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Intimations. DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

FIRST-CLASS

IRST-CLASS DISPENSING at prices that will bear comparison with first-rate pharmacies at home, Every care is taken to ensure prompt despatch; all Drugs and Chemicals used are guaranteed to be of the finest quality, and all the Europeans in the firm are qualed by Beltlab examination, PATENT MEDICINES, INVALIDS' REQUI. SITES, SURGICAL APPLIANCES,

P.M.

&C., &c., at Curreal Rale

SPONGES, PERFUMERY, TOILET REQUISITES.

The Dispensary is open from 7 A.M. to 7.30 P.M. on WEEK DAYS and from 10 AM. 10 6 on SUNDAYS, but Mediclae may be obtained ateny pour, day or night.

Any Complaints should be addressed to the MANAGER.

Hongkong, 17th August, 1894

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

13

VEGETABLE & FLOWER SEEDS.

SEASON 1894-95-

SEED LISTS, with blats for Gardening, are NOW READY, and Orders are being booked or delivery on arrival of the Seeds. They will be executed in the sequence lo which they are received as long as the supply lasts.

EARLY SOWINGS are to hand by Parcel Post of

CELERY SEED: —

SOLID WHITE MANCHESTER RED SULHAM'S PRIZE PINK WRIGHT'S GIANT WHITE

"WHITE PLUME;

Also,

CINERARIA:--

MARITIMA JAMES'S PRIDE.

The above can be sown now and next month fa boxes under cover, protected from ants.

CLAY'S FERTILIZER,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1894.

loyally accepted and-excepting in one feeble instance in which the willing good- nature of his Excellency the Governor was made a tool of by the Chairman and Vice-Chairman ('Scart Jim' and 'Tosu')

THE British-crolet Leander, Capt. Count silver, and it is a question whether the home Metaxa, leaves for Nagasaki at daylight to-mor-authorities appreciate and realize fully the effect row mornleg.

of this flow of the yellow metal from east to west; it unquestionably accounis le some massure for the large gold balances now in the Bank of

and the mis England

near future will play an

Owino to Mr.-E. J. Ackroyd, Acting Chlef Justice, being sightly Indhiposed, Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Pulsne Judge, formally opened the moralag, and then adjourned business till Mou-

witticisms, conundrums, and whatever else they were supposed to be-first” Introduced into England by Hairy-faced Dick in Wijijum, the Conqueros's time-, wern muddy and dalelved a shower of lethal missiles dropped quilts on the heads of the four corner men, the audience

of the Committee of that hybrid Institution | Seoul from Fusan, and strong divisions of troops August Sessions at the Supreme Court this important part in the great gold and generously overlooked a worka-la)

south of the wall known frontler town of Aichla on the Yaloo.

day at 10 o'clock.

T. Moffat of the local Police Force will be

int

THE WAR IN THE NORTH.

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph,) JAPANESE KRINFORCEMENTS.

SEOUL, August 16th. Large Japanese reinforcements have reached

and probably in the men Continental banks,

fare shat WAS

inevitable fremst the Hongkong General Chamber of have been despatched to Asan, Masampo, and

controversy. Of course, it is only astoral that Unaer Fellt was

Auccassial was probably the host. Chemulpo,

we should all deeply deplore the outbreak of artists in the sentimental line, kir rendering of Commerce, and nearly caused a wholesale

Ten thousand men who landed at Yuensan

war between the two countries we are so

"Elleen's Message" having. MADY good points, revolution against mistaken and misled | (Wönsan), on the East coast, have camped near INSPECTORS Hanson and Mackie and Sergeant intimately connected with, nam-is, Chins and whilst on the foney side Hr. G. G. Brady officialdom-all but unanimously borne Ping-an city, about 3200 alles, as the crow Bles,

Japan; it cannot help having disorbing musical treatise on the damaging effects to presented with "good conduct and meritorious

