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book, and said he would write it. Even on SAYS & Chincão paper The Winchow tea board the Oceanic the pursuit was kept upmarket are about the same as last spring. Flae season has just commenced. The crop and with spirit, the graus bore being in full cry tear fetch from $25 to $35 per picul, while the Corso and inferior kinds average from $15 to | almost until the propeller began to turn. Yes, ex-Governor D13 Vaux deserves our
$10. Eight firms are engaged in the business." sympathy. And we give it to him most A YOUNG lady named Paulina Kasten, Uving in Belilios Terrace, was summoned at the lastence heartily.
of Mr. Stewart-Lockhart, Registrar-General, for falling to report the birth of her child, which lateresting event occurred in December last year. She admitted the facts as stated, and was flued $5.
THE Hon. Treasurer of the Alloe Memorial Hospital, begs to acknowledge with thanks the following donations to the funds of the Hospital:
E. Bowdler, Esq.
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Jas. B. Coughtiis, Esq. in G. Girault, Esq...................une 19 F. D. Guedes, Etq..............................agascar INSPECTOR Corcoran yesterday arrested Weng Lam at Shau-k!-wan in connection with the Pracy committed at Chat Was bay on the 15th April last. The accused was charged at the Police Coust this morning before Mr. Wine and remanded til Saturday, ben he will be charged, with two others already in custody, WHILST a Chinaman was purchasing a ticket at the Ersigration office this morning he was seen to fall, and was picked up dead. "Unchain the poet again :-
On his arrival In 1887 he came is America, as he is returning-he said he was a man of few words, preferring actions to deeds. He has not altogether sustained the reputation for taciturnity with which he desired to be credited, but he has seldom spoken in uncertain phrase; if his periods have not been quite so ornate as those of his sometime predecessor the uxorious Bowzx, they have been far away ahead of them in commonsense. When he arrived | we wrote:-"The career of Sir WILLIAM DI: Vaux in this colony will depend mainly upon himself. There are many obstacles in the way, and for some time at least his office will be no sinecure; but to a'resolute and Independent man, determined to work for the general weal without fear of favor, there is nothing that cannot easily be surmounted." It would be unfair to an | absent man to say that his general policy
has not been all that could be wished-THE "Japs" are certainly travelling along the one need but re-peruse the speeches made march of progress and civilisation at express in the City Hall in February last year to
speed. Recently popular journal, the Chinses see what he had done even up to then, ie, politely described the present Cabinet Ministers as "wild besale" and "venomous repilles." Needless to say the outspoken print wie at once suspended. Parnell when he com- pared Mongkong to--well, Hades, was still polats behind the Editor of the Chinsel Nipps. Tx Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square to-morrow, commencing at 7.30 p.m. :—
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needed to show that in dealing with it Governor DES Vaux had much more regard for the Interests of that Imperial Government which could promote or
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3--We are confident that such an expression
of regret is by no means confined to any one of the various national les resident in Hongkong, but it in masuredly shared by all.
4-No portion of the community of Hongkong can be more thoroughly aware of the gravity. and responsibility of your exalted office than those members of the service who have the honour, to
present this ddress; and, in thus presenting it, are fully able to bear in mind the dignity, attended by success, with which your Excellency's many and onerous duties have been sustained.
We are requested to state that the fand for the feeling of the officers in the Department. It was in Hongkong, including $190.36 received from children of the Inte Hon. Alfred Lister, coll-cted
To H. E, Sir G. Willam dos Vœux, K.C.M.G. Shanghai and $25 feet Yokohama, amounts to $11,790.35, which has been collected and plared |
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong, In the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank In the May it please your Excellency,
We, the undersigned Officers of the Education names of the Trustees. The subscription list may be seen by any contributor at the office of Department, respecfully beg to express to your the Chira Five Insurance Company, where it has Excellency, on the eve of your departure, our Messrs. T. Jackson, Granville Sharp and Jas. ments which heen left for the purpose. The trustees are unfeigned gratitude for the memorable improve. h your Excellency has originated in w. Coughirie
the educational system of the Colony.
