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we think the sanitary authorities should lose no time in finding adequate remedies for the great evll which would seem to
H.S.M. Gunboat Coronation, left Bangkok on the 23rd ulto, for Chantaboon, having on board H.R.H. Krom Mun Prachak and Commodore A. de Richelieu.
ADMIRAL LANG and family leaves for Tientsin on the 1st inst, per steamer Harting. THE Bond and Pipers of the 1st Battalion A. and S. Highlanders, will perform in Murray Barracks this evening, from 7.30 to 9.30 o'clock. The
For the care of Nervous, Diseases, Neuralgia, so seriously threaten the public waliaro. | The Duchess of Galliera's legacy to the Empress following will be the programmes :—
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Deleterious climatic influences should be counterbalanced by cllmatic comfort. If the northern slope of Victoria Ponk is
Mer powerful, with multiplying wheels unhealthy, a circular road should be made and magnetic indicator in Mahogany box.
without delay, and the southern slope SPAMER'S SINGLE and DOUBLE CELL opened up for building purposes. The Government's bounden duty is to do every- thing possible to prevent the flourishing port of Hongkong from becoming * veritable Necropolis of the Far East.
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1889,
THOSE of our readers who possess any practical acquaintance with statistics regarding the births and deaths in the various countries of the world will have perused with surprise the returns lately presented to the Legislative Council of Hongkong, an abstract of which was reproduced in our issue of the 7th instant. The abnormal sanitary condition of the colony may, we think, be fairly guaged by the alarming and dangerous disproportion
We are requested to state that the departure of the steamship Arabic for San Francisco e Yokohama, is postponed to Sunday, the rib inst., at daylight.
THE Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh has offered the degree of D.D. to the Rev. John Griffith, of the "London Mission, Hankow, China.
A YOUNG divine tells a story of a bridegroom who, after the marriage ceremony, slipped a $2 note into his hand, murmuring apologetically
"I'll do better next time.”
Frederick, says Trufa, is, to be invested in England, and the money was recently brought over to London by Prince Ples, who is one ni
of Embassy in
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A young lady who aspired to fame as a musician went one day to Rubinstein for advice. She slayed for him and then asked. “What shall do ?
"Get married," was the crushing reply."
OUR Bangkok contemporary is informed tha nently all the licenses to sell spirits which were At first refused to the Chinamén under British French and Dutch protection have now beer granted.
A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge No. 1165, will be held in Freemasona' Hall Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 16th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
MR. E., G. VOUILLEMONT, Agent of the Comptoir d'Escompte at Shanghai, received. a telegram from Paris on the 5th inst., conveying the intelligence that the Comptoir d'Escample would be re-opened at home and at its branches abroad with as little delay as possible.
The whole of the business in connection, with this legacy has been transacted by Count Münster, who has arranged maiters both expe ditiously and advantageously The net amount is about 200,000. Laid Sydney and Lord Cross _have been.consulted_by_the Empress respecting. her English investments, for the money which was bequeathed to her by the Emperor Frederick has also come to this country, and so has the large sum which he left in settlement, of which the Queen, the King of the Belgians, and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha are the trustees. ACCORDING to the London and China Express SAYS the L. & C. Express-Rumours have Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, speaking at Sheffield for some days past been rife in Parliamentary recently, devoted the greater part of his remarks and legal circles of an extraordinary scandal in to the Navy proposals of the Government, which life, the details of which are of a peculiarly he justified at essential to establishing the mari- painful description. These reports have reached a. head, and it is now positively asserted time vorremory of the nation, which 'was a necessity to our commerce, our empire, and our that a peer is about to present a petition to the House of Lords praying for leave to intro- liberties. He described the proposals, and com pared the strength of the British Navy in 1994, duce a Divorce Bill upon grounds which cannot when the scheme will be completed, with the here be stated. This unusual course is to be relative strength of the navies of France and adopted because the nature of these is different Russia, thowing that our naval strength would to those for which a divorce can ordinary be be considerably in excess of those two countries, ahtained, it being held by lawyers that in any combined. He said the money would be spent special ense where the Divorce Court, as con- in an economical manner, and observed that the stituted by the Act of 1857, has no jurisdiction, a opposition to the programme had most ignomi-private Act is still the only remedy, the latest in-objects to the influx of Chinese from another niously collapsed. The expenditure was a stances of such having been in 1867, when a national insurance of the most necessary kind,
Colonel of Infantry obtained a divorce by this and three-fourths of the money would be spen!
