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sufficiently prosperous to warrant a still further term, the place will be finally closed. The closing of the Masonic Club would he a matter for general regret, and would certainly reflect gravely on the brother hand in this colony. But unless an entirely new régime is established, and that without delay, there would appear to be no substantial prospects of ultimate success. It is really singular to what an insignificant extent the advantages provided by this Cluh have been availed of by the Masonic fraternity, both resident and non-resident. Members have preferred to swelter on the Queen's Road level rather than enjoy the cool breezes in the Masonic Club, and simply because it was too much trouble to take a minute's quiet walk up Zetland Street. Persons who never in their lives had pre- viously seen the inside of a club, and whose ideas of comfort and enjoyment suggested a fourth-rate gram-shop in Tai-ping-shan, could not-no, by Jove, they really couldn't, the hill. And it is this class, and that other section of inveterate grum! lers, who will above all miss the Masonic Club when its portals are closed. The efforts of gentlemen who devoted both time and money to provide pleasure to their fellow-men have been altogether ignored, and they, of course, will know right well how to appreciate the treatment they have
THE Stamp Office and Money Order Office will be closed on Monday next, being a Bank holiday. which will probably end fatally was 'A 01 committed in Gough Street to-day. A master. tailor was walking along when tour men, who, it is believed, belong to the Tailors' Guild, attacked him with knives. He was stabbed in the font, and his left thumb nearly cut off, and when removed to the Hospital he was one mass of blood. No arrests have been made. It is slated that he is A "foreign" tailor-made European clothes-and the other "foreign tailors tried to make him join their guild. "He had refused several times, and been warned of what would happen, and he defied them success- fully until today.
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WHAT is the matter with our morning contem- thareholders, of the Steam Launch Co., Ld, held porary In its report of the mesting of the yesterday, we are told that there were present, in addition to the Directors and Secretary-two of the former, not being shareholders, having no rigist to be present, "a number of Chinese gentlemen," Why didn't the reportes of the Daffy Press state how many Chinese gentlemen were present, and give their names? The report of the meeting of a public company should at least be accurate; the report we are now referring is diplomatic, but it is not honest journalism.
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speaking, of course, of the families blessed with the possession of a lot of lucro, When all these offerings have been arranged and placed in posi- tions that may strike the eye, the young wives and young maidens, dressed in their richest raiment, go down on their knees just as the clock strikes twelve and commences the advent of the event ful seventh day, and adore the fairy goddess. In Conion and Shanghai we have seen cases where, the families being particularly wealthy, as much as three or four thousand dollars were spent on votive offerings, and in such cases, especially in Canton, where so many bad characters roam about, great is the temptation to them to reap harvest. To prevent this the wealthy engage even as many as a dozen soldiers, armed with rifle and bayonet, to stand guard at their doors, with, orders to shoot o kill anyone audacious enough to violate the laws of meum and tuum. But to make all this plain to our readers we must go a little into the tradition of the thing...
A long, long while ago, according to the legends of the land we live in, Jupiter, or Siong-tai, as the Chinese call him, to reward the virtuous fife and filial piety of a lowly cowherd, named Tung-wing living in Shan-si, sent 'down from,
A. S. WATSON & CO.. LD are that stiff hundred and fitty yards up grossly misleading. This sort of thing may be heaven one of the fairies named Ta'ut Chiay,
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or Seventh sister" to be for a certain time his wife.
