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LONDON DOCK TROUBLES.
LONDON, May 12th.
Tux exodus of Europeans from Rangoon stll contiones. The steamship Pegs recently took AWAY 75 European passengers, besides fire elephants and a tiger.
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Dr. Doblack says to-day “Weather overess', and warm with slight ralo." If we can belleve os own senses, the worthy Doctor must have been out lo's very strong sun. Or perhaps it refac "Highland dew."
We are informed that a report was current in Shanghal when the latest arrival here left that The Dock Directors deny the existence of any port, to the effect that "Soapy Jim" had obtalaci trouble beyond trivial disputes:
A billet in New Orleans. That city, we believe,
THE ITALIAN 'MINISTRY.
The formation of a new Ministry has been entrusted to Signor Giolitti by the King of Italy
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
FAIR-PLAY'S letter e Mr. Hastings, acting police magistrate, is unavoidably held over until Men- day.
THE Official Salaries question will be thoroughly dealt with in our next issue, No'space available to-night.
THE three big fires in Mandalay, and to bare been the work, of incendiaries, caused damage estimated at ton millions of rupees.
THE Italian ran-of-wir Curtatons arrived at three o'clock this afternoon from Slugapore, and salated the port and the Commodore.
THE Agents. (Mestrs. Dodwell, Carifil & Co.) HOT WEATHER DRINK. inform us that the steamship Energia left Sings. pare for this post to-day, and le due on or about the zoth Inst.
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We are informed by the Agent of the O.&O. S. S. Co., that the steamship Belgic, with malls, &c., left San Francisco for this post, via Yako. hams, on the roth inst.
Mr. Hans Bucher, of the Siam Pablle Works Department, died of cholera at Bangkok on April 20th. The deceased gentleman was a naitre of Zurich and 37 years of age.
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liner Bentawers were docked at Kowloon yester day. The Occidental and Oriental Co.'s steam- ship Garlic was towed over to the Cosmopolitan Dock this morning.
FOR stealing a cat and swearing he thought it was his dawg, a wiry-looking Tal-ping-abanite was this morning sent in shot drill, oakum picking and cell-scrabbing in the Arbuthnot Road dungeons--and all for the sake of Queen Vic.*
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ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels holsting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30a.m. on Sunday, to convey sen sabors to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30 pm Tuz Bangkok. Times of the 4th fast, says that, owing to the fatal case of cholera which occurred the previous Saturday morning at Messis, Jacker Sigg & Co's late premises, the extraordinary meeting of the shareholders in the Goldfields of Siam, lailted, was not held,
THE British steamship Torrington, 1553 toss, F. Chater for $33.000, after undergoing a purchased at auction on Thursday by the Hon. thorough verbaut will be employed carrying coal between Hongay and this port, for which trade she it admirably suited. We understand that the output from the Hongay mines will be wasy materially. Increased wliklu, the next few weekt.
We learn with infialte regret that Mr. L. Poesnecker, of Messrs Arabold, Karberg & Co., and Vice-Chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghat Banking Corporation, has left the colony, never to return. The good people (who but we had special reasons for desiring Mr. have made their ples") are all leaving us; Poesnecker's presence a few weeks longer, in connection with a matter of very serious Importance. However, we shall meet again somewhere.
Our Bangkok contemporary the Times reports that a Malaces trader named Valberg was to be that port on a charge of falsely and maliciously Imprisoning three Malays, recently, He took them with him up country, and at Pechin caused their arrest on some unknown charge, the result being that they languished in prison for eighteen days, with a lot of irons on them. Then they were released, and now they are prosecuting, Valberg.
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FOURTH NOVELETTE.
FRANCESCO FURIOSO,' A MYSTERY OF MagazṛNE GAF.
PROLOGUE.
Our esteemed morning contemporary mentiona that "to-day's issue of the Daily Press consists of six pages, or forty-two columns," which is modest, considering that they ared to say "forty- eight pages" But of these 45 columns, the only plece of work originating in the Daily Prass offics is a review, such as it is, of a book pab-CHORUS- Kished six weeks back, All the rest of the "x
pages, or forty-two columns," is padding, cribbed from other papers, and mostly unacknowledged.
