YE BIRDS OF SONG, WHY COME YE NOT! AN INVOCATION.
My heart dotla glow, with love of song; And, oft, I wish to breathe the living words,
· THE POPULAR DOD. The following sketches of mombors of the presant House of Commons have been pub lished in England under the title of "The
THE CHINA MAIL.
BRAIN."WORK AND SLEEP. damages, and continuing to be member for Edinburgh it spite of the most violent efforts. So long as a brain-worker is able to sleep to oust hun from his seat. Careful in the woll and work well, and to take a fair pró- compilation of rainute facta and, shrewd in portion of out-door exercise, it is not neces his logical deductions, he remains unappre- sary to impose any special limits on thos hard-headed and narrow-hearted of his labours, But when what is generally countrynion. The nineteenth contary and himself urs the same aga.
Hongkong Rates of Postage.
(Revised December lat, 1890. )
That, flutt'ring, tromble, in my aul, for like. Pomilar Ded, edited by Tommy." Thov cinted by the House, and all but the most actual number of hours he devotos to his the Rater ute given in cents, and are, for. They must not exceed the following dimen compatible with shewing what the goods:
I travail, in their birth, with pangs of hope. Alas! They fle away, like soul, that floes The shivs, oro yet it hath its body found Too frail, too ovanescent to be expressed.
Oh, birds of song, that warble sweet your
Jays p That visti others' hparts! Why como yo not? Why die your notes, from out my longing
reach ?-
-chords—
will be found amusing, and by those who take an interest in the parliamentary delates, highly interesting :-
a
Sir Patrick O'Brien,Sir Pat" is the son of a Dublin grocer-called by Daniel Lont Hartington-Lord Hartington is O'Connel the Knight of the Noggin" product of circumstances. The eldest son who was made a baronet for one of those of one of the wealthiest Dukes of England, mysterious reasons which seem peculiar to he had the good fortune to be how with a the Government of Ireland. His geniality, howovor, cause him of ambition. Fortunately or unfortunately frequently to be
No. 5568-MAY 7, 1891.
Lacal Parcel Post
PATTERNS. Some difficulty is experiensed 1. Small Parcels may be sent by Post in obtaining a general understanding of between any of the Post Offices in China what is a Pattern. It iss bond Ade maple or Japan, as well as to Macao, Pak of goods which the sonder has for sale, or In the following Statements and Tables bol, Singapore, Ponang, and Mainock of ipods which he withen to order. I
to consist of the smallest possible;quantity: deep
• Patterns, par two ounces.
Dor weigh more than Sibs. The postage, and must have no intrinsic value. known as worry stops in to complicate rast Letters, per half ounce, for Books and sicus, 2 feet long, 1 foot broad, 1 fact tors, goon Cares Contested with fa poly. Nouspaper over mentes peel, arrangemonts, or with those numerous por are
as double, treble, &c., as the tion except to Japan, to which country
To provido means of remitting small sonal details which we can seldom escape, case may be, but such papers or packets or parcels are forwarded at Book Rates, Regis sums of money to or from his Calony and interveno, or when the daily occupation of papers may be sent at Book Rate. Two try being optional. The parools may be between the forts of China, the Post- life is in itself a fortile source of anxiety, Newspapers must not be folded together as wholly closed if they bear this special masters and Agents are allowed (but not then we find one or other of these three eno, not must anything what ever be inserted endorsement, PARCEL, CONTAINING NO LEE required) to purchase Hongkong Postage
Printed TEB, but any parcel may be opened by Stamps from foreign residents. safeguards broken down. Probably the oxcept bont de Supplementa. man of business or the BUG Raful lawyer matter may, however, he onslosed, if the direction of the Postmaster General.
The Stamps tendered for sale mast pot
Spell-hound my spirit, with your distant easy temper and with 2. confortable absence learning, and good pen for one of the fails to shake himself free from his anxieties whole be paid at Book Rate.. Prices Cor" And lot your songs of joyous praiso arst town, and was made a politician. by Lord genuine Trish nobility. He is fond of the at night; and slumber becomes fiful or tent may be paid either **papers or Parcels insufficiently packed or protected, clean, in good condition, and in strips of at
ho anon got satiated with the pleasure of the gain dew of his native country; but disturbed. The nervous system, unsettled Books.
