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SUAKIM.
LONDON, December 18th. A long debate has taken place relating to Suakim. Mr. John Morley and Lord Randolph | Churchill urged that operations, should be nuse nended in order to negotiate with the rebels. The Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in reply said that the proposal to retire was unworthy of considération, and that it would he furile in
of the policy of the Government by a majority of 8 votes.
THE Belle Poule on which the remains of Napoleon were brought from St. Helena in 1840 and which had been carefully kept as a curiosit at Toulon, was lately pulled from her dock and towed to Castigneau, where she will be broken. up.
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A CERTAIN editor whose wife Hannah had sued him for divorce and then made it up with him. headed an editorial Peace with Honor, and was exasperated to find that the printer had made it read "Peace with Hannah,”
SIR MOREL MACKENZIE is to be one of the lecturers at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institu tion during the winter, if he survives the duel he is asserted in a London paper that the dis
covery made by Mr. Hewett in the netificial isa't going to fight with Professor Bergmann.
manufacture of quinipe will result in the reduction of the price of that 'article to a few cents per pound. The importance of this discovery is rendereil greater by the fact that, while hitherto the dependence has been on the cultivation of the cinchona tree for quinine, the bark yielding only about a per ceni. of the same, the new process admits of the substance being produced without fimit from an article which can always | be got in abundance in any part of the world,;;
Tue music of the ancients would appear to have been a very primitive production according to modern ideas. The Egyptian fate was only a cow's horn with three or four holes in it, and their harp or lyre had only three strings; the Grecian lyre had only seven strings and was very small, being held in one hand; the jewish trum- pets that made the walls of Jericho fall down, were only rams horns; their flute was the same as the Egyptian; they had no instrumental music hut by percussion, of which the greatest boast made was the psaltery, a small triangular harp or, lyre with wire strings and struck with an iran needle or stick; their sacbut was something like a bagpipe; the timbrel was a tambourine and the dufrimer was a horizontal harp with wire strings and struck with a stick like the psaltery. They had no written music; had scarcely a vowel in their language, and yet, according to Josephus, they had 200.000 musicians playing at the dedication of the l'emple of solomon. Mozart would have died in such a concert in the greatest of agony,
I HAF seen a funeral precession a mile long, und two weeks later I had asked who vhas buried dot day, und nopody could remember. When a man gets through mit der world der world vhas though mit him-Pearl of wisdom from a Dutch philosopher.
IN the November American Magarine, Mr. L McIntosh Want in his article on the "First American Embassy to Peking," thus describes he negotiations about an interview between the American Minster and the Chinese Emperor: The Commissioners, however, would discres nothing but the proposed audience with the Em peter. One of the Commissioners stated that the Emperor himself was desirous of conferring with Mr. Ward, having been favorably impressed with what he had heard of America and Americans, and wishing to see the first represen tative of that nation who had visited his capital. The stumbling-block in the way of the audience, was the rite called the Kow-tow, which Mr. Ward refused to perform. The.Com. missioners requested Mr. Ward to kneel to the Emperor, and agreed that the knocking of the head upon the ground would be dispensed with To this Mr. Ward replied that while he enter tained the highest respect for the Emperor, and in that only felt what the President himself had bearer, yet he wished to declare that highly as he would regard an audience and important as he deemed it under, the circumstances, still he had never asked for an audience, and the treaty said nothing about it and he could not knee when he came before the throne; he could only salute the Emperor as he did his own ruler that he knelt only as an act of worship before
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THERE will be a regular meeting of the Eothen Mark Lodge of Hongkong, No. 264, held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the 22nd instan', at 8.30 for 9p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
The longest cathedral in England is that of Winchaster, which has a length of 530 feet. York Minster covers the greatest area of any cathedral in England, namely, 72.860 square feet, Lincoln Cathedral coming next, with an area of 66,900 square feet.
