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The Houghing Thigrasi has the largest circulation of any English newspaper published in the Far East, and is there the best mediam for Advertises. Terms zum be learnt an appliation. The Houghing Trigermak'e number at the Telephone Canal Hongkong.
more that will not need to work up any Character Sketches just yet-though we have material enough for volumes.
"WHEN will the new Central Market be finished," saks an esteemed correspondent, who ought to know better. That old cheannt about the Greek Kalends could very learnedly be dragged in here, but times are too hard to afford classical references on such a subject. Still, it may interest the Director of Public Works to know that in our opinion this work is being carried on with inexcusable apathy.
would, further, be of considerable interest THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s Royal mail "BROWNIE is daily on show in Wyndham to know what steps are being taken by steamer Empress of Japan, from Hongkong Street. No charge for a look at the beautiful Mr. LARGE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE in 18th May, arrived at Kobe, at midnight on Frone-Advt. the way of the economy so confidently day, and will leave at 2 pm, to-day for Yoke.
TEX Post Office will be closed on Monday the Letter on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor" and promised; but a question in Council wenta - hams, Victoria and Vancouver... Communications fataided for publication must be accompanied only draw out a refusal, and the anxious IT affords us toĥatte pleasure to be able to Correspondence can be posted as on Sunday. 6th inst. (Whit Monday) except from 8 to 9 .m. taxpayer must wait his Excellency's good announce that, through the courteous action of Correspondence for the Peak and Kowloon may Whilst the colaters of the Hanging Thigh will always pleasure. But this throwing of responsibilitys now no obstacle in the way of obtaining police kept open. The Money Order Office will be Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, there be posted up to 9 ms.The night box will be acting public internets, it must be distinctly understood that for emergencies on the heads of departments court news for publication. His Excellency the
bud. may be of
entirely closed. that no such idea is entertained, and that quite affable and condescending to our facetious Mr. O'BRIEN has not expressed himself clearly. He certainly did allow himself to be misunderstood on the Public Loan question, for everybody Interpreted his announcement on the report of the Loan Committee to mean that the loan scheme was dropped, whereas in reality he meant that the Committee's report was not to be taken Into account at all and the loan would be raised at any cost, So it may be that in this present instance misled people, Anyhow, well-founded or otherwise, the impression has got abroad that any extra expense beyond the Estimates will fall on the officer incurring it, and that impression is already showing its effect in paralysing the activity
if not mistaken, then in the interests of the and efficiency of the Service. If the bellef is mistaken, it should be corrected; Service the innovation must be at once crushed. For it is not retrenchment; it is absolute nonsense,
Exchange la. Na to Telegraphic address 1 Tph,"
"Now, don't you forge! It !*~ Bay View is the place to spend a happy day in this hot weather, provided at enormous expense. The great and and to-morrow special attraction has been only Imashal, Prince of Juggiers and Hwang Ti of nake charmers, wi give one of his extras ordinary performances, commencing at 3 o'clock, which should attract a crowd of sightseers, to
are reputed the best in the world, and us for interesting science. From Imashal's reputa snake charming they hold a monopoly of that tion in both branches of the mystic art, he is evidently "flyer" at the game and well worth seeing.
Lelegraph. woerations distepallion
The Hongkong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 4 1891.
retrenchmenT À LÀ ROBINSON.
A CIRCULAR has been sent round by order of His Excellency the Governor to some (and, we believe, to all) heads of depart ments, informing them that they will be held personally responsible for any expense incurred In their several departments. NÓS, 22 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL Estimates. The full text of the order is, beyond the figures sat down in the
through the courtesy of Sir W. ROBINSON, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. not available for publication, as presumably the Governmentthinks the public would not be interested to know how its money is being saved; or perhaps because the publication of this new departure in Colonial finance Government was trying, however foolishly, would lead to a false impression that the to learn from Mr. WHITEHEAD economy in the interests of the ratepayers (which would be andignified); or it may be that the Government had, mirabile dictu, sufficient
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Wall of which are excellent quality and ↑ E invite attention to the following Brands,
good value for the money,
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In ordering is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired." PORTS. (For Invalids and general usi).
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$1,00
5.10
A Alto Douro, good quality,
Green Capsule ......$10
B Vintage, supeilor quality, Red Capsule .........
