No. 8192-Aprit. By 1880.|.
Tax shares of the Tonkin Coal Mining Company went booming up to day to more than 100 per cent, premium. It is said one of the Fench men of war got 600 tone of coal from the mine and that a crgo
Hongkong. soon be expected in
Tas grandmotherly Government of Sing sporo, in its solicitude for the welfare of public servants whose incopio does not exceed $150, has brought in a bill which syrovides that em
Taz Posttasteri in Singapore generally
avoids the quickest travelling vessels in despatching the mails for Hongkong. The Glenshick, which arrived at noon to-day," although she left si 8.a.m. on the 3rd, did not bring our Singapore exchangas uỀ Ist and 2nd instant, Coples, however, have boon kindly sent us by the officers of the ship, from which we take "several telegramos which will be found elsewhere.
SotaRO Singh, a gun isecar, was charged before Mr Wodehouse today with the
a neonny-changer's stall on Queen's Bond The complainant alloged that the defun dant lifted a pile of colus from the stall and passed them to another gan lascar, who walked away with them. The accused denied the chargo and was defendo 1 by Mr Wotton. The case was remanded till to
morrow.
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No action shall be maintained against a public servant -
(a) upon any promiso, express or implied, to repay money paid or advanced to him or to another person at his request;
THE CHINA MALL
the simple, tenating girl whome heart, untouched by passion, is entirely possessed by her brother, on to the tragic moment in the prison when, betrayed and broken- hearted, she dies in the supreme moment of resistance against the love that has led her to shisme sad ruin-throughout all the phases of passion which intervene between those two periods, the prima doana ex-
THE CHARGE AGAINST HAROLD
DOWSON..
0.
Mr
PROGRESS IN AFGHANISTAN,
three months bence, he might be brought to that both the country and himself sa raler of it would benefit by this extension of the Sind-Poshia Railway-Pioneer
Mail.
They has everything too much their own way, you know, Sie, and we suffers a good
Mr Pyne, the mechanical engineer in th deal ametimos. None of us never means service of the Air, will leave Postawu no harm, you know, Bir, bat we ahmetimes. drinks a drop or two too much, and the very shortly for Kabul, carrying with hin
we have airexdly stated, o ateams-engine we starts to go aboard, ship, of a night, and a large quantity of machinery singing a bit, and the likes of that, up The Air is anxious to establish #mal- comes the native "copu"! and runs ens in.
A 107 of little boothlacke perched on m arns fatory in Kabul, and his enginder Then we gets fined a pou in the morning has accrdingly purcissed the necessary curtalone may not be India-rabber boys, and we also gets punished on board ship plant for manufacturing breech-lamling yat they are gutter perchem-Tems for having been abeant. Now we think as ridica in large numbers. This will be get- Biflinga how that is unfair. Our officers un bourd up in Kami, and every part of the rifles The poetess who sings that the swan -
Harold Dowson, who i toharged with embezzling money received by him as gout for the China and Japan Telephone here, was once more brought before Pollook in the Police Court to-day.
Mr Webber, who appeared for the do- fance, anid-with reference to the objection ercised an incrossingly powerful spolt raised by him as to the illogality of the ought to treat us better than that, for how win ve şunlu án:ího spor, be harrels being klised by the wavea probably fell over The simplicity and proceedings-that he and looked into the 'could we ze aboard ship when the "native" bored and rified on the most "pproved board noar the month of a river,Bing-
over the andiones.
bas na in the look-up?
(6) upon any promise, express or implied,
to be answerable for the debt or default tonching pathos of the song Ger the point, and he found that it was decided in | Being unable to samar Jack's question of another person; or
the case of Regina v. Sel that where a pri- in anything like a satisfactory manner, I can sa in Thule of Old,' ware expres (c) upon any band bill of exchange, Prosed with as true art and as perfectced he cannot alter that plan. That being tion, with the Bourne that you will find
Boner has pleaded guilty and been senten. only do as he anggested in the first place missory note or other security made,
moly, sulcie it to your kind considera. drawn, accepted, endorsed or given by execution as the brilliant passages of the
the case, no useful object could be attain ran for poor Jack's' lament. Your "Jewel Song" which followed, for, lice a
LOANUCK genuino artists, Misa Sherwin in careful of ed by arguing before his Worship as to the loyally, doing well whatever she tries. In the lore illegality of the proceedings that had taken scene, where this note of passion in heard place in the Police Court, and he thought for the first time in her roles, she rose it wise therefore to roaurve any defenses the
bim.
