No. 8688.-DECEMBER 81, 1884.)
would be interesting to know why A miral Courbet refuses tallow correspondence esign residents at Tamsui to be for the landed at that port. The restriction ap-
or bus to ho hach and entirely Recessary. Of course the Admiral may wish
there from receiving advices from
is blockaded.
tho
Few people would imagine, says the St. James's Bulget, that a carpet or matting sot down from the door-stop to the edge of the kerb could form the subject of an action at law. Such, however, is the case; and passer-by who stumbled over the carpet
jury to
as to whether the passer-bery
was bot
ments and thin shoes t
X
THE CHINA MAIL.
Ris Excellency-onenrable Gentiounen of the Legislativo Council, I thank you in the name of the Queen for this unanimous vote for the contribution required by Her Majesty's Government from this Colony
en at the time. As 39 p.m. he saw him
asked him if he know there it was. Tho again without his overcent, and complainant cont was afterwards fand hanging up in second defondnat's roon
ALLEGED PHATICAL PACK ON "A JUNK.
THE EAST COAST OF FORMOSA. Mr William Campbell writes to the Amoy
aceite, under date 12th Decembar,
follows:-
Formosa.
THE NEW WEAPON OF THE BRITISH INFANTRY. The Martini-Enfield, which is benceforth
to be the weapon of the British Infantry, until another supersedes it, must be co
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peared for tho prosecution dangers, and we wore gchoring finally the, calibro of a small doer rjño, and the Nagasaki.30.20
makers of these
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and courteous treatment; wo should argue Wool is worthless,_ikoy say; but I poy at with the terms in which you love carriad direct down the river past Whampoa bat in the ucrtherly. Ho anke of some of heavy Whether the improved shooting holt, and in the level of the sea in inches, tenths
residents in Formona of their letters, thie
that it Admiral Courbet deprives English
least as much for my costa,as heretofore your vote, namely, That the armanzont to In bread, indeed, there is a reduction, but be provided by the Imperial Govern- a reduction which hears no proportion to
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harbour should be closed to the French warto aleged fall in whost. For milk, butter, / mens should be of the latest and beat | avdning they first saw tra defendants' junk east const of Furmusa, as has been already heavy Martiti breesh action was rotafrod, and tenths, Fahrenheit.
Vornals.
100-
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade degrees,
3. Humor, in percentage of saturation, the
little wind at the time and a little outains for the nicat pImprovements which no one can games humidity of air saturated with moisture being
is remarkable for the absence of there was only the choice of disadvantages. shoor down
There is juto the ses
landing place at Choske-day, a consilors are the new mounting of the barrel, which in the fore stock, that it can be clennoù ble distance to the sonth; but the only is now detached instead of being imbedded harbour is at Sau-a
tailles
entrance to Bau-a Cast
104.
4. DILECTION OF WIND, to two points.
tion given to the Committen was of so va tisfactory a character that they had no bonitation in recommending the resulu tion, which they passed unanimouzly, and
Further evidence wal given by the police which I belioro the Council is now
constable who arrested the second defend.I have just soon your issue of 4th in-sidered as an improvement on the Martini- insert the following additional particulars advantage of a flatter trajectory within
what is called the dangerous zone. Wa to trait in the same manner, but this ant to the effect that the first defendant had stant and should like if you would kindly Henry if caly because it has the cardinal to prevent the Chinese general in command and hurt herself 120 cocovared the sum of is to be done with the firm hope, the brought the overcoat taithe former for sale. boul Sawo Bay and the Eastcan side of know that any figures are as yet ac
First dofondant, was convicted and cont £50 damages in the Bloomsbury Conaty confident expectation, the distinct under to prison for three weeks hard labour. The Swinhoo says:-In, stoaming round to cessible to the public to show what the Bolin Court. But tho mattor does not and here.
trajectory is, but it is roughly ex Manila...017 mainland, but it is well known that the The lawyers are going to have their share standing, I might almost say, that there will second defendant was ordered to find two Sawo Bay we approached Steep Island. estriction in regard to the correspondence in the fray. because the judge who tried be nothing whatever in the arms supplied retinenthe, in lefault to be com with a view of landing on it. The stormer Prossed by the statement that without Haiphong
for months
runs out into a peint westward from the yards. Not that the Martini-Enfield is not Amoy. 30.2359.059 went pretty close to the sandepit which change of sighting it will hit a man at 600 Hongkong 20.19 69.554 of the foreign residents in Tamsui does not the case ly left it to the jury to say which can leave anything to be desired, milted for a week.
tho do this. It is well known that inveshan whether or not the servant who act and that they will. bo equal to any emer.
down was guilty carpet
Island, but, fading no bottom, backed out meant to be as accurate as the other at Shanghai. 30.38 32.0,68 W pegligence. of
again and continued her course. We longer ranges, for as a
fnet, as a matter of by Nagasaki, 3014 of lottórs are constantly being despatched Certain other judges seem to think that he goney which, unfortunately, might occur.
