THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1891.
H.M.S. Rraopols_reached here from Chin-general manager and its auditon-in the bow klang to-day and relieved the Peacock. I regret ling lle painted on the plate glass window, and to state that this letter vessel has been most in the birtant untruth on its note-paper, and the unfortunate during her stay in this port, she soul-destroying perjury on its official seal and its baving lost three of her crew and several having | gigantic brass-plate. In short, the average gone to hospital through sickness.--Mercury, Australian private bank started as an imposture at the beginning, and will remain one till It bursts, and in all its dealings there is no good
TIENTSIN.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
TIENTEIN, October 16th.
Mr. Ma Kle-tcheong left here via Cheloo for Shanghai in the steamer Hsinking, not to rejoin the C. M.'S. N. Co., but to make arrange ments for paying about Tiș, 100,000, that was short in his accounts.
It is said that the Viceroy of Nanking, although one of the directors of the C. M. S. N. Co., with Li Hung-chang, bas memorialized the Throne, against the Company, and all blame as to the losses is laid, on the shoulders of Tactal Sherg and Mr. Ma Kle-tcheong.
The Wachang and Harting managed to get to the Bund last night, and are now on their way down the river. At 2.40 this morning the high water mark on the Taku bar was 13 feet. The British sunboat Firebrand get up as far as the Tientsin Bend last night, and will remain, there till the Hasting get off the ground so as to allow her to pass.
October 17th. I see by your leading article, written from Information obtained from the Felding correr Fandeal of the Dafly Press, that the Shantung troops refuse to serve under the present Governor. I do not think there is a bit of truth in it.
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Mine promoters in London, it is sald, are trying to float a sapphire, ruby and diamond properly located in Montana
An old project in London has been revived→ that for a new club in that city, to be composed of resident Americans.
The Jairst philanthropic scheme in Londen is a proposed social bome for men." Some of the papers ridicule the project.
The attempt to create a trustin' Russia slavilnė the Standard Oil Company has failed for want of financial backing:
About half the railroad which is to connect
remainder will be finished within a year,
"ffa with Jerusalem has been completed. The.
Grand Duke George, second ann of the Cran in such falling health that it has been arranged he shall pass the winter in Algeria.
The father of one of the largest property.. holders in London is buried in a glass case on
op of one of the finest buildings in the city,"
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Those of a calculating turn of mind have figured it out that it cost Palli:not less than $24,000 to "open" her theatre in Wales.
England. During: the last fifty years the con
Tobacco smoking is growing rapidly in samption per head of population was nearly double.
A young lady well known in Berlin society has having been caused by wearing red gillé bad her left leg amputated, blood poisoning
lockings.
As a protest against an increase in the price of gas, shopkeepers in Lisbon have resolved to close their p'aces of business at an unusually carly hour.
young Earl of Dudley bols the largest life.
According to a German insurance paper, the
£1,200,000. Insurance ever effected, the amount being
It is in the northern departments of France that the harvest is this year the worst. Else where harvests are hardly inferlar to those of ordinary years.
Boller examinations are not conducted very well in England. The boiler at a brewery in Bolton has just been examined for the first time In twelve years.
An Imperial decree has been issued in Ger- many, forbidding the manufacture and sale of machines for producing artificial coffee-beans, as contravening the law.
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make the Government suffer by baving to pay invariably some new individuals who had just deposits, and out of the deposits more dividends thrown out of employment: Increasing distreg. A NEWLY arrived consignment from Paris of WATCHES, DIAMOND RINGS, BRACE-
At St. Petersburg many factories will be closed this winter and thousands of people will be exists among the poor.
