SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1809.
Notes by the Way,
A moating of the Royal Antediluvian Buffaloes is púmboned for Tuesday night, the 29th just.
The Right Reverend Bishop Graves
will preach in St. John's Cathedral to-mor row at the 11 o'clock servion.
The Promenade Concert at Volunteer Headquarters, advertised for this evening,
FRAGRANT WATERS MURMUR That The blue book concerning the New Territory fully justifies the HOTARA criticism passed at the time upon the oficials engaged on the transfer. That Mr Stewart Locktart is exonerated from all blama in connection with the Govybr'a visit 65 the Viceroy, That the despatch written by Sir Henry Binka, pareating what took place at the Canton Interview, reads like a roaring fanco zu any one who has had experience of Chinese official ways.
the curl impudence of the Victoy' lien was
BRUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INTERVIEWING A VICEROY,
MIK HENKY BLAKE'N HISTOBIVAL TRIP TO
CASTON.
•
at 10
informed on Wednesday that they had bean: oarried out to prevent my acting on Thurs. day. I would also request that the San On Magidrate be ordered to personally visit the
M
*hich, I.
CHUTNEY,
periodical never met a Chinese workman w.contractor or they might have had some (Menfuctural by the Firm of Irresponsible,thing more to say than they did say. One Losos, August 24.
Chatter and C.)
of these illustrated interviews described THE TRANSVAAL QUESTION,
The following is H. E. Sir Houry A. village accompanied by other officials and Solar as the Firm are aware the wheel the piecowork man, The text of the Tranevaal's reply hus
Oh,' said he *ye Blake's narrative of his visit to Canton in issues proclamation by order of Lia Ezpel Jenny warning the people against distor reached the Calocial Office, but nothing barrow nuisance has never been exploited want a house built, do ye. No use a April laat
bance or interference with any working has transpired in Londen regarding the
in the alumna of the Chiare Mail or any thinking of a job of that küzd.' Twelvu
'Government House,
parties or Surveyor, This His Excellency Hongkong, 7th April, 1899. other alumne. And yet it is a real nuiullock-only got to the second storey. I Cape telegrams however ccn-
to do. I said I had a moro. pramled to contents.
Stu,With reference to uydarpatch No. plasing duty to perform in assuring tirm yesterday's, and add that Presidant sance, especially to the sick und weary who as been a-thinking too much.' Five 8 of the Istfuatant, 1 have the honour to His Excellency that the Government of Kruger demands the abandoment of the
are forced to endure it. It is not heard in o'clock Ye elupe the roof on and there inform you that on the 2nd instant I pro- Hongkong had determined to bring in the city's busiest centre, possibly because year. The proprietor of the building seeded at 5.30 a.m. to Caslon ir Her Ordinanco the effect British Suzerainty.
of srivon to examine his property, jabe it Majesty's
Fame and arrived ship has been postponed owing to the wisettlor T equalled only by the foolishness Banchester Regiment have sailed for the thanu who live on the outskirts of Victoria *There,' 'Bays the irato piecework man, Consul that he would recaire mo at 11 a.in. I bud issued a proclamation under the pro The Royal Monster Fusiliore s the the use of other traffic deadlens it, but with his stick, and the whole lot collapses, clock, the Viceroy him informed the hoped would rendue opium smuggling into Chins alsoet impossible, and also that what did I tell ye.
I was accompanied by Mr Stewart Lockiert, visions of which I had prevented the ex- Yo would go a-touch- or in Kowloon rep the full bendit of the ]["h
ing diabolat nuises made by these unabesume on it afore it was dry. It souns to us tolonial Secretary, and the members of my port of arms to Chips. His Excellency ex from the recent lettore and articles into the Viceroy'a Yamun, I found that pre-
staff. On proveeding from the Consulate presel much pleasure at this information. specisms of the ancient push-cart. Noyar valuable colours that a good may parations had been iade for my reception two-and-a-half hours, then ended. His
The interview, which had lasted ove contestor since the days of Noth has ever le recently have been a-touching that I did uut expect. The streets for the Excellency apologised for being unable to
this class of buildings afore they were dry. 1
return my visit, as I informed him that I i
was turning to Hongkong forthwith. was crowded, the place being apparently Upen to all-comers. Immediately after arrived bearing the Vicereg's cards, who returti to the Consulate Lastaring
said this urgent telegrams hat already been sunt in accordance with my request. 1.
weather i
One of the non renoved to the has pital on Wednesday evening suffering from. severe injuries obtained in the fall of the,
of our Queen's Representative in ever expecting to meot fair dealing.
with That the description of this interview ought
to unke it the last of its kind, and usko an and of all such diplomatic nonensa with the Chinees,
Cape.
