No. 9225-August 26, 1892.)
THE O, S, S. Co.'s atourser chiles left Singapore yesterday afternoon, and may be expected hore up or about the 31st inst.
The monthly Gymkhana mesting, which Was bheounced to take plass to-morrow afternoon, is unavoidably postponed till Saturday, the Sed September.
THE CHINA MAIL.
We are informed by the Agent of the ively. North Atlantic-First Mate El C. P. t. Oo, that the R. M. S. Empress of Second Mate #10: Third Minte £8. Wer Coast Africa, Smith Atlantic, West Indies, Japor, which left Hakodato ou Mundas. Australie, Bust Indies-First 1st $13; the 15th August, having put beck it that Second at £9 108; Third Mate £r 10s. port in consequence of a fire hteaking out Add 10 per sont, for nil-carrying steamors, Sailing Ships First Mate £9, Second Hate in the after-hold after learing Yokohama, £7, Third Mate £6, up to 1,000; £18, £10, has accomplished a very last ran to Van-8 1,000 tons and over, respectively; couver, striving thero yesterday, the 26th. Fourth Mate £6. Above are Minimum
Rate: Although the defention caured by the Other matters dealt with were the reform
Mesting for the purpose of receiving the Commider's Report for the past again, and viveting, the Commistae for the coming son, will be held at the Pavilion, on Monday, 12th September, at 5 p.m.
The st of averages has already heen published.
treaty was made between Russia and this arrangement are limited to the dead, is another, and a pile of them ranged "upon Chine, lasting till 1858, being, seconding to clen why should the Mings have ever festa range of hills in the light of a minment Dr William, the longest-lived treaty on an Empiro; in which their burial places to the lunacy of the builders-if he is is record. The other put is the Boon were so cunningly adjusted to the demands this frame of mind, he will do well to adjurs Catholic Cemetery outside the Ping The of fong-slai? It is act strange that there the Great Wall. It has been lauded sa Gate, which contains the remains und in deop interest attaching to the Emperer, the greatest work on the planet, and stig mandments of some of the ablest mon who who, though he did not found the dynasty, matised as the greatest fraud. The insorip ever net foot on Chinean soil, Ricci, Schall, transferred the most of the power to tas tien in six languages (on a stone in the mid- and Verhiost.
north, where it had been during the days way arch) which hardly anyone is learned Within a radius of about ten miles from of the Mongols. Many of the Chinese enough to decipher, and which is of little the city of Poking there are a few places dynasties, dum to como and go on the interest to any mortal when it has been de- In the more feamer days, that is before well worth a visit. These are the follow pages of history for no perceived causes, vipieced, may or may not be a great at ing, lasen in the order of their proximity.and for that reason we find it impossible traction. One tauet anderstand that the
NOTES FROM PEKING.
· (Frem a Correspondent.}
MERGES David Sassoon, Sons & Co. inform; accident arac jeted to nearly a week, the of Courts of Enquiry in the Dependencies, the war of 1858-1860, the city of Peking The Yellow Temple (Huang Sau), not far to get interested in them. This is not the age of this partienlar asotion of the wall. na that the Austrian. Lloyd's a Thisbe, vendol has completed her voyage within four and improvement of meteorological pabfice was rega: died by almost all foreignors, who from the Au Ting Gate, Here is to be acon { cane with the Kings, Theirs was a rovolt wholly uncertain; he must endeavour to
tione and ocean ohartz.
from Bombay, left Bingipare for this port this morning.
days of the contract time, and the delay Ena thus been radunod very much.
Tan N. L... Bayern, with the German
Fram Annual Report of the London Ship masters' Society: Your Committee have joined with the Federation in susting dertain action to the Bourd of Trade, with a view to raiping the status of navigating of
knew thing about it, with a mixture of cariosiy and awe. It was the centre of the great Empire which foreigners of ali nationalities had been struggling, for maca
mail of Int instant, left Singapore vester THE FATAL ASSAULT AT YAUMATL cers of the Merchant Service. The Board than three hundred yonis, to ponstrate, tife of the J.aura and displays a skill in art of the Emperor, The younger son of short he most have faith na a grain of
30th inst.
misionaries.
what Mr J. Thompson justly termed the against a foreign and a despised rate, and dissiate it from thoughts of the permenal Dost remmable and perhaps the finest the fact that the leader had been ouco anspration of Ch'in Shih Huang, the great monument in all China, a marble cenotaph | Buddhist priest lends to history glow Vandal of the third century before the erected over the robes and relies of the of romance. The elder son of Hung Wu, Christian era, and he must not attempt to Banjin (or falin Lams of Thibot. The the first Emperor of the Minse, having entangle the intricacies of the bistory of elaborate carving represents scenes in the died, the heir apparent was the grandson this special section of the great barrier. In The four gardeners charged with assult of Trade ja turn have communicated by oir-
bab which very fow had oref explored, of which it in hard to explain the Hung Wu was spirited and ambitious mustard seed, and he will be snabled to see day, the 25th just, at 2 p.m., and may being and causing the death of a man at Ho-sular leiler with a number of shipewtern,
disappearance. This
prelate started There is a legend that the Following it is only of late years that the paes lead...
to in review much of the history of the empire. expected here on or about Tuesday, the Man-tin on the 17th inst, were brought be asking for their observations on the subject, those for a most exclusively diplomato or
with an escort test their motile, pat forth the fore Mr W. C. H. Hastings at the Magi-and the result is awaited with mach in-
The former did hol s30 for Peking in 1779. terest.
