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JOHN WILLIAMSON, of Africa, stumped up to the tune of one dollar this morning, for being drunk and disorderly yesterday..
fering, the missionaries were bad men doing actual harm to the people, or if instead of simple cottages or buildings in no way above either the position of the individual in life or unbecoming the ser- vice in which they are engaged or its proper requirements, they occupied pala-day, tial residences; moreover, if it could be NOAI ARING, another robber of the widow and shown they were extravagant as a rule, orphan tribe, will languish in the "Retreat for
A REDULAR Lodge of United Service, No. 1341, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 7.30 for 8 o'clock precisely.
We are informed by the agents, Messrs. Adam-A TAM Quarelled with We wife a poem son, Bell & Co., that the steamer Flindskirt, ful virag and was chased by her all round his from London, left Singapore for this port yester
tent. On being sorely pressed, ke took refuge in the cage among the lions, Oh, you con- temptible coward!" she shouted, "come out if you dare,"
“་་་""、i"-་
MURDERER on scaffold: "Here is the parson, here is the halter, but where is the bride?" "Here," said Jack Ketch, as he drew the bolt.
CHAULER MATHERS said in he the therapy and a bulldog
following jeu d'esprit on hippophagy:
ABSCONDED, Phelim, Timothy, Aaron, Phil, and Paddy Blake, of Roscommon gaol, who broke into the turnpike, and carried off two pounds and vix sucking pigs in silver and cap
the
*** £f barseflesh won't suffice to food tha magoti,
The next resource will certainly be asses, And Heaven only knows where that will and--
Some people won't have left a shigla friand.”
freise-coats" dreadfully given to bad langua 'and a wheelbarrow that cannot look you in,
face without winking, and ten shilings will be given for each of their apprehensions.” Tux Sydney Bulletin is responsible for the angle mele. nexed paragraph-His name was Philip Rooney ONE tap in spring, Sir Walter Scott and Lady point there was a little obscurity. He had becabtaford. In their wanderings they crossed a a soldier, but as glory was less in his line than field where a number of ewes were witnessing bacon and cabbage, be changed his sword for '■
improvident,, or systematically defrauded the next 6 months for having stolen. $120 on LORD BACON told a story bow a notorious rogue," "Twas said he was of Irish extraction, but on thScott strolled, forth to enjoy a walk around Ab-//
their creditors, there might be some-24th of July last. thing in this popular cry from Hong- kong; but no such rational or fair course is ever attempted for the simple reason that it is impossible to show anything of the kind with any foundation of truth. We
We observe that the telegraph steamer 5 se was towed up Nagasaki harbour on the 27th utio, to take in a full complement of bunker coal, prior to proceeding to England with all
possible despatch.
'MESSRS, KELLAR AND CUNARD, the Royal Illu-
being brought to the bar, and knowing his case to be desperate, instead of pleading, took to him self the liberty of jesting, and thus aid, “I charge you, in the King's naine, to seize and take away that man (meaning the judge) in the red gown, for I go in danger.because of him.",
quart pot and took a bush public-house. But phil's memory was good, and many important
tacts connected with the Indian Mutiny were
the frolics of their lamba, “Ahj ? exclaimed
Sir Walter, is no wonder that poets, from the earliest ages have made the lamb the em
blem of peace and innocence *: * They are, In-
have indulged in this word for missionary \ sionists, who are now performing in Shanghai, SAYB'the San Francisco Morning Call:-Not- still fresh in it." "You're right, borr," he more deed, "delightful little animals," returned her
effort, not forgetting that the Roman Catho- lic missionaries equally deserve our praise, chiefly because we think it time to speak in no measured terms when we observe the
HE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, columns of our contemporary the Daily
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had a highly successful tour in Japan. The Nagasaki and Yokohama papers write in most flattering terms of Kellar's wonderful sleight-of- hand tricks.
