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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883.
self-approving conscience it is impossible we should be greatly afflicted either by censure or calumny.
The opening of our new crusade is in- tended to be a defence of a time honoured principle, the protection of vested interests, and a strong protest against what might easily became the forerunner of political jobbery and a system of public abuses which could hardly fall to prove detri- mental to the best interests, and future
commercial and social prospects of " this fair city." Sir GEORGE BOWEN has been such
a short time la Hongkong that in common fairness we are bound to make allowance for any slight mistakes he may have made since his arrival on March 30th, which can be traced either to a lack of acquaintance with our old established cus- toms, or to erroneous Information supplied by his responsible" advisers, From time THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, immemorial-which so far as concerns
Hongkong means a space of 42 years it has been the invariable custom in this Colony in disposing of the Crown lands to sell them to the highest bidder at public auction. We believe we are cor- rect in stating that this salutary, rule has never on any pretence been departed. from-save on one occasion, when Sir RICHARD MCDONNELL disposed of the Hongkong Mint by what Governor HEN- NESSY once expressed as "one of the most scandalous jobs ever associated with
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An Emergency meeting of United Chapter, No. 1341, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the 16th inst., at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely.
This letter, it will be noted, is dated We are requested to state that after to-morrow, March 30th-the day on which Sir Geoxax Thursday, June 14th, Lady Bowen will hold no Bowen arrived in the colony, Thirteen further receptions at Govemment House during days afterwards, when it may be assumed the summer. the new Governor had only nominally as sumed the reins of government, the fol- lowing reply to their proposal was re-steamer Medusa left Singapore for this port yes..year than it ever did in the flush times of the ceived by the representatives of the Ice terday afternoon. Company:-
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong 11th April, 1883. Gentleman-With reference to your letter of the yoch ultimo, I have the honour, by direction of the Governor, to inform you that is Excellency, regrets his inability to reduce the premium
and the rental fired by letter No. 534 of the toth ultime from this office in respect of Inland Lot No. 564 on which the foe House server,
and have the honour to be, gentlemen, your most abodent
W. H. MARSH, Colonial Secretary,
Meas. Jarling, Matheon & Cur
Central Managers, les Company.
we are informed by the Agents, Messrs. Mel- chers & Co, that the Austro-Hungarian Lloyds
THE Queen" has contributed 100% to the fund which is being raised for the purpose of securing the preservation of the tombstones and other memorials of our countrymen who fell in the Crimea.
JOSEPH M. STODDARD, a publisher of New York and Philadelphia, has begun an action for libel against the Tribune Association, laying damages at $100,000. The Tribune charged Stoddard with pirating the edition of" The Encyclopædia Brittanica."
From the above correspondence it will be seen that the Ice Company had the option of becoming owners of the ground which they have been occupying as a privilege, by paying the sum of $12,500 We hear that the U.S.S. Juanita from New and an annual rental of $126.80; and our York vid the Suez Canal, and the U.S.S. Enter readers will note that the Government by prise, detached from the South Pacific Station, making this offer departed from the estab; will arrive here in about a month's time. Com lished custom, which has prevailed so long. į mander George Dewly of the Juanita has been of selling all Crown land by public auction. invalided, his place being filled by Commander We desire to say not one word that would Harrington. be likely in any way to prove prejudicial to the interests of the Ice Company, but it must frankly be admitted that the time has long since departed when any necessity existed for the Government making any concession of the kind referred to above, either to this or any other public company. At the same time, we should be the last to
A PROMINENT physician announces the starding intelligence that the "normal beat of a healthy heart is lambio, and that when it is trochaic, pyrrhic, or a like spondee, there is something wrong." This is really too horribly awful! But, doctor, how is a fellow to find out if his heart is that sort of a vegetable 7 - Ms. DorOUCHEL, a French writer in the Revue
ACCORDING to Bu American contemporary, New Orleans expects to do a larger trade this antebellum days. Yet it is not to be supposed the old inhabitants will ever get over referring to the grandeur of the Crescent City in that | paradaisical period, "hefore the war.”
A PRIZE type-setting centest took place ecently in Berlin, where the winning composter 9415. letters in the course of three hours, average of about 53 letters per minule," in ordinary newspaper types,
A New York doctor says the best cure, he knows for a cold is the old-fashioned sweat "Take ten grains of quibine, a hot mustard foot-bath and a stiff glass of toddy." Everybody believes in this remedy, but nine out of ten will forget the quinine and the foot-bath.
