· MUSICAL AND DRAMATIU NOTES. The death in, minounced of the well-known Retox Mr. Tred. Sullivan, brother of Mr. Arthur Hallivan, the composer. His best-known aha raeter was that of the judgo in Trial by Jurz."
The Shanghrian" has around the tro of the military autoorities at Cork their band, which had necupied the roseats at the New Theatre Regal, being, withdrape, in cones quence of sundry alleged objectionable features in the pley,
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SPORT AT HOME AND ABROAD. At this moment (says the Daily Telegraph in recent jasne) sport of all-kinda lo endly in abuyauce. Eating in altinst inveblake boary rain, aided by the floods, has clogged and aboked the ground until a serious attempt to Mr. F. Hawkins, some time usatatant to Mrrido. neroas country is pratically out of the Oxenford, the eminent dramatic aritio, is, it is question: Even in pasture land your baresinks atated, shent to stars, The Theatre, a new weekly fotlock deep and has to strugglo along se bost paper, to be devoted to drametio news and ho aan after the light-footed hands and still criticism.
fester fox who loud the way in front of biza LONDON, via SUEZ CANAL. Nor is it only in the pastures that the difficulty NEW YORK secura The ploughel lands and fallows ers simply one gigantie swamp, through which the beat are that ever yet crasssd country cannot do more thus slowly piorite way. As for the loupe, they are worse then imponable, they are "Peril at the Prince of Walca's Theatro bacids. If it is a water jump, you Had that been performed more than one hundred times, the stream, or brook, or difab, or whatever SINGAPORE, BOMBAY, &c... Trancore (str.)
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bunting fields down to an almost nominal at-
A VERY AGED PAUPER. tendance. No man curce to hunt when he kno
After a bort fanse in the production of A concert in commemoration of Burns' birth that the country in to sodden and spongy to day was giren at Et, Jane's Hall Loudun, on allow him to keep in with the bounds, and that extraordinary case of longevity, a fresh series the 25th Jauttary, Mr. Rims Recree song if he really makea su effort to do so it must be at stared, and wouie of the new instances aro banka and brueg.”
"Auld Lang Syne," and the risk of a collar-bone at any rate-if not of fitted to try the faith of the steanebest can- **Macgregore" Gathering, eliciting enthusiastis bie neok. Similarly, it is absurd to affect any tenarian. As usual, the most wonderfally old FIRST Applause the at-named say bring enanted, sathusiasm in shooting when the whole country men and women come from the list of papers, The vocal picaes in the first portion of the prais eo owampy that the sportsman as for three whom the abundent and genist fure of the worke bonso agama to endow with a perennial renewal¦ grams were all associated with the poetry of miles out of every tour of bis day's but to wade of youth. A Dorsetshire contemporary gives Batua,
through a species of morass or bog in which be The sixth Triennial Handel Festival wil bells as likely as not suddenly to sink up to bis some examples which are cortaisly surprising. held in the Orystal Palace (Sir Michael Costs middle. The only sportwo raivotantly admit. The Poor Law Union of Wareham and Purbeck conductor), on the end, 25th, 27th, and theat prepont practicable is battue-shooting out, it seems from the books of the reliavo A 29th of June. The Messiah and larael in Egypt high greau: If a cover on the side of a lifil officers, A large nount of vigorous longevity will, of course, be included in the progratare, suficiently well drained to allow a certain within its bounds. Of 155 persons receiving relet in two pariabes - eight-four were ovar and on the intermediate day there will be a number of cand to be posted at its driest'acz soventy years of age, and of those fire warg selection of varied works by Hendel, to display and if it is driven towards that doner, fairly hi genius both in the unored and regalar Bond sport those who consider battne upwards of eighty-fire. The years of three of Buboole.
