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CARRIAGES drawn by horses have lately sup: planted the amphibious jinricksha in the streets of Hanol.
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THE new Japanese cruiser Akagi Kan, intely constructed at the Onchama Naval Yard, is expected to prove a useful vessel and a credit to her builders. Her principal dimensions are length 154 feet 10 inches, depth 12ft. 7 inches, and her tonnage 747. Her horec-power is 1,000, and her speed 144 knots.
Ily kind permission of Major W. T. Ellis, and the officers of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, the Regimental Band will play in the Public Gardens, on Sunday, the 19th instant, from 9 til top The following will be the programme:
March Maritana"....
Selection......lene”......... Valseter sweet Fanenia.feubachiana
13ymn.
Wallace. Audran. ¡Lawtonk Conradi,
Jose Moran, Bandmaster.
CAPTAIN DICK, of the British ship Hilaria, eposteil on his arrival at Yokohama that he had O ta' west, passes in lat. 2° south and long, 31 a turning vessel. The ship, which was evidently Geman, was on fire even to the sails, which had been clewed up, and the foreaiast was gone. On getting within five miles to leeward of the ship, Captain Dick saw another vessel lying near her which soon left her and stood to the southward. The crew apparently left by this means as: no one appeared on board, and no signals were made.
The Honakovo Telegraph eing
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1888.
TELEGRAM S.
(From the Comerter d'Haiphong-)
FRESH RIOTS IN PARIS.----
Paris, Aug, 8th. Fresh riots'occurred atthe funeral of ex-General Endes, re ulting inseveral people being wounded and many others arrested,
LOCAL AND GENERAL..
Qwixatgimused pressure on our news' columns, caused by the arrival of the 'Australian and American mails, an editorial on the Apenes cave, and other interesting matter; have unavoid- ably been crowded out of this issue.
The mystery of the Hongkong Hansom What the man at the back is for, when the "inside" drives?
Wuth is the Government official responsible for the nuisance caused by coolies sweeping the dust off the Queen's Road and into the eyer of passers-by and the occupants of the Club verandah shortly before one o'clock this after noon? If there was any actual necessity for the dust, which we doubt, surely a Gitter time might have been selected? The object of the sw.epers seemed to be to cause annoyance to the public, and they certainly -were doing no good as regards cleanliness. We have no wish to appear unreasonable, but petty annoyances of this kind ought to be and could vey easily be avoided.
CHOLERA IN MACAO
In the two innings of England, Turner took 10 wickets for 63. Ferris eight for 45, and Woods oné for 6.
In the English bowling Lohmann, took six wickets for 61, Peel eight for 50, Briggs four for 35, and Steel one for four.
Blackham was in fine fettle behind the wickets, and disposed of five batsmen..
Admimi Kiantz, Minister of Marine in the French Cabinet, has applied to the Chamber o Deputies for a vote of 67,000,000 francs, for the parts of Brest, Cherbourg, and Toulon. A motion purpose of strengthening the armaments at the
to regard the matter, as one of urgency was
We observe from Australian papers received by the Catterthun that our old friend Signor G. Verdi has been paralysing the Melbourne public The Portuguese transport India, which we at the Opera House as Mephistopheles in "Faust." reported yesterday had put back to Macno after The show is described as the best that has having started for Timor and Lisbon, was com been seen in Melbourne for a long, time past,pelled to return owing to cholera having broken Signor Billgreens was always an accomplished out on board. It is stated that when the India lelt Afephistopheles, both on and off the stage. We Macao last Sunday morning she had on board two wonder what has become of the fair Emilie! passengers who had been suffering from choleraic diarrhoea and had been under treatment at the THE Nagasaki Rising Sun of the 1st instant military hospital in Macao; these men were and afarion anived in. Kobe a few days ago, serious character of the disease is strongly says:-The United States war ships Brooklyn | shipped before being completely cared. The and Admiral Chandler transferred his flag to the indicated by the fact that 14 African soldiers, saki to-night, on her way home vid the Cape,tuguese lady, two officers and a sergeant. This Marion. The Brooklyn leaves Kobe for Naga-bound for Timor, quickly succumbed, also a Por-negatived. The Richmond, which has been acting as flag- decided Captain Gusman to at once put back to ship, on the North Atlantic Station, has been Macao. We further learn that a Portuguese detached, and after reatting will come out here youth died in Macao yesterday of cholera, and to replace the Brooklyn; but, we believe, she a Chinese of cholera nostras, and that since is not expected to arrive before the end of the the dia returned to harbour several others of the passengers and crew have ben seized with choleraic attacks.
