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To-day's Advertisements.

THEATRE

CITY HALL

ROYAL

Vader the direction of Mr. Robert Brossa. Representative-Mг. HAMILTON.

THIS EVENING. (SATURDAY), the 5th March, 1895,

BROUGH

Commencing at 9PM.

THE OMEDY

COMPANY.

POSITIVELY LAST NIGHT

or

"SOWING THE WIND,"

"SOWING THE WIND,"

"SOWING THE WIND,"

BY SYDNEY GRUNDY,

MONDAY and TUESDAY, 7th and 8th March.

THE AMAZONS,"

"THE AMAZONS,"

"THE AMAZONS,"

A FARCICAL ROMANCE BY A. W. PIMERO.

WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY,

gth and roth March,

"A VILLAGE PRIEST,"

*A VILLAGE PRIEST,"

*A VILLAGE PRIEST,"

HY SYDNEY GRUNDY,

PRICES OF ADMISSION.

DAISS CIRCLE and ORCHESTRA STALLS $1 STALLS*****

FIT

Soldiers and Sullam in Uniform Hell Price to the Pil only.

Doors open B.YS P.M. Cartain 9 F.. Box Plan now open at the ROBINSON Piano Co. Warehouse.

A Late Trats for the Peak will leave each evening Gsteen minutes after the fall of the Curtain,

Hongkong, 5th March, 1893.

NOTICE.

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A LADY of car alderable experience withes

to obtain DANCING PUPILS. terms and full particolars aðdren. ·

DANCING,

For

c/o Hongkong Telegraph Ofies. Hongkong, 5th March, 1548

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED,

FOR KODE.

THE

" TAIYUAN,"

*HE Company's Steamship

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898.

Co-day's Advertisements.

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED..

FOR MANILA (DIRECT), THE Company's Steamship

"YUENSANG,"

Captain J. Kynoch, will be despatched sa above en WEDNESDAY, the oth lostant, at Noon.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation lor First-class Passengers.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers.

Hongkong, 5th March, 1898,

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

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FOR CHEFOO AND NEWCHWANG,

"HE Company's Steamship

THE

"TAMSU},"

Captain Moore, will be despatched as abava on WEDNESDAY, the 9th instant, at a 1,36,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

Hongkong. 5th March, 1-8

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR TIENTSIN.

THE Company's Steamship

THE

"NANCHANG,"

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Captain Finlayson, will be despatched as above on FRIDAY, the fith lostant, at 3 PM..

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRL

Ageals.

Hongkong, 5th March, 1898.

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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,

STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT,' MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON,

Intimations.

COMPANY,

VICTORIA DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG.

the

and in order, according to establish. [ to Peking Tis 1,000,000 from the revenue ed Chinese usage. The Japanese who from Lekin. He has great difficulty in so DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & affared were fighting men, knowing doing and has therefore lovited the wealthy what they were facing; and it is an

merchants of Canton to advance Injustice to put the two in one category. Anyhow, the British did not profess much money, as a Loan at 7 per cent for five humanit fifty years ago, and Japan aspires years. This is only rumour; but it is to be as civilised as we are now, and ascertain that efforts are being made to raise we were of old, They honestly do their best and deserve credit for the degree of success they obtain; but that is no reason for persistently denying their occasional lapses. It requires a lot of schooling to eliminate the brutality of human nature in any race; the Japanese bave not yet bad us much schooling as they need.

AERATED WATERS.

'IMPLE AERATED WATER,

SIM

SODA

'ODA WATIR.

INGER ALE

EMONADE.

L

SARSAPARILLA

RASPBERRYADE, &C.

DAKIN, CRITICKSHANK & Co.'s WATER a made under the constant supervision of a duly qualified English Chemist and will bear compa

rison with the best English Manufactures.

Special terms to HOTELE, CLUBS, MESIes and other Large Consumers. Any complatais should be addressed is the Hanager

Hongkong, xut March, 1897,

CAR

ARBOLINEUM AVKNARIUS

USED FOR OVER 20 YEARS. Wun the Dimost Success.

