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advantage of enticing men away from resorts that may be pleasant, but are
For the past three or four days tolophenia
A meeting of members of the Royal Hong-
kong Yacht Chib and the Beat Club was held at the Hongkong Hotel last night for the purpose of amalgamating the Clubs..
It was agreed The meeting was en camera. to amalgamate the Clubs.
The hearing of the claim for 811,991, before the Chial Justice at the Saprome Court, damages on account of the non-delivory of yarn, Nas continued yesterday. The whole day was spent examining witnesses for the plaintiffs, called by the Hon. Mr. Sharp, K.C., in support of the statements in his precis already published.
સાંક
TELEGRAMS.
ELUTEE'S BSRTICE]
THE REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA.
LONDON, 19th February. "Y1sterday pasand quietly in St. Petersburg, the strikers boing nserawed by the display of military force.
The situation in Poland is still sorious.
[“ Manila Gablerain" Service.] THE PHILIPPINE EXTRADITION
BILL.
WASHINGTON, 7th February. President Roosevelt signed the Philippine Extradition Bill to-dny. The new law extends the extradition laws of the United States to the
Philippine Teintide,
WHISKY decidedly unprofitable, there might yet ho place at the Foreign YM.C.A. About a mouth country, taking refuge
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THE LATE FATHER TORRES.
Prevent at the requiem mass at the Roman Catholic Cathedral yesterday morning were:-- Rova. F. P. Gonsalves, vicar-goueral of Macao, I. C. do Gontres. Deau of Macas, I. A. Bartholo, parish priest of Toipa, A. Gomes Parish priest of St. Anthony, the Clergy of the Italian Mission, Fathors P. H. Bean and J. Salon of the French Procuration, the Brethers and pupils of St. Joseph's Colloge, the Sisters and pupils of the Italiau and French Convents, Messin J. H. E. Machado, A. G. Romano (Portugaēlu Consal-Gonural), V. Atienza, E. Ros, C. Gonsalves and others.
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CANTON,
[FROM OUR COBRISPONDENT.]
Fub, 14th.
LAWLESS CANTON, As is customary during the fortnight of the Chinese New Year, the compounds in front of nearly all the joss houses are taken up by crowds of hawkers, sweetmeat and toy sellers, gamblers, fortune-tellers, jugglers, idlers. artisans, thieves, rogues and ragabonds. Some play battladoro, others dine, sod, miscellaneous music beguiles the populace. "Boggars are there to pestar sightseers. If a foreigner
appens to go to the joss house to see the fire hundred jesses, or the Hoost temple to see the colossal Buddhin, the buggurs and little camps generally follow bias closely, yolling out "tai pan, cumshaw." If he did not give, they would insult, and provoke lim, hanging on to his chair, pulling it about, or pelting at him, until he could not stand it any longer.
Ho
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. WFDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, 1905.
nothing wrong in it, but personally he thought he could use his time better, so he communication with the levels above Caino was not inclined to accept that suggestion Head has been very difenlt owing to the wires being affected, we understand, by a leakoge of in any way, to get numbers at the exponeslectricity from the Robinson Road msin of the of spiritual profit." Thus we see that the Electrio Light Co. roverend and well-meaning gentleman has somehow talen the letters "P.S.A." to signify "profitable Sunday afternoon"; and that, like many others who ask for advice, he is reluctant to act upon it when it prezenta itself in unpalatable guise. That Mr.HICKLINa has misunderstood the nature
Tho Church was draped in black and presented of the successful P.S.A. work at Home is
an appearance in keeping with the occasion. evident in some other reninrks he made. His
A. Spanish journal says: As our readers great point with which to tickle the
know, Father Torres died at Manila at St. groundlings to smile upon these meetings is
Domiage Convent, after & long and painful illaess and after receiving the Sacramenta from that they are strictly unsectarian." That may be true, and yet they may not come up
The Rev. G. H. Davie, who for the past nine [Two recent casos served to call attention to his confreres. He expired surrounded by the BLEND to the popular idea of a pleasant Sunday years has been chaplain of All Saints Church, the inadequacy of existing conditions. Demand priests of his own order. Ife was a native of
was made by the porerament of British India
Santa Maria de Redondo, of the province of Were he to belay them with his walking afternoon. The complaint that they have Kobo, and was formerly for three years in
for the turu of a fugitive who had fed to
Palancia (Spain); barn on 2ith October, 1846; stick it would be the worse for him. been too religious" needs no uiore Hongkong. passed through Hongkong yester-Manila. The attorney-general of the islands,
way to Australia and New upon request for his opiston, pointed out that he enterod as a student of the 2nd order of would come out with his head broken, his drea justification than his own admission that day on
there were no courts in the Philippines, the philosophy in the Consilier seminari of Toledo, smeared over with dust or his chair smashed. they were started with a view to "push or Zealand, being a passenger by the steamer
officials of which were empowered by Congress he solicited and obtained the permission to If a woman or a girl were to go into the joss houso to chia chin joux during thean fow days, the work of Christianity." If Mr. HiCKLING Empire. Mr. and Mrs. Davis ronewed noquain- to issue warrants for the oppraken the join the famona corrent-College of Obanis. she would be pestered and her dress term into intention of Congh-ss to apply the tradition where he was adroitled into the order of the shreds, This is the cause that preventa most
xamination of fugitivon, even if it wero would only be satisfied with the quite maltanee with many friends In the Colony.