усат.
CHU HAN, a building contractor of No. 1 Sun
The authorities are reported to be actively Wai Lane, was to-day summoned by the Inspector of Nuisances for having a lot of noxious bestirring themselves so as to be able to grapple maller accumulating outside his matcheds on with the threatened epidemic. On learning the the hill side near Robinson Road, and in a spot state of affairs on board the India, Governor about fifty yards above Richmond Terrace.da Costa, accompanied by the Colonial Surgeon The objectionable matter drained into a public and Surveyor General, immediately proceeded stream used by great numbers of people for to Colowan, a small island lying close to Taipa, washing or drinking purposes, and although the to select a suitable locality for the construction accused had been frequently warned he had of temporary hospitals for the segregation of taken no measures to improve matters. Mr. patients, but not having found a desirable site ihere, it was decided to build matsheds on the Wodehouse ordered the defaulter to ante up $20 and warned him to be more careful in Guin Road, about half a mile from the city and nearly below the Lighthouse, to accommodate future.
the sick. Last night all the available workmen and the convicts from the prison were busily cagaged in the construction of these temporary laxarettes, and at a late hour several baat-loads of people were landed from the fudia. All the reports that have reached us speak highly of the energy displayed by the Macna authorities in meeting this trying emergency.
THE Japan Mail of the roth inst, referring to the alleged outrage on a Japanese married. woman on board the P. & Ù. Co's steamer Malwa-the conflicting details of which, trans- lated by our Yokohama contemporary from native papers, we have, as a matter of fair-play to all concerned, withheld from publication saysWe believe that Mrs. Isoda, in the course of a visit to the British Consulate on Wednesday, reiterated her charges against one of the officers of the Malwa; and as a result it has been decided to give her an opportunity of E months ago, says the Nagasaki Rising identifying ber assailant on the return of the Sin of August 8th,, the Japanese Government vessel to this port. Her story is that she was decided to dispose of the coal mine at Miike, detained for some two hours in a cabin by the which has hitherto been worked for them by the foreigner, to whom, however, though she sus Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, and sealed lenders were tained considerable indignities, she was able to vitel for the purchase of it, with all the plant, offer a successful resistance till at length, alarmed etc, at an upset price of yçu 4,000,000, what was by the sounds of the search-instituted by her generally considered a very exorbitant figure, husband and a custom officer whose assistance The tenders were opened on the 1st inst., and
he had enlisted, the officer bolted from the cabin. sulted in Mr. Sasakd Hachiro; manager of the
She asserted that afterwards her husband in a Japan Iron Manufacturing Co. (or more probably fit of anger threatened her with violence, on a syndicate he represents,) becoming the owner, which other officers of the ship intervened on her for the sum of gen 4,550,000, it is reported. The behalf. Her husband after finding her, had ordered terms of payment to the Government are, we
her to get her traps together, as they were about to presume, very easy, but even then it is a very
return on shore and lodge a complaint. During doubtful question whether the net profit on the whole time of her forcible detention in the 30,000 tons of coal per muath, the average
cabin she was prevented, she avers, from calling, Cib-capacity of the mine, will pay a fair dividend on
out as her assailant kept his hand over her mouth such an enormous capital, and leave a margin-truly a well sustained and resolute attack, for writing off the yearly depreciation of the As Mrs. Isoda would appear to have told three or four cock-and-bull stories concerning this property, a very serious item in a coal mine..
