Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
BIRTH,
At the London Mission, Hankow, on the and DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK. & September, the wife of the Rev. C. G. SPARRAM,
.CO.,
LIMITED.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
VE hava received a "small" shipment”,
WE
of
REAL DEVONSHIRE CIDER from Symons & Co, Totnes, Devon, in splendid condition.
SYMONIA CIDER,
$2.50 per dezen. CPAMPAGNE CIDER,
-82-50-per-dozen.
-ZAMENE CIDER,
$2.50 per dozeg,
-VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
'HONGKONG,
Hongkong, zoth August, 1897.
130
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
AERATED WATERS."
GINGERADE.
GINGER ALE.
LEMONADE.
of a son.
The Honghong Lelegungh
ST. PETAR'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day String will chill alongside Vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30 am on Sunday, to convey men nahore to 'the 11 o'clock nesvice, returning about 12:30 p.m.
THK London Gazette announces that the Queso has approved of Setor Pedro Cavanilles y Pean as consul for Spain in Hongkong. An astounding announcement appeared in last alght's Smail to the effect that met having been supplied with our usual notices we are A. TELEGRAM WAS received in Shanghal- lastrable to-day to give our readers any
Informs Saturday from Peking stating that Mr. Howard on from the Hongkong Observatory." How Martin, First Secretary of the United States deeply, the one official reader of the FUA Legation, had disappeared, and asking that the Wratory must have sighed when his eyes absconder should be arrested at Yokohama scanned such a shocking statement! HONGKONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1801 through the U.S. Consul-General. Mr. Martin, sealaring community, how they would have And the it ampears, had been living in regal style 2nd lavishing hospitality with a princely band watched had they seen it but of course they
didn't. unpaid bille amounting to over $10,000 bid accumulated, and not having funds to meet his Creditors' pressing demands, he performed ike anishing act. It is believed, however, that Mr. Martin will clher return to Peking, or remit from the United States the amount due,
TELEGRAMS.
FEMALE SUFFRAGE IN MAORILAND.'
LONDON, September 1st. The New Zealand. Parliament has adopted female suffrage.
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As we anticipated, the Daily Prats to-day publishes a mutilated version of the interesting story of sport which we published on Thursday.
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THE following, says the Shanghal Mercury, are the Hankow tea statistics for the present year, compared with the corresponding circular last season, viz.: 29th August 189a ——
kez. HANKOW TEA. ipments to Shanghal an Settlements......101,855 -Chests, 348,844 †-Chonti.
Native anemunks 47,783
31.418 $ock................
31,003 .... 10,000
....171.370
THE PREMIER IN TROUBLE. A helfer charged Mr. Gladstone in Hawarden
It requires a good desi of genius to recogalse the Atrata. Park and knocked him down. The Premier-was-yarn, in Granny's diagulier bot the Telegraph severely shaken and took refuge behind a tree. "The heifer was:shot.-
-AMERICA-AND THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC
September and President-Harrison-has issued a decred that
quarantias of twenty days; forger-if necessary, will be enforced at all ports in the United States against vessels arriving with immigrants.
September-8th.
Cholera has disappeared from Great Britain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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_691,151_
18.
is strong on genins, and we have succeeded: KUKIANO TEA. Our contemporary exys. the sportsmen, were | Bettle...14,681 +-Chau, 174,104 †-Chens, ordinary amateurs who go shooting" because it is. Shipments to Shanghal on
Nadra account 1,140 the crct thiagad mentions-that-they „Stock Marose when the dawn was creeping over the.
· KIT®.
prepared for the usual heavy daya tramp Whether it was the bins that were prepared for the tramp, or whether the dawn was prepared and thus began by creeping, or what. was.to.be done to the tramp, whether he was to be shot or tarred and feathered, or locked up as a vagrant, Granny does not say,
A GENTLEMAN of unusually vigorous veracity Informs us that the Masonic Hall, besides being used at intervals as a Supreme Court house, li also the head quarters of the Amateur Photogra phers' Association of the Bench and Bar. A sult is, we are Informed, about to be commenced on
CLAIM.
LEMON SQUASH.
the following items- LITHIA WATER; *.* OWING to extreme pressure on our news columns An Open Letter to the Hongkong 'Sharebrokers-Association is unavoidably held aver until Monday
PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE.
