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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1890.
WE are informed by the agents (Mesars. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co. that the steamer Japan, from Calcutta, left Singapore to-day for this post, AN Emergency meeting of Victoria Preceptory, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Tuekday, the 11th instant, at 8.30 for 9 pm precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited is attend.
"LA Perichole," which Miss Plaisted & Co. will produce at the Theatre Royal this evening, is one of the most sprightly and luneful operas in their repertoire, and we cannot too strongly recommend our readers to take this opportunity of hearing it.
The Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Titan, from Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 13th'inat. WHILE sewing bis wild oats, the Marquis of Hartington one night played three games of draughts for £100 game and lost all three. He then cut a pack of cards for £500 a cut, and in the course of a very few minutes droppert tooo more. He never lost for an instant bis al nonchalant air of sleepy indifference. He never can get over an occasion when he yawned once during ble own speech in Parliament.
He bad a severe conlused wound on the head, and was perfectly dead. Two days prior to thé accident he saw coolics piting earth and stones against the boundary wall, and from appearances
he judged the earth had been accumulating there for some weeks.
At this juncture the Court made an inspection of the site of the accident, subsequent to which the inquiry, was adjourned until Tuesday after- noon.
THE COTTON-YARN AND RAW ` "COTTON TRADE DIFFICULTIES.
Square battle, Gold Capsule, 87 per dores, poem before he stops. He has nominated Lord vessel passed a large quantity of wreckage, the rule, or rather, understanding, has been that not last, and they are in constant danger of
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In Bisayas and other districts in the Philippines countless numbers of small rats have appeared, destroying the sagar-canes on whole plantations in a single night. A similar phenomena occurred there years ago, the vermin disappearing a suddenly as they had come. TENNYSON is hale and hearty at eighty years, and says he expects to write at least one more
Lytton as his successor as Poet Laureate, but the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and Lord Sallsbury each has a different candidate in view, according to popular report, AN Australian doctor ably characterises the body into three zones. First the Frigid on top, mid nodings on, just where most, wanted; Next the Torrid, under the corset-armour; and thirdly the Temperate. Three climates carried about with you, and how do you expect to be healthy?
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During the past few weeks the relations between the Hongkong importers of cotton yaro and raw cotton from India and the Chinese dealers have become seriously strained, owing to the failure of the latter to take delivery of their goods within a reasonable period after the arrival of consignments which the Calcutta liners, and other
steamers, bring over from India every fortnight. The the Chinese could take delivery at their convenience, an arrangement which suited bath parties very well so long as the buyers did not abuse the fenience of the sellers, the Indian mer- chants. When, however, it was found that thou- sands of bales were left on the hands of importers, trade is conducted) the financiers, for 13, 18 and even so months at a time, and the natives threatened to buy elsewhere and "boycolt” ile Indian merchants, it WAS decided that she time had arrived when steps should be taken to place this important branch of the trade of Hongkong on a firm basis not for the purpose of putting the prices up, but simply as a protective measure. Action has accordingly been taken, and a specific agreement, or alliance, been entered into between the whole of the Indian merchants established in this colony,
fashionable ladies' dress as unnaturally dividine i habit of drawing their sleeves across their mouths who were fin the circumstances under which the dangerous victory of the kind, which has 40 pread ruin. The numerous broad and shallow
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AT a dinner once Mr. A—having said something particularly clever, his envious friend, Mr. B- remarked: "Don't give him credit for that A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. epigram, Mr. Wilde; it was the wine that said it," "The wise ?" exclaimed Oscar; "then, gentlemen, how pleasant it in to reflect that our epigrams are, perhaus, now ripening for us on the vine-covered trellis of some sunay slope in France."
