Notices to Consignees,
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
8. 8. IRAQUADDY.
•
NOTICE.
YONSIGNEES of Cargo per 8. 8.
Copernic, from London, in couned. tion with the above-Steamer, are hereby Informed that their Goods are being landed and stored at "their risk at the Company's Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing,TM
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on, unless intimation is received from the Con- signees, before 11 o'clock To-nax, request- Ing it to be landed here,
Bijls of Tading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
Goods remaining unclaimed after Turs. PAT, the 10th Inst., at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges,
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
H. DU POUEY, Agent.
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Hongkong, April 5, 1877.
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FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
THE S. 8. Japan, Captain H. be
PASSENGERS.
DEPARTED.
Per Tibre, for Yokohama, Mrs Cowles," Mr and Mrs Morrison, Me Vanek and son, Mears Hodgkins, Harcourt and H. Sicker. Per Amoy, for Shanghai, Mrs Krabbe, and Mrs A. N. Onymë.
+
Per Norna, for Swatow, 157 Chiness. Per Washi, for loihow, 20 Chinese.
TO DEPART.
Per Benarty, for Foockow, 2 Chinese. Europeans and 376 Chinese.
Per Rajanattianular, for Bangkok, 2
SHIPPING REPORTS,
The Spanish barque Carmen reports: N.E. wind throughout the passage.
The British steamer Agamemnon reports: Light N.E. winds and bazy weather and smooth sen
The British steamer Chinkiang reports: Left Saigon at 8 p.m. on the fat, arrived in Hongkong at 1.50 p.m. to-day. Had atrong Northerly winds and bead sea as far as Cape Padaran, thence to Hainan light N. H. winds and dull weather, thence to port
atrong N.E. winds and head sea. In Port.
-Biră. Ocean, Cairnsmuir, Yangtse, Pearl, Jeddah, Montgomeryshire, and Tartar. Str. Cyphrenes arrived as we left.
POST OFFICE NOTIFICATIONS,
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TEST, Ced from the For S8ANGHAL
above Ports, Consignees of Cargo_by_her are hereby requested to send in their Billa of Lading to the Undersigned for counter. signature, and to take Immediate delivery of their Goods.
Cargo impeding her discharge will be at once landed and stored at Consignees rlak and exponno.
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, April 4, 1877.
on
Por IRAQUADDY, at 11 am
Saturday, the 7th inst. Late letters received from 11.10 to 11.30.
For SWATOW, AMOY, TAIWAN, AND
TAM8UL
Per TAIWAN, at 5 p.m., on Saturday,
the 7th inst.
For SHANGHAI.
Per GLAUCUS, at 5 p.m. To-morrow,
the 7th Insti
apll Yow HafPHONG
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND
SINGAPORE.
8. 8. Argyll having arrived from
Por Barque BREMA, at 3.80 p.m., on
Wednesday, the 11th fast,
MAILS BY THE ENGLISH PACKET. ----
Tthe above Corte, Consignees of Cargo The English Contract Packet KHIVA,
are hereby requested to send their Bills of Lading for countersignature to the Under signed, and to take immediate delivery of their Goods.
Cargo impeding the discharge will be at once landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.
-----JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. Hongkong, April 4, 1877.
spil
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Quenera will be Responsible for any Debi contracted by the Offers or Cress of the following Veccels, during their stay in Hongkong Harbour
ÁLDEN Basan, American barque, Captain B. Noyes. Rozario & Co.
MESTIC BELLS, American ship, Captain David Plumer-Siematen & Co.
ROSINA, American 3m, tchooner, Capt. U. W. Hansen.Arnhold, Karberg & Co.
ECHO, British barque, Capt. George W. Tozer. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.
WINDERMERE, British ship, Capt. Manu, -Meyer & Co.
Las, Dutch schooner, Captalu J. Werter- veld.-Order.
ROSETTA MONIL, American barque, Captain Brown.-Vogel, Hagedorn & Co.
ARGONAUT, British ship, Captain John Anderson,-Meyer & Co.
To-day's Advertisements.
PUBLIC AUCTION,
will be despatched with the Mails for Europe, do, on THURSDAY, the 12th Instant.
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the Malls, do. — Wednesday, 11th Instant
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10 A.2., Post Office eloson except for Late
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to
Postage till
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entirely.
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to
Lato Fee of dB coute extra postage,
titl
closed.
Hongkong, April 3, 1877.
MAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET,~~~
THE CHINA MAIL.
MEMOS. FOR TO-MORROW.
Shipping
Noon-Traouaddy loaves for Shanghai.
Auctions.
Bailey Street,
2 p.m.-Sale of Japanese Carlos, &,
Mr J, M. Armstrong's Sale Room.
ΤΗΣ
HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Established A.D. 1841.
香港大藥房
[No. 4204-APRIL
1877.
those to which offenders of this class are performances, which were, indeed, simply one half so soon as the fort Alfonso XII is subjected in China, where the penalty marvellous. The greater part of the evon-evacuated and destroyed altogether, and of simply being a member of a Secret Ing was occupied with a match between good dormitories, and the rest of the troops that of Princesa constructed, of brick with Society is death. It is also surcoly Mons. Carme and a local player, the former furnished with good quarters. more harsh or unconstitutional than the
The gunboata Calamianes and Paragua
sader existing circumstances.
eRBO.
2 p.m.-Furniture Sale, at No. 11, Old suspension of the habeas corpus Act giving the latter 500 points and managing sailed for a camisel on the 5th February step which the British Government has to secure his 1000 before his opponent bad and returned on the 16th of the same, at taken within recent times for the sake of put together a hundred. One break of the having been at Tandu, Tulayan, Mal- peace and order in the United Kingdom. Professor's reached about two hundred places; they were well reveived everywhere. bun, Parang, Slaasi, and some other. We think the measure a very good one, and fifty. Cannons which to even a good The Minna arrived on the 5th February and one much needed in the Settlements player would appear almost impossible from Siassl with about 380 piouls of Mother were performed by him with the greatest Mer, (articles which are growing in import o'Pearl Shell, and 200 planla Biobe de A STRIKING illustration of the intensely the balls together in the corner, when by Mandore arrived from Zamboanga on the A favourite plan of his was to get, ance bere); she sailed again on the 7th for Singapore. The gunboats Arayat and conservative spirit of the Chinese Go the gentlest of touches he would ran up a 8th February, having in tow the small vernment even in matters where for- signers are not so directly concerned is goodly number of points, and then, the Germant steamer Tonny, which called for afforded in the Peking Gazette of the balls having got a little wide, off one Stassi on the afternoon of the following day. The gunboats sailed also on the 11th 13th February. It seems that a memo would go to the end of the board and for Tawi-tawi with the object of collecting rial had been sent in from the Governor come back again into the most con- some further details of that labyrinthine of Kwangtung, stating that the Canton veulent position imaginable. One pecusion. As it was expected they would only archipelago for the hydrographic commis. Literary Examiners were returning to liar stroke, the massé, we bollove, it take fifteen days to complete the work, and, Peking by sea. Hereupon a decree is issued bringing the axaminers severely is called--he frequently made never their return was overdue, the, Commander of the Naval Station despatched the gun- to teak for this alarming departure from failed to draw forth applause. In it
bosta Calamianes and Manileño in search of the established order of things. "Ac the balls are in a straight line almost or them and to ascertain the cause of their cording to regulation," says the decree, quite touching each other, and by striking delay. "the Literary Examinera sent to the with the cue held perpendicularly the various provincos should travel by the
A. 8. WATSON & Co., FAMILY & DISPENSING CHEMISTS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS
DaveGISTS' SUNDRIES, NURSERY REQUI * SIZES, TOILET Requisites, ExGLISH,
AMERICAN, AND FRENCH PATENT MEDICINES
· MANUFACTURERS
OR
Sods Water, Lemonade, Tonto Water, Gingerade, Potass Water, Samaparilla Water, and other Aerated Waters.