The fairy, having taken unto herself the form of a beautiful woman, presented berself one day while Tung-wing was watching his cattle, and by her fascinations induced him to
take her to wile. A
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named when this would pumping of water to become operative. We think it is due to us that we should be fully informed when the new service is likely to be completed, and als what is the present position of the undertaking Further, we would specially direct attention in the present system of drawing water from existing public wells. Each household and each cooli attendi with their various buckets or receptacles which are dipped into the wells and the water is thus drawn out; the condition of these bucket: may be all that is to be desired but the chances and evidences are the other way, Kerosine tins have been impressed into service, and i some households, owing to the bad shell emitted by the water from the public welis, it use has had to be discontinued. In some of the wells, formerly, a proper force pump was attached, which at all events ensured that the water in the wells was not polluted. We think this system should be at once adopter for all the public wells at the Feak, and we shalf be glad to learn that the Government bas giver the necessary order to that effect. We are also of opinion that the wells should be deepened at ance, or there is every probability that a water famine will be experienced during the coming
strange scholar who happens to be thrown into the society of other scholars, will be promptly exposed to the ordeal by what we have termed the chess-game battle. If at any part of the proceedings he betrays signs of not knowing the next move, his inquisitors will not hesitate to bring in the verdict, that he is an ignorant pre- tender. sald so and so to him, and instead of the proper reply, he said so and so. This is like a failure to give the password of a secret society, or the countersign an picket, and will naturally suggest that the person in question should be arrested as a suspicious character. endeavouring to pass under false pretences! There is in Chinese a whole vocabulary of words which are indispensable to one who wishes to pose ny a polite? person, words in which whatever belongs to the speaker is treated with scorn and contempt, and whatever relates to the person addressed is honourable. The 'polite' Chinese will refer to his wife, if driven to the extremity of referring to her at all, as his dull thorn, or in some similar elegant figure of speech, while the rustic, who grasps at the substance of pollteness! although ignorant of its formal expression, perhaps alludes to the companion of his joys and sorrows, ns his This trait of Chinese stinking woman') etiquette is not inaptly presented in one of their own inles, in which a visitor is represented as calling in his best robes, and seated in the recep tion, room awaiting the arrival of his host. A rat which had been disposting itself upon the beans above, insinuatig its nose into a jar of oil which was put there for safe keeping, frightened at the sudden instrusion of the caller, ran away, and in so doing upset the oil jar, which fell directly on the caller, striking him ESSAYS ON EVERYDAY OBJECTS severe blow, and ruining his elegant garments with the saturation of the oil. Just as the face of the guest was purple with rage at this disas- ter, the host entered, when the proper salutations were performed, after which the guest proceeded to explain the situation. As I entered your. honourable apartment, and seated myself under 'your honourable beam, I inadvertently terrified your honourable rat, which fed and upset your honourable oil jar upon my mean and insignificant appearance in your honourable presence.' C. Daily News. clothing, which is the reason of my contemptible
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has been some talk pi starting a non- masonic club on the ashes of the Masonic Club when it becomes a thing of the past Bosh! If the bonds of freemasonry can't keep together the class that has supported the Masonic Club, it is quite certain that the wholesale introduction of outsiders can only lead to social chaos. The
IT is not generally known, says a correspondent, writing from Tangier, that besides being the lineal descendant of the prophet's daughter, Fatima, by her marriage with Mohamed's famous General. Bu Behr, the present Sultan, has some Irish blood in his veins. In the early part of the present century an Irish sergeant of sappers, who had been detached from the British raison at Gibraltar. at the request of the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed, died in the latter's service. His widow, a pretty Galway girl, of his Majesty. It was granted, with the result that Sici Mohammed, struck by her beauty, made her an offer of marriage, which she accepted. She became the Sultan's favorite wife, and on his death her son, Muley Yesid, nick named "the Red Beard," assumed the power, and figures in history as the most sanguinary monarch known in the annals of Morocco. His favorite pastime was to roast Jews alive in the body of a bull, or to play bowl with the heads of his attendants, freshly decapitated for the st other times perform acts of the most astound. ing generosity and kindness, thus causing his
cowherd in China is not different from those of the same vocation in other countries, and henco Tung-wing was put to sore straits to support his fairy wife, who, seeing this, told her husband that she was an adept at weaving cloth means she would be able to keep the pot boiling at home whilst, he went on as usual in his daily duties. Transported with joy (for he was far from suspecting the true origin of his new-found wife) Tung Wing gave himself up to the bliss of a matrimonial life, the result of which, at the usual period, was a very fine and, of course, handsome boy. This bay, when he had come to years of discretion, finally took high literary honours, and became a Chuang Yuan, or Optimus, in the Examinations in the Capital so will leave him here. The new inaunted that when the time came for Ts'at Chiay to couple became, so enamoured and infatuated return to her place amongst the stars in heaven, she rebelled against the decrees of Olympian So Jupiter, in his Jove and would not go. wrath, thundered at the poor lovesick fairy, who in fear and trembling obeyed the inevitable decree, but, kneeling at the foot of the "brass bound gates," besought Jove to grant that her husband, at the end of his span of life should join her in heaven and be to her among the stars what he had been on this mundane globe. Jove refused at first, but at last consented on the condition that they were to meet but once a year, and that on the 7th day of the 7th Moon (to-morrow), when the stars are in conjunction.
