flame,
devils,
AT CHURCH,
TRAVELLER'S NOTES. (Ifiogy News)
THE CHINA MAIL.
DOT-AND-DASH SYSTEM FOR LIGHT-HOUSES. Many scientific mon are now of opinion hone light-house from mariners to distinguish
Inouye some fine spring morning, And politely requesting the cassions of Loochoo! 'says there would THE Parson in the pulpit blaudly levels
A travelling correspondent of the Calenta The "thoughtful Briton His anciont matchlock without shot or Englishman has contributed to that journat be ao diflculty in accomplishing what he that something is still wanted to enable
thinks so desirable an object, but we would like saune suoro authoritative opinion than passing prep, poetic and strategic, at the Loo Choo Han," for we regret to say he appears to be in a most pitiable condition of with the subject.
Hongkong Rates of Postage.
(Revised December 1st, 1880.).
Local Parosi Post.
1. Small Parools may be sent by Post between any of the Post Offices in China or Japan, as well as to Macio, Pak hoi, Singapore, Panang, and Malacca They must not excood the following dimes.
No. 5552-APRIL 30, 1881.
To provide means of remitting small sums of money to or from his Colony and betoon the Parts of Ching the Post- masters and Agents are allowed (but not required) to purchase Hongkong Postage
The Stamps tordored for sale must not Stamps from foreign residents
And at the lights of Science points his title is scarcely a misnomer, if it is conceded the mere ipse dixit of the author of toy suggest the adoption of other chara | Letters, per, half ounce, for Booka and signs, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 foot deepceed $50 in value, must be perfectly
sim!
IT.
Sadder than tears, makes light of all he Has Man nos power to look before and
Baya?
after,
And must he look behind him all-his
days?
ings
113,
On ne, thy brother Man, who mutely
hoars
Is this the poor result of all thy mayings
Reaps't thou no botter harvest of thy
years?
IV.
We, too, havo prayed; we, too, have thought
and wrestled;
A wild:
nestled,
And if, at last, in Tuno's breast we have Still wilt thon labble, babble, like a
-child 7 ...." Pekin” in Pignon,
WHIST.
it
of islands--the famous Loochoo,
at which our
when
another in all kinds other at night. teristics as means of identification. The these advisors ie Six most active mong William Thomson, Professor of Natural Phi one of the most able and accomplished aci Gutine, men in Europe. Sir William first publicly breached the subject fabout six years ago, at the Brighton meeting of the British Association. Ho has never sinco fost sight of it. He has been in correspond. ones with the Committee of Lloyds, the (the owner and managers Trinity House, of nearly all the light-hounen on the English ists), the Commissioners of Northern Lights
the case:
of
from a the
nor weigh more than lbs. The postage
must be presented p
case may be, bat auch papers or packets or parcels are forwarded at Book Rates, Regis, purchased by hole
The Postmaster or Agent may postpone
purobasing if his public funde in hand was not sufficient, and he will refuse to purchase in any case which appears doubtful or suspicious. He is allowed to charge ▲ Commission of one per cent on all Stamps purchased.
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Newspapers over four ounces in weight aro charged as double, treble, s., as tho papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two Newspapere must not be folded together as one, nor must anything whatever be inserted except bona fide Supplement Printed mattor may, however, be enclosed, if the whole be paid at Book Rate, Prices Car- rent may be paid either a Nowspapers or Books,
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it is not so easy to gut up a goud rubber nder the nanny of the of the past bere | drink as he used to, although, like many other, how can either be known to be what Peru, Ohill, Venezuela, The Argentine registered or unregistered, can be received Carnelley, E. 4 Iegraph on
as
rubbor of whist. Nut that peoplu inay He then graciously expresseÿsätisfaction with setting sin, but thie he most often prac-all round of steam and sailing navigation on
Countries of the Postal Union The Union may be taken to comprise Europe, most foreign possessions in Asia, Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauritius, all
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dution. and Spanish Colonies.