Jar of the United Blates in a general way. Go Glorious Patriarch Saint Domingo de Gasua, people from visiting the jose houses during the Our Shanghai contemporary reports that a
from a foreign fngitive
in September. 1858. During the political and in Monile, was series of mysterions robberies havo lately taken it was clear that s
laws. extradition
Later,
social disturbances in Spain, he was sent by his New Year days. On the second day of the now socare from agou watch was stolen from one of the members fugitive from the
for the reason 1872, being then only a student in the 2nd compound at the entrance of the Hoi Tong-tez the Governor of
or Honam temple, and a few soldiers went to was stolen from the drawer of another member that it was not
the Philippines had bem anthorized to negotiate order of Theology which he completed in
aquožo them of a few cash. They refused to Manila at the university of St. Thomas. Fo and yesterday still another momber found that the reture of fugitives from foreign countries, $100 had been extructed from liis chestofdrawers, and that the only remedy wasnu appeal through was sout to the Province of Pangasinan where pay and a soldier palled ont a revolver to threat- with a knife cut his hand. They then had a The culprit has not yot been discovered by the the State department at Washington. As a learned the dialect of that province. In a them. They wrested it from the soldier and conurquence, the fugitive, although admittedly December, 1873 he was recommended for polica.
guilty,escaped the conraquences of his miedoeds.]
the position of curate at San Isidro of Tabant, fight, and the soldiers got the worst of it, and
ram to their headquarters to raise more men., In that country or the 8th June, 1876, he had the misfortune of losing his left arm by the The vagabonds know it and took to their hels
The soldiers thon returned to the auster of explosion of a rifle which he used in trying to
about one hundred and fifty, armed with rifen shoot a mad dog which appeared in the City and swords and made quite a clean sweep of the and had caused terror muong the citizens.
place, pulling down and destroying all the He suffered the operation of amputation with a
mutaheds and stalls. good deal of patience and fortitude, which are the two principal characteristics of the late Father Torres. In October of the same year he one to Hongkong to take up the position of Vice-Procurator of the Spanish Procuration in Hengkong, where he attended to their missions in Tonkin, China. Formosa and Japan. From Hongkong he was sent back to Manila in 1861, and was made Procurator-General of the pro- may waters at Dar-es-Sallam. East Africa, vince of Sino. Rosario in the Philippines, which are to be re-instated in their positions, the provincial governor, Cheang, having again sent post he occupied till 1886, when his superiors in his resignation of the governorship. agala sent him to Hongkong as Procurator General of all the missions. His 18 years of
Since the trouble which gave rise to the strike continual labour in Hongkong is an eloquent and rioting among the shopkeekera in Bop Pat proof of the noble qualities, whether religions, Pa street on account of house rent, there has intellectual, social or Gnauicl, which adorned
been no police vigilance in that place. Conse the modest Father Torres. During the 18 years greatly robbery is of daily occurrence, and it is he went on one occasion to Japan by order of not considered safe enough for people to walk bie superiors for the benefit of his health.
about there. The abopkeepers bare made However he profitel very little from the excur arrangements to employ a number of men to eioa and foit the ond coming on very rapidly.watel the premises for their protection. He felt very bad stuce August lost and ratara- nd to Manila last January and then died. He diod 11 days after his arrival in Mouila.
