The shareholders of this flourishing Company held their half-yearly meeting on Monday afternoon, the lst instant. The report and accounts were passed with expeditions unanimity and the proceedings were over in a few minutes. The Chairman, in the course of his speech, pointed out that the profits ofthebalf-year were extraordinary and exceptional, and such as could only be The public, nevertheless, are evidently of attained under La mgr circumstances, opinion that the good fortune and profitable business of the Company will continue, for on the strength of three good jobs coming in, the shares have within the lust few days advanced some forty points, Docks hare proved better than a gold mine to many investors, It would be well, however, (or new investors to consider certain circumstances before rashly gambling in this heary stock; the possibility of a few bad seasons, the contingency of opposition, and the fainter chance of war.
DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT, Intelligence reached the Colony, on the 22nd inst, of the death, in England, of Mr. Granville Sharp of this Colony. Mr. Sharp had for upwards of forty yours been closely identified with Hongkong, and owing to his ability asa speaker and writer and the intelligent interest he took in public matters, ud always been a more or less conspicuous figure in local assemblies, Afr, Sharp came here some time in the fifties ax Manager of the branch of the Commercial Bunk of India, and when that bank closed its business here, he started business as an estate agent and broker, ultimately anassing a considerable fortune. The Chamber of Commerce will miss his well-known figure and flowing periods at the annual meetings, and the Odd Volumes will regret his passing from the scene, Others who have benefited by his unobtrusive generosity will also no doubt deplore the loss of a benefactor. Mr. Sharp died at the house of an old Hongkong friend, Mr. H. W. Davis, at Limpstead Chart, Surrey. He was a strong advocate of cremation, and I believe left instructions in his will for his remains to be cremated. It is rumoured (with what truth Tean't say) that Mr. Sharp has left his Peak property as. site for a Hospital for Women with money sufficient to erect the building and permanently endow it, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE, There is little of this to record. The man-of-war anchorage is, however, not quite so deserted-looking as it was, for the British cruiser Orlando is still here, and the cruiser Bonaventure arrived here on the 20th inst, from Nagasaki. The latter has since gone into dock at Hungham, She hes a pret big hole in her bottom, and the repairs will take some time. Her ammunition has been all removed, and a considerable quantity will have to be condemned. During the time she is in dock the old Tivern is, I hear, to be put into commission and manned with some of the Bonaventure's
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