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Intimations.

D. C. & Co.'s

DISINFECTING FLUID, Similar to Condy's at quarter the price

Large bottles. Per gallon

This is a safe and rellabic disinfectant and is

Hoi polsonous.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1894.

THE P. & O. S. N. Co's steamer Shanghai left Bombay for this pert on the mersing of the 13th Inst.

We are Informed by the agents (Messrs. Shewan & Co.) that the “Union” Line steamer Ismailia, from Middlesbro', Antwerp and Hamburg, left Stagspore for this port this afternoon, and is dus on ar abent' the zand Inst.

By a trifling eccentricity of that playful sprite the printer's derli," a Haiphong coffeur (barber) was referred to in one of the Ircal papers nu a coiffeur (sosker)—and there is no end of a row in consequence.

AT the Hotel bar-

Friend (consolingly)-Awfully sorry about on being let in so badly, old man; were you a ball or a bear |

Victim (of misplaced "confidence)-Neltber: I was an unmitigated as

thanks to the Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board and to the medical staff of the Government, there are not lacking DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & CO., LD. willing hearts and ready hands in the good cause; hut far more drastic measures are needed and that without the least delay. The business of the port is practically dormant; let it, if necessary, he entirely suspended for a week. The only way to effectually stamp out this plague is by universal disinfection. $0.50

Every place in the- city whare $2.00 | excavations are in progress, ́ from^ the military batteries to the street sewers and gas-pipe openings, should be treated with azymatics until there is no spot left for infected matter to rest in or for mephitic gases to escape from. Every house, office and godown, from Government THE Haiphong Chamber of Commerce at a House to the humblest coolle-quarters special meeting on the 16th alio anaimoosly should be drenched with diluted prepara- passed a resolution strongly arging the Gorero tions of any first-class germicide, noment to proceed quickly with the barbour works matter whether it be corrosive sublimate, 10 which frequent releience has been mads le aressol, Sanitas, Jeyes' disinfectant, or there columns. A powerful dredger is to be Condy's fluid. Every junk and sampan acquired at once, before deciding what to do in the harbour and every vehicle ashore should be washed with some convenient The Ningbo constapondent of the Shanghai bacillicide. It would be folly wasting time Mercury wittes under dite June 8th-At 9 (36 discussing the relative merits of the various pm, on the night of the 6th inst. six passenger- disinfectants, as all are good, and the 1 miles from Ningpo. When they reached a

place named Whachi,

About poorest is a hundred times better than place named Wanaan Doochias, they met a none at all. Even the generally objection-band of over 20 sea-robbers, who were disguised able fire-crackers, the "Joss-pldgin" of our Chinese friends, may be extremely useful in this emergency, the sulphur in the powder at which they are composed being an admirable fumigant and antiseptic.

better preventive against Plague and No Disease is possible than a well disinfected

house.

DAKIN. CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

Hongkong, 11st May, 1894,

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED,

DISINFECTANTS:

WATSON'S

CARBO CAMPHYLENE,

Is particularly useful for the Toilet and for the Distrfection of "Bath-rooms, Sick-rooms, Hed-rooms, Chambers, Commodes, &c., as in place of had smells It leaves a'refreshing odour,

AS A SAFEGUARD,

A little sprinkler on the Handkerchief or on Cotton-wool and kept in front of the Nose and Mouth in infected rooms or in passing through infected ðlitricis is strongly recommended.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE FOR SICK ROOMS AND BED ROOMS, A le pocnful in each saucer-distributed ound the Room or evaporated by the aid of a

Jamp

FOR SPRINKLING OF SPRAY,

A wine-glassful to a pint of water,

CARBOLIC POWDER.

For the podcation of Houses, Cess-poole, Drains, Water-closets, &c., and for the Disinfec- tlon of Slck-00819.

CARBOLIC ACID,

FOR DISINFECTING PURPOSES. _Half-an-ounco-fabout one-table-spoonist) of this Acid when well mixed with one quart ol water formis a superior disinfecting and deodori- | zing fuld,

Hali-a pint of the Solution thus formed, when added to any vessel used in the Sick-room, will prevent any unpleasant effluvia, and preserve the contents for Medical inspection. It also purlfies Drains, Water-closets, &c.

with It.

basta sal'ed from a

a soldiers, having uniform and turbans, and who sald they were sent out, hy mandarin, lo detect a case of ribbery of dollars and so those boats were relieved of $500 or $600, and the boats had to be inspected; thus boarded. the

pirates decamped.

