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DAKIN BROS, OF CHINA,
LIMITED,
DISPENSING CHEMISTS.
WINE AND SPIRIT DEPARTMENT.
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LABOUR versus CAPITAL.
LONDON, October aande
The Shipping Federation threaten to lay up all their vessels in the United Kingdom until
improved.
QUITE a number of British bull-dogs have turned
vis, the Mfulins, Mercury, Rottier and Caroline. The latter arrived at gun-fire this morning from Nagasaki direct, having experienced very strong North-east monsoon and mountainous seas the greater part of the voyage.
during the past eight-and-ferry hours
ACCORDING to the Amoy Times, Sir Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Imperial Maritime Customs, is expected at Cantab towards the latter end of this month. "A correspondent informs our contemporary that they are having quite a busy time of it both at Canton and Whampoa, in getting everything in apple pie
and so forth.
A blend of the finest Whiskies produced in the situation resulting from strikes becomes arder, the Customs premises swept and garnished, | to Shanghal. Still, as the Rattler only arrived figures, and say that he pays 8 guineas per cent.
Scotland, fully matured in wood before bottling, White Capsule $10 per dozen, $1 per bottle.
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oll or other deleterious substance.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Ocean Steamship Co.ts steamer Myrmidon, from Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 31st inst. PRISONER But I would rather tell my ow story. Don't you think it would be believed Lawyer-Yes, that's the trouble. It would carry conviction with it
Square bottle, Gold Capsule, $7 per dozen, PAINT the tongues of your fever patients with glycerine, says a physician; it will remove the 65 cents per bottle.
sensation of thirst and discomfort felt when the organ is dry and foul. THE percentage of light leat in passing through window glass is, through clear glass, 17 per cent.; slightly ground, 24; half ground, 35; all ground, 40; opal glass, 60
DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED.
(Telephone No. 60.)
'Nos. 21 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
Hongkong, zoth October, 1890.
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WINES AND SPIRITS.
A REGULAR Convocation of Cathay Chapter, No. 1165, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zelland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited.
A NEW albuminous poison of 100 times the power of strychnine has been described by Professor Kobert. It is extracted from the seeds of Abrus precatoria, the poisonous principals causing death by coagulation of the blood corpuscles. THE steamer Romulus, which took the disabled Guthrie into Manila early this month, also picked up the crew of a small Japanese vessel A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. which had been wrecked in Spinish waters, after being driven down from the coast of (ESTABLISHRD A.D. 1841.)
Formosa.
BY APPOINTMENT.
HONGKONG.·
THE cricket match, Club v. Garrison, will be continu.d at fra.m. to-morrow, Tiffin will be We invite attention to the following old of Colonel Chater and the officers of Pression
lauded Brands, all of which are of ex- cellent quality and good value for the money.
The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted, Shapewers, are imported in' wood and bottled by quests that enabling us to supply the best arowths at moderate prices.
kin odering it is only necessary to state the name and q tity of Wine or Spirit wanted, and antit terver for quality desired.
Orders Touch Local Past or by Telegram receive prompt ¿tention.
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THE Band of the A. & 5: Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock:-
MarchLight of Foot"
"The Old GuardTM”
Lanmere Valio Sce-Saw"
Latinn.
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:STOWE.
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A NEW description of "blacklegs" has appeared on the scene, "blackleg" newspapers to wit. A Scotch delegate at the great Trades Ualon Congress which was sitting for a good part of last month in Liverpool; moved that no reporter representing any paper which did not pay the Trade Union rate of wages be allowed to take notes at any Trade Union meeting," and it was carried unanimously, with the blessing of Mr. John Burns thrown in. This is an absurdly paltry move and calculated to bring a great organisa tian into ridicule and contempt.
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THX rendition case, in respect to the surrender a notorious burglar named Su Fei Won to the Chinese Authorities, drags, along its weary 1ngth at our Police Court. Today Mr. Worte house had the pleasure of listening to the opening of the case for the defence, which is conducted by Mr. Caldwell, and noted down the evidence of a Taipingshan pork butcher who swore that the prisoner had purchased choice viands at his sla!! during the past three long years. The case was further remanded until Thursday the 30th inst. Su Fei Wun looks about zo years older since his trial commenced a fortnight ago.
it will doubtless Interest our military readers to know that the Leprosy Commission will probably leave London for India during the current month. it is to consist of three members, of whom two, Mr. Kanthak, F.R.C.S., and Dr. Buckmaster, Lecturer on Physiology at St. George's Hospital, London, bave been already nominated. The (wo Indian delegates will be Dr. Barclay and Surgeon-Major S. J. Thomson, Dr. Cunningham will probably be asked his option as an expert. The Commission will, in the first place, travel over India studying the natural history of the disease. They might extend their researches to China with great advantage in the interests of humanity and of medical science.
