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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1900.

To-day's Advertisements.

TO TEACHERS. HIBBERDINE'S ILLUSTRATED COMPOSI- TION SERIES

MAKES LESSONS A PLEASURE TO SCHOLARS.

To be obtained' at :-

Messrs, KELLY & WALSH, Limited, Hongkong, Shanghai Yokohama and Singapore. Moara, W: BREWER & Co., Hongkong and Shanghai.

Messrs. TaUI MAN KOK, Hongkong. Mesra, MAN YU TONG, Hongkong.

Wholesale:-W. HIBBERDINE, 50, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong,

THEATRE ROYALS

CITY HALL.

LAST THREE NIGHTS

OF

MR. HENRY-DALLAS SEASON.

TO-NIGHT!

26

TO-NIGHT 11

The Success of the Century,

THE SIGN OF

THE CROSS."

HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

TEMPORARY ABSENCE

DURING the AEROBA om Hongkong Mr. H. M. Brvis has been appointed ACTING

CHIEF MANAGER.

N. A. SIEBS, Chairman, Board of Directors..

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1900.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

THE WAR.-CASUALTIES NEAR BLOEMFONTEIN.

THE Rosario, sloop, was commissioned at Sheerness on 20th inst. for service on this station by Commander C. A. W. Hamilton. THE only cases of communicable disease in the Colony, during the week ending the 24th March, were three cases of small-pox, two in Victoria, one case in another district, and three deaths from the same.

Owing to the pressure on our news columns we are compelled to hold over our report of Mr. Jones's lecture on The Grip, on Empire," given last night to the members of the Odd. Volumes Society, SEVERAL of the officers of H,M.S.. Peacock have been under court-martial during the past few days, say the N. C. D. News, as the result of a recent accident at Yangtze Cape through which

THE Chinese passengers on board the Heung- shan fared very well last Saturday and Sunday.to steam-pinnaces were, among other things, fast. We understand that Lieut. and Gomdr. They got their evening, meal at 4.30 p.m. on

S. G. Douglas has been disinissed the ship, as Saturday afternoon, and they breakfast on

BRITISH OFFICERS AMBUSHED, Sunday morning without any extra charge has one other officer, while the case of a third

HON."E. LYGON KILLED.

LONDON, MARCH 25th.

Lord Roberts reports from Bloom. fontein, 24th instant, that the day previous Captain Trolter and Lieut. The Hon. E. Lygon of the Greenadier Guards, and Col. Codrington of the Coldstrean Guards, while riding, [102) without an escort, eight miles beyond the camp at Modder River, were fired on by the Boers. Lieut.. The Hon. E. Lygon was killed and Col. Codrington and Capt. Trolter severe ly wounded.

Hongkong, 20th March, 1900,

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

THE

FOR SWATOW.

HE Company's Steamship

"HAIMUN,"

Marcus Superius .......... ...diemy Dallas,y. Mercia ......................Afisa Mudge Grey,↑ Captain Hodgins, will be despatched for the

spre Port, TOMORROW, the 28th instant, DEATH OF GENERAL WOODGATE, General Woodgate has died of his wounds.

TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY,

BY UNIVERSAL REQUEST,

THE

GEISHA.

NOTE-Seats hooked for "Charley's Aunt,"

may be retained for The Geisha or value-

at to A.M.

For Freight or Passie, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 27th March, 1909. [309b

FOR YOKOHAMA (DIRECT.)

refunded in application to Robinson THE Steamship

Piano Co.

THURSDAY, (LAST NIGHT,

"A RUNAWAY

GIRL."

LAST NIGHT OF SEASON.

PLAN at ROBINSON PIANO CO.

Business Manager, B. HERMANN. Hongkong, 27th March, 1900.

13013

THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT AND AGENCY COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE is eructors of the above JOTICE is hereby given that at a Meeting! Company, held at the Registered Office of the Company, Queen's Road Central, Victoria, Hongkong, Tuesday, dw Twenty Seventh day of March, 19, the following RESOLU. TION were passed.

"SAINT REGULUS,"

will be despatched for the above port FRIDAY, the 30th instant, at Neon.

For Freight, apply to

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents.

Hongkong, 17th March, 1900.

(400

CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,

LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

"SUNGKIANG," Captain Moore, will be despatched as above on THURSDAY, the 5th April.

The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this

Steamer. The Vessel is fitted throughout with Electric Light...

GENERAL METHUEN'S OPERATIONS.

