corupted by the introduction of Celestial civilization. I send you few impressions of what I have called "Chips," and hope they will "not be too dry to prove interesting:
Beyond the confluence of the Min and Yangize rivers in We term Sirehuen, (west of the former and north of the latter), there is a large territory known vaguely to the Chinese by
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1892.
ill the last moment, and in consequence wer swept away with the wreckage; but be it said of the boxtmen of this place, they will usually go to the asslatince of those unfortunate enough to get into the water, but when there is an opportunity for plunder the attraction is to powerful to resist, an instead of rescuing, the porr unfortunates are left to their fate.
The villages above here must have suffered been floating past, consisting mostly of houses, furniture, raits, trees, coffint, &c. &c, which the boatmen of this place have been Fusly engaged in picking up. In three dy the tiver rose from 50 feet in the height of 93 feet.-N. C. Daily News.
"NEVER MIND THE MAN IN
THE MOON.”
Fo-days Advertisements.
FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
HE Steamship.
TH
"PORT PHILLIP,"
the term "man-ir country" which is practication returned with one in possession, They considerably, as wreckage of all descriptions has that "Charity begins at homa.” When a man" has 1°C. Grey, Commander, will be respatched for
aland unknown,
Following the course of the Yangtze for a couple of hundred miles from the point of s junction with the Min, we soon leave the knowo and much travelled roads, for small, difficult pathways (courtery calls them roads but Courtesy and truth do not always meet, in China at least) through a sparsely populated, pletpres
country,
que
mountain heights,
VALO
PAOTING FU.
July 9th,
the mountains. This has made the fields look
on the 13th, and the Interdict against the taking of life, even down to that of a mosquito, has reaulied in only one little thunderstorm, and vast clouds of lecasts.” Home gods and plans having been exhausted, a deputatlon in charge of the Assistant Magistrate, was a. few days ago sent to a fountain in a hill some go from here, where some wonderful dragons are said to resido. Yesterday the deputa-
were met at the entrance si the city with kotows and incense by all the officials from the highest to the lowest, and the wonderful dragon (carried In porcelain Vase, and to a foreigner's eye looking very much like a small lizard almost inches long with a square head, black back, and | red belly) was carried in state to the North Gate of the city. Here the vase was deposited on a Here the old, Yangtze, still a respectable table in an open space. What Is the next thing
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.), stream in polat of size, frets along its restless in order, stems to be a little doubtful, but one course, dammed in by rocky cilfs and steep gerbose is to be dropped into the vale. This report says that on a lucky day, a little powdered
A few days after my last was written, bead A poor slagmaal peasantry find it difficult will either so anger or frighten the dragon tain "fell at the provincial capital, and apparently tak to make a living off the reluctant soll. that he will suddenly expand, break the much more went around to the westward fato Msize, wheat, and other small grains are grown Vale and fly away to heaven. His sudden on the mountain sides, while some sugar and flight will cause a mighty down-fall of rain. Bet gree, and raised the water in the river to the ries are raised in favoured spots in the scasly what if nothing of the kind takes place, and the navigable point. It is remarkable that although valleys
poor lizard is roasted to death in the hot son ? it has been en dry till very recently, we have Coal mining is an important industry below Well, that is just because the officials were fack. heard no " evil tumours" in connection with the Plog shin-memorable as the scene of Capt. Ing in some important ceremony at his reception,
erection of the we buildings-ona a large chapel, Blickiston's struggle with the Chinese authorities No amount of rain can now help the rice, is the other a dwelling house-by ibe American In the early days of Foreign travel in Inland having already died in the beds. The locustsMission Board this summer. When the hospital China. The rrde opening that server as the have visited us in vast swarms, but the only buildings were ciccted a few years ago, two men mouth of the coal pit, is often a long way up damage dode was to eat the grass where same gelag along the road were verheard to say, the mountain side, in the face of an almost foreigners pastured their caws. The Chinese they do not want rain; there will be no reln till the much needed rain at once, is to, tear down below, in which the cost is carried to the plaubern the good and the bad.