at
withstanding the decision of Justice Field, de livered in the United States Circuit Court of California, that it was unlawful to cut off the queues of criminal Chinamen-though that course is
than once observed, "it was a caution, an' faith ladyship, "especially with mint sauce!" I was in the thick of it-up to me nick. Divil a The following was published in Stockport in hot was fired I wasn't contagious to." "Know 1922 A Sir Colin," we remarked, negligently. Bedad,
You make me laff," said the Rooney, gally. Know him an we as thick as thieves, Many's the time he said-Phil, ses he, go to the sergeant-major for a forlorn hope of the
"If in a damp and dirty cellar thou hast boris, 10. And noddlog d'er his loom a man that pondų, 24/Whomm wyse war dins, erbose chacki weyslaw
- Asd aquâned near him on a thres-legged stool CET
sonaliserazzyć, pale-faced pr
THE following notics to the profession is extracted pursued toward criminal white men the New Press allowing itself to be the medium of ad- from a New Jersey paper of 1821 To be sold Jersey authorities take a different view of the vocating a "Remedy for Missionary trou on the 5th of July, one hundred and thirty-one Paterson of an attempt to murder one of their matter. Fire of the Mongols were convicted at bles" in the shape of inciting the Chinese to suits at law, the property of an eminent attorney Countrymen, a laundryman, because he washed open rebellion against their government. about to retire from business. [Note. The for lower wages than is prescribed by the Chinese This course is seriously recommended and clients are rich and obstinate, standard, and sentenced to one year each in the apparently acquiesced in by the Editor in Lo LINGSING, a Chinese youth under 16 years state prison. The rule of the New Jersey state the belief that he is (ashe is most probably) of age, was sentenced this morning to receive prison, the same as in California, is to cut the hair taking the popular side. The individual one dozen strokes on the breech with a rattan, of all convicts close. When the shears in the who proposes this course evilently vainly and to be kept for 14 days in solitary confine bands of the prison official were raised to perform prides himself on being a devoted Chris-ment for having stolen a silver hair-pin, valued this duty on the Chinese offenders, they broke tian member of the "Universal Apostolic 50.cente, from the person of YO Atgin, a widow, out in pathetic lamentations; but the prison of ficer was inexorable, and their queues had to go. Church," an establishment we must confess "THIS is a big world," people are wont to say. In this connection it may be stated that when a Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The to be somewhat in the dark about; but al- | yet unless a learned and mathematical scholat | gizlin sent to the House of Correction in this this. While we were stuck like this, making) Boswell, inward bound from Ningpo. The Editor" and not to individual members of the though the last rebellion in China was deugus making us victims of misplaced confidcity her hair is cut close-off, the same as that of suppressed at the cost of one hundred enco, forty such planets as this could float in the male offenders, including Chinathen, note like a bunch of toy balloons through a single
cult to see why the penalty of the violated law should not be visited the same on` Chinamen as on white people. If to wear queues be a part of their religion and a badge of national honor, the argument might serve in China; out the laws of this country are passed without reference to the Chinese code, and are enforced with an equality that knows, or should know, no distino tion between criminals on account of complexion
ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c., be ad- dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph and not to the Editor.
staff.
