fatimations?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MAY 25, ab 8.
MESSRE, Adamson, Bell & Co, agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam
A S. WATSON & CO., LTD. left Shanghai on the 24th inst, at
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FURTHER SUPPLY
of.
MONTSERRAT LIME FRUIT JUICE,
CORDIALS,
JUJUBES, and
MAWSON & SWAN'S
TABLETS
NEW PATENT WATER FILTERS..
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
.
Established A.D, 1841.
Hoa 8th May, 1828
500.
BIRTH.
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On the morning of the 4th inst., at No. 8, Peller's Hill, the wife of E. J. ODADAYA, of a [525 MARRIAGE. On the 1th April, at St. James's Enfield Highway, by the 'Rev. Silvester Davies, Vicar, CHARLES DAVID HOTTOMLEY, of Hongkong, didest son of the late A. D. Bottomley, of Cheshunt, Herts to Exit MARY, Second daughter of Frederick T. Cater, of Dorarits, Enfield Highway, Middlesex,
ang Gelegraph
Hosokong, Friday, May 25, 1888,
LBGRAM S.
(Reuter)
FLOODS IN ILLINOIS.
50,000 acres, mostly wheat, have been flooded
LONDON, May 23rd.
itp., for this port,-
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A REGULIR mcction of Victoria Lodge No rozo, will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for'q o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
THE paternal authorities of the Holy City have ssued a decree forbidding the sale of all fruits, both ripe and unripe, with the exception of oranges and yellow bananas. This, says the Independente, has been adopted as a preventive mensure against the cholera epidemic which has teen raging at Singapore and Saigon. The decree reails exactly like one the Lilliputians or the Hichons would have enacted under analogous circumstances.
WE note that at Lloyd's Captains' Roams, on The 5th April, 133 fully `paid £10 shares in the
Angier Line (Limited) were sold by public auction, The properly of the company consists of the following steamers ;--Angers. · Anjer Head, | Japanese, St. Asaph,and Suppicick. They were all purchased at £5 tos. per share. Four 100
fully paid shares in the steel screw-steamer
Chelydra, 1,571 tons net register, built in 1885, alan managed by Messrs. Angler Brothers, sold for 37 10s. per share.
WE hope to be able to deal editorially in our "THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Hector next issue with the ridiculous farce which was from Liverpool, left Singapore on the afternoqu played with sich great success at the meeting of of the 23rd Inst. for this port, and is dus on the
29th,
the Punjom Mining Co., held yesterday afternoon! SOBAKING sta Unionist meeting at Battle on the 13th April, Sir John Gorst, Under-Secretary State for India, said that when the Conservative Government came into power they found this country on the brink of war with Rússia. The relations Between Russia and England were now. of the most. friendly description, while the frontier of India had been strengthened by rail. ways, fortifications, ronds, and works, to make the invasion of that country from the North West as nearly as possible an impossibility. The Empire of China bad been treated with the most neighbourly cordiality,
Four Italians and one English sailor, farming part of the crew of the Italian barque Fratellenza, arrived at Singapore on the 15th inst, in the Dutch steamer Kongree from Olchleh, and reported the loss of the Fratellenza on the 24th March last, south-west of Ball, on a voyage from Sourabaya to England. After being 35 days in a boat they were picked up by the ship Moor from Calcutta to Australia, and landed on the Dutch man-of-war and forwarded to. Dicle in Acheen. The fate of the Captain, mate, and the rest of the crew is unknown..
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SAYS the Amoy Gazette_of_the_zand, inst;--| We regret to learn that Captain Blumenberg of the steamship Chiang Hye Teng died yesterday in the Chinese new Hospital, and that a Malay seaman also died this morning. The Chiang flye Teng left her mooring this morning and
proceeded to the outer harbour,
By kind permission of Colonel Anderson and the officers of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, the Regimental Band will play in the Fublic Gardens, on Sunday, the zyth instant, from 9 top.m. The following will be the programme
March........."Arichreless Overture...... Sybil". Selectiu...." Dugally " Vale.España" Selection,... Bohemian Girl
Dyke,
leger Cellier. Waldrendel Butte
Jeu Moran, Bandmaster.
till
By the arrival, on the and inst. of Mr. P. Nolasco da Silva, Interpreter to the Portuguese Minister at Tientsin, it is surmised that the text of the long looked for. Treaty has reached the Holy City.