,POTASH WATER.
RASPBERRYADE.
SARSAPARILLA.
SELTZER WATER.
SODA WATER.
TONIC WATER.
the Manufacture of these Waters the purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost carn and cleanliness exercised throughout. The water used is subjected to a perfect system of filtration, daily examinations and periodically to searching chemical analyses; so that absolute -purity-and-safety-áro-guaranteed,"
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed- and placed on board at Hongkong prices, and the fall amount allowed for Packages and Empties when returned in good order.
SUMMER BEVERAGES. FRUIT CORDIALS:-Raspberry, Straw berry, Lime, Damson, Black Currant, Red -Currant, Pine Apple. Orleans Plum, Morcila
Cherry and Gooseberry,
FRUIT SYRUPS-Lemon, Lime Juice, Raspberry, Strawberry, &c.
Prepared fram gebalne fraft jalces Imported by ourselves, they contain the fall flavour of the sound ripe fruit; mixed with plain or Acrated Water, they make Jellyhifal summer drinks.
Agents for
MONTSERRAT LIME JUICE & CORDIAL'.
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WINES AND SPIRITS.
Pots, Shenies, Clarels, Burgundles, Hocks, Champa¬nes, Brandles, Whiskies, Gin, Rum and Liqueurs.
A large selection of chelcé old brands. Full particulars and prices on application.
TOBACCO, CIGARS AND CIGARETTES,
A complete stock of all the best and most popular brands,
VIN DE QUINQUINA.
A medicinal wine AGREEABLE TO THE TASTE containing the valuable properties of Cinchons Bark combined with a choice brand of Red Wine.
Its powerful antifebrile qualities tend to ward off attacks of Malarial fever and to all conva lescents-it-acts-as-a-quick-rostorative and
appetizer.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
ESTABLISHED ÁÐ
----- Hongkong, 21st July, 1801.
For Sale.
NOW
READY
(PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.)
THE U.S.S. Monocacy left Shangbai for Chin. king on the and Inst.
SHAO, Governor of Formosa, according to latest reports from that island, is suffering from _dysentery...
THE Tonkin pirates in several recent engage ments have again inflicted heavy losses on the French troops.
IT is announced that Wu Ta-cheng, the new Governor of Rusan, and the Governor of Gue klang have left Feking for their respective posts. THE trial of Janies Frame for the murder of George Lemon wil, it is stated, open in the United States Consulate General, Shaoghal, ou the zoth that.
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To photographing two objects........ To attending Court for purpose
To adjourning 25 sults so as to clear the To bresking lens
To wear and tear of Court............ To making out this bill .................................
(Can't add up the total)
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- 6,156-
honile baslates to date pe compundit
entire to ex with
For London & America,000 Chests, For Husordenens43):301 ER
Ted, Jet
1801.
66,000-Chests,
79491
850,048
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1892.
to!
last night he ncliber sang nor acted up to the level of a super,
The Company altogether made a very good appearance, not a whit the worse for thele trip: one of the scenery fell down, most of the people seemed at home in their parts, and they they thoroughly deserved the crowded house which
obtained.
To-alght the Company appears for the fast Husein Hongkong in Varletles, a good programme being arranged. We shall be all there fosse Miss Nellle Delorme and Miss Fanny Stanley in their
skating dance" and song," very pretty
"Stroll- ing by the rippling stream, with the irresistibly funny hop-off Miss Denver will, by special request, alog Tosti's "Good-bye," in which she scored so well before.
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sound and profitable business. The six months specially under review were exceptionally on- favorable, making it difficult for a newly estab Ifshed Bank to show good results unless willing to undertake, bastness of a speculative and uncertain character, which has been care- fully avaldad, attention being given rather to the minimum of risk than the maximum of profit.
The annexed accecate, so fully explain them. selves that it is unceccesary to add more, but..... you will observe that the premium of ton shillings per share has nextly sufficed to cover the expenses of dosting the Bank and all other charges up to the arst December, while from that date to 30th face our progress has been such as to enable us to have avery confidenco that we have already laid the solid foundation of
BUCCOBI.
