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Patinations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED.

VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1895.

COLLARD & COLLARD PIANOS at W. Robinson & Co.

DURINO 1894, accudiog to. The Publisher's Circular, to new hoks ad 1,185 new itions were published in England, an facrease nl some 100 over Inst year.

THE sanitary authorities of Macao are busy just now fymirating all the sewers of the Holy City and wincing them with antation of chloride COLDS IN THE HEAD, &c. of potassium and chloride of lime. Why?

BURROUGHS WELLCOME & Co.'s PINOL EUCALYPTIA INHALERS,

NE of the best remedies extant for Nasal Catarch and all disorders of the Nasal Passages and Nagnpharyngeal membranes.

Price

...$1.25.

EUCALYPTUS OIL.

A STANDARD REMEDY FOR COLDS. Sprinkled on the handkerchief and over the breast of the night clothing R gives almost

Instant relief.

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Robinson & Co.

recover it, although`after five months' cottes- W. Ronson & Co., plano buffders, tuners and New Comic Song and Dance Albums at W. dleidend, to be able to inform you, as is set repairers.

forth in the report, that the half year fast pondence they did produce half of the number referred to shows, after paying off the large of dollars. A JAPANESE steel cruiser named Suma, which I in to be hoped that trade will soon feel the amount of interest from the Profit and Loss I suggested roolstration of servants last year has been constructed at the Yokovnka_ship... | thrill of a long-looked-for revival.

a safeguard against these larcenfes, "nil I account. credit balance of $176.93 #gainst a debit balance of $10.107 17 as compared with have since recommended that licensing of bollding varð, was to be launched on the gh

servin'e ha mude compulsory by bw. I am Inst. In the presence of the Emprees of Japan.

the corresponding period in the previous year The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will

The receipts accruing for the first two months of aware that the law which formerly ex'sted on this the current sear exhibit an increaur, In comparisuhjeet became a dead letter. But the only reason for that was the apathy of residents In call alongside vessels hotating code pennant C

sun with those earned in the preceding year: between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday, to cover

and it is only to be hoped that we may continue this colony. men ashore in the 12 o'clock service, returning

to enjoy the benefit of this improvement in the about/r2.30 pm.

enaning maths. The Directors, contrary to

ton of shareholders, to lay before you in the thought it advisable this time,

for the

informe- chair

We are soity to hear that Mr. Wm. Machell, one of the most indel teable members of the Staff of Queen's College, a gond all-round athlete, regions volunteer and staunch teetotaller, isid up in the Civil Hospital with a violent attack of intermittent fever. There are very few Mechells knocking but in the Gorgeous East, pall round and be at much in evidence as of

have

in

It wigo much trouble to 'spend ten minutes registering a servant before engaging him, and, so a boy who hanrobbed his former master or a

Tuesday last, from pneumonia, of Captain Sa THE Course for the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club's and it is to be hoped therefore that he will soon the usual custam in vogue in this colony, chair tonlie who has' misconduced himself and

OUR Macao correspondeat reports the death on

Niena. The deceased offi ́er was very popular in Macan, and in Thor, where he was at one Rime Colonial Secretary.

THE Board of the New Balmoral Gold Mlaing | Co., Limited, vesterday received applications for a total of 7,708 shares. All tenders above $5 per share were allotted In fall and 50 per cent. of those made at $5 each.

We are reliably loformed that no less than to fees have just been paid by students who are going in for the next Oxford Local Exam. (second form), while the fees for 15 candidates for the Preliminary Exam, which quite an innovation in the educational programme of this year, have also been paid. And the cry

still they come !"

As will be seen by an advertisement in another part of this issuz, a fourth divlend of five ver rent, will be parable on application at the office of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, Hongkong, on and after Thurelay, the 2728th inst, to all creditors of the New Oriental Bark Corporation, Limited, in Liquidation, whose claims have been received and admitted.

Battles $1.00 and 50 Cents. DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., Ln., VICTORIA DISPENSARY.

Hanekong, 19th January, 1895,

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED),

HETANISHED A.D. 1841.

WINES AND SPIRITS.

