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*ntimations.

DAKIN, CRU'CKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1893.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY, HONGKONG. profitable discussion.

WHISKIES.

LIQUEUR WHISKY (QUARE BOTTLE)

His is are of the finest Whi kis ever imported into Chinx With Aerated Water, er Hat Water and Sugar, it is simply delicious.$12 per asse.

SCOTCH.

F.O.S.—A very fing Old Blended Whisky-$11

pei cave.

LOCHAR R- M-1low Old Scotch Whisky

with flavour.-$9 per dorca. GLENMURRIETA Pure Msk Whisky. Ex cellent value for the money.-$7 per dozen.

GIN.

OLD TOM-A very fine Sweetened Gin, Bottled

expressly for us.-$5 per dosen. KEY BRAND-In small White Glass Bottles

The very finest precurable.—$8 per dozas CHARTREUSE, CURACOÂ, D.O.M., &

All previous quotations cancelled. The above prices are calculated for 3/5 Doiler,

Hongkong, 25th October, 1893 138

steamer has ever been on the berth from Hongkong (with the exception of one or two Australian liners that have called In at Sandakan to load samples of timber for the Colonies) places any cavilling on the subject without the pale of reasonable or even, communication has never been With Singapore, on a permanent basis. How #t Is that matters have turned out favourably would be a very long story. so un- The facts are before the world. A large and fertile country, practically vold of population, and yet one in which hundreds is to-day almost as much a terra incognita, of thousand of dollars have been invested, as far as Chinese and European merchants are concerned, as are the wilds of is indeed, a unique spectacle; a fertile "Darkest Africa" British North Borneo region, governed by an Infiuential British Chartered Company, and yet virtually without labourers to develop its reputed

resources.

THE P. & O. S. N. Ca steamer Japan left Singapore at 5 p.m. yesterday, for this port.

Siam Free Prest is threatened with two if they ever come off, will be Siamene nobles: more libel actions. The plaintiffs in both cases,

to the tillers of the soll, need good land; North Borneo needs labourers; the British public desire Bornes to become an important factor in Eastern commerce, and all that is now lacking is a change of front on the part of the Directors of the Chartered launched with a great flourish of trumpets useful calendar for 1894 sent us by Mess, W. Company in order that an enterprise, Wx have to acknowledge the receipt of a very a few short years ago, shall be saved from R. Loxicy & Co., agents for the Netherlands Its promoters and the laughingstock The Missin steam-launch Day Spring will becoming a mill-stone round the necks of Fire Insurance Co. of our neighbours in all parts of the Far call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant East. Half a loaf is better than nons at between 9 and 10.30 am. on Sunday, to convey all, and the Directors of the Chartered men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning holders and others deeply interested in the Company should see to it that their share about 11.30 p.m. welfare of Borneo are not deprived, by reason of optimistic conservatism or short- of the loaf they long ago bargained for. sighted obstinacy, of having even a portion

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE takings of the Pari Mutuel at the recent Race Meeting at Shanghal amounted to $47,055. THE P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, with mails, &c, lell Sasrancisco for this part, we are glad to hear that Capt. Goggin, having via Yokohama, on the gth inst:

recovered from bis recent indisposition, has resumed command of the Powani

AN Item of "Court Gossip" from a Bangkok paper—A slave in the service of a nobleman They are all fourishing, here gave birth to three boys on the xốth inst.

ACCORDING to a memorial sent in by To Mah,

Mountains, on the 6th of August last, causing Governor of ChineseTurkesian, a great rainstorm viained the city of K'achs, south of the Celestial. immense destruction to the suburbs of the city. thirty women and children killed, and over two of the crops north-east of the city were com- No less than 2,500 houses were destroyed, nearly hundred cattle buried in the rulas. Three-fourthe pletely destroyed.

That my pleture as given above is a fairly accurate likeness except that the artist hardly did justice to the thickness of my hide.

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That my tall, for once, is too short to give offence.

That the resurrection act is about to be repeated

here.

That this means there is to be a meeting of Brokers at the Club bar on Monday morning at 11 o'clock sharp, and I am going to attend.