Oh! thrill my heart with all your joye, /
forth,
And sweep, in Waves of melody, which dash
With
die
* Splashing laughter, 'gainst the rockying in the middle of one of his own stant visitor to the Ladies' Gallery, and luas dyspepsin, the irresolution, tho irritability, spondence, such as invoices, deeds, copied in dangerons to the Mails, or likely to be purobasing if his public fonda in zand are
down:
ཟ་ ་ལྟ་
he is
by the inental strain, brings about various defects in nutrition the appetite fails, and then we meet with the steeplessness, the the and the depression which are the chief miseries of the overworked. thing in these cases is to get a rest
By rest wo cost
Commercial Papors signify such papers tough Written by Hand, do not bear the character of an actual or personal corre music, did. The olarge on them is the arme The great as for books, but, whatever the weight of s packet containing any partially written paper,
2. The following cannot be transmitted: exceed 360 in value, must be perfectly or liable to be orashed (sa handboxes, least two se no separate Stamps will be &c.) Glass, Liquide, Explosive substar ces purobsted. They must be presented per Palmerston in order to give hbu an object loves his country still more, and has often in life. He took his now pleasures, however, expressed his readiness to " and be " for her. Lady O'Brien is a con-
Matches, Indigo, Dyestuffe, Ios, Meat, zonally or accompanied by s note. Fish, Game, Fruit, Vegetables, or whatever The Poalmsater or Agent may postpone Buily as his first, and on being accused of danined" 2 speeches, lun happy and characteristic retort been kwown, to be deeply moved by the
came offensive or injurious in transit, not an ficient, and he will refuse to purchase is said to have been-"Well, was'nt it silent oloquence of her ford and master:
in any case which appeara doubtful or 8. Parcels will a's general rule be for awfully dull?" Tall in person, rather Generally regarded as a respectable clumsy in wall, and languid in apponance, Hoaie Ruler, and he gives his countenance
Commission of one per cent on all Stampa Mail Packet. The Post Office reserves the
purchanod. of a scion of the old nobility; but a careful dignation at the obstructive tactics of the thought, and occupation. If you tell a busy The sender of any Registered Article right of selecting the opportunity for trans- mission, and of delaying delivery in case. study of his heavy and perturbablo face Parnell lot.
man that he must do nothing, he discloses the presence of latent power and
St Herr Drummond-Wolf-Fairhaired, endeavour to obey you, but he will may accompany it with a Return Becoup the number of parcels is such as to retard
on on paying an extra fee of 5 cents. some strong character. He has been in but. Teraelitis in appearance, a pleasant find out that he cannot, for his brain keeps The limit of weight for Books and Com- other correspondence. No responsibility
be Parliament over twenty years, and has lind companion at the dinner table, but to on working in the same old groove, and mercial Papers to Foreign Post Offices is in accepted with regard to any parcel, but experience in several Goverment depart- laboured in his speech-making to be is as much, or even tre, worried about 4lba. Patterns for such offices are limited the system of Registration, will secure the On smoothest pebbles, southo, with cadenes mente, being tossel from eate to-nilerin Wolf is over honest and mild for the of it, The great thing is to get a rest by dimensions: 8 inches by 4 inches by 2bability of loss.
the hope that homight soolow lindone that agreeable in Parliamont, Sir Henry-Dian- his business as if he were still in the thick to 8 ounces, and must not exoced these sonders against any but a very remote pro-
Of glougly doubt and draait, and wear them
high Fing your silver spray against the sky, And fall in showers of brightest thoughts
again Then ripple soft, upon the golden sands of
time, And calin the murmurs of my restloss heart. Oh! drive away the fever'd thoughts of care, and let your cooleat plash, with incaaured
best,
¿weet.
heis far from realising the novel writer's idea to the idea by occasional outbursts of in- nothing, but rather change of adena, of cent will not be aberved less than warded by Private, Ship, not by Contract as icloun. He is allowed to charge
soon.
Reflect the brightest raya of God's own yard of the Admiralty by way of giving him fate to sit, · Would like to be an anbasen to have for a time a nice comfortable sort
In all their changing, wondrous moods; Then play like summer clouds upon the ees, Flitting, in shades of thoughtful serious
mood,
Oh sparkle, in the bright and glorious day,
would suit him. First of all he was made
a
antical training. Then he was entrusted with the charge of the trny; and after a trial at the Post Office was considered the
not.
