No. 6742. MARCH 6, 1885 greater part of the garrison of Khartoum, Pant London explosions had not killed was decoyed by this strategen, and went enough at the time she shot him. He in
recovering. out to repel the assault.
The traitor Pashas then oponed the gates,
Additional annexations in the Pacific have and admitted the rebels into the city. baca maxle by Germany, and others are pro Horrible acones ensued; the rebela swarm-bable,
John Bright ridicules the Frperial fede ad into tho city, and displayed great. royagery. The palace decupied by Gorlen ration, advocating sympathy with the
was the chief object of attack, Gurdon, on coming to the door to rally the faithful troops, was mortally stabbed, but decli did not occur for ten days. It is not
lonies.
MORE TROOPS. FOR THE HOUDAN.. BOMBAY, February 2011, 10h, 401, The London correspondent of the Bom known whether Gordon full into the hands buy arette sends the following special of the enemy, or died among friends.
A general and merciless massacre of the inbabitants went on for hours. The rebels were relentless, and spared no one, erving the Mahdi'a sympathisers.
tologram :--
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There is great nelivity at the Horse Goards, and arrangements are being made on an extensive scale for sanding cut a supplementary expedition against the Mahdi.
Tho steamer sommanded by Lord Charles
The lat Battalion of the Choubire Regi- Beresford was disabled for ton hours, and had to be repaired under the enemy's fim:ment, uow at Portland, has been ordered Sir Charles Wilson and party, leaving the island where they had entrenched them selves, assisted in silencing the enemy's battery.
Lord Wolseley has sent a telegraphic do- spatch, in which he warmly commends Bir
Charlee Wilson.
BANGALORE, February 10th.
The 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards, 1st Battalion Coldstream Ganeds, and 2nd Battalion Scots Guards have been warned to hold themselves in readiness for active
THE CHINA MAIL.
- -
rvation
whoro some
was usual in Buch oases, surnowhat conflict rofer important questions affecting the smooth the way of the Commission, and Wo Yang, who was a cook employed at were considored by the judges to be the Their evidence, his Lordship said, was, as he discusses the propaal of Earl Grey to paragingly are unceasing in their offerts to
The deceased, best, and were, at the cad of the perform No. 16 Cosbrano Street.
to conclusion without deelding aa to consisting of the Ageute-General for thtact the Barvey Officers whithorsoovor they appears, from the “vidence, to have hren ance, awarded the first and second prizes, if he had not sees his way to come colonial afairs of the Empire to a council boy racat loyally the Amir's onlara to con- trimming and lighting a kerosine lamp respectively. These consisted of a silver which of them was in the wrong, I colonies and other representative menway desire to go-the only rests
their plans and evidence to some qualified and one calculated to develop the power fanatics who fought at Maiwand and Kanda- when she accidentally upset it, the oil watch, for first prize, and a very neatsilver-ight have considered it Lussary to refer Mr. Forstor regards the scheme as urgent,ring the city of Herat itself,
and disinterested surveyer for guida on in of the Federal Council both in peace atid in har still hinger, hoping against hope for The curse of the running down her clothes. The clothes, mountail Malacca cane for the second.
the matter. He did not think this no- war. He further points out that by its Ayub Khan's return. saturated with kerosine, caught fire from! the ignited wick, and the poor woman was The Chiness at Ningpo state that the cessery, however, because their measure-agency an allotment of the east of defence country in days gone by was the furkorann horribly harnt about the lower part of the sailors on board the Chinese men-of-warnings nure taken from exactly the same could be made. Mr. Forster considers raides; and here we frankly admit that the are so demoralized that many of thom have plans and points, and there seemed to him that the admission of the Australian Russian advanos has checked: this evil,
salient evidence to enable him to dispose colonies to representation in the Imperial whatover pailtienl dongur it
It may have created for India. The Turkoman hea body and the legs. The accident occurred deserted.-N.-C. D. Neus.
of the onse without reference. Mr Hancock's Parliament would be found impracticablo.
censed to
and the raid,
tribonmen ovidence was based entirely upon lease me. THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES IN LONDON. on the 21st February, and the sufferer was
who own allegianco to the Aurit of London, Jan. 30The Right Hon. had been sold to various parties at enco sant to the Tang Wah Hospital, THE Chinese torpedo boat which was re-asurements of a large block of ground which where the lingered in groat pain until cently launched from Boyd's yard at yesterday morning, when the expired. from Shanghai went on a trial trip on the 28th alter torpedo discharging gear is at the injuries received.