Influence on

business of every discription, forlorn female who was the unhappy possessor with patience and resignation, The

service" medals by the Captain Superintendent especially at the ostect, but on the whole I of "Simple Pimple not only annexed the wisdom of allowing the able and hard-

of Police on Friday next. Water Police constable think the effects upon trade will be less than cake, but nearly led to rial. Mr. C. T. Robinson Samuel Pep

Pepper; of oplum seizure renown, to generally anticipated. In conclusion, I have was hardly a success in "Love me little, love working members of the Permanent

xlso be decorated with a bronze medal on Friday to state that the Bank is doing well at all points, me long," and the other solos were successful Committee of the Sanitary Board to

in recognition of "the seal, energy and ability Our Inspector, Ms. Walter, is now going his mainly through the effective chorus aloging, the have a free and independent hand in

displayed in the performance of his duty," or rounds and has reported meat favourably upon boys performing admirably.

all the Branches he has been able to inspect In the second part, ich the Band of the fighting the scourge in the colony and of doing everything possible to localise its

up to the present time. I hope I am not taking

Regiment

from "La Mascotte," Mr. Cox, R.E., ravages was always apparent, beyond a

United States, the St. Louis Globe-Demes look forward confidently to the old point of WAL

A very far

funny in Dan Leno's "The Recruling few carping spouters whose puny personal

crat, would be at welcome as the finding of prosperity of the Bank being attained again in Sergeant, and his tendency to over-do the Interests were regarded as of far more

diamond At present the metal costs the very near future. Before moving the adop-business and Indulge in burlesque seemed to give

mine importance than the public weal, and the A DESPERATE ENGAGEMENT IMMINENT.

half as much as gold, having risen tion at the report and accounts Bearly

I shall be happy great satisfaction. Mr. Vowles was extremely results speak for themselves. It is true It is rumoured that the Japanese will give greatly in price within the last three years.

to answer any questions shareholders may ask.

clever in p parodying, and

and exposing to the uaial- The Chairman-As there appear, to be no that the disease has not been entirely battle to the Chinese at Ping-an city, and that

is absolutely Indispensable for many PRI-

tlated, a number of the ordinary tricks of the non-corrosive being nod stamped out, nor in our opinion can that in the course of the next ten days the Japanese pores,

and tenisilog questions to be put 7 beg to propose that the

professional jaggler, and especially made a great will have upwards of 30,000 men, including acids.

4 presented be adopted.

blanitous Mr. It is utilized for chemical apparatna, report and accounts as

hit with the autistance of the ubiquitous be reasonably expected during the summer

under canvas on the northern regiment of cavalry,

scientific lostromente and incandescent lamps. months while there is positively no checkside of that famous Korean city. In the There is some platfaum In the beach sands of

Mr. R. Shewan, in seconding the mailen, suld Brady as the Talking Head; but why did Mr. it was an old saying that #goo

'good wine needs no

no Vowles think it in a good faste to come on the on the influx of Chinese; but the ating event of defeat the Japanese army will, of course, Oregon, but not enough to pay for mining hash" and there could be no doubt that stage with his nether limbs cased in a pair of would appear to have been taken out fail back on Seoul, which they can soon render Smail quantities of it have been discovered the report and accounts needed no commendas black tights of the Dumble order, with a space

and its effects practically impregnable. of Hongkong's curse

Pelams of abast six inches between the bottom of the There is sure to be terrible carnago when the I Meatly in the copper mines of Canada, for themselves. The most inveterate grumbler i gårmeat and his dress pumps and the upper

his part-they spoke rambler minimised to an extent justifying the belief that all future cases can be easily kept within narrow limits.

And now the question fairly arises whether the Permanent Committee of the

Sanitary Board nre. not, under all circumstances, In a safe position to recommend the Government to remove to a very considerable extent the very ineffectual and in most respects ridiculous ban on our local commerce which has been

in existence for so long. An official

proclamation that a port is plague infected, such as that issued and renewed regarding Hongkong by Governor ROBINSON, IS

THE CHINESE ON THE YALOO. The report of large Chinese reinforcements having reached Ping-an city appears false, but there can be no doubt that the Chinese are in great force at the Yaleo, and will Flag-an city as soon as the Army Corps which passed Newchwang on Monday reaches an entrenched position about ward and westward of Alchin

advance an

miles to the north-

flower of the Japanese Army and China's rough- and-ready northerner, from Kirin and Chibli, meet at Ping-an.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

words to that effect.

