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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1888.
Tux formation of the Third Fort at the entrance ́of Asnumi Bay, Izugabars, japan, was completed on the 30th ultime and the mounting of the guns has been begun.
TO-MORROW evening a variation will be made in the series of Garrison entertainments. A general programme will be provided by the Police, in which it is desired to include sword- dancing, bagpipes, &c. Instructor-Sergt. Mills; THE following SEEDS required for with one or two pupils, will also give exhibitions
of quarter-staff, boxing, &c., time permitting.
SEASON 1888-0.
· immediate Sowing
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CELERY, CYCLAMEN, and. CINERARIA.
Our First Shipment of Assorted -VEGETABLE AND FLOWER SEEDS has arrived, and will be ready for delivery in
a day or two..
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A'S. WATSON & Co. Ltd. THE, HONGKONG DISPENSARY, 7th August 188
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1888..
TELEGRAMS.
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GERMANY.
UNVEILING OF A STATUE OF PRINCE FIDERICK CHARLES.
LONDON, August 19th. The Emperor William has unveiled the status af Fringe Frecieur Churles at Frankfort-on-the-
„Goon;ns wou'd sonder the than surrender a
single stare of then eo quests.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE D, cos Steamsligi Co.'s steamer Jason, from *Liverpool, left. Sitorapore, für Hongkong, this Toping, and is due on the 27th inst.
THIS morning Mr. Sercombe-Smith sent a narine hawker, aged 19, to gaol for six weeks with hard labour for being found in unlawful possession of five hundred weight of coal on zist inst., also a coolie, aged 33, to five months with hard labour for stealing, on the 21st, a brass hand pump worth ten dollars, the property of
the Government.
the construction of forts at Natsushima.
him a walnut to illustrate the character of the
COLONEL YADUKI, Director of the Engineering | THE British gunboat Espoir, Lieut.Commander A NEAT story is told of n certain Catholic priest Bureau in the Japanese War Department, has, R. Y. Smith, and the Chinese corvette Kwang-whose sermons are usually of a practical kind. says a native paper, been ordered to superintend kap, arrived this morning from Canton.
On entering the pulpit one Sunday he took with. NATURE'S Safe Cure for kidney diseases-and various Christian churches. He told the people many others-is strictly purified water. So im- portant to health is strict purity in water that it may be reasonably presumed that one of the causes of the remarkable increase of kidney complaints is in the increasing impurity of water, conséquent upon our multiplying population, man-
Wit hear that the entire staff of engineers op a steamer which recently caused some anxiety through being two or three days overdue here, has been changed, instructions to replace the late staff having been received from home. THE. Avenir du Tonkin notifies that the Cost, mines of Hon-gay, which were ceded to Mr. Bavier-Chauffour, are already being worked. Three hundred Chinese coolics are employed at the "Henriette" mine and others are expected to work the "Marguerite de Hatou" and the "Campha."
SU AKAN, aged 15, an unemployed coolie, appeared before Mr. Sercombe-Smith this morning charged with the larceny of four pieces of clothing, the property of one Su Akai on the arst inst Complainant said he worked in a fishing junk. At g a.m. this morning he was proceeding along the road near Warchai with four pieces of clothing under his arm when he felt them snatched from behind. On, turning round he saw defendant run-
REFERRING to the death of Captain, Hayasaki, the Rising Sun says:-We regret to hear of the leath of Captain. Hayasaki Hichiro, I.J.N., com mander of the Amagi Kan, which took place at fenchuan on the zoth ultimo, from an attack of typhoid fever, at the comparatively early age of forty. A preliminary funeral ceremony was held on hoard ship the same night, Acting-Ministerning away, and had him arrested. A police Kando, Consul Hashiguchi, and other officials man corroborated this story. Defendant told being present, in addition to the ship's officers the Court, that he and the complainant, were and crew. The Amagi Kan arrived, here on fighting when the latter getting the worst of it Sunday, with the corpse of deceased on board, be called a policeman and had him arrested- for the purpose of receiving the instructions of admitted a previous conviction and also a ileceased's relatives.
