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The following are the names of those from whom contributions in this way have been received :—Wh Excellency the Administrator,
Mesir. Ackroyd, Dennys, Doberck, Kduljee,
Moses, Niedhardt xu Pinson.
Admiral Sir Noel Stryn added to the Museum an, fateresting collection of butterflies from Borneo as well as two cances and inne musical Instruments. The somber, of visitors to the Muscum during the twelve months was 106 768,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1891.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
Seven competitors fired on Saturday. The leading scores indicate that Christmas les viles had not wrought any very detrimental eff: Two fine scores of 33 each for the 200 yards scoon by Lieut.-Col. Jerrard and Inspector Mann resulted in a win for the fortase, whilst the goo yids spoon was carried off by Mr. E. Robinson with jr points. There will be a comI- of whom 8 sat were not Chinese.
The following is a list of the principal competition at 500 and 600 yards next week. The
| fallowing are Satórday's scores :— tributors during the twelve months 1—Admiral Sir N. Salmon, Merus, Ashton, Colingo, Daniels, Ford, Gorits, Gonedin, James, Low A-You, Lo, E. Robinson.......... Wab Po, Ner hcote, O'Keeffe, Shepherd, Talbot and Wing Cheong Shing.
Col Sagt Bayd....
Inspector Man......
Lieut. Col Jard
Lest Parun, X.N... Inspector Quincey
Mr. Wamockoronaronie
CANTON.
$50 100 1 ABETO preds, yards
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The body of the late John Cuthber son, Chief Engineer of the steamer Wardha, who had been missing some time, was found floating in's decomposed siate off the Esplanade montags. Western Ruiway, Bomiles from Labore, between A serious collision occurred on the North the mail train and a goods train. The engines and ten carriages were smashed, forty people hundred and fifty were injured, some seriously. including two railway servants, were killed; one A special relief train was despatched to being the wounded to Lahore and repair the line.
Captain Younghusband. of Pamir fame, sailed for England by yesterday's mail.
December 7th
The numbers attending the Viceroy's levec A10 113 private entres; 631 public entice; 163 new presentations: 206 native gentlemen. A Drawing Room will be held on the roth Inst.
Lord Dufferin's statue will be unveiled to
morrow evening.
BOMBAY, December 7th.
A tremendously enthusiastic meeting was held in Exeter Hall, London, on Friday night. It was unanimous for the immediate abolition laid upon India.
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Freetrader of. New South Wales has not aren commenced, for the former has been, busily, employed wiping out competitors nearer home... The cheap Engllihman gained a hold upon his country forty years ago, in the days when the son of Confucius koew practically nothing of commerce, manufactures, or arts, and the China- man had to extinguish this intender in bis own and before be could compete to much advantage In more distant regions. At present the work
only the rudiments of fadustrial science, but is proceeding gully. The Briddhist has learned already, by virtue of the great Freetrade axiom by which, the dearest la taken and the cheapest is left, the Briton is golog fast. Tho model English mercantile man la Shanghal the one who knows thres or four languages and
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Fatimations.
HONG
KONG
TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.
DRAPERS OUTFITTERS TAILORS SILKMEN FURNISHERS. JUST LANDED.
New Season's Brew
EMPIRE
of the Opium traffic and that no new taxation be ere altogether, omluted. The weality Chinese PALE ALE ·
LONDON, December 7th.
competent to take complete charge of a large trading business-demands some £600 per annum; the Chinese merchant has an equally capable and equally Intelligent, manager who receives £30 a year, his rice, and the privilege ofa shake-down in the warehouse, The Chinese cleck and storeman, receives food, clothes, and. the use of a hard book, but wager, in his case,
merchant-the boss of the establishment—lives anyhow, after the laabies of a pig.. "This pro cess is golog on all brer Chins," writes" an business in Shanghai. "White men employed and taught the Chinese and the Chinese drove them out. We could no more compete with them than we could, overcome.death and fate."
Is just beginning to realise the meaning of his The British Free-trader in the Mongolian ports own doctrine of Free Competition, and the result is about the most surprising thing that ever bappened to him.
