TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1897,
YESTERDAYA Chinese buy, about twetre years of age, fell off a tree at Shaktʊnglevi and received serious injuries. He wa removed to the Tang Wa Hospital and. attended to, but died this morning about one o'clock.
THE RECORD REIGN CELEBRA- TIONS
THE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COMMITTEE,
The programme of general celebrations in commsinoration of this completion of the sixtieth year of the reign of Her Most Cradious Majesty the Queon has just been Lat night we announced that Mr J. W.issued by the Committee. The celebrations Jamieson of the British Consular staff at will be commenced on Sunday next with Clinton, had been appointed to Wuchowfu. the commemoration service in St. John's To-day the Secretary of the Hongkong | Cathedral. A plan will be printed show. General Chamber of Commerce sends using the allocation of the seats in the copy of a letter from Mr Byron Brehan,church, and particulars of the order of the British Consul at Canton, to the effect procession will also be printed. On Tues. that Mr Jamieson has gone to Wuchowday, 23rd June, the Council will incet at for the purpose of witablishing a British | ten o'clock to send the congratulatory telö Consular office at that port.
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The special correspondent of El Comercio in Hongkong writes to his paper in the following terms about the sale of Mount
Austin Hotel-Two days ago a contract was signed between the owners of the beau- tiful Mount Austin Hotel and the Military Authorities, selling to the uter for
the roodest Bun of £20,000 this celebrated property on Vistoria Peak
It
is officially announced that the Military Authorities intended to convert their so-
The
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE SALE OF MOUNT AUSTIN
HOTEL.
THE PETITION TO THE GOVERNOR. The following a copy of the petition which has boon presented to HE the
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married the younger daughter of Burk Cowley, the result of the union being a son, for whom the Prince of Wales stood A PANT, ATLANTIO. PASSAGE. |
sponsor, and two daughtera. Queenstown, May 14.The Canard Jane
Dublin, May 16 The Right Hon. stowship Inconia Captain McKay, which Charles Robert Barry, Lord Justics of left New York May 8th, arrived here at į
Solleitor-General for Ireland, conducted days, fourteen hours and fifty-four minutes the Fenisu prosecution of 1868, in dead.
the The following is
official pro. утятие: -
SUNDAY, 20th Furie, 10.48 .-Committee to meet in the Council Chamber and in company with H. E. the Governor, H. E. the Major General Commanding, Hie Honour the Governor with rethrones to the purchase | darablo loss of publia income, as the taxes 7.14 a.m. to-day, after a passage of A Appeal for Ireland. since 1889, who, as Member of the Executive Council, of the Mount Austin Hotel w the Military thousands of dollars per annum, will be during which she steamed 32,859 krota and He was born in 1825.
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Mooting of the Executiverad
Authoribios →→
TERRIBLE BALLWAY DISANTER.
Bt. Petersbury, May 18.-Tho 'Marquis Mat di Boglio, the Italian Eusbandor to St. Petersbury, May 14.-A terrible rail-Russia, is dead
Paris, May 16.-Mms, de Taume and way disaster befell a military train last her daughter have succumbed to the injur evening between Bookenhoff and Elies, onies they received at the charity lieser fing. smashed. Two officers and nearly 100 tho Valki Jurjev line. Sixteen cars were soldiers were killed and sixty others were seriously injured,
Military occupation of a place of large public resort at the Peak, an undesirable chuck will he placed upon the develop. ment and progròss of the high level lifa of the Colony
24. In conclusion we would point out that the loss of the Hotel entails a consi- veral Chief Justice, the Commodore, the
on the property, amounting to His Honour the Paisne Judge and the
We would made the best time on record, 21.60 knots lost to the Colonial Revenue.
an hour. Mombers of the Legislative Cound to MAY IT FLEASE. YOUR EXULLERNCE, also beg leave to most respectfully urge repair in a body to the Cathedral.
1W, the padraigued Residents in that inasmuch as the ratepayere of the Colo TUERDAY. 22nd June.
Hongkong, desire to address Your Ex-ny have bean called upon to contribute callaney on the subject of the Regulation of one-third of the cost of the expenditure of the Mount Austin Hotel by the War the Military Authorities upon barracks, Legislativo Councils for the perpose of sending a congratulatory mess- Department for the purpose of Barracks. some sensideration should fairly and reason age to Her Must Grackous Majesty the W regard this purchase on the part of the ably be shows to the wishes and appeal of
War Departinent as. sarions blow to the the civil portion of the community,
25. We therefore, pray Your Excellency .11 A.M. Reception at Government welfare of the Ruropean civil population
reading in the Colony and to the to intervene in our behalf with the War 540 P.General Review at the Happy bees-interest of the Colony itself, and we Department and to lay before the Military would respectfully state that to opening up Authorities the objections which we have Valley Forces to be followed by open air musical performance concluding with of securing a fuller consideration of the the Mount Austin Hotel fato Barracks, and to ask them whether they would be wiling 'God Save the Queen by the whole case from all points of view.
