Intimations.
A LUXURY FOR THE HOT SEASON.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1889.
last named gentleman acting as Secretary, for which appointment he received remune- ration at the rate of 8150 per month. If we remember rightly Mr. AtrarD LISTER. (Postmaster-General) and Messrs. A. G.
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THE movement for the tunnelling ofthe Simplon. which is to be the subject of a conference between France, Italy, and Switzerland, will be looked unan with much displeasure in Germany. A tunneled Simplon would mean the revival of the French railroad carrying trade, and the renews) of profitable commercial relations between Italy and France.
wardsadded to the list of law reformers. The question has often been asked as to what this Law Revision Committee has ever done to justify its existence; we ask what the entertainment to be given by the "Wan- derers," assisted by several amateurs, is to take Committee is doing now. So far as we can pince this evening. The comparative coolness discover, these excellent gentlemen have
of the weather will, we hope, enable a good practically done nothing, and curiously
number to attend. enough of the entire personnel of the original Committee, Dr. STEWART Is the only one now in the colony. We are not aware that substitutes were ever appointed to replace the absent officials, excepting in the case of the paid Secretary. We remember Mr. O'MALLEY complained some considerable time ago-after the departure of Mr. Maceras in 1887 if we mistake not that the onerous duties attached to his position of Attorney General occupied so A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. much of his time that he could not properly attend to the business of the Law Revision Committee, and in consequence of this complaint-the honorable Mr. O'MALLEY'S private practice had nothing to do with it, of course-Mr. A. J. LEACH was appointed Secretary at a monthly salary of $150, and in addition had a clerk provided.. Things would then appear to have gone on us before, that is to say nothing was done, although we doubt not that the salaries were drawn. with scrupulous regularity. When we say that nothing was done, we use the term advisedly; this Com-12000 horse-power. WATSON'S CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA REMÉDIES. mission has been in existence for seven
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LAST night a young woman attempted to leave her worldly cares, including her husband by water, and jumped into the Harbour near the Canton What A Jukong, stimulated by the prospect of getting an immortalising Belilio“ medal, fumped after her and got her out, She was taken before Mr. Pollock this morning, and fer a Inbored admonition was told to go home THE steeltorpedo depot-ship Fulces was launched at Portsmouth on June 13th. She is the largest vessel the Government ever built, and is intended to accompany a fleet and carry a large equipment of torpedo-boats. She will form a floating work- which the torpedo-boats can be hoisted out of shop, and be supplied with hydraulic cranes on water. The Vulcan is 6620 tons burden and of
AFTER about three years" consideration the Gap Rock light has at length been ordered. At leasi Bo report says. Sp. mote it be,
holes. There has been more stir on the share THE foxes have again commenced to leave their
market to-day than since, the grand finate of the Rape "corner" case,
is impossible to satisfy oneself that any one of them can prove successful. Faka
Four steel gunboats are to be fixed up, at Whampoa after being first constructed in pieces and put together in England, and the popular Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. is to be naked to tender. Altogether the Viceroy is marching ahead with the times and as a financier.
· has earned a reputation at Peking second only to that of Mr. W. E. Gladstone in England, for during his term of office of less than five years he has raised the revenue of the province some twenty percent. That the end justifies the means is clearly Chang-Chih-tung's molto, and the Peking Government nod approval, although they know licensed gambling is the principal adjunct of this state of things
LATE TELEGRAMS
**RANGOON, July 1st. The Rangvon Times says that Mr. Colquhoun, Deputy Commissioner, Ruby Mines, has been suspended by the Government of India. Mr. Browning, from Pokokku, 'relieves him.
BOMBAY, July ist.
a means of extending the sphere of useful. ness of the Imperial Institute, a scheme has been issued for the establishment of schools in modern languages, in connection with the University and King's Colleges in London,
The Camirally are telegraphed instructions commanders at and Indian tations that diplomacy only will be used in regard to the difficulties at Delagon lay.
