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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1994,
THE
CAPTAIN Young, formerly of the Bongay-- Tus skip Dremeltan, is advertised for sale That Great Britain's first duty is the pro- who, we are glad to see, bez thoroughly, an she lies in Nagasaki Harbour.
' recovered from the accident he met with en
board his ship-takes the Kutsang to Cal TOURIST (is manager of ■ Hengkong Hotel) outta this trip. Capt. Hall Jackson is de-* Can you tall mo when the next steamer- tained owing to a slight illness, from which leaves for Japan? Manager I can, but wo hope to see him makes speedy recovery. I won't. We are glad to have a tourist
A
H.M.E. Undaunted come out of dook thie afternoon, after undergoing an overhaul at the hands of the Dosk Company. She w towed to her buoy by the Fame. The Undaunted is expected to leave on Sunday for the North with atores, ammunition, etc., for Admìrni Fremantle's squadron, but may not get away till Kooday.
hore at last."
CHINA MAIL
THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF HONG- KONG.
PAPER BY ME W. AT JOHN MANGGOK.
As briefly reported last night, Mr W. St. John Hancock read a paper to the Odd Volumes on the subject of pubito health. We make the following extreme from the paper
SUBSOIL ATKE.
tection of Europeans at the Treaty Porte of China, and it is instructiva to nota that no mention has been made of pro. tooling Europeane in Japan. That, as you have already noted, the cen- tral ideas of intervention must be proper regard for existing Treaty obligations and stair recognition of fiscal responsibilities.
By far too little attention appears to be gives to the condition of the soil and its ALTOGETHER the guillotine is not a bad That speaking of Foreign intervention, it
is to be hoped the comparativo collapen physical properties. May we not venture way of heading off anarchy."
of the Undaunted will arrest the atten- the opisin that one cause of the decay of the great cities of antiquity may have boon tion of those concerned at Home.
due to the disregard of, but dueling That it is needless, on this side of the Strange though it may seem, our relings world, to fulminate against special' off-get from the ground, under certain candi care, because at Home the individuals tions, a portion of the air they contain, and If the soil is impuro, this borrowed air is responsible for aach neglect should easily impare also, be found and consured.
Why don't you got a buy to keep your desk in ordor inquired a alter the other
It looks awfully littered op.' day, keep it this way,' said the editor, to show that I'm always busy,' 'But why-0), I wae! Good day.'
Owing to those and other factors the vital statistics of Hongkong, while they may
be as courate as ressonable oro can
make tim, see utterly useless, in the form they are now presented, to guide as to any serviceable conclusion therefrom.
WATER AND FOOD.
CHINESE COOLIES FOR BRAZIL. The following is an editorial articlo takon from the London Daily News of September 3-
terma
·STRINITE 'ON CHESS.
But my
bare
I felt much better on the day following the
terions utterance this morning as I took an another column, Artillery prasties from after-beskfast stroll on the jetty at this the Batterien will take plass between 8 a.. paradies of Londoners of a certain plasa, Quoth one young fellow to another, Well, and been on the 16th, 19th and 26th instant, old man, hou goes j? What did they give All abips, janks and other vessels are warn you for breakfast "" 'A two-eyed steak and That Dope of the gallant S.L.I. have gone very much lower wind pressure than this, 1 population, and also with a view to the they arrived at Havana there was not mash hours' slambar, when the, reaction was too
ed to keep clear of the ranges. The inha bitants of the bouses near Belchers are warded to keep their glass windows open doring the practies on the 19th instant,
sample of busters' was the reply. Can any reader enlighten me as to that mysterions meal? Wo believe that the first of the expressions which have puzzled one oor. respondent is a euphemistis term applied in modern lang to a home bloater.
A
and people working in the vicinity of Bel-buster is an older sample of elang. A obers Battery are also warned to keep clear proay baster is a term still well known to tramps and school-boys as signifying a of that part whiob will be indicated by gun.
penny loaf. nors placed on santry for that purpose.
