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HONGKONG. WEdnesday, August 29, 1888.
TELEGRAMS.
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AND CANADÁ
LONDON, August 27th. The Canadian Press criticising President Cleveland's message, declares that Canada will never subunit to coercion but will maintain its
rights at any cost.
(From the Courrier d'Haiphong) GENERAL BOULANGER,
PARIS, August zand. Foreign newspapers regret General Boa. langer's triple election, and reveal great appre- hensions for the future.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1888.
At the Police Court this morning Mak A-Kop, office boy to Mr. J. F. Webber, solicitor, who
pled guilty, was sentenced to six months impri- sonment with hard labour, by Mr. Sercomba Smith, for the larceny of about $200 on the 25th inst. He was handled the money to place in the infe, but instead of doing so "stuck to it”
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN LYNDHURST "ment Brigade, and what is equally necessary.
TERRACE,
give them ne bi bay. We can hardly expect men to work like Titans, and risk life and limb, for a dollar a week. As one man very fairly said "D-n the economy; the Government won't allow us a glass of beer even, and if a big official wants a year's leave he gets it, and a couple of thousand dollars to spend As
The Chinese do not now burn a village to roast a sucking pig, but they do not hesitate to set fire to a building which is satisfactorily insured, although by so doing they imperit the lives and
ARTILLERY exercise was conducted this after-property of a thousand fellow-citirens. About for the Volunteers, a good deal more drill and
noon with the heavy guns of the Kowloon 5.30 last night, as certain as anything can becoolness are required before they will be of much was afraid he would not see them again, and pointed out the increase of the imports and
someone set fire to the cock-loft of a native shoe- Battery. As far as we are aware the Govern-maker's shop at No. 18, Lyndhurst Terrace, and ment has not succeded in finding a name for the point of land under the new British battery but it is immediately above the Chinese village. of Taiwan, and so we shall call it the Taiwan Battery till further orders.
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then "cleared out." An alarm was quickly raised when volumes of smoke were issuing from the top windows, and a few minutes later the Fire Brigades were hurriedly rung up. The short-handed Government Brigade, consist. Tus Avenir du Tonkin publishes the parti-ing of Superintendent Honpool, one foreman, clays of the journey undertaken by M. Pavle from Hanoi to the Siamese frontiers. The illustrious traveller accompanied by native guides and some friends, left linnoi on the 31st July on board the steam-launch Quernd, and made for Vietri, along the Black. River, where two gun- boats joined them. After passing-Chobo, the Quernd crossed one of the most dangerous rapide. without any accident. The next two more rapids were passed, and the party landed at Bang-yen.
Freal use.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necessarily endore the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.],
ONE DOLLAR -NOTES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGkong Tuurgramu.". SIR, Permit me in reply to the paragraph nut that the issue of one dollar notes by the contained in your issue of last night to point Hongkong and Shanghai Bangking Corporation is limited, while the demand for them is very large, especially amongst the Chinese. The Bank can only issue a certain number of the notes in question, and that number was fixed by the Government in May 1875, and to this day the full number still continues in circulation.
I am sure if holders of dirty or braken notes would band them into the Bank they would be at once exchanged for new ones to any extent, Thanking you for publishing this,
I ain, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
"HORTATOR.”
Hongkong, 29th-August, 1889."
LAST NIGHT'S FIRE,
TO THE EDITOR OF "the "Homokong Tujazirarıl”
On a division Sir W. C. Plowden's amendment was rejected by 105 against 36 votës, The Budget was then adopted without a division.
In the House of Commons last night the Oaths Bill was read a third time, and the Imperial Delence. Bill a second time.
CONSTANTINOPLE, 10th August.