The jury returned a verdict of accidental Singapore, having been left behind with the munitions of war the Oxfordshire brought out for the Chiness Government. death.
N.-C. D. New
PROBABLY the gratifying display of loyalty made by our countrymen in Australia, as detailed in the telegrams we publish to proceed to Gibraltar at once, pendingowhere, wil do more-to-bind the Colo- nies to the Mother Country than all tho further orders.
territorial annerations in the world. The brief telegram which Reuter forwarded concerning troops from New South Wales was received here with the feeling that some mistake had heen made. But not only has New South Wales, but Victoria, Queensland, and South Australia also have made offers of troupe; and although the Sydney Contingent of 800 is the only one Shipowners are heartily cooperating with accepted so far, those from the other Culo- Government, and have offered transport onnies have been promised acceptance, if an extensive scale.
servico.
Colonel Sir W. Owen Lanyon, Assistant The Mahommedan community of Ba-Adjutant Conoral as Portsmouth, will join galore hold the opinion that the Maldi Lord Wolseley. could at any time hars taken Khartoum, but waited the arrival of the reinforce- ments in order to worry them,
They say the Mahdi will give Bir Charles Wilson much trouble yet. He wishes to Taunoy the English, and that is all. Ha does not care to obtain a permanent rie- tury..
They do not look on Gordon as a practi- cal General, but as a visionary,
Beyond expressing their satisfaction at the Mahdi's success as doing credis to Liam, and as in part a retrieval of the re- cont defeats suffered by Turkey, the Ma- hommertane of these parts have no political bias in the matter, or, if they have, they are reticent,
A NEW SCARE.
RANGOON, February 10th. There is great excitement amongst the Bucuove owing to the reported coming of. Boveral French war ships. The valve of property is falling greatly.
ADELAIDE, Feb 19.
AS IT SHOULD BE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. PASSED CANAL:--Phixalion, January 16. The next AMERICAN MAIL, per the 0.
required. The troops accepted will pro- bably have left by this time, and, as Lord Wolseley says, he will be glad to have
them.
A TELKORAM was received at Shanghai From Tientsin on the 26th it to the effect that ios a Taku was only sine inches thick, the weather was much milder, while the It was decided, therefure, on the 27th ult, not to despatch any steamere to Tientsin till Sunday, the 8th March.
..
that the desirs for peace with France has Ir is rumoured, says the Shunda Courier, reached some of the thembers of the Poking cabinet, and that there is a split in that hory, which makes an early settlement of the present difficulties probablo. Courier gives the now with all reserve.
The
TAR French leat was reported to be dus outside Gütalaff on the evening of the With clt, But, says the N... D. News of the 29th ult, on the voyage up of the Kuongsang oly one French mau-of-war was seen, and she was about thirty miles from Honghong. It was night at the time, and the Frenchman came close to her, and
& Q. steamer Arabio, left Yokohama In the Macao Independente of the 5th in-then steamed away again.
on Sunday, the lat instant, at daylight,stant we read that at the sessions of the and may be expected here on or about Janta da Fazenda, held on Friday fast, it Saturday, the 7th instant :
vas rosolved to annul the last sale of the Waising Monopoly, owing to the fariners having failed to pay the instalirots as they
JOHN DEIGHT AND IMPERIAL
YEDERATION.
with out taking into account the dealings which Joseph Chackerlain has expressed the loys, and again tiling theic kelis and pasture land which invites them. We liave had taken place with regard to the land opinion that Mr Parnell, M.P., anght to love and again tilling their fields and
outrages in London. in the meantime, and even admitting publicly donounce the recent dynamite dating their Books and hurds to the rich all along expresred no sanguine view as to the success of the Commission in checking him to be correct in his sumption and measurmens, which appeared to have been
the Russian advanco; but we have urged made from Wast to Eant, his Lordship
London, Jan. 30.--The Right Hoa. Jolm that it would result beneficially in juning could not agree with him, that it amount- ed to a presumption, far less to proof, that Bright, addressing his constituents last over the tribesmen to our side, and in thero was an encroachment at any time by night at Birmingham, deprecated any exactly defining a casus belli with Russia; the owner of lot No 184 on Whitty Street. axtension of the British Empits. He and history
are a ze that over confirmed in
of the arles of the various lots, and Ha advocated a policy of sympathy and curate information from the slicers with His lordship then carefully reviewed the ridiculed the idea of Imperial federation, our opinion now that wo bure respirant les
good will towards the colomes, but con- sidered a federal union of the whole Empire impossible
THE INPERIAL DEFENCES. Londen, Jan. 30.The Right Hor. W. E. Forster, M.P., suggests that a Balenial discuss the question of Imperial dafeneas. Conferance should be held in London to
GERMAN ANNEXATION IN THE FACIFIC.
