1
Biturday, Hurrákban 35, 1897;
Paivaston. Bosakovski's exhibition of the | Tun annual report of the Stewards of the black met? will be given in the City Hall to-night at 9 o'cloak..
Hongkong Jockey Club is a very short one. It states that the perminent Brick Stables and Private Stands were available
Desantuaria alarmingly prevalent in for the 1597 mooting, and provod a great
THE CHINA MAIL.
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the Glovemment seems to have beeri; exceedingly unfortunate in its advisere regarding the details of the Praya Reols- mation works.
STONE PIERS IN THE BARBOUR,
FERATION TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE
GOVERNOR.
We pulliah below the petition that has been prepared for signature and presenta
DOLES FROM A P. AND O. DECK> CHAIR.
BY AN OLD STAGER,
The route had at any time but a very perfunctory right to be called Overland,'
and passengers baggage. They started in TO QUIETUS" AND GO, Au aimless and indifferent manner, as if Their sorrow fill hardships bewailing only bent on a twilight stroll in the neigh-The unmusical world's been retailing tention of returning to supper. The whole Their screeds needed lots of curtailing. bourhood of the pyramids, with the in- Its fancy fad woes for some weeks; jourboy was perforrsed in a meandering They were far, very far from regaling sort of a way on the part of the camels
Buing mostly hysterical shrisku. #
•height!
Quite too too apparently failing. To settle pianoforte squeaks.
Takin, Numerous deaths are being rwoord-foonvenience; that Gymkhanas, ży in repent That years ago, when the drainage schemation to H. E. Sir William Robinson. We but with the completion of that ribbon of with an unmistakable air of bored was being dissed, the difficulties son. I have already dealt with the subject of stone water called the Suez Canal the title be-oking down from their superior
od daily; · Fresh casas of dysentery are also being reported from various place of Гарап.
rears, have brown held on the Race Course under the auspices of the Jockey Club; that the Race Course, Compound and Tus Postal authorities notify that from and bration at the Happy Valley on the ocoa- Stands wore lout for the Review and Cola-
after Friday, lat Uctober next, corresponsion of Her Majesty's Jubilee and for the dence for registration will be received for Gymkhans subsequently held in this con- all private ship maila up to fifteen minutes nection; and that the Course is in good
before the time for closing..
On Thursday morning a Chinaman was attacked by three men on the road near the Kowloon boundary, stabbed thrice in the abdomen and robbed of $42 odd. The wounded man wis taken to the Govern mont Civil Hospital. His injuries are not dangerous, and he is expected to recover soon. Three excias officers seen near the place on the noming of the assault and robbery were arrested, upon information supplied to the-peline According to the Gossiption given by the wounded man these appost to be the men who committed the outage. They were taken to the Civil Hospital to-day for identification.
LEE Coon, clerk in the employment of the Dairy Fan Company, Limited, was charged at the Magistracy, bo-day, with embezzling ming of 15 conte and 30 cents, the property of the Company, on the 23rd and 14th inst. respectively. He pleaded not guilty. Erid- anca was given by a milk-dealer in Waling- ton Road to the effect that on these dates he bought milk from the accused at the
order. The accounts show that 87,885 word spent in stakes and prizes at the an nual race inceting, and that there is debit balance with the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank of 127,688,54.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS,
(Suppldto to the 'Unixà Man:] ·
London, 23rd September, 1897. THE SILVER QUESTION,
B
At a meeting of the Banks belonging to the Clearing Hocse the policy of the Bank of England re silver was discussed, and it was decided to communicate with the Bank | of England about it. It is understood that
all objected to the now policy.
The Standard, in its money article, re greta that mistaken speculations are pre- vailing on the Bombay silver market, dwing to the sction of the Bank of Hightni,
3
LOSS OF A GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT.
A German torpedo boat has foundered, and the Commander, Duke Frederick of
nected with the Praya outlets were vestilated (not the drains, mark you). That, as is most commonly the case, these diflealties were ignarod, or passed over lightly, by the publks officers concerned,
fallypiors and pointed out the dangera and
bama” astinet. Neither of the terminal inconveniences thoir construction entails to
points are suggestive of the 'pleasures of trallic in the Harbour, and as the matter is one of urgent importance it is a duty adieu. Port Said is a damping ground memory when called upon to bid them equibeut on all concerned to attach their fer as much of the soun of the Lorant and | signatures to the petition in order that it
the Mediterranean generally as can find
with the results which are now so well known.
feoting and livelihood (dishonest from while Suez very faithfully represents all preforence) within its unsavoury precincts, ho vicos of the one piague-stricken Egypt, and Araby the Blost, combined with o large and flourishing graft of European
That the hopeless confict of authority upon may be presented to His Excellency at an the subject of public drainagens shown early date. It is not improbable that an by the Reclamation officers, the l'ublic official objection may be used to the Works Department, and the Sanitary Board officials has done one 'good turn' prayer of the petition on the ground that to the various public relies or officers the stones for some of the piere Aro already moncerned it has left the bungling in prepared and that expenditure has thereby position so deliciously indefinite na to been incurred, but it is surely better that delight the heart of follower in the this should be put down to the credit of iniquities.
