EGYPTIAN CONQUEST OF DARFURTHE WORKING OF THE PROHIBITORI
The following is the endstands of a letter from the correspondent of the Constantinople al Fawdid at al Klartam, dated Novembar 18
LIQUOR LAY IN AMERICA Mr. George Dawson, who, 1150 Buyingham Morning News anys, vax formerly su advocate of the Formisive Bill, a reported by that paper to have delivered a teoiro or the 19th January, in which, on the strength of bis expericnos during his recent tant in America, big declared the Muino Liquor Law to be inoperative, Mr.
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I apprised you on a farmer occasion of the arrival of Jetail Ayyoh Fusha, the Governor Goferal of the Sadan, it Umm-Chankab, tho principal trade-mart of Darfar. While to was making preparations to attack Fashir, the seat of the Darfur Government front the oat, in | Dawson said 1— concort with Zabir Beg, who was posted to the He took great deal of pains about the drink wart and south of that plase, intelligence reaching question sad shant the Prohibitive Law, ed him that the forces under the Bag bad Mains Laws, and Licensing Lave. Sometimes discomfited the army octumanded by Hasb enthusiastic Americus came over here and Bald Allah, the unols of the Amir of Darfor, after how beautiful the laws worked in America, four contested orgagements. When the news They worked certainly. His opinion was that of thincufantas.com tampicated to the Amir, he the Probibitive Laws did lesson the amount of Da forthwith left Fashir and took up a position drinking, but at a cost. Wheresoever we konw near a place called Manwash, where Zabir Beg the law was so stringent amuggling bedene s was encamped with the division under bie orders; fino art, fed how to ende iku lave that more inData TOP And, having nollected together a fores which he strist produced more moral barm in one diro SINGAPORE, BOMBAT &c. Bunda (str.) asemed safigient, the Amir wide a faitous tien than the era, they were trying to shoot in SAIGON, SINGAPORE, attack upon the enemy. On hearing that the the other. One day hù add to a man, BANGKOK Amir hnd quitted Fashir, the Pashn e first idas: hotel. : Caunot a man get a drink liere":"Ob, MANLLAWAR was to set ont in order to accupy it; bat, on yes," said thewnan, to along the street until Da second thoughts, he judged it wise to effect you get to a fruit shop. Go through that abop YOKOHAMA junction with the forces under Zabir Beg. Ho and into the room at the back." Arrived at the SHANTELE Bocordingly set out at once from Umm-Shastab, fruit shop te marched in. He entered a little SWATOW. ANOT and reached a large village, where the people room at the 5nok, Bobind a man wore two welcomed him, and provided all necessary sap capboards and a little counter. These weranl! plins for his troops. Here intelligence reabbed he could see. He did not know exantly what him that Zabir Beg bad defeated the Bertarians to do next However, he put on a bold face, sad put them to flight, and that their Amir had and said,What sort of stuff is Bourbon bem sigin daring the engagement that the whisky, sirf The man said, not a word. Beg had pursued the ransgates and had catered He opened a cupboard, and brought out Fabir, to which place he begged that the Go bottle. He (Mr. Davion) poured out what he vernor would hasten with all speed. Thereupon wanted and drank it. The mina gave him a his Excellency ordered a salute of twenty-one little obeque, on which was written Pay to goas to be fired at all the military stations, and the cashier so many centa. He too the made a grand feast, which lasted for three days, obeque into the shop, and paid the money at to which all the officers and merchants were in the counter. This was the way they evaded the vited, the Europeans with the foroo being raguled law. The man who gave him the whisky did after their own fashion. The Amir af Darfur not take be money for it, and the man who was killed on the 14th of Ramadhan (Novembar took the money did nob give him the whisky. Ee bad the whisky 24th), to the disappointment of our army, as it he minchiet was done. had been their intention to capture bio alirs, and be paid for it, but nobody sold it. Instead However; bie headstrong determination to cope of standing up to take their drink the Ameri with our troops led to his death, and it has cane ebowed them into the cupboard, and they been followed by this good result, that all the sat down there. The standing drink was fillegal. people of the country seen disposed to welcome ibe now state of things, looking forward to a period of tranquillity and of freedom from the oppression to which they have beretofore been subjected.