BELGRADE, July and. day st the Monastery of Zitcha. The Russian
The King of Servia was formally anointed to..
present at the ceremony. Minister was the only foreign representative
before going to work. They had not been si this for more than five minutes when the tw: mates came forward asking sarcastically is they would be so "-"kind and condescending as to come out and do some work. I coulí. hear them say respectfully that they would
on as they got some clothes on. The pex thing I knew was an uproar like an earthquak gaing on in the forecastle, which was next to my The Steam Launch Company has made some shop. I knew that it was useless for me to gr new arrangements to suit the convenience of there, and therefore kept to myself, but afte the public, particulars of which will be found some time I had occasion to go forward, and in an advertisement in another column... found the men at work coiling down mooring- THR Sydney Bulletin tells us that the latest fad standing over them, one with a belaying pin. lines and stowing away fenders, the two mater in Auckland is a "boom" in graveyards. It is the other with a capatan-bar. Half the mer being worked by a Mr. J. Aitken Connell, whe
were only partly dressed; the clothes had beer is better known as the Tactician." Connell torn off some, and others had broken noses, of wants to form a cemetery company near the SAYS the Alta California :—"The. Loring has
black eyes. Everyone was more or less covered town, and advertises his scheme, on racing. departed for Porturi, is United States Minister sweep lines, with this slight difference that there
with blood, some bleeding quite freely, and one The Doctoris a lucky bemon. He was appointed are no blanks. With brutal frankeness he stars
was lying on the fore-hatch, stunned, with ar Commissioner of Agriculture: because he knew his 16 x 10-lots with beautiful and cheerful
agly wound above the left car, and smeared foreign mission because he knows nothing abou road," and "an exceedingly sparse population not get in after work was over, and they had tr nothing about farming, and now get outlook combined with an easily accessible
with blood from head to foot. The forecast! diplomacy."
doors had been locked, so that the men could In the neighbourhood." In one of his character stand around the deck, shivering in the cold. The Ilic letters to the local press, he delivers himself second mate explained to me that the men of the opinion that as soon as this new bone might be able to call a boat alongside during thr yard is opened up "it will become exceedingly night and run away if they got their clothes. populars Connell is a Scotchman, who would Finally a second tow-boat, which we were waiting have made his fortune had he been located in for, came, and we started down the river, but the Hongkong during the past six months.
locks were not taken of the forecastle doors fill THE Chinese Amusements Syndicate, Limked. clear of Sandy Hook The next morning
two o'clock next morning, when we were wet are now offering the balance of their shares to Captain called the men aft and made a kind of the public, the applications for which will close speech, to the effect that the ship always had on Saturday next. This enterprise was registered had a hard name, and he would take care that some little time ago, with a capital of $20,000 she deserved it! He was a young man abou in 400 shares of $50 each, and 300 of these 25 years old and had been married about twe were taken up by the gentlemen primarily wecks when he brought his wife on board. interested. The special objects of the Syndicate Three days out, the second male knocked down are to introduce into the colony all the requisites and kicked a man named Fosier for complaining of an English fair at home and, amongst other
to the Captain of being ill-used by him. Mrs. round-about, shooting galleries, etc., etc. It is things, lo erect a Switchback Railway, a steam
Ladd after a while got the Captain to stop him, believed the Chinese will avail themselves
which he did in a "Do it again" sort of way; largely of this, to them, novel pastime, and at
but when some of the men who were at their the same time the European community should mates commenced to beat and kick one, named lea came to see what the row was about, both not be above Indulging itself-dulce est desipere John Harris, for daring to come and look on. A tions with the Government for a suitable piece cabin roof on to the back of a man who was in loco. Much time has been lost in negotia-few days later the Captain jumped off the of ground, but H.E. the Governor has been good pulling on a brace alongside, and got a piece of enough to let to the Syndicate the ground at
wood out of the chart-room, which he broke Bowrington occupied by Chiarini's and other circuses, at a nominal rent for six months, and second mate seized Foster by, the throat, chok across his back. During the same month the this ground is now being fenced in. The Syndicate ing, shaking, and beating him for some time. hope to open the place within a few weeks: As the man forward to off properly lighted up with Chinese lanterns. The the mate followed bird and washed abroad. A correspondent of the Straits Times, who scene should be very picturesque. We under- man named Andrews, who happened to RO States of the Malay Peninsula, gives the sub- has been spending a fortnight in the Native stand that the refreshment contract will also be
forward at the time, was treated in the same put up to tender, and this in itself should prove a
manner for daring to look on while Foster was
joined account of a visit he recently paid to the large source of profit. When the Government
getting his "chastisement," as the mate termed it. Jelebu Mines. As a whole we are inclined to A few weeks later the Captain beat a sailor think that this gentleman's report, which so far their plant to people in Japan. In our opinion the shareholders will either make very large
named Harris at the wheel till he bled, keeping as the fin deposits are concerned is practically a knife in his hand ready for use in case he him, is scarcely likely to create a favorable based on mere hearsay, what Mr. Duaman told. returns on the venture or the thing will be a frost. It remains to be seen, however, how
resisted. Again, the mate beat a man severely
the future of that mining for not steering well enough, knocking him down Impression as the Chinese will take to it.
