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THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

MEETING AT THE CHINESE Commercial UNION

The adjourned, meeting of the members of Lie, Chinese Commercial. Union, to consuler FAT BOILING ESTABLISHMENT —And discuss the Currency Question was hell The Sunitary Board meeting yesterday, then the offices of the Union at 3.30 o'clock this application respecting No. 16 Des Voeux Road afternoon. There were present Mr. Fang Wa being registered as a far boiling establishment, Chun, president, (in the chair), Messrs: Ho was refused on the motion of, the M.O.H. Fook, Wong Kim Fook, Li Pak, Fung Kü seconded by C louri ! ughes.

Shaw, Ho Komi Tong, A. Rumjahn, Chun Chai Nam, Lau Chu, Pak, Liao | Taz Shan, Chiu Siu Ki, Tam Tze Kong

HOWARD D. TERRILL, 12 Manila nttur- and the staple article of, food, rice, came therefrom. He believed the native popula may charged with obtaining money by false tion would feel the effect of the fall in the pretences in Man la, has been released, the dollar much more keenly in the future than. S. authorities having filled to prove the they were doing at present or than they had charge. He was defended by Mr. Norman done in the past. Then as regards Municipal work, as the Commissioners were all aware. the Municipality was a very large imputer from gold-using countries. Before the beginning of each year the whole of the Municipal revenue ws appropriated for various works and services. When there was any excess under any particular vote owing to the heavy fall in exchange the excess had to be made good by savings on other votes, which meant "starved" votes and simply the abandoning of certain ser-

ANOTHER CULE-SE—Aboutthree o'clock

this attemom the rout of the premises formerly used asterien a Dispensary, in Caine Road, opposite the Cattedrit fell down with a crash injuring several persons three of whom had to be removed to the Hospital. Inspe tors Mackie

of police searching for injured The premises were undergoing alteration.

mini-

position, combined in a pre-enlisent degree, all the patience, industry, adventuteness, "and" ish of the good old type of British merchant. -pioneers who have made England what it is. No sooner Mr. Sutherland came into power than he grasped the situation at a glance nud realized the clangerinto which his Company was running and immediately set to work bringing all the expedients of a fruitful brain and powerful resources at his back u bent on the facement of a formidable and dangerous interloper.

How well and Thoroughly be succeeded in hisubject is already a matter of history and the records of the Company in Hongkong and London will bear emple

Chow Tang Shan, Cho Sik Chow, Ku Fei San, testimony to his genius and his worth. Meats- Dr. Kwan, Li Sow Hin, Chan Ming Yee, Ip. | while, the Parsee and indian merchants, the Poi Shan, and Cheong Si Kal

head and front of te opposition, nnt content. Mr. Fung Wa Chun, in his opening with amassing large fortunes in cotton venturės remarks, stated that this meeting" 'was during the American Civil War, must need

members for a discussion on the currency collapse of the stare mania in Bombay during question.

1865 one fine morning most of the fees and On the motion of Mr. 10 Fook, seconded Bhoys came tumbling down like a pack of

inquire into the advisability, or other vise, of left complete masters of the situation and their Government be requested to take steps to nearly followed suit. The P. &. O. were now adopting a gold currency or standard for this young ir a energene superintendent fully to k advantage, conciliating the shippers by fair and courteous treatment, relieving the conges tion of the Bombay trade by placing extra" cargo steamers on the line, patically heiring and heeding to their appeal and gentually sweeping away all abuses which had crept into the service under long years of an independent- monopoly and which had rendered the mus of the Company very unpopular. This judicious by Mr. Sutherland during the remainder of his regime and by the time he was

Colony...

On the 6th December, at Mt. Roskill, Auck vices. Mr. Maclaren, the seconder of the moand Withers were soon on the spot with a body calted in response to the request of certain gamble and dabble in shares, and after the On the 6th December, at Mr. Roski, Auction, humorously observed that, it was curious (Hankow), of a daughter.

history repeated itself. They found that

Road, Hongkong, ROSALIE BÖTTENHEIM, the vessels were all made of pure gold, Silver MONEY ORDERS:-From the 1st January by Mr. WongKumi Fook, it was resolved that the cards and the China! Merchant S. N. Coy.

