stitution, wherein the State and Jocal Govern ments make application to the Exerive for the assistance of the military arm of the Government.
"PARIS, March 26th,
The police seized any voting papers issued in behalf of General Raulinger at Ma seilles, on the ground that they the thong the name of the printer. M: Laguerre will interpellate the Chvernment in regard to the seizure in the Chamber of Deputies.
The licaring before the Court of Inquiry in the case of General Boulanger was held to-day The court afterwards gave its judgment, but the nature of the derision will not be divulged until After it has been submitted to President Carnot.. It is reported that the court decided against General Boulanger. The crowd which gathered. cheered.
BERLIN, March 26th, Further particulars have been received here of darrage done by the fleeds in the Vistula river and is branches. The dyke on the Nugat has hurst, the adjoining country has been over. Gowed, and the inhabitants of the place bave fled to the town of Elbing. The suburbs of the Jaster place are all Blooded. The population of Marianburg, on the Negat, have escaped from the town with difficulty: The prisoners in the jail were rescued by the fire brigade. The town is inumulated. Eight villages at the 'mouth of the Vistula are submerged."
"LONDON, March
26th. Thousands of persons are dying of starvation in the inundated districts of Hungary.
Minister Van Puttkamer has started for the fed districts. Forty villages are inundated and to.000 people have tosi everything they purigesed. !
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1888.
The Emperor Frederick has signed a bill extending the legislative period of the Reichstag to five years.
Prince Bismarck yesterday celebrated the jubilee of donning his military uniform by a dinner, at which Count von Moltke, General Schallando MinisterofWaz, General Albedevell and others were present.
The North German Gazette suggests as a suitable monument to the late Emperor the erectionof a magnificent mentorial church, fronted by an equestrian statue of the Imperor William, | in the Lustgarten, near the Schloss. It says that such an edifice would serve the purpose. of A German Pantheon.
The order of the Black Eagle has been conferred upon Prince Frederick of Hohenzollern. The newspapers here make sinister comments upon the elections in France on Sunday to fill Vacancies in the Chamber of Deputies, when in the Department Bouches du Rhone Felix l'yas was returned, and in the Department of Aisne Boulanger received a plurality. The North German Gazette says the votes of the French people tend more toward the dangerous alterna tive of reaction or revolt. The Kreuse Zeitung says: The end: near, but it is hand to say who will give the present regime in France its death blow.
to reduce flesh he recently began taking pulls out in the lake in his subber suit. Tuesday morn ing at 7 o'clock he left Fullerton avenue for a swim to South Chicago and returning thet with the most thrilling adventure of his ble, in which he battled for hours with a great ice floe and was carried many miles out into the lake, stripped of navigation instruments and lost for hours in the cold, bleak waste of drifting ice, hanging clouds and straggling ducks and guils. From 7 a.m. until midnight the captain was without food or drink | Thê chill of the ice water had driven him to the desperate resort of hard work all that time keep up a vigorous circulation so he would not chill and perish in the lake.
At midnight when he was rescued at the Crib two miles out on the lake his vitality was almost gone Stimulants were applied and the daring avigator put to bed. A telephone message was sent to the police that the captain was saved by them and taken to his liule family, a wife and son, who were distracted by his long absence, and supposed he had perished. Captain Boylon was in bed when a reporter called at his house last night. He was exhausted, the reaction from his desperate excitement of the day before having made him weak and sick.
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native merchants, bankers and other Chinese, was the largest ever seen in Ningpo. The high opinions won by the late W. Davidson have been well sustained by his successors. it is well know that the Chinese are quick THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP and sure
readers of character, and are always ready to show their appreciation. of good men. The departure of our friends 15 great loss to us all. But the premory of an. upright business life is not easily destroyed, Straightforward business men do good wherever they are, and certainly good men from Europe, or America, whether off als or merchants, can. do a lasting moral werk China.
And yet notwithstanding their demonstrations ef-esteem, it must be confessed that the Chinese by their methods of trade are driving foreigners, from their parts; perhaps some day the truth will teach them that to expel merchants of all nations but their own, is a jolicy and free from injury and evil to themselves, N.-C. Daily Nees.