By the conversion of the Aided Schools (in the native villages) lato Government Schools, your Excellency has not only placed clementury education, free of any school fee, within reach of the whole gillage-population and provide the means for raising the standard of the teaching given in these Schools, but removed thereby a patent law in the education system of the
6. May we be permitted to add that our regret cannot be otherwise than greatly increased by Colony, which, before your Excellency's arrival, the reflection that your Excellency's departure while offering cheap education for the middle will involve that of Lady des Voeux, who, as is classes, had left the poorest classer, in the universally known, has won the deepest respect villages, under a heavy burden of school fees and highest regard from all. and their teachers to a condition of abjectless trying climate will so let the recovery of
A NATIVE paper tells us that Governor Llu Ming Chaan, of Formosa, though feeble in health, continues working hard and attends The personally to all the provincial affairs. excessive work aggravated bis old complaints and caused him to take to his bed. His Excellency again begs the Throne to relieve him of his office ns Governor, and also the Appointment of vice-presidency of the Roard of Admiralty, which was bestowed on him on
the death of the Marquis Thèng. It is probable, remarks nur contemporary, that the Throne will not sanction bis request.
CKAN YUX, a contractor, was charged at the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Wise, with not taking proper precautions whilst blasting in Wellington Street yesterday afternoon. 1. Green, P., 70, said he heard two blasts take place in quick succession and saw stones firing about in all directioni. One plece entered the back window of a house in Wyndham Street, causing $5 worth of damage. The defendant admitted the charge, and his Worship imposed a fine of $25, together with $5 compensation for the damage caused,
poverty,
As the Victoria College is the centre of the educational system of the Colony, it is very perceptible that it has greatly benefitted by the changes, above mentioned, inasmuch as the candidates entering the College are not only more numerous but are far better grounded in English elements than in former years. Another noticeable result, and one, too, that has caught the attention of outside visitors, is that the age at which candidates enrol themselves in Victoris
degrade him, as he pleased or displeased | Honally fine season in Wahu. In the godowns others were either an board the steamer to assist College is considerably below what it was years
it, than of the humble Colonial Isiet which simply paid him a trifling $32,000 a year. The reason is not difficult to find. A man who has earned his bread-and- butter for nearly thirty years in a host of "Baratarias," where the with of Her Most Gracious Majesty over-rods all local demanda; who for eight years has been oppressed by the weight of a K. C. M. G.-ship; who has been accustomed to the nerveless acquiescence of the semi-cannibal Filan, the untutored Barbadian, and the torpid Newfoundlander
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THE rice merchante in Wuhu are, secording to
■ Chinese contemporary, enjoying an excep- and along the wharves as far as the eye CAD.sec are stowed and heaped up bags of rice, while thousands upon thousands of bags are pouring necessarily be cheap in price, and rich and poor In from the country. Rice being plentiful_must are alike happy,
Tax old advice that "if you want to know the time ask a plecceman" will be unnecessary after to-day. The Saghallen brought over a thousand watches, ranging in valus from $2 to $200, and from, the school-boy's Geneva to the montoir repeater, consigned to Messrs. Kubo & Co. The last lot, which was almost as numerous, are now ticking to a variety of Euro pean and Chinese pockets, and seem to have given every axtisfaction. ·
5-Your Excellency's presence and administra tion here have been undoubtedly regarded throughout as sure guarantees of the maintenance of justice, order, and of the prestige of the Colony,
7.-We can only trust that present rest and a Your Excellency's health that your services may only be for a short time lost to her gracious Majesty the Queen.