In May 1890 the Committee, after taking the opinion of Counsel, applied to the Colonial Government for leave to cairy out the reclama tion of that portion opposite to the Lot upon which the City Hall stands, and as the Government claimed that the shareholders in the City Hall had do rights to the water frontage and dented that
(FROM OUR CORRYSPONDENT.)- they were interested in the reclamation, a ruit
Canton, a3rd December, 1891, was commenced In the Supreme Court la the
The celebration of the Winter femtival went name and with the consent of the Hongera bls P. Ryrie, as one of the Crown Lenices of Maring on with the canal din yesterday and finished Lot No: 82, against the Attorney General, The first one took place in the suburbs near the with two tragedies in the shape of large fires, an injunction to restain the, Government from NE, corner of Shamen at 5 p.m. Four house several thousands of Socialists to hold a meeting American tender who once did an immense proceeding with the reclamation was likewise applied for the Committee regret to say that we burnt, one contalóing about 70 cases of the injunction was refused by the Court, the rosine, acother roo piculs of sugar no Court holding that if those interested in the City lives were lost there. The other are com -Hall were damalfied by the action of the Gov-menced at 9.15 pm..and destroyed about einment, an award of damagca would be sun. So dower-hosts and, part of "Dutch Folly," between which laland and Canton the boats clent compensation, and the suit, at present
were moored. The accident was' canted by remains in abeyance.
the usual kerosine lamp, and soon made a tremendous blaze. The loss of life was awful,
The balance in the hands of the Honorary Treasure on the 30th June, 1861 was $11,364,07 as shown by the following accourt,
CITY
HALL ACCOUNTS SHIWING RECEIPTS AND DIEBURSEMENTS FROM 1ST JULY, 1890, TO 3TH JULY, 1891,
To Balance, in hands of Hon, Tres- surer on 30th June, 1890, as shewn In last report........................$ 8,478.63
Rent of Theatre, St. Andrew's Hall, Ball Room, &c. &........................
Rent of Chamber of Commerce. Subscriptions collected between sat July, 1890, and 30th June 1891 »Government Grant for 1891
Interest on current account in "Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation June, 1891
8.403.63 600,00
780.60
1,200.00
183.56
$19.625.8%
By Wages, &c., for twelve months...$ 3,348,00.
Repairs, alterations, &c................... 1,831.57 Gas
1,810.98 106.35
364.05 700,40
Government Fire Brigade... Museum and Office expenses, printing, building, &C.......
Insurance Premis ............................randin 'Balance in hands of Hon. Trea- aurer on the 30th June, 1891, 14 per Bank Pass Book .......
11,364.67 $19.625.82
J. J. KESWICK, Chairman,
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not currily indorse the opinions'expensed by Correspondents in this colums.)
THE GREAT LIBEL CASE. THE PROPOSED PUBLIC MEETING. To, EDITOR of the "Hasamsva Telegraph." SIR-It was proposed and had been practically decided to hold a public meeting of sympathizers with the Defendant in the recent Libel Case in "the City Hall, to-morrow afternoon, and nearly all arrangements had been made. The subjoined correspondece on the subject speaks for sell, and
●certainly does not held up to the favorable light of public opinion those who pose as protectors of public Interests. I nerd only add that no interested clique, however influential, can stem the strong tide now flowing in all honest and Sonorable quarters in this chtony In farer of the Editor of the Hongkong Telegraph, and that the meeting will be held elarwhere than in the Cly Hall in a day or two, due police of which will be given.
Yours faithfully,
"CHESNEY DUNCAN, Hongkong, 29th Dicamber, 1891,
(Copy) 'No. 1.
Hongkong Hotel, --December-súth, 1791. DEAR SIR-I am at present unable to give you an official reply to your letter sent to-day to my private rooms. This is a public holiday and the Colonial Secretary's office la closed. As a matter of courtesy I may, however, inform you un-fficially that I presume that in Hongkong Asia England there is nothing to prevent people meeting to publicly discuss any matter of public intercal, always assuming the place selected is suitable and the meeting is conducted in an orderly way. Of course people are answerable for what they say at public meetings. If they discuss cases sub judice for instance, unless great discretion is exercised they may render them. selves liable to be dealt with for contempt of Court, as was demonstrated in certain instances arising
out of meetings connected with the Tich-
bourne Case.
