Mr. Francls:-Bat we do not admit that His lordship:-Well, then, that is a deficite Issoc. is it not?
Mr. Francis submiltted that it could not arisa yet; the Court must first decide whether there was er was not anything at all to try, there being nobody named. The Attorney-General cos tended that onder sec. 74, the simple proof that an offence had been committed, no matter by whom, was enough to justify forfeiture. The arents claimed that a single section could not be taken alons; the whele Ordinance must be considered, and in it there were shown to be two sets of offences, ane involving fo-fetture and the other minor penalties. A very clear distinc tion wis drawn. The Ordinance in several placet specified" ffences-under-this-Ordinance which render the vessel llable to be forfeited." implying that there were sien offences under the Ordinance which did not do so. Therefore & mare breach of cent sin sections did not neces- sarily imply fortiture.
After a great deal of profound legal argument, enlivened by Chinese gong procession la Queen's Road, it was decided that the issues, including thought 6) the preliminary one raised by Mr. Francis, sheuld be settled by his fordship in chambers on Tuesday next at a p.m.
CHINESE BURIALS.
Clins to the Western mind possesses the charm of perpetual novelty. In the evolution of its cliization ii bas run in channels.unknown to our own race and has attained results which seem extraordinary even to the casual observer, Nevertheless when we reflect that Chinese Ideas control the destinies of the swarming mal llons of their own land as well as those of Japan, Cores, Barmah, Th bet, Mangelis ard Manchuria, the wonder is how we manage to carve out a sepirate and distinct ethnic career of our own. Nowhere is the difference between the Eay'em and Western mind be the illustrated than in the burial system of the two races:
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depitted. Then the regretful announcement of the death was sent out by the sailers, while the stared a wresing and writing which lasted several days.
keleton. When death occurs, the jos-men mandarin and relatives tired la sackcloth it up one side an' down t'other I reckon I bottle, and by the tima I had finished it my food
tb- complete decay and disappearance of the flesh and the obtaining of a clean and perfect and appear almost (Prients) are sent for immediately with their retinus, which includes gong, cymbals, tom-tom and flagcole', a miaturo altar carried by two or four porters. & status of some divinity or sunt is canled and there is a crowd of acolytes, bays, and street loafers.
They play snatches of music from the temple to the bause, and arrive there, start a musical performance that often lasts will morning. The idea is that spirits can bear and enjoy mosts! music, and that as the one who has fast pasted away must be ill at ease in his new sphere, the co cert wil make him feel at home and also show him that he is still remembered and loved by those be bas left behind. After dark a bonfire in started near the great door of the bouse, in which they burn tinsel money, sheets of I paper decorated in gold and silver and carloas stractures made of paper and strips of thin wood, which recresent houses, boats, pagodas, sed n chain, lanterns, and human figures. According to popalar belief, which in this field is a stranza foll wing out of Swedenborg's doctrin: of spiritual counterparts, the things which are barned tave spil:s, shadows, or simulacra, that become spirtoate titles to the denizens of the other ille. These ethereal structures are at times very pretty toys. I recall one which was about eight cubic feet In aire and depicted handsome house full of furniture and orasments, Its windows were full of flowers and fruits sad its roof was a party of well dressed men and women, talking, singing, and playing musical instruments. Within the house of mourning the ceremony is very like an Irish wake, there being festivities, eating, drinking, crooning and weep- ing. But there is no drunkenness, the chief if not the sole beverage being unlimited het tea.
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"Don't you get very lonesome here by your.friend of mine, Mr. Groves, of Bouthwick, who told self?" I asked, after a few acattering remarks.
me of his own filness and of the great benefit be bad "Yes, sometimes," she answered, "but takin odved from Mother Seigel's Carstive Byrop. I got agreed with me and I felt a little stronger. Four about er well off ex et I had a man around."
more bottles completed the cure, and I havo sino *But you ought to get married," I argued. A grave in Ching is seldom fargniten und
You are still hate and hearty, and a husband joyed as good health as I ever did in my life. I am gardener, and have been in the employ of Goner! Turnball, neglected. A ruined tomb or martuary chapel
The Hermitage, Southwick, for ten year. means that the family is extinct or has would be a good deal of comfart in you."