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In sitting to drink they were a sort of guest of CORDS for BREECHES and PANTA- the house, In another pines he went to en hotel. He said to the fundford" Can I have a LOONS, drink, sir? He replied, "Yes, if you will go upstairs we will bring it up." This was a nice
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Later intelligence of the results of the expediting for an English gentleman-drinking in tion To given in the following oficial telegram a bedroom. However, they had it and be from the Governor-General of the Sudan to the found they could have any quantity they liked, Egyptian Government, dated Fishir, 22nd of The law was most avetoustionlly evaded, In Shawal (7th of Desember)
Messaburette men sold drink openly at the We left the village of Faniyab with the doors. By-and-by it was necessary to go srcond division, as before reported, and on the down upon them. The man knew that the 27th of Bumadhan (6th of November) restbed police were coming, and although be might COATS, Fasir, the capital of Darfur, where we joined have thoxanda of gallons on the premises, Zabir Beg, and where the two divisions are there were two or three bottles laid handy, and now located. The people bave coune in aboala with viraros indignation the polios siezed to give in their submission to the Government three bottles. The mit was a que, aid the of the Khediva. Among these are the marfa of paltry penalty.and went back to his work of drink some of the villages belonging to the fute sailing. Whoever wanted drink could get it in Sultan Ibrahim, To these bare given almost toy county in America. The larger certificates of manumission, insom woh that they part of the Probibitive Inswe were a transparent are now as free as any of the subjects of the fare an invitation lo dishonesty, an induce axalted Governorate, and are in the possession at to smuggling. It was no nes getting of the same privileges all the inhabitants of angry about tala, because the thing was there Darfor have given se their ollegiages, with the and he scald not help it. The majority at exception of the relatives and special partisans Americana declared faces Jews to be worna
DRAB SHELL and FARIS SILK HATS; of the Late Sultan, who nominted bis uncle, than useless, to be absolutely mischievous. The Enab'-Allah, as his quocomor, and then took to testimony of all, except a few enthusiasts, was CHRISTY'S PULLOVER HAT3, the Latest Light. We bave desputahed a detachment is this—that they forced upon the people a lav pursuit, and absil oudeavour to persuade them to which they were opposed, they turned their Novelty
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diminishing drunkenness, and they increased take the consequenor.
amazingly bypocrisy, lying, moannces, deceit, HATS, in all tha bribery of ufficiale, and the general mesaliro, which ate as a canker into American Hodfety. The terrible story of the Compatrick, thonga was regarded as a city. His w it has taught us no new lesson--for the one it opinion, was that Américaza": drank, for less conveys has been larat over and over again than we English did, and he was afraid wo from that hardest of wantares experience has were at the top of the world in the matter. or should have brought back to us one which Nobody drank at a dinner in Atosic, we cannot for very shame afford any longer to becauas the women were so furigas about disregard. Nowbare, perhaps, so surely as on and the man was so pestered and so bothered the sea as the old adage that avoidents will, that for the life of bit be dáte not have any happon proved so true... Nự matter Law olover drink. But after dinner the man went and bað the onptain, how statieh the orom, how stout) bis fill. He could now sit down and drink waak
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the vessel, there may come a time, and it has tes to his dinner. He had been si man zak » | COLLARS, quito new. come all too often of late, when olerornan, beofsteak that was along way from being done stumehneas, and stouters are of little avail, or land wash it down with a pint of milk. But by- perhaps, we should rather say the two first-and by the man made up for the loss time. Was SHIRTS, Quiet Patterus, with COLLARS named qualities are pat to a tort never antici- there manh gained there ?. The solving of that pated from the existence, real or Bappaerd, of question did not lie, he believed, fi probibitivo attacked.“ the latter. A good captain will stand by his last. It was aid that education had not oured ship to the last, cor, so long se any other way dronkenness or crime in America; but when be of use, will be give that last order, To the they found that gine-tenths of the crime was boata”. It is then, unfortunately, that the committed by the uneducated class, that the worst of the danger in dono—no speak of comme geckser part of thể depakenness they could put of those cases in which, in the case of an their finger-apon and say that it came with emigrant chip, the passengers far outnumber ignorance; when they looked into these things the crew With the former, unused in carefully they would find that the diminution of all probability to danger, and to that dis-drunkenness was not a hopeless taak, and that ipline by which all danger is no tosteríally ( it was open to them, without being looked upon decreased, the instinct of self-preservation an favouring drunkerness, to, deny or doubt not unnaturally paramount, while the latter, whether the forcing upon an smwilling peoplo *so few among so many, are powerless to show of laws that were not approved of, and which how that instinnt may be beat obeyed. There people were not prepared to obay, was the faa wild, aimless rush to the boata; to get us wisest course to adopt. quickly as possible from the barning or sinking ha ship is the one decire uppermost with the Tha
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For Iloilo Per. Deb, to-day, the 6th inst., at 1,80 P.MANTHA
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Letters for Begistration will be received until 10 .. on the 11th March.