THE British Barque Fola Nicholson, Capt. A Quine, chartered by Messrs. Tong Kang Wo & Co, arrived on the 18th inst. from Honolulu, bringing a number of Chinese passengers. The bomeward passage is considered to be one of the quickest on record, as the vessel left Honolulu on the 16th ulto. The Chinese passengers, in token of their appreciation of Captain Quine's treatment of them, have prepared the following address which they intend presenting him with, together with a silken memorial flag
Hongkone, wath Décember, 1888, having a emplished her myage from Honolulu to this part, we 51,-Your good ship, the British Baque, John Nicholson, the undersigned, have waf lyfanded, and we now feel much indebted the estrarrdinary kindness mad attention shown by yourself to all of us during the passag
We have ten wo well treated on board your ressel that we desire to give you a token of our appreciation, and we request you te permline by pressat you with a silken Flag, to be used on board the John Nicholson in remembrance of thin wayaga from,
on Julu ta tongkong.
Thanking you again we remain, with our best wisher for Your swn and the John Nicholson's welfare,
Yours sincerely,
to Captain W. Quine Esq.
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A WRITER in the Liverpool Mercury-a captain of the mercantile marine--has taken great pains to take what are probably the most careful observations as to the height of ocean waves in a gale which have ever been recorded. Hom, and to do it, he went up in the main He made them during a voyage round Cape rigging, to get, if possible, the top of the wave coming up, astern in a line of sight from the mast to the horizon at the back. The reason he selected the mainmast was this, that, as a rule, it is nearly amidships, and when the sea is running, the sea ahead and from aft lifts the two ends, forming hollow amidships (the actual foot of the wave below the mean draught, equal to the slight elevation), and the observer neces- sarily is above the true height. It was a difficult operation, but the captain obtained some good observations, marking the height of the waves on the mast. On measuring the distance from these to the mean draught, he found them to be
varying in length from 750 to Boo feet.
THE EAST BORNEO PLANTING COMPANY, LIMITED.
An extraordinary general inecting of the above named Company was held at the Hongkong Hotel yesterday fternoon. There were present: Hon. B.Layton (Chairman), Messrs. Dalrymple, A. P. Stokes, and E, E. Abrahamson (Directors), W. H. Young, N. J. Ein, S. L. Darby, S. J. Danby, C. S. Barff, A. G. Stokes, E. C. Ray, and H. Sheppard (Secretary.)
The Chairman said—Our business to-day is purely formal. It is only to confirm the resolu tion which was passed at the last meeting. With your permission I will read it:—“That the Com- pany do purchase for the sum of $15,000 a selected block of 5,000 acres of land in British North Bonco in the vicinity of the Company's present land and for that purpose and to provide for the development of the said land that the Capital of the Company be increased by the issue of 1.000 Shares, at $50 per share, of which $25 shall be paid up on allotment, $15 per share, on the 1st Mnich, 1889, and the balance at such time as the Board shall determine.”
Mr. A. G. Stakes seconded.
The Chairman-I have now to propose a new resolution, which is as follows:-That the new shares be allotted amongst the shareholders registered on the books of the Company on the 20th December, 1888, in the proportion of one new to every three old shares and that as to fractional parts of any such new shares which may accrue to any allottees, the Directors shall Invite public lender for the shares, composed of such fractional parts and cell the same to the highest bidder, and any profit which may arise from such sale shall be distributed in due pro- portion amongst the several allottees of such
ctional parts."
Mr. A. G. Stokes seconded. Carried.
The Chairman That, gentlemen, concludes he business. The transfer books will be closed om the 20th to the 31st inst., on which date he new shares will be ready for allotment.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column]
THE MERCHANT SHIPPING ORDINANCE.
with the latest Trade Statistics taken from the negotiate at present; finally the House approved/xpressed in the letter of which he was the next morning the tall, distinguished-lookingman's as follows:-64. 61, 58 and 65 feet respectively, ment suggested by him will, I think, hit the
Reports of the Jumperial Maritime Customs and other rehable sources.