I should not think His Excellency would be advised to prohibit the public meeting you mention and lodred, the Government, would „Certainly not assume before hand that speakers would abuse the liberty of speech so dear to all Englishmen.
amounting to over 100 people, mostly prostitutes It was a frightful scene, the unfortunate women being actually roasted alive, surrounded, as they ware, by water on all sides. Very few were rescued, as it was impossible to get near them owing to the fearful heat. There was a large quantity of powder stored on "Datch Folly," bat fortunately that was saved
The first copy of the new Chinese paper, the Chung Sat Yat Po, was printed a few days 180; The print is good, better perhaps than that of "the ether acc, but the articles are lacking in spirit and good composition. However, that will doubtless be amended, when the willers once get in full swing,
LATE TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, December 4th. General Sir George Chesney has written to The Time? warmly endorsing the views expressed by the writer of the letters which have been appearing in that journal under the pseudonym of "Vetus" criticising the adminis tration of the War Office.
NEW YORK, December 4th. This afternoon a dastardly outrage was committed here. Two miscreants entered the office of a well-known financier, Mr. Russell Sage and 'demanded from him a sum of one,
million dollars. Their demand being refused, they exploded a dynamite bomb in the office, which shattered great part of the building The perpetraters of the outrage and three clerks were blown, to atoms, whilst Mr. Sage was severely injured.
ROME, December 4th,
Marquis di Rudini, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies to-day, declared that the temporal power of the Pope had long been dead and busted and that the attitude of Austria with regard to the Papacy was sincerely friendly to Italy. The Premier added that If the Itslind unity was threatened, Austrian troops would certainly come to the succour of Italy.
Prince Damrong is staying in this city.
MELBOURNE, December 4th
A serious financial crisis has arisen here owing to the suspension of three banks, including the Standard Hank of Australia, and of three Buld ing Societies. It is believed, however, that the worst is now over. The Government yesterday evening fushed through all its singes in Parlia ment a Bill giving protection to depositors.
BERLIN, December 4th
It is reported here traj Kmin Pasba on rench- ing the Equatorial Province was warmly wel rotard by his former troops, and he is said to now have under his command nine thousand man armed with riles.
A Berlin Journal reports that the Emperor William addressing bedy of recruits recently at Potsdam told them that the oath of allegiance they had taken meant that they gave themselves to bim body and soul, and that if the socialls! agitation compelled the order to be given to shoot down, their relatives, even their parents, they must obey the order,
CAPETOWN, December 4lb. Chief Lobengula has ceded to the Chartered Company of British South Africa the exclusive right to make land settlements and to adminis ter and develop his country.
LONDON, December gth.
The proceedings in the Russell separation suit were brought to a conclusion yesterday, when the jury after an hour's consultation returned Ints Court with a verdict for the respondeat. The decision was received with loud cheers The petition of the Countess was dismissed with cont
BERLIN, December 5th.
The report of the spieth said to have been made by Emperor William to a body of recruits at Potsdam has not been denied, and Ir being much commented upon.
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A renewed attempt was made yesterday by at Chelser, but the police dispersed the gathering and made many, arrests.
Great gravification is expressed by the whole of the Press at the betrothal of the Duke of
and as being a love match. Clarence and Avondale to an English Princess,
The new Commercial Treaties entered into by reduction of duties on Indian cereals. the Central European States provide for the The Committee of the Chicago exhibition inviting prominent Anglo Indian officials to form the Indian Committee of exhibition,
Lord Cross speaking at Harley, said that justice was the great keystone of Fritish policy in India. He declared that further aggrandise ment was not wished for and that the Govern- ment desired to maintain the closest friendship with Native States. Regarding the Ameer of Afghanistan, it was only desired that he, should rule his subjects properly and remain a friend to the English. Lord Cross expressed a hape that ao pressure would be exercised affecting the
French would not encroach on Siam. independence of Persis, and he also hoped the
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ROME, December 7th. Prince Damrong starts for Bombay this week, and will make a prolonged tour in India for the purpose of studying the Indian Educational
system.
LONDON, December 11th. Sir Willlara Drummond Jervois has been appointed a governor of the Imperial Institute, to represent the Straits.
December 13th.
A financial panic exists at Rio de Janeiro. The banks are guarded, and it is expected that martial law will be procialined, ~.
December 18th,
The New York Herald announces that arlot has taken place at Saint Vincent (West Indies) In consequence of the popular opposition to the reduction made in the number of the Appeal Judges; the crowd stened the Governor and made an attack on his residence; the rioters were dispersed by anflore landed from H.M. sloop Busard.
