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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRÍDAY, JUNE 9, 1893.
A band of Achlusse have entered Langkat THE P. M. S. S. Co. steamer City of New As things are quiet in Tamiang this fresh out-Tor, with the mails, &c, leit San Francisco for hum bas led to the rumour that the Achinese this part, eta Yokohama, yesterday, have merely been driven out of Tamiang Into Dell All the outlying Langkat estates are garrisoned. The Ruident and Colonel Will It is reported, proceed to Acheen to confer with the Governor on the poiliion of affairs.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamship Peninsular, with the next English mall, left Singapore for this port at 5 .. to-day, and is expected here about ga.m. on the 13th inst A SPLIT in the camp. Lillan and Fixnk Fletcher, erstwhile member of Old Man Stanley's ever- victorious legion, were advertised in the Straits papers to give a "show" at the Tanglin Barracks, Singapore, on the 3rd inst.
Is the genius whob responsible for the rabbish Builthed in the Delly Press under the beading "Occasional Notes" will call at the Hongkong. Telegraph office any day between the hours of 10 and 4, the Office Goat will be glad to make his ncquaintance. A fellow feeling makes us
wondrous kind.
BALLAST FOR THE SHEPHERD,
Wife The allernoon tea's coming up, John dear, and there's to cake left to offer the new
curte "
Jehn dear Make hini eat ons of those new scones you made for breakfast-and give the new doctor a show!"
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IT sends a thrill of delight through our enfeebled
WITH dignity worthy the occasion a Singapore paper notifies that a license to selemise marriages has been granted to [Blahop] A. R. Thorburn, Minister of Religion.
THE "man with the straw hat" was seen browsing In the Hongkong Cinb bar this fore noas, The Lord help the pair body and keep him out of temptation in this trying weather, Amen
THE Slam Frie Prass states that two white elephants have been waiting some months at Ban Ban Poor, above Ayutbla, for shipment to Bangkok One of the national representatives bas gone blind of an eye.
We are informed by the Agent of the O. & 0. S. S. Co., that the stentnship Oceanic, with mails, &c., from San Francisco to the 23rd site, bas arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port to-morrow morning.
THE new offices erected by the Straits Insurance Company at Singapore are said to form a splendid advertisement for that highly successful Institution. The cost of the building, exclusive of the land, will be about $10,000, IT would appear that our excellent contemporary the Daily Preis indelges in the luxury of leader writer." Judging by the quality of the has served out to its Hmited number of sub- scribers by played-out old Granny In its editorial calamar, we should imagine that the leader writer's brains are la bis boots cr-th, well, never mind..
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Jinx-Who are those Johuules you just left ?. Berlin Blet-Two vas members of my club, und der rest vas shentlemen i "RECLUM."-No, it wasn't satire on the part of the China Moll-med is more in the line of cur colleague-it blatant placompoopish Ignorance of the lowest type. WE read that ons Sydney paper, which appears daily, bas now on its staff two reporters working gratis. Why should they work for nothing? Simply that they may be on the spot when a billet becomes vacant. Hard times, these 1 IT appears that a Mr. A. P. Slunett, one of the directors of the Hansard Union who writes on Theosophy (about which no man Hving can possibly know anythine) was at one time Editor of the Hongkong Daily Press. Three curios instead of two-thai all,
We sit pleased to be able to announce that the Band of the rot Shopshire Light Infantry, by kind permissions of Colonel Ravenhill and the Offices of the Regiment, will play selected programmes at the Peak, near Craigieburn, on Monday the 19th inst, and in the Public Gardens on Wednesday the 28th fast, com mancing each evening at 8.30 o'clock, weather permitting,
The fucold resembling tree-mushrooms in shape and and color; a glutinous paste looking like dirty vermicelli; diled sen-kale and water-nuts.
