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AT THE MAGISTRACY.

LARCENY. A

Wing Wah Hing, unemployed, no fixed abode, stood before Mr. Hazafand this morning on two charges of stealing clothing from the house 36, Third Street, and also with stealing, a hand sewing machine, value $20, on the 15th, jast.

Sergeant Sim and others gave evidence. The defendant pawned the goods and the Ser- geant found the pawn ticket on him.

His Worship passed tentence of a month's

hard labour on each charge, three months in

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'LARCENY.

Ho Tak, coolie, stood before Mr. Kemp this morning, charged with stealing 8 pillow boxes, value Sió. He had a previous conviction and His Worship sentenced him to two months' hard labour. The man was reen carrying a bag. and, an examination, the stolen goods were found to be inside.

PAWNING GOODS PALNELY.

The saine man was charged with neglecting to give his true name and address whilst pawn- ing a thing.

That was a serious charge, as he gave a false name.

Sentence of four months hard labour was passed on this charge.

THE PHILIPPINES.

WHAT THE FILIPINOS SAY AND THINK. According to the official reports, which find their way into the American papers, the war in the Philippines is fast drawing to a close. But this has been said ever since the first collision between the Anterican troops and the Filipinos took place and now, close on two years after, matters are little better than they were at first.

In the course of a letter from Manila, a Filipino points out that guerilla bands are giving the Americans much trouble and are inflicting more loss upon them than when the war was carried on in a regular manner. The writer goes on to say that despite the predic tion of the Peace Commission to the effect that once President McKinley came into power the so-called insurrection would die a natural death within a short period, the rebel- lion still goes merrily on and shows no signs of abating.

The Amnesty Proclamation has turned out to be a fiasco, too, having had not the slightest effect towards inducing the Filipinos to lay down their arms, and the writer of the letter says that the drastic measures now being adopted by the United States Authorities serve to drive his countrymen to desperation rather than induce them to bow to the yoke of the Americans. "The result," says he," will be the same as in 1896, when the Spanish General Polavicja, with the shooting of Filipinos, tortur- ing and other damages inflicted on their persons) or properties, drove thousands and thousands into the insurgent ranks,"

The Filipinos say that amongst those deported to Guam, the Mariannes and Honolulu iz Signor Mabini, as well as many others who have never borne arms against the Americans. The Filipinos are already beginning to look upon Mabini as a second Rizal, and his deportation is not likely to assist, the American cause. It is also stated that many persons have been imprisoned on suspicion of sending money abroad to be used in the Filipine cause, when as a matter of fact it was simply being sent out of the country for the support of children or relatives who are being educated or maintained in foreign countries. "The Filipinos deny that the guerillas are supported from outside

Bources.

The letter which we quote asserts that the Americans have refused to allow anything that

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1901.

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

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A meeting of the Hongkong Branch of the above Association was held at Dr. Jordan's office, Prince's Building, at nine o'clock fant Evening Dr. Stedman was in the chair and after the official business had been gone through, Dr. J. C. Thomson read a very in" teresting paper on "Malaria with special re ference to Local Conditions.

The lecturer traced the discovery of the malarial mosquito from the first and described the work and investigations carried on by the various authorities on the subject. By means of diagrams he showed the life history of the malarial parasite, tracing it from its birth in the stomach of the malarial Mosquito through all its stages until it was transferred to man and again returned to the mosquito to complete the cycle. Diagrams, drawn to a very large scale, were exhibited of the malacial mosquito. (Anopheles) and of the harmless or non-malarial variety (Culex), while the larval form of each insect was also illustrated. Dr. Thomson also dwelt upon his researches into the various species of mosquitos found in the Colony and on what he considered to be the best method of eradicating the pest and ilus reducing, if not eradicaling, malaria. He also described the different methods of treating cases of inalaria with the various arguments for and against their adoption.

