No. 6686-October 25, 1590,
Tas Peking frived at Shanghai on the 21st fost, from Hongkong with her bow store in, her gorehead damaged and her bowsprit
Br the last trip of the Memnon, says the B. N. Borneo Herald, some magnificent samples of equated Camphor wood timber were shipped to Hongkong by the China
CRICKET.
ULUD, U. GARRISON.
THE CHINA MAIL
troken, owing to her having been in colunan Company They are, we under- day and resulted in a victory for the Gar
lision with a jank.
stand, to bo used in rebuilding the Templo
of Heavon. The Ember was out on the Tas farther hearing of the action brought Company's Estates near Copuna. in the Austro-Hungarian Consulate-Gotta!! at Shanghai, by Blesars Gibb, Livingston &Go, agatust the estate of 8. Kripa, hisAs important item of commercial news bean postponed for a few days, ponding thecomes from America. This is that the pro- arrival of the debter's books from Kobe.
DEO POSE Indics of the Ertugroud's crew Due to be washed ashore nuar the sosne of the wreck, 244 having in this way been recovered. All the corpses are bo yond recognition. Nine are visible in the water, pinned to the botton by the vessel's edge.
This match was played yesterday and to- risen by 44 runs. The Garrison went to hat first and encceeded in putting together 189 in their first innings, to which Boyle contributed 50, Oagt. Davidson 29, E. M. Blair 20 and Kooit 24 The Club went vision in the McKinley Tariff Bill allowing out for 139, of which Leach put on ki the free importation of straw braid has been j allowed to stand. There is a similar pro- (uut out), Darby 24 and Sercombe Smith vision in the Bill regarding straw mat- 22. In their second innings the Garrison ting bat whether this has been allowed to bettered their art score by one run. “The paes or not is not yet known. Buth from China and Japan a large export to the Club not going in for a second iquings, the United States is done in both these articles, thatch was decided on the first. Among although the braid from Japan is, we fancy, the contributions to the Garrison's score of a finer quality than the Chinese-Hyogo NEW:
of 184, in the second innings, wore 72 by Blair, 23 by Kirk and 23 by Q.M. Bergt. Ball. Furthe Garrison, Capt. Dunn had four wiekete for 48 ruins and Blair three for 38. For the Club, Lench und six of the Garri on'a wickets in the first innings for £7rus: and in the second innings Darby had five for 47 runs and Sercombo Smith four for 37. The following is the score:--
M
We understand, sayi tho Japan Gazette, tant on the 10th instant, the occasion We are happy to say that all reports from being the funeral of the Queen Dowager-the various tubacon estates on the East at the request of the Amisrican Minister Coset, namely in Darvel Bay, the Kinaba to Keres, Commander John of the tangan river, Sandakan Bay, the Sagut Monocrtey, went up Soal from Cherano and Labuk risers show a mute of affairs at Bunrishing. The and occupied the Legation with fifty menace most promising sed Up to the 12th instant, all wae quiat.
present year so far seems determined to make amends for the unusual and then
year of rain and Boods of 1889. On BUTTERFLIES STO, it appears, to be the next all sides we have news of gund crops of victims of fashion. The new fans are de-first-class tobacco. We trust curated with tho basutiful wings of the insects, which are caught in hundreds for the purpose, the body, antenno, and go being sketched in afterwards by an artist, who also paints in groups of Bowers, over which the butterflies appear to hover."
Tus wife of an Irish clergyman, saya a eur. respondent, has invented a new kind of louration which she cal's raised pue painting. It is said by those who have Been specimens of it that it is likely to oom plotely revolutioniso ornemental needle- Tay work is done with ordinary, o1 work. subes on velvet, satin, silk, or other mater- lais, and no previous knowledge of drawing in reader.
AccomDisa to the American papers, says the Japan Herald, the U. S. 6. Satara is to proceed shortly to Panama, to receive & new crew, which will be brought to Aspinall by the Richmond. The Marion will, it is re- potted, lauro hore at this beginning of the she has already served two commis- your, an
Bioda. Meanwhile there is no news fig-ship. The Baltimore, which took over Ericsson's remains to Sweden, has been or dered to Lisbon, and the supposition i that nothing will come out here until the San Francisco is ready.
a[
ори
to use the
best of results for the planting intereat when the prices of the 1880 crop are known.British North Borneo Herald.