Of course all this will cost a lot of money, but better spend a million dollars in A JUVENILE Coolie in the employ of Dr. V. effectually grappling with the dreaded to-day, before Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, with theft of Danenberg was charged at the Magistracy visitor at once than allow the colony to helplessly drift into

$16. The evidence showed that the prosecuter utter ruin. community can also render valuable aid to money to a man named Van Eps, who however The several days ago sent the prisoner to pay the the authorities, and at the same times not at home, and so the $16 had to be protect themselves. It is the duty of every his master that a shroff had come for the money,

brought

back. Some time later the cosife told householder to disinfect his premises from garret to cellar, cook-houses, coolle's which was accordingly handed again to the to gaol for a fortnight and ordered to receive quarters, yards, and even the road in prisoner, who disappeared with it. He was sent front of the house. Thorough cleanliness eight strokes with a rattan. should be enforced throughout the city, and when the plague has been conquered it will then be time enough to deal with individual responsibility for the past and present, and an effective system for the future.

TELEGRAMS.

'ན་མས ་འབད་ག་

"THE Siamese Government have been wise in')

TO THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH."

4 o'clock this morning. The hapless female arrived here from Canton yesterday and was, it is said, about to join her husband in Singapore. (ON THE 13TH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS BIRTHDAY) Cochrane Street, is now in hospital suffering A Japanese female recently resident in from plagat; like the R.A. recently taken ou board the Hygein, this fair lady had nothing to do with the Sanitary work now going on in Chin-town

Congratulations on the day Which now completes your thirteenth year, And bearty wishes that you may

Live long to grace our Eastern Sphere, Through all these years you've staunchly fought For truth and manhood endlimayed; We love you for the good you're wrought ; Admire you for the foes you've rande. You've pricked the dull official fool; Official Hes to fragments torn ; On nolay cads thrown ridicule, And held the rascal up to score. You've battled bravely for the wenk Agalast the parse-proud and the strong ; You've always found stout words to speak When right was menaced by the wrong, Keep on ! You have the people's trust; Our hopes that all the years to be Will prove, like you, both true and just, And add to your prosperity.

AN IDLE SINGER. Hongkong, 15th June, 1894..

THE PLAQUE in HongKONG.

י.

When the plague first made its appearance in the colony about six weeks ago little concern a to the ultimate effects of the vialtation was manifested by Europeans for it was, for some occult reason, generally believed that the Chisere alone would fail victims to the deadly rudely dispelled from the minds of the average disease. That childish notion was, however,

Vesty and

foreigner when the Inter AR Red in

several of

the "Shropshire the cleansing operations in China-lown, took the Hygeia. Some optimists nevertheless still infection and were

bospital removed to the

sblp } clung to their shailow tacotles and declared that it was suffered, and they hoped and helleved themselves only those Europaans

ans who courted disaster who

of the Soldiers and Sallors' Institute, to be sale. What these deluded people talak of the case of private Gibson, S.L.I., the manages situated to Wellington Barracks, who พน taken on close to

we leave to the Imagination of

the Hygefa last night suffering from plague, our readers, Private Gibson WAS temperate, well. behaved

netblog to do with IDan who had the clean

cleansing operations in the infected districts, and stuck very closely 10 his work Ta

board

the lastitute, for which he exbibited consider-

тап

are now

pocketing thelt digalty and surrendering Phra Yot for punishment says the Daily Press Now, if the Daily Prats were not written in the English language and creffted with being one wandering about the slums of the colony and able *ptitude. He was not man addicted to of the local channels of British thought and oplaton--dwarfed, ill-begotten and emasculated was seldom il ever seen in the vicinity of those though such thoughts and

ow declared, and oplatons

be, parts p! the colony which may we would not take the trouble to seriously gaid advisedly so, out of bounds. In short, Gibson In the Garrison who any sentiment that it might utter. But when it was about the last mat makes an exhibities of itself by prostituting the would be likely to fall a victim of the plagac of theby other infectious decease, yet he is, as stated, British tongue to frame so infamous sentence Lay honour, manhood and the British name we protest pital. How the man took the infection wil As the one quoted, then on behalf of justice, an inmate of the Boating plages bes

who penned it probably never be known, but the fact that be that the contemptible parsaite should be put in the public pillory. The fellow's as become a victims of the plague clearly shows insignificance would under ordinary circum- that none of us can consider ourselves impreg- stances be bis protection, but a time comes when Dable from the attack of so Insidious and destruc-

use a foe. bump- even worms must be brushed aside and the FRANCE AND SIAM.