Unfortunately, Dr. Thomson's paper was of sa lengthy a nature that there was not sufficient time for a discussion to be held, and conse. quently this had to be postponed to some future date. At the conclusion of the lecture a very fine series of specimens were shown, including microscopic slides of infected blood, slides showing the parasites and their insect hosts, and a very fine series of the insects themselves, both living and mounted, including the larvae of both Anopheles and Culex.

At the conclusion of the meeting a very hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Dr. Thomson for his very interesting paper by the members present, who numbered nearly forty. We wish that Dr. Thomson could be induced i to repeat his lectura in a popular form before the Odd Volumes Society, for we are sure that were ho to do so he would win over many of the public to take an interest in the Malarial Mosquito, and this could not fail to induce many of them to lend their assistance to bin in con ducting his investigations..

THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM-BOAT CO., LTD.

The following is the report of the Board of Directors to the ordinary half-yearly meeting of shareholders to be held at the office of the Company, on Tuesday, the 5th February, 1901, at 12 o'clock, noon;-

The directors beg to submit to the share- holders the report and statement of accounts! for the half-year ending 31st December last.

After paying ruaning expenses, salaries,, premia of insurance, repairs and all other out. goings, there remains, including $42,267.23 brought forward from last account, the sum of $161,580.55 at credit of profit and loss account. From this amount the directors recommend that a dividend for the half-year of 8% on capital, 596,000, and a bonus of 2 %, or $24,000, be paid to shareholders, that $40,000 be written off the book value of steamers and launches, and that Spo,ooo be placed at credit of equaliza- tion of dividend fund, leaving a balance of $51,580.55 to be carried forward to new account It is also recommended that $70,000 be transferred from the Investment Auctuation account to the equalization of dividend fund which, with the appropriation of $50,000 from profit and loss account, will then stand at $150,000, leaving at the credit of the Invest- ment fluctuation account $161,753.68 an ample sum to meet any possible depreciation of value

in the stocks held by the Company.

As there seemed to be no immediate pro- spect of working the West River trade remunera

the steamers Wuchow and Samshut and four lighters, and the difference between the book value of the company's sharq of these vessels and the amount realised appears in the accounts now presented.

The Nanning, the first of the light draft stern wheel steamers built for the Canton- Wuchow trade, commenced running in Novem ber last, and the sister ship Sainam, it is ex- peated, will be ready to take the line some time in February

might remind the Filipinos of their wished-fortively, it was deemed advisable to dispose of independence to be used. Hence a lithographic establishment has had its stones seized and broken because it was printing labels for cigars and cigarettes bearing the Filipino colours and this arbitrary act is said to have: taken place without any warning. Later on a warning was sent to all the lithographic est- blishments in Manila forbidding the printing of any work which contained any symbol or words which might remind the Filipinos of the rebellion. A notice was also sent to the shops on the Escolta prohibiting the sale of any article of jewellery bearing a Filipino flag.! emblem, or Aguinaldo's photograph. It is also said that women have been arrested in Manila for wearing dresses of red, white, and blue, the Filipino colours, while jewellery containing these three colours is not allowed to be worn. The sale of photographs of Dr. Rizal has been- prohibited and all his works have been banned. It is also said that a lithographer named Cho- frè has been arrested for issuing a calendar bearing the name El Independiente, (The Independent.).

The jetter goes on to quote various instances of oppression on the the part of the Police, which, if a quarter of them are founded upon fact, go to show that the Filipinos are every where receiving the most scurvy treatment. To sum up the whole it does not appear as though the Americans have yet succeeded in making the impression that they would wish upon the the Filipinos. So far they only appear to have succeeded in exasperating them still further, and it is hardly to be expected that the rigorous policy now being adopted will improve matters. As we have frequently pointed out, the United States began with a big mistake and they have been plunging deeper into the mire ever since.

BLUE FUNNEL CONNECTION WITH AUSTRALIA,

NEW STEAMSHIP SERVICE.

The following reference to the new service of the O. S. S. Co., to Australia, appears in an Australian contemporary.