and kicking his back and arms. The Captain enterprise
The distance from Seremban to Jelebu is and second male kept beating and kicking George Leniov for at least a quarter of an hour,wenty-three miles over a pretty difficult road, till his face was a mass of raw flesh and his body although good enough for its chief purpose- black and blue. The alleged offence was that
bullock cart traffic. I found the easiest way of he had disrespectfully answered the Captain; covering it, having regard to the fact that I but as the man could not speak English, and wanted the Sunday in Seremban, was to often did not know the meaning of words he
start after dinner on Sunday night and used, I failed to see the justice of the punishment. sleep at Pantel police station, seven miles on the way, and then to do the remaining sixteen In October the mate beat a sailor called Nicolas mil's early on Monday morning. So on Sunday about the head and face with his fist, and when he went for nobelaying-pin the man's mate, whe night, about ten o'clock, with a kind of
rough was on the same stage, scraping, had to hold him dog cast and two ponics, I got under way, had a man got into a kind of horrors, teasing the breakfast with Mr. Dunman, the manager of the to keep him from jumping overboard. This night's rest in the police-station, and arrived, in Kuala Klawang in. Jelebu in ample time to clothes from the upper part of his body, and cutting and slashing his breast in all direc- Jelebu Mining Co. Mr. Dunman's chief charac tions till he was a horrible sight to look at teristle is energy. There are no mid-day siestas
A fortnight afterwards the mate beat a man
with him, and having weakly admitted that I named Yell for absolutly nothing. He said it pretty fair walker, and was willing to the Captain rope-ended old Foster at the wheel, was to keep his hand in." On the 1st November undergo a little fatigue to see his operations, he
A SMALI, gang of that worst type of thieves-the Pollock this morning. On the night of the 11th steamboat-sneak-were disposed of by Mr inst. Mr. Mitchell, chief engineer of the Bengiae. caught some endlies rifling a box amidships. and, with assistance secured four of them. It turned out that they had robbed a gardener who was returning from Singapore of $112. some
remitted to gaol for five months.
years, engaged in a work which might have been efficiently carried out inside six months, and up to the present day the rate-payers, who provided the money that has been wasted with such lavish profusion, have not received, the slightest jewelry, and his clothes. Three of them were lease expirès the Syndicate will probably sell
benefit and are even unaware whether or not the gigantic sham is still in existence. Mr. LEACH's peculiar relations with the Law Revision Committee would appear to after Sir GEORGE PHILLIPro left the colony, require investigation. This gentleman, acted as Puisne Judge for over eighteen months, and, since last February he has heen Acting Attorney General. Has Mr. LEACH during that time been receiving the emoluments ($150 monthly and the services of a clerk) of the position of Secretary to the moribund Law Revision Committee? If he has, we trust His Excellency the Governor will regard it as his bounden duty to order the whole of the money so pald to be refund- ed to the Treasury. Mr. LEACH, by virtue of his position as Puisne judge and Attorney General respectively, has been an official member of the Commission for the past two years, so that his holding the office of paid Secretary at the same time is one of those curious things which nobody can understand. Again, If Mr. O'MALLEY could not devote his attention to the revision of the Ordinances
owing to the pressure of his work as Attorney General, how does his deputy manage to rub along so satisfactorily, and also attend to a considerable amount of private practice? If a Secretary to the Commission was an absolute necessity in Mr. O'MALLEY's time, how can Mr. LEACH conscientiously perform the duties of both
A POST in the Panal court, which always raises à mile when mentioned, is that called the "Devil's. Advocate "the prelate who. at canonization*, raises ahjections to the many virtues and good actions of the saint, for the He searches out all the weak points in a saintly sake of discussion. The new Devil's Advocate is Mgr. Persiani, Canon of S. Lorenzo in Damaso. life and brings them before the Congregation of
Rites at a canonization.