alleged rap. or outrage, and all of them differing TSANG SHAN KEM, a building contractor, ppeared at the Police Court this morning substantially in detail, we think we are justified in assuming that the whole affair has been before Mr: Sercombe-Smith, charged with
grossly exaggerated and will, on investigation; prove to be at the very worst an ordinary case causing the death of one earth coolie and seriously injuring another, by negligently blast-
of mutual arrangement. ing stones in a certain quarry near Magazine Gap on the 10th of July last. Mr. Dennys appeared for the accused is reported in our issue of the 28th ulto, the defendant was com mitted for trial, and released on bail in two sureties of $500 each, it being the opinion. of the Court that there had been either on his part personally, or on that of his workmen, some considerable negligence in their methods of covering the mouth of the hale in which was, placed the powder for the charge. The case bad, however, heen referred back to be dealt with summarily, Mr. Dennys contending that all due precautions had been taken. The evid- ence of Che Ayi, the person who drilled the hole and put in the powder, was that upon which the defence chielly depended, and which was to the ffect that the hole was only 18 inches deep, was bored with an ordinary drill, and was charged with not more than 3 or 4 inches of powder. This witness said he took his orders on all occasions.from the forefnan, who always directed him to see that no workmen remained too near the explosion on the sounding of the gang. He considered it was a common thing for stones to fly 400 feet, and during his experience of six months he had often seen them go so far. His Warship, concluding there was no case against the defendant, accordingly discharged him IT is interesting to watch the growth of the scaffold parasite in Queen's Road Central. Either in front of behind, one half the buildings are now enveloped in a web of bamboo, where half-a- dozen native artificers peddle away at repairing operations of one kind of another. For instance,
A VIOLEST explosion occurred at the citadel of Hanoi on the morning of the ist inst, destroying the whole of the cartridge-making department. No loss of life has been reported. The Government Astronomer reports that at 2 p.m. to-day directions to hoist the north cone were issued, as the typhoon, appeared to have entered the mainland in the direction of Amoy. THE days are no longer than the nights but they are still much to short for a man who has to explain to his wife, how it happens that he calls her "Lula" in his dreams while her name is "Jane." A THE French and native communities of Hanoi and Haiphong presented to M. Richand, the Acting Governor-General, a very flattering address on his leaving that city for Saigon on the 29th ako.
CONUNDRUM-How many people would be likely to wade through the two and a half columns of "Ruddigore" from the London Standard, reprinted in last night's China Mail? Answer
The 'one reader."
MR. C D. Harman, agent of the O & O. S. S. Co, informs us that the steamier Belgic, with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 31st ulto, has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port on the 19th inst.
ACCORDING to a Japanese paper a large deposit of coni has been discovered at Takiya-mura, Niigata Prefecture, by a Mr. Sugimoto, who has applied to the Government for permission to lease that laad and work the mines.
L1os.
M. PAVIE left Hanol on the 31st ulto, for the Sjauniese frontiers. His object, says the Avenir Tonkin, is to open direct communication between Hanoi and Luang Prabang, with a view to creating commercial intercourse between Tonquin and Siam through the country of the WE would draw attention to the Tramway Co.'s will be seen that late cars will be run ta-morrow, Saturday, at 8.45 p.ro. and midnight. We presume many will take advantage of this arrangement to enny the pleasures of a moonlight night at the Peak.
"DOROTHY" AT THE CITY HALL
The third representation by the American Musical Comedy and Opera Company of Cellier's highly popular comic opera "Dorothy, which took place at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, loc night before a well filled house, was one of the best and most succesful performances of the present season, and confirms the opinion we formed after seeing the members of the Company struggling through operas, with the libretto and music of which, through insufficient rehearsal, they were but imperfectly acquainted, that we have yet to see them in their true form. "Dorothy" is an attractive little mélange of opern bouffe, comedy and farco, abounding with interesting and amusing situations, while Mr. Cellier's music has a genuine ring about it and grows on you the more you hear of it. The action of the comedy last night never flagged although several members of the cast have yet a deal to acquire in the histrionic art, and the musical numbers were as a rule admirably rendered and invoked an unusual amount of enthusiasm. Two lengthy detailed criticisms of *Dorothy" have already appeared in our columns, so that it would serve no useful end to again travel over well beaten ground, but we nevertheless cannot refrain from briefly aliuding to a few of the leading features of the latest representation.
