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-We are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Arnhold, Karberg & Co.) that the China Shippers' Mutual S. N. Co.'s steamer Kaliow, from Liverpool, left Singapore, for Hongkong this morning, and may be expected on or about the 30th inst. SEEP Two junkmasters were charged this morning with failing to hang up or exhibit lights in their boats. at 8.31 p.ní, on 23rd inst, while riding at anchor in the waters of the colony. Defendants said "they were Chin-chew men," and being un- able to deny the soft impeachment were ordered by Mr. Wodehouse to plank down five dollars | ́ench, or in default, to go in for a period of fourteen days, which latter alternative they decided on. By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the officers of the and Northamptonshire Regiment,
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We are informed by the agents (Messrs. Adam-¦ NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL. son, Rell & Co.) that the Canailian Pacific Line steamship zbyssinia arrived at Yokolisma on 24th inst, from Vancouver,
A GAMPAN man was to-day fined ten dollars by Mr. Wodehouse, for boarding the steainer Glanogit on the 24th inst, while she was under- weigh and approaching heg anchorage.or anoorings. The constable who prosecuted, said be saw defendant) hanging on with his boat astern of the ship, and afterwards climb up the side and go on board against the harbour police regulations,
THE Courrier d'Haiphong publishes a very interesting letter from Mr. Gaulkier describing. his journey from Extang Phra Bang to Cambodia by the river Mékong. The traveller spent 40 days on the journey, had to pass twenty "water. falls in one of which his boat was very nearly being smashed to pieces. He visited Laos, and says of its inhabitants, that they do nothing but laugh, smoke and sing throughout the day, minst of the business of the town being in the hands of a few practical Chinese. Mr. Gauthier does not
The Hongkong Celegraph the Regimental land will play in the l'ublic any that Laos is so very like Macao.
HONGKONG, Saturday, March 24, 1888.
TELEGRAMS.
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BULGARIA.
LONDON, March 22nd. The Porte's notice to Bulgaria still remairis unanswered.
MR. PARNELL'S RENT DILL. The House of Commons has thrown out on its first reading, Mr. Parnell's bill dealing with urcars of rent, by a majority of eighty-five.
(From Straits Times.)
THE SITUATION.
BERLIN; March 14th. Prince Bismarck, in a letter, thanked Count Kamoky for the sympathy of Austro-Hungary in the National grief, and said that the friendship between the Austrian and German rulers and Count Kalnoky
peoples was indissoluble, tied in a similar strain,
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TWENTY-TWO Chinamen were charged this morning by Inspector Swanston with public gambling, all of them being found by prosecutor, on the 23rd instant, in a gambling den on Queen's Road West. Six of the defendants were accused of being chief actors in the game, and proprietors of the house, while the remainder were said to be gambling visitors and frequenters of gambling houses, and were then participators in a game going on, Mr. Wotton, of Messrs. Wotton and Deacon's, appeared for the defence. Mr. Wode houses manded afl the prisoners till. Tuesday next, accepting bail for the first six men to the
The U. & US 5. Co,a stesiner Belgic, Capt. W. H. Walker, with the American mails of the 23rd uho., arrived in port this morning For the subjoined telegrams we are indebted to our San Francisco exchanges :-
LONDON, February 14th. Prince William of Prussia's speech in Berlin on Wednesday, in which he warmly repudiated the warlike sentiments-which had been freely of Prince Bismarck, who, however, must be attributed to him, was made by special request considerably disconcerted by the decidedly "jingo" tone in which Prince William concludes his harangue,
The accouchement of Princess William of Prussia is expected to take place shortly in Berlin. Princess and Prince William alteady have a family of four sons.
The Queen is very anxious about the German Crown Princess, who may not much longer be able to hear the severe mental strain to which she has been subjected during the last nine months, and there are signs that her nervous system is getting seriously out of order. The Princess was in a state of nervous distraction on Wednesday and Thursday of Inst week, and after an operation was pronounced inevitable she appeared almost herelt. of reason, and had to be guarded in her rooms until it was over, after which she recovered her composure, Everybody must feel deep sympathy for the Crown Princess, as apart from her great affection for her husband, his death would be a fearful calamity for his wife and children.
