and ibera is also the Peking Field Force. Are not they to be relied on to protect Peking and Tientsin ? It has been objected that it is most improbable that an enterpriese such as this rebellion should be vader'aken at this time of year: bat is it not possible that the rebels bave designedly waited unt! the ice would prevent reinforcements being brought to the nosibere poris by sea?
We heathly echo sur Newchwang corres pondent's prayer that the rebels will go west ward and not to that utterly unprotected port, It is characteristic of the foreign Ministers at Peking that they have not even vouchsafed to answer the recent request of the foreign re- sidentrat Newchwang for a gunboat this winter. It is well known that large quantities of modern arms and ammunition have been smuggled into the northern ports during the last year or so, and we now wall with interest to see whether the wave of rebellion will reach the walls of Peking itself, or whether the force that Li has sent will be sufficient to calm it. But we may well feel anxious for our friends in Feking and Newchwang.
Meanwhile, it would be well for foreigners everywhere to be on the alert. Even if the success that the rebel Chinese in Manchuria who are much like the Hunanmen in character —have achieved is only temporary, and if they have no understanding with the discontented people in the south, the news of the success will encourage all the scamles of order, and will possibly make the Chinese officials Iessatoquons in carrying put the orders to put down disturbance received by them from Peking. If these northern rebels bave a capable leader, things may govery hardly with the present government; for it is
out the Empire are waiting.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1891.
and pouring into the Raub Hole by all shafts like a cirer, completely filling with water. Water was one foot deep at boiler. Temporary a rangements made (for repairing dam.]
The damage is a large quantity of debris carried away into the Raub Hole. The underlay tramway is damaged.
The surface is very badly cracked. Of the stopes above level six have subsided [therefore] we expect the levels are full of debris. Will try to recover, pump. Have borrowed Edola's pomp. There is every prospect of the rain con. fauing for some days.”.
Referring to the above telegrams the Singapore Free Prus ways :---
What happened was briefly this. The abnormal rainfall completely filled the-dam, and the usual channels of escape for surplas waste water being insufficient to carry that off, the embankment was overtopped, gave in in the centre, and a big rush of debris-laden water came down in the direction of the Raub working and rushing into Shafts Nos. 7, and 6; af course in a short time the workings were quite full, much of the debris also being carried down underground.
The position of the mine (the Raub Hole) is at the fool of the range of bills which collect and send down a large quantity of water after even a moderate amount of rain. The whole district then becomes more or less flooded-at best it in. A swamp in fact. Part of this water will drain off in a few days, but slowly, owing to the flatness of the surface of the county. The bollers in the engine-house, for instance, on slightly rising ground a few feet over the general level when the telegram left had a foot of water in the fire box, the adjacent Ranb Hole itself being filled and #abmerged a or 3 feet and was therefore, (avisible.
for a capable leader that the disaffected through The staff at the ruins are at present face to face with a mine so full of water that the steam pumps In the shaft are omavailable for work, being 56 feet below the surface, and therefore 'drowned.
The Shanghai Mercury of November 30th gives the following account-
In Friday evening's lasue we gava, with reservation, publicity to certain rumours in circulation in Shanghai concerning an outbreak of rebellion In Mongolia, and stated that very little credence was placed in the reports in official quarters here. Since then the reoarte
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The immediate business is to get rid of this extra water. The main pump now under water will throw 35,000 gallons an hour, four times as much as the ordinary needs of the mine. To bring down the water level to the point where
accordingly only met by the local officials and mandarins. The usual salutes were fired from forta, gun-boats, and from the different camps. His Excellency went on shore, and took an express train with two locomotives at 8&a.m. for his residence at Tai-pth-ino. He will take over the scals of office and begin bis duty as Governor to-morrow, The late Actlog-Governor will go to Shanghal per Cass.
The French avise L'inconstant, Com, de Jonquieres, arrived here on the 10th, and left again on the sand. She brought down and erected here, in the French Cemetery, a very tasteful granite monument in memory of the sitos nd soldiers buried here during the French war. On, the granite is the following inscription:-
Formate 1885.
A la Mimoire des Marins et Soldats Français
décédés à Kalung. The ComBander made a suitable exhortation and thanked the gentlemen present, especially the Commissioner of Customs, Dr. Hirth, for their assistance; the majority of the efficers and crew of the L' Inconstant were present and 's salute was fired when all was finished.
