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Intimations.

GINGER ALE

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1902.

In his weather report to-day Dr. Doberek writes Weather fine and cooler." He's right!

LATE advices from Sydney state that the lazaret'e Little Bay contained 24 lepers-niae Euro. poans, 13 Chinese, one Javanes and on Kanaka.

E have always made good GINGER

ALE, and we are now making the best. At vurious exhibitions and competitions in London MESSRS, Caldbeck, MacGregor & Co, the well-

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AMTON's Circus leaves Hongkong for Manlia primary advantages, what in the result today Fan Saturday mo ning by the Ocean S. N. Co.'s | I must speak plainly, and do not hesitate to Bomto steamer Memnon, which has been to say that your Excellency's weakness, want of specially chartend for this tilp, apparently on backbone, inconsistency, disregard of solemn beiter terms or under, more convenient strange. | pledges publicly made, an indifference to the menta than the vegular Manila Uners can ea r. principles you an yuningly advocated in the performance of this pepuiar, company, in the functions, your inexplicable and semi- ffen. To-morrow night will therefore sea the farewell | Lagħlative Assembly and at various other

shape of a benefit for Mr. George Harmston, sive treatment of the perple's representatives, Bealden having an unusually fine programme the Unofficial Members, of Council, and

of the best items in the circus repertoirs, the deep made

allowed extremo lathiade you bare

the Official debaro and otherwlio to

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their money (upwards of $100,000) from witners' the shepherds angld-hardly have beam witching bank airc? the 15th. Didn't see the first defend their flocks at such an advanced hours of the ant from the 12th until the arst when be cʻm2 | night, næmidnight. in the bark about 7.10 p.m. with the second December 29th, however, was not charan, prisoner, Cabins, On the igth witness was | wcbirnile to commemorate Chrie' binh. Ose" arrested by virtas of a warrant, and so was his of the principal caners, which enenperued in master. After s'while both of them were released | fixing the date; was that almost all the besthen an $500 bill. It was the second defendant who natiana regarded the winter anlulizo an the thirte had isid the crimi al infirmation »g ist them. Ing point of the year. The Germans and Pete The Tang Tal Bank was searched by the selles celebrated the aesson with much r-1 -leings. The who found a few Welslig Lottery. Fiekers on þChinras do Itra this day, their done, celebrated

Bud elsewhere, GINGER ALE made by the patrons handy paper-knives showing en ana side we w. Waters, is organisine an amateur box 18 { exceptions, form the most completa crowd Cncerned in the sale of Welsing tickets' The ] sun.esteed. Can is nothing but the d1y thaế.

known wine merchants, have Larued is all theft we understand that the mannger of the Stag Hotel. Tembers, who, with one or two hoborah the premises Nelther wineva nor his firm were I only a few Avgu

formula wo now 'use bas won 3a Prize MEDALS and CERTIFICATES of MERIT.

the calendar for 1893.

THE Northern Assurance Company (Fim and I dozen entries have been received already, and shed that c

Life) bavo fasued, through their Hongkong In 1800 competed and won against FOUR of agents, Mesir, Tamer & Co., a nart and useful

dial calendar for 1893. the most famed Belfast makers.

The Analyst's report :— "It is of unexceptionally good quality," "Particularly pleasant to the taste." "Decidedly tonic and sustaining."

“la every respect most satisfactory,”

ARTHUR-HILL HASSAL, M.D.

The ideal temperance beverage,

On dit that Mr. J. I. Keswick, of Share Bill notoriety, who has been a subject for considerable comment for some months past, is expected to return to the colony carly in February....

THE Singapore Municipality, accordlog to the Fres Press, estimates that the consolidated tax on 4,000 Licensed Jinrikishes for four months ending 31st December, 1.9", will yield"$16,000,"

A REGULAR meeting of the Diligentia Lodge of DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co, LD, Instruction will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the gib proxima, st Victoria Dispensary,

5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are. Queen's Road Central

cordially invited.

Hongkong, 17th-October, 1891.

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ACCORDING to the Paking Gonglis the province A. S. WATSON & CO., LD, of Cheklang has been directed to supply frem

bave just received

ex Steamers "BENLEDİ" and "GANGES"

their first shipments of

its Licin receipts during the current year, for the ure of the Board of Admiralty at Tientsin, the sum of taels 400,000.

THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s Royal mall steamer Empress of China, Capt. R. Archibald, from Vancouver, arrived at Kobe yea'edat XMAS CONFECTIONERY 13., and left again at 2:30 am today, for

thly port, via Nagasaki and Shanghal.j.

Conslating of :-

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CHOCOLATE-CREMES, VANILLA-PRA LINES, SUGARED ALMONDS, BURNT

FALMONDS, NOUGAT, JUJUBES,

TURKISH DELIGHT,

PARISIANS,

&&.,

&c.

DELICIOUS FRUÍT JELLIES,

ASSORTED PINEAPPLE, LIME, DAMSON, GUAVA, RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRY, PLUM, &c.

CALLARD AND BOWSER'S

BUTTER SCOTCH, ALMOND ROCK and

EVERTON TOFFEE,

CADBURY'S CHOCOLATES.

to great variety. CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS, MUSCATELS,

ALMONDS AND FIGS.

FANCY BOXES.

A large and varied Assortment of

ARTISTIC DESIGNS,

XMAS CARDS,

ENGLISH, JAPANESE and CHINESE, Isplendid selection.

TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS,

A LARGE STOCK WELL ASSORTED.

An interesting function will, we understand, taka place in the Legislative Council chamber to- morrow, at 11.30, when Mr. J. P. Dowling it to be presented with a well-merited memento of his gallant exploit in saving a man's life at Deep Wave Bay early this year.

tournament, esich weights, för = splendid silver cup, now on exhibition in the Hotel. About a

the contest is sure to be a great succrás under inch able management. No chargelis made for entries, which can bọ srut is to him up to 4pm,

to-morrow.

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TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS: -

Inward." teamer, from Canton. / Aggregating 1,4^8`tons, register.

-Outward:

Petyang

Jacob Diederichsensteamer, for Saigen. Aussiemoun Glamorganshir..... Namblang. Hailong

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"Halbow,

Singapore.. Amoy. Swatow Salgen, dete ~ Singapore.

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Bentam**** Furkan Aglais comm Wankin

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Shanghai, Yokohama. Singapore.

Aggregating 13,808 tons, register,

Wx beg to acknowledge receipt of a huge roll of manuscript covered with hieroglyphics which bring interpreted begfe thas:-

“The China Molland Daily Press are only Ex for scors

of brainless nincompoaps ever foisted on a longs.

Bilish colo y have almost entirely f jence in your progressive intentions and indepe dent and ib rat judgment with which your advent was hailed." That is the second part of the simple problem which 1. 'respectfully mobmlt for Your Excellency

serious consideration-the "coming down like the stick" part

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Tung Tal Bank never palé polgan on hähalf of the The old Nanem w held their Yde-frau In Welding Lattery monopolista, The" "stened commemoratlan éf h• fi-wann, wheelyand defendant wared in Court reperitly, when w innig Leliowed; that during the swalen nichts from was charged as a dealer In We Ing: Iskra | December'igihin. Tamery 6 h. b y cord lèxce (the core fell throu hi the-he (he printe by movements on the planet of ik in grant witneis) bed paid him the amount of a piles h• | 0%, etc. M«^y of the menm, rf the old had won in the lottery.. That was so shendet 'y | Germing, and a'se of the eligine of the Ere-nal la allegation. The manger of the One Wing City, rel t'ng to this time passed over from attempted to make a statement in expl nail in in Teathenism în Ch I thinße, and bypi naturs||y the Court but the other prisoner, Cahaný, | asitly su-v'ved to the d ý.. But the Church Your Excelercy has lived too long in the stopped him. Afterwitness release, when chewugh to combat and even hunish – pidit wngra world, your expr 1 nce, even although" for 10 ava lottery resler, Cabana n-ld he ought not t some rœent meconesful—t'e dren-rooted herthen many years confiied to the routine work of a Fave done what he did. His uncle had remanfeeling by adiễng for the nự fitution of the desk in Down ng Street, has been too extensive rated with him and he was willing to vive li. bythen come which it retained, its revived to encourave the idea that you are not well back. If there was no charge braght turgy, besides dramatic rep:earntations, of-the- acquainted with the mons aphorism" it || against him ( f esnaptrany or anything else) he hitth of Christ and therventsel ble life. From this requires litle wit to govern." That apborlam.would certainly return all the money. He came a doubtedly anting these multitudes. ( Chole-man 10 far as Hongkong, is concerned, in what my to wit e s to explain moters and to a le "the Carols, and drums, which it tim a deernerated learned enemy M. J. J. Francis, Q would htbren pot to proced against him. He ta finces, and the customs free procal orrgenta technically describe as "a true bill. You have, would return all the many and has the of special Chrismas.ments and dishes, and then. Si, unhappily displayed but little wit la your weising case withdrawn When Cabina mla to age Christmas cʻks, etc. efforts at effective and popular government in he would, retum "1" witness, go,terstod j thistle dot on the ocean, and you have him to mean the money ($37000) of the | -éxercised—still-less-judgment:---Ftruct you will

