Hong Kong Telegraph 1893-06-07

Hong Kong Telegraph 1893-06-07

Year: 1893

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT IN A NEW ROLE. AT the meeting of the Legislative Council held last Friday a Bill entitled The Po Leung Kuk Incorporation Ordinance was read a second time and committed after a debate probably unparalleled in the history of any British or Colonial legislature. HUNGARY. REBEILION IN IRELAND. The China Navigation Co.'s steamer Chingtu Capt J. Innes which left Sydney via ports of call. The Stall says the depositors in the suspended hanks my regard their money and interest. In spite of threats made by the Customs Deparment that they would selze any ship from. The Agent-General cables that the reconstructed Minstry has been favourable recelved in London. The death is anounced of Maia Dowager Marchioness of Allesbury aged 84 years. Three more small fallures on the Stock Exchage have occued. Richard Dennls one of teh stokers on H.M.S. Linsard died to-day from the burns he recelved. James Dawson one of the man injured in the stokehole of H.M.S. Lisard by an escape. This morning the general manager of teh Bank waited on the Colonial Treastter. In the course of a farewell speech delivered in Vinna by Sir Augustus Berkeey Paget G.C.B. The Government of New South Wales h