The motion was then put and carried The fifteen men charged on the 27th entered Saws Bay and mode for the sontewhat clumsy, gimerack looking apostock 00.34 5.2 ta Formosa from certain of the fat ports ought also to have asked the opinion of the
inst, with piratically alecking the trading Lamhongo anchorse (the south inner bay,) paratna projecting from the barrel, aim cau hidden bo takon up to 2,000 yurda, but the par unanimously, in junks, and that these communications negligent in crossing the mat. pos-
junk Su-lee, and stealing property to the after all but running on to a huge Fenerally reach their destination. Besides, silly the question will lead to further
value of 3800, and brothers charged rock outside of the breakwater reef. This amount consideration with the authorities Bolinao... litigation, which will be interesting to the long as the Chiness are able to land West-end in sacre ways that one
with receiving a portion of the stolen pro-rock is uct marked down in the last lias been to give the flat trajectory which Manila 80.04 70.672 x
The southern 500 yards, nor will any bae question their Hong kong 30.28 58.085 S0.2051.000
1 b were this Ommiderable supplies of munitions of war people prefer to run the risk of paying
perty, well knowing it to have bean stolen, Admiralty Chart, though it has only 3 feet will dispenso with sight adjustments up to Haiphong
morning brought up before Mr water on it at halftide.
harboue is fall of coralreefs and hidden wisdom heroin. To chtain the result how Amoy.....
0 of 400 Shanghai.30.3625.503 in Formosa it is ridiculous to enforce this duniages to a caraluse pussenger, or will
Wison remand.
to make theever, the bore has boon decroneed to 400,
10.05 Mr Wotton restriction in regard to the futters of they no longer have regard to wet pavo
and Mr Donnys
thrie of the defendants best of our way out of it,
10: b weight increased by some nine ounces. The Woxtack 29.85 0.2- outside the harrier-reef in deo water." foreigners it Formos. We cannot also
towards the erection of works required for charged with receiving the atolen goods.
The Barometer has risen over Luzon and brig Hai Yip, the master the junk -lte, heicko, of the Pressing bullet is rather lighter than in the Martini-
Mr. Wotton opened the case and called
visited Sawo Harbour in March, Ronry: the charge of powder about the fullon in the North. Gradients, indicate understand why an Admiral of a leading Eu-War does the cry about dopression mean? the effective defence of Hongkong. I en-
samo. The extra weight is thrown into the moderata E. winds. ropean power should care a red copt what
a correspondent of the Timer asks. I hear tirely agree with the remarks which foll
W. DOBERCE, whose evidenes was to the following effect: 1801, e fist anchored at Lamhong barrel, which required it badly, baine advices reach a general commanding a mili- that fat beasts bring the farmer no return;
from my hon. friend just now, to the effech He left Canton, on the Su-le, with a but finding too little water there, remove prosimy only 8 lbs., whereas the barrels.
Government Astronomer, Hongkong Observatory, December 31. tary rabble of Chinese in an island which yet I pay one-third riors for meat than that this is a questions of great imperial as cargo of rice; on the noning of the 24th to oil the central village, near the fresti-
sutherly monsoon there is more water scalo 4 and 5 lbs., the makes
voll understanding the advantages As a matter of fair-play paid in my earlier days of housekeeping: well as colonial importance. I entirely agres hist, bound for Maen. They did not proceed water stream. He supposes that in the of match villes of no greator total weight
weapons than in went
book rekob. They passed down
harrel where great accumey in 1. Batouszen, roduced to 80 degrees Fahren- Ohun Obun on the evening of the 24th, at reef in the harbour not marked down in
required. tezwacdo pasting Teng Chow, and then the Chart."
will
for the greater compensats for
weight and bundredtka. Collingwood writes as follows: The the soldier is another matter, but while the stered south. At about 7 o'clock bagame and other like things I pay more than pattern of breechloading ordnanco, cape about 20 chuuga astert- of them. There
WRA a very the moonlight. At about 1 pr. they got into I svor paid before. My account-book con-
heaveat modern ironclade. I ahali press the sea and the pirate junk had got nearer DURING the past twelve months there havntains no particulars which bear out the ble of resisting the attacks of
· occurred some eighteen or twenty conBagra-gara complaint. How is it that the pro-
7this point myself in the strongest post thou and soon after began to fire into ducer's lone is not the consumer's gain '
their boat.