The latest Chinese rendition case in which a man named Ng Kwai is in custody for taking the life of a Mandarin's servant, on March 1886, who was, with his master, a passenger on beard a junk in Chinese waters, and which was
st heard on the igh that has again beenĄ GERMAN banker, travelling by tail in a first.
class carting toward Vienna, had as a follow- adjourned until Monday next. We are informed that the fourth weekly Silver traveller at one of the intermediate stations an Spoon competition of the longkong Rifle Asso. old gentleman, who entered into conversation ciation will take place to-morrow, Saturday before his companion, and before he did so asked and proved very pleasant. The banker got but afternoon, a1.4.45, and that there will be a similar further notice. Members are requested not to competition every week, weather permitting, until commence the competition until one or more of the committee arrive on the ground to take the
scores.
THE Hamburg correspondent of the L. & C. Express reports that the iron screw steamer Fidelio, formerly belonging to the well-known firm of A. J. Hertz and Sons, of Hamburg, has
Hamborg, whose boats are trading on the Chi- been sold to the steamship company of Swatow at nese coast. The Fidelio is only four years sid, is of 853 net register tons, and is a first-rate vessel.","
replied, to Vienna. "I. have a daughter very the latter how far he was going. The gentleman
like to give a note of introduction to her," "I have also a daughter very well married there," said the other. Would it be too great a liberty to ask the name ?" "My daughter," the gentle. man answered, "is married to the Emperor of Ausiria." It was the old King of Bavaria.
well inarried there," said the banker. "I should
the Inspector of Weights and-Measures with The following shops were to-day charged by defrauding the public by means of short weights - or defective balances. No. 80 Praya West,&per cent out; 287 Queen's Road West, 3 per cent short; 303 Queen Road West, 3 per cent ; 353 same road, 4 per cent; and 129 First Street, 23 per cent out.
I was a case in an American court some little time back. A patent-right suit was brought before Judge Nelson. Mr. William H. Steward was counsel on one side. In summing up be occupied a whole day. The counsel on the other side made a long speech, and the judge FROM the telegram in another column, received charged the jury. After, the jury had been by His Excellency the Governor from the absent about two hours, they came into court, Secretary of State for the Colonies, it will and the foreman said," Your honour, the jury be seen that Captain H. G. Thomset's services would like to ask' à question, "You can to his country for the long period of 48 OUR-Amoy correspondent-writes-under-yester--proceed." "Well,-your-honour,-we-should-like years has been recognised by the bestowal know anything about it the 4th innocent... day's date:-News has just arrived from Tung to know what this sult is about Hongkong of C. M. G-ship. This is the distinction (?)
umatra coast. · · They were then taken on board
The first defendant in answer to
Mr. Sercombe-Smith said "I did not know ;" the and made the same, reply, the gildid not.
"had not any false weights" and anyhow, he thought it might be a little wrong but did not. know. His Worship fined the 4th defaulter $30 and the others $2 each
SPRING Poetry as "Set Up" by an Apprentice: once more the time for maple sugar dawns; once more the poets and the robins sing; once more the editor's wastebasket yawns to catch the poet's ode to gentle spring. Soon" June's sweet flowers" will claim the poet's care, then fields of waving grain" a change will bring; then "attumn's fruit" and "winter's frosty air will give eprieve from madrigals on spring, wa Tan, she was attacked by pirates, who fred Wodehouse, after hearing the Inspector and the honor (?) at its proper worth.
wa of a daring act of piracy, resulting in a loss juries are great in their own particular line, but which a Melbourne druggist; seat hume inbought and sold with the same;" the sth
they can't beat this.
