New York on the 3rd inst..
No. 9239. SEPTEMBER 5, 1892.1
The Bilk at The "Empress of Japan, from Hana Michael Eberl, & peasant belonging Hongkong 30th July, was delivered into Grinzing, in Lower Austria, alaims to have discovered an affective remedy against phylloxera. Ho was visited by two wine merobants from Onames the athar, day, who persuaded him to proceed with them the now method in presones of the French to the South of France, to make a trial of authorities, who, it may be remembered, bave offered a prize of 1,000,000 frs. for the invention of such a remedy.
STEAMERS that make night hideous at A moy have aroused the righteous indignation of at least one resident there, who sonds the following communication to the Gazelle- Can nothing be done to stop the abomin- able nuisance of ate iners blowing their Tax cass of dress reform has received a ayreas and foghorns in the Harbaar at serious blew in Turkey. The women of unearthly hours 7. The Belgic aimlessly that country have sighed for the dress of the weat; they have even envied the and repeatedly as she steamed out this figure of their French sisters. But Abdal morning distarbed the rest of every rosid- Elanid, who seems to be a sumptuary dicta- ent hore, and it is only a weak or ao sinestar, objecte in the introduction of foreign fashions. He approves of the national dress some ateamer or other made night hideous for these reasons: it is more pistaresque; in a similar manner. Surely amongst tho is mara patriotia, and the western costs against the procepts of the. Turkish reli- port regulations. there is some rule pro-gian. He therefore requests the police of hibiting sucha nuisances, but if there is net Constantinople to report so the authorities ang wearers of non-furbish dress, and he denounces the introduction of foreign fashions. Nor will he ontertain any scheme of reciprocity, speh es traera for corsete, or veils for Parisian novelties.
the tooner one is made the better.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
that
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of service. It may be mentioned kere No. 57 points, and the handisap 000 by Mr. Batión, who30 very existence is staked ing all soric of animals, either for food i
Below are the scores --
Mr N, Gillies.
Mr W. Durin...
ir E. Kobium, Mr C. FON..... Me McNab Mr Warnock
Mr Water
300 400 Net Allots-Ctarud
29 24
25 202
68 14......
55
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10.75 0.
how fatal their excavations may ba
Not Responsible for Debts. either the Captain, the Agente, nor Owners will be Responsible for
ELSE, Gurman ship, Captain H, Brems AFA.
ISAAC REED, American ship, Uspt, F. D. Walds.-Reuter, Bröcklomann & Co.
KINGDOM OF SAXONY, Brit. 'que, Capt. H. C. Bennett.-Jardine, Matheson & Co. LAVINIA, British barque, Capt. Valantine. Gilman & Co.
Tovuz, British barque, Captain C. A., Travis, Carlevils & De
T. D. BISCHOFF, Gorman ship, Capt. H. Meyer-Meichers & Co.
VELOCITY, British barguo, Osptain R. Martin.-Chinese
WARRIOR, British ship, Capt. Kitchin.
Concerning the existing corps, a very HONGKONG. RIFLE A850CIATION. water, either from excessive rain-fill in the. Goombee river, amongst the ravinom, A field of seven entered for the spoon some special ceghyn, or because a river has and that mang children were then carried
With the or-
broken its banks, these ebannela ats off by these animals from towne, villages, general idm seems to have seized the public mind, that it is the wish of the Commission competition on Saturday.
Some of the very lowont As class of natives loading a vagrant to do away with it altogether. On the conception of Messrs Gillies and Duncat, nose sluise-ways along which the water must go or camps. razy, their special recommendation is that of the competitors were quite up to tarir Bomewhore-anywhere every whore. it should form the nucleus of the new one usual form, and some much below it; Mr soon as the rivers begin to be full m July or life, were the amly persons who did not say Debt contracted by the Officers or purpose. The matter of disbarding the usual position of last. Most of the cast wholly neglected for and it would simply be invaluable for that Watson, for instance, occupied the un- August, the alarm in sounded all along the mind filling wolvos. These people hives. Crew of the following Vessels, during
harks, which from having been almost anked in the jungles or in the suburbs of their stay in Hongkong Harbours-
ten towns or villagon and had so sort of ekjec- Anos, Norwegian b'que, Capt. Christen. would be one of more form, and they would petitors as it happened had never fired at moatlas, suddenly become objects of tion to kill any living thing. They would son.-Order. at once be re-enlisted under the new term the 400 yards range before. The nat
to countims thou-eat jackals and all kinds of reptiles, catok-
CANBUSDOON, British barque, Capt. B. spoon was won by Mr E. Robinson hintensost interest
L. Carland.-Master. the Gavertinent, is bringing in a
upt the effective resistance of the or to sell to those who wished to keep or tu lantear Ordinance altogether-quite apart w. Duncan with €7.
