beard several Chinsmen advance the theory that the attack on foreigners was a mere pretence, the desire being to involve Chiva in a foreign waż and thus make the way easy for the overthrow of the dynasty. Of course the matter is not talked about very openly, but when the question comes up men speak their opinions freely. Two of our number were warned the other day, however, by a com
of soldiers that if they didn't stop talking pany about the Kelas Hul 'ther would "cat bitters ness" The matter has evidently been brewing
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1891.
tive store? Why, investors wouldn't look at them, and capitalists wouldn't touch them with a pair of tongs. The great attraction of railway stock
·40 an investment is that it can be turned into cash on any business day of the year, and at the price of that day,
'Such is also tho attraction of an iron warrant, as an investment, although Mr. Ainslie does not seem to see it. He is apparently unaware that there are more dealings lo warrants as a good | investment for honest money, than in purchases for Immediate consumption, and far more trans-
for some time. Several months ago a personal . actions of both kinds than for pure speculation.
Entimations.
HONG KONG
TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.
DRAPERS OUTFITTERS TAILORS | SILKMEN FURNISHERS.
teacher emplayed by one of our number living.There is speculation, of course, in warrants, hit C TAILORING DEPARTMENT.
PIGS IN PARLIAMENT.
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The necessity of a live market for warrants 'in the interests of the iron trade may be shortly shown. A maker of, let us say, iron ralis, & receives from abroad an invitation to tender for
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Co-day's Advertisements.
ST. JOHN
Intimations.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
LODGE A COMPETITION for the SHORT RANGE
OF HONGKONG,
No. 618, S.C.
HANDICAP CHALLENGE CUP and SPOONS will take place TO-MORROW, the rath inst., commencing at 3.15 pm: Ranges 500 and 600 yards. Usual conditions.
A Launch will leave the P. & O. Pier at 245
A REGULAR MEETING of the above P., to convey competitors.
A
named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS' HALL, Zelland Street, THIS EVENING, the 12th Instant, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Hanphong, 12th June, rqr.
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despite what is reported to have been cccasional heir from Her Majesty, the Prince has had to seek aid in other quarters fo a manner weil known to the financial world, to a very conalder- able extent. For n time these obligations, which are said to have reached in all close upon half a milion, sat fairly lightly upon his Royal Higness; but owing to the death hot long ago of one of the friends who had obliged him, and the extreme tightness of the money market some months since, which affected another, the position had to be reconsidered. It was under ihese circumstances that Lord Sallabury in reported to have been privately sounded as to the probability of Parliament following a aot forgolten precedent and making the Prince of Wales a special grant This, however, as could be readily understood by all close observers of public opinion, was considered to be out of the question, and the matter was then referred to the Queen, with the result as in understood, that her Majesty, na stated by the World, will contribute a large sum from her accumulations, which will relieve the Heir-Arparent from all immediate and much prospective worry.
north of the river gave up his "eltuation it is Intermittent, and although now and again because be understood there was an attack | carried to a wild extreme, it for the most part soon to be made upon foreigners and ha serves a wholesome purpose in keeping a live did not wish to be associated with them. market. Another teacher not long ago told the missionary employing him that there would be a rebellion 1000. All these are mere straws, but they Indicate the feeling of the people. One circum- stance may lend some colour to the theory of large contract for a new railway--the deliveries blackmail. The late Viceroy kept a large number to lie over months, perhaps years, ahend: R of men upon the pay-roll for whom there was Before he can calculate the price at which he no need. It is said by the Chinese that
can afford to sell ralis ahead he must know O he was paid to do so. It may be they what is to be the cost of his crude iron and coals. were Ko-ino. Hal men. Lia Kunəyi has The item of wage he has to take at risk, but he
$ turned them out, which might be the case must ascertain the cost of material. Now, there of a rumpus here. This however can hardly is probably no single maker of pig Iran who explain the attempts to stir up trouble outside would commit himself to an offer of such a the district ruled by the Viceroy. The drought quantity of ples for future delivery at such a which still continues threatens to complicate price as will enable the rail-maker to send in a 88.00 COAT AND matters. The Viceroy and other officials have practicable tender. The risk is too great been out several times to pray for rain, and yes. for one man, and moreover, the knowledge terday the Viceroy went again on foot. K or expectation of such an order for finished dragon "that was placed in the temple last iron being in the market will naturally send up week to be worshipped died shortly after the the price of crude iron. What the rail. service, which might well alarm a superstitious maker doen, therefore, is either to go to a Chinaman. Still the Governor is a strong man responsible broker and obtain from him an and seems to have his army well in hand. Rebel-offer of warrants to the extent of bis require. Ilon will not be easy and may not be attempted menis; or he buys warrants as cover, and then after the recent experiences.
