16. And I gave my heart to get tipy, and to find out before others the galas and losses of Companies. 1 peṛceive that this also is vexation of spirit.
17-For in much information is much grief; and be that increaseth tips increaseth sorrow.
TO FAR CATHAP.
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A GIGANTIC FAILURE.
ERAINUS,
Reference has then muts more than once in the course of these articles to the Eastern Steamship Company, which came especially before Parliament and the country in 1854, nea competitor with the P. and O. for the India and China mail-contract. As already explained, the Exstern Company's tender befag for only half the service at a considerably higher rate than the P. and O. offer, it was hot accepted. ...-But the action of Government led to force debates during the Session of 1852, and to charges of favouritism which were very far from being supported by facts. What, then, was the Eastern Steamship Company ? How did it originato, and what became of it ?"
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About the year 1851 and 1852 were formed two companies la rua steamers round the Cape of Good Hope. One was the General Screw-| Sicamship Company, of which we have already seen something in the Overend-Gurney and other episodes ; and the other was the Australian Royal Mail Steamship Company, of which we shall have a little more to say when we come to treat af the extension of sleam to the Antipodes. - Both of these concern were largely subaldited, but both were commercial and financial failurei -largely because of want of knowledge of the proper class of vessels to employ on such voyage. A third great project of the same ers, but destined to have a more remarkable bistory, was the Eastern Steam Navigation Company,
This company was founded in 1851, and was in existence as an incorporation, although not aa going concern, when the Government (to wit, the Admiralty, which at that time, not the Post Office, managed the ocean-mall contracts) "adverthed for tenders for the new service of
Eastern mails in terms of the recommendations | of the second Parlimentary Committee of Inquiry, to which we have already referred.
It was incorporated by royal charter, with an authorised capital of £3,000,000 in (20 shares, of which I 200,000 was supposed to be issued, The promoters and moving spirits were by no means of the class of financial adventurere— indeed, among the principal shareholders were many men with both long purses and long heads. The concern was well backed with money and supposed to be particularly well equipped in the matter of science-perhaps in this respect it au.Tered from an embarrassment of riches.
One of the original directors of the Eastern Company was Mr. Joseph Ediemano, the reore sent itive in London of the Austrian Lloyd's Steam Company, and there seems, le doabt that the original denten was to work the two enterprises in unlon-In some such way, perhaps, as the British India and Netherlands India Companies afterwards, worked Into each other's hands.
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offer.d to the Eastern Steamship Company shareholders of carning 40 per cent, per annum on their lovested capital.
was accessible by, steps of the same material all nights the other week. Of course no one doubled worked in loitation of large diamonds, incrusted the correctness of Professor Barnard's observa- in a solid frame. On each side there were spouts tions, but their confrmation by other experienced made to eject scented water, which by its mur-observers is a sailafaction. musing & vied sleep.
It was a large order and a tempting bait, but did, not draw Mr. Edlemann and his friends of the 'Austrian Llody's. They were The congresses held in Spain during the cen. alarmed at the ambition of the Brunel tennial commemoration almost rival in number get, demanded their money back and withdrew and variety there that it is proposed to hold in from the Company altogether. The remaining Chicago in 1893. They include the Congress of proprietary was not large enough for the project,mericanists, Pedagogic Congress, Congress and it was not without considerable difficulty of Spiritualists, the Catholic Congress, Geogrs | that enough capital was got together to begin phical Congress, Congress of Freethinkers, His. work with the Great Eastern-or the Leviathan, pano-American-Portuguese Mercantile Congress, as she was in her cradle days popularly called, a Spanish-American Legal Coogress and minor "The idea of this peri'd was that speed was congresses of artisans and others which pass only a question of size that the bigger you could almost annoticed. make your steamer the faster abe would run, Brunel's argument practically was that there was no limit to the size of a workable vessel but that depending on the tenacity of material; therefore, be proposed to build one for the Eastern Steam ablp Company about six times às largè as any vessel then built,
everyone
The story of how Mr. Scott Russell entered into the project, and of how the Great Eastern was designed and built, need not be told here, since the mechanical sipects of this enterprise are familar, we may assume to connected with shipping, if not to every schoolboy. But the original, purpose of the design is not so well known, and, indeed, as we have said, is now almost forgotten. The capital having been with difficulty subscribed, the build- ing of the ship was entrusted to Scott Russell & Co., of London, who had also to supply the paddle-englass, while the screw-angines were ordered from James Wait & Co., of Birming- bam. She was to carry enough coal to take her out and home, and so guia further time by avoidance of stoppage for cònțing.
