SONNET.
Hid in a rogabush, flowering by a river, A bird from spring to summer gaily sang To fts sweet friend the rose, and over Its throbbing throat with joyous carols rang. The river's wavelete, running to the gea, Blent over in mokdious ecstasy
With the bird song. But whenalas! thesere,
Block autumn came, ers no dear, From lays of love to strains of sad regret Changed the sweet song, as changed the rose's
hua; Mourning sach day some rich loaf disappear, Until the hat had dropped into the ware, Faded by wintry season, cold and drear.
вау
He
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE ETIQUETTE OF EXECUTIONS IN CHINA.
In China when it is desirable to get rid of Botne very influvutial official it is done in
Visitors Column.
Rongkong Rates of Postage.
(Revised December 1st, 1880, )
[No. 6493 February 19, 1881.
Local Parcel Post
PATZERAL- Boms difficulty laexperienced 1. Small Farcels may be sent by Port in obtaining a general undermanding between any of the Post Ofices in Chicshot is a Pattern. It ́la a bond fide supla or Japan, as well as to Macao, PA of goods which the sender han for sale,
to constar of the emailost positis quántliy bol, Singapore, Penang, and Bintacca of goods which he wished to order. They must not exceed the following dimensible with skewing her the goods ions, 2 foot long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deep,ary and was have no intrinse valen nor weigh more than bibs. The postage is 20 cents per lb., which includes Regiatra-
parosh are forwarded at Book Rates Regis tion except to Japan, to which country
CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA. In the report by M Consul Chr. T Gardner upon the trade of Chefoo in 1879, thero is a paragraph hended Effect of
We have instituted as an experiment Mr Gardner a most palito manner. Ho is not cona VISITORS' COLUMN, which we trust
In the following Statements and Tables Evangelisation or Trade."
The remarkable progross the spirit demned to death. He only receives a neat will prove successful, and be found use the Rates are given in cents, and are, for of Christianity has lately been making in parcel containing a silken cord with an Au. To it will be relegated from time Letters, per half punte, for Books and this province will, I think, in future years Imperial despatch: setting, forty to time such items of Information, lists,erapapers over four ounces in weight consequence of his grant virtues and may tables and other intelligence as is con- and chilled those flow have a most beneficial effect on trade."
explains that he does not clude to the services, the Emperor is graciónsly pleased sidered likely to pravo valiable to porene has oo, but such papers or packets or charged as double, treble, de, as the
To provide means of cemitting senkil number of converts, so much as to the to allow him to strangle or hang himself, clungo that has come over the attitude and the recipient is thereupon supposed to sons passing through alla City, and papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two try being optional. The parcels may be toms of money to or from this Colony and wo have opened Newspapers must not be folded together as bally closed if slidy bear this special between the Port of Chling the Port with which educated and uneducated classes write a careful answer thanking His Majes- in connection with here regard the doctrines of the Newty for his consideration, and stating that a SELECT HOTEL AND BUSINESS one, nor must anything whatever be inserted endorsement, PAROKI, CONTAINING NO.LET masters and Agents are allowed (but ans Testament.
Stamps from foreign rezidenta ......... Indifference and hostility are giving way to respectful
Mr rule, the ulicky writer does not finish into which we are now ready to receive matter may, however be enolored, if the direction of the Postmaster General
Between Hongkong and Yokoharis, how- whole be paid at Book Rate, Prices Chir 2. The following cannot be transmitted: despatch. to tho generosity himself off
tent may be paid either as Newspapers or Parosis insuficiently packed or protected, ever, in either direction, Maney-Orders Books
or liable to be Awhile the minstrel cluby, and then was of Christian Europeans towards the starving occurred when I was iness Court pro multitudo during the recent famine," and
and outraged all fooling of
List of Public Buildings,
Glass, Liquids, must be used areas to the devotion of Christian missionaries priety, Guneral Shang-y, who luxing the
an, though Written by Hand, du- not bear Matches, indispensabatär, who administered the relief. Although the China war, commanded the body Government House North of Public, the character of an sotual or personal corte Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whaterer exceed $60 in: value, must be perfectly memory of famine may pass away, he does men which treacherously seized Sir
Sir Harry not think "the progress of Christianity will Parkes and several others tundor a flag of UNDER THE SPREADING CHEST be much checked." He is struck with truce-must of the poor follows dying after City Hall, Library (8,00B. volumes) and consis, &e. The alarge on them is the same is dangerous to the Mals, or likely to be lean, in good condition, and in stripe of at TO HANDY WOzrbgoos TataaNELLOW, ON HEAD-1 that in spite of the very few missionaries indiscreet mon whose 'tongües took a Public Gardens, a beautifully picturesque paper, PARANG MAG Darged less than 5 warded by :Private Ship, not by Contract i
Then on a bough forlorn, mute as the grave, Gardner attributus this attention, and the hint will be inmediately taken. A DIRECTORY, applications for enrolaient except bona fide Supplements. Printed ran, bat any parcel may he opened by required) to purchase Hongkong Postage
lost to view.