2 We applaud and heartily agree with to sell the building to a Public Compway assembly. 9 r..--Fireworks and General Illumina the intention of the War Department to which would continuo to manage it as an
tions, including a procession of illu give cool quaiters to che troops, bat we at Hota; and if so, wo give a respits of one der advisement until this afternoon, wheu of the levee the Pritika and Princess drove
for a further consideration of the site it month to the Colonista wharein to en- appears to us that it is possible to select deavour to raise the capital neccesary for others more likely to secury the general such purobaso, comfort of the whole community.
Qacon.
House. Presentation of Addressos,
*TUB JERSKY ZILY'S' DIVORCE.. Lakeport, May 13-Lily Langry, the English actress, was to-day gusted a
of the Naval and Military this matter we do so merely with the desire sketched above against the conversion of divorce by Judge Crump of this city... The ¦
minated boate and launches.
gram to the Queen. At cloven o'clock a reception will be held at overnment House, when the addressos will be pre- sented by the Jubilee Committee and the Freemasons of the Volong. genom address has been signed by 860 European signatures and about 400 Chi noso. A on the occasion of the celebra- tion of the completion of the fiftieth year of Her Majesty's reign, the Chinese com munity are to present .. the Governor with commemorative tablet which will be hung in Government Houso. We under stand that it is also the intentier of the Chinoge to present the Colonial Secretary. and Registrar General with a similar tablete laid by H E. the Governor. to that presented the previous jubiles Occasion
Twenty minutes to six o'clock in the after-
matshed
10 A. St. to 6PM. Exhibition of Chinese
Curios at the City Hall. Chinese Flower Show at throughout
the day. West Point.
WEDNESHAY, 23rd June." 10a.m.-Foundation stone of the Victoria
Hospital for Women and Chikisen to
3. The Peak may now bs mid to be the summer resort of a large proportion of the European and American civil community, and it is boooming more and more the place
of residence of suela parties of the colit munity throughout the ent year, and it 11AM-Subscriber to the Jubilee Band is especially sought after as a place of ro- sidence by those who hardwires and invited to embark on board the 8.8. Leungshan (kindly lent by the long-faculis the Cluny, the cooler at- kung, Canton and Macao Steamboat mesphere being found to be very beneficial Company) from the Hongkong and to women and children. Kowloon Wharf and Godown Cam- 4. Moreover the pressure of the Chinesa asnt at the Inging by H. E. the Governor, of the Stone to coumeno cate the commencement of the Victorin Road, returning at 1.15 p.m. to Menara Butterfield and Swire's Canton steamer wharf.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
[SUPPLIED TO THE 'CHINA MAIL."]
case came up for trial in the Superior Court this morning. Mra Langtry's case was presented by Attorney Henry C. McPike of San Francisco. Upon depositione taken in Londos Judge Crump took the case un-
the he granted the divorce. There was no op position and nothing sensational in case. The divorce was asked for on the grounds of desertion and failure to pra vido.
MABUEIGNERS OF HALISBURY ILE + London, May 18. The St James Gazeție says: The Marchioness of Balisbury under- went an operation on Saturday A. semi- official contradiction of rumor that her. condition was serious was given out.
-LEVEE ÁT ST. JAMES PALACE. London, May 17.-The Prince of Wales held a loves at St. Jamas palace to-day in behalf of the Queen, The weather wY brilliant, and there was an unusurily large attendance of Ministers and members of the diplomatic corps. At the
conclusion to the Imperiat fustitute and opened the yachting and fisheries exhibition.
EMPEROR WILLIAM AT THE PLAY,
Wiesbaden, May 16.-Emperor William and the Empress were prasent to-night at the production of Lauf's play, The Burg graf, for which, it is said, the Emperor designed the acquiry.
the RUSSIAN MINISTER DESKUNK,
A report was circulated some tias ago that on securing her freedom Mis Langtry would marry young Sir Robert Pael, LONDON, 13th June, 1897. who has been one of her followers and
amirers for a number of
Yours.
