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Wx regret the accessity to loave over until to morrow a few pertinent remarks on the Pa Leong Kak.
AN Emergency Convocation. of St. Andrew's masons Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the Chapter, No, arß, S.C., will be held in Free 18th Instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting Companions are cordially invited,
A COMPETITIVE Examination for two vacancies in the Canton Pilotage body will be held at the Harbour Master's Office, Canton, at 11 am, on advertisement published in another colume. On her last trip to San Francires the Pacific Mail Co.'s steamer City of Peking had one of the largest shipments of prepared opium that ever entered that port. There ware 296 cars containing 11,840 lbs, valued at $135,800, and THE steamship Torrington, under command of the customs duties amounted to $142,000. Cant. Young (late master of the l-fated steamer Joker-What's this? the Government intends Tongshan) aalled for japan yesterday. As she to let the people have a full supply of water for passed through the harbour she was scarcely nothing during the summer months.
Sosklo-Bah. that's nuthin'! Anybody cand la "Ewa" even to the farleg red funnel, and "recognisable - being painted from stem to stern get water for nuthin' at the Hongkong Hotel by firing the colours of the "princely house" at the paying for his whisky.
malo. Sho is now in At condition and should soon give a good sccount of herself.
MR. KING, the ubiquitous land-ballift, had Magistrate this morning and thereby succeeded another batch of defaulting squatters before the fa raking in upwards of fifty shcicals to the depleted official money box. That the squatters have some grievances there can be no doubt and we shall avall ourselves of an early opportunity to investigate, and report pre done. Subscribers to The Honghong Tulumaki are respectfully a really good pen is a perfect boon. We have To the man who has a lot of writing work to do enough scribbling to get through every day that It is no wonder our-arstwhile hyacinthine locks are beginning to look the worse for wear, and elegyxph. tous lads of peas we have tried are almost beyond number. The best we have yet come across was sent along to-day by Mr. Walter Brewer, of the Hongkong Hotel Buliding, and it is styled "The Pen of Honour," Gitting title for a perfect pet. It is an angular pointed "" recommend this first-class article to all pro- recommend most write by Itself, We confidently fcasionals,
The Honghong Telegraph.
HONGKONG, WEDEESDAY, JUNE 15, 1892.
TELEGRAMS
THE UNITED STATES ELECTION.
LONDON, June 13th..
Republican party on the first ballot.
THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK. Formal application Eas been made for the winding up of the New Oriental Bank Corpore tion, Limited.
THE eleventh annual report of the Canadian Padic Hellway Company is regarded by the President Harrison has been nominated for the shareholders as being most comprehensive and eminently satisfactory. A synopsis, embracing Its principal points, was published in Vancouver on the 27th ulto. At the shareholders' meeting, in the election of officers, Mr. W. C. Van Horne part of the report, of locat interest, is as follows: was re-elected president. The most important "The steamship line to China and Japan was not fully established until after midsummer, but although worked at a disadvantage, until the fast steamship was in service, the results hare the steamships baring cleared their working been as satisfactory as could well be expected,
taking into account the value of the business experson and the Interest on their cost, without contributed to the wallway itsel£*
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Paris Lanterns anys that England and in affairs at Morocco to enforce allence at the Germany bad arranged in case Spain Interiered mouth of the cannon.
AN Emergency meeting of Victoria Lodge, No.THE Tientsia conespondent of the Shanghat 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Letland Mercury writes on the 7th inst.:-At last a Street, on Thursday, the and instant, at 8.go for familiar sight, which had almost become a gp.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially landmark in the Pelho, has left us, but not invited,
without great reluctance:-The formidable Palos left us last Friday, but took it into her obstinate head to stick for two days in the Arsenal Bend, with two tug-boats fastlly tugglag away at her She is on her way down the river now, but bad not crossed the bar up to the time of writings In fact I don't think she will be able to cross before spring tides. The Marion is outside the bar now waiting to tow the old mitletrap down to Shanghat. Afor the latest sensation, Tong King-sing's birthday, nothing startling has happened, and I believe the farmers have reason
SINOR DON DELAVAT, Minister to Tokyo for Spain, and Monsieur de Lanesian. Governor General of Cochin China, accompanied by their 1.25 wives, left here for Japan to-day by the French
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mall steamer Orus,
DR. EDWARD BIDLOR, the popular Canval for 1.50 the United States at Amoy, who has been absent on leave for the past few months, is expected in Hongkong from Japan, en route to Amey, by the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Verona. THREE hundred 'abekels was the amount of Wang Akin's contribution to Her · Majesty's Treasury this morning for belog caught by Excise Officers in possession of one hundred taels of prepared oplum without a certificate .ro from the Opfam Farmer. Six months" "hard"
was the alternative, --
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SUPREME COURT.
THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE OLD, mollettors at the Sacreme Court this morning, on There was a full attendance of barristers and the occasion of the first appearance of Mr. His Lordship took, bis sest on the bench, all Fielding Clarice as Chlef Justico.. As soon present rose.
said: May It please your Lordship, as this is The Attorney General (Hon. W. M. Goodman)
takon a seat on the banch of this Court since your the first occasion on which your Lordship has appointment as Chief Justice of this Colony. I beg our hearty congratulations to your Lordship on on behalf of the members of the bar to extend the appointment. When the news of Colony felt that lu him it had lost an upright resignation of Sie James Restell came, the judge, one who was kind and courteous ever to all who came before him. More than that, many of us felt that we had lost a kind, genial, sad pleasant friend, and given to hospitality, regardless of himself, and thinking mack more of others than of himself. Since Her Majesty has appointed your Lordship in his place it must be deeply satisfactory to you to feel that the Colony considers that appointment to have been mande. It must be a source of satisfaction to the very best that could possibly have been your Lordship to feel that the members of the legal profession, endorse most cordially that appointment; they feel that you are simply had given to you what you had a Lordship continues on this bench-as we hope right to. If no alteration is necessary, and your
able and upright manner in which your Lordship you will for many years to preside in the same has always done, then the Colony will be able these very few words I have to say, my Lord, that to boast of a very efficient Chief Justice. With once again on behalf of the legal profession I congratulate you on your appointment,
beg
His Lordship-Mr. Afiorney General, gentle men of the bar, and gentlemen practising in this Court, I thank you all very sfacerely for your exceedingly kind words of congratulation, As regards the learned Attorney General's remarks about myself, I can only accept them as the expression of your good will, and as such I store you I most heartily thank
you, and most earnestly to reciprocate every expression of good will which has fallen from the learned Attorney General. As regards my fate colleague, of course I feel and you will all feel that his retirement is a great loss. It would I become me to say one word about his career in this
1be
the telegram received yesterday states that the the drap La exchange. However, as assets of the Bank are estimated at twenty shillings to the wound, you sea that the situation, altbergb unfortunate, is by no means alarming,
THE "LEANDER" -COMPANY'S
CONCERT.
stuck in the mud, and there you intend to remain of jy, suit, at Tyresta! there you are, until La France, In the shape of another three and-five-penny exchange, comer Uke an angel of deliverence to draw on out of it. That is and way of hoodwinking the public, but your auditors -I am glad to see you have saditors-say 'No.'. and candidly tall the shareholders that if sliver assets, and every one knows that your assets your
gave a very successful concert Inst night in the
are silver-were worth to much when exchange, The officers and men of H. M. S. Leander was three and five peace, they cannot be worth Last Hunghom Dock Reading Room. There is cos we show which way the wind blows, and
mach when exchange is three shillings and siderable musical talent among the ship't com. and valuable contribution to the social resources pany, which will no doubt become a prominent of the Colony as soon as the men ave thoroughly at home on this station, most of them having only arrived in the East dorlog the past few weeks, strangers to each other, to the ship, and to the Colony. Their first eff it, however, shows that they are not of the kind to remain strangers long, especially with such a thoroughly popular commander as Captain Castle.
