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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, NATURDAY, JUNE 9712, 1896.
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The Panang Municipality having grated leave of abrenog na balf way to their Heorclary, Mr. Halifax, after thirteen years continuous service without leave, and the Governor of the Straits Settlements having refused to mustion any payment of salary to Mr. Halling daring his leave, the Commissionem have resolved to present a momorial to the Basmatary of State, bogging him to direct the Governor to nation the supplempatary budget dealing with the
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. SUPPLIED TO TER "DAILY PREM."j
LONDON, 24th Jope. BELGIAN JAPANESE TREATY. A Commercial Treaty between Helgian and Japan han boon signed at Brusels.
LI HUNG-CHANG IN GERMANY. -
LI HUNG-CHANG AND JUMBISM
The Singapore Free Press objects to having LA Hung-chang in his yellow jacket, served up daily setanding diak in the regular telegraphie Elli of Fee. Li promises to be record, of bis doings with the following imaginary telegrams
distinction.
AY
LI-HUNG CHANG DINEB.
THE OHINESE ENVOY INDISPOSE.
"WOB
Li Hung-chang hus arrived at Hamburg, excapt by working the business one gigantic .the depth of the sin I have raped. The angry reflections of the moralist whose ears are wealth. In the early days of the colony the
Bylendid festivities were organised, but he is confined to his bones with a cold.
It is stated that he has given extensive orders to Kuupp's work at Essen and to the Vulcan
works at Stettin.
THE ASHONOLAND REVOLT.
A Natal contingut has routed 2000 Moshonas after severe fighting our Hartley. In the event of the rising spreading it is nut anlikely that the garrison at Natal and the Cape will be increased.
SUPREME COURT.
26th June.
CRIMINAL SESSIONU.
BEFORE HIS HONOUR DR. CARRINGTON (CHIEF JUSTICE)
ALLEGED PERJURT,
LATE TELEGRAMS. The following telegrams are from Rangoon and Bangkok papers-
Rome, 8th Juno.
ENGLAND AND ITALY.
я десенвагу
LION GRADE MININGA Forty The epidemio on these works has now) mind on Kes not kusw whether borgard The invlaha is here of course, but always A domnities, of fr Chris
Cessed gwing to the preventive measures taken.. de ferleg of the Menara as an act of brilliant à ramshackle ecporn, for Fangkok bare ap In India, we believe, the Presidents
been appolated by the French Legation s of the various Municipalities are appointed toe to consider the clufans of all Camese Periane the most pecitable gold mining, and Cholera exists in Locus dity, soms three to daring or as a stage-trick played for the all the old and broken down juurikishes of Biz by the Government, and the system works making for prolisation of Bangkok. A lab unally the enfest gold mining, de by worklig Bvb casas occurring daily. This ennbatiment le astonishment of the European gallery. I can spore and Perang, and rare them along this well, but in that country the Government about 200 Chinese he have entaret their on low grae to ore, with a large output of that free of the disones, which, howars, is appearing not repost all the wild theories on this point rough road until they erumble into dust like the the Tangli arte Estate and Gold Mining being fee daily by the Gwalior Blats, being to assurances, and I do not believe that the true brought two hundred scene hand rikishas to in favourably disposed towards Municipal Damen: at the Consulate for registration has ore. We have before us the annual report of the villages around about 1,0 sonbeard which were poured into my ear a selama Déaccu's wonderful one-hriss shay. The Hecate Company Lisited, of South Afric The foobis for work. The Maharajah of Stindia has history of the incident will be told in our Bangkok on thir particular tap. The terror of profit of the Company for the your ending at an official from Gwalior to report and time. Tho Hugo of History is of doubtful the roads in the lostrio traway, on which the 1st Decem bey last was £102,000. A vory mako arrangements for the feeding of the parentage; and the theory that the Father of cars tear along at about fifton miles an hour, large part of that, however, arose from financial feebly and destitute, the number of whom has Lies was pas of her progenitors is gaining utterly regardless of the relisles or persons that groand in my mind.. Her mother was probably may happen to be in the way. The driver ringa operatiorni at the natual profit on mining heon Increasing by about 100 per day,
Patriotin, or her sister Projudice. From a warning, ball, whan he tomenbora ft is there to during the year was £391,000. Altogether, in RAILWAY EXTENSION IN INDIA
Allahabad, St Tune. Paktam to Bangkor the steamer burns its trung but generally forgits. Fatalnocidents It is singular to uole the grounds on.
eight year there have toon distributed in
It is likely the Government of India may way, through the brown waters of the Menam are of froqnont courroncs, and the stranger" which the suggestion the the Municipal
dividends 1,349,000, and large sums have bean Coundll should be allowed a voice in the
carried forward to reserve and used in opening take up the question of milway extension for twenty miles or so, passing between driving or walking along the road is fall of the North-west frontier, as a result of the mangrove swamps at first, and then be apprehensions that he will be the witness of nora that the Russians are building Buon tween low wooded banke where frequent another, if not the victim. A-eight that cannot selection of its President is opposed. The
the mine, ar retained in haul
villages, notuslike Malay kampongs, peep from fail to amuse the new emer to Bangkok is the It is interesting to poo, how this mining is done. Two hundred and forty-five thousand fowards the Afghan border.
