Intimations.
GINGER ALE,
WE have always made good GINGER
ALE, and we are now making the best. At various exhibitions and competitions in London and elsewhere, GINGER ALE made by the formula we now use has won 32 Prize MEDALS
and CERTIFICATES of MERIT.
In 1840 competed and won against FOUR of the most famed Belfast makers.
The Analyst's report¿—
"it is of unexceptionally good quality.” "Particularly pleasant to the testo." "Decidedly tonic and sustaining."
"In every respect most extiufactory,"
ARTHUR HILL HASSAL, M.D.
The ideal temperance beverage.
DAKİN, CRUICKSHANK & Co, LD.
Victoria Dispensary, Queen's Road Central. Hongkong, 17th October, 1897.
bave just" received
ex Steamers "BENLEDI" and "GANGES" their first shipments of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1892.
THE AMERICAN, ELECTIONS.
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Shanghai, will preceed to Hankow, where she is to stay over now year.
.mall news until to-morrow.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s Royal mail camer Empress of Japan left Vancouver yesterday aftermon for this part, vis Yokohama, Kobe and Shanghai.
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dispute with the deceased about 100 cash which the prisoner claimed as being due to him from the prisoner. Whens was not in the house when the quarrel began, but went in there owing to what he heard. He saw the two men, who were unarmed, struggling together, Ultimately the prisoner got the deceased down and kicked him. A number of people were looking on but could not separate the com- batants. The prisoner, al hough 73 years of ago, was a much stronger man than decessed,
Mercantile Bank states that a large proportion THE German gunboat Wolf, after decking at of the shareholders supports their scheme of reconstruction. The subscriptions of new capital are satisfactory, and enquiry shews that recon- THEN P.R. Co's!camer Loosok, with American struction, is preferable to liquidailon.
and Canadian malis up to October 16th, arrived A BANGKOK Rice-Couise and Recreation Society te-day. Owing to pressure of space we are comis being floated, as a Limited Company with (Special Telegram to the Shanghai Mercury)pelled to hold over a large miss of interesting capital of 3000 cattles ($144.000) and Mr. Franklin Hurst as General Manager. The pro- motion of horse and pony racing, cricket, polo and lawn tennis, cyclleg, military tournaments and alare athletic sports and games, and the establishing and furnishing of a Club House are among the purposes of the Company; 95 acres of padi-land are to be raised, drained and levelled, and a race course seven forlongs long || in two nureiles of $ço ench. and 70 ft. wide is to be laid out. The scheme is well supported and ta per cent dividend' is anticipved, The totalisator is down to pro- duce $35,440, of which the Government takes
NEW YORK, 9th November.
- Mr. Cleveland has been elected President of the United States. [Renter will send this out rext week. It only happened a week ago, and only interests the whole world.]
According to a telegram received in Hongkong to-day by Messrs. Shewan & Co. the figures
are :-
Cleveland (Democratic).............376 Harrison (Republican)......... Weaver (People's party).............................. Doubtful
123
39
444
Both Senate and House of Representatives will be democratic.
H.M.S. Mercury will ba y lleved at the end of this man has senior naval efficer's ship on the Straits staion by H.M.S. Pallas. The Mercury will come early in December to Hongkong where she will be paid off and recommissioned her present crew will then proceed to England la H.M. transport 'Tamar.
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half,
IT is reported that the Government of India have docked the allowance of the ex-Amir of Afghanistan, Yakub Khan. Formerly he drew R1. 6,000 per month, and spent it. In future he Is to get only Rs. 4,000, and he will probably MR. S. P. D'Saura, the acting chlef clerk of the fall into the hands of the dunias, as he has Singapore Supreme Court, was cited in now. gathered a email army of dependents about Singapore on the 5b inst, on a warrant charging bim, at genial Debra in the winter, and delight-him with criminal breach of trust and deftanding fal Mussoorie in iba summer.
the public revenue. He was brought before the Magistrate next day, when Mr. Anderson, who conducted the case against the prisoner, stated that he had lald the internation on
The Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Officers
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action
In reply to bls Worship the prisoner unld he had no desire to put questions to the witness, and the case was then remanded 'until Saturday, the 19th instant, at 10a.m., ball belog allowed
THE TYTAM MONSTROSITF
ACTUALLY SEEN.