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ordinary shares from twenty two dollars to six when I find your Founders' shares" falling from two hundred pounds to filtern poands, and your dollars, I must conclade, a la Hamlet, that there are more things in the Bank of China than aro even dreamt of in your philosophy. Your year's working the Trustand Loan gave eighty seven and Loan Co, can never pay out here, as thousand pounds profit, although a mere Trust our local geniuses of the prepared Stock covered after the Hongkong Telegraph's leader Investment and Agency Co quickly dis
an exhibition of a series of very fine The pilocip! Item of the evening was showing the effects of the terrible cyclone but to make up this latter amount you credited and well chosen views of "Apla harbour, the subject; your yekr's working as the
when six maa-of-war were caught, and the of Agents commissions on fixed deposits paid in
Bank of China, etc., gara seventeen thousand which struck Samba soms three years ago yourselves with ntae thousand pounds, proportion nead no repetition here. Captain Castle was wind up to-morrow would your Agents repay so sebly. The story is sufficiently familiar to advance, Great heavens, gentlemen, how much is Calliose, under Captain Kane, acquitted herself
tan alation, and was the first on the scene after allowed and passed by auditors when it i then in command of the Rapid, on the Austra this money? I know it fan fiction of account,
this actually worth as an asset ? If
you had to
the disaster. His vessel steamer, which had picked up off Samor a small immediately on the arrival of an American mall inconvenient to bring the whole of the amount
Widespatched
into one year's working, but is it a creditable
position to describe at first hand the full effects of would be reduced to eight thousand pounds, trading cutter scut out to give information and entry for a Bank to make in the public balance appeal for assistance. Thus Caps, Castle was in a sheet Take it away, and your earnings the terrible storm, giving many interesting detalls | *nd. Yet, you pald away in dividends sixteen
number of splendid photographs, showing two Again I ask if this is creditable to a Bank ant generally know, He was also able to eschre American and three German men-of-war sunk
thousand, as much agafe as you had made. at thrown on shore-one in particular, the Eber, somewhat curious, when it is taken in. cou There is one other entry about which I am if we remember rightly, lying on her port broad section with our local gossip on the Rialto- alde high and dry on the beach, with her which has it that the Bank of China, bought screw and the whole of her stern smushed away.
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank shares at two narrative, derailed all the salient features of the Capt. Castle, in a very interesting impromptu bundred and thirty percent, premium for lovest. ment. Two hundred and thirty per cent, for their kidness to the Germans, who had occurrence, paying a high tribute to the Sampane share, neatly sixty pounds each. At this rate premium, four hundred and twelve dollars a recently been fighting them; while as for the your other favestments of one hundred thousand
and the providence which enabled her to pass Calliope, he said her excape was due entirely pounds in Hongkong would give something over and engineer, the skill of the navigating officer, to the steady, determined efforts of the stokers
Mixteen hundred Bank shares, the loas on which at twenty pounds a share would be thirty two
teeth of a terrible hurricane, and get out into the through the exceedingly narrow channel in the carry forward your silver balances at three thousand pounds. No wonder you prefer to and five pence, exchange, and your silver. Inreatments at cost!
a
open sea.
Of the other items It is sufficient to say that each deserved and obtained a thoroughly mccessful reception, several encores being en forced. The following is the programme:
PART I
secret that an agreement, or if not an agreement And now about your business! It is an open an understanding, exdats between you and the Hongkong Rod Shanghai Bank by which you are debarred from undertaking banking business Ovature British Pam Piano and Violin.
proper; and therefore all you have to exist upon Song and Dance....... pdy McCarty... Johns.
Is the margin between the rate at which you Bog Recit is love. 1. Fingly. can borrow and that at which you can fend.
The Rar
..Dr. Ferguson, Gott in Himmel, as my German admirers would 80...Coming thre the dye kir. Bong snopouses Thes-ra-Boom-de-ay...lent, Hale,
SAY, you can't grow fat on that. By the way, FART II.
gentlemen, can you tell me whether there is a The Hurricane at Samoa, March rath #to,
'such association in London as a Depoiltors
LADY Tilustrated by limelight view Capt. Castle R., N. Insurance Society, and can you quote the actual Song
Down want the Capiala, Mr South BongThe Boatswain's Story...Mr. Wala
rate of premium charged for lasuring fixed amerism Up to date
laut, Hala, deposits in your Bank? I have heard the deposits in classed together, and the Bank and those in the New Oriental Bank
God Save the Quant.”.
