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Issued a proclamation, reylog that à chapel connected with the American" Mission, was a French chapel ; and then in process of i.rlot he calmly sat by in his chair watching the demoli- tion. In the same year, owing to certain influm- matory proclam-tions, by an Imperist M›n/xter, and the Viceroy and Governo i Canton, various. chapels, both, Prot-atent and Roman #thalle, were at once Iroved and destroyed, while the lives | of all Inteigners in that city were for a time in perl!. Several year ago in Shantung the ficist Incited a disturbance against the English mi sionaries by rehearsing to the local pentry how the gently in blown invince had succeeded") In driving away the foreigner. In awother cly In the same previner,) whet a mah had assembled
to attack in American missionary, and her foreigner went to twe yamlus, bot' falled «in gaining either an interview or protection. In the Flots of 18gt we need only refer to the negligence of the Tantal at Wuhu, though previc ly fore- warned, the Incapacity of the Gebral at Ichang, and the brutal treatment of the foreign ladies at Wusuch by the sub-Prefect and sub- Magistrate, We más rightly hold the ovinion that open host 'lly on the part of the acting officials has gradually diminished, and thất espreially within the last few years "A viser way to deal with the foreign problem has begun to prevail, and yet if we carefully enquire into the troubles which have arises, many an official will be implicated therein. If redress is Bought at the Tsung Yamén, the usual routine is le sue orders to the Vic-ny or Governor to In turn instruct the local official to investigate and repner, and then after months of delay the Foreign Minister many possibly be informed that the statement made by the sulf·ct of his bonourable country is not to be credited, or that a. satisfactory adjustment has already been reached. Every Minister in Feking will pro- bably acknowledge that any issue be presents will be met by vexatious delays. At least Sir John Walsham, in referring to the riots of 1891, bas only this to announce to bis Home Govern- ment:
"Nothing has been done by the Tsung Yamén except under the strongest pressure, and even then it has been done onwill. ingly and ungraciously,"
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1o93.
was generally believed that this splendid water- way was unnavigable, Nay, it was not for many years even alter that event that the British public come to look upon the Yangtse as a river navigable at all times and by all kinds of craft −st any rate, »s far as Hankow,
Proof of this we have lately came acres in cosulting in file of The Times for the year 186_In the month of November of that year The Times had a lending article about the development of China, In" which it is stated that Engilsh opinion was nearly unanimous that the notion of shipping teas from this mysterious and very doubtful plice "--to wit; Hanków - was shouts wild a noilon an ever came from a dia- temner · besin,
Now The Timat was well-informed and fai. seeing enough to combat and ridicule this nearly unanimous "fancy, and took occasion, from a vey're just complet d by the Whitendder, to point a moral and adan a' tale. This voyage mas characterised net ne a great navel schieves mant—for it we acknowledged that ships of wir had already done that as a simple come merchal voyage demansruing, grest facts. It moved that the paisage up and down the Vangire was no enty and safe for sailing-vessels * the passage up and down the Hooghly to Calcutta.
This was in 1863, and The Times writer seemed unssware that Bish merchant-ves el had siready made the voyage up to Hankow and down agato in 1860. That was the auxillary- steamer, Scotland, whose exploit we have airea'y related, and, whose cargo, it may be remen bered, was transhipped at. Shanghai for Europe and America. Ther, again, The Times writer was not aware, apparently, that In the month of May in the very year in which he was writing, another suxiliary steamer, the Robert Lows, loaded at Hankow the first cargo shipped therefor direct conveyance to Great Britain with- out breaking bulk. At least the Robird Lowe's haqqsually been supposed to have been the first of such shipments, but loading contemporaneously with her were two other English vessels, and which serually got away first we have not been able to ascertain beyond doubt.