PEKING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
April 12th. The Ching-ming of the Chinese, when the people go to worship at the tombs of their ancestors, occurred this, year on April 4th. blew a terrific dust storm in the afternoon which, according to the common saying indicates forty." five days of wind and dust and ruin to the crops. We shall see.
years ago, is in Paris... His friends of this city between America and Great Britain, There noticed that the city had my compass__nea_who follow, during the four winter months,
COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR MANILA, VÍA AMOY,"
THE Company's Steamship
" "DLẨMANTE," Captain McCaslin, will be despatched for the above Tous, on TUESDAY, the 2nd proximo, at
Für Freight or Passage, apply to
RUSSELL & Co.,
General Managers.
4. PMC 20
1467
Hongkong, 28th April,
PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"CITY OF SYIËNEY" are hereby oufied that their Goods are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Lunited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained on Countersignature, of Hills of Lading, buds remaining unclaimed after the 4th proxima, wall in subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance has been effected...
CHS. D. HARMAN,
Agent.
Hongkong 280: April, 1888
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "MORAY,” FROM GLASGOW, LIVEŃPODL, LONDON, AND SINGAPORE, *ONSIGNEES of Cargo are berely informed
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John Good, a Brooklyn rope manufacturer, some had bulli bigh walls and had called them tariffs. The sun was hidden and there was nothing by fanning it, and making a decent, living of } (that all goods, are being landed at their i
anonthy ago.
LONDON, March 27th.
It is reported that it has been necessary to put Ruskin in a private asylum for the insane. Recently, while he was at Sandgate, he had a freak of ringing bells throughcat the day, having purchased them for that purpose. He then There is no doubt that his became violent minds failing,
too
risit, into the downs of the Kowloon Wharf ang Golown Company, at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery way, be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be, forwarded unless notice to, the contrary" be given before. No 8, TO-DAY.
have left the downs, and all Guds remaining after the 4th at w, will he subject to, rent at the rate of ONE CENT per package per day.
No Claims will be achatted after the fiemki,
"When I entered the water at 7 ani.," the captain said, "there was a fresh west wind. 1 LONDON, March 28th. Swans about two miles, intending to clear the Crib Joseph Chamberlain was presented with the for a trip to South Chicago. Just about the linit freedom of the city of Birmingham to-day. He of my rin 1 began to meet ice. I pushed through it made a speech upon the fisheries question and for a time and then ran on to some foes, on to spoke in the highest terms of the American which I climbed. Meanwhile a heavy sky had people. His remarks were greeted with applause. it out all view of the sun, and the wind had got the ice, together. I struggled for awhile in He was followed by John Bright, who, in pro-
Gold, silver and other metals, cic. are oficy posing the toast "Our Kinsmea," said the what I thought was the western border of the found in the nost unlikely places. Last year i English bad the right to call all people on the feld and then ran into what I thought was a noticed persons digging in the stream that flows Rome, March 27th.
other side of the Atlantic their kinsmen, and pocket. I pulled through it and came again to in the sont, close to the Ch'ien Men¬in search The Pope has created Mr. Loubat, of New that Englishmen were entitled to look upon a
the straggling floes. I must have fought them † of gold. The situation was explained by the You a Rowin runt. Laubat one-of-the--man-as-an-eremy-tu mankind who would do wnut to o'clock, before I missed my compass., contiguity of gold shops, as the sweepings of herges of the big Union Club scandal several anything to excite anger, disorder or dispute When I inoked to get my bearings, having such places are thrown into the mont. There-
from view, 1 are in Peking a hand of some three hundred believe that he is the gentleman honored. The were other questions besides the fisheries-found-that-the-band-which-bound title has been but once before conferred upon a question which ought to be considered. For to my body had either been severed by a piece a business which consists in brushing up
our of ice or had become unbuckled, as it was gape. the dry dust of a ctken of the United States. in the case of instance, the commerce of American and Canada
streets, sieving, or
Those walls prevented freedom in trading. The which I could get my bearings. The water was about twenty cents a day, on an average. Canadians wished these barriers abolished and the cold and I had been in it so long began to get My far the large t quantity of ut found was perfectly certain it would be accomplished. drowsy.