Any role of our present Governor.
shortsighted oficials than that the publio be made a permanent source
a
Crossing the delta, or rather that portion
That it is long since most residenta gare up piors should aanger to the people using of it that gave to the route tho slander
the notion that the general good of the Colony
resulted from official action. Tart given a strong Governor who thinks to accept responsibility, and a reasonable the theory of our administration un doubtedly is the accomplishment of the greatest good.
of
of difficulty and them. At any rate, the stones might he
has
camels
Pierce. Straps
I've studied the phases of all the and carol
basia,
and acts for himself and is not afraid might be arched to make them ires obiec (oversand would have been fully as appro- Arriving at Suar lay down with Who wrote you so oft on the very poor amount of harmony in the departments, would be a satisfactory but think this priate), was rather a pleasant episode in
used elsewhere, or one or two of the piorar suased to be called overland tionable, although we petition is in the following terms:-
do
solution.
with an air of contempt and disgust upon their entire surroundings. These shipe of the desert which passal in the night, When wildly and madly suggesting rendered, more so by the many bleached Do they think that that sort of infesting moving, as Mr Norman says, as silently as A schemas not at all interesting,
white skeletons of their predecessors, who, A house, and its precincts investing dreau, formed a melancholy procession, Involving a breach of the law,
weary of lite, the way. A wayward catual | A dog, on some mat idly resting,
had laid down their burdens Ja asinine, vulgar, and rawr 1 and fallen by t would occasionally atmy from the path of
has been stated that of all the vast sums How despicably vulgar to battle, duty, but the delinquents must always
Might dream he'd a mission to okay. have
been retrie
retrieved somehow or other, sa of trosaurs transported in this rather casual By furnishing atter for tattle,
On daily routine way, none of it was ever lost beyond re-
of 'next door': ' covery-- fact which
Twould be better, far better, to ratila spoke volumes for £20 cxecutive of the Government Pianos, than vulgarly prattle when put in
diaspeared
On matters you cannot explore: from the passengers portmanteaux, bat Regarding as queer sort of cattle,
The folk who can understand "score." that though sunoying was only a venial offence, and mest likely the purloined feather went to augment the flashpots of sous poor half-starved fellahopa.
in restity cloaked a vast amount of internal an apparent air of calu resignation which irritation only temporarily held in shoyance until the fitting time arrived to give ex to their intenso disgust at the and at unbelievers audible augey grunts, and most palpable vere in particular, which al
was done in
In vory expectorations. The condition sangers was scarcely more amiable, and for and vory a filthy cutlet that has been thrust under
swallowed the larger posingle journey the Prays residents near the
of dirt which it is the lot of most that neck F. & O. office-involves all the disad
to mastiaste leisurely in the course vantages of
of the mixed, or muddled autho rity referred
entire life-time, they arrived so parched as That the lack of continuity in the Colonial
to be quite beyond the power of atterance,
In connection with the paragraph in our Service hero
and for that reason alone refraired from grumbling but they did the beat they could asue of Monday last that Galise More had sibility on all c
on all concerned, as the curse of the old drains are practically unknown,
unutlerable things. It has beep asid, mentee is the case was clearly demonstrated during the walk through the bazaar fully confirmed what truth it is scarcely known, that for who had received an offer of R28,000
cutta by some residents of Karunegala, this fact may remain health of the Colony for
moderate North-Easterly gale which pre-it. vailed on
1 on Friday, the 17th instant. Early in
the rest of their lives they all suffered half the ticket, or R50,000 for the whole,
from Lord William Beresford, we now more or less from this involuntary suppres sion of let us say-language of great that half the ticket has been disposed of for R30,000. Capt. Modder, C. V whe The railway, so far se passengers were Volunteer Camp for Kurunegala
has an interest in the ticket, left the
on S
That, on the other hand, when the strong, self-reliant Head is absent, and deart- ments are at eixes and at suvens, "it is to be regretted the public good does not result. That the
The the journey, and though not altogether devoid of some minor discoriforis Wa Hongkong, 25th Septeraber, 1897. G.C.M.G., Governor and Commander-lers, and rather enjoyed by the younger in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong. ones. The busts on the Nile, which car
EXCELLENCY, IT PLEASE You We, the
His Excellency Sir William Robinson.barne philosophically by the older trenerally,
MAY IT
of Steam-Jaune of Steam-ried ons towards Coiro, were usually over-
apparently common-place incident hina, Undersigned,
Residents crowded the sleeping accommodation was of Kowloon and others interested in the
of the
of the P. & O. drain-it is (or was) really Dock. Factories and the numerous indus- Tery limited, the weather nearly always decidedly limp. Having un a single j
the nosa
and
Of
to.