AMERICAN TRADE IN CHINA,
MT Conger, on board the varsity
discredited Deputy Warig is now in pri investigate the decrease in American trade. son at Poking, but the double-faced old Viceroy ought to be thors with him
Gorrcapon-e
house in Graham Street died yesterday { That it is a fan net factory to know the Princeton, will visit the ports of Chinn to thought it necessary to grease the axles of It was not a bad shot that once were lined with troops throughout the During the interview the Audience Ball
fmm the effect of the shock, the fourth death.'
This makes
A Chinese lady appeared at the Magus- tries today a complainant against a Chinaman for allowing a feroious dog to
how
it is simply marvellous to
to bote the British Government continues to pocket all sorts of insulte from Chilrese officials, while it would resent and punis all much coming from other quarters.
we have heard nothing more ineantime of $99,000 for the About rest of operations caused duplicity-aay a tenth part of which may find its way into the Colonial Frenity, the bulk coing to the Noveland Military authorities.
(L'Awnir du Tonkin.). THE DREYFUS CASE.
these squeaking abominations, which, as a rute, a heavier than the loads they carry. Whensix or eight of them meander by the dwelling-iters in a roout of which a sick person is leavouring to snatch what reposo he can, and the whole six are quenling, in different toys, the whole of the
LD
uf their
as they dispe and apparently well kept. The streets
noton of chromatic scale, and villainously prireps at this gaine. Iftime were so there wore depse cruwds who were perfect. Iongkong at 10 p.m.--I have, &c,,
be at large. She said her son was látion:That it the indon by Viceroy Tan's which bawas submitted when he wished to out of wono nt that, it galvanizes life into
in the side by the dog. She had asked de fendant w bring his dog to her house, and make it” eat the poultice that hot boon placed or the wound. People said that would assist in the cure. The defendant did not bring his dog. The Magistrate advised parties to settle the matter but d Court.
Prevention of Piracy.
The first-class torpedo bout No, KiL
RENNE, August 18. Colond Picquart has finished his evid ence. He explained the persecution to
make an enquiry into Haterbugg's conduct, Colonel Picquart stated that he had never meddled with (graité - scratched) the palit
That, speaking of money, I cannot con-ble. The case will be resumed to metrow,
gratulate the Colonial Secretary upon
ACCURACY of statement at the
the Finance Committee,
of
That the excuse of
of urgency givon for the deliberate departure from one of the best known rules of finance-namely, mover
public money
until it ia votcil-
sperid"
As enough to make every sedate 31. L. C. go into fits of laughter.
the whole: put
CORRESPONDENCE.
· THE SOCIAL EVIL.
a ton
ใน
two miles or to between the Consulate and the Yamin had been washed and cleaned. dest made who instanced the house Graham Street which promptly fell down enti
muxt day, causing four deaths and entire distance. There were between 1.600 a amber of athor more or less serious and 1,600 men, armed with muzzle loaders
and salties. We have all heard of cutting which a large proportion carried revolver
rifles of various patterns, in addition to fis at hosue, Luf this sinister eagerness to
they fall
short
Iitical that all the arms were quite clean garls at
at any price so long as
the Chinese cotractor who is vere decorated with flaga un lng poles and loft Canton at 4.45 pm. and arrived at and bricks 850 thousand he would Viceroy with the usual ceremonies and at I was received by the would respectful the led sick man to the extent that undertake to supply both at a quarter the once entered upon the business of any visit hu wibus he wore dead. In my other he
eat and to ati intents such
appearance Hitman would never be permitted to exist, but w
Mr Pitzipios, the Vice-Consul, Interpreting wald keep his word. But, oh what a white suprehre he does run up whenever
most dairally. who have a municipality but only the hagets the change to do so unobserved: If one flint the Friendship between Eng- After some preliminary observations ho word form of civic government musthof the buildings in
inhabited poseen our souls in patience, and allow by the poçter and middle cland and China had been of long standing? taken down today it would be found that en which I assured him that England was the walls instead of being ng ostensibly they Chins's bust friend, and it was with the
Lu proposing Prosperity to Siam? at ard most friendly feelings that I had done iny. are three or four bricks in thickness, are self the honour of visiting his to request the firit Siam Diner in London, Sir W
shells filled up with slush and cub- Irish Escutiously
phouse Hongkong,
outward
these httur to be shaken out of our enftched frames because there is nobody
tu speak for us in the seats of the
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classes were
|
HENRY A. BLAKE, Goverizon.