But from the poeters who sings of death the tired waste-basket never gets n rest ; she tunes
of len lives. It appears that one of the native passenger boats which,,ply between Amoy and. Tung-wa, left Amoy on the 21st with a full com- plement of 8a passengers and cargo, and when nearing her destination, at a place called Tung;
a rolley, killing, six men. The passcogers in their hurry to escape rushed to one side of the
"A WOMAN was apprehended by the Inspector of Nuisances a few days ago for creating a nuisance and thus carrying on a noxious trade. Mr. in the Chinese quarter by boiling sugar bags
somewhat aged feminine offender tell their stories,
connection with the Jubilee Exhibition, refused with scorn and contempt. We know a man who keeps a gin-shop in George Street, Sydney, whe is a C.M.G. Mr. Wodehouse is a Companion Russell. We hope these gentlemen value this of this distinguished Order, and so is Mr. Justice
and has broken in two pieces right amidships IT is not often that a steamer which has stranded
has been entirely and thoroughly repaired in such a manner, as to make her as good a sex boat, if.
her lyre at every parting breath to waft some junk which caused her to capsize, and foisr oftemanded the case in order to subpoena the AN Austrian correspondent writes to the not better, than was the case previous to the the passengers were drowned. When the junk Crown and hear what it had to say about the the C. Express --The Austro-Hungarian disaster, The initial part of the story, we think, capsized the pirates made good their escape, and matter, but this morning-appointed for the Government, according to which they are obliged of Friday, the 23rd of September last year,
spirit up amon the blest.
so far none of them have been captured.
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in Illinois. Terrible distress prevails in conse- having an uamuzzled dangerous dog on his The illegitimate and lucrative business of opium | manipulator-şil ready on the stand-was dis- from Trieste to Hong Kong and homewards, and for Singapore, via the Suez Canal, with a
quence,
FRANCE AND GERMANY. Passports are required by all Frenchmen entering Alsace, bearing the wire of the German Ambassador.
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-From-the-Straits-Times-)– THE ADJUTANT GENERAL AND THE
1- PREMIER,
...• LONDON, May 15th.
In the House of Lords, Lord Wolseley, prefacing
MR. J. C. Howgun, a clerk in the public works, who was summoned some ten days ago for
premises which had bitten a little boy in the back, and which he had promised to hand overto the police for destruction, was this morning again called up to Wyndham Street for disobedience
of Magisterial orders and for an infraction of duty bordering on contempt of Court. On the case coming on for hearing Inspector Swanston was able to say the dog had been in the meantine handed over and destroyed, whereupon the defendant was discharged.
SAYS the L. & C. Express of April aoth :-In further receded in value from previous unpre- ented tow quotations, affording fresh proof the the common robbish finds no favour with consumers. Of good and fine quality of China
smuggling apparently goes on apace; only the other day we reported that 12 tacks had been seized in Hongkong, and the week before last
the amount of contraband of this nature totalled 3.500 laels, which, together with that seized during the last four months, maket the collective sum of taels 4,500. During the last six-months-there-have-been-intercepted in Hongkang an its passage from Canton, Kowloon and other places, no less than 15,000 acts While all this contraband business is going on
the iron screw-steamer Leunax, of 2,051 gross register, sailed from Liverpool eneral cargo, consisting of machinery and fine goods. Soon after starting a dense for settled over the river, and the vessel ran ashore off Seaforth. Immediately on hearing of the disaster lighters were sent to the scene of the calamity with a view of discharging some of her cargo in order-that-she-might-refloat-As the tide fell, however, the vessel became very much strained,
- Lloyd's has signed a new contract with the
is worth a brief recapitulation. On the morning rehearing-the Crown did not put in an appear- ance, possibly from being tired, and the noxious to run three steamers per year from Trieste to foinbay and homewards, and twelve steamers charged.