when his last payment is made, it has a preference for long terms, and would gladly fix the land-buyer for three years or more, even as it Gres the depositor. The ultimate breakage is Inevitable. but if the mass of the deposits fall due just about the time when the bule of the land transactions are approaching completion, then the establishe ment can collapse or bolt with a light heart, and a joyous consciousness that it has scooped the There are certain infallible signs by which the last available cent from everybody concerned. bogus banks can be invariably distinguished. The fraudulent bank is the only Institution of from those other institutions which were bullt to its kind which ever inserts the goodwill of ite fast. Instead of being merely, built to burst. In büsiness as a valuable asset in its balance-sheet. the first place, none, or hardly any, of them had any visible beginning. They appeared in a full- commenced business by buying up the valuable It is the only instituilon which professes to have grown state, without notice or any apparent connection of some impoverished individual who process of formation. Even in a country where owned nothing but a small office, and paying money is much more plentiful than in Australia, him a large sum in cash na an equivalent; and the organisation of a great financial institution when this is done it may be safely assumed that is a work of time. It is necessary to get the there was no business to bay, and no capital to capital together, and the list of shareholders is buy it with, and that the sum in question generally made up of the names of well-known was stolen out of the deposits and divided capitalists. But the majority of the new banks" among the directors, It is also the only of recent years went through no preliminary establishment whose balance-sheets shown stage whatever, so far as the public eye could record of absolutely unlailing prosperity discern, and the ac3,000 or so of paid-up The genuine bank, however successful, ha capital was subscribed mostly by uncertificated its years of depression and loss, but the murky Insolvents, tenth-rate pawnbrokers, cheap and concer, which offers such surprising terms for gaudy clerks, and miscellaneous individuals in vopaid-for clothes, who had formerly lived, with
deposits, always announces a lavish profit, no no visible means of support, as commission be known also by the fact that prefit is always matter how ruinous the times may be. It may agents with no commissions, or as money-lenders represented by the increase in the two item", By the Hainy, Prince Vastrinsky and sulteh no money to lend. They were shifty Advances" and "Freehold Property. In will leave for Shaughal on their way to Hackow, leaking persons with no furniture, no banking other banks these items often decline, while the From there they will go overland through accounts, and be assets; some of them had been item "cash on hand "Increase; but in the bogus Yunnan, Tonqola, Annam and Siam, and in gaol some of them were endowed with allasts, insiltution the supply of actual coin is always thence via India, Persis, &c., to St. Petersburg, a good many had been correspondents, and limited, and the whole profits are concentrate The Board of Admiralty at Peking has issued almost all were otherwise shady. All combined under the two headings above-mentioned. This a despatch, dated the with-instant, to a firm at they could not reasonably be suspected of even your port, urging them to act at once in regard the semblance of affluence, and the assertion the present, when freehold property is falling in fact looks all the more surprising at a time like to the Shingking Mines. This does not look as that they had put up the alleged capital of even if they expected war, or even trouble,
value daily, and it is difficult to find good the smallest banke that ever existed, without securities on which to make advances; but the turaing a hair, was a palpable absurdity. The explanation is sufficiently easy. The advances manager of the institution was generally fit and increase, because the directors and the manager. *ppropriate company for the founders, inasmuch
and the manager's uncle and the directors' as be seldom looked like a man whom any sane
brothers, have all taken large overdrafts board would leave in an unchained condition in the vicinity of any capital-paid-up
out of the depositors' money, and "blewed ether the proceeds on horses, or jewellery, or wise. The board, as already mentioned, con-wlid-cat mines, or Indies with golden bair. sisted mostly of certala obscure persons, all of and as the money will never be repaid, they whom were denominated "Esq." Half of them charge themselves 40 per cent, interest with a gave no addresses, and the other half halled light heart, and the interest keeps the asset from localities where capital is notoriously. called "advances" piling up in the balance scarce. And, finally, the auditors were almost sheet, and the balance-sheet brings more opened a small office in a back street, and who are paid and more advances made, and all is joy bad no reputation to lose if they attested and and serenity, And the freehold property also were to the solvency of everything and every mounts up, because the company bought land body is one act.