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain,
M.P., &a.
SIR WILLIAM ROBINSON'S BILLIARDS,
The Palco cannot or will nem by termed concrete. When is immediate attention to certain nets of Robinson (our late Governa), said he did
it i
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tho work of the Sanitary"
coumission on Monday as tender to TEATR right have been the loction of hauses of ill-fame in this Director of Public Instruction wight be
Turth Editor of the 'Caixa Mail.*
Hongkong, August 26,
and the Director of Public Works appears Sia, Considering the nest of reform in to Into other things to du Perhaps the or leas, and the Colony, iride your columns) as a prelimin-inducito give the matter his word, and idea of this Government ever bangary, anay I suggest through your paper that instrut the owners of these diabolical con- accused of urgency in Lusiness is tou
one of our Honourable Members of Council trivans that the noise they produce is not amusing altogether.
aske for a return af all houses of this kind asic as anderstood by Western ears, kn known to the police as
as such, their loation, Hero is a question for some antiquarian the mums of the landlords or progictory versed in Chinese lore to solve: Did or did of the torments or buildings, and, land- not the sons of Confucius get the originał lords are absentees, also of their local agents idea of their diatonic seale from the wheel- or factorYours faithfully,
Served (Lieutenant-Conanmander Hillko
Waist the Sandpiper in the suppression of piracy in the West River. The torpedo bost will be in moumand of Mr MetillThat the Beaconsfield' business was boatswain of the Hinnber,
once more proved to be a bemuddled midle by these tactless course followed by the Colonial Secretary, in That his first explanation was to the effect
that the Government fund act
ested
the advice of its legal adviser, and paid the
A Hak, with money claimed by A That this insert to Measty Chater
Whitehead looked as if it referred to acta
Jiary subsequent to the verdict of the
being further questioned by
on this
Aquatic Sports.
The aquatic sports of the Victoria Re creation Club will bo hold on Monday, Tuesday and Weinesday, 18th, 20tla and 20th of September next. An attractive
programine has boss arranged, and as tliore. That cial Members.
is likely to be several cups presented for competition there should be a record entry.
Hongkong Hotel.
The Band of the Hongkong Regiment will play the following programine at the Hongkong Hotel this evening, from 8
to D.30 pm,
March [Faceus Katard*
Overture...... Sammile
Vako ...orthy
Selention Teledie Gel
Intermezzo. thi Die Kad to Mistrir
Taika
tutt'
GIVE THE 12UMES.
Fatal Accident,
A
Wiam.
Andek
JORCA,
This afternoon, a coolie employed at the
now building in Connaught Road, opposito Quoon's Buildings, fell frout the top storey, 268-strand is dit
Tow minutes afterwards in a yard adjoin...” ing, Dr. A. Towson was eummanud, kat
· Ehis services were of no avail. The Police were telephoned for, and the body was re- moved to the moduery.
Oppression by a Trade Guild.
tho
and
Painte
the fat somehow got into the fire all round.
.THE GOVERNMENT ČIVIL
HOSPITAL. To the Editor of the 'Chisa MaL.* Hongkong. August 25, 180,
IAPTURE?
*
We wonder it has never stuck the
with
writton
name
the
this curious mixture will ever solidify is a Intimidation and attempts to had this question for future generations to solte ile of the lead territory astmy by an in- not know why he had been selected for tho is rery certain it will never du se dering famatory pheard that had been posted in honour. Perhaps it was becsuse ho land.
dering any village of the
& copy of which I handed our time.
to only gren Sism from the deck of a steamer, The consequence samp kim
who had when he thought distance lont enchant rons, rotting door and window fransen,
Friendly jedats and dooring, and a tendency of the of His Excellency and fooling that he would
it. Knowing
feeling went to the view, but he had had the bou reef to subsidie and spificate the steeper take inthedisto perion, I had determined to suite at
our of entertaining the King's brother who reposes serenely beneath it.
and of being badly Carroll has remarket that
bring the matter personally to his notice beaten at Billeds by his Ral
Highness. telo raph to than
to London and
He had also had the honour of
of representing Tis strange auch difference efwould be Peking that disorder was threatened in his Her Majesty at Hongkong for six YOTE ĐI THÌ. Twixt tweedledum and twoodlodeo, Provinge. Ithereiste requested that the four months, & neighbouring,
rites of the rescand dheld bo made Stars, with which country wing colgay to answerable and punished.