Ong" "Wing. On the 15th it was, rumoured not consider that I am inf inglog on my admitted that Cabaña bad stolen the $37.ord. When rights as a newspaper critic, a member of that Cabana spoke of returning the money wan Order which has not inappropriately been named safi to him that that should not be regarded 18x the Fourth Estate of the Brigh Constitution, settlement, for the money ought not to have been when I respectfully suggest that silence is a

taken. There was on that occasion (2) distinct virive in those who are somewhat

no arrangement made ab at the withdrawal ni the Weli'ng case referred to and which fill deficient in understanding. It has been vers well said that the man who knows not when through. Shortly after wittie's had seen Cabana to be silent, doesn't know, when to speak. Will off bis premises on the 25t he heard of his your Excellency k ndly perusetbe fairly numerous arrest on charges of embasement, fraud and orations you have indulged in since your first conspiracy. arifval here, and, if you can reconcile the many grant lac nistencies of which you have becs the amling author, make the xplanations which to me se m to be absolutely necessary in order to bring bck to you that public confidence which your incomprehensible shilly shallylog bas completely shattered.

No min ever sta di on in find eg he is in the wrong, he frankly higher pedestal than when,

that shy man to buff the Telegrad is still a babe sabon, That is all right and very good, as far as it go, but the rest of it took four coolies to carry Pedder's Hill; and had to be hauled up the steps with-rapes ;--there-fs-100-much-of-it-to-print- bot we can heave it out of our north windows in lumps on top of the German Club nex: time they have a femasks there, Blessed is the man who sends as balf a ton of solid M. S. S for verily he shall get it back if he calls for it af THERE may be some revelations to the Supreme once. It seems to be spaced off in two-inch Court shortly as to the affairs of our old chombs, like poetry; but it goes too much into Lo Hok Pang, the great "Vanishing Act" artist | the personal characteristics of a few people who of the H.K. & S. Bank, as one of the managers | have tried to "bluff the Telegraph? · It is truc of a Chinese bank which La worked" will be enough, too-so true that we know a Hongkon ste very much alive, and I trust will be for -examined-as-a-bankropt-in-a-few-daya

Jory-would-at-once walls-in-for-another $10.

Good old O'Hooligan. Mac Driscoll !

MAILS Due :-

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THE "Sons of Neptune # were again greeted last night by a fall house, dosens who wished to see the show being unable to obtain seats. A few slight improvements suggested by the first night's efforts were introduced last night, making.. the entertainment even more enjoyable than before, Saturday night in sba next chance, bat as everybody cant get lots the theatre at once, it is to be hoped that the indefatigable organisers I see their way to repeat the "Craise of the Albacore"next week.

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"KINO" O'KELFIS schooner Santa Crus, which was falily smashed up in a typhoon twa months ago and came into port under fory musts after battling with the raging tempest for three or four weeks while trying to make the Carelines, having now been thoroughly refitted with sticks, sal's and cabin by the Dock Company spread her mow white wings to a fresh north-east breeze yesterday morning and bounded o'er the bosom of the dean at a fatiling pace towards Yap, in the Carolines Group, under command of Captain Banks.