London, May 10.-A dispatch to Es EARTHQUAKE AT CALCUTTA,
Mrs. Langiry is now about 43 years old. Times from St. Petersburg, mys Count Au earthquake occurred at Calcutta on When she was 20 she was married to General Valentsoff Dashket Minister of Saturday. The shock lasted five minutes, Edward Laurtry, who is an Irish the Imperial House and fuperial Domains, of small means, at the home of hur
has resigned. and nearly every house is daniagoć, many father, the Bov. W. C. La Breton, dean She went to of the Isle of Jersey.
Buenos:
нет
ARGENTINE IN A BAD WAY.
an extremely difficult que. ars ravaging the interior provinces.
TURKIBU ATROCITIES.
pany's Wharf at Want Point to be pan-¡ population in Victoria is such that year by being in ruins. The spires of the cathon, where her beauty won for her situation here is 15The commercial. year the Europeau populition is being drals, and churches fell several natives the highest social honora. The Princo Failures are eported daily, and the locusts stendily pushed further up on to higher were killed and many injured,❤ levels. Chinese have already reached the Chine Road, which ton years ago was ex- clusively inhabited by Europeans and Americans, and it is ovident that within comparatively short space of time the Peak will become almost. the sole place of residence for the European and American population in de Galic
4 P.Jubileo Gymkhana at the Happy
Valley.
9. Illuminations and Firewcras 10a.x. to B ..--Exhibition of Chinese
Curios at the City Hall. Chinese Flower Show at
West Point.
throughout the day. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong. 9th June, 1897.
HER MAJESTY'S RECORD *REIGN.
For the Celebration of the Sixtieth
tizim
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a
res available for building sites at the Pask is extremely limited, and if, has been rumoured, it is the fention of the Military Authorities to buy ether sites between the Mount Austin Hotel and Victoria Peak for officer's quarters and for other
purposes, the residential area of the civil community will be still further dimi. nished.
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6. The loss, therefore, to the civil An-population of an Hotel situated on one of the finest aites on the Peak and containing curtailment of the residential accommoda-
too limited.
$55,282.84
300, 100.
20.
50.
26.
20.
16.
20.
tion on the high levels which is already
THE PL GUE... --- The plague has appeared at Jeddah.
FRANCE AND RUSSIA. The Times Paris correspondent states that a definitive alliance will be signed during President Fauro's visit to St. Pe- tersburg.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT FAURE.
A man fired at President Faure yester day whilst he was approaching the race,
The President was not hurt.
Course.
(El Comercio.) THE PHILIPPINES LOAN.
Madrid, May 27. The Congress has approved the bill to 7. This deprivation the community would also be a loss to places such as Surga-rule the loan for the Philippine and on Saturday the Senate will also give its pore, Saigon, Touquin, Manila, Cantou
sanction. China, as d other of the treaty ports the Mount Austin Hotel is much used as a health resort by Europeans from those places, who are attracted to this Colony by ite existence.
PROVINCIAL DISTINCTIONS.
May 29. It has benu decided to confer on the provinces of Iloilo and Batangas, the title
8. The Peak, as it exists at present, is of Muy leal (very loyal) and on the
nd.
Manchester May 18. —The Guardian tor day publishes a dispatch, front special correspondent with the Gresks, which says: Everything they had in the appalling.
The destitution of the Greeks in Epiras is world has bous burned or pillaged. The
of
Wales and the ultra-fashionable net approved of her, and socially she was ફ્ sticeoss from that moment. Ble needed more mouey finally to gratify social ambition. The stogo was suggested and fashionable London, which had bowed before the beautiful woman, made her theatrical venture a monetary success from the first. Famous painters legged her to sit for them, and she did. The world tals. scenes in their flight were dreadful. Young ed of her classical head and her poortens girls flang themselves from the houses to escapo outrage. A boy who was captured· Haymarket the peek. She appeared first at
She Stoops to Conquer, in 1881. Lon by the Turke had his lips, nose and care cut off and his eyes torn out before he was don bought the seats at 820 opiece. She killed. might have married a corumet had she not
AVRENCE EXPEDITION HAS A BIG DATILE, known been the wife of Edward Langtry
Brust (Guinea eosst), May 19.-An ex- to fame chiefly as Mrs Langtry's bushand.
