To-day's Advertisements.
ZETLAND
No. 535, E.C.
LODGE,
REGULAR MEETING of the above.
A LODGE will be held in the FREEMA
SONS HALL, Zetland Street, TO-MORROW, the 1st March, at 8:30 for 9 pm. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend.. fa88a Hongkong, 28th February, 1899. CHINA SUGAR REFINARY COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE.
HE TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the OFFICES of the General Agents, Peddar Street, at Noon, on THURSDAY, the 23rd March, for the purpose of receiving their Re- port and a Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1898,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to 3ard March, both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents.
Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
LIMITED.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1899.
To-day's Advertisements.
BIJOU THEATRE. "
RECLAMATION GROUND, WEST POINT. -
TO-NIGHT, THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. TO-NIGHT, .
Santiago by Night. TO-NIGHT,
The Bombardment of the Spanish Forts, TO-NIGHT,
The Sinking of the Merrime.
TO-NIGHT,
Lieut. Hobson's Escape... TO-NIGHT,
The Meeting of the Rival Squadrons. TONIGHT,
The Destruction of the Spanish Fleet off
Santiago Harbour./
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ARIONETTES. D'ARC'S M Hongkong, 28th February, 1899!
LUZON SUGAR REFINING COMPANY,
ΝΟΤΙΟΣ.
HE SEVENTEENTH ORDINARY
TANNUAL MEETING of the SHARE- HOLDERS of the Company will be held at the OFFICES of the General Agents, Feddar Street, at 12.30 PM, on THURSDAY, the 23rd March, for the purpose of receiving their Report and a Statement, of Accounts to 31st December, 1898.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to 23rd March, both day's inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Agents, Hongkong, 8th February, 1899.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW
HE Company's Steamship
THALES,
THE
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 2nd March, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LA PRAIK & Co., General Managers.
Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
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FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA..
THE Steamship
"LRITNING," Captain J. G. Spence, will be despatched for the
To be 'Sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
at KOPE
on the
4th March.
'HE P. & O. S. N. Co's S.S.
THE
"BRINDISI "
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as she now lies in Nagasaki Harbour. Built in 1880 by WM. "DOXFORD & SONS. at Sunderland.
Entimation.
LIMITED.
IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS
SHERRIES.
B-SUPERIOR.
Par do. Cast
PALE
be defined. Another question will be necessary before the public are any nearer the truth.
We are pleased to hear that no hitch has occurred in the negotiations to cause the A. S. WATSON & Co., delay, and, such being the case we should like to know when the delay will come to an end. The territory, we are told is to be a part of the Colony, but the details of the administration and estimate of its cost have not been finally settled" and "is net yet complete," respectively, What does this mean? Are we to understand that the officials are at the present time actively engaged on these points ar that the matter has been shelved? The reply to the question as to Chinese jurisdiction in Kowloon City is equally unsatisfactory. We are told that the matter has been settled but are left utterly in the clark as to the manner of such settlement; we do not know whether Kowloon City is to be, under British administration or whether it is to be allowed to drag on a miserable existance as a place of refuge for characters generally and a breeding ground for all the diseases to which the Far East is heir
.$10.80
DRY, dinner wine, Green teal Capsule...... C-MANZANILLA, PALE
NATURAL SHERRY.. White Capsule..
CC-SUPERIOR
· OLD
DRY PALE NATUR:
AL SHERRY, Red Seal
12.00
Capsule..
........................................................ 12.00 D-VERY
SUPERIOR
OLD PALE DRY, choice old wine. White Seal Capsule......... 14.40 E-EXTRA SÚPERIOR
criminals and bad
prosecution of M.:Déroulede and Mi Habert The Director of Public Works--Je is intend- for inciting the troops to mutiny, "Both avowed to erect a bungalow with four rooms for the accorimodation of some of His Excellency's: that their object was to overthrow the parlia staff. There will be brick pillars and a tiled mentary Republic. All
roof. The understanding is that at the ter mination of the lease it can be removed and the materials sold unless the proprietor of The Cliffs wishes to take it over at a valuation,
The Hon E. R. Belillos May ask what is the present rent of The Clife."