NINGPO.
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(PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
NINGPO, 18th December, 1891.
Another fire occurred here. early yesterday morning, near the New Bridge, but fortunately it was not a very exicosive outbreak, only two houses being burnt. It was put cut without much difficulty by the local fire-brigade.
The Cito, with coals from Nagasaki, is in port; another coal steamer is expected to-day.. and the Vladimir in n few days.
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The real merits of the Asiatic whom-in the alleged Freetrade millennium-the people of New South Wales must undersell if they wish to save their industries from utter extinction, are only beginning to be understood. He Ir strange, untiring individual, who seldom rests, and hardly ever sleeps, and to whom recreation is an unknown quantity. In the Chinese laundries of New York and San Francisco work is never suspended. Night and day the Mongol purines his ceaseless toll of washce wasbce-wash, For twenty hours per diem the same tireless
PIRE
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EMPIRE
EXTRA
STOUT.
IN FIRKINS & KÍLDERKINS. CASKS will be charged, and allowed for in full, 'when returned.
HONGKONG TRADING CO., LTD.,
4 QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
GODOWNS, DUDDELL STREET. Hongkong, 18th December, 1891.
mical as himself The successful economist is others, and in all China there is no extravagant a person who trades on the extravagancès, of Individual or class to trade upon. But if the Mongol comes fairly into competition with any white nation, as he only can do under Freetrade principles, then he will inevitably suck the life- blood of bis rivals. For as the most grasping of Hebrew money-lenders is to the most lavish member of the jaggins" order, so is the educated Chinaman to the Hebrew money-lender himself. It is a problem of simple. proportion,
and the answer'fa easy,
heathen labours at the tüb, and for the remala. ing four he sleeps among the soiled linen,
The race that works most incessantly, that so that he may save the rent. of sleeping does without most "necessaries," and that hangs accommodation and the wear and tear of on hardest to the proceeds, rust ultimately come bedding. In the underground haunts of uppermost on a Freetrade basis, and the man Chicago he turns his leprous kinsmen lato from the shores of the Yellow Ses fills the bill cash, and there night and day the discased in all three Instances. He can dispense with wretches make cheap cigars which are after light, air, rest, and recreation, and almost with wards belled as Havannahs and Mantias, and clothes as well. He can sleep standing, or sold in all parts of the world-in the fashionable doubled up in a cask, or crammed Into a packing- clubs and hotels of Sydney, among the rest. case with his naked feet propped against a nail He can travel in a fetid junk, piled up in a heap There is much solid economy about the men who will make their dying relatives tell for six-like dead meat. In California he is ousting the white farmer and fruitgrower by the simple teen hours or more per day, in exchange for rice and the shelter of a subterranean cavern, and process of paying from two up to ten times as the New South Wales citsen mun learn to chain much for the land as they can afford to offer, and up bis consumptive friends and his crippled even then he realises larger profits than the relations fa call, and turn them into similar Aryan ever did, He is absorbing the fruit- effective somices of revenue, if he hopes to compete on preserving industry by the same
Freetrada basis. For there are no outward methods, and the trail of the leper is over the evidences to show that there have been dead tinned peaches and pines and other luxuries bodies among the choice Havannahs, and that which the American mail-steamers land so noisome corpse get mixed somehow with the abundantly, on these shores. He is starting fragrant Manlias; and anyhow the question is innumerable manufactures in his own land, and one of cheapness; not of corpses, and on a solid already many of his products are sold in New South Wales diagulated under English names Freetrade system, the manufacturer who runi a xtaff of unpaid lepers in a dungeon can easily
As an industrial supplanter and trade absorber keep ahead,
donation of the earth can equal his." China has done more in a quarter of a century to annex the commerce and Industries of the world than any ]:. other land has accomplished in a hundred years. And so long as her products come in free it matters nothing whether the Chinaman himself is excluded or not; the results are the same whether the Mongol, undersells his competitors by goods manufactured on the apat, or by goods manu factured in his own Flowery Land, and then exported. He can only be dealt with by two alternatives; either he must be shut out by protective tariffs, or be must be competed with on even terms-which means that his rival must become as cheap, as squalid, as laborious, and as miserably penulous as himself. The Chinaman is an argument in favour of Protec tion that cannot be overcome, even if all the paper on earth is covered with Freetrade logic, and all the shelves of all the libraries in the
In fifty years, at the present rate of progress, China can manufacture, for the whole world, There is nothing extravagant in this assertion, With medem machinery-to say nothing of the machinery that will exist in another half-century nation which now sumbers, say, 350,000.c00, and which is willing to work far-16 hours per diem, can manufacture everything which can possibly be wanted by the world's population, and much more besides. Therefore, wherever the Freetrade system prevails, the Chinaman, as the cheapest worker on earth, can wipe out and utterly extinguish every competitor, and leave whole nations unemployed. What he will be as a manufacturer in the future can be guessed by what he is as an agriculturist, in the present. There is no such patient and laborious toller on the surface of the globe.
