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prise,—undoubtedly aided by the Oplum Convention-vastly increased its value, and has made it pay. The new contract, even with the advantage of that reorganisation, is so rack-rented that it is only likely to be profitable to the Government, being put at so high a figure that a syndicate of very rich men has alone been able to bid for it. The conditions under which they withough they are not too lenient now. We may explain that the profits to the Farmer are by no means made on the drug sold locally-that is only a comparatively small item. The great
We regret to hear that the illness of the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, is more serious
than was at first supposed. THE Opium Farmer is unusually hospitable this week. On Thursday he displayed a free table to the poor, in propitiation of "Departed Spirits," and to-night, we understand, he will give a dinner to his friends.
THE Agents of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company Infoved in shear the lens er 5.5. Abyssinić arrived New York on, the 21st inst, and that the S.S. Dansde arrived at Van-
couver on the zoth inst
We are Informed by the Agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) that the Shire' line
EARLY next month a Police shooting competition will take place, five money prizes being provided, The ranges will be 600, 800, and goo yards, with rifles or carbines, and the entrance fee is nominal.
By the way, a course of musketry would not do the chain-gang guards any harm,
Lord Kinnear was engaged in hearing proof on the 10th July at Edinburgh, 'in one of the most extraordinary actions of divorce which have
a law clerk, a
has arrived, and will be ready for delivery in market is in China, San Francisco, New steamer Breconshire sailed from Singapore attendant at a lunatic asylum. The defence is
a day or two.
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to-day, and may be expected here an or about the grat TO-MORROW morning between 9 and to 30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey men ashore to 11 am.. service, at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return-
York, and Australia, the oplum being exported, thither In a half-prepared state, on The benevolent Hongkong Government would have shown good sense if at the beginning they had determined that all Farmers should send their opium tins to these places stamped with an unchanging "chop." This brand would thus haveing about 12.30. become established, and would have Tr le repeated that all manicuions relating to Subscriptions, excluded private preparations from the
Honekone, 17th August 1888.
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A FOREIGN Indy who had learned English in a school in Europe, where she was accounted remarkably proficient in the language, went to the United States to take charge of an establish-
large foreign, market, whilst increasing the value of the Farm. Instead of doing SD; any Farther, after obtaining a connecment. The result showed that she had little tion during his term of lease, has been knowledge of "English as it is spöken," and able to continue the trade independently that her vocabulary had been laboriously gathered from a dictionary. Her English there- when the three years are, expired, to the fore afforded much amusement. On one occasion detriment of his successor's trade. That she wished to direct a servant to kill a chicken is precisely what is done. The explolta and after plucking it to bring to her the feathers. tion of markets, the glutting of the demand. The form which her direction took was. Die which the present. Farmer is accused me that beast' and 'bring me his vestment.”. of is as he is painfully aware--only
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sheds, which are said to make the atmos-
been made. The 50 lakhs of 4 per cent. Rapee present price is 101. No other point in the paper stand at 974 and exchange 121, while the
accounts occurs to me upon which it seems necessary that I should comment. I will there Tore move the adoption of the Report.
-Mr. McConachle seconded, and it was unani. mously agreed to.
fuckleas India we do not assert positively ; but large, the eye missed them. It is not our object only this, that being possibly few and not very
here to chronicle too carefully the number of deaths which have taken place on board the ship while she was at sea, or even in the matsheds which have been constructed on khora: for her plague stricken crew and passengers; it is enough to know that they were so numerous while at sea as to induce the commander of the vessel to break up his voyage and return to Macas, flying the yellow flag,AN
Mr. Mosely moved, the election of Mr. N. A. Sieba to the seat on the Board vacated. by Mr. Hoppius.
Mr. Just seconded, and it was passed. That concluded the business, the Chairman anaguncing that the dividend warrants would be and quickly succumbed from cholers of cholerate ready on Monday.
THE WHITE PASHA.
recently come into court. The pursuer is John
Our first report said that 14 African, soldiera Ferries, bookseller, Windmill Brae, Aberdeen, and he seeks to be divorced from his wife,
diarrhea, which cases were soon followed Marion Davidson, or Ferries, on the ground of
by four of the passengers, amongst whom were two officers and a lady. This assuredly her unlaithfulness. There are eight, co-respon-
was very serious and quite enough; lo warrant her commander, Captain Gusman, dents, from each of whom too is clained.
