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another banking institution whose binking assets recently were upwards of ten and three- quaiters millins of pounds sterling.
The trade of the adjsining province, Kwang tung (Canton), hai poi shewn any increase in the first nine months of 18oz is compared with the corresponding pedal of 1991; on the contrary, the Chinese Customs Revenue shews a d'crease of almost ten per cent., or over "Taels 415,000, The published retorns of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs give :- Revenue for the fin! nine months
Revenue for the fint nine months
If 189..................Teels
4,244.994-74
of 189...................Taela 3,819,906.57 The decrease for the first three-quarters of 1831 as compared with the same period of 1891, at Canton, being overs per cent, at Lappa (Mac) over 15 per cent, and at Chinese Kowloon over 20 per cent. The Chinese Customs Revenue may safely be regarded as an tudex to the variations and even the decreased volume thereof trade, for the reasons before mentioned, has in many Instances resulted unpr. fitably. Trade cannot Improve while the gold value of silver continues shrouded in boundless uncertainty and, violent fluctuations in exchange are taking place. ange of shipping frequenting the harbour, but it is notorious in the Colony that
Returns may show some increase in the ton"
number of the steamers calling here have not been paying their running expenses, while nearly all have suffered pecuniarily in. sympathy with the exceedingly unsatisfactory state of shipping all over, the world. Shipping is undoubtedly of the very first importance to the Colony, but the alleged Increase of tonnage can in no measure be reasonably construced na shewing any increase of prosperity in trade here. Such a deduction is more less fallacious. According to the Estimates the revenue from Light Dues la on the decrease. The figures are:---
......°96c6.69
In 1891....... Revised Exilmate for 1892... 87.742-35 Estimate for 183
87,000.00 The destination of nearly all the rice and other Imports from the northern parts is Canton. The steamers carrying these merely pass through our waters, but the inclusion of their tonnage to our Harbour Statlatics has led and leads to erroneous defections. A large number steamers to and from Europe,
of the ocean
America, &c., in like manner swell the official tonnage returns, but in reality many add little to our revence, and many of them contribute nothing to the trade profils, the steamer -having-to-many-listances-to-call, even-with- little or nothing to land is or take from the Colony. They have to call for the sole purpose of transhipment of cargo and branch lire requirements.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1893.
and proper. If a demand is made on the public purse for any purpose disapproved of by the Grenment. or not cordially supported, the responsibility of rejecting it is thrown on the Unofficial Members.
There is apparently a clerical error in the dates of the newspapers stated in the last paragraph but two of the memerial to have been posted to the address of the Secretary of State, and I am to enquire what newspapers were so posted. No coples were received with the memorial,
I bave the honor to be, Sir.
Your most obedient servant,
(54) G. T. M. O'BRIEN,
Colonial Secretary.
The Unofficial Members have recently objected and objected frequently to the creation of new offices, and the consequent increase in the public charges without their ever being consulted, or having even an opportunity of expressing an opinion on the matter, They are asked to vote the money needed when it is impossible to refuse It. They The Honorable P. C. CHATED, ele ebject to the appointment of additional Cadets still unprovided for, and to the manufacture of to old to be myled as Cadets. They object to posle to give them saintles when they become
the
appointment of new men to official posts in the Colony when there are officers in the Colony already qua'ified to fill the vacancies without
work to do,
Colonial Government on three different occa- The Unofficial: Members have asked the sion since April last for & Commission to enquire into the whole question of public Expen. diture. We seler your Lordship to the debates In Council on 10th April, 1891, 7th December, 1891, and 9th May, 1897, as reported in the Hongkong Hansard, 1890 gr, and 1991-92.
The cont of the 'walaries and personal allow. ances alone has risen as follows :--- In 1887.........$541.650 * 1888...