It would appear that in the British colony of Victoria, Irish solicitors are quite an inferior class of article to the real Mackaykk. At Melboume the other day Messrs. F. G. Kearin and J. Lynch, solicitors of the Supreme Court of Judicatore In Ireland, applied to the Fall Court for admission to practise as banisters and solicitors of the Sopreme Court of Victoria: The Court reserved decision, which the Chief Justice gave en Aprili 11th, refusing the application, on the ground that the qualification necessary for an Irish solicitor was not of equal valce to the qualification now rendered necessary for a barrister and solicitor under section 11 of the Legal Profession and Practicas Act, In that Roman law, international law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence did not form part of the curriculum in the examlva- tion for soliciters in Ireland. This is the fitat decision with reference to the admission. of foreign solicitors to practise in Victoria since the coming into operation of the Legal Profession and Practices Ad, 1890,
Ar the Sanitary Board meeting yesterday, the position of Mr. Ladds was discussed, his repsei on the working of his dual occupation (public and private) having been circulated. Mr. Francis was not a bit satisfied. Dr. Cantile, sport of Mr. Ludds was adopted, with only two and Mr. Cooper. werd. satisfied, and the report
dissentients. It was, however, unanimously resolved,—" 'That Mr. Ladda' connection with the Dairy Farm Company does not appear to have interfered with his duties to the Board
My Missis and I live all alone, In a bonia at the Peak we call our own; Wo bava a dog all black and white, Which wakes the neighbours every night.
Wed
Tara-za-BOOM-de-ay | (Repeated eight times)
Our pet goes out on midnight prowis, And fills the atmosphere with howls; Then every man gets out of bed To heave the ment-aze at its head. ---Ta-t2-16-BOOM-de-ay 1 ----!~
When our dog meets another cur, The pair freeze on to each other's far, The diabolic din of fight Destroys the stillness of the night, Ta-ra-za-BOOM-de-ay 1
Then if I catch that other pup, I make him jolly well sit up!
I forcibly apply my shoe, And dust his facket with bamboo- Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-ay 1
I never hart my own dear pet, Nor scold, nor ile him up, you bet 1 But I liven up the other dog, Which has to skip like a jumping frog-
·Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-ay1
And if its owner comes around,`· Complaining how I treat his bound, I tell him he's a blanký llar, And he can go to Hellgoland- Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-ay!
And then I let him have his say— Until he looke the other way, When suddenly I stop the fun And bath his two eyes into one-- Ta-ra-ra-BOOM-de-sy!
THE COMEDY.
best friend was Sie Montague de la Barbe, who had soon become a prozperens merchant, with fects of gallcons and argosies trading under his direction to the principal Islands of the South te Montague kept close to his friend, and always Pacific, and to many countries nearer China, was ready to take up, Francesco the Fire-enter the cudgels for him ; and to any private difficulty invariably appealed to his sworn "pal" for advice or aid, and seldom found him wanting
Every man who thinks anough has in view some ultimate object to which he devotes his whole life. The majority of men never take sufficient thought to formulate this aim into words, and il asked would reply that they had more than simply to live and to makes the best not realised that they had particular object, of life; but all the same, their whole history shows, some one object, more or less consistently followed all through, even though unconsciously Francesco was a thlaking man, of a shallow sort, He formulated an object:-to attain all the wealth and power possible; but he was not suff cleatly profound to realise what his object really meant. As he followed it,
How It the means which came hand happened to be as they must be in almost every case-similar to the disposition of the man. In ille fustance, they were mean and anscrupulous. Thus his ultimate purpose' of self-aggrandisement developed into life's passion for injuring others, anybody and body, by any means and is every direction wealth, social esteem, Influence, morality, happ iness, all were alike the objects of his spleen. He did not intend to be renomous, and possibly did not always know that he was, but it always, worked round to that.****
readlest to his h
This bruta, meeting the other dog, naturally flew at it, and took such a firm grip of its est that it could not be pulled off, and when Francesco lifted it up, the two dogs rose off the of the other, like acrobats in a chenu ground together, the one hanging from the
a disposition to renew the fight. Francesco At last the two cars were parted, but evinced seized heavy bamboo from one of his attendants, and went to operate them in his own peculiarly persuasive way. Is the dias moon-light, the old gentlenian could hardly see
