No 8898 DECEMBER 7, 1889.]
Toa Germans during the the coming year will be paying fifty-two million smacke in order that foreign countries may have their sugar cheaper than the German consumors
(From Singapore Papers.)
THE OPENING OF THE ITALIAN.
PARLIAMENT. Rome, 20th Nov,-King Humbert, open-can buy it." ing the Italian Parliament, caid that peace appears assured thanks to the, concert of the Fowers. Certain questions, however, still remain muscled, and it is necessary therefore to strengthen the army and naty without unduly weighting the Bud- get.
LORD SALISBURY ON UNION. London, Nov. 27.-Lord Salisbury, ad- dressing the Union Conference at Nutting ham, said that the Union of the Torica and Laboral Unionist party does not rest with the leaders, but must grow gradually, and that all must strive to promote its growth.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
PASSED.SUR Canal.
OUTWARD BOUND:-Lennox, Oct. 15; Zu- phrates, Nov. 8; Merionethshire, She, Amphitrite, 15 Electra, Glende, Prometheus, 10: Benalder, Glenmoreen, 22; Irgonaddy, Telamon, Cambodia, 20. HOMEWARD
THE CHINA MAIL
Tur Russian Ministry of Public Works in decided to transfor the commercial purt of Sebastopol to Feodosia resorving the tire. harbour and port of Jobmatepal for military purposes. This will make Sobas topol what it was before the Crimean war- fortress of imposing strength and a stand-
Tae Singapore Free Press anya: The M. M. stonator Volga is expected here frem Maring monaco to Constantinople. scillas in about another week. Bhu will bring on a number of passengers who were unallo to find accommodation on board the Bagholien.
Nuwa was received by the last mail of the death of Mr Gustau Baffy. The deccased came out to China many years ago, and fought on the imperialist side against the Taipings. For his sorsicas he received the decoration of the Double Dangon, Class H. Mr Eaffy was a Past Master of the Lodge Germania and more recently an honorary member of the Cosmopolitan Lodge. N. Daily News.
The next time
We learn, saye the M-C. Daily News, that before leaving Hongkong the captain of the Natal compared the course of the typhoon then announced with his own course to BOUSD Albang, No, Saigon, and found that ho would probably Deniarty, Ningchow, 15 Ajar, bom ran through it; but he had never been in bay, Note, 19; Neckar, Palamed, 27; onu bafore, and therefore under-rated its Afguna, Natal, Gresten, Peshaier, fores, and he had the most implicit com Gatt Quan Sin, 20.
idence
his ship. typhoon is announced as likely to cross his The 9. 8. Ganges, with the English. Maid of course, he will probably not be ao ready to
Nov. 9th, left Singapore on Tacoday, try conclusious with it. the 3rd instant, at 5 p.m., and may | bo expected hero on or about Mon- day, the 0th inst. This Facket brings ruplies to lotters despatched from Hongkong on Sept. 26th, The Canadian Pacific, & a Batavia left Vancouver for Japan, &c., on the 29th Nur. The Canadian Pacific's. B. Purihin let Yo- kobajua for Kobe and this port on Dec.
2nd.
Lazur. Richardson, since his rotiraumont, har, says the Regimental News, presented the Officers Mese with a very handacane memento in the shape of a braw Hisland iaddie in silver, dressed in fall marching orgler. It is a capital representation of a good old soklier, whose storn face plainly shows his fixed determination to mount guard over the rest of the silver plate.
The steamship Arratoon-pear-leaves-in-Tas Regimental News saya - The endden
gapore of the 30th Nov., and may be expected here un
or about the 7th change to cold weather at the end of Octo- ber, although generally welcome, brought a Dec. The O. 8. S. Co.'s etesmer Achilles, from lot of sickness with it. Four Officera were Liverpool, left Singapore on the 2nd down with lover almost at the anma time.' Dec., and may be expected here on or The Sanitary Board would bave done woll, if before raising the scare about the unheat- about the 8th Dec.
things
it had endeavoured to Kawloon, it had end discover whether the somewhat exceptional death-rate among the boat population at Kowloon and the native population of Yau- mati was not due to the acme cause a produced fever in the barracks.
The Glen Lino stownship Glencarn, frem London, left Singapore on 2nd Dec., And may be expected here on or about
the 8th Dec. The s.x, Glashich from London, left. Sings- the fth inst.. and is due here porn on the on or about the 13th inst.
on the 26th Nov.
of
THE N.-C. Daily Nous, of last Monday, writes:-The dopis loaves here on the 4th for Hongkong, and the Vipère on the
The digelip Turenne, which is homeward bound, will visit Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, and Colombo, and Adon will moat the new flagship Trempli ants, Admim! Bonnard, in February, The Pillars, after putting Admiral de la Jaillo on board the Zureane, at the Saddles, will proceed to Nagasaki, returning hero about 10th January.
on foot for all the
That perhaps the creation of the Light on Gap Book onld have besa bektor left tó the bafo of the Foreign Customs. That they are experts in Taghthouse builds. ing, they possem all the appliances, and past work bestiles to their efficiency, That the construction of the Lighthouse will make a vory big gep'in our fands, and it looks as if the Surveyor General would rather be quit of the job, That the North-East Monsoon is not the bost lesson for risiting the rock, and Mr Brown may have looked at the matter rather unsteadily through green (sea) spectacles.. That as the Light will be a great boon for posterity, the cost of the work should not fall ontirely upon residents of to-day That a direct cable to link the coaling stations of Hongkong and Singapore to gather like the Siamese twine is as Im porial duty, and ought not to be eft to That the Governor's remarks about the
Crown agents were very guarded. That residents do not believe the Crown
"Agents find the cheapest markets) - Y
private enterprise.