Arrangemen's have been completed for the vessels of the well-known Ocean Steamship Company managed by Alfred Holt and Co., London, to enter the Australian trade. These boats are mot altogether strangers to South Australian waters. A couple of years ago in the wool season one of the line visited Port Adelaide; last season there were two to come, and the owners evidently being satisfied with the prospects of trade, laid on five boats this season. One of these, the Orestes, has already beap dispatched, and a second, the Machaon, is dus next week. As giving an idea of the carrying capacity of these, vessels: it may be mentioned that the Machaon will have on board on arrival 18,000 bales of wool and 3,000 tons of concentrates ;* in fact it is quite within the bounds of the possible that she will lift-ore of the biggest cargoes yet despatched from these parts. So far as is known it is proposed to run a monthly service between Australia and Liverpool and London, and thus not only will the colonies be provided, with Additional tonnage, but direct trade with the north of England will be encouraged. The boats of the line do not appear on the refrige ated list, but from the fact that a contract has already been entered into to carry apples dur ing the season, it is evident that steps will be taken to fit up insulated space. The fleet of the company at present comprises 33 steamers.

Upon leaving the Colony Mr. E. Goetz re- signed his seat at the Board and Mr. P. Witkowski was nominated by the directors to fill the vacancy. This appointment requires confirmation by the shareholders at this meet

ing

The retiring Auditors, Messrs. A. O'D. Gourdin and F. Henderson, offer themselves for re-election.

J. J. KESWICK, Chairman. Hongkong, 25th January, 1901.

Astels December 31st 1900. Value of steamers Powan, Honam

and Heungshan and the of Fatshar

Value of steam-launches Lung-

shan and Lungkiang Payments on account of stern- wheel steamers Nanning and Sainam Value of lighters Sun Lee and

Wo Les

Value of wharves, hulks, and···

Moorings.......

$cts:

713,500.00

45,125,00

69,652.00

*12,000.00 75,141.62

8,340.77

750.00

610,154,00 2014.48 720,500.00 15,000.00

Value of properties at Wuchow

and Kongkun.

Value of coal, stores, and spare

gear.

13,375.5

Value of furniturə...

Value of shares in public comff-

panies.....

Value of Chinese bonds

Loans on mortgagesoun Short loan on security Cash with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Interest accrued to date Insurance premia paid for the

year 1901 Sundry debtors

grad

48,061.49 1,821.43

.

47,406.62 4,985.44

Liabilities,

December 31st 1962. Amount of capital, 80,000 shares

of $15 each, fully paid up. Amount at credit of depreciation

and Insurance fund almonum Amount at credit of equalization

of dividend fund Amount at credit of investment

fluctuation account Unclaimed dividends Sundry Creditors Amount at credit of profit and loss

· account

To Dleectors' and Auditape.fees. Te balance to be appropriated vi

Dividend at 8 per cent... by and bonus of a per

cent, on $120,000 $120 To be written off book

· ́value of steamers & 1 launches ...

40,000.00

To be carried to equ

alization of dividend fund.................. 50,000.00 To be carried to new

account

June 30th, 1900.

By amount brought forward from

last account December 319.

161,580,55

$281,113.68

cts.

42,267.23

170,31349

By net earnings of steamers By difference between book value and price realized for. Company's share of steamers Wuches and Samshuf and for lighters.......... 26,759.28 By interest on Investments... 41,685.18 88.50 By Transfer fees.....

-

$ 281,113.68,

*DEPRECIATION, AND INSURANCE FUND, Dr. December 31st, 1900. To balance.

Jung 30th, 1900. Byamount at credit.

Cr.

$ cta.

600,000.00

$,600,000.00

$cts. 600,000.00

$600,000.00 EQUALIZATION OF DIVIDEND FUND. Dr.

To balance...

December 31st, 1900,

Cr.

June 30th, 1900,

By amount at credit

December 31st 1900.

5 cts. 30,000,00

$ cis. 9,000.00

By amount brought forward from profit and loss account for half year ending 30th June, 1900±1,000.00

E.&O.E.

$30,000.00

́ ́T. ARNOLD;Secretary.

Hongkong, 28th January, 1901.