The Manufactory is under direct and continuous European Supervision. Hongkong, June 1, 1876,
post roads, but of late years the Ex-stroke ball touches the centre one, scarcely biners sent to Canton have made it a disturbing it, then makes a half circle. practice, when returning to Peking after fulfilling their mission, to allege illness as a reason for travelling by sea, in com- plete disregard of the standing regulation. As the Chief and Assistant Examiners in the prosent instance have already set "The publication of this issue commenced out on their journey, no further notice need be taken in their case; but for the future the practice is forbidden." This Is conservatism with a vengeance!
LOGAL AND GENERAL
stamps are to be bad at the Fost Office. We are requested to state that 18. cent
at 7.30 p..
THE CHINA MAIL. "
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1877.
Ma Justice Snowdon sat in the Supreme
THE authorities in the Straits Settlements are considering some further legislation in regard to the Chinese. We have already noticed the Chinese Immigrants' Bill, the Orimping Bill, and the motion Court to day to try a few cases in Summary for the suppression of Secret Societies, Jurisdiction, but they were unimportant all introduced into the Legislative and of no interent, being almost entirely Council of the. Settlements within the
among Chinese litigants and involving no weighty questions.
last few months, and now a measure has been brought forward, and has passed its second reading, to amend the Pre- servation of the Peace Ordinance of 1813. The Bill amends Section 15 of that Ordinance, some of the formalities and requisite proofs being omitted, and the
THE demolition of the houses on the ground known as Rangel's property is neatly com
:
Estrella arrived from Zamboanga with maila On the night of the 17th, the schooner and general oarge.
tion on the 27th.
The Moras of Paticolo bave occasionally attack d their cousins of Tandu while the they wont be the same who attempted to latter come to the market, and no doubt, make away with some cows which were on the pasture ground on the morning of the 27th ultimo, but were pursued and fired upon by the soldiers, and resulted in the latter killing one and wounding two of three others.
The British schooner Flower of Farrow, round it, and cannons to the third ball of the 25th February with goods for Parang manned by Chiasmen, arrived on the night Cannons off the cushion were also made in and. Maibun, having on board some Moros a most surprising manner, At the con-aa passengers, from Singapore and Sanda clusion of the game Mons, Carme gave a still kan. She left for the ports of her destina more wonderful exhibition of fancy shots, First of all the balls were made to "kiss" in the corners of the table under the most remarkable conditions. Then a ball was made to cannon off a second on to a third placed in a hat held some dis tance above the table. One of the most amusing of the exhibitions was to place a ball on a bell supported on the head of a person, seated beside the table,
from the table; a similar telelt was per- and then to strike it off by a cannon made
formed when the ball was placed on the bowl of a pipe held in a person's mouth. A number of balls were also struck off quick- ly onestter the other, and, having traversed the table several times without "kissing," all finally stopped in a corner previously chalked out. Twelve bottles were afterwards placed on the table, and the balls having been
plote, and we must congratulate the Go-struck off lu succession, none touched the vornment on its wisdóms for having assured bottles, but all found their way to a parti. such a splendid site for the erection of the cular corner of the table. new Central School. Spacious as the new alec made from off one table to another, the building will be, it is almost certain to bo ball having to clear a space of some three filled, even it allowance is given for the feet, besides passing through a hoop covered accommodation of 700 boys, as we know with this paper and striking another bali the school is so bighly appreciated that on the further table. The Professor in
ofpal articles of export
The following are the prices of the prin
Shark's Fins,...$9 per plout Beche de Mer,
11
29
• #
" »
Tortoise Shell, 380 Hemp Rope
Cow' Bide,
11
Bufaloe's Hide, un surin Mother o'Pearl Shell,.. 38
SPAIN AND THE SUEZ CANAL. From an article in the Moniteur Egyption, in whlol the services rendered by Spain in the construction of the Suez Canal art gratefully acknowledged, and a high pat mate is formed of the Spain is likely to derive avantages which of that undertaking, we extract the follow ing statistion-The first Spanish ship using. Cannons were the Canal was the Ebro, which passed through in the beginning of January, 1870. That vessel was the pioneer of a regular line belonging to Messrs Olano, Larrings, and of steamers between Cadig and Mavila Co., Bilbao, which in 1876 numbered B vessels, with an aggregate toauage of 18,860 tons. From the time that they commenced to run, thene vessels have carried through the Canal 11,275 passengers, 74,750 tons of merchandise from the Philippine Iles to Europe, and 03,803 tons from Europe to Manila. On this trafo the Suez Canal Company has been paid dues amounting to 68,0001. The total number and tonnage of Spanish vessels which have passed thrott h the Canal from 1870 till the 1st December, 1976, is as follows :-
Number of Years.
Ships.
Governor is empowered to deport persons whose presence in the Settlements he is satisfied in dangerous to the public safety and peace.
It is believed that the measure will deal another effective blow to the Secret Societies, Great difficulty had been experienced in getting at the wire-pullers and others, who originated riots and lawless proceedings, through admission lato it is regarded as a great advertised to give another exhibition to the impossibility of getting Chinamen to privilege. Having regard, therefore, to the night and a third to-morrow night. give evidence against each other in such demand for accommodation, we may sug
matters It was stated in the course of
11,50 AM., when the Mall is Anally the discussion on the Bill, for instangs. geat that the Government will do well to
Police Intelligence. (Before James Russell, Bag) ap12 that the main instigator in the late Post devote as much of this spacious arcs as
April 6, 1877, Office riots was perfectly well known, possible to school-room" purposes, and if a but nothing could be done to him. It was play-ground for the boys is deemed neces--
UESTRUCTION, known that at a certain hour he had left ary, we think the present waste ground to Chinese hoarding houses, were charged Chen A Tung, and Shin A Po, ranners his shop and led a body of "Samsenge," or under the bank of Bridges Street could be with having gone on board the steamer fighting-men, to attack the Chinese Post- office; that he had called on the crowd to ally converted into a place of recreation Glauius, before her arrival at her anchorage ossiat, and then, when he saw the riot fairly as that vacant space at present stands, it to the obstruction of her navigation. Fined
$5 each. started, had disappeared. This man was is both a danger and an eye-sore, and to now at large in the settlements, and had our unprofessional mind, we believe ite suffered no punishment simply because conversion into a beautiful play-ground for the Chinese would not give evidence the boys of the Central School would not against him, although it is mainly
The French Contract Packet DJEMNAR, will be despatched from Hong- kong on THURSDAY, the 19th Instant, with Malls to and through the United Kingdom and Europe, vid Marseilles; to Salgon, Blagapore, Batavia, Galle, Australia, New Zea land, Tasmania, Fiji, Aden, Sey chelles, Reunion, Mauritias, Sue and Alexandria. This is the best opportunity for forwarding Corre spondence to E. Africa, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension.
HE Undersigned has received in- TH
structions from H. M. Naval Store- keeper, to sell by Public Auction, on
WEDNESDAY, the 11th April, 1877, at 11 o'clock am.,Letters at H. M. NAVAL YARD,---
SUNDRY NAVAL & VICTUAL-
LING STORES, Comprising: Old Iron, Hoses, Glass, Liguum-vite, and India Rubber, Washing and Ice Making Machines, Galvanized Iron Baths, Pro- visions, Clothing Implements, &c., du,
TERMS OF SALE Cash before delivery In Mexican Dollars weighed at 7. 1. 7. All Lots, with all faults and erroTE Of description, at purchaser's risk on the fall of the hammer.
J. M. ARMSTRONG,
Government Auctioneer. Hongkong, April 6, 1877.