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THE total output of coal from the French mines THE rumour which was curent in Chinese circles last year was 20,803,332 tons, this being 1,037,349 yesterday to the effect that H.M.S,, Fly had come tons more than in 1881. The quantity of
to grief by striking a torpedo somewhere near iron made was 3,107,158 tons, or about 200,066 Haiphong, has again been on the dopis to-day, tons more than in the previous year, while the increased demand for steel rails will account for the total having risen from 303,222 to 333121 tons.
and it is generally believed that the report is substantially true. Our inquiries have elicited no official Information on the subject, and before giving publicity to the detailed rumours flying about we prefer waiting for further particulars.
THE Government have, with the concurrence of Lord Alcester and Lord Wolseley, agreed to com mute the proposed pensions to these noble lords WE beg to direct attention to an entertainment into the payment of lump sums computed on the which, by, kind, permission of General Sargent, actuarial value of two lives. The sum in Lord will be given in the Garrison Theatre, on the Alcester's case will be about twenty-five thousand evening of Saturday next. With the celebrated pounds, and in the case of Lord Wolseley between Bellringers, Professor, Lacie's clever exhibition twenty-nine thousand and thirty thousand pounds. of ventriloquism and the vagaries of his #wooden-headed family," in addition to severat An old man in Milwaukee wishing to induce a of the most talented of the Mastodon Minstrels, young married woman to clope with him made a most enjoyable performance should be use of the following arguments: "My dear produced. A few reserved seats have been re- child," said he to her, "if you go with me you tained for civilians. and your children shall have plenty while I live, and when I get too old I will get you a young man. We will start a store, and i will get you a sewing machine. During the summer I can earn eighteen shilings a day as a mason, and
But the heartless woman was not moved by those strong inducements.
Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to the history of the Colony." Are we to | raise objections to the Hongkong Ice Com- de Deur Mondes, shows that the Desert of Sa- when I get too old I will be a father to you." months, have arranged to produce Mrs. Beecher
Editor" and not to individual members of the
staff.
Communications intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of good faith.
Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele. graph will always be open for the fair discussion by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that
ponsible for opinions thus expressed
presume now that Governor Bows has determined to depart from the old tradi- tional policy of his predecessors, by taking upon himself to sanction the disposal of government property by private contract? It is scarcely necessary for us to say that this query raises a question of paramount
answer to which will be anxiously looked for by all classes.
Lovers of the drama have a treat in store. The Princess Dramatic Company, which played "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to crowded houses in Melbourne, Sydney and other great cities for many.
Stowe's famous play at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on the evenings of the 20th and arst inst. The cart will be a powerful one, including Mr. IT was a am, when Mr. Ginnery tumbled across R. B Lewis, whose Unde Tom is said to be un- the threshold of his wife's bedroom; and without rivalled, Mr. J. Moody, the finest representative making any effort to rise, lay there, conducting of the eccentric Topsy now on the stage, Mr. H. an animated argument with himself on the sub- Lacle, Miss De Vere, and other well knownartistes. ject of reducing taxation. Mrs. Ginnery was a New and effective scenery specially painted by
prompt and decisive. She got out of bed and nificence never previously seen in this colony, removed the washpitcher from the basin and will add to the realism of this grand representa- dashed the contents over Mr. Ginnery. Then tion. As Uncle Tom's Cabin has never he arose slowly to his feet, and dripping at every previously been produced in, Hongkong the extremity, observed with a most solemn and Erincess. Company should receive extensive impressive air: Yesh, Mrs. Gin'ry .we.musht take the tax off whiskey (hic) and put 'er on waHET."
