Intimations.
'DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,
L.IMITED, CHEMISTS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1890.
entitles the compiler to expect to be insulted with nothing short of a baronetcy To anyone who attended the two hurlesque public meetings of the Reception Committee it is simply ludicrous
Foua coal-steamers arrived at Singapore from Cardiff on the roth, bringing over 13,000 tons of coal. The number of vessels that arrived during the day was fourteen.
At the Shanghai Mixed Court the other day, four Chinese were charged with unlawfully dressing
to wash. They were ench fined $10.
WE are informed by the agent of the Messageries Maritimes that the Company's steamer Yangtse, with the next French mail, left Saigon for this port at 3 pm. to-day,
BERLIN, February 15th. Naron Von Berepsch, the Prussian Minister of
War, and under him there will be a chief of staff.. but there will be no more commanders-in-chief if Parliament approves of the report of the Com-Commerce, will preside over the labor conference mission.
to be held in Berlin. All the discussions will be carried on in French,
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PARIS, February 24th. Information has reached here, that 500 of the King of Dahomey's troops recently attacked the repulsed them and killed sixty,
*** BERNE, February 25th. It is officially announced that the labor.
Berne has been abandoned. N
AGENTS for PARKE, DAVIS & Co., to read that we "unfeignedly rejoice" at in, foreign clothing which had been given them in the Dominion, says: There is a ferocity in French posts at Kotonon, Senegal. The French conference which it was proposed to hold in
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this prospect of proving our loyalty and devotion by the warmth of our welcome to members of the Royal Family." and see the apology for the slender hospitalities we are in a position to offer." Why, Hongkong has been kicking like a buck-, Jumper for the last month at the idea of having to spend $12,000 in' this uncalled-for way our slender hospitality will cost us, as a community, $2"for"every minute their Roval Uselessnesses are around the shores of this phenomenal colony! This loyalty and devotion" elop-trap belongs to a toadying, tuft-hunting, deceased gene ration, and it will not bear investigation. We endure our monarchical system of
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The Mainichi Shimbun publishes a telegram' from Aomori, dated the to insta which states that the boiler of the steamer Gungio Maru burst on the voyage between Otaru and Masuke.
their lives by the accident. About a hundred persons are said to have lost.
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EVELYBODY will be sorry to hear that Mr. Wodehouse, the senior Stipendiary, is ill-for- tunately not very seriously. His place on the' Bench was occupied by Capt. Rumsey, the Harbor Master, this morning. We are not" informed who did the latter gentleman's *pidgin."
funny place. The SINGAPORE Gaol must be other day some burglars robbed it, and on the sight of the 16th a Chinamen climbed over the wall and passed the night there., Singular to say, he had only just get out, having been "doing time" for breaking out, a year ago. He said he was sick and hungry,
The Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High. landers will play the following programme at the Officers Mess, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock:-
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Humenrian "......
"The Mikado"
Remaini Sangster .Godfrey Brahm .Sullivan
Selection Dance..... Selection
In his book" Among the Mongols the Rev. J.
THE Presbyterian Witness, of Halifax, Nova Scolis, ore of the most soundly orthodox journals the recent controversies in the Free Church that ought to be left to otside barbarians. If n thousand Scotch ministers could be transferred within six months to China or India, or if a few scores of them would try the bracing air of dur north-west provinces, it would be better for Scotland, and the gain to the kingdom of Christ elsewhere would be incalculable. Keep away. __from Hongkong, bemethren,
GAS AND GROVEL.
This is what Hongkong's leading lights are going to say to the Duke of Connaught when he and his wife arrive here, next week. What we think of it will be seen in another column.. To Lieutenant-General His Royal Highness
Prince Arthur Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, K.G., K.T., K.P, GC.SI, G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., C.B.