A WHARF AND GODOWN POOL-We ima gine that the present little boom in Pootong Wharf and Godowns is in consequence of
proposal which wharfe on the Poolong side to form a pool There is no doubt, we think, imt the East- orn Wharf and Godown Company has not found their cheap storage of kerosene very profitable, and Ching Chong, the celestiuf oil king, who is the chief huldor of the oil here, has been reaping all the benefit of their low rates-Shanghai Mercury, ON Saturday fast, enys the N.-C. Daily Nets, a foreign firm banded their compradors cheque on one of the banks for The compradore gave it to his son to get cashed, but ku failed to return. EnquiriThat a special and independent inquiry having been made it was ascertained that
into the working of the Crowa Agouts". fricads on the youth had met two of his the
system would be far more important than way, and they had persuaded him to run away with the menoy. The three then took
an Imperial andit. passage for Hongkong, but as talagrans have been sont to the Hongkong Polico, it is probable that the trio will find themselves arrested before they have an opportunity of landing from the steamer-which of course happened.
downo wrlies to me, saying that much of our present financial troubles is due to the fact that the valas of shares has been materially modibed.
CRICKET.
b
BROWNIE.
LONUS V. BRORTS.
-Were a
This match was played to-day and yes- terday on the Oricket Ground, The Shorta batted first and put together the satisfactory total of 176, a result for, which they was good deal indebted to the persistency with which their opponents missed casy catclies, Atkinson boing about the only batsman who did not give them chances. The chants, however, wide rather a poor stand at the wickets, and the Pigmios showed themselves by no means so ready to miss chances as their opponents had been. The result was that the Longs were all out for 59, Lowsou and Lammert contributing the only duubic gurek The Brobdingnaging wont in for a second innings, but their last alato was worse than their fixat, as they only put together 40. Pallett had five of their vickets for 14 runs in this innings and
bad
THE LEBEL RIFLE auspices liave largely assisted in thin dávở,
Wonderful reports continus to be heard opmont, have been under no compulsion, but have come hero na froɑ thon attracted | regarding the results to be obtained, by the by beral institutions, equitable treatment, use of the new mysterious Brearm of the and the justice of our gule, and it has not French Artop, the Label rife. This weapon
the rato
of becomo, like the Southern colony, an Al is now being manufactured at salis for nativə fugitives from justice. 1,000 a day, and up to September of Inst We have no land in Bhanghai that is year 380,0.0 had been delivered, but not worth £100,000 an acre even on the Band," | ona |
bcon
n accepted till 6,000 dirtridges and our Babbling Woll Road sites wore ready for it. In general appearance, which...anwyer ⠀ to the Hill and the saga the Utica Observer, the Label rille to- Pask, are hardly worth 50 coats a foot. sembles a Hotchkiss reporting arm, such na Nor can we match Hongkong in Joint to ist new in the United Sister Navy, in all pennlativa father in 1883, and bave got of the Lebel is under the barrel in the enterprise ; wo⠀ had our little but the barrel arrangement. The magazine
over it, but we have some good solid Shang one of the otolikim it is in the stock. bai companies, and a larger proportion of The Lobel curries eight cartridges in them pay dividends to their shareholders its magazins, the Hotchkis seven ent than of the Hongkong ones. In shipping fridges. The Lobel's total weight is a Pe, of
course, cannot compete with the trifle over size and a half pounds. Its authern colony. There is an easily ascos caliber is a little less than one-eighth of na sible harbour, free from allerges; our inch. The bullet is about four timos its harbour in sixty miles or more from the sea diamotor in Fugth, and is coated with up diffcult divers, with hoary customs nickel. The powder used is not the radi diarges to pay, and yet we make a respect.nary blank kind, but a reerst compund of principal able showing mokeless naturo, which has
In our municipal government, a system ingredients gun-cotton and coll dion. The which, according to Sir William, is impos-powder creates but little notes on axplosion, sible in the south we are fer ahead of and gives only slight recoil. So far the Hongkong. Our taxation is lower, OUT streets are better kept and lighted, and our against the now compound is the stilling
objections a only
which bars heen raised stench it causes. This but by na
in said to be little police force
mush smalieder is short of suffomated in 1ts ellect who's bat
keeping moans inferior as far ne concerned. And ourrulers have much more taliou is Bring on a comparatively still day. delicate task, Hongkong is independent; What the chest would be on troops fring in Shanghai the Chinese authorities hava from houses and behind barricades can bu
jurisdiction, in a measure imaginod to bo
Some of the results