would be cars by general acclaim. sinologue was to have acted as a counterpoise to the goat, and we fondly hoped that the Telegraph henceforth could be read with The fishing is magnificent, the channel perfect safety, to say nothing of advantage, abounding in life, and over 300 different kinds by the blushing maidenhood of the Colony and are known by name. Young sharks, devil-fish, by H. E. Sir William of Government House, de squidi, holothures and sea-conchs are we plentiful, and yield a handsome revenus to the After enquiry and at tremendous cost Imported 四 minologue direct from Peklog. His population. Many are exparted alive in tanka duties were to gather what was passing in to Formoss and the mainland; but the larger Chinese life, trade, politics and the doings of the part of the surplus is preserved by drying, pickl Officials; but especially to watch over the lag, smoking or suiting. Large sharks and mytm dons of the Po Leung Kak. He came devil-fishes are very rare. They have been and reported himself yesterday morning beated so long and so fiercely that they have and after having been duly armed with ap, areatly deserted the waters in the reighbor- our valy own patented family pistol he hood. The largest shark in the market here in Was turned loose on the unsuspecting com two years was about five feet long, and the ons throughout the day, but about an hour after Shark's fins, talls and livers are dried in Mekong munity. Nothing more was seen of the learned heaviest devil-fish trifle ander so cattles. we had gone to press he appeared with the with great skill and bring as high as a dollar following para-
1 pound in Carton, The roes of many fishes are dried and smoked with similar success. The city of Mekong is clean, well-defined and healthfcl. The streets are comparatively wide and at intervals run into open equates, thick walls and strong roofs to withstand the houses are all one-story and are built with very typhoons of summer and the gales of winter. The universal material is coral rock, which is light and casily-worked. A telegraph cable connects us with Taiwanfoo. It is intended for official use alone, but through the garrulous hablis of the operato a supplies the community with a great deal of general news. Sea-tuiles and water-snakes are of frequent, occurrence, The farmer belong to the class found in the waters of the Carolines, and probably come from that district. The latter swim over from the Formosa coast, where they are.very common.
"Yesterday-night a day-watchman of Fatsban arrested a boy he talented to set fire in the place. The had in his hand a large powder parcel of and a bundle of paper wet with Kerosene oil. The watch-man then sent him to some court to be tried."
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Belig otherwise engaged we didn't pay much attention to the handicraft of our sinologue and be made good his escape. This morning, how ever he again presented blmself and with an air WHAT'S the matter with the Shipping Editors of triumph, such as Shakespeare might have of our local contemporaries ? In chronicling worn when be bad put the stablog touches on the loss of the Norwegian steamship Wanking-"Hamlet" he handed us the accompanying which vessel, on a voyage from Samarang to creed, which we venture to predict will speak Hongkong, managed by some means which at for its.If present would seem to require explaiation, 10 Collide with the Paracels-the China Mail and Daily Press describe the steamer as being 148 leet long, 24 broad, and 13 deep." Ye
frame to learn, bring bthe anfalleg courtesy of A BRITISH North Borneo Government proclam-gods after this, what next? the China Whale, that "H.M.S. Linnet bas been ation enacts that, notwithstanding that proclam. despatched by the Commodore, Admiral Buryation No. IV of 1890 limits the maximam Pallisser (sic) to visit the Paracels, and ascertain period of contract service there to three years, anything about the vessel (the missing Danish it shall be lawful to engage coolies, for service barque Cimbria) that is there to be gleaned." en tobacco estates for such period in excess of "Commodore Admiral Bury Palliser" is quite three years as may be necessary to enable them ualque, even for "Brownle's " ghost.
to cat, store and pack three successive crops of
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Tix Band of the 1st Shropshire Light Infantry will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock :--
Fahrbach. **The Dragooria " Palk........... Quadrille Yenres of the Guard "Bucales, Willems. „Elliot Lath.
