No. 1696.-Arnii, 23, 1888.]'
FROM El Comercio we learn that one of the most disastrous fires that ever occurred in the Philippines troko out in San Fernando, Pampanga, when about 1,200 houses were
We find it stated that the Russian Govern ment are making arrangements to place a of advancing the trade between that place Conaniato-Gineral in Tiartain with the view and Vindivostock.
destroyed, moms of which were of subatau-WORK on the National Assembly building sial build, of the value of between $20,000 at Tokio will be commened in 1889, and it and $10,000 each. The Aro, which began in auticipated that ning years will if 2.25 p.m. on the 17th April, was only quired to complete its construation. The
cost ia sat down at 2,050,000 pe chocked by 7.50 p.m. of the same evening, As this is the end of the sugar-grinding. Ex. Li-Hung Chang will shortly must,
whole Fei-yang squadra is we hear, a tour of inspoutin he His Excellency, who will embark at Take on board of one of the cru seru, which recently arrived here from Europe.~~ Shanghai Courier.
Boazons, piso atures were all stocked with this staple. The loan of property is said to be about one million of dullara.
SUPREME COURT.
THE CHINA MAIL.
IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION, (Before the Bon. J. Bussell, Acting Chief
Justice). Monday, April 23.
BENTENJING,
Criminal Sessions were brought up to-day The prisoners convicted at this month's
to be sentenced,
ESCAPING FRON PRISON."
.1.
Mr. E. W. Baird's Playfair Mr F. E. Lawrence's Frigate Mr P. Niokall's Ballot Box. 3
Sheril in 1889. When High Sheriff of Dublin he was sentenced to three months imprisonment and a fium of £500 for con- tempt of court in poramenting in the Freeman's Journal un alleged misco of the jury which was trying Francis fyros for murder. After six woka
public aubseription. Mr Grag was pen- imprisonmacut he was liberated by oner of QUARANTINE IN SAN FRANCISCO,
Judge, the no having been paid by prietor of the Freeman's Journal, and alan of the Delfast Morning News, both active part, both personally and as con- Nationalist organik.
He has taken an ductor of the so papere, in all the popular
the
u
GREAT SUFFERING BY THE CITY OF PRKING" PASSENGERS.
word
chain gang.
Mok Aliz and Wang Aint were convicted on their own admission of craping from a thing to say before sentence was passed,
Wong Afat
›on being naked if he had any vergents in Ireland for the last sixteen pinced in quarantine because, the Occident ice Garratt by order of Houlth Offer said the roasuna why he made his acape were that he was sentenced to imprison that he was made to work without
The Tokio Electric Light Co. has lode- ment for a crime he had not committed and of Gormany will take place at Königsberg | wore shifted to worn-out atormer called or the circumstances, however, congrain- tively identified,
food. The Superintendent of the Gao
ot
THE IMPERIAL PEURRATION LEAGUE.
city
3
The charred bodies of a man and a woman were found in a box locked in s cinee embrace. They are believed to bb. bodies of Dun Sorila and bis wife. Ho was one of the wealthiest merchants in the Nano of the remnina, can be pusi Oporto (Portugal); March 22nd.-80 far can be aces
Ascertained the disaster areas from an AD
against the scenery. A scone shifter named Davis saw and tried to lower
rum at the Liverpool Spring Meeting on country by the City of Peking on February spectators on the lower tiere reached the Friday, with the following result:- 17th. On the 23d of that month the cabin stroot in comparative safety. Somebody passengers, soventoon in number, including shut of the gas shortly after the fro was three ladies, a lady's maid, aut also th discovered in the hope of checking its stewardess of the vessel, wora transferred spread, but it only left the theatro and o the steamer telope. This hat Drxits in almost total darkness, and in- for human habitation Matchmota described as being almost unfit eronsel the panic,
She was foll of bilge water and in a most disgraceful state, son a roaring blaze. All the doors of the The light woodwork of the galleries was having been built
A great many years theatro opened inward, and all were closed The
passengers by the, City of Peking for and not having been
been used. he when the alarm was given. The theatre San Francisco had remarkably disagrecha nderstood, for several years. Arriving on the 17th February they werfowl uxperience of quarantine at that port
and on holde 2200 people, and the box office was February 24th to back
put. refusing admission before the performance, un the City of Peking. The fol so that it is known the loss of life was very lowing day they were transferred to the says, of a case or canes of small por is
Jarge.. board, the vessel into which they were THE CORONATION OF THË EMPEROR.
McAllister. The accommodations there transforced being an old unsonworthy halt were last wore thin out the Antelope. It is reported that the coronation of the called the Antelope, where they were parti Dr. Mutchmora characterizing the boat as Emperor Frederick and Empress Victoria
eularly uncomfortable.
an all halk. The passengers made up From this the their minds to do the best -in-Jane-next.