sults achieved by this sted; wo cannot even off the Pablic Garden without their consent; tance of 107 yards the ballet is said to pana and it was a good deal for bath parties that through a plate of iron nearly half na inda the relations have been so cordial, and thers thick, white at 200 yarda' distance, it will has been
little
between them, pierce over fifteen inchus of solid oak. Tho rifle and the old Gras were lately
• dome” content and conciles |
and
its
2130. That the system is bad, and no good ra. three for 8 in the first. Tho Shyris thus hoy bavo 611 up the mad fd strument are very surprising. Ata · dis
A TRULY sensational scheme for getting the aliipping business between two continents under the control of a ring is (a writer in Iron says) being promoted by the Interna tional Transportation Company, just started at Nashville, Kentucky, which is intended
aro
made the
Europe and America. The plass proposed to revolutionise the shipping syator of to be adopted is this. Arrangemente are lo be made
with all, or a majority of, the
ship- ping merchants in the Cnited States to
the sole privilege company the yield to the
competitive freight to and from routing The P. & Co.'s extra steamship Khiva ACCORDING to the report of the committee competing points over the various Huss and
The chippers waterways. left Bombay for Bingapore and this part appointed by the British Medical Associa
tion to ascertain the averages of the diffe: company's agents The company has sunt The P. & O. extra 8. 5. Shanghai left Lanent categories of men, comparing total to the American railways a circular letter abstainers with four classea of drinkers, as asking for their terms-on various case of den for this port on the 28th Nov.
regards longth of days, it was found that the freight, and the business will be conducted average age at death of the total abstainer avor the lines from which the best compan
Gifty-one, of the decidedly intemation is derived. Not lean than the follow- perate Afty-three, of the 'free drinkers ing
ing percentage will be charged by the cor Efig-seron, of the careless drinkers fifty; pany-Thres
Three per curt. por hundred pounds nine, while the habitually temperato
for all packages and pound freights. For fired on an average to sixty-three.
pig-iron, iron-ore, salt, implements, wood, coal, cazchinery, telegraph poles, coment, rock, railway iron, lumber, coka, ke, 1 del,
Tag silks ex City of Rio de Janeiro which left Hongkong on Ort, 26th and Yokohama Nov. 5th, were delivered in New York on Nov. 28th.
Was
The Kung-Pai baring completed thỏ discharging of her cargo wout over to Hung hom this morning, and will go into deck is rapidly augmenting in numbers and show per dar. Láva stock, furniture, &c., 2 dola.
either to-morrow or Monday,
Messus Jardine Matheson & Co. inform us that the . s. Glenshiel, from London, left Singapore for this port this morning, and is
duo hers about the 13th inst.
We have received information that the a..
,
per car.
A Chinese suoret society in the United States, called Tengue of Heaven and Earth,
These rates, or drayage charges, ing increased boldness. The society was
as they are called, apply to each line over proecribed in China at the close of the Taiwisich the shipments are routed. pingrebellion, and its existence in the States mon in the United States consider the pro has only been lately revealed. Since the
ject an impossible one. beginning of the year, however, it has made its power felt, and, like the highbinders' as. sociation, les become a machine for black- ailing and vengeance. The disappearance of a number of Chinamen is allributed to its action. Ons feature about ila murders is that
China has arrived at San Francisco, mak-the bodies of the victims are nover found. ing the voyage from Yokohama in 32 days and 21 hours, being the quickest time on cord: the best time previously made was 13 days and 14 hours.
salts can ever come from a Had system. won by an innings and G6 rats.
That the very helplessness of taxpayers lu a Crown Colony should ensure the fullest (dolicato! investigation into all such
nattors as those.
That if the Home Government gate an inch,
they usually take an eli That the payment in Hongkong for forts
and soldiers is one of theso 'advantages" which we would be delighted to share, By with Bhanghai and some of the ports -in such a motter, indeed, some plan of federation with the Treaty Ports would be a capital idea.
That Bir MacEwen's advice to live down to £5,000 a-year when you posses £10,000 is not so far-fetched.
That in these days to do quite the reverse
is as much the rule as the exception. That those who render life a perpetual mi- sery by pretending to £2,000 when they havo bat 41,000, or less, are in number as the sand by the sea. That while the Governor's explanation of
the slow progress of the Public Works: Department axonerates Mr Brown, it rende like an impeachment of his pra- decessor.
That if so many more men wore required, they ought to have been got long ago, That although there is a good reason for not building the new Ocalra! Market,
-
following am the scores
GKONTS,—let innings.