THE discovery of deposits of platinum in the too rosy a view of our position when I say wa | selection opened in fine style with a capital

|

1100 00

where it occurs in combination with arsenic.

of the world's supply Two-thirds platinum comes from two Sibertan lace the

the soup in the Ural Mountains. The metal is obtained the plates on which his dinner is served at i dress trousers used to be good enough for

there su

* by-product al gold mining. The mjaing is done by scooping holes in the ground to a depth of about fifteen feet, and then barrow log, rat fashion, Jo sil directions. Twenty-nine FOOT-AND-MOUTH dhesse is reported to be pre-hundred carloads of earth are required to yield

stent in Singapore.

fifteen pounds of platinums. The biggest nugget ever found was about the size of a tumbler.

THE British guoboat Firebrand returned from Stonecutters' Island yesterday.

Tur usual inspection on board the hospital ship Meeaner took place ible morning.

HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

Haselmayer,

End

very much the same as the declaration will give a free concert to the soldiers, szilors Barking Corporation was held in the City Hall | And the fact that the Corporation had come our rendering iscked expresslan, ard was absolutely

that a certain port or coast-line is in a state of blockade; in each case, to have any value, the quarantine regulations and

the blockade must be effective.

But,

We hear that the Hongkong Hastrel Troup and police on Monday evening next af the City HOL

"G SHARP "bas his "No. 13" in this morn. log's Daily Prest, and as he will probably bave respite him until thea.

apotker sauffi-buster on Monday, we have to

To-DAY belog the birikday of the Emperor of Austria, the Austrian stemer Marta Valerie, which arrived here from Trieste last evening.

'dressed ship' in honour of the occasion.

A PIANO is the intest addition to the billiard room of the Kowloon Police Station, and a minstrel troupe has been formed. The force ought to be able to provide some excellent *corner men.

of would always find fault and even complain that part next door to indecent? A pair of ordinary

are too hot. It was impossible to please Maskelyne, Anderson, Keller, every one, but he felt sure that there would be dozens of other well known prestigiators, and very few indeed who would find fault with the we don't think "Professor Vawiesint" improved report, Of course there were those who on the custom followed by these

professional were never attefied and who, like Oliver Twist, gentlemen, Mr. C. T. Robinson had a always wanted more; no dividend would attafy reception for a clever renderlag of the character sich people, The fact that year after year, tong "Down the Road," and in respouse to an notwithstanding all diffiesitles, the shareholders undeniable secali was

equally successful were presented with such extisfactory reporty with the coster class " E don't know where 'o are.” was roost gratifying and an indication that the Mrs. A. G. Gordon was most enthusiastically bank wa galslug in strength. The results applauded for a sympathetic conception of obtained and as set forth in the report spoke Cowen's beautiful ballad "The Children's volumes for the care and forethought of the Home," although the song, written for a Mezzo-

of shareholders in the Hongkong and Shanghai and

The fifty-eighth ordinary hall-yearly meetingsgement. The great success of the Bank toprano, is not by any means adapted to this was a fair example of the survival of the fittest, lady's fall and rich contralto, Besides, the of all difficulties successfully WI dur guyed" by a series of ridiculous "living to their wise and large-hearted chief manager, pictures," which were greatly out of place Mr. Jackson, (loud applause) and also to the In a composition of this character. High-class

is to Court of Directors who had wisely put the affairs music is supposed to appeal to the ear and to of the Bank in Mr Jackson's bends again the soul-not to the eye, and a singer's art is renewed applause). The shareholders had to giving ille and expression to the sentiments of thank themselves that they had a manager who the composer. The "Ulving pictures made the Bank pay no matter what the fl ctus-right in the barrack-room

were all song *"*Comrader," tions of exchange were: The speaker thought which Mr. C. H. Grace sang with more than his an equally good report for the next six months usual power, but McGlennon's musical prodac