the Editor does not in any way hold himself res. importance to the community at large, the which it was originally granted. Messrs. JAR- the vessel was visited by the paymaster of the woman of few words, but her methods were Hennings for the drama, and on a scale of mag-
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pany being permitted to retain the pre-hara, instead of being lower than the Mediter mises under the old conditions. But ranean Sea level, has only a single small tract we most strenuously object to this which could be flooded, and to supply this with valuable piece of ground being handed sea water would need a waterway as big as the over to Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Suez Canal. or to anybody else, by private arrange. ment, for any other purposes than that for
DINE, MATHESON & Co, in their letter to the Colonial Secretary say that as the Govern- These observations have been elicited by ment has decided to charge a heavy pre. the official letters read at the meeting of mium for the ground and also a substan- the shareholders of the Hongkong Ice Com-tial rent that, "it will be Imperative upon pany, Limited, held on Monday the ith the Company to make such alterations inst. It appears that many years ago the upon the building as to fit it for other pur Hongkong Government granted the tem- poses than an Ice House only." The Gov. porary use of a piece of ground, situated ernment might possibly be justified in in what is now known as Ice House Lane, disposing of this property for an Ice House, to the Ice Association of Hongkong, for under the old arrangement, at half the the purpose of erecting a store-room for amount stated in Dr. STEWART's letter;
THE U. S. S. Richmond, which left here last Wednesday, called in at the Lammocks, when
Ashuelot who remained on board for some time and afterwards returned to the island. The Richmond then went on her way to Amoy where she will stay for a short time and after wards visit the other Coast ports previous to making for Japan. The officers and crew en- gaged at the wreck of the Ashuelot at the Lam- mocks are reported to be well and hearty.
Ho Astk, a culinary artist, was sent this moming to the "abode of bliss by Mr. Wodehouse for sojourn of three months, with hard labor thrown in, for stealing from an unlocked box the
patronage. ..
Telegraph ice, and on the express condition that the but to sell it at any price by private sum of $13 in Mexicans, the property of Chu superficus to say to what cistit, is the devi- 3 pim, thus affertling, sample time for a pleasant
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1883. It has been frequently said that it is much easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one honest enough, or with sufficient courage to stand up for it in the face of powerful opposition, This truism is especially applicable to the newspapers of a Colony like Hongkong, The youngest of the three European journals published in this city, we have
of the powers of perception, and are
As will be seen from a notice in another place, SAYS the Sydney Bulletin --We wish we had the Steamboat Company have arranged an ex- wormwood to write this in. One day within the cursion to Macao on Sunday next, which should last fortnight-we speak by the card poor be extensively patronised. The splendid steamer woman whose, husband was dying went to the Honams will leave the Company's wharf at 8 am minister of a parish in this colony-it would be and start on the retum uip from Macao at Association would always keep on the contract to be applied for other pur-hash-maker admitted the offence without offering probably knows his address, and nobody else is ramble through the favorite resorts of the Holy premises a supply of ice for hospital purposes than that agreed to when the any plea is extenuation, thus rendering further interested in bimand asked him for the love of City Refreshments, but no meals, will be proven poses. In course of time this privilege concession was first made, would be a investigation unnecessary. The defendant, it God to come and say some words of comfort to vided on board the steamer; however, our passed to the Tudor Ice Company, which gross and unjustifiable interference with may be added, is not known to the gaol authorities, her husband before he went out into the dark worthy friend, Mr. Hing Kee of the Macao. for the purpose of storage-in those days vested interests. If Inland Lot No. 564 is this evidently being his first step in "chiseling." The precious vessel of grace replied that Hotel, will make every preparation to supply The really couldn't spare the time, as his wife tifan and dinner to visitors; and speak- the ice was not manufactured in the Colony to be disposed of, to be used as the pur. OPERATIONS on the wreck of the U.S.S. Ashuelot was at a friend's house, and he couldn't possibly ing, from experience, we can say that no but came by sailing vessels from America, chaser may think fit, we claim that it have been commenced but up to the present think of letting her go home by herself" But better table is kept in any hotel in this and consequently had to be stored in im- should be sold in the usual way to the time little progress has been made. The weather he let this man go to his long home without a part of the world than in that so ably conducted mense quantities-erected the large and highest bidder at public auction.
has been most unfavorable and the junks used qualm. The woman walked away. And the by Hing Kee. The retura fare has been fixed were not of sufficient size to carry on the work
man died. And a worm preaches charity from at two dollars, which is surely low enough to unsightly structure which is now in the
suit all classes. We are glad the Steamboat. possession of the Hongkong Ice Company.
successfully. Mr. Robinson, the well known the pulpit of that parish.
Company has inaugurated these Sunday, ex- We have briefly defined the actual position
diver who is engaged on the work, has been down
cursions, and trust they will receive sufficient of affairs up to the 10th of March last, on
here for some days past and leaves to day for the
send I up a junk of some 10,000 piculs which he the guns of the sunken vessel and other valuable property will eventually be recovered.