E. M. Dlair, B.K., 6 & 1 Lowson A. X. Campbell, Dist, e Hughes, b Hutchison 52 W, Pullott, K., b Hutchison
P. Charopain, ș, b Hutchison,
Muo, E., & Hughes, b Antels! mom....... Woodcock, 1.dis & autchison
J. K.Atkinson, e Langworthy, b Hutchison F. Yittle, not out
E. G. Young, n.8, o Exckiełb Lowson ................. A. I; Lee, A., b Kuklls014...... F. H. Walter, Lowon
J. &. Ezekiel, did not bat ........... Extrus
Total
LONGS-ist Innings. Lent, Huglica, N., F., Wan G. A. Brainyol, Beth, b Walten.. Lieut, Hulchison, R... & Miles, b Walter .** Turt. Dibre, 19, 11., c. de la Compheff.......... J. A. Torun, Walter, b Campbeli............. 1. Langworthy, Little, Fallett
Capt. Middleton,≈ Palleti, 5 Canphett II. B. Kirk, Pist, o & 1 Campbell
F. C. Dundas ist, not out
'F. Lammers, d Cinipboll
E. H. Ferliri, o Young, Failett Cipt. Maxiorogh, I... b Fallott
Eximis
F.
Total
· LONGS—and Inuings, Dunitas, e Clintonin, b Palett A. Lowius, tun out..
1. B. Kirk, Ust, c. Complet, bife Licut Entebison, x.5., 5 Mies.
G. A. Bramwell, 68th, st Young 6 Miles, Pangworthy, b Milos
Lient Tuches, .., b Falletti probéi Capt. Midleton, b Mile...... Timst Debrco...... Champain, Pallet E. S. Ezekiel, 1 Pallet.. Capt. Muodonogh, not out...
E. Lammers, e Walter, U Pallott.......
Extrus
Then they
Tazak 40
ALLEGED LARGE PURCHASE OF
GUNS BY CHINA, KAN The Tientsin correspondent of the Sharp- kat Mercury, in a revent letter, gives the
not
following particulars, which we reproduce for what they are werth (probably
much):-:
80
Hongkong a coction we are, and f
the vacions rezes and nationalities that to-
Tilthor-ons company of infantry •
and the
other
up the loretum boing armed with the Lobel gether as well as they do here; but there it tho Crau. At 4"7 yards the former
180
le compulsory on the non-British element made hits out
of Possiblo 200, aird
to accept the government of the island the latter only 60. The last and most mar- Here the association is entirely voluntary, vulous shot made with this arm is that of and the govermont is as cosmopolitan is. Zidntonand Maltoss of the marines, who the community. As a nursery of citizen-used as a target a 5-frane picco at a distance ship and public spirit Shanghai is naturally of 918 yards. He struck it in the contra far more valuable. All our improvements, and transformed into a silver ring, Tho
Wing to bind us..
all our advances, we make for ourselves; wound which this rifle makes is mid to be and we make them, notwithstanding the
very difficult
to oure, for the reason that worn-out and, tou natrow regulations in the lead forms in small points on the surface the apathy of Peking insists on cor of the bullet, and these remain in the wound, greatly complicating its treatment. We do not touch on the social life of To go into battle will be before long but Elong gkong as compared with that of Shang-another name for suicide, bai, for the circumstances are 60 different that a comparison is almost impossible. We have the more homo-like climate of the two, being happily beyond the tropic; and our life is hence a little more homelike. and it seems to us that we do not lose by not having an official class above us, as the Crown Colony has We ought to cultivate
better the arts, for, apo dve ernor of Honghong, wu havo maoh more leisure; yet Hongkong can hold its own with us in the arts and, letters though it has nothing in compute with our Literary and Debating Society. And it Hongkong has a natural picturesqueness with which we can.
STARTLING EVENT IN A VILLAGE. To the Editor of Saturday Night, Bit
I recently came
ming to possession of certain facts of so remarkable a nature, that I am kurs you will be glad to assist in making then public. he following later were shown to me, and I at once bugged mission to copy them for the Press. They come from a highly responsible source, and÷z may he received without question.
MESSAGE FROM GEORGE JAMES GOSTL- I, L.D.S., R.U.S.I., Ph.D.I., Licentiato
Stowmarket,
net vie, we bass behind es we can wait in Pharmacy and Dante, 1ny 18,
axpause of country which
and ride, and shoot to our hearts' content
To Me WAITE,
18, 1880
there is no apparent reason for allowing to be delivered within three years, to bathering was held at the Fajuniken, Tokyo, Mary Ann Spink, of Finborough, Suffolk,
the old site to lio warto..