The worthy Major knew that the order conficing Sir, W. C. Plowden moved an amendment, the him within the lazarette was illegal, na were so | object of which was to place natives in the many other measures lately adopted by Senhor highest posts in India with a view to economy Firmino da Costa, but he complied with his and to favour the suppression of the military a superior's command without a murmur; provided commands in Madras and Bombay, remo himself with some brandy, and a box of cigars, Sir John Gorst said that, this would not econo. got into a chair and was conveyed to the Cacilhas mite, but would tend to, increase centralizatio Jazarette, It is said he almost anticipated death. The Under-Secretary, deprecated an inquiry, and as in taking leave of his friends he told them be dwelt upon the improved condition of the people, couple of days after his admission into the exports of India. Yang p lazarette, he became a prey to choleraic diar rhea; on partially recovering from this disease, fever ensued, as is usuit in such cases; and on Sunday night he succumbed to the after-effects of cholera and fever-cerebral congestion. His friends in Macao are going to subscribe foi a monument, to be raised to him either at the public Cemetery, or at Cacilhas, with an; adequate inscription on it. I think they might: very appropriately inscribe on Majer Vaquinhas tombstone the gladiator's, dying salutation- "Ave, Cæsar imperator & moriturite salutant." On the di solution of the Municipal Chamber the worthy Major had given vent to his own personal opinions, which being adverse to the Governor, and being duly reported to him by some of the miserable sycophants who abound in the Holy City, are stated to have led His Excellency to inflict condign punishment on his subordinate, by relieving him of his duties of Fire Inspector and assistant Sheriff,,
iff, and packing him off to the cholera lazarette. It is to be hoped Governor da Costa and his wretched advisers will see their way to provide fund for the upport of the orphan son of Major Vaquinhar, who, is in a Lisbon college.
I hear that Capt. Gil died on Monday at the Green Island lazaretle, leaving a widow and six children.
six European fremen, and the drivers, and the Volunteer Brigade, under Mr. Mallory, whose hand was disabled, turned out, but from the very beginning they were regularly muxidled. A jet from a hydrant was first got to work, whilst the engines were being placed in position. The floating engine was brought to the Victoria Wharf, but broke down at the out set, and two steamers had to be placed on the Praya to supply another engine in Queen's Road, which in turn forced the water up the moderate clevation of Pottinger Street to a fourth englas at the corner of Lyndhurst Terrace. But whilst this was being done, the fire, which at SAYS the Shën-pao :—The Chen-hai in her trips first was comparatively insignificant, had spread to and from Corea uses up some 4,000 or 5,000 downwards, and, before a drop of water wah taels worth of coal a year. Viceroy Li Hungstore. The water was a very long time coming, obtained, had got a fair hold of No. 16, a chang on learning this about the beginning of and when a hose was at length laid it was July, memorialised the Throne that an additional found that a Government engine was supply. subsidy of 50:0 taels should be granted to the ing a Volunteer jet, and must be changed. China Merchants Steam Navigation Company At length a supply was obtained, just as the fire
had leapt the narrow street and ignited the from the Tientsin Opium Líkin Revenue. The
of two shops opposite, occupied by Chiness Board of Revenue, to whom th matter was carpenters. Here the Volunteets made a mistake referred, have reported that the subsidy already which cost somebody a good, many thousands of granted of Tls. 16,000 per annum from the dollars. Nos. 16.and 18 were burning fiercely, Tientsin Oplum Likin Revenue for coal for the therefore, of directing their attention from those and could not possibly be extinguished. Instead, China Merchants' Company's fleet cannot be buildings and quenching the insignificant exceeded.
external flames on the carpenters' shops, they kept their feeble stream hissing into the ball that a very great deal of property might have Old Brigade never surrenders," PM. gutted buildings, the party-walls of which divided them from the rest of the Terrace and were About 7.15 a couple of Government Brigade substantial enough to prevent any extension. jets were going but by this lime, although still burning brightly, Nos. 16 and 18 were no longer dangerous. But the carpenters' shops were extending, not unnoticed, but unattacked, and one vast sheet of flame. I had been gradually when at length the firemen, from behind their improvised shelters, began to play upon it, they were badly handicapped by having glowing ruins, with falling verandahs and tiles, just where they needed to stand. They were between two fires. The Chinese draper's, next door to the carpenter's, now began to light up, and, worse still, the houses at the back-three-storied dwelling-houses opening on Tung Tak Lane
MR. B. M. CHAMBERLAIN gives the following Ainu folk-lore explanation of the absence of tigers from the island of Yesso:-Said the tiger to the fox: "Let us run a race from the top of (From the Straits Times.).