Sir James Russell then continued:—I wish further to say that the members of the service, in saying good-bye to your Freellency, feel that they are losing not only a capable and strong ruler, but one who has always been a friend of the service.
every
By the opening of the Government Central School for Girls, which your Excellency courage. ously resolved upon, In spite of influential oppost. tion and popular prejudice, your Excellency has furnished the Furasian female population of the Colony, for whose education no unsectarian provision had ever been made before, with the means of obtaining a liberal Anglo-Chinese education, and founded a school which, started
His Excellency, in reply, sald: Mr. Chief Justice, as a mere experiment seeking to create n demand for education where none existed, has and gentlemen, the pressure of work upon me already an attendance warranting the expectation during the last few days has been such that I likely to promote also among the Chinese female in reply to your most touching address, and I of large development in the future, and which is --bave not been able to prepare anything suitable population a knowledge of the English language must leave a formal reply to another time. Bet and an education which will tend to diminish of course I cannot allow you to go away, after 1 the gap still existing in the Colony between theo kindly coming here this morning without education of Chinese men and women.
saying a word of cordial thanks for
your Your unduly high appreciation of my work-I Hy both of the foregoing measures- Excellency has, moreover, created an important may say my fellow.work with you in Hong- and permanent factor in the educational more kong. Of course my regret must be at least ment towards reducing, step by step, the present equal with your own that I am obliged to give
$ UP undue proportion of uneducated children in the my administration at least two years-more than Colony.
"two years—before the end of my term of office. It le a matter of the deepest disappointment to me that many of the Improvements that I have put forth in the Colony must now fall to another to complete. I have struggled on, until my physical condition forbids me to maintain the struggle any longer, and I am making room for a stronger man, I hope, stronger In sense, stronger not merely in the true laterests of the real and true progress of the Colony. Im the Civil Service, but strong in carrying forward glad that you are able to express your confidence that the regret which you are pleased to manifest We would also thank your Excellency for the
is shared by all the various nationalities resident. better financial position of the Officers of the in Hongkong I sincerely trust that your con Education Department effected during your fidence is in a large measure justified. I cannot Excellency's administration, which measure bas thank you for all your Eladness, beyond also improved the social aspects of their position. | expressing the feeling that it implies a too Dr. Eitel - added · that the original address | Indulgent appreciation. You can indeed give me credit for having done my best-my best would be forwarded as soon as it was completed and signed.
not only for the Colony but for your true Interests. I have no doubt it is perfectly true that you can assers that I have had the sympathy of my fellow-workers here, and I have done for them all that justice and right seemed to dictate, Possibly you may have found me sometimes severe on falllogs when severity was called for, but I feel aure i have always endeavoured to appre ciate good work, and to say the least I have me especial pleasure to see that you mention my wife, who feels the o necessity of departing from Hengkong perhaps even more strongly than whole an exceedingly happy time here, and we leave you la Hongkong with very deep regret. If my health should be restored, as you are pleased to desire, certainly my interest and very possibly my practical interest in Hongkong wil not cease. I shall always watch with interest your various careers, and everything that occurs in the Colony so lòng as I live will never be without a warm interest for me. And now, I can only apologise for the very lame answer I have made to your most flattering address. I bave nothing further to say than to wish you all most cordially farewell
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HONOKONO, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891.
OUR LATE Governor.
SIR GEORGE WILLIAM DIS VEUX, K.C.M.G., has departed. It is no affectation to quota the trite phrase that we could have better "apared a butter man; and there can be but one feeling-that of sincers sympathy -in the breasts of those who compare his comparatively cold leave-taking to-day with the warm reception given him on his arrival in October 1887, the public recognition accorded fourteen months ago, when he went home. In search of health,
FOR some time past, a native paper anra, it was noticed that nails securing the lids to the coffins stored in the different guilds at Soochow, were being gradually stolen. It remained a mystery for a long while why persons should run the risk of Incuring severe punishment for the sake of a few worthless nails. It now transpires that the nails were drawn out in order to facilliate the robbing of the dend of their jewellery and the act, but the tipeo and watchman were clothing. No one as yet has been detected in punished with the bamboo, as an incentive to be more. watchful in the future, THUS the Hadao on the little tragedy enacted on the beach at Kawloon city the other day - "Out of the nineteen bandits executed at Kow- Joon by order of General Fang Yan thirteen were implicated to the Namoa piracy. One at and killed the captain of the Namon, and the ngmed Chên Fu-yen, confersed to having fired
in plandering it or were members of the crews of the junks which took the pirates off.. After the execution the executioner demanded a Kowloon. The extortion was refused, and the squeeze of $6 from the gambling houses in
executioner thereupon piled the Keads and bodies of the dead pirates in front of the gambling houses to prevent the egress and ingress of clients. The money had to be paid before the doorway could be cleared."
