No. 7679 –December 3, 1887.]
out. Considering that this man wan balinportation and one which the Government
might soil coolisporhaps the lowest of ought to use rightly settled.
the low-class Chincẹo, — it would bo too much to expect silber thoughtful nereor humans feeling but surely any being with a apark of the human in hini would have warned the people in the street that there were six fellow-costuras still in the burning house.
THE CHINA MAIL.
enco had got abroad, but the serions charges of robbing the dead and dying were more than the publie vere prepared for.
war, that no doubt it would be done when the pinch asmų, but we shall linve to pay dearly for it then.. That we had a specimen of the lighting
bot absolute proof that the fron have been writers must live in harmony if they desire and misery. The European publia the work of incendiaries. It in sometimes supocas, and properly drawn up tariffs mean know nothing of the country `_' at the argued that the risks accepted concern only harmony, provided they are faithfully kept back of the world, except that the Kal- the offices jutereated: premuning that no You cannot wall instance profitably on maks from the Velgs fled across it from the loss fullowed and adjoining property never action of continued reductions any more tyranny of a Ozarına, and that in its
mines fered, thore might be some appourance Hum other commodities-At---|
- preßent, | the exile-wore out his life. Muraviol's what rarely happens. Again at all com or less at the morey, offing agent, which is, clover converance of a corner of Manul urin an undesirable state of un behalf of his master in 1881, and the of commerce in search of markete,
The question of preventing to some extent the almost daily, fros that occur in Hongkong from the and at November till That the Government, the Medical Departmethod of coaling armed murchant ves tho Chinese New Year bas long been a pusslo to residents Suggestions of all have been made, and yet, to judge by what has already happened this season, the
ment, and the now Sprgeou ought to besels here during the lust ara deserrason for the argummer ty, but this in ovory tariff in force in this colony is more tequisition of the Amitir Valley, Iguation?",
able to remodel the whole machinery, and, That Mr Price's Peador Street Bower has pantes insist that
it no more. | That the Wong-hel Cheong Valley is be-
are insured without
A
prove a benefit to the companies wat or the prosont state of fire insurance in world. What will Rnesia do
without in the past have been more or la to
the luxury of being nursed by tender vanished, and the Clock Tower will know all books must This will then I may say that the local companies | prying ht it plainly before the
Aud, strange to say, tlie Coron r seem to toto of affrire is worse than it has been for that, es. I have befors remarked, the Go domug once more to attract the atton paralysed the whole community for some for hat of the fact they are well strength from her Artie dominion A
have failed to realíso the heinousness of bia neglect, for at the inquest be novor so much as saked the coolie why he did not give information to the people round about or to the Police. Surely it was his duty, ofther by way of suprimiend to the coolic or
many years. There is a strong suspicion that runs of the firds have been wiltully caused. It is not an easy task to verify auch auspanions, and it is next to impossible to prove a charge of arson against a man, even when the suspicious circumstances are
hands may by and by make the Hospital
trifle too popular.
vernment Civil Hospital has never yet proporly fulfilled the purpuse for which it was established, and that its resuscita flon may lead to greater and better re- sults than haya yat been made visible,
of comment on the disaster, to mark his numerous and strong An Official, inquirebat every honest-minded member of this That the man who, poraisteiltly writes.
sense of the callousness that had been tryed. We do not believe that such primand would have had much effect on the individual coolie concerned, hat it might have had some effect on public, sentiment. The practice of the Chinese is to rush off like frightened hares whenever there is a outers of fire. One may despair of teaching them the duty of remaining to try and gave
into avery fre would not, we four, produce remach better results in this respect, but the very fact of the holding of such an inquiry ford at least a me as of discovering when enght have a deterrent effect; and it should
gross carelessness had been manifested and of bringing the culprit to justice. That a the Insurance by great deal can be done Companies we
we have all along maintained. Competition is strong and wo fear that often
little in the rush for customers there is
the
care
community wishes the Governor tevess in his efforts, and it is to be hoped that, the Colonial Ofice with iva due heed to the questions thut will be submitted Home by His Excellency.
That the Governor seans to speak by the book, and that he knows very well what to say and how to say it.
The fearini calamity at
3
to
draw out
ot popu
com-grower for external mar now Bup
no training, which has best. very painfully single. British or torga delapany has berers, who are pismen Bad Jom..