The mosquito "is an insect, but Pa says they: are the devil They are only little, and they have, six long legs and a needle made like å tellyscope down their mouth. They attack you very softly, and the first thing you know you have an itching blister on your arm or your neck. But that is only when they are out on business. If they feel like having exercise, and want you to take some as well, they act different. elf to sleep for this. Maybe you're just dropping. They generally choose just when you are gning off, and beginning to short gently, and you'll hear "Pi-i-ng" just above your face, and you. waken right up and reach for a towel. Then the mosquito goes aloft and roosts in the curtains, and laughs. Pa, says he knows a broker, and blood-poisoning. A mosquita is not a heart, insect, but when I go to slap one, I always hit as though he weighed four pounds. You must or else be will dodge. I wish I could write all I think about mosquitoes, but I forget any more. (Fair.)
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LONDON, July 31st. The Bill proposing the grants has been read a first time.
CRETE.
It is reported that the Foreign Minister has intimated that Crete should remain Turkish
territory.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
We believe we are correct in saying that the promised senantional suit of Fgsephs and Frede ricks ve Rustomjee will not "come off." In fact, it has collapsed.
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THE P. M. S. S. 'Ca's steamer City of Rio Fantira arrived in port this afternoon, but we are compelled to hold ever the telegraphic news taken from our exchanges,
Masses. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Diomed, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due on the 7th inst.
The report from the Observatory states that yesterday's typhoon struck the coast to the south of Foochow, and is moving westwards. The office chamois is of opinion that it will tire out before reaching here, though.
name to be cursed and blessed in turns.
A TAKÓW correspondent writes: -Great improve- mants are promised for the South of Formosa, Mr. Matheson, the Governor's engineer, arrived at Anping, a fortnight ago, to make surveys for lines of railway between this and Taiwanfoo, and from Anping to the city. A scheme is also under consideration for the dredging of this har bour, but we fear this is in the far future, as there would be so little return for the expenditure A harbour in the South is sadly, wanted, but we would venture to suggest Anping as a far more important centre, from its proximity to the city of Vaiwanfoo, or rather Tainanfoo, as it is now. called. Tainanfoo absorbs, roughly, the entire Import trade of South Formosa and we doubt if, even with a good harbour here, the trade could be diverted. It seems to me that the resources of the Governor would be infinitely better devoted to the construction and maintenance of high roads connecting all the principal producing districts. The existing roads, or tracks, are simply deplorable, and in wet weather become impast able. There is a considerable excitement among the natives over the projected improvements, and it is to be hoped that one or more of the schemes may be successfully accomplished The South has, so to speak, been neglected, and His Excellency will win the gratitude of Chinese and foreigners bath if he undertakes some work of a permanent nature. With good roads there is a great future for Formosa, and the many valuable resources of the island could be developed in a very short time.
