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CORRESPONDENCE.
BAND PERFORMANCEB.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE “DAILY FRESS."
Hongkong, 27th Aprik SIE,I am not at all surprised, or troubled, that "Semibrovo" after some pains" bas failed to discover the point of my argaments. He convicts bimself out of his own mouth of that lack of "ordinary intelligenco" which his first letter led me to expect of him! I have no curiosity as to the sum he disburses on taxes generally, but I was curious to know what he considered a handsome sum “to disgorge" for the Military Grant per se, and I am forced to the conclusion that he does not know the amount timeslf, and that the above quoted expression must be accepted as mere claptrap. like the rest of his letters! I note, with amuse- ment, that my "pointless arguments" have pricked his bubble-liko ideas of taxation so that what he first stated as a handsome sum has now abrank to s little mite, yet for a frac tional portion of this" mite" he arrogates to himself the right to expect the free enjoyment of Military Bands whers and when it suits him, Poor" Semibreve "!
I am sure no one wishes to provant "Bomi- breve or any other inx-payer from expressing his views, but he must expect to be laughed at when he talks nonsense. We bave your patho- rity, Mr. Editor, for believing that "Semi- brove" did express himself without "fear or favour" so much so that you had to tell him that "abuse was no argument."
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Op nas point I quite agree with "Semibreve." The objects on which the military grant is expended Lace nothing to do with the case"; bis introducing them into his letter is quite in kooping with his other attempts to bolster up the hysterical squeaking with which be started this correspondence and the point of which he (and not I appears to have lost sight of.
I fully recognise that "Semibreve" has done his little best to substantiate his imaginary rights, and I submit that nothing in my letters can be perverted into accusing him of wishing to study the "patty grievances" of the “Gokl. Laced Officera. Nothing is further from my thoughts than to imagine that he has the slightest knowledge of either the one or the other. I am, Sir, &o.,
GOLD LACE.
[With reference to the second paragraph above, we must, in justice to "Bemibreve," state that our remark about abuso not hoing argument was not addressed only to him.-Ev. D.P.]
POLICE COURT.
Thursday, 28th April
BEFORE MR. H. H. J. GOMPERTZ (AOTING POLICE MAGISTRATE).
▲ KIND-HEARTED SOLICITOR.
SUPREME COURT.
Thursday, 28th April.
IN BANKRUPTCY,
·REFORE HIS HONOUR SIE WILLIAM H.
GOODMAN (CHIEF JUSTICE).
AN IMPRISONED JANKRUPT,
Mr. John Hays, of Meurs, Johnson, Stokes and Master, solicitors, appeared in support of un application for the release from prison of Lau Yuk Lam, whom kis Lordship had sent to prisou on the 21st inst, for contempt of Court in failing to file a statement of his affairs within the required time after he had been adjudged bankrupt. Mr. Hays said he was informed by the Official Receiver that a statement of affairs had now been filed. Security in the sum of 8500 would if required be forthcoming from the debtor's brother.
His Lordship remarked that it was very singular that as soon as this man was sent to prison he could give a statement of his affairs, which he could not give when he was a free mus, Mr Hays mail that of course the application for the release of the debtor was not in his inter osts at all as he represented the petitioning creditor; but he had no objection at all to his release on security being given.
His Lordship referring to the afidavit which had been filed muid it was there stated that the debtor's brother had deposited $500 as security for his appearance in these proceedings and be had also agreed to enter inte a houd in the fur- ther sum of $500 for the bankrupt's due appear. ance whenever required. Well of course ho had committed the mar. for contempt of Court only a week ago. He did not wish to keep him an unnecessary length of times in prison, but to mack hissense of the impropriaty of the debtor's conduct he would allow him to come out of prison on the 4th prox. on condition that the eum of $500 was duly deposited and the hand made before that date.
CLAIM FOR GOSTS IN THE R. A. COLLINÙ BANKRUPTCY CASE.
Mr. H. W. Looker, of Messrs. Deacon. Looker and Deacon, solicitors, said he had filed an ap plication on behalf of the judgment creditor in the H. A. Collins bankruptcy, claiming costs of the estate in priority as that which was giron to the costs of a petitioning vreditor. Quoting the Ordinance, Mr. Looker argued that the principle of the law was that whore a creditor had at his own expense and on his own account taken proceedings and incurred costs which had resulted in the property being preserved for the benefit of the general creditors, it was only right and fair that the costs he had taken apu him to preserve that property should be paid in priority to the other debts of the creditors, because through the institution of these proceedings all the creditors got the benefit of the property so preserved. His client had got judgment against the debtor, but had stayed execution to give him time to lodge an ap peal that he had intimated he was about to make: but instead of doing this he went behind their
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 29г¤, 1904;
A PATHETIC STORY.