In these modern days the space required in Ice House Lane for retailing ice is less than the size of an ordinary dining room, The ice is manufactured as required and
regular events.
never prefended to possess a monopoly which date the General Managers of the is brought up to the store twice a day, wreck, having arranged with a Canton 5m to with a deceased wife's sister, the writer of which support to justify the Directors in malding them. and always have been quite ready Company received the following letter:-When the Tudor Company was in its zenith thinks will suit admirably, It is anticipated that late Lord Hatherley by an American clergyma, Lu Ast, a hawker, was brought before Captain
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 10th March, 1883.
Gaytlemen-I have the hestur, by direction, to inform you
that the Governor in Council has had under consideration the present tenure of Inland Lot No. 16. on which the Ice House Company has no dife to the lot, has been plazeed to dliact that a Crown Leave for nine hundred and nins.yaine gas may be
stands, His Excellency having found that the Hongkong Ics
Issued to the Company uncondition of the payment by instalmenta of a premium of twelve thousand five hundred_ĉolisis and of an
PREDRICK Stewart, Acting Colonial Secretary.
Mesara, Jarding, Matheson & Ca..
General Stanagara, Ice Company.
A RECENT number of one of the Church reviews contained an article on the subject of marriage
quoted a letter purporting to be written to the who set forth the grevious social mischief which Thomsett this morning on a charge of perjury he said was caused by such marriages in the yesterday. Chan Atcong a cook, stated that he United States. Lord Dalhousie, who has charge saw a European'sailor go to the defendant's stall of the Bill in the House of Lords, felt it necessary
on the roth at about.1/p.m. to purchase some to take steps to ascertain the truth of this state fruit: The European took from a small bag ment. He therefore sent a letter of inquiry which he had in his pocket five or six dollars, of every daily newspaper in the Union, asking a ricksha coolie put his foot on it. The stall to every State Governor and to the editor One of the dollars feil, on the ground and for information on the subject. We are keeper said in, Chinese to the two-wheeler driver informed that Lord Dalhousie has received in will go shares in that. The European parts of the United States, the uniform testimony vehicle and drove away, the worthy ricksha reply an enormous number of letters from all was far from being ober, so he got into his being that such marriages are of frequent occur man pocketing the dollar first. Lu ran after the rence, that they are contracted by men of the liver, to get his share of the dollar. Later on he highest character, and are thoroughly supported learned from Lu that the beastly ricksha man did Law Reform Association intends to publish chim William Bakes, F.S. 1o, stated that on the by public opinion. We learn that the Marriage not give him his share, but that the police arrested tracts from this correspondence for the informa roth instant about mid-day he saw the defendant tion of the public. Lord Dalhousie's letter has in the clutches of Lu Asau, the hawken. On in created a movement among American Presby
man- bad stolen from him one dollar. The their Confession of Faith in which such marriages vehicle driver was charged with unlawful possen. are condemned...
sion of the silver dollar found under the seat and
the building was used for storing whole to concede that both our contemporaries
cargoes of ice. Now, it is quite certain are equally competent with ourselves
that by pulling down the present building, to discern and grapple with the abuses
or by altering it, so as to make it suitable, THE Russian Government has begun to execute which are constantly springing up in our
after providing a small room to retail the ice, its scheme for colonizing the lower part of the midst if they but possessed sufficient in.
for godowns, or offices; it would be an ex- Amoor Province, adjoining the Chinese frontier, dependence to ignore prospective advant-nustat of one hundred and twenty-alk dollars and sighty
amy center) have the honour to be, gentlemen, your mot ceedingly cheap purchase at 812,500-ten emigrants, constituting two hundred and by dispatching from Odessa eight hundred and ages, and clearly understood the duties balletet,
judging from the Oriental Bank property fifty families. If the project, which contem they owe to the public. The policy of
on the opposite side of the street, which cost plates the removal of 100,000 persons to the running with the hare and hunting with It is but fair to point out that when this something like 813 per foot, But be that new settlements, is carried out on the scale on the hounds undoubtedly has this advantage letter was written Sir GEORGE BOWIN had as it may, under no circumstances will the which it has begun, the expense will be enor to the representatives of the style of sub.