also throws
trial undertakings located there, and in the hot, at leant, in the day-time, the caterers welfare of this Colony, carnestly beg to call who provided the food seldom erred on Your Excellency's attention to the fact t that
the side of luxurios, and cold drinks wero experience has shown the Bolid masonry piers and jetties, in course of erection by unattainable. The Exet view of Cairo im. the Government on the line of the New
pressed the novice with the idea that he adapted for this Harbour,
$11
And I'd like to know much, where the
Of suffering much; sweet quiet place is, That's never disturbed by pianoforte rose,
Or crackers, and such; Where tanquility's charms, and doar,
Bweet angel-facen
Aro over in touch.
QUID NUNC.
THE ST. LEGER SWEEP IN CALCUTTA.
Colombo, Sept. a.
a grave respon Prays & trosion, to be had actually resched the Orient, and a under the painful circumstances by looking been drawn in the St Leger Sweep in "OL
Fears to come.
the the
i
town office of the Company. Mr W. H. Mecklenburg, and seven met were drowned. That it is perfectly natural the officers who afternoon it would have been impossible characters in The Arabian Nights,' and vigour.
Potta, Secretary, having given evidence with regard to the book entries, Dr Noble, che of the Directors, stated the suspicione of the management had been aroused some time ago, and that something like 1600 bottles.
culty had been to detect where the leakage occurred, and a watch had been set by the polics detectives with the result that these two transactions were brought to light. Accused has been in the service of the Company sincs 1993, and was always look eð upon as a most trustworthy servant. It was only during the past three months that spicion fell upon him. The accused made
GREECE AND THE PEACE PRELIMINARIES.
The excitement at Athens is increasing against the terms of peace. M. Marvief
has declared to the Greek Minister at St.
riders its mission ended, and any steps Greece may take will be at her own risk.
WEATHER NOTICE
The following notice is issued from the Observatory --
are thrown into such a position fors few years, not only do not know where they are, but are quite ignorant of where to go or how to turn.
That it
and
is
but, so far, I have seen no sign.
for a launch to
to approach the New Митаз
He was at once face to face with all the
Pier-the only one of these stone piers yet felt inclined to great them as old and well- completed-even on the leo side, while at
the
arrangements
old
bes
agents, and asked for R35,000.
pgenta
to those of an vilicial report which re- the scat against, no spray was of the Pharaohs The seed, merchant,petentate on a mission of supposed great contractor at Kurunogala; and Mr Modder
That
in such a case when the decision six o'clock, when the gue bad reached its known scquaintances requiring no introduc- concerned, wiped the came out of transat and on behalf of the Ivory forters of & strong-minded Hend of the full force, waves were breaking over the tion. All of them were there just as her existence, and was in turn superes declined the offer of R25,000 made by Lord Executive come 30, to put matters right; crowing up columns of water to the had pictured them to himself when he last naturally more expeditious, but was much half. The manta replied that shade:
ed by the Canal. The journey by rail was Beresford's of milk were unaccounted for. The di•] Petersburg that the Europeata Concert con- That it is simply an outrage on com non-ring the jetty absolutely inaccessible; legged in the front of their shops, supping the meandering jolty excursion on board maximum was R30,000, which was addorde
height of 20 feet, or more, the spray from laid down that book of endless delight to less interesting and devoid of incident than m which w
was carried far across the Prayz, the youthful mind, some sitting cross the sorse, not to
to speak of the grave respon. rendering
during this time, at the Canton and New lies as ancient sa the pyramids, others hawt at fret wore somewhat primitive. Oness Colombo this morning, and everything sibility of the health of a community big Pedder's wharees and the other open king their wares in the to the of train a
drawn by two persons, one M. C. Biegertis bathing machine. The
ingly accepted, and the
the money drawn at thst of Hongkong, to find great public work being conducted upon similar lines wooden piers which offer but little area for de dagerly trying to get to the windward of way to Meves had to be shunted to make
thoir arranged to satisfaction. The ticket w each other as did their progenitors in the
War for a Special conveying s
head overseer the way
of the P. W. cently tickled the risible faculties of the observable, faunches could, and did, days of
astern A
the other Caitan Fernandez, Government community.