"He mought, an' then again he moughtn't" I will mared away to Jome distant province,
I gladly answer inquiries"-(Signed) WILLIAM Orce or twice a year each grave e visted. she said, shaking her head, "I've tried two, donzz
an' reltker one safted."
The Southwick doctor's diagnosis was right: Mr. One visit occurs invariably in the ardon of
"What was wrong with them "
Goblo's disease was indigestion and drapepila, soms the rear. When two visits are made, the second occurs in the gh moon. The third" Well, Jinkins, he was the fast one" she said of the symptoms of which he names in his statement. mon is accordingle often called the main reminiscent tone; "he war a ornery bound His plain testimony will serve to strengthen, if at all rule" or the "grave-honour-moon," that used to pit drank in' come home an' thrash necessary, the popular confidence in Mather Saigel's me all over the place. Ef he hadn't been a Byrup as a cure for this prevailing and perplexing No leular day is favoured, each farally selc drinkin' man I could & stood the thrashin, het malady. The Southwick gardener lost two years' time Ing a convenient date and restparing the cere mon- if the westher is bed. The ceremony is I didn't like the idea ay both. After he died 1 by not knowing what to do. But ho la ratly better half-way between the Decoration Day exercises married Wilson, so he wuz a laxy, ornery thing than a dead man now, and will, we trust, live long to
that used to glt drank an' come home, anused give others the benefit of his knowledge.—[Adst. " of America and the Cemetery Plenies va com mon in Russit. In the morning the family to thrash him all over the place." prepare a hearty lunch and all the religious paraphernalia for the occasion. The men an shaved and all attired in their best and gally the mest brilliant costumes. They meerd Jelsurely to thele destination; when arrived they
sack their baskets and make ready for a meal. In the meantime the nearest relatives have said their prayers to the depar'ed, which vary from a a priver such «fs used by a Christen to tha.
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rhythmic Borldhist phrase "O Omi pomi am (Blessed to the jewel of the Latos). The children have kotowed to the tomb and the invited friends have done reverence to their host's ancestor.
Places of silver, gold, and vermillion paper are placed everywhere around the mound, while the tomb proyer is decorated with burning loss. sticks, bunches of artificial flowers, sprays of paper narcissus, and fragments of tinsel and toys. Then in front of the tombstone are laid little caps and saucers containing variously, The funeral occurs shortly afterwards; that is tes, vice-wine, cold chicken, park, saited fish, the actual and not the official funeral. Its size preserved lettuce, pickled cabbage, fruits and and splendour depend upon the wealth of the sweetments. The grave-food is eaten by the family to which the deceased belonged. A poor living, the crockery packed up and the departure faneral is very simple and consists of few made. Sometimes old Inscriptions, partly To the Anglo-Saxon, death is a disagreeable musicians, a mlasture temple and an image car-legible, are renewed, and falling stones and broken walls restored. In abort everything is necessity, about which the less said and done led by two porters each, the coffin borne on the better. Society tabons conversation on the poles by eight men, and the family clothed in done that tends to increase the happiness of
self-respecting ghost as well as to please the subject and tiles its best to conceal the very sackcloth. "When they reach the grave, two or existence of the fact. When a man dies at home, more trumpeters take positions about fire has participants in the pleasure of the day.
dred feet away and sound calls and recalls to the matter is transferred to an undertaker, or
let the deal know where his body lies. The mortuary director, as fashion now terms that Important personage. He prepares the ceffin priest says a few words, the cofia is lowered and the earth filed to. At the funeral of a wealthy and the rave. The minister utters a few
In alne man or mandarin there are realmers on foot and remarks and the ceremony is over.
The system though oante on which are loscribed his titles and Immediate selatives. pr. ctleed by Christians is un-Christian and cold-honors; bands of music, professional mourners, bladed. Nevertheless it is our own system and who weep so rhythmically and harmoniously ax to suggest a Gregorian ciant, males, hired will probably endure fry many generalions.
men in sackcloth, and porters with ornaments To Jrha Chleaman death is a sacred and ever present fact
He sees the proverbial skeleton for the grave. The coffin is covered with a not only at every feast, but in every event no gorgeous silk cloth embroid:ied in gold, sliver
Intensely religious or matter how trivil superstitious, he believes himself surrounded by piritual beings, friends and foel, whose sanks he himsef will join sooner or later. He looks fnward to death as a mere iccident in his career and meets it with a fortude altogether admir- able. He makes his preparations even before
are
She laughed softly at the memory"ollit. "That was some better than the first,"*I said, laughing with her.