these buildings." Excepting a few such remarks of consumption, the miners have constructed an Aerial track, by stretching two parallel rope:
as this nothing serious was beard. There ap from the edge of the, river to a platform bulit at
pears to be a thoroughly friendly feeling towards the entrance to the mines. The ropes, made of
Protestant missionaries and their work. This is bamboo, are about three faches in diameter,
perhaps attributable to several causes--the care the missionaries have always exercised not to fairly taut and easily worked. A block of grooved
run against the prejudices of the Chinese when it woad is fitted to each rope, and a basket attached to each block; these are connected by a smaller
could be avoided; the influence of the medical work, and the liftude of the Viceroy. There is rope which works round a windlass at the
the fact at least, that from the first, the relations upper platform, where a boat is to be filled, the coil is loaded into the basket which is aí tog,
between the Chinese and the foreigners have never been seriously unpleasant. · and then sent splening down the track. As the fall basket descends on the one track it draws up the empty out on the other, which in its turn Is filled and sent down, so il gver on að lík, familiar nound in this district. In other places and the whining of the running baskets is a
where the hills are not so steep the coal is drawn from the mine to the boats in baskets not on
Don't worry your brain about tha mau in the moon,
But tudy the man în your own suit of clothar. If every individual pemon took the best possible care of himself, institutions of obarity would soon go out of fabion. There's a deal of sons is the saying got to rving or drown, he will at least makan laudable effort to swim. Perhaps wo
we coddls one another too match. As in an army, so in society we depend individually upon the commander and the multitudo." Te's a bad thing, because it induces a man to trust to lask and to numbers and not to his own curage and wite, Consequently, when trouble camos, it finde us not ready, ignorant how to fight and conquer it.
For example, berd
our good friend, Mr. John Wükinson, of Norbury, Whitchurch, Sakop, who not long to mid to an acquaintances "Lad, i am done for Why did he think so? Because the doctors had giren blm up to dle of consumption. Enough to soare him if he really had consumption.- Bat did bot Ah, that is the question.
He tells his story thus “I come," he ari, ** OF strong, healthy family, and up to the spring of 1885 x well I could lift, ran, and jump with war one, and walk thirty miles a day with sise. About April of that year I felt something noming over mat which gradually fastenad
any
dull, Feary, and tired, upon me. At first I felt.
alaking all-gons senas tion si the pit of the stomach, and In the side
pain and between the shoulder-blades. My akin grew allow and the whites of my eyes were tinged with a yellow colour. I had foul taste in the mouth, In the morning. My month and teeth were covered Buid came up from my stomsoh "Into my mouth.
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the above Poria, on SATURDAY, the 6th inst, at Noon..
This Steamer has good Passenger accommo dation and has still rohm for a Gentlemen,
For Freight or Pasage; apbly to
DODWELL, CARLILI, 8.€6,
Agents Hongkong, 3rd August, 1897.
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THE following NOTICE has been issued to
Shareholders,
THE PUNJOM and SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED.
Connaught House, Queen's Road,
Hongkong, th July, 1891 Sir,-At the General Meeting: of THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COM PANY, LIMITED, held on the 10th day of June, 1893, and the 5th day of July, 1893, respectively, the following Special Resolutions were daly passed and confirmed respectively :--
perpendicular cliff. In order to reach the hosts ¦ fagi le iscist king is very careful to distinguish these buildings are finished—the only way 10 get perficwith a think "slimo,” and a this watery. 1.-That it is desirable' to reconstruct the Com.)
Was having delightfully cool weather for this season of the year. At this, a 'p.m., the thermometer is standing it 86° fa the shinde. The sun is hot enough, of course, notwithstand. ing the good breeze that is blowing.-M. G. Daily News:
KIURIANG.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
July 14th, 1892. of Mr. J. Pastane, Chief Engineer of the Talwe;
·News has come to hand of the disappearance
it is a great shock to those who knew him, for he was well liked. It is thought that he committed suicide by throwing himself over board; it was at first reported that he had shot himself just after leaving Woosung and that his
said that trouble had caused him to do away with himself. It is hoped that his remains will some light thrown on his be found and disappearance.".
My appetite failed, and what little food I managed to cat gara me great pain. had a tight fooling at my chest and round both sides, as if I was
bald S vion, and I got weaker and weaker and vary low in spirits. There seemed to be no life or soul left in
in me. *By-and-by I began to
to have hoking
cough, which made me lowe » del of sleep. Indeed, I esald not rent at night on account of it. I would lis awake all night long coughing and spitting. As time went on I became so reduced I could arooly ge about. When I did venture outdoors I had to be constantly stopping to rest na I walked along the lanes, for fear of failing. "I tried all kinds of way I dngrod on for six months. All my friends getting relief. In this miserable and neighbours thought I was breaking up, and was not long for this world.
2.
pany, and recordingly that the Company be Wound Up voluntarily, and that A. DVD.