THE MISSING LINER
BULGARIA”
The missing Humburg liner Bulgaria has arrived at the Azores.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Colonial Secretary-I have not got as copy of last year's estimates by me, but spenk The Observatory report says On the 28thing from memory I think $2,700 a year. But at 11.50a.m. The barometer is rising on the E. I will get a copy of the estimates const of China, the depression having passed The Hon. R. Bellios-If I remember to the Eastward moving towards Japan. rightly the old, rent of the house was sonte Gradients slight but increasing with the monthing like 32000 a year. soon freshening on the China coast. Forecast:
fresh N.E. winds ; cloudy, misty,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
On Saturday afternoon in the third round for tlie shick! the R.E. will play the Hongkong Football Club. Kick-off at half-past four.
THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended 26th February, are:-Europeans 132, Chinese 3,639; total 3.771
THE Drums, and R. W. Fusiliers will play the 25th R. E. a football match on the Garrison Ground, Happy Valley, on Wednesday, 1st
དམ་ཅན་
་་
March, Kick-off át 4 p.m. FROM a private but reliable source the Shang- at Daily Press learns that the President of the United States has applied to the Britishi and Indian Governments for permission to enlista
The Colonial Secretary-You wish to know the old rent as well as the present ?
The flon. E. R. Belilios-1 hear that the old- rent was $5,000 per annum and the Govem ment leased "The Cliffs" for $2,700 a year understand thint for the astra rent the pro- prietor promised to extend the building And adapt it to the Governor's wants.
I
The Colonial Secretary-I do not know. where you dorive your information from, but. you are labouring under an entire misappre hension, would be interesting to know where you got your information from.
The Hot. E. R. Relilios The last tenant would be able to tell us what he paid.
The Colonial Secretary1 do not see how ment of the present tenant. I think the ques- the question of the last tenant affects the agree tion you asked was, what is the present rent? I see that according to the estiniates it is $2,600 a year.
The Hon. E. R. Belilios-I do not believe in putting up a temporary building. In the esti mates something like $40,000 was provided for a house at the Peak for the Governor. Is the erection of that house to be indefinately, post- poned?
The Customs stations are to be removed. from the harbour and new territory, so the Colonial Secretary assures us, and this is prac tically the only grain of information elicited by the long and interesting list of questions put by Mr. Bros. To have the blockade of the Customs in some measure removed OLD PALE DRY, very
cannot but be looked upon as a decided ad finest quality, Mack Seal
vantage and the public will hail it as such when it comes to pass. Taken as a whole, Capsule & fild Bottled)... 20.40 the replies to Mt. Tanos questions for B, C, and (Care excellent dinner city remind one of the account given by CHARLES DICKENS of the proceedings of Length 360 feet, Breadth 40 feet, Deptli 31 Wines, and suitable for invalids and the Craniotition fee. The whole alat Grass tonnage 3,688 tuns. Effective Power | delicate stomachs. and Eare after partook of the nature of a game of “subjett | 19th instant to Sinza, to an alley called Fuhai considers that the expenditure is wanted. L
and object with the disadvantage that Mr. dinner Wines of a very superior Bros, the interlocutor, was confined to a single question. We should like to see All are true Xeres Wines. vintage.
the Honourable gentlemen follow up his Sample bottles and smaller quanti-stions with another series. it, as the meets hut once a fortnight, we fear Private offers for the purchase of the vessel ties will be supplied at proportionate that, another generation will have come and
go before the end is reached.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,
fect.
of Engines 2.800.