In China the owner of land who should not
THE CHEAPEST FREETRADER ON unworthy of effort, Rain water is everywhere
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globe groan under the burden of tones of Cobden's philosophy.---Sydney Bulletin.
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE,
{Prous Mastes, Geo. Falconer & Co.'s Raglater,}- Today, Saromterý 1, the ava Barometer Polan Barometer 4 Plantati Thermometering A,10, eroon KevinDqYA+
Thermobanata 4 DJ0u Thezartalet-9 a.m. (To belb) ThermathatchWWE PLER. Thermometers pulks
To-day's Advertisements.
ST. ANDREW'S HALL,
TO-MORROW EVENING (TUESDAY), DECEMBER 29TH.
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A REGULAR MEETING of the above HALL, Zetland Street, THIS EVENING, the 28th December, at 8 for 8.30 o'clock precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited." Hongkong, 18th December, 1891.
A ́ LODGE will be held in FREEMASONG":
VICTORIA
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HONGKONG, No. 1026.
AN EMERGENCY MEETING of the above HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW, the zoth fastant, at 4.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
Wongkong, 28th December, 1861.
·LODGE will be beld in FREEMASONS":
VICTORIA PRIORY.
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N EMERGENCY MEETING of the VIC.
AFIA PRICKY will be held on WED NESDAY, the 30th December, at s for 5.30 invited to attend. pa precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially Hongkong, 28th December, 1891. [1549
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUT THE Company's Steamship
"FORMOSA," Captain Hall, will be despatched for the shove Ports on WEDNESDAY, the 30th fastant, at Daylight, instead of as previously advertised.
For Freight.or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers. Homeranz. th December 1801
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS. FOR NAGASAKI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA, VIA INLAND SEA. “HE Steamship
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"CARDIGANSHIRE,” Captain Parsons, will be despatched as above on or about TUESDAY, the 5th Jandary, 1893. ›
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co, Agents,
Hongkona 18th December, 1801.
*MOGUL” LINE OF STEAMERS.
(1553
FOR NEW YORK (VIA SUEZ CANAL),
HE Steamship
THE
"SIKH,"
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Rowley, Commander, will be despatched for the sboro Ports on or about the rath January, 1897, instead of as previously advertised. For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 78th December, 1801-
*SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS.