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A CORRESPONDENT who has been in Athens says that the Greeks are overjoyed at the birth of their Crown Prince, who has been christened Constantine, after his father. There is an old Hellenic prophecy to the effect that Constan.... tinople will be reconquered for the Greeks "by the son of a Prince samed Constantine having. a fair-haired spouse called Sophia.” It happens, ¦ surely enough, that the father in this instance is Constantine and that the mother is fair-haired; and is named Sophia. Therefore it is not surprising that the Greeks hail the arrival of the royal heir with every demonstration of delight. THE anti-lottery and club crusade goes on space. A Tarfa lottery swell of Wanchal, against whom Inspector Swanston appeared and two Tal-ping-shan club managers, arrested face the music at the Police Court this morning by Detective Inspector Quincey last aight, had to In the "club" case Mr. Mossop appeared for the defence and argued the point with Mr. Wodehouse. Result: the Tes-fa man got thres months, and the gambling club gents were is worthy of note that the fumiture and money seized at the club was confiscated, the former being of the most costly description, and the latter totting up to $58and some cents. There's hope for the Treasury yet i
THE barque Walter Sitgfried, form Hongkong. bound to Foochow, called in at the outer hatbour at Amay last Wednesday morning for provisions after a protracted voyage of 40 dave. It seems that the vessel after leaving Hongkong met with a series of typhoons, and was driven some 400 miles to leeward, being the whole of the time under bare poles. When the weather was some what moderated and sail could be carried, Captain Lawrence reports that for half a day the
sed being literally strewed with It. THE buttons on coat sleeves, it seems, were first put upon the sleeves of soldiers in the British Army, and for a rather peculiar reason, Prier to the buttoned sleeves soldiers had the filthy and noses upon every occasion when a packet bandkerchief or a napkin could have been used to a better advantage. As a matter of course the caff became shiny and defaced, Punishment and reprimand were tried, but they failed to check the habit. As a last resort a board of officers met and ananimously adopted a plan suggested by one of their number, which was to sew two or three rough heads or buttons upon the top part of the sleeve of every military cost." This bad the desired effect. By degrees soldiers, as well as civilians, became more tidy, The buttons were not removed from the sleeves, however, only slid around to the back or under side, where they still linger, a relic of semi-bar bariam, an ornament nevertheless, GOVERNOR Hopetoun Has opened up a great deposit of solemn thought by the statement he likes Australia, and has "no desire to go home." We expect he has not. At home he is only peer, and not a very large one either; in Australia he is a deputy-monarch, and feels as if he weighed a ton. Also, he is the Fount of Mercy, which probably agrees with, him, and he has a palace and a salary, and the provincial mayors entertain him, and take him round the bone crushing establishments, and show him so tons of old scrap fat and eggs that are waiting to be boiled down, and read him addresses, and he has a good time generally, Governor Bowen, however, struck a brighter inspiration still; at every town be visited he used to state that the one thing that he longed for abare all other earthly considerations was to be buried there, and sleep in the picturesque local cemetery till the day of resurrection, And the tears come Into our eyes when we think that this humble ambition missed fire. He hasn't been buried
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In the autum of 1888 the Indian merchants, then suffering from Irregularities practised by the Chinese, urged the Chamber of Commerce to take the matter up. but nothing ceme of these representations to the Chamber, and things have gradually drifted from bad to worse. The importance of the question will be seen when we state that the average monthly stocks of yarn are 40,000 bales, besides 10,000 of cotton, the monthly clearances amounting to sme 15 co bales of yarn, and 5,000 of the latter. The trade has doubled within the last ten years, despite the more recent competition in Shanghai and Japan. Among the protective clauses in the sellers agreement are three or four which run as follows:-
"Two calendar months from the dates of sales, or of arrival in case of goods sold to arrive, will be allowed by us to the purchaser to pay for and take delivery of his purchases, and in case an extension of time is deemed necessary and requested by him, another additional month will be granted him within which to complete the clearance of the entire lot purchased. The time of clearance to be particularly stated, as above in all notes of transactions passed between the seller and the purchaser."
