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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1888.
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS by a paternal Government to effect this end, but A TELEGRAM from Paris, dated the 19th lilio,
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THE `Hjogo "News reports that the U. S. S. Juniata was run into by a Japanese man-of-war during a fog in Chemulpo (Cores) harbour, and so badly damaged that she had to be benched to prevent her sinking,
Trix Government Astronomer reports to-day on the state of the weather, as follows: "The barometer is falling along the south-east consi of China, and in Luzon, probably owing to the approach of the typhoon indicated on the sth inst. At 8 pm. on the 7th the following telegram was issued for transmission to the treaty' ports; etc. Typhoon cast of Formosa,' "
A NEW POLO CLUB FOR: HONGKONG.
A number of gentlemen met at the Hongkong Club this afternoon to consider the possibility of reviving the old Polo Club, which dragged out a rather ephemeral existence a few years back. The Hon. J. Bell-Irving presided.
Capt. Fletcher said that the Government had
centres. It is to be hoped the movement which | A JAPANESE native paper states that the posses- has been set on foot to obtain Govermention of the Miike Coal Mine has been formally sanction to such an important measure will meet handed over to Mr. Sasaki, whose tender was with the unconditional approbation of the Legis- the highest. The payment of the yearly instal- lative Council. We cannot foresee what ments of the purchase price has been guaranteed measures, repressive or coercive, will be enforced by the Mitsui-gumi.
THE steamship Pasig, which has been employed for a considerable time tuoning as a night boat are strongly inclined to believe that some means,
informs us that General Boulanger, in addition between this port and Carton, has been laid up some legal measure will be found' to stop 5.00 Sunday labour in the harbour, in imitation of to being elected by a large majority for the for repairs and alterations. In addition to THB Dark Stret, a tiny decked boat which been asked to give a ground, and find granted.
those regulations which obtain in the port of parents of Somme and Charente, was also undergoing a thorough everhaul, the Pasig will left the United States some time ago bound to re-elected by a narrow majority for the Depart have her engines compounded. The repairs London, and was supposed by the friends of her London, and in all other ports of the vaat British ment du Nord. So that, notwithstanding all and alterations, we are informed, will be carried skipper, Anderson, to have been last, was by thought it could be made suitable at a cost of Empire:
that has been said and written to the contrary, out by a Chinese engineering firm, whose tenderlast accounts spoken and supplied with provisions 260 yards by 140, which would leave a Boulangism is still no important factor in French politics.
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Handbour. 31st August, 1998..
MARRIAGE.
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On the 4th July, at St. Paul's Cathedral, Wel- lington, New Zealand, by the Rev. J. Still, ALDERT ALGAR. (inte of Hongkong and Shang- bai); only son of John Algar, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, deceased, to CLARA, Younrest
daughter of Peter Farey Hoskin, of New Ply mouth, New Zealand, steceased,
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1998.
SUNDAY LABOUR.
TELEG ̃R ̄A ̄M ̄S.
(Reuters)
is stated to have been $6,000 below that of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company. The following, according to a Japanese native contemporary, is a comparative return of imports
three years, ending last year: —
NOTICES have been posted up in Chinese outside the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND Company's offices and at the. Canton Wharf, and exports at Fusan, Gensan, and Jinsen, for only individual on board of her. His object is
THE CHINESE.
་་
LONDON 6th September, 1888. Congress has passed a bill forbidding the
and cancelling all tickets of identity.
that owing to the withdrawal of the steamship Parig from the Hongkong-Canton line, Chinese. passengers' fares to and from Canton by the
jen.
+667.
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Jen Imports Exporti 1,571,8 1,783, 761......9, 156574
by an American fishing schooner on or near the ́ Grand Danke. The boat-is-raid-to-be-the- smallest which has ever ventured on such a hare-brained expedition, and Anderson is the to exhibit the little craft at the Crystal Palace after be performis bis hazardous voyage. Woodrre is a substance bearing a strong resein-
a piece at Causeway Bay for two years. Tie
$200, or oven $150, its extent being about
margin. About twenty gentlemen had offered to join, and twelve or fifteen inore were needed, It was not advisable to spend much money on
return of Chinese after leaving the United States Company's steamers, will, from Monday, next: The value of gold dust exported from the three blance to nalive india-rubber; but, unlike that who first joined, from having to bear the initial
GERMAN COLONISATION..
