No. 7011JANUARY 12, 1888.)
A vooze med Lo Ahung was charged It is a very hard task indeed to instil before Mr Wodehouse, in the Police Court knowledge of the test elementary princis today, with enturing a dwelling-house in ples of sanitation or of the laws of health Quocu's Rond-West this morning, and opinto the minds of the Chinese. In a Ching Proprinting alothing of the value of $70, man's eyen the for goods and chattels he Ho Shun Chun, contractor, the complain has gathered round him soom of far more ant, stated that he retired to reas about importance to him than his health, and it 2am at which time he observed that the would oven sometimes seem that they out stolen articles wero in the houso. Two weigh the value of his own life. It ia
hours afterwards he was awakoned by hear
ing a mofee in the room, and noticed that the articles in question had disappeared. A carpentor who lives on the ground floor
therefore not much to a wider at that
the Pelico and the Sanitary authorities are Ending great diffealties in enforcing the orders with regard to the steps to be taken of the same house said he heard complain. on smallpox, breaking out in a house. Wo apt orging 'thiof, and immediately after-suppose that all the scans at the disposal wards saw the prisoner running from the of the authorities have been used to wako house carrying the brndls produced in known these instructions to all einssen of Court. The prisoner was eentoneed to six the Commonity. The Sofitary Inspectors months' bard labour.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The quotation for Patua epiam at Fonshow has been for the last few months rather: below that of Hongkong with charges
a fow rich included, and it is anid, by native dealere, who irapors the drug direct from Hongkong
and sell here at a loss of 10 to 15 dolla a ciest, in the hope of driving away foreign importers. The idea is no doubt a foolish one, but in the mean- time it does a great deal of harm to three dealers who buy from foreign hongs, who are able neither to sell mor compete with those who purchess from the native, impor, any, caused many, ters, This state of affairs has pative retail dealers to use native opium its cheapness, and which is instead of Indian, which pays them better, on accont now very much used by the low class people. The nativos assert that in another three roars, this port will have its own opium to supply the whole country demand while the Indian drug will only be used by the officials
-Foochow Bela. and upper classe.
RB
execution in
Li Tamen by Cheung, Viceroy of the Two Kwong. To the following silpot :——
The treaties between China and foreign nations contain clear provision for the ren- dition of lawbreakers.
***For a considerable period ralfferencer or difculties arose.
minals
Y
ware destroyed, a
lead and helpless
in the street and behold.
Only two entered for this race "Spider's Blue Ruin, 11st. lib. (Walion). Belelzo's Norman, 10st. 12lba (Marshall).
Result
Blue Tuin
A disastrous c 4--HAREWAN Our(Prosoad.) Value Monday Trot (2n Hk. Tia. 100. For all Ponies rat in the afternoon reced as Griffis at Anwy, Weights as four hours, desto M per scale. Entrance $5. One mile shops. The loca and a quartor
one being a thủy ng There ran
fall of a coffiff A
trying to exe
But in the instance of some,
that if reports were of grout notoriety special mathode wers roaurled to. Fearing made and their rendition applied for, the matter would lonk'
uld look at and certain criminals known to be in hiding under formiga juris Engel's Tannhäuser, 1st-be (Barro) diction would contrive to make good their MoThor's Thistle, liek 4lbs (futabings),
Result:- authorities concern without Gat rapurting to the (foreign) escape, attempts were made to effect arrests Itho's Better by far, Ilot. lb. (Boyd).
The Freclamation proper is ad-Iressed to and Military. all whom it may concern Dial
From this time coward done may engage in ageret attempts to capture (Chinese) criminals who are under foreign protection.
Thistle
Tan hänser. Bolter by fur 5-UNAASZE CUT-Presented).
fire
more than 300 ya sted at s chop etil mentioned in onniary louson wa great sa
Meir B
that locality
2
3
Volne
THE TRADI
The followings.
dian Grey, Yap
8150. For at China Ponies Weights as por souls. Entrando $5. Thres quarters of a mile. Thore ran
Result:-
Mayflower
Rosy Horn
(Hutchings).
Cor Cur-(Presented). Value &... For Subscription Grifigs of this sea Bon, Weights as per scale. Winner of Trial Stakes ribs, extra. To be riddon by residents of Amoy, Focelow or For- HORA Entrance 35. Oro Mile. There ran -
Rolsize's Domintear, 1836, 121bs. (ano) Hoodman's Castaway, 1st. lbs. (Marshall). August'e Lohengrin, let 11hs. (Boyd) Hoine's Silvery Daun, 10st. 12lbs (Harding).