Lecocq. Wedding Eve Wet Jannes Geus de Village"...Cribulka, Doh
Bucalost,
Schottische.... Frocken"
Th
Lancers... Vaise.... Quadrilla Pals.
legal for a longer period than four year.
gagement or contract shall in any case be Thus the Sydney Bulletin:-Dr. Youll, Mel- bourne's Cily Coroner, who had held 12,000 inquents in 40 years, is retiring on his cypresses, Youll is a man at aphorisms. Polatlog, at a post-mortem, to a section of the engorged liver of a suicide, Youll, loq.: "Gentlemen, many a
Ar the Magistracy this afternoon an important but tedious opium case, which has been pro- coeding for several days, ended in a compromise. Some 200 tacle of eplum having been discovered by the H.K., C., and M. S. S. Company's pre- ventive afficer Logan on board the Fatshan on the 3rd Inst, two Chinese were charged with
of Mr. Dexcom al but on the the charge was withdrawn, and the opium con. application of Mr. V. Daicon (for the Company) fiscated, by consent..
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Au Pays des Chansons"Asbach. The Danish bampe Cimbria, from New York with kerosene, arived in port this morning, all "BOMBAY SODAS.”
well. She was her badly tossed about in a We continue to supply large bottles as bereto-typhoon last week, as reported by the Ocpack; but beyond some damage to her deck fittings, fore, Fra of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordi- she is quite ankett, and her cargo Is all safe ANOTHER remarkable, diacavery by our big-policy. It never seems to strike some people
and sound. The kerosene cases reported sdrift by the Chauga were not from the Cambria Possibly, however, they may have been from the Nanking, which would very likely haze smong her cargos quantity of nut oll packed in ald kerosene cares, As to the despatch of the Linnet in search of the Cimbris (according to our truth-scoming contemporaries) it is all bosh.
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REGARDING the recent Franco-Siamese "shindy" at Khone the Singapore Free Press learns from A well-informed source that a letter has been received from Captain Thorcex stating that he well treated by the Slament, and that his personal belly is not interfered with. The expeditionary column which the Siamese by the first rumour were said to have destroyed bas anale Mekong. The French-forces in that apparently joined the troops who were already The following is a List of Watert always kept region are understood to consist of about 800 men, including two companies of infanteris de ready in Stock :-
marine. The relations with the Siamese e declar d to be good, and though the latter pro- fest, they are slated to have offered no resistance. MR. FRANCIS, Q.C., member of the Hongkong Sanitary Board, as after many years' delibera tion discovered that the urinalla Battery Path is a distinct nuance, which ought to be removed s soon as possible. Dear! dear! how Unes do change 1 This Bithy eyesore to common decency was led ever to many years ago by nute ned enemy's particular chum, Surveyor General J. M. Price, in the face of the Hongkong Telegraph's repeated protests against what was a figrant outrage, and which was cerried out to shield professional short-c-mlogs, And now M, Francis finds out that it is a nuisance, etc, etc. The Telegraph's methods may be slow, but they are sure we get home all
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THE total amount appropriated for the purpose of the Expolop, leaving out the cost of exhibits and the personal expenses of exhibitors, ty sys The Hongkong Dispensary, Hongkong.the Chicago Tribune, $33,250,000. The Agures
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The Honghong Telegraph
HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1893.
TELEGRAMS.
THE MONETARY CONFERENCE.
LONDON, June 8th, The Standard mys that Lord Herschell's
report recommends the introducties of a heavy mint seignorage, and an import duty on silver taken to India.
ments MILITANO
Contributed by States and indi.
viduals....... Appropriated by the United States for exhibits, suvenir coins, National Commission and Board and medals....
From stockholders........... From Chicago unamomunmnation Debenture bonde........ Gate receipts, Interest, etc..................
Total ...........TIZION
$5,572,000
6,021000
footed contemporary the China Mall, once popularly known in the exceedingly limited circles where it is known at all as the Fried Fush Wrapper. Now, what does any subscriber of two dollars per month to the Holy and Righteous think of this
SHAREHOLDER."-We have no 1oom in our columns for the detalled montbly working reporis of the Raub Company, and if we had, it would maks no difference. These reports are adventre. ments pure and simple and can only appear in man has been taken from the arms of Beelzebub the Hongkong Telegraph as advertisements. and planted in the bosom of Abraham by blue. To give the bare result of a mouth's working as a matter of general information is one thing; to pill and a black draught." Dr. Yall, by the way, is much annoyed at having to retire. He publish a column of carefully worded advertise- dreads the loss of congenial society.
