to UBBORIBERS TO "THE HONGKONG man did as a matter of fact adopt coercive or in touch with the principles embodied go to Penang the other day to help to work off S

measures and "put the screw on," and is the special charter by which this the accumulation of cases awaiting trial there. insisted that the wholesale disposal of Institution enjoys valued privileges under Ten thousand Rash shares were announced to REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS Bank stock should cease! The inspired the ordinances of the colony. If the be sold by auction at Singapore on the 33rd "bulls," worsted in a barefaced attempt Directors attended to the business for Raub prospects are reported to be looking up." at cornering, the legality of which was which they are so liberally remunerated, certainly open to doubt, were only saved and which would appear to be treated as ST. PETER'S SKAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission At Peking, on the 19th April, the wife of from disastrous consequences by a medium lmost a sinecure of the old-fashioned steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside ware, lay rank is left at the door of the mis-conducted? Yesterday morning, having busi

which ought to have been far beyond.

10.30 am. on Sunday to convey men ashore to reels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30.

TELEGRAPHI” ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY

MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE.

BIRTHS.

Charles H. OLIVER, of a son,

K. WYLIE, of a 100,

he Hongkong

Lelegrap

market, and but for that unfortunate Parsee

fallure and another reported loss of nearly

On and May, at Mount Kellett, the wife of W. having anything to do with such a shady official type, Instead of evading their business. History repeats itself. It has responsibilities when openly challenged | and going out of their way to gratify only been too clearly evident of late that personal animosity and prejudice at the Bank stock was being industriously expense of the shareholders, by making "boomed ", under official auspices and

improper and malicious use of their that the promoters of the movement were position to act as professional "boycotters," powerfully and influentially supported. after meanly shunning the publicity of the HONOKONO, SATUrday, May 3, 1897.

The speculation met with some degree of charges of mismanagement and neglect "THE HONGKONG BANK AND THE SUCCOLE 4s the rate was recklessly rushed-

up in the fashion so common in the local brought against them, it would be very SHARE MARKET.

much more to their credit than the present Thx April settlements, according to reports

untenable attitude they have thought fit to asume. Even the Directors of the which ought to be reliable, have been a lakh owing to a flagrant case of over-Hongkong and Shanghai Bank are not arranged in a fashion, that convenient confidence in what is said to have been a Infallible, and Individually and collectively negotiabla instrument the P. N. having one-sided game of exchange speculation their blographies, which we are a customary played a rather important the boom would probably have been Industriously compiling, will clearly show role in squaring matters. It is suggested maintained until after the April satile-remain stiil a little lower than the angels, that the huge army of irregular jobbers ments, and a substantial haul realised; In the colony should henceforth play but bad news travel apace and the at marbles or “aklities, either of these | Bombay heavy loss, added to other games being an amusing and harmless losses and other causes nearer home, pastime, which nelttier, requires kow-towing | brought the shares down with a run to

PORTUGAL AND GREAT BRITAIN,

LONDON, April 21st. to Bank clerks and others of that fik clothed the tune of eight per cent. In one afternoon with a little brief authority, nor the-hence the weeping and walling and long five Englishmen and one hundred eatives. The The party by the steamer Agnes consisted of manipulation of such compromising faces, and unsatisfactory and missing vessel was carrying prospectora implements and documents as promissory notes. The accounts on squaring-up day.

was unarmed. On her attempting to leave experiences of the past few months clearly The attitude assumed by the dictatorsnes, the Portuguese fired on and seized the enough show that the spirit of reckless of the Hongkong Bank towards the new steamer, baled down the British esign, and share gambling is just as much alive and National Bank of China has led to much hoisted the Portuguese fing, taking sixteen men "rampant «"""ovor, and has only bear discussion in tocat share cirefer: "War-to | prisoners.-- temporarily suspended owing to dull times the knife" is the Christian-like motto of THE COLONISTS DEMAND REDRESS. and a very wide-spread and much to be these excellent persons, and they are deplored scarcity of the sinews of war, carrying on a one-sided and most purpose- But in certain quarters a very large amount | less warfare with distinguished success. By | Periguess in South Africa, tise newspapery say,

TELEGRAMS.

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Apell sand.

The insult offered to the British flag by the

ulto.. but were withdrawn at the last moment.

Crown Prince of Siam will shortly enter the THR Bangkok Times hears that H. R. HL the THE HONGKONG-HUNGĦAM LAUNCH priesthood, in conformity with the Buddhist

SERVICE, | Tosun Intran or 'ter'"Honakoms TelBorAPI" - During this period H. R. H. will devote his and responsible for the present way in which the religion, and remain there some six months.