THE WATER-POWER OF THE UNITED STATES. -An calculation upon the best data obtainable brings cut the extraordinary fer,' says the Eectrical Engineer of New
that the rivers and streams of the
United States, averaged throughout the The returns of the 188 census showed rear, show over 20-400,000 horse-power,
B
that
there were in to in the United States no fewer than 55.404 water-wheels, developing
total of 1,223,379 borse-power, or
or 36 per cont of the total power employed for industrial purposes. In 1880, therefore, only per cont. of the total available water- power of the United States was utilised.
It blon-
THE FND OF THE NEW YORK HERALD' IN LONDON. She dwelt unknown, and for could know,. When Lucy ceased to be,' saya Wordsworth, concerning the young lady who lived beside the spring of Dove. The daily edition of the London New York He old, for where untimely fato dropped the tear of sensibility on Saturday,
ecus to have been like Lucy. Bored a modestly beside the stroam which laves the Thames E
ment that apparently for know when it
be. We cessed to
We are bound to
say that Ir sppears certain, mye a correspondent, that flounces are to overwhelm the women Mr. Gordon Bennett's melancholy ox- perience hna only confirmed the ezpecta. of fashion before very long. A flounce is perie not a thing that can be taken in moderations which we formed at the outset.
that a real live American tion, it would seem. It is like a gilt chair ventured to think
paper, fudly printed, badly written, badly in a drawing room, which has the f of bringte after it other kit chairs until edited, and badly put together, would hard- by the perverse Britisher. the whole room la transformed. One flounce bat
We
QARRISON.
tet Ingings
E. M. Blair, Teach, E. W. Maitland... e G. G. Baris, F. Maitland, b Leach.... Capt. Dust, e 2. Muthard, R. W.Maitland Capt. Davidson, b Leach
2. 3. Young, Snrith
H., Woodcock, b Lanchoneume many su
Kirk, B. Foxan, bleach
Dandes, e Darby, bBalth
Kott R.A mary, b Leach Q.M Soc. Bali, R. not us Corpi Tice, N., and Letch
Feira...
Poral ...............
Second Dologa.
B. M. Blair, & Coxon, h Darby.
G, G, Boyle, E. W. Maltland, & Darby.... Capt. D, Cumon, Leach,
Capt. Davidson Braith, Irasby.........
Bomb. Knott, Coru, & Darby.
E. G. Young, la Smith,
Dendre, & Busi
4. 6xt. Buil, not out.",
Kirk, Newton, Darby,
II. S. Woodenek, b8mith, Corp. Rice, b Baik,
Extra FRING
Totul
CLUB.
ist Inninga.
6. L. Darby, b Iran
Berose Bith, a Young, b Itice
X w. skutlani, & Blair ............................
G. B. Cazon, h kice..........
A. J. Leach, not aut
P. Maitland, e and b Duna
J. Ized, a Wondose, b Ries
W. Newton,
Blair
C. C. Platt, Blais Dr Atkinson, Rise, Dana B. F. Drury, bw Dun
16
181
Extras.....
Total
139
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR
That whos mon fall out, the value of aweet reasonableness is very often only a
THE SHANGHAI ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY.
A ETEP IN TUN RIGHT DIRECTION.
The St. Andrew's Buciety of Shaughni held their annual businions testing on the 21st instant: In the course of the pro acedings,
AMERICANS IN ENGLAND.
(Spectator.)
dia-
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGJUAL
reciated when both are suffering from that part of their cod bo just to it even te, American enterprise, and ion
broken heads. !
That a rendy made panaces is not to be found, and we must wait for the gradual improvement of harian nature. That perhaps one of the best, signs of improvement would be the rise of a feel-
Vict. Feak
to have their sa buk fece
we paid it traces of their presence among ne 1 heyma
REGISTER, October 24 AT 4 F. MIT buta
Temperature.