the world to the bottom of the world, and who ITALY AND FRANCE.
wins it shall be lord of the world”. The fox ROMF, August 21st. The Massowal question is becoming impert greed, and off the tiger bounded, but without nnt. Signor Crispi has gone to Germany where noticing that the fox had caught hold of his tail so as to get pulled along by him. Just as the he meets Prince Bismarck and Count Kalnaky.tiger was about to reach the other end, he suddenly whisked round, in order to feer at the fox, whom he believed to be far behind. But this motion exactly threw the fox safely on to the far end, so that he was able to call out to the astonished tiger: "Here I am. What are you so long about?" For this reason there are no Ligers in Ainoland.
BOULANGER.
PARIS, August 21st. General Boulanger has been elected by a large majority for Semme and Charente; he narrowly missed being elected for Nord.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Commorowd and Mrs. Maxwell and child Jeft
IN Dr. H. N. Thompson, of the Army Medical
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SIR-As a spectator of the fire last evening in Lyndhurst Terrace, I was also an cyc-witness of the splendid exertions of Superintendent Horspool and his subordinate officers and men in attacking the flames and in getting them under control by half past eight, that being about one breaking out and a period very much within hour and fifty minutes from the time of their what I reckoned on when viewing the conflagra- tion at seven o'clock. I am informed, however,
Mahmoud Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Finance, has beeh dismissed.
LONDON, August 11th... In the House of Lords the Special Commission Bill was read a second time.ANDA **Sir Archibald Alison replaces Sir William Forster in the Indian Council.
The House of Commons agreed to the Lorda amendments to Local Government Bill and read a third time the Imperial Defences Bill.g.
CONSTANTINOPLE, August 1ath, The railway between Sofia and Constantinople has been opened,
LONDON, August 15th.' Advices received from Chill state that a great calamity has occurred at Valparaiso, The reservoir there has burst, destroying one hundred houses and engulfing hundreds of souls.
ST. PETERSBURG, August 12th. Russia maintains her demand for the depar ture of Prince Ferdinand from Bulgaria. She also maintains the exclusion of Prince Alexander in connection with the seulement of the question. after the normal situation is restored, Russia will send a Commissioner who will restore diplomatic relations between Bulgaria and Russia; she will then accept any legally elected Prince belonging to the Orthodox Church.
THE CHINA TEA TRADE.
The re-elected members of the Corporation will take charge of our Municipal affairs to-day, and Governor da Costa has his decree of re-dis solution already drafted out, set in type and ready for despatch and publication. His Excel lency is apparently determined to carry his point equally resolved upon exercising their rights to the last; but as the burgesses of Macao are
take it for granted that the old Corporation will without being scared by either Senhor da Costa's or even the whole of Portugal's threats, you may be as often re-elected as it is dissolved. "The able to announce news which, if not very satis It is on good authority thats we are at length
*** | factory, is at any rate of a promising nature, tions made many months ago by the Foochow It comes, we take it, in response to the repiesenta- Chamber of Commerce to our Minister at Pekin Excellency Li Hung.chang has, we are informed. regarding the deterioration of Foochow tea. His addressed the Viceroy of this province on the subject, directing him to take such steps as he
him that this national industry is threatened may deem necessary to bring about an improve ment in the quality of the tea, and points out to with extinction unless some change is effected.