552.875
1889 617,183 1890............ 555,233
1991 758.119 (estimated.) Estimated for 1892 about $774.000, and possibly sell larger estimated amount for 1803, bence our motion for reduction to the 1890 basis, with the view to general retrenchment and the strictest economy, which we regard'
absolutely DCCCSIRKY.
The Unofficial Members, of Council beg to point out to your Lordship that although there may possibly be some difference of opinion in the Colony on the question of official salaries, there is no division of opinion as to the necessity for econemising generally by the amalgamation for a reduction in the cost of administration, and of cot-in offices, as well as for a reformation in the constitution of the Legislative Council, and as to the uselessness in the Council as af pre- element which is babitually avenuled by the sent constituted of the presence of an uncfficial. Official vote.
We further beg to ask your Lordship's special reference to the proceedings in the founcil a
posted in the Hongkong Daily Press of 8th and 22nd December ultimo, and posted herewith. We ask that an independent Commission, f.s. one consisting of the Members of the Community The Colony's Revenue from oplum has not
unconnected with Government or at least of increased nar even been m intained. The renty of such persons, should be appointed from the Oplum Faim has fallen from with full power to investigate and report on the $39 900.00 In 8g, and $5.9 000,00 estimated cost of the Admiolatration. for 19 to $340 co co per antium for the next three years. The revenue from this source is of a most uncertain and precarious natura.
The Revenus obtained from subsidiary coinage shows a large decrease. In 1890 i was $90,17.87, in 1891 $73.347091 the revised Es imate for 1892 is only $5,500.00, and the Estimate for 1F9 $17,000.00.
The Revenue of the Colony is not as produc- tive and as elastic as when these augmentations linics were commended. "There WAS then a large surplus Revenue over Ordinary Expenditure. The surpluses were: -
In 1889
$519,107.57
In 1 Boo
******** 157,729.25
Estimated su plugin RV, In 1892 115,2600 Esumed possible surplus in 1
6,785 00 Revenue in 1893........... Ordinary Expentrure; in spite of all the effuts of the Unofficial Members, continues to increase annually, and, we thirk, aut of proportion to the real needs of the Colony. The figures, are an follow-
..$1,459,167.16
In 1889. In 1790,
............... 1,470 121.co
In 1891, ............... 1,868,073 26 The latest esime for 1892 fs 1,882,000.00 While the estimate for 1891 is 1,899 611.00 House rents are lewer now than they were in 1889-1890. The fall has been great; though the effect of this on the Revenue has not yet been felt, The annual valuations have birdly yet been altered. It was solely on the ground of the great increase in house rents in the Colony that Lord Knutsford sanctioned the increased salaries. (See his Lordship's Despatch of 3rd April, 1891, more particularly para 12)
The Governor recognis d plainly to his state- ment to the Council ki the opening of the present Session the need of reucachment in every direction, and said:-
tion as vacancies occur."
reply to this letter rifrect to the Une fficial Mem
We venture to hone that your Lordship will bers or to their doyen. We had occasion within the last year or two to address several letters to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonier and have received neither acknowledgment or reply. It was only in answer to questions in Council that we learned that there hid been any communication at all on the subject of our letters,
We have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most ebedient humble Servants,
(Sigued) C. P. CHATER.
HO KAL
T. H. WHITEHEAD, ER BELILIOS.
To the most honourable the Marquis of Ripon. her Mjesty's principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, etc., etc., etc., Downing Street, London.
PROTEST.