ALL there are Selected by ear London Hours, bought direct at first hand, imported to Wod and Bottled by ourselves, thus paving all intermediate profits and enabling us to supply the best growths at moderate pricer.

Price Lists, WITH FULL DETAILS, TO NE HAD

ON APPLICATION.

FORT-Aer removal should be rested a

morth before use. When required for date Maglione Ahould be ordered to be Porreto diet the. Elspensary before being

sent me.

SHERRY: --Excellent dinner and after dinner

MIAS GRACE Hawthorne, “star” #ctress,

FULL stock of banjos, maudolines, quitaro, accordions, strings and fittings of all kinds at W. Robinson & Co.

By:

yore.

Frge tomorrow will be from the Submarine Mining Pler, round the white Fairway buoy, No

present report a more lengthy statement of the I Dock boy, dingby off pler, white Fairway buoy, and No. 1 Dock busy, leaving all to starTRUS the Frisco Chronicle of the 12th ultime Company's affairs, by detailing therein the

revenues from wa

separate various sources under board end Anfabing at the starting line; distanceIt is so much easier for a war correspondent to

headings and comparing their results with uit in his hotel in New York and way. "I told you 13 miles.

so than to remain at the front that one can

those of the previous year. With the exception, hardly wonder at James Creelman's conspicuous howev

however, of two items, the Hillard and Steam will give a short dramatic season in Singapore absence from the active military operations Laurence Increse, Talding, therefore, all

all. I am plad to shortly, The Company to at present in Rangoon, In

In and about Wel-bai-wel. As the lamented ay, lodicate: Miss Hawthorne is gifted with dramatic powers Spoopendyke might have said, all he wants is a these fac's torether, I have no hesitation in any kad emotional instincts of a high order, and is hat with a bullet-hole in it and a vivid imagina-ing that the shareholders must all feel very much sald to be supported by artistes who have aptlon to be first-class war correspondent. pleased with the report, which I will ask them to peared with her on the London stage.

Nevertheless he is not on the ground, and adopt later on. The Directors, srointed out to Walter G. Smith is.

To at the last meeting, have adopted with advantage many remedial changes in the work- ing of this fine establishment, with the view of Increasing receipts and reducing expenditures; and I can sure you that we are following policy in which neither patna nor effort will be spared to make the Hotel attractive to visitors And to the public in general and also to render lucrative concern for the shareholders. Our new Manager, Mr. E. F. Richardson, appears to be a hard working and

and painstaking man, and I hope that he will soon make bimgest thoroughly acquainted with the requirements and needs.

doubt in my mind that under an attentive and a good management, prompt always to further any steps which may tend to promote the interest of the Hotel and to stop any defects which may be productive of a contrary result. his Company must undoubtedly prosper and that it will be able to pay a moderate dividend, and that before very long. I must not detain you any longer, but before pronosing the adoption of the report and accounts I shall be pleased to answer any questions any shareholder may wish to address to me.

Ar the Magistracy to-day Mr. Hastlogs sentenced La Hoang Teal, a broker, to six months' Imeri sonment for receiving 180 silk handkerchiefs, valued at $59, well knowing them to have been case, who tried to get stolen. A witness in bly pal' off, as fined $ro for doing Just what the late Mr. George Washington, of the United States of America, never could do.

MR. Frederick Tennyson is still living at a great age, and his home is at St. Ewalds, on the Taland of Jersey. Many who are familiar with the works of Lord Tennyson knew that bla brother Frederick, also wrote verte, and good verse, 100, Frederick's schoolfellow were Hallam and Gladstone, Of the former, he says : "He was a young man of the most wonderful powers I ever knew, and I am are, a Alfred was, that if he had lived he would have outshone all." "The poet la now in his eighty-seventh year, and, like Mr. Gladstone and Professor

still remaining among us.

It

been dismissed find employment probably next Hanr, where they possibly repeat the same offences.

I regard the licensing of private chair coolicz. at any rate as a most de irable and even neces- ETY measure in the Interests of law and order. The Hongkong private chair enolle is one of the munity, and the sole reason is that neither his mort Impudent and unenly members of the com.

master nor the police have direct control over him.