now passed three score years. for he had not Steeping down, be made out which of the twa quarrelling mongrels was hit owe, and forthwith the force of a sledge hammer, holding it down laid the bamboo on the other dog with all the while, and not allowing to escapa until he had well nigh killed it. Thinking this would settle the fight, the spectators were then leaving the two brutes, hat Francesco's pet, not having been beaten, and exulting in bis triumph over the other, made a second. furious onslaught. Agala Francesco separated them, and teking the dog which was not his, again deliberately belabouted the poor beast with all his force, until it howled miserably, and at last managed
to
Sir Montagua remated, in a fricudly tone,
as was fitting between such old friends, protesting that Francesco's dog, which was a nuisance to the neighbourhood, should at least have had its share of the puolabment, If moy at all was required with such a weapon; and that it was maiali and unmanly to do as Francesco had done, a
„That worthy'replied that he had not singled out either animal, but had fairly divided the honours.
"But, Holy Francesco, I saw you, I must believe my own cyar.hu
I did not intendonally beat either one dog more than the other,
One of the first to fathom Francesco's character aright, and the most bitter in denouncing him, was a man of vigorous, ardent, almost feverish tempera- ment, a man of strong friendships, and violent dislikes who spent his life in the keenest activity, even beyond his physical strength, so that men marvelled that the strain did Why, when first we chased the two fighting not break him up. Often was ho' warned | curs away from our guests, I saw you deliberately by his friends and by his own physique, sinop, is your semi-blindness, to choose out my the latter vigorous enough but sadly overtaxed; friend's dog for punishment. It was disgraces | yet he kept up the race at reckless speed, attack ful in
You le
g fag everything that came in his way with all the fire of too eager youth, and mistaken **Francesco, you are an old man, and an old cathusiasm. That he had not sooner broken, friend to me, but were you of my own age I down was passleg strange, but it was plain to would never allow you to insult me by that see that the fever-heat of his yet young life | word. Say no more, for I am grieved beyond would die, and that the heedless, sometimes drain poin helpless spur which he applied to his already
r it was the staff in Francesco's'hand, over-burdened energy was hastening the end. or whether it was bis dit, something suddenly however, he attacked caught Sir Montagusa vipient blow under the While he had stress with all the excess of] chin, and felled kim into the ditch, without the · Francesca's shady doings feeling that could exist between two such different slightest warning. The blends standing sta men. He, too, at times failed to comprehend all little distance could hardly tell, but they the evils wrought by too close devotion to his imagined from the angry voices and sharp cries altimate aim, and at times did himself much harm, that a hand-to-hand struggle, a.tournament, estranging friends, offending many against whom a circus, or go-as-you please, or something was he had no general grievance, and wasting his going on. Hastly they rushed down the road, on minor objects. On account of his and found Francesco standing with the bamboo energy determination, and also by a play on
pele in his hand, and the vallant Sir Montagua words, in reference to his bitterness of tongue lying by the roadside in dire distress. At once and pen, be was named "the Gaul" Heedles they stood between the two old friends, of all he kept on his course and the Jesuit, Holy made deadly foes by that sudden blow In the Francesco, had no rest,
dark; and with difficulty they restrained the fojured knight from forthwith Inflicting the punishment deserved and it would have gone vigorous victims "put up his dakes." bard with the old ex-marine had bls. young and
However, with the protection of a dozen wen between them, Francesco safely, Indulged his heaping course idvective on his head
Many times did these sworn foes meet in the hall of justice, and try their strength to the fall, Numerous minor conflicts they had, but only two great pitched battles. In the first, the cunning of the Jesuit was no match at all for the fierce analaught of his better equipped antagonist, hip and thigh. In the second meeting, with the "aubtlety of the devil” the Gxufs best astonishment and disgust of those around ; the friend
and supporter way waylaid, intimidated: Monte, Monte, are you burt, dear ?"—"Oh, my of the two parties bad intervened also- bribed, and altogether
that be great injury Instead of sted, so
racenuring the just cause j darlint Joseph, are ye klit entourely by the low bad-
Francesco the Fire-cater was smitten passion for abuse on poor 50 regardless of thã...