boat. They wife thon about 30
C. FORCE OF Wins, according to Beaufort
are the Cono-
lateral exorcs
6. State or Warner & blue sky, è de- ment of bewildorment, why mists dumb. It is tion. Dumb economists are. Their to say he has done sc alrondy, and he
ths who has sen
it will admit that the Martini-ħ bail, ¿ lightning, o overcast, p passing slowers, is due to an extension of perlat there is a
will do so again in the strongest torms.
pistols,
the waven dashed wildly, for the class of weapon than that which is now vest deal in
w dow (wet). the discovery
swords, and
mile out, for but rising
in use. But that this new gun is an ident human atfairs, to confound their aciendo by succesful when the ones is laid fully be. The men put the crew of the junk down wind had risus. It extends a
in th
the hold and then proceeded to put the the most part just above water,
v more and put its most confident predictions to fore the War Office, for which is the ratini-Henry as to anske it advisable on into three preminent rocky peaks, one of run cannut be contended for a moment,
and even whether it is o
so much superior to The actual nouiber of serious fires has been the rout.
latest parliamentary papers on this subject, hoard their own vessel Besides between whitened with the deposit of sea-
Quotations. 200 and 300 bags of
of rice there was a birda which were resting upon them.
three are
-arra new instead of waiting for B almost double the average of the last few
that the original vets for the armament and
of clothing, the
No
HoNazoNG, December 31. Whereas it
the anchor of the other reef, nearly at right angles to this, better, seems to be gravely doubtful. repes, oars, and 20 tels in silver.
rifle in
in these days can bo yen, ten par anus being the number Soкs in Aserica are at prosent not a
Oven re- called Te- OPIUM-Now Patna, cash,... 600/002} When the pirates wort away and the crew and probably of the same nature,
Old
cah,... 75/77 upon which the estimates for the expenses little concerned by the discovery that their everything has been doubled.
was about £37,000, it has now been intent of the hold, they found all these across the harbour for about 300 yards, the latively good which at starting act.lices balf the advantage of breachloader,
Now Benares, cash,... 595/G00 of the department are calculated. In the cigarettes are frequently infeated with a
crossed to £79,500. I also find in the parlin-hings had been taken. They then made
Old the rest only just above water. It pests ensconce themselves in the tabacco to
by the steamer on the morning of the forms a natural break-water, and, without spected and cleaned from the breech end. blocking up the ninth of the barbour, the retention of the Martini brocch clurcsiness of muzzle-cleaning is 191 the to the Treasury, dated Nov. 1st, 1884. breed and foed on the divine weed, and letter from the War Office to the
though ned free from danger. On the Bis Excellency then rand with their larvas perforate the tissue wrap-
the paraha saw a junk in the harbour which he recog third day we weighed anchor and stoud as before on the most delicate and im- pars until the paper is literally riddled
the effect that nised as the one which hal attacked him on
portant part of the piece. The bure, too, out of the harbour; but we had scarce- Nor is this the graph which wal
the previous
The junk won dis- night worst for the microscopie masan lor is an
into through and through.
aly got in motion when a bump apon being smaller, the damage from the clean. gun originally intended to be charging some bags fries epicure, and refuses everything but the supplied were thought to ponses auffi-bags was the samo us that upon the bags gera of Sauo Bay were not yet fully inordinately heavy, and clumsy to the
boat and he saw the insrk on the a sunken rock warned us that the dan-ing rod will be
The ter than in the:
breech is, moreover, choicest brands. Cigars are wo! despised if
koowo. The anchor was at once dropped, junk. He beat of the quality and in prime condition; ciont strength for-the-work-for-which that had been stoten from his but the preference is given to cigarettes, in they would be required, but that gans then went to his ranios, Ho Hai Shun, and a search mode for the rock, which was an unusually, Jarge one. Under these cire Bank, Wire,
at length discovered 12 feet the sur- bough the modest honorarium paid to which the presence insock is not at
first
asily detected. The disclosure that bad now been chosen from the Intest and told him what he had soon and
wards went to the Police Station and made face; but as we, fortunately, only drew 12cumstances it is not surprising that the hard working tank and file of the Ge-dealers are in the habit of
His Excellency broechloading pattern. Palining
many objections to the hasty adepti n of Credits, fament Brigado is not increased in propor- unsuspecting customers cigarettes alive with
small boate, to the defendsute' junk, which damage was done. Had it happened ou sion was appointed ten years ago, when be identified as the ono which had attacked our entrance it might have been
He also identified a
serious gust runong smokers, and a
on the 25th. corresponding falling-off in the trade.
