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Advertisements.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY JANUARY 22, 1901.

Today's Advertisements.

TO-NIGHT!

THEATRE

ROYAL

CITY HALL

HARMSTON'S

GRAND CIRCUS

AND

ROYAL MENACERIE.

POSITIVELY LAST NIGHT OF PRE-

SENT PROGRAMME.

ENTIRE CHANGE WEDNESDAY."

LOCATION

(RECREATION GROUND (Near the RACE COURSE).

DOORS OPEN at 8 P.M. COMMENCE at 9 PM., Sharp. NB.-Positively no Half price to Evening

Shows.

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OUR NEXT MATINEE,

WEDNESDAY, 24th January. Children Half-price to all puts at Matinees only.

Doors Open at 2.30 P.M. Performance at 3.30.HM.

POPULAR PRICES.

Box Office:-RoBINSON PIANO Cò., Queen's Rond.

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Late Tram to Peak.

NOTICE { Late Ferry to Kowloon.

ANNOUNCEMENT. WEDNESDAY, 24th January, FIRST APPEARANCE OF

SISTERS FREZAGONDAS,.

MONA, DAISY, TESSIE and DOLLIE

ROBERT LOVE...................

..Manager.

Col. Cuas. B. HICKS.........Representative, Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

No. 31.

THE following Particulars and Conditions of Tool Crown Land by Public Auction,

to be held at the Offices of the Public Works Department, on

MONDAY,

the 28th day, of January, 1905, at 3 P.M., ATG published for general infonuation.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office,

Hongkong, 17th January, 1901.

1990

Particulars and Conditions of the letting by Public Auction Sale, to be field on Monday, the 28th day of January, 1501, at 3 P.M., at the Offices of the jublic Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of One Lot of CROWN LANIA, aÜQuarry Bay, in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 Years, with the option of renewal at a CROWN RENT to be fixed by the Surveyor of Her Majesty the QUEEN, for one further term of 75 years.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOT

Registry Lomality,

No.

QURITY

Bay

Inland Quarry

Lot No.

*.

Bay.

Tunduty

Measurement

feal feet fest feel

A

701

450

$50 REWARD.

385,050

Ann1Par

Upset Price

23,69

IT having conic to my Notice that certain Hawkers use my Name in selling GRASS- CLOTH, EMBROIDERIES and HAND. MADE LACES, the above Reward will be given to any one coming forward and giving such Information as will lead to the apprehen- sion and conviction of the Offender or Offenders.

FR. BLUNCK, Silk Lace Manufacturer. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1967.

198€

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION

COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

HE Company's Steamship

THE

"YUENSANG,"

Captain F. H. Roife, will be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the 23rd instant, nt 3P.M., instead of as previously advertised.

This Steamier has Superior Accommodation for First class Passengers, is fitted throughout with Electric Light and carries a Doctor.

For Passage, apply to

[73€

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1001. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR SWATOW.

HE Company's Sicamship

THE

"THALES," Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Part, on THURSDAY, the 74th instant, at Daylight.TRANS

For Freight of Passage, apply to

..DOUGLAS, LAPRAIK & Co

General Managers. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901

FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG-AND

CALCUTTA

THE Steamship

"CATHERINE APCAR,"

1930

Captain J: G. Olifent, will be despatched for the above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 26th instant,

at Noon..

Lessees and Proprietors;

M19. N. CHESTER, Messi, A. H. & E. J. POLTÁRÐ.

TO-NIGHT I

AND EVERY EVENING, The first great event in the Colony of the 20th CENTURY.

Under the distinguished Patronage of

H.E. Sir HENRY BLAKE, G.C.M.G.

POLLARD'S LILLIPUTIAN

OPERA

Co.

OF 50 PERFORMERS.;

TO-NIGHT,

For the First Time in Hongkong, the Sparkling Musical Comedy,

IN TOWN."

3 NIGHTS ONLY.

FRIDAY NEXT, 25th January.

