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NASR ED-DIN ON HIS TRAVELS, The Shah of Persie has crossed the Rumian frontier p
A NEW RUSSIAN LOAN.“
I that style, after it has been permitted for so think, meet with the severe condemnation of inuy years, it soauté reasonable that some even the Downing Straat, authorities. As lo other meats of sffecting the purpose that the danger of wounding national suscepti throwing the whole coat and responsibility bilities, the Extradition Bill is & measure
It is reported that a now Russian loan of on the ownere should be found. As Ilis that must be fairly and openly discussed $10,500,000 (Fanbles P) iz gold is to be issued Excellency romarked on Thursday, this in all its bearings without too much for conversion. system would have caused a vast amount regard being paid to remote contin
FROM HINGAPORE PAPERS]
PABIB, 5th May
!
MH SHEPPARD mid that owing to his tenary of the loangaration of George Washing-paper to Australia, and a sum of £21,000 was rockit visit to Borneo he had listened with the tan as first President of the United States have written off prior to the suspension of payment.
THE CZLEINA'S, HEALTH. grotest interest to Mr. Francis's graphic commenced hare and all business is entirely stop.
LONDON, 15th April. Bccount at the place end he could from his ow ped. Numerous race tlors and veremonies on a
The nervous aroitement from which the E- exporiones work what Mr. Fraapia had emid, grand seale will be held during tho festival. He wished, however, to make a few remarks
press of Russia has hean suffering for some time THE OTIUM QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT: on one or two points mentioned by Mr.
LONDON, 4th May. past is now abating, and her recovery is hoped for.
THE CZAR VISITING PARIS, In the House of Commons Inst oight Me. Francis te provort a wrong, impression being
17th April. carried away. In the Companies in which his Samuel Smith brought forward a motion, con- Arra was interested the lard was sarrayed and demning the opium trade between India and
It is reported that the Czar Alexander in- ent more into blocks with a sposial view to China and routing the reimposition of the tends to visit the Paris Exhibition
A ENVULUTIONARY LAND BILL. avoid getting any land upon, which there wrectton dufies. Sir John Gorst apposed the
LONDON, 16th April. The Freeman's Journal (the Irish Nationsliet with regard to the China Berso Company said the Chinese Government must be left to that their representative, Mr. Abrahamson, re- deal with the opinas question as acting Chiaper states that the Government will short- introduce Land Bill for Ireland of a revo- ided in. Sandulan where he could at all times 1080 moralit in asean of difaulty have the best advice in- The motion was eventually rejected by 16 Intionary obarnster.. mi dintoly from the Givernor and offisiale.
of irritation, friction, and difficolty, and the gencies of that kind. If in the course Chiasse, not understanding the object, would of the discussion something be said THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT ON PRE-alive asaers already. He might also add motion un inancial and commercial grannis and hive been led to believe that the Govern- that may offend the Vicaror of Canton or
In splendid weather, President Cazzob opened
CORRESPONDENCR.
SIDENT CARNOT'S LIFE. ment was to a certain extent committing ex- the Peking Government, the injury to their å man fred a blank cartridge at Profident propriation by putting conditions on their feelings may be regretted, but no interdiet Carast, with the intention of thorsby drawing property which they did not expect when must on that secouns be placed on from distention to certain wrongs he has suffered.
against votes.
THE SUUAE BOUNTIES CONVENTIO BILL they bought it. It would, merourer, Unve Loansion. We question very much, too,
PARIE, 7th May,
LONDON, 30th April. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Laken this system a long term of years to whether the Chiness Governmost would
The opposition by the Radical party to tho anva roved the evils it was designed to under any circumstances make a mers nowa
Bill brought forward by Beren De Worms for cure; the Governor places the term at from paper report a matter of diplomatis repre- the Exhibition with a sposob walming all We do not hold oursives roepopeikle for the opinions the expantion of Sugar Bounties Convention is
expressed by our Correspondents.]
da ly increasing zodseveral Conservative and fifteen to twenty years, but we think this is sentations, or whether they would attach peoples to the Great Festival of Labour, which
Liberal Unionist members have started a me THE PURCHASING POWER OF very much under the mark, for although the importance to the speeches of the trusted might tend in some degree to tasten
morial recommending Mr. Sulh to withdms SILVER
the bill that may be tho. Average life of a hones in Governor of Hongkong that Sir WILLIAM the advent of the time when the resources of
MANCHESTER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE UZе The best Mid Aperient for Doicals Constitu.the colony, many houses exist beyond the Da Vœux seems to imagine they might do autions would be solely employed in works of
ING CONSTRUCTION OF INDIAN BAILWAYS. sane, Ladies, Children, and Infants, and for reyntur aromige term, and the very class of property Chinese officials in the retirement of their
30th: April. ten in Warm Climaten. DissEFORD
On Sunday the President availed a tablet at Co., Chemiata,
Vorstillos marking the opening of the Staten
The Manchenter Champor of Commeroo has re- In your leader of May 15th, I understand you London, and of Drugalete and Storcksapere through in which it is desired to effect improvements, Kainens are not 60 cavily touched. out the WorkL
that is, the dwelling-houses occupied by the would in many respecte be well if they were. General in 1789, with an eloquent speech in
to state that first, gold has ap; reciated in solved that the bas arrived for pushing on the N.B. As for DINNEFORD'S MAGNESIA.