We, the undersigned Unnfficil Members of the Leg! lative Council of Hongkong, both nominated, and elected, desire to place on record eur unanimus protest against the Appropriatlon Ordinance for 1893, entitled-
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to apply a sum not excreding Two millions Two Hundred and Fify-six thousand Three hundred and Seventy-fire Dollars to the Public Service of the Year 1893, numbered 13 of 18-2, and published in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 3rd Inst., *1 having been passed by this honourable Council on the 30th day of November, 1892, and having been assented to by His Excellency the Governor, in the name and on behalf of the "In the public service vested interests cannot Queen, on the 3rd day of December lastant,
be disregarded, and all retrenchments con- We protest against the inclusion in that sequently must be more or less of a pro-Ordinance, contrary to the unanimous voter and spective nature. I have publicly stated that opinions of all the Unofficial Members of the when opportunities arise I will take advant Council to the Finance Committee ad in the age of them, but time is required to effect Committee of the Council, of large sums for the all such seforms. The Civil Service is to asalaries of the Civil Servants of the Colony in certain extent over-officered, and the salarles of the clerical service are capable of reduc- all the Unofficial Members in the Finance excess of the amounts voted and approved by Committes and report d to the Council, and far in excess of what, in our opinion, are necessary or what the Colony canreasonably afford to pay We protest against the Colonial Secretary and the Official Members of Council voting in Cam mittee of Connell, and tn Council on the third reading of the Bill, in support of votes for their own salaries in excess of the amounts approved by us in the Finance Committee as reported.. voting on questions in which they are directly. Members of Council are legally incapable of pectiniailly interested. They are disqualified on The Governor confesses that there is need of principle and by the law of Parliament formally retrenchment and reform, that some of the declared to a recent case in England, and we salaries are too high and ought to be reduced, protest and declare that, the votes of the Official and that the official sis is too numerous, We Members of Conzell on the Appropriation Bili, are also decidedly of His Excellency's aplatos 10 far as the question of official salaries as and consider that the circumstances which ap concern that the Amendments proposed in
were null and vold and of no effect. peared to justify the 1891 increase no longer exist; that an anntal economy of $35,000 or Committee of Council for the reduction of official $40,000 or more may be easily effected without delay and without hardship, and that an increases sites to the scale in force in 1890/wat duly were granted and pild upon the express can votes recorded against the amendments were carried by a majority of legal votes; that the dition that they were open to early reconsidera-all and avoid and ought not to have been con tion there is no vested interest to be affected by their revision, and that there is nothing unjust or inequitable in our moving accordingly.
lo his Excellency the Governor's address herein before referred to he admits that the stato of affairs now, so far as fluance is concerned, cannot be considered entirely satisfactory. We quite sbare in this view, and as to the future we keenly feel the imperative necessity for economy. and retrenchment.
In ble despatches to
to your Lordship he tells us that he has recommended reductions of salaries, amalgamation of offices, abolition of appoint mcots as opportuales offer, and has had to ask your sanction for loan. He evidently agrees with us that the present rates of salary are high, for he has recommended and carried a very con siderable reduction in the salary of the new Registrar of the Supreme Court, and he proposes to do the same with all offices as opportunities
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ted and that the Appropriation Bill ought to have been reported and passed with these amand- For the reasons above given we formally and unanimously protest against the so-called Appropriation Ordinance for 1893 as published, and declare it not to have been duly passed by this mourable Council and net to be law.
Dated Hongkong, this 13th day of December, 189a.j
(Signed) C. P. CHATER
HO KAL.
T. H. WHITTHEAD, E. R. BELILIOS
,:
01-COLONIAL SECRETARY TO SENIOR'
STUNOFFICIAL MEMBER.)
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HIS. U. M. TO COLONIAL SECRETARY,
Hongkong January 201b, 1893. SIR-I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter No. 88 of 19th instant informig mo that the memorial enclosed in my communication of 14th instant has been forwarded to the Secretary of State by yesterday's mail, and intimating that 17th idem to the Secretary of State to the effect his Excellercy the Governor telegraphed on the that the onefield members desired that the Apppropriation Ordinance for 1993 might not be given effect to, pending receipt of their memorial. beg you please to kindly convey to his Excellency the thanks of the unofficial members for his having done so,
R20 JANEIRO, December 16th.
