ing fifty-five passengers. Only alx Lascars and one European were saved.
Russia is taking steps towards still farther reducing the number of foreign settlers on her soll, the Germans settled throughout the country being the special objec's «faltick.:
TO TANPANG AND BACK.
A TRIP ON THE GRAND CANAL.
(Concluded.)
It is not likely that many people are let at this time of day who pin their faith to the theory that all these disturbances were the work of powerful secret societies, secking to embroil the government with Foreign Powers. To be sure there was no lack at the time of stories about well-dressed, waving mysterious strangers little flags, and speaking a Hunan dialect," who quietly directed the movements of rioters. Ther, the most active among the rank and file of disorder, were commonly said to be "men from another district," appearing with inexplicable suddenness, and vanishing as swiftly when their work was done. The Chinese desire to shift the burden of blame readily cooked these phan -tems for the delectation of gobe-mouches and
mares-nesters
The church is small, yet not too small for the congregation, which numbers no more than thlity in a population of thirty thousand. The Christian familles, at one time fairly numerous here, had, it appears, nearly all removed to Shanghal during the troubled times of the Rebellion. That," said the priest, drawing my attention to a grated opening in the church door, that is for the pagans to look through as they please when people are at Mazs ; for you know ihey imagine boners."
Through the open doors and windows of a large school there came a buzz of boje over their lessons; and this was the loudest sound in Tanyang
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chiefs; then it was vils aux cigares ? and as the ambrosial clouds curled upwards and around, we breathed freely once more.
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A great partion of the country sound the Ytuban explist suffered seriously from Incessant rain during the summer, which continued for 40 days 'and nights' without latermission. Added to the rain there were the usual mountain torrents which rushed down from the heights to add more, volume to the fiod. Several districts were inundated and innumerable casualties happened. The distres consequent apon this has been exceedingly great, as all the' crops have been ruined. The refugear from the flood had to pitch their tents on and remove their hauschalds to the city wall, their homes having been swept away by the torrents,'
send a single vessel unless onder the fing of to bring about the arrest of the auther of the John Company. Thus American-ships came tragedy. regularly to London and loaded outwards for The ancient Romant bad a deux stercutius, China. By some curious blunder, which the and there must surely be a corresponding per Government of the day did not care to rectify sonage in the populous pantheon of the Middle Brother Jonathan was privileged to do what Realm. Though I have never come across one nobody else but John Company could do. of his alters 1 doubt not kis place is high. He Then came the abalition, of John's monopoly is a power in the land, and a terror to the red-a already related, and a great development in hatred Barbarians of the West.
British shipping specially designed for the China trade. That development became more marked after the war which opened the first Treaty Pous, un to which time the Yankees had still retained the best share of the China trade, owing to their superior vessels. After. 1842. however, some fine craft were turned out, fully equal to the American clippers, and some old stagern among us may still remember the Alexander Baring, the John of Gaunt, the Euphrafts, the Monarch, and the Foam, famous in their day, and the precursors of the. genuine China clippers.
We came away immediately afterwards, leaving behind us the Pére X., who had few "ttle Christendoms,” petites chrétientés to visit in the neighbourhood
Dinner was laid in the pretty whitewashed ~reception-room; where I was no s jouer sésted then I began to perplex.myself aboutthe-bject of a picture on the wall in front of me, It is drawn according to Chinese ideas of per spective, and represents a grave-looking per- sonage with flowing white beard, si landing by a table whereon lie books and scientific apparatus. This is one of three-portraits-which-you-find- banging in every Jesuit mission, I knew that another venerable mathematician ger iced the wall behind me. These are two pio aeers of the Jesult missions in China, Schaal si ad Verblest; | extraordinary men, who amused their moments perdus with rectifying the caletider, casting superb bronze cannon for the Emperor Kang Hsi to protect his dominion withal; and giving us the map of China we have to this day. What puzzles me to remember which is Schat and which Verbiest, they are so much alike ; I have grown ashamed of asking. Ricci, a nemo still more Illustrious, hung over the seat of honour on the north wall; him I can always tell by his standing "in front of an altar in compray with a very elegant mandaria in Ming cortume #his con- vert Hsu Ricel spent a few years of his event ful life in this very town of Tanyang, where. I am sure he must have found it dali.
