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The experiments which have been made with a THE simple method of treating drunkennessA SWEDE has discovered a method of tanning view to the revival of the lance in the French practiced in Norway and Sweden is reported to leather by electricity. It is said to be much 'Army are not regarded as satisfactory, and it | be very effective. The inebriato is placed in more rapid than the old way, and only half as
has been decided that the project shall be confinement and fed only with bread soaked in expensive. abandoned altogether.
wine, which in eight or ten days creates a posi. tive loathing for strong drink. A GREAT scandal exsts at Bologna in regard to its staple sausages, which have lately been fraudulently made of diseased horse meat, mixed with pork. Foreign importers refused to to take such stuff, and the city's brand in this specialty now stands below par.
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WHILE D. Robbins, a German who described bimself as a merchant trading in Wellington FERRELL'S DRAMATIC, Comedy, and Burlesque Company has opened in Singapore. We notice.
Street, was at the Central Market this morning, Miss Maggie Ford and nearly a dozen other
and just as he was going to pull a dollar cut of artistes compose the crowd. We suppose they
his pocket to make a purchase, he felt a strange Will drift around to Hongkong.
hand also in his packet, which he at once took hold of. Its prsschsor was a ragged looking new explosive called EXPERIMENTS with a
Chinaman standing by his side, making frantic ecrasite, which is to dynamite as roa to 79, have
efforts to get away. I the straggle that ensued recently been made in Austria, and are said to THE density of the population of India can be the bushy-whiskered Tenton found his squat English, American and French Bon Bons and have succeedml so well that the invention has learned from the fact that the census just configure sprawling in the slimy walks of the
bren purchased for military purposes exclusively.pleted shows an aggregate of 160,500,000 50111s | market, and the thief on the point of making off, {se has been burning for some time the grounds; and the suggestions made flate years
Of these 19000,00 are Hindons, 81,000.00 when a Sikh constable appeared on the scene The Spanish Roman Catholice intend, at the Mohammedans 6,500.000 aboriginals, 3.500.000 and arrested the would-be thief. At the Police Conference of Jurisconsults in Madrid, to put Buddhists, 7.000 000 Christians, 2001,000 Sikhs Court, subsequently, Mr. Wodehouse sentenced forward the proposition that all disputes which and 1,250.000 Jinis. Of the Christians, one-half the man to six weeks' hard labour, there being may arise in Europe among the various Govern-are Catbolic, and the others are divided among also a string of previous convictions against his
Of this immense number:} 217,000,000 are unable to read or write. There are too different languages spoken, Hindustani
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THR Chinese Pei-vania Squadron, consisting of
eleven vestels, under the command of Admiral Ting, will, we are informed, after having had a complete overhnul at the hands of the Dock Company at Kowloon, cruise to Singapore, and after a short, stay there call at Manila, on their way hack to their Northern quarters at Port Arthur and Wei-hai-wei, ne-Cheloo.
SINCE 1882 eighty-two street have been built,
paved and drained in Robe at a cost of $0 000,000, and 3,000 houses erected in large, modern blocks, where old quasters formerly stord; and five new bridges thrown across the
coming first with cooooo. The most popu-
lous cities in India in their order of eminence are Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, Hyderabad and Lucknow,
IN Enli, a correspondent writes that the burning of widows still goes on, notwithstanding treaties with the Netherlands India Government. They are burned along with the corpses of their husbands. The latter's slaves also share the fate of the deceased in case of his holding high rank. Widows both there and in Lombok are sometimes stabbed to death instead. In such cases, the stab is given by a near kinsman ;
name.
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(Before Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Puisne
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LITICIOUS PROPERTY OWNERS.
