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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1883.
SOME land in the city of London was lately sold at the rate of $3,300,000 an aers. COLONEL-Montgomery, commanding the expe: dition to Zululand, has succumbed to the effects of a snake bite. While hunting near the Lower Tugela on horseback he was bitten above the boot Colonel Hawthome has assumed the command pending the arrival of Colonel Curtis, of the Inniskillings. CARDINAL Manning is shortly expected at the Vatican. It is understood that his Eminence,
A COOLIE named Wong/Afuk, with four previous convictions recorded against him, was. com: fitted for trial at the Supreme Court by Captain Thomsatt, this morning, for being concerned. with three others, who are not in custody, in attempting to rob a farmer of 100 tacls of silver on the 29th ultimo.
F. W. Peterson of the "German" Tavern, and Jerse Cook of the Stag" Hotel, were, then, considered and granted without opposition.
The application of F. A. Linde of the "Star Hotel came next in order. Mr. Wodehouse Bald the applicant had held a licence 7-years-On. the 11th January last he was fined $10 for keep- ing a disorderly bouse, and had also been fined a dollar on two occasions for allowing an un muzzled ferocious dog to be at large. He thought he ought to be cautioned, but there was no ob jection otherwise-Dr. Adams, said he, consi- correspondentofthe Standard), they are overlook-dered the applicant should not be allowed to convicted twice. Mr. Horspool said it was very nearer home. The interviews between the Ger- cbjectionable to have such a dog about the house, ing a very serious and much greater danger: bave a ferocious dog, especially as he had been
signification as when used in the treaty, JUST as 'we were going to press the Russian and must be held to mean the subjects of frigate Duke of Edinburgh sicamed out of the the Government of China to whom the harber through the Ly-ce-moon Fass. provisions of the treaty relate." It is THERE are reported to be two policemen in the therefore absurd to pretend that the New York force who decline proffered cigars Act of 1882 can apply to Chinamen Barnum is on his way to the Empire city as fast who are subjects of the Queen of Eng-as steam will take him, and has offered jumbo land, and yet this is what the Circuit for sale Court of San Francisco had ruled. It KANKAKKE has a justice who beats them all in may, however, be that what the Call the way of doing up a job of matrimonial spli- fornian Court means to lay down is that cing with neatness and despatch. This is his Chinamen must not be manufactured into formula:-"Have 'er?" "Yes." Have 'im ?" besides treating upon certain' personalquestions, man and Austrian Emperors, between Prince Mr. Linde was then called, and told by the
"Yes," "Married; z dols."
British subjects, for the purpose of getting privilege of residence in San Francisco Ar Conway, in Wales, there is a monument that a Chinaman born in Hong Kong be-erected in the church to the memory of a dead worthy, Alderman Hoopes. His epitaph con- fore the place was ceded to the English;sists of the following sentence: "He was the or not born there at all, but natural father of twenty-seven children, and was the WATERS, ised as a British subject, is in a different forty-first child of his father."
position from Au Soxo as regard status-
WE read that at Balmoral workmen were busily that he is, in fact, still within, the scope engaged preparing a foundation for the statue of the Exclusion Act of 1882. That would of the late John Brown, which was to be erected THE SHANGHAI PHARMACY, raise one or two nice points in Interna- by command of the Queen. It was expected tional law, and it is not a contention easy that the work would be ready-early-in October. to substantiate. But unlike the reported The site is south of Balmoral, and visible from ruling of Judge FIELD of San Francisco, the windows of the castle. it is not utterly untenable.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
TELEGRAMS...
LONDON, November 5th. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS IN FRANCE.
left Paris, and has been replaced by the Presi- dent of the Council of Ministers.
will discuss with the Vatican the establishment
WHILE the Parisians are discussing the pos- sibilities of a war with China (says the Paris
of a Catholic university in London. He willismarck, Count Kalnoky, and General Man King of Italy, ought to have warned them bring to the Pope a considerable amount in teuffel, and between Prince Hohenlohe and the that there was danger at hand far neater Peter's Pence. IT is believed that at the next Consistory, to be held in March 1884, the Pope will appoint three new cardinals namely, Mgr. Golgenbauer, Archbishop of Vienna; Mgr. Bauer, Bishop of Salzburg; and Mgr. Masella, Apostolic Nuncio at Lisbon. It is also probable that Mg: San Felice, Archbishop of Naples, who made such noble exertions on behalf of the sufferers by the Ischian calamity, will receive a cardinal's hat shortly.