F. W. MITCHELL,
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and to New York and Europe, VIA PANAMA, A Steamer of the Company will leave Shang- [hai, via the Inland Sea Porta, about the same Unte, and make close connection at Tokohams. A New York and Aspinwall, Passengers have selection of various lines of Steamers to Late letters (but Letters only) addressed, to England, France and Germany, that ta the United Kingdom vid Brindisi, or to Sin
Freight will be received on board until P.M.gapore, may be posted on board tho Packet on the 14th inataul, Parcel Packages will be from 11.30 .. to the time of sailing, on pay. received at the Office until 5 P.M. of the same tent of a Late Fee of 48 cents each in addition day. All Parcel Packages should be marked to to the postage." address in fall; value of rame is required, ZI
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FOR MANILA.
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Captain Theband, expected here on the 8th instant from Amoy, will leave for the above Port shont 24 hours after bor arrival.
For Freight or Pausage, apply to
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FOR COOKTOWN AND SYDNEY, THE German Steamship
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For Freight, apply to
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· FOR SAN FRANCISCO..
THE 41 American Schooner
WY, PHILLIPS,"
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Rongkong, 5th March, 1875.
For farther information ne to Passage and Freight, apply to the Agency, of the Company, General Post Office, Praya Won
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SINGAPORE, PENANG, POINT DE CALLE, ADEN, SUEZ, MALTA,
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TERRANEAN PORTS, SOUTHAMPTON, AND LONDON:
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It is bereby notified that, henceforward the NAVIGATION Company's Steamship SUNDA Captain J. C. BABOT, Will Her postage on letters addressed to Denmark, when Healy, Master, will load as above and have quick Cargo, will leave this for the above placos on letters will be subject to an additional ebarge Majesty's Mails Passengers, Specie, and forwarded vid Southampton, will be 28 gents per half-ounce, propayment optional. Unpaid duepatol
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THE German Brig
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For Freight, apply to
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VAPOR SAN FRANCISCO, THE 1 British Ship
**LORD MACAULAY”
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A 'Written Declaration of the Coutents and Tains of the Packages for the Opertand Routeis required by the Egyptian Government, and must be delivered by the Shippers to the Company's Agenta, with the Bills of Lading or with Parvols; and the Company do not bold themselves responsible for any Detention or Prejudios which may happen from the incor- reatness in auch declaration,”
The Company reaeryo the option of forward ing all gooda shipped by their Steamers for
R. Monkman, Master, will have early deapatok Europe through Egypt, either by rail, or by Canal in their own Steamers, or in vaadela employed for the purpose
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"FLANSA,"
Indies, China, Berdebs Coyle, Monin, Java, Straits, and Persia, testifying to the superior 582 Tons, Oxptain Oost, will load here for above make and quality of their Billiard Tables, tad Purt, and will have immediato deepatok, while thanking their Friends and Patrons in China for the liberal support so long extended to their firms, would, in inficiting, further pas tronage, beg to mention the following fasts which have cunduced to the strocess than efforts
have hitherto met with,
For Freight, apply to
VOGEL, HAGEDORN & OB 247 Hongkong, lőth sebruary, 1975,
FOR SAN FRANCISCO. DAR A 1 Garbon Brig
TARTAR**
Every table is muắn of avita word, well ez Captain Esemens, will load bare for the above emed and not tencered.