SUALLY "Constant Reader" is not under the Impression that the Hon. Mr. O'Brien claimed to be the mhor of the lines he misquoted in his famous speech to the Legislative Cousell on the 30th uke, or that he plagiarised them from the ill graster misquotation which appest4in Fodr. play of September 23rd. The quotation is one of the best known and most hackneyed is the English language and' will be found la J. P. produced about a century ago, and even then it was not original, being merely altered, from Bickerstaff's "Tis Well Tis ao Worst," The la correct rendering f

Perhaps it was right to dissemble yıkır lara, But why did you kick me down atsira↑

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Kemble's play "The Panel" (Act 1, Scene 1),

"THE, HONGKONG. DISPENSARY,

ESTABLISHED AD. 1847,

Mongkong, folh November, 1807

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Ar "Tandjɔng Baleh, Asaban, which we believe is Te is requested that all connusloations raladagh Subscriptions, somewhere in the Netherlands Indies, myn was

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SUPREME COURT,.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

''(Before Chief Justice Fielding Clarke.)

December 19th.

THE COMPRADORE CASE.

The salt of Meyerink & Co. against Tam-Lin Tai and anpiher for $2000, deficit In accosiols, was again before the Court to-day, Mr. Francis, fostracted by Mr. Hastings (W? ́on & Deacor) was for palais and Mr.F, Roblonen, instruc ed: by Mr. Grist (Mr. Wilkinson's office) was for defendants,

Mr. Francis, with the concurrence of: Mr. Robinson, stated that the case had been settled, out of court, on terms named.

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His Lordship accordingly entered judgment by consent against both defendants for $3,coo, with Interes: from 14th May last at 8 per cent and, in order to save tɛzation of costi, s lump sum of $550 was allowed as agreed by the parties, His Lordabip complimented Mr. Robinson on bla discretion in having advised his clients to consent to judgment without further trouble and expense, in view of their

weak case.

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AN OPEN LETTER,

To Sir William Roblason, RCM.G, FRGS., Governor, Vice-Admiral, and Commander In-Chief of Hongkong. SIR,-Your public career here and your prevent parition to the pubile opinion of clearly and forcibly expressed and exol-ined regret to have to say fre-could not be morë than by referring to grand, old. Tom Pine's satirical allusion to Mr. Burke As he rose ko rocket, he felt like the tick. You advantages, and 91k, better eprosto. Lies of came to this colony armed with exceptial distinguist for yourself and of becoming more other Governor within ilving, memory. You generally and deservedly popular" that”ay. had the credit of long (clowupon forty years and, if Bot particularly distingafabed, at least a varied, us-ful and carditable career in the Colonial Service, and you were sent to succeed a very worthy but plg.beaded and unreasonable old gentleman whore chronic ill health doubtless

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admit it and makes all the in his power.. Only the foolish and the dead never change their opinions; you may be weak but I cannot believe, even in the face of past events, that you are absolutely foolish, and as

many years to come, it would certainly do you no harm to carefully revise in a conscientious and liberal spirit the very important differences at present causing a dead-lock between the Unofficial Members of Cound! and the Official Phalanx, the paļd servants of the rate- payers.

Until tomorrow, when I trust to be able to conclude this letter, I beg to remain,

Yours faithfully,

Hongkong, 29th December, 1797,

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT"," FRAUD AND CONSPIRACY.

R. F.S.

native of Kwangiang, (Cabana) went abroad Cross-***m!ned-The second defendiat, #

when about 13 years of age. When he (wi ness) went to his home in Kwangtung Se heard about Cabana going abroad. Both of Cabana's parents died in 1890. The two pulsaders were

true brothers.

was present when the lust witness pild the fist Lo Ya, a clerk in the Tong Til Bank, said he

prisoner the $37,500. which gave rise to ibla action for embezzlement and fraud.

Chan Sum, a clerk of the Tung Tal Bank, said he knew the account book produced. on the sab was "ohopped for $371900-by Took it to the Ong.Wing to have it "chorpid"

the manager, the first defendant in his case. The money was paid to the first prisoner.

At this polni Mr. Francis asked for an adjournment for and, week on the grounds that quite sufficient evidence had been adduced to warrant the prisoners' detention for thst perled, Mr. Wilkinson obj cted and urged that there was no evidence to show that even if the money was received by his clients they had in any way misapplied it. He would not object to a adjournment for one day, but fokeepthe prisoners incked up for a werk would not be fair under present circumstances.

Mr. Francis, Very well, well put Chan Alan in the box to-morrow it your Worship wishes it; to prove what was done with the money.

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Can any of your rosters enlighten`ma on the xublic) ?

Falthfolly enges,

^A STUDENT OF HISTORY, Hongkong, 28th December, 1992,

CHANG CHIH-TUNG'S RAILWAY

PROJECT.