hare shewn very commendable zeal in the way Manchuria) having recommended the removal they have turned up at the fires, and of restrictions against settlers, from other, parts have done their best to extinguish them. of the Empire" clearing ground for farms la But there is one point that I want to impress on Manchuria, and the Censor Yang Chiên having you that is the importance of "getting at"a | shortly afterwards advised the removal of the coming out at the top floor branch-pipes will be for that abirct, the Emperor has called for fire. I have sometimes noticed that when fire is distressed families in Shantung to Manchuria
used from the level of the street, and the men reports from the Board of Admiralty and the will trust to the water reaching the top storey, Board of Revenue on the subject, and the Imperial decision is expressed in the following whereas if they would only take up the hose to the storey they could put out the fire in a a few words: "The cultivated, mountains and plains, minutes. The great thing is to get to the level in the three Manchurian provinces (Shingking, of the fire, and in the rendiest way possible, | Kirin, and Amur) are where the Banner- Sometimes you may want a ladder-some men and the wandering nomad tribes (yumuk) pasture their flocks and buat their game. Dur- times you can get up inside the house In all cases I should say that the best way was ing the reigns of Kien Lung, Kia K'ing, Tao to get inside the house. Now that you Kwang, and Tung Cht, (extending from 1736 to are able to get to it fire with appliances 1875) the will of Our Ancesters was repeatedly. so quickly there is no reason why you should expressed, that squatters from other parts should ngt do so.· ́I understand, of course, that when a not encroach on these pastures and bunting timbers become weakened, and there is a fear of by Chinese and foreign officials (chungwai) for the house coming down. But there is no fear the immigration of agricultural gettiers have. when a fire is taken in time. Trefer specially to a never been approved.
- Let J-k'o fire, which occurred some weeks ago, in the early tang-a pay heed to the Edicts of Kuang Hsü X morning in a lane near the Station, when the and XIII (1884 and 1887) reserving these lands very top of the house caught fire, and although in perpetuity for the Bannermen and nomads, and the Brigade turned out quickly, instead of going | see to the carrying out of their injunctions upstairs and playing one jet on the flames, they with all kis might and with all his strength. Ha used three or four jeis from the street, every one is directed, however, to prepare maps, annotated of which was wasted, the windows being shut with explanatory notes, showing where, in his and the water coming back into the street below. opinion, agriculture might be advantageously That is not the way." If the ladders had been got, pursued by the Bannermen themselves. Lêt and the hose taken into the house, the thing him devote his best efforts to the improvement would have been put out at the beginning. It is of the condition of these Bannermen, and the the duty of the foremen to decide what steps increase of their population. Ju no part of his shall be taken at the outset on these occasions. Province will agricultural immigration from I have repeatedly observed you playing on the outside be permitted. roofs of houses, but there is always a reluctance to get inside the building. If you once re! inside, or on the roof, you have much more command over the fire than you can possibly have from the street. There is a marked improvement, I am glad to see, in the way in which you deal with fires, compared with the old style-I mean in the destruction of the timber-work. I am glad to see that at all fires Dow there" is very little
destruction of something, and none of the men venture to destroy anything unless they get orders from a superior officer, and it is necessary. Another
Achmet Ramjabm, broker, sued Oscar Brandt for $42.15,, for ground-rent and rent on a lot of houses. Mr. Hastings appeared for the plaintiff. His case was that in October last the plaintif and a Chinese partner sold thirteen houses to the defendant for $8,000. Defendant took them over then, but refused to pay the ground rent, so is replete with the best Machinery, embodying Tiber. In consequence, of these improvemen's but never by her father or her son. The natives plaintiff paid it, and now sought to recover it. He woodwork for the mere sake of destroying hints to cut down expenses, by which the people. from being accustomed to such scenes, also claimet $22 70 for rent. Defendant pur- nothing of it.
The treaties are evad-d by chased the property by directing Ho Tim to pay taking the unhappy women to the funeral pile the plaintiff 3:00 due to him, and leaving the
rest of the money on mortgage for two years.. where they are stabbed to death beforehand.
Plaintiff having given evidence in support of Corpses may be burned, and the Government has not forbid ten stabbing widows to death. A bis claim. short time ago, three wives of a chief at Bangl were thus offered up. The N. I. Goverment lacks power to prevent these misdeed i
Recure which we have added a Condenser cap able of sunniving us with 1000 gallons of distilled water a day, and are now in a position to compete in quality with the best English Makers, Out Sweet Waters cannot be surpassed anywhere.