means after the Bill had been considered by the House of Lords and by a select Committee of in wages for labour in this country,
the House of Commons The evidence to be adduced in the case under notice is largely docu- mentary, and is now in the possession of
have no foreign ally to work the imposition for
-counsel.
are
HOW
THE latest statistics show that the women in England exceed the men by 3,000,000.
18 reference to the Yellow River the Chinese Times says: We judge, though the communica THE Emperor of Brazil has decided to issue, antion reported to us is rather indefinite, that Wi considers the breach reparations at Cheng Chou until they reach the ripe old age of ten years.
THE following extracts relating to the Gold complete, and is about to direct his attention to other places on the Huang-ho banks. Wu is a
Fields of Siarn taken from the manager's latest very active man, and may stave off for a while the
report to the company, dated January 26th, inevitable evil day which must arrive sooner or
1889. are published by Our Bangkok ister. Every year the river bed fils up perceptibly, completed the survey of the new road. The contemporary ;—" Mr. Phillips has just and the banks become too weak or too small to contain the roaring foods. A breakage on machinery is partly en route, and the big the north side would ruin Chihli, as sure! Regine and pumps will be at work within six weeks from date: The buildings are nearly Honan has been rained We learn for th
erected for all the European staff, and we same paper that the bread famine in Peking hat
building houses fof labourers. been averted, but the foreign community is
There are about twenty constructed already, threatened with a scarcity of kerosene oil and as many more arranged for. In the candles, and sugar. The trouble in that goods mines 1 am opening up a cut across the destined for sale to Chinese are passed under direction of the lode, and cleating way the pretext of being intended for the foreign com.
level twenty feet wide for a tramway site to the munity, and the Tientsin Tantai is endeavour stamp mill. I am also taking out the foundations We would remind our readers that the competing to check this abuse, which is not only unfair
for the mill, and they will, be ready for tion in gymnastics, for prize: presented by the
to the revenue, but to the Chine e traders who.
the engineer to start on and erect, at once. In Flon. A. P. MacEwen, will take, place at the
cutting up the tram line I have uncovered somo Victoria. C. Gymnasium to-morrow at 5.30p.m.
alluvial wash, dirt carrying splendid praspects, thus verifying our previous estimates of the STATISTICS make it appear that there are 5.530
value of the alluvial. I have just received lawyers in New York city whose aggregated fees
information from our agent, Mr. Sigg, that some and incomes amount to something over
of the directors are on the way out, and that I $300,000 a year. Lawyers come, high, but we
may expect them in a few days. They will not must have 'em, it seems.
be able to see much as yet but I am confident they will see quite sufficient to impress them with the great value of the company's property." THE Macao Independente regales its one reader with a weekly educational symposium, the predominant idea of which is the advisability of starting an industrial school in the Holy City. The institution is advocated as a means to give the young generation of Modern Lilliput a surer means of hvelihood than that which they manage to obtain by zmigration to this Colony and the Treaty Poris of China, Japan, and Siam. It is that a young Macaocse industrial trained in the contended, on what foundation, we know no mand success in the professional competition slums of the Holy City, wil to a certainly com
THE Wilmer Street fire is still smouldering An archway between the storehouse that was gutted and No 8 permitted the goods in the latter place to catch fire, and they keep on smouldering, being very difficult to get at. YOUNG Thorne (in kis girl): "And your name is Rose! What a sweet name Rose is! Rose: I am glad you like it. But-but-but I do could a'fellow say after that? not want to be a rose without a Thorne," What
work of removing the Railway bridge across the OUR Tientsin contemporary reports that the Peiho goes on very slowly. After seven days labour one of the 52 piles, din about 30ft.