clumps of cocoa-nut palms and bananas, and Siamese policeman, who, on duty at various Governor thought the appointment might case
{"tóma of utsme' wore crashed in the year, and the
beyoud which as fer as the dye osa reach over points of the soul, spots an elaborato cari. The Straits Times of the 19th June 3078 average furntity of gold per ton yielded by become a bone of contention amonget
a perfectly int country, stretch miles apon sature of the British bobby. His uniform is the mill was only néven and a third dytë. "those who wished to gain a livingIt is will regret that card the andden,
That, it may be observed, is rather less than
miles of greu paddy fields atted with little dirty blue, the treasers are invarishly too stort, black insects, which reason, combined with and the boots beyond description. What he is by regulating Municipal sirs," the and at present somewhat mysterious, death pr
telescopes, dicover to be human beings and there for, what he does, and why he is dressed well paid one, and that Mr. David Trail Robertson, the now accountant, the oattern at Raub, in Pahang; but this out-
water buffaloes. The passsagers on the Hecate like that, are questions which the Europeans in at the Chartered Bank, whom arrival we en- turn of Boyer and a third dwte. from the will office being a is the ground on which the Straits Times Donnged the other day. It sms that hir was inoressed by after treatment to about sloven
celebrated corpses which are said to Host down definite condtasten. Both iom and Japan apports him. We can well understand Robertson died last night with Mr. Lewis, of dwis. Thus we find that, whereas the gold
watched the river intently to otch sight of the Siam disenss at length, without coming to any on the tide in contèless thousands. They were have gone to extremes in copying Europe; in such an appointment becoming a bone of the P. and G. Company, at Fern Hill, and there taken from the mill yielded £210,000, thero wa uite the prize Jabe of the day, and our
of £18,000, and
hngaly disappointed, for they saw only one corpos muy ones they have adopted the acidents contention amongst officials who might con until abont eleven o'clock. He them retarmeil further yield from cornentrates of ben
in treaty smiles--the mortal remains of a dog and missed the essentials, they buvo takon over The not result was a yield of about forty shil
floating on its back distended and horrible. Soon the unforin without the rau to fill it. Happily- sidor themselves eligible for it, but we are to the Raffles Hotel, where he has been
lings per tout for every ton of oro dealt with. The
THE CHINESE SNTOY FIVO'CLOQUES. staying since he came to Eingapore, and retired
the native village on the river-banks grow ulosor for the Japa, they did not go on this principle H.E. Viceroy Li Hung-abang. took fre
to one another, with a tendancy to become one is making their army and navy, but in somo inclined to think that there would be less to rest apparently in full anjoyment of health cost of mining that ore was only eight shillings chance of jobbery and favouritiam if the About five o'clock this morning, however, he per tom, notwithstanding, as the Cams war o'clock. tow with Her Majesty the Empress of continuous line. Tower pinnacles and unale other matters, to be alluded to in a future lottor, appointment wore subject to the approval of was dievered at the foot of the stairs by s the Company nuluted out, that the Company Germany on the totale lawn at Poltam
It is anticipated that this social event will appeared over the low vegetation in front, and they have made the mistake I have mentioned domestic, evidently in a very serious condition.working at the diandrontage of exceedingly.
tion that the passagers should tako u-dose of desideratum in Siam, and then it is organised. the Municipal Council concerned than if it. He was groaning as if in much pain, and. bis high wages, of an exceedingly high cost. forgive an impulse to the tea tarde between. Chias we knew that Bangkok was near. The surges A good police force is still, I understood, a
food supplied to its inners, and of very heart and Eastern Europe via Sibaris.
cholera misture" batcre residing the infected 17 does not used the caricature of a European expenses incurred by transport and the general were left solely in the bonds of the Govern breathing was very laboured. It is premmed that he had left his room feeling well,
conditions of Bouth Afrion. Notwithstanding ment, which is notoriously given to pulting with a view to procaring some assistaxes, and
II.B. Viceroy Li Hung-chang was eater. spot was womad by all, and a hoy was coin-uniforts to reader it either visible or affcient round pegs in square holes. The Bill, nat is not likely that ho had long been in all that, it only cost eight shillings per ton to tained in Berlin in the avasing by Pince missioned to prepare the deng. The concoction A native unifer would be more artistic, maru mins the oro, while the general charge, which Hahenloha at a State Bsayset, at which there goes by another name in Singapore, and those pinturesque, and would be les objectionable to drawn provides that "the Governor shall the position in which he was found. The
include the expenditure of large amma apon was a large and brilliant gathering of the whe has tasted it know that it is certain to the populos, which is jealous of concessions to from time to time appoint a Commis the fast, fomodiately sent for mandies, nid,” botal maxagor, on being acquainted with
ooneontrates and tailings sad considerable sus
who has harbonred them.Threading its way In Bangkor 1 experience nothing of the. mpon administration, brought up the total cost Corpa Diplomatique and other personages of kill the aheleralo germs, and also the person the foreigner or imitations of hins sioner to be the President of the Con- bat on the doctor's arrival life was extinct.
carefully through the main street of Bangkok Eolitarinos I felt in my travels in Netherlands. A State performance of Lohengrin per ton of ore to sixteen shillings, the pielf
the Hecate retched a wharf in dus time. The India; I was amongst ald friends "and acquain missioners, and way from time to time Mr. Robertson lail suffered from a mild st
tack of diarrhoes, and in his room, this, retning, being about forty shillings. The total cuttur given at the Open House in the evening.
main street of Bangkok is the river Menam, tances, and mato now aquaintances with "remote such person fraen offied and found two bottles of shiorodyne, one of of ara during the year was 245,000 tone, and Frau Sucher, the prima etizm, was introduced
from which at frequent, intervals little canale rapidity possible only to wanderers in the "appoint another in his stead." The un-which was empty and the other half empty. It the number of slamps at work was a hundred to Ti Hung-chang, who is understood to have called Wings, branch off on both sides, Phospitable East Bigna of the scourge that and sixty honds, while the mining profit, as we offered her an engagement for an opóra 400 Some are about the Ratoe breadth as the yearly devastates the banks of the Moner wore official Members of Coundl wanted to havo is, foroforo, necessary that a post mortain ex-
at Peking, amination should be held, and for that purpose have said, was £191,000.