CHARGER, American ship, Capt. Goddell. earth-warka to the descending flood. The Yel- hunt them. Curiously enough, however, low River, which has practically no tributa- General Sleeman says, these people very-Captain. from the new scheme suggested by the Com-
CONSTANCE, British abip, Captain P. R. circustances, the existing Corps will have
sarda, yards, total amor. sotal, rice on the great plain, appears to be the only seldom caught wolves, though they know mission-and in all probability, under any
stream the banks of which are districted, all their dens, and could easily have dug Fingley.-Captain. policed, and kept in some degres of crder. them out. The toason of this, he imagines, to be disbanded and re-enlisted so as to bring it under the now Ordinanca in que
Yet even breaks are often caused by the to be the profits they made from the gold reckles way in which the embankinants and silver bangles, necklaces, &c., bich-Siomasen & Co. one that presented itaulf to the Commission tien, The 'gnif' dificulty (as you call it) is
have been cut into to make the road cross-had been worn by the children whom the at a vary tarly stage of their preceedings, but after dus asasideration they came to
ings easier. Besides this, there are several wolves had carried off to devour, and which species of little animals such as a kind of they found at the entrances of their dens. the conclusion that it was as ill that
for, and a sort of badger, which delight to A Furopean offer once asked some of make burrows in the undisturbed earth them if this were not true, and they could would qure itault. It exists in all Colonial
of river banks, and for these creatores no not deny it. He cites an account of a Corps, in Canada, Australia, India, Singa- pore and in Shanghai bat han always heon
The other similar cases which cane to nis bridged over, and there is no reason why
wolf-hoy at Chandour, and gives mavera! such should not to the case hore in Hong- kong. One or two ways of doing so have
attantiert which is then haatowed upon the knowledge, notably one at Chupra which slready son suggested, all more ar fees
river embankments is only adapted to the happened in March 1843, on which acc Fonsible, but it would to too early yet to
pressure of the immediate need. If the sion a native cultivator went into his fields river rises a trifle, more narth is heaped up, to cat his crop of wheat and pulse, accoma- enlarge upon them, and consequently it has been thought desirable to let the would-be
but if the river falls an inch vigilance is panied by his wife, lending her little thras If it falls two or three inches, Laat roncs old son by the hand. The child had members of the proposal Corpe tackle it
relaxed. is a Baro sign that the crisis is past, and only recently recovered from a severe burn for themselves in the first instance.---I am,
that the bank has somewhere broken, for on tho left brice, caused by his tumbling | Order. in a time of flocd to make a long, narrow, into the fire whilet kis parents were st Sir, your faithfully,
shallow river fall an inch by delivering its work. The boy on this occasion and down floods to the already overburdened Peiho upon the grass, the father reaping and the nt Tientsin, is a slow process and one for mother gloaning, hep enddenly a wolf realed upon the child from behind a bush, which the rivers never wait. As it is physical impossibility that all this water caught him up by the loins, and made off with should get out any other way, it may be him: The father was some little distaccs assumed then as axiomatic that the river off, but the mother followed quickly, bunks must break. The only question is screaming for help us load as she could. When they have done Bc. and The people of the village came to her aid, the water threatens special districts, the but they soon lost sight of the wolf and his people begin to throw up temporary prey. Nothing was heard of the boy for banks to keep it off. It seems to be a six years, and in that interval the Father of principle of Clivese legislation and adjudis the child died. In February 1840, two cation that water must take its course, sepoya came from Singramow, a place about hat it a law much older than the statutes of ten miles from Chupra, and situated Yung Lo, that self-preservation is the first the base of the Khcbae rivulet, stating Law of Nature. No ens cares to bo drown that whilst they were sitting down on the ed to illustrate an abstract principle. Cor-border of the jungle, which extended
to that down
stream, watching For tain protective banke appear
pre-
which
1.0 drink dowa early morning, they -817 seript:ce right to azist, because they have hoga long existed, and some others har no such in the right because they have always been resist thres wolf cubs and a boy come out of the el. The insmart be fought out sach jungle, and all go down to the stream to year of food, and at the present time when drink. These map continued to watch more constries than we can onumerate them, and when they saw that they were have been inundated, and some of them about to return to the thickets they rushed rained, battles between adjacent sections towards thom, on which all four made for a den in one of the ravines. The sapoys have been going on, on the oro band to
works designed In such unsse, as in the clar fights at the up with them, and then caught him by one protect special regions. The cabs had got in before they could come sail and on the other to defend earth followed them as quickly as they could. and the boy was half way in,
bed were it ever so luminous, it ia vain to because the principle of action is not clear, reasons with people who are fighting for their lives. Thus the ruin goes on from year to year, just as it has gone ou from
JOHN J. FRANCIS. Secretary to the Volunteer Commission.