Governor requesting the removal of the lazarettes The petition which several citizens sent to the from Macao to some island in the roadstead, based his refusal on the authority of a Dr. has not been granted by His Excellency, who Franco, that the lazarettes are not dangerous to public. health! It is to be hoped that His give the inhabitants of Macas a practical illustra Excellency, accompanied by his fides Achates, the Colonial Secretary, and, Dr. Franco, will lon of the wholesomeness of these fazarettes, by taking their quarters in their midst...
been saved if the full original complement of the Government Brigade men had been present, to the word of one of the officers, that they The reason they were not there was, according had resigned from the service in disgust on account of the inadequate figure of com pensation. For the solution of this question rests with the Governments, who could at any of inadequate remuneration, much, no doubt, moment impose a Fire tax, but I think we may all agree that the insurance offices are all deeply interested in settling the matter with what was, not long ago, a highly effective force. When the fire broke out in Wallington Street there was
ately the men were not lang in connecting. no hose ready in that thoroughfare, but fortun-grade colony as Macao,
Yours truly,
L
SPECTATOR.
this city, on essentially ani-gubernatorial lines. Another newspaper will soon be published' in
This is a great desideratum in a such a retro-1|
August 29th.
. I can add very little to what i wrote you yesterday as regards Major Vaquinhaal untimely death. The Governor's advisers are now doing. their best to free His Excellency from all res- ponsibilty in ordering the Major to proceed to the lazarette.
this forenoon for Yokohama by the Pacific Mail Staff, who left for home this afternoon by the cloud cleared away in a few minutes, revealinga anade for the construction of the Gap Rock light- House was asked if he had any objections to go wanting in the despatch may be suppiled by
Steamship Company's steamer City of New York.
A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, the 4th September, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely Visiting brethren are cordially invited. According to the Tientsin correspondent of the
· Shanghai "Mercury, Ilis Excellency Li Han Chan has been appointed High Commissioner for the Yellow River and for closing the Gap at Honan.
THE Agenir de Tonkin reports an extensive
Ter is wanted all over the world, the be entirely supplied by other tea-growing Viceroy of "Chihli adds, but it will soon.
countries if China cannot produce quality, as good and at the same time `as moderate in price as that grown by her rivals. Such we are given to understand is a pricis of the despatch received by the Viceroy of Fulkien from Li Hang Chang. It is satisfactory as far as it goes, because it shows that some interest is taken in the matter in high quarters; but as it does not - - They now maintain: that | go nearly far enough we are rather sceptical of -- the deceased, on being called to Government any good resulting Let us hope that what la and live in the lazarette, and that he replied the Viceroy when he plans his course of action. in the negative saying he was not afraid of The posting of proclamations in the towns and cholera, or something to that effect: that it villages of the ten districts will be of no was Major Fonseca who instigated the Governor earthly use it wants more than that to at the lazarette, a post which rightly devolved We should like to have known that there was to appoint the deceased in charge of the men drive Chinese out of their pecustomed groove on Major Silvano, who was in command of suggestion In the despatch to appoint the troops landed from the India, but this gen-Government officer-one skilled in boniculture tleman, by the timely intervention of bis son-in--to visit the tea districts and see what could be law, Senhor Horta, the Deputy elect, succeeded done. We shall not be far wrong in stating that in getting a substitute in the person of the cultivation (11) has been practically limited to deceased. All this gossip falls, however, to the the hooing Away of weeds to keep the plants ground when one peruses the Governor's despatch from being choked. There has never been any relieving Major Vaquinhas from his post of Fire pruning or manuring to speak of Whether this arose from ignorance, negligence, or false econo Inspector and of substitute to the Sheriff; that document was accompanied by another officially my, matters not now. There is no mistake about censuring Major Vaquinhas for his
Governor had and little doubt about the soil being in a certain expressed a wish to send him off to Timor. That stage of exhaustion: An efficient man, such punishment should have followed censure is as the officer above alluded to, would quickly quite in the natural order of things.ma gauge the extent of the mischief, make known the The amount claimed by the proprietors of remedy, and encourage and assist the growers to the Hospital Street Silk Filature against the many it out. In this way we should soon be Treasury is $15,000, not $15,000 as previously having good crops again. Ent besides good tex
it reported.
conflagration at some villages opposite the city warm heart and kindly disposition made him like so many reverberatory furnaces, Repeated/ house is to be constructed. I have made the and it is also reported that the Proceedings; the deterioration that has taken place in the ta
of Hanoi on the night of the 13th inst. During the fire, the pirates looted the villages, attacked and wounded several of their inhabitants, and carried off an immense booty.