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.
The E. & A.Co.'s steamship Cafferthun, Capt. J. W. R. Datke, R.N.R., arrived this morning Australasian portsWe extract the sub- joined telegrams from our Sydney exchanges -----
LONDON, July 14th, ``
A movement for the erection of a statue to Gambella has been inaugurated in Paris., M. Floquet delivered a panegyric upon Ganibetta, and received a great ovation.
Sir John Gorst, Political Secretary to the India Office, speaking in the House of Commons, denied that there had been any undue delay in replying to the telegram received in March from Sir Henry Parkes on the question of the exclusion of Chinese from Australia. He con tended that Lord Knutsford had displayed great promptitude in dealing with the question.
The fact that the Emperor William has decorated Doctors Bergmann and Gerhardt, who were in attendance on the late Emperor Frede- tick, is regarded as an endorsement of their reports which contained attacks upon Sir Morell Mackenzie for his treatment of the late Emperor, The German police authorities have compelled ex-Queen Natalie, the former wife of King Milan of Servia, from whom he was lately divorced, to surrender her son into the hands of the Servian War Minister. Ex-Queen Natalie, who, bas been residing at Wiesbaden, has been ordered to leave German.territory.
July isth. Ex-Queen Natalie, who was ordered to leave Germany, has taken up her residence in Vienna for the present, y
It is reported that cholera has again broken out at Naples,
The French Government gave a banquet yesterday to 2000 of the city and provincial Mayora on the site of the forthcoming, Paris International Exhibition.
President Carnot, in addressing the visitors, tulogised the Republic. He warned the Mayors not to be seduced into taking part in any fallacious and noisy enterprises that might be set on foot.
In the return match between the Gentlemen of England and the Players the result of the previous match was reversed. The Players defeated the Gentlemen by an innings and 39 runs,
In the late match the Gentlemen won by $ runs, after an exciting contest.]
The annual cricket match between Eton and Harrow was won by the intter by 156 rues,
July 16th.
The Dowager Empress Victoria has requested Sir Morell Mackenzie to prepare an authentic account of the illness from which the late Em peror suffered.
The first test match between England and Australia was commenced at Lords Ground, to day.
The following were the respective teams i— England: Steel (captain), W. G. Grace, W. W. Read, O'Brien, Barnes, Gunn, Lohmann, Briggs, Peel, Abel, and Sherwin.
July 18th.
The Chamber of Deputies has approved of the scheme of Admiral Krantz for an increase in the
armaments.
Sixteen thousand hersons paid for admission at Lords Ground on Tuesday
The following are the complete scores ;→→
AUSTRALIA.-—First lonings.
Bannerman... Macdoanet Troll........ Bonnor..... Blackham.....
Woods.............ezanton
Turner....
Edwards not out........................ Javis son
Worrall.....n
Ferris......
Sundrica...
Total..
ENGLAND. First Innings.
Abel...........
W. G. Grace.... Barnes...... Lohmann
W. W. Read O'Brien... Peel .... Steel...... Cunn Briggs Sherwin ....
Sundries
Total
AUSTRALIA-Second Innings.
Bannerman... Macdonnell.... Trott ........ Bonner
Woods ....... blackhan Edwards
Turner Ferris, not out.. Worrall Jarvis
Abel
Sundries
Total..... ENGLAND.-Second lanings,
W. G. Grace
Peel
W. W. Read O'Brien
Steel, not out Gufin
Briggs Barnes. Lohmann. Sherwin
Total
34
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20
4
8.
4
The French Senate has passed the Sugar. 13. the abolition of the sugar bounties. Strong official speeches were made in favour of
An Anarchist plot has been discovered in Chicago, having for its object the destruction by with the trial of the anarchists who were executed dynamite of several prominent officials connected in Chicago some time ago.
It was also intended to demolish a number of
public buildings in the city.
several have been arrested.
Twenty persons are involved in the plot, and
The Hon. James White, of Sydney, has entered two horses for the English Derby and Grand Prix de Paris of 1890.
*July 19th.
