Fatimations. DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA, LIMITED, CHEMISTS..
DAKIN BROTHERS' TONIC SPICE OR
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CONDITION POWDER FOR HORSES. COURSE of the Tonic Spice strengthens
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1889.
THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Prometheus, from Liverpool, left Singapora yesterday morning for this post, and is due on the 18th inst. CARLOS I, the
new King of Portugal, is said to have a variety of tastes. He likes military affairs, is an art critic, and a good Latin scholar. YOUNG Husband (reproachfully)-You never told me you had been married before. Young Wife-No, dear, because he only lived three months.
A and gives tone to the digestive organs, THE entertainment which the Ruchwaldy family
fortifies the constitation, and invariably restores -the healthy functions of the organs.
THERE will be ayudem Pole on the Race The Supreme Court on the 20th day of May, 1889, what a one-eyed safe of animal he was, and course to-morrow, st:3-45 p.m.
for a wilt of Habeas Corpus to bring the said | —well, a European- constable entered the house plaintiff before the Supreme Court, and the said a few minutes later to find her holding him by Honourable Court commanded the keeper of the scruff of the neck, whilst be chin-chinned". Victoria Gaol to bring before the Honourable her not to give him into custody. Such was the Fielding Claske, Acting Chief Justice, on Tues. story related to Mr. Wodehouse; the sequel will day, the atat day of May, 1889, the body of the be told when the remand is up, next week. plaintiff.
CHIANO Chih-tung was requested by the Shang- hai press 10 grant their representative an inter- view. The old man eloquent declined-be had too many private engagements, Viceroy Chang wants a lot of beating when he meant business.
tramped and potency Herculean Henry
8-On the arst day of May, 1887, the body of plaintiff was brought in custody to the Supreme
Court, and there the Acting Chief Justice dis-
insuficiency of the information so lead to the
THE charm of banging up alleged "Club Rules", in gambling-houses to outwit the police, bas quite the yesterday, and raked in the three principals. They got six months each, to-day,
were to have given in the Theatre, City Hall, For horses in training for Racing the Tonic-morrow night, has been postponed until Tues- Spice is of essential value, for by its use a great day evening,
saving of time is effected in producing that firm-A MARINE Court will assemble at the Harbour neas of muscle accessary for the great exertions Office to-morrow, to enquire into the circum-eleven will come to Hongkong in January to required on the racecourse:
stances connected with the loss of the British ship Nyighaw.
For griffins or newly-imported horses a month's course of the Tonic Spice will bring about as much improvement as could be done in three months without the Spice..
'NO HORSE-OWNER SHOULD BE WITHOUT IT.
Sold in Tins at $1, and in larger Tins, four times the quantity, at $3. DAKIN. BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,
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A MAN in a Milwaukee court, when asked if he could testify to the veracity of a neighbor, replied: "Well, I would believe him if I knew what he was saying to be true."
IN the great Prussian Field Marshal's own immediate branch of the Moltke familly there have been eight Ministers of States, four Generals, and one Admiral, all in the Danish service.
THERE are less than half a million Jews in France, yet the Prefects of sixty-two out of the eighty-four departments are of the Jewish faith. | The fact was recently made public and created
a grave sensation.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE French mail despatched by the M. M. Steamer Natal was delivered in London'on the 3rd instant. The Natal was detained at Sings, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
pore three days, repairing the damages zostala. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED
ed in the typhoon,
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The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout.
FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.
Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
BIRTH. At H.B.M. Legation. Peking, on the 29th, November, the wife of J. N. JORDAN, Acting Chinese Secretary, of a son.
DEATH.
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The Hongkong Telegraph
THE Russian ukase forbidding female tele. graphists from marrying any persona except male telegraphists has been revoked, and now they may marry any man of respectability," after having obtained official permission,
CREMATION is coming more and more into vogue in Germany, In spite of the expense and certain legal difficulties, which render its performance in some parts almost an impossibility. At Gotba no fewer than 100 bodies have been cremated during the present year.
