THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1892.
PRESENTATION AT SHANGHAI.
It is the only reliable and rw'imal standand of measure. From the mére by decimal multiplication and division all the other
An interesting ceremony took place on haird ensures are derived, The length of this
the steamship Hangchow lying at Boyd's Dock, quadrant was ascertained by measulegar Shanghai, on the evening of the rath inst.; when of meridion between the parallels of Dunkirk the officers and engineers assembled in the and Barcelon, and has been found to containioon, and presented Captain J. D. C. Arthur 5.130.740 teftes (Frère') or 32,Poll 991 English with a handsome sekran, by Negr til and feet. This number d vid d by 10 000 000 gires Zimbra, and an illuminated address on the 3480391 English fet or 39 7071, English oce sion of his leaving the th1p. fuchs, very nearly, for the tue length of the me and that he now been adopted by nearly the while of the civilized world,
A system to be romalete, should consist of units for the measuremens of length, surface and exprcity, inc'u ing of course units for the proportion of morey. These us must be unchangeable and linked together by a common standard, which should be the bil of the All this we find in the metical system system. of weighis ad measures.
To sum up :-
s
rat It is simple, both se elates to nomenclature, and as to the facilities it affords for calculations,
and,It is s'able, because the unit standards are not arbitrary,
3rd- uniform, because its equality is guaranteed, and its value, being unchangeable, thus provides agetast fraudi and differences, as "is the case with all the other systems.
4th, and lasily--the aratem being based on the sphericity of the earth, its accuracy can always be veilfird.
Yours falihfully,
A STUDENT OF HISTORY, Hongkong, Oeroher 18 h, 1892, -
THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hodesed "Tel-drap,”
SIR-Nkwing what the People's Repre- sentative, he Han, T. H Whitehead, propises to do at the opening of Council to-morrow, beg leave to point out a few matters for the con- alderation of the legislature, far more important than what apo hrs on the face of the programme published on Friday 11-
(1) Keswick's 'hwe ill
(2) Pinyn Rael motion,
P stOffice reforms.
(4) Hongkang.trade.with.Kwangtang, (3) The griph convention There are many others, but we are all waiting most anxiously to hear ab un these.
Yours,
COLONIST.
Hongkong, 15th November, 1992.. [Well, then, wait a little lorger; walt for the Governor's speech.—Ed., H.R. Telegraph.]
THE SHANGHAI MERCURY" LIBEL ACTION.
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have resolved itself into a badger hunt and we shall see if the dogs gan wait long enough for the game to ba # drawn.”
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of their chief opponent, and once twice the shaw of the revolvers which they carried, but never used, was sufficient to bring New ichang is now being fast occupled; most them our safely. The officials showed them the -f the missionaries are in their new houses and grestest kindness, and through the Eastern private dwellings will be tenanted shortly. Next provinces detailed a squad of cavalry, as a rule, week we exarct to lose Captain Burder of the for their escort-apprently rather as an honour than for protectio. The magistrate of Suhchan, Es, who has become very popular and will be much missed not only for his genial good-nature through the kind offices of the resident Belgian and unassuming manner, but also because he is customerffial, Ling fa-jin, furnished them with an enthiglas ie lennia man and a familiar figure efficially stamped sq ixres of cloth to hang bewe an enthies i lenne man and the unit of sardanis rampent se, baring the words Yu If
wife flu-ravelling scholars and telling to all and aundry their nationality and destination somewhat as one fastens a tag upon a child con signed to distant friends. In no cases did the literati or officials show themselves unfriendly, and on one are ston when no barricading of the inn doors sufficed to keep not the mob, the bicycles were sent under guard to the governor's yamka, where they remained safely incarcerated until their owners were ready to proceed.
the Emperor must help," "We thought the dyke was secure," "We once had a gold bank. but one man took earth 'away to mix with hir manure and another to make bricks and to li was full of holes when the fl vedcima." I mad· careful enq sizes and everyb-de så nitted that the damage one by one find Inside the viliage would swallow up the price of very many years' work is making and preser. ving dyke to keep out the water. I was deeply impressed by the difference between there The address was word-d thusa --
twe classes of villages; in one there was cam. Steamship Hangchow,
parative comfort and cheerfulness in the other, and trust his successor will also be an
admirer of the chart and racquet.. Shangha, roth November, 1991.