THE VAAL IN FLOOD,

DELAY PROBABLE. Heavy rains at Warrenton and the River Vnal being in flood will possibly delay operations on the Western frontier.

FUTURE PROSPECTS. BOERS CAN STAND SIX MONTHS. RELY ON FOREIGN INTER-

VENTION.

Renter's correspondent at Durban learns although knowing defeat to be inevitable believe that they can stand six months, when they are [4046 convinced that foreign intervention will secure them favourable terms. They rely on Germany and America,

For Freight or Passage, apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents; Hongkong, 27th Marchi, 1900.

AN APPEAL.

|

being made,

BETWEEN the 1st January and noon yesterday seventeen cases of Bubonic Pingue have been reported as occurring in the colony, while the number of deaths has been sixteen. From the case has been reported.

week ending 3rd March up to now only one

A TELEGRAM received from Lancheu, Kansu, by the Shanghai mandarins states that H.E. Tao Wu, Viceroy of the Shen-Kan provinces, left that city on the 16th inst. for Peking for special audience, and that the Acting Viceroy, ship has been taken by Wei Kuang-tao, Go! vernor of Shensi province. ADMIRAL of the Fleet Sir Nowell Salmon, V.

is still before the Court. The command of the Peacock has been given to Lieut. C. PR. Coode, 1st Lieutenant of H.M.S. Algerine, who happens to be now in Shanghai on leave, •

NEWS has been received in Shanghai, says the N. C. D. News of 20th inst., that the steamer Kinsei Maru (late Sin Nansing), bound-from- chwang, with a general cargo, went ashore on Yokkaichi to Weihaiwei, Chefoo, and New

Friday last on the Shantung Promontory. With the aid of a man-of-war, presumably British, she was got off early on Saturday morning and towed into Weihaiwai. The vessel with her cargo was considerably damaged and we are informed that there will be heavy claims on the cargo, which, was mainly insured with the Japanese agencies of local companies.

was sixty-five on 20th ukto. Sir Nowell entered the service when he was twelve years old, and be obtained his present rank on the eve of his sixty-fourth birthday. He was first and principal navat tide-de camp to the Queen gerating machinery, on the Linde systern. One from August, 1997, 19 january, 1899. ↑

À LARGE congregation assembled at St. John's Cathedral yesterday evening to hear the organ recital given by Mh. A. G. Ward. Of course the vocal contributions" It is enough," (Elijah), and "The Sailors Grave," (Sullivan), were the principal features of the attractive programme. Mr. Marsh gave a finished rendering of each, and Mr. Ward played several picces with his

usual skill

re committee of the Liverpool School of Tropical Diseases has just decided to send out next month another expedition to West Africa. The expedition will make its headquarters in Old Calabar and carry on researches in Souther Nigeria. If time and opportunity permit the Upper Niger will be visited. Men specially trained in malarial fevers and the malarial mosquito theory will comprise the expedition,

The time selected is the malarial season. TELEGAMS received from Peking yesterday says the W. C.. News of 23rd inst., state that the general impression in official circles that day was that H..M. Kuang Hsu's death by foul incans is daily expected, and that'so sure of this is the conservative Grant! Secretary 1sü Tung that he has already prepared his suit

Tile Hamburg, Ainerican "Libe, and North Gennan Lloyds, are having their two new mail steamers, fitted up with ice making, and refri-

of the steamers has already left on a voyage to the East and in addition to her cooling chambers and ice making plant, has had two state rooms cooled. Sir Claude Macdonald recently occupied one of them on his return the East, and the cool atmosphere added greatly to the comfort of the voyage. This system should it become popular, will greatly add to the comfort of the passengers, during a voyage through the tropics. Altogether 20 steamers of the N. German Lloyd have been fitted out with the Linde system.

HIS EXCELLENCY THE

GOVERNOR

AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

"Neither time nor place could have been more. apt for the production of such, a piece as "His Excellency the Governor" as was yesterday and Hongkong; for Empire was in the air, the city was full of it, Mr. Jongs in bis admirable fecture spoke of the blessings of it and the especial advantages to be derived from being a Crown Colony and as recently as last year we, in Hongkong, had an illustration of the remark able intrinsic value of this form of government. Shorn of some of its extravagancias the piece acted last night by Messrs. Dallas and Company might fairly be taken as representing: the state of mind in which, our officials were | plunged at the first burning of the matsheds in the Hinterland. The conclusion of the play is wonderfully realistic, His Excellency pats the Cabinet Minister on the back, the compli ment is returned and blunders forgotten.

