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We would call attention to a slight alteration in the Government notification which will be found in another column, concerning the message recently-received from the Australian Govern ment, the quarantine of vessels proceeding
from Chinese Ports.
Wa note from our Australian exchanges that Sir Henry Parkes, the h-less and thrice lasol- vent Premier of New South Wales, has beeit made a grand cross of the Order of St. Grovel and St.-Gorge. This is the distinguished honor held by our old friend and fellow citizen Sir Gush Bowen. Parkes, Bowen, and this distinguished (?) Order are well matched.
sorry we cannot participate in this remarkably
good thing.
Ture following are the Orders of the Day for the Legislative Council to be held on Monday, the 5th inst. of 4 p.m. :-
(b) The Trees Preservation Ordinance, 1888. (4) The Rating Ordinance, 1888, 1. Third reading of the Bill entitled The Regula
tion of Chinese Ordinance, 1988.
the one, nor the other; he is not in first class layer and he is a very delicately constitutioned
pony.
IT is stated in home papers that 'there were fifty thousand bottles of liquor-wines, spirits, ele, of all kinds-among the Pope's Jubilee presents. What a jolly booze the old fellow will. Second reading of the following Bills -
Fair Sport was kept specially for the Cliam- have for the next six months. With the aid of the Cardinals and other thirsty apostles he ought
(a) The Stamp Duties Amendment Ordinance,pions and it was intended to win with him until
-1888, to polish off the lot in that tine. We are only
after the decision of the Challenge Cup. Hay- binger's Auky victory-Cariple must have wo had Mr. Crawford come a little sooner-in die Challenge entirely upset all previous arrange- ments,, apparently for the reason that the three win the great race of the meeting. And in thousand taeler had been specially backed to grasping at the shadow the substance was missed, to the demonstrative delight of all already indicated, did not win the Champions lovers of genuine sport. Tioga, as I have on his racing merits; Fair Sport bent his easily enough in the Hongkong Club Cup over the same distance, and if judiciously ridien would have beaten him again. And Cariole, notwithstanding lis Challenge, would have made a hold bid for ouing in the previous victory had his rider not bean tied down to walling orders: Mr. Crawford's riding of Fair federacy were afraid that Pair Sport would beat Sport is simply incont rehensible. If the Con- Harbinger it would have been better to have kept hin in his stable; Itarbinger was specially designed to make his own running and gallon..
assistance, whatever, and the latter's jockey, to do and failed. Fair Sport rendered him no
instead of waiting on Tioga and coming when his stable companion was beaten, "powed "his head off in the first three quarters of a mile.
YESTERDAY while Rane-coolies were at work excavating on a building site in the neighbour hood of Queen's Road West, a large ahass of loose friable earth, under which many of them were working, suddenly gave way and fell on the op of a division of the working party, burying twop the unfortunamen completely out of sight.. All who were able to do so fled, and were afraid to return, owing, as they explained, to the chances of more ground falling, and it was not for some time that it was suspected that any of the coolics was fissing. On notice being given to the Police, and an iden getting abroad that the men had not all escaped, a search was instituted with the result that after much of the soil had
The Portuguese, have from of old made them. selves conspicuous as profuse narratore of travels and journeys in unknown seas and foreign lands. Pinto's Peregrinations', written in the 16th century and describing the author's own journeyings and adventures in China," bave acquired a world-wide celebrity as a work of history. Equally famous may be considered Barros, cognominated the Portuguese Tacitus, Couto, Macedo, and a host of others. The modern descendants of the old navigators and conquerors of India are now following in the wake of their presumed forbears, as they fill the continental libraries of Europe with volumes of descriptive tracts about Africa, Asia, and A THICK fog, one of the thickest in our recollec Polynesia; their works are, however, fright becofemoved, two bodies' were found in which his opponents to a standstill, and this he tried fully-deficient-in-historical value-and-their-were no signs whatever of life. An inquest was only inerit would appear to consist in a certain fidelity in copying from larger and more authoritative productions on similar topics. This cacoethes of iravel-writing his
[stion, enveloped the whole town and harbour last night and this morning; eventually clearing up towards 11 a.m. Ships' bells and fog: horus were uninterruptedly heard throughout the dreary hours of the night and during the early
At East Point, qu the 1st inst., by the Rev. G. H. Bonfield, JOHN SUTHERLAND, to MARGARET,
eldest daughter of John Holmes, of Greenock.
morning; no accident has, however, occurred. An Inhabitant of cloud-land informed us that the scene at the@eak this morning was peculiarly
lrytaph picturesque as no fog reached those altitudes and splendid sunshine ruled supreme, while the mountain's sides and the town nestling at its
Hongkong, Friday, March 2, 1858.*.