Fort, and will have immediate despatch,
For Freight, apply to
The Cushions are constructed on an antimily. now prinsipia, introduced by G, Li and Co., and unlike that adopted by Eaglion makers, and are much more durable and lively than Englinksmade cushions, an
No table laares 0. L. and Co.'s premises antil. it has been standing ready finished for over 12 montbe, in order to ensure perfectly seasoned material.E
VA, VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co...
Agents,
if 599 Hongkong, lat Marab, 1875
FOR SAN FRANCIHOO. THE 41 American Ship
GAME COCK,”
Captain Stoddard, will lead bere for the above Fort, and will have quick despatch.
For Freight, apply to
Every article of furniture, also, that learea C. LAZARUS and Co.'s Establishment, in at ranteed of Solid and Seasoned Wood,
C&Co. have always ready a large stick
VOGEL HAGEDORN & US. 109. Hongkong, 18th January, 1875. FOR MANILA.' HE 41Spanish Bargrö
CANDIDA
of new Cushions on tháiz pasuliar principle, and which as be supplied for any table, the unbieta, Master, will bare quick despatch curate length and breadth of the slate bed only the above Port being required.
For Freight or Passage; apply to
tt 201 Hongkong, 4th February, 1875-
A
0. I and Co. have always in and a large
Tips, Oballs, Cloth, and orery requisite for the
OR comprehensivendes and practical service Billiard Table
G.
An ANGLO-ÜHISEDE DICTIONARY, published stock of Billiard, Pool and Pyramid Balls, Onos,
at the Daily Press Office, Hongkong.
for
Shippers are particularly roquested to note the terms and conditions of the Company'e.
Black Bills of Lading, made a pr
A; MCIV.EE, Superintendent. Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Cor's Office, Hongkong, 5th Maroli, 1875.
FOOCHOW DOCK.
PAGODA ANCHORAGE.
FW. MITCHELL.
Fostmaster-General, General Post-Office, Hongkong.
It is hereby notified that the postage charge, ible upon · Patï' Letters addressed is France will benceforward be 12.conta per quarter conce who forwarded by Frenob Mail Packet, and 18 dents per quarter once when formanded by British Mail Packet.
F. W. MITCHELL,
Poetmaster General General Post-Oftae, Hongkong.
It is hereby notified that the rates of postage chargeable ammeaforth, no Lattera addressed to the United Kingdom, and to places beyond the United Kingdom, when forwarded by Franch Packet, will be the same as these obargeable on Lettera forwarded by British Packet là Brin." diel,
F. W. MITCHELL
Podmaster General, General Post Office, Hongkong.
It is hereby notified for general information that henceforward the Postage on Letters nd dressed to Russia, whoɑ marked to be forward. ed vit. Sonthampton, will be reduced to 40 cents par half-ounce,
A Postmaster-General, 18Esbovs Granite-floored DOUK has intel F. W. MITCHELL,
besti. LÄNGTHENED to 400 fest över äll, General Post Office, Hongkong. and is new, capable of receiving vessels up to 380 feet on the keel The breadth of the Dock at the bottom in-40 feet, at the top 80 feat and the widta et the entrance is 66 feet. Depth of water on the sill 13 feet at average nesp, and 17 fest at arorago apring tides. Fakataka
The Dock has a Caisson Gate, and is pumped ont by, steam
A new FOUNDRY for largo iron and brass castings in recently been added.
The Machine Shop contains 12,inob. Serow Cutting Gapelatto, Small Latlies, Drilling, and Sorewing Maobinea Storm Saw Mill, Large: Bmithy, &c., &
Dry Godowns are où the promise, available for stowage of cargo, &c.
