YOKOHAMA.
Binh property at present does not appear to he in great demand. At the suction Leld by Bessrs. Byton and Prate Lot 134 was bought in at $1,000, and Lot 928 was withdrawn, the highest bid being 60 eants per taubo,
THE DAILY PERSS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER Jce, 18-8.
steel cross-bars, are also from the same firm, prices disproportionately enhanced by the dead widelyk In 1819," when the policy of the country in Witt the opening of the Karaizawa-Komoro of the lid charges, or, if reached at all andor transit the East had to be reconstructed," by desire of action of the Wast-Count Railway, now only to be truntad to from Hankow Ather Lord Clarendon he put his proposals in regard the goods have travelled many hundred Imgana des matter of days, there will be oncoplate rall.com rogd Hoagkong (which we might expect to be their
Sarawak în n dofluito form hefore the British nation between Tokyo and Boligo. The as-ustural depot before the inland journey commanded) Government. He pointed out that, jointly with ment of the Usui Paas takes about two hoaps and and are buslened with the costs of ozira. freight, &.; Singapore, Sarawak wordent that a petty
half and the descent abest two hours. There implied by this enormous défour
Chios Bles: but it will be evident that a It looks as though the Blug is to be lighted are two stations on the way, one at Vani-Baghi, Afr. Hopkins. think that linest absolitbe native Boate so mitaated end okist only at the at Isat as we hear the Japanese and American the other at Hako-Rashi; and the up and down barrier to the extension of trade might be over pleasure of a powerful. European neighbour, Trading Co. as snding out to each resident care, connecting with the traios at Yokogawa, come by giving the provincial authorities on ales apported from without. The question an agroomoat to be signed and are meeting meet at Tamaya. The horses now in uso, two interest in the working of the transit. then atas whether Hor Majesty's Government with good quocers. When illuminated it will to and our, appear to be strong and well-fed system, by handing over to them the amount of have a grand effect from the settlement, and no animals. The construction of this tramway, the fees callasted for trazeit passes by the danbt will be duly appreciated by the "Blutas." which in the result of private enterprise, marks foreign Cualame. There are at present paid into We hope the Company will extend their system distinct stands in the opening up of the coga- the Imperial Treasury, and the Pening authorities to some of the dark streets in the settlement. try, and will, we hope, help to orush out the would probably objest strongly to be deprived Japan Gausite.
miserable nehas, drawn by more miserable of that brates, which are an eyesore to forsiga travelters in the interior. As in the asss of the new road, the whole has been engineered by a graduate of the lets College of Engineering. The assistant emperintendent of the Karina Komoro rond is also a graduate of the sains institution.-Japan
ad.
THE LIKIN TAX AND ITS ABUSES IN CHINA.
WAR.
Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, writes as follows.
to the Times under date of 10th August --In the interesting article on this important subject which appeare in your isma of to-day, you recall Mr. Forwood's remark to the effect that the de- fenen of one commerce, after all does not much matter, since it is impossible in any was to pre vent British sips, from seeking the protection of a neutral dag;” and you most properly say as
THE WASP.".
It was just a year ago yesterday, says the Siu. gopore Free Press of the 11th inst, when these graph:H.M.B. Wasp returned from Johore eolnuns sontained the following brief para- this morning, and left for Hongkong shortly
FOR SALE
"GIRATA" MUAMGIRAFA
FOR SALE.
Hongkong, Canton, and Macao Etiamboat Co.'s
* Shares -- 120 per cent; prom. Indo-China Stam Navigation Co's Share
20 por cent. dievonnt China and alalla Stencily Company, Limited Douglas Ebesnship Company, Limited-258 per 66IRATA BEER, in oases of
$120 per ahsrə, “
"Gacts. Price, 37 per case
share, sales.
share.
-In Liquidation.
per share,
HONGKONG TEMPERATURE.
(From kisses. Fazdowan & Golu xxɑntun)
- Coptember 19th," Barometer A.
MAILS EXPECTED.
THE AMERICAN NÜL
The F. Matenaer City of Sydney, with the
doses bars on the 20th, and may be expected hore on American wait of the 30th ultime, leaves Toko-
This famous GERMAN DEER L light, wholesome, of superior quality, and has arrived in arcelisnt condition-por Mail Stormer.