shooting sportom perhaps ba got. As for the latter me to the "simost iscredible" com The Paris Journal gives the number of per fishing; it is not to be or, at least, is enty of 253, Wholly inardible our contemporary suns employed on a ball-night at the Grand to be thought of. Pleatus et summa yenus migät basa tersell it, for who ann believe that Upora-Orchestra, 140; maasgere ned attendait ulmo," as Horas se sply observed when in one perish turee individuals could be found ta, 45; bax openece (Fomen), 1); machinists, the yellow Tibor overflowed the Campus Maraveraging 128 yours each ? Part of the wonder, 73 Jumplichters and attendante, 18 dressers tian--the Inabeth of Rucre. The water is however disappears on examination, and tha 20; café, 20; Bromen, 42; officera, 4; interior shout sli over the country; no one know where exaggerated element becomea-early visible, guard; 60; caterice guard, 60; agents, 40, the fish are or where they are not, and no fisher. The three venerable martels were women-bey NEW Eurists, 30; giving a lotal of 609,
man who resposts Limself would condescend to generally are. There is Sarah Courtney, agod 94, which we may pass se probably correct; The Choir says Another link with the wet bis line apon such a chance. All this being next, Mary Legg, 119 and last, but not least, musical past of Bogi-nd is severed by the deut; f80, it must form the lost drop of bisterness in Mary Kino, aged 170. So the 353., yuara aTA, the oap of English: sportens to know tout, at of Mr. Hobbs, the veteran ager, who in days this moment, in other constries the our made op by the patristical aration of Mrs. gone by bald á deservedly high position among our native article. Mr. Hotte, who had lived
weld in the days of goot Queen Ause, and bas tos good old age, had been for senis yeare unfit for active work, and bad been unable personally to fulfil bis duties as " gentlomme of the Chapel Royal
Mr. Booy & Co, the well-known pub
·lishers, bave taken a stop walet alonld com bave been baying what not bat have been Dufortunately, the maual ditioalty prenents/A Splendid Assortmout of. Fanker and MAN-Eugtian Mai), mand itself to everyons. They have abolished fear the sportsman's point of view, a very fine the system of selling, music at half-price, and time of it Besika Bay is separated from the itselt. Where is the proof of shia claim to s
Kine, who, we are asked to believe, came into the
own, sport of the finest kind in to be be for what is commonly known as "tho asking"
par ontcamppraty, the Field has printed sanrvived six British Boreraigns, one of these two lettera from different correspondente, one being the King who reigned longer than any dated from the southcres, 300ts of Japar, and otec English Monaroh known to history. Mary Kiss would thus not only hg x centenarian, butj me, throwing ald Porr atterly into the shade.
the other from besika Bay. At the latter at the most extraordinary known to English su
tian the officers of her Majety's fleet appear to
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avstem was so utterly absurd sod ridiculous, and lines, and the harea are of coormons size, that it is wonder it has lasted even its present life by about twenty years.
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SPRING HOSIERY. PLAIN and STRIPED SILK HOSE Mr. B. J. Godwin, the orbitect (who resonty of goos, stalking the banks of the Scamander to put him or her half on the parishi, married the daughter of the late Mr. Phillip without either dogs ne heaters, a asual day's and accept contentedly the regular dole, WHITE and STRIPED LISLE THREAD the famous scriptor), has designed a model bag is three or four bros of partridges, prae
to be able to vegetate long beyond the average
HOSE, theatre. The telome seems a rally excel·
two couple of woodcock, a bustard or two, and of persons with greater command of comforts lent one, and it can be carried out for £20,000. three or four harea. Such is the sport in Basi and luxurice, brit dles with greater wants, cares WHITE and STRIPED COTTON HOSE, It contemplates many wost desirable reforme ka Bay. From South Japan, on the other and anxieties. Our contemporary tblake Mary and some artistic novelties. Here is a change hand, the news which we hare is more marines should receive a move inersi pension fae aoine of the so-called patrons" of toe in its character, in Japan, at this moment, those who want long life to some to NEW
than taif-a-orowa a week, and ironically coo drama to spend their money worthily. One the native fishermen are all bar at work-fishing. model theatre built, and we shall soon bate for the octopus, the Blesk of licu ranks thera Warehun and got parohial relief. Probably. houses worthy of the stage and the age in which as a delicacy, prized salgas be worthy citizen not have a larger allowance, but remain as she Mary Kine, if Seft to kergelt, would rather. we live.
