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DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA
LIMITE D.. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CHEMISTS. MPORTERS of English and Foreign Pateal Medicines, Domestle requisites and Surgical Appliances, Soaps, Perfumes, Toilet articles, &c PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS CARE- FULLY DISPENSEĎ.,
city's Gaol were thrown open to all the WX are informed by the agents (Messrs. Russell prisoners who chose to emigrate to the& Co.) that the Union Line steamer Euphrases, new colony. If we take into consideration from New York, left Singapore for this port to the fact that the peninsula of Macao was day, and may be expected to arrive on the 1st formerly notorious haunt of Chinese proximo: pirates, we will easily understand what a precious progeny must have resulted from the union of the Lusitanian Gool birds, and all sorts of walfs and strays of the old Atlantic city, with the daughters of the Chinese sea-rovers who infested these islands. Such is the noble race which now
Wx read that Messrs. Barclay, Curle, and Co. Whiteinch, have secured an order to build for the China Shinners! Mutual Steam Navigation Company a steel screw steamer of about 3,300 tons. Intended for the China trade, she is to be similar to, but thirty feet longer, than the Oanfa which was built for the same owners last year
THE Superintendent of the P. & Q. S, N. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Peshawar, with the next English ́mall, left Singapore for this port yesterday at 4 p.m.
A SINGAPORE Contemporary says that the torpedo found.off Tanjong Katong by some Chinese fishermen has turned out to be of foreign make and, does not belong to H.M.S. Orion. It supposed to be one lost some years ago fron the Spanish man-of-war Elcano when lying off Johnston's Pier,
REME COURT.
IN-CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
(Before Acting Chief Justice Fielding Clarks.)
The Sessions were continued to-day, the jury empanelled being Mesura A. McClintock, C. C. Platt, R. Barwick, T. A. Dawson, J. H. Macle hose, A. Denison, and M. d'Aquina.
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represented in this colony and all over the Treaty Ports and Japan. Hongkong has become quite notorious for the number of its "Portuguese" residents, and the time is not far distant when repressive measures to prevent their influx will have to be adopted. It is certainly an anomaly that in a British colony all the clerkical situations should be monopolised by an allen race that cannot boast of any other qualification beyond that of passivo, submissiveness A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD., and the most complete Indifference to
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ings took place in the public services held Tux death is announced of General john Leslie at the Roman Catholic Cathedral during Passior Dennis, C.B. Colonel of the 2nd Battalion Week, in connection with the distribution el Oxfordshire Light Infantry, at his residence, a seats. Complaints are rife that most of the Kensington, in his eightieth year. He entered worshippers are left to squat on the ground and the army in 1838, and while serving with the indulge in their orisons in true Mahomedar 49th Regiment in China took part in the opera-style. We have often seen reserved pews in tions resulting in the capture of Chusan, and at as a military magistrate at Chusan. Canton and Amoy, after which he was employed
churches of various denominations; but in Hongkong they manage things differently: all the pews of the new R.-C. Cathedral are put up Christian practice, and calls for no comment. for hire at $2 each. This is a pre-eminently
A TOKYO native paper, the Chaya Shimbun states that the Japanese Government has sánc- tioned the establishment of the Yokohama Dock science and all mental accomplishments. Company, and has forwarded to the pronfoters of order regarding the dealings of money lender
Macao, is the home of these Far East fresh-water Lusitanians; that city is an exact impersonation of its inhabitants; i boasts of a past which if it properly knew,
the company through the Kanagawa Local Government Office plans of the harbour prepared _by_Major-General Palmer, R.E. · Three or four docks will be formed at Uchidache, Yokohama, at a cost of about 1,000,000. A meeting of
it would be ashamed of. Its trade is nil.promoters was, held on the aoth instant at the its prospects are all void, its very existence Machigaisho in order to make preliminary depends on a single feat of China. As a arrangements for the new work. Chinese Customs station Macao may per-
chance be of some value, but as a Portu-
had before him two privates belonging to the AT the Police Court this morning Mr. Wodehouse
Two informers were charged with being armed
They went with a crowd to a silversmith's shop. in Square Street, and threatened to expose the tenant as 'dealer in the Tsk-fa lottery.