11
C
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D Very Fine Old Vintage, extra asperior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) 18
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wine, Gress Capiula................... 6
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F. Extra Superior Old Pale Dry,
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CLARETS.
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Per
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$4
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A Superior Breakfast Claret,
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
*.*MONDAY next (Whit-Monday) being a Bank Holidar, there will be no issue of the Hongkong Telegraph.
An Emergency Convocation of Victoria Chapter, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. ST. PETER'S SEAMIN'S CHURCH.-The Mission Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30 am.se Sunday, to convey men ashore the xx o'clock service, returning about 13.30 p.m.
to
:.
THE Dairy Faim Co.'s new premises on Pedder's Hill are rapidly approaching completion and within a few weeks will be ready for active lacteal Bald. Singularly enough this Dairy Farm enterprise bas- not proved the gold-mina so con- fidently predicted by its original promoter and most enthusiastic advocate, Dr. Patrick Masson; but better days are doubilèm in store..
We note by our Scotch exchanges that the
the last monthly meeting, over which Professor Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has of late have been held at which very interesting papers been unusually active. Several special meetings
Dent, D.D., presided, five new Fellows were were read and antiquarian objects shown. At
and Mr. Allster Duncan, of the Chinese Customs elected, amongst them being Lord Torpeicher, Service,
pleted in Port Darwin, Sydney and Melboumej We hear that, arrangements having bean com- the Nippon Yusen Kalahs will put two,, lf' bot Hongkong, in August next at the latest. three steamers on the Japan-Australla line, via
THE Chinese Government having offered $200 apiece for the arrest of the two leaders of the been sent to the Moro police who so cleverly recent pirate il outrage, the sum of $400 bas arrested the desperadoes. For the other members of the gang the Viceroy of Cantan offers a reward of $10 per caput.
THE Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry Gardens on Monday, the 6th init, commencing will play the following programme in the Public at 8 pm.
Oructure.
Selectlan....... Valso.. Balestation Polk...
Romini,
‚“Tancredi "
Bal D'Ente IvanhoeSA. Sullivan, Zaalimula"myFrente Fare.
La Donna Juanita"....Suppe, 'Star of England "roomTerrell.
SHORT STUDIES ON GREAT SUBJECTS.
01.—LEVIATHAN.
We take the liberty of qrotia fom our esteemed morolog contemporary delicious
tours. Every now and again we hear of a morsel which must not be allowed to sink into the oblivion of the Datly Press colurns. This
splash in some remote part of the world which Leviathan to get a clear conception of his con- Weste much too near the heart of the
reminds us that the great bring is nearly abiquitous, in the Northern hemisphere at all Erents, and we wonder baw, auch titanic 'more
In
mments
It is understood that the Pacific Mall Compan guglia be controlled by ich small
one
overspreads us ke the canopy of heaven, Aspect the grand . tire In another it constitutes the ground, on which. we tread. We inhale it in every step. We Providence, but noue about the Levistban, may have our doubts about an overruling
belag. Like the atmosphere is moods vary, and in whom we live and move and bave our the disturbances which agitate its molecules are measurable by barometric apparatus. High readings seem to lift us off the ground, while as on snowy peaks, causing prostration wh Sow readings leave us giddy and seant of breath,
Great in all ways is
Hon with whom there is strong evidence of their The Daily Press this morning says "We read in the Macants of the sad inst. that the Macao police have captured three criminals in connec having been concerned in the late piratical attack upon the Customs slcam-launch with which they committed the deprecation upon the three trading Janks near Macao." Only this, and nothing more. Now, Il Granny had some body on board who could read English, instead of only Macanese scalliwags very much more could have been learnt in the Telegrapk of and June, and it might have been reproduced in the colemas of our lifustrious momalag contemporary a day earller, witheat acknowledgment of course. THE latest about "Bendoff the Slagger" reads In the Weekly Dispatch of the 5th May thusly: for attempting to murder William Allerton, Wooll Bendoff, professional pugilist, was committed for trial at Liverpool on the 4th May proprietor of the Ormskirk Hotel, by stabbing him several times about the head, thereby causing his removal to hospital, where be lay in Jubilee is likely to become an accomplished fact. Let fathan the 2010. a precarious condition for the We would belief that the Bendoff of this stabbing wffray is and many in Hongkong must be of our opinion; not the same Bendoff who visited as so recently bat which is the real "Simon Pure" none can tell, THE manter of the armed funk Fuk Tat was arrested by Sergt. Witchell at Aberdeen on the 31st ultime and charged before Mr. Hastings on the rat with
becomes more and more
weeks." This
are having two 8,000-ton. 18-knot steamers built by the Ualon Ironworks Co. of San Francisco for their line between the Golden Gate and Japan and Chloe. When these leviathan vessels are completed, which it is expected they the places of the City of Peking and City of will be within a year, they are intended to take Rio de Janeiro, which will be transferred to the San Francisco-Panama traffic, or else retained as extra boats on the present roule, .. ** AN ENGLISHMAN" inquires if we can tell him when the permanent memorial of Hongkong's As we don't happen to know what permanent desires. Probably what was at the time generally memorial was decided on, we really cannot
out of a golden opportunity, ended in a finie. regarded as an official attempt to make caplial But anyhow it doesn't matter, as our very own Jubilee has been exceedingly bad "Joss" for the colony.