His Excellency, in reply, said-Dr. Eltel, and THUS the Straits Times, of April 28th:--The gentlemen-You have told me that this address Straits · Independient sounda à note of alarm
Is presented to a merely provisional way, and with regard to the cholera outbreak in Penang, that it will be forwarded to me hereafter. I regret on the ground that many more cases of cholera
to say that my reply must also be provisional; than those that are reported occurred in the town have had, ni you know, ʼn greit pressure of as well as in the suburbs, of which neither the work during the last few days, and my authorities nor the Police know anything until consideration of the matters contained in this after the death of the
for a permit to bury been necessarily of the most cursory kind. I the corpses. On such occasions, the cause of cannot, however, let your kind words pass complaint that will not excite suspicion of the the moment.
It has given me very eat truth. Natives do so to avold police interference pleasure to receive this, because it is so with their burial rites and religious customs in completely unexpected. I have never, I am cases of death. The Independent urges the bound to admit, been able to altogether remove disregard of these scruples, and the enforcement doubts from my mind as to the advantages of of regulations against burials without certificates general education, which in these days are held of death from duly qualified medical practitioners. to be so great. But considering that the wisdom of the world, or rather of the Anglo-Saxon world, AMONG the many singular incidents of life in almost universally regards these advantages ki Japan, a very noteworthy one is mentioned by being unquestioned, I have never allowed the Fifi Shimpo. It appears that in the Senj those doubts to influence may conduct, and felt district of Tokyo, there is a prison called it to be the daty not only of myself but of
every "Kosuge Kangoku." Formerly the site of the Governor until the experience of the world has "Kosuge Coten, palace of the Tokugaga solved those doubts to the contrary, which I never' will be-to prosecute Shoguns, the grounds of the prison contain some hope they splendid cherry trees, which, in the blossoming the work of education to the best of season, present a charming spectacle. Japanese my ability with almost, if not entirely, equal cannot possibly live in the neighbourhood of determination as my other duties. In that spirit acrilegeons in the extreme, even where criminals Hongkong, and probably I have done as much flowers without enjoying them. That would be I have approached the question of education in undergoing sentence are concerned. It has I could have done, had I. had none of those consequently been the custom ever since the doubts. At all events I am glad that full bloom. The rg's instant was the day chosen considerably, and that my work-if not deserving Korugs Jafi was established, to grant a holiday administration has not closed without the to the prisoners when the cherry trees are la standard of education having been advanced this year, from which date we infer that the of the high encomiums you have been pleased cherries Rie of the double order. The prisoners to pass upon it-I may at least trust has not been made the most of their respite. They got up without value. I cannot. in touching on this theatrical performances, bad dancing, delivered matter of education, help referring to the galavons MR. R. D. STARKEY, of the North China Insur-speeches, and amused themselves in other refined loss which occurred during my administration, ance Company, died at Shanghat on the 18th fashions, "feeling," says the "as if heaven in the death of my friend Dr. Stewart, who was uito, after a long illness. Speaking of the bad come to them in the midst of hell"
$3 ardent a bellever in the advantages of it that deceased the N. C. Dally News LAYS One of YESTERDAY afternoon an immento crowd of they would have been by him. His was a very
if If any doubts could be removed from my mind the most deservedly popular residents of Shang- Chinese collected in the Rue du Consalat, and serious loss, not only in the matter of education hal, a man who never said an unkind word nor blocked the traffic, says the Shanghat Mercury but in other respects. However, I am glad to find did an unkind thing, a man of high education of the 1st inst. Some of the people lined both that his spirit still survives. I know, and am able and the most perfect courtesy, passed away sides of the road opposite the old French yesterday. His loss will he felt in Hongkong, Consulate, but by far the largest number
to recognise, the very great energy and enthusiasm which Dr. Eitel brings to his works I am also will fade in Shangbal, but it will take many years before his memory congregated round the French Central Police able to speak highly about the manner in which May please your Protei