Hongkong, Feb. 9, 1881.
NUT TREE."
Blacksmith, BY ONE WHO LOVED
*To see the faming.forgo
And hear the bellows rear."
Bay--has that grand old chestnut tre
That spread its ancient arms Forth to the heavens pure and free,
For thee no better chains,
That thou dost with a ruthless hand
Its tender leafage tim
Into the tree of India's strand,
Whose drooping rootlets burn
With strong desire to reach the ground
And hide themselves in earth.
Has thy Poetic Masa not found
**
and
with adi
the vast stridea Christianity has mado, wards in great. torment was e
LITI-
But a case which sadly
of
one of those
After the waT
Bro too long
Gardens.
Museum, Free.
Con
Ice, Meat,
The Stamps tendered for kale must not
spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied
ecome offensive or jujurious in transitat least two, as no separate Blampe will be purchased. They must be presented per- a for books, but, whatever the weight of anoket containing any partially written 8. Faroela, will se a general rule be forsonally or accompanied by ambos
it will not be
Mall Packet The Post Office reserves the The Poulmater or Agent may postpabe
The sender
ader of any Registered Article right of selecting the opportunity for trane purchasing if his pabllo funds, le hatid are the number of parcels in such as to roland in any case which appears doubtful ne Fla is allowed, to charge a may scoompany it with a Return Receipt mission, and of delaying delivery in one not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase an paying an extra fee of 6 cents.
other correspondence. No responsibility suspicions.
accepted with regard to any parcel, bat Commission of one per cent on all Stampe the system of Registration will secure the purchased. senders against any but a very remote pro bability of loss.
retreat and of great interest. The Clock Tower, Queen's Road Ces- tral, in a line with Pedder's Wharf
The limit of weight for Books and Com General Fest Office, Hongkong Club,
German Club, Supreme Court, &c.,mercial Papers to Foreign Post Office is 4 lbs. Patterns for such offices are limited to 8 ounces, and must not exceed these Lusitano Club and Labrary, Shelley St. dimensions: 8 inches by & inches by 2
inchos. Government Offices, the Secretariat, &
near-the Public Gardens,
within a stone's-throw.
St. John's Cathedral (Anglican), above
the Parade Ground. Roman Catholic Cathedral, Wellington
ING BIR ADAPTATION OF LONGVELLOW'S VAGE there are in the land. Enthusiasm in the for their safety and having once been
native Forms of faith has become extinct, loc
local command, and "whether wo are inclined to rejoice at robaked by the Empress Maiher, indulged or deplore the fact, I think the spread of in some remarks about her character: Of
The modo in
conrae some kind friend told the Empress, Christianity is inevitable." which this will operate to extend trade is and are time afterwards, a subordinate of curions. The mass of the lower orders in Shang-yil's charging him with soine offence, China aro very
adverse to nly mental ex-ho was ordered to this opital for trial. He ertion, and the mero-fact of having the camu, boldly trusting to his grens wealth to ductrines of Christianity forced on their escape-tunpleasant consequences. He was notice will rouse the Chinese to the lodged in prison, but allowed to do much wonted exercise of thought." Once thought as he liked, and some of his wives used is arcaused they will doubtles evolve for one and see him daily. He stayed there themselves
trathe
in economical so long, and was so comfortable, that he universally admitted in had begun to think that he had been Science which civilised lands, have hardly in this Empire forgottau; and in an evil hour he sent in a 1 at the stage of being even problems.petition to be put at once on trial. The arrived The class of outcasts is very large in China Emperor had died since his arrest, and and they are peculiarly amenable to the the Empresses were in reality governing Union Church, Elgin Street. influence of Christianity,, through which through the regent Prince Kung; and alone can they obtain a new start in life. General Shang-y little know that his St. Peter's Seamen's Church, West Point. In one province a benevolent Viceroy has incautious remarks had been repeated. established thousands of schools, designedly When the petitions of the day were St. Joseph's (R.C.) Church, Garden
