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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1893.

covered at the Embassy, has been sent to gaol for three years by the Assiza Const; and M. Dacret, editor of the Cocarde, for one yesɛ. In a civil suit against the paper, M. Clémenceza

for which he had sued.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY. was awarded the sum of two (1) francs damages

AERATED WATERS.

THE "AMIGO."

As we go to press (6 p.m.) the sunken steamer Amigo, partly raised, is being slowly moved WAT

JATER,—The Water used is absolutely storewards be the Dock tug Pilot Fisk and the

P. & O. tog Dragon,

STEAM PLANT.-Of the latest and most

powerful type.

SUPERVISION-The whole process of manufacture Is under the continuous 'supervision of a qualified English Chemist.

The PRODUCT.-Will bear comparison with the Waters made by the most noted makers in England.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., Ln.,

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

H.M.S. Swiftrived at Singapore from Bangkok on the 6th fast.

Mrs. Jay-What is your ideal of a woman ? Berlin Blet-A rich brewer's widow |

THE Halphong Freemasons have nearly com- pleted a splendid new lodge-building.

ANYBODY Can work, ways the Milwaukee Journal. but It takes brains to make work Count. What do you think, Brownie ?

THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended August 13th are -Europeans, 162; Chinese, 1,725; total 1,887.

[38 VICTORIA DISPENSARY. A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. suspect anything.

CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT. ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

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UR NEW FACTORY has been recently rofitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved kind, and we are well able to cothpete in quality with the best

English makers:

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised to the mapolactare throughout

BOMBAY SODAS." We continue to supply large bottles as herein. fore, Fraz, of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordi- nary size.

COAST PORT" ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.

For COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on bakrd ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Eriptles when received lo good condition,

Counterfoll Oider Books suppiled free on

application.

Our Registered Telegraphic Address is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention,

Roce-Does Mr. Veryduit know anything? Lilian-Know neything! He doesn't even THE half-yearly report of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. is published in another part of this issue. We hope to deal with its sallent features later on.

WING SHING, & coolle charged with murder Chinese jurisdiction a month ago, was brought up in the police court this morning and formally remanded for a week.

Little Birdie--My mamma says that she has your papa on a string.

Little Gertle-That's what my mamma says about your papa.

THX Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com. pany's llaer Belgic came out of the Cosmopolitan Dock and the Canadian Pacific lloer Empress of China out of Hongham Dock this morning. The Pedder Hill "Snarley-yows" and the Hongkong Hotel Retrenchment Commissioners have, owing to a great rash of interesting news, been mercifully granted a respite until to

morrow.

THE French colonies are far ahead of us in combating small-pox. During a tour of a5 days In Hung-yen provlace, Tonkin, a Government medical off.cer named Hamneur vaccinated over 34,000 natives last month.

THE Haiphong Courrier of the toth lost, contains the following item:-"Oo the 7th inat., eleven girls who had failed to report themselves for medical examination were ordered to be lodged in the Government dispensary. "

coolie convicted of natching earrings la

HAIPHONG is sbortly in have a municipal band. What pijce Hongkong 7.

Berlin Blet-Dose cigars cost ma nutting ! Old Sask-Well, they are just about wurth Ur to latest advices (roth August) the finds were still at their height in many parts of Tonkin. Missionary-What do you think of the power of sympathy?

Misa Giddy-I think fellow-feeling should not be allowed to go too far! LISBON advices state that the Industrial Tax Bill has been parted by the Upper House in spite of

■ friendly protest made on behalf of the British Government, Poor Lusitania!

THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carlill & Co.) inform us that the steamship Hankow left Slogapore yesterday for this post, and is due on or about the 19th lost.

Editor of Dally Smell-Next month I shall make our paper much more interesting i

Winx-How so ?

Editor-By paitlog la pictorial advertisements. THE P. M. S. S. Co. steamer City of New York, which left this port for San Francisco on July 12th, via Nagasaki, Kobe, Inland Sea, Yokobama and Honolulu, arrived at her destina- tlon on the rath last.

