No. 9345.JANUARY 16, 1899.]
T. 0. & 0. 31. Quelie, which was das- patched hence for San Frango via Yoke hama, arrived at her] destination on the 12th instant,
Ir is interesting to note that one of the leiding novelties in Winter Millinery in
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Lendon was designed by a Hongkong Lady, Chinese of Singapore with a rior of draw- [ ending 31st October, 1892, stato. that the pery that most of the were so alip (of the spoon at 800 yarda after a tio with being dug, the falsity of which assertion it
and specially manufactured to the order of Menara W. Powd! & Co.
In the last quarter of 1892 there wore 005 births in the Colony and 1,209 deaths. Amongst the British and Fordgo emma1- ty the births were 37 and the deathe 10 the annust birth rate being 13,98 and the death rate 15.11. Amongst the Chinese ommunity there were 459 births and 1,169 deaths, the birth rate being 8.47 and the death rate 21.15.
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without any owner and not wearing a collar tish Minister at Pokit, who he reosatyand Singapora. Héz militery complement | weather, we are having at the Peak
Owxzse of dogs are notified in the Gazette that any dog which shall be found straying er wandering about during the day tins
with the name and address of the owner Insoribed thereen may be destroyed; and Further, that say dog may be destroyed which shall be found wandering about between the hours of ten d'alook at right
and gas-fira in the morning.
feativitias connected with marriago cf
cosemony
The Dake and Duchess of Edinburgh, together will every mata of their family, intend assisting at the Royal
marriage.
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THE GREAT FIRE AT SHANGHAL The N.-G. Daily News of Monday, 10th inst. given the following account of the fire which occurred on the previous oven
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NEWS BY THE ENGLISH
MAIL..
THE TANAMA SOINDAIS-IMPORIANT
DIKOVERY. Paris, December 28.-It is reported that copying book has been found in the offices of the Panama Canal Company implicating Rurous Bocators and deputies as
eirors of bribes.
To-
Paris, December 28.-The offical analy is of the pincera of the late Baron Reinach has discovered no poiana, and the death is dechred to have bien from stars causes.
Paris, Decembar 28.-The discovery of copying books in the Fanama Canal Coun= pany's offices, implicating cortein Senators and Depution in the scandal, is official p deried.
THE REXLER OF FEVAN, London, December 29. The man K waco, who was arrested in Ireland on 506. pison of being implicated in the Dublin outrage, has been released,
TARKIBLE DYNAMITE EXPLOSION AT NEW
TORE
$20.384 to $1,779, a difference of $10,645./intention of the Northern Railway Adraio. Sydney. The arduous work carried out Į tennie wetting were ind over, the edges of ground floor at the time having his supper., go forward and sudo what bad been done gaaponder bomb took pluss her this evan-
DOOD PR, Channel Books,
Rock, West Minefield bury, White fairway buoy, lear all to port and finish from west
to east.
is
Ladybird and Dart--anly the Ladybird under the charge of four warders from Hole guns, when serving on the Australian geons slipped on the roof-not being able road round the Now Falice Station had causes it ta sprout quater, the seed requires to be left alone, Sir Lepel
TEB EGYÉTIAN PREMIER SENOUSLY ILL,
About ten years ago, ca the pretext that trumphantly led ue to the Stupa bole fisolf1 Mr Sanson's Cup attracted 16 competi- the Hinton could not dlacharge is dood It wasn't much of a discovery, but it Į M2 A. M. Forgach, 0.3.0., zoolor oditor The P, and 0, Stoam Navigation Co. hat has falles to a depth of fire inches, BONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
in, Sergeant Major Liddle, S.LI., aming frequent Hooded territory south-west of was already believed. and proprietor of the Ceylon Oberes, died placed orters at Cardiff for ansther 100,00 white st Mash it in two inches deep; and after a short illness as Aloe Avenue in Kel- tons of Welab stern coal. Moses G. the people of these two places must be in tors on Saturday. A cas contest onded water, and to relieva another section of amounted to a little corroboration of what
serable plgbt. A Insolo and Ben will supply 80 000 boss,
Throughout the day pisk résident have out as winner of the cup, for the first time, this, a eross-channel was dug ins north lupitiys on the night of Christmas Day. large and presentative assembly at his and, the Powell Duffry Company 40,000:
been britiging down large pieces of ico to and of the 300 yards spoon Mr Warnock westerly direction to the Lower West river, Paneral tested to the respect and esteem to
show their friends below that the stories took the spoon for the best aggregato with It la confidently averted that a 'bonns' Tas Directors of the Shanghai Joe Dom told of the state of matiors up above are a good fi, letting in Mr Watson as winner was the procuring cause of this channel in which he was held by all class.
might be difficult to prove. The people midents who, walk Major Eptn. Below are theseoran
Acal Faith Net protested against the digging of this chan A MOVEMENT is on foot amongst the leading pany in subraitting the accounts for the year not exaggerated. The
200 900 to do to nel, because the south bank of thals stresta yards yards ta, dacted, tel. took the tancar or want read by Maga
962 would prevent thoir oroens of walar, when
ther from rain or new.hrank, from follow ing up a memorial to the BEarquis of Ripan, year's working shows a net profit of Fle, down to business by the Peak Road either Sucretary of State for the Colones, praying 1,872 50, out of which it is proposed to pazins Gap. Thoes who preferred this al. Nr Waraock..