One hundred men at Lisfiony have cropped the farm of Pyne, member of Parliament for West Waterford, under rest for nifanga ay n the Crimes Act,
White Pyne was being taken to the depot for conveyance to Clonto Hast evening a large mol gathered and stoned the police. One of the missiles struck Pyou on the head, severely injuring him.
Thiricon persons have been sentenced to one nath's imprisonincat cucle for riotous conduct at Gwedere at the time of Father Stephens' arrest last month.
that Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of the Colo. 'The Freeman's Journalsays a rumoris current ntes, will succeed Balfour as Chief Secretary of Ireland, and that the latter will become Govern ment leader in the Commons.
VIENNA, February 16th, - Several hundred students clamored for admit-
tance to the galleries of the Parliament House. here to-day during the debate over the Goverty- ment bill placing certain restrictions upon students' clubs. They demolished the railings about the ticket offices and inade their way into the conversation rooms of the house. Deputy Pattai then went out and admitted a number of them, although they were, unprovided with tickets. But during the debate the students. he had gained admittance were so noisy that the presiding officer threatened to clear the galleries.
NEW YORK, February 16th.- General Francisco A, de Silva, Consul in this city for the Republic of Venezuela, is in receipt. of information that England within the last few days has taken possession, by armed force, of
asuin which does not cover the expenses, if territory seized includes the richest gold mines entertaining be well done and the household of South America. De Silva says, in it are properly maintained. An effort was made in fourteen mines, the average..production of each very high quarters to obtain the appointment of which is $300,000 a year De Silva claim for Lord Lorne, but Salisbury firmly resisted the that England, has, in this seizure, violated the sinister suggestion, and probably it was not very
treaty of 128 with Venezuela. He says that if eagerly pressed when the full particulars of the the United States decs.net interfere, Venezue emoluments were forthcoming.
lans will fight for the territory,
The sensation of the sea on in publishing The London papers comment briefly on Blaine's letter of withdrawal from the presidential circles is the issue of the new art work, cutitle! today and are as follows: The Pall 51, 1. Dewing Company of this city and San contest. Fragments of them were called ove
"Picturesque California," brought out by The
situation. It says: Those who saw Liaine and descriptions not only of the grand scenery Gazette to-night takes a curious view of the Francisco. The work is intended to give pictures.
be surprised at his letter from Florence declining also to present the chief picturesque fexico to when in London last year at the jubilee will not and marvelous development of California, but to be put in nomination as Republican candidate the region west of the Rockies, from Mexico to for the Presidency. Blaine looked as if everly Alaska. Many of the ablest artists and engravers exhausted: His energy and his inagnetic powers have been at work on it for a long time. The seemed to have evaporated. It is but natural paintings are reproduced by a new steel-plate That old, worn and wasted as he is, he should-photogravure process that surpasses anything yet Introduced in preserving the individuality of the placed in younger hamls,"
IF the following is not a joke, the Editor of the Daily Hawaiian Gazette, received by the O. and O. S. S. Belgic, has a nice time of it :-" Through press of other matter acknowledgment was neglected of a capacious pail of ice cream sent
The Empress Eugenie is far from well, and most valuable portion of the territory of to the house. of the editor by Mr. Horn. It
she was unable to go to Osborne inst week to Venezuela, territory not in dispute between the visit the Queen, as had been arranged.
