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SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Parnell Defense fund closed on September 30th. The t tal was £41,000. OLD Mrs. D.-What a lot of new discases they have now that they didn't have twenty years Old Mr. B.-Yes; but you should ngo! remember, Eliza, we have a terrible sight more doctors now than we had twenty years ago. A METHODIST lady, who did not wish her name mentioned, called at the Christian Advocate editorial rooms in New York, recently, and left $150 to establish and name a church on the frontier in memory of her deceased husband. TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel helating code
pennant C, to convey men ashore, to 17 a.m.
service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning about 172.30.
A WELSH paper just received contains the follow. ing important reference to the recent meeting of
life.
Messrs. Butterfield & Swire Inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Anchises, from Liverpool, left Singapore, for this port on the afternoon of the 31st ulto,, and is due on the 6th
inst..
labour, the only objection I see to this, apari from the expense, is that it would tend during the winter months to aggravate the scarcity of water which is apprehended, not without cause, during the approaching winter.
to dispose of excrementitious matter by carrying With regard to Mr. Leigh's recommendation it from the Peak to the sea by means of a 4-inch pipe, instead of by coolit labour according to the custom of the country, I foresce grave objection to the proposed plan. It is in my opinion more than probable that the pipe would cheke, and in that case to clear it and restore circulation would provo a doty neither easy nor agreeable to those da whom it might devolve Moreover it is evi
houses in the
CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS.
CONCLUSION.
He who wishes to learn the truth about the aid of the Chinese themselves, who, however moral condition of the. Chinese can do so by the
ready to cover their own short.comings and those of their friends, are often singularly frank in confeasing the weak points in the national character. Some of these descriptions of the Chinese, by themselves, have often served to us As reminder of a conversation upon which Carlyle dwells with evident enjoyment, in one dent that as the extreme distance betweer of the volumes of his Life of Frederick the Great.
Peak district is nearly 2
That monarch and a School-Inspector, of whom miles and that the mare remote houses would he was rather fond, and with whom he liked to of the pipe, the risk of a surreptitious disposal of schools get on ? asked the King one day. be something like one mile from the mouth talk a little. Well, M. Sulzer, how do your his unsavory load would be very: Rule lessened How goes our education business? Surely, whether the coolie should carry it one mile to not ill, your Majesty, and much better in the pipe or two or three times that distance to late years, answered Sulzer, In late years, the sea, as at present. If, as Mr. Leigh states, why ? Well, your Majesty, in former, times, the notion being that mankind were naturally small portion of the load ever reaches its destinainclined to evil, a system of severity prevailed tion, the real remedy appears to be a more in schools; but now, when we recognise that efficient system of supervision on the part of the the inbar inclination of men is rather to good officials of the Sanitary Board. But in the than to evil, school-masters have adopted a more absence of proof it is to be hoped that Mr. generous procedure. •Inclination rather to Leigh's conclusion may be exaggerated,
good,' said Frederick, shaking his old head, with A and smile, Alas, dear Sulzer, Ach, mien lieber Sulver, I see you don't know that damned race of creatures (Er kennt nicht diese ver- dammte Race) as I do. Here is a speech for beneficent and excellent a king cry several you! Pardon the king, who was himself so editors of the rose-pink type. The present can be ever forget 1"
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"WHAT do you like best?" said Mr. Diffy Dent to his girl, as they stood together at the bar counter. "I like ginger ale!" she answered, "and champagne. Anything that-that-that Diffy popped that night. -"She didn't finish, but the blushed; and
AFTER a two days' courtmartial, two A. B.'s on the Victor Emanuel were yesterday sentenced to twelve and fifteen months' imprisonment respectively-one for "making bay” of the
other for insubordination.