in size and bulk, in fact they are s∙ldom exactly equivalent in any twoi dviduals. Their employ ment for purposes of trade would open a door to continual frends and give rise to perpetual bickerings, which it is the offct of a 1ystem of weights and measures to prevent. Accordingly means were early taken to reduce them to some defialtely arcertained magnitude, which should. be general, at least for each neighbourhood. At first the terms employ:d for 1hrs purpose were almost es 10de as the errore which they wera designed to correct. In France, for example, every province under the old mon rcty had tis own system of weights, and fis own system of measures bath for leng ha, surfaces and capsdl- ties, quite independent of all the rest. Some
these standaids wert by diferent names in the different provinces, which occasioned considerable faconvenlince to traders, Sometimes the etandesdi u'ed in different provfaces and differing from each' ather in magnitude, passed by the same name, which led to still greater perplexity. In two st doc and Gascony (?). It was the custom which least of the largest provinces of France. Langu had the force of law that the standard of length in each seignoris or menor should be the arm of the seigneur for the tme being. In these diss.... tricts the death of a short reigneur, if succeeded by a son of six feet and with an arm pro- portioned to his length, would rain half the tracts, and make the fosture of the m:inde y[""
Mr. Stephen Grover Cleveland, the newly Mess, Murray Barracks, to-morrow, commenting owg admissions, and at present badged, thinking they were the guiding Bghts of two | traders, who happened to have outstanding con.
the
Valer
29 Macbeth “paanoo.. Hatton, Semitendo Resolni Stavu. ***Autograph", "Plantation
Reaction... Sanged by Kappy
March....” A Cartley Ruda "mum....Alice Upton..
him with criminal breach of trust in respect of $314, though it was believed that the actual amount was mech greater. It would be impossible, he said, to go through the books in order to go on with the case on Monday, and the case was accordingly adjourned until the 11th THE claim which was brought against the last. The discovery wis made, it is alleged, Straits Steamship Co; in the Singapore Supreme through the receipt by the Government of a let er Court for $2,000 damages in respect of the from a clerk in one of the lawyers' offices. Ap- steamship Sappho for alleged negligene Inparently the Singapare people are behind the by the cater Justice, Sir, P. Boill, without Act, know nothing of the "Vanishing calling on the defence for their evidence. His lordship in giving his judgment commented on the contradictory and unsatisfactory character of the plaintiff's evidence.
wanted" quadruped that evra Inspector The long-lost and at one time so greatly Quincey and a posts of constables were sent to bring him, her, or it lats town alive or dead, has actually been seen with the eyes of men to wit, constables Cameron and McEwen of Aberdeen, The former while patroling near the Paper Mill three nights ago saw what he took to be two bull's-eye lanterns at the edge of the scrub, and truly Sikh constables, shouted "All righ, sahib, anything up?" In a twinkling the lights wern extinguished, and no answer coming from the region of the scrub, the whole story of the savage brate that bad half eaten a child near Stanley flushed through the constable's brain. He felt his best hour had arrived and he therefore steered for the Station as quickl as his understanding would carry bim-be woon got home breathless and fervently thanked Heaven for his calvation. Two days Iater Constable 'McEwen was on the same "beat" at night and saw the same mysterious lights. He, too, like Cameron, thought it ma be the terrible Trtam tiger, solkowiss made tracks for the Station. Bat hardly had he jogved xop yards when right in front of him he saw cenly in the moonlight a dog, licking his lips, grinding his teeth and crouched ready to spring at him. The constable promptly balted, and then with a frantic war whoop the brawny Scot charged upon the
attempt) Arrived at the spot where the
his dismay (or possibly everinsting joy) found aut vigorously with boton, fists and feet, and to
the Terror of Stanley had performed the ever popular Vanishing Act. Then the constable soon found his way to the Sation where a Council of War was held and it was decided to bond even go the length of feasting off a lank should even go the length of feasting off a lank Highlander or two.