Capacity of holds 4.550 tons of 40 cubic feet. The Engines are in excellent preservation and the vessel, with some repairs, could be put in thorough sea-geing condition,, or she could be converted into an Admirable Hulk or Receiving Ship.
will be entertained in the meantime.
For Further Particulars, apply to
H.A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
THE
wholesale rates.
We only guarantee our Wines and [2118 Spirits to be genine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:
HE.&O. S. N. Co's Steamship
"CANTON FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, PORT SAID, SUEZ, AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being handed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown todowns at Kowloon, where cach
A. S. WATSON & Co., Limited, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. ESTABLISHED A.D), 1841,
MARRIAGES.
THE UNITED STATES AND THE PhiLIPINES
Lesnos, February 26th. Admiral Dewey asks for the immediate despatch of the Utleship Oregon to Manila, alleging political reasons. It is supposed at Washington that Admira Dewey apprehends foreign-intervention.
OBITUARY.
The death of Baron 7. de Reuterisannounced.
above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 7th March, at Coniping will be sorted out mark by mark by the Rev. F. Cobbold, M.A., Dr. J. BETT" Reuter Baron Paul Julius, we hern at Cassel
Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS, & Co., ..
Agents. Hongkong, 28th February, 1899. →
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CHINA. NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR TIENTSIN,
THE Company's Steamship
Trissagge, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
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CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE VIA MANILA. -
THE Company's Steamship
"TAIYUAN,"
Gaptain Nelson, will be despatched on WEDNESDAY, the 45th March, at Noon..
The attention of Passingers is directed to the Superior Accodigodation offered by this Steamer. The First class Salon is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures The Supply of Fresh Provisions during the entire voyage.
A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light. N.. Retaris Tickets issued by this Con- pany to and fro AUSTRALIA are available for return by the Steamers of the EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN S.S. Col and vice versa. For Freight or Passange, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,” Agents. Hongkong, 28th February, 1899. . (2843
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR MANILA:
THE Company's. Steamship .
.“ TAIYUAN,” Captain Nelson, will be despatched WEDNESDAY, the 15th March, at Noon,
on
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer The First-class Saloon is situated forward of the Engines.:
A duly qualified Surgeon 15 carried and the Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light.
For Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents; Hongkong, 28th February, 1899, [28;4 EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE. - (Calling at Timon, PORT DARWIN & QUEENS LAND PORTS,and taking through Cargo to:
ADELAIDE, NEW ZEALAND, TASMANIA, &c.)
THE Steamship
"AIRLIE," Captain. Kock, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 16th March, at Daylight, This well-kumen Steamer is specially fitted for Passengers, and has a Refrigerating Cham- er which ensures the supply of Fresh Provi. sions, Ice, &c., throughout the voyage,
This Steamer is installed throughout with the Electric-light..
Surgeon
A Stewardness, and a duly qualified
Are carried.
NIB Retum-Ticketa-issued-by-this-Gom paný to and from AUSTRALIA are available for retum by the Steamers of the CHINA NAVIGA
TION COMPANY and vice versh,
**For Freight or Passage, apply to
GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO.,
Agents, Hongtong, 28th February 1899.!
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consignment
and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo:- From Italy, cu S.S. Valetky, From Calcutta, er S.S. Borneo, From Madras, ex 5.5. Lalpora. Optional goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contary before P.M. TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared banden dan uy the 10 All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob- tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised,
H. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM MIDDLESBORDUGI, ANTWERP, · SOUTHAMPTON AND SINGAPORE. THE Company's Steamship
1.
On the 28th instant, at St. John's Cathedrel, Government Medical Department, to A. E. PESHUDDOCKE, eldest daughter of J. H. Penruddoeke, Winkton, Hauls.
