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Balkans pretend to dispute the palm with
the veterans of Sedan, the conquerors of the conquerors of Europe.
Most unbearable of all, the passive re-
INVITE INSPECTION OF A WELLsistance of Russia gave and continues to give France time to mature her raw forces FANCY CHRISTMAS unmolested. To-day France has the ske
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and then the battle will have to be fought, So, Bismarck has resolved that it will be; the lesser of two, evils to defy Russia to day with an Austrian alliance, than to keep up the present burden only to find at the end of a few years that all the sacrifices of Germany have been' In' vain; that instead of crushing her France was but crippled, and that a few years of peace ATKINSON'S, HENDRIE'S, AND LUBIN'S have cost Germany its existence as an em-
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pire. Further, no time could be better chosen for deciding the question with Russia. She is disorganized now; her war debts are unpaid; her regiments are CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS. merely skeletons; her navy is powerless. Sho is, in fact, in a condition of exhaustion. No time could be more favorable for the solution of the question of German domin. (3ation, for France is just now in suspended animation politically. The Democracy, torn into shreds and patches of powerless factions, cannot even direct the destinies
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LONDON, February 9th. THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND
EGYPT.
The Times, in a leading article, announces that Lord Dufferin, in an exhaustive despatch, his suggested an alternative course for the settlement of Egypt-either annexation or the establishment of a stable Egyptian Government, and urges that constitutional Government is impracticable with: out the support of British troops,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
ATHLETE'S letter will appear fa our to-morrow's issue.
H.M.S. Wivera wept out to sea to-day for target practice.
THE steam-yacht Marchesa left Nagasaki for Hongkong on Wednesday, the 'at inst, and is hourly expected,
we observe that the German barque E. Von Beauties has been sold at public auction, at Yokohama, for the sum of $4,600. A REGULAR Lodge of St. John's No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall; Zetland Street, on Wednesday next, the 14th inst., at 8 for 8.30 p.m. precisely.
We are informed by the Agent of the P. & O. S. N. Co., that the steamship Bokhara, with the next English mail, left Singapore for Hong- kong on the roth instant, at 8 am.
H.M.S. Vigilant arrived from. Whampoa on Saturday, and the Wivern, convoyed by the Swift, came into harbour from the same place, yesterday afternoon.
We are pleased to learn that the Mikado has decorated Mr. Taro Ando, Japanese Consul at this port with the Order of the Rising Sun (sixth grade), in recognition of his services to the Government
A RICKSHA man got six months' hard labor this morning at the Police Couit, for. picking an Austrian seaman's pocket of $2 yesterday. The street obstructionist's features are familiar in
Hayward's Rest? -
A PORTSMOUTH Contemporary has the follow- ing "I bear from the Audacious that an affair of a very unpleasant character is likely to occupy the attention of a court-martial at Singapore or Hongkong very shortly. The case is one of a class which is happily becoming very rare in the service, and it is to be hoped that the officer who may be to able offer a satisfactory explanation of is accused, and who occupies a subordinate rank, his conduct. He has been suspended from duty ever since the Investigation of the circumstances by the captain, and is now under arrest. His accuser is an ordinary seaman who not long since received that rating."
SOSIE excitement was caused in sporting circles on Saturday by an apparently well authenticated rumour that the griffin Highland Fling had been tried over the Derby course, and had accom plished the distance in 3 minutes 20 seconds. This canard was evidently got up by some un
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THE Bulls went out route marching In an easterly direction this morning, under the com- mand of Major Halahan, and returned about half-past twelve with appeiltes splendidly whetted for a mid on the Commissariat ration porter and the good things provided by the Anny con- tractor Hingee. We observe that the troops in Garrison still wear their helmets, and think, the authorities might safely substitute the forage cap in such weather as we are having now, care for the men's health, no doubt influences without fear of sunstroke. A laudable motive, the authorities in continuing the helmet when civilians have long since discarded it for a head dress more suited to the weather, but things may be overdone even in the army.
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repeat it here, that the Hongkong mercourse if I have frequently expressed the opinion, and I slightly altered in one or two, miner. poluts and properly attended to, would be far and away the safest and best course in China, and I am not asked, if the course is such a good and safe one, alone in this opinion. Why then, it may be
tance of nineteen miles without leaving the water: obliging official he is a practical man who The horse was purchased by Mr. Gunther at a knows perfectly well what is necessary to render the Course is not merely an energetic' and
point down the bay called Chucoteague Island, and keep the racecourse suitable for training where he was used to swimming from the island to the shore with his sider, and returning when purposes. The top-dressing laid on the
racecourse proper during the summer was? "ever he thought It convenient. Your correspondent
no doubt, a capital idea; but it was not carried
dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" 1871. To add to these misfortunes of in Letters ou Editorial matters to be sent to "The ternal adminstration, the finances, which Editor and not to individual members of the have always been a strong rock of salva
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tion to French governments, are said to be accompanied by the name and address of the be in an alarming state, while the fallures writers, not necessarily for publication; but as of last year, superinduced by over-specul- evidence of good faith....
Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-ation, have stripped the Paris Bourse of graph will always be open for the lair discussion is long-established pre-eminence as the with the advice of the Legislative Council.there. Reuter's telegram from St. Petersburg-The rode behind this remarkable horse from Mrfar enough, nor has it been practically dealt by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himself res- ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
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BIRTH.
At the Yau-ma-ti Police Station, on the 10th instant, the Wife of Inspector CAMERON, of a Son,
[136 DEATH.
On the 1st Jan, suddenly, at Gilmour-road, Edinburgh, SOPHIE RANDELL, wife of Robert McMurdo, of Hongkong.
potent, money-centre of the Continent, if not of the world. Cliques and intriguers are at work in all directions, and sinister premonitions of the state of affairs that gave Louis Napoleon a chance to figure as the saviour" of society are not wanting. Indeed it is evident that if the Bonapartists had been unanimous for any one candidate, either Plon-Plon or his son Victor, the Republic would have been overturned or seriously imperilled twice during the last twelve months. Nor are the foremost
for this disastrous state of things. supporters of the Republic irresponsible
Never in the halcyon days of feminine domination under the Bourbons was the intrigue of the salon more powerful in State affairs, never was petticoat diplomacy more potent in moving public men. Republican Minister in France is as great & personage to-day as he was under
in his functions, installed in a magnificent palace, to which the most pretentious public building in Washington is but poverty stricken. An army of lackeys attend him;
WHO owas the dog? A house coolie summoned Geraldo dos Remedios, clerk, to the Police Court this morning for suffering an unmuriled ferocious dog to be at large, which animal caught the house coolie by the inexpressibles as the latter was walking in the street. Mr. Remedios' defence was very simple, namely, that the dog was not Ahis, it being a strange animal that had a pred. fection for banging about his domicile. Capland Thomsett discharged the case."
with of late. During Mr. Tripp's absenté in
the north, his locum tenens must be credited with having done his best to keep the course in- safe condition; but as he could not spars the
"With the exception of about five, the whole of the ponies in 'training are screwed up." "This expression of opinion from a gentleman who la rightly regarded as one of the best judg race ponies and racing in the Far East, and who made his first appearance for the present season at the course this morning, is especially note worthy. Admitting that Mr. Henry's views are tion that, for all practical purposes, they may be slightly exaggerated, there can still be no ques
taken as a correct indication of the actual state of affairs in every racing stable in the colony. At the beginning of the season the number of ponies in training may be set down at the total THE Baltimore Sun has the following:-Mr. number of entries for the Challenge Cup, namely, Frederick Gunter, proprietor of the North Point 877--the most humerous contingent ever identi- farm and headquarters of the North Point Duck fied with racing in Hongkong. If it be true ing Club, is the owner of a remarkable swimming that, any, even a third of that number have been horse. Since June last the unusual feat of swim-rendered hors de combat-and this is certainly ming has occurred on no less than five different under-estimating the ranks of the killed and, occasions. The horse has accomplished the wounded that fact alone speaks trumpet- North Foint light to Seven-foot Knoll and return, semedy the defects in our racing and training remarkable feat of swimming from the West tongued in favor of something being done to making fourteen miles each round trip. The tracks, to which this long list of casualties is last, feat and most remarkable of all was as most certainly due follows, and those familiar with the locality know well the distanceThe horse entered the water at his old familiar point, the West North Point light, and awam two "miles" beyond the front beacon light, and near to Tolchester Beach. Being headed off by his owner in a four-oared boat, be turned and swam to Miller's Island light, and when he struck, bottom he rested until Mr. Gunther and a well- are these serious accidents to the ponies of such ting to Subscriptions. Advertisements, &c., be ad- from time to time-intrusted to them since THE Earl of Derby announces to the various scrupulous person for the purpose of hoodwinking entered the water, and completed the distance because little or nothing has been done to keep known oarsman overtook him. He then again frequent occurrence! The answer is-simply Secretary in the following circular on December to state that the report is absolutely without Colonial Governors his appointment as Colonial and misleading, the public. We are authorised back to East North Point Light; making a diethe track in order for galloping, The Clerk of 19th:"I have the honour to inform you that foundation, the mile and a half trial in 3.20 Her Majesty has been pleased to entrust to my, having been actually a mile canter at a slow care, as one of the Principal Secretaries of State, pace. "An Old Sportsman" has something to the Seals of the Colonial Department.