school of a submitted to the junior
Empress his
Road, Rear Rennedy Roal. German missionary, except that the Chris was read, and he was ordered to be bu-Temperance Hall, specially adapted for tian dogans are not taught. A. Chinese headed. There was nothing for it but to general, who found himself with the power obey the Empress's orders, and a decree
him of life or death over 50,000 youths in five
to strangle himself was "permitting. immediately drawn in and sent to hire with the mal packago of silken cord. But Shang-yi didn't take at all a proper view and he did not lend himself
A task of greater worth i
from whose famo
That village smith ted
Was drawn the
How could thy good
What it had best
ore
thun defame
A heathon temple wouldst thou make
Of that dear rustia sheil,
Where once did slumbring echo wake
For him who now lies dead
The honest
In mutilating to dost thou dare,
rhyme,
With aliaven Buddhist to compare,
Mutting at-idol-shrine?
This haat
Za
thou dared, and Oh! far worse
His daughter's sweet-toned voice
dean'd unworthy, thro' thy verse,
To make our hearts rejoice,
But thot wouldst rather we should hear
Throughput thy mainio-song Th'incessant
ensant jar, that pains the ear,
From the cleads throng.
Aloe 1 that I lived to soo
Those mem'ries pure and sweet
Torn from that grand old chestnut tree,
And trampled neath thy feet.
Hal I the blacksmith's brawny arm,
I'd make thy falae muse know
There lingors yet a pow'rful charm
In that "medrured beat and slow." Hongkong, Feb. 10, 1831
GOOD TEMPER
There's not a cheaper thing on warth,
Nor yet one half so doar;
Tis worth more than distinguished birth,
Or thousands gained a-year.
It leads the day & now delight,
'Tis Virtue's firmast shield;
And adds more beauty to the night
Than all the stars can yield.
It maketh Poverty content;
To Sorrow whispers peace;
It is a gift from Heaven sent,
For mortals to increase.
It meets you with a smile at morn,
It lulls you to repose:
A flower for peer and pessant,born,
An overlasting rose."
A charm to banish grief away
To snatch the brow from care ;
Tura tesre to smiles, nako dulness gay,
Spread gladness everywhere,
And yet 'tin sweet as swimmer dow
That gems the lily's breast;
A talisman for love as trac
Ås ever mum possessed.
What may this wondrous spirit be,
With power unheard before- This charm, this bright amenity ?
GooD TAMPER—nothing more I GOOD TEMPER-'tis the choicest gift That woman homeward bringe, And can the poorest peasint lift To bliss unknown to kings.
---PRACTICAL TEACHING FOR
DAUGHTERS.
Teach them self-relianos. Teach them to make bread.
Teach them to make shirts.
Teach then not to wear false hair.
Teach them not to paint or powder.
Teach them to wear thick, warm shoes. Teach them to wasli and iron clothes.
formed on the model of
years, sent elasin to Singapore for periode ranging from five to ten years, "Many of these men have returned, and have become
Street.
sea-faring men, Queen's Road East. Sailors Home, West Point.
E. E. A. and China Telegraph Co., and the Great Northern Telegraph Co., Marine Huuse, Queen's Road.
persons marked by their intelligence, and of hidration was not vaquetto to Masonic Hall, Zetland Street.
industry.'
Nonconformist.
MARK TWAIN AT THE RADICAL CLUB,
FROM MRS SARGENT'S SKETCHES AND REMINISCENCES.,
who
to the
to the
It
call in the gaolera to atrangle him, and the bowstring and the governor
Bearer file
change
Victoria Recreation Club-Bath-houss' and Boat-house, &c.,-Praya, beyond the Cricket Ground, beside the City Hall.