If he were licensed, as a public chate coolle or Harleksha canlle is, a very great improvement would be speedily observed in his behavlons.

CORRESPONDENCE.

{We do not necessarily sudorse the opinions expressed by Cosepondants to this column.3}

HOW TO MAKE QUEEN'S COLLEGE PAY.

easy

DETAILS of the capture of Mercat by the THE Sourabaya Courant dwellsivupon the | Blackle, is one of the most interesting figures 1.1 of the Hotel. Personally, I have not the suitable building than at prement.

Bedouins, who are disputed with the present Sulten, are now to hand. The latest news states that the Salten has recaptured the eastern por tion of the town. The British setpets were all removed from the capital in perfe taxfety. It le nncertain what the result of the insurrection will hero one has been nominated Sultan by the insarents, who are inhabitants of billy tracti Bear Muscal,

w plano repairing machinery, received by

W. Roblinton & Co.

We understand that an application was made in Chambers this morning in Mr. A. G. Wise, Act Pulsne Judge, by Mr. W. G. Gray, late Head Master of Kowlaan College, for release form the Debtors' Prison, he having been lock dun recently owing to bla fallure to salinfy in of S958 Mr. 1. G. Phillip:o oppored the apretion and his lordship therefore made the al order, which is that creditors mast show use within three weeks why the debtor should 1 be discharged.

A TONSON jounal says that since the introduc

naf the electric light public performers are

preserve

serve the's voices in better condition, and are fily per cent, mere eften in good voice They are cooler, do net perspire, and are not or sering. The atmosphere In better and the holding has greatly diminished the risk of their prices not ir jured so much as lo houses where gaslight is used.

b. sky while simple temperature of the whole i

paralysing effects of the sugar crisis on trade. Several branches of Industry mainly depending on sugar-making are now hard put to it. Capital to withdrawing from the imperified llars of business and Java rlanters resort to economy and retrenchment in all direction, with the result of increasing the number of the unemployed.

A NEW YORK evening paper says :—-*The old sea shark, Cap ́ain Terry, bus been engage to all the Cup defender of 1805. It is said that in many respects he is the superlar of Captain Henson, who salied the Vellant His superiority at the titer is admitted, and he is considered a great judge of wind and knows better when to bring the yacht about than any other yachtsman,”

WHO CAN TELL US? Who will pay 85 reward for Information lead- ing to the identification of the perpetrator of the following awful atrocity:-

"EXPRESS.

LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED, Through Scotch Mist,

A Agare last seen at the Volunteer Ball; dressed in uniform, with 3 stripes and a crown,

The finder will be rewarded on returning same to the undersiged.

MCGINTY,

c/o The Home for lost Dawgs." Hongkong, 16th March, 1895- Whether this fan't rather "rough on rats ?"

not Whether the talented composer was

slightly " mixed "when he took up his trenchant J.pes to indite the Express In question ?

On Monday afternoon there will be another interesting Rugby football match between the Pongkong Football Club and the Navy. Club lo colours; Nevyin white. Kirk-off at 1.45. -

The following will play for the Club:-Messrs. R. Thomson, fall back; A. S. Anton, L. P. T. D. De Vitre,

R.E.

H. Party, D. Landale, Gedge, halves C C. Bowring, E, D. Sanders, three-quarters; Capt. Stewart, R.E Lt. I Matheson, R.E, R. C. Edwards, L. W. C. Woodcock, H.KR., A. R. Barlow, Lt. G. N. Salmon, R.B., G. H. Potts (Captain), forwards,

Referees-Mr. W, C. Moreom, R.N. Linesmen :-Messes, W. M. Wood and A. N. Other.

employees are henceforth to draw balf their Whether the report that the Government | "screw" at 38. to the dollar when on active

service and Balf

49.-the dollar when on pay leave l bated hard facts i

And whether ning out of ten of the ratepayers' would not like to sign on with the Govern regulations relative to the Widows' Fund are