Stamford Rood Conal in Singapore, but being apparent in the bottles of cholera-mixture Those people who are mining in the Malay inserted the words "after consultation the body has been sent to the General Hospita
HE. I Hung-chang passed through hat in by native houses, their order is in sanding on desk and toilet-table. It is the with the Commissions The Gove where Dr. Croucher will make the past mertere. Peninsula might take some little enollegeUnder den Linden," which was gaily illu- Snitely one Bangkok is well called the way of the European to be prepared for the mont from the tale we have told. It is allegediated, and visited other pladas of entertain-
Venice of the East, for its thoroughfares are worst, though it seems ging to meet the ernar seems to have been to some extent In its issue of the 19th the same paper sys
"We lösen that the rrault of the post mortem by the mining manager at. Raab that he has convinced by the arguments brought to hear examination of the hody, made by Dr. Creacher sufficient reserves of ore to keep a hundred boud part of a of whipped with a selectiefly waterways the river and the Khlong tremble half way. Sull with the cholom zag -and there are arowded with native craft of all ing violently around and not confining iteelt of stamps going. Well, it costs much less for party of noblemen and Indies.
sorts and stow, with beats, with steamiannokes to Asistics, it is almost impossible keep upa the question and he expressed his at the General Hospital yesterday, shows that
weges and for food, and for general expensta in HE. Viceroy Li Hung-chang is indeposed. the Malay Peninsula than it does in fouth His Excellency'a medical attendant (Dr. Irwin, that go ahrieking and pooping in all directions calm and equable mind, and quite impossibla ta The rostrain a feeling of alarm at the slightest touch large dose of jodine. It is probable, therefore,
like blue-bottles bazzing in the pishine. SELTZEE WATER willingness to add the words "Provided the dreaded died from poisoning eaused by a
Africa. If, therefore, it is possiblo in South of Chefoo) attributes it to .E.'s partaking of river is a sight never to be forgotten. Moorad of sakit prut.. "always that before appointing any Goy that the unfortunate gentisman, in the dark-
Africa to mune low grade ore, a seven detonenmber the previous evening.
at whartes anchored in midstream, liv great cre or it comes from the mill, and to make "ernment servant-to that offics, the Govuess of the early hours, mistook iodine for
THE CHINESE ENTOT BETTER. chlorodyne and drank the fatal dose before
Viceroy Li Hong-chang has quite stxers and sailing ships, men-of-war and guns | TAK OSTRICH AND ITS PLUMAGE. "ernor shall consalt the Commissioners." realising his error: This misadventure makes out of such mining the enormous profit of
hoota, with an air of reposofal dignity amid a $191,000 in one year, it may be possible,
restless, swarm of tamnoha hosts, ampans The report of the half-yearly meeting of the But here the cloven hoof promptly obtruded the seller, if anything, than before."
also, to establish some great gold miningvered from his indisposition.
And canoes that shoot hither and thither, in. South Australian Ostrich Company, which was itself The Colonial Secretary spoke to His
results in the Malay Peninsula. But the
perpetual motion and with an oppsatance recently hald, gorvos, says an Adelaide writer, thing, to be done accessfully, must be done
A VISIT TO BANGKOK.
of frantio burry. Excellency, who, after some conversation with
The ear is deafened by to recall the old saying that fashion creates a an or big scalo. Although we know, that the that officer, said he thought they ought to
Singapore directors of the Raub mine and the
wild • yells and soreanis from the sirene and recessity, and enterpris forthwith precede "A podre in partibus" describes in the Singa whistles of a thousand inpatient steam to satisfy it. The skill of the handicrafte Singapore shareholders are eager enough to "take time to consider the words he had
launch out into big schomes, there is, we believe, pore Free Press & visit to Bangkok as followe-lannoher, and the geryone, man who jumpe
man has no estouded operations that thinga suggested. It had been pointed out to
considerable hesitation in Australia. That
once considered useless have been turned to To lears the Far East without seeing Bang at overy shriek has a fit resembling agan, Hill fe him that such an amendment might work
hoitation may be justified or it may not. The kok would have been a sin of omission which I grows ecenstomed to this stuurs. It is not a good account, and the expansion of the Injustice to a thoroughly good Govern
main thing to point out is that, with a low should have repented to the last day of my life. ways the most important and asofal puraum world's trade in considered teilles" has grade ore, there is no hope of great, profits Now that I have seas the place. I can estimate that make most naise in the world--this is the beer rendered a source of employment and "geul servant who might, uler tha elr "cumstances, object to being put in nomina
scale, which is the very thing the Singapore Siamese problem has been trembling the minds stabbed by the unearthly screeches it is only kangaroo not only bounded, but abonnded. It tion." The clause accordingly stood
shareholders want to do at Raub The Singa of European statemen since the day that the insignificant who need to make theesives defied the squatter, consumed his grass, and was pore shareholders have this laken a sound view. Frauen trind to bint both Europe and Bin nuisance to attract the world's attention. I looked upon generally as intolerable naisanes. over. The idea of "a thuroughly good
If the mine is worth having, it is worth working in 1893, and though matters have come to a amppose the same reflection has occurred to There was no thonght misterer of its baing of "Government servant" being too dignified
on big scale. If the mine is not worth work tomporary settlement under the Anglo-French many in the Suez Canal, when they see and hear marketable falne, and it will be within limits to allow his name to be submitted for the
ing on a big scale, it is not worth having agreement of the present year, no one be from the desk of a mighty ocean liner of six or to say that tons of thousands were slaughtered Crawling along with twenty head of stamps i loves that the settlement is fual lui of all even heamed tone burden that move alowly and barat. By and by it was discovered that consideration of a body of unofficials, just as
only playing at mining. The Raab mine should the French. There is a perfect historicul majestically, and most noiselessly along that the hide of tho kangaroo was valuable and if he were no better than the Lord Mayor
cither be developed by its present shareholders parallel between the condition of Siam during muddy dish, a foolish little launch of twenty when the manufacturen of Anterica almost or should be sold to some others who will the last few years and the position of the tane fossing pret with an infinito deal of noise begged to be allowed to parokaso the sking it of London or sity emun being of that
develop it-Straits Time.
