To-day's Advertisement.
THEATRE
ROYAL,
MESSRS, DALLAS AND MUSGRAVE'S
THEATRICAL SEASON.
TO-NIGHT!
TO-NIGHT!
LAST NIGHT OF
MARK MELFORD'S.
FUNNIEST OF ALL FUNNY FARCICAL
My COMEDIES,
"TURNED UP.”
TO-MORROW NIGHT, (SATURDAY), April 15th,
Grand Production of CHARLES READE'S WORLD RENOWNED DRAMA.
"IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND."
PRICHS$3, $2 and $1.
Sokliers and Sailors (in uniform) half-price to back seats only.
linx Plan at the ROBINSON PIANO CO.
NOTICE-A special traps will run a quarter of an hour after fall of curtain every evening.
W. H. BROWN,
Business Manager.
Hongkong, 14th April, 1899,
4244
RENCH COMIC OPERA COMPANY.
2 NIGHTS 2
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY,
ST. ANDREW'S HALL, CITY HALL,
TO-NIGHT,
(FRIDAY); 1905 April, 1899.
GRAND
ONCERT
Co
A LA PARISIENNE
will be given at the above Hall at 9 PM by
the following Artistes.
Miss J. Lonte Comique
M. C. DARON, Comique
Miss G. VASTI,
Jet Chameuse
Miss M. SAVART,
Chanteuse à diction.
Mr. E. DANENDERO, Pianiste.
NEW PROGRAMME. -
Including the
LATEST GRAND SUCCESSES FROM
PARIS.
PRICES OF ADMISSION:
RESERVED SEATS........ STALLS.
Planar RomRSON PLANO Co. Hongkong, 4th April, 1897,
PERSEVERANCES
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY APRIL 14, 1899
To-day's
Advertisements.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR AMOY. THE Company's Steamship
"JASON,"
Captain Lycell, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 15th instant.
For Freight, apply to
W
[487.1
LODGE
OF
HƯNGRONG, No. 4,163,
of the above.
“LODGE will be held in the FREEMA- SONS HALL, Zethead Street, on TO-MORROW, the 15th instant, as $3 for 9 p.m. precisely, Visiting Brethren are enrdially invited to attend.
Hongkong, 14th April, 1809.
FOR
482a
FOR the CONVENIENCE of MEMBERS and ASSOCIATES of the NAVY LEAGUE wishing to be present at the CERESION of HOISTING the BRITISH FLAG on MONDAY next, the 17th, the NAVY LEAGUE has secured the option of chartering the s.s." TA OS.
If a sufficient number of applications for tickets to cover expenses are received To- GETHER WITH THE PRICE OF THE TICKETS by the undersigned before I A.M. TO- MORROW (SATURDAY) the ship will be 'chartered.
Tickets to include wife of Member or Associate) $10.
Start at 6.30 AM. from wharf opposite CENTRAL MARKET
Persons coming.'inust make their now arrangements about meals,
W. C. H. HASTINGS,
President, Navy League. General Post Office, 14th April, 1899. 1516
Intimation.
easier than to give an offender in charge. But Lunfortunately nobody appears to come, forward, and the reason is doubtless to be found in the trouble involved in attending at the Police Court to prosecute and the waste of valuable time involved. To the A. S, WATSON & Co., majority of business men the loss of the ten or twenty cents, as the case may be, is prefer LIMITED
able to the loss of an houror so from business, and the result is that the offenders are allowed to go free. It is a great shame that such a state of affairs should be allowed to exist
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
wil be taken to institute a crusade against the counterfeit and uncurrent coin nuisance.
"BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.in a British Colony and we trust that steps
Agents.
[s080. Hongkong, 14th April, 1899. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY; LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUL
THE Company's Steamship
"HAILOONG,"
Captain Robson,' will be despatched for the above Ports, on SUNDAY, the 16th instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply 10
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong. 14th April, 1899.
*[5100
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR SHANGHAI (DIRECT), HE Company's Steamship ..
+
THE
|
"GLAUCUS,"
Captain Barnise, will be despatched as above TUESDAY, the 18th instant,
For Freight, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
[5143
Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
•
FOR WEIHAIWEI AND TIENTSIN, THE
HE Company's Steamship
"NANCHANG,"
Captain Finlayson, will be despatched as above an SUNDAY, the 3rd instant, at 'Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply 10
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
[4983
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR TIENTSIN (DIRECT).