Now, who would have guessed that ail Exit is
Intelligence to see that this latest order ROAD-METAL is now being laid down in Jubilee, stake a good deal, ii. we had 1, on our firm afford our correspondent the information just almply about a collapsible boat? Well, It.
would call forth some nasty remarks from the public, and therefore the matter was kept as secret as could be Whatever he the reason, the fact remains that this order was not published by the Government, and it has been left to us to expose this latest puerile attempt, hardly worthy even of the misguided MITCHELL-INNES, much less of colossal geniuses like Mr. COLONIAL SECRETARY O'BRIEN, who so modestly boast of their "large administrative experience." 1.as When the rate-payers, with one valce, cried out for retrenchment, like "busted" share gamblers appealing piteously to 150 the Bank for time and accommodation, the answer short and sharp, though expressed in long-winded fashion Not at all, certainly not! That was all the reply vouchsafed to the public, but our astute Governor had evidently made 1.00 up his mind to retrench none the less, but as it would be infrà dignitate to openly accept advice, he evidently resolved to practise economy in a style different to that proposed, and to let nobody know t.ro he was doing it. Somehow these things
become known just the same,
0,56
0.75
1.10
was
This official ukase, if it means anything at all-which is by no means certain, coming 1.35 from such a sarkarstic cuss" as Sir W. Per ROBINSON, through such an accomplished Case word-twister as Mr. OBRIEN-if it means Plats anything at all, it means that unforeseen. circumstances are rigidly prohibited, by order. For Hongkong la not more but
2 doz.
Street, apparently much to the delight of the streets in the vicinity of that second-class piggery numerous hawkers of vegetables who thong the which serves enlightened Hongkong for a public market. AT noon to-day a Chinese cocl'e, while stepping #c7011 Queen's Road West in the vicinity of the Glabe Hotel, suddenly staggered and fell heavily on the ground. A constable picked him up at once and found life extinct. The body was promptly removed to the Mortuary, pending an inquest,
An old Chinese woman, 75 years of age, tried to commit suicide by throwing herself into the harbour early this morning. She was brought before the magistrate a litle later, when the gave as her excuse that she had been refused admittance to the hospital and could hear of no work-house i the colony. She was handed over to the care of her son, who appeared in Court to claim her.
Ter-Band-of-the 1st Shrop ble Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30pm
Yake... Quadrille
Part. Whenier. Mia Cara...............Bacisi Roundabout Schottischst for TaRoeder
Williams, "Comment"
D'Albert Valio,................." My Queen". Coote Dr Albert Daretly "Ducato.
Firty dolls was the amount of the fac Im. posed on an old bag by Mr. Wodehouse to-day becare she ossessed re taels of prepared oplam without a permit from the Oplum Faimer. A couple of days ago Mr. Haslings extorted no less that fen cexts from a nice-looking dame who also broke the law of the Medea and Persians. But
she was a cool brazen-faced tiar who has no side" than bas our Office Goat.
the arms on board his vessels.
1
(4.) Leaving his anchorage during prohibited hours without a permit.
