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Co-day's' Advertisements.

OLIVERS FREEHOLD MINES, LIMITED,

ANISSUE af 3 SHARES is offered to the

Registered Shareholders of the above COMPANY in the proportion of one B Sbare for avery Share they bold. Every Shareholder on the Register on THURSDAY, the 23rd fastent, will be entitled to an allotment of one 8 Sbare for every Share, whether A of B, registered in bis name. All applications must be made on forms for the purpose, which may be obtained at the HoyaKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION on and after the 23rd fontant, and must be filled up and ladged with that Bank on.er telore THURSDAY, the 7th May next, together with a sum of ONE DOLLAR for every Share applied for as first instalment, Receipt will be given, which must be forwarded to the COMPANY in chenge for Scrip further call will be payable in respect of these Shares without at least two months' notica.

No

The SHARE REGISTER will be CLOSED from THURSDAY, the 23rd Instant, to THURS- DAY, the 7th day of May following, both days

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1896.

To-day's Advertisements.

VICTORIA I

CHAPTER,

No. 535. E..

A REGULAR CONVOCATION of the above CHAPTER will be held in the FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on MON DAY. the 10th fastent, at 8 for 8.30 pm. precisely. Visiting Companions are cordially invited to attend.

-Hongkang, 13th Avril. xc6

1663

AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM TRIESTE, VENICE, PORT SAID, SUEZ JEDDAH, SUAKIM, MASSA- WAH, HODEDDA, ADEN," KURRA- CHEF. BOMBAY, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

Inclusive, during which period no Transfer 01 THE Steamship

Shures can be Registered,

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,

General Manager.

Hongkong, 14th April, 1896.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

(658.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE

"HE Company's Steamship

"HAITAN,"

Captain Rosch, will be despatched for the above Ports on WEDNESDAY, the 15th fastant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Con

General Managers.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1896,

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR SHANGHAI.

HE Steamship

THE

Captain

'KWEILIN,"

Harris, will be despatched

[659

WEDNESDAY, the rgth instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Rongkong, 11th April, 1896.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL. *HE ́Company's Steamship

THE

" DARDANUS,"

GO

"MARIA VALERIE," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby Informed that their Goods are being landed at. their riale into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained...

This vessel brings on Cargo :-- From Calcutta, ex S.S. shipped at Colombo,

From Trieste,

transhipped at Dombar.

'AGLAIA,”... tran-

S.S. "IMPERATOR,"

From Venice, SS. "MASSIMILIANO,” transhipped at Trieste.

Intimations.

PRICE LISTS

with Full Detalla, to be had on Application, PORT after removal should be rested a month befors use. When required for drinking at once it, should be ordered to be decanted at the Dispensary, before being sent out,' SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are true Xeres Wlace,

CLARET-Our Clarets, including the lowest

priced, are guaranteed to be the genning product of the juice of the grape and are not artificially wade from raisins and currents as is generally the case with Cheap Wines BRANDY,--All our Brandy is guaranteed to be pore Cognac, the difference La price being merely a question of agò and vintage. WHISKY-All ear Whisky is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands In the market. The Scorch Way marked "E" le universally popular, and is prondenced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market.

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We soly guarantee our WINES and SPIRITS to be gennine when bough! direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.

A MONUMENT to Francois Garnier, the explorer, whose murder at Hanoi ultimately, brought about the Tonkin expéditon and the French policy of colonial expansion, is to be set up midway between the Observatory and Luxem». burg Palace in Paris. The sculptor is M. Puech,

AT a Regular Convocation of the United Chap- ter held at the Masonic Hall, Zetland Street, on 'qua,

built or altered without plans being Two evil-looking bags were this afternoo❘ A RECENT issue of the Calcutta Gasside noilies submitted to him for his approval. These sentenced to six months' imprisonment esch for that Colonel Davidson, 3rd Punjab Cavalry, two officers were under the Governor's buying a young girl in Canton and bringing her succeeds Colonel Hutcheson as Commandant lo orders and responsible only to him. He into this Colony for purposes of prostitution.