The applicant replied that he was going to give Chairman that there was no objection to grant-
all his dogs away, having promised them to a ing him a licence except in regard to his dog-
German steamer, when she came back here-- home than Chiua Roumania, Servia, Italy, which would be probably in to or 12 days; he un- and Spain have now become members of the dertook to get rid of the dogs-Mr. Wodehouse told the applicant that he would have to be careful, Austro-German ́ Alliance, and I have reason to as he had been fined $10. The licence was believe that this alliance will very shortly have granted on condition that heget rid of the dogs. It a practical result. It may not be next week or was remarked casually by Mr. Horspool that the next month, but it will certainly not be long de- police considered the so-called ferocious dog a Mr. E. Jones Hughes' application for a licence layed when the German Government will take rather quiet sort of creature the initiative of a proposal which will have a for the Hongkong Hotel was the next consid- startling effect throughout Europe. I am a ered. Some enquiries having been made by Dr. sured by a person whom I know to be in Adams as to whether the licence was applied for on behalf of the Directors, Mr. Hughes was THE tragedy of the Ring Theatre appears to be the confidence of Prince Bismarck that Ger- called in, and stated they were going to run ONCE again the United States is to the fore. Aresulting in something practical, and the Builder many has agreed with Austria and the the Hotel under a manager. They had got a celebrated embryologist has solved the problem describes the precautions against fire now ime other members of the alliance, which now em-steward, who was for the present going to look of cultivating oysters artificially by means of
posed, either wholly or in part, by law, upon all braces the whole of Continental Europe; except after the bar and take charge. On next trans- fer day they would get the licence transferred. Impregriated eggs. In this way he has in forty- the Vienna theatres. The chief dependence is ing France, Russia, Denmark, and the Scan to the manager. At present he was apply- six days grown many millions of oysters three placed upon the fire curtain. Once every even-dinavian Kingdoms, to propose a general Con- ing to enable them to run the Hotel from the quarters of an inch in diameter. By his system ing at least this curtain must be lowered to its gress, with a view to a mutual and general 1st of next month. The application was made As to the time at which this on behalf of the Company, so as not to have eggs in a year. Hoorah!
thunderbolt of war is to be launched under to close the hotel at the end of the month. It
was a question whether the manager could re pacific pretences I cannot say. But I am as main in Hongkong, or come back by the 1st. Dec. cured it has been assented to by Austria, Spain, ember. In reply to Mr. Wodehouse, Mr. Hughes and Italy, and I can hardly suppose that some said he was not residing on the premises, but the hotel. The licence wasthen granted." This inkling of the matter has not reached her that if necessary he would do so to look after. Majesty's Government. Some knowledge of it concluded the business of the meeting, has certainly reached Russia, and It would render the coup d'état in Bulgaria inteliigible
elegraph The French Minister of Foreign Affairs has one oyster can be induced to produce ten rallion full extent in the presence of the audience. disarmament.
LOCAL AND GENERAL AS WILL be noted from the programme publish ed in another column, the Amoy Race Meeting has been fixed for the 7th and 8th of January next.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1883.
Tuzexcited controversy which has recently been raging along the Pacific Coast, and in other parts of the United States, in con- sequence of the different judicial decisions lately given as to the scope of the Chinese Exclusion Act passed by Congress a year The Pand O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Nepast, with ago, has doubtless been observed with at- the next English mail, left Singapore for this tention by our local merchants and shippers poit on the 3rd instant, and may be expected interested in the traffic between Hongkong--to arrive here on the_gth. and California. And the further develop- ment of this technical difficulty in excluding the Chinese from the United States, a diffi- culty as unexpected as it was unforeseen; will-be-closely watched. The London Daily News, in dealing with the matter from a legal point of view, after remarking that the much enduring individual picturesquely described by Mr. Dan Kearney as the leprous heathen," is causing the United
WILLIAM AUSTIN, 30, of England, a marine on board the Victor Emanuel, wearing two good conduct badges, was committed for trial at the Supreme Court this morning by Mr. Wodehouse, on suspicion of having set fire to some bedding in a room on the 2nd floor of licensed-brothel No. 35, Stanley Street, on the night of the and instant. It appears the prisoner was anxious to make his defence at the Felice Court, but on the advice of his friends he reserved it.