(8) Giving false particulars of the cargo and (c) Carrying arms without licence. tle was brought before the two magistrates this morning, who fined him $5. and ordained the number entered on his clearance should be that his
jank and all the arms over and above confiscated. The Bench added a statement to the effect that should the culprit elect to petition the Governor for the recovery of his junke the magistrates would back up the prayer of the Bumble
petition.
ship "can stand up to her canvas equally with The writer says no. Further, he says a
He didn't know his con address, Nor the pub. from which he came, Nor even where the gutterwan-- But he got there just the same.
CORRESPONDENCE,
"TWe do not necessarily inderen tha opinions expressed by Comespondents in this colavanje
THE FIRST WAR WITH CHINA. TO THE EDITOR OF "Howakong Trinaratuz,"
SIR-The fundamental error in Mr. H. N. Lay's argument bearing upon the first war with of the subject before himasuki Chins in his entire failure to appreciate the scope
which any one with proper data can verify. 1 What is the conclusion to be drawn from this Why this mon scire far est emeda.
$40 probably less prolific than most places in more chance of getting a golden harp up to the result of our investigations before the public, can be said for some of the brands that are this observation is well attested by reference to:
7.50
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE VARIOUS BRANDS IN STOCK ON APPLICATION.
BRANDY.
Per dos Per
Case.
A: Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
Capsule
$1,20
・・1440
30
:
M
Hayde's Dictionary of Dates article on
the H. & S. Bank is not a crush hat worked by full load or without ballast." Then he says machinery, nor a perforated air ball. He does not explain what perforated air la like, nor how a ball is made of it. He goes on to speak of heated air, and of his own imagination (query- Tax Dally. Press lunatic ban broken loose heated too?) He says "to the outward eye all agala. He has published some ravings this is a grand simplicity, like a great troopship morning in the form of a leader. He says ploughing its way through the water." Also, he "There modern pirates. Unlike their progenitors, who dollars on shares, which "leaves as comparative. ls something contemptible about these says Hongkong has suffered a less of ao million were want to spare neither age or sex, wholy unscathed. It is pleasing to learn he was calmly butchered a whole crew for the sake of unscathed-hidden safely in a sewer, likely. As the cargo Great suffering Moses the man on a big drank Daily Press coolle born but yesterday, that he Is the Namoa already forgotten? Was this
bas never heard of what occurred a short year ago? A pirate who can get what he wants without killing a whole crew a "contemptible" In the coolla's opinion. Well then, what adjec tive would apply to the coollo? What express ARE the Agents and Secretaries of the Union,
slon would it a man-no, a thing that cries North China, China Traders, Yangisse, China abaca pirates for not killing some more
out so for "ber-lud 1" Acrostore which indignantly Fire, Straits, and Singapore Insurance Com
The only adequate treatment for him-that panies under the thumb of Jardine, Matheson &is to say, for would be to imprison it for life Co? If not, why was not the advertisement with another animal as abominably and dis Announcing the Insurance hallday on Monday gustingly loathsome as itself. But it is impos next, Beat to the Hongkong Telegraph, the sible; there is not another newspaper in the Far East? Was It left by the THE other day Messrs. Shewan & Co., agents acknowledged most widely circulated English Agents and Secretaries to the tender mercies of in this colony for G. H. Mumm & Co.'s Jardine, Matheson & Co-or what? As we champagne, forwarded us a big bottle for our object to the princely house atilising other matured oplaton, a to its qualities. We liked people's money and interests, of which they are that champagne and could manage, to get along trustees, for the furtherance of their private with an almost unlimited quantlly at the same of Mr. Lay's argument than the way he mixed Nothing could mare clearly reveal the fallacy sims and personal prejudices to the detriment of taxi. It was 'extra sec, very pleasant to the up the first and second wars. the companies they represent, we intend palate, and in every respect evidenced a really To mistake a concomitant for a cause is a officials who are willing to spend their
thoroughly lavestigating this subject, and laying first-class wine, which is a good deal more than very serious blander in reasoning. The truth of own hard earned pittance (this is a D La Rose, Red Capsule ...... i
13.00 Joke] in the interests of the State; 7th June, the original date fixed being Whit and the Editor of the Telegraph last year, which reputed capital fudges of champagne, and they Opium; the Encyclopaedia Britannica article o
THE Legislative Council will meet os Torsday, the correspondence between Mr. J. J. Keswick in Hongkong. Our American cousins are
This question is by no means a new one, and largely consumed in, ultra-fashionable circles the following that this order, making heads Monday, and Bank Holiday-Business, Flaan we intend publishing in due course, wilt open MADEIRA, HOCK AND CHAMPAGNES. of departments personally liable for all cial Mirutes, Qasirs, Mr. E. R. Belllas
appear to have found G. H. Mumm's brew very China; Ridpath's History of the World" expenses not laid down in the estimates, Order of the day-Second teading of the Bill of the shady methods adopted by general agents the eyes of the Hongkong community to some
much to their Hiding. so much; so in fact, that McCarthy's History of our Own Times; practically forbids all such items. Thus, entitled An Ordinance to provide means for and general managers to further their own
from 1882 until 189t the import of this wine into Green's History of the English people; Thom typhoons are strictly prohibited, by order ascertaining the amounts to be paid by way of selfish aims.