The varians Governments and Municipal Cor porations, and ill Public Redies and Companies Banloors, Meretrats, Congals, Professional men,' -mud other Kane faute, Wure supplied the necessati mature, again forms spinally sent for that par pose so te ta rasure accuracy. The Naval and Military portions have heer taken from the latest published offient lists 1ml revised at Headquarters; in fact, no pains have been spard to snake." THE HONGKONG DIREC. TURY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST”
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Senor Castelar''thinks the establishment of universal suffrage. the most needed reform in Spain,
We would call attention to the advertisement, în
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THE proposed Gambling Ordinance seems to
have already taken effect on the sellers of the
Manila lottery tickets. It would appear that the another column, of the Shanghai Land Invest police have been instructed to visit every shop meni Compariy, Limited.
thar deals in the objectionable article, and that raidens sudden and severe as those made agains! Tr-fa lottery-Belicis have been threatened with heavy fines or long terms of imprisonment in their train. Such is the scare prevailing
The distribution of prizes, to the pupils of the Hanekeng Public School will take place in St. Paul's College to-morrow at 4 pm.
In addition tothe information enumeratedabove, #THE
HONGKONG DIRECTORY ANDA would draw attention to the nerformance of HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1889 of "Tolanthe" by the Honekana Chiril Society.
at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, this evening. contains a Garebuily revised
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JNDEX TO THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG:
A SPECIAL LIST OF FOREIGNERS employed in Steamers making short voyages from Hongkong;
THE PRIVATE RESIDENCES
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The latest and only reliable PLAN OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA,, showing the proposed Reclamations' and all recent additions and improvements,
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A CHAPTER ON SPORT, (amended and corrected to date) dealing with almost every branch of the subject including RACING, CRICKET, * ATHLETICS. AQUATICS,
&c., &c. &c.
The WINNERS of all IMPORTANT RACES at HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, and AMOV, with times, and other interesting particulars, carefully compiled from the most reliable sources, make "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST," à vade mecum for all classes of
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We are requested to state that as the ground is thought it to dine on, the Cricket match, Club & Garrison, will take place at 2.30 pm. to-morrow.
We would remind our Muonic renders that the District Grand Lodge of Hanokong and South China will be held to-morrow the 21st-inst. at 8 for 8.30 p.m.
THE Superintendent of the P. & 0, S. N. Co, courteously informs us that the steamship Suff, with the next English mail test Singa- pore for this port at 9 p.m. yesterday:
EXTRACT from the sworn testimony of Con- stable W. O'Hagligan, of the Sydney force "I was the only person in the house at the time except another policeman who was outside."
THE steamship Amoy, which put back yesterday morning after she had reached Breaker Paint on her way to Shanghai, owing to a slight damage to her propeller, has since been under repairs, and the Agents, Messrs. Siemssen Co.. inform is that she will resume her trip North
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among the shop-keepers who formerly old the Manila tickets in broad daylight that they will not now exchange a ticket for ita value unless in the inmost recesses of their shops, and even then they solemnly request the buyer to keep the matter secret. As regards December tickets, so many are said to have been returned to the Philippines for want of purchasers, that not one is to be found new on sale in the Colony. We take these facts as crident signs that the lottery business will soon be abolished from our midst. It has already dine sufficient harm here to deserve death and ext action. The sellers of these strips of paper have fattened themselves on their illegal com. missions and on premia on the gold currency; the purchasing public has been victimised by invariably paying six dollars for a ticket worth only five; rivers of money have for years run from the Colony on to Manila, and the returns have been so few and far between that investors in the litery have generally become fit subjects of mockery and ridicule. It was surely high time that the nuisance should be put a stop to
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THE New York World gives the following portrait of a London swell :-A very tall, slender man in evening clothes strode across Madison Square a night or two ago with a big cape over his shoulders, a slender, silver-headed cane in one hand and a cigar in his mouth. He was evidently a swell, and quite as evidently not a New York swell. His black doeskin trousers were ever so much tighter than such garments are worn by well-dressed men in New York. The
that of the well-dressed men he met on Fifth costume presented even a more marked content to
skin-tight; his bluish-black Prince Albert coat Aveaue. His trousers were still tight, almost
military chest. His vest was cut out low and rolled low and was buttered tightly over a showed a large cravat spreading over his shirt front, the cravat being of a pattern very popular here some years ago as a "linen protector," but seldom seen now. His high white collar gaped half an inch in front. His boots were pointed patent leather gaiters. He was Colonel Hughes- Hallet, and he knows thoroughly how fashion
able mien dress in London.