A NEWSBOY and a butcher "fought a doel in the elty of Mexico on September 29th afternoon with knives. The butcher was disemboweled and instantly killed. Both young men were after the same girl. junoz-You are charged with breaking up a THE following me some of the more noted meeting and striking this woman. What have suicides of which mention is made in history. you to say? Prisoner-It was this way, your There do not saver much of insanity, but rather lordship. It was a spiritualistic meeting, and ofstolcal philosophy: Cato stabbed himselfrather the Tach live under the despotic reign of Caesar exclaimed, "I am happy," I could pot resist the Themistocles poisoned himself rather than lend temptation to strike a medium just once in my the Persians against hit countrymen; Zeng, when ninety-eight, hanged himself because he had put his finger out of joint, and Hannibal and Mithri dated poisoned themselves to escape being taken prisoners. When we search Scripture we find Saul rather than fall into the hands of the Philatines, commanded his armor-bearer to bold his sword that he might plange upon it; Samson, for the sake of being revenged upon his enemies, pulled down the house in which they were reveling and died with them," and Judas Iscariot, after selling the Savior for "and went and hanged himself." ADVICES from Acheen show no improvement in the siluation. The enemy leave no stone unturned to harass the army of occupation. One favourite device is to interrupt communication by destroying bridges on the tramway line between the forts, Repairing them under their fire leadsta much bloodshed. For instance, on the 29th Sept, one such operation cost the covering party off to lie in wait for Achinese marauders tearing 2 killed and 5 mortally wounded. Troops told up the rails, another of their nightly exploits, fever instead from malaria. Of one regiment out at night on this errand, half reported them selves sick the next morning. The Achinese so increase daily in daring that it is enough to drive one frantic. No wonder that the Dutch officers and soldiers, says the Batavia Nieuwsblad, look out longingly for deliverance from such an intolerable state of things, and that they wish rather to die fighting than pat up with it any longer.
THIS is the sort of stuff we find in Roman Catholia, religious organs: Mrs. Tequis, of Quebec, for nine months deprived of the use of her legs and suffering from cancer of the breast, miraculously and in an instant, at St. Anne's is said to have been cured on September 3rd shrine there, while, venerating the saint's relics. The miracle was witnessed by 200 pilgrims," The believer who wrote this charming little yarn in his best form, never did anything better in barefaced lying, and he was no novice at the business if bis chroniclers may be relied on, THE Japanese paper Hochi Shimbun says that the police authorities of the capital have fixed the outer clothing to be worn by jinrikisha-mes to consist of hanten (cost), momohiki (drawers), and kaburigata (round bat), with a lantern The cost of the clothing and lantern is estimated for each man as 4 ym. There are in the city proper 9,424 single and as,cas double rite ka's; and in the suburban districts 683 single, and a,138 double vehicles in all, 10,107 single,
jinrikisha-men in the capital with the garments now prescribed, will necessitate an outlay of yen 133,984.
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things in the master-at-arms' room, and the and 23,143 double carriages. To clothe all the seldom catch them, and run the risk of getting not clear to me that the Government would, with editor, for his share, will at once forgive,; but
THE New York Winess says there is a lack of Protestant missionaries in the empire of Brazil. We should really like to know what earthly
good Protestant gospel-grinders could possibly accomplish in a country like Brazil They would certainly create a vast deal of mischief, A TELEGRAM from Hakodate to a Japan paper reports that fire broke out about eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 18th alta. In the Mer- cantile Marine School there, with the result that
A FRENCHMAN, M.. Courtonne, announces that he will shortly make public a discovery he has made which will enable people to use their eyes in the same way that the telephone adds to the ordinary powers of the car-that is, as the tele phone enables us to hear sounds from a long off objects. M. Courtonne maintains that his distance, the telephote will enable us to see far-
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THE following prayer, by order of the Pope, is added to the Ocinber devotions and future years.
I agree with Mr. Leigh, that there are only two modes of providing an adequate supply of water probably is, good reason to anticipate a con- for the hill district, should there be, as there siderable Increase in the population. But it is the data before them, be justified in providing for so large an increase as Mr. Leich anticipates,
Taking Mr. Leigh's figures for the actual population of the hill districts exclusive of Magazine Gap as Europeans 216, Chinese 1,015, total 1,751, he assumes that in 1897 the houses will increase from 65 to ico, or 47 per cent,, and the total population from 1,351 to 2,235, or 78 per cent. The reason for such a wide difference
Leigh then provides for a liberal water supply in the ratio of increase between the inhabited bouses and the residents is not apparent. Mr. for double his estimated maximum population
utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the the building was burned to the ground. The firewire of luminous vibrations, through any kind of To those who piously recite the prayer is granted in 1891, Now as it is, I believe, generally in China.. But it requires no long experience did not spread to any adjoining structure. It is obstacle, for thousands of miles. The user of an indulgence severally of seven years and the admixed that it is undesirable, if the condition | to discover that it is a true observation that
manufacture throughout.
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believed to be due to incendiarism.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties MR. Robinson sentenced to-day, at the Police when received in good order.