North as yet
throughout the city.
the
Physique has a great deal to do with winning in long hard-fought matches of chers. When I played the lost match with Tohigorin in Havant, in the early part of Oa Saturday a paragraph in The Daily 1899, a dostor, who was backing a 20.3 por 1000 per annum and of the Eurozilian Company to secure for the Govora perisace what he was talking about, said 20.ind the death rate of London to be Neuss told of attempts being made by a Bra-aonsiderable sam, and who are for poons io Count to Hongkong 26.18 i to infer from ment of that country sacrmous numbers of that in ble opinion there was nothing that is as healthy as London Chinass Cholles through the Fortagness set would produce so avere strain on all the rould be, to say the least, misloading. element of Masas. Commenting on this pa- vital organe, brain, baart liver, and nerves, The Chinose land population of Hongkong ragraph and its timely publication in as a chess. At that time I was suffering ter- is said to chow a death rate of 22.93, or intaresting letter which will be found in soribly from insomnis, and so was my op less than that of Glasgow, which is equally other caluton, Mr C. B. Allen, Secretary of ponent Night after sight I lay with Rro misleading in the face of the fact that the the Anti-Slavery Society gives brief hiely any sleep and in foret, deaths acng the Chinesa excoed the birtha tery of many previous projects similar physician advised me that it would be da an 1,000 is to 305 (or a birth rate par 1,000 to that now exposed. Brazil in in fact trimental oven then to get sleep by artifiatal proving the earth eats at 22.05), clearly an old offender, sharing with tatic for momplished one of their most bellant pla
an unenviable reputation some proving the worthleness of any com Caba parisons, orcepting perhaps in a qualified its nefarious methods of obtaining cheap while in this exalted condition. Let me of give you an example. When the Laker measure for collating the local returas of labourers, who, under the
their contraata became pratically slaves di match began in New York, one night I had one year with another.
rectly they ranched the plantations. And only three hours' sleep, and ancther night Majau has before now proved a complacent none at all; yet in the asoond game, which The average speed of the wind in this en
We passes in Hongkong as cheap and as medium through which the traffle in Coolie I won, I achieved some of the Buest results, As will be seen from an advertisement in BTUDENT of Slang' writes: I beard a mythat the condition of this flas ship is not Tony for the year is 10 miles an hour, or
oraditable to Her Majesty's Admiralty, equal to a pressure of half pound per para a supply of water as can be found labour could be carried on. Twenty-one while one night preceding a game, which i
square foot. A and a very strong feeling exists here that; is known in aed of 88 miles an hour anywhere; and doubtless the quantity years ago ■ society was formed in Havans lost by a blunder, 1 had slept nine hours.
or equal to a pres-available will shortly be much increased for the importation of Coelies through this the responsible paction should hear of it. sure of 36 lbs. per square foot, but with with due regard to the rapid growth of the Portuguese eettlement at Macao, and when sleepless nights than I did after the nin
ganes have been known to travel a distance extinction of all well supplies, at least eeoresy about the fact of their ale to the great to be overcome. I have told you this to
plasters at enormcus profis of ovat 25 feet through the oil.
But what shall we say of the pollution ɔf they were frea agents who, Nominally illustrato the effect of a professional mate
had agreed to Now this air that may, and often does,
not feel this wearing process, but porting Company for a certain number of professional acutely suffers. I would say. That the 'baming' question here at pre-
sent, curiously snongb, is not Taiping. enter our houses is polluted in degree as our harbour waters that goes on by the place their labour at the disposal, of the indose aur who only plays on any game gallons of sullied water from our draine, years. In reality they were slaves bound that, other things being equsi, a man with shan, the trouble has been trans-ding to the nature of the soil, but almost discharge into it daily of some two arillion
alwave is charged with carbonic acid.
superior physical endurance ought to over- not be broken easily. The itat ossssiou ouenme a weaker opponent in a long series of ferred to the European quarter-and the
Carbon dioxide is not the only deleterious This pollution is not the result of either their taskmestars by fetters which would
ignorance or carelessness, but is probally
which Brazil attempted to procure large games. Generally speaking, however, the element in the soil or the air, and is not due, either to misjudged motives of uzpe question is no longer fire, but water. Tast old European residents to mo they necessarily deleterious if in small quanti dioney or to a false regard for the pabicumbers of Chineze labourers under contract celebrated masters of chess have been frail
tin, hat it is now taken measure of
parse, neglecting the fact that tran sonomy Teng King Bing was sent as a spacial envoy and Lasker, none of them had, or bal; & Fo for its plantations was in 1888, when Mr mss. Paul Morphy, Tobigoria, Zakerbert, kave never seen so much trouble and other impurines on acount of its generally
line not is this direction, considerable
from China to Brazil, ander the conditions bust constitution. I have a
that the theory "bobborio' about water for the feat ovil associations; by itself
excess can be tolerated without any ill
and with the results narrated in Mr Allen's pioneers of any intellectual creative art or quarter of a century, as there is now.