THE HONGKONG HIGH-LEVEL TRAMWAYS COMPANY,
LIMITED.
The following is the report for presentation to the shareholders at the fourth ordinary general meeting to be held at the Hongkong. Hotel, on Friday, 21st December, 1888, at 11 o'clock
forenooa :-
The General Managers beg to lay before the of the Company, made up to 30th November, Shareholders the annexed Statement of Accounts 18 8.
traffic on 30th May last, and has run uninter
The Company's line was opened for passenger ruptedly, excepting a few hours stoppage, since
that time.
We are in receipt of a copy of the Report on the Proposed Drainage of the City of Victoria by R. K. Leigh, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E., secom- panied by the respective diagrams of the proposed works, and a plan of the City. Mr. Leigh prefaces his suggestions with the following letter -
The Hon, F. Stewart, L.L.D., Colmiał Secretary, &c.
The total recipts for the six months Hongkong, 11th November, 1888. SI Having read with great interest the speech of is
are $14,953-75 (including $26 received Excellency the Guvernar, which he mentions his wish to
for transfer fees), and the net profits, received any mug estions fel ting to the proposed schema of after paying interest due, and all drainage for his Chy, 11es in feention, that pa s professional charges, amount to.............. then retains of the Colamy, lace sms, saints in which sulting Committee's & Auditor's fees... 600.00 stan of Len years experience in this Colony, pertly in the Cover From which have to be deducted Con-
. $6125.46 and saking keen my opinioniffer from that shown fough in the plan as at present propised.
Leaving. available for appro
interest in
In order in enable me to submit my ideas, 1 should be glad of │· priation........................ the permission of His Excellency, the venter to be famished with the derailed plans and estmates of the prop sed scheme, an receipt which will be my elevour to fully sudy the same, and to the best of my ability offer sich sugżestions au 3 may think will be of use to His Excellency the Governor.
I have the house in be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
R. K. Letast,
Assoc. Men. Inst. C.E., to which the following reply was sent :-
Hongkong, Colonial Secretary's Office.
24th November; 1816.
asking to be
Siin reply your letter of the 14th instant connection famished with the detritet plans and estimates with the proposed system of separate main draindre, I an fected by the Governor tit inform you, that the only question is as to the gulness ne ludness of the pmposed scheme; and on this the estimates have'na hearin....
lis Excellency has, howev, nobject to your inspecting the plans at your convenlenen, in Uilk öffice,,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
FREDERICK STEWART,
Colonial Secretary,
R. K. Leigh, E., A.M.IO.E., &c., &c., Ra..
We translate from the Manila Comercio the following description of a visit paid by the King
within the tents,
Of which sum, the General Managers, and the Consulting Committee, recom- mend that a dividend of $4 per share, for the six months, or at the rate of 16 per cent per annum, be paid to Share- holders, which will absorb......
35525.46
5000,00
And to be carried forward to new account, the balance of........................an $525.46 CON ULTING COMMITTER. Under Rule 1 of the Company's Articles of Association, the present members, The Hon. P. Ryrie, Messrs. James B. Coughirie, and J. de selves for re-election.. Soonaville retire, but being eligible, offer them-
AUDITOR
Through the death of Mr. A. E. Vaucher, the accounts have been audited. by Mr. R. Lyall. whose appointment requires the confirmation of
the Shareholders.
Mr. Lyall also offers himself for re-election.
MACEWEN, FRICKIL & Co.
General Managers. Hongkong 19th December 1888.
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT TO 30TH NOVEMBER
****$120,544,41 4000.00 4.732-74
Permanent Way Concession and Deed of Grand...... Stock in hand at date
In Hand.....
