the intentions of the Gavernment in this matter, but M. Blaine bas given his entire leisure to the Samoan difficulties since he was sworn in.
BERLIN, March 10th.
A service in memory of Emperor William I was held in the Garrison Church to-day. All the members of the royal family, Count Von Moltke and many goudis were present.
LONDON, March 10th. Frederic Harrison wifes a vigrrons protest #gainst the retention of Sir R. E. Webster in the Government. He says the Parnell Commission was virtually a State teal, and the character and honor of the Governnicht are at stake as long as Webster is tetained.
Dr Sellon; who in January eloped from Nice with Miss Ida Wilcox, an American, has been entenced by a Nice court to eight months' im- prisonment for appropriating a cheque which Miss Wilo took front her mother.
A man named Michael Dieghy and his wife were sirested at Que nstown to-day for having evolvers and amaunition among their baggage. A dispatch from Rome announces that an earthquake has occurred al Aquila.
ST. PETERSBURG, March 10th.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1889.
It is believed that the output of copper by fire, will thereby be reduced by one-third the present quantity.
Russia has demanded from the Shah of Persia the exclusive right to navigate the rivers debeu. ching into the Caspian Sca; and also the right lo construct a railway through Persia.
Germany is not likely to allow the Berlin Con- ference to decide upon the treatment she intends to adopt in regard to Mataala..
It is expected in the United States that no agreement will be arrived at by the Conference less Prince. Bismarck concedes autonomy in Sunoa.
Mr. George Bates, one of the delegates appointed to represent the United States al the Berlin conference, holds strong anti-German views upon the Sanioan question.
March 18th.
The liabilities of Messrs. Spalding and Hodge, manufacturing stationers, of Cannon-street, who suspended payinent, tant to half a million sterling, while the assets are valued at £423,000, leaving a deficiency of £77,000.
were not only good tempered wil dny, but repeatedly observed to their hosts with evident sincerity and with true politeness, that it was of no consequence whatever that they had to wait, and that one time was to them exactly as ahes! Does the reader happen to know of any form of Occidental civilisation which would have stond such a sucklen and severe strain as 2/18032
endurance of the Chinese race must have been designed for some nobler purpose than merely to enable them to bear with fortitude the ordinary ills of life, and the miseries of gradual starvation? If it be the teaching of history that the fittest survive, then suiely a race with such a gift, backed by a splendid vitality, must have before it a magnificent future.-N. "C. Daily News.
There were some trucks standing in a siding. but he found they had not moved an inch:
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That Chinese nerves are totally different from ¦ NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. called Ah Shing. His real name does not seem Under the distinguished Patronage and in the
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Mr. Moh, who was Districi Magistrate of Shanghai, until about two years ago, is dead. He held the post of Prefect of Tai tsang-chow, under the Taotni of Shanghai.
thos with which we are endowed, has ben heady shown, but that does not prove that the foufuata urved Turanian" is a stoic, like the North Amcan Indian. The Chinese bear their ills, not only with fortitude, but what is often far more difficult, with patience. A Chinese who had just the use of both eyes, applied in a foreign physician to know if the sight could be restored, About Ishol (and in Mongolia generally it is ackling simply, that if it could not, be restored.supposed) trafic was stopped in the middle of he should stop being anxious about it. The March by deep snow. At Jehalit lay 4 or 5 feet physician told him that nothing could be done,deep. Many cattle were killed by the cold.
on which the man remarked, "Then ing heart
is at ease." His was not what we call resigna- non, much less the indifference of despair, but merely the quality which enables us to
It is reported that the Ameer of Afghanistan is returning from the frontier to Cabul." A passenger train on the Transcaspian Knil- General Boulanger, in addressing a meeting way was today thrown from the track in a tunnel, a Tours, expressed himself favourable to a owing to the scmuval of nils by train wreckers.liberal, tolerant, hospitable, and non-parliamen-gore than the hardest use can destroy it. It The result of the derailment was frightful. They republic. He declared that it would be killed and in red number fifty. The band of impossible to restore monarchy without a violent robbers who tore up the track have been ca, tured, upheaval in France, NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.