FOR some time past the sentries on duty in the Arsenal Street have unaccountably vicinity developed alcoholic symptoms during their period of duty, which led, lately, to the issue of an order forbidding soldiers going into the Chinese shops in the locality where liquor was sold. Dae of these shopkeepers, finding the probibition seriously affected his sales of three-dollar-a-dozen whisky, instituted an out-door trade so that thirsty soldiers could buy the fiery fluid without entering the shop. Inspector Swanston therefore ob- tained two suits of uniform from the regimental depot, and last evening sent out a couple of THE remarkable fact that a city of 110,000 inha-constables, dressed as soldiers, to lay for the bitants could have an entire day without the illicht vendors. They met a Chinaman who was occurrence of a single death is furnished by the suspected, and asked him to sell them some authorities at Graz, in Austria. This occurred spirits. He produced a bottle of brandy of an on May 31st Upon two other days, in 1878 unknown brand, for which be charged forty and 1879, ibe same singular fact is noted. cents, and was at once arrested by has "soldier" patrons. His cries brought out the neighbors, who, armed with bamboes, commenced a vigorous onslaught on the defenceless constables, bruising release their prisoner and beat a hasty retreat, them considerably, and compelling them to A summons was issued to-day against the shop. keeper. Whilst speaking of this liquor traffic, may we again urge upon the authorities the stuff which is Importance of analysing the baled out to our soldiers and sailors, both east and west of the city. The police inspectors, we understand, have frequently taken samples and any more about them. It is disgraceful that the alush now vended should be allowed in any licensed house.
IN 1863 the quantity of beer brewed in the Usited gallons. In 1878 there were 10.0-0,000 barrels, States was 2,006,635 bariels, or 63.205.375 in 1888 14,680,219, or a good deal more than s barrel for every man in the Union. The excise On the 31st July, at Canton, the wife of duties paid on beer in 1887-88 amounted to
1973 nearly $13,000,000. GEORGE D. FEARON, of a daughter.
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the starry
Tung Wing, after seeing his son become a Chuang Yuan and after gazing on three genera tiens, left this world of troubles and joyfully went to join his heavenly spouse in spheres. So loving had these two been while on earth that even the birds of the air took com. pasion at the enforced separation of the devoted cowherd and Tri-chiay, and so on the evening of the 6th day of the 7th moon, when Tung Wing started on his loumey heavenwards, to get to Ts'at Chiny, who was twinkling in her place near the Milky Way, or "Tien ho" (heavenly stream) as the Chinese call that portion of the constellation, all the Jays left this terrestrial globe to farm themselves into a bridge in order to enable Tung Wing, or "Ngau long" (Cowher) as he is better known amongst the people, to cross the "Heavenly Stream" to join his fairy wife. This is done every year by these birds, for, asthe legend goes, where do these birds go to after the 6th day of the 7th moon? Strange to say, this departure of the birds is a fact, so far as Canton and this part of China is concerned, for they are ever seen after the 6th day of the 7th moon until the next spring: And so Ngau-long became a denizen of the starry sphere, and Fairy Ts'at Chiay is happy.
For this reason, alf the young wives in China worship Tsut Chiay as the type of love and constancy, and young maidens do so because they wish the good fairy to guide their deft fingers in the intricacies of embroidery and fine needle work, and to see who is the happy girl whom the Fairy has taken under her protection, a test is given whereby each young girl, after paying obeisance before the shrine at the hour named, viz.: 12 a.m.; 7th day of the 7th moon-takes a needle and thread, and tries to thread the needle over her head without looking. The one who succeeds, of course, is supposed to be under the particular protection of the Fairy, and becomes for the hour the heroine of the household. This belief is strong amongst all Chinese families, and we don't think they are far from right, for without looking, requires considerable acquaint to be able to thread a needle over one's head, ance with sewing, and pretty dexterous fingers We tried to thread a needle once, but gave it up after an hour's hard work, and when we told a friend about it, he poohed' and 'pshawed and tried to do the same, but after three-quarters of an hour he also gave it up" and it was not until a third party came that we discovered that the 1st of April last,
elegraph wes Com at Canton, the official selected forwarded them for analysis, but they never hear there was no eye to the needle,
THE Macao Indipendente states that the Fortu. guese Government have appointed a Consul of being Sr. Demetrio Cinatti, formerly harbour. master at Macao. The Archimedean lover adds that be will have plenty of work, for there are plenty of unfortunate Portugooses in the City of Rams.
