Hongkong, 18th October. The Local Chronicles this week are not exciting. It is, how-over, something to be able to record a slight recovery in the stock market and 'f. small improvement in trade, The weather continues fine and seasonable. Some slight showers have fallen, but not sufficient to lay the dust, to sa3 nothing of washing out the drains, an it seems pretty certain that we hi nothing to hope so far as our water storage is concerned.
The Derbyshire Reiment..
We have soon lost a moiety of this.regiment. On Thursday morning three companies, numbering some 300;.mens, headed by the Band of the Reyiment,, marched from Murray Barracks.to West Point wharves, there to embark.in the, transport Wakool for Tientsin..en, route,, for Peking to relieve the Welsh Fusiliers now acting as part of the Legation Guard. 'A portion of a draft of 143 men of the same regiment, which had just arrived. in the steamer Deucalion from. Liverpool, also embarked in the Wakool the same morning, and the transport left hers about one o'clock p.m. The Derbyshire,; Regiment is reduced therefore to about 300 men.
The Honvkon Jockey Club.
The Hon. Treasurer's accounts for the past year, with report by the Clerk.of the Course, have been issued.. The Stewards hare again the satisfaction of recording a continuation of the financial success)
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