pedition, presumably Frush as French London, May 17.-Edward Langtry was floors and men actively took part in it, neon yesterday and repeated what he had
captured and burned the town of Wa-Wa already said regarding hia, refusal to re-
in the Boussa country. One hundred cognize his wife's American divorce. So,
were killed zad 200 made prisoners. if she marrice in England and he has the
NEW OBRMAN, LAWA disposition, she can be prosecnted for Bertan, May 18. The Heichstag to-day bigamy. The first news of the divorce adopted the first and second readings of reached Langtry yesterday. He expressed
Radicals
Socialista, Anti-Semites and not the least surprise at the news, though the bill introduced on May 13th last by the he had heard of no proceedings from the Foles, which reads as follows; *German time he was served with the citation at his associations of any kind may combine with home, 9 Victoria square, Southampton. He each other, and any laws to the contrary Bays: I cannot for the life of me see how
are hereby repealed a divorce con do her one particle of good. If she has got it to get married again, so will undoubtedly be committing bigamy, for which the the Public Prosecutor could
England.
mer
May 10.The Reichstag to-day passed the emigration b. It becomes operative on April 1, 1898. The Reichstog also passed the oleomargarine bill, the võta bu- ing 188 to 101.
the outcome of many yeard of enterprise province of Pangasinan that of May noble order her arrest on touching sould be The emigration. bill provides that the
and hard work on the port of the civil y leal' (very nubio and loyal). population, who have developed it, alone
and unaided, at immenso trouble and ex- penso for the purpose of enjoying quietly, after the toils of the day are ores, private srl family life.
THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
Madrid, Jume 4.
pro-
Ma F. 5. A. Bourse, FL.G.S., of the British Consular Staff in China, Mr Harry Bell, of the Blackburn Chamber of Can merce, and Mr Chai, who ate as Secretary to the Blackburn Trade Commission, arriv. ed at Canton this morning by the Hong keng, Carton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s etamor Langking, frora the West River porta, which they bad reached from the Yangue by the worland route. Tho Com missinners are to he congratulated on har- ing the services of Mr Consul Bourne, who has had considerable experience as traveller in China and possesses a thorough noon has been fired for this review of the knowledge of the Chincus, their language, Narel and Military Forces at the Happy' chamoter and customs. Both in Forms Valley, and in order that the review may start promptly, H.E. the Governor has in- and at Cantor, Mr Bourne has proved him-timated his intention of being pupetokily in Committee therefore, re- self to be a most uble Consular official and his place. The he is very popular with foreigners and quest that the general public will be in their places long before the ting stated in the programme for the commencement of the review. The choral service will com manos at 6,3), the whole demonstra tion is timed to finish at 7:10. This will anable the public to leave early with out exposing the foress unnecessarily to the sun. Entrance to the enclosure on the occasion of the review and the gyn- khana next will be by tickets. which
be | may|
abtained
on application to the Hon. Sceretary of the Coministes. The Consuls ut f the various nationalities will also receive special invitations from the Committes. our advertise- As will be seen from mont colanos, the Isdies of Hongkong ars invited to attend. Largo matebede hare been erected to the right and left of the quisition into a hoepital, but it is well Grand Stand to accommodate about 1500 nigersary of the Reign of Het Most Graci-over seventy bed-rooms is a most serious
spectators, -and- portion of the known that this is simply fictitious. The nearest the entrance to the enclosure willous Majesty Queen Victoria, the Hon. abject of the purchase of this property in be reserved for the accommodation of about Treasurer bege to acknowledge with thanks the highest point of the inland from whence four hundred Chinore, The Grand Stand the receipt of the following contributions, will be occupied by the choir, and the com it is completely dominated, is to construct bined bands will he situated underneath. a strong fortress or the site now occupied A raised platform in front of the Grand Already acknowledged by the hatol, in order to defend the island Stand will provide accommodation for Commodore Holland and Officers EL E. the Governor and staff and the Com. of Her Majesty's ships and- from the rear, where at the present momitton. The Steward's Stand is to be re- Naval Establishmentsat Hong-
kong. ment it is completely defenceless. The served for children and anals, for whom
the Committer will provide refreshments. Daily Driver English have at last become slive to the The Jockey Cloh Stands will be occupied Fuckers- fuct that the numerous formidable fortifica- by the various Clubs in the Colony and G. H Wheeler... tions which defond the entrances to the private individuals who will disponen hns. J. R. Michael...