The Federation aro now atracy this afternoon,
much, and the latter, as a rule, did not r- of 1500 men, was mot by the Emperor line of a couplet, to which both the so ing to Cha Tae (Forked Roads) has been pat into tolérable repair, so that it is. Holice appeared for one of the men.
They pleaded not guilty. Me H. Jongaged in promoting a Bill balore Parlia port must, though to this remark, theen near the city of Si Ning in Kan-ead the grandson were to furnish a corras.
siz, ordactor to Pezing with great honor, pooding one. The life of His Majesty had possible to traverse it without the agonica went having for its object the exclusion of are a few conspicuous exciplína
officers and aliens from It is at etrange that the Chinees who and for several months lodged in this tent-boun a tempestnous one, frora his loboly which were onog lacvitable. The Chinese uncertitiented
of foreign-going British cars in contact with foreigners, should The carving is therefore only abrut a hund. a vast horde of treurgents who rose against condition, as a protection against inpssion ple, where be died of amull-pox in 1790. orphanbood to his successful leadership of had good rosen for leaving it to a wretched the command snipe.
The Federation are also have invariably exaggerated the great red years old. A beautifulengraving of the the crumbling dynasty of the Mongel endeavouring to pross forward legislation and grandeur of their Capital.
has to often shown, a most ineffectual one. nabling mariners to record their vases in unkaen passen for the magnificent,' and monument is to he found in the last edition usurpers. It was the life of a man ou a
a full speed. Those But if we satirize the effort to keep out as the same way as members of the Univerai-with a ready credulity, many of the Chief Dr Williams' Midle Kingdom, with the spirited steed
When the savage race, by tiles of stones, and brickbr lies do at present,"
neho statements were absorbod by the conuut of its origin, jest quid. Not far then, wora, the words: foreigners to whom they were communicat from the Follow Temple in that containing wind blown tho Acrie's tail, it shows let us remember that it was the best way ed, and so patsed on into current litora the great Bell which was coat in 1408, and a thousand separate threade. To thin knows to those who adopted it, and that to Lare, where many of thein sets still to covered in 1573 by a small temple. Its sentiment the grandson replied: The great degree and for a long period of time! remain With the end of the war, all this weight is supposed, to bu 121,000 lbs., and rain beats the sheep's wool into a mass of it was sucessful. And if the wisdom of the Was altared. So intelligent and discrimin-it is said to be the Ingeat suspended bell felt. His uncle responded-in a different ancient wall-batiders of China is put into in the world, and, according to Dr Wil-key: When the man irradiates the scales competition with the modern legislators in ating a historian Mr Justin McCarthy
A CIRCULAR has been issued from the Bius gapore effice of the Raub Australian Syndi-"
Wong Fak, coole, Chinese Sam-sbui-po, cate to ascertain the viewe of the share stated On 17th inst, at about 10.15 a.. I and the dogansed went to collect aarno bolders is to reducing the capital of the herbe. We came upon a village in Englab Company from £1,000,000 in £1 sharee territory with a few plantations on it. They The deceased ac- (17/6 nominally paid up when issued, and were not enclosed.