change of name. He was sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour. The following remarks on the importation of Cotton yarn into Tonquin were made by the French Consul at this port in a recent Report
AMONGST the passengers who left yesterday for Shanghai by the P. & O. Co.'s steamer Cathay was Madame Cora, who claims to be the Magicienne of the World" Madame, we
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factures, etc. Says Professor Charles Mayer
"Of the thousands of chemical compounds and waste products formed in the human system, many require pure water for their solution and elimination, and water so overloaded with salts, 'c, as average well water, will not work salis factorily. *
Those who have never drunk
· pure water do not realize what an effect such water has upon the kidneys;, its effect is better than that of acetate's, nitrates, opiates or alcohol, and for people with tendency to kidney disease or dropty there is no better drug than pure water."
the Wesleyan Church. The skin was nauscous, the shell was tasteless and valueless-that was disagreeable, and worthless-that was the Presbyterian Church. He then said he would! show them the Holy Roman Apostolic Church his reverence coughed violently and pronounceel He cracked the nut-and found it rotten 1 Then
the benediction, +
THE China Mail, with its customary disregard of truth when it has a purpose to serve, states that a large number of residents here received letters by the last mail anxiously inquiring as to the state of this cholera-stricken- city and hetraying great alarm as to the fate of their neat and dear ones." We think we may fairly assumé that this ungrammatical concoction of jumbled nonsense emanated from the masterly brain of thetalented individual who edits the China Mart SAYS the Japan: Alaih-The vernacular press Nobody else in Hongkong could put so much reports much damage from the provinces in rubbish in so small a space. How did the Editor consequence of the heavy rains and storms that of the China Mail and out about the letters have swept over the country during the past ten received by "a large number of residents ? days. In the province of Mino, the results Did he send round a general circular, or did the of the downpour, culminated on the morningsidents communicate with him of their awn of the 29th ultimin. The 1bi and the Akusaka free will and accord? From whatever point of river overflowed their banks, and cavered view we look at this remarkable business, it the railway track between Tarui and Kano, books funny, and fishy. Did the rumskull on the Nakasendo line. Not much distress Editor invent the large number of sesidents, and was caused, however, as the lowriess of the the letters which "anxiously enquired" and district has familiarised the inhabitants with "betrayed great alarm ?" We think so; we inundations. But about 3 o'clock on the morn can see no reasonable ground for thinking ing of the goth ult, the Oshima embankment otherwise. And, "Brownie," just a few word in on the bi-kawa burst in three places, and the your dexter, auricular appendage-nobody ever surrounding country, including the city of Ogaki telegraphed Home (with a capital H) about the and numerous adjaceut villages, were converted ravages of Asiatic cholera. You are only a
castle of Ogaki, and some took refuge in trees. The prisoners in the jail had to be conveyed to the castle. At Ogaki telegraph offer the water rose to a height of 3 feet above the
Cd and in a speech said that 42 millions regret to learn, has been suffering from a sharp on the local trade:-"In treating of the great into a sheet of water. Great consternation | shallow-humbug at the best.
tark of fever, and proceeds to Japan for the articles of European import into China it is prevailed among the people. Some fled to the honest of her health. After visiting the principal cities in the Land of the Rising Sun, Madame Cora proposes returning to Shanghai and Hong kung, where she will give performances. This talented ardiste has been travelling all over the world for the past fifteen years, and her amusing tnd interesting entertainments have been com. pared with those of Heller and Herrmann. Madame Cora's press notices are of an excep. The returns of the number of visitors to the City innally favorable character, and we may look Aali Museum for the week ending August 19th, forward to a treat on her return to this colony.