The following pathetic diary tells of the safferings of Mr. L. Hubbard, assistant editor of Outing, who died from starvation while on s tour of exploration in Labrador. He w accompanied by a New York lawyer, Mr. Dillon Wallace, who was rescued by trappers whilst search of help for his dying companion.
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RUSSIA'S FIGHTING CHIEF,
CHARACTEN SKETCH OF GENERAL
KULOPATKIN.
Mr. Joxish Flynt writes in the Daily Chronicle
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In his stocking feet he stands about five feet and seron inches. He weighs about twelve stone, and is on the other side of his sixtieth year. He October 18. "Alone in camp. After breaking down. I has dark eyes, resembling somewhat the Japan- realised it was hopeless for me to try to ese type, and when he locks at you interestedly further with the boys. They will try and you can make no mistake about being "inspect reach Grand Lake if they can and soul buck. A fraction of his one hundred and seventy help. Our last two daya were very trying. I pounds consists of lead the man has been shot
at and hit a number of times; the story is that that an honest man had been given the right have not written up my diary boumo I am a
relica of some of the shots hara refused to be | job. In Central Asia, while he was still Go. very weak.
dislodged from their resting places. His name
Yesterday at a spot where we camped two months ago wo found the end of an old four sack with a bit of four sticking to it. Boiled it with old caribou bones; it thickened the broth a little. Also found a can of mustard wa hand thrown away. Held it in my hand long time, thinking how it came from home, the took a bite. It was very good,
We had a bit of caribou-akit
Kuropatkin. Until recently he was Russia Minister of War. He is now Russia's military hope in the conflict with Japan. He is con sidered the shrewdest and most capable military sxpert in the empire, and he enjoys great popularity among the soldiers.
General Kuropatkin is not an easy man to know. There are no insurmountable difficulties
to be encountered in order to shake hands with
him; he is alun an affable conversationist when ordinary topies are being discussed: but ask him
Hongkong, 10th March, 1904.
Ternor-General, he was also considered a very conscientions official..He has slaughtered like a butcher," an officer said to me in Samarcand “but his purse carries no counterfeits or crooked winnings. Honesty in Russia is a relative term, nt Kuropatkin shares with Prince Khilkoff, the Minister of Railways, the distine tion of being one of the few high officials who are not called grafters. It has been said that he hates "yellow" people, that, if he gets the clunce, he will do with the Japanese as he and Skobeloff did with the Torcoinuns at Geok
the Turcomanes, be saitt :--
of
They When
“They had to bẹ taught a severe lesson. thought that they could play with us. the opportunity came we took advantage of it. and convinced them once and for all that we
Mixed soma in our hone-soup. It seemed to stimulato us. in the same pot, which swolled up thick-very good. Last night fell asleep while boya ver reading to me, and this morning was very sleepy. to tell you something about himself or his busi-Type. He did not strike one as being a blood- When the boys went they left tex, caribotness when he is not in the mood for such a talk, thirsty warrior. Speaking of the conquest bones and another end of four-sacx found her and your efforts will go for naught. His pre- and some yeast, cakes. Drank a cup of strong sont duty is to proceed to the fring-lino, and ten and some bone-broth, also had some really take combrand of Russia's land forces in the delicious raw hide boiled with bones. It madh East, me stronger-strong enough to write this.
said, 'Lori kelp us, Hubbard. With His help I'll save you, if I can get out. Then he cried so did Wallace, who stomped and kissed tay check with his poor sunken, parched lips several times I kissed his. Ooorge did the same, and I kissed his cheek.
GEOK TEPE MASSACRE.
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SHIPPING NOTES.
WET WEATHER.
Strong Nly winds and rain is Capt. W. Frazier's account of the China Navigation, 8.8. Hunan. She left Wahu on the 2nd inst., Chingking on the 23rd inst., arriving at Hong- kong yesterday. Her cargo for this port con- sists of 300 tons of oil and peanuts; 2000 tons of rice for Canton.
"OLYMPIA'S CREW AT HONGKONG. The Chinese crew of the Northern Facilo 8.5.
Olympia, which has changed hands at Tacoma, arrived at Hongkong, from the American port, by the Chinu Mutual ss. Ping Suey.