clergyman was also revolving, and It appeared A military revolt broke out at Nientheroythat my head was sinking into my body, while my to-day, the object being to raise to the Presidency legs were momentarily growing shortor, Ifelt tha ex-Governor Protein, leader of the Autonomist I bad lost control of my pipe, which disappered party. Federal troops were at once dispatched as I shot up into the air. My strongest emotion to the scene and the revolt was soon suppressed. Two ps were killed and many were arrested,
was a fear that I should bring my head against the dirty celllng. I noticed also that I was It is rumored that several influential person breathing blac flames-and then I suddenly were implicated in the plot and that they will regalced my senses, and was violently sick. Toe be arrested,
clergyman came to my rescue, and giving me his arm led me out into the street, where the fresh air speedily restored my addiel brair. Rut my head ached, and my eyes were dimmed, and although I managed to walk mate or lesi steadily, I felt it and exhausted. Such was my experience on the occasion of my first and last vult to an opism den.
HAMBURO, December 16th. Two deaths from cholera have been reported so far, la December, one on the 8th and the other on the rath. The first is claimed to have been Imported from ou'side the cly. There are no new cases to-day of authentic cholera.
QUEBEC, December 16th. Cabinet were sworn Into thaix old places to the All the members of the late Da Boucherville new Cabinet. The only change is in the Premiership, which now devolves on L O. Tallon in place of Boucherville..
LONDON, December 17th..
H. Wright, formerly financial manager of the J. W. Habbs, late managing director, and G. Liberator Building Society, were arraigned le the Police Court to-day on charges of largery. fraud and emberalement. Counsel stated that Hob & Co owed the society $10,500,000, obtained; while Hobbs was managing director. The bills had been falsified and, a nomber of books were missing,
ROME, December vi
DEAFNESS ABSOLUTELY CUREDA Gentleman who cured himself of Deafness and Noises in the Head, of 4 years standing, by a new method, will be pleased to send fail particulars free. Address HERBERT CLIFTON, 8, Shepherd's place. Kennington Park, London, S.E., Eng.-[Advt.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL.
REGISTER.
19th January, 1893—At 4 p.m.
"STATION, 12" ||E
Takkaudu ko
No acknowledgment of my letter having been received, the newspapers referred to in the last paragraph but two of the memorial, were not paved to the address of the Secretary of State by yesterday's mall. The newspapers in ques.
Tiyib, The little storm rited by the Italian Senate's floe are the Hongkong Daily Prers mall sup- referat. to confirm the nomination of Signor plements of 8th and and ultimo, which contain Zucaro Floresta bas: died out Signor Golli Ng with the reports of the meetings of the Legislative Counts all Fremier, but, the debate of Monday Shanghal cil held on 30th November and 14th December last has somewhat shaken his prestige. Few ultime respectively, and these we will forward by think he will stay lang in office. It is not sure Amoy - 10. next mall to Europe.
that if he fell Signor Crispi would succeed. Het Swat is not anxious to take up the lottign policy mapped out by Signor Rudial. In bis present mood Signor Cropi would like to draw dearer in France. His wish, however, har bean rendered
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most abedient servant,
($d.). C. 'P, CHATER.
The Honorable G. T.. M. O'Brien, C.M. G. vain by the renewal of the six years tille
Colonia! Secretary,
NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.
The Pacific Mall Co.'s steamship Peru, Capt. W. Ward, which left San Francisco with the American mails of Dec. 25th, arrived to harbour this morning. For the subjoined tele- grams we are indebted to our San Francisco exchanges:-
LONDON, December 16th. ~A ̃Paris”correspondent says a member of the Investigating committee who witnessed the removal of Reinach's seals states that enough poisons were seized to kill a whole regiment..
The Standard's Vienna correspondent says: last night for baby farming. Infants bodies two more women were arrested near Lemborg were found in the gardens and courtyards behind the houses of the midwives.
for the murder of two men who were pursuing
PARIS, December 16th. Eugene Crampon was guillottoed this morning
which he had just plundered. The execution him as he was running away from a wineshop was one of the most horrible witnessed in Paris in many years.