THE following charters have been effected
in
THE wife of the ex-King of Portugal, and, there fore, the stepmother of the present: King, was Miss. Elise Hensler, once the leading singer in King's Chapel, Boston. She was appointed Court Singer to the King and Queen of Portugal soon after her appearance in grandopera at Lisbon, and was morganatically united to the King upon the death of the Queen.
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This is done between the acts, the intention being to render it absolutely certain that the curtain is in working order, and that there may be no flaw in the mechanism to be discovered at the wrong time. This nightly rehearsal of the fire curtain is said to render people cool when they see it descend, and to prevent their taking fright at it as a sign of danger. For this reason it is let down at unexpected moments, and some- enough. On the other hand, a Madrid comes times more than once in the course of the even-pondent telegraphs that public opinion in Spain ing. Another precaution now universally em has so strongly pronounced against any German alliance that the official organs have declared that King Alfonso's journey to Berlin and Vienna not likely to lead to any treaty or alliance at present,
people would still be able to find their way cut extinguished, or have to be cut off suddenly, the by candle light. The supplies of water on the
"So the engagement is broken off?" queried the first young lady as they sat down in the car-ployed is to burn candles as well as gas in all riage. "Yes." "And you have sent back all the passages, galleries, and even in the body of his letters ?" "Every one," "And the locket the theatre itself, so that if the gas should be "Yes","And the diamond ring?” "Yes," "I wouldn't have done it. I'd have kept the ring anyhow." "Well, I did intend to, but the jeweller said the stones were only glass." THE Sydney Bulletin says that Lillian Russell, known in America as the Queen of the Dudes, and who is now causing a good deal of sensation in London by her beauty, has never been dis tinguished by any particular moral lustre of character; in fact, it is notorious that she is
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quite as frail as she is fair, and that's saying a
good deal. Lovely Lillian's little facher, how
roof are also placed under official control. THE semi-official organ of the Russian Foreign office, the Nord, contains some interesting.com ments on Mr. Gladstone's interview with the Czar. There are," it says, "some people who would prove that no importance is to be attached to the interviews of Fredensborg and the decks of the Pembroke Castle." It, however, contends
ANNUAL GRANTING OF LICENCES,
• A special meeting of Justices of the peace was held at the Magistracy this forenoon, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 1 of 1844, to consider applications for licences for the sale of spirituous and fermented liquors during the year commencing on the 1st proximo. There were present: Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, chairman, Dr. Adams, Messrs. A. Seth, H. C. Setna, F. H
CRICKET
UNIVERSITIES AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS V. THE
REMAINDER,
A match, twelve aside, between teams repre senting the above named contingents, was commenced on the Cricket Ground on the afternoon of Friday the and instant.The weather was everything that could be desired selected a capital pitch. The non-descripts for enjoyable cricket and the "olo man" had took first innings and some good play was shown, the Universities and Public Schools being treated to a rare dose of leather hunting, mainly through the exertions of Rice and Hynes, these two seasoned batsmen keeping possession of the wickets throughout the afternoon, and eventually retiring with 5 and go respectively standing to their credit fa the score book. At gunfire the privately educated ones were still in possession, having amassed the respectable total
States Law Courts a great deal of annoy- ance, very impartially reviews the salient 8,000 peculs Newchang and Amoy, 25 lay day ever, need scarcely be wondered at when her that even if Mr. Gladstone's voyage was under- Arjance, H. M. Meta, J. S. Brewer, C. Ford, and There was a large attendance of spectators to
Amoy during the past fortnight:-Guiding Star,
mother's opinions are known. This uncon
and adds:
kept a man in his employ who was convicted of first essay, and the score was quickly raised to "England is no less desirous applicant was fined $5 on the 8th August D'Acth and Lloyd being deputed to open the last, for using threatening language, and that he attack. Each baterien made three off D'Acth's felony-Chief Inspector Horspool remarked that 14, when Hare, who had totalled half a dozen, a man had been robbed in the house, but that sent the second ball of Lloyd's fourth over into Dr. Adams enquired how long the man con- sooner joined Rite than the left hander opened victed of felony had been back in the house-his shoulders and sent one from D'Aeth clean there was not much against the proprietor, the safe keeping of Jarrett. Bunbury had no Mr. Horspool said he did not know, but he out of the ground for 5, and as the Grand Old would recommend