FOR SINGAPORE, HAVRE, LONDON,
HAMBURG AND ANTWERP..... HE Steamship
THE
*MONMOUTHSHIRE,”
Captain Caming, will be despatched ze above on or about MONDAY, the 18th January, 1893,
For Freight or Passage, apply towa
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
The dally steamers in port were dressed yesterday in honour of the marriage of Mr. H. E. Wadman to Miss Mantelth. Our thule church at the end of the Bund was quite gay during the afternoon; the decorations, consisting of fextoons of evergreens and baskets of flowers placed here and there about the building, were remarkably cultivate it would be deprived of it, Fertilizers pretty, and set off the title edifice to great undreamed of in Europe are used, there and the advantage. The marriage service was con-postilla of European or an American are assalled ducted by the Rev. Messrs. Hoare and Moule, with all sorts of odours at every tura fa city and and attracted a much larger congregation than country. All sidure is penuriously hoarded and Mercury. even assembles there on Sundays-Shanghai used. Every stalk of rice is planted as seed, and replanted in water by human hands, and to add one bandful to a crop would not be thought
stored in ponds or in water-holes, for irregation, and In all cases fish are grown in these reser. volrs. Human hands do ali the work ; human The Freeftade system is admittedly a system backs bear most of the land burdens, human of Free Competition. So far, in reality, there is animals are the beasts that drag most of the To Freetrade and no absolutely Free Competition loads, where they cannot be transported on In any civillaed land, but it is the boxst of Eng. canal or river. Horses, cows, and sheep are land and its servile imitator, New South Wales, crowded out they would cost more than they that they approach as near to it as circumstances would produce. Why should a horse or an Ess will admit. They are both in an embryonic state, be called to hear & burden when there are poor human beasts to be had, in number so far as their fiscal arrangements are concerned, but in the latter country, at all events, the sufficient to build the pyramids or to drag fanatics of political economy see, or profess to mountains from their bases, if the poorest of see, a financial millennium ahead-a halcyon wages to recompense such a task were forthcom- period when the products of all countries log? There are practically no plant weeds to be will be admitted free of duty to Australian cen in the meat thickly populated parts of ports, and all the world will compete with China. There is no room for them, and they this nation on equal terms, Then the wine are completely extirpated in a land where industries must go and the vines be rooted up agriculture is so minute that the roots of plants unless the New South Wales vigneron will are examined to expel or to kill any lasect or be content to toll as cheaply as the labourers grob that would dare to dispate a living with of Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Brazil, for the the hungry lord of creation. Seeds are steeped consumer always buys the cheapest article, and in liquid manure to force them to rapid and cheapness of production depends almost entirely luxuriant growth Ferillizers are applied directly upon chespacss of labour. Then tobacco call to the roots of plants, and not placed on the vation will be suspended, and the hitherto pro surface of the land as with us, for in the latter tected dairying industry will die and be buried, process is evaporation and waste, Man in the y and all the other trades at present supported by only weed tolerated in China, and be teemat apaj tariffs levied in an alleged Freetrade land must everywhere. A population of: Boo to the square elther work on a cheaper basis than their commile is not uncommon in the best agricultural kindly assisted by Mrs. D. GILLIES and Mr. petitors or else close up. The one absolutely districts there. reliable fact about the Freetrade system is that When the blography of seme individual, who the cheapest producer must come uppermost has balitups fortand by his own unaided efforts, and the rest must go to the wall. It is this is written, as a bright and shining example for cheapness which is the stock argument of all the coming generations, the story of his rise is Freeiraders. The farmer is always told of a almost always the same. He got ahead of bir golden age when he will get cheap machinery fellow-men at the outset by abject economy--by from Europe, and thus ruin the local imple. living in squaler and discomfort-by incessant ment-maker and the implement-maker in toll, and by abandoning almost everything which told of a glorious time approaching when he makes life pleasant. But all these things are
CHOIR PRACTICE of the VOCALISTS The British Consuls at Newchwang and will get an abundance of cheap foreign graia.companive terms; he was simply more toll- Tientsin have wired to the Consul here that the from India, and thus wipe out the farmer. The some, more economical, and more squalid than who have kindly consented to laks part "THE Fith Ordinary General: MEETING of falloy bears that the local boot access the rest of his kind, and if they had stanimously in the forthcoming, SCOTCH CONCERT PAT SHAREHOLDERS In the, Above Cotar rebels have been completely dispersed.
enemy, because his boots are dearer then, the discovered and resorted to a still lower depth of be held in the Music Room, City Hall, TO- LONDON, December 6th. The bulletins feed on Friday and Saturday Imported article, and the bootmaker is, warned of meaness and economy, then he must have MORROW AFTERNOON at $5.30 o'clock. reporting the condition of Prince George of the evils of the other man because his products descended to lower level even than they or else Hongkong, 28th December, 1891.
are more costly than the shoddy of Manchester, have lived and died a poorman, and a failure. The -Wales are markedly reserved.