One of these vessels was the Whilendder, While the memorisis to the Thrane by the which, we believe, was the first of the sailing Viceroys Chang and Liu, and especially the one tea-citippers to proceed to Hankow, and some of the Tsungli Yamê, in the year 1891, give interesting particulars of whose voyage we have credit to the labours of the misalonaries, we must obtained." The Whiteander, it should be men- remember that a memorial in 1884 on the tioned, was commanɛ ed by Captáln A. Bowers, restriction of Chriyantly by the High Commis- who in a letter to The Times on his arrival in stoners, Peg Yu-lin give an impetus to several London, gave an in eresting report of the riots in the province- f Kuangtung, from which the|navigation and scenery of the Yangtse, which memorial at the time emanated. In that memoria! letter seems to have prompted the leading he stated that "since the Treaties have permitted article to which we have referred.. foreign-ta formah-West to spread their deciripes. the morals of the pe ple have been greatly Injured." Lewis the Missionary Circular of the Trungli Yan C in 1871, while staring facts and Living good and wise suggestions, is apt to mislead the native scholar unless taken in con- pection with the reply of the U. S. Minister, found in Dr. Allen's "China and Her Neigh, bours. Even the book on foreign questions edited by Viceroy Li has been used as a clue to frus rate foreignera and carry on litigation,
While no serious riots have occurred in the province of Shanal owing to the peaceable character of the people, the Hunan placards were posted at all the leading yamins in the provincial Capital "during the eximinations in 1891, the Governor bring well-known, as anti-foreign, Other placards as well as coples of the "Death blow to Cornipt Doctrines," have been secretly utilised by offic is in polsoning the minds of the people. While there is an increase of officials, enlightened as to the missionary move- ment, friendly to some of the missionaries, there is still a large body disliking the forelg er and opposing his plans, and from such the riots, bave had at least a part of their origin.-N. C. Daily News.
(To be continued)
TO FAR CATHAY.
.XIII.
The Whiteadder is described by The Time as a British whip of 1,000 tons, drawing, 19 ft, of water when full of tex," whose loading st Hankow and successful paninge down the river is clied as proof that "all the uncertainty and mystery has now vanlibed from the doubled City of the Upper Yangtse "—the size and wealth of which had been generally discredited in England unti: then.
This vessel was one of the first of the com- posite build, to which reference has been previously made in these articles, but she was not one of the Aberdeen clippers. She wai built, in 1862, at the famous Nelson Dock at Rotherhithe, where so many craft, notable in their day and generation, were turned out, and she was designed especially for the Chios fca- trade. She was of 914 tons reglater, and altogether a smart craft, well-known for many a year afterwards in the China trade, She had wooden frames alternating with bariton frame", and was owned by Messrs. John Willis & Son,
The Whilandder's first" _run_out - was to Shanghal, and then she engaged to go up to Hankow to load the first season's ten for London direc-one of the first engarements of the kind and, as far as we have been able sa ascertain, the very first undertaken by a sailing- ship, althouch The Times mentions that four other ships of lige tonnage followed her example the same season,
She had to be towed up, of course, and one of the river steamers, which by this time Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. had got out la connee tion with their Shanghai House, was employed as fug. The vayage ap occupied four days, and the lowage bill up and down was £1,000.
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Eight-ninths of the spindles in the English Cebion Federation are idle ar running halftime.
The Murich art jury to pass on works to be, rent to the Chicago Falt was chosen November 30th
m' cats...
The Arg, ntine Minister of Finance declares that it will be impossible to resume cash pay. Four hundred and fifty Catholic papers are published in Germany, including, aloety-four dell es.
An effort is being made to establish a Masonic Grand Lodge for the whole of South
Africa.
There are only thred Lord Mayors in the British Isles the Mayors of London, York and Dublin.
A party of sportsmen bt the chateau ef Buren Hirch in Hungary, shot 20870 partidges in three days.
All the pawnshops. In Morcow, owned by Hebrows, are shortly to be closed by order of the Government,'*
The Amazon wantors of the King of Dahomey at Poguess were armed with Winchesters and sharp sabres,
In Sweden and in Denmark, the Prilaments have voted that the oft.ce of stenographer shall be filled by women.
Mme, Etelka Gerster has made a most successful appearance in the Grand Ducal Theatre at Weimar,
Russia is gain active in her efforts to maleteic the very bigbent degree of efficiency in her military organization."
It is estimated that France will spend nearly $1,000,000 for arms and ammotion for the cavalry alone next year.
The London Timer says that the great Siberian Rallroad scheme is badly managed and in mak, ing very slow progress.
The section of London society known as "The Souls" has abandoned its preject of publishing a magazine.
Within the last thirty years there have been on the Brilah costs 66,377 wrecks with the fearful loss of 22,312 lives. ·
London's six principal rallway lines carry annually over 200,000,000 people and the tram ways about 150,000,000.
Spain has signed treatles of commerce with Sweden and Norway, Holland, Denmark, Switzerland and Portugal.