horrible squalor and mitery. Y su will remember Dear Captain Arthur-As you are now giving the wall-posters we use to explain Christianity
The city is full of su lente but so far as excite un command of the abp we the undersigned
to the people. I intend about the 4th monofment or anything aproaching the unusual is fo' and Engineer hereby cordially wish
nxt year to paste up a well-pester hrough all concerned it might be empty 7 for ther- has not You every success in your laure creer Abe districts liable to floods, reminding theen, to for, single sign that three or four during the period we have been under your entry people of the value of village dykes and command we have invariably been treated exhorting them to unite in building them. The by you with the greatest kindness and consider rfficials should, I think, comp the pople to tion and as we all hold you in the highest esteem build a dyke to every village and then have it As uniting the qualities of a commander of the greatest ability with the manners and benti arully inspected just before the rainy action For some unexplained reason the officials have of a gentleman, we take this opportunity of hegun distributing money much earlier this year pauing on record the high opinion to which we
than before-at least eight weeks earlier, t Bald you, and presenting you with this smal
that they think the c damity heavier than usan'? Ikea of ur regard
It that they think the people need in be pl Ist Officer. (Signed) JOHN VAUGHAN,
fid? The people say that the breich was made FRANK LANE KYSH, and
in the southern bank of the river to prevent the ALEXANDER CRA O ist Engineer.
water breaking the northern bnk and flanding WMI MCARTHY, and
the country up to the gates of Pking. Great JAMES DALZIFL. 3.d
Affor's are now being made to clog the breach. I hear it is all closed but some to Chinese eppolated. ELECTRIC LIGHTING IN CANTON The calamity most to be dreaded was that the
CITY.
autumn wheat could not be sown. But the water is filling very rapidly and I hear a great part of the wheat Sown.
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thousand pigstalled beads are in the throes of xamination. Even the remoars and threats of rints, that filled the air before they assembled, have all simmered down and sub ided. True, there are not more than abou- h If the number that were expected to be present; and the absent hlf are fortunately, those that would have come from the most turbulent and vwless, district, where some 'punitive trz or official mandat, no delain them. S101 even with these present, our fancied securly may only be the lail b for the greater blow thugh that is not probable with a foreign gunboat a chored off the city. The General who was the bere of last year's slots has Just died of paralysis and bla successor has been
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They be carried a Kodak camera through- out the fourney, and have taken up to date more than 2,con photographs which-will-be used to illustrate the forthcoming volume which, In this case, is sure to be of more than ordinary interest. Their success, where. others have failed, has been doc partly to the excellent credentials they were able to obtain fem the Chinese minister to England and from the Russian gwerament, and still more is It a drse ved triumph of the splendid pluck and determination with which the undertaking has been cirled through.
To-day's Advertisements.
NOTICE
HONGKONG GENERAL CHAMBER
„OF COMMERCE,
SPECIAL of
A The MEMBERSENAL MEETING of GENERAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE will be held at Noon on SATURDAY, the 19th fastant, at the Rooms of the CHAMBR CITY HALL when the flowing Resolation wil be proposed: "That the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce recommend to, and urge upon, Her Majesty's Government the desirability of adopting in concert with the other Euro pean Governments, with the Government of the United States and with that of India, alan with those of other countries, if 10 ́desired, such means so will lessen If not remova the present sèrlone uncertainty la Exchange between Silver and Gold-colar - countries, which has had to disturbing and mo, universally Injurious an effct 'apon «Bellish-Commerce-with-all-Eastera-and-
aliver-using countries,"
By Onder,
Hongkong, 15th November, 1892;
ADAM LIND,
"Acting Secretary,
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TO BE LET.
LARGE, ELEGANT, and AIRY HOUSE,
STRIKT (cood locally), with Spacious God was
and-Office-accommodations, also-Out-Hogies- and Servants' Quarters, suitable for Foreigners, Is to be Let.