two countries, and to which England bas' no made a whole delightful picnic for the children The papers, in announcing Lord Lansdown's claim, and in doing so has directly violated the THE-Tewish-Chronicle-records-the-death at of the neighborhood, besides gratefully cooling appointment as. Viceroy of India, state that the Monroe Doctring of the United States. Generat The Hague of one of the last of the Waterloo the palate and staying the nervous system salary is £20,000 a year. This is the nombel De Silva will call on the authorities at Washington veterans. This was Chapman Enthoven, who editorial. Without reflecting upon any other amount, but as the Viceroy is paid in silver, and for the prompt enforcement of the Monroe the value of a rupee is considerably depreciated, doctrine. The seizure was made through wore the silver cross of the Netherlands for his product, Horn's cream may truly be said to be the salary now is really not more than 11000 Governor Charics Bruce of Demetara. "The services in the campaign of 1815. He was in all that the maker claims for it. It carries a the one hundred and third year of his age, and genuine flavor that recalls the green fields and leaves a widow ten years younger, 10 whom he babbling brooks of childhood.”· had been married seventy-five years. He passed a portion of his early life in England, and was present at Nelson's funeral. Till the last few months Enthoven was often seen in the streets and the fish market of The Hague... ELECTORAL fever is the new malady which is said will soon spread over Cochin-China, as the election of a deputy to substitute the late M. Blancsubd is soon to take place in the three principal districts of the newly organised French Indo China-Saigon, Haiphong and Hanoi. As the privilege of voting has been extended to all Frenchmen and French subjects residing in the
await the new candidates. The Courrierothers. of Haiphong says that a'Colonial deputy ought"| to be an entity of very slow growth, instead of the mushroom creations who have lately made themselves conspicuous for their ignorance of colonial matters in the French Parliament. Our Haiphong contemporary ought to inculcate on his readers the electoral system which is adopted in Portuguese-Indo-China, where idiots have every chance of being made the representatives of a generation of fools who pass for a colonial population, and who clamour for their rights of voting, without in the least possessing any of the manly qualities which distinguish electors from ruminants or other representatives of the brute creation...
A violent snowstorm has closed all the New Country, well contested electioneering campaigns-mount of $100 each, and $50 each for the prefer that the standard of his party should be artist. In the art-rooms of the company here are
York markets, and business is at a standstill.
PARLIAMENT..
LONDON, March 15th. Uradlaugh's Affirmation Bill was read a second time in the House of Commons by a majority of
one hundred.
GERMANY.
After the funeral, Frederick addressed a
message to the Diet promising to observe the constitution. The formal oath is postponed until his health improves.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
OWING to the Editor's indisposition the scries of
articics concerning that lively topic of the day the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company
--will be resumed on Monday. LAND near Spreckelsville, Honolulu, is offered for lease in whole or in parcels.
The Globe says frankly that Blaine had doubts of his election if nominated, anti that he desires to be the candidate against his will, so that in case of success he may have greater glory, and in case of defeat. incur no loss of personal eige. "Nobody knows, the Globe continaes, better than the most experienced and dexterous party manager in the world how strong are Cleveland's prospects of re-election, how divided is the Republican party, how steadily the mugwumps are becoming a power in the land, and how in terms of patriotism and self-encrifice to draw attention to one's self in a favorable manner strengthens one's bands all round,"
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many paintings made expressly for this work by TomHill, Keith, Rix, Darley, Harry Fenn, Ferris, Gifford, Moran and a score of other prominent artists,, their work being reproduced by the new process, he well as by etchers and wood engravers, Able descriptive writers have been engaged on the work, which is edited by John Muir. Eastern curiosity about California has given the book a big boom and several thousand sets have been sold in New York and Philadelphia within ten days, and, beyond question, this superb book will contribute largely toward increasing interest the Pacific coast among the bust people throughout the Union.
TORONTO (Ont.), February 16th. The Mall commenting on the fisheries treaty says "It is evident that the Washington Government believes it has done a good stroke of business. It would appear that the Canadian contention respecting the beadland. or bay question, has been given up. In return for the concession of commercial privileges and of the use of her harbors and milroads to American fishermen, Canada has obtained no, soit. of equivalent. There is not a word in the new treaty fish. It is obvious that a serious blow has bee about reciprocity of trade or even about free struck at the wallase of the maritinie provinces.