Lance-Sergeant W. Humphries and privaten J. Phra Yot has been brought to trial and tous ignorance of imbeciilty corrected. Did the sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment.

THE MOROCCO IMBROGLIO,

LONDON, 13th June, 1894. A British gunboat has gone to Tangler. The Spanish and French press are much excited over the Morocco question. The French praks strongly distrust Great Britain, and declare that France should on no account permit the British to hand at Tangler.

THE ITALIAN MINISTRY The late Cabinet resumer office with the exception of the Ministers for Finance and the Treasury.

THE KHEDIVE'S VISIT TO LONDON.

It is reported that the Khedive will probably abandon visit London and Parls,

shallow numskull realise what he was writing, and

was be aware of the iniquitous wrong which an 17. C. H. Williams, C. H. Lane, J. Bellew,

alleged gallant and supposed civilized nation had doos a petly Eastern bingdom-a wrong It is most fervently to be hoped will be by bay mets more trusty than those of soldier

Thurston, W. Allford and F. Reeves who, as previously reported, are victims of the scourge are progressing on the Hygein as favourably as

be ante expected under the circumstances.

Gallant France-Babi Ta venkher shiew of the mean and wholly unjustifi-. able aspersione cust иров the 11 mlittery

spleen upon an

an fadividual for t

the upreting of her plans of conquest in Slam by Great Britain to wreak vengeance

on

ROCKY

A tea-spoonful of Carbolic Acid exposed on a awangan his proposed of the sultan of Turkey, petty soldier seance of ancona e gode plate or other vessel la a Sick.room will parily the air and prevent contagion,

PERMANGANATE DISINFECTANT, Stellar to Condy's but cheaper, 50 cents a quart bottle,

A nice clean disinfectant for Dwelling-rooms

and Bath-rooms.

CHLORINATED LIME.

THE HONGKONG

DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 6th June, 1894.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1994.

THE DUTY OF THE HOUR.

GIVING AWAY EXPLOSIVES,

PARI", June 4th. Turpin. Inventor of the new explosives "melinite" and "procisstlic," denies the story that he had been trading off his secrets to foreign Governments, and asserts that he loyally forwarded his inventions to the Minister for Wer in Par's and to nobody else. Public opinion. however, is very sceptical about the whole business

THE CRISI IN ITALY. The Italian Chamber has voted by 255, to 15211 in favour of Signor Crisp!'s motion to appoint commission to draw up a scheme of retrenchment in the public service; but the Premier, not satisfied with such a small majority, has resigned.

THE FRENCH ARMY.

June 6th.

In the Chamber of Deputies today, M. Groinzet accused General Galiffet of writing an article tending to show degeneration in the spirit and courage of the French soldiers. The War Minister General Mercier, defended Galles mid loud applause, and the House adopted an " order of the day expressing entire confidence in the army and its officers.

THANKS to medical science we can cure the plague now raging in our midst; thanks to chemistry we could have prevented its birth and can stamp it out even should it reach its full development throughout the colony. Its continued presence in Hongkong means therefore M. Toussaint, Socialist member of the

Such cowardly actions as these wips out all pity that her last bumiliating defeat gained for her. The persecution of Phra Yot and the cruel and undeserved indignities cast by the French Government on Slam is a stain upon French colonial history that time will not readily wipe out.

Cargo

their

11

An Indian employed in a store close to Measts A. S. Watson's & Co.'s premises in Queen's Road Central succumbed to an attack of baboolc plague yesterday.

The latest official returns are as follow -- From noon yesterday outil noon to-day-

Hospital ship Hygela... Kennedy-town

New Dance Disch, Hem, under

מסטפס

cured entrant

a

D

હું

3

10 36

Sinoghter House ................... 51. 25 Private hous€...................................

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23

Toini ............ 59 51* *Exact Agures unknown, most of the patients in the Glass Works having been forwarded to Canton in junks.