Vingidity
Wind
October 25HAT 10 a:M
..
causing, as it would do, a genora! rise of priesa, woald henefit the working mat
Civis Romanus au was the boast of vory little, for what went in at one pocket
the gentleman from Ullyria or Africa when would come out if the other.d
he visited the streets of Imperial Rome: Rome he loved to do as the Romans did. That the prolonged industrial war has
he, too, was a Roman citizen, and when in the taught employers the value of combing- The Chairman (Mr E. J. Morrison) said So the American is well
inherit- tion, and it is to ba hoped that a still it had been suggested by Mr Musgregar, time being. Lo forget his splendid inhe
the last President, that it would be a good to, and remember only his humble origin higher forms of co-operation, the ex-opera-lang to found a tion of labourer and capitalist, on the Salical here, to bety at the Public in this small island; bala only to the Votova, 30, 180 55
competed for
for by. Scutch tinguished from the ordinary Englishman Tokio....90.0
worships at Nagasaki, ground of mutual concessions, will in the boss. The Canulties agred that the by the fervour with which ho
ecisome was a good one, sud he (the the shrines of our common past, and his end result.
Chairman) saked to bring it
it forward at auxiety that that identity of origin should iga 30,005
30.04 that mesting. One of the objects of the bo remembered. His enthusi ein, in this Funshow.. 30.06
respect is Society was to promoto good fellowship is great if he were allowed, he anong Seatchauen in the Eat, a ton apeare.bility, and net it down on the shores fongk 30.6) 73 65
and under would off the birth-place of Shake-Auping 20.90 78 constitution the com-
in of the Pulamine; but, happily, there is a mittee thought they spending a a arall amount of moter upon the education of Scotchmen who were not ratford is likely to remain a Avil
fluidow sectssarily in distress. Of course if the What shall we owe to Americus then? So Macao 30.02 +55
30.00 74 of any Semeh penta in distress fur, we confess that we do not see any flaiphong 30.00 73 65 children
29.88 88 59 LAR be competent, he thought, for the have immensely improved our horca, for Maila 20.67 33 71, B.
They Society to do that without a special reso- which we owe them many thanks,
0.9.James lution. It was
inzaensely- altered It was impossible for them with have
our jurnalisre try to be grateful but ing that happinema Jove not incrensa par their funds to deponit in the bank a buff- for which we will i pass with wealth, and of a tendency to ciont sum to provide by interest the they will themselves admit that the inter-Wostock 33.01, 61, 95, w bestow respect otherwise than in pro. must required for the purposed bursary, view is an acquired taste; and the inter-Takio
Therefore all
at product that dnes not all they could do was to put viewer a peculiar portion to a man's houses and lands.
aeide a sufficient aut to pay for it for two once commend iteelf. And they have in Nagasaki...
Shanghai.. 30.02 58 63 NW That there might then bo less of the or throw years; and the Committee's iden troduced some very strange and rather 80 Fonchow
verductive 10 k the
zinke.. But th as feverish desire to get-rich by ang menda,
se are all material Amoy.....50.16 66 79 bursary one of $50 a year and the capitalist might be less disposed and put aside $150, which would b. suk-and visible impertations, and, like their S50.17 70 At the end frozen meat and tinned fruit, have mobing Bangko 30.14 75 cient to pay for three years. to drive a hard bargain with the labourer. of that time it would be for the Society in to do with their personal influence.he Vict. Posk
36.20 7146 That the Govenment of the Colony has got consider whether they would continue with Fact of the matter is that, apart from his Canton
into a mess and cannut well get cut of it an annual grant or whether they would place wish to be English, the Anterioan in
the bank a sum which would provide fiko the Englishman in all essentials to how itr without the loan of suus money.
sufficient intenst. The speaker then pro- bring shout any possible change in Eng Huphong, 3006 1 40
lish character. Even in the matter of That I think £100,000 would take us out of fused--
Auping Flat Bacsary, 'he called the 'St.
mauners, though the difference in this re-
Bonbad... 29.9 8379 BE our immediato difficulties and might Andrew's Bursary,' of $50 a year for the speet is one of kind and not of
degree, it
Manila... ae to constituts suffice, if we resolve to be more easing next three years be earablished, to bo com is not so clearly marked ne
C.8.James The
the two characters. key real divergenco in peted for by Seutel boys attending in the future.