say on this matter in bis Racing Gossip." ORDINANCE No. is of 1832, entitled--An Or dinnnce enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, THE following is published on the authority of of, to apply a sum not exceeding nine hundred Tartesian Gazette gives a detailed sketch of the anther's fatto Canton, a distance of thirteen and thirty-seven thousand, nine hundred and new Russo-Chinese frontier. Starting from the miles, in ninety-five minutes. twenty-eight dollars to the Public Service of the Bujangel mouth of the Tekes River, the boundary THAT the unusual prevalence of fires in the year 1883, has received Her Majesty's approval, follows the downward course of the stream to the foreign settlement of Yokohama should tend to
Suimbe mouth, and then passes up the Suimbe impress upon the management of the home intime to petionally superintend operations, his,⠀⠀ THE progress of civilization in Japan, says the River as far as the Sary Tau mountains. Thence Gaselle, may be estimated by the fact that it proceeds over the Sary Tau Range, crosses
surance offices the hazardous character of the orders were most inefficiently carried out that business offered in this place, need, remarks the is to say, they were generally neglected-with whereas fifteen years ago such a thing as a the River Kassan and the heights which separate Jopan Gaxefle, excite no surprise; and we must the inevitable result that day after day in the licensed lawyer or attorney was unknown, there that river from the Kars Canda, and on to Sary not conceal from ourselves that unless some absence of rain the track became harder and are now 997 of that fraternity in full practice in Nichai. Passing then onwards over the summit means are employed to lessen the number and more dangerous to gallop on. the victims exclaim, there would be exactly one follows a south-westerly direction, and crosses for instance, a considerable increase in premiums, the empire. If there were three more, we hear of the Bindintia mountain, the line of frontier severity of the claims which have arisen in 1882 thousand too many
To the system of drenching the top of the the Kuldjata, leaving the fields watered by it to and a possible rejection of all risks not ware course with water, the lameness of a great many Russia. The further delimitation of the border, houses, will soon add to the heavy expenses of the ponies must be difectly attributed. Any vid Chorgas to the Borotala River, have been of business men in Japan. Even now we person can satisfy himself on this point by a agreed upon, and will shortly be finally marked heat of one or two companies which have very simple experiment. After the track has out by General Triede, who has gone to Werny. issued instructions to their agents not to been well watered, a close Inspection will show
General Brewster having decided that Chinese on the bluff. That other timid; offices may do it slippery and unsafe, the substratum being as renew any current risks in the settlement not that the water: bas merely penstrated through SAYS the San Francisco Daily Alla-Attorney-being godowns, and to discontinue all business about an inch of dust and top-dressing, rendering have the right to travel through the United States the same is well within the bounds of proba unyielding as a tumpike road. In pulling up. on the way between foreign countries and their bility; and many of us may some day receive pony after a gallop on such a treacherous track- own, we must prepare to accommodate ourselves the serious intimation that fire insurance on our the risk of a sprain is necessarily great, whilst to this new turn of affairs. The transit must be working property can no longer be effected, the the slightest allp during exercise, such as a pony Surgeon of U.S.S. Monocacy, received a tele- be abused by making it a pretext for giving per, Yokohama to warehouses only. This would comer badly, means certain lameness-1. pero gram, before leaving Nagasaki, announcing his manent lodgment on our soit to fresh hordes from mean, to the majority of people carrying on sonally witnessed one pony, on being pulled up Medical University of California at San Francisco the door had been shut by the passage of the and stock, serious embarrassment if not sus feat and nearly come down on his nose; election to the chair of Therapeutics in the the Chinese Empire, against whom it was thought businesses requiring a valuable working plant after finishing a sharp gallop, slide about throw Dr. Terrille, though quite a young man, has won Immigration Act, and it is not likely that this pension. The rate now paid on ordinary turned to the paddock with a severely sprained and this position to which he has been chosen, Chinese applying. for the privilege of transit a considerable tax upon the net returns ofAnd this is only one instance out of many. for himself a distinguished name in his profession, can be done without additional legislation.. first-class risks is 2 per cent; and this forms shoulder, and has been badly lame ever since. will give him a wider field of usefulness and through the country can be supplied with any business carried on here. Still no honest honor than the limits of the navy would afford. passports or certificates, which they should man can afford to run the risk which calls for so It is quite a hopeless task to offer practical We hear from Canton that a movement is now be required to deliver up on reaching the high a rate, while it is at the same time obvious suggestions having for their aim the improve on foot amongst the freemasons resident in that port where they embark to leave the United that any increase in that rate, or refusal of the ment of the Hongkong racecourse. Your recom city to form a lodge under the Scotch constitu- States; but this would not be an effectual protec offices to continue the risks, will create extreme mendations will be generally admitted to be ex tion. A large number of brethera have, we are tion unless the law attached penalties to the difficulties... A propos of the refusal of certain cellent in every respect but you are told that informed, supported the proposal, and it is in-failure to comply with the regulation. Congress fire companies to continue any insurances except such things have never been done before in tended to petition the Grand Lodge of Scotland can pass a bill making it a felony for a Chinese