599,04 With Collector 40.00
630.04
$129.907.19
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hongkong TeleÖRAPH"; SIR-I have read the letters under the ignature of "Mate" in your paper with much interest. · I fully agree with “Máté” in both of his propositions. The amendment to the amend-
mark exactly as far as it concerns mates, and those interested "on the Bridge." But the matter goes a great deal further than "the" Bridge"; it gets right down into the "Engine room and interests those in charge of that department. It is quite true (and it is one thing to be thankful for) that the competition with the foreign element bas not reached the furthest point here, but we certainly have got enough to contend with an matters now stand, without opening an avenue for further competition. And this would appear to be what is meant by the amendment proposed by the Hon. Mr. Layton at the recent meeting of the Legislative Council. I may possibly be certainly seems as if wrong in my view, but a way was being made for the further introduce tion of foreign certificates to substitute British ones on British vessels. And it will follow, 2 a natural consequence, that if the matter is carried for "the Bridge" it will come down to the engine room. Enclosing my name in full,,
I am, etc.,
ENGINEER. Hongkong, zoth December, 1889,
TOTH EDITOR OF Yin Hongkong Telegraph"
necessity for the amendment to the Merchant SIR-As you have to kindly given space to "Mate" on bis side of the question as to the real
Shipping Ordinance, that has been proposed in the Legislative Council, I presume you will do the same for the Captain's side. There have been cases, as I can prove, where it was almost impassible to get a mate with an English certi ficate. It certainly does happen once in a while that a captain cannot get a mate under any circumstances; but I think the law ought to bo framed in such a way so as to allow the shipping of a foreigner, if a Britisher cannot be had. Such a case many possibly occury
Yours, &c.,
CAPTAIN. Hongkong, aoth December, 1888,
"THE GREAT MISSIONARY
FAILURE" *
"WHAT IT IS, AND WHY." "The day had I gone by "said Mr. Bevan, M.P., to the Baptist Union," when it was necessary to justify mission work." Church missions, sald the Bishop of Manchester at the Church Con- gress two days later, were doing "a grand work," These roseate utterances contrast somewhat curiously with the daylight of fact which Canon Isaac Taylor costs upon the subject in an article, entitled "The Great Missionary Failure," in a recent number of the Fortnightly Review.
HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO CONVERT THE
WORLD
Canon Taylor begins by pointing out that the ferrible Malthusian theorem has to be faced." The "heathen" multiply much faster than the Christians, and "the grand work" of Christian missions does not anything like over- take even the normal annual increase of heathens. Here are some curious calculations on this point:-
The non-Christian population of Asia, and Liabilities.
Africa is upwards of 910 millions, so that the Capital subscribed......
..$125,000
annual Increase by excess of births over deaths Amount called up.ääamous 62,500.00 must exceed eleven millions, Dr. Maclear, the Dua Hongkong & Shanghai Banking
principal of a training college for missionaries, Corporation.....0
29,011.31 who is perhaps the greatest living authority on
2.895.60 native Christians due to missionary efforts 5.525 46at. 60,000. If this estimate is approximately correct, it would take the societies 183 'years to $129.907.19 overtake the increase of the non-Christian population in a single year. The missionary societies say we are advancing, and so we ares But in spite of our advance, instead of over- taking the work, the work is overtaking us. It
Thus the Singapore Free Press:-On the A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge. No. occasion of General Cameron's recent visit to szt, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Singapore, he observed during the gunnery Street, on Thursday, the 27th instant, at 8 for practice of the Royal Artillery at Fort PassT R.30p.m.precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially-Panjang, that the labour-of-working the 7-inch- invited.
guns was severe, and the process of loading with desirable. He accordingly requested Majn the present jointed rammers slower than was Hoggan to see whether it was not possible to devise some method which should be speedier and less laborious than that now in force. Two Siam androval family to Chiarini's Circus in new plans for loading have been designed, one
Bangkok: "The performances given by the based on an idea of Major McCallum's, and the and occasionally the Crown Prince put in an Circus were very well attended by the public, othera method suggested by Sergt. Äyre, S. V. A.
appearan e. He is a youth of from seven to eight The former plan utilises the weight of the years of age, of a very lively disposition and was THE Macno semi-official hully-rae again to the gun, while it is being run up to its front front. This time the Independente shows Its stops, to drive home the projectile and cartridge. generally followed by about 25 other princes and true colours, namely, what stuff.it is made of.