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"If, however, or the expiration of the three months granted him, the purchaser still does not find himself in a position to pay for, and clear the goods purchased by him, then a further extension el time shall be fixed and settled with him, provided that he pays immediately three months 3 for every bale of cottons
yarn and $3.50 for every bale of cotton/ purchased by him, as a deposit against any contingent loss for the deterioration of price in the market in the event of entire pen-cienzance by him, and provided likewise that he immedi
further delay in paying for and taking delivery," aicly pays at the same time up to the further period fixed all charges incidental to that,
purchaser on the completion of the transaction, "The deposit money shall be returned to the
but the charges incidental to delay we agree to fix and to
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and been obliged to acquiesce in being treated, free from it. When a band of robbers has once with ever increasing contumely by the Govern gained the upper hand, it is exceedingly difficult iment. The natural result, and the public for any district magistrate, however excellent his evidence of this is what has been frequently intentions, to put a stop to them. If he metes out pointed out in these columns and elsewhere, the justice which the desperadoes have so long the feeling of the higher ranks spreads to deserved and defied he runs great risk of being the lower, and residence in the capital becomes himself the victim, when his term of office daily more intolerable to foreigners. It is natural expires. On his journey from his late district le and easy to blame Individuals for the deplorable his next objective, he is liable to be met at the pass to which matters have come, but the most point where the barder line of two distilats superficial retrospect of any passage of history ||(hrin) join, by armed men, who wreak their in any country discloses an almost unbroken vengeance upon him when he is most helpless. In series of blunders on the part of Statesmen such cases the incumbent of each adjacent Asfen which to their contemporaries must have district strives to make it appear that the crime appeared unpardonable, and still the world was not committed on territory within his rolls on; which should perhaps warn jurisdiction, but just over the line. With a view, us against applying too severe a measure to apparently, to disputes of this sort, in regions the acts of erring mortals. Besides, the sub-where stone boundary posts mark the limit of serviency of the Ministers to China has been each Asian or county, it is not uncommon to find more than condoned by the extravagant atten- these stones planted several feet, several rods, or tians by which their Governments at home have even a quarter of a mile, apart. The space fed the selfesteem of the Chinese, thus burning between is of course a neutral ground, or the candle of foreign prestige at both ends no-man's land, and it is doubtless upon this strip of Such grossly unnatural relations of course can sail that tragic events are expected, upon the occurrence of which it will not be difficult for being subreited by some violent reaction which each contiguous official to prove that for what- will come upon them from some unsuspected ever has occurred he bad, even by Chinese law, quarter,
no responsibility whatever.
Chief among the perits of the navigation of Chinese inland waters is to be named the sudden gusts of wind which occasionally produce wides- lakes (of which the Poyang is a specimen) are especially dangerous, and are the annual witnesses of countless wrecks. Even on small rivers ruch disasters sometimes occur. Chloese anchors are of a very imperfect construction, and in a gale are often totally unequal to the strain put upon them. For Chinese purposes and for Chinese management, we are convinced that Chinese river craft are much better. than ours. Their sails are light, strong, instantly adjustable, and it is even said (with what justice we do not pretend to decide) that these craft can sail closer to the wind than any others afloat. The model upon which they are built, is not that of the fish but that of the water-fowl. Passenger boats, especially those designed to traverse quiet waters, and to carry officials, are frequently top-heavy to a ridiculous extent. In a high wind such boats sometimes blow over, and the same thing occasionally happens to the ordinary house-boats. The writer is personally acquainted with Chinese who have narrowly escaped drowning by such an accident, and with others who have thus been actually drowned. All attempts, however, to elicit from Chinese boatmen any statistics
to the frequency of such occurrences within their own observation, have been uniformly met with an hdmission of their possibility, a denial of their probability and the following crushing interro- gatory; "If a boat should blow over, would it not spoil it??!
· Beatmen, like all other Chinese, are born conservatives, and sometimes refuse to stir because the wind is too high. At some seasons the tolls of the boatmen are excessive. But so far as our experience goes they seem to be patient and uncomplaining to an astonishing degree, and although the victims of a hard fate they often seem models of that contentment, which is said to be better than wealth,
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Hospital. He was quite dead at that time. The other feki was sent to the Tung Wah Hospital, He had fairly recovered now, and would soon be able to work agals.