On the 3rd of February, at H.B.M's Cor- sulate, and afterwards at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai, by the Rev. H. C. Hodges, WILLIAM ESSINGTON KEST,, second son af Charles Kerit, Dorset, England, to foSERUINE MARIE SKINNEY ender of P. le At Shanghai, on the 22nd of February, at 6:30 Madame VICTORINE CHADANE BRUINE
-aged 30 years.
the beloved son of Francisco Xavier, and Aurea At Shanghai, on the 23rd of February, LUIZ, Sequeira, aged 7 months.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1899.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The report of yesterday's Council meeting was awaited by the public with considerable * KANAGAWA MARU axing arrived from the above Ports. Consignees interest on account of the series of eight are being landed and placed at their risk into the Kowloon frontier to be put by the Honour- of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, questions hearing upon the extension of the Hongkung and Kowloon Wharf and Gadownable E. R. BELHOS, C.M.G. The questions- Company's Godowns a Kowloon, where each were certainly most apposite and were of Consignment will be sorted out mark by mark general interest, for a feeling has been and delivery can be obtained as soon as the growing tip of late in the Colony that there
us are landed, Optional Goods will be lamted here unless was something behind the studied reticence instructions are given to the contrary, before of the Government with reference to all Noon, TO-DAY,
questions bearing in anyway upon the new. territory, and we regret to see that the answers of the Colonial Secretary to Mr. BELILIOS still leave us to a very great extent. in the dark and are not to be described either as full or explicit.
Goods not cleared by the 5th March, will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance has been effected. All ship-damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined or SATURDAY, the 4th March, and WEDNES DAY, the 8th March; both days, at to A.M.
All claims must reach us before the Bl March, or they will not be recognised.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 28th February, 1899.
Entimations.
To the first question,.."The Special Commissioner appointed to report on the newly-leased territory at the back of Kow- [2894 loon having duly made such repart-to-the-
HONGKONG AND Whampoa DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
Colonial Office, returned to Hongong, and resumed his duties as Colonial Secretary, will the Government lay on the table copy of his report and of all correspondence in connection with the extension of the Colony?," the reply that "they cannot be NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.”
Jaid on the table at present," is conclusive THE DIVIDEND af 8% per Share and in so much as it effectually prevents further BONUS of 8% per Share for, the aix enquiry, We should like to know what months ending 31st December, 1898, declared reasons can possibly exist for the report:
MONDAY'S ORDINARY YEARLY being withheld from the public. The mere MEETING, will be PAYABLE at the fact of its being so withheld gives ground for premises of the HoxOKONG AND SHANGHAI the assumption that the whole question of the BANKING CORPORATION, and after
.an TUESDAY, the 28th February, and Share. administration of the new territory is to be holders are requested to apply for DIVIDEND rushed through in an arbitrary mainer with WARRENTS at the COMPANY'S OFFICE, No, out the public being given a chance of-ex- 14 Praya Central
pressing approval or otherwise. There could be no objection to such a course being adopted with Wei-hai-wei, a purely haval station, but when a flourishing commercial centre like Hongkong is in question we do not think that such hole-and-corper methods are wise.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
THOS. I. ROSE, Secretary. Hongkong, 27th February, 1899.
{2781 HONGKONG RACES, 1899.
THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'S". ACCOUNT OF THE
will be produced in PAMPHLET FORM con 1889 RACE MEETING
faining PLACED and UNPLACED PONIES, JOCKEYS and OWNERS.
PRICE 50 CENTS.
The second question was, "Will the Go- how the new territory will be taken posses vernment be good enough to state when and sion of?" and the answer returned was to the effect that the territory would-be taken possession of as soon as the northern boun. dary has been defined. This is all very well so far as it goes but is decidedly of the order, The Manager,
"as big as a lump of chalk." It may mean HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Anything or nothing; for the Colonial
Pedderfa Hill Hongkong, 3rd February,
Only a limited Number will be printed. -Sond Orders carly to
Secretary studiously refrained from stat ing wiren or how the boundary in
large force of Sikhs and other Indian natives for service in the Phillippine Islands. Tum Shengko Bureau, which is under the management of a sub-prefect called Chang Mischiu, and which has hitherto been inside, the native city, at Shanghai was moved on the Li. The new quarters are not only larger than the old but also more convenient for the transaction of the business of the Bureau. Tite con of the late ex-General Yeh Chih- cħtao, of Yashan fame, whose demise in the prisons of the Board of Punishments at Peking was noted the other day, passed through Tien isin lately, en route overland for Anhui province, the native place of the deceased. Several sons and their wives and families, six concubines of the late ex-General, and some twenty to thirty Petainers of the Yeh family escorted the remains South C. D. Nères.