ཀ
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Spanish Colonies. French, Netherlands, Portuguese and
"Countries NOT in the Union-The chief
countries net in the Union are the Aus tralasian Group, Chili, and S. Aftic
Postage to Union Countries, General Rates, by any route in
10 cents per tot. Letters, Post-Cards,
8 cents each. Registration, Метерарети, Books, Patterns and
10 cents.
2 cents each.
2 cents per 2 oz. Comm. Papers, There is no charge on redirected corre spondence within the Postal Union,
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Hawaiian Kingdom -
Nona.
Registration, Покарареть,
10
Books & Patterns, 8*
of the gaol were hardly strong enough to cope with a tolerably muscular man who objected to letting then hangi him. How- ever, they got the cord round a bom, and The general subject of the franamigration after a long course of reasoning got hun to The Barracks and Naval and Military
Store Departments lie to the east Letters, mount a stool and put his neck in the of souls came into discussion, and many in-
ward, and cover a large area. teresting things were said, those participate. It must have been very much like ing in the talk. becoming so much engaged Punch and July. For fear he should his mind, they did not allow him. that efforts to find an opportunity of into kick away the stool Himself ducing Mr Clemens (Mark Twain), was present, were unsuccessful, as he was obliged customary, but pulled it away themselves, to leave at an early hour. Mr. Clemens had and-when his wives care that day as anal Been hovering upon the outskirts of the to dinner, they were shown his corpse still audience, closely watching Professor Mora's hanging.-Temple Bar. skillful manipulation of the crayon, and much interested. A friend who apparently mus
SEVEN year old-Grandma, Mother: accompanied him rolates the following inci-Shipton says the world will comes to un dont of their homeward walk frota the end in 1881. Is that true?" Graytm meeting of the club.
"No, dear, for in the Bible we are told, Of that day and hour knoweth no man, etc." Seven year old" Ab, but Mother Shipton was a woman
AS WO
we passed out," he writes, "Mr A. party, and while the rest of us joined the were chatting briskly about the incidents of the meeting, Mr Clemens was silent until wo got up into Beacon strect, when he spoke out in a larious way, saying, as near- ly as I can recall lus Inguage: Well, that was an extraordinary meeting! How that chap did draw on the blackboard! I never an anything like that. I'm sorry we had to come away, for I was mightily interested
33
A SENSATIONAL incident occurred a few days since at a ball at Schwarzenburg, in
that Saxony.
A your tann entered, having what appeared to be a cigar in his mouth. He went to the chandelier as if to light
The lights and a terrible axplosion ensued, were extinguished, the walls partly gave way, dancers of both sexes were covered
in the talk going on, and wanted to say with blood, nud the young man was blown: something myself. Whon Mrs Sargent asked me if I would speak, I didn't want
ant to pieces. He had resolved on committing: to do it at all, but I thought it wouldn't be suicide, and had adopted a dynamite cart- polite to decline. I dain't care much about sidge for that purpose.
evolution, but when they struck the dog- THE French, it is known, are making tring of metempsychosis I got interested. etrenuous efforts to establish regular com That doctrine accounts for me; I kucwmunication between their Senegambian there was something the matter, but never colonies and Tivukaucto. An expedition is knew what it was before. It's the passing new on the way to open up the country! off on a tus of an out, damaged, second-ween the rivers Niger and hand soul that makes all the trouble.'"
SMOKING CONCERTS.
paratory to carrying ont the home of
Stores, Books, &c. General Outfitter, Hosier, Tailor, &c.-T. N. DarsCOL, 45 and 47, Queen's Read, by special appointment to H.E. the Governor.
Chronometers, Watches, Jewellery, Maps and Charts.-G. FALCONER & Co., Queen's Road Central.
American and English Stores, Books, and specially selected Cigars-Mac EWEN, FRICKRL & Co.
Guns, Rifles, Pistols, Ammunition, and Sportsman's Requisites of all descrip tions-WM. SCHMIDT & Co., Gun- makers, Eastern House of Beaconsfield
Arcade.
Chair and Boat Bire.