London, Jan. 30.-Intelligence has been it is expected in that city that additional caived from Hamburg to the affect that autexation will shortly be made in the Pacific by Germany.
Sir Peter Lumsdon. A brandary line ha tween the Russian Transcaspian Provinse and Northern
Afghanistan is just as essen- tial in its way as is a similar line between France and Germany. In either case the line can be violated by one or other of the net of war, and theau can be no disguise Powers concerned, but auch violating is in about this act pace the boundary has been agreed upon. If we leave the country
of Horat a kind of no-man's lau north
ments as Alikhanoff, to
tanner it ctan Russia will nos fail, through such instru
at an early data; and hence ariees the necessity of demarcating a frontier. Our further daty, as we have frequently pointed in to
out strengthen the Amir's hauds in that quarter of his damilors, and thus to enable him to repel any sudden aggression; and whe ther the Russians work loyally with us or Berlin, Jan. 31-The West African Con- not ou the Commission, we are bound to forence have held further sittings, at which nettle this question of a boundary ones and they agreed upon rules to govern any futare for all, and then to declare that any viol- annexations in the Conga Territory. The tion of it will involve Russia, not merely rules have been framed in accordance within a guerilla campaign against the Afgluns, the views of Great Britain as expressed by but in actual war with England Lurself. Sir E. B. Malet, the representative of that Power at the Conference.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
the conditions of the Lafildings on them at Partona tines since the Crowns first granted juining roads and property. His Lordship the lenses, and also the position of the ad. aaid Mr Staphens surrendered lot 184 to the Government, but he could only his predecessor in the title; and the aurronder what he had acquired from Eastern sundary that he had acquir. cd from a precedessor in tilo was the in which line laid down by Me Danby, his predecesor in title had nequinocd. So far as the present houndary between lot 184 and inland lot 38 was concerned, Mr Stoplons had acquired that sbanlitoly from the Crown, but the Crown could not grant beyond the boundary fired in
So far as the Western previous lease. boundary of Inland loi 185 want beyond inland lat
Lordship 38, it socmed to his that the Crown, so well is Mr Stephona, was bound by the line bir Danby pointed out. Mr Hancock seemed to admit that if buildings had been netusily standing up to the line fixed by Mr Danby he would not have buon justified in going beyond the
of tho buildings.
What ho iu fact
I Street. that width, and give Mr
line
the
The Stenpoo states that the family of Cap-said was: That the Government wanted
fiva foot extra
extra width for Whitty
tain Chin Yung Chai, Commander of the found I could
POLITICAL PARTIES IN ENGLAND.
London, Jan. 31.-Charles Gavan Daffy has advised the Conservative parsy to com- promise with the Home Rulses.
THE WEST AFRICAN CONFERENCE.
THE GERMAN ULAIMS IN FIJI.
The next MAIL, the M. M. Co.'s nux Fazon Alle by the Mar Bat gon and this port on Saturing, the 28th alto, at 6 pm, and may bo extoll due; and new tendera are asked for, same paper says that the Fue Yuse and the tot 185, which I took to be the extreme strength of En land's case are beyond pectel here on or about Sunday, the 8th instant.
late Yue Fren, have been arrested by oxdur Stephens the measurement in his lease, if I do, Feb. 1.-The Times, in an article of the Viceroy Teong Kwok Chuan. The ran his line right up to the existing buildings and in Fiji, says that the justice and
The S. S. Priam left Singapuro for this
part on the 1st instant.
Tho S. S. Glaucus left Singapore for this
port on the Ist instant.
The agont of the M. M. Ce. infortis us that the Melbourne, with the noxt French mail, eft Saigon for Hongkong. at 4 o'clock
this afternoon.
both in the official organ and in the Inde. pendente, the tenders to closu on the 21st March. It is said that the farmors Intend try and recover the $100,000 deposited sa
Clang King were not sunk by Franch tropedo-boats, bat holes were made in the bottoms of the Chinese warships by their respective commanders, to fill them with water; and by doing so they attempted
on
question. with
portion of tholat.' His Lordship thought that
Mir Hancock had
had bean soquainted all the circumstances of the case he would uever have advised the Crown to have
ever
a guarantee, and that some of the parting to get free from punishment for abandoning could-base de no cther arrangeme
their vousels.
