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BETWEEN OURSELVES. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS

(Contiñued from Page 6.) through these columns regarding the gambling which takes place nightly in many of the European Clubs in this Colony. I might very well do so yet, the next time I feel like starting something. At the moment I can think of no more fraiful subject on which to base A faw appropriate remparts on the evils of class legislation. /

Raving Roddie.

AGO,

A Glance at our Files.

(14-20, Aug. 1897.)

DAY BY DAY.

It is notified that the name of the Chins Crude Ore Export Company, Limited, has been struck off the Register.

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The remains of a coolie, who AN OLD COMPLAINT- was accidentally drowned yes- We have heard load complaintsterday whilst discharging coal Taikoo lighter into of late respecting the blocking of from

cos! dump at the thoroughfares at the wharves Dockyard's or batel entrances by frantic Whitfield, were removed to the chair and ricksha coolies clamour. Public Mortuary," ing for fares Passengers landing from launches at Peddar's Wharf

should be shoulder.

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Roderick Random, whatever else he may be accused of, will have to thread their way through A stabbing affray took place in never quality to stand among the crowd of rickshas which block Ship Street last night, resulting garrulous. Ha hasn't enough the entrance to the wharf while in the removal of a Chinese to the energy for one thing, which the chair-coolies, in their anxiety Government Civil Hospital. The makes his two appearances in the to push their chairs in among the victim is now in a serious condi Daily Press this week all the more rickshas and so gain a fare, jos!letion. Another stabbing case is remarkable. Some folk, though, all and everyone. As a European reported from Belcher's Street, never do anything except under policeman is usually stationed on the mar attacked being removed the stress of strong emotion. Pedder's Wharf we fail to see to Hospital with a wound in the. Roddie is angry wi me these by the nuisance days which accounts, of course, allowed to exist, for a very small for his silly outburst yesterday amount of attention on his part

would serve to keep the approach A matsbed belonging to the morning. The sheep is a very

contractor, Wing Lee, who is feronious animal, even defending clear of vehicles.

building the new motor road over) itself when attacked. I might

the Peak, was burnt down yester- have known that. I might have. In his Werkly Shore List issued day afternoon. The structure, known also chat when folk bave at noon to-day Mr. Erich Georg which was located on the road a poor case it is invariably the confirms the news pablished in bore the cemetery, was com custom to under-rate the other the "Rialto" circular on Wednes-pletely burnt down, damaged to chap's intelligence. It sounds day last, and adds a few interest- the amount of $1,200 being caused. smart but it is no argumenting details respecting the cotton The outbreak was started by s Personally, I'd sooner be accused mill to be erected shortly in piece of farze which got blown "cerebral, confusion." The Hongkong. He says:~~ A local in the direction of the shed after Iatter does connote the existence Company has been formed for being ignited in a blasting opera- of something apart from mere the erection of a Cotton Spioning tion carried out on a site near by instinct. So you see, I was more Factory in this colony under the owned by the Nanyang Tobacco libers to Roddie than he to suspices of Messrs. Jardine. Brotbers Company.

Matheson and Co. as general

of

me.

NEW COTTON MILL.

Mind ve 1 dinna' object managers; the shares have all ໄດ້ these pleasantries. I been underwritten, but I hear

A sequel to the piracy which think ibar brighten up that a portion is likely to be

occurred recently aboard the Sai paper and goodness only knows offered to the general public. Tick, a small steamer trading the Daily Press needs something The site of the factory will be a between Hongkong and Shanmi, of the kind once in awhile-every East Point, near the Sugar Re- and resulted in the taking away day in fact for even wi' the help fineries, where a sufficient water of its very random contributor it supply is obtainable." We by the robbers of loot amounting utely carries the virtue of publish in this issue the pro- to $1,000, was the arrest of four stolidity to excessi But for the spectus of the Hongkong Cotton mea who are now being. beld sake of its reputation Spinning and Weaving Co under saspicion of having heed concerned in the affair. As the must warn it, however, against promoted by Messrs. Jardine, the use of language which, Matheson and Co., who will be arrest was effected locally, the belief is confirmed that the pirates English. in certainly the General Managers. The if pare

boarded the steame, in Hongkong not dignified. I'd forgive that. Company started under however, if wit all the time favourable auspices, and should, on it's bands it would,eren be we think, torn out * Good consistent and logical. That only thing for the shareholders. The shows ye though, the more time whole of the capital of $1,200,000 some folk have, the more they is divided into 12,000 shares of need. But then it canna $100 each. The whole of the capi- discoss Cinstitutional Reformtal is already underwritten with all the time, which makes it the exception of 3,000 shares an easy job for Roddie. Lucky which are now offered for public Roddie!

subscription. The share

83 p.m. on the 18:h. The trouble about discossing closes current affairs and matters of instant. police is that it's terrible swk-|

is

THE DOLLAR.

ward to decide offpant the right The Mexican barometer is get. ling to take. The Dely. Preas isting down to zero! The reading never in to great a hurry to rusbo-day is 1-and-10. into print at opgtime on a vital Kubject. That of cours

is

TOO MUCH RAIN,

in the guise of passengers. The police carried out a raid at 5, Sing! Од Street, Shaukiwan, and arrested the four men, who were to-day charged and formally remanded.

MARINE COURT BUSY,

Thirty-Nine Defendants in One Case.