·

That this is really my own joke, and, notwith. standing rumours to the contrary, "Bellyjoss had no hand in it.

That the "Last Judgment "was pretty good, but

not up to the bug-pipes.

That Granny's comic man is almost as good a

critle as I am a prophet.

That the stable of the good donkey shall be overs turned in the typhoon, but mine shall stand for

M PAYNE's interesting entertainment, adrer- Pang, British Kowloon, was killed through the tied to another columu, will be introduced to old tick of trying to dill out an unexploded On the 8th it., a Chinese quairyman at Fo the public on Wednesday next in the City Hall, charge of dynamite in the rock. Of course, his and as many of his leats are reported to be really fellow workmen denied that he was doing so extraordinary, the "show" should meet with a nobody knows why, but they always deny it large amount of patronage.

saying that the charge suddenly went off of LAST year some 50.coo obsoleta rifles-some of for some mysterious cause connected with Ang

its own accord, or of spontaneous combustion, or

Indian, at Ter, a cach, Now, however, says the around the moon for a few minutes be which were valð be fully a century old-were skut. The result was unmistakable, however; disposed of by the Slamere Government to an the coolle went up, sad after prospecting Slam Observer, they have been merded and in small people and others. The remainder are likely his right arm and the top of his head That a gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of

secitons. The fragments were to be sold to the Japanese Government, st $a are still missing, Anxious to avoid trouble, his furbished up and some 20,000 re-sold to country-shovelled up and put la a basket, bitt

the police ecurt this morning; one old the man had died of fever and so they buried That the ear of the ass holds more than the head. Cheese woman charged with assaulting another.all that was left of him." The facts leaked friends applied to the police for a burial order, which was daly furned on their Information, that Plaintiff Her husband borrowed $3 of me out, however, and the body was exhumed for That the lips of the fool disperse folly, while ask ber to pay she abases me i some years ago, and now he is dead, and when examination. The sorrowing relative who made

Defendant-She is half mad, and goes down

the incorrect report of death "has disappeared. which is sure to bring bad luck! on her knees and prays to me as if I were a jons,

water all over me

Plaintiff And when I kneel, she pours dirty

̈each.

I

him who has it; hence are my ears so dear to

".

those of a wise man remais dumb.

That my picture stampe me as Solomon's only

воссенке.

The Company's £13 paid shares are quoted at £3-and why?

The mere fact of North Borneo having up to the present time proved anything but an El Dorado for investors in not, if we resources as being fairly accurate, proof can take current reports of the Island's that it is useless to endeavour to turn it into a profitable colony. Far from It: the country is fertile, rain plentiful, rivers numerous and the climate A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. half so unhealthy as are many parts not

of India and China where hundred of Europeans have lived for years. The secret of a good many of the fallures may, we take it, be laid at the door of mis management, Indiscretion and almost childlike lack of judgment. If North Borneo were the hopelessly barren waste, which CONFECTIONERY many would have us belleve, is it likely that Rajah. Brooke of Sarawak,, who knows more about the capabilities of the country than any one else, in all pro. bability, would be devising ways and means to obtain the virtual sovereignty of the country? Yet it is generally under- stood that he has for some time past been "ORDAN ALMONDS, NOUGAT, BUTTER aiming in influential quarters for this line of Christmas cards, Jdon-dons, crackers (mandaria and Als vervant were brought up to which the case had been appealed. "The case of your columns, to cater a protest on behalf of

WE INVITE ATTENTION TO OUR STOCKS

OF

AND

CHRISTMAS GOODS.

JORDA

SCOTCH, ASSORTED TOFFEES,

PURE

DRAGEES, PRALINES,

and a large selection

of

CONFECTIONERY from the leading Manufacturers.

CADBURY'S SPECIAL CHOCOLATE CREMES.

end. No doubt the Rajah is in a better position to command success than are his British neighbours, for he could let loose over the country thousands of his own people, the hardy Dyaks, who are adepts in agriculture and who would in a very few years have vast tracts of land under pepper, tobacco, coffee, hemp, sugar and other highly profitable tropical crops, to the benefit of their ruler and all in friendly relations with him.

