Intimations.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr. Fresh-Had a charming`sunrise this marning, yon kaow!
Mrs. Feak-Ob Then where was the card
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THE present Provincial Treasurer will soon be leaving his post at Foochow (says the Ecks) to take up the new appointment which has been | given him in the North.
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· AT THE HONGKONG TRADING CO, « Clerk-All our wedding-presents are sold out, Str.
cradles from the manufacturerY.
Manager-That's good. Order a gross of
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THE bosoms of our seven German friends should swell with pride when they read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the special correspondence from Siam, which is published in this lasue,
light. Bar boy.-Missy Jugg, you pay one dollar cola
Old Jagg-Boy, It's quits. The drink was too light, isol
EGUARIO ROCHA, a boy of fifteen, was charged In the Police Court to-day with stealing a sliver Flamell. The youth went to the house of com watch valued at $7, the property of Mr. P. L. plainant and asked for money, which was be stole it. The boy's father gave him a bad reused; the watch was lying on a table and
before leaving. imprisonment and twelve strokes on the breech
The Singapore Frée Presz learns by private advices from Madras that a serious rallway accident has occurred between Bangalore and Mysoro. Fiilia's Circus was proceeding to Mysore in three special tains, one of which deaths are reported, but it is not yet known came into collision with a goods train. Several
Company have been Hiled. whether any of the chief performers of the
SIAMESE AFFAIRS.
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)
Bangkok, October 18th, 1891.
THE FIRST STATE RAILWAY. Exactly three months have passed by since I had occasion to wire to you to the effect that His Majesty the King had, on the 16th July last," OUR prestidigitatorial friend (good word, that, turned the first god of a Siamese Railway--tha pres...) Professor Jensen, the Whand of Bangkok-Pakuam, fourteen alles line, a theer, well-of a good many places, la leaving private enterprise in which the 'King and many here a few days, mostly because he likes the heavily, It is now incumbent of me to report, Hongkong for Bangkok. He has been staying of the leading men in the State have invested Isle of Fragrant Waters. He takes a professional Government officials (not to say all of them) connected with a disgraceful scene that occurred interest in watching the juggling of various as fully as time will permit, the e'rcumstancos
He does it much more scientifically, so that it is quite a picature to see him. Can't say the name
on the 15th inst. when the Director-General, of the other conjurers. It is a pity he will not Mr. K. Bethge, a German, opened the tenders but evidently he has studied the fluancis! con- show here, for he is always well worth seeings for the construction of the first State Railway- dition of the colony better than Des Voeux did. capital) to Kerat, distance of 168 English line from Bangkok via Ayuthin (the old We wish him good lock in Slam and a prostatute miles. I should, however, prefix my perous voyage to India.
English newspaper published in the Far Rant, and hi theufore the vessela hoisting code pennmat E, between 0 and / Character, and he was sentenced to seven days' and assures us they are bat clumsy bunglers..at the offices of the Royal Railway Department
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HONGTONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1891.
TELEGRAMS.
KILKENNY ELECTION.
LONDON, October 19th, Mr. Davitt abstains from contesting Kilkenny
S. WATSON & CO., LD, until the general election.
VEGETABLE
AND
FLOWER
SEEDS,
SEASON 1891-97.
PER S.5 "SHANGHAL" -
FRANCE AND RUSSIA. The Russian Squadron has arrived at Brest and been enthusiastically feted.
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
H.M.S. E left Shanghai on the 26th lust, for Ichang. We will duly report her anival if she gets there.
A REGULAR Convocation of Victoria Chapter. No. 525, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Visiting companions are cordially invited.
ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside 10.10 m. on Sunday-to" condy men' ashore to the II o'clock service, returning about 13.30.
Chollie-You look bad, dear boy? Reginald-Ya-zas. Proposed to Miss Gentian last night,
.!
Challie-Wat did she say? Reginald-Rats!.
VARIOUS devices for increasing the speed and economy of telegraphing have been brought out recently, and it seems not unlikely, says an American paper, that a new era of cheap telegraphy is at hand, when companies can send 100 words for 25 cents and make a handsome profit.