The Trustees Liability Bill enabling trust funds to be invested in colonial inscribed stocks, has been read a second time in the House of Commons. Pressure was brought to bear by Lord Knutsford and the Agents-General, with the view of removing Mr. Goschen's opposition to the bill.
"In the House of Commons this evening, Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated that parleying was proceeding with the Chinese Government for a settlement of the difficulty in connection with the immi- gration of Chinese to Australia. He denied that there was any foundation for the policy attributed to Lord Salisbury on the question.
A. messenger from Dinifulu bas assured Sir attack which was lately made by the Zulus upon a body of British dragoons, in which two of the latter were killed, was the unauthorised action of a young native.
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The meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor William II of Germany took place. yesterday.
The Russian and German men-of-war accom panying their Majestics formed in double line off Cronstadt. The vessels were gaily decorated, and the yards were manued by the crews. The Russing and German Imperial yachts steamed between iba two squadrons, and the warships fired salutes.
The meeting of the Emperors took place Majesties warmly embraced, and kissed each on board the Gear's yacht Alexandra. · Their
other.
After the meeting the Emperors proceeded to the Imperial Palace at Peterhof, about 13 miles front St. Petersburg, where the Czarina, altended by the members of the Imperial Court, was in waiting to receive the Emperor of Germany,
The pageant in St. Petersburg, and en route to Peterhof was of a brilliant and imposing character.
The match which was begun at Brighton yesterday against Sussex was resumed to-day, The Sussex team, in their second innings, were put out for 116, Turper took five wickets for 35 runs, Ferris four for 47, and Worrall one for six
runs.
The Australians in their second innings lost six wickets for 35 runs. Trott, the not-out man, had at this time scored, to runs. Play was then stopped by the rain.
July 21st.. The Australians completed their second innings. for a total of 88. Turner played a splendid innings for 39. Trot scored 25. The remain der of the team made no stand against the Sussex bowling, Humphreys, who went on with labs, took nine wickets for 40 runs.,
The Sussex team woo the niatch by 58 runs. The following me the scores :-
· SUSSEX.
First innings...
Second innings.........
08
Total.....
AUSTRALIA,
First innings.
Second lanings..
88
Total....
136
The Australians will commence another match against Yorkshire" on Monday, instead of the match against Cambridge University (past and present), as originally arranged, and which was to have been played at Leyton.
Sir Graham Berry is taking steps to compel the disclosure of the name of the informant of |‚Rear-Admiral Field, wlio stated in the House of. Commons that a very 'able man of great wealth in Victoria had told him that any number of men could be bribed in the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
The Government of Italy has sent a note to France, claiming Massowah as an Italian pos- session.
France insists on levying taxes in Massowah, Contrary to the terms under which it was ceded to Italy by King John of Abyssinia,
In the House of Commons, Lord, Randolph Churchill brought forward' a motion for the suspension of Mr. C, A. V. Conybeare, M.P. for Camborne, for one month, for having grossly libelled the Speaker in the Star, because the closure was applied during the discussion on the Irish Drainage Bill...
The motion, which was supported by Mr. Gladstone, was carried, and Mr. Conybeare was accordingly, suspended from the service of
the House.
[Mr. Conybéare, who is a barrister, is a Radical and Home Ruler, and has sat for the Camborne division of Cornwall since 1885. He is an honorary secretary of the Social and Political Education League. The Star, which contained the libel in question, is a new evening journal the chief editor of which is Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P.] 'A large portion of the town of Port-au-Prince, capital of the Republic of Hayti, the West Indies, has been destroyed by fire.
The fire was the work of incendiaries. The English and French Legation's fir the town are guarded by French sailors.
advertisement in another column, by which it fare, and intide which seldom more than a dozen both in speech and action. If Lurcher is Bonnor, Blackham, Woods (of Cambridge Uni. Arthur Havelock, Governor of Natal, that the connected with the sugar industry
the contest.
Australia: M'Donnell, Bannerman, Trott, versity), Turner, Edwards, Ferris, Jarvis, and Worrall.