The End A, Co.'s steamship Casterthun, Capt. J. W. B, Darke, from Sydacy, via ports of end, arrived in barbour late this afternoon. We are indebted for the subjoined telegrams to our Colonial exchanges :-
LONDON, March 11th. The disastrous floods which have occurred in the West of England are now subsiding. The damage done to property in Bristol, which was partly inundated, amounts to £40,000. Several deaths by drowning are reported.
Sir Henry Parkes has directed Sir Saul Samuel to announce the fact that the present deficit in New South Wales amounts to £3,500,000.
Mr. E. Stanhope. Secretary for War, states that it is possible that every coaling station for the navy can now provide a substantial "mine- defence" in to days, and enough protection can be obtained in three days to greatly deter any best le cruisers from attacking the station.
March rath.. Mr. Stanhope hopes that the arming, of the coaling stations will be completed before the end- of the year, 17g announced that the Govern ment has granted a large contract to the firm of Vickers and Co., Sheffield, for supplying heavy guns,
The Earl of Carnarvon has introduced a bili in the House of Lords to disqualify Peers guilty of certain offences.
An Irish landlord named Creagh was fatally skot, while diving to Church, near Quin. His sister had the lip of her nose shot off.
Canada grants a subsidy of C110,000 for the Canadian Pacific Company's Atlantic line of steamers.
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The Court af Inquiry into the wreck of the Dalla Tower on the coast of Java has found that the disaster was due to a faulty Dutch rhirt.
At the suggestion of Chang, Governor of Shan ung, likin an grain conveyed from other pre- vinces into his will not be charged until after the, autumn harvest. This is on account of the bad harvest last year.
The Total of Amoy has ordered that the streets of that city receive a thorough cleaning at the beginning of April. They are said to be in a fearful state from the practice of keeping pigs, nearly every, one in the city keep ing a few in the streets.
bear the ills we have. We have come to cognite worry as the base in our modern life, the rust which corrodes the blade, far is well for the Chinese that they are gifted with the capacity not to worry, for taking the race as a whole, there are comparatively few who do not have some very practical reason for deep anxiety. Vast districts of this fertile empire are periodically subject to drought, fl sod, and in consequence to famine. Scial calamities, such as lawsuits, At Liu-an Hien, in the Hangchow Prefecture, Chekiang, seven men concerned in anabóitive even more dreaded, because and disasters indefinite, overhang the head of thousands, but attempt at rebellion were heheaded on the parade this fact would never be discovered by the ground on the 30th March, in presence of several observer. We have often`alked a Chinese, thousand spectators. Ten more are in custody, An additional sum of 40,000,000 fr. (about whose possession of his land. his house, and One man protested his lanocence to the last £1,600,700) will be required to ensure a con-
sometimes of his wife was disputed, what the
In March the Tsung-li Yamên gave orders nuance of eperation by the Comptoirsutcome would be. There will never be any
that the subsidy to the "Kwang-chỉ, running te- Escompte de Paris.. The Bank of France will peace," 19 a common reply. "And when will advance half the amount if the balance be the muller come to a head? Who knows!?gularly to Corea by orders of the Viceroy Li subscribed outside. The Rothschikis and the is the frequent answer, it may be early or it Crédit Foncier offer 5,000,000 fr., and altogether may be late, but there is sure to be trouble in plenty." For life under such conditions what 36,000,rco fr, have been provided. The shares
zoatil be a better outfit than an infinite capacity have closed at 220 fr.
for patience 7.
The public deposits in the banks in Ireland are largely increasing
The Czar of Russia has advised Queen Natalie set to return to Servis;
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The exhibition of Chinese patience which is likely to make the shungest impression tipon a Yellow fever is raging at Rio de Janeiro, the torgagner, is that which is unfortunately so often capital of Brazil. A hundred deaths occur daily. fo be seen in all parts of the empire, when the iicht's estimate of the European beet sugar calamities to which reference has just been crop for the first six months of the present cam-made, have been realised upon an enormous paige is 170,000 tons in excess of the supply for de the similar tem last year.
March 19th.
Messrs. William O'Brien and Harrington, who have been imprisoned under the Irish Crimes Act, refuse to accept their release, which has been proffered them, as they object to the terms upon which the release is to be obtained. Captain Wissman, the leader of the German expedition which has been organised for the relief of Emis Pasha, has engaged soo Sou- danese natives at Cairo.
March 23rd.
