Wo-bay's Advertisements.
NOTICE.
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER-OF
THE
COMMERCE
"HE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of
the MEMBERS of the HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 13th lost, at 3.30 P.M., at the Rooss of the CHAMBER, CITY HALY, for the Puipare of Receiving the Repost of the Committee and passing the Secretary's Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1895.
I
R. CHATTERTON WILCOX,
Secretary, Hongkong, 6th May, 1846,
CUSTOMS NOTIFICATION.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1896.
To-day's Advertisements.
TO LET.
URNISHED or UNFURNISHED, with FURmediate Possession, BACOMER (PEAK
Apply to
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FRENCH CONSULATE, ··
o, Praya Central;
1779
Hongkong, 6 h May, 1946.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI, HE Company's Steamship
"KARLSRUHE,"
ΤΗΣ
[782 Captain H. Waltes will leave for the abort place TO-MORROW, the 7th instant, at 6 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MELCHERS & Co.. Agents. Hongkong, 6th May, 1996.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
AM informed by Telegirħ that the following i SANITARY REGULATIONS have beca put la force at SHANGHAI from TO-DAY,
H. M. HILLIER,
Commuiloner of Customs for Kowloon and District.
Hongkong, 6th May, 1895,
HARBOUR NOTIFICATION,
No. 1 or 1996.
that with view NOTICE is hereby geniallon of Plague late Shauphal, the following Regulations are published at the request of the Tiotal, acting aron the recommendation of the Consular Body. and that they will be strictly enforced so soon the necessary means for so doing have been arranged. The date from which they are to be enforced in their entirely will be notified later, and, peeding such notification, which affects II. Rules 3, 4 and 7, the remaining rules are in fall
force and effect,
I-General Rules: the Sanitary Regals. tions for the Port of Shangbal" as published
in July, 1875, remain la force, except that Regulation & shall read:
"Such vesins shall archor two miles *below the Lower Limit of the Harbour, and and River Police Constables will be placed to keep watch outside the versels só an to allow co one to go on board or to leave them, pending, the Health Officer's decl "lon"
-Special Rules supplementing the above so for an vessels from lefeated ports are con- cerned..
1.--All vasels ziriving at Stanghal from Hongkong or Canton or say other Infected port whether having exiled at Intermediate ports or Dot, shall be mellenly inspected.
Inspection can only be made during daylight from 6 AM to 6 PM Vesels arriving after 6 PM will be required to remala 'below the limit named in Ralé z until inspected.
2-This inspection shall be carried out two miles below the Lower Harbour Limit as pro- vided for in the Harbour Regulations.
1-All bigge and cargo considered danger- out by the Inspecting Officer stall be landed on the Poolung shore and infected with sulphur Vapour
4-In case there are no persons offering from Plague on board, the vessel shall be admited to pratique-after the landing of bag- gage li necessary--as provided for le Rule 3.
S.-In case there are persons suffering from Plague on board, the vessel'shall not come nearer to Shanghal than the limit named in the preceding Rule 2 anill the instructions of the Inspecting Officer have been carried out and a written certifieste to that effect furnished by the To arcting Officer to the Commanding Officer of such vertel.
6. Every verset bound to Shanghai from Infected port, and being detained on account of ber draught, er for any other reason below the Woosung Toner Bay shall, if there are any pe-sons suffertag frem lalecitous disease on board or if there have been any deaths on board, from fretion's disease darlög the voyage, be governed by Article 11 of the Harbour Regala- Ross for Woosung, as regards her anchorage. In the case of every vessel thus detained, na baggage, cargo, etc, ahell be discharged from ball her and no passenger or other person disembark from ber until ade has been visited by a duly appointed Health Officer, for the time being, of the Fort of Shang-. hal and then only in accordance with such Health Officer's directions. Provided, however, that, in the case of such vessels as carry duly qualified surgeon, passengers and their baggage may be transferred to steam tenders at Warung, alter all precautions necessary to pre. vent the spread of contagion by the same have been carried out under the direction of such Bargeon, and the fact daly certified by him, in writlag, for the information of the Harbour Authorities of the port; but every tender con- veying passengers and/or baggage as above must stop two-miles below the Lower Harbour Limit of Shanghai for Inspection by the Health
Officer of the port.
