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THE mystery surrounding the disappearance of WE have to note the arrival of Colond Ike Austin, | It is asserted that the expenses attending the hot-burl of crime? Is it not a lie pure and Captain D'Arcy, V.C., who so distinguished him the well known American professor of fancy rifle production of "The Niebeinigen Ring" at Her simple to authoritatively state that the self in the Zula War, has at length been un-shooting, who came on from singapore by the Majesty's Theatre me so great that to yield a
ravelled. It had been conjectured that he con- the steamship Meray. The Colonel favored us tangible profit to all parties an average receipt, insecurity to life and property now obtaining (sic) in Hangkong is uR-
mitted suicide, but such was not the case. The with a visit yesterday afternoon, and expressed of 2,000l. per night will be necessary. It is o circumstances attending his death, are of a most his intention of shartly opened a shooting gallery this footing that the scale of charges has been doubtedly due to mal-adminstration ? "
distressing character. On the 29th Dec, a native in this Colony, full particulars of which will be framed. Letters from Berlin state that the pro- Is it not a fact which can be proved by a appeared at the residence of the Rev. Mr. Taberer, duly announced. The Singapore and Indian pa-jected performances of "Lohengrin" by this reference to the records of our Police of the Mission Station, Keiskaia Heck, near pers speak very highly of the Colonel's skill, so company in Paris in March have been definitely AERATED WATERS, Court, that life and property were never so King William's Town, the place Captain D'Arcy that his proposed entertainments should prove withdrawn. Three of the principal artists cannot
secure in Hongkong as at present, crime last left, and informed him that on the previous worthy of local patronage.
be spared from Munich, and French feeling against the performance of Wagner's operas in and the criminal classes never so thoroughly evening, between six and seven o'clock, in hunting under control? The remedy for all these for bees, he had accidentally come upon the dead
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brain of this accomplished gentleman directions for a shell to be made proceed with the the founding of a daily newspaper, morning and SunJOINED is a summary of the report of the
remarks the oracle, “is obvious—a change!"" His own removal to a private lunatic asylum would be a change much to be
desired.
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native. so difficult of access and intricate was the place that, three times the native lost himself. It would appear as if D'Arcy, having reached the summit of a hill, resolved on returning, and find ing what he thought was an easy way down, he took it. It led down between high rocks and boulders to a small, flat place, covered with forms and surrounded by a dense bush. In ali proba bility he was thoroughly exhausted with his walk, and sat down to rest, his back against the rock, and his feet stretched out. In that position he died, whether from cold (there was a heavy snow at the time), or from a fit, is, of course, unknown
THE London correspondents of some of the pro- vincial papers publish accounts of a "monster newspaper project," which is said to contemplate
evening, of the typographical form of the Times, if a more ample." The capital financially will he "practically inexhaustible, while the capital mentally will be the first in Europe." The pro- moters of this undertaking are stated to be the Union Générale, and the scheme is said to be connected with the proposed purchase of six Ita- Han papers by French capitalists which has lately caused much commation in Italy. fine of the correspondents professes to have had a glimpse of the prospectus of the new paper. It appeals, he says, "to an enormous reading and advertising clientèle, and makes cardinals pro- blematical special correspondents, priests para- graphers, and the penitents the paying advertisers' in all parts of the world, to say no- thing of pro-monarchical anti-freethinkers, anti-
Its columns will be in the English, hers.' French, and German language, and bear the evidence of mundanely inspired writers glorified more or less with exclusively immaculate tips and infallible, ex-cathedra official secrets. It will appear simultaneously in London, Paris, and Rome."