Notwithstanding the obstruction of the two salt
them.
Court of the Straits Settlements by Mr. Philip An action was lately brought in the Supreme
Holt, the owner of the steamship Pyaй Pikkel, against the owners of the steamship Chow Paya on account of the former steamer having been run down and sunk by the latter in Klang Straits on rath January last: After proof bad been led, judgment was given on the 17th instant in favor of the plaintiff with costs. THE anti-Chiness agitation in foreign countries seems, says the Chinese Times,to and its counters part within the Chinese empire itself, where, according to correspondent, one province province in much the same way as California and Australia object to Chinese from all provinces. From the action of the Governor of Shensi the Chinese Government need have no difficulty in at least comprehending the action of the foreign countries,
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Mr. R. E. Withers next appeared in a duct from Una Notte a Venezia,), Lugál caviare to the general, but it was sung very soft and low, as all amateurs ought to sing, and it went very well.. Mr. Withers was especially good. Miss Carolina, da Sonia's pianoforte performance succeeded. Miss da Soura is undoubtedly an accomplished performer, but we wouldn't give a cent to hear Liszt play "Auld Lang Syne" with long and short shricks along the keyboard between every note, and "Charlie is my darling" doesn't chime in well with It there is an incoherence of con fruity, so to speak, if our readers can follow us. MEC.L
. Lammert's tenor song “Live the Pilgrim " was very nice—very nice indeed. It consisted prin. cipally of the information that Love:had passed: -presumably because he had only a small pair and it was very nice, as we said. Miss Edith Carvalho, the prima donna, achieved the first real success of the evening, however, by her rendering of a Grande Aria from La Traviata. She was loudly encored, but to everybody's regret, conlented herself with acknowledging the moor followed, and then the interval, which was compliment. A sestett from Lucia di Lammer
about the best part of the evening. The second part opened with an alleged comic quartette from Tutti in Maschera by Miss d'Almada e Castro, Miss Maria Guedes, Mr. R. E. Withers, and Mr. O. Bachrach. It was harmoniously sung, hut about as dull as practicing the National Anthem on a cornet out in the rain. Excellentissimo Sr. C. H. Grace wakened things up considerably by his singing of the Toreador'ssing from Carmen--- in English, hoorsy : It was admirably delivered, and highly appreciated. Mrs. Humpreys followed with an aria and rondo from La Sonnambula, and Stas, d'Almada e Castro and Alves then played a duet from Semiramids on the piano, Semiramide was not In good form when be com- posed it, but such as it was the young ladies did their best, coming in a dead heat after a furious four-handed finish, and both got bouquets, as all the ladies did every time, LORD Balfour of Burleigh, who is, says fast, and left the cavalier that carried them except when two of them walked off too
the L. and C. Express, to be proposed standing on the platform with more flowers than as Chairman of Committees of the House of dignity about him. Miss Guedes sang an aria Lords by the Marquis of Salisbury, is a man of from La Favorita, after which Mr. Crow sang fine personal presence, in the very prime of life"Hear the wind blow ridiculous kind of a His Lordship, who is just forty years of age, was storm song, and one which did not do him, the Board of Trade. He is a representative Miss Carvalho, assisted by Mr. Maitland, ap- last year appointed Parliamentary Secretary of Justice. Then the duct "L' Addio," in which Scotch Fecr. His estates are not very extensive peared, closed the proceedings..... so the salary would be a consideration. In the Jacobite troubles one of the Balfours of Burleigh was attainted; but, like not a few other Scotch families, the Balfours had adherents on both sides, so that the estates were preserved to the family whichever cause was victorious
THROUHOUT Ireland just now the time is one of L. and C. Express:-There is very little on the full and quiet. A correspondent writes to the face of things to show that any trouble is brewing But the curious thing about Ireland is that lulls fury and commotion. Whether it is that people are almost invariably followed by autbursts of are for the moment worn out with the strain, or whether the comparative comfort which high prices have made possible has detached some from the ranks of the troublesome and discon- tented thousands, or, again, whether the land. lords are now less goading than they have hitherto been, one can only conjecture; but I should say that very likely all these causes are at work together, and jintly contribute, to the present reign of calm. For alm, without doubt, the country is, making allowance for a few places where the old fight is still going on. The worst of it is that whenever we seem about to settle down and to apply ourselves to ordinary duties and business, something happens which stirs up the whole mas once more, and gives no time for any really healthy rent.