On the 12th inst, at Glenwood" 21. Caine according to the Scriptures Solomon's

next, the commission to be charged on the was accounted as nothing in those days! issue of money orders payable in Hongkong dearly beloved sister of Arthur H. Bottenheim.

115Ad Placing aside for the moment other and the agencies in China, will be one cent

aspects of the currency questions, Mr. per dollar or fraction of a dollar, with p Barker felt bound; as a Municipal Commis-mum barge of 5 cents; for money orders on sioner to support

the resolution The all other places the commission will be one. instability of the currency was undoubtedly and a half cent per dollar; on the amount (of hitting them very hard. Their finances equivalent of the amount) in dollars, with a were thrown into confusion, and their minimum charge of 10 cents. estimates upset, by the constant drop in RACE-PUNIES --We hear that, the keen exchange. Although the Budget for next sport Mr. George Ports, although about 10

their disposal, they might find within a few represented at the forthcoming races, his well ceedings held at the Chinese Commercial weeks that the provision they had made for known ponies Pantur. Deseri King, and Rebel Union this afternoon, and printed in

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GROWTH OF THE T. & O. co.

THE SURVIVAL OF THE FTTEST. · At a time when Shipping Combines and Trusts are the topics of the hour, abri-f history against the Peninsular and Oriental Company on the Bombay and China line, may not be un-

Side by side with the report of the pro-year had been framed to suit the means at leave for home, will nevertheless be well of the rise and progress of the opposition and far-seeing policy was invariably pursued

another coluinn, advocating the appoint-necessary gold contracts was totally inade- King being due here from Shanghat to-morrow in eresting, mote especially as it brings in promoted to the London Orice his name had. ment of a commission to inquire into the guate. Again, as large employers of labour, by one of Me.srs. Butterfield and swife's de erved prominence the name of a gentleman become a household word amongst the Indian

the following resolution was submitted and carried, viz "That this Board is of opinion that every endeavour should be made to secure fixity of exchange and that Government be requested to submit to the Rt. Hon. the Secretary of State for the Colonies the views of the Municipal Com- missioners of Singapore on the urgent need for establishing a stable currency in this Colony," When it came to the turn of the Chinese commissioners to express their views Mr. Choa Giang Thye stated that, fixity while doing good to some may do harm to others, Being a member of that

press the question to a speedy settlement, for delay seemed to decrease the hope of a satisfactory solution and, speaking as a Commissioner, he felt that the sooner they. got upon a gold basis the better would be the prospect for the ratepayers of Singapore After much consideration, Mr. Jago, the third speaker, was convinced that fixity of exchange would not only be a good thing for the Colony, but would be the only way of avoiding disaster. Scientific discoveries have greatly decreased the cost of recovering silver. Millions of ounces are yearly ex

steamers. It is also probable that gerne and two or three more Shanghai "cracks" will be here in time to take part in Longkong's annual carnival,

lecture on inataria and its relation to the

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HONGKONG HARBOUR-From the 15th inst until the end of January next, obstructions will be laid in an area to the south of Store cutters' island, The area will be defined by wo small black buoys with white Blogs laid about 1,200 yards south of the southernmost point of Stonecutters Island. The cast and west boundaries will be drawn due north to meet the island. Anchoring" within this area is prohibited, but there will be no obstruction

to navigation through, the area except by a

who his played no insignificant part in the community. It may not be generally known they were met with demands for compensa

early social and political life of the Colony, and that at a public meeting of Parce and Indian question of currency with a view to estion from their staff, to meet the enhanced

who may justly lay claim to be consid:ied as

merchants assembled, for the purpose just tablishing it on a fixed basis for this Colony,

cost of living, demands they felt to

one of the makers of Hongkong. In the carly, before the departure of Mr. Sutherland for it is interesting to reproduce the views be reasonable, but without finality.

years of the fifty's, when the P. & O. Company England, it was unanimously and cheerfully expressed_by_the__Chinese_members on Whatever might be said on the other side, -MALARIA--AND THE MOSQUITO did not boast of larger ships than the Lady resolved to give him an address expressing of the Municipal Commission of Singapore. and he did not deny the difficulties sur The. Hongkong Odd Volumes Suciety will