May it please Your Royal Highness-Less than so years ago Hongkong was a desolate and almost unknown island with a scanty population of poor fishermen scattered along its shores. To- day it is an important portion of the Empire, with a varied population of over 200.000 souls it is one of the busy ceatres of the commercial life of the world, receiving each year into its capa cious harbour millions of tons of the shipping of all nations; it is a valuable military position on the frontiers of the empire, and a great naval" station. Such as it is it had its origin in the early years of Her Majesty's reign; it has received its Charter as a Colony from her bands; it has risen to its present position under her auspices; its capital city is known by ber name; it owes to her beneficent government its first foundations, its growth, and its prosperity, and to Her Most Gracious Majesty it has always been mest loyal and devoted.
Twice in the past it has had opportunities of proving that Lyaliyand devotion by the warmth
TORONTO, February 24th, In the Ontario Legislature. Premier Mowat introduced a bill extending to Jews in the province all the rights and privileges enjoyed by other religious organizations.
LONDON, February 26th. Balfour is engaged in preparing a bill to give Ireland a satem of local self-government or home ule. His scheme is said to be based upon the idea of treating the kish as to local govern ST. PETERSBURG, February 24th.
ment just as the English and Scotch are treated The son of Sir R. D. Morier, the British in regard to 'the same subject. As any pro- "Ambassador," was wounded-yesterday by-the-position-to-honestly do this would make the accidental discharge of the pistol which he' Tories a home rule party, it is not believed that carried.
his bill will be more than a pretence and a. juggle.
The Grand Duke Nicholas has been virtually exiled for having given his wife's jewels to his mistress.
ROME, February 24th. Two slight earthquakes have caused great alarm,
HAMBURG, February 24th. The iron cupola of the Flora Concert Hall fell to-day, burying thirty-sight workmen. Five were taken out dead, eight were severely injured and five others are missing.
NIW YORK, February 24th. The Tribune's cable special from Vienna says: The news of Prince Charles Lichtenstein's insanity just received from Paris, where the young man has been placed in an asylum, has been the topic of conversation in high social circles for the last few days,
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Prince Charles is 25 years old and has been a favorite among the aristocracy, for he was gay, witty and kindhearted. Fortunately the young spendthrift, who was often hotly pursued by creditors, possessed an uncle, and an immensely wealthy one, Prince Johann van Lichtenstein, the head of the family.
This good relative frequently paid the debts of his amiable nephew, who always employed the same trick to corner his uncle. Whenever too hard pressed the young Prince caused reports to be circulated'in Vienna that he was bout to
is replete with the best Machinery, embodying and office in this Colony the prevailing Gilmour says they would warn him-"Dismount of its welcome to members of the Royal Family marry a mere bourgeoise who bappened to be
The greatest attention has been paid to appli./ opinion, freely expressed in private, is at my tent another time; we have the cough." and it unfeignedly rej› ces at the opportundy
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that all this fuss about the Royal visit is lot of humbug. Yet those same residents are tacitly made to appear to be exuding loyalty at every pore-to be overcome with ecstasy at the condescension of the Duke and Duchess in breathing the same air, as us-they are fraudulently made to subscribe to a sickening: flood of praise such as might be addressed to a demi-god, and--they will have to pay the piper without getting any of the dancing.
Let us conclude with our own little amended Address:-
This," says Mr. Gilmour, seems to be an influenza much dreaded by the Mongols, and while not necessarily fatal, travellers carefully avoid it, and no one would think of using the "pot and ladle" of a family suffering from it."-
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THE French 'cruiser Triomphante, Captain de Cornulier, arrived at Singapore from France on the 16th inst. The Triomphante is the new flagship of the China Station, and has on board Admiral Besnard, who relieves Admiral de la Jaille. She is wooden armed cruiser of 4.700 ions, is 258 feet long, and has a beam of 48 feet, drawing 22 feet of water. Her engines are of 2,200 indicated h.p., and she can steam 13 knots. She is armed with thirteen guns, six 16-ton, one 8-ton and six 3-ton B.L., and carries a crew of 460 men.
To ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT We are glad to see you, since you
A STORY is told by the Tientsin native papers are passing, and we think you are of a great round mill-stone as big as a cart- not the worst of your family, by anywheel having been seen drilling down the Peiha. The sight of a stone floating astonished the Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-means. We do not regard you as a very
credulous poor folk along the banks, who bad useful public servant, but you do as a All kinds of wild theories to account for a fact which appears by no means proved to be a fact. pressed TeerGKONG," figure-head, and we hope you will keep Some said it was a star, fallen from the sky, your place. Come and see our Colony, which would promptly change into a water but pay your own bills, like anybody else, dragon when descried by earthly eyes; and sure and don't expect us to go into hysterics enough, down it dived when a boat put off to examine it. Others said Hopeh (the Chinese over you. Tell your Mother how you Neptune), in need of a stone to repair his palace found us, and mention that this idea of of crystal, had sent a yaksha to get it from terra firma.. {Williams says these yakshas are doubling the Military - Contribution is messengers of Yama in hell, but especially of unjust. Now enjoy yourself, and let us the Dragon King, bis guard who patrols the sear
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ARTHUR WILLIAM PATRICK ALBERT, Duke of Connaught and Strathearne, will not be the first of the Hanoverian brood who has taken a flight as far as Hongkong, and we are afraid that he will not be the last, 'Next week he will be here, for some ninety-six hours, accompanied by the Duchess-a lady whose parentage, we will wager, there are not twenty people in Hongkong have any idea of. We hadn't until just now, when we looked it up. German! Their Royal Highnesses will call here, as we said, next week, on their way home from India, where the Duke has been principally passing his time In holding alleged reviews, which were about as incomprehensible to him as they were useless to anybody. So the Hon. P. RYRIE, Mr. MrzenaLL-INNEs, and a "large and influential Committee," have evolved a so-called Address of Welcome, with which we make the fourth column of this issue blush, and which we should like to briefly analyse.
It opens by reciting the twenty-odd decorations which the Duke has got, to remind him that he has them. That is to make him expand his chest. Then it goes on to beg .that it may "please" his Highness to stand there two minutes and be grovelled to. In the event of his being "pleased" he will next hear a slab of condensed Information, taken out of Sir G. W. DES Vœux' great despatch. Up to to that point no exception need be taken, the Address is but thence-forward characterised by nauseous and lying phrases the composition of which surely
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
HUDSON'S Surprise Party still holds its grip on the public favor. The programme last night was equal to anything they have yet produced, and the large audience just howled. To-night is the grand military night.
"HINERY". is fonder of the Far East than of Fleet Street. Writing from Kwala Kangsa, Mr. Henry Norman informs us (Singapore Free Press) that he was about to leave for the interior on the 11th and that he expected to be away probably a couple of months.. He will then return to Singapore."
THE Hand of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programine at the School Athletic Sports to-morrow afternoon :-
March......" Daniel": Vide..."Te Grenadiers" Selection....... Mikado"
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Dance Galej..
¡Binora.
Waldout:1.
Sullivan, Baha Politechnicker "Kahne.
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It will be remembered that last month the Japan papers reported the suspension of a paper called the Nohi Nippe, and the arrest of the editor by the Gifu Correctional Court, for having published matter alleged to have been disrespectful to the Emperor Jimmu, and to the absurdity of which proceeding we called attention, We now learn that the editor and publisher have each been punished with the utmost rigour of the law, being sentenced to four year's impri- sonment with hard labour, and to pay a fine of ren 100, besides being under police supervision for one year and a half after being liberated. The actual writer of the article in question has been much more severely dealt with being imprisoned for four and a half years with hard labour, and to pay a correctional fine of per 150, bes des being under police supervision, on the expiry of his term, for the period of two sentences, in the eyes of years, Europeans, seem monstrous, considering that," as we previously remarked, the potentate referred to has passed away over 3,500 years ago, and his acts may be relegated to the realms of mythology. Judging by this it seems to us a fortunate thing for the foreign Press that it can claim exterritorial privileges, and innt it is not under the benign Press Laws of Japan, otherwise its career would be brought to a very abrupt end. But what will the European and American states. men think of laws under which such things are possible?