hape for the local P. S. A. movement. Even rosiding in the bulding. A few days ago $140 in Hongkong and took refugo | superiors to the Philippine Islands in the year year some gamblers were playing at dice in the
a sing-song, of a clean, wholesome gori, would be a decided step in the right direction, as against the attractions that do draw our We do not, however, ngree young men, with the person who suggested that a 'sing-song" was the only kind of enter tisment that would draw the crowd of VERY FINE OLD VINTAGE MANY mes desired. Mr. HICKLING'S P.S.A. is
YEARS IN BOTTLE.
PORT
£1
evidently only a disguised copy of a pleasant Sunday morning or evening in the Union Church; and he has to realise that the men ho now desires to help have a prejudice against religious services. They are not A CHOICE AFTER-DINNER WINE particularly enntnoured of sing-songs: some of them would probably be bored at a penuy concert. They labour under the ancient haman ebe, the insatiate yearning for A. S. WATSON & CO. | something new under the sun. They have
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heard all they hear from the pulpit before: if instead it came newly to them, they would probably be as much interested and affected as were the first men who heard the gospel. Variety is the programme that they look for; and thie, wo venture to suggest, could be given to them without omitting the profit that Mr. HICKLING knows is to be deeired. Many facts are new to them. A German savant ouce told a Judge that the
Mr. Maxwell, the war correspondont of the Studlard, who was at Port Arthur with General Nogi at the time, holds that the
render was unwarrantalily precipitate. Ha has no complaint to make of the treatment of the correspondents: and he mentions that the Okazaki Brigade, which fought sighteen battles | in seven months, losing 3,790 in killed and wounded, lost only four men from disease in the same time.
Tho death has taken place at Plymouth of George Hinckley, aged eighty-five, an old Victoria Cross hero. He was born in Liver.
and retired on a pnsion thirty-aix years ago. pool, serrel for many years in the Royal Navy, In 1862 he fought with the Naval Brigade in the China War. In one of the engagements Hinckley at great personal risk rescued wounded comrade, whom he carried on his shoulder through a storm of bullets to a place of safety. For the gallant notion he gained the
coveted distinction.
No list of New Year Honones" is in fature to be issued. The publication of a list of Birthday Honours in November makes it undesirable to continue the system of con
Correspondents must forward their names and ag./ tiny spherical ovom from which every manferring New Year honoura, but, as batote,
not-for
dress with communications addressed to the Edito, Att letters, but as evidence of good faith
for publication should be written on one side of the paper only.
No anonymously signed communications that have already appeared in other papers will be inserted.
Orders for extra copies of Dax Pares should sent before 11 a.m. on day of publication. After that hour the supply is limited. Only supplied for Cash. Telegraphic Addreas: Fass. Jodear A.B.0, 5th Ed. Lieber's
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KĪRTHS. On 3rd February, at Worthing, England, tho wife of A. B. THISTLETHWAITY, of a son.
On 6th February, at Slungkni, the wits of P.
BORKOWALT, of a Bon.
is developed is as truly endowed with life and soul as the embryo of two, seven, or even nine months. The Judge laughed in- A young man who walked credulously, into the City Hall for & pleasaut Sunday afternoon would be wiser. He would ha il now and startling (to him) facts as quite pleasant. Mr. HICKLING could, if he would, get friends to supply such new facts. The friends he has been enlisting have presum- ably confined themselves to pulpit. facts, which (to the P.S.A. subject) are not, or do not sec, new. If he can persuade big audiences of these young men to come and Houss, Lieutenant Royal Navy, MMS, Sirius, be innocently amused, a distinct gain will be registered; but be tells us that his friends will not be satisfied with that. He thinks the helpers could occupy their time moore usefully. If this be the limit of their devot ion to the PS.A. movement, we fear they will have to be satisfied with the opportun ities they already enjoy, of improving our another. They seen at present to be in the position of the Mahomet who expected the mountain to come to him.
On 7th February, at Shanghai, the wife of GERALD A. TISDALE, of 8011,
MARRIAGE
On 4th February, at Shanghai, ALEET EDWIN to ELLEN, Becond daughter of Mrs. H. 8..GOOD- FELLOW, of Shanghai.