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Tax Straits Times believes that it is practically certainty that & Straite Settlements cricket
play a match with a picked team of this Colony, If the arrangement does not miscarry the Straits team will probably leave on the 19th. January.
A 000D deal of powder has been wasted in the harbour to-day saluting something, or somebody, or nobody-but anyhow, blazing away money in smoke and making a beastly row about nothing, A local ordinance prohibiting this idiotic practice in Hongkong harbour would make the reputa tion of any one of our unofficial legislators. [N.B.-No extra charge for this suggestion.—Ed.] Tax new city of Johannesburg, in the South African gold region, is attracting attention, and there are those who predict for it a phenomenal fatore, They promise 1,000,000 inhabitants in five years, an output of gold which shall gild the whole world, a commercial importance threatening the established trade centers of the Old World, and a political and social position second to ne city in Africa, north or south. At the Legislative Council meeting to-morrow the orders of the day will be :--
Mr. MacEwen, pursuant to notice, will move:
That the Report of the Committee on the question of official salaries be laid on the table. Reports on the Finance Committee (Nos. 12 and 13)
Committee on the Appropriation Bill, 1890,
ONE time, on the Texas frontier, a man came into camp riding on an old mule. "How much for the mule?" asked a bystander. “Jist a hundred dollars," answered the driver. "I Five you five dollars," said the other. The driver stopped short,, as if in amazement, and then slowly dismounted. - "Stranger," said he, "I ain't a-going to let a little matter of ninety- five dollars stand between me and a mule trade. Tandle's yourn."
kinklang correspondent of the Shanghai y, writing on the 8th inst. says:- You regret to hear of the death of Mr. S. Hember, which occurred at uhe on the 7th instant. His remains were brought here by the steamer Yuento, and the funeral took place to-day, when nearly all the foreign community attended. The deceased gentleman was one of the oldest resi- dents of Wuhu, and was agent there for Mr. Geo. McBain. He leaves a widow and one child to mourn his loss."
OUR Shanghai morning contemporary tells us that the steamer Peking has taken some grue. some cargo to the South this trip. Among her freight are fifty-eight coffins with corpses, and thirty-one large cases, each of which contains four small boxes of skeletons and human bones. A MIRACLE Explained.—Mrs. D.- y husband fell down the cellar-stairs with bottles of wine and didn't break a single one of them. Visitor-Wonderful Miraculous! Mrs. D. Weil, ne, it's not so wonderful after all. The five bottles of wine were on the inside. He | drank them before he fell down the stairs.
"BUT you are surely mad! How can you think of borrowing money on these terms, and from people of that stamp?" said the learned counsel, "My dear fellow, replied his client, who had got left" in Panjoms, better go to a scamp who lends you money at fifteen per cent than to.
IT may be interesting to those awe-struck indi- an honest man who refuses you at five!"
viduals who imagine, when they are ́H.M.9. THE N. C. Daily News of the toth inst. Emperieuse signalling to H.M. ditto Porpoise, that it means "Prepare for action," to know says "We are fold that owing to a mirage on Saturday morning people on board a steamer at that occasionally all this outward circumstance, a spot from which Gutzlaff bore South twenty-sometimes means something quite low-down. three miles could distinctly see the natives at For instance, yesterday one of the ship-scrapers Yangize Cape, twenty miles distant, walking engaged in whitewashing the Cordelia felt cold, along the shore or fishing with nots at the and stole a stoker's shirt. It was missed by and bye, sad up went the flags to ask the Victor water's edge.",
Emanuel to be so good and kind as to find it. A corporal came off, searched everybody in the upper regions, and spotted the secretive scraper. He is in gaol now for a month. We read that the Duchess of Edinburgh's income is about a third less than it used to be. Her dowry was arranged to be invested in Russia, and interest was to be paid by the Emperor Now Alexander III. has reduced the incomes of all the Grand Dukes and Duchesses, and even hahousse ready owing to Prince that of Empress. Added to this, the rouble Blamarck, but more probably from commercial and financial reasons-is of less valus than it was in 1874, and there is a rule that the Grand Dakes and Duchesses may be deprived of half their incomes unless they spend half the year in Russia, It is well known that the Duchess has not conformed to this rule since her father's murder fá 1881.