proceed alongside them.
the water carrier. the fortune teller, the importance, probably in charge of a fresh be too much of the old school, Northerly breeze which blows during the may be
If it the
so happens that with every fresh vendor of figs, the blind beggar, Aladdin brand of Egyptian cigarettes for the Sul- has also an interest in it, but we have not but it was wont to be regarded as a for-
learnt of what his share consista-Times with his lamps, the cobbler ready to patch tan, or the latest thing in bloomers for ious matter to disregard & consensus of sels in the Harbour and with Kowloon has their shoes so conveniently loose that
N. E. Monsoon, communication with ves-
thebauchles of a slipshod people who wear the favourite wife of the moment.
i gr In Ceylon opinion, when the permanent conditions
their servile attention to the great of public health were concerned.
to be suspended an account of the inability can cast them with ease over Moab, were bawahan the railway oficials forgot
Calentta, Sept. 6. The following are the approximate valniss of launches and other craft to
in evidence,
Ali Baba and his forly to go alongside been resuscitated,
When found on
R32,000; and 3rd R16,000. kind of wharves or landing places mit during the recent blow certainly indicates easily-have-been-found-round the earner ward they had been relegated, then 320- able for the
the new Rochatation frontage, That the thing which will strike onlockors the shipping trade and the travelling public
Excellency, press upon
that not only yptian bonds most forcibly how public servants the misled, upon a matter which is a plain
anyone who knows the subjec
subject.
On the 25th at 11.20 a. The barometer has risen considerably in the North with high pressure covering N. China At Bo
they
about
a statement with reined to the sale of mills give way. Gradients for N.E winds, in i That another question has arisen, or rather the public jetties--as the experreace gained thieves were absent, their prototypes could the unfortunata purus for nearly of the St. Legar prizes:~1st R80,000; Sud-
at the depot, and Mr Wodehouse remanded the case till Tuesday next, fixing the bail at $500.
Is his weekly share circular, dated 28th inst, Mr Erich Georg writes :-' A very
linao pressure is normal, but inclined to
crossing in the N. part of the China Sea. Forecast-moderate to fresh N.E. winda)
fair.
WE UNDERSTAND (says the China Gazette) that the greater portion of the Hooley Jameson Loan to China will be paid over through the medium of the Hongkong and
28 Apr we would hate im in the shape of modern manipulatora city
the issue of events, in somewhat fervid
The journey was continued to Suez investitying, afished faith in Allah |
Innguage, their
was
is pro
are led, or misled, or permitted to be generally, but also the increasing interests ronveyances not unlike badly-contrived being great and these res
to
of the
of an
unlit 1 240 pro- |
THE COMING REVOLUTION IN
-THE NAVY.
BY ADMIRAL COLOME.
fair business has been done during the Shanghai Banking Corporation, about one- That would be interesting to know where seriously, and the inconvenience caused to heter a donkey, and perhaps taq and were no doubt happy in thinking that give paue to those who have recently a
lied
week under review, and a good many third of the sum, that which is to be ap- atogks, notably Hongkong and Shanghai the hands of the Imperial Chinese Dank. o railway construction passing through Dauks, Upoka, Chlum Sugar, Indo-Chinas is believed also that the Ka-Chines and Roube, show a substantial improve bank will have a fuger in the pie. The ment in cates. The rate on Shanghai ister of the loon is 50 years, after 10-years of which the Chinese will commence to pay TE. 74 for three days' sight private back the principal. paper. Writing of shipping stocks and particularly of the River steamers, ho says I hear that on the lat proximo a notice will be sent round to shippure, in- forming them that from the 1st Jandary next rates of fraight on the river will be raised to counterbalance the increased price of coal.' Of Raub mining stock, ko writes:--The demand for Raubs has con-
tinued and a large business has been done
ailed
substantiated nanous that Singapore had cause before red and draward.
fast Singapore bought at 210 to 890) and that Mr Bibby was negotiating for the male of a portion of the concession. Both the rumours look nathentic 'information and must be taken with a grast deal of reserve."
that he had been a
.