DEATHS.
On 4th February, at Shanghai, ATVE Danas, of the Pinghsiang Colheries, aged 47 Ga 5th Felnuary, at the Kiangsu Chemical Works, FREDENCE NANN, aged 65 years,
yeara.
The Daily Press.
fatal cases.
yesterday.
Mr. J. Gilfillan, late detective-sergeant in the Shanghai Police Force, has joined the Federated Malay States Police as Inspector.
HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DESVUS ROAD C1. LONDON OPPION: 131, FLEET STREET, E.C. HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 15TH, 1905. THE Pleasant Sunday Afternoon move-
Letters posted at Vladivostock during the ment bas heen inaugurated in Hongkong, | with but indifferent success so far. The first week in December reached Hongkong average attendance has been about forty, mostly soldiers and anilors. We fear that the reason for the dwindling attendance lies in the Rev. C. H. HICKLING's concept- ion of a Pleasant Sunday Afternoon, which, needless to say, is unt quite the same us that of the rank and ble. This is not to say that Mr. HICELINO's conception is not a better one; but since these meetings are explicitly stated to be organised for young mon and others who have no suitable place in which to spend their day of rest, we think it would be kinder and wiser to view
thore will be two lists published during the year--one in Novamber and another in Juus, when the official celebration of the King's birthday takes place. In the coming year the celebration will probably be held on June 22nd or 29th the nearest Friday to what was originally intended to be Corquation Day.
The Ion. Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Nothersale Hospitals bags to acknowledge with thanks donations of $9 from the Pork Guild (Central Market); of $5 cael from Messrs.
Co., J. Uiltann & Co., Levy Hermanas, Waou- walla & Co., M. 13. E. Elina, H. Ruttonjee, P. H, Holyoak, J. F. Miller and J. W. C. Bouuar, Dr. Chadwick Kow, Messrs. J. Gregory and Bismarck & Co. of 28 each from Messrs. C. Abdoola & Co. and C. A. Camaroodia; and of $2 each from Messrs. E. D. Koteral and Tung Ashoo,
Erich Georg, B. Bretherton Harker, Dartly &
the
Apparent
THE WAR.
(RAUTER'S BERTIGE.] THE RUSSIAN ARMADA.
LONDON, 19th February. The Third Baltic squadron has been ordered to be ready to sail immediately.
GERMAN NEUTRALITY.
LONDON, 12th February. Five Russian cruisers, anchored in Ger-
were
ordered to leave, and complied
("N.-C. Daily News" Bervice,) THE RUSSIANS IN NORTH-EAST COREA.
TOKYO, 6th February.
It is officially annonbord that the Russians have burat their store of foodstuffs at Bongchin.
THE SHADOW OF NOGI,
TOKYO, 6th February. The Russian seem to have evadusief Ham- yong provives, in North-east Cores, in view of the danger in the Harbin direction, consequent on the fall of Pert Arthur. THE OPERATIONS ON THE SHAHO.
TOKYO, 6th February.
The Russian artillery bombarded the neigh- bood of Blachoangtse on Saturday afternoon.
The Russians are eagerly entrenching in the vicinity of Changtan.
The Russians defeated at Chiinitso have retreated northward.
[Changin and Chitaitse are both on the north bank of the Husko, north-west of Liaoyang}
"OFF TO THE WARS AGAIN."
TOKYO, 6th February.
Admiral Togo and staff loft the Shimbashi station at Tokyo at 4.30 p.m. to-day.
The Admiral had a most brilliant send-off, Sir Claude MeeDonald, the British Minister, being among (hose present.
GENERAL STOESSEL'S REPLY.
OSAKA, 7th February General Stoessel has arrived at Colombo Ho contradicts the report that the surrauder of Port Arthur was premature.
ANOTHER STEAMER CAPTURED.
The Eastry is a West Hartlepool steamer of 2,983 tous gross, built in 1902. She loft Cardiff on the 31st of August last for Manila, and was reported as having arrived at Vladivostock on the 24th of November.]
BEACHCOMBERS IN A CHINESE CLUB.
CHINESE POLITICA,
It is said in official cirolo that His Excellency Shum Chen Hun who hitherto has been acting
Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwange for the last three years, is now by an Imperial order confirmed in his post, because of his sucessɛ in suppressing the Kwangsi rebellion, Soms of the mandarins that have bron degraded by him,
FAINT-HEARTED POLICE.