THE Imperial Embassy which left. Huć on the 28th ulto, arrived at Hanoi on the 13th inst., having journeyed, by the mandarin road which
traverses the provinces of Annam and southern
Tonquin, The Resident General of Hanoi received the members of the Embassy in due form, and a banquet was subsequently held in
their honour.
Canadian Pacific Co.'s steamship Duke of Westminster, this colony loses one of its most popular members. Since his arrival three and a half years ago Dr. Thompson has taken a leading part in general sport, and especially distinguished hünsell at the annual regattas of the Victoria Recreation Club, of which institution he was a most useful member.. The genial Doctor was probably the most powerful oarsman the colony has seen for many years, and as his pluck is undoubted the many victorica 'achieved with "Tamson" at the stroke oar are easily understood. Socially Dr. Thompson was universally liked, and his
great favorite amongst the Garrison. We heartily wish him bon voyage and hope to see him return to Hongkong some day as P.M.O.
THE Shih Pao says that on the occasion of the marriage of an Emperor, or of His Majesty offering state sacrifices at the Heavenly Attar, it is customary for the court of Sacrificial Worship to engage a number of boys, generally about 200, under fifteen years of age, and send them to the temples to be trained up-as singers of sacred music and dancers. After two months' training they are examined by the Court of Sacrificial Worship, who select only the aptest ones for per- forming the required duties. In the 10th moon
These
Fifteen more men from the Cäcilhas Lazarette: have been transferred to Taipa. A
LATE TELEGRAMS.
narrow alley from Cochrane Street—had also
Hongkong, August 29th, 1888, caught fire. The carpenters' shops buint fiercely, and from the windows of the next house a vasi
THE GAP ROCK LIGHT-HOUSE. pall of black smoke poured into the street, as though oil were burning. The ball-suffocated ĐÔ THỊ EDITOR OF THE "iorekova TELEGRA Bremen could scarcely see each other, but the
SIR-As the first practical move has been serious increase in the dimensions of the outbreak house, by the visit to the rock of the Surveyor From half-a-dozen windows a body of flame General one day last week, may I be permitted leapt steadily, the four jets now playing seeming through the medium, of your columns to point to have very litt e effect. Suddenly No. 20, out to the shipping community of Hongkong that originated, burst into flame. There was now necessary than the Gap Rock light-house is the shop adjoining the one where the fire something as necessary--many people think more considerable space on each side requiris wanted at the two entrancesof this great emporium attention, and not more than fifteen or twenty of shipping, that something being what has pre- untrained firemen to give it. The tangled hose viously been asked for in either your paper or lay all over the street, neutralising the force some other, namely, a guide to the said entrances of the powerful pumps by its coils, Chinese and a warning to the anxious against too close firemen dragged one hose up and another
an approach to danger. To the merchants and down, everybody seemed in the way and the managers of the shipping firms of the Colony fire was still spreading. A useful stream was it may be pointed out that far more delay playing from the opposite roof on to the draper'in getting into this harbour is caused by logs at shop, but despite that the fire spread to the certain seasons of the year than by the ordinary next house and the whole six buildings were periodic darkness for which the Gap Rock light falls took place inside, and it was evident that land coming from the southward dozens of times at least five out of the six must be gutted. So and seldom had any difficulty during clear nights it proved; the flames spread from house to house in picking up the islands. If a little too far very slowly, but whenever it did spread the place west, I saw the Ladrones; if too far to the east- was gone. By half past eight Nos. 16 and 18 ward, then I invariably made some of the were mere shells, the twisted ironwork of the Man-mi-choo group, of which the Gap Rock is the
equally important to have it supplied at verandahs alone keeping the front walls up. least conspicuous. Only on one occasion that I
can remember, did I first make the high land of,
prices which will enable us to compete with the No. 20 was burning out, the carpenters' and
Pakisim before the others, on that eastern line
productions of India, Ceylon, and Java, . We draper's shops were gutted, and the next twe seemed likely to be. Looking through, the of islands. No doubt many seafarers can say
| should like to have known that Li Hung-chang's white hot walls of the four family-houses which the same. But let me ask, of what use is the
despatch had suggested some practical way of roost brilliant light, when a thick fog, or even
| lessening the Cost to the foreign merchant. were one behind could be seen.