Apply to
BRANDT & Oo,
18, Stanley Street
Sole Agents. Hongkong, 18th September 1988. 1749
FOR SALE
the 26th instant.
THE CANADIAN MAULA.
The C. P. steamer Abyssini, with the next Canadian mail, left Vancouver for YokohamDa and this port on the 25th Angust.
The GP. sinner Ailang, with the Canadian mail, left. Vancontér m the 14th instant.
·STEAMENS EXPECTED.. The Glon Line steamer Glengle Left Singa- CHAMPAGNE MONOPOLE." pore on the 18th, and is dus hore on the 24th
HEIDSIECK & Co-
Flugtspt:
The Union Line steamer Euphrates left Sin MONOPOLE RED SKAL (median dry)gapore on the 19th, and may be expected to`
Do. "" RED FOIL?,
{(dry). Do.
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Day. Do.
da.
CARLOWITZ & Co., Bde. Agents for Harpstex & Co., REIMS, For Hongkong, Chins, and Japan. Hougkong. 1st July, 1985.
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FOR SALE.
HEIDSI E CRAS
CHAMPAGNE, 1880 WHITE SEAL
$22.
por case of 1 dozen quarta, $23........... per case of a dozen piata. PAUL DUBOIS & C CLABET, GRAND VIH LEOVILLE, MAPA $25 per sae of 1 dozen quarty ¿CLARET-CHATEAU LAROSE. 813. per case of 1 doren, quarts. $14 per case of 2 dozen pintu.
PONTET QANET..
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$9.60
$7.50 $8.50
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Hongkong Gas Company's Shares-$135 par
share Hougtong Hotel Company's Bhares-8170 per will directly or indirectly, afferd the support share. Kada required. He proposed that this support China Bugar Esfining Company, Limited $126 should be given ofther by transfer to the Crown,por alisto, mollarni ta by recognising his own position, or by a pro Luson Sugar Refining Company, Limited-169 toetorate. He was himself in favour of a comportabare Both the Horhi Shinbun and the Nichi
plote transfer, always provided the rights of the Hongkong. In Company's Shares $79 pur Whatever devica is employed to get rid of untives and the claims on the existing Govern Shimbun state that when Isoda and his wife
the dllonity, it is quite clear that the subjestment were guaranteed. But the riogatiations Hongkong and China Bakery Company, Limited were taken to the Peninsular and Oriental Co's
is ons to be carefully considered by the Chambers with various British. Administrations came to $85 per share, Sanship Malan, the woman pointed out the
of Commercs at home, more especially as the nothing, and it was not until 1964 that a tardy Perak Tia Miuing, and Briting Company cabin in which she had, as she alleged, suffered
markets in which this impediment, exists in recognition of the State was rented by the ap such indignities. She failed, however, to iden-
Kwangiang, Keangel, part of Truman and pointment of British Geneal to Sarawak Panjem and Serghie Das Samantan Mining ify her outrager, although she was giyon an
Kweichoware just those whlott the possession Brookay then in England; s jablant, and in Company, Limited-$18 per share. opportunity of examining all the officers and
of Tenguin opens to Fronch, trade. It has been letter of counsel to the present Bajah then Porals Bugas Cultivation Company-Tle. 18 por grow of the ship. It is adglad that the inter-
shown in these columns that under equal aeting as ruler, he said "The protection of share: sonditions the latter has but Kttle chance against England, and, with bee sanction, some arrange Hongkong Rope Manatoaring Company, Lá preter employed was à Chinaman, whose im- perfect knowledge of Japanese caused come
British trade through Hongkong, even with a bent to insura security and permanency of waited-877 per share, sellers., inconvenience. Probably this in the last we shall hose of this strange affair. Is is natural
Thore is certainly no subject connected with reduction of 30 per cent. a. the data on the roveremaat upon my desib, is the second stop" 8. Watson & Co. Limited-100 per cent,
Tangulu frontier, but the conditions would During his last years bis ory was all for stability praxím. that Mr. and Mrs. Isoda refrained from prassing Chine which possessos half as much importanseho far from equal it British goods had to and permanency in the administration of Sara Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown 06, their snit, since it now appears that they could for the foreign trade of that country as the openreach the interior burdened first with the wak, and those be feared could never be iscured Lifted 2102 per share. not have arrsigned anything with certainty tion and incidence of the lifin, or fulaud transit transit tax and then with this local levy of without British protection. Prosperity must Singapore Insurance Company, Limited—$15.
tai. Ons of the main arguts in favour eren anoortuin ament. Broept the room where the lady sniferet.