to the value of Cro,000, on which £9000 is still The bogus bank, having got over its prelimtowing and collected C4000 in instalments from ary stage, and emerged into the present tense, credulous purchasers, and the land is now worth may also be known by the manner in which it only 6000 in a falling market, notwithstanding pays lavish dividends and hungers after deposits which fact, the complaisant valuator has given that are fixed for three years, in particolar-at his certificate that the property is now good and discounting bills, granting overdrafts, and lend the surprising prosperity manifested under these apy pilce. It professes to make its income by
sufficient value for £13.000. And because of ing out money on mortgage, and in all these two headings, the "goodwill" has also been branches of Industry It fe almost impossible to written up to per cent.. and thus a glorious future realise more than 7 per cent. all round on essured for everybody concerned. steady average. The legitimate bank, therefore, seldom pays anything like a respectable divid-precarious, hand-to-mouth existence on the The bogus bank might possibly eke out a end for the first few years of its existence. It lends out its own capital; it also receives summit of a land-boom, but in times of depres immense sums on current account without its case is absolutely hopeless. Therefore, it slon, or even in times of moderate prosperity, interest, and lends a considerable portion of becomes a mere sepulchre for lost deposits, and therefrom being clear a burial place for dead shareholders, and makes profit; it prints notes and lends them at hardly a pretence of solvency. Its one unfailing interest-another item which is mostly profit; fenture is its ceaseless hunger after deposi's. pays small rates for deposits, and makes advances Other banks at times almost besitate to receive at high rates with the proceeds; it gains a small of his colleague the High Commissioner of thet never-failing income from the accidental they are paying Interest on money which is end of the world, barebeaded and with naked
these, when profitable outlets are scarce, and South, Liu Kun-yl, who has been so graciously destruction of notes which go out in exchange favoured by their Majesties against his
wisher, In the South, he says, there are riots and rebels for hard cash and never come back; and even Hon, but here in the north we have peace, and with all these and many other sources of income loyalty. Li is foolish enough to think that He progress is generally slow. It is only when has been the means of causing split amongst a large reserve fand has been accumulated that foreign nations. No doubt he has done his best the genuine bank begins to pay large dividends; to turn the current away from China. He is and even then in a period of great depression It pleased that Russia has sent a favourite subject often gets into serious difficulties. The National Prince Vastitasky-who is to travel through Bank of New Zealand, as a fair example, has China, Tongking, Annam, Siam, India, and written off more than two-thirds of its capital in Central Asia, back to St. Petersburg, on a tour losses resulting, not so much from bad manage of larpection. Li managed successfully to de-
ment, as from hopeless stagnation; and all the grade Admiral Lang last year in a Brilah port profits of what is commonly termed "legitimate by pulling down his flag, and he knows well banking" have proved insufficient to make bust enough how to arrange with Great Britian; and ness profitable. But the bogus bank- term the cry of "wolf" don't scare him a little bit.
which probably covers three-fourths of the It does not look as if England were likely to institutions which have sprung up of recent years go to war with China, when only yesterday the has hardly any of these advantages. It has British Consul bere, accompanied by Capt, very little pald-up capital to lead of that fact Harvey, R.N., who is agent for the Nordenfeldt the long lists of notoriously Impecunions direc guns, and who lately landed some of these guns no profit out of current accounts, for it pays tors is a sufficient guarantee. It makes ittle or at Taku, called upon Li. The call was made push these guns against Krepp's 10 6. m. guns,
Interest on them, usually at a liberal rate. It but I did not even trouble himself to go to a no note issue, and thus a most valuable source of revenue is cut off and it pays trem endous rates of interest for deposits, which is the one never failing siga that disaster most come to somebody or every body--at some period in the near future. Also, though its visible income a infinitesimal and precarious it almost invari ably pays larger dividends from the very begla ning than does the legitimate'bank with all its multifarious sources of profit.
I may also remark that the Nanking correr- pondent to the Recorder, "D. W. N. and his conversation with the military man is "bosh" His military man is supposed to say The attacks on Foreign property were in order to for the property destroyed." It is a well-known fact that the military hate, foreigners fast as the liferati. The military do not display it so much because the position they bold prevents them, but when the literati get up a riot and the milltary come along to help the foreigners, they help them with a vengeance. As a rule they Join the mob and help them to rob and sack Foreign premises, and encourage the mob. advise the Foreigners never to trust the military In the case of a riot, or they will trust to a very The Daily Press correspondent is nearer the fact when he says:Nobody but Li Hung chang can deal successfully with the crisis." But LI looks first to bimself and his own interests, and we may be sure he will not move aniess be it down right forced to. While the trouble is in the Yangtze Valley, Viceroy Li does not care a pin; he is quite happy to have trouble in that quarter. It is just what he wants. He wants Chink, in fact the world, to see that where rules as High Commissioner of the North all is quiet and tranquil. He wants the world to see the difference between his power and the power
rotten stick.