of London values the Coleheater and Whit Masonry come to be popolar behind the stable matiya. It is the habit of the octopus to le, since she bus life and health, at least, and fuotlights. In a very distinguished dramatic ergo into any dark etsites of order which is the wealth of Jacob Astor could not give her NEW RIBBONS, And literary lodge. Mr. Have bas just been many find baudy, Ailingly, the Japanese more. For the rest, all the friends of good old received into the mystic craft, and Mr. Tonle is cheriausius nuber of ethenware pote, Mary bond bastir themselves to set at rust-the -to be bailluted for the next meeting. Mr. B. saab with a small hole is it like wachives question of her real dge if they do not want her Webster, Mr. Chatterton, Mr. James, Mr. Those pole are attached by "droppers to a to be popularised, interviewed, probed Br Thorne, Mr. Henry Neville, Mr. John Clark long line, tuoh-end of which is buoyed up. catechised, gazed upon by importunate seekers A Large Stock of BABY LINEN and
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Mr. W. H. Kendal, Mr. Charles Harcourt, Mr.In the morning the fabermen picks up the line the cont sequcatered vale of life" in which she Arthur Swanborough, Mr. Edward Terry with ite pendant pote, and drags out of them W. U. Stephens, Mr. Charles Warner, Mr. Aa-their nety and unwilling occupauta. Ostopad drow falliday, Mr. C. Milward, Ms. H. J. Byrou; Sabing off the Japanese coort te sien pared by Mr. Jumes Aibory, Mr. Charles Dickene, are all the placing pursuit of apering the be Masons, and the majority of them belong to the mer, or sing. The sea slag, or kinko, la a Madame Nilsson made har début on the 8th resembling thing so nah as the ordulary
erentara uboat, the size of a cucumber, and} January before the Viennese public. She sang use of the English coast. The pkgs. Sundries. Ophelis in Hamlet" by Ambroise Thomas, Japascas, however, pistle and dry it, mah with consumanto ar, both musical and dras the Norwegians Sippet admon. To ent rualic. The Neue Free Presse has writes the cranture, on the other hand, trires ON LONDON.—A
At present we must be satisfied simply to re- yana of practice. It is harpooned with a card the brilliant storess of thin extraordinary barbed spear, to which is olfached is shaft from. arciet. Seldom has a singer mored our public-six to eight feet in length, and when secured to such entúnelesz. In the fourth not cap is is brought to the surface of the water with a silly, bor magnificent performanos enrpassed sharp jerk, and at once skinned, disembowelled, oxpectation, She received a large number
and placed on the deal of the boat to dry lu the bouquets and wreaths during the great scene of Ophelint's madness, sed was repeatedly onlied forward at the end."