Mary Wood, the Bragazia, Me Azoff the their good wishes for his future and their These were given at the last ordinary sounding the question, the broad fact. Id an At House at the City Hall on Monday, Cadis, the Kuji, the Aos &c, &c, on this regard and esteem for his invariable courtes fortnightly meeting, when among the remains that in business stability is the first at 9.10 p.m., when Dr. J. Thomson will

side of Suez, when silk and sile piece goud and kindness, and for the removal of numerous from Hongkong to Bombay and Malwa opium grievances ander which they hitherto labonged- subjects brought forward for discussion thing, nay everything, and with a silver mosquito. H.F: Sir H. A. Hake will take she was the present all-absorbing topic currency they were drifting they knew not chair, and a very instr, ctive and interesting from Bombay to China invariably had to be. This address (drafted out by the late Mr. Y. J. supervision enable us to produce of exchange, difficulties. At that meeting whither. He trusted the Government would evening should ensue, especially having regard shut qui for want of 100m, when the freight on | Murrow, the proprietor and founder of the a chest of opium from Buimby was Rs: 30 to Daily Press, in his terse and telling language) to the fact that the lecture will be straten Hongkong and Rs: 31 to Shanghai or nearly he received only on the expres condition of its with naked eye and microscopic demonstrations: 185 rod Rs: 225 per ton respectively, not being published in the papers. The rest of mosquitoes and the parasite of malaria.

when shipping orders for, opium were openly of the history of the opposition may be briefly sold in the Bombay Bazaars at a premium, an old. The China Merchant S. N. Coy, sogn insignificant dispute about an opium shipping after gave up the ghost. The Pacific Mail order laid the foundation of that persistens.. and the Messageries Ma ilimes Caics were opposition which has at last culminated a each making up their minds to enter the list, the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian, but somehow or other never showed their h, nds the Italian and the Japanese lines of seamers and the first European opposition on the li The first opposition was started in the was inaugurated by the steamers of the Austro winter of 1854 by a sinalt syndica e of Parste Hungarians in 1873, then followed the Italiane and Marwaree: bankers, and shr ffs styling Navigazione and lastly the Mitshi. Bussan themselves as the Bombay Mercantile Steam

Kaisha. But the master spirit whigh... Company. They came across a Haltic cattle then guided and still guides the course of the carrier of about 600 tons, purchased it, bedQuis Seps abit opposed each of the powerful Board, he naturally should like to do all he acted as a bye product from residues few buoys which will be visible on the surface

it the Bombay Guste and despatched it tone, of steainers by a keen spirit of competition,- which formerly were thrown away as worth" could to facilitate the business of the Cor-less. Year by year as new countries are A POPULAR SPORTSMAN-Mr. George ongkong, under the command of Captain Freight on opium from Bombay was reduced poration, but whether fixity would facilitate

opened up the pinduction of silver musi in H. Puits, the deservedly popular sportsman Dando, an old trustworthy commander of one from Rs. 28 and 33 or longkong and Shang- and well known. broker, who is leaving the of the Parsee opium clippers. The service hai, respectively to Rs. 1 per chest and on. the work of the Municipality without injury crease until a point is reached when it willst for a health- rip to the auld countric,continued for about a couple of years with cotton yarn from Rs, 26. to Rd. per ton of to its general revenue is doubtful. Some of the leading Chinese whom he had consulted no longer pay to win it. There is only one arrived from Shanghai by the Tadus today. more or less regularity and efficiency, but with 40 fect, a bag sugar weighing one pical fun held a view against fixity. Mr. Lee Choon hope for silver-that is that the production Mr. Potts has not been enjoying good health de ided success, and the syndicate was then lungkong to Bombay which previously paid of gold may so increase that the value of for some time; but we are glad to hear he is merged into a powerful limited tibility St for freight was now carried at 3 cents per Guan gave it as his opinion that fixity general interests of the Straits Settlements, It would shift the burden of fluctuation be. tween gold and silver from the shoulders of those trading with gold countries, to those dealing with silver countries. There fore he thought fixity would do more harm than good. He would give the matter his support, but was afraid it was a very difficult problem to solve,. as the interest of the Straits Settle ments was not identical with that of India. The first speaker said that, the opinion was entertained by certain Chinese in Singapore that if fixity was secured there did not seein to be any probability of the prosperity of the Colony being increased. The divergency of the views between the Chinese commercial community of Singapore and Hongkong is therefore great, and the conditions for the adoption of a gold standard in Singapore would seem to be, after a perusal of the articles which appeared in these columns during the week, far more favourable than they are in Hongkong. It must neces- SQUATTERS BOARD Mr. Bruce Shepin Australia by one of the up-to-date Japanese Merchants S... Co, stood face to face against sarily be, therefore, a matter of considerable heid has been appointed secretary and Mr. difficulty for the Commission, whose appoint George Herbert Wakeman assistant secretary, ment the Chinese Commercial Union to the Squatters' Board.

