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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1882.
Lord GRANVILLE proposed that the conces- sions on each side should be made, not by means of a Convention, but by respective Acts of Parliament; in other words, that the two Governments should come to an understanding with one another, and that cach should redress the other's grievances by municipal act. Lord GRANVILLE pointed
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LIEUT, CARPENTER'S MANIFESTO, TO THE EDITOR 'OF THE "HONG KONG TILIORAPII,” StR-While giving Lieutenant Carpenter every credit for good intentions, and fully recognizing world at large, I must, as a shipmaster, protest against, his sweeping condemnation of owners and captains of steam vessels in the East.
take the liberty of suggesting to the Clerk of the Course that it would be a great boon to owners of backs who intend entering their ponies in the across country event, if the steeplechase course were put in orden It would also afford a great deal of amusement and enjoyment to the morning frequenters of the racecourse. The steeplechase track is actually in capital condition at present,
A. S. WATSON & CO, HAVE
AVE LATELY RECEIVED out that the existing law enables the Spanish Choral Society had a considerable musical reputa-Praya West, with a wound on the head and both the valuable, services he has rendered to the excepting in one or two places where the turf has
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Government to do this; but the Foreign Minister of Spain, denied that it has the competence, arguing that the power given has once already been made use of, and, therefore is exhausted. In short, the Spanish Government is resolved that it will do nothing until it obtains the reduc tion of the wine duties it. demands. It thinks that the differential duties are coerc ing England, and it is resolved to main- tain them unli the English Government submits. It refuses to acccept the assur- ances of our Ministers that we are not in
We are pleased to learn that the Hongkong Choral Society has not been numbered with the things of the past; but may be expected to blos som out in full bloom in the course of a few days, for some new music ordered from home months' It appears that the committee are only waiting ago, and on its arrival-it is expected by next mail-the Society will at once commence active operations. We are also reminded that the
tion years before the production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, named by us yesterday, and that it is hoped to maintain the sanie during the ensuing season. The community may there. fore expect more than one musical treat from the members of the Choral Society between now and next April-in addition, we hope, to another new operetta,
A. HAWKER with four previous convictions, against him for larceny, was sentenced this morning, both Magistrates sitting, to two years' hard labour for kidnapping a boy, aged 5 years, the son of a Chinese constable, from Yau-ma-ti.
THE body of the Captain of the ill-fated launch"- Fri-lung, which was blown up in the harbour on Monday, was found this morning on the beach at
legs broken. The body of another man, suppos ed to have been one of the crew of the launch, was found this morning on the barbour of Praya West, minus the head. The Coroner has ordered both bodies to be buried in reference to the headless trunk the police report says, "very much cut up."
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been removed, and could be put in working order, with the jumps made up, at very little expense, (and without much trouble." The going in the centre of the enclosure is treacherous and unsafe in some parts, especially after a spell of rainy weather, Mr. Tripp has shown himself so willing
to đó everything within his power to foster true sport in Hongkong, and to affect all possible improvements on our grand little course that I feel certain this matter has only to be brought under his notice to receive ready attention.
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manner, and on this offensive pretext it FLOWER PARCEL HALF SIZE, PRICE.. $5.00 malatains against us differential duties to which no other country in the world' is subjected.
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It is worthy of note that from the sale of tobacco France derives revenue amounting to over $50,000,000 per annum.
WE observe from recently published statistics that the natural gain of population in Germany is put down at 500,000 a year.
HERK Krapp, the celebrated gunmaker of Essen, is said to have invented att absolutely immobile Coating battery for coast defence,
THE annual general meeting of shareholders in, and subscribers to the City Hall, has been post poned until 4 p.m. on Wednesday the 15th inst, We would remind our readers that the Royal Julian Opera Company appear at the Theatre" Royal, City Hall, this evening in Verdi's ever popular opera Trovatore,
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WE observe that, in view of probable contin gencies, the Turkish Government has recently bought 200 Nordenfeldt machine guns in England, and, what is still more surprising, has actually paid for them in advance.
JUDGMENT in the cases Ashton 1. Lyon and loong. Yorkshire, being claims for salvage TO SUBSCRIBERS.. Arrangements have been made to publish against the steamship Yorkshire for services The Liongkong Telegraph daily at 4 ft. Sub-rendered her by the steamers Douglas and Hai- scribers in the central districts who do not receive Jeong, has been further postponed. their copies before. FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager.