A large stock of Timber, Metal, and other Dock-yard Material always on band.
The Post Obs of Vistoria (Austrija) harmg given notice to the General Post Office in Lon 850 that articles of Jewellery ranaived in that Colony nr chargeable with Customs Duties, the undersigned considers it naasary to make this Regulation known to the Public, and to state that any lettore or packets containing auch article sent through the Past are liable, with their contents, to be forfeited.
NEW. MITCHELL,
Postmaster Garenal, General Post-Office, Hongkong
line of British
It is bereby notified that Maft Contract Packets hng been established be tween Aden and Zanzibar, which, with connot ing lines, will afford a regular monna of con reyance of correspondence from Hongkong for
Vessels docked for examination, remetalled, resparred, repairs also dece in barbour; and iren ohips and steamers ele ned and painted, ut the foreign ports on the East Afriona Coast, as moderate surges Particolars can be obtain. ed at the look, or ou application to the under signed, m
The Steam Tug Waxing is in thorough working order, mud is available at all times to tow vessels to or from sex, at reasonable rates,
JOHN ROESTER & Co. 189 Foochow, 18th June, 1873121 THE UNDERSIGNED begs to inform the
HONGKONG, HO NAM, AND CANTON that las ban shape established at those places in. the name of ENG KER. B
O. BOGERS, DDS, THE UND
DENTIST,
this.Work standa unrivalled. All the ner "Old Fashions Tenewed on C. Lazarus & words which the Chinese have of late years, bem Co's peculiar prizaple, clareby making an old No. 7, ARBUTHNOT ROAD... compelled to coin to express the mumerous ab- table as good as new. jecta in machinery photography,tolography, and
in scienca generally, which the rapid advance BILLIARD LANDE.
tf 247 - Hưngkong, Jal.December, 1874,
KONGKONG 103 COMPANT S
of foreign relations has imposed upon thers, are Six und Eight Light Lamps for Oil, or Kero-A AVE always on band & STOOK
- CLEAR SOLID PLOVE IGE:A
well as for Natal and the Caps Colony, St. He lena and Ascension, had that henceforward the postage, which must be paid in adeoncs, on let- tere addressed to Zanzibar, Mosambique, Dain go Bay, Natal, the Cape of Good Hope, and Ascension, will be 20 cents for oso lalf-ounce, nowspotpora 2 cerits each. POTRAI
F. W. MITCHELL
Postmaster General. General Post Office, Hongkong
It is hereby notified for general information that, on snd after the 1st January, 1875, the I HONGKUNG, at the Central Market, Postage on Correspondence forwarded by Pri
12, he has constantly on and BEEF vais hip to the Straits Settlements must be MUTTON POULTRY BREAD, VEGE prepaid at the following rateo, viz. TAULES, and OILMAN'S STORES, & of for Letters, cents per ounce. the best quality,
each,
ordinary blocks and falls, Types, Hoogkung and Shungħat Bank Saares $10 here given in cœláneo, Bach and every words sint, the latter with burnere i on the dopeude from PURE FILTERED. Wasse, without In HO NAM and CANTON SHOPS, the fally illustrated and explained, forming exer-principle, giving a light equal to Ewales ordinary the age of Hither, Ammonia, of any kind of foregoing articles, with the addition of BPI- olses for students of a moet instructive nature. Both the Court and Punti proannemtions are
Tamps.