SHIPPING.
ARRIVALS.
sp11
April 8, Olausus, British steamer, 1649, T. Jackson, Idverpool Feb, 16, via ports of dall, and Singapore March 28, General
BUTTERFIELD & SWISS,
April 6, Tching Toing, Chineze gunboat, from Macao.
March 6, Carmen, Spanish barque, 200, Sta. Coloma, Manila March 7, Saganwood. --ERANDAO & Co.
April 6, Agamemnon, British steamer, 1660, Jes. Wilding, Shanghai April 1, and Amoy 5, GeneralBUTTERFIELD & SWIBE. April 6, Chinhiang, British steamer, 789, Hogg, Saigon April 1, Rics. Stam
Co
DEPARTUREE. Apr. 6, Wacht, for Hoibew.
Pindarmere, for Ilalis,
6, Nora, for Bwatow.
6, Tibre, for Yokohama.
6, Golden Horn, for Bangkok,
Amoy, for Shangbel,
6, Flintshire, for Amoy,
CLEARED,
Lima, for Talwantoo, Ban Lorents, for Manils. Benarty, for Boochow Rajanaitianuhar, for Bangkok.
PASSENGERS,
· ARRIVED.
Per Glousta, from Slagapota, &c., Mesare Brokleman, Green, and Daeth, Capt. and Mrs O'Malley, & Chiness mald servanto, and 80 Chinees,
Per Agamemnon, from Shanghai vie Amor, Mrs Saunders and child, Mrs HitE and 3 children, Mrs Fisher and 2 children, and Muster BigOlatobis, for London, and #4 Chinese, for Straits,
may also be forwarded to INDL
by this Packet.
The following will be the hours of closing
the Malle, da, zmni
Wednesday, 18th inst.-.
6.M., Money Order Offiou closes. Post Office closes except the NIGHT BO, which remains open all night.
Thursday, 18th inst.-—--
of
7 M., Post Office opens for sale
Stamps, Regletry of Letters, and Posting of all correspondence,
10 A., Rogistry of Letters ceRNES, 11 a.x., Post Office closes except for Late
Letters. 11.10 M., Letters (but Letters only) except those to and through Austra lia may be posted on payment of a Late Fee of 18 cents extra postage, until (11.80 M, when the Post Office Choses
entirely.
to
Hongkong, April 5, 1877.
General Memoranda. SUNDAY, April 8
and Fortcom TEZSDAY, Aptil 10:-
dollars.
through him that about a couple of cost more than two or three thousand hundred of his countrymen are in prison,
The ground is unsuitable for and that some of them have been shot building sites, and it may be as well utilised Had the measure in question been in in the way we mention as allowed to lie force, the Governor would have been waste as at present. able to seize this man and deport him from the Colony. The theasure will not only enable the Governor to inflict punishment for offences actually com- mitted, but will also enable him to rater diet, are most commonly practised prevent the occurrence of riots and lay-by a pertain clasa of naprofessional and leas proceedings by the deportation of cautions thiever; and we may note that a the dangerous individuals who threaten member of this the disturbance of the peace. No doubt csing his wits in this Colony. A written this glass has lately been exer- also the very fact of "headmen," and
THEFTS of an easy and safe kind, which are seldom followed by ahot-drill or a bread-end.
a
other important members of the Chinese order for a bet of oigars was handed by community being liable to be summarily Chluaman to a foreign firm the other day, arrested and deported at any moment, purporting to be from a gentleman in the will tend to make these individuals par-Spanish Consulate, and the weeds were ticularly careful of their proceedings. sccordingly supplied. Upon the bill being An objection was raised to the Bill that presented, however, it was discovered that it applied to naturalised British subjects
It was pointed the gentleman whose name was thus forged as well as foreigners. out, however, that it was scarcely or falsified had never given any order ap19 possible to exclude naturalised British and the transaction then became revealed subjects from the provisions of the as a small swindle perpetrated by means of Bill, because the majority of the the courtesy which characterizes foreigzi well-to-do Chinese in the settlements
Goods per trapuaddy undelivered after Noon, subject to rent and landing
obarger. WEDNESDAY, April 11
1
WRANGLING.
charged with making a disturbance in front Low Ang and another, chair-coolles, were of the Stag Hotel Fined 26 cents each.
BAKE COINS,
Ching A Wan, a money-changor at Yow matee, was again brought up for having passed some thirteen base coins, and after further evidence, the defendant was com- mitted for trial.
LARCENY.
Wong A Sin, a billiard marker at the United Club, again appeared to answer the charge of stealing a pair of silver bangles and other ornaments from a fellow servant, Mr Wm. Goldbourn, a clerk in the Geol and Hon. Secretary to the Club, was examined, fendant, who was consequently discharged. but there was no evidenos against the de-
À DEPORTED MAN,
Lo A Bin, a duok, was charged with har. ing returned from self-deportation under s convicted in September 1875 of robbery conditional pardon. The defendant was with violence. He was sent to two years' hard larbour, but was released on a condi-
tional pardon on the 9th December 1876. He was ordered to be committed to Geol to serve out the commuted portion of his sentence.
MORE OBSÏRUCZON.
The owners of 31 boats were summoned
Carrisbrooke as she came in from the North.
Sooloo.
The following is an abridged translation of a letter published in the Manila Diarit from its correspondent
had been naturalised in order that they business in this Colony when trans by PC J. Sier for obstrusting the steamer might enjoy the privilege of railing their asted amongst honest men. The order was There were so many boats hanging on te Daylight. Taiwan leaves for Coast Foris vessels under British colours and have in very neat handwriting-an socomplish-her that she was obliged to drop har ansher
the general protection of the British meat, by the way, pausessed by many of a good way off from her anal anchorage Governisent, The Colonial Secretary the swindling order and the initials of
The case was remanded. in supporting the Bill said,what la no the signature were incorrectly given, prob- doubt a gratifying statement to Engliatably in order to enrage a sharge of forgery men" that very large numbers of Chi- nese in the Straits had been naturalised, if detected. Other Instances of this mean and the numbers of these persons in Bin-swindler's ingentity than the one above gapore, Penang and Malasca must be noticed are becoming known) and we would Gomething very large, Almost all the caution those donderned against a too-con towkeys and traders, who hold ships, dreading spirit. It is to be hoped that such of Call and Europe.
objection to the measure that it was in-prantices may yet lead to the punishment Road East
constitutional For our own part we of those persons indulging in thetti, as the are unable to appreciate this objection as deelings of Honest men may be much Fatbat, April 23:--
applied in this baso: The same law as hampered by their continuance. Every Noon-General Woohly Sale By Mass the one now sought to be introduced a house will, like the Bauki, have to keep
Lans, Crawford & 00;
in existsnce in Hongkong and it is SATURDAY, April 14:-
Proposed to be introduced into the its book of signatures,
11 a m. Sale of Bundries at Govt, Store, THURIDAY, April 12
Noon-English Mall leaves for Ports
1. p. th. Sale of Ground, at Queen's
bama and Ban Francisco,
haturalised.” It was alto, urged as an
state of things there. Sebret Societies
3 p.m.-American Mall leaves for Yoko: Etrafte to famed a most unbons initial Mows: Cams gave his first exhibition of of foreigners which surp the powers of skill as a billiard player at the Hongkong FDAY, Apell So
Government, and set at defiance, when it Hotel laät night, before someúfty or sittyed Tertsd leaves for Maalle on or about this pleases them, law and order, dan scarcely mirers of the gate. The of ibition took place
expect to be dealt with very tenderly of in the same way as law-abiding and one of the private rooms in the Hotel on a TURDAY, May 1
3 p.m.--Occidental & Oriental §. 5. So, perctable citifend. The measure provides table and with balls bized from a local firm Steamer leaves for Yokohama and Sabor pains and penalties which bear to for the osasion. Every one present way, Francisco,
dquipacijon: whatever in poterity with wo believe, delighted with the Professor's
date.