Pending the revision of the Treaty, when, the burdi.almost without a drop of water reaching an ordinary night mist has setled down over
doly will assuredly have to be reduced, Hin PARIS, August zik.` them, it being difficult to reach a point the islands? However, I would not be under where they could be commanded. The stood to say that the new light is not wanted; unchecked conflagration thus spread across what I contend for is, that of the two I believe The men on strike sacked and set fire to a factory Viceroy, to look into the local squeezes with Rioting took place at Amiens yesterday evening remitting the lekin tax and desired the Foochow Excellency might have mentioned his intention of
the narrow alley-the party-walls confining it most mariners would prefer a half hour gun; and afterwards prevented the firemen from extin-a view to having them reduced. The Lekin is a laterally. In Wellington Street, near the corner but is there any good reason why we should not guishing the flames. A company of cavalry war tax that is not rightly chargeable in times of the 12th year of Kang H, 120 boys were furnished houses. One of these, No. ço, occupied a gun at Cape D'Aguilar, and also at Gap with drawn swords, and succeeded in clearing terous Indian teas are shipped free of all thees of the triangular block, were some lofty, well have both? What are the difficulties of having appeared on the scene and charged the rioters of peace, and the local "squeezes are prepos selected, but as these bave already reached the by a wealthy Chinaman, was seen from the front Rock after the light-house has been built the streets. The fire was controlled. The streets imposis; so that it is impossible for Chins teas age of puberty, they are no longer available. In to have caught fire across the alley. The engine Surely they are not greater than many others are now occupied by military.
to compete with them in the foreign markets view of the near approach of His Majesty's mar-was panting boily a few yards away, and a jet where a gun exists, either along the China coast riage, the court of Sacrificial Worship has ought to have been easily obtained, but not or in many parts of Europe where guns are
clogged as their cost ls with a heavy duty, lekin, engaged zoo boys who will be examined to-day Through the doorway the crowd watched the. common enough. The cost of working a gun
and petty squeezes. It is certainly a step in the as to their qualification. The same court has flames rise until they burst out at the top-floor similar to some of those mounted on the Wel-
right direction to have got the Chinese Govern also engaged 160 boys to learn sacred music, windows, but no firemen appeared. From next lington Battery would be infinitesimal when put
ment to move at all in the matter, and it is to be and they will be examined on the 17th instant, door the inmates were scurrying wildly, like against the value of the commerce it would
hoped that this may lead in time to the Chips when 100 of them will be selected. After selec- rabbits from a warren, and on the opposite side safeguard, and as to the distance of hearing the
tea: trade being placed on a proper footing as tion, the boys will be placed under competent of Wellington Street the alarmed tenants were report, it is declared as a fact that the noise of
LONDON, August 8th regards other tea-producing countries, Foochow instructors, and daily be taught lessons on what hastily removing their worthless goods." It was caulkers' mallets have been heard, under In the House of Commons there was a pro-cho they are to perform. It is required of them to be now half-past nine, and in Lyndhurst Terrace favourable conditions, to a distance of six tracted debate on the report of the Commitee exceedingly diligent
only one shop was giving trouble, and that in teen miles, or from the Dumbarton ship on the Special Commission Bill Amendments an upper storey. The houses at the back were yards to the ducal apartments in Inverary Castle, proposed by the Home Secretary empowering the "WANDERER" writes to the N. C. Daily News: pretty well bu nt out, and a couple of jets could As this question has been previously discussed arrest of persons failing to answer summonses If we can afford to wait long enough the sea-My attention being drawn to a statement in just lae way. As soon as a place got hopelessly I am, with others, utterly at a loss to understand tempt of court have been adopted Numerous be spared for 88, Wellington Street. That was though not agitated to the extent that it deserves, and punishing them for being guilty of con-- frontage of the Froya will be reclaimed to moth, by Nature Lerself. The stream
my letter of 16th August-"At present they ablaze the Brigade began to deal with it. A why a port with such powerful maritime, amendments were afterwards, brought forward
as interests as Hongkong should be without its by the Irish members, but were rejected, which is no name upon any map or chart, but Pingto gold wines average about 50 tons of lengths of hose was run down, and parted just as
