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THEATRE A

M

ROYAL

ESSRS DALLAS & MUSGRAVES

GA DRAMATIC COMPANY,

TO-NIGHT.|" TO-NIGHT!

BY SPECIAL REQUEST, MARTY METFORD'S FUNNIEST OF

·ALL-FUNNY FARCIÁL

COMEDIES, "TURNED UP.”

THURSDAY NIGHT1 the 6th July, GRAND PRODUCTION

OP

DION BOUCICAULT'S ROMANTIC IRISH DRAMA,

FRIDAY NIGHT, July 7th,

KENAAN THE SHAUGHRAUN":

LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON ! GRAND. COMPLIMENTARY BENEFIT- tendered to

MESSRS. HENRY DALLAS AND KENJON. MUSGRAVE

SPECIAL ATTRACTION4...

MONSTER PROGRAMME]: NOTE-A Special Trani will run a quarter of an hour after fall of curtain Each Evening.

PRICES:-$3, $z & St.

Soldiers and Sailers in uniform Half Price to Back Seals only.

PLAN now. OPEN at ROBINSON PIANO WAREHOUSE,

Doors OPEN at 8:15

Overture at 9 P.M.

W. H. BROWN,

Business Manager.

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“Hongkong, 5th July, 1899.

THE HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA

DOCK COMPANY LATE TOTICE is hereby given that an EXTRA NORDINARY GENERAL MEETING

of the HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA Dock Co., LTD., will be held at the OFFICE of the Com pany, Queen's Buildings, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, the 19th day of july, 1899, 1; 3 o'clock in the After noon, when the Subjoined Resolution which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on the 3rd day 1899 Kbeing an amendment of the ...of July

Resolution originally proposed at such Meet- ing), will be submitted for confirmation as a SPECIAL RESOLUTION, viz.

That the Memorandum and Articles of Association submitted to this Meeting be and the same are hereby approved with the follow ing alterations made therein:

With the words "tu Hongkong and else where" inserted in clause 3 section (a) line 1 of the said Memorandum of Asso:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JULY

Today's Advertisement.

NIPPON VUSEN KAISH",

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, ANTWERP, ∙LONDON, COLOMBO ANDE

SINGAPORE

THE Company's

HITACHI MARU,”...“ having arrived from the above Ports, Consignces of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, are being landed and placed at their risk into the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.

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Optional Goods will be landed here unless. instructions are given to the contrary before noon TO-DAY, MARI

Goods not cleared by the 12th Instant, will be subject to rente

All ship-damaged packages must be left in the Godawns where they will be examined on TUESDAY the 11th instant, and SATUR- DAY the 15th instant, both days at 10 AM.”

All claims must reach the undersigned before the 15th instant, or they will not be recognised

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 5th July, '1899.

[876a"

Intimation.

LIMITED

ESTABLISHED A‚D. 1841.

AN effort is being made by the Police Authori, † Mr. GEORGE SKINKER, of the Tax Collector's ties at Shanghai to drill a small-batch of Chi Department; has been appointed to the, super-

·nese constables, in forsign fashion: “Accord""" intendency of the New Market Drill Hall. ingly about fifteen of the uniformed. are Shanghals are very glad to see that the now hobbling around in English boots and In Council does not always forget itsold employees dian guttles, learning the mysteries of English when any new job is created Afr. Skinner haa drill, and very comical figure they present. served the community faithfully and efficiently Whether any good results will come of it all for over 35 years in the Police and Tax Depart we doubt, but to us it seems a great waste of ment and deserves a resta energy and labour thrown away. |«ABOUT 11 o'clock on Tuesday night whilst a

·Japanese steam-launch was towing a passenger barge and three native house-boats from Sue chow to Shanghai, a heavy squall capsized the middle house boat which contained niñe pas sengers who were thus imprisoned in the up- tumed boat. It took an hour and a half to right the bout when one of the occupants was found to be dead, and the others were in a somewhat exhausted condition being confined so long in the limited air spacer *

IT is reported from Wuchang that the magazine rifle factory built in the city by Viceroy Chang Chih-tung is at present working at its utmost capacity with day and night shifts, the daily, output" now being twenty five rifles. This is due to the large demands made recently by the various Viceroys and Governors' inghe | Yangtze Valley and along the maritime coast for weapons of precision, causing the factories in Nanking and Tientsin also to work at double time.Viceroy Chang, it is further stated, in tends to double the facilities of his rifle factory shortly the machinery has already been ordered from abroad.