The dock at the Marin Court The rainfall for the current proved inadequate this morning.

ordinary precaution and to beath bids fair to be as much in There were so many defendants commended. Besides the more time ye lake the more chance excess of the average as that of in one case no less than thirty- Dine that, although the dock was July was below it. The average have of backing the right horse. In the case of the Registration rainfall for August, calculated packed to its almost capacity.

B

it had to say something before the Bill was doly placed among the statutes. The trouble

about balf their number had to to 13.89 inches, stand in the body of the Court.

over 23 inches

from ten years" returns. amounts. acd

A5

It was the result of a raid made!

of rain have already fallen last night by Mr. W. McKay. was to decide which side of the during the month of July's deficit Chief Junk laspector. The de fence to ju ap. This it couldn't very well do, so it proceeded to of 10 inches has already been fendants' crafe were found moored condemn compolsory registration made good. It is to be hoped that slongside the Praya. wi' its annoyance of police irrita-

that the Clerk of the The delinquents pleaded that. tion, and then proposed another Weather has worked off his owing to the thunder and lightc- form of compulsion. ie. the arrears he will see fit to allow using last night, they were afraid a infliction of a yearly "round-up" to have a sight of the sau by way squall might come up and they

of change. Water is an excellent were lying inshore for shelter. as is practised today in the Treaty Purts. In shart, it be-thing in itself, but too much is lieved that without compulsion pt to pall upon the appetite.

fume sort the thing could not

"THE NEW CLUB.”

The Marine Magistrate pointed out that if they wanted to lie alongside the Praya they should

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come to the Harbour Office before THE OLDEST WHITE MAN. Boone, and that he recalled the

be done. That was on Wednes At a meeting held at the old day. Yesterday, so soon tha: Hongkong Club premises yester-5 o'clock and if they had a reason. the Bill had scarcely recovered day afternoon, the proposal to able excuse a permit was never from its jar of being dropped, it establish a new club, to occupy refused.

Aeroplaning at 131.

We give the following report

immediately gets pronto an the the premise, was discussed. The Thirty-one of the defendante right eide of the fence and winds club was definitely formed and were fined $10. The other eight-dated Louisville, Kentacky, June up a leading article so: "When the name adopted was "The New masters of coolie-boats were 10, exactly as it reaches us: the Actual

need begins to Clab." A portion of the premises, ordered to pay 55. threaten, a call for the coluntary including the reading room and rexistration of workers should the bar, will be open to members quickly enable the authorities to in a few days, and by the 1st.! De ready for the actual October the whole building is

expected to be ready for occupa erpergency."

THE SAME NOW, Some newspaper man has been unburdening hitoseif. Thus-A

general mourning that followed the death of George Washington. He said he was too old to enlist in the Mexican war.

TO KEEP WELL IN

THE HEAT.A

The funeral took place here to daily regularity is of the first

Bod day of Mr. John Shell, aged 134, importance. the oldest white man in the world this Piakettes are perfection.

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his two sons, William, aged 90, and Albert, aged seven. The I am not so eager this time to tion. point out the inconsistency as to

latter is the offspring of a second marriage, Mr. Shell's first wife, congratulate the Daily Press on

who was two years his senior, its conversion. Like the Gov- erament, it is apparently sus-child is boryand the medical man A sampan woman appeared having died only 10 years ago. dispel constipation, regulate the tiver, cure biliona attacks, sick ceptible to public opinion.

in attendance gats, say, £2. Za; before Comdr. Beckwith at the The aged maa retained full pos-headaches, bad breath, costed the editor of the local paper notes Marine Court this morning, session of bis faculties to the last tongue, clear the skin of, pimples the event and gets 0. It is chris charged with throwing articles and discussed his funeral arrange, and blotches. Of chemists, or tened; the Minister of the Gospel overboard with the intention of meats with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel post free 60 cents the vial, from receives 103. 6d. ; the editor writes preventing seizure.

Creech, with whom he had made the Dr. Williams Medicine Co.,

KRYPTOK LENSES

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are conceded to be one of the very the ceremony up and géta 0, It It was stated that there were a his home since he lost his own 96 Szechuan Road, Shanghai. test forms of bifocal lenses. The marries and the minister has an- man and a woman in the boat, & place through the foreclosure of a bifocal segment is ground and other fee; the editor gets a piece police officer saw two packages mortgage several months ago. fused into the distant lens making of cake, or 0.0.0. for the privilege thrown overboard and gave chase. He was said to have been born the product practically one piece of describing the "pretty" event: When the boat reached the shore in Tennessee on September 3, of glass. The segments are total-In course of time it dies-the the man jumped out and ran 1788, the son of Samuel Shell, ly invisible and the lens has doctor gets his fees, perhaps £10:way. The woman was arrested. gunmaker. beautiful appearance. Eryptok the minister another guines, the Defendant, like moet women of Until the time he was "die lenges of any prescription to undertaker anything up to £20: her station, had strapped on her covered" about four years ago, either regular or Toric form are the editor writes * column back the usual infant, Tus it is said that he had led a seclud manufactured by The Hoogkong describing the many virtues of Marine Magistrate asked, if he ed life in the mountain country, Optical Co. successors to Clark the deceased, and Teceives his sent her to jail, what would hap, but since then he had travelled & Co., manufactoring and refract customary award, viz. 0.

Ing opticians the most compelent optical manufacturing establish ment in South Chins-located i 53, Queen & Road Central. Fitting glenes and testing the sight is their specialty

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