In the Interests of the Hongkong community we would arge the Leander Company to seriously
assertion made that both were unquotable.
to be satisfied with the prospects of their crops, low, which is so well known to you and, as ❘ consider the possiblifty of organising other con- It might ́aliay ̈ some apprehension. In there": thing that everybody else baɛ reason also to Attorney General says, is interwoven with i certs, which might be given in same place where; troublous and shaky times were you in a position
be thankful for.
The French Government will stand no izsoy, ference from the priesthood. Six French Bishops have now been permanently deprived of their aaiarles, a vigorous measure in itself without precedent. Its chief significance, however, says Paris correspondent, lles. In the fact that it is CORRESPONDENT writes:-It would be hard the beginning of disendowment. It is likely to credit that a paper kite could fly from Victoria that other prelates will follow the example of the across the harbour to Kowloon ride without a Archbishop of Avignon and his suffragane of string, or at least without the string being held Nimes, Valence, Montpeller, and Viriers, whilst 1.35 by the hand or something else but such was Mgr. Turings of Nancy, is already in the same Per the case on Saturday evening about 6 o'clock, plight. The wisdom of the measure need not Case when a watchman at Kowloon Decks espied, a Se discussed. M. Ricard is a Minister of Justice a doa. long way off, a kite Quitering across the water who is bent en subjugating the French Church, Pints towards him at a height of about 40 feet, varying and It only remains to be seen whether his little in its altitude, either up or down. This experiment will be successful. If so, the with wanderful title ta on skimming the tops of the drawal of stipends will doubtless be followed by buildings of the Dock Yard ascended high up efforts to remove the offending Bishops from in the air and took up stationary and steady their sees, and possibly the refurbishing of the position to the no small wonder of a number of old legal weapons of imprisonment and banish spectators. No string attached to it was vitalement. Such a state of feeling can only bring through the arure sky, bat on lavestigation about the suppression of the budget of worship small slender thread was found to be attached and the separation of Church and Siste in to a branch of a tree on the Admiralty ground, France. The rumour of the resignation of the thes explaining the phenomenon.
Archbishop of Paris has again been revived.
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.. 13.00
D La Rose, Red Capsule H MADEIRA, HOCK AND CHAMPAGNES.
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE VARIOUS BRANDS IN STOCK ON APPLICATION.
Per dez, Case.
BRANDY.
A Hennessy's Old Pals, Red
Capsule ...........$13
B Superior Very Old Cognac,
Red Caprale
C.Very Old Liquear Cognac,
Red Capsule
20
D Hennessy's Floest Very Old Liqueur Cognac, 1872 Vintage, Red Capsule ... 30
SCOTCH WHISKY.
A Thorge's Blend, White Cap-
B Watson's Glenorchy, Mellow
Blend, Blue Capsule with Name and Trade Mark... 8
Name
C Watson's Abelour-Glenlivet,
Red Capsule, with and Trade Mark....
8
D Watson's H K D Blend of the Finest Scotch Malt Whiskies, Violet Capsule 10
E Watson's Very Old Liqueur Scotch Whisky, Gold Capsule .................. 12
RISH WHISKY.
A John Jameson's Old, Green
Capsulen
8
B. John Jameson's Flas Old,
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C Jaan Jameson's Very Fine
Old, Green Capsule,
Genuine Bourbon Whisky,
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old, Red Capsule, with Name
A Fine Old Tom, White Cap
sula...