They have shown what they can do in Sarawak, and North

shareholders is convened for the and proximo, AN extraordinary meeting of "Charbonnages

per advertisement in another column ARFOULAR meeting of St. John's Lodge, No 618, S.C., will be beld in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. The mystery of Dawson'a whisky has at last been solved and a pleasant saiation it proved too. Messrs. Alliston and Co., of 62, Qaren's Road Central, are the agents, as will be seen by an advertisement which appears in another column of this issue.

LOCAL storekeepers are busy just now opening new stocks for the approaching Christmas and New Year festive season. Amongst them Mesars Ratterjee, of D'Agullar Street, are not the lesst conspicuous, having just placed on view a chaste and toys, all of the latest European style and make.

LOBINGULA, as is well known, has picked up some of the accomplishments of our higher civilisation. He can write letters very pollte, but posted and, according to Sir Henry Loch, he is other week he declined his usual monthly grant not above using the big big D. When the of too sovereigns from the Chartered Company, be deaounced it as "bloed: money."

A LARGE seizure of opium was made on board the Fatihan yesterday by Police Sergeant Fourd, on information given by Mr. Logan, Iste preventive officer in the eplay of the H.K.C. and M. Steamboat Company. A petty mandarin, named

from Shanghal by the Fushun with his servant Wang Fa Sang, appointed asalstant magistrate Is one of the districts of Kwanging, came down and went on board the Fatskam yesterday, bound up-river. On search being made among his boxes, 355 tacle of raw oplem and soo txels of prepared oplum were found. the poltes court this morning, under the al for three months' hard labour, in default of pay charges; the servant was discharged as probably not responsible, but bis Excellency was booked ing goo fine.

Bound over to keep the peace.

Bath the

THE Fiji Shimpo states that a telegram bas the effect that the attlinde of the Korean Gavern been received in Tokyo from Jinsen, Korea, to ment in connection, with the probibition of the export of rice has been changed, and that it is The Yapan Mail reproduces from a vernacular likely the step will not be put into operation,

negotiations between the Korean Government Paper & telegram from Soof to the effect that and Mr. Otori, Japanese Representative, in con- from Korea bave concluded. Rice will not be exported from Faran and Gensan, but the Korean nection with the prohibition of the export of rice

LAWYERS Costs and the DEBTORS' GAOL.

H. Hastings, James Henry Logan appeared in At the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. W. C. and another for distraint and execution of the judgment of the Court of Appeal ordering him to answer to a summons takes out by Lam Vik

pay coals in a recent case. Mr. H. L Dennys cared for the appellants, and the respondent

before the Court on a previous occasion Mr. V. appeared in person.

H. Descen had appeared for the Steamboat Mr. Dennys stated that when the case was

Company, and it was at his request that the Court ordered the forfeiture of the epfum as to

with this one, though he did not know whether on at eleven: Mr. Dennys happened to be la was fixed for noen to-day, but was now called court for another case, but was prepared to go on

Intereated in the case. the Steamboat Company's solicitor wished to appear. He certainly seemed to be a person

Deacon will be here to-day ?

His Worship:-Do you know whether Mr.

That he didn't know me. That although Solomon was a great man there?

were many things unknown to him.

CORRESPONDENCE.

TMWe de not sacatanally, endorse the ophilus expressed by Comprades in this cobras.Į THE WATER SUPPLY.

To Tes Kerro", OF THE ** Hongxono TELEGIATE.” SIR-Kiadty allow me, through the medium

"inexhaustible Tytam reservel was completed. my countrymen #gainst the unfair manner in which the "Water Authority" has cut down the water supply, presumably to avoid running short as has too often been the case, since the