is, of course, iron, in the farm of d, st, pellets, His opinion was that if the economical facts were "Chills ran through my veins in quick succes-nails, etc. which is sold at four lige Poking so strong, there would be a tendency handy sion, and I saw I must either pull out for some cash per catty. Next to iran they find copper, resistabl to get over the sentiment that it was where or perish. I looked about and saw the solder, silver, gold and precious stones. The better for Canadians to be associated politically field of ice was at my feet. I swam feel foremost latter are almost valueless, being crushed by the and then concluded I had only to pull from the casts. After scraping together and winnowing with Great Britain than with the United States! He considered an imperial federation impossi-
ice to reach Chicage. So I started, and vigorously... three or four small basket shovela (pochi) they ble. The scheme was no better than a dream. For five hours I worked as I never did will secure about a halfed fran debris. '' He would like to ask the advocates of federation, before. The water was heavy and lifeless. they deposit in a bag which they cany and whether colonies were likely to fiak themselves had to fight for every irch I made. Chicago their waists and on returning home they use n with the stupid foreign policy of England, entering was still nowhere to be seen, and I had no
lonistone to extract all the iron, and afterwards
All clairis against the Steamer must be pre- into quariels and wars with people 10,000 miles:
antion of the time of day. Then 1 changed my salinit the remainder lo washing operationsented to the Undersigindu or before the ath away. He bad, however, the "strongest belief course about half-way round and pulled hard for when the silver-the main article sought is at May, or they will not be recognisest,
-a-great-future-in-tho-English colonics, which awhile. The ice gathered about me again, and once seen. On the above calculations thure is
No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be coun-ersigned-by- he hoped would be strengthened by amicable when sight came I was fighting again for my therefore an army of these metal gatherers, relations with the mother country. Might they life.
minking sixty dollars daily, and this, multiplied
ADAMSON, BELL & Co., not hope for the highest and noblest federation
"Sometimes I could dodge a drift, and at by four months, gives over, seven thousand
Agents. under different guvernntents? It might be, but others 5 climbed upon cakes and crossed them. dollars! Here is almost an unknowntrade proving When the moon rose I got a flash of a view of it sufficiently lucrative. The men are scattered
Hongkong, 28th April, 1888. united by race sympathy, freedom of industry and communion of interests the federation of and then saw my mistake. I had creased the aver all the city on the cart as well as on the perpetual peace that would lead the world to field in the forenoon, when I entered what font-passage-thoroughfares-Their-sweepings- that better day that all hoped for and believed thought was a packet, and all the long pull of can gather but an infinitely small portion of the in, although it might not be permitted their the day with the ice at my feet had driven me
dust of our streets. What a mine of wealth liesTHE WONG-NEY-CHONG DAIRY FARM montal eyes behold it.
toward Michigan. The turn I had taken sent directly under our feet and is blown in our faces
having received by the steamer Changsha - PARIS, March 28th, ine south. I set about and pushed for the moon by every wind! If all hitherto unexplored
a supply of MILCH Cows from Newcastle, At 10 o'clock I saw a faint light in the sky, and tions of the city were to be submitted to chemical
Australia, is now prepired to supply the General an hour later saw it was from the furnaces at analyses what riches would be the result? Here at 9 cents per ailinary pint (reputed), i
Public with PURE COW'S MILK (guaranteed) South Chicago.
is a new industry! The question may be asked
Örders sent direct to WONG-NEY-CHONG whence comes all this wealth. The iron is easily accounted for, from the eart-wheels, the animal DAIRY FARM, or to the care of Mr. V. DANEN- shoes and those of pedestrians. The silver, gold, M. Naval Yard, will be promptly.