A CURIOUS 1st has recently been made of the kings and emperors of Europe who have been overtaken by misfortune. It appears that 364 have been ousted from their thiones, 108 have been condemned to death and executed, at have committed suicide, 34 are on record sa Eaving been placed under restraint in consequence of having become insane, 123 have been killed in have been officially declared to have been warfare, aj have been tortured to death and 351 assassinated. The number of monarchs who are suspected of having been assassinated is Infinitely greater. It will be seen from this that the possession of a throne is not without seme extremely abjectionable and disagreeable features.

AT THE FAIR

"Would you like to be told How to gather up gold ?" Said the indigent man, with a bow.

"I're a leaning that way," Sald the millionaire gay;

The question that puzzles la—how ?” "I've a neat little plan,"

Sald the Indigent man. ***Twill tickle yon almostŝto death ;

Simply bottle a share Of the freshest of air,

To be sold at a dollar a breath."

--Washington Star.

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Ar the Magiracy to-day, before Capt. Hastings, So Ki, keeper of a coffer-shop at 18 Graham Street, was, fined $75 for selling intoxicating

TE Courrier d'Haiphong states that M. Fresch,

■ customs officer at Son-isy, and Mme. Fretch,|| were last week attacked in their house, presum» ably by smugglers intent on sevenge, and have without a licence. Mr. Denays defended. clothes, was invited. Into the house by a half had to be taken to the hospital

ciste ghi known as "Mary Jane," and was supplied with whisky, for which he paid. He then went out and got a corporal in the Shrop shire Regiment to go to the house, and whisky was again sold. The evidence was conclusive, and the defendant pald the fine, of which $5 went to the Corporal. And the Corporal is a second-class shook and P. C. McKillop is any. thing but a credit to his country. This reformer swindle has gone far enough.

Ir is announced that two residents of Nagasaki, Messrs. L D. Lessner and M. Glasburg, and Mr. D. Sassoon of Shanghai, have bought a piece of ground and dedicated it as a Jewish Cemetery, for the benefit of the eight members of the Hebrew community in Nagasaki. "THIS bump," said the learned phrenologist It wasn't Sydney B. J. Gasbag-"Indkates that you are of a combative disposition, "You are right" sald, the subject. It ladicates that my wife la of a combative diapostie. That's where she hit me with a hairbrush this morning,"

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MAJOR GREY, Inspector General el Prisons in Singapore, will shortly retire. We would have sent Mitchell-Innes to fill the vacant job, but the Colonel Office authorities, with their usual lack of appreciation of the fitness of things, have "jobbed " in a military officer who is quite tired of active service, don't you know !

Janke-What shall I do? I've falled in every calling.

Lawyer-Become a laborer i Janke-But I'm too weak and tired. Lawyer-Enlist in the Army 7 Janke-But-I'm a coward. Lawyer-Ab, I see. You're just the man for a professional pugfilst I

THUS our would-if-he-could-be sarcastic friend Arnot Keid in the Straits Timer :-Mr. Cox, of the Straits, is understood to have been born of age Having regard to the habits of Maciftius

may not be a golfer.

who was recently appointed to be Chief Justice

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THE Vulcan match factory at Tidaholm, Sweden, It employs over 1500 hands and manufactares is said to be the largest of its kind in the world. daily one and a quarter millies boxes of matches. The yearly output requires one million cubic feet of wood, 785 coo paunds of papers and 122,000 pounds of rye flour for parting the boxes, One of the machines at this factory is capable of producing daily a million boxes of matches. The machine receives the raw material to the shape while

Miss Slowboy-Which do you prefer, Scotch or Irish 7

Old Soak-The one I am drinking at the time. | AT the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Wode house, Chen King Tong, house-boy, who has been several times brought up on remand charged with stealing a watch and chalu and $91 kom Mr. H. O. Palmer, of the Daily Press, as ordered to be charged bom custody, as there was no evidetsce against him,

The work of erecting an electric light-house at Peamarck, near Finisterre la France, will aboutly Davoust d'Ekmahl died, leaving a large sum of be commenced. Several years ago Mme.

money for this purpose. The lighthouse wit measure 210 feet in height, and will be bulit entirely of granits. It will be ornamented with a bronze status of Marshal Davoust, the father of the donor.