Tax Prussian police authorities have taken a step which is worthy of imitation all over the world. An order has been issued providing for the punishment by fine or imprisonment of any one who shall carry a cane or an umbrella in such a manner na to be a menace to athers. by so many of carrying canes and umbrellas This is meant to do away with the habit practiced tucked under the arm with the ferrule projected it such an angle that it is almost certain to strike the face of any one walking behind. The Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High Sanitarium, to-morrow, at 5.30 p.m., the same landers will play (weather permitting) at the programme that was arranged for Wednesday. namely:
Grand March Hemique" Valie
("My Queen ** Symphonic Militair Scene & Au......... Jeanne Hachette Belection.......The-Jacoble
"God the Qismen,"
Schubert
Chore.
Coucans.
THE Russian military authorities are reported to be considering a plan for converting the Berdan rifle into one of a smaller calibre and this change has been made the new weapon will longer range. The authorities believe that when surpass all the rifles now in use in Europe and America. A Russian chemist is also said to have quality-to-that-used-in-the-German-army. invented a new smokeless powder superior in Russia does not propose to introduce the repeat ing rifle, belleving that if she did she would Injure her readiness for immediate war,
SUPREME COURT.
IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before Acting Chief Justice Fielding Clarke.)
The July Sessions were opened this morning. There were three cases for trial, the indictments in two others having been thrown out by the Acting Attorney-General. The following jurors W. C. Murray, J. A. Fredericks. T. D. Powell, were empanelled:-Messrs. W. T. Hatherley, G. A. von Wille, C. H. Grace, and W. Boffey,
HEAVY SENTENCE FOR THEFT.
Ng Ayow was charged with stealing a pair of shoes and a jacket from a house is Grabam Street. The Acting Attorney-General prosecuted. the prosecutor's house. There were many The prisoner was caught as he was leaving previous convictions against him. His lordship sentenced him to five years' imprisonment.
ROBBERY WITH VIOLENCE.
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LONDON, July 3rd. With reference to the French semi-official communique regarding the desire of the French Goverment to resume negotiations for the con- version of Egyptian Preference Stock, England to treat the questions of conversion and evacus will only reopen negotiations if France consents tion separately.NAME
All fears regarding the fate of Doctor Mac- by the Clan-na-gael) have been dispelled, as ha Inerney (who was reported to have been murdered
has turned up alive and well AVVISIT TO THE JELEBU MINES.
carried me off, without any regard to the habits
of the Native States, and walked me round from noon till dinner time. I consider that that day' was the hardest of all my fortnight; but it was Interesting,
Lo Fat and Vau Chun were ridicted for large, powerful man, lifted little Frenchy Jean The chief seat of the Telebu Company's pre-
robbery with violence. They met a man on the Praya on the 27th ult and cleaned him out. They were sentenced to two years' hard-labor
A boy who was charged with trying to steal five dollars from a man in the street. by knocking them out of his hand, was discharged.
The Sessions then adjourned,
SURVEY OF THE CHINA COAST.
The following letter on the above suhject explains itself —
Invalids' necessaries and appliances of all kind. offices now? Either this secretaryship is THE SOUND, between Denmark and Sweden, is March last, addressed to Commodore Church,
kept in stock.
