Tronohar, Ngyakuen 36, 1997.
HONGKONG MALLET BIDES.
Derracted to Maki
*30, 1807,
Az¥308) Clash, per
Chinese Namoa,
Poralesk,” Back
Butcher Meat.
肉食
Book Find,
Bacon, English,
H
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Ama, Bugar suzed pi
Foodkow,
Japan, oured
• **
Best sizinin & prime cut, call)
Bhate,
Corned,
catty
#
Skrinijs
Ronat,
牦牛肉
Snapper,
Boop,
Bolsa
Bteak,
Tandly,
Balboaic's Brains, .
Turbot
Tongue iron, wh
Turtles, atuali, final
HT
БОО
Whising White
الله بالم
Hurup, Salt, calty
140
F1
bình.
60.
Apples, (Ctfornia),
catty
Ki
50
J
1F
Tail,****
100
(Japan),
Lava.
catty
70
13
Tripe (undressed) osity, 60
Ontron Head and Avvi, soi-
Hamne, AmoriCRM,
350
Grinose,
**
English; New,
18 1
Okesinula, Chu#Oy4:
Parimmen,
List-upplem
(Tientsin),
Plum, Rød;
辣沙故
左口魚
心麵
鮮魚仔
菓子
Japan caredy
Shanghai,
Mutton Chop,
"Obina,
Lak
Land,
Shoulder,
豬枝
Piga' Chitling",
70.
Lam
檸檬
Fucki
110
Mikago, (Saigon)}
Fry,
宋衣 您
Head,
n
Hearty
新會回報
#
Kidungs,
70
*
Liver,
旧
160
Pork, Chop,
tasty
180
Οίνοι
14
Corded,
27
Log
190
"
Fat or Lard,
160
•
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Shoops' Head ani Fook, met
360
Flear
cach
40
Kidneys,
70
21
Livor,
ib.
160 140
Sucking Pigs,
tack $1.75 $1,25
鰲仔
Raisins, Muscatel,
Bust, Beef,
·lb 110
生牛油
Fudding,
32
Mutton,
100
生羊油
Yaal,
• Gutty 130
牛仔肉
Water Chespyw, COM. Mandarin,
60
Foultry.
40
Walnuts,
純林熊疏 合龋
Vegetables,
Ühicken,
casty 200
類仔
菜蔬
250
Artichokes, Shanghai, catty
60
Capons
100
Drunks,
180
Doves,
Eggs, Rea
dox,
120
暴盛
100
Duck
110
"
Fowla,
catty
180
Goess,
Haroo
sch 700
Mark Dear,
Partridge
Pigeons,
Bios Birds,
Quali
Halpe
Turkeys, Char,
Wild Ducka,.
Barbel,
Bream,
Bambay Ducks,
Vios Frah Water
Catfiult,
Godfah,
Grabe,
Cuttle Fish,
Dab
Dace
Dog Fish,
Eels, Conger
Froak
Bela, Yellow,
--File-Fish,
Frog
Fresh Fish
Garoupa, Gadgaon,
Gurzard,
Bacring
海鮮
outty
Beane, (French),
#1
Long,.
Beet Root,
Brinjals, Green,
Bingly
Bad,
Bamboo Shoots,
Cabbage, ChinaE DOM.
l
Kubilima Basind,
Curry Stol, English,
Quequmbers,
Bitter Squash,
Gallo
Ginger, youugi
Horse Radish, S'hat
Indian Dors)
Latinon, (English),
Onton Beau
100
THE CHINA MAIL.
BUESTIONS.
The roooid made by the Kaiser Flade, The following in the son of the letsorder Grosse in the fatest ever travelled be published cantly by the Time from fees the Continent of Eurai's and America It has only bean beaten by some | Shanghai correspondent:—
pendent
steamara from Quinstown, the distapou
Under the Trashy of hentain Lord Elgin being from two hundred to three hundred made with the Chune Goretament a de- miles shorter. The following are the record-broskura in twenty-eight years. Tho finito arrangement bộ bómmute the whole of the inland charges than levied, or the route in all cases was that between New after to be loviad; Mr the name of tran
British trade, for
for York and Queenstown, east or wo one fixed
payment
Date Steamer nader
DHL M sit, duty.” The payment in question was
1666 Boutia
8:་བ"4" 1873 Baltie
7 20 1870 Lity
uf Berlio 1876 Germanió „1877 Britunuto
1880 Arizona 1882
xingad to bo
to be one-half of the existing
maritime Customs rates, and in considera tion of this commiúlation tax the Chinaċe Government solemnly bound itself to levy. no additional
ny ·kind whatso imposta of ovor apon. British orchandise in the in- terior. How this agreement has been kept from that
at day to the present, is suficiently well known.