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Take to see them fired. It does not lock mach Like War
when we see Great Britain and Germany vicing with each other in the sale of arms. Li knows what he is about He is not blind, but knows well enough that by making a good con tract for arms or railway material with either England, France or Germany that he can bay or sell either country. Only let trouble come along to the North, let men-of-war master there and threaten Taku, Tientsin or Peking, then you will see the wily old Viceroy on his hind legs scurrying around, willing to do anything and Come to any terms What fools we Foreigners are after all 1-Shangkat Mercury.
BOGUS BANKS.
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The new lunatic asylum for the city of Berlin at the neighboring village of Lichtenberg is to be opened in three or four weeks. It will accommodate 1,300 patients.
Consumption of beer is on the increase all over France, especially in Paris. It has a ten- dency to make the ordinary gay and lively Frenchman dull and heavy,
Queen of Italy and the Queen of Rosimanta are The Empress of Austria, the Carina, the all addicted to cigarette smoking. The former is sald to smoke nearly two deren a day.
The Jews who are pouring into Palestine Just now talk es many different languages that, in order to understand each other, they are forced to recur to their old Hebrew mother tongue. established in the Temple, in the rooms once An American named Sewell of New York has occupied by Judah P. Benjamin, a library of American law-books for the use of the British Bar.
A wave of emotional religion is passing over some parts of France. A number of Protestant peasant are traveling with tents, preaching the
feet.
A hotel la Hamburg has been built entirely of compressed wood, which by the pressure to which it is subjected is rendered as hard as iron as well as absolutely proof against the attacks
of fre.
1691, No. 4) that disease of the heart is very It is sald (Blaster f. Kiln, Hydrotherapie, prevalent in Munich where the consumption of beer amounts, on an average, to 565 litres per bead annually.
General Snussler, who is locked upon as the In the recent manoeuvres of the French Army future caramander of the French armies, allowed bimself to be surprised and hemmed in by the enemy's cavalry.
One of the mummies of the Egyptian kings is provided with a set of upper false teeth, the plate being made of carved wood, closely fitted to the mouth, the teeth represented by brass bossers or stads,
American freight cars carry about thirty tons are gradually superseding the English cars in weight, the cars weighing about nine tons. They that country, which weigh five tons and carry
only seven tons of cargo.
In view of the serious disappointment to guests finding that there is no wine, a total abstinence at the dinner tables of total abstinence people on hostess in London cow writes her invitations with "no wine" at the bottom.
LETS, BROOCHES, EAR-RINGS, STUDS, SLEEVE-BUTTONS, and other high-class JEWELLERY, in all the latest fashions and of the first quality..
be
.
This is the Finest and Largest Collection ever exhibited in the Far East, and the whole will
sold at MANUFACTURERS' PRICES,
An inspection is respectfully invited.
Hongkong, a4th October, 1891.
It is regarded as the finest private or royal rall. road train in the world.
lam, "Der Reise Kaiser," as the Germans call "The constant traveling about of Emperor Wil-
the people, already burdened with the heavy war him, is said to be creating discontent in the Fatherland. His journeys are expensive, and taxes, are dissatisfied at having to contribute toward paying the Emperor's bills.
The annual report of the Cremation Spelety of Zurich shows that last year thirty-two bodies
were incinerated in the crematory of that city:
among them were the remains of the poet, Gottfried Keller, and of Professor Negeill. No disturbance and no irreverent scenes occurred
when the ceremonies were performed.
.