makes his tender. If he secures the contract he sends word to bla broker, who then arranges ble warrant contracts to suit the needs of the consumer. If the rail-maker has himself bought warrants as cover, and he does not obtain the The second reading of Mr. W. G. Ainulle's order for the rails, he merely re-sells the war- remarkable bill for the suppression of the rants at the price of the day, which may either Warrant Market-for such in effect it is—was return a small loss a mall profit. Suppose, appointed for the day of publication of this however, the broker has given him a offer of number, that is to say the 8th of May. Circum-warrants for a certain number of days, that broker stances, in the shape of Mr. W. H. Smith, have will have put on such margin as his Interfered very much with the arrangements for knowledge of the market indicates to be the Bills of private members, so that date will necessary, and he may further protect himself not now be adhered to, but it is well understood by buying warrants to the extent of his that Mr. Ainslie will watch his opportunity, and offer. Should he do this, and the order comes, will not allow the bill to drop, if he can help it. he has already secured his profit in the margin And it would be a great pity if it were dropped be put on to enable the railmaker to secure the now, for public interest has been thoroughly contract. Should the order not come, the broker aroused on a subject which even Sir Richard will have to sell again. This, of course, is Webster did not ́unill the other day under- "speculation." Usually, however, the broker stand, and which it is probable that a great will buy to, say, half the extent of his open offer, proportion of members of Parliament do not yet and if he has, after all, to lose a trifle in bedging, understand. It is in the highest degree desirable he regards it as one does an insurance premium that the several Scotch members who have a precautionary and prudential investment. tabled notices of motion for the rejection of the
This, in a general way, is how big contracts bil! should have the opportunity of explaining are worked, and as they can only be worked to the country, through Parliament, its utter through the facilities afforded by the warrant, absurdity.
market, if there were not a free, active, daily market for warrants, no broker and no maker could make such an offer forward delivery, od crude fron as would enable a maker of finished fron to obtain forward contracts for his products.
Mr. Ainslie says in a circular which he has recently issued, that his bill will not prevent contracts for future delivery of iron, but will only "prevent and render illegal fictitious and illusory purchase and sales of warrants where no warrants exist," But when's broker goes inte the market to buy or sell warrants, who can tell whether his purpose be "fictlilous and illusory," or in the way of legitimate trade? In such case as we have cited above: a precautionary
It is to he noted that the promoters of the bill have no expectation of getting it passed into law, since they have confessed themselves unable to make the alterations which would secore the support of Str Richard Webster and the Govern- ment. What they hope to do, however, is to get a second reading, so as to establish what they call the "principle" of a proposal which absolutely without either principis or reason. The following is the text of the bill:-
Where as it is expedient to make provision for the restraining of the making of contracts for the sale and purchase by means, of warrants of pig Iron which is not at the time of the making of the contracts in existence.
Be it
therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same.
as follows!
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"PEKING," TContain F. Schulz, will be despatched for the above Port TO-MORROW, the 13th instant, at 4 p.m., instead of as previously notified.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Mongkong, 12th June, 1841.
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A Paris letter
SAYS A new species of pottery has heen invented at the Sevres manufactory. This rex pottery will withstand the effect of | valo and 'fröst, ...
The London County Council reports that the value of rental in England 42.500.000. Capitalizing this on the principal of twenty years! purchase, London is worth £4.750,000,000,
After many years of ignoble neglect, the town of Ayr'in at last on the volat of setting up a bronze statue of Robert Burns in an open space in the town, paid for by local subscription.
Among the recent inventions is a machine for moulding, and it is said to be rapidly making its- way in foundries where small articles are cast.
In the new discovery for photography In natural colors, when the prints are viewed by transmitted in place of reflected light, each color is replaced by its complementary one.
It has recently been shown that when cast and malleable, iron are used in the same structure a galvanic action in set up between them and the malleable iron is corroded.
