Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-06-09

Hong Kong Telegraph 1894-06-09

Year: 1894

Hongkong general chamber of commerce Any candidate will requlre to be proposed and seconded, and if there are more than one the election will be by ballot Election of member of council The plague in Hongkong Optimists would have us beleve that because there is a slight decrease noticeable in the number of new cases admitted at the various hospitals the plague is abating That is, we regret to state, an absolutely fallacious way of arriving at deductions, and for the benefit of our ably edited local contemporaries (who in their last lesues call attention to weat they vaguely describe as a "decrease in the death-rate." Without in nay way qualifying the statement in a sensible business-like Mauna) The funk and wagnalls company's standard dictionary Suggestions Foochow notes To ascertain one's age There was once a wise king who was as fully curious. He was possessed of a desire to know everything, and was continually asking questions indeed, his thirst for know ledge carried him so lar that he wanted to know the age of every prison he met. But, being a King, he was exceedingly polite, and would resort to strategy to gain his ends. A missionary on china At the seventh annual dinner of th