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Intimation.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1896.

W. BOFFEY & Co.

TAILORS,

2, D'AGUILAR-STREET.

Have an entirely NeW STOCK of WOOLLENT to suit the Present and Coming Season,

Consisting of:-

FANCY SUITINGS, DRESS, FROCK and MORNING COAT SUITINGS, ULSTER and

OVERCOATINGS, BREECHES and RIDING MATERIALS is variety,

FANCY VESTINGS, TATTERSALLS and others.

Hongkong, 1st September, 1896.

THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE

BANK LIMITED.

(incorporated in Japan under the authority of an imperta! Ordinance No. 29 dated the 6th day of the 7th Mouth of the 20th Year of Matji.)

SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL................Yon 12,000,000 PAID-UP CAPITAL

5,350,000

RISIRVI FUND

Head Offices-. YOKOHAMA, JAPAN.

Branthis and Agınelisi-

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Co-day's Advertisements.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

--

FOR SWATOW, SHANGHAI, CHEFOO AND NEWCHWANG, HE Company's Stormship

5015000 THE

KOBE, LONDON, NEW YORK, LYONS, SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, BOMBAY, SHANGHAL

London Branch --

120, BISHOPIGATE STREET, WITHIN,

London, Bankers !----

THE UNION BANK OF LONDON, LTD,” THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK, LTD.,

"HANGCHOW," Captain' Bennett, will be despatched as above TOMORROW, the roth Instant, at 9 F.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

[1572

Intimation.

A.||S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED..

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841;

revenue.

to conciliate Chinese sympathies, it shirks the notice in question could be to the mas- THost interested in the Navy should rend "The all the practical difficulties attending the ter of a vessel that left Hongkong on the British Fleet by Commander Robinson, RN, question and discusses possible alterations 30th of September or 1st or and October | (George Bell & Sons, London.) The book is and Improvements from a purely acade- | bound for Shanghal. Obviously its cou- profusely illustrated and deals with the Navy, mical point of view.

tents would be unknown to him and be and naval questiour, fecen Ita exillest days to the The letter admits the reasonableness would therefore essay the difficult naviga- present time. It is also a book that will serve of the Chinese demand for revision, betion of Woosung Bar, perhaps at night, to wils away many a spare hall hour in a profit- cause of the Chinese need for an enlarged Ignorant of the meaning of the signals able manner.

It puts forward certain sug-exhibited and perhaps with disastrous gestions for the consideration of the Chi-results to his vessel, and the lives of nese Government, in which an attempt is those entrusted to his care. The notice made to reconcile the Interests of the to mariners now referred to reads as foreign merchants, 'with, dus regard to follows: the welfare and prosperity of China. The first of these suggestions is that too heavy export duties will ruin the export trade by rendering it impossible for Chinese producers to place their goods on the markets at the same or less prices than forelga producers, and so render It ALL there are selected by our Landon House, impossible for them to sell their goods at bought direct at first hand, imported in wood a profit or at all, when they must cease to and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all inter-produce. If they had a monopoly of any mediate profits, and enabling us to supply the - best growths at MODERATE PRICES.

WINES

SPIRIT S.

AND

FORT after removal should be rested a month before use. When required for drinking at enen it should be ordered to be decanted at iNG DISPENSAny before being sent out.

Notice is hereby given ihat, at 7 a,m. on the 3rd proximo, the direction of the so-called Felma Channel Marks will te altered so that they will ladicate the line of the deepest water across the Bar which, owing to recent changes in the channel, is to the wouthward of the line of the maks as they now stand.

When the direction of the marks has been changed as above, inward bound vessels should --alter bringing the Signal Station Bagstaff open to the northward of the Station dwelling house-haul towards the Pootung shore till they get deeper water; and those ontward bound should follow a corresponding track.

Impostal Maritime Customs, Coast Inspector's Office,

A. M. BEBEK,

Coast Inspector.

Tux destination of H.M.S. Rattler has been changed, and she will leave for Japan, lastsed" of Newchwang, as won as, her now captain, .. Lieutenant-Commander the Hon. G. A. Hardinge, arrives. We hear he is expected by the Fapas on the roth. It is not decided what ship will winter at Newchwang la place of the Raliler, but if one is told aff It will probably be the fierce commerce-destroyer Firiörand.