New confining our attention to England alone we find, if we may rely upon Histories, thịt thes necessity of a uniform stand wd was early felt. in the time of the kings of the base of Card (959 A. D.) and that a law. was ennied of weighs and requiring that a measures should be kept at Winchester, by which those employed in other places should be regulated. The troublesome ate of the un try la after times probably, occasioned this 1.
act
to be neglected. At 'all events we know that irregularities were complained of in Henry II's ime (1133-1180), and so to avoid them he made it a law that his own arm should he the standard yard for the rexim,
This provision, however, also hopelessly fled to produce the much needed unif rony. In that Great.
chosen President of the United States, is a native of Caldwell, in New Jersey, and was born in law Soon After taking to 1837. he assumed a prominent position in the Democratie ranks, and his name since his assumption of the Presidential chair in 1985 has been associated with questions which witally (30 affect his own countrymen, and have a reflex Influence on the rest of the world. He will be the twenty-fourth President. General Adlai E. A. S. WATSON & CO., D, Sierrason, the hew Vice Presiden, which he re
well known, but still in E. presents, he is very popular, and is affectionately "Adelal." He was bom is
THE English people, says writer in the St. raken at s
but bes made Bloomington,
Lonis Globe Demacral, have always bad a great Kentucky, Ilinols, his home, and his fellow townsmen
deal to say about their aversion to slavery, but no worse system ever existed in the world than were so elated at his nomination last June, that. are told after the news arrived THE "horse power" of a whale has been made a that which prevails same of the British 225 more for a town lot in Blarmington than eminent natamist of the University of Edia- coolles are indentured In India or Chlua; that he would have had to pay the day before." burgh, in conjunction with the equally eminents, they are practically sold to the agent, whe He was First Assistent Postmaster-General Glasgow shipbulider. Joka Henderson. The sells them again to planters. For a term of size and dimensions of a great whale, stranded years, usually ten, they become the slaves of the during Mr. Cleveland's former administration. [According to the Democratic Convention (use | several years ago on the shore of Longriddy, planters; for petty 'offences they are fined foc; resolved to do or dia. (or perish in the the Charter of Henry the first, but the vigas
Hongkong Telegraph, November 11th) the furnished the necessary data for a comparison until they become hopelessly indebted to their party is pledged to reduce tariffs and support of the power.necessary to prop:l it at, a speed | owners; they are not allowed to leave the plantate had first crossed his pal ho let silver. The Demirerats may pearly be called the Conservatives of the United Staten.]
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S. Impérieuse arrived at 1.45 10-day from the North, entering by the West. "SALVATION for the Masses" and lots of other items of news are squeezed clean out of this issue, but will be "all there" to-morrow. THE Straits Governor, Sir Ceall Smith, arrived Kuala Lumpor on the 7th inak, bound for Rawang, where he is to open a short line
XMAS CONFECTIONERY "it was a fact that a man would have to pay subject of study by Sir William Turner, the colonies where conile labor is employed. The quadruped actually tour times the size of a parlah Charter, which was discussed, arred to and
Consisting of :-
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CHOCOLATE CREMES, VANILLA PRA- LINES, SUGARED ALMONDS, BURNT ALMONDS, NOUGAT, JUJUBES,
TURKISH DELIGHT,
&G12
PARISIANS,
DELICIOUS FRUIT JELLIES. ASSORTED PINEAPPLE, LIME, DAMSON, `GUAVA, RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRY, PLUM, &c.
CALLARD AND BOWSER'S BUTTER SCOTCH, ALMOND ROCK and EVERTON TOFFEE,
CADBURY'S CHOCOLATES In great variety,
CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS, MUSCATELS, ALMONDS AND FIGS.
FANCY BOXES. A-large-and-varied Assortment_of ARTISTIC Designs,
XMAS CARDS,
-ENGLISH, JAPANESE and CHINESE,
splendid selection.
TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS,
"A LARGE STOCK WELL'ASSORTED.
A. S. WATSON & CO. LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841. Hongkong, 10th November, 1892.
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The Hongkong Jelegraph.
HONGKONG, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1891.
TELEGRAMS.
THE ACCIDENT TO THE EDINBURGH NIGHT EXPRESS.
LONDON, November 3rd.
railway.
of
of
Tife German gunboat 14, which came out the Old Deck at Shanghal on the 11th lost, was to leave next day for Tientsin, where she is -to-winter.