11 THE LADY SLAVEY."

PLAN at ROBINSON'S PRICES AS USUAL. Doors Open at 8 P. M.

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Performance starts punctually at 9. P.M. Carriages at 11.45 P.M, The Star Ferry Co. has kindly consented to delay the last ferry to 12.156

A. LEVEY, Business Manager. A. H. POLLARD, Manager. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1001,

WANTED.

|_________ Intimations,

EYESIGHT.

Mr.. N. LAZARUSĄ Occulist-Optician, of London and -Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES at 16, Queen's Road Central, (R. HOUGHTON & Co.). (Neurly opposite the HONGKONG HOTE]},"

Business hours:-9 A.M. to 5 PMI..

GREAT proportion of cataracts and diseases affecting those advancing in life occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the oyes-the many years of 'Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight.

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dinness when reading, weak eyes, the letters running.together; any of these symptoms in cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Classes only to correct and cure.

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.

ADVICE FREE.

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A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.12. 1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS.

WHISKY.

SCOTCH [1514b

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:" for May 7, 1898. DAILY PRESS "

for May 9, 1898. for May 14, 1898, CHINA MAIL"

KELLY & WALSH, LD. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901. [Loo

WANTED..

THREE or FOUR LADS

to SELL the

"HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

LIBERAL COMMISSION

PAID.

THIS OFFICE. Hongkong, rth January, 1901

31

NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP "OLYMPIA," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO- HAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.

The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their

Bills of Lading for countersignature, and to

take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside...

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be lauded and stored at Consignces' risk and expense

DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hangkong, 22nd January, 1901.

ATHORNE'S BLEND, White

Capsule B.-WATSON'S GLENORCHY, MELLOW BLEND, Bluc Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark

......

C.-WATSON'S ABLLOUR-GLEN-

LIVET, Red Capsule, with Name and Trade Mark

D.-WATSON'S H.K.D., BLEND

OF THE FINEST SCOTUIT MALT WHISKIES, Vio- let Capsule

E-WATSON'S VERY OLD LI-

QUEUR SCOTCH WHISKY,

C Capsule

Per dor.

Case.

$10.50

10.80

12.00

14.40

THORNE'S BLEND and WATSON'S GLENORCHY are high cluss. Soda Whiskies, of greater age than most brands in the market.

ABELOUR-GLENLIVET is a very

REUTER'S TELECRAMS.

THE QUEEN'S ILLNESS. THE ROYAL FAMILY GO TO OSBORNE

LONDON, January aoth, The Queen's condition is causing the gravest anxiety", all the family bave gone to Osborne, and the German Emperor has statt ed with the Duke of Connaught, who was at Berlin. A British cruiser will meet them at Flushing and convey them to Usborne.

DEEP FEELING IN ENGLAND. The Queen's illness is causing the most profound feeling, and anxious groups crowd around the newspaper posters reading the latest news.

SPECIAL PRAYERS OFFERED.. At the early morning services, prayers were offered for Her Majesty's.speedy recovery.

- LATER.

AN UNOFFICIAL BULLETIN. HER MAJESTY IN EXTREMIS. It is unofficially reported from Osborne (8 p.m.) that the Queen was in extremis and 'that it was only a question of hours.

THE German Emperor has commissioned Mr. G. Watson, of Glasgow, to design a racing cutter, an improved Afeltor Her construction is to be started immediately. LORD Dufferin resigned the Directorship of the London and Globe Financial Corporation bofore he was informed by letters of the Company's embarrassinents, and has since withdrawn his resignation and postponed his departure to the Cape.

IN Melbourne the value of tex-houses-run by women is so surely rising that a boom is ex pected next year. A lady was recently offered over 500 for x business which originally cost £100. She, however, refused the offer, al thought she had only been in business for about 18 months,

NEW YORK city at the end of December developed a big small-pox scare, which grew so serious that the press of the city was admonished by the city authorities to remain silent until they had the matter well in hand. It is presumed that the infection was brought into New York on some of the South American liners.