The Hongkong Telegraph
Hongkong, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1882.,
As a sign of the progressive age we live in, it may be noted that the use of Roman type in Germany is increasing rapidly. Of 1,282 works enume rated in a recent Leipzig catalogue, no less than 898 were printed is Róman type. Į
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ONE of the steam-launches belonging to the Hongkong and Whampoa Deck Company, but which was temporarily in charge of the officers of the Spanish man-of-war Marques del Duero at present undergoing extensive repairs at Kowloon Dock-came to grief, and foundered at an early hour this morning. We understand that the machinery of the launch got out of order in some way or other, and after tossing helplessly about for a considerable time in the lieavy aca which was rolling, eventually filled Happily no lives were los, all on board nianaging to reach the wharf in safely. Attempts are being made this after- noon to raise the launch, but it is very doubt ful if they will be successful until the advent of
and went down,
more favorable weather.
You'rightly, remark, "that Lieutenant Carpen ter's letter cannot be considered of any practical value," as it shows on the face of it a somewhat remarkable ignorance of affairs in the East, which may perhaps be put down to his having ceased to search: the columns" of the local newspapers. I think most people who know them will admit THE wine business of California, says the Chicago that shipowners and shipmasters on the Coast of Timer, is no small item in the resources of that China will bear comparison with their fellows of State. About 10,000,000 gallons of wine are if Lieutenant Carpenter
other regions, either in liberality or intellect, and produced annually, and about 2,000,000 gallons mirally notices, sailing directions, and charts, he are yearly sent castward, where it is adorned will find evidence that shipmasters are not so with foreign labels and sold asan imported article. remiss in reporting matters as he wishes to make out; and It must be remembered that shipmasters The quality is said to be good, and even some
have but little time when in port nowadays, and professed. connoisseurs are deceived when Cali-cannot always ascertain the whereabouts of well-known foreign names. Much of the wine local shipmasters would neglect to report any. consumed in the State is also branded by the assertion none who know them will believe: in thing endangering the safety of shipping is AM vintners with such names as St Julien, Chateau deed, they are as careful of lives and property as La Rose, or Chateau Lafitte. Wine which retails any me, as local records will prove; and in the at $6 a case sells readily under these names for could be, as local records $17 or $18 a case. It is probably the fact that think it bad policy, and want of patriotism, even face of a possibly coming war, I am inclined to very little foreign wine is sold in this country, to seem to attempt to widen the distance between and that a large share of the 'so called imported our gallant navy and their humble brethern of the wine for which American tipplers pay handsome nerchant service, whose existence gives the raison prices so readily, comes from the vineyards of the
d'ffre for the existence of the Navy, and without whom Great Britain would be no longer great. "slope." The only imposition practised, however,
is perhaps quite as good as the most of that sent. is in respect to the price; the quality of the wine
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to America from France and Spain.
THE New York World's London cable says: The comet is all the talk'in scientific circles at present, and it is being regarded with consider- able apprehension. Richard A. Procter, who THE STEAMSHIP » BOWEN" IN A denied that it was the comet of 1943 and 1880, now finds that he made a mistake in his
sured that this is the opinion of the most eminent
very large.
THE most important match of our local cricket ing season-Hongkong C. C. p. The Garrison will be played to-morrow and Saturday, com- mencing at a p.m. to-morrow and at 11 am. on Saturday. The Garrison has got together a very powerful team, and should make a bold bid for victory, the more especially as the Club will hardly be able to place its full strength in the field. The following are the teams:-
H.K. C. C.
TYPHOON.
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Hongkong, November 9th, 1882.
It would seem that some stupid persons who occasionally amuse themselves on the racecourse in the evening are in the habit of leaving a lot of large stones on the racing and
this might lead to very serious accidents I am
of the ponies had a very narrow escape this certain they would abandon the practice. One.
morning from coming to grief over a large pile of stones on the training track, the rider only suc
As ponies are frequently galloped before the mist ceeding in stopping his mount in the nick of time.
has cleared away from the course, it might be advisable for Taylor to send one of his men round the track every morning at daylight to re- move all obstructions,
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SPORTING GOSSIP.