also twelve steamers from Colombo to Calcutta in correspondence with the steamers going to Hong Kong. The steamers bound for Bombay are to call at Port Said, Suez and Aden; those for Hong Kong at Suez, Aden, Colombo, and Singapore; those for Calcutta are to call at Madras. All those steamers which are to be run between Treste and Bombay or Hongkong are to be at least 2,300 tons register, while the steamers between Colombo and Calcutta must be of 1,300 tons. The larger steamers are to be run at 11
On the arrival at Liverpool, on the 15th April,
་་་་་་ of the British and Aftican Company's steamer Calabar, an armed party of the Coastguard hoarded the vessel, and placed under martial arrest Sub-Lieutenant Saunders, of the British navy. Mr. Saunders, it appears, was a sub- lieutenant on board Her Majesty's ship Goshawk, now serving on the West Coast of Africa, and in consequence applied several times to be invalided home, but this not being complied with
nsunder. The vessel was then handed over to and some few hours after the disaster she tent
his remarks by stating that he had no intention of the Ten Market, China of the lowest grades has complains of Hongkong smuggling great quantis accepted Mr. Saunders left his ship. He was Lloyd's in order to have a direct line between operations being intrusted to Captains Chisholm, in this harbour the Canton Custom House be sent in his resignation. This not being knots: The Government is subsidising the the Liverpool Salvage Association, the salvage
tling the presem Ministers personally, said he must uphold the views he expressed last month *f the banquet to Sir John Pender, and he now maintained that the military resources of the country are inadequate to guarantee the safety even of London, and that the Army is now twenty thousand men below what it was in 1960; he had aften been tempted to resign, but had refrained “in-view of the inutility of such a course, bui would now leave the decision in the hands of Lord Salisbury,
Lord Salisbury accepted Lord Wolseley's
ttisclaimer in regard to attacking Her Majesty's Ministers, but said that appeared to him to be the only object when officers appealed to the uninformed public against their superiors:
,
tea there has seldom been so small a selection, though the stock of tea in 'hand is large for the Tag end of the, season. In Indian tea the] advance in the lower grades is so miatked that it wust draw attention to other growths. The median and fine grades are about as cheap as it any period of this season. As regards Ceylon tea, though late supplies, here and there show
improved quality, the imports this season to tate are decidedly inferior to those of the previous, not so much to any deterioration in the leaf, but to the process in manufacturing it.
ties of the drug into the City of Rams; and partly in support of such statement, though not wholly any we hoard two days ago that no less tHKR 75 chests, containing three thousand balls, had been cized by the Salt lekin in the Canton River but whether it emanated from the stor houses of this city, or had been brought up Chipa Sea in junks is a question which has to be decided.
Austro-Hungary (Trieste and Fiume) and Asiatic ports, and the export of Austrian goods, trans last ten years from 4036 tons to 17,174 tons, ported by the Lloyd's steamers, rose during the while the number of passengers rose from 44 to 473 persoas.
loudly cheered by the, passengers and crew of the Calabar as he was being escorted away. H.M.S. Porpoise arrived here this afternoon. She anchored in the Roads about noon, with torpedo boats Nos. 35 and 36, which she had towed out, near by. It is exactly two months since she left | 704 England, but she was delayed by bad weather in TWENTY-Two high-binders; boarding-house the Bay of Biscay. The upper part of her forerunners, harbour-thieves, or whatever may be mast was lost in bad weather off Ceylon. Since their special means of earning a living, were then she has had a fair passage, feeling nothing ranged before the Police magistrate this morning of the "typhoon" which was announced from for boarding the French mail steamer Yangtsee Manila same days ago. The Porpoise is a fast, on the 24th inst. before she had cast, anchor lightly armoured craft, her speed--178 knots or made fast to her buoy, P. C. Nevin-who making her practically, a torpedo-catcher. stood in the witness box as the complainant The torpedo-boats alongside have a speed of declared that as the steamer passed through the 22 knots. The Porpoise will remain here anchorage he saw from the Police launch a great to join the China squadron.
Stack, and Young. They immediately took mea the bad weather came. The boilers were taken -sures so as to get well on with the work before
and subsequently towed into the Sandon Dock, out, and were floated on to the Waterloo beach, which is a piece of work very rarely attempted. *After discharging some of the cargo from "foraad" she was temporarily patched up, and towed across the river by two tugs and safely beached. Subsequently she was placed in the Langton, and thence taken to the Sandon Dock, Liverpool. The floating of the after half of the steamer was not so easily accomplished, and was attended in the first attempts by a slight accident, but this was speedily rectified. It happened that while being docked, a heavy sea was running at the time, and she struck the pierhead and started a steamer's side, which some of them continued Vitimately the second half along with the first doing while the vessel was endeavouring to reach was placed in the Sandon Graving Dock. her buoy. The steamer had her boat out trying to When the two halves were placed in the graving make a rope fast to the buoy, but the tide dock Messrs. H. and C. Crayson undertook being too strong, she swung past it and had to to effect the necessary repairs in ten weeks, let go her anchor to recover herself. After and in that time she was taken out of swinging round the anchor was picked up and the graylog and placed in the wet dock. Not another attempt made to get hold of the buoy, withstanding the various vicissitudes through which was successful. Nevin then went on which the Zennor has passed, she sailed out of board and asked the Captain's permission to Liverpool the other day for Glasgow, and no arrest the defaulters, some of whom he found on
Java meets with brisk competition at the range refused the accommodation, defendant went about a fortnight, after which she will go north number of sampan men clambering up the bulkhead, but it was fortunately secured,
of moderate prices.