AN IRISH STEAMER. The steamer Rowley, hailing from Bellost,
coal for Messrs. Dodwell & Co. arrived from Moji yesterday with 6.000 tons of She left the great coal port on the 22nd instant, passing through a belt of dense fog from 4th and to 26th instant.
Thence to port strong N.E. winds.
In 1897 General Kuropatkia was Governor, intended to rule. It was norassary for their Taik & Co., arrived from Rangoon yesterday. Our parting was most affectionate. Georgeneral of Russian Central Asia, popularly welfare that our supremacy should be es
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Then they went away-God bless and help them. My tent is pitched in front of a rock. It reflects the fire, which is now going mi because of rain. Shall let it go out, close tent till the rain is over, thus keeping out the wind and saving wood.
called Trans-Caspia. It was there I met him at his home in Askabad. Wlion Skobeleff-the man who scared the Turromans until they are a cowed race--was advancing Russia's frontier line in Trans-Caspia, Kuropatkin was his right. hand assistant. At Geok Tepe. not far from Askabad, 20,000 slaughtered men, women and children testify to the vengeance which the two men wreaked on thoir Turcoman antagonists.
tablished,"
When discussing Russian methods of mo-
favoured. a dernising conquered races, he intimate friendly relations as commerce would
He explaian-
allow.
"Hore in Trans-Caspia we try as far as possible to assimilate rather thau auxiliüute. In war times slaughter was unavoidable, but to-day we offer every inducement to the natives to join with us in developing the country. We try to learn their language, and we offer them instruc- Our aim is to make them Russia as
in spite of their colour."
The man that helped subdus Russian Centra Asia and afterward ruled over it has been select ed for a similar job in the East. He has for assist ants man who have fought with him elsewhere.
Tzerfritsky, his chief of staff while he was in Trans-Caspia, is already in Manchuria, and others upon whom Kuropatkin can rely are en Toule for the front.
My task at the time was to see what I could of Russian progress in Central Asia, and totion in ours. To-night or to-morrow perhaps the weather report to American authorities about interest will improve, so that I can build a fire and ning developments. The general himself was the most interesting fact discovered. He lived in the rest of my leather mocassins and pair of raw
a bungalow, called by the English Govern hide mittens. They ought to help some.
ment House," and he was usually to be found in "Am not suffering. Acute pangs of hanger his "office." He was always dressed in uniform have given way to indifference. Am sleepy, Think death from starvation not so bad. Bus and his manner was unmistakably military. I let no one suppose I expect it. Ama propured saw him two or three times a day for nearly a that's all. I think the boys will be able, with week, and at each meeting the impression left upon me was the one intended-ic, "I am the the Lord's help, to save me.".
Tsar'a representative in these parts."
My companions on the trip wero Englishmen, One of them was a London correspondent, who has since written a book about Central Asia.
What interested the general in particular at the time of my visit to Askabad was to convince his Western visitors that he was trying to civilise Trans-Caspia as rapidly as was consistent with Russia's "advance ' on territory still to be acquired. He made no mention of India; hymittel Western Mongolia and Tibet in
A SELF-CONTAINED COLONY.
A self-contained and peaceful British colony is that of the Falklands. These islands, over one hundred in number, lie about 250 miles from the Patagonian coast, and, so far as thei: elimate and population and other character istics go, might well, mys the Syrena and Shipping, have been styled the Shetland or the Orkneys of the Southern Hemisphere. Though
An Indian watchman, employed at the King backs and got a receiving order upon depositing separated by over 200 miles of ocean from the his references to Russia's" sphere of influence”;
Edward Hotel, was charged with assaulting the Hotel lift-bey. Mr. Staphens, solicitor, said that he appeared on behalf of the boy, who he desired to see compensated, but he was not receiving a foe.
After Mr. Ole Martin Anderson, who is in ebarge of Queen's and Prince's Buildings, and others had given evidence, Mr. Stephens seked His Worship to punish the man severely, for the boy had received a nasty hit on the ear, The drum of his ear, in fact, or some internal bones, might be broken. If the boy could get adequate compensation it might save a civil action, but it was not yet possible to know the extent of the injury. The boy was a very good, mild, quist boy, who left his rice to take a gen- tleman upstairs. He was not the sort of boy to make à noite as the Indian had stated.
Mr. Gompertz, in spite of defendant say. ing otherwise, thought defendant had hit the boy with a stick, but he also thought the boy had beans making a noise. As Mr. Ola Martin Anderson said the boy could hear all right he would only fine defondant $12 and order him to give complainant $2 for sticking plaster.