Despite the cholers, German railway, pert and telegraph receipts increased nearly $3,000,000 up to October 311.
Christine Nilsson has given $5,000 toward founding a hospital in France for the treatment of sufferers from throat diseases.
The Council of the Society of Authors; of which Tennyson was President, bas elected George Meredith as his successor. ·
Herculille, the new French explosive, is so powerful that hall a pound of it in recent test displaced a stone weighing thlity tone,
The German Heakh office reports that there have been in Germany this year 19,647 cases of cholar, of which 8,575 have been fatal.
The Kaiser has sat for his 130th picture. It cannet be said, therefore, that there are no willing subjects in the German Empire.
The wheat harvest of South Australia promises to be excellent, both in yield and quality. A large surplus will be available for export.
In Germany aluminium cravats are now on ale. They are advertised as feather-light, silver white work, gnads that will wear forever.
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up y coming on the top of the colapie of the Panna Canal Company would be a heavy blow to France, '
Some of the boys of Berlin, seem to prefer safcide to life. In the last fourteen months sixty. two of them committed suicide. Fifty-four of hem wee under fifices, and one of them was not seven years old......
prematurely, who neglect the warning symptoms of approaching disease, such as a tired sching feeling in the morning, headaches and serrousness, sour
taste in the month, &c., all those aro sigue that the physical body is deranged and that if treated lightly, serious danger is to be apprehended, W. Swanson,
To-day's Advertisements.
NEW FIRM.
A. F. SKEELS & CO.
A fuscial on bicycles lately took place in an Beq, 70 King William-street, Fitzroy, Melbogrife, Telegraphic Address "SouЯinos," Hongkong..
Engliss town. The deceased was Captain of a biry clu club, and just before his death requested that his brdy shruld be conveyed to the Cemetery on bt be ween the French Minton at
on bicycles.
Fra and the Sultan have been suspended in
the concession for the construction of a Mori cco |-Algerian frentfer railway.
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says: "About 8 yours ago I was seized all of a addon with great lassitnile, dizziness and extreme any affort. My digestive organs were as impaired and Kervourness so great that I was unable to rally after
my Hver so congested, that I was scarcely, able to eas any solid food, and gradually became no weak that I could barely
medicines and advertised remedies
consequence of the refusal of the Suljan 10 sign | number of doctor drag myself along. After ring
to no purpose, I I started on
on course of Clements Tonle which brought me great relief, especially.
-when The Bfast Chamber of Commercek in an nsing' Dr. Fletcher's I Pill * as well. Then I gained official bulletin, hails the difest of the Republi-weight and strength quickly. 1 took altogether 12 can party as a blessing, and expresses the hope th
the extreme duiles Introduced in the McKinley bill will be speedily abolished,
The Journal des Bebars thinks little will Come of the Panama Canal inquiry, the com milices powers being too limite 1, and falls to te how the Chamber of Deputres will be able to deal with the charges agatest Senators..
It is the opinion of the Jewish Tidings that the Jews of. Palestine had a dus measure' ol liberty they would 1005 make that old country prosperous, "Free from the shackles of a Rasslan oppressor, the Jew of the East can'↑ build a home which even a Crir might envy."
In Scolland, where the field mice hava become such a plague that Commission of the Department of Agriculture is investigaling the maiter, the incresss of mice is attributed to the killing of weneris and birds of prey by hunters,
A London vestry-that of St. Saviour in Southwark-has taken up the cause of the opening of museums on Sunday, and called a meeting of other vesties. At this ́meeting letters were read from members of Parliament in favor of the cause,
The first Chair of Egyptology in England has been founded by the will of the late Miss Amelia B. Edwards, who died in the spring of last year ; and the Edwards Professor at University College, London, is now Flinders Petsie, who has Just beca formally appointed.
It is currently reported at Buenos Ayres that Dr. Juarez Celman, the late President, has prudently invested upward of two millions sterling in Europe, upon which he, will be able to live very comfortably at Paris, Monte Carlo and other pleasant places.
bottles of Clements Tonio and 4 boxes of Fletcher's Pill and my health and vigor Increased under their healthful stimolo Miss Amalia Menah, 471 Klag-street, Melbourne, writes, "I have suffered most acutely from neuralgia, so much that my face often swelled great and caused me mach agony, I and very great relief." Head office and laboratories, can truly say that Clements Tonio gave me prompt
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Food the Cassumptives-Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda is a most wonderful food for the Consumptiva. It not only gives strength and Increases the flesh, but heals the Irritation of the throst and lungs. It is very palatable ; children tale. It like milk, and in all wasting diseases both for adulta and children it is « marvellous food and medicine. Any Chemist can supply it A. S... Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China.- Adet.