1870. 1871 ............ 1872
1873
Tonnage. 1.428
18.727
2
9,057
$2,299
50,726
43,968
46,801
1874.......... 29
1875 ....... 2 1876........... 28.0
Since 1874 it will be observed the number - of ships has diminished, bat their average. tonnage has increased, for while in 1874 the mean was 1,811 tons, in 1875 it was 2,083 tons, and in 1876; 2,084 tour. The following table gives the number of ships of each nationality that have passed through the Canal from the 1st December, 1889, to the let December, 1876. Spain, it will be observed, holds the sixth rank as regards the gross tonnage
!
Nationality,
Number of
Ships Tonnage. English... 5,817...... 9,650,81 French TEL
661.... 1,639,238 Austro-Hungaria: 894..................... 630,604". Dutch .......... Italiau Spanish ....... German......
22.
443,118
839***** 801,449
188,088
105...... 143174,598
Egyptian. 180... Turkish........ Russian..... Norwegian Danishmissen
114,174
143.
118,835
83. 104,610.
42.
67,620
38...
57,031
20...
30,110
Portuguese
*..... 28,649
Begian
Bwedish.........
Americanet 11...... 19,310 9...... 17,400
Other nationalities 18......
Econo..ist.
11419
7,584..............18,321,708
AVERAGE BONDS. "Guneral average" is the term applied
by those engaged in the shipping trade to a species of agreement the main underlying principle of which it is easy to grasp. The captain of a vessel which is placed in danger may sacrifice any portion of the ship or cargo, the removal of which offers a chance of safety. He may for instance cut-away the maats, slip or cut the cables, or throw the cargo overboard and in rich cases the Boclos, March 4, 1877.'
* general average" provides that the los Just after the departure of the last mall instrred shall be borne proportionately by the engineers dommenced to prepare the the three interests involved the ship, the ground upon which the first brick building cargo, and the freight. Nothing would to be construited here. Captain Rota, seem more easy than to estimate the assisted by Llour: Briones, have displayed amount of the loss incurred, and to appora mu hactivity, and the foundation and the tion that loss amongst the three parties will have 80 metres of front by deep to the amount of their respective interests, plan of a barrack can now be seen which who benefited by the sacribes in proportion which it is expected will be ready in the and there really is no reason why there dourse of a little more than one month, should be any difficulty in doing to bas when the detachment of engineers and part unfortunately this simple rule has become thither from the fort Alfonso XII, which plexities that it its practical worklo of a company of artillery will be transferred so fnvolved in legal subtleties and Bom is now regarded the worst part of the almost insuperable difficulty is experienced, town, so far as its sanitary conditious are So and rtain Indeed has its application structed by a few soldiers, Bader the direc-of agreement, known as the Liverpool concerned. The new intrenchment son under the law become that a new form tion of the List. Col. Marius) is built of form of average bond, has been infios old barrels alad with cand, and is ditch duded, the effect of which is to take the la very properly arranged, with a door to matter from under the cognizance of the chut up at night. I am quite sertain that Courts and to blod the partien cor earned the diseases of the troops will be reduced to to abide by the desicion of an arongo
RAJAH BROOKE.
(Spectatar.)
fault to find. Mies Jacob tells us she has
THE CHINA MAIL.
.i
SAVING EXPENSES.
It is
to fit like clothes, and will impress its stamp it been night, the snake would doubtless watched him with feverish interest. The
1
is Qbs
soon perceived that the man's ambition was to feed gonlus, I shall recommend
Sans-Soust, you to bim.-Letter of Raydon in the First
MARRIAGE CUSTOMS IN COREA.
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No. 4294.--APRIL 6, 1877.]
A WOMAN FOR CHOPS. adjuster, with provision for appeal, in cases but his ambition was of a noble type. Ho the nephew to his uncle's proposal to place light diet, and should have avoided heating of dispute, to an arbitrator. Against this had weighed carefully what he intended, Sarawak under the protection of Louis Na- beverages with the utmost care.
The other night I paid my butcher; one innovation a very energetic protest has been and the chances of success, before he started poleon. It would have been better to have certainly to be hoped that he is a thoroughly of the miracles of these times, you will fasued by a large number of marine inser, and had satisfied himself that "territorial omitted all allusion to the quarrel, or to reformed man, but the public would have
Kay. Let me tell you I have all my life more confidence in him, if he had honestly been seeking for a butcher whose respect ance companies and underwriters, who de possession" is the best, if not the only have given the facts.
My policy in Sarawak," writes. Hajah confessed his fault without attempting to for genius predominated over his love of clare that each an arrangement substitutes means by which to acquire a direct and "for the firm basis of the law the over- powerful influence in the Archipelago; but Brooke, in 1850, "has been high-handed apologize for it.
gain. I could not make out, before I dealt Your slip-ahod policy It is plain that something must be done to with this man, his oxcessive desire that I shifting ground of individual opinion." any government instituted for the purpose against evil-doors.
improve the condition of the British mercan- should be his customer; his sly hints, as I But it seems to us that it is precisely must be directed to the advancement of is in the end a bloody and a cruel one, because the law as it at present stands native interests and to the development of (Vol. II., p. 32.) Truer words were never tile marine. Where one Captain confesses passed his shop, that he had a bit of affords, no "firm basis on which to rest, native resources, rather than by a flood of epoken, and we could wish that the lesson that he has seen a sea-serpent, there are Southdown, very fine; a sweetbread, por
were taken to heart by those who will decide probably a dozen others who keep their own fection; and a calf's foot that was all jelly that this attempt to get outside of it European colonisation." (I., p. 75.).
In August the little Royalist dropped England's course on this Eastern Question Counsel. It is a terrible thought that at this without bone" The other day be pailed, by a special contract has been male As a general rule it is no doubt in anchor at Singapore, and while refitting and in 1877. In another sentence of the same moment there may be a hundred vessels at and I had him sent up into the painting
Exchange. the highest degree desirable that the primaking some changes in his crew, Brooke date, we think he gives the key to the mis-ses, under the command of men who are room. I found him in great admiration of tection of the law should not be set heard that one Muda Hassim, the Rajah of understanding and persecution which dogged seeing sea-serpents day and night. Whore Alexander."
"Quite alive, sir!" "I aside; and what we should like to was is Sarawak, liked the English, hated the Dutoh, him for six years. I have a fixedness of is Mr Plimsoll, that he does not expose this
am glad you think so," said L'Yes, air; Bank, un demand,
30 days' sight, such a simplification of the law on this and had lately rescued and seat home a purpose, and a devotion to any cause I am frightful source of danger to life and property; but, se I have said often to my sister, you
8 months' sight, subject as would entirely remove the neces shipwrecked crew of Englishmen. Sending brace, so unfortunately mixed up with a and insist that no vessel should be permitted could not have painted that picture, sir, IF
Credits, 11 Very There is on presonts of sweetmeats and toys for bis lightness of temper and a scoffing playful- to go to sea except in charge of a Captain Bity for any special contract..
Ah, sir, I have a Documentary, 6months'aight,.. 8/11 true, Mr Sowerby.