Talking of the Brooklyn are, I am reminded says à correspondent of the Sporting Casette, of
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Bun. The whole proceedings closely resemble Ox BOMBAY-Baak.sight... those of lobster-fishing in Norway: The Nor. OY CALCUTTA -Bank, night...... 234
erian lobster fister, in wrather on the water UN SHANGHAI
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ilar trying ofcoastazees at the Grand like the patch of a bootjack, and mounted on the Theatre at Tiensa year or two ago. It was 2 end of a long pole. His abies is to jap the obs. grand gala night. The Emperor, attended by ster in the cafe, and so capture him. Whether very brilliant eraff was present, Ail, tbe élite of Viednim were there. The bonie wag drammeding for bono-de-mer is or is net botter sport than "joobing" for lobsters of the east of from floor to root.biller's "Robbers" Norway is a matter of taste, and och depends Obima Trelers Luaurados Company'sökarea beng perforged-the curtain bad just risen on the achtle question of kitchen beties,
$2,000 per share. upon the third at when there was a
whether pickled béche-de-mer is or is not a Oains inatupce Company-$205 per share. of "Fira:" from behind the scenen, en superior deliasoy to devilled lobster. Yet it is Hongkong Fire Insurance Company'shares firmed by an aniques smell of smoke, Emile Devrient, the well-known actor, was fortunately on the acoge at the moon He took the situation at a glunes, signalled at oner for the curtain to be lowered. then stepped is front, and in a ringing voi Latrobe, and higher up in the two streams, the Hongkong, Unften, and Macao Steamboat Co.'s that commandei iustaal siteurion spoke alengarry and the Thomson, by the union of Blares 12 per cent, discount. follows: The Emperor bus been robbed of an which the Latrobe is formed; the other from a Sampini Stop Navigation Company, fir aigrette of diamonds. No bouest person will sportman who has made his way on the Paraba 98 per share, object to being searched. You will pass out one in quest of tigers, or, to speak mora correctly, Hongkong. Das Jongsup's Sharon--$75 per by pas at each entrance, and besarobed by the jaguare, and who, in default of sub large gams,
share, pulice stationed, ut the several door. Any has taken to fly fishing The Gippsland fly- Hongkong Jote! Company's Shares-547) pr person attempting to go out of order will be fisher tells us of sport which might well excite arrested," So cool and composed was the actor the envy of the best frost-faner that ever Obitssa Imperial Lou-£101, Fe, da Itä. that the crowd were half taken in by his story whipped an English rive Fishing out of bach perece awokened bin space, and an reach bone with what Diruashire on world call SALES ON MARCE LIR, REBOLTED T ing the doar was told to harry on at once. Just "ollar" of two Bits tail-fly and a
CHINESE, an as the last row of the gallery was passing out dropper-be booked a fire caste tea fish, Fungus 10 bars, at 328.80 hy Chao bong the ourtala burst into Bames, nudiu half an ranging from a pound and a half to three to travelling trader. bour the building wae's rain. But, thanks to pounds in weight, and landed aine of them Dried fly Flowers-90 bags, at $11.80, by Derricut's wonderful soloces, not a life sufaly. At the close of the day his aportamounted Chut Chong Travelly trader.
weight. The gentleman who has been fly-fishing Choug to travelling wader...
not only on the Inpanese and on the shoes of Basika Bay that good sport is to be bad. Our Chinu Fire Insurance Company's Shares-$143
Fer abaro
contemporary, who supplies us with the pre- ceding facts, has one from i correspondent in Hongkong and Whampoa Dook Company's Gippstand, who has becit fly-Eshing in the
Sharas-40 per cent, discount.
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FOR YOKOHAMA,
THE Steamship
**DUNA,"
Captain Steelo, will receive mediate despaten For the above Port.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
GILMAN & Co.
Agents.
t 379 Hongkong, 9th March, 1977.
STGAM TO YOKOHAMA. THE P. &O, S.-N. Co.'s Steamship
"MALACCA"
will leave for the above place shortly after the arrival of the Steamship Geelong with the next
A. McIVER,
T
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353 longkong, 9rd Murah, 1877.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI. THE P. &. O.S. N. Co.'s Steamchip
"-GEELONG " will leave for the noove place about 24 hours after her arrival with the next English Mail,
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR SHANGHAI, Taking Curgo and Passengera-ay-through rates for HANKOW, NINGPO, and PORTs in
JAPAN. THE Company's Stenship TH
"ULYSSES"
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For Freight or Passage, apply to
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FOR TAKAO (DIRECT), THE AI British Baik
ORANGE GROVE" Longmuir, Master, will be drop.tahed for the above Fort on FRIDAY NEXT, the 16th inst.
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At Now York, Passengers have retention af varione lines of steamers to England, France, and Germany;
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7AM Post Office opens for sale of Stamps, Registry of Letters, and-Post- ing of all correspondence, 10.A.M., Post One closes excape for Inte
others wife by tyra béansmissi 10.15 A., Lettera may be posted on payment
of LATE FER of 18 cento extra Postage, until
11A, when the Post Office CEOSES
'antirely.