GOURDIN. Esq, be and he is hereby appointed Liqulfator for the purposes of such Winding Up.
That the sild Liquidator be and he is hereby authorised in consent to the registration of A new Company to be named THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, with a Memo- randum and Articles of Association, which bave already been prepared with the privity and approval of the Directors of this Com-
pany.
We had hoped to be able to get a sight of this doctor, but without of medicines, and was under the 3-That the Draft Agreement submited to thin
that the "Hallef Ancestors" is about completed. We now bear, contrary to former imformasito,
pile of huildings before leaving Paoting Fu, but there were "difficulties." A couple of days ago we had the privilege and the pleasure of visiting "The Lotus Curdens," the residence of the Chancellor. There are in these "Gardens"
wooden runners,"over a fülvly even track which body had been put ashore at Chinklang. It is Leraryxlepsivė rockeries, fine old trees of how my complaint come on. I replied I am dond
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several varieties, grottoes, ap irregular lake covering an acre of ground perhaps, while in the buildings are collections ef tablets engraven from tex's written by different Emperor for this place. It has been a fine place in its day, but is now much out of repair. Until recently the "k" WAT spring it was deepened, the ways opened so hat stagnat pond, this
the water flows at a very slow pace, which could hardly be otherwise on this plain. This ne cassitated the removal of the Lotus roots, and cause of much sickness. The whole place needs doubtless with the muck, the removal of the renovating, and might be made a lovely spot. There are, wisterias sald to be 6oo years old, and trees perhaps equally aged.
"One day a friend of mine. Mr. Thomas Hateman, gekooper, Marbury, wing me so bad, asked me for I shall never get well again, lad de
1
Then he said, "Don't say that until after you have tried Mother Saigel's Curative Byrup.". And he went on to tell me how this medisine bad oured him after
he
was as death's door, and given up by the doctors se being in a consumption. Bo. te lere nothing After taking three bottin all pain and sickness to undone, I sent to Whitchurch and bought the remedy,
me, I could est anything, and the cough and the spitting, as well as the pain in the chest, fest me, and
was a well mar
I
1 tell averybody how Mother Belge's Syrup sared my life, and you are at Uberty to publish my statement farder that other sufferers may know what to do.
Is kept moist and slippery by water sprinkled from bamboo tubes, carried by the men who drag the sleds. These men, who have a hard life of it, for the most part are strong lithe fellows, clad in simple coal dust and daylight, and get
·but a bare pistance for their days of slavery.
South of the great river where water carriage is not avaliable, one may see men, women sid chlidren engaged in carrying coal from the mite to the market, and may judge of the scife of remuneration from the fact thatthe coal is mined and carried for fifty Chinese miles over a mons. tain road, and then sold at the rate of one bundred and fifty cash per hundred cattles,
A poor district implies pour food. The way. side restaurants are thatched roofs reared on bamboo poles, and the fare is a choice between small dumplings of course wedertooked. This party arrives at such a place by seven o'clock In there for brenklist, guverner?" Dumplings and rice replies the keeper of the restaurant. "Gol any vegetables ?" "No there's DO vegeintles
The men at once start"a ap here, discussion
off the
them choice before The price and size Are Clevassed the scintive staying and filling qualities of and each, till ball decide on
wheat and hill on rice. Speaking of things culinary reminds me of an incident that occurred two days since, 18. such scule, but although there may ho be out at some kasons of the year, exceedingly - your own good Judgment, and on the reputation of a
steamed, poof black
after a twenty i walk over zough placea, "What
Arrangements are making, so it is said. for
(Signed) "Jom Wanarsson, Bloomskor, “Norbury, Whitchurch, Halap.” The ease of these two men, Bateman and
Hason, were almost identical in sympton and
To be Let.
TO LET,
WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
THE Large Handsome SHOP, No. 34, Queen's Road Central, lately occupied by Dakin Bros. of China, Limited.
Also, Two Large AIRY ROOMS on the Top Floor of above. : Apply to
DÁKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., LTD.,
Victoria Dipensary, Hongkong, 20d August, 1891.
TO LET.
TUSCULUM, MAGAZINE GAP,
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Nas, 2, 4. & 10. SEYMOUR TERRACE. No. 6, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, now
in the occupation of Mr. Au Atsck.
No. 4, PEDDER'S HILL,
Apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co. Hangkong, 2nd August, 1841.
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TO LET.
NO. 16, KNUTSFORD TERRACE, KOW-
LOON-END HOUSE. Apply to THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT & AGENCY Co., Ltd.. Hongkong, 19th July, 18ŋám
TO LET.
