Lieut. Blake, younger son of and A.D.C. to the Governor Sir H. A. Blake, and Capt. Warren, hix Excelleney's Private Secretary, are both suffering from typhoid fever. Lieut. Blake has only just returned from Tientsin where it is presumed he contracted the disease, but as Capt. Warren, who has not been away from Hongkong, developed the disease at the same time, it is more than probable the cause may be looked for nearer home.
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the Flash.
The Fusiliers have donned their scarlet (sinter) uniforms and hare been allowed to wear the "flash" which has hitherto been jar to the officers only. The flash consists of a couple of strips of black cloth notched at the ends, and attached to the hack of the collar to represent the old fash-iment allowed this distinction and it was accorded to them to perpetuate the fact that they were the last regiment to leave the Continent after the Peninsular war, and had not received the notice of its abandonment before doing so, consequently arriving in England still wearing it, The Dairy Farm Ca., Ld.
The report to be presented at. the annual meeting of shareholders, to be held on the Ith inst., hus been issued. Tt shows that the net profit, after writing off $3,400 for depreciation, providing for fees and bad debts, amounts to $24,114.97. It is pro posed to deal with this by transferring $8,000 to Reserve, paying a dividend of $1.25 per share (over 20 per cent), and to carry forward the balance of $3,914.97. This is a very fine report, but I think, had I been interested, I would have suggested a still larger addition to Reserve, which should be made equal to the purchase of a fresh herd, if swept off at any time by discase, Hongkong Short of Water Again.
Once again we are suffering from stint-age of water and are soon to be put on an allowance. The Acting Director of Public Works says that on half supply we may manage to tide on till May, when rain may be looked for: but.on full supply our water will only fast till February. At present there seems no prospect of rain, everything is drying up, and the ground is like iron. A typhoon is cavorting about somewhere in the Pacific, but it will probably pass to the South, and eave no trace here, unless, as before, we get a few scattered drops of rain that' will not even wet the pavements.
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