RO- they could the Alice Gurrait aud in her completed the not net in accordance with the regulations
London, March 22. In providing at a
fourteen
urteen days of quarantine which had yet lating themselves on the fact that they ware Lime for release expired on to be released at the expiration of the four- prisoners used to got pork four times a the Earl of Rosebery stated that the De.. week, which they did not get now; and fence Committee of the Loague, of which reason they were not brought shore, last, however, Dr. McAllister and some quarantine for smallpox, which Loun days'
Store coolies, the Pulico team boing the with which were imported into Favory hard on the prisoners; if one said question of the adfety of colonial inte de March: The steamer Alice (Furratt, which Motshimura did not know, went on board,
now taken away. The Superintendent
with the happened to them on
Sunday, the 4th He asked his Lordship either to acutonce more important to cultivate a fooling of the City of Peking, acently transferred fein epileptic hits, and who said that he stage, the public becama panic-stricken and him to death or send him to his native sympathy with colonial ninis tha to dis-nous in saire consequent the hunty cuts declared that he was suffering from typhins There was & rough attendance of the nati
samo burning BConery fell
down on the district,
drifted from her felt symptome of an approaching attack, made a cuss the question as to whether the colonies moorings in consequence of the
c. made a simultaneous rostr
raah for the doors. His Lordship said he was glad to hear should be represented in the liiperial caster yesterday morning and ran into the fever and went away. Friday night this cal, sido-waiter and dock-porter class in the that the prisoner did not think the Gaol Parliament. comfortable place. It was not intended he printed at, a difficult utter to Bayer
editing to the future, it was, gougers were enabled most of her yatig man was seized with a fit.
Spear-atreet deck, whore
Ni second gallery. The stea
were pitiless in the victory for the Sikhs, and in the Asiatic stern visited Shau-ching-ft, in Kwong had any complaint to unke an to his treat Empire.
to escape.
physician! had been placed on board sither comfortably quartered. conquerors' competition subsequently theng Province, on the 29th ult., and the ment he should state it to the Visiting Jus
If the prior cutanial influence would predominate in the she was so badly datanged that she sank were indignant at this neglect of proper to the frout Young girls, children and
themselves. They drifted to
to the Stanart-street dock, where
used their fists, shnea and and the quarantined passengere knives to cuff, kick, and [Offeet. ;
and slash their way Sikts easily pulled the Water Police hailstones wore an largo as rico-howls. tices Fin Lordship could not asume for Lord Briary quoted the speches of Mr near the wharf shortly after the tug had pro tions for their health. This young women were literally butchered when they The muat interesting vant was doing-great damage to the crops and the net that there was any ground the colonial Ministers approved of the neared the Merchants Dry Dock, tho pas who has considerable knowledge of medi- the programme very attractive, so-tant there
Several oxen were killed by the hail, besides
And Mir Deakin, and declared that Again taken hold of her. Ax the steamere affect of the St. Rev. Mr Mutchmom,
man referred to became most violent from stood in the way of these brutes. roofs of houses
The performance on a beneft one, and by a team of Europene Police pulling GENUINE Bavarian Bear is soon to be addition to the unexpired portion of their the direct representation of the Australian tion. The steamer drifted by the dry dockį gave him relief, but not the slightest syn- the actresses engaged in it were their nest
The sentence of the Court was that both policy of the Bea also spoke, advocated sected to realise the danger of their posi- cure, applied proper remedies and soon
was not an empty place in
in the house. Al
Tne iug-of-war forening part of the pro grumtue of the Police Athiotic sports were
ed a petition at the Kanagawa Kenchu for pulled on the Parade Ground this offornoov, permission to establish branch office in in presence of a large turnout of spectators. | Yokohan. The company has already Yokohama Post and Telegraph Office now in course of erection.
We note that the amount of Japanese
ernment employ, was canteated by a team
of the Water Police and a team of rainco
+
d
which
as
The first oval, open to all Chinese in Gor, I receive an der for the lighting of the made by the Government. Formerly the meeting of the Imperial Forloration League, Thursday, the Iot March, but for some would exp re on March 3d. On Thursday draugeted jet of gas being blown by a they used to have shoes, but these were Lerd Brassey is the Pingould this is what tho San Francisco Chronicle say member of the Board of Health who r the curtain to shut out the flames from the victors. A team of town Police having during the last four years, was as follows; few words he would be punished.ir time of war. Ho declared that it had on board the quarantined prasengers of coing a young man, who was a sufforertoriumi, but as he was rushing forward
thon pulled a scratch team, the water and town Police teams pulled for the first place,
the result being a win for the Water Police.
A contest between teams of Sikhs and Gun
1884. 1880....
1880..
1887
Greas. .15,296 .25,721 .42,005- .61,900
way
question of
Was
from
pita-a
Laacara onded after a very stiff pull in a We soo by the Bupne that a severe bail. be a place where criminals would whether within the next decade home or mor was then towed oil, but broke away and the steamship company or by the Healing mane and bare down all weaker than
team.
the European tag-of-war which began
over a heavy team from H.M.S. Abicions The Police afterwards tackled a team from the 58th Regiment, and although the
squarely pulled over. The police team thus became tho. victors A pull for the second
and 58th tennie. The mon
were well matched and the issue was doubtful for some time, but the gallant tars showed
an article of export from Japan. paper states that the Sapporo Brewery has A native ordered all the necessary machinery for brewing genuine Bavarian beer, from instructor employed by the Hokkaido-cho, The
capital of the Company is 70,000 yes.
to
be
whatover for the prisoner's statement
men ho imprisoned for nine months in former Boutonces.