"No, it wasn't." she promptly replied.
No 2 Why ?' I sskeď tá surprise.
"Well, I'd kinder got used to Jinkins' ways,
an' when Wilion come I never liked the Iden ov doin' a man's work about the house,"
It was a new phase of a man's work about the house," and for some time I ruminated upon
- Detroit Fria 'Press.
BITS OF SOCIOLOGY.
India has 131,600 lepers.
Ia Russla there are 615 new cases of leprosy every yeRY.
Cancer most common is Brussels; 420 deaths per 10,003.
In Europe there are 518,400 insane; in the United States, 168,900.
The death rate from apoplexy is highest at Turin, Italy-6to in 10,000.
Of every 10,000 deaths in the United States 1,420 are from consumption.
Shanghai has the highest death rate from heart disease, 1,310 per 10 000.
The population of Italy is 270 per square mile; of Germany, 240; of France, iga.
There are/9,560,coo dwelling houses in Europe and 11,400,000 in the United States.
After every great fin=ncial stress there is a marked tncrease in the number of insinc.
During the War of the Rebellion the Union sick averaged 9 per cent of the army,
Stockholm has the bigbest death rate from
days the occurrence is forgotten, save by the horseback, servants carrying burgers and pen- ! tions and restorations so common in Europe drick of any city in the world, go la 10,000.
be looks about blm for a wile.
When he reaches manhood's estate one of his firat, if not his first ambition is to have a nice roomy and comfortable grave. As soon as he has put by the requisite money, be takes the first step and consalts one more "grave-tellers." He never selects the tie himself.
ar Lother colours.
A singalar fact in Chinese civilization is that its antiquilles consist of graves and not af ruined buildings. When an edifice has lost its usefulness it is pulled down and its fragments employed in new constructions. The preserva- almost unknown in the Flowery Klagdom. The grave on the other hand is restored with
Kreat regularity. A clan will frequently raise a hand arme subscription for the parcose. Sometimes high officials will levy a large assessment on a dis- trict for the same end. At other times ambitious politicians will expend immense sums in rens. vating and improving tombs and funeral tablets On the framework which supports it, isto rrder to gain popularity with the people as dragon carved from wood, gleaming in metalite well as to obtain promotion from the Throne. hace and holding bright flag between his dis. On one occasion the Tastal of Amoy restered tended jaws. Instead of one, there are a dezan 25,000 graves in a single undertaking. On miniature temples in ebony and scarlet silk and another, the Viceroy of Quangtung is reported for the single. Jas," er image, a jegiment of to have renovated 200 oco in less than yo years acolptored divintica. The coffin is supported Ta nearly every Instance of this class, the from an intricate framework of pales and bam-Thrane enters the deed in the great book of boos, the end of every one resting on the shoulder Meritorious Actions, and confers upss the doer of a muscular coolie, dressed to sackcloth for the scroll or tablet recounting his goodness. In Twelve, sixteen, twenty-four, and many cases the doce is promated and even occasion. even forty-eight men are employed for heavier ennobled.
"F" A procession, of this cetins and frames. class is about as brilliant end picturesque a sight as can be found anywhere, Funerals are popular and with one exception are never interrupted. They cojy the right of over everything el's and carry the right to an extent that seems preposterous to Fer example a man d'ed in 1893 in whose family there had been no other death since 1874. The family records showed that a certain path had been used from the house to the clan burying ground for several centuries. In 1880, a bease had been erected in the surburbs, which blocked up this ancient thoroughfare. It had been built with the permission of the neighbours and officials and the title was faultless, nevertheless, the local ceart beld that the funeral sight of way preceded the ownership of the fee and compelled
way
WHERE HAS IT GONE)
foreigner, GOLD WORTH $741.000.000 WHICH CANNOT BE
ACCOUNTED FOR
The tendency to hide away gold is remarkable Except what is seen by the publle in the form of jewellery, in gliding and ornaments on signs and buildings, in plating on various objects of ant dr use, all the gold is out of sight. It has wholly disappeared.
"What becomes of all the balance of the
gold is a question which is oftener asked thin Answered. A vast amount of gold has been
nearly at its close, and it will be interesting to attempt to trace it.