day would seem to have been turned on specially ACORRESPONDENT writes:-A particularly bright
fred Holworthy, sider daughter of Mrs. C. C. for the occasion yesterday, when Miss Win
CORRESPONDENCE.
[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column.]
SEAMEN'S WAGES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG Tyrkaraput," the letter by "Nauticus" in the columns of your SIR,-Having read with considerable interest valuable paper, I cannot refrain from endorsing his opinion regarding this vexed question.
Mergantile Marine are the most miserably paid Ai "Nauticus," justly declares, Officers in the class of people, considering the amount of responsibility that rests on their shoulders, and the hardships which they have to put up with in their profession, especially in a climate like this, Considering the respectable appearance. they are compelled to maintain at all times, the money they have to send home for the support of their families, and the expensive living which obtains in China; no wonder a complaint is raised an to the amount of wages. Who can expect s European under these circumstances to live. contentedly and comfortably out here on $35, 850, or even $75
The whole of the European population of of Hongkong, great and small, depend upon captains and officers running their steamers In a successful manner, and it takes no small' amount of skilful navigation, careful look-out,
How do the people of Hongkong reward. and study on their part to acccomplish this.
Ing them paltry sums as salaries. No wonder them in recognition of their services? By pay
between the births and deaths in what into the river bed, has befted only gft being so light. Scores of these, petty offenders, which is so keen everywhere, and particularly Cohen, took leave of the Hongkong bachelors, some spen lose all interest in their work.
OUR contemporary, the Missionary Moan, when ever it runs short of the usual dry pabulum which its reader looks for, devotes a portion of its columns to showing how the poor Chinese ale oppressed by that bloated monopoly the Oplum Farm. Yesterday, for instance, it bleated plaintively that poor passengers arriving here with a little opium left on their bands are heavily fined for not having got a permit from the Farn er, and so on. It makes our head ache to read these pitiful arguments, and we hardly know whether they are worth refuting or not Everybody, pretty neatly, knows that out of the $1,737,000 which are estimated to be the total revenue of the Colony during this year, one quarter-nearly half a million dollars 1-are act down as accruing from the Opium Farm. It stands to reason,becfore, that in order to regain the Farm, and then have a profit, very stringent that enormous sun, meet the heavy expenses of measures are required, especially when smuggli is so extensive through the punishment for it
on establishing their bona fides, are "let off" by junks used in the ua-reoting of the piles, which the Farm every week, but the line has to be leaves only room for one junk to piss bound drawn somewhere. And the "gintleman who either up or down, twenty-five Kiangsu and pays the rint" the Government lessee who Ningpo junks passed down yesterday,
contributes a quarter of our revenue, is in our opinion far from fairly treated, by not being pro- EXAMPLE of the progress of science-Anxious perly supponed in his legal rights. Wife (year 1859)-"Oh, Declor what shall I do? My husband is nearly burning up with fever and Says the Japan Mail:-The through line from keeps begging for water." Great Physician-Tokyo to Nagahama (on the shore of Lake Biwa) "I am sorry, madam; but one drop of water was opened quietly to traffic on the 16th April, would kill him," Another Woman (869)" My and the cars now carry daily over this long busband appears to me to be no better. Same route constantly increasing crowds of passengers. In point of time there is nothing gained as yet Physician" Did you give him plenty of water as 1. directed "Yes, all he could, drink," by the railway as against the steamer. Leaving "Well, if the fever don't abate in another hour Tokyo at 6 am, one reaches Nagahama at anuse him in a bath-tub."