Boshay's Advertisements.
THEATRE
ROYAL
CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
FINAL PERFORMANCE, THIS EVENING (SATURDAY), 7th January, 1893, at 9 F.M.
(A.B.C. Code 4th Edition.) COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUCTIONEERS AND VALUERS.
No. 17, PRAYA CENTRAL, "Under Meairs," Douglas Lapjaik & Coặ% Offca.
Hongkong, yib January, 1803..
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For Sale.
FOR SALE,
DUC DE MONTEBELLO
· CHAMPAGNE.
$16 00 per case... 6 Magnumo (Dry).
37.00 do.
do. (Extra dry).
(Dry).
15.00 do. ...11 Quais
16.00
do. 26.00 .do. .27,00 do.
24 Pints
12 Quaris ...24 Fints
(Extra dry), (do),
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BRANDY. $7.50 to $66 per cann of a dozen quaste.
CLARETS. §6 to $42 per cans of 1 dozen quarts.
FRENCH BEER, WHITE WINE,
&c. Price list on apellcation,
M. S. SASSOON & Co.,
Agents for
P. MIGNARD, Esq., Shanghai.
Hongkong, 25th November, 1892.
FOR SALE,
(11%
THE VALUABLE PROPERTY,
KNOWN AS
THE FAMILY HOTEL, CHEFOO, BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OP- EDWARD NEWMAN, DICKASID.
THE
HE PROPERTY is situated on the East Beach, about One mile from the Settle. meat, and comprises, The 'HOTEL and OUT- The Land measures 20 maw 2 fen and is registered in H.B.M. CONSULATE as LOTS No. 33, 41, 61, 165,66 and 90,
The count ladles of Roumania were taxing HE "SONS OF NEPTUNE," HOUSES belonging thereto.
and extorting money by scandalous means to an effort to rais: a fund to hay frincess Mario a wedding gili, but the Princess hearing of it stopped the levy and directed that the money so ralied be used for charity
A gentleman has left £1,000 to the Edinburg University to provide inuff and tobacco for poor persons in the infirmary who are in distress for the want of either. He himself had been for twenty years a slave to the use of tobacco and knew the suffering incident to its deprivaton.
English farmers are demanding that the benefits, recent land legislation as applied to ireland shall be extended to Great Britain. They are agitating for the establishment of land courts which will have power to fix fair rates and make arrangements to enable the tenants to pur chase their Holding; form the landlords,
The last English fashion in the way of dogs a wble colfie, a much more sensible crase than most fancies of the last years, for the collie in itself is a beautiful, gentle, affectionate and most intelligent animal. The Queen gave one of these pretty creatures to one of atı malds of honor as a wedd og present the other day.
In England the growing scarcity of suitable wood has led to the ute af match-sticks-la reported to be excellent-moulded from peat,
Senator Alliaca thinks that the result of the Monetary Conference now in session at Brussels will justify the United States in obtaining it.
Tests of the now Russia armor-plates were recently made, French plates withstood the
- (OFFICERS-AND MEN OF HIM.~FLEET) - In the Original, Sparking, and Novel Nautical
Entertainment, entitled- "THE VOYAGE.OF H.M.S. "ALBACORE,"
IN TWO ACTS,
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Giving Graphic and Realistic Description of everyday life on board a Man-of-War, including Dances, Topleil, Nautical and Comic Songs with a Chorus of over 70 Strong.
As performed over 70 times with immense success at the Royal Naval Exhibition 1891, and before the Royal Family and several of the Crowned Heads of Europe.