In the early days of European enterprise while the Jesuit's followers openly boasted that bingyard Pl Monte, speak! Where in your
wild, kring musle from our own particular during the last three month, but, in view of In far-distant lands, when adventurers of all ***** they would stop at nothing, fair or foul,: to injury, and what is it all about?while 1
chanter.
THE Scottish Oriental Co.'s steamer Legisk, Captain A Benson, dropped in here yesterday bile en route from Swatow to Bangkok vid Singapore, and anchored near Stonecutters Island. She was not expected here, so her sudden appearance gave rise to some speculation as to the immediate cause of her arrival. It was soon ascertained that one of her platon roda had given out, which rendered it absolutely neces- Ery to call in at Hongkong to have a new fitted. Chief engineer Tollock and his subordinates soon got to work after arriving in harbour and succeeded in having the latest addition to the Co's feet ready for ses this morning, when she sped on her way southward
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Mr. Ladds being an executive officer of the Board, the Board does not approve of his con- tinting his present connection with the Dairy Farm Company, but have no objection to his being allowed general consultant practice and to accept fees for each case as it arises,” · A serious case was reported by the Sanitary Superintendent, of a female Chinese leper Hving at Stanley, It was decided to arrange, ff possible, for her removal to the Canton Asylam, and to havaher house at Stanley destroyed, com fipensation being given. It was further ingannte
that legislation on the subject of deportation might be needed, but no resolution was passed, Fox cool, cast-iron cheeks Mr. Arnot Reid, editor and manager of the Singapore Straits Timst, not only "takes the cake," but he annexes the entire bakery. It was this young gentleman who year or two ago, when on a visit to Hong- kong, modestly claimed in conversations with the present writer to be "the only
Well, Mr. Ainot
the
men used thele, wils to restore quietness and.
off the approaching policeman. ~ That man, Montague de is Barbe, is a low blackguard i" mattered the veteran lawyer, in his excitement forgetting all about "Folkbard an Slander.
#That mac, Francesco, is a lawyer and a gentleman-by Act of Parliament, retorted the injured one, faming under his restraint, and barn- lagt
g to give his unmasked antagonist the practical lesson ha so richly deserved. Soon, however, be regained his self-control, and realised that he had reason to be intensely glad not to have. ho did not want to be knocked down any more lowered himself to level. Besides, that evening,
on the old P. & O. steamship (dow an "Upton paper man in the Far East Practical news Moorish. Armenian-Every race and every creed of all his real friends 3 20 MORE enial, It was binted in an uncertain sort of way.
ALAS! alas! Another 80,000 of the Hongkong. and Shanghal Bank's coin In jeopardy owing to the Yokohama branch of that great financial instituts having advanced $75,000, at interest, liner) Zambait. The $75,000 has not been Per paid, and the interest on it has not boun pald Bot belther has the New Oriental Bank's $115,000 been paid, andit may be doubted whether all thes sums will ever be paid, seeing that the Zambest will $1.20 not exactly fetch $195,000 in such hard times.
But that doesn't matter, of course, and is only
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crash the Gaul out of existence. Foul truly were 'nations were few and their adventures remark. the devices to which they'resorted ; but was of able, each man's life was a thrilling romance, no avall, A temporary victory was celebrated and each event therein was a historical land with much rejoicing by Francesco and his crew, mark for future generations, Vasco da Gama, but it was well for them that they made the mast Marco Polo, and their brother knights of of their little success, for it was o fshort duratio. medieval commerce," each attained renown and When an irresistible force comes in contact with an immovable body, the result is problematical, riches beyond the measure of modern days.
but when the body is heterogeneous and feeble, Not the least of these men, who by their energy and good fortune, rather than by education or the irresistible force continues unchecked.