Eastern Telegraph Company-The revenue for amounted to £282,834 85. gd., from which are de the six months ended september 30th last ducted £67,498 $s. 5. for the ordinary expenses, and £47,228 155. 5 for expenditure relating to repairs to and laying of new cables. The total £22,72s. 28. has been paid for, interest on available balance is £167,79005. 28., from which debentures, and £20559 18. 6d, for preference dividends leaving £124,504 98. Gl. The direc dinary shares for the quarters ending June joth' tors have paid two interim' dividends on the or- and september 30th, 1881, amounting together 10 £95,000, and the sum of £29,504 93. Od. is car- ried forward to next account. Since the last re port the balance of 700 ordinary shares has been issued, making the total ordinary capital £3,800,000, The revenue account includes
We are next treated to a cloud of meaningless phrases on vaccination, in the rourse of which, for no apparent reason, we are gratuitously informed that Governor HENNESSY has pampered practices among the Chinese population opposed to common sense, and misquoted HUSLEY and other It is also laid down in most elegant language that "the fabri- cation of statements, and the misappli-MESSES. Page and Gwthyer have prepared an cation of arguments to support them, is, elaborate chart showing the course of discount we are constrained to say, our Governor's rates during the past year and the prices paid forte." The intention and result of all the each month for Government Treasury bills, and theistical, and anti-republican regular subser | £19,500 dividend and bonus for the half-year on editorial twaddle about vaccination is curtly summed up in the following sentence, to which we specially direct attention as a proof of the utter degradation to which petty spite will at times descend:The elimination of fiction by the process of analysis, from His Excellency's public measures, only leaves a residuum of contempt." There can be no mistaking this man's literary first half of 1881 the bills were regularly sold annual series of French plays in London, has is- THE tonnage engaged in trade between the Clyde style. In fact he sacrifices everything else below their equivalent in silver. We cannot sued his programme for the ninth season, of six and East Indian and Chinese ports during the for an ungrammatical jumble of meaning-kep down the price of bills; but if they did, the and terminate on July 8th. It will be divided year 1881 has been considerably in excess ofthat
less twaddle.
Dr. DUNCAN'S Geographical Sketch of Hong kong is now dragged in, and we are reminded that the 29 square miles which comprise the area of the island are made
another showing the course of the prices of bar silver, Mexican dollars, India Council bills, and rupee paper, together with the Calcutta, shang- hai, and Hongkong exchange quotations over the same period. An interesting feature in the chart is the comparison of the remitting equiva tent of bar silver with the price obtained from week to week last year by the India Council for bills on Calcutta. It appears that during the
prove that the remitting banks had combined to
MR. M. L. Mayer, the general manager for the
weeks' duration, that is to begin on May 29th
into three distinct divisions of art, each presided over by an accomplished artist and an acknow ledged star-Mdile, sarah Bernhardt, M. Coquelin (of the Theatre Français), and Mdme. Céline Chaumont. Once more Mdile. Bernhardt will
There is not space in the compass of an ordi.Org evening contemporary has recently nary advertisement to detail all the information inaugurated a new feature in local jour-up principally of porphyritic and granite introduced into the work, but it may be fairly nalism under the title Editorial Notes." I rocks to the extent of 15 and 1 square The saving to the Indian Goverament is probably Dame aux Camélias," "Adrienne Lecouvreur," asserted that no such Directory has ever been published, either in Hongkong, or any other part of the East, at the price.
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This innovation although not original, is miles respectively. It is not very clear by no means a bad one. The greatest why we should be reminded of the rock difficulty the China Afail will have to en formation of our island home, and we counter in carrying out its latest attempt really think that much better grounds to keep pace with the times has already for abusing Governor HENNESSY and Mr. heen experienced to some extent by the Piras might have been selected, evening print in procuring from outside The political prospects of Sir Jous sources the occasional leading articles PoE HENNESSY, the occasional contributor which have graced its columns. The opines, is a subject for légitimate specula. poverty and nakedness of the leaders are | tion, and he accordingly speculates to faithfully reflected in "Editorial Notes," | his heart's content. The result of his TREATY PORTS IN CHINA AND In last night's Mail ten different subjects wise reasonings conclusively point to his own view of Sir Joнs Porz HENNESSY'S immediate future, which is that the present occupant of Government House will serve a second term as Governor of Hongkong. Even the probability of such a contingency is an astounding confession of weakness from our evening contemporary. If the Governorship of Perim, that barren island
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the company's shares in the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company, and £2,652 195, zd. dividend on the shares of the Black Sea Tele- graph Company; The vacancies on the board ocensioned by the death of Colonel Glover and of the Right Hon. W. N. Massey, M.P., have been filled up by the election of Mr. John Denison Pen- - der and Lord sackville A. Cecil.