All this, however, is no reason why Japanese and British troops and squadrons should not fight side by side if war breaks out. The mere consciousness of being with the British in action would be a restraining influence if any were needed. Certainly the Japanese, (even granting that they are not Christians and are not long freed from traditions of savagery In war, are as civilised as our Gurkhas and Pathans.

A more potent argument against any specific alilance is the fact [30 that the Japanese are too prone to be

lleve in themselves, and will not make good allies because their idea of co- operating with foreigners in any under- taking consists mainly of expecting the foreigners to play second fiddle. If two armles or two feets are to co-operate, there must be one leader, loyally and absolutely obeyed without question; and that is where an Anglo-Japanese force would perhaps not be a success.

Thoroughly reliable preservative_for_Wood and Stone against White Ants, Decay, Funges Rot and Dampness.

Sole Agents for China, LÜTGENS, EINSTMANŃ & Co. Hangkong, with September, 1896.

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A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

|

Some people in Hongkong are getting terribly exclted over the question of & Post Office site. We have been several times asked why we do not contribute our share

money in the Viceroy's Yamen.

REUTER'S MESSAGES.

GREAT BRITAIN AND TRE POWERS IN CHINA.

* London, March 3rd. The Standard mater that the Government is negotiating with Russia and Germany, with a view to the embodiment, in a formal diplomatic document to the character of an international agreement, of their assurances regarding Chios,

PARLIAMENT UGANDA.

In the House of Commons, in a debate on Uganda, Mr. Carin sald that it was proposed to maintain a baltallon of pco Soudaneze, a battalion of Swahilis, and 400 Indian troops at Ugands. He said further that a thorough enquiry would be made into the gilerances of the Soudanese, and that Major MarDonald was entirely blameless,

The Europeans are safo In this impregnable fort of Kampals.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THI buying rate for sovereigns is $10.73 per £. H.M.S. Centurion, the British flagship, arrived from the Chusans to-day and received the anual nally complement from the battery of the U.S. Aagship.

DIRECT cable commonication between Foochow and Formors is interrupted. Telegrams can be to the discussion now waging so fiercely.forwarded via Japsa to Formosa at the rate of It is because we have something better to do with our time and the space in our

WINES & SPIRITS.columns than to distress ourselves and

gr.30 per word,

TR caniata "Ruth" to have been performed at the Valon Church this evening, has, we are sorry to say, had to be postponed owing to the

less of several members of the chefr. As the result of a raid on a gambling school at 13 Aberdeen Street, last evening, Sergeant

lodged them in the cells. To-day the two piła. cipala were each fined $75 or two months and the others were fined $5 or fourteen days.,

IN Havana, Cuba, two physicians are said to have hit upon the happy idea of mằng mọs- qutions to asculte frank antrals in the city #gulnat yellow fever. The mosquitoes are first made to contaminate themselve by stinging a disossed perasa. The isocalation brings on a mild sitsck of the favor, but when that has passed away the patient enjoys immunity not only from the disease, but, what is even more curious, from the bites of the insects that have gared him.

The latest religious observance in America is the rite of the “ Holy Klar,” which in the doctriqs of the "Trus Bellevans", of Southern Kansko and Western Arkansas. It resembles a very generous form of "kias in the ring," and tha ceremony is performed when the "Faithful "are moved by the spirit. They stand la a chicle, then the next man to the woman, and so on each man klirën the woman on his right hand,

around the circle, until everybody bas received the "Holy Kiss."

Iris interesting to remember the different periods

*t which the Bible was translated into the

vernacular languages of different countries." Of the earliest editions (though not perhaps the earliest) we may regard the Spanish 1473; Gesman, 1ça; English, 1535; French, 15351 Rassiao, 1581; Hungarian, 1589, Polish, 15951 Danish, 1340; Swedlib, 1541; Datch, 1560;

Turkish, 1616; modern Greek, 1638; Ielib, 1685; Portuguese, 1768; Manx) 1771 ; Italian, 1776; Bengales, 1801; Tartar, 1814; Ferslam, 1815 › Chloese, 1810.