attended to copper and precious stones come from the ornaments of the people who ride in carts So
Hongkong, 28th April, 1888, much is written against the filth and pollution of Peking that the enquiring philosopher may now ask is it not another El Dorado? Of course such an analysis in our methods would have an end, but what of all China? This wealth is the accumulation of centuries.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 27th. The Nonne Vremya publishes an interview with Count Schouvaloff, Russia, he said, must pursce, an independent and passive policy.. Germany's future was secured by her excellent military organization, which would not be altered by any change of rulers
PARIS, March 27th. A committee of eleven members oftheChamber of Deputies has been appointed to consider the proposal of the Panama Canal Company to issue attery loan. Five of the members are in favor of the loan and four opposed to it, while the other two desire to make a more minute examination of the question.
OTTAWA, March 27th,
The resolutions declaring in favor of a separ. ation from the Canadian federation in the event of the resolution for unrestricted reciprocity with the United States being defeated, are under corsisleration by the leading men of the maritime provinces. The Ministerialists maintain that the seciprocity resolution will be defeated by between forty and liky majority,
DoBus FERRY (N.Y.), March 27th.
A severe explosion was felt throughout West. chester county this morning between 8.10 and 8.20 o'clock. Doors and windows of houses were rattled and people thought they had experienced. a shock of earthquake. Information received by telephone is to the effect that a large quantity of powder exploded in the Styckney powder factory near Ashford. At the spot where the nills stood there is a hole big enough to bury a house. Two workmen were blown to atoms. They were the only men in'or near the works.
for want of
NEW YORK, March 17th. President James Faulkner, of the defunct First National Bank of Danville, N.Y., decamped for Canada shortly after the bank closed its doors, in September last. After Faulkner decanned
a man was arrested in Torto for intoxication and being a suspicious character. It proved none other than Faulkner Then he went to Eu ape, but negotiations opened with the officials there resulted in his
officers went there, Faulkner gave himself up, went before the Grand Jury and made a clean breast. The result is that last week a brother of Mr. Faulkner was arrested with the cashier of the bank.
-in-
I have just returned from the Hotel du Louvre, where, after waiting for three hours I had the pleasure of seeing General Boulanger. Since the sentence passed on this officer by the Com- mission of Inquiry became known, thousands
of
people have presented themselves at the General's abude, and bustiels of letters and telegrams have been sent in... It has been a very difficult matter to see the General, but having received from him some time ago an amiable letter inviting me to call on him when, ever I chose, I used this as a passport. I found Henri Rochefort, Count Dillon and two strangers in the General's room. Boulanger seemed very calm, bur looked tired, upset and flushed. His friends did all the talking.
I expressed my sincere condolence and said: "The last time I saw you, Monsieur le General, you said that your position prevented you from speaking. Now, after what has happened, it would be of much interest to the world, which has condemned the action of Tirard & Co. as n most ill-advised and injudicious move.
The General, with a very beautiful smile, said: "I am extremely sensible of the kind sympathy of your journal, and would, through you, express thanks to its directors, but, moss
Then I got my bearings and sighted the lights at the Cribs. I pulled up there at mid- night and blew my bugle. I must have called a half a dozen times before an answer came. Then Captain McCabe answered my signal and 1 shouted 'Crib, ahoy !'
Ave, nye; who's there? the Captain answered.", "Pull around to pori.'
"When 1 got there they dropped a bit of a rope, into which I fixed my foot, and they drew me up. They gave me refreshments, pur me to bed and telephoned my wife that I was safe. Cap tain McCabe anys that when I left the ice at night it was fully fifteen miles from the shore, and I think he is about right, because the swim in would take the time I used. I have swam greater distances, that was the first time I was ever lost, and the battle with the ice and cold was a more thrilling episode than I want to experience again."
LONDON, March 29th.
The Daily News considers Bright's utterances more characteristic than judicious. It doubts the prudence of a man in his position letting the
they set up for themselves,
porn
Two ciks (Sy-puh-hsiang, male and female) from the Nan Hai have been presented to Admiral Enomoto by the Chinese Government. They have been placed in cages and forwa da to Japan.