THE Company's Steamship
"KASHING," Captain Hopkins, will be despatched as above on MONDAY, 'the 24th instant, a Daylight,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
-gems: Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
*[4932 THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, LIMITED,
- NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM GLASGOW, AND LIVERPOOL.
THE
HE Company's Steamship
"OANFA," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong und Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Kowloon, whence delivery may-bu obtained, "
No Chains will be admitted after the Goods have left the Nonion Views and of Claims must be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on FRIDAY, the 21st instant.
C.
PORTS
(For Invalids and General Use.)
For dor.
Case.
$14.40
B-VINTAGE,superior quality,
Red Capsule FINE OLD. VINTAGE, 'Sup- erior quality, Black: Beal Capsule.. D-VERY FISE OLD VINTAGE extra superior, Violet Gapsule (Old Bottled) 20,40
16.20
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
FIGHTING IN SAMOA.
LONDON, Apr. British-American force fell into an Aybus- cale of Mataafans at Apia on the 1st April and was forced to retreat, Lieut. Freeman of the British (Australian) cruiser Tauranga, two American officers and four sailors were killed a decapitated in the bush. The ambuscade ocurred on a German plantation, the Manager cfwhich has since been arrested for inciling th rebels,
NEW CHINESE LOAN,
new, Chinese gold loan, of franes 1,500,000, for the Peking-Bankow Railway Wine rebeca issued by the Banque de Paris et
P-as and other French Banks.
Port after removal should be rested for a month before use. quired for drinking at once should he ordered to be decanted at the Dis- before being sent out. pensary These Wines are too favourably known to need comment.
PLAGUE AT MECCA,
Two cases of plague bare occurred at Mecca.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says-On the 14th 1.55 The barometer has risen on the E.
Saimple bottles and smaller quanti-cast of China. Pressure is highest over N.E.. mderate with freshening monsoon on the S. ties, will be supplied at proportionatena, and low in Japan. Gratients slight to a S.E. coasts of the Forecast :-8, 10 wholesale rates.
NE. winds, moderate or fresh: fine to cloudy, mty.
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine, when bought|| direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports.
A. TAMAN & Co., Limited, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. would draw the attention our readers of he advertisement the proposed chartering othe S.S. Tai On to convey Members and Aciates of the Navy League to Taipo to wiess the hoisting of the British Flag. T-Secretary of the Ruya! Hongkong Yacht Cinforms us that the ith club race will be reled to-morrow. Course. hannel Rocks, On the 13th April, at the Cathedral, Hong 31er's East buoy and Kowloon Rock all to kong, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., by Special License, LILY, daughter of James Bush, st board, 9 miles. Staris 2.13 and 2.30p.m.. of Nottingham, to Caen. SIMPSON, of H. B. 31. Office of Works, London and Shanghai. Nu Sk den Tate has offered to present a large cards Shanghai Papers, please copy.
Esta fan for the new hall of the Battersea Poly; thnic, which was opened by Mr. Balfour on ebruary 3. It may be remembered that Sir
MARRIAGE.
The Hongkong
elegraph} Any Tate gare de tourds the estab
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1899.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
We have seYTIRI...******
ment of the Palvic mic,
WE wild call the attention of our headers the advertisement of an amiction of furniture fo in be held at 25 pan on Thursday, the Bath insta at 2
a printers error u
DINO
The enquiry into innected with the loss of the Clyd
ANOTHER BARQUE ABANDONED.
This morning. Captain Sneider panied by his wife and daughter) and the of the German barque Atlantic arrived Hongkong in a Chinese junk, their vessel, which had sprung a lenk, having been aban doned about 60 miles out. She had come from Sumatra way and had experienced some very rough weather. T
at the Harbour Office this morning, when considering the matter in private for an
We find that the British ship Chyd, official the court returned the following finding number 106, 845 of Liverpool, of which Thomas:Thomas, was master, the number of: Whose certificate is 06469, left Hongkong for Peru with a full cargo of rice on Thursday, the 30th March, 1899
was taken from It is intended to hold the first Gymkhana of Waglan Light, N. W. W: (Mag.) about o the season on Saturday, 22nd April The fol-miles distance, and from that time a faire wind lowing is the programuie, the first event being was experienced and an-E, and W course was steered up to ram, on Friday: Thit from that time the ship was by the wind clean full with the yards braced up but not sharpende
THE GYMKHANA.