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now again' afforded by the visit of Your Royal Highness, to give fuil expression to its feelings of love and reverence for the Queen Empress.
Yeur Royal Highness and Your Illustrious Consort are most heartily welcome to Hongkong. We regret extremely that the Lenten Season and the shertuess of your stay among us gerider it impossible for us to entertain you as we would wish to do, but we pray you to be pleased to
position to eff accept the slender hospitalities we are in a
of
Your Royal Highness is, as befits the godson the Grent Duker, a soldier, who has filled and may yet fill positions of great trust in the military service of the Crown. We congratulate, you on the compl. tion of your tour of service in India,, we wish you all the honours and rewards of a successful military career. We are glid that you will, while here, have an opportunity of inspecting our fortifications and exuunining into our means of defence.
In this welcome, in these congratulations and good wishes, all ranks and classes in the Colony Comeus With the native-born subjects of Her Majesty are associated in this demonstration the Americans and Europeans of other nation- alities who form so important an element in our life, and who gladly avail themselves of this opportunity to give expression to their respect and admiration for the Illustrious and Venerable Ruler of a friendly nation. With us are also associated the Chinese, by far the most aumerous and by no means the least important section of the Community, who desire to testify their gratitude to the Sovereign under whose just rule they live free from oppression, happy, well governed, and prosperous. They offer to Your Royal Highnesses, through their guilds and representatives, a special Chinese entertainment and they hope that you will honour them with presence thereat. In conclusion, we sincerely hope that Your Royal Highnesses will enjoy your visit to Hong. kong, hurried though it be, that you will bear with you from our shores many pleasant reminiscences, and that you will have a happy. and prosperous voyage from this, the most Eastern of Her Majesty's possessions, to the point in the west where you will pick up again the links in the chain of Empire that girdler the globe.
We pray you, on your arrival in England, to convey to Her Most Gracious Majesty the expression of our devoted loyalty.
Copies of the above have been placed for signature in the Hongkong Club, the Club Germania, and the Lusitano Club. The signed sheets will be collected on Friday.
CORRESPONDENCE,
We do not necessarily enilerse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this column).
THE ALICE, MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, TO THE EDITOx of the "Hargkong TelegraPH.*
-richly-endowed.
Old Prince Johann's hair stood on end at the
and he would pay his nephew's creditors at once. thought of suchamesalliance ofthe Lichtensteins, BERLIN, February, 24th.'* Completed election returns show that 24 members have been elected and that 151 supple mentary elections wil be necessary. Thse elected are divided as follows: Conservatives 52. Imperialists 15. Centerists go German Liberals 21, National Liberals 16, Socialista 20, Alsatians 12, Poles 14, Guelphs 2, and i Dane.
BELFAST, February 24th. The remains of Biggar were interred at t'arn- mancy to-day. The funeral was attended by large crowds of peo: le.
LONDON, February 25th, Dispatches from Russia say that the strike in Russia is in truih a revalt and is treated as such by the authorities. Facts have come to light which show the terrible punishment dealt out to striking working-men.. A falling off in trade caused the proprietors of certain large mills to discharge a number of men When this be came known a crowd at semi-savage working- men gathered about the mills and destroyed valuable property. The police dispersed them. During the night fifty of the ringleaders were spirited away. The men then prayed for mercy. It is learned that the fifty men were taken to the salt mines at Cracow, where they were scourged, starved and treated so barbarously that they The whole fifty sought death as a release. "committed suicide.
The News learns that the result of the Army
and Navy Commission report will be that the Duke of Cambridge will retire from the position of commander-in-chief of the army, and be succeeded by another member of the royal family,
The Foreign Office has, reports from Siam that the King has discriminated against the English by granting important concessions in mines, banking and other enterprises to citizens of the United States
The long-predicted fuel famine in the British Isles is again postponed by the discovery of coal deposits at the foot of Shakespeare's cliff at Dover.
