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Entimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO.,

LIMITED.

IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS

SHERRY.

Perilor.

D. SUPERIOR PALE DRY, Dinner

Wing, Green SealCapsule .$12.00

C. MANZANILLA, PALE NA- TURAL SHERRY, White Capsule

CC. SUPERIOR OLD PALE DRY, NATURAL SHEKRY, Red Seal Capsule

D. VERY SUPERIOR OLD PALE DRY, Choice Old Wine, White Seal Capsule

E. EXTRA

OLD

13.50

16.00

THE HONGKONG telegraph, satuRDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903.

NOTICE All communications ntendol for publication lu The "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH}" should be adrirewod to the Editor, 1, Ice House Road, an should ho

the Writer's Namo and bo accompanied Addres

The Manager.

Ordinary business communications should be addressed The Ellior will not undertake to be. responsille for muy rejected MS., ur to return any Contribution.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES (IN ADVANCE). Datty--830 per annum.

The

WEEKLY $18 per annum. The rates per quarter and per mensem, proportional, daily iesno is delivered free when the addrow in seeride to mwenger. On coplex it by post an additional $1.80 per quarter is charged for postage. The portage on the weekly issue to any part of the

world i 80 conta por quarter,

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LOCAL AND GENERAL:

APPLICATIONS for pas age brokers' licences for the year 1994, hader. Ordinance. No. 1 of 1889, will be received at the Harbour office from the 12th to the geth inslunt.

PUBLIC latrines are to be erected on the west of the Bowrington Canal, in Canal Road West, and on the vacant land on the north side of Bridges Street, acar Ching Won, Street,

MESSRS, A. G. M. Fletcher and J. J. Bullen have been appointed deputy registrars of Single Copies Daily, ton denis; Weekly, twenty-marriages, the former with effect from and in- cluding the 17th inst., the other from the 4th inst.

five Ceuts.

Telegraph HE the Officer Administering the Govern

The Houghong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903.

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

It seems that the general opinion in naval circles, as regards the comparison of the Japanese fleet with that of Russia, is that Japan is superior in point of speed and homogeneity; otherwise, in actual fighting strength the two are well matched. On the other hand, Russia can augment her naval forces with a few armoured cruisers, which 18.00 | Japan is at present not in a position to do.

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SUPERIOR PALE DRY, Very Finest Quality

old bottled), Black Seal Capsule 27.00

B, C, and CC are excellent Dinner Wines, D and E are After-Dinner Wines of a very superior vintage. All are guaranteed pure Xeres Wines.

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Samples bottles and smaller quantities will be supplied at proportionate wholesale

rates.

We only guarantee out Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents

at the Coast Ports.

With trait to her military strengib, Russin has 250,000 troops in the Far East and could mobilize two army corps if required. Her military authorities consider that they could not be attacked at any point by a superior Japanese force; but they are not quite so sanguine about their fleet, though they do not admit that the Japanese are superior to themselves in this department.

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| CA-E of plague is reponed as having occurred during the past twenty-four hours, an infected (Chinese), bady being found near 355, Des Vœux Road, West.

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TWENTY-FOUR subscription griffins, being the first batch of whimals coming down from Shi hai for, the race season, are expected to anive to-morrow, per the Chaysing.

'RICKSHA FARES..

IN THE NEW TERRITORY.

The following fures for the hire of rickshas on the new Tai Po Ruad beyond New Howloon are published in the Gazette.

ment has approved the appointment to the' Hongkong Volunteer Corps of Dr. E. A. R. Laing as lieutenant (supernumerary pdical To 4th mite-vincle ..... officer),

per annum, with the uption in your comp,ny of acquiring the full ownership of the property | at any time within twelve years, by undertaking I to pay an increased rental not exceeding in all $18,000 per annum. The agreeme t will be submitted for your approval.