answered the could not possibly
Lewis
mather
had a
power that he that the method of select. are supposed to get line and sand and only had the person who wrote theplacard. To way bewal Singapore and hongkong
I
to
AR
been indirectly credited with the re- patients in the Government Civil Hospital, wills to become jurymen. The names of | · Aiut anybody to be whopped for this ore?' did I want to bi I answered that. I with of British trade, as compassu
That the Acting Attorney General, bating sponsibility for the lose, doomed it advis. able to speak out. Tt the words in which Mr
himself will be long remental
дя
had-not coinot
of the fact of their huge antient. I have met several que others are drawn, and the case in hand The death of Mr Granville Sharp renovas I had postponed the taking over of good if he saw Siam frig the deck of the
propriate from view
inen who were made
That Mr Pollock may have been all ymg | so-called sombers' by this trement, procdeled with.
and if pirate persons (who often en ill afford it did not help them, they would have to give themselves up to the police us to foot the bill.
wine would be stationed there while pro
proper
of declaration ul Argevondence, destituto and the Government would have again phuced among the thirteen others. business career in our midst did a great houses time to arrange the stations for
a govern EC2,
technicaly in giving away the Born ruent case, but the pot will ever regned his straightforward palenient as forcible assertion fight versus crooked ways,
I do not mean to say that the income is That for years this colaum has dechred too much for the Hospital, for I gladly there is abso'u'ely nongressity for celadust that it is an institution to he proud el diplomacy in the sual or large maliers of, but that the charge is higher thana 3rd Arising in Hongkong's ministration | Clasa patient is called upon to pay in helsefal Narrator to any oil past-ta Aurid, while the erning power of a man of this class in Hongkong is less than in any other part of of the world.-Yours
a corner by the honest (if irregular) state ment of the legal adviser, and he then admitted the matter was taken into Court against the advice of the Acting Attemey
RESIDENT.
HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY,
LIMITED.
will Bevon
two
be
ma
of
пот
Ad
The
notice of
Bad we do not regard it as strange at all, be-
laro regular trade. Siam's position on the case they are both distinct egon. When we
Burnah East frontier, and its place get ud and water it is apt to make us
whilst it shares with
Great ing jaymen called for service is a most angry, and when the lazy coolio bricklayer this I demurred. He said I did not know
Britam would realise the unfair one. Bay twenty men gurd and persistently refuses to damp his bricks Le China or I wouluns eatbiciontly to
Malay Pouineula, made it of difficulty. I
special interest fore laying them with this non-adhesive answered that I know
Englishmen. It was a cluas re'ghly ur true as summoned to take part in uphoki. misture it is small wonder that the first know that if His Hacellency wanted to And and a friendly one.
E. of the he DEAR BIR,- Will you kindly permit meing the paladium of English liberty, in heavy rain that comes slithers the whole my person to his province that person referral to the steady growth of the British to protist-most strongly against the
e-large high charge of 82 per way for all other words boing badgerol against their sacture down to punition and the ous would be forthcoming: He-sid the name conaccial community in -Sim; lo
werkers with it. As Sam Weller says, given wight not be this real culprit. Whom
that of other countrim, the number The sun is out of all proportion the these twenty are written a slips of paper,
to demand the purish- of Englishmen who had contributed to the ratioais pay when at work, 54 well as to sang to a box, chicken up, and coven are
ment of any person other than the real cul-administration of the consteg under the fing he can board for outside. On the
If it be true that the evil which men du prit, but to insure that the tumitory lossed Biamses Government; and, Lastly, to the not be fact that the Crown Prince and s va al o DE cher hand, it will pay a Turia handine dras aphazard. Counsel may object to lives after them, it is equally tree that the extension of Hongkong
live there altogether as a 2nder 1st one or twr, in which make one or two good which they do will not be forgotten. ing the taking over of the teritory by ae; land.-Sir William's eyesight must be very allowed to become a prey to unlators pend his brothers were being educated in Eng. respectable
That finished, another a notable figure in Hongkong civic life. If the territory to the 17th instant for the German mail steamer which carried him to drawing takes place, the nines of the at the oldest inhabitant he was at any which to house the officials and pelice
purpose of having matalieds erected in England.-EB, 0, M.] soven men who iginally served being one of the oldest, and during his long
s and barracks wero being built, a and to
THE RATTLER' AT YOKOHAMA, dal of good, although such was his quiet ve
A CURIOUS INCIDENT. The Customs that Now the chases are that one or
the boundary more of the original
Kobo, August 17. way of doing it that he was generally been settled. On this His Excellency said again down, and so the game goes on edited with being anything but a generous that there was no occasion for erection of
A curious affair is reported from Yoko, until the roster is finished and this
At about Be that as it may, we shall minor Customsstations as the Customs would hama in the vernacular papers.