of the American is of an ne- Barometer rising. Gradients moderata to be drawn up by
con. tire and a Committed
aympathetic interest in very dry, (Lusted at 10.91 a.m.) sisting of monbers of the Committee of and take
while that of the
W. Dongatis, and this
representative of the his
affairs; his neighbour's
nature,
Direct.r of the Obs-rvatory. governing body of the Bohool, aud that a
shify shown in his anxiety to ofence to others
studionals by
keeping to ciety be sot neido for the purpose of provid
of this Bomary, any
any himself,
The riserve of the latter some- in fest derived from the investment of any times degeaurales into discourteous portion of this sim sa kong as it remains in coldness while the
friendly in The former's to the orodit of terent not unfrequently becomes intrusivo the Society's hands to go to
general funde of
curinsity. On the other curcise much the society
hand, though the Dr Sloan seconded the
resolution,
Americans are not
not likely to Dr Henderson thought it would be bet-force by contact, they seem likely to ser to give $ 00 for each of two years, and efect a very permanent one by in. termartingo. The number of American girls moved in amendment to that effect.
After some discussion the mount war. This tendency on their part is
that marry
increases largely Englishmen every year.
brings more, and the new astama gowns netsuh wants amething That Lord Wolseley is affected with a ca-
harothree. The epidemic is likely to go on incroising until spring, and in the rush of the ran there is burn that it will roach such a pitch as to induce the usual action towards simplicity.
more for hs peusy than staler Dews, apocry hal telegramos, and dull society para Gor- Mr. people. graphe abuut ninth-rate
of du Bennett has had the opportunity
sking some instructive (and expansive) #perimente in the ancient art of teaching your grandmother how to suck opge-B James's Gazette.
Owing to recent exobange luctantions, do- mand for silver coins has, the Daido staton, been increasing daily and they are being rapidly withdrawn from the market. Since REFERRING to the prospects in North Bor- the middle of August the Osaka Mint hasne, the British North Borneo Herald ways: been cotning only silver, notwithstanding The Lag Company at Lamay, the which the hours of working have been ex- Kyah Estate at Sungai Kyah, and the tendid from eight to ten per day allowing East. Borneo Company at Melapi, all start- of the coinage of from $60,000 in 850ed with every prospect of success, but an. gemmy CONNER of the "odu: univer" yet "had been struck since the right stamp, as the coole brokers of commencement of the year, and since that Hongkong aud Singapore, intant only date up to the 6th instant 60,000-pand the labour market with met three their UND personal gain, food- Gazette.
Fourths of whom, it is to exaggeration to On the afternoon of the 16th inst. they, were fit for nothior bus to go into holing to the right of Hegt's hill. going to wards the Bluff, Yokohama, was clean swept by a fire which originated in a wash- houes, No. 112, Nichome, Motomachi, ne- cupted by a man named Shiratori Tobi The combined efforts of the firemen and British and
tcan mes-of-war's men
American
which the first crop was to be gathered, Bapical Next, the year 1889, during proved a most exceptional one for floods and heavy rains, the womt year known sinos 1882. Under these conditions eren a moderat success was imposible, but why cry out This
1803 p your
gives promite.. good crops over all the B- sud with a
-talian,
go
Hamanong
were successful in preventing the mes continuance of the present favourable em- fimm sweeping Minowa.zaka and other ditions the year 1890 bouzas in the neighbourhood, but the for 1889. If the bollow ir-which-the wash-house was situate was soon emouldering mass into complain before the results of
thes certained, will
ro far to make up shareholders, 180
are so the
Posi-
Four firemen were slightly injured by fall-tign of the parties inly be i
coethes scribends et loquenaï and every now and again gets into trouble with the Government by saying what he anght not to say, or makes himself ridiculous by dogmatising on subjects he knows nothing about.
to
too Macao
13 of
That there is no hope of a silver loan being/Shanghai Public School, u dor the regula- The pulitones kiud, a desir to assist for N.E. winds. Wather civar, coul sud-
sanctioned. That, on the score of the fastnations of the this Society
silver market, the advantages and disum of $150 ont of the forde of this Shahman is of a mere negaid giving | Hongkong Obeersutry, Uctober 25, 1890.
advantages are about equal, but there would certainly be a gain if the money wore subscribed in the Calong.