Countries NOT in the Union, -The chief
2. This Regulation prohibits the sending countries not in the Union are the aus of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity seat be so small as to make the tralasian Groap, and S. Africa.
sample of no valtie.
Ho shoots at permen's pride, as born of what he is pleased to term "A passing roep
poetic and strategic, at Loochou Fin The that poetry and fiction are synonyms terms, and no one with even a superheinl knowledge of the subject will be apt to evil Does he not know that in our hearts at the announcement that the writer of this crass ignoraneo on everything connected Josiphy at the University of Glasgow, and
laughter,
rather
lucubration, had "6 extraordinary passing peop" and nothing more at Too- chou. Indeed it would be quite safe to ge further, and hazard à conjecture that the THE AMERICAN JOURNALIST. Englishman's correspondent
"peeped at
(The American.) the islands through a glass darkly, In the beginning of
of October, 1880, the writer set Our average American journalist of to out from Hongkong on board
trading
day may be taken to be from twenty-five to O brother Man, that patturest ancient say-atermer bound for Yokohama in Japan," so thirty years of age, and parhips ho is rather
his ideas and experiences, although the latter thin and round shouldered. He is well and and Welsh cowho bear a similar relation appear inancsumably small in comparison quietly dressed. He is apt to have a clean with the former, are of recent date. Nothing shaven faco, except a Mephistophelean to the Scottish system), the Conservators of notawory scoms to have occurred during mustache, and his face has a noticeable Irish Lights, and the Board of Trade all in the voyage, but the steuner used a group allar peculiar to those who work at night. their several ways interested in this import He is most noticeable for his eyes, which ant subject. The Committes of Lloyds, traveller touk his peep. With apraiseworthy, are apt to have a poentar ditatation, which toward the close of 1879, invited the special if rather unsuccessful, wish to enligh, the light of a lamp than of the sun. In a crowd
thealao comes from being more used to the attention of tho Trinity House, and this has rowd led to much additional ontspendence in public, he informs his renters
that
application tion And battled with the doubts that made Chinese call these islands "Locco of the man can pick out his follow in nine cases to light-house illumination of the code or on paying an extra fee of 5 conta. ·
and that the extarienced and observing nowspaper 1880. Bir William advocates the s they now for Вам ог Jujunese Empiro. A little, very little out of ten by these peculiarities, and espe-alplinbet invented by Prof. Morse, and em- with so much success in practical cially by Indeed, care would have enabled the writer
by the roving eye, which has been
tolography It is called the dot-and-drah to have avoided a blunder which must be taught to take in everything at a glance, taken to have a Aurious effect upon bis while apparently half closed and sooing no system, one dot or short dash on a ribbon
of paper being easily disti walks through the credibility as an instructor or guide, because thing, as its owner
detail
is ussuutial in order to fill strets with unusually rapid gait for our longer daal. In regard to accuracy of this role will credit und satisfaction hon, journalist is always a rapid walker. In his idea is to make long and short flashes of light
in the
e presunt case, it is boldly adopted. personal habits he is obliged to be variset succeed one another in a certain routine only --to bo used in any one light-house, to dis- Is whist played as much as it used to be Anyone visiting Jupais last October has no or sink out of sight. No man of regulatinguish it from all neighbouring lights.
habits can stand the strain of writing and. in-India We hardly think it is, and we case for beiner juarant of the fact is, inking cloarly from late at night until Ho dwelt earnestly on the known facts of
Loochoo was then, and had been for a
When the Bishop or the Eddy- imagine that in Mofussil stations especially sidorahte tins, incorporated with this Empire early in the morning, and our stone (the rate of two of our colebrated
Okawa Kon, and American journalist of to-day does not used to be. Whist hears the same relation that Han areas auch things
light-houses) is that descriod in hazy. to other games of cards that cricket doon to that
as territorial divisons as the old provinces other brain-workers, he is often subject to
વી steamer's t-head mast-hend other games of skill, and as badminton and lawn-tonnes have seriously affected the are in Francs. However, as our remarks a periodical spres of a day or two. He does, it is, and not to bo
Every one who has the slighteat ex the may be thisright hypercritical and the sarer however, generally smoke like a fun, perience of the era knows that the doubt i
light
thin country, so To cricket of this loo, baccarat, and other games in a trilling dne, a more spot on the face of the and the more furiously as the night ynch cases very frequently lasts for many
pher
the danger precious minutes. Considering: his which money is soon won and lost, are often as it were, we will follow our friend A newspaper office late at night is no preferred before the more staid and sober further, and see what stores of information for a disciple of Trask. Profanity is
his Anglo- he lavishes
Indian
audience.