this Colony on the Mainland will suffer those were attached mixed teams of a nuest that the delay was of the important commercial offshoot of two-whcelled small fisthing ma
machines. То
phet. They had charseter, occasionally made
There is an article in the National Re the Public Works Committee of the
the Garrison
and residents of that suburb up of a mule, a
La Krapine of
ilway journey re for August which is well calculated to Legislative Council came in, or where it
will be most vexations.
wild untomed fiery steeds of the desert, the slight inconvenience to which they had sumed that we may rest content with our did not come in, with its advice spondents that as far back as 1874 it was decid-repeated joumeys to and from the trackless dit and enhance the value of the pilgrimage reviewed at Spithead. In Adiniral Colomb
It is within the memory of many rest with a good deal of the fire gone out, eft been subjected would redound to their cre- admirable navy, only a section of which was this question of
of public wharves, That it is unnecessary at this stage to de-
od tist solid masonry piers, in additions to desert exercising a wonderfully south they word engaged on and in which state DAVA Opinion more violent and farm nounce the erection of wharves made of being a of danger to the Pinya walling influence on even the reputed in of beatific happiness we may well leave of solid stone, because the operation world itself, were unsuitable for the Harbour,
petuos Amb steed whose be too like breaking a dy upon a whesi; and all the solid stone wharves, which were just sing in
tions
in 1846.
lished.
on
Oriental heat them at rest.
with A
& Bonly.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
wo are drawing close to s revulsion
reaching that gay we have
This
yet seen. revolution, he anticipates, will be caused enkelly by caval citloors realising the fact that
the torpedo-vessela render it practicall
ssible for them to work togather with
Tho
y by ordinary speed of the
we are confronted :-
It follows that if we have two hostiln
T
short range with
modes of disposing of real estate adopted age and other offensivoing a heavy that number the occupants if fairly stout hands for saveral days, I propose that as greatlar instinct on this actor 38: Tiflə of that year, advertised a lottery of au ratepayers, and, as has ging on the wore so sartlined 'that the danger of ra thing of especial interest for me to renowrk9ozsirector at Whitehall, and the ga
expenditure for
+ Pata
ers,
that the
Wellington and Peel Streets, 8380 ious to the Public health. By substituting gentlemen, who were with much difficulty Altogether thors has been a steady business lagim down four now band TYNDE
מחפם
Aniteness in this kind of lottery than in the wes to fine through freely, the gurday, and were unloaded in Suez 1 pleased to again come before you with red of lamb'e theory is We understand that the members of the may, ronteran the Lahore paper, why the That I hear the arrangements for the pro- venta any objectionable deposits forming identification rendered impossible. nay mention that since the date of the
oreate a natural scour which effectually prs. :D the concrets piece of humanity, and Bults that we trust will be regarded as satissina, between monster battle-ships and
Before
but it is advisable to discover upon in any way interfered with daring the The ba nous baffled all description AD The writer of a letter to the Fajan Gurdite whose advice the Murray Pior has been reconstruction of the Frays wall after the apparently consisted of everything that staten: Before leaving Port Said (by tho
built, and what check was brought to removed. We have it
memorable typhoon of that year, were harness is usually not mede Kanagawa Mara) it was unfortunately
of-probably reliable authority, bear upon this useless expenditure of
rupes of sand, the material so close at hand, Hospital one of our first-class passengers, That found necessary to leave in the British
public funds.
that the Hon. J. H. Price, the then Sar
in its construction. These an Cornishman named Hart, who had for a
learn the shipping and other sec-ayor General, who during a long experience piseton-lite teema were controlled, from Steamship Co., Limited, was held in the battle
The annual general meeting of the Douglases. He thus states the dilemim & little more than a
sof the community are taking steps of typhoons and heart galas had acquired a the roof, by the guiding hands of sable Company's Offices, Praya Ceutral, to-day, JOLT been opgegod in
to petition the Governor on this matter, special knowledge of the subject, was so Nubians of so dark a bus that their pre- Mr J. H. Lewis presided, and there were mining in Siam and was on his way home.
mixed deeta of battle-ships and torpado He juined the Kanagata
and it is to be hoped the common-firmly con ten of the undesirability of sence added darkness even to an Egyptian se present. Hen. J. J. Boll-Irving, vessela. Mary at pore, and shortly after we left Penang he t Singa-
sense of the Executive, when specially solid atane wiarys for this Harbour shot tock shelter behind a big bucroues which, W. Parfitt, (Secretary), G. G. Cǝz. their torpedoes. If they choose the formats
larves that night, against the coldness of which they
Mesars D. Gubbay (Consulting Committee), ala, they must either work for Jorig called into play, may have the effect of was found to be seriously ill. It seems he putting things right.