4. The public are cautioned not to con found these facilities with a Paros Post to Europe, &c, abich does not exist.
It is necessary that the following rules
A MAN
POST OFFICE NOTICE. Unclaimed Correspondence, May 6, 1881.
Leta, Tap.
Among, William 1 Leslie, Wm.
Lion,
8 Long, Capt. M,
Marss
Luaard, Frevos
Andrews, Dr J. A.1 Barnard, R. M.. 2 Barnar, Geo. W. 1 Bergkard, M. 1 Bidwell, G.
1
1
Mackay, Mirsk Man Fookly
Choong
regd.
That floods with golden rays the land and the generality of budding politicimus who are the expenditure of fil. He has hoon at once the nost natural, and often the Pera, Chili, Venezuela, ?be Argentine registered or unregistered, can be received Bower, Chinese
eCa
Oh! murmur low 'midst moonlight's softer
boats, Which shod their silver streams, like gleans
of hope,
Glory
wild Jingcos among whom it has hon hie substituting one kind of work by another, inches,
N.R. means No Registration. for, but is disqualified by his inability to of occupation to replace the old weary
round of troubles. One of the most import
Countries of the Pastal Union. "lie abroad for his country's good."
My Frank Henderson.-Lives by leather, ant remedial agents is out-door-life and
The Union may be taken to comprise Across the bright roflex of heaven's clear sky. very man to govern Iroland-in which to but loves literature. Is said to have made exercise, which may be taken in any form Europe, most foreign possessions in Asia,
be strictly observed, than a small fortune by taxing, and to meditate must congenial to the individuuliin Japan, W. Africa, Egypt, Mauriting, all was neither more nor less successful than
walking
dell sports, or whit portion of it on a life
The N. America, Mexico, Salvador, Brasil,
1. No Lettor or Packet, whether to be Blair, WH, allowed to try their 'prentice hand on the of the late
George
Marmont, 3.2 1 card administration of that unfortunate country for some years the superior parson " of most effectual promoter of sloop we call Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guiana, For Postage if it contains gold or silvermoney, Boxer, F- 4 Marshall, Wm. 14 Finally through being lost bunxions than his local Town Council, but has exacted employ. Active bodily exertion is well Hondurar, Bermuda, Labuan, with all jewels, precious articles, or anything that, Bragança, A. A. 1 Mother, Jané 1 the other aspirants-he was selected as the respect and confidence that the
ple known to be compatible with the maxi- Liberal loader when Mr Ghulstone retired of Denice are
to give people are always Athwart the dark ani gloomy night of life. aftor his defust in 1874, and-lus since aliown ons possessed of only to give to any mom of intellectual work, and full advant Danish, French, Netherlands, Portuguese as a general rule, in liable to Customs Brannigan, A. F, 1Matthews, M. (2)
amallest dicun of age Ahould be taken of this fact.. The only and Spanish Colonisa
Countries or in the Union,The chief sound judgment, though not une energy, literary ability." It is a prond thing for thing to avoid is excessive fatigno. It is a
the discharge of his Mr Henderson that he has been privileged remarkable fact that a very birge number countries not in the Union are the Aus- and less brilliancy, oncretos duties. Politically his development to succeed that brilliant luminary Mr Jen-of
distinguished litty From megrim, and
Portage to Union Countries. has hee
General Bates, by any route Letters,
10 cants per oz. Post Cards,
B conta ezek. Registration, Newspapers,
---
Hongkong, May, 1881.
J.
A POEM FOR THE TIMES.
From "Raban; or, Life Splinters:" A Poem, By Waltor O. Smith, Aublar of "Orig Grange." "Borland Hill,"
Hilde,"
*o. This is the author's aspiration: A little kick, beneath a steep green hill,
With a groy apiro, that pops nor fall
elin troes,
In a still pastoral land of brook vill And broomy knall, and sleepy, dripping mill,. Far from the stír of vities and of sças:
And near the kirk, low nestling in the copse, With honeysuckle clad, and roses red, A little manse, whone sweet-flowered garden
slopes
Down to the river, where the river.dropa
With wurmuring ripple, n'er n pebbly bed:
How hupily the days and years might dow, Among the silent shepherds brooding long, In pious labour, studious to know, ** And patient servico, till their life should grow From thoughtful silence into thoughtful
Bong:
To pass from house to house in visit free,.