THE NUGGET TRICK'
Lord Stanley, who
colonics in
in the Imperial Parliament.
Wong Alam who was convicted of steal indian. March 20th.-M. Wilson, son-
sengers who had come out from
thint scene
VALUABLE MANURCHIFT LOST.
jewels. All the clothes in the Arossing- rooms were totally destroyed. Ataong the professionals there was not so onch loss of life as must have taken place had not tho stage exit led directly to the street, so that escape was comparatively ecay.
Accounts received here stato that more injured. The authorities are binned for all wing performances in the theatro, the purpose. The disaster is attributed to
Steelbacks' inade a good stand they were Germany, by Herr Max Pallmers, a brawing ing a sum of money from a teman by walioking in War Office, seemed so renil the heavens, and the storm having important business engagements than 100 persona were killed and many.
the
tha
About
place was afterwards made by the Aviacions H. E. Sr. D. Valeriani Weyler y Nicolau, er offence, was sentenced to two years' hard Wilson was charged was not of a èriminal rents, and shed excitedly to and fro in mor, the wind blow with anel fores as the architects had declared it unfit for
the newly-appointed Grezner and Captain General of the Philippines, is to leave. Bar- celona for Manila by the mail steamer un the 4th May. The present Governor Gen.
BURGLARY AND RECEIVING
Li Aching, who was convicted of burglary,
thernsalves wonderfully tough and altilares Manila in a day or two in the and Lam Ang for receiving stolen property puror Frederick since the upon the Em. Presenting a picture in the He ran on deck and wiw the vessel rapidly negligenco in the construction of the singe
mately pulled over the seldiers. His Es. cellency the Governor vizited the ground and witnessed the European contests.
Ir is reassuring to obtain testimony, from
eral. (H. K. Sr. E. Terrara y Perinat) was sentatived to five years' hard labour, Diamante for Hongkong o Madrid.
roule
to was sent to prison for three-months.
Formusa.
the
no
ap.
poration was steamer, arge piece of 6 Bartilege from the uped against the whaf like a trip-bum- jforced against the Oregon Steamship Cons
of loose
the
tner.
рав
the lips of nue of the inmates of the Gaol Colonien of Victoria, and Soath and Weat there and Foochow. The cable was broken the disease has fumoved indicated that have the boat in very scanty attire. The said he did not feel as bitter against
UNDER the powers granted by auction Sof Ordinance of 1887, the Guverior in Soun- cil is pleased to order that the of the Parcel Post he extended to the trovisions of the fact that the comforts of the Gaol Australia; to tlio West Coast of Africa, the life here are not tow calculated to fascinate Australian and French Pont Offices in Tarkes, the Azores 1-lands, Beyrout, But the criminal s'names. Wang Afat, it -varia, the Camerouns, Costa Rica, French pears, is of opinion that the Superinten-Colonies, Madeira, and Servia.
Bencura
nora
Quotations. HONGKONG, April 23. OPIUM~Now Patra, cush, 462)
Old
71 cab, - Now Hences, uach, 4701 Vid
#1
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M
8/48
Now Malwa, casb, 550 Allowance, Taule... 32/48 Old Malwa, cash,... 670/30 Allowance. Taste Persian, Oily, cault 630 Ailowany, Tao 10 Persian, Paper tied 540/80 Allowance, Tachi... 16
shelter
and streak the end of Spcar atrest pior with ptoms of typhus fover were apparent. THE FRENCH WALL OFFICE SCANDALS.
1. terrific crash i.
that shook ber from stens to steru, staving in her port side and smashing -President of ux
The quarantine for small por expired the cail on the lower deck to aplinters. The Saturday evening, but Dr McAllister made Grory,
appealed moans of the nugget trick, was sentenced to
She sentencu d
followed beggars description, no amove toward releasing the passengers. upon him for alleged
decorations in Almost at
at the same moment the steamer This proceeding aroused 18 mouths' imprisonment with hard labour. Judgment was given to-day, and the Court increased in violence. The rain fall in tor- in this city and in the East instruck, a sluck of thunder was heard that to the highest degree, many with connection
their
Indignation Wing Atak, who was convicted of a simi- deglared that the offence with which M. labour.
wind
blow
s perfect hurri-'olock yesterday morning, suid Mr Mutch nature. The sentence of the lower trioquial cane. Mon was therefore reversed.