dividend at the rate of 0 per cent.,
058 ing the natural depression of the land and for an extension of the tonure of office
Bowing parth, and oorgegnently they must | Col-Berat. Pric
be flooded to some extent annually, Espa- Governor of the Straite Settlement of Bis mounting to Tis. 3,42), to place to Leternalive felt a decided change in the bra Excellency Sir Cesil C. Smith, a.c...rve Fund the man of Tis 250, leaving a temperature at the Gap, but so low down Cal Sent, Haywand balance of Tls. 1,203.51 to be transferred as Quern's Garders-about 500 feet above :P. 9. Hutton, £N.. sea level-substantial icicles had formed! Sweeny, R.N..
52. clsily did the protest against the dams, of which expires in Beptorber this year.
to D preciation Accunt.
We are sorry that the aurel experience har Mr Midd
which four wore bail acruse the old chan Er Datican.....
nal. To all which the official in charge The Shenpro states that the government
anunde odd to have to shrosielu unice MM. Gillies
649 replied the the dams would be removed, branch of the Tientsin railroad his now The following its see from the London not boun gat over without mishap. It too....
accident in Bongbong, but we understand. Mr Care
*0....47 and that two channels would ensure free reached Lochow. It was formerly de- China Express:-
dom from floods to both sections of country. From the ropart on the Health of the that BLr Heart, of Mesare Butterfold and
Bat the dime were not taken away; and cided to make the terminas at Makaoping, but it appeare now a further extension will
Nary during last year it appears that the Swire, was unfortunate enough to sustain Mr Holmes.
so far as appeara, little if any relief come bu made towards the three wastorn pre-lowest sick-rations were on the south-east rather serious injury to his jaw this morn
to the one scetion, while the other action The route for the proposed exten. vincon. sion of the lines has been insproted by decount of America (37-2 per thousand), and ing. While coming down the stops of his
bas bean almost ruined by annast lounds- patios sent out by the military department the tiguest on the China Station (5257), house at Mount Kellest ho slipped on the Thare ouve been five deaths from cholera ios, and falling heavily gainst the blue on the Cbiak Station."
trade or the steps, cutting his face badly and
tione. The official wholly ignores the fans that with the embankment on the west side The hired transport Malacca sailed from injured his i̟-w.
of the Lower West river, on the cast side of that region.
A Fest resident writes:-I think you The Linkman id Truth, of Dec. Portsmouth on 14th inat, with military
One of the meat disastrous fires that of the Haton, and on the north side of have happened in Shanghai for a look tire swamp overflow stream farther south, ho
New York, December 28. - farrible writes ir. John Walsham, formerly drafts, dotsis, and reliefe for Hong Kong will be interested to hear what vary fronty been tranferred to Bucharest, arrived in London on Thunday lost from China. 86 mede op of detachmate of Roval have never seen anything like it during all broke on luat evening, resulting in the bad now by the embankment on the sonth Sir John leaves almost immediately for Artillery, Royal Engineers, Infantry, Arug my reaidenes in the South of China. The destruction of houses and a large amount side of the new channel, completely enclas explosion took place hero to-day, caused by Service Corps, Medical Staff, and Ordnings wind was freezingly and yesterday after of property. At 5.46 p.m. the polies ed this section, which contains 48 villages an Italian workman baring attempted to Rose join in the Store Corps, the two largest drafts being ncos and in several places the grass was were informed that there wax a fire at having a population now of about twenty-thaw some frozen dybaita. which was
ke if from a sewers earthquako. The fa the Crown Prince and Princess Macio of from the 2nd Linsola Regiment for Singa-onarasted with ice the fatzen zain harden No. 878, Honas Read, in front of the New Gro or thirty thousand then mach larger stered in New York Long Island tunnel bad their twigs and leaves encased in the Non. Some foreign and native poliseme of rain or flood water had no possible terrific, and Long Island City bakon Edinburgh. As the carriage is to be cale-pore and the 1st Shropshire Light Infsuirying on the Linces-while como bamboes Police Station which is in course of construc. is a square pes, out of whish the oxaasa works. The fores of the explosion was No representation or pleading being of tory, post office, and many other buildings There is nothing more calculated to same crystal covering and little drops of hastened to the scene and found the fire escape.