Lingdom of Judah in the time of Isaiah. If and other, and splitting the air with a blood begun to be fully realised that a wastetal policy hind, is really too rdienious. If the ap-
one reads the prophecies of that poet statesman curdling and wholly unnecessary shriek.
had been pursued in the past. The busting of as political speeches which indeed they are,
It is impossible to name all the various kinds the animal to supply exports was soon so 01. pointment is worth having there will be no
of Asiatic eft that ply in the Manam Must consiraly indulged in that there seemed to bo religion and polities being one and the saine lack of applicants for it, and it will be
thing in prophetic conceptioas-one feels that interesting to the visitor are, of course, those every likelihood of the kangaroo hayoming peculiar to the country, the padi beats with an extinct. At this point Parliament stopped in the Slamet Geremment of to-day noode ani most satisfactorily filled by allowing the
lenish to stand by its sile, and keep it from oration like a huge beer barrel amidships made and precorited a close essen for the preserve- Commissioners a voice in the selection. The
making false steps in its dangerous position of of bamboo matting; the Laos bota-native tion of the marmpisl.: Kuch the game experi Colonial Secretary, speaking of the pos
once has been gone throth in Cape Colony in wastable oquilibrium between the two great work house-boats from far up the river in which sibility of officers being deterred from
A dobate took place in the Chamber of Je-powers, Britain and France, as the Hebrew pro- Europass sometimes have to make fong and conacstion with the ostrich. When the pioneers wearisome journaja, small canoes, and bonis first reached the settlement that bird was lightly allowing their names to be put in noming-
paties to lay on the object of Friday's dobete phet andeavoured to keep the Court of Jucan to in the House of Commons. The Duke of Gunmen sense in ita diflonit and delicate dealings not unlike Chinese sampans, propelled by a steemed; indeed, regarded more us an ononis tion by the fear that they might be
Sermoneta admitted that some of the documents with the two world powers of that time, Egypt single from the port or starboard quarter than as a friend. It was killed indiscriminatele. made the subjects of groundless objections,
contained in the Green Book were published and Assyria. Were there, however, a modern according to the taste of the rower, who or- and its plumage the wing and tail festhing
was placked and made naarticle of merchandise. referred to what he termed the auialogous
sontrary to usage, but that their publication Ialah in Stam, he would probably be as wholly contes a pretty pre sent along a plank in
in order to enlighten the disregarded as the sacient one, and the fate of rowing; and great lumbering Jinks with huge It was only after this practice had been pursued his country would be its ultimate absorption by tattered saile that look at times as if they could for many years that what was then considered case of the Governora of Colonies. “It
Chamber. Explanations, he said, "had been "wouk," he said, "be within the rug
banged, with Great Britain anne or other of the two great powers-a fate not catch enough wind to moys toy yacht an idiotie oczception, the domestication of the Way of the relations 2 w require the highest statesmanship Yof they go at a fine speed when they have ostrich, was entered upon, and an industry. DIANCO ES MOET DRESU the Cound that,
between the two countries.
on the part of Bamero ministers to avert. The afair wind The Siamese boats, especially the similar in a degree to that of sheep-farming thema rerning colonics some
political intecost of the country in the the frishin te permitted, a fact which probably began, and gave roke beyond the most wandlar om are often manned by woman, if we successfully undertaken. The work was London, 10th June., years ago, pressure was brought to bear
The British Mediterranean Squadron i state, as well as the globe-trotting inset to
asenpes the notion of the visitor until he learns sanguine expestations. It expended, Buglish "upon the Secretary of State for the colo-
visiting Civita Vecchia and the Italian Govern-ear nothing anseen that is within Tanah,
something of the castoms of the country or capital was drawn to it, and Girls werd freely "nies in the matter, and, in a few cases, the
ment have sent the warmest greetings to determined me to make a trip to Slam at aty Admiral Sir Culmer Seymour, who has beeta cat tefors loaving the East Not that there unless he has his attention drawn to it,
The exported, until at inst the Cape Government, is anything of political interest to be lesered reason for this is that it is almost impossible scoing that one of the great industries of the "Secretary of State was asked to mention
in a short and fuerint visit, but to have BOED.
for a stranger af first to distinguish between country was in danger.. Imposed an expert Rome, 11th June.