That at 7. pman devinti pagā
euned for 3.15 pan. FIVE FURLONG RACE; for all Chink pantes: weight as per scale with 5 lbs, added non- Winders at the Hongkong Race Meeting allowed 6 lbs.: unplaced ponies allowed to hs.: penalties not accumulative. Entrance, 53. First prize' $40! second, $15. Poro Pony Raer; for all bona fide Volo ponies,nutes she struck and remained fat on the Fratas in he declared as such by the Polo Committed. Shoal The bails were clewed up and almost at ale beats without dismounting; catch once tlie bonts two in member were lowered weights over 111, 7lbs. To be ridden by and provisioned. That shortly after 3 m. the playing members of the Hongkong Polo Club. crew got into the bonis and left the clip's side, Entrance. First prize, cup, presented by laying off till about 7 a.m., when an attempt James Mckie, Esq. : second, 315.
was made to get alongside ONCE ROUND RACE; for all China ponies; Weight as per scale with 7 lbs. added; un placed ponies other than subscription griffins of this season allowed 5 lbs.; subscription grifins of this season, nor winners, allowed 10 lbs,; winiers allowed 5 lbs. First prize, $30; second, $20. Entrance. $3. -MILE RACE for subscription griffins of any season; weight as per scale with 7lbs, added; unplaced ponies allowed rolls, placed ponies, non-winners, allowed 5lbs. First prize, $50; second $20. STEEPLECHASE; for all China ponies over the Steeplechase Course; weightas per scale with 10lbs. added. First prize, $50; second, $20,
That at about 2:30 am, on the first April breakers were seem right ahead on boili" bows, - - The helm was put hard up and an attempt made, to wear the ship, but in about three or fourmi-
ONE MILE HANDICAP: for China ponies; forced for all ponies entered at this meeting except those entered for pelo pony race en tronce, $3. First prize, a cup presented by the Hon. J. J. Bell-Irving; second, $25.
CORRESPONDENCE.
That this attempt was without result, and the ship was then abandoned and the boats steered for the mainland, arriving.
ving eventually at Flong- kong.
coming to any conclusion the court is not, assisted by anything more than the memory of the master and his statements OC logs and documentary evidence there is none, these not having been brought away when the master and crew left
The Court is of opinion that the master would have shown better judgment in acting out the pauggestion of the Sailing. Directions, and have passed to leeward of the Pratas Shoal, more especially after he lost his fair wind and bad to sail his ship by the wind, which continued heading the ship and breaking of That finding the ship breaking off I should have put her on the other tack and, workell fors ther to the Northward and increased the dis tance, from his known danger. The Coun is. further of opinion that the master, did not make sufficient a allowance for the leeway made by the ship together with the ser of the current to leeward. The ship was apparently a duil sailor. and probably was sayging to, leeward con siderably yet only 2 points of correction. was allowed, of which half-a-point was for w deviation of the compass. Further we con sider that greater-exertion, might have been made after the ship struck. The only thing which appears to have been done was to brace the yards aback and when this failed nil further attempts seem to have been abandoned, and the prominent iden seems to have been that of. leaving the ship
(We shy Eh necessitily endorse the opinions expressed li Correspondents in this colume,
HAPPY VALLEY.:
TO DE ELFEAR OF THE HONGKONG, TRANKA DEAR SIR-lf you would allow me, I should like to bring before the notice of the public, through the columns of your paper, the manner in which the original object for which the Happy Valley Recreation Ground was con structed is now being subverted. It was originally intended for a recreation ground for the many and not as a preserve for one game trhich can only be played by the comparatively rich and which also entails a great deal of danger do others who might be walking across the ground, even though at some considerable distines from the players. 1 allude to the game
golf.
of
hellove, Si, English Lovernment embodys the principal of the greatest gond to the greatest number, and when games can be played which are confined to a restricted area, the public have no cause of complaint. But when openerates the s the "available part bejn sof Set di danger to hers-I can assure you a golf venation to the few, and is a source
o not.5
Searly the public should be enigeted."
an informed that the Royal Heugkong Golf Club, by exhibiting a notice board, can secure the whole of the ground for their own use. I think, Sir, this is an infringement na the puble rights and will eventually lead to
columns to the great inconvenience arising No couple in humble, ciacumstances from the scarcity of British subsidiary coinsalked a distance of seven miles to be married as compared with Chinese. Change a dokat Peterborough. Unfortunately, the bride- No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any and the chances are that for one Uritish ter groom forgot to take with him the necessary Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 21st
cent
certificate. The registrar kindly helped the instant, will be subject to rent,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded antess
couple out of the difficulty by riding off on his icycle to fetch the missing document. He notice to the contrary be given before 3 P.M.,
turned with it in triumph and the ceremony TO-DAY.
as happily concludes,
Bills of Lathing will be countersigned by
HOLIDAY, WISE & Co..