The King of Corea is about to send another envoy to England, despite the vigorous protests of the Chinese Government.
England and Belgium have accepted the invitation, of Germany to take part in the labor conference.
A committee has been formed in London, with
branches at Newcastle and other places, for the purpose of endeavoring to secure the mitigation of the severe treatment accorded to political prisoners in Siberia.
A number of workmen's clubs and radical and socialist associations will hold a demonstration in Hyde Park on March oth in favor of the prisoners now in exile in Siberia. -
At a meeting of the General Steam Navigation Company, which was held to-day, the report of the company showed that the recent stike, of laborers cost a sum equal to a dividend of to cent. The report further said that if the strike were renewed the bulk of the shipping, trade would be diverted to other places.
The Countess Carlotty, the English wife of a deceased French nobleman, has been found dead in her chair. The unfortunate woman was hug ging in her arms a bag containing $16,620 in gold at the very moment when she was dying of insufficient nutrition, being too miserly to pur chase the food that she needed to keep her alive. The News' Paris correspondent, says Dont Pedro is unwilling to dismiss his imperial suite. He says he is therefore resolved to endeavor to come to terms with the Brazilian Government, to renounce the Grown, and return to Brazil and live as a private person.
In the Commons to-day Henry Labouchere gave notice that he would introduce a resolution - to reduce the appropriation for courts in order to call the attention of the House to the great scandal attaching to the administration of justice in connection with the Cleveland Street affair. The influenza is raging in Eastern Syria, The cholera has abated in Persia.
Young Abrabam Lincoln died at a inte bour
to-night.
The condition of Tennyson is much improved.
PARIS, February 26th.'
It is believed here that the Government proposes to get out of its scrape and avoid the charge of persecution by conniving at the escape... of the Duke of Orleans from the prison at Clairvaux,
NEW YORK, February 26th.
A cable special to the Evening Sun from-
and distress throughout the kingdom of Italy, Rome says: There is a great deal of discontent.
Households where the Pope's very name seemed to be forgotten, now cry out that they were always more prosperous under the temporal power of His Holiness; while the Radicals com- plain that the Government is ruining the country for the sake of maintaining a huge and useless army merely to propitiate Bismarck,
The steamship Ems, which arrived to-day, cncountered fierce gales and heavy seas on Fri- day and Saturday last. Saturday a wrecked sailing vessel passed. All of her masts were broken off and she was floundering around as
though she could not obey the rudder, Nide men were seen upon the wreck. Despite the terrible seas Captain Jungs had a boat lowered and an officer and five men entered it to attempt a
rescue.
The boat immediately capsized and it madness to make another attempt and pro- one of the crew was lost. Captain Jungs thought ceeded on his voyage.
HALIFAX, February 26th. The steamer Manitoba, from Glasgow, brought the crew of the French steamer Non- Ligue-thirty-seven men. The Nantique weat down soon after the crew was taken off.
The steamer St. Pierre brought two ship- wrecked crews of American schooners.
BERLIN, February 26th. Statistics are published here showing the showing the military expenditure of the great powers during the past three years. France spent 3082,000,000 marks, Russia 3,254,000,000 Germeny 2,430,000,000 marks, Austria-Hungary marks, Great Britain 2,475,000,000 marks, 1,35,000,000 marks, and Italy 1,254,000,000
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The Kreus-Zeitung, in an mticle on the United States, dwells upon the grandeur and power of the new American navy soon to be created, characterizing it. as the second in power in the world. The paper also declares that the new navy will be superior to that of France, and that with the two allied England's navy could be easily annihilated. It prophesies that when the time comes for action, if it ever does, Congress will enthusiastically abandon the Monroe 'doctrine.
ROME, February 26th. The Italian Government officially denies that its action in Africa is directed against Kassala.