LeastiseD TARIFF OF FARES FOR CHATES,
CHAIR BEAKKHO, And Boats, IN THE COLONY OF HONGKONG,
Chairs and Ordinary Pullateay Boati
tapping the products of Central Africa Of Half hour,....10 cts. Hour,.........20cts, coursty
Day (from 5 to 6), One Dollar."
the English West African colonies: Three hours,..50 ot. Siz boga,...70cks
do not relish the idea of the French trade/
ing a monopoly of this productiva
Writes a Loudon correspondent :- I went last Wednesday night to one of Smoking Concerts," which are now so fashionable here. The concert took route in the same direction from Sierra
the "
and it has been determined to open up i
Leone. The King of Legou, a forh on the place in St. Andrew's Hall, Newman Street, Upper Niger, on-the way to
to Timbuctoo, Oxford Street, and it began at 9. Thu has promised the English his hoarty sup performers were all members of the Royal
And port, the Governor
of Sierra Leona Orchestral Society, and the "first vicin
at present in this country partly for the on the occasion was played by H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh. About a quarter of Timbuctoo. We believe he is in com- purpose of organizing an expedition to the an hour after the concert bogan, Prince
with Mr Joseph Thomson, the munication of Wales (in the most unostentatious znan-young leader of the Geographical Society's ner) quietly entered the room, and proceed-
charge of
TO VICTORIA PEAK. Bingle Trip.
iB
Four Coolies, ... Thrue Coulies,
$1.00
Two Cooliea,
...0.85 0.70
Return (direct or by Puk
Four Coolies, Three Coulies, Two Cuales,...
...$1.60 1,20 .1.00
ed to the seat in the front row, which had cherin axpedition, as to taking the
of such a trading expedition.
Teach them how to make their own dresses livery handed H. R. H. a box of cigara and cannot help thinking he would be better
Teach them how to make a good meal. Teach them how to wear calico dresses, and
Teach them to say “
do it like a quee" and mean it. Teach them how to barn stockings and sew
with the little met is worthy fifty de Hoate consumptives.
Tasch them accomplishments,music, paint- ing, drawing if you have time and money to
to do it with
me
SOW,
To VITORIA GAP (TO CEVEL OF UMBBELLA SEAT.) Single Trip.
Four Coolien, ... Tarou Coolies, Two Coolita,
Return (direct or by Pok-foo-lum.). Four Coolies,
*
$0.60
...0,50
0,40
...$1.00 0.85 0.70
The Retura Fare embraces- a trip of not more than thres hours.
For every hour or part of an hour above three hours, ešch Coolia will be entitled to an na lilional payment of 5
conta... Day Trip Peak.$0 75 ench Coolie. (12 hours) Gap.$0.60 each Coolte.
been reserved for his. Directly he had have no doubt that Mr Thomson is well seated bunself there a servant in the royal fitted for work of this kind, though we a "peg." The heir apparent at, I no time in applying himself to both of these employed in extending our knowledge of refreshers, and he remained for nearly unknown Africa than as the leader of a three hours listening to the music of the trading caravan-Times. band of
to the British Medical Journal ACCORDING which, as I have already said, his. brother was first violin. The mutaital pieces habitual smokers are notoriously liable to on buttons.
on Wednesday were very well rendered,cols in the head, and to bronchitis, and how to regard the morals, not though Teach them
do not think the Duke of Edin other congestive affections of the air-pas- the money of their begun,
burgh ought to have, by virtue of pure sages. On this subject Dr J. E. Rumbold Three Cooties, ...
bord Two Coolies, The conges- Teach them that a good round rosy rompe post of fret in such a splendid saya (Hygiene of Catarrh): tobacco on
I of amateurs as that to which I listened tion occasioned by the action of two nights ago.