A
tions.
goba,
follows
Tokyo University
whu
returned from graduate, and after taking three bottles and two boxen.:
of her
DIVINE SERVICE FOR SEAMEN,-On Sunday expenditure ou railways in India altain general interest in the result shown That Mr Henniker Heaton, the member H. Maudl, wrote a letter to Li Bung-chang study in the expense met he the limbs were restored; and she is now. able to
morning, between 9 and 10.30 o'clock, the steam launch carrying the Bethol flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C., to convey men aahoro to 11 a. mu. service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about 12.30
A STEVEDORS named Pong Lo Fo was hrought before Mr Wodehouse, in the Police Court to-day, charged with the larceny of 44 tons of cuko, the property of Mostra Mendel and Co., Shangbai. The ovidouse given was to the effect that the
been £190 874,108, the average cost par Thero has undoubtedly been a certain dif- mile of broad gange lises being Reficulty in the narrow margin of time allow. 1.67 393, and that of the motre gange It, ed for preliminary negotiations, as witness 70.777. Miles open for traffic 15,245. In the hitch in the understanding about sight. progress of construction there are miles ing shots. Still the watch has been a do- 2,262 more. Khwaja Amran mountains will be 12,400 have fallon to the best team. On behalf
The tunnel through the cided euccess, fairly shot, and the laurels if of Feet long, about three-fourths of which is the Ritte Association and of Singapore we bored. The bridge over the Indus at Suk- heartily congratulate. Shaughai upon their kur is finished; it is called the Lansdowne win, and trust that the Singapore men may Bridge The number of passengers carried have the pleasant privilege next year of goods moved was 22,305,32. was 103,156,019, and the number of tens of turning the tables upon their comrades of
Model Settlement." Tho uet this
Hongkong is revenue was Ita, 9.89.01.275, giving a re- also to be congratulated on the creditable tutn of 5.12 por cont.
in which the chempionis of the "Malta way and Gibraltar of the East
up at their narrow escape from the dignities
000
were made and
defendisnt was superintending the discharge í Parricrzand of a funny escapade in whichards, End Singapore is to be congratulated That the 'Hop'erop is nañsually early and bropgo stacl guns. At present Gurson of the Law College, etc. In all there must powerful remedy, must move t of a quantity of 'ooke into the consignors | been neat to the Loxion correspondent of the holder of the last place out the That the lamp has shone very brightly on judga by these contracts it does not look.us/gether as hero worshippers at the huf all hearts in a common pleasure,... This.
*vigorozat
The enclosed remarkable caro should, 19 think, bo printed and circulated in Suffolk THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES IN The statement was entirely voluntary, and
JAPAN,
is genuine i
in fact and detail. .G, J/G. Darwin's "Origin of Species' was Grat pad.
thu
of Mother Seigel's Mr H. Mandl has mude a large contract Feted in November 24th, 1859; and to Syrup, Propractors of Mother
GENTLEMEN.
ERTLEMEN,The following remarkable COMMENTING on the inter-port rifle match,
for guns with His Ex. the Viceroy, Li Hung-lebrate the Thirtieth Anniversary of its
publication an interesting scientia ga euro was related to me by the husband. the Singapore Free Press saya-Although
This contract is for thirty six gui baug
22nd ultimo. The on the a very short interval has been allowed to
The gathering was was for over twenty yours affl cted with clapse between the first suggestion to have
paid for as delivered. They are as: annual match between That, if I mistake not, it was suggested two 10 guns 28 cm; 8 gaus 124 cm, & gund somewhat exceptional in its character, rheumatism and ceuralgia, and although Bongbong and Shanghai,
mparatively a young woman he the readinoss
21 o.m., 10 guas 15 cm., costing, ja beginning with nu informal Converenzione, with which the idea was caught up and
years ago in this column.that the servico Germany marks 4.600,003, charge to this ending with a dinner; a few addresses she was attacked (aho is now fifty),
The idea compelled, in consequence, to walk with Tus construction of railways in India stea oarried into effect at all three ploces testi
mains for distributing the Tuite water port 1: 900,000. The gannare for Wel of holding such a commomoration scens two sticks, and asen thon with diffealty dily progresses. The report of the adfics to the popularity of the padshould be sent for, and they are unly Hai Wei and Ta Leu Wan Bay fortilica- to have originated with Mr. Ishikawa, a and pain. About's your and a
a half ago she ministration compiled by It. Col. Ti among the rift shots of these places, and
being shipped now. Conway-Gordon, K. E., for the year 1886-89 it may be guessed that there has been a cer-
justwo advised to try Mother Seigel's Syrup, Some days ago Herr Krupp, thro
through Mr
years coume recently issued shews the total
All the arrangements of Seigel's Operating Pills, the size, have by the majority of the European residents,
known as the 'Penny Pest rcformer in and Chang, chief of the Ordnance Depart
ment. This letter was accompanied with a the House, has left us for Hehe.
prenent. Their Excellencies accepted this Zoological and Botanical Societies and a few salk three miles to Stormarket with ease, invitations were issued to prominent meo ters of an hour. Any sufferer who doubts That he was imprcesed, they say, with the kind remembrance, and decided to favour others, chiefly geologists; and in their name frequently doing the distance in three-qest-
with the order for the. enterprise and energy shown in this C: Herr Krupe of the Cruisot Work of the Japanese, and both the British, Pro- by paying a visit to the village and'esquiksi
in science, philosphy, and literature. Meet this story can fully ascertain its truthfulness Schroider & Co. of lony, and was of opinion that we had France, were also trying to obtain this order, fessors of the Science College, were among ing of the villagers, who will certify to tho only to ask for a Municipal Council to and more at one time in favour. Li Bu- the guests; of the other wo may mention facle.
chang went so far as to Solneider get it.