The story of the comedy is wonderfully well written, the dialogue sparkling throughout with good natured humour, with the situations and characters most realistic. We cannot hit upon any one position that did not seem to be perfectly natural under the circumstances. The scene is laid in the vestibule of Govern- in the Southem Pacific, where the climate is ment House, Amandaland Islands, somewhere salubrious and a certain alos grows that blos- soms once in a hundred years and when it does so and the pollen is blown by the wind on the genus honto the effects are most disastrous, caus- ing a perfect epidemic of love. This happers at a most inopportune time, during the visit of Mr. Carlton, M.-P., to the islands on a private tour of inspection, accompained by his sister and daughter. Stells de Gex, an actress with whom His Excellency had formerly been. intimate, also comes to the island to give per- formances. She visits the Governor, recognises him and makes him give her quarters in Go- vernment House, at the same time passing herself off as a French countess. To under stand the story it is necessary to state that received that the natives are threatening a rising previous to the M. P's, arrival, news has been on

THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-between Ethel and her three lovers are most

MENT AND AGENCY CO., LD.

An extraordinary general meeting of the above company was held at noon to-day at their offices. "The following gentlemen were the Hon. C. P. Chater, Messrs. F. M. J. M present:The Hon. J. J. Keswick, in the chair, Graça. J. Hooper, A. Shelton Hooper, Paul Jordan, A. McConachie, J. M. Mases, J. M. Peter and A. G. Raymond.

The Chainman proposed the following re solution

That the Profits accrued to the Company from the issue at a Premium of the New Shares Special Resolution passed on the 6th, and con- in the Company, authorised to be issued by the firmed on the 23rd day of April, 1889, amount then carried, and is now standing, to the Credit of Court morning, consisting of grey and blacking to the sum of $1,250,000, and which was cotton cloth official robes, in anticipation of of the Reserve Fund' in pursuance of such the Emperor's near demise: This example was Special Resolution, be capitalized and be ap- high and low in Peking, and so numerous are share on all the Shares in the Company, to be the orders for mouming Court robes at the made by the Board. clothes''stores'in the capital that buyers are now charged twice and often three times the ordinary figures démanded for such articles..

account of an ordinance reducing the number. of wives allowed each inhabitant. The visitors. come and the above mentioned pollen alights on their clothes; a terrible fever of love is the result. His Excellency the Governor, his private. secretary, and A. D. C. all falling madly in love with Miss Ethel Carlton, Mr. Carlton with the sham countess and Mrs. Bolingbroke (Carlion's sister) with His Excellency. The love passages

amusing, as cach, jealotis of the other, tries to make opportunities of forwarding their suite by fictitious orders, while H. E attempts to capture the citadel of her heart by the weight of the importance of his official position. He, however, fails-in his attempts and at skilful machinations of the elder Indy, his dar last has to succumb to the remarkably ling's Aunt. The harmony of the billing and cooing is rudely broken by the advent of an

officer with the news that the natives have risen. Panic ensues; the ladies barricade themselves, the M. P. and Governor taking due precau

Extraordinary General Meeting of the HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN, Mr. Wolmaran's deputation has gone being generally followed yesterday by officials plied in part payment of the Call of $50 per home a complimentary report of his bravery

1. That in pursuance of the Provisions of the Special Resolution passed at 'an Company held on the 7th and con- firmed on the 27th March instant, and since duly registered, the Sum of $1,250,000 be withdrawn from the Reserved Fund and be carried as of the 2nd July next, to the Credit of Capital Account, each Share being credited with a Sum of $25 as paid up thereon in addition to the Sum of $50 now standing to the credit of cach Share.

2. That the Balance of $25 per Share of the

Unpaid Capital of the Company be called up, and that a CALL be and is hereby made of $25 per Share upon all Shares of the Company, and that the Shareholders be requested to pay, the same to the Company's Bankers, the: Hongkong and, Shanghai Banking Cor poration. at their Premises, Queen's) Road Central, on or before the 2nd day of July, A.12. pos

Shareholders are hereby requested to pay according.

And Notice is also given that, in accordance!

i

:

CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most

respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of to Europe with this object. Hongkong and the Past Parts, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to stale that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order; and Cuffs

-

and Collais renewed on old ones.

Lulies and Children's Under clothing Co. 'dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.