A Commission composed of three Cardinals has been formed by the Pope's orders with the object of effecting economical reforms in the administration of the laterler affairs of the Vatican.
The residuam of petroleum distillation, which at one time was a by-product of little value, has now, owing to the increased demands for lubricating alls and wax, become more valuable than the first product,
The World has since published an official denial of the the allegations-which nobody believes. Mr. M. Twain, in a book on political economy entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur, says a few things apropos of the stud of royal clother-borses whose obligations" the nation occasionally clears off when a Tory Administration holds the❘ purse-strings. Says be--You see the royalties Paris journals have been discussing the origin of the Pendragon stock were a long-lived race of the polka, which is said to have been invented and very fruitfel: Whenever a child was born by an Austrian cook in 1830, Joseph Neruda toss wild joy in the nation's prouth, and pitcens nike arguing arch notes as enabled him to was mouth, make it public and popular. Borrow in the nation's heart. The joy was A new method of preparing wood-pulp com- position for mouldings is described, in which the wood pulp is mixed with bronte powders, aniline or metallic colors, so as to give a calform color of any desired shade to the pulp.
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purchase would be illusory if the hypothetical contract were not obtained, yet it would be perfectly sound and proper business.
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The fact is that neither in fron nor in any thing else can a bard and fast line be draw Legitimate dealing and unwholesome speculation. between sound and unsound business, between
You cannot separate them, and the good must 1. For the purposes of this Act the exprès- sion "document of title "! shall mean any dock
be taken with the bad. But if you do attempt to warrant, storekeeper's warrant, maker's scrip; separate them you are more likely to kill the and any warrant or order for the immediate good than to eradicate the bad. Men who want delivery of pig iren, and any other document to gamble can always find counters and oppor- vsed in the ordinary course of business as tually, but the Industrial producer lives in a continuous whid of competition, where every proof of the porecasion of pig Iran, or authoris-
check he receives is a distinct gain for his rival. In or purporting to authorise, either by
Mr. Ainulle nafusly says that his bill will not indorsement or by delivery, the possessor of the document to transfer or receive delivery of
prevent a consumer or buyer of iron from obtain ing from a maker or merchant a binding tender the pig iron thereby represented.
From and after the parsing of this Actor contract for future supplies. Perhaps nos, all contracts, agreements, and tokens of sale but it will certainly prevent any merchant or and purchase made or entered into for the sale maker making such a te der at anything but a or transfer of any pig tren to which any prohibitive price, If he has not an open market document of title shall be applicable, shall be in which he can cover bimself at any moment.
The last class of the bill bardly needs men- null and vold to all intents and purption. It proposes to make felonious to do what whatine ver, unless such contract, agreement, is impossible in practice-to issue a warrant for. or token, shall specify or incorporats a docu. ment of title specifying the name and addrass front which does not exist. Of course a warrant of the storekeeper or other person or persons may be forged, but forgery is already a criminal by whom such document was created, the offance. number by which the said document of title fe distinguished at the time of the making of such contract, agreement, or token, the date on which sucit document of title was made, and the brand, or quality of the pig iron to which such document of title is applicable ; and every person, whether broker, principal, or agent, who shall wilfully, Insert in such contract, agreement, or other token, or in such document of title any untrue statement in respect of any of the particulars required by this Act to be specified, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and punished accordingly, and, if in Scotland, shall be guilty of an offence punishable by dae or imprisonment.
3. Any person who shall create or issue, or cause to be created or issued, any Instrument purporting to be a document of title to plg Iron, and shall not have at the time of such creation in his possession, or in the possession of some person on his behalf, the pig fron to which the said instrument purports to relate, shall be gulity of a misdemeanour, and punished accordingly, and, if in Scotland, shall be guilty of an offence puulahable by fine or imprisonment.
What Mr, Ainslie proposes to do is to interdict gambling by interfering with a legitimate industry, What he will do if his bill passes will be to destroy the Scotch iron trade, and to leave gambling as rife as ever. Fairplay.
THE PRINCE OF WALES FINANCES,
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questionable, but the grief was honest. Because the event meant another call for a Royal Grant. Long was the list of these royalties, and they were a heavy and steadily increasing burden upon the treasury and a menace to the crown, Vet Arthur could not believe this latter fact, and he would not listen to any of my various projects for substituting something in the place of the royal grants. I could have persuaded him to now and then provide a support for one of these
By a degree of the Khedive, the cultivation of tobacco has been prohibited throughout the whole of Egypt. The owners of lands which are found to be under tobacco cultivation will be subjected to a fine of $1,000 per acre.