local contemporaries and the Singapore papers doesn't mind the matter of salary much, batment is quite another; and malgré what our may see fit to do, we choose to follow our own that newspaper men have to live, just like other laborers in the
vineyard. VIENNA, the capital of Austria, a city of over eight hundred thousand population, has never had a fire that has extended beyond the walls of the building in which it originated, and there are but few cases where fires have spread beyond the floor where they started. The reason of such immunity from large conflagrations is ascribed to the excellent building laws, requiring great solidity of buildings. There are no wooden buildings whatever higher than one story. The last great conflagrations are the burning of the Stadt Theatre in 1883 and the Ring Theatre in the same year; also, the great lumber yards near the Danube Canal None of these extended to outilde property. Yet the city has its share of fires, there being 894 alarms and 570 fires in 1889.
H.E. Governor Borje, of Macao, left Hong. kong to-day for Yokohama by the steamer Belgie His Excellency goes to Japan as Portuguere plenipotentiary. He is accompanied Lady Bosis Now, this isn't bad for the China Small! The Governor of Macao is Plenipotent ary for Paringal, mot only to Japan, but also to Slam and Chins, and everybody knows it who is not so ignorant as "Brownle;" but who in the name of heaven and all the angels is "Iady Bera
His Excellency Senhor da Boif, Governor of Macao, etc, etc., an able accomplished gentleman, is simply Commander In the Portuguese Navy, and his wife, a most amiable and estimable lady, is in plain English Mrs. Boja. "Lady Brownle" will be the next innovation.
The
"A nice mald of the Western portion city of Canton thinks that she will not marry in a long time she falls in her work. One day while
Taken altogether the Pescadores bear a her mother entering into the kichen a proud boy pass by. As be seeing ber in a thoughtful marked resemblance to the Babamar. Like the pastare walk up to the parlour and hold her latter, they are bound some day to become a hands. She is much frightened and call to her sanitárium for those suffering from pulmonary mother. Then she come out and be immediately complaints. Their tranquil climate, clear skies, run away. Next day he do the same as before freedom from fog and damp, hygienic surround- Then she call out loudly that there is a thiefings and restful quiet will make them in years there. The neighbours on all sides come gat to come a popalar resort for the invalids of and arrest the boy, Some of them know bla. Hongkong and the more tropical ckles of the
Far East. parents and hurriedly tell them the resin.
They come immediately and beg to release their son by aning some money,
We screwed our courage to the sticking peint and waded through the extraordinary characters embodying the above. Then we reached for the Editoris gas-but the slavlogue bed evidently been there before, for ere we could get a sight he had vanished ! The billet is again open but applicants are now requested to submit for Hierary abilities. "Brownie" and "Upsilon" approval or otherwise a specimen of their BIC barred.
THE PESCADORES. (Specially Written for the Hongkong Telegraph)
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
ALLAHABAD, May 19th. The Kban of Khelat's treasure, which is being carried in 550 boxes, started on its way to Quetta on Thursday morning accompanied by an escort
four guns belonging to the British Mountain and five companies of the Middlesex Regiment. The remainder of the column, consisting of 2 Battery, a squad on of the 6th Bombay Cavalry
mountala guas, a squadron of cavalry and three companies of British Infantry remainia garrison at Kheist.
After the parade Captain Cox and his 25 Ploneers will be drawn up at the saluting point. when the troops will march past them before Ellag of to quarters.