One result of this last duel between Francesco great ability, rose from the ranks and justly camed the title, now so cheaply used, of and the Gaul was that the former, by his shady "merchant princes," was Sir Montague de la tactics and the outspoken malice of his walfour Barbe.
Babati fet of handy Hitle ships came out cas, lost most of as feve remaining friends, jure his and from Europe to the Far East, manned by a side. One by one his hangers on fell off, and miscellaneous collection of the restless spirit of dozen teft-hunters too parasites, whose main | to a small band of some half!! those days about the "Low Country low reason for adhering to him was a mistaken then in more senses than one-whence came belief that he still had some power, which they this expedition, English, Spanish, Italian, hoped to use. Sir Montague da la Barbe, for Flemish, German, Swedish, Portuguese, Jewish, old acquaintance sake, stood by him, the last one
'way a friend to be found; but the leader was an English- Baving. man, English to the backbone.
Arrived in the Gorgeous East, the little band of fortune-busters settled for a time, trading from port to port, establishing commercial marts is the flourishing empires of China and Japan, and carrying their wares to the distant fales of the Southern Ocean. Other companies of ad- venturers there were besides, among whom there was keen rivalry. Populous communities sprang up, with all the institutions of Western civiliss don-banks, wealthy companies of ship-owness, merchants dealing in all manner of wares ; each litle colony had its own government, its judicial and of course, its churches. In those days there was but one Church, for Reme was not in which the Gaul was temporarily worsted, extent, must be utterly stranger to the: ârst troubled much with heresy and dissent; but Fra-cesco summoned his pack of jackal friends principles of manhood. A thrashing might have since men can never all agree, there must needs to his mansion, to hold # feast on ■ fmall done Elan some good, but the quieter and more. be different bodies within the church of Rome scale" and, "discuss the next move in the dignified course of letting the disgraceful airle Domlalcans, Franciscans, Benedlesizes, Car game he was playing. Among these guests pass was more just to Montague: himself, to the
the } was; an @fmheofle Order of Jeans.
dies on to liny old minds kid fir Mentorgue,
more in my than was my head by the blow be dealt
to repair damages, prior to separating The two parties then went indoors again for the night. In the Francesco mansion great indignation was expressed that any man should dare to impute samanly conduct to the ancient marles and fire exting lawyer and to insist as it even in face of kli |
Once, when the ambition of Francesco had led that the younger man began the assanit, being so him to buy a large estate, which he soon found cowardly as to strike a person old enough to be. he could not fully utilise, and he appealed to Sir his father, Montague to help him out. Flattery and doen the Barbe damielle equal surprise and promises rolled off his ally tongue like fire water resentment was manifested at the unjustifiable "the one man in all the colony whom I would starsult and inselt, which, some wurged, must be be proud to have in my house, and much more avenged in becoming manner. Others, how- to that effect. Auxious to do what he could for ever spoke of the long friendship that had his friend, Sir Montague took the shanty over, existed between the two mer, and deprecated paying for it amply, and thas saved bis pal from any further step. It was agreed; that Sir considerable dificulty. From that time Fran Mostagas bad shown most magnanimous cesco was his constant companion, and hardly forbearance in holding his hand, and came a day prased without a visit, no close was the insmeared out of the air. All regretted to be
forced to the conclusion that Francesco, whom
Aren't they supposed to do some directing or Pesang, throughout all the Protected States of system, its playhouses, its scandals and frivolities | friendship between them at the combat they had previavaly respected, at least to some
something for the $20,000 per annum they draw for services (1) rendered? It doesn't look much 0.75 like it, but it will all come est in the washing by
and bye.