Court the "boy" charged the other day with Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-stealing a quantity of miscellaneous articles from the China Navigation Steamship Co.'s steamer Tai yuan, to five months hard labor, and discharged the cook on the ground of insufficient evidence as to his identity.
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Ir is evident that Colonel Ingersoll will never hide his bald pate under a wig. In a recent funeral oration he remarked-Sacred are the lips from which have issued only truth. Over all wealth, above all station, above the noble, the robed and the crowned, rises the sincere mad. Happy is the man who nelther paints nor patcher, veils nor vencers. Blessed is he who wears no
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ALL the rumora about the alleged intention of of the Pope to leave Rome, seem to have been set at rest by the announcement that the founda- tion for the report consisted in the definite decision of a secret consistory held the last of June, that his Holiness should leave the city as Boon as he should receive positive information that a war was imminent in which Italy would take part. This information must come from a friendly power.
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the telephote, it is assumed, can see whatever samme number of quarantines for each time: "To of the Pokfulam water is not to deteriorate, is visible from the instrument at the other endtion, and after imploring the help of thy of its catchment basin, I fail to see how thee, O Blessed Joseph, do we fly in our tribula- to sell more building sites within the area of the wire as easily as if he were on the spot.
Most Holy Spouse, we ask confidently for thy house accommodation can possibly be provided COAL has been found so abundantly along the protection. We beseech thee by that affec Cotle River, in Netherlands Borneo, that Mesus. tion which united thee with the Immaculate
for a population nearly four times as great as the Menten and De Meyler have secured concessions Mother of God, and by the paternal love
maximum of the present summer. It should for working, the mines, which all lie within easy
with which thou hast encircled the Child Jesus, number of residents is, and always will be during further be borne in mind that the greatest reach of water carriage. Catie coal, it is said, and suppliant we pray that thou maycat regard the months which include or immediately follow can be laid down at Singapore far cheaper than with benignant eye the heritage which Jesus the maximum rain-fall, when the supply from the Australian or British article. The com- Christ has won by his blood, and that thou may- cessionaires have started a company with a
wells will go far to meet the wants of the district, est aid us in our necessities by thy power and Another point should not be lost sight of. I au capital of one and a half millions of dollars, help. Protect, 0 Most Provident Guardian of inclined to think that at present, considering the The first coals were dug out of the ground in the Divine Family, the elect race of Jesus extensive building operations in progress at the May, 1888, but the active working of the mines Christ; banish from us, O most loving Peak, the quantity of water used for mixing,
not proceeded with until lately. The Father, all, plague of error and corruption i Locomotief hopes that the concessionaires will do thou, our strongest support, assist us equals, if it does not exceed, that used fordordestic mortar, and for supplying the Contractors' coolies, see their way to supplying not only Singapore, from the height of Heaven with thy efficacious purposes. Now it is more than likely that after but also Java, wil
with cheap coal,
help in this struggle with the powers of dark- ness; and, as formerly thou didst rescue they diminish, and ultimately cease, on anything a year or two, these building operations will great DETECTIVE-SERGEANT HADDON captured a man Child Jesus from the greatest danger to His life, who gave himself out as a retured" Californian, this afternoon, on the Prava near the Harbour treachery of Her enemies and I. om all adversity, so now defend the Holy Church of God from the
more than an insignificant scale. Office. The emigré only had a loaded revolver, and cover each one of us with thy lasting pro- x buflet mould, and twenty cartridges on his tection, so that following thy example and sup- person. out for four "returned Californians" who holily, die piously and obtain eternal happiness As ibe Police are the look ported by thy help, we may be able to live tried to "negotiate" the money safe of a in Heaven. Amen." house on Gough Street, some time last week and who have so far escaped capture, this worthy may possibly be one of them. When the sharp-eyed detective collared the man, the latter put his hand at once to bis pockets, probably with the intention of "draw- trifle too previous for the would-be shootist, and ing a bead" on the officer, but Haddon was n had the "datbles" on him before he knew whether he was in Sam-shui-po or Peking. THE reign of slimsy skirts and no bustles in the feminine world is upon us, says a female writer In the New York Graphic, and I must say there us-those in whom modesty is unduly developed., At a Long Branch hotel the other day I saw a A ROMANTIC story is told about Mme. la Mare, mamma, flost into the dining room in an ex- young woman, properly chaperoned by her chale Canrobert, whose death was recently quisite empire-gown of some thin white stuff. announced in Paris. Twenty-six years ago the She was pleasant to look at, and I kept my eyes Marshal, at that time in the height of his glory, that way a good deal, perhaps ed. She has was at an official ball, when a young lady
when she started out; I did indeed. approached and said quite simply: "Monsieur, pened to get between me and the light, and it
was made clear that she-well, that she was will you dance with me? The surprised soldier "begged off" in a few confused words; then, biped. I had not doubled it, so perhaps I was turning to a young officer beside him, he said; unreasonably startled by the demonstration, "Will you kindly take my place beside the but I had not had such a dose of anatomical in young lady and remember that this night a formation since Mrs. Brown Potter opened in Marshal of France envies a sub-lieutenant "Cleopatra." I suppose the first wearers of first However, the matter did not rest here, for Miss empire-gowns went in for that kind of thing, Flora McDonald, under the auspices of the but with this young lady. I am sure it was an Empress Eugenie, with whom she was a favorite, oversight, and I tall this tale as a warning to subsequently became the wife of the great other young ladies. Unless you are doing that General.