To-morrow the Company leaves by the G. G. | falare tractorizers have only taken balf fees
Jacob for Singapore, as route for Samarang, Batavia and Calcutta.
THE DAILY PRESS COOLIE
AMONG OLD BOOTS!!
Our estremel morning contemporary has an Interesting article today by Granny'ı most wooden-headed gentar entitled "Among Old Biots Apparently blu Decal diet, of em quads and machine oil has been stopped, as too extra vagant, and he has taken lo rummaging the Waste Paper - Basket for fodderneems of such extreme prodigality, an to give him-old booth scarcely portble that Granny la guilty of
Tho
to sath June,
La Shanghal Sub-Committee have wolved theirs altogether, while the London Sub- Committee have agreed to accept from 1st Janusty as
as their future semuneration at the rate fago Instead of $350.
of
Accounts at the Head office have been "audited by Messrs. J. H. Cox and Wm. Hatton Potts and in London by Mettre. Deloftte, Dever. Griffibs & Co., Chartered Accountants, and at the General Meeting the Shareholders will be asked to vote thelexemansallon in terms of the Articles of Association of the Bank
Your obedient"wervARE"
D. GILLIES,
Chairman, Hongkong, 19th August, 1891.
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BALANCE SHEET.—11ST DECEMBER 1891. NANANA Liabiütler. Capital partly paid............... 968,018.35. Fixed Deposit, Current and other
Accounts 90
261,449.23
$1,329.4674B.
“There is a distinct charm, I always think, in rummaging about an old boot store " be begīna, and goes on to say "They are sombre, brown, dirty old friends of mine, and I cannot take one up in anything but a spirit of What? Carbolic soap? No. "Reverence I Then he Tat, Yomiuri Shimbun's power of invention carry me back, far back, to the days of their first
proceeds. Their stained leather backa. has been developed to such an extravagnut de possessor." It will be observed that the Dally gree that it becomes a nice question whether
Press does not often so boldly confess (is back. the police should not interfere to check the flow 44 of his demoralizing mendacity. Recently it told her coolie, hand in hand, speeding back in the Cash in hand and at Bankers......$175,554-38. wardness; the picture suggested, of Grosny and us of a man who killed bis whe fa order that he might roast portion of her liver to give ven-league boats of Noah and Methusaleh Government Securities belonging a eye-medicine to His mother, and now it through the corridors of time, in a frantic rush for: nows of the food, to be pabllabed on our recounts an equally monstrous yarn about sixth page with a Bourlah of trumpets; the
Bills receivable, Loans and Ad- phthisical patient who believed that roasted babyvision of the dear old lady rammaglog among
#vances would cure the 'degeneration of his long tiste,
the newspapers for a notice of Adam and Eve In each case the names and localities of the wedding, which the Daily Press has just heard 10.00 parties concerned are duly given, and creof and wants to print before the ather papere
detail capable of enhancing the verisimilitude
2.00 25,00
25,000.00 1
IO
is the House of Commons on the 11th August, Mr. T, W. Russell asked the Under Secretary for Foreign Affair what steps had been taken in regard to the claim for compensation made by Dr. James A. Grefg, one of the missionades of the Presbyterian Church In Treland, against the Chinese Government for the actrage com- mitted by Chinese soldiers at Tü Seve Hia, cear Klin, on Aug. 7, 180%; and whether the claim British Government in China. In reply Mr. J. was being pressed by the representative of the W Lowther said that her Majesty's Minister at
hoods. In the case of the filal assassin, the death the steamship Ark (Capt. Noab)
and publishing a detailed report of it inthe year of the Lord 1802-all this a grand, wonderful, full of "powerful human interest," to quote the D.P. again...
of the story is added. But it is easy to see that get hold of the poetic dream of the coelle abost on board one of his boots, "dear, the same romancer is responsible for both false-
"old boots," amid the waters of the flood, man was represented as a particularly plous
single-minded and
person and before he conceived the notion of killing himself, his child, or his wife in order to obtald the desired medicine, he is described as baring visited various druggian to search of a modicum of human liver. So, too, the consumptive in- dividual becomes, in the hands of the same mendacious and clumsy chronicler, a simple, that the roasted flesh of a fellow-mortal would credulous kind of man, who, having been told restore him to herice, went for that delicacy,
"HEAVY WEATHER OUTSIDE.