The Reuter's telegram dated London, August in returning to facao for assistance. .As. They include a sheriff's officer, a law agent.zoth, which we published the other day, infornis
the, condition of the India appears to have 'medical, student and an
us that the "English Pasha" who is advancing
been healthy enough up to the time. that pursuer purposely exposed his wife to Stanley, and as, according to a London telegrain of were recovering from alleged chole nostras. on Khartoum is once more supposed to be of her taking on board the two men who templation, in the expectation that he would August 17th, Emin Pasha is dead, there appears it would certainly appear that the germe of the divorce and recover damages. After evidence personage-the white man "advancing at the these unfortunate convalescents. thereby obtain occasion to get rid of her by
to be little room for doubt that the mysterious disease had been conveyed into the ship by had been taken, the bearing was adjourned.
Why they head of a conquering host" upon: Khartoum-|| were' pot into a somewhat small ship which was FONG HING, a Chinese building contractor minds of Fakruri pilgrims, can be no other but
he really has any bodily existence outside the about to convey about 4c5 persona (so it is said), passengers and crew, over a long sen voyage who would appear to be densely stupid or
the enterprising explorer about whose movements the medical efficers of the Macao government there has for so long a time been so much uncer- decidedly mutinous, was to-day placed before sinty. As we said, however, nearly a month
know best, but in the 'case of British "trooping or emigrating, such a thing would never have the dock of the Police Court to explain to ago,it is difficult to understand how Stanley could
been dreamt of-it certainly would never have Mr. Sercombe-Smith certain little matters con expect to conquer the Soudan, to seize Khartoum,
been tolerated. In the conveyance of native nected with the unsanitary condition of his mat
or even to rescue the luckless Enropean officers
emigrants leaving auch cholera-infected ports as. and others who are at present the staves of the
Calcutta, for Demerara or Mauritius, wliere, ah - enormous tide of traffic at one time existed, `the phero of night hideous with offensive odeurs, Mahdi in that city, dragging out a terrible and up around Richmond Terrace. Mr. heart-breaking existence. How Stanley, even
very greatest, care and circumspection were Clerihew, inspector of Nuisances, who charget supposing that he left London with this secict exercised by the medical officers who had the defaulter with serious breaches, of the object in bis mind, could reasonably expect to
charge of the Calcutta barraccions. The coolies were kept there under observation for sumis sanitary laws, was understood to say that do that which a British army failed in, is not he was quite disposed to be lenient with
easy to explain. We are aware that an opinion weeks, and on the first suspicion of disease was but he found, in fact, that his kindness 500 drilled black troops were to approach hospital. When the general health of the intended Fong if he would only have met him half was long ago published in Loudon that ir
the affected subjects were removed to a distant" was entirely cast away upon barren soil, and the dominions of the Mahdi, and if they were emigrants appeared to be satisfactory, they were he was about tired now of heaving out. The led by determined officers, such as could he then shipped, although after such extra precau accused, he stated, was fined $20 on the joined by the revolting followers of the faise only Hindeo passengers but also the European found in the service of Egypt, they would be tions cholera often broke out, and ravaged, not for waking everybody up in that locality, it two o'clock in the morning, and now again he was prophet' at the rate of 502 a day for every day members of the crew. The measures taken to of their advance, till on getting into Nubla the secure the thorough cleanliness of the ship, as phere to such an extent that every body was hated policy of the accursed slayer of Gordon. sleeping deck, were of the most complete and up to the same old ganie-poisoning the atmos
wadis country would rise in ams against the well as a free ventilation through her main or complaining. The mutineer having nothing a say in extenuation of his crime was now ordered So great, in fact, was said in Cairo to be effective description. Caul-hended ventilatora to pay down $50, but pleading bankruptcy the revulsion of feeling last June in the were let into the upper decks in every conceivable. against the heavy amount, went into retire Soudan, that an Egyptian Pasha, offered part, planks were taken out in whole lengths, to conquer the whole country with 5,000 three or four in number, and combings or ledges troops. It should not be forgbiten, however,attached, to admit air, but not water. Hatches that this was also the hastily formed opinion of were taken off for good, and portable houses the Egyptian Government when sent out built over the hatchways so that nir could always Hicks Pasha and his whole army to their doom. escape, and rain or the sea never enter; windiails As to Stanley's morements, nothing absolutely, hoisted in crowds and trimmed to the breeze day the Upper Congo now many months ago, and tion, the very best of approved awnings were the chief, if not the only reason, we believe, why stretched out and all the coolics, during fine he is the "White Pasha," is based upon what he at regulated times and periods, round and round the opinion should gain ground in Loudon that
weather, compelled to come up, and to march said at the Mansion House dinser in July 1885. were members of the Congo Association-to tate and bodies of police rrere organised amongst the the decks. Standing bath houses were fitted up He then urged his audience-many of whoi
on the upper decks, bathing always encouraged, up the work which General Gordon had in hand, to rescue the tribes of the southern Bahe-el-Gazel all rules of hygiene strictly and systematically the appreach of the slave hunters. In a she- subjected to most careful examination, as well as from the wretched fate that awaited them-on what impassioned discourse the great African country, with such an object, was through the explores maintained that the best route to that Congo States, and in boats towed by sterm launches up the Congo and Aruwirai rivers.