THE Raw: Father F66, Bishop-designate, is expected to arrivant Singapore from Penang ener about November ist. The consecration has, we understand, been fixed for November 22nd, and the Ceremony will be conducted by His Grace the Archbishop of Pondicherry. The Blihaps of Rangoon and Salgon have, according to the Singapore Prez Press, also been invited to attend, and there will, of course, da a large atten- dance of the clergy from Penang, Malacca, the Native States, and elsewhere.

article, as they once had of tea, the amount of the expert duty might only limit the trade and not quite kill it, but the Chinese have no such monopolies now;

·India and Ceylon have to be reckoned | PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalls, to be had on with. The second suggestion put for-

Application.

ward in this letter is a most objectionable Shanghai, 30th Seph, 1895, one and one against which all friends of We do not notice any protest in the progress must protest and combine. It Shanghal papers, but that is no reason concedes-what should never be con why we should not protest, on behalf of the ceded for a moment that the Chinese me travelling public, insurance companies thods of government must not be questio- and those who go down to the sea in ned or attacked, although they are at the ships" against what appears to have been very root of the evils affecting the tarld a grave oversight on the part of Captain question. The writer says, "the needs and Bissxx, the Coast Inspector. He not only system of government in China are based falled to give timely warning at Shanghal, upon no European model and may not but ignored the importance of Hongkong, lightly be disregarded or set aside," and whence upwards of a dozen steamers then it is suggested that some security salt. for Shanghai every week. And should be furnished by the Chinese Govern-it may be as well to call attention ment for the effective fulfilment of its to the fact, In this connection, that Treaty obligations, hitherto admittedly very few of the "Notices to Mariners" Captain Frampton, will be despatched as above | BRANDY.-All our Brandy is guaranteed to be is to be a reserve fund FORMED OUT OF THE are published In Hongkong and then considers what a valuable article at diet it would.

disregarded and unfulfilled. The security issued by the Coast Inspector at Shanghai para COGNAC, the difference in pricò belug❘ ENHANCED DUTIES TO BE LEVIED (the em- only, as a rule, in the Daily Press and the i maku, Those who have tested porpoise flesh

Hongkong, gth October, 1896.

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED,

FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA.

THE PARR'S BANKING Co. and the ALLIANCE THE Company's Steamship

·BANK, LTD.

Shanghat Agency :—

No. 21, THE BUND. Hongkong Agency;—

No.6, PRAYA CENTRAL and ICE HOUSE

STREET.

DRAFTS on it, and on the Pria-

RAFTS granted on all the Principal Places

Business Transacted.

cipal Commercial Centres in EUROPE, INDIA and AMERICA, and every description of Exchange

NAO NABEKRA Agent.

Hongkong, 22nd September, 1895.

NOTICE!

UNDER the Authority of the Directors and

the Sancalon of the Japanese

Minister of State for Finance; I have This Day! OPENED 1 AGENCY of the above BANK KE! No. 6, PRAYA CENTRAL and ICE HOUSE STREET, Victoria, Hongkong.

NAO NABEKRA, Agent, Hongkong, 22nd September, 1996.

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Fronlap's

Advertisements.

(1481

HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION,

INTERPORT MATCH PRACTICE COM. PETITIONS for SPOONS over the 100, gas and 650 yards distances will take place each SATURDAY during the present month, commencing TO-MORROW, the toik instant. Special extra Spoons of increased value will be awarded to the Five Competilors making the highest wall ngregates for three competitions.

LEE METFORD RIFLES :-Civilian Mem- bers and others requiring the fõnu Tl Léa Metford Rf for these competitions are requested to communicate with the andersigned.

AMMUNITION :-Members practising for the Interport Match will be supplied with Cordlie Ammuphion at the reduced price of

$3.00 per 100 rounds or application to the Hon.

Secretary.

W

Firing will commence each day at 2,30 P.M.

F. SMYTH, Honorary Secretary, Hongkong, gth October, 1806.

MOTIČE TO CONSIGNEES,

FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE,

THE Steamship

(1020

. "CATHERINE APCAR? having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods will be delivered from alongside.