"Do you love me, Jennie ?" "I do". "Hare
you ever loved before P." "I have. Then, darling, be mine. I've been long looking for a truthful girl. If you had said no, and I after ward found out that you had, it would have undermined my confidence in you" "That's what I thought,” said Jennie, softly to herself.
Jockey Club Steward-Heard an awful goed story Just now.
zad ditte. So did I, dontcher know. What
Was yours?
1st ditto.-Pon my word, I've forgotten. What was yours?
and ditto. I've forgotten mine too, dontcher know I Shake
WHAT the Detroit Free Prey thinks must be the shortest speech on record--and that, too, made by a woman-is heard of in Indians. A wound walked seventy miles to tear a sermon, tion he called upon her to tell the congregation and the pastor was so pleased at this apprecia- how she came there. Rising slowly, she looked hoofed It" Then sat down
WE have received our second supplies of Street, this evening, at 8.30 for clock precacly. them over with great solemnly, and said: "1
FRESH GARDEN
SEEDS,
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THE Foochow Echo says that it is gratifying to observe that for the last five months while all the treaty ports in China have been more or less in danger some in actual trouble resulting in loss of life, others in a state of apprehension of trouble which the presence of a war vessel would have allayed-the British Squadron has been enjoying self salmon fishing in Japan! We protest against the way in which this pere le left without protection. It is true that on the two occasions of the Inte scares a gunboat was promptly sent at the urgent request of H. B. M. Consul, but this is not sufficient. We ought to have a Funboat bere permanently, or any rate until the peace of the Empire is assured.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, has been burned ineffigy by the Boers on account of his reflections on them and their country. We are really surprised that the Boers thought it worth their while to take the slightest notice of Lord Randolph Churchill's reflections or opinions. courtesy is the weakest and most contemptible Without any exception whatever, this lord by figure in the whole range of European politics. He is a worthy descendant of Jack Churchill, the greatest military genius of his age, and the lowest and most contemptible blackguard that Lord Randolph Churchill has been playing the disgraced the reign of good Queen Arne. 6l of journalist in South Africa and sending letters to the Daily Graphic. We have read those letters, and our only regret is that they were not sent direct to the China Mall. other like a glove. And here endeth the first "Randy" and the missionary "rag" it each
lesson.
A TRADESMAN was recently arraigned in contain Scotch town on the charge of cunting down a tree in the back garden of the house which he tenanted, without having obtained the consent of the landlord. The Baille who was on the bench chanced to be a pompous, self- opinionated old gentleman, fond of hearing the tree?" the Magistrate inquired abarply, bimself speaking, "Whit wey did ye cut down addressing the accused. "The tre was quite as it spiled the look of the gairden, I cut is door. deld an' rotten ever sin' I cam' to the honge, and, Besides, I didna ken it was ony hairm, or I wad hae let it alane. "That'll no dae, my man,” said the Ballie, severely " that:
yo my yo didna kea was wrang; but ignorance of the law is nae excuse for any man. "Weel, Bailie, re aly humored twinkle in his eye, "if that's the piled the culprit, gravely, but with the ghost of a case, it's gey hard on the baith of us!" Dismissed with an admonition.
MERCANtile marine OFFICERS ASSOCIATION AND MR.
WILTSHIRE.
In
report with an explanatory statement thus. For the past year or so the Siamese have foolishly sought to play off the Germans against the Briton and the Gaul and with that object, view have ousted Englishmen from Govern vacancies, as they were thus created, with noble ment, Service as much as possible, filling up Teutons 1 hence, lo a great measure, the appoint. Railways, although Germany and Germa is hare ment of Mr. K. Bethge as Director-General of never ret come to the front either as sucessial their rolling stock it is, dec:rding the latest railway contractors or engineers. And as to works on railways, the worst in the world, as the following quotation from "Railway Location by M. Wellington, M. Inal, C. E., etc published in New York and London this year, clearly demonstrates:---
Countries.
of
1
Average Avenge Mil Müz Per Per Locams- Logo-
Nubar
Locarno-
This Miss.