The Shanghal Mercury of December zand. in 'a'leading article saysḥme

Those angulo penpla who believed that the great Indus'sial works, the fron and c-al mines, Viceroy of the Hu Kwang provinces set to work aran which the energetic but unpractical

*w* year ago, would lead to the resiguies of he long-cherished dream of a networkofral'w ya ever Chlon, must be terribly disanpainted at :be. news of Chang Chih-tono's financial embarc48% ments, which have faced him to go to his a tra beginning of the end of Chang's great works rival in the North for pecuniary asalstance. The

From which so much wis gweled seems to be drawing near and we would not be a bit surprised to hear any day that the impossible task which Hehe enthushem and plotism of the great

the Grand-Frank Lloc of China cont ucted of Viceroy led him to undertake, rather than see

Foreign materials, had been abandoned. The -millions of money which he has wasted on bis vain and folish task will certainly ere long be taken in account by some energetic and precical Censor, and por Chang will be disgraced, in accordincew th time-honoured Peking procedure. His great iron-works on the Hin River have been erected at whost three times the cost hey world have entallad kadithe work been entrusted to some respectable Brħish 'firm, and he has been ieced right, centre and left by the harp l'« into whose hands he has fallen. But so far as practiesl results are concerned he has succeded in producing nothing for this vast expenditure, though his advliers and sate i tes have hitrened nd grown rich upon his`rga›nd.r«d millina@ The spectacle of an unpreet chi but clever China- men to letting his book-l árat, theories carry.

fianco delves interest from its far reaching eff.cts and the pecuniary extent of his fallure to carry -into prac1's the schemes: he par,' so well orði... psper. "It is impossible for anyone to estimate ven approxim·lely the amount of money that the Viceroy of-the-Ho-Provinces-bas "thus frittered away in plying at foundries and mines, but it does not require a szer to know that the result has been a complete, a huge and disappointing fillure. It is just three years and 3 quarter since the famous Imperial Decree, sanctioning the construction of the Grand Trunk Line, s propard by FLE. "hang, to extend fom Hankow noribwards to Peking, and souʻhe years have elapsed lace H.E. Chang, as a first wide to Canion, was promulgared. Cyriwa

Hi Worship-The Court. Is adjurned until

tody, ball being dissllowed Tsp. m. to-morrow,

The prisoners were then removed under cut-im away is not an unusual one, bet, Chang's

Ming Manger of the Ong Wing Bank,

At the Magistracy this morning Liu

|"and" L'a. King, glios Cabans, lately of San Francuco, were charged before Mr. W. C. H. Regilegs :—

Lu Tre Ming with (a } the larceny of $37,500 from the Ong Wig Bank; (6) with the embezzlement of $37,500 the moneys of bis employers; and Lui Kong with being accessory after the fact,

Both prisoners were further charged with conspiring to defraud the Ong Wing Bank of $37,500

Mr. J. J. Francis, Q. C., Instructed by Mr. W. Wotion, prosecuted and Mr. C. D. Wilkinson defended.

CORRESPONDENCE,

(We do not sacsetary endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column,ž

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POLICE PENSIONS.

To v Eror of the "Hongkong TulbʊrAPE," SIR-1 oberved a letter in the Aberdeen Peopia's Journal signed A. J. Morton, who says he was rqested to make public some fet regarding the Hongkong Police Pensions which Appren ad In fesves of the Hongkeng Telegraph dated 271k and 30th Purust. Being a pensioner from that dot in the ocean, would you kindly allow me a few lines regarding the representa tives of the peses in Hongkong.

force about 16 years ago and when our Twenty of us were drafted from the Glasgow terms for a pension arrived! got the princely sum your correspondent mentions, accaping Gorge Bowen, and though he sometimes to agreement that in the reign. Si appared in the Telegraph as the Grand Cild Humbug," I fear this is worse at the helm now, when pow Gliley had to accept of 75

towards Carving out his great task with grest pomp and ceremony and with the u-tál "detönating" of fire-crackers and beath g'iftoms" Thence we were in see the thousands of miles toms, opened the fronworks on the Han River. of ralis necessary for the contraction, of the Gand Trunk Line terred ontf Shant iron, obtained from the great coal b d of Hup-h he coal for the smeling of the same to re apered by his enterprie werk by his countrymen, and all to save the, scd fl of the Midle, Kinem. bil & profaned (y. the