ST. PETERSBURG, February 26th,
A sensation has been caused by an editorial In the Novosti declaring that Austria, by aug- menting the army and assisting Bulgaria to pay the Russian indemnity, is menacing the peace of Europe, and that her action will provoke the interested powers to adopt measures to counter- act her policy.
BUDA PESTH, February zoth, In the Hungarian Lower House yesterday there was a renewal of the violent demonstrations against Premier Tisza. The Opposition moved a rejection of the entire budget. One of their sumber was reproved by the President There- upon all the others surrounded the presidential,
menacing him.
DEAR SIR, Further subscription and donat- tions to the Funds of the Alice Memorial Hospital per cent. The cost of labor was increased 35 per tribune, shaking fists at the President and
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A band of Albanians made a descent upon the villages of Babigak, Robuci and Babruab, In eld Servis, and plundered them. Many inhabit ants were tortured to death by robbers. A
of the Cleveland-street scandal, and bas COD- battalion of Turidsh troops was despatched to sented to give up his promised expose, at the the scene, but was powerless against tho
to request, it is said, of Gladstone himself, backed | marauders.
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E. W. MAITLAND, Hoo, Treasurer, Alice Memorial Hospital,
THE agitation for more pay, among the engineers and officers of the various steamship lines running out of Hongkong, is progressing. Yes- terday the four deck officers on the C. P. S. S. Co.'s vessel Batavia applied for an all-round increase of $ro, and as they had all packed their chests ready to go ashore the agents at once met their demands. But the alacrity, with which A CURIOUS tale of credulity was partly unfolded this was done was due, probably, to the courteous at the Police Court this morning. An elderly and temperate manner in which Capt. William lady with trousers on told Captain Rumsey, son acted towards both sides in the matter, the acting Magistrate, that the other day. was unwell, she was passing a Were all skippers inclined to imitate him there when the would be a good deal less friction among the fortune-teller's shops, and a man asked her Europeans on many legal steamers, and these to go inside. She did so, and he inveigled unavoidable." insurrections" would readily be her into stating her symptons. When she had got through he cracularly informed her that what she was suffering from was an overdose of quelled. TRE operations for the discovery of coal in the devils, and referred her to the "devil-exorciser provinces to which the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung in the next room. She visited that gentleman, was lately transferred have of late been carried who first took the only dollar she had and On her out in a manner which leaves little room for doubt sent her home for three more.
return he annexed that sum also, and then, ofthe sincerity of the promoters of the design, says
a cloth, told her the N. C. Daily News. Last month two foreign covering her head with engineers, accompanied by two of the Viceroy's to listen at the mouth of a jar, in which be bad engineers, made an expedition along the Yangtze a potent "joss." She listened, and a voice told between Klukiang and Hankow, with the object her to go home and "ketchce "jo more, angi of finding good coal. They were accompanied the devils should be knocked out in one round. by several officials, and all travelled together in Her head being covered, she did not see that the the Government cruiser Awang Chang, A devil dodger said this, through a tube com- though the experts prospected a large number of municating with the jar, and her faith was as a places, they were unsuccessful in finding a good rock. Going home again, she spent the day in deporit, the only fuel discovered being a very raising the required sum, together with four poor and soft anthracite, burning without flame jackets which the Jors had included in his or smoke, full of pyrites, and leaving a large prescription, and next day she handed them residuum of white ashes. Mixed up with clay, over, on the understanding that everything was
LONDON, February 24th.. the native people use it for burning lime and to be returned to-day. When she went for them
The report of the Royal Commission on the bricks, and a greatnumber of kilos can be seen all this morning, however, the fortune-teller, along the banks of the river. For any other pur- without actually refusing, advised her to have Army and Navy must surely see the light before. pose this combustible has practically no value autother listen to the bottle imp, and the same long, for little by little its substance is becoming known the public. We believe it will be After returning to Hankow the party started off "hanky-panky" as before was gone through. again, this time up-river, wish. It is believed, as settled her by telling her that if she took found that it proposes to do away with the office instructions to go as far as the boundary of her property hack she would die when she got of tommander-in-chief of the army whenever a Szechuae. According to a Shanghai native home, so she waived her claim and went vacancy arises. This seems to set at rest all paper, the engineers were to be sent to explore away in tears. A lodger in her house saw speculations as to the Dake of Connaught the Kwelchow and Hunan provinces, The her crying, and when she sobbed out her story succeeding the Duke of Cambridge. The change Viceroy Chang has nothing to do with former, he told her not to be so silly, but put the will occasion some dissatisfaction in certain and as for the latter, though it is known to be police on the track. And ten minutes later quarters, and possibly much bitter feeling, and very rich in coal, yet it is most improbable that inspecter Perry, had the fortune-tellers, with It is not at all certain that it will be popular in
and a lot more the army any foreign party will be sent there, as troubles their preserved oracle
Civilian control of the army, will be continued are to be feared, the people being of a very rough paraphernalia, in the Central Station. The casa
was remanded.