D'ARC MARIONETTES-A still drawing parked houses their representation of the His pano-American War is voted by all who have had the pleasure of seeing it, as the finest that Joey's mistake in taking Jerisalem the Phili. has ever been put before the Hongkong public. pino Donkey" for "Whiteiose" created great laughter among the audience. We are informed that the two performances on Saturday next will absolutely be the last given in this Colony, so that those who have not already availed themselves of a good evenings enjoyment had better do so before then, or else they will be
The Colonial Secretary-That I-cannot say. It is postponed at any rate for the present. :
The Hon E. R. Belillos-Surely it is not. wise to spend $3.500 on: property which does not belong to the Government? brought this before the Finance Committee and therefore bring the vote before the Committee. to-day to ask them whether they recommend it. l ́understand you are not in favour 2...
The Colonial Secretary-The Governor has.'
The Hon. E`R. Belilios-¡ ain not, The Colonial Secretary-Has any honoumble member any other question to ask in regard to. .it?
No other questions being asked the vote was agreed to, only the Hon. E. R. Belilios voting against.
This was all the business.
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COLLISION AT SHANGHAI,
A somewhat serious accident occurred in the river yesterday afternoon, says the Shanghat Daily Press of 24th instant, resulting in three steamers being telescoped. It seems that the Shell liner Cowrie was entering port on the loud tide, and had reached the "Deep Hole" to turn her The Liensing was lying minored, to a lun, but Jar when an attempt was
dine's Wharf, and two of thiẻ China Merchants, Tientsin vessels were inoored further out in the stream, while other craft took up the available space towards the Pootung shore. The Cowrie it appears, to avoid an obstruction somewhat. altered her course, but the tide was too much for her, and although everything was done ta averi a collision, she swung round and struck the Indo-China steamer Esang, which was: moared of the upper end of Jardine Mathe son's Wharf. The force of the blow Was suffi. cient to carry the Esang "on to the 6.s. Suizo Flying hard by,, and both these vessels were badly damaged, while the Cowrie herself camo on with very little injury.
Tur second round for the Hongkong Pootball Challenge Shield resulted as follows
11.M,S, Pictoriousbeat E. Company, R. W.
by 4 10 0,
s
H.M.S. Foneerful hear Kowloon by 3 to o
R. Cila 1 ia din Red Dent R. E. but D. Company, R. W. by 4 in o
EMS. Contacion by 4 to 0.
38th Company, Southern Division, R. A. bent'
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PARE'S BANK ROBBERY. Particulars of the sensational disappearance
in 18 He was connected with the electric telegraph system from its earliest establish- ment. The practical working of the tele graph in Bag between Aix-la-Chapelle and Berlin the first section opened so the public-sadly disappointed. convincing him that a new era in entrespop- dence had arisen and in the former town the established the first centre of an organisation for collecting and transmitting telegraphic pews. As the various telegraph lines were between Calais and Dover was
hau were made sul Mr. Reators, shu Hall Decoratie British subject, transferred his chief office to London. Previous to the opening of his office, the leading Landien papers had furnished the public with scanty and incom-
25th Company, Southern Division, RA, beutron Parr's Bank, in Bartholomew Close, B. Company, R. W. F. by 3 to 2. plete intelligence, which wa reproduced by.