that he should be get rid of Bud" played up well, scoring 4 dozen in five Mr. Juster was then sent for, and informed by hits, matters were, pictly lively for the fielders. the Chairman that it appeared he kept a man in Just when Bunbury appeared well set, he was his employ who had been convicted of felony, unlucky enough to send one back to the bowler. and that it was not proper to keep such a person, (D'Aeth) which, it is almost needless to say, was There was no objection otherwise, but it was gratefully accepted. Two for 37. Hynes was not proper to keep this man. Mr. Juster replied next man in and the stand of the day was made. that then he would discharge him. The man, Both batsmen hit the bowling to all parts of the he said, had had nothing to do, and since befield, causing numerous bowling changes to be came back he had behaved himself very well resorted to, Porter, Hawkins, and Jarrett all He was not a seafaring man,Mr. Wodehouse, after some conversation with Dr. Adams, said it was not necessary to discharge him, since he was behaving himself well, and that the licence was granted.
of 210 runs with three wickets still to fall.
taken without any political design, the visit of D. Ruttonjee.
witness the match, and proceedings were won the Emperor of Russia to a statesman who The first application brought forward was derfully enlivened by the presence of the band features of the judicial decisions which
18 cents per pecul; Annie, 433 tons register, to ventional maina #believes strongly in pro- plays so considerable a role in the Govern that of J. Gomes of the "Welcome" Tavern of the French flagship Victorieuse, which, by have brought about the present deadlock. Samarang and Sourabya, 25 lay days, $1,500,
officers of the vessel, played a choice selection Our contemporary refers to the late de- Hermine, 7,000 peculs, hence to Bankok, 7 lay pagation on purely scientific principles, and ment of England cannot be a matter of which was granted, there being no police ob the kind permission of Admiral Meyer and the
The next application was from John Juster of musiclin excellent style: cision in the Circuit Court at San Francisco, days,$325; Chateaubriand, 10,000 peculs, Sin that girls should not be subordinate to hus fectly ridiculous" the reports that have been of the Central Hotel, who had held a licence. Shortly after two'clock the bite Commissariat
strongly condemns marriage. She thinks indifference. The Nord characterises as "per-jection; the licence had been held for 14 years. which ruled that Chinese born at Hong-gapore to Shanghai, $3,900;- Chateaubriand bands, but should be self-reliant-and-in- kong claiming to be British subjects have 10,000 peculs, hence to Singapore, to lay days, dependent, entering into social partnerships/ set aflost about the conclusion of alliances 13 years. Mr. Wodehouse sald that the men, Rice and Hare, anumed the defensive, no right to enter the United States in $450; Brunette, 10, pecula, hence to Singa defiance of the Chinese Exclusion Act porc, to lay days, $500. passed by Congress, and, points out that A TOUCHING story of a mother's devotion comes this, on the face of it, seems to be a flat from Belgium. The wife of a gateman on the contradiction of the decision given the line between Sottegem and Alost was attend. other day by Judge NELSON, of the Circuiting to her husband's 'duty when her little boy Court ad Joy Juge the celebrated case of strayed in front of a fast train. Without a moment's hesitation the mother sprang across An Song, but admits that it is just possible the rails, and, seizing her child, tossed it into that there may-be-an-explanation-forth the bank the very second-before she was caught coming of the seeming discrepancy. As by the locomotive and killed. It is well to know Song. it will be remembered, was a ship's that the brave woman did not die in vain; the carpenter, who ran away from service and child escaped with a few bruises. settled in Boston. When the authorities. THREE scamen of the American ship Wildwood, tried to remove him under the provisions named Olson, Murphy, and Stephen, were sen- of the Chinese Exclusion Act, his counsel tenced by Captain Thomsett this morning to argued that as he was born in Hongkong three months' hard labour each, at the order of after it was ceded to England, he was not the Captain, for deserting from their ship, "a Chinese labourer" in terms of the They each positively refused to return to duty. This is the second time these men have deserted Act, because he was not, and, never
here. Upon the last occasion they were sent on had been, a subject of the Emperor board in charge of the police, and then com of China. This argument convinced the plained of ill treatment at the hands of the 1st Court, and as the bulk of the Immigrants and and mates, and also in respect to their food from China are British subjects, or would There would seem to be something rotten in the claim to be such, it was obvious that the state of Denmark, traditional coach-and-six had been driven
through the Exclusion Act., Californians were of course indignant, and it is to be hoped, that the judgment of the Circuit Court of San Francisco has not been in- fluenced by their outcry against Judge NELSON,
pompous.