Lord Salisbury and Mr. Chamberlain have virtually arranged a programme for the reform of Ireland winch will be introduced next session,
Ex-King Milan is at present at Buda Pesth. .March 21st, The Duke of Cambridge ridicules Lord Wolseley's advocacy of consoription in Great Britain. March 13th. In the Hoase of Commons last night Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, admitted, in reply to a question on Samoan affairs, that the reported abduction by the Germans of an English subject, who was a passenger on board the steamer Richmond at Apia, was quite correct. He explained that Prince Bismarck hud disavowed the action of the German authorities, and that Dr. Knappe, the German Consul at Samoa, had been recalled,
The Maharajah of Cashmere, Pertab Sing, who was discovered to have organised a plot to poison the British Resident in Cashmere, is believed to have become imbecile.
The Duc d'Aumale, who has been permitted to return to France, has been welcomed in Paris. He tendered his thanks to President Carnot, on behalf of the French Cabinet, for having repealed the decree which sent him into exile.
Robert Dennis has sued Mr. Henniker Heaton, M. P. for Canterbury, far the recovery of 500, alleged to be due to plaintiff for writing speeches, articles in the National Review, and letters to the Times, against the Postmaster-General (Mr. H. C. Raikes) from 188; to 1888, also his state- ment read before the Colonial Conference, and for acting as Henniker Heaton's "ghost." The action has been settled by payment of £400, and
200 costs, la plaintiff.
Toere is an impression in official circles that Prince Bismarck is agreeable to England's be coming a mandatory Power in the Samoan Islands.
March 14th. Count Von Berchern will represent Germany at the Samoan Conference, to be held in Berlin. The House of Commons has, by a majority of 66, rejected a bill introduced by the Parnellite party to mitigate the prison treatment of Irish political offer.ders.
A meeting was held in London last night to protest against the treatment of prisoners con- victed under the provisions of the Crimes Act.
Mr. Gladstone sent a message, declaring that he would unflinchingly probe the connection of the Government with the Times Parnell Com mission.
Austria bas stationrd a corps of observation on the Servian frontier. Twenty thousand Austrian troops are ready to march into Servia at half-a- day's notice.
5. J. Paul Kiüger, President of the Transvaal Republic, and F. W. Reitz, President of the Orange Fice State, Eave agreed to a defensive alliance in the event of just wars being under taken by the combined republics.
March 15th. Mr. Kasson, the new American. Minister in Berlin, and Messrs. William Phelps and George Bates, have been appointed to represent the United States at the Samoan Conference to be beld in Berlin.
The death is announced of Tamberlik, the fimous Italian tenor singer.
The French Chamber of Deputies has nutho- 'tised, the Government to prosecute Messieurs Naquet, Laguerre, Laisant, and Turquet for Having issued a Boulangist manifesto,
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The new German Sacialist law which has been submitted, heavily punishes the inciting of class against.class, and attacks the social order. The Press are protesting against its adoption,
His Holiness the Pope has recently had repetition of fainting fits.
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March 27th. The Government have accepted a resolution for an address to the Queen to invite a confe rence of the Powers to suppress slavery...
The disputed clause of the Hungarian Army Bill passed by a large majority.
It is reported at Vienna that an attempt to upset the train conveying the Czar and Czarina to Gatschina failed, the driver having seen the ralls which had been placed across the line. Several arrests have been made.
The Tory members have presented Mr. W. H. Smith with an address as a testimony of admiration for his conduct of Parliamentary business.
The Dutch Ministry propuse. Queen Emma to resume the Regency.
The shareholders of the Comptoir d'Escompte will meet on April 29th to consider a proposal to wind up the Bank.
Mr. Howard Smith, on behalf of the Melbourne projectors, is promoting a bank named the Londen and Melbourne Bank, with a capital of two millions. It is intended to issue 100,000 shares shortly, calling up a fourth,
Rothschild has issued a Russian loan.of.274 million pounds:
A steam tramcar overturned going round a curve at Wigan in Lancashire. Twenty-five passengers were killed and injured.
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
PATIENCE, AND PERSEVERANCE,
(Continued.)