The men wear short nty of £100 per head and for an egg Admiral Sir Michael Calme Seymour has the staga on which a part of the great drama honour. He will have an audience of King is being played is something gained,
Four days at sea on the steamer Mecat; daring dress in a manner so like the men that ono takes some shipments, primarily through the enter Four hundred Catholie biuojackets from the which we had glimpses of the east coast of the time to learn the distinguishing marka prise of the late Mr. Willion: Maloola British feat at Civita Vecchia are going to Malay Peninsula end a number of rooky inlanda (This refers to the river side population Irint of and was, anbsequently obtained
was told that the women crop their hair in Romic on Sunday next to Mass in Saint Peter's. month of the river Menam, when we anchored memory of a
fringing it, brought as safely to the bar at the
From the Government, and the South Austre. national deliveremos, and lian Ostrich Company was established. The THE POPE AND DRITIÐIT SAILORS, ---
to wait for the tide. These bars are su in-
consider ist style of coiffure not so much birds had to be acclimatised, und in doing REMARKABLE SUÈNE.
tolerabis nuisance to shipping, and then is as a beauty an honour. Only free-born Siamese this diffulty and loss vara experienced; but London, 15th June.
homens fortune awaiting the man who can
womon sarilice their treas in this way, and the dirotora stok to their venture, and the devise meane of getting rid of them. Our
for this reason, A long time ago the Siamese financial statement presented at the meeting of skipper piloted as neer the har at good tide were slowly beinged in their vity by the the shucchokters held a short time ago indiontos in fine style, and chuckled with delight for Pegaans of the Burmese, and there was not a improving prospects. Since this Company hours afterwords because a teamer behind us, large enough garrison to man the wails. The bogat its operations others have started in the King thatofore decreed that all the women industry, and, although the number of their which had employed a local pilot, stock fast in the mida mestnim prison for the next tmeniz. Wo the walls, the result being that the besiegand birds ie not so great as that in tins Company's four hours at least. Bachefoucauld save
Lands, there is proof that the quality there is something not altogether depleasing when they saw the great array of black cropped foothers will compare favourably with that of io us in the misfortazes of our friends
beads poeping over the battlements, inagihodny produced in the natural habitat of tho and certainly riding at anchor in deep that reinforcements had somehow rosabed the ostrich. The bird is reand solely for the sake water across the bar, watching the ineffectual, and took themselves away Karriedly for of its plimage. Muck skill is required struggles of the stammer bebind to ob over fear of accidents. The ladies thus saved the in dealing with it, but when properly cared the mud banks, we experienced a festing which own, and continued to cut their hair short in for it yields a good retire. It is estimated that was neither sorrow or sympathy. Oor slipper memory of the event. The ouston has become there are at least 3,000 birds in the colony at restrained the wilder spirits on board from a tyrannical one, ke the Chinese pig-tail or the the present time. In addition to the feathers expressing their joy on the siren, and so time wearing of black by the Maltens women, and is used for dress decoration, dusters are in con
M. Gonsalves, M. Mayer, A. E. Alaman, 16.
feelings were mercifully concealed from the
as ugly se cithar. The Biamese woman is no stant demand, and these should form an import- The Jarers were Messrs. E. C. Barrados, F.
A Toberan official telegram sayes Imporisers at the bar,
beauty, with her squat little nous, prominent ant item in tocal protagion. One egg of the perial Majesty the Shah arrived yesterday Every one has noticed the orançavenos of im-
cheekbones, thick lips and mouthful of black ostrich, futiksed for honeshold purpopis, is Bernheim, A. O. Gutisra, and A. A. Carlsiro. before noon at Teheran. After paying duo pressiona, especially of those impressions which
sued teeth, but with her hair cut short she is equal to twenty-four hens' eggs; but to use it Mr. Francis explained the fate of the casa
respect to the poored body of his august faller, are made fry fungination when fly aroreplaced positively hideous, ie that the women of the at the kitchen would be wasteful proceeding. and said that in the month of May last the first His Majesty noconded the Imperial throne by those of actual experience. Se evanescent Moonga, a low osite rach, though by no means In the work of hatching, handy incubator is defendant commstured proceedings in the amid great pomp sit in the presence of all the are these latter that it is all but imposable to prepossessing, taken by themealves, are charm necessary. A fair amout of sacosis has at Court of Summary Jurisdiction for the purpose stata algnitaries and chloials. The enthusiam recall one's mental picture of a place not yet ing and attraefare in comparison to her. I tended ostrich breeding in the Cape, and the A grand Imperial public sec after the notas plotare has been present have not yet mentioned the most striking results secured in South Australia have, heen of revering 8554, which he said was dre to him is indescribable. for principal and interest, and the defendants in levée takes place to-morrow,
to the eye. Yet every one carries with him to peculiarity of riverside Bangkok the long suftoisatly satisfactory, to oncvirage perséver the sait were two men named Wong Chi Tong
THE REBELLION IN CRETE.
