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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1892.

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READY. Woosung from Chinking on the roth inst.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French corvette Villars returned to

NOW

[PUBLISHED EV AUTHORITY.]

"THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND

HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST"

FOR 1892.

THE run on the Chartered Mercantile Bank seems to have died a natural death, without doing much harm...

A EUROPEAN Bas' RIrived at Swatow to superin tend wrecking operations on the sunken steamers Yunnan and Tongikan.

Ma. J. A. Loonard, U.S.-Consul-General, will succood M. Wagner, Consul General for France, TH HIS Valuable Work, with many NEWs deyen of the Consular Body In Shanghai,

ADDITIONS and IMPROVEMENTS, Tax damage caused by the recent fire at Ipoh In Perak is estimated at from $100,000. The total number of houses destroyed is said to be 153.

IS NOW, READY.

PRICE THREE DOLLARS,

Orders for Coples of THE "HONGKONG DIRECTORY" may be sent to the following Agents -

HONGKONG...Mr. W. Brewer."

...Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co.

Mess. Heuermann, Herbst & Co. ...Messrs. Kelly & Wäinh, Limited. .....Mesms, Lané, Crawford & Co.

...The Hongkong Trading Co., Ltd. ...Man Ya Tong, Hollywood Road. MACAO.........Messrs. A.'A. do Mello & Co. AMOY and

FORMOSA... Mess, N. Molle & Co., Ld.

Foocrow...Mr. H. W. Churchill.

SHANGHAI Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited,

Shanghai

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Mesra, Kelly & Walsh, Limited BANGKOK The #Stam Free Frem" Office. JAPAN ................

Yokohama.

PARIS and Messrs. Amédée Prince & Co.. SINGAPORE...Messrs. Sayle & Co., Limited

LONDON

or to

H.M.S. Archer was under orders to leave Han- kow for Shanghai on the roth lust. After a stay of a few days in the Model Selement the will proceed to Japan. -

THE "Ben" liner Beniswert, tea-laden from Hankow for Loudon, after taking in cols at Woosung, passed out of the Yangtze homewand

bound on the roth inst.

Ar a special meeting of the Legislative Council at noon to-day the sum of 10,000 rupees was voted in aid of the sufferers by the recent cyclene at Mauritius. Fall report in another column,

By latest advices from the Yangtze, H.M.S. Archer, the U.S.S. Monacacy, and the Russian cruiser Mandjour were at Hankow, the U.S.S. Petral at Wahu, and the Pigmy at Chinklang.

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THE Spanlah mall steemer Salvadora arrived at Stugapore from Mantis on the morning of the 6th Inst., with her engines broken down, which will necessitate her being docked at Tanjong

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We note that Mr. C. V. Creagh, at one time Deputy Superintendent of the Hongkong Police, and latterly Governor of British North Borneo, has been called to the bar by the Benchers of the Middle Temple.

"An Open Letter" to the Directors of the Bink of Chios, Japan and the Straits, Ld, is unavold. ably held over owing to the unusual demands

an our news columas..

We learn that the run on the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank in Bombay extended to Calcutta, and that a sum of twenty lakhs of ropees was withdrawn from these two branches.

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that H.M.S. Linnet will go on to Ichang and A SHANGHAI peper saya it is.no!, Improbable, remain there while the water is high, being subsequently relieved by H.M.S. Eik. which f now being overhauled in Tangkadno Dock,

thorough overhant by the Dock Company, alled THE British bark Ponshaw, after undergoing a for Manila yesterday under command of fapt, T...Woods who carried as mate Mr. C. J. Mattock, the late chief officer of the leporaded

| steamer Zambest.

Ar a levee held at St. James's Palace on May 12th by the Duke of Connaught on behalf of the Queen, about 460 presentations were made, including Mr. Norman G. Mitchell-Innes on his appointment as Colonial Secretary of Hongkong. This is the person who attempted with a high hand to reconstruct the Opium Farm at a cost to the colony of several, bundred thousand dollar.

A SWATOW correspondent writes yesterday "Butterfield & Swire's steamer Hupah takes away from here 40,000 plenis of bean-cake for Java, altogether a new trade, and this is the bird or fourth large shipment they have sent within a month. There cannot be the least doubt that 'Tosh's' firm is a very long way ahead of all its trade rivals so far an enterprise

is concerned."