the steamer, and women scarcely half as to cause the Garratt to drag her anchors. dressed rushed on dock, their white THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Marah 27.Sir Marell Mackenzie, why
and disordered hair
lowing haz remained in
in attendance
wind, spproaching the shore. A tug was withiu deapdr The 100 yards of the farratt, but mado entirely at the mercy of
storm, parant attempt to assist her, and she was performed on his throat, has removed a
The passengers all were fortunate in pany's dock. There was comparatively no footed The Emperor has since ob- escaping with their lives, but loss all their excitement among the passungers. The boat
part. The Tarasul, 7th April, 1898.
tainad further relief, and the condition of effects. The women who were on the steamer then floated down to the Steuart-street the repairs of the telegraph cable between cartilage which
his larynx continues to improve. It has had not completed 1 heictoileta, probably pro wharf and struck there also, where the On the oth the a. Fee-chew completed been suggested that
of loose
to romsia in bed on account of the sengers were assisted over the piles on to piece in three different places, so a new piece had
rolling of the steamer, and were obliged to the dock, stated clowhere. Mr Mutch- had reached a cancerous stage. done by Mesars. Colding and Hanson. The Cominous to-night the motion for the second teen days of quarantine expired on Satur when by rolossing them on Saturday morn
THE IRIAR QUESTION, to be spliced 1 This was successfully Fee-chew will leave for Foochow to-night. reading af Mr. Parnell's Land Bill was day, and had they boon released on that ing all trouble would have been avoided. complain batterly of the treat the steamship company as he did against London, March 21.--In the House of ment they have received at the hands of the Dr McAllister for continning the quaru
health authoriti a. They say that the fourtine against the passengers without cause, dent of the Gaol s very hard on the priT N. C. Daily News says:-We under-new fort which guards the entrance of this member for Birmingham, in favour of deal that the accommodations un the Alice Gar- to recover damages from the company for
The Governor has given orders to have a soners, and does not set in accordance with at and that Mr George Jamieson has accept barbour. It is to be a movethis ripe to ing with all dets of the tnpantry of Ireland rati were of the puurest kind, while they the loss of his own and his wife's baggage. Un London—
powerful electric light put
close to the natived. up
Amendment of Mr. Powell Williams, day they would not how have the loss of Mr Matchmars said that he had not yet do- the regulations made by the Government. ed the Acting Julgoship in Japan, during
their ggage to mourn. They also claim fcided as to the steps which he would take This, at first sight, looks like a very serious the absence of Mr Hannou, and will less turn in any direction, and to be used as a on the suns basis as the arrests due to chan, not unly against General Gordon, his flies here line been made. We congra- The workmen are is busy making the delivered at Stalybridge yesterday, Mr Bai-
for Yokohama as spott as a
search light. It will be very useful abould landlords, was carried by 328 to 243. appointment
were supposed to be first class. to steal in during the night. enemy
Ho said that in one of his trunks be buit against the Viriling Justices of the tulate Yokohama on the appointment foundation, and the lamp and apparatus foar, Chief
March 26. In the course of an
an address
BELEASED. TTUM QUARANTINE BY ruz mannscript which he would not have loat
KLEMENTS. The passengers who left the Alice Garratt observations made in every country in for 8000, containing, as it did, notes on
put up the electric light at Taipuk.lu.
was bearhug must
wharf looking at the wrecked steamer, but the world. During the trip ho visited a The Loch Eck has finished discharging. be said, was gradually being relieved of the entire party, to the number of eight or ten, this prison. Upon closer examinatior, how. THE Nagusaks Express says:-The very and
in that country. Ireland the condition of the unfortunate women number of Presbyterian missious, and
Doramuntary, ta' sight, 3/04 She left for Kelung and Amoy on the 30th
would not
large permit of long stay and tho took
On Paris- of 'an irresponsible
regard to theth intended to publish
slo, He
On demand,... & books that he used to get pork four times a rock, Robertaun, 0.31 0., which occurred at Yo-Philippines, bibes the foods for icon thement, and acting entirely uncontrolled by Health Oficer McAlister hud Deputy was desirous of assisting in
containing an after which to proceed to
op Pacific Mail Dook,
Credits, 4 mouths' sight, and that now their allowance of sucking-e, will, we fuel sture, be received with Shanghai Mercury.
kohama ou the 10th inst. from hoart dis
they were met by aying that he was a law-abiding citizen; the low of thes State and of f morality.
On demand... pig and crackling is not quite ao frequent great regret by all who know him. Doovus
BERIOUS RIOTING-IN IRKLAND,
Surcoyor of the Port Fogarty. Among the protect the health and interests of the overy vag London, It may be, indeed, if Afat's conduct did noted only returned to Japan from England,
March 26-William O'Brien Fengers were the three member of the people of San Francisco respecting the Corea.