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the A. and 3. Hi hlanders the band will play on the groundFROM native sources we learn that freights during the afternoon.
between Bangkok, and Hongkong are slightly weaker than during the preceeding week, the rate now being 274 cents per picul The rice market both here and in Canton is firm, owing to the continued drought in the province of Kwang Tung, and several steamers have been specially chartered to load rice at Wuhu and Chinkiang for Whampoa direct. To-day the "Glen" liner Glengarry (2,000 tons) arrived from Wuhu with a full cargo of this Chinese "staple of life," and she will shortly be followed, it is said, by several other large grain-laden steamers. If the ruins keep off much longer the lower and middle classes of Canton's teeming population will pass a very hard winter indeed The Canton officials already exhibit a good deal of anxiety In this connection."
Tala... See me dance po Quatrille. Fun of the Fale"
·Galop Roulette",
OUR prophecy last night as to the success of *La Sonnambula," as presented at the Theatre Royal in the evening by Miss Gracie Plaisted's company, assisted by Mr. C. H. Grace and a number of gentlemen amateurs, was fully justi- fied by events. The attendance was most to gratifying, and the long plaudits at the close testified the general opinion. A detailed 1.25 critique is held over until to-morrow,
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MR. WODEHOUSE Continued his searching inquiry to-day into the circumstances connected
with the death of a coolic who died a
violent death at the Tung Wah Hospital odo on the 19th Instant; and for that purpose held the adjourned inquiry at the hospital, where he inspected the so-called bed 0.75
rooms of the lower class of patients, as also the 1.00 garden, latrines, etc. a most unpleasant task. The proceedings terminated with a finding to the effect that "the deceased hanged himself," 100 THE untutored savages in the Carolinas are going the way of all heathen. The other month, Dear Ponapé, a lot of them tried to dissuade a party of Spaniards from building a church, by killing twenty or thirty of them, and the Gavern ment in the Philippines renewed the task of spreading the Gospel by sending two gunboats to the spot, when, gracios a Dios and repeating rifles, 5 heathen were wiped out. It has since bren ascertained that the trouble primarily prone through the antagonism between the Jesuit and Methodist missionaries.
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THE centrifugal propeller is the name of a new invention designed to nable steamers to attain Strictly speaking, the extraordinary speed. appliance is not a propeller at all; it is simply a remover of resistance ahead. The stem of the steamer is cut away downward and backward from the water line, and here the rotary fan, or The pressure centrifugel machine is placed. and resistance of the water ahead is got rid of by clearing the water away, thus virtually endowing the propulsive screw or screws in the stern with greatly augmented bower. In vessels moving at speeds up to seven knots, skin friction is the principal resistance in still water; in vessels moving et higher speed, the resistance of the water immediately ahead increases this enormous rate, with the increase of speed. This can always be noticed by the huge white wave a swiftly moving vessel kas in front of her-the "bone in her mouth," as the sailors term it. The object of the new invention is to scatter this retarding mass as it is being entered, and by this means it is claimed that the speed of steamers can be increased to the point that will admit of their crossing the ocean in four days. Vessels will be fitted with this new device for experimental purposes both in this country and In England, and it is expected that their speed will be greatly in excess of anything new afloat.