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alliance, His bands are tied. Not conaturally he feels bitter. While the existing treaties stand he has little to expect but toleration from any Icallan ministry.
ST. PETERSBURG, December 17.b. The Rutilan Government has promulgated a law requiring that Jewish artisans shall reside only in places where official Boards of Trade exist, the pretence being that Jews can thus be kept more effectively under official regalation and supervision.
Official Boards of Trade exist only in about. decree therefore means a vast addition to the 10 per cent of the towns in Russia and the
misery and oppressió under which the Russian Jews already labor. Many thousands of Jewish towns for which they are located to enter the artisans will be compelled to remove from the competition for existence in populoss centres. The object of the new law is believed to be to
willing to receive them or not. startiké Jevafolo piring again, and drive them over the frontier, whether other countries are
had caused a cessation of
The partial embargo on emigration to America the fight of Russian Jews to the frontier, and the Russlan authorities, who are anxious to get rid of the the border, have been much irritated by the Jews without absolutely bayoneting them acros change in affilrs.
of the guillotine as the procession emerged from The culprit, as moon as his eyes caught sight
the prison, fell to the ground in abject terror and groveled on the flagstones, begging plteously
The final officil statistics of the cholera for a resplie. He became se limp that thepidemic in Russia show 130,417 deaths from executioner's assistants had to "take him up and European and 135,343 from Asiatic cholera since carry him to the place of execution. He can- the outbreak in the empire.. tinued
to struggle and shriek while they bound him to the plank and placed his head beneath. the knife, and be only ceased when the head relled into a basket.
it was rare treat to the ribald crowd,who saw it. It was made up of he criminal element of Paris, men and women, and at the end they dispersed bandying coarse fests.
NEW YORK December 16th. ` The Herald correspondent at Valparaiso cables: News reaches here from Rio Janefsa that the Federalists are entering the city of Rin Grande and that Governor Cestilho of Rio Grande do Sul is fleeing to the south. He will resign.
The Herald correspondent at Montevideo telegraphs that the Casilistas have signed a pelition asking the Federal Government of Brazil to declare war against Uruguay,
HAMBURG, December 17th. The two fresh cases of cholera reported here have proved fatal: Three cases are reported in the Hamme brack-district,
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CONSTANTINOPLE, December 17th. presented by the Khedive of Egypt to the Sultan Four beautiful female slaves were recently of Turkey and placed in the imperial harem, They appear to have had a captivating influence on the Sultan, who paid them so much attention as to excite the Jealousy of the other women. The four beautiful slaves were found murdered Hongkong Observatory, zoth January, 1893. in their beds a few days ago, having fallen vicilms to polson:
The Sultan faald to have been deeply enraged when he heard of the fate of his favo rites. He ordered a rigid Investigation and severe punishment for the guilty. Three cunuchi who had access the apartments of the victims were arrested on suspicion of being the persons who actually administered the polson, and at latest accounts they were being subjected to torture lo order to compel them to make a full contesalon."
BERLIN, December 17th.
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ST. PETE SBURG December 16th, Another terrible raliway tragedy is reported from Rostow. When the passenger train reached that point to-day two merchants, who were traveling in a compartment of a first-class carriage, were found murdered, their heads having been battered in. A large som of money. The old clly of Rostock was the scene yester they were known to have had was gone. The day of the celebration of the one hundred and conductor of the train has been arrested on fiffeth saniversary of the birthday of General suspicion.
von Blacher," the Prussian soldier of Waterloo. The city was gally decorated and there was a great military parade.
BERLIN, December 16th,
OPIUM TWADDLE.