Being in the heart of Ching, of what should cur conversation consist but this.gs European? We talked of Bismarck and his quarrel with the Emperor; Gladstone in his green old age; the Mords-Mayer dual; Edward Drumont's anti- semitic crusade: La Debácie, and M. Zola's visit to Lourdes. The Père X mentioned with high praise
volume of Louh Vcalliot's letters just out, and cited some characteristic sayings of the once redoubtable Journalist. Onewastifter Jésuites elani ce que vous ties;
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It was slow work tracking against wind and current-two miles an hour at a generous cont putation-and there was ample leisure for trolling on the bank. The shorn rice fields gave gave the land a a bare look. There were yellowing bean-plots; milky patches of buckwheat, a crop that needs little moisture and is accordingly sewn where the rice has mianed; grassy slopes and ridges with graves on them ; now and then village or a temple la trees. All this country lles a good deal higher abore the water-level than does that on the north shore of the river and being harder to irrigate in consequence le less filled and less densely peopled.
Myriads of little wild chrysanthemums, with pale Illac petals, bloomed in the grass; and all along the bank were thick growths of artemisia, that fragrant herb with the Chinese are accus tomed to hang ap for good luck over their doors and windows on the morning of the fifth new moon.
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Those vessels stimulated the Yankees to fresh exertions, and in 1845 they began to send out a new lot of the real American-clipper type-low hulls, beautifully fine lines, and an enormous spread of canvas. With these they beat the record in the runs from New York and Boston to China, and took the shine out of us again.
Then was born, in 1946, the first Aberdeen cilpper, bullt by Alexander Hall & Co., of Aberdeen, as an experiment in marine architec- ture, and for employment in the coasting trade of China.
Two years later the Yankees began to build even larger and faster vessels than anything they had yet turned out, for the Californian trade-vessels with immense cargo-capacity but yet with the lines of-a-racing yacht. A first they confined these splendid clippers to the New York and Frisco trade-bringing them back in ballast, as they could well afford to do with outward freights at roos. per ton. But, by-and- bye, they began to send them in ballast from Frisco to Chins, there to load tea's for either the London.or the New York.market..
A certain triigious sect in Changwha, Formosa, began to incl:e the people to another on break last month. Unsigned placards were posted, appointing the day on which the procesalon was to come off, is be the time for the attack upon the city. The authorities on bear- in this ado; trd mensu es to present the thica tered rutbreak, and the consequence was that the.e was "no disoider. This portion of the
Island being considered an important centre, baving approaches leading both to the northern and southern parts of the island, a garrison of safficient is: will be placed there for its protec tion. The Governor has already despatched throes the forces under Liu Trotal and they, will be stationed there with the aim of preserving peace.
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DOUGLAS STEY.SHIP.COMPANY,-
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An official near Foechow, who had by bis covetousness and misrule brought upon himself the hatred of the people, recently received a send-off which is calculated to make others Careful not to fallow in bis footsteps, When the official took his departure from his seat of government, the people gathered together and exhibited their feelings towards the departing mandaria in a most forcible manner. Placards. were posted in public places in the town, upon which were written the many fiulls of their picor, enumerating in detail his weak points
teilsed his administration. The populace, besider this, burned jour paper as the official Company's Scamship passed along the streets, and made other de- monstrations sigolfying thele delight to be rid of Captain Goddard, will be despatched for the bim.
above Porta, on FRIDAY, the agth instant, at Day'ight
MARINBURCK-MADE EXTENSIONDIN. ING TABLE and CHAIRS. MARINBURCK SIDEBOARD with, MIRROR BACK and, DINNER-WAGGON; MOROCCO COVERED COU"H and CHAIRS, DINNER and DES- SERT SERVICES, GLASS and PLATED WARE, CUTLFRY,'&c'
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ROOM SUITE, &c. &c, CURTAINS and CORNICES.