226 another point in the Liverpool bond, to children, and red cloth and nankeen ferness, and an abhorrence of cant, that the who is a member of the Good Templars or the you had not eat my meat, sir!" which exosption is taken. One of its Mada Hassim himself, Brooke followed, solemn and silly, will never comprehend my Infant Band of Hope ?-American Paper.
fancy for genius, sir!"Have you, Mr Bombay Valoutta,
M. 228 clauses requires the consignee of cargo feeling his way cautiously in the Royalist character, and the suspicious and worldly
Sowerby 1" "Yes, sir, Mrs Biddons has
Shanghal, demand,
721 eat my meat sir; never was suck a woman which is subject to a general average oon. amid linnua pirate fleets and dangerous never will trust and always will abuse me." tribution to make a money deposit, to be aboals, until on the 15th of August he was (., p. 31.) His great venture was made at
A Munson-street man being told that for chops, sir !" and he drew up his beefy, placed in the joint names of the shipowner lying off Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, the moment when England was in her mean- and the average adjuster, before he can twenty miles up, a hitherto unexplored river, est humour as to her colonial and imporial there were several pieces of tin which shiny face, clean shaved, with a clean blue receive delivery of his goods. The object and exchanging salutes with the Rajah. destinios, and now that she has recovered needed mending, conceived the idea of cravat under his chin, a clean jacket, a ing insurance companies and underwriters, From this time he made his head-quarters her senses, let us trust that the life's work getting an iron and solder and doing the clean apron, and a pair of hands that would "Ah! sir, she was a wonderful oray- on the other hand, urge the use of what is at Sarawak, running away in the Royalist of James Brooke will be valued and treasur-mending himself. His wife, filled with pln an oz to the earth if he was obstreper
rague forebodings, perhaps, said that the ons.
"She was, Mr Sowerby," Ah, known as Idoyd's bond, by which the cop- occasionally for flying visits to other places od. -
In the short preface by General Jacob-expenses were such a trifle that it would ture!" signee merely enters into an engagement to on the coast of Borneo. He soon became pay when called upon, "the proper and confidential adviser to Muda Hassim, who of all living Englishmen probably the best hardly pay to do it oneself, to which her, when she used to act that there charao- respective proportion of any general aver. had been for three years at war with rebel judge in such a canse--the pith of the book responded: "I'll admit that in this one tor, you see (but, Lord, such a head 1 as Hongkong Bank, 34 age" to which he may be subject. It is to tribes. At the end of 1840 he consented le given in five lines, with which we will instance it would not pay, but there is any to ray sister) that there woman, sir, H.K. Fire Ins. 6o., $587)
that murders a king between 'em."
China Fire Ins. Co., $150 be remembered, however, that for the to take the field for the Rajab with his conclude " It furnishes a lesson in the something being in want of repair every general average charges the shipowner has small band of Englishmen, and in December government of Eastern people which those little while, and if I had the tools here for Lady Macbeth" "Ah, sir, that's it-Lady China Traders' Ins. Co., $2,160 allan upon the cargo, which he gives up brought the four-years war to an end, who have to deal with them will do well to fixing it, we are saved just so much expense Macbeth. I used to get up with the butler Union Ins, Society of Canton, #620 when delivery is made to the consignee, forcing all the rebel chiefs to lay down their study; it shows with what facility a false right along. It may not be much in course behind her carriage when she acted, and Chinese Insurance Co., $208 and he is perfectly entitled to ask that, arms, and a harder matter persuading ory can be raised, and how, in the name of of a year, hut every little helps, and in time used to see hor looking quite wild, and all North Obina Ins. Co., Ns. 915
the total would amount to a nice little the people frightened." "Ah, ba, my lady Yangtaes Ins. Assoolation, Tls, 610 before relinquishing that lien, some other Muda Hassim to accept their submission humanity, humanity may suffer."
lump. We don't want the Astors lugging aaye I, If it wasn't for my meat, thoughs E.K. W. Dosk Co., 31 equally good security should be given to without the usual confiscations and execu-
off all the money in the country by you wouldn't be able to do that." "Mr.K. 0. M. &-boxi Co., $10 tions. As an inducement to him to remain hf, Economist.
in the country, Muda Hassim had promised ANOTHER DISTRESSING CASE.
gracious." He got the fron-one dollar Sowerby, you seem to be a man of feeling Hongkong Hotel Co., $50 to transfer to him the government of The British mariner is seeing altogether and fifty cents' worth of solder, and ten will you take a glass of wine in After a Chinese Imperial Loan, £108 Sarawak, and in September, 1841, the too many, seu serpents, and those, too, of cents' worth of rosin. He came home with bow or two, down he sat, and by degrees
Temperature. transfer was formally made, not without unnecessarily large size. A few weeks ago, these things and went into the kitchen, bis heart opened. "You see, sir, I have considerable pressure, and Brooke's reign we had the story of a British Captain and looking so proud and happy that his wife fed Mira Siddons, air John Kemble, sir 1 (Taken at Messrs Palsoner de Co.'s Premises,
Queen's Road.) Miss Jacob must have been met by a began, though the formal ratifiontion from one of his mates who saw an immense sea- would have been glad he got them were Charles Kemble, sir Stephen Kemble,
Boraxone, April 6, 1877. somewhat difficult problem on the threshold the Sultan of Boruto did not arrive till a serpent of a unique pattern, both ss to shape it not for an overpowering dread of an iri Madame Catalint, sir; Morland, the
"Mr Sowerby, you do me BAROMETER | AM of her work. The story she had to tell le year later. And now at last he is content, and color, somewhere near the Straits of impending muss. He called for the artistes paluter; and I beg your pardon, sir
Do.. on one side the most romantic, on the other, and can write home, "As for the demon Sunds, and who were so terribly frightened needing repair. His wife brought him the and you, sir."
Where's the rest! Bring 'em all honour." Madame Catalini, air, was a
Do. perhaps, the most dreary of our time. Its Time, I know not how he flies. Day succeeds that as soon as they reached port they went pan.
out an' let me make a job of it while I'm wonderful woman for sweetbreads; but the here is a figure like one of Charlemagne's day, month month, and I have no enne before a magistrate and solemnly swore
rump-steaks and kidneys in general was paladins, or Queen Elizabeth's sea-captaine, none of that longing to be doing something, never to touch that is to say, swore to the about it." He got them all, and seemed Kemble family, sir-the gentlemen, air- THERMOMETER-9 A.M....
A little later, a re-to be disappointed that there were not more their taste but Mrs Siddons, sir, she liked when he is sailing the sens and ruling wild and the aversion to be employed on trifles," truth of their story. tribes; an angry, querulous, and slightly (., p. 180.) Six years followed of steady turned sea. Captain in the Coast Guard.ser- of them. "He pushed the ion in the fire, chops, sir, as much as you do, sir," c. I work and internal organisation and develop-vice was walking along the shore near and got a milkpan inverted on his knee, unreasonable gentleman, when he is strug- gling for recognition and aid at home with meat, and rapid and well-planned strokes at Plymouth, England, when he saw large and with the solder in his hand, waited for "That iron only cost a puzzled Cabinet Ministers and cautious men the pirate triber who haunted the coast and ship at a distance of about three miles from the right heat. of business. What Miss Jacob has done is neighbouring Sakarran and Serebus rivers. shore suddenly vanish as though it had dollar, and it'll never wear out, and there to give long extracts from the Rajah's The result has rarely been surpassed, for the made itself air, like a Shaksperean witch, is enough solder in this piece to do twenty- journals and letters, setting out his views of man proved himself a born ruler, sagacious, While he was yet wondering at this pheno five dollars' worth of mending," he exclaim "All about me would menon, he saw in the place lately occupied ed to his wife, Pretty soon the iron was his own position, and of the duty of England daring, and patient. towards him as he saw it again and again, plunge forward, and cause the shedding of by the vanished ship what he took to be a at right heat, he judged. He rubbed, the and from the despatches and minutes of the blood, and innocent blood. Patience, patience, large steamer with two fannels, but what a rosin about the hole which was to be various statesmen and officials who had from then, patience!" He has to impress on his little observation proved to be an enormous repaired, hold the stick, of solder over it, It was an time to time to consider the question in its fellows that good government will surely, serpent with two upright dorsal fins, painted and carefully applied the iron. different bearings. And we cannot but fear but slowly, win confidence; it must be made with alternate black and white stripes. Had intensely interesting moment. His wife that this part of the book may prove too heavy for the average reader, and so that the on the people. But the evils of bad govern- have carried the usual red and green lights, said, speaking laboriously, as he applied brave story may spread less for, and strike ment do not cease with it, its subjects, "like and would have burned a private Coston the iron The-only-thing-I regret the two contracting families; the character Nov. 21, America, from Cardiff to Hong. less deeply, than we should have desired. a distrustful dog, snap and skulk away, long signal. As nearly as the Coast Guard manabontitis-that didn't think and feelings of the future couple are not after they are blessed with a kind master." could judge, this sea-serpent. was six hun--of-getting-this-before-we-" Then taken into account at all. The father of
The first and crucial reform measure was dred feet long, and there is but little doubt there ascended through the ceiling and up the men puts himself into communication Nov. 28, Western Chief, from London to
Hongkong. the absolute and stern prohibition of inter- that he had just gorged the vanished ship, into the very vault of heaven the awfullest with the father of the girl, viva voce, if they
Nov. 23, Madura, from Cardiff to Hồng. tribal ward-the oures of Borneo-in all the and was on the lookout for a tender long-yell that woman ever heard, and the same live near one another, and by letter, if at a
instant the soldering Iron flow over the distatico; they discuss the different con- kong.. Sarawak territory; the second, a simple code bost or an appetizing life-raft.