It was a grand programme, and the Great Barlies was to be ready to begin it in sfteen months. Well-she was not ready in fifteen months, and she never began It.
She was not ready to launch until!November, 1857, and then she stuck on the cradle for weeks, not reaching the water until the 31st of January, 1858. She cost to launch alone, no less than £120,000, and what she really cost before she was finished, goodness only knows,
This unexpected expense broke the Company, whó had not enough money to finish the great ship after she was afont. She lay for about a year, while vatn efforts were made to raise fresh capital, or to sell her to the Government as a transport. The Eastern Steamship Company was then wound up, and all its ambitious projects of wiping out the P. & O., and of monopolising the cream of the Indian, China and Australian trades, vanished into thin air.
The Great Eastern was transferred to the Great Ship Company for a sum of £160,000, and in September, 1859, made her first attempt at sea. She was not scat to the East, however, | but to the West, and no explanation has ever been vouchsafed why no attempt was made to carry out the original design of the vessel. We have never seen any reason afforded why, | when the Great Eastern was ready, she RCTOS to America instead of being loaded with cargo for China and India to be transhipped at Ceylon. If there was no opening for her in the Eastern, trade there was certainly mona in the American irade-for chance employment as a cable-laying ship does not count. Built especially with a view to revolu. tissise the Eastern trade, the Great Eastern was never, so far as we remember, la the East, at all, and just na she was the biggest ship ever
But the Eastern Steam Navigation Company proposed to run before it could walk, and offered to convey the mails from Plymouth to Calcutta and Hongkong, with the stipulated monthly extension from Slugapore to Sydney-vid | constructed since Noah's Ark, so also was the Alexandria and the overland route, not round the biggest failure as a maritime speculation.— the Cape-in vessels of from 1,300 to 3,000 tons, | Fairplay. with engines of from 400 to 600 horse-power. But they could not name any of there steamers they could not show them because they were not built and they coold not describe them because they were not even designed. Of course they could offer to lodge securities to be ready at the appointed time, but as their offer was 1817. considerably higher than that of the P. & O. it was declined in foto.
The shareholders were called together to can- -sider the report of the directors on the failuru of the mail negotiations, and to decide on the future policy to be adopted, Their attention was then diverted to a proposal by Mr. Isambard K. Brunel, for the construction of a vessel of leviathan dimensions for trade with the EasŤ.
Few people nowadays know of the original .connection between the famous Great Eastern and the trade with India and Far Cathay, but she failed in nothing more remarkably than with regard to the purpose for which she was originally designed." As this is an almost for gotten chapter in the history of British shipping, we shall serve a good purpose la recalling it.
The basis of the argument on which Mr. Brunel's project was put before the shareholders, was that the main line of Commerce between England and the East was round the Cape of Good Hope to Ceylon, where it divided into three great lines to India, China, and Australia respectively. What more reasonable, then, than to employ gigantis vessels between England and Ceylon, served by smaller vessels diverg ing there to all parts of the East? If such ocean giants could be constructed as would malutzin a speed of 15 knots an hour, it was contended that they must attract so large a portion of the traffic 420 afford full cargoes at semunerative freights bath out and home.