At Treparing for far talat trany a apud, et And placing many mix tog with many a telah
searchinging, casket thou hast seen tai kellel (393) A hungry man, where once the beugd had been, Murphys (terrors the same Murphys wor), and A¡And by the find it basher formy) went by POLIT
With karzhief round her head, lika oon that grievethis If thou hast this behalf, then abou hast so turn the flank of that division of the rebels
The melancholy fate of dem that wervabataht forminst you. Whistle Garryowen till you get round 'em, Just to cheer the bhors' up a bit to LA Begur, I mind the time when 35,000 of the black COLLISION BETWEEN THE S. S
FANGTSZE" AND SI SJEMEN divils surrounded us, and wedged us in that
VENANT KTANGTEEN” ASNAU tight that young Flaherty, the drummer, had to
A collision occurred in the Yangtze this morn- walk over our heads for ray-inforccineata, an against the adjutant's sarvint that he never left Coe steamer Yangirse, Captain Canson, out; Larry M'Grath was plasthered up that tighting, October 4thy between Messrs. Stensssen & off apittin' blood and stuttherin' from that day to want bound for Hongkong, and the China Mer chants' S. N. Co steamer Kiang-tern, Captain notices o' motion, widout carryin' thim out, the collluon took place inside the Kigan Light gineral said is private Rooney there? Fals, hip, about half past three o'clock, Kiang teen-being on the gonth, alde of the chinder. ceed with the battle, ser he. Yes, yer honor a long distance the cause of the collison is sez I, fan! divil a taypoy was within the bawl' | a mystery, which will probably have to be solved of an ass of us in a brace of shakes. We have by litigation or arbitration The Kinne-en reason to know that Mr. Rooney is a man of the was stric by the Yangzire, on the port bow, reliance may be placed, especially when Be hurricane deck of light wood-work hile, he about fifteen feet from the stem. The strictest integrity-one in whom the finest former in a river paddle wheel steamer with
Latter, 15, a porevaleamer with slipper bow And wiem of the efire penetrated the wood... work of the hurricane deck of the Klang leis making a shaped rent amending several feet from the ride the deck parted at a cross, beams a little fertiles af, and the Lore part of the
was twisted over to the star bound alde, making wide gap just at the
Compartment on the main wwhênh
be accompanied by the name and address of the million lives, and, besides, led to incalcul- one of the "spots" discovered on the sun's sir. / withstanding Judge Field's decision. It is diffi. / 1 är,” sez I, comin to the presint.Thin pre As the weather was clear. And lights visible at
face.
Communications intended for publication must. writers, not necessarily for publication; but as able ruin, misery and suffering, these were evidence of good faith,
Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Tele-only Chinese and count as nothing in the The expelled French monastic Orders are graph will always be open for the fair discussion estimation of this specimen of a Hongkong securing commodious and picturesque abodes in by concspondents of all questions affecting public Christian. All he imagines he sees, is, that the west of England. Manila Hall and the interests, it must be distinctly understood that
on this desolation and on these ruins wouldgrand hotel at Cleveden have been purchased, the Editor does not in any way hold himself res. ponsible for opinions thus expressed.
rise his ideal of a Christian Church. It is near. Bristoly - and another association is now lamentable indeed to think that such, at the about to purchase Redland Court, a beautiful expiration of 1883, is a true picture of Hong-Devon country sest, da b kong popular opinion on an important A LOVER in Derry township, who had gone west question. We say nothing of the vain to make home for his "Birdie wrote to her giorious hypocrisy of those who can calmly "I've got the finest quarter section of land I ever "Suppose you buy another quarter section, John, so that you can have a lawn around your foor" John made a home, but "Birdie was never the mistress.
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f
or race,
relates his my experiences.
Arrangements have been made to publish at this epoch gravely make such a sugges. Put my foot down on." "Birdla" wrote back: which the Prince of Wales was subjected when quays; Moscow has her Kremlin; and Con- companion ladder leading down to the forward®
The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 Pr. Sub-tion wolle at the same time professing scribers in the central districts who do not receive themselves to be faithful followers of the their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager, greatest historic, if not divine, moral
teacher, who has ever lived..
DEATHS.
On the 6th of October, on board the steamship Hwalyan, at sea, KARL OSCAR WILFRED, the beloved son of Oscar and Bella Wilson, aged 3 years and 3 months.
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At No. 5, Beaconsfield Arcade, on Sunday, October 7th, at 6 pm WILHELM HEINRICH CARL SCHMIDT, aged 3 years and 9 months, eldest son of Wm. Schmidt.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1893.
ALTHOUGH we occasionally speak plainly, possibly some of our readers may think too plainly, about our respected resident
TELEGRAMS.