In consequence of the continuous rain which fell on Sunday and part of Monday, play could pot be commenced until 3 p.m. There was a large attendance on the ground. Ten thousand persons paid for admission.
The English team then went to the wickets, and when play ceased for the day, they had lost three wickets for 18 runs.
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July 17th..
It is now regarded as certain that the Powers will agree to the Sugar Bounties Convention.
Germany, it is announced, will give in her adhesion to the abolition of the bounty system.
[Referring to the sugar bounties question, the Home Neus, of May 18, contains the following: "The International Conference on sugar bounties came to an end on May ta with the signing of the draft convention by the representatives of all | the Powers. It now, therefore, remains for the Governments of the different countries to pass measures for the enforcement of the
principles affirmed in the draft Convention, so that steps. may be taken to put an end to the "obnoxious bounties. Working in the face of great difficulties, made still more embarrassing by the obstructive tactics of the Belgian and French delegates," Baron Henry de Worms has throughout these Important negotiations shown great skill and adroitness. The dissent of Belgium from the proposal of the draft Convention signed last November led to resolutions passed by persons โล this country. They urged the Government to support prohibition as a remedy against States refusing to accede to the Convention, and to take effective measgres for abolishing The messenger also states that Dinizulu bounties. The sequence of these resolutions is seen in the unanimous decision arrived at by complained that both Mr. Osborn, the British Resident in Zululand, and Sir Arthur Havelock the International Conference. The Convention, refused to parley with him, upon which Dinizalu in fact, in its new form, embraces provisions of resorted to arms.
somewhat stringent character, for bringing comply with the system adopted by the contract- Ing Powers. The Home Government throughou the international proceedings was pledged to use its influence to obtain the assent and co- operation of the Colonial and Indian Govern ments. The latter, it is well known, are beartily tired of the Bounty system, and are willing, in conjunction with the mother country, to adopt measures for its entire abolition." It is announced that a Sydney lady has written
Men July aand. to Storhaway, a town in the Island of Lewis,
The Australasian Cable News Company, with offering to establish one thousand crafters and a capital of £20,000, has been registered. The their families in New South Wales object of the Company is to supply daily cable
July 20th, grams of news from the colonies penge udven The House of Representatives in the United States has passed the Tarif Bill by a narrow-
It is reported that Lord Salisbury is indisposed he has tried to check Chinese emigration from Hongkong and Singapore, urging that Australia will legislate to restrict foreign immigration with out special refere ce to the Chinese.
The convict John Jackson who escaped from Strangeways Gaol, Manchester, in May last after murdering a warder, has been condemned to death.
Mr. Sheridan was irresistibly funny as Lurcher -as he is in everything he plays, and the side of the Chartered Mercantile Bank ingagged" with the perseverance of the last man disfigured by a huge scaffold; adjoining it is a in a six days go-as-you-please tournament; he vast gap, fenced off by a boarding which further sang the music with considerable effect are not quite clear as to why this encroaches materially on the narrow thorough--but
bailiff should have been so distinctly intended to be a Home Ruler we at once agree to take a back seats but it not-then, why certnly there is something in our objection. We sincerely wish that Mr. H. M. Imano were a better actor; he possesses such a grand voice and generally sings so well that it is a matter for regret he acts so indifferently. And yet withal, Mr. Imano was a good Harry Sherwood last M'Donnell, the captain of the Australian team, night. For a tenor-it is a pity we have to use won the toss from Steel, the English captain, such a qualification but it is nevertheless necessary and decided to go to the wickets. The first two
the blind. His Wilder was by no means an
to add materially to the score, but the fourth and indifferent impersonation, although a litle more fifth made 33 between them. The last two men spirit-we don't mean whisky-would decidedly made a good stand, having together scored 34.
improve it, and his exceedingly pleasing voice, The innings closed for a total of 116 runs. which he handles with great discretion, will nearly In the bowling, Lohmann took two wickets always pull him through successfully. For Mr. for 18 Peel, four for 36; Briggs, three for 26; Sutch we have nothing but praise; he is a uaefi and Steel, one for four. all-round actor and his Squire Bantam was onc of the successes of the representation. Mr. Cripps had little to do as Tom Siruff, and there fore was not expected to distinguish himself.