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Inst. that for some days previously the tea-men We learn from Foochow under date the roth had been busily engaged buying teng, although SP to that time there was so steamer on the berth. It was, however, reported that the Ocean Co.'s Nestor would be in part on the arth, and would be first steamer away. Between the 11th and 18th the steamers Pingsury, Benledi, and Gianfalloch are expected.

FROM Ichang, says the N. C. Daily News, we hear that the claims for foreign property destroyed In the late riot have been finally sent to Peking. Mr. Consul Fraser left for his post at Chungklug on the 3rd inst., and the day previously Dr. Cameron of the C.L.M. started to walk, with one attendant, from Ichang to Chungking. The river was rising rapidly. No Dragon Festival was allowed in Ichang this year; one boat started, but it was caught and its occupants punished.

Tax steimer Glengyle passed Chinklang on the | THE N. C. Dally News of the ristlust, says :— 7th inst., bound to Hankow with cotton-mill The Chungking reports `passing, two steainers machinery, bollers, etc., for Viceroy Chang Chih-between Alceste and Kyning) one was apparently tung's new enterprise. After dlicherging, the disabled and the other was standing by. These Glangyle will load tes for Landon, if any is plices are a little to the north of the Shantung "available="

Promontory, and the vessels referred to were probably the Satsuma Haru and the Harting.

THE 1897 TEA SEASON. Up to the 7th May the steamers that had left

Hankow for London direct weYO *=* Moyune passed Woosung 30th altimo. Priam passed Woosung gtk May," latter at 2.10 per ton of 40 cubic feet.

Both fully laden, the former at £4 and the Banlawers passed Woosung gth May, fally laden at 63.5 per too.

FOR NEW YORK.

by the Prometheus and Glenshiel

Hankow sailed 8th May and will be followed

SUPREME COURT,

THE Imperial Russian Conmal in Hongkong would confer a great favour on the inhabitants of this colony if he would gently but firmly re- monstrate with the officer in charge of the Villas. most crowded part of the shipping in harbour who began firing kls biggest guna right in the this morning, Instead of waiting till he got to the eastern part, as all men-of-war usually do. If there gallaut Russian sallors had any sense, their two ships would have come in

sofficed, and there would have been less cursing company, as they have travelled all the way from Cronstadt together; thus one salute would have about the aumitigated nuisance they are. They seem to forget that there is a colony of people near them, and that there are houses, with

FOR AUSTRALIA,V windows of glass; and that probable there are Minmuir is expected to be the first to anive in The E. and A. Ca' well known liner some perple lying in bed sick, and seeking peace Sydney with new season's Foochow congou teas, A DENTIST named J. Bertram Mosely, who was

|| at a comparatively early date.. recently involved in a romewhat sensational bankruptcy case, sent a ballet through his left breast at the Hotel de la Paix, Singapore, on the Afternoon of the 6th Inst., indicting Injuries that are almost certain to prove fatal. It will he remembered that during his examination in bankruptcy before Mr. Justice Goldner, Mosely offered to pay 40 per cent of his total liabilities; but although nearly all the creditors were willing. to accept thla offer, the Judge declined to sane. to it, and ordered the bankrupt to get to work und he could offer 60 per cent, when bla application for discharge would be considered. Poor Moseley did go to work with a will, but there did not happen at the time to be any great demand for a dentist's services and instead of piling up the required shekels to provide Shy, we mean Judge Goldney, with his shixty-per shent, he went deeper into the mire. And secing a hopeless prospect before him, he tried his heart. Owing to his hand shaking at the to drop the curtain by sending = bullet throuch final Instent, the messenger of death mlased the heart, but as it went through his langs he is doubtless at rest long before now.

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IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Bajors Mr. H. E. Pollock, Acting Puisne Fudgs.)

June 14th.

THE "DISAPPEARING ACT."

A number of small actions against Mr. Emila Aerts were heard to-day. The Hongkong Trading Company had obtained a writ of foreign attachment on sundry curlos and other goods, supposed to be bit propesty, their claim being about $300. Other creditors were Messrs. W. W. Brewer, Lane, Crawford & Co, and others.