By
Under the Special Patronage of H.R.H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES,
kind permission of Lieut.-Col. RAVENHILI
and the OfficERS of the SHROPSHIRE
· LIGHT INFANTRY, the BAND will perform,
The Performance is given under the Distinguisher Patronage of
tests better than those of Bri·lah mandíacture. ~ | 2: Stoch bew escaped from its pit at the His Excellency Str WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Gardens, Listen, the other day, and
A Reading, England, family can prove by attacked its keepers furiously when they local records that they and their ancestors have endeavored to secure it, Dice was killed and paid rent for their house no less than 400 years.
two others fearfully injured. A party of men "The fresh campaign of calumny resulting from the municipal guard were despatched to from the Panama Canal affair seems to be pure the gardens, and they poured a volley into the Insanity," the Pasis correspondent of the London huge beast, killing it on the spot. Times S
It is aid that goo pertons worked for ten days on the beautiful lace bridal vell of the Princess Margarethe of Petala. It was made at Hirsch
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THE YANGTSE TRADE, Readers of Rudyard Kipling's story of "The Naulabka" will remember how determined Certain persons were that "three C's" should go to Topaz. The story which we are telling in This was a large slice to take out of herberg, Silesia. thean pager is of how "" the three C's" have gone | freight, but than freicht war freight in those Eiffel of tower fame will assist Professar Jans. to India and Chine Only our three Chare days. The Whittadder's charter 18 65 persen, the astronomer, in building his observatory Commerce, C-vilisation, and Chrisianity, Weton, and at that happy time not only was the on the top of Mount Blanc, at an altitude of place them in that order beesuse Commerce has
4,800 meters. Certainly been the firstbject and has spread more than either Civilis tion or Christianity, Moreover, if trade follows the fog, civilsailón follows trade, and as for the Bible, our experience has taught us, what the Germans seemi still to | the mixties I have to learn in Africa, that it goes down best without the Bullet,
Now we do not mean to dwell on missionary enterpitse in China. That is not the department of this journal. Still, it would be Improper not to recognise the fact that, whatever erois may bave been committed in the name of Christially in Chins, and however much money may have been walled in hopeless, because lib-conceived And wrongly-directed, efforts there, the growth of the missions has been a direct service to commerce, Missionaries have in many cases preceded European traders to the interior towns, and had it not been for missionary enterprise the great trade of the Yangtse river might have been still las open than it is.
And speaking of this reminds us that a recent Indian wilter has said that the return which India has made for European commerce is Cholera. This is the fourth C, and one which we could do well witboat. Nowadays, chalera comes to Eur pe overland from the Sacred Cities of the East, but its not generally known' that it was one of the importations of John Company Ento England,
One of John's vessels-the Hugh Lindsay, which has already been mentioned in these records--brought home cholera to the year 1830. Till then it had been confined to India and the East. But, pursuing this subject, we have come mcross an interesting fact, with special bearing upon our present object--Far Cathay-viz, takt aversel of John Company's carried the Cholers from India to China In the year 1817.
Thus, then, we have conveyed four Ci to - Chips, and the return which India has made for English commeres we have paired on to the Land of Fiers-along with opium, bymn-books, tea-lead, blche-de-mer, yzed cotion, warships, and other more or less dubtous blessings.
The important part which the opening of the Lower Yangtse has had in the development of steami-trado with Calna is apt in be lost night of nor is the even greater potentiality of the Upper Yangtse (silli closed to steam navigation) realised here as much as it ought to be.
rupee worth what it professes to he, but the trel which nowadays is valus only for some 15. 10d., was then worth 6s, 6d. What a mournful plen ware it must be for owners to go over the old charters and voyage-bilis of the golden years of
K.C.M.G. Vice-Admiral the Honon-able Sir EDMUND R. FREMANTLE, KC.B., C.M.G.. Major-General G DIGBY BARKFR, CB., Commodore H. ST. L. B. PALLISER, R.N. N.B-Proceeds will be handed to local Charities.
Doors Open al 8,30 P.M Performance at 9 F.. precisely.
PRICES.
Drets Circle and Stalls Pit
$1.00
1.00
Soldiers, Sailors and Police in uniform Half Price,
Plans have been completed by an eminent Russian engineer for connecting the White Sca ports with the Finnish railway now being con- ructed from Viborg to the town of Johnson, to. the north of Finland. The total distance of the proposed fine is only a50 English miles. The region ihmugh which this new railway would run is very rich in epper, iron and timber.