The fact is pressare must be based on sfability, he wrote on one occa We learn from the Jiji Shinpo that the proof such a large and bonefcial scheme as Mr.
· premia, com Osses of manufacturing pristaatis powder bare Little's experiment in opening the Upper Yaur-ho applied at Peking; it may not be traussion to his successor, or it je no bottor that Hurese Imperial Loan of 1884 B-5 per cent.
mittel very rapilly or to its full exbout to moonshine. But, although matter in Sarawak been elaborated and necessfully carried out by to to izada is that thereby the likin on foreign Canton and so to these responsible for this improved during Sir James Brooke's dealining Chlause Larperial Loan of 1884 C-9 per cent. Mr. Rikke Masats, a naval constructor. Mr. Foods up to Clangikingl be abolished, for irregular tax on foreign trade, but if it is steadily years. It is only now. 20 years, almost to the profum, rom. Rikka experimsated for several youre before at this obnoxions and fojurious tax does not exist
applied
will ultimataly effect its object. Te month, after he was laid to rest in the little Chinese Imperial Lose, 1886 11 par cent.
premium, nom taining the desired rosalta. He had no foreign on goods of foreign origin carried between ports went this the Chamber of Commerce at hema Devonshire churchyard, that the dearest wish of ausistance, and as the methods of inanufacture opened by tresty. During the past two years wat begin by urging the Foreign Oftes to take his heart is about to be gratified, and Sarawak, Société Francaise des Charbonnages du Tonkin
-65 por cent. pram. are scoret, great difficulty attended his efforts the origin and mode of levy of this tax have been the matter up this will not be difflonit. for the with mual more of North Borneo, is about to He finally obtained a ponder equal in all respects frequently explained in The Times in connexion in the imported article, but not content with with the late Opium Convention, one of the pro-reports of the British Coosals at Fakhoi sad to ba phaed under the pretection of this country. Hongkong Bigh Lever Tramways Company,
above referred to, as well as targe from The ngrement effecting this purpose is in Limited 855 per cent, pra, nom, this be continued his investigations until, at a visions of which was that a aum of 80 taela prother Consuls, apply abundant grounds for the same form as these oondlated with the Sul East Bornao Planting Company, Limited-$42
per share, buyers.. series of trials made in the spring of last year chest should be paid on oplam at the port of on-interference. Indeed, it will be the fault of the tans of Rajahs of the various protected States in the presence of high officials and exports, try in lion of fikin, so that the drag can, after Chambers themselves if an abuss which, in the in the Malay Peninsula. The mistions of Great Cruickshank & Co., Limited-13 per cent prem it was found that in powder, not only develop. this payment and that of the import duty, or words of Mr. Hopicing, checks and hampers Britain with the protected States in Borreo vill od less prose inside the bore, but gave a salute without let or biadrance throughout the only the growth of commerce in very doubtless in fature be nader the special care of greater mazzle velocity. The authorities were shole Chinese Empire. It is only reasery now xtensive regions is permitted to endure mask the Governor of the Straits Settlement, who o satisfied with the resulta of these trials to say, in the words of the Consul at Canton, in longer, for thers probably never was a time when already superintends the States of the Malay and of subgaquant teate, that in October his last report (Annual Esries. No. 24), that the Foreiga Olae and our representatives Preinsula. Although the polios indicated by last the Minister of State for the Navy officially lilin was originally derized as a means of abroad were so sensitive to pressure from British this treaty with Barawak may be new so far 13- Bornes is consorned, it has been in full opera- aanoruoad that, thenceforth, Mr. Rikka's lexa 1aining funds for the extraordinary expenses of
tions in the States around Singapore for Bome gonal powder should be neod by all .I...'s the pappremion of the Taiping reballic," and mercantile bodies as they are now—Tincs. abips. Mr. Rikka-hag zaw been rewarded by that, like our own income tax, it proved too con-
which is markod by poses, order, sud good go- the Fifth Clase Decoration of the Rising Sun, guient to be given up when the osas of its E PROTECTION OF COMMERCE IN years past, and has been attended with a saccom and has further reived a prosent of 1.000 gen levy ceased. It is a spacies of ectrai, and is
vernment in the States in question. for his services The hexagonal powder is levied all over the country, on reads, rivers, and Germag javontion, and bog his Excellency anals, at barriers or stations close to each other; Conut Saigo was recently in Europe. be augaged it sing against avery principle of taxation; it is a Gaman erpert, who has arrived. A plaat of arbitrary and uncertain; it varies in different machinery is also expected immediately, so that places, and at different times in the same plan the manufacture will soon be taken up on a large Is collection involves not only loss of money to the merchant, hut an almost intolerable leas of The Bakker Shimoo bas the following It is fire. In addition, it has the faults peculiar to generally believed that though the anther of any tax levied by Chinese officials; but it is not pople who have secret boards of money is very necessary to refer further to these. anall, thore, are in the possession of several of The likin, however, is unfortunately there. to this, "the passing of Brities trade under a afterwards." No ora dreamt that as she the horizon, that we had see the last glimpse the families of the feudal Daimio who wished and being a Chinese internal tax, foreign trade foreign flag cannot be permitted with safety to sailed out to the Eastward and disappeared crer