some growing 18/3 paid up now) to £200,000, aleg in Elidontally stepped upon
regetables. The Erst defendant w there shares (13,4 nominally paid up)... at the time. I heard the ecoared say Ex cuao ran to the brat defondant who had after The Brot defendant cau in funti. the deceased and beat him, tebing him timea on the breast. The deceased was on
No one has been spprehended in connection with the murder at Wes Point, although
identification of the deceased;
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the police bare been actively ougaged since by the quese and beating him several your Saturday's issus have efforded much | romarks in his History of our sten Times,oms, the micet Teibarkable work of art of a dragon, it resembles a myriad points the United States, who are struggling to the discovery of the body yesterday morn- the ground, and thy first defendant stood interested, directly or indirectly, in the hat perhaps one of the principal results Dow in Chios.' The Summer Pulroc (Yuan of gokk.' Nearly overy detail in the sati-baild up a Chinese well against the Chinese characteristic--the rain beating on the folt made evident even to there modera crude of the places well worthy of a city ing endeavouring to find some clue that will boside him. The second defendant came Great Silver Question, and although it ap- Peking is by the discovery that Ming Yuan), hot far distant, is another thesis contained in these two answers in themselves, it may perhaps be ultimately Although of pour sheep contisated with the spa well-builders, that while "supposing theoi band and peasa (from an occasional murmar) that there many of us had supposed Now that but now wholly incessible. lead to the detection of the murderers. No-anning up with a rake in the dense, pinone set forth to you are somewhat this ospitel bee boun scupied by foreigners enclosed by a high wall until within lighting up the horny scales of a fiores atves to be the heirs of all the ages in the
stamped several times ou tices have been issued intimating that the The first and sand defendants said Yosavilled at by thars ignorant of the first for nearly a third of a contury, one would comparatively recent years, it was always Dragou! A single magled mat of wot wosi, foremost files of time, they are in reality Govorament offer a reward of $20 for the came on car ground. If we kill you we principles of peuny postege, there is no suppose that everything of interest regard practicable to effect as outrance by paying opposed to ten thousand luminous sparks more than twenty centuries behind it, and
From these data alone, say the that their work will not'stand. doubt bar that they deservedly carry weight ing it would long since uaso been a fee to the guardians of the premises, who off gold! need only throw you on the hillside. They spoke in Hakka, but I could under- with the Bankers and (as you flippartly call found out, and have been communicated in true Chinese style, pulled down the wall the Chinese, one might have foretold the His father sont to the world, But while desultory de-o an axtent suflicient to admit the visitors, costiny of the two lads. stand part of what they said. Then the them) the carpet-baggers of this Celery. Ever since your Exchange Hurmura'
scriptions of special ebjects and places replacing the rionea when the guests had the sun to the North, that his presosen
departed. Now at the Emperor has might not embarrass the now administra third and fourth defendants came out from
Pe duor sed called out Dear. They were 60 anti rathusiastic Silver Buil, and last Satur
fact tha: no comprehensive account of
Consider gradually to be replaced by new ones. The with which to renture on his Northward Look Square, Murray Barracks, this even-1 or 70 feet from the deceased, and spoke in day evening I noticed for the first time that king and its people, their peculiarities and it is reported that the ruined buildings are Wa allowed his een but a trifling force
Hakka. I went up to the deceased and your hitherto firm convictions were shaken, customs, has ever been issued. earried him away towards some bacaboy and that the Golden Calf you have so far ing the great number of highly-intelligent closure is (or was) a vast wilderness of raid, but his son was fully equal to the westerners who habitually make Feking beauty in ruins. The test conspicuo as emergency. Gathering his scanty ratinne, bushes. On the way I found he was dead. worshipped in the shape of a three-and-four.
take a long When the first defardant was hitting de penny dilar bas suddenly dwindled to 3/2.
their abode, and some of whom would objecte are the exquisite pagodas, which he told them that they were Now, Sir, I am not a mugwup, and I som to find time hanging beary on thoir ren the vandaism of foreign troops and dangerous journey, and that those who Wimsins. Costed I caught hold of his arm and told
sec duce more their friends and Jasone bim not to bent. I spoke in Pont. The never did nor shall I ever belters in 3-nude, this circumstance seems nat only spared, and the rains of the Italiso palaces, wished
the emperors by the workmen im relatives, might acad for them, and have a Will defendant gave him two blows and then change again touching 4/6 RA was propte singular, but altogether inexplicable. But built
desisted. The defendants made objected by many a few months back. At the perhaps some tremendous tume may be at ported by the Oathe Fathers. Twenty short visit in the camp Tully appreciat were charged tions to my carrying away the deceased. se time I must say that I fail to apps this moment in course of compilation, Fears ago these ruins were in a condition to ing this kind thenghtfulness of their
which
which shall remedy all this, and not only afford a good idea of the original structure, i commander vach man invited all the friana Berlin --Domaned,...
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They said i Hakka We want to give kim ciate the unforeseen ictusaces'
On demand,.. before Mr W. C. A. Hastings at the come more basting, and now he alame have esused rates to fall 2d in a week is all the cavity, but raise a mound upon its but in later yeate they seem to have boon he could thinks of, and when all were
pulled down, pathaps to use the excolens gethered, the prinos informed them that it Credits, 60 days' aight, The death. The frat defendent need his your estimation. I, certainly, can see 00 site!
firestone for thilding elacwhere. The was his intention to avail himself of their | On Bombay---- Magistracy today with vagrancy.