The different article to might be confidently looked forward to. It ton is quite man's motion (applause) afforded him much

ch pleasure to second the Chair- Children's Home," Mr. Brady *** most smating at The Jap," and Mr. D. R. On being pat to the vote the report and

Sliman

sang Asber's beautiful ballad "Alice where art thou ? better than it has ever beca adopted unsuimostly.

publicly sung in Hongkong lace Monty Salamon's soul-thrilling tenor notas mada the City Hall-ring.

at noon to-day. Mr. C..J. Holliday (Chairman) presided, and there were also present Menurs, H. Hopplan, J. S. Moses, R. M. Gray, J. Krater, H. H. Joseph, St. C. Michaelsen, A. McConachie and D. R. Sastoon (Directors), T. Jackson (Chief Manager), J. B. Coughittle, C. P. Chater, A. G. Wood, A. G. Stakes. G. de Champeaux, I. H, Cox, Geo, Potts, J. Kramer, R. Lyall, R. Shewan, L. Darby, S. Hancock, A. Coxon, F. Henderson, Douglas Jones, Paul Jordan and other.

The Chief Manager read the notice convening the meeting.

Eccounts were

ba

considering that at no time during the existence of the plague in this colony has any effective check been placed on the steamers from Canton pouring their hordes of Chinese coolies and others direct from districts where death is stili alleged to stalk rampant, does it not appear an anomaly that the river steamers should be

The Chairman sald-Gentlemen, the Directors daily compelled to anchor off Stonecutters' Island and waste valuable time to the

have much pleasure in laying before you the great inconvenience of passengers and of

report just read, feeling, as they do, that it is one that cannot but give satisfaction to the share business for a so-called medical examina- tion which is a ridiculous farce? As an THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Cartili & Co.) holders. The accounts for the half year ending will remember, instance we may quote what came under inform as that the Northern Pacific Steamship 31st of December last, as the personal observation of the writer on Co.'s steamer Tacoma, from Hongkong, Shangwere adjusted at the exchange of as, 3d, to the

dollar, and those now arriving from Canton in the steamer bai and Japan porte, arrived at Tacoms on the the further fall in the price of silver, have presented, owing to Keng-hai one morning last week. The 15th inst.

had to be taken over at 21 d., and I may vessel anchored and, after some time, the THE ordinary ball-yearly meeting of shareholders remind you that at one time during the past medical officer came on board; he walked of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., half year telegraphic transfers on through the Chinese steerage passengers, will be held in the offices of the Company, No, actually touched is 118d, so that you will see which may or may not be the usual 14, Praya Central, at 3 p.m. on Monday, the | that the six months now under review again bank should not soon experience a rature of the

cover a period of considerable fluctuations method of detecting the bubonic plague;

exchanges; however, pursuing he looked in at the door of the second

the palley of never being beasily committed saloon, in which was

a crowd of

201 either in silver or gold, the Bank passengers, and said it was all right; and between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday, to convey an able to make steady profits all through,

he then went to Inspect (?) the steamers Powar and Pasig without bothering the Kwong-hor's saloon. We are quite willing to admit that this may have been all the examination that is now necessary; we are even desirous to go further and suggest the impossibility of one doctor in search of plague, shroffing some three thousand Chinese within something under half a hour. If this nonsense must be carried out for the sake of formality, let it be done

20th inst.