SIR,-Can you inform me whether anyone la to working towards the Nirvana, the sole and Hungham and Hongkong steam ferry service is and aim of Buddhism. As our. zanders are

and ascetics; all priestly classes are pure, the ed Is suppressed. They are professed mandiçants tried by having to waste over an hour waiting for launch to come over In. When the long- testery and even the identity of the monks to do in Hongkong, my patience was aately tone is good, and great punctiliousness in lesisted already overcrowded, and there wit a

expected craft at last arrived at Hangham she was on by the people, As the great object of enter scramble (I myself being among the number) general Siring the priesthood is the inculcation of religions to get aboard on her arrival alongside the land- pret is only tempora is worthy of all praising stage, thus rendering the little vessel still

Our Slagupare exchanges report that

deck weld wakes but agent its towards recovery, and that consequently his medical adviseri have recommended a change of climate. He was to leave for home by last French mail,

REAR-ADMIRAL PARRAVON, well-known in the

at the, one-sided naval engagement

of the French Pacife Squadron,

But it's

Yours truly, BASTIANA PASSENGER

Hongkong, May, and, 1891.7

HONGKONG WASH-HOUSES AND- BERNAALALA BAKERIES,

To tax, Epivan by the "Horazono. Telegraph" - 5th-Referring to your graphie descriptions

further unsale, Sotely the wise legislators of THE Hankow correspondent of our Shanghai ome-means-of-putting a stop to such a state of |Hongkong, in their infinite wisdom, can devise morning contemporary writes on April 23rdí-affairs and compel these Chinese-owned launches The funeral of Mr. W. F. Sharp, who died on if not to run at regular intervals to do so with Monday, the 20th, took place at 5 p.ra. on at any rate a safe and fixed lluit of passengers Far East as flag-captain to Admiral Courbetsdag The comth was borne on gua-only

near carriage drawn by men from H.M.S. Ratiler sad Pagoda Anchorage during the Franco-Chias escorted by a detachment of Municipal police reprisals, has been appointed to the command to the gate of the settlement. A numerous body of friends, consisting of neatly, all the leading and infidential men, followed the coffin, and all the merchant shipping in the Harbour and the ANOTHER artist in trouble. At the Police Court flagstaffs of various firmas had their flags at half- charged with drawing a truck on the road. Mr. Prince, Smith, Greaves, Martin and others, and ikis morning, before Mr. Wise, a Chinaman was mast. The bearers of the coffa were Mess. David Kennedy said that about 4-30 yesterday the ceremony was performed by the American afternoon he was driving a pony and trap, and Mission. The coffie was draped with the Union on turning the corner at the foot of Garden Jack and had a quantity of wreaths on the top Road, the obstacle came in the way, breaking a step of the trap and causing the pony to shy. A LONDON correspondeat, writing to the Diff The defendant pleaded that be bad bad eyesight, Courant, says that dealers but the magistrate imposed a fine of $5, or

there favour Amsterdam as the centre of the Sumatra tobacco fourteen days' imprisonment.

trade, on the ground that soliers have an advantage in greater competition, Nowa has

considerable satisfaction was expressed relative of these losses bulk so considerably that experts As special meeting of the British Mercantile reached London from North Borneo of heavy losses Marine Officers Association held last night in tobacco cultivation fo that quarter. The figures: to the settlement of the vexed question of find it hard to believe that all the money bar was published in September last, I am in:

Although your show up of the bakeries unnecessary Sunday labour in the harbour, as been lost on tobacco. The weak point, with position to state that the Lower Lascar Row and evidenced by the first reading of Bill entitled many companies in North Bornes seems to other so-called bakeries in Chinese districts are. An Ordinance to restrict the loading and be the lacompetence of the managers is money in the same filthy and insanitary condition as discharging of vessels in certain waters of the matters. The blame lies, it is alleged, with when your anicis was published and yet it is colony on Sundays" at the meeting of the Legis people in Europe (and likewise in Hongkong) who, alleged that Hongkong is progressive! :O Lome lative Council held on the 30th alt, and the host maidingarching ezquiry, too alien porn Governor's remarks on that occasion. It was engage persons wão in

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and prove

unfit to unanimously resolved to convene a mass meeting be entrusted with responsibis positions. For in an airly laun

Thanking you for favoring this with a corner. of Bridsh masters and officers next week, and to. fortance, persons have been engaged in Dell for

Yours, et appoint a deputation to wait upon the President service in North Borneo without any reliable. Capt, B. Asalon) when he returns to Hongkong Information about their qualifications in Suceatre

HEAR OLD RESIDENT. I in the course of a few days ·

having previously been obtained,

of the grave state of affairs connected with such two important local Industries as bakeries and wish-houses (for which the general public will Hongkong resident and as a family man to say doubtless be very grateful), I write as an old

that unless action is taken to remedy the very serious evlis which undoubtedly exist, I trust you will lend the weight of the influence of your widely-read jurnal to any efforts that may be but forth with view to memorialising the Government on the subject.