Welcome assunshine at the sucking hearth, To take the little children on the knee, And bless them, as He did in Galiloc,
2
Who came with blessings unto all the earth.
Another specimen is as follows :- O, what is this that in my heart is singing, Like sweat bird caged there carolling all
day
LOVE.
O, what is this much gladness to me bringing, That life is bliss, and work is merry play, And round my steps, lo 1 sunny flowers are
springing
•
As I go singing, singing on my way 7
„O, Love, glad Love!
Oh! what is this that in my heart is sighing, Like captive vainly moaning to be free? Al! what is this so heavy in me lying,
No rest there is, nor any work for me, And lost and flower are drooping, now and
dying
As I go sighing, sighing wearily
O, Love, sad Love!
What thing is this my foolish heart is
dreaming,
That I should love, and long for yon
bright star!
I sigh or sing, but she, unmoved, is gleaming
As in high glory where the angels are-- I but a glow-worm on the earth dill-beaming, While she is gleaming, gleaming thereafar.
O, Love, vain Love f
CURIOUS EPITAPHS, Sometimes a pun or play on the name is introduced, such as in the epitaph on John White-
Chest:
and
and he may yetkins, the author of "Ginx's Beby," whose have suffered severely fientific men /-tralasian Group, and S. Africa.
Tit
bacno Premier. Like withdrawal from the Houng is generally would sum that some of them have suc
the
to
at
of
by
Inte Lots Derby and Palmoveton, the attributed to a complaint which is not un-ceeded in ridding themselves noble Margar's is fond of the t be seen at Epson and Nowmarket with no
as much
regularity as in the House Commons. Though cagerly sought after, ho has not yet thigh in his forty-seventh your-been caught in the matrimonial trap. After being eleven years member for the Radner Burghs he has now returned to his first love the North Eastern Division of Lancashire.
9211094.
B
of
bv
10 centa.
3 cents each.
$2 cents per 2 oz.
Books, Patterns and Comm: Papers Thero is no charge on redirected corre Apondence within the Postal Union.
Postage to Non-Union Countries. Hawaiian Kingdom -- Letters,
None.
10
the malady the adoption of some simple hygienic Mr Gorge Armistead.--Originally a measure. One, for instance, cured himself comum even among successful authors, cork, Mr Armitstond loved both wisely by following the prescription of a farrier, and very well, and as s
to drink water, eat little, who advised him to consequence ba came a connection of the extensive firm of Baxter Brothers. When previously in the House he was so excessively modest as to conceal both his opinions and his abilities, but his associations keep him a firm Liberal, and he is
as good a representative of the Joseph Cowen-Euphatically the successful mediocrity of Dundee as Mr member. His love for the Poles has ouderson is of its literary pretentious triotic" always made him au inveterate imemy of ne Russia; but his niny sterling qualities have Mr O'Sullivan. A regular broth of a eansed tho Liberal party to forgive him hoy. The tallest in the House, even this offence, and he is now he was nikward in hia gait, illiterate in his speech, before the Eastern crisis--one of the meat and uncouth in his manners. Nevertheless cospected and
and affectionately regarded on
on a sort of favourite, and at times an un- of a conscious inflorist especially on the sub. hk of "silent spirits" or Scoteli versus language of ar ¦ a rute
which frish whisky. The former he once happily. hangs the most aristocratic members-even describe as being like a torchlight proces when they are in-doubt, or total ignorance,sion going down his throat. He keeps a as to what he is saying. Hesires being a public honse in an obscura village in his newspaper proprietor, he is an extensive native county of Limerick, which he iron master and alike in the metropolia represente, and rose to his presont fane and the warth his unbinded hospitality is and dignity through being a Fenian pri- continually being extended to the outcasta soner. His description of experiquous in of society nad of nations. He was the jail have been the frequent cause of amuse friend of
and take exercise. Another was cured drinking every day a large quantity of fresh water, and exchanging a highly nutritious regimen for a much lighter dietary. third got rid of his old enemy by tlie samo means, and by taking exercise every day before dinner. There can be no doubt that in sy ee great benefit would be Registration, derived from a thorough change of locality | Newspapers,” or climate. Long' son-voyages are not un- | Books & Patterns, 5* frequently attended with excellent results, the attacks being absent for months at a time. Unfortunately, these are remedies not within the reach of all Family Physi. cian.