ELEVEN STEAMERS "CORNERED" IN AMOY, Yesterday afternoon and this morning several steamers arrived from the North' that were delayed owing to the typhoon raging in the
His Excellency Wang Plog-tao, the new Chl. Pekin has demanded compensation from the caries in the district asking for that delicacy. Formosa Channel.on the 7th instant. Among
to the Bank
Austi
Furniture, Stationery and Stamps.. Sundry Debtors, (Adjustments of Exchange, Interest, Rebate, etc.) Balance
88,388.85
936,361.40 14,918.69
2:217.50
852263
$1,339.467.18
PREMIUM AND PRELIMINARY EXPENSES,"PROTIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.—31ST DECEMBER, 1791. Dr. Floating Experies, Legal Charges
tic anima minim$ 101,187.95. Salaries, Travelling Expenses, Rent
eldire Telegrams atsistabros grymtes, Directors' fees BARE BE
Cr.
43.205 79
20,175.58
20,153.87
$184,820.30
nero Minister ja Tokio, did not leave Tantein Chinese Government for the outrage committed and even tried to strike a bargain with house-the arrivals this morning the Douglas Co's Premium on Shares ........................n8; 159:447-40
in the Hained as telegraphed, being detained oned Her Majesty's Goverment is, how. found an anciants widow in desperately penuri Dr. Grelg. No definite result has yet been holds which death had just vislied. Finally, he owing to the absequies of the late Lady Li
eves, in telegraphie communication with Strous circonstances, who, scelog no chance We have been asked to state that a special John Walsham on the subject, and he is press rearing her child, agreed to kill it Immediately meeting of the Marine Officers' Association willing the claim on the attention of the Chinese after its birth, and to hand the body to the Janatic Ugo Tokusaburo.This_being_done. be held on Monday evening at which the Pre Government. -.--
Tokusaburo made to carry it to the hills and dent, Capt. Samuel Ashton, will preside.
bake it in a jar, but after all his pains the viand MR. W. H. Treacher, C.M.G., e-Governor of
is too revolting, and he ends by falling, phtbinis and all, auto the, hands of the police. If the Tomiuri Shimbun must invent, if its inevitable destiny is to be a prepagator of lies, ways the Fapan Mail, why not give us some pretty, exciting, or artistic fable instead of these revolt ing romances, the products of a diseased, fabuman and illiterate' mind?
lah North Borasa; and lately Secretary to the Perak. Government, has been appointed British Resident at Selangor, the appointment to take effect from the 17th March, 1892,
TIMES must be improving in Shanghai. The N. C. Daily News says that twelve well- appointed tandems met in front of the Hongkong and Shangbal Bank on the 5th last. for a drive down Hongkew. No wonder there has been a big boom in Bank shares,
somewhere or other.
THE typhoon has gone to Jericho, or Hades, or Perhaps it is still. "stationary" and intends to settle down and live permanently Dorth by south by cast of Hongkong. Cence, drums, etc., have all been stowed away till Monday,
We observe from the Japan Herald that, owlog. to the injury of his foot, Lieut. Commnr. Hough || was unable to proceed in, command of the Rattler, the doctors having ordered his removal to the Naval Hospital. The vessel proceeded to the Yangtare under command of Lieut. Grant.
TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS.
Inward. Fushun .....................................steamer, from Shanghai: Formosa
-Swatow, Telamon A
"Shanghai, Aggregating 3.833 tons, register,
Ontward.
Ethiop Deuterės Protos....
Macduf Empress of India... Tafrick workin Glanarinay ....... Priok ........................
ensang ................. Yungchlag in
teamer, for Teku.
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19
N
11
Karafiu. Newchwang. "Singapore. "Shanghal
#
Chefoo,
Shanghai. Yokohama, Swatow.
THE MOUNTEBANKS.
Mr. W. S. Gilbest excelled himself in writing the libre to of "The Mountebanks," but Mr. Alfred Cellier hardly did justice to himself or his partner. Taneful touches run all through the score, but only touches; while there is very little of the music which could survive without the words. It is not surprising' that Gilbert was glad to get back to Sullivan..