The provinces of China with which foreigners are most famílier, are seldom alto- gether fee from disasters due to flood; drought, and resultant Caming. The collection of the rrible sufferings in the fame of 1877.78. which involved intakt millions of people, will not soon fade frpin the memories of those who were witnesses of that distress. Since then the wes forteil upon extensive regions, by the overflow of the Yellow River, and by its sudden change bf channel, have been past all computation or comprehension. Some of the finest paitsolseveral different provinces, have been devastated, and ferule soil has been buried a fathom deep in fighting sanils of desolation. Thousands of villages have been annihilated, and the wretched inhabitants who have escaped death by flood, have been driven forth as wonderers on the face of the earth, without homes and without hope. Great masses of human beings, suddenly ruined. and reduced to desperation by no fault of their pin, are not agrecable objects of contemplation In any government. Self-preservation is the first law of mature, and what is more natural than that those who through no preventible Causes have been suddenly brought to starvation, should combine to compel those who have food, to share with those who have none? While it is true that relief is extended in a certain way,
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leng-chang, be paid every three months, the subsidy being made up as, follows; from the Shanghai Customs, out of duty on cargo for Coren, Tis. 2,100, and from the Cheloo Customs, from the same sources, Tls. 600.
Plien, the Viceroy of Fukien and Chekinng, has issued a paternal manifesto to the Fonchow nenp'e which appears at full length in the Shên Pao. There are four abuses which he informs them he will do his best to uproot from among them; the practice at litigation, the drowning of female infants, the disposal of the dead by cremation, and the assembling of men and women together for idolatrous processions. He says nothing about enforced sulteeism.
The foreign mining engineer sent by the Chinese Government to Mongolia reports favour ably on, the prospects of silver mining in the part of the country which he has inspected, A quantity of mixed silver and lead are has been extracted, a small crushing-mill has been erecter, and a smelting apparatus will soon be brought thither.
There are ten foreigners and 200 Chinese employed at these mines up to date.
Admiral Ting Yi-ting, (who only a few months ago attained the full raak of Admiral), on ayth April saw the Viceroy and reported on his crise o Hongkong. Swalow, Amoy, and Shanghai with his iron-clad squadron. The ironclads Ting-yian and Chin-plan, with the Tsh-yüm and sing-vian, accompanied him from Shanghai to Taku.. The Admiral is staying, as before, at La Shun-kee's hong.
On 30th March S'an Yü, Governor of the pro»- vince of Kweichow, memorialised the Throne on the backwardness of the other provinces in send-
fortunate province, which is too poor to support itself without such assistance. They now owe it about Tis: 2.000,000. The Kweichow treasury is in such straits, that it may be compared to a man whose eyebrows are on fire, and prompt reliefisas necessary in the one case as in the other.
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We have received the following additional account of the recent disaster on the Tientsin Railway. The train from Tientsin had only one THEATRE foreigner on board, ordinarily called by the natives "Ta Pi-tsz" (large pose). He died of the injuries which he received. On the Tientsini train was also a Chinese engineman commonly, to be known. When the train reached Künliang Cheng(Chun-liang Ch'ông) it should have waited, but no train being seen for a long time advancing from the opposite direction, and there being no telegraph to announce the departure of such a train the foreign engine driver, impatiently ordered a start. He was already excited when at Chun-liang Cheng, and whica Ah Shang pointed out the train coming meet them in the distance (this was at Sin Ho,) he took no notice. Ah Shang quickly hung out a red-light, seeing which the advancing train began to slow down, and blew her whistle. The Tientsin train, how ever, rushed on at the same pace, and Ah Shang in which by Special Request will be introduced seeing the immisence of the danger, ran to turn off the steam but the foreigner straick him a violent blow on the back of the hand which prevented him from effecting his purpose. Ab Shaag then seeing all was over, jumped from the train to save his own life, and was dread fully cut about the mouth and stunned for A Chinese stoker some time by the fall. called Ma Luh stuck to the other train with great gallantry after the other people had jumped {'uff it, (it having stopped) and received injuries in the head of which he very soon died. The poor fellow had only been married three days. The allowing of the Tientsin train to go on from the Kün-liang-ch'Ɛng station before any news was known of the Tng-ku train, was a fatal breach of regulation, for which the station master is responsible. Chow, Director-in-Chief of Rail- ways, who is the Provincial Judge of Chibli and the Thotai Wu, who is also a Director, on 30th March, on the former's return from Port Arthur, commenced a judicial enquiry into the conduct nf this station master, who then appeared before
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PEKING.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
Peking, 26th March, 1889. Front Tientsin a, report reaches me that the Tan San coal mines are nearly exhausted and
that, per. Customs Tientsin Daily Shipping Report, 1,850 tons have been exported since the navigation opened.. If the seventy-six steamers which arrived here since the 1st March took away each roa tons, that would make 7,600 tons exported, which, with the 1,250 tons, would 'make a total of 9,450 tons taken from the stock brought down from Tan San by the railway since December and deposited at the
Tientsin.Coal Yard. This stock is said to be reduced to one half. The Chinese Times in February last, and the Railway Co.'s prospectus, said the out-put would be 1,000 tons per day, but by what I can make out it is only 210 tons, whilst the consumption at the present time is 378 tons, If this is so the stock in hand will soon be exhausted, but the Mining Co.. hope to do better as soon as the new mine at Kaiping is ready.