like the Baptist's single garment, was made Giles, J. R. Mishse), W. Bailey, J. H. had actually booked bis passage by the ill-That the Government seems to have landed Besides acting as breakwaters, over which of canula hair. During the day an Cox, W. H. Gaskell, Paul Jurdan, Wthe torpedo-vessels are no use if they fated but was so
she when
the waves wash and so render useless in olongated night-gown, worn with
Farlane, Apcar, A. G. Robson, Chun Tong, rogation, a danger, and an element of een- choose the latter they are a work of supere. in this stock at $15 to $223, the market from Singap and Colombs he became That as z
that h
itself in a somewhat elaborated muddlestormy weather, these solid wharves-as what prodish air, was though a sufficient and F. W.'Hall left W25 behind.
a recent abortive land sale. flowing firm with further buyers at $21); Betweets Between
els Pens and in a conversation
That as a means towards avoiding similar was proved in the case of the old masonry covering to pay the sun's rays, however!
Mr Parts road the notice calling the
freton. the cause for this boom has been the un-with a follow
despondent,
complications in the future, it might be jetties removed in 1874 obstruct the strong. The Egyptian Administration
meeting
If Admiral Colomb is right, the day of passenger he
revealed the
well to revert to one of the primitive
tural currents, and consequently silt, garb-made
*made the vor cs.ry six though they wor
The Chairman said-Gentlemen, the Re
great battle-ship will soon be star, Straits he dreamt Bold short to Hongkong and had to buy (in i Ka tired wax the the Aden and the loss of
accumulate constructed for four only, aut even with port and Accounts having been in your either sido of them,
in favour of Admiral Colomb's dream that aftor hearing That
That the Hongkong Register, of 10th March, ant
usual they be taken as read. There is no
foreboding, but it is evident that our hist of the disaster to
in times thing like possi in drum so many lives he began to despair of ever Unfinished house and grounds, corners past, generally proving more or less injer. It was said that on one occasion six stout upon as
um was almost ni
rived at Port Said his condition was 50
the working of the team at his elbow, are by no means contingent reaching home aliva. By the time wo AZ-
beyand what is ast forth of
In the
naval report.
the future will be serious that it was decided to remove him
square feet, value $4000, in 40 chances steel wharves these evils would be.
fought only avertel, squeezed into an unusually small van at
by torpedo-vessels. of 8100 each,
as, although : stronger," the
e piles are far less in Cairo got completely welded together on throughout the to the hospital.
and That thote SED
General four tremendous cruisers sa large battio appears to be much more de.gise even than wooden piles, and, by allow the
Managers and year, and the General Consulting Comulttes are solid condition, all individuality morged
ships
which will be wanted if the uncertainty of a land sele
factory. With reference to var funds, I swift torpedo vessels is very clearly
correct, Tas menade Concert of the Ladies' Benevolent
along the foroshore,
skatement may have been slightly ox
anted Society are
are going on favourably, and se proceeding further with the con-aggerated as the entire truth is quits Report, we have, with the advice of the by Admiral Colomb in
Omparison be this popular Society has only to nod to afectation, the sould, therefore, must re- Egyptian, and has to be very largely $100,000 in high-class local stopics, vis: 100
struction of the g
of the stone piers now in course beyond the digestive powers of the ordmary Consulting Committee, invested come tween the Magnificent and the Hornet. It
is difficult to almost unnecessary to say Down with
and Shanghai Bank
It would
certainly seem to Shares, 100 Hider the whole question before again
to the your dash
that the
the Magnificent would to a system which, after a lengthy
The jou
and 350 Hongkong Land Investment Co. no chance at all against twenty-six and effectively, this Ladies' Benevolont and
began about sunset, mial, was condetoned and journey usually sometimes carried
Horts; even if she were ablo-which into the second Shares, In to take any active part in the management attack time and again; in spite of the terri
is I nearly a quarter of a century
advances on Mortgage. six would be amply sufficient to send her of it. He may furnish articles, signed with ble losses inflicted on them by the old
which camed to be entirely erratic, but prob. These investments will materia
materially sppre- to the bottom smooth-bors and the Maxims. Prayer was his name, upan objects of general interest, held in a mosque in the village of Chatriars, what are Choort will take place at gale after its completion:
prominently to notice at the day the murky gentlemen on their respos will be fullge cast sooount, and we think
first Northerly
some instinctive way tive roofs had
The Magnificent, was stated to approved by Shareholders. 6910,600 sud the Hornet £34,300, Think abstaining from writing on questions which men, with scaling-ladder, ready to hand,
ing bearings, as they generally managed to with the late Amoy Agente, I think it afloat for the cost of one
In connection with adjustment of 40count the Volunteer Parade Ground, and the We would, furthermore, beg to suggest fatoh up with more or less irregularity wit
is to say, twenty-air Hornets could be put cal properly, be called political, or discus came straight from the mosque to the walls.