remain where they were, I answered that calendar at an end, by which time some always a pleasure to listen to and a delight country is only leased. It is China, and Rattler arrived at Yokahums, and the from duong sa local orator whom it was such a course was impossible. He said this 6p.m. on Tuesday the British gun-boat meu will have sorveri on a good many juries to differ from if only for the purpose there is nothing about Customs in the Con- while others will have been kept lounging arousing his slumbering energia to sto vention. I answered that whether leased, signs to her to stop at the boundary of watch boat of the Harbour Offico made a furthor oratorical efforts. His connection | General.
about the Court serving on none at all. with the various benevolent institutions of busted it becomes for the tire as effectual. the harbour limit, with a view to direct-
relent, or coded, as soon as the British flag is That it would have been very much more
Surely it would be simpler to place the Hongkong is well known, and we have satisfactory for all parties had this state-
named the first seven serving on one side nod to dilste upon it. His memory willy British territory as Government House, ing her where to anchor. The watch boat and this Chinese Customs tags of the Harbour Epidemic Inspection Hongkong and day the next seven from the remain-
ho held dear by a good many others that must be hauled down. I painted out that fice also ado
similar sigual. been made before the cat was dragg:
ing thirteen the third drawing the names the thoughtless crowd who point to the the tours of gun-boat, however, took no
mueb An extraordinary general meeting of the of the first seven being put back and the block of buildings in the Kesling Pray all the waters of Mirs Bay and Deep Bay wither signal, and proceded to the ed oat of the bag. That the vote taken I presume pute an end. Hongkong Electric Company, Ltd., was! second seven being kept out and so on, with the remark, Look, that's Granny'
to this bungle so far as the Courel is held today at the Company's liens. By this means the burden would not fall foly, which will probably be Mr Sharp's was impossible that the Chinsa Customus water. The watch bust of the Epilenic
of warships coning
anchonge of wa
That
that it is curious to contrast the reticance presided. The other gentlemen prevost would have to rerra in tuen.
Queen's Buildings. Mr II. L. Dairyniple so heavily upon one or two, and everyone moral, although he deserves-a-better authoritier could act, as ever, if a vessel inspection Office followed after the of Mr E. R. Belilios to answer a quea-were-Hos. C. F. Chater, C.M.G..
To serve up-
were found in these waters. with contra bost, and made an inspectint. Au ficial jury not so estimable, profitable his readiness to vote its favour -A, Wood, C. W. Dickson (Litestors) neither as doing one's duty by ose's op
of the Harbour Office inmediately paid tion with his
band on board she could not be seiz- of the Government and of himself, W. H. Wickham (Maunger), G. T. Veitch, busines or occupation, and there are few
a visit to the Itattter, and demanded It is not often that the China Mail choses ed for having them in Chisese waters an adequate 3.
or territory, and if resistance were offered an explanation for her acting contrary to
સુપ for increased wages, and as a result of that
the Harbour Regulations. The reason why our old friend,
Mustaford, E.
Captain C. Emmett, R. R.noterity carued by seeing one's name at worrying us all the week since the state cers would be put on their trial for demand the carpenters secured a rise to
should have abstained from voting, it
R. Michael, Baptista and Lun the head of a murder trial in the columns was this very one.
Shiu efty conte per day. The guild stipulated for That the gum letal of the whole is this, Mr
of the thing Mail. We think if we were mist appeared in your columns to the in the Courts at Hongkong. He deraurred and that fris vessel had hean allowed to
at this, declaring a share in this rise, but the dock carpenters
Wikham read the notice conreuing given the chance we would rather shirk the effect that the Volunteer Camp of Exercise would be tried in China; that if the Cos that he had learned that, when applied to in such as that they anchor close to the share at Nagaak), and the Goronment, by ignoring the advice the wedding. of their responsible adviser, has spent
oncrowduty that the jury system imposes
by the Consul, refused to comply with the request, and
the vessel would be allowed The Chairman saiti - Gentlemen, whare upon us, more especially as it is marked by this year will be held at Lyemun. If you toms were to be moved the Convention was about 810,000
to enter close of the ratepayers' funds invited your attendance here to-day to ask the phirness which we have instanced.