sort of thing on purpose it isn't the sort of thing
THUS a San Francisco contemporary: The dead failure of the cruiser Iroquois, after $100,000 has been expended on her engines, boilers, etc., is not a first-class advertisement for Mare Island Navy Yard. Secretary Tracy wants to guiding several navy yards for complete ship-building work, and the idea is correct, provided good work shall be done at them, but Government constructors should prove their ability to pro- portion engine to bailer-power before attempting bigger things. Tripple expansion engines for the Monaddock are now being made at the yard. froquois, our coast defender will not be able to stem an average tide,
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The adjourned statutory meeting of the to-day, at the offices, d'Aguilar, Street.. Mr. St. members of this Company was held at noon. J. Hancock presided, in the absence of the Chairman, and Captain Harris, Mr. A. E. Skeels, Mr. J. M. Bastos, Lab Sim Hing, Chin Kai, J. J. Banetta, (secretary) etc., were present.
The Chairman stated that the Company had reason to be satisfied; all necessary repairs and alterations had been made, including new coppering, and she would be prepared to be floated out of deck in about a week, ready for the. suporture to be built up. They would see around them the designs, which had been dining saloon, bar, billiard-room, and card and do approved by the directors. They provided for a enoking room or suster deck, and on the main deck a spacious music saloon and twenty- four bedrooms, with all the necessary cffices, stores, and accommodation for first-class botel business. Each bed-room would have its own bath and dressing-room, with a separate verandah overlooking the water, thus securing complete privacy. Above the main-deck would be a promenade deck 160 feet wide, covered by an awning, and quite unob structed, so as to be available for dancing.
The designs having been examined, the pro- ceedings terminated.
of
Chinese society resembles some of the scenery in China. Seen at a little dietsnce it appears fair and attractive. Upon a nearer approach, however, there is invariably much that is shabby. and repulsive, and the nit i Tufo that is shabby are not fragrant. No photograph does justice to Chinese scenery, for though photography has been described as 'justice without mercy,' this
country in the world where the symbol denoting is not true of Chinese photography, in which the dirt and the smells are omitted. There is no happiness is so constantly before the eye as
Chinese happiness is all on the outside. there are no homes in Asia. The theory of believe it to be a criticism substantially just that Chinese society may be compared to the theory of Chinese music. It is very ancient." It is very complex. It rests upon an essential harmony' the material principle of music (that is the between heaven and earth. "Therefore when instruments), is clearly and rightly illustrated, the corresponding spiritual principle (that is the essence, the sounds of music) becomes perfectly manifest, and the State's affairs are successfully conducted." (See Von Aalst's "Chiness Music," passim.) The scale seems to resemble that to which we are accustomed. There is a wide music is an essential to good government, and range of instruments. Confacius taught that was so affected by the performance in his teen hundred years old, that for three months hearing of a piece which was at that time six-
be distinctly understood that I am not arguing Sheng, one of the Chinese Instruments which
In what I bave now advanced it will I trust being wholly on the music.