effects.
letter. The eavoy then had his eyes opened science are apt rot to be vigorous in phy- Where this comparatively harm-
to the orvelties of a nyntem can get, other and far more bens-
which sique. With regard to eheas as a divotaioa, for blank, and fe accordingly
the time. It is a per These experiments show
8 species readily got
suaded bis Government not to sanction tips which, when properly applied, should be us the necessity for taking precautions to
the proposed emigration.
ex-to the hygiene of the mind just prevent the subasil air from entering the
perience and advies of Me Tong King Bing what athiotics are to the hygiene of dealing. The penal coures, Bf you know,
In other words, chess players the Portuguese mettlement at Macso has dismay help is to lay an impervious bed of concrete or other impervious material over the soil on which the dwellings built, but is advis culties are mot with, because these reforms
covered a means of evading the regulations take care of themselves. The great chess sume toeasure with indivi- against contracte for Coolie labour, seeing wen able also to extend this a little outside the must interfere in:
men have generally been building. On this subject I will reas Mr and awe must gatuate from the highest been shipped recently on board & German I remember well receiving
been long ilved, and dual liberty; consequently all regulations that nearly five hundred Chinese Coolies have have preserved their faculties is the last. note frour Joha Chadwick's observations, written 12 years ago, which scem almost prophetia: 16 in legislative autorit, at, or these an anal vessel at song for conveyance direct ta Rio Cochrane,& famous player, in London, just
de from individuals or are merely administro-
te procure
rocure in Brazil the only interpretation | He was then giusty years of age, and hald the epidemic which have afflicted other places in the neighbourhood. The settle tira orders, they are likely to be disregard-
that can be placed on the endeavours of the that he would like to explain to me adde company in question to prosare something new ideas. Hadid so, and I was surprised haneath the city may not yet bo ficiently In Gongkong the excontiva senitary an- like a That there is something radically wrong mat is bat 40 years old, and the tubaniled or even resisted.
million immigrants from China to es a man of his advanced yours write about this action of the Water Authority, head with Alth to make it a hotbed for thority is the Sanitary Board, but for is that Brazilian plantera prefer a system out from memory variations sixteen move and, if the Sanitary Board (or some other disease and breeding ground for filth onmber of reassa its preventive and of thinly disguised alaye dealing to deep. The next day I read in the papers a representative body) cannot intervene, poison. It is somewhat premature to as-administrativa service is dat se perfect as in nigotiations for the employment of free notion of his death. I cannot imagine
immosity will always desirable.
1shoer that must be paid for in the happier way to die. It is so with almost all buginosa, Bogland who devote their time to the game of chess, the result will be on indignation meeting suwa that this hapt
continue, for the procera of saturation is
The following plan of a complete sanitary ordinary and ab sppeal to the Secretary of State-owly but surely going on, and if unchecked
ment and at last will illustrate the ar: Coolies ander indenture from any East Indian
trafie by prohibiting the export of tal vigour to the end of their days.”—Pitės. That a wise discretion which may be intro-ennot fail to bring forth abundant frui in gain may be suggestive of improve. repeatedly shows her detestation of They live long, and they return their men
the form of misery and disease.*
burg Dispatch. rangements which the wiadom and ex- duced in the exercise of givan powers
It has been determined that at certain perience of the high sanitary authorities in ports or provinces subject to British rule.