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The United Stater did not count much as a producer of gold until after the discovery of the mines of California, Since then and up to be beginning of the year 1993 we find the letal production of gold in the Union ta be $1.900 oorco, These figures are taken om the report of the superintendent of au boritative, the Mint for 18gr and are
No matter how wise or wealthy he is, he night pick out an unsuitable place in which neither his bady nor his soul would be at rest, The "grave-tellers" are a gulid of great antiquity They are usually old and respectability. scholars, whose scholarship has not been apprecised by the official classes or who have lost caste by gambling, ofim smoking or other vices. They earn their livelihood by geomancy, clairvo anty, medium-ship, and grave-telling. When engaged upon the best named work they begin operations by taking notes of every Jact in the life of the applicant. They next consult this mystical books and draw what might be called a Chicere horoscop:. They next drive a georetic draign with numerous points and hires, which when combited with the boroscope indicates the day and hour when the' | the owner to cut doors la "the front and seatisken out of the earth within the centary now grave should he selected. A grave chosen on a walls, and allow the burial procession to pasu wrong day It flicts years of suffering on the ghos: through on their way to the grave. The excep of its occupant and brings bad luck to biatlon referred to is occasioned by the time-honored decenciats and next of kin. At the appolated time the parties are all on hand. The grave-tellers bring with them their horoscope, pipets, peas, and as instrument closely resembling the divining rod.ured by our ancestore. The occasion so sarred that the weather is never permitted to interf.rr. I have seen them in a rocky defile when the thermometer was at 130 Fabr. and there was relther shade ner breeze, and on another cccasion in a frozen marsh knee. deep in mud and ice. The search for alte begins with prayer 'tered or chanted in the bastad Sanskrit which forms the basis of the Buddhist ritas1 in Chins, unintelligible to every layn an and to nine hundred and ninety-nine schelars out of every thousand. The prayer over, the party begin to walk and taik," which may last only a fo minules or many weary hours.
Usually they go to a bliisiterither than to level land. It should be so located as to escape the fares of the wind and any ordinary rain, flond or freshet. If the applicant is the owner of the land icked out and belongs to the clan by whom it is possessed as common land, only one site is chosen. Otherwise two or more ste of one lat, there will be no need of a second selected to that if the owner rifares to dispose grave-telling. There Is but Hide trouble is this part of the transactiar,
After
In Norway persons who have not been vaccinated are not allowed to vote at any election.
The largest apes have only sixteen ounces of brain; the lowest men have thirty-aloe,
Among all races the weight of the male brain is ro per cent heavier than that of the female.
Cuvier's brain weighed 64 ounces; Byron's, 79; Cromwell's go, but was found to be diseased. Over 26 per cent of reading men in every country are short-sighted or otherwise of defec tive vision,
France has more persons over sixty years of age than any other country; Ireland cemes next
Fedor Vossileff of Moscow in 1872 was pen- sloned by the Crar. He had eighty-three children living..
In 1820 the United States had three in- habitants to the square miles of area; in 1890 there were twenty.
In 1757 the Empresa Catharine recrived a Russian peasant woman who had fifty-seven children all living.
France is the only European country which bas to-day fewer able-bodied men than it had thirty years ago.
Scott's Emullas. of Pure Cod Liver OR with Hypophosphites is the most valuable remedy for Consumption. Serofula, General Dibility, Wasting Disenter of Children Chronic
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A
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More cases of consumption appear among needle-makers and file-makers than any other THEATRE classes of laborers.
The average weight of an Englishman thirty years old is 756 pounds; of an American at the game age, 150.
CITY HALL
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Inhabitant is ten days to the year; in the Walled States, eight days,
The highest dealb rates from Bright's disease are in Shanghal, 150 per 10,000; Frankfort, 130, and Amsterdam, 120
In 1895 London had, $55,000 houses, with 4,120.com population. It covered an area of 75,cco acres. There were 1,830 miles of streets. An enumeration of the population of Aggerhus, Norway, in 1763, showed that 150 couples had been over eighty yesty married. "
During the reign of Henry VIII, 71,400 persons were legally executed in England, the larger portion al whom were guilty of no offence worIC ihan misdemeanor. In one year 300 starving beggars were hanged for asking almis.
NINE TIMES ON THE NINE.