Case:-buropeans 123, Chinese 1,857; total 1,974
SAYS Our Foochow cantemporary, of the 18th Tip Chinaan charged at the Criminal Sessions.net:It is stated that the heaviest loss the yesterday, with paisaning five others at Wanchai,native teamen will have to stand is in Sauchong, was mequitted by a majority of five to two. The owing to the enormous prices they paid for the prisoner in the other, anses will be sentenced second and third crops up country. With the on Thursday.
liscouraging, or we may say disastrous news, thout such tens in the London market, prices
cient motive tɔtempt French capital towards the cultivation of cotton in Tonquin, as the article would find a ready market in Hongkong. It is calculated that about 20,000 bales of Coston yara are yearly sold in Hongkong for the Tonquin market."
have been torn up or damaged so as to prevent
Europeans, four of whym died on Sunday. The officers and passengers who are on Green Island Par to enjoy good health, with the excep tion of Capt. Ilarros, who was acized with, Letters proceeding from that locality are com cholera, two days ago, but is now out of danger.
Sunday the Governor summoned a meeting, ef pletely beamcared with tor disinfectants. Ga the Sanitary Board to Government House, where the Colonial Secretary took a seat among the medical men assembled, Energetic menslires were then adopted to prevent the sprend of the,
passengers of the India to land and be quartered epidemic throughout the city, and His Excellency' expressal regret at having ordered the infected in Macno instead of sending them to some of the many deserted islands in the neigh- bourhood, as was done aing the epidemic which prevailed in Governor Roza's time. But as it was the President of the Sanitary lord who those the Cacilhas locality as lazarctio, the Governor is apparently free from all responsibility in the matter. Great panic prevails among the soldiers who 'l, nded from the India, and they have declared that they will not go on board that vesselagnin. It is'nsserted that such is the state of ebullition within the precincts of the lazaretto, that the India had to be removed out of sight of its inmates, and anchored behind an island a good dis tance off »Macao, · ·Telegrams have been forwarded to the Lisbon Colonial. Office, and it is said another transport will be dispatched to Macno to take away the troops which landed from the India. The gunboat Tamega proceeds to your port in a couple of days. Last night some Chinese residents went about town carrying tarbarrels set ablaze for the purpose of purifying the air; a num- hillock near Cacilhas where the lazarcite is located.. ber of barrels were also, seen burning on the Three deaths from cholera were reported yes- terday among the Chinese inhabitants of Fortafeiro, Major Vaquinhas, our popular Police officer, has had the bad luck of being appointed - Commander of the infected, forces in, the lazaretto. It is said the gallant Major owen his promotion to bis having spoken out his mind rather freely at the recent dissolution of the Municipal Chamber by Governor Costa. As there are several officers from the rifin quattered on Green Island, it is said, some of them could with more propriety have been placed in com- mand of the lazaretto instead of sending an outside officer who not only did not belong to the corps, but held a civil appointment in the
Two hundred and fifteen members of the Portuguese community of your city have subscribed the following manifesto which was received a couple of days ago by, the President of the dissolved Municipal Chamber. The document speaks for itself, I append a transla lion To Senhor Domingos ClementePacheco, Ex-President of the Leni Senado of Macao! Although absent from Macae, we cannot help taking an interest in the public affairs of that city, and therefore, fret surprised and indignant on hearing thatthe Municipal Chamber of which you 'were a worthy President, had been dissolved by without any justifiable foundation, and in an the Governor. Senhor Firmino José da Costa, insulting and vexatory manner.
We felt
very sorry at seeing the discomfiture of the
be regretted that France does not occupy a very
ONE of the many legends which had their origin prominent place; our country does not, send any cotton to China. There are in Tonquin thou.