'Appended in the husband's signaturs to & Co. an order for torpedoes, but Herr Mr H. Kato, Mr K. Kands (Senator), Bfr That permission to follow the example of Krupp knows how most successfully to Y. Tanaka (Senator), Mr K. 118, the veter the statement.
botacist of Nagasaki and sauciste of *(R. Spiok.) Singapore, Colombo and other plices is please such gentlemen us Li and Clark. Von Sitbold; Mr Mitsukuri. Vice-Minister
G. J. GestLIKO, and Mr. Mandl ia, to bo
congratulated in
*Ipswich Street, nota tery great concession, but it would
Mr Y. Miyake, editor of the wedging the French firm out of Justice the Buddhist philosopher;
Pun succeeding in
E. Inouye, the Me
Stowmarket. furnish the beginnings of a healthy local of this contract,
Mesra Hattori and
This is cortainly a very pitiable cane, and Izawa, of the Educa Viceroy Li Hang chang has also received cional Department; Professor Heaomi, of the happy cure wrought by this simple but government
orders
from Peking to buy a number of
the sympathy bave beas
a hundred that mat fully a hub Buckau, Germany, are the favourites. To
Darwinian poor woman had been a a cripple for twenty shrine. In two of the smaller rooma upataim, of her best yours years in which the should if the Board of Revenuo are to hard up an they have been represented to be.
u salaction of
of objects of
of Darwinian interest have had such comfort and enjoyment an was displayed to view. Here were plans fe has to gise. But, on the contrary, she
gonus illustrating widely divary was a miserable burden to herself and
in nature; and ou another, when the rest of us are growing feeble, HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI. ent variations
of care to her friends. Now an unison it is a joy to the beaters, and a
aide variations in the same species in a manner, renews her youth and CONTRASTED.
different countrice were illustrated by
by. ap. Abe,
al delight oven to the lookers-on whose
Apropos of the Governor's recent glow-i
propriate specimens. Som
orliout most begins & new existence. What a Somestriking horlioul hearts and heels have long ceased to paling report on the position and prospects of tural examples of variation by means of hu blessing and what a wonder it i Ngo one the Colony, the NO Daily Neier writes as man selection uided their own peculiar in who knows her, or who reads her story, follows:-
terest the exhibition. A amail box of but will be thankful that the good Lord has We do not often see reason to regret butterflies and insects was arranged so as to enabled in to discover a remedy capable that we are not a Crown Colony, but there emphasice such phases of the question as of bringing about a cure that reminds un
of we wpeak it reverently-of the age would be an advantage in having a Gomimicry, seasonal colours, and sexual forme e vernor, if he would publich the world and colours. About this box a fairly well miracles.
It should be explained that this most re such glowing account of Shanghai as Sir executed portait in oils, copied by a Japan a spell of fairly settled weather. Whatever
of Hongkung. Shanghai is made to Darwin, hung upon the wall. The other rheumatism is a disasso of the blood. In- may be deciced altimately as to this, it is
oscillate
the outer public mind walls of the room were decorated with draws digestion, constipation, and dyspepsia canse he visited H. E. Chang, ex-minister to the WHEN the wreck of the Baron Blantyre to be hoped that the Committee of the local
between being a sink of iniquity and inge of coral reefs, of embryos in different the poison from the partially digested food Association will see about doing what they
a model settlement, but if we
we had down in the Banca Straita was sold tow
stages of growth, and such like, together to enter the circulation, and the blood de- governor to paint us in all the bright with amusing sketches of some imaginary posits it in the joints and muscles. This is Mesars Knight and Spanjaard for 8475, shooting, which is, be it remembered
can to encourage the useful practice of Leani
ost eclauri to's Secretary of Stats, in a pic. Darwinian developments. A clever carica rheumatiem. Seigal's Syrup corrects the inost people rather smiled at the idea of very different thing from picking out
Lure that would go down to posterity in the tura of Haeckel's tree of life stood in the digestiun, and so stops the further forma gistray to day into the circumstances con-
18 being worth anything. Two sales were best men, calling them at their own That your contemporary of the North-Ching would look with contempt henceforth on the rooukeys, and' other animals of low and removes from the sy
and letting
hoperishable security of a blue book, we corner, with imitation tay Ash, crabs, birds, tion and deposit of the poison. It then necessary, indeed, to get rid of it at all, them shoot sa beat they can
the poison already nected with the fatalities at the recent the first producing no higher bid than hook Although Singaporo has unfortun
depreciatory criticisms of dukes and
pro- there. It is not a core-all. It doen lbs and globe bigh degree, harging from their appro
its Quarry Bay fire. In each case his Worship 820 Lion and pass mat for os ately at present but little material to draw
is fond of bestowing. the palm on Bong otters, Shanghai lacks the proturesque. | prizte branches. Beyond the ape on the wonderful work anlitate by its mysterious. Mr Mos (of Black Diamond fame)
the digestive organs. But when found that death was accidental. From well on her that a tongkang came up then in making up its tean, organisation and the position in which the two bodies wore other day with hundred tons of coala well-planned system of tau-practice will That the amount of moncy locked up or any other eminenge in the settlement form it into a perfect cherub. On the manly arise in those CIKK, We Can unders
Dess of Hongkong, we may allow to the highest-branch a head and bust of the Cauca notion op that nine-tenths of our at all events raaku the most of the moare at found after the fire it is supposed the un-steam witches, condenser, donkey boiler, command, and may be rewarded, it fato be fortunate men had been trying to make wire rope and boat stanchions, Tho ship kind, with the much-coveted 'vistory.