We have compared the abore statement with the books, vouchers, and securities of the Com- pany, and certify the same to be correct.

A. O'D. GOURDIN, Auditors. F. HENDERSON,

AUTOMOBILISM IN THE SOUTH

AFRICAN WAR.

Col. R. E. B. Crompton, Electrical Engineer Volunteers, who has been employed on the staff ia South Africa, and who was sent home by Lord Roberts to advise the British war office! on the use and organization of traction engines for war purposes, gave some interesting details of his experience of automobilism as he saw it in the field

Col. Crompton said that when he went to South Africa he had a strong mandate to keep his eyes and ears open on all matters connected with automobilism. When he arrived at Cape- towa he found that there was a most excellent service of traction engines, under the command of Col. Templar, taking all classes of goods. from the ships to the various rallways and camps. near Capetown. The engines were working magnificently, but in those early days of the wat there was a sort of fear that the use of mechanical means of transport was still an ex- periment. In dealing with the newer form of locomotion it was necessary to gat some on- gines up to the front. This was done by con- sidering them not as engines for traction, but as being required for electric lighting purposes. Once at the front they were used for transport, and from that time the cause of automobilism had not suffered in South Africa. When Lord Roberts wanted to put heavier guns into a position which was difficult, he always sent for action engines. The engines did twice what ever the Boers did and twice whatever the English sailors did although the latter had by great pluck and muscle got guns weighing five or six tons into difficult positions.

The lesson of the war as regarded autom obilism was a very striking one. It was this- the whole of the Transvaal was one mass of dead animals, it was impossible to feed them, and they died of staryation. The great outbreak of enteric fever was no doubt caused by the mass of dead and dying animals, but there was not a dead or stinking traction engincia the whole of South Africa. To give an idea of the importance of automobilism he might tell them that about seven weeks back he was managing a line of steam tractionsfrom Pretoria to Rustenburg, and they took about 130 tons of food per week fortwo columns 20 or 30 miles west of Pretoria. Thirty tons of that amount was food for men and 100 tons was for horses and mules. Ifthey couldhave! supplied self-propelled vehicles to the columns they could cut down the weight to about seven, or eight tone of fuel in place of the roo, tons of forage. Pretoria two months ago was starving and ifthey could have got zotons of food per week for human beings they would have been in clover, but that agens had to go on in fodder for the horses. would be found, if it had not been already proved, that all the heavier things, such as guns, wagons, engineers' park, etc., had been and could be transported most successfully by self-propelled machines, either steam or oil. There was a much more difficult

question.

It was his ambition to do something to relieve the English cavalry man and mounted infantry man of the huge weight the horses bad to carry. He wanted to introduce into the service some light vehicle that could accompany the cavalry and mounted infantry and carry part of the weight which killed the horses and destroy- ed "the mobility of the British army. He $3,355,854-36] || saw no difficulty in producing 8-25-cwt-engine to carry its two tons of load to follow the mounted troops in all places where wheeled carriages could go. As an instance of what traction engines had done in South Africa, Col Crompton stated that he had seen engines, gallop a to-ton gun up a gradient of ons in fivo.

-30,000.00

THE CROCODILE'S NEST.

A crocodile measuring, about 23 feet was 12,9313 hot as a place called Sarang Boya, writes a Batu Pahat correspondent to the Strafts Timis. 261,580,55

On cutting it up the remains of a human skeleton (skull and thigh bones) were found in $2,355,854-36

the stomach. This place, the same of which in Malay mean/crocodile's nest," is so in fested with these reptiles that even Targe Malay beats or Chinese tongkangs are afraid to anchor in the bay, as crocodiles have been known to climb up boats and carry away men asleep in the

PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT

December 31st, 1900,

Te amount paid for rep

CURIOUS LAWSUIT,

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS TO WILL

A FAYOURALE VERDICT,"