11.89 A.. Letters (bat Lettersonly) address-
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The United States Mail Packet ALASKA will be despatched on TUESDAY, the 20th March, with uile for Japan, San Francisco, the United States, and London, which will be CLOSED as follows
P.M.
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The barge for Registry is 8 cents in Hong- kong Stampe and 10 conta is U.S. Stamps to thone place only the names of which are print ed in Italica. To all the other places named BOMBAY, MAHE, ST. DENIS, AND PORT dorrespondence cannot be Registered through,"
bot only to San Francisco (8 cents),
The following are the charges on correspon.
...
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ON THURSDAY, the 22nd March, 187, dence thus cenf
at Neon, the Company's Steamship ANADYR," Commandant MOREST, with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, and CARGO, will leave this Port for the above planes.
Cargo and Specie will be registered for Lon- don as well as for Marseilles, and accepted in transit through Marseilles for the principal places of Europe.
Shipping Orders will be granted till noon, Cargo will be received on board until FM Specie and Tarvela unta P.M. on the 21st Marob, 1877. (Parcels are not to be aant on board; they must be left at the Agency's Office,) Úontents and value of Packages' are: required.
For further particulars, apply at the Com- pany's Offor
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Agoat.
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Per Hall Oorce,
Hoogkong U.S.
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Cents:
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$
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oo, Salvador-lesti
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COMPANIES
AND ATLANTIC STEAMERS.
B.S. BELUIO will ha despatched for
MAILS BY THE FRENCH PACKET, The Freash Contract Packet "ANADER"
THE B. Tokoh on un Plumer, Master, will had here and will have DAY, the 2nd April, at 3 P.M., faking Cargo quick desatch as above.
For Freight, apply to
VOGEL, HAGEDORN & Co. 388 Hongkong, 12th March. 1877,
FOR NEW YORK, [[IND 41 American Ship
"McNEAR,"
DAY. the 2nd instant, with Maila to and und Passengers for Japan, the United States, through the United Kingdom and Europe, ei and Europe,
Marseille; to Saigon, Singapore, Batavia, Connection is made at Yukobaan with falla Australia, New Zealand, Tosmaris, Fiji, Aden, Seyolselles, Réunion, Mauritios, Buez. Stauuvera from Shanghai.
and Alexandria. This is the best opportunity Freight will be received on board autil 4 P..for forwarding Correspondence to E, Afrin, the of the let proxima. Proel Packages will be Capo, St. Helena, and Asemaich.
י
W. Taylor, Master, will bad here and will have received at the Ufos until 5,2.. same day. All Parcel Packages about he marked to address quick despateb ne above.
in foll; value of same is required. For Freight, apply to
Return Passage Tickets available for & months are issued at a reduction of 20 per cent. on regalar rates.
VOGEL, RAGEDORN & Co. 293 Hongkong, 18th February, 1877.
FUR NEWORK. THE 19 years 33 L. 11 Danish Bark THE
"FORSOR,"
1. O. Grove, Master, will load bere and will have immediate deupatol as above.
For Freight, apply to
VOUEL, HAGEDOEN &Q.. 284 Пergkong, 16th February, 1977.
FOR LONDON.
HE British Ship
"ANGLO SAXON,”-
For further information to Freight or Pases re, apply to the Agency of the Company, No. 97, Queen's Read Central.
G. B. EMORY.::.. Hougkong, 3rd March, 1877.
Agent.
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS
Naithar the CAPTAIN, the AGENTS.now the OWNERS, will be RESPONSIBLE for
y
C. Harrington, Master, will lead here and have DEBT contrasted by the Offers - the Crow
immediato despatch.
For Freight, apply to
METER & 05.
If 382 Hongkong, 10th Maret, 1877.
FOR LONDON
THE AL British Ship
"STAR OF CHINA,"
of the following Yesale during their stay in Hongkong Harbour
ÁNazí, British bark, Hill,--Captain. ANGLO SAXON, British ship, Harrington
Vogel, Hocedorn & Co
ANNIE SHALL, American bark, Malabo
Douglas Laprnik & Oo.