purchasing power of silver and commodities; construction of Indian railways in a more vi Agents. S. Watson & Co.. Hongkong. [306 lower classes, is the class in which rebuild.
which be said that França has now finally hopkon scound, silver bad at fallen in relation to com-gorous manner than at present ne such a sÖZTIU modities aid in China and India is evou appro- would be likely to benefit trade and industry ing is as rale deferred to the utmost pos
with one-msa power."
LONDON, fih May,ciating third, silver aurings converted into gold and promote the utilization of "istant resouros sible limit. Some speedier menos therefore
se not the equivalent of what they were fifteen of Indiu was required of removing the admitted orila of the present style of Chinese houses. meses is provided in the Crown Lands Be. *amption Ordinance. The preamble reads as. follows:-
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We are requested to state that the Band and Pipers of the A. & S. Highinules will not play pa the Cricket Ground to-day.
'The departure of the P. M. steamer City of Sydnee for San Francisco is postponed to day Eight to-morrow (Sunday)
peace.
THE FARNELL COMMISSION, In oroga-examination Mr. Parnell admitted
in tlas Buuss of Commons, that secret societies
TO THE LATTOR OF THE "BAILY PSY98," SB-I beg to thank you for courtacu ly publishing and bom eating on my letter.
years ago.
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THE B. I. CO's. STEAMER "MANOBA" EN COLLISION,
Loxnos, 29th April. The British India Company's stoamer Manors,
outward bound to Calcutta, has returned to Gravernd with hor bows etere in, har no besh in
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THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.
LONDON. 16th April. Count Harbert Bismarck and Horr Krauel will probably attend the Hamcan Conferenna, which meets at i erlit on the 1st May, as repre- sentatives of Gormzy.
The Kolnische Zeitung expresses the opinion that the presence of Mr. Bates, who has beon appointed one of the American representativón at the confaronco, and is known to hold strong anti-German sentiments on the question, will teud to lessen the chances of an amicablu kult from the conference.
Telegrams from Washington indicate that the United States Commisioners will be directed to insist on the absniate antenomy of the Samoan Native Government
The Berlin correspondant of the Daily Newe assorts that Lord Salisbury bag, refused to allow the Agathiau colonies to send delegates to the
Samoan Conferguet.
COMMERCIAL INTELLAVENUE..
Quotations are
Mr. O. N. Denny, Foreign Adviser to the Whereas the dwelling-bouson on aortain portions of King of Kores arr ved here yesterday by the Joob was to misland the Honas of Commone sad depreciation of silver,■** *; such u div rge ce collision with a French steamer of Dungeness., New Muwa..
P. & O. steamer Penhour.
land under kanse from the Crown, especially in the HESE SOAPS, being specially prepared city of Victoria, are of insanitary construction 68 re for use in Tropical Climates, will be found, gurds conditione of mir and light, and it is expellant meet efficacious for cleansing and purifying the that the Governor should be ampowered to acquire or Skin, and for preventing contagia from Feversion to the areation of improved henses or dwellings. resume ruch lands and buildings compulsorily with a of all kinds, and sextagious dissos generally: tterson, and doubts have arisen whether the rosunp They eat as a mild stimulant, a wall as ation of saca laude for the purposes aforesaid and for doparative ned disinfectant; readily allay irrita other purpose beqafimisi to the pabile of the colony tion of the Skin, otro and prevent prickly heat, is within the name and intent of the powere af and other Skin diseases prevalentin hot climates, resumption for a public purpose contained in the and are strongly recommended for general use Crown loases of each lands. and it is expedient to m by all the leading and most eminent Medical Practitioners.
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move anch doubts, and whereas it is orpoñiest that
the duty of determining the value of lands resumed to be award iron in the furovar General to to be awarded in rumper Storeof ander Gown Inagan Board of Arbitrators to be approved for the purposes Rait anseted, eta..
for a public purpose and of fixing the compen
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| learn the colony wisen they become sick, and
Old Mulwa
Older Malwa
In support of the first and second you refor having declared, knowing the sums to be untrue, to the Currency Commission, which for rted
In-consilo ing ou conclusions on the question bad ceased to raist, He explained that his ob- to what extent the fall in the price of silver ling
taken the forma of so appreciation of geld er prevent the passing of the 1881 Corcion Bill. of opinion manif sted itself but "ae, aruto-
The Accona Books of the Tags have reports b d to be made." One siden brevert that disappeared
"the fall in the price of commodities may be in Mr. Farull's admission has conso a great they believed the fall to be mainly dus to withs petition giving partlcalars of a grossatus (Now)
part das to an appreciation of gold," and that
onietances independent of the altered relation of gold to silver. The other side dissented from this opinion.