The gold-washing goes on as before and gold lent away by every steamer leaving for Honkong,
A disturbance, caused by the savages, in the camphor districts, near Takobant, has now been put down by the energetic measures taken by the second Governor, Lieu Bang Ben,, who is a native of Formain, and who owns a very great part of North Formosa. Coast export still at a standstill.-Mercury.
CREFOO
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
the Foreign Customs staff. The present incumb cht was sent here to relieve him, Hia name is Chang Wha-kuel or Ngal-ching. The former is his official name, the latter in his given name er hae. He is the rephew of that great man, whom some toadying galest has called "the Bismarck of China, Li Hug-chang, and is the son of a former Viceroy of Kwangtung and Kwangsl, and he may be summed up in a very few words! Anti-foreign, avaricious, arbitrary, salf willed, inexperienced, and as pig-headed as any other Chinaman. It was this blood relation of the perfidious Li who petitioned the Viceroy of Szechuen to the effect that the riots in Ta Chu halen were simply brawl, in which both parties were equally to blame; therefore the Christiana were not extilled to any compenta tion, It was he also who very nearly caused a riot here through trying to make new regula..." tions whereby he could increase the Likin, in which scheme he entirely failed, if any official ever succeeded in making himself thoroughly detested by all classes, surely he is the man! No one has a single good word to say for him.. He is said to have sold all the Wei-yuen's ships under his contral to the highest bidder and thereby pocketed a very considerable sum of money. The official who arrived here yesterday Lee-shu-cheng, the ex-Minister to Japan, He is not yet golog to take over the seals of office, but is going to his home, which is in the north- castern part of the province of Kwel-chow, distant from here about ten days' journey. After visiting his home it is said that he will go to Chentow to see the Viceroy, and if he does we may not expect him here much before the Chlua New Year, as the Journey will occupy forty days.
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Mr. Grirawood's book catitled "Three years, In Manipur" has been published. The authoress pronounces so oplatos on the cause of the dis. ster in Manipur and refrains from making any barges or insinuations against anybody con- cerned, either living or dead. She portrays the The Standard states that Lord Sallsbury character of the Jubraj very favourably.
ambassador in London, that, though he is unable to fix a date for the British evacuation of Egypt, he is not opposed to opening up negocia tions with Turkey for the conclusion of a con- vention regulating affairs in Egypt.
have received starting confirmation, and if the this pump can again ba got to work two other a number of people wishing to leave Newchwaeverkad gentlemen seem to be men of but few has intimated to Rustem Parba the Turkish
Chefoo, November 28th, 1891. Our last steamer from Newchwang is the German steamer Augustus; the latest vesicle from Newchwang had to come away without their papers, but these, no doubt, will drop la overland by Customs courier in due time. Quite during the winter seasou have been ". they couldn't communicate with the steamers and had simply to remain behind. A number of native craft were in distress, and signalled for assistance to the steamers, which, however, could render no help; it was a question of every one looking out for himself. One Foreign saliing vessel is reported to be endangered, the ice having partly broken the wooden plauks away, and more or less laid the timbers open. The ordinary fras buoys had been removed and ware replaced by wooden spar banys on the bar, as is usually the
case during the winter. The Newchwang light ship bad crossed her yards, and was ready to sail for the Yangtze, where she is to replace the resha light vessel, which is to undergo her usual overhaul,
When the last steamer from Newchwang river arrived here, there were still three Shang- hal steamers agrund on the bar, outward bound; it seerns they had got a little too far to the eastward, owing to the spar-buoys being somewhat obscured. On the 22nd inst. no less than 13 vessels were making tracks" out. wards; some of them with inward-bound cargo still undischarged, and others certainly with not a single particle of outward-bound cargo on board, which is a great pity, because there Rre still lots of outward cargo awaiting shipment. The possibility of another spell of milder weather is by no means excluded, but even under the The Dell Courant of the 18th instant stater: most favourable circumstances there would pro- At a meeting of the Silinda Tobacco Com-bably be no lighters available to ship or die pany, which was held recently, it was decided charge cargo. to put it into liquidation, and the directors were accordingly desired to arrange matters,
DELI AND ACHEEN NEWS.