Fire
"
iskupsd
and are prejural ze
to make any. railway through the anew to the sea will time after the event, and the outery
aorifice
bring about a a better
bear political fruit, but will it attract tion of noble owner, and it would be mined caused the Government to pro- state of things. It has been said that the lation? Will the peasants, who a
ho are gliding wise to obtain the services off a compe- British well if (overnment could at least drain tont Fire Superintendent from England. Zealand; bat this is a falloy, as the local warmth, I turn aide to fill
companies can afford to lose in New Y
Away from Northern Fassin, and zanking the gaping the swamp, and thus prevent malaris Tina wore on panic subsided, and the companies in New Zealand are, as a rale, spaces in the forests and mountain-sides of from rising in the early mornings, to the Government dishonourably broke faith and
appointed locally and for commone well proportion than their neighbours, and we has made migration gear the Ural strong finavoially, id-will not lose more in Siberia Perhaps they may w when the rail- an omioint for detriment of health and sport.
easy, and there is known in the servico.
probably will lose less, through controlling a shanes The present Superintendent is nota dely-do maine part of the best riels. It is a range. At any rate the
"Of ansployment“ lengthy spistles inside envelopes is an ass; qualified man for bis position, having had curious fact that, so for I know, the hunters, the and, though the man who does the same erident in certain cases. This gentleman's appointed trained salaried men to control keta in addition to those they and afterwards carefully gums then up services should be retained, but in the enpa-thuit operations in New Zealand, I am will welcome a tailway and, as they
ply city of any on all sides so that the contents carrity to fully investigate into the cause of property by fire iuis colony, as it to bad hands. The cost of freight to and from Commissioner, with authorey to see such an immenso waste of extend their business, will need frosh nover to decipheryd is a noodle of the all
This
ho is well fitted for by his both for the colonists and the insurance the towns of Westen Siberia atal Moscow feeblest description, be at least has the training at the
and his thorough compatius, and this is my excuss fur. or was, £20 per ton, and the
the cost of endeavouring to suggest a remely from an sraunit from China is onormens. If rail- merit of justly appreciating the utter independence of
List the Government, then, vainelessness of his writton imbecilities, trained official from hemo, or the prosent
ipearance standpoint.
road piezoss the country the outlay un carriage will diminish: bat
stop to the perfectly reckless manner of
who enjoys the fall confidence of every man under him, and ha
and has proved binzelf
In nu age of vist projects, the resolve of saved. How such a line onu bo mada to Bothor question, and it will have shunting all sorts of vehicles into Quoen's the right man is the right place whonover, the Russian Government to construct Bond from the upper lavois, somo ugly luft in fuil charge. The following incident railway to the Pacific attracted at once the little weight, because the main purpose of enterprise is political. Rurais wishon illustrates how matters are sometimes wis
politicians,
POWOK OF accident will shortly happen.
the junior clark price among a public which has grown to bo a Maritime a recont fire, a
Fasifio; she That handcarts of every description in in a foreign Insurance Office, whose-firm had familiar with greater wonders. Yet that is also hopes to ingrass the population and to the productiva yield of her Siberis; and propues to a big and bold enterprise charge of, bot utterly beyond the con- dley of Insurance, on a building ad- Mad Siberiu with railway-stations, connecter will be the main reason why, oppar the strong desire to profit by a port on open Another on fire, forcibly took to the Baltic with the Sea of Japan, and bring
the fire hose from the native firemann to protect the arsenals and barracks of Russia within tunities of development will be forded to the property, liis from wore interested in.
A few days' jou noy of the now oral and the extensive and varied territory in har Three or four lines traverse the This complaint has been officially taken Batico of-and
had better not be repeated eager and trong motive must be required Anierican voutinent from oocan to ocean,
ated. military port of Vladirestock. Some
cou-possession. If it were offally notified, either by foing down -oven a single pair of rails and now we see in the near future, the aud clammation or standing advertisement in the through the hourt of a country
hich, al dier, the politician, and the engineer pro Which, would be paid to say one detecting an iu though it contains nearly five millions of paring to bind the Ballic to the Pacific,
by fewer than four Empire, north of the Himalayas and the reaulis would e
square miles, is peopled by prove inillions of inhabitants. inmates of
Can the mind Altai, takes its course from. West to East,
face and the two
streams will meet opposing
sin unprinc grasp that relation of persons to surface i
the lives of their fellow-mortals, but the taken to enquire into the character of that as he has set himpelt a most worthy That if some steps are not taken to puá a Députy Fire Superintendent. Mr Brewer, THE RUSSIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY, whether it does or not, the time will be
horror, which all right-thinking, people bare
at their condnot ought to
oxpressed
than who wishes to insure Periodical
publicly when there is an occasion of doing of the premises, insured in Į
for would 80, if it be not even a subject-mattor for a tecting t
task. he will ensure the gratitude of this community, for having fried to rate their burdons, even although he does not sus cood in all his efforts.