BEFORE MR. J. H. KEMP (SECOND POLICE MAGISTRATE).
A BLIND MAN'S WIFE.
A blind Chinaman appeared as complainant against a man who had barboured Lis wife The culprit was sentenced to pay $100 or go to geel for three months.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF COREA,
The Japanese Board of Trade in Fusan has petitioned the Japanese Government and the
3500. There was a scheme of composition under which the bankrupt was to pay off all his debts et tho rate of $50 & month which would take about two years. If that was duly carried out, and if the debts were paid it was to the benefit of the creditors, and that benefit was the result of the proceedings his client took.
Dan
His Lordship was of opinion that the case did not fall within the terms of the Ordinance which dealt with this matter. The object of the Ordinance was very clear. It s brought an action and issued execution and seized a quantity of goods of the debtor which otherwise the debtor might have done way with, and by means of taking these things
South American coast, they are geologically | but he let it bo definitely understood that the liked with it by a submarine platens over Russian soldier was in Central Asia to stay. which there is no great depth of water. Thers None of us found out the strength of the are much the same voes and rocky islets available military, although the general enter abound in Scotland's northern island groups, tained us with several sham batties (10,000 man and these are the homes of countles penguins, were called out on one occasioni), and invited us which render point to the humorous title to stroll through his bailiwick at will. En- bestowed upon the Governor, vis, King of the thusiastic lieutenauts and subordinates, however, Penguins." The climatological conditions, too, did not hesitate to admit that their ambition are analogous. Abundant winds and copieus was to climb over the Afghan hills and do as rainfall, the former being of such a boisterous Peter the Groat is supposed to have recom- and persistent nature that trees will not grow monded-make India Russian. without shelter, so that the islands are quite destitute of arboreal vegetation.
KUROFATKIN'S HOSPITALITY.
It was considered very extraordinary that so many Anglo-Saxous should be allowed to travel in Trans-Caspia; our party numbered thirty add men and women. Kuropatkio is said to have been behind the permit given us. The Minister of Wur wrote to the general more or less, thus: Some English people want to see Russian Central Asia. Do you think it advis”. able to let them cross the Cuspiun Kuro, putkin is supposed to have replied; "Let the to wring a competence from the storm-swept English party come. I will be respousible." bills and moorlands. The Scotch temperament Tha undor officials and natives had been advised too, is shown by the Savings Bank, which bo of our coming weeks before our arrival; ovou 390 depositors, with an average account of
The first recorded sighting of the islands by a Britisk navigator was that of Davis, in 1599, hat it rarasinod for another bold explorer, he had secured them, and then the bank | Captain Strong, to assign them a Britisk ware now appellation, that of the Falkland Islands, after raptoy ensued and these goods available for division among the creditors, Lord Falkland. This was in 1089. The whose it was only right and proper that the industrial and social atmosphere is Gaelic, active creditor who had preserved these Scotch thriftiness is omnipresent, for every goods in that way should have the costs of his where appears ovidences of a grim determination action in priority because by had added to the amount of the estate. In his opinion in the case nothing of the kind had been done. With regard to the $500 it was not preserved by the plaintiff in that action at all; he required it to be deposited because he was not satisfied that there were not any assets. He did not think Looker's application came within the letter or the spirit of the Ordinance, and therefore he must decline to grant it.
Mr.
COMPOSITION APPROVED.
In the same case, Mr. 0. D. Thompson, solicitor, applied for his Lordship's approval of & proposal by the bankrupt, E. A. Collins, to pay $50 a month until all the debts were paid. The scheme had been accepted by a majority
£129, or £24 128. Dd. per bead population. It the priests had been told to look forward to the At Askubad, prospective amicable invasion. may also be an evidence of Scottish affinity that which was the centre of the ceremonies and out of total Imports, valued at £54,000, spirita should be assessed at £4,152, against a paltry festivities, the local priest referred to the inva The gruensl £749 for wines, £298 for aerated waters, and son during an open-air servicu. £2,492 for "malt liquors." Clearly, therefore, stood on a rag in front of the priest; he re- for one hour by the mained at attention abot and tropical babitat is by no means
clock, hardly moving a musele. (The corre the only provocative of thirst, and the Falk lauder would seem to be a firm believer in the spondents were not so rerce-less.) officacy of fire within rather than without, for his annual coal imports only total £4,409.