by the retention of the Secretary of State for character,
Hongkong, 25th March, 1890.
AMERICAN TELEGRAMS.
The following telegrams from San Francisco exchanges were "crowded out" of our last
night's issue :-
A Mall and Express cable special from Taugler says; Troops of the Sultan of Morocco are reported to have been very successful in several engagements with the rebels. According to the accounts, the chiefs of the rebels were captured and beheaded, and their heads bave been forwarded antrophies to the Sultan.
All the prisoners who were taken were killed, and 188 heads were sent to decorate the walls of Fiz. The insurgents, however, are still present Ing a fim freat in some parts of the country, so that the danger is by no means over. It is said here that if the rebellion should extend toward Algeria, France will intervene.
ST. PETERSBURG,' February 25th. The Czar bas had a fresh disagreement with his second brother, the Grand Duke Alexis, who is no attached to his morganatic wife that be refuses absolutely to accede to the Czar's request that he shall marry again. The Czar, therefore, declines to allow the morganatic son of Alexis to enter the army.
WARSAW, February 25th, The Russian police now report that the bodies of seventy murdered babes have been found in the cellar of the house of the mildwile Skoblinski
PARIS, February 25th.¦ Alexander Josef Olive, the French sculptor, Is dead. He was born in this city in 1947.
The Duke of Orleans was to-night transferred to the Clairvaux prison by the train which left | at 13:35 am. Howas taken from the conciergeris an hour before the starting, of the train. The fact of his departure is being kept a profound secret,
THE TELEGRAPH CONVENTION.
"EQUITY," writes to our Shanghai morning ........ contemporary under the above keading za follows ---
In the month of December ultimo the Shang hai and Hongkong evening press conveyed the Intelligence that the Chefon Telegraph Conven. tion had been sigued by the Taung-ll Yamen. It seems that the information was sendily believed in, and people naturally thought that the new combination would speedily commence working/ Monika bave passed, and still the old system. E in force, no connection has been made between the Chinese and Russian frontier lines, and the cable companies, still enjoy the monopoly f international telegraph transmission. The fact is that the, Chefoo Telegraph Conven. tion was neither signed by the Yamén not H.E. Li Hung-chang. The proposed Russian agree ment as the forerunner-basis and guarantee of the Telegraph Convention was signed by their Excellencies Li Hung-chang and the Russian Minister, M. Conmany, The Russian home government, however, thought otherwise and refused to railly, whereupon the whole move- ment came to a stop. It will be hard to guess what motives have, ruled the St. Petersburg Cabinet, but we venture to think that the Russian statesmen saw what we bave pointed out before in the following three classes:—
1.—Monopolies and fixed division of telegraph business and traffic preciade the rights of other parties and are consequently against the Inter- national treaty p
Two terminal rates, one of s francs for Russia and another of francs for Englands