to the shore, adding that such the members of the guild have actually
had said the Moon wo should have been as a au end that the boundary question was neadlessly and Mr Bulilica, the owner your adoption of the resolution which Exx
he had not signed the application weuhl be shortly made. He tot yet settled guns beyond threats and: résorbed to vin- of Beaconsfield. remains the pad been read by our Manager, and which has
I also asked that the vessel might be allowed wise as we are now,' says the Junior. delimitation, and other arguments. lone. One evening this week three of the
possessor A property renovated by been published in the focal
already With regard to the Un Loong murders, There are several miles of Lyamun and two pointed out to His Excellenes that the toerore she was as she had papers for ov
over public money.
two weeks. Your Directors have carefully
the exeation of one elder, a wretched sim to it, and the Junior, who is also two officers regularly accredited and gazot-Captain of the Battler. The Harbour-Mas- provisional boundary had been settled by dropped her anchor. The oficial_commonl
cated to the Harbour Master the reply of the dock carpenters wore attacked, and serious. That ous result of M- Whitehead's was considered the best most of mooting future coolie complice, and the counautation of Volunteer, has expressed the insane hope ted in Hongkong and Cantt Contor refused the request of the ly injured by a party of guildmen armodel in wording was the production our working aren, and for the developinent i the sentences of another elder and-an that the camp will be somewhere near the therefore-in-accordance with the Conven
tions-two of them appeared to be very expend ture, necessary in the extension of similar
Le Captain of the with knives and chisels. One of the men of A was so dangerously wounded as to neces- Director of Public Works.
programmeor catalogate by the genial of our Company's business in the Calony, equally despicable hireling to various terms Hotropole,' so that he can drop in after tion, and that if timely measure were not gun-bost, however, and ordered him to leave
and the proposed resolution is the out of impkomment with hard labour, and the hives at here a game of billiards. Frontier Chins must suffer serious loss of ing day. On the following day the Bui
taken by him for the protection of that the place notlater than d
ndaylight onthefollow
the Butler nitate his removal to the hospital. The That I was pleased to note this catalogue come of their delibemtions,
included the new read for the recently- you
will view
letting loose of another, the Firm have a Sariously, the Inse statement Lyemun revenue by smuggling.
showed no
no signs of leaving the proposal head carpenter lives in daily dread of at-
oficial purchased building sites above the Pok favourable light, and onion the intre inc
is not in Haricar-faster sent gerberth, and the word to my. It is not the village elders or cires que in considerable doubt as to His Excellency then said, "It is the press her to leave. Commander Hardinge tack by the guitamen, who bave threatened
Conduit, to munder him.
That in most civilised communities muistit on the lines set forth.
for the present only to wall
If you insist on this then allis at an end. immediately proceeded to the Harbour are made before building sites are sold per sha
and applied for a to remain and paid for: but bere in Hongkong the per share, and that at an early date, the shedding which has marked our taking portion of the foreshore on one or The Convention in at an end and there is
is vessel had no balance by instalinents, as required, fremover of the Kowloon hinterland. We have to the site of the can. Wherever it is the no boundary.
chout that his v Government is not quite up to the time to me; such further calls un not go farther afield to find the forms origin.
which would make Your Exellaney in mistakeren nade inconvenient for visiting the shore if he Siv very be no doubt that it will
be the largest likely to be ante That it was refreshing to note the return but whist saking for an increase of upital, Now that the despatches are before us we
unde for some time to come,
Volunteer
ever hell in
in Hongkong by the respective Imperial derornments. lay further out. Ha promised to retire of Mr. Chater into public Councillor life, in view of the very probable accession to
While en know for an actual fact that from the on the subject of volunteering. per Neither you'ner I can alter that.' 'Is it when the berth was wanted for larger, ves--
the various Firm to congratulate and to seo low, frooly he supported the the demand for incandescent Gry beginning the Viceroy of Cantonissioned officers who have recent-ed" be naked. I said, 'It is. (I had request, saying that no vesscle but war. then agreed that the houndary is a delinsit sela. The Harbour Master refused the promotion. was abitrarily opposed to the leasingorghly deserve it we can well believe, and further extension had been
That they ther revived the telegram from Peking that any ships which had on board a rational guest
•pen" tay - bo obtained undices of the Pesce has been double bo original capital rather in to
firmly declined.) were allowed to lie at that anchorage. of this territory to the British Govern- we hope the step they have gained will I then called His Excellene's attention The British Consul was also in the office, as a member of the Executive Connell, the working of the Company. The now motab and throw every obstrela pos- pave an incentive to further exertion on categorically to my complaints I said the but did not prase the matter. The Butler
their part.