Trincomall was fixed on la anticipation as the great central station, and this port, it was calculated, would be reached in 30 days' steam. ing from London. At Trincomali transhipment would take place into subsidiary steamers, which would make the run to Hongkong in zo days, to Sydney in 14 days, to Madras" in two days and to Calcutta in four days. These subsidiary boats, of course, were to bring return cargoes to Trincomall for transhipment by tha big ships to England.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Only one man in 203 is over 6 feet in height. Iron pavements were first laid in London in
Greek lufantrymen are tralaed in stone throwing."
Ginger essence contains twice as much alcohol as whisky.
Heath is a South African plant which came to Europe in 1774
The Patin sewers are the largest and most complete in the world.
The Phoenicians wire the first to employ engineers to lortify citler, s
Baking bread, cakes and pies became a pro- lesson in Greeca B. C. 148.
Several thousands of hairpins, in many styles, have been recovered from Pompeii.
The word "encare "was first used in English theatres in 1710 and gave great offence.
EVENTS OF THIS CENTURY.
1801-Union of Great Britain and Ireland. 1801-Treaty of America. 1894-Bonaparte became Emperor of the
French.
1805-Hattle of Trafalgar and death of Nelson. 1807-Fulton's first steamboat voyage. 18:2-the French expediton to Moscow, 1813-Perry's 'victory on Lake Erie." 1814-The cylindar printing pr. ss invented. 1815-Hattle of New Orleans, January 8th. 1815 Battle of Waterloo, June 18th. 1819-Fist steamship crossed the Atlantic, 1811-Death of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1815-First successful steam railroad. 1818-Fl:si passtager af road-lu the United States.
1810-Revolutina In Farce and accession of the Orleans family.
1834-Lucifer matches invented, 1815-Marse i vente the telegraph, 1835-Seminole War in 'Florida began, 1837-Ascension of Queen Victoria, June 20th. 1844-Joseph Smih, Mormon leader, killed. 1846- Sewing-michine completely by Elias Howe.
1746-The Irish notalo fimine. 1846-Wat with Mexico began. “ 1848 French Revolution. ceeded.
Is an article, in the current number of The Engineering Magasing entitled "Architecture in Wood-A Protest," the author, Gordon B. Kimbrough, condemns the are of wood an a building material. He thinks it unsuitable, not only for external structure, but for interior deco ratión as "wall.Te, terra cotta, marbled alate and even plaster of Parla are all better materials for interior decoration than wood, even on the score of economy. They may not be as cheap an wood, but they are cheap enough to be made more profitable than wood after thing material has lost its respectability.
The production of itéel by the process of Walrand and Legenisal promises to requit loa considerable reduction in the price of castings and other similar articles of manufacture. This method has been worked in Paris for more than twelve months. A remarkable polat of the new | Installation is that neither blast engine nor boiler is to be seen connected with it other than those furnished as a reserva apparatos, Com- pressed air is 'employed as mudra power. It la farnished to the converter through condult at a pressure of 12 pounds. The air, however, expands before entering the converter, where it works at a pressure of from 1 to ak pounds, according to the phases of the operation. |This'li believed to be the fist applleation of compressed air, farolshed from a central station to the manufacturer of Bessemer steel, and it Eremu a considerable reduction in the cost of a first installation fer, a according to the original Walfand Legeafiel estimates, the blast englan and boiler ard half the expense of the installation.
4.
Ir the sufferers from Consumption, Scrofuls and General Debility will try Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, they will find Immediats relief and a permanent benefit. The Medical Profession in the garious countries of the world universally declare it a Republic and remedy the greatest value, and nå it in very palatable it can be readily taken by the most sensitive stomach, and will never fall to give relief and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist can supply it. A. S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.-—{Advt.
1848-Gold discovered in California. 18-Gold discovered in Australis, 1831-Loule Napoleon became Emperor, 1851-The First International Exhibition. 1853 Crimean War began.
1857-The great utiny in India. 1857-The Dred Scolt decision. 1858-First Lelegraphic e›ble communication across the Atlantic.