Yon may renombor that in the Manchester Ata meeting of the Hongkong Lerry SoReport en Indiau Yarns one sis held that the ciotyheld on Tharaday evening, Mr. Francis, Q.C., The Ceylon Observer says that the M. M. delivered a leotaro with the above tith. At the outlay in India on machinery, cotton, coal, and imported storen inoreses in reise ratio to the steamer Uaus bala brockdown on the voyage opening of the lecture Mr. Pranois said his fall in the gold value of silver, and that wages, slight accident, and she had to put into Aleron Borres, but on a visit to Boruso, and there that fall, ie. that they are affected in titre. cat. It appears that her engines sustained bearers would observe that he was not to lecture taxation, &e are not immediately affected by
andria for repairs.
The Agones (Messrs. Adema, Boll & Co.) inform us that the steamer Bakh, from Liverpool, laft Singapore yesterday morning for this, ort.
forta na that the O. 8. Co.'s steamar Tele- The Agents (Messrs Buftorfeld & Swice) la- machus, from Liverpool, luft Singapore yester day morning for this port
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The British despatch vessel, Alacrity," Com- Sarawak on the 7th instant. She reports that mander Maconcchie, arrived at Singapore from at 15.40 a.m., on the tu instant, IL M. S Imperianse laft Sarawak for Entavia..
On Sunday marang, between 8 and 10.30 o'clock, the steam launch warrying the Bethel fag will call alongside sny vessel hoisting code pennant C. to convey men ashore to 11 am. ser- vies at St. Peter's (Seaman's) Church, rotarning about 12.30.
Attention is directed to the announcement on our front page of an important sale by anotion at Shanghai Or 18th proxims Mr. Hey will sell the whole of the machinery, sto es, tools, ke, forming the working plant of the Shanghai Glass Works.
broke. A new shaft was fixed q, and sho came
in fow hours later.
sansation.
A VISIT TO BORNEO.
fore they mist not expect him to give them
Taking the Economist's figures for the 1st valuable information as to the resources and January, you will find that the index numbers prospodia of the Companies recently formed rem 2500 in 1871, and 2728 in 1977-is. that alluded to the comfort and carvanicno higher while between the two years silver's for working British North Borneo
Having the prices of sommodities zavusared in gold ware of the steamer Memnon, by which he made the ratio te gold fell from 15 57 to 17.99. By your passage, the footurar said that the steamor was
reasoning, gold instead of appreciating, had thas this occasion orcaded with coolles who were bet purchasing power, and silver had lost still, going to Britisa North Borneo On going on.
more. I have no Inter figures at band, but board he and be noticed the evergetin Registrar General, exstaining the tickets, comparing the ink that prices in gold continued to rise for passengers with flair photographs, and seeing that they were not robbed by the laipios of boarding housekeepers, who swarmed around.
BANDAKAN.
the whore
little time
THE ARMENIANK AND TURKEY,
CONSTANTINOPLE. ård May. A demonstration has taken place dern of 500- Armenians who paraded the streets and after. warda waited on Kiantil, Paola, Ġrand Visior,
otrocity committed at Mnoh Kamao by Kurils who vatråged and afterwards burned a young girl in the presence of hor parenta, Tho peti tioners lendly demaited reparation from the Porte, otherwise they would ask Russia to an the provinca. SENTENCE OF THE REBELLIOUS ZULU CHIEFS.
CAPETOWN, 27th April. The trial of Vodabuko aul Dinizala has poncited. Both bure boon found guilty of transon, and the former has been satenced to Biteen years, and the Istior to ton years' in- prisonments, without hard labour.
#BAKP SKIRMISH NEAR WADY-HALFA.
Carro, 1st May.
A sbory skirmish has taken place near Wady. Halfs between the garrison and dervishes, in which the latter were roud by the Egyptian
avalry and lost forte in killed and prisonera.
NHARTOUM TAKEN BY EL BENDUREL
CATRO, 9 April It is credibly reported that the Shokh El Sanoussi. has taken Kbarton.
·WAR İKİ ABYSSINTA.
ROME. 4th May. The latest advices from Abyssinia state that
the King of Shes who has proclaimed himself Nogus is marching on Arows and that he is so- ecmpanied by the Italias Autoaielle.
TURKEY AND ZANZIDAD.
«TEREMY AND JAPAN.
CONSTANTYORLE 29th. April. The Porto is seating a special mission to Japan with the Turkish decorations from the Sultan for the principal Fapsones dignitaries,
THE SHAN'S VISIE TO EUROPE.
ALLAHABAD, 25th April.