Captain Bax has this reference: We authority, Mr J. H. Walsh, in his new Many tobacco
artillery had not taade the great progress it quantity of the property found on defend-
work upon the Sporting Riffo." After Shanghai, demand,... factories are said to be swarming from had made of late years.
sats junk as that steten from him, He remained here (Keelung Harbour) for a few discussing the grooving and ammunition. garret with the destructive pests,
als saw tho ries taken from defendants days, and then went on to a large, bar as to which he says "the more recundite Gold Leaf 994 Sty cellar to which multiply with astounding rapidity,
boat ie the Kwang-lee shop. His master about fifty miles to the southward, called and no method of successfully exterminat
wont with him to tag Kwang-les shop, San-o-Bay, which is on the border between questions have probably never yet entered Sovereigns, In the case of overal of the numerous ing them has as yet been fellerepugnant
and sightecit defendants and told them ne bay, but upes to the east, and there sional advice has been, as usual, strictly Paken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, fouud. As
where they saw the sixtcouth, soventeenth the Chinese and Savage territory. It is a into the winds of the designers,' he suns up thus: 'The simple fact that profes indagrations recorded during the year it is stilius Yankou, riguzotics and
that they had better not receive any more fore unsafe in the typhoon season, that avoided, would cause anyone versed in the Broking of insects is boon known that considerable in even cigars are at present at is disement in
visited the Kwang-lec shop again with In- Bridget.
defendants mentioned.
The case was further, romanded till Saturday next.
tions in the Colony, for the extinction of will no one read the riddlo? T. the sible manner on the home authorities, cheungs from Lam Chad, about six miles south of Ke-lang. Tome thirty all round, the wooden cap, which protects
toh muss at then that may bot by a roof, which is nothing burn new sights--apart from the tached clones, & drizzling rain, tog. 9 gloomy, alarms of fire, when the mombers of the Go silenen the very pertinent que and I am authorised by General Sargent from Macao and 3 miles cast of Won Bay is protected or jeopardized (as the the hand from the heated barred, and the Scale,
defondanta' boat pulled the out nearly Boat frap dyke, nmningences already mentioned. turned out but were not required; there human naturo, and in this eonfuct of have no dubt arself that we will! and twenty monter their funk, over which angles to the coast, and Geld is, in appearance and finish a higher squally, r rain, snow, r thunder, viability,
which the services of the Fire Brigades have beer requisitioned. This is withoutcounting
vernment and Voluntoor Brigades have
31un. After!
them
Bring
alongside nor less thinn a
armed with
it
An- to
run
Te-am
any one
estimates for 1886 the sum voted for the minute insect called the weevil. The little mantary papers on the subject a paragraph for Black and the witness came ori from high point being a conical rock 15 feet that of promitting the barrel to be in-
some Borrice of the Fire Brigade is $15,000, giving an average expenditure for each fire, on the calculated average of tea yene, of $1500. da we have stated, the mber of bres during the past year has con nearly double this amount, and we may therefore presume that the rate will
lines to be considero y npplemented, for
the
to
126th. Talking on the Praya, on the 26th. shelters the interior, which is spacious, retained, and the wear and tear falla
bags
weapon.
present
a to the work dous, tho woar and tear of the wouvil has created a good deal of said he should mention that the commis-er. He went with the Police, in three foet water, and had but little way on, nojexperts in rifle manufacture should tako i
plant, particularly hose, and the money d cut for cooli hire, &o, is exactly portionate to the number of fires which
1.
dis-
7. RAIN, in inches, tontba and bandreWas;
>
17
New Malwa, credit,... 530/45- Allowance, Tauls...... 00
33
Old Malwa, credit,... 550 Allowance. Taola....
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Persian, Oily,... 495/520
Allowance, Telu............ 08/16
22
Persian, Papor tiad,... 680/000 Allowance, Tacls...... 08/10
3/6 3/0
Exchange.
"
Demand, 30 days' sight,
mouths sight,
more ****
the new weapon, and it is worth while Documentary months' sight, to ane what it said of it by that great India, Wire,...
demand,
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221
"
72
30 days sight, private 731
$28.20 ... $ 6.56
Temperature.