Training operations at the race course have been rather quiet these last few days; still there has been no perceptible falling off in the attend ance of sportsmen, and we hear that quite a large number of amateur aspirants to equestrian, fame are gradually getting into something like condi-Coast Ports will be with us in great force for the tion, preparatory to commencing a course of strict ensuing meeting, and with something to represent training in order to physically qualify themselves their interests capable of equalling the grand for a mount in the much talked of Welter race. achievements of Scamp, Coronet, and other
racers that might be good enough to hold their
AN OLD SPORTSMAN, sent to Shanghai to pick up a few cheap discarded own with the non-winners, or likely to distinguish
Hongkong, 19th November, 1882.
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Canton, 8th November. It is seldom I have anything of importance to write about from here, things usually going on week. Fires are of such frequent occurrence within in the same quiet, uneventful way from week to
the City that very little attention is paid to them by foreigners under ordinary circumstances, and it is only when the conflagration is on an un- usually big scale that we think it worth while to specially allude to these visitations. Our latest conflagrations are, however, of too serious a char- acter to be altogether ignored, the more especially as it is generally believed that a gang of reckless incendiaries have been at work in several parts of the City. Yesterday afternoon between the hours of four and six o'clock, no less than three big per, and two at Honami. Although all these fires fires raged in Canton, one within the City pro- are reported to have been of a serious description, they happened fortunately enough before dark-- ness, set in, so that effective assistance from all
calculations, and so has wihdrawn his statement. More cautious astronomers thinn he, have no doubt
The steamer Rowen, Captain Craig, which arrived in harbour this morning, has evidently of the identity of the coinct, and believe that it met with the hurricane of which we had intelli- will return at the latest in October, 1883, and will gence.from.Manila on Saturday last. The fol then fall into the sun, with results which will towing is the ship's report: Left Sydney on enable us to dispense with the future publica- October 14th; arrived, at Brisbane on the 16th tion of the newspapers of the world. I am asand left again on the 17th at daylight. Arrived at Townsville on 6.45 p.m. on the 19th and left clever Astronomer Royal for Scotland, in partic-Cooktown at 10.40 p.m. on the zoth, and leaving scientists of the day, Mr. C. Piaszi Smith the again the same night at to o'clock, arriving at We also hear of several commissions having been famous equine celebrities.
inr, having made no secret of his belief that the the following day at noon. Arrived at Thursday end of the world is at hand.
Island at 9.20 am. on the 23rd and left on the 24th at daylight: Reached Port Darwin at 11 We read of an extraordinary scene which oc a.m. on the 27th; left again on the 28th at curred on the evening of September 28th at a re-3 p.m. and experienced fine weather till reaching some excitement, and created a good deal of A couple of aspiring Teutonic centaurs caused vival meeting which Messrs. Moody and Sankey the. Basilan channel, where we encountered amusement on the course this morning. Like held at Plymouth. The mission commenced on strong north-west winds, which continued
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, they arrived the preceding Tuesday, and the attendance had until we reached the Mindora Strait which we safely at the Grand Stand on board a pair of been very remarkable on each occasion; but passed through on the 4th instant." At 1.30 p.m. nothing particularly sensational occurred until on the same day sighted Cobra Island ahead sing the good things provided with such a lavish