The application of John Humby of the "Lon- don Inn, who had held a licence for 12 years, was the next considered, and it was granted without any demur.
when they desire and terminating thera for than Russin for the maintenance of peace, whose the same easy reasons. As, out of five daughter first condition is the maintenance of the status three of them, who are married, are all separated from their husbands; while, on the other hand; que in the Balkan Peninsula. Any understand other meaning than the strengthening of tran Lillian, without marrying at all, has been separing between these two Powers would have no ated twice as often as the other three put together;quillity in the Balkan Peninsula by the peace. it would seem that as far as self-reliance goes, able and normal development of the populations Lillian's mother's daughters have admirably ful-which inhabit it." The Nord asserts that the filled their mama' expectations.
interest of both England and Russia being the THE Sydney Bulletin compliments the charming--preservation of peace, and the Austro-Gernian Beaudet as follows:"And now a paragraph or alliance having the same aim, the Austrian and two about the Gaiety. We went to see Blow German press should, instead of complaining, for Blow" on Saturday night. It was funny to congratulate itself on there being two such pow
erful auxiliaries to ensure the success of the an extent. Johnny Hall was funny, Jessie Grey
having a turn, but without success. The total was funny, and little Louise funnier than all. If pacific policy of two empires.
was increased to. 177-140 having been put on. Miss Beaudet were a man, instead of being the THE pupils' at the Italian Convent, Caine Road,
since the fall of the previous wicket when Lloyd clean bowled Rice, the retiring batsman fairy that she is, we would humbly suggest to gave an operatic representation in the small
having compiled 75-one 5, eleven 3's, &c-by her that there is such a thing as being to theatre attached to the establishment yesterday
a stering duplay of cricket. Farquhar was now tragic. True passion is neither pyrotechnic nor afternoon in the presence of a large and fashion
associated with the old in, but after scoring 3 Some actors and actresses are able audience, which included His Excellency
he was sent back, and bis successor, Greaves, also failed to stay, D'Aeth shattering his timberi like some singers-they think to make up by the Governor, who was accompanied by the volume of vefce for what they lack in tone. Misses Bowen, the Hon. W. H. Marsh and Mrs. The application of James S. Lucas fora licence after he had contributed a two and a single to. Rigidity of utterance might become a ghost Marsh, Bishop Raimondi, Monsieur de De- for the Rose, Shamrock and Thistle Hotel was the suns total. Five for 10% Plumbe Jolned the next brought forward. Mr. Wodehouse Hynes, and the old Cambridge player Whe from the other world, but it does not become a Jardin, consul for France, and Madame de De said that Lucas held an interim licence for two took the ball from Jalrett. The new comer being of flesh and blood in this. Miss Deaudet Jardin, Mr. A. G. Remano, consul for Brazil,months, and that there were strong objections to falled to score and after Major Cochrane goes to such a tragic pitch that she says the Mr. J. Loureiro, consul-general for Portugal, its renewal unless he showed at the man and Hynes had raised, the total to 206 Wise, **to the Favilion, with successive balls, most ordinary things in a hollow, funereal way, Mr. and Mrs. J. M, Fleming, Mr. Ino. J. Francis Robertson, who previously held the licence had assisted by Hawking at square leg, sent the
nothing to do with the business. It was believed pak
-Hynes being an which at first makes one imagine she is reciting and a host of other notables. The piece selected that Lucas was merely a blind for Robertson, the catch which defined 2 the service for the dead. "John Der rumend!" was of course a sacred one, and detailed the a kind of dummy, and it was a question whether excellent bit of cricke, for which Hawkins
Mulder-red Kostradock!" Why this? We are
scenes leading up to the martyrdom of St a licence should be granted to him. There was was deservedly Applauded. Hynes had put to
unfavourable:
of Robertson, who budgether go-ane 5, two 4's, seventeen 3's, thres sadly afraid Miss Beaudet has fallen into an evil Dorothea. This young Christian Heroine, then charged with maliciously destroying pro- 27 and singles by a first cleat display of hard style. But she la amusing. When she towers we are told, was born of a rich and noble perty,bis own. Mr. Horspoel said he had hitting Hendry and Dr. Gamble kept their to her full height in a spasm of passion, she family in Caesarea, and after being de been told falschood by Lucas, who weld wickets intact until gun fire when the stumps looks like an excited canary. We are sorry to prived of her parents at an early age was that Robertson had gone to Ceylon, whereas he were draws for the night the score register have to say this" and then the critic lapses educated by a piour matron named Dra found he was still in the colony. Mr. Horspool showing arp runs for the loss of wicket.
in speaking about this matter used the names s Play was resumed on Saturday morning shortly into poetry, which, being slightly inferior to Tradition says that Dorothea suffered Sorabjee and Luca Interchangeably after 11 o'clock, Hendry and Dr. Gamble, the Byron at his host, scarcely merits reproduction. martyrdom for her faith in the early part of the whereupon one of the Parsee Justices asked, for not outs of last night, continuing theirinnings, CAPTAIN DREVAR; who has been staying at fourth century of the Romish Church, during an explanation. Mr. Horspool Explained that. A good stand was made, and, as the bowling wat when he was in the police force, but that he rapidly, Hendry, was eventually, stumped by Dover with the expressed intention of crassing the tenth persecution ordered by the cruel Dio Lucas was known by the name of "Sorabjds very weak at the commencement, runs came the Channel in a boat exhibited by him at the cletian, Emperor of Pagan Rome. The young had since changed his cognomen to Lucas.). Brackenbury of Jarrett for a well played as
curbing, to a catche near the Admiralty Fier, a raft, constructed of an pentation had evidently bestowed careful study on perfectly legitimate. Mr. Horapool, continu
that he himself was the proprietor, he should the score, when Haw WE are sorry to hear that the Temperance Hall eighteen-gallon cask and a rough wooden frame the tasks allotted them, and worked very hard in-ing, said that unless Lucas could clearly prove
the Chairman, said he 374 fifth and sixth clauses of the orice famous is in a bad way so far as-fands are concerned | work; with the intention of drifting with the tide deed to do justice to themselves and credit to their not, be granted a licence. Lucha Lwas then the inhi
With a view to improve the undesirable existing to Folkestone. Mr. Drevar, who advocates the musical instructress. Candour compels us to own called, and in reply Burlinghame Treaty, by which China and state of affairs, it has been resolved to give raft as a means of saving life at sea in case of an that the vocal efforts of the youthful performers would carry on the house in his own name, and bo Robertson in the business. He had no interest 91, the United States agreed to let each other's monthly concerts, commencing on the 15th inst, emergency, stood in the barrel, took no proyi- were not particularly meritorious, still it may be that he was not in any way interested with ing subjects come and go in each other's ter whena small charge for admission will be made, sions of any kind, and with the exception of a conceded that under all the circumstances they got with him since the last row Mr. Wodehorso ritory on terms of reciprocity. It cites the to enable this eminently deserving Institution to single oar, cast himself, adrift to the mercy through a difficult undertaking fairly well. As asked for a guarantee to this effect, whereupon supplementary treaty with China of 17th keep pace with the times. The concerts will be of wind and side. There was strong evidence of the care bestowed in getting up the Lucas handed him some papers, of what hatre November, 1880, by which it was agreed under the management of Mr. James Francis, north-easterly wind during the night, and opera, it may be stated that throughout the we are not aware. The loancels belog carr
Mr. Horspool remarked that if that this absolute right of her subjects to who has previously conducted these entertain as no tidings could be bad of him, the adven-whole three acts not a single hitch accurred, nor by Lunas till the end of the present reside in the United States might be mod-ments with much tact and ability. As many of ture, which was regarded as a foolhardly tone, was the promptes voice heard onto the misty hor Mr. Wodehouse) by