The Empira." great power before the Restoration large stores must submit to it as long as it exista fost of
Undoubtedly, von are right as to the effect of of that ne vessel and her gallant ore, and that of old silver and gold coins. The raults as its abuses are quite inseparable from any injicst pecially of such patentates as Mayeds of Kaga, in the hands of Chinese officials, but there are cla fransfer of shipping; but Mr. Farwood is from that dato she had vanished into the great same which ought to be removed by the actions right in declaring that such a transtor unknown. That she met her fate in the typhoon filled with money. The House of Satsaus in of the foreign representatives to Peking. To must necessarily take place on the outbreak of that ragad in the China Sea about the 19tli Sop.c pactionlar has the urolit of having hoarded as these refermos is made in a few of the recent war, if that event funda us still bound by the De-tembar is taken se the almost certain cause of large suns of cash, which were swelled by the Consalar reports from Chins. The Consul at claration of Paris of 1856. For, according to that har loss. It was noticed at the time that her de 84,68 Savings of the late Prince Shimaze Hissmitan, Cnator fescribon a struggle which has been Declaration, the ventral flag protects the cargo, appearance had been of long enough duration to The stored away wash gold soin with a special going on for years between the native author even though the produse and propsity of a bol make it certain that she was hopelessly Lost, p purpose in vine. Ancass to these boards, how ties and the fortiga merchants on the subject of gerest, from expture by the other billigerant. that the name she bore was not one of happy B ever, was denied even to the sider Saigo though kin, which appears to have terminated in the Honec, if Engla were at war, English pro omen. It is known that she was the third gan- surely pressul fonds during the prograss of victory of the former. The merchants contended porty, which would be liable to capture and boat of that name that bas best remored in re the South-westo zobellion. Since then all the that by treaty they were entitled to bring their good prize in English vessels, would be safe cent times from the Navy-list by shipwreck, which was totally wrecked on the Donegal gold that has been produced from the gold minos goods into the local markets at tho apan party from captare in nentral veresis. It would, her inediate predecessor being that Waip
tiersfore, most certainly all to shipped in owned by the House of Shimaza has gone to a payment of the import dues only. and that neutral vessels--the mers difference of the war coast, in September 1984 with only six lives awall the already large stores of that family any farther fory while the goods remained in risk of inenrazee would make that eztain and saved out of a crew of fifty-sight. The coin- Rumor has it that several funding statesmen the port was iteral. Once token away from the English easels would be left to rust and idence of the month will not escape notice. Mas Enve approached the present head of the house the ports, the defeatio taxation of China applied
them at breaking-ap prics in order to carry on and probably never will Lucky and unlucky Anoy with the Barcesting that this vast amount of to them. Thus the contention was for freeden rot in port, until the neutrals ouse over to buy Enperstition has not yet died out among sailors,ghai... bullion should be placed at the disposal of the from likin within the port and town; bad with thom the carrying-trade of the world thus associations have with them a weight which hand 5000 Nippon Ginks with the view of strong thoning big successful the people of Cantou would won from this country, No increase of the shore-going folk would pat aside as travin. And its bauds for further issues of paper may have been able to purchase foreign goods English Nary could prevent this ranit, for the there is almost nothing in which a sailor foll ahares being handed over to the Tenders rapra. freed from kin, which would not begin to asating the amount of their faan. Alreads it to operate until they passed beyond the walk of the most complete attainable protection of commerce more of luck or uniask than in the name of his said several consignments of bullion have been city. The Chinese, ou the otaar lind, smart by the Navy would not destroy the war risk, vessel. It will not be surprising if there should sent to Tokyo over 700 shares having been that the merchant and the right to isnd his Not alone actual war, but the mere amoer of be some future rolnotauge, quits unreasonable of war, vill suffice, so long as we submit to be course, in replacing the lost Wasp by a ship of the transferred to Satsuma As the natural con- goods on payment of import duty, but a soun as bound by the Declaration of Paris, to deprive same name upon the Navy-list. It is certainly e sequence of all this the shares are rising in value they were sold to Chuese the Government had n and even at from 235 to 256 gen there are no right to bax their own subjects property. This Baglish Teesals of cargoes, and to drive those little strange that disaster still follows the gellers.