ORCHID huntleg in the tropics occasionally leads to strange adventures, M. Hamelin, who has sent the most valuable speciesens ever received in England, while recently searching in the * woods of Madagascar, had for a guide the brother of Chief Mayomboss. The guide was killed by ellon, and Hamelin returnedalore. After his recital the irate chief gave bỉm the opilon of marrying the widow or being greased and burned alive. He chose the lesser evil, but coupled with marriage contract by which the chief undertook to close his lands to all other orchid seekers.

11 wander back galo." with chorus, which wis rendered with exquisite expression. Mr. G. Vowles scored a great success when he described "That bappy, happy valley where the Oof Fird sings." The song "Hark, the drum!” In a difficult piece both in the vocal and instru mental parts, with a very sinking and original theme for cornet, and a magnificent crescendo "The trumpet sounds;" there has hardly been time enough for the company to get a perfect was rendered on Saturday

but as Raap there was officient Indication that with a very little more practice it will be a remarkably fing production. Uniit perfect familiarity is attrited necessa lly suffer, and in this case, though In such high-class music, expression must the vocalist, Mr. Hands, and the orchestra seemed to have an adequate conception of the spirit of the place, there was sifilm iittle difidence || Inthefrexpression, which wahope to see removed

on Wednesday. "Hark, the drum | " is certainly 035 of the Best compositions of its clies over performed in the East. The succeeding items on the programme wers of an essentially papulas nature, and secured constant and vociferous applause.

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Last of all came the tableaux-vivants. Aq far as our recollection serves us, Hongkong hai never previously been favoured with anything worthy of special 2018 in this line; and the brilliant zetult attalaed now is therefore the more astonishleg. Three scenes were stranged, next the battle, and finally the death of Nelson. representing first the deck of H.M.S. Victory,

The scenery was the work of Mr. W. Farmer,

have contributed Experience, which must an "old stager" with many years of professional

It was proved that P.C. McKillop, in plain will he remembered that during the late cyclone mensely to the success of the arrangemenis,

Tax Calculta Statesman of July 18th say: the British ship Glengarry, which left Calcutta slow days previous to the storm, was dismanted.

The Victor Emanuel company supplied the and thrown into such a hopeless condition that figures, and probably no better set of men could have been found anywhere; while Mr. Sonth, her commander (Captain Barrow) and crew abandoned her, when apparently the only la addition to working like Trojan as stage prospect of saving themselves lay in the offer of manager. represented Nelson himself. With the Captain of the French mali steamer Eridan such willing workers, in a field especially suited to take them off. The story of their gallant to them, and under such capable and energetic rescue by a box's crew of the Eridan has management, there was upt a single detall of the staging, dressing, er general mounting of the already bean told in these columns and need not be repeated. Shortly after the wreck was scenes which could apparently be improved. The best strangement for fadicaux, with gauza abandoned the weather began to moderate, and two days afterwards the British India steamer curtains in front, was hardly possible owing to Parned fell la with the Glengarry and towed her the difficulty of getting proper stage gauze in into Coconada. The hell was acinjured, and what Hongkong; but a very efficient substitute was was left of the vessel was sound, and was not found, so that when the lights behind were pot water-logged, and the cargo was safe. As soon down and thors in front formed up, nothing was as the news of the safety of the vessel reached seen but a white field with a wreathed monu- Calcatta, Captain Barrow 1-ft for Coconaas toment, shaded by weeping willow, and Nelson's famous battle-signal on a terell above, After the take over charge of the vessel and to arrange to bring the wreck up to Calcuits. He arranged lovely and pathetic prelude, played to perfection for a Lascar crew, and with their assistance and by the S.L. I. Raad, Mr. Macdonaldsang the well- local appilances has managed to rig up jary knows ballad "The Death of Nelson," in which masts which will enable the crew

be is at his best. Ther, as the story of the song measure arslit any vessel towing her. He tele proceeded, the lights were turned up behind, graphed the completion of his arrangements to sad the opening scene was revealed is all its Calcutta on Saturday and asked for the services grandeur. During the second verse, the battle of a steam tog to bring the vessel up to this part, was shown at fir height; every man on the In response to this request the tag Dalhousie stage acted his part with vigour and effect, has been despatched to Coconada, and it is attacking and regelling in terribly realistic man expected that the Glengarry will be docked inner while the boomlog of guns and the rattle. Calcutta within the next ten days. Her cargo is of musketry was heard not too prominently still in her hold, but on that and on the vessel through the strains of music, and ships were Messrs. Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Company,seen mar ceuvring in the distance, firing and have a very heavy salvage claim. This is quite being destroyed. The scene is indescribably romance of the sea, but the Hongkong animated and exciting, and the contrast of the Telegraph wants to know what cause Capt. last mournful picture is almost overwhelming. Barron cao-show, for not losing his master's certificate for ille, for desecting a sound ship in an apparently safe position, because she was in temporary difficulties.