Here lies Jobu, a shining light, Whose name, life, actions, all were White, The following was rather epigrammatie than epitaphic in regard to the Rev. John
Beuenth
this spot lies buried One Chest within another: The outer obest was all that's good:
Who says so of the other? William Witton, buried in Lambeth, or tainly did not write the epitaph which beara relation to himena.
Here lyoth W, W.
Who never more will trouble you, trouble
you. Nor, we may safely assert, did Owen Moore bimself pen the following:-
Owen Moore is gone away, Owin' more than he could pay. More likely to be genuine are those epitaphs which involve a hit of bad logis, syntax, or grammar in their composition. In a gravo yard at Montrose is raid to be the follow- Here Iyas the bodies of George Young and all their
ing
For fiity years back Posters
| in
And in Wrexham churchyard as follows
Here lies five babies and children dear, Three at Ostry, and two here." Akin to this logical blundering is:-
Here lies the remains of Thomas Milsolm, who died in
Philadelphia, Marab, 1763:
Had he lived he would haye
Been buried here."
And another at Nettlebed, in Oxfordshire !---
the House
the
He bas t
working.innubrian stylo of a
A CONSULAR CONVENTION.
(New York Shipping Gazette). We have often called attention to the ovils catised by the non-existence of a Con- sular Convention between this country and England. The need for one is increasing The prospect of one being made does not bright. Yet the subject is not entirely forgotten, for at a recent meeting of the supporters of the Liverpool Sailors
scom very
West Indies (Non Union)t, Boliviat Costa Rica, Guatemala, New Granada, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay. Letters,
190 Registration,
None. Newspapers, Books & Patterns,
5 Б
duties
2. This Regulation prohibita tho sending of Patterns of dutiable articles, unless the quantity seat he so small as to make the sample of no value.
| Brissot, G. H 1 McPhinnoy, James 2 Brown, Mrs E1 MoFarlano, DI Browu, R. M. MeMurzay, J. 1 Carvalho, Sra. Melland, F. W. 1
Marcell, Major Caelisti, Sigr. Al 1
General
3. The limite of weight allowed are no Chacham, Bi... I cardMorris, J. (Të. } follows:-
Books and Papers to British Offic
5 lbs; to the Continent,, ds, 4 lbs.
Patterns to British Offices, 5lbs. ff with out intrinsic value; to the Continent, 40, 8 oz.
Indemnity for the Loss of a Registered Letter. The Post Offiua is not legally responsible for the safe "delivery of Registered corres pondence, but it is prepared to make good the contents of such correspondence lost while passing through the Post, to the extent of $10, in certain case, provided:
1. That the sender duly observed all the conditions of Registration requiro.
2. That the letter was securely enclosed in a reasonably strong envelope.
3. That application was made to the Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Postmaster General of Hongkong im- Fiji, de Torres Straits, Letters, 10 xdiately the loss was discovered, the gistration, 10; Newspapers, 2; Books and envelope being invariably forwarded with Patterns, 2: Fia Galle, Letters, 20 Rs. such application unless it also is lost. gistration, 20; Newspapers, 2; Books and
Patterns, 2-
4. That the Fostmaster General is satis fed that the loan occurred whilst the corres
Cheong Heng
1 lograpla Kn
Chae Cherp-em 1gineer Clausen, T.
1 Morton, Rev. Z.
Clough, B. P. 1
Connor, Foster 1
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Coats, De
1
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1
Cornforth, John
Coulson, A.C.MP 1 De Cunha, Franco. M. 1 Damewville, C. II. 1 Dare, Mr Desean Herbert
of Poochow
2
Mowe, Jas
a Neilson, Cha.,
Lats Seaman 1.
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Nicolson, Er Wi1
O'Dillon, Miss
Okezún, G.