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Power is therefore conferred upon the Go- vernor to resume any land the resumption of which may be deemed expedient in the interest of the public, the amount of compensation, in the evout of the failure of private negotiations, to be Bred by a Dourd of Arbitration. The Or-
Mr. Arthur Crump had just proved, to bi dinauce serves & double purpose, not only
own satisfaction, taat prices in recent years did giving facilities for the improvement of the
not fall, owing to a scarcity of gold. With 1bese slums of the dry, but also establishing
condieling authorities it does not seem to my After doserbing the passage to Bruce, that the appreciation of gold, and the unchanged more satisfactory system of determining the
the lecturer went on to describe. Sandakan ratio of silver to commorfifies, have been cou Sandakan was now, he said, as far as he old clairely shown, or that there are not grounds Amount of compensation to be given to per
make out, what Hongkong must have been 40 for believing that silver has lost purchasing sons whose property is resumed by the Crown either for that or any other purpose.
years ago, with the exception that while Hong-power of commodities in bath East and West, koog, according to all acecnats. was then His Excellency in stating the arguments
absolutely bore of trees and vegetation, which is act incompatible with an appreciation
of gold.
~ CONSTANTINOPLE, 27th April. Our readers are reminded that tonight at Borneo was one mass of vegetation from the I would be again obliged if you would explain
Fhe Tarts bas oppointed a diplomatic agency Frico 75 Cents per Box 3 Boxes, $2death rate of the colony, which last year was the Illusionist, will give her farewell performauen The bills worn dovered with treat and shrubs been comparatively little change in the relativa Missicus.
in favour of the Bill siladed to the bigh the Theatre Royal, Cily Hall, Madame Corz, summits of the bills down to the water's edge. way--if cvca iz gold asing erint, ies there lase at Zanzibar similar to the British and German $172. The Hon. P. RYAIE expressed the and take hoe beneft, and we hope she may have a while the plalas below were a tangled maa-value of siver and the leading codities
Yon might acrumble for milaa silver rings converted into galdra-note-the- bumper loase. This afternoon tadaye Cora will grove swamp.
Hongkong & S'hi opinion that the death rate of Liverpool was entertain the jureuilca at a special performanss through the swamp and for soms stones equivalent of what they were fiftu parag
New Oriental ..............! as high, but the hon. gentleman's recoliger || :
again through mud and water, till you.
I take it for granted that you mean to con
China Horneo........ A fire broke out in a matshed, occupied by arrived on sold ground,, Bnt from one end to the
Chine Sugar tion evidently deceived him, the Liverpool three old women, in the Sbaakiwas-mad, our other, and he had been round the whole extent demne currency policy of England and
Chinese Loan '84 B Germany when you my it has secured almost
Chinese Toh 84 Cl rate being only 20.3. But it is in fact in the Polo Ground, on Thursday evening. The of the coast, the place was simply one mass of the whole of the consequent appreciation to gali
Chinese Loan '86 ET3, 2500 11.et. prem., nom. possible to insitute any fair comparison fire spread, to two other matabeds and as there the most beautiful vegetation insgirable alone, leaving silver where it was." Approdin The Shah loft Teheran on the 13th instant Cruickshank & Co.... Tas no water obtainable, they had to bi loft to Speaking of Sandakan itself, Mr. Francie said tien is harmint a well is depreciation, not by ronte march for Tabriz, then he goes zie Darsel Bay Trading between Hongkong and other places in this burn themselves out. The damage dose is esti-though it was now a busy place and becoming only in its hardships for lebtors but because it Tiflisand Moscow to St. Petersburg, where he Fenwick & Co., Geo- respect, for the reasons stated by tho Govermated at $860.
every day more active it was still in the very first unsettia the standard of value for exchange, remains siz dayans guast of the Czar Travel Gruan Island Cement dor, natusty, the great number of people who
stages of its growth. There was not a single both in ho gold using countries and in their ing by way of Wars . Berlin, muid Hollaud, he Hall & Holtz C. Co. The 50 T. 26 According to the Penang Castle the O. S. 5. pukka structure in the whole place. There commerce with silver asing countries: What is propuses reaching England in Juce and staging Erick & Comert. $12.50 $26, cum new call. Co.'s ateamer Stander, whina arrived at that port | was not a single building of wood or wanted is a mediom of exchange whose value there twenty-five days. The retura journey. & C. Bakery the small proportion that the number of from Liverpool on the 6th inst, was detained a stone. Everything was of timber, Lariboo various little as posible. One an despir will be made through Paris Switzerland and Hongkong & C. Gas
short time within six hours' steam of Muka being largely used. The Prays or whore interested in the subjet as the Financialonstantinople. Takeran beingreached in Sep-
II. Dairy Farm...... Have attained a reputation in the Far East
children and aged persons in the colony bear Head owing to an accident to her shaft, which she Prays is to be is a timber pier and the Sematary of India, Sir David Barbour, has tember Tha Shah's saite number forty, in.. Electric Light... which askes them aniversal Toilet
to the whole population. It is true there
Queen's Road is also a timber pier. A number written regarding the position of silvor The clading the Prime Minister and chief oficials. Requisitos.