-Bozario & Go
Blaker, Muster; will load here and buvo ime BELLE OF OREGON, American bark, Merriman, diate dispatch.
CHINOTOO, Britiel 9-m.scb., Buikio Boraca
Company.
For Freight, apply to
.:
MEYER & 935 Wongkong, 6th February, 1877.
· FOR ILOILO. THE
POR comprehensiveness and practical aervice this Work standa unrivalled. All the new words which the Chinese have of late years been A Spanish Sobcover compelled to coin to express the numerota ob jecta mashinery,photography, telegraphy, und
**UNIÓN,”
Lettora muy also be forwarded to India by this Packet, but enr. 60 paid only as furat Cey- lon. The postage to Caylon must be prepaid. Such letters ahould be market Paid to Bulle only; they will go on from Galle as unpaid.
The following will be the hours of closing the Mails, &0.
WEDNESDAY, 21st Marab,
J
5 P.M., Money Order os closes Post Office closes except the NIGHT BOX, which remains oveù all night. THURSDAY, 22nd March,
7A.M., Poet: Office opens for sale of Stumps, Registry of Letters, and Post. ing of all gorrespondence.
10 A., Rexistry of Lesters erasen.
11 A., Post Office closes except for Late
Lettere..
11.10 1.1., Letters (but Letters only) excopt those to and throngh Australia, may be postail on payment of a Late Fee of 13 cents extra poslage, until 11.30 AM, when the Post Office CLOSES
entirely.
Arrangements having been made under which Maila for London arriving at Suez froz China by Private Ships will be forwarded to destination via Brindisi, it is bereby notified that she rates of postage, which must be paid in E. TON BRAUL, German bark, Sobaieder: advance, on correppondenso addremmed to the United Kingdom so forwarded, will be a fol-
Borneo Uo
BELENE, German hark, Volgaardsen Wielers, viz. You For Letters &Co. MONEAE, American ship, Taylor-Vogel, Ha. For Newspapers...
gedorn & Co,
For Books and f
Patterns
lost. If I remember rightly, Miss Furtado o to 813 by six fish, weighing about huod:ed.Vermicelli30 bags, at $6,80, by Kwong His in ience generaly, which the rapid advance/Dericaecherarris, Mäster, will have quick, du. SABAH NHHOLSON, British ship, Selkirk.
spatch as above.
REMEDIOS & (5.
341 Hongkong, 28th February, 1877.
FOR MELBOURNE AND SYDNEY.
British Barque
SPIRIT OF THE AGE," make the Chinese and English type correspond Captain Jobineun, will have a quick dmpatob in the size of body, thereby effecting art for the above Ports. oponomy of aproe, achieving a cluaren mot
For Freight or Passage, apply la
ROZARIO & Co. previonaly attained, and dispensing with thos Yast margins and vacant spaces which hare
208 Hanko Snd. February, 1877. heretofore characterized Chinese publications.
For practical purposes the arrangement of ANCHESTER FIRE ASSURANCE COM the work is so complete, that a reference PANY OF MANCHESTER AND
five or bix years ago showed aimfler preæenos
of foreign relations has Imposed upon them, are For Freight or Panago, apply to mind when an alarni of fra was raised at the
in the Parson fuðs the finačd monsters,wbiož Brown Sugar-00: Tags, at $3,94, by Yingbere given in extenso, Each and every word ju Olympic, and the example of her courage was abubit that stream far too strong for any or Kee to travelling trader.
fully illustrated and explained, forming exer opptagious. Unfortunately, all men are not so depary tuckle. His first oast was with a rough American Flour 200 bags, it $1.36, Ly Ying Giece for students of a set instructive usture. 001.2 Emile Devriezt, nors)), vowezi na pluckyztificially of his own making, and with Kee to travelling trader,
Both the Court and Panti pronunciations the de Mine Farkado,.