be was unable to relish his food, bis mind
against the impounding of rain water in a high is frequently referred to in the book of Odes, Moreover the
level reservoir. On the contrary I look on this embodies principles which are substantially careful consideration. My remarks are merely according to various writers, the introduction of expedient as a proposal worthy of the most the same as those of our grand organs. Indeed intended to point out what appears to me the the Shang Into Europe led to the invention of prematurely large scale of Mr. Leigh's proposal. the accordion and the harmonium. Kratzen- It must further be borne in mind that a stien, ati organ-builder of St. Petersburg, having scheme has for some time past been under become possessed of a Sheng, conceived the consideration for pumping water from the service idea of applying the principle of organ-stops. tank at the Albany to a tank on Mount Gough. That the Shing is one of the most important of The Electric Light Company offer to raise 4 Chinese musical instruments is apparent. No with a further charge for any additional sweetness of tone or delicacy of construction." But million gallons per annum at a cost of $4,0:0, other instrument is neatly so perfect, either for quantity that may be required. This is we hear that ancient maste has lost its hold upon equivalent to a daily supply of upwards of the nation. During the present dynasty, the 12,000 gallons, or rather more than one-fourth emperors Kang Hal and Chien Lang have done of the quantity which Mr. Leigh assumes will be much to bring muile back to its old splendour, ample when the population has nearly quad- but their efforts cannot be said to have been Electric Light Company are in a position to give in the ideas of that people which has been every effect to their proposals, that the supply they where represented as unchangeable; they have propose to give, supplemented when necessary changed, and as radically that the musical art, by the wells, is likely to afford a satisfactory which formerly always occupied the post supply, both as regards quality and quantity for honour, is now deemed the lowest calling a man some time to come.
not share my opinion (and I are the first to education, is totally abandoned. Very few. can, profess."Serious music, which according If however the majority of the Peak realdents to the classics is a necessary complement of admit that they are, many of them, as old resi- Chinese are able to play on the chin, the dents in a far better position than myself to shang, or the yun to, and still fewer are forecast the future growth of the Peak population) acquainted with the theory of the " But and should they deem it desirable to carry out though they may not be able to play, all the larger scheme of Mr. Leigh, I would observe Chinese can sing. Yes, they can sing that is that we are at present without information as to they can emit a cascade of nasal and falsetto its probable cost. Mr. Leigh's report throws no cackles, which do by no means serve to remind light on this very important subject, and I can the unhappy auditor of the traditional barmony! find nothing in the records of the Pablic Works in music, between heaven and earth. And this Department to supply me with the necessary is the sole outcome, in popular practice, of data. The carrying out of Mr. Leigh's proposals theory of ancient Chinese musici would certainly involve a considerable outlay, and in common with all works of this nature wheel-barrow. The reports of these singular not altogether free from risk. The outlay might press rather heavily on the actual la abitants, while it would prove comparatively light on the increased number of residents for whom Mr. Leigh's scheme provides. I would therefore venture to suggest that if the residents are in 'favour of carrying out Mr. Leigh's scheme at COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE, once, facilities should be given for the formation of a water supply Company for the bill districts. 31st October, 1889,
Works of this nature can under certain conditions Sja,—Advening to your letter of the 5th fost be carried out mere economically by private and to previous correspondence, I am directed enterprise than by Government, and the con Tuesday next. Senders of parcels are requested during the whole twenty-four hours of the day. practices should put public writers on their guard by the Governor to transmit to you, for the sumers would, it they executed the work them the most salient feature of which lá supposed to
Information of the Deputation appointed by the selves, be satisfied that the charge for water was by the authorities to post them as early as Very recently an investigation has been 'mado fín | #gainst individual injustice," Now only refer to Peak Residents, the enclosed copy of a Report not out of proportion to the cost of the work ]: these wotiderful vehicles in the deep interior of "-
Paris, which showed that there was a certain the issue of the Chinese Times of 21st September THX International Congress of Shorthand, lately and is a'clock in the evening, but that, with this the Chinese Times says That the Port and to state that, after the Peak Residents have services of Mr. Leigh's firm could be utilized, a Shanghal-house-boy, alone and unassisted, to falling off in the number of deaths between 1889. Of French Commercial Aspirations" subject of Peak Drainage and Water supply executed, and thus grounds for dissatisfaction the empire, and simply by pronouncing the which might arise, would be removed, and the magic formula into the shafts, compels his sitting la Paris, bas passed a resolution con. exception, the proportion of deaths is about even. Arthur contre Chest Timers do not need to be carefully considered it. His Excellency would he suggests, "to commence at once the necessary convey him by circuitous routes, but always demning the introduction of shorthand into
readers of the
be glad to make to them, at an interview, some primary schools.