ohe.com
coasts 'in foggy weather, uncertainties tices when he discovers, too late to change whist lose a very comfortable fee
familiar the picturesque appearance of the islands, it, that through oversight he has used a of even a few minutes duration are a fertile without much trouble.
more espaially on a dark night, when a singular for a plural, or has omitted the source of disaster, either by collision or by with the famous, if somewhat apocryphal, lado, is often seen envirwing nitors cunclusion of an elaborate premise, and running on rocks." In working out the five thousand gentlemen who having
with an long
eclipse of a quarter of a a gonil fortune, are now penniless than one of the conical summits of this lone that his writing has gone before a hundred details, one system is the dot-dash or short- the double-dash long-long is in not leading out trumps when they lud particular being distinguishable for tho fiery form.
treaks which appear!
rhita.
So fures his journalistic education goes, other pair; the huge fluks, riven
a similar eclipse of five of that buit in their hand. In Caloutta,
measurable brevity between the pairs; the by internal volante stocks. It will be the broader it is this better. It is upt, how another system, with a during the
Warror Hastings was. days when
ever, to be like a very broad rivera dot-nsk-dot-dash or short-long-short-long Governor-Goeral of India, the greed will noticed that this description of the islands is ejsle of Goverment played whist for sums extremely Incid, and enteculated to picture the ring rapidly, with a deep pool here and
and bar there
but all I making to one end. is another, marked by its own character- Pogret stand that appear fabulous in these times. Four roulity very accurately indeed. One
porlage allowablo, that the traveller hart is reading is the reverse of Quintilian's istics. All these and other routines are gentlemen, two of them with historic an devoted themselves to whist with an ardourt an opportunity of seeing the islands by advice, to read andtum sed am multa. His recommended for adoption in different.
chiaf merits aIC readiness, account of a mamitain day, and a graphic
adaptability and light-houses, each establishing sud maintain- that nothing could quench."
with its huge flanks riven by external abstruction. He must be, and generally is, itg its own identity, Chambers' Journal Francis, Mr Barwell, Cotonet Tesle,
Lemaistre were the four who often votonnie shocks would certainly afford a rendy, if necessary, to write a lending edito-
THE Daily Telegraph is said to circulate an Indian novel sensation to the lened Tokio society rial, which shall be compressed, clear and of nights sat through the long
Mr which his inken wider its special care the comprehensive, upon the cases of the down-220,000 copia, the Standard, 200,000, the summer absorbed in their rubber.
sutliquake business of this Empire. fall of the Polish Empire, at 2.30 in the Dade Nets, 160,000 the Times 100,000, Barwell was the unlucky pinyer, and his other mentinus, bot by any mening, and at the same time listen to the the Chronicle 90,000; the Graphic, the loaece are said to have amounted to Rixty
of so poetic a nature "it would be crits of the boss Amazon Troupe," as Illustrated Landon News, and the lustrated Jakks of frapees, of which sunt Sir Philip es
an industrial endectaking of some magni- they are laid down by its advance agent, Police News aro credited with 100,000 each. So great was Francis won thirty lakhs.