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Overgrand, James 1 card
Remedios, Flo-J
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Fassa), André Partington, J.E, L
[Paunchna al Dine, Muris
Paaos, Mr. Duncan, B. B. 1 Vinyfair, L. M. 1. Earl, J. Ellegaard, M: Fajer, Monar. E. 3 Farrah, Thos 1 Foruendos, V. B. 1 Ford, Capt. Wm. 1 Frater, A. 11 Frassol, Charles 1 Gardnor, Lent. 1
F.A. Green, Cept. 8. G. Greenberg, J.
1 Robinson, L. D. 1 ↑ Rodgers, Arthur
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Rozario Pemlingos 13 Schambach, Jules 1 Card
Schark B.1 Seitz, Christ.
1: Seymour & Co. 1
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Honda, John Hervey, Chs. Hogg, E. J. Hong Hi Wan
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Smith, Madár 1 4 bk.
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Natal, tho Cape, St. Heloun, and Asoon-pondence was in the onstody of the Britian Bue Foke Ngyoon 1
caused by any fault on part of Ireland, A. H
of Mazzini anda, and is now ment in the other of the successful Home several speakers called attention to sion, via Aden, Leitare, 25; Registration,: Fostal.administration in China, that it was
the Meccons of several Irish represente tives whose incans of existence would other Jews who are
wise be a mystery. He has a rooted objectioning class of England. One of the best of to tall hats, monarchies, and other aboral-his race, however, with even culture and nations. Newcastle does herself credit by
by honesty among his characteristics. Slightly totaining him as one of her representatives, reconciles us to the chosen people of the in spite of his aberrations on foreign politics. Lord. The most Hebraic in aspect of any Sir Henry Selin-betson-Hay twenty man in the House-large in the lose, thick thousand a year, and yet has cheerfully
the lips, suffling in speech; yet in undertaken sand of the most slavish and intellect and sturacter a thorough English
with least distinguished posts in connection
man. A tinanoior of distinguished dability a sound resoner, and at times a powerful the Administration of the country-an extraordinary proof of the capacity and orator. Despite his tendency to Conserva- liking which Englishmen have for Grudgeryth, he enjoys the respect, and confidence
of having a Consular Convention between the two countries. The ovils in this port alone arising the want of Conven- tion are most glaring. British ship-owners, and indirectly American ship-owners, have suffered heavily in money and trouble from the fact that sailors of British ships when in our parts, or of American ships when in British portée, believe that they have full license to do as they please. They leave their ships and bring in claims for wages not due under their contract. There is no
even when they might dwell at home in ease. of the Liberal party, and would only reauthority to support the commands of the Middle aged, bearded, and possused of aquire Lord Beaconsfield's unscrupulosity, oficere of the vessels. A British chip-
in the part of New Yerk if they choose to desert. The British consul cannot help him and the government authorities here will not attempt to interfere. Indeed, it happens in many instances that the more desertion of the crew is not the only wou ble the ship-master has to encounter by reason of this license or freedom from all interference by consuls: Fales charges are tramped up and are compromised rather than that the ship shall have to submit to extra expense and delay. The records of the British Consulate will show the baduess
fiue head, but has a lack-lustre, oye which or Mr Forster's officious forwardness, tu mister has really little power over his crew shows his ability while it betrays his make himself leader. want of brightness. On the whole a pleasant contrast to the prize and perky young gentlemen whom Mr israeli was so fond of putting into the mizor offices of his tio vermont. Ho would more at home among his sleep pens and gentle king, of whom, with his easygoing manners and lethargic netion, he is not unanggestive.
Mr Parker-Ladylike in voice-gentes! in appearance irreproachable in morals and in manners the member for the fair eity of
in what Kinglake calls "the worst sense of
Word."
Perth can only be described as good at the
Mr Hopwood -- A barrister and a Queen's Counsel, possessed of some little ability, and sufficiently advanced in his views, the member for Stockport would be popular among the Radicals were it not for his irresistible tendency to frothiness, Liver in the groves of the Evangelist, and is
WAR
HOW A WOMAN IDENTIFIED. ! A few days ago a man called at a house on Fort atreet east and asked for a bite to eat. He was rofused, and shortly after he left a cloak was missing from the hall-tres, The police were notified, and the other day when they arrested a man on suspicion they went for the woman to come down to the
its flat ash was pertain that she could of the prosent situation. A Consular Con-
and identify him.