A strange, case of Christian Science is at- tracting cat attention in New York. The relations of Miss Helen Brush, a wealthy wo- man who died a few months ago, recently brought an action in the Surrogate's Court to have her will set ailde on the ground of undue influence. Miss Brush died of consumption after, a long illness, during which several Christian healers tried in vain to effect a cure Shortly before death she destroyed, a will leaving her property to relations, and made Akother bequeathing nearly her entire estate to Christian Scientists. Several, healers who have been called as witnesses have caused considerable amusement by declaring that consumption is only a condition caused by diseared imagination and is curable by lore. Small-pox and other contagious maladies, they said, were merely errors of the mortal mind, and could be cured by right thinking. It was for this reason that many contagious disease were never reported to the health authorities. This later pieca of news naturally caused great consternation. It is asserted that half a million Christian Scientists all over the United States have been called upon to concentrate their thoughts on the Surrogate, Mr. Fitzgerald, who is trying the case, to induce him to decide in their favour. The result of this psychological experiment is being awaited with great interest. KISSING THE GOVERNOR'S WIFE.

The Daily Chronicle says :-" Lord Ampt- Hint is taking to Madras with him as A. D. C. bis wife's young half-brother, the Hon'ble Robert Lygon, who holds a commission in the Guards, and has lately been serving at the front. It is to be hoped that the good people of the 'benighted Presidency may not be shocked by any Government House scandal! such as one which occurred in Bombay a few years ago. In that case the Governor's wife! was leaving the capital on a trip to Poona, and! her excellency was accompanied to the station by a good-looking military man who had been seen hovering about Government House, Just before the train started the man took her ladyship into a quiet corner of the specia! car- kissed her! Several inquisitive, people on the tiage, threw his arms around her neck and

platform watched the performance and thought| of the poor deceived Governor, who was away somewhere laying a foundation stone. News of the scandal spread like wildfire, and the excitement in Bombay reached a high pitch before it was found that the incautious lover was his excellency's A. D. C., and the fond young brother of the good lady who presided at Government House."

The Bombay Gazette gives another version of the story. It appears Lady Harris gave her brother, Captain St. Leger Jarvis, who was A-D.-C, a sisterly salute ou Poona station. One of his excellency's guard-of-honour was heard very improperly to exclaim: "I say.. Bill, there's 'er Tadyship a kissin' of the A.-D.-C.". His next number in the ranks com- mented on. the ignorance displayed by the other Tommy-" Garn,'e's 'er bravver."

POST OFFICE "DONT'S." .

Don't write the address on labels that have tó be tied on parcels. They often come off.

Don't write the address in red ink on brown paper. It is illegible by gas light.

Don't send game, etc., without any wrappings. The effect on other people's property is dis-

strous.

? Don't trouble the Post Office to weigh your parcels. They have plenty to do, and you can do it yourself.

Don't send perishable articles in thin card- board boxes, or, if you do,

Post Office when you hear of their arrival in a Don't say unkind things about the Coloniai damaged condition.

Don't send parcels badly tied up; they are a more fertile source of worry and hindrance to the unlucky officials who have to deal with them than almost anything else.

THE “JIM CROW" CAR LAW.

The decision of the United States Supreme Count, upholding the Kentucky statute that requires railroads to furnish separate cars for white and coloured passengers, has directed at- tention to a peculiar phase of the race question in the South. A coloured passenger on the Chesapeake and, Ohio Railroad in Kentucky sought entrace to a car reserved for white pass- engers. Being refused admittance, he brought against the railroad company the suit in which this decision is given. In the opinion of the Boston Journal, the decision is one that will not commend itself to "friends of liberty and fair play." "It is cruelly unjust," maintains, this paper,, " that a person should be discrim inated against in public conveyances for no better reason than the colour of his skin." Thei leading negro paper, the New York Age, is very indignant at the decision, and declares:

"We can not for the life of us see how the

Supreme Court can uphold such pronounced and mischievous and vicious class legislation as the separate car legislation. It is against the letter and spirit of the Federal Constitution and works direct and burden-some vitiation an the law of contract. Such legislation would not be tolerated by any other race element of the citizenship and it will not be always toler ated by us.

The Supreme Court has always been and the most dangerous coordinate branch of our system of government."