were wrecked, and took fire. Six people brated at Sigmaringen, Sir Edward Malet, for Hong Kong. British Ambassador at Berlin. has been
was stored bandreds of rulls of matting, any avail, the matter was carried to Peking. cottmanded to represent the Queen at the breed dissentcat in Her Majesty's ships ios hang at the points of the leaves a bad originated in the upper story in which
The Palise report that they extinguiabel Ait imperial deputy was sent to investigate were killed and many matilated. The man
who satsnd the incident, and who had bi afloat than the ondoe deleation of their but after the cold night it was not merely companion, says the Nawl and Military here and there that the effects of frost FROM comparative statement published in the Gazitie, it appears that the stamp
Record, on foreign stations. The Egeria veld is soen, for this morning I found the Ramen with the aid of the females of the oase. He said that this condition of
ANOTHER EXPLOSION IN PARIS. revenue for 1802 was 8171,876, as compared
bas already been three years in commission, some thin ice in two tube, and the edge of the houte, though one of the wall feit things ought not to exist, and he would to amma blown off and his eyes destroyed, bas Paris, December 29,-An splosion of a and the use and some of the officers have the water butt was hardened with the rather warm, and on the shop meater being represent it at the capital: that the dams been arrested. been some mouths longer away from Bug. samo substance and the top was choked questioned be stated that he did not know ought to be remored from the du channel how the tre occurred as he was on the of the Butou, but that he had to power to with 8193,950 in the previous year, show. ing a falling off of $22,813. The largest A GovansMENT railway official intorma as, deoline was in transfer of shares, from any the Shanghai fercury, that it is the land, as the ship was recommissioned at with a amali icials.
some Blower-pots the same; each leat of At 7 pm. 186 fire ugei broke out in the by high provincial suthority. But be added ag in the anteroom of the Profecture of istration to extend the present railway, by the crows of surveying ships ought to
stiff;
the twigs of the fir trees wore best the alarm was immediately gives and the more strong and tear out the dams, in the nobody was injured. No clue to the per-
The Deluge Co. faes of such a demonstration of the popular petrators has yet been obtained The receipts from Brokers' Notes destined which just now has been wide only as far be additional reason for relieving them some of the plants was glazed aver sad same place and being a near to the Station that if the people would coms 10,000 or Police. The damage dons wei small, and
The Japaasse Government seems, like tiful with the same lay coating, and, as fire brigade saited t
Lordon, December 30-The Emir of from 82,116 in 1891 to $62 in 1892. The Lan show, beyond Shan Hai-kwan, or promptly,
the Eastern extremity of the Great Wali, probate duty shows a decline of 97,243 and inte Manchuria, and that preparations have some Governments neszer home, to be the wind blow, they cracked with every responded with three streams and were will, they would in all probablity not be THE MIR OF MAHARA'S VISIT TO RUNSLA.
90 as Le sommenes the smitten with the evil fancy for expensive motion. The steps in some places, and quickly followed by the Mih-he-loonga, the restored. But it was impossible to raise the duty on hilla of exchange and prote-extent line with the beginning of next fixed defences' ashore. At any rate it pathe ako, were slippery and the side of the Victorias, Le Torrent Ca, and the Hongkew stel a mob, and could it have been done, Bokhara, accompanied by his son and
Wae covered with a sheat of this ice. If the firemen were at church when the the embankment remained which prevented way to St. Petersburg. His Highness in (10-63 in) gins, which are farnished by sory notes à decline of $6,955. The largast Spring. It is the intention aleo of the providing its coast batteries with 27 om house must exposed the keer North wind company. No time was but though one the rellaf would have been slight so long as large retinue, he arrived at Baku on his RUSSIA'S ATTITUDE. TOWARUS INDIA AND” the line
Farther, it is said that he re-
CHINL increases were $2,839 mortgage duty, $2,156 Chinose Government to run
Tonton, Dember 30-Raia has de- for convegance or assignment, and $1.006 though Kirin and Tri-bai hat up to the the Forges et Chantiers de in Mellor walkou round Mount Kellett in the tady alarm was gires. The flores spread with the water from following the band and flow. the bearer of rish prosants to the Uzar.
banks of the Amoor river, or es the Chiranes. The lack batch consisted of 12 morning before breakfast to enjoy the alarming rapidity, and at uue time is vas ing north.
slined to partake in say triangular negotia neee call it Hab-lang-ching it. the woh goos, 20 calibres in length, throwing unwonted sight, and it was a new subsation thought that two of the Deluge men were turned to Peking vid Tientsia, and all his
let them route. for bille of lading.
Black Dragon River.'
So that for more then tao years, this is between barnell, England, and China, Le fact a survey of projectiles of 476 1ha, with an initial for an old Chise resident to hear the crysdebarred tron getting out of an alleyy, promises were apparently forgotten el the whale proposed line has already been velocity of 1,870 ft., and 12 Canet mounts, tala of ios orunching under one's feet in and a bode was raade in a wall
so unde se to enable the guns to be red at long bits of the road. These cryatsle were through, but it fortauntoly bappened that Tar course of the Dorinthian Club nee
SIE LEPEL GRIFFIN ON OUR AWOSTAN yesterday was:—from S. M. pier round made, for a resent telegram from Ticalsia
standing erect o. the read. The sides of all got whils their huse was pulled into the autumn orops almost entirely destroyed, a treat separately with oach Fower.
POLICY ck boat off N. W. corner of the Leo-reports the safe return of the surveying angles of great depression, for they are to about half an inch in height at times and there was mali way through which they scotion ins buer ausually flooded, and the regarding the Pamir question, and desires
accupy an elevated position. party to that port a few days ago.