AN American fashion writer thus modestly holds orth on the physical" graces of her country women-Good sense, and good taste in dress matters dwell with F'Americaine or they dwell nowhere. The temptation to a pinched waist has overtaken us through our national slender. nes-as-compared with the women of Europe. who are lower in stature and stouter, except the French whose youthful figures are perfect, but who, besides not having the average height of American women, are fated to early embonpoint and entire loss of fashion-plate grace. An error The Times gives a column of editoifal which includes an admirable biography of quite as serious from either physiological
the plumed Knight, and winds up" with the or "an artistic point of view is to carry the following snapper: "It would seem, bow. waist down to abnormal length which is reported ever, if we are to judge from the recent State IT appears that special attention is being paid to be the coming craze. Doubtless the modiste elections, that Cleveland's majority is maintained, in France and England to a
and that it will be difficult to find a Republican more general would tell us the aims but to meet the re-candidate who can carry the Presidency against substitution of iron and steel for wood, wherever quirements of certain customers in this parti- practicable, in manufactured articles, soch, for culat. In fact, I have known little women
NEW YORK, February 14th. instance, as building material, boxes and insist on being close-fitted the utmost length, so-
Facoby & Bookman, cigar manufacturers, today packing-cases, barrels or casks, carriages, carts extending the waist more and more, unconscious striking cigar-makers who had been in their em
caused the eviction of twenty-seven families of The Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Jason, and other vehicles, furniture, fencing, railway that every particle gained on the natural waist-play, and who occupied a tenement adjoining the from Liverpool, left Singapore for this post yester-work, sheds, signal boxes, telegraph poles, etc. In line told against good proportion of the figure cigar factory. The cause of the eviction was the
France there have recently come into use hollow entire, perhaps to the extent of converting a non-payntent of rent? The eviction was wit- Dominion should suffer, Chamberlain told us day evening, and is due on the 25th inst.
* iras window frames and doors, which are said to woman into a funny waddling duck. Our Messrs. Russell & Co, inform us that the Ebe light and strong, and of far greater durability daughters need to be carefully instructed that and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Mfenmwir left Singa than could ever by assumed of wood. There is all such silly re-shaping and mis-shaping pore for this port yesterday, and may be expected no reason, too, it is, thought, why corrugated offended nature will have her revenge. Dress to arrive on the 29th inst.
barrels of iron or steel should not be used for reformers are apt to go to the opposite extremes CONSPICUOUS among the arrivals per steamship liquors, since milk and preserved fruits and other which is the reason their attempts do not succeed Belgic, of the O. & Ö. line, we notice Mr. Emile articles are kept in cans. Steel is finding much with the masses. The woman universal is not Rump, of the firm of Emile Rump & Co., general favor among carriage builders, but there is still going to make a guy of herself. She knows there commistion merchants of New York, who do much prejudice against the metal being used in is no occasion for it. Meantime there are The general reforms in the air that may prove worthy to large business with China, Japan and other the manufacture of furniture.
adoption of steel sleepers is warmly advocated by to adopt. I for one, have faith in our wives and ports.
some, as is also the employment of iron and daughters that they do and will avoid the abuse steel in the construction of railway cars, and the of corsets generally.' erection of wooden sheds, signal-boxes, etc; by railway companies, as at present, might, it is urged, be profitably and economically substituted with steel,
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THE following drills for the Hongkong Volunteers, are ordered for the week ending 31st.-On Mon day, Tuesday, and Wednesday 7 Pdr. R.M.L. Gun and Squad Drills for Recruits at head quartersat 5.30 p.m. On Thursday, Commanding Officers Parade at head-quarters at 5:30 pm, Dress blue with befmet, carbine and side-
aris.
THE suit U-Ti Wan v. the two German Insur. ance Companies went on dragging its weary course to-day at the Supreme Court, in Original Jurisdiction. The only witnesses examined were U-Tr-Wan's son and Chan Cheung, after whose evidence was taken, the Acting Chief Justice adjourned the further hearing of the case till Monday,
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the strikers for the occasion played the Marsel nessed by a great crowd, and a band engaged by Iaise" during the proceedings. The strikers had left the stoves redhot, to embarass the Sheriff's posse when they moved the household effecis, so the stoves were removed last. No resistance was offered. Workmen from another cigar factory were among the spectators gathered.
As a matter of fact it is fore-ordained that the
to terminate the fishery dispute somehow, and in so many words that he had come to America the English journals frankly stated that England. could not afford to quarrel with her beat foreign customer for the sake of our fish. It has beca the fate of Canada, from the beginning, to suffer for Imperial interests, but in this instance the cup presented to our lips appears to be an unusually bitter one."