wgament is specious, but will rey bear cargoes into the Reels of States likely to me. It was only the other day that a fatal There is a very circumstantial rumour that a examination, for its effect is to add, in towns remain neatral in the rumoured war. A few accident occurred on Colombo lake where there large surge over a handred thousand tina-of declared open to foreign trade by treats, a date years ago, sach e ramour reseled the East, and is a ferry served by small steamers. One of foundered. about ten minutes after she had desiccated milk which lately arrived in Japan, not allowed at all by tranty to the duty which is immediate result (us testified by Mr. these was overcrowded with passengers and
Horsfail and by many shipowners-balore i has been found to be bad, aroselingly bed, not us allowed-sia, the import dues. The rat Seicel Committee of the House of Commons) was let the jetty. That itisoner als was to put too fue a point on the matter. Whether tion of the Chios Convention, hawever, puts the that at Canton and Calcutta a secondless called the Way. But even in another mary the whole lot is as villous as some parts of it matter now beyoud dispute, for this instrument Ameritas vessel was immediately able to get than the British the name has been connected cartaitly are, we cannot say positively. Stores deolaros that goods are free only within the that have laid is stocks of this, s'af rafuso, it is firaits of the foreign settlements. The result, fraights at a 50 per cent, higher rate than a test with a disappearanes. just se compiste as that of sid, to provide themselves with any other until cording to Mr. Alabaster is injury to class British ship could obtain. It is impossible the reel that sailed from Singapore a yest they have planted thair tainted tinson miserable manufacturers at home, whose goods are heavily it abould be otherwise. Under the old rate of In that delightful book The Auto: Napoleon, a British ship was a safe for British Holmss discourse of the superstitions and customers. We are unwilling to believe the re-handiospped by the increased taxation an the war which we fought under is the wars with ort of the Breakfast Table, Dr. Wendall port in its entirety, but our plaia daty ja to give utter destraction of the business of the fare property as a neutral for the property in both loved so woll I would not outgrow.
delusions of shildhood," sweet delusions, il publicity without delay. The dishonesty of resident importere
was equally liable to captare, and net more in such a proceeding on the part of grocers palea If illu and daty were both collected honestly, the one than in the other. And nnder this rule we them, even when it required a voluntary before the fact that babies are virtually dependent foreign imposter and the satire loosi morohast would not only maintained our commerce tarongheus effort to pat a momentary trust in bin, Here 01 tinned milk at this season. Terrible catas be on the same footing, but where the collection is the long and terrible wars, hat increase it is one which I cannot help telling you" And than he proceeds: The firing of the great trophes way be the consequence of subh reckless not farmed to some loo) syndicate, who thereby ab. ness Another rastter that ought to be brought tain the monopoly of the trade, it is collected in the a lot only kept our own trade, we also gus at the Nary-Yard is easily heard at the
Bat we „to the untics of families is that desiccated milk; put out of competition, 4 forolguar imparts a verta almost entirely destroyed that of our enemics-
place where I was born and lived. There is a nenal Asiatic manner, and the foreigner in thereby "made in Japan battiuned and labelled in fo- quality of goods, and has to pay fall likin npsn finn, though at que time they, inglated the whole of skip of war come in,'.they used to say, when reign style, is in the market, ia grost or small but his native rival makes an arrangement with the the Powers on the whole of the western ocasta wilt vessels exma in unexpectedly, ofter indefi they heard them. Of course. I supposed that quantities. The Japanese may be able to manu-liku orilactors by which a portion of the 1 of Burope, from the North Cape to the Rock of only in paid, che difference being shared between ba
kod Shimaza of Satsuma, aro said to be wali
fall daty sad likiz against a native merchant who
to the lilin cicer as a bribe, 's
REGISTER.