1,000.
KTO
Pur
United States.. 33,823 - 538,011 United
14,827
Kingdom, Germany 11,330 Austria 3671 Belgium
172,803
Te
Day
27,583.62
03 18,395 50
134,489 11,870
47,144, 12,841. 1,790 13,870 13-335 France 8,088 135,860 | 16,798. Officers Association of Hongkong held a meeting Luxembourg....
Last night the British Mercantile Marlac Italy 1,630 to which Mr. Wiltshire had been invited, Netherlands... Norway.....
London Association) for the special purpose of Russia 5,844 $19 susociate member (he being a member of the Roumanie......
211 laying his case before them with a view to Finland........ combined action of some sort.
Switzerland. 595 Tedia....... 1730
Y
For some reason or other Mr. Wiltshire failed
24,642 15,118
34
433 1,557 X1,435
1#,736
14,027 23,033
2,307-10,460
61,940
95
28 AN
19,599 23
1,177 12010 33 7,674 12,897 35 33919. 19,606 54 "The above statistice are for 1833 for the
United States and Great Britain, and for 1881 for the other countries. Some American roads run up to an average for large numbers of
Miss Peak.-Dr. Payne proposed last night, In the Police Court,this morning Chan Lung, a but I refused him I'
member of the Great Unemployed; was charged Mrs. Comse. What far, dear?.
with stealing a passage ticket from here to Miss Peak--He might know too much!
Singapore, the property of a farmer. It transpired LEUNG Tang Ol, a kept woman living in China yesterday and had the ticket in his hand, when
that the prosecutor went to the Emigration office / Things are very satisfactory as they are and about It, and said he would certainly be there.engines of roo milles per day... Street, was sent to prison for six months hard is to another man. The ticket was valued at the prisoner matched it from him, and handed babour for detaining a girl of sixteen for unlawful purposes, Prisoner protested that if 6.50. The prisoner, who was so anxious to go to sent to gaol she would dies Probably she will Singapore, iakes a branch line just for a month die any how.
and we are now exécuting all orders for the same. Complete Catalogues with concre directions for sowing can be obtained on appll, cation, or will be posted to any address. In these Catalogues the Seeds are Marginally Numbered in Engilsh and Chinese, and when ordering it is quito sufficient to state the numbers of the kinds required.
It is shown by reports issued by the principal N.B.-All Seeds are tested on arrival before street railway company of Birmingham, which being sent out.
has lines operated both by horses and electricity that storage battery traction is more economica than animal traction, the difference la favor of electricity being about 7 per cent.
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A MEMBER of one of the rhetorical classes in a certain college had just finished bis declamation, when one of the class said; "Mr., do you suppose that a General would address his soldiers in the manner in which you spoke that plece ?" "Yes, sir, I do," was the reply, "if he
Was balf scared to death."
LI PING, ■ cook unemployed, was charged this moratag before Mr. Wise with dealing in Taxis lottery tickets in Queen's Rond. The transaction had brought him in buillon to the value of $860, which was confiscated, and not having more loose coln to pay the fine of $15 he goes to the Queen's hotel for a month,
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Stern Father-My daughter Maud here tella me you that you kissed her forcibly last night. Do you apologize?
Claude-Yes I'm sure nobody regrets the
Occurrence more then I.
Stern F-1 Mand-
-Str
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A STRINGENT order has been famed to all Magistrates and teppes (says our Foochow con ing and the arrest of all heads of gambling temporary) for the diligent prosecution of gambl houses. It is sincerely to be hoped that the edict will be an effective one and result in the total suppression of this terrible vice, which
such
common ons among the Chinese. An official visit to the Ningpo Joss House would undoubtedly prove useful, as we notice that gambling is carried on to a great extent in that locality, both during the day and night,
THE Battalion now about to be raised in India for service in Hongkong, is to be known as the China Regiment. Its commandant will be Major E. Burrow, 7th Bengal Infantry, Captain Faithful, 33rd punjab Inidatry, will probably be Second in Command, with Captain Retallick, now attached to the 35th Sikhs, as Wing Com-
ander; Lientenant Woodcock, 29th Punjab Infantry, and Lieutenant Stewart, 45th Sicht, may possibly be the Adjutant and Quartermaster, respectively; while the following officers are applicants for the post of Wing Officer, Leute ants Eckford and Bagley, 1st Bengal Infantry; Rowcroft, 35th Sikhs; Watson, 30th Punjab Infantry.—Penang 'Gasiti.