Chinese That this mention of Public, Laundries
cannot
Whether that honest by setting the competing offe
here
cer.
for the purpose of de- ne fraud. Whether it "not be wise, over: and Government proclamation. Ons redeeming |
above these Lorofuso lo insuro point there was about the last fatal fre, and precautions,
recalia the misfortunes difta, tant was the conduct of the man who ruch property in full, or adapt some other means ed into the house to save his wife and of making sure that the policy-holder
tain Company which assuredly showed fire perished in the attempt.
to his house wilfully, man first ran out madly without thinking right do well to weigh carefully.
more of the philanthropic spirit anyone but himself and then bothought
than any other that we could. Dame-in himself of his wife, or was outside the hotte
It i must always be remembered that insur
dead, there was more philanthropy than at the time the fire broke out and gallantly ance is mainly an outcome of the higher rughed to his wife's rescue, is a point civilisation of the West, where public opi good management about it from beginn that will never be cleared up, but at
is on the side equity and can be any rate he showed, after
be guilty o
well as the dbobica, of at
aet as That the public, such a dastardly
It is a risky thing house.
will be anxious to hear more of this pro- lenst ordinary human feeling. We do col Belting fire to believe the Chiness and absolutely desti- to give large facilities in the way of insur
posed scheme. tute of feoling, or it is imposible to ance to a semi-civilined people in an
that ach them to have soms smali Chinese, among whom such a thing an a gradually
on hoalthy public opinion does not exist ; and regard for others; and it is for this
reso that we regret the Coroner conducted hire fear that those who offer the faciliting inquoat in an perfunctory a insuger, and will have to hedge them round with limita-
not think it worth his while to
they
wish to derive profit from their toous it sharply point that ever
his panic, that he was pass from Brought to bear strongly on any one who ing to end.""
duty to out his
to the c alig
undertakings,
Oven, to
to ask him why
The fold, or the
of
That one great want in the Colony is-that of a decent Supreme Court, and it ought not to be forgotten that in the hot woather it is a positive punishment to have to serve on a jury, while the bad, acoustic proper les of tho present Court-
plaiatif, defendant, the Bar and the Reportera
trol of the demoniacally noisy coolies supposed to guide then, ars rushed into crowded thoroughfare with the utmost disregard of the lives or the limbs of ponosful citizens That the danger is intensified by the things
folding
At
native papra
carried: Foochow poles, cach in itself con-
I think taining the destructive powers of a well. SE..
often act as inform
the 8
pro-
notice
of
but created no sur-
the
directed catapult; bottlea, filled with led store. Sum London: Offices to hole deep Northern fringe lying on the which, by the aide of the extention-of- acrated waters, scarcely less dangerous, common practice years ago it was the The reason for the sparsen 88 is that the the northern waters of the great oceani
when in collision, than a well-charged torpedo; and other miscellaneous arti: cles are a few of the many engines of destruction with which the public are daily menaced.
of the
to the officus
fix a metal plate on houses they insured, If the engine belonging to rived and found they had no risks they e tired, and left thoas interested to do the beat thus best draatio to come to
to something of
could. Such
would be too
pl inhabited except by a few savages, ciss of Japan and the revival of effective the icy, sen is unhabitable and Europese influence, now sees also the The great rivers all flow into the Arctic power in the salessal and thickly peopled
traits to the White Ses, is for wine months stretched out to Vladivostock,
and the entire tract, from Behringe realm of China. The arm of the Czar thrantons
but it will in the year one of the most desolate and the rulers in Fakin; but the Chinesa Taiping ghastly stretches of territory in the world. Monarchy which survived the if the For Hours must be modified torture to That it is reported Count Mitkiewicz ratarna eign Agencies do not do something to seat The th and the Yenisci ars navigable in it, crushed the Fantasy reconquered bat the months of the Kashgar togained Kuldja, and resisted to China accompanied by Mr Wharton tegadea The butter: plan would be summer far inla figure in the hell of France, ay be trusted to prove a formid- to have much thought of the re accredited to the United States, the That during the past week our Fire Boys That such a triumvirate is surely well cal.offical, making it commulsory for all Dante, The upper waters of each of those able obstacle to. Muscovite ambition; The
no one about the six persons in the THE CORSAN EMBASSY TO THE UNITED burmog house. There are more than he
ha STATES.Saya the Sagomaki: Exprcar of couras calpable. The woman on the of the 23rd ultThe U... 8. Omaha the 19th, Lrst flour who had to look after the safety arrived from Chenalpo on of her six children could scarcely be exharing on board the Corean Embassy poetad to
sidents above her but the coolies on the ground floor had no such erause, and they seem to have fled at the sight of fire, with out warning any one, or ever giving ono thought to the safety of their fellow fudgera li agrest pity such wretebas could not be made a public example of.
probibit
have had to struggle hard with the alemont,' and are deserving of a full meed of praise for their pluck and persever-
3000.