Agents. Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY. "ONSIGNEES per Companp's Steamer
"GLAUCUS,"
piece you receive nine Chinese, whit British wenty-cent pieces appear to best rarer. This scarcity of British subaidia coins would not be so severely felt if only de Chinese coins were legal tender, but ungr tunately they are not. The Banks and ac Government Offices refuse to accept the
any of the firms of the Colony have folled their lead. The consequence istharthos fho receive large numbers of these Chinese as
FEW votis aga says The Navel and filitary Reverd, it was stated in these columns that the Admiralty contemplated establishing a aval depot at Weihai wei and that Mr. G. H. in the course of business (and it i. Trew, Civil Engineer at Devonport Dock- inconvenient to be obliged to refuse lem are hereby notified that the Cargo is being dis-and may lead to krs of custom) expence fard, had been selected to survey and report in the character of the port. The proposals charged into Craft, and or landed at the Go-
hen made are now to be carried into practical downs of the Undersigned in both cases it will the at Consignees risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Craft or Godown on and after the 17th instant.
Cargo undelivered after the 24th instam, will THE Undersigned has received instructions be subject to rent. All damaged Goods mustling away through no fault of his own The the approaches to the shore.
be left in the Godowns where they will be examined at 1.3t, on the 25th instant,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
[5150 AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA
PUBLIC AUCTION,
to Sell by
PUBLIC “AUCTION,
011
THURSDAY,
the 20th April, 1899, at 2.30 PM., at No. 71, WYDNHAM STREET. A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE Comprising - PLUSH COVERED WALSUT DRAW- ING ROOM SUITES, FRENCH MIRROR, TEAK OVENMANTELS, .., EBONY and TEAK WHATNOTS, WRITING DESKS. }
OIL-PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, WHITE
LACE CURTAINS and CARPETS, &c, &c.
TEAK and ROSEWOOD SIDEBOARDS, EXTENSION DINING TABLE, MOROU CHAIRS, DINNER WAGGONS, CUTLERY, GLASS and CROCKERY-WAKE, &c., &c.
Finely carved TEAK and WALNUT BED- STEADS, TEAK WARDROBES, with GLASS DOORS, TEAK and WALNUT DRESSING TABLES and WASHSTANDS, FRENCH CUT GLASS TOILET SET. BRONZE PLACQUES, and MARBLE BUSTS and GROUPS, &c., &c.,
BATHROOM and PANTRY REQUISI. TES, &C..***.
Also
CO-COVERED ROSEWOOD
TION COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, ADEN, BOM- BAY. PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"MARQUIS BACQUEHEM,"
having arrived Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Gonds are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained. This vessel brings Cargo:-
From Venice, S. Massimiliano and Carlotta transhipped at Trieste.
considerable difficulty in disposing of pem except at a discount. If they be sufto a Chinese money changer to be exchange forect, the Admiralty having decided to spend clean dollars it notes, discount has be the sum of 4.500 in retablishing a nasal depot paid, and the trader sees his profit ind- at Wei-hai-wei and another £4.50 in dredging Colony' is flooded with these coins i, so
J
the
We have carefully considered the ovid ence of the master and others, and also what has been advanced by the master's counsel. on his behalf, and we are unanimously of opinion that the Chow was not navigated with proper somanlike care, and further, that she was prematurely abandenet. *We therefore find that the loss of the ship is of the baster, and we direct that his certificate to be attributed to the wrongful acts or defaults be suspendel for a period of sis neiths, that he be granted a mate's certificate, during such suspension, if he so desires
TILE CHING SLOFFBOOK.