•
| That a working-man erafer once expressed his willinguess to take over the job of Prime Minister at the modest salary of £3:0 a year.
That he evidently knows little about China and her people, and when the writing or speaking itch comes on him agaio, ko Itsed“ better Book illustrations nearer Home.
That the Chinco have a mulish obstinacy. first, against a stone wall, just as chil- deen in a tantrum' do, but that is not
That the historical invaders did not come
the evidence of a worlike agdrit.
from fossilised, corrupt nations, but from the desert, or the steppes or the bleak North,
That the mission of these invaders was to
break up decrepit nations, That, under a different Government, come good fighting staff might be made out of the robbers and pirates that inf at the land; but, under existing circumstancen, their incorporation in the Chinese army would extinguish what little sparka of courage they have,
before
they cry out ing houses, and 42 houses wore totally are hurt. No, It is not North. Bornoa destroyed and two partially.
Tobaco companies
that have drained. Bong- kong speculators. The dearia of money in Hongkong in dua” to the tremendous Land Booms that kept things gamblers with burnt, and That far from holding that the Chinese, an
One of my roadare (saye Truth) sends a Mining and traling the best spirit in which to deal with humming entil the bubble
very good story from South Africa, as ilus-
annuccessful attempts at suicide. A troop
er in the Cape Mounted Rides on en- deavoured to blow his brains out with
He only encceeded, however,
revolver
his jaw. After being put to
the
Teffted
made
th
of 40- scrip North Borneo cannot scapegoat for Punjoms, Land and Mortgage companies, et hoc gentis mke, and we trust the Hongkung tobacco hospital, he was brought up for pecalators will have yet reason to bless before his colonel. That intelli the day when they kept a few dollars out soldier who of the mines and Hongkong Laud Booms, would not ahyet himself would certainly and invested them in North Borneo soil. never be able to shoot an enemy, and ho pendemned
the prisoner to aiz weeks' re volver practice. This is an excellent example to us, for if we must treat suicide as a pepal offence, the punishment should
officer remarked that
at least be made to fit the crime.
What you achieve is due to pluck. But a friend's success is always (luck,' Lær nothing on earth sadden you as long As you can love,
The dustist should make a good politician he is skilled in the use of gas and her a strong pull t
A BEMARKABLE INVENTION-Quoting from the date Nichi Nichi Shimbun, the.
Mas Benbine (just awakened)--"George, Bocki, Shimbun say that a certain Me Hatakeyama Sadikiobi has made a repark my dear, do you love me as much as you did able invention. For
years this
ger tleman, when we were first married 1 Mr Boubine we read, had
had been ardently seeking a than, hustle out and start a fire in the kit Why, certainly, my darling.' 'Woll. of incraming
the national
rewarded efforts were at length products, ad
by succession,--Time,
Mras Plympton-After all Mr Brough last year, when he discovered a manufacturing pattoo from straw. Reton, whit the advantage of having an Foated experiments citised him as to the costore in the seventeenth century?" Mr practical reality of his invention, and Broughton--Oh, a great deal They can's showed that with a given weight of straw hang around and mar your social aspiration be could manufacture one half of the same to-day. Harper's Br weight of cotton. He is now seeking to
'On; mommer,' yolled a little darky as patent his discovery, concerning which the he saw the militia on the way to camp, Journal remarks that a district like what's them sojors? Spjers, chile?" **- Akita Akila, where cotton is searcs, will be claimed the mother, What you talkin' greatly benefited by the discovery-Japan beat Dem ain't sojere; dem'a de Districk
Malaria.'---¡fgshington Mar.