FLEGRAMS.
(Reuter)
ABYSSINIA.
LONDON, February 29th,
• Fighting is shortly expected.
FRANCE AND ITALY." The negotiations between France and Italy for a treaty of Commerce have been finally ruptured upon points regarding the tariff,
base were immersed in a sea of mist,
A COMMITTER has been appointed with the view of procuring subscriptions to a testimonial to be presented to the Hon. G. Thomsent, R.N., in recognition of his twenty-eight years of service rendered to the Colony in his capacity of Harbour Master. We learn that lists will be sent round The King of Abyssinia has summoned all his and placed at the usual centres for such purposes. subjects to extirpme the Italians.
Mr. T. Jackson and Mr. E. J. Ackroyd will act as Treasurer and Secretary respectively, and with the Hon. W. M. Deane, Hon. A. P. McEwen, and Hon. Wong Shing will form a Committee for the presentation of the testimonial to Captain Thomsett oa è is retirement, ` ACCORDING to a Chicago telegram dated January 31st, a bold project to supply that city with unlimited quantities of natural gas for fuel and illuminating purposes is being developed by combination of Chicago and Philadelphia capitalists, who will shortly incorporate a pipe. line company. One of the projectors said that the pipelines would be fed by wells near to or remote from Chicago, wherever they could find them. They have already located several wells within a reasonable distance of this city. They will use for pipelines seamlesss steel tubing, the invention of a member of the
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Manila papers are unanimous in their praises of the Italian Opera Company at present performing in that city.
THE driailed programme of the Concert in aid of the funds of the Alice Memorial Hospital will
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Military portions have been taken from the datest published official lists and revised at Head-quarters; in fact, no pains have been THE Superintendent of the P.&O.S. N. anared to make "THE HONGKONG DIREC. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship TORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" Deccan, with the next English mail, left Singa- a handy and perfectly reliable-book-of-reference-pore-flor-this-por-yesterday at 6 am. -for-all-glasses.-
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We hear that General Schaedelin has already proceeded to Haiphong to take possession of the 15,000 hectares of carboniferous scil in Dong: trieu, lately ceded to him by the French Government,
of the Principal Government Officials, the Lead-LaSHON papers state that on official letter has
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heen-received by the Portuguese. Government from the Custom-house authorities at Quilimane, reporting that they have seized two cases of manacles consigned to Scotch missionaries. It would be interesting to learn what part these manacles were intended to play in the work of
conversion."
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By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the officers of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment the, Regimental Band will play in the Public Gardens, on Sunday, the 4th inst, from 2.30 till
combination, which is said to be a marvelous
success.
|_To-DAY_a_married woman named Tung-Alan- was charged with bringing girl aged 17 into the colony for purposes of emigration. The complaisant said she was also married-the ceremony having being performed in Haiphong, and on the same day her husband took her on board a steamer and brought her to Hongkong and subsequently took her to Canton where he old her to defendant for $205—this was about a month ago. The person who bought her, the defendant, she did not know and had never seen before. This person brought her to Hongkong on the 18th inst. and soon after her arrival the Police took charge of her. The case was ol considerable length and ended by the defendant being committed for trial at the Criminal Ses- signs. Mr. Wodehouse had in hand several other cases in which women had been thus sold and kidnapped; they were chiefly Annamites or Chinese from the 'sauthern provinces, who had been beguiled by fine stories about the wonders and luxuries to be seen and to be shared in about Hongkong and Canton,
THE San Francisco Chronicle, under the bead.
5 p.m. The following will be the programming "An Adventuress" reports the following
March..........Sacred"
Overture
Cellier
Suits of Moch .." Evening Prayer Selection.Reminiscences of Coxia Winterboltons.