The steamer Y-ing, whose charter has just
Their plans for the future Include the crossing expired with the China Merchants' Company, is now running for Batterfield and Swe, and of: I spam whence they procted at once vid the change in most distinely in favour, of the Shanghai, and of South America, or if the route Apparently there is a prospect that the
I hope now I may not have to trouble you torg-suffering communly at Ichang; f the is practic-ble, the southern portion of the United, remotest parlicus of the City of Rems may
with another letter on this sad utject, We undertainty of the former company's vessels.] States.". It should be said that they are travelling No. it and 114 in WELLINGTON
Chinese diplomacy, abominatly in the interest of no journal or literary syndicate, belore lang. be an well-lighted is the Shimeen.
must wait to see what the officials will do to help That is, the Sin. Francisco pipers can b relied on. The Chronicle says For everal--the poor through the coming winter. You mar misguiding and hard to understand, and but merely for pleasure.
not infr quently cause the residents'a an enterprising be assured we will never lighdly ask you to
of serious Inconvenience and bother. This mouths Toy Wine S ne Chinese, has been inter-led in the incorpora appeal for help.
is especially the case with the travelling I remain,
missionaries, whose melodramat c heroism and don of a company of Chinese and, American
Yours ever sincerely, capitalists for the purpose of bulding electric
FD NICKALLS. fortitude in bearing the day after day dappoint allroads, and lighting Canton and other cita
men's and delays, when they are impatiently Chos-plog Shantung, 24th Ozoler, of the Chinese empire by electricty. He has
bound to Shanghat and civilisation, is, some- ms, ptively affecting, A change in the |ind or ffof the Customs has also been effecie! here, Mr. Fizzibbon of Hakow and Mr. Fergusson of this place having changed places. Themometer and river'will receding..
now
about succeeded in his efforts, and $14,000 20, raised by American and Chinese, meyed men, will be invest d in the enterprise. Sing.is_now in San Francic, but wil soon leave for China to attend to the shipping of a portion of the machinery which has been and red. He said yesterd that he hid experienced heavy obstacles
Interesting American capitalists in the stupendous enterprise, but a far greater obstacle is the opp shion with which be met from the lower, clasers of his countrymen, caused by their animosity against anything savouring of progress, Considerable opposition also met with la obtaining permission from the Chinese Government to build the plant, "for," as he explained, " you would be surprised at the number of Inteligent residents of Canton who were opposed to the stringing of wies and the building of a power. house. I can n'y attribute this apposition to the hatred entertained by our people toward foreigners, and it was feared that the prese ce of the latter during the process of construction
NOTES FROM CHINESE papers,
The new Admiral of the Ying retook over the seal of office on the 7th instant in the sout bra capital instead of in Wuhu.
The repairs to the Nauking city walls have been completed and thirteen new watch towers have been added to improve the aspect of the ty. The Viceroy was to inspret the work on the 6th instant, beginning from the South Gate.
The forces despa'ched by H. E, Chang Chih- tung to the disturbed regions in the Hup neovince under the leadership of a ceran 11 Thotel, having achieved some useful work have returned; there being no more trouble in that country,
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-NEWCHWANG. "
(N. C. DAILY NEWS" CORRESPONDENT.) 5th Novembs, 1892.
The principal topic of conversationist now is the weather, which, although much fresher than it was, is very elegant and he thy. We | have had four or five degrees of frost, and natives say that we shall have an early winter, be earlier than last bus I hardly think it ca year, for this is only the 16th day of gh month against the 4th of roth month (5th November) Anyhow we trust ice will com upon us gently, and not as it did about 23-d and 24th of last November, when the river froze over and dil not break up again i'l the spring. menced at 9 30 p.m. and lasted till early this morning, as did the tamtoming and other noises to prevent the dog from eating up the moon entirely. It was a very fine sight.
In 1791.
BRITISH CHINESE.
The Treasury Department has Instructed the Cellreter of Customs at Port Townsend, Wash.. to refuse entre to one Ching Yon, « Chinese claiming to be a British subject and exhibiting a certificate of naturalization issued at Vancouver. Assistant Secretary Spaulding instructs the Col lector a decline to consider the papers men tioned in any manner changing the states of Ching Yon so fer as admission into the Untied Statens concerned,
This declalan follows the Geter Exclusion Bi which prohibits the entry of Chinese persons, "whether sub cts of the Chinese empire or otherwise." It is probable that Congress had in mind the British-Chinese in adopting the clause quoted, for it is well known that some of the British colonies have naturalized Chinese, and the cinuse was probably inserted to meet Just
such cases.