That the exchange of a comfortably-warm
bod for wet clothes and the many way
despatch of which, it will he remembered, the Chineso Government recently the
of lear the point ed just as they were ing. Whether the Chinese eventually gave way in the matter, or whether the Corants left in declare war it her injunctions were dis. of threats that China would opita
regarded, we cannot say Dá the down, the Omaha mot a a squadron of There are other points in which the in- Chinese men-of-war, bound to themalpe, peaceful quest held at the Mortuary is most unratjeit iraupposed, but whether on a
to support China's authority factory. It was not right, we think, that the mission, or to sup
vrar Corea, it
it was, of course, not known. Suparintendent of the Fire Brigade should The Corean flag way hoisted on the Omaha have been the Coroner who conducted the as they passed. The Eubasay, consisting of two bigh officials and their attendants, enquiry. We do not say that bia mens were and Dr. H. N. Allou, a Foreign Secretary, In any way to blame for the and calamity proceeded to Yokohama in the Yokohama
Maru on the 21st-- but they were present; and, until it was shown they had done all they could to savo life, a certain responsibility reated
|
other discomforts that the struggle entails, is & metamorphosis which even ardent youth cas barely comtemplate without sliuddur, and all the more credit is due to
a
Barker, and a Philadelphia lawyer.
sulated to knock spots out of the Middle Kingdom.
BROWNIE
CHAIR-COOLIES AND LEGAL
PAR FARES. Before Mr. Wodehouse in the Police Court to-day, a chair-coulis named Yang & Wong was charged, at the instance of Mr Charles Brest Bawics, solicitor, (Marsta Wotion &
politics of the Farther Eat will take care
Lona in winter for the Government to adopt the prezent London
contribute in proportion to the great streama, however, flow for hundreds risks they hold. The rate was fixed at £86 of miles through habitable territory; and is of themselves, and their fesuasulude is across the middle region between the human foresight; but whatever may be its 1 of property insuredj for every million of
That our German friends might do some-mountains and the gloomy arctic tracts that consequences, the steady march of the thing to strengthen the Brigades I fancy the merchant and the soldier ate to be car locomotive through the northern broadth of many of them already feel. This would be tied to the verge of the Eastern seas. The the great continent appeals strongly to the but common justice, as at least 60 per cent. Siberia, flows eastward, and enters the Pas been wiittou about it, still scene to lia Amur, differing from the other waters of imagination, because it passes through a piece of the globe which, after all that has fie opposite the northern end of Saghaltatside the pale of the modern world. —
of the fires concern their offices.
XY
that large island which Russia Bequired from Japan and it is on the contest bolt the Ural Mountains to the Amar
Spectator,
FIRE INSURANCE IN NEW ZEA.
LAND LESSONS.D
BYWATER TANQUERAY AND Oo, (isto We in
take the following extracts for Valley that the latest suggested routs would artiols on Fire Insurans er plass the railway. If this be adopted the BYWATER, 'zany & Co.) ate agents for
line will puss by the
the important cities of Residents abroad, Missionaries, Chaplains,
northern!
hern head de in every part of the world, sock that ought to be useful to us in Hongkong of Lake Baikal, a fresh water, ses
During
the past, say, re
fivey years,
New Zendred miles long, and bending soute will in all its branches Full descriptive Ch
inding south-ene
at by Shipping and passages arranged. Banking where depression deepaving he close to the Chinese
them for sticking no manipily: shoulder Deacon's office) with refusing to take a legal and," which, we think, soutain some lessona Omsk and Tomsh, round the four hun- and Outfits supplied at Wholesale prices.
to shoulder.! That the frequency of fires will surely in
fare, without reasonable excare. The polio denied the charge.
Mr Bowles said-I live over the Chartered ed condition,
toria Street, London. 30,000 Beferences:
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY announced
das be the ally, in a depA and Uasari Tal on down time force upon the Government the de- Mercantile Bank Un the evening of the year by year up to date horsef The Vladivostock which is not remote fromatogue post free. Offices 79, Queen Vic- airability of an official inquiry into the 29th ult. I told my boy to get me funr dopression has been brought about mainly, the intended to be the Bebastopol of the in the Paris Figaro,' of a valuable remedy-
Province or Kingdom of
of Coren, outside coolies to take me was to dinner. Í hentha prices for oar staple commodi whole is to cost throu handed for nervous debility, physical exhaustion, a origin of all fires, on them. The Superintendent of the Bri Grave foars aro entertained here that the That the Sanitary Board appears to be AKU downstairs, I found there was wool and i
gade is not the man that ought 10
SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE YEPA, SIAN.