1. Interest from the termination of the three months granted at 9 per cent per annum, 2. Godown hire at 7 cents per bale per mensem. 3. Fire Insurance as per tariff of short period premium charged by local insurance offices in this Colony,"
This is one of the instances in 'which the Chinese Government seems to have gained a decisive victory over foreign nations (a
often proved fatal in the past), and it is certain that the statesmen both of Feking and the Provinces attach the highest value to the veil of seclusion which they have managed to throw round the person of the sovereign. The true friends of China, however, would be better pleased to see her statesmen strengthening the Throne by some more substantial and more durable protection than this miserable pretence There is something exquisitely ludicrous, at the same time pathetic, in the spectacle of a State which within a generation has had to pass through the humiliation of entertaining foreign armies in its capital putting on airs of superiority befitting only the painted heroes of slage tragedy The illusion, whether sincere or only affected, that is, whether the Government deceives itself or imagines it is deceiving others, is equally to be plied. Who that has witnessed the Manchu soldiery behind the walls of Peking diligently practising archery, or has read in the Peking Gazette the importance the Government attaches to proficiency in the exercise, can help smiling at the rehearsalof obsolete dril. That, however, may be nothing worse than a waste of time and good bowstring; but the Audience hallucination is one of these things which may, indeed is, extremely likely to lead to most regrettable con- sequences. It China refuses to accept frankly the comity of nations and to take her place อ one of the family, she makes herself an outlaw, and is liable to be treated as such just at the time when it may be least convenient to herself. The policy of which, the seclusion of the Emperor is a part is not a Manche, but a purely Chinese policy. It is well known that the reigning family, if left free to exercise its own judgment in such matters, would, be perfectly willing to receive the foreign Mini- sters in Audience. The greatest ruler of the Tatsing dynasty made none of these childish difficulties. It was when the spirit of the Chinese boatmen like skilled Chinese work. Manchu conquerors became feeble and Chinese men of any kind, always seem to know what to ideas had gained the ascendant that the seclu- do in an emergency. Their tools are simple and sion of the Sovereign became a pillar of State their results often remarkable. We once saw policy. But in international affairs the policy the entire roof of a house-boat suddenly Jerked of the Manchus has generally been right, while off and thrown into the river. One of the ropes that of the Chinese has been invariably wrong attached to the sail had caught in a projecting All the ingenuity Chinese statesmen have ever board supporting the roof as the sail wasthrowA displayed has only resulted in bringing about the to the other side when the boat rounded a bend, very things to which they were most strenuously All the boards composing the sides of the boat opposed. The various foreign wars prove this.
at once fell Inwards, completely burying a sleep- Each step in the aggression of foreigners has ing infant on the couch, and leaving the foreign been the direct consequence of some stupid passengers gazing on the rufa with despair. The has been so completely discredited by the events such an accident in their lives) promptly pro- Chinese device to keep them out. A policy that boatmen (who may never have experienced
for the Government to follow; and the particular them in place, nothing being broken but a few of contemporary history is not surely a safe one ceeded to fish up the floating parts and adjust branch of the policy which is now la question is retten bits of board, and string, and several than any heretofore experienced by the dynasty, was put to rights, and the boat was again on its It is possible that this question may take away. Some of the gravest perils of Chinese practical shape before many months over, river navigation are found in encountering Should H. I. H. the Crarewitch visit theNorth of obstructions in rivers. We have known several Ching it is not likely he will be content to be warned Instances in which boats have sat down upon off the capital as other royal travellers have posts, to the ruin of much cargo, in one instance been, and the Government may be forced to endangering a valuable plano. These posts "In case, at any time, one or more of us shall take a decision on which weighty consequences were in some cases, and probably in all, part of be interdicted and tabooed by, the Chinese.
will bang. No doubt our excellent Viceroy will an embankment long since washed away, the purchasers ou account of anything connected sue his influence in favour of a liberal policy ruins of which alone remained to work mischief. what may be termed the Kang Hsi policy which with this agreement, a meeting of the signatories
A fertile cause of danger in Chinese river be is known to have recommended, and which navigation is the annual or semi-annual stage of hereof shall be called at the instance of the party or parties laterdicted and taboord, and if
four years ago brought the Seventh Prince to high water. These rises are often so great that majority of those present at such meeting shall Tientsio-but most likely His Excellency, will boatmen very properly refuse to move at all. At decide that such interdiction and taboo have be compelled to play once more the part of such times Chinese ferries are among the greatest been instituted without just cause we will combine Major-demo and to offer to do the honours on perils of travellers on account, of the clumsiness together, and refrain from selling any of the said
