Intimations.
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1893.
gives Japaness and Chinese industries & great pull over all foreign competitors, not even excepting the hard-working and ubiquitous German. This special safety match trade has a very large field of operations in South China, as clearly shown by thostatistics quoted above, and probably VATER.-The Water used is absolutely is capable of very considerable extension! WATER
AERATED WATERS.
Under all circumstances, therefore, we think that a remunerative industry in the STEAM PLANT-DI the latest and most manufacture of matches on a large scale
powerful type.
SUPERVISION.-The whole process of manufactors, is under the continuous supervision of a quailfied English Chemist,
The PRODUCT.-Wili béar comparison with the Waters made by the most noted makers in England.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., LD,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.
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CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT. ESTABLISHED AD. 1841. MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.
UR NEW FACTORY has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved klod, and we are well able to compete in qually with the best English maker:
The purest ingredients only are used, and the atmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the manufacture throughout
"BOMBAY SODAS."
יו
We continue to supply large battles as hereto- forn, Free of Extra Charge, to those of our
could very easily be established In Hong. kong, providing employment for a porilon of our surplus population, producing a useful article of everyday use, and to some extent at least adding to the public
revenue.
MORPHINE V. OPIUM,
TELEGRAMS.
"HUMANETARIANS" letter on Monday. arrived too late for to-night's issue,
It MOST hen-pecked husbands are good steamships value whatever. Moreover, it would be interest ing to know whether If the last named gentle. -Pacific Mails.
Imas is the Commissiozer la question-be ob tained permission from his Directors before undertaking work of this naturo,
THE SILVER QUESTION,
A GREAT deal has been sald as to the slawness LONDON, August 11th,
of the turtle's morements, but all the same, bo President Cleveland's supporters have post- poned any definite action pending further degenerally arrives in time for soup. cussion in the Senate and House of Assembly, THE total amount contributed to Presbyterian churches during the past year was over thereby hoping to facilitate some agreement.
$14,000,000 CHOLERA.
MADRID, August jih. Cholers in spreading extensively In Hajats, and has also broken out in Naples.
TYPHOON WARNING.
We are indebted to the courtesy of Señor Don Otis de Zugasti, Spanish Consul at this port, for the following telegram:
MANILA, August 11th. Fresh depression in the Pacific eastward of Maniin.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. THE Pinang Gazette says that elota are again imminent in the Kulim district owing to the Opales Farm having run short of the drug for coolle consumption.
Sab-Editor of the "Dally SmiellWe need a column of reading mater.
Editor-Send out and buy #cond-hand cyclopedia
ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will, call alongside 10.30 am. on Sunday, to convey men ashore to vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and the 11 o'clock service, returning/about 13.30 p.m. Tracher-Mr. Farmer, I'm sorry to tell you that your son is hopelessly Incompetent!
Old Farmer-What can I do with him, my dear Str?
Teacher-For alhundred pounds, Til have him sent out as a missionary to Chinal THE Calcutta correspondent of the Times tele graphs: It is hoped that the Coloutal Omee
arrange for the Straits Settlements and the Crown Colonies in the Far East to adopt a gold standard on the same bisis as India. Easier said than dore, wo fancy.
WE have to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of a number of coples of the latest report of the Imaris Company, which will receive our closest attention at an early date.
Philanthropic Lawyer.~I fancy our guel ought to be enlarge.
JinxGreat Scott! hare you some clients stfit left?
+
A WRITER in a recent number of the Inventive Age anys that it wara Chinaman who, nearly 5,0co years ago, discovered the principle of i water clock. Remarkable to state, the inventor's rade original consisted of two copper vessels, name, Hwang Ti, has been preserved. The one above and one below, the former having hole through which the water percolated into the latter, where there was a float, the gradual rise of which indicated periods of time.
IN THE ROTISSERIK,
A man and a maid in a corner sat
Of Brother Schmidt's divan, The maid demura vaxed on the floor: The scibe straight thro' bis hat. "The weather'a sa depressing,
Without Ideas I saem," Sald be, "What shall I treat on?
Can you suggest a theme A moment she looked purled,
DURING the past month investigations have been instituted by the Hongkong Telegraph in reference to the practice of morphine Injection Among the Chinese; the most searching enquiries have been conducted on a thoroughly impartial basis, and complete and reliable dala have been collected by personal observation, as we did not wish to tackle such an important problem in social economy with second. Iments. The yearly wastage of this precious any commurication that is not properly authenti- Victor Emanuel amateurs held a dress rehearsal. ;
hand evidence or blassed reports.
HOLDING His Own-Old Subscriber (to editor) -Can you land me $5 Editor-We cannet. Old Subscriber-Paper not doin' much, eh? Editor-Well, we're holding our own. Ir is asserted that the $100,000,000 worth of gold now mined annually is not nearly enough to meet the world's rapid by growing require metal is enormous,
yesterday afternoon.
THE British steamer Tartar, Capt. Rochester, which arrived at Singapore, on the 5th test, reported that the Austrian Lloyd's steamship hat got off safely after a delay of four hour Orfox had been sabore on the Blenheim Shoal, Both ships are now bere.