Considerable anxiety is felt amongst the naval authorities as to the safety of the British gun-boat Firebrand, now twenty-two days out from Hongkong en route for Shanghai. H. M. S. Redpola Teft this morning, and the Rattler followed this afternoon, to search the coast northwards. A prominent naval officer assured us that there was no fear entertained as to the Firebrand's safety, but as strong north-east breezes had been prevalent up the coast it was aurmised that she had run short of coal, and had to put in somewhere. Some men-of-war," he said, had bees known to take a month in getting yesterday from the north it looks as if the case was considered pretty urgent She is a 455 for composite sunboat, commanded by Lieut. Com mander Denison, and carries seven officers and a small crew. In view of her disappearance it is ominous to read Shimbun publishes news from Korea stating the Asahi that couple of Chinese foundered during a great storm
ironclads off the coast in the early part of the current month. From the 5th to the 9th very bad weather was experienced at Fusin, and the combined Chinese Northern and Southern cruising squadrons, comprising twelve vessels, put in for for Chernulpe; they were overtaken by a great shelter. Two of these received orders to leave storm and foundered with all hands about sixty miles from their destination, On the news reaching Fusin nine of the ships were at ence sent out in the hope of succouring any survivors there might be
that
H. M. S. " FIREBRAND" "MISSING. | subjected? One illustration will be found in 'the. abuse of the wager policy, which is being worked in a totally novel manner in the insurance of steamers hulls for time. The owner of a cargo steamer worth to 'insare £30,0co would under the old system, have insured her for that sum so valued, on an all-risks policy, and there would have been an end of the matter. The underwriter-broker has discovered a far better plan--for the owner. He will get the vessel insured on two policies: one for £10,000 on hull and machinery valued at £10,000 agains! all the risks; the other for £10,000 against total lost only, policy proof of interest (as expressed by the formula P. P. i.). We will take toand
on the first policy, and 4 guineas per cent, on the second, equal in average to 68 guineas per cent, How does the owner stand in regard to a casuality In the case of a total loss he collects the whole £30,000, as he would have whereas under the old system, he could, done in any case; but in the event of damage, with the 3 per cent clause, have only claimed if the amount equalled or exceeded goo, by the new device he would recover if the damage amaanted to 6600, vix, 3 per cent. on his £20.coo all-risks policy. He would thes have, secured complete inderanity, as we have shown.. for 6 2-3rd guineas instead of 8 guineas, with the thrown in. In all this there is no deception, fur addition of a reduced starting point for average it is common for underwriters on the all-isks policy to stipulate for a slice of the p p.l. or total loss business The converse holds good for the underwriter on the £20,000 all riskes policy. He would be liable for all risks on the whole ship-while having only received premium on two-thirds of her and his liability for damage would begin at £600 lustead of £900. When the "name" receive accounts showing initesimal profits, does it ever strike them that this new system may sometimes be to blame i On the first Introduction of
WHY UNDER WRITING AT LLOYD'S HAS CEASED TO BE ·
PROFITABLE.
Under the abave head, Fairplay gives the following interesting explanation of certain modern phases of the business :-
As stated in a previous article, three very distinct reasons are to be found to account for the unprofita le results of underwriting at Lloyd's. It is true that an exceptionally bad season has prevailed, but the only effect of that has been to precipitate the catastrophe, and to enforce underwriters to look facts in the face
dr than they might otherwise have done. Had the losses been only normal the present virtual collapse must have been reached sooner or later, for the system on which much of the business is done at Lloyd's has long increasing, and the result is inevitable. Under been unsound, the unsoundness has been
writers, pure and simple, must be more and more disposed to withdraw from the business in pro- portion as it becomes more and more evident that circumstances outside, of underwriting prevent the old and normal relation being observed between premiums and risks. That 13a practically what has occurred. Modem innova tions in some cases, and undue development of comparatively old practices in others, have changed the very nature of the business at Lloyd's. We have mentioned the abuse of the P. p., or wager policies, the extension of the principle of writing for names, and the intra- duction of the underwriting-broker, as the chief causes of the dead-leck at Lloyd's. Of these evils the underwriting-broker is undoubtedly the worst, for mainly to him is due the abnormal development of the others.
Lloyd's, on its original lines, was primarily an assemblage of underwriters, whose business it
Was
to underwrite, and to do nothing else Brokers, for convenience sake, were admitted as subscribers, because, as they held the risks to be covered, it was indispensable that they should be in contact with the men whose business it was to cover them. Further, in those days, when the "credit" system prevailed, and the discount was only allowed on the balance at the end of the rear (sfter deduction of all claims), the interest of the brokers was identical with that of ander writers. The two businesses, that of the under. writer and that of the broker, are in their nature essentially distinct. In the past, that fact was partially recognised; in the present, it is entirely ignored; with the result that the old canon law of business which prohibits an intermediary from acting as principal is put on the shelf, and the broker charged wih effecting an insurance effects it or a portion of it with himself. In principle this is wrong. The system of combining underwriting with brokering has now become
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in steal a march over his competitors, the this plan by an underwriting broker, anxious amount injured p. p. l. was small; other brokers followed the new departure, and naturally by degrees the value of the all-risk policy was reduced, and the amount insured pp.l. increased, until the proportions have come in some instances' to equal those in the example given above. All this, we maintain, is wrong in principle, and injurious in practice, to the best interests of Lloyd's, and steps should ere this have been taken to remedy the evil. Underwriting, like every other business, should pay, and if it is to but that can never be done whilst the bona fide continue to be sound it must be made to pay underwriter is compelled to play, as now, against loaded dice,
THE 'FRISCO MAIL IN '49.