THE Pepe is one of the wealthiest men in the world. In his home, the Vatican, a palace which contains seven thousand roome, the

worth of gold of jects stored there is estimated at twenty mallions” of dollars by weight alone, and each plece has beau increased in valuo a quarter or a third by the skilled antisant through whose hands it has passed. These treasures are practically the personal estate of the Pope,

On the occasion of his Jubilee in 1888, Leo

|received énaugh gifts to ransom a kingdom, the offerings at the jubilee mass alone being some theo milline of dollars in gold.

ALL these are selected by our London House, bought direct at first hand, imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all intermediate profits, and enabling as to supp? in having every place so near. It is unique. Gidley raked in seventeen fantan players and selplats in their respective families. They

the best growths ■! MODERATE PRICES. PRICE LISTS, with Full Detalls, to be had on

Application.

THE Queen was the first to grant a bounty bo Parents blessed with the unexpected lacresse of

originsted early in the reign in a spontaneous singla act of sympathy, done without any thought of making a precedent. The young Queen, freshly touched by the cares of maternity,

our readers over such a trife, Hongkong is such a wonderfully compact place that no part of It is further than a stone's throw from any other part, and what difference would a few yards make? Hongkong residents forget how fortunate they are

No city in the world contains so much in such narrow space. Feople grow narrow-minded, apparently, on that (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PORT after removal should be reated a month account, and worry themselves woefully

before use. When required for drinking stover a distance no greater than the width A DUMB prlesnor who can't read or write is affected vary unsurally that in a poor famliy the ence it should be ordered to be decanted a ofa Tokyo street, « Spectator" and "Pro providing a delicate problem in law fos ona of sudden appearance of thies now mouths to feed Bono Publico" and Rust Coolum" he London courts. He can plead neither is a tenibly anxious affair, and did what the and all these painfully over-earnest gully nor not guilty, sad is unable to communi- reasonably could to show her sense of t wranglers, would learn to appreciate cato with his solicitos, which is one of his privi- | Granted, siner, whenever it was applied for, it Hongkong better if they would go and live loges. So the question is raised' whether a somewhere else. And if they lived else-

har cost her Majesty sôme £15,000, there being about a hundred applications every year. | ter.

PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and 'AMERICAN PORTS),

THE Steamship

"BENGAL"

Captain L M Wibmer, RH.R. carrying Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for

the Dispensary before being sent out. SHERRY-Excellent Diance and After Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are

true Xeres Wines.

Captain Nelson, will be despatched as above BOMBAY, &c., on SATURDAY, the 19th CLARET-O«z Clarets, including the lowest where, perhaps Hongkong would be bet. /pecial act of Parliament will be required:

on MONDAY, the 7th instant, at Daylight.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, 5th March, 1848.-

OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

FOR SHANGHAI VĨA AMOY.

THE Company's Steamship

"IXION,"

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Captain Hlab, will be despatched as above un MONDAY, the 7th instant, at Noon.

For Freight, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents

Hongkong, th!March,"108.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

LIMITED.

March, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the bora Ports.

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France and Ton for London (under arrangement) will be INEO "MERAlies and London.

Calamba inţa.

Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 P.M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required.

Shippers are particularly requested to nola the terms and conditions of the Company's Bilis of Lading.

For farther Particulars, apply to

H. A. RITCHIE,

Superintendent.

Hongkong, 5th March, 1898..

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FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL `HE Steamship

" URD,"

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI.

THE Company's Steamship

"FORMOSA,"

:

Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the Bibğrisstant, at Daylight,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co.

General Managers. Hongkong, 8th March, 1898,

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR NINGPO AND SHANGHAI, "HE Company's Steamship

THE

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"HUNAN," Captain Frexter, will be despatched as above * TUESDAY, the 8th instant, at Daylight..

For Freight or Pausage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents

Hongkong, th March, 1898

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW AND SHANGHAL.

"HE Company's Steamship

THE

"WOOSUNG,"

344

Captain Clege, wil be despatched as above

an TUESDAY, the 8th Instant, at 2. P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents.

Hongkong, 5th March, 1898,

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AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA.

TION COMPANY.

(ÜMDMR MAIL CONTRACT WITH THE AUSTRIAN

GOVERNMENT).