This was on
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
THE ABSENCE OF SINCERITY;
II.
The most popular man in Italy at the present moment, says the Rome correspondent of the. N. Y. Tribune, is Padregostino di Montefeltro, ally appointed by the Pope to preach a course of Lenten sermons in the Church of San Carlo, and who wound up the last of his cloquent discourses on Palm Sunday by invoking a divine blessing upon King Humbert and upon the Royal House of Savey. Although but four winters have elapsed since he issued forth from a retirement of twenty years in the cloister, yet his name is on every lip from the Alps to the southernmost point of the peninsula, his portraits are as numerous through. out the country as those of the Holy Father, King Humbert, and Garibaldi put together, and the veneration with which he is regarded by the population almost approaches idolatry. All this has been achieved by the most incomparable eloquence, by a singular boldness of expression, by doctrines which, while intensely patriotic, are altogether socialistic in their tendencies, and by the romance of his past career,
One of the ways in which the native insincerity of the Chinese is most characteristically manf fested, is their demeanour towards children, who are taught to be insincere, without consciousness of the fact either on their own part, or on the part of those who teach them. Before he is old enough to talk, and when he can attach only
The padrc'a history is a most romantic one. the vagucet significance to the words which he hears, a child is told that unless he does as he is He is a member of the ancient and princely bid, some terrific object, said to be concealed in family of Montefeltro. Rich in ancestry, but poor so far as fortune was concerned, he fell in the sleeve of a grown person, will catch bim. It
love with a beautiful girl of the great house of is not uncommon for foreigners to be put in the place of the unknown monster, and this fact Odescalchi. Although fully her equal as regarde alone would be sufficient to account for all the rank, his poverty was regarded by her relatives as an insuperable bar to the idea of marriage. bad words which we frequently hear applied to ourselves. Why should not children who may Thoroughly disheartened and disgusted, the young man left Rome and betook himself to have been affrighted with our vague terrors when they were young, hoot us in the streets, as soon Sicily, where he joined the insurrectionary forces as they have grown large enough to perceive that of Garibaldi. He greatly distinguished himself, we are not dangerous, but only ridiculous? The fought by the side of Crispi and Cluseret, was promoted for conspicuous gallantry to the rank of carter who is annoyed by the urchins in the street who yell after his foreign passenger, shouts to major, and was wounded on several occasions. them that he shall capture several of them, tie The most serious injury he received was at the battle of Volturno, an October 1, 1860, when he them on behind his cart, and carry them off
was struck down by a rifle ballet through the The boatman, under like provocation, contents himself with the observation that he shall pour chat while leading his battalion in a charge on the scalding water upon them. The expressions, Neapolitan forces. For a long time he lay I'll kill you,' are understood by a Chinese child between life and death in the hospital, While of some experience, to constitute an ellipsis for there he received news to the effect that the Stop that ! We have heard of a little foreign young Princess Odescalchi had been betrothed miss of tender years, whose association with by her parents to a Florentine marchese of great Chinese nurse had wrought its natural effect, so wealth, and that the marriage was shortly to that when the child was removed from her cradle take place. The information seemed to have at a time which did not commend itself to her the effect of accomplishing his recovery, which feelings, the compendiously observed in Chloese, until then had seemed doubtful, and a few weeks with injurious pleonasm, "1' gore you, I later, though still exceedingly weak from the
hastened with all speed to Rome. kick you, I'll rall at you, I'll beat you, I'll kill result of his wound, he left the hospital and you!