Of course the Southern papers take a very different view of the matter. Says the New Orleana Daily Picayune ?

"The fourteenth amendment to the Federal

Constitution guarantees equal political and social rights to whites and negroes, but it does not confer any franchise either upon whites or negroes to secure these rights at the expense of the other, Equal rights, without discrimina- tion, mean simply equal accommodation and treatment; but it does not mean taking away from one to give to the other. Separate but equal accommodation fulfils the meaning of the constitutional prevision, and separate cam, with equal provision for each race, satisfy the constitutional requirement. The courts justly refuse to construe the law so as to force either frace into intimate association with theother."

The decision in the Kentucky case," observes the Atlanta Journal, "knocks another hole in the Federal civil rights law, which is how about as dead as it ever will be. Literary Digest.

GALIFORNIAN TIN

rich lode of tin ore is reported as having been found in Southern California A tunnel has been driven in 65 feet and there is a dyke of ore seven feet in thickness in the face of the tunnel. Asanya show the are to run from 3 to 6 per cent. This mine is but to mijas fram the Temescal mine owned by a British syn- dicate which, after having shipped 150,000 of tio, osed down for the alleged reason that The opinion in general that the pay because of poor.

THE 10-PDR, AND THE POMPOM

(Pioneer)

The last reports received from home regard- ing the now fo-pounder breech-loading moun- tain gun and carriage are very satisfactory. The equipment has been handed over to the mountain battery at Newport for drill trials, and a detachment which had drilled with it for only two or three days, easily beat a detach- ment handling the present 3.5 muzale loading. gun, as regards "assembling" the gun and coming into action. The to-pounder fires cordite and the difficulty about the recoil segme to have been completely overcome. The re- armament of the whole of the mule batteries in India, the home of the mountain-gun, should be pressed forward vigorously. will be something gained if four batteries are re-armed as promised by April 1st 1901, The use of cordita will be an immense gain, not only in the greater range obtained, "but also because an enemy will be unable accurately to locate a battery in action. As we know, in South Africa the present guns could not be used, as the smoke from the black powder betrayed their position.

While on this subject of artillery, we may note that India is also to get some batteries of pom-poms at an early date; but the value of this pattem of gun must not be over-estimated. The Vickers-Maxim automatic quick-firer has a moral, rather than a material effect in action. Its seven shells follow each other in rapid succes sion, and explode by concussion on striking the ground; but the fragments on bursting are so small, that unless the explosion takes place actually in a group of men or horses, but little damage is done. Against a line of skirmishers, or even a brigadé advancing in open order, the pom-pom is ineffective. Its fire is decidedly trying to the nerves of men at first, but our troops in the Boer war soon got to know that it was a case of the bark being worse than the bite. The lay public have got an exaggerated idea of the Vickers-Maxim, owing to sen- sational statements by war correspondents. Thus Dr. Conan Doyle in his book The Great. Boir War writes regarding the battle of Colenso "Up yonder among the boulders there arises a horrible quaking dreadful monotonous hyena laugh, which comes from the worst gun of all, the malignant! one-pounder Maxim, the hateful pom-pom !" Vivid picture, but drawn with too free a hand. Twice only during the war did the pom pom do any great damage: at Modder River where the Maxim of the Scots Guardé was caught napping and the gun detachment and gun were wiped out; and at Spion Kop, where our men were clustered together with little or no cover, As a range-finder for heavier artillery, the pom- pom is admirable; and the best description we can give of it is that it is the jackal of the field- gun.

NOTANDA:

CALENDAR.\

JANUARY.

Meteorological means based on fiftin' years observations to 1898. ·

Barometer Thermometer ....... Humidity..... Rainfall

TO-DAY.

WEATHER REPORT.

.30.159

.59.7

74.

1.543

On dale at On dala

ILM,

Barometer....................... 1427 30.16 Temperature remi 66 Humidity 77 Rainfall

30.07 67 79

TO-DAY.