The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throngiinut.
the old city has been so changed that the visitor all the latest improvements in the trade,
of twenty years ago would hardly recognize it The greatest attention has been paid to appli- ances for ensuring purity in the Water supply, to MENTION has already been made of the large volume of emigration from Germany and other rour tries to the Argentine Republic, which holds out all sorts of inducements to newcomers. The fever fant migrating has reached Andalusia and the Basque provinces, and during the past six months it is said that nearly oo persons have Jeft Spain for Buenos Ayres. Many of these are of the most ignorant classes, and actually believe
up gold and silver from the ground. The Spanish Government is considering the propriety of taking steps to suppress the tide of emigration. A MEETING of the Legislative Council will be held to-morrow, when the orders of the day will be
LARGE BOMBAY
" SODAS"
THE Peking correspondent of the N. C. Daily News, writing on the 4th December, anys:-
Defendant was sworn, and stated that he took the property, as it stood—a 'mass of ruins. It was specially agreed that he should only begin to pay ground rent from the 1st January, 1890, and that plaintiff should bear all expenses, taxes, etc., until then.
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It will be remembered that same time ago, the Imperial Government, being in one of its periodical, economical moods, issued a sharply worded decree, in which it censured the custom of wasting the public money upon the mainten- ance of superfluous offices and officials. The decree was addressed to the Viceroys of provinces. We now find that his Excellency Chang Chih- tung has taken the lead regarding these Imperial of China are kept in a perennial condition of beggary, whilethe aumerous class of unnecessary officials, who have nothing to do but to help point which I wish you to remember is not to flood
each other to do it in regular form, are enriched the surrounding houses with water, and thereby do as much damage as if the flames had cam-
As is well-known, every high official has his yamen filled with, his relatives to the ninth or municated with the premises at the outset. A tenth degree, who fill all the offices from the very small amount of water is necessary, and highest the lowest. His Excellency Chang it is only In destruction of property to play has given instructions to the Provincial four or five streams on a fire when one would
Treasurer of his new Viceroyal'y to take have been sufficient. It does not need a hose to
charge of the numeroas lekin offices, wilk put out a fire in a grate, and, similarly, not more a view of effecting a retrenchment, while than one or two boses are needed to
he has also also ordered the judges of His lordship-I must decide against you on extinguish f Are in a house. Water, circuit to look more closely after the police de- remember, does just as much harm as fire, partment and other offices under their jurisdiction. Brande adimitted that it was a peculiar arrange-way-by fire and by wates. However, that
and we want to diminish desʻrasilon in every The Salt Tantsi has received instructions to look after the sale office, and the mode of collecting is a point on which I can give no onler. Ihape that tax, more closely, while His Ex. expresses begun as we have done in the past, and diminish small tax-collecting offices throughout the two we shall all work together in the year now bis determination of reducing the number of the loss sustained by fire in every way, turning provinces hy rlasing up those whose existence out promptly, grodging no labour, and obeying does not seem to be of very great importance. orders without hesitation.Alter referring to the By this means the people will be relieved of the duties of the foremen and firemen, and the uses irregular and excesive exactions of a host of of the various appliances, Mr. Wodehousretty officials. His Ex. further notifies the concluded by expressing a hope that he might be able, in the report which it would be his duty to shortly present to H. E. the Governor, to conscientiously state that the Brigade were doing their duty properly, and were satisfied with their position. The Brigade were then dismissed.
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The reading of the following Bills: (a) A Bill entitled An Ordance to appoint an additional member on the Sankary
Board."
Excepting when it blows, the winter weather here is very agreeable. The usual dinners, | dances, etc., at this season are about to take place. A young German gentleman has arrived to study Chinese. connected, we believe, with the new German Bank. Mr. Krause has arrived from Shanghai to join the German Legation. Our winter gives every promise of being passed pleasantly, The, Mongola | are beginning to make their app' arance, Alieady the market is pretty well filled with their camels and huts
(8) & Bill entitled "An Ordinance for the In-No game or frezen sheep are yet to be seen, but
corporation of the Procureur Gé éral, in Hongkong, of the Society of the Missions Etrangères."