movement, whatever it is, turns out to be really Raub Syndicate jumps, each of 3,000 gallons as extensive as it is said to be, It is by far the capacity, and one of the M. P. P. Co.'s, say 6,000 most serious difficulty which the feeble Peking gallons capacity, have been put on to cope with Government has been called upon to confront this water. Thess driven at their highest power for many years past. That there is some distor may be taken as equivalent to 14,000 gallons per bance tool up North there can be now no longer hour. It is hoped the extra pumping power any possibilty of doubt, but that the reports will clear the shaft sufficiently to enable which have reached us so far as to finex cosive them to be worked in two or three weeks, soon as the main pumps in the next are accurate, and without exaggeration, is Then, as still we believe, open to question, There is also shaft begin to suck, the task of freeing the great uncertainty as to the exact location of lower part of the mine will be quickly accom, the alleged, outbreak, but the oplalon which plished. With the flood water a considerable finds the most general acceptance is that it has amount of debris has been carried into the shaft, taken place in the district of the Stingking which will give trouble to clear away but the province immediately to the northwest of New-work is simply one of time and expense. The chwang. The most direct information we have annoying part of the occurrence in that so soon Is an official telegram received here on Saturday after one flood has been cleared another should evening from Tientsin, stating that a rebellion come, and further delay work, because, though north the western lode is untouched, being some 70 had broken out about zoo miles in easterly direction from Peking, upon which place feet above the level of the Hole, the latter. the rebels were marching; that 6,cos. Imperial workings, furnishing rather less than half the troops had been despatched against them, and stone for the battery, yield considerably more that these were defeated the capital and than half the total gold obtained, Natural Tientsin would speedily be in a position of the drainage will not take down the water more gravest Jeopardy. Subsequent news stated than five feet below the surface in the Raub that the rebels had defeated a force of 4,000 Hole, so that the smaller pumps alone have Imperial troops, killing 700 of them, but it is to be depended on at first. very doubtful whether an engagement has actually taken place. Another statement to the effect that the reb.ls have massacred 400 native Christians In Kin-ckow, a town at the head of the Liotung Gull, about 40 miles north-west of Newchwang, unbapplly, is received with more credence. Considerable anxiety is naturally felt
This is the proper time for mounted bands of for the safely of the foreigners at Newchwant,
robbers to be playing 'old Harry' In Manchurle; who are practically cut off from all means of
At a general meeting of the shareholders of the numbers mentioned are always absurd. escape during the winter months; and the
the Sumatra Tobacco Company, it was also The numbers of Imperial troops suppored to steamer Feilung, which arrived here to-day decided, by a majority of 78, to put its affairs have been killed far exceed the number of men from that brings word that there is into liquidation, and the general manager and on the lists, or ever accounted for in the Peking general apprehension among the residents directors were asked to wind up the business, for Gated. The wild rumours about the rebellions there, at the rumours that are constantly coming which service a sum of 2,000 f. was voted. In Manchuria are about equal to another New. In from the surrounding country.
According to the New Rotterdam Courant. chwang cock-and-bull story, brought by a late reported that the British Consal there has been urged by the residents to ask that a gun-all the funds of the Pietersburg Tobacco Com-stemer, of zo sudden frost, enough to make boat should be sent up, but it is not known Pany have been seized, and there will be a the ghost of the late lamented Fahrenheit feel
not. The story meeting of shareholders shortly to decide as to chilly in his grave. Shanghai Mercury, whether he has done
lis liquidation. current among the natives at the port is
NANKING. that the rebels are coming into Newchwang to obtain arms and food supplies; that they do Det latend to molest the Foreignas, but that they will either kill or scire the Tactal and other officials. If, on the other hand, the move ment has origlanted where stated, and if it be true that the rebels are marching on Peking then there need be no apprehension for New. the chwang, for the rebels are already well to westward of. It, and still going in a westerly direction. The story altogether bears., many
From an officis report, lately issued, we find that a number of applications for Javanese coolics, for British North Bomeo, have been refused by the Netherlands India Governmen', although backed up by the Governor. The reason given in the large percentage of deaths on estates in the territory of the Company,
Quite recently the British Governor repented application, and requested the Netherlands India Government to alter its decision, but the
the
latter has refused for the present.