Neither of these unhappy British mari stove, and the pan went clattering along ditions of the contract, make all arrange Nov. 28, Hannah Law, from Cardiff to founded on the old Bornean laws, which was
sea-serpents to the the floor, and the bar of solder struck ments, and fix upon a day for the ceremony,
Hongkong, published at once, and administered in open ners, however, anw Courts at Kuching, in which native officers terrible extent to which the Captain of a against the wall with so much force as to which appears most favourable according sat as Judges, under the presidency of the British bark has recently seen them. On smash right through both the plaster and to the calculations of the fortune-tellers. Kajah himself. Next, trade was encouraged, the 8th of July, 1875, while the bark was lath. And before her horrid gaze danced In some respects these preliminaries to as far as the small means at Brooke's disposal off Cape St. Roque, the weather being fine her husband' to an other of agony marriage, it will be seen, reserable those in Dec. 4, Benclathe, from Cardiff to Bong. allowed, and settlers flocked in from all sides and clear, and the steward opening one of sobbing, screaming, and holding on to vote among the Chinese. An evening or to Sarawak as to a city of refuge, until in the last half dozen, the Captain noticed an his left leg desperately as if it was two before the day appointed for the the summer of 1646, when the Admiral of unusual commotion in the water at a dis-made of solid gold and studded with marriage, the lady obtains the assistance of Dec. 17, A. E. Vidal, from Hamburg to
Hongkong. diamonds. "Get the camphor, why don't a friend to put up her hair, and one of the the station, Sir T. Cochrane, visited Kuching tance of about two miles on the lee bow.
The warm-hearted sailor steered for the you?" he yelled. "Send for a doutor ! O! bridegroom's relations or equaintances Des. 17, Carrloks, from London to Hong. to inspect and report home, the population of
kong. Kuching had risen from 1,500 to upwards of scene of disturbance, thinking that he oh! I'm a dead man " he shouted. Just does the same for him. Those who are 12,000, med huts had been replaced by might, perhaps, find a fragment of wreck then his gaze rested on the soldering iron. chosen to perform this ceremony are Deo. 19, Channel Queen, from Cardiff to handsome houses, life and property were bearing the body of some unhappy fellow In an instant he caught it up and hurled it selected with great cure, and are called safe, the people lightly taxed, contented, and being with a bottle in his pocket. He soon, through the window without the prelimi- pok-siou (in Chinese pai-shon), i, e. "lucky loyal, while peace reigned in all her borders. however, discovered the true stato of the pary of raising the sash. It was some time hands." The following is an explanation Dec. 20, Chinaman, from London to Hong- A tremendons battle was in progress before the thoroughly frightened and on of this somewhat odd practice. Brooke visited England in 1847, and was case. and gone to sea, and whose wild ways received with acclamation by the whole between a sperm whale and a sea-serpent, fused woman learned that some of the children of both sexes wear their hair in a Dec. 22, Sophie, from New York to Hong- were a sera trial to tutors of the dashing country. He went to Windsor and was while two other sperm whales, who had molten solder had run through the hole in singie tress which hange down their backs, young officer mentioned for gallantry in des- knighted, and returned as Consul General formed a ring, were watching the conflict the pan and on to his leg, although she and they always go bare-headed; as long as Dec, 28, ino, from Greenock to Bwatow. patches, commanding a native cavalry corps of Bermeo, Commissioner of Trade, and with faces expressive of grief and alarm. knew from the first that something of an they are unmarried, they are considered in the first Burmese war, and invalided for Governor of the new settlement of Labuan, The snake, which was from 160 to 170 feet unusual nature had occurred-Danbury children (ahai), they are obliged to dress Dec. 23, Jobu Nicholson, from New York
their hair in this way. They can then play a desperate wound-as though half a volume founded at his suggestion. But now, when in length and 7 or 8 feet in circumference,
childish tricks and pranks, without any Dec. 27, Undine, from London to Shanghal had been spent over it. He recovered very his fortunes seemed secure, came six years hul taken two turns with b tail around the
notice. being taken of them, for they are Dec. 29, Ulysses (str.), from Liverpool to slowly from this wound, the bullet not being of adversity. Fierce attacks commenced in whale, bringing the tail a und the stand-
not supposed to be capable of serious Shanghai, (leaves S'pore, 3rd proximo.) extracted till 1829, when his furlough was Parliament on him and his Government. ing part of him and passing it through the just expiring, and his commission would be Joseph Hume and Cobden became the tools bight, thus making an imperfect but still
thon guisacipation, at whatever age bringe Dec. 29, Canaan, from Cardiff to Hong- forfeited unless he rejoined by a certain day. of discharged agents and jealous traders, sufficiently trustworthy "stunsail-halyard-
civil emancipation, age it may He sailed in the Castle Huntley, East India- and, in spite of refutation after refutation, bend." Having thus a firm hold of the
be contracted, even if the bridegroom be no man, which made a bad voyage, and landed and the unanimous witness of every naval whale, the serpent was tossing him up in
more than twelve or thirteen years old. Jan. 4, C. R. Bishop, from London to
Hongkong, him at Madras with only twelve days to reach officer who had been employed on the station, the air and bringing him down again on other day, about the woman over in Pen- Henceforth they are men and women, and his regiment in Bengal, and finding it impos-memorialised, one weak Government after the surface of the water with a violonos cador? It was one of the most amusing must put away childish things; the new Jan. 11, Windhover, from London to sible to be in time, he resigned his commission another, until they had obtained a Commis- that must have proved excessively trying to things that ever came under my observa wife takes her place among matrons, and
Shangbal The woman's name, you see, was the young husband has the right of speak. and went on to China and home in the same sien of Inquiry on the spot, before whom the whale. The battle did not last long, tion. vessel. I toss my cap into the air," he Brooke was to appear and justify his pro for the whale soon became totally exhausted, Emma. Well, sir, there were two young ing at meetings of men, and also of wearing Jan. 12, Woodhall, from Hamburg to Hong-
kong writes to his sister, my commission into ceedings against the pirate tribes, and his and the serpent sank with him in order fellows paying attention to her, and after a hat for the future! After the hair has the sea, and bid farewell to John Company position as British Consul-General and Com. to swallow him without the presence of she'd accepted one of them, the other also been put up" for marriage the men wear Jan. 12. Hope, from London to Hongkong, and all his evil ways." (p. 19.) They touch missioner for Trade. The proceedings spectators. The two other whales then proposed to her, and as she felt certain that it knotted on the tops of their heads a little at Penang and other places in the Archipe- dragged on till 1858, The Commissioners swam away, too much depressed in spirits the first one wasn't in earnest she accepted to the front. According to ancient tradi. Jan. 16, Gryfe, from Cardiff to Hongkong. lage, and Brooke's imagination is on fire with sat at Labuan, and waited in vain for to thinks of spouting, and the Captain felt the second one also Sos few days later tion, they ought never to cut a single hair Jan. 18, Batavia, from Hamburg to Hong. all he 6008. What a field for enterprise ovidence in support of the charges against a cold shiver" run through his frame. both of 'em called at the same time, both off but especially at the capital, young men and adventure! but not for me, for we sail Brooke, while remonstrances, protests, and Fortunately, he had taken the precaution claimed her hand, and both insisted on who wish to turn their personal advantages Jan. 31, Forward Ho, from London to
Shanghai. on, and heed not the murmurs of ungratified addresses in his favour poured in from all to lean against the lee-rail, and to keep a marrying her at once. Then of cours she to account, and avoid wearing too thick a curiosity. However, before he had reached sides. The persecution collapsed shamefully firm grasp of the mizzen-rigging. He thus found herself face to face with a mighty bundle of hair, have the tops of their heads Feb. 1, Robert Henderson, from Buryport
to Hongkong. home the idea of retiring some day in a vessel and ignominiously, and the tardy approval escaped making a spectacle of himself by unpleasant-unpleasant-rerer let's shaved. Married women, on the contrary, of his own had shaped itself in his mind, and of lier Majesty's Government of the man sinking fainting to the deck, and success see, what's the word (Tant? Unpleasant some lape har ni addition, in order to Feb. 2, Polyuesit, from Cardiff to Hongs
-ar-er Blamed if I haven't forgotten some hair in addition, in never gave him rest till it was realised, ner in which you have discharged the duties fully concealed his emotions.