7-A vessel coming to Shanghal from an Infected port and detained below Woosung Inner Bar, may, If there is no case of infections disease an board and If there has not been any caso of infectious disease during the voyage, discharge her passengers and their baggage into one or more steam tenders for conveyance to Shanghal; bat every sach terder shall-aa regards lurpee tion, etc.-be governed by the preceding Rules.
A. M. BISBEE,
Harbour Master.
Approved -
LS. ROCHER,
Custom Houst
Commissioner of Customs.
Shaoghal, 6th May, 1896.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
§. S. "KARLSRUHE,”
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HE above named Steamer having arrived,
THE
NOTICE.
DEATHS.
On the 5th May, st Windsor Heini, Montreal, GROHOR FENWICK, of Victoria Foundry, Hong
·keng."
A drainsman out of the pubile service will argue a question, give his reasons, listen to yours, explain himself, and, perhaps end by admitting that you are right. The On the 30th elf, at his residence Woodsame dralssman in the Government leigh, Singapore, FRANCIS GUIDE BERNARD eldest son of the late Alfred Berard, aged 46 won't listen to reason at all. Sic volo, sic YEATH,
jubeo, stat ratione voluntas. Why is it thus ? There must be something in the atmosphere of a Government office far more dangerous to mental balance than the plague microbes are to the bodily health.
TELEGRAMS.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HOMOKONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The case against the Captain and. Doctor of the Hohensollern is under appeal, and we have therefore no opinion what ever to express on the propriety or other- wise of the conviction or.on the evHence. 1739 But we have and may express an opinion, as to the punishment awarded, and our opinion is a very decided one. The sentence is as far too heavy in this case as the sentence in the case of the Russian officers was too light. If the Russians had got three months hard labour and the Germans had been fined fifty or a hundred
STEAM TO YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND NAGASAKI. (Passing through the INLAND STA.). "HE Company's Steamship
THE
* HOHENZOLLERN."
dollars each, there could have been but one opinion as to the discretion will leave for the above Parts TO-MORROW, exercised by the Police Magistrates. We
F
the 7th instant, at 6 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
MELCHERS & Co, Agents, Hongkong, 6th May, 1805.
1739 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA.
TION COMPANY.
(UMDEX MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN GOVERNMENT).
STEAM TO SHANGHAI AND KOBE.
THE Company's Steamship
"VINDOBONA,"
hope that His Excellency the Governor will see his way to grant a very considerable remission of the penalty. Hard labour is an altogether inadmissible portion of the sentence. No foreign power would so degrade even a spy captured in time of war, He would be shot, or I not deemed deserving of death would be im- prisoned in a fortress, but hard labour is not a usual accompaniment of sentences for military or political offences, as distinguished from crimes to which noral
Captain Rellen, will leave for the above places reprobation attaches. OD TUESDAY, the 13th instant,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
Hongkong, 6th May, 1896.
V
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REUTER'S MESSAGES.'
COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN
JAPAN AND SWEDEN. ́.
LONDON, May 4th. Sweden has been signed at Stockholm.
A Commercial Treaty between Japan and
LI HUNG-CHANG IN EUROPE. After the Russian Coronation festivities LI Hung-ching will visit the Courts of the Treaty Fowers, partly with the view of obtaining an increase of, five to eight per cent, on thể nấ valorem import duties at the treaty parts.
THE ENGLISH PRESS AND THE
LOTHAIRE ACQUITTAL
RUSSIA has a tenitory is Enrope of 2,095,000 The NI DESPARANDUM CUP ; valzo, Tis, 100;
second pony, Tla. 35 ; for subicription griffins square miles, while In Aila this gigantic Power of this meeting that have run and not won a | belde 6,500,0po square miles mare-a total of race; weight for loches as per scale ; entrance, | 8,595,000 square miles of the earth's surface
tuled by one,man. Tla. 5 Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Eurey's g. Jack Sprat ominançam Mr. Rubson's ch. Isoldim Mr. Sidaay's cb. Gold Dust..........