it be booked and scoured a twelve-pounder White Sofa 100 brgs, at 38.66, by Kwei giros, the accents being retally murked on 13 In bla" Book of the Play," Mr. Detton Coof His next rise was front a forty pounder, as Mow to travelling trader
theten primelple sitherto attained. The typo telle the following story-Dowton the motor,
loust," who walked away with red nad line. Black Pepper-100 bugs, ut 88.10, by Kiraphy displays the success of a astept to performing as part-to judge, from the ad everything else. Big fish must have been Maw to travelling trader
lustration it must have bora the ghost in in the neighbourhood, or in the same after-
China RootCutting), 15 tube, at $11.50, by Hamlet, but the teller of the story does not so ho bud, married off the spoon hats and Tai Foour Shum to travelling trader. say formally that such wag thẻ fact-bed, of
swinnow. After such a warning be shilled, Potato Flour-70 bage, at $2.15, by Wo Hing couree, to be lowered in the old-fashioned way his tackte, and, to use tie own expressions to travelling trader. throurt wdrap-door in the stage his faco borralled with a young anchor and a wire osb.e." Tobacco Lent-10 bags, at $9,85, by Kwong
arnod towards the audience. Elliston and De The reelt wea that he landed in one day two Wo Chenug to travelling trader. Cump, concealed beneath the stage, had provided thirty-Kre ponu tara, while he further assures us themselves wit's small ratian canes, and so their that there in the river a large species of bint brother-actor slowly and solemnly deacended which can be taken with either a spinning bait they applied their micka skúrily and rapidly to the oven of his lege, unprotected by the play, and which weighs on an average two hundred pounds. When sport of this kind oan
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armour that graced us shine. Poor Dowton with be bad abroad, it is difficult indeed to under- difficulty preserved his gravity of countenance, stand why English sportsmen should be content or refrained from the utterance of a yell of agony to rent at home. As it le, the best fly tubers while in the presence oftiamat.ca. His lover make their way every year to Norway, The timbr, buzent the surface of the stage, friskede must soon come when all portanon at all arone is passage below was maliciously rate, make their head quarters abroad, and will mude a liberate as possible. At length lost big gama in South Afrinn, or follow B wholly let down, and completely out of the stunt up among the wairuses round Spitz sight of the audience he looked round the bergen, or go By-Copies for two hundred obecnre regions beneath the stage to discover pondera in the gigantis rivers of the Southern the base perpetrators of the outrage. He was American continent. speechless with rage and buraing for revenge, Elliston and bis companion, bad of courie
sad curvetted about "ky s horse in Ducrow's worthy of the same will, for the nessun at sny Thermuster9 km (Nielimib)...:
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vanished. Motortunately, at that moment A country paper, in an obituary notice of a Charles Holland, ausdier aber of the pany, splendidly dromed, appeared in sight
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THE Undersigned have ben appointed be Agoute for the Sale of their Godda u Hongkong and Olina by Messrs, J. & B. Tar perte de las leak in D, Gilangas, and Marged firm Condant mast boy. Bad a little too much curiosity: Sore, Arbroath, The enraged Durton mistaking his man, sad peršaps, or be wouldn't have preped no foudly- SEKARNHOLD, KARBERG & Co believing that Head's importarbability of into the muzely of his father's louded alot gan41 419 Hongkong, Junnery -1857. manner" was asumed, and si, evidence of his minister was called in tu nes a man who was guilt, seized a mop as that moment at hand very ill, After finishing his visit, ny ba'was ficersed in very dirty water, anil trosting it leaving the bouse, be said to the man's wife, TO REDUCED PRICE SI.. in hia fuss, utterly ruined wig, raffles, point Iscc, | * My good woman, do you trút go to any aburchi Contoining the names of all the Krades of and övery particular of his elaborate attire. In at all "Oh, yes sir, we gang to the Barony Trade, objects of Natural History, Furniture, quarto pages, vitin Holland protected bis innocence and in- Kirk." Then why in the world did you send i to, do, with the Punti, and Mandarin Fronun- plored for merey, bia cries only stimulated iss. for me? >Why didn't you amd for Dr. Mac.ciation.
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