dro places with a higher death rato; May
of houses were spattered about here and there praient condition is not ens of permanent. bat none of his sons. Guaranteed to be absolutely pure, and may be drab, for instance, hee a douth at of 39 The Straits Two Bay Wenders hovel to banses as bias a Chires bons on the progress in the direction of demon timing silver of every descriptica sad size, from the smallest equilibrium Either there will be coutimes wed by Tadias and Chikiren with the most but is hrs also birth tale of 40.8, while in that the directors of the Jel ba Mining Co. base Praya here. On hill, hero' and there, were and substituting gold, or the world will revont delicate Complexions and wositive. Skins
BERLIN, 28th April. The Conference on the Samoa question was deposited $100,000 with a local bank at per bungalows without any four wiiterer of producing inita Hongkong the birth rato is only 678. cent. interest. The rate is high; hui-tha dirvoafers and planters ive.
officials, Fauropean to the old system of double legal tender." In opened hera toxiny with Count forbert Bis tion, at any season of the year. Being peti Although the death rate vally dry and firm, they will be found most
of Hongkong tors had the money to end when money was 150 houses is the whole place and these were other words, the time must come when there will marok as President.
be a resero to a single standard for the whole
BEIJN. 1st May of tight, and they seem to have taken toll advant scattered over the hills. At the tuck of the world of commeras, whether one retal or two be economical in use.
compares favourably with that.
It is expected that the Samoan conference WATSON'S PURE TRANSPARENT
j'age of the circumstances Madrus, taking simply the tolls,
Praya and the Queen's Rond was a small comparison of the death rates in dif. It is ramcured says the Ceylon Observer) that town in its earliest stage with reads like the hill used by the world as the medium of exchange will remetoa, Maliesta who has been rosed
paths at Aberdeon or Stanky. The people liv When thin corto pass there will no longer by the Emperor William's orders:
be need for the proposed inquiry at Hongkong, the Mesagerius Maritimes Company will short- of Pure Glycerino it is possible to introduce interesalt very dnfavourable to Hongkong from Marseilles rs Adoni to Bombay and Kur they had a dance at which, tsey could beast than before the demonetization of silver by the owing to a submissiva menga mosired from Guaranteed to ontain the largest percentage ferenje groups of ages, would, we believe, te commence running a line of steers directing at Sandaken were Rotire, businessliko, tud ad exetango will be no mors a clog to trade The Emperor Willian has released: Makötés
hospitable. On the evening after he arrived Bay 587. Specially recommended-to all who But it needs no argument to prove that rashes, doing away with the branch serrione less than thistona ladies who danced with have a very delicate Skin easily affected by wind and weather.
which now exists in connection with their Austhe utmost vigear till three in the morning.
CONFERENCE ON THE INDIAN WHEAT FRÅDE, light and air in dwellings are essential for tralian and Madagascar steamers between Adan He doubted in the early history of Hongkong
Lorpor, 28th April. WATSONS-PURE OPAQUE TOILET-
the maintenance of the public health. We and the last two mentioned ports, and making whether it could have masterol somary On
The invitation to a. Conferense, is ned by "MUD," ̄ ̄MUDDLER, MUDDLIEST, Lord 'Crosa fo those interested in the Indian cannot quite see, however, how the Govern. it direct from Marseilles.
his arrival here in 1350, it was considered.
TO THE MOTOR OF THE DAILY TRESS." wheat trade, has been warmly approved, and the À varied assortment of favourite kinds; themont is going to carry out the contemplated The friends here of Major Churchill' great feat. to get twoaty lies at a
SIR-Iso it was stated in the Logislativa chief cities of Great Britain, and ireland are principal difference between them being more rebuilding of the warst portions of the pa- D.A.A.G. Inte 58th Regiment, may be in public ball. Having given a short history of the Conseil sed it seeme to be generally anderate dissuing delegates to attend it. are pare, and the base of all is the same, but the siderable expenas. His Exacloney spesie Easter Meat, held the last week in April. By
ben very encasestni at the Nuwara Eliya went on to speak of the
the water for which we pay at such a high rata RESOURCES OF BRITISH-NORTH JORNED For yours nobody could be found to believe in is caused by the excavations in the hills above of giving the ownors "tary full compons to report in the Ceylon Times we note that the cruntry ve risk capital sad time in iuros- the Polfalut Reservoir, but I am told that the
pony Stolbok carried three Yants, PLEASE OBSERVE-Buck Tablet bears our tion," and "the utmost compensation." But vis. In Las first us. The Gallowsy Fisker; On Bigating its wealth and rescuras: The British real cause is that sous auddler recently ordered Bengal Stuff Corps, has boon' Fannd in the conal Luton Engar
Nange and drade Mark, without which none apart from any question of generosity, it is the second; The Governors Cap, nud on the North Borneo Company had a territory of the reservair to be cleaned () out; that is that at Winchester. His death is believed to have aro genuino.
something liks 40,000 square milae, nearly the sodat at the bottom, wlis, as all men of resulted from accidental drowning. matter of general experience that when land third-day-The-Forced Ha: díosp
overy part of which is extremely fertile Only ordinary intelligence boow, forms in conres of of all the different Soaps we make.