6. The residue of the issue at preference stock previously authorized by you for the pur poses of the company, amounting to £73,082, was created and sold during the year. Four per cent. consolidated debenture stock to the amount of £764,350 was also created and sold, and the proceeds were used to cover the cost of the Pacific coast steunships, and for the acquisition of the bands of other companies, whose lines constitute a portion of your system the interest on which had, with your authority, been guaranteed by your company,

7. The land sales for the year amounted to addal for cash extra 2,639,617 acres for the price of 39,695 673, being `an average of $1.67 per acre

Twenty cents shall be

hour or part of an hour if the hirer causes the journey 1s take longer au

75 cl......1 hou retung komen. 51,003, moka hours. Beyond 4th to 6th mile-ringe ..........$1.20.......... Ja holen,

rebirt....$.50... ..4 hour A NEW issue of unified stampi has been receiv

255 buur ed in Penang, and will be issued to the public Beyond Bih in ga naka-single, 88.75.....

return...sə.00ng hours, Beyond 9th to 12th mile-single og 3 hours

as soon as the old ones have been sold out

Applications have already been received from stamp collectors in England or copies of the new issue.

THE adhesion of Russia to the terms of the Sugar Convention is now imminent, "say's a

recent cable from Brussels. Baron Korff, the Russian delegate, has had conferences with the Permanent Commission, the effect of which has heen to reingve all difficulties. The conditions of Russia's adhesion are now being drawn up.

On Monday afternoon on the Happy Valley the Hongkong Football Club "A" team will play .M.S. Number under Association rules. for the Club-C. C. Hickling, goal; H. C. Austen and J. M. For ester, hacks ; L. C. Rees; w, T. Caulfield, and 11, C. Gray, halves; E. J. Davies, C. H. R. Chespry, A. J. Darby, W. £1. Williams, and H. F. Chard, forwards.

Kick-off at 4.30 p.m. The following will-play

By virtue of the authority vested in him by the third section of the Hongkong Extersion. Ex- emption Ordinance, 1899, the Offices Adminis- tering the Government has ordered and declared, that the Licensing Consolidation Ordinance,

a matter of fact, to all outward appear ances, these two Powers in the Far East, are very evenly matched all round in matériel. In these columns we recently Bave a short sketch of the Japanese army system, and we shall now proceed to examine her naval strength as compared with that of Russia. Of battleships, she has eight alto. gether, two being more in the nature of 1887, shall, from the 27th ult, apply to the New armoured cruisers and the others larger Teitories in so far as it relates to the licens and more powerful. Four out of these sixing and regulations of public vehicles and of the Mikara, Arabi, Shikishima and Halse traffic carried on by means of such vehicles. are thorougly modern and the other two,

INFORMATION has been received from the mili namely the Fuji and Yashima are some seven years old. These ships are all abouttary authorities that heavy gun practice will be carried out, from Victoria Battery on the raili range is clear, but if not it will be carried out

A. S. WATSON & Co., eye cans displacement and heavily armed,

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THE Negri Semindan Estimates for the ensuing year have been published. At the end of the current year it is estimated that there will be a credit balance of {5;26,062, inclu ling'a sùm of

reinra...$2.30.......... hours.

8. Dari be year the guarantee of your company as to interest was endorsed on con- solidated bonds of the Minneapolis St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company to the amonat of $2,454,000, representing the co of 1227/toil miles of additional railway construct ed by that company.

9. To meet the pre-sing requirements of Fares for journeys beyond the tith mile to

settlers, many of whom came into the country, be a matter of previous arr ngement in each

during the past two years, your directors auth - orized the coas ruction of a railway between The fares apply to one neksha wth three Regina, on the main line, and Acola, the pie. coolies from Tsim Sha Tsui.

Ca5e:

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

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TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT.

Mr. 11. E. Brown, general agent of the C. P. R. Co. for China, Japan, India, etc, fürwards to us the twenty-second annual report of the directors of the Canadian Pacific Railway Com- pany for the year ended June 3 th, 1903, which we have pleasure in reproducing as under':- To the Shareholde s.

The accounts of the company for the year ended June 30th, 1903, show the following results:-

Gloss earnings.

Working expenses........

Net carsings..........

-$43.957.373-03 28,170,327.20

........$1,836,845.73

..8614,932.41

futerest ou deposits and beans Interest due from the Da- Juth South Shore and

Jattestic Kỵ.

Khung solickated bonds field by The company.EU KRI Less advanced by the

company $2,280,00

Interest from Simsvapolis St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ky. Co. on bands held by the company,.............. ..... 159,723.Ou Interest from Miseral Range Rall road Co. on bands held by the company

Dedeer fixed charge....