Looking over the list of houses that are to be Saturday's Government Gazette, I find that it is affected by the new bye-laws, pablished in jast only the quarters (chiefy lanes) tenanted by Mr. Logan :-No, your Worship. Company and represented to your Worship that just as much water as they please. Now, seeing Mr. Dennys When the case was first before and that the Eeropeans, who use water for thele Chiceso which are to be subjected to the "cut" the Court, Mr. Deacon appeared on behalf of the baths, gardens, eld, urn to be allowed to consume forfeited; and I cannot understand how the than ordinary Chinese and that the sesidences it was necessary that the opium should be Company can possibly attempt now to throw of the former are in much better dealsed that foreig det uae, per capita, much more water

have done so, I must ask your Worship to enforce on the lower levels, the new rules over their responsibility for Mr. Logan and say be situation than those of the Chinese, most of was not acting io their behalf. However, as they

whose

quarters are dangerously overcrowded

pay their money into Court before they could that be and calculated to result in an in- ance. The appellants after conviction had to suicida 1 policy on the part of the powers. appeal, and if they had lost their appeal the case of sickons, to say nothing of a possibļa - money would have been claimed and taken at once by the Steamboat Company's solicitor.

outbeak of some serious epidemic. His Worship: What is the amount of the costs that you claim?

AT the Magistracy to-day, before Mr. Hastings; Borneo is infinitely more suitable.

the three Chinere, charged with being concerned Some of the London papers have Bank by means of a forged or altered bill of in an attempt to get $1,100 out of the H. & S. lately devated considerable attention exchange, wess brought up on remand and at to Bornean affairs and pertinently the request of the police were further remanded ask why it is that neither Manila hemp nor until Friday, November 17th, at 15.30 am.; and FINE, APRICOT, CHERRY, LIME, GUAVA Sugar have hitherto been given a fair trial Mr. H. L. Dennys, who appeared for the de Ferelga Minister, at the request of the Japanese the distress la the way provided by the Ordin- almost to partake of the

in the Chartered Company's territory? fence, said he believed that when the cass corses And it is asserted that either one of again the Crown will ask leave to withdraw, these products would, if cultivated on a large scale, have secured the future of the country long ago. But vast sums were sunk in tobacco at the first, and public

and other

FRUIT

JELLIES,

in great variety.

TOM SMITH'S CHRISTMAS

for want of evidence,

export of rice from Jinnen. Imported rice passing Minister, will petition the Klag to allow the

free from duly. though the ports of Fusan and Gensan will be

confidence has not yet quite recovered / ful Commander N. by Worshipful Commander Last Judgment" after the return of Governor

from the rude shock that followed the

CRACKERS.investments of four years ago. But

COLOURED OPALS MOUNTED IN PLUSH, representing favourite subjects.

A Large Assortment of

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THE Japan Goselle is of the opinion that the neuncement that Japan is contemplating

appear Datore of a

sight of le the fact that the Home Government, Aa other polat, too, that should not be lost Mr. Denny-The original amount was $236; Wan works, expressed its approval of the whatsanctioning the construction of the Tytam

till due. the sale of Logan's household goods under dis-sches no "In order that the Chinese, from tress realised $37 and the balance of $sig ishes a most of the funds had been derived

prepared to pay that?

His Worship-Are you or your employers

with the Steamboat Company now; I ate out of Mr. Logan-I have nothing whatever to do their employment altogether, and they are in no way indebted to me or under any obligation as to this case. I have no money to pay the amount; my goods have been seld under dis hands. traint, and am entirely in your Worship's

Court is that you be imprisoned for three days.

His Worship:-Then I must proceed in

Mr. Dennys :---I submit that three days ara. not enough,

His Worship-Next case i

La

fees, should be benefited not less than the the shape of gambling-house license European portion of the population," or plentiful supply of water is to be denied to words to that effect. And yet we now find that the Chinese, while the Europeans are to bave da much as they please! space for this note.

Thanking you in anʼilespation for granting me

Yours faithfully,

We publish our correspondent's letter but really

A COMPRADORE Hongkong, 11th November, 1893.

do not see that he has any legitimate grounds for complaint. It has been too often proved that the Tytam reservoir is galte unequal to the demands made on it in dry seasons and the Water Authority, who is in no way respon- rible for its construction, is quite justified in adopti og mesos for checking undue consump tion Ed H.K. Taligraph}