Lothbury of banknotes worth upwards of the rest of the Press, and Mr. Reuter to remedy
Hongkong Football Club beat A. Company, 60,000, were an ath ulto, in the possession this defect, established agencies in all parts
R. W. F. by 3 10 0.
of the City Police. It appears that banknotes of of the world to supply, him with news, sines
G. Company, R. W. F. drew a bye.!
the value of £70,610 were on January 23rd, about 5 which time the British Press has contained Tue Royal Engineers Variety Club gave the
three o'clock, discovered to be missing from at drawer inside the paying counter, and quite. a daily record of the est important-erents second performance of their Variety entertain close to the seat usually occupied by the chief connected with politics. Fommerce, and science. The system which he adopted of
ment at their extemporised theatre, Wellington assistant cashier (Mr. H. Hall) had occasion to cashier of the Bank (Mr. S. P. Cartor.) An supplying all the papers indiscrimately with Barracks, last night to a crowded and enthusias the same intelligetice has greatly contributed the audience. The ducts sung by Mr. and Mrs. arily absent, and he then found that a large
go to the drawer while Mr. Carter was tempors: to the development of the penny Press. A Rouler were again highly appreciated as were similar organisation has been tanngurated by also the solas Mrs. Boulter gave, encores be
batch of notes had disappeared. When the Mr. Reuter in America, India, China, ing loudly called for; like the baby in Pear's once informed of the discovery. The draw itself chief cashier returned from his lunch he was at, Australia, and all the Continental States, pinures the audience would not be satisfied bore no marks of having been tampered with. was only by the united contribution of the several branches that the staff of correspon splendid form, giving a fine rendering of the ed his Intelligence to the Bank manager, unit they got it. Corp Simmers was in Withoutthe loss of a moment Mr. Carter convey. ents and expenses incident to the work
biss solo "The Mighty Deep" Our friend and immediate action was taken. Information. could be supported, the Press any single Compl. Ward greatly pleased the military with was laid at the headquarters of the City country being insuficient to render such in undertaking possible. During the Franco-introduced in his patter: Messrs. McConnell Detective Inspectors Sagar, Davidson, H. Co
his topical and service hits which he cleverly Police, and Superintendent MeWilliam, with Austriut war, and during the Civil War in and Wilmhurst deservedly gained great applause and Murphy, visited the bank, and commenced. America, Reuter was fortunate in being the first in their self-composed dugts on Military and thorough investigations with the assistance of to publish the important news thereby gain. Naval subjects. The farce Cool as the bank oficials. A list of the misalng hotes ing the confidence of the Nation and the Press Gucumber was exceedingly well received, was compiled, and showed that the value of - confidence which be has maintained by his there being mere life put into the minor parts, the stolen property was between £60,000 and constant activity. In 1865, Mr. Revter trans- the whole showing marked improvement on ferred his business to a Limited Liability Saturday's performance.
$10,000 Up to the present moment the police Company, of which he was the manager, and
have not only obtained an clue to the perpetra in the same year he obtained from the Han-
tors of the robbery, but apparently have failed overian Government a concession for the
to frame any plausible theory as to the way in construction of a submarine telegraph Bne
which the act of plunder was affected. : That -between England and Germany which en-
sixty thousand pounds worth of banknotes abled a through telegraphic communication
should have been abstracted from a drawer on At the meeting of the Finance Committee the inner side of a bank counter at three o'clock to be made direct between London and the held yesterday afternoon, the following discus in the afternoon, under the eyes of a whole, principal towns of Germany. Mr. Reutersion lank place - Also obtained a concession from the French
host of clerks and cashiers, yet without atjfact- The Chairman-I have only oná minnté to] Ing the notice of may, one seems almost to Government for the construction and laying lay before the Finance Committee to-day, and to stagger belief. Experts in the learning of of cable between France and the United that is one in which the Goremor recommends the subject are said to States, which was laid in 1869, and which is
regard it and the Council to vote a sum of $3,500 for the no wonder, as a theft which for worked in conjunction with the Anglo- erection of a temporary bungalow at The coolness and audacity has rarely been sur American Company. In 1871, the Duke of Cliffs." If any honourable member wishes for passed in the annals of crime." It cannot Cobourg Gotl, in recognition of his public any information with regard to this, the Hon. however, have many parallels in respect of services, conferred on him the title of Baron. Since 1878, the Baron has relinquished his
Director of Public Works will be-glad to give skilful and complete preparation and the it.
