To-day's Advertisements.'
THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY. LIMITED.
THE RIGHTH ORDINARY ANNUAL
MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS fo the COMPANY will be held at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 4. Pray Central, Victails, on MONDAY, thẻ iind Mich, 1h30 PM, fo the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts and the Report of the General Managers for the year endlag 1st December, 1896, declaring 4 Dividend, and electing a Consuliing Committee and Auditors.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ➡'ll be CLOSED from the 17th to sand instani, both days inclarive,"
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co., General Managers. Wanekonz, 19th March, 180%.
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
ATHLETIC SPORTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1897..
Co-day's Advertisements.
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LIMITED.
WAN
ANTED 18 ENGLISH CLERK WIE
some knowledge and experience of MARINE INSURANCE.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HOMOKOKO, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1897,
The Parisian dally paper Dadass bitterly reflects apon the recent bungling of French diplomacy which has allowed Great Britain to occupy paste on the River Niger which, by treaty with the nativa rulers, really belong to France!
THE entries for the by Derby include Galle Mora, Velasquen. Winkfald's Bride, Venevlas,
A Good Salary wil be given to a thoroughly. TELEGRAMS.cers, Orello (a brother of Ormonds competent Man
Apply by Letter to the Undersigued,
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N. J. EDE,
Secretary. Hongkong, 13th March, 1897-
"GLEN* LINE OF STEAM PACKETS.
FROM LONDON AND 'STRAITS.
THE Steamship
"GLENAVON" 5454' | having arrived from the shove Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at theis risk-Into-the- Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
is proposed to hold an ATHLETIC
MEETING 61 SATURDAY, 17th March, ander A. A. A. RULES (subject to sufficient entries being received).
EVENTS:
1-120 YARDS FLAT RACK (Handicap). 2-LONG JUMP.
3-110 YARDS FLAT RACE (Handicap),
4.- 170 YARDS HURDLE RACE; 10 Flights, 5.-HALF-MILK FLAT RACE,
6.- HIGH JUMP.
7.-100 YARDS FLAT RACE.
B.-THROWING THE CRICKET BALL.
9 -ONE MILE FLAT RACE (Handicap),
10
-130 YARDS VETERANS' Race (Handicap). 11.-440 YARDS FLAT RACE (Challenge Cup), IZ-SACK RACK.
13-INTERNATIONAL: Tub-or-WAR. 14.- PUTTING THE SHOT. 12,---""ONSOLATION RACE.
16-BICYCLE RACE: Open to all-comers.
I mile.
17-BICYCLE RACE, 2 miles. Open to all
comers (Handicap).
18. HALF MILE FLAT RACK (Handicap), open
to Soldiers, Sallors and Police. 19-TUG-OF-WAR-10 Men a side-open to Officers and
Non-Commissioned
Men of the Army, Navy and Police. Each Ship, Regiment or Corps may enter one team only.
Opilonal Cargo will be forwarded unless notices to the contrary be given before Nood TO-DAY,
Cargo remaining undelivered after the roth instant will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Consignees are requested to present all Claims for damages and/or shortages not later than the 26th instant, otherwise they will not be recognised.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left is the Godawas, where they will be examined on the zgth ingiant, St 17 A,M,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
Agants. Hongkong, 13th March, 1897.
Entimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK
COMPANY,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
20-LADIES' BICYCLE RACE, Half-mile Opea. SIMPLE
EVENTS 1-17_open_19_all_GENTLEMEN AMATEURS who are MEMBERя or VISITORS of the HONGKONG CLUB CLUB GERMANIA, LUSI« TANO, CUY, CRICKET, VICTORIA RECREA. TION HONGKONG BOAT CLUBS
Entrance fee, for each Event ((—17). General Entre, $o-
Entries CLOSE on FRIDAY, 19th March. Entrance forms obtainable at the above man- floned CLUES,
R FLAMMERT, Acting Hon. Steritory,
Hongkong, th March, 1897
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED,
FOR SWATOW,
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"HAILOONG,"
[455
Captain Davis, w!!! be despatched for the above Ports on MONDAY, the 15th lastant, ai Noon,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
·General Managers.
Hongkong, 13h March, 1897
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
[450
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI.
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"HAIMUN,"
Captain Balborst, will be despatched for the above Parts on TUESDAY, the 16th instant,
xt Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.,
General Managers.