A flagrant case of oppression liy a trade guild has come to our notice. It appears that some time ago a carpenters' guild at Yanmali induced the carpenters employed
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Important Discovery:
Professor Nagai has discovered i juanus
of securing the ammouia that is set free in
the manufacture of indigo and has hitherto been wasted. Hoenloulates that numonia to the value of
Annually from each indigo vit, and thus a
very large profit may be made.
Yu Man-tze Captured.
The Universal Gaselle saya-Yo Man-
tre was brought undar escort as a prisoner
to Chengta on the 17th July on the charge
civilised mark
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member for the Chamber of Commerce. the near future, your Directors have thought fancy the Momber who repro-it prudent to seek powers to stralway antiisticas since his appointuent increase by snailer sums, as required fur
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the coolies who are to blanie for the blood-¦ wisther the Lyemun fort or
somewa
That the Government fur the Colonial capital will be on essctly the same basis as sible in, the way of its accomplishment. Ofice) is to be congratulated upon the the old opital, and will rank for dividen This must have been known to the Govern 90000s of this little move, and it might according to tho amount from time
tinio
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but wipested the only hope sot po win peld impas such shares. I do not think I non lire before Sir Henry Litat. I tie to the Chamber's combative wem-need take up more of your time to-day, but his mejorable visit to the capital of the
the Executive before putting t the resolution to this meet-
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bee is to put line as a ↑ Ell be pleased to furnish my in.Kwanglung Provinco, and yet the authori- the Chamber appropriate to the use of my duty to call upon.. of having desorted the regiment to which That I Dotico HMS Teal is to go to the formation sliareholders may requin con- lies proferred to temporize with a noto-theso whe pretond tu govern us, but who delay the necessary steps, first, to have the flat the Ministers of the Imperial House-
he was attached, and shortly afterwat ʼn wan personally examined by Viceroy Kue Cluz Yü Man-tze tried to show that he hat asked for leare of ten days to go to his native city district of Talu in order o pay taxes on his loud and that on the ex- piration of his logva ha had returned to his regiment. Great ws: astonishoiut when upon retuming to his post he found that he had been donounced an traitor by
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Bat River. That the British community in China must, C-suppose, be grateful for the momela which fall from the Downing Street table, and thou add So mote it bo
BROWNIE
WEATHER REPORT. The following notice is issued from the Observatory
General Choucroute 8. Ching mud over the Philippines High
stated that whon
K'cel
el Chun telegraphed i Poking
paruission to execute it suntarily
as soon as be entered Chengtü,
but that
On the 20th #: 11.15 a. The barometer bas falles on the E. coast of China, tum in extends from the Picine & of Alspeo, to the coasts of 8. Ching, with lower
the over N. China and the Gulf of
Hecrot degree was sent to that Viceroy oy Fongking Gradients slight for 1 winds
China. Foreesat modoruto E
-winds - showery
ing chat as Vii had been sugeded is in ho, a breach of Lith in the part of Government therebute him and command ng that. Sú be sadtenced to fin prisonnient for life-In Tauthaien, Ya Man-ize's nu Live district, the people have rebelled ná a protekt: against the frontment "chief, while the uen of the distziets
the Tatru robalk
people who were erecting the matabeda had removed on Wednesday to the section for It is astonishing -oh no, not astonishing, been threatsued and were obliged to cease the both of warships.- Chrmiche.
working, and that this 2
pheard sturending expected Laro vocis in I had no wish to use
tentively posted. year leading articles have boon quoted in of the must friendly character, but I felt it Dispatches received from. Peking sista,
him to take
without
nected with the object for which you have riouslydisaffected man rather than proceed | dia't. Our burly village Hampden is
placards removed and the person who wrote bold Department have moved what is been called together.