datendant Teason for this change of fivat. On the
There is a small but steady stream of walls were built of hage blocks well dress assistance in his impending attack upon the
Wire, men admitted the charge and stated ist only, and the seca third and contrary, everything acems to puial, mero
globo-trottern who stamped on the deceased. The
inke Peking in
Tartars, whether the visitors thirstad for On demand, through an interpreter that they were sent fourth defeadants did not touch bim. I conclusively than ever, to very much higher their route, though rout of the Rounded and skilfully laid, but the Chinese su
Lervisors evidently did not trust to auch the enterprise or not ! What can't be Da Calcurta down to Hongkong oy the Japanese au- reported the affair Taumati Police values of precious metals is general, nad the-world-in-eighty-days variety on spa materiels only, for cach wall was pierced cured, must be sudured,' and this band off Wiro,
Station. The deceased and I were cousins Silver in particular, before the end of the
The greator purtion of thead! year. During the past few weeks Indian the time. thorities. They did not know the name and lived together. He was a corryt advises go to show that the Nahods of the people, either go because they wish to be with large holes for the introduction of marauderą, so. adroitly collected, marched
to an easy victory. Upon the whole able to say that they have visited Peking, den posts, to aut de anpports, just as if houses Norther. Provinces, particularly ΠΕΡΙ
Mao Chou) the 21st inst. atat they were sent ashore on
swept if not ex but ona city placs the 22nd. The men, who wore entirely the houses. I have lived at Sam-shui-pe every Tortunity of exchanging their bil-cloan by persons who have at their dispeal ample of Chinese conservatises in the pre-which ould hold out against them, and thee the place Thore were fow's-bout and Algbasision, have been busy taking But the market has beer so siten ur po dzied cricke--a striking, in star aliquodney from Nanking to Paking, they found this city was captured, and taken to pieces nolimited resources, and to whom money sence of foreign innotations.
Beyond the Round and Splendid Gar-briok by
briok lutitele and who have been supported by about ten days. The deceased and I lived vir treasures for gold, thus taking advan
the return of the vic together. I came from Sai Houng with the tage of the low prise now ruling for the is no object whatever, that there is pro- the police since they landed, were slip-sed. We was durn to get a job on laiter metal, while a perusal of the Static bably now to pisce in Chion, where it is dena (Yuan Ming Yust), and at no great torious army, and the place is still known wrocked near Japur, were rescued and a cockle-shell boat; the shells are used for ties of Eastern Trade during the past six less advisable to go for varies that: Peking. Gistance, is the leuctain of Teu Thousand by its former nams, although new valy
the young taken to Yokohama. They did not know making me. We lived on fresh and salt months shows mach a prependetance of During a recent visit, an American million- Ages (Wan Shon Shise) which was unco cna market town. This march
fal and rice. I speak only Pasti i can imports oser Exporle as
cannot fail
aire is said in have paid leard-ef and the most picturesque spots in the prince. who styled himself Prince of Yan the pairs of the ship er captain, but said it
nnderstand some Hakka I made no to produce tightness of rooney really colossal priors for articles of this pire, and was for years with foreigners ia (Yon Wang), was me of the meat mecior- W&S Britisk skip Detective-Sergeauc-mistake in repeating what the best and with Easter Bruks (as is already art, and by his irresistible competition the capital, a favorite placa for picnics.able events in the history of modern China.
The mugrthcert-bronze hous, which geard fall the great plain worth of--the Tart being felt bere), and which will naturally Haridon informed this Worship that he had second defendants said.
faw of those who visit Peking, are sit the entrance are among the finest extant was depopulated, literally as with be besom ascortained the men were brought to examination of the body, stated that the very much higher figure than has recently cerely desirous of beholding such sights as triumphs of Chinese setistic skill, and with of destruction. The ruin wrought is fresh
Dr Marquee, who made a post mortem bare the effect ut jumping the Rapes to ato base outbid the Imperisi Court stoolk! Hongkong by the Numberg. The men abdomen was full of blood, the spleen ruled
added to this, Mr Gladstone's well-known are there to be sueri, and of these visitors nfea, the cupper erine, the mueble bridge, in the minds of pensents to-day, as if they
the mathie boat, and the wonderful temple had themselves witnessed the terrible waste WPosted.! —- porsevera 18 the bitter end. But to many,
is a former on the crest of the hill, made familiar to of human life, which was only equalled by Tokio...... 25.96 were declared vagrante under the Or-raptared, and one rib on the right side
and three on the left side poeially fractur friendship for Russia, who has recently 000 the dis.dvantages referred dinance,
ed, Dealb had resulted from syncope Auted to join the forthcoming conference, communication, such as dust, mud, great all by its frequent representations in works that of the Pai Pir rebels. This exposi Nagasaki.