that all the remaining publio piers which within hailing distance of the ten-miles right to mention that the Firm refret couplement of the Magike sing the mosaures of the Governmonit, or vortain cach time that at last viste That you mention the rico-birds have come of building, should be puustructed of wild i rolied to some extent on the united intell by an oversight the naine was rated wed, and that of the Forget $2 Vast
competent hands. was to
have to be erected, including those in course apart stations. The
to is that of Messrs Russell and Co.; They may perhaps have
PMS 707 be theirs.
we already view the only
in, but I have grave doubts, as the steel. We are advised on competent gence of their patchwork teans, as they the printed Report and Accounts expose the lives of as MARY' men as Žít á
to say, it w
it would our tant quite the real cool weather, difficulty and that wharves constructed of up the
take eighteen-Hornets to Now spar which, in commenting on the war, the only ecession whom over atoman That it means the approach of cool weathers that material can be made as strong as could not have done uredly they amers' earninge so far since June are was 171⁄2 knots, that of the Ho E
authority that
that this
be done without marcely have heated by scent even
only to add that the Magnificent. The speed of the haga of up the wind, and most although that is usually heralded with the
sight.
the average,
but unfortunately knots. The Hornet was to carry Br
Wha 28 more Bocuracy by the fight of geese from the durability of steel wharves in these salvou, at their own cost, with paper lan. and thern ia no proct of way reduction. torpedo tubes,
solid stone. As an
Travollo & were
allowed to provide them- the price of faci by advanced considerably the North.
The Magnificent could That the St. Andrew's Society gives the wafers, we would to; to dry Your Excal- turns of a cylindrical form capable of beat any rate for s
present. There is bring perhaps twenty-three
is and first note of the festive season by its lancy's attention to a large wild steel wharfing drawn out like accordions, but prodno- nothing else which ggests itself to me to and rest, to bear upon her at the anonincement of the traditional gather. at Quy Baxty well. We are credibly but little way beyond the outskirts
hus, thich has ing na musis. As these zaraly survived the report and the passing of the accounts it followed that the
proposing the adoption of same time, and so the excres of spood ing of the clans on St. Andrew's Day.
the atood remarkably
part of the Hornst was 91 I shall be
be pleased to answer any questions.
Magnificen flourish, and seems to call upon the and purposes, in almost as good condition Egyptian practical joke on the part of the
questions were asked, and the Cats to avoid being torpedoed by the Bassennolis to go and do likewise,
Hornet any fine day in broad day. BROWNIE
that during that period it had required stranger wit
within their the utteri
and the passing of the little more than an annual cleaning and with al
the 6000unts. Mr G. C. Cox nesuaded. of endevouring to illuminate the
able to stop her by gun-fire in loss pr desert
Carried unanimously limited number of fath
hape, than seven With regard to the objection which say Log dips. Thought several of the plagues the Consulting Committee Hon. J. J. Faltant at noon, would be alongeus hae atề
Mr Gulles
Government services hayo had their attan- tion called to Regulation No. 79 of the Civil Service Rules and Regulations which ruus as follows: No paid officer under to keep the bridge in good repair for sub-
Ir must have been a matter of surprise to tribesmen nevar attempted to destroy the Chakdara bridge. The reason is said to be that they were so confident of complete vistory that they thought it would be well sequent nee. Their overweening confidence
hich they rallied to the
the Government of a Colony can be par in the mad fakir is
obtain the most hearty support, it is sectfully beg Your Excellency to recon- diluted with fiction before it can be Bonga!
assimilated.
Whampoa Dock Co.'s Sharce, to see what is the Answer to this
Dan
mitted to be the editor of a newspaper or undansted way inply testified by the. That it ever an institution did good quietly thorough
does it hero.in Hongkong, and its sp" and some of the inherent defects of $80, pluht before Suez was reached. The course ang some fuition, we are miso nego i doubtil-ta sink twenty of them, the other
1905+
the oficial proceedings of its Offers, and cosult was the greatest albughter evor insist from furnishing way articles whatever to a od on the frontier, During the last Afghan measures of the Government, should babi.en were slain, was at Ahmed Khel, where
Fas estimated at 1,200 the Afghan loss WAS tually exceed the bonads of fair and tem-kled. potate discussion. If the authorship of anonymous articles should be brought REFERENCE has frequently been made in to the enintelligibility of words of
officete, warrant offices and N.0.0.