When we look back at the history of the transit-pass qucation to-day, it is diflealt | to understand by wint process the Foreign Office and Her Majesty's Legation were induced, after Lord Elgit's treaty, to allow the question to be complicated by the long drawn-out ungles of diplomatis perparles. into which it drifted, and whore, thanks to the lapse of yours and to Chiposa persis- tense, it remains unto this day. Asts only too well known, the question has been the source of neverccasing complainta on the part of British merchants and of diphonatic representations at Peking.
Alayka
1884 Ortigia 1884 Amories
1885 Extra
-1897 Umbris
1898 Etrura
1339 City of Paris 1811 Majustic 1801 Teutonic 1802 City of Paris 1892. City of Paris 1893-Campania
1894 Lacania
7: 18
7 11 37
7 10 53
7723
6 18
6
10 17 5 18
5 14 31 5 15 58
5 14 24
5 12
t: 7 23
THE FIRST STEAM ENGINE. Various countries claim the credit of It is interesting to compare the able and having made the earliest practical op. tomparate memorandum on te transit plication of steam-power: bat julging by system which was published by the Shangfacts gathered from the most authenti hai Chambas of Commerce in 1849
with
sources, it was in Spain that the move- firat
that which it has issued this your on thement of machinery by stoom was same subject. The
dor public notice. As Barcelona, the asins; the in the year 1643, a mechanic named Bas facta, arguments and appeals brought fordo Garay, after many persistent efforts, ward by the merchants
in
the impressing ants today are idont succeeder
Ba cal with those of thirty years ago; the chief with the value of his now invention
; the chief Charles V. of Austria. and I of feature of the prosent situation being that
ships by staan.
in beth, remains pion, as dealt with brought uni
terminal taxation on imports and gro-for driving ships
wets taxes on exports (both mlimited trial which took place in Co and undefined exactions) have appeared success by the public, but the
upon the scene; ara to all intents and Royal co
purposes recognised. The Clumber of keeper of the
Intimations.
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The
the
the treasure for curtain sinistor to day points out how al 1870, the reasons-pounded the poror that the rapacitive provincial mandarins have discovery was of no practical valne, and s beca permitted to kill the tea traken, about the beginning of the soventeenth v, ruined the hopes of Blase de Gamy, Tater and, gon. on, i the silk oxport, and
to cripple the silk
to
contury, Clorannt
erally dustry Paralyse every conted a steam
fitable
by the pemicious' im-
10
Italian, in-
position of irregulos and multipled levies, the tinut of which wo hu muchinu isi
16 uxpresses this will
this willingness of 6 mar.
(cantilo cùmmunity to assent to any reason.
able increase in
the
or pictorial period,
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any deseriptiva About this same clairant
sty tariff duties for the glo proced
which the Chinese Government may desire the enn engine, and
to impose in the event of tren
of having invented Marion Do- Letter to M. de
Ciny Mars, present dated Paris, 1641, gives an account of hi it being generally admitted that hesion-arms, in a scale has
with Tallat silver, lo a visit to the Bicétro with the Marquis bein
brought considerably lower than of Worcester:-We were crossing the the 5 por cont, averago; but it urges court of the roadhouse, and. I, store dead
the
in the strongest possible runner that than alive with fright, kept close to iny first condition of tariff revision, or oi ather
gotiations with China, mit ba
and
with which
-
his
shoulders
of
companion's side, when & frightful face appeared behind some intense tairs, und a hare voice exchimed, "1 am not mad! to one uzualnuerstanding
not mad I have made a dimovory ahall allow British goods to malate freely which woull enrich the country that supp throughout China. The
amount, or asked of our guilo. "Oh," a
ed it.What has bo discovered 7" I At which this one duty shall be fired in con
answer atively unimportant, the one vital point rugging
something tlust the present ariditrary system of trifling, enough; you would never gases taxation anat be made to caso, olice and it it is the use of the steam for all
all, if there is to be any satisfactory ex-luiling water." J I began to laugh. This tension of trade
of trade between Europe and
continued the keeper. the
is Salomun do Caus; ho camp from Normandy four Chinese Empire.