Now where is the gold? The Mini report for 1891 shows that the total amount of gold, in coin and bare, in the United States on the list day of December, 1891, was $588 654,211. This win what was known to remalo in the country in the vaults of the Mint and treasury" as good as dead. I've won nine times on the and the pression of banks. Besides this nine and lost nine times on the seven. Give this amour $57.000.c00 was known to have been note to the banker; he knows the address of my export to foreign countries and $1.500,000 to relatives." bave been worked up by goldsmiths for plate and jewellery and by gold-beaters for den lata foll and gilders' leaf
It was in a gambling house in Montana. The
gambler who uttered these words threw dowa hi sarde, rose from the table, and left the place. At Therefore, out of $900,000,000 of gold pro-
dawa the next morning the police found his early body in some skrabbery about a mile distant. His
OND
Was there any mysterious prophesy in the cards, or
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And under the Distinguished Patronage of H.E. Sir WILLIAM ROBINSON, K.C.M.G., H.E. Vice-Admiral
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TO THOSE WHO VALUE THEIR SIGHT. NOTICE.
custom of the "leper's challenge." The custom prevails of my own knowledge in the two greit provinces of Quangtung and Fokien and I am fold in other districts of the emple. It is not confined to the places where there are legal laxareltor, but is extended to all the unfortunates who suffer from that dread disease. When funeral G En route to the burying-ground, the leper emerges suddenly from some colga of Vantage and takes up a position in the middle of the road in front of the coriege. When it reaches him, they stop and listen to bis demand. He seldom asks mere than a dollar, which is rescly paid to him. If relased he runs ahead to the excavation, jumpa io and there remains antil paid off. Sometimes when put to this extra trouble be doubles or trebles the amount of bla demand. He knows perfectly well that no one will dare to bury him alive or descend end Into the grave and pat bim cut. The police soldless will not rest himad his only danger les in mob violence or the sudden passion of induced in the United States up to the end of 1891, it was held that on'y about $639 000 000 remain. enraged indivi sal. In Canton the custom has
tised, yet thers ww ballet hole in his left breast. reached din fargest development. There the ed in the country in the form of coin and belllon, pistol was full of cartridges; it had not been lepers concret this queer kind of black-mail while the enormous sum of $1,211,000,000 had In email companies sed make such extor entirely disappeared. Where can it be? With the gamblor's fear the outgrowth of superstition, Half-price to Sailors and Soldiers in Uniform
and his death a coincidence? Erazy one must decidi of funerals are conducted under the guise of show exports from, 1843 to the end of 1791, in tocats demands upon the rich that hundreds cut a doubt a great deal of it was sent to Earope.
We have the Government official returns. They for himself.
But people are often considered as good at dead poverty in order to escape a heavy tribute.
excess of importe, of $470,000,000, This for a much more intelligible reason. Mr. Willi the dealb of the head of the family, lis members
#mount deducted from the remainder of Goble, of 104, Albian Street, Southwick, naar The cian is always liberal to its members and are obliged to go lato mourning for a certain each member reciprocates to all his kloumen, period and to abstain during all that time from $1.211,00,000 would lears a balance of Dighton, was recently placed on that list by his friends. In his case the danger was not from powder the even most distant. The grave-tellers receive social fonctions and festivities. Fashionable 8741,000,000.
or sharp steel, but from something that hurries more from $t. upwards, aplece, for their services, the Chinese and those who are actively engaged in
this • Looking at his tongue, one day in the spring amount depending partly upon their professional official or political life suffer from this role and
folks out of the world than they do. His story la 1887, be found it seated like a piece of brown later. standing to the community and partly upen the take advantage of the 1.w which compels them wealth of their customers The land costs from to go.ielo mourning after they have given public 82, upwards. "The piece taken is larger then Holice of the death, but does not profcribet hon
for the
same purpose by cemetery that notice shall be given. A good illustration
aligns portents worth 14 Hr appetite fatted, associations in western counistes. Generally it of this legal fiction was lately afforded by a high
and what little he did eat seemed to cause great pain that way when a man is in proper condition. Quito consists of an irregular lot about 30 by 20 feet. mazdaric, who gave a great feast and theatrical
in his chest and sides. Now, good food never tota In the centre is the tumb some 8 by 5 ftet and entertainment to celebrate his mother's eightieth
the contrary. What was the matter? on either side a feet away are the marking birthday. No expense was spared to make the stones. The land having been paid for and the affair, a huge success; table delicacies were im deeds delivered, the applicant is ready to die in ported from other parts of the empire, actors, & Cro» bats, Panch and Judy shows and marionette per- peace.