has bean dismantled, and the spare and their escape from the matsheds in which masts put on shore, for fature removal. they lived but were unable to reach their Further operations are to be conducted by Mr Mose, and it may bo'safoly predicted
Another boat. The case was remanded,.
Lord Salisbury figured the other day have conferred by the "wooden spoon
Hat.
uxember of
ara told by a promina
f the ister, having occasion to res Mr W.
II. Singapore Saith, of the Foreign Office, and crossing a ride shot is by no means forgotten in Downing Street, knocked at the door which
very fair women and very brave men, with very great Frequoroy lately,
buata and ordered 44 tons of it to be put into the Nottingham Express, The Prime Min- | Wo ara team, whose name and fame as His Excelluney the Guvernor made reluruhe conceived to be that of the official real. Shanghai, that the question of the time of That whore young hearts and heels beat in!
calla on a couple of Chinois Government donce of the First Lord of the the year to be selected for the match 112.
future is one deserving the notice of the The three local Committees. It is believed that Officials this morning. The first visit was the almost famous old number to H. E. the Heppo, and in order to por knocked without meeting with a response give the best chance of equal and favour- noble lord knocked and rang and rang and the month of April is the period that will
pitate. form this duty His Excelloney horoically to his summons. At last a constable crus-able weather at all three places. It is about entered the mysterious precincts of a Cbing the street mildly and respectfully in-the best for Shanghai, and on this our in- That the Hongkong Artillery, Volunteers are formed My Tord Markis that he was formant sponks with the anthority of long mono 'Club'in the dark and uosavoury knocking at the dour of no empty house.
now doing quiet useful work, and they are and successful experience there with the lane called Kuu U Fung, un which the His lontship smiled, and hero counce the rids, it suits Hongkong well, and is the
growing in strength and potting their
of the
BEMO
Hogpo har bestowed his illustrious patron-cream of the joke. I had begun to think, time when, ia ing there is generally That the Marin guns and the new Corn William Des Voeux las lately perpetrated | ese artist from photograohs of the groat markable cure is due to the fact that
આજના વર્ષ ન
the two moLYGONS
houso in order.
age. After a short interview, His Excel
he said, jestingly, that my Government thang in the balance and was ouk*
lency went to the Victoria Hotel, where
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United States.
ME Wodehouse hold an inquiry at the Ma
month
on.
the
FRAGRANT WATERS MURMUR
doors in time. The cause of the fire bas that the adventurera' will see their That the Legislative Council has again be- not been ascertained. It originated in the capital many times over.-Singapore Free
come an affraction. westernmost of the row of watahiede and spread with great swiftness to the oiliers.
Picos
That the Member for the Chamber of Com
merce has returned to his post recreated by Northern breezes, fall of vigour and sturdy eloquence.
UNDER the headlog *Notes from howloua,? the Regimental Neke aaya On the night A scous fraats occurred this morning of the 16th October wo canght a pralty among a number of coalies who were dia severa gala. Bone said it was the tail of a charging cargo from the American ship typhoon, but we think that if it was the tail That there is no kek of subjects, and le
we should not like to get i Great Admiral Before the fight could be cd about U
are waiting for the next scare,
That the training at the Bace-course and in the Harbour is proceeding, and the role tive chances of ponies and crows are boing discussed.
kung for juiut-stock enterprise -
these Malayan and Borusan canceras has much to do with the present tightness of money and shrinkage of values, and this circumstance, I presume, has suggested to a number of old Chine bands at Hope
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traveller who ascends the water tower san del type aceded but wings to trans
we remember.