Deaths from the outbreak (5th May) up to June 14th, noon, 1,7133 grand total, 1,764,

From noon up to 5 pm, to-day At Tang Web branch (including now only the Slaughter Ilouse) new cases 17, of whom 4 died on aviival; deaths since 6; sent to Canton În junks 36: 1otal remaining) under treatment at the Tang Wab branch 79.

PRESCRIPTION FOR CURING *DARTING-SNAKE” PLAGUE, A

This prescription has cured several thousand people who were 'afected with the plague. The

the plan for treatin same is to Kim-sha (er apply massage) according to the order shown in the plan (from Nos. 1 to 50) and marks that are given on the followlog two figures,

映上起拑三及

WION

頸筋位乃合】

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(This is an exact translation of leads now belog circulated broadcast throughout the colony. We make no comment, mg it speaks for itself.]

HONGKONG SIX MONTHS HENCE.

Every day the Steambort Company sends a boat to Canton frám Hongkong at Rajan, and another at 6 p.m., exch taking on an average 1,500 Chinese; and every night there is at least one Chinese-owned steamer averaging 500 at minimum estimate; besides which, there are rome hundreds of junks busily engazed in the passenger trafic probably taking quite as many people away as are covered the steamers,

.

the other hand, only a han

hundred or two come In the opposite direction each day,

Allowing the net daily cxodus to be discounted as low as 1,000 per day, which is undoubtedly below

mark at the

present, it means that after three months more of such a scare as this created by the bubonic plague, there would be hardly a

Chlaaman left in the Colony. single

That these estimates are not exaggerated may be seen from the official statistics courteously supplied by Captain Rumsey, the Harbour Master. From 14th May to 14th June the following passenger relarer have been made to the Harbour Office:-

Ocean galog Steamers. Arriving Departing

*****.14,035

motor[1,140

River Steamers.

Arriving Departing

.........14,810

.58.344

Junks. Anivlog Departing

****** 2,834 Steam-launches to places outside the waters of the colony. Artlying Departing.........

1,843

2,692

Total riving... Total departing

3.721

43,395. 76,039

Net decrease in population 33,649

This shows an average of over 1,000 leaving per day; but this covers the whole month, during which the exodus was small at first but growing every day.

Already employers of Tabour are feeling the pinch; building operations are practically sur pended

all over the Colony, cargo steamers find the greatest difficulty in loading or unloading, manufactures are being stepped-the Rope Works had to shut down a few days ago, the Les Yuen Sugar Refinery has already closed nd the China Sugar Refinery will probably have to suspe d of tations scon, Hardly an tffice In the Colony has its full complement of Chinese Clerks and coolles; hardly house has all its boys" and other servants. There have been Tumoura that all the Euinpeso mercantile firms In Hongkong were proposing to close

close their

doors

for a fortnight's holiday on account of the general stagnation, but things have not yet quite reached pass, Still, it is a fact that steamere Are avold-

place as much as

as possible; the mail boats are merely fulfilling their contac s to carry malls,

bat are refusing goods or passengers; the out- side vessels are trying their best to keep away entirely. The last "Ben" lact, for instance coaled it

the other bagasaki for Singapore

home lines are

away

direct; twenty

and

the

days!

nunking efforts

same direction. Ten, filleen,

quarantine

or

would kill the greatest trade on earth

in three months. Soon there will be no shipping in the harbour at all; only once a week a

steamer will approach as near as Gap Rock of Waglap, drop the mail-bags over wib bucys for the Hongkong people to come and pick up,

a cloud

will then retire in :

and

of burning salpber and ather disinfectants. The authorities at Saigon, Manila, and the Infected waters of the other such places will pour eucalyptus

I

ocean, and will re-lay the telegraphic cables with bisulphated lodia-rubber casing, and will quarantine the telegraph clerks; and the Shangbai and Japan people will begin to sniff suspiciously at the south-west monsoon coming from

a Hongkong.