On Bombay atteripted to address & meeting at Youghal
Chinese leave of absence, on the 28th alt, and commund itself to the Governor of the had been appointed Acting Judge of H. B. Seoul, Korea, under date of April 4th, as
Legation, who also had the misfor- quarantine laws, but he thought that the which had been prooitged by the Govern An occasional correspondent writes fromment nader the
one to ho passengers on the City of Peking.ction of Health Officer McAllister, which flavoured with pork from ons week's and to Mr Hannon.
interfered, and prevented news of the accident to the Chinese Consulated sion to work gold in Peng Yong De, and risiting coeucl. and Mr. D. Plunket, M.P. care of, Consul Bec appeared soon after the meeting from being carried out. Serious late and asked that the Legation be taken
CAPTAIN DEARBORN'S STORY, dicate which loan the Government
Captain H. C. Dearborn, who was in a hack and carried off the Chinees to the brutally a Was the mob sanited by
Consulate Captain Dearborn, Chief Eng.mmand of the Alice Garratt at the time of the accident, was interviewed at the
to
for
e had
Penes who are regarded by the law as a mieson here, where his popularity is only of Mr Mullins; the same gentleman who eat in regard to Lela pasty Bioreznj./at Spear street stood for some time on the which he had traveled in his tour around
will be a very difficult thing to replace Mr will be erected under the superintondeuce ced that this valid for Irelati
very bulwark against irregularities, approsequalled by the estoum in which he is hold ston, and injustice within the precincts of as a Judge..
excellent
Joke
notes
Exchange. Hoxoxoso, April 23.
Bank, Wire,
211
On deniart,
3,0
30 daga' sight,
3/0
months' sight....
Grodits, 4
30
3/0%
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ever, it is found that Wong Afat complains cows of tho sudden death of Mr Russult. She will go into dock in the latter manding almost unlimited.ction, com- i started in the dock and proconded to the account of his travels. He concluded by Oa New York-
powers of punish-
Gaol, that his rice and water was not even M.'s Court for Japan during the absence of follows-Meyor & Co. have got a concen. Act. The police inions of the Crimesopaty Surveyor Fogarty telephoned the vas quite unwarranted, ought to be van--|
Credits, 60 days' sight, Wire On demand,
ra
On Calootta-
3.79 3.87
2214
Wire,
2:14
On demand, On Shangaa
On demand,... 30 days' night Gold Leaf, 100 e...
222
72%
the other. Shoss, too--which are badges The Japan Gazette nuderstands that Signor they are 8 of a German-ayn for Dublin Unit The crowd was disiner McClure, who lost his guid watch, Palace Hotel last night by a Chronicle Sovereigu.
of civilisation-were
He said
33.60 86.571
formerly supplied, but now they have been baritone vocalist and impressario, at present Mr Illing, is here, sent by the synciento, dressed a small meeting in the stable Peking were also among those in quarantat about 6 o'clock anthe (Taken at Messrs Falconer i to's Fremiks,
days. Threa well-know tour in a few attached to Canon Kellar's residence,
--taken away.
/
As Aist may have found it torming in California, porgones vistling and will start on a
Off-
the
iri
THE EUROPEAN HITUATION.
tine.
strong
on the part of the Superintendent must Lała Jaman, pionistes, Mr James Owen rector of the Mint, leaves for home mania is consulting with the Emperor Francis their fright, and the overcoats kindly time the Garratt was lying about half way
against Russia
1968 (madian)
by them
ufi
city.
Temperature.
Queen's Road,;
BAROMSTER
Da.
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29.88
20.85
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29.83
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TaKOMETER—9 4.M....
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76
Japan, with his concort company, on his very convenient to hide his mild chew of way to China. The company consists of cers are on their way tore to organize a
U.S. Army Madam Fleissner-Latvia, soprano, Miss Korean modern army. Mr Kraus, opium in bis shoes, this inconsiderate act Pauline Joras, violinist, Mics Elise and.
London, March 23.—The King of Roy. The women wrapped in such shawls and wind from the southesat came up and
sotaforiore as they hastily picked up in that began to drag port anchor, which Joseph of Austria, with the view of effecting furnished by the men, were made as warm
was the caly one she had out At that have proved very imitating to the law. tenor, and Signer Campobello, baritona.faw days. The taint will not be in working order for another year, at least. Meyer & abiding spirit of the said Wong Afat. expects to leave Ban Franciscs in Juno. Co. will place the loan in a short lime, and
union between Austria and Roumania as and comfortable as possible in the' toom of between Mission rock and the Pacific Mail Another trouble of Wong Afat'e is, that THE Nayashi Express says:The German
receive na security the Customs revenues
March 24.John C. Bratiano, the Rousut for and the passengers woro driven to the starboard anchor, bat the wind kept the captain of the duck. Darriage wurd Steamship Compsay's buy. He at ones let the Gaol Governor is a Tory of the old orvette Bismarck had the misfortune to and half profits of all gold working will Promier, bez doslared that Rouman kotels and different houses throughout theening and there being a very heavÝ sea school, and, instead of encouraging the free the voyage from Nagasakit
ground in Shimonoseki Straits whilst on have the exclusive
in Peng Yang Do for are years. They will will regard as a suomy any Power which hote
my disturbs the peace of Europe. Any attempt right of working and full discussion of public or private 15, which will necessitate her being doozed Kwang Chin arrived at Chemalio on the unless such procedure has the consent of
Kube recen -
any minca in that
province, The Chinese 8.8. the part of Rasis to traverse Bor- Yokolaca
manian territory She was at the.