Vespasian, which leis Saigon on the
́about as much in want of ventilation as the drains it is supposed to noporvise.
When 1. no chat, and my
-boy A614 the cuplies had refused to come." I
wont outside and ing a h saw one chuir at the opposite corner,
which
terest.
by the t
und is
realizing less every Узаг
hty millions of in-ichirty-eight on the colonists for
Juans
olicy of the colony cats and eighty m
the
having been Militaryerling, and the
I eventually got here was another chair extravagantly spent on public works, which cievor suggestion that it
only indirectly
depsy.
roubles the and premature
The discovery was makes themade by a missionary in Old Mexico t
hima Если
miserable existence and should be
aid ved
an early grayo Wa learn that the Rav Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, by an ex-hu thinks, would be taken up in
by
not, - we sho ly to and a market at high
anywhere else. But
receipt of a self addressed stamped enve the Bunsian Government are Buff- ciently earnest in the desire in establishop.
Got as Coroner, when the inquest has 14th inst. for Manila, has gone the same way That if it be correct that anyth ng except across the road, at the corner of Ice-house fare, with the arception of the railways, for by interest-bearing Paper, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.Cd., will animal charcoal was used for ventilating | Lane, qus areonly the men, Baw me they atoms the colonist the itself. It is it should think, like-gand the prescripton, free of charge, on
for one of its objects to see whether he and his man did what the public szpects of them. There are many questions which euggest themselves as most pertinent to such an enquiry that were never put by Mr. Wodehouse. The Sergeant who arrived on
as her companion the Vortigern. Leaving when she did, she would most probably bu overtaken by the typhoon which raged with sono vohemence in the South Chisa Bea a fortnight or so ago. The Ven pastan was commanded by Captain Stevena
has a telegram was received in Hongkong yesterday to the effect that no word had up till then been received in Manila of the missing stramer.
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That His Excellency the Governor has taken this poor, bureaucratic-ridden community by surprise by his frank and courteous observations.
purposes, it would be well to immortalise the name of the official who did so, and securs his evidence for the proposed Special Commission for the
i:
•reproductive ti
did private borrowings of
irritated
Naval Power in the Pacifio, and all
13 a
the
And
- the
upon the Commission referred to, as heavy and want extra pay. If I DESBOMed outside companies, and that iron horse Foilway, the land of i
Exchange. HONGKONG, Decumber 8.
On London-
Bank, Wire
On demand, 30 days' sight,
months sight, Credits, 4
months sigh* 3
Documentary,
away up the laus and tried to hide.. ran neruss and asked them why
they not come. The defendant, who was in ratas of futurest by extravagant outlay on charge of the obair, said he was engaged and municipal and harbour works, and the Was waiting
somebody who he said general extravagance of the colonists dur in the U. B. O, Bank. I told thes the time of their
-Fi, while proaperity
in the waters of China and Japan, bot the soane first said he inquired if there were and was laden with rice. We hear That I understand some of the leading that went away. tack to the place
but they still refused to spending the loans obtained, ma
of ozpease, jast as they medical men hère ëbject to serve upon a where they had been standing at first. I pauies, and the profitable nature of the from the Caspian to the Uxus, and are now
ize and
Owing to the number of Insurance do so regardless of
com- have pushed on a railway
the gh
sands purely Medical Commission, and insist took the number of the olisir which is 204. business, up to, say, live years ago, com building a bridge over that stream to carry upon the nomination of an experienced I have frequently had the same trouble bo petition gradually became extreme, the the locomotive to Bakhara and
fore. I charge
the defendant with refusing local cura panics, of course, obtaining in and independent engineer
Sibe time the bulk of the business Like the Control has un to take a
very abort
undertaking bat Hi legal fare. That in my opinion it would be better that His Worship You say you have often through their influences, combined with
and Unbeks. wanted no Colonial official whatever should serve had the same trouble; what is the reason }
for the chief contres of salaried mariagera
Facilities
or not, Mr Bowles They tell me I am too the colony. This fast naturally.
Biberia
beyond all doubt cries aloud for purposes in bureauoratio system will be indirectly on them the proper fare they generally ask for result was a breaking up of fire and these days, without a
a railway within, or at all Brents for the acceptance of business lytics and now bordering: twenty conta Ite trial.