BOMBAY, May 23rd,
CALCUTTA, May 22nd. At the Birthday parade on Monday next ibere will be a formal presentation of the Manipur Mekong, Panghou Island, June 1st, 1893. The famous Pescadores are hard to reach and Medal to Captala Cox and 35 men of the Fioneer hard to escape from at least so far as European Company of Volunteers. Colonel Stoddart, whe vessels are concerned. But to anyone familiaris commanding the troops at Fort William, with the speech and ways of John Chiasman, during the absence of General Lance, will 'distribute the medals. The presentation wit! it is easy and economical to visit them at any
take place before the parade in the presence of season of the year. The Panghou Junks, ugly
all the troops, bat powerful sex-going boats, go regularly from this place, the capital of the Islands, to Takow, Anping, Taman and Kelung on one side of the Formosa Channel and to Facchow, Chinchaw, Amoy, Swatce and Hongkong on the other. Some, it is whisp red, engage in smuggling
At the Marine Court of Inquiry into the loss goods to Pow-say-caul, Mon-klang und -Set-Ling on the Western coast of Formosa and to the of the Khoa, the chief officer, the third officer
the East. Be that as it may, i
the Fercadoreans named said he had no means of supplying steam into the hold where the fire was. Though tha savage villages of Lasan, Taitanzer and Mallaer and chief engineer were examined. The last are skilful fisher, semen and navigators, In this place I bave met junk-captains, who have stokers deserted he was, by the help of his
towards the shore,' gone as far as the Philippines, Holbow, Tonguls, assistants, able to keep up steam when running Saigon and even Singapore. Many years ago
ALLAHABAD, MAY 23rd. Newt of another Ghazl outrage comes from LAST alghi's China Mail contains, under the they were pirates as well as mer hantmen, but heiding An Austrailar Vialtor on Hongkong, the ganhosts of the Foreign Devile pot an end
to the piracy, by the simpla expedient of destroy-cita Lleat, Ford, 4th Pathan Regiment, some references to this colony from the pen cla
has been attacked and severely wounded while Mr. Frank J. Donohue, who, according to ouring every Junk which did not carry proper on special duty in the Musa Khel country. The estimable evening contemporary-we mean the papers, and of shooting, drowning or hanging Stafl, not Granny is contributing a series every member of the crew. This Draconian of Interesting articles on the Far East to the method came near extirpating the males of It did more In converting the Panghow. Sydney Morning Herald. We are sorry at beleg unable to find anything interesting in the people of the islands fate the most peace. ful and ordaily of any in the Empire, specimen of Mr. Donohue's handiwork repro The Pescadores are about the most abused and Cuced by the China Mail: in fact his descrip the least destrredly so of any place in the Far tien of Hongkong is a badly willen hash-up of at The offel: 1 salting directions of the lying twaddle, most of which was doubtless British Marine describe them as sterile sand carefully supplied by the talent of our lower islands, where the water is brackish and the Wyndham Street contemporary. Mr. Franic J. Donohue, of the Sydney Morning Herald, like only crops are peanuts, and potatoes. Plere many other globe-trotting artistes, is an sus of Lot to his charming romance of "Madame.
verdure, without woods, without streams, savoring the China Afall office. How many in the Dally (which are tropical and gloomy islands thout of Chlon and of death). As we left that Chinese Press! We don't know.
furnace.
THE story of the unbeaten and apparently forincible lsinglass, as told by the London Telegraph is amusing and interesting. Being at Crichel some yesti ago, Captain Machell after looking over the broad mares, was assured by Lord Allington that one of the worst was Deadlock, and that anybody might take her for 20. The captain paid the money on the spot, and Lord Allngton gave him a golden sovereign back for luck. The maze was passed on with four others by the captain to his brother-in-law in Lincola- shire, and some time afterwards, finding her in bad condition, the owner of Bedford Lodge took her home again and sent her to Isenemy. He sold her, when in foal, to Mr. McCalmont for the first water--and he has at least one chum in Chrysantheme" refers to them as "the Pescadores
£1000 extravagan price considering the fee of :00-and her ofspring eventually Islington, which certainly more than paid his way. In 1888 the mare want to Cafton and bore filly, Crafilness. In 1889 she visited isonomy. and had the following year Islaglast. In 1890 she went to Satiety and had a chestnut filly, Strike, row two years old. She passed 1891, but in 1995 had a colt by Satiety, which died. The record of Isinglass certainly proves that his owner has b enlargely f.voured by fortune, and It is no less true that he has materially benefited by the masterly experience of Captain Machell and the seal and ability of Mr. Jewit
THE Rangoon Timerspines that although reports are somewhat conflicting, everything palats to a bloody struggle presently, between the troops of the Amir of Afghanistan and the Haritas, The former has already sent out men; but the chief a certain number of dificulty in the Afghan Army, is the absence of a Commissariat department. The Afghan soldiers start on a campaign with three large round choupatila, an inch thick, of very coarse flour, slung in bags over their shoulders: ode half of a choupatti Is enough food for ong day, it being extremely difficult to digest, and Afghans supplementing it, as best they can, with foot; and, therefore, the army takes six days cooked rations on the march. Usually a half of one day is made for the army to prepare another week's food; but, unless supplies are taken with the army from Kabul, very little food will be left by the Estats for the Amir's force as it advances tato southern central Afghanistan. is, however, asserted that the Amir is thoroughly determined to crush the Hararis.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. The facts are as follows; the Pescadores are a group of two hundred odd islands, of which three are large and the rest small, ranging down to mere rocky points. They are of coral formation and must have been upheavad from the bottom of the Formosa Channel prior to the Glacial epoch. Here and there are the marks of the ice-dilft, sometimes in pieces of ironstone and sometimes granite pebbles which must have been eroded In the neighborhood of Amoy.