Some difficulty was found in proving the people had beard that he came from Canton on defendant's departure from the Colony.

Several the morning of Sunday, 5th June, and left by the German mail steamer Bayern, homeward bound, the same day; but nobody could be found who actually saw him off. He was not the sort of man to have a deputation of citizens giving him "God

speed."

prove that the property sefied had belonged to A further difficulty srosa in the attempt to

Mr. Aerts.

Ultimately the case was adjourned call

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

IT is now just three months since Chief Excise Officer Spooner and twenty of the Oplum Brigade, while on a searching expedition amongst the hardy stone-cutters of Sin Sam, In Bride Kowison, were so severaly peked with beat a hasty retreat and take to their boats. But Thursday next. .· ́ traks, crow-bass, drills, ete, that they had to they made up their minds that they'd have the stone-cutters in the sweet by-and-by and did so yesterday in the following manner :-Approach lag the stronghold of the Philistines three Excles Officers hid themselves behind huge fumps of granite and waited until the men, about 200 neighbouring valley. Then they swooped down in number, sallied forth to their day's work in on the chief ganger's thanty and there seized few tacis of prepared opium together with a A MARINE COURT of Inquiry was opened at number of bolling-down pans and the bosse's Singapore on the 7th inst. to inquire into the missus, all of which they spirited off in circumstances connected with the collision betwinkling and produced the whole lot at the tween the steamers Dlavsendandi ret inst. The Court was composed of Mr, C. W. lady with a Afty-dollar ane to pay. She seat bow, Singapore, an the secuted for the Opium Farm and landed the old Kranerley (Senior Magistrate) President; over to the Stone-cutters' citadel for the shekels, kittel Humphries, Rutical, and Captains durance the anxiously awaiting the trival of Nichollsand another, Joaquim and Nanson appeared for the Diamond, bar dearly beloved. and. Mr.. Napler-for-the Camelot.---Captain- Thomas of the Camelot gave evidence fint, and the mall he inquiry was proceeding when the

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held at noon to-day. There were present:-H. E T. M. O'Brien (Colonial Secretary); Mr. W Sir W. Robinson, K.C.M.G., Governor ; Mr. G. M. Goodman (Attorney-General); Mr. F. A. Cooper (Director of Public Works) Mr. H. Stewart-Lockhart (Registrar-General); Mr. F. H. May (Acting Colonial Treasurer) Comr. R. Murray Rumaty (Harbour Master); Messis. T.

Ho Kal.

vė MINUTES.. and confirmed.

The minutes of the last meeting were read

A CORRESPONDENT at Waneb writes that the occurred in the New Hamelot, which Police Court this morning. Mr. Spooner pro- H. Whitehend, C. P, Chater, E. R. Bollilas, and

the Editor dose not in any way haid Himsalf respons for Kinkel Hafen, one of the Wusleb magletrates, has posted up in bis prefecture a proclamation detected against the malefactors who have been doing their best to reports about the dologs of foreigners and Christiane

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BIRTH.

On the 8th May, at 30, Wemyss-road, Black heath, the wife of C. F. HoGo, of the China Inland Mission, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

On the 8th June, at the Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, M.A., the Rev. E. P. HEARNDEN, of Ch's Chevy, son of Frederick William Hearnden, Esq., of Notting Hill, Leados, to KATIE ROBINA BRUNTON, daughter of the late Robert Brunton, Esq., of Kaldiel, Feetles, Perth,

The Hongkong Celegraph.

HONDLONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1893,

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after an estate at Muar for Mr. Mackay, came On Sunday evening he vomited blood and died the next morning at half-past 3 o'clock; seven hours later he was buried. The deceased leaves

a wife and five children at Muar,

Oun Shanghat contemporary the Mercury gives the following the Hankow Tea Statistics up to June 6th, with the figures for corresponding number of days from the opening of last season, viz., 32 days!

HAKNOW THA

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THE comprador of Messrs. Kelly and Walsh. Limited, in Shanghai, bau lapsed from virtus and Settlements.359,950 þ«Charts, 434,918 |--Chetti, the paths of goodness and truth. On the oth inst

Ship to Shraghai an Natire account....... It was discovered that bli little account had not

Stock. been audited properly and that a deficiency Aurtenis... estiranted at five figures existed. The gentleman is believed to have been speculating in Banks- Chinese Banks-and his early appearance before that worthy Celestial magistrate, Mr. Teal, at the Mixed Court, is confidently predicted.