STEAM FOR

BINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY, KURRACHI, ADEN, MASSANA, SUEZ, PORT SAID, BRINDISIÍ, VENICE, FIUME, AND TRIESTE,

(Taking Cargo at through tatos to CALCUTTA, MÄDERE, PERSIAN GULF, FED SEA, BLACK- SHA, LETANT, ADRIATIC, and SOUTH AFRICAN PORTE)

THE Company's Steamship

MARIA VALERIE,"

►

*

priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine

THARE seems to be a regular boom in the product of the juice of the grape and sea

bicycle baslates just now and Queen's Road was not artläcially made from raisins and We are pleased to note from the Journaalry thronged with riders this afternoon, the www.turally in case with Cheap ff that our esteemed morning contem-majority of them being bluejackets and officers Wines.

Dorary is likely to be shortly under now and from the American warships. Our own fack BRANDY-Allour Brandy le guaranteed to || able management. This will all a long felt take veny kindly in the game alan and the nam. be pure Cognac, the difference la price want. The Journalist of January 29th says: ber of service people awheel (o-day wonid make belog merely a question of age and vintage," Mr. Jabez Poits, who has been sub-quite a respect, ble cyclists' brigade. WHISKY—All our Whisky is of excellent editor of the Rochdale Times for four

quality and of greater age than most brand,

years and is now about to sail for China MRS. W. Batin, A. Mann, G. Hennessey, In the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY

to take charge of the Hongkong Daily T. Foerd and D. Hall, who have retired from Frus, was the recipient of a presentation he Hongkong Police Force left for bone today from his colleagues on the Timer staff by the P, and O. llner Coromandel. They had on Saturday evening, at the Roebuck Hotel, Rochdale, In the presence of a

a very hearty send off from their comrades and clvillan blends and bag-pipes skirled them a numerous gathering of local journalists.” farewell from the Market Whirl. The Chinese testified their good will to the departing officers with a loud and long-sustained fring of crackers Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potis, in thele weekly share report, dated Hongkong, Friday, 4th March, say :-Tha market has been vay active, and stocks generally show an advance ́n the previous week's quotations. Hongkong and Shanghal Banks experienced a very sharp rise and up to 194 per cent premium wis pald

marked "E" is universally popular, and is pronounced by the best local connoisseur to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market,

We only guarantes our Winer and Spirite to

be genuine when bought direct from us in the TELEGRAMS.

Colony or from our authorised Agents at the

Captain P. Hansen will be despatched as above Coast Ports, on or about the 15th April,

4.

To be followed by the - 5.S. "QUEEN MARGARET," on or about 15th A. S. WATSON & CO., LD,

May, 1898. S.S.ST, NINIAN," on or ahoni roth Jude,

1898.

5.9. "CRAIGEARN,"on crabut 30 June, 1898.

For Freight, &c. suply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co. Agents. Hongkong, 5th March, 1868.

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNERS.

THE P. & O. 5. N. Co.'s Steamship

"SUNDA,"

FROM ANTWERP-LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ AND STRAITS.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named ressol era hæaby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their rish in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Bowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the

Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo - From Italy, 5.5. Sutlej,

From Madras, ex S.S. Lalporra. Optional goods will be landed here unless lastractions are given to the contrary before 4 2.M. TO-DAY.

Goods not cleared by the 13th March at 4 F,M. will be subject to rent.

Any case whatever.

TAI HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hongkong, 8th December, 1897.

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("HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" SPECIAL) THE CHINA LOAN.

TINTAIN, March 4th. The loan by the H.&S; and German banks is an accomplished fact. The British

The Hongkong Celegraph Minister has obtained a pledge that for bares; basinets har sfoor heen done at 191

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1898.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

There has been considerable discussion arising out of the natural tendency towards an Anglo-Japanese alliance. There is an unwritten aillance; perhaps unspoken, perhaps there has been no wc d of II, but it exists all the came, just as there is no such document as the Bridth constitution, yet, the thing which exista in the abstract and has no feasible, tangible embodiment is one of greatest things in the world. So the Anglo-Japanese alliance may never be written nor even hinted at by states. men in authority but it exists from force

of circumstances.

Yochow (at the entrance to the Tungting Lake) shall be made an open port in two years, and that the waterways shall be opened to trade in June next. The In- tegrity of the Yangtse is assured. This I am satisfied is absolutely true.