BATHROOM
Evening died away in clear rosy light, and again could only earn àliqu; half as much. Thit and the love of lill-gitimate' gain, which charac FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. SINET, DOUBLE PERAMBULATOR, BED.
Canals-are-the-great-bigbroads-of-China, and are, I suppose, the reason why the land roads remain la such neglected state. It was worth while to watch the orderly procession of boats up and down, each keeping its side, an in a city street. The towpath is on the right as you go. north; and where the trackers come to a boat at anchor on that side they were generally able, with dexterous Jerk, to whip the towing-line over the mast. If this manoeuvre falled, those on-board the obstructing craft were always ready. to loosen a knot in the line, and taking the ends beyond the mast to the them again; service they might have to ask of others at any time. the shadows gathered swiftly. We were unwill- ing to halt-for-the-night-before reaching the village of Haining, scarce a third of the way back. The canal wound in and out with many a curve; and there was a buga star that kept looking over, the shoulder of other bank by turns, and cheating us with its friendly, gleam. The crickets piped and shrited and chirruped and tinkled in the merriest chorus. We were beginning to doubt whether Halaing had not evaporated, like the Tanyang Lake, from the face of the earth; when, as turning a corner, it barst upon as with a little flare and confused clamour of men and ducks. These loquacious bipeds were in boats, of which an astonishing fleet, for such a little place, lay at anchor. I. should my there were six or seren score at the very least; among them a great many travelling boats, whose glowing casements had the cosiest look.
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Halafeng is a small village, but renowned over many provinces for the curing of hams. For a long way ahead we could see them in dim-lit interiors, hanging down, a numberless mulutude. Our excellent Hosbang, ever sedulous of the local colour, served as few allees at dinner; we found it excellent, though little strong of Eavour. The "fire-logs" passed fato my dreams. I wandered in endless sha- dowing forests where they bung, a monstrous fruit, from every tree; I was jostled by fantastic preposterous weapon and I reflected, with the sublime imbecility of dreams, what a stroke of genios it was to equip the soldier with an arm which, after the toll of battle, he might refresh himself by devouring. When I awoke it was past eight o'clock, and the river was already in sight.-"L," in N. C. Daily News. ·
By this combination they made often as much [赤] £10 per ton on the round voyage, while British ships from London to China and home gave the Yankees another tum of monopoly of the tex trade, and threatened to run-away-with- our maritime commerce altogether. The pro- spects of British shipping certainly looked black enough at the close of the first half of the pre- seat century. But we have never been beaten yet, and the age of fron was still to come.
We were not even beaten in wood, although it must be confessed that for long we could not overtake, and seldom did exceed, the attainments of such flyers as the Flying Cloud, the Sea Witch, the Oriental, and the Challenge, One which then flew the American flag. of the first British-built vessels to beat them was the Challenger, built to the order of the late Richard Green specially to match the Yankee Challenge which she did, and more. Another was the Ganges, built by a Leith firm in the days immediately preceding the Aberdeen
clippers,
The story of one famous race between the Ganges (under Captain Dess) and two of her American rivals, has been told by Mr. T. C. Cowper, who made the voyage home in bar. His story is worth repeating, as it must be new to mast of our readers :—
"THE
"HAITAN,"
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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FOR BANGKOK (PIRECT), Company's Steamer
THE
Owing to enormous quantities of rice having been purchased by the Cantonese, merchanta and speculators and shipped to the south from Kinklang the Incal market has been drained, so much-so-that-there-has-not-been-enough to supply local consumption. As might be expected the price of this article has risen much above THE the normal. The districts round about Klakiang not being grain producing, depend upon the adjalaing country for the supply of food matter of this kind. In former years there was no- difficulty in obtaining suficient grain, but since the Cantonese began purchasing, a new and more profitable outlet has opened to the producers, who instead of supplying their old consumers, sell to the new grain dealers, making larger profit, but greatly to the distress of the Klukiang natives. To prevent a further rise in price and a greater scarcity in the market, tha authorities bare Impored a tax upon this commodity, as well as on other cereals exported from that port.