"Gondoller" Roader, Selection.......“Naaman” RAPPERENT Cote
Ariz Valse
Joan Monas, Bandmaster.
have suddenly sprung from the Holy City and now spread itself to Macao. Three historians
are now astonishing the world with their literary trash,
One is the Secretary of the Portuguese Embassy to Peking, who has been filling the columns of the Independiente with an interinin able description of his voyage from isbon to Macao and Peking, imparting to the ignorant world valuable and hitherto bidden information about the geographical position and social status of such autlandish places as Marseilles, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Ceylon, Singapore, Saigon and Hongkong, The world is assuredly under an immense obliga tins to Senhor Pindella for his recent discoveries and for the new theories of navigation he has acquired during a trip to the Far East on board a mail steamer. The next rising historian is another Macao official who hides his light under initials. He probably thought he would improve upon Senbor Pindella's narrative by going over the identical parts of call of the mail steamers, and describing them now, to the undivided admir- ation of all past and future travellers. Dr. Gomes da Silva, who is now in Bangkok, as Secretary to the Portugueso Embassy, has also blossomed out into an historian of travels. Bangkok may be thankful to bin for the in point discoveries he has made, and with which he is now acquainting the ignorant world in the cluinn; of the Macao Independente. We doubt not that the next travel-writer who will make hims if heard and admired will be our excellent fiend who has just left for Europe, Mr. A. Dasto; Jr.
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KNOW VE, BY THESE PRESENTES THAT Ye Fifty-eighthe The tro tie trained Bande of Northampton __{Ye_Olp' _Stelebacks_of_Ruttlande). Kid alle Hongkong Goode Folkes, and Frendes, hie the listes at "Happy Valley " of this Faire Gibraltar of
the fast.
Whereon woll be holden a Gymnic Tuurney 10f whith anon.)
On Saturday; Ye in dase of March,
Anno Dom: 1889..
Whereat a Bande of Ministrils shall discourse with Instruments and Sonnes diverse.
Under the patronage of
H. E. Major-General W. G, Cameron, C.B.
Committer
Major, W. P. Ellis. Major R. J. Chaytor. Licut, C. S. Prichard,
Major M. Churchill. Captain J. Collinson, Lieut. M,D). Graham, Sub-Committes:
Sergt. Major Hill, Sergeant Reynolds. -- · Col-Sergt. Crowley. Sergeant Brown.
Staff Sergeant Mills.
CONDITIONS. 1.-All Competitors to be properly dressed.
Three to start. or no and prize,.5 or no 3rd, 3-Tug-of-War, to men a team! no sitting down
6 or no 4th, 7 or no gih prize.
allowed.
Entries for all events free, except 220 yards
Handicap,
each event.
To commence at 1.80 o'clock.
EVENTS.
curious career of a Californian woman --Baron Cremors has filed a suit against the Press news paper for $190,000 damages for an alleged libel5.The Advance" will sound 5 minutes before published December toth. Behind the suit is a romantic story Cremors is the son of a great Russian banker worth forty millions, and a nephew of the Russian Minister, De Struve, at Washington. He is also Lleutenant of a cuck.-PUTTING THE SHOT, 16 lbs.-No follow. Russian regiment of bussats. In an Inter--HON JUMP. 3.-LONO JUMP. view he stated that he married year ago-4-BOYS RACE 120 yards Handicap. in New York, Vittoria Cassin, a handsome-too-YARDS-RAGE brunette, formerly of San Francisco. He met 6.-N. C. O's. RACE~120 yards.
held at the Mortuary this afternoon on the two men, and also, we hear, on the body of a native shopkeeper who is supposed to have committed suicide last evening.
had to be pulled up, and walked in with the crowd. It is quite legitimate in racing for an owner who starts more than one pony to make a declaration with which he intends to win and it is equally legitimate to win with one that has not been declared if the perfect right to wait on Tioga with fair Sport issue ever appears in doubt. Mr. Sassoon.had and Cariole and allow Harbingertosispose of after it was seen that the declaration pouy was Orlando single handed, and io win with either eaten, Why this was not done suggests the assumption that Mr. Sassonn knows very little about racing ethics, or that he did not wish to win the Champions with any other pony but Harbinger,
SPORTING GOSSIP.
of our "Gibraltar and Malta of the Far East," a Hongkong's annual carnival, the saturnalia has come and gone, the gigantic picnic with its pleasing social amenities, in spite of the adverse weather, proved almost as enjoyable as ever; races have been lost and won, what is known in the racing world as public form has received a series of shocks which are as astounding as they are inexplicable; and as usual the smiles and
frowns of Dame Fortune have been distributed
with impartiality. However, I am not going at present to deal with the Jockey Club Meeting of 1888 from its social standpoint-that will be done in our Hongkong "Social Life" series of sketches at another time, but will confine myself to the racing and to sundry matters con nected therewith which appear to me, worthy of comment.