THE P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of Peking, with mails, &c., which sulled hence. Oct. 22nd, and from Yokohama Oct. 30th, arrived at San Francisco on the 13th fast.
It will be seen from the Paoting Fa correspon- dence, published in another column, that the continent of Asia has just been successfully crossed by two American students on bicycles. THE Mohammedan community in Hongkong -are-about-to-remit-n-substantial sum of money to their countrymen resident in England to asalst then to erect a magnificent mosque in Liverpool. THE ichang correspondent of the North China Daily News writes that the Union Jack was holsted for the first time at, Her Majesty's new Consulate at Ichang at 930 m. on the and instant.
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of twelve miles an hour. This whale measured tion without a pass, or if they do, are liable to gighty feet in length, twenty feet cross at the rest as runaways. During the last few years flanges of the tall and weighed seventy-four Parliamentary investigations have greatly LODE. To attain a speed of twelve miles a duced the hardships of the unfortunate Hindoos, hour it was calculated that 145-horse power was most of whom were drawn away from their native DECESSARY,
land by mfirepresentations, but much still remain to be done, especially in the mine region of South Africa: before the stigma of slavery can be erased from the British Empire.
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ACCORDING to our Penang, contemporaries great dissatisfaction is expressed in connection with the Marine Court of Enquiry into the lois of the Dora, which died of sheer old age and decrepitude while still supposed to be seaworthy The Enquiry is described as a "farce." The Government Surveyor, the owner, the Chin-chew (who, the owner said, was not on the articles), the former exglacer and the Captala were nons of them examined, although their evidence as to the unseaworthiness of the vessels was most Important. In view of the many recept cases of unseaworthy vessels being allowed loose the Melison and Ooriya, for instance—the Stralis Legislatore is taking action to make the law more stringent
TO-DAY'S SHIPPİNG RETURNI,
Inward.
Changtha............steamer, from Kobe.
Plectolap Doxar ............ Caledonian nu Titan ......................................... Chay Sangy Hongay On Charters Towers BornIS ...... Kali................
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Newchwang Salgon: Shanghai. Liverpool "Shanghal. Pigsaraa. Katchinotru, ---Swatow......
Chinklang. Aggregating 16,982 tone, register.
Outward.
14
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Amoy.
-Swatow." Manila. Europe. Talwanfoo.
Kwanguin....steamer, for Shanghai. Esmeralda......... Stikan ............. Don Juan serati, "THE" Wandering Virtuszo;"-who-was-belleved-- Sackten_amour__ to be Josef Hoffman, has turned out to be Thales Lawrence Phillips, of Bayswater. He is going on with his concerts in Bombay, however, and Is said to be very clever.
THE Superintendent of the P. & O. 5. N. Co. Informs us that the steamship Sut, with the next English mall, left Singapore for this port at 6 p.m. yesterday, and is expected about
noon on the 20th Inst.
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H.M.S, Porpoise went into dock at Hunghom yesterday afternoon. The German cruiser 1. Zelbely came over from the deck about a p.m. to-day, in time to exchange salutes with the Impérieuse, newly arrived.,
MAILS DOO -
Bombay (Bormida)
14h instant, N. Pacific (Loo Sok) 14th
18th Indian (Lightning) French (Salaris)
17th "
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Messna Wheelock &c.'s freight Market Report, dated Shanghat, 11th November, 1892, is an follows: During the past fortnight our usual autumn we have intervened, and although the greater portion of the community availed themselves of the holidays, a considerable business has passed berk in Ten and general cargo, exports being confined more especially to New York. Both London and New York markets remain strong at current rates and with the amount of tonnage effering steamers should find no difficulty in filling their requirements. Coastle-Rumour has it that the three local companies bave come to some arrangement, but this requires confirmation. Raten remain strong Ergaites are being mide for the employment of outside steamers before the Northern ports close, but we have heard of no settlements having been effected. Nagasaki to Shanghal-Rates show A slight Improvement, but no charters bave been made from this end. For London, við Suez Canal:-The Príám and P, &O. extra steamer Canton are on the berib and "advertised to leave on the 15th and 1gth inst. respectively, and the Pingsury is expected to-day from Japan' ad will meet with quick despatch -Rates remain- enchanged. For New York, vid Suez Canal:- The Ganser sailed 6 h fnst; taking alarge cargo, and the berth is now occupied by the Argyl circulated for despatch 18th inst. The Ethiop is due bere in a few days, and will take the berth at current rales, to be followed by the Glänesk.. Departures for London Bombay 27th October vid Amoy Ganja vid Foochow gtst idem. Departure for New York :-Għarea vid Foochów 6th inst. Departure for Amoy and Slogapore Nestor 6th inst, Qetations are:-Shanghal to London, 354. per ton for General cargo ;.401. for Tex. Shanghat to New York direct 40/ per ton for Tea and General cargo, Newchwang to Swatow 24 cents per picul nomical. Newchwang to Amey a6 cents per nominal. Neschwang to Canion 16 cents per pical nominal. Wahu to Whampoa 15 a 16 cands. per pical. Nagasaki to Shanghai $1.00 a 1.05 for steam and sail. Settlements, during the fortnight
Arizona, Britian barque, 1,085 tons register, proceeds to the Philippines, under orders from home. Sigurd, Norwegian barque, 1,512 tons register, to Fort Townsend, under orders from home,. Disengaged vessels in port -Estello, American barque, 548 tons register, Centurion, British ship, 1,704 tons register.