Result
been issued by
| Eduljes
Hongl
The trade in, the past year a ment over that the appended Ta excood those of t Bales, or bearly imports to Shane increase of 38,60
The year ope
fooling in the Me pletely demorali 1866, and a am vorite threads au dually but stondi general demand, continued to imp price till the
bug which No 20. 872., 46 the year advanced
AN ITEMB gb has robokod its sub- His fealings were dragged through the (a blus-coated environs
- ot will supply himself and front elevation of hd put in his timo re- upon our model, he all the other, Carnots.
ho came over to enlo- fio is oppressed by the So sorry the doctor
galore. We would have.
just to make bim
i tas in her prisons less than ficts that were in them
is held to indicate im ondition of the peoplo,
cfra di crest incentive to crime.
For building the Panams to pay $11,000,000 for joe workmen from shaking incipiout
mu kopony into the in
on the
› Panzino canal, have been scorikeed.
u behold the healthy which nothing has been
the American
on the was two geniars- ignorant of way proof woman was flat in any fenty-one Ministries in country that can stand remeina republia may ardened in freedom.
another for Токсиния
was not fit for fish the plaintiff hes cu
ity of a non-guis when that he is fit for fish
concerned. Such practises are contrary to law and
this, instructions now. in the result lend to much trouble,
that all
all subordinate officinis undur Viceroy's control may be en- joined to act in accordance with the treaty provisions: When a Chinese criminal fees for hiding to m foreign country the mat- are going round the various quartera daily. Tik Bookstora, i new n:agazine published ter must be reported to the olfaial of that Eglinton's Riddle, 1st, 61s. (Scott).) and they doubtless have not neglected to by Mr. Elliot Stook, anys Perhaps the country and application made for the sendi- Hono's Rosy Afer, 10st, 12lbs. (Harding).. Ma Sercombe Sruith, in the Police Courtinatect those who may not have soon the nost singular curiosity in the book world tion of the culprit. No seavet device may encaira's Kinsman, 10st. 12:bs (Boyd). to-day, imposed the substantial fine of $10, afficial notices. Perhape a little more might is a volume that belongs to the family of the be resorted to with a slow to make an Majonto's Mayflower, 11st. Ilha.
Prince de
de Ligtis, and is now in France. It arrest with-tho-altcrative of three months' hard te done in this way by posting up the is entitled The Passion of Christ, audin The Viceroy is further directed by tha Jabour, upon Clan Atai, who resides inproclamation at every corner of the street. neither written uns printed.
Every etter Peking authorities to issue a parclanation Socond Street, for keeping a lasting in bad Tho violation, however, of the orders of the text is cut out of a leaf, and being in conveying to his subordinate officers the
terleaved. with blue paper,
ja no_ossily read instructions of the Tsung-li Yamen. G. condition. Mr J. J. Clerihow, Inspector in nine cases, out of ten does not arise from
es the best print. The labour and patience This done accordingly by the High Pro of Nuisances, who brought the charge, ignormice of the requirements but from up-bestowed upon its composition maet have vincial authorities (above named) in the said the defendant had been repeatedly willingness to take the trouble to complycision and minuteness of the letters uru con-
been
Viceroy's name. excessivo, cap cially when the pre cision and cautioned, but without effect. As a China with them. The Fumigation of a house
idered The man is nover without an excuse, Oban Atai would mean somit itconvenience, pushups reappet fa indood admirable, and the vellum
tho of most delicate and costly kind. wondo no exception of himself, but is the destruction of some articles of clothing: Rudolph II. of Clermany offered for it, in defence was too weak to be of any avall, and rather than allow this to happen some 1640, 11.000 ducats, which was probably The most Ho Afung, a married woman who was
of the natives are a heartless as to drive equal to 00,000 at this day. charged with a similar offence, witch about their sick to the streets and leave them the literary treasure is that it boars the
romarkable circometace connected with admitted, vox tired $10 with the alternative to the tender mercies of a passing, con- royal arms of England; but when it was in of a woek's taprisonment. It is to be hoped stable. Every day sufferers from amali-pex that country, and by whom owned, has that the forty-dollar fine will not be with- are being picked up in this way. Numbera
7-RACING STAKER. OF $1 each with of English Ye out its salutary effect on people whose views also who have suffered but a flight attack
810. added. For all China Ponies, mand on to
young Funce lived, there would Winnur of which had given way during the interval have been something serious instore for the on maitation are in harmony with those of
Weights as por scale, fine to go to the hospitals, and are to be Tuone would seem to be a. aad" fatality
Bala not only recovered republic. Foochow Cup 71bs. exim. One mile from $1 to 81 par Chan Atai,
forfnd walking about the streets as if sbuat men-of-war which, have the misfor
and a half.
the decline, but coached the highest point of The Russian sorfs, emancipated the year when Empress No 20s was sold at years ago, still think that they have a right thirty tune to be named the Wasp. There is the We have rocoived from Mr Bence Shop nothing had happened.