The Islands are inhabited by
some 2,1-#
of the creditors representing more than three-human beings, and about three-quartera of a
General Kuropatkin entertained us with ban- quets, excursions into the Stoppe district and pleasant hunting, and directed his staff to look out for our comfort when he could not person- ally be present. In conversation he had very
Japanese Minister at Seoul to secure the adop./quarters of the amount of the debtor's liabilities. million sheep, and it is from the latter that the little to say beyond the ordinary exchange of
tion of the following measures
1-A revision of the Trasty between Cores вид Гарай.
2.-The issuance of permanent deads to real estate.
3-The management of the Imperial Customs
His Lordship granted the petition. Addressing Mr. Bruce Shepherd, the Official
Receiver,
His Lordship said-I gather that you did not approve of Mr. Looker's application P
Mr. Bruce Shepherd-No, your Lordship.
former win the necessities and luxuries of life conventional remarks. To the correspondents Thus, during 1902, the value of the wool ex he gave an official statement, but he put into ported was £72,671; of tallow, derived by boil ing down superduous sheep, £6,372; and of it very little not found in lis published official sheops king, £10,604. Needless to say, matten reports. His main anxiety seemed to be that is a staple article in the Falkland dietary, "good we should tell the truth about him and his per- day standing dish. In the rearing of these
by that Power whose trade interests are largest He wanted to argue the principle although the old 365" being the vernacular for this every formances when we reached home. Yet, when
in Coras.
4.-A reform of the agricultural methods, in. Corea,
.
5.-Permission for foreigners to reside any where in the interior of Coras.
6.The establishment of four or more Japa- nese agricultural stations in each of the thirteen provinces as object-lessons to tlio Caron.
7-Permission for Japanese beats to visit and trade along the entire count of Corez
8.-The establishment of numerous branches of Japanese banks throughout Corea.
9.-The reorganisation of the Corean monetary system so as to affect an equilibrium in exchange.
act of issuing execution had not been done.
The Court adjourned.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report:--
On the 28th at 13,45 am. The barometer has risen in Japan and fallen slightly in Chinu and the Philippinos.
No one can tell how long the fight will last Kuropatkin has been through a number of de fests before he has achieved a victory. For a while we may bear of his discomfiture in tho Piast. He is not like Skobelcft, dashing, daring and quick. His strength lies in careful pre
paration and persistent and plodding attack If the Minister of Fianuce provides him with money enough to keep his preparations intact, and the peasantry of Russia ferûish him enough soldiers to keep his battlefields well fill, he will probably give the Japanese the taste of war which they have been looking forward to since their quarrel with China.
a. d.
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A SHEPHERD'S DIARY.
The following extract from the diary of a shepherd some forty years ago will strike the reader as curious; but when it is explained that the whisky of that time was more neurishing than the liquors we at present imbibe, and coly half the prios, it will be at once evident the shepherd had the best of it: MONDAY-A baif-gill to wash awa' the the effects a' a dry sermon, 1d Mid- day-A gill to wet ma lips for dog whistlin', being out after the sheep 31; Forgatherin' wi' the Noobors, twa gilis, 6; Mair dog whistlin', a gili', 8d. TUESDAY-A wet mornin'." A gill, 3d. (there being some holes in ma plaid); Dog whistlin' through the day, twa gills. 6d. Consoling wi' Jock Muc- donald over the loss of his wife, four gill, is.
1 9 WEDNESDAY-Market Day. Forgather- ia's sax gills, le. 6d.; Dog whistlin', twa gille, 6d.; Gills wi folks I hae nae mind o wlmtever, is.; Gill wi' the man that song" Auld Lang Syne," 3d. 3 3. THURSDAY -Å gill to try to bring to mind whaur I pooled ma knuckles in a polvetical argument, 3d.; Introducing Jock Macdonald to a likely lass to mak bis second wife, two gills, 61.; Sundry dog whistlin's twa gills, 6d. ... FRIDAY-Among the sheep fortifyin' mysel for Jook Macdonald wife's faueral in the afternoon, twa gills, 6d. ; Anither on the road to keep mysel* fine grooting for the pair body 3d.; Dog whistlin', Sd,; The funeral, sax gül, 1. 61.