The Steubeille Herald says Some the scandal crested by these gaming tacle to find the pooty are as well who pufis vile tobacco smoke and smells of tranenctions that the directors at the Incavalcalated to war by thoughtful Britou, Inger beor, He muist stand ready to write fellow has discovered that there are 33,520 Books & Patterns,
Gary" of General Igna- at this a half column “ obituary” of House in London were seriously angry and if a given to political sect
I speculations, at
correcting manuscript for a newspaper he annoyed about it, and a shrewd friend of view of these solitary is cs grouped in the tief, though he may never have heard of age of spelling scissors. If he had been Sir Philip Francis wrote to him from home, sex route between Hongkong and Japan,hin lofore, and he must be ready to cut would have discovered that there are about
h10 just left the former
calin shurt without apparent 199,999 ways of spelling every word in the zhan half (via) and strongly advised him to give up
abspecially if ling, adding at the end of his fatter: Since British settlement, which marka the utter abruptness, in order to help the right Eglish language.
most limit of British dominion on the East editor in padding an important telegram. you have incurred the cetisure of the world,
A PHILADELPHIA Judge decided last week In memory, he from the seat of for God's sake hold fast to the money you toast of Art". The travelling correspon must be able to carry it his heard any that an assertion of sobriety is one of the dolusions of intoxication, and, reasoning have won to console you under your afflic-ent, transformed into a thoughtful Britun,"
ricia orer
now comes eat in his true colours; not a thing that has been in the paper within a tions." In these tuues nu ono in wins or loses £30,000 at whist; but a quiet pet he, at a politicial of the most pro-week, so that old news may not be rein- the thing logically, when a man insists that rubber at night is still a great resource, rounced Jing type. The lamentable poserted, and he must remember what has he is sober it is pretty good evidence that though it must be owned that whist- insition of affairs which excites those other recently been said or written on any given he is drunk," Nice idea, that. According India is hardly the scientific game it is in anggestions" the thoughtful Briton de subject within a given time. He must also to it the only way a man can get credit for round declaring that England Probably the best description scribes thus:-"North of that solitary be a consuminate actor, able to hear a start being suber is to we have of the intense ardour with which the southern frontier on-the Pacific tarape, and able to act as
point," Honghong, apparently, not farling piece of news without changing coun-he's drunk as an old skate.
of the great fire in Paris, a cor- men throw themselves. into this, all-absorb ing pursuit is given by Thackeray in one of coast of China, stretches away almost the nothing of a subject, while he knows all, in respondent of the Figarn offers the follow get a person to tell what he knowing advice: In disasters of this kind one Heguire Chinose seaboard, and beyond it the order to his charming sketches of club-life.
Brown the
immenso ortont of the Eastern Asiatic In the art of putting leading questions he should proceed with the strictest ordor and the card-
Shaw, now under Russian sway from the must be at least as expert as an ordinary method. Accordingly, one will first of all room of the Tolyanthur, and thus address Cures to Behringe Straits; besides the criminal lawyer. In conversation, he must save the children, who are the Future; the him: "I admiro, na I see them, my dear Clusia of islands, great and small, from Kiu be able to hold his own on the subject women, who are the Present; the old man, Bobby, grase
and silent at those little
f the which his listener is most conversant with, who are Experience; then the furniture tabios,
or Kow Shew, the most southern of and this he often does by very rapid and, if there is time, the collateral rotations not moved outwardly
Japanese Archipelago, to the
comparatively
bora to
in
We
في حماية
at
the Colonies owing to their infatuation some archipelago, one emeking mountain in thousand readers, more or less, in a maminate or so before the requirence of an-
Judg
takea
green
younger
into
Sir Phili
from
by
Siu,
but
or pleasure at losing or winning but greed calmly pursuing their games (as that pursuit
WEE.
if he knew
<
APHOTOS
diminutiva Kurile islets touching the view. He has the cut terms of art at his
the Fe-eram," ofpecially for an important inter- and the muthers-in-law!'