The Duke, in fact, struck the mucous membrane of the superior portion as being a good, but by no means a very of the respiratory tract resciables in many ood, violin player. The music played was respects the congestion resulting from the
inly
of popular
character, and it was effects of a cold, and, like the effects of a rendered very crisply." There were also cold, some of its effects are transitory and dis-sume fine vid songs-to wit, Tom Bow-some are permanent. The local effect of ling," and "Come where my love lies tobacco on the mucous membrane of the dreaming" very well seng. The whole nose, throut, and cars, is as predisposing to evening was very pleasant, and the presence catarrhal disease, as is ineficient and insuf- of tobacco (coupled with the absence of the ficient clothing in the case of females. The fair sex 1) rendered the whole concert of a local effect of tobace on the mucous mem The following is a list of the principal very unconventional character. Admission brane of the superior portion of the reapira Bctitious personages in Lord Beaconsfiula's to these concerts is, I may mention, only tory tract causes a mers permanent
relaxa "Endymion," and of the real personages to be obtained by "vouchers" from rasm whom they are generally named as reprebers of the society. When a "voucher" As tobacco depresses the system while it is senting
has been obtained, it is exchanged for a producing its pleasurable sensation, and as ticket of admission upon payment of half.it propares the mucous membrane (by a-guines. In return for his half-guines, causing a more permanent relaxation and the visitor is, however, provided gratis with congestion than any known agent) to take as many cigars as he cares to smoke during on catarrhal inflammation from even slight
exposure to the evening..
to cold it should require no further evidence to show that its use ought to be discontinued by every catarrhal patient.
Teach them to cultivate a garden. Teach them to have nothing to do with
solute young men Teach them truth, honesty, uprightness and
kindness.
4
play
Lord Roshampion... Lord Palmerston
Prince Florestan (Co-1
lonal Albert)ven.
Napoleon III.
Lord Montfortuna Mr Vigo
The Late Lord Hert.
ford Mr Poole The Neufchatele...... The Rothschilds
Adriana Nautahatel Lany Burdett-Coutta
Mr Jozzooka piers. Mr Milner Gibson Hartens
tion and congestion than any known agent.
Liemand Bearers (odch), Flour, Half day: Day....
...10 centa. 35 cents. 50 cents,
BOAT AND DOOLJE HIRE,.
***pients, per Day,
at Claas Cargo Bost of 2 or 900 1st Class Cargo Bost of 8 ar 900
picula, por Load,
and Claes Cargo Bost of 600-
AT a meeting in the Albert Hall, Loede, The only question remaining to be answered 2nd to present Mr Edward Baines, who formerly is, shall its use be discontinued at once, or represented
the
picals, per Day,
Class Cazgo Boat of 600.
-picals, per Load,
pients, per Day,
West Indies (Non Union)t, Boliviat Chilit, Costa Rica, Guatemala, New Granada, Niqaragua, Panama, Paraguay T. Letters, Newspapers,
Registration,
30
None.
Books & Patterna, Б
is
4. The public are cautioned not to con found these facilites with's Purcel Row to -Barops, &a; which does not exist.
be strictly observed.
It is nenemary that the following rales
1. No: Letter or Packet, whether to be registered or a registered; can be received for Postage if it contains gold or silver money, jewels, precious articles, or anything the
general rule, is liable to Customs
duties, t
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending of Patterns of dufiable articles, unless the
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Unclaimed Oorrespondence, February 18, 1881.
Lets: Pap.
1- Jamieson, Geb. 1
Lichard, Mr
King Sing
Dr. 1
Alvis, Samuel Aming, Mr Adboy
Azvemcorian, G. 19, Lasard Ferros- Ban Toon
Lennox, Frank Agostini, Bigr,
Band,
“Lato, M. Ace
Lo
Barney, W. 1 Lookhar, 02
Lun Yeo
**ING
quantity sent be so small és to make the Bernheim and quaMaelachair pasa
Go Mesir
51 pol. 1 pr.
sample of no valuo...
3. The limite {"follows vim"
Books and Papere to British Offe, 5 lbs; to the Continent, &c., 4 lbs Patterns to British Offices, 5lbs. if with out intrinsic value ; to the Couilaen's
big oight kilowed areas Body, B. 21, Alan, John S
Blair, W. E.1 Bolea, Pox Linn 1 Brannigan, A. P.
Cairstti, John 1 Cut, Sigr, A. 1
Man Fook
Chương
Marmont, Bo 2 1 card McPhintiny, Jannes 15 for Bingo T
Chin Fangbloosdeenpå. R11 Chisholm, A. 1 Morgan, Mrs May 1
Ohang Achow I Merton, Rev, 2.51T Chua Cheep-1 Mosca, Natan Connell, F Cornelley, E. Coulson, A.C.M, 1 Crowlis, Mrs
Hector
Te
10
Moy Hin Bhiang đườ, 1
5
1 Osborne, JA, H, T
Overgnad, Jansak Töked.