The silversmith refused to pay, upon which one of the prisoners snatched up some money from the counter. A fight arose, in which a for in the shop was injured. They were found guilty, and the first was sentenced to two years! imprisonment, with a flogging of so strokes, the second receiving a sentence of eighteen month's imprisonment...
IN PROBATE.
LI LEE SUI v. LI WONG SHL.
set aside letters of administration granted to ........In this case the plaintiff applied to the Court
the defendant in October fast. Mr. Francis, QC, instructed by Mr. Webber, appeared for the plaintiff. The matter was adjourned.
THE Rajah of Sarawalq has issued the following with Government sergants: Wh reas it has been brought to my notice that certain person are in the habit of lending money under heavy mortgage to those who are employed in the Government Offices who are known to be unable to repay without ruin, I hereby require it to be made a rule in future in these special cases that the mortgages, shall not have any superior or prior claims over the ordinary creditors such as direct that the Magistrates of the Debtor's Court in this matter. The debtor is a merchant, traders, suppliers, &c., in the bassar. And I als
IN BANKRUPTCY.
IN THE MATTER OF CHAN WAI KONG.
Mr. Rodyk applied for an rider of adjudication
guèse colony it Is an eye-sore to civilisation By the use of these bottles, CIGARS as well and a hideous monstrosity; the least said 58th Regiment, Waldren and Dean by name, on will do their utmost to discountenance such exporting largely to Annum and other places.
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LONDON, April 22nd, General Boulanger proceeds to England. Mr. Parnell has withdrawn his action against the Times from the Dublin courts.
(From Straits Times.) THE PARNELL COMMIS ION.
LONDON, April 13th.
Sir Charles Russell's speech is concluded for the defence. He claimed to have refuted all the charges against Mr. Parnell and his colleagues, and to have cleared the honor of the Irish nation from a foul stain,
MR. PARNELL. Mr. Parnell has received the Freettom of the City of Edinburgh.
MOROCCO CLIMBS DOWN.
April 15th.
a charge of stealing two walking-sticks and assaulting several Chinamien. The evidence was to the ffct that about nine o'clock fast night they went, with another soldier, into Wing Hing's furriture store at Wanchai and each took up a stick. As they apparently had no intention of paying for them the Chinamen in charge tried to get the sticks back, whereupon the soldiers assaulted them, one having four or five teeth knocked out, and so on, and having to go to Hospital. The case was remanded,
THE Chicago Tribune tells how the Arizona Indians shampoo themselves. The hair of both cxes is worn long, reaching nearly to the waist, and it is cut squarely across. Do the dusky children of the desest profane their ebon locks with brush or comb 7. Not to any great extent. They follow a device at once economical, unique and effective. They make a thick paste of the adobe soil and water, and, having wound their hair closely around their heads, they smear it from brow to acciput with sticky gray mud and let it dry. When thoroughly dry it is cracked off and the hair emerges therefrom clean, smooth And glossy, as the proverbial raven's wing. Compared to this the shampoo of Civilization is 'foolishness.
The Government of Morocco has paid twenty- THUS a writer in the Philadelphia Times:
usurious transations.”
The schedule shows liabilities of $65,803.20 and assets $83,077,85.
His Lordship gave the order asked for, with
THUS a writer in the Herald of Health on how to read secrets by a study of the face:~A man' | the usual protection to the debtor. occupation or condition has a good deal to do with making his facial expression. Intellectual pur. suits, like the studies of the scholarly profession, when coupled with temperate or moral habits of life, brighten the face and give a person a superior look. Magnanimity of nature, or love of studies and art, will make a bright. glad face; but. man may have a face contrary to this, a that does not please anybody, because of a love of self to the exclusion of all others, not withstanding his learning and worldly shrewd ness. Soldiers get a hard, severe look, over worked laborers constantly look tired, reporters look inquisitive, mathematicians look studious, Judges become grave even when off the bench: the man who has had domestic trouble looks all broken up. An example of the ludicrous side of this subject is to see a third-class lawyer stalk ing around a Police Court looking as wise as an owl The business makes the face, I say, There's the butcher's face, the minister's face, the lawyer's face, the doctor's face, the hoodlum's face, all 'so distinct each from the other and singly, that I seldom fail to recognize those
callings, showing through the faces. And what the street as a farmer the moment be sees him ?