Is opening the proceedings Mr. Francid wald It would be shown that the defendants had ennyired to have the Manager of the Tung, Tal Bank and his partner arrested the 13th insteht on a warrant charging them with being Welsing Lottery agents. That was done to cover the defendans embezzlement of $17.500 from the Ong Wing Bank, which they had drawn. Lo Hing, alias La Fontag, an accountan kom the Tu-g-Tal on theissth......

in the Tung Tal Bank, at No. 151 Queen's Road Central, said he had been accountant in that bank for four years and he knew the ang Wing

Mexican dollars per annum aller trimply roos Rank in Braham Strand. On the 12th lost, the in his (ho fang Tas) bank. It was on depot. Same of my company leffs hetter tinny numercial Pain. Por Chang his heen Ong Win had a little over $.00,coo on depon the Easters & braltar day and right for 10 veste, he the ent raising "Fan cevi) with an eye presence of materi li her ught in these modreg

defendant came to his office and said "I wish mortal coll pentally through the frity of years, and squande fg his ini 'lo's in, carrying and carried interest in the tath test, first some were dismissed, a few had to shuff being like Vacant his task their wo to withdraw all my money-make is ready fhoman nature. Your correspondent must be out what we at the 1e warned him was a mere in the name of the Ong Wing. Neither of the wrote, Many a young fellow would not now be late scholar apt with his pen hat tat-lly me to draw out. The $100,000 was deposited been in a rather desponding mond, when he chimers, the dream of an imprecicable bot defendants had any money to his credit mouldering in a graves Happy Valey had be gnorant of all physical and mechanical the Tung Tal The Grat defendant, being not been deceived. We ma talim al fer some, I was The result has heen simply whit Manger of the Org Wing, had often d swe where, Mr. Editor, and where there more we exorced not mile" of sails, has bren. money on account of his firm. Witness neve desirable place than the wry land in such aufactured, the great mills ar so many white came to draw because the proprietor of the of celestial design and

„Monumesti ́elephants which are eating up the resources of "bank had notified him that he was authorized to

Advertiamomis, &c., be addressed in the "Manager, Hongkong | harged by the Dutch Puthorities on the 15th alto. to enpsiderable extent contribg'ed to an besitated to pay the first defendant, when be ap'cturesgde noche sian Riktherest their master, the coal has not tomed out what :.

Taligraph" and not to the Editor

Letters on Editorial matters to be 'sent to 17h Editor" and gat no individual members of the mART,

by the mama and address of the writers, not macoparły te pubilantian ; but sa evidence of good faith,

Whilst the colorane of the Honghong Tripik wil sways. beepen for the fix diaenasión by correspondents"öf si quarcinór facting public interveta, le murit be dlátinctly, understood that the Editor down not in any way hold Kappeli Jesponsible for eplolosa that expressed.

TO ADVERTHER&

Advertisen are repasted to forward all motion Injanded for

Insertion in that day's lasa not later this Thrie d' Clack, so an sot to retsed the surly publicades of the paper..

Advertisements and Enbscriptions which are not ordered for

Evač parlad will be pruttered redő) courbesanded.

The Honghong Trigradh has the largest circulation of any.

Regilib paraper pattitied in the Tie angg and to think the best meditim for Advertisers. Tarma can be latest an appletion. The Haching Theradi's number se the Telephone Cut

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TO SUBSCRIBERS. Bubscriber to The Honghena Telegraph,aga rasputitally reminded that all Suðurij Bloks are papalit in adammet

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ing places of our pe top eiervillan hren ihres exceed, and Chang is, practically bik who sleep the sleep that knobeaking and Frp, before he is ready to comence the dist heed little the call for night day off when the 15 bis great project. We showed in cor pension will be due, or what itwijkæm ́gni ti I also had almost Joined the gear my had to go to the Grand Old Man of Chine and urday's large how the poor Viceroy in diptir having feed much from fever in my lat wol beg a loan of a paltry million taels to carry out years of service, but thanks to the Gỗ Chngat scheines, which he pleaded would have Hospital I got through steered my course to to slon if help were not forthcoming. We then province in the asth of Cin daj called Alberta, saw how HE. Li Hung-chang must have whole I bave started a cattle ranch, and erg on chuckled at the success of his pint to deary his the borders of the Avetle Ct:cla my temperscare