brought to
second, to believed intelligence of the exis- en called togathering forthcoming the with that British unengy and pluck like the man is 'Little Dorrit,' constantly supply ang protection for the parting tono al & formidable conspimey inculvira Chairman proposed the following resolu- which ins from time immemorial been wanting to know you know, and is causing similar protection to parties surveying roads and the making away with her prmcipal thin, to supply the deposition of the Empress. Dowager, working on mat-thods; synonymous with the actions of our rulets, our local Tite Bamacles on end of worry that we proposed to make for the benefit of appporters, sue ficials (says the N
Lu, Princo Obing, 1 That the Capital of the Company he and any departure from which is always and excitement. Has the attention of the people," He said. 'I will send a tele-Kangur keeping very necros
tion:
increased to the sum of $600,000 by caused trouble--instance our weakness in
of
have
Bet
Occasion. - [
thore
over
etc. The the issue of 20,000 New Sars of South Africa which we are now reaping the Government been drawn to a leading stam to the Son On Magistrate to do what Daily
I said, I must demand some you ask.'
the matter, quietly making their investiga 810 each, which shall be considered the full benefit of. It is the Viceroy of article in the CM. Han H. E. the thing more definita from your Excellency. tions, but it is beloved that the part of the Original Capital and be Canton and his satellites who should have: subject to the provisions in the been called to account for the disturbed Gerner read a statement in the columus As for the San On Magistrate I can expect tors are mostly, if not all, Bannerman, i e Articles of Association contained state of the hinterland and not, the wretch- ofthe C. to the effect that So-and So and we help from him. I am informed by Me Manolas, Mongols, and descendants of
Stewart Lockhart, our Commissioner for Chinese who joined the Manchus when in gül reference to CALES Tansfer od kod who bave bean made to sufier for Brand-So hea a case? Are the Gorem delimitation, that he has been only a ninvading China in the 17th century, generally Insmission Fire surrender rating doing what they were probably told to do.
wer and otherwise and that the The sin of weakness we gare by the Go.met aware that such and such has been drance and thrown difficultion in the way of termed Hanchun. If the conjectures
most beg
se hidden dangers bot prove true, Brector be authorised to issss such verbors visit to Canton has left a legacy and ? and so on and so forth. To all delimitation of Sey will yourself give the only for the Empress Dowager "but for
that Your Excellency Now Shares at par 2. That the said New Shares ba foret polly trouble behind it which it will of which questioning the nonchalant Colo necessary order, and I must also beg that IV.Í.M. Kuang-Heit also, I
take purs bu to the Persons who on the 18th day of sellers hate, when &
・into the Foul Secretary jerks out his answere mono.] be informed that they have ben obeyed ly / real fonds being Chibeajesty's only And, perhaps. sybabically be answer to the first Tuesday next, otherriso I will proceed to soma dozen or twenty young Manchus who of September, 1899, shall be legis. looti district would
question in--Ys; the answer to the second hoist the British flag and takeover the for- joined the Reform Club when first . tgrad Members of the existing Shares whole matter right in the ccarse
Tho 18057 Empres a week The utter absurdity of sending ion is No, until it would seem that titory on Wednesday. At precot I do not in Peleg in
is taking narod and apparently unauthorised for the first aber were being awakened propose to do so until the 17th instant, having been warned, however,
of an in- when the mat sheds will be ready for ecou- the bull by the horns with her outtamary medias into a district known to be for the first time to the grosence
to be dependent journal in their midst. Indeed,
pation.
and defensive measures are being energy riotou and disturbed to publish
His Excellency, having coaafted with secretly minde both for the The Chairman Gentlemen, that is all clamation of so event which the residents Mr Editor, it was time that someone like
Protection apo we have to pay to day We shall require of the aforesaid district had actually been yearsalf should come forward with the several Mandarins at the tab, said he did her Frisco at Ebs Parky and for
born of his convictions and tell the not think that all the men ould be there of herorn pomon Among enrage of the meading leout the make of next month taught to dread has wrought its own con Government what they, too, surely well buiore Wodnesday. I said that I would prepantions the Empress Dowager to contitu, the proceedings of today. I sentoum, and we on only huge will have kon--the utter faree which is being play: not in that ob makes may move before surrounded wherever she goes by thank you for your attendance. Das taught the Government to be wiser inel out bore, nad which wo with a charming Thursday, but while. I knew how anxious pany of 30 of her most dorate notice vit le gaveil of the next mealing: fatura
uanimity agree to terme kool represente His Excellency was to do everything in his semed with Madser repeating Pille tom. Our unofficial members are
kare, that no Odhe orders and neta, and poliermanen Men year ago Futa-juublished a capital - ophers, and Downing Street gule, the speakeas
which work tho Celcom, at h live and Muu-Romerised Muncated florvien, with Both sings w
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Carried
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is the proportion of a New Share for earb existing Shere hold bythem. GT Veitch
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ong the entonale