Defendant said was engaged at the was recklessly granted, with a result that from development. It bar
offices made
made85-called
tout but it shounds, from the western bor- ship's captain and wanted to be taken to liberal Buttlements,
raw materials On demand, Pedder's Wharf, and he was standing on loss gradually gut demoralised in the of wealth. Alike in the West and Exat there On Calonita the street talking to another man lien. Me matter of fres and, to this state of things is gold, and this s projected line is to touch Bowiss called for the chair,
has continued during the five
or for the Upper years of on the Amur goldfields, which we cozimezoial depression, the result has been had an impression were claimed by the Un Shangha more or less disastrous to vvory fire office, Chiness. The centre of Western Siberia is
On demand. without aception looking atk at the fo
hack
30 days' eight, s forest land, and the banks of the Yenisei post five years experience,
Gold Leaf, 100 fe trunks of
great 10, Sovereigns. brought down and
and piled into huge heape by panies collectively have leat considerably the summer foods. The trade in fore,
use than £1.
1,000,000, probably £1,500,00, very #ancient and famous, is alone worth over and above their takings. I may asy placing within the reach of n masket. T that I have taken considerable pains to as timber and furs and minerals of many
the tallage of the kinda can be obtained from this inhospit
any people in the house and was told there were noney This indefinite statement was allowed to pass without any attempt at further examination. Now, it ought to have baon the duty of the Coroner to bavo ascer- tained whether the Sargeant took the trouble to make his enquiry about there being people in the house as thorough as possible, or whether he contented b meelf with merely asking some one among the crowd. The per- plain the neighbourhood must have seen on er two individuals come out, and we should think some of them must have known orgaes sad that there were people still in the house The Bremen and the police here know that they need expost little assistance from Chi- nese coolies, and it is therefore their duty to redouble their seal. We believe Ser gentit Hall did his duty, but then the in quest does not bring this out. Again, seeing that there is a Police Station near it hand, the question naturally arises, could not a searob have been made for possible inmates by of laddom, which ought
فولع
to have been handy 3 Another question also suggests itself was Bergeant Hall the first person connected with the police
ecebe of f
of the fire? He the Chinese
Vecrea
who was so the he was on duty at the Ground when he heard alarm,
This is a
considerable distance away from the
scene,
and we should scamely think be Was the frat constable, Chinese, Indian or European, that arrived on the scene, These and many other questions come an in the mind
mind of one reading the report, ibut they seem to have escaped the mind of the Had such an accident occurred
Coroner
That, as a natural result, ha it daily in
creasing the conâdencs the public have had in him ever duce he arrived in our midst, and has recent utterances prove that he is pussessed of an impartial mind capable of weighing any given subject in a judicialspirit, without bias or prejudice. That the recommendations made by the Finance Committee, and to which more publicity has been given than usual, Ste
hailed with evident satisfaction by the public
That it is to be hoped that the favourable and most fair attitude assured by the Governor, on almost every subject touch- ed upon, will not completely disarm the the community, or inaugurate an era of indifferent inaction on the part of residents
That the community will join mest de- voutly in His Excellency's hope that we have at last reached fiuality in the matter of defence expenses, but that it is also pretty certain that the War Office, autho- ridies have not remodelled their ideas on this touch-vered question.
so-called unlightened nineteenth century
Darred
On New York
On den
On Paris
On demand, Credita, 4 months' sight,
demand, Credits, 60 days' night,
4.02
Wire,
its great ex-On Bombas
That it is almost intolerable that in thin the southing muted low prices. On top of this, over-insurance i Marco Polo' Land of Tatal d
time Mr Bowles called him, by a man whose fires beams alarmingly frequent, and, sooperatively few people fur ita cremation. should not be compulsory is name he did not know, The man was a - majorly the commraty more or dento the Oriental sea, in the 1
large cities
T
that considering how great a number of mon, and not a few women, reader them.
--- -Mr Bowlen mid this was alt untrue, aelvei mora or lesa objectionable to their he
They ran away from him and tried to hide, fellow-creatures during their lifetime, it This charge was under the Regulations of is only right, for the sake of survivors, 25th June last t
Mr Wodehouse m that the power of annoying should and trouble those chair coolies gave, in taking with their earthly career fares only when they pleased, was very That sentiment should have no voice in the rent. They seemed fu think they could no as they liked either in refusing or pesepting matter, for surely the speedy and parily a fare. It was clearly stated in the Regala certain spara prens, and the losses able land, so can cereals, for the basin of
aid the amount of within the mark when I state that the com-strewed with un
the
in
ing action of fire must appear to alltions that none of them old refuse a companie five year the Ob is described as one of the richest
rational beings far proferable to the pore gradual process of decay and its gruesome accompaniments.