€1
FROM Liverpool, a correspondent to a
, in fact, the most elaborate insula of Kautchatka to the (now) Amors' ands, and knows chiaroscuro from London paper thus, describes the effect of
is called, which is, in fact,
ör
rican territory of Alaska. Su that the
ris
May
Briton, coasting in the Northmarhidezza, and an
can meet with no territory underg. Of foreign ng from an engrave the recent cold weather "The cold is so
a
sciotice and study) at noon-day entirely
invelling absorbed, and philosophically indifferent
he has enough Pacific, can meet Hongkong to the bustle and turmoil of the enur
northwards to
tostanttering to utilize French and German intenso that the thieves have been unable own flag from
mable mous working world outside. Disrachi
cun struggle to steal; the topers have been and perhaps
drank; Behrings, and thence southwards till he newspapers
the pickpockets unable to make his best speech, the Thames may be set on fire, and Colonal Pam and Mr comes down to British Columbia and Van-through with an Italian publication. The Bite, and the wife Centers unable to
think of police couver Island; while on the other hand the theatrical jargon he is perhaps more familiar
applying fo beat. The with than with art or religion, and he can holiday until the weather breaks. Trumpington will never leave their table,
engaging is their occupation at it. The great European Asiatic power, whose terri-
an 300 is of more interest to try stretches from Warsaw continuously give an intelligent idea of the construction another column of the same paper the turning up of
and motive of a play.
stipendiary magistrate was reported, on them than all the affair of all the world be- to Kantchatki, over ten thousand miles, fortified positions. at occupies stringly sides, and so they will go on until death o
Strange to say, sentiment and sympathy taking his seat on the bench, to have said places along tho aummons them, and their last trump is
which is the formid- tleman's character, and tears will be seen able fortress of Petropaulofsky on the Paci- sooner in his eyes at a pathetic piece of to say that the list of cases amounted only five, a state of things that had not come Thackeray over whist as he used to see it the Coast of Kamchatka, and the more acting than in those of the persons around
under his observation for twenty-five In London club, and the sketch is not
ณ at all exaggerated. But as we have said, recently fortified harhour of Vladivostok on him, and it is the sentiment and sympathy years"-just about the time, since it was
which entale the coast of Manchooria, above the Corca."
himself en rapport cold enough to freezes up the drunkard, a rubber in India is more of a relaxation This is undoubtedly a deplorable state of with a person whom he wishes to interview, thief, and wife beater, than a study, and the very strict etiquette
and the
of thoughtful and so he is enabled to draw the unhappy the presence of that governs the game at home is not is evidently urgently required in victim. His sense
of bonor is higher than considered indispensable in India. Let Briton
s of tho he is generally given credit for Fidelity on George Eliot in the currgut number of us look in at a moss-room after dinuor, Downing Street, so that and we shall very likely see the sued: travelling Briton may be ginddened with to his paper is a sacred thing to him, wild Blackwood's Magasine, it, being there that horses may tear him asunder before he will she made her first appearance as a novelist.
Played." Thus pleasantly moralises Mr Asia, foremost amongst th-east coast of play a large part in this worldly wise gen- that it gave him the greatest pleasure
и
that the
Darsteamer but more especially on & dark night
* of
bin to
2
to
A SPECIAL interest attaches to the article
der bis bruth when any particularly low anyone be so silly as to unagine that Russia treating of a subject ho must have a good on, thus begurprising,
the
in
critical
aro
tablo duly laid one and the downted fray the sight," from the deck of a passiveal office secrets. In conversation, not [This paper, written evidently by the member about to take their seats. The colonel has territory under his own Bug" in all for business purposes, he is apt to be dall, of the firm, who has taken the place of
lieutenant, for his
partner young Jones, a newly joined. Their adversaries are the kinds of out-of-the-way places now so and he never writes personal letters, be late Mr John Blackwood as Editor of the
waste of good magazine, will not prove recklessly-in the opinion of the thoughtful canse in both cases it is colonel, boing
at once delic The major and the doctor. a man by no means given to conceal his one-abandoned to the great European copy. Su far as his office work is can- any sonse. It
cerned, he must be able to go through a and anecdotically biographical. We jeelingy, allows his face to betray at anco asistic power."