In its
to si- efforts to bring other ostion is one thing, and the arbitrary and
asarous of the your carbonic acid occurs in England have devised.
milar views the Anti-Slavery Society, bas reckless enforcement of them powera in the ground in greater volume thau at
been successful many times, and the kape others, and there are strong reasons-say
all who share our hatred of slavery, whether quite another.
those who have made a careful stody of
openly called by that name or only half- this subject--for suspecting that certain
conocaled by any other, must hope that the disorders of the digestive system are rare
Foreign Olse will ast promptly as it lins done before now for the suppresion of a prevalent at the perioda when carbon dintide (und anneequently other gosest is at
traffic which is nothing better the slave. ila maximum in the soil.
trading in one of its ornellest forms.
TELEGRAMS.
(SEPPLIED TO THE Crna Mar']
(Fin Southern Zine).
LONDON, Oct. 12, 1894. THE OHINA-JAPAN WAR.
EXPENSE
Without troubling you with too much
That these law-abiding and water-saving | 100% KAN C e demonstrated, gasen can detail, it will, I think, be a moderate anti-imply substituted yellow slave labour | I ɓallave it is becoming more popular mil
citizens do not quite understand the pre-ful, but less sent Botion of the Waiter authority. That few residents, European and Chiness, study the Ordinances, and bo ection now based upon the Waterworks Act of 1890 comes upon us as a surprise.
The Chinese hold the northern bank of That it is passing strange the-artiens of the Water Authority, threatening to ent off the Yaloo in force.
the water supply, should be perused
The Japanese have entered Wiju.
A San Franciaco telegram says:--Flouzing men are abgry over the rise of 50 per cent, in the rates for four on the Chins line. shipping man said: "The Paciße Mail and Occidental and Oriental companies had to follow the rise of the Canadian and Northem Pacita companies. This stato. ment may beete ecmewhat strange on ite face, but it is explained in the first place that the low rate on flour was the reauit of the Canadian Pacific's fight against the Iocal companies, the latter being obliged to mest every cut, and for nearly two years the rate has been a ton. Now they and an ample indemnity paid by China. have mized the rate to protect the California shippers. The Northern Pacific will be the first line on which the new ratn will go into effoot, for a steamer will leave San Tecoma before the Belgic louvon Francisco.
Sox ago four seamen belonging to the British ship Muskoka wore sent up to Hongkong, from Suigen, to be tried on variem charges ranging from desertion of ship and refusing duty to committing serious Lssanite on the captain, mate and stoward of the vessel. They wars brought before Captain Hastings at the Magistracy this morning. Mr. J. Phillippo ap
Mr F. H. May, perad on their behalf. Captain Superintendent of Police, applied for the release of the prisoners, because the Consular authorities at Saigon had failed to send witnesses to Hongkoug and the man euld not be convicted merely upon documentary evidence.
The Ma
gistrats accordingly ducharged the accused, making an order that they should be sent
off the articles of the Muskoka.
IN connection with the remarks of 'Ob- our morning contemporary, earver,' in referring to the typhoon of the 5th inet, Masao correspondent writes :-
It is affirmed at Tokio, that the Japanese will not sheathe the sword, outil guaranteed against further Chinese meddling in Cores,
RUSSIA.
The Czarowitch attends the Czar to Dorf, from thence he will procend to Darmstadt to escort Princess Alix to Rassin, where the wedding will take place is Nuvamber
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the last typhoon pased much nearer to u thas was pleasant, and the damage, stall us it may seem to be, is not incon siderable.
That the centre could not have been very far from the Island at one time or an- other, whether the nearest contact came when it was on its N. W. anure, or when it turned it its landward career more to the Northward.
that the lovely weather Dow prevailing leaves title to be desired, although the carpentors, plasterers, gardoners, and contractors are busy enough repairing damages.
to the Sailors' Home as they had not signed That, excepting Yumshti - which is visited only occasionally-but little damage was duas afloat; and the greatest credit must again be given to the Observatory offciale for their timely warnings. That the China-Japan wer naturally ab Borbs a freal amount of attention, and wil doubtless continue to do so for a month or two longer. That, in the absence of talegrams from the Beat of war, Reuter seems to keep the
*On 5th we had the following readings:---
7 2.0.
..............29.46
9
6.2.
11
1
Þ........
1.30 p.m.