404,000.00

50,1ÚCOU

Deduct amount applied against cost of slower

slipas

From this there las heen charged half yearly dividend da prefer ce sinck of per cent., país.tst April, 1903

.......................$650,000.00 And a half-yearly dividend on ordi. sary stack of zi per cent, pail ist April, 1903.

$129,907 brought forward en January 1st. The balance of assets over babilities on December The 31st, 1974, is estim wed at $434, 5495 chief public works are $15 ool for Feren ban water-supply: $50,000 out of $ co,000 for públic offices; $10,0.0 towards Astana at Sri Menanti; And second half-yearly dividend

|2,117,300.00

1,294,812.41

sent terminus of the Pipestone Branch, a lis tance of about 113 miles; and an arrangement has been made whereby the Manitoba and North-Western Railway will be extended an additional distance of 33 miles. You will be asked to approve the construction of these lines and to authorize the creation and sale of suf- ficient 4 per cent. consolidated debenture stock for the purpose.

SHAKESPEAREAN, KEGITAL AT THE CITY HALL,

ROMEO AND JULIET.

The audience that 'attended at the Theatre Royal 'ast evening was select and courageous. Not everyone wit risk the painful disillu sions so often experienced hen listening to the rendering of a masterpiece of our "Divine William" by a single personage; for, in this branch of the dramatic art, there are nel her the cunning similitudes of scenic art, diversity' of cha ne ers, nor the brilliant and romantic. splendour of costume, contemporary to the spoch depicted in the play, that aid the imagin Ation of the spectator to a conviction of its realism when witnessing an elaborately staged drama Mrs. Hannibal Williams had at her disposal, for the captivation of her audience, the most glorious song of praise on that inexpres- sible feeling, which ennobles the soul and gives to it as highest sublimity, and her own talent for declamation. Without the second the first would have been no joy, bu a long drawn agony: "One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again."hat Mrs. Hannibal Williams suereeded in holding her audience under the spell of the grandest pivan to love that poet has ever sang, imparting to her listeners all the continged 'emotion pro- voked by the ideal picture of purity of heart, warmth of imagination and passionate intensity of feeling, there can be no doubt. There were faults to find, of course, but where is the Englishman, possessing the cult of our Divine dramatist, who would declare himself content in every detail with even the most seemingly perfect representation of the drainas or come dies of the master? Shakespeare is n religion with us, and the old saw, to the effect that many family libraries in Britain consist of the Bible and the works of the Bard of Stratford-on-Avon, will still hold good in a large measure. There fore, to his ardent admirers, it will for ever be that the finest rendering of our glorious drama- tist can only be on a stage of our own imagin- ing, peopled with actors, born of our cherished. fancies. Enough has been written on the origin of this dram: to fill the columns of this paper for a year, yet for conventions sake, - though it be with a sentiment akin to remorseful sacrilege, must we touch lightly upon the subject, story done into English in a remarkable poem Romeo and juliet has its origin in au Italian

entitled "The Tragicall Hystory of Romeus and Ju iet, contayning in it a rare Exampe of true constancie, With the Subtil! Counsels and Practices of an old Fryer; and their ill Event." The original tragedy, which is said to have actually occurred in Verona, in the year 1303, differs considerably from that which Shake- speare has made immortal. In the original Komea first saw Juliet at Christmas, and aine months elapsed before the course of their true love ended in death. Shakespeare compitsses the nine months of his original history into five days, and in five acts tells the whole, sweet dranis. of youthful passion. He has done so with such force of transcendant genius, that no other story but that which he has told can eve

10. The original $25,000,000 of 5 per cent. land grant bonds having been satisfied, the mortgage securing them has been canceled. There remain outstanding. $15,03,000 land bonds bearing interest at the rate of 33 per cent. per annum guaranteed by the Dominion Government: The proceeds of the sales of lands covered by the mortgage securing these bonds will be deposited with the Dominion Government in accordance with the terms of the statute. Five hundred thousand dollars have been thus deposited during the past year, and the amount due on deferred payments will go far toward liquidating the whole amount in the next few years, when the residue of your lands will be relieved of the mortgage and the bonds will become a government obligation; in the meantime, the government pays interest on the deposits at the rate of 3 per cent. per

annum.