the wide expanse of the city and harbour mantelpiece a row of Darwin's books at stand why Seigel's Byrup cures so many beneath will uot have the gleet of a nether tracted attention and a goodly array of diseases that appear to be a different in armament with more stars in it than a simi- literature, largely the outcome of Darwin's their nature. In other words thenmatism above, but with all its drawbacks work, covered the table in the centre of the and neuralgia are but symptoms of indiges
room Lyell, Huxley, Shanghai too a very sa mate
Wallace, Lubbock, tion, constipation, and dyspepsia, All that the Governor of Hongkong in
down to Wallace's latest
EVERY man who succeeds inclinea to work
Qure
re Darwinism. On acocher cribe all the credit to his own ability then
collection of photographs shrewdness, industry but when ho fails here too has been effected on of these and other eminent
wate
the formation of a new kind of company, chances that have been affected in a cable lay a large correct Tarwinians and he legs the blame holly upon others, upon
ablo to write about that colony and tho all repressechef, Balfour, Weisman,
circumstances, upon fate
Thatthe idea of a Trust and Los Company of ( ́ff y years, is true of Shanghai,
The change doing businem all along the ling from
contact with the meat Evelationists, including Goethe and
Spea Singapore to Japan, with a large capital
empiro in the world, come
ру
cer, he cannot be reckonedas at its back, is one which ought to improve relation raou separated from their homes an eminently suggestive one, touching noss and noises in the head of 23 years
Infinitesimal number of su cis-naturalists. Altogether, the collection was
populy
by nearly the whole earth. If our climate move or rless directly, and oftes with a strong
tu arab significance in the
TO THE DEAZA Person oured of Dost-
standing by a simple remedy, will send duscription of it free to say Person who
stopped by the police, two of the participa- during the bits and ply intertwill find full employment for a frus lanco, That the intended scope of it operations is locs onervating and trying than that of dash of homade, on all the chief points applies to Nicholson, 21, Bodfert Squaro,
increased
creaped Military Contributien, y te w
That the Colony has good reason to gram-
ble it asked and paif for a louf, and zo far has been given a stone.
corns now existing
night, accompanied by heavy
That he did well to protest against an in-is said to be entirely indepoudent of the Hongkong, this advantage is balanced by that growlogist of our day, gud of all London, W. G., England.
our having had very inferiur material of the master biologist local Bank connection, and in no sense to work-on The natural advantages are days. After the objects had beeu sutid. SCOTT'S EMULSION OF PURE COD LIVER tors were very seriously injured, one of rain. About 12 midnight the 1 st Leut
inimical to the Land Investment cou all in favour of Hongkong; the first co ently inspected and dise
discussed, the party
Ørr WITH HYPOPHOSPITAS, for tickets, them having received a wound on the head quilapsed, burying its occupants below it; a och s tfell a gand charge was made
lonisis found an island, an pretty that adjourned to
to the
downstairs, fr room
Marasmus
and all wasting disorders of chil of so severe a character that be is hardly from below it to the terandahs, some with
the rude fishermen had named it where Mir Ishikawa opened Froogedings dress, very remarkable in its resulte. their beds in their arma and
That if such be the case, and the business Fragrant Streams, with Hills, and valiyys, with a short statement of the meating of The rapidity with side chairdron gain desh exposted to recover. A number of the men
some with their were brought before Mr Wodehouse in the clothes, causing great fun amongst the re- That His Excellency welecand the return is mounged villi a duo regard to pound forming one side of one of the finest har--the gathering Profesor Miisakuri then and tirangia upm it very wonderful,
mainder of the troops in camp. Daring the Police Court this morning and were ranight several other tents shared the name
Dar I have tried philoso manded. Amitilardisturbance, though much fate, and at day-break there were ten toute
inuch to develop the resources of the or he and docks and a muddy rfïer, ' phlost"addrous, în ghish ku akidzom, and I am of opinion, that:
Appiled, more Iser serious in its results, took place among down and their cocupants were grouped in
East
The roughites haud would have found it or less empirically, it must be confessed irishable preparation for such case, the coolies omplored in discharging cargo the verandahs of the barrack block (all
in pomille to apoll
but it Blangkong
as the
certain acolological probleme the gradellots are impere, consider rert the ordid paddy fields of Shangilat After this, the goats sat down to dinner
of a talkor to the Brann,-ind it will be for him to refute the old adage that two of a trade pover agree."
principles, ils by yenture may do boues in the world. The fret bottlers here read a detailed biography of Charles Soofl'e Kammision" in cases of wasting in
bounded
from the. Fidelio yesterday afternoon, their belonginge piled up in heaps all That: the Governor wan na sarcastic as he That excedingly good names are spoken demanded infinite tile and pains to contestdale of natural selection, to the The children- tiled it and ́eak for more, and
and twenty two of the combatants were brought before Mr Robinson in the Police Court this morning. The tingleaders were fined $15 each and the others were bound over to be of good behaviour,
wet
through) with the exception of one who would not stir from below the fallen canvas. He said he might as well stay there and be washed away than go outsido and be blown away.
was facetious in his description of • pub- lis opinion as expressed in this Council
by those mombers who never expressed Buy opinion whatever.
of in connection with this new departure,
far superior to ordinary Cial Laver Dild and if Rumour does not err tire cattook to what John Russell Young callutas. and spacazes and clatter, fall of the charitaTROSCO
fionily characterised in the most boustifol and merriment that Japanese delight in, in oncoproging, U
city in the Elasti - Hers, tw, the Chiumo, made this owning hours paas quickly, That a wag who calls himself Lande, whose levour and enterprise under our Topan Mail,
Grange Road, Barniouises, S. Ang (themist coa sumply it--Walsim & Co.,
•Ldi), agente în Hongkong and China,