THE sale of Russell & Co.'s launch. Falcon and
most extra-
Mechanical Engineers showed that out of 39 "A paper read before the German Society of englues (presumably à fair average)~- 10 of shortent life were broken up after, 6.5 years. 10 of longest life were broken up after, 28.5 15. were in use less than 20 years, and
average of all w&#.............................................20.3
locomotive lie in miles."
The average mileage of German locomotives is 11,870 miles per year, Indicating a very short
ONCE upon a Time there was a Typhoon walk- ing about the Peak seeking whom it might derour. And it came across an Owl. And the friends and advisers of the Owl said "Be quick and get Away or you will be in a Mesi." But the Owl was a steady-going sleepy-headed to put in an appearance, although he kuex member of the Sanitary Board, and said. "It is perfectly well that the meeting was to be no are making a great fuss about nothing, held, and had himself told several people it ia a mistake to get excited. Then the But he never turned up, nor even sent a It up a bit. And still the Owl said things ordinary conduct naturally had a fatal Typhoon got foul of the bird and mixed note of explanation. This were all right, and moved "that the Board effect on the prospects of success for Mr. approve of the situation" Then the Typhoon Wiltshire's cause. While the members, who had hit the Owl on the Boko, and whisked his tall come solely for the purpose of hearing Mr. round to an angle of 45, and tangled up his star Wlitabire, and ready to make every effort in his board hoof with his off-side Ripper, and stuck behalf, were waiting for him to turn up, the case him in the mud, wrong side up (with care, not was discussed as well as it could be in the winked sleepily and said "It is all right, there is general feeling of the meeting was that the to be stowed neat bollers.) Then the Owl absence of the central figure himself The nothing to be concerned about and it is a pity Association ought to do something, but whether these things get into the papers." And the last that by providing funds for further legal proceedings,
The above is a statement of facts which speak Owl was a solemn protest against improvement, bers present regretted the tons of several com Government nor the King have yet decided the was heard of that poor auprogressive Sanitary or by some other means, it was impossible to for themselves, and will, I confecture, sounding like "hi-tiddly-hi-ïl, I'm all right!"
decide without Wiltshire's presence. The mem-satisfy any national being of this--that should Germans get the contract and neither the menti in the Hongkong Telegraph on the Asso- ciation's Inactivity in the matter, as of course callon, though it is not difficult to see where they could not do anything until Mr. Washire the "bitch" comes in-and carry. It out in the manner prescribed by the King's German was before them, which was impossible while
to appear is the more ungracious and disappoint line in their very own style with rails of a sise he was in prison, and now he apparently did not Engineer-in-Chief, the Siamese will have closed think it worth his while to come.. His fellure with the offer of a German Syndicate, fr. Herr Krupp and his satellites, who desire to build the ing, as some of the officers were very strongly in favour of taking action, in the interests of the and weight which have long been condemned as Mercantile Marine, though Mr, Wiltshire per Germans are known to have tens of thousands useless and extravagant in Europe (of which the is plafoly to the interest of the Association sonally was hardly known to any of them. It
of tons on hand), and they will equip the line
SEVEN COUNCILLORS,'
Be thou not drawn aside; in that excel;
One said: "To one great end- Let all thy powers tend; Wouldst thou accomplish much, do one thing
well."