Aggregating 7,368 tons, register. SOMI months ago Mr. A. G. Wise, Police Magistrate, when sentencing a possessor of liict spiam, who was a passenger from Shanghal to Canton by a casting steamer, to pay a fine of $50 for being without a permit from the Opium Farmer, said the plea that he was through passenger to Canton was not a valid excuse for bringing prepared oplum leto the port, and that it would have been better for the defendant had he thrown the seductive drug overboard outside the port limits To-day a case almost on all fours with that one came before Mr. Wede house in respect to two swell passengers who arrived here this morning in the Cheyrang from Shanghai booked through to the fair City of Rams. An Excles Officer hopped on board the Choysang and found them in possession of
VICTORIA RECREATION. CLUB, eight tels of the drug; hence the usual legal proceedings. But contrary to the expectation of the Oplum Farmer the Magistrate imposed It is proposed to hold the annual Regatta on the Indiaitesimal fino of twenty-five cents, and, Thursday and Friday, 15 b and 16th December. | mirabila dicis, ordained that the opfam should
Captains and crews will be picked for the be returned to the defendants. It is possible that Chairman's cup on Thursday next, 17th Now the delinquents did not intend to ampggle, the||vember, at 5.30 p.m.-N oplum into the Colony, but they nevertheless committed a distinct breach of the Oplum
Members desirous of rowing in these races are requested to enter their names on the list which
signed in a single day, it is anipulated by the 41st section thatthere should be onl- one weight and one measure thrarghout the Kingdom," I am not aware whether the name in sipulated In
expressions of the old one we might may have been excharged for precise and eliberate pro signed at Runnymede by John visions, if so we may call them, In the decument the summer
of 1215.
Important portions of the English method are It is quite a remarkable thing that the three
Independent of each. I mean the three measures of length, wright and capacity The yard has nothing to do with the pound, nor the paid with the gallon. Here we have three distinct And now the tiger la at large, somewhere near standards quito separate of each other, whereas Aberdeen probably, and successfully defying theil a rational method had been, adepted, one powers that be. Even the out-station Sikh would have been enough. All these standards constables now do their night patrol in the are, I say, arbitrary, naye artificial these back yard rather risk a mush with the Great nothing whitenever in nature which corre pinds Unknown.*
to them, and from which they can be derived.
volunteers going out goo strong to annihilate that Tytam tiger? Why, noffin l'
Now what's wrong about the Hongkong
CORRESPONDENCE.
{Wo da net necessarily andorse the opinions expressed by Correspondenza in this columni)
ADVANCE. AUSTRALIA I
PLEA FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE METRICAL
SYSTAM DY GREAT BRITAIN AND
HIR COLONIES.
divisions of our (the Engilsh) scale, or rather of
To quote the word of the sime authority-the
our manifold scales, are cupricious, prplexing and in most cases inconvenient, so that foreigners ccustomed to a simple and clegint em. find it difficult to comprehend us, This is
mikes
the study of circumstance which Arithmetic so difficult and disgusting. Let më (l'ustrate this by a specimen of the subdivision of some of the lagt pals of the scale. sbewlog the multipliers which are to be used: In: bringing them «to... a' lower - denomination.