Music as an fld to cooking is provided for by called the "Boiled Egg Polka," with this notice a chef la Berlin. He has composed a polka on the title page: "To boil the eggs, place them moderato, time, taking them out at the last bar. in bolling water, and play the polka in 'allegro They will then be found to be bolled to a nicety
Interesting relica have recently been found in the Peterborough Cathedral. The stone marking said to have been burled has just been moved, the apot where Queen Catherine of Arrangon a and under it has been found a well-made brick vault, with plastered sides. The vault was filled leaden coffin. with earth and stones, and at the bottom was a
at the village of Triel, France, where James II The excavations which have been going an was supposed to have burled his crown and other treasures, have proceeded to such an- extent that the municipal authorities have beco the buildings in the neighborhood has been compelled to interfere, as the safety of some of seriously endangered.
exchange of the Congo State is developing very According to the latest statistics. the business
1.980,441 frances; 1888, 1,639,300 1889,4,297,- rapidly. The exports in 1887 were valued at 54311890, 5,243,199. The Imports for that terin amounted to 15,720,000 It is noticeable A Russian naval lieutenant, who has lived that metalle currency is becoming popular many years in Japan, says that the whole Japa- Profestant Christianity, and that they only waft for the Mikado to make the move. Dardanelles question. With a French army Italy is compelled to support England in the threatening her from the Alps and a Russian Eeet in possession of the Mediterranean, the little kingdom would he sorely distressed,
The piratical financial institution lives, In fact, I servitude, for there is a doubt in the alleged nese aristocracy are strongly inclined toward among the natives as the foreign basiness
At the Naval Exposition in London there is a Admiralty. It gives a light equal to that of colossal electric lamp, constructed by the
house fifty-six meters above the ground. 5.000 000 candles, and is placed in a model ligh
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ST. JOHN
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A named Lodge will be held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zeiland Street, THIS EVENING, the 20th October, at 8 for 8.30 O'CLOCK precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited." -
Hongkong, 29th October, 1891.
N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above
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Hongkong, zgib October, Tar
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The Wormer Zeitung draws attention to a literary curiosity of some value which has lately Mannheimer, It consists of the Pentateuch with been discovered in the library of Herr Moses commentarie, Rash! and Nachmanides, and came out of the celebrated Bromberg collection which issued from the "Bromberg Press," and In Venice (1571). It was the first printed book
A new paper, the Wondering People, was to is one of the oldest Hebrew books extant, be started in London last month, published lo the Gypay tongue, and edited by George Smith, the King of the Gypsies. The object of the paper is to defend the just cause of Gypsdom and to give correct accounts of the manners, beliefs and doings of the wandering people, who NOW READY. are unjustly regarded as the parichs of the human family King George expects 10,000 subscribers of his own people to start with.
lying idle in their vaults, but the bogus bank damours for them at all times and on almost any terms. It will cheerfully undertake to pay nine or ten per cent, to depositors, and ten per cent, more to shareholders, and will offer at the same time to lend money to the public at five or six, quite regardless of the fact that it thereby loses some 15 per cent. In addition to working expenses. It never does. lend the money to the public, of course, for some of it goes to stave off impatient creditors, the rest is scrambled for by the directors and the staff; and is regardless of the 15 per cent. loss-It would lose 63 per cent, with equal calmness. Its banks are chaos; its balance-sheet is constructed by putting down any figures that will show a profit of 45 per cent.; its officials drift into a state of maudlin recklessness in which they collar the money almost openly as it comes in, and buy jewellery with it; and its paid up capital and £400,000. And then some day a creditor who between £304,000 and won't be saved off presents and after that there is nothing but general claim for 100, smash and emptiness: Sooner or later they mostly go the same road. The bank whose one ambition is to get deposits fixed for three years and even Peruvian bonds or the repudiated on any terms is utterly and absolutely hopeless, debentures of Honduras are more promising than tis securities. And then the liquidation comes on as the final act, and all is over. Nobody sende the directors and manager into penal mostly by taking in deposits and leading out the mind of the court whether the case was one of money of depositors, and in most cases it pays fraud or mere negligence. Nobody gaols the for these deposits about two per cent, more than auditor who swore to the company's prosperity, it can possibly hope to realise even in the most though he was obviously either a gross anindler profitable branch of