9 p.m., and must perforce spend the night there, as the steamer Journey down the lake, even if it were possible to make it by night, which we doubt, would not bring the traveller to Olsu in time to catch a Kyoto train, Nagahama is persons would break the journey by preference poorly furnished with accommodation. Most at Nagoya, where one arrives at 5.50p.m. Then leaving Nagoya at 6.4o the following morning Nagabama is reached at 9 30 and the rest of the journey to Kyoto, Osaka, or Kobe can be easily accomplished in a few hours. Speaking roughly, the trip from Tokyo to Kyoto by rail thus occupies a day and a half, and if we include the time spent between Tokyo and the steamer at this end and between the steamer and Kyoto at the other, the sea route and the land route give pretty much the same results. For passengers between Yokohama and Kobe, on the other hand, the advantage is decidedly on the side of the steamers.
is termed our land population. The British and Foreign communities, which are estimated at 10,692, showed last year a birth-rate of 18.05 per 1,000 per annum, as against a death-rate of 23.28, or about 1.29 deaths for every birth. The Chinese resident population, estimated at 179,530, increased by a birth-rate of 8.18, whilst it decreased at the enormous rate of 32.22, this being in the proportion of 3.93 deaths for every birth.
The whole population of the colony (not Including the shipping and junk people) which is computed at AN energetic American woman supplies the 190.222, gives an average birth-rate of following contribution to the bustle controversy: 8.73. as against anextraordinary death-rate "I know that women are hampered by their of 31.72. In the course of last year the total compete with men until they are better dressed clothes, and I believe they will never be able to number of births in the colony amounted Give a girl pockets-pockets on her bips, her to 1,662, and the total number of deaths back, her breast, and about her belt and side) loosen her waist, sleeves, collar, and skirt to 6,034, showing 3.63 deaths for strings; give her hands and feet room burn her every birth Supposing this rate were to bustle and lighten her skirts; school her and continue for a succession of years, even
give her plenty of physical exercise, and at zo she won't hang two pounds of curled hair at her with no epidemics, or other disasters to back to mark her waist line."- swell the number of deaths, wo should have to face the unwelcome but con-
THIS year, ways the Chinise Pimes, there appear to be more accidents than usual among the clusive evidence that, as our population Janks. The sali junk which sunk in the fairway decreases by 4.372 every year, in, forty- below the Everlasting Bend has been floated and hauled on to the bank. Three rice junksin different three years, say in 1932, there will be no
parts of the river have run on their anchors, we have to go from home to get news. A inhabitants left in Hongkong. Of course, but the cargoes were saved and the junks Scotch paper contains the following account of
the
10 in the Far East. Ifwe mistake not, about a year agn the Independente advocated the advisability of Portuguese company being formed with a view to purchase all the Chinese junks that were plying in the Macao waters, to hoist the Portuguese casign in every one of them, and to place some local Captain Hatteras on board of each. The project was said to be extremely practical, and it is almost a pity it felt through as world stood aghast with amazement at the new generation of navigators so suddenly sprung out of nothing. The present move in the industrial line is something analo- gous to the one alluded to. It is intended to raise the Cynocephalus Portugaria a few steps higher fromtheir present status of copying clerks. Hence the Indipendente's patriotic efforts to create an industrial school is Macao. Those who know the particular line of industry for which the Holy City stands unrivalled among the colonics of the East, will hail with delight the Independente's new project.