11. Under the authority of the resolution pasted at the last nunual meeting, your direct- ors purchased from the Elder Dempster Com. $17,13,658.19 pany fifteen steamships constituting that com- 70s, 19927pany's Canadian-Atlantic fleet, the purchase ..$10,000. price of the vessels and of the good-will of the sellers being £1,417,500 sterling. This amount has been temporarily advanced from your sur plus earnings pending the issue and sale of per cent, consolidated debenture stock to a like

150,06%.O

--- 24 plus,500.00

$ 7,158.900.97

From this there has been declared a second half-yearly dividend on preference stock of a per cent, payable 1st October, 1903$ 650,000.

amount which you will be asked to authorize

mure be accepted as the correct one.. Yitin at this meeting. An unfortunate accident

the story of "Romeus and Juliettu," the lovers resulted in the loss of one of the freight lived for "a month or twaine" the joys of their

steamers. The amount required in excess of the insurance to replace this vessel will, of course, be charged against revenue.

with a high speed and large coal capacity The Fusoo and Ching Yuen ate somewhat

al a later hour on the same day. The fring smaller. The Japanese cruiser squadron is will be at a target moving from a point-opposite fast and homogeneous, with an average ton-Lower Belchers Battery, South-West of Stone- nage of about 10,000. There are six of these cutters Island, to Chung flue, at a range of Surplus thorougly up to date and fast vessels with sev about 4,500 yards, eral in reserve that could be quickly put into commission. Russia has, in Chinese waters, eight battleships, only five of which, however, may be ranked as first-class. There are the Retvizan, Petrapaovlovck, Poltava, Sevas topol and Tsarevitch. All these ships are equally well armed, and average something under 13,000 tons. Thus, it will be seen that, in point of tonnage, the Japanese battle fleet is superior and, as regards first-class battleships, Japan has one more. On the other hand, Kussia has three second-class batile ships, the Perasmial, Pebeida and Osshalithya. Their speed is good and, unless handicapped by sailing with the rest of the fleet, they could do about eighteen knots, which would allow of their being used as heavily armoured cruisers. It is doubtful if the rest of the FURNITURE feet could, as a whole, do more than fourteen knots under normal conditions. The Tsar DEALERS.

vitch, which is the newest, is only about three 9.30 am. on the 11th and at 9 a.m. an the izth; arranged that this be done at a cost of 5848,744, from surplus earnings, will have been absorbed. (Scene 3. Act IV), savours too much of the

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years old. Kussian cruisers in the East are rather mixed, but, of the largest, there is no one vessel of similar build in Japan that can favourably compare in point of tonnage. Take, for instance, the Ciramobor, of over 12,000 tons, and very powerful. There are also the Bayan, Rurick and Rossia, the two latter being about ten years old. Then come the Dianu, Pallada and Varyag, fast, but a good dealsmaller. With respect to for- pedo vessels and small craft, the two flects are about equally well matched Japan having perhaps the advantage. Altogether, the balance appears slightly in favour of Japan, KITCHEN UTENSILS, and

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PROMPT RETURN. Hongkong, 29th August, 1903, CARMICHAEL AND CLARKE,

and roads.

on ordinary stock of 3 per cent.. payable Octher 1st, 1903 2,535,200.00

GUN practice will take place from Lyemun

2. The working expenses for the year amount- (Pak-sha-wan and Sywan Bateries) in the ed to 63.97 per cent. of the gross earnings, and direction of the entrance to junk Bay at ranges the net carnings to 36 03 per cent, as compared. from 2,000 to 4,000 yards on the 11th of Decem- | with 6:44 and 37.56 per cent. respectively in ber, and from Stonecutters West Battery in a 1952. south-westerly direction nt ranges from 600

and end at 11 a m. daily, if the range is clear.

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12. If the proceeds of the sale of $19,500,00 ordinary shares, there had been expeaded to the end of the fiscal year $17,228,953 (sca ex- bibit "H"), and there were orders vutstanding for cars and locomotives undelivered amount.

ng 10 $4,221,565. Since then additional orders have been placed to the amount of 51,351,000,

ments. When these contracts have been filled,

wedded love, and for "certaine months" Romeo supported as best he could the agonies of exile The Bard changed all this, and restricted to one divine night the consummation of that love of which there is no purer and more passionate expression in all the literature of the world.