In Great Britain about 10,000,coo more tons of coal, iron and other minerals were mined last year than in 1887 and employed 10,0:0 more men in the work, bat fewer lives were lost in the process. The total number of fatal accidents was 885 and of deaths occasioned thereby 960, being an increase of 4 in the accidente, but a decrease of or in the lives lost.
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THE common soldiers of the Continental armies are not paid exorbitant salaries, as may be At Wubu, on the 7th December (suddenly), learned from the fact, that after great deliberation S. HIиBIR, sged 47 years,
it has been decided to advance the pay of the French privates after October 1st, to 37 centimes per day, or a little over 5 cents. This advance is hailed with joy by the soldiers. What their stipend has been in the past is not stated. POOR Samuel White, of Ohiol He was in penitentiary for life, and the Governor pardoned him on condition that he should not take another drink. He kept the faith for eighteen years, but when his daughter got married the other day he began to celebrate and looked upon the wine when it was red and various other colors,' und therefore has been taken back to serve his life sentence in prison.
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1889.
TELEGRAMS.
SLAVERY.
LONDON, December 3rd. The International Conference on slavery now aitting in Brussels has discussed a proposal for the establishment of stations in the interior of Africa with sufficient force to overcome the slave
hunters.
MR. GLADSTONE ON TURKEY.
December 3rd. Speaking at an assembly of the National Liberal Federation at Manchester, Mr. Glad- stone recalled the overthrow of the Conserva- tive Government in 1880 consequence on 'the want of sympathy with the sufferings of the Bul. garian people. He said thatowing to the march of events in Crete and Armenia the time has again come for the opposition to watch vigilantly as they did between 1876 and 1880; that Turkish doings in Armenia urgently demand the atten. ton of the British people, and that he hoped the Government would not accept the customary Tarkish apologies and evasions. Mr. Gladstone ended by endorsing the Radical programme.
STANLEY AND EMIN.
December 4th. Stanley and Emin have reached Major Wiss
December stb.
nann's Caravan,
Stapley and Emin have arrived at Bagamoyo.
NETHERLANDS INDIA,
BELGIUM is an uncomfortable country for embezzlers. A cashier employed by the city of Ghent who embezzled 163,000 fr. of the municipal cash has just caught it very hot indeed. He has been sentenced to forty years imprisonment, and five years police supervision to follow, has been fined 8.450 fr. ordered to restore the entire sum he has embezzled, and will, in addition, lose all his civil rights.——
SUPREME COURT.
IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisne
***Judge).
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ACTION FOR 'ILLEGAL IMPRISONMENT. In the case of Lamm v. Wodehouse, set out below, in which Mr. Philippo, lnstructed by Mr. Webber, was present on plaintiff's behalf,
Mr. Stokes, who appeared for the defendant, Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, ap plied parts that the petition be dismissed, on the ground that, even supposing the allegations were admitted, there was no ground of action against the defendant. He then read the plain. tiff's petition, which was as follows
The plaintiff is an architect and surveyor residing at Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong, formerly an assistant with E. H. Bachaonn, Mayor of Balmaic, Australia,
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The defendant is one of the Police Magistrates for Victoria, Hongkong, aforesaid,
d'resides at the Park,
THE Military Moniters were in good form at their show in the Garrison Theatre, last night, and there was a correspondingly large attend- ance Byron's farcical comedy Uncis and William's farce Turn Him Out made up the entertainment, The comedy was both well- mounted and well-asted. Uncle will be performed again to-morrow night preceded by Borrowed Plumes. The Colonel Commanding has signified bis intention of being present,
3. The plaintiff anived in this Colony on or JUSTICE lends a very wide-open ear to some shout the 18th day of May, 1889, in the steamer funny defenses, occasionally. The other day, for Changsha, and was on the said ship arrested instance, an ex-lukong saw some men unloading Chief Saperintendent of Police charging the by the defendant upon the information of the bags of auger from a junk at West Point, and platatin with larceny of £2,300 within the juris suspecting them, followed them to their haunt of vice, and got them arrested. They were found diction of the Government of Victoria, Australia to have fifty dollars worth of the stuff, which The plaintiff upon being so arrested was taken by the constable some distance through the resembled the product of the Talk Refinery main street on foot to the Police Station and he around which place one of the men was known to around a good deal. Yet because the first was there detained in a cell till one o'clock, when robber" said he bought it from an unknown he was 1-ken tothe Hongkong Police Court, and a charge of being one Arthur Edward Bold OWACT, at se, one night, Mr. Wodehouse dis- Hornbuckle, a bank clerk, and with haring missed the case to-day, “Boughtonenightatzen." should be a popular gag" antong the fraternity absconded from Melbourne, Australia, with £2,200, made against the plaintiff. Thedefendant in future,
femanded the page until the 25th day of May,
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arrest of the plaintiff,
9-In consequence of being so taken into custody, the plaintiff suffered imprisonment, annoyance and disgrace, and loss of time.
The plaintiff claim $1,000 damages and the costs of this action,
J. FERDINAND LIMM,
Plaintiff. His lordship fixed the hearing of the case for the 5th January.
BRANDT,
We shall really have to get this name stereotyped if this sort of thing goes on. Here is to day record, at the Summary Court, before Mr. Justice Wine.
WEBBER V. BRANDT.
In this matter the plaintiff claims $1,000 from Brandt for slander.
understood that the previous Friday his lord
Brandt Inquired what was being done. He ship made an order on him to file an answer within seven days.
Mr. Rodyk-The plaintiff filed his pleadings last Saturday.
His lordship-It will come on in next Friday's list, for a day to be fixed.
H. AND JA SAMPSON V. BRANDT. This was a claim for $150 for brokerage on 300 Sugar shares.
Mr. Caldwell, who appeared for the plaintiffs, said that the case was mentioned last Friday, when the defendant applied for a postponement in order to get Mr. J. Sampson's evidence. His lordship therefore ordered him to file an „affidar ́'t that Mr. Sampson would return shortly. probability of his return within a reasonable His lordship - Yes, an affidavit showing the time"
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LATE TELEGRAMS.,
LONDON, November 16th, The garrison of Rio de Janeiro has revolted. The Minister of Marine, in attempting to quell the rising, was killed, many other State officials claimed a Republic in Brazil, nominating a pro- being made prisoners. The insurgents-pro.... visional Government, with General Fonseca as President. In the proclamation, there is a guarantee of safety to the Emperor and family, now at their country' place. Business in the capital paralysed. The attitude likely to be taken in the provinces is not yet known.
LISBON, November 17th.
Advices received here from Rio de Janeiro report that Senores Constant, Bocaquava and Fonseca actually constitute the Government, everal Fonseca being the actual leader of the revolution.
CONSTANTINOPLE, November z the
A Commission is sitting under the presidency of the Grand Vizier, to consider the question of granting an amnesty in Crete,
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THE HONGKONG SHARESMITH,
To de Walised to the air of the Village
Blacksmith.)