IT is stated in the Universal Gazette that the

†

A. S. WATSON & CO., Generalissimo Jung Lu has ordered the Im perial gun foundry at Lukou Bildge, Westem suburbs of Peking, to cast eighty quick-firing field pieces for the Huskeng Army Corps under his own command, which will raise the num bar of field guns attached to this Carpe alone to nearly 200 pieces. Large consignments of new pattern field and mountain guns have already been contracted for autoad for the other Army Corps now quartered in the vicinity of the capital and at the Southern Hunting Park, and they are expected to arrive at their destination before the closing of the Leibo to navigation.

IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS

BRANDIES.

A.-Hennessy's Old Pale, Red

Capsule

B.-Superior Very Old Cognac

Red Capsule C.-Very Old Liqueur Cognac V.O.-D.-Hennessy's Finest. Very Old Liquors Cognac, 1872 Vintage, Red Cap sule

Old

V.V.0-E.-Finest Very

Liqueur Cognac, 1862. Vintage

Per Dol

$18.00

21.00 400

36.00

48.00

All our Brandy is guaranteed to be PURE COGNAC, the difference in price being merely question of age

ciation between the words "to carry on" and the words "the business of With the number 5 placed before the last

clause in the said Memorandum of and vintage. Association beginning "the Capital of the Company and with the latter

Smaller quantities and sumple

tionate wholesale rates.

lor or of such clause, beginning with bottles will be supplied at propor the words with power to divide down. to the end of the clause eliminated. With the words as the General Meeting E

resolving upon the creation thereaf shaft direct and if no direction be given “in-

serted in Article Number 37 line 2 of the said Articles of Association between the words annexed thereto" and, the words as the Directors shall deter mine"

With the words "(if any) insertd be- tween the words "sums" and "as" and the words "in General Meeting inserted between the words "Company and "may" in Article Number 74 line 3 of the said Articles of Association.... With all the words after the word "shalt" in line of Article Number 109 of the Bald Articles of Association eliminated down to the end of the Article and with. the following words inserted instead thereof "three days at least previously to the meeting be served on the-registered holders of shares in the manner in which notices are hereinafter, directed to be

served."

We guarantee our Winesand Spirits to be genuine only when bought direct from us in the Colony or front our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports..

A. 8. WATSON & Co., Limited, "QUEEN'S ROAD`CENTRAL

he Hongkong Telegrap

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1899.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE RIOTS IN SPAIN.

And that pursuant to the Provisions of the Companiles (Memorandum of Association) Ordinance 18go the form of the Company's

- LONDON, July 3rd, Constitution be altered by substituting such The rioters in Valencia have barricaded the Memorandum of Association with extended streets and fierce fighting has taken place, the belere mentioned iterati (after making the troops iring volley's. The tension is causing a Articles of Association (after making the complete stoppage to business. before mentioned alteration therein) for the Company's Deed of Settlement dated the 29th

alterations therein) an such

THE TRANSVAAL.

THE Straits Times of the 26th June.saysThe German cruiser Kaiser, 2,323 tone, Captain

Stubenrapch, arrived yesterday morning from Amoy and exchanged salutes with the pon. She carries 30 guns, is of 5,000 lorsepower, and has a crew of 6r. She is expected to leave for Colombo on Monday next. The Kaiser has had a large amount of money spent on her during stay in Chinese waters, but it is stated that the recent performances of her, engines have been anything but satisfactory. Rumour, has it that he will have to be towed to Europe. From on architectural point of view the Kaffer is certainly the ugliest specimen of the modem warship that has passed through Singapore,

A MEETING of the Samtary Board will be held on Thursday, 6th July, at 4:15 p... "Omer of the day. Nil Agenda. 3. Appointment of Mr. Drury as Sanitary Surveyor, a Applica tions for licences to, keep swine 3 Anapplica tion for exemption from covering yard surfaces and servants quarters with 6" concrete, they al ready having a cement rendering 4 Report of a Sub-Committee of the Board on the lighting of the Central Market. 5 Application for per- mission to erect 4 water closets at the Diocesan School on Bonham Road 6 Further report on the progress of the epidemic, of Bubonic Plagne at Tainan, Formosa for the periods May 30 to June 5, and June 6 to 12, 1899, 7, Further report on the progress of Bubonic Plague at Amoy. 8. Further report on the pro gress of Bubonic Plague at Penang for the period June 2 to 17, 1899. 9. Mortality Returns from Macao for the weeks ended 1th 18th, 2nd 25th June, 1899, 10 Mortality Statistics for this Colony for the weeks ended 24th June and 1st July, 1899.

of August, 1863, and for all Regulations of the There is great destitution in Johannesburggested is never successful. The dual control Company subsequently made and now in force A green book published at Pretoria shows that and that the Directors be authorized to apply the Transvaal aas in a series of despatches,

under the said Ordinance.”

to the Court to confirm this RESOLUTION repudiated the suzerainty of Great Britain.