AT a regular meeting of Ararat Lodge of Royal Ark Mariners, held last evening. War. Bro. J. Bryant was installed into the chair of Worshly-suggested that the City Hall should be engaged for the purpose of reproducing Spear's Bryant then invested the officers as follows A. OD. Gourdin. Worshipful Commander

and Lady Robinson from Shanghal, as the ladies problematical as might be the

......Wot, Ers. W. C. H. Hastings the other day feit disappointed at Sir Williant and gentleman who exhibited in the Cathedral cess of hemp and sugar growers, of

P. R. Simmonds. one thing there should be little doubt,

having escaped hearing them. Besides, there is a disposition to yearn for the applause of the and it is that had say a million or two of

City Hall (which is forbidden in the Cathedral cocoanut trees been planted in the colony

and also to blame the latter place for the fact that during the past decade the revenue from

the vocal parts of the aratorio were too weak for the product of these trees would now yield

the instrumental Moreover, many of those who handsome returns-the export of copra

assisted have expressed dissatisfaction at the extremely ungracious way in which the Press, alone would prove highly profitable, not

for weeks past, was blankly ignored and left to after freely advertising and booming the show only to exporters but to shipowners. Ta-

fish for fuels on the day of the performance. ENGLISH AND JAPANESE CHRISTMAS pioca, sago, and gambler planters would, It / gold standarð, if not an actual gold currency, is Now, therefore, it is proposed to challenge public accordance with the law. The sentence of the'

is also very reasonably suggested, be able

one of vital importance to all merchants in the criticism in the customary manner, and we shall to do well in North Borneo if they would

East. Should she accomplish this and succeed await the result with interest, of handsome and artiste designs, suitable to all give the country a fair trial, and if the the Bank of England paper, she will achieve a Tuus'the N. C. Daily News of the 6th inst.:-

is making her Bank notes relatively as good as- tastes and at moderste prices.

Government offered more liberal induce performance of far greater valet than the revi- In: a village about mile north-east of the ments for the building up of private enter-ion of the Treaties, or the running of ricamers Hongkow boundary loe, two brothers while prises. The importance of bringing North to Europe. It would place her financially on a disputing last week over some family property Borneo into direct communication with the level with European countries. It will bea work; left by their father, came to blows, in the midst home markets cannot,

bowever, of no small cost. A gold loan would of which the younger braibar accidentally stabbed we think, be

be over-estimated, and any scheme tending in indebtedness worthy of the name, and with and the elder in the abdomen, The younger brother'

Imperative. But is the absence of any this direction should meet with the earnest ever-increasing resources as her various industries widowed sister-in-law his share of the property tried to condone the crime by offering to, bis and prompt consideration of all who have are proving, the welfare of Borneo at heart,

loan should not be a matter of to support her during her widowhood; but the much difficulty. Tout it would simplify mer Schemes of various kinds are now being cantile ususactions immensely even bimetallilas Elders of the clan wished to deal out the family devised for the improvement or resuscita would allow, since it would give stability to should be nailed upon the coffin-lid of his dead Lawn the fratricide, which means that he tion of North Borneo's commerce and it prices hitherto unknown. Importers, espacially, brother, and left to die by exposure in the fields. is whispered in one quarter at all events would dod a fixed currency a boon. Bet is consider it their duty to report to the magistrate who suffer so heavily from a fluctuating exchange. On the other hand the sipas and village patriarch that as the Quarmate is a river upon Japan prepared for the cost? Such a financial of Psoshan the district where the murder the banks of which the Dyaks have evolution cannot be wrought except at a very occurred-and allow the law to take la course, expressed a desire to setile, arrange-heavy expenditure. It is probable that the which means that the sentence of death by the ments should at once be made with Rajah seraing advantages would compensate for the Brooke to have the valley peopled with outlay, but that is a question time alone could conferred on the fratricide. Up to the time of "Lingering and Shara ful Process will be his subjects; the conditions being that