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Hongkong, 13th March, 1897,
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR CHEFOO AND NEWCHWANG.
HE Company's Steamship
ΤΗΣ
"FOOCHOW," Captain Blackburne, will be despatched as above “on TUESDAY, the 16th instant, at 3PB
For Freight or Parage, apply lo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 131 March, 1897
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
*****FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.
THE Company's Steamship
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"TSINAN." Captain Ramsay, will be despatched as above on WEDNESDAY, the 17th instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agonis.
Hongkong, 13th March, 1807.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. FOR SANDAKAN AND KUDAT.
THE Company's Steamship
'IMPLE AERATED WATER.
*ODA WATER.
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EMONADE. ·
|
REUTER'S MESSAGE,
THE SITUATION, A
LONDON, March rith, The situation, remains onchanged and the Powers are conferring together,
Russia has offered Servia 130,000 Magasine rifies, and Serviz bas called out all the war for ddll.
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(From Diario de Manila) THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. Mann, March gth. ́ ́Mr. McKinley lo absolutely allent on the Cuban question. In general terms he has said that he will lesist on respect being shown for the rights of American citizens.
THE BALANCE · F POWER..
MADRID, March gib. Fresh complications connected with the Eastern Question threaten with new dangers the balance of power in Europe.
THE WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES,
MADRID, March 8th. Two more batallions "of Marine Infantry will shortly be despatched to Manila,
INDIAN FAMINE RELIEF FUND,
-The Honorary Treasurer of the Indian Famloc Relle! Fand begs to acknowledge receipt of the & undernoted subscriptions 1-
SODA
L GINGER ALE
SARSAPARILLA.
RASPBERRYADE, &C.
Already acknowledged.........$ 48,301-53 Sia Tak Fan
50 F..G.
5
Total to date........ $48,356.53
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Atlan torpedo craiser Panther arrived this afternoon from Singapore. *Taz-latest-retorte-of-the-Indian-oplum-revenue show it to be some 37 lakhs below the citimsie, THE Government of Italy proposes to spend £1,160,000 annually for ten years on additions to
the Sect..
4
THE cutbreak of bubonic plague at Kurrachne copilades to be mirked by an extrordinarily high death-rate.,
DAXIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly Tax steamer Aladdís, from New York, is due qualified English Chemist and will bear compann the sòth Instant. She is consigned to Messrs rison with the best English Manufactures, Shewan, Tomes & Co.
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES and other Large Consumars, Aur complaints should be addressed to the Manager.
Hongkong, 1st March, 1897.
(3796
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
SUBSCRIBERS TO THR HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE,
:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINES
AND
SPIRIT S.
ALL these are selected by our Lendon House, bought direct at first hand, imported in wood and bolled by ourselves, thus saving all-inter. mediate profits, and enabling us to supply the best growths at MODERATE PRICKS.
PRICE LISTS, with Fall Detalls, to be had on Application.
1
PORT after removal should be rested a month
before use. When required for drinklog at | once it should be ordered to be decanted at
the DISPENSARY before being sent out.
SHERRY.-Excellect Dinner and After Dinner
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trua Xerex Wines.
"DRUCALION," Captain B. Branch, will be despatched on SATURDAY, the zoth instant, at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 13th March, 1897.
FOR SINGAPORE, FENANG AND
CALCUTTA
THE Steamship
"ARRATOON APCAR," Captain K. H. Sundberg, will be despatched for the above Ports on SATURDAY, the 20th fast, At 3 P.M."
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.
Agents. Hongkong, 13th March, 1807.
FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT), HE Steamship
ΤΗΣ
*TAIWAN MARU
about the 20th Instant.
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will be despatched for the above Port on or
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.
Agents. Hesighong, saik Maich, 15gy,
AN application has been made to the Indian Government for permission to run motor cars
naw employed in
on the Katka-Simia road.
Palmots and Yorker. Forty-otie, the smallest entry for many years, is the total number of
sobreeibers.
MISSPS JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, the General Managers, kindly inform us that they have received a telegram reading, as follows:
The Eurk Mine: veef is feet; reefs show visible gold ; grade of Före very good,"
The width of the
Aarong the British warships shout to new off is
H.M.S. Swff! which leaven Mantia for Home hong on the rath Tagrant. W,M.5, Archer Is due hero from Japan in a 'few days, and after taking in coal and provisions she will proceed to Manila to take the Swiff's place.