Here the fist symptoms of desertion are already manifest; chairs and ji rickshan mie Abandoned by coolies to the headlong flight from the Pirgue Cliy; the monthly applications to the police fer vehicle cerces have failes off

about 50 per cent, and the other go will not remalo long. Laundries are belog closed for want of coollen wash clothing soan every European will have to wash his own shit and

his own ricksha

sha 1 Natives shops have shut se empty from and

pull

by scores, and whole streets ases

to end-apart from those the authorities have

condemned. Hotel

Hotel servants are getting scarce

́and hotel visitors more so. Scop

everybody

will be gone except a hundred or two

*hundred or two Europeans and as there will then be no need for a big vernment service, we will have to utilise the officials to supply the vacancies

the departed Chinese. They will be a poor sub.

stitute,

left by

but we must make the best of them. In

the small "happy family of survivors we may as well unite forces and all live together in one of the few uncondemned houses.

members of the search parties by a correspon- dent of

of the Daily Prest who signs himself aman, it should be distinctly understoo "A Chinaman,” that the asidiere employed in the arduous and dangerous work of house-to-house visitation are all" picked"

Icked" good-conduct men who

go rounds with police and civilian volunteers and whose conduct bas hitherto been most exemplary. They have nothing to do with the removal effumi tare or the destruction of cock-lotte and, for their own sakes, naturally leave the rookeries as soon

pondent writes to the N. C. Daily News: The of the "Whitewash Brigade" REFERRING to the Foochow tea trade a corresposible. The imputations of "A Chiasman" are not applicable to the bard-working members elther, for the men export to Europe so far consists of small ship are well locked site

after by their officers, sergeants ments by coast steamers for transhipment to and corporals, who would soon detect any mis- mall steamers in Hongkong, the weight of conduct. The allegation that tenants of infected which is tosigalicunt. The first direct

daylight by

t by the emer- the Palsmed, clears to-day. Her er hovels are robbed in broad

gency men is, on the face of

of it, a base

base calumny estimated at 650,000 lbs. The Giamartway and as the Editor of the Daily Press or any one else Pabling are expected next week. Musters of

Can easily ascertafo by visiting infected the new sessouls crop were first shown on the shantles before the brigade is turned loose 19 h ultimo, and the market was considered an upon them. The editor of the Daily Prass is opened on the 30th altimo, three days earlier as much to blame for the annoyance caused by than last season. Up

as is his contemptible to the present time half-chests of Congos have been settled the inuendoes selerred t

imaginative Chinese correspondent, for it Sand regards quality the best of the up-constry teas, is only too evident that he has takes no paine Say Soomoos and Sar-yunes, are superior to last to season's in the essential point of strength and attacle on see the otherwise of the cowardly

on men who have rendered very impor falacas in the cap, though scarcely equal in tant services to the authorities in the hour of appearance. The mediam teas from there need.

Why don't these grumblers do some. districte luck quality but are fairly strong, thing themselves?

Talk is

is cheap, and mont useful tens and desirable at price. profuse among idiots who don't know, The Paklings are not as good as” isat

George's Line and Astor Bulidlugs have to season, though strong, The Paklums are day been walled up by P. W.

P.W.D.

.bricklayers, under dies pointing. Fine Panyongs a scarce Foremen Colle

oore who are likely to have olle and Moore

special bricklaying work la songst them are seas about equal to last sex good deal of son'sy the on the wholë të stronger, if the band for

for some wed

come-that is to say if all days' impelsonment for making a public speech Yungbows we coully fine tens." Prices may be gality of wholesale murder

ows and Suey Kula are poor. to encouragement of a salie in the north

The Guest be rendered useless to those who ate practically Souchonge are

by parsimony recently.

quoted generally about the › me as last year all Hillier

of infected streets. round, taking quality into consideration. The Lone Street has to-day been added to the lower exchange allows of the tess at these prices The Daily Press hydrographer in at nes again. being laid down about 23 per cent, lower than In this morning', laue of that ridiculous eon British journalism it is stated that a crop Cougou will be about the same as last | number of c year. The arrivals of Congou to date are Lea Yaen sugar refinery owing to the plagne other time. Lately the "Dartlog-snake" pingus walked overland to Swatow! Good old has made its appearance, but very few people 351.oco balf-chests against 231,000 hal-chests the settlements are 13,000 half cheats against Granny has evidently forgotten (most aged really understand it. If a man happens to have TO THREATOR OF, The Holokana Telegraph.” $3,000 half-aberts; and the stock is 337,000 and doddering Individuale become very this disease will be a difficult case to get cured half-chests against 325,000 half-chess at the forgetful) that Hongkong is an island and that after three days have passed. If the hubo be Fress be exerted on behalf of the Volunteer SIR-May I ask that the lofluence of the same date last year. Exchange is 3/18 for between these shores and those of the mainland treated as a common boll, the patient is a lost inspectors of the plague-stricked area? The months #ght credlis; and freight te Loudon there is a great guil fixed, In crossing which even man. If the disease is bubonic plague, the man points I wish to bring before the public are very 50/- per Lon of 40 cable feet.