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Winer of very superior vintage. All kirg cold, Their throate are not parched and THX following appeared in a recent issue of meat under such conditions, provided the

trun" X Wines,

CLAKFT --Car Clər. 14, Including the lowest rejeed, ensued to be the genuine produer at the juice of the grape and are not andedly made from raisins and corrents.

somewhat "figure" lost at the Volunteers'

Whether the

TO EDITOR-ov ter “Hanokong Tri#Grath," S-Begin by miking the College finx cially Remove the Moveum there, where It w'i1 The more fully apprecisteð and also be in a more As run " nowadays it is chiefs visited he Chiness, though were the collection treated nå

reasonable to

Queen's Co'lere crclude that many more Europen Europeana and Chinese would inspect and study with advantage be removed to the Imposing, its contents. The Public Library. Loo, might capacious, cool and fire-proof Assembly Hall of the College. It cshould be lighted by electricky at night and be made accessible up to a late hour to those whose daily evocations preclude fourt Them from benefiting by i's existenë nwing to 1tm There being no questions the Chairman moved being open only while they are hard at work their duly breed. Use the truly and Mr. Parfitt reconded the adoption of the bill, with

miny 10. readed unanimously.

rooms and its spectators galley. nd unsightly pillar iruly pal: its smooth for, free frem inconvenient and Incomparably superior to anything

fatial appartment, of the kind fo the colony for balls social gatherings and rub

rublic events. Then the 1 Chy Hall apartments could be let a public of 1rge and centrally situated

private offices. Again, no stone should be left unturned to me the public ronni's of the College neutral grand on which

young and old, Aistic and Westerner, can meet on rqusi terms and with one comman object in view. тый ar some such "plan of campaign ? could be curried out without in any way of the institution interfering with the educational department

bu's on

on the

contrary,

The Chairman (ben announced the re-election directors as the next business before the meeting, but said he would be unable to offer himself, for re-election on account of his failing health and other important duties demanding a altention:

Mr. D.

D. Jones then moved, and Mr. Pater ended, the re-election of Mr. Parfitt, which was abanimously carried.

Mr. Peter moved and Mr. Ip Chee Fork conded the appointment of Mr. Wilcox to a seat on the Board,

Carried unanimously,'

The Chairman then said that this concluded the business of the meeting, and he thanked the shareholders for their attendance.

THE POLICE REPORT (1894).

hownile and beneficial in 1'5 IRL), SIGLO DA Office to the facilition given, to the English, Ball will not be ran to earth at St. Patrick's Ball Į srubakeven to Ténriky a nata e for insertion

How grateful and needful the present

her the 6th we have begu geeira,

certain lifeless beautiful curroundings. Every one knows how dusty, parched appearance on all our generally rauch our streets and sewers need a thorough flushing, and we havefelt somewhat uneasy to see the rala so long defe red. The showers of the 1st two days, have, therefore, been most welcome. We do not ask for 12 Inches in one day,

vvr :=All our Nandy is guaranteed to he cure Corner, the difference in price heing rely a question of age and vintage HIKY--All our Whisky is of excellent qually put of greater age than most brands In the market. The Scotch Whisky marked me if there wet days will brighten op the such as we had in October laut, but a few "Es unversally popular and is profice of 'ature and do a vast amount of good." nounced by the best local connoisseurs to

Hon,ong Market.

he aurering to any other brand in the

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits

to

be geulue when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our antherised Agents at the

Coast Ports,

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 9th January, 1805,

The

is

ongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1895.

TELEGRAMS.

THE "REINA REGENTE."

LONDON, March 16th,

cruiser Reina Regente abandoned her and that they may have been saved by taking to the

boats.

Great grief and dismay has been caused

throughout Spain by the news of the catastrophe.

JAPAN'S DEMANDS.

The Times believes that Japan will demand the cession of Formoas and the Flaotung peninsular as part of the terms of peace.

Jay a monuiderania sum for a

Why St. Patrick's Ball should not prove a phenomenal success?

Who's the "Paul Pry" of Kowloon ?

Who will not exclaim better late than nevesi» when the costly new Central Market is formally opened next month ?