The following advertisement appears in a outlying clons from his own pocket, I could German papers: Wanted, by a lady of quality, have made a grand to do over it, and it would for adequate remuneration, a few well-behared have had a good effect with the nation; hut no, and respectable-dressed children to amuse a cat he wouldn't hear of such a thing. He had some- | in delicate health two or three hours a day,”
The depth at which some of the Belgian coal thing like a religious passion for a royal grant; and could not irritate him in any way so quickly a pit at Flear the work is now done at 3.700 seemed to look upon it as a sort of sacred swag, mines are worked is something prodigious. In
and so surely ns by an attack upon that vener-feet; in a pit at Flemerin at 2,800 feet, and in able institution. IfI ventured to cautiously hint the St. André pit, at Montigny-sur-Sambre, at that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptortly,
too.
1,000 feet.
*** LIGHTNING," Captain G, B. Pallett, will be despatched for the above Parts on TUESDAY, the 16th June, at Noan.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 12th June, 12or.
1857 OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM- SHIP COMPANY. NOTICE
CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
"BELGIC
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Countersignature, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from along-
side.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vernel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
J. S. VAN BUREN,
Acting Agent.
› Hongkong, 12th June, 1891.
Intimations.
Br. Knorr's ANTIPYRINE.
Dose for Adults '16 to 35 gratus tray.)
FRANK COLLINS,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, 9th June, 1891.
NOTICE.
A
AND
LL Persons Indebted to the 'EASTERN 'AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED, are hereby notified that PAYMENT should be made to the Under
lgged, who are empowered to grant receipts for such payments.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., Agents, Eastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ld. Hengkong, 11th June, 1801.
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NOTICE:
GREAT CLEARANCE SALE
WING to the COMPANY'S REMOVAL
to their Steam Factory at Wanchai at the end of the current month, their large and splendidly made Stock of HOUSEHOLD. FURNITURE at their Show-room, "Connaught House," Queen's Road Central, is now offered during this month at greatly reduced prices.
MARINBURK FURNITURE Co., LD. Hongkong, gih June, 1891.
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Teine per Share is Payable at the temporary Offices of the Bank, No. 7, Prays, on or before 20th June, 1891,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
Hongkong, 11th June, 1891.
NOTICE.
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JOHN AMBROSE CLARKE, Teacher of Officers and Engineers, No. 75. WYNDHAM STREET, Opposite Central Police Station. “ANDIDATES prepared for the MARINE
BOARD EXAMINATIONS. Author of the "NEW NAVIGATION," And an "Arithmetle" for Engineers, 85. Hongkong, 7th February, 1891.
Austria's new Parliament contains 51 lawyers, 40 professors and school teachers, 12 doctors and apothecaries, 8 architects and civil engineers, 20 clergymen, 147 landed proprietors, 29 officials, But I believed I saw my chance at last. 19 manufacturers, 9 Journalists and 6 gentlemen would form this crack regiment out of officers of leisure. alone-not a single private. Half of it should Dr. John Ege of Reading, Penn, who has of consist of nobles, who should fill all the places late been experimenting with skin grafting up to Major-General, and serve gratis and pay between white and black persons, has found their own expenses ; and they would be glad to that the transferred skin does not maintain its do this when they should learn that the rest of origins color, but gradually assumes that of the the regiment would consist exclusively of princes man of whom it has become part and parcel. of the blood. These princes of the blood should The English census shows that prisons are the range in rank from Lieutenant-General up to healthiest abodes in the country and that work- Field-Marshal, and be gorgeously salaried and house life insures a ripe old age. At one werk equipped and fed by the State. Moreover-and | house it was found that nearly three-fourths of this was the master stroke it should be decreed the inmates were over sixty; thirty-three women that these princely grandees should be always and twenty-one men were between eighty and addressed by a stunningly gaudy and awe ninetys two women over ninety, compelling title (which I would presently invent),
The longest bridge in the world is the LionSIEN and they, and they only, in all England should Bridge near Sangang, Chine. It extends five. be so addressed. Finally, all princes of the and a quarter miles over an area of the Yellow blood should have free choice: jols that reg)- | Sen and is supported by 300 huge stone arches. ment, get that great title, and renounce the The roadway is seventy feet above the water and myal grant, or stay out and receive a grant, is inclosed in an Iron net-work. A marble lion Nestest touch of all: unborn but imminent twenty-one feet long rests on the crown of every prince of the blood could be born into the pillar. The bridge was built at the command of regiment, and start fair, with good wages and the Emperor Kieng Long, who abdicated in 1796 permanent altuation, upon due notice from the on account of old age,
parents.