1859-John Brown's rald tato Virginia. 1861-Battle of Bull Run, July 21st, 1861-Emancipation of the Russian perfo 1861-South Carolina sreeded, 1862-Slavery abolished in the United States, December 18th.
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1863-Battle of Gettysbug. 186-President Lincoln assassinated, April
1866Battle of Sadowa. Prussia beat
14th.
1867-The Dominion of Canada established. 1868-Firet Impe:chment trial of American President (Johnson) failed.
Co-day's Advertisements.
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'HE PARTNERSHIP between SYDEN- WALTER GEORGE ROBINSON, carrying on Business under the Style of MOUTRIE, ROBINSON & Co. at SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, and HONGKONG, was DISSOLVED on the 31st day of December last,
THAM MOUTRIE and
Intimations
W. BREWER.
R.Gensiemen's Dancing Pampa.
ENSHAW'S Tennis Shoes, Buckskin Tops and Stained Hide Tops
Ladies' Evening Shoes.
Children's Walking Shoes in great v. riety.
Ball Programmes
Menu Cards, Gaçet Cards.
Invitation Cards.
Lett Diaries for 1893.
North China Anglo-Chinese Date Blocks.
Christmas Numbers of Truth and Yule Tide. Howard & Co, Daßen Annual, 49 cents. -
Phillip and Page's Dargo Annual, 40 cents.
Broch's Dance Asnual, 40 cents,
Comic Albums and Comic Songs, a large selection.
» Hongkong, 4th January, 1893,"
W. BREWER, UNDER HONGKONG HOTEL.
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CARMICHAEL & CO., LD.
ENTLEMEN'S DRESS SHOES and DANCING PUMPS,
WHITE CAMBRIC TIES with NECK STRAPS.
'WHITE KID GLOVES. id =ļl sizes.
- PORPOISE HIDE LACED BOOTS AND SHOES, Knickerbockers, Kulited Stockings for Shooting, Cycling, or Goling, Hand Knitted Scotch Fingering Wool Socks.
Double Barrelled Fowling Pieces to be cleared at very reasonable prices.
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· PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE, STAINFIELD'S-1, QUEEN'S ROAD EAST,
JACANCIES for GENTLEMEN or MAR- RIED COUPLES at Moderate Tems.
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Hongkong, 311 December, 1897.
BOARD AND RESIDENCE, OMFORTABLY FURNISHED ROOMS, with Board and Table Accommodation.
Apply to
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LEVY HERMANOS.
EWELLERY. DIAMONDS, WATCH. CHRONOMETER & CLOCKMAKERS, Sole Agents for PATEK PHILIPPE & Co., Geneva. A great variety in Fancy Goods, and Optical Instruments:
Austria
The Business" at SHANGHAI, KOBI, and 1867-Emperor Maximilian of Mexico ex-YOKOHAMA will be carried on by SYDENHAM ecpied.
*MOUTRIE' under the Style of S. MOUTRIE & Co, and the Builders at HONGKONG will be | 73] carried on by WALTER GEORGE ROBINSON under the Style of W. ROBINSON & Co. Dated this 9th day of February, 1893.
SYDENHAM MOUTRIE. W. ROBINSON.
FOR SALE.
1869-Completion of first overland railroad, 1870-Fra: con Guman Wer began, 1870-Capitulation of the French at Sedan. 1871 The German Empire was reën abllabed, 1871 The Irish Church was disestablished. IRT-The great fire in Chicago, 1872-The great tire in Boston.
·1881—President Gaifeld shot, 1882-English occupation of Egypt. 1883-Northern Pacific Railroad completed. 1895-Death General Gran', July 23d. 1886-Charleston earthquake, August gist. 1889-Kurricane at Apli and loss of American and German men-of-war.
1889-Johnstown, $8,000,000; 3,500 lives,
1890-Louisville cyclone; loss, $3,000,000 and 320 lives; 889 wounded."