(From the Courrier de Saigos.) GENERAL BOULANGER.
PARIS, May 15th..Tue recent disclosures in connection with the General Boulanger's journey to the depart | kidnapping case beard at the Magistracy at the ment of Nord has been accomplished without. commencement of this month, have led the any incident.
Hongkong correspondent of the Macao Indepen dente to largely build on the extensive abuses which, he says, are tolerated in this Colony. In Chinese style of logic, the correspondent aunches inte rabid assertions that Great Britain inlerates and promotes the slave-trade when it suits her convenience to do so, that the
to be re-established in Hongkong, and that Portugal cannot place any reliance on the promises and pledges of the Ditish Government,
THE TRANSPORT "COLOMBO,"**
May 17th, The Cavierit left Marseilles yesterday to substitute the transport Colomba, taking up her passengers at Suez.
MONSIEUR CONSTANS.
THREE Chinese were charged at the Police Court yesterday by Ng Akai, a barber, with carrying deadly weapons and assaulting him on the 23rd inst. Ny said his barber's shop was at the back of the Hongkong Club, and about ten days ago the first defendant came and asked for the loan of a dollar. On being away and began sprending a report that the barber had been talking ill of him. On the 23rd inst. at 9 p.m. complainant went to a house in Sai Ying Strect to see a friend who had just arrived from Canton, when the three accused came up, armed with choppers, threw him on the ground and beat him with their fists and also with the backs of the choppers. They then dragged him to the kitchen where he became insensible, and then the cook called the police. Witness did not know the second and third
was called Chang A-you, and had no employ ment; he was not at home when witness got to the house; he had been in Hongkong two or util Saturday, bail being allowed in one surety of $10 each.
WONG HING, aged go, the master of a junk, was charged at the Magistracy yesterday by Captain Tonningsen of the steamer Yangtis, with anchoring his junk in the Southern fairway of the harbour on the 24th inst. Complainant said that early in the morning he wanted to get to the P. and O. wharf, when he found the defen- dant's junk at anchor right in the middle of the fairway in consequence of which, while backing
Ocial papers notify that M. Constans will coolie-trade was stopped in Macao only defendants. His friend, whom he went to visit, and filling his steamer to clear the junk, he ran the upper deck and some in,the 'tween decks, in
teamin Governor-General of Cochin China.
MR. H. G. THOMSETT.
We have been favoured with the following has invariably been our custom to avoid three days. Mr. Wodehouse remanded the cans defendant's junk at anchor in the place indicated evading notice from the police who were on their' copy of a telegram received by His Excellency.scussing a point with coolies, and as we are
the Governor--
FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES TO THE GOVERNOR OF HONGKONG.
LONDON, May 23rd.
is gives me much pleasure to inform you that. Her Majesty approves Thomsett, C.M.G.
KNUTSFORD,
"
THE “ARRÁTOON APCARY IN COLLISION. Messrs. David Sassoon, Sons &Co. received telegraphic information yesterday from their Agents at Singapore to the effect that the steamer Arratoon Ascar had arrived there on the previous, dny, and would probably be detained for two months in consequence of having been in collision. No cargo had been
perfectly aware of the Identity of the Anglophobic scribbler of the independente, we will certainly give him the benefit of our`silence. In our opinion, the Macao emigration traffic and what is going on in Hongkong differ toto calo. In modern Gomorrha abuses were the rule and laws the exception, while in this Colony just the reverse takes place.