The first information the approach of this "English-Pasha" was conveyed to Sunkin by a party of Fakruri pilgrims on their way to Mecca. These men arrived at Suakin passing through Darfoar they heard of a large about July 18th, and their report was that in
forcej of warriors from the South, headed by an through the swamps of Bahr-el-Gazel; and that English leader, just then employed marching the tribes in Darfour had been apprisert of their coming and were secretly arming in order to join them in attacking the new Mahdi, whom they did not believe in. It was also reported about the same time in Cairo hint the Sultan of Darfour had defeated the advanced battalions of the Mahdi's army, and had taken great numbers of prisoners, who were glad to desert their standards for ourselves, we have never believed in the report of Stanley's death.
ment for a month.
Farmer, whose headquarters are at Macao, and 'Slang,” and. Charles · G. Leland (Hans and who has cut the rates below anything Breitmann), and among the contributors are the the Hongkong monopolist can afford to Earl of Suffolk, Sir Patrick Colquhoun, Major sell at. The glut our contemporary Arthur Griffiths. Dr. Charles Mackay, John refers to undoubtedly exists- it is one of Hollingshead, Rev. J. W. Horsley and Professor with keeping a young married woman in her is known since he disappeared into the wilds of and night, and lastly, as the greatest precau
Douglas B. W. Sladen. The character of the work may be judged from its sub-title: "A Dictionary of Unconventional Phraseology, embracing English, American and Colonial Slang; Tinker, Yiddish, Pidgin and Anglo Indian Slang, Quaint Expressions, Vulgarisma, their Origin, Meaning and Application." It will be issued in two volumes by Messrs. Whittaker & Co. of London,
the half truths we spoke of-but it is not the result of any irregularity on the part of the Farmer of to-day. It is his misfortune, not his fault. The champion of the prospective Farmer is right in recognising the disadvantages he will labor under when his turn comes, but he is altogether at sea in attributing it to any excessive out-put on the part of the present contractor. And It is just as well to recognise that the great benefits conferred on the present Farmer when the Opium Convention became an accomplished fact, and Hongkong was transformed into a Chinese Customs station, were given with a very bad grace and simply because the Government could not help themselves.
TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter.)
HOSOKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1888.
In one of its issues this week the China Afal publishes, half-a-column of plausible argument to show that the present Opium Farmer had amassed a tremendous fortune by dint of good luck and shady manage mont, and the unfavorable prospects of the new Farnler are also wailed over in that snuming style so characteristic of the half. price missionary organ. The object of the writer is very plainly to make damaging insinuations about the Farmer in ess to reflect a favorable light on the Farmer in passe. From beginning to end, except when he is quoting the Ordinance, he never speaks, more than a half-truth, and very often not that. For instance, to begis with, he finds fault with the present Farmer for being likely to "leave Hongkong with his pockets well lined.". We are, not the defenders of this lucky individual on principle, in fact, we object to the reason for his existence, but since the Government does not; but accepts his tender and his money, why, in the name, of Mahomet's big black dog, should his success, or good luck, or whatever it may be, be made the basis of an envious attack apparently instigated by anything but worthy motives? He took the contract, as anyone would, to make money; and he has made money. But how? Well, we will tell the China Mail and its one reader. The first year be adopted the system of working the monopoly which he found existing, and employed a small, inefficient staff. He port. lost nearly $100.000 during that period-YESTERDAY afternoon the Hon J. M. Price, enough to frighten most men out of the Surveror General, with other officials, visited business. He had an energetic superin Gap Rock in the Pilot Fish, to decide upon a tendent, who brought fresh ideas with him, to erect there.