in the blood-stained epoch of the French Revolut ton kas just been dispelled by a curious document sands of hectares of ground adapted to the
published in the Intermédiaire des Chercheur's culture of cotton; the few specimens of Ton-
et Curieux, which is the French, equivalent of quinese cotton extant are very similar to indianoor, and in the streets of the city the depth cotton which the Chinese prefer to all the other of the flood at one time reached ten feet. For. Nefes and Queries. This is the legend accord- kinds on account of its flexibility, or, as they call tunately this extreme condition was not longing to which the unfortunate Molle, de Sombreuil was made to drink a glass of human blood. The it, its unctuosity. With the new openings for maintained. In the neighbouring villages several nur products in China, this ought to be a suff-hundreds of houses are said to have been swept story has often been contradicted, but no direct away, and the number of persons drowned and roof of its untruth was given, until the following The police succeeded in official report of what occured at the sitting of missing is.100 rescuing over 70 people from imminent danger the Convention on the 17th Ventose, Year 111, af drowning and are now giving relief to neatly was disintered and published the other day:
"A member remarked that citoyenne Sombreuil, ind Kano, about 5 miles of rails are said to daughter of the citizen Sombreuil, formerly foo destitute. On the railway betweça Tarui
governor of the Invalides, aged 74, had been imprisoned in August, 1792, at Abbaye, where the had obtained permission to go and nurse
tember following, citizen Sombreuil was led out to death before the tribunals which then tried the prisoners under arrest; that his with her body, and obtained, by her untiring daughter during all this time covered him efforts, by her entreaties, and by the interest which her filial love inspired in several of the witnesses of the terrible scenes which then ensued, a respite in order that information might heg thered as to the civic qualities of citizen
that Sombreuil, and his amiable daughter were released from this horrible place. That during the reign of bland which oppressed France, citizen Sombreuil, his son, and daughter were
A PRIVATE telegram has been received in for Souchong must go rather lower than those the following comparative table of shares many Tochigi Prefecture the districts of Upper and her father; that in the beginning of Sep-foundation in 1586. It grieved us much to see
'Shanghai stating that judgment has been given by the Chief Justice in the Conference stramer case, in favour of the defendants, Macgregor & Co., the 1. & O. Company and others, with costs,
A CERTAIN 'friend of a certaia Government once asked a certain Lawyer if he would not take to the stump on helmalf of the Ministry in question during the approaching general election. "No," replied the lawyer, "I have retired from criminal practice."
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last year, before sales to any extent can be effected in this market. The firm. shown by the teamen is just as false as that shown in all their dealings, und, if it last till our next Saturday's issue,. it can scarcely be kept up till the 15th of the 8th moon, when they must take what is offered by foreign merchants, and we fear that they will then raise the price for rope, boiled plum, and coffins, for there will certainly be a large demand for these articles. Let the foreign merchants continue as firm as they are at present, and we predict that a good result, will yet turn up for the present season, and greatly improve the prospects for season 1889.
Most excellent photographs of "Handalsan have, says the Japan Mail, been taken by Professor Burton of the Imperial University. The Pre- sident of the University wisely requested, Pro- fessor Burton to visit the scene, and obtain the earliest possible record of the effects produced by the eruption. Professor Burton's well-known photographic skill'nabled him to discharge this difficult commission with remarkable success, and the consequence is that hy a happy com- bination of forethought and ability the University now possesses an almost unique record of a greater the the maikum height, while he is broad enough f volcanic phenomenon.
TO DAY before Mr. Sercombe-Smith the keepers ni the following shops were summoned by the Examiner of weights and measures for having in their possession false and incorrect balances. No. 156, Third street was found with a deficiency in his balances of four per cent, and on admitting the anime was fined $25. No.134, Third street hail three per cent, deficiency and on admitting the charge was fined $20. No. 71, High street which was little better than a hawker's stall had La deficiency of four per cent, but his excuse was that the balance kuud never been used. He was ordered to pay down $5 or take fourteen days in
durance.
the passage of trains. Experts were promptly the spot from the Osaka railway office. In Lower Tsuga and Kawachi suffered notably, In Lower Tsuga alone no less than 80 bridges were carried away. Cultivated lands have been Market Pries of Marker Price of cruelly devastated and it is calculated that fully 10 per cent. of the crops have been destroyed, The direct damage is estimated at 400,000 yen. In Tokushima Prefecture the Yoshino river rose 20 feet above its usual level. The embank. ment at Nishi-kakuen village in the Meisai district was destroyed, and some 8, houses were
THE Japan Mail, in order to give its readers, an idea of the state of Japanese securities, publishes of which do not appear in the ordinary market returns!-
LIST OF SHARES OF VARIOUS COMPANIES.