These riders were of a class similar to cow- boys of the present day, ready for a fight or a ' frolic, and entering either with the dele mina- tlon to make the most of it. They were loyal to each other and their friends. There was only one mail lost by them, and that happened to he of little value. It was lost in Epanie. Canyon, when the rider in charge was attacked by Indians, his horse klied, and he him
lf wounded. The company tried to get the Government to punish the ludians for this, but there was another matter for Uncle Sam to attend to just then. Sa Miller took seventy-five men, went out and killed a few of the pixyful Shoshones, and found that they kept out of the way very nicely forever after.
The income of the Pony Express, while run. ning, averaged $500 per day. Some very valuable documents were carried, and in every case arrived in good order. England was at that time engaged in a war with China. Reports the home Government were carried by this from the English squadran in Chinese waters to route, it being the quickest and safest. One of these official papers weighed so much that the charges upon it were $135.
EX-JUDGE TRENCH ON • THE REVOLT OF THE JURY"
We have received the following letter from Victoria; the veteran ex-Judge Trench, C, of
Editor Bulletin.-Sir,-In your issue of 19th alt. you published a leading article enti·led The Revolt of the Jury," now write to express my high appreciation of its merits as an able exposure of a most humiliating complication In the administration of justice in our criminal courts. with such irresistible force in that article; and I I concor fully in all you have urged may remark that my views on the subject have been formed the course of many years
study and reflection since my retirement, experience at the Bar and on the Bench, and moreover, have been well matured by persisten,
If you will do me the honour to glance over the small pamphlet which I send herewith you the embarrassing complication, which I rejoice. will see that I have made an effort to show how
to know has come under correction of The Bulletin, might, and ought to be removed.
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reported in the Age of the roth inst. In the former case the culprit had the good fortune to be in
the
hands of a judge gifted among men with the instinct of the humane; but the wretched man Douar was systematically driven to self-murder as the only mode of escape from life in the A division (which is worked on the "silent system") auder a sentence of two years in irons, awarded by two visiting justicesi
The law, as a whole, having to do with rights
1 style my unpretentious pamphlet "A Standard of measurements of Sentences in Criminal cases and a Reformed System of Penti Discipline," and I endeavour to show that the root of the evil which you have, with such pre- cretion with which the judges are saddled by cision exposed, is hidden in the misplaced dis the peculiar phraseology of the statutes la limiting the duration of Imprisonment as a punishment for particular crimes. The term of imprisonment is expressed thus: "not exceeding From 1845 to 1860 the firm of Russell, Major,ents," and hence the judges are charged. with the awful responsibility of determining Waddell & Co. were among the largest contrac
whether a sentence shall be for the full term so tors in the United States, their business some
limited; or, if not by how much less than that times amounting to $6,000,000 annually Mr. Miller was the "Co. the youngest member of period a convict shall be imprisoned and subjected to the horrors of penal discipline in some one of the firm, and in a great measure the life of it Mails were very irregular, the stage lines taking part of a strictly legal education, yet the Judges, the gaols. The science of correction forms no a weekly which was sometimes löst, in fact was
all untrained, are saddled with discretion extremely fortunate to get through. This was
covering the whole period of life-from the conducted at a tremendous cost. There was great rivalry between the stage and ocean lines which must be exercised unaided by any fixed sentence till the rising of the court," to "for life," the latter struggling for contracts for taking the mails from New York by steamer to the Isthmus, principle or common rule to guide them. Under across this, and again by steamer up the western
such circumstances, what might be deemed the coast. The mail which went overland went by exercise of a sound discretion is impossible; and the result is that the administration of our the southern route, through New Mexico and
criminal law is a
a pronounced, most disastrous, Arizona. The contracting firm above mentioned had the control of the central route, by Kearneyor yet reformatory; but, on the contrary, the failure. Punishment has not proved deterrent, Juleburg, Fort Laramie and Salt Lake. People habitual criminal class has increased to an insisted that this route was impracticable, and the idea of a daily mil over it was ridiculed alarming extent. Mr. Justice Webb, passing, mest vigorously. Mr. Miller persuaded his more
sentence in "The Gembrook Tragedy case, is conservative partners that such a mail could be reported in the Age of 24th ins, to have carried. From this idea grow the pony express, him he would keep him from contamination and addressed the prisoner thus: "Whilst sentencing the fame of which was soon world-wide.