There ran Women with recent case in the China Sona, following
978). Since then prices hare remained to the land Leld by the Boyards, and some herd, the proprietor of the Hongkong children almost black with the disease that of her predecessor, H.M.S. Wasp, lost
stoady, the fluctuations not ex day this idea tuny catse an outbreak, Our off the coast of Ireland some two years ago,
cont to a Bollar per Bals. Un American negroes long ago gave up the Almannack, an excellent wait map of Bong come out quite openly into the tracte And the ramo recalls a charming chapter of
1887 with 1886, the past may belief that the government would give them compering kong and British Kowloon. Wo have no and seem to have no thought of the evil the Autocrat of the Erakfast Table in
anquestionably be pronounced a boiter forty zaren and a
& nule, and have
have mostly the extent and value of earned that much land and own it. hesitation in saying it is the heat and most results of their stupidity. These and which the genial water says, "The firing of
{year; both adhuch from an the great
Navy a guns at the
the business,
an Importer's reliable map of the Colony we have seen other similar incidents force upon one heard at the place where I was born and
President Carnot, we saluto you. Your point view it is
is very doubtful if the en-great uncle was a great man. France neoda It is up to date. All the roads, that have the conviction that the instructions must he lived.
Now the aloon of war,
hatred coat in India during the greater p part
a great man. Your great neste is dand. been recomly constructed are shown, toge enforced by heavy poualties, that the the Wasp, Captain Blakely, after gloriously
of last year, notwithstanding cheap freights, You are not dead. You are President, the Reindeer, and the Avon, had
THE DESTRUCTIVE FIRES AT ther with one military road that is in pro natives must at least be threatened into paris for the face of the ocean and the chance of the criminals bearing of the
(the war of catos
as will continuing between FOOCHOW
& O. and Rubaitino stedmore) has tho cess of construction. The Bowen or Con- obeying rules, the breaking of which will was supposed to be lost. But there was no
authorities being in their pursuit. Ilow tras The Foockow Echo says: The fire fiend
obtained in China and Japan. duit Road is prominently indicated, and the prove disastrous to the health of the Colo-proof of it, and, of course, for a tine,
mont, was aroused at about two o'clock on
No. 49. Have been neglected through Long after the last roa! heard from
mouths ago, when a Chinese mandarin got the morning of Thursday lost (oth inst.). tunnel, which stretches from the jubution ny. We trust, therefore, that the police hopes were entertained that she might bears the words which wo wrote about,ton has again been devastating, and the settle-beat morn than covered by the better prices and sales show an insiguificatet of that road with Faithun Road to the Tri-will not leave a stone wnturned to find out chanse had etterly vanished, I pleased into trouble in Hongkong for his illegal with the cry that Mesers Adatason, Bell out the year,
illusion that a ROIDC-
Co.'s Hong was on fire. It appears the fire busincas at unremunerative rates. A parcel tam Itecorvair is traced. The now Roads what families have been guilty of the reck-myself with the font
broke out in the office on the first floor and of 50 bales, very infurine make, had to on the waste of waters the war atil! proceedings. We then said :- at the Fast and in the Kowloor Peninsula Jeaness and cruelty of wotting their sick floating, and there were years during which
The principles which govern the civi
it of the year.
Turene is a community of fealing between Hongkong and Shanghai, which is sure to
accidont which happened to Mr Ross, tho
"foreman of the Hongkong Volunteer Bri-
gado, and in sympathising with the sufferer. The letter is as follows-
Shanghai, 6th January, 1888
W. Ness, Esg, Hongkong,
3,211,418 against 1,432,551 lb. to the same date last year.
never been ascertained.
come."
Japan Mail.
Yard is easily
Positive directions are added
First report on the matter to your own officials that they may make representations to the Viceroy.
Ho will make application that criminals in hiding abroad be delivered up for proper punishment. Use no under- haud devices to rent criminals lost trouble be thereby caused."
Issued in Canton, 4th Jan. 1888.
The terms in which this proclamation is couched more than justify the remarks we have repeatedly made on the conduct of the Chinese authorities in endeavouring to spirit away Chinese residents in this
And after all the lecturing we Colony are to suppose the Viceroy got he makes an impertinent excuse for his action, alleging that his rough and ready system avoided
in
Lohengrin Silvery Dawn Dominica
Angust's Wild Woud, Llat 1lbe. (Boyd).
Do. Ficcadilly, 11st. bs. (Marshall). Graham's Cheriat, 10st, 9bs. (Wafman),
Real-
Wild Wood. Chevant.
Piccadilly
2
2
Ìall then
ensued f
July, when th
ve on assegni through
rial, was an uncon
recent French crisis,
You want a good example to
ample to guide you.
Waterlou Napoleon and to Unibe to refer you to the President of the
have
known you too late,' We hope Frange has known this Camet in time.