A frightful accident occurred in Brooklyn this
NICE, February 15th, morning, which caused the death of three persons and the injury of a dozen others... Along Broad-
The Prince of Wales arrived here to-day. way a section of the Union Elevated road is now
LONDON, February 16th, in course of construction, huge, steam derrick,
In the Comtions, Labouchere asked further which was used in building it, was hauled along questions regarding England's position toward the girders as each section was completed. This other nations, and Under-Secretary Ferguson morning the derrick was started and had been
again declined to produce the correspondence SAYS the Japan Mail-Already a small clout began to spread outward. Just at that meinent Labouchers then gave notice to offer an ameed- hauled but a short distance when the girders between the Government and foreign powers. a street car was approaching the section, battle ment to the address, to the effect that the House Presents itself on the horizon of the avalanche of driver did not nosice what was going on over companies set rolling at the close of 1986. We head. The derrick pressed through the girders has been exchanged with Italy resulting in a be informed definitely that no correspondence read that the Cotton Company (Menshosha) of and fell to the ground, striking the horse-cne and binding action on the British Government in RICHARD JEFFERIES, in the Magarine of Art, Tokyo finds difficulty in collecting its capital called out and ambulances sent for, but owing if any assurance has been given that it may be cutting it in two. The Fire Department was the event of war between Italy and France, or thus speaks of the "New Venus Accroupie "The amount of the latter is a million yes, and to the escaping steam and beat of the boller, it communicated to the House "Turning to the left on entering the Louvre, the first instalment of two hundred and fifty was some time, before anything could be done.
Ferguson further sald that he was happy to found myself at once among the sculpture, which thousand was to have been paid by the 29th of Finally the debris was cleared-away and the dead Inform the House that the Fishery treaty had is on the ground floor. Except that Venus of last month, but only forty thousand was forth.and wounded released. The killed were Frederick been signed in Washington. The Government Milo was in the collection, I had no knowledge coming, and complications of a troubleThum son, the street-car driver; Charles Kirchner believed it satisfactory, although yet unaware of of what I was about to see, but at once stepped some character are said to have supervened. and Patrick Clark, Two of the injured will pro- the precise terms,
hably die. The others are resting comfortably. William O'Brien resumed the debate on the into an unknown world of statuary. Somewhat So, too, in the case of the Imperial John Schaeffer, who was in charge of the work address in reply to the Queen's speech. He said indifferently, I glanced up and then down, and Public Works Company (Teikoku Kogyo on the elevated road, said: "We were getting Balfour had failed to smash the Irish organiza instantly my indifference was succeeded by Kaisha); paragraphs have appeared from along nicely; had all the girders in place, and tion, weaken the spirit of the kish people or delight, for there, in the centre of the gallery, time to time in vernacular newspapers to the the planks laid on the girders. As the move was discomfiture and disgrace had attended the were about to move our derricks and engines on degrade them in the eyes of the world. Abject was a statue in the sette in which I understand effect that the shareholders were dissatisfied with made I noticed the swaying of the supporting Crimes act, the operation of which proved it one the word-the beautiful made tangible fa human the action of the directors, and now, finally, we columns, and then, before I could say a word,
He did not feel against human liberties. with the view partly broken, but I found it changed. It was doubtless to these incidents them two girders. The street was crowded at imprisonment. While in prison be resented and form, It was then at least thirty yards distant, have an announcement that the latter have been down came the heavy derricks, with the of the most horrible measures ever directed machinery, engines and all. They carried with wounded nor in the least disgraced by his own that an article, just published by the Hochi the time. A Reid-avenue car, crowded with felt keenly Balfour's stealthy, Joathsome insinua. impossible to doubt or question lines such as those. On a gradual approach the lists became Shimbun owed its inspiration. The Hocke is passengers, was right under the failing mass. I tions that he (O'Brien) sheltered himself under a more defined, and the torso grew and became not pleased that industrial and commercial could see no more. The wreck, as it fell, struck plea of liness: Now they were face to face, and