behalf of bis Sovereign. But convenient as the of the craft, the difficulty of righting them commodities either directly or indirectly until anch taboo and interdiction are rem,ved."Viceroy's position undoubtedly Is for the despatch accident happens, and also, in provinces where of business, he cannot fill the place of the Sove they are used, by reason of the great number of The latter clause is particularly instructive, as reign, and at any rate we take it as certain that restless animals sure to be found on such boats. showing the measures which the importers have the Heir Apparent of the Russian Empire will There is never any provision for getting then on adopted in sheer self defence. It seems to be not be satisfied to be received by a servant,
board a boat, such, for example as a broad gang- a case of like curing like the Chinese form a however eminent.. The arrival of the Grand plank, for it is cheaper to have two narrow onER, league to persecute importers, and to remedy that Duke will therefore be looked, for with and to make it too easy to drive animals on the evil the latter form a strong combination, much interest, and on the decision which the boat would interfere with some of the most Peking authorities advise the Emperor to take valued squeezes of the loafers about every depend very important issues. Here is a man destined to rule a hundred million subjects with beasts aboard. There is generally do proper an autocratic authority such as no other sover landing on either side, and if the river is low, eiga on earth can exercise; and to command the and the banks high, there is often much armies of an empire which has with China a come inconvenience and not a little danger. the Khans of Asia have gone down one after dragged on and off the ferry boat by the mata men frontier of 3,000 miles; before whose fathers Every animal must be unhitched and the cart
debate whether he is worthy to enter the preater it is very difficult to get the animals another like nine-plas, and the rulers of China force of several men. At certain stages of the sence of their Emperor! The gift of prophecy is hitched into the cast and difven up the bank, not ours, but this much we venture to affirm without great trouble, especially if there are that a reluctant welcome to the Czarewitch many carts struggling to cross the river at the would be registered as fatuous folly in the same time. Upon an occasion of this sort, the international history of Ching,-Chinaar Tymai. | wiiter saw a cart start up the narrow roadway to the top of the bank at the same moment THE RISKS OF CHINESE TRAVEL, at which a loaded grain cart started down. „There was no room to pass, and though the driver of the loaded cart held manfully to the heads of his animals, it was impossible "It is now many years since Drs. Gutzlaff and to control them.: Before the grain cart was Medhurst and Mr. Fortune entrusted themselves | half way down it upset, making a revolution to sa golog Chinese junks, with results which and a half, bursting open the bags of grain, and must have been far from agreeable. Happily, tangling the animals in the kardess to an || the days of Chinese coast-pirates seems to have lag extent. Yet fifty such recidents would not gone by, and it is no longer necessary for result in the construction of a proper landing. foreigners In Chlua (except in the hyper-realistic | The traveller who comes to a Chinese ferry late Chinese novel of Jules Verne) to travel at sea at night, or during a shower, will find it dificult by Chinese craft
at to get the ferryman to pay any attention to him, The dangers incident to siver navigation in If the traveller happens to be on foot and alone, China ar varied as those of journey it will not be surprising. If in reply to his long- by land. There is, as on land, a certain continued calls, be receives from the opposito amount of risk of robbery, and several shora a curt response, that as long as he is only foreigners have in this way lost their lives, ons individual and, the water is high, it is not it is by no means uncommon to see in Chinese worth the ferryman's while to take him over at rivers the bodies of human beings dating all d reward. Some of these were suicides, but others On the Chinese lakes and larger rivers, the were the victims of violence. It is a singular risks of accident to hout by storm, are very Chinese proverb that those who observe the great. A recent memorial in the Piking Gasstis propriaties, tob on highways; while those who stated that the lately promoted chief Judge of disregard the proprieties rob on the rivers: (Kuangs! started some months ago with the to "propriety in robbery, and murder on the The boat in which he was travelling through water is the probable necessity of throwing the Hapeh encountered a violent gals of wind, and proper burial so that whole gaveyard full and sustained such severe injuries that he was corpse into the water, by which means it loses during the tempest ke, was thrown on his side, of ghosts is liable to be let loose on an obliged to repair to bis native place in Kiangas unconscious family. In the case of an orderly, in the hope of recruiting his health, which the and regular, land murder all this to prevented doctors told him would require several months, propriety La: (to a certain extent) observed) / Of river napigation on the upper Yangle, sa The liability to robbery varies in" any two, well as on some other Chinese rivers, we have districts of Chins, and in the same district heard much more in recent years than belots, yet different times. It is always greatest, however, few of us have other than a vague impression of in years of scarelly, and some districte are never, fin: ploturesque perile." In apáté : of present
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Mr. Wodehouse beld a Coroner's inquiry at the Magistracy this afternoon into the circum- starces connected with the death, by the falling in a wall, of a tin-smith, on the 30th ultimo. The jurors were Messrs. F. H. Dalby T. J. Remedios and F. A. Remedios. Hastings appeared to watch the case on behalf of the relatives of the deceased.