the time
will be strongly resisted, in quvations, ka pata bis foot down and fasahare of Pilot Kisaburn, who, ant deaning Shanghai via Chetoo. She is a fiue little the other European Powers
ultimo, and will run in
Enture fr Paddy would sny) stamps out all this withit an áron hand. In fact, if one even says that particular state of the tide, anchored will prove a
go through the Straits at bust, bailt
Since the return of the Archduke Rud- for this route, and shallow water that, when the Kaisha monopoly. The Russian
adolph from Berlina caituer feeling prevails idable rival to the Veni Best of
in Austria. It is now confidently believed and pormanently maintained.
to
froit
on
were
, the vessel kept straining a Ledge anchor
song, was one of the last to leave the and the chain ran through the hawan
A MAGISTRATE'S RIPERIENCE.
which was
was put out. The wind and the sea Mr Mitchell-Innes, & magistrate of Hong-Fored to be tue strong, however, and the e palled clear out of the deck, stenmut, was seen by a Chronicle reporter; holus' like lightning
Ining overbeard, The When I planted my feet on terrafirma, anchor and chain being clear of the vessel, ho said, 'I seemed to have left a prison behind
'me, and to breathe the sweet air of she was hurtled toward the Spour-street she first began to pull on found myself stand
standing Oft the deck. I nashr anchor the tug Millen Griffith was tear abiding man, and í did not wish to, and Captain Dearborn beisted a signal do anything contrary to law; but there I get a line on board. As the Garratt neared assistance, but the tug was unable to was on interdicted ground, posed that there could be no bara ina maa
be sure,
but the making himself comfortable; and as I was
r-street wharf the tug Bernie got the Spear-s
Lore
fow words, he is punished for it so much tide fell she grounded. Pilot Bischot three ships, the Dimitri Dondi, Bubre and that the alliance with Germany will be Aberty. I hardly knew what to do when I wharf,
Ravizablo
her in such
tu
per word, like the Telegraph Companies pening to be at Shimontaski at the time, Nayezdnik arrived on the 30th March, and
mainder of the journey.
j
of the Silent Systems, Like many others ef
THE GOVERNORNBIP OF NEW ZEALAND.
A
law
Afat has apparently no good ward to say he was placed in charge of ber for the re- two of them of the Custome Service Right Hon. Henry Cecil Raikps, Pustinaster- there, was a one to stop me, and I sup-a tawser on board, but the immense attain
either for the Gaol, the Superintendent, or
THE CORONER'S ABOLITION
ORDINANCE, 1886. ''The following" are the principal sections
his race, Afat fools that he must speak, or die. He requested the Acting Chiaf). Justice, with that fine sense of proportion of the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, which for which Chinese are se justly famed, was read & first time at the last meeting of Bither to soud him to death or to his native the Legislat vu Council. district. Having thes delivered himself, to the eminent satisfaction of the rate. payers of this Colony, Afat was removed to this Castle of Silence, where words aud pork are at so great a premium. Poor Afat
3. The duties bilberto performed by the Coroner shall be performed by the Magist. from time to time direct, and the Magis rates or either of them as the Governor my trates shall have, in rulation to such dutica: all the peers and privileges a Coroner had by law
for Chefoo on the 6th inst. The members who joined
to the Chinese usarpa previous tions will have a hard fight to maintain their position,
as it is underst od that Sir Robert Hart has issued orders to his functionaries any pretext, as he wishes to fill their places in this country to
to get rid of them all on with Chinese Customs people.
Some of the people who come under the legal advice on this matter. old Customs rale, however, have secured
Mr Halifax out to Fusan per Hizo land telegraph line.-Nagasoki Express. Maru last trip, and has started the over-
the time of the coming into force NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN 4. The Governor
the las he has broken is now breaking him of this Ordinance may from time to time
up entirely..
by order under his band set apart suitable
the Comercio, on a wharf in Iloilo, during a quarrel.
the
pirpose of pt mortem examination,
The .. Changsha, Captain Williams, ar-
London, Alar. 25. It is reported that the General, will be ap, ointed to succeed Sir Will Jervois as Governor of New Zea land.
between
GREAT FLOODS IN GERMANY.
versition uror the umml course, from Putney to Mortlake. The weather was foggy, and The Cambridge crashed throughnet, and won easily by five lengths. Time, 20 minnies 53 seconds
Do. Minimo ya ni 79
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
AT 4 K.M. TO-DAY. Barometer
20.80
Talaperature.
£1
Humidity
FR
Direction of Wind
SITY
Force Weather
a
shivering with cold, and nit esclug to bits out again and the Garratt Hongkong Observatory, April 23, 1888.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL.
Stalion,
Tukio
WI'ostock,
Nagasaki..
Amoy...... Hongkong
REGISTER.
APELL 22. —ATÁ P.M.
96838118 Temperature.
1
› Hamidity,
Weatlier.