Tus Shanghai papers received-by-to-day's sait state that the blockude roaner Warer. leg has left that port for Sheipro Raada, where she will attempt to russ, if possible, the two Chinese warships lately cunk hy the French should such an effort prove utile, she will try to recover the guns, etc.,
smaller increase
THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.. London, Feb. 1.-The European Powers
guarantee an Egyption loan willout a mul
tiple control.
· DEATH OF BARON D'HAGAN.
London, Feb, 2-The death is announced of Baron Thomas O'Hagan, K. P., aged 72,
COLLISION IN THE GULF OF ADEN. Londo, Feb. 2.-The stammer Amel
came into collision with the Netherlands steamer Oranje in the Gulf of Aden, and the latter was sunk.
Statiun
REGISTER.
AT P.M.HARUR Ö.
Baronzezer red-
and Fbt.
Terpsture
Bolinno Manila 20.94 83 705
Wind.
Haiphong, 30.00 69.663 85 Hongkong 30.01 65.118 Nw Amoy 29.95 66.079 Shanghai, 30.1351.075 Nagasaki. 29.85
WI ostook 20.69 29.1
N
ESE
the line fixed by Mr Danby, and they hunted to Mr Stephora anything beyond
they could have advised in the width of Whitty Street. Consequent ly upon
Mr Danby's arrangements, if Mr Hancock was right, the ownere-of-lot 185. had acquiesced in the line fixed by Mr
Wed bildings Danty between leta 186 and 185 to their had bean suose detriment, and quently erected on lut 180 up to the street Jiue. They had
THE NEW GUINEA PROTECTOŁATY. a built up to the line fixed been between Ints 185 and 184, and they had Lundin, Feb. 3.-The New South Wales Holioso.... pulled down these buildings, sad rebuilt, Government is parleying with Lord Derby Manila 30.0579.076 www line advisedly in order to get light and tribution towards the expenses connected air. His Lordship did not think that under with the New Guinea Protectorate. the circumstances the Gorernment, either London, Feb. 3.-It has been rumoured through Mr. Stephens or as originally en- that the Imperial Guremment has aba titled to the land in question, could just-doned the annexation of that portion of fiably grant to Mr Stephena any of the
interested are in Hongkong for the purpose of withdrawing this sum from the Bank. The Independente thinks, no doubt correctly, that the Junta was not en folish as to allow the money to be deposited in the A Nationalist newspaper, the United
farmers' names alone. It also says that Irishman, publishes an offer of ten thousand MB Rosell & Co, inform us that the poands for the production of the body. B. S. Co.'s Stoner dirlic left the old farmers have very successfully and of the Prince of Wales, dead or alive.
Port Darwin for this part on the ath inst. "pportunely intervened, in the name of the and some valuable papers which are said setting their new buildings hack from their relative to the amount of the British coa-
Junta, and stopped the payment of the de- to haru boen lest. For this purpuss the Waverley took on board a number of posit to the present farmers. The failepen-foreiga experts and natire divers and ma dente, while withholding its comments upon terial, to facilitate the operation of raising the matter, thinks that tho affair is an ex- the wrecks. THE total force of British troops at present in Egypt aggregates not far short of 20.00traordinary one, and promises to centilato
the whole case when it becomes known. tion. In the Delta thore are about 5,000,
The sermons at mostly all the churches and may be expected to arrive on or about last Sunday were on the death of Gordor..
TRODES FROM AUSTRALIA FOR THE SOUDAṀ.
ADELAIDE, Fab. 19. There is much excitement, consequent on an offer being made by the Government
the 15th inst.
of New South Wales to send about 800 Suakim fully 4,000, and General Wolseley BATUKa perious row cocurred last oven-Mercury publishes the following, without think the defondant was justified in
men, with all necessary arms, to the Boudan.
has under his immediate haud about 10,000.
the offer, and the troops leato early in
Banking Corporation have negotiated
March in the 'Iberia' and 'Australian,' which have been charterad far the parponu.
Subsequently similar offers were made by the Governments of Victoria, Queensland. and South Australia; Victoria to send 700 zen, and Queensland and South Australia 250 each.