Residents in the East are in, a position to
Last evening there was published a brief account of how the Paris Figaro's publication of the Lowe letter to General Boulanger was received here. Baron von Hahnke, chief of the Military Cabinet, was at once telegraphed for in Prussian Saxony, where the Katser la bunting.know how the oplam trade affects the Chiese early to the morning. He proceeded to Letzlinen, He was instructed to make out, full detailed in general, since aise ant of ten of those they report of the matter. An official inquiry is meet daily take opium more or less, just seine already in progress.
out of ten Europeans take a drick occasionally, or a smoke-without dying instantly. Yet the impression to England sill elfugs,, that opium. is only a shade less Injurious than small-pox, and as certainly fatal as hydrophobia. Here is an tostance, from a (usually), very readable and reliable publication of Cassoll & Co.'s, called "Chums
The effect of the revelation in official circles, coming just at the moment when the utmost pains are being taken to keep further allusion to the fowe guns from being made, is the hardest kind of a blow to the Government. The official papers are silent on the subject, but the
Kreuz Zellung, all Conservative journals, acetas Germania, the organ of the Contro party, the Nachrichten, the Vasilache Zeitung and the Herr Lowe, in terms more or less emphatic, of bad faith.
The disclosures in regard to Lowe's offers to manufacture rifles for France have greatly weakened Caprivi In the estimation of the Reichstag, and lessened in proportion the prospects for the passage of the army bill.
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HONGKONG VOLUNTEERS.
GENTLEMEN willing to take an aciled
part in the formation of the proposed VOLUNTEER FORCE are invited to put themselves in communication with the Recruit log Committee appointed by His Excellency the Governor at the Public Meeting at the Cliy Hall on the igth December last,
The Members of the Committee are:-
J. J. FRANCIS, Esq. Q.C., Chairman, The Hon. J H. STEWART LOCKHART. Leat-Colonel J. JERRARD,
··Captain MCCALLUM, H.K.V.
J. ARMSTRONG, Esq.,
who will be found at their Offices daily from a to & Mpepared to give all needful explana- tions and to enrol Members
The Committee wil sit regularly on TUE DAYS and FRIDAYS at the Chambers of Mr. FRANCIS, QC Bank Entidings, fram 4 to 5
PM.
The Force will be on the same foo:ing as are Volunteers in England, that is to say They are liable. In case of war to be called up for active service and will then brander miliary command and subject to military law, receiving the same pay regularly enlisted soldiers, and being entitled to pensions for wounds, &c. &c. They will not be required to serve out of the Colony and will be led by their own Officers. In peace time, they are liberty to leave at any time on 14 days notice; will only be undo military command when voluntarily exercising or on daty together with the regular troops will be subject to such regulations as to drill, discipline, and efficiency as His Excellency the Governor mayappolat, and will be annually inspected by a regularly deputed Military Officer,
The Government will defray all expenses of the Corps other than the cost of uniforms of Commissioned Officers.
It is desired to establish one Battery of Artillery and 3 Machine Gun Companies, all the Members to be trained also in the use of the Rifle or Carbine. Pony draft for both Field. and Machine Guns will be provided to and from place of exercise or parade.
It in suggested that friends and acquaintancer should combine to form a gun detachment of 12 men, or a half company (or Section of Field Artillery) of 24 mep, or even a complete Com-. pany or Bastery.
The Officers of the Battery when complete will consist of one Captain and thres Lieutenants and those of each company of one Captain and two Lieutenants. Such Officers to be elected by their own men, the Lieutenants by the half companies or sections, the Captain by the company or battery. Such election to be sub- ject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor,
The uniform of the Field Battery will remala as at present, that of the machine gun compa- nies will be a matter for fature consideration, & working dress only being provided for the ensulag drill season.
One month in the year (the month of March being at present proposed) will be set apart for the annual training when drills will take place twice a day. Volunteers will also be expected. to attend at least one parade monthly during the rest of the year. The minimum number of attendances and other requirements to cuable a Volunteer to be deemed efficient will be here.. after fixed by the Governor in Council on the recommendation of the Major-General
Gentlemen are reminded that the proposal for: obtaining a vote of the Legislative Council for fonds to establish and maintain the Corps is conditional on the enrolment of not less than 120 Volunteers by the 31st of Jatisary Instant, and the Committee hope, for the credit of the Colony, that this number will be largely
exceeded.