It has been decided by the authorities Mount Kellett are whitened with the slight street by wiking hands, just in time to pre- This was the exception formerly, now it is the
London, December 36.-Sir Lapel Griffin, Kurlon
ware hard at work, the aim was given that using a knife-blade drill which drops the in an article in the Farishly Review, At the Bankruptcy Court as the 14th us, that the Cerca is to be repaired for an- frosting of the grass, and it reminds one of sent it being burnt by the paper floor which rule. Ordinarily, the greater part of this Messrs Beyra and Oraig, who were ship-ciber term of foreign service This vessel the hose frost of England tosen the whitened fell through with a crish. While the firemen land can be planted with fall wheat by
was ordered bome not long since on look of the path in imut of the house.
That if a shower says, is free from Russian prelivition, but owners and merchants of 31, Great St
It was very strange to see how the pi- the laity scaffolding on the opposite side of the grain into a zarrow spam, and the wet mud defends the Ameer Abdurrahman who, he Helens, also of Bombay, were bmaght up, scent of an ecoident to one of her 6-in-
300nd add sometimes a third advocates a strong Government at Calcutts station, she having been recommissioned at to keep their foothold and using both wings iguited and on loosing up, this was found of rain fills the ess
in order to check any forward policy. Many of these villagers who possese little loway Priem, for their public ex rosa Hong Kongin Feb. 1840. Show18.com and feet to try and walk. Some of to be the case. Under these circumstances, is spoilt, and tion. The bankrupts were sentenced to
Cairo, December 29.-Mustapha Fahmi two posts' imprisonment for defrauding the ploted at forte.outh in 1885-86 at a cost. Poskites had a very amusing experience the are in the houses had to be left and planting has to be made.
and her oost sizce for maintenance, repairs st one time through the crackling loc, then about a quarter of an hour, there was no or an land go out every winter to live us Ohartered Mercantile Bank of India, Lon-including incidental expanses, of £167,000, coming down town this mocnice, walking attention paid to the scaffolding, and after don, and China of a large sum of maney.
Asutted narly slipping on its surface whore it was farther danger of its burning, though at they eus, mainly by begging. They live a Pacha, the Egyptian Premier, is seciousir
one time it was alight for some parte, but gipsy sort of life, often trying to combine.
As soon as possible ons bartering and begging. Searsely a rear The debis prured at the meeting mounted to.. he been another £17,000. to £71,047. Upma the oase being called and supplied with a bas armament site will in this sheets on the surface of the road. Me Wreford, Official River, stated that ad aefal employment in the training It was so stippory that we had to 10re back high up in the air, be accounts bed act yet been sled, has quadron, but she can scarcely be liked a walk down by Magazine Gap Road in. of the streams was taken off the scaffolding passes when there is not a slow of Im fanumber gave up the attempt At this time the tire was being attasked only a mere fraction of the amonat appro- that the trustee, Me Ernest Copper had on again as an effective unit of the fighting fatead of going to the tram station; while and again directed on the barning houses, perial favour, but the pittance deled out is undertaken to assist the bankraps a the
Li Han-chang at Centon is said to have and seat home again. Though agizing from various quarters, no less than tristeen pristed. But somehow many of the preparation of them. Ir. Hodges (vine offered s premium for evory Frenchman's Gap Road proved a better route, yet we streams playing. It was found netewary manage to custine a miserable existence Hodges, and Borrow maa) appeared on bo-
tween Hama and Shastung Road, laking ball of the bankrapto, and stated that they head. If the shatuwant is true, the French had a cald and wet walk. The rain 10-ul to call out the engines and the Ddugs year after year, and always show up just would take at least a couple of months to Government ought to lose no time in takintoise on my waterproof, leggings and took up a position in Fanobo Rond, be before the wheat harvest.
ing active and cerere measures to defend Brick, while my ombre la had a skin of icu prepare, and the examination was adjourn their positious from zonowed attacks if they formed over the silk, but the thickness water from a hydrant, but na they had o hose, all their four moles-being Ja nas, do nothing else. I have the best off as envelope, and at the of A NAVIRED po en Brodat of gued to Feb. 15. ap.
writes a correspondent, for the tits. It was a petty eight to lock up the Victorias ompled on their hose and
tion as on the defence. Generally they Daryagsigunt which accurred at Tienjala ke the following from The Singapore
the hill sides and me the silvery frosting on with it were able to play on the apper
Mr William Bibby, mine manager a bold that the classification ofoffanoes triablo while the soldiers of the viceregal compa
the long-king" frontiers; notably at the China firs. This extended as fardowe portion of the buming scaffolding.
as Bowen Head, if not in fas: a lite fur had previously, with the aid of velustco Raub, is expected bere en Wednesday per boats, to now in vogue in parts of the wern practising targit-shooting with Free Fress of Jandy 5-fr, H. M. stating that troops me being massed on
H.M.S. Linnot, taker. a line of hose S.S. Suppo. Mr Bibby is bringing dow North West Provinces and Oadb, is from Krupp gun a short time ago. Through the Becker, of Messrs Becher, Louis & Co., hus Kai Hae Fu, in Yanaari. Au old enemy
high up in the New Station, but as their 216oz. uf gold on this assion. We most suitable to districts outside the Pre carelousness of the gunner who neglected this morning received a telegram feon she of the French, who was once the pet of the ther.