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Orlando was a much mnie poitant factor
at
Tinga's success than superficial observers are probably aware. Mr. Reynell, alough admit- edly one of the most powerful, of the present very high reputation for judgment--excepting, school of Shanghal jockeys, has never borne a perhaps, in tooling old Bandsman-- but on this particular occasion he rode like a Fordhain. It was, of course, well known that Mr. John Peel's hopes rested solely on Tioga, and that Mr. Reynell's special mission was to assist Mr. The wretched weather during the three "legili. Hutchings is(metaphorically) cutting Harbinger's and spoiled spot to a considerable extent, but important job Mr. Reynell and the big chesnut mate1 days undoubtedly proved a great draw bick throat as speedily as possible. And this even with this disadvantage the ra ing was quite galloway effected very completely, even including up to the average, every event being fought out to Fair Sport in the business. Seeing that both the bitter end, and the fields, nil through were Harbinger and Fair Sport were on calling down much larger than car'd reasonably have been tactics, Mr. Reynell, remembering what Orlando looked for Owing to the muddy late of the did with the former-in-the-Stirrup Cup, set the course upset were, unusually numerous, the pace just ar-fast as his, mount could go, and, best laid schemes o' nice and men gargin cracker. It was a grand sight to see the chesnut considering the state of the course, it was a agley for oftener than was agreeable to racing experts who had based their calculations and striding down the centre of the straight made their investments on public form. I hold full pressure, with Fair Sport on his whip hand the general opinion that a really good race pony and Harbinger on the inside struggling to keep. will run up to his form-always providing that their places. The pace was too fast to last, and ha is in racing condition-no matter what state when, after passing the Grand Stand, Mr. Craw. the track may be in; but there are undoubtedly ford raised his whip, all was over with Fair Sport. exceptions to the general-rule-and-of-this-we It was then that Mr. Reynell displayed good julg |-hud-ample evidence during the past week Tonent-seeing-that-Fair-Sport-was-disposed of quote one special instance, I need only take the he shot across the course, took his place along- disappointing running of Mr. John Peel's veteran aide Harbinger and commenced to ride Orlando racer Bandsman. This old pony was never in for all he was worth Mr. Hatchings and Har better order throughout his lengthy career, and binger gamely responded and in rising the Black during training he again and again demonstrated Rock hill the favorite got the best of the struggle his ability to make rings round the whole of and drew gradually away; but Orlando had the powerful East Point team without the least dope his work, effectively and when, the com- difficulty, yet in the mud he never once ran paratively fresh Tioga dashed up without giving within 2ilks of his true form. His record reads --- the Dean time to take a pull, the race was A fair second to the Amoy ex-subscription griffin | practically over. Mr. Hough rode a good race, Lohengrin in the Lusitano Cup, an indifferent but I hope the next time he rides a winner in think to Bullion and Merry Andrew in the Pro-Hongkong he will refrain from looking round fessional Cup, a clever win in the Welter Plate at his beaten opponents and jeeringly waving from the erratic Forester and third class cattle his whip above his head. It is bad form and t like Fun and Superbus, and another defeat in is not sport: besides a single slip of the pony the Navy Plate, in which he finished behind might have lost him the race. One can laugh Bellion and Fun. And yet on the "Off-day, at this sort of thing in a Mafons scramble from
"The Pirate "or" The Honej" but it is not nice when the course had commenced to harden, Bandsman, over the same distance as the Lusitano from a gentleman rider. Needless to say that and Professional Cups, cut down Bullion, Fun, these reguarks are not offensively meant, and I- Lohengrin and Quicksilver as if they had been am only sorry that any reason should have so many hacks, winning in a hand canter by existed for their use. three lengths. The only reasonable inference that can be drawn from all this is that Bandsman Numerous remarks have been made rogauling is one of those exceptional ponies, that wit not the in-and-out running of certain ponies in Mr. race unless he hears his feet rattle.. On a dry | Snesoon's stable, but more especially Bullion, course I feel perfectly contain that he would have Cariole and Orange Blossom. In the Lusitano Professional Cubs and the Champions, as I know | Hutchings, was beaten off by Lohengrin, Lands- been returned the winner of the Lusitano and Cup, distance a mile and a quarter, Bullion, Mr. him to be a far superior pony to Tioga over a
mile and a half.