Tux death is announced of Sir John B. Thurs- tos, Govemez" of Fiji, who died on the roth ultimo on board the steamer Burrumbeat whḥlo, on the voyage fram Sydney to Melbourne.
LADY Aberdeen has announced that the Queen kan expressed a desire that the commemoration of the doth y ray of her rilga in Canada may take the form of nursing and caring for the sick and suffering,
The Victorian Government having declined op
economical grounds to send a team of Victorian rlimen to England, at a cost of £3,000, Mr. David Symer, proprietor of the Melbourne Aga, bas sent the Premier a cheque for that amount. Good old Age |
THE Time Ball it Kowloon Paint has been -audergoing a thorough overhaul during the last few days and consequently masters of ships by it. The ball is now to position again, how. || aver, and will shortly resume its function vi
dropping dally at rpm.
have been unable to check their chronometers
The Manager of the Jiongkong branch of the Stralis Insurance Company, Ltd., has received a telegiam from the Cols Head-Office giving the --- following summstý of the Company's accounts to be submitted at the next annual general meeting -Nat premium for the year 1896, $1,170,020 ; amount carried forward from Working Account 1996 to new sccona', $385,1007 the sum of $180,000 has been-withdrawn from Reserva Fund; balance at credit of Profit and of 5 per cent. Lois, $31,000. It is proposed to pay a dividend
FROM the Sandakan Herald we learn that Nacoda Tinggi, otherwise the Tall Chief, reports having fought the naturious Mat Salleh and his followers ut Padung, a village soms distance up. the Sagut River. The fighting lasted from 6 s,m. to 6 pm, when Mat Salleh retreated and the Tall one's rations gave out. The entity's forces are estimated at from 4,000 to 5,000 men by the Nacode, but we fear that, as his came implier, be is a very "rill"one" and as such lìábio to draw the long bow as occasion requlées.." Atall events, later accounts pui. Mat Salleh'ı followers | at 70 souls, chief, women and children, The
tall gent should try again !
WITH the number of had characters si present- to Hongkong there is an urgent need for having the quiet roads of the colony vigilantly guarded by the police. A Chinaman of the coolla class followed two ladies.alang Bawen Road a couple of days ago, and when he thought there was no chance of interference he attacked one of them, throwing her to the ground and threatening her with violence. The ruffiau's object was robbery and for a quarter of an hour his victims struggled
LORD BRAsary, Governor of Victoria, Australia, was thrown from his horse while ridlog in H.M.S., Edgar, formerly on the China Station, Melbourne on the 23rd ultimo and sustained. | leaves England on the 3rd April with a now crew serions fojuries, bis collar-bone being broken for the Undaunted. The ships will meet at Trin-and his face and head badly cut and bruised. comalee, Ceylon, where the crews will exchange Latest news by the Tsinan to-day is to the the Edgar taking the hamoward bound men and effect that H.E, was recovering as rapidly as the Undaunted proceeding to the Far East, could be expected under the circumstances. | COMMANDER HASTINGS yesterday concluded the Bora the Field Battery and the Machine Gun enquiry into the death of a woman whose zampan Corps of the H.K.V. had their competitions to was run down on the 5th instant by the Danish day. The guns were placed on the Wong-nek steamer Freje. Averdict of death by drowning, chong Gap and firing was directed at targets was returned. The accident was due to the moored in Deep Water Bay. The weather was deceased having wrongfully navigated her bost, very unfavourable, but our "Very Own" acpanion scared the fellow and he made off, no THE band of the West York Regiment will play quitted themselves admirably. We hope shortly
the following programme at Murray Barracks to- morrow, at 12.30 p.m.
-Spring SendAKORRAKTIKAN D
...... Mendelssoha 1.-ong...... Te voice of the Father....Cowen -The Unftabbed Symphsey...... Schubert
(4) Allegro Moderatów(b) Andants can moto.
THE Municipal Commission of Calcutta being at oplakin that the virulence of the plague was very marked in undrained districts, somewhat lower in partially drained districts, and still lower in drained districts, has isized-instructions that work of completing the schme for drainage should be pushed on with the utmost vigour.
to give the foil results of the competilles.