Prohibition
Franco has a Carnot for President. After Carnot; 1
by say
is not a newition'. It was stronger thirty years ago
was impossible to get in nud save anything. No. 6 and 9s.-Are steadily increasing than now, and failed in all of them.
ground floor, had
barely
bo
have lost of
hserne Merchants,nice.
the flames.
makes,
what
general.
laking way
e char
ware
TG-
con-impression in Brooklyn. In the first place the church people did not want Parker: then they were disgusted because Parker charged a high price for the oulogy, and the elimar was reached wher man insulted the whole of the congregation by his manner of repeating the Lord's Prayer. Take it all in all, Dr. Parker has not done himself or the
to
jocosity.
suggeste
Ph
up the air hu brosthes. The other and rateing the rules for extraditivo, it is to bo lup-to beat back uglust, firo then seemed the latter end of the year, and simultaneous- the newapapar preas has something, I
two-storied
increase.
No,
an un.
should
goncession is made in this direc-soon triuited. The fire then heavy 20%-Have been dealt in to The beat is great bio, enlightenine the oficiala of the Theabutters and twisting the window usually large extent during the year, the dacted in its present style, any man who
Whatever
warda
ing off the
aro all given, while all the outlying villages, anembers down on the streets; and that never heard the souls of the great genalised. nations of the West in their lawa Pead with such alarming rapidity that it be resinued to Binbay in the early part me now, and was the law of more statesTM
were sleeping on large and small, are marked. At the cor-sharp punishments will be infisted on the booming inland from the Navy Yard with for the extradition of criminals have not In fact thros tea boys, wheime to cope of 1200 batus in No. Gs, and of 690 in No. howling success. His roast monkey wasTM ព favour Reported salut, show an increase Mr Barang's oleplant barbecue was a boon grasped by the officials of China. tho out saying to myself, "The Werplass Bougkong we have had frequent roth their lives; and in
Iri
a minutes ner of the map is a table gising the dist-offenders. They have no exeuss at all for
minders of this fact, and it is now pretty there was nothing left but the four walls. 8. Demand line run chiefly upon superior quite good, but his anako was o7BES
baked well known that the High Authorities of The safe in ita fell through the floor
steady throughout. done. prices remaining ances of the varions atations and villages their conduct. Immediately on their re-
No. 10s, and 12.The, increase in re smashed and its con. was unfortunately
A great many
any child-marria from Hongkong The scale is two inches porting cases at the Police atation their
marriages are taking
to one square raile..
sick are taken care of and there is a Brown Sequard, who has been preaching Canton utterly fail to comprehend why their was
that bad ventilation of sleeping-rooms, and bare word should not be at once accopied tants of course destroyed; the stone-built ported sales ores previous year is 14,000 place this winter. As the faction are in
and
count respectively. their second childhood, however, the com abundant room at the Tung Wa Hospital and manstonous food: are the great for the giving up of any criminal of Chinese strong room with fro preot door wES and at the Civil Hospital for the patients causes of phthieis, treated of that disease birth into their custody. It has even been also destroyed, and thus Meases Adam-Common, though wipted at a price, have sequences will not be serious.
dore been scarce throughout, which is not Dr. Parker, the English. olergyman who of the soil of this
this son Bell & Co. and their
Compradore surprising considering the wretched The diseas, we are sorry to say, is at the last
of his Island, when a Chiuaman was
ex- manifest itself in any case of accident or spreading. It has not yet got to such an Sciences, peeling of the Academy of argued that the violationized by Chi- have lost all their books and paper, Praling, tralium have been take faleshed aspirations to succeed Beecher in Ply-
Bome- taking herever popula. nese officers in our very boats, was excus- the airenmons e ferta of "several foreigners amples from England. Buffering. We have bon shown a lottor of extent a need alarm any residents who tion is dense, and sleeping-rooms il-aired. able because of the erodeness of the official and the Cantouche biotf, the godown adjoin. Beadily, but demand was much con- pulpit, sveins to have made a bad
or overcrowded, consumption prevails. De views held on the subject of extradition bying this building was saved; ind it caught and to a few chope and by no means Genral to beat have been in aympathy sent on behalf of the Victoria
ase the slightest presintions, but unless Bailey reported that in Millbank Prison the provisohl authorities of the Empire bre, nothing could have prevented Barate considerable request, and prices have ruled Stoam Fire Engine Company, of Shanghai,the rules for preventing ila "spreading are there were, out of 100 deaths, 45 from this
An impression appears to existing house and the whole of Messrs Bathgate
Govortament, sitarted
Co's. premises
No. 14s-Havs been much neglected all which wa reproduce to show how Shanghaistringently enforced the danger way be. diss. According to the illustrious French that the log on the borders of Chins, other side, the wind was hired. On the almost without change throughout.
doctor, a room in which a consumptive par-as this Colony joins with Hongkong in deploring to end
cothe far greater than it is at present,
son sleeps is reaking with contagieus gerne, should give every facility to the Canton towards the higo building orespied by the year, and show a falling off in the de- if the air he exhales is not carried off. But authorities to obtain the extradition of Messis F. H. England & Co, and the Chian nand and considerable decline in price.