29.37 .20.20
.29.06 .28.91
"From half-past 1 until 6 o'clock the gias remained stationary, at 28.91, and there was a dead calm. The wind did not how stronger then it did during the previous blow. I came from the North and North East, then (after the lull) at 6 o'clock, it ebanged into North-West, West and South-West. The natural inference from this change of wind is, that tho centre of the typhoon was, weeror to Hongkong than it was previously supposed to be.'
This afternoon, a coolie had a narrow escape from being killed at the new Pedder's Wharf.
clearing from the Wharf a number of polies made a rush to got on hoard. One or two Osa jues escaped falling into the water. old man was unable to get over the gunwale
mate to say that troan preventible deaths and sickness the colong losen not loss thin $50,000 every year.
REFORMED SANITARY ORGANIZATION.
The
of mental
Io all sanitary reforms considerable digi. must either have been formutten in China or the ohmin workam to know how to
·
hile the overflow of a raizalorm still stated that hitherto Hongkong hur shaped saxil bo rospeted; for, if these amenala Isneiro. As cheap labour 5 not difionit before the burns in Paris in 1878.
rushes in one's earn.
That in the one essa arbitrary powers may be made to are a reasonable aspect, while in the other case they may be axer eiad an sa to chale as sorely s the most irritating foren of injusties.
That it is unreasonable that ons man should have the duly thrown upon hite to calculate to mach water is necessary for my domestic needs, and thus, with- not adequate cause show, to have the power of threatening to cut off my supply upon the allegation that I have exceeded his estimate.
To afectually shut out the subsoil air is now recognized as one of the great panasan for the prevention of disease in a populous city, and will doubtless form large feature in our reformed bealth laws
EDUCATION,
&
The great defect, in any intervention by the Government is that the pan. plo do not know the object sought to he attained, and give no assistance towards it. abuse the It is too much the fashion to whose door does the greatest share of the That an intimation made by the Gnvernative for his ignorance and dirtiness.
meat, to the affect that it has failed to blame el Those whose privileges have supply this staff of life, and notifying been great, and who have had the supremA wil citizers to lank out for thecasalves, benefit of education, we a duty to their less favoured fellow creatures. When we would be more logical than the present and the schoolmaster employed, loss in system, although somewhat more humideaching the refinements of life to thone
liating to the Administration.
That a corresponden: informs me the mack.
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do not need them, but more employed
is incalcating the great elementary pre- ciples of physiology, hygiene, and social economy, then shall we have around us a the
Surycon
Colonul
Der Haspira!.
Col. Secretary
-Accountant and Legal Adviser.
The Legislature
--Engineer a
Sanitary Brasi
intendent.
Draias,
Water Supply and Distribution. Conservancy of Etreets Contracts.
Casteries and Burtale.
Dinfection
and building
Salary (aposters,
Statistics.
{ Book-kmring and Carespondence
The Government -Police-Intelligener Regts. General -Director of Public Markets
Lighting-
tule.
itsmic and Fere Hopitals.
and Statisticn
reled question of what is an Esquire community which can appreciate that remind you that complate sanitary reform In concluding these remarks I would
is at last settled.
That his explanation is, live at the Peak, as the new Peak Directory has squired overy Ton, Diot and Harry.
apparently irksome sanitary measures
the state are for their special benefit au is a very difficult matter to effect, but that will lengthen their lives; then instead of the colony has had ample evidence that we reaising the sanitary afficer, his visite will have among us resolute and willing men te Education the fierce battle with disease and be welcome and agreeable. must always remain the keynote we all sac- misury; while we, who look oo, have Dot tall rolling, and some of his special wires That the keenest sympathy went out to eas in preserving the public health. the privilege of lighting in the rate of wards Sir William Robinaen on the oc Physiology and hygiene form part of the thess reformers, yet may we emclate the curriculum of every day school in Eugland example of the drummer hoy in the story, casion of his bereavement, goes without, ran to some extent I may hope, in and incite and encourate by car chests and praise those engaged in the straggle with Hongkong.
ignorance, prejudice, and disance.
are, to say the least, curious
That the telegram announcing the on- frunting of the Japanese troops by fra thousand Russians was calculated to mis. lead those who did not understand the positions of the Korean and Russian frontiers.