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THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

THE PRINCE OF WALES WILL VISIT PARIS.

The Prince of Wales will visit the

A Foochow telegram received on 22nd instant by members of the Reform Party at Shanghai

reports that the family of Ch'in Ling-an,

Mr. McConachio seconded and the resolu tion was carried unanimously. A vote of thanks having been proposed to the Chairman and Directors the proceedings terminated.

HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LD. To-day at noon, the ordinary general meet

tions for the safety of their own august per. sonages. The alarm turns out to have been caused simply by a meeting of the natives in honour of the arrival of the M. P. The military, mistaking their intentions, fired a vol. ley, which, owing to the new patter weapon used, was harmless and was afterwards explain. The M. P. gets His Excellency to telegraph ed away as having been fired in like honour.

during the trying circumstances and promises to recommend His Excellency the Governor for the peerage. Mutual compliments are paid and the curtain drops on the assembly as they resume the more pleasant task of love-making. The piece was splendidly staged and each performer seemed perfectly at home in the role. to which she or he was allotted. Mr. Dallas, as the affable governor, was true in every detail, admirably. Mr. Bertram Hermann made a maintaining his characteristics throughout most

special orders of Isu Ying-Kuei, Viceroy of was held in the Hotel. Mr. E. Osborne presid much adverse to love in general but defeated the Min-Che provinces, acting under Princeed and the following gentlemen were present by the alae. Mr. Percival has a real military ed Messrs. W. H. Potis, M. Bain, Hart Buck, Ching's orders. Mr. Ch'iu is a well-known A. Babbington, E, D. Saunders, H. Looker, W. appearance and exhibited the true martial member of the Reform Party who pearly three Parfit, R. H. Potts, F. D. Goddard, D. Jones F. the female heart. Mr. Ferrel had a very good spirit in the dangerous operation of storming years ago went to Singapore as Editor of the Henderson, G.T.Veich, C. Palmer, W. A. Cruick- Tiennan Sanpao, an out-and-out advocate for shank, J. Y. V. Vernon, J. H. Lewis, J. E. part and with all due respect to his histrionic Gomes, J. R. Michael, R. H. Philpot, P. Jordan, powers we hope his depiction of a Cabinet Mi- reform in China In revenge his family have Ho Tung, Ho Fook, Ho Kom Tong, Lo Cheung mister is not altogether correct. The ladies were now been seized by the authorities who seek, Shin, Ho Chok Tin, Chan Chan Nam, Ho U. certainly worth the trouble their presence had as is usual with such men, to force the mah Shang, Sang Kee, Leung King Shang, and C. caused and we do not think that the jealousy shown by Capt. Carew and Mr. Baversteck they want on the score of filial piety to give Mooney (Secretary)

was quite without a sympathetic feeling among himself up so as to free his parents. The

the audience. They would have been content to have had the chance of a tete-a-tete with the parents will not be liberated even if he should

neglected hut self-imposing, Stella de Gex. The other ladies were also charming. This comedy come back and give himself up, owing to his

has been advertised for one night only but we being one of those who are destined for sum-

are sure Mr. Dallas will consider the wishes of mary decapitation when captured.-M. C. D. News.*

The Superioress will also be most grateful Paris exhibition in April and will be M.A., have been seized and cast into prison bying of the shareholders in the above company most amusingly pedanifc private secretary,.

for any PAPER, or oki ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, how are taught by the Sisters.

Hongkong, 22nd April, 1892.

Intimation.

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with Article 34 of the Company's Articles of A. S. WATSON & Co.,

Association, interest will be charged as from; the said 2nd day of July, 1900, at the Rate of $12 per cent. per Annum, upon all Calls re- maining Unguid after the 4th day of july,) $900, up to the actual dates of paypient of the

same.

By Order of the Board,

A. SHELTON HOUPER, Secretary.

Hongkong, 27th March, 1900."

1403b

OCCIDENTAL AND ORIENTAL STEAM-

SHIP COMPANY. -

NOTICE.

CONS

"ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Stearnship

"COPTIC,"

LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,

PORTS.

(For Invalids and General Use.)

Per dos

Case

B-VINTAGE, superior quality,

Red Capsule......$14.40

The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees C.—PINE OL VINTAGĖ, sup-

of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their

Bills of Laling for countersignature, and to:

take immediate delivery of their Gauds from

alongside.

erior quality. Black Seal Capsule........... 16.20

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel D.-VERY FINE CLD VINTAGE

will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk | and expense.