There is not the least danger of the British Government taking up the case of this and other cno le simuly illusted, even though some colony may have granted them letters of natura- lizion. If the Imperial Government would Permit one colony, Australls, to exclude Chinese altogether, and another. British Columbia, to tile fear of Great Britain making a fuss if we exclude Chinese, even though they may be esteralbly British subjects.
a to gambling in the Shanghal Portuguese Club, | might prove to be ahnoxious ad exuperating | Shanghalibin bis jurisdiction. The M xed Last night the total eclipse of the moon com. I impose on them a bend tax of $50 wo aced have
The uneducated
Ao order has been received by the City Magistrate to close up the small pawnshops
ourt Magistrate and the officf I of the French Mixed Court are also requies ed to see to the closing of these shops in their districts.
It may he remimed that recently the Shanghai Mercury published certain remarks We don't say the rem ks were trae, but we do know that they would he true if applied to some of the Hongkong Clubs, and we quite fail to see where the harm 11. But the Shanghal Portuguese took effece, and Instituted proceed Ings for libel. The sit was to be heard in the Supreme Court at H_B_M. Longulate on the kath, before third just ce and a speciality, not of the Hongkong x d breed. The report will be down here by thnx; mall,
A correspond at wring that on the exth Mr. wire. Five hundred thousand dollars have viceroy's troops will be assigned this duty to when the bank failed is told that we will get posilan toward the Chinese, Parlay the
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THE RECENT COLLISION IN THE WHANGPOO.
The latest news of the Feima is that she is sinking still deeper In the mud, Divers were went down to bir on the 10th fast, to see what could be done towards rais ng her, but as it was blowing hard work could be done. The Hangchow Isrized by order of HB M. Sopieme Court on the toth at the suit of the owners of the Feima, who claim Th. 175 cox The agents of the C. N. Co (& S.) having given the necessary security, the Hungchow was after ward released,
to the people of Canton, pople have derided the idea, and have poitively refused to be convinced that there is such a thing as electricity, and that it can run cars and produce light, However, all obstacles have been overc me, and before many months Canton will have electric lights, electric cars, and perhapa-telephone system. Sang-says-that been contracted with to supply the motors and Company and several 6 ms have
already been spent for machinery, and perhaps as much more will be invested as soon as the e'ectric light is la full operation. A franchise for an electric railroad will be obtained if pasible.
[We will believe it when we see It.-Ed., Hongkong Telegraph:}
THE FELLOW RIVER FLOODS.
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The fllowing very interesting letter appears in the North China Daily News-
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On the top of the distress and misery caused by the waterspout some time ago, the people of Changinh Hsien are being brought fier to face with another calamity. Anepidemic of virulent nature, is raging in their midst. Owing to their helpless condition, they have not the means to bury their dead, and the bodies of the victims are thrown on the road ride. To semeve this repugnantspectacle, the Magistrate conemplates taking a sous of money from the Relief Fund, appropriating it to barial purposes.
But suppose the should make a disturbance, The collapse of the N.OB.C. has aff c'ed what of it? The temper of this country is such, Owing to the vastness of the city, which fa
that we should be more disposed to forbid immi- go fi in circumference, the task of keeping out loop haar in many other portes, and the ques-xcept in the Chinese Civil Rights societies and miscreants and bad characters or an even has arisen as to what is the real meaning of similar organizations of sickly senilmentalists, one, so in order to increase the efficiency of the "Limited" tacked on to a barking company.