Off the Assinan coast, a tongkan has been
from it.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT)
NANKING, November 26th,
The long-expected day fixed for the capture of this city by the rebellionist Ko-Lao-Hwat faction, has come and gone, without a raffle on the calm surface of the sea of passing history, to indicate that the storm may soon burst upon us with all its fury. Doublies, the vigilance of the officials in the Yangtste Vatter, in dealing with the would-be rebels, has had the effect of
As far as I can learn there has been no progress made in the way of seitling the Ta-chu. brien difficulty; the officials are exhausting all of their resources in trying to get the better of the missionaries. They want to draw up a written agreement setting forth how they will settle the matter; their sole object is to have a document to send to Peking for no other purpose than to delay and bambug the priests. They have repeatedly declared that they were anxious to settle the case and have been hurried by the Viceroy to come to x settlement. The words and averse to long discussions. All the satisfaction the officials get to their numerous proposals is: "If you have been ordered to settle the affair, go on and do it. Panish the rioters and make it safe for the Christians to return to their homes and then we will discuss money thatters." There does not seem to be the slightest intention of panlihing anyone, promises to foreigners that they have never kept, Chinese officials have lied and made so many that now they. will not hesitate to promise almost anything, and trust to their ability to worry them out with delays and incessant, prevarications.
LATE TELEGRAMS,
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ST. PETERSBURG, November 13th. The beat stocks in Russia are dangerously depleted, and it is probable that the country will have to import wheat next spring. The famina is daily growing more acute.
RIO DE JANEIRO, November 13th. The report has reached here thatthe insurgents in the province of Rio Gronde do Sul have routed the Government troops, and are now advancing Northwards.
MOSCO, November 13th. A plot has been discovered here to revive the ancient Representative Assembly. Sixty arrests have been made incieding nobles, Hierate, and bourgeois.
BRÁLIN, November 13th. - Herr Mass, the Berlin banker, has confessed to embezzling £20,000 of his client's fands, including money collected for the memorial to the late Empress Augusta.
LONDON, November 13th. The deaths are announced of the Hon, Lewis Wingfield and Professor Moseley.
[The Hon. Lewis Strange Wingfield was the brother of the present Viscount Powerscourt and was 49 years of age, He was a great authority on Art, and as art-student took a leading place. One of his faicat undertakings was the lenigning of the dresses &c, for Mrs. Langtry in "Cleopatra" at the Princess's Threatre In 1889, The deceased was also a capital actor, and shone conspicuously in his Varslty A. D..O. In the first half of the present year Mr. Wingfield took a voyage to Australia for his health, but the good results which he expected from the trip
did not follow.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13th.
The Treasury purchased to-day 674 000 ounces of allver at prices ranging from 91.70 to 9495. ST PETERSBURG, Nov, 14th." In competent quarters here, the coming of the.
Prince Ferdinand. It is announced, has formally denied that it is his intention to renounco the succession to the throne of Roumania. It is also stated that he will shortly marry an Engilab Princess.
The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies, having the matter in charge, has
dramatic censorship for three years. This action agreed to report in favor of suspending the
is in the nature of an experiment.
Tennyson's new volume of poems will be more varied than any of t's medecessors. It' will comprire the "Hellenic Legend, Oriental Tradition Humorous Patols, Idyl and Stories of Brigand life in southern Europe."
The Government of India has determined to. Despite a temporary improvement owing to erect a monument at Manipur in memory of a favourable bi-monthly settlement la Paris, tbe Mr. Quinton and his companions, who were European Bourses are very uneasy in conse-massacred. A tablet will also be placed, with a many of the chief states. quence of the shaky condition of the finances of like object, in the Cathedral at Calcutta,
November 18th,
A bulletin fasued last night states that Prince
·George of Wales is progressing favourably.
The statement published yesterday by the Standard, that Lord Salisbury had intimated his willingness to open up negociations with the Porte regarding Egypt is incorrect. It is stated on authority that the Premier has made no such intimation.
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France possesses 1,100 mineral springs, of which over one thousand, are made use of in France.
Melbourne has just completed her splendid system of cable roads, about eighty-five milles in
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Some one has discovered a book in Dublin with the words of the Masriah as sold at the first performance in that city in 1741. It shows that "He sball feed his flock" was taken right through by one volce, the contralto, who wa Mrs. Cibber.
The royal family of Russia has been thoroughly educated and the education of Russian chi'den is said to be conducted in four languages-the native, German. English and French-which- they learn to speak fluently. The Cxar speaks English remarkably well
Biraheviya Vidimosti ol St. Petersburg predicts a gold panic in Europe in consequence of the bad crops this year. According to its calculations the European c-untries will have to
purchase grain and other products in America to the value of $2,000,000,000.