Mr. Kennedy's spirited steeds, and after patroni this evening, when, after dilating on the evils of and set course for Hongkong. The weather at band by the accommodating Taylor, thought procrastination, Mr. Moody begged those who this time was moderately fine, with breeze from the they might just as well emulate the professional wished to become Christians to stand up. One N.W., dull clouds hanging round, and the bard clement and enjoy themselves by trying to witch by one people rose in all partsof the hall, and as meter standing at 20.85; the clouds to the N.E. the world with noble horsemanship. Accordingly they got up the rest of the congregation prayed over Luzon Island were particularly heavy and they hardened their hearts, ventured out on the for them. Within ten minutes, after continuous leadea coloured. At 6 p.m. the wind was in course, and after trotting round to the six furlongs appeals to the courage, of the converted, Mr. creasing from the NW, and a head sea getting starting post, jumped off together for a race home. Moody counted 180 persons, and an exciting up; at 8p.m. the baromeler stood at 29.82, with The rider on that well known chesnut roadster scene ensued, women becoming hysterical and increasing head sea and strong breeze from the Red Herring, quickly shook up his Hosinante men groaning, praying, and crying, as Mr. Moody N.W. At midnight the breeze had freshened in and shot to the front, Dapple icisurely following called for the prayers of all. It was stated that to a gate from the N.N.W., with very heavy head a few lengths off. On descending the incline in no place in England had this appeal been so numerously responded to, and the number of those sth the gale continued blowing strongly and had in what was now becoming rather an exciting sea; eased down the engines. At 4 am on the from the Black Rock a pack of pariah dogs joined
race. At the village the grey had drawn up, and resorting to the inquiry rooms subsequently was shifted to N. by W. with tremendous sea and baro-
meter still falling: the engines going slowly. By the ponies entered the straight strictly level, the 8 o'clock the wind and sea.had further increased sudden appearance of Taylor with his death in fury, the vessel labouring and plunging heavily dealing shooting iron having effectually scared and shipping much water, the barometer marking away the canine competitors. Half way down Red 29.62 and steadily falling. Assuming we were in Herring came right away, amidat cheers from the track of a cyclone, decided on running to the the spectators at the rails, which were quickly southward to see if the barometer would rise or the changed to laughter when it was seen that the wind shift. Kept away to the S.5.W.; the sea
two ri ters were in such difficulties that the ponies was very heavy and came bursting over the poop had taken charge. What up to this point had on several occasions, carrying away the engineers' been an amusing farce all at once appeared messroom and the hospital, and flooding the likely to end in a deplorable tragedy. Red officers' cabins. No change occurring in the wind Herring made a direct dash for the rails, and the or weather up till noon, and the barometer still rider, losing his head and his stirrup-itans at the falling, we have to on the port tack, heading same moment, made a frantic clutch for support N.N.E. By 8 p.m. the barometer stood at 29.46, at the animal's neck. A sudden stop when wind and weather the same, with heavy lightning within a few feet of the rails, and the rider rolled to the N.E.; at 9 pm. after a heavy squall, the
on the grass, escaping what might have proved wind shifted to N.N.E. when we have to on the a serious accident by little short of a miracle. starboard tack, and the path of the atorm being The pony bolted. but was soon caught, and the passed, the vessel entered the right hand seini-rider remounted, feeling not much the worse for catastrophe. Two or three streets have been circle. The gale was blowing in heavy gusts. his tumble. It was suggested by Mr. W. M. the sea was much confused and running high, Morgan that the ponies knew when the riders had continually flooding the decks, and washing received their two dollars worth, and then only away everything moveable. By midnight the displayed, a'laudable anxiety to get home. Per bammeter was standing at 29.40, and still haps the veteran was right; however, all's well falling with no indication of any change that end's will. for the better in the weather. On the 6th at aa.m. the barometer was at 29.30, the wind from the N.E. blowing with hurricane force and accompanied by fearful squalls, which comtinued till three o'clock, when the glass still showed 19.30. At half past three the barometer
Public amusements and entertaiments aro began to show indications of rising, the wind being
nowadays so seldom to be met with here, that the now E.N.E., which, however, were not realized.