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As English abject was assassinated, are places for the recoption of dead bodies for rived yesterday with the Australian Mail. the water as smooth,
and may make regulations for the manga We take the following telegrams from our ment of such
When any ench place exchanges places. has been set apart the Magistrate may
have occurred in Germany, by the overflow
against the wharf. She was London, March 27-Disastrous fonda xp su angaulf to giokosas, I repaired to the then quickly carried to the Steuart-street
house of a friend."
wurf, and, striking frat on the starboard ritory is inundated, and the lots of huma of the Rivers be and Odor. A vast ter-
How long have you been in quaranie, turned clear
and struck on the around and life, and cattle and other stock, which has had no mekness on board. When the the aid of the crew, the women going first.
fine
purt sile, both
times almost amidships. *Sixteen days; and during that time we Captain Dearborn at once
hurried the been caused by the floods, is something smallpox broke out on the City of Feking, The captain said that he believed that had sengers on to the duck over the pilou, with appalling, Forty
Captain Dearborn, who has had some ex- villages have been submerged, and 10,000 persona are ruined
perience
the accident occurred at night many lives past, instantly took every would have been lost. in the OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE,
precaution to check the disease. He built London, March-24.-The annual boat race and placut the Chinese in it with his a house in the forward part of the stinter the ford and Cambridge Uni-
NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL. was rowed on the Thames to-day brother, who had the dissage before, as a
parte,
Ho then (al a repo stretched across, the deck fifteen Fards from the are from American papers brought on by
We take the following telegrams, which Shanghai.. house, so that the case was completely is the San Pablo, from the Japan flexite :-- fever broke out iu pork, and we were lated from pataengers, The typhus transferred to the Antelope; but the dia
Haiphong. 20.88 85 My Hugh Frazer, at prosent Minister Re-order the removal of any dead body to and
ATUSATER & ENED; OVER A HUNDRED
Boliuso.... 29.89-87 sident to Chili, has been appointed to from such place for the purpose of any post appointed instructor to the daughters of Mr Charles Horn, of Sydney, has been
ENGLAND AND TAC NEW HEBRIDES
ease did not reach the saloon passengers,
LIVES LOST.
Mala..... 29.84 91 soceed Sir F. H. Plunkett as Minister mortem examination, and may order the the Prince of Wales in water-colour draw. Agent-General for Victoria, has protested
were transferred a few. in Oporto. It was a repetition of the his Tokin London, March 26.-Sir Graham Berry,
Our misfortunes took a definite shape, it ful fre last night at the Banquet Theatre W'lostock. 3-406, 38 70
Liston, March 21st. There was a dread- Plenipotentiary at Tokio.
Dost of such removal to be defrayed from ing and sketching from nature.
to Lord Knutsford, Secretary of State fur public funds,
to the Alice Garratt," CANADA AND THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. thah
the Colonies, that he has only just heard
much
tory of all theatre fire excitement on board crowded to suffusation. There were in- Shanghai 20.92 67
The boule Nagasaki.. 29.04 came out in sections, is now being pat to denly, or by acidout or violence, or vader exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition wil tion of the deportation of convicts to New hour exactly the storm struck tis, has then dur foot and severely injured. At least Bahinao... 20,96 70
Lendon, March 28. The Canadian England proposes to yield the Nuw gether at the Duckyard Engine Works, suspicious circumstances, or whenever any include a splendid display of agricultural Caledonia, Sir Graham stated that he has I awoke this acrning wo were rolling about 100 people were burned to death, so far ne
Hebrides to France
adequate means of exit, and in the terrible Amoy...... 29.84 73 in return for the casaa very suppressed. I don't know at what to reach the street scores wore trampled un
excitement was intense, although struggles the people made in their efforts Hongkong 20.90 Nagasaki
dead body shall be found within the Colony machinery. or shall be brought into the Colony, the Taz Arch-Dako Heinrich of Austria is ex- Magistrate way, if
The allotment of space in the agrical batch of recldiviates with au caruvat desire we that I was still on my way from Chineination of the soldering us, and the const of China and has risen elsewhere. if be considers an
attention to the shipment of the last it spch a manner that my first impression can be found out at present. The au THE PHACAR IN BOCMANIA death of such person without a jury,
The barometer has fallen along the §.E. his discretion) with or without view of day in the Roamanian Chamber of
A serious disturbands took place
legislating for their own protection. yeater-
A FINE yacht, for the King of Corea, which
nart.