the Herculean strength and powerful lunge of will be sure to have ramiting fever, and speakerimple, involve very little expense, but we deem Gilpis secundus would be of litle avail. When coherently as in deliriam. Care must be taken of importance. The matter has already been ever our contemporary attemple to pull. ibe to "Kim-aha" in the order as shown above, and haught the notice of the authorities, who

somehow long bow

she makes a mess of it to administer the medicines as samed below, decline to move, though I believe some of the and becomes the laughing-stock of well, even after being carefully prepared. This treatment Permanent Committee of the Sanitary Board are Bier Brownls and the man in the street.

lavery effectuals several thousand people have in agreement with us. Hence there is no other The following notification has been sext by been saved by it at Canton. A certain bir. La way to attain sur and bat by making the matter the Portuguese authorities through the British happened to have such plagan the other day, he public. Consul in Macao to the Hongkong Government, was treated in the same manner, and got cured The case is thin: The Volunteer Inspectors thence reaching the Chamber of Commerce and in a short time.

are not provided with any place where they can Goally being forwarded to us for publication:- man happen to have such disease, first change their working clothes, or have a bath

H.B.M.C

pet big breast with cold water on the left side, after their by no means pleasant duties. Nal and for females the right side. Then scratch ther are they provided with disinfectants. the middle finger with copper cash or some- What we ask is, and 1 am sure I che the feel. thing is hard, and the red mark will be shown tage of the party to which I am attached, that suske. If the mark is a continuous one, some place be sat for changing, bathing

ENCOURAGING STRIKES.

June 7th.

a disregard, gross if not criminal, of those Chamber, has been tried and sentenced to ten last year's standard. The the resking lanes and havels lu the Colony are to

recognised sanitary principles the strict and careful observance of which is supposed to be a distinguishing mark of British Government all the world over. Even as LOCAL AND GENERAL, matters stand this pestilence can be

Is not up

On account of the long drought of this year,

expelled from our island within a fort-THE French gunboat Comète arrived at Shangkal | last year. It fa calmated that the ylekt of first | burle coolies who have deserted from the men's bodies become more feverish than at soy

night; but at the present rate of from Chefes on the gth inst. Inactivity, or activity in wrong directions MR. Enrique Ortiz, who arrived in Hongkong on the part of both the authorities and by the French mail yesterday, takes over the the general public, the fatal disease is duties of the Spanish Consulate to-morrow, likely to remain with us until the cold Few men are perfect," remarked the philosopher, winter season sets in.

after peruring the alleged editorial in this Against this official lethargy imbecile, morning's Daily Press, "except the perfect reckless, inexcusable-we strongly protest. | fools.

It has meant the deaths of thousands of THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carill & Co.) Chinese, and may not improbably load inform us that the Northern Pacific Steamship to a mortality amongst Europeans of Co.'s steamer Tacoma left Victoria, B.C., on the appalling dimensions. It means argth inst, for this port, via Japan ports. loss to the commercial and working A REGULAR Convocation of Victoria Chapter, classes generally of the colony of millions No. 525. will be held in the Freemasons' Hall, of dollars, by practically stopping all Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock business and driving our trade to other precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invitel. ports. It means a crushing blow to the princely prestige of Hongkong, the vaunted emporium and metropolis of the Far East. And all this could have been avoided by ordinary precautions before

Berlin Biet-Why don't you send a keg of blaky down to the Teng Wah Hospital for the searchers and whitewashers ?

Old Soak-Ah, men friendt, I'm like the slum landlords—think of no one but myself.

Inst. of the death of Sheng Hegan-hual Customa

SUPREME COURT.

IN BANKRUPTCY. (Bafora Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Chief Fustice.) June 15th.