Commander, Captain H. Bathurst, has kindly Balasse well known Formosa Baer Fermore, whose Gross profit to date favoured us with the following particulars of his experience generally together with the names of eleven vessels that were delayed. In Amoy harbour owing to the threatening aspect of the weather.
“THE "PORKOSA'S" REPORT," While at anchor in Amoy on the 6th the | Customs signailed, a typhoon approaching from South Formosa in Westerly and South-westerly direction. At noon that day the abip's barometer- read 29 52 and gradually falling. The weather being threatening at 4 pm, left anchorage and went to typhoon anchorage. During the 7th experienced heavy equalis of wind and rain. At 4 a.m. on the 8th the weather cleared and barometer commenced to rise, so proceeded to Swatow," · "The vecule in port during the "blow": were the Telamon, Aden, Namon. Fokien, Cheang Chew, Nam Yong Else, Whampoa Chefoe, Canton, and one of Slemssen's steamees The lowest reading of the barometer were 11. Iollow- September 6th 1 p.m. 1949 wind (N,W.
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3. 29-47 2948
September 7th 1-a.m. 29.45-
.. 7 1.tă; to & n.m. 29.43 7.1.m. 29.43 noon 29.35
The plot of "The Mountebanks" has not much to do with the name. Teresa is an Italian pestant girl with the ideas of a modern society belle, only, more so. Ultrice is also a peasant girl, vindictive, bent on marrying. Alfrado. a male idiot who hangs about Teresa, and scores the attentions of Ultrics. In the course.... of the flirtations which naturally ensue, the young man in a fit of sulks pretends to transfer his affection to the girl who wants it, while the other girl, who has been playing with him till he refused to have any more to do with her,
bring him
" Nagps, Aggregating 14,849 tons, register. REFERRING to the Telegraph Convention between Russia and China which we announced the other day had been signed at Peldog, our Shanghal contemporary the Mercury comments as follows in its true of September 5th.:-"We are informed from authoritive and official Tax, Austrian Yangtze river steamer Change source that HE.. Sheng Tactal, the Chief an arrival at Shanghal on the 5th inst. reported Director of Chinese Telegraphs, has signed that the ruins of the old fortification of Kad the Russo-Chinese Telegraph tresty and is Head have now entirely disappeared, as has endeavouring to induce the Viceroy Li to support also the powder magarine. The steamer passed him in bis efforts to get the Ting-li Yamén swarms of locusts from Nanking reach to Silver to ratify this traitness the Chinese lines feet by simulating, sincere devotion to
ment, which virtually puts
to the foto the hands of his paymasters, the great him. In this position, exerybody it Northern Telegraph Company and the Russian | Village is bewitched by drinking wine which
Island.
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2 p.m. 19.35
5 pm 29.35; ****7 pm 29dal September 8th I am. 29.49
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West,
W. by N.
North,
N.NE N.E noon°29,57 · „* (N.NE⠀⠀ ~Arrived in Swatow: 4p.m. on 8th.
THE "MENMUIR'S " REPORT. The E. and A. Co.'s sleamer Kanmuir,
|
15,856.17 8,533 63
$184,820.30
BALANCE SHEET.--30TH JUNE, 1891. Liablilties.
Capital 750 fully paid founders'
shares of each (at our of 3/-). 5,00000 Capital, parily paid £235,375 (nt.
par of 3/-) 1,569,166,67 Fixed deposit, Current and other
Accounts
*5,443,609,32 Os drafts, acceptances and en-
dorsements (billarediscounted)... 276,686,46 Balance carried forward
Autis
Cash in hand end at Bankers...... Government Securities belonging
to the Hank.+++++
Bulls, receivable, Loans and ad....
Vances...................
Famitare, Stationery & Stamps... Sandry Dalton; (Adjustments of
2,052.53 $3.295.914.98
301,691.50
285.713.68
2,558,195.64 37,584.99
· Exchange, Interest, Rebate etc.).. ~ 133, 139.16
83,296.514-98
LPROFIT, AND LOSS ACCOUNT.--30TH JUNE, 1893,
"Dr.