After the latter are placed in the bore the gun is
princessrs under age, all children of the King in publishing a private correspondence that
who is also very young. elevated to a horizontal position and a short of the Circus' performances, the lord Chamberlain
On the very last day | Cash: passed between a resident of Hongkong and rammer placed against the head of the projectile. of the Royal Palace called on Mr. Maya another of Macao. It is useless for most of our Attached to the end of the rammer are two long and informed him that his Majesty would Macan friends to tell us who and what they are; poles, each held fast by two of the gun detach-like to see the show that night, requesting him their doings are ample evidence of their degreement while the gun is being run up. There is "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND of civilisation.
at the same time to have it announced all some difficulty in disposing of the rammer, with- HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1889
out attracting attention and drawing an enemy's to the Circus the public would not be admitted over the city that as royalty was going is Printed on a superior quality of Paper, and is the best printed and most handsomely SAYS the Sydney Bulletin, referring to Milly fire. The other plan taakes use of a collar,
The order was duly executed. bound volume published East of the Suez Canať | Palmer's (Mrs. Bandmann) letter, published in | round the muzzle of the gun with a pulley wheel An hour later quite a swarm of carpenters and our colunins some time since :-"Louise Beaudet on each side. Over these are carried ropes made THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND is well remembered in Sydney as a promising fast to the arms of a moveable clip which seizes workmen of hoth sexes from the Palace came to the Circus with all the ornamentation required HONG LIST FŐK THE FAR EAST," in Young actress who was palpably under Band- the stave of the rammer. Two men pulling for the occasion, and they set to erecting tribunes Due the General Managers......... 29,953.82 the subject, estimates the annual increase of onder that it may circulate extensively outside mann's peculiar mesmeric spell. We congratulate downwards on these ropes drive on the rammer for the king, for his three Queens and for the Accounts Payable............
her upon not being Mrs. Bandmann's husband's till the clip comes up to the muzzle: It is then this Colony, is published at a POPULAR wife, because in such case that unpleasant look opened and replaced further back along the
numerous suite of nobles and female tenants of Profit and Loss............ PRICE, and can be ordered at This Ofice, orng genius isn't legally entitled to whack har rammer. In two motions the projectile is home. pleted, the sight was really imposing and it fully the seraglio. When the preparations were com- through any of our Agents at the various Ports,
This plan is easy and the labour is very light revealed that oriental luxury which is so often The Italics are ours. It was for writing dome for?
thing to the same effect about Bandmann's mode The wedge wad is used with this method as the read in banks of travel. The Lord Chamberlain, WORKING ACCOUNT FROM 30TH MAY TO JOTH THREE DOLLARS. of treating women that the Fditor of this journal running up of the gun afterwards might dislodge who is the King's own brother, arrived first, and
was sent into retirement for two months by a
the projectile from its proper place in the bore. The other day, a gun detachment of
was followed by two slaves who held long There is not space in the compass of an wellmeaning but verdant fudge and a wooden-Artillery from Fort Canning was marched down wands shaped like long bayonets; their To Salaries and Wages,
office was to polat out to every to Fort Fullerton to, try these methods under appropriate seat in the Pavillon. The whole one bis asserted that no such Directory has ever been STEAMBOAT men, according to the Philadelphia supervision of Major Hoggas, E.A. After pre-held artillery, the troops and the Palace, guards published, either in Hongkong or any other part Record, say that the side wheel ferry boat will liminary trials of each, a round was taken and with fixed bayonets purrounded the tents and the time noted. The "pulley" plan was taken prevented all outsiders from approaching. The soon be a thing of the past, and boats with propellers at each end will supersede them. The first with the following results
King then came accompanied by his Ministers "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND new idea is Indorsed by many ship-builders,
projectile koma zanj zanor witlalzóen, vry; gün zua up
with one of whom he kept talking very lively. HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers | practical architects, and marine engineers. The 1.37"Ready. EXCE
He was in his usual evening dress, wore a com- Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium. important advantage of the propeller is that it Then followed the " shaft "plan, as follows:-- mon cap on his head, and was followed by quite It has an extensive circulation in "all Ports takes less room on the boat, gives greater speed
"Xad Projectile in bore, 46 asce gum up 19; sammar bevy of princes and princesses, all of whom By between Singapore and Newchwang, in the on less consumption of fuel, and can be easier la pisca 1o 46 ) " Ready," z's sen
were his children, by the Crown Prince, and the Australasian Colonies, the United States, and handled, besides costing less. The shaft will run The first plan occupied 1 min. 5 secs from pro three Queens. The ladies of the barem another the United Kingdoff, and the scale of charges through the boat from end to end, with an average (jectile in bore till the gun was ready to be bevy-entered by another gate. The whole party has been fixed at in exceptionally low rate. size propeller at bow and strin. The first be tof laid; the second plan one minute, But both of were dressed in the gaudiest style imaginable; Terms can be learned on application.