Cargo Impeding the discharge or remaining on board after the 12th lnstant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expence into the Godewas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cư, Limited, at Winche

Consignets of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE DELIVERY sỈ their Goods from alongside ; such Cargo Impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stared at Consigaces' risk and expense.

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

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, 9th October, 1896."

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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S..S. "CAM," FROM NEW YORK AND STRAITS.

"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that sil Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained,

No Claims will be admlited after the Goods have left the Godowne, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 16th instant will be eobject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be pro- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 16th Instant or they will not be recognized.

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be All broken, chased, and damaged Goods are examined on the 16th instant, at 3FM.

No Fire Insurance has been affected.

DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,

Agents.

Hongkong, gth. October, 1895.

FOR SAN FRANCISCO,

NHE 100 A: British Ship

THE

"CLAN. MACFARLANE”

[x544

Templeton, Master, will fond hest for the abora

Fort, and will have quicir despatch.

For Freight, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Cata Hongkong, 9th October, 1896, 11575

"SHANTUNG,"

on TUESDAY, the 13th instant.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong, gih ́October, 1896,

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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL.

THE Company's Steamship

"DARDANUS," Captain Gregory, will be despatched as above or WEDNESDAY, the 14th instant, at Noon,

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, "

Agents. Hongkong, gih October, 1896.

[*$36

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA, THE Steamship

"CATHERINE APCAR."" Captain J. G. Olfent,' will be despatched for the above Ports on FRIDAY, the 16th Instani, at 3 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,

Agents. Hongkong, 9th October, 1905.

71577

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

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

TH

"GLAUCUS," Captain Barwise, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 22nd instant.

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents. Hongkong, 9th October, 1895. [1574

THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY, LIMITED,

FOR LONDON, VIA STRAITS AND USUAL PORTS OF CALL

LIVERPOOL, CONTINENTAL PORTS, RIVER PLATE, (C.)

THE Company's Steamship

"KEEMUN,"

J. Barber, Comma der, will be despatched above on or about the 25th fasiant.

For Freight, &c, apply to

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co.

Agents, Hongkong, 9th October, 1896.

Intimations.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

AERATED WATERS.

SHERRY.-Excellent Dianer and Alter Dianer Wines of very superior Vintages. All are

frań Xeren Wines.

CLARET. Our Clarets, including the lowest Priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of the juice of the grape and are not artificially made from raisins and corants, as is generally the case with Cheap Wines.

merely x question of age and vintage. WHISKEY.-All our Whiskey is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands in the market. The SCOTCH WHIKEY marked “E” li universally popular, and is pronounced by the best local connoisseur to be-superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market.

We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRITS to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agants at the Coast Parts.

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phasis is ours), to compensate for illegal exactions, likin, lotirui, and the whole train of inland duties and barrier squeezes of all kinds, which are to be abolished. Bonded warehouses Is the next suggestion-a very useful but a very minor one, and really unconnected with the question of increased daties. The abandonment of all export duties or their reduction is then suggested *S A return for an Increase of Import duties, although this suggestion seems here a little out of place, considering what had been said before, and it is coupled with a qualified admission of Transit duties for purposes of internal revenue. Manufactories are recommended and

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. the introduction of machinery free, with

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkone. 15th September, 1875, 1

MARRIAGE.

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At St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, on October 1st, by the Rev. W. H. Dankerley, Colonial Chaplain, WZIAM BROWN DIXON, of Batu Padang, Perak, to ANNETTE EDITH, daughter of Mr. C. E. Crane.

DEATH.

A Keek Road, Orchard Road, Singapore, on October 18t, Mrs, MARGARET MACKAY : #ged 77.

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1895,

THE TARIFF QUESTION.

I...THE SHANGHAI CHAMBER'S POLICY.