The Interesting report of the Captain Superin. tendent of Police on crime le the Colony and

In these columns és extenso we have taken there. from a comple of extracts which are of special interest to the general public:-

GANG ROBBERIES IN CHIYA-TOWN. The most unsatisfactory feature in the year's returns is the increase in the number of cases of robbery with violence, and especially the very serious nature of the gang robberies at 12. Jervois Street; 10, Winglok Street ; and at 56. Winglok Strect.

The Christian: The Lord's Day Observance Society have called the attention of the Colonial

GAMA AF Sunday at Hongkong walk undis cence to do the same. The Society, in view of movement to redress this anomaly, urged that no solotion abould be sought which would tend to increase the amount of Sunday labour in the Colonial Secretary that ne further exemptions port, The committee have been assured by the

When the new and greatly needed Central would be granted, and that the privileges now

Market is in working order, how the authorities will get rid of the piles of foul-smelling and extended to the mall steamers would cease on the termination of their present time-contracts,

fever-disseminating rabbish which has accomu- lated under the cluster of festering hovels that THE Bill recently Introduced in the Bengal have for so long served the purpose of a central

With regard to the increase in number of these Legislative Council for dealing in a practical

cases it la right to mention that during the five market?

Who la to blame for the new market costlng months from the rat of May to 30th September manner with lopera is, according to the Rangson the most successful ever given by that popular five years ago on the subject, which was followed originally bargained for? THE Volunteers' Hall of fast evening was one of

Times, the outcome of the agitation of four of

the ratepayers a good deal more than they when frome to 10 per cent. of the force was

engaged ganalan. The decorations were elegant In by the

ou plague work there occurred thirteen the extreme, very appropriate and, indeed, beau The report of that Commission

appointment 1 Royal Commission. Why the "houses" 忱 the resumed cases as against six during the same period la tiful. Major-General Barker opened the ball at duly considered by the Local Governments and

ares of Tel-ping-shan, otherwise the For. 193. However, the three most serious cases having been 2.30, and from that time on to the end dancing the Government of India, it has apparently

bidden City," should not be destroyed-prefers-a-curred after the men had all returned to re bly by fire-forthwith? was continued enthusiastically. There were been resolved to first introduce a Bill into the y 400 guests present, among

gulas duty. The winter months are, of course, them most

Why the Chinese residents of Macao are the most dangerous; and it is worthy of note that of the leading residents, lecinding Commodore Gagal Council embodying the views of the going la fox sotay chin-chin Joss-pidgls just BOYS

Government on the

DOW? before 50 R.N., and other navel and military view legally applicable throughout the Indian ng the Chinese population of the Holy

making those rice: a stationed at

The en the ceme when you please' plan, and was

Bill embodies s so scheme for the arrest and incarceration of lepers ; its good in quality and highly satisfactory as far as

lezers are concerned, quantity was concerned. The Volunteers are to be congratulated on the unqualified success lepers to confued to municipal towns, for the

found in which a suitably-equipped

leper asylum has been provided; and for the present

achieved,

this

sport. The supper wars, so far as pauper PEN

been

JUDGING by the followi g which appeared in in Bengal

there is only one recognized publia Lep: Asylum the San Francisco Chronicle three weeks ago,

anti-, those provistops of province. Lastly, the Bill which regulate the trades of lepers, and there are a number of very 'bad bats' swelling

which, on the pass around as company promoters to the vicinity in any municipality as soon as proper by-laws on the passing of the Bill, may be enforced of the far-famed Golden Gite," whose days Bave been paised, have, it is believed, bes are now fally numbered. Our contemporary fenced about with all the safeguards necessary Akys:-It is proposed by some legislators to Investigate the many spuriose investment como prevent abuses and praecution on as one hand, and on the ther hand to protect the public pantes which are swindling credulove people in as far as may be from the risk, whether rasl this State. The Idea ina's

a is a good one, for nothing or imaginary, al contracting a diverse which damages a community so much in the eyes of has by all rations and to all ages been

the presence of these companies. When a concern offers to regarded with special abhorrence,

Bettler

with the shell game.