LONDON, August 29th. The Germans have occupied Addelar, culting off the trade of Acera with Salagħa and the interior.
"FRIAR'S BALSAM."
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LONDON, August zoth. Friar's Balsam has been scratched for the St. Leger..
be increased to 50 cents, instead of 30 cents as heretofore.
THE N. C. Daily News says, with reference to the attempt to levy kis at Ja-kao, under the the proclamation of which we gave a translation the other day, that the matter has been taken up by the foreign authorities at Chinkiang. Ju kao is within the jurisdiction of the Total at that port. Our contemporary hopes that if any complaints of the "squeeze" are made in Shanghai, the authorities will représent the cases in the proper quarter.
TYPHOON IN MANILA. We are indebted to the courtesy of the Spanish Consul for the following telegram, dated Bolinao OUR Macao correspondent informs us of a big the 7th inst. at 4.30 p.m.:-
fire which took place there at 3 am. to-day con- "A typhoon is raging to the E. NE of suming the whole of the baberdashery establish Manila, near the Coast of Luzen. Its directionment run by a Parsee named Careem, in Rua Central. The shop and contents are said to
has not so far been ascertained.
ports for four months, ending February fast as follows:--
November, 1887.. Desember, 1997.. Imenury, 1861...... February, 898.
Sterchants. Juri
0,53
Chine Men kants
*435.
46,000
-F7, DJ
was
The imports and exports at Gensan, during March last amounted to yes 323,536 in value, of which yen 136,856 passed through the hands of Japanese, yen 50,753 of Chinesp, and yen 34,917 of Korean merchants.
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material, it never grows stický, and resists the action of alls and heat. If it be placed on the outside of a vessel, a shot may be driven through it, and yet it will close up so completely that it is difficult to find the speck which marks the spot where the shot entered. Two torpedo catchers now building for a foreign Government at the works of Mr. Schichau, of Elbing, have an inner skin; and between the two plates is a layer of woodite about 24in thick. If the material acts as efficiently. under these conditions as when applied to the outside of a plate, it will keep the vessel water-tight, even if her side should be riddled. Woodile is coming into use for many commercial purposes, such as delivery valves, air pump valves, packing, wheel tyros; and it is said to be far more efficient for these purposes than either leather or india-rubber,
rosession of everybody, even in the land of the iron horse where the ground is so level that
the ground, as there was a chance of getting the Race-course, but it was as well to have a secoud ground for practice. At the cost he had men- tioned the ground could be strengthened up and a fence put up to guard the ditch. To secure the men
expense he proposed that a certain number of members should guarantee say Sao each, which should from time to time be written off. A pro- position had been made to charge $5 entrance fee and $2 a month subscription during the playing inonths. Another proposal was to have The monthly the subscription $20 a year. expenses would be-groundman, say $8; balls about $30, and other things, bringing the total to about $40. Beside the first cost of levelling the ground a matshed might be needed; but he did not think a stable would be required. About the ponies, he might be wrong, but he thought there were very few in the place.. However, he understood, there were sultable ones to be got in Shanghai at a moderate price. He proposed that a committee be appointed, supposing the club was started, to consider the question. The keep of ponics was prevent a good-many-men-from-joining. He- be appointed. suggested that to begin with a committee should
OUR ancient enemy, Daniel Edward Bandmann, tragedian, has found his "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" experiment in Loudon'a rather expensive luxury. When Dan'el opened his show at the Opera Comique to a house full of dead-heads, the audience, we are told, laughed immoderately; have been well insured. Through the exertions they thought it was circus clowning instead of THE rage for Canals appears to be taking very expensive, and be was afraid that would LOCAL AND GENERAL of the Macao Fire Brigade the conflagration was Trompablower's usual high tragedy. After thie localised in the said premises. Senhor Costa last act the champion blackguard of the stage undergo a medical-examination to-day, in order in London-ro, worse fuck and that he was to qualify himself to return home on sick leave, not going to wash his diny lines on the stage the usual way Macao functionaries manage to (how considerate of the eminent (h)actor), but 80 home at the public expense. As he seems to enjoy the best of health, it is a standing wonder on what grounds the Board of Health will grant him a certificate. of sick leave. No fresh cases of cholera have been reported:
THE
. The present agitation for the restriction of THE agent of the Messageries Maritimes Co. Duarte, the departing Colonial Secretary, was to made a speech; he said he was not a débutante in some measure railways are constructed Sunfly labour in the waters of this colony courteously informs us that the Company's reflects great credit on the promoters of the much steamship Djemna, with the next French mail, desired boon. Although the movement appears left Saigon at 3 pm, today for this port. to have originated with the Church, we think NEW song is called "My Mother's. Hand. the State ought to take the matter in hand, and We suspect it is a sequel to "Mamma's frame such regalations for work in the harbour, Slipper," and when introduced symong the chil that the Toading and unloading of ships on theiren "there's music in the heir." day which is pre-eminently set apart for rest should effectually be nit a step to.