(c) A Bill entitled "An Ordinance to amend The Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1889,"
A REPORT has just appeared in some German newspapers of a meeting of Pomeranian agriculturists, held in Stettin some days since, at which the question of the scarcity of form labourers was discussed. One speaker asserted that there was nothing left for the Pomeranian farmers but to obtain foreign labourers, possibly Chinese. The same statement was made some
plenty of butter and cheese. It requires, if not a good digestion, at least the absence of olfactory nerves to stomach the rancid mixtures which are sold under these names. They seem made of the milk of all sorts of animals, and are nos free from hairs, and no amount of washing and
purifying can free the butter from its rancid disagreeable favour.
WHILE a head-coolie was in the act of paying off some coolies at the East end, on Saturday night, leaving about nine dollars in cents and one silver dollar in a basket on the table near by, four fellows made a rush at the table and one of them snatched away the basket of "speçie”
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speakers having spaken in favour of the impartas of Chinese. It was decided to appoint a commit'ea (5 to learn from the Chinese in Berlin upon what terms labourers could be procured from the Celestial Empire. The outcome of the matter will naturally be watched with greal interest.
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Hongkong, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 18GO,
TELEGRAMS.
FORTUGUAL AND GREAT BRITAIN.
Lord S-lisbury states that Portugal's reply gives proof of a concitintney spirit as affording a
basis for an amicable settlement.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Russian frigate Vladimir Monomach, Captain Douhasen left Plymouth Sound early on the 30th November for the Pacific Station.
La Chronique of Brüssela says: Scientific instruments alone, such as the telegraph and railways, will be successful in suppressing slavery in Africa,
`THR other day, at Macassar, a shark attracted particular attention in the market place, owing to human remains and pieces of clothing being found inside it when cut open. The fragmentary corpse made up of a skull and bones, found their way to the police office, while the fish, cut in sizes to suit consumers, met a ready sale.
THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. The follow ing will be the programme
Overtum......"La Gana Ladra” Vale.........."Elaine
Rossini ....Lowthlan.. Selection......Olivetta"...... A sadras, . Cantina (for Caronet) from..." Fausta "......Donizetti. Selection......Reminiscences of Scotland"....Oodley.
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On Sunday night, a pawnshop in Queen's Road West was robbed in a clever, if not entirely novel, fashion. It stood next door to an empty house, into which the thieves first broke, then,
the ubiquitous Sergeant Witchell was taking it easy along Queen's Road, and' while in a deep state of meditation on the rascality of Hongkong fan-chais (rowdies) came full tilt on the fleeing basket snatcher, who bounded off the burly form of the Poller sergeant as a billiard ball from a
ment,
His lordship ultimately gave judgment for the plaintiff for $42.14 on the claim for ground rent, and $16.82 for rent, and ordered him to repay $2 30 to defendant, making the sum recoverable $6.61, with costs.
OUR FIRE BRIGADE.
The members of the Fire Brigade turned out this afternoon for their monthly practice, behind the City, Hall, the Superintendent, Mr. H. E. Wodehouse, and Mr. Horspool, Assistant Super. intendent, being present. The Tytam service was properly tested for the first time, four strong jels being obtained from the lower main, and reaching well above the City Hall,
The European members afterwards paraded, and Mr. Wodehouse addressed them at some length. He said :—As this is the first parade we have had this year I think it a good opportunity for calling you together, to pass in review the events of the past year, to consider the position in which the Brigade now is, and to discuss the work to be done in the future. During the past year we have had 21 fires, by which 17 houses have been wholly destroyed, and 11 partly so, whilst the property burnt or spoilt by water was valued at $93,000. The number of fires is a large diminution on those which took place in the year before, and in 1886, and 1 think that the Brigade ner in which those fires were put out. That may fairly congratulate themselves on the man-
only ry buildings should be destroyed out of 21 Gres is not, I think; a very large average,
NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS,
The ring-leaders at the recent Soochow land tax fracas have been handed over to the author- ities and they will be punished. The authorities sent down some saldrers in a ustive war-Jork, which had the effect of quieting the disturbance
We note that the Governor of the Yunnan
Government Copper mines has engaged another Japanese mining engineer at the working, as the mine is so rich. Mr. Don-yuen-sun-sze, the new engineer, has already arrived at Hankow, and the Japaese Consul there entertained him, and be will soon start up river along with a Fohkienese student. At the mines there are already two Japanese engineers, who were engaged some time ago.
On the roth of this moon the German Consul at Hankow went over in a green sedan-chair to see the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung at Wuchang.