Miss Clara Clemens, the daughter of Matk Twain, will soon make her appearance on the concert stage, after a course of hard study in Europe. She prefers to sing first in her native Land, not because she wishes to use her father's fame as a stepping stone, but because she is a thorough American, and loves her native land

better than all others.

THE ROYAL FAMILY-ASSEMBLED. | MESSRS-W. D. & H. O. Wills, Ld., of Bristal and London, have, asa Christmas box, presented AWAITING THE END.

through their South African agents to the troops January 21st..

now at the front one million cigarettes, which The Royal family is assembled in the bed-Lord Roberts acknowledged in a personal tele chamber of Her Majesty, and the end is ex-gram from Johannesburg as follows: "Please pected at any moment.

accept hearty thanks of self and aimy for wel. come present of cigarettes, they will be greatly. appreciated."

TELEGRAMS,

The following telegrams have been court cously forwarded to us for publication, by the

Colonial Secretary:-

Governor, Hongkong, to Secretary of State,

London, dated 21st January, 190r. "Colony of Hongkong leams with profound grief at serious condition of Her Majesty the Queen and fervently prays that the Almightly may be pleased to restore Her Majesty to health."

AT à children's service at a London church

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At the offices of the Public Works Department. yesterday afternoon Mr. G. J. W. King offered for competition Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,117, which is situmite at Mong Kok Tsui and consists of 7,000 square feet. The upset price was $7,000, and the lot was bought for $9,200 by Chau Sau Moy.

THE Return showing the numberofcases of Cont- municable Diseases which are notified as having occurred in this Colony during the week ended the 19th last gives: In the City of Victoria a cases of Bubonic plague, 1 case of Enteric fever (Japanese), 1 case Squall-pox, (Indian).". in other districts no cases. Deaths from plague, 2 Chinese,

WILHELM 1. has done another very sensible thing domestically, though it will not mitigate' Mr. Kruger's annoyance at his diplomatic ac- tion. The Kaiser has issued a decree that English is to be taught in all the higher. schools in Germany. He is far-sighted enough to realise the growing importance of that won deiful taugue which is rapidly becoming the predominant language of the habitable globe, and as German education is essentially up to date, a knowledge of English is essential,

A PRETTV speculation as in the fragnientary value of a public character is raised by a story which Pernhardt is telling against herself. When she was playing Jeanne d'Ate on her last American tour she was hurt one night by kneeling on a rusty nail. The wound gave considerable pain, and it was thonglit that a

slight operation might possibly be required. The fact appeared in the daily papers, and a. day or two afterwards the famous actress receiv- eda telegram from the manager of a museum in Chicago, saying that if it was found necessary to amputate the limb might he please have it? He added that he would drape it if desired. THE Medical Press and Circular, after point-. ing out how instruments and other apparatus. of the operaliug-100m are carefully asepticised, recently, a missionary, after telling his youth- remarks that danger still lurks in the long- ful flock about the bravery, of a soldier at the dress of the nurse or probationer. Every front, drew a picture of a missionary in Chitta movement of a woman who trails her dress is surrounded by a bawling inob; and with bound to stir up all the bacteria upon the floor weapon but his Bible."Both these men

beneath her, and to distribute them in the air were brave, both were fighting," he said, “but

in the form of dust. These trailing`skirts are one was fighting to kill, the other, the mis sionary what was he trying to do with his

an outrage upon common sense in the ordinary environment of life; in an operating room or a Dible "It 'em piped a very tiny voice, -

hospital ward they constitute a serious and THE lesson was given from the. Prodigal Son. gratuitous danger to the welfare of patients. and the teacher was dwelling on the character So far as hospitals are concerned, therefore - of the elder brother. "But amid all the rejoi the crusade of Lady Harberton against long cing," he said, "there was one to whom the skirts has a sound scientific basis,' preparation of the feast brought no joy, and to whom the prodigal's return gave no pleasure, but only bitterness; one who did not approve of the feast being held, and who had to wish, to attend it. Now, can any of you tell me who On the 22nd at 16.55-3.m. the barometer has this was?" There was breathless silence, and risen in S. China, particularly about the Northshien from a sharp youngster came the reply: of the Formosa Channel. Pressure is probably."Please, sir, it was the fatted calf” high over N. China. Strong monsoon on the Foasts of S. China, and increasing monsoon in Part Cura Sen. Forecast:-Fresh N.E. winds; drizzling rain or mist.