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REVENDE AND EXPENDITURE yön 1825. The Colonial Secretary reported that the Finance Committee had carefully consider ed the estimates of revenue and expondi- ture for next year, in according with the cf the rice na it belonged to his master. He for junks and very small gan-vessel that riile expericuces of the last twenty years to rances ha boen affected within a very New York and Philadelphia.--St. James's directionsof His Excellency's last minuto, auspector Quincey, who untested, the thres the bay. We moored insidethe resf, butlook rather dubjörnly opon « weapon pro
fort period befots the promises vero arnt, and we cannot but think that the surance has in some cases hean the chief Cause of the fires, and that insufficient care has been taken by some insurance agents in ascertaining the real value of pr party insured.
The Bishop of Exotor and others hayo been declining against modorate drinking. It is high time to define what moderate drink ing is not. It is not drinking in public houses; it is not drinking on the sly; it is not drinking early in the day; it is not drinking by itself at other than med times;
|
he new lid on the table the copy as to vised by the Committee. The valimates now stood as follows:-The original esti, mate of revenue for 1885 was $1,212,188 Additions had been made to this to the extent of $9,050, whilst, on the other hand, deductions had been made to the amount of $83,630, making the total es. ¦
Serious Row in Shanghai (From a Correspondent. )
Shanghai, Dec. 26.
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can anchor behind the reef at the end of found little room even for our small gun- duced by merely military men and amaters BAROMETER
though aided by the Enfield staff. But, an vessel
Admiral Collinson is the only other wit fortunately, this body, from their isolated ness that need be cited. At a costing of position and necessarily restricted base the Royal Geographical Society held some of operatione to their own standard of making as they do but twenty years ago, he stated that, after his one type of survey of the Pescadores, he was desired to excellence, cannot possiblo hare the wide go up the east side of Formosa. It was a tango of experience only to be obtained in ferra incognito. Ele vent roned in a little the general rifle business, and which shoald committee deal- This afternoon I learned that there had brass in search of a barbour ; but 10 haring. with so important a question
which he canumanded, and coasted have been utilised by any along
to future
future natkarl weapon. Assuredly it that some court should ha established for it is not drinking to procure sleep or to timalod ravunue for next year a $1,137,558 been rather a serious row in the French set. hotir could be found until he came to should; but the same influences which in investigation into the origin and cause of raliove pain. All men, and especially all instead of $1,212 188. This revision of the tlament, the particulars of which are as fol Blackrock Ray, which was merely a basic the form of the Woolwich Ring gave u
protuberance from
from the coast. The only the shells which did not burst at Alex- estimates of expendituro had brought the low-Last night it appears that a numberce where they attempted to land after-andria, have apparently been at work again Iz the telegrain from: Paris in correct the moderate drinker takes a very limited figures down from $1,177,681 to $1,002,921 of tho Tao Tai's soldiers and mazines createdle was Chookedai Bay, 'There was to ensure that the nation shall get no benefit | REGULATIONS FOR THE EXCHANGE. Equadron of Admiral Courbet will probably food, such u quantity as dues not make over expenditure of $44,577. The Seere, houses of ill fame. The French Polis to get in, but found it imposable. They from the knowledge and akill of its an- |
It is surely time, at least in Hongkong,
"every fire that nocuta.
him
women, who do such things, are not no- derato drinkers, and had botter beware. quantity once or at most twice a day. with thus leaving an excess of estimated revenue
stupid or even Bleupy anch as leaves him be reinforced by the ironclade Fruit, cool and unexcited. The moderate drinker tary moved that there estimates be R80G- Furiaux, Tempêts and Tonnere, all first class takes the
forms of alcohol, and tioned. ships and ranked in the Franch navy as bo-wkes even that will care. He knows the tim nie de combat. Those ships have been power of alcohol to produce disease, and is getting ready in tho dockyards for some
on the look out for any indication of harm time past. They are much larger and more or excess. We do not think it proved that heavily armed than any of the ironclads at
such persons become drunkards. present attached to Admirul Courbet's equa Prop Straits Times.
is
-The Treanor secondel.
The Hon. P. Byris asked if it would be in order to pass the vote at this mesting. It trillo byworur, inace how soon drank. It was pointed out that the estimates were and is made by thoughtless drinking, and wally confirmed by an ordinance. The bor completes his physical destruction sfton before he, or perhaps the, comes
Come Secretary said that an ordinance had al-
VERY the ways of journalists in America under incdical notice. Jaundice, or copay ready been passed, and these were only
are exceeding hard:
Do. Maximum
GO
Do. Minimum over night 56
Money Orders.
OF MONEY ORDERS AND POSTAL
NOTES 1.-Money Orders or Postal Notes are issued on the following countries and places:
South Australia. Coylan.