Pardos, Lan,
3
Partington, J.E. 1
Place, S. Te
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ggg Hongkong Post Office.
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Office) Fiz.: Mong
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Post spaper per 2 oz. Registry.
Books Parcels,
New Patterns, including
cents.
cents.
cent.
- conts,
cents.
(d) Parcels at Book Rates, registry optional
(e) Via Singapore, 10 cents. () No Parcol Post
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1. ·AIF correspondence posted before 6 any week day for addresses in Victoris will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the dalivary should be retarded by the Contract Mails
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Bestmann, Remedios, Fide pàdel.
Brinda turi v
Robinson, L. D.
Rosario Desalingas 1
Boherk, B. Beberman, T. 1 regi Spenning Osborne 1:
Stevens, I. I pr.
Bione, P.B. F Stone, Thon.
Storey Sutton, Hr. Engineer
·Tarring, O. E
Taylor, Chandle
Taylor, W.
1
Thom, Thon
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Teya, Butanol *1 **
Thorose MB
Apagh
Varner Charles 1- Whitmore, H.)
Wing Enng-
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Hurst, Ed.
(Sesman) Insalvini, L.
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2-Small sums may be remitted between the other Ports by means of Postage Stamps,bject to charge of one per cant for saving them, canlyn
3-Many Money Orders are supplied to rosidenta at the smaller Ports in this way. An application for an order" in filled u and la enclosed with a stamped, directed,
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For Merchant Ships.
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and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at Bellona State Kjobenhaven
Belted WIL 1 Mary
ed with the falli commission) in ebeque, postage Caberfeldho 96 28 Mar, Apared
other
Carricks equivalent of cash, sud &
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the nearest
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little margin should be left for variations Can Ranids.8. B1 Octame
The Postcoaster issues the | Cheap order, sends it on in the envelope and Cla
returns the change, if any, by first oppor. Cally Bark tunity, with receipt for the letter, if it Devins
It always should were to be registered, sa
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Fontenaye
be. Care should be taken to send these Evang Star applications in fine, as the Money Order Borward Ho Offices clore some hours before the depar Golden Hussect tures of the misia pet paren Great Admiral 1
4.—No order must exceed £10, or $50, Helens
Stanfeld
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Venor
Wills Food:
May Fencal leuke w/
Books, etc. without Covers Angener & Co. Catalogus – Arbroath Guido.
or include any fraction of penny, nor will Herkules more than two such orders be issued to the Hermine same person, in favour of the samo payee, by the same mail. Orders will be drawn at the current rate of the day and paid at the rate of the day when the advice arrived. The commission is as follows onto y
Orders on the United Kingdoms. Up to £***** 18.conta
35
$10
7%
Local and Interoolonial Orders.
Athens,
Christian Monthly and Family Troure Dagbladet.
Die Bushfür Allege
Delaware Bialan Tammual.
Dumfries and Galloway Goo Engineer.
Family Herald
2. Invitations, ka, can generally bo delivered within Victoris at the private bouses of the addresaces rather than
of business, if a wish to that effect places of be expressed by the sunder, otherwise all correspondence is invariably delivered when there is more than one Christian
at
Names must be given in full (except Glasgow Wacky Mall
Good Words the nearest place of business,
Up to $25 or £5....25 senta
**$50 or £10:50:7"
Free Church of Scotland Monthly Record Gats of Money Orger Officer in the Cassette Plensontese, United Kingdom may be consulted at Gegenwart longkong ani Shanghad
£8,00
2.00
·2.50
do all
General Unselger.
B.Bozholders who desire to send Ciron-name) but the name of the Payse need not Heidi's Lobe and Wandlarjahre lare, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, be given if the order be crossed (a cheques Industrial Age.**
all of the same weight, to addresses in are crossed). It can then be paid only Japan Herald Hak Sittmery, Hongkongi
ong, Bangkok, or the Ports of China through Bank, and my afterward be depen 1.76 and Japan, may deliver them to the Pest spesially crossed to any Bank, Jenne République. being then No order can be paid till the Farm Tancola Cazašle.” Office unstamped, the postage 1.50 charged to the pander's account.