in commonly known as You caused by rapture of the spleen. This leads one to believe that this move is not distances and
You Wang Shanghai. 29.81 8869]: outs, are altogether of travel-all these were formerly accessible tiuni
to say one on payment of a moderato fes. sweeping the north (Yon Wang She Pea). Foochow might have been brought about by a witnent significanes and that the timing much for them, and many of them ara gled Nox, Rian, tey are alt tale, as are so Whoù he took the now famous-title of A280 29.97 87 62
elty of Kussia's consent and Mr Gladston get away without attempting anybug my other sights shout Peking. The Yung Lo, Yen Wang showed that he could Auping return to power will and ranet have the in the way of sight-seeing. Most peoplo, Deer park too, is said to be closed at pre- do more than slaughter; be could ruls. Ife Swator. 95.84 33 effect of eansing Mr Gescher to do his whatever their enterprise, wil sympathiz most to bring about that most essential de- with the verdica of an Italien Count, what, with all its pratty views and lovely caused importations of forced immigrants tongkrong 29.83 81
the chip they came in. It arrived here on
Teo lady "eaptalas belonging to the Indian contingent of the Salvation Army are at present in Hongkong on a financial tear on behalf of the work which is being carried on by the Army in Southern
coolia.
Cross-Led-There
fall.
Uiber witnoses were axamined.
The statement of the first defendant at the Station was that the deceased and the first winese were stealing fowia.
The case was adjourned till tom row at 11 o'clock.
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experiences into she pag visit, is the Terzple of thu Azure Cloud, persed, and everything in that part of Chinn Macao...
maly object remaining really worthy of of Shantung, to replace these killed or dis-
Canton....29.81 Empire, to wit, an Eighteen-penny Rupee. condered tie a few years ago, and who they be on husky dells. Almost from Shansi, and from the eastern districts on 2
nent observation, Suppose all expensez DOLLAR SCREW,
a beautiful structure in a surpassingy dates from this invasion, and there are few oihow.. are paid, I to Peking no mary will go besutiful situation, and on the whine per er no records existing of anything beyond. Haiphong 29.16 83 flangkong, 26th August, 1802,
We have spoken of sightseeing, for to
Yung Lo is the anther of the code of Bolinao.20.1 We have no doubt this addition to the many this is one of the great attractions of haps the fuest temple in the eighteen pre- literature of the Silver Question will be duly Pekingt capegially to fuse who have lived vine a though that may seem a rush laws, which, with some modificati as and Manila 29.83 77 noted by Brownie's Silver King. ED. for many years in other parts of China, and opinion, in view of the limitation of the additions, has ever since remained as the 0.8. James [CM]
abo wish to compare the contre with the knowledge of any one traveller. From the basis of administration. His encyclopedia, summits of these Indian-crowned Eagobas, (described in Wylie's Notes on Chinese Li- cirquaference.
It may interest sech persons to be told wonderful vinwa are to be had, and no terature), was made by a commission of Wostook.
the substans of all the classical, histerical, The following is the report of tas Hong-that there are only four objecte within the arrel if the Chinese themselves wax en scholars appointed to collect in one hody Tokio
Nagasaki.. vity walls which it is worth their while to thweinalis over the prospect.
There are many other temples of muce philosophical, and literary works hitherto Shanghai.. koug Cricket Club for season 1891-1892 :--
risit, and that of these four, two are in-
or less interest, such as that of the Sleep published, embracing Astrosemy, Geogra-Foochon.. The Committeo Lave the pleasure of pre- | nocasal
whle. senting their Aunaal Report on the Sexavo
Twenty years ago, there was no difficulty
phy, the Groult Beiernes, Medicine, Badd- Amoy 29.97 60 78 BW hism, Tanism and the Arts. This work, Anping.... 1891 1892. The Accoutits which are at- in inspecting the grounds of the Temple of
executed by five elief, and twenty sub-di-Swatow tached show a balace of $465.97 to the Bearen, undoubtedly the most charae-
rectors, with 2100 subordinates, contained Hongkong 29.91 80 87 eredit of the Club, on the 12th August, teristic structure in the empire. Bat the
Viot. Post Uanton [29.90 83178 Batting and Bowling Averages for the anatametelly so, and the lavish expenditura In other direction there is very little to Contents, which occupied sixty books more! gon is annexed. It will be seen that the of many persons who had no knowledge of reward the traveller's search, unless heIt is this great Emperor whose tomb is the Macas..... Batting Average list is handed by E. W the proper way to deal with Asiatics, and should be a most enthusiastic tourist, and abject of so many pilgrimages. He made Hoihow.. Maitland, Captain J. Thinn and Dr J. A. no interest beyond the single visit which should insist upon soing the Imperial Peking his capital in 1403, almost five Haiphong. 29.78 79 80 Lowson with 48.83, 48.12 and 32 10 respec- they were to make, soon teaded if not to Potteries (which have, to be ouro, a certain hundred years ago, and nearly a century Bolinao 29.63 86 73 88
other like points of difficult before the voyage of daring Genoese, Manila..... tively, whilst the latter was most excessful kill the goose with the golden eggs, at least interest),
India. They are coffecting funds specially iu aid of a Resena Home and a Hore of Rest in Madran. The former institution is a home for fallon girls, where they are cared for in every way and where every effort is mad to reclaim thew. The Home of Rest ia for the officers of the Salvation Army
British Moreauţile Marius who have fallen sick or need rest. These
Ofic.ro Association, are only two of the many branches of work
Hongkong, 25th Aaguar, 1992, engaged in by the Salvation Army in India. the Committee to hand you the following Bix,-1 bave the pleasure by direction of The two Captains who are now here have report of the proceedings of the last Connel not come to establish work in Hongkong, meeting of the Shipmasters and Officers Federation and ua extract from the sinusi but we understand that they intend to have report of the Shipmastere' Society (Landou), 1892 The usual list of Meanbers with the privilege was often abused, sometimes either to the north, north-west or the west, in all 22,877 books, besides the Table of
which it is hoped you will kindly favour with sply in your columns,-Yours faith- fully,
CHESNEY DUNCAN,
Hongkong, 24th August, 189
meetings during the course of their etey, which will probably extend to three weeks, The present is doubtless not a favourable time to visit Hongkong on such a mission as theims, bas the work on behalf of which they make a special appeal is certainly de-
be given to it.