When she
identify the man who had called, she sORIE- vention between the two countries is a what indignantly replied: Identify him! necessity for many reasons, and the gentle. Why, I could pick him out from among texmen in Liverpool who spoke upon the thousand!"
should go further and endeavour to subject have one carried out. Speeches at annual meetings проц this subject will not accom plish much. Organization and work, how- ever, will bring the matter before the roU- pective governments in such shape that some action will be induced. It is certain that if a
fa movement to establish a Consular The captain here observed that he never Convention were started and placed before heard of black hair being dyet red, and the commercial public in a proper light it after a brief examination he asserted that would receive hearty support on both sides the prisoner's hair had not been dyed at all. of the Atlantic. The object is worth the "Well, I may possibly be mistaken about labor and ship-owners should take hold of his hair," said the woman, but I'll swear this matter he could not any whether two and two were to that overcoat. I took a good look at it four without giving a history of the multi-as he went off the steps, and I know it's the plication taito.
cost and the . T particularly noticed
unmarried.
Mr Selter-Booth-Fat and pudgy with strongly developed jowls. Any other human excellence cannot well be ascribed to him. His appearance must have seemed an insult to the paupers of whom during the last Administration he had the care. He was the woret man ever known at answering questions, and it used to be said of him that
She was then confronted with the prisoner She gave him a good looking over and called out:--
"Oh! you can't fool me! You've bad hair dyed from black to red since you your asked for cold pancakes, but I'd know you if I saw you irrexas!!
Afr Forster-Large, rough, shaggy, and that the third button from the top was lumbering, with the build of a Yorkshire missing."
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conts.
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(d) Parcels at Book Rates, registry optional.
(e) Via Singapore, 10 cents. () No Parcel Post.
farmer, and still rudor manors, Mr Forster The captain quietly informed her that it Varly becoming the leader of the great was an overonat he had borrowed within the Liberal
will be despatched on THURSDAY, and was not too well pleaseriour and asked the prisoner to slip up. The party with the profrence given to the Marquis of woran wouldn't give in for some tiine, but Hartington Even yet he endeavours or all finally said
march on the indifferent occasions to steal
"Well, I might have been mistaken, but and not too punctual Marquis. His princi- I looked square into his eyes, and I know ples are those of compromise, and these hu | this is the man.”
What colour did you say his oyes were ?" Blue, sir, fight bina"
this
has followed in roligion as well as in politics. The unpopular quakerism of his fathers has merged in what ho seems to have rogarded as the more respectable and black!".
So they latitudinarian atmosphere of the Church of
been
"But
man's eyes are black-ca they were. The woman was dumb
the 12th May, with Maila to and through the United Kingdom and Europo via Brindis to the Straits Settlementa, Batavia, Burmali, Ceylon, India, Adon, Egypt, Malta, and Gib raltar. This is the best opportunity for forwarding Correspondence to Mau B. This Packet carries no maile for the
Australian Cobmies
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Bagiand. Restlessly ambitious and mushing and said
ing, with datunishment for a time, finally rallied,MAILS BY THE UNITED STATES. PACKET. the nearest place of business
ha 19
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"Didn't this man wese a slough hat when. arrested "
he has come to be
be considered something of a stateemana lamentable pmol of the dogeneracy of politics in the present day. With all his uncouthness and want of culture. t deficient in astuteness. Ind
he generally both sides of a until he lea
overy one in doubt as to which way he will vote-his chief object being evidently to ascertain which will be him the man most expedient. He contributed in no
Question, but when the crucial time
Hare lies father and mother and sister small degree to the raising of the
sad 1:
No, maʼum-he wore a cap " And don't you think he is the man?" I don't think anything about it, as I aaver saw
saw him
until hour ago." "Is it positively necessary that I identity
No, ma'sm fiftlo darried that morning, and I don't Then I guess I won't. Fact is, I was o We all died within the space of one and the cry was that the Russians were at think I got a fair sight of the fellow Be- Constantinople; he was the first to cry rides that, I think the cloak was stolen the and start the singing of Rule day before I missed it by an old woman who Britanio As minister of Education, he was selling notions Free Frees was so peculiarly harsh and narrow to cause the National Education Bill, which he introduced, to be regarded as a curse rather than a blessing,
which will be closed as follows- 2.15 .. Registry ceasen.
kring
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H. da Johnson, Even Johnson, L.A. 1 Jones
Swift, John Thos..I Teyan, Bamuel 1
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Loong with Tong A Sa
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Contractor Voorhies, R. P. Jr.