Mail, Mark
Ba's Example-Parent-Why did you RINCULE AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON FOR trike your brother, Tom? To-Be bit RUSSIAN JEWS-The Jews of Motivff have me fret Parent-But what does the in a very degidod
doi resoner shown their cun- Bible say about turning this other chest? tempt of some of the absurdly bigoted rerout, ph, yog don't liep reversible gulations which the
governor of the pre aufs yourself. vince has recantly insued for their special ediftration. One of these enactments was.
The rain-exclaimed unto the dust, to the effect that. Jess were în feluri to
ail government Axlate Bil
officials મા
int including area polis:meft
degree, they wight mast in the street
t14D
You cause the people much disgust;
I am the raal attraction.'
To which the dust make quick reply, Yes, I'm nuisance when I'ai dry, But-thon I Bil the public eye, lutter, so they banded And that's eine satisfaction.
carry
The Jews determined to out them in
very
the
together and promenaded the Iz was on the rear platform of a street car streeft billy and whenever they mat ans crowd was going home from the theatre.
all hade deep obe
E
That I have always doubted if the now wins of Western civilization can safely be poured into old Chiness bollles,
a nation or as a conquering army, will overflow the world, I believe that the day is fast coming when the partition of the polypus empire' will become an absolate necessity.
That the only danger is that the race may overrun the earth as the rabbits hare
overrun Australia
That the son of toil might have made a better Premier than semo we have had. That if the public offices of the Colony were set up at auction we might perhaps get the work done as sciently at a much cheaper rate.
That I do think we pay somewhat too much
for our Civil Service.
That if Lord Kaatsford bad reorganized, the service on a more economical basis, the Unlony would have more willingly paid
the advanced salaries.
That (to illustrate what I mean) no one would grudga the Harbour Master a good salary, if a situation wore found for his Assistant in some other Colony. That if cherries are distributed to children and one gets more than the rest, there is often so much discontent caused that it
the
On the motion of the Chairman, it was unanimously agreed that St. Andrew's Day should be celebrated by halding a ball.
REPORTED LOSS OF TWO CHINESE
AO
was carried by 18 votes to 5, and the con lution as amended was then pat and car-exceedingly Battering to sar self-copoet, Fird.
for wo canuct but imagino that they find qualities among our countrymen that they do out fad at home; posibly, howETET,
that is more the cluoge of
O surroundings is so welcome to them, the escape from
and re. that restless society of continual money- Katting, feverish speonlations, curring boous, into the quiet, more settled and seduto atruosphero of the older euntry. If English society is in need of The alumnos Kaishi, which renched plied from a more fresh and haskhy suree, The steamship Shirakawa mari from the new blood, it could not well have boon sup- tanka from Korea on the 3th instant,for, batufor the short-comings of the brings the
the wreck United States may be, ita social life is. the following report
M..N-OF-WAR.
Tho Kobe Herald translates the following from the Osaka Asahi Shimbun :--
of two men-of-war. The South and North wonderfully free from those dark shadows ocean flouts of the Chinese Government, that disfigure the domestic life of older consisting of sis, rosacls each, were at countries. The glaring light of publicity Chefco a few months ago, and from thereo that is thrown by Amoric journalism
it was rumored that over the lives of
private
te tiuz chough, went to Fusso a
were there for the purpose of intine for from salating towards
arda Lond, it in midating the Korean Geverameus iu con
rather hurtful to it, funy af l sa. A o report that the Guvern witness of the hights seguenze
morale. It is certainly unfair, huge
uf
rela
1. Banomatka, redhicisi to da dögrens Fahier - Zeit, and to the ferei or the say th fucker, tend).
nd handredths.
2. Temperatura, în die oliede in degreem altenheit,
3. Raxın, in percentage of saturation, the amudity or air saturated with moisture being"
du.
4. Dikzorion or Want to two points.
5. FORCE OF WIxo, according in Besafort rate,
9. STATE OF WRATHER, & Dius sky, c d • ta hed cloude, ddriesling, suit, fogs y gloomy
ha, lightning, overcast, jain, Blow squally, r. zaiu, a snow, e thunder; 'w visibillig,
jew/(wol) Raw, in ipebos, temiha sud hundradiku.