Chitral on the latter becoming Director of had at his disposal & Legislative Courall

Military Instruction, Headquarters. competent to pass all laws requisite or Tax Russian fronciado Rurth and Dimitri necessary for the peace, order and good | Denstof, 10,913 and 5.893 tons respectively, government of the Colony, and, from 1845 xtrived at Singapore on the 7th instant is or 1846 onward, a well stocked treasury, For route to Hongkong and North China. The the insanitary condition, and the dangerous speed of the Rwrth la 18.5 knots, while that by Mr. CHADWICK In 1881-2, the Government condition, in which the Colony was found-of the Dowzkot is only 16 knots par k hour.. - of the Colony, fr., the successive Governors who had ruled over It, with their legal, medical andengineering subordinates, were wholly responsible. They had full power In their own hands. There was no division of responsibility of any kind. They had their own hands the regula ❘tion and control of the buildings, the streets, the houses, anithe drains, and if the streets were too narrow, the houses badly We have it from the best authority that there is designed and worse ballt, without light, not a vestige of truth in the report that the without ventilation, without efficient draina,'| plague has invaded that most useful of charit- || 'there was' nobody to share the responsible Institutions Aulle de la St. Entance, at bility with them. From 1875 the Colonial Wanchat. It affords us pleasure to be able to Surgeon had thrown off from his shoulders. ctate that the health of the inmates of this all the weight of that responsibility and Ipsiltation is quite satisfactory. from that date to 1882, it rested with the Governors and the Surveyor-Generals.":

On the joth March Mr, T. Sercombe Smith sentenced a coolle to thics months' "hard" for bling off à men's hand. The wounded man subsequently died, and a charge of manslaughter Saturday evening, M., E. Comp, W. M. B afternoon, and then reminded for the appearance by M. F. Comps, L. Mallory and G. C Ander- was partially heard against his assallant this | Arthur, Acting Deputy Superintendent, assisted

son, and Officers of the District Grand Chapter of a witness now in Canton.

of Hongkong and South Chian, installed E," Comp, T. Spafford as ZE, Comp. F. Howell as -- H., and E. Comp. W. H. Aruand as J. MË. Comp. T. Spafford then laverted the officers as follows:-

Treaturer............Comp. J. R. Grimble.

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S.E,

มง

ג

W.M. Thomson.

59

H. Horley

"

P.S...ental 1st Asst. S. and do

M

W. H. E. Smith.

H. E. A. Halle,

11

H. Gitmoar.

*

H. G. Lacey.

IMIN

#

C. Rac

*

'A VERTING of abipowners' was held in London on the xrth ́altimo at which resolutions were passed declaring that they were unable to co-operate with the London and East India Docks Joint Commitee with regard to the proposed alterations in the dock charges, but wore willing to confer with the Committee on the subject,

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From Venice, z S.S. "CARLOTTA," tran. / A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. certain minor functious, in June 1883, but its GRAY ZEPPELIN, a German cavalry officer, is

abipped at Triente,

From Rodt, ex S.S. "MEDEA," transhipped at Port Said.

Optional Cargo will go on to Shanghal unters notice to the contrary be given before Noon TO-MORROW.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the Undersigned before Noon on the

20th Instant, or they will not de recognised.

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowas after the 20th foxtant will be subject to rent.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by ·

SANDER & Co.,

Agents,

1641

(648

Hongkong, 14th Apell, 1856.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

Captain Gregory, will be despatched as above OD WEDNESDAY, the 15th instant, ai 4 PM.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

Hongkong, 13th, April, 1895:

553

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

"......

FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY. HE Company's Steamship

THE

*." ZAFIRO,"

Captain Cobban, will be despatched for the above Ports on WEDNESDAY, the 15th fnstant, at P.M. Instead of as previously advertised;

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers.

For Freight or Fassage, apply to

SHPWAN & CO.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 13th April, 1896,

1619

THE Steamship

'ARRATOON APCAR"

having arrived from the above Forts, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo Impeding the discharge or remaining on board after the 15th instant, will be landed al

Consignees risk and expense fata the Godowns of the Wanchal Warehouse and Storage Cem pany, Limited, Wanchal

Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY of their Goods from alongside, such Carga Impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense an

No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Hongkong, 3th April, 1855.

TO LET,

Agents.

WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.

1660

TOUR FURNISHED BED-ROOMS at

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP FOU

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA (DIRECT).

THE Company's Steamship

1

"ESMERALDA,"

Captain G. A. Tayler, will be despatched for the above Parts on WEDNESDAY, the rgih instant, at 5P.M., instead of as previously advertised.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers, and is fitted with the Electric Light.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN & Co.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1896.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

(640

FOR CHEFOO AND NEWCHWANG.

THE Steamship

*WHAMPOA,"

Captain Newcombe, will be despatched on

WEDNESDAY, the 15th Instan).