site for the lighthouse which it bas been decided
and reorganised and greatly increased
THE FISHERIES BILL.
LONDON, August 23rd. The Washington Schate has rejected, the Fisheries Bill.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Meeting of the Legislative Council has been postponed until Tuesday, the 18th inst.
a
WE note that the German steamer Amigo is consigned to Mesars. Geo. R. Stevens & Co. of this port, until further notice. :
The Agents (Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co.) inform us that the steamer Arratoon. Aptar, from Calcutta, left Singapore yesterday for this
LORD George Hamilton, says the Boston Adver- diser, communicated to the public through the House of Lords a discovery that has greatly quieted the nerves of England. This is that the landing of an army of 100,000 men has never been attempted in England, and that an army involve so much preparation in the way of of that size, with all its paraphernalia, world transports, etc., that England could not help finding it out in time to make ready to refit
four times that force, either by land or water. Moreover, that the transportation of 100,000 men is a feat never accomplished over a body of water as wide as the English Channel. Lord George's discovery seemed so simple that the only wonder about it was that it did not occur to everybody at the start. No sooner was this soothing assurance advanced, however, than leading soldiers at home and on the Continent ||have been questioned, whose verdict seems to
question of landing troops to-day, with all modern facilities for transportation, and now the nerves of England are probably in a worse condition than before.
CHINESE widow, passing at present under the sweet appellation of Wong Chung Ho, was this- morning charged by the Inspector of brothels house at No. 15, Upper Station Street, without having the name of the said person on the register which is supplied by Government authority. This soung woman who it appears has clothes out to dry when a couple of unwashed a husband, was one day last month hanging some high-binders came along and seduced her into the neighbouring establishment in Station Street; getting away. Defendant informed the Court that from which she had the greatest difficulty in She went up to Canton to see a medical man in refused duty, when on returning to these fragrant regard to her left leg, which had, we believe, streams she was quite surprised to find the young woman under her roof-had no idea, in for it. Mr. Sercombe-Smith, looked very severe fact, that she was there at all sind couldn't account
on hearing this story, and all the occupants of the Court began to get nervous, but it ended all and just demanded bail in two purcties of $500 sight; he adjourned the case to Monday next,
cach.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK
HALF-YEAKLY MEETING.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank was held at noon to-day in the City Hall, The Chairman of the Board, the Hon. J. Bel.Irving, presided, and there were present-Hen. E. L. O'Malley, Hon. P. Ryrie, Hon. B. Layton, Messrs. Moses, Solomon, W. G. Brodie, Noble, St. C. Michaelsen,
coolies, by the Government authorities, to see
carried out. The food, supplied in Indin, was
tion officers who were experienced in the traffic but they were found necessary by those emigra the water. Such precautions were extraordinary,
and yet, even when hedged in by such precautions, cholera, always more feared than any other disease, often broke out, although its ravages were generally not so serious where the above rules and regulations had been attended to, Whether such supreme case as this was observed believe that if personal and general cleanliness was often the case in British ships not under were overlooked, and ventilation forgotten-as
and as is the commonest thing amongst all ship's the case of experienced officers of emigration, officers without much experience in that particular line of business-we can readily understand how the disease on board the India has been abundantly fostered if not actually created. It
on board the India we know not, but can readily
an ignorant inattention auch necessary observances which decimated the crews of Lord Anson's fleet, and that also of nearly every individual British navigator up to the time of the wise and the thoughtful Captain Cook, the first amongst European explorers who knew the secret of bringing home his crews and passengers which was invariably perfect.
NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.