Government Gassile. In the former the notifications are inserted as advertisements, while in the latter they are published formally and sometimes so late that the Information can be of no use whatever to the masters of coasting steamers.

|

A Bawɑxor paper solemnly announces that Mr. Richards (mining expert, is shortly expected in Slam."This makes the one thousand one hundred and gaeth, or thereabouts, mining * expert that has visited Slam during the last to or 13 years. By this time the Stamere Govern meat must have enough information and reports about their mines, their probable wealth, cost of getting the walth out, &c. &c, to fill a gard old Englishidonkey-cart, and yet Siamese mines don't seem to boom`much ; do they ?

I

I seems strange that the porpoise is allowed to live a life of immunity from danger when one

compare it to beef or veal, from which it is only to be distinguished by its darker colour; The liver is considered a delicacy and, strange to say, the meat has no fishy favour whatever, The porpälse reported to have, bem seen fasting in Kowloon Bay the other day is said to bare been annexed by hungry Customs officers, who

TELEGRAMS. bad a tip-top meal off it.

REUTER'S MESSAGES.

THE WAR IN CUBA.

LONDON, October 7th. The Spanish forces have sustained thres sharp revenes in Cola.

LOR ROSEBERY RESIGNS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE perfect freedom to purchase and transport

LIBERAL PARTY, produce for the use of the factories. The

Lord Rosebery in a letter to the Liberi whip, letter now under review then passes from in which he resigns his leadership of the Liberal the general subject of treaty revision and Party, says he finds himself at an apparent deals with the special questions of cotton difference with the mass of Liberais on the milis, silk filatures, and teas, and sets out Easters Question and at some confillet of opinion agala certain proposals contained in with Mr. Gladstone; also that he receives previous memorials, concluding with anpillt wyport from scarcely any queries, reference to the fact of Mr. DUDGEON

mission.

We purpose

The Calcutta Statesman In a recent ferua saya:-The Calcutta Mint find it a' maiter of Impossibility to prepare the dies for the Volunteer Long Service medal, owing to the Europesa engraver, to whom alone the work can be entrusted, being unable to attend to it on account of Impaired eyesight. The necessary arrange- ments have, therefore, been made to obtain the dias from England, and on their receipt they | will be forwarded, to the Calcotia Mini, with a .

view to one thousand medals being struck off, UNDER the head-line!" A War of Commerce fediaw Engineering kolde forth thusly --Japan is going ahead, occupying as the does in the Kasia somewhat similar position tó what England occupies in the West. Japan's Islanda are in the Paclic and England's in the Atlantic; she knows how to turn her, posliion and her . resources to advantage. - Japan is just now spending "a no less sms than 217 lakhs of THE REVOLT IN THIBET.

rupees on 'now vessain" to carry on a way of PARIS, September 28th, commerce with Europe. "Japan's commercial An English despatch from Shanghal sistes | marins comprises 249 vessals of sil tonnages, by that the whole of Thibet is in revolt against far the major portion being over 1,000 tons.?

SHOULD the present atmospherla depression develop, the Volunteers are likely to have a novel experlance' under"canvass at Stonecutteral:

(From Z'Avenir du Tonkin.)

THE TSARVITCH.

having been despatched on a special in a separate article to-morrow, the to examine,

PARES, September 27th, The report that the Tarvitch has been proposals contained in the Shanghai seriously is contradicted.

Chamber's letter. We consider them as exceedingly dangerous and as playing into the hands of the Chinese. Reform of the machinery by which the revenue of China is collected ought to be the sole

condition on which a revision of the Tariff can to be agreed to, for without this reform every other security against breaches of faith and misgovernment of the most mischievous description will be found illusory.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

We note, or rather we noted some time

ago, but omitted to call attention to the fact, that when the Committee of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce decided to follow

Chlas.