We learn from the Japan Mail that an accident, unhappily fatal, occurred on the 27th alto, on the Tokyo-Kyoto Rallway. Mr. Hida Hama- goro, Chief of the Estates Bureau in the Imperial Household Department, was a passenger by the train going southwards. At Shizuoka, where a stay of a few minutes is made, Mr Hida left bis carriage, for a necessary pupose, but owing to the large number of passengers and the inusufficiency of the accommodation, he WAS unable to accomplish his object. At the next station, but one Fuji-yeda, the train stops for a moment only. Here Mr., Hida alighted, but before he could re-enter his carriage the train was in motion again. He nevertheless attempted to regain his seat, but missed his footing and fell between the platform and the avoiding two carriages as they passed, but that something projecting from beneath the third apparently caught his sleeve and dragged him under. The train was arrested in a moment, not, however, before a wheel had passed over the unfortunate gentleman's body. He ex- pired immediately. Mr. Hida was fifty-nine years old.
and married for better for worse Mr. Hilton- Vickers, late of the 58th Northamptonshire Regiment, (now of the Indian Staff Corps) St. John's Cathedral was more numerously attended than is customary on the Sabbath day, and friends of the bride and bride groom, and sightseers were in full force. The Cathedral voluntary choir, which is always ready to assist at the wedding ceremony of popular residents, in addition to those of any of their own immediate friends, materially added to the beauty of the impressive service, and being fally represented, the music selected was very thoroughly performed. Mr. A. J. May ably presided at the organ, and the clergyman off. clating was the Rev. W. Jennings, M.A., Colonial Cohen were at the Cathedral, and after receiving Chaplain, Punctually at 3 o'clock Mr. and Mrs congratulations from those friends near the door. way Mrs. Cohen was escorted to a seat in the centre aisle by Major-General Gordon, who expected honor. At 3.15 the bride's carriage openly expressed great surprise at the un-
the volce that breathed o'er Eden;" the drove up, and upon her stepping into thei Cathedral the choir sang with much expression bymn continuing until the bride, on her father's arm, reached the chancel steps. The bride's! dress was of the simplest. The bodice and train were of Duchesse satin-quite plain: the skirt and vest of white broché finished with handsome sprays of bridal flowers; a tiara of orange blossoms, with a perfectly plain veil Her two bridesmaida--Miss Melrose Holworthy and Miss Sexton-wore very pretty pink-corded silk dresses, and quite too bewitching bats. The presents were numerous and costly. The core. mony at the Cathedral being over, backelord "made an afternoon of it," toasting the new
of
facts and raise the wages of seamen to a higher Either shipowners will waken to the above standard, or a union will have to be formed by the combination of certificated officers, course, I am well aware how difficult it is to start this, as seamen have always been taken advantage of on account of insufficient legisla tion; but the thing only wants a start. If some friend of seamen on shore, who at some period of his life had the rplafortune to depend on the sea for his living, would come forward like a "Plimsoll II and consent to act as secretary, they would all flock round him, and their efforts would be crowned with success.
Thanks to the laborious efforts of Mr. Gold- smith, who has been grappling with the Sunday kindly consented to publish seamen's grievances, Question, and to your journal, which has seamen are having a voice.
I remain, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
"NIL DESPERANDUM,” Hongkong, 10th May, 1889.