THE Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vesséis kofsting code pennant C;

about 12.30 p.m. men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returalag

As will be seen by an advertisement in our last issue, tenders for the Revenge Farms of British North Boraco and Labuan will be received by the Secretary to the Governor, at Sandakan, on or before the 30th November. Tax life of wire rope on cable tramways or for power transmission of any kind le greatly pro- Careful experiments longed by lubrication, show that an unlubricated rope broke at 16,000 endured 39,000 bends over the same pulley.

in Eastern

|

and consequently, whether exchange risen or fallen, it has been all the same to

像 Indeed I may go so far as to SAY

ibat

in

The Chairman-The Dividend Warrants will

ready on Monday, Mr. Douglas Jones proposed a vote of thanks directors,

the London Committee, the Hongkong We refrata from dealing with the fiole

the chief:

of manager and the whole staff "Fan in Tai-ping-sban, and can only regret of the bank which,he submitted, was due to them, that such an exhibition of bad taste was included one and all, for the able manner in which the in the programme. The plagus in Hongkong

business of the bank had unquestionably been and the work in Tai-ping-shan and elsewhere conducted (lond applause). If the energies of the bave not been "fan" by any means, or there directorate were devoted to the enlargement of would have been no necessity for the concerts the reserve and the encouragement of local enter we have fast culticised. prise there was, be thought, de reason why the prosperity so marked upwards of five or six years

na,

B

Carried by acclamation.

This concluded the business of the meeting.

THE “ BLACK PLAGUE" CONCERTS.

THE PLAGUE BACILLUS IN

TAI-PING-SHAN,

WHEN DOCTORS DIFFER

wbich embraced as far as that branch was cop, help/ sigleator and manager, and the houses to Tal-ping-shen Street. Awsuming our

talk of

A bigh-class Fertilizer for Pot Plants and for on the wharves of the respective steamers. bends over a pulley, while a lubricated rope less have noticed from the statement now before day and Wednesday last for the benefit of sale complete destruction of the plague-gerus

use in the Garden generally: it supplier natural nourishment to the soil, and assists the process of assimilation, thereby alding the Plants to attain to their full size, vigour and beauty.

Sold in Tins containing to 18s. each...$1.75 28 lbs. ...$4.50 Directions for Use are given on the Label.

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RANSOME'S "NEW PARIS" LAWN MOWERS,

The Best and Cheapest Machines in the Markel. For Sale at Manufacturers' Prices.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

ESTABLISHED. A.D, 1841.

Hongkong, 30th July, 1804.

BIRTH.

Is

At 4. Queen's Road, on the 17th instant, the wife of JOHN JOHNSTON BLAKE, of a son

the gates of the wharves can be closed, the usual crowd of loafers left outside, and make his *cientific the doctor can investigations as the 'suspects' or possible victims pass outside; but to detain vessels and passengers in the harbour for hours In the fashion that is done now, and has been done for weeks past, serves no useful purpose and cannot be justified. If a state of quarantine has to be enforced, the public has a right to expect that it be done effectually; this make-belleve per- formance is of no use whatever, and it is costly to the owners of the vessels, exceedingly inconvenient to passengers, and distinctly detrimental to Hongkong's

commerce.

TELEGRAMS.

CHINA RAISING THE WIND.

LONDON, August ryth, The Chinese Government is raining a loans in London and Herlin of £1,500,000 at 5 per cent., two thirds of which is payable in silver.

FRANCE AND BRITAIN.

Lord Dufferin bas returned to Paris to nego questions between France and Great Britain,

SNAP SHOTS.

Life la an opportunity not to do wrong, What is man's record but a long expense account.

fund

On the 23rd ultime there appeared in this journal an article on the subject of "An Impor tant Discovery in the Forbidden CityTM" in our experience has been, that there is galte

which it was set forth in the clearest terms that a mach if not more money to be made on a low level of exchange as on a high one. On

, and Dr. Kwen, of the Salgor, Concerts in the Hongkong Theatre Royal Professor Veizin of the last occasion of our meeting here, the Chair- bave rarely been a success for the past twenty