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officials under him that as most of the people ffects of the Autumn flood on their harvest, within bis jurisdiction are suffering from the there is an abnormal amount of hardship amongst
them at present, which he fears will be increased as the winter progresses. He therefore urges the officials to each contribute something to the fand which he is starting in aid of the distressed
people.
A GREAT INTERNATIONAL ANTI-
SLAVERY CONGRESS.
Never in the history of m-dern civilization has such a Congress been convened in the interests of humanity as that which has just assembled in Brussels. The efforts of Cardiñal Lavigeris, the Bishop of North Africa, have Bnally culminated in bringing together representat ves from all the leading ors of Europe as well as delegates from the United States, to consider what mea- in Africa. It is not clear whether the cruvade is sures shall be taken to abolish the slave trade
to be one of peace or war. Cardinal Lavigerie" is the apostle of freedom for Africa. But accord- ing to bịn recent declaration, he does not belleve that the slave trade can be dislodged without the employment of force: Probably no man under- stands better what is needed to arrest the horrors of the slave trade, than the Bishop of North, Africa. He has set his heart on accomplishing paratively small military force trained and dis this work. With sufficient money and a com. ciplined for the work, he believes ho can arrest this dreadful waste of human life and all the barbarisms of this inhuman trafic.
going to the wall, dividing the buildings, they pulled out a number of bricks, silently sawed away some boards lining the pawnshop wall and, getting through, cleared away a large number of pledges. There were two Chinamen asleep in the room, but they were not disturbed, and as the thieves drew the board back pyer the hole after making their exit, the theft was only but unfortunate thief to six months' hard labor ple hose much more quickly, and so on. That the frequency of this kind of slipping the people slaves. Most of these came from the Equatorial
discovered when the empty shelves were visited. By then, of course, the burglars were far away, their only traces being a lot of the more worth less articles which they had left in the untenanted building.
THE Shanghal Mercury of the 9th ins', says On Monday last the Customs authorities here discovered that an attempt w being made to land a great quantity of Korean ginseng under fraudulent manifest. Examirer Eckhold pro- ceeded to the godowns of the Nippon Yuran Kaisha, where he found 85 packages shipped as furniture," but which on being examined where found to contain nearly a hundred picule of the expensive root to which the Chir ese attribute such bighly valuable medical qualiti. The value of the ginseng is estimated at no less than Tis. 85,000. It had been brought over by the Saikio Maru, from Nagasaki, we believe, and was walling to be claimed by the consignets. The Customs authorities havenot yet decided whether the ginseng will be regularly seized or not, or
whether it will be treated as Government gin- seng: The stuff was shipped, we believe, by
Korean Government official, and to-day a The following eleven has been selected by the Korean dressed in very bright crimson and Committee of the Hongkong Cricket Club to yellow robes, who has been in Shanghai for represent Hongkong in the match z Straits some days, turned up and claimed the stuff as Seulements. Mr. E. J. Coxon has been chosen his property. He produced a passport from his as Captain by the Team. It is proposed to play Government, showing that he was an accredited the match on Wednesday and Thursday, aand Government agent, The Customs authorities and. 23rd instant, and the return match on the are greatly perplexed at the find, and have not two following days :—E. ]. Coxon (Captais), E. decided whether the stuff may unt after all M. Blair, R. E., A. J. Campbell (A. & S. High | escape with payment of double duty. The duty landers). G. S. Coxon, J, J. Bell-Irving, A. 1. on the root varies from 5 mace to 3 candarains, Leach, Dr. Lowson, Major Miles, RA, E. M. according to quality. The Customs officers are Maitland, E. A. Ram, T. S. Smith, Reserve. trying to find out if there is anybody else in F. Maitland, and Capt. Davidson (A. & & High Shanghai In collusion with the shippers of the lander). Umpire Corporal Clarke, Scorers, ginseng; where it originally came from is not Messrs. Barton and Atkinson,
known.
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Come,
Omen of Victory Light of the sun!
let us gare at the rising san! He travels over the whole earth, and at his
coming in all the land there is peace} His wisdom is as a thousand rays of the sun,
and subdues the whole earth!