• Coral 894:

Jone

Sir--I have the honour to inform you that all vessels leaving Hongkong for Australia via Temor will on their arrival at Dil ba bence.

by

There will be nothing to put to the newspapers except plague statistics, and as the Wyndham Street

printerles

are already belog hemmed in the deadly infection, there will be, as there always has been for the past thirteen years, only one live newspaper in the Colony, published In spite of everything for the wonderfully small price of 25 cents, of ten cenfs if bought from the "boy in the street."

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessartly madorwathu opčnione ampersand by............

Correspondents in this columns) A PLEA FOR THE VOLUNTEER INSPECTORS.

3. SENILS & CO. Allied Edwin Skeels, trading as Skule & Co., anciensers and commission agents, applied for a receiving order under the deblog's own petition flod on Thursday, the 2 fost benan form onder was made for the Official Ronriver to the advent of the plague or by the THE reports current in Shangbal on the 8th, report whether time were Any K130R OF BOR, Sorward subjected to twelve days' quarantine, it is a male anake, and the patient may survivë | and didiningilne. At the close of our duties we employment of summary repressive men-

Applicant. H. Hala

The length of the voyage will, however, count as for three days. If the mark is an intermitting have to scatter all over the colony in the garb, J. Holmes appeared to Brace Shepherd, part of the terms. This rule is applicable only one, it is a female snake, and he will live for generally reeking wat, in which w zatre in The Oncial Receiver, Mr. Bag sures after its appearance. But the Total Tientsin, Chief Director of the Chine Hongkong Government, with fatuous Merchants S.N. Co., and Director-General of reported as follows:-In the matter of AE in the case of Chinese passengers, and not of six days,

for two hours climbing up and down stairs Skaala 'ex parte the debtor : the masta, comelet | foreignert, as long as sa cases of bubonic plague The following are the namer of medicines, the infected quarter. Apart from the discom- shortsightedness, shilly-shailled and twad the Imperial Chinese Telegraphs, proved uns died and trusted to Providence, instead founded, that popular official belug in the best and books dabis sounding to about $2,000, of notification you will find in the "Boletim" of and after taking a dose or two the patient will

of fruitar and

sandry goods valued at $1,200, have broken out on board. A copy of the which can be obtained from the dreggist's shop, fort, there is real danger in this process.

“A matsked on the newly reclaimed ground, a of actively getting to work, until of hesith,

which the greater portion, I am informed,, is to-day.

be all right-Pang Tal Um, & trang Kwa fow Bhanghal bath tubs or even pails, lock of the contagion had obtained a firm foothold A CORRESPONDENT writes from Swatow under recoverable; the lablililer am about 16,705. I

Tong She, 4 mace; Kow Kon Choi, to treis ; ; disinfectants, und au attendant, are all that ip Foo Te Tam, 4 teels. (All herbal remedies, required. The shed could be put up in a morn

of zoni vaine.) polbly

ing the cost would be trifling. Some one sug- This afternoois the sanitary officers were basy The above four drugs should be ground, and | gested the Cricket Club, as it la not in use. -1 disinfecting the premises occupied by a the juice extracted, file the juice with huli ni de net know how this may be, but something carpenter named Kwang Bing Loang, whose exp of part honey, and then make it. If the ought to be done at sace. workshop is situated in Wyndham Street, next pallent is of strong monetitnilen is may be taken

Yours faithfully, dear to the China Masi office owing to a Chien cold, but for a wena patimi add a litle boiling

BYDNEY B. J. SKERTCHLY. WOMAN Karieg PRocKasbed to the plague flace or a watere

sunda

in the disgraceful filth of Chinatown, and yesterday's date The plague still keeps slaufam of option that it would be for the benefs of

creditors If a caring what might have eaally been eradicated from this port, thanks to the strict quarantine||the without very serious consequences was roles, which are rigidly enforced; and therales under the puction, repa

harbour Hundr His landship, akar pending the rajet, saked allowed to develop into a cataclyam of the mat-shed erected below

for the accommodation of any victims brought | If there was say objection to the wand receiving fatal misfortunes.

here in silil tenaniboss. The weather is chive | order being sinde." and cloudy, with only occasional showers, and Mr. Holmes No, my food. losks like ginaring up.

Order leaved necordingly,

It is true that something is at last being done to cope with this disease, and that,

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Yours, etc,

H. BENCRAFT JOLY,

Vice-Consul