Shares,January Shares, July
4th, 188, Buyen,
Japan Railway Company, Filay yen shares Japan Mall S, S. Company. Electric Light Compasy, Rymd Ralway Company,
Fify you shares.
Six en paid up
15.70 yen.
s you.
B3 yeni Old shares 75 sen paid up. Nyom Railway Company, 19.50 yes yes Mita Railway Company, boyn New shares.
paid up). 49308 pal' up.. Tokyo Exchange, no yes **yen.
paid up.. Yokoirama Exchange 100 you 138 ye
pald up. Tokyo Gua Company, Be ex paid up. Tokyo Tramway Company,
100 you pak up. MejiLife Aurance Com
pany, 100 yen paid up.
Company, 100 grapzidup. Bank of Japan 100 yen
paid up Specie Bank, too yen paid up Apecia Bank, New shares
AN-English aristocratic" paper heaps a com plicated anathema on an American girl who Tokyo Starine Insurance danced with the Prince of Wales and then sup. plied an account of her sensations. It was this that roused the journalistic bite :---
The you want in lenaw about the Prince of Wales Heisnota syipts 1 find that most of my acquaintances on this side of the water oireise of him a tall and attaly figure. That is because all tires and princos ought to be partly. I suppose. But Wales
- Nestes he is almost middle-aged, and certainly beyed the time of life whes a person can koop his heels off the Aur during a charter of an hour of lively, stepping. Still, the Hance is menthe desi-rate has beens, Doubiles at pwenty-five, be wa nimble and light-footed waitrer. He still gets through the steps in a correct fashion but with a triffs oflagging heariness and a suggestion of wheeze in his breathing, You wish to know
how he handles a girl in waltzing? Well, he is altogether res sectful. You know from personal experience what I mean by that. news intown grab their partners though they were their wives ↑ their are pred sebethearts, and hug them covertly if not serepeilily so speciates. The Prince does not do that at all. here was hing caressing in the firm but conventional encircl of this right nom, the hand of which was placed fust Batly.mough to be supporting in the small of my back Ho was Just 11 resporaful she could be. With a left hand he held my right
extended, just as we do in waiting here, and with just trip rough to make you feel fe, hut with no prosture ofimpropriety. Oh, he was very mine indead. My right aar was cine to fl mouth and he chatted a little at first unill the exercise of dancing made him sort of breath. When we were through `ba left ma with a countly, how and the remark : * You American ladies are cetually fine dangers."
The London pressman breaks off here with a snort and says that "this kind of lying vulgarity is too sickening,"
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yen paid up,
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Second National Bank, 100 yre paid up. Third National Bank, 100 137979. Kundredth Bank
taares full up
103 you.
110,
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79yen.
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137 yan.
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carried away. Several casualties to men and Sombreuil-information which was sosatisfactory firs, and would adopt such a policy of reform
animals occurred, but accurate, returns have not been received. In the Hózki Shimbun we read that the rivers Ichi and Kake, in the neighbourhood of the town of Himeji, overflowed, and that four railway navvies were drowned in incarcerated. That Sombreuil the elder, then tive trade in fruits, by means of an exaggerated
the Ichikawa and three in the Kako-gawa.
76 years of age, scarcely able to walk, and his son were put to death, like so many others, JUDGING by the stale Macao news which now without any apparent motive. That all the mis- and then appears in the columns of our morning fortunes which citoyenne Sombreuil has under- contemporary, one would be led to imagine gone, have wrecked her health, and that she has that either its Macas correspondent is in no income, no resources, and, is, incapacitated the habit of deriving his information from from gaining a livelihood even by labour. The what has previously appeared in this paper, and same member added that, having no claim upon that after reading the Telegraph for a few the succession of her unfortunate father, the days, he cooks up a correspondence and sends it committre of finance cannot decide anything in over to Hongkong with a “Good morning to her favour, and that the committee of relief to National Carrying Company.