HONGKONG CHURCH MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL MEETING,
The annual meeting of the Hongkong Charch Missionary Association was held at St. Paul's Beachcombers, taught now that they must be Collogs et five o'clock yesterday afternoon. provided for, are repairing the Government The Rt. Rev. Hoare, Bishop of Vietorís, pre- omission, and taking the law into their own sided, being assisted by the Rev. F. T. Johnson hands. They seem to think Government will (Secretary). A large number of members were help these who help themselves. Auillustrative present. affair took place in the early hours of yesterday In the report it was stated that the Associa morning at a Chinese Club ir Jervois Street. tion was formed in August 1889, for the At about 2 a.m. on the morning in question, parpose of spreading missionary information, Chief Detective Inspector Hanson was called, Limulating intorest in missionary work and and informed by several excited natives that collecting funds for the support of missionary four Europeana had "hold up" suembers who work in the Diocese of Victoria. The annual were present at their Club, and got away with aubscription was $2, but the sum so`raised a sum of money. At present it is understood barely covered working expenses and the cost that the Europeans, who are alleged to be of the Association magazine (The Church prootically destitutes, went to the club Missionary Gleaner). The statement of ac- in question on the previous night for a
counts by Mr. G. E. Woodward (Hon. Trasenver) gamble. It is stated that when the amall showed a balance in hand of $74.08. amount they were possessed of had nearly
The CHAIRMAN sail that the report should dwindled away, they loft the table, stating be looked upon as favourable jual as that they had been cheated. They then took their departure, returning in the early they wore paying their way. The Association was not originally intended to be a money- morning. Again they took their seats at the gatabling table to try to retrieve their previous collecting concern; and it could not be losses. Play had scarcely begun when more ad against them that "Charity commenced because the New Territory cheating was notleed. A row followed in which at
Home
Tokyo, 8th February. The British sleamer Enetry was seized off Hokkaido on Tuesday night, it being suspected that her cargo of coal is destined for Vladivo-one of the Europeans is alleged to have drawn covered a very large area. The Association at stock.
revolver and covered the Chinese while his present only employed one man, but there was friends took possession of the bank. They then no reason why they should not employ mc.. made a speedy exit. The Chinese who reported This, however, required funds, the matter are reticent, probably fearing that they will farnish the Police with evidence for the conducting of a gambling case against the Club. They stat, however, that the Euro- peans got away with about $30. Two men hate bren arrested in connection with the affair. One informed the Police that he knew the whereabouts of the other two implicated, but did not think it an honourable action to give two "chums" away, so would say nothing with regard to them,
Lot
JAPANESE PROGRESS AT PORT ARTHUR.
The management of the London Underground Electric Railway Company inaugurated the Now Year by starting the electric service of railways on part of their system. The electrifi. cation has been so rapidly pushed forward that it is almost a year in advance of the District
between Willesden Graen and Baker Street, Railway. The section which opened is that A number of trains ran as far as Harrow and Yesterday's, plague return added two mere Uxbridge. On the Inner Circle the company hoped to be ready in a month, but their working oo this system will be delayed until electrification of that part of the circle which belongs to the District Company is completed. A London raper of the 4th alt, says, Tho weather changes are frequently onough a puzzle, but the conditions prevailing just now over Western Europe are not often equalled. The reports received by the Meteorological Office yesterday showed that a general stream of air from the Atlantic was flowing over the entire eron of the British Isles, and with even increased strength was blowing over Norway and Sweden, At Bode, well within the Arctic Circle, the morning was slightly warner than in London. where it was sufficiently mild, and in excess of the average. On the other and Nice was Japan. experiencing the grip of a sharp frost, the morning temperature being only 27deg. ox lideg colder than at Fede, and 13deg. colder than in London. Nairn, in the north of Scotland was 31deg. warmer than at Biarritz, in the south of Fratice, and it was 14deg, warmer than Lisbon. Some of the Continentals were also
at Berlin the the following report experiencing severe cold; thermometer stood at 16deg, at Paris the
Shanghai papers announce the death, in his 66th year, cf Mr. F. Mana, for a long period the manager of Major Bros' Avid Works on the Boochow Creek.