of any preceding year. There has, however, combination was broken through like glass when
been a falling off in the vessels that arrived in the Council changed its tactics. During the last
the Clyde direct from these countries. The num- six months of the year it refused to sell under
ber of vessels entered inwards was 79, having a the silver equivalent, and has done so with com-
gross tonnage of 72,558 tons, being a decrease of plete success, the bills being eventually taken on
17,088 tons as compared with that of 1880. the average above the remitting value of silver. repeat the success she has already made in "La There was a decline of 7,006 tons in the tonnage of vessels from Java with sugar, of 2,078 tons in shows that the variations in the price of bar silver for the first time in England in Croizetic's char- at the rate of over 100,000 a year. The chart"Frou-Frou," and "Hernani," and will appear the vessels with cargo from Bombay, and of 1,541 ranged during the year from 45. 21d. to 45, 5d.acter in "Le sphinx," and Desclée's part in "La Mauritius there was an increase of 1,622 tons.
ions in vessels with sugar from China. From per oz.; of Mexican dollars from 48. d. to Princesse Georges." "Le Demi-Monde" and
in vessels with sugar. In departures the increase us. 39; of the India Council Bilis from "Les Faux Ménages are also announced during was 38,011 tons over the outward tonnage of 1880, 15. 77-16d. per rupee to 15.8 1-160.; of Four- the engagement of Mdle. Bernhardt, which pro and 82,295 tons over that of 1879. This im -and-a-Half per ceni. Rupee Paper from 88 to 95t: mises to be as interesting as before, M. Coque:provement has been chiefly in the despatch of of Four per cent. Rupee Paper from 81 to 87; of lin's name and fame are well known in England steamships to Bombay and Calcutta. To Java, sixty-day bills on Shanghai from 45. 10id to 55 as one of the most accomplished sociétaires of Manila, and China ports there has been an in. crease of 5,588 tons. To Ceylon and other In- aid and sixty-day hills on Hongkong, from 33. the Comédie Française. He has with him his
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companions from the Theatre Française, and will dian ports there is a falling off to the extent of appear in "L'Aventurière" as the swashbuckling The Times contains an article dealing with the brother of the adventuress; in "Fourberics de 5135 tons. To singapore, Java, Manila, China, question, and which tends to prove that opium is capin" and "Les Précieuses Ridicules;" in and 28 sailing vessels, and over a dozen firms to the Chinese what beer, spirits, tobacco, tea, à la Campagne," and "Gringoire," in most of Mauritius, Ceylon, and other Indian ports con. "Kuy Blas," "Mdile. de la Sciglière," "Le Mari took part in the trade. All the departures to coffee, &c., are to others of the human race. It says:Timidity is not a failing of the non-scien-
which plays he appeared on the last occasion of sisted of sailing vessels, chiefly coal laden, tific aind, and it is not surprising that the dog the visit of the Comédie to England. Three Twenty-nine of the sailings were new Clyde-built mas held in respect of opium-eating in this weeks having been devoted to die. Sarah vessels, as against 26 in 1880 and 20 in 1879. country are upbesitatingly extended to cover every sociétaires and pensionnaires from the Ruc method of censuming every kind of opium every-Richelies, the last will be devoted to Mdme where and by all races of men. Thus it has come to pass that in the controversy about the Chaumont, who is to appear in the famous "Di.
bilities. M. Mayer has never announced a more
Bernhardt, and two to M. Coquelin and his fellow
and Japan, 18 of the departures were steamers
THE CONDITIONS OF TRADE WITH7|tion in other parts of the world. In the tion all told of 37 souls. is really vacant; unmitigated perniciousness of the drug has
surface of the sea are used for safe naviga- | five square miles in extent, with a popula- | Indian export of opium to China the inherent and vorçons," edited for English tasics and suscepti. 1 day evening at the Roman Catholic cathedral by Atlantic, they enable the approximate posiwe shall be most, happy to strongly usually been taken for granted. Argument has interesting or varied programme.-Overland absence of the Dishop, the very Rev. T. Borghig.
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recommended for the appointment, this new Crichtop of the China Afail. He could "sling ink" in Perim until further notice without harming anybody but himself.
The scene is changed, and our ancient with his crown of laurel. But no, there friend, the man of many aliases, who has were other worlds to conquer, and like the recently been studying Sugar statistics, | mighty Macedonian monarch, the editorial gracefully steps into the arena.
contributor of the China Mail was deter-rellable authority on all matters under mined not allow the light of his transcen- the sun settles Governor HENNESSY to dant genius to be hid away under a bushel, his own satisfaction in a very few sen- We have` neither time or space to follow the "editorial notes" through their long drawn out course, nor would it serve any useful end were we to do so. But we submit, with all respect, that the eight separate paragraphs in last night's China Mfail, to some of which we have briefly referred, are beneath the con- tempt.of all right thinking men, and more- to be particularly favorable for astro- over a disgrace to legitimate journalism. nomic observations." It is not very His Excellency can, of course, afford to lucidly explained what this may have ignore such scurrilous attacks, and un- to do with the "thermometric observa-doubtedly takes the dignified course. in Atlantic Ocean; but we are told that tions with icy contempt. tions" of the surface of the sea in the scrupulously treating such rabid fulmina.