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Colony
the history of the
But there is one trait in his character which for many years past. has come under my own intimate acquaintance and cannot refrain from mentioning it, and that is this that I know he has very often sat on the bench when he has been suffering from severe physical pain. I think it is extraordinary that the suffering he went able and careful considerallon of the Cases and through never made say difference in his the time and courtesy he extended to them, and I feel, as I have said, that it is a great loss; but at this time was his only chance of obtaining that we are consoled with the idea that his retirement restoration to health which we all with for him Gentlemen, I thank you most sincerely.
be
adequately than can be done in the mall and also fetorm you, although probably the fact in 'n besides doing. Justice to the performers more to deny this sumour and give us a rate) I may not too cool room at the Dock, it would also to well known to you as it is to me, that very con general poble. It is not too much to say that deposits be withdrawn one after the other as they possible to admit a larger attendance of the siderable uneasiness exista lest your Exed the Samoan views alone, ably and pleasantly fall due, which you will have to pay, eff at cur- explained by Capt. Castle, would be an interest- ing novelly warmly appreciated and they advantage, with a brighter light and a larger two and eleven pence on one million three rent rates of exchange instead of the three and five pence rate at which they stand in your books.. certainly deserve to be exhibited to better
The difference between three and five peace and screen. However, now that the Leander Com hundred and eighty-seven thousand pounds, pany has made auch a satisfactory debt amounts to a very considerable sum--and your Dock community, it is only a question of time four hundred and seventy-four thousand pounds through the kind assistance of the Hang-hom Capital and Reserves together only amount to before its merits are fully established and widely so you can see that your reserva has vanished
and about half of your capital also..
known.
I with, gentlemen, I could as readily concluda this letter with expressions of confidence in your
The Court then proceeded with the case of Chan Kwal and another against Ha Tim and another, in which Mr. Francis was for plaintiffs THE BANK OF CHINA, JAPAN, AND ability to guide your firdgling as I can with ex-
and Mr Philippo for first defendant, and also, in place of Mr. Pollock (now Acting Palsso Judge) for the second defendant.
to certain valuable house property in Bonhara The action arose out of a dispute with reference Strand and Prays West, a number of Chinese having apparently made bogus transfers and- shuffled the ownership about from one to another
THE NEW ORIENTAL BANK.
THE MANAGER INTERVIEWID.
New Oriental Bank are by no means so gloomy We are glad to learn that the prospects of the as generally reported. Telegraphic advices from London state that the Bank's assets are estimated as being equal to its liabilities, so that by depositors or shareholders. Bo very serious losses need be anticipated either
THE STRAITS:
AN OPEN LETTER,
a Kvelihood. MAN
Your
Per ANevil-looking, toothless, gray-haired old woman Tar Shanghat German påper Dar Ostasiatisch, ↑ temporarily, "singing the changes" with the to properly address you. You commenced world a strong, strapping infant, born in the Isp Eot was brought before Mr. Hastings this morning Lloyd says that a Marine Court met at Apenzade, imate object, as was alleged, of defrauding
to answer to the charge of bringing a maiden Schleswig-Holstein, on May 1st, to inquire into others. fair into the Colony for the purpose of prostitu- the loss of the German steamer farie, which $1.30 Hon (N. B. prostitution is not a licensed evil in foundered near Cheloo last New Year's Eve. this fair Isle, and so it is positively non-existent The Court found that the Marie was on a voyage 1.40 as the minions of the Protector of Chinese, and from Hongkong to Chefoo, laden with old Iron PANS OUT TWENTY SHILLINGS TO THE POUND,
the police well know) and of selling her to and plece goods. On the 31st Dec., at 7.30 p.m. 1.75 Welllogton Street procaress for 17o. The the steamer was at the entrance of Chefoa maiden, told her isle of wor and Harbour, the captain and chief einer being en dessation, we did a friend of hers, and then the bridge. There was a difference of opinion Inspector John Lee related how he dashed late between them, about the course stored, the mate No. 95, Wellington Street (at Imminent risk to say life and limb) and rescued the girl from a life
saying it was a wrong out, but the captain insisting upon its being right. "A few minutes of Infamy and shame and then, arrested 0.95 the defendant. The case for the prosecution
later breakers were seen alread, and the engines were reversed; the steamer struck, but was befag made out to the Magistrate's entire afloat again after couple of minutes, having satisfaction he sent the despoiler of the virtue of gone over a sunken reel. The stem post and 0.73 widows, orphans, and the fatherless of the main several plates being broken, the steamar made land to gaol for 12 months, after she protested much water; rockets and blue lights were fred, her innocence and escalated at the top of her but no help appeared, (here follows a description 0.75 harky rolce The girl is my slave i bought of the catastrophe.) The Marie was of 1,100 ff and am free to do what I please with my tons gross tonnage, ten years old, and insured own!" In Hongkong you cannot seld the for 320,000 marks. The Court came to the 1.00 Magistrate and that ended the matter,
concasion that further enquiries should be made commander and his arst offcer about the course, difference of between the
ship's papers, and about the state of the boat the whereabouts of the log book, and other davits
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pressions of sympathy for your unfortunate share- holders; but I am sorely afraid that your Bank will eventually prove another of those frosts which have been folsted on to the shoulders of To the Directors of the Bank of China, Japan,
gullible China by specious pretexts and powerful and the Straits, Límited.