Secretary.
of over
were aide as
鼠
ing Baddha (Wo Fe Sou), and the Lion's Lair (Shih Tzu Wo), bat mee of them can compare with the Azure Cloud temple,
All of these places thus far named, are
29.03 80
PRUTTRITHMum um HUTHUTT
Weather
Gradients self, known among the Chinese by the which support it, nor the echo in the arched rathor cool and showery (lated at
10.32 e.) ang title of the Southern Seu (Nau passage to the mound itself, nor any mate-
This great park, lying das
Barometer rising slightly, a rest ensinsure which looks like a city in empire, nor yet the massive pillars of teak roxy modstata for B. winds.
W. DOBERCA,
Director of the Observatory.
with the ball, taking 185 wickets & cost to sipp the laying. Within a few years these, such as the ancient cemeteries of It is not the mers size of the hall in front of O.S.James!
Princes situated under the of the file. this imperial tomb, though that building is The principal business was the discussion of 8.77; B. J. Coxon being rond on the first of the many buildings connected with
To the south of the capit there is supposed to have the largest rooms in the serving of all the encouragement that can of the terms of a druft Bill dealing with list with 66 wickets at a coal 10.98. Scores the Temple of Heaven, and the one wost
several shipping matters, which bill it
100
follows -Cap-
Cap-frequently represented in cuts, bes been However opinions intended to introduce in the nest House of in J. Dune, 200, 107, 103; Dr J. A. destroyed, by what was called in the Feltag
Commons. The main object of the Bill is Lawson, 120, aut out; Captain E. N. Gusetts lightning, and until it is rebuil
ลม, to secure increased safety to life and pro-Damblecon, .z., 101, not out. The Oom-which will be no one knows when, that Hai-tzu). does among the very poor and the degraded } perty at sea by extending the employment ittee engaged the services of Q.-M.-Ser- | great landmark is gene; woreurer it is Bouth of the city, takes up a far lateral object which is to the discerning tra at Heme abundantly justifies the existence which at the present time (owing to detergeant Jenkins, as ground bewler and un- | qonerally isợpolcas to try to me the grounds, Paco iban all Peking, being about fiftyer the moet interesting subject of a Hongkong Observatory, August 26, 1892,
differ as to ite methods there can be no doubt that the work which the Salvation Army
correspondout of the may
The engaging topic of convoreation now
of artifiosted officers to plasaes of vessels ent
such officers..
The Bill further
which is severe... Doubtless the watch.
- DIRETION or Wire, to two points
6. Foam or WIND, sagording to Bengfork
6. STATE OF WEATHER, & blue sky, o do
tached cloals, & driesling, rain, ffog, gloomy,
dow (wol)
Ba, in innbas, tanthu and bundradika.***
Temperature. (Taken at Messrs Falconer, & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Bogd.)