It was in view of the results of such an educa- On reaching this city he learned that the young tion as this, that M. Huc, whose language is not Princess had committed suicide by means of perhaps too strong for the facts, comments upon poison on the eve of the wedding to the Marquis, the characteristics of Chinese children, in words The young Garibaldian major, frantic with grief, a duel, and almost at the first onslaught ran his which may recall the exclamation of De Quincey, immediately challenged the Florentine noble to "What must it be to be a Chinese chilld!" "The Chinese bave in general so much precocity of sword through bis rival's throat in such a manner Judgment and intelligence, that they are capable as to sever the jugular vein. Death, of course, of attending to serious business at an age when ensued almost immediately, and, broken-hearted European children think only of play; and by the suicide of his Frincess and stricken with melancholy, the juvenile inhabitants of the rival, he retired to a Franciscan monastery Celestial Empire are early accustomed to the here and took the vows of the order. For more though somewhat inclined to mozoseness and remorse by the equally tragical death of his
soon learn to understand commercial affairs, the cloister, dividing ble time between study realities of life. The children of the great towns than twenty-four years he remained secluded in industrial speculations, and moreover all the and religious exercises. At length, four years knaveries of stock-jobbing; and the children of ago, bis ecclesiastical superiors declared that be the country know perfectly well how much a had sufficiently explated his sins, and ordered field of rice will produce, and can calculate that he should go forth again into the world and as any grown man the profits derivable from the should use his great gifts for the glory of the culture of the mulberry, or the tea plant. These order and of the Holy Church, little materialists appear to have somewhat Hence it is that we are now treated to the withered hearts, and are by no means remark astounding spectacle of an ex-Garibaldian majer able for candour or simplicity; they have seldom and a man of princely, rank in the pulpit, pro- THE PEAK DRAINAGE. HONGKONG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1889.
any aspirations toward generous Ideas or noble pounding doctrines in which socialism and sentiments, and one may see in the very look of religion are strangely and yet most cunningly THE FEMININE FESTIVAL.
The following letter on the above subject, their narrow oblique eyes, the Indications of blended, and who combines the profound Tur Hongkong Masonic Club, owing to
addressed by the residents of the Peak to the roguery, cupidity and cunning." It should be studies of four and twenty years with the most Internal dissensions for which there is no
added, that what M. Huc says of the precocious powerful eloquence of the present century... To-day is the 6th day of the 7th moon, and Government, speaks for itself:—
Tall, stately and imposing with ascetic yet development of Chinese children, is by no means possible excuse, has recently got into a
to-night will be the Eve of the Chinese "Seventh
Hongkong, 29th July, 1889,
so applicable to those from the country, taken high-bred features, and large, fiery black eyes very bad way. After overcoming the
Night," the anniversary of the meeting of the
SIR-We had the honor to address to you a as class, as to those born in the city, Many of peering from beneath bathy eyebrows, Padre initial difficulties Inherent to all such
fairy "Seventh Sister" or the "Weaving Girl," joint letter on the 14th May on the subject of the former grow up without ever having come in Agostino presents a striking appearance in the institutions, the Club, which has no superior
(the patron of all young girls in China who the drainage at the Peake, the receipt of which contact with an idea worth mentioning and in pulpit. On one of the days toward the end of for comfort and convenience In this part
aspire to be dexterous in embroidery), and was duly acknowledged. Since that date, we their later development they produce those Lent a panic of alarming proportions was on the While he was preaching. Indeed, had it not been Tang-wing, a cowherd immortalised in Chinese regret to say, apparently no steps have been perfect specimens of 'intellectus turbidity of polat of taking place in the San Carlo. Church of the world, was rapidly making its way
taken to abate the serious nuisance complained which we have already spoken,
Of the politeness of the Chinese, we bave for his coolness and presence of mind, a terrible and showing good financial results when THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at mythology. This is the day when every house of. The noxious smells are becoming more an Indiscreet and entirely uncalled-for the Murray Barracks to-morrow evenlag, com hold in China in which there are young wives marked, and we have medical testimony to the already, albeit very inadequately, spoken. It is disaster must have resulted. He had just
mencing at 7.30 o'clock. The following will be
or 'unmarried maidens, whether rich or poor, effect that some cases of sickness among Peak a topic intimately related to the one under con seached about the middle of his sermon remark on the part of one of the General the programme :—
high or low, bring out the image of the "Seventh residents are clearly traceable to drain poisons. sideration. We must dissociate Chinese polite when some miscreant, throw a huge can It is now high time, that action should be ness from those ideas of sincerity and cordiality non-cracker on the steps of the high altar, Committee, who ought to have known'
Sister" and deck it in dresses of seed pearls taken to remedy the serious defects of which which to us constitute the charm of social inter- where it exploded with terrific noise.At better, caused about twenty members,
embroidered on the richest of silks, loading it we complain, and that the public should be course, for however sincere and cordial the first it was believed that the profecille had regular frequenters of the Club, to resign.