Pame, flood–lası,
1890-Mississippi flood; Toys, $60,000,000, 1891-Lynching of eleven Itabans at New
Oricans.
1891-Baltimore szilors attacked at Valparaiso, 189-Great Russian famine, Cholers in Europe.
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE,
Gatling guns are now fired by electrielly. A new aluminium alloy, wits titanium, is made In Pittsburg. It is a good material for making tools,
Paper teeth are now manufactured by a
Lubrek dentist. One set has been inque
thliteen years and is as good as ever.
Recent improvements to photographic plates have been so great as to make it possible to take accurate photographs of a rifle ball travelling at the rate of 3,000 feet a second.
At banquets, la Queen Elizabeth's time, every guest came with bis spoon in his pocket.
In 1801 the number of newspapers published in the United States and Canada was 19,373.
The wine list of Sardanapalus has been found on a terra-cotta tablet, and contains ten kinds.
There are now 7,000 loan associations in the United States, with a membership of 2,000,000. persons.
An English inventor has projected an elec Ninety-four elementary substances are used Intrical bicycle with batteries which will weigh cotton dyeing with several thousands of com- forty pounds when filled, the entire machine's bloations,
weight having been computed at 155 pounds,
Electric search lights are being adopted by customs officers in England to order to svold the possiblilty of explosion white rummaging for goods on board tank and other vessels carrying petroleum or explosives,
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Greek and Roman architects placed earthen Jugs in the walls of theatres to increase the resonance.
Ude says: "What Bacon was to philosophy, Danta to poetry, Angelo to painting, Columbus to geography, Galileo to satronomy, Gonthier was to cooking.”
Professor J. Wortley Aze estimates that up. ward of 18,000 horses annually die or are killed in London, and of these about half succumb to accidents or infirmity.
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In 1580 black masks were worn in public by ladies of all ranks. The mask was held in place by ribbous passed behind the ears or by a glass button bald between the teeth.
Mount Ararat, the resting place of the scrip tural ark is in really two monstafas separated by a valley. The higher reak is 17,210 feet and the lesser 19,900 feet above sea level.
Oysters come nearer ta milk than almost any other common food material as regards both the amounts and the relative proportion of optrients, the food values of equal weights of milk and oysters betog nearly the same,
Several manufacturers to Europe are now using aluminium in the construction of bicycler. The aluminium is alloyed with a small per centage of titanium, which is said to increase the strength of the metal very considerably,
Sharing a man to twenty-five secondo le a feat deserving of praise, The feat has been rendered easy by the construction of a shaving machine of wood, reported to have been made by Melchoir Farkas, a convict in the Penitentiary of the city of Szegedia, in Hungary, a aque
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of ■ SODA WATER business.
Apply to
D. K. GRIFFITH,
2, Daddell Street, Hongkong, 14th February, 1893,
Entimations.
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TAKLEMA COLLIERIES COMPANY, MOJI.
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HIS Company having appolated the Undersigned AGENTS for their Coal, (TAKLEMA AKAIKI) in Hongkong, they are prepared to supply Coal ex-Ship, ex-Godown, or trimmed in Bunkers, at prices to be had on application.
Coples of Reports and Analysis to be seen in the Office of the Undersigned,
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CHEE ON & Co,
Nos, 21 & 31, Lee Yuen Street, East:
Sole Agents,
Hongkong, 26th September, 189a.
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10, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, Opposite the Telegraph Office.
G. FALCONER & CO.. WATCH and CHRONOMETER MANU-
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FACTURERS and JEWELLERS, NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
CHARTS and BOOKS... No. 48, Queen's Road Central, CHS. J. GAUPP & CO., "HRONOMETER, WATCH, and -GLOCK«}
-MAKERS, JEWELLERS, SILVER.
USMITHS, and OPTICIANS.
A CHARTS and BOOKS,..."
NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, Sole Agents for Louis Audemars' Watches- awarded the highest Prixes at every Exhibition
and fre Volgtländer and Söhn's
- CELEBRATED OPERA GLASSES, MARINE GLASSES and SPYGLASSES, No. 8. Queen's Road, Central,
ON
To be Let.
TO LET.
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Hotels.
PEAK HOTEL.
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OPEN ALL THE YEAR ROUND.
HIS commodious and well appointed.
HOTEL, situated at a height of 7,250 feet
above sea-level, having been Leased by the Proprietors of the “VICTORIA HOTEL," { Now OPEN and will be run in conjunction with their HOTEL in Queen's Road, thus enabling them to offer special Inducements to Visitors and Residents.
SPECIAL WINTER RATES.
The Rates for BOARD and LODGING during the Winter Mouths, from November 1st to... March 31st, have been reduced as follows --- One person, one month...............*$£0.00- Married couple (occupying one room) per
One person per day.............................................. 250. Married couple per day
350
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(in Connaught Besidings),- QUEEN'S ROAD, HONGKONG,
THE Private Hotel heretofore carried on in WINDSOR HOUSE has now been removed to CONNAUGHT HOUSE,
Calsine under European management. Each Bed-room has its own Bath-room, Hot and Cold water. Passenger Elevator to all Floors.
Charges from $2 per day upwards.
Special Rates for Familles or Permanent Boarders Offices and Rooms to let Unfurnished, and Rooms with or without Board, by day of month. Apply at the Office, No. 37, 3rd Floor,
Hongkong, 23rd August, 1ñas.
125
BAY VIEW HOTEL.
MR. OSBORNE beg to remind the Public
that every possible arrangement has been made for the comfort and convenience of Visitors to this popular Summer Resort. BAY
NE LARGE FRONT ROOM, 1st Floor, VIEW" occupies the best situation on the
Fraya Central, 1x5,
Shan-ki-wan Road, commands an excellent view of the Harbour, and is always open to the cool Apply to
breezes from the Southward. Steam-launches LAUTS, WEGENER & Co. Hongkong, 6th January, 1803.
ean at any time come alongside the jetty adjoin. ing the spacious Lawn, TO LET.
TO..
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THE MIIKE COAL MINING COMPANY. No. 6 QUEEN'S ROAD (lately occupied eta, are kept in stock.
THE MIKE COAL I
DITUMINOUS COAL of dark reddish colony. For steam- purposes it has been pronounced to be the best and the most economical of all the Japanese Coals. Its export to increasing yearly, and the opinions expressed by several of the largest regular consumers are in testimony of the excellent qualities of this boal, --
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Attention is called to the following advantages to Ships) Owners and Captains, who coal their buakers direct from the Undersigned -
FRESHNESS of the coal. UNIFORMITY of quality, **FREEDOM from impurities.....
Supply do any quantity on shortest notice, Quick despatch,
BEST of weight, etc, ste,
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA,
Sole Agents, ... onkong, 4th September, 1902. ...
KING WO CHEONG,
One of the latexi applications of slectricity to mining operations is seen in the Metternich lead mine in Belgium. Each bucket arriving at the top of the abaft makes an electric contact, and a needle in the office indicates by a red line upon COAL
revolving dram the number of buckets brought
up
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MERCHANTS, SHIP'S COMPRA- DORES, STEVEDORES, &C.
for Balon cargo of pure AKAIKI COAL
GODOWN and ex. SHIP.