not arrived in Hongkong, so that the Government be justified in selling the Crown mous-not much less than $10,000,000, in the servient journalism which has in the past Governor in Counci" was Mr. W. H. lands by private arrangement. The public opinion of the Moscow Grestle. The colonists met with so much favor amongst those en Mags, who was thon administering the auction system has worked fairly well in already dispatched were supplied with flour, cats, terprising, local gentry who had personal
government. That His Excellency's decl- the past, and although it may not have wagon-wheels, several thousand pairs of boots, agricultural implements, forty mill-stones, 2,000, ends to attain, that, if it affords no proteesion conveyed in this most unsatisfactory been always so satisfactory as could be and other articles of clothing, nails, screws, axes, tion to the interests of the public, it at least communication was an unwise one we will wished, it has at least left no suspicion of sawe and window glass, and each family received has little chance of creating personal endeavor to show presently. animosities. Our contemporaries with all
chicanery or jobbery of any description, | fifty dollars with which to build a but. Messrs. JARDINE, MATHESON and Co., re- We do not question Sir Gronox BOWEN'S their wisdom and vast experience of men presenting the Hongkong Ice Company's authority to over-ride the old custom, but ONE of the finest examples of the present practice ferians for the suppression of the passages inquiring what was up he was told the 'ricksha and things have apparently yet to shareholders, naturally enough would have we certainly question the wisdom and in the construction of sen-going steamers is, learn that the liberty of doing evpreferred continuing to draw a substantial expediency of establishing a precede found in the Oregon, a sister ship to the inska, LEONG ASAU, following the, useful occupation of was fined 15 or 6 week's imprisonment His Work cerned, may be construet to mean neglect revenue from properly to which they had which cannot fall to lead to future trouble. now, being built in England for the Willams & salt fish dealer, was up at the Court this morning ship ordered the defendant to be charged for of duty, by ignoring or misrepresenting no legal claim, but sagely recogning the Fortunately the action of the General Me- Gulon line. The Oregon will be somewhat on a charge of disorderly conduct in Tang Lai perjury Clara Lucas, the wife of a constable at impolicy of attempting to achieve impossi-nagers and Shareholders of the Ice Com larger in length and beam than the Alaiks, but Tong's shop yesterday, and also with damaging the Naval Vand, corroborated the Cock's evidence, public matters affecting the interests of the bilties, they tried in the annexed letter to pany has afforded the government an op. it is in her machinery and ability for speed that property to the extent of so cents. The shops iphe law, the hole proceeding from her people is a detestable form of slavery, beat the Government dawn ja s lower | pertunity of avoiding a serious difficulty it is expected she will excel all other ves- accountant, Mr. Tang Lal Tong, stated that the verandab.His Worship committed the case for and the rationality of thinking (or pre- tending to think) falsities is glaringly irra-
an opportunity which will probably be
defendant went to his shop and requested him trial at the Supreme Court
tional. As the readiest and best way to
availed of. The Ice Company may re-
to change a packet of broken silver which he Sir-With reference to your letter of toth fast fellating that tain possession on the old under- find out what future duty will be is to the Hongkong Ice Company has no title to tha nhờng lot and that
Crown Lanse may be vitalned for nine hundred and anty standing, or the place may be trans conscientiously carry out our present obli-
nine years on payment of twelve thousand five hundred dollars and gations, we are quite willing that the even canis, we find that when the government gave the ground
au anexal mal of our hundred and twenty six della and slabsferred to them permanently on pay worshippers of the golden Idol should that a supply of loa for homgital pumpazi would shays be forth
ment of any stated sum, to be used only us an Ice House; but if it be utilised for bask in gorgeous indolence, leaving the coming which condition has bem faithfully obserad, and the thorny path of duty for us to journey su precint splat unaulted for soy other purpose than that of other purposes the Government, It seems over. Of late we have been compelled are quely destroyed. This dampness is caused by the farads to us, are bound in justice to vested interests prant of ventilation, and moisture penetrates the brick wall protect to act according to precedent, and to put
Owing to their uncertaiseurs the Tow Company have hitherto the property up to public auction. refrained from sitering the building in soy way, buɛnew that the Goverment propose to chargs i heavy premium bethe ground and a subeznižal annual rental, it will be imparsilea upas, the Company to make such alterwilona upon the buildings to fit it for other purposes than an Ice House only.
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Hongkong, och Masch 1881.