Tanistas Zalewski, a noble Pole, hat Just died at Bordeaux, his birth certificate at Warsaw showing that he was born in 1770. He was a
Mme. Annie Marie Mazzini, of Milan, has been announced as a candidate for Paillament by her party.
Natives or South Africa are building a tele-eat smoker ? and an amateur in plpes. His graph line across Mashonaland at the rate of emory was clear to the end of his last year,
his one hundred and twelfth, three miles a day.
Great Britain all pushes her claim to the ownership of the valuable mines in the easter portion of Venezuela.
The Duke of Fife is rapidly selling his estates in Scotland. There are weekly sales of large tracts of his lande,
A lad of sixteen, deer-stalking in Caithness the other day, performed the extraordinary feat Oscar Wilde is decorating a room in Mrs. of killing two stage with one shot. Langtry's magnificent ne house, in which hand- painted fans are the dominant feature.
Ordinary peat has been for some time experi mentally used by the Vadslen.Oderhogs Rail way in Sweden as fuel for locomotives,
The directors of one of the principal railway companies In Great Britain are considering the proposal for the entire removal of the class
bygdem.
Forty-five years ago there were a half diten- men who made "books" on 'the Derby alone for $250 000, and as late as 1856 a bookmaker bet in one race. In 1843 the owner of the Derby. $500,000 to $5,000 against each of three horses favorite backed bim to win $750,000,
The first man killed in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 has had his memory honored by a monument which has been erected near Worth. Singularly enough, he proves to have been neliber a German nor a Frenchman, but an Englishman, who was with the German Army.
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district where the outbreak is muid to hava occurred in sparsely populated by nomadic people, and it is difficult to understand how an army of 40,000 strong could be assembled suddenly and without warning. Another argument has been advanced to show the impossibility of the field
The Opium Farm in Dell, exclusive of Beng- kalls, has been re-let to the old farmers for one year, at rental of 145,000 f, a month;
According to a Batavian correspondent of the Locomotief, some changes are in progress as
And that is the difficulty of supplying the rebels has received an autograph letter from the Gover
may be the blanders of some, who were cen- nected with the picts, and plans, have "burst the ball.”. Any way, they seem not to "ma terialise on any of the dates fixed for action and so we begin to lose faith in the whole movement. However, we are reminded that
believed that the story originated in unauthorized
VIENNA, November 14th. statements by Afghan traders,
Count Kalnoky, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply to the Hungarian delegation, said that he had received positive assurances from all
expressed by the Marquis Rudini and Lord Sallebury that there was no prescat ground to fear that peace would be disturbed through the unceasing armaments of the Powers, and the increased facilities and possibility of war. Count troops on the Austrian frontler was' still being Kalnoky added that the movement of Russian continued.
LANDON, November 15th,
the Saturday following.
Jerusalem has again become a Jewish city, since 30,000 of the 50,000 inhabitants are Israe- iites. Jewish agricultural colonies are on the Increase.
T. P. O'Connor was asked on a Friday week handed to his work of fifteen thousand words on No wonder that Persia is poor. The ruler of the land of Old Omar" has an annual salary. of $50,000,00. As yet the people do not know enough not to pay it.
It is said that during the attempt to cut the ounces of quinine were used annually in com bating malarial fever.
at
A census taken in Liverpool the other Sunday
the various houses of worship showed that 63,000 persons attended church in a population of over half a million.