To the Editor of the CHINA MAIS..
The police of Mauritius have been she caustul in approbending a man in con- nection with the pearl robbery which
To leave out of question altogether the acourred in Hongkong in the month of moral character of the now peererses, which May. It will be remembered that the in some cases at least is not above auspi- pearls, rained at over $1000, togethercion, their manners, says the Sydney Laily Telegraph, will hardly have 'thtrapose that The with 500 frazos in: French money, were stumps the caste of Vers de Vere. consigned to Dr. Leon Prato from Saigos, career of skitt dancer or a variety artist and that another man gut pcasession of or a ballet girl distinguished as a high-
kickor Amony
high-kickers bardly the fraudulently at the Post Office by in the kind of training for the drawing-rooma personing Dr. Prato, who, in addition to of Mayfair. The infusion of so much East burrying on business as a dentist, has dealt End vitality as is associated with certain of the initiates will prore startling to the in pearls sinos he came to the Colony nearly West End Ladies who have pirouetted a year ago. Suspicion at the time fell through life with the slang of the music
kall and the patter of bailesque on their upon Luigi Delalio, an intimate friend lips will and their now associations some of Prato, more especially as his dis- what strange, and are unlikely to be tamed appearance from the Colony was coin-into acquiescence with them. Indeed if the presunt fashion continues there will vident with the disappearance of the spa be a compact music-hall element in parcel of pearls. Hia getting clear the highest society of Great Britain power-
dis- ful enough to assert itself and set the it. 4 away placed the police
fashion. Ta-ra-re-boom-de-ay." aud nimi- advantage, but he was traced to Singalar idiocia may yet resound in the grained pore and Ceylon. Here it was learned that and tapestried halls of baronial seals, while
One is highly creditable.
at
Taz Ker. R. F. Cobbold, the now Chaplain of St. John's Cathedral Church, conducted yesterday's morning and evening services In the sosts throughout the Church the following leaflet was placed :---
To the Members of the Church of England, and the rest of the Congregation of
St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong.
My Brethren in Christ-Called by the
will el God to labour in tl Ministry of
the Church amongst you, I humbly and earnestly commend to your devout prays and reverent contemplation the work which Ishal, by God's grace, endeavour to ac- complish.
the quips of Mile End-road distress dohat ers in the House of Lords. A clever writer once forecasted as the religion of the future Australian race a Presbyterianism so libe tal as to tolerate hangaroo hunting on the Sabbath Day. Who can foresee what kind af legislators will spring from the union of Tottie with one of the Foué or Johnnies of the British nobility?
ever constructed.
ground. The supporting iron colamos will he 16 inches in diameter at the bottom and will gradually be reduced, and at the will be inches thick. Starting at the bottom, au immense irun centre-poal
in constructed the inner or upward trucks.
statioced
ru on. A
stonde apward 150 feet, and around thie There causist of iren plates five inches wide for the whoels to
Cour engine
iu a Lougg some distance away supplies the power which causes the car to ascend along" Let our faith in the Fatherhood of God the track. Around the outside of the inspire us with the lure of justics and obe-structure another set of similar tracks are dence to His will.
hailt, sad as the car reaches the top it in
NOTES FROM PEKING. To residents of southern Chias, where the land and the streams are differently arons scors to care, though it is easy to so ranged, it may be a cause of surprise that the river system of the northorn part of the empire is sunnally the cocasion of so much suffering and rnin. Let the reader take up one of those Japanese fans the ribs of which are made of strips of boo slit up from the main stein, which forms the handle, and then let him point that handle to the zorth-east, and he will have a plan of the river system of a large part of the provinces Hongkong, Sopt. 5.