Dissiplined
position was higher than the Water Tower, dorstand that the Eastern lade Telegraph sidency towns. Under this scheme, mura to have the gun properly cleaned and col Penjam Fahang Gold Company, Lld. Fog Has France Chinese
they could do nothing, and bad to shaft) has not turned out at sll what it at der, culpable homicide and rioting aro ez- before putting in a new charge, there was seldantly the result of their meeting of
izansferred to be Geserat of Division of
again. The Torrent
tu haped it might prove, and has an explosion which injured a number of abareholders, in Loudon yesterday. The Force nesr Shanghai, bus just been
passed un-
UPSILON REUNA UFFÉ. telegram ran-Resolution
the Kai Hcu Choo Garrison. The same asinously, reluatory winding.p. This man formerly pretended to be overlowing To the Editor of the 'CHINA Man'
a hydrant is Foochow Rend, a little above first presented. Not feeling justified Janoury 16. as era ybody knows, does not mean the with benevolent initutions towards the
Sus. It will be comforting to the local the Central Stable, while the Victoria going on with the work bars the tacnager failure of the Julis Mine, but on the cen- Franch generally, and French kaiselonaries trasy, it being toe goed to lose, the parent have reason to regret the almost abound-31 Grundys to know on the authority of engine git up steam, but was so dia-bas dismantied the shot: iz order to utilise Upsilon in your morning contemporary abled owing to her tailer tahes leaking the pumps and boilers on another portion At 9.30 there way ho mors danger of the connessiea. Speaking of this portion company determined to resume it and this ed confidence they placed in bim in those is part of the process. They and Basher,
especial tool of the greatest enemy they dusts at St. Andrew's Ball on Friday night
At eleven o'clock. ste time, it was may be parmitted to give now a perma ever had: I moan Teen Ya-Ying, and be exarded the display of last year. The Beessary to extinguish the cleairie light reference to this portion of the miss practically the sole creditors, it may be a
age, when short skirt dancing and decolleté nedel liquidation for despatch in re:zle-is nor the tool of Tain's brother, ment. Mr Becher laves for Hong-
We hear that Sir Chaloner Alabaster, dresing are, in the opinion of sonte, carried un ane of the circuits, as the wires passed During his stay in Pahang in charge of the kung by the mail today, to enter a Consul-General at Qaaton, has tremes, it must be indeed a source of close to the burning building there being a Reab district during the distarbans as a matter of safety and after bait sure how the work at the Bastern Lode was Ms Gregory Anthos, member of the with the Directors of the Panjou. Min decided not to relarn to his post is Chlua. confort to the unco guid! to lean, on lamp clos to the corner. This was done frequent ecossion was naturally taken i
and 點 experiod that
ated an. pregressing as the shaft is at the side of or so the earrenta again med Straits far, died at Fouang on New Year's ing Co.,
pen- cocspicuous increase in the dresses VOID AL Foragu Ofios, and will retire en Day. Mr Anthony was admitted to the Bar everything will be arranged to permite has set in his resignation to the much reliable authority that there was a
100 yards firet (from which it lies about 180 of the Straits in December, 1876, having of work at the mines going on continuouarsion. Sir Chaloner is the oldest present this your'e hall. It is no wonder that The first two streams of Delegs were the track between the Bara Police Station
rant close to the member of the China Consular Service,sirangers were much impressed with the soupled to a
Raja served his articles in the offer of Mrly.
In which he joined in 1855 as a Stadent)
alter Tokio...64 morning Berzard Bodyk and, ho laté Mr I. & Bond.
present cocasions
s of hot that the men had to leave house stands. One Sanday Soon after his adminion he joined Mr Van AMONG the things too good to be true-verproter. He saw much of the stirring posted on hupitong song is able to base aight Bre, hat it soon and Rotan Tanggul, where
It is to be hoped the impressed trans it and play on it to present the bore being inspecting the hospital, burraoke, and Sikh Naga
the Somares, but of the he practised alone.
at least, just gets the Imperial penny arente in China in the late fifties and
guard of the Police Station, the present Shanghai.. The Mihhange mounted ghing to barnt. Mr Anthony devoted himself to the criminal
reaf of house opposite the entrants to the writer on ble way to Roin Tunggal atsp Fuochow.. -branch of the law and sou obtained for j postage. It was rumoured lately that this early sixties, and has served at most of the will stay long shough by H--
gre, necessary, and inevitable reform was Treaty ports, partitary autos, amoy realise that if it pa Gabusaal thing – un
He always if the leading practice in the Potine actually on the paint of being carried out. Shanghai, sud
ordinary eco
far dresses to to worn Police Station and played on the flames from ped at the shaft and had a look at the Amoy Ocutis. The Penang Gazette has the fellow. The Goverment, said the report, kad made popular with the foreign cammanities, and
gkong. Quarz When does on in there. This provented the fire spreading in quartz sent up during the night. Entre Anging that direction. The Hoogkew mant up had been heavy rain and the quarts on the SWATOW og cliteary notics:-Mr Authony was ap their minds upon this one piece of legis over aphoid the treaty rigkle of his
dividual (or person, as air puriss would
the Miboloongs. The
The top of the heap was fairly clear from the Canton the alleyway below highly resproted and esteemed by the other lation, apon mething else, and as soon as countryczen.