as

it is protected

Is it because an epidemie of dipiherla is

When

properly miros red, would greatly augment its unquestionably gest phere of usefulness, Che'd

place, under present Circumstances, be Imagined For A public thrary and well ventilated hall

Яinore

In this Colony? A

Coo!

thoroughly wanitary, accessible to the

ofases, alry corr dors open to the four winds of heaven, where I fan que sir nimbly and

and sweetly recommends itself unto our senses." Further. more, rart of the bisements could, and should, be converted into good gymnasium, with *view to the develorment of the students' why igne, which is not thought enouch of nowe. days in the East. Instructors could be found is abundance, so there's no excuses The gravel court-yard should be covered with under that head,

cone etc: It could then be better tepals

o her and

Rames But it is fdle to eo, at the present juncture, Into forther details * to what could and should be done to make Qeen's College PAT If

could be made not only to pay, but result handled properly also in Hongkong, in the not far distant future, becoming sent af iramming in the Far East, the like of which our fathers

dreamed

never

used

for

ol

The need for ang Angio. Chinese university fa Hongkong may Har he felt in my day, but with

the opening of Chine on one band and the rapid progress of the Tapanese on the other added to

certain lof

lofax of Europeans to

the Orient in the rear fature, the need for a well

it reported from Canton that gang rubberies of a similar nature have been very rile there this appointed university will be felt here some winter.

I should also point out the extraordinary clay. If Queen's College were made what with which these robberies can be effected,

ought to be It would be necessary only to send ODC'

for Aribing toucher;" In the Jervois Street and the two Winglok and, if they were taught trades ez put

Bons home Street cases, for instance, the inmates of the

* put into busl- ners that would be unnecessary shops outnumbered the robbers by more than necessary to send a Hongkong youth to Europe It is not twn to one, and yet in each case they never to fit him to hold the position of engineer of to communicate the alarm to persons in the effered the slightest resistance or endeavoured board a steamer or be master of a sh'p. All that A young man requires to learn in the marine neighbours.

Ifos cen Company; and, fetas navigation and so man

ba engineering abops of the Hongkang and Whampoa Dock taught him in the work-

ship is concerned, arrangements could be made

sreet or their

that

Whether the Victor Emanuel's relief will turn up here this side of Christmas Day 1900

What has become of the Hongkong Chess Club henchman, Mir, A. W. Dyer, will start another "Boss" Richardson and his trusty Bullard Handicap at the Hongkong Hotel ?

Why the Commodere of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club does not cause the local papers to be furnished with a rellable report of the Club's Sunday races in time for publication in the local papers on Monday evening? to own yachts?

Does the Commodore expect pour journalists Why some yacht-owners have withdrawn from the R.H.Y.C.7

How it was that the Hongkong Telegraph got the whole of the numerour Tat-ping-shan awards foto 95 square inches of space on the gth instant, occupied 1000 square Inches of space and was not published until the 11th instant?

What price the

art of bolling down " dry-as- Police Station all night lest he should not be amidos notionality under the sun. To use · dust statistica

7 Whether the labours of the Retrenchment

iskey out of local pollice and inave some money In the pockets of the people,

Whether the extension to Tylam Waterworks will be completed within two years hom this

dete?

and are enabled, unless some accident happens. The robbers, of course, rely on this passivity es at 56, Winglok Street, to carry out one of thess

raids sades the very noses of the Police.

at any time for a boy to serve his But it is not only in the presence of robbers second Winglek Street case the inmates of the plague and other disadvantages, very nearly self,

the shopman's courage falls him. In the

College is, to spite of last year's shop, although they admited being able to supporting; and, were the Institution carefully Mentify the robbers, absolutely refused to fostered by "the powers that be" and "run" an accompany the Police in the search for the men, more liberal lines, it would not only pay One of their number was at last induced to its way easily but would redound to the he was virtually compelled to acquiesce the foot of the Executive, the post is not far

hours' search he asked to go home, and distant; alt.that it was nocemary to practically detrin him in

Hick that

the forthcoming for the morning search.

almost After the arrest of the five men concerned la

tend his

Aller twa

COLLE

to

needed is a Judiciously aimed send it through the goal-posts plaudits of Interested spectators of another metapher:

**The child is pining through desired

ascertain, if possible, wheiter untricle they were the same gang that had robbed No. Autricious food within reach. Who win sea the

life 10 in

suckling's the sem

ebb gradually away while the The inmates of the latter ihop were naked to

means are at hand to save its life with con- go up to the goal and look at the man and they

summate emphatically refused to do so.