Very little need be said about the ladies- they were all so good in their respective parts years ago.
that we refrain from making comparisons, which are always odious where the fair sex are con- At the annual meeting of the National Rifle cerned. They looked charming, warbled like nigh. Association at Wimbledon to-day the competition tingales, and that gavefie was simply an enchan for the Queen's Prize, value fago, with the badge The ting dream of fair. women. It is only just, however, of the Association, was concluded. The prize to Miss Maud Hare to record that her vocalisation was won by Private Fulton, of the Queen's was unusually effective, whilst Miss Fle Morrison Westminster Rifle Corps, with
Play was résumed to-day. The weather was acted with a grace and piquancy which placed criticism at defiance. As the volatile Priscilla dull, and the wicket was very bad. WG.in Miss Leamington, who we regret to bear has Grace, who at the close of the previous day's been in poor health, was as usual a tower of play had scored to not out, was soon disposed strength to the cast, and we would say no end of of without having added to his score. Noue of we not in mortal terror of her big brother. This Australian bowling except Briggs, who played little lady acted with much vivacity and her song dashing innings for 17, The fourth, fifth, and in the second act was deservedly encored. sixth wickets fell for 21. The innings, closed
There is a good deal in properly staging and for 38 runs. drossing a picce like “Dorothy,” and we can In their second innings Australia made 60. only say in this connection that friend The first two wickets tell for one run. The fifth, Willard's scenic effects and wardrobe will take sixth, and seventh batsmen only contributed 18 a lot of beating. And so will his conductor and between them. Turner played a very steady accompanist, Mr. Robertson, to whose musical innings for 12, and Ferris hit out in a plucky abilities and discretion no small share of the style for 20 not out, Company's success has been due,
124 to get to win, the home team With Gilbert and Sullivan's great success "Rud. commenced their second lanings. Abel con digore is announced for tomorrow night. This "tributed 8. The only other batsman who gor will positively be the farewell performance, so into double figures was Steel, his score being that a crowded house is certain. Those who 10 not out. The innings closed for a total wish to secure seats should apply at Kelly and of 62, leaving the Australians victorious by, 61 Walsh's without delay;"
Italy offers to include 150 articles in the com- mercial treaty with France, instead of 79, as hitherto.
men are engaged in erecting the phantom edifice. This is not the most offensive part of the road, however, as a Iw yards, higher up half the road is blocked by the fence around Marine House, where the verandah was cracked six week ago. Nothing was done il last week, It should be some encouragement to share-and now some masons are pecking away at it, Italders in our local Rope Manufactory that and putting daba of mortar in, as though racing Rope making is carried on in Japan with most with the vacant-ground-men near by, which satisfactory results. The Tokio Rope Company should be last. A little higher up-not quite in held a general meeting the other day when a Queen's Road, a lofty network of poles extends dividend was declared for the first half of the from the wing of the Hongkong Hotel to the Mr. Fisher is like a one-eyed mad ́amongst wickets fell for 3 runs. The third batsman falled 10 parley with the Chinese Government until pressure to bear an countries that refuse to present year at the rate of 15 per cent. per condemned offices. In the first part only are any signs of activity to be seen. Going further aunum. PETER Kemp, of Sydney, the present holder of up the main street we find a cluster of offices and shops boarded in with refreshing indifference the sculling championship, and Edward Hanlan,
as to the space required We understand that of Toronto, have been matched to row another they are to come down, and to be replaced by race on the Parramatta River. The course will Chinese shops. And so on, down the other be the same as on the occasion of their first side. But speaking, of Chinese shops touches 28th day of September, it will be for 1500 i. another sore point. Is Hongkong for the match. The race is to take place on Friday, the
European, or for the native? It seems to us aide and the titular honour of champion sculler
we are ruined by Chinese" competition, that of the world. The men will not go into active
and that before very long our enterprising neigh- training until about six weeks before the date of