Station, their object being apparently to learn Victoria College and the other educational work shores we beg to approach you for the purpose Upon the eve of your departare from thesa the decision which it was expected would be given in the afternoon, in the case of a French whole. You teachers in this part of world have that it may please you to accept it 24 a token of of the department is being conducted on the of presenting this humble memorial, in the hope policeman who was said to have caused the great difficulties to contend with, both inthetatter the deep esteem which your mentorialists enter death of a Chinaman, and whose case was being investigated at the old French Consulate by M. Wagner, the Consul-General, and Messrs. Ricco and Fournel, as Assessors. The natives state that on Saturday night last, about half-past ten
AT the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Wise, Shing Ping was charged with others not suddenly-asserted opposition on the part a sentry then on duty with the chain-gang at of four unofficial legislators who are Lap-shap-wan on the 16th June, 1888. Emin death is attributed to fever, or some other without the acknowledgment that arises, at da. In spite of ill health, we have had on the
Deen, the receiving officer of Victoris Gaol, said men and British representatives, and of the be recognised the prisoners having been thousands whom they represent, to sentenced to five years! penal servitude on the scarcely-veiled legal robbery whose only 37th January, 1887, at the Supreme Court. The
Magistrate remanded the case till Monday. excuse is that of precedent. At any rate Governor DIS Vaux, if he did recognise Tus Penang Garette regrets to learn that
leading Chinese firm In Penang la in financial their right to take up an antagonistic difficulties, and is endeavouring to effect & position, did not make the least effort to compositor by offering 40 or 50 per cent to its creditar which, however, had not up to time of conciliate or alter their opinios. And going to press been accepted. The liabilities to-day he went away almost unnoticed- | are said to much exceed $100,000, and the save for the spontaneous and honest "send. Impending disaster is said to be due in the off given him by the sea-faring class, whose was part to the great fall in the price of sugar, which has taken place during the past twelve gratitude he has earned by his last public months, act here. We sincerely hope to hear of A CooL that was committed yesterday by one his restoration to health, and trust that he himself to two bags of edible and the gentle lady who accompanies him fungus, worth $60, walked away. He was
West, and, helping may be spared to enjoy many happy days stopped by a ukong, when he threw down the In whatever sphere the Downing Street als interlocutor. This morning at the Magistracy, bags and ran away, but only to be arrested by authorities may design to place him. Mr. Wise sentenced him to six months' imprison-
mant, and ordered that the first and last fort nights of his Imprisonment should be in solitary confinement, as he was an old offender.
TELEGRAMS.
MORE PORTUGUESE AGGRESSIONS, LONDON, May 4th, The Portuguese have occupied Mastikesse, the Agents of the Chartered British. African Company retiring, to Mutassa..
THE LABOUR QUESTION,
May 5th. Sixty thousand workmen paraded the streets of London on Sunday. The demonstration was in support of the Eight Hours Bill. No disorder occurred.
(Special to the Hongkong Telegraph.) JAPAN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER.
TOKYO, May 6th.
Count Matsugata, Minister of Finance, has been appolated Prime Minister of Count Yamagata who resigned, owing to continued
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Fox the benefit of "Brownie we may murmur that it la contrary to Journalistic etiquette to pablish addresses before they have been pre sented. It may further Interest that phantom scribe to know that Sir G. W. des Voeux can't read the CAins Mailte any extent, since he told the deputation which presented the address we are alluding to, this morning, that it was quite unexpected. Still, there are rules which even the Chisa Mail's anxiety to educate its solitary reader ought not to excuse the infraction of. As for the Daily Press-well they ought to know
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clock, three Chinamen walking in Indian file came out of the city, and while proceeding along home, one of them britatea salted the man, policeman who immediately assaulted the man, who fell down. When the other two men camè THERE is obstruction in the lives of us all, but up to him, they found him speechless, 10 they the Police seem to be able to remedy the matter put him into a finricha, and took him to the with no small amount of success. At the Folice French Police Station and from thence he was sent to the Shantung Road Hospital, where Court, before Mr. Wise this morning, Mr. Z. D. Sassoon was charged with causing an obstrucbe died the following day. The District tion in Duddell Street on Monday last, by Magistrate held an inquest and found the footway. A. S. Gordon, No. 66, and In consequence of this the Frenchs Consal- resident had complained of the matter, and the General has held an enquiry into the matter. hoxes were" kllować to remain for a couple of The Chinese having blocked the Ruody Consulat in his custody at all; but in the custody of the were ordered to go away, but they refused, so hours. The defendant said the opion is not to each an extent that the traffe war fapeded, buyer, whose name he refused to give. Mr. they were told that the fire-hose would be turned Wise imposed a fine of $to.