the United States was far in excess of all rivals, son's "History of England: Dyer Ball's Bot, of the Governor, since they might involve compensation in respect of the Wharves and
totalling 648,817 cases, the next being Femmery "Things Chinese" McCulloch's "Dictionary of expenditure not provided for; all Govern- Plers along the line of the Praya Reclamation, IT la stacerely to be hoped for the credit of the our focal mobility and gentry requiring a good,
and Greno's, which totalled 528,141. Any of Geography Murray, Crawford, Captain Lynn, ment servants are forbidden to die this is the periods for the payment thereof and Post Office as well as for the conventence of the
And Burnett's contribution on "Chins." Slade's sound wine, cannot do better than give fair China Narrative, published at Macaoin 1840 year, as deaths would involve getting new
for other purposes in connection therewith public that yesterday's muddling in the delivery trial to G. H. Mumm's fall particulars of which in which all the edicts, proclamations, and men from England; thunderstorms are Ws are sorry to observe that the Daily Prat boary excuse about the mariag sorter missing & Co.
of the English mails will not be repeated. That can be obtained by applying to Messin, Shewan notices are given in satens-from it I see that warned not to come near the Colony, lest novel has got mixed again the wrong end
Elliot himself, who ought to know, something the mall steamer at Singapore has been trotted 1.75 they create new and unforeseen sources of coming first. The story, su le usual with the
about the matter, calls the traffic in Oplum an extravagance; Chinese.riots, such as were D.P. Yurur, in DO Worsa for it. It is not only 1d Faccepted as any excuse. Through Slaga." & "Qualified Medical Practitioners Bill," auch
out far too often-in fact, it ought not to be We note from our Sydney exchanges that the illicit one-the works quoted by your correspon threatened last year when the Sanitary to read some of the novel, and that is difficult pore about twice a year on these occasions as convulsed the Hongkong Council some years
detect
these little accidentsit is necessary first ment the marine sorter misses the mall at !
New South Wales Legislature is in the threes of last night and a good many others. 2.50 Board Interfered among the unhealthy enough in itself and after that, it regulics surely the telegraph cable ought to be utilised. ago when the late Dr. Fisher was boycotted by
Let us now see what the Chinese themselves coolle boarding-houses, or even ordinary word deal of patience and ingenuity to grasp It wouldn't cost very much to wire from Barradas, the profession and hounded out of the colony. The clocidations are to be found. But before going say on the subject. In the "Mitary Operations of the present. Dynasty (Shen Wa-ki) many criminality a little above the average, would what the thing is about, and to tell the head Singapore, to Posimaster, Hongkong, single authors of the bill have entered into crusade, into the subject matter of the book, let us first 0.75 cause extra expense in the police depart from the tall of it. But we have succeeded in word, say mlased," or "ynsorted, which would not only galast quacks, but also against certain see what the translator (Mr. Parker) says to the
them. "From Hghtning and, tempest, with solution for a fee of 25 cents.