For instanca A basa D/R for Tis, 10,000-and Pration from Great Britain than to abandon our present staff, a couple of detachmen's of the help the existing forces,
hack Tie, 5,000 in about five years. Are the present law may need amending la some respects. shareholders not liable for the whole sum
but if so it will be to make it more rigid, not deposited? If not, why should they pay half of to relax it. We have been gaining little by little it, or a quarter, or evens cash? You will something more iban a growl from the British on the Chinese question, and now It will take explain that the O.B.C. war'a limited company!' but do you suppose that if A had been Infirmed on to make us retreat from the advanced post flow we have at last attained-San Francisco that there was a risk of bis losing half bis
Chronicle. deposit, he would have entrusted his property to such a company? It is right to know what the assets and abliities were at the audit
THE QUEEN'S-DOGS:- previous to the failure. Presuming that a divi dend was then paid, the losses could not surely
Dogs were fint admitted to the Court of he so enormous in one year, and if A renewed England in the reign of Renty Vill. Under the his dep sit receipt meanwhile, which he would
present reign three dogs have been elevated to not have done except on the strength of the
the highest canine dignities on account of their audit, it looks very ugly. If the fact of a Bikariat cratic fimiles and their own peculiar
"Limalted" absolves the shareholders, and being
mers. The names of the aristocratic irio are covers the losses ta depositors which have to be borne by the coastuents of the N.O.B., it is Marco, Roy and Spot. Marco is the Queen's favorite, and he used to be very jealous of John not likely any one withe so foolish as to deposit Brown. His ancestry can be traced back to the money in a "Limited" company when there Grusders. He is what they call in England are good banks which are not "Lofted." I
Pomeranian, and at one of the recent dog shows be won the first prize, the mug of honor. The cy the word "Limited is doomed. The old BC was not "Limited," and depasitors were other favorite, Rey, is collle, and Spot is a fox terrier with record of twenty-twỡ rats in a paid searly in full,
quarter of an hour.
ICHANG.
NORTH CHINA DAILY NEWS.
CORRESPONDENT]'
November 4'b
of
PAOTING FU
(N.-C. Daily News CORRESPONDENT)
October 30th,
F. M. de Cosin, Hon. Sc. of the luh, who is ad since: 886 clerk with Messre Jaidina b Matheson & Co, naked permission of his talpan, Mr Macgregat, jo he absent from office next morning, in order to appear as one of the plain. Iffs to the libel acton, The week's mail work would about fi ishithatilme, Mr. Macgregor told Mr. da Costa If, he liked to stay away he could stay for ever, otherwire he must come to the office same as n'yer was." Pont de Costa at once went (8 pm.) to Mr. Dummond, counsel for plainff, and ex lined the position. The learned gentleman decided that without
About a fortnight after writing to you I started Costs the case crud, not go on. A meeting of to visit all my stations in the fooded distric's. members of the Club was held, and it was resolved to go ahead th the care, and make up-to-da The flod was, as I had heard, both bigher and Costs for the bus of his place. Accordingly wider than in 18 9. The distress, however, exanot be so great, for the kaoliang everywhere that gentleman resigned-bis-situation, and esito. appear duly in court, as principal plilat food well abive the water. The poor and bosc. Now, Mr. Mcgregor happens to be on the who e houses have been washed down will jury list, as also mary of his latimale friends, offer much in, the coming, winter, but I do not Even were it otherwise, he had no right to try-ink-foreigners will need to dis ribate money.