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MR. Walter Baring, now secretory to H.M.'s Legation at Teheran, has been appointed secretary to the Legation at Tokio. Mr. Daring, who entered the Diplomatic service in 1865, was first
THE fourth anniversay of the coronation of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, was celebrated yester.
the singing of a solemn Te Denu. In the
raged round the question whether we can be said
noll, pro Vicar Apostolico, assisted by two young Mail..
missionary priests, just arrived from Europe, to force opium upon the Chinese, and whether, if "DOCTORS differ "—so do dramatic critics. The officiated, and there was a considerable gather- we did not, the Chinese would go on using it. following view, taken from the Overland Mail, | ing of the Catholic clergy of the various nation- These issues have been debated with magnificent is altogether different from that telegraphed alities represented in Hongkong. The congre contempt for the facts of the case. The extensive to the American papers, and published by us a gation was a large one, and included His Ex- cultivation of the poppy in China; the costlines
few days ago:-The professional début of Mrs.. cellency sir John Pope Hennessy, Mr. Coxon, of the rich as choice clarets are here; the failure excited a good deal of feeling in theatrical circles, eral for Portugal, Deputy Commissary Fincham, which makes Indian opium as much the luxury Langtry at the Haymarket Theatre seems to have Consul for Belguim, Mr. Loureiro, Consul Gen.
of the Indian article to penetrate at all into one- half of the Chinese Empire, in which, neverthe
she is regarded in the light of an interloper-as Ordnance Store Department, Mr. Fleming, sur. one who, not wanting in this world's goods, veyor, Royal Engineer Department, and Messrs. less, opium-smokers abound; and the demon carries off a high salary, part of which might J. J. Francis and J. H. dos Remdios. The Te Deum strably protectionist character of the Chinese at otherwise have fallen to the lot of a recognised being sung, an adjournment was made to the hall tempt to forbid the importation of opium from actress, and who relies for her popularity upon of the CatholicCircle, which had onftaholidaydren India-all these material facts have been system her social position, her beauty, and her costumes, in honor of the occasion, dags being tastily ar atically ignored by the declaimers against the Nothing can be more unfair. Having now de-ranged along the walls, a handsome portrait of opium traffic. The obvious truth that, though finitely adopted the profession of acting. Mrs. His Holiness occupying a prominent position at we take opium to China, we cannot compel the Langtry has as fair and as full a right to be the end of the room. Champagne being intro- sin of a single ounce, has been obscured judged dispassionately as any other professional duced, His Excellency the Governor rose and by rhetorical Bouristics about forcing the drug actress can claim. Few of our greatest actresses said :-Gentlemen, I rise to ask you to join mo upon the Chinese.
have been able at their debut to demonstrate the in drinking the health of our Holy Father Pope. full extent of their capabilities, and Mrs. Langtry Leo the XIII. Many of us are here assembled OUR own authorities on menteria medien arc by is no exception to the general rule. At present from various parts of the world, some I seo at no means convinced that opium is always and her reading of the part of Blanche Haye is hard the end of the room (referring to some German necessarily injurious even in this country. Some and artificial. she shows few signs of possession missionaries arrived yesterday) have just come remarkable cases of opium-eating without mis of emotional power, but as this special qualifica from Europe, and some of us may soon have the chievous results are on record; and by going to tion is in a debutante usually marred by exag happiness of visiting the Eternal City. But the Fens we may find a whole population habigeration, its absence is not altogether unsatisfac whateverour nationality, all of us, na Catholics, can tually cating opium to the extent of its means for tory. Mra, Langtry on the stage is easy and join in drinking the health of oursupreme Pastor the alleviation of its sufferings from ague. It self-possessed; her elocution, if somewhat cold, and ecclesiastical Chief, His Holiness Pope Leo the cannot be pretended, however, that apfum is the is clear and unlaboured, and she obviously has XIII. The toast being duly honored, Father stimulant appropriate to this climate; but just as intelligence such as few new comers show so Borghignoll; fose and said-Gentlemen, I rise little are we at liberty to deny that it does meet early in their career. If she had not been Mrs, to give you the health of His Excellency the some deep-seated craving of humanity elsewhere. Langtry she would probably have been considered, Governor. I thank him for coming here year That craving for a pervous stimulant to remove even by professional artists, as a recruit of great after year on each occasion of this celebrations
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relation supposed to exist between rainfall and the state of the sun's surface, and assured that should a law be found, to
conferred upon humanity would be simply incalculable." The world at large, and to a Third Secretary in 1870; and transferred to particularly the community of this little Florence April 14, 1870; to Athens July 16, 1873, island, must feel profoundly grateful for where he was Acting Charge d'Affaires from this important information.