prefer it become "private"
Viebsrik and Torrent men were at the
TIMB Bo phenomenally rich were the Viot. Peak members of his profession, and a comrades Parliament oproed the bitter draught of a
In the rich golden gravary of his (Burma) will long hold his memory is affectionate Ulems Rule Bill would be astered
thus pretty well surrounded, but no leer uppermost specimens, that is to say these regard. He will she be remembered by the with a tease to reader the rate of OULD WEA
ears of poetic philosophy which are not other members of the European community postage uniforms from ond to end of tka
vary familiar to us and perhaps the post- than 2umbered houses (from 463 to 385 last neat up the shaft, that the corporal to many of them his genial disposition, uns British Empire. But the too cold a
A entry on duty at the shaft over the quartz тель utterly destroyed. Failing readiness to do a kind soon and nine only lived & day. A soon as the For the last two days we have been sr-prandial oratory will ensarth a few Do inclusive), some of them with valuable the guard was prom play directed to pla
Manila..... 29.81 86 kindly demeanour greatly endeared hit, (eneral Post Odoo tuthorities heard of periencing a spell of cold weather which is not suppose this quotarian fan agentlaten living in the vicinity and until 3 Bibby could be scramunicated with
It is netbing of
Are Cameron at the Station kindly in order that he might make his own ar The batives also held him in high respect, the barde resolazione ascribed to them a agreed to be unprecedented in the history holbey's
January 16:-AT 10 A. x. and, were any proci required of the great feeling of horrified alarm spread through of the Colony. It was a novel experis ca the kind. It is culled from the rich supplied the tremen with refreshments. sangemedis about watchmen for the quartz C.S. James!
stora of acter ret published golden estern he was held in by the varied glassen the Dupartments, and me Amid frusted by the white-capped hills ou the
aha majority of the residents to be com
Бут Upailua for the detectation of the The houses were only reinsured in Satur-It was of course impossible to tell how dey and were forge-owned. It is said much of that splendid quality of stene nubace who attended his funeral. We depelling the public dream. It was no kaust mat omit to mention that a contingent that the thing could not be thought of gistering a low reading, and to find longkong Great Burns 1 what atrocities is 230,00k and Tir, 200,000. The man paid any passer by handsomely to have Nagasaki.. Tu peree rated in tay nime! Who would wheat bonte caught fire was inured for walked of with several of the pieces noticed, Shanghai.. all around a wintry aspect which Bug
This did not continue, Foochow of the European plies volunteered to carry It was strenuoly
that morning. bis olin as a last mark of respect to one stage only
London and the Rusted Barcastic thoughts of a tropicalot like to be present at that mall and
At 10.45 p. the front wall of four of however, and it was thought unnery Amoy 50,30 40
to take any special precautions after a Aaping... who had always stown himself their good great towns, and this injured Dapartment clime. Cold enough as it wax in the lower select gathering of Cronies' to witness/ something over Tle, 6,000.
and amongst the operation of postprandial oratory friend, and their kind offer was gratefully of State added that as soon as the panty partions of the Colony
cepted. The leading members of the Bar stamp we made aniversal people would go the residences of
the hillside, the foldigging out a few golden wars of poetic the houses fell out, right across the Ho- and a couple of friends acted as pill bearers about asking to have a halfpenny stamp for { wrętity of this untanal visivation was only philosophy from the rich golden granary/Gay Bond, and Jeveral of the firmnen heil souple of days. But the above will show Switow
realised by the Pak residents, and the of Burns rate prodhotia Ye gods and a very cow recape The Chief Engineer how dificult it is for any one, in such irre Dantes90.35 34
Gay Rock, 30.29 Tas Hongkong and Shanghai Rank smok.
cold is felt all the more from the fact that little fishes, what a sight is in store for and another firema had only jest passed gular formations of these at Raub, to say Hongkong 30.33 33
As regards the new shaft (Raub peper) Macao..... Ing concert took place on Saturday eve THE R.:13 Datty Bus of the 11th ingt, has come so unexpectedly. The register thee! It to be hoped the energetic me. j the spot gad vae of the Deluge men was how anything may turn cut from one day to] Vict. Pear-
Bin:
Mr Bibby has driven is 70 feet, on the Hoihow ing Dec, 3, ut the Bodogo, St. Mary 41:ys:-The Capitanese la Shanghai ac for the past week guve the thermometer dich who is to launch The Cronies on the knocked down, while the convusion shook another.