ye, Granny," or that the Daily Press's Own which he had applied had referred him to the too sen paid up. Yamagata Raliway, 50 yen Be you (so you 31.You (30 8 Special is a fabulous entity, its alleged corres National Convention, which he hoped would
pald up.
paid up). paid up). Kobs Railw
..... 1927 (594 495 (pondence being generally got up in the guise grant her the help she so well deserved. He
pald up) patd up). Sanyo Raliway ampun
tagaren (as som si you (ou yes of a rechaud within the precincts of the morning accordingly asked that the national treasury paid up! oracle's sencia sanctorum. The Macao news might be authorized to pay her a sum of 3,000 My paid up Klushiu Railway.
Totagen te gen shoyen (yen
pald up). paid up). which is published in this morning's issue of the livres (francs). The Convention ordered the Tokyo Colion Company....... 14.60 yanlisyen 35yen (ingen
paid up). Bald up). Daily Press is from a werk to 20 days old, matter to be examined in committee without 18yen (spam) 189.laşan sayısı
paid upl paid up)..
What may be the ultimate object of republishing delay,". As the Intermédiaire points out; it is Ayei (1300 Syen Exo you events that are known, that have constituted quite certain that if Melle, Sombreuil had been paid up) prid up).
·Zyen (öyın'
the current gossip of the neighbouring colony put through so terrible an ordeal the member 3.56 yan yan paid up), paid us).
for weeks past, and have been thoroughly of the Convention who was pleading her cause threshed out in the Macao newspapers, we fail would not, have failed to refer to it as an to know. The Daily Press correspondent additional plea in her favour, and the explanation makes no comment on the facts narrated, probably is that she was made to drink a glass throws no fight, on the vexed question. of of wine in honour of the Revolution; and that it the dissolution of the Municipal Chamber by had been handed, her by some wretch whose a despotic Governor, expresses no opinion on hand was dripping with blood.
$30 yen.
To Canal Company ....... Táky Woollen Company.... Japan Weaving Company...... Osaka Splaning Company,
100 you paid up. Osaka Spiontax Company, Railway Enginsiring Coca- New Shares (agyan paid up).
2 yen (2 yrs Dady.
jald up). Tokyo Warehousing Cons- pany (assem pell trp) Cake Railway Company.
Teams Spinning Company. Roka Spinning Company. Kwaatal Raway Company. Usui Tramway Company
$158.
#4973.
RIT YOU.
Tuy
0.50 yen (3 yen
pald up ден,
5 40 yen (5yın palḥ up).
59 yan lan yen pajun).
-
sayan (40 yen paid up)
*** 4,60 pin (5 pen paid up)
OUR MACAO LETTER.
illustrious corporation of the Leal Senado, s0 worthy of respect for its integrity and for the important services it has rendered. since its the manner in which the representative of His Most Faithful Majesty, the King of Portugal, by inaugurating an epoch of despotism, apparently almed at destroying those honourable traditions have invariably been associated with a spirit of of the Portuguese colonial administration, which equity, leniency, and suavity in the application of the laws. When we heard a short time ago that His Most Faithful Majesty's Government had seriously undertaken to define the political situa- tion of Macao by means of a Treaty with China, we conceived slaitering hopes that the Portuguese Government would seriously look after the Vacao
as would render that colony, once more properous. What was our deception when we heard of a reign of despotism being established in Macao instead of one of reform and improvement | One day sees the abolition of the extensive and lucra
prohibition; another witnesses an order forbidding the landing of Chinese after seven o'clock in the evening, resulting in great prejudice to trade Chamber under pretext of bad management, and now comes the dissolution of the Municipal
without a single fact being advanced as a proof or basis, of so grave an accusation. What surprised us most was, moreover, the highly Macao in ordering the dissolution. Besides insulting language used by the Governor "of classifying all the members of the Corporation as neglectful of their duties, and incapable of acquitting themselves of their lask, be appointed ment employés to inquire into the affairs of the a commission composed of subordinate Govern- Municipality, thus throwing on the ex-members an imputation of prevarication in the manage ment of their municipal affairs. All this want who have rendered gratuitous services to the of respect and insulteaped upon worthy citizens city, has produced in us a profound impressions we felt indignant at witnessing a deliberate intention on the part of the superior authority to bring shame on the Senate and it is for this reason that we have resolved upon addressing to you this protest, to signify to yourself and to your worthy colleagues, that we, your fellow. Countrymen residing in this Colony, share in the sorrow and opprobrium you have suffered, that which you have been thevictims, and that we hope we reprove and condemn the unjust dissolution of you will accept the assurance of our sympathy and of our recognition of those civic virtues of which you and your colleagues have given so many proofs to the inhabitants of Macao.Hongkong, August 11th 1888," Here follow the signatures, Senhor. Pacheco his addressed a reply to the Hongkong, signatories of the manifesto, both In his name and in those of his confrères of the Mr. Albino da Silveira and the members of the extinct Chamber. Theex-President warmlythanks Futuguese community of Hongkong who have sympathised with the cause of the Senado. Time does not permit me to translate this
me to document. More anon.