In the afternoon of the gth it rained a very little which altayed our dust for the time being, and provided the atmosphere with some moisture. It had blown every afternoon for the previous six days, and it seems to be taking up the old rdle again-our Peking St. Swithin's, wind and clouds of dust being substituted for rain. The tate British Minister said, when he arrived here,
NOTICE
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VICTOR LACK LODGE.
No. 1016.
Aanmed Lodge will be held in FREEMA SUNS, HALL, Zetland Street, on MONDAY, the 25th instant, at 5 for 5.300'Crack precisely.
Hongkong, 28th Aprli, 1888.
N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above
Auctions.
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to flailton, Ont. The New York ing back cher garçon, what is there to say? My friends Canadians see that he does not care how soon, that he had come to a city of dust and disdain. pursuant to a Décree of the Supreme
here and I are quite dumbfounded by the events. We do not understand it at all. I can hut bow
to the judgment of the Commission of Inquiry, for I am a soldier still."
The Morning Post says: There is no need of insisting upon Bright's idiosyncrasies. He appeared as a representative Englishman, and if his good will was not quite tempered by dis. cretion, his words will be judicially interpreted in America.
The other evening a destructive fire took place in the principal street of the Chinese city and burned down some 30 chien or shops.
VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY TO BE SOLD IMMEDIATELY,
Obe SOLD by PUBLIC AUCTION
CRUSC TAM Court of Hongkong made in KWAN SHI 75. YẪU MI HO, No. 42 of 1878, The Coreans left the capital on the roth. The with the approbation of the ACTING CHIEF Emperor left the Palace at 4.30 on the morning JUSTICE by Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG the person of the lath and proceeded to the Temple of appointed by the said Court upon the respective Agriculture, in the Southern city, opposite the dremises on the days hereinafter mentioned, Temple of Heaven, where he arrived an hour | Vik:- later, and two hours afterwards His Majesty returned to the Palace, having performed the yearly ploughing operation. On the previous day high officials rande all the necessary preparations, and foreigners were, as usual, warned to keep away from the route taken by IN the Imperial cortège. The Emperor ploughed a piece of land about 100 feet long, going up and returning four times. Forinerly three turns of the plough up and down
were
same words were reng, and everywhere the has exceeded the worst expectations, and there great personages are selected, three princes and
"Yes," said Rochefort, who was terribly General Faulkner was chairman of the con- excited," you can bow to this judgment, and you vention that nominated Cleveland for Governor, can suffer and be still. It is part of your heroism, and did all he could to defeat Cleveland in the and perhaps your best way of refuting all these convention. Now he is a prisoner, charged abominable calumnies. But, happily, we are with taking $150,000 of the bank's money here, your friends, who are bound by no such unlawfully. The bank and the brothers were considerations, and we say that your condemna locked upon as solid, and when the crash came tion is an infamy, and that, taken in conjunction the depositors last every cent they bad. It is with the acquittal of Wilson, is the most abomin- charged that $1 ro,coo in promissory notes were able piece of jobbery that ever politician's have floating in the State banks and allowed to go to committed. It's incredible. Here is the republic; protest, all of which were made by Faulkner the virgin for whom I battled in my youth ; on Heathers. General L. Faulkner and the cashier honorable dame, certainly. Why, it is enough had no knowledge of the return of James F.. to make one almost regret the empire," I spent until they were arrested,
five hours yesterday evening, after the acquittal BERLIN, March 27th.. of the one was known and the condemnation of The banks of the Elbe are flooded for a distance the General was expected, in going about Pasis of many miles. Hundreds of villages are sub to learn the public merged. An enormous amount of "damage has
It seemed that this been done and many lives lost,
short sentence said all that could be said. I LONDON, March 27th. heard it repeated not twenty times, but hundreds Lord Salisbury had a prolonged interview with
of times in one evening, Haion de Staal, the Russian Ambassador, to-day, Deputy Laguerre then came in, in the greatest ut which fresh proposals with regard to Bulgaria excitement. He was boiling with rage, but were discussed. It is reported that the result of almost broke down as he cimbraced his friends, the conference was an approach to an entende." The Louvre courtyard was packed as I made
BALTIMORE, March
27th,