doctors. They would prevent from
from preface. It runs: The author to Wei Yilan) s from plague, pestilence, and famine, from A MUD-HEADED Rong collared a man stealing notify through the breaches of
do, and prevent a cos.elderable amount of
of annoyance and battle and murdes, and from sudden death; some roots in Warchal yesterday and was take mesit would, of course, not be ready stil general character may be as high as that of any ordinary, falibflacas with which the Chiness
from the register of British colleges for departmental magistrate, at Kao: Yu, porth ays Good Lord deliver usno never mind the Ing him to the Police Court this morning, make about two hour (it used to be an hour and a man in the country. This proposal is absolutely endeavour to perfect their histories, and this
etiquete, but whose Yang Chows The paper illustrates .the Lord; Governor Rossox has so decreeding the culprit carry the valued beabs Arrived ball, fifteen years ago) alter arrival of steamer, Indefensible, and it involves persecution seems to have always been a national character that these things shall no longer threaten at the Victoria Barracks nallah the prisoner and when the steamer, was signalled he could of the worst kind. Should the Medical Bill be late. In the work of solving the riddles of 100 us: The Lord is no longer required in the trice the smart lukong, asking the man to the wretched delay yeater day the only reasonable clauses ought to be eliminated: -Ta'dealing with records, (il correctly transizied) are likely to be.
threw his burden into the brood below. Ins
state almost exactly the time of delivery. For brought up in the Assembly the persecuting and medieval blatory the Chinese walt's minute. way into the anish toʻrecover the only tangible evidence of the crime which be à But the coolie for some reason didn't inefficiency in tackling even a paltry diffealty,
excuse that can be put forward is departmental the measure, the Australian Star thisk the found as faithful as any,
House should have regard to the pablle le crest mistaken
there may te wait to be made a fool or gol-bird of Not 17 is now about twelve nizonths since the atten! caprices, much less the bigotry and intolerance, The Marchu annals Introdure the History of
only. It has nothing to do with the whiusa and Thun prepared leto mach-be "skipped like a deer, has not since son of Mit: Wodehouse was devoted for severa of section of the Medical Association or any the English Opium War with
Cross the threshold. bere and, to like, Wanted access hours to searching investigation into the other body, and therefore should set play the early to the simmer of 1810 the Director of the Da statement. That Chinese ronstabl- one versed in the rudiments coal bunkers of a German coasting steamer, of entire community and the liberty of the subject represented in a memorial to the throns that the
some time, to erme, Wanted--A decent circumstances attending the arrival here, in the game of those gentlemen. of police duty preferred. Apply, slating salary four Annamite young women who were the would not be better guarded, even in an growing.consumption of forelga Opium was at Welfare of the Court of State Ceremonial, Hwang Teich Tas expected and the I mit of daily "squeeze," to our alleged wives of two of the steamer's firemen ininitesimal degree, by depriving daly qualified the root of all China's troubles Opium, Goat, fik dan
On that occasion his Worship found a convic physicians of their status for the offence of he said came from England; but, though those tion for ddaapping, punished the man severely having advertised their business address. We foreigners were ready enough to weaken China, and caused the young women to be sent back to hope to hear shortly that this iniquilous bill has and absorb her wealth by entouraging its end, Haiphong, whence they balled. To lay a fresh been thrown out by the New South Wales so severaly they forbid case, on il fours with the previous one, came to Legislature, for there can be no doubt to themselves that effending ships were sons by light when the Water Police unearthed two the uselessness and offensiveness of the measure heary guns (page) Annamese girls, of about 16 years of age, in the In Hongkong the Official Phalanx Jammed Though this is a little confusing, there is no coal bankers of the German steamship Chusan very similar and utterly needless measure down doubt at all to my mind that the writer knew in spo ber
arrival here from Haiphong. The the throats of the rate-payers representatives, some way what he was writing about, org women say they were sold to one of the Churan's but in respect to the self-governing colonies we firemen by their parents for $10 each, and they have reason to hope that the people's represata maderstood they would thereby becoms his tives will protest; against such absand later second and third when, which they were willing ference with public liberty as indicated to do; but they had no idea of being sold again in the Medical, Hill, in no uncertain menger"
Hongkong, or any where clape That they Both as regards doctors and lawyers the public came with the Hoult, and it is equally well known that such their interests to whoever they please quit young women, which washed, painted up and irrespective of diplomas, liceress gudly attired realise from three to four hundred the bar. Impestors snieg, titles dallari in Canton and Shanghai, the bargain belong to them should be tuni Port Dargin
monty Buinpald, rale, in Hongkong-in * should be so, restriction in sho British colge under the age of the British medical attendant or a person to Salmon, and good old flag of freedom. The two la courte Cocaat empien if the Shan bel
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Capsule
15
Red Capsule
CVery Old Liqueur Cognac,
..... 20
D Hennessy's Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vintage, Red Capsule 30
SCOTCH WHISKY,
A Thoma's Blend, White Cap
sule re B-Watsha's Glenorchy, Mellow
fr
-Biens, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark...