The number of paupers in England and Wales A syndicate of engineers, says the Electrical in the fourth week of August fast was 639.303 World, has applied for the privilege of construct(168.896 Indoor. 470,407 cuidcor), less than the Ing an elevated railroad to Paris, to be operated number relieved in the corresponding mouik is hy electricity.
any ofthe preceding years since 1857, except 1897 The propertion of paupers to the popula tien-21,7 to the 1000-was smaller than in any other year since the record has been kept. Prussia, published four weeks ago, shows #THE WEST POINT BUILDING
The income tax report for the kingdom of
increasing number of millionstres. There are 8,445 person who confess to more than go0,000
The actual millionaires of Prussia
The priests tell the people in Persia that the The Whiteadder came down the river with- | cholera plague is the result of alcoholic stimul- cut mishap, and made a quick passage home-anta, a tale that is helping the temperance cause the run from St. Helena to the Isle of Wight being done in 28 days.
wonderfully o'Shanter Inn at Ayr, famous
The Tam wherever the verse of Bobbie Burns is read, was sold at auction recently, after brisk tiding, for
The early steamers on the Yangise must have pald very well. Prior to 1863 there were only two or three of the beginning of 186 the end of 1863, or fewer than pine fregalar employment between Shanghai and Hankow-five of which were owned by British firms and four by Americans. They had wood power and speed for their day. and genr ́sion, and some ofthem could carry as much as 2,000 tons of tea. The voyage usually occupied four days up and two days down, and freighis ranged from 3 to 4 per tonics which withstanding the high cost of coal and the enormous pon charges must. have left very handsome margins every ulp.-Fairplay.
about $16.000, 1864, we find there were no
NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Russia has exiled agoooo Jews. Austrians lead in tobacco consumption. Paris has 2,000 daily and weekly papers. Nibliiste continue to stir the Russian peasants, London's main telegraph office has 3,000 operators.
A regiment of Russian soldiers numbers 3,292 men.
Three of the Rothschild girls have married Christians.
There are at prescot else tro-ton guns in the Bridith Navy,
The French term for a total abstainer is a "Tea Toitler."
German Conservatives secretly conferred In Berlin, December 8th,
Only a per cent of the Siberian/runawaya' escape with their lives.
Eugilah farmers are preparing to make radical demands of Parliament.
There are 4,832 clubs,fa France, with a total memberlip of 9.277.155.
The London unemployed will not be allowed to make a torchlight paradaje till da pre
In France it takes about 4 per cent of the annual revenue to pay pensions.
It is difficult for people at home to realise how essentially 'Chins is a land of water-carriage, how the whole Empire is intersected in every direction by natural and artificial waterways, all draining Queen Mary's rycamore at Craigmillar Castle the remoter Gelds of industry into some central is beginning to fade and fail away. reservoir of commerce. As yet we have only The police system in all its branches costs. tapped a faction ofthose reservolis, and one of the England nearly $20,000,000 a year. most memorable of our tappings was when weCount Leo Tosial has settled his entire were able to schd merchant-vessels to Hankow, property upon his wife and children. Yet look at Hackow on the
map; and note how Richard Schenker, the son of the wealthiest comparatively short a distance it is pp the mighty men in Vienna, has committed suicide. stream which flow through the richest provinces of China, and is connected with the far interfon by bewildering network of tributaries and affiliated canale.
Ja mile or more wide at Hankow, yet unill Clever varade of 3.000 miles in length Admiral Sherard Oibora, in 1858, za abendy related, took H.M.8. Furione up to that cuy, it
Af the Royal Mtat kt Stockholm a woman has for years been the engraver of medale.
The managers of Monte Carlo bare excluded Local physician from the gambling room trafos in England in fifty-ons miles an hour,
The Bighest average speed attained by railway
The latest English fashion in the way of dogs
Theatres in Parls are not paying. There are
eighteen leading playhouses and their receipts fell off from 32,000,000 francs in 1896 td 17,50,000 in 1891.
The Columbus relics which the Vatican has "greed to loan Ir the Columbian Expositi a Include some of the most precious antiquarian articles in existence.
The St. James Gazette says that a number of workmen who meet at Tower Hill boast of the possession of fire-arms and declare that they are trained in their use.
It is claimed that there is a lighthouse to every fourteen miles of coast in England, to every thirty-four miles in Ireland, and to every thirty Dine miles in Scotland.
The Duke of Veragua hus granted the request of President Harsicon for the loan of the relics of Columbus, owned by biz descendants, for exhibition at the World's Fair.
The Car is determined to break up the sugar monopoly, and has authorised the Minister of Finance to purchase sugar abroad so as to keep; the price at a reasonable figure.