The next: "Scom thou to move Within a narrow groove;
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Wouldst thou accomplish much, be broad of
soul; To know all good should be thy longed-for goal,
Dash
Ay
Let
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A Third: "Oh, doubting heart! swiftly forth to meet the coming strife! Scor thou the coward's part; braving storm and whirlpool, live thy lie
Then spake a Fourth: "Yet walt Before that and 'Too late'} caution guide thy steps: pause thou and
thlak;
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to take the case on, if anything can be made with rolling stock more suitable to the climate of duct is unfair to them and hampers their self-tropical country such as Stam.
of
it, and Mr. Wiltshire's unaccountable con- Prussis, or Russia, or Siberia, or Finland than a defence, besides being for himself so ungrateful, Ever since Mr. Bethge issued the specifications. that it has damaged his cause more than any thing else that he could have done. If he will not take the trouble to come forward and state his grievance, it is not likely that his friends Association has done as much for him as if will care to go ahead in spite of him, and the
of the line and a statement respecting the conditions under which contractors would be bound, and set to work to revise and after the plans and specifications for It, which had been. than Sir Andrew Clarke, grave auspicions have completed by no less an Engilsh railway magnate
Mr. Forbes' yachts Naomi and Arisi at Gordon Bld forethought, wisdom, meet thee at the brinken could in calling the meeting and inviting his | been entertained in some circles that tenderem.
t
Speak,
attendance. They can now only look to their own interests in the matter; if they need to take his help; and if they are not in danger, they action to protect themseres, they cannot rely on
cannot be expected to help him after this,
Seventh Volce! and tell me-wildered 4 QUEER STORY FROM CANTON T Inclined to the belief that there must hara
& Co's this afternoon was well attended, and the bidding pretty good. The launch was first A Fifth: "Up! Yield thon not put op, and after a little competition went to
With meekneas to thy lots THE Straits Times Informs us that, by last Blackhead & Co. for $3,600-a very fair price; Content is sloth; high souls should still aspire, advices from Pekan, the Pabang river has risen the launch is 57 ft. long, with good engines and Fan every spark of old Prometheau fire.* sufficiently to udrait of the Punjom Company's appointments, but not as young as she was launch Sinyum proceeding up stream. This once by about 20 years The Naomi, a
The Sixth; "Serene, content, is cheering news in these days of darkness. No really beautiful yacht, was put up
Accept what Fate has sent." doubt the Sinyum will come down the Fahang $300, rapidly advancing by $35 bids untti river laden with golden ingots when they and $2,075 Mr. Fullerton Henderson look over the ingots and the river has risen sufficiently The drish, a smaller yacht, somehow went very about the prettiest craft on the China coast. high to allow the launch free egress from the badly. Starting at $500, the next bid was 8600, mödern Ophir,
and that was as far as she could go, being knocked down to the order of Mr. F. W. White, Commissioner of Customs st Pakhol. Two small boats went off at moderate prices,
CHAN YUN, a "street corner boy," was charged at the Magistracy this morning by Mrs. Wm. Bell with stealing a sille umbrella from her with fontein Queen's Road last night about 7, It was proved that the prisoner hustled wrenched the umbrella away and then bolted be was arrested with the article in bla possess fog. His defence was that a friend gave it to him, and Mr. Wise most justly gave him 6 months hard labor, the last 14 days to be in solitary confinement.
:
Which of my six sage counsellors is right. `
wight
Peace-loving Fontenelle,
As olden records tell
To seal the lips of Ghibeline or Guelph, Cried: "All the world is right!" and surely was
himself.
--Ämarita,
OR that I had the wings of a dove! then would I fly away to Salgon and be at rest. For they have nice quiet times there, and news is easy to gel, 'You can fill up your paper without having to go further then your office door, and so you save no end of ricksha fares. Here are a few
items:
A CHINESE BABY TRANSFORMED INTO Ä
FUPPY DOG.