OFFICIAL ENGINEERING IN CHINA. higher level and in carrying along with him Haiphong 30.15 43 76 ANG
a leader with good gold. When fairly into Bolinao....9.00 80 74
· (N.-C. Daily New cutin
the vid formation, ut a lower level, it will Marils..... Cernapondent I am writing from a flooded district be reasonable to expect resnits similar to 0.8. James
Barometer contions rising slowly. about 100 miles south-west of Tientsin. these previously got from this portion of the
Gradients step for N.N. winde. it lie on the west side of the Lower Westmine.
The boiler and pump row liberated from ther-Urercast, was and unusually cold, river, so called, near its mouth. There is
Of the thres oracks-Payne, finished, the intense cold proving to auch for the enthusiasm of the yachumer. The Ladybird von sailed by Me J. Hastings, who had along with him Mr H. J. Aedge and a Chinstan. All three suffered more or less (cap the cold, and it points could be awarded for pluck the crew certainly deserved them. Taz-N-Daily Newsstates that the new Telegraph Convention between Chins and Rasnia has been definitely ratified.
poroza,
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Be the breaking of the chain attached to the apparatus for bringing up coal from ons of the shafts at the Koiping colliery, the other day, six lives were lost; the head and the lower extremities of one of
reasons,
CORRESPONDENCE.
come down
They
THE JURY QUESKIGH DE INDIA. Allahabad, December 28.-The Govern- question Fold strongly that the Bengal ment of Indis in their despatch on the jury Government was justified in its active. Statistics are quoted to show the perversity vernment propoes to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure so tempora Samions Judges to requiz from jaites of juries particularly in murder cases Go
special verdicts on particular issues of fact, RAUB MINES.
iuclading the o-edibility of particular wit The Singapore Free Press of the 9th inst,nesses as well as on the case fut prosvon has the following
Fant'un, let December.
was called out and took water from find the nosuraging indicat other ploded from the coguiasuos of juries. ·
is at
the killed, strange to say, being su orush- Idia & Co., being the largest And Daya Flo, the Gezeral, was then the that the dresses worn by private indivibutes of the brigade retained till of the wine the writer of this paragraph
ed and torn easy by the unfortunate accident, that nothing could he found of the lost parts.
if
tume in
THER IN HONGKONG. ICE AT THE PEAK
自
the
DIPTURE OF DAUNTS, Allahabad, December 29-Murli Singh,
by the Agra polica. the well-known leader of dacoits, with some members of his gang, vera captured
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
January 16.TÁ 2.3.
Temperature
Humidity.
90.28 48
tars productions there are many golden Fooshe and of the fire. The freak mullook that rally conbeals its sur Hongkong,80.1
cantetis,
1821121110
Gap Boak, 30.17
Haiphong. 30.04 48 Bolinao... 20.82 80
Macao.....30.21 38 66 Hoihow
nf our community, it was afforded by thai or aau of his liantenints, lost mainland, to find the thermometer re-open-mouthed and admiring public of that the damage amounts to between might not be coming up, and would have 1 Tokio g
*pay"1
interual postage.
-
that
the peony
low-
Lowest. Monday, Ota Ja..59 Tuesday, 10th, 59 Wednesday, 11th,.60 Thursday, 13th,...61 Friday, 1sth Saturday, 14th, 50
Highest.
63
puff preliinay with which the exout is becided by your contemporary-Yours
CUI BONO?
SUPREME COURT-
65
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thermometer ali to 33,
IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. (Before the Thill Court.) Muday, January 16.
a marked differrucs in the elevation of the the abardeaed eastar jeda shaft, Mr Bibby(Lasted at 10.37 )
On intends to transfer to Stops, & place very land on either side of this atram. the eastern side it is higher, and econpied like the original Raph Hole, and said This action, in which Mr AR. Marty with orchards of apricot, peach, apple and by those who worked is for Rajah Impl and
THIS RESPONSIBILITY OF A COMISABORE.
Walker.