Woak on the Korat Rallway, says the Bangkan 75 Ziones, of May 5th, is steadily going abend. Between Bangkok and Ayuthin the earth work is 0.75 being thrown up, and two bridges have been commenced. A station is in course of erection at Bang.an, four miles out of Bangkok, and the Loo timber for nearly all the others eight altogether
-between there and Ayuthla, has
starting to erect a
One evening, not very long
In our Blagapore contemporary's columns. Now, thuslawn and that dangerous secret sociCS/AREA | hidePure SH PICU accipt, who from his; ladies and to all others concerned, ju!
me,
Reld may be the only live formalist in this quuter of the globe; but his work in the Straits Times, publication that rivals the Hongkong Daily Prass for duiness, and is only one degree more lateresting than the Amoy Gasstte, hardly shows and we are sadly afraid that such a claim would be generally laughed at here, at Shanghai and in fair Japan. However, here is Mr. Reid's latest exbibition of that exceptional talent of which he claims monopoly The Straits Times has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Asia, British India excepted. It circulates lo Singapore and the Malay Peninsula, in Slam, Borneo, the Netherlands Indies, the Philipploss, and French Indo-Chins. No other Eastera newspaper has no widespread a circulation." For some weeks past this choice bit of "bing," printed in larga; black type, has appeared in a conspicuous place
we deny the truth of the statements that the
Order of Selfsody boasted among its members Shylock like avaricoa aldanamed David Straits Timer has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Asia; British India excepted, and for rather possessed without boasting, for they the Devilfish. This character serves as an that no other Extrem newspaper has so wide-all dented membership openly, as though it were example of Francesco's friends ;* for David's
or by any violence he could manifest to mos spread a circulation," And we are prepared to dishonorable) some of the principal judges and sole anxiety in life was as to whether certain pro has is nothing but that he should insult his
Argot Beld is a gentleman of resistive Francesco, surnamed the Fire-eater, from his his own' de would have to be divided and for ing, and pay the friendship by turning like x.io station. There has been a deviation made from tendencies he is a director of the Jelena Mining ungoverable temper and his large mouth, was this reason alone he
mics past Agathia has been straightened, and so so that we shall not offend his moral suscept chequered, are tost Cereal fitnations by his advocate, learned in the law, but innocent carrantably began in the base jan the original plans, by which the line for about 20 Co, and the Malay Peninsula Frospecting Co. remarkable man, even among those men of of Francesco the Firezaten.mpanionship scorpion-it Loo much. And so the pillant
pork batcher Career Originally
Another of the magnate's guests was a young nicht wept bitter fears, and thought it best to let the unseemly row and where Francesco so ́by about two miles, besides golog blirlen by making him isporting offer. No by trade, C.75 through more villages. From 1,200 to 1400 deebt Mr. Arnot Reid will admit that Hongkong fscompetence. He wished to enter the Church bleating, cally good boasted, with Tatge staring
coolles are now at work on the line altogether, is in Asia, sed that the Hongkong Telegraph le but failed because he would not addit eyes, a voluminous mouth, and extensive feet That was not the end, however, as far as the 1.00 and more are being got from Hongkong. Some published in that famous Far Eastern outpost of the Fere to be greater than himself. For he whence he was commonly called Tot and eminent legal lights concerned; it was
100 were ready to leave Dell for Slam recently, the British empire. Very well then. The had ambition, and soon after joined the army of Mouth disease,Another guest also of the legal Moath, cace dropped his at
the beginning of the end. Mr. Foot-and- acqualatacco but the authorities prevented their emigration, Editor of this fournal will wager Mr. Amot the king as a private of marines; but finding that brotherhood, was a thin washed-pa (ndividual is hot potato, and the few others Arrangements are also being made Lor the Red the sum of $500-the loser to pay be was expected to work, and to sua some risk prematurely decayed, aibelt he made an effort, by