of blacks of wood at one end and after a gives up at the other the matches complete, neatly arranged in boxes and -eady to be distributed to all parts of the world. Recent statistics show the approximate yearly production of boxes of mat- cher to be as follows: Russia, 14.423,000,000; Gar- many, 10,250,000,000; England, 13,235,000,000; France, 11,513,000,000; Austria, 8,689,000,000; Italy, 8,330,000,000. It is calculated that various states of Europe, Asia and America pro- duce no fewer than 150,000,000,000 of matches in a single year.

An English mercantile genins has devised a method of indicating and stopping a leake by the air-tight compartments fitted with doors provided

with a room on deck, called a “switch-room,"

AT the Magistracy to-day, before Capt. Hantings, Wellington Sheet on the toth inst, was sent to a Mauritius. He is probably about fifty years use of compressed air. He divides a ship loto gaol for six months, with eighteen lashes ou release; and two men who helped to catch him it is wely fenred that the now Chief Justice with packing material and connected by tubes were given $2 each.

A STOCKHOLM police authority says the Salva tion Army has scecmplished more in its struggle The following is a List of Waters always kept with crime and misery than all other organizations ready in Stock !--

put together. That Stockholms paliceman has bever interviewed the Two Dromios of the Daily Pest nor read the China Saalk

PURE AERATED WATER

SODA WATER.

IUSOMA IND

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER

LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

LEMON SQUASH GINGER ALE

RASPBERRYADE GINGERADE.

No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of containing Aerated Waters, as such Bottles are never used again by

us

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OUR Shanghai morning contemporary reports In this room is a junction chest supplied with that G. Williams, a tide walter in the Imperial compressed air from fixed or portable com Maritime Customs at Kiakiang, has been sen-pressors, and so arranged that the air can tenced latwo months' imprisonment for shooting be delivered to any of the compartments. at passing Chisamen with an air-gun from his Other tubes lead from the compartment verandah, Three natives proved slight wounds from which water can be forced aut

FG the TOOKER BOwk chased tome required, and electric Indicators are sco amount of feeling among the Chinese, and might connected with the switch-room to Indicate the accumulation of water in any of the compari- ments. Should the vessel "spring a leak," the indicator will show which compartment is affect

whom

COLONIAL COURT OF

ADMIRALTY

in some

(Duforia Chief Justice Platiling Clarks) August 14th.

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The entertainment will be repeated on Wednesday night, when it is anticipated that the Governor and Lady Robinson will be present, and on the merits of the show, ni well as itá object, a crowded house is assured.

.. DEATH OF CAPT. BOOTH.

A jelegram was received in Shaoghal from Edgland on the 5th lust, announcing the death of Capt. A. J. Booth; well known on the China coast for many years sa commander of the Chinese Imperiat Customs cruiser Fel-hoo, _Captain Booth had been in uncertain health "for soma considerable time previous to his learing Chios, and was at home on sick leave.

FROM Harper's Bazar:-M. Schmidt was making the Fourth of July oration. "Minsearily bave led to a riot.

THE "PROPONTIS" AGAIN, vrlendis," said hè, "vat för haf our ancestors ahf selfendy-stgz peen viding var, alretty? is gratifying to learn that the newly organised

Peter Hean sued the owners or agents of the bird of the Hongkong Regiment is making ed, so that the compressed air may be forced insteamship Propontis for cost of passage home. Lipperty. Yez, Hpperty undt America for

wonderfully rapid progress, under the able to drive the water out. The invention also Mr. H. E. Palleck, instructed by Mr. Wright Amerigans. Dot's Fat I says so likewise too. Ameriga or Amerigans wndt dem voreigners, management of Mr. Murphy, S. L. L. A reia-tecindes the mears for indicating the position of