Nethersole Hospital, had discovered the plague man drew attention to the considerable with years, either artistically or financially, and it is bacillus at least eighteen inches below the sur drawals of stealing deposits at our London therefore all the more to the credit of Mr. W. face of the ground floors of certain plague-smitten Agency. In the report then submitted to

to you, WD

hands whose willing aid enabled him right to do, we then asserted that

information to be thoroughly reliable, as we

we bad #all coined a period ending, on 31st October, 1F93, to bring to such a satisfactory result the two they stood at £9.415.992 21. 30. You will doubl: entertainments given on the evenings of Satur pecurity from the endemto form of t

of the

plague and

you that on the 36th April (when the London

mere of words being raised as some slight recognition of and chestoption of and present citations based I period of six the services rendered by the soldiers and police and

of any recommendations months, they are returned at and we have heard by letter that

*further decrease of showing

6. deadly Black of £473,053

as characterises the bails of

deal of the was at its worst in this

1 ■ good dea

the Blaynay colony. Mr. who, we understand, has Permanent Committee's recommendations A tempent in a teapot has destroyed many a

been an active volunteer worker in the Brigade 28th ultimo bound to land to farther trouble, home.

falling off in sterling depoultr, however, from the beginning, is deserving of special if not actual disaster, in the near future. Tras, Prospects are good in their places, but you

we have to record a material increase la commendation; first, for the kindly and the Committee state they prefer to destroy the cannot fill dishes with them.

oor sliver deposits during the half year just considerate thought that gave him the houses in question by fire, but they do not Intolerance is an engine of destruction that concluded, of as much as $4,807.200.84, which, idea of paying such a gracious compliment to assert, as might well have been

as you will see, more than compensates for the the men who have worked so fearlessly and the will run in any direction.

The

amount wirbes of the improvident mortal are his

withdrawn Lo sterling

It is only necessary to wants.

to add that we are working very com

devoted to successful stamping cut of the plague." A day or two Inter the Daily Press and China Mail To be just is to be kind. The bonest man never stops to inquire whether ample funds for all the legitimate business we

Farmer, who i

attr statements respecting the discovery well to the honesty pays.

may be called

to undertake. You will | with his valuable

professiona

experiences when of the bacillus at a considerable depth below the Na taatter how dearly you may love your in all probability bave not failed also to observe good cause has and Mr. Murphy, atrface and the latter journal, in language

the kems cash, bullion on hand and in the popular from

Bandmaster of darling you cannot cut his eyeteeth for him.

of the Shropshira Light usually

for a missionary „organ, strong-c-beget

vein of and bills If you wish to know what a man thinks of you transit, receivable, that the Bank is in Infantry, who saved Hike Trojan both at udvocated that the planet by treat refuse outright`to vole for him.

an unusually strong position. Indeed,,

I ques

rehearsals and the two

fires the performances,

Tai-ping-shan should be than Ever been sounder than it is at the

accounts were made up) cover 1.938 101, 5d., who formed the "Whitewash Brigade" when the upon such fallacions assumptions and reasonleg

withdrawals have since been golog on. Aust

this

om trouble

he

dove, that

the desiruction by fire every house in THI

fortably at all our branches and that we have make the Aas so diefatorested Carena | plog-shan distelot is a sine qua mon to the

and, secondly, for the

Mr. W. Fodertaking

10

******noteworthy endras Bus

Wearned the warts apprecipiat, Dave more efficient means of PIETER

of the com-

of Hongkong. Nothing succeeds itke reallentini

the soil of the

Most people have very little use for the man tion if its Sonncial standton has really maltyd our readers will be glad to learn that i impregnated. Since then several meetings of

who tells them a disagreeable track.

It would take so long to explain some mis considering the way Eastern business

die out.