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agcats,

Hongkong, 13th April, 1896.

KOWLOON HOTEL.

THREE GODOWNS, FRAYA EAST. Nos 90A, 117 and 118A, and TWO GODOWNS under the OLD VICTORIA FOTEL BUILDINGS,

PRAYA CENTRAL.

Apply to

NEW VICTORIA HOTEL. Hongkong, 13th April, vägő. --

F430

Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK &

· COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG,

AERATED. WATERS.

NIMPLE AERATED WATER..

EMONADE,

SODA WATER. L

SARSAPARILLA

RASPBERRYADE, &c.

GINGER ALE

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EASTERN. AND AUSTRALIAN_STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, (Calling at Port Darwin and QUEENSLAND PORTS, and taking through Cargo to ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, 20)

•HE Chartered Steamship

THE

"ORONO,"

Captain Hancock, will be despatched for the above Paris on or about FRIDAY, the 17th

Instant,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

J

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 13th April, 1396,

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE,

HE Steamship

THE

"TAIYUAN,"

[666

Captain R. Nelson, will be despatched ́ ́an

THURSDAY, the 23rd lustant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents,

Hongkong, 13th April, 1846, ....

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL..

THE Steamship

"RADNORSHIRE," Captain Davies, R.N.R., will be despatched for the above Port on or about the goth instant.

For Freight or Pamage, apply to

DODWELL CARLILL' '& Co.

Ageis Hongkong, 13th April 1896, rare

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THE HONGKONG. DISPENSARY. Hanakenna. 10th January, 180Ő.

BIRTH.

At Mount Faber, Slogapore, on the yth Instant, the wife of Mr. EDWARD BROWN, of a daughter. MARRIAGE. At St. John's Cathedral, this morning, by the Reverend R. F. Cobbold, M.A, RICHARD J CURTIS, Commruder of the Scottish Oriental Steamship Company's steamer Tatchlow, to ELIZA KILGOUR BLACK, second daughter of J. K. Black, Esquire, of Bangkok, Slam.

DEATH. At Bangkok, on the gh instant, JAKS FREDERICK CHEETHAM, aged 40 years. By telegram. Í

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1896,

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SANITARY AFFAIRS OF HONGKONG.

The sanitary history of the Colony may be said to have begun with the arrival in present Colonial Hongkong of the Surgeon, Dr. Arzts, and with his exhaustive report on the state of the Chinese quarter of the city sent in in 1875. That report was suppressed by the then

Governor, Sir ARTHUR KENNEDY, and Dr. AYRES was exposed to a certain amount of obliquy and ridicule, bath from the officials and from the public, for his very alarmist opinions as to the sanitary prospects of the Colony. In 1880 attention was again called to the question of sanitary reform, In connection with a triangular duel between Governor Porr Hennessey, the then Surveyor General, Mr. Patcx, and the Military Authorities, of the rights and the wrongs of which quarrel, on its merits, the public knew, and were allowed to know, very little. The result of the disputes, which were referred home to the War Office and the Colonial Office, was, how ever, that an expert, Mr. OssEET CHAD- WICE, was sent out to make a special

Investigation and report. He was here

during portions of 1881 and 1882, and his report, a very full one, is in priot. He was guided and directed in bis Investiga- tlons by Dr. Axes and by Mr. PRICE, and he condemned, in no measured language, the houses in which the Chinese Hved utterly unfit for human habitation, as being Insufficiently lighted and ventilated, and so drained that it would have been 'much better if no attempt at drainage had ever He described" the main been made. sewers as defective in plan and in con- struction; the drains as simple receptacles for filth of every description and breeding. grounds tor disease, and the soll under and round the houses as becoming gradually so saturated with sewage and filth that in a very few years an epidemic of some sort

must break out

In 1882 a new sanitary era commenced, and from then until 1897 the Government and the Government Officers sull exercis Ing supreme control, something was done. but very little, towards remodeling the system of sewers and main drains. A Sanitary Board was called into existence to advise the Government and to perform

members were removable at any time by the Governor and might or might not be all of them officials. The ex-officio members were the Surveyor General, the Registrar General, and the Colonial Surgeon, and the other members, not less than two, might be anyone, official or unofficial, the Governor thought fit to appoint.