my exit, but at least a third of those present Captain William F. Phillips, of the oyster boat were police spies. A whole regiment of mou Hayward, was placed on trial to-day charged chards has been let loose in the Rivoli quacter, with cruelty to scaten. The acts specified in and the most serious preparations are being the indictinent are that Phillips shanghaied three made to check any manifestation. The Goyern men aboard his schooner in November, and that ment have decided, however, in case of an- after leaving here he repeatedly kicked and starved ticipated ripis, to leave the matter in the hands them and several times locked them in the hold of the police exclusively. It would be to provoke of the vessel among the oysters. The men apronunciamiento to ask for military interference, finally concluded to escape. They stripped The are devoted to Boulanger, and shemselves, put their clothing in a tub launched nowhere is his disgrace more keenly felt and It and started to reach the shore. They swam resented than here in the barracks, and floated the tub to another vessel, but while | officers are divided on the question, the older. clining to the chains of the bowsprit were men being satisfied with the action of the recaptured and returned to the schooner. Almost Government in removing one famished and in a nude condition they were Immediately put to work, but Phillips afterward relented and gave them some old clothes. Finally they were put ashore in the Honga river, in the dead of night. They walked to this cily.
BERLIN, March 29th. "The Empress Victoria, replying to addresses presented to her by seventeen associations of which she is a patroness, says her foremost and, most sacred duty will be to care for her suffering hristrand: She is conscious of the task devolving upon her as Queen and Empress, and will accomplish it to the best of her ability. At the game time, the is reminded that she has other accial duties, moral and intellectual. The educa tion of women, the sanitary condition of the tabering classes and improvement of the facilities by which women may earn a livelihood will constantly be before her. The noblest vocation of a princess, she says, in untiring activity in the work of ameliorating the suffering of the Laboring classes. Owing to the difficulty of her task, she is doubtful whether she will succeed as well as she desites,
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they were jealous. The juniors pro furious, Ainong civilians the bourgeoisie in satisfied, but among bond-fide workmen indignation is so grept that the fears of the Government appens exceedingly well founded. The anarchiste and socialista are pleased, inasmuch as they look on Boulanger as the enemy of that universal pence which is their pet hobby. Their, indignation, however, at the acquittal of Wilson, is unlimited.
General Boulanger has decided to withdraw from the Laon contest and to accept the candieney for the Department of the Nord. He will issue an electorial address immediately and make a pr socal canvas. The Nord election is fixed for April 1stb.)
Telegrams, written by Boulanger in cipher, me reported to have come to the Minister of the interior. These dispatches are said to implicate Boulanger in a conspiracy,
CHICAGO, March 29th.. Captain Paul Boyton, the noted swimmer, had anexperience in Lake Michigan on Sunday which he thinks he will not forget for some time. The capiaip has grown heavy during the winter and
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BERLIN, March 30th. Terrific rainstorms with sharp lightning and thunder, exceptionally heavy, are the conditions of the weather. Pasen is without gas, the works being destroyed. The Rhine is rising rapidly The people are evacuating their houses on the lower banks. The inundations yet to come, it is feared, will be wide-spread, as the snow averages four feet deep in the forest lands, and rapid thawa are imminent, Statistics here show that 2000 people of all ages are absolutely homeless in the inundated districts The deemed sufficient, but the Emperor Yung- Mayor of Dantzig has telegraphed for aidching having resolved to add one more turn. for the sufferers. The distress along the Vistula the figure ever since has stood at four, Nine will be no harvest for the inhabitants of the six high officials, the officials of the Board of surrounding districts this year. At Posen the Rites having the precedence, to ulough a piece military barracks have been opened as a refuge of land. They are each furnished with a bullock for persons who have been made homeless by and a plough and they are required to p form the Doods. At Cologne several quays have been nine times, or in all up and down eighteen times. submerged, and those who inhabit the houses The seed is formally sown but nothing much is near the banks of the Rhine 'ure' leaving them, By the capsizing of a boat near Bertzenberg nine expected from it as the season is not opportune. I suppose, however, the grain thus obtained would persons were drowned,
be offered in sacrifice at, perbapi, the Temple of Heaven. In ancient tinies the same rites were performed in Japan-the insular country having copied
all Its observances from China." clasing meeting of the Dabaling Society IN for the present session look place hit the house of Dr. Edkins on the gth, when Mr. Hancock read a most interesting paper on the Panama Carial, the botany of its district, the discovery of the Pacific Ocean and other cognate subjects which group themselves around Panama. On the conclusion of the paper, Mr. Addis clear financial statement of the present condition of the Canal Company, and Dr. Dudgeon a state- mest of the means which were tried to import canal. It was felt that work must be completed Chinese labour and the future prospects of the either by the French Government of that of the. Unied States. The latter. Government-might- well apply its large surplus revenue to such an international object. A social cotertainment thereafter took place.