with pearls and other gems and all that is costly informed of the nature of the proposed remedies. Chinese may sometimes be, these are not in been a dynamite bomb, and the vast crowd We are aware that the Public Works Department herent qualities to their politeness. It is rather which thronged every corner of the church wavered for an instant, as if preparing to take" and beautiful that can be procured from their has had an enormous accession of work thrown ceremony, the conect performance of which is As these members were actually the best customers of the Club, their secession had
own stores of treasures, They buy the best upon it owing to the recent severe storms necessary to put one right with those about him flight. But the ringing tones of Father Agostino's fruits of the season to place before the shrine with which the Colony has been visited, still, we It is, as already remarked, analogous to a game voice, which continued without the slightest the effect of turning a monthly credit balance into a considerable loss, and the A PARAGRAPH that appeared in last night's of the goddess, as a token of adoration of would suggest, in a matter of such vital impor of chess, in which the person who does not know interruption or sign of fear and hesitation, quickly Hongkong residents, extraordinary measures make it, renders himself ridiculous. Every man is the spot where the explosion bad cccursed they question soon arose as to future contin- Telegraph ought to have read The solicitors ber as their patron saint. In addition to the tance, touching as it does the sanatariam for the right move, or who for any reason does not reassured them, and on turning their eyes toward for the defendant in the libel suit R. Bratpiles of fruit tastefully and artistically arranged or should be adopted to, cradicate the defective suggested to be playing his part in public, a sup were able to convince themselves of the fact gencies. At a meeting of the Directors and Smith v. G. Murray Bain, bave made in
not to be ceremoniously polite at the right mes, bomb" bad been but a big firecracker. General Committee to consider the situa- application to the Court for further extension one or two or even three square tables, placed drainage, even if it went the length of appointing position which in China corresponds to the fact that no harm had been done and that the
of fourteen days to answer the plaintiff's petition. longitudinally before the shrine according to special officers for this particular duty.
While on the subject sanitation we would is to lose Lace, and as we have seen, face is Prime Minister Crisply on being questioned tion, It was eventually decided to give the They will get it without opposition. We mean the amount of votive offerings, there are arranged farther, direct the attention of His Excellency one of the most valued of Chinese possessions. about the matter in the Chamber of Deputies on Club a further three months' trial, at an to fight fair. The original manuscript whatever curious or ingenious toys can the Governor to the water supply, at the It is for this reason that studious politeness in the following day, drew attention to the signifie
badly mutilated by the festiva comp., and the increased rate of subscription, and at the transposition cscaped the notice of our eagles procure, whether the handiwork of a fa kwas, Peak. A memorial addressed to yourself on China is so often co-existent with pantly con aut fact that the cracker had been thrown from or of an almond-eyed countryman. We are the matter is supposed to have resalted cealed or altogether undisguised contempt. A behind the reredor of the altar, to which only the of that time, if results are nateyed proof-reader.
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ACCORDINO to a French astronomer, the cooling of the terrestrial crust apparently goes on more rapidly under the sea than with a land surface. From this he argues that the crust must thicken under oceans at a much more rapid rate, so a to give rise to a swelling up and distortion of the thisper portions of the crust that is forming mountain chaina.
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