wing-song" girls were brought When John Chinaman (.lismoitally sick, he or farmers engaged," his folks order the coffin. This is a rude affair, from neighboring towns and cities, famous cook fashioned from the trunk of a trea and so made hired, fireworks provided, musicians retained as to di-close its origin. I have never been and decorators set to work. It was to be and WA able to learn why this arboreal appearance one of the great social events of the country. In abould be so carefully preserve. Wood is de midst of the preples, the old lady wake up the acarce in China and proportionately dear. the ever iog in question,
A coffin made of thin planks weuld be much ghost. There was a brief consultation among pre cheaper than the log-ike suecture aniversally the members of the family and then the employed. Thes on the other hand the naratians went on as if nothing bad happened. people, io paits
Kingdom, are The day arrived, one three Lundred guests Fccustomed to cremation and use it regularly, were present, and the forst passed off splendidly, They also on special occasions bury bodies lu Everybody present, even to the smallest servant, quick-itme to ensure the destruction of every knew of the death of the host, but none alluded Lissue but those of an osseous character. to the fact. On the contrary, every guest The cost of a coffin varies between the widest congratulated the mandarin upon his mother's possible limits, ranging from $1 up to $500 long life and wished her many happy returns of The cheap ones are filmsy affairs, made of four the day; the best in turn kept
Away un In the Nort's fork of Kentucky planks. The dear ones are sections of informed the company how proud she was of the liver the widow Wisen kerk a halles y banky, ontside great tres fur, five and six feet in diameter, calabration in her koser and how thankful to famous in that section, for its excellent fare, and which have been skilfolly hollowed out. The the guests who had given distinction to the when I happened to be in that reighbourhood on coffin la Hi-ed with chunro, a. Chinese variety occasion by their presence. All night long the one occasion I made an extra effort, to get there of Panised cement. A large and thick layer of great dinner continged, the music played and the to stay over Sunday, I found it an excellent qalck lima i bald upon the bottom and on this reworks illuminated the grounds, and it was place, and on Sunday afternoon as I sat in the
layer of finely bicken charcoal. This oüsures I not until late to the morning that the last guest shade of the porch the widow losind nas,
of the
I two days before
drama
Here, then, is the enormous amount of $:41,200.000 in gold which cannot be accounted for. How much afft is Eidden away in odd corners, In the old workings of frugal housewives, is the largement of gold col: peoples ed Handle large amount of as secreted. Handfuls of gold pieces treasured in broker texpo's and other such receptacles, and even iron pots fall, are sometimes dug up where they were baied
and forgotten.
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CALIFORNIA WINES, from the well-known. Vineyards of Messrs, KÖHLER AND VAN BIRGEN, San Francisco, and JULIAN P. Siren (Olivias) Liverinors, California
:
Guaranteed to be Pure and Unadulterated. Pure BLACKBERRY BRANDY and fresh BARTLETT. SPRING Consignments of MINERAL WATER by each Steamer,
Prices forwarded on application to MACONDRAY BROTHERS & LOCKARD,
Commission Merchants,
No. 3o, Water Street,
Yokohama
Yokohama, 12th August, 1803.
FOR SALE.
THE SCHOONER
"MONTIARA,"
AS SHE NOW LIES IN KOWLOON BAY. Length............
Beam Depth of hold
.......75 feet.
[26
******* 7 feet, Registered Tonnage ...................................75 tons. (Owing to recent alterations the carrying capacity of the Montlara has been Increased to about £20 tons dead weight.).
The Montiara was built in Singapore, is mact solidly constructed of teak throughout, with trop wood frames, has recently been thoroughly overhauled under experienced European superin- tendence, and is now in excellent condition. She is a very fast saller and a most suitabla vessel for the Canton kerosene trade, or would make a first-class lighter,
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For Particulars as to Price, &c., apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH, 6, Fedder's Hil Hongkong, 1st May, 1893.
FOR SALE.
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THE ENGINES AND BOILER OF THE CHINESE GUNBOAT "CHOP-CHEUNG,"
AA THEY LIE AT ABERDEEN DOCKS.