ore & day, which produces in fourteen days brought, and again a joint gave way. The Important harbours are so guarded. Is the "fite- it was about to be directed; a second hose was ordinary fog signals while so many far less which empties itself immediately west of the Wellington Battery, has deposited a very con- about 450 oz. of athalgam or 17 oz. of gold to dames were lapping the topmost verandah, and Barnacleism" of Government officials blocking siderablodels at its mouth. So considerable the ton" I should have added, besides conten. there seemed a possibility of the woodwork across the way, or what "in thunder" is the reason? indeed 1s been the deposit of stones, pebbles frates. The amalgam consists of the gold and the street taking fire. Fortunately there was not
Yours faithfully, ... and sand on the delta and within the walls of quicksilver scraped from the tables, over which when the firemen did at last get to work the fire much combustible matter in that honge, and masonry built up to confine its passage, that
force of coolics bad to be put on this morning the whole of the ore passes onwards to concent
was soon got under control. The enginek were to clear away the obstruction which has been
kept going until two or three o'clock-ope gradually accumulating since the heavy and
breaking down before that time—and no further continuous rains of May last. Those rains
extension was seca. Nos. 16, 18 and 20 Lyng washed away mere earthy matter from the
burst Terrace, Nos. 5, 7, 9 and ri on the oppo- Channel in the neighbourhood of Bowen Road
alte side, four houses in Tang Tak Lane, and in two months than had been previously
No, go, Wellington Street, had been completely removed in ten years.
destroyed, The damage can only be roughly
SENHOR D'ANDRADE, whose appointment as Governor of the Portuguese colony of Timor, was announced in our columns some time ago arrived at Singapore by Messageries Maritimes Co's steamship Ava on the 22nd inst., en route far Dilly. The new Governor is well known in this colony and Macao, as commander of the cruiser Rio Zima.
A FINE civet cat was shot in Kowloon on Mon
day. P.C. Niven saw the animal in a tree, and kept guard till. P.C. Graham brought his shot- kun and "potted" it. It measured one inch short of four feet, and was in fine condition. The sportsman sent it over at once to the City Hail, Museum, to be stuffed. It had been cleaning-out hen-roosts for several weeks.
A NATIVE paper tells us that, some time ago, Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of Canton, ordered a reprint to be made of the great historical work called the "Tung Klen," or Mirror of History The work was entrusted to two Canton publishing houses, the Sul Wen Tang and the Eu Wen Chal. When ready for binding It was handed to two workmen, called Ch'ai A sen and Ch'ai A-klen, to bind, but instead of binding it, they took it away to the pawn shop and pawned it, and ran off with the proceeds of the transaction. The publishers reported the matter to the "Mandatin" who had risen them the ander and now appexruka Proclamation signed by the Provincial Treasurer, the Provincial Judge, tho Salt Intendant and the Tautai, offering a reward of $20 to the captor/of either of the runaways, ard $10 10 anyone who gives information to lead to their attenti
trators, or rubber tables which gives a very complete aiting to the ore leaving only the heaviest paiticies of the ore. It is this which is called the "concentrates," and is passed through the chlorination process, and roasting in bollers. The present appliances can so treat about 3 "tong cach day. The concentrates on being sent
to London "were declared by the assayer to estimated, as, for instance, one man says he contain gold to the value of £150 per ton," form-lost $4,000 in notes, which may or may not ing a very handsome addition to the amalgam, be true. It probably amounts to $25,000 dr I had no means of knowing how many tont of $30,000 Most of if is covered by insurance. The mills are running only half time or so, for! We are sorry to have to comment unfavorably orowo Idbanecessary for one ton of concentrates. No 18, Lyndhurst Terrace in Insured for $800. want of ore and water. In a short time the shaft upon the efforts of the firemen, but we must say will be down to the lode, and the mills will be that a more gross exbibition of incompetence we fully supplied with ore, and also with water bare seldom seen. The Government Brigade. On further information, of price of gold, the so worked manfully, big ill-advisedly, and there tons of ore now crushed,would be about was an lacomprehensible delay in getting £387.00, f value say $21 (gold) per or. As work. The Volunteers "guyed the business stated above, the addition of £150 per ton of right at the most critical polat's when they concentrates would form a very considerable had a chance of stopping the outreak in profit The minass informed me that it was tithe they w considered a good paying mine at ?) cás, gold." dḤak, sousing a co alone. I give the above from the best authority escortingi ladies/10/ and my own observations, which may interest fremer many who are pleased to see any fresh advante
by the Government in opening up the resources hope Pl.Ching
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AMIENS, August 7th, The ferment continges here, and the police and military are patrolling the streets. They have succeeded in dispersing the crowds.
