We hear that considerable additions are to be, made to our Garrison-that an Indian regiment will be drafted here next year, additional accom modation being provided for them at Kowloon, | where another military hospital, for which the Home authorities have granted 15,000, will also be built.
PARIS Figare says that when the King of Sweden recently visited the Pope, instead of taking his Holiness' hand and kissing it, he kissed him an Both checks, The Inst absolutely paralysing infraction of Papal etiquette occurred when General Grant went to see Pius IX, and shook hands with him, curtly saying, "Very glad to see you, Sir."
By latest advices from Singapore, Madame, Cor, Lady Illusionist, was giving her."Parlour Entertainment of Magic, Mystery, and Metamo phoses "at that port. Madame Cora's assistant Mademoiselle Louise, we read, "was suspended on the Couch of Angels, contrary to all the laws of gravitation," The effect of this, under the lime-light, was much applauded by the audience. No doubt. That is the sort of show to paralyse the lost tribes in Hongkong. We hope Madame Cora will come along and bring the "Couch of Angels" with her. It will knock 'em.
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BOMBAY, July 19th. Mr. Arthur Crawford, Civil Service Commis sioner of Konkon, and late British delegate to Goa, has been suspended. Messrs. More and Propert bave taken charge of his offices at Poona and sealed his premises. Information given by a Brabinin led to the suspension, and a state- ment has been submitted to Government. Seventy or eighty persons are under suspicion, Malatdar Nagar Havli, the Manilatdar of Poona, has been suspended, and other suspen sions are expected to follow, The Bombay Government institutes a formal, enquiry n ence. Confidential enquiries are proceed ing, and it is said they will be likely to lead to disclosures of a startling nature, Mr. Crawford has since been arrested, and it is rumoured the enquiry will be magisterial. Mr. Crawford kept out of sight until Monday evening; he took the tmin from Peona to Bombay, where he arrived yesterday morning. He then sought to engage a second-class passage in the steamer Teheran, sailing for Colombo, and that afternoon he wrote a letter in an assumed name to the chief steward, stating that he had just arrived "from Jubbalpore very ill, and wished to go on boant at once. The steward referred the applicant to the Company's head office for orders. The Superintendent of Prince's Dock Police, acting on a telegram from the Govern ment at Poona, knowing Mr. Crawford was in the Victoria hotel, proceeded thither and arrested him in the general room, where he was seated at the table, having just finished his breakfast, He was disguised, wearing a long grey beard and a single temi hat slouched; in other respects disguise was sought by the shabbiness of apparel. Mr. Crawford is charged with corruption and bribery, and the Government, enquiry is pro- gressing. New developments are expected.
LONDON, July 19th."
The Opposition intend to endeavour in forcing narrow issues, and consequently have submitted to the appointment of a special commission for inquiring into the charges made against Mr., Parnell by the Times.
MANDALAY, July zoth,
Rear Admiral Tryon with the invading fleet has gone to the Irish coast, and Vice Admiral Baird's defending fleet has gone to the Scotch seas and the coast of the west of England."
Ai ten o'clock this morning the monastery of Thatanabain of the Buddhist Archbishop, the most important religious building in Upper Burma, was almost totally destroyed by fire. A high south wind caused the fire to spread with great rapidity among the large timber buildings, and the Kyaung of the Archbishop, who was absent, was saved with the greatest difficulty. All the leading officials were present, and two engines with an ample of supply of hose. Some state, that the fire originated from Phoongyis making chemical experiments, others aver that it was from carelessness in cooking; fifteen Jarge Kyaunge and over thirty houses were "burnt, and a great deal of other property was
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SIBILA, July 20th.
In accordance with instructions received by last mail from the Secretary of State, a Bill repealing the Contagious Diseases Act will be introduced at the next meeting of the Legislative Council on the 25th inst
LONDON, July 20th.
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to a question, that and received a telegram from Sir Arthur Have lack stating that the situation in Zululand has improved."
MANDALAY, July atst. The damage caused by yesterday's fire is reported to amount to over one lakh of rupees. One man was badly burnt; samé valuables wore stolen in the confusion, but the hundis destroyed, con probably be replaced. These represented trust funds and collections for new buildings.
BOMBAY, July 21st.. Mr. Crawford, who is charged with bribery, &c., and was arrested while in disguise, has beca bailed for Rs. 70,000. The magisterial enquiry will take place on the 1st August at Росла
The Pioncar's London Correspondent tele graphs to say that Sir Lepel Griffin has accepted the Residentship of Hyderabad.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1888.