1
3
Thirteen starters, Time 1 min, 33 sece. The GRAND NATIONAL STERFLECHASK Į VANUS, The 150, with The, so for second pony provided there sio four or more starters for China ponies; weight for faches as per scale: non-winners of a steeplechase pilowed siba; entrance, Tis. Twice round a course selected by the Stewards.
Mr. Charley's gr. Auctioneer... Mr. A. McInnes' gt. Brigand kergeschilisaust Mr. Sturgis ple. Presidentiaùummu.3
Four started.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
FOURTEEN cases of plugue to-day,
H.M.S. Centurion left yesterday for Japan.
Tax steamer Karlsruke has on board £173,000 in gold caly and silver barn for Kobs, COMMODORE DE RICHELIEU and porty, reached Singapore on the roth it, and left for Batavia on the 20th.
The English Fress is indignant at the acqalital | INVADER's time in winning. the "Champions" of Captain. Lothalte, and declares the matter to-day, a 38, equals the best time made for that mast not be allowed to rest,
SUSPENSION OF THE DUTY ON RICE
IN TONKIN,
distance on the Shanghai Course.
THE us! fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary
REFERRING to the late Tom Hugher, Q.C., the St. James's Govićte ways 1. Of his kindness of dispostilon a tale was stold by the late Lord sice Bowen on his elevation to the Beach. Reviewing his own carter, the judge related that at se time he was so imp-cunions a young Darrister that he went to Mr. Hughes to ask h advice as to which colony he should emigrate to, and Bow Tom Hughes really kept him in England and laid the foundation of bis fortunes by insisting that he should accept the loan of £100 and give the bar a longer trial,
PROGRESS IN JAPAN.
According to a vernacular contemporary, the capital nominally invested in new enterprises › In Japan during fifteen months ending March 31st was zu follows:-
Yen. Hallways (private).............................105,685,000 Bink...
-335.720,290 Various Companies ...............160,411,500
Tat$91,8:6.790
It is added that, at the commencement of the period under review, tallways were the favourits form of enterprise, but from last antoma | Investors tarsed to banks, commercial and Industrial banking lastitaitons being projected lo various localliles. Most of the promising rallway routes have already been taken up, and the tendency now seems to be towards Diane facturing and industrial enterprises, as collan spinning, factories for building railways, rolling stock, woollen fabric mills, docks, and zo forth.
Owing to a famine in Tonkin the French Board will be held to-morrow afternoon AI | THERE was a tumour current in Siamese circles
Government has abolished the duty on rice from Hongkong unili June,
(From the Stam_Observer.) FRENCH POLITICS.
LONDON, April agrd. The Bourgeois Cabinet has resigned, and a Presidential crisis is now regarded as possible. -
KRUGER'S REPLY.
4-15 p.m. in the Board Room, HARMSTON'S Circus left Colombo en the 56th ult, in the Austrian Lloyd's 'stesmér Vindobona, and was expected to arrive in Singapore on the Ist frist.
MOST of the steamers in Shanghai on the 3oth ult, lowered their flags to half-mast In memory of those who lost their lives in the unfortunate accident at Woosung...
on the 18th ult., says the Bangkok Times, that alarming news had been received from the South-east. It is alleged that the Governor of | Bahambing has collected a force of firegulara and attacked or surrounded a Cambodian force on the frontier. It is alleged that the news bây caused great commation in the Palace. la connection with the rumour, continues our contemporary, it may be well to point out that we Immediately telegraphed to our correspondents for information and are so far without any confirmation of the report, The French Legation in without any news of the alleged attack from Battamborg. If the rumour should happen
to be true the incident will lead to the SANDER & Co.,
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Intimations.