The Pioneer Mail says:-The telling off of a small reserve for Sikkim from among the troops in the Presidency Command is military Brition purely, and is quite uaconuscted with any fresh dovolopment of
[We have heard something of this sort bo-
fare, and there is a file truth is it. But Jack often ships much bed whisky down West; and not being impressed with the timen treats that faaetionary is a manner that must necessarily land hua in trouble.
Ep. 4. M.]
principle, xnd the mechanism being fitted haston Repriblican together just as in an English factory. The THE phonograph shows that a man's voice ammunition, too, will be manufactured in has not the same sound to himself that, it
Rahman is essentially a ruler whose power Courier. Kabul, and thus the frequent demands has to others, thus inally explaining why upon fading arsonis will dessa. Abdar sous people persist in singing-Lewell rests upon his military prestige, and tris aim is to equip his ariny throughout with 'And how do you stand on the feilli arms of precision. The loyalty of his Mr. Corabrake, asked the schoolmates seld-ers in the past has twice sved him are you a protectionist I replied th
a foot raidor," (Dion) frum being driven from the thrine: once chiropodist, nu; when Aras Khan captured Kandahar and Burdeli again when Islink Khan'a rebellion assumed Ir the granite boulders that make the may have to meet an invesion from the can be replaced by the cheeks of Ningets north, and he is alrowd enough to see that hackmen and be made to last forever. Veur the breechloader is a necessity if he Oriana Picayune.
and their defent
handcart-Washington
inroany of twenty-five ten-cont pieces from the situation in Sikkim. Things theré, in- to a height of emotional expression which de'ondant might have, either legally or dignity of the astive policeman, he some daugemas proportion. In the future he fall of Niagara should ever wear away they
deed, are just as they have been: but as only a highly gifted singer can reach, the facts, for the Sapreing Court. He the spason advances and the passon become Bat her chiof triumph was in the final would take no further part in the proceed practicable with the inelting of the snow,
is to altempt even a defensivo campaign Paornsson la rapidly getting to bo the Government hound to be prepared scene, in the masterly trin, with her loverings, as he objected to them. for the repeal of hostilities on the part of and the fund, where the powreful and con-
The following evidence was taken :-
against Russian troops Hones his entitle which implies that the professions of RAILWAYS IN BURMAII. the Tibetans, unlikely as that may new bo.flicting emotions by which the wronged the Uhins and Japan Telephone Ca. in Arthur Sandford said I am the agent of
gutic son in this matter of the man knowledge on tho part of the man who ap The opening of the Toungon-Mandalay Facture of rides and ammunition. To
plies it to himself are not to be béliere- and wretched hemino's heart is tora are Hongkong. I was appointed in October line will naturally draw attention to Upper those who see in him a doubtful ally of Journal of Education. Tas Tibetans, it would soom, did more last sumtior than proclaim a twolve morged in an appeal to heaver for pardon. last and arrived hore in Novomber. De-Burman as a fold for railway enterprise in England, the rearning of his forces withi
the future. The decision of the Govern-Martin's may seem a dangerous thing to GOBOX" writes to inquire what athletio fgadnut was a former agent in charge of Poors war against the English and fo. Her acting all through was admirable. Ca, a business. I believe he took charge pent in undertake the work of constraction encourge; but if the Afghans are to pre-game he had bettor anluivata in order to vite the Bimalayan States to join them Indoed the prima doons in the part of Marin May, 1887, and be was stocended by Mr themselves wan a wise oue. The line, was,
serve their independence, they should at improve his appetite. Try draw poker, forthwith. They actually invaded Ia Le Courrier d'Haiphong of S1st March says: dian territory and established an eatport serite scored the greatest of the success Waltor Judd on 8 September inst. Mr primarily, oue demanded to mest urgent least be given a fair chance in the struggle my boy. Stick to it and you will be on this side of the border. The story she has attained here. Of Mr Stockwell's Hayilar afterwards had temporary charge tuilitary and political necessities, for the that must come sooner or later with Hussia. hungry most of the time.-Terre Hauta
On arriving here I want castern districts were cut off from the At Penjdeh their mazzleloaders were na Express. -It is not known what has become of the is an old one now, but it is still worth the fast it is only possible to speak in until my arrival.
modified torins of praise
Wire-What a lovely little bounet! Funny, stoop of the Societé Française dos tolling. A British officer travelling on duty dificult one both from a musical and a that between Nov. 1st, 1887, and 21st May was extremely slow.