front reporta a cessation in the hostilities, cers of the Service, through this Federation, in the past. There are 247 Members, of We omit all montient accossible, and not for a moment to bo campered with l
templation. It is rather the profound oca- milea in sitoumference-aceording to the viction that the Chinese race is after all at pire for the season,
1. BaBoxArm, reduced to 82 degrees Fahren- He also played in a not to speak of the buildings. of this remarkable organisation. We have tive lawe) do not requiro and do not carry good many of the matoles, baving an The great Lacza Temple (Yung Ho Kang), Chinese forty li on each side. It is great toe with other rapes in its origin and histo-heit, and to the level at the aes in inches, tails,
obstruction to trare, for no passage is ry, as is shown by the career of such great and handredtha no doubt that the work in India, which is propseed to limit employment as Masters response to an invitation from Sean hai a gessible, but is now closed, except to such herhood. This park is not a pleasure! upon as, that the Chinese are totally unlike Pabrenheit,
average of $6.07 for sixteen innings. In in another spot, which we ones antilly so allowed except to parts from the zeigh- men se You Wang. And it is also horne in
2. TEMPERATOR, in the shade lo degreen necessarily impeded by many difficulties and Offers in British ships to men who are toan was seul under the captainey of Cap- adventarous spirits as Mr Henry Norman,
ground like the Yuan Ming. Yuss, or the other people in many characteristic particu- 8. Horwitz, in percentage of salamlin, ike that are not met with in England, is of au of British birth or why hague naturalistain J. Dunn, to play the Shanghai Cricket whose straordinary account of his pee Wan Shen Shan, but rather & great en lars. For hers is a tangible monument to humidity of air saturated with moisture being British subjects. So long as the law club. The match after three fall daya cendings there must have impressed very closure of farming land, much like that out- the greatness of the former rulers of China, equally praiseworthy charmster.
stricts British shipowning to British subjects ricket resulted in a draw. The heartiest discerning reader with that tieson's side the walls. It has a good-sized river which is not only tot destroyed, bat is for sound international reasons, as long docs thanks of the Club are due to the Shanghai total units to deal with the THE TRA
the law furnish an argument for the emunity for the hospitable reception of
The monks in this lasseury are a set of flowing through it, and there are many vil tually.kept in order by the present reigning Gazelle wirten
ployment of British subjects to (at least) our representatives. The vist in every bullies, who have been toray depraved by cultivating the laud in exops which rem which they bestow upon the tombs of the
lages within its emple arca, the villagers dynasty, with soarcely less care than that ele ia the weather! When is it not? How The Capnuit likewise dualt wilk the im.ather respect a very pleasant one was sad the reckless waste of cath upon their tam blò khose to be seen beyond its high walls. | Ch'inga! Memorials occasionally appear in k hall, 7 lightning, a overcast, p passing shower,
the command of British, ships, hot it is you hear one say, how frightfully portant subject of three watches of OiBurdened by the death from cholera of tho plu, which has indeed some notable sigsts, Within the Park are pens ip which are kept the Frking Gazeiss calling attention to some hot it in you hear another asy. I haze at xem, and an appeal is to be again made to |hai Oricket Club, Mr E. Woodward. In which the Frateller must now be rut, wan uparimens of. a strange kind of dear, called alleged defacing at ioscriptions, or unlaw. squally, rajin, a snow, i thundar, v visibility »
popular Haorary Secretary of the Shang-bub by no sues worthy of the pauble to been out in the East many years and the parties concerned to concur in this de the early part of this year the Shanghai were theres no actual danger. There is by the Chinese the What-is-it (Ssu-pu-ful outing of grass on this sacred must say, in all my experience I have
hsiang). At occasionakintervals there are soil, the punishment for It was pointed out Cricket Club paid us a return visit, the thing se staractive about an imago 12ttle gates, through which pass and repasa very arable arrangement. never felt the heat so much before. This e done down at Habé, so what must the that in some trades, especially in the trupice match resulting in our favour by an innings fest higa trai uns would care to be in peasants who cultivate the land for the fai care exercized by the Ch'ings may
junior officers have so little opportunity of and JB2 rua poor cheazees be feeling at Twatutia; I can seeping that they are vot unfrequently matches; of which eight were won and six the chanting of a choir of yellow-jacketed these sacred preserves, he is promply a much more fur-seeing nature than most of The Olub played 14 salted at very court entrance, nor is an Emperor, but should a foreigner approach be due to state policy, but it is a policy of hardly say I envy them. Last Sunday I unable to keep awake on their watch. The lot. The Committee have to regret the boys, to be put against the fright likely to took a walk on the North bill, it was very risk to life and property is euch cases is delicious; during my stroll, I knocked up obvious.
lowo (owing to absence from the Colony) of he eased by an attack on one's lifa. Patred off. In spite of this, or mare prothet which radiates from the sperial BAROMETER 5 pheasants, but only being armed with a The Council ales deliberated on the two old and popular Officers of the Club in ting aside there sights, thea, as unsttain.bably because of it, a four foreigners by the Court, and is closely connected with the
the persons of Me A. K. Travers, and Me able, we have loft the Confucian Temple, leping their horses through this territory, nations might well iours trom the Chinese THERMOMETER
all exercise of strategy have sucoseded in gal- | Chinese worship of ancestors. Western single barrel Atiok I did not succeed in question of the wages of Navigating Officers, bringing one down-they seem very pleat the motion of Capteins, Davids and Treasurer respectively.