s new place a more or less detailed preconcep rows of foating houses and shopa moored unce in the enterprise, London, 9th Juno, tion of its appearance and surroundings. Ha In the rise and tenanted by thousands of and Wong Wa Pe. The first defendant said he
Blatsess, Olinese, and Malayu, who spand their News from Crot through Grook sources say ono over seized this evanescent wind-pic- had lent. this money to Weng We Fo; that Wong Chi Tong,, na representing his shop, the
fires on the water. I should think, from THE DANGERS OF EARTH BUKIÁL, state the Turks are still pillaging sad baraing.ture, and given it permanence in pen and ink P Hop Foong, had guaranteed the repayment of There is great excitement at Aftens over the All that I can remember of my impressions
the apponites of the city, that by far tho of Bangkok before I saw it is the idea that greater part of the popolation lived aflost "A corresprailent of The British Mellicol the mener lent to Wong Wa Po; this Wong Craton question. Wa Po had given two doormenta acknowledg-
in this manzer. The floating houses are built Journal writes:While bil, ars agreed sa to ing his indebtedness, and that Wang Chi Tong the House of Commons, last night, said Bevur ran a dirty disease-breeding rives, carrying on solid wooden platforins, and they consist the danger, or at least the inexpediency, of
Mr. Curzon, replying to several questions in it was a most nuhealthy place, through which bad affixed to these two documents the shop of ment, had been pressing the Porta to remaily thousands of corpses human and animal, and generally of a bat and a bon, arranged not to intramural interment, of burial in vaults, and his shop the Hog Foong, as a guarantee the state of unrest in Crete since December last, tons of garbage to the mon place over whish right and left as in the cottar's hamble abode, in the "le" urth of city sharchyard, the of, the repayment of the money. In the and the British Comeni, at Canon had been in kung a fetid, atmosphern whose perfans was but fore and af, the bat facing the river and apolegiata of earth burial insist on the destruc proceedings in the Summary Court the first austed to jeta the other Consuls there, and varied occasionally, by the rimell, of half-roasted the box looking to the there, and each of the tion of pathogunte by saprophytic microbes and defendant had to prove that he let the naoney intervene in the negotiations between the Luman flesh from the antive remataris, two divisions has a soparate poaked roof to the energy of the nitrifying presara in saitable to Wong Wa Po and that it had not been re
Tarks and the insurgents.
place where the commonest sight was a dook itself. The front part is the verandah, the soils, and the advocates of cremation believe in paid, and that Wong Chi Tong had guaranteed
of valtares fighting over carrion (chiefly human ding, dining, business foot or shop, and the gater vitality of some dieses germs, and the ropayment. With refomnoo to Wong Wa
Mailid, "toth drina,
a place, however, to be seen in spite of all sukat night or during heavy rain it is closed the real risk of the pollation of the ground Po there was no dislonity, as he aimitted that he
Great emotion has been caned throughout drawbacks. The pisture was, of course, painted by light resus, or chicks; the after part water and welle, thongh this danger is mini- had borrowed the money that he had not repaldas by the late outrage in Baroniuza at the with colours borrowed from the oral arratives of the house is the family bed-room. This mised by the general substitution of publiv water supplies for privati walls in all towns is, and that the two Orinose documents which Corpas Christi festival. Forty Abarthista of travellers in the expansive hours of dinner is tho general type; but variations and ex ments. He says that ja all his previous
were put in na evidence agnimet him were rently written and signed by him, and as the Court
have been arrested and the Cabinet are com
and after. Some anxious friends of mine tried passions visible here and there betray the or large villages. Even Hotimain, the official * experience he never had any trouble with
gare judgment against him for the amount of piling a aposial bill for severe repression of the to dissuade me from going to Bangkok on account fact that when a mat is better uft than his defender in Germany of the existing prac of the cholora there, to whom I sent thooptimista noighbours he is inclined to make a display of tion, admits the persistence and diffusion of the "Municipalities, many of which were wuch
the claim withont oosta. Therefore the only question to be decided in the suit was whether
reply, Are we not immortal till cur murk is his condition in architecture and decoration hasteria of typhoid and cholers, ant recently THE NAVAL ARCHITECTS IN GERMANY. freer than those of the Straits Settlements.
Wong Chi Tong had given any guarantee. The
düne?" Chelera, or no abolerä; I share the And propably the house with the oven Professor Albu, in a ptire essay on cromation. Berlin, 11th June. But when His Excellency tells us that the
a Lefendant swore that Wong Chi Tong had
The members of the Institate of Naval belief, common to all men between thirty and gables look down upon the house with two has collected a large mass of well-authenticated Municipalities, with which he has pre-
como to the place where the traamation was caR.
Architects are visiting Hamburg and Betha vighty years of age, that my work is not leas Aetrange thing is hamonu pride in what, after instances of this. It is trus that Skezeles, and have met with a most cordial reseption.
yet not by a long way. It is said to be real, are the coifacts of life. A young school Wornich, and Pister have endeavoured to no ried out, lind taken the chop out of his pocket, and vicusly dealt were much freer than ours,
sumption for a mortal to write or speak thas, boy was temporarily withdrawn from his count, for the greater mortality from typhoid Yesterday some fakerman mar Banshuipo had affixed the chop to the paper. This was n
THE EGYPTIAN RESERVE FUND QUESTION,
but I should like to meet the man of my own studies by the death of an ancestor, and when fever and ghalers pointed out by Zuiser among "that is as good as telling us that His Ex-
Cafro, 8th June. hauled in a shark 'end on cutting him open false statement, as Wong: Chi Tong had not
age who does not believe this as firmly as I do the last rite were over he was sont back to the population residing in the immediate vicinity 'cellency has never before had the oppor- found the skull of a human being inside. Of chopped the agroamant. The first defendant The Egyptian Government and the British, whatavor ho may say, and if he balloves it, why school, clad in solama black, new and glossy, of the Berlin cemeteries on such hypotheses na "tunities, which he now possesses, of inter curse the Police were at once informed. also falsely swore that Wong Chi Tong went German, Austrisa, and Italian Commissioners
the themaght that if Ajax deen the lighting, his companions in the parish school, wear sity of population, which Albu dooms insuficient, "fering with Municipal qira. He has, As will be seen from our advertisement away after chopping the agreement and that he have appealed against the decision of the Nixed should he not say so. There is consolation in and what was even more diseoimposing to lowness of site, movements of ground water, den
(the frat defendant) lent the money to Weng Tribunal in the Reserve Fund question.