THERE has been no little discussion lately both in China and in the United Kingdom regarding the deterioration of Chiness, leas, and not long ago the Canton Chamber of Commerce drew up a report for the information of the Chinese authorities," as to the causes of the recent falling off in the export of teas from this country, owing to the serious competition from Assam and from Ceylon. In that paper the Chamber
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HARRY PARNELL-a very far distant relation, we believe, of the "Uncrowned King of Ireland
imbibed too much rewater on Wednesday night, with the result that while Chun Doss, police constable No. 675, was perambulating the Fraya about 9.30, he found Harry lying in the mud as drunk as the proverbini hatter
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Into à sampan and smashed it, for which he had the third class quarters, in store moms covered to pay ten dollars to the owner as compensation. up with mattresses and blankets, in water P.C. Nevia stated that at 6.15 am. he saw closets and in bath rooms, all with the object of between the Harbour Office and the Canton track. The culprits defended their proceedings wharf, while the steamer was right across the by stating that the steamer was at anchor and channel with her bows into the Fraya, Delen her accommodation ladders lowered down. M dant, in answer to his Worship, sald he was Sercombe Smith fined the prisoners $10, or in thrown into the fairway by the current which default, fourteen days in gaol, but the fince were was strong. Mr. Wodehouse imposed a fine of paid in all except three cases. Bts with the addition of $ro to repay the steamer's expenses. Defendant preferred the Two strange stories illustrative of the enterprise alternative of twenty-one days in geot.
and barefacedness with the Chinese procureurs and procurcases work have fust reached us. On the 18th Instant the Danish steamer Frej was finishing loading at: Haiphong, and was almost ready to start, when the Customs launch came alongside. The officials surprised Captain, Lund by stating that a number of Annamite girls were on board having been beguiled by Chinese. A search was made, and no less then seventeen were discovered slowed away in the bunkers and similar places. They were taken ashore, where one stated that there were some more girls on board. The
doubt her future career will be 'watched with much interest.
THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
this Company was held yesterday afternoon In The second ordinary half-yearly meeting of the Hongkong Hotel The Chairmen, Mr. W. G. Brodie, presided, and among those present were
the Hon, C: P. Chater, Messia: D. Gillles, E. L Woodin, and W. Wotton (directors), the Hon," P. Ryrie, Meners, J. V. V. Vernon, T. E. Candler, Barros, A. M. Apcar, W. Legge, H. Kublmann, E R. Lyall, G. Murray, Báin, D. McCulloch, F. J. W. Rutter, T. E. Davies, E. B, Torcy, J.S. Legge R. K. Leigh, H. Crawford, A. G. Stokes and A. O'D. Gourdin (Secretary).
The Secretary having read the notice conven ing the meeting
The - Chairman, stated that, as the report- and balance,best had been before them for some time bat, he should have little add, except in explanation of ond Cor: two details in the accounts. The Company had had to contend with many difficulties, which. were not easily overcome. When it was expected. that the mine would be in a fair way of yielding. substantial returns, freat disappointments were
found to be damaged up to the time of sending for China toregain her old position in the London sacred uniform, and doing damage to the tung Lime had all their flags flying, and the Messa. officers of the Tribunal then visited the Aru experienced on the part of the engineering
the telegram.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
"Ar Singapore on the 16ths just: Captain Carr relieved Capt. Royse in command of HMS, Orian.