No. 10e.An increase of nearly 6,000 THE Cerior Obierner says:-The Export he get rid of it in ill-built houses or very known that numbers of hardened criablaze; in less than half an hour the roof bales in reported salar, doar previous year, that he represents any credit by his trip to:
specilled or marted mon. It is well
Merchants S. N. Co., and this was soon all Returns keep full pace with the Railway cold weather, when it is as dangurons to
noted. Prices have ruled vory this country. be receipts in token of the tide of prosperity.u We call the special attention of all sceptics i open windows as to keep them shut? To ninals find rofuga hara when the mainland and for fell through to the incible5eady througout the year. Good to bast
The New York Evening Post, in lament and obstructives to the Chamber of Con- most this difficulty Dr Brown Soquard is made too hot for them; and it is alleged with them a large Chutrond's
that it would be doing a
a good.tura" for our- Sufo, which was seon lying amidst the have been in considerably demand both foring the growing disinclination of the
local consumption and export, and
and supplies the Academy an apparatus of showed norce table, and especially to the magnifi- contincrease of nearly 1,500,000 lb. in Tea
invention. A raversed funuel, the shape of ƒ selves, ke well as a neighbourly act towards red ambers in an apparently sound condi- ohausted during the first half of American people to listen to norious dia- ||
the Chinese, if we were to facilitate the tim and it is Dear Sir,-The news of the painful at the exgurls to the 22nd instant being lamp shade, is placed at the aud of a tubes rendition of such pests to society. In riaw, ledgers &c. will be fed therefore the whan sales to arrive were effooted. Re-courecs, and orations, and their increasing
at angles
found untouched. The year,
that the unfortunate accident which botell you at
yo aringed in ita curves
the danger
who it is said had to safe eipts, however, have been over-done during tondancy.
increased 1'scrappiness and gossippiness of the recent extensive fire in your Colony has
when it is placed beside a bed the reversud however, of
The
to do reached this place, and has caused us all very
fuunel will be above the stooper, and draw would be prooosted by say laxity in
medly with arrival, demand has unexpectedly with making serious moode more difficult wind, and Messrs aubsided, atorka
close hewing a at the deep centers and regret, in which the
If there ised that the greatest care will be exorcised England's
godown was
for the general public. The Pou Victorias of Shanghai voanimously join;
The Arsenal at Pagoda, seems to be in a into the chiudy of the room.
take heart. So long as that aper is con and I am directed to acquaint you that at state of great bustle and activity. They aro aone, it is takes through a boating appar bir vatavuk can be accomplished to attacked the small adjoining godown, buru- the Annual General Mesting of the Compushing on with the construction of the stus to an air hole. pany,
held on the 4th lustant, the members armour-clad gunboat laid down about a enough to bure the disso germs.
Kwang as to the simple processes necessary bars, but the building was eventually saved increase in reported sales being 16,000 bales, wishes to envelop himacit in gloom an prased
da motion expresive of this and of year age and working day and night. The
Chines Becaring the rendition of their sincere sympathy
by with yon under your electric light is in use, having been quite
& Co.'s staff with their fire ine, shipments direct to Shangbai and Japan, becoming one of its subser bera
enging pare Intely introduced. Two lamps are suspend-
gular reader of the Post ie over known to Carton, misfortune.
by Foreigners
trifling, though attempted. A.
the fo bora tirare-rundy for but this has been more than compensated / smile.-Indianapolia Journal,
Icas damaged
damaged by fire cient to illuminate an area of some four John Kennedy, the famous singer of or the Governor of this Cotong, might aid shipment was more or
square frat. One light is also Scotcha songs, occur the following passages the Chinese officials in discovering what smoke and water. It was at one time by a brisk and well-sustained native de
Quotations. necessary to be
be taken feared This
entailed hard work. During the tour
Hongkong, Juxuary 12, a pray to the firo, aliah yarn is bringing superior Indian threads OPIUM-Now Patna, cash,.. 482) Hong would become a With best wishes, I ara, dear Sir, yours | kept alight under the mut eholter under- We sang in every town in Ootarinsteps are absinala can be recovered that Mesara Rusell & Co.'s fine old and for Tonquin and the West Coast, where!
which the skip is being put together. As
WA which were six weeks in tixero
But it would be a the flames were scorching from English soil.
the far-ne wo know this is the first armouredaleighed to
and 20s into increasing uso and ahip built in the Arsenal, Fouthow Echo.