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ITALY AND FRANCE Count Tornisli and M. Hanotaux have signed a new treaty having reference to the latter's

In Tunis under the lowest tariff ratos leviable on French goods.

trade with Tunis, Italian products are admitted

}

THE REBELLION IN THE PHILIPPINES,

** PARIS, September 19th, There'is an improvement fu the slication at Manila.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

a bad name by her present crew,"

Island. It is certainly better that they should

have tents instead of matsheds this year, as it will give them some idea si what compaigning is really like, while turning out in the sala to slacken tent-ropes or give a peg an exirs tap or two will add a pleasant savour of reallly. It is m pity that servants should be allowed in camp.. Why not teach our noble defenders to shift for

on their hair and hang up their heads without the

bronse medal and certificate were presented to Sheik Ebrahim, a lascar, for having efected a rescue from drowning. On the 1st December, 1895, at Busserah, one of the crew employed la the boats hanging in the davits missed his footing

He would in all probablilty have been drowned

We publish in another colump a por- tion of certain correspondence-most of it has already appeared in these columns- sent to the local press by the Committee of the Shanghal Chamber of Commerce as having been laid on the table at the (Taking Cargo at through sales for GLASGOw, meeting of that Committee on the 28th September last. The correspondence in question deals mainly with the questions now pending in connection with the Chi- the good example set by the Shanghai | H.H.S. Archer has arifved at Nagasaki from themselves for a while? As if they couldn't put nese proposals to revise the Customs Chamber and make public the minutes of Koralloff Bay, Hakodate, and other northern aid of servants 1 Preposterous 1 Monstrous is Tariffs and consists of (1) A letter each monthly meeting it also determined ports. as from Mr. DENEY, as Doyen of the Diplo- to invite the members of the Chamber and

the extreme! matic Body in Peking, acknowledging of the mercantile community generally to

Ar a special general mesting of shareholders in We read in a copy of the Calenta. Sistemas receipt of the Chamber's memorial on address it in the intervals between the

the Singapore Insurance Co.”(in liquidation) on | received by the Catharina Apcar lo-day that the subject of the proposed tax of 10 per monthly meetings on matters within the the rat instant, the report of the Liquidator was quite recently, on board the R.I.M.S. ZawraKES, cent, on manufactures, such as cotton, scope of its functions and deserving accepted without dirensaion._

at Busnorah, the Royal Humane Society's yarn, and silk thread turned out from consideration. It would be a very good H.M.S, Daphne it under orders to proceed to the cotton factories and slik filatures thing If the Committee of the Hongkong Mars. The Nagasaki Express says this wema in Shanghai and its neighbourhood. (2) Chamber were to invite communications teose of the "oncomiertable ships" on the A letter from the Foochow merchants in the same way. far in excess of the five per cent ad shrink from addressing the Commites,

There are many men Chian Station. The Dophes, it adds, "is given protesting against the enormous duties, in the Colony who, uninvited, would palorem duties recognised by Treaty, now but who, If the Committes intimated its Ir is notified by express that owing to the and fell overboard, striking his head against one levied on teas, and calling attention to willingness to receive and consider all | ursoitled state of the westher and the softness ́) of the open ports in his fall and bring stunned, the alarming falling off in the export trade letters on matters of interest affecting the of the pitch the opening match of the cricket maa- in tea, the direct result of these duties trade, commerce, and shipping of the port, will not be played to-morrow, but bad not Sheik Ebrahius fumped overboard and (3) A letter from the Foochow Chamber are in a position to give very valuable postponed till Saturday, the 17th.

seized him, holling him up till a boat picked of Commerce on the same subject. (4) A Information as to facts and figures, and to

them up. Two life-buoys had been thrown to him long and rather obscure letter from the make suggestions, which in the hands of THE Back of Bombay, says the Times of India, from the ship, but he missed both. The tide Shanghal Chamber of Commerce to Co- the Chamber of Commerce might become holds the premier position among the Frest was running abb about two knots at the time, lonel Deray, as Doyen, in which the gene-pregnant of valuable results. There are dency Banks, and has now sitained a position of and carried the life-buoys away. The presents. ral question of tariff revision is discussed, so many and such important questions strength and influence second to none in India.* tion took place in the presence of the officers and and to which we shall refer later. (5) A now claiming the attention of the mercan-Its Reserve Fund has now been raised to sixty crew of the vessel, who assembled on the quarter. letter from the Senior Consul in Shang tile community, and they are in themselves lakhs. hal on the same subject as No. and so complicated and many-sided, that those Tax chartered Spanish transport Montserrat. Ing the medal and certificats to Sheik Ebrahim, Mr. Azroid's acknowledgment. (6, 7, 8) who have taken the responsibility of acting Correspondence between Mr. W. Kx-for and guiding the community ought to Capt. Marrelg, with troops for the Philippines, narrated the circumstances under which they were granted, and said it gave him great plaas. WICK, certain Engineers, and the Cham- neglect no pouble means of obtaining rived at Singapore on the 1st October from ber breaking off the proposed arrange information,