August to November, 1873. Whilst there he was From the scientific to the idiotle, from promoted to be second secretary at Constanti bare-faced lying to a weak attempt at nople Oct. 28 the same year, and was employed in investigating the outrages committed on the vulgar sarcasm, are apparently easy steps Christians in Bulgaria and Roumelia from July for this distinguished journalist. It is with 19 till Aug, 20, 1876, and attended the sittings of some diffidence that we presume to ask what the special commission sent by the Porte to an infinity of obscure sufferings in this country, sense there is in the following observation: inquire into the Bulgarian massacres, from sept, and the accumulated effects of their systematic "while the populations of Hongkong and 23, 1876, till Feb. 11, 1877. In the same year he abuse would probably appal us were they fully Shanghai are about equal, order has to be was appointed superintendent of stedent Drage investigated. With those who condemn all maintained-in-the-one-locality with a colmans at Constantinople, Oct. 25, 18773 and stimulants argument is obviously vain. They tective foreign and native police force of received an allowance for knowledge of Turkish. defy universal experience, and there is an end of He was employed in Cyprus in 1878, and the matter. But those are scarcely Jess irrational upwards of goo members, whereas between received his promotion to secretary' of Legation who arbitrarily select for condemnation a drug a third and one-fourth of that number at Telieran 1879. Mr. Kennedy, as announced which the practice of some hundreds of millions some time since, has been appointed secretary to of the human race proves to be adapted to satisfy the Embassy at St. Petersburg,
some human want.--L, &t. C. Expreza.
suffices for the other What does the inspired one mean to infer? Is the asser-
to Vienna in 1869. He received his promotion to dispel gloom, is universal, and seeks satisfacment point of view there cannot be two opinions. perform, namely, to wish His Excellency a tion in a score of ways. Alcohol in its numerous The Haymarket has been crowded by audiences pleasant voyage home, hoping he may be with modifications, each of which has its appropriate which contained a far larger proportion of those us here again when the next anniversary comics sphere, tobacco, tea, coffee, hemp, opium, are moving in higher circles of society than are round. The toast being duly drunk, His Excel modifications of the answer to a universal de usually attracted even to this theatre. Although lency again rose and said I should like to nik mand. What we think the most harmless of Mis. Langtry is undeniably the principal, attrac. you to drink the health of some ons net present, these drugs is mischievous in excess, and those tion, the general performance of "Ours" is a re- but whom all of you remember, the founder or that we most dread are innocuous and even bene. I markably fine one. No further words are neces: the Catholic Circle. Although that institution is ficial in their proper place and due apportion- sary in praise of the Afary Nellay of Mrs. Ban- well taken care of by Father Borghignoli ment. Tea and tobacco are each responsible for croft and the Hugh Chaltot of her husband; and Mr. Silveira, the President, we ought all to while Mr. Arthur Cecil as Prince Perowsky, Mr. remember what we owe to the Bishop I give Conway as Angus M'Alister, Mr. Pinero and you the health of His Lordship Bishop Raimondi. Miss Le Thiere as Sir Alexander and Lady Sken- The toast being duly honored, the gathering dryn, with Mr. Brookfield and Mr. Smedley, com broke up, the national Anthem being played an plete a really powerful cast, Mrs. Langtry will, the piano belonging to the institution as His probably, undertake a provincincial tour through Excellency took his departure. The facade of the leading towns early in the summer. No ar- the cathedral was illuminated in the evening with rangenients have, it is understood, been definitely heterogeneously colored Chinese lanterns, there made, although it is believed her cheval de ba being a transparency in the centre setting forth fails will be the part of Miti Hardcastle in "she In Latin the pontificate of His Holiness, the stoops to Conquer,"
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