MR. T. W. QUINCEY, the courteous and perse. reting van of Lospector Quincey, leave: Hongkong by the Empress of Japan on Wednesday next for Peking, where he will pursue his studies in sho' Mandalo dizlect. He has been for some
time past engaged in the office of the Registrar General here, and those who have watched his career predict considerable distinction for him In the faturo,
Ter IndianTMcrop"this"season promises to be bumper one unless injured by hall storms later c. Many cultivators will thus be enabled to tide over the trying time due to the partial MA. ERICH GEORG. Is bis Weekly Share Litt | filure of the food crops. The Government lasued 10-day writer:-WIE the exception of # | stocks of splum which have fallen very low in big business in Mining stocks the market har the last few years will now be raised in their | been rather quiet; and rates, with very few exceptions, show ' downward lendency. The disturbed state of pollifes at home, together with the declining exchange, are more or less ros- possible for this state of stairs.
normal level, though the supply of the sessened drug will be rather short aniil next year.--States-
max.
WI understand that the mobilization of the military forces of the colony is to take place on Taesday next: The 'naval mobilization har, we hear, been postponed sine die, so we are not | THE " Whitewash Brigade"
cleansing and limewashing operations in Bom-kely just at present to see the fast and furious Lord, they misht have been empty hags," "commerce destroyers" Wlvern and Twyęd | Judge: "Or they might have been wind baga!” careezing round the island at the alarming rate { This has no·local application ↑ of tally six knots per hour. What a rallaf i
bay numbers nearly 4,000 men.
PLANT for the production of electrolysed sen water is being erected at Carnac Pander, Bombay, and will be la operation, this month.
THE starting an Indian Faminu Fand in In the semi-final for the Football Shield Ceylon under official auspices has been delayed. Centurion beat the Royal Engineers at HappyIt is alleged that the Governor, on making Inquiries, found that, owing to scarcity of money and high exchange, it is now the worst time to appeal to the trading commaully at Colombo, It was represented that, perhaps, about two months kasca cirencastances might so improve ax to admit of the starting of a Ceylon Famine Fund-Stratts Times.
Valley this afternoon by 4 goals to 1. No less than ninety fees for the Oxford Local and Preliminary Exams were forwarded to headquarters by the last English mall.
THE population of New South Wales is now estimated to be 1,297,840, skewing an increase | of nearly 20,000 during the past year,
A DINERIL mesting of shareholders in the Hongkong Rope Manufacturing Company will be held at noon on Monday, the rɩth inst, SEVERAL ginning factories are lying idle in Kathiawai (India) owing to there being no demand för ibelt manufactures at Bombiy, No clue has been found, which in likely to lead to the recovery of the"£5,000 worth of gold stolen from the steamship Osana at Melbourne the
other day.
We note that the North Borneo Tarf Clab pro- poses holding its annual Race Meeting at San. dakan on 6th July next. Entries close on sand June. The programme gives a list of seven events, the races being from one-half to three. atera of a mile in length. The weights appear to be rather high; viz., 12 stone for a 13-hand pony; but this is probably owing to the almost entire absence of light-weight riders in the sister colony,
with him. Her screams and those of her com
officer appearing during the incident. It appears
to us that it would not be too great a strafo on the police force if mounted constables were told off la patrol, this and similar localities, and if delectives were "planted" there from time to
time.
Ar the Police Court today four seamen named Heary Eccles were charged by Jospector Stanton Oscar Hinfeldt, Carl Buyan, Charles Moore and
with being armed with dangerous weapons and with intent to commit a felony. They pleaded not gullty, apon which Inspector Stanton sald that on the rath-instant about 3 pm-ko went to:- the first floor of No. 39 Fletcher Street accom panied by Inspector Quincey, Sergeant Holt and three constables. He saw the second and fourth defendant on the first four. The police walled till 3.30 p.m. when the first and third defendants arrived. `Mrs. Goulburn handed some of her boxesto Holt. In one was found the revolves and kalle produced and five rounds of ammunition. Mrs. Goulburs pointed out the second inan as the owner of the knife and the first as the owner of Duama the hearing of a recent case in the the revolver. On being searched at the Central Queen's Bench Division before Mr. Justice Day Station another revolver cartridge of the same the following dialogde took place:-Counsel (at calibre as the others was found on the third the end of a long sprech) : "Then, my Lord, | defendant, who stated that he had picked it up. comes the question of bigt; they might hava | Mw. Goulburn sald that on the 11th Infant been full bags, or half full-bags, or again, my two of the defendants came to kei house. They left and came back on the 12th with thres other men, amongst them the third and fourth defendants. The fifth man who was called "Chips" said he had a box of silk worth £too. EXPERIMENTS on the Nægpue (India) form show || and a compass worth £8. It was proposed to that the quality of Catro cotton imported, was being ashore the goods to her house and sak excellent and gato a yield of double the value of her to dispose of them. The first defend. the ordinary local varieties. So successfs! was at then produced the revolver and asked the Egyptian staple that large demands will be her to keep it, saying that, if anyone troubled made on it with the view to more general him he would use It When he took it out of utilisation in India. Good! But why not give the his pocket It was loaded. Then the second de Bomeo cotton seed a trial, slace Borneo cotton (endant gave her the knife which he called “g, is reported to be of excellent quality ?