That it is quite possible a Russian Corpe of i stservation may have been placed on the Passiette tide of the River Taman (ie., the Korean-Russian boundary on the N. E.), but there was no need for any con fronting, unless serious international mis. ebief was meant, which seems impro- hable.
As one of the Star launches was That I see you have given, from reliable source, the latest and most correct version of the Yalot naval battle, about which we have heard so muck. That there seems to have been no lack of bravery on the part of the Chinese in this angazement, but there was the usual enperiority on the part of the Japaness in the manovring of their ships. That the advantage in weight possessed by the Chinese ships was thus neutralised, and the balance of vistory was largely on the side of the Japanese,
and was in imminent danger of being crush- ed to death between the launch and ite wharf. Lieut.-Colonel Jarrard, D.AA.G., and My 8. L. Darby, of the Bank of Obina, Japan and Straits, the only two Europea passengers on board, sprang to the man's Mr Darby was successful in assistance. getting hold of him, and by the arrowest of chances managed to drag the man on board Another second's delay would have coat the coolie his life. Ele seamed to resent the somewhat rough-and-tumble fashion in which he was hauled into safety,
and instead of thanking his rescuer stood gasing at his hat and jacket which were lost in the wild scramble to get on board. Mr Darby certainly deserves to be come mended for his opportuna rescue.
The Health and Vigour of an individual de- pend upon the quantity and quality of the Bloed. When the tissues have been at work, there are thrown into the blood. waste products, and it them be not eliminated but (through toy cake) delained in the' bloed they intgenes sutrition and fumation and finally produes organis dis ease.The Humanitarian. In case of Scro- Tule, Scurry, Ecreen, Bad Lege, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples and Sores of all kinds, the eRoots of Clarks's Blood Mixture are marvellous, Thousands of wonderful curen have been effected by it. Chorke's Blood Mixtura is sold every. where, ut tu, id per bottle. Beware of worth, malai lalpullness.
That the truth of this is now placed beyond question by the details given of the damage caused to the Japanese vergals, and by the clear evidence which has been forthcoming.
That the Japanese are discreetly silent un- til they have something definite to tell, and thin, to my mind, is merely a part of their admicable organisation, ple That the question anexerybody's lips is now, Where shall we hear of them next and I dare say this query will be wor 'swered within the next few days.
1
That there to a feeling abroad something very decisive will happen before the 3rd
saying.
That what has frequently boen said in this enluma of Lady Robinson showed she was a lady who did honour to the position she held, and ber many public appear ances and addresses at cbaritable and educational institutions gate abundant proof that the Colony of Hongkong ha lost a warm-hearted friend.
I
That domestic sorrow in a sacred thing, and
abrink from saying more than this, that
HOW THE AIR IN POLLUTED,
So far as our thoroughfares and sewerage service are concerned, litle is left to bi desired, but great reforms are awaiting in the housing of our teeming population."
NEWCHWANG. The following is Massa Bandinel Co.'s circular:-
Nowchwang, 3rd October,
Lauch
way
LORD DUNMOKE'S WINTER WALL, The crossing of the Bebring straits on the ice, which the Earl of Dunmore and Mr. Benjamin Lavigne are to sttempt next winter, shibough apparently an adventure for amusement rather than a scientific quest, will yet have a many-sided interest. The comparatively narrow waterway that separates Asia and America near the Arctic circle has often been studied, at least on with a viow to its prespective the maps, neos for communication between the two continents, and long ago,
before the pro- blem of enbarine cables had become as simple of saintinn as it is to-day, there was project for a land telegraph through British Columbia and Alasks, resing there to Siberis. It is no longer thought of, apparently.
Van Demmit tells me he spends all his me between New York and Paris,” “Yes. Ho lives in Jersey."
EXPORT CARGOES.
Par P. & O... Siam, sailed 11th Oct. →For London, 5 cases Cigars, 240 bales Waste Silk, 200 balos Pieroed Cocoons, 866 boxer Ten, and 2 ore Silk Piece Goods: for France, 180 balen Raw Silk, 2 cases Bilk Picos Goods, 160 baltu Iwak Tobacco, from Manila; for Milan, 45 hales Raw Silk
VISITORS AT HOTELS.
MOUNT AUSTIN HOTEL.