hanges" and cut here told of h
f how, anonymously, through Mr exchanges" After continuing at considerable length hundred or mora kind of a hand he has got. As he in ewhat similar style to that we have the articles which will be of interest to his G. H. Lewes, George Eliot's first work. takos
" his carda
Scenes from Clerical Life," was placed from the table, one
boil them down or *thoughtful Briton "aska pe paper, and to
or expand and carefully sorts them, lue sorts and quoted, car
increased. It is intores grunta if they are not good caes, and swears remptorily, if vaguely How then can them by re-writing. Of perspectiva in before her publishers, and how that conuca- to learn such though of local ting, card turns up. If the whole hand is de.only presents a peaceful aspect on ses and idea, especially of the importance of cidedly
land in those parts of the world in quas news, and this knowledge of journalistic facts as that George Eliot was the inost puts it down on the tabs, tim?" bad, he without exposit, au regard de pater fuability to sister, but luckily the of
This conundrum we confess our perspective is also one of the most valuable careful and accurate among authors. Her
the of his acquirements.
He must be familiar beautifully written mannscript, free from with the fixed stare of nan rendered des perate by adverse fortune. The effect of "thoughtful Briton" furnishes what is ap with proof reading; know how many words blur or erasure, and with avery letter deli-
to a line in type from Ko
to brevior; cately and distinctly finialied, was only the agate this mode of procedura on poor Jones is rarently intended for a reply: this is too
make
ke a "stick," and how outward and visible sign of the inward laber fatal. Fascinated as much by the gaze of choice a specimen of the result of how many lines
to be passed over hastily, many sticks make a coinman, so that he can which she had taken to work out her idea the colonel as though that officer were a stout prasing
literally write to order by the inch. He She never drew any of her facts or im rattle-snake, the poor boy losos the slight and we therefore give it in alle
and prussionsfrom secondhand; and thus, in spite Now, the geographical position of this must be able to summarize the new, the of the number and variety of her illustra of presence of mind he had at amount starting
and plays in the wildest fashion. little Les Choo or Riu Kiu archipelagu to write head-lines, which is one Everything goes wrong.
colonel plays
renders it a most splendid strategic point hardest knneks to acquire satisfactorily, tions, she had marely much to correct in her
proofsheets," his king second in hand, and the doctor from which to equipoise Russia's present simple as it may seem. Outside of the office
WHEN the struggle over the Liquor Laws with a grin of triumph takes it with undue weight in the North Pacific. Let us he must be able to write in the baggage car
these islands in the
onoo the ace. That's not according to the suppose
fortified why that penicil' or
The
Fixed
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per 2 oz. Registry.
cents.
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Local Delvoery,
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1. All correspondence posted before 5 p.m. on any week day for addresses in Viatoria will be delivered the same day, and generally within two hours, unless the delivery should be retarded by the Contract 2 Invitations, &o., can generally be delivered within Victoris at the private houses of the addressees rather than at places of business, if a wish to that effect be expressed by the sender, otherwise all correspondence is invariably delivered as the nearest place of business,
Carvalho, Bra. 1
gineer) MarcellinaMerton, Rev. Z. Castlatt, Sigr. A. 1 Mowe, Jes Chacham, E. 1 card Neilson, Vhs, Cheong Heng 1 Chus Cheep-ani1 Clauses, Th Clough, B. P. 1
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Overgrand, James 1 exïè Partington, J. E. 1
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Green, Capt. 8. G.
Greenberg, J. Hersey, Cha Hogg, EJ
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nar by the disko esty or negligence of any King Sing person not in the employment of the Hongkong Post Offen.
6. No companextion can be paid for mere
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damage to fragile articles such as portraits, H.M.B. Atying Fish, Bainbridge, H. GREA watches, handsomely bound books, &c., which reach their destination, although in a broken or deteriorated condition.
Money Order Begulations. 1-Money Orders are exchanged with. the Jaited Kingdom, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Port Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Western Australia, and (except at Shanghai) with the Japanese Empire, Hongkong also issues orders on Shanghai, and vice versa.
2Small some may be remitted between. the other Ports by means of Postage Stamps subject to a charge of one par cent. for eashing them.
Bookman J.