An Incendiary intely received deserved punish. ment from those whom he wished to destroy.
-vous de si mauvala.cuistourguoi avse• | armies, who belaboured each other with this the race, the American ships being the favourites. While attempilng to set fire to a straw stack, fr
: Tiens!
cries the old resident, looking up from the dissection of a pheasant; "he should have come to China,"
"Taiser-vous done↑ " quoth the Père gally The truth is that our good host, accustomed to fare very much as the Chinese round about, was put to no small trouble by our advent. But, as Is the want of diarionus les everywhere in China, he was hospitality itself
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The next morning Joke bright and clear.
A stroll on the vajiparts, gave us a view
of sooty roofs and wild bare plains beyond.
Boats were movling up and down stream, and a
TO FAR CATHAY.
VII.
THE YANKEE COMPETITION.
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"We loaded new teas at Whampoa, and walled on the 1st September, 1841. Two of the fastest American clippers, the Flying Cloud and Bald Eagle sailed two or three days after us. A great deal excitement existed In China about The south-west-monsoon-belog-strong, the Ganger made a rather long passage to Anjer, but when we arrived there we found that neither of our rivals had been reported as having passed We arrived In the English Channel on the evening of the 16th December. On the following morning at daylight we were off Partland, weil in shore and under short sall light winds from north-east, and weather rather thick. About 8 a.m. the wind freshened, and the baze cleared away, which showed two large and lofty ships two or three miles to wind ward of us. They proved to be our American friends, having their stars-and-stripes flying for pilot. Captain Deas at aner gave orders to bolst his signals for a pilot also; and as by this Weymouth, the Gangar being farthest in shore got her pilot first on board. I said that would land in the pilat boat and go to London by rail, and would report the ship that night or next moming at Austin Friers. The breeze had considerably freshened before I got on board the pllat cutter, when the Ganges filled away on the port tack, and contrary to his went, for he was a very cautious man, crowded on all smail sails. The Americans lost no time and were after him, and I had three hours' view
"CHOW FA," Captain C. Stoobam, will be despatched for the
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SHANGHAI BATHS requisites. Plants in Pots,
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FOR SALE.
PRICE $450,
“RACING" LUGGER #HI-YAH.”·
OMPLETE, done up for the SEASON, and teady for racing with all Gear, Sal Spars, &c
This Boat la eligible for entry, either in the Championship Claes or in the 2nd Class in the Weekly Races of the Hongkong Corinthian Sailing Club,
Next race of the CLUB will be on the 4th December.
An early application to
JL LLOYD, RE, RE Mess, Queen's Gardens,
or Wellington Barracks,
will ensure her belog quite ready by that date,”
Note The Purchaser will have to provide
† his own Recing and Winning Flags. Готва Hongkong, arst November, 1892.
THEY LEAD THEM ALL
"THE "CILABHÄTED
TEISS
CALIFORNIA WINES,
village near Wahu be was detected by the owner, who immediately called out for help. All the neighbours began flocking to his side and the criminal was captured: The crowd soon made thingsuncomfortable for the would-be Incendiary, Having got tired of chastising the wretch, they tied a one to his neck and pliched him into the river Soon after they saw i-man coming from the water's edge, and without ascertaining who the person was, they pounced upon the man, At this juncture a petty official arrived and put a stop to the thing, and when the enraged villagers released their hold on the man, it was found that they had made a molds, take, (ir the man was not the person whom they A FULL DESCRIPTIVE REPORT of the and JULIAN P. SMITH (Olivina) Livermore, had thrown into the water, but a courier from STC now wanted by the authorities to stand the consequences of their actions,
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL.