A voluminous Blue-book of 300 pages was jesued on 1th ft. (China No. 1, 1899), con taining correspondence respecting the affairs, of-Chain-from Mareli, 1893, to the beginning of last Februry The Carlier part of the corres pondence, which is chiefly of retrospective in- terest dents with the negotiations at Peking which resulted in the lease to this country of exclusion of the public from the ground. Wei-hai-wel and of the Kauling, promontory Golf does not absolutely require a fat level opposite to Hongkong. The following extracts surface, in fact the interest of the game is from a despatch addressed by Sir C. Mac club extend their links along some of the 1898, illustrate the difficulties which our Minis lessened by it. I ask, can not the golf Donald to the Foreign Office on April 16th, roads and have them not quite so camped ter ultimately met with in inducing the Tsung as they must necessarily be on such a restricted i-Yamen to carry out the proposal it had itself area as the Happy valley is. I am sure all originated for the leasing of Wel hai wer true lovers of the game will coincide with me that the inatter is worth taking into consider addon. Thanking you. Sir, for the insertion,
PRO BONO PUBLICO. Hongkong; April 14th, 1899.;
I am, etc.,..
THE YANG-TSÉE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, LIMITED,
The following is the Report for presentation to the Ninth Ördinary General Meeting of Shareholders, to be held at the Offices of the
Tuesday, the 25th April, 1899, at 4.30 o'clock pm, precisely.
Peking, April 16th, 1899.- On March 29th, in obedience to the instruc tions contained in your Lordship's telegrain of March 25th (which I did not receive till, the 271b)informed the Yausen that, in the view of her Majesty's Government, the balance of power in the Gulf of Techili has been so seriously disturbed by the lease to Russia of Port Arthur as a naval station that it must be redressed by a lease of Weiliai-Wei to Great Britain on similar terms
far as we can see, nothing but speciafgis./ THE Toups, in reproducing from the German Association, No. 26, The Hund, Shanghai, on, induce that Power to abstain from a policy in
dation can remedy the evil.
SPURIOUS COINS.
papers the announcement that the German Small Arms Manufacturing Company has received orders for 3300 of the new ride, to be What tends to make matters mucijose delivered in June next, says: --"Having no is the fact that, in spite of the Chinesoins reason, to imitate the discreet reserve of German being lower in value than the British any military circles we will say that the new patter of them are counterfeit and are 60 ex ecuted as to defy detection unless suited is a development of that recently invented at the to a close inspection. You happen te in Mauser factory, the principle of which is the a hurry when receiving change from fickane as that of the Maxini mituleus, in a tha coolie, or do not stop to examinury word, it is an automatic wrapon, utilizing the cain, and the chances are that when ingection of the gases froth the powder,, which the remark: 'long copper." It is n faire reloading. The soldier has only to aim the next fare the coin will be returne ith when the first shat has been fired, effect to punish one coulic for the sin of her and pull the trigger, and men who have used and so you are obliged to substitute per the rifle say that thirty shots a minute can he coin for the counterfeit one and lose or fired with it" The Temps, duwever, is of twenty cents as the case my be. And opinion that no human shoulder could stand tunately the counterfeiting does riot se at
The Board of Directors liave now the plea sure to submit to the Shareholders the Annual Report and Audited Statement of Accounts and
prefaced this demand by a summary of our negotiations with Russia, showing thatber Majesty's Government had spared no effort to
no way dictated by her commercial interests and menacing both to China and England. No opposition had been raised to such Russian requirments as the extension of the Siberian Railway to an ice free port and the lease of the
tified naval base was on a totally different foot ing. Great Britain had given a propf of her sincerity in declaring the acquisition of Wei hai-Wei to be forced on het hy offering a pledge that she would ask for no port in die Gulf if Russia would abstain from her demand, for Port Arthur.
Balance Sheet to the 31st December, 1398, latter from China, but the acquisition of a for
WORKING ACCOUNT, 1897 AND FORMER
YEARS.-This Account shows a Credit Balance 127,600.06, against $187.3-15.15 on the 31st December, 1997. The Directors recommend the payment of a Dividend to Shareholders out of this Account of 10%. The account will then stand as follows:
Dividend of 10% (=50 per Share) $48,000.00 Balance to be carried forward ... 74,500.86
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Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless the Chinese coinage but is provalantan he străin, and that the new ritle is, therefore, and the Account shows a balance at Credit of hoped that the Yamen would grasp.a
A COTTAGE. PIANO), by Collard and Col-recognised, lard,
AND
་
A few.picecaf CANTON BLACKWOOD. -WARE.
On View from Tuesday, 18th April, 1899.. Catalogues will be issued.
TERMS OF SALE-As customary.
G. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
[5034
-INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED. ¡FOR MANILA (DIRECT.)
THE Company's Steamship
#YUENSANG,"
Captain P. H. Rolfe, R.N.R, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 18th instant, at Noon
ต่
This Steamer has Superior Accommodation. For First Class Passengers.