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For Merchant Ships. Lete. Path
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3.-Many Money Orders are supplied to Anos Camp residents at the smaller Ports in this way. Bivonac, 8.8. An application for an order* is blled up, Blackhalk, w.. 1 and ia enclosed with a stamped, directed, Bride 2 and unsealed envelope to the Postmaster at Caberfaidh 9 the nearest issuing offics. The application Calonta
Catherina Mardon fail
amount Clariss B. Carver 3 accompanied with the (including commission) in cheque, postage Chusan stamps, or other equivalent of cash, and a Ethelbert go
margin should be left for variations Golden Bussat 1.
The Postmaster issues the Golden State 1/ of exchange..
must
be
8 Norfolk, .s.
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order, ænds it on in the envelope, and. Han Kwang, 1.3. returns the change, if any, by firab oppor Kerkalos O tunity, with a receipt for the letter, if it H. B. Meilvery 1 Baustorg were to be registered, as it always should Highlander be. Care should be taken to send these Hoogly applications in time, as the Money Order Java Packet Offices close some hours before the depar Joanhim Oristian 1
J. W. Mar fures of the mails, y Lady Brown
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4.—No order must exceed £10, or $50, Larch, 5.5, or include any fraction of a penny, nor will Laur
Star of China
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more than two such orders be issued to the Lois same person, in favour of the same payee, Lucy A. Nickels by the same mail. Orders will be drawn Madura 1 at the current rate of the dayt and paid at Malaber, s the rate of the day when the advice arrived. May
The commission in as follows
Orders on the United Kingdom. Up to £2.18 cents.
$10
54 72
Local and Intereolonial Orders. Op to $25 or £5.25 centar
Menzaloh, 8,81 Mozart
Velocity
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Books, etc. without Jovers Army and Navy Gazeite, Baskater and Willow Furniture Max. Commerce Franckia. Delaware State Journal. Deutsche Kundskan. Gesondheid. Gil Bl
Glasgow Wookly Mall, Habos (Russian Paper), Mlustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Imparcial, Зарапово Рароге.
Japan Herald Mall Summary
Long Island Record.
$50 or $10,500,00 6-Lists of Money Order Offices in the United Kingdom may be consulted at Hongkong and Shanghai, that time buke, colonel," says the doctor, a Ecotch of Great Britain and duly fartssession of a fast train, or on his hat, or anywhere was at its height in the State of New York,
writing must be intelligent and vehemently opposing any and every attempt 8: Boxholders whe desire to end Circu- 6-Names must be given in full (except man, who always wins at whist, and who is it is safe to assert that in such a case all the and his per can be held and used, the proprietor of a newspaper, at the O. O's pet aversion. The reply of the war vessels which Russia could assemble in picturesque in description, so far as possible to render sobriety compulsory and intoxica lars, Dividend Warrants, Invitations, Cards, when there le mora ihan one Christian
So, all of the same weight, to addresses in name) but the name of the Payne need not Le Petit Marsellaine colonel is barely audible, but an
ression the Son of Japan dared not come out upon All these things our average American four- tium ponal, called one morning upon the impression.
Hongkong, Bangkok, in the Ports of China be given if the order be crossed (wa alisques Le Patil Messager de Coeur de Mario, grevails that he is d--ing the bouls or the winent sayist, and lauder weiter Me
and Japan, may deliver them to the Post sro crowned). It can then be paid only Lloyd's Weekly New doctor, or both; and amid profound silence watched them between Hongkong, Lee under pressure, and the wonder is that his Willian North, and naked him to
jourial in question with an "editorial of Office unatamped, the postage being then through a Bank, and may afterwards be London & China Express, the rubber proceeds. The doctor, and his Choo, and the south island of Japan, that is work is so finished as it is.