18th Sextember, 15oR, $1 4 2.37
Tokio 29.03
ወሲ
Marile, MAG
LATION,
19:24 September, 1988, 41 10.430.
Wind
Tock i 50407
Magami
9019 20,07
24,83
Benchcare..
The boromnie
Pollen Mong the coast, brigh gradienia The light. Clondy and rather warm and dry weather prevails. W. DOBERCK, Hongkong Observators. 10th September. 1858.
METKUROLOGICAL REGISTER.
Burolactorie Temperatarajan, Fluidity...and m Direction of wind
Weather matte
Fores of wind........
ain
Provious day. st
2013
On date On date at 10.a.m. at 4 pm.
89
22
B.N.B.
E
3
0.
0.85
L-BAOva refield to 85 degrees Fahrenheit at the level of the men in inchar, inathe and bodredi.
2.-TIMERKATUgn in the shade in degrees Fahrenheit, 3-vary in perenatzage of saturation, the humidity al
eth notaturo Voing Jé
or Wine to two points. --Ten or a Wine carding to Beamfort Beals. BMIT OF TEM WITH. D. kho này; 0, Retaclied
F.
E.git ping; D.everesat) Lessingedower,qually B000; T. bander v.meitility; W. dew (wet),
Oumúlaza in fashes, tentba and Enndredtès,
W. DOBERCK, Hongkong Observatory, 10th September, 1889
INTIMATIONS.
IMPAIRED VISION.
KONG WILL TERMINATE ON
THE 21ST INSTANT.
HONGKONG HOTEL
................. per case of 1 dozen quarts. PALMER MARGAUX.
per of 1 dozoa quarts.
per case of 2 dozen pints. LOEMONT.
........... Per onso of 1 dozen quarte JOHN WALKER & SONS OLD HIGHLAND WHISKEY. 38 per case of 1 dozen bottles. AL90. "BUTLER PALMER & Co.'s
WINES AND SPIETTS.
Hongkong, 1st January, 1884
.
arrive here on the 25th instant.
The O. 8. 8. Co's stoamer Prometheum loft Singapore on the 19th, and is, dus bors on the 25th instant
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absolute impotence to act against our enemy's was supposed to be lost. But there was no proof
(Boom No. 20), Soph. lat, 1889. to go direct to come of the beat Zorolga atores,
Mr. Alabaster does not think the collection of trade, which will be carried on under our nose, of it, and, of conres, for a time, hopes were en- and even then to retaember what we have writ the likin as well as the import duty by the and vary largely in what once were British vessels. tertained that she might be heard from Long
(CONSULTATION FREE). tan ahase. One thing more. A peoutier case foreign onitems would improve mattors for Le We shall be prohibited free capturing the after the last real chance had utterly vanished, staying at ought to our notion A family believes the likin would be levied nuder some memy's property: we shall only be allowed to 1 pleated myself with the fond illusion that same One Third of those anfoting from Elindness staying at Miyanoshita sent to Yokohama for u other name to set local needs sotkut the rat cut his thread. But we shall rarely have oven where on the waste of waters she was still lost trace their calamity to the use of COMMON dozen ting milk Ton days elapsed before the stats would be worse than the first.
that opportunity, far, with his trade carried on ing and there were years during which I rever SPECTACLES or LENSES imperfectly tins arrived, und it was then found that ono bali
An even more serious abuse is reported by for him by the nontrols, he will have nothing to hened the sound of the great guns booming in-adapted to the Sight. of them were of Japanese manufacture, An the Coneal at Pakloi, the port through which drive him to sex, and will save his throat by land from the navy yard without saying to my
self, The Wasp has come! and almost täisk- 8. R. GROOM, Esq., F.R.G.S., Barrister-at-themselves it explaing subjects fully with which exchange bad been affected en roads by some the foreign trade of the extreme mouth of China staying fast in his own ports.