THE "BOKHARA" DISASTER.
"BOKHARA" DISASTER
With all Particulars, Reports of Interviews official reports of the Chief Officer, the Ancona.
· and the, Porfolie, the ManIMÉ COURT OF „Inquiry and its FINDING, experiences of other Steamers in the same Typhoon, the Normand disaster, &c., &
One effect of John's monopoly in China was few lay at anchot beneath the walls. Though to send the Americans there instead of our own It looks rather frriposltig from the outside, Tan-traders, and it is an Interesting fact that Jang ia but a popr.little markcot--town-with-no-}-Ching was one of the first forelga__market-time-overal cutters were-standing out from Hopeh. The leaders of the reckless onslaught with SURVIVORS, the Crufae of the Thaki, suburb to spole of, and no industry save the cultivated by our American cousins. They pro- rearing of silkworms. We walked up the chief bably forgot this old connection when, in street, where very third or fourth house seamed response to the popular demand that the a restaurant People greeted us with smiling "Chinese shall go," they passed their present courtesy: for the first time I passed through a prohibitory laws against Chinese Immigrants, Chinese -- tos in- & without – hearingg-the-eplihet-
"As-far-back-91-thu-year 1789 the merchants of Boston and Salem, Mais, sent ships direct Foreign Devil.”
to the East Indies and Chins-John's monopolies not excluding them. Not only did they bring back to the States eargoes of sugar and coffee and silk and spices-and in due itme. tea-but they re-shipped Eastero produce at Boston for ports on the Continent of Europe.
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of as fine an ocean-race as 1 can wish to see; the wind being dead ahead the ships were mak- ing short tacks. The Ganges showed herself to be the most weatherly of the three, and the gain on every tack lo-shore was obvious. She arrived off Dungeness six hours before the other two, and was in the London Docks twenty-four hours before the first and thirty-six hours before the last of her opponents,"
REGISTER.
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STATION
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This was good work, smart seamanship. Haha remember that the Ganges had two or three days' and good biz," but all the same, we must in start from China, and had also an advantage getting her pilot aboard first-no small advan- tage in the circumtances. It is clear enough that on an even race the Ganges would have been left far behind by the Yankees.-Fafrplay
Toky
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- 23rd November, 1892-At 10 &01.
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The Catholic Mission'stands in a little corner of the town, eat off from the rest by a canal, and almost end rely taken up with ancestral halls (fail-tong). When the countryfolie have family matters to settle or sites to perform, they like come up to town for it. I went into a few of these little buildings which are kept in Among the firms most largely engaged in this somewhat slovenly fashion, and half filled business were Bryant and Sturgis, and Perkins with coffins, stored against the owner's death, & Co., of Boston; T. H. Smith & Co., of New marked each with a name on"; allp of paper. York: Peabody & Co., of Salem; and Brown A little courtyard, weedy and littered with and Ives, of Providenes, who did the bulk of the rubbish, separater the entrance hall from the China trade about the beginning of the present second of sacrificial one. In this latter you may century. Before them the famous Thomas see, against the wall facing the doorway, a large Russell was the largest shipowner, and most the glast-fronted case of carved and slided wood, a extensive merchant in Boston engaged in sort of cuploosid, In fact, with shel res packed full Wastem trade. Another Boston firin was that of the family fabletu.: Ona, tow, habis in front of Gray & Co., out of which came Joshua Bater are two candlesticks and a center. Nothing to be the acting partner of Baring Brothers in elic, pro a few wooden benches, and the London, Out of the firm of Bryant and Sturgis mountainous pile of collies. The place is as came, later, another partner to Barings, fo bare of ornament as a bar n. Yet this is, for x succession to Bates, and out of the Peabody little group of peop de, the most sacred spot od firm came the famous George Peabody and the earth. The Chinama is why embraces Christianity present Erm of J. S. Morgan & Co, must have a stout heart for it means nothing Another famous American shipowner and NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. less than being foreslere at off from his with and matchant of the perfod was Stephen Girard, often
Philadelphis, who, bom in France and starting On (ka 6th Instant the Navidag Viceroy, kin, and becoming as ou tcast and a byword.