Truth
by
discarded
porters
only wait for the hint to ceme forward to do what they can to assist нога in good work.
of the entertainment is in
organisation of
Now
those built of
of solid
can
ولر سسته
could
tak-
a sort of
gobolusion,
well up to
No
hava
homs to any Officer, or if, in articles bear command as occasionally after That this Society appears to grow and informed that this wharf in, to all intents Csiru their sale was probably
as when it wan frut built 15 years ago, and vendors to impress upon the proposed the adoption of the report ght in a opon 568, the "plast "ba”
that
ing his signature, he should discuss any have even gone so far as to political subject of the measures of the cloution classes should be established in Government, or the official proceedings of the Army for the purpose of cultivating's ite Officers, he will be liable to be removed greater distinctures of nubaranice. - That suggestion received additional fome from from Office. The rale is a wise one, and
¿ command as
spoken
only
minutes; because, if dis propread them-elenation of turned her stern to the Hormat and ran win All her might, the Horst, 2,000 pazin
been made with some of the masonry whe longed for the Resh pots of Erning, and Mokers A. Ross, O. A. Izminutes and eighteen seconds aftER DOOR
- warranted. At the same time, it is amusing for though petreler » Bergendi-ROWS Tery much regret to chronicle the mild ntenint would beg to point out that wore doomed t
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cost of tar. from 90 NA PIANOS just arrived; boat makes. the following phenatis rendering of the Also Cabin and Transposing Pianos, guaran bo raised on the score of expouse, or which of then it is unnecessary to men its application to Hongkong in the present words of heated state of public opinion not un sergeant-major of an iolatey rain toed for the climate. W. Robinson & Ch.
Tegiment I
account of the progress which has already tion-still lingered in the country, those ave no occasion to suention the regime, TR
THE Amoy Gazette of the 21st inst. says:
Whirre to hear some of the interpretations put may be more than neally untelligible in death of an old and respected resident of than alone, and, even if
piers Ata msiderably less staple article of food" upan the rule by those uunily well qualified his utterance, I should
even if the
dasnge would
a sadly-depressed WAS WAS B this port in the person of Captain J. E involve increased.
expenditur lay would
we would called by Egyptian courtesy chicken. J. Н. Thomsen, which occurred yesterday after submit that the additional
more than
by the saving unhappy suimal's fash it must
bars lived The funeral took plase
expenses later au principally on sand, and ita vitality
rrent resting of
gulation
“Language ins vary Adig
wo be applied sucha spoke on farwik
To
The
on the
and D.
Gubbay. Barlow seconded. Mr
But then, me one would think of atsa Carried unanimously.
Magnificent with one Hornet when The re-election of the auditors, Mesure pours of life in attacking her with eighteen.
would be inahal gala and no men Cox and W. E. Gaskelly was pro Would twenty-three guns stop Mala Bailey, and agreed to unanimously.
2000 at 5.830 at his residonos Thomsen'sfected in editor in a judge from the gritty dondition of the posed by Mr Michael and recorded by BF Hornets in anten minutam 3"Vonki
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The
lagspate on the 1838 mm by bhu sailors on board the
Chairman-That concludes the busius stop three Mornele in, seven minutah Dat 6 e'slook and was largely while, if the experience of 1874, with these low that in seemed capable of raising only to you for your send a men obliged
store piers is to be rupested, the climate a few dezubory feathers, probably merely to you for your dipendance. Dodane was A Bank an LTR ZA Het was quite wall four days ago
eaving to be derived from adopting this an experiment in feather culture
panta wil be posted on Monday next tanding his store on Amey side and his course before proceeding any further with adverse drumstances A tradition (Applause). almost sudden death makes it still sadder the work, is incaloclable.
gurrakit that turkeys appeared on the menu, many friends. He a fully that the of
Curkey We and our children moueathers stal for stone debties will see some delasticha oidance alone as a whore existance resta ch
bat the knowledge that likes steady been ing as the that wind, of which they who alsarly established that soldi Larven sie | mas of the desers in credited with making
yers can | rather boulié-like meal.” To in not reponami,
a good han band and an affectionate father.
zon suitable for this Harbors
New Paro and Unget Repairing M and Mashinare just hand also the Munda W. Bebinson
having been patiently" dabed for i thing lies thras woski. - Dreng it-managed to bride shocks, and diapasad