Damen Jost compare your position and subject I encounters difficulty in deciding bow
Gentlemen,-On the very threshold of my respects with those of your younger rival, the business a couple of years ago as a Trust and fathered in a workhouse, pitched into an ocean of Bank of Chins You came into the
of luxury the National Bank, so to speak, was Loan Companycrest, Three Balls, or motte, trouble, and nearly strangled at its birth. The unredeemed pledges for sale. A year later you workhouse kid had to struggle for existence blossomed out into a brok; ons of the very and to get its head above water, but in good funniest banks, I opine, the modern world has yet hands and ander able and careful management sten. You resemble a peripatetic Moses, who, it has met with a fair measure of success, while commencing in Houndsditch in the sober raiment you have squandered of a city sparrow, evolves in the course of years beglazing to understand the difficulty of cars substance and
of earning peacock's train and the aristocratie belongings Trust and Lean Co., you were not sounder and the adverse reports generally current in this of a De Moseleyi but I question whether as the have refrained, gentlemen, from entering into more respectable than ever you will be in the colony concerning your Bank and fis methods You launched your bantling on the pubile at years to the historic language of the immortal meretricious glare and glitter of your new title. during the local one-horse directorate of last opportune moment. Tournames are, or were, Tosh Chairman of the Hongkong General in London to obtain temporary nancial allowing your shares at a substantial premium u don't want to touch old sores; these
Meanwhile strenuous efforts are being made roccessful is access that you succeeded in of that-hody, on the 8th of
power in the commercial world and to Chamber of Commerce, at the hat Apri sistance to enable the Directors to tide over You made money, too. You raised your capital who suffer know their own bittemess, and the present dead-lock. The Managers in the in gold, you were able to borrow in gold, and any attempt on my part to expose them to pablle Far East and at the other branches of the Bank you craverted your gold into ellver a compara-gute would be most uncongenial." Nor have 1 have been instructed by wire to endeavour to tively easy rates of exchange. What is so simple may desire to satirically refer to the proceedings at.. obtain local help; but so far as this part of the as finance to those who understand it! Silver, your ascond annual meeting held in Loudon on world is concerned, we fear that the frightfally fastead of remalaing cheap, became dear, and February the gib, when the singularly good but univerail scarcity of roues all prevent any unclently admore,guin ban screen of the pen sanagement, both on the Directors at home. depressed state of general business and all sleight-of-hand, which part of be that as it may, it is nevertheless very satis- and by this happy and Ingenious expedient name other extraordinary statements were made. substantial aid from being forthcoming. But you converted three and one into three and five was boomed into a special vote of thanks, and factory to know that the N. O. B. Ci affales: not la the hopeless state supposed a few days magalhicent only our shareholders Somie cien are he regard to ridicule, as a famous profit of - eighty sevan thousand American divine once put I like tis-reated Your one pound shares became worth twenty-two At your next meetleg you will have 45 Holdings in regard to hall-all that hits them The effect, gentlemen, was naturally electrical bounds rattling off, not a stone goes through. dollars, and your Founders one pound shares opportunity of showing that your wonderful an up to one hundred and fly, one hundred promises have been fully realised, Se mots U and seventy fire, and I bellereito as-high-as b
3. In another way young MAKES seized the opportunity to double your capital received two hundred
pounds.
succeeded it floating the new isso, at a sub- were also wise in your generation, for you
12, gentlemen
stantial premalam. There is perhaps no occasion
goy Yours faithfully andi
for use to observe to such sapient and far-sering
FXAAR. T.S
lights in the great world of finance that the
you
ponuda,
Hongkong, 15th June, 1892.