6. Whoever any person shall die sud-
AN APPOINTMENT.
called
FLOODS IN HUNGARY..
data
days Boo
Was
this
The ar
tho
some days. The third tier of boxus Al
abova were
escaperi
APRIL 23.-AT
Manila.... Haiphong 29.88
pooled in Japan in the middle of May to be necessary, enquire an equirytural section has given goueral satisfaction. to prevent the colonies from retorting by I waS BOON CERVİNeed of..ny error, however, actual loss of life will but be known for Gradients are slight for & wide in the THE Spanish birque Manuel had arrived at death, and make such order with regard ties. The deputies belonging to the hare cocurred in Hungary. The flood every lurch the steamer gave the seems it and inly a few packed with South and for N. winds in the North, The Hongkong for the use of the works in con- Sust enquiry may be hali notwithstanding isans to the entrance to the chamber, conutry, and no less than site vileges are would go down every moment. But she barnsd to death. The bospital and private }
e into the cause of
and
in
Manila with 42,000-slabs of stone from thereto nection with the new Port."
the body, and may determine the cause of
13 be
the
AUSTRIAN REFINERS AND SUGAR.-'.
weather is warm, cloudy ad rather damp,
W. DOSENCE, Goverment Astronomer, Hongkong Obstratory, dprü 23.
and hundredtas. aels and to the level of the sea in urbes, tenths 1. BAROMETER, reduced to 83 degrees Fahren.
and getting out as quickly as possible, London, March 24-Disastrous douds realized what an old tub we were in At
At the gallery Opposition party led a number of their shall eucsider necessary.
people, waters have extended over a large area of in and over us, and I expected that wople whose relatives werp Raphysiated or
the sides opened out and the wafer
rashed The debris is surrounded by weeping peo where the crowd that the cause of death did not ariga within.
rowd assumed the Colony The as. Martiban, a ressol recently pur
shots were fired,cing sabmerged. attitude, and
killing usher of
of the chamber and wounding several
stuck together, and shortly after wo reganhouse are led with persons suverely jur Whenever any prisoner shall die in entries. Eventually the military appeared chased in Singapore by an Osaka firm of Geol, and whenever any person shall suffer on the score and the mob, were dispersed. Price of sugar two florins per quintal.
The Austrian rofners have rained the we were at last app-washing the shere, and strugls to rusch the strunk Suma Who to drife, and I observed with pleasure that ed. Many were fatally injured in their Japanese, for $18,0.. its reported, at capital punishmit, the Magistrate shall, Several members rived at Nagasaki on Wolaraday last, (11th ithin 24 hours (or 48 hours if a Sunday Depaties have been arrested.
of the Ukamber of
-well, of course, you Inst) ring the Japanese Asg. She is to intorvens) with a jury of three persons an
REVISION OF THE PENSION LIST,
know the rea
succeeded in The Imperial Government has agreed to *be docked and thoroughly overhauled here hereinafter provided, view the body and
getting sus safely died after CONVERSION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. A thorough revision of the pension let, and Memorial Cuprah of Philadelphia, and Lilled by the fall. Only a partial search of
For D. VAN'S COMPLAINT.
ward from vomiting. Blutolm, pastor of the before she commences running.
The royal assent has been given to the have intimated that they will accept Mr editor and proprietar of the Presbyterian, the slditorium and boxes has been wadu sa poplo spied blood. Many frightene
windows and enquire into the cause of death, and may bill for the conversion of the National Bradlaagh's motion in the House of Cem- was pas of the City of Peking e make such order in relation thereto as he Debt.. may consider necessary.
nous for the appointment of a Belsos Com with his wile. He was seen als down corps are constantly bringing but charred passengers, yet, lat the firemen and the citizens' fellef mitron tr
tinguire into the question of per town hotel by a Chrona reporter, and bodies. So far as is Stephen's Green (Dublin City), and a
Dwyer Gray, M.P. for St.petual pensions. Mr Edmund
5. Force or KIND, according to Beaufort prominent Nationalist, is dead.
said that he left Philadelphiah May last, life was entirely among the audio, anched clouds, driesling, rain, J fog, picony,
DM Heale.. THE NATIONAL STEEPLECHASH,
yet known, the loss of
6. Srate or Waitmas. b blue sky, a de risiting andoasively Bugland, France, all the ompany escape sova, added to a sweepstakes of 18 guineas Asia Minor, Syrn, Rypt; ludis, Ceylou, the house first, giving the people in the
The Grand National Steeplechase of 1000 Austria Hungary, Roumanis, Turkey, sach, about four miles and 1000 yards, was China and Japan, arriving from the fattor gallerks no chandu to escape, while the
The Eames swept over the upper haghting, verrest; p passing abroa
*squely, rain, e song, c thunder, u vizikantys
dew (mai).
COLONEL DENDY, U. 8. Minister to China, is very shortly to proceed in the U. 8. S. Janiate on cruise to the southern parts of Ohio Colonel Danby will embark in the Janiti at Chefoo, where the vessel is sxpected to arrite about the 20th inst
Olause 13 provides that the Magistrate may, at the conclusion of any enquiry, come mit any person for trial at the Suprem- Court without further proceedings before himself or any other Magistrate,
· DEATH OF A
PROMISEN NATIONALIST.
Mr Gray, who was born in 1845, was Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1890, and High
fart of
humility or sur tarated with zepisture being 2. IMMERNATURA, in the chada in degrees, BUMIDITY, percentage of saturation, the
4. DIRECTION OF Wind, to two poista.
74 Rare, in Inches, tenthe ang bundredths,"