writing this paragraph, however, no decision the Rajah should have the control

has been arrived at as to what should be done of the land providing at least two thousand COMMENTING on the Opium Commission, now with the murderer. Dyak familles are settled there within things that have been adopted on Indian Gover A FIRE bicks out early this morning at 115 InIndia, the Sentinel remaska:-" Amongst other twelve months of the signing of the deed mens lines in the oplam traffic in its worst form, Praya West, formerly the Maxine Hotel, opposite of concession, while the products exported that of farming out the licenses to private the P. and O. Wharf. The alarm-bell rang a from and Imported Into the region should individuals, who by the exceedingly heavy few minutes after four o'clock, and the Brigads That I go in to swim when tad-poles would not In one of the few items of praise he condes pay the usual Customs duties. It is only prices they pay are forced to push the trade at once turned out in fall force. The fire is said too evident that some arrangement of this most aggravated form of this system was ler's shop, where one of the employees slipped That my sale delight is mad—and muddy deeds, not in way, the mars, and hocks of the more

in every direction to recoup themselves. The to have originated in the ground floor, a chand- kind must be come to with Rajah Brooks, some in Barms, where at Akyah the great and fell with a lamp in his hand. The flamen of speculation to large numbers of Hong- tion of Dyaks from his territory and has | it was computed by a local Burmese peopled, quickly spread to the adjoining houses, alded That my "Fragrant Waters" are mach toodetested beneath the assumed exterior of the

firm of licensees who held the farms

A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,

The Hongkong Diapensary. ESTABLISHED A.D, 1841. Hongkong, 3rd November, 1893,

The Hongkong Leleguaph,

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1893-

THE FUTURE OF NORTH BORNEO.

have

soire,

VERLITO,

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To SE,

"GRANNY'S" "LAST JUDGMENT."

Error OF THE “HOMAKING TELEIZATE." The value of an individual's opinion on any matter is in proportion to that individua?a soquaints.nce with his subject, and in the case of music there is no exception to this rule. It will therefore decir to anyone reading your morning Contern porary's severe strictures upon the recent rendering of Spohr's "Last Judgment" that tha elier capabilities for delivering such an a qualif pd candemnation of the performance [requis|loc]ing into. If the public is to take hie opinions as that of an expert, and as his fi natured, Tu marks) can only have the effect of damping the ardoar of those who have

UKKET taken the thankle vs task of providing an unusual mules & treat for the community, I should like to polat aut one indication that the critic is writing on an inject of which he knows little or nothing. Descends to bestow, heimays of a quartette и The veices blend ing togethrin almost perfect waison." donds. Thle quartette helrge of course, in harmony and

fatali jaz antilept taisit da quadruped are easily

dbal lion.

Yours 'Iruly, Hongkong, 11th Novaminer, 1893

SHANGHAI AUTUMN RACK MEETING.

"BROWNIE"

:

deuse for ordinary folks to swallow there's crit much whisky in 'em all the same.

tion."

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B. FLAT,

THE temporary decline of prosperity in British North Borneo and the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars in tobacco and general planting enterprises there in recent years

led numbers of thoughtful shareholders to study the problem of Borneo's possible future as a revenue producing colony. That in by gone years it has proved a disastrous fleld for at present he discourages the emigra kong investors cannot be denied, and the forbidden Dyak women to enter the thousand shops. It is also seen in the firemen anived there was no chance of doing by a stiff north-east breeze, and by the time the out-turn, taken as a whole, has been territory of the Chartered Company,

Straits Settlements, where the immensely anything except by going into the lace at the decidedly disappointing. Some ten years. ago, it was anticipated, and with more or trade and the vast suma already sunk in shops with Indian Governmental Oplus in that direction. Under Mr. Wodehouse, Super That I ham daily "As pants the hart for cooling In view of the deplorable stagnation of wealthy farmer, or licensee, supplies 481 back, to prevent the fire spreading further in less reason, too, that the throwing open of the country, no stone should

the town of Singapore alone. The same Intendent, and Mr. Mathieson, assistant super- North Borneo by the Chartered Company unturned to bring about an improvement, farmer rolls in wealth obtained from the hours, with plenty of water from the hydrants, be left system prevails in Hongkong, where the intendent, the men worked hard for over two