The relicious side of the question is, of course.
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A TELEGRAM from Cairo says that, according to latest news from Wady Halla, the Nile is now
A to check the license, of lawyers in the cross examination of witnesses was read a second time on August 23rd in the New South Wales Lative Assemy. This is a move in the
direction.
honour,
unnermost in the minds of the clerical promoters rising; and the Egyptian cotton crop is regarded of the movement and although they deserves safe, and expected to prove the largest on
record. credit for acting according to their convictions, yet ́ (we think, thele, penund of contention is indefensi- | A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge of Hong ble. If Sunday labour is to he restricted or kong, No. 618 S.C., will be held in Freemasons' stonned at all in our harbour, the basis of the Hall, Zetland Street, on the 13th inst., at 8.30 for mogement must reat on something firmer and p.m precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially more unshakeable, than purely religious prin- invited." ciples are. Religion is no slave of days. There is not a title of evidence in what we term the New Dispensation in favour of religious worship being carried out in the Sabbath in preference to any other day in the week. There is no Gospel proizibition whatever arainst WE labour being indulged in on Sundays. all remember the stern rebuke levelled by the founder of Christianity at the Pharisaieal fraternity fortheir over-scrupulousness in Sabbath keeping. Combine this with his direct injunction as to the privacy of prayer, and it will be seen that the spirit of Christian worship, as far as form, time, and other outer conditions are concerned, is in direct antagonism to the Mosaic injunction. Christian worship is a reform of and п vast improvement on the Mosaic law. What- ever may have been the merits of the Mosaic Dispensation as regards the question. of Sabbath worship, it is undeniable that it cannot stand the test of modern science, exegesis or criticism, The rest enjoined for the seventh day of the week in commemoration of the Godhead's resting from his Inbours of the six-days' creation is as puerile and as easily exploded as the geological impossibility of the universe having been created in six days is incontrovertible. Of course, commentators,
COMPOUNDING a Felony.~Judge: "You are here on a charge of stealing wood, and are liable to pay afine. Do you plead guilty or not guilty ?" Prisoner "That depends, your whether the fine is a big one or not TO-MORROW morning"between 9 and 10.30 n'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel
will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey men ashore to ir am service, at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return- ing about 12.30.
COLONIAL CHAPLAIN (to sick official)-You are aware, dear brother, that you are about to die? Official—Yes; I am aware of it. Colonial Chaplain
And do you feel that you can go with resigna- tion'? Sick Official-Yes; but I'm going without resignation. We die, you know, but we never resign..
Anour two o'clock this morning a sailor on the Duke of Buckingham went aboard having come ashore without leave. He was pretty "fall," and a few minutes later was heard to fall over board. Search was at once made, but the strong tide in midstream, where the steamer' was, appeared to have carried him away, for he was not seen again.
Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) of July 5th has the following, regarding an old resident of this colony and Shanghai A wedding took place at St. Paul's Church yesterday which attracted an interested crowd of spectators.. The contracting parties were Mr. Albert Algar, chief cutter in the establishment of Thomson & Co. (late Thomson, Shannon & Co.) and Miss Clara Hoskins, the well-known teacher of music. The bride, who was dressed in white silk trimmed with grebe, was accom- panied by Miss Burney Stevenson as bridesmaid, while the bridegroom was." supported" by Mr. J. T. Dumbell as best, man. performed by the Rev. J. Still, the incumbent, and at the conclusion of the ceremony Mr. Morsebead played the Wedding March.
