We live received Hongkong papers to the 11th inst,—The Daily Press says that "there appears to be nu great eagerness displayed to sign the address to the unofficial membera of the Council It is generally recognised, we think, that @ mistake has been made, but to recede would place it in the power of the official phalanx to say that the failure of the movement was due to the fact that the unofficial member were not supported by public opinion, while on the other hand if it is declared, on the principle of making tie best of bad job, that the honourable gentlemen must take the pill now that it has been compounded, it can hardly be expected that they will find the taste pleasant."—A reward of $200 has been offered for Mr. A. F. Alves. He has been seen; seems, somewhere near Kowloon ity, where he was in communicate ith s priest, who recommended him to ive bisa op.—The January crushing at anjou yave 308 cz. of guid.—It is hope that Sir William Robinson will allow the popular pari mutuel at the forthcoming race meeting, but so far the order to the -police to suppress it have not been rescinded.—Haiphong was illuminated by the electric light on the 1st inst.—A Company is being formed, wi pital of 900.000 franes, to establish a cotton mill with 10,000 Spindles at Han The accounts of longke-ug and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Ca., Ld.. for 1892 show a net profit $80,909.37. It la proposed to pay final dividend of $1.50 per share, making 6 per cent. for the year, and carry forward, $11,409.37.—A Japanese deck passenger by the Iiigsang brought an action against the Indy-China 8.N. On, to recover the value of a bag containing money, ete, which the chief officer put in the mail room, for him, and which disappeared, Mr, Ackroy, puisne judge, gave judgment the 6th for the Wingsang' with cost mainly on the ground that the plaintiff had tint declared that the bag contained valuables, in which case it would have been put in the treasure room, and freight would have been charged on it.—News has been wired to Singapore of the death of Sir Peter Benson Maxwell, formerly Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements, May, Assistant Colonial Secretary, is to be appointed Acting Captain "Superintendent of Police in Gurdon, "who was. to return to "Eurvpe Hongkong, in the room of Major General
by the Aden on sick leave.—The Mikado, with Mr, Jules Fubris as Koko, has been given four times at Singapore by a company of amateurs to crowded houses. ~The Hongkong Telegraph sys that on the 19th of January a large band of Chinese raided, looted, and burned the town of Sui-gan, and on the 20th re-Fragking.—Tee seme paper says that ated the performance at Thanmoi, in
the Charbonnages Cs,'s affairs are not yet settled, "'but it is practically assured that shareholders and others interested are not to lose anything."—The same paper says that the address wf the ratepayers and residents of Hongkong to the unofficial members has been signed by every ratepayer and every citizen of Hongkong, of every nationality, excep: a few who ure afraid to imperil their business relations with the government.—The trial of the Englishman who shot Chinatwan at Swatow has been post} arrival of Judge Jamieson from hai.—The Beisish ship Cheshie was destroyed by fire, it la supposed wilfully by soe ut the crew, at Sumarang on the 20th ult,—The Arratoon Apowr, going out of Hongkong, collided with a large lighter, drove ber anchor clean through her own bows, and had to return ty deck,—Two coolies and the chief officer were uverpowered by gas arising from deoumpon vegetables in the held of the Wingsang at Singapore on the 3th ult. One of the coolies died,—The American ship Robert L. Belknap, tom Kobe to New York, totally wrecked on a coral reef off Pulo Laut on the 15th ult, She was uninsured. Alli the crew, except the second mate and four men, bad arrived at Singapore.—Me. Alves has not been found.—The City of Peking arrived at San Francisco on the 6th
broken."—Ceylon papers give particulars of with her shaft outboard, or propeller, the loss of the N.emn, She broke her shaft at sen and began to leak. The captain steered the coxst under sail, and beached his, frugal on the Ceylon coast. She ie in the sand, only the masts appearing water, Quo Indy passou~ ger died while being landed. The vessel had a very valuable cargo, most of which is inevitably lost,
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