(Of course in bringing lower to higher denomina.... lens the multiplier becomes "divisor in in.... verted order.) In subdividing maner, for instante denominations in which accouptor ......... quas stôl a majoribus suis traditas prare kept (for the coins se firma e numerous
Unazistímé tueri ne defendere perseverant,
nec considerant quales sint sed ex hoc probatas atque veres esta confidant, quos das veteres tradirunt. Tantaque est nut ritas vatustalis ut tvquirere in cam scelus ducatur. (Lanetatilius. Int. Divinas
· II., 6).
To vam torron av tre "Howokowo TELHORAPIL!
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and theirsubdivisions go upon a different pinciple altogether, the multipliers are 25, 13, and 4. In subdividing a mile.in Ireland th multipliers.ard 8,40, 7. 3. 12 and 3, in England they are 8, 40, 53, 312, and 3. In subd viding a ton the multipliers are 20, 4, 28 and 16; ïor a ton of stones they are 21, 4 and 28, for another sort of top, 20, 4, 30 and 16. While the pound, DEAR SIR-I was glad to observe in the the yard and the gallon are required by law to Telegraph of the 7th inst. the telegram-reading--be-of-a-fixed and regulated magrl ude, so "The Victorian Assembly has passed a resolu- many local customs prevail as to their multiple tlon In favour of a Voiverant or Imperial Union and submultiple, that it is very difficuli from .-.-. to letroduce the Decimal System:-This-is-"Price Current List "to ascertain the comparative-- burning question. There is a general agreement value of the same commodities, in our ow of opinion in Great Britain among those who have nation. Suppose, for example I have got s really considered the matter that change quantity of wheat on hand, which I am arx out..
to dispose of to the best advantage, and I loʻk; would be of great and immediate advantage.
I have for some time bick been collecting over the prices current in all the newspapers 1. from various sources all-that-la striking and may find in the Commercial News Room. In: Interesting on the subject of the Metrical System one place it is quoted at so much per cent. lai another at per bushels in another at per load; is: of Weights and Mensores, its adventages &c and now that the system to going to be adopted another at per bag; in another at per weighs in by such a commercial and matter-of-fact people another at per boil; in another at per combs: as the Australians, perhaps it will interest a goed in another at per winch, windle, strike, measure: many of your readers to hear something about it and stone. We must at p to get breath and
I commence with a glanco at the days of yote, ponder, Here we have not less than fifteen: at the carly history of weights and measures different denominations to be comperid" withi Their Introduction is, we might say, dari darau ench other before a definable market can be. with the very beginning of civilization. People found for the ls or jurchase of whentit may exist without them, but not civilized people. The same authority ges on lo fry that “at: The savages, who can only count the fire fingers Herford wheat is sold by the load, which of each. hand, have neither weights nor Is equal to 3 bushels ; in Hitchin by the load of MORSUTCH,
• nor do they require them. | about 5 bushels; at Bedford by the load of But the business of a town could not go on for bushels, at Dorting by the load of 5 qtters, at twenty-four hours without them. Hence mention Bishop's Stonford by the load of 40 bushelsz of them is found at a very early piled of the five nominal values for the one denomination, world's history. In such an old book as the the load expressed as so many quarters, or 10. Bible, we come across then continually. The many bushels. What then, is the amount of the dimensions of the Ask (geometrically proved quarter? - Why, in general it is equal; io. B; to be an impossibility to bold the numbers given) bushels by measure, but in London itdi geserally. are given as three bundred cabin fu' leasth, weght of 480 pounds. Grate is sulirold in: filty in width, and the depth thirty,. The great London by the measured quarter of å bu help,, : Patriarch weighed to Ephron (the Hittite) the The quarter has thus two different wilure, la silver for the price of the field of Machpelah one and the same, city, and that in the 'MANSLAUGHTER AT YAU-MA-TI,
(Gen. XXIII, 16),
sileged capital of the commercial world Is The Latin word cubitus (« cubit) as every one | like manage the bushel is 'in many pincen FATAL TERMINATION TO A SCRAP," knows signifies the forearm, from the elbow not a' meršty, but a weight, and, in different