business. The working or a person who obtained money under false expenses of the establishment, the rents, the pretences, inasmuch as he pretended to be an lavish salaries, and the bad debts ace unprovided for, and there is a dead loss besides, auditor and yet couldn't er didn't audit. The Therefore the dubious bank always offers its clerk who got demoralised and took a hand in only individual who comes to griefis the faalor The closing months of 1891 promise favourably most lurid terms for deposits that are "fixed for the general scramble at the last moment, and to see the death and burial of most of the bogus three years, that it may have time to burst bought a bangle for a barmald with the proceeds. banks of Australia. Within the last few years decently, or to bolt, or to pass on the responui. And the law Always drops on him like hillions these institutions have broken out like anbility, before the day of repayment arrives. And of bricks, for the code of this Christian land is epidemic in all parts of this continent, but more in many cases it even offers an additional indoce built that way-Syndey Bulletin. more particularly in New South Wales. They ment of one or two per cent, on top of the original mostly arose suddently and without warning. In nine or ten, provided the deposit is renewed for the evening there was only a vold, and in the farther term, which is an open and unvarnished morning there was a full-grown bank, with an acknowledgment that the institution desires, enormous paid-up capital, and a ponderous at any cost, to avoid repayment as long as pos reserve fund, and a large sums to the credit of sible. The current rate of interest at that future profit and loss, account. There was an empty period may be only 41 per cent, and the banker office
to-day, and to-morrow there was a glaring who joyously pledges himself to pay to or 12, prospectos, also a table and three cane chairs, a regardless of all chances or contingencies, li Hebrew with an overhanging beak, a pot of obviously a person who would undertake any inky and an advertisement, and out of these thing, If the date of the undertaking were only materials the private bank was constructed, far enough ahead. Oceaalonally, too, he an made so as to exactly at his own head.
The Emperor of Germany has had the crown Some of these establishments had a more or sources in one and the same advertisement that less remote connection with time-payment he wants to borrow money from the public at sa
Young King. Alexander of Servia is deeply faralture and oleographs that are traded off on per cent, and is willing to lend
smitten with the Czar's daughter Xenia the instalment plas ; some of them also dealt in public en mortgage at Rsa discrepancy which that the Kalser will visit America in 1893.
to It seems to be an accepted fact in Germany bills of sale and loans which are secured by a ought gire his scheme away even in a lunatic mortgage on the bedstead ; and they all had s. asylum, fes under this system any man could Bavaria, has just had her eleventh child.
The wife of Prince Louis, the fature King of The new German warship Kurfurst Frz. Long list of directors who struggled desperately lodge his money with the company and borrow
derich Wilhelms, recently launched at Wilhelm. to lend a solid, solvent, efficent expression to the same money back at a reduction of four per France for his studio and unfinished work.
Meinsonler's family want £450,000 from shafen, had her first keel plate laid in March, their names by affixing "Esq. to the bald and cent, and thus get a gratis annuity out of the
1890. Three other vessels of similar slse, begun naked "John Hogg with which nature had institution for life. And the establishment which are made by a well-known firm in Londen.
The "civil" clothes of the German Emperor at the same time as the Wilhelm, are not yet endowed them. Now and then some especially professes to pay lavish dividends by giving away
launched. They are building at Kiel and thickheaded and impecunious legislator appeared perpetual annuities to everybody is a vain thing pay for officers-qualified to act as interpreters.
The Lords of Admiralty have decided on extra Stettin. on the directorate, but there was a socondhand | and of no account, b
The German Government will shortly open aspect about the board and the entire office an Another of the reliable brands and earmarks who do not drop a shilling are not appreciated. have hitherto enjoyed immunity from the pay Visitors to the Queen's stables at Windsor negotiations with the princes and coples Pho unspeakable and indescribably subdued-air of of the fraudulent bank is the land which it back lanes and the three-card trick which invariably has for sale cheap, on longer and "spot men who speak disrespectfully of the they will no longer posses this privilege. The Detectives in Berlin restaurants are said to ment of taxes, as under the new income tax law prevented the new institutions establishing an easier terms than were ever offered by any other Kaiser Influential connection in monetary circles. The institution. The deposit is small, and the
chief question to be considered is that of Scorr's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with stall's eyes were too close together, and it had interest is generally about $ per cent. although Norway. Ons Swedish breeder has sent over
English hunting men are importing foxes from compensation.