of Chikli and Shantung, and of the north. St-A an old Volunteer, and one era partion of Bonan, The bzadle will re- willing to asrve again, I naturally read pour article of Saturday last with a great present, the Pain below Tintain, and the deal of interest. As regards the various ribs will be the several rivers which anise objections to the new scheme that you bring to empty into that stream. These rests forward, they will of couree require careful consideration, and I refrain from touching beginding at the north-east, are the follow- upon any of them at prosent with the ex-ing: the Paiho, the Han ko, the Pao Ting "Gulf" really fa river (or Shang Hai be), the Heis Hai ception of en, the think you make too much of it. It is a pity that sath ideas should exist; however, ho (ur Tzu Ya river), nud the Yun Liang
ho, or Grand Canni.' they do, and we must just make the best of It may perhaps be some consolation to
draw their waters from the mountain on sure of in to know that exactly the same difficulty did and does exist in Shanghai,the north-east, north, wostaud south-west of sat they have managed to get over it in the Great Plain. En the upper portion very auusible and unobtrusive way. They hate three infantry companice there, each composed of special friends and associates, sad each forming as it were a little club of itself; each one has its special organisation, rales and regulations, Yaunging Committee,
All these streams
some of them have many salt, tribalaries, but after they have fairly reached the pain, most of them flow onward with no accession whatever. The principal exception to this
wacre.
to have a
came
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Shanghai Club, another is alatost exoin-the mountains intɔ Chilli near the city of south, officiala are apt to remain nontrols and draw him back. He nit at them,
cot Jet the member8 of the
Cheng Ting fu, whsuce its course is of the
most unocrtain charactor. At times i; bas
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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
:
Alim
REGISTER.
September 4T 4 ÉM.
Sarometer red
country through which treg pras The that would be perfectly willing to take addition to the marks above described, Tokio...... 29.76
Temperature-
Bumidity.
Wind.
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Weather.
Delalio had gone to Mauritius, and na tele- graphic communication could not be got further than Zanzibar it was feared he would escape before the authorities in that island could be apprised that he was wanted
and fresh membars are only allowed to join remark, is the Hu To he, sometimus call
ected to a rigorous bulot. Que company sites in northern Shanel, and beaks through by the Hongkong police. Detalic seems to
or be enlisted after they have been sub-ed the Fu t'a bo or Grape füver, which
have considered he had eluded his pursuere,
is composed entirely af members of the und had weitlad doso in Mauritius where Verors to the Fair, sage -vention, will sively recruited from the various stores,
seemed very angry and ferocious, and he was apprehended a week or two age, be indebted to Philadelphis capital and and the third is made up of mumbers of the
seizel the barrel of one of their guns with He will be brought to Hongkong for trial. ingenuity for an opportunity to pierce to Customs service and those not qualified to The manner in which the police bave car-clouds by means of a gigantiu serial rail belong to either of the other Companies.
his teeth and shook it. In the and they scoured him, and took him to their home, with a range of doubtful territory coveral
where they kept him twenty days; hut ried out their investigations in this difficultas, hich will be the largest of the kind From al that i have heard they appear to A number of capitalista be a very happy family, and I really think
The whole country on every side of Binding he would eat nothing but raw Bush, Bome time ago sucared the right to con-
Tientsia, is liable to he made the receptacle and that it was difficult to precure him struct the railway, which was planned by might attempt something of a like kind hundred li in width, which was never sate
here. The echime suggests hee Batteries. from inundation. As this river brings for foods which cannot find their way to sufficient food, they took their captive two Philadelphia invertors, and stock
Why company wind organised to take the water Hongkong Cut bring themselves shoulder-down as cuantice of sand and detritus, he sea. For the three years following the to the village bazaar, and let him go, leav
fod by charitable people in band. The plan is a most novel one. Tu shoulder and terra que Battery out of its ruis is particularly ruinous, and within its massacre, this was kis css, hinting him to The whale structure, which consiste Members of the Club only? Surely amongst recent year the government has made the Chinee themselves recognized this fact One market day a man from the viilago ally, and is was not perhaps etrange that until he should be recognised or claimed. of a gigantic spiral, will be about the 2010 prosent active members, there is vigorous efforts to restrain it within as a judgment apon them for that crime. of Chupra chanced to be there. On his 150 fast in diameter at the base, and the top gallery will be 200 feet above the enough of the English spirit and pride the northern channel, ranking it tributary 13 two years ago, when there had been no return home he mentioned the circum- mussacre, the same thing happened again, stance to his neighbour. The tale com- left to get together a representative body to the Baia Hai Lu. If this streare could of at least the one hundred roen required. have sonu its way to inding an crit for and judging from the prosent catlook it ing to the era of the poor cultivator's i commend the idea, Sir, to your serious itself from the highlands of Shaus, by
boy more minutely. On finding that he consideration, and crave for it your best outering the Yellow River on the western would not he singular if it were to be re-willow, the asked this man to describe the ssistance. I for one will join to-morrow, boundary of that province, it
What is the remedy for all this do- had the mark of a burn on the laft huec and if any well-knows member of the Club been a great blessing to mans of China's traction of property and of life That and three marks of the teeth of an arimal will only take the initiative and put up a millions."