Dated the 4th day of July, 1809.

by

By Order of the Board,

Queen's Building,-

Victoria

Hongkong,

DOUGLAS

"FOR

TI ROSE,

Secretary

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report saysOn the sib 11.55 am. The barometer continues to fall [675a slowly on the China coast. The typhoon appears to be situated to the East of Formosa, and moving slowly towards N.W. Gradients slight, but increasing, for N.E. to N.W. winds on the China coast FORECAST: Moderate NW. to to SW. windsy fine.

TEAMSHIP COMPANY,

AFTED

JOY AND: TAMSUI

THE Company's Steamship

ALPHATCHING"

Captain, Hodgins, will be despatched for the

Ports, TO-MORROW,lie 6th Instant,"

As previously advertised.

LOCAL AND GENERAL:

LEUNG, YEUNG, a cool

Tat The Magi

morning

The

SUPREME COURT

mier Case,

BEFORE HIS HONOUR W

(ACTING CHIEF MR/JUSTICE WISE (VIENE. JUDOS),

h

If a story fold by the National Review be true, elaborate-measures are taken to mislead the Crar. He is said to have recently shown to an Ambassador an article in the Nours ramya Ting by which he had been inuch impressed. A the little later, when the Ambassador turned up his the own copy of the paper he failed to discover the article. A few copies had been struck off for His Majesty's special benefit f

THE Hon Treasurer of the Alice Memorial. and Nethersole Hospitals begs fo acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospitals

H.E. Major General Gascoyna $35 Wei Sun Shak Wing Kee & Co LE Bowdler AMATE

Wm. Lysaught and Son

R. Croak

Francisco Tse-Yat No Mody & Co. LW Kinghon

EFX. dos Santos Rem

THE half-yearly generalmee of the St. Patrick's Club, last

The Rev. F. De Maria, Club, presented the priz handicap Sergt. Sullivan, R. Spr. Harrold, R. E, and; and RW. F., 3rd The Members oft ram consideration, gave Serg

[escyj

Club, with Sullivan

Belfion Balone cîn because brst wate

direction

isly, but

Lucia present

Donna

most awkward skuation; by. King questions MEIGIL GOODMAN concerning Don Tedro, Dont Lucia's husband: The audience positively roared as matters became more complicated, but the crisis of Baba's career occurs when he is recognized the Criminal Sessions by Ella Dellahaye, a porége of the real Stand Cheong Donna Lusia, whom he met at Nice previously, found guilty on. Saturday of and, to whom he was much attached. | Hap Cung Cheong at Uy Loong, on plly, allinysteries are cleared up in the con- came up for sentence.including act (which tras ludicrous in the remembered that the prisoners extreme), Jack making a full explanation of murdering Cheong Ting whilst the face that had been enacted, his ended

posting, the Governor's, another of Musers, Dallas and Musgrave's › ning the taking over of the most enjoyable evenings, jun new territory 12th of April~ The trial- of the magistrate considerably, and it has of these pris ers has occupied the attention occupied a deal of time at the Supreme Court, and, according to the evidence, we think a sentence has been passed

were accused she was sen

proclamation

Mrr Slade submitted several objections, to judgment" belag passed upon prisoners but this morning, after a postponement of sentence being passed, on Monday" for consideration of his

3 objections -he-mid, in addressing the Bench My 1have been

to whether this

the new territor

I have had an

DEATH OF A CELEBRATED

UFRA

Mr. John

celebrated hatum- list, wu regret to hear died of fever in the intenor of the Island of Hainaŭ, on the 2nd June last. He last came out from home wilk the intention of continuing his collections and. researches in the Philippines, where he had rd, →→ Since Monday last resided many years in different parts of the ring, my objection as | country but owing to the disturbed condition had jurisdiction over of the Islands, vai anable to leave Manila. the 17th of April. With four Filipina, boys he came across to portunity looking. Hongkong and decided to

proceed the Island of Hainan until things improved

iave come:

uced

Carefully inla thé question, and; the conclusion that your Cordst was night on thatpoint, and I de not say any more about it, only this th to do all he can for his clients. On the

hope His Lordship will agree that it Counsel's place to press on the jury all points possible for the acquittal of those he defends," I now ask leave to withdraw the applications 1. placed in the hands of the Court

of

doubt that view of the

a portmantean, as he is shortly leaving His Lordship replied to Mr. Stade's request the colony. In responding, the popular sergeant as follows At the request of the learned expressed grent regret at having to leave such counsel for the prisoners reserved the genial companions as he had always found the question for further consideration whether

on the 17th April 1899, the Eagl members of St. Patrick's Club to be. After the murder was in force in that t prizes had been distributed members spent 3 known as the new territory most pleasant evening in social intercourse. stated at the time, had, myselff

Besuch law was then in force ; but

serious nature of the charge and AN ENGINEER COXSWAIN, IN

give the prisoner's counsel the opt wished of more closely examming ties, I thought that no harm could a father, arguments upon the sub Slaus has now liad an opportunity considering the matter and has in e no longer desires to dispute halk tool at the trial in ruling that

TROUBLE.

The further, hearing of the charge against Edwin Ryder, they boxswain on board the Submarine

steamer -Solent, "was gone" Mining S Into this afternoon at the Magistracy, before, His Worship, Mr. Gompert the one

It will be remembered that charge preferred against the defendant was the larceny of certain government utensils and five hundred weight of Coal His Worship ihen discharged the prisoner on the charge of stealing the utensils, but as he thought a case had been established that some coals had been taken, be ordered the charge to be altered to taking the coals, one lot on June 24th and the remainder on previous Saturdays The new charge was, therefore, gone into this

afternoon. Det-Sergt. Slow, who had arrested

Eng

of murder was in force on the 17th April at Un Loong, a position in which Mr Justice Wise concurs. As the prisoner's couns sel no longer desires to argue the point reser- ved, it only remains for me to give effect to the verdict of the Jury and to pronounce upon the prisoners the sentence which the law requires me to pronounce in the case of men convicted of murder.

Three of his Manila servants were sicken. down with fever and bad to retin but ohean Litesan, omnined by although also suffering from the saine com plaint. Eventually, both Me Whitchend and Lacson were down together; the latter reed vered, and attended his master to the last. Lacson does not remember the name of the place where Mr. Whitehead died, but it is. situated just below the mountain named Five Fingers. The native hillsmen were very Cson pro friendly, and after his masterthed.. cured a Chinese coffin and brought down to the coast, then noross to Pak “when? they were together with this!

livered

to the British Consul

emains

case of specimens consisting of 246 birds and a few inainmals were brought, Lacson who

red here on Sati

delivered by him yesterday to the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank

ilipino

speaks volunies for the desurossd for the tray. Lacson stuck faithfully! master, and of his stamp there are leg Whitehead, of course-knew how to treat, the Filipinos, properly M Whilehead was out this time on behalf of ilie Royal Society."

EXCITING SCENE IN THE MIXED COURTS;

MOKE TAKES CHARGE AND SURPRISES

Short

June 30th, while; xod Court were in full

His lordship then assumed the black cap and said-Tang Thing Sa and Cheong Ting you stand severally convicted of the crime of aving defendant, was the first witness called and wilful murdert was a vary cruel and bar the CANA said Owing to information given to inebarous, murder. Your chained our victim entrance of

round his neck, you bound him band and foot, feet below fooring whiche kept him confined in a ply-basket, and while in . cial portion of the struc this defenceleas

shot at liim three or police have four times with a revolver and finally threw animals, the him into the creek, bere his body was which have a found Bett

afterw

still chaing The man fed and fast

went down to Praya East, at 3.30 p.m., together with Det Sergt. Collett, The Solent was not visible. We stopped till past 5 pm-We did not see anything suspicious,

Li Kow van, then called, and his evidence, and the cross-examination on the previous trint were read over after which, in answer to a question from His Worship, witness said that the two bags of coal together weighed from 130 to 140 pounds, but he did not know their value

By Mr. Hastings: The first time I took cual was on June, roth. : On the 24th of the same, monti I left the ship with the coal at 4 o'clock there was another man with me five carried the coal on our shoulders. The Solent was opposite the Blue Buildings we got ashore by means of a dinghy

Chan Kuen-su and 1.rowed the boat, we were alone, in the boat, on arrival at the Praya, we walked up by the stone wharf and walked along the Praya towards Jardine's hong. We left the boat tied up at the stone from the Praya, arriving at defendent's house steps. We turned up the Morrison Hill Road at 4.30 pain. We saw his wife and a house-boy, On a previous occasion I had taken coals.in the bags produced. We left the bags in defendant's kitchen.