JNO. J. FRANCIS.
}: H. STEWART LOCKHART.
J. JERRARD.
MCCALLUM.
1. ARMSTRONG,
Hongkong, 20th January, 1893.
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E. D. SASSOON & CO. Hongkong, 20th January, 1893.
For Sale.
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back of the shopy it, top, waarbare, but com The Chinaman, let us into the room at tained three or four chairsised table, whic across the dirty window at the hack was a greasy sola. ...I was requested to seat myself on this sqle, which I reluctantly, did, and Yan, lamp, tin, canities, and a tiny mail pipe with A LODGE will be held in the FREEMASONS
OF INSTRUCTION, going to a cupboard by the fireplace, produced a
REGULAR MEETING of the above. like a katlogaeedle. Having the leap, be HALL, Zeland Street, on THURSDAY, the 25th
long stem, He also found a piece of iran,win..
February, at 5 for 5:30 pm, precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
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Hangkan, zoth January, 1993.
KOTHEN MARK LODGE, No 244.
MARK LODGE of MARK MAITER REGULAR MEETING of the EOTHEN MASONS will be held in the FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on THURSDAY, the 26th fast, at 8.30 for 9 pm precisely, Visiting Brethren are cordially fowited.
*Hongkong, soth January, 1893:
TO LET..
The Montlara was built in Singapore, is most solidly constricted of teak throughout, with fron wood frames, has recently been thoroughly. overhauled under experienced European superin tendence, and le row in excellent condition. She is a very fast, saller and a most suitable vessel for the Canton kerosche trade, or would make a first-class lighter.
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For Particulars as to Price, &c., apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH, 2:22:6, Reddor's. Hill Hongkong, 17th May, 1992
FOR SALE altijd THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT "CHOP CHEUNG," AS TERY LIE AT ABERDEEN DOCKS. THE Engines "ol tas Chop-cheung · were
The Hamburger Nachrichten publishes a paragraph, evidently inspired by Prince Bismarck, Count Eulenborg, then Minister of the Interior relating an incident of 1870. According to this, of Prussia, was sent by Bismarck to the Klofst Ems to say that Bismarck would resign unless the King returned to Berlin and summoned took the needle, and held it, is, the flame meeting of the Reichstag.
until i became warm, Then, he dug, it The committee of twenty-six members of the into the cantater, which contained a viscid pre- Reichstag to which the army bill has been paration nearly black lo colour, and of the coa. Frelsinnige members, eight Clericals, two Poles, round and round until he withdrew it with a referred consists of, one Social Democrat, aiz slatency of melted glue. He turned, the needle thres National Liberals, can Free Conservative little man of the stuff adhering to the end, about
constructed by Messe, INGLIS & Ca, of and five Right Conservatives. It is believed the sim of a bean. This he held is the flame of
Cylinder Direct-Acting Surface Condensing type, Wanchat, and are of the Compound Inverted that it will be impossible for the bill to obtain the lamp, forming it round until the oplura, for
Cylinders 204 and 38 dia, with a stroke of 26," majority fa the committee, and opponents of the such the stuff war, began to burn with a faint
The Crank Shaft is 61" dia. at the Crank pin measure confidently expect its defeat,
blue fime. This he rammed into the bowl. of the metal pipe, which he then handed to me
and 7 die at the Journals, The HP. Piston I put the thing to my mouth and drew once. I
Rod is 3" and the LP. 31" dia. The Piston [119
and Connecting Rod bolts are 2" dia, Air Pump promptly began to choke. My throat seemed closed, my nostrils are, my brain awam. I dropped
144" dia, by 13 stroke, Single Acting Circulating Pump 8" dia. by 13" stroke, and Double Acting the pipe, and struggled for breath. My dance No. 4 CAMERON VILLAS PAL, Food and Buge Pump (ons exch) 3′′ dia, by 13a MADRID, December 16th, - was met with a, torrent of instructions by the Moorish pirates captured the Spanish schooner Chingman, fastractions so rolable and so rapid Forscision on 31st March next.