The islands are fat and level, and at no point are more than two hundred feet above sea-level On three sides they run off inshoals rather than precipitously. But on the northern sida, or rather the die which faces the Nont-cast monsoon, a steep drop is the rule rather than gentle slope. Capt. Leask of the wrecking stemmer Samtos reports that the ill-fated Bokkara lies in nine-fathom water, but at the same time is scarcely forty yards from the edge of Sand Island. This wall-like formation prov duces a tremendous undertow, as well as currents of the most dangerous type.
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Ghazi was killed.
May 24, The Assam Government have order.d a
special force of polite to be quartered en the tract of country bordering on Cachar for one year. The cost will amount to about twenty thousand rapees and will be levied from the Manigut residents of this tract.
A telegram received from Meshed announces Colonii Vate's arrival there on the 12th insiast,
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His reception by the Governor was most cordial and every honour was shown him at Kandahar, He was to balt for three days, starting for Kar
Surgeon-Major Robertson will return to Gigli Tapa in the Khushk Valley on the 14th. from Chilas as soon as the Shandur Pass will, admit of his excort crossing in safety, country is reported quiet. Colonel Durand will probably not leave Gilgit for Indla und Dr. Robertson arrives to take over officiating charge of the agency.
The
SIMLA, May 24th. The recommendations of the Rations Com. mittee, consisting of General Bimard, Major Dickson and Captain. Strahan, which concluded its inquiries and leat in its report about the atlon at Army Head-quarters. The proposals do beginning of the month, are now under consider not involve the outlay of a single extra zuges but by a reform of the existing system of measur ing and by the stoppleg of Itakages, more
ALLAHABAD, May syth. varied, wholesome and sufficient rations can be supplied than the spiders at presist enjoy.
Consequens on preparations being made by insurrection in the the Amir to deal with Hazers country, the tumour bas spread to Kands
har tänt Isbak Khan has crossed the Oxus from Bowbars territory, and that troops are being Concentrated to deal with him. Ishak was leading figure in the serious rebellion of 1885 and fed from Afghanistan after being defeated in a pitched battle by the Amir's general. Tha tumour le discredited.