A' HINT,
The service was
Who is it runs our little sphere, See that the wheels are all in gear, And draws five thousand pounds a year?
The Guvnor, Who leaves his shell each week or two To meet the Legislative crew, And tell thein what they have to do?
The Guvingor, Who darkly frowns o'er Council-board And "speaks as 'aughty as a lord " Though often looking very bored ?
Ye Gov'nor.
Who should give an official feast.. Each other week, or month at least, And put the writer on the list?
Ze Gov'nor. Who is it that, hid'mid blue-books: His social pidgin' overlooks, And quite forgets we're not all rooks?
Sir William Veux,
As the territory of India comes gradually year
that he would throw himself on the law and on the generosity of the press and public. Unluckily the public had no generosity to spare for Band- mann, and the law didn't want such a heavy weight chucked against it, and so it gave him the option of shutting up his theatre or going "behind the bars" for contempt of court, What, did the press do? The members of the Fourth Estate remembered birs. Rousby, Fraser-Smith, and numerous other victims of the bravo of the modern stage, and placidly allowed Mr. Band- mann to wallow in the mud. We wonder what Sir George Phillippo thinks now of his model actor and what our learned, Q.C. thinks of his once greatly esteemed and most estimable client ! SEPTEMBER is the very worst month in the year for typhoons, and accordingly the news which reaches us from the Spanish Consul, that a typhoon is raging in the North Pacific, E. N. E. from Manila, need surprise no one. The Informa- tion left the Phillippines yesterday at 4.30 p.m. and at 7pm. the various Treaty ports werd informed by the Government Astronomer in Hongkong that the typhoon was at that time making the dust fly on the east coast of Formosa. No wordissaid in either communication about the direction of the wind, but by this afternoon's weather report the wind at Bolinao is S.E., while at Manila it is S.W. with a force of from 1 to 2, which of course indicates nothing as far as the centre is concerned. The east coast of Luzon, as indicated, is about 500 miles from this part, and the east of Formosa about 400 With the wind East on the Formosa coast yesterday the centre should have been about 300 miles from us, but whether the storm is approaching the port directly, or simply passing by in its usual course up the Formosa Channel,' will scarcely be known till Sunday morning has arrived. Out of twelve typhoons which raged near the coast of Luzon in the years 84 and '85 only two
passed through or near Hongkong, while mot of them found their way either up to Japan or burst into the continent of China somewhere
progress up in this latitude is about 8 miles an near Foochow or Chusan.. The average rate of
hour so that noon to-morrow should be past and gone before the centre reaches' us, if at all.
simply by the throwing down of the rails, the barely got started cutting her costly waterway Canal fever is abroad, and Manchester has
to the Mersey before Birmingham discovers that she cannot sleep soundly at nights without her Canal also. In consequence of this general unrest in the Midlands, there has been held in Birmingham a great conference of mercantile men who, entirely overlooking the unvarying virtues of Mother Siegel's Syrup, unanimously voted in favour of water, as the only possible remedy for their troubles. By means of this very ancient and simple power they think they see a way to happiness and wealth which neither railways nor any other means of haulage so far has developed... Their ideas do not appear to he quite an extravagant as those of the men of Manchester, for although their canal will connect Birmingham, the Potteries, Jouth Staffordshire, Cheshire and the intervening districts with Liverpool, it is only intended to accommodate vessels of 300 tons and under. The Birmingham men estimate their canal will stand them in figures of about £1,500,oo and the promoters say that an annual freightage of 2,000,000 tous will enable the undertaking to pay a sub stantial if not a handsome dividend. The scheme has been warmly approved by all the leading men, of the above named districts and resolutions have been adopted in Birmingham and Liverpool towards having all the details of construction and cost carefully gone into. Capital is so plentiful that the promoters'expect to have no difficulty in floating their scheme...
The Chairman was afraid not many here knew much about polo:
Capt. Fletcher All you have to do is to sit your pony and hit the ball.