this pattern has been designed by. J. Shields these times can be improved, and the "shaft" | never had so many diamonds been seen glittering. Wilson, and is being built at Newbury, N NY apparatus is susceptible of still further improve before. During the interval, the King followed Suggestions for the improvement of this work it will be 200 feet long, have triple expansion ment, Still the result is much superior to what by his whole suite repaired to the menagerie, are respectfully solicited."
engines, with cylinders iff, 27 and 43 inches in can be attained by the jointed rammer and where he expressed himself highly pleased diameter, and improved steel boilers. The screw either of these is nearly half a minute better with the extraordinary collection lo be Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE on the stern of the beat will push the vessel than the best time by the latter method and is found there. When the show was over, the MENTS may be sent to the Agents at thevarious ahead, while the one at the bow will pull. When far less fatiguing to the gunners themselves, king sent for Mr. Maya and asked him to call at Ports, or to the Office of
a stop is required, the reversal of the propellers Photographs were taken at the time of both the Palace to receive $2,000 which he gave will check the boat very quickly. The new boat methods with a view to forwarding these for the Signor Chiarini, who returned the royal com- Is Jooked upon with great interest by those information of Col. Craster, Commanding R.A. pliment by presenting the Crown Prince with the Interpsted in maritime affairi.
at Hongkong,
· Emallest horse of his stable,”.
Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informa-headed Jury. Times have changed, tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly
of the East, at such a low price:
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY
PRUDER'S HILL, HONGKONGZAAA Hongkong, 19th December; ERBB Z
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NOVEMBER 1888,
Charges Account ...... Police Rates...tejueshmeria Coals and Stores............................. Interest.......
Consulting Committes's and Audi-
tor's Fees eristetejeni Balance to Profit and Loss.....
Traffic Receipts during the 6 months to date,
Transfer Fecioraminius
$ 4,223 65 is like the tortoise racing with a railway train; 633.80 the longer the race continues, the further the 374-70 tortoise is left behind.". 1,644 89 Canon Taylor tests Dr. Maclear's extimates 1,951.15 by the returns of some of the societies, and finds the results even more disheartening. Thus, the 600.00 Church Missionary Society, which does a third 5.525.46.For a fourth of the whole work, increases the native Christians at the outsida by 4,000 a year}
* $14,953-75*| |** whence it would appear that it would take the sosie 3750 rear to overtake the additions made by birth in a single year the non- $14,927-75) Christian population; while If the population 25.00 remained stationary, and all the converts; re- mained steadfast: it would take more than -$14.973-75: 330,000 years to convert the world, or nearly 1,000,000 years if the relapses are taken jajo.
MACEWIŃ, FRICKEL & COM
General Managers, I have compared the above statement with the Books and Vouchers of the Company) and found the same in accordance therewith,
R. LYALLY
bong, Bath Desember,
THE COST OF SOME CONVERSIONS, Ent if the rate of conversion is painfully slow, the rate of expenditure is prodigiously fast Here are some of the curiosities of the Minion Budget Which Canon Tavlor has collected under this head
Last year in Ceylon 474 agents of the Church Missionary Society 'spest) 411 ong 137, yai