THE HONGKONG RACE COURSE. To tus Kivós or rur: "Howatoio TućnoRAIN,“
I wish to draw the attention of the Stewards, throngh the medium of your paper, to the dis graceful state in which the race course is at presentado
From the winning post to a good distance down the back straight,, the grass in many pinces has disappeared entirely, and the track. Is fast assuming the appearance and consistency of a mas cadamized road, and besides this piles of bricks, heaps of rubbish, to say nothing "of numerous loose stones, are lying about in all directions on
we must take into consideration the steady i bauled ashore. The other morning witnessed the escape from gaol of Warner, known here train." On-lookers say that he succeeded in couple ad Hb., at the same time drowning gried to look after the course | surely one of our
Influx of new-comers;
another accident. The tug Paths, with lighters but are they in tow, came into collision with a salt funk about 2 m, abreast of the Astor House Hotel, the Junk sinking almost immediately in midstream, blocking the fairway of steamers, About : p.m. two large salt boats were made fast to the sun- ken craft, and by the aid of two Spanish windy lasses the wreck was most expeditiously beached on the opposite bank, taking only about three
likely to amount to 4,372 yearly? If not, we have some constant factors of disinte. gration among us, more or less reduced, which in the course of years, if statistics are of
any value, are sure to accomplish the entire depopulation of the colony. It bours.
when clerk to the Hongkong Hotel as Russell: The Calcutta Presidency gol was the scene of great bustle and excitement at midnight on the 3th March, caused by the remarcable escape of two European criminal prisoners, Merton and Warner. Boil prisoners had been convicted at the Sessions last year, the former prisoner, having com- mitted a series of daring burglaries about British Indian Street, had been sentenced to three years hard labour; while Warner, who was formerly employed by a Sewing Machine Company, was
at their intest loss. In Canton the Customs?
duties were all but at a standstill, Mr. G. E. Holworthy being necessarily at his sister's wedding.
CONCERT AT THE LUSITANO.
CLUB
the course.
I would suggest that a competent man be riding men who frequent the Happy Valley would undertake this task until a Clerk of the Course Lis appointed, pay
I remain, Sir,
Yours truly,
A MEMBER OF THE JOCKEY CLUB," Hongkong, toth May, 1889, -
HODIE MIHI CRAS TIBL" Sta-Permit me through the medium of your valuable" Journal to say a few words to your correspondent of last night's istue, relative to the death of ■ Sapper at Kowloon,
TO THE LOTTO OF THE HONGLONG TELEGRAPH."
His record of service is” long and distinguished. In 1859, under the Toku- gawa Government, he held the post of Naval Church organs in Hongkong are articles that is quite an alarming possibility that not one DURING the argument of a petty larceny case convicted of criminal breach of trust in respect year in a Japanese man-of-war. In 1862, having musical mendicancy and "reciting,” and that f Inspector, and was sent to America the same are always unpaid for until after a good deal of of our successors may be left alive to before Justice of the Peace Wixon at Hoxic, of Rs. 4000, and was undergoing a sentence of risen to the rank of Naval Inspector, he had the R. C. Cathedral is no exception Last nigh! celebrate Hongkong's first centonary! Kansas, the other werk, J. L. Patterson and | five years hard jabqyr. The Grat prisenar, command of the ship in which the Shegan a concert-the second this year was given id That such a process of depopulation William Langley, both muscular, well-built who had borne the character of desperate proceeded to Kyoto for his historical interview the Lositano Club for the benefit of the new middle-weight scions of the law, became involved burglar, was confined in iron and placed in a with the Emperor. Subsequently detailed for "box n'whistles "ikere, and as H.E. the Governor, is a reversal of the laws of nature cannot
in a dispute as to their relative fighting strong cell, over which a special guard was kept, civil duty, Mr. Hida obtained steady promo- with Lady des Voeux and a new lackey, was to Your correspondent seems to be very ignorant be disputed, and that to some considerable powers. The two exchanged words sad taunts but in spite of these precautions, he secured tion. Chief of the Estates Bureau, he was a be there, the attendance was good, and the when he intimates that the Sapper could have extent it is a direct result of the unsanitary for some time, and then each bared a pickaxe, which he hid in his cell, and with this chekunis of the First Class with Second result financially satisfactory For some occul sat or late down all day when at Kowloon,