It is announced that Mr. W. H. Treacher, inte Governor of British North Borneo, has received "Kauppointment in the Perak Government.service.. THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co, courteously informs us that the steamship Bokhara, with the next English mail, left Singa. pore on the 23rd inst., at 6p.mi, for this port
A SEVERE thunderstorm broke over Amoy on the evening of the 21st, inst, doing considerable -damage to the growing crops. During the storm the lightning entered a native house in the town, killing one woman and damaging the furniture considerably,
stall,
Chup Doss is a kind-hearted bobby, so he | THE appearance of the harbour-yesterday was proceeded to place the inebriated tar-Parnell faintly indicative of the yearly national festival balls from the steamship Victoria—into a chaif, which la celebrated throughout the length and with the intention of providing him with a night's breadth of the British Empire with moce or less free quarters topside. The fiery soul of the enthusiasm. The fleet being away North, the distant relative of the Irish Liberator sparned the man-of-war adchorage was thinly represented hospitality of the British Government, and be by that old caisson, the Victor Emanual, and immediately commenced to carry the war into the gunboat Zinnst, both of which dressed ship the sumy's country by landing the minion of in the usual gals style, The Chilian cruiser of Commerce of the oldest tea port in China | the law a straight left-hander on the sa fronts, too, the Spanish gunboat Manila, a Chinese expressed an opinion that it was now impossible following up this attack by teasing this gunboat, and the Portuguese gün vessel Rio
market owing to various causes in which gwality of three or four dollars. Eventually the bellli gerles Marfilmes out-going steamer, the Douglas and commanded Captain Lund to find the girls, members of which were constantly leaving had, no doubt, a good deal to answer for, As gerent sailor men was overpowered-anotti Cos Namor, lying alongside the wharf, half or have his ship detained. Lund know nothing and going home. Owing to this the works
seriously behind me. As he had been deared matters are going now, said the Chamber, the brutal injustice to Ireland and safely provided for a doren-other-steamers and about_an_equal | of any guli and's general search was at once to give the shareholders some informating a extinction of the China tea trade is only a matter until yesterday morning, whenthat genial “beak,” number of sailing ships were quite gay with made, ending in the discovery of the gift is a tothe present state of the Company, he bud a of time" In view of such a possibility, which has Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, wanted some explanation bunting. A boliday, was rigorously observed store-room, with two of thistr kidmypers toples in stating that during the term-anding been apprehended by commercial men now for why Mr. Parnell forgot himself and the honored by the local Banks and Insurance Companies, charge of them. The men at once leapt over
31st March, 1888, the wages and salaries had amoun 15:439 51/ made up at follows the last two or three years, it would be interesting name he bears so faras to get drunkaan disorderly but very few of the shops and other places of } but were arrested, as was also = Chinese fireman, ku
zumi stores and medicines $577, launch stores. to know whether, the Chamber of Commerce in the public streets and to assault a constable in business closed their doors. At noon a royal | who was suspected of conniving at their secretio $607, pairy and alterations to launch in Siegas. in Canton or the Chamber here in Hongkong the lawful execution of his duty,No defence salute was fired by the Victor Emmanuel, which it is supposed, that the girls were being taken Into pare $3.707, travelling and caring of material $1,349, sundries "$1,025, royalty to Sultan of made any ellion to stop the cargo of filthy said the ingenuous patriot. –“Final és for bridg. – was taken up by the port battery and the Chillán - the interior of China in swell tha
To dyuminite. “Cass the total decomposed leaf which was recovered from the drunk and $3 for damaging the constable's cruiser. At 5 p.m. the usual parade of the troops victims there. But the daring of thes
expenditure, Being $25.739, whilst the Com Genfruin two years ago after she had been at uniform," responded bis Worship, Aher vainly of the Garrison and the Volunteers was to be was even more glaringly exemplified
on hand, as fixed deposit in the Bank, the bottom of Hongkong harbour for over three hunting round his trousers' pockets for the fire held on the Parade and Cricket Grounds; but harbour, only a few weeks ago. Bussian
iness, opium to be accounted for in industry. $4,393, weeks. There was about one thousand tons of Mexicans demanded by a grasping Govemment, owing to the inclemency of the weather, rain transport Marcons was passing through, convey-
Into Pahang..$6,000, this ten sold by auction here and, if we mistake Mr. Parocil: gloomily observed that bis, unfor- falling in torrents throughout the afternoon, it log emigrants from Odessa to Vlád
nțiaccpunt, was 81,643% not, afterwards dried and shipped out of the tupate circumstances left him no option bat to had to be given up. A ball was given in the sampan-men i actually tried to
töma "reducible, to cath": country as mixings. The Canton Chamber points, avail himself of the hateful three weeks hospit, evening by His Excellency, the Governor and children on board, offering as much
The Company out one curious thing about Canton and. Fuochów, ́ality, free board and fodging in General Gordon's | Lady Des Vœux at Government House, which casce, The police vislied teas, which is that the former loses seriamly fu select refuge for the destitute, whi Magia.. | was numerously attended, and dancing was kept more's the pity, Here indent weight during the homeward voyant, while the trate had thoughtfully added
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