on godowns, a spirit of resistance to this style of Hongkong, and that is accepted as a substantial for a charter without delay. This movement, immigrant to violate the terms of his passport, dictation is being aroused. Continuance in their reason why they should not be attempted now... which is deserving of support, will most certainly and also attaching a part of the responsibility to determination will soon convince these offices: What is everybody's business, is nobody's bust have our cordial co-operation, as it can scarcely the transportation companies which engage in that all business formerly offered to them li atness. The gentlemen who are good enough position to do a lot of useful work. be doubted that a lodge in Canton must be in a
the business of carrying these passengers through an end. No office can expect to enjoy the selecto act as Stewards for the Race Fund eschew all the country. Such a bill should be prepared and tion of the best risks and refuse inferior. It must responsibility, and apparently are not in the presented in Congress immediately.
take a share of all, or do nothing. Two seamen of the steamship Mertonikshire, England, were charged by the master, George before Captain Thomsett at the Police Cour Michael Ryan of Ireland, and Joseph Mitchell of 'AN amusing instance of the biter bitten came William Reed, before Captain Thomscit this this morning. A miner, lately retumed from morning with absence from their ship without Australia, was accosted on the Praya yesterday leave, and with being drunk on board on the by one of the returned-emigrant swindling commenced on Friday, and ended on Saturday A match between the above named teams was roth instant and creating a disturbance. The fraternity, who induced him to go to his house on in a crushing defeat for Ireland by a runs and master said they took French leave on the gth a false pretence. While there another man they came back top-heavy and made use of that a man had arrived from Spain, baving Daugish and Hedley heading the poll for the and did not show up until next evening, when came to the door and told the miner's companion made the best show for the losers, Dormer, and abusive language to him. He sent for a con- made $7,000, adding, "Let us get him, and winners. Unusual pressure on our space.com- stable and gave them into custody. Pleading play false fantan and cheat him.". The speaker, pels us to omit our usual descriptive report of the drunkenness, which is no defence in-law, they of course, was a confederate of the other man game ware ordered to forfeit two days "screw" each. The miner was then asked to join in cheating the Full scores are appended smile
man from Spain, and entered can amors into the,
IRELAND. CAPTAIN THOMSETT, Harbour Master, writes to as he believed, swindle of his compatriot, and the Acting Colonial Secretary on the set inst therefore deserves no pity for what subsequently publication in the Government Gazette, the brought in, and as a preliminary bait to the as follows:-"I have the honour to forward for befell him. The man from Spain (7) was then 2 following extract of a letter just received from miner, one of the men won & zo from the fellow, Messrs. Melchers & Co., having reference to a The gentleman from Spain then challenged the Dash dangerous reef in Gaspar Strait Captain miner. The latter accepted, and by cheating, Hak Doyd Crants reports on the 10th August, 1882, passed as he averred in Court, won $300, from his op- Hea in Gaspar Strait, a small reef in "Latitude ponent in a brace of shakez Asked by the latter i Ceci Holla
deg. 55 min. South and Longitude 107 deg. where bis (the miner's) dollars were in case he lost 14 min. East, not marked in the new Admiralty the miner, elated with his dishonestly achieved Charts. "The reef being right in the track of success, went to his boarding house and brought shipping, la eminently dangerous to vesicle in his money back with him, together with $1,000 worth of gold dust which he borrowed SAVE the Japan Gasette The reports which from a fellow miner. He resumed play with the have been in circulation from time to time rela "man from Spain," and won $400 more from Mr. Tom Hodder of tive to the abusive treatment of Koreans by Jhim, the latter cunningly leading the miner on to panese is, according to the Tokio papers, very his ruin. The two went on playing, but the man much exaggerated. The Jiyu Shimbun from Spain deeming he had allowed the miner Captain they agree so well together that it is considered sufficient rope already, altered the course of unnecessary to keep two regiments of Japanese events by winning $2,400 from him, cleaning Hour Ho
him out, and leaving him minus $1,17250 MZ E The victimised miner has thus furnished another Gordon Tation of the truth of Lord Bolingbroke's rea
that he who is acutest in deceiving others
The Hongkong
Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, FEBRÚARY 12, 1883.