and the lighting replies with an angry aling stockings and boots, instead of going hare. tut the pollution of the ground water and weils "we think, taken full, and often undes, olumus several important rednotions in rates Wa Po. The second defendant was called ex TUNCE" ON INDIA'S CONTRIFFTION TO t the presumptuous mortal, he is the only forted like the rest. His dignity, in those un-in Vienna from 1975 until the provision
for telegrams from Hongkong to the Blenite, { a witness by the first defendant, sad ls, speake
THE BOUDAN EXPEDITION, "advantage of those opportunities." Our Dutch Indies, Barnor, sad Macao will come ing of the time and the place in watch the
person who does not satter inconvenienos from familiar cironmstances, was terrifying to his of paro public supply from dis- andon, 11th June. I his ancompleted work.
somrades, who only a few days before had been tant highlands, pereciation from the contemporary goes on to give instances of into force on the 1st July,
agreement was made said his evidence that Punch has is excellent cartoon
Now for the real Bangkok as I saw il treating him on an son. They did not dare cemeteries which sucire the dty on rising petty and needlessly irritating interferences,
the Eret defendant had told Wong WaPo that number in which India, Espresented na s grace Traces of the recent table between France to speak to him, and he muffered the loneliness ground become more and were pronounced, the We are indebted to the Spanish Consul for a be must find a shop to sopra him for the ful girl, is saying to John, Ball I found the sad Sam were visible at the bar, where a une that is inevitably associated with true greatness water at Jength being turbid and yellow both in Singapore and in other portions of copy of the following telegram from the Manila money lent; that then Wong Wa Po asked if men for Sealda, but why the money took To of bulls annk by the Siamese in 1999 Leaves only Aromotion, however, set in, and his school charged with nitrites and positively offensive the Settlements, that have incensed the Cheervatory Manilo, 95th June. The de- the Hop Foong would not he old find another which John Bell replies: "I really don't se a very narrow passage for shipe. It will be re fellows, pointing a spokesman, approached from hydrogen and ammozium sulphides. Dr. public against the present Governor. But pression to the weet of Lason is moving rapidly shop; that the first defendant said "Yes, it why you should.”
mombared that two venturesome French gonboats him in a body with a view to hambling his Levison, in a report published in 1886 on the would," that Wong Wa Po then went, sway i INDIAN. TROOTS ANXIOUS FOR SÈRVICE. the Comète and the Instant came through his pride. Enid the spokesman with sathing irony graveyards of Denmark, stated that Copen. we are wholly at a loss to understand the and soems very much lining to the north.
that he returned in an hour bringing back
Simis, 8th June. Darrow channel in the wake of the Jean Baptiste Maw, yw're richt prood because yor granny's hagen and twenty of the sixty-eight towns in position taken up by the Straits Times
Wong Chi Tong that Wong Chi Tong looked The Jodhpere Cavalry, Bikanir Cavalry Soy, which was promptly sent to the bottom by dold! As if zabody's granny ond des bat yer the kingdom had suffered from this cause, and that 78 opidemics of typhoid were distinotly Barely if the Governor is given to petty and
at the agreements, produced a shop from his corps, and several other Imperial Servico troops the Blameas. They then forced their way past sin!"
Though Bangkok.consiste largely of those traceable to this proximity of graveyards. Dr. ities the best course would be to relieve shore to 11a.m. torvist St. Potor's (Seamen's) and the case was bajoned until this morning CHOLERA AND DISTRESS IN CENTRAL INDIA,
the money was paid over
Witnesses wore called for the presstation permitted to proceed on an early date to Saneres from the steamer deals with considerable
** kim to nasist the Indian contingext.
interest. In my imaginative picture of Bang on dry land, one long street especially, which near B. Fatersburg the antal mortality had for ›him entirely of all obligations with regard Church, returning abent 12.30.
kook, I had placed these on the wrong side of zaza parlal to the river on the left bank, and some year beam from 75 to 85 per 1,000, while Allahabad, 8th June,, to the excentive details of the bodies The Hoa. Tresenpor of the Alice Memorial
the river. They stand out white on a grean in the neighbourhood of which are the principal that of other and even poorer quarters of the Famine is beginning to be felt in the Goons promontory, in a commanding situation, and European omeniates, banks, stores, offices, rosity was only twenty Eve, To Dr. Donita, and also of the duty of appoining the and Nothorsole Hoppitals begs to noknowledge do gas live PR Count Vladimir Volibearski distrist, Central India In the latter end of one wonders how the two small French gun- denene, and hotels -This is a busy street at who for many years held a professorship of Fresident, for when the office falls vont a with thanks the following donations to the (thickly) Petrohofskikoskiwonkyjkby wock May nome 6,000, were employed on railway boats, could have run the gauntlet of their all hour of this day. It contains a large medicins at Tokyo, we are indebted for one of Governor opposed to Municipal institution fonds of the hospitals
Officer Molampy (luberrating): Thin rollef works. On the ontbreak of cholera on heavy guns, it there had not been treachery malive bassa, a sore of varied interest to the the most string Instances of the persistance Nippon Xaion Faizki
take th back ghirster an' go there Av Anny May 23rd nhout half that number retained to at work, The non-French European at laltor. It is crowded with vehicles, being of Infection in the earth. During the epidemio E.Shimizse
illevated-road-olla see yes in this wurdishun their homes. On one section of the work Bangkok do not hide their suspicions that there about the only thoroughfare in Bangkok of 1877 a detachment of troupe sent to quell a yer'll be altof losin' per job.".
wolve cases occurred on another about was treachery at work, and with this fact in where the how a man carriage can be used disturbance in a remote datelet had watered
The Daily Press.