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would tave been b.tfør bed the cherries night entorlained the ides of breaking that American girls should invade on and Tuesday, the 28th inab
-.
not been given. - ******
que sare but what Lord Kantsford's That sometimes grown-up people mani. cherries have caused as much discontent
sa pleasure,
That it is a pity the investigations into the Kripa affair were not minds fully public. because, as the report atanda, it does seem curious that a man should persistently soll below cost price That Paddy explained how he made his furtune selling whisky under cost price by attributing the result to the large quantity be sold.
That only an Irishwants can make money on
tina with the Chinese Government an meeting the protection of Russia instead: carry out so successfully matrimonial from
her departure until the night of the 9th obvious remedy is, that they in their buru My Avippon Tusan Kaisha lind to postpone girls are ping in the single atare. The On the 6th int there was a typhoon in the camp, while it would appear fron
inst. Two men-of-war, however, put out that to s goud many eligible young men should marry Americans. Surely there of Foan with the intention of
going to Jinsen. They were caught in the gate and left lamenting in New York, whom it is went down about 80 miles from Jiusen.lost their duty to consule," When the news reached Fusan on the th instant, aix men-of-war were despatched to the scene of the disaster. The names of the vessels which have been luet are not yet
known.
CHINKING.
From (N... Daily New Correspondent.)
I have lately take part in an expedition which bad for its objet the sinnghter of the man-eating tiger concerning which I wrote you on September 3rd (North-Ching Daûy
noed all the rowels Why not? Be A FINANCIAL Truth-me men don't
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We shall plads a jar of beans in our win- dow and offer 10-years' subscription to the persus making the nearest guess as to the number,-Arignia Kither,
1
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the 31st inet,
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this principle, and sa Kripa was not anNews, September 6th). We started ear ran a long race Yes; and after all it was i
Irishman he came to grief and, what worse, he paoped others to suffor, That (perhaps owing to the fragmentary character of the reports) I was reminded of the parable of the unjust steward who wont to his master's creditors, telling one
other 40 instead of 60.
is with guns and by 9 am, and reached the epot where the tiger attacked the little girl, found that the animal had been seen the day before; so it was Upon inquiry it quite probable that we should encounter him. The vicious creature was in the habit outing to the village, where the bloud of the little child still ing on the ground,
to mark 80 boils instead of 100 and an-search of the pray that had been taken from it not finding this, is would gallop rapidly to the other village about two railes distant where the boy had been bitteu.
That, in the Scripture Larrative, there is a seeming approval of this conduct, which, I must say, I never could understand. That the last Panjoni report is in strange
contrast with precoding reports,
That I am afraid Mr Brodie won't balls glibly on Monday about a whole Eng: lish county* *200 square miles' &c.
That the Budget for 1891 in not briliant. That stagnant revonne and increasing ex-That the last report seems to me to amount. no tiger rewarded our patience.
penditure are not good signs That in the year of plenty we began too many works, the payment of which en- fortunately falls on the lean years, That I have no doubt trade will revise and prosperity resura, but if the lessons of the past are not taken to heart parman- ent prosperity is impossible, That the Chinese appreciate our relatively. good government, but they won't pay's big price for the hoon. That when living becomes too expensive they are driven to ask other spheres, an some thousada seem to have done last year and this yest. That it must never be forgotten that the large licance fes paid by the Oplum Farmer really constitutes a tax on the people, as much an exise dalier do at Home
to this that the Company's conguasion might be a good thing in the hands of tomei ody else
That if Mr May wished to test the jurisdic
tion of the Imperial Mariling Customs over British-owned private inonches in Chinese waters he went the wrong way
about the busia,
a dead heat. Why, what do you mean?
He was cremated
Be that holde Lost the golden mean, And liven suntgutedly between
The little ad the great, Ferla not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that hanus the rich man's door,
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Hoxox NG, Uctober 26. OPIUM-Naw Patna, cash,... 485
Ou New Benares, cash, 4771 Old New Malwa cash,, 509 Allowance, Theis... 324 Old Malwa, cash,... 510/540 Allowance, Tuels... til/40 Persian, Oily, cab, 480/500 Allowance. Taela... 32/48 Persian, Paper tied 50/510 Allowance, Tasis.... 32/48
Exchange, BONGKONG, Uctober 20.