full on the car, crushing it like a paper box. The he challenged the Government to produce the... more and more human, which is one of the undertakings should wash their dirty linen lu horses were crushed flat. The tries of the prison doctors to prove the truth of the insinua remarkable circumstances connected with the public. No merchant, it says, would be so ill-horrified lookers-on and the groans of thors ions [Parnellite cheers. It had been asserted statue. There is life in the wide hips, chest, advised as to advertise in the newspapers that, buried in the wreck, quickly brought thousands that the imprisoned leaguers tried jo, secure and shoulders; indeed so marvellous is the his head clerk boving become indolent and care- to the place. The great derrick crushed in the distinction between the treatment-given-him-and- lusion that not only the parts that remain less, the reputation and prosperity of his house two. From under the ruins not a sound arose, foundation for the assertion. When the Govern
girders and struck the horse-car so as to cut it in the imprisoned peasants, but there was no The following remarks from the New York appear animated, but the imagination restores demand some radical step of refarm. Neither and it was apparent that every human being ment asked them to voluntarily acknowledge Maritime Register are very much to the point the missing and mutilated pieces, and the should a business association betray its interests therein confined was either dead or unconsciona their kinship with criminals, they answered:We There have been several of our vessels lost during wonderful work appears to be entire, I did by making a confidant of the outer world. Every out by MADRID, February, tổ k will die first. You will have to learn the differ." the last year, and the causes are inexplicable. It not see that the hand was missing and the member of a company should regard it as a duty: In the Chamber of Deputies to-day Primerence between the representative criminal classen is almost certain that nothing more definite will arms gone, for the idea of form suggested to hide the weak spots in its armour, and to take Minister Sagasta admitted that he had written and the Irish pollileal prisoners, even if it takes
to the Duke of Montpensier privately, giving Coroner's juries to announce the distinction," ever be known about them. Were the less by clating portions was carried on over a much care of the reputation of the company him certain advice, not because he feared the that of property only, the mystery might be left these, and filled the vacant places. The statues he would of his own. Credit is, above all intrigues of ex-Queen Isabella, but with the for the unfortunate vessel-owner to solve. But is called the "Venus Accrouple," or Stooping things, valuable in commercial enterprise, but object of dispelling rumors: Hed the Govela Suggestions for the improvement of this work unfortunately loss of ships is too often accom- Venus, and was discovered at Vienne, in credit cannot long survive if shareholders openly ment thought measures necessary it would have adopted them. Any attempt to renew the are respectfully solicited."
panied by loss of life, and it therefore becomes France. The term "Venus" is conventional, parade the difficulties of their association or the intrigues would be speedily checked necessary as a matter of public policy that there merely to indicates female of great beauty. Inefficiency of their officers. This wholesome Minister Fulgcerver announced that the should be a regular inquiry, by a properly con- It is simply a woman stooping to take a child advice is advanced with much cogency by the Government would introduce a bill Imposing a stituted Government Board, into the causes of pick-a-black, the child's little hand remaining Hochi Shimbun. We trust that it will be widely duty of 80 to too pesetas perfectoliter, according Violet Cameron, Lord Lonsdale every maritime casualty. This would be no on the mother's back as the canning sculptor followed, though we strongly doubt whether the tolls arcuts on alcohol domestic or inaperies Bensaude have been wasbing dirty linen in the
BLIN, February-ruth.
Police Court again to-day. Lonsdale was on the interference with the business of any one. It cut it-how many bundred years ago, who shall sufferings in store for some of these mushroom The Court of Queen' lench has liberated on witness-sland and admitted that he was, the would be a projection to all concerned very much | say! The semaining portion of the child's figure companies are likely to be 'endured in Spartan bail Gilbooly, member arliament, arrested -father of Miss Cameron's child, born after the needed, but which is not now given,
has disappeared."..
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on the charge of having violated the Crimes Act, actress loft Anierica. However, the Court fined
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The furniture stolen from Wilson Barrett's house last month by a truckman, who presented a forged letter from Barrett to move it was found to-day by a delective in the back room of en empty Loute owned by an auctioncer, who said he purchased the furniture from an unknown