to their friends. Mosers Madur W. Danby... pitality to
for Chas. port of Hongkong and Kowloon, the im- and Farmer are making arrangements has. V. I
Lloyd... bortance of which they carefully conceal, refreshments to the general public. 41- Thomas A. Lloyd would be completely useless to defend the though the matsheds will not be made to P. Bokni
accommodate all the subscribers and their . H. Grace.. town, which, as before said, is catirely friends, still there will be abundant ream AF. unprotected in the rar, where there is not in the enclosure. The rails in front of the Dr Chalmers ora fort, nor even a badly. Grad Stand at the snce-course have been E. M. Knox
kuku komen. (aboumana, Family: Hitos ditah constructed guard ise to impede any over to enable the mandavas au mutants W to ...be executed, but those A. McK landing of an enemy, which is the more review
will be speedily restored for next Ph. Grimble gorious, as owing to the small size of the isny's gymkhans meeting. In the evening. P. Skertully Land the invading enemy would soon be in at nine o'clock, the Groworks display and L. F. de Carvalho possession of the heights commanding the illuminated procession will take place. The JM. E. de Carvalho tow. On this account they have decided Chinese fireworks will be displayed from a spond at West Point near the Flower Show to fortify Mount Austin Hotel, whoso im on the Reclamation, and also from another. 'portant strategic points the commission and excted ou lighters anchored off
Enclosures ats Paya Central.
being charged with studying the defences of erected for spectators all along the Prayn. Hongkong (whe terminated their work The now Hongtang Club will be opened, and members and friends will be able to some few months Inck) immediately die ew the display from these buildings, for the past few days by the great number of This community has been much excited
covered, with the result that a vote of ere while Commodore Holland and the officers rumours that five been in circulation since 12. Whatever rules and regulations may dit has been passed to carry mit au proof the Victor Emanuel have issues invit the commencent of the rebuilding of the be laid down, it sooms highly probable that attona to s a large number of their friends to Catholic cachedral, which was destroyed at a considerable amount of insanitary matter posod reforms and other new projects. view the spectacle from that rasul.
the time of the Massacre, and has been u will find its way into the reservoir, as for From 10 am to 6 pm. on both days ruins sinne. These rumours have been of
To many months in the year the troops will Tux laying of the telegraph cable between the exhibition of Chinese carios will be all kinds, some of them the nest atrocious, naturally roam over the bills and Talleys
WEATHER NOTICE. Japan and Formon was satisfactorily com-
Hall, and the Flower tha City picted on the 29th May.
open West Point, will be open on both out no serious notice was taken of them adjoining for both exorcise and recreation.
The following notice is issued from the Show, at
18. Such a
a danger d
does not, we submit, Observatory ;--
Langtey spoke freely of matters and men Hinimo, Ringer & Co., who leaves hore on days.
SUME
very rare articles are to be until Sunday last, when an incident calculat
ed to use the greatest disquiet cesurred. esiet in the case of the present Hotel, the
On the 15th at 11.20 . The barometer
with whom Mrs Langtry's name has been the fith inst en route for Chomulpa, where On that day two men were attacked by a residents of which are much fewer than the
has fallen generally, except in Japan. mors er less cannicuted. He knew of her be will join Mr W. G. Bennels in the frie's
present
of a valuable yachty of her having office at that port.-Nagaoks Enguress carporated coal companies Moji last ocnpoisseur as Mr Fung Ws Chuch, it killed, the charge against them being that
Well-known sport. A LARGE find of old coins which have lad quarter there, and are most of them on arcs and another depression has appeared received £25,000 from manth. Of this amount nearly 6,500 tour expected to be an unqualified succes. Mr they had stolen children to place under the want to foreign countries, and nearly 1p Ci-shan has been very active in making foundations of the new cathedral. Later spod diy below in the parauit of their in N. Chins. Pressure is also in defecting squiro for an assault he committed on
Various evocations.
ver the S. E part of the China Ses. her with his boot and of her now being hidden underground for over 2500 yeare .ince the time of the Times Kingdolus-- 69,000 tons were shipped to Tokyo and arrangements for the Flower Show and on during the same day another man was 14. If barracks, as is rumoured, are also Frost-moderate or fresh S. W. winds; sotively engaged in managing her stable of cther home porta-Nugaadi Erpress. fireworks..
was accidentally brought to light Fash On the accond day at ton o'clock accused of the same crime and was thrown to be constructed at High West. the danger mostly fair, but some showers.
some forty horses, racing under the name of Miz Jersey. He had seen her but ance west Elupoh, during a heavy downpour of month in the Ohushan district in north- THE second mats of the ship Golgotz is re- the ceremony of laying the found into the river by the excited people, and we refer to will be further augmented.
was drowned.