Last night Mrs. Hannibal Williams gave us Scenes 1, 2, 3 and 5 of Act 1, Scenes 1, 3, 4 and s gl' Act 1), Scenes 1 and 4 of Act 111,

and it is proposed to continue the policy of increasing the rolling stock equipment as rapid-Scenes 2 and 3 of Act IV, aud Scenes 1, 2 and 3 from Act V. She was really excellent in the 3. Your directora deemed it desirable to acty as circumstances will permit, until the com.

love scenes (Scene 2, Act II and Scene S, to 2,000 yards, on the tath of December, 1903,quire for your company control of the Kingston pany is well ahead of its immediate require Act II), but her rendering of the immortal If the weather is unfavourable on either of the | aid Pembroke Radway, extending from Ren-

beroine's fearsome despair, when about to above dates, practice will take place on the frew, on your main line, to Kingston, on Lake the proceeds of the issue of common shares, us

drink the potion supplied by Friar Laurence 14th of December. Practice will commence at Ontario, a distance of 4 miles. It has been well as the amount of $3,000,000 appropriated

and you will be asked to approve the expendi

The cost of cars and locomotives purchased ture -22,002 shares of the preferred stock and during the last couple of years has been sub- 5.182 shares of the ommon stock, constituting stantially increased, because of the necessity. about 83 per cent. of the whole capital of the for getting se many of them outside of Canada, Kingston and Pembroke Railway company, will and paying the Canadian daty on their import be deposited with your treasury securities.ation. "In the near future, when your own The line is now being operated under working shops have been completed, it is expected that arrangements with that company, pending the you will be able to build yourselves most of execution of a formal lease which will be sub- the cars and locomotives required, thus saving miited for your approval..

the manufacturers' profit and the duty. Your directors will ask authority to expend $5,000,000 during the next year on various classes of equipment in addition to all orders that have been placed up to this time.

THE following returns of the average amouni of bank notes in circulation and of specie in reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th November, 1903, as certified by the man- agers of the respective Banks, are published in

the Gazellem

Average

Amount

system.

Specie Banks.

in Reserve. Chartered Bank of

4. For several years past your company has India, Australia and China,...$3,299,196 $2,000,000 been operating the Calgary, and Edmonton Railway for account of the owners, receiving Hongkong and Shang bal Banking Cor

in return the benefit of all the traffic in either poration,....

11,864,505 7,000,000 direction between points on the Calgary and of National Bauk

China, Limited..... what

443,40 150,000 Edmonton Ine and points reached by your The country along the line has Total,.....$15,000;951′ '$ 9,150,000 | been settled with considerable rapidity and the contributed traffic has grown to large proportio. s. Under these circum stances, your directors thought it wise to prevent this possibility of the railway passing in

into an agreement to lease the line, extending to unfriendly hands, and, therefore, they entered

from Macleod to Edmonton, in Alberta, a dis tance of 295 miles, for a period of ninety-nine yeais,,g ampleeing, by way of rental, 4 per cent, per annum on the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Company's Consolidated debenture stock, amounting to 1,121,700. To ensure the complete control of the property and its franchises, your directors contracted to pur chase for your Company all of the capital stock of the Calgary, and Edmonton Railway.Com pany for the sum of $500,coo. You will be asked to formally sanction their action and to approve the lease.

would be the exact part played by armoured cruisers in a flect action, however, there is no doubt that WITH reference to the Japanese, ua an South efficient scouting, which is the cruisers main sea Common, "Ket red Commander' writes to business, is absolutely essential, and it appearsing attention to the absurd mistake in the