bouts will have pushed us pretty well off the Island they ceded to us inance for the The recently-introduced limitation of Chinese houses and shops is not retrospective, and therefore does not affect the many native buildings now being run up. site of the old Temperance Hall, therefore, is being rapidly covered with tenements in which the proprietors expect to "accommodate" nearly a thousand Chinese; in the rear of the Hong. kong Club the large area once occupied by Club Chambers has been acquired by native capitalists with a similar object, and now a large slice of Hotels is being similarly appropriated. This is in the centre of the town, be it remembered, WE Team that the Hall and Holtz Co-operative where it will affect everyone, tradesman or Company, Limited, of Shanghai, bave at length resident; on the outskirts of the city the earth secured suitable premises in Queen's Road hunger of the Chinaman is much more ravenous, Central and will shortly open a branch establish- but much less important to this and the next ment of their large and varied business in this generation: Australia, thousands of miles colony. It is stated that the representatives of distant from the shores of Cathay, has set her the Company, Messrs. Clifford and Skeels, who foot down on this wholesale requisition of pro arrived here by last English mail from, the perty by Chinese; surely it behoves us, who are North, have satisfactorily concluded negotiations within a stone-throw, of the country, and who for taking over the old established business, I have the Philistines imongst us even now, to Etrod-will, stack-in-trade, etc, of Messis, Rose legitimately bestir ourselves, and avert what & Co, and that the transfer will be effected promises to prove a public disaster. Meanwhile, without delay: The Hall and Holtz Company perhaps the governing powers will see to the expect to commence operations here on or about obstructional nuisance we briefly adverted to
at the outself
THE Tokio Stock Exchange would appear to be a paying business. At a recent general meeting of shareholders, the report and statement of accounts for the first half of the present year were presented. The receipts during the period were yen 92,217,615, of which yen 17272.715 were set apart for business tax, and yes 12,610.307 for salaries and various expenses, leaving a balance of yen 62,834,519. The amount brought over from the last account was added to this sum, making yen 66,419.678 Adividend for the
score of 288.
Mr. Keane, of Western: Australia; has made. arrangements with a German firm to undertake the financial responsibilities in connection with majority. the construction of a line of railway from Guild-A motion brought forward by the Republican party to omit imported raw wools from the free ford to Champion Bay, in Western Australia, i
It is intended to settle. German, immigrants list of the Tariff Bill was defeated by 120 to 102] along the proposed lins, Jos
MELBOURNE, July 3rd A sharp shock of earthquake Scotland, yesterday. The position of affairs in Bulgaria is so anta- disfactory that it is reported that Prince Ferdinand meditates resigning.
WAS
experienced
A nugget weighing 3860z, and estimated to yield 375oz of pure gold, was found to-day in the workings of the Burnt Creek Company, at Dunolly,
half-year was declared of you 25 per share or at the two hundred yards of ground between our two sweet things about Miss Gracie Whiteford, were the other batsmen made any stand against M.P. for: Northampton, and Sir. Mackenna NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIEN
the rate of so per cent, per annum.
September 1sti
We are indebted for the following telegrams to our San Francisco exchanges received by the Pacific Mall Co.'s steamship City of New York, Capt. R. R. Searle, which, arrived in port early this afternoon
In the House of Commons, Mr. H. Labouchere, M.P. for Monaghan, have given notices of motion, for the rejection of the bill to appoint a commis: sion of inquiry into the charges made by the Times against Mr Parnell
Prince Bismarck, Cout Kalnoky, the Au trias Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Signor Crisp the Italian Prime Minister, will meet at Carlsbad at the end of August
A Dia de LONDON, July inth It is reported that the Right Rev, William The Times learns from Rome that Cardinal Stubbs, Bishop of Chester, has been translated-Moran has bad repeated interviews with the to the Sea of Oxford, which has been rendered Pope on the Irish question and demonstrated i vacant by the ferrement of Bigas sekages and that it was not good potty to interfere with on account of head this the politics of the Irish, who have great power
It is currently stated that Bishop Barry, of in the colonies and America. The Times Bays. Sydury, will be appointed to succeed Dr. Stubbs that the probable restit ill be that the Pope as Bishop of Chester,
will reftain from admonishing Irish Catholia