The march of events since the Treaty of years ago to present the king a state- Shimonoseki tends to show that the time-out of the wonderful ethicis that night honoured Chinoss policy of passive robe producail from his invention. The cat. sistance to all innovation is being gradually dinal sent the madman away without listen
to him. Salomon de Caus, for from The irresis
our boing tible weight of exterior
discouraged, followed the cardinsi withstood, has at last become too strong for whole › want with the most determined
min
abandoned under fffdence, wholere: h
Const Port Orders receive careful attention, ma
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all the forces of native conservatism. A perseverance, who, tired to death with his leaven of clowly acquired fate aduaily, where he has now been for three Case of
folly. ordered him to be shut up in the
To which is now added a Report of the affeeting the views of the Chinese thai-
years and a half." Lord Worcester was con- to Bay, the labouring years
of
PITMAN F. KESWICK
AND OTHERS. Price per Copy,
selves that is to
and trading classes and the trath is-per-dooted to his (De Cans's) cell; and cams LEYceptibly impressing itself upon the native back, sad and, thoughtful.le is indeed
mind that the near future contains ad now," said
said he
"Misfortune and cap no other alternativas for thine but refores or tivity have alienated his reason, but it is you disintegration.
It is obviously to Eng have to answer for his n
sualness. When incerest, both politically and con- you cast him into that cell you confined the muroially that the integrity of the Chinese greatest genius of the age." Twenty-two
in Empire should be maintained, and to this years after the above incident, 11088, in
work and it should
k his Dalled Century of Inven one of the first objects of British policy firmly and consistently to tous, the Marquis of Worenster described guide the Chinese Government in the path a steam apparatus of his own,
followed with his invention in 1081 of administrative and financis
refarin. Nothing stande to-day in the way of been tain Savory's engine for water sary reform in China but the native fuel made in 1998, and in 1712 Thomas Nov.
bo
engine
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to assist in the industrial developer a contury), and with is the Ae of ment of the Country hat the idlerbi, fuze
seeing
ja the introduction of western me. thods a serious menace to their and
Steam may be said to have been loangurs tod-Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. heir position influence, are, apparently, determined
to resist to the uttermost, and along the old lines, sny progressive tendencies. The old mandarin
darin spirit, the instinet of a clase thre
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be part of England's future policy to aimswatom
first, at a gradual reduction in the number Guntou 30,-
of the officials who now, local-like boht sangsorg 2
the industry of the people
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of deliberate violation of the Male 29 treaties, The poncentration of rusion-23. Jug sibility at Peking and clearer und erland-
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vials are highly desirable. Wostok.
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the interest on her
And the ordinary expense of government
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Chins must perfores submit to the develop- Nagasaki
ment of her resource Mines Kathi opened
and failways built so that the sharp Ek, th rast natural wealth of such provisted as Hushan and relieve the financial situation.
may be brought to
land's duty to preserve Chica thom, the bankruptcy and disintegration which
of Id Hong hangfand his so dalupe syetem of adherents. To substitute for that systein
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Hongkang Tides
The Tide Table giyen below has hear compiled by the Naudioul Amanso Office:
In London from the regalta of the analysis
of observations taken by means of an ad-
tomata tids recording micking in the WMT
ter Folloo Basin at Kha Taul during | ME
1887-8-9
the years
Me Chantrey Loebbeld
The sure of the table in Tow Water On Me FB, J1000 dinary Chutine 15dom, which boon found
to be & feet below mean sea level.
To ahtain the depta of water i
gauge so the Victoria Maral.
In and on the
Aberdeen add 13 for
In the table,
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