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her in a Broadway house and became fascinated. 7.HURDLE RACE-120 ydı, to flights, open tip-top condition, being big and above-bimself ir-rby, Orlando, and three other tried ancers,
to Army, Navy and Police, 8.-ONE MILE RACE
to
FIVE Chipamen came before Mr. Wodehouse this morning charged by the Police with rescuing a prisoner whom a P. C. had taken into custody, on the 1st inst. The constable said he saw the defendants gambling, and succeeded in creating ons of the offenders, when soon after the others followed and attempted to release the prisoner, Ancuffle ensued during which the witness was violently assaulted by all the prisoners, who set upont and beat him over the head, and chest, after which they ran away. Another member of the force who had been sent out to track the larriking swore that when the. five accused men saw him and his party approaching they There is not space in the compass of an gave notice to each other and attempted to evade Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informa-them-he beard them proposing to clear out. Mr. tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly Wodehouse remanded the prisoners in order | publication called The Stage Ganette, and was in 13-220 YARDS' HANDICAP.-Open to Officers of tations would have distinguished themselves had won in a canters and in the Brokers' Cup, carry.
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A ST. LOUIS telegram of the 31st January, says:
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He says she professed to entertain an ardent and pure devotion for him, but two weeks after marriage she told him he could not love any man, because she had given all her love to a lady. Some time after he began to learn that prior to-her-marriage, his wife had displayed an extraordinary infatuation for actresses. She had also been editor of a the babit of going out in boy's clothes to see the town. An illustrated account of some of her exploits was printed. He was honestly devoted to the woman, and when she told him of her
it would be a calamity, so long as she loyally
to discredit his family or himself, and should accept
man, Magpie, and three others; and yet, when opposing the same ponies in the Professional Cup and Navy Plate, with the same rider in the I will quote a few more cases in which fairly saddle, he won in common canter, and looked, larks. The Back Watch and Mac, with full the Champions a quarter of a mile from home, Mr. well tried ponies proved utterly useless as mud- although a tired pony, very much like winning weights up, distanced Silken Mead in a gallop Machindo having the mount in the last instance. over the Derby distance a fortnight before the Cariole, ridden by Mr. Hutchings, never got near races, in very respectable time considering the the front in the Derby and was practically benten holding state of the course. On another occasion off in the Scurry Stukes, steered by the same the first named pony led Silken Mead for over a jockey, he was unplaced to Lightfoot, Silken mile in 2.13, and several times proved his great Mead and the moderate Punchinello; and yet, speed by covering a "quarter" under 29 seconds; with Mr. Crawford up, he only lost the Parsed and yet in the mud neither The Black Watch Cup by a short head to Happy-go-lucky, which nor Mac appeared capable of beating a first-class ought to have been the other way, and ran donkey Honesty, in my opleion, was not a Harbinger to the hairs on his nose in the Challenge Cup, beating the winner of the but his superior class should have enabled him
beat such inferior cattle as Gone Away, In the Champions Carlole, ridden by Mr. McLean, 9-OLD SOLDIER'S RACE-120 yards; I yard Encounter and Superstition in the Flyaway was only beaten balf a length by Harbinger Stakes; and yet over his best distance (six for second place with Fair Sport, Orlando, furlongs) he was practically beaten off. That it Tycoon, Merry Andrew Bullion, and Joker was the holding course which stopped Honesty behind him-and might possibly have won hud his rider been allowed to exercise his own was demonstrated on Monday morning, when, Mr. John Peel informs me, he asily beat Leap Judgment Orange Blossom (Mr. Hutchings up) Year and Gone Away In a mile gallop on a very
was beaten very cleverly in the Valley Stakes by slow course in 2 min, 13 seconds. No doubt Viking; steded by the same jockey in the German several other ponies that failed to answer expec Cup he had the race in hand all the way and Army and Navy, Hongkong Club and V. the going been sound, and it is said that Dunkeld ing 7lb. extra and ridden by Mr. Machado, he cut R. C.; Prize, a Cup."
would have won the Champlons in a walk' on a down Viking, Sultan, Heliotrope, and all the
subscription griffins almost without an effort. 4E MILE RACE-Open to Army, Navy hard coufic. and Police. 16-TILTING AT THE BUCKET.