The following committee were then appointed: Hon. I. Bell-Irving, Capt. Collinson, Mr. Whitehead, Mr. Bethell, Mr. J. Grant, and Capt. Fletcher. The following sub-committee was appointed to draw up rules:-Mr. Armstrong, Capt. Fletcher, and Capt. Collinson.
The size of ponies was next discussed. Four- teen hands was voted dangerously high, and 132 decided as to the standard. The matter of subscription was afterwards considered at length.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endore the opinions expreisal by.
correspondents in this column, ige
THE SANITARY BOARD BY-LAWS. TOT EDITOR OF Tx Hopaxos T inchari" v SIRAs I am the Engineer to whom Mr. Francis referred in his letter in your yesterday's issue 7 wish to give you my version; but first. to.. say that I do not think, it is usual to publish in a public paper a private conversation that takes place on the Club steps.
Mr. Francis' request to me was that I should revise all the Sanitary Board By-Laws Now, seeing that I stood for a seat on the Board, no one can accuse me of wishing to shirk the work for the good of the Colony or for any private. motive, but not having been placed on the Board I can hardly be expected to do the work
and to revise these laws properly would mean many days of really hard work. It is curious that I should be applied to when the Board has the services of two such eminent Engineers as the Surveyor General and the Sanitary Engineer! I did not say anything about the Board show- ing themselves stupid," but simply that the more complicated the Building Ordinances and Sanitary Laws were made, the more work it naturally brought to me. This is so all over the world, and in no place more so than in London. If the laws were perfectly simple there would be no room for the legal profession, and our worthy should not object on that score. I am perfectly willing to assist any member of the Board and give him my opinion on any point, but I certainly cannot devole the best part of a week to revising the Sanitary By-Laws, and I would not touch them without going into
Yours very truly,"
THE prosecution which the police have been carrying on during the last week against twenty- one members of the Yun Lok Club, who were found, it is alleged, gambling within the walls of that institution on the evening of the goth ulto. came to an end this morning at the Police Court, when Mr. Sercombe Smith discharged the whole of the defendants on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence to convict, "Mr. D. E. Caldwell watched the case on behalf the whole matter thoroughly. of the accused, as he has done from the first. The evidence of the accountant of the Club, Ch'an Hing, was to the effect that before coming to Hongkong he was a student in Canton, from which place he had emigrated four years ago by the request of his father, who desired that he should make the Chinese grand tour
when pressed by the utter absurdity of the Biblical record, have, resorted to the six- epochs theory-another invention destitute of foundation, since the word "day" is much more frequently used in the Old Testament as the usual period of twenty-four hours, than as undefined epochs; and in the Mosaic record; it is expressly By kind permission of Colonel D. G. Anderson employed in the former sense, as each of the the Regimental Band will play in the Public 186 wild elephants destroyed 57 individuals, Now that the English cricketers are getting into go to Hongkong and study the manners of the feeble militant correspondent who writes to you-
Gardens, on the 9th Sept., (Sunday), from 9 till to p.m. The following will be the programme:-
Mosaic days was made up of "a morning and an evening."
Leaving aside the religious view of the Sun day suspension of labour question, we have only the human, the practical, or the economical side of the subject to consider; and it is
March The Conscript's Fatervall."...aryam, Selection... Crown Diamonda" Ab Vale........
"La Barnala Bellini....
Godfrey Fanaria...Reminiscences of "Ooday. Glavotto.....Sampl/ca"...mmmcmoroagem Læs.
Joan Moxin, Bandmassar.