forthcoming regatta, which will be held on the At 4 o'clock the glass registered 29.25, which was
5th inst must be regarded as quite a note. the lowest reading we had. The squalls now com-
wonby event. A number of rowers are practis- menced to be less violent, and the clouds to get a
ing very hard, and I think the affair should turn little thinner. By 5 p.m. the glass was at 29.30, not considered tempting enough by his sporting out a great success. In olden times Canton, was and beginning to gradually rise, aslight break was owner. As Canalin is a capital jumper, and famous for its successful regallas, so it was for its observable in the heavy clouds, the wind kept apparently likes the business, he may succeed very pleasant annual race meeting, but years hauling to the Eastward, while the gale and heavy in distinguishing himself in what sporting writers have passed since then, and things sea began to moderate. At6o'clock, the weather are fond of designating the illegitimate changed with foreigners, i stil clearing, we headed the vessel up N.E.to bow game. Ridden by a well known amateur is looking forward to such a the sea; by 8 o'clock, the glass was at 29.40, he made a very creditable début over the with pleasurable feelings, and I hope the result with fresh gale from the E.SE, while the aca ditches the other morning, and will no doubt of the experiment will not be disap was gradually decreasing At noon, the baro improve with practice. Another candidate for I heard the other day, that the meter marking 29.50, with the breeze still strong steeplechase bonors the ancient Infatuation Canton-Kowloon telegraph Hine, which has been and equally, we bore away for Hongkong under the winner of a Shanghal Grifins, and a sen- suspended for the past few weeks, owing to di easy steam so as not to overtake the cyclone. At sational conqueror of Black Satin in the famous culties raised by the midnight the barometer was stillslowly rising, with black's palmiest days-created a favorable im- notoriously Lawless district, will
pression by his business-like style, and as this sumed under the immediate spotted moke is still hale and hearty, and in good Excellency the Viceroy, who is condition, his fine staying power might reader project with much favor,-It him a dangerous customer across country when an armed force will be spe wada pitted against moderate cattle, MANDOS tect the workmen, and put
As it appears to be genera understood that? the Stewards of the Race F are in favor o Having a steeplechase on our next programme
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know that the town of McDonough, in Illinois, A PERUSAL of the correspondence respect well-developed heads, all about the same size, has a stalk of cabbage upon which are seventeen ing commercial relations between Spain and each nine inches in circumference. ånd Great Britain, just published, does not, says the London Daily Naos, leave a very.
We note that M. Morin, the illustrator of La Vie favourable impression of the Spanish Gov-avisieme, is dead. This artist of large eyed, ernment. On the plea that our wine wasp-waisted, fashionable women, detested the duties are injurious to Spanish trade, the special public for which he worked. He used to go to the watering places to study his subjects, late Spanish Ministry enacted differential and called these visits "hatts in purgatory." He duties against this country, and at the same looked like an old rag-man, and led the life of time, on other pleas, against, France and hermit,, and he never ceased to regret that he the United States. The United States, did not, like Miller, elect for what was true and however, threatened to retaliate, and Spain | healthful in art. quickly retraced its steps. More lately 1 may be trily said, notwithstanding the poor Spain has concluded a commercial treaty show-made by the "great republic" in the with France, and now this country is the Egyptian business, that France is still unrivalled only one against which differential duties in two things, both highly essential to the per- are maintained. The Spanish Governfection of a toilet. One is the trinining of a ment excuses itself on the plon_that not bonnet, the other the draping of a mantle or of a only are our wine duties injurious to Spain, ¦ sklit." Recalling the well-known recipe for a per- but that they are intentionally, so. This fect salad; which requires a miser to dole out the Our wine duties vinegar, a spendthrift to pour in the oil, and a is clearly not the case, are levied impartially upon the wines of all madman to stir the whole, one might say that to countries, including our own colonies of secure perfection in a costume it should be cut by an English tailor, draped by a Frenchman, Australia and South Africa. They are colored by an Italian, and the details supplied graduated according to strength, not ac-] by a Spanish woman. cording to origin; and it cannot therefore, honestly be maintained that they are intend- AN unpublished story of Garibaldi appears in ed to operate unfavourably to Spain. This the London Daily News-It was the beginning has again and again been pointed out in of 1860 when Garibaldi first heard thint the ces- the correspondence on the subject which sign of Nice had been decided. The secret had