A. S. WATSON & CO. LIMITED, THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, HONOKONO, CHINA AND MANILA.
a sinecure, or it is not. If it is a sinecure It ought to be abolished at once and the is money paid away as salary refunded; if it is not, and if the Commission is still in existence, then let a secretary be appointed citgraph who has time to properly attend to duties
The Hongkong Telegraph
which ought to be of an onerous as well as of an important character.
But quite apart from this instance of official legerdemain, we contend that the time has arrived when some account of what has actually bean accomplished by the Law. Revision Committee should be laid before the public. How much money has it cost, and what is there to show for the
H.M.S. Imperieuse, at Yokohama,
5th July, 1889. SIR-With reference to your letter of the ist to be crossed by a tunnel in the form of a submarine tubular bridge, which Mr. R. Lilljeg- the Lords. Commissioners of the Admirally on the subject of the survey of the coast of China, vist, a Swedish engineer, proposes to construct. stead of boring through the chalk of the whose undertaking was talked about some time straits, as was intended by the French engineer go, Mr. Liljequist proposes to construct piers, consisting of iron caissons filled with concrete, between the two shores, and on these piers to lay a tube consisting of two concentric iron cylinders, the inner cylinder being gift. smaller in diameter than the outer one, the space between them being filled in with concrete.
and about goft, apart, at the bottom of the ses
inform me, and I have the Honor to request you will communicate the same to the Chamber, Majesty's surveying ships, the requirements in that is arranging the distribution of Her connection with the survey of the Chinese coast are fully considered, but that their lordships are unable to undertake to keep a vessel per. manently on that coast, to the neglect of other Imperial interests.
I have, etc.,
NOWELL SALMON, Vice-Admiral.
General Chamber of Commerce.
"LIFE ON A BLUE-NOSE
BARQUE
enough, although the man was sick. Towards with the spanker sheet, for not steering well
the end of the voyage the second male, being a Nicolas) by the throat out of the forecastle, across the deck, and threw him against the rail with such force that he fell insensible. After he came to his senars he crawled on all fours to the main This account does not include kicks and cuffs hatch and was carried, from there to his bunk.
given daily for not pulling hard enou bon ropes, and other offences equally trifling. Out of twelve men there were only three who had not been kicked or knocked about ; and all had been called filthy names quite impartially, although we had carefully abstained from giving cause for any of this brutality in the hope that the authorities in Shanghai would see us righted. After securing my discharge in Shanghai, on the private condition that the Captain' should only pay three weeks board for me, I gave the items you see under the different dates to the Consul,
came to me and offered to give me the rest of The Captain no sooner found this out than he
my wages and pay my passage to Hongkong. As I had escaped with a whole skin and only six months blackguarding, I accepted the offer New York for $24 a month, and not $30, as the I found when we settled up that I had shipped in shipping master said. However, the Captain was pleased to pay me at the latter rate, and after giving me a first-class ticket to Hongkong he was so anxious for my welfare that he was not satis Sed till he saw me on board the steamer the same night.
CANTON
sent operations in in ʼn valley beginning about branch other valleys known to be rich in tin. three miles from the town, and from which
Mr. Dunman has made a bridle track, which in Up the course of the valley, for about six miles,
time may be replaced by a State road—indeed should be replaced by that as soon as possible, In the valley the Company has a few mines in going order which, I am told, yield a very good profit; but chiefly the manager's energy devoted to opening new raines there. According
I take it that the operations of the Company
Mr. Danman, the whole valley is rich in tin, sad it is only a question of getting the selected spots cleared of jungle and of building kongsia houses (two operations which must be carried out by Malay labour), and after that the mining will go on." Coolies and towkays he says he can get, and that he will ultimately have a thousand men at work in the valley. The overburden, I can personally bear witness, is very light-a very few feet-and absolutely un told, is very sich in bijil, and the latter in tin, pumping is required, while the karang, I'am The consideration of overburden is particularly important, as when it is light the Chinamen can get at once to their tin, and so no very heavy advances need be made. It should be added that HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1889.