15. In this coansation it should be borne.
in fifteen years, though when crossing over These ported as having been missing since the ation abone of the Women and Girls'
murders have caused great excite-in mind that for Hill Residarts and many
to Jaresy to her home she had taken the rain. On the 4th of May a considerable 7th ist, and it is believed that he has Hospital, on a site adjoining the Govern
toamer at Sonthampton, within a very tract of land was washed off from a hill, fallen into the river and bears drowned.ment Civil Hospital will take place. The ment, and as the cathedral is to be conse who live to the West in Hongkong, the
short distatice of his home. Personally, and the landsly exposed the hidden trea Une of the Rosetta's lasent fremsets is also site is in the immediate vicinity of the crated on the anniversary of the masacre, Pok-to-lum reservoir forms tasit only water
he said, about his wife he did not new care sure. The villagers in the neighbourhood and is believed to have been drown. Nurses' quarters; Within the last few the natives affirm that there will be an- supply wald therefore respectfully urge | THE intention of extending the N. Y. K. a cont; she was out of his mind sa she was/ flocked to the spot to help themselves toit
other outbreak and that it will mark An- t. We have been in other day of sorrow to the foreigners. that all possible risk of contamination to Australian service to Adelaide has been out of his heart.
and the strange discovery was at ence tele- ey Daily News. Later informa-weeks activeaving of the stone. A
graphed to H.E. Chang Chib-tang, who or The constine body is aware of the serious
OSCAR WILDE RELEASED, they mate was found in the river, and that foul matshed has been created for the accent state mi, uzikird, and it is, reported that our water supply should te avoided.
17. As regards the Mount Austin Hotel, abandoned for the pramat, the cargo offer- or Hon. C. P. Chater, have sent for
London, May 18-To avoid probably de-dered the local officials to gather the coins ing boing very small. play muspected.ED. C. M.]
Chairman of Committee, will present the least possible to come here with
monstrations, Oscar Wilde, who, on May with all despatch. It is said that the delay. The excitement there is only one narrow road with the very steep gradient of abcat one in three. THE Wenchow correspondant of the Shang H. E. the Governor with a silver trowel arsong the people in at lover hest, and you leading to it, it will be arduous for soldiers Tax Russo-Chinese Bank of Peking was 120, 1885, was sentenced to two years' lin. quantity gathered, represent as many as; The tea cesson eponed here on 5th May, From the Henital the company will not be surprised to hear at any time be find their way up from the lower level formally opened on the 7th May. The prisonment at hard labor for immoral presoven million strings, and the coins are an Wet that there is more trouble. The consuls of Victoris on loot, and in the event of Russian Prinees, the Russian Charge locs, was not relansed from Reading Jail, usually large, resecabling in size those of The Viceroy have sent word to this authorities, bat so for indies of men being transported by the d'Affairs, the French Minister, and Belgian where he has served out his sentence; but the Haian-fang relgu (about 45 years sign) when the "steamship Panghi loft with the and yo on board the stoxinships I can learn no official steps have been train cars (which can only legally carry 40 | Ministers, besides a large number of Chi-was transferted last night to Helloway of the present dynasty. first cargis of new tens, amounting in all' to
charge of a Tactai, for the parum of the
· abɔut 1,900 piculs, most of which was con- Hennaghan-Kindly placed at the disposal taken to provoni an outbreak. The Viceroy 'passengers at a time) tãe, diabeation of the Loss officials, were prosent on the occasion, Prison, London, under a special arrange sending 300 strings, to, Paking under.
pod of the Commities of the Hongkong und destined to be transbippodef
has too many troops here, however, and ordinary traffic will be a serious inconsid & foreign band was also in attendance ment made by the Home Boerery to emperor. The wing bear on one side tho
was liberated 9 o'clock this signed to, porta, takow. Since then ton and Macão Strum boat Co-winch will his face would be too much damaged by venience to all ordinary peungers, who Mercury
morning. Contrary to expectations, there were no characters reign of the monarch four more shipments have taken place. steam down the Sulphur Channal, past an outbreak, for bin to allow any groat will thereby be deprived of the car service.
friends to meet him either at Iteading or at selected for Although alamiantly produced, this year's Konnedy Town to the sit
trouble-Shanghai D.F. Cor. -
18. We would also respectfully urge that Tax Local Secretary, the Rauk Australian Hollores. The prison fare seems to have and on the other (Szechnen) the orop is said by connoisseurs to be weak in lying the store showing the mantly
narrowness of the existing roads at the Gold Mining Compap Ltd Singapore,uited him, as he weighs quite fourteen east of the government that moned them. quality, as is evidenced by the low rates ment of the road round the island A
Peak does not lend itself to the free move has roosived the following telegraal hom pounds more than when he entered jail. Mercury ment of even.
Wikte has gone on to the suburbs of Lon- much inconvenience Tough cleaning up of Battery yielded don for a few week's rest, after which ho
5,809 oz., Anulgam. Estimated quantity
10.
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$ 65,050.83
TROUBLE IN TIENTSIN.