Troasilion, lately Hon. Secretary and Hon. and the Astronomical Instruments in the ful this year. The Chinese report they Price, it was resolved That this Fedara-
The Committee Observatory. Eroh of these plages is well big nately out on the other side, and lessons in toleration. The stone men and hate never seen so many shout before, in resoguines that the low pay generally of Lieut. H. M. Loring, E, a prominent described, so that what is to be seen can be To the north-east of Poking there are some all their rude grandeur and olumsiness, do have adeo to regret the sad death from fever worth visiting, and they have been often oing what is to be seen, which, with the animals, so well known as the signature of exception of the What-is-ite, is very little, Ming dynasty tombs, and here to be seca in One of my neighbours in Hobs has built a of the Navigating Officers of the Bierchaut Mumior in the Seld. The Pavilion is in readily asportatood in advance. We are splendid little retroat on the North hill, Service Cubstitutes real grisTahoe, in the shape of a bungalow; it contains which calls for the scous and early good repair and the ground is in capital not aware that the Confucian Temple has a springs awn as Tang Shun, but the serve mention as the expression of a thought thras rooms, and is a cool place to spend attention of Shipowners, with a view la
order: The Pitch ine bees partially relaid over been closed to foreigners, but the Ob. plase is out of repair, and the accommoda- which seems to have died out. This is an Saturday to Monday News from the considering the representations of the Odi wickets, for next season will ha as
and it is hoped and expected that the sersatory has been so, and for long periods tions, intended, it is aaid, for the fits of evidence that the Chinese can change, and
Poking, are only of a fifth rate description, oan even learn to forget. good as together, although at
of the stable of the
Nobody, now -visits the twelve - smaller pending instructions from the throne by embodied in the wages scule tatom 30 are absent from the Calong, and Imperial Elephants, and the Examination those of a Japenese watering place of a tombs of the emperore following Yang Lo, the Chinese, who have meanwhile beswhich it is hoped will be accepted by Ship-29 Naval Subscribers. The Laws Tennis Ball, as these places contait, nothing which
Slike nature.
but their general plan is the same as his, withdrawn from To Ko Ham Myself I owners as just and reasonable; sad this Fe
There are many travellers who reach Pe- and they are all under the same tirelem au- believe the truth of the matter is that they deration asks the praatios!, co-operativa of Caspionchip Cup was won by H. Pinck- may not be seen elsewhere equally well king, who take little interest in most of the) pervision. "Une disce, camery!-and-the- Dey, who defeated the holder W. IL “A view from the wall of the city "is of have just about bad enough of it, what the Stipptag Federation in this important Wallace; the Single Tennis Handicap felt course interesting, but with the exception places which have been named, who are yet lessons which they teach, are always the with fever, drabalers, and poisoned bullets. matter, and as a recognition of the loyal aud
Temperature LAOS, tes Dr Meadon, B.N.; and the Doubles to of the Imperial l'alaces, which are mech Alled with enthusisim over two points at a Latest: intelligonos: from the old fide untiful attitude of the floors of the Met Dr. M. Atkinson and Meadon, & K.Hike other Chineas structures, aid a fer much greater distance from the capital Whether the Great Wall is or is not Humidity reports the number of senkera is increasing chant Service in the past," whilst the quebilly of guld being found in
The thanks of the Club are due to Colonel dagobas, there are in the main only the than any of thein, the Ming Tombs and werth visiting will depend much upon the Direction of decreasing. A friend of mine in Keelung
Chater and the Officers of the A. & S. same sight as in other fargo Chiness cities, the Gront Wall. The situation of the visitor. It he objects to sleeping in ions; has just written me time the weather over 'The following are the rates of remunera- | Highlanders, to Colonel Rarenbill and the There are two place of historical interest laster, regarded from the geomantic point whisbike tasse in Spain, may be defined theca
is delicious
Just now, and not toction referted to in fureguing resolation: Officers of the 1st 5. L. Infantry, and to to foreigners in connection with. Feking of view, must be admitted to be ideal, places where one is furnished with The railway que might say in Steamers-Home Trade, Mediterranean, Admiral Sir F. Richards, and the Officers one within the city, and one without. The being surrounded with a horse-shoe of shelter and vermis for the night, if he which dominate all - the objects to extortion by inu-keeper? with practically finished, no method for running Black Seat, Baltic First Mato £10, becond of H. M. B. Imarieuse for their kindness former in the seat of the Russian "Mission, morutsins
Mate 18, Third Mate £5, up to 1,000 tons; allowing their bands to play on the which has been in existoties in Peking plain, no one can say bow far. But connivance from every one else; if he con- the trains boving been found feasible, 12, £8, £7, 1,000 tona and over, respect. | ground during the matchee. The Annual 1aince the days of Catherine, in 1787, when it must be supposed that the advantages of siders vue pile of swines and bricks as good f.... Hongkoậm August 26, 1892, they generally are hour late.
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