were plenty of willing of No. every night.ha, stuging serioas matter if suy Chinese sub- oficer, but thos
We performed in ject could possibly be rendited from this WG
No. 18. 228. 94.--Havo not shured in tion buttors wore speedily pulled dowo, the general improvement, and reor to be THE Medical staff in India will be imme-villages that could scarzoly have furnished
proof of gulle given before a duly-coustitated rendering the untside less inflammable, and THE following is the Order of the Day for diately angmented by the arrival from an audience in themselves, but wore the tony by any process short of satisfactory ends, and the woodou tea ligita and the inesting of the Legislative Council to England of some one hundred and sixty centres of a thickly populated sgricultural Camrt. The inwar classos of oficials in with a plentiful supply of water no harms
fifteen, twenty, China
thege tiot posace
qualities which additional Surgeons. Forty-five Surgeons region--the farmers coming filtas will bo, at least temporarily, employed in and thirty miles in their sleighs.......
existing would justify any departure Western E-dis. The war in Burma had One evening an old Scotchuan drove forty rules; and this faut is sunciony West Indarios who were prezint with a party imports for the last eight Years may prove
mileHe reduced meonrenzunfly, the Mutical staff in fem
Leamo jot the side.room #ED known as of aldiers that kept the crowd-in-check, and and eycu, it will now be raised considerably dewy India, but it
my father's hand to the greaped
which may or prevented them invading the property and the nomeroy F'dinna care as muckte n atrength. We note
not belong to the higher authoritics Tnstrance Companies should send
grades of awarily, saying,
and we would recommend that the above its ordinary
Let the Cantonese
rume prevalent belief that there exists an inter- for yer shugs-I just want to see a
that's seen Parth
The old by all means help themselves to refugees in oumshaw to the soldiers, as they are really since I saw it 1 Hon of having all things in readiness for the
guilty of offences the people, under their officers, to whom we iving of two Army Corps to the North, if
to them, conjured up bygone in
but let
let them Auch museR
If the fugitives calamity as this. The Cantonese, Aino for are loud comments One night, at the con- criminals as alleged, then they ought to be ed with the fire engines of Messrs. Jardine, 1537 clusion of When the kya comes bame all the more easily identified and proved to Matheson & Co. Meara Bathgate & Co.
These figures shew a considerablu jalling man slapped his knee, and loudly exclaim- be what they are represented to be. Any and Messrs Gilman & Co. A few native ed, with a relishing smack of his lips, burlesque en Justice, however, ought and houses were also burnt in one of thereuniu impor, and the trade appears to have unist be strenuously obj cted to in our there was a loud explosion of either fire been seriously affected by tag hoary sup. That's meat an' drink to me!"*
crackers or kerosine oil. English Courts.
plies of the lower counts of Indian Yarn, The properties we hear were fally insured which are laid down comparatively, cheaper and the losses will fall principally on The at the door of the consumer than the raw China Fire Insurance Co., the Liverpool material London and Globe Insurance Co. and the COMPARATIVE TABLES OF IMPORTS AND Ke Hongkong Fire Insurance Co.
before
No ca
In cmnnnicating this to you I am to add? od in the abujang shed and are quite a IN un interosting memoir of the life of criminals from this Colony, might fairly boingstone exertions of Mery Gibb Láp. or noarly 25 per cent. Owing to wavydulge theae penitential, proclivities by
that the members hope to receive god -necounts of your progress towards recovery.
faithfully,
hundred
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0. S. SHIP, Hon. Sec. Victoria' Stea
Fire Engine Co.
:
be held to-morrow {~~~ First reading of the following Bills:-
(a.) The Cathedral Ordinancs, 1988. : (b) The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1888, (c) An Ordinnoce to provide for the pro- servation of copies of Books printed in Hongkong, and for the registration of such
auf-
maki
bofore fugitive
do
H. M. Consul
in
purchases
have: heon
old the continuad scarcity and dearness of Eng walls of their
Which was dune.
Too much cannot ho said of the several
Prom
getting out of favour; business transacted during the year being poor and unro- manerative.
Raw Cotton-The following statistics of
interesting.
12.910. 8,762
Bengal Bama Toli
buy. shee
DOL
1890
1381
1882
081,788, 6,344). 12,166 | AEG 110.18516 98,2312,110 36,293 1164
5.102 1764.
1584
03,069 14,120
1563
168
48277 --
12,818 1.9.19 6518073 400 117,752 10429,010
£1457120 3,563 | 121)
818
42,000
7,912
() An Ordinance to amend the Refor-political complications should arise render- songs, whighery much «ffected by the Houston who have been low the rice look for protection in the event of a 2883,
Books
the
farmers
wero
scenes and associations.
Frequently ther
ing such a demonstration recusary. →Bom would break ont, in their enthusiasm, into Pro for so very well-known deserve great praise for the way they work i
matory Schools Ordinance, 1886.