Save the Brisbane Boomerang: The evil genius told, but the Chinese officials and as much as or oral observations on the subject, the complete
plans, &c. THE Drill Season of the Hongkong Artillery night when the Marquis of Harlingtoncheered the tracters and French officials concerned; and this mode of communication more convenient-at-supply of water to the hill acts, and axuming society has undergone when discussed by those of the Empire showed its horns plainly the other more responsible for this than the French cour occupation of Hit Excellency's time rendering Should it be decided however that the Govern
with a favourable wind, several hundred miles ment should undertake to provide an Improved Chinese batrane is the idealisation which Chinese- to Feldug Not unlike this treatment of the Volunteers will commence-next week. All memdrooping hearts of the English Liberal Untopia their mouths are stopped so that they canso the moment, even if it does not, in any case, bers are requested to attend the Drills on Tuce by plainty binting that the Lords would fight reproach the French either for the delay offer a better prospect than correspondence of
that the Electric Light Company fall to carry who, like M. Verne, were not at all hampered day, Thursday, and Friday.
Home Rule to the fast ditch even though in the work or the excessive expenditure. an early and satisfactory settlement.
out their proposals, it would be necessary to go by facts. Upon examination a Chinese wheel majority of the Commons innert Parliament was The enterprise has probably not been more
Into the whole question with a view of barrow is not in the least cany, but is found to in favour of it. It may be asked: What has this fortunate then with its wicked origin it deserved
Your most obedient Servant, more economical to collect water in a reservals Te is not light it is heavy, With the (Signed) HENRY MAY, below Mountain Lodge or to pump water from exception of the terrible toil in the mines, which for Acting Colonial Secretary. the Albany tank. The latter alternative would has already been described, and the tracking THE deciding match between the Garrison For this statement is peculiarly important as seating the French syndicate, who was invited to E. Mackintosh, Esq., &c., &c, &c,
at least have the advantage of a probability of of junks in the Yangtze gorges, the labour Shooting Club and the A. and S Highlanders, showing how little the ruling class of the Empire make a counter tender at a lower price. What
greater purity in the quality of water, since performed by the Chinese wheel-barrow-man le shot off this afternoon, resulted in a victory for is guided by pubile opinion and how it only yields Chou-fu's private reasons may have been
SURVEYOR GENERAJ'S OFFICE,
In conclusion, I would add that, with a view to more like that of a beast than any work done In the latter by 36 points, their score being 914. to force the fear of force, Such is its regord, ❘ need not to be considered; but he represented
Hongkong, 21st October, 1889.
providing as far as possible a sufficient supply China. Then, too, the Chinese wheelbarrow and it evidently means to maintain it. But whại | to the Viceroy that the contract price was
Six-I bave the honour to report, as follows three new wells are being sunk in the Peak dis-themselves do not appear to mind that) and there, of water during the approaching dry season, creaks, for it is never oiled (but the Chinese) DETECTIVE SERGEANT Hadden made a smart fools we common people are to stand such non, cheaper by more than 10 per cent. than the capture the day before yesterday. He saw & rense, the British people not to sweep the Lords other, and besides the transaction was gone, or the aediatrics with age and water spply trict, one below Plaskelf's Gap, one below the fe in inevitable friction bich is not merely heard Chinaman marching along Queen's Road
sus of existence, the Australian people not to anteed by the Compteis d'Escompte Now of the Peakidistic with special reference to Mr. Government Villas, and another, on the porth, but is felts All this is as true of Chinese social Central with a bran-new umbrella, making announce to all whom it may concern that the the Chinese Timese throws out aspersions when R. H. Leigh's report of soth September last, m
west slope of Mount Kellett a bee-line for a pawn shop, whereupon he walk- next gubernatorial veto will be the signal for dis- | its party's Interest is concerned," but get
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Ufo as of their wheel-barrows, and if this propost ed up to the man and made some filendly in pensing altogether with imported governors and virtuously indignant when Sheng is attacked. The main objection to the pipe drains recently I xin urth is about to be commenced at Magation is doubted by any one it is certainly not
Gap, quiries something about whether "his mother all they represent]. For a privileged class it in. now a friend, but still the same Sheng Tagal laid is the offensive smell that occasionally
With regard to the proposals of Mr. Hist and templating the theory of Chinese society, and the doubted by the Chinese themselves, la con knew if he was out." The Celestial appearing wariably for itself and itself alone, necessarily aginst whom the Chinese Times was so biter escapts from the ventilators. I have given Mr. Granville Sharp, as they differ in detail way in which that theory is reduced to fact, wo to be rather put out at this Yankee mode of Indifferent to everything bot its own selfish lale. during the Mitkiewics scare. The "respectable" | instructions to close the openings from the vend-