The Duchess of Marlborough has had an elevator placed in her county seat, Blenheim, Both she and Lady Askburam also have clera- tors in their London houses,
being taken by a rebel army at this time of year; | regards Acheen, The Governor, Colonel Fompe, it is the unexpected that always happens," in quarters that no aggression was mediated by with food; but it must be remembered that the nor-General which, says the correspondent, "he spite of the reassuring aspect of things, at any of the Powers. He agreed with the opinión | canal through the Jathmus of Panama, 200,000 Government possesses a good many sice depots won't put
it up to the looking-glass." This report present, In this region, and these, it is to be premised, corresponds with another communication in the
The military examinations are nearly over, will be the first places the rebels will capture. Tava Bode, which states that a different policy. As the candidates are examined in batches, they The story about Li Hung.chang despatchings about to be adopted, which will change the are gradually leaving the city, and are not likely 6,000 troops against the rebels is improbables troops getting more frequently, at close quarters to remain in great numbers after passing their Li is said to have 30,000 of what is supposed to be the flower of the Chinese army at his call with the enemy. It is a pity, says the water, test, During the past few days several ladies that the Governor seems acting on the childish have returned to the city and the remainder are and if the movement were really of such vast advice of his aide-de-cams, Major Niewenhuyzen, with the usual joyous and devout demonstrations. expected soon. Thanksgiving Day was celebrated dimensions-as-reported, the Viceroy of Chibli
in refusing to place Eurasians in positions of would never think of opposing a poor 6,000 to high authority, and quotes the name of Karel of feeling and no more patriotic citizens of the the fall tide of the rebellion,that is if he were van der Heyden, for whom the Achiness have a "land of the free and the home of the brave, senily anxious to check it, and had that, num wholesome dread, ber of soldiers. Altogether there are many in! 100) consistencies in the various reports, confirmed as they are more or less by official despatches from Tientsin and, although it seems certain that extensive rioting le going on in Manchuria, it is not at all certain that it will not turn out to be somewhat of the same character as that which took place recently in Fokien
province,
Slace writing the above we have heard another version of the story, which, howeYOT, WO AID afraid, somewhat minimises matters. It is that the whole trouble was caused by a borde of banditt, who seized a small station about 200 miles from Newchwang, and the local officials went down to Newchwang for military assistance
One thing, however, seems to be certain, that LI Hung-chang has been concentrating troops and that he has despatched 6,000 of them agafost the banditt, tinters, rebels or whatever else they Mic: and Li is too sagacious an official, to take .::such a stop unless it were absolutely called for.
SERIOUS, FLOODING AT RAUB.
NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.
can be found than in the missionary community of Nanking. The guards of soldiers have hoan while at others they seem to have taken per. temoved from some of the mission premises, manent quarters in some neighboring house
A ́notorious. Iender, Wang Teh-pul, of the || Marcurs, Kolae Hui, has been captured in Ashul and sent to the Governor's yamen, under a-strong escort He is a Hupch men,
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Two quarels between the military students at Wuchang during the examination would have resulted in party fights but for the timely interference of the authorities. One quarrel was about horses and the other about picking up äach others' arrows while target practlilog,
CHUNGKING.
(FROM SHANGHAI "MERCURY" CORRES.
PONDINT
Bir M. Hicks Beach, in a speech at Bristol yesterday, hinted that Parliament was likely to to its full term and would disolve in 1893. It is nderstood that Irish Local Government casures will be the chief work of the next
HORSON.
Mr. Lambert, Gladstonian-Liberal, has been elected member for South Molton, Devon, by a majority of twelve hundred, defeating M. Buller, Unionist candidate.
PARIS, November 1sth. A
great strike has taken place amongst the miners in the north of France, and over forty thousand men have gone out..
ST. PETERSBURG, November 15th. A Russian diplomat; who bas been interviewed here on the subject of Russian movements in Central Asia, said he believed that, no, dégocia tions had yet taken place between Russia and Great Britain for the settlement of the Pamir question, but in any case a serious difficulty was improbable. He declared that a military cam- paign against India was impossible, as the obstacles were insuperable.
In consequence of the state of her health, Mrs. Besant's medical advisers have forbidden her visit to India.
Elaborate arrangements have been made by the Liberal party of Hungary for the celebration of the goth anniversary of the birth of Louis Kossuth, which occurs next year.
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Browning's organized devotees in London hawa concluded that their work of elucidating his work Is: about done; and the Society has voted to dissolve after this month's session:
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When Kicking Bear, of Buffalo Bill's Indians, went through St Paul's Cathedral the other day be examined the muskets on Wellington's funeral car and granted. Guzs no good i
A Holland Journal, De Klok, publishes an advertisement of a gun-maker, calling attention to a new kind of shotgun, very cheap, and "specially recommended to poachers."
Fily huge cheats ware required to transport from Greece to Berlin the superb collection of of the relles of Troy left by the late Dr. Schliemann to the Berlin Museum of Art.
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GODOWNS to Daddell Street. HOUSE No. 31, “WEST VILLA," Pok-id-lum Road.
GODOWNS OFFICES, First Floor at back BUNGALOW, "DELMAP," Yaw«ina«les. of "MARINE HOUSE."