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THE STORM IN MAURITIUS.

His Excellency-Gentlemen, I am very sorry Massus. David and William Henderson and again so soon after the adjournment, so unex to have been obliged to summon you to meet here Co, recently launched from their yard at Partick pectedly and in such a hurried manner 1 but I a steel screw steamer, built to the order of think, on the principle is dat g Messrs. Apcar and. Co., of Calcutta, for their will think 1. àm justified in doing in calling.

clio dat, you gut

so when you

Hongkong. The principal dimensions are: cargo and passenger service between India and Length, 340 ft.; breadth moulded, 39 ft. 9 in.; did not think it advisable to show in tangible

hear what I have to say. My depth moulded, 37 ft. 9 in.; gross tonnage, about form our sympathy with Mauritius in the very you here this morning was to ask whether you 2,850 tons. The accommodation for first-class dire infortune which has overtaken that colony. passengers is aft, in the poop, and In The bon, member who represents the Chamber A deck-hours in continuation al same. of Commerce sent me some papers a few The dining saloon, is at the fore end of the ago from which it appears that the destruction days fatter, The state rooms are aft of the dining of property and loss of life must have bean saloos. On the poop deck, is the saloon com something too terrible to contemplate. I think panion house and smoking room. A complete that this Colony, although its finances are not instalation of electric light on the double wire to a very flourishing condition, might mark its system by the Woodside Electric Company le sense of this great calamity by voting some sum fitted throughout the vessel. The second-class in relief of those in distress. The senior un accommodation is under the bridge. The pro- official member at my suggestion very kindly pelling machinery has been constructed by the called a meeting of thefanofficials the other day builders' firm, and consists of a set of triple- and I believe they are fully in accord with me THE usefulness of foundling houses established in China by foreign missionaries is generally,

expansion esgines, with cylinders as in, 40 l, that it would be a very proper and appropriate and 66 in, in diameter by: 48 in. stroke. The thing for the Colony of Hongkong, as one of the acknowledged even by anti-foreign Chinese; but the same number of days last year is as under-inch. The vessel was named Catherine Apcar, are now homeless and starving. I would be

The entire business to date as compared with bollers are two in number and are double-ended, Eastern Crown Colonies, to show its the utility of the missionaries themselves is quite

with a working pressure of 160lb, per square by voting

sympathy Bum of money towards those who another thing. Asevidence of this, a'Chinese paper,

Ling-nam-yal pas, states that the Viceroy For Landan & American... $14,000-Chest: 41,000-CM8828. WHEELOCK & Co.'s freight market move that 10,000 rupees be devoted for this greatly obliged. If the Colonial Secretary would ang Chiak-tung has given orders to establish foundling houies under nativo anysices through-

purpose, and that the Telegraph Company be out all the districts of the two Hy provinces, so as

asked to give us the use of their lines för nothing, to leave no field of operations. In this direction

and to send a message something to the for the missionaries. Our contemporary saya

following effect c It is desirable for other provinces to follow this example.

the

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has asked 4 which aty evening he had su apoplecie wytem-year-old son in the dock, exclaimeß | medt:and ratou have doctaw ceking employ free of charge for the telegraphic advice. ZA

at Mauritius.

THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTSHIP. While Mr. Blaine's party in the United States

remalas silent as to whether he intends to stand 0.75for the Presidentship.

ended

is pushing his candidacy. Mr. Blaine himineli | Menatuir got slightly fate beuble in Shanghai prisoner's brother, after which the thout titulo cargo to fill up the same remarky bind the Empire together, (Hear, 1

report, dated Shanghal, roh June, 1892, runs as follows: Since the issue of our last circalar, our freight market has been somewhat more brisk, Ir fs but seldom that one bears of a men

and steamers on the London berth have obtained entering the Hall of Justice with the set purpose for tonnage, but present quotations rather laterfere Mauritius fu Its misfortune; draw on this fair cargoes. For New York there are enquiries Hongkong is deeply in sympathy with of prosecuting a brother in the hope of haring with business Coastwise Demand continues Government ten thousand him taprisoned or fined, and it is much clack, and we have heard of no settlements. A plaque