rather than in principle from Mr. Leigh's, it are often reminded of those stone tablets to be addressing a stranger, was "euchred," and so rests and utterly incapable of understanding or Chiness Times exhibits a very flexible moratylators on the road, and to provide vents, as far appears to me premature to enter on minor seen at the spot where the principal highway without a murmur marched up to the Police meeting the desires of the unprivileged mass. It does not allow others to attack a "well-knova? as practicable, away from the road, and I trust points until the main question of providing cross streams. The object of these tableta in to Station with his captor. It turned out that the The insolent autocrats who threater to stonewall Chinese Trotal, because at the moment it siles when the work is completed the aulaance will supply by pumping or storage in decided to preserve in comerlanibe remembrance the umbrella belonged to a certain sea-captain, well in the Lords if Home Rule carries in the Com- with him on a certain question ; but the Chifter, be abated. Indical remedy can only be known for some twenty years along this coast, mone are the very same gentry who would keep Timer has of course an unlimited right to attick supplied by the effective flashing of the drains, are the honour to be, Str, say of those by How the bridges are
Your, most obedient Servant,
eyes and repaired. Sometimes there are and that the stolen" article had been left at á | the “ kawlinies” in subjectian, who veto the sets ||ány Chinese official as soon as the smallest of but this, I fear, cannot be accomplished until
[dozen', such + stoting: in ima friend's house, and Immediately appropriated by passed by our own local legislatures, and who the interests of its party and a stake Does he the Peak district is furnished with an abundant the friend's “boy” as having no right to be there, want to secure the Western half of our children's Chinese Times think that other people are fläc, supply of water vapor Mr. Robinson sentenced the umbrella thief to Austraila for cheap and nasty byt profitable and does it thinks its mosal seráson will city Allregards the suggestion to scour the disins 'six weeks hard labor to-day.
alien races,
any weight when they are not practised by itsel by "Alling the Bushing tanks with water by handh
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The Hongkong Gelegraph
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1889,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE leading Chinese merchants in New York are trying to start a Chinese bank. THE Xmas Parcel mail closes at 3 p.m. on
possible,
WE are informed by the agents (Meura, Russell & Co.) that the "Union Line steamer Dorter left Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected to arrive on the 7th inst,
you want to do at all.
a
THE PEAK DRAINAGE.
The following has been handed us for publica- tion for the information of Peak Residents and
MANY people have curious ideas regarding the hour of death. Some bold the largest proportion. THE following interesting letter, from a corres- of deaths from disease occurs when the tide gondent who signs himself "Anti-Humbug." to ebbs, while others think that the same is true in our Shanghai morning cghtemporary speaks for the early hours of morning. There are yet other itself:-The Chinese Timye, in its issue of more or less wide-spread impressions on this October 19th, finds your “persistent attack on subject, but those mentioned appear to be the Sheng Taotai mean in the extreme. Corruption others. most popular ones. It has recently been is so universal in Chind that any publicist may stated that from time to time careful observa-think himself vase in alleging it in any particular tions have been made in the hospitals transaction but on the well-known principle which have resulted in showing that the act of that it is so insult to speak of a rope to ong whose death takes place with fairly equal frequency father was hanged, the very prevalence of corrupt
to do with Australians? To us it seems to have to be" and again, "The confidential plans and
this much to do thatws are under the same gentry specifications of a competent engineer were and subject to the same grole abuse of power; | handed by H.E. Chouse to M. Thévenet, repre
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I have the honor to be, 'Sir,
IDRAINAGE. Manaka
Chinese society may be likened to the Chinese
Instruments, as described by the Jesuit mission. aries, seem to have excited much surprise in Europe, especially the fact that they are at times: partly propelled by the, wind. How Interesting1 How clever the Chinese must, bel How much better than our clumsy method! Thus Milion speaks of
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With walls and wiod their cany wagona light." followed Milton, to the exclusion of any more recent authorities, in ese of those strange talen Thus too Jules Verne, who seems to have
be verl-similitude, makes his hero engage one of
Carefully whether it would be better and be made of hard wood and a great deal of itā
Sury General
able" Alfred)
Land of 100s)
bridge the