L. Poesnecker, M. S. Silas, J. A. Joseph, R. Sie wary and thoroughly acclimatised agree that past precedents cannot settle the Danby, A. McConachie, J. A. Mostly, B. J. † leader of African tribes, and full of resources, not only in life. but. in a condition of health Toeg, H. L. Dalrymple, R. A. Chin. J. traveller, a man of considerable physical vigour, and still young; as well as being a popular Kéraujer, R. A. Gubbay, D. B. Tata. M. Carvalho, L. E. Davies, Edward George, Erescuing those hapless Europeans who are he has conceived the noble idea of successfully Coxon, D. McCulloch, F. Henderson, A. Stokes, Ericht Georg, W. H. Young; Benjamin, dragging out a terrible life of slavery at Khar Hancock, Just, Thomsett, Geo. Stevens, Green, toum, it can only be done, we think, by the assistance of those late followers of" the Prophet" Mackintosh, C. Hawkins, F. T. P. Foster, G. de who have at last become tired of his brutal E. B. Jorey, H. N. Mody, J. D. Humphreys, F. Champeaux, Hancock, J., J. S. Legge, P.
leadership. A knowledge of their inclination to revolt may possibly have prompted the enter- Jordan, &c.
prising Stanley to join his forces with those of Emin Pasha, and to strike, a blow as "much to drive out slavery from that unhappy country an to rescue the white captives..
per share, and an addition to our Reserve
THE PORTUGUESE TROOPER INDIA"
Capt. W. A. Walker, with the American mails
The O. & O. S. S. Co.'s steamship Belgir..
of the goth alto, arrived in harbour this morning. We are indebted for the subjoined items to our
San Francisco exchanges
the outdoor stiff. The result was that By kind permission of Major W. T. Ellie, and the in Macao since the transport India landed Repart that the funds of the Bank are very fully during her return to and stay in the roadstead of the measures of great severity which are to be
oficers of the 2nd Northamptonshire Regiment, the Regimental Band" will play in the Public Gardens, on the 26th inst., (Sunday), from 9 till to p.m. The following will be the programme:-
·March........." Old times"
Newton
Valco otrautmultaRoeder,
Fantasia......Reminiscences of
tes of Offenbach"...Conrad.
Belection
Casts Stephanle". Cylbake.
JOHN Mosan, Bandmaster.
The Chairman:-The report, which you have had in your possession for some time, will, I hope, have proved satisfactory to you. The half-year under review has been one of steady uneventful progress, and the net result, though not equalling that shown in some former reports, admits of dividend of 1:10 Fund of one lakh. It gives the Directors, great pleasure to be able to make this small increase millions of dollars. You will notice from the to the Reserve, which will now stand at four
employed, the cash balance on the 30th June last being about $8,741,000 against $14,068,000 on 30th June, 1887, and $13,827,000 on 30th June, 1886. During the 'early part of the half year, it was difficult to employ satisfactorily the large supplies of money at our disposal, but towards the close of the period, money was in strong demand at our principal offices and in the event of its continuing so, as now seems probable, the results for the current half year ought to be very favourable. We have found the item of the Interest paid on Sterling fixed deposits a heavy charge upon us. You are aware that we formerly paid per cent, then we reduced the rate to 43 per cent, and now it has been still further reduced to 4 per cent. The saving under this head will be considerable, and we are convinced that at per cent, we shall get as much money in London as we can profitably employ, Even if our Sterling deposits do diminith to some extent, it will not be an unmixed evil. Many of our friends may be glad to know that all our exchange accounts were taken over on the 30th June at the current rate of the day at every branch of the Bank, and therefore, although we have had to contend against a continuously falling exchange, any loss from this cause has been avoided. Not only so, but the affairs of the Bank have been so arranged that the results of our Exchange operations have been equal to those of any previous half year in the history of the Corporation. I mention this to prevent any misapprehension, especially among our the fall experienced in Silver exchanges during London friends, whome doubt view with alarm the last few years.