Was Khed Boon. 1°
Well, F. M.
1
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Wills, Capt. J. H. 1
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Knight, Edward 1
$1
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Queensland, South Australia and Port Darwin, the Straits Settlements, Western Australia, and (except at Shanghai) with tho Japanese Empire. Hongkong also issues orders on Shanghai, and vice versa.
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Lucis same person, in favour of the same payee,
Spirit of the Age 1
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**
1
$10.
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Gil Bla Hongkong ani Shanglisi my
Hoboe (Bassian Paper) 3. Boxholders who desire to send Chron. 6-Names must be given in full (exoep Illustrated Sporting and Dramatão. Noses, The United States Mail Paket Cilars, Dividend Warrants, Invitationn, Cards, when there is more than one Christian Toparcial
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Bath United and Japan, may deliver them to the Post azo-orbesed). It can then be paid only Lol Mesenger de Goane de Mario. States, Canada Honaldo, Peru, etc Ofise unstamped, the postage
through Back, sad kay afterwards be Lloyd's Weekly New charged to the sender's Boonut, Each specially crossed to any Bank, VONIO batch must consist of at least tous No order can be paid till the Payon 2,30 px Post-Office closes, but Letters b
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azbibited or
or slated to the Postmaster stopping payment, or the like, application Palerin, Correspondence for Non-Union West Indies ner
sa ke pay proved by him. Printed Circulars may Order Office for instructions. Ramlan Exper be inserted in auch Pattern Packers
If the order a not presented within Sample of Rose Bengals. Paresta-The públls is reminded that, six months at additimal cocamides will Balonday Lowen Tur latest new venture is a joint-stook MAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKER — |
there.
be charged ; if not within twelve months, Schwamerland. thing as Parcel Pothe money will be forfeited. When the Stomport no such A BET and tablet to the montory of
company which is to be formed to purchase The French Contract Packet Anadyr to Europe, do. Mach trouble and disp George Cruikshank will, in a few days, be Mr Duncan 3f Laren. --A Bootch terrierin Ly means of a capital of £100,000 the patent will be despatched on THURSDAY pointment are caused by persistent attempts order is once paid no further claim on, be Tables Compatible dos placed over the spot where his remains appearance and manner; always wonying at rights of a telegraphis instrument - which.. the 10th May, with Mails to and to, send small valuable trifles through the are deposited in the crypt of St. Paul's statistics, butonly growing leaner and meanor. prints ou continuous strips of paper at
may
through the United Kingdom, and Post. Fans Derios Articles of Dress, **** To order can be paid until the advice Cathedral. The marble bears the following on his sad fare. A quarter of a century number of tenginal points a message do- Europe, vid Naples to Saigon, Biznits Fancy Work, and similar presents are con relative to it has been received. Inscription: --" In memory of his genius and ago he was Lord Provost of Edinburgh-in snatched from a neutral office. It has been Settlements, Batavia, Burmali, Ceriottinually being refused, the 'sendera baring his art, his matchless industry, and worthy which city his drapery establishment is still imported, like most of our mechanical work, for all his follow-men; this monu famous for its long and short lengths, novelties, from Arcerise, and is now in ment is humbly placed within this sacred Called by the Scotsman "a snake in the working operation between the House of fane by her who loved him best, his widow-grass," he waged relentless war against Its Parliament end a number of newspaper ed wife
editor, Bandy Bussel, winning an action for offices,
short year
We all be buried at Wimble, except L: And I be buried baze Chambere Journal,
or Paraguay, cannot be sent by this trenera consider DECOSEATY, ARGI should be unindo to the nearest Money Routledga's Libraries,
route,
Hongkong, April 20, 1881.
The
entertained.
the Austrilastair Colonies, Pondichery, ¦ often spent more in Posters than... would Madras, Caloutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta, ; hare paid the feaight by slesmaY.
No * Made out on a printed form which la mapplies and Gibraltar,
refund can be made or magh parcels of the timal hours will be observed in closing value of Stanzie oblikeabed before the † & dollar rats fir drewing on 158 Unile the Mailer
-nature of the contents was dimseyered
Tinee
Woolson & Co,'” Catalogue.
and publ
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