(Mr. V. H. Deacon's office) appeared for the sunken ship, this belog accomplished by means plaintiff. The owners of the vessel did not dey peller keep avay, bretty quick. Vat? forcement of experienced musicians is, we #Heoros)" cried Mr. Mullely, Thot's the believe, coming out from India, The question of a busy connected to a coiled rope. To reficat

appear, leave having been given to plaintiff to shtuff, Schmidt. Thim ayliens do be gittin' too is-Can't they be stopped without unnecessary the vessel a diver can descend and connect the

proceed ex parte.. gore being ahed? Kowloon residents who can't function chest with the various compartments, fresh. America for we, sex of. Hurroot"

sleep are on the war-path.

so that by supplying compressed air the water ScorroN, the well-known Notts professional cricketer, committed suicide on Jaly gth, by THE question whether speculative transactions will be elected and the vessel floated. Other on the Stock Exchange came within the Gaming abjects of the invention are the prevention of fire cutting his throat with a razor, at 91, St. John's

Act of last year was raised in a case before and means for extinguirbing the same, and also Wood Terrace, Landes, where for about ten A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,

on the 11th ulto. A Mr. Reaveley had brought The Hongkong Dispensary, Hongkong, years it had been his custom to take lodgings Justices Cave and Wright in the London courts for ventilating the cargo.

seems to have induced a nervous and mentally an action to recover differences from Mr.A MASTERPIECE to mechanical construction, since then, dat was not now under any perman. | Capt. Cocker. Ia during the cricket season. Domestic trouble depressed condition. While umpiring at a Nicolopulo, and Judge in Chambers had match at Clifton the previous week he gave what allowed the latter to defend it conditionally on his paying £6,500 inta Court. The defendant is said to have been subsequently considered by bim a wrong decision, and this fact. fncreased appealed, and costended that the plaintiff was the mental disorder which is supposed to have barred from recovering by the new Gaming Act, which, however, the plaintiff submitted, was impelled him to take his own life.

directed against tart commission transactions. Mr. Justice Cave said the point was too import ant to be decided now, and the case must go for trial. The appeil was allowed, with costs,

BIRTH. Oo the 14th foutant, at 4, Ripon Terrace, Hongkong, the wife of T, DE FARIA-NEVES, of a daughter.

DEATH.

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At Yokohama, on the 6th lust, suddenly, ALBERT SCHROERS, of Shanghai, aged 56 years.

The Hongkong

jongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1893.

TELEGRAMS.

SERIOUS TROUBLE IN BOMBAY,

LONDON, 11th August, 1893. Desperate riots have broken sat in Bombar between the Mahomedans and Hindus. All the European and Native troops have been called

out.

Rys the English Mechanic, has been built in Glasgow, in the shape of a vertical and horizon- tal planing machine for the use of marine

This machine engineers and others when ordinary planing machines are Insufficient. consists of a heavy bed-plate of box section forming the work table, and carrying, when desired a set of compound aides and circolar Tur great canal system of France is stated at

table, the motions of which can be made seif. 8 000 miles, of which 650 mlics are tidal; 2,100

acting. For horizontal planing the vertical miles are Davigable without artificial works;

column which carries the tool is driven by 2,250 miles are caualized rivers, and 3,000 miles are canals. All but 560 miles of this network THE death of Mr. L. C. Masten, says the two horizontal screws connected by bevel are under the care and control of the Govern- Zanstbar Ganetis of jane 1815, forms a sad con gears) and in vertical planing the tool ment, and are free from tolls. Franco has exclusion to the Zanzibar history of the fill-fated is traversed up and down this column by pended on its system of Inland waterways about New Oriental Bank Corporation, Ld., which has a vertical screw, driven by bevel gearing below; $300,000,000 for construction and purchase, and cost the lives of five of its six representatives in the driving note which run on these screws are $3,600,000 for concessions. The cost of main. Zanzibar. The Branch here was opened in Decem- very long and completely envelop the screws $25,000,000 for cat 81,600,000 annually, an ber 1990 and its misfortunes commenced with the baring, ample wearing surfaces; the tool averase of $325 per mile, which covers all the death of Mr. Douglas(accountant in February saddle is balanced by a weight inside the mouth by the column, supported by verties! chains, and expenditures of every name and mature. VIDETARIANS allege that it is a popular fallacy that meat is needed for strength. One prominent exponent of the faith says it is a fact that the strongest animals in the world are vegetarian and not curnivorous. It is the ferocity of the Hoa rather than his strength that makes him formidable, An elephant le a match for several

1891, followed in the rucuget), and Mr. automatic and hand teeda are provided both la

deaths of Mr. Harrower

money.