C. L. GORHAM,

Acting Agent.

· Hongkong, 27th March, 1900,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

"GLÈN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

FROM MIDDLESBRO,' LONDON AND

THE Steamship

STRAITS.

extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) 20.40

[z

Fort after removal should be rested for a month before uso. Wine re- quired for drinking at once should be ordered to be decanted at the Dis- pensary before being sent out. These Wines are too favourably known to need comment.

"GLENFARG,” having arrived from the above l'orts, Consignees of Cargo by her, are hereby informed that their Goods are being laided at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld., at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

Goods not cleared by the 3rd April, will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance has been effected.

Sample bottles and smaller quanti- ties will be supplied at proportionate wholesale rates.

the guest of the French Government,

LATER. THE WAR.-GRIQUATOWN- RE- OCCUPIED BY BOERS, Four hundred Transvaalers have re-occupied Griquatown and a force has left Kimberley in order to expel them. It is reported that all the loyalists in the town have been im prisoned.

THE ORANGE FREE STATE. PHILIPPOLIS OCCUPIED, BURCHERS SURRENDERING. General Clements has occupied Philippolis and read a proclamation from Lord Roberts to the assembled burghors, many of whom have sur. rendered their arms and taken an oath not to participate further in the war. The Landrost and Sheriff have been re-instated in authority under the British."

WEATHER REPORT.

The Observatory report says:-

On the that 11.55 am, the barometer has fallen in Japan, and is little changed elsewhere. Pressure remains high over China, and a depression seems to be lying off the 5. coast of Japan. Gradients slight to moderate, with moderate monsoon in S. China and the N. part of the China Sea FORECASTModerate N. to N.E: winds; some rain.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

:

chances, however, will be that Mr. Chu's

THE C.M.S. Hsinchi, Captain Patterson, which arrived at Shanghai on 19th inst. from Tangku, reports having sighted a steamer on Sunday last at 6 pm, flying signals and apparently disabled, and the Hsinchi immediately bore down to her. On nearing her she was found to be the Indo-China Company's ste imer Kingsing, Captain Young. Her signals indicated she had broken her shaft, and being within hailing distance, Captain Patterson offered to tow the disable ship to Shanghai. This offer Cap tain Young declined with thanks, saying that he expected their company's steamer Lienshing

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DRAMATIS PERSONA. Sir Montagu Martyn Kt. [Govz of the Amanda

Tand Island)...

Mr. Henry Dallas.. Mr. John Haverstoke.(Itfs Private Sec.), Bertram Herman Capt. Charles Carew(A.D.C. to the Gove. Arthur Percivil. Mr.Carlton ....{A Cabinci Minister) J.B. Ferrell Major Kildare Cape. Rivers on

Lorence Derrick. 'n R.H. Stephenson.

J.P. Hril.

The Chairman said-I propose with your permission to take the Report and accounts as read. There is, I am sorry to say, a clerical error of $10,000 in the body of the Report in comparing the profit on working with the pre vious year, but this of course does not affect the accounts. The business of the Hotel during Hongkongites and put it on again; people who the period covered by the Report, was a distinct improvement on the corresponding went last night, and there were plenty of them, six months of 1898, and it is gratifying the house being crowded in all parts, will go to observe this steady advance, and to gain and take their friends with them to share contemplate the increasing popularity of in the mactriment that is maintained from the your establishment not only amongst rising of the curtain to the going down thereof. tourists and the shipping community, who patronize us extensively, but also amongst local residents whose tastes and requirements are of somewhat an exacting character. We re commend a final dividend which is rather in excess of our expectations, but we do in the belief that it is your wish the profit should be so appropriated and in the confidence that, if business continues as it has been during the past year, this dividend can be fully maintained. As the Extraordinary meeting will be held Scane-Vestibula in Government House, Amandaland immediately after this I will not detain you by TIME TO DAY

For only three nights (including to-night) to pass the following day and that she would making further remarks, but if there be any take them in tow. The #sinchi then proceed-points connected with the Report which need longer does "Mr. Daliis intend to stay in explanation I shall be happy to give it to the Hongkong-future arrangements making it ed on her voyage. Captain Young wished to best of my ability, tions imperative that he shall depart on Friday next. be reported all well and bis vessel's position There being no questions the Chairman pro. The season has both, artistically and financially, approximately was Lat. 34.09 N., Long 122.41 posed and Mr. Douglas Jones seconded the proved a wonderful success, even E. The Hsinchi reported moderate to fresh adoption of the report and statement of ac passing the splendid records that the Company counts. Carried unanimously, and made last year. In "The Gelsha" and "Á. N.W. winds; cloudy and moderate sea. The Mt. Vernon proposed and Capt. Goddard Runaway Girl Mr. Dallas has given us disabled vessel was expected to reach port next seconded the re-election of Messrs. R. G. Wilcox productions the like of which we may safely say have never previously been attempted evening in tow of the Lieushing.