PARIS, August 7th. A conflict between men on strike and the police occurred here to-day.ht
NEWCHWANG,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
16th August, 1888, During the last ten days there have been very heavy rains, and it was hoped that the weather would be more lavourable, as there was hardly LONDON, August 9th. any fall-esterday, but today and last night tho With regard to Egypt, the Marquis of Salisbury clouds opened again. The damage to the rising at the Mansion House said that she was progress crops of millet, peas, beans, etcipant been very ing rapidly, and had now become a solvent great, so much so that the demand for shirtings pawer. There were still dangers on her frontiers and other goods has quite stopped, and business MASTER MARINER. which require unrelated vigilance. England generally is quiet, s Many native houses-and
desires that Egypt should be strong enough to same foreign dwellings have become uninhabit Hongkong, August 28th, 1888.
master internal disorder, and be able to repel | able on secount of the walls and roofs falling in. (The Governor's message to the Legislative, external attack. Till then, bir lordship waid, There will be much distress, amongst the poor Council on the subject of the Gap Rock England will remain i în Tegangstakt | Chinese, who are apuseless and destitutes: Wo published in last night's issue-reached us
Lorettoth earn that the downpours of rain are quita? after the receipt of our correspondent's letter,
In the House of
of Commons last might the unusual. For the last few days there dan "Master Mariner's suggestions, which were Under-Secretary for India made a statement on been no flood lide, in the river, owing to strongly recommended by this journal some the Indian Budget. Sir John Gorst explained the freshets, and vessels have been swung time ago, are deserving of consideration, and that the deficit was entrely due to special to the ebb cooly third whole day, althoug will doubtless be adopted. The Surveyor expenditure on defences and to Burma, where, the water. General has already pointed out to the Government the necessity for some kind of fog signal-Ed, Hongkong Telegraph.] [4
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however, it was looked that there would be abridges have gradual increase of revenue accompanied by a continges, there decreass of expenditure. Government expected cating with th that they would be able to impose the land tax how, jon at its full rate within five years of the annexation, The revenue in Burma was already increasing. by R300,000
Mr. Bradlaugh suggested Committee including natives be appointed to inquire into the administration of India
MACAO, August 28th, 1888. Since writing to you yesterday I have been informed that Major Vaquinhas death occurred on Sunday night, and not yesterday, as reported. Mr. M. Maclean deprecated the appoints, The Sanitary Board kept the sad event as secret ment of a committee, as it would tend to plunge as they possibly could manage but it soon India into prolonged and incessant political transpired, and the numerous friends of the agitation. He favoured the reduction of the or even deceased expressed their indiguation against India Council and suggested that the men Chinese Governor das Costa, for having sent into an of that body be appoisted for a term of fiy Valley: Infected lardiretto an officer who was in a perfect only do of it. We || state of health; who did not belong to the Corps Sir Robert Lethbridge, advocates an
{quartered at. Canines, and, who had been exer- lit ortler to permit the officials: Implicated strugth of the (quemocining the important functions of at Kire Inspector, 1 Deccan Mining Concesikopto defend
d as well have been in
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{uma-overy the Bund the bad means of comit
sats, which