On the morning of the and inst., punctually at thus to tamper with the course of justice. It is of course, ranny of my poor friends begged me
to help them, and a few petitions for relef30 am, the Union Jack was hoisted for the first further said that a great deal of canvassing basere formally presented to me. But to asl 1 time at Her Britannic M at a new Consulate at give the answer that we shall probably chang simultaneously a signal gun being fired make no appeal on their behalf. I thought from H.M.S. Est the cap'ala and it right also to tell them that residents the gunboat and several of the forcion residents at the parts do not feel the same disposition to being present to witness the semi-official for c help suffers from a Yelow River flod, as tion and participate in the bospuality of pop's im averished by unvidable ca.amky "p/pping corks" in honour of the event such as drought, ec. I am e natantly asked it that took place immediately afterwards with
We were surprised yesterday by the raden foreign engineers could control the Yellow in the walls of the new balding. Now Mr. River. I do not care to taik much with the Everand is, at last, established in his new quar-apparition of two American gentlemen travelling common people in these rule's because I tein, one wonders at the Mark Tapley-itke fori- on bcrcies overland from Tashkent, Russian think they hate their officials quite enough, tude and cheeriulares that enabled him to comeTranscaapia. They are Messrs. Alen and The general opinion of the people is that if half out so strong amid such a depressing environ, Sachtleben, both of St. Louis, who on the day the money granted by the Emptor for Yellow ment as the havel-like residence that bas so after graduation from college left for a pleasure River works, were only honestly spent floods long hoased her Majesty's representative at this ride that has been prolonged into a furney round the world, They have just accomplished would rarely occur. When we hear stories ofthe port,
However, his present house is situated in an
what Mr. Stevens unsuccessfully sttempled, the Taiping Rebellion we are all deeply impressed with the horr rs of rebellion in China and waxli | elevated, healthy and airy spot that looks out on actual crossing of Central Asia bicycles, 1 long vists of little mounds that cover ances Levving Constantinople last autumn they pro An urgent telegrim was received at Shanghai hope that the coming revolu ion may be accom. on the 11th, dated Wasung, 6.10 p.m., stating plished wl hout blootsted. We atl, therefore, tore bones, so well known in this country; ce ded by way of Teberan and Askahid 10 Me Hokkara and Tashkent, where, by that the Kebe Maru ( wwnd bound for Japan)ry to check the universal batred of the offich ls, which will, no doubt, constantly set him c had collided with the Faima, striking her on the think Protestant missionaries have a fairing on lost opportunities, and future speculations the kindness of the Russian whorities, they were allowed to winter. It is beedless to fannel.
knowledge of the state of thought, and feelings to the best means of change with the say that during their stay in Russian The Kobe Maru when passing the Woosung current among the commin people. You know allowed to level an allotted space with the Bar, outward bound, 53, 5m. pm, there that a day's wilt to a country stition is, apart ploughshare as a playground for the very Turkentan they ghe ed much valuable being 17 feet 3 inches of water an the Bar, took from the boors of divine worship, ona lang con- much cabiced, cribbed and confined foreignformation, of which the English public will be These unfortunato gentlemen interested to learn. Leaving Tashkent in May a sheer, her bow heirg very likely caught by versation fom ga.m. until to. pm. I have inhabliasts. the strong tide rushing round the bow of become convied d of two tri gs; first, that the would be without a single square foot of they crossed to Kuldje, in 11, where they were the Frima. Insead of answering her star people are everywhere discontented with the recreative soll were it not for the thoughtful delayed ven weeks, walling for supplies by board heim, she went right for the Falma, which Governments and recently, that Chilitan ste kindaca of the Commissioner of Custons, Mr. Ruvsan post from Siberia, lies athwart the tide and b fore she could be the Emperor's most loyal subjects. Eut I am Ludlow, who places the Customs compound. topped by her engines working full speed asters degressing,
and its two tennis courts, at the disposal of all The struck the Felma right amidships, damaging The vileges surrounded by water may be hands and there they do now congregate to talk the funnel, striking maintopmast stay, and roughly divided into two classes, those with a of promotion and changes, for scandal is at a breaking the main topmast of the sunken steamer, wall or bank which kept out the flood, and those discount at Ichang, sandwiched between thirty What damage was done to the hull of the Fatma which are flooded through the bursting of the love, forly love, and game,
The Viceroy's deputy has been and gane, but can only be ascertained by divers, as it is ander village bank, Tas former class, though poor, water. It is to be feared that this will sedly have no gulaed or unturated houses and undoub has not done it, as you anticipated he would not hinder the preparations for raising the Fefesa, tedly garnered a fair proportion of the faoliang, in your leader of the 19th it. The mixed which were going on well. The Arbe Moru But awekers in the second class of villages commission bes so far filled to a jist the claims backed out of the wreck of the Falma alies are in a wretched plight. Only very rarely tackled, chiefly because the Chinese Com the collision, and proceeded on her voyage,
missioner seems to have been deputed not to were houses swept away by a rush of water, but it gradualy soaked the walls down. endeavour to settle the claims by the canons of appareatly und images.