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BELILIOS & Co. Hongkong, 5th December, 1895.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF for HONGKONG,»,
IN BANKRUPTCY.
A member of the Kolao was spreading rumours in Shashi, causing much disquiet to the inhabi..
Chungking, 16th November, 18917 tants; but he was captured and promptly There is nothing new or strangs here to executed, Tals severe messure, immediately Interest the outside world. The weather-yes, restored quiet in the community. There are no 1 may say something about the weather more exciting rumours bow.
upon the whole, the past summer bas been typical of Chungking summers,—not excessively hot and the nights are always cool enough to sicep comfortably. But latterly we have had such weather as I believe is seldom experienced anywhere else than off the coast of Newfound land. For over a month we have been baring con-
A late writer on social affairs in Iceland says tinuous cloudy, dull, and thoroughly depressing
there is not a single prison on the Island ; that weather. Slight rains have fallen almost daily,
MADRID, November 16th. such things as locks, bolts and bars ato unknown, Outalde the city of Hanyang a village culled and there is silil no appearance of a clearing up
The new Total, who has been expected here The Government has decided, in the interests and that there are neither watchmen nor police In Kiatan was completely destroyed in ons eight for several months, arrived yesterday. Concern of economy, to disband a portion of the regular men.
In the last annual report of the British Fost by fire. Of the 200 and more houses only two ing the Taotsis of Chungking, allow me to erect army of Spain
WASHINGTON, November 16th. Office it appears that of the $7,960,000 received The following telegram addressed to Me remain. One life was lost, while the loss of your article in the first of September's Lamber, Bibby, dated Raub 24th November, was received cattle and provisions is very great. The people which is not altogether in accordance with the The Treasury purchased to-day 409,000 ounces in the Money Order department from foreign are homeless and camping out in fields and on facts of the case: These are as follows: The of silver at prices ranging from 94.50 to 9470 countries, there came from the United States in Singapore the same evening.—
$5.580,000, Great damage capsed by food. Dam islaides, which in this severe weather is some-Tantal that the Viceroy charged with incom- cents,
November “ A new naphtha spring of immense capacity petency was E Taotel, who is a Mancin, and
It is announced that the liness trous, thich was recently ophaal in Bakoo, on the Tregled N having passed his lust examination ine carried away, Raub Hole is full of water thing terrible to think of
was appointed to this place, just after the late Pamps lost. Whole swamp flooded. Rainfall
slots; he has held the office up to last fali. His Prince George of Wales is suffering is typhold grant. If it continues with the same power as 31 inches,"
character is that of an easy-golog official, very fever. Be
Fat present it will be the richest naphtha fountain fond of his own and other peoples' women, and The Princess of Wales is hartening home from In the world, wo
London Truth's doll show is promising. not at all energetic in carrying out his official Russia to attend her son. duties. Under him the receipt of the Lakin tazen
Between thres and four thousand dolla-large, continued to decline, which did not please the
medium and small-are now in the hands of Viceroy, who got him removed. This took place
Indies who have promised to diss them for the Christmas show.
THE KINE DROWNED OUT.
The Dam Burst
The Directors at once telegraphed to the mine aking for further particulars and received the folowing telegram, dated Raub 9.15 km., ayth
FORMOSA,
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
Kelung, 24th November, 1891, The new Governor, Shao Yu Lien, arrived Byo wash and Criven quite unable to carry here on the sand lastant, early in the morning of water quickly enough) it ran over dars and per Hasmahlo Cast. He had telegraphed that Akun kores throughy walking away the postre i ke did not wish any roerption here, and he was | Inot fall, a few days subsequent to the surival of
Mr. Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, addressing a meeting at Dudley yesterday, said that Government was considering the question of providing old age pensions for workmen, but
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the Matter of CHARLES ALEXANDER TOMES, Intely trading with others-under- the style of Firm of RUSSELL AND COMPANY, it No. 9, Fraya Central, Victoria, Hongkong, and elsewhere Mer- chant, a Bankrupt.
TOTICE-The above named Bankrupt
hearing of the application by him to the Supreme Court of Hongkong for bls Order of Discharge stands adjourned to MONDAY, the 21st day of December, 1891, at ELEVEN O'CLOCK in the forenoon at the Supreme Court aforesaid,
· Dated this 5th day of December, 1891. 1477)
BRUCE SHEPHERDĮ. "Acting Registrati`