In reply to his lordship, the plaintiff said be was not under any engagement now, only from

The deceased gentlemon was, we believe, the son of a naval officer, and belonged to what may be called a "naval family." He entered the Royal Navy himself, and rose to the rank of lieutenant, after which he left the Serviceandlived Plaintiff stated that he had been engaged under for a few years in Canada, where he married a the articles of the ship as chief-engineer for two Canadian lady who was well-known in Heng- years, to expire in January, 1893, at some British kong. In August, 1875, he anived in China sa or Channel port. He had, however, stayed on mate of a "Blue Fontel" stermer, and joined the longer, at the owners' request. He had been Chinese Imperial Mari ime Customs Service a paid his wages in full by the captain up to the chief officer of the cruiser Feikos, obtaining time the ship was sold, and by the purchasers the appointment through the fluence of October, 1979, he was ent engagement. He claimed the amount of a sppointed captain, and has ever since held second-class fare home and reasonable pay command, During the Franco-Chinese “was of reprisals," when Formors was blockaded, His lordship: Bat you can get an engage though there was an agreement with France during the time of such parange. ment

on a homeward-bound ship you would not that the Ctinere lighthouse services would be entitled to anything more from the Propontis. not be interfered with, the Felhoo was Pisiatif-In that cass I would return the seized while scting as lighthouse tender near Tal-wat-foo, and Captain Booth, his officers and the entire ship's company were detained as prisoners by the French Admiral at Keelung. day to day, and might have to leave the In 1887 Capt Booth went to England on two on the articles. The vessel was lying at He afterwards leased a house in Hongkong and Proponis at a moment's notice. He was not fears vacation leave, returning in April, 1889. Wanchal at present, and was intended to run to made this port his home for some considerable Singapora and Amay not to England at time. About a year ago, however, he was taken ail. He wished to go home shout, the middle | ill with some complitat of the kidneys, which of next month by a "Glen" liner, which would was to serious that he was ordered by the doctors take about 40 days on the voyages second- to get to England at once. Accordingly he wis class passage would be $125. There was allowed sick leave, and has been away ever sincs, practically no chance of geitlag, a scitabin. He was hardly expected to get really well engagement to work his passage home as chief | again, although, according to recent advices, be engineer,

was improving somewbat. Captain Booth would entitled to recover cast of purige home if he l

Pls lordship :-Of course, a plaintiff is only be about 50 years old at the time of his death. compelled to go home as passenger, but not if he

HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA can get work, or if he does not go home.

Plaintify also claimed $100 for necessaries DOCK® COMPANY, LIMITED. him at Saigon when the vessel ran short on her last voyage to Hongkong. It was all used, and the vessel aguia ran short of fuel, and some of cargo (rice) had to be used to keep up scan

Into Epal Pertand, late master of the Propontis, gave corroborative testimony.

Rennis (asalatani). For about ten days the Bank the case of the saddle and columa. The driving had no representative of their and is unch rapid smaller giving the quick return motion after the these is effected through two sets of pulleys, the deaths having been so sudden and in ancesalon. Mr. McKie and Mr. Stewart arrived, cat, and the bells are as arranged that one belt however, in April, but the former gentleman only leaves the first pulley before the other begins to service to záía colony sent out the following: Hong, and is a vegetarian.. The soimals with Mr. Maafen came 'down from Adea to fill the change of driving hom verlical to horizontal | auolled to the ship--25 tons of céal paid for by ef

The Hongkong Agent for Reuter's telegraphic

survived for a few months, dying in August, drive, thus reducing the wear of the belts. The Tacant position, and continued the management can be effected instantaneously, mystical memrage to subscribers, etc., at 45 p.. on the 13th lost.:-

REUTER'S AGENT TO THE FRONT.