For several days the people la macy places law and equity, but by offering immediate seitle could not light fires to cook their food, the ment for a given discount, in one case of 7 per water round them was filthy, and only when cent off the origiani claim. The Consul here is they had suffered great thirst for a long time did blamed in some quarters for the delay that is they drink'; the watos fell a little and a borricts taking place, but this is extremely unfair, as it stench arose from the reeking rains; son must be manifest to the veriest tyro in matters uncooked food and Inty water made many people diplomatic that in the 'fice of such pettifogging, very lit, sgne prevalled everywhere; while in the bargain-striking action as this it is pez: to villages kept clear of the water grain was comf et impossible to get any forrader," or obtain a ably threshed, in the floded villages no dry | final settlement. threshing floor could be found for the kaoliang brought in on boats. Much might be said of the sickness which will come neat winter through
of the
THE "REBELS" IN PAHANG.
At the opening of the session of the Straits Legislature on the 7th inst., the Governor td
I wish to inform the Council that I have today received a letter from Tungku Mahmond, whois the Regent of Pahang, in which he informa me that the men, whom he had sent out in order to capture the Penguima Mada of Jempol,-who was responsible, directly responsible, for the murder of Messrs, 2tewart and Harris, that have been successful; that he was caught, killed property. Repeatedly I asked the people; and his head cut off, as also that of one of his "Why did not you build a dyke like the people to relatives, and that these have been brought dows many other places P Thanoswers I received wein -to Pekan, And Tunku Mahmond further as various and characteristic, #fit #Thle in Bures me lost he is quito satisfied that the heads Heaven's wil, we can do nothing "The Bead that were produced were the heads of the persons..people in our village are all at loggerheads and
However, the worthy depoly has now gone back to his Chiasse master, with the claims sill in his possession, for further fattractioner as the baye dumped down on their haunches and said you already have our maximum minimum, reducible, and not to be contracted ep: of, by vain tricks or artful ways. If your officers cannot afford our lives and properly the treaty protection you have contracted for you must pay to the full
„in question," "Praise God from whom, atdy wil do sething.” “We can't do mil this along, I for their want of authority, So now it seems to
They were strongly di scaded at this polat frim attempting the journey across Chias, and were repeatedly assured that the attempt wold cost them their lives, Taey left. however, in mid. sommer, knowing so Chloess and crying only such supplies of money and, clothes as could be strapped to the handle bars of their machines. Their roule was by way of Utumulto the harder of the Gobi at Hamb. They weretwelve diys in crossing the desert, the sand being firm enough for them to ride the greater pait & the way. At Sehghra they struck the westers end, of the Great Wall, the line of which they followed for nearly 400 miles to Lanchow. From this paint they were obliged to strike south-east to Singan in Shens, whence they bave come by way of Fingran and Talyuan to Paoting Fu. Contin
The entira distance, with wing to Peking and Tientsin their journey across
completed. Ası.11 the exception of the short stage across the Transcasplan desert, was made on their wheels,
They have been singularly free from ace deat Their bicycles, which are of the "Safety "patora and cushion-led, would havo held out almost without breakage had not the bled wheel of one of them been kicked by a male two spokes the rim itself accumbed, and when the machines were led into Faoting Fe, the I-fared wheel was useless. It is now undergoing repairs. They have been followed by mobs-chiefly good. humoured-ever since leaving Kald), but have only on two or thres occasions been -In Arluni dangas, At these times the fooring
These canine, lords have their residences with their special names, Her Majesty's dog place is divided into three pars, the Queen's verandah, colile court and umbrella court. The verandab is the principal one, It is a covered gallery around the kennel, and the Queen likes to walk there.
Eich kennel har dining room and a bed room. Te floor of the dining room is separated from the verandab by an Iran grating. It is paved with red and blue bricks, and the farolture consists of a trough, always full of fresh water. The bed rooms have two large wlodows, generally kept open for the purpose of ventilation, and in neg correr in each room there is a very low bed with a mattress of fresh straw,
Umbrella court gets its name from the big umbrella to the middle of it, under which the dogs can shelter themselves from the sun and rain. A host of servants wait upon the chaine nobility, and the Queen is very severs with officl Is who do not pay proper attention to her. dogs. A chay is provided for them, and his in- structions are to vary the menu of the dinners of her Majesty's pets and to consult their tastes.— Sportman's Review,
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