Ak for Special Bill giving full particulars is purchased for public purposes, the price Facits) that the Dutch fort at Edie bas been but the other tracts were known to be as poso this canid sorts beyond the inconvenience, News has been renaised in Penang (says the portion of that was at present being worked, time into a hard day, be stirred up. What pur
In the Home of Commons last night Mr. Planting that has to be paid is almost invariably by a large force of Aobiness, said to fertile as that portion, which
was rich pense, and big big D which are now so plenti. Samuel Smith mored a realation condemning the We also keep in stock a great variety of the somewhat over the true market value, stucked by these thousand, and that they in every description of mineral, while huge fal portaps you will kindly find out for a suffer. Fiscal System in India & tanding to promets and that being so. the prospect of making a have been repalsal with a loss of sixty dead on rivere ran into the cost of considerable ing public. Had the reservoir beer deepened or babits of intemperance and misery among the profit on the resale of the land with more the field. During the engagement the garrison breadth and deep enough to be navigalarged it might have been well to suffer people of that country. Sir Roper Lothbridge, Bhai & H. Wharf.The. 100 TL. 200
was resisted by a jarty of marines who landed able for a stem-launch or even a larger vessel. the foconvenienes and risk to health, bntain and Mr. Maclaren spoke in support Shanghai Water.. stringent conditions as to the character of from the gua-beat Mozegar, nor stationed at In the carly days of the colony Iand had been then only when the Works Dogarlarut word of the reaslation. Sie. J. Garat said that the Steamship Core the buildings te bd erected upon it is ex- that port. One Dutch soldier was lied and given away for the asking and the Gov riment leady to lay the filtering bed at same prstem was susceptible of reforms, which were ceedingly remote, the probability of making several were wounded. In consequenos of this now regretted that it had boon so prodigal. The time o smo bht with ots of muddler blag introdused. He den od the rejection 300 soldiers and three men of war have been price. had now risen, but anyone could still have standing the fall in the gold value of the dolar Government with uninorited sure, iga tingi
whom we pay big salaries, notwith of a resolution which would visit the lading aloes on the traumction very great. The sent to Edle, and further fighting is exposted. tlmost ao zblímited quantity for 28 per acre, 19-3 experiment can be tried on a small scale ni
half of which had to be paid down on application about, which they are whining (I am a clerk or the laudable efforts which had been made for Mr. E. J. Brewster, Acting Collectorat Kints. Every description of tropical product could be salary but it doesn't vary every day with the yeara past to promote temperanon. The resolu first, and if the expense be found to be be-in his report for last your says Searet So grown there, while the land also rude or ceflente of exchange) and perqvite-ul sution on a division, was married by 113 against Watson & Co., A. S. Fond the resources of the colony it can be cisties amongst the Chinese still prevail, and pasturage. In the neighbourhood of Sandakan Piquisites [Is that wrd police songs 7), but 103 votes. 1893, the 2nd Terraco, on Saturday, the 11th May abandoned without any bar-being dona infance early the whole of the Chinese populathore were one ar tere raen who had commonsed I think the waddler who is responsible for clean- tion, which is notion of times in a diraet manottie farming and had a thousand head of cattle ing out the Fokfulam ronarvair in the muddliest Soma expenditure on such a desirable objectner, lo suppresing vases and preventing evidence in the most flourishing condition
WHO IS HE! the public would certainly not begrudge, being brought into Courts: the awoner the most A TRIBUTE TO GOVERNOR CEEAGH,
Having alladed to the difficulties which beast stringent rules are legislated for the total abolish
GLYCERINE SOAP
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"There were not
West Yours, C.,
Canten, 16th May, 1889.
INQUIRER
him.
Bergen, 2nd May.
one of personal preference then of quality; Ell five districts of the town without very con tersated to learn that the gallant officer has formation of the Borneo Company, the lecturer that the mad which is supplied to na in place of ACCIDENTAL DROWNING OF AN INDIAN” SÖAFS
perfumes differ. Now kinda will be introduced from time to time as occasion requires.
following well-known Soups- ATKINSON'S, CALVERT'S,
COLGATE'S, LUBIN'S,
TEARS, &
A. B. WATSON & Bé Len, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED AD, 1841. Hongkong, 18th May 1889.
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MARRIAGES,
At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the th FRANS TRUIENSFILOT SLAGHER, to ALICE EMMA, third daughter of the late Captain Rabert Mero, od scheme can be carried out at a cost within better; several instances of a single men giving and coolies and planters, the lecturer said, he
instant, by the Rov. W. Jeurings, Colonial Chaplain, but only experience can show whether themeut of overy single socisty in the country the the Government in dealing between the natives |
Ou the 9th May, at St. John's Cathedral, Hong-
kang, by the Hor. W. Jennings, Colonial Chaplain. our means."
HILTON VICEEta, ird W. L. I. Regiment, Talian Stall Corps, to WinIpeed Kate, edit dangter of the late Wilnot Wadason Holworthy, D. a. 8. 8., Mi. litaty Store Staff,
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG, MAY 18, 889.