HE Engines of the Chop-cheung were THE
constructed by Messrs. INGIE & Co., of Wanchal, and are of the Compound Inverted Cylinder Direct-Acting Surface Condensing type, Cylinders 201 and 380 dia, with a stroke of 26. The Crank Shaft is 6" dia. at the Crank pla and y dia. at the journals. The H.P. Piston Rod is g" and the LF, 34" dia. The Piston and Connecting Rod bolts are 1" dia., Air Pump 14" dia, by 13 stroke, Single Acting Circulating Pump 8" dia. by 13" stroke, and Double Acting Feed and Bilge Pump (one each) 3" dia. by 13" stroke.
These Engines have been very little used and are in thoroughly good order.
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3"
The Boller is of the Horisontal Mulitubular' type, with three Furnaces and vertical Dome on top. Its dia. ls zoft. a" by gft, ro" long, external measurements; Furnaces, zft. 7" dias Dome, dia, by aft, high; Tubes, 184 In number by 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 Boiler can be inspected on application to the Superintendent at Aberdeen
For further particular, apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH,
6; Pedders HML, Hongkong, set May, 1803
Docks,
NOW READY,
[PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.] "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" FOR 1893.
Ligne and porode wat was worried him, her MR, N. LAZARUS, THIS Valuable Work, with many NEW
Writing about in under date of Nov. 20th, 1801, It would not be surprising if more than Mr. Goble and I couldn't imagine what had come hundred millon of dollars were so hidden awAY
like it had ever happened to me over me. Nothing like by the prople. Then there is a large amount fa before. I had always been strong and healthy. But plate and ornaments, watches, jewellery and in now I had a foul taste in the month, and wind biber forms in which gold is consumed. But
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I could just crawl about, and that was Picayune
choska were sunkun, and I had such a pale, ghastly look that my friends said I was in a decline and would never be better.
A MAN'S WORK,
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HUSBAND TO HER SECOND.
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A doctor in Southwick said I was suffering from dyspepsia, but after he had treated me for nine months
OPHTHALMIC OPTICIAN.
·By oppointment to
&c.
HL H. THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN, EX-VICEROY OF INDIA,
& Is now here And, previous to establishing
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A LOCAL AGENCY
May be consulted for SPECTACLES
at the
HONGKONG HOTEL
until the soth instant.
The system of Sight-testing (patent 4,354),
I was worse than ever. At this time, our clergyman, invented by him is now beleg universally Bor. Mr. Heywood, recommended me to the Brighton
Several of the doctors sounded my lungs and seemed
Hospital, where I was under treatment for one your adopted, and Mr. LAZARUS specially Invites the Medical Profession and all interested in pusited by my complaint, and changed my meddine OPTICAL SCIENCE to see this Beautiful Test right remad. At the end of the year I stopped going and the latest improvements in to the hospital, and began to take ood liver oily bat did no good, and I made up my mind that I was indeed doomed to death and nothing could peerant it. Hi I am alive and will to-day, and 2715 tall goia why in tow worden? In April, 2007; 1 mai, wills'a
- LENSES, AND FRAMES, As prescribed by Ophthalmic SurgeoAN. Hongkong, saih July, 1895.
1991
"ADDITIONS and IMPROVEMENTS,
IS NOW READY. PRICE THREE DOLLARS. Orders for Coples of THE "HONGKONG DIRECTORY" may be sent to the following Agents -- HONGKONG...Mr. W. Brewer.
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...Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co.
Mesars, Henermann, Herbst & Co. ...Messrs, Kelly & Walsh, Limited. ...Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. ...The Hongkong Trading Co. ...Man Yi Tong, Hollywood Road. MACAO.........Mr. M. F. di Sivá. AMOY and Mears. N. Moalie & Co., Ld. FORMOSA... FOOCHOW...Mr. H. W. Churchill. SHANGHAI
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| Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited, * NORTH- Shanghal. IRN FORTS JAPAN......
Mesars, Kelly & Walsh, Limited.
Yokohama. BANGZOL...The "Bangkok Times " Office. SINGAPORE... Mess Kelly & Walais, Limited.
Panik and LONDON ...
Messrs. Amédée Prince & Co.
or to
"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" OFFICE,
Pedder's HD, Hongkong, goth January, 1895.