FOREIGN TRADE AT CANTON,
The Canton Chamber of Commerce sends us
reveal
an objectionable interference on the part
IT has long been known, says the Foochow Echo, that there were tigers in the vicinity FURTHER evidence was taken to-day at the ‚of the missionary station at Ky Liang, where Police Court before Mr. Wodehouse, in the there are now also several foreign residences; alleged case of incendiarism at No. 85, Holly
** 33 yen (499în pajd up); | such a vital subject, but merely, recounts a fact but until quite lately, these interesting animals wood Road, in which the accountant of the It will be seen from this table that while many nearly a month after its occurrence. His bungling have kept at a respectful distance. From all shop, Chung Chi the cook, Chọi Kai, and stocks fell appreciably during the six months with the news about the transport India is also accounts their shyness is gradually wearing off the shop-coolic, Tong Tung, are charged with under review, there was not on the whole, any worthy of notice. He is positive about the fact
MACAO, August'afat, 1888. There are unmistakable proofs of friendly visits, maliciously setting fire to the premises at 3.30 very serious decline of values. Some of the [ that bérd-beri, and not cholera' mostras of The only topic of discussion at the present which were they watched for, would be seen.
nm. on the 19th inst. Mr. Wotton appeared projected railways have evidently lost popularity; choleraic diarrhoea, was the prevalent disease time is the serious outspread of the epidemic A pig-sty on the premises of a native house for the defence. The complainant in his re-
as for example, the Yamagata Line, whose shares on board the ill-fated vessel. "Newsmongers which broke out in the transport India a few now in the occupation of a foreigner was robbed examination before the Court was taken pretty fell from 60 yan to 35 yer and the Sanyo Line: and lovers of sensational tidings were saying days ago. Call it beri-beri, or cholera, the fact of a fine fat pig last week; the stone enclosure much over the same ground as that traversed which fared even worse. The banks have held that cholera had broken out on board the trans is that deaths are constantly occurring both at proving no obstacle. Here is a chance for our yesterday. His reasons for sleeping in that par- their own stoutly, and purely industrial comport." The deaths which occurred on board in the improvised lazaretto at Cacilhas, and in towin big-game sportsmen,
ticular place on the pavement, were that it was panies do not appear to have suffered to any such an alarmingly short period of time, are all being distinctly, preceded by the usual only some three doors from his own house, that considerable extent. Still a perusal of the table attributed by this sapient correspondent to Beri- symptoms of cholera-purging and vomiting. I SUBSCRIBER-I've noticed a funny error in your the pavement in fatplace was under the shelter leaves no room to doubt that a wave of depression heri; a Chinese adult and a Portuguese ladum informed by Mr. Pacheco, the Administrador copies of the following correspondence, which paper. Every time for the last week that you of a verandah, ad also that he did not like to swept over the market and might very casily "who died of choleraic diarrhea, owing to use the word "separate" it is spelled with an sleep in his father's house because there were so have swamped it. The crisis happyily seems to indigestion and want of hygienic observances" Men in the serned syllable. Publisher-That's many girls alleping there. He had made his be past for the moment. Shares of all kinds have are the only cases reported, and these are said not an enor, sir; leastwise it is no accident. It bed in the same place for a month past, did not recovered their tone, to some degree-pad the not to have affected the "excellent sanitary con. Is intentional. You see, we printed the word with suspect what the defendants were going to be up market generally is firmer. But It is beyond dition of the colony." In a word, although a question that among the numerous enterprises number of deaths were reported on board the floated during 1887 on the tide of a speculative India before she left the harbour of Macao, manis, many