Die F. H. Bell Me Chantrey Inchbald Mr II. E. Borohal! Mr C. Malsch Mr Hart Back Mr A. C. Marshall Dr. and Mrs J. On-Mr & Mrs McCalla
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snd child Mr T. P. Cochrane Mr H. E. Mogerink Mr & Cumming Mr J. B. Coughtriu Mr F. Mr. A. Durler
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te 8pty Madamo Huset and Capt. A. Tillett
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Mi H. E. Tonkina
Mr and Mrs H. Hun-Mr and Mrs A. K. phreys & 3 children Travers and child
3 childron
Mr J. V. V. Varner Mrs Kretzschmar endMrs Tofno
Another project that has often been con. sidered is that of bridging Bebring strait, and so constructing a railroad serose it.
interested in studying this enterpries. He x-Gov. Gilpin, of Colorado, used to be inter sousidered that the valleys and plateaus of doe the Rocky Mountaine could be followed by line of railway up the strait Estimating
PEAK HOTEL midway Mr M. G. Allən Mr G, H, Modhurst These extend in Mr J. A. E. ObandetCapt. and Mrs Moore this last as di miles wide at the point to be crossed, it would be broken nearly
Mr F. Morony by the Droweds islands.
Me Cordins Nielsen each a way that practically the problem Miss Coe would be further reduced to two bridges of Me H. Crombie
little over 20 miles each on either side. Mr H. L. Dalrymple Mr Sandelands Still, a 20 mile bridge over water is no Mes H. I child's p
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's play, even in these days of triumph. Mr R. P. Dipper and Mrs A. Find»
ant engineering. But ho believed that a Mr J. P. Dowling depth of not more than 40 fest could not be Mr D. Farquhara and relied on with solid bottom. Besides, a Mr W. S. Harrison
worm current from the
south passing the Goo. Holmes through the channel and corresponding Mra Geo. Holma in some measure to the Gulf Stream of the Mr Morton Jones
One last report was dated the 11th Sep-Atlantia, keeps the strait, he held, always Mr J. B. MacrAS
means, and is palla population. Here. I tember, sineo when bariness, both import | ron, andidaberge unknown there,
The atmosphere of the town and dwel linga is defiled by the emanations of patre- scent matter, by respiration, and other in propor tion to the density of the than, comes a divided responsibility; the individual can, # no minded, prevent the Erst form of pallation, but the stats only
(as the Post bath it) she was 'allured to can remedy overcrowding- The state can, and must, intervans even before the peo brighter worlds, and led the way.'
ple are taught why such measures "sre
complains of the Government action in That I see your morning contemporary inken.
giving a cadet an appointment in face of
of trouble up country.
and export, has been hampered by the four
New Beans are coming in to the extent of about 600 picals daily, quality said to be good.
It will be observed, therefore, that the theory on which this enthusiastic projector proceeded would be fatal, if correct, to the Bat andoubtedly oing trip over the ice. in speaking of the strait as always open ex-Governor Gilpin may have used the Stocks and quotations are:- Beascakes term in only a relative rekao. It was open por 10 piones Tis. 3.40, Bork 4.500 pieces no
enough, he thought, to insure the safety of Bean Oil por pisul Tle. 3.50, Stock 48,000 bridges. Exholly to what extent it is baskets. Oil Beans per 8 piculs Tia 3.10, open the proposed journey may determine, Stock 100,000 pionls.
and thus after all it may have a cerkain Tonnage is wanted for Amoy and Can- practical valge. If people canuçi go norosa tou. We hear of several regular linors in boats and maintain a ferry it somURST, perhaps they will be all the mere sure of duration of life being chartered for Swalow.
51 years
being able to travel between the continents an sledges in winter. Then in our time ay done the question whether there will be enough adventurone persons, or person who bare au uncontrollable horror of gen sickness, to support a great northwestern railroad to the Old World.
Perhaps it is not sufficiently appreciated that bealth and longevity in a city are di- rectly affected by the number of persons occupying the ground. This table gives an
first Persors to the acce Mean
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the Retrenchment Commission-
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Stocks of cost both here and in Chefso being exhausted it will bo noccesary for teamers to carry enough goal for their voyage both waye.