Gavalls doen.” Is been well kept, for the affair had been actually has passed between the two Governments; concluded at Plombieres in 1858. Garibaldi wrote but Spanish Ministers have persistently at once the following letter to Guneral Ture, who refused to see what is so clear. At the was then only a Colonel, and at Turin: Fino, beginning of April last Lord GRANVILLE 1860-My dear Colonel Turr:Will you be so IN a report addressed to the Prefect of Police, M. decided to re-open the negotiations which kind as to ask his Majesty whether it is decided Brouardel, the well-known professor of medicine, had been suspended for some time, and to cede Nica to Prance? My fellow citizens ansi whose evidence is so often given in trials for subsequently he proposed to the Spanish ously ask me this question. Reply at once by murder at the Paris Assizes, urges the removal Government a woder rivendi until a com- telegraph, yes or no."-Guiseppe Garibaldi." of the mortuary known as the Morgue from its Colonel Turr immediately went to the royal present position on the banks of the Sine, just mercial treaty could be negotiated. Just palace and asked to see the King, who was in behind the cathedral of Notre Dame. He bases now the exchequer is not in a position to disposed and in bed. The Colonel was admit his suggestion upon two grounds: First, that give up any part of the wine duties, and ted. He found Vittorio Emanuele leaning, on the foundations of the present building are in unijl Itis Lord GRANVILLE proposed that his cushions, his shirt sleeves rolled up above secure; and the second, that the mostuary, though the scale up to which one shilling a gallon his elbows. The King, on hearing the Colonel's only constructed in 1864, is not large enough for duty is levied should be raised to twenty-business, fixed him with his penetrating eyes, the number of dead bodies which are brought eight, degrees from twenty-six, which was and exclaimed: "By telegraph! Yes or not there. Twenty years ago the avenge number fixed as the upper limit by our treaty with Very good!" He stopped a moment, and then of bodies was not more than five hundred a year, France, the Government having satisfied vehemently exclaimed: "Well, then, yes; but but of late the average has risen to a thousand. tell the General that it is not only Nice, but M. Brouardel' points out that, owing to the in itself that no natural wine has greater Savoy, and that if I am able to abandon the sufficiency of space, the relatives of missing per strength. The Spanish Government, how country of my ancestors, of all my race, he may sons are often compelled to witness some very ever, contends, we believe truly, that well lose the town where he alone was bom. harrowing scenes when they come to see whether several wines produced in Spain are much The King then added, with an accent of pro- they can identify a body, and he adds that it is stronger. To meet the point Lord found sorrow; It is a cruel destiny that he impossible in the present state of the building a fresh breeze blowing from the East, and cloudy GRANVILLE offered to raise the scale and I should be obliged, for Italy's sake, to make for medical experts to make researches which weather. On the 9th at 8 am, the glass was at of twenty-eight-degrees. the offered the treatest surtilice that could be demanded might be of great service to the cause of justice. 29, and rising with clear weather then we besides to redress the grievance of the Garibaldi's-brief letter to Turr, it may be noted, He suggests that, a new mortuary with "all mo started the engines full speed ahead. The wind Spanish Government with regard to coronet of the Marquis of Raimondig, and dated mediate vicinity of the assize courts, and as this heavy sea, which continued till one arrival in was written on a sheet of paper bearing the dern improvements, should be built in the in- gradually increased to a strong monsoon with smuggling from Gibraltar, asking in re- Fino, and was, therefore, written when the Gen proposal has already received the approval of Hongkong Anchored at Green Island at 1 turn that our traders should be placed on eral was paying bis addresses to the woman who the Council General of the Seine it will probably | pm, on the 8th, and came up to the buoy on the the footing of the most favoured nation, became his wife for one sole day,
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Of all the subscription griffins I have yet seen galloped the best is undoubtedly Mr. Kerfoot's Arabi Bey, and decidedly the worst, Mr. Reiner's Canalha, late Mr. Coffins). The last named is really a promising pony, so far as appearances go, and just the sort one would be likely to select out of a mob for racing purposes. However, he is troubled with that fatal complaint "the slows to such an extent that the liberal offer of 1,000 to za against his winning the Valley Stakes was
quarters speedily arrived, with the result that the flames were, after a time, subdued without much difficulty, At Honam a couple of shops were burned down in each case, but no lives lost. In the conflagration in the City, however, which occurred a little way outside the southern gate, matters at the commencement were rather more serious, and as the flames spread very rapidly through the thickly populated district, it is feared that a number of women were unable to get away from the burn- ing houses, and so lost their lives. There was the usual plundering going on while the fire was raging, but the military authorities seem to have acted with great promptitude, and did all in their power to keep order and allay the excitement. I paid a visit to the ruins this morning, and found a great crowd assembled at the scene of the
"compterely gutted, and it is estimated that be=" tween five and six hundred houses have been destroyed. I could get no reliable particulars as
to the number of liver lost; but one of the Man..
darins assured me that the fatalities could not be very serious,
His lordship the Bishop of Macao, who leaves shortly for Europe, arrived here from your city last Friday. After the usual spell of sight-seeing in the far famed City of Rams, his lordship re turned to his diocese this morning.
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