8,532,63
Debli Balance from 31st Dec. 1891.$ Charges, Salaries etc...$57,549 15 Directors fee'r leus,
anded
fees
Capt. Hugh Craig, which arrived in port yeater. Director once more to her
day afternoon from Australia reports: From Balance of profit carried forward... Part Darwin to Semboangan moderate to light
fe THE bel salt Mitchell v. Fraser Smlik, Isarolnistration. But we believe the Viceroy, contains a potion that makes people reali E.SE. wiede, and from there to Cabra Island" |
THIS Valuable Work, with many NEW
ADDITIONS and IMPROVEMENTS,
IS NOW READY."
does
which came in with the malls this morning had
38. 320.33
·6750.00
2,052.53
73.645.49
Gross-prcft for half year ending
30th June.
75,645-49 75,645.49
har en Mathgan
Chiel Manager. --- ANTHONY, BABINOTON,
"Accountant,mm
which runs thus: Alter Bearing Singapure bad Gee, W. F. PLAYFAIR, light S.W. monsoon, and Bne weather to Charlotte Bank, and thence to Latitude 13 N and Long, 1110 15 East strong mossbon with heavy squalls of wind and rain and high quarterly sea. Thence to port dee wesider.
The national BANK OF CHINA,
LIMITED N
PRICE THREE DOLLARS. omnis of two monthis in the Retreat, month ago strange schooner.fursed up at thoroughly into the spirit of the thing, and acted the aznd September, at 3 pim. Imag
D. GILLIES, Chalian. CHAN KIT SHAND, WILLIAM WOTTON. QUÁN HỒI CHU Č.J. HIRST N
Director
We have compared the above statements with the books, cash and, securities at the Head Office and with the returne from the branches and have found the same to be correct (the Lendón' raturas having been adited and certified by Mesin Delolite. Dever, Griffits & Co., Chartered Accountants.) Berguv CAMES H. CO
WA HUTTON POTTS Auditors, Hongkong, 18th August, 1õja.
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL,
which the plaintiff claims $1,000 damages for. in alleged libel published in the Hongkong who has not the same Inducements to serve what they seem. Thus, a number of brigands, fresh W.S W. wind with heavy squalls of thick Telegraph, will be heard in the Summary Cours the cable companies as has Sheng, data disguisedebanks, masquerading as clockwork
blinding rain, monks, are forced to remain monks, on Monday next it to am, before Mr. H. E not view, the Treaty in the light | kin
THE "ROSETTA'S" REPORT
| Pollock, Acting Palms Iudge, and a special jury sees it, and the Tsungit Yamen, if action le figures, become genulo es resistibly attracted
genuine mechanical miracles
'The F. and O. liner Rörella, Capt. C. Gadd, of three.
taken by the Foreign Ministers and the public the bodies in China and Hongkong, will refuse to to the wrong girl, while the little minx who was
a" dusting" on her way up from Singapore as THE police are still carrying on their useless ratify it, as they refused to radify Sheng's former to fool him becomes hopelessly will be seen from of the voyage, crusade against gambler, and this, morning attempt to sell the service over which he presides incidentally, difrede, on account of having another four votarles of the highly intellectual foto the hands of its enemies by the Chefoo donned a Duke's sig, is crystallised into it, so to gamo of pat-kass were haled up before Mr. Convention of 1887. We invite the attention of speak. Ultrice holds the antidote to the medicine Wodehouse, proved to have been engaged in the Censors to Sheng's treachery and inendinate which works the mischief, and after enjoylax game in Cochrane Street last night, and fined love of the briber's facre, which is leading him her triumph for a time, belles her name THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND 850 each. They paid up like-men.
to such dangerous lengths. More on this subject by generously forgiving her rival' and allow. Ing the spell to be broken. It was HONG LIST FOR THE 'FAR EAST"
rather r a pity, for if she had, instead, brought The distressed Turkish, wanderers, 'tweira" in FOR 1891.
number, probably escaped convicts from VIE SOME six months ago the U. S. Consult this along the originai potion and mixed it, with the divostock, who were recently landed here by the port received Information to the effect that the bitky sold in Hongkong, there would be no. German steamer Nurnberg from Japan after the American schooner Oscar T. Fowler, 35 tons end of fun. If all were what they pretended, Japanese authorities became tired of supporting had been stolen from one of the Caroline Islands, Brownle" would then become a real journalist,
The following is the seport of the Directors them, were to-day booked through bythe Gevar sad at once a sharp look-out for the missing Francis would be a soldier, Lockhart capable ment to Port Said per steamer Macduff..
vessel was instituted, not only on the coast of statesman, and quite a number of dead-broke to the first ordinary general meeting of share holders to be held at the offices of the Bank, Cains but also in the Philippines, Australia and Club men would be lords of the universe.