large commodious Family Residence, stroke,... food, carried the crew into the mountains and that had not been as flustered as I was, I could HOURS No. 4, BILIZIOS TERRACK" refuse to surrender them all paid $15,000 ransom not have underjord them. by friend came to Robinson Road, It is probable that the Government will pay the tiny rescue, arid Explained, that 3 was not to puff: ROOMS on Tap Floor of No. 10, Ice House money.fra
as hard an I had done, but simply to let the Street above the City Club), ** VIENNA, December 16th, oplam burn in the pipe and inhale the Aavour It is officially dealed that a marriage has that ascended the tube. Having at length got GODOWNS in Duddell Street.
HOUSE No'r, Duddell Street, or in Tinta, taken place between Prince Ferdinandof Bulgaria my breath again, I made a fresh start,HOUSE NO 3. "BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,” and Princes Helen Louise Henriette, daughter of this time with › greater success. The taste facing Parade Ground. the Count of Parts and cousin of Fence Ferdinand, as coedlaly nasty, but it did not seem to ROOMS os First Floor of House No. 24,
have may particular effect--for the first minute," BANK BUILDINGS" Queen's Road, By the time I had gently drawn ɔdozen times, ROOMS 11⁄2" BRACOMEFIELD however I felt wariotis sensations. My head Queen's Road, da bom potuupard yovidi
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BELILIOS & Co; thani rờind like a'alowi, tu i pantomilmu: The: Kangkong, 29th Jantory, 1897 Javier (196) ocHongkong, 17th May, 1899, min
The Unofficial Members beg leave to point out to your Lordship that their position in the Council, and their treatment on many feancial question by the Government and by the Official Members of Council we such that they are com pelled to take this step for the protection of the interests of the Colony, and in vindication of their own rights and powers as guardians of the public
Colonial Secretary's Offices! pass. If any inc case of expenditure is proposed locally and it happens to meet with
Hoogkong, January 19th 1893 the approval of the Unoticia? Membere of SIR-am directed to inform you that the Council, they are consulted and their opinions memorial enclosed in your letter of 14th instant are cited to your Lordship as justifying the freceived on 16th instant) has been forwarded expenditure is they who have voted for iso the Secretary of State by this day's matt, whose mother in related to the Count of Paris, If they disapprove they are too often ignored I am also to inform you that the Governor and given to understand that their votes and telegraphed on the 17th Instant to the Secretary opinions are valueless and that their presence of State to the effect that the unofficial members la Council might well be dispensed with, and desired that the Appropriation Ordinance for that it is for the Excentive Government and for 1803 might not be given effect in panding, the Four Lordship to, deurmine what is naouniary, | receipt of their memorial,TAN VILAMENTS | Russia from obtaining loans in France:
| It's expected the scandalous developments regarding the Panama canal enterprise will lead to a rapprochement between Rossis and Gore many, owing to the fact that the fall of Bourier, the Freach Minister of Finance,, will prevent
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Bre in thoroughly good order.
These Engines have been very litle used and
The Boller is of the Horizontal Multitubaiar type, with three Furnaces End vertical Doms an top Its dia. is roft, a" by gft.' 10" long, external measurements; Furnaces, 28, 7" da; Dome, 3a ex, dia. It is in fairly good condition, having 44" dia, by 4ft, high | Tubes, 184 in number by
would last active service for over two years. recently undergone considerable repaire 15. | The Engines and Boller can be inspected on application to the Superintendent at Aberdeen,
For further particulars, apply to
B. FRASER SMITH, 56, Pedder's HILL,
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