LONDON, October 6th,
RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH WAR
MINISTER,
The French Minister of War has resigned, being accused of complicity in the insult offered to King Alfonso.. The Official Journal publishes M. Grevy's apology to the King of Spain and "the excitement in Madrid is moderating,"
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
H.M.S. Flying Fisk, arrived at Chefoo from Korea on the 27th ultima
A VERY low church minister was accusing his curato with having taken part in's wedding breakfast. "But, sir," said the young man in ariazement, "our Lord himself was present at a wedding feast in Cana."That's perfectly true, young man," answered the parson; but, in my opinion, he had very much better have stayed away.”un
SAYS the Nagasaki Rising Sun of the zoth, The Russian men-of-war Duke of Edinburgh, Skobeloff and Nairadnick, are expected from Wladivostock to-morrow, but will only make a short stay here, We learn that the newly-ap pointed Russian, Minister to Japan is on board of one of them, and that the retiring Minister in a passenger by the Tokio Mara, due to-morrow,
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with the her cargo.
"You LIK
IGHT
mach should a person of riven height
very practical question: How.
Is there standard between height and
SAYS the Times--London is slowly awakening to see that it is not only the biggest and the richest city in the world, but in many ways the -grandest-and-the-most-historic Rome-bar beri A TOUCHING picture of the strict discipline to ruins; Paris has her boulevards,"palaces, and a child, comes to us from a German paper. It stantinople her minarets, and domes. Each of men bare tels quarter. The port anchor was at Windsor Castle Miss Hillyard, the there, and, perhaps, some famous cities-in-Italy-davit was bent and other for dusayed, but Prince's instructress,-"an earnest, and plous or Spain, are superior to London in the single the hall of the ship was not touched. The person," the paper says observed that, instead element of beauty, of magnificence, or age. But firemen, who were in their bunks #2 the time, ca- of leaming his lesson, her Royal student was the greatness of London lies in its historic con
caped without injury, although that compartment looking into the garden and playing with his tinuity, in the survival of its true organic centuries little water in the fore compartment, the collision is full of bigkén, wood (work.) She only náda A. fingers on the window." She wildly asked him to get to work. He answered by putting his the Abbey, in Westminster Hall, 4 look on hold the damaged gear on the part In all their exceptial character." It possessck'in bullthead keeping the hold perfectly free of water. After the collision the Klang hươn anchored, and foot through one pane of glass and his fist Tower three of the noblest buildings in the world; she got under weigh, shortly after day through another. There were but three panes in all of then have an unbroken history of eight cens light and came up to Shanghal this forenoom the window, and as the Royal child was going turies; and are still devoted to the aes for which and was moored at the Cols wharf fear the East for the third one with his head, his teacher la they were designed; and for foo years
ugfisk put back” and anchored terfered and told him to stand in a corner all been the local seats of our national
this afternoon He drew himself up to his full height and These three great monuments are bound up come proudly observed: "I am the Prince of Wales." with each other as well as bound
Tongkew whars this evezinges be transhipped: "I don't care a single," said the lady, forget history of England. As cathedra
which arayed here to-day from ting her allegiance, manners, and grammar in castle, no one of them has any superios in Eu
langdian, dus here from Hankow her passion; "if you was the Angel Gabriel him- rope. But, in the way that they are inwoven
Athe: place of the Klang-lzen, ÖB,
Tingpo ilind, clony self, you'll have to stand in that there comer." with the greatness, the genius, the poetry, the But he was still obdurate, and so the Prince destinies of the country, as also in length and Consort was sent for. The fond father came at continuity of service, no one of them has lis HEIGHT AN A FRENCH geographer, M. Romanet du Cail-once bringing a Bible. He als brought a birch... equal in Europe. The city which possesses all Taking the heir to the British Empire on his three bas at once a dignity of her own's nor The French corvette Volla, arrived at Chefoo land, has written to the President of the Paris knee, he read to him from Gal. iv. as "Now I need we think of St. Paul's and the Temple, at St. Paul's opposite to us, we do not wish from Taku on September goth.