Under Hongkong's drear old Clock Tower
The ducky sharesmith stande: This squid, a mighty force is it, With grabbing, griping bonds, And the muscles of those tentacica Are strong as Rope Walk strands. Its hair is crisp and black and coarse Its face is black and long Its brow is wet with honest (II) sweat And stares the whole world out of face, It grabs whate'er it 'can,
For it owes to every man. Week in, week out, from morri till night. You can hear this Octopus blow You can hear the swing of its long right arms, With plaintive moan-and slow, Like a Bear a ringing a telephone bell
Seeking Punjom shares when low. And ladies passing the street along.. Avoid the Hotel door They hate to meet its vulgar stare Or.hear its ugly roar,
And catch the coarse remarks that fly.
Like oaths from a Trapsvaal Boer.
It goes on Sunday to the kirk,
Which is Mosque or Synagogue;
It hear the Hadji or Rabbl preach Butcach prayer is a "Share" or a "Ring," you bet, For this is no infidel dog, Which sets its heart all agog.
In consequence of the adverse decision give the Country Court at Nottingham, he has shot against a German dentist named Arnemann Mr. Bristowe, the Judge, and wounded jalm dangerously. "Arnemann has been arrested.
Mr. Bristowe has had his wound probed by. It sounds to the Squid like a telephone's voice, the doctors, but they have not succeeded in Ringing up Limited Lia; extracting the bullet.
It needs must think of these once more, The Pall Mall Gazette states that Earl Eus-For they've fallen once or twice, ton will on Saturday apply for a fint to criminally And, the grasping tentacle carefully wipes prosecate, the editor of the North London A tear out of its eyes; Press for stating that the Earl was concerned Bulling"-"Bearing "-Borrowing, in the revoling scandal known as the Cleveland Onward through life it goes; sircet scandal, and that he fled the country in Each morning sees some trick begun consequence.
Each evening, p'rhaps, its close, It has earned a night's repose. Something bulled "-Somebody crushed-
And when the honest truth is told, And thinks it sees untold sums of gold I blurts forth inky wrath;
In a diab of libel "broth," But, proves again conclusively, that, The greater the truth, the libel,—the froth. Thanks, thanks to thee, most worthy Squid, For the lesson thou hast taught Thus at the game of " Bull "and “ Bear? Our fortunes may be wrought, But we'd rather work than buy a share, Or pass through the Sessions Court.
that messengers from Stanley report that Emin. A despatch from Captain Wis.mann states and 'Casati are bring three hundred Soudanese soldiers, besides many peop'e and a quantity of follow with two hundred and forty Zanzibaris. Ivory with them. Stanley with six Englishmen
can't go on without this man. I have just got and have captured the Mahdist's grand banner. Brandt-What are you going to do? You The despatch states that Emin and Stanley have repeatedly fought and defeated the Mahdists, an affidavit shewing that he will not return Most of Emin's soldiers refusedap march south- before twelve months, but he informed me birnward, declaring their home lay in a northerly self that he was only going home for the benefit direction. Emin has placed two Egyptian offi.ers
this th
in command of stations.
LONDON, November 21st. A later despatch from Captain Wissmann states that Stanley, Emia Pacha, and party reached Mpwapwa on the 10th November, and are expected at Bagamoyo on the 1st December. Captain Wisemann has been promoted to the rank of Major in the German Army.
BERLIN, November atst. The Committee of the Reichstag has adopted, the case, your lordship, but I have it in writing a large majority, a Bill to perpetuate the
Socialist law, from Brands that he admits this.
TEHERAN, November 21st, Brand-1 don't. I deny it.
The Cholera epidemic is increasing and spreading eastwards.
: PARIS November 21st.
His lordship-But he was very unwell when he went away. What do you want me to do— put it off for twelve months ?
Brandt-Yes, or give me a commission for his evidente, I can't go on without it.
His lordship-1 will postpone the case for a week, and you may consider whether you will have a commission home. If not, we will go on with the case.
Mr. Caldwell I don't know how it will affect
His lordship-That is not before me to-day,
THE 'CHINESE confideNCE
TRICK.