I hear that Her Majesty is in favour of the Chinkiang-Tungchew line, and that the Viceroy is in favour of the Tientsin-Tungchow_line. This may be causing the present kitch. Either will have to be done on foreign capital; the Chinklang Tungchow line will cost a great deal, but will pay much better.—Shanghat"Mercury.
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On 21st March the President of the Board of Revenue and, the comptroller of the Imperial | at 4. P.M. Household at Peking, who have been discussing the cost of restoring the T'ai-ha Gate, came to the conclusion that the sum of Tls. 1,300,0 10. would be required. Whether the assistance of the Provincial Governments will be called for to raise some of this money, is not yet known. The wood contractors are, it is said, sending agents to Kiangsu, Cheklang, Kiangs and other pro-
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The Provincial Judge of Chikli, Chow, who originally signed the contract with b. Thévenet for the dock at Port Arthur, the completion of which has proved so difficult, was ordered by the Viceroy Li Hung-chang to proceed to Port Arthur to hold an inspection of the works and report to the. Viceroy at Tientsin. On 22nd April he returned to Taku in the war-vessel Chen-hai, proceeded from Taku to Tientsin in a vessel of lighter draught, interviewed the Viceroy and presented his report. He then returned to Pao-ing Fu, the provincial capital of Chibli,
in some large cules, and where the poor sufferersing their contributions to the treasury of this un- are most congregated, it is also true that this relief is limited in quantity, brief in duration, and does not provide the smallest remedy for more than a minute percentage of even the worst distress. Toward the prolongation of the lives of these who suffer from great calamities, the government feels itself able to do but a trifle, Toward the reclamation oftheir land, the recon. struction of their houses, and the resumption of life under new conditions, the government does nothing whatever. If it remits its taxes, it does all that the people expect, and it frequently docs not remit' those until it has been again and again demonstrated to the district magistrate, that out of nothing, nothing comes. To a for- eigner from the lands of the West, where the revolutionary cry of Bread! breadj or blood 1', has become familiar, it is hard to understand why the hordes of homeless, famishing and desperate refugees, who roam over the provinces blighted by flood or famine, do not precipitate themselves in a mass upon the district, magistrate of the region where they have been ruined, and demand some form of succour. It is true that the magistrate would be quite powerless to give them wh they demand, but he would be forced to do something, and this would be a precedent for something more. If he failed to tranquillise" the people, he would be removed, and some other official put in his place. To repeated and pressing enquiries put to the Chinese in the great famine, as to the reasons why some such plan was not taken, the invariable answer It is vain to was in the words, Not dare." argue in reply to this statemeat, that one might as well be killed for rebellion, albeit unjustly, as to starve to death may-much better. The answer is still the same, "Not dare, not dare." There seem to be two reasons why the Chinese do not adopt some such course. They are a most practical people, and by a kind of instinct the futility of the plan is recognised, and hence needed combination. But we must believe that the principal reason is the unlimited capacity of the Chinese for patient endurance. This it is, which brings about one of the most melancholy spectacles to be seen in China, that of thousands of persons quietly starving to death, within easy reach of overflowing abundance. The Chinese are so accustomed to this strange sight, that they are hardened to it, as old veterans disregard the horrors of battle. Those who suffer these evils have been all their lives confronted by them, although at a little distance. When the disaster comes, it is therefore accepted as alike, inevitable and remediless. If those who are overtaken by it, can trundle their fami-
bare subsistence can be begged, they will da that. If the family cannot be kept together, they will disperse, picking up what they can, and re- uniting if they succeed in pulling through the distress. If no relief is to be had near at hand, whole caravan's will beg their way a journey of a thousand miles in mid-winter to some province where they hope to find that the crops have been better, that labour is more in demand, and that the chances of survival ate greater. If the floods, have abated, the mendicant farmer returns to bis home long enough to scratch a crack in
The Hi Pao quotes from a Californian pɔper an article on the straits to which the grape- growers of Southern Califomis will be reduced, if they are unable to get Chinese labour to collect their harvest. The climate there, ranging in summer occasionally from 115 degrees Fah renheit in the shade to 130 in the sun, is too hot for white labour, but suits the Chinese, who are generally from tropical China. There is also a difficulty in getting white men to go there to lasting about two months a year. The Fu Pao thinks the Americans will have to repeal the the anti-Chinese acts in their own interests.