MADAT KHAN and Mada Khas, stalwart privaten to In Our Very Owa" regiment, were out for a stroll in British Kowloon a few days age, butterflying or pursuing some other equally barmless amusement, and so enjoyed themselves that they forgot about the eventide roll-call until IT is reported" says the Japan Herald, "that Sir | since. It became too late to fetch up la camp are the sun Edwin Arnold is to be decorated with the third A representative of the Telegraph interviewed had fairly disappeared in the Great West and the class of the Japanese order of the Rising Sun. Mr. E. W. Rutter, the local Manager of the f.to moon was peeping o'er the granite heights that We scarcely know to what extent the recipient's New Oriental Bank, this afternoon. Mr. Ruiter tower above the embryo city across the harbour, vanity may be tickled by the bestowal of a third was most willing to give all the information is At length the warriors bold made a beeline class order, but his own poems confer an infinitely his power, and in the course of conversation 20.00 Road thy met with an obstruction te trempery bauble as the one promfeed him. On
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and speeding along Yau-na-di greater distinction than the wearing of such a said sma the abape of Chinaman carrying some
# When the old O. B, C., falled) the same subject the sycophantic and superfine telegram the following day stating that baskets on bamboo, Whether or not the Editor of the Japan Maff gracefully grovels liquidator had been appolated, and as no advice 450 040 donghty Pathaas collided with the Celestial or His Majesty the Emperor has been pleased at regards a liquidator is respect to the present the barkets, or the latter banged against the to announce his intention of conferring the Third dimiculties has reached me i believe that there soldiers, is uncertain, but at all events there Class Order of the Rising Sun on Sir Edwin must be some hope entertained at home that was a rumpus and sticks and brickbats were Arnold. This gracious act cannot fail to receive the attempt being made to obtain suficient are two sides to used somewhat freely by the combatants for a public<approval for assuredly no one man' has / belo to justify us la reopening 'and carrying on is-colored by the artlake Picture 12- One side olaks few minutes, when some other Chinese came up done so mech to make Japan favourably known have not falled. I may tell you that the London to presto 1!!. l Capsule 122,00
and joined in the fray, succeedlag in making to the world as Sir Edwin Arnold. If any one manager has telegraphed is me anklag what appears. Let me agais cordially compliment Wit Good Leeward Island...$150 per Gallos, the two Khans beat a retreat marked rather by deserves honorable recognition at Japan' hands assistance I can render and I have been, trying. You, LIQUEURS.
bagie than decorque Bat, from all socortals, & St. Edwin doer, and wear pleased to think to strange for aid locally, but bare not much picacy Tastead of hauging your picture to be anterior, appears that the Pathan gladiators did not leave that among the many distinctions his great liter- hope of success in the present state of trade and against the wall, you embedded it in bricks fins in Canton and the battle-Bald will they had received much ay abilities have earned for him, there should severe injorica (as: nocesiliated their removal. - be öna'ts suark permanently his connection with to hospital for week whence they merged Land of which he has such dir opprecia. advising me that the shareholders and depositora have received a telegram from London this morning and made their / Below and which ach a tak perticillaot be likely to hire should they temp to at the Patter CAUFF and gave eridance aE. peak The decoration Japan program to give secure ald fall, for the assets are in a good propor one Ng Chan, who was charged with secanting the famens Editor of the London afly 75les Con to the Haslities intich better than was the and wounding. The charge of ansault being prored grief kindly appreciation of the the old Bank falled to a day or two up to the bill a fins of 35 was impers on the country owes to his postio pen le fia article may get advices of a favourable cature, but Chinaman, who, by the way, nere
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