An agreement has been effected between the Governments of Spain and Denmark whereby a minimum iniiff is imposed on Danish products imported into Cuba and Porto Rico,
The new German Emigration bill which ́ fa before the Reichsing prohibits the emigistion of men between seventeen and twenty-five years of age who are liable to military service,
At one time one-third of the whole British Army were Irishmen, but a recent report showed that only 12,803 of the 103,174 regular soldiers, serving at home, were born in Ireland.
An outflow of population from Europe to South American porta li now in- progress, and pro- mixes to assume enormous proportions as s003 1 some existing difficulties are sctiled,
The Czar of Roals has the stamp-collecting manla. Hii collection is said to be worth over $600,000, and to contain nearly every stamp of the past er present issues of all nations. *,,
divided into thre classes-the mark millionaires,
the thaler millionaires and the so-called Income millionaires.
A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram Company from Moscow says the Czar has withdrawn his consent to the morganatic marriage of his no- phew, the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch, with the daughter of a merchant named Boore. yany, because she insisted on the sight to be received at court and on having the title of Grand Duchess.
The veteran, Isaac Pitman, has issued in cir cular form a tract proposing that “A Speling Leeg |
aul Lonografers. speling be formed, or reformers, Profesors of Etimoloji Filatoji, and Langwaja, and utbers hoo aproov or a reform la our kaotik speling, and wil, on konvenient okazaoux, suport' thair opfolong bei pusing a reformad speling."
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Priepa Leopold of "ropsia, the second cousin of the Emperor of Germany, who took part le the recent 130g distance side between Berlin and Viction, han recovered at lest from the effects Of the race. Owing to the courtesy of Lieutenant has Heydt, a contestant, his Royal Highness was allowed to reach the goal first. The Latenant has been rewarded with an imperial decoration for his refusal to pass the Prince when near Vienus. In the superstitions of the Mohammedans the Mahij occupies the same place us the Christ to come in orthodox Judalam. It was this soperstion that gave his power to the "Mahdi," who worked such havoc with the British troops to Upper†“ Egypt and cost-England the loss of a Gordon. It is now reported that the Mahdi is momentarily expected to arrive fa Persia, and the populace le in the greatest possible state of exciement; in, consequence,
A SCOTÖEMAN'S PHILOSOPHY.
An cla Booteliman is sald, to have risen in prayar. The Sultan has 300 wires the King of meeting ons night and apropos of nothing delivered King of Siam, 6c0; the King of Ashanice, things I nevor, could quite understand. First, why Dahomey, 250; the Shah of Persis, 400; the himself of the following remarks: "There are three
Americans have often marveled that members boys will throw aileks at green apples when, if they
3.000; the Emperor of Morocco about 6,0x0.
of the House of Parliament wear their hats dur-waited, the syples would ripan and drop off; secondly, ing sessions. Blackwood's Magasing solves the I never could quite comprehend why men go to war mystery. They have nowhere else to put them. to kill each other when, if they remained quietly at trol seventy newspaper organs, of which twenty.
The German Socialista report that they con home, they would die ajnatural deaths in good time two are political dailies. The subsidies granted thirdly, and most important of all, I do not see why
to some of them amount to 66 000 marks a year. the mum chass around after the women, since, if they
is a white collis, They look likes a goat's ghosts i soparities are held in France. Spaniah bank" How true this death oeman, to all men," to some, so .It is estimated that 4,000,000,000f, in Spanish | mt still, the women would ran around after them?”
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Tickets can be obtained at Mestis, LANE CRAWFORD, & Co., where Plan of Theatre can be seen. Books of the Words can be purchased 21. Mess, NORONHA & Co., Zetland Street, Price so-Cents.
Hongkong, 7th January, 1993.
COMPANY, LIMITED.
OTICE hereby that the
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NORDINARY YEARLY THE FOURTH
the SHAREHOLDERS la this Company wil be held at the Company's Offices on WEDNES- DAY, the agth January, 1893, at za o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Board of Directors together with the Statement of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1801.
The REGISTER. of SHARES will be CLOSED from Saturday the 21st to Wednesday the 25th January, 1893, (both days' inciaalze) during which perfed no TRANSTER OF SHARES can be registered,
By Order of the Board of Directors.