...rupeca.". CAPT. T. GEMMERICH, of the five-masted sailing. more rare occurrence when an aged father Wahu to Whampoa-Rates rematu fimm at 14 ship Maria Rickmers, died at Singapore ca appears

The Colonial Secretary-Sir, I have very before

British tribunal and cand. per pleal, but enquiry has fallen off's little great pleasure in moving this resoluilon-that a Sunday the sth fast, after few hours' lines his own son, and has him aent to prison for cleared In that direction. Nagunki to Shanghal will produce ten thousand rupees in Mauritius enters the witness-box, gives evidence against owing to the number of large steamers that have vote be taken for such an amount, in dollars, as The Maris Rickmers arrived on Thursday, the and instant with a cage of coals, having made several months.

But sa it was this morning-We have heard of necharters, but offers for a towards the relief of those in distress there, and the passage from Cardiff in seventy-nine days, in the Police Court hen Feng Po-ters, saller have been made during the past few days that the Telegraph Company be asked to place Capt. Generich was rather wall on arrival portrait painter of Wellington Street, bowedthout bading to business there is not so much their wires at the disposal of this Government

om Baiurday

Mr. Wodehouse and, pointing to his inclination to take up vessels the next morning. Do

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consequence. consed was there of the Rickmers fest.

Mr. Chator Sir, I have much pleasure in * There is the thief My sout Mr son " And For London, is Suer Canal, four steamers, viss seconding the Colonial Secretary's mellen, that Parliament for a loan of six hundred thousand and it was at the special request of the Wars after a good deat of fats, swore that the prisoner are on the berth and advertised to leave during wards the seller tung pre has been stirred by the old man wept copiously, and finally, Glenfaliach Benledi, Pingaudy and Diomad sum of 10,000 R be voted for Mauriting, tos pounds sterling on account of the recent disaster that he took the troy coments of short time and embersied a letter containing nine dollars, the text week-locally there is not much carge whole of the British Empire here Join in the

B Rickmers for this voyage only. A

ago he celebrated his stolles as, Master in the which he had sent a younger son to post offering, but with assistance from the outperts this awful calamity, and we here join in the Rickmers service.

for him. He greatly feared the youth they should do fairly well. Rates of freight sympathy which is felt by all. I feel certain, was inconigible and that was why he remala: unchanged. Vor New York oia Sir, that there is nobody in Hongkong, whether had him arrested like a common falon. Cor. Sees Canal-The steamer Hankot salted British or of any other race, who does not THE E. & A. Co.'s well-known steamship roborative evidence was given by the 8th Insts having more than filled her heartily approve of this measure, the object of river during the afternoon of the roth inst, by sent the culprit to prison for six months,

Allotted

space, and the Prometheus circulated which is to relieve a sister colony in dire distress, coming into collision with some cargo boats off the option of a fine. The youth received the

for despatch about 23rd Inst., requires but and thereby to further cement the ties which the Japanese Consulate. The steamer, proceed sentence, with an air of stolla indifference and apply to the Glanskfil due from Japan about the Mr. Whitehead Sir, I rise to heartily concer log from the Arsenal to the Old Ningpo Wharf, did not e

teven hid his sorrowing father nålen. ray into and sank a small Chinese cargo-boat,

same time. From Hankow to London. The in and support every word that has been said by steamship Moyune passed Woowong homeward your Excellency and the senior (unofficial and cut into a cargo-bost belonging to Mr.

bound George McBain, which only escaped sinking in the question of the Hongkong and Shanghal ship Priam sth inst, both felly lades, the former this tangible evidence of our sympathy with the ulio, and was followed by the steam member.1 think we are fully justified in giving 30th deep water by being run ishers. The cargo: In Bank's losses owing to the sudden departure of this latter boat la mated to have consisted of the late Compradore, the London and China The steamship Bestowers salled from Hankew followed by great loss of life and much suffering 4 per ton, and the latter at Sos, per ton, Mister colony of Mauritius in the foarini disaster, 11302 packages of sex, psp and other merchane Entrar of May 13th says: These losses 7th inst, and should have passed out yesterday caused by and also great FRANCO SPANISH TRADE

suffered no damage and the large cargo boat compradore, which according to telegram of same day with full cargo at 455. per ton. The

(Rear, hear.) MADRID, May 25th, can easily be repaired.