butcher's knila" and she was then told to keep them till they went on board, when they would be wanted. After 'haurlag farther evidenca Capt. Hastings inflicted a fine of $100 with the alternative of 3 months hard labour on the first and second defendants, and the third und fourth defendants were ordered to be bound over in the sum of $100 to be el good behaviour for six months or in defanit six weeks' inprison- ment, After the sentence was pressed the first and second defendant in a defiant tono žaid that they would appeal to the. American Consul, This imitated His Worship, who at once ordered the men to be removed:1, 17.
We hear that in response to an invitation from the Imperial Government a Company of the Hongkong Regiment and at least half a Company of the Chinese Submarine Miners will be despatch to the sold countrie to take part in the celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jublics. There has been some talk of tending
some of the Volunteers with the regular, but it seems that no decision has yet been arrived at.
Morr people believe that Bombay has to contand with the plagun aloni, and that the famine is confined to other parts of India. Both plague We have received from Messrs Watkins & Co, and famine are ravaging the Western City, and "The agents for the sale of it, a sample of Malt it is high time that strenuous efforts be made to THE sellel crews for H.M.S. Centurion andxtract, prepared by Mess Schiits, the well-check both calamities, one being the outcome of or ships on this station reached Port Sald en known brewers of Milwankre. As a food and the other. The first appearance of the plague the 4th instant to the cruiser Endymion and tonic other similar preparations have made a name for themselves sa rapidly as was merlied, and no doubt Schlitz's preparation will hold its | own with any other brand. If this firma's Malt Extract is equal to its beer it will need very
Minerva,
GREAT damage was done by fire at the Fairfield Shipbuilding Company's yards, near Glasgow, on the gth slidmo, and 5,000 hands have thereby little recommendation, been temporarily thrown out of wark,
Exoters W. H. Pallet, who has been
should have warned the authorites of the approach and terrible effects of famine-Indian Enginuring.
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have been in conference at Hobart, have now returned to their respectiva colonias. They have decided that as the Australlan colonies are not yat federated they could not reply collectively to
THE Premiere në the Australian colonias, who
DEPARTURE OF E.E. WU TING FANG AND DR. HO BAI.
The leading members, of the Chinese com-
manly suited to-day is giving a very cordial send-off to their distinguished compatrioti, H.E. W= Ting Fang and the Hon, Dr. Ho Kak Both these gentlemen embarked on the mail steamer Grate to the forenoon, the former
bound for America and the latter for Peking, to all important positions under the Imperial
Chinese Government. No less than six launchan
champagne was handed round, at drinking to the health, long life, andi praejully of Hig Excelsucy sad the populat Cound) The Hon. J. H. Stewart Lambert and, Dr.
Wines of very superior Vintages. All arm In honour of her distinguished passengers, H.E. appolated to H.M.8. Tamar for the Hongkong Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's invitation to wiele | Werg chartered for the sectalon and as they left Wa Ting Fang and the Hoo.-Dr. Ha Kal, the Naval Yard, will take the place of Mr. Crowley, Landon next year on the occasion of the celebrs. Fodder's Wharf erschers gales were fired frees CLARET,-Our Clarets, including the lowest mall steamer Garlic flow the Chinese dragon who goes home on promotion to Chief Engineer. Hon of the slateth rear of the Quran reign, them all. Os reaching the Grom the DARY
Priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine flag at her mafotrack as she lift the harbour | Enginner J. F. A. Hastings jolas the Tamar and answeta were therefoenmada by Back adjourned to the saloon and a pacing, giusy. of. product of the juice of the grape and are not to-day.