The part is a carefully through the cominis, I found Irrawaddy and communic ties with them less orig to hovy a herauftor; with Who brought it up? Husband- anali
work of paci-was- foregone conclusi us Charbonnages du Tonkin which bas ground-set summer in furhwal learned that a
party of armod Tibetana had crossed the dramatic point of view, and while Dr Stock 1888, there was a deficiency of $1,155. Acfication was consequently retarded, and the Martins in their hands, they may offer at boy, my dear. Wife-Did he bring the them woll was hardly in good enough voice cording to the accounts there ought to have people did not realise that our socupation least a good resistance to their enemies and bill? Husband-Oh, I guess they'll od on a flat rock uppusite Hatou. On bear-
hille and msdo a ascond Lingtu ing of the accident, M. Bavier Chaufour selves tua remote corner of that district. to do it justice in one respect, he is not hoen a balance of $618. I found the bank ac was a permanent one. The building of the inflict savera losa upon them. Afghanistan bend that up -0
is a country eminently adapted for defensivo Pub This was no idle rumour, as the country. Hough of an actor to do it justice in count had been overdrawn to the extent of railway convinced them that there could bo went to the assistance of the Fanny with people had even them in their for the other. Still, his performance on 8587. I have the press copies of the ac-juo withdrawal, and at the same tinte it gave warfare, and the Russians may find the
How,' asked the professor, can nine com
of an innumerable multitude" the Charlet and the Indane, but whole Garhwal is but thinly populated, and com- the whole was fairly satisfactory. In the counts rendered to the company by the do-employment to thousands of raen who would forcing of its passes a difficult matter whet
The last one rendered shows the otherwise have trod the thorny paths of the dufenders are armed with breech-ceive.
Abdur Rahman is
'Well,' said the new had boy, whose father A go-ahead arrived on the spot the Fany had disapmunication with its outlying portions in duct with Mar uerite he sang with con- fendant.
sidorable power and animation, and he was amount I have stated as the balance at the decoity. It linked Lower arms, too, with loaders. reither easy nor frequent, so the invaders
ruler in matters other than those connected and reporter, wait about five monthi, mď poared. It is empposed that she wart cu
remained unmolested, doing no mischief, even still more auccessful in the final trin, credit of the company in the Hongkong Mandalay and simplified the military way.
The notios the President's relatives and old
#okoolfellows,'-Burdette. her way to Campha after having got off. hut probably talking largely of the great but otherwise he was not particularly offee and Shanghai Bank. I found that defaud. Now that the trunk tue has been made, with his military administration.
tlicae iu use in M. Bavaris, engineer of the Society, and war that was coming. For some reason yettiva. Mr Sherwin in the part of Mephisto ant had been in the habit of paying his there is no reason why private capitalists foundation of a mint wherein coins can be
to be explained the news of their appear pheles showed burself able to sustain with private debts through the company's bank should not come forward to test the pos- struck on the patter
civilised countriza has occupied his attention Mr Watts were on board. We suppose the ance in this quarter died away in the first credit one of the most dificult roles in account and that the accounts rendered by Bibilities of an extension eastwards to
Bir Charles Crosthwaite, in his for some considerable time, and Mr Fyne has assured the machinery for this work. launch turned up safe as nothing is aid cfficial channel it entered, and has only opar. To use a colloquialiam, he was not defondant when compared with the bank, Yunnan.
His pass-book showed the deficiency I have recent speech, expressed the hope that just been disinterred. The party, namber, too fodiah put jest teadish enough.
Among the private debts Upper Burma would prove to be really the Some for, specimen rupees have bean ing as at Lingen less than 100 men, may make-up was after the conventional lines, mentioned. have been disgusted at not being attacked and he did not attempt to introdites any paid from the company's account are base of such an extension of railways to the coined in England, and in maatness of the following-On 3rd November, 1887, Shau States and those far countries Iping design and clearness of finish, down even and have taken themselves off just before novelties in the way of informal accessories.