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It remains to speak of that quality of Chinese patience, which to us seems the most noteworthy of all-its capacity to wait without complaint, and to bear with calm endurance. It has been said that the true way to test the real disposition of a human being is to study his behaviour when it would be next to impossible to effect the obtain work of such a temporary nature, only on the 2nd instant must be paid at the he is cold, wet and hungry. If that is satisfactory, take the individual in question, "warm him, dry him, and fill him up, and you have an angel." There is an impression which often finds expression in current literature that it is as dangerous to meet an Englishman who is deprived of his dinner, as a she-bear robbed of her cubs, and it is not eaty to perceive why the, truth which underlig this statement as applicable to all Anglo-Saxons as to the inhabitants of the British Isles. With all our boasted civilisation, wo are under hond.
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Several duels are being arranged as the out-present at a feast, meet a cruel disappointment.les on wheelbarrows off to some region where a
come of the scene in which General Boulanger is personally.concerned."
Sir Hercules Robinson has informed Portugal that Massoua-Innd, in South Africa, is within the sphere of British influence.
Mr. Cecil Raikes, Postmaster-General, has declined the Governorship of the Cape of Good Itope
The statue of General Gordon, which is to be erected in Melbourne, the cost being defrayed by public subscription, is now ready for slip
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Tigers are a terror to the natives in the mountain country near Amoy, Last autumn the chief of the Tak-kee hong (Mr. R. Bruce, of Messrs. Tax & Co.) killed oneweighing over 200 Jbs.; and another time when he was out shooting he unexpectedly came right upon a tiger, which gave a roar that shook the trees. He fied, and it is said has not since" ventured into a tiger's den to steal its whelps." The other members of the bong also emulate Fung Fu, the tiger-catcher, mentioned in Mencius; ou 24th March one of them captured a young tiger, weighing a little overio calties. The doughty bravo Wu Sung, of the historical romance of the Shui Hu Chwan, runs a danger of having his fame eclipsed by the exploits of these English gentlemen at Amoy
A. G. GORDON, Secretary. Hongkong, 13th April, 1889.
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E Undersigned has received insinctions to Sell by Public Auction, on
TUESDAY, ̧
the 16th April, 1889, at NOON, at Mess. RUSSELL & Co.'s Godowns, at Wanchai, ON ACCOUNT AND RISK OF THE CONCERNED. About 1,100. Boxes, each lbs 37, of good CONGOU FOOCHOW TEA in sound condition. TERMS OF SALE,--As Customary.
H. N. MODY,
Auctioneer. Hongkong, 13th April, 1889.
LOST.
HE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING
CITY HALL, on SATURDAY, the 27th instant, at 0.30 P.M,
C. MOONEY, Secretary (pro, tem.)
Hongkong, 12th April, 1889, ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION IN LIQUIDATION. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. PAYMENT OF 6тH DIVIDEND.
6TH DIVIDEND of 6% on all claims against the Hongkong Branch of the ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, which have 'been approved by the Court of Chancery will be paid at the Offices of the New ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, LIMITED, on and after MONDAY, the 18th March next.
Creditors are requested to apply to the Bank for their Dividends and to produce the letter they hold from the Official Liquidator admitting their claims in order that the payment of the 6th Dividend may be endorsed thereon.
PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND IN ADVANCE UNDER DISCOUNT.