That if poor frail humanity were but con- stituted like a much-advertisel cigarette
papar without sold and leaving no cind
ere behind," how much pleasanterit would be during life, and how much less abjet
tionable after.
That moralising begets moralising, and That life in a good deal like a cocktail, i
asuch as it would be rather an insipid mixture without soms bitters introduo."
od into it
That possibly the arrival of Admiral Lang's
squadron in Eastern waters vill induce That even in the midst of all this the Admiralty to send as something bet-
ter than obsoleta tabe like the Audacious,
Home the public would not five bon estisfied: until every incident connected with the firo had been thoroughly probod and the conduct of all connected thoroughly examined, Public opinion, it in true is not so strong bere and the loss of six Chi- nose does not appeal to people's heartą ma strongly as a lons of six lives would do at Home. Nevertheless, it is the duty of the Government to inquire minutely into gush an affair, in urder to
the public servants have done their dua
and we hardly think the inquiry held yes That the presence of each formidable addi- terday was tutch batter than larce A correspondent has raised, in
in another column, the question of
of whether the guid. ing band of the Fire Brigade in efficiant work When not watched the movements of the Brigade with such cazu
learn
gunbeate that will live in a seaway.
tions to China's infaub Navy within striking distance of Hangkong, and the eren. remota pusability of their viciếng
talk of yawning graveyarda and, slangh-
was pure Scotch or High Dutch,
cert on the day we didn't selsbrate
That I am told it contains, for she initiated, an azoruciatingly beautiful sentiment.
Wire,
On demand,
60
36.34
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
tellun
REGISTER:
DRCEMBER 24 V
Mr during legal fare without reasonable cause. Bowles was not the only gentleman who
Mric Wiggia, who took could not get a chair when he wanted ittaving shortly sketched the present post- in the world.
al matters as regards fire brisness in a small steamer up the Yenisei in 1874, sad any case that was brought up in New Zealand, permit me now to stalowy and visited the principal towns on bla that court, where it was clearly proved that views as to how a better atare of things may way home by Ekaterinburg, speaks legal fare had been refund in the same be brought about. First of all, I think with enthusiasm of the actual and way would he punised. In this case he that all the companies represented in New poter
ential wealth Potential
of the country. Whatever WI'stock, 20.78 25 (Mr Wodehouse) was satisfied that the re- 2 and should arrange that proper fire may be the case in Eastern, there can be Nagasaki.. fusal was without reasonable cause. This tariffs be drawn up for the whole colony no doubt that Western Siberia, as far as Shanghai, 30.14 64 63
be defendant would be fined two dollars, This su only be effected by the ap the upper waters of the Irish, is full of Amop 3190.08 with the alternative of fourteen days im- pointment of a are tariff cominittes, thaber, minerals, and far-beating animals, Hongkong 50.05 Prisonment with had Inbour, and it the consisting of, say, three of the best experts while the rivers warm with fish, and the Baiphong. 50.10 77 offence were repeated he would be fined
the Colony These
facit should not be cultivated soil in graine. Eastern Siberia Bolinao,... 20,88 84 any local doable that amount.j
at the
meroy of any manager or agent, is more rugged but it is supposed to con- Manila 29.88 84 but only be withdrawn from with the express cent rich deposite of metals and precious DECEMAK sauction of head ofcer
whould
vicinity of the Amur has already yielded Nagasaki.. to control gold enough to rouse the capidity,
uidity and the Shanghai.. passions of men. The
(travellera reports of
CORRESPONDENCE,
FIRES, THEIR CAUSES AND MATY PREVENTION.
ما
10
property train very stones in its mountain padina, and the Wortnak.29.86 27 172 M
office represented in New
have
Amoy.
17.48 $5
Hongkong 30.16 59 81 Haiphong, 30.22 Bolinao, 29.071 80
Fore.