Inlandlot No. 564-
to the original Ten Association of Hongkong it was on condition
supply is now both cheaper and more corsels. The building in For House or Depot, belog sodimp that eriicles deposited therein
tion of the building being below the level of Ice House Street, the
to indulge in rather strong animad-In the bitside of the promisse versions on various maltera of public Importance; but we have still on our file a long list of questions which must be discussed in no mealy mouthed fashion
In order to overcome the inherent defects of the station, such
alterations would be considerabia anteil- a outlay, and
it
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Had a lesna bown granted when the ground was first built upon, ;
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
observes the New York Mail and Express,
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sels afloat Her engines are proportioned to develop 13,900-borse power, and are expected to drive the vessel at a rate close on to twenty said he got from that shop a month ago and Ho Asus; a boatman, faced Mr. Wodehouse knots an hour. Twelve boilers furnish steam which was a bad one. He refused to oblige this morning on a charge of larceny of ong with six furnaces. These furnaces will burn board door and threw it at a man inside. De- yesterd to these engines, each one of which is supplied Mr Leong and that gentleman broke a wide jacket, one pair of trousers, and a pair of shoes, Chan Loi a fellow boatman, stated about twenty pounds of coal to each square foot fendant stated that about a month back he had that he was in the employ of cam of grate surface, and as this surface represents redeemed some property from “ mine uncle* and 222. some six hundred thousand square feet, the total got the change in broken, silver which he found retu consumption for every twenty-four hours will be only yesterday to be copper money. So he the 300 tons. Allowing, then, that each ton of coal went to the shop complaining of their ill that evaporates nine times its weight of water, it fol- dealing, when three Chinese were called to push plothes lows that 2,700 tons-of steam will pass through him out of the shop. He was knocked against the engines every-four hours. As a motor, she the side-board which broke. The packet of sliver the artic will be supplied with a twenty-four-foot pro-Is worth 30 cents, and this is the second time the peller screw having a pitch of nearly forty feet. same shop has dealt with him Relative to the amount of water used for the first time bad money was given
generation of steam for a single trip across the Kam, an aminant accountant
A REGULAR Lodge of St. John, No. 618, S. CAtlantic for this immense steamer, some idea the defendant brought in one
is probabe but the Company would enquire camber THE American Cagdhip Richmond arrived at ground in order to paske the alterations afficient. Arafalagwall | Amoy on the 9th inst.
support the bank behind the premises would she be pe some thirty years ago, but a small pracniums wild babe
as much smaller than is now skyd charged for the ground, and the annual rented world Pho have palur, nd bearing in maled the circumstances under which she pala sire of the timind accomodation and the antiped
went building came to be possessed by the Ios Comery, the General Managers think that if the Gown won 10 acoups eight thousand dollars, payable in Éve aqual'
· Eustaluigota," for the ground, and limit the yearly misl
if public interests are to be efficiently pro- tected, and new grievances are cropping up every day. In a small place like this Colony, whereevery person Is more or less acquainted, the independent critic's post is no bed of roses; still duly, however in- pleasant, must be done, sad, although one cannot always say with George Herbert doliers, shayre prepared to recommend the to the shared Trusting that the proposal will be arousally reostved, that the consciousness of duty performed, your mone obmálmat agerata,,
Jaxon, MatRenew & Copi gives us music at midnight; we agree with?
Bạn không Hongkong Ici Con tiện Bishop BERKELEY that, when fortified by Hon. Polak Biwan,
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will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening at 8 for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visit ing brethren are cordially invited to attend
WE read that a hundred members of the House of Commons have signed the letter to the Prime Minister in favour of extending the county franchise to women who possess the necessary qualification.
may be had by remembering that if the amount thus used were supplied to a town at the rate of four cuble feet, or twenty-five gallons, per head it would suffice for 24,000 soula, being equal to nearly three times the weight of the whole ship, cargo, engines, and all. The excess of horse. power over that of the largest engine yet made, that of the Graaf Eastern, will be more than three thousand
changed it for him, putting his
The
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salt fish dealer came back shortly afte wanted to change another lot. On the packet in being opened the contents turned out to be sphe nous so he refused changing for him. Wodehouse fined the fish dealer in the 25 cents and ordered him to pay 50 cents ame to the pawn shop for, the trouble they had put to in getting the side-board repaired.
months, well of hard labor in the
with a fou