THE Official Liquidator, by arrangement with the Assets Realisation Co., is prepared to pay in advance to Creditors willing to receive such payment, IN FULL DISCHARGE OF THEIR CLAIMS the Dividend of 5% payable in the year 1890, UNDER A DISCOUNT OF FIVE TWELFTHS PER CENT.
Creditors who are willing to accept payment are requested to communicate with the Under- of the Final Dividend, less discount as above signed BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT
E. W. RUTTER,
MONTH.
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A stormy debate took place. General Bourage to our stomachs. The writer once saw linger suddenly rose, and in a menacing manner about one hundred and fifty Chinese, most commanded silence in the Chamber.
of whom had come several miles in order to be
tustead of being able as was expected to sit down at about ten o'clock to the feast, which was for many of them the first meal of the day, owing to a combination of unforeseen circumstances, they were compelled to stand aside, and act as waiters on about as many more individuals who ate with
Two weird stories are current with regard to that relish and deliberation which is a trait of
the railway accident, and superstitiously believed Chinese civilisation, in which it is far in advance
by quite a number of the people. It is said of our own. Before the meal for which they
that after the calamity, in the dead of the night, had so long and so patiently waited, could
the Tang-ku people heard the pitcous walling be served, another delay became necessary, as
of the spirits of the dead which had been forced unforeseen as the first; and far more exasperat-
from their earthly habitations with such awful suddenness; the cries rose and fell, sounding raged persons do? If they had been Juhabitants the weight of an animal for, ploughing, sometimes near and sometimes, far away, as of the British Isles, or even of some other and in this tiny rift he deftly drops a little seed the maner were hovering through the air looking portions of nominally Christian lands we know wheat, and again goes his devious way, begging for a place of refuge. The people lay awake very well what they would have done. They a subsistence until his smail harvest shall be listening to this waliing, sometimes abruptly would have worn looks of sour discontent, ripe, If Providence favours him, he becomes broken off and sometimes long and piercing, and and would have spent the entire day, until three once more a farmer, and no longer a beggar, but their hair stood on end with fear. The other o'clock in the afternoon, when it was at last with the distinctly recognised possibility of ruin story is, that at a station, called Ch'ang-kling a possible to sit down, in growling at their luck, and starvation never far away. It has always railway watcher named Vaeg, while going his Bank Bulldling, or MONDAY, the 15th and in anarling at their environment generally been thought to be a powerful argument for the rounds, chanced to look up at the bright moon They would have passed fiery resolutions, and immortality of the soul, that its finest powers and stars, and saw a ghostly train, hurting on April, at 8:45 PM., when ad address by the Rev. have written a letter with five Now Slis" to often find in this life no fit, opportunity for at full speed, stop, and then fade from his view. The Anaconda Smelling Works at Montani, the London Times. The hundred and fifty expansion. If this be a valid argument, is there | This was far from the scene of the accident, in a I the United States, have been partly destroyed I Chinese did nothing whatever of the sort, and i not reason to infer that the unequalled patient remote and lonely spot with no one living near.
nient.
March 16th. Latest advices from the S udan repo.t that the Khalifa has abandoned Odumaan, on the Nile, a few miles from Khartoum, owing to the advance of El Senouss, the Mahommedan leader, who was reported to be marching on Khartoum,
Ex-King Milan, who recently abdicated the throne of Servia in favour of his son, Prince Alexsoder, threatens to resume the Govern ment as his son's gusidian, should the divorced Queen Natalie return to Servia.
ing, What did these hundred and fifty out- the weight of it is sime 100 soft to bear
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yard night, GOLD. HORSE Royal, City Hall, a
SHOE BRACELET. Any one finding the same will oblige by returning it to The Hongkong Telegraph Office
Hongkong, 13th. April, 1889
LITERARY SOCIETY,
1461
HE NEXT MEETING will be held at
J. CHALMERS, L.LD, on "Learning Chinese"
will close the session 1888-89.
Hongkong 13th April, 1889,
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Agent for the Official Liquidator, Oriental Bank Corporation, iö Liq. z, Queen's Road,.
[176 Hongkong, 6th February, 1889.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL..
HAVE this day REMOVED to my new premises at No, 25, CAINE ROAD, next door
to the Japanese Consulate.
A. HAHN, Piano-tuner and Repairer. Hongkong, rat April, 1889.
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