A large number of paroled Russian officers and men are homeward bound by the German mail steamer Zielen. One hundred and twenty.
one men are stearage passengers.
came from mun of the Albion,
The N. C. Daily News says that Mr. Arthur Hamilton Lee, M.P., who recently offendad Germany with an Indiscreet speech referring to naval expansion, was adjutant of the Hong kong Volunteers in 1859-90.
Captain W. J. Stopford, of H.M.S. Glory, the subject from more than one point. Mr. speaking for his own men, contradicts the HICKLING took the sensible course of report that a football match had been arranged making enquiries to discover why the P.S.A.to be played for 8500 a side. The information meetings were not popular. One auswer whe, and it was "the only reason he had too received," that the meetings were religious. "If they were made more enter- taining," he was told, "more of a sing-song nature, they might get the place filled." Mr. BICKLING did not think, however, that any of those who came in to help would "care to give up their time on a Sunday formateh afternoon to a sing-song. There might be Brahms.
Herr Albert Friedenthal gave his second pinzo recital at the City Hall last evening. The additional composers treated at this per- Mendelssohn, Grieg, and
were
temperature was 17deg, and at Brussels 19deg. No snow of any impertians was reported from
the Continent
Toxro, Sth February. The Port Artur Admiralty was opened on Menday last.
VISIONS OF PEACE,
WEATHER REPORT.
Hyme wore then mung; and visiting mis- sionaries lectured on their work in the interior.
The 1004 Committee was re-elected.
ANOTHER SALVAGE PARTY.
Messrs. Gilman and Company have made a contract with Messra E. C. Wilks and Com pany, the latter firm undertaking to make an attempt
salve the wrecked steamship. Shrewsbury, lying on the Paracels Shoal. Messrs. Wilks and Company have chartered the
to
FOOTBALL
OSAKA, 8th February, that of a conference held by the party of the
A London telegram received here to-day says RUSSIAN REFUGEES IN SHANGHAI,
The N. C. Daily News Beys-Our streets German streamer Progress to take the salvage Dowager Empress at St. Petersburg, a decision
Port Arthur doring the holidays, and as these The Progress is not quite ready to leave, and was arrived at in favour of making peace with have been fail of Russian non-com.atanta from party down, and to assist in the operations
The Eussian Ambassador in London bas visitors are likely to be with us for another tea be able to bear
her date of departure is not definitely fixed. It received fustractions from his Government to days at least, we are glad to secure in adrance the good offices of Great testimony to their generally excellent densenn- is believed, however, that all will be ready this Britain in the matter of the arrangement of our, notwithstanding the diffealty they have in week. The salvago party will also see what onn
waking their jioricabamen understand where be done with the wrecked se. Baron Gordon.
almost they want to go. Their pockate,
with- the terms of peace.
out exception, sra fall of money, for up to the surrender they wore earning from eight to twatre roubles a universal wealth is proving rather e
a day in Port Arthur. This r embarrassing Marie, On the 14th at 11.35 m. The barometer to the captain and agents of the Princess
which is to take away a
a large
contingent of
This mutek will takeplace on the Clubground, bas risen at nearly all stations but more partie them. Hitherto in a steamer crowded with ularly in the neighbourhood of the Loochoo
to And Happy Valley, thle (Wednesday) afternoon } danés. A slight fall is taking pitos in the omigy he would gladly sasist in the stewards kick-off, 4.45 p.m. The following will play for southern Philippines. The depression has peas- many who
and cooks departments for a benas of fifty or a the Club-F. H. Chard, goal; J. [L. Wemyss ed into the Pacile moving towards the E.S.E.
Gradients are steep upon both the set hundred dollars, and the assistance is urgently and E. F. Aucott, backs; H. S. Holmes, J. and the south coasts and strong N.E. winds will required, but these mes are so well off that they prevail along the entire coast and in the Chins
Forecast Strong N.E. winds, fino
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENT. The P. & C. steamer Malacca left Singapore. for this port on the 12th inst, at 8 am.
The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued
been
H.K... "A" TEAM V. BOTAL ENGINEERE
TEAM.
have been approached in vain. We've got Harriss, F. O. Davies, halves; R. Macpher plenty of money, why should we work?" is their son, E. Anderson, C. Humphreys, HA reply to the offers made them.
Seth and H. I. Taylor,