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The people for miles around were cutting graga on the hills, and notice was given that if any tigers were seen word should be sent to headquarters. We posted ourselves on all the cigar pas nas and traited
knoll in a
of trees jaut in the appearance of the
ge, But we waited in vain although we
we kept in posi
position antil only this, but since that time in the violpity no tigers have been sen at all; so that the object which we had in view. namely the expulsion of man-gators bas been accniaplished without los of life or limb to pither tigor of man. Whethe
Whether the patting away of the jungle by the people On London keep the back or whether they are fright or disgnated by he sputare foreigners the reader is left to rarance of to judge. The predition was meanly provided for and ed osuse of the Chungking riot, a noted pourly equipped; one male (the report. bur
klaker), an ass, and a rouskut similar in Queen Anne constituted the furniture. some resposts to those of the reign of
Bank, Wire,
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Ou demand,
30 days' aight,
4 months aight,
Crudits, 4.
Documentary, 4 months sight, 3/5f On Paris-
Credits, 4 On Berlin-
That the Coatome officers are as a rule con- siderate and obliging, but if they were to allow launches to pass in the dark-anno ticed, on the bars supposition that they were British-owned private launches, the attempt to prevent smuggling sight be ill cear this place, at a cent of On New York- abandoned at encs,
That a representative of the Big House has inspected the firsen Island Cement property and it is possible there may bas change of management,
BROWNIE.
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A temple to the late Admiral Peng Yu lin in being erected by the Emperor on the
On demand,
4.28
edits, 4 months" sight,
·4.36
Op
demand,
3.42
Wire. Cn
On demand,... Credits, 60 days' sight, On Bombay
220
221
220
22L
....72
Tis. 100,000. In clearing away the rub bricke bearing curious inscriptious were bial for the foundations, a bumber of old
found.
The alarming increase of opium dens and Do Osleutia- demand; devils' has evoked a proclamation from the Tactat. It is put up on the city garo
Wira and sets forth the evils consequence upon On Shanghai
On demand, the use of the drug, and the difficulty of
On demand..... hands and the feet robelling against the
restraining the people who smoke it. In QUIMBY thinks that an ocean-eyhound form
31 days' aight, private paper, 7th rming opinions of the effects of opium Gold Leaf, 1 Bus atomach and reluking to work.
should be bark rigged Batan Transcript, the Choose it is well to consider the opinion Soversigue (Bank's buying rate) 5.82 That the hands and the feet auffered more
of the people and officials themselves on the Tas man you meet ging down the hill subject and the intelligent traveller in than the stomach from the resulting | Atchison Globe.
was at one time higher than you are Chita will find the universal dunsent to be starvation,
that opium in an unmitigated curve which is sapping the life of the nation.
8th October.
That there is an Ahop's fable about the
That the Labour Unions throughout the world would do well to ponder over this fable s
deep obeisance foge. Let eau, mused and who was lammed That if there was a general stoppage of thee, frequently drossing the street for the on the ralling to the one on his left, i have shoonetering some bent fuse we been introduood 1. I think
trade, the labourers would suffer more BOL My
than the capitalists,
purpoas
of
Ab And mine sa these ridiculous pre-arranged salutations, Porter, Mr the governor could stand it as longer, and away trying to get my watch. It is an alá forlow (the carsked his former order one and out of repair, and wank bring you
#7--Detroit Fres Pyrë,
Bo Miss Bilion is married? Yes. Whom did she marry? Nobody. She married a title."--Barton Cherier.
That worth alone is not enough
Is not surprising,
It aseda, like good cigars, à poff
Of advertising. BRUTAL-MES. DOBOB-T HALE,
Lonary or another. After a few days name is Taylor, you are throwing tima | That, no each labourer la really the cumhare fuisfud painting the vase.✨ Nuw, if 1 tomer of his brother lab urer in a difer Connie Era (My Lorber What's the matter with the anh ferent trade, a general rips of wager, harrel | Boston Transcripį.
Hi (sadly)—I have not seen my wife's face for two years. She-Why not! He- Bbe paints
Temperature.
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