Thursday, 31st January, 1901. Chinese-121A of rath moon of 26th year of

Kwang-si. Gun-Riser

Sat

woman bhr, gamin. she, qömin. High water-Morning Bhr, 27min. Afternoon ...... 6hr. 38min. Low water-Morning ...... 2hr, somin, Morning.£thr, 18min, ANNIVERSARIES.

1606-Guy Fawkes executed. 1863- Sailor's Home, Hongkong, opened.. 1887-Loss of the C. M. Co's steamer Howtang off Dadd Island, near Amay 1895-Outer forts of Wei-hai-wei captured by

the Japanese.

1898-Engineers' strike terminated.

TO-MORROW.

Friday, 15 February, 1901. Chinese-13th of 12th moon of 20th year of

Kwang.su. Sun-Rises ...

Sets...

blr 4rmine shr. min. ohr. 6min.

High water-Mörning

4hr. agmitti Afternoon Low water-Morning 2hr. 7min. Morning oðr, 28min. **ANNIVERSARIES ́. 1814-Great eruption of Mayon Volcano in

the Philippines. 1841-Inhabitants of Hongkong declared British

subjects.

1843-Foundation of Masonic Hall laid. 1878-Armed attack by Chinese robbers on

on Ap-lichow. 1895-Wai-hai-wei citadel Captured by the

Japanese. 1897-Chinese Imperial Post Office opened, 1899-Fire at Shanghai.

900-The last of the British Court at. Japan. Large Meeting of Bench and Bar at Yokohama.

AGENDA

TO-DAY,

9 p.m.-Sharp., Harmston's Circus at the Re- creation Ground (near the Race Course.) Cargo ex Malacre subject to rent.

TO-KORROW.

N. P. Co.'s steamer Olympia leaves for Victoria

B.C., and Tacoma via Shanghai etc., 8.30 for 9 p.m.Precisely. Regular Meeting of

the Zetland Lodge at the Freemasons Street.

9 p.m.-Sharp. Harmston's Ciraus at the Re

creation Ground (near Race Course)! 9.30a.m.-Mility Memorial Service St

John's Cathedral

argo ex Suisang subject to rent.

SATURDAY Mad........

C. & O. Co.'s steamer Kvarven leaves for, San Diego & San Francisco via Shanghai. 11:30am. Memorial Service at St. John's

Cathedral

Noon P. & O.S. N, steamer, Peninsular with Sage, mails etc, leaves for London (About)-P, & O. S. Ne Co.'s teamer Par ramalla leaves for Shanghai,

4 pm 0 & 0 Co.'s steamer Monmouthshire leaves for Portland (Or) and San Francisco via Inland Sex etc: Cargo ez Moywne subject to kent.

***- MONDAY, 416. Public Auction of Crown Land.

SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,

MAILS DUE.

English (Parramatta) and prox. German (Hamburg) 5th prox. German (Klautschwu) 5th prox.

· American (City of Peking) 6ih prox. Tacoma (Tacoma) rath prox. American (Garlic) 13th prox.

Canadian (Empress of Japan) 17th instant.

<The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s R.M.S. Empress of Japan, left Vancouver pan., Mon day, the 28th inst., for Hongkong ufo the usual ports of call,

The N. Y. K.'s steamer Kanagawa Maru, (European Line) left Kobe via Moji for this port yesterday, the 30th inst, and is expected to arrive here on Wednesday, the 6th inst

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The C. M. S. N. Cal's steamer Trenkai, from Glasgow and Liverpool left Singapors for this port yesterday, the 30th inst, and may be ex pected here on or about Monday, the 4th Feb.

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The . P. S. Co.'s Silk er steamer Victoria arrived in New York on the 29th inst,, also this Company's steamer Duke of Fife, arrived at Tacoma from Hongkong and japan on the 29th inst..

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, with Mails, &c, from San Francisco to the Bih Inst, via Honolulu, arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow morning via Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS. Dock Kowloon S.M.5. Hansa ............ S.M.S. Lucks..... U.S.S.Isla de Luxon H.M.S. Brisk Empress of India Garonne Lethair... Nanyang U.S.S. Albany. Eastern.... Chewfa... Daphne..... Loyal... Hansa

| Kvarvan

Cosmopolitau

Abordean

PASSED THE CANAL.