the difficulties of clearing jungle and building kongsies are enormous. The Chinaman in useless at that, and the Malays, 'as is their nature, ara Ir would manifestly be unfair to hold
indifferent. I believe, not only from what I have Governor DES Vaux responsible for the
Ar the Police Court this morning Mr. Pollock F. Henderson, Esq., Secretary, The Hongkong
seen, but from what others in the place have told me, that Mr, Dunman has worked with the, most shortcomings of his predecessors in office,
delivered his decision in the case of the crimp
untiring energy but if I had any say in the His Excellency has had no sinecure since
who was dropped upon by a lakong, disguised as a coolic, and who was charged with acting as
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT) : " Affairs of the Jelebu Company, I would not allow his arrival in Hongkong; his time has been
an emigration agent without having a license.
him to remain there alone and unsided. There Canton, 16th July, 1889 The Viceroy has scored another financial are limits to what one man can do, and in the so fully occupied with public business that
His Worship delivered the following extraor dinary decision-I have considered the
success; be has managed to raise the wind to affairs of the Jelebu Company, with its mines It is scarcely to be wondered at if various expenditure? It would appear that the evidence in this case, and am of opinion that Our recent account of how sailors are treated well known Examination Hall, inside the city reached. I am sure that the Company loses and the extent of Tis. 200,000 by the sale of the scattered over, many miles, these limits aro Important matters have escaped his atten- salary for the Secretary alone has amounted the defendant did not act as a passage on some sailing-ships, notably the Nova Scotian A new Examination Hall is to be built just above will lose, by having only one European in Jelebu, tion--that is assuming they have been to the large sum of $12,500. What has the it la not proved that he ever acted as a "wind-Jammers, has prompted a resident here Shamien, to the westward, on a vacant alle of are intended to earn a dividend--let us say a
broker within the meaning of section 27. brought under his notice. On more than community got, what is it likely to get, far principal in the matter. Therefore I think he has toonths' passage de node is.. Yarmouth bargus price, and to bring it within the law a curtain" ten per cent. dividend-on $150,000, and that
to send us a rather voluminous "log" of a six ground acquired by the Government at a nominal committed no offence under that section. I am one occasion we have referred In these this lavish and wholly unnecessary outley also of opinion that he has committed no offence called the Morning Light some two years ago. of the city wall proper at the S.W. corner is to the couple of thousand dollars a year wh
Clearly then columns to the deplorable state of what Perhaps Mr.JNO. J. FRANCIS, Q.C., whose under section 33, for the same reason. However, We give it under all the reserves." The be built so as to enclose the space. Shades of the couple of thousand dollars a year which would are known as the Ordinarices of Hongkong, membership of the Commission saddles him although I acquit the defendant on these charges writer says
of a mighty past, how do you procure an xesistant cannot materially affect the and we believe we are justified in saying with a certain amount of public responser to keep the peace, He is to be bound over short, I applied to a shipping-master to get me knowledge favour this new educational centre as I am quite.antisfied that he requires to be bound
After staying in New York till my funds IAD view such a radical change? Will the gods of losses of profits of the concern, while the lack of an assistant may, and I think must, affect these. that the members of the legal professionsibility in this matter, a responsibility in two suretics of 1100, or one of $202, to be of berth as carpenter on some large ship going of old 1 Here comes in the rub, or at least it are unanimous that the existing state of which his position as leader of the local good behaviour for twolys months in default laying in the North river, ready to sail was the
pn a long voyage. The ship you want fi | may come in, three months' imprisonment.
A few days hence Mr. Kretzschmar will blow affairs in that respect is anything but a Bar considerably intensifies, will throw
ready answer, lå and ifyou will come with me you up a passage in the famous barrier at the entrance credit to the colony. Our local code is some light on the subject i
THE E. & A. Co's steamer Tannadice, Capt. can sign the articles now the wages are $30 to the Back reach, and we shall thus at length Hugh Craig, which arrived here from 6ydney on the morning of the 13th foss, accomplished the that, for although I wanted a ship I did not like
per month," I demurred to such a haste as bave another access open to the port.