is a easy question to propose, but on each side of his loins, sho was con- There are three principal objecticus to
very dealt in answer wisely. There viuced that he was her last child and Hure at will have very little difficulty in all thees rivera, sud two request for recruits in the Club Hall, I feel
nadoubtedly
Syndicates
started off forthwith to see him, when in Wostock. getting together at least half the required
rivers are too [mg. The distance is
the ecntract a do almost anything with the found and recognised a certain birth Nagasaki.. amber its a very short time. Yours truly,
great
from the mountains to the sea that, when the rivera are high, long before the almost any river in the empire. But it is mark on one of his thighs She took bin Shanghai. 29.75 85 66
not certain, that whatever the enginnering to her village, where many of her noigh Fooohow.. - its ultimate destination, caleat employed, the Syndicate would atte
butra were able also identify him. Sha Amoy 29.66 89 66 much of it has been spilled. They are too ceed for there are many itoms to be taken kept him for two months, the landholders Anping narrow. Some of them which are the only into account besides are dueplacement of sending her game to feed him with, Swatow.... 20.63 real drates of thousands of square miles of earth, and the strength of roaterials. When Though be still continued dip his face in Hongkong 29.02 82 81
row River burst its batriars in 1867, the water when he wanted to drink, he Vict. Peak dich. Even the largest of them he and for more than a year swept through a ceased to lap it up like a dog, When abe Canton....29.68 92 70 widest places are but a few hundred feet priestly now-district in Donan the Chinese went to work, he always ran into the Macas... 20.64 90 70 the Euly Spirit constrain or to live toge-lasers, which cannot easily he turown out ther in all godliness and virtue.
Theo, by
soress, and only a few hours of main in the works at the Chang Con breach were jungle, He would follow her for what Hoike... of geur, controls the cars.
mountains are required to fill the streams visited by several foreign engineers, some she gave him to eat, but shewed no afec- Haiphong. 29.60 85 confact with inner supports, stop it at any
In this auit Yeung Mow, Cown lease fu the brim. Their are all too station of whom, at out, admitted that the Chinese tinn for her, rur could she get him to Bollaso....30.73 84 in the ascost or descent. The care are of Kaland Let No. 1, brought an action The deposit sonstantly brought down do antenatedig perfectly comprehend the spwak. Finding that she could make Manila...29.73 79 76 ST point which the brakeman way wish either built in arid twenty-four passengers, will against the section holders Lum Ching and tends to fill them up, and the work of relative nature of millet stalks, and baga, nothing of him, she then left him to the C.S. James
The oftinata appointed for common ehenty of the village. After this
September 5.-AT 10 AM; the platform on which the car stops is Crown rent of the section held by the de. and moreover would not prove ectual, that great undertaking achierada aigual he learnt to eat broad if it were given to Prostock. brakesor stationed at each end. Abave Cheung Kin Chun, with regard to the dredging them out would be too 30s:ly, and w
So it is The annual Crown rent for the unless everywhere grand
rismph, so far as illustrating their skill him, or anything else; but he always went Tokio...... gallery built to accomodate 1,000 per fondants.
Scor went, but China was none the better oft, of into the jungle at night. Bo used to agasaki. sons, and on it si a large restaurant will Lot ie 35. 78. 7d., and the question is nowhere
of these the carrying capacity ese and the woes of Shantang are now as many mutter something but was never able Shanghai... be constracted.
Darrow abalion conduits be paid by the section-holders is a correct long,
and as great as they were in 1887. Perhaps to articulate distinctly. His knees and Fonchow. lessened. The country is too fiat. From the Chinese might remind us that other elbows had become hardened from going Amoy proportion.
the Mr Evous, of Messrs Ewens and Rocce,
the Quantcies that China are subject to floode, on all fours like the wolves. If clothes appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Ellis, of west side of Chilli to the ass, the fall and point to the Valley of the Mississippi were put upon him, he commonly took Amat Blessrs Wotton and Deacon, for the de- is comparatively slight, and the streamare in this present year of grace, with an eat them off and tore thain. He always pre- Hongkong 89.66 86
so fartsons that unless there is a tremated damage from foods to the extent of ferred raw meat, and would satots and eat Vict. Peak At a previous hearing Me A. . Alves,mendous head of water, its movement is fifty million dollars in a single fortnight. frogs, and even a dead brillook if it wers Canton accountant in the Treasury, stated the generally aut rapid. The plain is too dense. But
wrote this accpant, the boy was still in Haihow Crown always collected the Crows ransly populated. Every part of it is settled, But whatever else it may say, the Chinese skinned. At the time Sie W. Sleeman
to every proposition of cadival Chapra Ee had this story from the Haiphong, 29.56 70 from the Crown losses of the lot, not from though not all parts have an equally densa Kovernment has que always ready and our. the holdere of sections. The yearly Grown population. But it is safe to sue that return Passure
reform:
We are poor, and mother herself, confirmed by her neigh Bolinao. 29.73 70 rental of Lot No. 1 was $23520 for the there are few sections of any eize whore is barely make bath ands meet as it is, bours, the head landholders, cultivators Manila whole year.