rory few indeed of there are perfectly sequanto. Fer Connoisseurs the following have their own
distinctive merits- dishonest person. We have thus far considered is ontried on (Annnal Series No. 192). Az at Ten rightly say, as to the loss of our carrying ing I would see her, weather beaten, barnacled, br Bingapore, writer
I have weed glanses for twenty years, and have To parties resident in England and interested the case of foreiguare only. But what of Japa tompt to remore is part some of the evils of the trade, It must not be." But, Sir, it must be with shattered spars and thread-bare enivas, wal-
*AMOROSO," a Stouter Wine, very popular. cos fans? They also use large quantities of systein of levying likin was made in the trade will be unless some Tanglish Minister is leand commed by the shouts and tears of thousants. This no hesitation in saying that, those supplies in Chins it enunot but be invaluable occasion The INVALIDs" palo, doliasto, ins favor tioned milk, and in the majority of. Instanesa It
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The tramway Line which has been for some 1885 on the foreign trade of China that Sir James Brooks, by Miss Jacobs and Sir time in course of construction up the Usui Pass, sommeren" would pertainly us trobled er quai. Spesser St. John, will not be likely to forget the is now completed, and is astrally in operation. plod by's more loyal fnialment of the transit of ouos the geaine of this remarkably man sus history of the present State of Sarawak. Out Starting from & compound lose by the railway pase system, and any reasonable development of terminat Yokogawa, it follows a track of iis į better weans of communication. But the anovedad in orvating a mottled, s vail-governed, own to the left of the Nukasendo, which it ex- tors bear the foot of a declivity some hundred gement is not loyally carried out; on the sada pesesfol State; under his own rats and contrary, says Mr. Hopkins, "it is ompletely that of his successor of diferet and Eostile yards from its starting point. It then arvesse and purposely frustrated by the Provincial do rass, who, as far back as history records lived by ON the valley by the highway bridge, bas another vernment at Cautou, whose fasal nevarsities are pray, murder, and rüpite, Bottled down to lives step ascent orasee it to more of again to the directly interested in. nullifying the transit pass as orderly and regalated as those of the inhabit, left, ander the shadow of the Myogi olife. Near stipulations of the treaties. The pathod in ante of the last governed British colony. In the ON Sakamoto it re-enters the Nakasando for good which this is does shows the preagirzos of 3r vers first year of his governmens (1841) the The main street of that rather diety wil ngo has
Alabaster's observation, quoted above, that if Bajah wrote to his rather that the Sultan and stream running through its centre, and is con- this foreign Customs sellested the bikin, it would bis obicis rob all olasses of Malays to the staest ON sequently of acnsiderable width. The tramway arias again under que other came to meet the the Deals, hide their goods as much as they dare the Malaya rob the Dyaks, and of their power line raus up the village on the left side, and there provincial financil requirements. The praction after alinge to the right-hand side of the news te impose a heavy differentis! duty on " certi, consistently with the safety of their wires and ON CALCUTEA.— › road or Shindo, which was constexofad about five feated goods (tress, namely, conveyed to a children." How this grant, this hiassed work, it years ago, and has nowhere a steep gradient giren iniand centre ander transit pass) en son ay may well be called. was performed is a matter of his Persons of very nervous temperament will not they reach their destination, sud ars depcaited to From the very firstibe projectof placing the ON find the journey particularly agreeable. For in a native warehouse there, the prigrister of State be was engaged in creating cader the pro- most of the way the road is cut out of the side of which is held responsible for payment. The duty teation of his own Government was very near his precipitous cliffs and when the tznok, as is so100 is so levied that the goods cannot pay, both it beurt. Be even offered to transfar it to the timas necessary in rounding at sugle, mores to and the cost of the transit pass cartitoate, and, to cover what he regarded as his ove obligations the left to the edge of the road, the passager ommercially speaking, survive; hence the ova fels as if suspended in air. The simple, even will not take and transit passes when they have to the natives; but for many years be could not rade co oxfrústion of the cars, tends to augment to pay the transit dues under another name later eten obtain the smali kosa of 10cogaition of the! this want of eosidence. A narrow gauge is im- parative, both on account of the sharp angles focus by paying thess dues they save the cost of carry as an independeat State from the British Union Insuration Society of Cauten, Liibited- the road and on account of the other tree, the pass. The plan is quite binose in its in- Government. America and Italy gave this ro
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