Secretary of State, London, to Governor, Hongkong, dated 21st Janitary, 1901. "I am desired by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to gratefully acknowledge message of sympathy which you have sent on behalf of Colony of Hongkong"

WEATHER-REPORT:

The Observatory report says:-

LOCAL AND

GENERAL,

A NURSE, to take charge of children on the voyage home, is advertised for from Penang oll

THE Shanghat Daily Press is now being issued

Press,

MR. Hughes, a New Yorker famous for his practical joking, has put the judges of a horse show in a ridiculous light. Under an assumed name, says the Yorkshire Posts New York cor respondent, he entered a horse in the saddle class, and at the trials his daughter rode the animal round the ring. The horse and another were finally selected as the most-worthy in the Adrat inexplicable telegrams, à corres-class, but in the final trial the other animal was pondent tells of one that soune time ago ap-awarded the blue ribbon. When Mr. Hughes peared in a London morning paper from its learned his horse had just missed carrying off the Queensland correspondent, announcing (1) prize, he soberly announced that his entry was that the Governor had inaugurated the comh cast-off tram-car horse, which he had bought mencement of a new railway in the Colony, for eleven dollars. The judges are now busy and (2) that Lady Kennedy, the Governor's explaining how they were fooled. Mr. Hughes. wife, had just given birth to twins, the elder two years ago entered a stray tom cat in the being a son." The latter announcement camo Oriental female class of the Cat Show, and á as a thunderbolt on the friends of Sir Arthur special prize was awarded him by the judges.

a year before as a confirmed bachelor Fran- INCLUSIVE of several warships at present com.

Peat Whisky, (smoky) and could not in different form, under the title of the New Kennedy, who has just gone out to the Cololty now be replaced in stock at the price.

D. is well known for month of Ramazan, ie the month of fast, terminates to-day. To-morrow is observed as its fine flavour.

a public holiday by all Mahommedans. D

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E. is of superb quality and pronounced by lead-from the ist inst, until the end of March, 1901. ing local connoisseurs to We would remind our readers of the Scotch AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S STEAM NAVIGA be the best brand in the City Hall, on Friday next, the 25th instant, Concert, to take place in St. George's Hall, Particulars will be found in our advertisement Columns.

TION COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM TRIESTE, FIUME, PORT SAID, COLOMBO, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.

THE Steamship

"MORAVIA,"

having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods 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 Fiume, er S.S. Medea. From Massada, er S.S. Styria. Optional Cargo will be discharged here unless notice to the contrary be given immediately.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the office of the Undersigned before Noon, on the 28th instant, or they will not be recognized,

(635

No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 28th instant, will be subject to rent..

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

SANDER, WIELER & CO., Agents Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901.

"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP BENLOMOND," FROM LONDON.

Hongkong Market.

tic inquiries were cabled over, "Who is thepleting in home and foreign dockyards, the lady?" and it was finally clleited that the Russian Navy, according to the "Kallin," now original cablegram ran thus: "New railway consists of twenty-one battleships, twenty-one commenced. Goremor turns first sød," This first-class cruistrs, cleven second-class cruisers, H.E. THE Governor has appointed Capt. C. Gwas read at the other end, Governor twins,, nine torpedo-cruisers, fifteen ocean-going Pritchard, R.G.A, to perform the duties of first son," and was duly "expanded" into the gunboats, ninety-six torpedo-boats, thirteen Adjutant to the Hongkong Volunteer Corps

two interesting items of intelligence given war transports, nine training ships, thirteen. above!