[D.) The Regulation of Chinese Ordin-bay Gazette, Brico, 1888,
() An Ordinance prohibiting the En-I ESS, mys the London correspondent closure of Verandahs orssiod over Crown of the Manchester Guardian, that Sir John Walsham, Beitisa Minister at Fakin, is ns. gotiating with the Chinese Government for
Luuds.
of
(7.) An Ordinance for the Registration
Imports and Exporta.
1.) The Treca Preservation Ordinance, 1868.
(1) The Uralaimed Balances Ordinance, (5.) An Ordiance to amend The Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875.
We found in South Africa, as in the the addition of an article of great import ance to the lately ratified convention about other Culonies, that English and other na Burma. This clause has relation to the tionalities highly appreciated Scottish song. telegraphic systems of Burina and China, We met with several instances Of how and provides for their connection at the enthusiastic Scottish feeling exista in the frontier. As yet no telegraph crosses the midst of colonial life, which, with ite after material The Barua prosaic features and struggle at Yannan long national sentiment. The feeling is opt to eccentric, as was the ease with the
frontier of Chins að a
(.) The Oficial Signatures Fees Ordin-lines have long been
BLICO,
1888.
and the telegraphed to Bhamo, wealth, is not always the best conserver of
THE AMOY RACES 1838.
FIRAT DAY, 165. 1-CONSULAD Cor (Prosented)
8100. For all China Ponies.
Value Weights
Following so closely upon the large fra
as per acala. Entrance 86. Half a just recorded, words fail to express the an- raile
Thero entered for this race-
(4) Au ̈· Ordinance for the naturalization since. If the two systems were connected bool King of Scot, hung in Rathton's Ridd'e, 10st. lbs. (Scott).
of Fritz Adolph Friccina Grobien.
117)
of
An Ordinance for the naturalization Hillans Loo Ngawk alias Lou Kiu Fung,
(N.). An Ordinance for the naturalization of Lai Shang aus Lai Chek Kün.
of
(a) An Ordfhance for the naturalization
Lai Kit, alias Lai Chouki
(p) An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 15 of 1886.
and a new route between Ohias and Burope Scotsman of William's Town who had thus sacured, merchants having business a a portrait of Mary Queen
Cable Company and the Danish Siberian Company.
Carmelite
Bay Mora
Sisty caused in the minds of Foreigners wher, at about 180 of Thuesday
-
PORTED SALES OF INDIAN GREY YARS EFTECTED IN HONGKONG DURING THE YEARS 3876-7, 1878.9, 1880-1, 1882-33,
Now Benaras, cash, 480/82
Ocashy
Old
Now Malwa, cash,
620/26 Allowance, Taols. None to 8 Old Malwa, cash,.....535/50 Allowance. Taola. None to 33
ersian, Oily, cash 600/40 Allowance, Taels. None Poraian, Paper tiøl 050/65
Pance, Faols / None
Exchange BONOKOSO, January 12,
Loning Bask, Wire,
30 days' sigh:
4 months?---
Documer fary, 4t
1881-5, and 1886-7 On Calou da
8/1
3/34
21
On demand,
21
Oredite, 4
On Pa
On don And,
Credits months' right,
On New Cork
On der And,...
Oredit 60 days aglit,
OF
On Bomtar
W18, 2
On doband,
Wire,
Importa to Imports Total
On
demand,
Year
Bale
Hong- koog
On Shanghai-
On demand,
BO days sigbt,
Gold Leaf 100 fine.
1916 217,306 |||
197
37,790 || 30/031 JESIE
Temperature.
*1832
6.721
1980 60,25 1815070
3,099 $1,215 19,671
5,332
7,634 83,69 /^51 AU
5,117
107,200 116514); 118,714 || 891660
And seat to bang so
1684 rieri †1885
1950 276, 1107 .... 178,760
287,978
12,609 || 149,943 112,450.
360, 391
27,354-178,475 217844
12446 9,800
"Queen's Road). BAROMITEE 9 AM 30.136
1PN30.06
50.000 225.380 343,074
88,485 111287,216 28683239 §. 11,153
Do THERMOMETER-9 A B
Do.
30.04
63
68
•Direct Bhipments to Jarsan bomazenced.
Da
fre was seen fo burst out in the
neighbours hood of the Amoy Road. The fire burnt to Mr Walkinsbus's arden wall, and
the round to back of the
konge. Several
there, and
foreignera at once potiana and
|| Saat:-
Clins Kouga andand kong Japan, Japan,
17,603 6718 Sovereign
64,067 42,098 356(Taken at Mestra Falconer de Co.'s Premises,
the removal of somo: ful expe
of water
the
house was aupply
Sared, although at times the heat was so intensa impossible to
tha stand Was almost
on the
1962 2.80 €456 06,744 7794587,908 Tas ure then somed to sub- verandah, 2-TRIAL STAKES-Of $10 wel with $75 cids a little, but after awhile a breeze
added second Pony 325. A forced
Brang up, entry for Amoy Subscription Griffins of the flames acom to make headway this sounou Weights on per sonde. again, and w Three quarters of a mile.
with the Far East would find the benefit his bed-room, and who, every morning on August's Wilwood, I1st. 11b: (Boyd). immediately. The present rates are main tained by an agreement between the British stretched his hands towards it, ery- Feleize's Carmelitë, 11st. 1lb. (Eutching).