the ba of a visionary. If over Europe comes to Axit for a model in the pier of dress let us hope she will not overlong China, where the female dress is at once convenient, healthful, modest, and capable of ornamentation to any extent the wearer may desire. It does not possess the quaint and childish prettiness of the Japanese female attire, but is in very other respect unmistakably superior. Amongs its other merits, it is adaptable to all forms. whereas, the Japanese dress, graceful as it is on a small and slender figure, suns into the grotesque when donned by a stou lady." Thus, then, while condemning aur ide
as "visionary, our colonial contemporary incontinently commits itself to a precisely similar suggestion in respect of Chinese costume. This by the way, how ver. The point of interest i that any writer should find so much to say in approval of Chinese ladies' dress. Without any exception we consider that costume the ugliest in the civilized world. It consists of a loos tunic 'and a pair of big, baggy trousers.. It possesses not the shadow of ac aim to be counter either graceful or pretty. In it all women are like except as to their shoulders. If a lady has doping shoulders and a good neck, her costume does not hide these beautics though it goes far to mar them. The Chinawoman's dress is sim- ply a suit of pyjamas. It is the sleeping clothes
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exist no longer," This title has become a histo-. rical phrase, which has found its way down to our days. In illustration of this supposed political fact half the dancers were dressed in the French and half in the Spanish while a Spanish and French nymph joined in 's vocal duct. The taste for this entertainment spread inmensely in France. Louis XIII and the great Heari Quatre took particular delight in it. More than one hundred ballets were given at the Louvre during their reign, in which persons of the most exalted rank, even Henri's great Prime Minister and friend, the grave and revered Duc de Sully, took part, having been taught the steps by the King's own sister. The golden age of the ballet was under the reign of Louis XIV, who frequently took part in them. himself. His Majesty delighted in marching about the stage in preposterous costumes, reciting verses in prais of his ownreatness. Sometimes he both sang and danced in the court ballets. When, in 1609, the "Grand Monarque" assumed astensibly for the last time the part of the Sun in the ballet of Flora," it was thought that his Majesty's theatrical career had come to an end, He felt, however, like so many great stars have done since under similar circumstances that his
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worn by Western gentlemen in the Orient. It is certainly "convenient, healthful, and modest," but anything more abominably ugly we cannot well conceive. In it a woman has no waist. She might as well be tied into a snck. I studied under Francesco Corbeun. It is indeed she is fat it square, her unwieldiness is recorded of him that in connection with this accentuated by a costuine of which her ballet he played the part of author, ballet-Directers maximum guth is the meal dimension : master, dancer, mimic singer and instrumental if she is slender and tapering, she becomes performer. His Prime Minister, the famous simply indented big. It there he any pre-Ca dinal Mazitin, executed in fine style a vidence whose functions are of a sumptuar saraband before the Queen-mother, chamor, we trust that it will save the wood illustrious Anne, of Austria. It was not until the the West for the den-vivef init sing Chi- beginning of the last century that ladies appeared Mcanality of tremention t as dancers upon the public stage, Up to nessa istume, any extent is triumphonsly adduced as a recom that time nymphs, dryads and shepherdesses were represented by hnys. The first ballerine mean by the Hongkong Daily Press. City of ornamentation forsooth! How can of note was a Mille. Lefontaine, and the first appearance of a corps de ballet was in a panto. one ornament a waistle's tomic hanging to the hips and a pair of wirle, shapeless trousers ? | químic ballet, prochiced under the direction of One can braid them, to be sure, or
Quinault, and for which Lulli had composed the ribbons on them, or embroider them in music entitled "Le Triomphe des Dames." In sundry patterns; but the form, the straight. this pi ce six charming young girls aroused for the first time enthusiasm of the susceptible up-and-down fappiness of form, ena never be mended by tricking it out in colours or needle. Parisian public. Two distinguished dancers work; it can only become mare grotesque. "li made their appearance about this time. Mlle. does not possess the quaint and childish pr. tiiness Salle and the still more famous Camargo, a of the Japanese femte atir" says the solemn Spanish girl of noble family, one of her uncles Hongkong critic What constitutes quaintness, holding the congenial position of Grand Inqui- They have been immortalized in we should be pleased to know. What is the sitor of Spain.
a poem of Voltaire with these lines: normal standard from which every departure is "quaint "? Are steel corsets normal? skirts normal that trail in the dust and dirt? Are boots normal, with heels that deform their wearer's feet ? Are ornaments suspended from holes in the ears normal? Are bonnets normal, too small to protect anything but the false which they reich? Are, fingers hair on stiff with rings normal? Are naked necks and shoulders normal? And then again, this "childish prettiness of Japanese female costume
what does it mean? If there be any resen blance between the dress of Japanese ladies and that of little girls in the W s, we have never detected it; and if there be no resemblance, how is the epithet "childish "applicable? "Childish prettiness" in the abstract is absurd enough, but "childish prettiness" in respect of a costume. strikes us as particularly fanny. "Quaint and childish prettiness" is, however, the one and only merit conceded to Japanese dress by the Hongkong critic. in every other respect the dress of the Chinese woman is unmistak ably superior." That is to say, in every other respect a suit of pyjamas is unmis takably superior. The good gods defend the cause of fancy waistcoats. We genilemen of case have hitherto been blind to the graces our nightly appearance. When we knotted the string of our ponjee pyjamas and fumbled with their tunic buttons, we little thought that we were offering a model convenient, healthful, modest, adaptable to all forms;" a model to be copied by our beloved sisters, cousins, and aunts, Simplicity characterises all great dis coveries. We feel that we are in the presence of a great discoverer when we peruse the anticle of the Hongkong Dally Press.