In 1887 the Public Health -Ordinance" was passed and the Sanitary Board was constituted as it stood until the resignation last year of all the unofficial members but one, of four official and six unofficial mem- bers, of whom four were appointed and two elected. That Ordinance was not confirmed and brought into force until 1888, and it was not until Juns or July of that year that the Sarllary Board began to exer- 'cise Its functions." It came to an end as a

popularly.constituted assembly early last year, and as the result of the action of the Governor in refusing to place under its authority the newly-appointed, Medical Officer of Health. The Sanitary Board was, therefore, responsible for the sanita- tion of the Colony from the middle of 1888 to the middle of 1895, or seven years, in which it was expected to undo all the mischief done by forty-five years of the grossest neglect and mismanagement by successive generations of Governors and. Government officials, and to carry on at the same time the whole work of the sanitary legislation and current sanitary supervision of the entire colony.

We proposeto give, in succeeding Isaues, the history of the Public Health Ordinance, 1887, and of the discussions and debates that led up to lts, passing in its present shape, and then to review the seven years' history of the Sanitary Board and to point out how imperfectly. It was furnished with the necessary machinery for the performance of its very important duties, and how persistently it was thwarted by the official members who, although In a minority on the Board in its consultative and legislative capacity, had all the executive power in their own hands.

to have discovered the secret of motion in air. For five years he has worked on the per lection of a movable balloon, spending nearly the whole of his conaldersbla fortune on bis ex- periments. His success seems to be insured, for syndicate of Berlin capitalists have subscribed $50,000 for the building of a trial machine,

ENGLAND, says a fanatical American Editor, menus to build a navy large enough to "whip creation," and to prove that she is mistress of the sex, a fact which is denied by most nations. The Czar of Russia will make England's task pretly difficult. He has ordered $100,000,000 to be spent on the Russian navy, to place an adequate number of cruisers against the British ships of

the same type.

:

A BOMBAY telegram of 24th March to a Calcutta dally reada an follows :-News from Gon states that since the departure of the Governor-General an rowis to Lizbon, the Rances are again begin sing to renew their dep odatlans, and are stated to have visited the important town of Merdal, which they looted, and then proceeded to a place In Ponda, where” tha subsidized Rajs, who stated the Government, resides and owns

much property.

EVERYTHING removable having been been taken off the Exs on Saturday, a determined effort was made yesterday morning to heave her off the rocka (Samoun Group) where she grounded in s log on Thursday last. H.M.S. Archer, assisted by four steam fugs, esceseded in pulling her off in about half an hour, after one nine-inch hawser had snapped in the course of the operation, The vessel, which was found to be taking in water very freely, was run, under her own steans, REUTER'S MESSAGES.

to the Cosmopolitan Dick, but by the time she reached there the tkie was unfavourable and THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE.

LONDON, April roth.

she was too much by the stern to enter. Largs King Humbert, attended by Siguous Rodial | centrifugal pumps were put sboard her by the and Sermaneta, has arrived af Venice to most the German Emperor.

TELEGRAMS.

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Dir; of Ceremonies Steward Janitor

J. Maxwell. The Companies then adjourned to the' bangbetting ball where fall justice was done to the supper which was provided by "Thomas Grill Rooms," and the usual loyal and Masonlö toasts duly honoured.

THE selurus of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended April sath,

1,633.

Europeans, 130; Chinese, 1,472; total

THE INNSBRUCK EXHIBITION: Arrasgements are now being perfected for the International Expost tion for Physical Edecalion, Hygiene and Sport, which will be held in the town of fonsbruck, Austria, from May to Octaber ofthis year. The exposition will include exhibits from all the trades and fadustries perialning to the_physical education of the growing child and to the sports of the adult as well. In the fint group will be shown objects which relate to the nutrition, care, and physical training of children from their birth to the age when schooling. begian, The second group will be devoted to Emassifs, swimming, fencing, boating, sporting costumes, etc. In the third group are all kinds ol outdoor and indoor games, and the fourth group will be devoted to skating and children's games, showing skater, sleighs, snow-shoes, and toboggans. In group five will be laund exhibits models, plans and representations of stables, sli which pertain to ziding and driving, and beside, kinds al stabla equipments will be shown, and medels for racecourses will also be exhibited. The sixth group particular Interest, as di ta devoted to cycling, and it is reported that there will be an international contest between mans- facturers in mil paris of the world. The commis. sien appointed for the United States includes many well known men who are interested la sporting affairs.