No. 4, BLUE BUILDINGS.
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FIRST FLOOR, No. 1, Blue Buildings, OFFICES-2nd Floor, Praya 'Central (lately occupied by Messrs, Dann. Melbye & Co.)
GODOWN, (under Messrs. Douglas Lapralk
& Co.'s Office)
મ
GODOWN, No. 1A, Blue Bulidings. SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES at Magazine Now, a & 2A, STAUNTON STREET (Corner of the Old Bailer).
No. 10, OLD BAILEY.
No. 8, WYNDHAM STREET (newly built houses at Lower End of GLINEALY),
"LARKSFUR, RICHMOND ROAD, Femished
Unfurnished.
Meeting and expressed to be made between this Company and its Liquidator of the one part, and the PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, of the other part, be and the same Is hereby approved, and that the said Liquor dater be and he is hereby authorized, far- uant to the provisions of Section 149 of the Comples Ordinance. 1865, to enter into an Agreement with such new Company when incorporated in the terms of the suld Draft. and to carry the same Into effect with' such (if any) modifications as the Liquidator. may think expedient.
the above Special Resolutions, THE PUNJOM
I have to inform you that, in conformity with
MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, has been litors perated under the Companies Ordinances, Hong- 60,000 Ordinary Shares of 14 each and 30,000 kong, with a Capital of $270,000 divided into Preference Shares of $1 each and that the Agreement (referred to in the third of each Resolutions) has been executed.
Your holding in THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIM bring Ordinary Shares and Prefer
entitled to, and I bereby offer you, in respect of
J
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT
& AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, gth Joly, 1892.
kntimations.
1592
SHIP-CHANDLERS, SAIL-MAKERS, F. Blackhead & Co.,
and PROVISION MERCHANTS
NAVY CONTRACTORS, & GENERAL COMMISSION Agents, No. 11, Praya Central, (Opposite Peddar't Wharf).
SOLE AGENT FOR
both aprehended "consaggion and for prisence Stares, you are under the Agreement RAHTJEN'S GENUINE COMPOSITION
planting still larger numbers of the mulberry, wierooks na though it was the policy of the leading industry of this part of the province. It hands.-N. C. Daily News is already farishing employment for many
Viceroy to make production of consumption, and
WENTSIN.
We have in the port a French and a United States gunbeat; these have come to replace the Fatral which bas gone on to Hankow, where "we hear sha will spend the summer. The continuous presence of gunboats of various 10 wonder what it all means. There la nationalities causes the natives to talk and
current conversation that the foreigners foreign trade, and establlab several concessions, intend to open the province of Hunan to
and that as opposition may be expected on the part of the natives the gunboats are here for the talk of last year revived, or only just at length protection of foreigners. This may be but the getting to the knowledge of the ordinary people not insisted on the opening of this bosile pre- vince and thus bearded the lion in his den. thing else to convince them that all their talk of This would have done almost more than soy resistance was mere idle boasting, and that they were powerless against the foreigners. It would laught the officials too, that they must bave foreign lands. It does not seem that there will behave in sitas barbulan manner to citizens of be any repetition of the outrages of last year on demonstration the spirit of willingness is not - some silkworms are raised. The silk is being absent, and when a favourable opportunity pre
sents itself there will not be wanting the men. Found from the cocoous Just now and in this
There seems to be more cursing of the foreigner process the grubia the cocoon is killed, and then
In the country now than at any previous time, and sold for food. Well, as we were taking a spell he does not seem to be in the least respected, Is of rest, a man came along with a basket of these
this due to the fact that all the riots of the last grubs and kindly made me a present of a dish,
year were allowed to go so easily? The ordinary adding by way of comment that "they are exire Chinaman does not know of any punishment on mely nourishing la the body.". I was willing to take it on faith, but when he generously added a the part of the foreign governments, and many little sauce and brought the chopsticks, what could have said to me that the foreigners are only a ons do but try ? so four of the "animals were des. very few whilst they are so great la multitude, through is anything but "stupid" or monotonous, oured when not wishing to be secondingenerosity that if thousands are killed off there are many more to take their place. They esteem at a very I walked over to the door and divided the rest between the colles, who seemed to enjoy the small value the prowess and ability of the man I was just congratulating myself on the muccess of the plan, when may large friend lacpity of such wanton self sacrifice beaped my dish fall a Becond time and left me thus, minus the excuse
fbat served me so well in the first instance,
from over the ocean.