population does et orage from one Yeang Mow, declared, said I am the to three hundred to the square mile. how the can we spend untold millibus upon and shopkeepers. In 1850), whilst this boy .S.Janus
and his mother were being sent from improvements, which however abstractly
There is depression in the China Soa. plaintiff in this case. I am the owner of There are thousands of square miles which arisable, ara out of reach? And in Sultanpore to the Resident, the lad got
Wea- Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 1. are apparently as low as the surface of the this protest oval reeders will find appro frightened on the way and ran into the Barometer falling at all stations. I purchased the whole lot in August, 1883. land at the sea level, and these sections are priate the romack of a Daivore ca. k, whose jungle. Sir William adds in a buto and ther hot and dry, (laaned at 11.13 a.). Bince I purchased the property I have palá sure to be feeded by any heavy sains in
A large part of the stress informed him that God made all saya will probably find his way
creation out of nothing. To whom ho back if he liren. the Crown rent for the whole low. I have distant mou
A MEMAKR OF THE CLUB'
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.
water reachon
Let the thought of our Brotherhunt within a position to run directly on to the Christ be a band of sympathy betrust us, descaut frravity then carries it around (Before Mr H. H., Pallock, Acting Pine territory, are as insignificant as a country and make us work together in all charity. and aroGod, and it slowly comes back to Let the consciopanees of the influences of the starting place. A simple system of
(PLdippians 1, 9-11.)
R. F. Cosanzu, Chaplain. Hongkong, 29th August, 1892.
Tourists among the islands that skirt the Coast of Bondurae tall wonderful tales of the oyster groves of that country and dwal on the delicacy of the oysters that These oysters, however, grow on trees.
Mangrove are not vegetable oysters. troos grow in either fresh or salt, water swamps and even in water five or six inches
a
ANOTHER TYPHOON. The Spanish Consul has favoared as
MANILA, Sap. 4, 11.43 a.m.
doop The limbe of the mangrove are with the following telegrame- drooping like those of the weeping willow.
Another centre of depression exista in
In case they do not reach the water ibe attraction of the moisture below causes shoots to pat out which often extend far banesth the surface; thes a thicket of the Pacif mangroves is a matted mass of limb, On those Habe tranks, shoots and roots. and shoots, deep under the surface of the water, banebes of oysters cling, the form. ing the far-famed 'Oyster Groves of Honduras.'
7.45 p The typhoon is approaching Lazan.
Sept. 5, 6.20 p.m.
The Typhoen has entered N.E. provinces
nt Luzon.
Dr Doberck writes to-day :--There is a
Weather hot and
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some of which may be deleterious to health, says the Engineering Magasins, falling at all stations.
bat the most injurious foreign substances dry. (Taued at 11.13 a.m.) found in ordinary drinking water are de caying organic matter and sometimes infections micro-organisms.
Judge.) Monday, September [.
DISPUTE AS 16 (ROWN RENT.
whether or not the amount, covinanted to year
fardants.
the
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of the mountains
mountaine
WOLVES AND WOLF-CHILDREN
IN INDIA
ALL natural waters sontain mineral salt, depression in the China Sea. Baremeter collected from the defendant for each half country west of Tientsiu and southeast of replied reflectively Suppe no hate got, 20
year 888.45. He has paid me up to the Peking is of this nature, and it has been so ord of last year but not for the first half of often inundated that one finds it set down this year. 1o November, 1881, purebns on the maps as a vast inke, alhat it is ed Section A of Inland Lot No. 1, which thickly dotted with villages, and most of was afterwards bought by Kwok Ping and the land, when out of the water, is under cultivation. The satro is trus of a great then by the defendant. When I was owner of Section AI paid $89.45 to. But stretch of country in the southern part of terfield and Swire for the half year. I. Chibli, where the mara hars always ahowu collected the game amount from the defen- a large lake, but where, except in, wat Between Tionlsin dunts as what I paid when I was the yoara, no laka exista,
and Pao Ting fu, however, there is a large Cross-examined-I was satisfied that this tract which is a real and nucien: Jake or
All water that in used for domestic purposes has boon at some period atmospherio vapor, and as it fell in rains carried with it the impurities from the air. These impurities ara, gases that arise from combustion, for- mentation and decay, and particles of dust
CORRESPONDENCE. VOLUNTEERING IN HONGKONG. To the Editor of the Oxana MAIL.'