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Wire netting, as delicate as ordinary mosquito netting, and attached an electric battery, Is an invention for entrapping the Jersey stork, yelept the mosquito, The netting harge In folds around the bed or crib, and the occupant can enjoy an hour's sport by lighting lamp
and waiting attack. The story, attracted by the inmy, will, soon, alight on the canopy. The invention consists of pressing a button and turning on the fatal electric shock.
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
An invention, says the Sclasific American, German papers express serious alarin at the the improvement of railway traffic. The inven
is now undergoing investigation which promises spread of irreligion in the Fatherland.
tion consists of a small dynamo and an auxiliary A method of blasting by electricity has been engine placed upon the locomotive in such a tried in Sweden with reported good resulta,
way as to be easily operated, farmlshing a A camera which is said to take fifty current of small force but large quantity, which photographs per second is a French novelty. is monde to pass from one pole of the dynamo to
The Austro-Hungarian Government has
one pair of driving wheels, thence along the rail suppressed the pari-matuel agencies in Hungary, to the other pair of driving wheels, thence to the The Statistical Institute of Rome announces other pole of the dreams, this formaling s that 63 per cent of all Italians stegnable to read travelling circuit, moving at all times with the and write,
locomotive. By means of this current an Aluminium bronze is rapidly superseding incipient weld is caused between the wheels and manganese bronze for screw propellers in high-rails at the point of contact, preventing the speed vessels.
slipping of the wheels. The working modet of The knout is being used again in Russia by the device shows an increase of 400 per cent in the Governors and local magistrates" with the the hauling power of the locomotive. The model utmost liberty,"
without the application of the current would not It is possible that Lord Loran may run for mount a grade of 15 per cent, but when the Parliament on a Liberal Unloalet from the South current was applied it mounted a grade of 35- Manchester district.
per cent. A locomotive is now being equipped with the invention to test it on the Baltimore; and Ohio Railway,
"Atlas," in the World_writes ;-"i am
All the boys would join. I was sure of that i Informed that the severe financial pressures all existing grants would be relinquished which, as many are aware, has been for some that the newly hom would always join was time prat weighing heavily on the Prince of equally certain. Within sixty days that quaint Wales, and which has caused the depression in and bigarre anomaly, the Royal Grant, would his manner and aspect that has been
cease to be a living fact, and take its place generally observed, is now in a fair way to be among the curiosities of the past. mitigated, and that, although it is improbable that resources will be forthcoming holly to liquidate the obligations which have gradually accumulated around his Royal Highness, there will be averted the necessity, which until quite recently has been seriously apprehended, of an application to Parliament on behalf of the Prince. It has been arranged, I believe, that the Queen will contributo a large apra from her accumulations- This Act may be cited as the Pig Iron subsidy amounting to several hundred thousand Warrants Act, 1891.