Dr. Robertson is believed to be actually on bla husband will remain on Political Cficer "wlih' way back from Chitral to Gilgit, Capt. Young
Colonel Yale Unived at Khushk on the 18th Commissioner to examine the canals which the
have made to the pro
Tun Hongkong Telegraph never apologises and 51374.000 never takes back anything that has appeared in 5,354,000 Its columes unless it is clearly to the wrong; but 5,000,000 when the leading newspaper in the Far East 4.094.000 with compliments to Governor Sir William Gigoto Roblesos, who at yet knows nothing about the Far East nor its journalism, except perhaps having seen that highly-scented individumi $33,234,000
"Browale" long way off does blander, the THE Slogans Free Pran of the 2nd gives admission is frank and unreserved. We can at this stage imagine our esteemed friend the following particulars of the loss of the Norwegian teamer Nambing-The Baiona, John Joseph Francis, winking the other eyes, which arrived here yesterday, brought Captain tenderly nursing his left leg (the dickey one) and he the proposed Hongkong Exhibition, a Dafly Sorensen and the crew of the Nanking, which whispalce to himself the mysterious word Press divine oracle says: "His Excellency, THE FRENCH PRESS ON EGYPT,
May 26th on a voyage was wrecked on
"Waker. A salt of sackcloth and ashes has Mt. Francis and Dr. Cantle may make excel The Parts Figars pablishes a report from it from Samuing to Hongkong. She left been ordered for an inexcusable fanit to Ireland lent speeches recommending the proposal; but and Irish Reatlemen which appeared to last the most eloquent man present would be the one representative in Egypt which admits that Samarang 01 May 10th with a cargo of remarkable progress, la every respect, has been sugar and molasces, board for Hongkong, night's Telegraph. The telegram intimating the arose and sald, Gentlemen, let us come u ten other gentle made under the British protectorate. The with a crew of 37, 8.1 told. Early on the men that the Dalla Corporation had rejected the from these heroics, (stc) I am willing to sub-
ever the raspol
ing of the 26th she on a coral reefsop
Royal Family on the occasion of the men will do the same." Glorious ides, fanly correspondent considers that the theory off to to one suck to a red, pe Congratulatory addresses to the Queen and surfbe $10,000 ready money Egypt for the Egypilane is Utopian, though southernment of the Paracels Group. The vessel approaching marriage of the Doke of York second hand copy of "General" Booth of Salva British Egypt would be anomalous, as the struck the seed and remained fast. The cargo was with his late lamented brother's sweetheart, tion Army notoriety. The most eloquent man thrown overheard to lighten the ship, but to no the daughter of that notorious Austrian scally in Hongkong, according to this writer's defalties British are neither tyrants nor oppressora.
purpose, and on the evening of the 17th the crew was known as the Dake of Teck, was headed of eloquence, in the Hoa. E. R. Bellion; he will look to the boats. Next day they were picked "Cads in Dublin. This bright siroke of genius certainly put down the $10,000, which is a very (Special to the Straits Times)
up by the Delend in about the same latitude as was perpetrated by a member of our staff with small matter; but what troubles the Hongkong FIGHTING IN ACHEEN.
the southernmost poist of Hainan, Hose of out the knowledge of the Edites, and after the Telegraph and the promised excellent speeches telegram and its proper bonding had been read from Governer Robinson, Mr. Francis, QC, and PEMANG, June 3rd.
and duly passed by that autocrat. The members of Dr. Cantile. Not one of the three has ever THE band of the S. L. 1. played an excelently the Dublin Corporation who refused to publicly publicly shown in Hongkong that he could make selected programme in the Fabile Gardens last acquiesca in marriage barter which, had fi deceat show as commmsense orator in a evening, between the hours of 5 and occurred in the lower ranks of ie, would third-class discussion forum. What's the matter
rejecting so is cheap enough, but it is effective. He is 7 o'clock, much to the enjoyment of bave fovoked universal execration, were quite with Mr. Granville Sharp? His gyle of oratory a large number of the mulloving commaally, within their legitimate rights By the by, we have incidentally learned that it is called complimentary addresses which were is practical man and can make an excellent speech, mately owing to the opposition of chief gardener fact a hollow sham, They were set cades they and if his peculiar system of philanthropy were were his who bat the Lonely to publicly not in the way. Granny would even now, Ford that this excellent band does not play on Sundays, er en moonlight nights, in the Gardens, stand up for thele convic ions. They were although in the sere and yellow leaf, be one as did the band of the good old: 58th. If not even disloyal the private affairs of the of Hongkong's leading cifreni. Alas! poor this be true it would be lateresting to learn Queen's relations hare in no sense an official the grounds of Mr. Ford's objection, No responsibility for public men, and the summ damage can possibly be done to the hubs, who proposed the congratulatory addresses to Bowers on trees, but anyhow, and in the time of the Dublin Corporation at this trying crisis,
THE CONCEPTION AND THE SEQUEL THEREOF, all that is holy, who, what and where is Mr. must have eliber takes temporary leave of his
Not long ago the inspiration beamed upon us Foid when the wishes of the general public senses or Is a contemptible ass. But all we want aro concerned? We trust that the cficers to ampiain is that the heading to yesterday's telo- of the S. L. L. will swind the concealen gram Cads in Dublin, was an dewarranted that, if there were added to our flighty albel! which they have already granted the community hinder for which we are sincerely sorry, and it brilliant staff leamed and bespectacled and "llow their band to play, when convenient, in no way indicates the political tendencies of sialogue, solidity, dignity, respectability and
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various other qualifies, too numerous to mention, In the Gardens on Sunday nigh's.