Hongkong, 6th Sept. SIR
OWEST.
faar, judging from your article
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Sir William mentions at least five other similar case of children carried off by wolves (all boys), under the age of six you, and that there was then no instance known of a grown man having boon found who had been matured a woll's dep.
A scure seems to have been existing in From this he draws the conclusion that leerut in regard to the increase of wolves such either die before they attain manhood, in that neighbourhood, and the daring of or that they are destroyed by the walves these animals in coming even into canton- themselves. As far as he could then learn, mants. Forty or fifty years ago, wolves none of these well-children had attained to would appear to have been very numeroas more than taitoes or fourteen years. One,
is now his
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W. DOBEBOK, Director of the Observatory. Hongkong Ohaeratory, Sept. 5, 1892.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 82 degrees Fahren- seit, and is the livel of the rea in inahes, tenib, and hundredths,
2. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in degree Fahrenheit.
8. Howthis, in percentage of sakurasion, the" bumility of air saturated with moisture being 100,
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Scale.
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soily, rain, snow, i thunder, w visibility.
dow (web)
Ramly inches, tenths and hundredths,
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and decomposing organic matter. Bao-in your isave of Saturday, you havo caly plan was a cezraci desorption. I relied rather a permanent marah, the area of in Oudh, sinca Major-General Sir Williant when dying, pat his hands to his hond and i lashed elonds, ddrixaling, rain, fiqg, a gloomy........ taria are also removed from the air ia made a very hurried study of the recent upar my salicitor to see that it was all which is always greatly increased by each Sleeman, somarime Resident in that State, asid that it ached,' and asked for water; ; ; traïs, lightning,e overcast, p passing showers,
of the many ficoda. Everyone knows describes at some length (in a work which another understood sig is, and was taught great cumbers, nearly all of which are in Report of the Volunteer Commission, and right.
Hi Lordship said the covenant between that a Chinese roof, whether meds of has now become scarce) the many cases be to turn trespassing estis out of the fisies. At the subzent Sime (February, 1892) in the state of spores instead of adults. The it perhaps will be better for me to point out
of native children teing carried off by the .M.S. Missionary Orphanage So. takes sporne of the fungi and other microscopic the errors you have doubtless inadvertently the parties was not so clear as it might be, earth remmed down over reeds, or at Lad met with or heard of in that province,
as kindly wires, of the inatareas of will-children oundra, near Agro, is an individual brought plants and pollen of flowers and grames aro drifted into, so as to prevent mirunder but he could not see her he could go thatch, or, of tiles,
to water as a young duck. There may also found in rain water. So namerous standing on the part of any of your behind the covenant.
Mr Eliis quoted authorities to show that he a hard and long rain, before there having been found alive in the jungles thither as a wolf child, twenty-six years are these impurities in the air that a litro readers.
say signs of dripping at the meyers after their capture, and of one ago. About thirty two years of water which falls at the beginning of a
First, as regards the expanditore, it will when a mistake bad been discovered boare
be replaced by later. When speaking of incidents which in the interval who were believed to be Harometer storm often contains were the two bun certainly require something like $16,000 to tween parties subsequent to a contract the eaves. This is becauss the root is ab-identified by certain marks somo years supposed age; two others have died there dred thousand micro-organisms. Half a launch the new or rather reorganized party benefiting by the mistake bad been sorbent But pint of water frequently condenses out of Corps, but practically this will mean very called upon to adjust the difference, and sheets of so-called galvanised iron, and the occurred during ous af hie usual cold about twelve or fourteen years old, bnt Temperature three or four thousand subio feet of air and little if any extra disbursement. Of the test authorities, Mr Ellis contended, wout gutters will soon be heard from. This is wearing tours in December 1849, none of the present staff were acquainted Humidity ita ite condensation removes nearly all of grants for Volunteer purposes mede for the far beyond the circumstances of the present because galvanised iron is not highly he alludes to curious apparsition of the with them. The man above mentioned is the atmospheric impurities, concentrat years 1887 to 1891 some $5,000 hare not case. The defendant in this case took a absorbant, but gives as much as it takes filadoos that they will not care to cut away said to be deaf; to can only utter inarti
destroying their wells, houses, or templee health.. He has been taught to rear Weather..... ing them in the water. So that drink bosh expanded at all, and there is still reasonable amount of trouble to discover A range of mountains covered with forests peepul tree, even though its roots thay be gulate sounds, but appears to be in good For ing a glass of cain Pater that some $11,000 in hand of the Volunteer! what he was buying, so much so that he got is like a Chinese roat: it takes in, but does he adds, 'do they with some exceptions clothes, to ast cooked food, and to adopt | Raissiminol
Bot easily give back. The mountains of falls at the beginning of storm Gran; for this year. The annual expendi- an architect to mass further inquiries.