The following interesting comments on the political prospects of continental Europe appear in the Philadelphia Press —
Prince Gortchakoff, in dealing with the brooding complications in which, according to well-informed public men, Russia has long been preparing herself for a decisive struggle against the Western Powers, not long ago adopted the free-speech tactics by which Bismarck covered so securely his intentions in 1866-70. In the course of a remarkable conversation with a French journalist, the Prince, before he quit power, said frankly that Russia had always Insisted on a "strong France." That after the war Russia had made this a con- dition with Germany-which, on the con- trary, has always declared it as a proper and expedient policy that France should bo weakened. He (Gortchakoff) had be. sought Thiers, and after Thiers the Minis. ter of MacMahon, the Duc Decazes, to strengthen France first and squabble about the Government afterward. That it was
the Empire. He is, so soon as confirmed Tuz Rising Sun states that Dr. F. H. Terrille, regulated in such a way that the privilege cannot offices having resolved to limit their business in changing, his leg, swerving, or negotiating, table
his stables are crowded with the finest breed of horses; he has State equipages and private equipages; he dispenses millions throughout every department of France; he is allowed enormous sums for entertainments; in short, a Republican great officer of State is now just what a great official of State is in the most popu- lous Empire,, or what he was under the, magnificent rule of the Bourbons. As in- stances, take the Minister of War, of the Interior, of the Marine; the Premier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The palace of the latter is an enormous pile of quad rangular walls, running for nearly half a mile along the Seine, and only second to the Tuileries itself in imposing dimensions. Its splendid salons are sumptuously de- corated in the French taste; the gardens are marvels of the French florist's art; the paraphernalia equal to a monarch's. The palace of the War Minister, on the
Boulevard St. Germain, is not so large, but fully as gorgeous,
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in carrying out this advice that France ran such imminent danger of attack in 1875, when the German Government saw in the Now Germany does not waste wealth on adoption of the new French army laws a the official hierarchies. It was only a few threat against her own predominance.years ago that Bismarck moved into the Germany was ready to march on Paris at Imposing Radiziwill palace. The other that moment, and Bismarck has never for Ministers, however, are housed in the most given Russia for preventing that assault modest thrift. The Parliament House can't by declining to remain passive.
compare with the new city buildings in Now, when a statesman of the prince's Penn square. The Emperor's residence rank, who, though out of office, is the vir would excite no comment on North Broad tual ruler of a great country, makes such or many other of our fine residence streets. confidences as these to a journalist, It Is On South Broad street there are a half- easy to see that complications are not dozen houses more imposing than those far off. Europe sees with amazement the occupied by the heir to the throne. It is spectacle of a war which threatens to be only in the army that the Germans a universal one, rising from the quarrels der money lavishly. This is one of the in- of two great Ministers; for if Goazcuarors explicable contradictions of German char- and Bismarck could be reconciled to each acter. A profoundly peaceful and peace- other, no one doubts for a moment that loving people, every man, woman and all the fancied grievances of the two great child in the empire submits to burdens in Powers could be smoothed away.. But support of the army, both financial and Bismarck doesn't grow wise as he grows physical, which other nations find it almost old. The craze for dominion has gotten impossible to exact in time of war. It is him as completely under its sway as it rare to find a German household which ever held Napoleon or WILLIAM PITT, and has not contributed one or two boys to the soldiers in the country, and one will most likely he is going to push his fortunes until he army-nor are the taxes lessened to them return home. A better understanding between gain or lose all Russia has presumed to thereford All this is as foreign to the the Chinese and Japanese soldiers is also saið put, a limit to German domination. It. German race as the present abstention or to exist. Formerly the Chinese were abusive of
etwixt Germany, and its meditated France from dictation in Europe is to the
and, ridiculed the Japanese ja bút
(has of late, issued: presumes to hold an equal voice French-who are immeasurably fond of anda'ss to the treatment. -his soldiers nunental affairs the wasted and mil Ary, mastery. and peacock display in panese when they ha to meet, wildly handled legions of the Danube and. the eyes of the world,
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least concemed about the true interests of the supporters of the national pastime The Clerke of the Course apparently either lacks the power or the sinews of war to do all that is peccssary, and so the old order of things continues, and the Ponies "screw up" by the dozen.
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