Es of

LI HỒNG QUANG maived by tha KM Sterol at Singapore on the yth instant. He was enter. A CÓRRESPONDENT writes to an Indian contım- tained at Government House and at the Chinese Perry We have all heard wonderful storles of the strange things found in the stomachs of Consulate. Drove out in the afternoon and left sharks, but the following authentic statement re- the sister colony at 8 pm. of the 7th for Marcorded on oath by a magistrain may be of interent, selles vid the usual ports of call. The reception The incident occurred at Siranchs, the headquar« of His Excellency at Singapore seems to have fers of the Strachs that in this district, situ ated on the left bank of the Prunbits river, twa been a most successful affair, contrasting wary miles above the junction with the Godavery, The favourably with the allly muddle made in respect " magar” shot messured just under 12 feet, and of his visit to this colony.

fa addition to the articles identified by the husband of the deceased, it contained the large fish hook, a quantity of line, several pieces of iron, a tangled mass of black hair, from following:-One brass call-ball (ballocke"), one

three to four pounds of large pebbles or stones the Ixst apparently for purposes

of digestion.-S. W. Coxon, Deputy Commisrinage, Chanda, C. F-Statement of B. Chionodu, mason, whore wife was drowned in the river on the 23rd February 1895, States on 8. A-1 am the husband of the woman by name Yellal, the diughter of Sangueti Pochetti, who is a resident of Nagpors. On the 23rd February last (Sunday) at about 4. p.m. she wret to the rives for the purpose of wanking bee clothes, but she has never rolumed. I was informed that while washing clothes at the ghất

be but her foothold, and was drowned, have not seen her since that date. recognise amongst the articles found in the stomach "of the alligator, shot on the 8th Instant by the Deputy Commissioner, the follow- ing as the property of my wife:-Osa choli or Jacket, two zilver bangles, one other diíto, one CAPTAIN "DICKIE CURris, one of the smartest sliver ring. I claim them as my property. I and most deserved popular of the flourishing believe the bones to be those of a human being. Scottish Orients1 Steamship Co.'s commanders, The bell shown to me does not belong to me, THE NILE EXPEDITION.

was married at St. John's Cathedral this morning but it is called In Teluga "gongurais, and is immediately,

Sixteen more British officers start for Egypt to Miss "Lisste Black, second daughter of tied to the bullock's neck in these parts, C. D. Rangabaahler, Nalb-Tebsildar and and class Mr. J. R. Black, of Bangkok. A ̈large nuig" || Magistente, Skroachs, C.P. "ber of the friends and relativas of the beide and

bridegroom were present, Including Mr. Coming; | Tais in what the Boston Advertiser has to my the able, and indefatigable" Superintendent about Japanese competitions-It can be shown of the Scottish Oriental Co., Mr. Chandler, and by the statistics of imports that as yet the Japanese Imports have played but very little a lot of the leading members of the seafaring part in determining market prices in the United community. The commany in the Cathedral | Sister, The Japanese unquestionably make over, the wedding party drove off to Bisa geoda

cheaply hat they haya not-yet Buildings, where a reception was hald and the succeded in securing any considerable market health of Captain and Mrs. Curtle drunk with it is worth some notice, the Japanese have

To Eastora country,

markets kowever, musical honours. This afternoon the happy practically made a clean sweep in many lines of couple left for Macso by the Houngekan, which, good, which were formerly supplied by Great in common with many other steamers in port, Britain or the United States. Lamp-burness, was gally decorated with vari-coloured bunting are now sent ent from Kiato, or Kobr, at a clocks, hate, and many other staple' artiolan for the auspicious occasion. Bravo, Curtis price with which American manufacturers can That your marted life may be a long,

paid and prosperous one is the earnest with of all who have the pleasure of your scquaintance

GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND EGYPT.

The French Communiquà zanounces that Lord Dufferin has returned to Faris and that regotiations concoming Egypt have been resumed,

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{From Tonkin Papers] FRANCE AND THE BRITISH OCCU. ¡PATION OF EGYPT.

PARIS, April 3rd,

To the course of a debate in the Chamber an

Now,' that ́ ́report has never been seriously questioned by anyone as to the DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS Arefacts stated in it. It has been accepted and made under the constant supervision of a dale put forward by the Government, and by the Dongola Expedition, M. Bourgeois said that every officer of the Government, as being the situation between England Egypt created qualified English Chemist and will bear compa a true and faithful account of the sanitary thengas bares end and Eye indes. condition of the Colony when Mr. Osar Russia, however, as in complete accord with | CHADWICK came here in 1881. It moreFrance Ha (M. Bourgools), will not leave it to than Justified Dr. Arxus' report of 1875 and England to prescribe the terms of has evacuation his repeated efforts to get something done. of Erygt, but will continue the negotiations with The recommendations contained in the mass, for the best faterests of all the Powers ars involved. The Chamber thereupon passed report as to what should be done to remedy a vote of confidence in the Government by 309.

to 213, and adjourned watif the 19th May,

rison with the bast English Manufactures.