Borholder may also send
Sir W. Vernon Har- find exceed borough, with a memorial shall the victim.aper off" in his Lendea-8rd Clans Cargo Boat or Ba-kau Boat of 800-
he has dedicated to educational purposes, writer acknowledges, but one successful. | Brd Class Cargo Bosfor I-ken Boat of 500 batoby must consist of at lonas tem, da Phasianpdcft in the proper TAONAR Long Island Record
court
Mr Bartie, Tremains Lord Houghton
Berengaria Lady Lady Waldegruse
Montfort
The Earl of Beau
The late Lord Derby
Nigel Fenraddock... Cardinal Morning
Zenobia ("the Queen ve
of London, of Fa
three thousand punda which
Herbert Gladstone read a telegram Premier announcing that the Queen had been pleased to confer the honour of Knight hood upon Mr Baines. The now Knight is the second son of the late Mr Edward Baines, of Leeds, many years also M.P. for ANY Leeds, and founder and editor of the Leeds He was born in the Mercury
Fear
order on be transferred to another offic
•Pastora
on payment of an additional commission to the same places in the same way. Eo-In case of loss of an order, nedrsety for valopes containing Patterns cany be wholly stopping payment, or the like, application closed if the nature of the contents be first should be made to the nearest Money exhibited or stated to the Postmaster Order Ollon for instructions $1.00 General, he may coralder necessa
Mr
vour to become master of himself? The
from the
at once."
its discontinuance method, riz.
SAILOR'S HOME.
Bampani Cast-off CLOTHING, BOGES, or PAPERS will be thankfully received or Pullaway Boats, per Day,
One East, Half-an Honey- Hongkong, July 26, 1878.
picule, per Load, frd Clans Cargo Beal or He-kaz Boat of 300
picols, Half Day
... 1.00
50
After 6 r.j
ahion, and of the The late. Lady Jersey and was educated at the Protestant : 800 at the Sailor's Home, West Point,
Job Thornberry, Mr Hichard Cobden Loed Eawokoater'
("Niminy-Pal Lord Granule
My St. Barba
Sir Algernon-Borth
ters Grammar School, at Manchester. Mr Baines, who succeeded in 1850 to the seat ones occupied by his father, has been for some" half a century also proprietor of the Leeds Mercury. He is the author of The Ridory of the Cotton. Manufacture. The
Manufacture of England,”
And
other works of a similar character, Heið
But as a matter of fact thers is no exnot portrait in the novel at all. Lord Beacons au alderman and magistrate for Leeds, a
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[30] Approved, by-line Printed Gray B If the order be not persing Pall Mala Bõigeks -10 pe inserted in such Fattura: belajarged; it not within swalya monit3: Pakila Opinioli la reminded that the money will be forfeited. When the Bondan Papaty Nothing in thin Boule provanta privals agro | ihan let DOG NO Ung Re: Percel Pont / prder is'onos paid no, further claim, dan be| Bunday Magkaisagis
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menia.
"1⁄2=EREST, COOLIES,
PARORLAT
to Europe, dio. Much trouble
head and disp pointment are caused by persistent attemp
send small valuable trifles through the Foot Fann Gurion Articled of Dress,
Tabloan Comparatifs den Uhopa, BE No order can be paid until the savior Talonbladet. relative to it has been toodi ved,
Wanderem Club Balas kal
Made out Un a printed form which is suppled
$5 went. Fanor Work, and similar presents are con
tinually being relased, the senders: having often wosat more in Share paid the freight by stemmer. No. + Local Ondaa on Rhanghai an dram ilk † par
Scale of Hire for Street Coolies. One Day, Half Day. Can be obtained from KELLY & WALSH Three Henza... feld has simply sketched in here and there magistrato and deputy-lieutenant for the at Shanghai and Hongkong, at LANE, One Hour one feature of a man and of another just West Riding of Yorkshire, and has been CRAWFORD & Co., Hongkong, and at the Balfour, suzicient to attract the attention of the grondent of the Yorkshire Union of Me-Ching Mail Office. publie and mystify p
obaries Institutional
Hongkong, December 6, 1379.
Nathina by the
would
refund can be made on ouă parcela of the
to attest private value of Stamps obliterated before the
nature of the content was lacerered.
zent, premium in að alnost
rate fon drawing on the United Kingdo
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