Arrivals to dabe are 269 steamers and 36 Bail against 244 steam and 29 mail last year, Fesechs in port Fake, Singun, Tamarind,
That they have to be paid whether they
hare a post or not, and it is useless to and it like manner it can be shown that Wong, Chintang, Mary Steward and
the death rate increases or diminishes in Baluto, attack the local Government for the proportion to the density of the population. over-upply.
DROWNIE.
Yon the past quarter of a century there had been one continuous few of letters bearind testimony to the truly wonderful cures affectes by Garks's World-famed Bised Mixture, the neat Blood Purifier that science and medicat skill have brought to light Saterers from Borofula, Scurry, Eczema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases, Pimples and Sams of any kind, are sellelted to give it a trial te tea ita value. Bold everywhere, at 25. 9d, por bottle. Beware of worthless Imitations and Substitutes.
The following sosis was prepared by Dr Gairdner, and evadusively establishes the connection between congestion and disease,
TEACHER-What is the nearest ap-
Alaska.'
and Dr Fart has farther determined that pronoh to nihilism in America? Tommy the death rate in England varies as the 19th root of the density of the population. Fop. per. Bulls kives - Deaths per 1,000 por ann.
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Ta lady wituana had become quite picturesque fa her testimony, and the attorney had called her down in a way that mado ber mad all over. Confine yoursal! to facts, if you please, madam," he said in conclusion. Very well,' she replied tartly: 'you are no gentleman. How does that Birike you?
In Hongkong we bare about 8,000 per sons per square mile. It would be highly In the blood is diseased the body is dis
satisfactory to be able to compare these cased.Remember that the blood, whether pare statistics with our local figarer, but anfor- is or inspan, alrealates through organs of the human body Lange, Head, Stomach, Kidner, tunately we cannot do this with any degree of November, the date of the Mikado's disease of its course. In cases of Beru- in any case the conditions of Hongkong Brak. Kit is laden with poisonous matter of exactitude for look of sufficient clata and fas, Bearry, Eazams, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood as of so abnormal a nature that a comp birthday, three works hence,
Diseases, Pimples, ad Boros of all kinds the rison would be usoloss.
That, as to intervention by outside Powers of Clarke's Blood Mixture are marvellous,
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HONGKONG REGISTER.
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I hear he acquired enough Raia young man. money by writing to pay for his education *t college. Ho-Yes; writing home to his parents.
Chaske's World-saleen Braan Mexroni 'The most searching Blood Cleanser that selenos and medical skill have brought to light. But farers from Sofain, Sourvy, Kanama, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Dianam, Pimples, and Sores of any kind are solicited to give it a trial to test ita valaw. Thousands of wonderful cures have been octed by it. Sold everywhere at 28, 91, par **FOR THE BLOCD is rec. Lare?—If the blood bottle. Bewan of worthless imitations and sub-
laden with impurities trends disease statutes.
Clarke's Work-famed Blood Mixture is war-. sizeulates through the organs of the human ranted to dissue the blood from all impurities body-Langa, Heart, Stomach, Kidneys, Brain,
Eghart open air tempestors on the 1930 Lowest coma sir tummperature on the 13th
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Hongkong Observatory, Oct. 18, 1884
Temperature.
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FOR TEE BLOOD 16 THE 'Clarke's THYEMONSTER World fused Blood Mixture is warranted 24 from whatever cause arising For Scrofula, deanss the blood from all impurities from what Scurry, Kasema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood ever cause arising. For Sorofula, Sour Diseases, Pimples, and Bores of all kinds ite Bezema, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood Diseases.. 530 effects are marvelins. Thousands of wonderte Pimples, and Bars of all kinds, its effects are ores have been afected by it. Soldererywhere marvellous. Thenands of wonderful cures have ai 21. 90. Beware of worthless imitations and ) boen effected by it. Bold everywhere at 28, 9. ogkattintos,
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In Hasland anch action is often talked abous long Thousands of wonderful cars have been affected sin santo worgen an 2,000 1,0
by it. Clarke's Blood Mixture in sold every Births ju destina
Te London before is takes place, and it depends upon here at 25. 94. par bottle. Beware of worth The population per acre
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