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by year under the civilizing influence of the British, so does the destruction of human life by wild and poisonous animals, decrease. In 1886, as far as statistics have been able to grapple with facts, the number of deaths from all such. causes was not more than 2,707, although in 1857 the average annual loss exceeded, 20,000. In tigen were held responsible for 928, leopards for 194, bears for 113, wolves destroyed 132, hyenas 24 and other animals, including snakes, 1,169. The Government during that year paid R. 189,000 for the destruction of savage and poisonous animals, which on these grounds that we unconditionally adhere
the suspension movement. This is the FROM a telegrams, dated. Rome, August 14th, it appear to have had, by a good deal, the worst grand desideratum of the working classes. appears that the destruction by the Abyssinians of the exterminating war. Civilized man killed Whether we toll with brains or with hands, a of the 350 auxiliary troops, with all their Italian in the year 186, of wild elephants 7, tigers periodical suspension and rest are necessary, officers, occurred while the invaders of Abyssl-1,464, leopards 4.051, bears 1,668, wolves 6,725, Our nervous as well as our muscular systems are hian territory were attacking Sagana city. The byenas 1,650 and of other animals 6,852, making very frail machines; rest is as necessary to them disaster has been officially attributed to the the total destruction of animal life to be 22,417, as work is. Mental or muscular over-exertion treachery of Italy's native allies, who joined the or about 62 per day throughout the lands and is detrimental to the human economy. Life's Abyssinians during the fight. burden' is heavy enough to require the weary hearer to lay it aside for a while by the road THERE is said to be an alarming scarcity of water in many of the large towns of Great Britain, way. Continuity of mental or muscular labour and the larger cities, as Liverpool and Man-foreign countries, as it finds that its trans-oceanic Grace failed to come off, scoring a single, and with a monthly subscription of $7. The manager to do so. If I mistake not, I was under the very
chester, are threatened with a water famine. In
to
is destructive of its intensity; all the products
R. K. LEIGH,
A. M. I. CE. Hongkong, 8th August, 1888.
THE "ALABAMA" BE TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKiro Telmorati," SIR-Your own monosyllabic answer to the about the Alabama is doubtless sufficient for a person who is evidently unacquainted with the foreigner with the view of picking up a fortune considerably larger than any be would be likely ordinary forms of newspaper controversy between to secure in Canton. Armed with a blue cotton strangers, and who is, moreover, to judge from to bide his gentlemanly instincts under a bushel. umbrella, two dollars and a fair set of wits his style of address, an individual who prefers Mr. Chang landed in Hongkong and was not Such being the case I need only request that you long in getting the appointment which promoted will kindly permit me to repeat that the Con him to the responsible position of chief witnessfederate ship Alabama was all that I have sald
but one heavy gun, and after fifteen molantes and on this case. He explained that there were 18 she was one of the cheapest of war ships, carried shareholders in the Club, each one of whom fighting against a vessel of her own size could introduce a friend as long as he weight, found herself hors de combat, and in a guaranteed his respectability and his "chits." sinking condition. Any ordinary, fast merchant destroying the commerce of the Federal States. The Club had three managers, also printed steamer could have done all that she did in rules and regulations in English and Chinese, With one grala of what your correspondent the later framed and hung up conspicuously pleases to consider fact, pulled out of a side
practically, owing doubtless to his utter inability in various places of the interior of the mando sue, he attempts to refute the main subject Each member paid $40 as entrance fee. together of my letter upon which he never touches were paid the princely stipend of 89 per month disagreeable necessity a few weeks ago of giving and pickings. Nobody was specially deputed to him a wholesome and necessary snub-hence invite people in, and no watchmen were ever these tears but I have now said all I intend to seven wallers and three or four cooke, part of to his precious scrawlings,
More Yours faithfully, Of whose duty. it was to attend to the comfort of the
WARNING. Hongkong, September 7th 1888.
something like their proper form, the Australian Eleven are having a rather warm time of it. The first real Tartar they caught, after a series of matches abandoned owing to rain, was Gloucestershire at Clifton, who with 214 and 312 against 153 and 126 won handsomely by 247 runs. Then came the Australian's second test match with an All England Eleven at Kenning ton Oval. In this international contest the Australians were simply outplayed at all points of the game. Winning the toss the Australian captain (McDonnell) elected to take first innings, but the team could do nothing against the deliveries of the Lancashire professional Briggs, who took five wickets for 25 Tuns; and were all disposed of for a total of 8o runs. Although Walter Read and John Shuter (the only two other gentlemen players in the eleven) did nothing extraordinary, the English professionals trade there has been formed la Holland an association named. "The Foreign Country," ing 317 when the last wicket fell
territories of British dominion.