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·Music and the Drama, that Batyles of Alexan; dria, several centuries. before the Christian era,. invented ballets of a gay and festive character, while those of a solemn and pathetic nature were introduced by Pilades of Athens. Like every other art, the ballet found its way from Greece to Rome, and what we understand to day by that name the modern ballet-had its birth in The entertainment this class of which we have historical record was given in Milan in 1495, on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke with Isabella of Arragon It is scarcely necessary to say that the ballet of those days was of a very different character from what we see on the stage to-day. That fascinating creature, the balleteuse, the female dancer, was unknown. It was not until more than 200 years later that these charmers made their appearance
before the public, and even then not in the bewildering mass of short muslin petticoats- these did not come until alibut fifty years ago If we look at the portraits of the great queens of the ballet during the first thirty or forly years of this crotury we find their dresses only just short enough to show their pretty foot and ankle.
Mlle. Guimard, a beautiful woman, became famous in the learling parts in the ballets of Gluck's operas. She took an active interest in the Piccini-Gluck warfare and her name is frequently mentioned in the correspondence of Grimm and Didierat. She was held in highest esteem in Paris. Mdrie Antoinette consulted R Ker on the subject of dress, and when, by an accident, she broke her arm on the stage prayers were offered at Notre Dame for the recovery of Mlle. Quimard's limp.
The advent of the Vestris family forms an important epoch in the annals of the ballet. Gaetano, the founder of the dynasty, made his debut in Paris in 1748, and M. Castil Blaze, who saw him fifty-two years afterward, tells us that he danced as well as ever, executing the steps of the minuet "with as much grace as nobility," Gaetano had no small opinion of himself. Innumerable anecdotes are told about his vanity and self-importance. "There are only three great men left in Europe," he said on one occasion: the King of Prussin (Frederick II), M. de Voltaire and myself." His son Auguste was not less famous than himself.
We have only space left just to mention the names of some of the galaxy of baller stars whose appearance and triumphs 'will be remem- bered by many of the present generation, sitch as Taglioni, Ellsler, Cerita, Carlotta Grisi, a cousin of the great singer. The first ballet produced in the United States was "The Hub tress; or, Tamany's Frolics," which was given at the John-street Theatre on June 11, 1794) In the "Black Crook" and the Devil's Auction" the ballet in America rose to its zenith.
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LAWRENCE AND MAYO, OPHTHALMIC OPTICIANS, (Opticians to the Principal Ophthalmic Sur- geons in England and Indla.) ( ́* OFFICES:-OLD BOND STREET, London,
3&4 Harr STREET Calcutta. 22 RAMPART Row, Bombay. Hongkong, 24th July, 1888,
(732 THE HONGKONG
KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
AND
OTICE is hereby given that all Vessels
Ndischarging Bombay Cotton and Cotton
Yarn, at the Kowloon Wharves will have free storage for 14 days from arrival, after which a RENT of 3 Centi per Bale, per Month will be charged.
ISAAC HUGHES, Secretary.
Hongkong. 7th November, 1887.
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THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE Company is prepared to Tranship Cargo from its Godowns at Kowloon or West Point to any Steamer in the harbour, and to bring Cargo across from Kowloon to any place. on the Praya at the usual intes.
By Order,
ISAAC HUGHES,
Secretary.
Hongkong, zoth April, 1888.
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHIA.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE MIIKE COAL
MINE.
UNKER COALS can be supplied to any
[766 alongside the KOWLOON WHARF'on application
to the Undersigned; er stadigers
"ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamshij GAELIC
The above Steamer having arrived, Consignee
Bills of Lading
alde
Y. FUKUHARA,
Acting Manager.
Hongkong, jgth January, 1888.
NOTICE
TOR the Convenience of Customers, the pro-
ductions of the “CHINA SUGAR RE
THE PRAVA RECLAMATION SCHEME. A FULL ACCOUNT of the proceedings in of Change and h for Countersignature, and to take forward be obtained by RETAIL, FOR CASH reprinted from the Honghong Teligrock With immediate delivery o
connection with this gigantic undertaking. plan of the city of Victoris, showing the intended Reclamation. M
PRICE mere ONE DOLLAR To be obtained at Means. KELLY & WALÉH LD. Messrs. LANK, CRAWFORD & Colo's and Mr. W. BREWER':
Hongkong, 12th July, 1988,
of their Goods from along
"Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees rial and expense, e
CHAS, D. HARMAN,
Hongkong, 6th August, 1888,
at No. 3. PEEL STREET, at the same prices us at the Refinery; or Retail orders will be delivered' at addresses in town on applicants, forwarding their monthly requirements in writing direct to the Rennery at East Point
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co Sementara General Agente, 20 Hongkong, 19th uly;
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