Silence Itself is sometimes slanderous,

прое

and

Alontiki germs with which it is unquestionably success, takos that it is much wiser just to leave them to ❘ has been serionale me to the Genth me that | Wednesday nights realised about $800 and £700 | of them were our statements in any way called the two crowded houses on Saturday and the Sanitary Board have been held, but at none tion of silver, I think will this la

is highly satisfactory statement to

addressed by Dr. Jan. Cantile to the Board was If you call some people out of the ruts they to make. With reference to our at to be able respectively, a tanult which is more than sails in question until Thorsday, when letter

the case of | will run off the track.

of the special London reserve with the And now for the show, a celtical molle of read in which the writer stated :--- The safety of some people lies in the strength Bank of England, we may mention that, seeing which, for reasons we need not enter into here, "Dr. Yersin has just called upon me and naked me to make fa known that he is not responsible for the attement that the Plague of the strings which their opinions have to them. the great uncertainty in the outlook as regards has unavoidably been held over for several days. Bashar bun wound cau-on-a-half food down in sisa sell. Fir

Indian

the 150,000 wa

000 we held of the Indian Ster- Christy Minstrel dance and wind up with an with what he terms a foolish rapamant. He states that three is the deepest point which he has fomed bacillus, und speaking to a representative of the Hillsburgling three per cent, Loan, and replace the exposition of high-class talent in what is pro- that very taiden in it out with beyond gender inches fres

in law of the thecaioned legislation against it, quarters: ercent Consols. Gilt-edged stocks of all probably, although the said: "I received this moming a letter from kinds, as probably meat of you are aware, have || is as one of the greatest Belgian sugar refinere recently risa very materially in vaine,

Á OKKILEMAN wellwersed in the sugar business em AEfniru generally, we thought it advisable | The management decided to‘open the ball with every musch kamoyed that his name should have been masociat

and

date the settlement of various vexing African | Disbatch about the position of the sugar trade | amount by the purchase of two-and-thre. / fentionally termed the Vit here

as dead as Noah's Ark, the i

Caused by a

by unwise ose,

securities

in spirit and Aro kaloni apoiable mar

The veracity of Dr. Yersin's allegations work

A fatal case of cholera has occurred at Balter.soitelting trade. Is it were cited the advant. the extremely low rate rules for menere in the might have tokakku manical accomp/faking Burgeon, who read a letter Sony Dr. J. A. Lowcoo

The Hongkong Celegansk

CHOLERA IN ENGLAND.

sea, pear London.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1894

LATE TELEGRAMS.

BONGKONG QUARANTINE.

Over

producers If the Wilson Bill passen, as they which thay stand in our books. Concerning our decancies which stirred the makes me ditcastion followed and

private traders and public companies | persona ware killed at Ada Bazar. Tchalada în by the law of trade, our Command are about interests of all concerned, so we adhere to toe with the possible exception of the which he now appełza anglows to repadinte.

Was not at once challenged by Dr. Ayres, the Colonial Acting Superintendent of the Government Civil the Belgians bave

the American | Landen market, and all our sterling

grief in the classically Hospital, reporting that the bacilos bad Come to

brez show y

a very considerable proft on the cost at operate line. When the curtain arose is found by Dz. Yerxle twenty-two inches below not only be placed upon an equal

night

after some little trouble owing the footing with the manufacturers in the Unked dividend, although for carninga perhaps to

then allowed by the Bard to drop. States, but will have the advan

fxenities of certain distinguished “advantage of the warrant a larger distribution than we have we dress circle, ràn andlance had in fronta vary pot consi:er such an importanț maller worthy Idiots in But the more fact that the Sanitary Board did bounty of three-eighths of a cent which the now decided upon, and LONDON, July 14th.

wa know many of On our shareholders strongly wish this,

and w

effective

Risge plauze, comprising seventees of Investigation and discussion is no reason why The arsenal at Devonport has been burnt. French and Belgian Governments are giving on

sugare shipped to this country. The

beartily sympathize with them upen this leading specially selected

artistically the Hongkong Telegraph should not have have already mada extensive It is, of course, well known. that the The fire was the result of malevolence.