The water on the West River has already voyage in 17 days 171 hours. This, although to bind myself before seeing what kind of a craft fallen eleven feet, smart passage, is still considerably inferior to I was going in. * Although I could see that be that made by the same Company's steamer did not like it, I told him that I should go on Guthrie, then under the command of Capt. J. board to have a look, and I made a flying visit W. B. Darke, in July 1885, The Guthrie left to the ship. I found that it was the Morning Sydney at 4 pm. on July and, and after calling Light, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and although at Moreton Bay, Townsville, Cooktown, and I had heard many quter stories, about ships It is hardly necessary to say that the Thursday Island, and suffering a seven bours from there I fell in love with her large and French national festival was kept up by Another class of examples of mutual suspicion- detention at Maraton Bay owing to low tides, roomy carpenter's ship, and decided to go. Hurry Consul and Madame Imbault-Huart with more are those arising in the ordinary affairs of every.) which further necesaliated a night's anchorage ing back, I went with the shipping-master to than usual grace and hospitality. The affair day life. There is a freedom and an absence of The trial of General Boulanger has been at Carcross, outside Thursday island, arrived the English Consul's, where I signed the ended with a grand display of fire-works.constraint in western lands, which in China la decided upon.
in the Ly-et-moon Pass at 8.30 p.m.gn the 20th, articles, and as I had no idea that I was in a erected on scaffolding on the French Concession, conspicuously absent. To us, it seems a mailer - thus making the run in 18 days 4 hours--neck sharperty bands I did not take the trouble to which attracted the attention of the populace for of course that the simplest way to do a thing is. steaming me, a trifle over 17 days; As the read them, especially as I was hurled all the miles round up durs for that reason the best is Batin China there are have called at any of the North Australian ports, heard of the tow boat, and after waiting three are now talked of in connection with the Copper must be taken. While this is true in regard to -Tannadice does not appear from her report to time to catch the tow-host. I put my effects on Brick manufactories as well as weaving mills "different and quito other factors of which account the record of the Guthrie still remains unbroken. hours for the Captain he finally came and wo" Cash" Mint. The Viceroy appears determined everything, it is most felt in regard to two It is noteworthy that Mt. Lawrenge Nivan, chief started for the Morning Light Throwing to make the Mint locality an industrial centre matters which form, the wary and woof of the engineer of the Taxxadly, held a similar position everything helter-skelter over the rail the crew for foreign manufactures, and it is to be hoped lives of mosty Chinese-money and food. It ha on board the Guthrie during the trip detailed comienced to carry their chests late the fore he will ducceed, although looking upon these, very difficult to convince a Chinese that a sum of above,
1 captly in order to be able to change their clothes conceptions from every possible point of view, it e money which may have bean put into the mandr
TELEGRAMS,
MR. BLAINE RESIGNS..
LONDON, July 16th.
such an uncertain element that even trained barristers are chary of defining the actual condition of the existing law as affecting many important points. Now this is not, as it should be, nor is it what the The New York Harald announces that Mr. community has a right to expect.
James G. Blaine, Secretary of State for the About; seven" years ago a Commission | United States Government, has resigned, was appointed to revise the Ordinances and to place them in something like an intelligible form, composed of Chlef Justice SirGxoxoz PHILLIPPO, Mr.JUSTICK RUSSELL,
BOULANGER'S TRIAL
THE FRENCH NAVAL BILL
Dr. STEWART (Colonial Secretary), Mr. The Chamber of Deputer har passed the bill E. L. O'MALLEY (Attorney General), Mr. for raining 61,000,000 francs for ships, and E. J. Ackroyd (Registrar of the Supreme defences, and the session has closed. Court), Mr.A.B.JoHNSON (Crown Solicitor), and Mr. E. MACETAN, barrister-at-law, the
"CRETE. Affairs in Crete mie said to be serious.
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The Viceroy is doing his utmost to facilitato the opening of the Kwangel coil, silver, and lead mines under native auspices, and while he confines himself to this programme things must continute much aw at present.
Dunman were to catch a serious fever, or meet with any bad accident, the bulk of the present operations would coase within forty-eight hours, and before a new man could be put in charges much harm might have been done. And how much use would a new man be with no key to the plans and arrangements of the works To Bing all the burden on one man is not economy,
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
UMUTUAL SUSPICION.