Wong Chun, master of the Wing Hop the deceased was in his employ and named Kwo tin-smith shop at 144 Queen's Road West, said Afong. He was 18 years of age at the time of his death. Onthe 30th ultimo, at about noon, witness was in the front of the shop and heard a Boite at the back of his shop and on going in against his house. There was a narrow osage between the wall and the boaie. Oo the other side of the wall were situated the Civil Hospital premises. Two of his fakis, who were working in the kitchen at the time, were missing, so he went to the Police Station to IS CONCERNING the Marine strike, originating in the report. One man who was partially covered desire of the steamship officers to affiliate with the in the diiris was soon taken out. Half an manual-labour and other trade-unions, the Mel-hour latter he saw the deceased, at the Civil bourne Argus, in a recent leader, writes thus: "Theofficers would lower their position by placing themselves on an equal position with their sailors, and the men would consider themselves superior
william Chatham, Executive Engineer of the to their officers, and general insgbordination must ensun? This sort of offal makes us feel P.W.D, said he had heard of the affair and was more and more tired, Identity of interest in rest to inspect the wall. The wall was very badly the only perfect guarantee against insubordina constructed indeed. It was boundary tion. Rebellion can never be fostered by the of the Government Civil Hospital, At the removal of party feelings. Once establish a back of it the Government was digging out and common bond of interest between all hands on contructing a retaining wall. The works referred board, and the misdeeds of an individual will be to were in the hands of a contractor named Hul promptly punished by unanimous condemnation. Sai who worked under the supervision of the No officer can lower his position by admitting Public Works Department. Since that work himself to be simply a man, instead of arguing commenced witness had often faspected the that he is a specially-designed product of creation, works. The last time he visited the spot was on | The Argus arguments are simply unworthy of the Monday before the accident. He had to make an inspection two or three times a week, to A CRICKET MATCH will be played between the see that the contractor was carrying out ble *Feebles" and the "Duffera" on Friday and
orders. In going to the scene of the works the wall that fell dowa would come within this Saturday, commencing at 2 pm. to-monow-vision. The wall was a boundary between The teams will be :-
the Government property and the houses in Fubles.. H. E. Wodehouse (Capt.) Dr. Atkinson (Capt.) Above the ground floor of the da-smith's shop Queen's Road. It was 12 feet, perpendicular, JO, Horsfal F. L. Taverner:
The wall was constructed of blue brick G. S. Woodcock;
and badly cemented. The quality of the mortar a poor in the extreme, being of pure mud chiefly. Withers did not know when or by whom the wall was put up Externally the wall appeared to be properly constructed and was 14 inches thick. It was not until this (the 6th inst.) morning that he had specially inspected the wall, of which some 60 feet had fallen in. He observed that earth had been piled up againt the wall and the weight of that earth, recently piled against $31,500. It caused the wall to fall down. The weight of earth stacked against the wall, at a gueís, would be too tons, or leux. Witness" Wak not aware earth was piled up there, it was dona This great international question, which while without Als [witness's] knowledge. When as it was yet is prespective exclled such keen The tax on bachelors, proposed in the French saw as he did that earth was being deposited near interest, has, now that the time for settling it Chamber the other day, is no new thing. It may the wall, he could have objected, but saw no has come and gone, been, by the tacit consent be of some use to the National Exchequer, but occasion to do so. Witness had formed no of the foreign Powers concerned, relegated to as an incentive to marriage it is ridiculous; no opinion as to how the wall gave way at the limbo of dead issues. The delay accorded one was ever restrained from matrimony by the the time referred to. During witness's absence to the Imperial Government in the fulfil thought of taxes, nor is it likely they would be on sick leave, an overseer of the P. W. D. ment of its international obligations has enticed into it by any such consideration, would look after the works, but he had no special acted upon it in the way that concessions Early in the present century a Bill of this instructions. The contractor was fally justified to procrastination have invariably done in the description was introduced into the Legis in depositing earth on the ground in front of past and must always do in the future; and the lature of New York, the tax to be levied on all the wall, but he had no right to deposit so much result is that the reception of the foreigh repre- bachelore over twenty-eight years of age, and to there. The permission was of a tacit, not sentatives is as far off as it was thirty years ago, be expended in the encouragement of literature positive, nature,
Much further off indeed, for then it was within among females but it only met with ridicule To Mr. Hastings-He did not know on whose casy reach and could have been settled and was withdrawn. There is reaily nothing to property the collapsed wall stood, and never ever by 2 word of power. The reasons be done by the Government against these examined the wall with a view to estimating its why a State function of such importance has been offenders.. Up to middle age they are very strength. Had he noticed the earth piled against allowed to drift away from the sphere of practical thich toor u li ti ho tas).The violence intention of proceeding to Peking for audience, merry, but after that they are not to be envied, the wall orders would have been given for its politics are of two kinds. The Chinese Govern- It is all very well for Bacon (perhaps the most immediate remoral. To pils earth against the rent on principle allows everything to drift that selfish writer that the world has seen), to wall would sperintendent of the Governordinated high policy to minor considerations
Imprudent.