pre point, still we must recognize that

credit is

in • semicircle, with about something to say on the subject, especially as CONSTANTINOPLE, July 14th. parations for the trade of America. It is a the first consideration, and we are convinced

ozen forentie choristers Immediat

would appes: to Lave adopted an commercial interests of this colony have The whole of the shore of the Ismidt Gulf has | deplorable fact that, just what she angar mann- that for

the present al Dy

rate the course w * | behind, and the musicians of the

but courteous tone

one and a most irres suffered severely owing to the plague, been seriously damaged by the earthquake ; 25 facturers have the Corrian by the throat are now pursuing is the right one for the Light lafantry, under Brother Marpky, slevated gular method of giving the lie to the furoal axactly to the portions they were best suited to that first gave publicity to the statements about destroyed.

to permk the foreigner le

teclaicks, to as before, also se on the last occasion we fill.

of tbros Mastodon Ménstrale a dosen yours who

all dos

however, to the deference, Twelve million shares have been subearthay cDgle the -like pet of vis: by legislation. I add to the Reserve Fund a further sum of:

Sugar bas never been cheaper antincs bealder

Merch scfantst und ble recent sömé...” lacs besides providing $60,000-the cost of

at numbered 38, this

of the Hongkong grouping for the formation of a new Italian Credit to-day. The cost of production has reclaiming the fine stretch of land between our Miosirals was the bait thing in its way we have what puzzling contradiction on matters of fact,

been Mobilier.

san brought down to freighths of a cent. – bank buildings and the harbour here. As to yet seen in this colony.. Is is just as well in say we are bound to bat ke

I only adopted 5T. PETERSBURG, July 15th.

the general position of commercial affairs there that before the curtain sose the Soldier's requlens the wrong course to really an error, if sich it It saamet be said that there in a monopoly in

Take are independent factorian at in little calling for any special comment at the “5

"Bleep, comrade, sleep *... was tunga ba bat apposta to have forgattes what medical There have been 69 deaths from chalers Philadelphia, New Yorks Bones, Poughkele moment, now that we have actually been working mark of respect for Capt. G. C. Veren

bimin

În kis bacill) researches during the day.

and New Orleans. All of these are outside the for a considerable time with a low level of

and the other – Kuropeans went only billed |

We have no doubt whatever LONDON, July 16th, As unknown person was arrested for havizie | kust, The trust has been mishin te vat kien facta i exchange we can sou plainly, as we have succumbed to the plague. It was capitally reason and Kwan uru pentarsed of

itka party in power is CONSTANTINOPLE, July 16, Which the cadence they Indueur export from all oliver, water constries and comprehensibi. Such meuniebankish nonsense absolute coeuracy of the lanetentione sappiled to all sales courtland bars been bad the portalary and hey have a fab parent, he America is very blan

• With the ì quats | grievously depress intposts from the gold-wing † is greatly to be depunere was going through the matter èl fanmmand it la a polat so which we and ostatually printed in thle paper. As a The damages resulting from the earthquake

bounty offered by Frison and Belgium, mothers, ones, the balance of finde will be adjusted by as Upace will not permitt shock are stimated at 100 millions of festin,

Abe tumoránd Import of allvar. Another item worthy nigger pufsending, say, alusch/Chome would, especially laying the attention of Dr. Higkosong the Khedive in still on board the pegg, production la tale country

The population contlines to camp out. His - tion will be lepingible. You may post

Zunge vins the houry. Mil in the pries of want mesilasly, and kihowch tata alimeni jezen: wikh wondema, deney rucht Makrosssa,

alike having had to submit to drawbacks and hardships rendered inevitable by the repressive measures which were considered necessary by the authorities to effectually cope with the fatal inroads of our unwelcome visitor. However unpleasant some of these arrangements may have proved, and it cannot be doubted

ROME, July 15th.

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that they have pressed hard on the attempted to stab with frkulia Mr. Jamos; M. PJ WEZWard te's#gar keinen auttak city Mandelpated and hava sot bétitated to predict | rendered and loudly applanded, but why it should - fast as reventive memories `no Dr. Yeiam Nimesik

gradually declining trade of the port, the circumstances were of such a character that even inconveniences, the necessity for which, if not generally admitted, were

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