R
million and a half sterling (£1,500,000). At about 7 p.m., however, he return The security obtained comprises all the
Maritime Customs.
ed in company with about a score of other men, he himself being then armed with chopper and several of the other carry ing bamboes. The crowd of rowdies tried to force their way into the theatre without
mary any
foundation for the
THE WOLVEREVE, London, Feb. 3-Lord Darby has ac- nepted the offer of the New South Wales Wolve ine at the disposal of Major-General Scratchiey, High Commissioner for Now
Haiphong,
AT 10 AM-MADO 6.
KE
Bain during
Amoy...... 80.07 60.070 XE Hongkong 00307.076 Shanghai
ghai.30.1942.095 Nagasaki.30.13 — — › s Wostook 29.80 28.2--- N 1 of
The-barometer has fallen is the South
humidity has decreased in the South..but. and risen in the North. Gradients though still alight are increasing for E winds. The rison in the North, where overcast and cold weather han sot în.
W. DOBECK, Goryament. Astronomer, Hongkong Observatory, March
1. BAKOMATEN, reduced to 9 degrees fahren.
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in degrees, and feaths, bahrenheit. ...
3. duty, in percentage of saturation, the humidity of air saturated with meistars being
OD.
a
4. DIRECTION OF WIND, to two.pints.
6. Poson or Wean, according to Beaufort
UNDER the somewhat sensational heading ground inside the boundary lue laid down New Guinea over which the British Pro of a Manstore of Christians, the Shanghai by Mr Danby between lots 154 and 185,tectorate has been established, but it is That being the case, his Lordship did not authoritatively stated that there is no
in prilling been fastified in ing at the Tang Hing Theatre. A hawker saying from what source it a derived ex. down the plaintifa wall, oven although, per-
taps, he would have been
could ing the three anches that p
projecting the Government to place the colonial war-ship | The Imperial Government bave acompten We learn that the Hongkong and Shanghai named Lau Afo presented himself at the cept that it cones frour the interior :--
dora of the theatre about 5 p.m. and en- Recent Intelligence from the province of have done so without materially
Yunnan is very unfavourable. The Vicoray building. He thought the amount of dan loan on the London Market, for the Chi./deavoured to gain admittance without a evidently dues not reapoot the Imperial ages claimed, namely $500, not an unreason-Fines, on condition that the vessel bo re-
the ap ticket. The ticket-collector naterally object. notification tha: all foreigners who were able amount, and he considered that nese Government, to the extent of one ad, and the dead-bend went away temporari- not engaged in warlike pursuits should be plication for restraint to the line as marked Gitted and put in proper condition for the heit, and to the level of the sox in inches, fanthe
of the two provinces Vitonaut and KL pulled down he justified in extending be- tion, Fah. -Sir-F. Dillon Ball, protected. Ch'en-kong-pas (the Viceroy out by Me Danby must be allowed. Plaintiffs service at the expenes of the Government and hundredths.
of New South Wales. will not, however, in rebuilding the wall chaw) has issued a decree for the destruc
London, Fab. 3.-Sir F. Dillon Bell, tion of all Roman Catholic converts, and yond the limits of the boundary line now
that
the order includes all recognized, The jalgment world, there- Agent-General for New Zealand, has in foreigners. An enquiry has been aant to fore, be for the plaintiffs with costs. His vited the other Agents General to enter Ch'ou to know if the English Missionaries Lordship added that the law with regard to joint protest against the proposal of the are to be put to death as voll; and they acquiescence seemed to him to be carefully Austrian Government to establish penn! Scale.. at the time of writing waiting for a considered and correctly fait down in Kors calories in the Pacific for the reception of reply. Several Roman Catholic villages Frauds, pages 81-8, which his Jardship criminals from Austria.
ARREST OF ANOTHER SUSTECTED Mr. J. J. Francis, instructed by Mr Cald.
DYNAMITIE are said to have been destroyed and some hundreds of converts killed; it ส
Luwion, Fab. The police to-day. fact that Kiu ya-ping, a plaen two days well, appeared for the phintille; and the journey from Ta-li Fu, has been demolished, Attorney General (the Hon. E. . O'M-arrested another man who is supposed to be forty converts and eight soldier killedley), and Mr H. M. Baily, instructed by concerned with the Irish-American, Gilbert, Mess Wolton and Deacon, represented now in custody, in the recent dynamite whilst the two foreign lests are missing and in the mělec the shroff's last $10. The Lord Wolzaley has also telegraphed to
explosion at the Tower of Loudon, The Priests in Ta-li are terribly afraid, defendant.