5th last received by the London office are steamship Gingris has proceeded to Hankow express my hearty concurrence with the pro

Excellency, I beg to The modus vivendi with. Franca wASƑ COOL/

estimated at the extreme of one million two to discharge ber inward

and is circulated posal before the Council, I think that not only ward cargo sas so firmed to-day The French caleimum tarif willH.M.S. Alacrity, with Admiral Tremantle on 22 tod, to 2170,000 (re, qual eat exchange of to lead a current rates Departure for every bon; member of this Council, bet I am

hundred

(oue hundred and saventy.

steamship: Brandiet and Jewellers.

Yangize on the roth inst. It is reported by the first estimate. This is, we believe the outside idem, termal Canton 7th insty team. Ingly with the inhabitants of Mauritius cu 29th citizen in this Colony must feel most sympathis Shanghat Mercury that the Admiral, when at figure, and it la possible that from this chip Nettor gth Inst. Departure for New Account of the recent disaster, and were it Hankow, taught Chang Chih-tung lesson in something will have to be deducted as the sum Yorke steamship Hanke ola Amoy on the possible I am sure every one in the

and cikquette which the loctoy of the recovered from the late compradore's suretics 8th last. Quotations are Shanghal to London,

Colony Buchner will not forget for some dee to come, and friends, to which, at the present moment, as 5554 per fon for general cargoes for tee her own packets and embacribe toward Bassy y.com afford it, put their hands in wonkil they appears that cur excellent friend Chang has act, Talue can be attached Allowing, how and through from Hankow Shanghal land this might be started in this Colony thought it quits good enough to return the ever, that it is the whole sum, the reserve fund to New York for test and general cate endal calls of foreign Admirals by sending will be reduced to the still respectable sum of Naganad to Shanghal $1,70% for rents, and

So towards the relief of the Inkabitants of Mauritius some tenth-rata depay on board to represent Sky lakhs of dollach, Share speculations the valle NOWGRWADE to Amaz 19.

fortunately this Colony is passing through alay @ Admin Fremantle, heling of hair, courfinancial grave of so many

"iskecial@danressing, and what Excepty when Le have caused Lo Hok pang, the late com tous intimated to his i

las below and certain, what they called at his yamên, that he expected the cors to come to grilat: It is worth remembering that to

adare," Newel le Canton

At all events, I think this plintent to be returned in person. And the when in admitted lood of twelve the miests and dipintisatie Viceroy wek the hiet, and telegraphed to the London price, the defalsations Accordingly appealand on bouch the Alacrity the ware matted in Hongkong. At only on Avi is

min hundred thousand Guaira Funny lot!

Green Capsulesmigiu 10 John Jameson's Very Fine

Old, Green Capsule... 13.

Genuine Bourbon Whisky, fine-

old, Red Capsule, with Name ...............

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LIQUEURS.

Benedictine Maraschino

Curacos Heering's Cherry Cordial Chartreusa Dr. Siegert's Angosturn

Bittern- &c.

PRICES ON AFFLICATION,

dise, which were. apollt. The Mermuir

Mfr hays been caused by the defalcations of the evening baring cleared Chlakang tany The De Ho, Kalh-Your ERO

be of great benefit to the Spanish wine expórtáry/|| board, returned të Shanghal? from a trip up the thousand pounds), or Fico,000, more than o London thermally do adriaAmoy: 'stro every!Beftfch'subject' and every. Chine

FRANCO-SPANISH COMMERCIAL

TREATY.

Jane Beh To-day the Spanish Commission, charged with the negotiation of a commercial treaty with Joga „France, leaves for PPAR, UN

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD! A

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

*HULUUN ESTABLISHED Å‚D. 1843, Hongkong, 4th Fahenney)/z8ga)

*THE SPANISH NAVY??

Tas project for issuing naval

will become law duilas this month.

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f 10,000 rupees will be approved of br lokahitants of this colony without diss

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