on them if they did not go away, and as they still refused, the threat was carried into exccu- tion, two powerful streams were turned on, and
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of climate and of language, but I believe you
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THE MARINE OFFICERS' ADDRESS,
A deputation from the Mercantile Marine Officers Association waited on board the Oceanic present His Excellency with an address thank- passing of the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, Ing him for the benefits conferred on them by the When the Governor came en deck, Captain Anderson said :--
the Mercantile Marine Officers' Association, able absence of Captain Ashton, President of May it please your Excellency, in the unavoid.
have been deputed to beg your acceptance of an prepare to the rough, but which will be duly _address, which" there, has only been time to
condescend to accept it. There can be no doubt engrossed and forwarded should your Excellency that your Excellency has rodromed & grievance which bore hardly on a deserving and hard their gratitude and wish you God speed. With worked class of men, who now desire to express
Duncan, the Secretary, to read the address, your permission I wil now call on Mr. C.
The Secretary then read the address, which is as follows-
you
mount them in a way that, if your dificulties tan for you, and an evidence of their gratitude are considered, is most creditable to you. And for the boon conferred on those connected with I am most glad, as you have mentioned, that merchant shipping generally, by virtue of the
Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance which your position has been improved. I cry only have now graciously caused to be p say that it has been thoroughly deserved, and I a long time past the seaturing community and
passed. am very glad indeed that I have been able to those directly connected therewith have anffered have some part in it. After shaking hands with an injustice in respect to the working of cargoes those present his Excellency added, addressing on Sundays, which has been a great hardhulp. the native, teachers-With regard to you Several efforts have been made during the Inst Chinese, I feel sure that the education given three years to bring about a cessation of the morning to and ought to attach you custom of compulsory Sunday labour on board more and more to the Britisk crown, and will ships in this part, but hitherto without success, tend largely to spread the ledsence of those. It has, however, remained for your Excellency themghout your county. If it has that now to rolleve the Mercantile Marine of my
or the enthusiastic welcome he received an his return, only last December. He has gone away with bitterness in his haart, for he is the "good hater" whom' Dr.
· LOCAL AND GENERAL. Johnson so loved, and he cannot forget the revolt of the Unofficial The Superintendent of the P. & O. S. H. Ce, Members, or the wave of adverse publie informs us that the Company's steamer Varasa opinion that has recently swept over the left Nagusaid for this port at 4 30 p.m. yesterday, Colony-oven though one of the insurgenta Wa omitted to acknowledge last night that for allowing twenty boxes of aplum to remain on deceased had come to his death throat the effect it certainly will be a great and good work,
the detailed report of Shanghai Races we were has formally returned to his allegiance, indebted to our contemporary the N. C. Daily and sued for pardon at the eleventh | News, hour," The senseless system of presenting A JAPANESE contemporary says that the output moaningless' addresses, especially by of cost from Hokkaido this year is estimated at subordinates in the Service, was as usual 250,000 tons, and is expected next year to reach perpetuated; this morning a very tired- 350,000 tour. looking Invalid might have been seen lean-
Tuz Kalping-Shan-hal-kwan railway has already
violence.