not start him on the downward career of crims, which he feared imprisonment, in our gaots now He was given two months, February and March, 1860, to equip the line with stock, and stations, which he did at a cost of $80,000. very frequently did." Add to this the coldblooded narrative of "The Suicide of Pierre Dosar," It was thought that the line would support itself, so the proprieters expected not to be out more than the original Investment. It could hardly be said that it did pay, but it demonstrated what could be done, and encouraged the railroad and the wire to follow in its wake. Previous to this time there had been limited express lines of this kind, but nothing on so gigantic a scale: so predominant at Lloyd's that the ordinary Mr. Miller had been over the route enough to insurance broker is being squeezed out of exist-know what had been done. He said that Salt ence on one hand, while on the other, the Lake could be reached from St. Joe In five days; and wrongs in civil and criminal cases wrongs underwriter who confines himself to his legiti and the Coast in five days more. mate business, who trades on his own capital, On April 3d the penies were started from each becoming crimes when they affect the public and who depends for his livelihood on the
end of the line. By this time the confidence of peace Injuriously-it is boasted of the civil jurisdiction that for every infringement of a right ordinary profia of underwriting, can no longer Miller had proved infectious, and Russell was
There is a remedy by action to recover redress hold his own. Small wonder that retirements just as confident, The New York'steamer com- from losses, or the fear of them, are talked of pany were confident, tas, but not in the same
lo pecuniary damages assessed by a jury. But at Lloyd's; the marvel is that an evil which
in cases where the personal wrong amounts to a The Japanese transports Kongo and Hiel, which
way. So a bet was made for $50,000 a side. have introduced into these waters the new navallies like a canker at the very root of the Institu The race began; and was watched with
crime the civil remedy becomes valueless, being, as a high authority has expressed it, "swallowed dag that was adopted by the Emperor of Japan tion, should not long since have been eradicated. breathless interest, Station after station was last November, will leave here to-morrow for Undoubted by there are underwriting-brokers passed. The pony from the ocean and the pony "p" by the public prosecution. There is as Europe with the survivors of the ill-fated who place their client's interests above their from the valley panted toward each other, with sufficient Justification for this practice, as, I Ertogroul. A representative of the Telegraph own; but there are others who do not; and it is the hundreds of miles between them melting think, is made manifest in my pamphlet. By the called on board the Hel this morning. On because the system shelters the just and the away. At each station there was another borac expedient of two issues-a civil one for damages ascending the ladder he was met by an unjust like that it has become necessary to saddled and rider ready spurred. The mail bag and criminal one as to the guilt of the (apparently) young officer, who inquired, with denounce it.
was tossed from one to the other, and on aped, accused-being submitted the jury at one Ollendorffian fluency," What do you propose? " A close connection exists between the ander like the wind, the fresh Horse and rider, One trial, punishment would practically be measured The novelty of the interrogation temporarily writing-broker system and the increasing use of boy on the first trip was lost in a canyon of by the Jury. The evidence would be the same "names." A broker desirous of extending his snow. For four precious hours he wandered on the trial of both issues. If the Jary awarded, discomposed the visitor, until it occared to him to propose five rounds with the gloves, business persuades two or three of his friends to Then he started on with desperate, vigor. y. exemplary damages, the verdict would be entered in the usual way, and the verdict being a suggestion which evidently conveyed nothing allow him to write" for them at Lloyd's, and if Another was lost in the Plaite. The horse he
he has not sufficient friends he gets hold, some- rode was drowned. But the rider swam out guilty on the criminal issue, the judge would to the Nipponese Neison, as he smiled and
how or other, of outside gentlemen who are con- with his mail and footed it to, the next station, have nothing to do but to pass sentence of disappeared to look for an interpreter. After some negotiations one of the survivors of the tent to lodge the deposit, and receive the interest Here his relief, was in waiting, and the flight imprisonment with hard labour for the full term was taken up again. Would the riders and the limited by the statute, adding the qualification Erfogroufs e ew, who knew a little English, on it, with the further attraction of the expected personal experiences than those given in our was unearthed, in the hope that a recital of more profits on their vicarious underwriting. The horses, with their daring and energy win? Would following, unless by appropriations of money broker himself is in clover. If, as many of them the accident and the strangeness of the trial make earned by the prisoner in gaol, to the liquids. Japanese contemporaries might be obtained. do, he can get nine or ten names" to write for, them lose? No one could tell The days of the judgment debt, satisfaction shall be He was a Greek named Haidar, who was each of which is paying him an annual income passed. The ponies neared each other. The sooner entered on the civil record," or words to."