HONGKONG," JUNE ZITH, 1000,
AT a recent meeting of the Legislative Council of the Straits Settlements there was
blev la Wong King Tong and Wong Wa were Maruthafors Mr. Remembe Daily, Avil Paine Judge,
There were two long indictmenta, and in to- cordance with a recent innovation they wis read bit by bit by the Registrar and a Leans lated to the defendants by tha. Court intar
cisely understood what was interpreted is thom. preter. We mention this fact in our report as it fa very questionable whether the defondsats pre-invited to Rome.
some discussion upon a new Municipal Bill, to the Colonial Ministry the name of the and the opportunity was taken by H, E
the men and flie women. ** officer proposed to be appointed Governor. It would be better and fairer if, in Intre, the
Sir CHARLES MITCHELL to make something" In fant, it was asked that the Governor old prasics of the Court wererovertel k. Until arrived here and was received with grant of European. Empire and influence in the East hair and are usually as beardless as women, This, of course, stopped the exportation, but..
in the nature of a personal explanatiohould not be appointed except with the read over the whole of an indicturent and had Humbert.
lately, it was the custom for the Registrar to "The community had," His Excellency
bodily to the interpreter for oral trasslation. kaid, "owing to certain circumstances that comont of a self-governing colony. Inoly this custom, is preferable to reading the "bad occurred, thought that it was his desire one case, an officer appointed as Governor, indictment in snatches, which are rather un- who was perfectly unexceptionable, wae intelligible oven to the average European arit "to interfere with the Municipalities. Eve opposed by a particular colony simply on
they must be much more so to a Cilemez. "since he had served in the Colonial Ser the ground that they knew nothing at all cated, cotxegood by making the the wing In opening the cass Mr. Francis, who prose- **vice he had had to do with Municipalities,
many of them of a much free up than about him." In that matter, while not remark to the jury. I am afraid the very old form of Information which has just been *thout now concerned, and he had never wishing to call in question to the slightest read to you cannot have conveyed to your minds "yet heard one sign of the feeling that ap extent the theoretical right. of Her Majesty any very olear idea of the questions you have "pared to prevail in the Straits that he to appoint whom She will as Her represento investigate to-day". This roroark gee medio been read bodily in desired to restrict the Municipalities. His tative, we think the selfgoverning colonies English and as the defendants were put on desipe was to keep the Municipalities na free were quite right in asking that they should their peril, and if the jury could not follow the "as it was possible for them to ba. It had been not have unknown in placed over them in exot nature of the charges against the defen- dants it must have been impossible for the settled that the Municipalities in the Straits the parition of Governor, but should have defendants under the circumstances, to under could not be fully Town Councils clecting men of distinction and reputation. It stand what was mad to them.
Ms. J. J. Franols, .C (instructed by. Br. their own Presidents and acting as other
we not desirable that the governorshipe of Hastings), proscosted and Mr. E. Robinson Councils did in differently ordered com- the great self-governing colonies should be (instructed by Mr. Dennys) defended.
reserved merely as official plums for the
The prisoners pleaded not guilty. munities. It had also been laid down that bonent of the service. We can quita un on the Governor should rest the respon "sibility of appointing the Presidents of the derstand the feelings of the oflchls on *Municipal Commissions, and it should the matter, as represented by the Colo- not be left to the controllers of Municipal nisl Secretary of the Straits Settlements "politics to have any way our slae anatles." Even amongst unofficials we have no doubs The point in dispute at the time was as to there are many men who consider them whether the Municipal Councils should have selves quite qualified for Governors, Cabinat a voice in the appointment of their own Ministers, and other high appointments and President The Straits Times supports the whe are firmly convinced the only reason Governor on that point, holding that His they are not called to preferment is, in the Excellency should not, for reasons duly seenda of the Colonial Secretary of the Straits, out and to which we will refer later, be that nobody knows anything at all about called upon to consult the Councils on this them. It may be very hard on the indi appointment of a President. As to the vidual, but fren a pallic point of view it Governor's, repudiation of any desire to seems desimbe that persons appointed to interfere unduly with or to the restrict the public office should be persons about whom freedora of Municipalities, however, our con- something is known temporary says His Excellency'a "senti
ments are admirable, but his practice
One case of bubonic plague from the barbour "has been quite. oppisite to those scnti-was the only one reported yesterday.
Stops have been taken for starting a oroling club at Ponang. The promotors are Chinose.
At the Police Court yesterday Hen Cam
der Hastinge find Chineman 20 for moving the body of a man mfforing from plague..
Tomorrow morning, between 9 and 10.90 actes, the steam lacnob Dayspring, carrying hoisting the answering pennant, to convey mon
Four hundred British sailors from the fleet at Civita Vecchia, ablonial as yesterday in the Sertine Chaps, The Popo was present and blessed the audience, who, as he left, all roze, cheering and woving hats. Afterwards a partook of dimmer in the corridor adjoining St. Peter's.
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AFFAIRS IN SOUTH AFRICA.
London, 6th June.
Mr. Rhodes has made a great speech at Bula- waye in which he sketched, a prosperous future for Matabelelant an an autonomous state con- nected with the Caps, by joint defence and trade relations which would eventually lead to federation.
agitatore.
THE NEW BHÄHI.
Bombay, 8th June,
ANARCHISM IN SPAIN,
this week's
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while the women wear their hair short too,, nad in the meantime Boath Anstralia had secured
irritating interferences with the Municipal. the Bethel flag, will call alongside any versi pocket, chopped the agreement, rind that then hare applied to the Government of Indis to be the Pakun forts, which the visitor to Bangosting hens the river, it has some streets Lamm says that around the three cametaries
would naturally be inclined to appoint a President whose views were limilar to his!
Yan Wo Choong
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