Mr Dillon addressing meeting at Mayo how he can get cheap, slave-mada, goods from old clothes would have been left behind in the
every separate individual the tale is told of millionaire who made his first rise by wearing audiend der SPECIAL NOTICE. exerday, declared that if the provisions of Mr. abroad, and thereby avoid the extortions of and scramble for wealth by a race of competitong "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH wopid bitterly oppose it.
renewed attempt was made yesterday by dual, and as the other individual has to make the individual who earned the first beginnings of Hotels, opposite the Hongkong Club, and at last, both days inclusive. several thousand of Socialists to hold meeting his profit in like manner by abolishing him, his capital by selling old horse-shoes picked up Fedder's Wharf, Evaxy. EVENING from 5.30 to Hongkong, December 28th, 1891. Chales, but the police dispersed the gathering the doctrine of univcral abolition. Tertically would have ben et garded as all extravagant 7:30 o'clock i
For only an and made many sitests, fundam
the cheapest man cas survive under the regime spendthrift in a community where his fellow of the Freetrade propher, and as the Australian devoted themselves to scraping up fertiliser from is host the most expensive worker on earth be the gisters, and turning it into cash and he must go, no matter who stays carwould have gone the way of spendthrifts in Reneral The Australian is about the most expensive and bere a shocking castople to all porsetity. labourer on earth-the Chinaman is probably The Chinamin is the model economist of the the most inexpensive. The two men occupy the earth, and the only reason why he has not extreme end of the industrial scales. So far, yet grow rich is that he is surrounded by application. "the Catruggle) between the Menges and 1#> 350,000,000. kamán beings: de hideözily ́ocone»
Yours obediently,,
(Signed) Và Y. GOODHA. Chesney Duncan, Esq.
(Copy) No, a Hongkong, 27th December, 1891. SIR, beg to thank you for your kind reply to my letter of yesterday's date and have to state. that the reason why the meeting was not bold to-day is to be found in the fact that at the last moment It was sscertained that it would sult the convenience of Mr.. Fraser-Smith's friends better to have the gathering postponed for a couple of days. We therefore purpose holding the meeting on Tuesday, the 89th instant, at $30 petits
have every reason to hope that the meeting will be perfectly orderly, and that no speaker will abuse the liberty of speech so dear to all Englishmen.
I'am, Sir,
Hongkong.
Yours obediently.
CHESHTY DUNCAN.
PARIS, December 5th. Official advices received hers concerning the rebellion in China show that Secret Societies from Chisa proper instigated the present revolt, Altogether five hundred Christians were massa cred and a number of Churches were pillaged
WASHINGTON, December şib.
and burned.
The Treasury purchased to-day 734,000 Laces of silver at 95 to 95.50.
In the current issue of the Fortnightly Review Sir Frederick Roberts contributes an article on the Angio-Russian relations. He admits himself to be an optimist, if optimism implies the full perception of the dangen to which India is exposed, and persistent advocacy for timely preparations being taken.
SHANGHAI, December (th.
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Hongkong, 28th December, 1891,
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,
EMBERS are notified that no
firing
CALE
Make place TO-MORROW, the 29th
instant,
PED. ROBINSON,
Acting Hon. Secretary,
Hongkong, 28th December, 1891.
THE HONGKONG BRICK AND CEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED."'
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,-
pany will be held at the Company's Office, Bark Buildings, Queen's Road,. on WEDNESDAY, the goth instant, at 4 o'clock p.m. for the purpos of receiving the Directors Report and Statement
of Accounts for, the year ended October 31st, BOOKS of the Company
1891,
The TRANSFER
The Honorable the Acting Colonial Secretary Frindstone's Home Rule Bill were inadequate, be practically abolish-some other local indivi-energetic as himself who wore no clothes at all be an axle at the Hongkong and Victoria will be CLOSED from the 16th inst. to the oth
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Secretary's Office," "City Hall,"
¡Chesney, Duncan, Esq.,____
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ROME December dib. DEAR SIS,In reply to your letters of to-day's dale, asking for the use of the Theatre or the The son of the King of Slam who is accom St. Andrew's Hall for a meeting for Mr. Robart pasying Prince Damrong on tour through Fraser-Smith's friends and sympathisers, I'am Europe, has presented his Majesty King Hum directed by the Commitee to Inform you that best with the Siamese Order of Mahschakri, se
poi ace their way to granting your request. they do
MEDIANA MANA CALCUTTA, December 6th. Yours falikfully,
The Han'ble Mr. Mackay CL, Is
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thus
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Secretary.
Hargkapp 16th December, 1891. Copies ordered from the Office will be charged HE Annual Meeting for Shareholders Tadvertised to be held on the Afternoon of the usual rate-25 cents, predsta
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Mengkong, 18th December, 18915.
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