W. DOREROK,..
Wea-
Jackson, supported by Moura. Jpa, Ohinese authori fear the City in their Wallery J H. Burnett, W. Nicholls, tres ment of the manager and cook of the Wm, S. Edwardion, and G. V. Moote furniture shop in Nasking which was burst The t'bairman, a rising to open the pro-down on the morning of 30th December, eœedings; received a splendid ovation. La The manager and pook were arrested by a happy speech he complimented the Bank the natire suthorities on the complaint of Football Club on the fact that they had munsters who lived next door and with one exception, won all their mascher whose house was ako burat down. The this coupon, and then propeidel with the Cantonese atais that the site did not cum. Overnight at Mount Kellett co Saturday
An excellent conger amenco in the furniture shop, but in the evening the progra.come. pronded, and refected great slit on the mandarin's house and that it was the res and curing Banday afternson ice organisere, The efforts of Mara. T. Selt of his attempt to hide heiratagance formed, the thermometer dropping Cockburn, W. M. Blackin, Wii, E. Ed The City authorities are endesgovring to 3 by seven o'colok. During last night (sues Chao V Fic and smother for $D pear trees for a dutinca of 10 or 12 miles. Raja Ismail to be every bit as good as the Parde, Wm. Nicholls, Edwin Fisher, Harry Dorien were especially praiseworthy the fire broke out
premises, and fellan to 27. Rain full pretty steadily defendants appealing against the judgment, river or Grand Canal, the land becomes about half a mile up the couusssion
frequently floaded territory is met, through distance away in through the jungle The and each of these gentlecién reseited ́a fan the prisoner reime to say so, the nook; throughout Sunday, while the wind of Mr Polock, the lato Aoting Puisne gradually depressed, and another asetion of right hand side of the road, and a short audi, and to thelavet af kike ama (2) inahes, (Aks, wall merited encore. A duet, violin Mr at loss, is submitted to the must alumne piercingly cold and few people were abroa Judge RO. Carey, and pianoforte Mr A. A lazture. The Cantonese guiki has had the chuenhes being sparsely stiended. & Mr J. J. Francie, Q.C., intrusted b¦ which the westward overflow from the oanal formation is, black slate with rich ladare, FE, WAS very fizsly rendered and was several meetings in the subject, and the orer sho Posk district the verandahs of the Mr D. Wilkinson, appeared for the ap. ; fewporthward' insensons of excreatea rain, and the old open working in at present full Wo are informedj says the Sharighat Mer, the roads are aurited wired a portion of pellante : wnd Mr A. J. Lokby, instructed Weat of the Lower West ziver the land is of water, chiasse miser, who had worked
of Mananları
their
Was
to
the
Director of the Observatory. Hongkong Obertatori, Jan. 16, 1899.
1. Barmaras,zeđuondio 83 degremo Fukrepa
and hundredths,
2: TENFARLTURN, in his shade, in degrees Kabrenhet.
HONGKONG REGISTER.
Preview On data stĮ On dato aš dayatáp
10 sama
30.18
An dd with great apple Battle of
Was darin bastily lolt for Nanking,
bousse, the texuis courts, received with
river is reached. These two sirsame ran for Raja Impi at Boob long before the with io heavy icicles by Mr Hakage (of Mens Wotion and low, much of it swampy, till the Huton ridled rendering
by Mrs. Pedmore, Only a fer
It will be remembered that the respond neary parallel at this point towards Tien Brown-Seltoe ere and is now employed at tsin, West of the Eutoa the land is Raub, came up to Mr Bibby one day about speeches were made, the Charmant refer that the Cantonese community are are hanging from the saves of the houses, Dozona's office); for the respolent.
preparing petition to the Viceroy of and in a few case showater pipes are keɛun
how be kaw & rery good duos where there Barometer ring with great pleasure to the good record Nanking culling his attention to the har. up. The sleet which has been drifted up at ent sought and recovered 3700 sader
He had worked there bim- of the football club and bilding a hearty hatous wrteres which are being inflicted various - points on the roads is a depth of bend for damages sustained by him in re- even lower train on the cast side, gradually the beginning of lux: Esptember and risted | Welcome to the risitors present; for whom by the Nativa authorities pon Bover half an inch, and the pedestrian apact of the negligence of the fret defend merging into the swampy or like region
Old and partially filled river not far away. Mr Pittbrook, d. miester Bank, reponded. The proceedings whose house was recently burat
de, and wai-fen, the Cantonesa furniture dealer, tramps along be produces the crunching ant in performing the dotion of ships through which lies the water-vay to Pac- was lots of guld. It was in the jungle and Temperature
un noise which reminds him of snow. There pradure on board the steamer durator, ting Fa closed with chests for Ar Jsekion and the the Nanking · Rasd, to indres him to le indeed no antw yet, but the froat has Opon the arival of the slemmer in Hong. beds and overflow channels ar mot with self and could guide us to the spot. So one Bommittee, which was composed of the
sirs broke out in his fired upon tree, shrub and grase, and as it koug from Saigon, box of treasure dis quite frequently throughout the greater morning Messra. Bibby, Sr. and Fr., with next door, in the premises sisters in the light gives alltio appearazes appeared, and Mr Falinck-held that the part of this great plain. Many of them if the writer, provided with parang), &0.,
mere value to the agricultar interests Leadership of the Chinese veteran. When Rain............ for the sale of rank of a snow-covered landscape. It is proba compradore and his suraty.ie second de re-opened and deepened would be of im- proceeded up the session under the
andrercity poorbly this which has made the hills on the fendant, wars liable for the
mainland Q white At Canton
After bearing the argaryenta of the of the country in holding sud carrying nearing the neighbourhood of Stop he oona or twice and after some diflently mon extensive izigeting fariilee. Alags, however, there has been a hoz learned counsel, their Lordefine reserved away excose of high water, sudie affording began to book about, dived ute the jungle
At the former place anew judgment.
following geation-Messza. Prait, Gor.
don, Knox, Koule, Harries, sad Edward Mr. George Bromby, Mus. Bo...
BOT.
-presided at the piano, and bla Bolos and Bacompanying gave unqualified satisfa
harp
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Humidity
80
Diriction of
Wind ...
Weather
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Hike open air tempí Loweslepen kir tempi
Hongkong, Janu