downwards to the pofat of the fingers-the cubit | places it signifies different weighis.SPR At the Police Court this moming Chan Wan' of a man. In the book of Deuteronomy mention while in the enlightened city of Manchester, s 73 years of age, a man of no occupation, was of this wlll be found. (ch. III. a). The shekel bushel of English what is 60 lbs; but a bushel charged before Mr. H. E Wodehouse by like the English pourd denotes, by lis origin, of American wheat, la za Jbs... On, the Inspector Hanson with assaulting and thereby weight" (pondus). Among the Jews the other hand, in five important, ma is in the causing the death of Chi La Fuk at the Sanctuary's shekel was said to be I zo geraha, United Kingdom, com is sold by the bushel, village of Ma Tan Wal, in the Yau-mail district that is 20 beans, for so the word actually means containing or made up to certain specified. We should not disparage these attempts (if we | weight. In these places the grain, must be times shipping quantiiles of water, nulli Chu Pak Shap, an old man living at Ma Tan may so call them) to fix paaral standard of measured first, and weighed afterwards, and the 19th, when moderate winds continued until Wat, stated that about 5.45 p.m. on the 14th weights and measures. Nearly all the systems deficiency if any made good. Here wo bave the bushel factasting from five quarters to the sighting Alended Islands on the acth. That day the prisoner and a man named Che Lin were founded, so to hay, on the same basinaga
Let us hear what a great authority eighth pan of a quarter, the quiries itself being was bright and sunny, thermometer, regis Fak were fighting, and he failed to separate
An unsettled quantity and where its value tering at midday, in the shade, 45. At 1.45 them. He saw the prisoner give the deceased an the-sablect says Silver among our P. crossed the meridian in lat, so 31 non. Leveral blows and kick him in the stomach selves the English) is sold by the ounce given in pounds it varies from to to 48. Can Next day strong galas, vessel labouring heavily on the right side. The prisoner was wearing consisting of 480 grains and the grain was at any one tell me, without hesitation or circums and shipping quantities of water, flooding saloon, European shoes at the time. For a while the first what its name implies, a pickle of com, locutior, what is meant by an Acic? I fancy and intermediate cabin. On the 28th it blew deceased lay on the ground and then went home. never used as a weight or measure except there are few who know the answer to that simple THE case against Charles Edward Miller, the with hurricaneforce, the sea running an appalßng That evening witness went to see the deceased by shoemakers, who denote by its size, question. It means seven different quantities man who is under arrest in Singapore for height, and thedecks were constantly flooded until and found he was too ill to partake of any food, and in works of Arithmetic, in which it is of land, varying from the statute, acre of 4,840 embezzlements alleged to have been committed 31st, when the wind moderated fa the afternoon. About 6 .. to-day witness was called preserved, for the sole purpose as it would seem yards to the Cheshire acre of 10,240, in Hlogo, progresses very slowly. Nothing has Next day squalls commenced, late at night, blow to the deceased's house and faund him very ill of pretenting an additional puzzle to the bapless which is nearly half as large again at the Irish yet been done beyond considering a number of ing with hurricane force, raising confused mons. Indeed, He therefore reported the matter children, who are condemned to drudge at our plantation acre of 7840 square yards. Now a points in the extradition treatles and so on, and tainous seas, ualli moralag of the 3rd when at the Yan-ma-ti Station and returned to dreary and unaccountable system of counting moment's consideration will satisfy us that the weather moderated. Off Inoboys Saki, Japan, on the prisoner's house with constable, who || We have the hand, and foot, taken of course first thing to be determined in the unk of length i remanding the case about a dozen time