In spite of the care which he naturally that word." "Predicament," stiggested make the two braids, in which their bair is This could not be done for some years, his entrusted to you as her Majesty's Commia- father, a retired Indian civil servant, being sioner," at length, in the autumn of 1855, took of himself after having received this Judge Pitman, "No, that's not it. What's arranged, appear as thick as possible; these Feb. 5, Carrizal, from Cardiff to Hongkong, averse to any mercantile speculation, for which reached the Rajah. But in the meantime terrible warning, the Captain saw another the name of that thing with two horns 1 of all classes at the capital, and ladies of Feb. 8, Daphne, from London to Hong he knew that his son was not fitted. At he had been thoroughly soured, and his serpent eight days after, when about eighty Unpleasant-erer-hang it, it's gone clear noble rank in the provinces, make with last in 1884, he so far gave way as to enable work crippled. No Queen's ship had visited miles from Cape St. Roque. This serpent out of my mind," "A cow" hinted Miss these two braids a species of large chignon, James to become part owner of a small brig Sarawak for years. The native chiefs be stood on his tail, with some sixty feet of his Gridley. "No, not a dow," "Maybe it's which is kept together by a long silver or Feb, 13, Leading Wind, from Antwerp to and her miscellaneous eargo, in which he lieved him to be abandoned by England, body out of the water, and grimly scrutinized a builo," remarked Dr. Potta. No, no copper pin, placed crosswise, and falls back
and piracy was lifting its hoad again, while the bark as if in search of the unhappy kind of an animal. Something else with over the nook i among the lower classes in Feb. 18. Bertha (str.), from Cardiff to
Hongkong, sold his chip, and quarrelled with his partner, his private means were exhausted. While Captain, That fearless mariner instantly two home. Mighty queer I can't recall it." provinces these braids are rolled round the bat worked hard and gained knowledge and brooding over his wrongs, and the grudging shouted, Gimmenaxe," and the carpenter Perhaps it's a brass band," observed head like a experience, which served him well when his amends which had been made his perfect having brought him the best are on board Butterwick. Or a man who's had a cou. forehead. Spinstern, who object to the Feb. 17, Therese Bahn, from Cardiff to
Hongkong. time came. His rezolve was only confirmed justification and triumph came in the most the vessel, he carefully emptied his boots ple of drinks, suggested Peter Lamb. holy estate of matrimony, and bachelors by this failure, but it put an end to the unexpected and terrible form. The Chinese overboard, to avoid any attack in the rear of course not. You don't mean a fire who, though well on in life, have not been Feb. 18, Matchless, from Cardiff to Honge prospect of carrying out any fresh ventures colony rose on the night of February 18, and announced that, if the aca-serpent wanted company 1" asked Ms. Pitman No. able to find a help mate, secretly "put up" during his father's life, and the next year or 1887 burnt the Rajah's house and the to attack an honest dad sober sailor, he That's the confounded queerest thing I over their hair themselves, and make bolleve Feb. 19, Cactus O., from Cardiff to Honge
kong. two were spent at home, in the temper ex-public buildings, and murdered several of would show him who was the master of that heard of, that I don't remember that word, that they have been married, in order that pressed to his friend Cruikshank in the words, his officers, Brooke himself escaping by vessel. The monster; however, thought asid Mr. Sniffin, get ing warm, and begin. they may not be treated as children all Feb. 19, F. F. Lichfield, from Cardiff to
Well, give pa the their lives. This of course, is a grave I envy you. I envy everybody who has fighting his way out and swimming a creek better of it, and slowly disappeared,, when ning to feel miserable. anything to do that keeps gloom out of the He threw himself at once on the warlike the Captain was escorted to his dabin by the rest of the story without it, said the judge, violation of national custom but still it is head and the devil out of the heart," (p. 57.) tribe of the Bakaran Dyake, the pirates steward, where he subsequently wrote out That's the misohlef of it," said Mr. Sniffin, winked at.Saturday Ma asine.
The probation-time, with all its broodings whom he had lately, tamed, and in a few full account of the affair for the benefit of The whole joke turns on that inferns! and heart-searchings, ceased when in the days was again in his espital, more power the London medical journals and temperante word "Two horns did you say 1" saked
Dr. Potts. "Maybe it is" a catfish 1" Sur led him to a soft, and in a deep bass spring of 1836, of his father's death, he ful than ever, while the remnant of the mosieties.