C. Watson's Abetour-Glenlivet,
Red Capsule, with Name
and Trade Mark
8
D. Watson's H K. D-Blend
of
the Finest cotch Malt
Whiskies, Violet Capsule 10
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur
Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule, NCAA
IRISH WHISKY.
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsule
20
B John Jameson's Fine Old,
Green Capsule
C. John Jameson's Vo
Fine
Old, Green Capsule 12 Genuine Bourbon Whisky, fine
old, Red Capsule, with - Name skania 130
GIN.
A Fise Old Tom, White Cap-
0.75
MO
0.75
1,00
nest, and Berufore this order abolishes & guessing the pazile, and will supply anybody I give the local garters, noice of what
they had to Alliedical
men whose names have been Chinose who held about 40 yerri ags the p
***
for
10-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS,
Colonial Service of Hongkong... ***Of course, If a question is put to the Government as to this guilelessly innocent folly, the answer will be either a refusal of information, or a denial point-blank, based on some petty quibble, "No order 1.00 has been Issued in the terms stated
would be no answer, because we do not 1.10 profess to give the exact terms, for reasonì giver above; nor do we even know as a fact that the thing is called an order, or an instruction; or a circular, in Colonial Service lingo. What we do
Inwaid. know is that in consequence of some Haiphong teamer, from Moji, 50_450 040 communication from the Colonial Secre- Ping, ny Fine Unsweetence, White
Caston, 430 – 640 | tary's office, an impression exists in the Mertoo C-Fine A. YH. Gelert me pas
Canton. minds of some Government servants that
Triumph ......
Hollow, RUM.
any extra disbursements beyond those
Chuzaffe
Haiphong foreseen by the far-seeing [this is another Paimas
Fokien muurar joke] MITCHELL-INNES, will have to come
Kobe out of the pockets of the officers themselves.
Aggregating 5,359 tons, register. A question as to whether the Government
Outward, knows of any foundation for such an Piccoldstermer, for Hollo impression would, we think, meet the case Giantatloch inn the reply would probably be in the negative Benalder somma in any case. Then further question to Namoa whether the Government would guarantee Kong Bing mod
Fu Plag juled, would not be thrown on the Bangloss that any extraordinary expense, reasonably CARRIN officer incurring it, would surely have to Cheyang be Enswered in the afirmativa and there'. Mufoo this insane device would drop-dead;
Finest Old Jamaica, Violet- bana Capsule, mir: 2.8 100 Ag Good Leeward Island...$1.50 per Gallon LIQUEURS,
Benedictine Maraschino
* Curacón Hoering's Cherry Cordial
Chartreuse Dr. Slegat's Angostur
Prices on "APPLICATION,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
ZUR ZSTARLIKEIT, "A‚D.) Hongkong, 4th February, 1897,
Shangbal,
Stana, register,
words, as the Post-
sunk
Lin called upon the Hong merchant Ng I Wo (Hou-que) to deliver up Chatun (Jardine) and Tindi (Dent), who had been for many years dealing in Oplum Chatum having got wind of this bad slieady made his escape, but Titl
the Canton Foreign He then ordered the suncader of all the Opfum on board Ling Ting a free pardon &c. &c.
of the 6th if the arch
bought an spec there can be but litla, 'pught to have a right to entrust themselves and 1 (Elliot) from Mac Company's Costul ot
ฟ
do not
girle kave, wo understand, bran handed over to should govern this branch of protected trade, and The tender mercies of the Fo Laung Kuk. i The, it may do so universally much sooner than *men are awaiting trial
anticipated.
since the Opians cillating in vo thris tank with dignity
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