Captain Pani Boyton recently made a curious: Union Insurance Society of Canton, new sluures and encoessful exhibition of his lifesaving up a $50 per share premium,
So Cheanicals whatever, DES peratue on the Serpentine. Pasutually at the Olina Tradors' Insurance Company's Shera➡ giren, the scventa being carefully marked on Eighteen light ring barnor Gas Pendante, bour fixed, 4 p.m., Mr. Buyton issued from the | 31,300 per share, ez direlan the best principle hitherto attained. The type with rod to auspond over table. Receiving-house of the Royal Homara Society China and Japan Marine Insurance-Dls. 84 | graphy displays the success of an attempt to |--~.. in bis seu costume of indiarubber, suð utter i per share
make the Chinsen and English type correspond
0. TARARUS AND Co, have ocen appointed recognizing me friends on the margin of the Obimeno Luduranon Company.---$194 per share. in the size of body, thereby effecting a vast cola agents in India and the East for fake, walked dimnolly into the wester, where ba Hongkong Fire Inaurinec Company's Sliurqa--| gostomy of aphos, achieving a clearness not. companied at unos to paddle his own once, 1490 per sburg,
previously attained, and disposing with these THE NEW PATENT At a short distance from the shore was a omul Chian Fite Insurance Company's Sbares-5133 | vast margins and vaonut spaces, which, have ELECTRIO BILLIARD MARKEE, zinc font, or boog, bearing the Ameriam tax per share,
heretofore characterized Chinese publications, by menge of which the soure can be marked fun which he obtained a supply of rockets Victorii Fice Insurance Company's Shares Tollustrate the vast scope of the work, the from the chion of the table. which be owa with 900siderable effect in the $123 per share.
following facts are submitted for consideration. conray of bis operations; Symetimes be used – Lengkung and Whampoa Dock Company's Chalraper Vocabularly contains about 18,000 ble paddle, sometimes hê nacă", his nɛmo (thứ )^^^ Sharea-35 per cont, discount. paddle being carries under the load), sunsetimes | Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co.'s da mañe way by means of a anilattached to the Bburan 0 per cent, premium, Esat, in communicating with the land, carrying Shanghai Steam Navigation Company-Tie a despatch in his teeth to a bust outside, bring a 70 per share.
MANN
ing book a dematou in reply. He so used bi Hongtang Gas Company's Shares-376 per 410, sounded his horn, vnd smoked his pipe. Habare
chief encesas, however, ma in lettfag of rockets Hongkong Hotal Company's heros $50 per
9, variona colence, some of which ascunded to or dent, discount.
a considerable belebt, and some just skummed Todo-Chiness Bugár Company-$1 per share,
the water in a serpentine form. Buch means of
eroiting attention would have been invaluable
to the waife and strays from the Cospatrick,
the Pera, and the Cortes, but the Bay of
(nominal)
SALES ON MARCH 6TH, 1875.
Csoported by Clinear.
Biscay is not the Serpentine, and the attention File Edgar, 80 bags, at $6.80, by Kwong excited was principally that of the carriage, wing-sking to local trader, mo livinen which pamed by, and that of the swans at White Was, 1 plece, at $88.09, by Kwange and ducks, which showed aunistakable signs wing abing to local traders
Chinese charactors, and Meaturst's English Price: Liste, Catalogues, and all information and Chinese Distionary about 100,000, whilst
may be obtained from this work contains more than 50,000 Englis
words, and upwards of 600,000 Chinese charac- LANE, CRAWFORD AND 00, tom. Again, despito All the grammar and
who hate wɔusented to Bot Bu O, LAZARUS & CO.'S AGENTS
other elementary works as yet, published, the student of this difficult language absolutely re
quines examples to display the varions appli- HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, AND JAPAN, casions and equivalents of different warche which have une general meaning. Of these examples
and by whom
Labs work contains more than five times w ALL ORDRES WILL DE BROEIVED Many any other Dictionary hitherto pad and forwarded to Oaisait by the EARLIEST lished, 6836
For practical, purposes the arrangement of opportunity. Sta
the work is so complete that reference NOW ON BALE.
to its pages enables a person who unders
stands Bugish to communiste finely
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with natives who understand nothing pot CaHE FOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
of uneasinets at the "ansccustomed sights and Lounds. Mr. Boyton's air-tight dress no doubt gives him great command in the water, 400 when, after an hour's exhibition, be divested
Dried Lalg Floweră, 10 bags, at £11,40, by dead of them are parfectly Roquainted. To himself of his apparatus in one of the Bains
parties, resident in England and interested in Society's sheds, bis ordinary apparel was por Kwongering thing so travailing trader. Teotly dry. The castame, it may be said, cup-unene, 5 Lage, at $43.00, by Enoug-Inor--Uing it cannot but be invaluable occasionally. mata of a tacio and paste, with five sit-com-vo to travelling trader.