Why this account was not published until "Or a sasil" remarked the judge. "N-voice called him her soul's idol, and inquired became owner of £50,000, and free to follow Chinese had escaped over the border. His his stars. Within a few weeks he was owner worst enemies in England were now silenced, a year and a half after the affair took place no-none of those." "Is it an elephant or what his monthly income was. Seeing his of the Royalist, schooner racht of 142 while some frankly owned the wrong they we are not informed i neither is it knows a walrus!" asked Mm. Patts. "I guess gare fixed on her hon-constrictor-like mouth, tons, in which, after a year's preliminary had done him, and from that day Barawak wheth the Captain has changed his habits, I'll have to give it up" and Mr. Sniffin, the remarked-Darling; I tes you notice cruise in the Mediterranean, he started for was safe. But her founder, stricken down or is still in danger of another attack. There wiping the perspiration from his brow my large and beautiful potato-trap let mas the Eastern Archipelago in December, 1888, by illness, was soon obliged to resign the is no doubt, however, that his oase is rather "Well, that's the sickest old story I ever explain to you the reason of its unusual size. beat, as he writes in his farewell letter, on Botive government, and spent his last years the worst on record. Other mariners have run across" remarked Butterwick to the When I was quite a child I was playing ou Then everybody smiled, and Mr pappris cellar doof;- it'give way; I was doing something to add to the amount of in a cottage on Dartmoor, purchased by seen sea serpents of great size and forosity, Julge, good and happiness in the world, especially funde subscribed by his admirers at home, some of which have shown a persistence in Sailin erotsed himself tipon the ground precipitated down into the basement and in a way suited to my wild habite, wild varied only by two short visits to Sarawak, rolling themselves around the spectator's that he had to meet man and withdrew. caught by the mouth on a projecting meat. education, and ardent love for an undue now a consular station and the dépôt of a neck and stowing themselves away in his The mystery la yet unsolved. I never con hook, which ripped up my face and extended degree of personal freedom." "I can truly powerful English Company, The dispute pockets, which must have been very trying coated any such story at that, and I have a my mouth several inches. With his eyes say that I have no object of personal arabi- between Brooke and his nephew, whom he but a sed-serpent engaged in beating the faint impression that Sniffin was trying to full of sympathetic tears, he rose from the fiou, no craving for personal reward; these left in charge on his return to England, is breath out of a whale is quite unprecedented; build one up by bringing that woman's tofu, and replied as he made towards the things sometimes attend on worthy deeds or lightly touched in this book, and readers The Captain makes a feeble attempt to excuse name, Enima, sottolion into a bun with door My angel, you are perhaps mistake, bold enterprises, but they are, at the best, are left to infer that the nephew was himself by referring to the prolonged heat the word "dilemma, and I am glad he Probably in the excitement of that awful but consequences, not principal objects," entirely in the wrong. In justies to of the weather in the neighborhood of spe failed. When a tan begins to palm off his moment you left your mouth down in the (1., p. 69.) That he was a little self-deceived the memory of a gallant and loyal English St. Roque. This is not an excuse which can infamous kes on me, the time has come basement and accidentally brought up the in this we think comes out very clearly, Hemen, it should have been told that the cause be accepted. If the weather was hot the when he can die without being missed cellar. We shall meet again in a better
world, Adian!"--American penari was an ambitious man if ever inere was que, of difference was the resolute opposition of Captain should have tried cold bathe and | Mag Adaları -
But having said so much, we have no further aimed as far as possible at making the book an autobiography, and she has used her materials excellently, on the whole, allowing the Rajah to paint his own portrait, and supplying the side-lights and background with the skill of a practised writer, and the tact of a high-bred lady..
This skill and tact are nowhere more apparent than in the opening of the book. The temptations to linger over reminiscences of schoulfellows, and stories of doubtful value prophetic of future distinction, which get most of their colour from the subsequent knowledge of the narrators, is successfully resisted. In a dozen pages we get to the turning-point in Brooke's career, his first voyage in the China seas; and yet we have as clear an idea of the daring, affectionate, clever boy, who ran away from the school he was so fond of because his friend had left
made a voyage to China, lost all his venture,
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THE
150 140 Garllo, (bulb) dried,
150 140 Ginger,
catty
esch catty
25 2007
80 30
20
40 33
30.
70
100
80
90
40
10
20 15
"Horse Radish," S'hal,-,,
800
20
bead
bunch
catty
13
Roasty Soup, "Steak; Bullocks' Brains,
23
90 60
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160 140
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young,
15
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40
30
Head,
21
Heart,
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Foet,
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50 40
60 50
"
English,
Aliut,,
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"
100 00
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Onions, Bombay
-lb.
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1
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Paraley, Onluse, English, Potatoes, Macap,
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20.
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30
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H. L H, THE GRAND DUKE ALEXIS OF RUSSIA, Wyndham Street, formerly ATHLETIC CLUB,
Esays on the Chinese Language, (Continued assorted sizes.
from page 163.) Dear-Stalking in China, Chinese Dentistry.
Chinese Intercourse with the Countries of Central and Western Asia during the Fifteenth Century, Part II. (Continued from page 182.)
A Legend of the Peking Ball-Tower. A. Uhinese Hornbook.
The Law of Inheritance.
A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese
Dialoot.
Short Notices of New Books and Literary
Inteligence.
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A Chinese Dictionary in the Cantonese
Dialect.
"Watching Spirits." Chinese Folk-lore.
Yin and Yang, according to Aristotie. Pidgin English.
Goethe's "Werther" in China, Chinese Musio, Books Wanted, Exchanges, &s.
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60
50 Taro (V Tan)
- Kidneys,
20
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Idver,
80 70 Tomatoes,
60 40
Ib..
100
80 150 140
Corned,
180 120
" Lrog,
"
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Fat or Lard,
Turnips, Balt,
English. Oblness. 150 140 Water Lily Roots,
20
15
22
each
15 10
catty
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110 100 Water Cross,
840 820 Yama,
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catty
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50 40
Traits.
Kidneys,
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80 70 Aleurites,
natty
60
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1750 1003 Apples, Dried
002 50
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140 120
Californian,
260 150
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Poultry.
Bananas, fragrant Punti,,,
30
catty
200 180 Chestnuts, new,
100
Deer,
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$2.00 $1.50 Cocoanuta -
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50 40
Dricks,
catty
130 120 Curants,
bottle
400 860
Egga, Hen
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100
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200 100
1
Duck
100
Daton,
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6:00 400
Salt
12
120
500- 400
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⚫ batty
120 110 GuavM,
"
850 300 Lemons,
Pheasants, Canton, live, pair
, Shanghat, dead, Pigeons,
each QUAII,
400
25
11
100
90
Mangoes,
each
70
11
800 500
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each
40
80
120 110
250 220
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850 600
**
400
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Papaw, Pears, Nanking,
Sweet, Sun-woey (Mand.) coolle (Mandarin) dark-skinned
250 160
100
80
120 100
90
80
150 130
"
160 120
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100
90
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120 100
Carp,
80
70
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. each
60
50
Codfish, Salt,
Crabs,
Ib. catty
150
Plantains, common
calty
80 20
200 120
52
fragrant
40
80
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80 70
Plans,
80
70
Dace,
100 90
Prunes, Dried,
bottle
250
Eels, Congor
60
60
Pumelces or Shaddook, each
80 60
Filo Fiab,
Raisins,
70
60.
Uscatel
bottle 750 800
Fresh Fish, Large
180 120
lb.
"
200 150
93
Small
90
80.70
.stick
25
80
60 catty
Herring,
*
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12
70 box ́$1,00
00
110: 100
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50 40
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80 70
**
50. 40
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Barley,
200 760-800 ploul 1600 1500
100
90
Brau, Butter,
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1500 1400
800 5500
∙140 130:
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Perrot Flib, Perch, Pomfret,
Candled Orange Poal,
180 120
bottle
780. 700
**
750 700
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250 220
#+
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1080 1000
lbi
400 850
Cinnamon,
300 250
160 150
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180 150
120 100
40
60.
Coffee,
280-200
70
Curry Powder,
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500 250
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Firewood,
400 850
60
80
Flour,
120 110
Gran
120 100
80
400 860
Lainglass, Lamp Oil, Macaron!
White Bally
Maco
750
40
30
Vegatables.
Mango Chutney,/
bottle
·500-800
400 400 Mustard,
180 180
eatty
100 80
Nutmeg,
20
1
Olives,
asch bottle
10 8
250 200
80 to Paddy,
***ploul
1600 1800
50
Pesal Barley,
bottle
120 180
12 10 Pepper (whole)
aatty
· 270220
1
Cabbage, White Cantons
Common, Hongkong,
12 10 30 26 lokios, 10
(y (ground)
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250 200
Blos,
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40 35
Bach 70 30 Sago,
100 80
70 80.
Turnip, Bohl mach end for pickling » Carrote, Spit
10
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60
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