the ith experienced heavy sea, causing ship to arrested the man now to Court After that, witness from the corresponding parts of the human form for from it the measure of surface, of capacity At a recent meeting of St. John's Lodge, No roll violently. We arrived at Yokohama at a 30 tork the constable to the house and took we have the yaid, anciently termed the (ulas) and of weight can be easily deduced." 618, S.C., the election of officers for the ensulag, on the db. Lek Yokohama at 4.30 am deceased la an ambulance to the Station. Shortly that is to say the arm. The word ell is no The fundamental standard adopted in France year resulted as follows-B.W.M., Bro. on the 8th, and had fine weather and light afterwards witness came over to the Central longer used to signify the arm In our common for the metrical system of weights and measures, Dickie S.W., Bro. F, W. Watts: J.W. Bro. winds to Kobe ; arrived there at 4.25 pm, on the Station with the police and the deceased, who speech but it is retained in the compound elbow us la'well known, li a quadrant of the meridians Logan Trean., Bro. W, Hay 1 Sec. Bio. . 9th. Left again the following moralog at daylight died shortly after arrival at the Central Station, which means the bow or bend of the arm that is to say the distance from the Equstor to Howell S.D., Bro, H. Reeves J.D. Bre for Hangkang via Inland Sea, From Rokarin The deceased was witness' consin. At one time The depths of the eccans are sounded in the North Pole. This quadrant is divided into Bridger: D.C.Broz A. Kuhn; 1.G, Era Island to Chapel Island had moderato north-east deceased was a hawker, but of late, being fully fathoms, that is to say, the "expanse of the ten millions of equal parts, and one of these The final report of the committee appointed Mollison Tyler, Hiro, J. Maxwell) Steward, Bre monsoon, then light variabin airs and calms to do years old, he looked after his grand children outstretched arms. These are very rough parts or divisione ty called a bitra, which is to benim with the Directors of the Chartered ' H.A. Shirazce.
Hoogkong) unived hers at 3.33 3.4), on theigth; } only," "The prisoner was a gambler and had a | standards of Computation they actuate | adopted as the unit of length; and we may addi
The news of the Gretna wreck on the Rifleman Shoals on the 25th October did not reach Singa- A fatal rollway accident has occurred in pare until the 3th November, but arrangements were at once made to send H.M.S, Plover to Yorkshire awing to the night express her aid. This, however, was found not to be train from Edinburgh to London having needed, as the crew all turned up safe, run into killing twelve persons and infarloe eleven others. The Marquises of Tweeddale and Huntly were passengers by the express, and were sleep. ing in a Pullman car, but both escaped doin jured; the end of their carriage, however, was shattered. A portion of the express train took fire and several bodies were roasted.
REUTER DRUNK.
goods train at Thitak station, ¦ Ir was reported at:Tiznisin ón the già last, that Ordinance (as is shown by the magistrato karing / ́will be found in the Club,
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Owing to a prior engagement Lord Rosebery will not be present at the Guildball Basquet, [For this item of sensations! news Router ought to be paid $5 a word extra. He is not pald enough.]
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ACCIDENT TO H.M.S. "HOWE,” Her Majesty's ironclad Hows has been on shore and is bidly damaged ; the necessary repairs will be effected at Ferrol.
PRINCE. BISMARCK AND THE NEW
ARMY BILL
It appears that Prince Bismark has vehement ly criticised the New Army Bill recently pre sented to the Federal Council He considers it a needless messure, and especially as regards the blennial service.
THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON AND CHINA.
November rath..
to fine, them) and they should have beca are heavily fined. This conviction, if such can be termed, is nothing short of a parody on the Laws of the Land.
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the new Telegraph Convection is ratified, and it is reported in Shanghal that the cable companies Intend to celebrate their success by raising the present rate of $2 a word to 74, equal, at the current exchange, to about $1.50 a word,
The H. P. Co.'s chartered steamer Zoozok, Cape talu V. Perks, had a tremendous dusilog when Ara tiffin given on the 8th by the Total of creating the Pacific hitherwards a few days ago, Shanghal to Mr. O'Coner, the total number of us will be seen by the following report convice was thirteen. When this was CT The Brillah steamship Look reports that tained a casual weiyuon from the Total's salie she left Tacoma, U.S.A, on the 15th at 10 am, was brought lo, and made to join the party and Victoria, BC, on the 16th at to am. much to his own amazement, in order that the Had aloudy and squally weather, at of British Kowloon, fungshui might not be outraged.
| A FEW days ago, a sailor belonging to one of the U.S. men-of-war in Shanghal got fato company with sallor belonging to a sailing vessel and Induced him to change clothing, the consequence being that the man-of-war's salier, who had deserted from his ship got away, and his depe was arrested ja his place.