the like effect. By this mode the duration of to start with, he is pretty well hedged against pasted. The riders gave wild hurrah. O punishment would be made to depend upon attached to the Sultan's unfortunate,ark In the capacity of photographer. He had nothing personal loss on bis own private lines. But his and on whip and spur. Nine days, are gone the amount of the damages under the verdict of really new to tell-one dark night, when is bread is buttered on both sides. As broker, he is and the poles have kept fast, be in Sacra. the jury on the civil issue; the judges would be Tuz Hyogo News of the 18th inst., referring to was raining and blowing very hard, the ship commissioned to cover a risk of, say, £20,000, A o'clock the westward bound must be a rumor published the previous day, anys:-The hit a rock, he said, and he and plenty underwriter, he takes for "self and Dames" as mente, The soon has passed, and the minutes extricated from false position the private 075 report of the total loss of the British ship Lixxis more got on the stern until it went down. Then much of it as saits him. Whatever commission are being counted. Half-past three. Will the prosecutor who had been assaulted and robbed of otherwise injured would have his damages C. Troop off the Loochoo Islands, with the he got hold of a spar, Osman Pasha being he might receive for covering the risk-supposing brave rider be on hand? As yet there is no
assessed by: a fury with, probably, as good a 100 major portion of her crew, appears to be alongside him, and they were buffeted about for that in order to dish his arrivals he does not sign. With only thirty minutes to spare Russell 1.10 and three Japanese, are due this morning head. There was comparatively very little tumult in the event of total loss, get the usual I per cent, is seen. It grows to a cloud. The fider waves
only too true. The survivors, seven foreigners a while, until a spar smashed Osman Pasha's return the whole brokerage he would, at any rate, wanted to doable his bet. Then a speck of dustpropect of realising the amount as the average liigant may count on'; and, moreover, under a from Kumamoto, Kagoshima, per N.Y.K... when the goo men went down, many being below for recovery. That would amount to £200; and his hat. The people shout. The pony express Reformed System of Penal Disciplice" the 1,00 Mutsu Maru, which left that place at ten o'clock and the rest resigned. He was in the water bis line would probably not have exceeded has crossed the great American desert. Victory!alortunate culprit is taken hold of by the State, and compelled to labour with his hands to make on Thursday moming. Those drowned number which was extremely cold-nearly five hours, and £100, he would be too to the good on the There is still twenty minutes! gracemus k 0.40 thirteen, and includ: one Japanese. Nothing was much bruised by being flung on the rocke, transaction, while his unhappy "names" would This speed was always kept up, just as if there full amends. His Imprisonment is for safe further is know, and, until the arrival of the Some of the other men were so injured that they be exactly that amount to the bad; and this sort were $50,000 at stake daily. It was the same custody the hard labour part of the sentence Would be work honestly paid for at rates of When the complications of the 6.40 survivors here, no ilst of those who perished were still in the ship's hospital. Haidar's of game is being played every day. In all cases, a.go will be available. The Captain's family in recital over, one of the Japanese officers imparted the business of an insurance broker is to get war turned everything upside down the riders ages ruling in the open market, on the principle cluded his wife and two children. Preparations soma information respecting the vessels. They premiums down in the faterest of his employer, and went to do battle, the stations were abandoned, of a fait day's wages for a fair day's work, thus Finest Old Jamaica, Violet
have been made at the Sailors' Home for the were composite corvettes, slater ships, and bad in order, in bls own interest, to compete with contracts went to other hands, and grass grew citing in hope and encouragement and the con Capsule
100 reception of the survivors. The news of the bees stationed at Tokyo 11 training vessels, other brokers. Where he is simply a broker there arer the trail. But soon the stage used it, and glation of knowing that the harder he worked Good Leeward Island....so per Gallon, disaster appears to have taken more than three although really belonging to the Korean station, go two words to the bargain, his own and the the telegraph line was not far behind, while the sooner he would shake himself free of his LIQUEURS,