M. Rouvier, Minister of Commerce, has pro posed to resign, owing to the Government defeat over the Matches Monopoly Bill, but, yielding to the advice of M. Tirard, has deferred his final decision in the matter.
A THRESHER SHARK.
FOOCHOW.
7th December, 1889.
The heavy rains which fell during last Satur
cabbage plantations from the long drought. In day and Sunday have greatly relieved the native
the country, where water could not be obtained, the people have been entirely deprived of this once cheap food.
A gang of some twenty thieves, supposed to be the celebrated disbanded Hunan soldiers, attacked a village opposite the Race-course, but owing to the great resistance of the villagers, of whom a large number were called out, the "braves" were obliged to take to their heels.
Heavy losses in gambling are said to have been the cause of the desperate action of the man who recently hanged himself at the back of the Police station. The body hung the whole night and during part of the next day, without any notice being taken by the people or the police: It seems to us that charity is not known
A disturbance took place at Glasgow Uninor pmcticed in China, and had it not been for versity yesterday. The students resenting their the kindness of two members of the community,. exclusion from the conferment of degrees, bustled the unfortunate man would perhaps have been their Professors and the Principal, smashed the hanging for days, th panels of the doors, and drenched the Professors
who were inside with buckets of water.
A touching tale was narrated to Mr. Wode- bouse in the Police Court yesterday afternoon,
LONDON, November 22nd. by a half-caste damel who was prosecuting a rather decent looking, well-dressed Chinaman Persistent rumours are current that it is the for beguiling her out of $700 and a lot of intention of the Secretory of the United States Jewelry. The lady is a femme entretenue, Treasury to increase the monthly purchase of whom a gentleman in one of our Banks main-silver from a minimum quantity of two million tained in luxury at No. 13 Old Bailey Street. dollars allowed by the Eland Act to a maximum Sometime in September last the rather decent of four million dollars. looking individual referred to above called at ber bower, and insisted on displacing her affections, representing himself as compradore newly arrived from Shanghai, with no end of influential connections at Canton, including a mandarin, She was coy for a while, but as he kicked out a sweetheart whom she found for him, and he was so fond of her." She thereupon gave the renewed his suit, she consented at last," since Bank man the mitten, and her new fover installed himself, promising to redeem her from the procuress who owned her, and make her bis second wife, and give her everything she wanted generally, including $1000 at the Chinese News from Samoa state that Malicion has, New Year, for pin money. He was a regular been reinstated as King, and that England, Monte Christo, according to his own representa. Germany, and America have recognised him. tions, having deposited a pile of gold dollars with The Standard states that the War Office have a bead Chinaman at the Hongkong and dismissed the Manager of the Laboratory Depart- Shanghai Bank, a security for the loan ment and the Foreman of the Cartridge Factory of a mere $250. A few days after install at. Woolwich, and have refused to disclose the ing himself he was just short of $50,"ground for their dismissal, and borrowed it. Next day he accepted $40 more in a lordly wy, and, when she asked him for it back, said that he had just sent $10.000 worth of merchandise to Siam, and was hard up until it arrived and he could draw against He let her alone then until the month-end, when
A despatch from Stanley has been published, Victmia Nyanza extends to within one-huarded in which he states he has discovered that Lal
and fifty-five miles of Tanganyika, and that the length of the Victoria Nyanza is two hundred and seventy miles, and that it covers an area of twenty-seven thousand square miles..
The Peninsular and Oriental Stearnship Com: pany have declared a dividend of three and a half per cent for the past half year, and a bonus of two per cent from the underwriting profits.
CONSTANTINOPLE. 22nd Nov,
The Sultan has ordered enquiry to be made into the misdeeds of the Kurde in Armenia, and also that all offenders are to be severely punished, The Turkish population have joined ibe Armen. fans in their complaint against the Kurds
LONDON, November 23rd. The Parnell Commission cloned yesterday, The Judges give their decision later on.