Hongkong and when I am riding around on's two lakhs, which will be in a drop in the re-sa never now gets to lover, beat. Tahink there are Real at rival by having him spainted to carry out hlevisionary schemes. Invendefgiving him plenty of far worse places for policemen than the milion taels, Llaveported to have off-red him,

the temperature but so below sexo, en heartlessness to tell poor Chang that if he brdi trackless prairie hunting up s rayed caule with to Chang's requirements, and then, he hid the wish I was again at the top of Pottinger Set the million taeis available he woul buy up the in a long chair with a cigar and a fog of beermines and mills and work them for him elff Handy.

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I KID, &c.,

STAI KOK [Sorry to ste a man so fal of a desire to

Canada, N.W.T., November 11th, 1893,

moulder somewhere." Ed.]

for killing Malay. It was a sensational unpopularity which was all but uniwersal. I refer bu incas. An "Eye Witness" writes 10 the Straits to Sir William des Vompx....... In addition, Sir, you' Compounications intended for publication must be xxxxpanded Independent that after the criminal bad had the very great advantage notwithstanding draw. On the 11th inst-the-first-defendant been led to the scaffold, a very ababy one, and your lengthy official service, of being specially la. brought the document produced to witness. It after the usual preliminaries of reading the sun. touch with the purely mercantile progla yon | Pusported to be an order to draw tence of death by hanging, in the Malayas and' were sent to govern, I have been informed, apdirb 450 10-dollar oictum. 4.500 Dutch languages, the noose was adjusted rund have no reason to doubt the accuracy of my 260 5 the man's neck by two hangmen, no doubt Information, that your Excellency, prior to 67 50 amateurs who had been recruited for the occasion, entering her Majesty's service died and the 425-35 and the order was given for the bolt to be drawn, yea when Britain went well ofgb mad.over the 15 500 giving the man a drop of some eight or nine fall of Sebastopol as a clerk in the Colonial

100 leef. The poor wretch had hug for just the Office, held a promising appointment inga leads too. everybody present, the rope, which was of the we in Hongkong regarded your appointment enough money in M.xlean dollars then buy fraction of a second, when, to the berrer of leg commerci. I house in Singapore. And so

It was also stated, on the document if not most rrdinary kind, very thin and made of with unusual favor j you were one of ourselves; Japanese yon." The document was stamped with wood-Abre, -broke and the man foll-down, knowing red nederstanding our needs, and not carrying with him one of the hangmen who merely an official cypher from Dowairg & reet, called at the Tung Tat Bank on the rata be the Ong Wing chop. When the first defendant happened to stand on the edge of the trap door. You' sama to this golong with professional received all the money demanded. The money The spectacle which was then presented to quite prestige that was more than valuable, in fact was paid in four insta mnts, the fit being large gather eg of Furopeans, Natives and you went up whh all the brilliancy and trial of 1026. so, which the, defendant specially asked Chinese was a most horrible one, indead. There the moverbial socket,--~, el

for. He was not accompained by Cabana, but was a pause of abist minutes before the I am in common honesty bound to admit that Cabana was knows by itness, on whom he had culprit was ag in brought forward with a new your dibus before this somewhat critical com paid one or two calls, Liu Kong alias Cabins, rope around his neck which some mental had murity as a most successful one. In addition was brother of the Manuyer of the Ong tossed from the crowd. The pallent was then to a pleasing personal appearance, your irala Wing Bank. bolsted up and left dangling for some time, whilst ing and experienco had taught you that debit account of payments to the Ong The book produced was the two men kept pulling him by the legs. What courtesy and urbanity in dealing with all clashes Wing Bank. It was usual to have the happened from the time the first rope snipped were an absolute necessity to diplomatic success entry respecting payments to any firm "chopped and the culprit was banged a second me you gave every indication of beleg thoroughby the hong chop of the firm receiving money I have not been able to ascertain some sportsman and a firm supporter of those from his institution. There was an entry in the HONGKOND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1892 way the poor wretch was choked, whilst manly pinimes which appeal so strongly book showing that $7,500 had been paid to the others deny it. The fact is, the general to the Baltlah nature, especially in foreign, Ong Wing. On the Igik witness first heard that public could hardly see what was going on a landay yop at once vaulted fats the poll there was something wrong about the payment of LOCAL AND GENERAL, the base of the scaffold was draped with black steal arena and expressed in-no-utger the $37.000. Since that date the Ong Wing had cloth. The general eplalon fendly stressed tain language your readiotas, gay, you drawn on his bank. Dida't know whether there THE P. & O, S. N. Co.'s steamer Ades left before the execution took place, was that saliber determination, to work hand-in-hand with those had lately been a rus on the Ong Wing Bank,