For Freight or Passage, apply to:
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Ģeneral Managers,
Hongkong, 14th April, 1899.
notice to the contrary be given inmediately.
No Claims will be admitted after the floods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent.in to the office of the Undersigned before Noun on the 10th instant, or they will not be No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 20th instant, will be subject to rent,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SANDER, WIELER & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 14th April, 1899. (509a
with
For Sale.
NOW READY,
HONGKONG RACES, 1899.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH'S " ACCOUNT OF THE 1809 RACE MEETING TABULATED STATEMENTS of PLACED and UNPLACED PONIES, JOCKEYS and ́ ́
OWNERS TV PRICE 50 CENTS..
not dangerous."
THE ARRANGEMENTS.
`equal extent as regards the British, Pind
twenty cent pieces are freely count' THE HOISTING OF 'TH ¦ FLAGAT but the five cent piece appears thre
TAIPU. escaped the attention of the coiners ne reason or other, probably becau The margin of profit is not so largo as the pieces of higher value. Some of the ins are counterfeited in pewter some in and some even in lead, while the es fon and workmanship varies froin that the highly, finished coin that can be p; lin broad daylight to the rough effort the novice that has to be slipped in ant dollar's worth of change under darkness.
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che s.a. Hankato, which is for invited guests only, will leave the Canten steder wharf at half-past seven prompt on Monday morning, and guests are especially invited to be punctual. Special cars will run from the Peak at 6.45 ain, and 7 a.m.
bearing of it on the political situation and grant
without demur, as conceived in C interests but they adem to support my request byla, sequences of refusal, which i to givers
The Chinese Ministers, however, remained obdumfe on this occnsion, and at the next in terview, on March-3-they showed scarcely. $172,600.86 less stubbornness, H WORKING ACCOUNT, 1898-The Net Pre-After some two hours or more of discus a gurned during 1898, after deducting Return I said that I regretted to find that my Premia, Re-insurance Premia, &c, amount to tions of the reasons for our demand $193,914.00, against $315,136.54 during 1897, with so little apparent apprcelati $275,918.85, on the 31st December last, which The Directors recommend carrying forward
In addition to the Claims and Losses paid during the year, which amount to: $281.459.99 (equal to 47.23% of the Net Premia), there are Clains pending on known losses and casual ties which are estimated at about $117,000.00 | The Ministe EXCHANGE AND INVESTMMENT, FLUCTUA| the lease; they rios AccoUNT,Owing to the depreciation as ary postponement. the end of 1898 of some of the Association's and the trongly Investments, this Account has been reduced people did upt permit. by 326,12346 and now amounts to $59,437.81 on n definite STERLING EXCHANGE has been taken at 25. within tug. gid: per. Tael (the Demand Rate on 31st De comber, 1898), and the relative value between” rem Dollars and Thels at 73
to
INVESTMENTS,The value on 31st Decem
Holders of tickets for the S. S. Kongnan will leave the Central Market Wharf at 7 a.m31, Sandwiches and titin will be provided on boarder last has been taken for all the Association's me.kno
Investments. aa charge of $1.
NO PROSECUTIONS, I Despite the large amount of base hey in circulation, we seldom or never of a hundred men of the Hongkong, Regiment prosecution for attempting to pass coffeito over on Sunday and remain there for several days. Then on Monday morning the coins. The fact that a large amour, fast | Stent will convey detachments of the Royal coin is in circulation must certe be Engineers, Welsh Fusiliers, Royal Artillery, known to the Police, for it is hard bald the Volunteer Corps, HE the Governor believed that the members of the are lard party go out the H.M.S. Brisk. The never victimised in the same mann ceremony will take place at fp.m. general public, and, this being the difficult to understand how it is tha "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH OFFICE, have been taken in the matter. Of
Only a limited Number printed.
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DIRECTORS. Mr. E. B. Skottowe resumed. his seat on the board on his return to Shanghai last year, Mr. T. E. Sansom having resigned owing to his departure front Shanghai, net
In accordance with the Articles of Associa tion the present Directors all retire from Office, but, being eligible, offer themselves for re election."
AUDITOR-The Accounts have been started
On arriving His Excellency will be received by Mr. Augustus White who offers, himself för. with a royal salute and half-a-dozen bars of re-election eps God Save the Queen Addresses will then the read, at the conclusion, of which Lady
the Blake will raise the Royal Standard” and an
mperial salute of for gune will be fired, re
By Order of the Board
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