The launch of the troopship Serapis yester day came into collision with a barge in the Suez Canal, A trooper of the Fifth Dragoon Guards, named McPherson, and a blue jacket of the ship were drowned, and another injured,
France regards the anti-slavery conference at Brussels as an attempt to isolate, her on the is question of the right believed she will refuse of search, whit
Advices from Ireland are more encouraging? Kerry is quieting, and the military quartered for several years in Killarney have been with
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During the lust month some eight large rice shops have failed, all of them long established, Their liabilities range. from twenty to ninety China Merchants offices has been established thousand dollars each. The one opposite the
for the last twenty years, and was declared a bankrupt during the last few days, with a babiii- ty of over twenty thousand dollars. The cause of all this trouble is said chiefly to be the cessa tion of credit usually granted to them by the native banks, and the difficulty of collecting their accounts, coupled with the great scarcity of grain
Native teamen belleve they well be able to buy teas in the country next season at an extra- ordinarily low price, owing to the disppearance of my, if not all, of those so-called teamen who are known amongst the true dealers as potato merchants, and who have neither capital nor knowledge of the business, but simply act foolishly with the little money obtained by loans at an exorbitant rate of interest. These are the people who bring into the market spations: tes and under-self the real dealers. It is to be hoped they will be conspicuous by their absence nest season.
Since the two latest fires we hear every night a ̈ ̈ native beating a gong and howling about the streets; upon enquiry we were informed that the fires bave caused such terror, in the people that s subscription has been raised in each district to pay a man to call out every night, waming per sous to be careful about fire, in their houses, We sincerely wish them every success in this grand mode of preventing fire, but it would be far better, we think, if they would raise & aut- ficient sum every year to keep a hundred good men and an engine ready to start at a moment'e notice to stop the fire at its beginning o
The following is the tea export since our lesso of the 23rd nitimo, as per consignees returns For London
Per Anchists'insiniai
Ulysse
RIO, November 201ð éÁDodatk
167 lbs,
471,145
12,533
14,395
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his predecessor scat up the customary Gifty dollars to the lady. He took $35 out of the amount, "until to-morrow, when he was going to receive some $6000. Thenceforward until November, he saved her off on the plea that he could not get his gold from the Bank because his friend the compradore was away in Shanghai, One day in November, however, he came in jubil antly, and said that the compradore had returned, and now was the time to get so much money that she could roll in it; she should have at least six thousand dollars. He even went so far as to suggest that she should go down and draw it herself, but, as a sort of after-thought, added that perhaps he had better go himself, seeing the amount he had to get. Then he recollected that it was no use going that day, as the safe was only open on Thursdays, and the Bank might not like to have their treasury so tremendously spent breakfast-time in expatiating on the way depleted on an off-day. Thursday came, and he drawn, he intended dagtting her when he got back. Then he borrowed another $35, keeping up the comedy so well that he got her to pawn some Jewelry and give him the rest of her ornaments. Still she distrusted him, and he only got away on his most solumn assurance that he would fetch everything back, along with the rest of his wealth, by six o'clock. He said, in effect, “Is my finger wet is it dry? then etc, etc. If hedid not return by six he would no longer exist, were his last words, and then he went off to Canton, from whence he wrote a letter not yet translated. LOCAL AND GENERAL.
IT is terrible to learn that eau-de-Cologne | 1889, 10
Hereturned last week, chock-full of brand-new alcoholism is now..recognised disease in Ger-5--On or about the roth of May last the lies. Where is my money were her first words, There appears to be some doubt about the man H.M.S. Swift arrived at Chinking on the 7th many and Franca-chiefly among women, and plaintiff's solicitar having received instructions but he was prepared for that, He told her that sacre of Dr. Peters. The German newspapers inst., end left on the 9th for Hankow.