Black Basirhunie, 35, bags, at The. 20.8.0, by nose. In this respect the work will be found STUDENT'S FIRST ASSISTANT, Kwong-wingshing to lonal trader.
indispensable to all Europeana residing in By Dr. DATAN, with mony Additions, Correc- Americou Flour, 69lbs., 600 bags, at $128, by China, and to the natives themsetres it or
| plaina subjecte fully with which very few in
tions, and Dr. WILLIAMS' Orthography. Läs-king-loong to travelling trader.
PRICE In Paper Wrapper $1.60 Nestly Bound, et par $100 Apply at the Daily Free Boo
partments, and one, be put on in a few minutes. Fermied, 30 bags, at $8.75 by Kwong-hing. Captain Boyton did not shum mcob signs of cling to travelling tradenskjent debility after his hour's diversion, and be main While Fopper, 5 baga, at $19,40, by Hop-king tains that he can go from Dover to Oalals to travelling trader word d without getting al all wetted--Shipping and Red Dates, 30 baza, at $2.50 by Hing-cki to Mercantile Günstig
steel travelling trador.
It comprises upwarde of two thumsand large quarto pages
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OLD BAST, AND NULLAY LANE, Hongkong, 23rd September, 1874
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· CALIFORNIA.
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F. W. MITCHELL, be farnished, which will be supplied at the same
Video Fostmaster. Generali General Post-Offee, Hongkong... rate all the year round,
ly 74) Hongkong, 15th May, 1874
HKRUPP'S CAST STREL WORKS,
ESSEN (GERMANY)OUN SOLE AGENT FOR CHINA AND JAPAN
VF. PEIL, 1671 Hongkong Shanghai,Cologne (Germany)
"N Order to meet the wishes of the Nativo Onmmanity, the Quiero, Leeue of this Paper le bien from the communqcoment of the
China New Year issued Dirty intend of on alternate days as befor
fore
It is hareby notified for general information Pootage (which must be pad in Ed-
vinned) upon letters addressed to Prince Ed-' ward Island, will henceforward be as follows,
When forwarded vi
Brindisi 43 cepta anch hocf-ounce When forwarded via
Marseilles 36 conte cach half-ounce When forwarded vikt
Santhampton 38 dents duch half-ounce,
· F ́W/MITCHELL,
* Postmaster General. Bezeral Post Office, Hongkong,
Twenty Years, and is, as to Editorial Manage
The Paper has been abublished for nearly
13 is hereby notified that henceforward-the went, ander the Diration of Well Educated rates of poningo which rzust be paid in advance, Chinese Gestioan gives reliable, ommercial chargeable on Packets of printed papers or sad genetal information and has the same patterna of light weight sent from Eengtong position with the Native Community as lo ad to the United Kingdom by the United States, vortisements and Newn as the Englialı Daily Peckota Tin San Francisco, will be ma followu Frwa with the Foreign – Community. The vir ('-—-- Ubarge for Advertisementa, will be ng bereto- For a packet at creeding Fondoë
in weightpress.
con tà For a packet abovo Lounge not kan Hongkong, 3rd February, 1871 Jane 15 **
goeding. I cunoaste yo For a packet above 2 ounces, nor ez-Z TELESTOURISTA GUIDE
WING-KEE COAL BHOR Keeling 4 conCOM. Í TURKLING WATE KODULAD FRICES);
THE Propriozer die Wirexen Bhop bags to and eight semia for overpad sional four ounose, Undergoes on appointed belo «Coutswing the names of all the Artinies.
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That he has always a great quantity of BEST other than Newspapers, as well as to Books MINT, Glasgow, and Mostra, David Dorian & cation
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to apply as bis Shapes 10 Hongkong, January, 1807,
12-08- Hongkong, 2ärd Sosteniber-1874. Gaper Pori Vilos, Hongkong."
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