· Ir
→
(FROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDENT.)
18th July. The trip by boat from Paoting Fa to Tientsin
spring when the trees are coming into leaf, and In the early autumn before the leaves have all fallen, and the harvests have all been gathered, thes leaving the ground a "barren waste," Much of the way the stream is lined with trees. and the banks green with grass. In the "lake region, as the file islets of made earth are very fertile and covered with vegetables, or cereals or the Indigo plant, or the wild reeds from which so much mat and basket work is made, the sall
There is no other direction inland from Tientsia where boating affords so much pleasure, or so much to gratify the eye.
Both
beppily emred by the same medio te cuts Handreds of thousandil Ah, the dreary, dreadful others, dusted sa they were, are there in this country i days
hara to pass through, right on the road to the prey, for unhaped they enter antaly dis !
Are you, who road this lines, ons of this suffering multitude or do you know any ons who belongs to ItWe sy but a word to you don't expect to get Well
| through waiting and ragualy hoping. Study the man in your own suit of clothes. Otherwise act on
[ddrí
Mo-day's: Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE
*HE Company's Steamship.
" NAMOA,"
Captain Roach, will be despatched for the above Porta, 05 FRIDAY, the 5th Instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Pastags, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., *!
| General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd August, 1892.
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But at this season, after the summer rains
have the journey. There is sure to be more or les begon, there is little pleasure to be gotten from
with driving rais and a leaky boat, one is likely of detention by rain, and if the wind is high,
Heavy rains (but fortunately a dry boat), were to wish the Journey had ended before it began. part of our let. For about two days of the THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP
amey, though presumably coming down stream, we were running against sometimes quite strong, of in almost still water, the result we were told, of the backset of the
Current
5 P.M.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY,
"ESMERALDA,”
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SHEWAN & Co
General Managers. Hongkong, 3rd Augest, 1893.
1785 HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF
AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
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the said Ordinary Shares, an allotment in the PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, of the sime neraber of Ordinary Shares of $4 each with $26 credited as paid up on each, and in respect of the said Preference Shares an allot ment in THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, of the same number of Preference Shares of $1 each with the same sum of Br credited as paid up on each,
to which you are entitled, or any smaller num ber, you must fill up and sign the enclosed Application letter and then forward the same, together with the certificates for the Shares held by you in THE PUNJOM AND SUNGHIE DUA SAMANTAN MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, to THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, BI their Offices, Connaught House, Queen's Road, Hongkong, on or before the 8th day of August, 1892, together with a payment of $. Share which is payable on application.
In order to obtain an alloment of the Stares
being the sum of Sfty cents per Ordinary
If no application as above mentioned is received from you on or before the Pib day of August, 1893, or so far as any appileation may not extend, you will be deemed to have relaxed an allotment of Shares in THE PUNJOM MINING COMPANY, LIMITED, to which you are entitled under the sald Special Resolutions and Agree- went fard to have abandoned your right thereto, and the Director will proceed to allot, or other. on such terms and conditions and at such times wise dispose of the Shares applied for by you
as they shall think fit.
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FOR
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"HERE vil bɛ NO COMPETITION on
Saturday, 6th August,
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Acknowledged by the sclantific world as the
The SHORT RANGE CUP will be shot for MOST EFFECTIVE DISINFECTANT
on SATURDAY, the 13th August. Rangés--r 400 and 300 yards.. - Tirao, 3 P.M.
ED, ROBINSON,
Hon. Secretary. Hongkong, zid August, 1892.
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surely unusual in this country, the other day, Your correspondent uw a thing which is
boffslo. As a rule they eat all cows and other and that was a crowd of people burying a dead Navigation of the river at this distance from The question with them is not usually of what the animals which meet with aviolentor naturaldeath. its mouth is difficult because of the many and very long rapids--we passed are said to be Eve animal died, suficient is R for them to know that # in length, and another flanked by an alarming they have enough and to spare for several good Whirlpool that seemed to enjoy the sport it had meals. I have seen them carry off with evident with our poor Unie cralt. We were knocked delight a cow which had died of disease, and the from side to side, raised on the creat of the leg of a dog which had probably come to its end zaglog water or thrown down into the acething dug a grave in the midst of a human cemetery river. At about 65 / from Tientsin, we began in the same way, -- But on this occasion they had
Water from the overflow of the Hun, or muddyTHE Company's Steamship foam, as we were rushing into a huge boiling cauldron very exciting-bat "distance lends and stand start stened to be encroached to meet with the devastation which this stream
decidedly.