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amongst them silver. That, to his mind, is by no means improbable, but it must be a slow and gradual process. And they could afford to wait for it. Singapore was being one of the rapidly transformed from cheapest places in the world to one of the dearest, and thousands of people there, who formerly lived in comfort, now felt the pinch of- poverty.

If that continued and the only ray of hope was the enormously in creased production of gold, the Colony would become bankrupt. With equal force the remark might be applied to Hongkong.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

SANITARY MEASURES AGAINST HONGKONG are still in vogue at Manita, Lisbon and Bangkok.

SHANGHAI Quarantine restrictions, at the discretion of the Healthy Officer, are still in force against Shanghai,

friends in the hope that his visit to the mother country will do him much good and, that we shall have the pleasure of welcoming him back to the Gorgeous East before very long as 'fit as ever he was, and, if possible, even more so,

COURTS Thus the THE NEW LAW Hongkong carr spandent of the Norik China Daily News :—i ani interested to note that at last a few men are engaged in chipping granite the site of the New Law Courts. The in ference is, though it is somewhat hazardous to draw inferences from any proceedings of a procrastinating Government, that the P. W. D. are really about to commence the construction of this sarely needed building. But between its commencemeat and its completion, what ages may elapse. The century will no longer be young, I imagine, when the cap is placed on the dome of the Law Courts.

men the writer sincerely sympathizes.—

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4rect from Canton at. not inore than the under the style and name of the China Mer freight of the river steaners Iron Canton to chants Steam Navigation Company and com- Hongkong. This cut-throat competition was showed no signs of flinching until at last the prising amongst it numerons shareholders, carried on for some time, but the interlopers almost all the Indian inerchants of note in

superior diplom.cy of the P. & O. bought over. Bombay. The very first step of the new ill opposition by their agreeing to allow each Directorate was the purchase of another of the three lines a certain annual lump sum clumsy tamp yclept the United Service of on condition of adopting an unifom triff about 703 tors burthen and auxiliary horse of freight and undertaking to refrain from alk and silk piece go. ds from Canton 10 power, and these two lame ducks, thanks to carrying opium from isompay to China and the supineness or indifferen e of the P. & O-Bombay if fact, the much talked of Company, continued to heep the semblance Comte system of Mr. Morgan may be of an opposition and to bring in substantia! called nothing more than a copy on a giguauc scale of a scheme first, successfully put jato returns to the shareholders, until the con

execution by a Scottish worthy some ten years ago, and in whose recent sad bereave- mencement of Civil War in America. The eyes of the Indian public were now thoroughly opened and flushed with enormous pr-fit on cotton ventures, the shareholders in public meeting assembled unanimously voted an addition, of two new steamers on the line and. the lengthening of the United Service by about 25 to 30 feet and placing new and powerful At a regular meeting of the Ararat Lodge of DR. MORRISON, the celebrated Peking engines into her. The United Service was, the Royal Ark Mariners held on the oth ist, I believe sent on to Messrs. Renfrews & Cu.. for the ensuing year, by 1. C. N. Wur, Lin,

Bro, G. P. Lammert was duly installed as W. C.. correspondent of The Times, arrived here this afternoon from Shanghai by the Messageries of Dunbarton and the two new boats were. Bryant. Wer. Bro. Laminiert then appointe Maritimes liner Indus. We understand that but order by alessrs. C. J. Mare & Co. O and invested his officers us fullows:- Dr. Morrison is now taking well earned furlough Southampton, The three vessels: took their and is going on from here shortly to his homepla es on the line in due course and the China Steamers plying between the fair Land of the the 1 &0. C with four steamers, namely, the Rising Sun and the far famed Antipodes. We John Bright, Indgrè, liombay Castle and the are glad to hear that this distinguished voyageur Unite Servic. The new steamers, though has completely recovered from the wounds he pretty to look at, proved both defective and sustained in the gallant defence of the British unfortunate, and the service abogether was Legation in Peking a couple of years ago, and erratic, unsafe, mismanaged and inconv.nient mercial community at the same time as it

hrattly wish him a pleasant trip to his home The Indore frequently broke down and had to will provide a scheme, whereby the interests

land and, complete restoration of his wonted belowed back to port and lots of money were of the public and the commerce of the

health and strength

spent from time to time to put her again in order." The Joka Bright van down a port may not be affected. That such a Commission is desirable, and, indeed, almost