By his Worship The stone wharf, is not opposite the Blue Buildings where we landed was just opposite the place where they boil the opju. Defendant told us to row to the stone wharf. I took the coal to the same wharf on the previous occasions.—

Chan Yuen-su, after having his previous evidence and cross-xamination read over said that the two bags weiglied 150 lbs; he did pot know the price

his limbs.

*some

mare

eres for

had committed no offence clamation which only gave Cito the:

almly beside vention made last year between the Emperor and worn out with hard work! But of China and Her Majesty the Queen Theever, has there been seen a donkey sentence of the Courtapon each of you is, that standing side by side waiting as you be törerálly taken fence to the place from judgment and getting angry. whence you came, and thence to the place of being allowed to stand for hours execution, and that you be there lianged by the while a member of the legal fraternity deck until you, he dead, and that your bodies to stand at a table displaying ill. be severally buried in such placens His Excel dive and perspiring rhetoicite poss lency the Governor shall order and may, the gentleman in his position to do with the glass Lord have mercy on your souls.

Bear the ce

The prisoners were then removed little con- The gentleman öf cerned apparently as to the dreadful sentence-ing space, when passed upon them,

CHARLEY'S AUNT."

AT THE THEATRE ROYA

Dramatic Company

Again has Messra Dallas-and- Musgravet by their cleve Thomas's farcica

Cha The delicacy, the fines Their me of is undoubtedly exceeded our most sanguine expe with such an

eciativ select, a was

who provide ente Be Reanghardly fail to

their abilly few little.comedy, will avet

the donkey on the neck reared, jumped the bound of a TACO

support whic

coalie in the

qa direction, kinda S

ver

the whole

British

until Serge

Bat stretėli

was funny indeed. law was proceed Passir out patted The anim

ruly moke restored

THE FLEMING MURDER-

small but last night, those

public

The dismissa

I concluding an article on Lord Charles Beresford's report on his raission to China the Times of India says:-If Great Britain, the United States, and Germany, have amongst them made a muddle of the affairs of the tiny islands of Samoa, we cannot conceive that they By Mr. Hastings. The Solent was lying just would be more successful if they turned their opposite the Blue. Buildings, after 4pm, we united attention to the most populous country landed at Barrington, close to where they baik Jack Chesney, an undergraduate,

the opium. He did not see soldiers kit-bags at and Charley Wykeham in the world. A condominium of the kind sug the defendant's house. The last lot of coals very much in love with two-prett were carried in the same two bage as were used in the ardency of their love, invite in Egypt would certainly have brought England on previous occasions. Defendant left the Solent upon them. Fortunately for the and France to blows, sooner or later, had it not at noon that day he was at the house when he college, a rich aunt of Charley's

arrived with the coals The Solent was tied this entirely dispenses with any Fude "been summanly terminated, and it is equally up to the tigineer Pier at noon they after certain that it would never have developed the wards sicamed to their busy, I do not know that night bezte concerning chape resources of Egypt as the untrammelled control the European engineer was on board The most unfortunately for the und

stating hecinability of Lord Gromet has done. And what of France coals were placed on the deck. Defendant told her nephew on that day To Alf and Russia? Would they be content to see a about 12 o'clock, after leaving the ship we Ho

vintage me to take the coalityhen he was going: ashore, Lilege, tivo.

in for a Quadruple Alliance reviving China for the sole came straight back the Solent, was” still purpose of excluding their sinister influence? opposite the Blue Buildings Obviously not. Lord Charles Beresford has deigt Jackman, R.E., said the given the British public a good deal of enlight at 1985dparton, delivered eament upon the Chinese question, but he has at her moonnga he would have been sure to lion, beenBa DS Sim recalled, said if the brought us no nearer to its solution.r Have seen her. He walked up and down the | which

Praya and did not see last witnesses. He had affairs at onc MR.Pelham Warren takes over "charge of skept a good watch". the British Consulate Get

mors By Lt Rundell, R.

knew the Solent Bley's! she was black painted, had two masts, and has him as suc ning, July from Mr. Byron

red ball on her bows. who proceeds home Empress boat leaving tom

to say

vas valued

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