The interview then terminated, ga
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THE CIVIL SERVICE, About a score of the members of the Civil
rights
Her
i not only an injustice and an invasion of the of British mariners as loyal subjects of Majesty the Queen, but also amounted to compulsory, disrespect for the Lord's Day,
In these circumstances we are at a loss to find express, our languire, wherels to adequately ex thanks for great
the thousands of seafaring men annually frequenting this port 1 and in thes respectfully expressing on behalf of the members of the Civil Service our profound gratitude we avali ourselves of thisg to ask your acceptance of an address on the eve
you a hearty farewell. :- of your departure from the Colony. The addreas That wherew
Wherever you go success may attend your is as follows -
Båndter et lefforts to perform the arduous duties assigned to
presenting an address signed by that body presenting an address signed by that body
Sir James Russell, in making the presentation, salds-Your Excellency, I have been requested
pon
Ing back against the wall of the reception-30th ult, a preliminary meeting was to have been | section between SI-Ling and Hal Kwan is being to collect again soon afterwards. They appeared To H.E. Sir G. William des Voem, KC.M.G., you by the august Sovereign you represents that
THE DEPARTURE OF SIR G. W. DES VŒLX.
A SHANGHAI Contemporary says that on the been built as far as Si-Ling. The remaining two treats cleared, though the crowd commenced held, at the instance of General Messy, la rapidly marked out, and work will be commenced however, to be orderly room at Government House, listening to a connection with a proposal to start a public very shortly. The Board of Admiralty has fulsome address hurled at him by two company for the acquirement of land and pre- petitioned the throne, is the effect that when the riding Suitable accommodation for • Concert work reaches San Hal Kwan it should be further Europeans and three Chinese, who retired and Lecture Room, a Skating Rink, space for a
1 through the three Eastern Provinces only to give place to about a score of BC, c, to meet the growing wants of the chsen. The Board of Works is to furnish
Circus, Merry-go-round, Swhich hack Railway (Shengking, Kula and Kehlungklang) to Wen- officials with another treacly production, inhabitants of Shanghai There was only yearly working capital of taels 2,000,000. In In which they talked freely about Her Most small attendance, and after waiting some time places where the mountains cannot be got over Gracious Majesty, and yawned their it was decided to postpone the meating til seat tunnels will be run through them, and the cast Freek--We baza " Imall Fable wooden for boring these, as cerimstod, will be at the inte, ratitude to their deparding protector in the elephants left over by the Switchback Co. bere of 60 dallum for every foot, The traile on the matter of salaries. Sir G. W, des Vœux did which they can have to begin with, in exchange existing railway is improving month by month. for a 'lew #growing wants." You are highly The company's receipts for freight, on Kalping not really take the trouble to reply he too previous, General, if you'll excuse us, Wave Cand alone, was $16,000 during the Chinese first took a leaf from the address-presentars" | been there.
1.) MHƠN NHA $11,000 for the second moon.
PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES. At Goverment House this morning Dr. Eitel, Inspector of Schools, Mr. A. J: May, acting head. master of Victoria. College, and three Chinese teachers, met to present H.E. Sir G. W. des Vaux with an address on behalf of the Education Department,
Dr. Ellel, in making the presentation, said
that the addcoas was expressivá of the unanimous.
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Governor of Hongkong and its Depen the change of clime which you are compelled to dencies, etc., etc.
seek may have a beneficial effect on your health; May it please Your Excellency, and
We, the undersigned heads of Departed that your Hlo may be a long and happy one
is the earnest wish of all your memorialists, ments and Members of the Civil Service of [Here follow the seal of the Association, Hongkong, desire to express to Your Excellency, the alguatures of the Fresident, Secretary, on your leaving the Colony, our feeling of sincere. rmer and Committee of the Britian Mercanulo regret that such departure has become unavoid- Marine Officers Association, who signed for the able, and deplore the causes that have led 15 members, also for the Federation of thereto.
me degree murder Shipmasters and Officers of Great Britais, 11,000 The impaired, condition of Your Excel-strong, and for the Australian Meronuule Marine. lancy's health cannot by itself be otherwise than Federation; upwards of 4,000 srobo, as well as a matter of the deepest concern and regretto for the Mercantile Marine Ontours Association those who have the honour to know you; and to of Shenrial with all of which the Ingel Arsenia- Kare Hyuk under you salu.
ademic (4), thân 13 am'isted,@Klio most of the focal 'cterjegy
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