armour-plated coast-defence warships, ten THE Fall Mall Gazette of the 10th ult, says yachts, the latter being rated with the Navy. coast-defente gunboats, and six Imperial For once in a way the British public has The Auxiliary Volunteer Fleet now consists of did 1 Last night, it seems, six Hooligans set of rapid conversion into armed warships. The behaved as such. Would that it more often

seventeen fast cruisers, all of which are capable upon two young working-men in the Blackfriars aboys list does not include the two first-class road, knocked one down, characteristically cruisers and six destroyers which are to be, enough, from behind, and belaboured the other added to the Black Sea Squadron within the the parable of the man who journeyed from cruisers is to be built at Sebastopol, the ather Jerusalem to Jericho as if the priest and Levite at Nicolaieff. The dimensions will be; Length, ware solely to be commended for their prudence 430 feet; beam; 54 feet: and mean draught, 23 good Samaritans in the most practical fashion tons, 19,500 horse power, and a speed of 23 in minding their own business. They played feet. They will have a displacement of 6,400 by going for the Hooligans, knocking the lol knots, and will each carry a very heavy arma down into the gutter, thrashing them as they ment-Yorkshire Herald. lay when they refused to get up again for further knocking down, and anally dismissing them with

CONSUL-GENERAL Wildman and Mrs, Wild

A. S. WATSON & 00.. LIMITED nan leave Hongkong to-day for San Francisco But the passing public for once did not read next two years. One of the new Euxine

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

BIRTH.

On the 16th January, at No. 1. Acushnet Villas, Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. L. REMUSAT, of a daughter,

The

per s.s. Cily of Rio de Janeies, on a holiday, Consul Wildman, we understand, intends to return here some time in June.

THE Raub district promises, says the Malay Mail, to have a staff in 1901 more commen surate with its unportance than has hitherto been the case. The A.-D. O. has now the assistance of two experienced Cadels, Messrs.

Hongkong Gelegraph Frost and Bishop, the atter of whom is, seport kicks to the back streis: "Where the police

KONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1901.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

says, to be gazetted a First Class Magistrate The clerical staff is, to be augmented by the addition of a Land Office clack and a Tamil interpreter and clerk while there are to be process servers at both Raub and Bentong. More than this, proper sized offices are to be built, quarters for the police inspector will be erected, a district engineer is to be in residence a market is provided for, an assistant surveyor. modious Rest House is to be built.

were does not appear, but in their absence the public is quite right to deal thus trenchantly with the comman enemy.

Tux Occasional Notes man of the P. M. G

WRECK OF THE TAMSUI-MARU." TOTAL LOSS FEARED.

CREW AND PASSENGERS SAFE. The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, Agents for the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, courteously inform us says flint-Side by side with the new and that they are in receipt of news to the amiable custom of sending cables as Christ-effect that that company's steamer Tomsti Baru stranded on a reef off Queinoy Is mas presenta (are they likewise "designed in England and made in Germany") has grown land, near Anipy, on thewed, but it is feared ment has taken in hand the question of the will be quartered there, and now and comp another, not nearly so. praise-worby, and crew and passengers were saved, but it is feared

Chinese Coxswains.

length aga lett, beam 35 feet, depth:13.7 feec

3,800 horse power. The vessel was under the command of Captain C. Hasegawa and left on her usual run to Swntow, Athoy and Tamsul, hew on Sunday the 13th instant, at daylight,

We are pleased to see that the Govern registration of the coxswains of the different

that the steamer will become a total wreckin launches plying in the waters of the Colony.