Geographical Society a letter inging that the to be understood as doubting the sincerity BENNETT HANSON" forked over" fifty cents this † meridian of Bethlehem should be chosen as the say that the heir, so long as he is a child, differeta the Guildhall and Palace of Westminster, the. A healthy chiki, male or female, grows lo leng
prina meridian for the whole world, thus avoid nothing from a servant, though he be the lord parks, the bridges, and the docks to believe that ing all embarrassments arising from national of all; but is under tutors and governors until we are truly citizens of no mean city. Neither vanity, "recognizing the grandest figure of the time appointed by his father." Turning mud aor smoke, nor stucco neither vesicles for humanity," and harmonising geography and then to Proverbs, Frince Albert read on: He railways can make London mean. For in the that spareth the rod hateth his son." With the mass, is the antiquity, in the historie splendoof chronology by giving both the same initial point. discernment of childhood, "Wales" grasped the of her national monuments, in the halo which he SAYS the Nagasald Express of the athult situation at once, while his father grasped the the heroism, the crimes, and the ima About & p.m. on Sunday last, serious fire rod. After his temporary inversion, the boy eight centuries have shed over broke out in the coal mine at Mlike, caused, we stood in the comer, and for the remainder of the remains to the thoughum pirk tha are informed, by the accidental bursting of a tub day evinced no desire for a chair,
able city of the modern world. * of all. Thirty-six miners:(convicts) Trand --ton"}} horses were burnt to death," Thirteen other con... | ONE day a German soldier arrived at an fun in a SAYS the Rising Sun and Nagasaki. victs are also missing, bus te la not know whe Swiatown, fatigued, dusty and travel-worn. The of September 29th-Is connection on the missionary view of the question. A STATISTICIAN reports "Eve counties in Ken-ther they have shared the same fate as the landlord was on the point of telling him he was ling and wounding of Chinese ru Be this as it may, there is no subject tucky in which no newspaper is published." others, or made their escape. Great numbers"full," but finally ordered the waiter to show the native police, in the Foreign Settle
were more or less burnt and otherwise infernd., “old man" to a dismal little room in the upper night of the 11th inst, in the whole range of political or social. He does not say how much whisky is made in
The fire was finally extinguished by closing up part of the house. The waiter shortly after interest or importance questions in which it suits our fellow coun- trymen to pretend to be more interested, or THE German frigate Liebig, strived at Nagasaki the entrance and excluding the airy
brought him a little book in which he was asked preliminary examination o from Chefoo on the 15th September. She is ex-"Even since half-past eleven o'clock, last nighting it back to the landlord. "My God!" said opened
to sign his name, which he did, the waiter carry and of the police one in which there is more unanimity pected to return to the last named port about
the landlord, looking at the narse and wringing result we have of opinion than the missionary question. the rath instant.
his bands, "what have I done. In one of the the offici Start the subject at breakfast, dinner or
servants' bedroomal. My hotel will be ruined" | fixed, supper, early in morning or late at night, WE are. informed by the agent of the D. &
All the walters were simmoned, the handsomest | mencad it is eagerly taken up and the missionaries S. S. Co, that the steamship Arabic, with malls
suite of rooms in the house ordered in fimediata as a body universally condemned. Not of the 18th ulto, from San Francisco, hasaved
readiness, and the conscience-stricken landlord content with invariably repeating, like so at Yokohama, and will sell for this port tomorrow their drivers. The dryers cannot i many parrots, the stock story of the little. As will be seen from a notice in another place Bethel and the adjoining magnificient the annual meeting of the subscribers to the residence of the missionary, a story told Hongkong Race Fund will be beld in the Hat with as much assurance, and with as little kong Club, on Friday next, the tath Inst, we truth, as it was told fifty years ago, they p.m.
of either His Lordship's intentions In his pro-morning for his yesterday's spree. fession or of those of many other worthy peo- ple engaged like himself in proselytzing work in the Far East. We may hold views that their zeal and labour are misdirected, or that calls nearer the fatherland have a greater claim on their services, but this is a matter of opinion in the determination of which their supporters are principally con- cerned. Moreover, we should be sorry to deny that there are not strong arguments
THE visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ended October yth, were:-European 102, Chinese 1,915; total 2,11%.