hagyak Fraudsters NEW YORK, July 24th:
A cable special from London to the fall and Express says to The deep interest which is, felt by the people in yesterday's debates in the House of Commons on the Government's pro- posal for a commission of inquiry Into the Famell matter was shown by the crowded condition of the Strangers galleries, which were
WHOEVER reads the Daily Press of this date with its accompanying mail leaflet; and com- pares the information the morning. 'Granny publishes in its daily column of local newa
metal meet NEW YORK, July 4th about the sanitary condition of Macan with what
A London cable, special: to the Mail and appears under the same heading in its Mall
Express says: A Metz correspondent of the supplement, will find ample occasion to pause
Paris Matis reminding his readers that all of Germany's great historical campaigne have and consider. In one column the reader is told
been coincident with the transformation on the authority of an official from whom the
of the German army, announces that the whole of the German army is now supplied! morning oracle got its information,-Granny has an awful penchant for officials of all grades,
The cause of the inordinate number of deaths with repeating rifles, and that therefore that not a single case of cholera has occurred
troopship India, either since she left Macao or which have taken place on board the Portu, uese, there is nothing in the way of an immediate attack on Franco. The writer further refers to her freight of epidemic stricken people there; in
that port, is vastly perplexing to the ordinary taken in Alsace-Lorraine as soon as the Kaiser another part of the same issue, the news is
aswell as to the learned medical mind. This arrives home again from his foreign tour, me given that the sanitary condition of the neigh.
much we naturally assume, since the experienced No details of these new maneuvers tre given medical officers of the Portuguese government in by the correspondent, but an editorial note in the bouring colony is very alarming, as several cases
Macao are unable, according to report, to decide Mafies, referring to the Metz letter, explatos that of cholers had occurred there. In the daily
exactly what the nature of the mortal disease is the latest devised scheme of Germany is of such column it is maintained that "not a single case
Our corespondent in the neighbouring settlement à grave and delicate nature that it has not been of Asiatic cholera" has been reported in Macao
holds to the belief that the disorder is cholera, considered advisable to publish the particulars and be bas unusually good opportunities of of it. This has renewed in some degree the in the Mail supplement it is stated that before the
securing the best and most reliable information agitation felt in Paris concerning the immediate arrival of the India several deaths had occurred
on that head; but whether the cause of the future on the eastern frontier of France among the Chinese from sporadic cholera, "but
excessive mortality on board of that hapless it assumed a serious character on board the trans.
ship be cholera or beri-berd matters not to the victims themselves, who have already been port India, on which over thirty persons suc
ferried over the mysterious river it is a ques- cumbed to the disease (sporadic cholera?) within
tion for the medical officers of the Colony a very short spacp.·' Again, "the disease is
to decide, and in our opinion it is a question in the city, of cholera. Major Vaquinhas said to be dari beri, and not cholera, but the
which they will have but little difficulty in recovering from bis recent attack Great efforts nature of the sufferings tends to show that it is
solving-whatever may be the nature of their are being made by the independent citizens to
official reports. If an experienced medical: jammed with outsiders. . There is a little diós på have the dissolved Municipal Chamber re-elected cholers, A Portuguese lad in the district of
man cannot tell the difference between ordi- paintment about the judges named for the Cum- to-morrow, and victory is anticipated on their Tarrafeiro succumbed within three hours, on
nary or extraordinary cholera, and simple or mission, as the names which were in everybody's side, Governor da Costa is reported to have the 13th inst., after having partaken of fruit and
complicated bir-biri, all we can say is that we mouth yesterday would have carried a good deal threatened to re-dissolve the re-elected Cham- drunk a little water.
are sorry for him as being the member of a more weight. Justices Smith and Day are not His symptoms were
profession who is called on to deal with such in the foremost rank of the profession, and the ber; and the burgesses of Macao are determined vomiting and purging." In the above the
distracting complications. The India, ashly choice indicates the great difficulty which the to again elect the re-dissolved Corporation. As this is not to last ad infinitum, but only as long disease is clearly classified as cholera, in
that has now left her mark in Portuguese colonial Governtient experienced in forming the com as Governor da Costa's term of office endures, contra-distinction to beri-bers, and a certain
history, is a handsome, flush-decked Iron or steel mission. The Right Hon. James A. Hannant great fun is promised and expected.