Hypophosphites, is especially adapted to all too much off on its hair and bogus Jewellery the property was ostensibly: bought with money 600.
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A clergyman in New South Wales complains | conditions where the tissues are wasting away on its claws, and it grabbed tco hungrily after borrowed, from the public at nearly twice that
that out of 117 marriages which he has cele. from inability to digest and assimilate ordinary the deposits, and it was too seady to offer any figure, and the establishment almost objects to Leith Walk, Edinburgh, the gradient of which him out of bed between 11 st night and 6 in the Oil and Hypophosphites produce a marked It is proposed to run an electric tram car up brated within the last year, twenty-nine called food. The combined virtues of the Cod Liver interest under the aun so long as it could trade cash, and would rather well on slow Instalments is in 16, off its deposit-receipts for hard cash, and, taking than otherwise, And the reason of this is plała
moming. He never knows when he is to have, effect in such cases. They restore the wasted A Young Ireland Lengus" is the latest phase a peaceial night, and on
heal the inflammation of the throat and lungs, In about to pai
.. * One of Prince Aribert's wedding gifts to his and increase the desh, In short they form the an entire railroad train of sleeping-cars, boufels, given the invalid. Any Chemia esp supply i bride attracted much attention, it consisted of Anast combined food and medicine that can be asian and dialog cart, sight carriages in all 8. Watson & Co (Limited), agents in Hong gorgeously appolated in Grety details Indiosy! keng and wilin
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
England and Wales.
There are 507 workhouses and 77 prisons.in
violinist of the first ranks.
Herr Tart is said to be the new German
the Taussaud collection in London,
A wax figure of McKinley has been added to
It is related as a curious fact that Paris, with 's population of nearly two and a half million souls, has less than one bundred negroes within is limits. Statisticians say that the whole of France cannot muster a negro population exceed log five hundred.
Bishop Strossmeyer of Peath thinks there will be a general European war before 1894, and that before the world is fifty years older Emperors and Kings will have gone out of business' and Republicanism and common sense be established in every part of Europe.
Paris is somewhat perplexed about the Falnis Royal, once one of its chief glories. It is now rather a white elephant. It covers a great deal of the most valuable ground in the city, but to little purpose. The trade of the arcade is steadily A man named Gilbert arrested in Marseilles declining. In order to give it another chance of as a tramp, turned out to be the Communist whole there will be built a calf and beer garden at gave the order to the squad which shot
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Hongkong, 14th October, 1891,
A SECOND EDITION OF THREE THOUSAND COPIES
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"THE LAW OF STORMS IN THE EASTERN SEAS,"
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Gilbert was transported to Caledonia and retained under the general amnesty,
covered galleries. bringing back the old-time strollers through the
Paris by a Justice of the Peace. Ho declared a A singular judicial decision was rendered in lease cancelled because the lessee, produced in court a single bedbug captured in a bed hired for the tenant's convenience by the lessor. The Court held, in accordance with its construction of Articla 1,719, that by the fact of the presence of that one insect peaceable occupation and
the lease. coloyment of the leased premises was thereby sufficiently felerrupted to impair the validity of
It all sound, the "Bink" was or ought to have and easy of comprehension, for the land through which the Irish Nationalist chameleon fashion in his parlihat of a freak of tissues, create an appetite, make new blood,
been a transparent frand, from the baseless mortgaged to the last extremity, and the instal Essertion co the front door, to the ash-barrel in the ments, as they come, in, ste swallowed up in Fard from the chairman of the board down to salaries and interest, or in staving off rampant sanguinary wars with the late Kingjaja brought Oko Jumbo, the famous old Bonny chief, whose the office by a fraud in its advertisement and editors who dedine to renew and as the Al lato such prominencs some years ago, is isa prospectus and is balance abeste in its compasy cannes convey the land to the purchaser, dead,
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