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offence of landing on. Stonecuters' Island without having an order or permit from the proper authority. Fow were they to know that there was in existence a law forbidding it? Such a hw Is not a general law, one of those every one is bound to know. It is as much a are the Harbour special law 25 Regulations. Every shipmaster coming Into the port, whether for the first or the fiftieth time, is supposed to be supplied Immediately on arrival with a copy of theso Regulations that he may not offend
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against them through want of knowledge. The same precaution, ought to be taken. with reference to the special laws relating our fortifications. Hongkong is not known to the world generally as a fortress, as is Gibraltar, and our batteries and forts are, happily, not so very conspicuous as to attract the attention of any but a trained eye. If people are not to land on Stone- 427 cutters notices, if used at all, ought to be on the sea shore, and not half way
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LONDON, April 23rd. The Executive Council at Pretoria, has replied | in a friendly tona to Mr. Chamberlain's despatch, bat says that President Kruger cannot ask the Volksraad for permission to go to England ant!! the bases of the discussion have been settled.
RUSSIA'S NEW ALLY.
LONDON, April 23rd. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgeria has been received at St. Petersburg with much ceremony.
SHANGHAI SPRING, RACES.
Stewardı :—A. McLead, Esq., G. D., Böuing, Eq., C. J. Dadgeas, Esq., S. Fearon, Erg. F1. Maliland, Esq., J. A. Fend, Erq, and 72 A, Probat, Exq-
Clerk of the Course:—F. Ayscough, Esq, Secretary :-G, D, B, Bidwell, Esq.
THIRD DAY, WEDNESDAY, 6TH MAY. The GREAT NORTHERN PLATE; Value, Ths. tas; second pony, Tis. 45; for ponies that hard ran at this meeting weight for inches As per scale; winner of one race 21 this meciing, 7lbs extra ; two or mme races, tolbs extra; extrance, Tl. 5. Three-quarters of a
mile.
|
THE application to transfer the licenca of the Rose, Shamrock, and Talstle" Hotel, made by
graves the present holder, Wm. Krater, was refused by consequences. It may be just possible that the Gentral Adviser's confab with Mr. de Bunsen the licensing justices yesterday afternoon.
on Friday had something to do with this Referring Battambong the THE wreck of the stranded Danish steamer Incident, Actio, as she now lies on the beach at Sad Courrier de Saigon states that a notice bas been posted in Battambong by Siamese agents, Point, to the west of Holhow, was this after- ssserting that no treaty has been signed between raan sold at auction by Mr. G. P. Lammert to France and Stam, an the subject of the restlta. tion of Baitambong and Angkor. The local Messrs A. R. Marly & Co. for $1,500,
anthorities, adda öur Salgan contemporary, THE French chartered transport Cachar, with | preach resistence à l'outrance against any The Siamese bellers that when the raina havÖ twenty-two civil passengers, ibreo officers, and foreign tavasion during the high water season, 190 non-commissioned officers and soldiers, commenced France will send a strong force to anived in Singapore on the 28th, ult. from occupy Baitambang and Angkor. Marseilles. She was to leave for Saigon and Haiphong after coaling.
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SODA WATER, reports a thirsty writer of the Stam Observer, is again unobtainable la Bangkok, and determloed tipplers are even effering famine, prices for the refreshing flald They hoped for relief in the form of the Japanese mineral water, but that also bad rop out, and the local thirst is intense.
SIR ROBERT HART.
of
HOW
much
There is still, the Mercury belleves, some prospec that Sir Robert Hart may visit Shanghai during the ensuing month. The fatigues and of fis exlitence pioyed upon bis benith and- cares of his office during the most critical period demanded rest, but he is
which better. With the love has become a passion with him, the Inspector- Mx. and Mrs. John F. Sheridan are passengers General is alggardly of his time, and by the homeward .mail steamer Pekin. besitates about taking the holiday which the Mr. Sheridan appeared for the last time In last two years of auxiety fairly demand. Our
contemporary continues:-Wa Shanghat last Friday night, and is now speeding cccasions in accord with his policy, on his way to tako up an engagement at the though Lyric Theatre, London, In the next new specially, which is now in rebearsal.