perhaps canie
ho drew a cheque on the company's beyond which have not yet been opened to to the milled edges, they could not be Jones Loffs and Martin Cichano, m
Earopean civilisation or improved upon. They should soon replace the winter snows; bat, for all that is known Altogether he
Goethe's conception of Mephistopheloa account for 85 to the Hongkong Hotel; any ortent to ters-at-arms on the Spanish man-of-war to the contrary, they may still be rear as is necessary for stage purposes. Me on 31st December, 1987, a cheque was English trade. The dream of both English the rude bandetruck coins which now
ssion of their fort. Inquiries are now Aragon, were brought before Mr. Wode-being made as to their whereabouts, and if sherwin's voice is not of the timbre which drown in the same way in favour of See and French explorers has been to find a circulate in Afghanistan, and as they will on 31st March, 1888, practicable route from the sea to Yunnan by be of fixed weight and alloy, they are likely sible another house in the Police Combto-day on a charge they have been foolish enough to remain proves most effective in the music of the We for 325,40
choque WDE davo in favour which that land-locked previnca could be to become corrent area in our own frontier well of creating a disturbance and daunging they are likely soon to find themselves be part, but he used it to the best possible
ing rudely handled by detachment of advantage, and seceded wonderfully
Mr. Holt Hallett, as we know, Nono China. I saizcted these as test cases.
We have before hinted that the chances property in a Japanese coffee-bouse in Peel Gurkhas from Almora In the matter of in investing it with a curtain sardonic of the same person to the amount of $40. tapped and new marketa uponed in Western town.
man named Okamura, Sikkim the Lamas kad some sort of case, which does not neually character ice it. Bis of those amounts were inserted in thewonld make Bangkok and Moulmein the of a mission proceeding to Afghanistan forward claims to terzi. acting and bis execution of the music which accounts rendered by the defendant to the porta to which, trade should flow, bis ides this spangare very small, but if the Amir car tory and contested the alignment of the fell to him were marked by his ematomary frontier; bat as regards Gurwhal, which is good as much a Britisle district as Allahabad, their action will admit of no justification. It is a trifling incident, it is true, but it show vary plainly that the Tibetans were pur suing a very crooked line of policy from the first. They can scarcely now pose as the injured party, and the Chinese Govern a fine of $3 in each case, with the sternent must see that they can expect acant native of 14 days imprisonment. The dres consideration at the hands of the British Government. Their efforts to excite dis were paid.
content among the Himalayau population have, of course, boon ludicrously rueffective, THE Secretary of State has taken the liberty but there can be no mistaking the hostile
spicit which has prompted them.--Pioneer of cutting out three or four lakhs of dollars | Mau, out of the Singapore estimates. He gives several reasons for this, but the main object he had in view may be seen at once from
about her in next issue of the Courrier.
Street, kept by a Fin the evidence it appeared that the they put defendants went into the complainant's place yesterday afternoon, and after ordering dinner began to indulge ir gallantries to wards the female suryauta, which were not appreciated. A row ensued and the police were called in. His Worship impenda
AMY SHERWIN'S COMPANY AT
.THE THEATRE ROYAL
*FAUST."
The production of Gounod's Faust' on
taste and
careful Attention to detail. The Sulanade Catering, while you play at sleeping was a remarkably good performance, and ought to have been cared, mucking laugh and aft: Miss Fischer doubled the parts of Siebel and Martha and gave an entirely satisfactory The ballad Gentia account of both. flowers in the dow' was beautifully song. and it was only natural that an should be demanded so warmly.
encore
evsupany.
Defendant said he had no question to put
to the witness.
A. M. Rozario, an eraployee in the Tele- phone Co.'s office, identified the signatures on the cheques as being in the bandwriting of defendant.
The case was committed für trial,
CRDIOKSĖANK & CO LIMITED.
in
plus of $307,080 in expected, I feel grave Saturday evening brought together one of and Saturday's performance afforded a wood chairgan said the prospects for the would have to be encountered in erossing Indus to the borders of South-Eastern
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Hongkong Cheerwatory, April 8, 1890.