Some days ago a newly made grave, nicely taried over, with a head-stons bearing an inscrips tion setting forth the name of the deceased, the date of death, etc., was discovered by Mr. Le Breton, examiner in the 1. M. Customs, on some waste land adjoining his house on the Shameen, Canton, on enquiring of his servants Mr. Le Breton was told-Ons Chinawomen, I think blong foreign gentleman amah, catchee one amallo chilo; that chilo makce die; must waniches bury Shameen side so fashion--he master can
Mr. Bourgeois is editor of the Avinir, and xays what he thinks, Captain Massle, being look-see any day.” ́ ́ or Mr. B. refused to apologise, and so riled, demanded from Mr. Bourgeois an apology
Mr. Le Breton at onca communicated this
were not going to get fair play and that by tenders ing they would simply be fooled, and, be it noted, hands to dangerous opponents-Herr Kropp not only fooled, but would be showing their
& Co. of Essen. Now, whether the public were justified or not in entertaining suspicions I do not propose to argue at ibla juncture-personally, been a spark, in the first instance, to kindle the Gre. Sufice it to say, then, that several of the leading railway contractors-in-England, the United States and Australia evidently "fought shy" of the venture, and wrote to the Siamese stating it was impossible for them to tender as per Bethge's specifications, although at one time the first Siamese stato rallway attracted con- in Europe. That public confidence was with siderable attention in railway circles particularly drawn no one can doubt after the force of the 15th instant,ACK THURSDAY,
BEN
for more than sixty-two years. An ultra patriotis | Consequently, he makes a steady income of the order was given, "Pistols for coffee faformation to Mr. Rowe, Chairman of the Must consequences to the Slammeso, RNMEN
and two for ona
DIRECTORY" may be sent to the following plot of ground in Sarbarb, near Baden, on which | trebling in numbers every five years. En Mr. B. pulled the string and away she cipal policeman, at once inspected the pravo and ↑ sewspaper reporter is so fond of, saying) which
Agents:-
HONGKONG...Mr. W. Brewer..
...Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co."
THERE are many strange anomalies, says the Sydney Bulletin, in the legal rog of New South Wales. Nobody is allowed to practise unless
as it is here termed, when the great man had University, and then serves five years ander the he first passes the matriculation exam. at the
hertification of finding that in response to his articles to a practising solicitor. In all the
submitted, namely, one from Singapore firm imposing advertisements devo tenders only were better class offices the solicitor charges on an arage, May, 200 guineas premism' to each
and the other from a Stettin syndicate, commonly articled clerk; he pays them no salary or
understood to be, in reality, a combination of STRANOX as it may appear, the French Repubile one that, is merely microscople and he is
Essen, Stettin and Berlin capitalists. At the is actually a German taxpayer and has been so allowed to have three articled clerks at a time,
function, which was fraught with momentous German has just discovered this fact, and much about ino gainens per annum's he gets his work fuss and talk have arisen about it. It appears done gratis; and the system, if worked for all The shooting was to be introduced by reasons, the body should be removed from occurred in which Mr. Bethge performed the
in orthodox French style, cipal Council, and asked that, for sanitary DISGRACEFUL SCENE, the French Government in 1829 purchased the it in worth, admits of the whole gang of solicitors
wo, three from the referee, but at Shameen. Mr. Rowe, accompanied by the Moel- leading part in a manner (as the ubiquitous Turende had fallen in battle, and erected and Irish solicitors, and Welters to the Signet went. Death to a cow. Then the gallant capting stated by Mr. Le Breton. He; at once sent of the affat I lost no time in hunting up an ave monument to the great Marshal, which is guarded from Scotland, are admitted without examina declined to have any more to do with him, and
came to the conclusion that the facts were as left nothing to be desired. Having "got wind” Republic, ice any other landholder, pays the more of New South Wales law than of the code entreated files to shoot at the word "three Conral-General, who, la turn, visited the spot, and present than almost any one else. This gentle constantly by a French invalid soldier. The ton, regardless of the fact that they know no wouldn't touch a nasty firearm at all. Mr. B. despatch to Mr. Watters, H. B. M. Acting witness who had, probably, more right to be lawful ground tax and positively refuses to sell of Timbuctoo. Scotch solletters, who pass exact out, even though all the ultra German patriots by the same examination in Scotland as do the saying he wanted to let in the Insurance Com. upon returning to his office pensed despatch man, Mr. Franklyn Hurst, a rising man in ble In the Empire should burst with Tentonleira.