A, SHELTON HOOPER, Secretary to the Hongkong Land Investment
and Agency Company, Limited, General Agents for The West Point Buliding
Company, Limited, Hongkong, 7th January, 1893
VICTORIA ENGLISH SCHOOLS,
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and BOARDERS, will be RE-OPENED “HE ab÷w= SCHOOLS for DAY SCHOLARS for the NEW TERM on MONDAY, the 9th instant
1
HEADMASTER.
For terms &c, apply toda -Mongbring. 7th January, 1893
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY,
· LIMITED.
bu
FOR SWATOW, Company's Steamship
“FORMOSÀ,"
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Port, on TUESDAY, the rơth instant, at Day
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK &. Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 7th January, 1893
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DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP, COMPANY, LIMITED;
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI,
11F, Company's. Steamship
"HAILOONG,"
The HOTEL is furnished and ready for immediate occupation. It has been a favorita Summer Resort for Visitors from other Ports for many years and has proved a remuperative Investment for the Proprietors, The Hotel contains 34- Bedrooms, a commodious Dialog- zoom and Drawing-rem, ample Outhouses, &c, &c.
Further Particulars can be obtained on appli cation to
Miss NEWMAN, Family Hotel, Chefoo,
Messrs. J. F. WAKE & E. F. OTTAWAY,
Trustees. Chefso, 21st December, 1803.
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ar to.
THEY LEAD THEM ALL,
THE CELEBRATED
CALIFORNIA WINES, from the well-known Vineyards of Messrs, KOHLER AND VAN BERGEN, San Francisco, and JULIAN P. SMITH (Olivina) Livermore, California.
Guaranteed to be Pure and Unadulterated. Pure BLACKBERRY BRANDY and fresh
of Consignments ·BARTLETT. SPRING MINERAL WATER by sach Steamer,
Prices forwarded on application to
MACONDRAY BROTHERS & Co,
Commission Merchants, No, jo, Water Street, Yokohama.
Yokohama, 12th August, 1897...
FOR SALE.
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THE GOOD S. S. "PEKIN" and 3, 3.
“KWONG-MOT For Particulars apply to
·SUI KEE CHAN, 53. Bonham Strand West. Hongkong, 14th November, 1897, (37
FOR SALE.
"HE SCHOONER
THE
"MONTIARA,"
AS SHE NOW LIES IN YAU-MA-IT BAY, Length .........broken
75 feet,
Depth of hold..............................................on 78 feet. Registered Tonnage .................................75. toas capacity of the Montiara has been increased to (Owing to recent alterations the carrying about 120 tons dead weight.)
solidly constructed of teak throughout, with iron. The Montlara was built in Singapore, is most wood frames, has recently been thoroughly overhauled under experienced European saperine tendence, and is now la excellent condition. She is very fast saller and a most suitable vessel for the Canton kerosena trado, or would make a first-class lighter,
For Particulars as to Price, &c, apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH, *6, Pedder's Hill, Hongkong, 17th May, 1892.
FOR SALE..
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THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT “CHOP-CHEUNG,"
----AB TEKY, LEE AT ABERDEEN DOCKS.
Traced by Besar, INGELE & Co, of THE Engines of the Chop-chang were Wanchal, and are of the Compound Inverted Cylinder Direct Acting Surface Condensing type Cylinders 20 and 38" diay with a stroke of 26," The Crank Shaft is 61" dia. at the Crank pla dydia at the Journals. The H.P. Piston Rod is 3" and the LP. 31" dia. The Piston and Connecting Rod bolts are a" dia. Air Pamp 141" dia. by 13 stroke, Single Acting Circulating Pump 8" dia. by 13" stroke, and Double Acting Food and Blge Pump (ong each) 3′′ dia, by 13. stroke,
These Engines have been very litle used and are in thoroughly good order,
The Boiler is of the Horizontal Multitubular type, with three Furnaces, and vertical Dome on top India. in 1oft, '2" by gft. "o" long, external measurements; Fornaces, af. 7" día; Dome 44" dia. by 4ft. highs Tubos, 184 in number by 3 ex dia. It is in fairly good condition, having recently undergone considerable repairs, and would last in active service for over five years.
The Engines and Boller can be inspected on
Docks,
Captain Roach, will be despatched for the abovacation to the Superintendent at Aberdeen
the WEDNESDAY, the rib figiant, ar
For further particulars, apply to
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Daylight.
For Freight or Pastage, apply to
General Managers. Hongkong, 7th January, 1893...
R.FRASER-SMITII,
26, Pedder's HIL- flongkang 17th May, 1293