The Achinese hars attached Balhallan. The employees of the all works bays taken refuge the fort, and afterwards they salled in the steamer Winko for Langkat. The Netherlands Consul at Penang has ordered the Dutch gunboit Sambar to Balbalian,
Later,
Captain Scott, of the steamer Qiorra, reports that the Achiness attacked Balballan at 3 pm on Wednesday 31st May. Bintang has been garrisoned with fifty more men. The officer is charge expects to be attacked.
Balballen is a part on the sea coast of Lang kat from which the company working the Gelds ships the article Yor transport. The Achinese for a long time past have threatened this pert; and the employees of the works wee kapi armed,
the crew was lost.
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OUR-ENTERPRISE.
FRANCE AND SIAM.
KHONE RELIEVED,
The coral-reck of the islands is covered nearly everywhere with a soil of vuying character and depth. Outside of the city, It is sandy and several feet deep. On the other side of Blekong harbor.upon the bluff it is a fairish loam about it is clayey with an irregular thickness." The three feet thick. On the south alde of Pasghou, rainfall is moderate and the climate by reason of the surrounding sea equable and pleasant. Instant, and will sat at once with the Russian The inhabitants, who engage in agriculture, are good farmers, but not as skilful as their colles: Afghans are alleged gues in Quangtung and Foxien. For fertilisers, Jace of Russlau settlers in the valley, they employ decayed fish, sewage, manure and harbor-mud. They display considerable skil
Under the circumstancei, their crops are in saving and utilizing their water-supply excellent. They grow beans-white, yellow; Spanish, string, flat, kidney and Lima; peas; potatoes, sweet and white yams and calladiums; squashes, marrows, gourds and pumpkins melons, fu-ques, soo-ques, mushrooma; cab bage, caulidower, onion and garlic; encumbers, turnips and carrots. All of these are found in the market here, and, for aught I know to the contrary, there in ay be a food is about the same
The supply of animal bacon, chicken, duck, go:se and quail, I have in every Chloese clly, and includes pork, reen but little game excepting snipe and plever upon the falands, but have been assured by Capt: Henry Balburst and Chlef Officer A. Milroy, of the steamship Thales, that in proper season
The Franco-Siamese difficulty shows a ten- they are visited by wild docks, geese and pigeons). pheasants, divers and occasionally wild turkeys. dency to take the form of reprisals along the The women and children gather seaweed and Mekong, and of dragging on for some time. Wa convert it into a number of tasty edibles. Among has seen something of this in Tonkin and there are a prepared sea-moss, similar to the Chins, and may be prepared for the imms hind Irish moss of the North of Irelandƒ é dried ↑ of thing between France and Glam. But while
An official desprich has been received at the Fresch Co.sulate, Bangkok, staing that Khose has been relieved by French troops. The relief. has been affected almost without opposition from the Siamese. No news has yet been received of the release of Capt. Thoreux, and it is considered The French will continue their advice as soon that he is still held as a prisoner by the Stamers, as the river rises, and it is not mulikely that a incident may occur, along the river. The series of small sffairs, similar to the Khoos Siamese authorities are, of cours, well posted on:ill events happening on the Mekong, a there is telegraphic communication between Basise and Bangkok,