THE departure of the steamship City of Paling for San Francisco via Yokohama, is postponed to Saturday, the 13th instant, at 3 pm A MEXICAN was paid Into H:M.'s Exchequer this morning by Permin Onrado, à Manila en-
inser, for indulging in a “fire-water racket,”
these counties.
1
was the answer given to us to-day, when aking how long the five or six hundred rickshas had been stationed in the vicinity of the Central Police Station awaiting re-registration. Is selby
a shame that the streets should be so bloć.
up, as they now am, by these, dėko
be blamed for this, but we would yen
| suggest thắt A== Cortalt sumber be
I departed for the upper region to make his apolo. rler to the "old man," and to-transfer hits to **Panto elegant quarters. “I beg ten thousand Gov
for registration each day until the whol have gone through the mill. If it be alred to see the power of the club in the hands of Four Police Force, one nsed only lalter, for a very
Invariably proceed to embellish it with THEY are agitating the divorce-question in tow, minutba,' amongst the horde of 'rickakas more than vague charges of dishonesty France, and the story is told that a young di-surrounding, the entrance to the Arbulkhoe and fraud, and these find only too willing vorced woman married again, and found that Road Mansion, and he will there sen hruniityo credence. There is not a particle of ex her second husband had hired ber first as a in perfection, duly personified; aggeration in our statements, and we have valet. thought it worthy of remark as affording "ARE the jury agreed?" asked a judge of a an apt illustration of the value to be court affaché, whom he met on the stairs with placed on. a popular outcry of this a bucket in his hand. “Yes,” replied Patrick colony, and further of showing the "They have agreed to send out for halls condition of the average mind of, we gallon.”"
regret to confess, the majority of our A BRONZE doorstep, Inscribed with the name of foreign tellow citizens, who are apparently Nebuchadnezzar, has just been placed in the incapable of other effort than that of being bilnded by Unreasoning prejudice, and who prefer to look through the spectacles of their popular social leaders rather than to use their own judgment.
No more atrocious or shameful slander Is so frequently perpetrated In Hongkong than is the popular one against mission
British Museum. It was taken from the gros temple of E-Saggil, at Borsippi, and, as it records the King's restoration to health, was perhapă. A vative offering
“
About the most sensible marriage ceremony we. have heard of was that of an American merchant, - who walked with his wife, in everyd
into the clergyman's pario desire to be married. Here is the according to law. She is zajas we are not only willing but an are both of sound mind, in fair bodily know exactly what", we are at once, in the briefest chu
the customary wearisome nevoi soan aither of us circumstances, and
We are given to understand that His Excel-"|"ly lency Chang, the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, been recalled by the Emperor in conjed the late riot at Canton. His successor
Hamawe @ cannot-af-
sént, recall
aries. If it could be shown that, instead Provincial Lekin Commissioner fpatient unobtrusive effort, both as moral Hupeh. The Viceroy will rem teachers as well as healers of bodily suf- until the arrival of his
Peas. I would not have done it for the the
wide, but I did not know that it was you houses by the
"thousand parent” said the quaking Consular waar half out of breath "But, what his subjects have you done that you should need to. Be ernor's
oned?" asked the old man. This room the Betuley not the room for you. It was a mistake.. the police:
thoms for elegant suite of rooms may I beg have your baggage removed to them at Tank what is the matter with
A mood to inquired the "old man," who had off his coat and vest and rolled up his.
for a wash. "I have slept for not so good or comfortable as too small and the furniture is too
roomsxwhich; I have for you;
for princes and
What
the old man.
mound on
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theann
and
you
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ibaniho yet fearned
by more than one half the size twopeamit indeed from (19.065 Inches) to bout
more;
that in
years Youths\-row
ring the