“SILVER DEBATE.

most speed and endurance the horse, the reladeet, the antelope, and other are also vegetariana. Dog trainers, remarks this authority always feed their trick animals on a strictly yesterday, the House of Representatives votes, carian diet, and many hunters do the same Arally for the Sliveries Bill providing for-the-thing.

"Since the conclusion of the Sliver dahata

of the Bank here until its suspension in June af

last year. Mr. Stewart returned home few REFERRING to the four American yachts that weeks ago, and Mr. Masten's death from exhaus. will meet in the trial races in September and con Hon, resulting from frequent attacks of dengus tend for the honor of defending the " America's "the lever, in the latest deplorable incident in the cup, the New York Spirit of the Times says

The four cup defenders have now been launched, klstory of the Agency.

the Fublice, the False boat, being the last to

free colange of Silver at increased ratio, and then A LADIES' club in London recently debated the (to-day) Wilson's Bill was introduced repealing question why women should marry. The lady who CHEMICALLY, By the Medical Age, the apple leave the ways. Therefore a general description purchase clause in the Sherman Act, but opened the argument thought it unzale to marry is composed of vegetable fibre, albumen, sugar, of their distinctive characteristics may not be retaining legal render qualities Silver maintain-

urless a woman finds a perfect man, but she did gum, chlorophyl, maile acid, galle aclé, lime without faterest. In design and type each bost ing the parity of the two Metals."

not define that sort of creature, so that the intelll- and much water. Furthermore the German has distloctive marks, and represents the original analysts say that the apple contains a larger ideas of the yacht designers that have succeeded gent could go in search. She was, however percentage of phosphorns then say other fruit to the mantle of the late Mr. Burgess The answered by Mrs. Sheldon Ames, who said that an ordinary woman wedded to perfect man or vegetable, The phosphoras is admirably Colonia, the Rogers' syndicate Cup defender,

adapted for renewing the essential servons the out-and-out keel representative. She may would be in a very trying position. The practice matter, lecithin of the brain and spinal cord, It best be described as an enlarged edition of the of spoiling husbands by the "lanacy of love"

Wass, the most successful yacht of last season. stood that old Scandinavian traditions represent

[The foregoing cablegram may mean a lot or it may mean nothing-it is no doubt intended to enlighten the Far East in regard to somo thing that has or has not taken place but what bat something or nothing to wa

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The following is the report of the Board of Directors to the azdinary, half-yearly meeting of shareholders, to be held at the offices of the Company, No. 14, Praya, Hongkong, on Monday,, 1997 the 31st August, 1893, at 3 o'clock f‚m, s—

To the shareholders of the Hongkong and 47 Whampoa Deck Company, Limited.?? C. Ells, solicitor in Mr. Deacon's effice, GELEGEN, The directors have now to sabe stated that he served the Registrar with documit to you their Report, with a Statement of manis relerving to the case, as he was then in Accounts for the half-year ended 30th June last. The total receipts for the six months are F.A. Hasaland, marshal of the Colonial Court 3782,75455, and the net profit, after paying possession of the ship, of Admiralty, stated that the Propontis was unid

Interest dus and all charges, amonats by bim at auction in Jure for $42,500, **His lordship gave Judgment for $135 pasag", to which has to be added the balance

10 miamisamamamamamda 188.968,79 40 days wages at £18 per month (to be paid at brought forward from last Account... 5,601.18 the rate of the day), and $200 for the coal

comprehend. i ja variation of Beatty's" "linnet's luy of love) / is perhaps, for tha sama raksav, rudely under The Vigilant, the Morgan-Iselin boat, in a supplied, with interest at 8 per cent, from the

was strongly condemned, but at last some at the apple as the food of the gods who, when centre-board and will carry more canvas than date of getting the coal, and costs of the case. tame to the rescue with the altruistic reason that they felt themselves to be growing feeble any of the Cup defenders. Both of these

yachts In reply to his lordship, the Registrar ald women should marry "for the sake of the man, and infirm, resorted to this fralt for renewing were designed and built by the Herreshoffs of there would be no danger of pelor claims leaving

too little to satisfy the Judgment. poor things!

their powers of mind and body. Alas, the Britol, R. 1. The third of the quartet to be

launched was

was the Pilgrim, the Stewart and for scide of the apple are of sizual use

representative,

tive, which Binder

may best be men of sedentary habits, whose firess and

we happen to know, has a code of a mere or less comprehensive character, and the Agest of the great Telegraphic Monopolist at the various posts throughout the world are supposed to have at least ordinary intelligence and some slight

empire of politics and finance. We don't know who transcribes Reuter's cable messages

THE "VICTORIA" ENTERTAIN-

*MENTEER

and from this have to be deducted...