Tioga is a pony that greatly disappointed hi
More inconsistent running than in the cases Garrison.
kim, batsuffered easy defeats from Joker and Blue it satisfactorily is far beyond my power, bum] do
in the Hongkong Cup. It is true Tioga won the Stewards of the Hongkong Jockey Club to Champions, but this victory was certainly not | demand an explanation in the interests of achieved on the play's merits. With the true sport. It must not for one moment be
of Garrison.
of tired ponies, and the idiotic way in which the fraud by calling attention to the complicated ' leviathan's ""`siud were ridden amounted to performances of the above, named ponigi į it is » 21-CONSOLATION RACK.
making a present of the race to Mr. John Peel quite possible that the persons responsible are 22-TURKEY AND HAM RACE, 23—COMPANY TUG-OF-WAR, FINAL.
Why Mr. Sassoon sacrificed his prospects of in a position to offer a thoroughly satisfactory 24-OPEN TUG-OF-WAR.→→For Army, Navy and success on the (very far) off chance of winning explanation, and my principal object in calling
start for every year over 12 years. Yo-FINAL HEAT HURDLE RACE, 12-QUARTER MILE RACE
I-THROWING THE CRICKET BALL. „Challenge-Cut presented by the Hon. G. P. Chater .13.—BLUE JACKET's RAĆE, -120`yards.”
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Commanding.
18-WHEELBARROW RACE.
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THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND -The ice-gorge which has formed on the peculiar temperament he replied that although 17.-SKIRMISHING RACE 1,0 0 yards; open to admirers. He was as fit. as hands could make just quoted would be impossible. How to explain Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium.move at 10 o'clock this morning, when the adhered to him he did not intend to do anythingPrixas presinted by H. E. The Major-General Ruin in the Foochow Cup and from Fair. Sport not hesitate to say that it is the duty of the It has an extensive circulation in all Ports January thaw loosened the great maas and it between Singapore and Newchwang, in the slowly crushed down upon $1,500,000 worth of her friendly feeling and gratitude.. The husband 19-STEEPLE CHASE.-About one mile, Australasian Colonies, the United States, and property, which it is now alowly grinding into .continued: "She disclosed other serious errors 20, --TUG-OF-WAR--Civilians versus Officers exception of Fair Sport, the field was-composed | laferred that I am insinuating dishonesty, or the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges ruins. Already sever barges have been aunk and the steamers-Tamm, Matifs Boles and the has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate.
Hayes have been unk The Hayes was Terms can be learned on application,
valued at $80,000. The Matth. "Boles also was & fine steamer. The Tam was a ferry-boat Suggestions for the improvemete of this work The wharf-boat of the Harto and Grafton Rail are respectfully solicited.
read Company was swept away at 1 o'clock. The steamer City of Monres shapped her lines at noon and is a wreck. The ice has stopped running and there is little chance for thousands of dollars worth of property-still below The gorge began to move again to-night, but no. damage was done, and river men think the worst is past.
Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE. MENTS may be seng Agents at the various Ports, or to the Office of
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH"
* PEDDER'S HILL, IpwakoнA. -Hongkong, 16th January, 1888.
of her life before her marriage, but I assured her if she would lead a trup and loyal life now could condone the past, Worst of all, she took a great fancy to James Jewell, a socialistic shoemaker, proclaiming him the ideal civilized man. She used to take him to theatres, and got imbued with his wild notiosa" Jewell some: months ago was arrested, charged with assaulting his own thirteen-year-old daugther. He wrote from the fail to the Baroness that the Baton was the guilty party. The Press published the letter, and hence the suit for damages and
indication. The Baroness in sald to be i medicine.
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with Harbinger is best known to himself; that attention to the matter is to give them that oppor his suicidal policy lost him the bonor and glory |tunity. Inconsistent running docs by no means of winning the Champions is about as certain as justify an accusation of fraud; rate ponies are-not anything in racing can be a certainty, it is per machines whose performances can at all times bet fectly true that Conqueror won (on a hard course), relied on, bot have been conclusively shown to bol the Challenge Cup and Champlons-he | run in-and-out in most aggravating fashion. had previously landed the Kerchong Cup and Of course if equivocal betting transactions are e Champions, which was a still more meritorious mixed up with Inconsistent running, then the performance- but Conqueror is, when fit and subject asumes serious aspect. Singularly well, an: exceptionally good stayer, and, more enough, two instances of inconsistentakuntoisg ak over, one of the hardiest race ponies that ever home have for some time past been the leading looked through a bridler Harbinger is neither sensations on the English turf, “. was the