TREEE MEN KILLED,
Tientsin, 1st Juno.
The
Langtry observed that nothing uure absurd than a decreasing special permission of the Imperial Chan- nounced on the ground of desertion. was no desecter from their bed and board, cellor, with the agont of the Bundesrath, Her Majesty has heard to-day the opin-he said, where Mrs Laugire had been required for the transport of German ions of Martinez Campos and Pidal. Senor over the world with all sorts of follows. emigrants and this can only be obtained by
ing business in German territory. Sagesta is now at the Palace, having been Her last aliiones did not trouble him, he German subjects or German companies do- summoned by the Queen. It is helieved declaro, a bit, but be suaparted a certain Radicals opposed the bill on the ground no others will be summoned by the Queen, young sporting lord. Langtry in the warm that the now regulations would be used to realized to-morrow.
DISEASE IN INDIA. Langtry once. To es his exact wouis,
London, May 17. In the House of Sonor Sagasta, on leaving the palace,She sent me a check to North Wales for Lorda to-day discussion was resumed on told the press he had carefully studied the £5, about $20. I had been ten weeks in the motion of the Earl of Dunraven for state of affairs, and had placed his services the doctor's hands, but I immediately re-inquiry into the reports of the prevalence at the Queen's disposal
turned it. Speaking of his general treat of contagious disease among the soldier To-morrow Her Majesty will consult with ment of his wife, Langtry said I have the British army in India and the affect of Generals Blanco and Lopez-Dominguez.
for, the latrodyshem into the + fate in illo rrocived monay from Mr
9. It is the only place where such a con- dition is possible, and we submit with all due respect that no suficient reason oxista Ebay popular residential quarter of the Colony.
10. Wo would also beg leave to point out that, whereas the average stay of a Regiment here is something under three years, the ordinary members of the civil community are frequently obliged to remain from stenty-five to thirty years, sad in any
canea a lifetime.
11. We specially draw notice to the fact that for anma year past no new houses have been allowed to be constructed in the Puk- in-lum water shed area, and we submit that it is most undesirable that the settlement of 400 men just above the reservoir should
contemplated.
Later.
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Commencing
I
that
"The liberals are hopeful at a solution of with the she comes in for a should country. The Fart of Kimberley, thà
the crisis.
Madrid, June 6
Her Majesty has to-day consulted with Captains General Blanco and Lopez Dominguez, who advised her to change the military policy in Caba. The politics crisis will probably be solved to-morrow. Madrid, June 6. The Conservativa Ministry has again
taken office.
It is estimated that over 133,200 tons of an exuihition, and as the mob in the streets of the naliva city, and, number of dogs which it is proposed to Pressure, however, remains low in
coal passed through the joint oftica of the uro in the able bands of such e
tion states that the body of the wood progress for the
hai Daily Prose wrote on the 7th inst.:
modation
of spectators.
with which to lay the foundation stone.
"Tentine's Wharf, at
to
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that
PATENT Mom1a boxe, Violins (fine models) Mandolines, and Strings of all kinds, W. Robinson de Co
always treated her
& marriage settlement by it, should been disorders upon the population Idia frat,
Liberal leader, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Duke of Cambridge and Lord Playlais and some time ago, under an sanmad participated in the debate all admitting rame, thu visited my place and made most the existence of a torrible state of affairs. coaching inquiries into its working. She Finally st t
t the request of the Government, ought to have more sense than to think I Lord Dunraven withdrew his motion In was going out to California to answer order to allow a fair test to be made of summons that was simply waste paper, the new regulations prepared by Lord A woman of
of M
sge ought to hard George Hamilton. лого
Our only child, a
a daughter, was born in 1881. I was in America at the
I have property in the north of one!
NICOL
time haring heen seat out there on some NAGASAKI is about to lum- one of its most fool's mission, sud kept knocking about pupular junior foreign residents, in the person of Mr J. G. Grant, of Messre, Chicago and New York for three months.
your-roaders are no doubt aware, the foverher and the Committee will die the 29th May that the new graving doek) troops without crately large bodies of Raub, dated 4.20 p. 7th June p where they are used for blending, and areas will view the ceremony from the The Teilroad from Vladivostock but equally good apparently from a strate-struck reef in West crosscut Bukit Jalis. to Franco or Italy for a few months, but!
aboomer will re
tena sonding to tha focoign murta direted Ladies pro invited to attend, Font one of the knotso, isluâds on the after. 10 that they arʊ within easy reach are about to start for the West River
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at which all gradon charge hands the bamboo jetty has been erected at this point Our correspondant at Visdivostock (saya upset price roalized being only The 27 per and natshed at the site. Only the NC. Daily Netca) writes under diatomer picul
As
19. Sites, most of our tena, find surket it Hankow, omberk to perform the ceremony. The at that port which was began about seven to the ordinary passenger.