RA 500 Bokliers arrived in the city ou Sydney, stating that it will afford him Azaroar is current amongst the salt smug police were called in, and Jan Afo and and
was intressed, grant pleasure to receive the Australian glere at Yau-ma-ti that on the night of the three others among the rioters were arrest. Dec. 12th their terror was
that
the reason for the Report Baya Zad inel, a number of juuks, loaded with ed, and were brought up before Mr Wode above masraces was that the Rowan troops.
The enthusiasm is very great, and large shouggled wit, were caught and sorreceded house at the Police Court this morning Catlialica were going to revolt.
The Kong-pao orders, according to the suma aro daily being offered by the on. by several Customa cruisers in Deep Bay, Lau Afo, the riginator of the row, was Ta-li people, all wostern foreigners to ba loniste to contribute towards the main and that a serious fight ensed; the Revenue fined $10, or three weaka' hard labour, and killed." tenance of the Australians Mr James cruisers firing into the junks, 'nking was ordered to pay $10 compensation to Tyson offers $4,000 a year for three years, several of them and killing a number of the the complainants, in default to undergo a
further fourteen days' hard labour. and other well-known men offer £1,000 members of the orewa.
was further to find two sureties of $5 each annually.
Lord Derby telegraphed yesterday that the offers of the three last colonies would be accopted in the antama, if required."
Large numbers of men in Adelaide kavo **signed to go.
"ו
The Queen has telegraphed her thanks to the colonies for the proffered aid.
Tolograms which have appeared in the NC D. Nery state that Count Its Heroband was to leave Yokohama in the Satsuma Mara for Ticutain, on the 28th ult, on a special payment, and assaulted several of the ticket mission to Peking respecting the Corean collectors and shrofts of the theatre, as difficulty. He was to be accompanied by a whom they also threw bricks. auto of twenty persons, including General these received a cat in the thigh from the chopper carried by Lau Afo, the ringleader, Saigo.
foreste
OM).
One of
wers
and
The English Missionaries feel quite hap overrule all things for their good and His Py and sale in the haude of God, who will He Glory.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE CANTON WAR-TAX. To the Editor of the "CHWA MAIL.*
March 6th, 1885.
Tead
Marine Magistrate's Court. (Before Captain H. G. Thomsett, R.N.,
Harbour Milter);
GIVINU MAIŠE PARTICULARS TO OBTAIN A CLEARANUS.
the 5th just
6. STATE OF WEAruz. blus aky, e do. tached clouds, d drizzling, raiu, ƒ tog, y gloomy, 1. hail, i lightning, e overcast, y passing showers, aqually, rain, snow, thredot, v visibility, i dez (wet).
7. Ha, in Inches tetus and henFeedths,,
Quotations
HONGKONG, March G. OPIUM-New Patna, cash, 6073
Old
cash,... 595 New Beuares, cash. 05 Old New Malwa, credit,... 640 Allowance, Tacle...... 40/48 Old Malve, credit. 650 Allowance. Tacle..... 66,84 Paraian, Oily,
580/45 Allowanco, Tacle.....
16
-10
Porsinn, Paper tied,... 645/50 Allowance, Taels Exchange.
Bank, Wira, the
Demand, 30 days' sight,
moathe sight
Credits, fine is almost an Documentary
15
month' aight,
920
THE AFGHAN BOUNDARY. (Pioneer) Private letters which have roached India from the Afghan Boundary Commissier go to prove beyond doubt that the popular view of the barrenness of the Country Tong Asing, the master of the junk Wing north-east of Herat and the ferocity of the
with
tribesmen holding it, is entirely wrong.. giving "fals
Par ticulars in clearing his junk at the November number of the National Review Arminius Vambory, whose article in the fai, was charged
bour offico at Yau-ma-ti
From the evidence adduced it appeared was quoted at length in our columns, may that the defendant obtained a clearance for taken as the geat exponent of this Lord Wolseley telegraphs that a battle PRINCE Chen has, says the Shanghai Courier, for his good behaviour for six weeks, or to
Atview, and we are now in position to show Aberdeen with
of firewood. took place between General Earle's forces received the order of the throne to consult go in for another seven days. Fanca and
19.30 p.m., the Inspector of junka, M. J. how misleading are his argoments,
When we conic," he writes, to quito and the Arabs, and after a never fight with the Taung-li Yemen and the Board suretien not being forthcoming, Mr Tau Ato
Chagas, boarded do endant's jung of Tam of Revenus upon the advisability of in-was relegated to Victoria Gaof.