streams, no pants my soul for thee, Recégal would result, in a very few years, in and if suitable arrangements can be made Indian Governmental oplum sold in about sud at last got the configration under control. That it never comes. considerable benefitto Hongkong byvirtue, with the Rayjah to take over a portion thousand shops. According to St Edward Grey, By that time, however, three bouses, 115, 116, of the industries which were to be developed. of the country, every effort ought the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, | and 117, were completely gutted, and the next That I like heddy Kisha's no simple', Esq. Stewards in charge of thɔ scales —Joha Hongkong provided the sinews of war and to be to attain that end. A dog-la North Borneo Company as at Hongkong and storeys, both by fira and water. Two women exactly the same system provalis mederide British house was badly damaged in the upper In return was to participate in the benefits. the manger policy has proved disastrous singapore. Under this system the sins of the and a child had some dificulty lo escape That he has advised me to abstain from the atlas of barter; piece-goods, provisions etc. on many occasions in international oplom imported into the colony went up tog, and ware said to be badly burat, but were to be exchanged for coffee, pepper, affairs, and there is no reason to hemp, tobacco and timber, but, safar,dismal suppose that it will meet with better suc-in 1888, so increase-365 per costs? la was insured only on Tuesday last, for

from 19.000 dollars in 1889 bo.15,000 dollars did not go to the hospital. The chandler's stock

fer, said he, "They prick thatengue-ba-blunt failure has been the lot of investors cess in North Borneo than anywhere else, three years. At the end of 1588 Loed Brassey with the Meijt Company (G. R. Stevens & Co. As if I had any’| { ̈ generally, True, the steamer Memnon has It is abundantly manifest that the joined the directorain, · From cher 134 bez offered has, wo believe, been made as yet. Tha | That when Carlyle fald it down that anfmial

$2,600, beenkeptregularly on the lineand brings up Chartered Company can do next to import of opium has gens up

1850- to 18g the gents); but no estimate of the actual loss good cargoes of timber and rattan once or nothing with its territory; and to hold to 61,000 dollars in 1891. The profits next shop was occupied by a poultry-desigs, who

was nothing, he didn't know vas, twice a month; but there's neververy much on to it and Ignore the pressing need of a to the North Borate Company site pro-managed, to save the majority of his property for her to take back, and it was never anti- hardy agricultural population to develop under the same system, the Indian Government totally destroyed, involving probable loss of That a fool once said base

bably in excess of these figures. Akyab, but the third shop was full of ster, which was cipated that the Mimson would be the only the resources of the country would be natted over 150 per cent prefit on the import some $10.000, of which only $8,000 is said to beLook at the steamer to keep up communication with sheer folly. Life is a series of compromises, vale of the drug. 4. Large proportion of the covered by insurance with Chinese offices, Your southern neighbour for fully ten years. and it is beyond question that some revenues of the colonies of Singapore and Hong: The four houses, whose upper storeys were That in base minds worth begets anvy, as Facts, however, are hard to get over, and mutually beneficial arrangements could be predis meds in excess of the import valse of the Messrs. Shawan and Co, for $1,500 asch. An online 25E

kong, on the same system, are secured from the occupied as family residences, wars Insured with the presence of this pioneer steamer in come to with the Rajah at the present drug-As matter of fact the local Farm inquiry will be held as soon as possible, and That the crumbs that fall from the Padres sport at the present time, discharging time. The Dyaks, whose land is mainly maintains forty shops only, not 1,000 as stated meantime the promises are undes police vervalle cargo of Borneo skenbar, while no other rocky and plejde, but meagre returné | in the inastati organe

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Judges 1–), 9. Fearon, E14.1 A. McLeod, Macgregor Esg; C. Beurmant, Esq. C. J graph and numbers H, J. H. Tripp, E141 B. A. Clarke, Esq., J. A. Pond,

H. Gort-Boob 244, eg: Starter

Ashley, Esq. Timekeeper 2-A. E. Jones, Esq. Clerk of the Courte EH. Gore-Booth, Etq.. Secretary — Barnes Dallas, Esq.

Favoured with meat sailsfactory weather, the ́ ́ON-'DAY,--SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH,

number of spectators. Off-Day movided an afternoon's very enjoyable

MATCH Catch weights over zänk salbu. Ona sport, which was wellį patronised by a large

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Details of the racing are appended

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