Hong Kong Telegraph 1892-05-03

Hong Kong Telegraph 1892-05-03

Year: 1892

THE DAIRY FARM. THE approaching completion of the Dairy Farm Company's buildings on Pedder's Hill affords a favourable opportunity for referring to the meanest fraud ever perpetrated on a colony of helpless slaves through the mental aberrations of a very sick man, in the hands ot sharp and nscrupulous money-makers. WOODYEAR'S Circus still doing good business in Amoy. MR. C. SUTTON, stevedote, etc., and a very old resident of Nagasski, died there, after ten days' illness, on April 28th. AS we intimated some time ago. the Italian mail steamers running to the Far East will shortly. THE Chinese steamer Cass left Shanghai for Tientsin on april 28th, having as a passenger. HIS Exceliency the Governor paid a flying visit to Canton in the Hankow yesterday. The weather still continurs unpropitious for the farmers, who now certainly have a discouraging outlock before them. A meeting of Chinking land-renters took place to-day at H.B.M.'s Consulate. It has been very dry this spring. The surface of the earth is pulverised by the heat. Many respepectable houses and temples in this city have recently been infested by rude gangs of refugees.