being to build a railway through Siani
ries out is intention of risiting Kändahar, northwards into the Kiang Tung, State and advantage wight well be taken of his pre- thence to the Chinese frontier. Bat
sance there to open the question of railway Con: all his enthusiara has failed to
extension beyond our frontier at Chamian vines capitalists that the millions ru At present our engineers are wisely 91- quirad for such a line would be well gaged a tanneiling the Khojak and pes invested. They may speak in sympa paring the approaches on the far side of thetic terms of the project, but they keep that range. Their task is oue which will their porte-strings tightly drawn. With a take probably two years more to accota- railway, however, actually opoued from plish, but when they have driven their Rangoon to Mandalay, and with the. Shan
tunnel through, they will naturally look States wall zuder control and perfectly safe with hanging eyes across the open plain The first ordinary general meeting of the for exploring-parties, they ay, be tempted which stretches away towards Kandahar. It must not be forgotten that the rare treat aBordet by a performance of this Company was held to-day Mr Crnick-reconnoître a paw route to Yunnan. They They know already that no serious obstacles way which may be built from the Irrawaddy from Chaman to that city: that no big groat work wad nade possible only by the shaak, Gomeral Manager, prasided and there have the practical guarantee list any rail would have to be overcome in the 70 tales assistance kindly given by the gentlemen were also prosent Mesure B. McCalloth, Valley to the Makong will be within Bi-zivars have to be bridge or mountais of the Choral Society, and the com munity orce them a debt of gratitude Fenwick, Stephen, and Fer. The rotisk territory, and that their efforts to open chains crossed; that the Local tribesmen, for it Not only did they furnish &
port showed that the net profits for out the Stan. Statos will be warmly sup: few in number, can be easily controlled
ported by Government. Yurman and the and that it needs but an order from the very eatisfactory chorus but also provided the year ending 29th February, 1889, neighbouring Provinces of China offer Amir to make their way clear. It is, for the parts of Valentine and Warner, Mr amounted to $7,373.97, out of which a rich field for commercial enterprise; and if Grace assuming the former role and Air interim dividend of 6 per cont. had been they can be tapped from the side of Burma, question. The tribes up to Charaan sod abort, more a political than an engineering the following paragraph in his dispatch:
Grow the latter. M: Grace appeared is paid, loving $2,537.97. A further divi-
flourishing trade, both export and in the traders who conduct their kallas along 'b. Although the Estimated Revenue
the same character a few youre ages cend, of 3 per cent was proposed, which port, must spring as in few years, We the Khoman road bave viewed with amaze- sbewa an increase of $580,000 and sear
leaves $173.97 to be carried forward.
annat yet say what physical difficulties out the building of the railway from the opportunity of roting our leading am The doubt whether so large an Expenditure, as the largest audiences ever seen at the City teur's progress since that time. It is current year wore very encouraging. Since the Shay table-lam, but, judging from the Afghanistan, and the moral affect secured in proposed, especially on Public Works, Hall Theatre. The booking showed up. admitted we believe by all who are in a the ompany was formed, or its formation reconnaissances so far raade, they are not in their cane is one of the most satisfactory should be undertaken this year in view of
position to make the comparison that the was spoken of, in July, the gross overturn likely to
has boon considerable.
O prove insuperable. the necessity for an increased Military conmistakably that high expectations had been progress
At had exceeded the same months of the pre- tribution, in regard to which I hope to be formed as to the quality of the perform all events bir Grace's acting of
tguven's tipadė thevious year by about $200. A branch mech still to be duas in the matter of rail-
Within Upper Burma itself there is saturs in the administration of British Taken at Mears Falconer & D. Pemis Biluchistan. Life and property within the in a position to address you before long."
ance, and this, having regard to the character part
narked shirp had been established in the Chinese way outstriction:
frontier are absolutely sale, and the outlying LOZETE ai u 29.92 A branch line might
province of India on the west is maskiug Dev We have no of the work, afforded strong evidence of the by a very high degree of transul la ut quarter in Queen's Road, whers medicine well connect Myingyan, on the Irrawaddy, rapid itrides in prosperity. It is no longer
In the death scans ho was particularly suc- especially put up for Chinese was being with the Tounguo-fandalay Railway: cut off from Sind and the Panjab by a four-9 11 doubt that the Imperial Government, popular esteem which the company have cessful, and ho imparted a depth of scan sold and the prospects of the new business would attract a large smoons of traffic and strip of desert and formidable mountains although it has been in the past shamefully gained in Hongkong. Every seat in the and bitterness to his tones in upbraiding were very encouraging.
The report and accounts were adopted pan out rish tracta north of tho Meiktile the railway has linked it with the valley of lax in carrying out its own obligations, house was occupied, and pretty nearly all effective. He gave a
the wretched Marguerite which was highly
Lake, Мулокум із деяг the junction of fairly good account
ene Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers and she latus, and in a few weeks' time the is also desirous of obtaining an iterossed the availabio standing-room was utilised ne of the music of the part generally speak and Mr F. Hendemon ru vlected auditor,
Sukker Bridge will maku. communication almeat opposite Fokoko, a great contre of with it as ample a matter sa travelling military contribution from Hongloog well. This was undoubtedly good busiIn the extra Buber Even bravest heart although in style is not that of grandepore.