Straits Settlements. Constantinople. Gibraltar,
Tasmania. Endin Japan New South Wales.
sorious disturbance at, or near, some large river there, and cook boats and tried
thon went up to the only anchoring place, riyalled private establishments-Pioneer. consequently imprisoned two of the dis-the little San-e Bay, where it was found torbers of the peace. Shortly afterwards, that the Chinese had come round the a number of the offenders' comrades pre-Island and wore in full possession.
reference by the probability of our entering sented themselves at the French Police into commercial relations with the people Station, with the card of their Communtant, ca aste think ant there was no opening and demanded the release of the prisoners. for Britisk cummeros thoro. The coast This the Police refared to do, and the line was nearly straight; there were no prisoners' friends retired, considerably dis indentations, and the boulders on the shore
the immense fores of the ocean-current compositor got it putty-eyed monster, appointed no doubt, vowing vengeance Here. so large, that they gavu some idea of called hitaa pretty aged minister: The Port Darwin, against the French. To-day a strong force which hail carried theor. The great
inclined to
that
With "Dooren, oxamine my tongue,' said a good-woman and tell me what it needs."
It needs rest, replied the doctor.
*I-INTAND to summon a mesting of my That's right,' said Barney. Give them a turn; they've summoned you often enough."
editor, An
in apesking of a clergyrian,
creditera,' said Grabbins, Admiral Collinson was
ת
A new scheine was devised by the De- ] Dave Doon reached before friends, unwing increase on thom a fresh ordinance woula of the Tao Tai's men, accompanied by a equatorial current act in on the Island and there was a LOW.
paper, but this was not a success, as the forms were sent to Wheeling and the odi-
tion was struck off. Finally, in
in the early
gered Cotoler 30th, fire was dien!
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
in the newspaper office, and, A meeting of the Legislative Council was despite the efforts of some friends, the held this afternoon. All the members were
office was burned to the ground. There present except the Hon. Wong Shing. was no doubt of the incendiary origin of
bre, and the outrage has so excited the
the
of tha
of that district that the capture
Reperendiary would have been followed
OUR COLONIAL DIFEXUES.
The
to bring in an amended ordinance, to be read a first time next week.
The Colonial Secretary next asked the
Council to vote the following ennas for ex- traordinary Public Works :- Tytam Water Works Military Delencas, New Central School, Drains and Soa-wall at Lap-
zapally **** Completion of Storm Dredger, and cost of dredging opers." tiens,
The Colonial Secretary moved the follow-Typhoon repairs, unspent bal
Drainago
ance, rezule, ****
and Sewerage,.
&
out
United Kingdom. Victoria. Western Australia Queensland,
2.-The Hongkong Post Office also issues crders on Shanghai, and vice versa.
3.The commission is as follows-(ac cording to the currency the order is drawi Up to £ 2, or 810, or R 20,.....0.20 cents. £5, or $26, or R 50,......0.40
153
+
£7, or 896, or R 70,......0,60
"
+
£10, or $50, or R100,......0.60
1+
R150,... $1.00.
10,000.00 quarters without rendering the assistance still keep pointing to East Formosa as Natural History Society of Santa Barbara, where thero are agencies of the Hongkong
The Colonial Treasurer seconded the attempted to force his way into the station. it would.have foesitation in saying that a number of male birds would surround it, at Hongkong or at my British Post Office
at once by his lynching. The occurrence is ing resolution That die Council now noteworthy only showing the spirit in vote the sum of £55,620 sterling required which the old Southern alement rate for the effective defence of Hongkong, it any hold declaration of principles to which they are opponed."
being understood that the armament to be provided by the Imperial Government will motion, which was carried unanimously. A FERNOR oficer lately returned from Ton- be of the best and latest pattern Tão Council was then adjourned until king communicatis a description of that of breechloading orduance and capable of next Wednesday afternoon, at four o'clock, country to the Figaro which, says the St. resisting the attacks of the heaviest modern James Budget, can liardly be pleasant read-ironcla
or albuminuria, or delirion tremene, may reduced estimates. If there had been an
THE most absent-minded of men-is the host of avitings, congregated near the more wonderful manner than it did in professor who, when he hears himself mocrats at Moundsville, W. Va., to dis- admit what they fear will send for the
any part of the Atlantic. Dit Steep Island, knockroy the water out of his pipe, will
carried away one day 1 courage Republicanism in that place. The medical adviser and make a clean breast have beon required; not otherwise.