will drift; and the foreign Powers have sub- call the marriage state and its results the "giving hostages to fortune". but after fifty the bachelor ment Civil Hospital, said that on the 30th ulto, which need not be recapitulated here, and in- feels very lonely, and begins to boast of his in consequence of what he heard he went stead of acting in a body, when they would have independence; a bad lan, which often precedes down to the wall on the north side of the been invincible, their representatives in Peking his marriage with his cook. Manck Masan hospital grounds and saw it had given way, have in too many instances been only too cager derives the very name of bachelor from "Ba8 Upon enquiry he found that two men had to put spokes in each other's wheel. In this Carvaller (the title sir being still appro- been buried in the debris, In about half an way the united prestige of the greatest Powers printed to. Bachelors of Arts in the University of hour's time, after clearing away the rubble in the world have been allowed to dissolve into Dublin must be confessed a low axiskelion, they name upon the body of deceased, nothingness, and the Minister have been treated,
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1890.
TELEGRAMS.
THE CZAREWITCH.
LONDON, November 4th.
The Carewitch has started for Trieste, and
from there proceeds to Greece, Egypt and India,
(From Manila exchanges)
SPAIN.
MADRID, October 23rd. Small-pon has broken ont in Madrid, and some eighty fresh cases are reported daily,
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THERE will be a game of polo at Causeway Bay to-morrow afternoon, commencing at 4.30 o'clock: THE Amoy Timas says that many tigers are Inicating the neighbourhood of Chlew-pau, to 'the terror of the Chinese there, THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Co. Informs us that the Company's steamer Brindisi „left London on the 1st insty for this part. WATTS, R.A, formerly the husband of Ellen Terry, has just completed a portrait of Tennyson -the last, Alfred declares, which will ever be painted
We are informed by the agents of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Melpomene, from Bombay, left Singa pore for this port to-day,
*** “Now, children, who was the strongest was
asked the Sunday school superintendent. "John Samson I yelled littis fellow, whose know. ledge of sacred and profans history was some
what mixed,
L. Hallward.
H. Woodcock, SLAJ
G. E. Taverner,
E. L. Hunter.
Capt. Festing, R.N.
R. R. Leigh.
E. H. Grafton, R.M.
W. V. Anderson.
H. B. Kirk, (91st).
A. G. Wise.
—.Moffatt, LN,
A. Lee, R.A
A. M. Thomson.. Major Knight, R.E.
| —Elllott, KZ
G. P. Lammert.
Duperi
A. K. Travera. Capt. Heugh, R.N, Rev, G. Taverner, H C. Nicolle,
W. Judd,
1. S. Excktel.
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E. C. Boards, H, Rennie, (prat).
Capt. Reynolds,
R. F. Lammert.
W. Legge.
F. Hazeland,
W. Taylor,
J. Y. V. Vernon,
Atkinson,
The Hongkong correspondent of the States man of India, who wrote under date the 13th of September, other Rallye bong has collapsed throwing back on an already over-stocked and paralyzed market over 5,000 bales" was not, we are assured, representing the whole truth. As a exchange, gambling etc. etc., two Chinese firms matter of fact, owing to over-speculation, fall in
principais decamped into Chinese territory. of old standing have stopped payment, and the Their collapse, if such it may be called, was by no means fallure in the sense it is used in the commercial world; the reason of their sudden stoppage of payment belur due to their deale to evade the necessity of "taking up some 8,000 to 10,000 bales of goods which had depreciated in value to the extent of some five to six dollars per bals during the past eighteen months. The liabilities of the hongs (the Kim Hing Cheong And Chun Sing), are set down at $55,000 and
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