There are two remedies to prevent the recur

of such ouirages as these robberies con-

i samo strieť.

Pay 27 per cent. Interest on any deposit, as A D: ZP gloom was cast over the shipping com- Reper are entertained that the crew of the recent fake investment company in San Diego manity thismorlog when newsreasked hers from while the Dally Prazs' version of the awards that vices, but it is not too much to by Váredit of its foundera in all ages. The bali tu a

did, the anthoiltles huld have power to examine its books and, if fraud in found, to Amoy of the death, last night, of Captain H. C. A. shut its doors.

earls, the courteous, populas and able com- aat op its

TheBa swindlers whe

mander of the Douglas Co.'s coasting steamer three or four times ordinary bank interest cate

Catch only imple people, but the general public should com During the last trip of the Names up the be p otected from them just

const Captain Hanis susterad so severely from from the three-card-monte man or the gambler/iammation ofthe bowela that in Wanobliged to Comtalttee will, result in the bonanza being the robbery' at £6. Winglok Street, It was, of | Tack of proper nourishment, There is plenty of

hand over

over his command to Mr. W: Thom, bls Chief Officer, who brought his àn to while he himself remained in the Amoy MR. ARCHIBALD COLQUHOUN has writen a long No one for a moment supposed that the attack, letter to The Times in the hope of waking up though acate, would prove fatal, and the news the British people to a sense of the Importance of Captain Harls' death therefore came "ass LYNCH LAW IN COLORADO, of the action which America is taking to com- severe shock to all who had the pleasure Several Itallaps who were accused of the pleie the Nicaragua Canal. Nature favors this of his acquaintance.

Hauls had murder of an invitedsive saloon-keeper at Wal-note between the Atlantic and the

Pacific and been la iku Ms. Colquhoun says it is

service close tenburg. Colorado, have been lynched.

Douglas estimated that the The Italian Government has ledged

tons of abipping on cazol will take

проп on has no by 2023 27 hard

years, hrying joined the Zhaler 7,000,000

work, plaint.

Home sixteen

million dollars close application to his duties strict integrity The canal is expected to and never flagging interest in all that perta nod traffic receipts.

To aution to the welfare of his distis-wished employers, he complete Colquhoun points out, "Carrying Captain Harila soon made his mark in the acosat? live e oure," Mr. some 75 per cent, of the ocean traffic of the Douglas Line, and when, after the lamentable. world, the execution of this canal-which is one murder of Caglais Pocock by pirate de sbape of another has been discussed for over December 1890, he promoted to the

Directors could not

ANOTHER EXPEDITION.

per annum, ir pert

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ta

A force of 12,000 men has been mobilised in

the Purab to advance against the Chitral unless Umte Keer, of Jandol, who has occupied the ely, withdraws by April 1st.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

BROADWOOD PIANOS at W. Robinson & Co.

In this mutable world nothing stays with the people unless it can be easily disposed of, #g unicas it moves on,

THE steamship Arrays leli Bombay for this post yesterday sheroun, and is due on or about the 5th April,

tance,

will

a

will mean 10 immence transformation of

of have s

Whether Li Hung-chang's "bend was saved recently by virtue of the intervention of the Corps Diplomatique

When the first typhoon of the season ('95-'96) will be reported ?

Whether we shall have another hubbub about typhoon warnings this year?

the balance das on the Black Plague Concerts When Mr. William B'aynay will "rquera up"

THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LIMITED.

The usual half-yearly meetleg of shareholders did. Captris Harris evince deep interest of the above named company was held in the

ibrer centuries-wil be of transcendent impor. command of the Namen, it was generally

To the United States, bin new waterway conceded that the markets as well as routes. As already 201 Quly did a better man for the post. Bat indicated, it lov

it Involves general

cutes. There is no doubt that Great Britain

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rence

One, of course, is to keep the Police Force up to its fall strength as far as possible throughout the year, and the other is to perfect the Chinese same time all the assistance posible from the datective branch of the Force, drawing at the District Watchman's Force, which should be brought fate closer touch with the Police.