women, of course, of the higher classes. A wo- to defend the plaintiff thereupon caused enquiries his brother, the mandarin, had been very busy assert that he is quite safe at Mount Kenia, THE Singapore Tramways were sold on the 5th man who ultimately becomes a slave to the to be made and found that a mistake had been catching robbers and trying them so busy, in whilst on the other hand the latest news from
fact, that he had turned a few of them over to Zanzibar reaffirms the massacre, dyda habit, usually beglas by taking a few drops of mada in arresting the plaintiff.jp ins, for $186,000-$66,000 above the upset the spirit when she happens to feel little 6On or about the 20th, the plaintiff's him (the gay deceiver) to try his hand on. Lord Blatchford is dead, lapsenome ed price.
MURLARIN CONSTANTINOPLE, November 24th. faint. She increases the dose whenever she re solicitor applied to the defendant to release Under the circumstances, therefore, she could
The trial of Mapa Bey has commenced. The ACCORDING to the Chinese Board of Revenus, turns to it, and is time takes the stuff by the the defendant and called, upon the hearing hardly expect him to bother about money. the annual returns derived from Lekin, the Salt wine-glass. It is especially consumed by morphin of the application before the defendant, the Then he asked her for another loan, but she proceedings are public o
was adamant. Next day she got $10, and he
A LONDON, November 15th, In his entertaining preface to the Catalogue and Land taxes, aggregate taels 78,000,000, and cocaine victims; for they find that cau-da Chief Superintendent of Folice, who stated
Cologne is to some extent a substitute for the drug in Court to the defendant that the plaintiff did mentioned that he was just wanting seven, and A letter from Stanley to the Emin, Racha of the Fan-makers' Exhibition at Drapers Hall which they know too well is slowly killing them. not correspond with the description given juhe even went so far as to try and find her pocket Relief Commitee, dated the 5th August, gives In 1878, Mr. George Augustus Sala says, "I The remedy, however, is as bad as the evil. telegram received from Melboume. The con-when she refused to lend it lovingly. Masculins details of the events that, have taken place since thorn was the first needle, no doubt a palm leaf Eau-de-Cologne alcoholism is one of the worst stable also corroborated the Captain Superinten like, he failed, and went away swearing. Next his return to Yamboya The encounters with was the first fan and ancient monpinents forms of the disease. It involves sleeplessness dent of Police in that fact, but the defendant day he usumed a defiant attitude when the savages and dwarfs in the dark forest, the how us that stich natural objects as the palm and delirium tremens of a less easily curable refused to discharge the plaintiff and again talked about being repaid, and threatened narrow escape of the party from sinstation, and leaf and the bird's wing were originally adapted character than the sleeplessness and delirium remanded the plaintiff and ordered the plaintiff to get a lot of shopkeeper to sign a petition to the ultimate rescue of Emin, who was a prisoners to this us. To the present day at shops deal
may be par tremene that are brought about by over indul forthwith to &c. In Oils, is now on 'view at The Hall & gence la brandy or any ordinary spirits ; for not and shobo conveyed to Victoria. Gaoi: put her in gaol, for an indefiulte period if she In the hands of bla rebels, care all graphigally, Jogin Eastern produ
of didn't up it would cost matter of described. Mr. Stanley states that he was at leaf exactly antely kept until the 751 $5,000 to Then he slapped face, pulled the point of deals a most fast
THE HAGUE, December 5th, The second chamber has passed the East India Budget, excepting the credits for the gymnasium at, Batavia, and for the cable between Macassar and Babjermasslog.
AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No: 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8/30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
A SPECIAL collection of Fine Art Pictures, com prising Landscapes, well-known Home Scenes,
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The plaintiff upon the motion of John her youngster's pigtail, and quit. On Tuesday, to Dr. Schwelafurth at Berlin, says that he is before the Christian ere Toscab Francis, O.Co moved file. Honourable, imi; he showed up ones mare, but she had learny, half blindnaguá MCN Mahng the temple of Medinet