Barcelona, via Pesang, calling en route at Malta are to be the means of recompensing a brave ments for Sir CHARLES HARTLEY and Mr.

and Aden. She left Barcelona on the Bib} drod. He drew attention to the fact that the SARSAPARILLA

MarrHewa to survey the Woosung Bar We observe that there is advertised in September, having on board 93 phasenger, 33. some of the presentation was the very scene of RAS

ASPBERRYADE, &c. and, flually, a budget of correspondence our Shanghai contemporaries the North officers, and 1.043 troopa

the exploit. He then described the nature of about the Telegraph Companies greed. China Daily News and Shanghai Metsurya On Tuesday afternoon great excitement was the Society that awarded the modal, and ins This correspondence relating to the "Notice to Marinere" (No. 62, special), occasioned in naval circles by alarms formed the crew that the Queen-Empress was the United Companies refers to the per- calling attention to a very important ticular question of the rates charged change in the direction of range marks

of plague on

Victor Emanuel, patron of 11. After explaining the inscriptions on prompts sent there the medal, he pinned it on the man's right Chinese for Chinese messages, and the indicating the line of deepest water scross The patient WAR explanation given by the Companies to Woosung Inner Ber. The notice in ques and all leave stopped after 6. p., for ten days breathe ceremony was then brought to a Justify the half rates paid by Chinese reada tion is dated September 30th and, as Os arrival at the Naval Hospital the case was conclusion with three cheers for the recipient, very strangely by the light of Li Huxe will be seen by a perusal of the pronounced not to be plague, to the great rellef olher Large Causamera,

CHANGʻa statement to an interviewer in copy of it embodied in this comment, of all concerned. America, that "the Chinese characters ars | It states that on the 3rd day of the next THE Osaka Mainichi reports that the German Any complaints should be addressed to the so full and so expresalve that a message month, is, 'three

Manager:

can be sent in Chinese in less than half advertisement appeared in the Shanghal establish's section for Japancan typography and days after the Government Printing Bareas has decided to f4ay the symbols/required to transmit the morning paper, the direction of the 40-hasorder & Japanese type from the Tokyo 2.30

same message in any European language called Falma Channel Marks would be But we are mainly concerned this even altered. The object, as we understand it, Tackijl Type Foundry. Three of the compositore ning with Mr. ALFORD's letter, on behalf of a Notice to Marinera ta, to give in the Buteas are now being Instructed in the

Mon 13 p.m.-—--Gymkhana mesting, at Happy Valley, I HAVE TRA Day dangerold Bashorts as a of the Chamber, to Minister Dewar, on the masters of vessels timely warning of Japanese language at the Oriental Language 3,30 pm. The Hall of Mysteries at Daddell general question of the revision of the dangers, alteration in the position of School at Berlin--A zsóva in the right direction Tarifs. It is a lengthy letter, da wo aald buoys, atc, etc., and that being so we are upon which one prograsive Tantonio klanda nga [1149 | before, but,, out of sen tywe prestme, |Eat a loss" to understand -* Whi

ha songratulatąd,

'IMPLE AERATED WATER

SODA

INGER ALE.

WATER.

LEMONADE.

DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Cole WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly

risca with the best English Manufactures. qualified English Chemist and will bear compe

Special torms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES and

Hongkong, vi Mar, ) Tot

NOTICE.

GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT.

Hongkong, noth July, 1896,

W. SHEWAN,

deck, Llaut. Com. A. Piffard, R.LM” In present-

MEMORANDA. · TO-DAY,-9ik Üctober. Dividend of $15 on shares of the Union Tning» anca Society of Canton, Ltd., payable to: day.

pm-Auction of household furniture, Res No. 45, Wyndham Street, by Mr. G. P. Lammert, da v 22

TO-MORROW,➡zoin October.

Street.

French nail dua?

SUNDAY

October