Perhaps the Cardinal is too enthusiastic, When Gordon was appointed Governor of the Equatorial Provinces he had at heart the atter recently, when over 200 feet of the river bank ligious enthusiast., Ostensibly bis purpose was to There was a serious landslip near Chinking annibilation of the slave trade. He was a re- gave away, being attended with the loss of two quell the rebellion in the Soudan sud restore these lives. Formerly the place where this mishap. provinces to Egypt. The latter country had took place was well popalated ; but on account of from time immemorial furnished a market for gradually moved away. On the night of the Provinces. But the Khedive was quite willing 12th of this moon, a fishmonger with his family, to drop all the supposed advantages of this traffic an asshtant and his son, with his wife, shat up if these Provinces could be restored to him. their shop and went to bed. At about 12 o'clock. There was not an Arab slave trader in Central suddenly the land under them gave away, and Africa who did not understand that, if Gordon they found themselves in water. The father once established a permanent rule there, the and wife and the assistant managed to get on to loss of the slave trade would be, the result, a floating timber and scrambled up, but the Wherever he had an opportunity be set the young couple were drowned.
slaves of rebels free. Khartoum had been ong per of the great centres of that trade. When he took possession of that city it cessed to have any interest in this traffic, The Arabs made common cause with the Mollammedan chiefs, The Mahdi beld religiously that, this traffic not a, Mohammedan chief in Africa who does should be defended and preserved. There is not bold to the same doctrine.
cushion, scattering the brazen photos of Queen and hope it shows that we are getting He was entertained by an expectant Toolai, "Vie" into the road. The cries of Cheong year the way of contending with these fires they discussed what bills should be levelled,
to do our work properly, and masteringTsai. Their conversation was on railway affairs (thieving) in the rear of the running man con-As you know, in making arrangements for creeks and rivers crossed, and valleys filled up. vinced Witchell that Providence had put another puting out fires it is necessary to think of many
but the outcome of the interview we have not of the thieving fraternity into his willing bands, things beforehand, and what the officers in heard, but we understand that some mention was made of a German loan for the purpose of and so before the "lifter" could rise he had charge have been chiefly concerned with has
been making use of the appliances, we carrying out the project. collared him-bot with an empty basket, have, and adding to them, and using them the contenis having rolled away all over the in such a way as to get to fires quickly, scene of the collision, only abrat a dollar and and deal with them promptly. For instance, a-half worth of "cappers" being shed nut of one great change has been made in the substitu-
tion of a broad-thread screw for the narrow the mud. Mr. Robinson sentenced the daring thread, which enables you to couple and uncou- at the Police Court, yesterday maining. I consider one of the most important changes mode during the last few years. Another change FOR abject, Kek-pittling, nauseous "rot," we hasbeen the introduction of what has been know fancy that the following extracts from a transla.as the hydrant supply cart," the use of which is tion of the chorus sung by the school-children to carry in a handy form all the appliances neces
sary for puiting out fires, so that they may be taken at Mandalay when Prince Albert Victor was quickly to the spot where they are wanted. For there, carries off the boulanger. It must have instance they contain extincteurs, hand pumps, made young "Collar and Cuffs blash, if he lengths of hose, fire-plug keys, buckets,—la fact could only have understood the grovel. It everything that you have in the larger engines, ** with the advantage that you can run down with Jhem and use them at once. On the samó
Outside of the Chen Men in Peking, there has principle is the "despatch-box," which you also long existed a semi-official establishment, the have, and which, in the course of time, I hope object of which is to find out "faithfel Ministers will be very useful when we see the streets
and dutiful sons, honourable busbands and virtuous, wives," and cause their names to be fully supplied with mains. It has only been within the last few months that we have been brought to the notice of the Throne for the able to rely upon even some of the street malas bestowal of a suitable reward. From this
..... Gordon's rule was broken down and he was as a certainty, and in past years we have never establishment, we glean some interesting infor- murdered within the walls of Kharinum. The known whether we should be able to find water mation about a couple of centenarians residing slave traders, and the Mahommedan fanatics and in the mains dr not. Even now our certainty is in the Luan village, in the Yann Fieg district rebels had triumphed. Emin Bey, Gordon's very limited, and we only feel it here and there, on The husband, a Mr. Yu, was born in the 49th chief supporter, retired to the provinces border the lower levels, in a westeily direction. In year of Kien Lang's reign, and is consequentlying on the Albert Nyanza and the Upper Nile. the other parts of the town we have to rely on