DISRUPTION OF CHINA.

THE BROUGH COMEDY CO.

kang reason isg: night with Sydney Grundy's The Brough Comedy Co. opened theft Horg famous four act play "Sowing the Wind" and were received by an enthusiastic and capitally filled house.

The merits of the Company having been freely discussed before their arrival, the audience was all keenness for the curtain to go up; pourib's this secounts for the notre and impatience dis the commencement of the opening act. played while waliing, which rather marred

The management is to be congratulated on having auch an array of talent, on the nisglag and on she general arrangementa for ibe comfort

their patrons.

of

and on making enquiries for the reasons annexed Tte Rafreshment Bar has been done away with we find that the managers object on the score of noises likely to disturb the effect of the fer portions el playalikely to be given, Wewould strongly draw the attention of the management to a matter for the comfort of the audience. Smoking in the pit has lately being growing an Institution and nothing baving been quila done by previous companies to stop it the result is everyone seems to think he has a right to do so,

Last night this as painfully evident and the audience in the dress circle w ra gating the full benefit of a mixture of pipe, cigas, and cigaret a perfome, Maliers were so unpleasant that one of the audience attempted to make a protest but without avall, Cions after cloud amse until there was quite a haze during the 3rd and 4th scis

out premium and sellors at 19a per cept for the settlement and the market closes with bayars for cash at 191 per cent premium and sellers at 191 per cent, premium, China Sugars have been done at $175. We hear that the Company will pay a final

We would advise the manager to take strong dividend of $10 per share, making $14 for menswes against such a matter or make up his the year, place ¿140,000 to equafination of mind set e cater for the Circle patrons, dividend fand, write off $75,000, and carry lends itself to a talented Company such as the “Somingthe wind" is a pity which particularly CENTRAL PROVINCES SECEDING. bout $30,000 forward. Lass have been sold Breagh and is full of dramatic tableaux. at $41 and are still oblałamble. Pasjoms have] Ap, Ixusa rang throughout the house time after THE EMPEROR DEFIED. changed hands at · rates between $625 and | time and the principal actors bad always to

$6,50 and at better than equivalent rates on

respond after the curtain dropped. HUNAN TAKING THE LEAD.

time." The Freference skates have been done widower with a past which reaps a whiilwind Mr. Brabaron (Mr. Brough) Is a genly old SHANGHAI, March 5th.

at $1.90. Charbonnages have been sold at and on this abjec (cat an uncommon one on information from high oficial sources,

The Mercury itates that it has received Brço, and are now obtainable at $147) Now the stage) hangs he nxirative.

Balmorals have been booked at $1.50 and $1.50 of Mr Brabazon falls in love with Rosamond Ned Annesley (Mr. Pimms) the adopted son revealing a plot among provincial rulers for the Ordinary and Preference respectively, (Mrs. Brough) and in spite of all reports as in to throw off the Manchu yoke, and set up and more are obtainable at same xxtes. Raubs | her character and in oppastilos to his guardian an independent government: Two vice have experienced a' sharp rise, and sizes have persists in declaring his love for her. Mr. Wats From this fact has arisen a discussion on roys, namely the one at Nanking (Anhule bear that the result of the clean up for from bir early infatuation undertakes to periosta. changed hands at ra'es between $231 and $101 himself up in Brabazon'sently life and savai him klas (** Metatyrs) who had already mixed the fitness of the Japanese to be classed and Kiangsu) and the one at Wuchang January and February is 2,000 ounces of gold, the tense service for the adopted son. as a civilised race. There are people who consider it would be a disgrace to a (Hunan and Hupeh) together with the Ollvers are a shade assler and are obtainable at Needless to say be only ceeds in making. No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in Christian nation to be allled with Japan governor of Hunan province, have entered $7. A telegram from the Mine states that a great Lavor and starly falls in his mission. because, as they believe, the Japanese are into a secret.compact to direct the cribing of 350 tons from Koraka visided 136 various positions during the rat and and acts There Is a very fas di:play of talent fa' the All damaged Packages must be left in the savages and heathens. This has been affairs of the entire Yangtse Valley, ounces of go'd. Great Tarteras, Bif pald up, and the Company play well up to eachother, but Godowns and a certificate of the damage chiefly caused by the sensation arising out with headquarters at Nanking. They have been told at $1. Hongkong and Whampas possibly the most latching patter abtained from the Godown Company within ten of the Port Arthur atrocities. The Japan so Claims will be recognised.