from the Naval Yard, superseding Mr. Frowd, separately. artificially made from rateins and currants, It is rumoured that the Japanese Government whose period of service on this station has as is generally the case with Cheap Wines have purchased the. Hou, E. R. Belllios' yacht BRANDY-All our Brandy is guaranteed to be Rigackers to replace the little Formosa revenue pare COOMAC, the difference in price being craser recently wrecked off the east cost of
the "Beautiful Isle." merely a question of age and vintage, WHISKEY.-All our Whiskey is of excellent | A COMMANDING Officers' Parade of the Volan-Corneville,"
quality and of greater age than most brands | teers will, be held on the 20th Inst. se s ls the market. The SCOTCH WHIKEY preliminary instruction for the forthcoming marked "E" is universally popular, and la annual Inspection. Members sve particularly pronounced by the best local connólaseurs requested to attend. to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market.
expired. As Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong Ar the recent Australian Premiers! Conference Smoking Club, Mr. Frowd has done valuables Hobart the refund of South Australls to service and he was a hard-working member of contribute towards the cost of a fort at Thurs the A.D.C., ons of bis most successful roles | day Island, on the granad that such fort was of being that of Gaspard in "Les Cloches de little value to long ka the shore and of the cables at Part Darwin was left unprotected, was referred to, and it was decided to communicate with the MR. HUNTER, local'agent of the Equstable Life Imperial and Colonial Defence Committee as to Insurance Company, while croleing in the the precise nature of the defence to be instituted harbour la a simpan yesterday was run down in connection with the important cable station by a steams launch. The Impact of the launch as Port Darwin, The Queensland Rife. Association has decided" | "caused the occupants of the sumpan to fali fato to raise a fund for the purpose of sending a team the water, and Mr. Hunter, who is a good The directors of Messrs. Baring Brothers and
Thomson were
launches left, and among
to the Gaulle were the Fox, Ho Fuk, Fong Ah Shin S Tung Shang, Lias Ter Sams Colonel Wong, Inspector Kwa Yt, Lul Chi Ting, Lm Lang, Tam Kong, Cho Sin Wan, and other representales Chinese and also a number of students from the Alica”) Memorial Hospital. The friends of the departing gentlemen made their adlewa, in the saloon and⠀ as the faunches left the steamer's side thousanda
to Bisley ihla ymr to take part in the calsbes- | swimmer, not only saved his own lle by swim-Co. announce that the net profit for 1896, We only guarantee our WINKS and SPIRITS tion of the Queen's long reign-What Is Hoog, ing ashore, but also that of the sampan owner, including the balance brought forward from of crackers was again fired, some in baskets a woman. Mr. Hunter is evidently "the right 1895, amounts to £110,645, Of this summ they over the sterns of the lamsches nad others la to be genuine when bought direct from us in the | kong deleg ? Very little, it is to be feared. Colony or from our suborized Agents at the
man in the right place" as agent for an equitable propose to distribute £100,000, which, after long striaga suspended from po
spoles and boat. - Coast Porta
News has reached Sydney of the treacherous Life Insurance company, and it is to be hoped | meeting the dividends on the £1,000,000 of books, the latter giving quite = preotechnical?- morder, by Solomon Island nattres, of another; that kis gallant conduct will be recognised in a | First and Second Preferences, leaves £45,000, | chromalle scale. With HE Wa Ting Fang la well-known - trader › named Captain (Gibblogs suitable manner. Query! Was the coxwain | er 180 per cent, for the £25,000 of Ordinary ❘ a staff of clerks and attachda numbering about A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. The murder was committed while the-Captain's) of the launch duly certificated, and ware kis, shares. In 1895 £95,000 was distributed, and forty, The Telegraph cordially wishes tha. "THE" HONGKONG DISPENSARY. boat was lying off an faland trading wiik thu ayam wide open a minute or two balioes the 47,690 expiled forward. Na addiilon le made | distingulabed passengers dan voyage and every
16 natives,
so the reserve, which minnda sa 100 pack euocess in thalt sew and important duties, Köngkang, 15ű September, 1896.
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