Writers to the Signet, are not admited; they but honour was satisfied, and the umpire to the Chinese officials in the city detailing all profession, civil engineering, was good enough
called it`a draw, have simply to start life fresh by golog
circumstances. Two mandarins, officially to submit to an interview, which may be recapl. through the matriculation exam. and being Next, Mr. Delpit and Mr. Bourgeois bad a
mounted, soon appeared on the Shameen, with a tulated as follows is pd ONE of Hongkong's pet grievances is the lack articled over again. The cause of this amas of healthful amusement. It is a never-ending log foolishness has never been explained, but why Mr. B. was so anxious to be put out of his of the Municipal Council, the Consuls of different visitors Interested in railway matters, includ “ gentle and joyous passage of arms. (That is guard of 200 soldiers, with fixed bayonets, drama: At noon on the 15th fastant, said Mr. beating and dage firing. Mr. Rowe, as Chairman Hurst, I and number of residents and moan, only intensified when some fool of a show the Scotch solicitor pays a small fee in his misery in one act, apparently.) On the way to the nationallles in fall uniform, cocked hair and Ing. Mr. Blech (Sir Andrew Claze's repse- & NORTH Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, exhibition not worthy of a penny gaff at a boan. } large one, and probably the New South and called him a sacrd inulting ink alinger, and swords galore, inrned out to witness the resurres" | sentalive in - Slam), MeasraH G. Haze
sahibi man and disappoints people with an own country, and the Scotch writer a very house Mr. Boult met Mr. Bourgeois feast. Bat now-nose is the winter of our Wales legal profession grovels by instinct to the his journal a beastly morblati rag. (Mr. Bout the circle round the grave and the different Matheson & Co.'s representative), W. K. D Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, discontent made glorious summer same as
tion. When the guard of soldiers had completed (Messrs. Murray, Campbell & Co and Jardine, JAPAN Yokohama,
man who pays the big fee. Mr. Crick's Bill, was a beatrical man.) But Bourgeois was too officials had taken their places, the grave-digger Beckett (of H. B. M. Consular Service), John BANGKOK Rev. S. J. Smith.
never was. During the cold season Hongkong providing that anyone may become a lawyer so busy to attend to him then. The double evant SINGAPORE...Messrs. Sayle & Co., Limited.
is to have a skating rink, conducted by
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was requested to proceed with the exhumation Hutchinson (of the Local Government Depart PARIS and
Wybert, the best known rinke artist of America lagas e provca on examination that he knows was ultimately brought off satisfactorily.
The body was soon discovered and immediately meni), Mr. F. Lens (representative of a German - Messrs. Amédéo Prince & Co. LONDON...
and Australia, who beat the champion Wyman cessons among others, because, under the Mahomet for a triffs of ten thousand france middle of the spectatore, when, lo and beholdi it attended at the offices of the Royal Railway astounding Innovation, for many The same day Mr. Margallan med Mr. tossed up by the indignant coolle into the Syndicate) and Char Rotring, Secretary, in Sydney, and he will provide exhibitions prosent system, the solicitor is not required to damages for a couple of scratches received in an turned out to be an English pointar puppy Department on the occasion of the opening of "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Orrick what has been wanted here for a long time that in know all sorts of other uscle information, franc and costs.
that we can guarantee. This is so very exactly prove that he known law to any extent, He has affair of honour. The Court awarded him one belonging to Mr. Lindholm, in an advanced the tenders for the construction of the Korat Fedder's Hill,
it is not necessary now to dilate on ita advant but with the code itself he has very often only a
state of decomposition. Without a word belag State Railway, Mr. K. Bethga, Director-General, ..““Hongkong, January 19th, 1891
ages. When particulars are published the boom slight acquaintance. It is an item that has been a tertiadors, I'd spread my broad pinions and left at full gallop, and each of the others walked diets, held in his town office. Hardly had the As before remarked, "Oh-had I the wings of said the soldierà dismissed, the mandarina prasided at the meeting which was, mirabile will begla.
forgotten somehow.
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