CORRESPONDENCE. trade, and can thus daim to take ite place in Lahore to blooilan When the dispatch dealing with our entire for & sompany of four artistes, his habit of sliding over the intervals.
with Frume and Mandalay, as a railway
Would the Afghans of the Kandahar terminus on the great waterway which etes szrives we may therefore expect that assisted by a few amateurs, appearing in touching the intermediate notas o
CHINESE NEWSPAPERS, P
traversas Burms But the project which Province offer any scion resistance, És also will contain a hint that we may pre-uri opera which makes very large damands way, detracted prontly from what would
To the Editor of the 'CHINA MAIL'
olatmas most extension is that which will fansial or otherwise, to the extension of have otherwise teen an excellent perfo m-
April 8th, 1589.. pare to open our purses again. Whether musical and dramatic talent; but the ance. Me Crow gave very good support sa
hereafter be known as the Mandalay Mo the the from Chama to Kandahar? This SO,The following from the Chungnggung Rathway. The original idea, when is the chief point to be countered, and we Waper and sang bia few bara ereditably. Boy of our public works will have to suf-success of the performance fully justi For the chorus there is only praise, inas-sange of Saturday is a good specimen of the Toungoò-Mandalay extension was first venture to think that with the Amir's fer in consequence remains to be seen the amount of patronage bestowed on it
anch as they did their best to perform the absurd mistakes which are almost daily under consideration, was to prolong the Consent gaload such resistanco would be We will be curious to leary what the Home Such shortcomings as were percepti- successfully the work which they took in oncurring in the Chinese nowspaper bank of the Irrawaddy. Hut the country living by labouring on the new {routier | eight of line eventually to Bkutou along the luftriffing at the must. For the last
ntry year thousands of: Afganos bave made authorities propose to do with regard to the ble-that there should be some was in hand and gave loyal arid valuable assistance this Colony. Would it not be worth while
bats which it would traversa is mostly covered. now contly drainage scheme which figured evitable-were by
to the principals. The Soldiers' chores for the Government to make arrangemente no means of such which was strengthened by asrasil band com- for the issue of a fairly reliable Chinese with jungle, and ranges of hills bluck the lines. They have become familiar with for a big sum in our estimates and the kind as to interfere with the effect posed of members of the list Highlanders' onepaper giving correct versions of daily way at great number of pointa The railway and its surroundings, and have items of uens nilecting the interests of the coat of constrigifon therefore would be carried back to their villages wonderful utikty of which is so dubious. Mest of the of the opera as a whole, and might easily hand-was euog with great
and was spirit,
Colony? Chinese capitalista will now be very heavy, and owing to the want of peshe kala-traders have recognised the
storie of the m
mysterions power steaz cordially and decarvedly publis works in Singapore were what might be overlooked without stretching the gone.
The arduous task of conducting and play-
sale,
traffig returns, wave those of the through advantages of aborter journeys and quicker CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL'I
REGISTER by Mr Clutamm in that gentleman's wanal
trade, would be very small. This route baa diaposal of their gods, and throughout Southora Afghanistan the ripression en
APRIL 7,--AT 4 PM. scourdingly been abandoned in favour of If the Secretary of State has thought it which it is not so easy to find an excuse,& maximum of still, right to postpone some of these ho may be inasmuch as they could have been obriated
tween that river and the Chindwin. Here in glory way. Even in the northern dis the country is fortile and open, boasting tricts the news has spread that the Bolau less disposed to sanction en bloc a big drain-without difficulty. Among theas should
much pasture-land and stretches of soil that had been conquered by our engineers, and age scheme of dubiour utility, the vote for be included the delay in raising the curtain,
held out a Hel promise to the future sgn the Afridi Chiefs on their visit to Quotta
.337 | culturist. As we recently stated the first asked why the Khyber too had not.ite which was precipitately rushed through our and the long waits between the acts. Tho
WPostock, 29.03. The ralalake of identifying the Public 120 miles from Sagain northwards pat railway. Kandelar is the half-way halt- Council, Here is what the Secretary of attempt to render the entrance of Mephis
Falugie Koasa, who is charged with for. School with St. Paul's Culicge is one that Shwen to the Wanthe State offer po ou place for kalas between Indis and Tuk. 20:38 24
Forthern Persia, and its shrewd traders Binte says about the Singapore, public topheles impresive by making him appear gery, was brought, before Mr Wodehouse, is pretty often made. Even some Euro-gineering a cross, tad no hills as should welavaje a railway to its very gates.