FLORENCE, March 30th, The Italians show every courtesy to Queen Victoria, Amang the bouquets which have been presented to her was one from the Horticultural Society of Tuscany, composed exclusively of flowers native to parts of the Queen's dominions. The Himalayas, the plains of India, Burmah, the Cape and Australia were represented. For this attention the Queen, through Sir Henry Ponsonby, signified her gratification,
ROME, March 30th. King. John of Abyalnia has proposed terms of peace to General San Marzano, Commander-in- Chief of the Italian forces in Abyssinia. General San Marzana bas communicated the proposals
to his Government.
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It was officially announced last night that Abyssinian.officer had applied at the italian-out posts for permission to speak with General San Marzano. The officer delivered a letter ment ha instructed General San Marzano to from King John asking for peace. The Govern facilitate a settlement. The overtures made by King John are, said to be in a measure due to the great scarcity of provisions among his people.
NINGPO.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT),
April zoth Mesars P. and G. Davidson left this port yesterday, so the well known house of Davidson & Co. is clod in Ningpo. The founder of the house was exceedingly popular with the Chinese, who had good reason to express their esteem, The demonstration made yesterday by the
The
I hear that a telegram was lately sent to the second city of the British Empire vid Russia, and was returned from Kinchia because the aaon of the country was not given This is very flattering to the city whose motto is f Glasgow fourish. The flags of the Legations were hoisted on the 9th in honour of the birthday of the King of the Belgians.
emorial presented to the throne, the number of destitute persons in Honan fa put dow it go0,000, for whom hel. is requested fromthe Emperor. In spite, therefore, of reported larg supplies of silver to that province, more than is needed, and of the statement that a London subscription is now no longer necessary, the urgency of the case having pasted, this meterial speaks for Utsel-V. C: Daily News.
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THURSDAY,
Auctions.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.
TLand by Public Auction, to be held on the HE following Particulars of Sale of Crown
spot, on
MONDAY,
the 30th day of April, 1888, at 4 PM, are published for general information.
By Command,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary.
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Colonial Secretary's Office,
Hongkong, zist April. 1888.
Particulars of the letting by Public Auction Såle, to be held on MONDAY, the 10th day of | April, 1888, at 4 PM, by Order of His Excellency the Governor, of Sixteen Lots of
the Colony at longkong, for a term of 999 Years.
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PARTICULARS OF THE LOTS.
Locality.
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PUBLIC. AUCTION.
NDER instructions received from the
N. will Sell by
Public Auction, on
THURSDAY
the 17th May, 1888, at 4 O'CLOCK P.M., At the Premises. ALL THAT VALUABLE PIECE of GROUND situate at BELCHERS BAY, LAP SAP WAN, Hongkong, abulting on the North side thereof on Belcher Street and measuring thereon 200 feet on the South side thereaf on portion of INLAND LOT No. 905 and measuring thereon aoo feet on the East on Davies Street and measuring thereon 200 feet and on the West on Cadogan Street and measuring therein 200 feet containing in the whole 40.000 square feet and registered in the Land Office as SECTION A of INLAND LOT No. cos. Together with the Furnace workshops and buildings thereon lately used and occupied by the HONGKONG AND MACAO GLASS MANU- FACTURING COMPANY as they now stand and which said Piece of Ground is held for. the residue of a term of 999 years, subject to the annual Crown Rent of $528.57.