upon to find room for the monster. I asked the afternoon as we were tramping alous reason for the burial, instead of the mal method bid wrought. Three days previously, we wireCaptala G. Tayler, will be despatched for the at the OFFICE of the COMPANY, Connaught
ho told, the fields were smiling in the promise of a above Ports, on SATURDAY, the 6'h inst, at the south side of the Yangtze we heard great of disposal, and was told by some that the flesh fine harvest. The ground was literally covered commotion on the opposite side of the river and
was not good to eat during this month, and by with growing gain, melons and vegetables. siw a group of peasants standing at the edge of others that the beast bad been a faithful servant But the Hun-he had suddenly burst its barks, the cliffs which line the river here, burling of the faully for many years and had brought and poured a yellow tonen! southward over stones down and shouting defiance at some men considerable gains to the owner, and that out of these vast fields' and' as we looked abroad keys below. A group of these latter, looking gratitude he would not eat him but give him **nothing but a waste of waters could be seen,
decent like two familici, were concealing themselves
barfal.
with her and there a villagt, grave mounds, THE The Methodist Episcopal Mission is erecting a clumps of reeds, er blades of com and collang. In the caven and clefts that effectamily sheltered them frees their pursuers. It appears that the 50s building in the city for their Fress, which will and trees to relive the muddy prospect. It was mockeys had invaded the sanctuary of a local be soon finished and ready to receive the plant, a great watery wave apparently that swept every 120l established is one of the caves, hence the stock andmachinery. This will be a great improve merable thing before ft; for its mark was left on enraged
come dowa to drive these
present place, which is altogether the trees and embankments three feet or more peasants had children of the wail from their ancient patrf three different places and the work carried on to the depth of three or four feet; in others the too small, so that the plant is scattered in two or above the then level. Some fields were covered mony denying to them that "ially of tenure at a great disadvantage. The new building will which according to a certain modern political | give ample space and more work will be do people were wading about in the mud and’water Cents per Share) for the Six Months ending Creed' interes in long continued maidence This enterprise is only a litle more than two could save from the sudden flooding. Asking if gathering their half ripe meloni,—about all they in one place. However the monkeys no doubt won in the end, for though in the years old, and yet in that short interval it has there was he remedy for this, we were told that popalar oploten the Chinaman is peculiar for grown to vary spectabis proportions, and is an twenty years ago, they sold an entire stop, either Ways and tricks of a certain complexios, yet important factor in the mission work. eves in these his eft" when matched with and Mimest all the bungalows at the Li hills are This change was caused by a canal dug by His
The Bungalow season is again in full swings of wheat in the summer, or of autumn products, both bays Inclusive,
now they seldom gathered an the wlly quadruped. "When Greek mert already occupied. The weather has not been Excellency La Hung-chang to shorten the distance What a happy little focident this was for the very hot so far, except for a very few days. between this and Fasting 70, This made ihem Every day almost we have bad rain and clouds, more able to inundation, and the banks of this native mind to exercise itself upon in medit which have made the weather much more canal placed them in a pocket which had no tive hours to the variation of the eternal cor endurable than it otherwise would have been. which now afford an exhaustless theme for all. The month most to be dreaded is August; then
proper outlet when once filled Formerly if the occasions. The idols protect the people-the monkeys offend the idols-the people punish the we get a succession of cloudless and intensely great wave came, it spezdily passed and left: the pocket held it..and monkeys. The great advantage of such a story hot. And oppressive weather Steamer officers some bing behind,
Fall else it held. isit in all application, but with their usual tons that we have the hottest place in all
At Tientale, the water is rising. It is over the defiance of legla and the necessary, laws of Chine. Whether this be me or not want any French bund, with threatening clouds towards thought, the Chinaman would only see a need ale do not want it any hotter than they can the mountains. If much morersin falls, we may
make it here.-N. C. D. News, for more "josa pidjin.”—Mørcury.
eally be flooded now, as we weto two years ago, We hear of breaks in various places between CHINKIANG.
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number of this couplet, those of us who hare not be removed in time out of the way of the
Wencktw met with a sad mocidant yitlerday In trying to turn round opposlie the Settlement. The current is very sulit, and in toring, the milder caught in the mud, which sent the wheel spinning round, killing fastantly, and breaking the arm of a:
wind. That there is some trath, fa'the first i were destroyed, especially those which could one quarterhe spokes of the wheel' were broken been heren few 'years are rather inclined to i zising water. It made sad havoo of shanties on All Reg
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