by any travelling Company, and every credit We have read plenty of stories about the in-

Mr. Veitch proposed and Mr. Michael second-is due to him for the tremendous success capacity of our War Office officials; how theyed the re-election of Messrs. W. H. Petts and which has greeted his daring exploit-for

.

and E. Osborne as directors.

Garried.

W. H. Gaskell as Auditors.

Carried.

The Chairman thanked the shareholders for their attendance and said that the dividend warrants would be ready to-morrow.

Butter Sentry.... Footman...

hal Cariton

stre: Wentworth Bolingbrake...... Stella de Ges

Telabda

Danro.

Mr. E. Philpa

Miss Ethel Hurdacra Mias Rosie Blair. Minugu Grey.

tis no childs play to bring a-large and expens sive company together with all the necessary scenery properties &c from home to these far- away climes on the off chance of winning the approval of a critical addience, such as is to be As there was a few minutes to wait be found in almost every capital in the East But fore the extraordinary meeting could be held. | Mfr. Dallas has succeeded; perhaps even beyond Mr. D. Jones proposed a most hearty vote of his own brightest expectations. To-night wo thanks to the directors for the most satisfactory have, the great play which caused, such report that they had placed before them, and tremendous coutroversy, both at home and for the steady improvement that had been made abroad, and with which Mr. Dallas scored 20 in the hotel during their tenure of office. He largely last year, "The Sign of the Cross" Mr. knew that the shareholder Companies in Dallas as, Marcus, and Mrs. Dallas as Mercia Hongkong were apt to receive their profit with appear in characters that might have been out even smacking their lips. He himself liked writica specially for them, so well do they fit to give credit where credit was due and he had them. Tomorrow, "The.Geisha" and on much pleasure in proposing a hearty vote of Thursday (the last performance) "A. Runaway thanks to the directors."

Girl

refused an offer of 15,000 Basuto ponies, scasoned to the climate, at Zig each and sent out instead English horses at £40 each, which take weeks of even months to get used to their new environment; how last summer the H. E. The Governor inspected the Hongkong Vickers-Maxim Co. reported that they had a Police force this afternoon.: A full report will large order from the Transvaal for Maxim guns be given to-morrow.

and asked if they should execute it, and were THE case the Hon. E. R. Bellios The Bank told by the War Office that they were fully at of China and Japan occupied the attention of liberty to do so how they sent out all the City Supreme Court the whole of to-day. Imperial Volunteers armed with rides with defective sights; but the latest story is in We only guarantee our Wines and H.M.S. Victorious left for home yesterday credibile for its asinine stupidity. The Hen. Spirits to be genuine when bought afternoon. It is thought that the crew of the W. J. Lync, the Premier of New South Wales, direct from us in the Colony or from Victorious, will be transferred to the Revenge offered a hundred service waggons for uss in Carried.

at Malta, who will take them home from there. South Africa. "To this handsome offer, the THE port of Newchwang having been declared reply from the War Office, sent through Mr. an infected port, by the Superintendent of Chamberlain, who must have chuckled when Customs, all vessels arriving there will be he saw it, was that the offer was accepted, but under the usual sanitary rules published on the that they wish the vehicles to be inspected at 15th February last.

"Woolwich"?"

All ship damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage our authorized Agents at the Coast obtained from the Godown Co, within ten days Ports.

of steamer's arrival, after which no claims will

be recognised.

MCGREGOR BROS: & GOW: | A. 8, WATSON & CO., LIMITED

"T HONGKONG DISPENSARY! Hongkong, 27th March, 1900,

Mr-Osborne thanked the meeting.. An extraordinary meeting was held im were discussed and amended to bring them up mediately after, when the tricles of association to date requirements. The principal alteration being that the renumeration of directors was augmented.

FRENCH INDO-OKINAN

From Haiphong and from Tonkin generally bad news is constantly striving concerning the commercial deadlock, the gritable conse quence of Governor Doumerd: system of con