pounds, the administration of which, in the This, then, is what Mr. Ainslie asks the Houssatisfaction of certain classes of the obligations to declare unlawful-to sell pig iron, without of the Heir-Apparent, will be fu the hands of handing over the iron, in the form of a delivery uncficial liquidators nominated by Her Majesty, order, at the time of contract. That is to say, Other measures are under consideration, sud the Iron must be in existence at a given place among the stipulations to which bis Royal before it is unleable, and a broker must have in Highness has sented is the assignment to the bis possession a "document of title" to it before he Dake of Clarence and Avondale of an adequate can sell it. Now a contract to deliver a warrant and regular income. upon a fixed date la return for a stated price-
The London correspondent of the Birmingham that fe to say, a broker's contracts precisely of Port says: The sensation which has been the same nature au a Stock Exchange contract caused in both society and political circles to-day It must be implemented on settling day, and the by the World's announcement concerning the - rules and regulations of the Ires "Exchange are | embarrassed condition of the Prince of Wales's a rigid as those of the Stock Exchange. An finances, is por likely to be lessened should the tron broker, therefore, who issues a contract for matter in some form be brought under the notice Iran warrante-fe, sale note-Is bound by the of Parliament. Rumours on the subject bare whole extent of his substance and of his securities | been sprrent for some time, and ay they have In the hands of the committee, to deliver what now become crystallised, it is only right to he has sold upon the contract date. It is just expicin of what they consist, so that the extent the same as with a stockbroker, who issues of the alleged diffenities may be at least sale.note for rallway stock which is in the approximately understood by the English people. possession of someone else when he sells, but it has been realised for years by the which he must obtain and transfer to the buyer | Intimates of the Heir-Apparent that, partly The London Daily News says that with some upon a date specified by the Committee of the swing to the almost regal duties cast upon honorable exceptions the clergy of the Church of Exchange. What would be the effect upon him by the long and almost absolute retirement England are local agents of the Primrose League. railway stocks as a form of investment if it were of the Queen from participating in public func. An American 5-cent stamp, issued in 1846 at impossible to buy or sell except by the actual tions, the expenses of the Prince have largely | Brattleborough, "sold in London recently for transfer of the scrip from hand to hand milks a exceeded the catimate of them when Parliament #1,250 Tale must be the mugă-vaynied stamp cash-cvpr+lhe-counter transaction as a Covoperari persted hie ilowance. Ae u sonsequence, and ') of approvals
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The proposal to put a steamer on Lake Victoria Nyans, li is expected, will be abandoned, the necessity no longer existing.
Indicators for steam engines are now made of aluminium, since its light weight makes it very advantageous for this purpose.
A rivet in the form of a tube, to be used both as a rivet and as a drainage way, is the latest wrinkle in iron-ship-building.
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The Manager, Mr. ROBERT ISHERWOOD, . will be sutlsted by an Efficient Lady Staff, and the Hotel will be conducted upon the best Eng. lish system. The accommodation comprises a spacious Dining Hall, Private Dining Rooms, Drawing, Reading, Smoking, Grit, Billard, and Private Sitting Rooms, with Fifty-four Bedrooms each provided with separate Bath-room and every convenience.
Tramway Tickets will be supplied to Visitors' st Reduced Rates,
For terms apply to the Secretary at the Company's Office, 38 and 49 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.
Hongkong, 1st June, 1891.
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There is a convenient landing Jetty opposita the Hotel for launches.
The best Brands of WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS, &c, always on Stock." MEALS can be served at any hour. Promp attendance.
Hongkong, 14th May, 1891.
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THE SHAMEEN HOTEL.
BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON,
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably
THIS
f405 River Steamer Wharvca, is now open to receive
Visitors.
W. S. MARTEN,
ARTISTIC DECORATOR, 2
2 DUDDELL STREET,
HONGKONG. Hongkong. 6th April; 1800.
NOTICE.
-JRYE'S SANITARY COMPOUNDS COMPANY, LIMITED.
JEYE'S WOOD PRÉSERVER OR ANTISEPTIC PAINT,-
THE
دوا
HE Undersigned have this day bos
appointed SOLE AGENTS for the
The Bod-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally will be found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East. The Table D'Hôte is supplied with every luxury in season, and the cuisine is in experi- enced hands,
Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best quality only,
A. F. DO ROZARIO, Manager.
Hongkong, 4th November, 18ga
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THE BOA VISTA. BISHOP'S BAY, MACAO.
THIS House, situated on the sex whore in one of the best and healthiest parts of Macao,
of these PERFECT DISINFECTANTS, and and commanding an admirable view facing the 24
are prepared to supply quantities to suit South, was OPENED & HOTEL, on the purchasers, at Wholesale Prices, Extra Specialist July. terras for Shipping and large Onders
St ROBERT RAWLINSON, C.B, C, Chief *, | Sanitary Engineer, Local Government Board,
Buy London, says
It is the best Disinfectant in use.
WAG HUMPHREYS & Co Bank Buildings, Hongkong, 19th June 1958,
Every comfort will be provided for visitors, with excellent cuisine and choice Wines.
Hot, Cold, Shower and Sea Water Baths Large and well Ventilated Dining, Ballard, and Reading Rooms, and well supplied Bar,
A small dairy is attached to the premises.
MUS. MARIA B. DOS REMEDIOS, Proprietress.
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