As Terri Miss Denver seemed to enter Victoria Buildings, Hongkong, on Thursday, THIS
the exemplary fins of so with along the coasts of South America. About a
Her singlog To the shareholders, National Bank of China, was inflicted by Mr. H.. E. Wodehouse on " Ponape, and the steward on board reported throughout remarkably well
Limited Orders for Copies of THE "HONGKONG 4 lottery ticket seller who was pounced to the authorities that the master and mate of powers were not impaired at all by the recent
Gentlemen,In accordance with the term DIRECTORY" may be sent to the following upon by Detective Sergeant Hadden while her had murdered the whole crew excepting TOTERO; and all the best parts of the opers, Agents ---
parting with "lucky numbers" in East Street himself, in the Carolines and cleared out frem a musical point of view, fell to her. Difrice of the Articles of Association, the Directory have for value received. The fine was paid instanter with the vessel, taking him-that was how she was wall represented by Miss Brooks, who now to submit to you the first report on the HONGKONG...Mr. W. Brewer...
uk'a affake up to soil June tion and Lottery Promoters.
which was of 51 tous capacity, was promptly palateen him as in beter as Alfredo than th searched and the fact of American,
we have
any part, and showed that The difficulties of
"'of engaging's compétent Russian and Spanish government seals being given a fair chance, he has the making of a good the failure of Messrs. Russell & Co who took a found on board led to grave suspicions that the actos. Miss Fanny Staplay-personated Vita, prominent part in starting the Bank, the general must be the missing" 'schooner, had been the dancing girl, who while made up as the financial uneasiness which aristed in England
ged marionette "Ophelia" is papers the few fired in the appointment." Miss Stanley sung there, caused considerable delay in getting fairly ting the export of rys,
so Iudicrously “con- Overture voiamThe Dohemian Oil"Belle,
and the consequent anxiety of some shareholders An Imperial Ukase has been issued permit.
The Yeoman of cha Gund akit As Brukyan,
in soms obscure South Sem:19ls and mate
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Badakahan, Colonel Yano money! This may seem incredible, but it is from Yap (Caroline) under very suspicions cir. Gilbert abundant humour, the richest and end of January and beginning of Marchant Commandantin B
The Directors are happy to state that the wron the fending, "great many "Afghan troope so stated, on the authority of our contemporaries, Camstances and that Peter Toussaint, who was cleverest in the whole world of comic opera,
mate of her at the time, was supposed to have of the other members of the company, Mr. ordinary, difficulties which must attend beat Somitash, He proceeded thither with about whatever that may be worth. They advertise - fallen overboard and been swallowed by a shark, Durlah bers hiesself admirably as the brigand establishment of new Bankgara, no fairly thousand troops to summon the Alalisa Cape The present mate, however, gives his name chief, though his English is a bit off, Mr. sormounted, while the support of shareholders tain and ask him why he was there, and fried to **ONE OF TWO THOUSamo dollars for six months an Pater Toussaint, which looks as if, like Jonah Packard, as propeleter of the mountebanks and other constituents throughout Celax and induce the Afghan officer to meet him amicably, os good security and high Interest." Dergutaj of old, he was too tough for the piscine digestion, was rather afrost, owing to ill health Japan ly steadily increasing, and the promises and without sms. The Afghans refused, and Don't all speak at since, and any paises | and had been throws up agaly alive and kick- Mr. Liddlard made an unfortunate exhiblion received are being every day more fully realized after great delay approached with their men when loaded" and "cocked" guna as they rivanced, The efforts of the Directors have been mainly | Colonel Yana: states that the Afghan officer and advertiser will be fired out. One or two thou haar, Investigating" be case and has the two easily explain; he has a good voice, and sense and will do, in N,Q, B, C, notes for prgistence; l'enspécta poder his puriS VON
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