the hook not the tope would hold bat the whose lives and fortunes were bead up in There were thussern clerks (oks) employed a well known fact that there was unconstructing the line oren from Lu K'ow Kiso, - Singapore for this port at Tigo sém, to-day,———

suborlies, presided over by our abla (1) head of Hongkong's prosperly and to sepower the groped in teas, instation, four of whom were thought differently. The public, however, were predecessors you plainly indicated more than dollars: When ablest from Hongkong Wong the Municipality (Plasteely Besturs), apparently that had been lost during the regime of your specially employed as brekers to go out selling very much disgusted by what took place and opes that you would not he bound down by red. Kam Chuen acted as substitute for witness expressed their opinions pretty openly, although sape officialdom in dealing with matters pertains Chan Shis was one of the clerks whose this is rather a dangerous thing to do her, it log to the welfare of the colony and fis people 3, special, daly it was in get an cashter: In to be hoped that this unfortunate, bungling or and, Big, you had the poweilgl advantage of Lo Chuk was the mapsglog partner of the „A REDULAR: annual meeting of the District Playing af hanging as some people described being supported, in those social functions of Tong Tai Bank who attended the once Kimost Grand Lodge of Hongkong and South China, the proceeding, will be avoided when the other which you are the official, autocrat by two of the levery day, Wong Kan Chan and Lan Yo were will be held in the Masonic Heli, Zetland Street, four mon, now lying under sentence of death, moss caltured and charming ladies fiovernment prezent when the $37,500 were paid soft fire this evening, at 8.30 for p' o'clock precisely§}{ *Bro' cxccuted,"

Jiangs has ever know

And yey whh nộ thìsa | de gadget. The Ong Wing had withdrawn al: I then ibu beight of the rainy season in Syria, and 3. fnos Plag-ting in Bhansi, and no doo) 19 pagin

The Honghong Telegraph.

MasRS. E Schelthes & Co, have forwarded the 1893 calender of the Manchester Fire Assut Race Company, siving a very presentable picture of the bleago World's Falt building

CHRISTMAS DAY.

But knowing as we do that the Viceroy of Chillk is possessed of immense wealth and has more than the sum named lying. Idia, to be privata characteristic, remark to mean that he would account in celain banki, we must conative his

take Chang's works ever if he thought the gare. were worth the candle. But Li does not belly va in Chang's wriks. We remember bow H.F. LI scoffed at Chang's scheme when it was first proe outset, posed, and pronounced it immracicable hơm tho He owes the Wachang Véroy a grudge for condemning the Tientsin Kilping Railway, and he was largely Instrumental in obtaining the translation of his rival from Can ton to Wachang to carry out the grand scheme which Chang fortunately, for himse fres commended to the Torone. No one appreciated better than the Viceroy Lie Imponbilly of

2000 from Chiocre materials, and within outside P-king, to Hank disance of me gh year, the time wiich the proposer of the line allowed himself, Chang es imated the cast In the Eastern aburch Caritimes I kept on of the line at T 16000,000 and we think we' January 6b, The Armenians celebrate the are saf” in-ssying/that_almuşt .a, third of that Epiphany and Christmas on January 18th, sum has been expanded already in meta presi

at be the day of the nativity of Chelst for it is has been manufactured out of the unted or

It is almost ceriain that December zith cap paratory work, and on, iron worth sp king of

To THE TON OF "Huxcond TALICE," DEAR SIR-It has often been asked whether the asth of December is really the day of the day of Christ. I am not going foto minute detail as to whether the insta ton of this fellval is attributed to the Decretals of Pop Telesphorus, (these decretale, I may as well and ara considered spuitous) or to find any traces of it in the time of Commonus or DiocletianTMTMTMTM

day of Christ among the early churches some uniformity in the eriod of observing the birth held the festival in the months of April or May, others in January, copjointly with the Epiphany