Outward-4th January-Bombay, Glengarry, Dresden, Deucalion, 8th January--Bingo Marks Teenkai, Bithynia, Rajaburi. 11th Jan-Ernest- Simans, Silesia, Reynolds: 15th Jan-Candie, Hector, Pyrrhus, Queen, Eleanor, Bien, Gallia, Kiauischen. 18th Jan Tamba Maru, Ching, Chittagong, Flandria, 22nd January-Khalif Stentor, Nürnberg, Tonkin, Reland, Nithrdals 25th January-Annam Kelvindale, Tangli 29th January-Bayern, Bombay, Glamariney, Halle, Glenesk, St. Andrews.

Homeward-18th Jan-Antenor, Ulysess, Socotra, Ambria. 25th Jan.-Prinz Hainrich, Frankfurt, 29th January-Occanion, Shinano Maru, Arezani.

Arrivals at Home-16th Jan.-Norwood, Afax, Meiles. 19th Jan-Lawhill, Manuit, Llaguno, Dresden 23rd January-Ashmore, Gallia, Sebraen, Inadă, Maru, Śilesia, 3018 January-Antenor.

Shipping

'Arrivals.

ARIEL, Norwegian steamer, 994, C, M. Rafen,

30th Jan.-Canton 30th Jan, General. Order.

THALES, British steamer, 830, A. Robson, sist Jan-Swatow 30th January, General Douglas, Lapraik & Co.

PENINSULAR, British steamer, 3,047, T. Lelgb, 31st Jan,Shanghai 19th Jan., Mails and General P. & 0. 5. N. Co. AMIRAL CHARNER French cruiser, 4.750,

Bashine, 31st Jan, Nagasaki 18th Jan.

Clearances at the Harbour Offon. Saikong, British str., for Samsui. Kwangite, British str., for Shanghai. Eastern, British str., for Shanghai. Guthrie, British str., for Port Darwin. Olympia, American str., for Moji Keongwal, German str., for Swatow Tsiniau, German str., for Singapore. Dunav, Austrian str., for Ghefoo. Germania, German str, for Singapore. Volute, British sir, for Manila. Stoiria, German str., for Yokohama...

Departures.

Jan. 31, Diamante, British str., for Manila. Jan. 91, Decima, German str., for Saigon. Jan. 31, Albenga, German str., for Shanghai, Jan. 31, Heikas, French str., for Hoihow. Jan. 31, Keongwar, German st, for Swatow. Jan 31, Firebrand, British gunboat, for Canton, Jan. 31, Pronto, German str., for Saigon. Jan. 31, Kwanglee, British str., for Shanghai. Jan. 31, Guthrie, British str., for Australia Jan. 31, Maria Teresa, Austrian str., for Shai, Jan: 31, Germania, German str., for Singapore.

Passongers-Arrived.

Per Thales, from Swatow-Mr. and Mrs. Thomson, Rev. G. Johnson, and Br Chinese

Departed,

Per Diderant, for Manila-Me F. A. Shor man, Ms Lolis and servant, Miss Lofada and servant, Mr. O. E. Ballin, Mrs. K. Yamaguchi, Mrs. TOkamoto, Mr. F. J. Codr, Miss Romero and servant, Master S. Bonagan, Messra. A. A Montagne: Pollard's Lillipution Opera Co. T. Matsuki, Mrs. H. S. Wallace, Mrs. J. M. Baker, Messrs. H. W. Newhall, B. Shewaram, C. Jones, 18 Chinese and 3 Chinese firemen for sì. Brand,

SHIPPING REPORTS.

Capt A. Robson, of the steamship Thales, from Swatow, reports Fine and clear throughout, with moderate N.E. monsoons and moderate sea. Vessels in Swator-Siskan, Glenfallock, Pakshan, Hoihew, Chill, Tamui, and Fachlit

STEAMERS EXPECTED.

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