Lot,
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The property will be offered for sale in One
For further particulars and conditions of sale, apply to
WOTTON & DEACON,
Solicitors,
35. Queen's Road,.
or to
H. N. MODY,
Auctioneer,
Victoria Buildings, Queen's Road.
Hongkong, 5th April, 1888.
Entinations.
the 3rd day of May, 1888, at 3 D'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, FIVE LOTS, the VERY VALUABLE BLOCK of BUILDINGS situate on MARINE LOT No. 44, MARINE LOT No 125A, and Section B of MARINE LOT No. 4, and in the best and most Central Chinese business portion of the City and with frontages to three important Public Streets viz.: Bonham Strand, Wing Lok Street and Cross Street and comprising - Nos. 1 and 2 Cross Street and Nas, 21, 23, in a respectable English Family.
26, 27, 29, 34, and 33. Wing Lok Street and Nos. 11, 33, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, and 45. Bonham Strand. Owing to the favorable ituation of this property the owner or owners thereof can always count upon 'securing good tenants.
ON
FRIDAY,
the 4th day of May, 1888, at 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: SIX LOTS the VALUABLE PROPERTY qituate on INLAND LOT No. 2050 in the best part of Hollywood Road and compris. ing Nos. 200 and 211, Hollywood Road and 1, 2, 3, and 4. Ng Kwai Fong, also the three storied house No. 133, Hollywood Road situate on the RemainingPortion of Inland Lot No. 384 and the three houses No. 14. 16, and 18, Forecasion Street situate on Inland Lot No. arac and the Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 2120,
ON
SATURDAY,
the 5th day of May, 1888, at 3 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, ONE LOT¤PIECE of VACANT GROUND registered as INLAND LOT÷No. 472 and situate at Bowrington between Mathiason and' Percival Streets and suitable for the ----erection-of-Kerosine-Godowne
The sale plans can be seen at the Office of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors and at Mr. J. M. ARMSTRONG, the Auctioneer,
Particulars and conditions of sale may be obtained on application at the offices of Messrs. WOTTON & DEACON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of Messrs. CALDWELL & WILKINSON, Solicitors, Hongkong, of Mr. EwENS, Solicitor, Hongkong of Mr. "WEBBER, Solicitor, Hongkong, and of Mr. M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer.
Dated this rath day of April, 1888.
ALFRED G. WISE, Acting Registras of the Supreme Court
A
NOTICE.
1445
FRENCH GENTLEMAN just arrived in Hongkong wants BOARD and LODOING
Answer
MR. VIZ, Care of French Consulate, Hongkong, 27th April, 1888.
1444
Insurances.
GENERAL NOTICE.
TUE ON TAI INSURANCE COMPANY, ' (LIMITED.) CAPITAL - TAELS 600,000,
EQUAL TO RESERVE FUND
$833,333-35 $240,000.00,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. IK HINO, Esq. Lou TSO SHUN, Esq.
LO YEUX MUQN, Esq.
MANAGER-HO AMEI.
MARINE RISKS on GOODS, &c., taken at CURRENT RATES to all parts of the
world.
HEAD OFFICE, 8 & 9, PRAYA WEST,
tongkong, 17th December, 1885,
[877
NOTICE.
THE MAN ON INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
CAPITAL SUBSCRIBED...
The above Campany is prepared to accept MARINE KIŞKE A CURRENT Raras on GOODS Ke Palicics granted to all: Parts of the world Payable at any of its Agencies.
WOO LIN YUEN,
Secretary.
HEAD OFFICE, No. 2, QUEEN'S ROAD WEETY Hongkong, ist February, 1882,