Nagasaki.. 30.10 have to be dromed pears fall occasionally into this error so frequently in a flash of lurid light might on remand, in the Police Court to-day. Mr from a Government notepaper bod Lord mounted: the fine would foliow the Mu The Arair on his part might at first shrinking I cannot help thinking that many of the have been discarded with proft as a piece Webber appeared for the defenso. The deliver us. En, G. M.].
Valley, and its cost is estimated as low se from the project, as he is fesions of all AF- works proposed to be undertaken could be of false art, although to some minds it may following additional evidence was taken :-
Rs. 60,000 per mile. Further to the north interference with his kingdom; but it must
Haiphos postponed for a year or more without any still have a certain impressiveness. The
the hill country would be entered, but the Rot be forgotten that his frat step when Colinmóc. 29.88|| serious imponyenience, and I should be
H. L Stringer, recalled, said-I-am still
ranges are not of any great height and can Tabar Khan looked really dangerous was to mia 93,86-84 indisposed to sanction pay further tomp effect of the last scene was not quite what enable to explain how the three cheques
ask for division of Indian troope be crossed at several points, “ orary additions to the staff of the Public it should have been, as, owing to the care loft my cheque-book out of the sale on were taken from my book. I may have
Mr Bayers, who has engineered themed at Jellulabad and an- To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL Works Department, merely for the asks of
Toungoo Mandalay line, proceed shortly to other at Kandahar. He saw the poli pushing on works that could equally well Esseness of the celestial apors who had some occasion. I have not been the other
tioni advantage which wonjd thus be galtiod:: April 6th, 1889.
reconnaire this northern ronte and make over his tiral, and he should not be alow be osrried out at some future time, If, charge of the stage trap, the fead and his two cheques they have not been presept- -Spending a few days in the pic the alignment. It is a lar ory Mogonng therefore, the Colonial Engineer should
od for payment.
tureaque City of Hongkong, i la mu von, but there is no reason why the southern also that rapid find that his Department is ouable to cope
victim diappeared with a suddenness which
Detective Sergeant McDonald- said. der that te should come in contact with seatkin of the ins abould out be taken in between Quetta and Kandahar would with the large number of works that Ik-in caused a good deal of soal solicitude, as to On the 28th plt, about 2 pm, Mr Brans various members of cash branch of Her hand next sold weather. It could be push-strengthen his hands both against Internal proposed to undertake this year, I request their personal safety. The appearance of
Majesty's servico, Permit me to remarked on a great rate, and the branch to rebellion and aggresion from without you to cause some of the less urgent works
I report at the station, in eonsequence that, although my home is some 12,000 miles Bhaung which would take off about 180 We med may discuss the project in detine Deiphone 22,977 to be postponed, and not to entertale any these two gentlemen at the front afterwards of which I went to Me Stringar's office. Mr. distant, stil I claim to be Juyal subjan miles north of Sagu might be made be here the building of 70 miles of rail linno proposals for additional temporary layed any faste that might inva existed Stringer pulled his cheque-book out of is of Her Majesty's resin, and my neighbours fore the northern extension to Mogoung or an open country is not a difficult all..... tance to the Publis
blic Works Department to their fate, but it was remarked that pigeon-hole in the dents, and showed me at home will all testify as to the lusty The rapidity with which the Toungoo matter but we might suggest a plas, put The barometer has fallen daring the year.