of his early life Here his declimatory power were attacked at Port Arthur, but as a ders from the Emperor, and will not have been effected at rates between 231 and 236 is taxed and he showed remarks ble skill matter of fact some women and children allow the Emperor any voice in the per cent premium, and are now wanted at 237 Again when later he finds Reismand to be [I-W 3

were killed and it la incorrect to contradict affairs of government of the central and have been negotiated as $58. Hongkong Landard Mr. Brough shows again the folshed actor. per cent premium. Kowloon What shares his daughter excitement tires to great pitch this. To say that Port Arthur was no worse, western provinces of China. This practic- Investment shares are x shade firmer, and bare and combleed with bar talent she succeeds in than Badajos, to say the Japanese

Mr, Brough has a remarkably strong voice are about a century behind the times ally means cutting the empire in two, bean fixed at $74 and $741 Hongkong Hotels throwing such lits into her part that the audience In humanity. To draw a parallel with leaving the northern and the maritime are slightly firmer and have been done at $50 is kept spellbound whenever she is on the stage, scenes In the fadan mutiny is a gross provinces for the present dynasty, while and $51. Humphrey's Estate have been sold Mr. Filmmer acts wel up to her and never thousand-fold worse than in Llaotung. the Council of Three make themselves North or Tis, 11. Men hear Man Watt Tinder although having a small In India, a subject race of apparently responsible for all the Yangtes provinces. bought from the North at Tis, 113. Hongkong part, that of the Irish serraut, makes a great deal faithful servants suddenly and treacher-This is believed to be on account of the Cottons are offering at $15, Ewos have changed of it and we have no doubt will be a favomita la ously massacred ladies and Infants in granting of the Ukin revenue to foreigners hands in small lois at Tis, 98 and Tis, too. better parts belare the filth of the season. horrible fashion and on a wholesale scale. as security for the loan.

Green Islands have been been done to a con

Thy giddy" young thing is taken by Mias Hardy and siderable extent at $30 and $15 for the Old and | for this place is supplied by her in conjunction whatever of the comedy là claimed In Llantung, a few acknowledged sples, lavading a foreign land in war iime, were ANOTHER CHINESE LOAN.

New respectively, A. 8. Watsons have been with Sir Richard Cartier (bir, Shine). caught and were only lylled according to

sold at $15, Roger have been sold at $175 and Wesgala congratulais ibe management and the known and time-honoured customs of

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]

8174). Fonwicks am frm at 819 ax the divid. | frost inst inele efforts will be crowned with the the country, the law of the empire in fact

CANTON, March 5th,

end of $3 paid on the rat festant, Lou are a monetary success they deserve. We anticipate and a few soldiers other than sples ware

The Central Government has instructed quired for al $107, and Tramways si: ŠIOS, recommend the company to our Hongkong good houses whenevar they appear and strongly {rygt, similarly ́trasted—ull-quita properly the Viceroy of the Liang Kwang in remit | Electrica kaya kaen placed at 99) nud $91.

| days after the Vrusel's arrival here, after whick | Mali, however, denies that Chinese women are to govern irrespective of any or. Docks have been*fa's'rang demand, and sales. Brabasen And he has a daughter, the offspring :

H. A, RITCHIE,

Superintendant, Hongkong, 5th March, 1898

NOW READY |-

IN HANDY PAMPHLET FORM.

A FULL, CAREFULLY REVISED and

accurate account of the INTERPORT CRICKET MATCHES

With a Critique on the Week's play, the Captain R. Mitts, will be despatched as above stivities connected with the Carnival and the

SATURDAY, the 17th instant, A.M. Cargo will not be received on board after 3 WM, prior to date of sailing, S

For further informixtion as to Paisage and

·Freight, apply to

SANDER & CO..

Hongkong, jth March, 1898.

Agents,

bating and fieldtog of the various teamãe!

PRICE, 50 CENTI PER COPY. Orders will be promptly attended to by th

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