COMPULSORY REGISTRATION OF SERVANTS, I reloured in my repart of last year to the number of larcenier hy servants. I regret to kay‍ that there was no diminution in this particular form f offence during 1894

Ninetess watches were reported as stolen, and- withough no trouble was spared to frace the pra

amounting to revolution" } in the welfare vikle employers : “He always sap Co.'s hotel at noon to-day. Mr. Ho Tang of these only four were recovered by the Police,

and

There,

could are my rough idees of what shall think myself wall repaid for the trouble of should be done with Queen's College, and I

thus alaborating them if, in the first place, my commantention is favoured with space in your popular colucans and, secondly, if some attention is given to what I submit is an urgent matter that affects the interests of the whole body of rate- payetojum

&

Yours faithfully,

A BRITON. Hongkong, 15th March, 1895. [The subject being an important one, we have given the required space to our correspondent's lengthy communication. At the present time Queen's Collage is only a cheap day-school. The whole ballding and the compound in which it stands are absolutely deseried out of every 24 hours except by few hungry rata and mice; and a far as concerns the

night well bo put through, their facings in the thousand or twelve hundred scholars

class rooms costing the ratepayers a twentieth part of the enormous expenditure incurred in

and

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ff she chooses, serp great advantage from Ruck widowed, and HR ¿Paulosalon wkich | Mesars, W. Paritt, R. C. Wilcox, J. E. Feter and pesty, las grast halk of which is, I think, taken present tres to which the costly edifice lu

later

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or gold to local magzaten, of into the Interior of China and either melted down Even when the Police succeed in treciag ons of these thieves to his buiive village it does not follow as a consequence that the Chlachy W thorities will naslat much

Tachyaring the pro”

trade ported any movement that might advance the (Chairman) presided and there were also present

interests of members of the | smaritime highway, concerning which it has of the Belglas afercantile Karine Olibate Alor Chof Tim, Tal Tak, ip Chee Fong, Lrong Kin Pomber Douglas Jonne (Directors), Chau Chao Wan, Hon en ably said by an American of high repuls

pats clation that the by the Sues Casal are old, densely populated, and dually, on

counter chiefly brought into contact himself the anton dates of Her Holes. Leong Ist Shan and C. Mooney

Meretary) ard have few new or untried resources using reality sede tantitalo Alto wars of

Ippuney of Che

The Secretary having read the notice con- was deeled Frentzikler development, On the other hand, Western, greatly

the meeting, The Chairman Wald,The report and stata Norther, and Sath America, Australia, Koren, this sad fatality reached, the Comey all the tags ment of accounts for the half year ending 318

But it is too ista now to cry Siren Talu Pasching up the Aberders Japan, and Easters Siberia are the abodes of of the steamers la por nd long wae kad Dicember last having been in your hands for gold which stem from Mr. H3 M. Markirk by His Fox has made an excellent move In selecting | vigorous, rapidly incresatax peoples, poaressing | msmod und noch för du dery togta'was' hosed Lovrečal days 1⋅ will, with your permission, take chalk móéile, “Although the wátch had notURNE, WATERS" latami ponsibilities of the argument, to have been split all that can be wediaplle milk--assuming it, for the sake of

vant resodices awaking development" Bravo, nevery hand, and axpromione of the warIANOS | DENGAN Tend." It is very inžidfacisty to me," You 19 H Cary of the Police

154 in. ayran (now mands, dos regard the lestiration

the best possible savulta from Colquhoun i

sympathy for his widew and children.

notwithstanding that we are mumble to declare a – deştako village, the Chinese afetale (363 to 4 ▼ janum HAKI ZAPPANIS

THE New York Facordde says Mr. Richard K.

Sam. C. Austin un sporting Editor of the Police Gazetic.

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peity,

Take, for example, the case of the $225.00 and

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