Hain during.
that company's business in this onl
the oglang To gomplete
lete the efforts to place are insur and prote
aid projestosa read like stones of a land of To the Editor of the CIA-MAIZ ance on a proper basis, I would have, say promise, and almost make one believe thist S--The frequency of Eres during the couple of trained fire inspectors, whose here are thousands of miles of wealth bear toring saware, I should like to know past month is, I trust, 4, suficient reason for duty it should be to maka periodical tripslig territory awaiting only the raagio hand Manila 29.97 82 80 new only fit for the scrap heap, and some whether the refrain of The Piper of asking space in your columns for the to each manager for the purpose of inspect of aspital and the triumphs of venon, to barometer has risen alightly in the
following
remarka The cause of some ing his books, seving that to had proper make Siberia a-rival of the United Fee Wait, Gradients are slight in the North Fife, sung by Do Cantlie at the Con- 75 per cent of these free will not, I think, plans the company had not been exceed. wants one thing climate country of Chins and moderate for N. winds over
of the blocks in his district, that the Bat, with all lts old qualities, Siberia be attributed pure accident; when it is limit
limiz of knows that, in about this proportion of ed, and generally, to check the risks by where the temperature ranges between the shit bea. The weather is cloudy, casce, the owners are found to have bad pomal inspection Supparing all the tarlyster degrees below freezing point in cold and damp. the contente of their premises fully insured proguing views were carried out fire winter, and sixty-five degrous above it in This is very significant, hat quite true. insurance in New Zealand will
Again antoor, CAN
be attractive. Tant is
Comment Astronomer. I will subunt what. I deem would be very as we thould have properly adjusted tatos, why the population is so scants. Tho
Hongkang Observatory, Dartmoor 3. as with hostile latent, should spur our That the absence of the Hon. C. P. Obsterioak remedy Ths neoseity of lestringnipection by tried men, who were quite the know and ice of the Ob and Yonis 1. BAROMETBa, reduced to 58 degrees FübzinK.
cathing (and Flake sovented only Altec careful Mongolian conquerors turned svan for a ahurt time, will be folf by thing of the pharacters of the AD and to Jadge of the material finsard and the and soug sick and the heady, and his energy will with the atmost recklessness; now, "morni hamard, and, finally, to see that the the Oxus, and the 'FOR Dot Burth-renbaita, Me: Woded JEJMA much"-praction
policies, and d not granting
thre Bushing of the Jazartes,
be missed in many of our local enter shown to the private worth of the insurer, insurances granted ware less than the ward and poured far into 20 PACIENT Hompity, in percentage at suferation, the Minetta beliers there are
reimarks apply to re. folied westward, : the premises insured are dulim which muat - Segal as well as to new risks, un I hold Manchuria and the Western Reseria Satumfily of siz saturated with moisture being and for that purpose I darnaay they will That the Naval Yard is still in its old place, he pressed home to the Tastinwave Comparis Fat every renewal which has run twelve Sibaris, throughout its length and breadth, 100.
on the Colony and the Ber
fall to the agents of the scams
raiga -- valda requires re-inspection
on owing to the from the snow
mountdus to the tandra Pastent depreciation going on in woodan and horrible
maraton
remained compara- obarecter of a lively unsopted, and almess without ~Bres that have folowed, have, trast u
many of our lately been the subject of fredly duealand are quite diferent to those in
converted the land into a convio Honda many quarti Theft are gent. Told England, a well know from my per-prison, and the terrible pündakmens ap- is no orgsaination for rapidly en connected with the Brande
he phonal experience when in London. pealed to the popular imagination, qquling fur praisers here in the event of: make no regret that they have found sil Les experience tells me that, under made Biberis synonyza of hopeless paio
is to be able to speak with
on
this
much authority
ct. We do not suppose that
skill and although he
he seems to be moet performance of bis duda,
„Te "are÷
the
Home grounds for the complaints that e made from time to time of the efforts
the attor
at the Brindes not being to
authorities into energetic action in setting our Defences in order, e
That the squadron are to ratten here
k
hortly for the purpose of being duckud,
BATATA LEODIVe a hourly welcome.
directed as they ought to tip In view of That most of us had eight tender
the great frequency with which tras occur.
In Hongkong, and the great facilities there
are for a configration spreading far and
next, tas quuncion of the efficient manigas ment of the Brigade, hoposuen ons of vital
and
d of systematic Inspection of ket value
need the
warda blush when the full extent of
lity
vide, from a position and the impasta doubt entertained as to the genninner 'Gallatin
the disorganisation of tha Civil Hospital began to sprOLT.
That whisperings of curelearns arki naging-
taking vessels klongside its piers
from
and hundredthir
The
side of
to the lord of the ses ful inches, Untha
3. TRMERBATU, in the shade in degrees,
DescTION OF Wina, ko (wo paula,
5. Foron of "pus, sqcering to Sunfort Scale
RHS Fire rikka in distory, but Low surring to make one. 5, STATE DY WEAIRES À fine sky, d
dalosia, d drizzing, min, & foc, p gloomy, hair, I lighting, overrsal, p paasitic Mowers, ('aqually, r-tain, a snow, a-thandere visibility,