Mr Ewens said he had no authority to Chius in their present condition, are more days to destroy a wolf, though it may have clean habite If given fruit, each as be muck filthatare is estimated at $20,000, but this repre- We may swallow" we breathe from the air in more than asunto the maximum possible onst for a free quote, but he submitted the defendants roofs of galvanized iron or slater, which eaten a child of theirs, or actually be in the macar or oranges, his conntenance expanda wack. If rain water is stored in cisterns of the size recommended, sail would only had no case whatever. The facts which promptly the water poured upar them, not of carrying off a child in its mouth. with delight; if these are not wholly or without parifestion these substancer soch be reached in the course of some three to were sought to be reopened did not apply and shed it such a way as to do a maximum In all parts of India, ha continues, partially peeled for him, he will eat the a man who kills a wolf, or even wounds six years ago another wolf child was found render it so foul that it cannot be used four years hence when the question of to the parties themselves but to strangers of damage. If one examinas Chiness Hindoos have a notion that the family of skins with appareat relab. About fire or for Linking Bat when rain is collected re-clothing, &c., has to be considered; saitis, The partlen had changed completely and map of the regions which we are deactib-A
posed to send it to Agra; but for some near the end of storms and is properly the probable exponditure upon the Corps they were not new dealing with A and B ing, he will flad laid down a most lotrinats it, soon gres to utter rula, and so also any at a place some datance off; it was pre- filtered and sorated it is one of our most in the meanwhile ought not to tapeed but with C and D. To give parties the mass of water-ways which neem is inter village within the salaries of which s
Compare right after 10 or 11 years to upset the luck and even to croes oach ether in the wolf has been killed or wounded. They reason or other, it could not be received on wholesome natural water supplies. As $15,000 to $10,000 per annum. rain falls upon the earth it voebes away this with the existing grant of $12,000 per original coveunt, he thought, was in most coniding manner. These ate in. here no objection to their being killed by the day fixed; it was lost sight of, and ir
tended to represent dry rivers, or chat other people, away from the villages on believed to have been aant elsewhere.
These cases seem to show in a remark- Ea accumulatione of debris from the Enum, for maintaining the present one of advanos of the present law,
the contrary, are very glad to have them Evidence barity been led for the de- nela which have been in us at our times destroyed so long as the blood (of theseable manner that the intellect of the chad surfane of the ground, and as it passes barely one hundred members, whecess
but are now abandoned. In ancient times into the soil extracts from it a lurge the now scheme provides for more than feats,
His Lordship reserved judgment. the Yellow River emptied itself into the animals), does not drap on their premises of a virilized en is incapable of develop Why you should amount of impurities, sooh as the products double that number!
gulf of Peuhibli, and was then an errants Some Rajpect families in Oudh, where going itself without assistance, and that, un
noted, such children, if left entirely to EDITOR Thero, are not enough feet in cut as now, so that it was continually mary children are destroyed by wolves, are der cursumiences similar to those abore
altering its course, and has left Chibi and getting over this prejudice,"
Do. Do. that period therasolves, sink pot merely to the farel of into the circulation currants, and it is not all over the British Empire is to get enough this line, sir. Post- Fast, Bir,-foot natthern Shantung tracked with broad It would appear that at
men. Actual need 'in time of war menus infrequent that the drainage from outs
every brained man you can possibly put in I don't sell it by the foot. It's a poem, bands of sand, each of which represents an cires were also very auouous Dear Sul tha sivage, but adopt a purely animal mode pseln and outhouses also finds a direct en.
not a cord of wood..
old Yellow River." In tims of high tampore, and indeed all along the banks of of existence.-Forear the Bold. France into variado walls.
of decaying vegetation and animal exore- objset to so large a fores it is dimenlt ment. These substones are carried down see, as the great troubls in Volunteering
4
Highest open är temperature on the diz Lowust open als temperature on the dik.............76,
Beagkong, September 5, 1892.
Temperature. (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Bead.) BASQMETERTM*
28.70 9 A IRM 4 P.....
Do.
20.02
2. Do,
29.60
Do.
TustMONETEL=~JAN. 17-
LA
84
Do.
1 P.M.... P.M....
Da
Do. (Wet bulb) .. 5 Do.
1 P.M.
4.1.
83 81
Do. Maximum ...
Do. Minimum over night 79