Truth :--1, for one, am grateful to you for call that, here, Japan should have a marked descriptive plate fixed on the carriage of the advantage under the present state of affairs. Japanese gun presented by the Queen and Moreover, the Russian seaman has not got placed by Portsmouth Corporation on Southsea a very good name; he is treated, in some Common. Year after year I wrote in courteous, cases, with an harshness almost amounting terms ointing at the error, and my letters op- to brutality, and this is most calculated to peared in the local Press. Finally, in despair, develop intelligence which, now-a-days, is so about twelve years ago, I need to subscribe much required at the guns It was different one shilling if nineteen, others would do the in the old days of three deckers, where, the

same to provide a new plate, in case financial main thing was to fire the guns as rapidly as difficulties stood in the way: But even this possible towards a large target. Russian sea- generous ofter produced no results. May your men are pressed men and have not got the appeal be more successful 1. hope, however, reputation of taking the same pride in their that the cannon will not be removed. It pos service as the Japanese. The development of sesses considerable historical interest, showing the Japanese Navy has been so rapid during that at a time when Japan was a closed country, the past fifteen years that one hesitates to form and when the impression generally prevailed a definite opinion as to its thoroughness, and that its people fought with bows and arrows, it remains to be seen in a naval engagement they really possessed guas equal to those of how much will depend upon, the fortune of war, how much upon the education of officers European nations. And those who, like my and men and, lastly, how much upon the self, faced these guns can testify that they were individuality of character in the nations handled in a manner that would have done

credit to the gunners of any nation, [asse engaged.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS AND

SHIPBUILDERS, SURVEYORS AND CONTRACTORS.

REPAIRS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO,

TELEGRAMS: "CARMICHAEL," Hongkong,

A. B. C. Code, 4th Edition. A. I Code.

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TELEPONE, 233 to Just

Hongkong, zih March 1903.

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Lindsay, Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railway An agreement has been made with the Company for the lease, on its completion, of that company's line from Burketon, on the mam line of your Ontario and Quebec Section, to, Lindsay and Bobcaygeon, is distance of about 40 miles. The rental to be paid is 4 % of the gross earnings, but not less than $10,000

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Many of the new works on which capital has been expended are being carried out on a more comprehensive scale than was originally con- templated, and the increase of nearly 50 per ceat, within three years in the tonnage moved annually has made it imperative that you should, for the convenience of the public and your own financial advantage, provide forthwith many

moting promptness and economy in the handling additional facilities, calculated to assist in pro.

of your traffic, that under ordinary conditions, might have been spread over a number of years. Notwithstanding your large outlay in the past for lands, tracks, buildings and other works at your more important terminals like St. John, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa and Winnipeg, the fac lit es at innst. f these points are quite inadequate for present demands, and, as o result, there is frequent congestion resulting in inconvenience and expense to everybody concerned. With a view to remedying these conditions, and in order that the work of bring. ing your properly to a high standa do you will be asked to authorite the directors jo efficiesey may be continued without cessation expend cap al for these general purposes to an amount not exceeding $4.500.000.

For the Directors,

T. G. SHAUGHNESSY,

Presi enti

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deep passion of mature womanhood; and would suit the gruesome tragedy of Lady Macbeth rather than the touching misery of the gentle Juliet. From time to time Mrs. Hannibal Williams let slip, malgré elle, a suspicion of the trans-Atlantic accent, and she would do well to watch this, for it jars on artistic tempere. ments, strained to a pitch by the thrilling beauty of the text and the dramatic interest of plot. Her diction, delivery and expression well for the performance to be given on Tues- were alike of the best. This success nugars day next when Mr. Hannibal Williams wall render that grand drama fenry IV in his first notice on the subject appears elsewhere in and only appearance in this city. A special

these columns.

SHIPPING AND MAILS:

MAILS DUE.

Indian (Kumsang) 7th inst, Australian (Chinglu) 8th ins". German ( Kiautschow) 8th inst. American (America 'Maru) 81b inst, Canadian (Tartar) gibi înst, Tacoma (Victoria) 13th inst. American (Korea) 15th inst. Canadian (Empress of China) 21st inst. American (Garlic) 23rd inst.

The T. K. K. Co.'s sis. América Maru anives at Hongkong on roth inst

The P. M. S. S. Co.'s ss. Korea with mai's, &c., from San Francisco to the 18th ult, via Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and leaves for this port is Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai, on 6th inst.

⠀⠀⠀ The P, M. S. S. Co.'s 6.9. China with mails,

&c., which left; hence, on 6th ult, for. San": Francisco via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, In- land Sea, Yokohama and Honolulu, arrived at her destination on and inst, two days ahead,

HE Beer to drink in the tropica is the Beer.

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