weeks to travel up here, due, of course, to the They were the fist Japanese mes-of-war bound underwriter's; but where he is both, underwriter those who have rushed across the plains by bonds. Gaols would become as they should be, self-supporting, and the whole cost of crime be Benedictine Maraschino
ungetatablancas of the locally where the wreck for Europe that had ever come to Hongkong and broker his fixes the rate, perhaps, 2s. 6d. steam know what followed these fanovations, Curages
The riders of the pony express were all young, taken out of the criminals Yours, &c., ROELET Herring's Cherry Cordial occurred. The vessel being an English ship. Each vessel carried a crew of 335, officers and below the current premium, and poses in the
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Dr. Siegert's Angostars there will be the usual Court of Inquiry at men, but that included 86 cadets sturdy eyes of his principal as an uncommonly smart wity fellows, whose very love of excitement and Bitters, &c. H. B. M. Consulate Into the circumstances youngsters, dressed in almost English uniform, fellow. Of course he could not, single-handed, danger had brought them to the frontier. In
attending her inm. The Mujru Mary arrived dirk" and all-họ were going to
FOOTBALL IN ENGLAND, make an abnormally low rate, but friendly this occupation they had their fill. this morning. Among the survivors are the western world. After leaving the Turkish cooperation with others who are playing the same individual adventures would all a vefume. Mrs. Fowner, the Captain's wife, and the sailors at Constantinople the Mediterranean game as himself (with whom he will in turn The life, with its exposures and hardship Our American newspapers, says the correspon. first mate. The vessel was driven on to ports would probably be visited. Here his reciprocrate), and general competition, will in was a wearing one. What has become of the ́dent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, are very fond of the rocks during a typhoon, striking at 6 information ended, and he addressed himself the lang rud carry him through. In fact, he hau -riders now, is a question. -~ Many of them have dwelling on the subject of the great development o'clock in the morning. The survivors stood in the Ollendorffan style to Haidar, to already got so well through, that it is a question followed the frontier, and will stay on fir fore of baseball in comparison with at other games, by her and came ashore when the weather whom he
announced that "The captain whether there and at present more than a few until they die. Many are dead already. One, but they never mention the wonderful hold foot. moderated. Those who jumped overboard were says if your men-go shore-get difficulty underwriting accounts at Lloyd'e which do not of the most daring of the crowd rode into Salt bill, as it is played to-day In England, has on drowned. The Captain brought his wife and is very bad-d'ye sce." This being duly show a loss. That is no consequence to our Lake, having ridden eighty miles through the the m Jorly of sport-loving Englishmen. The eldes: son ashore, but lost the latter in the suria Interpreted, and an assurance given that the underwriting-braker, because his small share of wildest part of the route. It was a hard task present game of football, with its beauti He turned to find him. If possible, but was conduct of the the handful ful barbushed sated by lle laced writer is more than compen bat the lad was equal to it, doing the work of scientific pointe bears as much resemblance to frightfully hurt among the rocks, and was washed most exemplary the handful of | his large personal profits as broker, about four men. He afterwards joined the Con- the game of the same name of fifty years ago back by the sER,
He died on shore an hour, castaways pulled ashore, and our representative But the names How many of them know federate army, sad died on a Southern battle, later from the effects of þle wounds,
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A DISCOVERY in ethnological and Masonic lore is announced by the Rev. Haskett Smith, rector of Lincolnshire. While in Lebanon Mr. 0.75 Smith was admitted to the most secret intimacy
with the Druses for having saved the life of young man by sucking the venom of a snake. 0.75 bite from his body. He was initiated into the Druses hitherto unknown mysteries, and in these the natives startled him, as a Freemason 0.75 by using the most characteristic of Masonic
signs. Hence he 'argues that the Druses are none other than a branch of the great Phoenician 100 race, whose ancestors supplied the Lebanan
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