probably much more indigestible,, It is the According to Lloyd's Registor, the Tamshi manufacture of birthday books out of the Mara was a vessel of 1038 tons and was built by Hitherto we believe that it was possible for IT would appear that Sweden has found itself writings of the lafest novelist. Of the making. Theimpson and Sons, at Sutherland, in a man to have disaster after disaster record constrained, to adopt, universal compulsory of such books there is, indeed, no cad andJ697 Her principal dimensions are given as,. ed to his credit and yet, so soon as the last military service. At all events its Minister of no beginning-merely scraps, which is quite She was fitted with triple expansion engines of period for which his certificate, bad been War has prepared a Bill for that purpose, and according to the public taste just now. suspended had expired; to go and obtain employment as though nothing had happen there is no doubt that in due course it will be One of these books, which has recently ed, his new owners being under the impres passed by the Enedishe Parliament Up to appoared-is-garnished with motimes from * DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. formed flint all Goods are being landed trustworthy and careful man, A reference recruited by voluntary enlistment, deficiencies one date, that he wears the right sort have been on the return journey, Quemoy,

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby ion that they were engaging a thoroughly the present. fime the Swedish Army has been a popular lady writer. We are told, over so that at the time of the accident she must [85e at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong

and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, to the new regulations, which we publish being filled up by a certain number of kuen Limited whence and/or from the wharves elsewhere, will show that this will no longer being compelled to serve for a period of ninety delivery may be obtained, and be possible, and we trust that this very wise days. The new Bill, however, provides thr, No Claims will be admitted after the Goods piece of legislation will result in the careless all men physically fit shall in future be obliged have left tlie Godowns, and all Goods remain and incompetent coxsivalis being gradually. ing undelivered after the 24th instant, will be subject to rent plumda APAR

For Freight or Passage, apply to

Agents.

Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901,

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAM- SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR MANILA.

THE Company's Steamship

“ESMERALDA,"

of collars."- Buch Information may be per- fectly accurate, but it doesn't thrill us, and we are talber glad is n't our birthday which is decorated by this, inanity. If we are to have

weeded out. Of course every toan 18 liable ally serve with the colours for 365 days, this sort of thing lef us have it hot and strong. to bad fortune at times and may have an ac namely, for 245 days in the first year, 15 days. Quite a nice book, for instance, could be made

All Claims against the Steamer must be pre- assented to the Undersigned on or before the 28thcident, but the average Chinese coxswain inincacs of the 3rd, 4th and 5th years, and out of the Corelli writings a little Sorrows of

instant, or they will not be recognised

Captain G. T. Blaxland, will be despatched above on TUESDAY, the 29th instant, at & P.

This Steamer has Superior Accommodation for Passengers and is fitted with the Electric Light

A Doctor is carried. For Freight or Passage, apply to

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., General Managers, Hongkong, 22nd January, 1901

(96c

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 23rd instant, at 3 pa

No Fire Insurance has been effected Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

GIRB, LIVINGSTON & Co,

Agents. Hongkong, 22nd January, 1991.

very careless and casual navigator, and the finally for 15 days in the oth year, Recruits | Satan" with half a pound of "Master Chris results of enquiries into launch Collisions drafted intri the cavalry and artillery, and into lian, slow gently over fire, and season to held at the Harbour Office will fully bear cert in sections of the engineers will, however las

out our statement. The mere suspension of be require to serve for 281 days in the first

* certificate means very little to a Chinaman, year and for 42 days in each

but when he finds that a bad record means S

want of employment the mil hat he must organ

1970 eith

Bill also

2nd-and

territorist

Island, off which she was wrecked, is a few miles to the eastward of Amoy. The Tamsui- far was fitted for first, second and third class on the run, owing to her fine seagoing qualities. passengers and was one of the most popular beats

THE LILLIPUTIANS

Last night the Lilliputians again produced "A Gaiety Girl" to full house, the little people You Are Some of our only Marie's once more acquitting themselves with honour on the Press should be especially and entning.loud bursis of applause. Tonight be staged Journalists, for example, Fal: the queical comedy In Town well the imagination reels and will run for three nigins of

■ to book think that the popular care stor the case we wo 1st Teally be on the wane at last, early, as a bon

PiKif that O.Nekat mind him barely star

rdr, means

bom when the