character of virulence is attributed to if; in
screw steamer of about 1200 tons, and though named by Mr. Smith as president of the Come having a decidedly modern, neat, and clipper-like mission, is president of the Probate and Divorce The publisher of a German paper has been fined the Praz news' column the disorder is attributed
appearance, strikes the professional: tyo as and Admiralty to cholerate dyarthaps, that is nothing more
being somewhat the wrong kind of vessel Justice atyre sho
the High Court of for speaking of the Empress Victoria as "that than what happens in all tropical countries
for the transportation of a large body of Although Mr. Gladstone referred to the Com English woman," Suppose, suggests a San Who can understand all this medley? If the
troops through a tropical climate. During her mission thus named as unlikely to command im. retaliate against their royal house, which was from official sources, would it attach no value
at the Kowloon docks, she impressed the casual themselves as atisfied, provided the bill pre- Francisco contemporary, the English should Daily Prazz prides in deriving all its information
rather lengthy stay here in Hongkong, refitting plicit confidence, the Parnellites, expressi supplied by Germany When George 1, came to the official supplement to the Macao Govern
observer as being much more of a smart looking sented by the Cabinet be modified in accordance over from Hanover to he King of England be ment Gaselle of the 21st inst, in which the Our Sterling investments stand at Log for at despatch-vessel than a bond fide trooper, inas- with their views, so that the powers of the Com- could not make himself understood in English. existence of cholera in the city was clearly In his train was a long line of German favorites acknowledged, and regulations for the preven
per cent, consols and £86 for the Indian Sterling much as the eye, mireed, not only the carefully mission may be confined withlo" reasonable 3 per cent. loan, the present market prices being awning'd upper deck and cool-looking sun-cur limits The attitude which the Government bai of both sexes. One day during an official parade: tion and cure of that epidemis enforced ? We £99.3 Bd, and £97, respectively." At the end of tains, but also an even more important feature taken fu t alter of persistent obi the fol de rol was interrupted by rude comments leave our readers to decide what construction
the present half year, the Directors propões: ofall tropical-going troop-shipsis well ventilated. maintaining the original form of the four the crowd upon a group of wide-waisted can be per on the ansertions of a paper when it revaluing this latter asset at a price corresponding lower deck. In all our own troopers: this realll inevita lead to a Hanoverian ladies, near the King One of them says that a colony is surrounded by cordon of more nearly with its market quotation and trans- matter always allowed to be, in regard to health, will bed tumed to the commentator and said, in broken. Inzarettes, where deaths have occumed, (and ferring the difference to credit of the Reserve of the most vital importance, we mean, the the cost English, Ob, ve come here for your goods may still be occurring, for all we know) and fund. These investments have been converted long and regular ling of large square, alt-ports, Farnelia “Yes, and our chattels too ----you,” was the | in the same breath Informa. Ita renders that'ics + into dollars at the exchange of 3/0 fd, the rate extending along the main deck from/bow: 10 devita caustic reply,
"sanitary condition is excellent 1
at which the other. Sterling, adjustments have · nem," That such a feature did not exist in the time,
the Innumerable petty smugglers were promptly swooped down upon, and their combined stock appropriated, according to the torms on which the monopoly was leased. That assisted to make up the loss of the previous year. His connection grew fast, and to-day his traffic, in export opium has become moderately remunerative, is OUR Macao correspondent writes us to-day that he certainly intended it should when he no fresh deaths from cholera were reported accepted the risks of the contract. With yesterday at either the Cacilhas, the Talpa or the Green Island lazaretto, Dr. Gomes da Silva, this business-like proceeding our contem-the Colonial Surgeon, is still ill from a cholerate porary finds fault, on various grounds, attack, A Chinaman died yesterday at Bazarinho, First it complains that the monopolist has not manifested due gratitude to the Government for making an agreement with China which was favorable to the business of the Opium Farm. Perhaps that organ would kindly indicate the form his appreciation ought to have taken! At present the Mail has only complained that he "seems determined to make the most out of the few months which yet remain to him," going on to set up the excuse-only to knock it down again-that there is a temptation to do so in the knowledge that somebody else will take up his business next March. What "rot". The concluding, and only serious aspersion, is that he has leased; out his rights to 8 syndicate at an enormbes profit, and that this syndicate aro glutting the markets all round. What are the true facts? The leased an almost unremunerative monopoly, and by great outlay and enter
the case