our talented amateurs have lent their aid in was thought to have cost Mr. Drevar big life dresses and stage effects trene exceedingly pretty month that Robertson has nothing Ified, and it was under this stipulation times past to keep the Temperance Hall going, About midday on the fath, however, the steam- if not Hitogether appropriate-Dorothea and the business llence might be eventually decided to let Congress gained power to pass the probl-it is to be hoped they will readily come forward ship Blythville put into the bay and signalled Raman Pro-Consul, Apricio, in white kid gloves and over until this day bitory measures which were contemplated now that there is more urgent need of help for a boat, which put off and brought back tho were tardly in the fashion which prevailed o'clock, and Lucas direct in this treaty, and, which it passed. last We are glad to learn that several talented missing man and his raft. It seems that the during the reign of Diocletian and the children meanwhile, in communication year. But all through, it is plain that the ladies and gentlemen have already promised steamer fell in with him in mid-channel near in the choruses, did. capitally, the final scene spector Horspool, purpose of the Exclusion Act is to apply their help, and that some members of the the Vame Lightship, and except that he was wet and the chorus of angels forming a very effective matters theso measures only to the persons to whom Choral Society have expressed their willingness about the lower part of the body and somewhat tablast. We believe that it is the intention of the two treatles refer that is, to subjects to assist. Such an undertaking as this is worthy exhausted, Mr. Drever was bore the wome for the Lady Superior of the Italian Convent to
of all support, and as the Temperance Hall bis cruise, and his raft was in the same condition sanction another performance of "St. Dorothea of the Emperor of China. Hence, as concerts have hitherto been of a high class, and as when he left Dover the previous night. He for the especial gratification of the rising genera- Judge NELSON, of Massachusetts, said in most excellently conducted, we hope the sent states that he drifted past Folkestone, and when tion. This kindly meant arrangement should his judgment, "the term Chinese laborers, compaign will meet with all the success it the tide set in to the eastward he was carried afford the youngsters an opportunity of passing
a most enjoyable afternoon as used in the Act, must have the same deserves.
farther to sen
FROM what we hear, the Hongkong Artillery Volunteers appear to be doing a good deal of work in a quiet way. We learn that on Saturday afternoon next, the squad will parade at Kowloon and go through various gun drill movements with mountain pieces. After the parade the Volunteers will be regaled with a spread in There is not the least doubt that Judge Mr. Chater's bungalow, provided by the officers Natson took the only possible view of the of the corps. We also hear that another battery one point at issue which a lawyer could will soon be formed, and are very pleased that such is the caso, The Volunteer movement, take. That point is this:-Is there any which seems to have hung fire for some time thing in the Act of 1882 to show that it past, would now appear to be receiving that at was meant to apply to Chinamen not tention which it justly deserves from the young Fisheries Exhibition, launched on Sept. 13, from| girls who essayed the leading parts in the repre- It was conceded, however, that the change was and bis partneri had knocked up 21 before suc
subjects of the Chinese Emperor? To us it seems impossible to say that there is. The Act cites as its raison d're the
men of the colony.
Dorabjee Nowrojce, the well-known co-lestee
of the Hongkang Hotels was the seat applicant
the SH Victor for licence for a new Hotel, he intends to start on Praya Central, to bett Hotel This application was granted without
application
The applications of John Olson, ofthe burg" Tavern, Louis Kirchmann of
Land
we live in," JR.White of the "Sallon Home,
of
Qub* from the sama‹ jointly added 23 to bowled the first named,
formidable total
successful in the ickets only cost- 67, Lloyd 2 for
and Gor ance to the
runs
ith both batsmen