31 miles
call Come in.-Galveston Neirs. local Republican newspaper, the Reporter, of it
of it. Algaiće all the teetotalism thot Chief Justico differed from the Secretary little East Gato and invadel Fropoh Townho
Da F. (at the clinic, to the students) in force. The shopkeepers closed their against the wind by the curront, and on the
108 miles against the wind. Gentlemen, following
have to beg your pardon. carried on so aggresive a campaign before exists there is still an appalling amount of the recent October elcstion that the Bour- tippling which does not distinctly in- and, after a short discussion, it was decided bons became alarmed for the country. A toxicate, but saturates the principal urgans
stores, and business was suspended. The The whole force of the motion of water I've made a slight mistake, and taken off invaders marched to the Police Station, and given by the equatorial movement through the patient's well leg. However, I'll cure gang of mon broke into the newspaper and destroys then more quickly than an
Philadelphia Call
4. No Order must exceed £10 or $50 office one night and carried off an impor. occasional debauch. But, as we have said,
Manilla, it thou owed up along the Island (Applause.- rain a demand was made for the release of the Facilis Ocean reached the laland of the other, which will make it all right.
Mr. Mutchtal lant part of the press. The design was this is not moderate, drinking-it is mortal
their soldiers. The Police telegraphed to of Formoss, and from thence mi to the Mutchtal't dropped in at the corner (unless drawh on India, when R160 in the evidently to stop the publication of the drinking.-Lancet.
their other Stations for reinforcements and coast of the Japan; but its greatest grocery with the morning paper in his hand limit), nor will more than two such orderi
strength was felt Formosa and Japan. and excitement in his eye. He said be issued to the same person, in favour
Look here; do yon credit this outrageous the same payee, by the same mail. $200,000.00 meanwhile tried to keep the invaders of He had no hesitation in saying that the
200,000.00 The police reinforcements, seeing the im- current would be found to run at the rate rumourNo, sir, said the grocer 5-Sums not exceeding $50 may be re-
ly: don't credit nothing? terms promptly; 50,000.00 menas crowd of people demanding the re- of 4 to 5 miles an hour.
Now, in the face of evidence like this, it cash everything's going up now, too.mitted between the Ports of China by
mes of Postage Stamps, subject to 75,000.00 Censo of the prisoners, appear to have con- does seem a little unfortunate that the antes San Francisco News Letter.
charge of one per cent, för cashing them, ME DIKKICK rad a paper before the sidered it prudent to retorn to their in your impression of 4th instant should
or Money Orders can be granted on Ports containing now and rich folds of cam-in which he related the following:-In the asked of them. All this time the mob ín-merce to one particular region of it as
trees Bear a cottage, near Santa Barbara, Post Office. nests of these birds. After the 9,700.00
Postal Netes. creassi in size and turbulence. A French being one of the finest and richest of the
You were hatched, the parents were world; and to Sawo Bay as having such a young
5.-Postal Notes of the values named 50,000.00 Police offiser draw a revolver, ond brandishtine, safe, and easily accessible harbour the alert, fearing danger to their pracions below payable within three months at any 3694,700.00 ing it, said he would shoot by car that for large vessels, that, for a coaling station, offspring. Not a cat made its appearance Post Office in the United Kingdom, at Gil- in the China xes. but warning notes more given, and forthwith raltar, or at Constantinople can be obtained T'heroupon & Chinaman ran up to him, I have myself no
every one of these statements would require scolding and making feinte of
it. of attacking
s | clucu Commission ;--- snatched the revolver out of the officer's very excessive amount of qualifications One of the young birds, before it was able to na at the following prices, which in- band, and fired it in his face, which because, to speak of the Kap-tsu-lan Plain to fy, dropped down from the tree on the
que of the finest and richest regions of baro ground near the cottage.
The parent was burned by the powder; fortunately, the world is simply to mislead, and any birds, evidently aware that in its exposed the bullet did not take effect The one who knows Sawo Bay could never re-situationt it was in great danger from the officer was then seized, together with the East coast, generally continues, as of But the infant was too young to heed their cognise it from the above description, while cats, tried to carry it to a place of safety. another foreigner whom the mob encoun-yore, to te rockbound, halterless and warning. The warm ground and eat dom for sums not exceeding E6 applied for All money orders on the United King- sunshine aited him, and he nodded in at Hongkong or Shanghai will be gestaed tered. Both the foreigu prisoners were practicable.
enjoyment. The parent birds were then marched off into the City and hauled LARUENY.