doubt is whether a deprecation which has been office of managing director of Reuters Tele
engineered in so masterly a fashion as this gram Company, but still retained a seat on
will ever be traced home to its authors. A new the Board of Directors. Baran Reuter has
and somewhat staitling turn was given during attracted the attention of the political world
the 26th inst, to the story of the mysterious owing to a concession granted to him in 1872, by the Shah of Persin, in virtue of
robbery at Pan's Bank The Bank of England on. E. R. Belles-i do no believe notes reported to be missing amounted in value. which he had the exclusive privelege of con- in extending old buildings, air, and I shall have to just over 160,000, of which more than half structing milways working mines and forests, to say something at the next Council meeting was in thousands, and n considerable number and making use of all, the other natural when the Governor is present as to the build-in notes of half that sum. By the second post resources of the country, besides farming the ing of a house for His Excellency," customs. This immense monopoly which Baron Reuter endeavoured to render sub- servient to British interests, without, how- over, excluding other nations, met with diff culties owing to certain intrigues, which diffi- culties he expected, to remove, as her Majesty's Government had interposed in his favour; but the concession was annulled in January, 1889, and he received instead the concession of the Imperial Bank of Persia, Men & Women of the Time
Later.
THE TRANSVAAL. The Boer policeman Jones, who was charged with shooting a Europçan in Johannesburg last December has been acquitted...
THE PLAGUE..
The plague has broken out at Jeddah, FRANCE. THE RECENT ARRESTS. M. Millevoye has been relansed but the Chantber his authorized imprisonment and
."
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THE GOVERNOR'E PEAK RESIDENCE.
The Hon. E. R. Belilius (standing)-I do not believe
The Chairman-Excuse me, we are in com mitten and it is not necessary for the hopour able ber to stand,
The
So the
being opened was found to contain all the thousand pounders and eight
The Chairman-I understand you are not in of the bank received a parcel
The Hon. E. R. Belilios I am those; for 500, Notitne svad lost ing
favour of recommending this vote?url
The Hon. T. H. Whitehend
Conveying, the welcome Intelligence to the Committee is entitled to some information in shareholders, who werd at that moment regard to the matter. There is a building at assembled a Cannon-street Hotel The efrculae "The Cliffe" alrendy. What is this bungalow?tion of the news caused a great deal of excite. What lease: have the Government taken of ment in City circles, and vanous conjectures "The Cliffs," and what arrangements have been were made as to the renspaa which had led to male with regard to taking over this bungalow this partial festitution. It bas, all-along been It is purely a matter of business, and I think recognised that thousand pound notes are the committee is entitled to some information ticklish things with which to deal, the cases on The Chairman have alrealypsinted that record in which stolen notes of this denomina; the honourable the Director of Public Works tion have been successfully passed bei A foase. has been taken of "The Cliffs for two lane there was inthe allem will be glad to give any information asked for few lanumber Atthe head office in Bartholin years, and the understanding is that the Govern son of cheerfulness. Ever mont has authority to remove any temporary reported to be missing, the structure they may put up at the termination of cashiers and clerks engage the lease. The bungalow which is
Soment have been to a ceria here is a temporary. bungalow
cloud But the fact that the notes by the Director of Public that temporry bungalow will
from outside releived anxiety, and honourable member who chooses
any liope that before long the whole oft
would be suada elekriskit aud Ch
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