cannot possible endure the test of although she returned with an alarmingly in time and practical trial: Since the commence-fectious disease on board and reporting eighteen ment of this year several are said to have sue deaths during three and a half days, the Daily cumbed, The Dukka Shimps put the number of Press's Own Epidemic Special asserts that these abortive associations at 17, and says that nothing unusual, or extraordinary, or alarming, has occurred in the sanitary condition of the removal of their offices to out-of the-way districts, neighbouring colony. A perusal of the Macao so that their extinction may nursera miniraum letter which reached us His forenoon by the of publicity. If these unsound excrescences can river steamer A4 Kiang and is published to he lopped off without any serious, shock to the another column, will greatly tend to set matters financial system of the country, the anticipated right with the Dally Praiz! supplier or concocter crisis may perhaps be averted altogether,
na "a latle while ago and that settled it. It to, and had never been told to watch them, He is a put of the policy of the paper now, sit. In saw the proceedings through a chipk in the door conducting a great newspaper, sir, we must be not the window, and observed the third defen. consistent; no shuffling, sir, allowed in this dant strike the match, the second defendant place cffie. Every man here, sir, knows just what to the wood in position, and the first basily engaged say on every public question long before it in packing up the books. The oll was then comes up, and as long's I'm proprietor bese, poured over the wood and the lighted match every man's got to spell the same one day that thrown amongst it, not carefully applied by the projectors of others are contemplating the
he did before. Dictionary? D'ye think I care hand. Then somebody threw in a package, for dictionaries2 Consistesouls a fowel, of which caused an explosion. He had known the stultification in this sheet, sir. When we've said third defendant for about a year, and the second a thing or done a thing, we stick to it, and we for some three or four months; the other man shail spell it "seperate as long's I'm at the he had never seen before. At this stage the case
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de Concelho, that on Sunday nine of the soldiers quartered at the lazaretto died, and four more yesterday. As the Government are doing their of the Chinese with Foreign trade at Canton - best the conceal both the number of deaths and their cause, in order to avoid alarm, I am not eure how many casualties have really occurred; some say 20 men have already succumbed to the fell disease, others 14. According to a report made by an officer on returning from the laviretto yesterday, only four European soldiers died from by exposure during the night, or by extra cholerate diarrhoea brought on, it is supposed, vagance in diet. As nobody is allowed to communicate with the sick, and the Sanitary dificult to arrive at the exact figure of casualties, Board are under orders to suppress facts, it is After making dus allowance for exaggeration and suppression, I have gathered the following particulars concerning this sad affair. 18 would appear that a great number of the soldiers who attacked with chelers or choleralo dianhora Are quartered in the Lasaretto have been
that the Africans enjoy better heality than the
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO THE CONSULS, Canton Chamber of Commerce, Sale Canton, 4th August, 1888. Gentlemen,In terms of a resolution passed at a special meeting of this Chamber, I have the honour to bring to your notice the fact that the with lately by the action of certain Chinese who trade of this port has been greatly interfered claim a right to demand from foreign merchanic statements of ownership on their goods in course steamers plying between this, and Hongkong, of shipment by, or discharging from, the river such goods, having paid export or import duty
accordance with the tariffe What may be the ultimate object of this demand it is not perhaps necessary to consider of the likin of a similar office tends to show that here, but the fact that it is advanced by servants
taxation of some kind is in view