Ir ie asorted that the house fly transmits she joined by recruits from all the trees in by one of these Notes.
but their united efforts proved William Lawson, seaman, and Bat Chui, up before the Tao Tai. The soldiers de- The population is mall, the banks of the tion of the Finance Compilies. All the large rivers slons being peoplod. Where members were impressed with the dia berding house runner, were charged, the manding the release of their courados, the disease by carrying germs feuin ploce to fruitless. A council was apparently held should keep a memorandum of its date and
place. A careful housewife will do well former with atealing overcoat, 818,
togather
ther for In was entire district which lies between porfans that attached to the subject, the property of Me Shan, as, vali ofer Tso Tai then sent back the two foreigners when she sees a £y wish a gerun in his hand along them as to the host course to pureus, number. He must fill in the Fayee's nains same time, befors parting with it. He may also fill in Lang-kep and Lang-201
the population does and felt that the defenacs of the City of the as Amoy, and the latter with re- and asked for the release of the two Obi- to drive him over the garden wall into the one of the birds. Low away, and soon ro- the natue of the Office where payment is to not exceed three thousand
We should not be of a questionable chamaceiving the same well knowing it to have neso in the Foreign Police Station, The house of her two and a half years had sleep & Worm and held it before the be made. If this is not done the note in
A LITTLE lady of
who was Erally aroused ar no roads in the country, na hursen,
ad to the payable (within three months) anywhere in stant's evidenies was to the effect French may or may not have complied I picked up a cane in the corner and was fact that he had a good uppakite. To sepure the United Kingdom, at Gibraltar, or at tarts. The sole beast of burden is the ter but should so effective, so good
to move two or tates
on olio, and it takes three coolies to victual in every ruspect, that weight rest that be missed his coat on the 29th instant, am still uncertain on the point, but one thing playing with it a plain stick hant at the the worm he had
at the Sailors' Home. ingle soldier on an expedition. The first
when crossed to a Bank, serentak isn't n rate.
What is the old bird retrested a
a little. The worm so tempting that he tried again to
8.-Postal Notes should always të for
If this A WAN went
honso locked up. After infinite the little infant was lured a distance of ever will be made as to the loss or al Our correspondent was unable to give trouble he managed to gain entratase through twenty feet or more into a dense barley loss of any Note. No refund esu to me
in any case. T it is the only place où l'on mange. tions raised with regard to the fortificatile office saw the complainant on the after
John Ebepherd, asistent in the mercun the conclusion of the gusir owing to back window, and then discovered on the field when, seeing the success of their
parlour table, a note from ida wife, reading efforts, the member of the council depart 9-Postal Notes, issued in th tno value anterer, and the elitious themselves in private discussions on noon of the Sota lying on a seat asloep, in the mail leaving before it woulded what I have gone out. You will find the keyed to their separate trees-Santa Barbara Kingdom are not payable in Haglungo
on the side of the step,'
Independent the regions_solutely deadly. the subject, and I believe the informa. the Sailoral Home. He had the overcoat
ing to M. Barry. The notions current at
berne about the place he declares to be
The Colonial Treasurer recited.
The Hon. W. Keswick :—I should like
Police Intelligence. (Before A. G. Fise, Esq.) Wednesday, Dec. 31.
..
Itogether erroneous. It is not a rich coun- to ransk, your Excellency, that this sub- try, but du exceedingly poor one. Tho people eke out existence on next to nothing feel has had the most serious considera
these is no water there are no inhabituales.
suals. There
no
beon stolen.
28
·
turned.:
to
1/5
10/
80 centa
45
8145,
82.85.
•, ... $3.60.
7.-The purchaser of any Postal. Nota.
ng France will have to do if she think feeling scouro in: the event of my attack to the Police and from information recevaz I know, and that is, a great deal of excite-end, Popa asked What are you doing ahend. which he succeeded in doing, Constantinople. Any Postal Note may ba
ugly of keeping but hold on the coun- while cut country was at war with any
[ be to son, Combang, and
is fine of rail from other. There were Tarious rumours advat į shops, and found his overcoat in a Malay; and, we may hear of some other disturbance. clothes on isi umbrella without any but in vain, for the same manœuvre / warded in Registered Covers, bther inland centres The Deltain the with regard to the ordnance that were to defendant as a seaman he had met in the tires, or other exciting dangers, befure long. I found his hong the other night and was repested. This was continued, unti precaution is not taken no enquiries w
with the
cane
Но
made a report
he went with police and searched some ment prevails in the French Settlement, it then? boarding house. He recognised the first
on it!
prosperous partien of the entire terris be suppling for this fortifications, and ques Sailors Home.
"ountryClying between the Delta and
was to be done,
Chin