Hong Kong Telegraph 1891-07-23

Hong Kong Telegraph 1891-07-23

Year: 1891

HONGKONG, like other important commercial centres, is undergoing one of those waves of depression which inevitably overtake rash and excessive speculstion, but there is one phase of the calamity from which profit may be derived, however melancholy the out-look. PORTUGAL. A PETITION against the Sunday Cargo-working Ordinance signed by the mafority of the ship-ping. AT the Maglstracy to-day Mr. Yung Fong a gentleman who has in his time done a greater. THE new Earl of Clancarty is not qulte 20 years old. while his Countess, Belle Bilton. is all of 30. A VERY large sea-tortolse by some means got himself wedged between the timbers of a water. A NATIVE paper at Shanghai stated a fow days ago that a French agent had gone to Peking to secure. THE French Municipal Council on Saturday week sent to the Chinese authorites the sum. COMMENTION upon the gun accident on hoard H.M.S. Cordilia a naval correspondent informs. HOW would this sort of thing work at the City Hall theater? A Batavia paper says that the. THE dangers of handling suiphuric acid in bulk has been twice illustrated at Penang within the last. WE learn that a telegram has been received anncuncing the loss of the steamship Awgusta.