MB. W. BOYD, Superintendent at
It was argued by Mr. Brunei and his sup porters that, even if the great ships" and auxiliaries should only be able to land goods in Hongkong within 40 days, in Caloutta within 33 days, or in Sydney within 44 days, still, it was certain they would carry larger cargoes at higher freights than any vessels heretofore employed All Eastern Cargoes paying freights of 45 per ton and upwards (happy days 1 1) might certainly
The Freach newspapers are testing a novel Have be reckoned on—such as alike goods, indigo, tax,
Here is an idea of what a little_apot of land | sort of type, made of malleable glass by a now coffee, spices, lac-dye, etc all expensive articles may do in the way of production: The island of process. The new types preserve their cloani. on which loss of interest. In transit was an ap- Jamaica selis annually to the United States ness simost indefiately. They are said to wear -preciable item. Par contra, the best textiles | bananas exceeding in value the entire apple, better than those made of metal, and can be COAL GIVES TEN PER CENT. BETTER
and hardware goods of England and the Compeach and cherry crops of that country.
cast with a sharpness of line that will print more The smallest coln ever struck in the United distinctly than is possible with the old style of stiont were indicated as quite able to pay
the bigher outward rates for rapid delivery. States was a half cent, which was issued between type.
Numerous processes have ›@gured of In fine, it was shown that 180,000 tons of export 1793 and 185g, Chinx is the only country that goods could safely be depended on to pay the has a coin a small so the U. B. mill the Chinese the patent list whereby it is claimed that petro- leam could be rendered inexplosive and also high freights, while a still larger quantity of "cash "is worth about one-tenth of a pent. faport goods would be only too glad to pay still
gnioflammable. One of these consists to adding to about forty gallons of petroleum two pounds higher import freights.
of copper sulphate and stirring the whole well. After about six hours' standing the off in ready. for use.
The teclippers then were earning from £8 to 13 per ton on fine teas from China on a passage Occupying about 100 days. How could they
A form of spart very popular in Normandy is that of dying klien, which see, some of them, of very large dimensions. There has been a come petlion recently at Reuen, on the heights of Bt. Catherite. The victailous kite rose to ike Height but for lack of string.
flate in
used,
Kowloon Docks, reports that AKAIKI RESULTS than any Japanese Coal he has ever
For full particulars så to price, &e,
*** Apply to
KING WO CHEONG, No. 33, Praya Central.. Hongkong, 3rd February, 1893. *[187
BAT-PANG COALS, THE Undersigned begs to inform the Public The popular idea that water is purified by that he has appointed HOP-WO-LOONG
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compete with nasmers reducing the voyage to of 3,600 metres, sad would have soared freezing has been again disproved by secent cares Agents in Hongkong for the Sale of the SAI-
50, or even 40 days? Well, that represented
*bout
It 50,000 tons per annum, and even if the The crew of the Wordering Jam, which
fal experiments, which show that the average PANG COALS of the'
HONDO COAL MINES,
ten, there was a splendid margin, So with mustra Chinamen, a negro, Frenchman, German, Irish Ils; by cutting down the voyage to 40 or go days, map, Swede, Norwegian and an American. they would cut out allthe Australian clippers aslar | Befne the vergel had been in part forty-eight as the conveyanceof gold and passengers was.com hours the engine the cipialde dingo males, cerned. The passenger traffic was regarded as | witnesses against expiato and two mates, a particular source of prospective traffic, and the whore charged with having treated them in transpost of troops also formed an item in the cruel manner." KASHAN RAE calculations of the sanguine promotaro,
Among the aumaeus presente sent to a Shah In fine, after summing up the probable sources of Perals by one the Russian Emperors was a of revenus, and making allowance for working bedstead of extraordinary magnificence. It is expenses, wour and loury vidy, a propppot was | said to have been entirely made of crystal, and
Eastern Company had to do it for £6 or 7 per recently aplved in Boston, was composed of two amount of impurity ́retained by the ice to 3431 JagadhatiYONOMI TAKASUKE 2
per cent of the organic matter, and 21.2 per cent
of the Inorganic matter. At orgasic matier. la
the more objectisoable of the two, the case is
will
by Atack)
No. 49, POTTINGER STREET.
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hongkong, 14th February, 1803.
TO LET,
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N°5 = && KNUTSFORD TERRACE,
KOWLOON.