Special terms to Hotels, CLUBS, MESSES and other Large Consumers. Any complaints should be addressed to the *Manager. Hoogkong, and May, 180%.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED AD, 1841.

WINES

AND

SPIRITS.

1437

ALL these are selected by our London House, bought direct at first hand, Imported in wood and bottled by onisgiven, thus saving sil fide, „mediate profits, ‘and mnabling as to supply the [asi 1 best growthe 23 MODERATE PRICES,

the monstrous state of affairs therein disclosed have, of course, been subjected to criticism and have been disented from by qualified persons.

LOCAL AND GENERAL. THERE were thirteen cases of plague reported for the 24 hours ending no yesterday, and tweirs at noon to-day,

Dock Company, but it was not until high tide this afternoon that she was sufficiently Hghtened

.1 to enter the dock.

MEMORANDA.

TUESDAY,=-14th'Apell. -

From the foundation of the Colony until 1881 the entire control and management of the Colony in Its sanitary, as in all its other relations, had been absolutely and exclusively under the control of the A BATCH of 34 Indian recrafts for the Police Governor, appointed by the Crown, and of † Force arrived here this morning by the steamer the officers sent here, also all Crown Arrilson Ağcar from Calcutta, s. 1/ nominees, to assist him. There had been Ter Russian transport Habarovsk arived at 9mm-French Mall closes.

in thin

because of the markedly low rate of wages to Japanese operativer. As la most other silver- baal countries, the fall of silver has affected the

price labor. The average laborer for example, gets siz zilver'yen a month, or about $3.50, which would be at the Fate of So cente week. At such a mate, of conne, the American

Noon-Tacoma will leave for Victoria, B.C., and workman would starve; but the Japanese laborers

Tacoma, vía uasal ports of call..

WEDNESDAY,—15th April,

no divided responsibility. The entire Singapore on the 7th fest. from Odessa, with || 10 am-Saiasis leaves for Europe, soll of the Colony was vested in the about too troops for Vin livestock, Crown, No one held a foot of ground

except under lease from the Crows, and An order has been issued by the Commander» the Governor la granting leases could. In-Chief in India Ealing for a strict Court Martial Impose such conditions as to buildings and, or any British soldier in any case where seziona- drainage as he thought fit Conditions accident is caused by them when cut shooting. and covenants ample for all purposes

were in fact inserted in the Crown Leases. AUSTRIA has decided to comblas with Gar The Governor had at his elbow a Colonlar many in an expedition to the South Pole, and Surgeon and a Surveyor General. The Julius von Payer, the explorer of Fraus Josef latter was in charge of " the roads, Land, kas been asked to give up his expedition streets, bridges, sewersi publié drains and | të north-east Groenland få order to take, then Water courses, and nonhouse could be | command of it;

are able to live way cheaply. The rate at whic goods can be manufactured may be inferred froes the prices at which the common staples of trade am offered for KAIN. IN, the open market Tapas, Boots and shoes cost, la span, practi- cally one ball of what they would bring in tha at United States or Great Britain, Woolen gloves,

of the kind that are now sold at retail for 75 cents in this country, are grad for 16 cents in Japan & toothbrushes from three to six centa aplece, according to quality; Berlin knitting= wool at 63 cents a pond ƒ leather-covered dine is log-chair of a rather, incarious type, at $1.30 carin, whle: Sale hAIN, SUCH AN AEN sold in the United States, de 33 0c-84-apláče, belog cante ; and so on. These prices are quoted on 0934xceptionally good authority, and the cons keti pärisons are intelligently made by skilled buule pumaLecture, st Odd Volumes Krome, ne peut man,The facts are signifoun) enough |

2.30 p.m.-Moating of Licensing Justices,

Police Court,

3-45 pm-Annual Inspection of Hongkong

Volunteer Corps,

Noo,CA

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THURSDAY, 16th April:

estes for Ban Francisco, usual paris-of galline vera

Meeting of Perseverance Lodge.

FRIDAY=-17th April.