Directors Fees „Auditors' Fees

$194,570.07

$4,000,00

400.00

4+400.00

to Hongkong, but whoever he may be, Ele reported to be able to produce excellent inal wrent jaundice or akiamurt-bers | gachismen. She, too, is unique, and to be Saturday zieht, when the småteurs of F.M.S.to Contributing Shareholders, that $40,000

talents evidently lie in quite soother direction, and he ought not to do it any maṛa. Rdu. Hongkong Telegraph.]

LORD DUFFERIN AND THE FRENCH PRESS,

like

WUCHANG advices received in Shanghai report

leaving avaliable for appropriation...$190,170.07 that the Governor-General of Hukuang, Chang knowledge of current events in the universal bag, bas decided to open the bituminous luggish in action, those aids serving to eliminate described as of the extreme fin keel type. The

The Directors recommend that a dividend coal mince of Ch'iyanghsien, Hooan, which are from the body noxious matters which if retained last of all to be put into the water was the

would make the bralc heavy

There was a very large” and appreciative | for the half-year of p. per cent, or $109,375, and dall, or bifog ubiles, designed by John B. Paine, the son of

sand wiber allied General Falce, the most famous of all American audience in the Theatre Royal, Chy Hall, on be paid to the Shareholders, a Bonus of $roo which is argenly needed at the Hanyang Smelling Works and at the Cotton Cloth and trouble. Some such an other Mills. On the evening of the 26th alt. lod to our custom of talking apple sauce with an centre boards direstone of the last Victor Emanual, assisted by two or thres Hang: he willen from the value of the KowlooR dishes. The An contre-board." The of the four | kong gentlemen, gave the first of their entertain. Docks, $5,000 from the Steam Launches, and the bis Excellency pald a visit to the Cotton Cloth roast pork, rich goose,

ments to aid of the Victoria Relief Fund, The balance of $33,695,07 carried forward to sew Mille antside the chy of Wachang and was so malic acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, cup defenders are as follows:--

Over all

programme began with Christy Minstrel shaw account. much pleased at the quality of the cloth mans will neutralles any excars of chalky

The Company's docks and workshops are all PARI, August 6th.

factured there, that so made a complimentary engendered by exilog too much mask. It la also. NAME Type

excellently arranged and not over-done. A fali as the apple, thi

FL In Ft. IA. FL. IR,

* wfik a number of choir bays | being malatalised in the highest state of efficiency chezas of mirable rendering noro strelody, repair

employed In the prosecutions arising out of the Corde's speech to the Superintending Engineer, if the fact that such fresh fruits

128. do 12 00 16 00 * Down the River, * which was really sweet and the pist him months, and the net profit compares. allege tons against M. Clémenceau (charelog Morele, which was translated into Kuglish by paar, and the plum, when taken ripe and hout Coloris Keel....

128 00 him with lesson, and Implicating the British | bis Excellency's Secretary, Ta'al Total, Tos sugar, diminish acidity in the stomachs rather

Impressive: "After a little" of the usual Moms favourably, with that of former years, notwithe, 123 DO Ambassador) M. Norion, the real author of the entire works were itiulasted with the electric than provoke #Their Vegatabis "sance. and Vigliant CB

and Burgess business, judiciously reduced to a standing this increased cost of all maZOTZAIN, 09 forsed papers produced before the Tribune by light, and the Viceregal party havlos sene over flows are converted into "aling carbonate, Fo

which tend to countsisol acidity,"

minimum, came the plantation song "Some day | brought os; from Home, Tia dočka ni Aberdeene Mb Mlisvoye and, alleged to have been disa & the whole placz, jeft at a late hour of the sight,

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length. Beam. Dight

330

26:00 14 10

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