five thousand dollars indemnity for the Cape Liquids make fat, There is no doubt of this in city boy cannot recognize a genuine farmer on
Juby murder,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Sessions are adjourned until Friday,
H.MS. Severn, Capt. Hall, left Spithead on March 18th to relieve the Constance on the
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my mind, though.I am fully cognizant of the fact that a good many people will deny it. The character of the liquids has a good deal to do with I, but the practice of drinking invariably leads to unwieldy balk. In Spain, where men drink little, a fat man is unknown. In Paris, where the men content themselves with sip sing thimblesful of absinthe or small cups of black coffee, the French are thin to a remarkable degree. The women, on the other hand, drink great quantities of champagne, Burgundy and, latterly beer, and they are as a result prone to stoutness. In England men drink ale and beer, and they are a thick-necked, pudgy and heavy race as a rule THE letter from a correspondent who subscribes | I had observed all this many times, and when bim elf " One who was there" is too offensively I went to Germany, where I knew the consump personal for publication in our columna, besides | tion of beer was very great, I had prepared to being of no public interest.
Burnside, Moffat, formerly of Foocbow, to MARY | China Station. GRAHAM, younger daughter of the late James Graham, of Dunnable,
The Tengborg
WHIN Emperor Yan gave the order for the observation of the meridian stars about the year 2,300 B.C., is thought to be the beginning of Laut Chinese astronomy,
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1889,
In the "Returns of trade and Trade Reports for the year 1888," recently published by the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Inspectorate. a chapter is dedicated to the trade of Lapa, the rising Chinese port in front of Macao. The value of goods imported from Macao is stated to be 85.366:388.72, and that of exports $2.309 454.64, taking the Haekwan Tael to be worth $1.54. The revenue of the
MESTRE, Russell & Co, inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Menmuir left Singa- pore for this port on the 22nd last, and may be expected to arrive on the 28th,
A. American contemporary says that although there are about e'even thousand remedies men- dosed in the fifteenth edition of the "United States Dispensatory" poor humanity gets vicie and sore just as usual.
■ vade mecum for all classes of Lapu Customs was $529.771.08 as against
$285.325 10 in the preceding year, showing | Tux Fiji Shimpo says that owing to the an excess of 8244 445.98. The quantity increase in the number of foreigners in Tokyo,
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find fat men in abundance. I was not dis appointed. There would seem to be absolutely Germany. While to the army they are slim no end of big, corpulent and cowleldy men in and splendid locking warriors, but two months affer they leave the ranks they become heavy, puffy and beefy to the last degree. This is even so in the ranks among the other soldiers, and the cavalry were men of such extraordinary weight that they always excited comment from
strangers.
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THE SANITARY BOARD.
Ordinary meeting held this afternoon. "Only official member, Dr. Ho Kai, and Mr. Wong. Shing, present. All the old men eloquent-Dr. Cantlie, Mr. Francis, Mr. Ede, and Mr. Hum.. phreys, not there. Didn't matter, though, as it happened. Clerk McCallum read in a funereal voice some letters which had passed between himself and Mr. Granville Sharp, respecting a noi- some trade that was carried on on land belonging to the latter. Mr. Sharp wanted to pose as a philanthropist. Board referred him to Govern ment. Amended Public Health Ordmance was to come up for discussion next, but the President suggested that a sub-committee consisting of Mr. Francis, Dr. Cantle, and the Acting Regis trar General should go through it first. Thought they would deal with it from a medical, a legal, and a Chinese point of view." Nobody suggested it, but Dr. Ho Kai would have done the lot equally well by himself.-Board adjourng.
CORRESPONDENCE.
We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by, Correspondents in this column,)
THE RIFLE ASSOCIATION MEETING. To the Editor or the “Honakona Tylygraph,"
SIR-I shall be obliged, if you will give me space in your columns for a mild grumbic at the methods used in carrying out, the competitions at the recent Hongkong Rifle Association Meeting.
