We having heard the municipal Council was establish " public Slaughter house at Hongkew but we are all fourteen Butchers every order belong own but woe can't Kill the oxen by same place because theca are smaller ad inconvenience, now the i us go to Hongkew pass for every Batcher but we never like to be ao, lately China new year thet the Mr...
"staid if we are never go to municipal Council take the puss, show us will be close our shop we hind been this Butchers fifty years longer therefore we beg to inform all the foreign Merchant and Gentlemen will bbe payable our account from the February during this month, if the municipal Council cause the pass we can according the before regulation go and 80, SuaNouat aut Burcuzrs, 28th day of February 1893.
Training for the Hankow Spring Races commenced on the 20th ult.
The water was rising fast at Hankow on the 20th ult, Shanghai was visited on Saturday by Mr. Clement Scott, the well-known poet, journalist, and dramatic critic ut the Dai'y Telegraph whose word can make or mar a play or player on the London stage, With the equally well-known actor, Mr. Charles Sugden, and Mr. Charles Bforton, he nas passing through in the Empress of India, with ihe intention of spending a month in Inpan, and then going on to the Chicago Exhibition, taking the China to San Francisco, The Empiess-of India brought us Mr. Frivolity' Freear, who is loaded with testimonials. a" to his laughter-compelling Five Mr. Clement Scott's word for i that were as an entertainer. Personally we Mr, Freear is quite as well worth hearing as his advertisements announce him to be, and we have no doubt that he will have good houses to-night and on Wednesday next.
On Monday evening the Severn was work-her search lights. These appear to be the most powerful lights that have ever been seen in Shanghai.
HLM.S. Rattler left for Chinkiang to-day, to relieve the Linnet.
The Natal, with the French mail, left Singapore yesterday for Hongkong' and Shanghai, The Win, H. Conner, from New York, arrived at Woosung on Monday, after a splendid run of 117 days, considering she encountered the N.E. monsoon, The Peru, with Shanghai dates to 26th January, arrived at San Francisco on Wednesday (22nd).
The Contest, inward bound, took the ground in the Feima channel'on Sunday morning, and is fested off on Monday morning and proceeded up to Shanghai, The RMS. Empress: of Japan arrived at Nagasaki on Sunday morning and was to leave for Shanghai at 1 p.m. She may be expected t Woosung xbout 10 n'elock this. The Kaitung will leave the P. & O. jetty at 6 p.m, to-morrow with mails and passeng-re to connect with her.
The R.M.S. Empress of India arrived at Kobe on Tuesday, at 7.30 p.m. and left for Yokohama on Wedn Silk from Shanghai ex Victoria arrived it New York on 22nd ult, The Kunawo experienced a heavy snow storm and heavy rain at _Hankow on 24th ultimo with a strong N.E. wind, left Kiukiang at 0.55 a.m. on 26th with strong north-easterly wind and cloudy weather Owing to bad weather, the Esang anchored at 11 p.m. on 24th under Matson ina strong N.N.E. gale thick rainy weather and heavy sea, She proceeded ut 5.30 a.m. on 25th, Silk shipped per Yokohama Marx from Shanghai on the lst January and sent forward from Yokohama by the Belgic on the 25th ultimo. ied that thieves had committed depredations in the Cemetery. On Sunday morning one of the gang was captured by the Cemetery watchman who handed him over to the police. At the Mixed Court on Monday the thief was sentenced to two months" imprisonment and 200 blo At the Mixed Court on Monday a Chinaman was charged with dressing in female attire in Seward Road. He was ordered to be expelled the Settlements. For atealing planks from the Great Chinese Garden, one native was ordered to find security and another was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment. For ing a watch, a Foochow man was sent to prison for four weeks, Several native butchers have taken out licences to slaughter animals at the abattoir in Hongkew, and the Shanghai Butchery has arranged to use the place to-day. Effective steps will be taken to make all the butchers do the same, and their patrons will greatly strengthen the hands of the Council by refusing to purchase meat which has not been killed at the new slaughter house. A visit to some of the ative of being concerned in robberies from the Astor House, were again before the Mixed Court on Tuesday. One of them, x house boy, was sentenced to two months' im-Boitonment for. being in possession of diamond scarf pin. Another, a discharged servant, was sent to prison for fono months for robbing the till of the Hotel. He was alto sentenced to be deported at the expiration of his sentence. The other five men accused with the above were dismissed, A-man who stole copper from the Old Dock was ordered to be locked up at the Mixed Court for four weeks.
At the Mixed Court on Wednesday, two carpenters, a tanner, and a silversmith were charged with fighting and assaulting complainants and cluing wilful damage to the value of $3. Th ner was sentenced to ten days' imprisonment and ordered to make good the damage, The other men were dismissed. A pawnbroker was fined $10 for retaining -in his possovsion 177 pawn tickets for articles pledged with him on the 25th February. For cruelty to lame pony a mafoo was ordered to pay the. expenses of the animal's keep at the Horse Bazvar, According to the Foochuw Echo, the New Your settlement at that port has been " very bad one for both bankers and traders, while there is very great distress among the labouring classes, though a little religi has come from the recent establishment of the cotton weaving industry, and the officials and wealthy people in the city, have done a great den] to assist the very poor, We received Hongkong papers to the 25th ult.—It was learnt at's "secret riveting" of is Council that the defaleatio Te clerk, Alves, as far as ascertained, to $59,000, and that they have been going on since 1888. The Duily Press udds that
into the working of the Treasury and the commission is to be appointed to snguire Audit departments, to be composed chiefly of anofticials.—The China Fire Insurance meeting passed off satisfactorily on the 22nd ult.—The report of the China Sugar Refining Ca., Ld., for 1892 show: net profit for the year of $282,419, The Directors propose to pay a final dividend of 39, making $14 per share for the year, to reduce property account by $50,000, and to carry forward $22,419. It is intended, as alrendy announced, to issue 5,000 new shares at a premium vf $26 per share, to provide for the extension of the refinery.—The new Grand St Hor kong was publicly opened by the Gove on Thursday last, the first race day.—A. very pleasant Ball was given by the Club at the now Theatre on Shameen on the 20th ult,—Me. & Mea. C. Inchbuld went home in the Sagholien,—After table wanderings about the inks comforted wt times by Catholic priests and converts, Alves has been arrested by the police in ote of his own unoccupied honees xt Kowloon. He wae brought up at the Police Court on the '24th ult., and remanded until to-day, 'Ihe of the Catholic priests In Yea, the Press hears, to some xerimonious dence between the Governor of g and Bishop Raimondi, wud the supposed to have sent a written int to the Colonial Secretary, Tard—We note as a curiosity that' in the Scurry Stakes on the second day of races, only two of Mr, Buxey's poni started, and they did the mile in 2m, 45a,—The Bnel of Dysart arrived in Hongkong by the Oxus. dates from Yokohama tothe 23rd, Kobe the We have received Japan papers with
24th, and Nagasaki the 22nd' ult.—We learn from the Japan Mult that the Leyislature and the Cabinet are once more friends, "The government has undoubtedly made great and striking concessions, It hus promised to give its concur possible reductions of the iten nder the 67th Artick tion; it has pledged itself to introduce such administrative reforms: as shall render possible, in great part at muy rate, the ecu. nomics desired by the Popular Party and it has above all undertaken that, the Naval Department shall be re-organised 80 as to satisfy the House." On the other hand, the House has agreed to pass the Budget, and restore the Naval Approprintions.—Mnjor Fukushinm has arrived at Viadivostock, and is now Lt.-Colonel.—There was a' slight fire at the U.S.
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