"Rank auzolaliy, crossed to any Banks good Extract No. 8, 8. B, & Co. a character calculated to inflict the maximaux charged to the sender's 3000mnt. partner win rubber after rubber, and in the should dare to cross that line must inevit d in the Kiu Sit Any war ships of Russia which
tamperance
No order can be paid till the Payeerechine Tools p.. batch must consist of at least ten ward last game of all Jones, fairly free crably be cut off by the British cruisers.
by-shou
A PARASE lady died the other day at the amount of damage upon the
agitation, About what length do you wish -4. Buxholders may also send the colonel's gloomy face and has the misfortune to tramp that officer's Hongkong is so far down the east coast of age of 84 She left 115 children and grand- the shorter the better, so it is to the point.
article to be 1" inmuired Mr North to the same places in the same way. En alguod it in the proper place. An Margy and Nairn Krpret.
order n be transferred to another of Nationallidande velopes containing. Patterns TRAY be wholly on payment of an additional commission
Orient Zeltung. best cari. All is over. The colonel with China that it is not a sufficient watch upon children, and some of these were grand-
Here are twenty want, and what you dollar; quality not
closed if the nature of the contents be first. In case of loss of an order, nocasalty for Pall Mall Budget. something that sounds like " night," the movements of Russia in the North shildren of her grandchildren.
Pacific, but Loo Choo would admirably suit As illustrating the injury done by prin- quantity, is what I
to the Postmaster stopping payment, or the like, application Pelerin exhibit may consider necessary, and should be made to the nearest Money Routledge's Fibracies, North sate
sate down, und General, as he may hurriss out of the mess. The doctor and
We had
Rossion Paper past by bim Printed Ciroulsen may Order Office for instructions. major complacently count up their win most vital interest in wishing to see Russia lead reprints, Mr W. J. Rolfe, in the wrote the following sentence
Fattern Pa I in such
Sample of Rose Bengale, Packers
If the order he not pressated with Baturday Berlaw, nings; and poor Jones, as he goes to bed, held in check in its near neighbourhood, it Boston Literary, World, points out that far rather see the whole world get
six months an additional commation Schwederland.e wonders whether he had better blow his is not at all unreasonable to expect that the wherever in the reprint of the Globe
Compulsor
public f man kept sober by
there is no such thing as Parcel Post
the money will be forfeited. When the British Union Tour in the Loo Choo has uniformly turned them into vel, serial in a widely cited over the
Кагоре, circulated New York
den. Much
troubla wad disap pointment are eased by persistant attemple order is once paid no further claim can be archipelago or er at all events, in one of ing, sasuming, no doubt, in his own mind, paper, and-is
entertained. its most suitable isles where a strongly the the former spelling was more shortent lauling artile ever published, se to send unali valuable trilles through the te fortified British naval harbour could be arobain for veil, to hide. So, too, Dr. well as the most remunerative to its author, Post Fans, Ourios Articles of Dress, No order can be paid until the advies. established. Indeed, there is every reason Murray, the editor of the English Philo who was paid for it at very pearly the rate Faney Work, and similar presents are con relative to it has boat received. to suppose that Earl Granville has only to logical Society's Dictionary, has shown that of a dollar per word. It is just now quoted finally being refused, the rooders having often spent more in Postage then-won'd broach the subject to the Mikado's Foreign in the first chapter of Congais alone, no with much emphasis, by the Liberal and Secretary of State
bare paid the freight by steamer No order to moure this fewer than 195 spellings have been changed Progressist cagans of public opinion in moet desirable end. Can aheardity at in the issue of the Authorised Version Germany, a propos of the Bill for the Re- refund can be made or such, parcels of the fempt any higher Rights? Imagine, if it be in 1611. This is spelling reform, with ession of Inebriety about to be laid before value of Stamps obliterated before the
mature of the contenta was discovered. possible, Mr. Kennedy calling upon Mr Ivangeance,
the Reichstag by Prince Bismarck
but which might be less that purpose. Hence, as Japan has the ters to the works of old writers in modern- can give me.
bo
-case can be met by his merely retiring from most hearty satisfaction the advent of the and its participle tailing occur, the printer duly appeared next day at fires his PABLE inded that be sharged; if not within twelve month. Stoompost, brains out, or whether the exigencies of the Mikado's Government would hall with the Shakespere the word vail (French awal drunk of its own free-will than one
the service-Bombay Gazette.
the old school made out his account thus
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