On our way to visit a ruinous pagoda that life as a cabin-boy, dled one of the richest men accompanied by large body of attendants, Shanghai stande a little war sout, h of the town, we found in the States After working his way upwards surveyed a portion of the city wall which had something still ma te interesting. It was a hexa- from cabin,boy to captain of an American vessel been recently repaired. The Inspection of the gonal tower between hty and forty feet high, in the West Indian trade, he lovested bls other parts will be entrusted to other officials. with a conical roof. The sides were blank savings in a store in Philadelphia and opened up
The Governor of Formoss, who has been on except one, which had a circular opening a foot a shipping business with New Orleans and the in diameter about five feet from the ground. West Indies. During the insurrection at San Locking in, one wa shaft that led obliquely Domingo, two of his vessels then in harbour sick-leave, has not improved in health, although downwards and toward through the thickness of there were used as stores by the planters. They the term of leave has nearly expired; it is stated the wall. Whaty was. It? A very moderate put all their most valuable property on board for that H.E. Shao has applied for leave to resign pruvision of Ignora and carelessness would security, intending also to embark themselves on the ground of ill-healib, which we fear will have sufficed to wink as call it baby-tower with the rest of their gear. But meat of them were not be granted by the Government. and pass on. But te je edifice had en mistake killed, and no enscyer appeared to claim the valo ably Buddhistle air and besides, the inner. ables deposited with Girard. He thus became rich Opening of the fri anel like shaft was far too small all at once, and he set to work, to the last decade for an infant body to pass through. It was, as of last century, to build a fleet of splendid clippers we found out, a dep itary for the ashes of for the Calcutta and Chios trade-such as the Montesquieu, the Helvetius, the Voltaire, and Buddhist monks and a few steps further wa came upon the creat ato fum. This was a simple the Rousseau, long renowned in the annals of rounded-constructid brick, soms-ten-feet American shipping. With these he accumulated more wealth, but died without kith or kin and bigh, and not room sough for two men to stand faside. The lehed doorway looked too left all his money in charitable, and eccentric large for the narrow thoui tos in the brick floor legacies. One of his bequests was two millon récently was a circular depress dom for fuel, I suppose, and dollars to found an orphan asylum at Philadel duced in the way of ilumination, In former the domed roof war p
pielercad with an aperture for phia to which no minister of religion was ever year candies and other kinds of lights were the draught. The copse is doubtless brand in to be admitted on any pretext whatevernoted, but this year electric light was adopted un upright or alaing orture Not far away is a | aven as a visitor. large and I daresay,inters sting temple, hin Previous to their Declaration of Independence success.
An extensive fire occurred on the 8th lust. in a town belonging to the Wathow prefemur: The number of houses destroyed is estimated to beover three hundred, all of them being businear houses. In the summer before last a similar fire reduced a large portion of that town to sales.
At the Autumn fertivals which were celebrated Canton a new departure was intia.
Lastead. The change was pronounced a decided
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w-Barometer reduced to level of the sea to faches, teethe and hundredths, peTeteperstars to the shade, în dignos, FE- pashalt. --Flamidity, ky, paremtage of anturation, the hamidday of ala bokurssed with moletears belog zoo, a--Ditryction of the wind jo two pologa. „panYarge of the wind - according to cleods, of Bylasing jihu Vang Clooney, & Hai, Lipumber, ♥ Vịtblběy, w. Dv¥ w*), 7-Pala_în lachos, kikkbe kad kundredacteu
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HONGKONG REGISTER.