105 year old. His wife, whose maiden surname Here he ruled over three or four millions of was Yuan, was born in the 43rd year of the same people. Like Gordon, he practically abolished the harbor for our supply, and go through the tedious process of pumping water from one reign, and is now in her forst year. They have the slave trada in bis dominions, or made it so engine up to another until the fire is reached. five children three grand-children, and three difficult that it could not be carried on with any In the course of time I hope this will be great grand-children. They are still hearty and profit. He encountered there the same apposi changed, and we shall be able to place our whole in sound health, retaining much of the energy tion in and that Gordon had met and partially reliance on the water from the street-mains of the younger days. The neighbours all bear
prescame at Khartoum: Emin Bey held his To-day you have seen four fine jets of water, all testimony to their frugal habits, their kind treat ground four years. He was compelled to fight produced from the water-mains, so that now WO
ment of others, and a most decided Inclination for existence. He had given protection to the know that at any time, if a fire takes place on
for deeds of benevolence. The gentry and elders natives, broken down the slave traffic, and this level, we can rely on that number of jets of their village have conjointly petitioned the introduced industrial arts. The country was without perceptibly diminishing the pressure. In district Magistrate, requesting him to take the prosperous, But the powerful native chiefs out- the course of the past year, I am sorry to say, we neccisary steps for bringing the names of this side of his dominions cut off all bis communica have sustained a great loss in the disbandonment worthy couple to the notice of the Throne. The tion with the East Coast of Africa, They under of the Volunteer Fire Brigade. They always Magistrate, having substantiated by investiga stood that he was hostile to the slave traffic. rendered us great assistance, never falling to to the facts as above narrated, and submitted They had thousands of slaves to sell every years turn up, and we have felt their loss. In them to the Shun Tien Prefect, by whom the The slave Caravans could foliow the old routes. order to make up for it to some extent, matter was transmitted to the proper authorlies from the Equatorial provinces to the East Coast, certain changes have been made, among others for memorializing the Throne. His Majesty But pony chant caravan of Emin Bey could and some soldiers added to the Brigade, whilst and silks to this deserving couple, besides the They blocked his way for ten years or more, the number of European firemen was increased, has been pleased to grant a present of mousy go over these routes if they could
prevent
it. the number of Chinese assistants was diminished necessary permission for the erection of an They reasoned that if his supplies were cut off it With regard to the soldiers, they have now had honorary portal, commemorative of their great would only be a question of time when he would some months' practice in their duties, and have | ago, m
SHOPKOV either surrender or abandon the country / Accord proved of great assistance. They are always well-behaved, and do their best at any fires, and On 6th January appeared an Imperial Edlet reduced in resources that he was compelled to MAMMAmring to recent dispatches: Emin Bay had been so Llook on them as is great acquisition. With ro to the following effect 1-ko-tang-a, Military vacate his position, and was making his way to gard to the Brigade generally, I think the men | Governor of Hehlangkiang (Amor & province, † the Han Colet: Hers in Equatorial Africa there.
All his enemies fall before his victorious drums
and there is pe cel Ruler of armies, at his coming land and water
trembli ƒ Destined is be to greater glory, The stroke of the engines makes the, ocean to
tremble, By his spell distance disappears, and by his will hereaches his goal in a moment in the railway, At the sound of his trumpet the hearts of his enemies tremble! May their excape be diff The glory of the royal grandson is as the sun
and fire.f Most honored are we sweet little maids, in that a Prince has visited this land in our day, who is heir to the throne, before whom the whole world trembles, and whose glory is conter mlcons with the earth 1.
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The thundrous power and glory of the royal grandson is able to bring a hundred sovereigns into submission! Unequalled is he with his moon like face, made for the warship of maidens from the four quarters of the earth! Mirror of his grandmother and surrounded by his army, we malda reverence him in this assem. bly as oor highest honor WAONG May the cold hurt him not in this month, when the royal flowers bloom and the heavy dews