THE rescue of seven men from a wrecked junk" by the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co's steamer Kiukiang on the 13th inst. haping! been talked about a good deal not only in Hong: kong but also at Macao and Canton, a member of our staff "Interviewed" Captain Clarke: and obtained the following particulars :-The "The modus operandi at the fring pointa was Kiukiang left Macno for Hongkong at the usual very faulty. Instead of competitors firing strictly hour in the morning and when passing the in the order in which they handed in their tickets to the officials superintending, preference was. Nine Islands, a wrecked junk was sighted Invariably given to a select few, and the tickets little to the westward of where the old Poyang shuffled about to suit the convenience of carpe to grief with such disastrous results in May personal friends. A strong body of individuals 1875. At seven men were discerned clinging to decorated with blue ribbons were permitted to fire at any time they wished. I enquired. the wreckage, the steamer bore down at once
why this was so, and was informed that these and as it was blowing hard with a very rough gentlemen, of the "Cordon bleu" (I don' Ins sea from the S.S.E., Capt. Clarke rounded, to sinuate they were looking after the chow) were under the lee of the wreck and had the quarter committee-men and it would be inconvenient if boat lowered. The chief officer (Mt. D'Egville) they had to wait for their turn like ordinary competitors. This seemed not unreasonable, she touched the water, but the heavy sea thres as inconvenience was being done to the coveted was standing by to jump into the boat as soon as but presently I found that great’injustice as well lened to smash her to pieces against the steamer's or garden shootist by thus allowing the decorated guard, and to avoid this the Captain ordered ones to fire when it suited them. For instance, one gentleman, fired seven', shots at 500 yards the crew to push off themselves and try to pick and made a fale score, Únishing up with three up the shipwrecked men, the latter being "bulla Finding he had his eye well on the strongly urged to hold on to the wreckage astit spot and rifle correctly sighted he produced
another ticket and fired 10 rounds for the Queen's; · the bost got alongside. Had this advice been again making a good scoreal. This gentlema disregarded it is almost certain that some of was a persistent offender in this respect (I don't the poor fellows would have lost; their lives, as mean in making good scores), at 300 yards. I We find the following in the L. & C. Express only one out of the seven was able to swim, and saw hito fire three tickets off the reel Com of the 22nd ulto. We have already some time they would have had but a poor chance of being: forbidden to fire two tickets without an interval petitors outside the committee were absolutely since given some particulars of M. de Mayreas, picked up with such a boisterous sex running. A gallant soldier, who stood a rattling chance of is Printed on a superior quality of Paper,
King of the Selangs, whose receat stay in Hong. However, after some trouble the gallant crew landing the Champion Aggregate, after seeing and is the best printed and most handsomely bound volume published East of the Suez Canal.
kong caused some comment. The King is now from the Kiuklang succeeded in bringing the few of these performances, was so disgusted that in Paris, and is described as a fine tall man, over castaways safely on board the steamer, where they be retired altogether, at the qu
If all comers' competitions are held, let them "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND
six feet in height. His age may be about.45.
were at once taken down into the stakehple and be carried out in a fair and legitimate manner HONG LIST TOR THE FAR EAST," in song over the alleged prosperity of the We note that Mr. A. P. MacEwen, in his He has a splendid beard, slightly tinged with supplied by Capt. Clarke with some brandy and without fear, favour, partiality, or affection, and order that it may circulate extensively outside Holy City, and predicts an era of success capacity of unofficial member of the Hongkong grey, and never drinks anything but water, this dry clothes, several of them being quite oaked, until this is guaranteed I would advise soldiers this Colony, is published at a POPULAR for that old haunt of adventurers, Celestial Legislative Council, was presented to the Princs teetotalism being inherited from his father and their clothes having been washed clean off their In hold aloof altogether from these tragestics of ́ through any of our Agents at the various Forts, and Lusitanian. It does not strike our of Wales by the Secretary of State at a later grandfather. In his buttonhole he wears a light bodies. The European, passengers showed their THREE DOLLÁRS, sanguine contemporary that the trade held on the 15th ulto. at St. James's Palace green decoration, the emblem of his new onder, sympathy for these destitutes is a most hand- of Lapa is purely and simply Chinese, That grand old humbug Sir George F. Bowen instiipled by himself, but of which he has already some and practical fashion, the sum of $60 There is not space in the compass of an that it benefits only Chinese shippers honored the proceedings with his august bestowed only five crosses, and pone in Europe. being collected within a few minutes and divided As soon as his strange history and the fact that between the rescued and the host's crew of the Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the informs and consignees, Chinese junk owners, proses.co. tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly and the Chinese Customs. As a port A News AGENCY says:—"The P. and O. Com assailed by correspondents of every description, from Hongkong to a place to the westward he had arrived in Paris became known he was Kiykiang. The funk was, stone-laden, bound asserted that no such Directory has ever been published, either in Hongkong or any other part of transit-Madac does not derive the pany's steamer Brindisi after taking in part Nearly three hundred people have asked to be of Macas, but stranded on the way, two of of the East, at such a low price,