A SMART KUN-The French Mail steamer French barque (the nasie) in the Straits fidus aarived here this afternoon from Shang of Malacca, and what with ligation and absolutely necessary at this juncture seems

hai. She was piloted by Captain Anderson," | "legal expenses, the Company was mulcied to admit of no doubt. Singapore has received

Benior Member of the Shanghai, Pilot Asso in a pretty round sum of Re 200,000, Des- attention at the hands of the Colonial Office,

ciat on, and has made the run down the coast pile these defects, losses, and irregularities the and the support which its municipality gives in

at an average speed of 1st knots per hour,ludian opposition continued to flourish and the resolution just adopted points to a general BOXING :-Charles St. Clair, of Manila, who laking only 54 hours to cover the distance gain in strength and popularity, and taking The II.A.L steamer Silesin from Hamburg concensus of opinion in favour of a stable was recently at Hongkong in connection with a This is good work, and shews that in the skilful into consideration its influence and clientele, left Singapo e for this port on the 11thinst, and currency, which, if, could be secured for boxing match is now at Shanghai where he will hands of Captain G. Duchateau and Chief bid fair, at na distant date, to seriously cripple may be expected here on or about the 17th inst Hongkong, would be held as nothing less than conclusions with Ryan, of Peking, for Engineer Augule Caesar the Indus is one of the the resources of the 1. & D. in its most lucra M. Si S. Co.'s steamer Doric with a boon and blessing to the community. We gold, and with West of. H.S. Fees fastest, as we as one of the most confortable tive a d thriving route. And strange to say, mails, &e., left San Francisco for this post 7/16 and Munday of H.M.S, Pique, for'a 20-round vessels in these pats. She brings a number the British Company, through the prde Heluhi, Yokohama, Inland Sea, Kobe, Nor reproduce some of the views expressed by the contest.

of passengers, including Mr. A. J. Parry, ghorance, and spinebess, or call it by what stand shanghai, on the ith inst

The MM. Co.'s steamer Laos with the next. European commissioners at the Singapore meeting, to which we have already referred. THE SMOKE NUISANCE)=With eference the intent engineer, Dr. Morrison the words you please, continued indifferent, in French Mail left: Saigon yesterday, the tat The Fresident, Mr.Anthonisz, who moved the the application by the Steam Laundry Co. HJ'otts, Mr. J. Connell, of the Centenon active and lethargie, for more than a decade inst., at 9 pan., for this port and may be se for an extension of forty days in which to com-Syndicate, and Right Rev. Bishoff loffmann, during which the opposition had started. For-pected here on Monday, the 15th inst., at 4 paine The P. & A. S. Co.'s steamer. Didravelli, lett resolution, urged the following points that

ply with a smoke nuisance Rolice, it was agreed of Shansi, Mr. G. Martin is Chief Officer of the tune sly, however, for the P. & Or the managePortland (UE) for this pott vid Yukolan might be brought before the Government, by the Sanitary Board to grant the application Jadur M. Mathien is the courteous and in ment and superintendence at Hongkong fell, Kobe and Moji on Wednesday, the loth hist Messrs.-J.-H. DOWNS and viz-Singapore is now situated between subject to the chimney being heightened in the defatigable Commissaire, and Perely sure this juncture, into the bands of a gentleman and may be expected here on or about the

geon, and Mr Marty, the well-known ship.. CHRISTIE,

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MAILS DUE. French (Laos) isth inst American (Guelle) 16th inst Indian (Kugisang) 16th inst. ;- Canadian (Athenian) 18th' inst Canadian (Empress of China) azad inst. American Hongkeng diaru) azıd inst. American (China) 31st inst. American (oric) Sth pron

The steamer Merionethshire Jest Singapore on the 12th insi, at 4 pit, and is expected here on or about the 18th inst

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