three black counterfoils. I then went to manner in which I always help to colchaith andalay railway has beau bails shows that forward in these columns some five years are very slight for N. 125 I may add that it is in my platou, the disappearance, regarded as depent the bank, and from the conversation I had every British anniversary And so, while the Government of India are pursuing ego, by which at least the trition would damp and rather cook weathe not usomsarily desirable to spend freely on into Sheel, was the smartest thing in that with Me Carvalho, one of the clerks, I went walking through some of your charming generous policy as regards the Upper Bur Public Works in prosperous vesis for line that has been seen in Hongkongo No. 39 Queen's Road East. I found streets, yesterday, I had the good luck to ma railways, and they are not likely to to build the earthwork of the line through "when" "yeze af Tead prosperity - follow, it i
the prisoner there. I told him he was so fall in with some representatives of, that al hesitate in investing more genital in their local agency, the alignment being made by then becomes necessary to contest the place where very fast time has occasion-cared of presenting a forged cheque at the way interesting party, anally designated new territory. The material progress of the our engineers and the expert baron by tha Pablo Works or penditure, suddenly sudi ally been made on the red to perdition. bank that forenoon for $100. The prisoners Jack nahoce
muurse, you will not be susprted to of money now expended, to giving direct waad not be actually laid if there to say to the
try all be in exaob raho to the amount. Indian Goremment **The ralis then BAMSETNE, Iites? 16:34) extensively industry axtansároly--thus dorange the of On the whole ls must be said to the credit him he was neid to have begs there last at learn that look use a grievance Luever, wilway communication between the us and danger of serious operations. They can be and hundredth the Colony at WaTat theowing out of pack of all concerned that the opors went with a half-past one. His wife, and he could not in the whole course of my rambles cause the fartherocat points igland. The saturat kept reedy at hand a
band and put down rapidly || 2. Tatraniruan, in the abade large Bunker ut pechons of the working i innothness that gazo wvidenica: "cf; careful | have been there then she came in at two across a Britisher shaḍdidnot daysaomething resources cannot be other wide fully of course Abdur Rahman is strong enough; §. HUBETE (in Larssonga D RAT
whontver bircumstances justify suchi, ahrenheit. quickly developed, and it is upon these law at a time when work would be an and fatelligent prepanation, and we have o'clock. I took the prisonce to the bank or other to grumble about. But Jack, as Moop Public Work exponilitare more or no doubt that in its repetition this even-tero shroffs as the man who had presented "hie tais of wost as follows prarslied that it must depend for prosperity in the tokan la qurely subjects in hand, but thinking of Air Betrand your anloure
a near future, lacking as it does population would be better to proceed slowly with a 100 Lean eta level, midough itch a policy paying the experience of the fimt night will be the cheque that morning. He still denied hopes at how you won't take no ofence and while it is only cowly recovering from profice of this kind so as not to-cream dis-
guire the zerodas of moderation in tnäre|
haring been there then brought the sir, but you looks like one of them good the anarchy sud raurule of cobturis rust and alarm in the minds of the d. Foms or Warga sedang mele Lavourebis year - së kã to careate, coondere put to good use
prisoner to the Central Station Isaarahed natured poratsis as which would do w poor Pionser,
Cuttinge and embankments are the familiar accompaniments of an ordinary abie savings--the cllafaune of which may That Miss Sherwin's Marguerite would hu house afterwards for the other two fellows a good turn when hu qould. and comunga dalab treury on the spa be the principal feature in the perform, choques, but did not find them.
serie. Aconsed was committed for trial at the speed way Worick Department in the loss anos way, of course, a foregone ponds ensuing Criminal Sessions. The defence
From her frus appocratice as was reserved. pronpaone période of the Colony's dramos,in
bo called popular works the pros and conssity of criticism too far. There were, how. ing the accompaniments was accomplished/ger to know if St. Paul's College is for pulation and scarcity of cultivation the of which were fully dincomed in the Calosy ever, one or two faults of a minor kind for style-with a minimura of ostentation | build it on Kennedy Road. This has been i oye to the wogs of the Irrawaddy, and be, the people's minda has been a salutary, one'
works
mspecial boot.It is generally better
THE ALLEGED FORGERY BY A MUSIO-MASTER.
AROUSED. COMMITTED FOR TRIAL,
of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bak made
said he had not been out that day. I told
Removal of a College:-It is desired to, remove St. Paul's College in Hongkong and
put before the Colonial Ofice and the Sec. retary for the Colonies has replied consent, ing to the removal,"
Yours, do
10.
JACK ASKORE,
wtare he was recognised by Mr. Evara and acidentally met bim yesterday,
I wish you would write a bit to the papers.
and tall thom that we think as how the A nian's nature will show through the native polico aogether too hard fabric of bis work, les him follow at the on us boys when we ocmes ashore. I steps of what makere he will.
be simplified. This is to induce the Amir
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Wrostook.
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Hongkong Osimestarý,
Vind.
4. Dinserton or Winwine kun painte
carroad and the making of a level track unbed nionde, of drianine; vein,/ does, from the Khojak to Kandahar need not bull, lightningen overvant, i panning maowwer, excite the local tribomen. If our ally, ADIL LA rosily visits his southern province swe or
7. Baik, in inoker, toalha uni kunderchou