Mr. Oswald, br. Ravelston......................... Mr. Kanuck'ag. Menej!:.. Mr. Buxey's Comet 3
Thirteen stared. Time, I min. 3rà seçu. The SHANGHAI ZANDICAP value, Tis. 150, added to a Sweepstakes of Tis. Seach; for mil ponies that have run at this meeting: arst poay to recelve o per cent, second pony, aa per cent, third "007, 10 per cent; to be handicapped after the second day's races. One mile and a half.
Mem. Kanuck & Orwalls d, Tristan.......... 1 Mr. H. Sylvan'g. Dostraye.......
*** 2
ONE day wille Millais was engaged in painting his famous picture, "Chill October," among the reeds and rushes on the banks of the Tay, near Perib, a volce came from over the hedge!
were not on
mach of it, while # seemei to conravens the interests of izade, was doubt. | less laspĺzed by a lagdable desire to build up and strengthen the Government he has daring his long career so faithfully served. Now, of course, all these ocasions of frritation have ceased, and for the fature Sir Robert Hart will be remembered as the one man who in the hour of China's deepest distress came to her
up the hills where they cannot be Mr. Charley's g. Sada Parel ................................. 3 Man, did ye never try photography ? No, stance, and offered advice which, had it been
sean until the offence against which they are intended to warn has been committed. But the one precaution that ought to be taken is to publish, with the Harbour Regulations, and to hand to every Captain on his arrival, an express. notice in respect of all forbidden localities.
Will our officials take the hint we have given above, and, whatever may be the result of the present case, take reasonable means to prevent others from committing the offence for which the Captain and Doctor of the German mail steamer are likely to suffer so severely, and to render it Impossible In future to set up the defence of ignorance, if caught? We fear not. Our officials will not take a hint. They resent any suggestion made them, either as a body or individually, for any | Improvement in the methods of govern- ment; or for any alteration in their ways of doing business or in the principles în which it is conducted. They knew every. thing and we know nothing. They are the masters, we the servants. They con mand by right divine and we have only to obey.. They may effect reforms of ther own motion, but that the public or the preu should suggest li la fatal. Mr. SwaSTEN In his address at the Colonial Institute Hit the nail directly on the head, only he did not hit it hard enough. Our contempos ary, In this morning's lasue, gave it another. very gentle little tap and drove it`a ilite
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Eighteen started. Time, 3 hin, 16 secr
never," replied Millais, painting slowly. A panam. "It's's bantle quicker,” wald the volce. Another pause. "A1mair ike."
The SHANTUNG STARR8 ; & sweepstakes of Ti
3. with Tis, 100 added, for subsciption grifios of this meeting; first pony to nicelve yo per cent, second pony 20 per cent, third pony za per cent, third pany to per cent; weight for
Tim talegraphic news received to-day of the Innkes at per scale; the winner of and racO death, at the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, yester- yibu, extra, of two races ralbs, extra, Oos | day of Mr. Geo, Fenwick was most unexpected,
mile.
1
Mr. Nibler's g. Niblick....direnenang.. I Mr. Buxer's g. Jack Spratuman 1. Mr. Du Maurier's g. Gecko
Ten started. Time, 3 mins, 7 sec8: The PARI-MUTUEL CUP ; value, Tis, 150, added to a sweepstakes of Tix, 5 each ; second pany to receive 32 per cent and the third pony to per cent of thë stakes ; for China ponlen; weight for inches as per scalo ; griffos ut date: of entry allowed gibr.; non-starters and win nem at this meting 7lbs, extra. One mlio
and a half
followed in the spirit in which it was given, would. have saved China her last and gresiest homlliz. tion, and prevented her credi, and possibly ber existence, being made the shuttlecock of Continental Intrigue. Chine, unfortunately for herself, turned a deaf ear to the advice of her best friend, and has already had to hear the first fraits of her want of judgment. We may and has caused deep regret to all who know him. assure Sir Robert Hart that he will receive from Shanghai a warm welcome, should be visit the Barely one month ago Mr. Fenwick left here post officially or non-officially. The latter is, wa wished box voyage by the many friends he journey having for its object mainly the enjor for home, on a well-earned holiday, being | belleve, his present fufsnilon, his projected
| bad made durleg a very lang and prosperous
ment of a well-earned respite from saalous work. career in the colony. No particulars have been riceived of the 'cause of the and event, which will leave a great blank among the members of the community.