muscular arm and called on the Justice, to managed to loosen hinirons. He then apparently Class of the Fourth Grade, official rank, and the reason the iteras which composed the pro would beg to inform your bright correspondent conditions existing throughout the colony, decide the dispute. Justice Wixon, who is a found no difficulty in slipping his legs out. With Third Class of the Rising Sun. It is scarcely gramme were almost without exception Frencli that it is a very unusual occurrence for a Sapper & slight acquaintance with the laws o lover of the manly art, decided that the only way his limbs free he contrived to get out of his cell necessary to observe, adds our contemporary, or Italian, which compelled everybody to to be found in such predicament, as he well In which the dispute could be decided was by an The next step was to release Warner, whose cell that this sad event emphasises a point to pretend to listen attentively or labor under the knows he would be severely a dealt with i population will convince anyone. The old-fashioned bout with bare knuckles, and he he had no difcally in opening with the pickaxe. which it draw attention in the autumn of stigma of being ignorant of those languages the Regulations i appertaining to this subject are general accepted law is that the populations declared his willingness to adjourn the case for a Having taken out of the cells tables and chairs, 1887, namely, the insufficiency of the accom After the opening chorus from Lacraxia Borgia | very stringent. I would like to enlighten your of well-drained and healthy towns time to allow the attorneys to settle their dis and piled them on top of each other, the men medation at stations on Japanese railways. by the amateurs, Mr. E. W. Maitland essayed correspondent When he says it is a maunl pute. The two accepted the Justice's offer reached some part of the high wall, and with the Since that time great improvement have been one of the prettiest arias from Il Trovatore, and, custom for Soldiers to report themselves sick so double themselves in twenty-five years; and the Court and spectators adjourned to aid of blankets, which they tore and converted effected, and it is believed that the Authorities for lack of a friend to drag him off, had to go as to elude diskgreeable doties 11 would beg to this is owing to the excess of births over a large ball in the cenue of the town. About into a rope, scaled the wall, landing in safety, intend to run carriages with closets on all lines right through. "As he could not go high enough ask--Did your correspondent ever know an R.X.
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the place gathered to Meanwhile some of the sentries discovered that of any length. It is an essential measure, not even when he stood on tiptoe and elevated his to report himself sick when there at really In Hongkong worse than the all the men
ses, the fin. Patterson and Langley stripped the prisoners were at liberty, but pwing to the lone in the cause of public decency, but also eye-brows, nor low enough when he scowled at nothing the matter with him 7. It does not pay reverse takes place the population, as to their undershirit, and with the Justice as topography of the place they were quable to get because, with things they are now, such his boots, his success may be estimated. He eng of our crew) to make; himself equainted above pointed out, it bare official statistics referee squared off at each other in regular at them. All they could do was to raise an accidents as that recorded above are liable to did a little better when singing the audience out with the medical practioners (except when be may be relied on, will extinguish itself pugilistic style. Suddenly Patterson's right abos alarm One of them dung his baton at the happen at any moment. Despite the great care in a deet with Miss Carvalho, but his best is te forced to do so) for by doing so ke forfeits hit out, and a moment later Langley was sprawling retreating figures, knocking off the Solab helmet, usually exercised by the railway officials, pas- long way from good. Miss d'Almada e Castro, cagtueer pay for that day and every day he is completely in 43 years Taking into on the floor. This startled Patterson, who which was left behind. Before asistance could sengers will rush to catch train in motion: nlm young lady who was evidently nervous in like fame gentleman Seare These her chika gathered up his things and left the hall. Langley be rendered the prisoners effected their retreat, when, like Mr. Hida,, having been obliged to quavered out an arls from Roberto il Diavolo, and offered by your currespondents an Caplanation consideration the ghostly picture presented arose, but was not bent on fighting, and the favoured by the darkness. The police have been allght at a by station, they see themselves in produced some surprising high hoses, considering seem to me to be ves/feeble and deserribs?
shuse official returos just published, battle was declared a draws
'since prosecuting an active search,
danger of being left behind.
Kher fragile appearance Min. Humphreys and 1 Inta praise?? I wik not enter into the subje