Taui Po, and, upon enquiry, found that the last part of the diepoted boundary region, Merva and Herat, the latter were repulsed with great
ressel was bound for Canton, and had on namely, the tract between creasing the Lekin taxes upon sundry slaughter.
The other three men, one a ricapounder SIR-In your article of last night the board a cargo of coals. On looking at the to the very spot which has really given rise articles of import and export, notable and the other two woolies, sharged with new impositions on trade at Cantun, the clearance the Inspector found that the junk to this Boundary General Earle, Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre,
'parcel' you mention should, ba 'pienl'— i had cleared for Aberdeen, with a cargo de. / satisfactory. boundsion, even a half”·
Now at 116 seo that India, Wire, of the items Colonel Colercy, and sight men were kill. amongst which, as affecting foreign in taking part in the disturbance, wore, in
a material difference in soure of
impossibility.
demand, tes and opium.
Defendant stated that he cleared for or own officers, who are actually on Twelva default of paying a fine of $3, sent to euumeratod. The main reason why the nominated as firewoni
the spot referred to articles have been proposed, and are still prisen for Len days each.
Kerwine trade has not decressed is, that, Aberdeen with pinewood. While lying at
and have aged out the Shanghai, demand....
30 days' sight, private about the time the 10 cant impast was en
Tai Po a man asked him to tako land in every direction, bave to say. Bere gaid Lost 09 no under consideration in the Capital,
Term T
mest forced, the article fell in value rury materi- coals to Canton.
arparienced of He then engaged another is what one of the
Sovereigns, them writes: The THE People's Concert given at the Teuper-ally-from about $2.50 or more to $1.75 host to take the firewood, and she procured
we expected. The valleys, The qreation of the Geiman sanexation/ ANOTHER Chinaman hus been arrested this ance Rall last evening again proved adecideded over since at about $1.75 to $2. So wood issued from Yau-ma-ti.) He thought and a great deal of the hill-coantry doo,
Case of two tins; and the price has remains clearance (no ether clearance with firė. | least like what 128 country is not in
The national afternoon by the police on suspicion of be sucess. The Hall was filled to overflowing, that, even with the extra tax of 70 cents, the clearance he had would do to go to are marvellously fertile.
features are large and well-merked. There ing converted in the murder of Maitomed the members of the Royal Artillery and the it is greatly clasper than the native oil.
will be no difficulty in defining a perfectly Alli Rohemally in Lyndhurst Terrace. The Naval fraternity being particularly numerous
pod practical boundary; and it could be 7 new prisoner is believed to be one of the amongst the audience. The programme,
done in a variety of ways. Although, it is tra, there is no grest mountain range. three men who were seen by the hawker which contained a well-asarted mélange
running
where the boundary will- exactly who gave evidence in the cass to enter the of the comic and gorious elements, was
probably be still there are many other ways of establishing a good line beyond At the souling match on the Parramatta shop in Lyndhurst Terrace and seize the conscientiously gone through, and the re
the ordinary method of adopting a water- murdered man. It is said that this mean peated plaudits of the audience proved that
shed or River, on Saturday lant, Hanian againstmits the whole affair and alleges that the the efforts of the performers to amuse and
Any Survey #watercours The following telegrams are taken from Officer will recognise the full force of
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papers brought an by the Wooning fcaptain these remarks; while the engra pabono polio.
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70 Brved. The topical doet, When? Now! His Lordship delivered an able and ex- Hant)-
tielans of waterless deserts and pissble Do, Minimum over right 63 perfect case, being seven lengths ahead at the finish..
Never, by Messrs Swales and Grition, in-haustive judgment in this case this fore-
In this action the question was ABRYST OF THE MURDERER OF MR. BETHEL, Mountain-chaina! guarding Herat, will be troducing several local hits, was pamainly one of houndaries between the pos
London, Jan. 25,Intelligence has been able to form a very different Judgurent froid
ed, and ave officers and forty men
wound-
ed.
It is now reported that Gordon was shot,
not stabbed, at the capture of Klar
of New Guinea will most likely be sattled
by an International Conference.
Extreme precautions are boing taken in London against further dynamita ex- plosions.
ADELAIDE, Feb, 12.
pal in the murder.
Tax twelve women who were charged, on
the Melbourne Club, on Saturday night through the public streets after the hout Just. He won eighteen and drew two.
Egypt from India.“.