Apply to
The Cuisine is unrivalled in Hongkong, and only the best Brands of Wines, Spirits, Cigars, Private Dinner or Tiffins prepared in First-class style on the shortest notice, and Meals can be served at al hours.
Hongkong, and May, 18on
.[48# THE BOA VISTA HOTEL.
BISHOP'S BAY, MACAO
THIS HOTEL is situated on the was showe In one of the best and healthiest parts of Macao, and commands an admirable view "For facing the South. Its accommodation is unG=
passed in the Far East;
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.
· Hongkong, 6th February, 1893.
TO LET.
NEW
EW HOUSES la RIPON TERRACE-Boa
ham Road, near Breexy Folat. it. No 4, BLUE BUILDINGS, FLOORS in Bles Bulidings.. OFFICES-Second Floor, Praya" Conten! (lately occupied by Messrs. Damn, Melbye & Co.)
GODOWN, No. 1, Blue Buildings SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES at Magasine Gap., Very cheap Rental."--
Nos. 4, 5 & 6, VICTORIA VIEW, Kowloon. FLOORS No. 5." Shelley Street.
No. 7, PRAYA CENTRAL, at present occu pied by the New Oriental Bank in Liquidation,
No. 10, OLD BAILEY STREET,
***Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY Co., Ltd. Hongkong, 31st December, 1802,
HONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
ROOMS TO LET.
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OR OFFICES and for CHAMBERS FOR OFFICES and First Floors of the HOTEL facing. Queen's Road and Pedder Street.- With immediata entry if required. For particulars, apply to
Secretary.
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RLYALL, Hongkong, 3th December, 1893.
TO LET, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
Owner of the Hondo Coal Mines. Large Handsome, se occupied by Hi SHOP, No. 24, The strpnomolgal world be gratified by W the Undersigned are ready to supply Dakin Bros, of Chlua, Limited,
COALS of the above Mines, weight and the inteligence that Professor Barnard's dis- quality guaranteed, in any quantity, with the Ten Langs AIRY ROOMS on the Top Floor covery at the Lick Observatory of Juple's filth quickest dispatch, satellite, which was announced recently, has
HOP-WO-LOONG,
Apply in faded aw bean confirmed by the observations at Princetons.
Agents for the Hondo Coal Mines, DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CA, LID Professor Young of Princeton telegraphs that the
Nos. 36 22 37, Praya Central,
Victeria. Dispensary, fikk Jovian moon was found on two sKOSSAKİTS
Mongkong, nôch August, 189a, 18% Hongkong, 203 August, 1894,
Every comfort is provided for Visitors, with in excellent Cuisine, and Wines, Spirits and Malt Liquors of the best brands.
Hot, Cold, Showe and Sea, Water Baths, Large and well Ventiated Dining, Billiard and Reading Rooms, and ts well supplied Bar.
A small Dalry is attached to the premises,
MRS. MARIA B. DÖS REMEDIOS, Proprietress.
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THE SHAMEEN HOTEL. BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON,
ITH
HIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably situated within a few minutes walk of the River Steamer Wharves,' is now open to receive Vidlord
The Bed-rooms are cool, alry and comfortably fumalthed, and the spacious Dining Rooms, Sitting Rooms, and accommodation generally will be Lorind equal to the best Hotels In the Far East,
The Table D'Hôte is supplied with; every luxury in season, and the cuisine is in experię. enced hands.
Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, etc., of the best quality only,
WELL AFPOINTED BILLIARD-ROOM;
A. F. DO ROZARIO, Manager.
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Honekong, vá Rentembar, #Ran,
HAUENSTEIN'S HOTEL, A MOY.
THIS First-class FAMILY HOTEL in and has Fast-clas Accommodation for Visitors. An EXCELLENT TABLE is kept, and WINES, SPIRITS, and MALT LIQUORS of the very best quality,--
Terms ModeraÍS,
Zuffasted on the beach at KULANGSDO
R. HELLWIG, Proprietar [3a Amay, 1st September, 1892,
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