quickly Knight of the Stay. of Laos from Chiengraal, in addition 3250 to the Allon Memorial Hospital in of fejury to his carcare, he left the service, and daudified acctation, to hide the weained of followed suit. employment to the many natives now engaged. ralls Hoogkong and to Tan Tok Song's or came to the East on pretence of being a lawyer, his body and mind, further, weakened by datters round a waning lamp, but he also soon ca brom, in ordering Mue bottl for the first fifty.mlica have beco ordered from far that the circulation of the Hongkong | tongue, a brazen cheek, and a heart of sdamant teetotalismuttegre bad's large moustache, which died from the evil rescils- of his own folly, or Institution that may be selected in An nousually plausible, smirking manner, a gift deleterious cllime and too strict adherence to dissapeared entirely fronilew, Whether ke Sheffield, and the sleepers for the whole throgh exceeds that of the Straits Amar, marbled him to keep up the $50,000 altogether-contracted for. The laying of these will be commenced in two or thres Our broks will be at the service of any agent in with great success. Having little conscience. require all his strength to care?: His intimate as that sy in lunatic asylum, or retired Inte 135 0.50 motive and wagons will be put on, which will ha 135 0.40 months, and towards the end of the year aloce. Hongkong Mr. Reid táloks, fit, to) appoint, and naturally, he schooled himself to entirely dispense companions called him Staylaces, not fake obawy by mal relay ought to hide in
of course afford our Singapore repreen with that inconvenient superfluity by blossoming
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The wai hohl thinly, thatched e heads and the now dropia g greatly facilitate matters, as communication has tallre equal facilities This, we subalit, le as ostas: Jesult of the deeper dye, which was entertaining guests that rentfel algatad and handsome doorn at the entrance of his at present to be made by boat as far as Fake Frio, fair an offer as can be made, and unless it fe additionally advantageons to him in that i gave happened, both parties took their mouth, none knew nos felt any interest in know 1.00 Mr. Mitchell returned on Monday from a journey accepted, the only conclusion to be starved as him those secret powers and urdue influence Lea
leave about the same time, and met in the ing He had not enough "go" in him to get to the hills about half way to Konst, up to which is that the only journalist in the East either which the sples of Rome find ample substitute road. A dog belonging to one of Bir Montague's inte gaol, and most likely some too frisky terrier polat the jungle has been cleared in a straight lacks the overage of his opinions or has been for pecuniary emolument. His grasping, miserly party met one of his own species belonging wanted him to death mistaking him for a
150 feet so as to admit the air and indulging, at the expense of his lecal contemnature led him to aboss his powers to much on to Francesco and possessing, his master's wife for Holy Francesco the Fire cater, the
broad, light, and make it healthier for the cholles work porary the Free Frans, in a piece of unwarranted extent that he became universally detested, which malicions spirit without his musylty, of manser, cepit, the learned legal laminary his story bounce. But we will go step farther and he could never understand, as hevelled much on The lawyer's pet was known all over Cloudland faded and his fame was tarnished berend make Mt. Arnot Reli a special, inducemens to ble smug, complacent uthanity of bearing) but as a Tanomous beast, and had belonged in recognition Othalio's occupation's gone. bring him up to time, if he will offer us a none the less he was as little liked as a
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throug
yet, but that there is no other abstacle of unusual
I'importante." Everyone was mything but prosperity among the inhabitants. Telegraph has at least a one-third larger circata, ate seisabonas or his spite (and they were few with the greatest song fold imaginable, -Mr. P. Rohun, chief engineer of the Repsi tion than the State Timely and I be will lay: Indeedy Toowla Fonly-ble Insinuating fald sort of halmal was cedisently
Er good healthy and there, bera no indications of Fable water bo Uker LA BRIST SITE TAK Hongkong PUPA LAW OF VAN Calentar fasole 24 Would-sitatea Hunters iskakerit 300d
Railway Department," lek on May athi for: Zah) "what sporting papers term wa linia shot," we will. Fand his cerful Indiosco, remained kis, kianda, aginda, he was the only"; Rus, whence he will proceed to the scoth kilov hade the Tilegraph to he
V to have doush the circular attributi dhia, inpopulantry to the envy metre of the Railway, on a visit of inspection, ties of that papersky
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