FRENCH TACTICS IN SIAM.
The Times Bangkok correspondent writes - THERE is a great gathering of steamers in the under date February and :-"A general regis
tration of Chinamun has been conducted by the river la anticipation of brisk business in rice, commandant of the military post at Chantaboon
Mr. Oswald's br, Bilskbensy „teissarientesegiten. I. Mr. Fourman's g. Sinbad...........ays the Slam Frie Prass of the 24th altime Megars Oswald and Charley's br. Spartan..... 3
Nias starters. Time, 3 mins, 15 recht:
The YANGTEZE STAXIS; value, Tis. 150; second pony Tis. sor for Chlos ponies that have run at this meeting; weight for luches as per scalez non-winners allowed zolba; entrance, Tim Two miles.
There appears to be some division of eplatan among local rice merchants as to the supply of paddy. On some aides it is asserted that brisk business will not be started for another menth, and this view seems shared by a number of the principal Chinese dealers, while on the other hand a week's time is expected to see steamers Loading rapidly and claaring from the port. The Senttish Oriental vessels see here in some force Eight started; Time 4mins, 26f1eco. ·
and others are expected, though the river cannot The MANCHU STAKES) valse, Tis. 150; second
be said to be unusually.crowded for this period pony, Tis. so for Caton ponies, dona fide gilüins at date of entry, that have run and of the year. Rice business will probably drag not won a races weight fer lächts as per scale; | Uttia this year. entrance, Tis, 5.. One mile and a quarter,
Mr. Fourman's cb. Slater................. I Mr. Hampton's d. Eclipse........ M. Linton. Promis....3.
Consignces of Cargo are kureby informed BRANDY.—All our Brandy is-guaranteed to be / heads. By no manner of means, Mest The CONSOLATION CUP; value, Tis. 150; second against the tugs hara been sent to the Governor sportsmak, and beyond his riding and shooting
that their Goods, with the exceptioh of Opium, Treasure and Valasbles, are being landed and stored at their risk in the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, Kowloon, whence delivery | may be obtained.
Options! Cargo will go on to Shanghai unters notice to the contrary be given before 5 PM. THIS AFTERNOON.
much on the same lines as that lo Bangkok, and some 1,620 papers have been lized, by which nearly all the local pepper-growers have became French subjects, in spite of their birth French abosid evacuate the place, must make in Stam and other drawbacks. This, if the the role of the Siamese Governor no easy task, more especially as secret societies re very strong there and extremely active and lawless ;. If most of 1kelt isembers can say they are. Frenchmen they will flot the authorlides successfully ones the French patrols are removed. Again: a French community has thus born formed which did not. before exist, and which can be appealed to in the future as a proof of the rangeltuda of French intereals. In Battambong, where there has been for some time a Fiench Commisijoner, this product of the falce of the grape, and are noɛ/ further home, but it is a nail that will take Mr. Ranay'a er. Warblast „ambiontsumi K. As was to be expected, seports the Mercury, thefatration system has not been introduced. If It över la maried the greater part of the province artificially made from raisins and curreal well into the wood and holds. We do not Mr. Crawlord's ch. Ranifestion....... 3 le meeting with strenuous opposition on the part exactions of the Governor's officials
a very great deal of tapping before it gets Mr. Sandawn's gr. Chields project of placing tug boats on the Poyang Lake will seek French protection to escape the He as is generally the case with Cheap Wines. | mean to say that our officials are block. Ninteen started. Time amiņu, 43800s.
of the boat people of the district. Their petitions exercises no control over them and pays them nomlaries; be is young anda korn of them are men of intelligence and com. o Cognac, the difference in price being mon sense, who socially and. In ordinary
pony Tie: 50 tbled pany Tls. 351 for poolen of Kiangel, and they are furthermore unnt trips he has no ideas and no ambfifoar higher * that have run at this menting and not won a marely a question of #ge and vintage.