ເນອນ Oh my murdered
queen Once we Home Resy Mors, 10st. 12lbs. (Hardings).
ving, "My Ain overlea Yo Banks as': Braes,..
enthusiast aaying. an
Magenta's furion, 11st. 1lbs (Marshall). Fireside,"
The
Result Land of the Leal, "oh, s body could be fit
Wat Wood phas
sange sung The Victoria, made exceptionally good to gang to heaven hearing ronning on ber Brst voyage out, but she And was ever love of country mara strongly TEN, says a correspondent of the fan- seems to have made a still faster passage expressed than in the case of the Fart chester Guardian, that the mandarin Ms, home. Leaving Borabay on November Beaufort Soutsinan, who exclaimed Gude who accompanied Count ftkiwicz from 11th she rouched Plymouth on November save us ! T'd rather gang hame on be hazy- thing to the United States to complete Listh. Allowing for stoppages at ports and od than des here a natural death"!! Hung Chang's concessiona, has arrived in for the passage through the Canal, the
the voy London. Ma is a man with a bistory like age was accomplished in sixteen days four that of the Count. He was first a prieat in hours, giving an average speed of fifteen bia ustivo province,
but having been per and three quarter knots, or over eighteen unded
by the Faschinge
an hour. And yet we still hear missionarina, he embrace Christianity. He
admitted into the Order of Jesus between England and India could ever was even adu
·· How he came to abandon the Order xud
antie Liners in Kod approach the Atlantic-
in spoed. besize a politician and funpolor is not The Fusteria's voyage is an effectual re known. It is not quite certain what object ductio ad absurdum of the argumente put bus in view in coming to London. It forward by the India Office, aishorities is, however, bayond doubt that he lisa given when the new contrast was made with the upall hope of doing anything is the United P. and O. Had they own what they States, or of carrying back from there any were about, voyaging Anglo Indians right portion of the small loans to the Govern steam three knuts an hour faster than they information. It is issued in accordance meat and to Li Hong Chang which he was are now likely to do for the next ten years specially sent to receive..
ta-come-limeer
d with aberaning
At the bank of MT
use, cons
ing everything bayan tree i
very large
then, was almost in the form of a
wantalong
Includ
4 Direct Shipments to Shanghai corextensed, VU 8,916 to Japan and 45,617 in Shanghel
of some Catholice ridiculing the idea that ressols plying The Rendition Proclamation of the Four MeThera's St. Musgo, 11st.-11b.(Hutchings), straight in the direction in the Paris Figaro,* of a valuable remedy
A CHINESE PROCLAMATION. ON RENDITION,
c.f
The entries were:-- August's Lohengrin, 11st. Lib. (Boyd). Itho's Better by far, 11st. 1b. (Marshall.)
3ng a
Ko,
Provincial Treasurer.. Wong, Chief Criminal Judge. Ting, Salt Curamissioner. Tin, Grain Intendant.
High Provincial Officials of Kwang Home's Story Dan, 10st. 1bs (Hardjog)
Hoodman's Cast Away, Fist 11b. (Scott). Tung
Resul
St Mungo
Silvery Dawn
Lohengrin
The proclamation is said to be for general
with kostruglious resulted from the Trung
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY is announced
saved him from a misamble existente aud
sud Shanghai Bank, barning den wall which is some
up to the gar places
was knocked fur Barvous debility, physial exbaustion, down, , leaving thà Bank in imaginent and premature deusy. The discovery was
denger. It then proceeded down the street on the made by a missionary in Old Mexice; it
side of the Bank, whers
it was pied
a fire engine was working an early grave. We learn that the Rev there under the direction of Mr AW. Gibh Joseph Holmen, Bloomsbury Mansions, 3-FOOTEOW CUE-(Presented;) Value who the hec on to the roof of a Chi Bloomsbury Sato, London, W.CE will 8100. For all China Ponies. Weights were house, and it was through his parse Bead the prescription, free of charge, on: as per souls. Entrance $5. One mile verance that the fire was arrested at this receipt of a self addressed stamped oneas and three quartero,
point. We hear that over 1,000 jou love,
(Wet bulb) D ́AM. 00 Dow Do I FM00 4 P.M. 61:
D
Maximizi
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. A4EM TO:DAY. Baromaker
30:04 Temperature
34
Hamidity
Direction of Wind
Force
Weather
Alongkong Observatory, J17, 19, 1888.