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we were in no hamd for jpis-hunting, and | the American States could neither export por
Early on the morning of the thirst, the body preferred con dng back to lifa on the brassboat. import in any bat Brideh vessels, nor could they
I mention this meal because harmonious export to or import from any other European of a respectable-looking man was discovered on- alde Fomeng, Soochow, by a farmer who passed course was, interrupted by an incident too cha country that Great Britain, he get racteristic for omission There is a traffic of But things greatly altered when they set up that way. Attracted by a disagreeable todour vest importance, subsci wed on this canal by flat for themselves, and we find that after the the farmer began to investigate, and was horrified barge-like"-" boats. One of these I saw through | modisesifon of the Navigation Laws, the to And the corpse of a middle-aged man with an the usen windows sporching to windward Americans were at liberty to class out with their arm severed from the body. The authodiles on and the sext momenti here, war wh lf-he whips from English' posts, not only for British receipt of the news held an examination on the Pous the foul thing 1 It seemed a hundred India but also for Chius, to whichillas wa hays body, and it was found that the deceased was FATE # going by while v to smothered in, handkeze next, down to 1934, Briüth shipowners could not i the victim of fosil play, Stepa kaya boyu taken Hongkong Observator
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The Mortlara was built in Singapore, la most
soildly constructed of teak throughout, with Iron wood frames, has recently been thoroughly overhauled under experienced European superin. tendence, and is now in excellent condition. She is very fast sailer and a most suitable would make a first-class lighter.
For Particulars as to Price, dtc., apply to ›
R. FRASER-SMITH, 6, Pedder's Hi Hongkong, 17th May, 1892. FOR SALE
| vessel for the Canton kerosene trade, of het
ryas:...
THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT "CHOP-CHEUNG, AS THEY LIB, AT ABERDEEN DOCKS.
HE Engines of the Chop-chopng wore THE
constructed by Meners, Inczas & Co., of. Cylinder Direct-Acting Surface Condenalog iDO Wanchai, andars-of-the Compound Inverted "HE SHORT RANGE CUP will be Shot for Cylinders 201 and 35o ding with a stroke of 20, THE SHORT ECU willbe Shutter The Crank Shaft is saf --200 and 300 yards, Time, 3 RAMON
and
dia at the journals. The H.F. Platon Rod is 3" and the L.P. 31 da. The Platon, ED. ROBINSON,
and Connecting Rod bolts are a dia, Air Pump Hon. Secretary,
143" dia, by 13 stroke, Single Acting Circulating Hongkong, 21st November, 1892. 140
Feed and Blige prys toks, and Double Acting Pamp (one each) " dia, by 13. --BOARD AND RESIDENCE
strok
These Engines have been very litle used and
COMFORTABLY FURNISHED ROOMS, are in thoroughly good order.
Apply to
Table Accommodation:
MIL. MATHER,
2, Pedder Hill [1114 Hongkong, th November, 1897.
PRIVATE BOARD AND RESIDENCE – "GLENZALY BUILDINGS,*": (Nov. 18 and 14, Wyndham, Stred.)
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Rætwear Boarders and VISITORS.
· also Accommodations for TABLE BOARDERS,
Hongkong, 4th July 18gs
The Boller is of the Horizontal Muliftibular type, with three Furunces and vertical Dome on top. Its dia, is zott s” by gft. ro" long, external measurements; Farnices, aft, y" dia. Doms, 44% dla by 4ft, high ; Tubes, 184 In number by 3a ex. dia. It is in fairly good condition, having recently undergone considerabla ropalis, and would last in active service for over fire yERTY.:
The Engines and Boller can be Inspected es application to the Superintendent, at Aberdeen Docks,
For further particulars, apply to
Anda? R. FRASER SMITH,
Pedder's Hill, Hongkong, 17th May,