HOLLAND, according to the New York Maritime Register, is very anxious to extend its trade with trade is chiefly with its own colonies, and that
of imperfect activity, are like so many spurious view of this state of things, it is proposed to even this trade is becoming rather a transit than children, who are deservedly rejected by society.bring sea water in pipes from the', coast to the J an import and export one. In order to promote piled up a big total, the 'telegraph' show. told to keep an eye on the police. There were and am loath to have to frouble you with a reply
Life in Hongkong is sufficiently dull, dreary and inland towns, the sea water to be used for baths, toilsome during the six days of the week to allow of the seventh day being devoted to relaxation, closets, watering streets, flushing sewers and mental as well as bodily. The greed of lucré extinguishing fires. The scheme is said to meet (Het Buitenland). It is proposed that the first thèse Abel made 70, Barnes 62, Lohmann 6a not members, bringing, in singing, women to attend
with much favor.
the members during their Saturday festivals, etc., etc. Nobody was allowed to remain in
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG TELEORAIN,” the Club after 9 pm, although members could
SIR, Will your correspondent "Finis Coronat sleep on the premises if they desired. The
Opus who so flatly contradicts Warning" games of dominoes and p'ar kan were in the place regularly but not fan fan and calls his letter of Saturday last rubbish, on some occasions played at p'alta and bed ideas are of the strength of Hongkong against Chang did not know what yde-dan was Had Inform a few of your readers what his own won as much as $ico at it. On one occasion an attack from a hostile fleet, and how the he won 8140 from some of the defendants, but part should be defended 2-Your correspondent was not a winner on the night when the police with the Latin name should know that members of the Club playing games of skill and rubbish are not argument, although that raided the place, fad seen some other of the castle declamation and the use of
The chance for money, but the servants, and walters is commonly employed by certain of the Club were stretly prohibited from gambling certain fub-market in any shape or form Always has suffranger
work to be done by the association is to raise funds Sugg 31, and Peel 15. Ulyett, the York "displayed by our shippers and our merchants
to send young Dutchmen abroad to serve as clerks shire "crack" batsman, who always played so requires curtailment and moderation, orelie Hong- WE read that on the coast of Barlovento, Mexico, in foreign commercial houses, in order to learn the well against the Australians, was dismissed kong may be apt to fall into the position of slave particularly about Miaantla, where rabid dogs business and in time to establish Dutch houses of without scoring. In a minority of 237 the a market, on a par with Morocco or the Soudan, are frightfully numerous, sea baths are regarded their own, It is proposed, not only to pay the Colonials commenced their second innings, but The European floating population of this colony as a sovereign remedy for hydrophobia. When travelling expenses of the young men, but when could do nothing with the bowling of the English are taxed with enough work during the week ton mad dog runs amuck there the parties bitten
ever necessary to allow them a certain aim to "pros" and were all out for 100, thus losing the entitle them to a healthy respite when dies solis are, bundled off to the shore as speedily as live upon until they can become self-supporting match by an innings and 137 runs. The Australians suffered another crushing reverse comes round. If this periodical suspension possible, and put through a course of a fort of course every care will be taken: to send out contributes to, the health and vigour of the night's systematic bathing. The oldest inhabit only young men well qualified to further the from the Nottingham (team on August-18th, labouring classes in temperate climates, it is ants declare that hydrophobia had never been project the extension of Dutch Commerce. losing by an innings and 199 russ, and it appears Assuredly an imperative necessity in tropical, known to develop in a patient who has under. Whether the undertaking will succeed will depend they were exceptionally lucky that their encoun- Innd-locked and oppressive Hongkong. The gone this treatment. Domestic animals with largely upon the support that will be given it inter with Surrey had be abandoned By the most rudimentary principles of humanity the trouble are subjected to the same process, the beginning, for once it is under way, there is way, the champion county did a grand per and philanthropy demand a complete cessation and it is said the results are equally efficacious, no doubt that Dutch resolution and patience wilt formance when playing Sussex at the Oval waiter: to ask him what he came for and who of labour on Sundays, not only in our save in the case of mules, with which it is utterly give it a thorough trial. The scheme is not a bad August 11th compiling now less than 698 runs, harbour but in all our offices and business futile,
one and its progress will be worth walshing.
winning by an innings and 485 sumts/
went into the Club the day of time bec
had introduced alm. After some further evidence
had been taken the magistrats could not see hist way to convict," and discharged the defendaals,
so to speak,
Sir Samuely military and