ADELAIDE, Feb. 5,
ANTI-LEKIN.
SUPREME COURT.
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Befors Sir G. Phillipps, Chief Justica.) Friday, March 6.
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Blackburne, the Englislí chess champion, the 4th init., with a breach of the sanatentarly amusing, and was vociferously surs of Marine Lots Nos. 181, 185. The received from Bechuanaland to the effect that which has hithertu guided them.
lies c on whose Afghan
up to dominions
Per S S. Feronia, sailed 2nd March engaged in twouty gaties simultaneously at regulations by carrying noxious mattecored. Mrs. Gritton not only rendered plaintiffs the owners of Marine Lot No. that the nurderes of Mr Bethel Eas bsen Again Vambery speaks of bar ao-oslled to the 184, cumplain that the defendant, who is
pressat day no English orice can venture To Lavre, 593 bags Coffee; 55 casoa Ching- specified in the regulations, appeared before most listio argan recital, piano aois, the owner of Marine Lot No.
use belonging to
Bxposing his Efs, and whose off ware, 10 cases Beatles and 7 pkgs: Sundries. Two battalions of Sepoya will proceed to Mr Wodehouse, at the Police Court; this and two charming little ditties, but was pulled down wall of a housed span protection of the South Channel of Pocals do not even inspire their own Bo To Havre option. Hamburg; 181 pkya. Mer 38 pkgs Rattans, 100 Starahisted, 126, morning, on remand. His Worship decided most indefatigable in executing accompani
have the testimony as his property | Armstrong.
a trusted correspon- 220 pkgs, Canes, that as the defeudants had already lost two ments to the other coalists Mr Scott ac which the defendant dan king to the Phillip has boun uzdered from Sir William vereign with vonfidence. Against this we chatidise To Hamburg,
deprive the plaintiffs of
dent writing from Bala Morka, that the ons Easent. Oil, 47 pkgs: Ficrackers, Jamshidis and all the other tribesmen hold 132 cages Gum Elemi O bales Tubaceo, 63 The English Government have sccepted days in attending the Court he would dis- quitted himself well both es à representative no as to compel the windows of their] the affer of the New South Wales Govern | miss the present case, but warned his dealtor, and also in the roll of Paddy of the godawn; and the plaintifs claim $500 dar promise to pay the Victorian Government Valley are far more cultivators than war-
London, Jan. 28-The proposed coming the debatable country in the Marghab bales Fouthers and 249 pkgs. Sandries
Per 6. Bukhara, siled on the 3rd and that the defendant may be the claim of £138,669 in fall, without iariora or cat-throsis. Hundreds of them are March To Louda: from Hongkong, 10 ment of the Wolvorice for Colonel fondante that in future, if they appeared or ventured valuable assistance sa vocalist and strained from deprising them of their land. terest, has foiled; and Mr Woldon, the ssen busy at work in the fetue with their pigs. Sundries; from Canton, 2 cases Sille Scratchley. She is being refitted in Syd-imilar charge, they would be punished.
The searing lastet for some days, and offcial liquidator, will appeal against the spades they carry no arms with them Piece Gooda, from Shanghal, 146 pkgu. Ta & considerable number of raps and plans
And seem a net peaceable race, Su To Contineat, from Canton, 149 bales Ram O'Donovan Rosan, the noted Fenian and Ar inquest was held at the Tung-Wah The singing competition, as on the ins and title deeds were put in in ovidence. Judguent of Mr. Justice Chitty.
far from the lives of the English offi- | Silk from Shanghai, 374, bales Raw Silk; Landon, Jan. 29.-The Kight Hon. W. care being in danger, the people welcome from Japan, 262 bales Raw Silk and 95 thief of assassing, was that by an English Hospital this afternoon (6th Inst.) by the occasion, excited much interest, and brought The vira vore svidengo consisted in great THE PROPOSED COLONIAL COUNCIL.
part of the evidence of skilled witnesses. hospital nurse in New York, named Miss Coroner, Me H, E. Wodehouse, and a jury, out no less than eight competitors, of whom rr Danby on the part of the plaintiffs, and E Forster, M.P., has contributed on the strangers most heartily; while the baler Waste Suk To France from Can Dalley. He was complaining that the upon the body of ♣ Chinawoman named i Egan, of the R.A., and Palmer, of the Navy, Mr Hancock on the part of the defendent, article to the Nineteenth Century, in which officials of whom Tambéry speaks so die tou, cares Silk Picce Goods.
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