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
OFFICER.
LONDON, 29th April.
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CHILD MARRIAGES IN INDIA.
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LONDON, 3rd May, In the House of Commons. Sir J. Gorst, xe plying to a question said that the Government of India would contious to make such efforts to correct child marriages an were consistent with the pledge they had given to respect Entivo cratoms: a sign with his hand and at ones ocllsating a had the pleasure in Hongkong of knowing the
LADIES' ORIOKET MATCH AT HUWARA ELIYA- ezgwd have taken place. I have flogged and sent Governor and ho any a good deal of him in
The following tolograms are extracted from
NUWALA ELJya, 30th April. out of the country several mon for threat ning North Borneo, and he thought British North
The Ladies' oripket match at Nuwara Eliya, ethare with violence from his society friends. Borneo was fortunate in having as its Governor Ceylon papers brought on by the N. D. steamer
an event to which great interest is attached, Mentings ara holt regularly, in which thousandsaman so thoroughly impartial as thoroughly cool, Neckar- of new mombers are initiated every year.", and so thoroughly impressed with the gravity REDEMPTION OF CONSOLS BY THE TREASURY. commenced yesterday at 6.30 p.m. The Nuwara
and responsibility of his position. It would be
LONDOy, 27th April Eliya ladies went "in brat, but they were all The Unylon Oberver says Dr. Hudson-Taylor dilient to find a man who bad better quali- The Treasury offers to redeem 15 millions of out for 32 rana. Mise Grenier was the highest was on board the M. M. stormer Sagkalien, which fications for the past. Sposking Hindustani, consola on the 14th May at 1033,
scorer with is. Misa de Saram and fins Watt nor do speakers always express themselves arrived on the 9th April; bat he did not land Chinese and Malay, paid with his experience THE QUEEN'S FORTHCOMING VISIT TO WALES. Went in first for Kandy, and looked up d ao clearly, but that false impressions of a till the next morning, when his stay on shore from his residence in Inilis, Hongkong and the
not out when time was called. The gema LONDON, 1st May. speaker's meaning may sometimes be copslui, cheerful leader, but rears are beginning to to and a man bettor itador dealing with aiderfel in Wales during August.
The Quoan will pay a brief visit to Lland-contigved this morning at 9.80. Misy Buraxi was was necessarily very short. He is still the same Malay Peninsula it would be almost impossible
soon thrown out, and the Text of the royed; however careful the reporter. At the show in his white board. His Mission has now civilized and sage tribes.
THE ILLNESS OF YER DUKE OF EDINBURGH. tsain brought the score to 136, Mrs. Barnside The Crown Lando Resumption Bill, read a menting of the Legislative Council 350 workers, won and women, in the fili, and the
and Miss R. Margh making the most of the rims LONDON, 28th April- first time st the meeting of the Legislative Thorsday the Governor expressed the view the work is going on most satisfactorily and the of the G. Forament wer in dealing with the native fever at Malta, bas arrived at Portsmouth in bowled uncommonly well all through fri
cry for wore help was never more urgent, but Possing on, the lecturer said the great diffoulty The Duke of Edinburgh, who and contracted to-dan. Miss Mary Watson and Miss Grenier Council on Thursday, is naeful measurebat proofe of bis remarks in Council should Chinese Mandarina are overywhere increasingly races. In a tropical country likethet, where half a the ironclad Alexandra. His Royal Highness is nings t in morning, and the rest of the Nuwers which will at dose commend public support, be sent to him for rovision. In their desi avarablo: Five out of seven, of the Stan erday's work suffed to keep a men and his family making favourible programs, bat is so extremely Eliys team falded, wuch better than yesterday. Tokia The building of bouzes back to back, or if for scentacy in their reports the conductors agents of the Mission end athara tourishing were formed toto families or tribes and naturally
The 2nd innings commences at 2.30 this after. Smith and Studd" party are married to lady for a whole week, they were naturally idle. They weak as to be unable to lond
- LONDON, 20th Apeil noon. not back to base, with yards of insufficient of newspapers are generally very willing with unabated interest in the work. There is soveldered they had the first claim on the land. The latest report respecting the condition of
NUWARA ELIYA, 30 April. width to allow of proper lighting and venti-that speakers should have an oppor-ears the Mission to join the Salvation Army. it became poor and then move on. leaving any one Highness han decidedly improved, and has been no truth in the story that Mr. Studd wished A tribe would cultivate a portion of land until the Duke of Edinburgh states that His Royal lation, is condemned on all hands, on sani tanity of revising the proofs of their although he takes an interest in the progress of who liked to isko it. When a man went there able to lend sad travel up to Lendon. tary grounds. It was propound in the Poblja speeches when oircumstances permit. With the Inter Mr. Cecil Foihili-Turner has and bought from the Company 50,000 serve, per- OENERAL BOULANGEE. IN ENGLAND. Health Bill to compel persons rebuilding the rush of work on daily papers this Fhibet, where he is now working-The P. & D. he vine semetimes sasprind to find two or three penetrated through China to the borders of hwps, believing nouative withintwenty miles of it,
LONDON, 27th April. Gazeral Boulanger ocufers daily with a Loaves to provide backyards of specified is not always possible, and the reporters steamer Bengal on the 80th April brought six ustivo sillagos right in the heart of the forest. merous entourage of Franch politicians of dimensions, but this portion of the Bill have to attain what measure of soourney they additional agents bound, for the China Inland The planter, of scarse, considered the land se London and maintains a searst, corresponderso was, withdrawn, If we had to wait for cur without each aid. The utility of the Mission, who missed their chief at Colombo by his properte and traald ensued. It was now with France.