2 6 SATURDAY-To keep the moist out o' ma plaid, the holea no being mandit, a gill, Jd.; Giving in the banus for Jook Muc- donald's marriage, fower gills, la.; Dog whistlin" and forgatherin's three gills,
SUNDAY-The Sawbath Day.—A woo drap to clear ma throat for crying on ma dog (the Barbath is nae day for whistlin"), a gill, 3d.; Anither at Luckio's while the bells are ringing 3d.; Some brandy, so as no to be takin the smell of whisky into the Lord'a Hoose, Gd.; A drap to digest the sermon, twu gills, 6d, ...
Jul.
13
2 0
Total
r+
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1 8
...13 4
A medical expert in the North of England has just been denouncing as dangerous to health and even to life the habit of getting up in a iirry, and hos laid down the agreeable aziem that people on waking should cabaly stretch themselves, and rise at leisure. Some of us may be glad to know that one of the most eminent specialists in insanity, Dr. Selden Talcott, of New York, declares that early rising is the most
sheep up-to-date methods have been adopted, at rest and not engaged in official conversation, prize stock being imported from England, and his face made him look as if he was utterly grasses saitable to the soil and climate being indifferent to what anyone said about him or brought from abroad and extensively planted; his work. the result being a breed of sheep thoroughly #dapted thrive in the Falkland habitni.
Unsectarian education has its Innorous site, as the modern father found, after bringing up bis small'son to value the Bible from its literary as wellas ita inspired side. Given on one occla ion the choice of the story book to be read to him, but he evidently hated to be one in the quiet of roads and rarely or never becomes insane.
Gradients are slight on the China Coast and | small Eight E. winds will be most with in the Formosa Channel. Over the northern part of the Chins Sen, gradients are moderate, anu moderate E. to SB. winds will prevail.
Forecast:-Moderate E. winds, overcast, fair.
One of the party asked him about his wounds, when he had got them, and how. He grinned cynically, and said: "In war," and passed on He was willing to be a “parado" soldier when military custom and sham battles called for it,
AN HONEST MAN.
in the drawing-room hour before bedtime, the his home. please." Feeling that there were limita tobisowa son promptly answered "Lovitions, literary appreciation of the Old Testament, the Not long after our visit at Askabad the father looked a little downcast. But the small con general was called to 8. Petersburg, and was had a kind heart. "If I can't have Levities, eventually mado Minister of War. The con
Bror Eabit' 'Il do," he zidded obligingly ***
sensus of opinion among the knowing ones was
prolific cause of madness. The free and lazy savage," he points out, "gets up when he feels And be adds that a peremptory command to get up when one's sleep is as yet unfinished is a command which grinds the soul, curdles the blood, swells the spleen, destroys all good inten. tions, and disturbs all day the mental activities, just us the tornado disturbs and levels with advancing ruin a forest of mighty pines." |
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A THOUSAND CHINESE. The steamer Glenagie, owned by Mesars. Seang She brought 1,700 tons of cargo for Hongkong. and the Chinese passengere aboard numbered no lems than 934 Capt. W. T. Larkins reports tina wonther,
MISCELLANEOUS,
The Norwegian steamer Gaèa arrited from Saigon yesterday with 1,400 tons of ice for Messrs. Wing Bing. Fine weather was experiencei
The China Navigation a.s. Kiukiang netired from Chinking yesterday. Cap. G. Bright reports a fresh breeze from the N.E.
The Hamburg-Amerika a.. Aragonia arrived from the west yesterday with 2,000 tons of cargo after leaving Singapore. for Hongkong. Fine weather was experienced
The German steamer Chow Fa arrived from Bangkok and Kohsichung yesterday with 1,900 tons of rice and 30 tons of wood for Messrs. Butterfield and Swire. Fine weather was experienced.
The German steamer M. Struve arrive from
N.E. monsoon.
Swatow yesterday. She experienced strong According to the Freach steamer Hoi Hao strong N.E. wind is blowing between Haiphong and Hongkong.
Caritiff yesterday with 1,777 tons of coal. She The Norwegian steamer Daphne arrived from did not touch at any port after leaving the Suez Canal,
STEAMEL MOVEMENTS,
outta and the Straits, left Singapore for this The Indo-China steamer Nameang, from Cal- port on the 27th inst., at 6 p.m.
The C.P.R. steamer Empress of India arrived at Kobe at 11.30 p.m. on Tuesday, the 26th inst., and left again at noon on Wednesday for Yoko bawa, where she is due to arrive at noon on Thursday, the 28th inst
The N.Y.K, steamer Kanagawa Maru (Euro- paan ine) left Singapore for this port on the 27th inst, 6 s.my and is expected here on the 3rd pron., 6 am.
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