affairs are very decent, pleasant fellows race and have beeg entered otherwise than in mously determined to boycott the tugs should than the "lak (or theatre), in which he spends
the Shanghal Stakes to races confided to they commence to ply, and it remains to be so him. menice to Siamese role in the lsko,
his nights. His indifference to business makes WHISKY-All our Whisky is of excellent Some of them are not possessed of the amount of brains that the Colony is fairly
subscription griffins weight for inches as per whether the company and the gentry interested provinces and the more level-headed Siamese --quality and of greater age than most branda
scale entrance, Tis. 5. Once round.. entitled to expect from its civil servants,
will have sufficient pluck and influence to cany Commissioner, who is there from Bangkok to in the market. The SCOTCH WHY and some of them are Incorrigibly Id Mr. Bazey's ch. Comtoipumismocais. Į on and live down this prejudice against stean, watch, and, if possible, guide him, has no marked. "E" is malversally popular, and is and make no effort to improve them Mr. Fourman's gr. Stabed 3 Mr. Kanuck's gr. Moutji séminasum 2
The plaint of the boat-people that the logs wit autherly whatever, and is almost powerless for pronounced by the best Jucal connoisseurselves, or even to keep themselves up Fifteen startad · Time, 5 mína, 37 Beće. deprive them of their livelihood is is short good. The Siamese have a cause for legitimate to be superior to any other brand in the to a fair standard of knowledge. But, on The CHAMPION SWEEPSTAKES Į Value, Tis. 3501 sighted av, and holds no more water than, that of Angkor Wat made by French visitors, who complates in the defacement of the great ruins Hongkong market
and all, they are tainted with the fault
second pony, Tir. 100; third pouy, The sort of the coach-drivers in England in siden days cut their names in letters a foot high upon the delicately hinted at by the "Reilden a forced entry for and open only to winning at
walls, blow off ornaments with. Their guns, and General of the Malayan Federation. Is This meeting optional for the winners of the } "gainst faliwa ya, della
threaten anderen sirika tha pangyèms (or monks) their official Intercourse with their fellow Consolation Cap and · subscription, griffin
If they do not find rolles to suit them. These races weight for incher as per scale; each citizens there is always something that
are, of course, only the acts of colonials of the pony entered to pay five per cent of the valun.
'buser sort, but they give the whole French race grates. There is alsys an affectation of
of stakes, and, prizes won. One malis and a
an undeservedly bad name among the natives superiority, a suggestion of Inferiority l
qe quarter.
of the district, to whom such arrogant bebaviour, the layman, a curious impatience of any:
especially to pongyses and, in such a place, LD, thing like remonstrance or complaint, as
betokana para savagery, and if for that resson sasumption of infallibilty that is sometimes
alone li should, if possible; be put an end to by "131 vary amusing--sometimes very nancying,
the French theinsiirus/
No Claims will be admitted after, the Goods have left the Godowns and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 13th instant will be subject |- to rent,
All broken, chafed and damaged Géoda are to. be left in the Galowas where they will be examined on MONDAY, the 11th instant, at 3 P.M.
"All Cialms most reach us before the 16th instant or they will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
MELCHERS & Co. Agenta,
Hongkong, 6th May, külgö.
We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRIT to be groulos when bought direct from a the Colony or hom our authorised Agents at the
Coust Poris.
A. §. WATSON & CO.,
THE HONGKONG, DISPENSARY, [739]\/ Maßen, Toth January 1590.
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Mo Ring's d. Invadar, iii X Mr. Sturgis Vaquero,
Mi Buxay's gi Playmaisonnummer
Xieran-started/Time, a mina, gë 1996.
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TO-MORROW --7th May,
11 4.4.—English-Mail closes. -- Noon--Pekía salir for London,
4:15 paMeeting of the Sanitary Board.
SATURDAY,====gin May.
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