only three to four hours; it was with great arranged, however, that whenever a planter took
... LONDON, 29th April the improvement until the houses were average newspaper report, notwithstanding ceret Mr. Hadson-Taylor found he could not up and he was responsible for all the natives General Boulanger has taken a house in Port- reconstructed in the ordinary coured it occasions mistakes, is too well recognised to stay to see them.
found on it and bad to compensate them to the and Flion at han among t satisfaction of the fovernmout.
CRUS8+MX MINATION OF EL PARNELL, would be a long time before it became at xil call for any special comment and His Excel-
LONDON, 2nd May. BOYRUES"ÖF FAILURE AND LOSS.. general. There is also the consideration lency's suggestion ibat if the reports of the
Many enterprises, said the lecturer, were now At yuterday's witling of the Parnell Com whether it is just that the owners of land debate on the Extradition. Bill were unsati
boing started in North Borneo and companios mission Sir Richard Webeter commenced bis could not be too careful in the selection cress-examination of Mr. Parnell but no abould bear the loan forolved in the diminu factory he would have to resort to private
of the, man they were souding down to represent thing romarkable has so far been elicited. tion of the extent of ground on which they meetings is a novelty in the conduct of public
them. What was required was men who had are allowed to build. The provision of a busincse, that can hardly be allowed to pasa
some knowledge of le sud justice, and mou The cross-examination yesterday of Mr. After the rioting had lasted four days backyard menou so much less building room, without notice. It is difficult to believe that
The House of Commons has passed through who were prepared to deal fairly with the native Farnell by Siz K. Webster was minate and far of-war arrived and quelled the outbreak A Committee the Naval Defence Filli
races. If such men were not sant there, if men reaching. Mr. Parnell sapromed his ignorance large number of arrests have been wide. and although the ralue of a house may be His Excellency was really serious is what THE ANGLICAN CHURCH IN WALES. The interests and the sights of the coalies and the Aurericans aux Irishmen with whom he had were sent who were regardless of the feelings, of, or palliated the extremest views of many of
...LONDON, 16th April. improved to souo extent by Locreased he said, for great as is the power of the The Bill for the dissstablishment of the native races, nobling but troubin and loss would beon succinted, and was unable to reoolloot much
The official receiver in the estate of Messrs. light and ventilation, the particular style Governor of a Crown Colony, any at Church in Wales he been rejected in the House ensue, and the enterprises instead of turning la corzsation therewith. He admitted that his Spalding and Hodge, wholesale stationers and Direction of wind of building im Togue for Obiaraa tempt to pass A phessure like the Ez-of Commons:
tout mines of wealth would prove to be pits in denazolations of outrages had somet mes bien paper manufacturers, of London, who recently Force and houses
ponded payment, estimates the liabilitis of Weather ....... inadequate. bas hern adopted me on the tradition Bill with closed doors wwald, wa
which immensa suis pf money could be sink.
At the conclusion of the losture, the Chair-
THE WASHINGTON, CENTENARY.
the firm at 195.009, of which £73,000 are Raiu -.. whole the most profitable from a pecu- bare no keuitation in saying, prove a com The proposed abolition of the ten duty has man (Dr. Chalices) invited anyone present to
NEW YORs, 29th April. secured, The assots amount to £157,000. The nisry point of view... If it is desired to alter plate failure, and would also, we venture to been rejected by Parliament..
speak on the leotare just delivered.
Three days fêtes in elshrain of the can firm sustained heavy losses on shippanta of
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.'
SUPPLIED TO THE “DAILY PEEKS."]
Lonnor, 15th May. THE NAVAL DEFENCE BILL.
· THE DUTY ON TEA.
Lesvos, 3rd Mar
at B30 p.m. and all were out by focloak, Total Stanis
The Nuwara Eliya second innings commeeden 20.95
The folding and bowling of the Kandy ladies were excellent. Mrs. Burnside and Mise Trancheil bowled throughout the funluge. The former made some capital catches Weather glorious
AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS..
The following telegrams are taken from Brisbane papers rrosived yesterday
NEGRO RIOTS IN DEMERARA,
LONDON, 15th April. News has been received from British Galaza
that the negroes in Demerara ross and tooted
the shops of the Portuguese in Georgetown.
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