ago, will probably be finished this
not quite at such an altitude of stone crushed being 1,400 tone. Have will resume his literary works He may go
here at no late date. He has not otherwise manipulated, and eventually find steamer. Ou this occasion Mr J. H. Stewart month
Barometer stone is rich.Singapore Free Press.
whather he will write under a pseudonym Temperaturs their way abroad as Haskow teas. The Lockhart on hehalf of the Committee, to Habarafka, 796 verals, is expected to be sie point of view, and mors conveniently Gold plainig visible throughout quality of says his presett exactation is to retur deterioration in this yare growth is said will present His Excellency with the luisbed this autumn, Home 700 parte, aitusted for the purposes of exercise and
of over his own signature. He admite that Humidity to have been add chiefly through the towel and mailet to perform the ceremony about 420 miles, have been completed, and recreation on the part of the soldiers, can
THERE are always plenty of persons who he has several offers under maideration, Direction of satward.
so far SES
Wind nusually heavy rains which have prevailed, We are requested to state that the commit sons 10,000 men are employed on the be found along the chain of hills to the
movements are there having been holes, then ramy tee will be glad of the company of any
20 Mount Cameron, Carolina Kül, and are willing to leave their abiding place if a and says that, to view the daya, during the past five months Ascriber who wishes toRUTTOREntong on Chefoo correspondent of the NC, the slopes above Causeway Bay appear very half favourable change turns up for a pro:] concerned, he will coret neither motorisky. Foram napakeun.
sumed improvement (way the Shanghat nor oblivion. The Pall Mall Gazetka new depaura in the tes
-board the atoamar trade his been imgurated by a few enterprising tum in time for tilin. The prospecta for Unky News wrote on the 7th inst. You suitable sites for Harracks.
Sigback upon ála Pampuratiers us the Bath BIT Cantocese
se and Fukieu men, we engaged the Gymkhana meating in the afternoon will no doubt have learnt by telegram of 1. We would submit that the sites above Daily PrAt the present moment one of the first sots of Wilde on rogaining
their traps in Shanghai (we mean natives) story of his prison experiences. in fig tea in a gedown rented from are very bright, and some good sport is the loss of the Norwegian steamer Suban avggested are thore caftra ucre Gasy of there are fire a number who have packed his freedom was to refuse £1000 for the
TEATER OF DISTINISHED PERSONE
7. G, Brun, deling Dis Mesics Malemaps and Co., which they h
London May 18-Anne, Dowager Duck the 3rd of June. Thereof the Hippy Valioy and Causeway Bay
no doubt thinking that the ques sabgiribera can obtain tickets a moon of Thursday, ntad without the ister position of brokers at ring to the Han Seretary: In this was dense fog at the time, encountered the only were large enough for pidgin will be better in pastures now than ese of Athol widow of the sixth Duke, la Hongkong Observatory: June 15 1897
Ser display of
dead. She was #daughter of the lake of ion after leaving Newshwang, A Japanese military exercise in the Colony,
22. T'as time has muraly
come for they are in the Muriel Settlement. Shanghai Wo rid them radoves in their seaning there
esmer which was in company with the
Henry Home Drummond of Blair Drum- Governinink How venture. The aspect of the general fireworks
of the Queen's closest minant reformulate such Sudan narrowly mimed the same fate. The the Imperial Dow trade
capital earrived here in 3 pak od Satur comprehensive lumea will give AERAL Nakag, the Commander of the men and was one of the
give at Brigade of the garrison of Forces, has friends Henry Eimant Somerest fourth Ladislas done evening Logde ur adequate commodations to the troops ou been visited with the punishment known as
at Sound (helate wreck in the steam din station and this esty be partly obbet ishinanthest is, ordered to remain at home son of the Duke of Beaufort, te deadl Profcere mine situendi last night: The in Ake beslitics already refereed to, which tar dve days to refent apon his negligence He was born in 1853, and maried, in 1866
and are Giciently high p
to be spol and of dus in compeition with the recent the younger daughter of Sir Alexander sttack of rebels at Tulisteis Mr Hennigual Dale, Bar One con and his wife meriva the one hand.
Why Devetour of ipoh prefecture, hur bin Es W baca nodered to forego a portion of kin Heng Nomeres other in-bw Fa
the president of the Britan Mary la Aine. It was previously known
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