slightest. benefit from a trade, beyond cargo of iron, &c., at Antwerp, completed loading decorated with his order, alleging, in addition to the crew escaping in the gig and reaching the “THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND the paltry yearly license fees collected with a general cargo in the Royal Albert Docks, the affection for his majesty's person,fonumerable beach near the Macao barrier in safely. Had HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers from the junks, and the tonnage dues London, for Australis vid the Cape. Just as she reasons for their demands, and showing the the Kjuklang not lucki'y sighted the wreck, the Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium levied on a few foreign steamers. No was, on the point of sailing the Board of Trade benefits to accrue to the Sedangs, should they be men would inevitably, have been let us the
· It has an extensive circulation lu"all Ports
officials stopped the ship and ordered the cargo granted. A dentist offers to clean his Majesty's native vessels in the vicinity made not the between Singapore and Newchwang-in the Portuguèse capital is to be found in Macao
to be taken out and transferred to another vessel, teeth and to present his suite with specimens slightest attempt at "rescue. There ought to be Australasian Colonies, the United States, and invested in the local trade or navigation. which is now being deas in the Albert Docks of tooth-powder already favourably known a few "Belilios" quedals distributed in connec the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate. Portuguese merchants are conspicuous for Both the P. and O. officials and the officers of throughout Europa" A lady offers herself an
tion with this affair, and some recognition on Terms can be learned on application.
their absence from the Holy City. The the Board of Trade refute to give any informadame de compagule," and a youth begs to be the part of His Excellency the Viceroy of Centon few Lusitanian adventurers who founded tion as to the reason for this messure, which of taken out because he has all the instincts of a would be a graceful act, Suggestions for the improvement of this work the colony and gave it a name in times course mitans great expense and considerable savage and a horror of intellectual work.” An are respectfully solicited:
gone by, have been succeeded by a delay to the F. and O. Company, The enterprising wipe merchant forwards a cask of generation of useless, degenerate man. Australian cargo, which for some months, has person who discovered the secret of serial Brors believes the simple fact is that champagne labelled "Royal Sedaug, 1888," and whose only avocation is gambling and been very heavy, has suddenly falles light, and navigation begs for funds to assist him to perfect Church-going. It is related in history that there is not sufficient to warrant the despatch of his invention. There are but a few specimens when Portuguese ships left Lisbon for an extra steamer. The Brindisi is about to leave of over two thousand letters received, is the Macao in bygone days, the gates of the for Antwerp again to load for China
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of Oplum Imported was 1,8t plculs, the Japanese authorities are considering the being 436 piculs more than in 1887, advisability of providing a piece of ground either The Macao Independente, in reproducing in the Aoyama or Vanake cemeteries for the these statistics utters its usual triumphal interment of foreigners.
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BRITISH NORTH BORNEO!
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.), Peter Sandakan, 17th April, 1189,
Doubtless you have already heard that the Padas, Damit expedition which has been magnified by some thoughtless people into a war," is at an end, Pangeran Shebander receives a pension of $150 per momh under the proviso, that he is to live out of the tertiary It is generally, believed ⠀ In well informed circles here, that the Rajah, of, Sarawak took
i an active part in creating the trouble and from
his contiqual acts of mild hostility to British North Borneo I am Inclined to bellevo this to bo a fact. The idea that the natives made the A nurse gift in Newark desired to walk with forts occupied by the Panjeran and his men, cat in park, he mother came along and pas ras converdded which is held of Brunel her heat, and so the left s'to-year-old baby in 'unaided by Europeans, la absurd. took the child in, and when the gul returned she with the object of seuling the dispute off with the child, but you can probably get it excepting Mr. D. D. Daly) baring no-doubt simply said, WA man chloroformed me and son whowling fance, the Sikar and others present, back by advertising Can't 1. go to the ball been influenced by means which am 4
Mliogether at outside the "milavora