DAME rumour says that the elephant was in The facts are briefly stated. Morphine great form as chief attraction at the Bellyjost has long been known in Calna, inamboree at the Peak residence of the Hou the form of pills, Introduced primarily E. R. Belillos adjoining Mountala Lodge by medical men and missionaries in order to wean opium victims from their vice; but now practically the morphine habit has become a distinct weakness side by side with oplum, and those who use either to excess are equally hopeless sufferers; though, In both cases, we have met many cases of use without abuse-certainly 19 out of 20 do not appear to suffer any more than confirmed | tea-drinkers.
The Injection business is quite a recent Customers who prefer to have them to the ordf. innovation; a year ago there was not a
Eary size.
COAST PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.
For COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ahlo at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good condition,
Counterfall Order Books supplied free on application."
Our Registered Telegraphic Address `Is "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG."
single place of regular resort for such treatment. The practice was known in Shanghai, however, and some six months ago it was brought to light in Hongkong, There are now some twenty houses where
The Dome wore a painful expression as she entered the loom where the anxious husband paced nervously to and fro, "Tell me the worst, "don't keep me in Aurse," he exclaimed, suspense." "I will, alr," replied the marac, "it's twink."
Rey. Doolittle Dubbs-I am going home next month.
Salps-For your health?
Rev. D. D-Oh, No.1 I need a two-storey extension to my house and I'll raise a fund for an Orphan Asylum i
accordingly.
On the Peak Tramway :-
Old Soak-Elet, old chap, what Ingredients make up high-toned society in Hongkong now adays?
Dr. A.-Why do you always make such pani cular inquiries as to what your patients eat? Dr. B.-Not that, but it enables me to aser Does that assist you in your diagnosis? a regular trade is done, a few of themtain their social position and arrange my fees being in the villages, but most, of course, In the densely crowded districts of Tal-ping- shan and Sai-ying-poon. On an average, each house has about fifty clients, who
Berlin Biet-Vell, van bogus and busted come morning and evening, for one dosa before work and one after-just as do thou-Bank director, ram millinery and twg, pots, of workman with his beer. A few of them Campania, from New York to Queenstows, Ya
bituminous coal of Virginia, with which the Card and Walle Star lines have been supplied at New York for some time past. This cost contains by analysis about 264 per cent of pure
The following is a List of Waters always kept are wretchedly debilitated specimens accomplished by the use of the Focahontas semel.
ready in Stock-
PURE AERATED WATER
SODA WATER
LEMONADE
POTASH WATER
SELTZER WATER
LITHIA WATER
SARSAPARILLA WATER
•TONIC WATER
LEMON SQUASH GINGER ALE
RASPBERRYADE GINGERADE
No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of containing Aerated
probably the healthiest man in the world would be sick after living a month in a Chinatown hovel, even without oplum, morphice, or beer-but the majority are very ordinary-looking coolles. Men above the coolie class indulge at their own homes. The total takings of the morphine-injection divans may be estimated at nearly 81,000 a month, representing a proportionate loss to the dealers in oplum (which is three or four times as costly). Besides this, the Hongkong chemists do an immense mor- phine trade in the coast ports of China. At present the law provides absolutely no direct supervision or restriction.
carbon,
THERE is force, comments the Boston Journal, in Senator Sherman's suggestion that Congress may go too far in the repeal of the Silver law. It le not the whole law, but the purchase causes which need to be rockare which pledges the fortune to lose the clause Valted States Government to malalala the paṛity between gold and silver.
Goliath,
SUNDAY-School teacher-Now, Tommy, descibe the combat that took place between Davidand Tommy (full of enthusiasm at anything i do with a fight-Gollar, he came out and taked awhile through his hat. David, he chinned im the cokernat with a brick, and Gollar croke!! Te Bethlehem Iron Company recently om. pleted and shipped to the American linos are crankshaft for the steamship Paris. It is made of nickel steel and has tensile strength of
THE anonymous correspondent who has sent us the marked report of the Marinberk Co.'s meet- leg held on July 28th, 1893, might have saved own valuable time. We decllae to deal with aimself the cost of the postage stamp and bis
cated, as plainly act out in our "Notice to Correspondents,"
THE Falece of Wales Piste (handicap) at Durham's Peter Flower, who bant Lord Ilchester's Leicester (value 800 1075) will was by Lord Florrio, Colonel North's Siffuse, and five others, winning in a canter by three parts of a fength. Lard Durhata's erratic son of Peter the greatest miler of his day--started at the remunerative adds of 10 to 1
THE reports made at the last yearly meeting of Friends of England show that Quakerism is by no means. In its decadence. There are in England 343 meetings, an Increase of three over last year, and 16.144 members, an increase of over 2,000 in the last twenty yes The most significant item is the joining of 262 "by conviccement." Expretaily noticeable is the growth in Scotland, where its supporters claim for it a great future as offering an opening for those who recall from the ilgi doctrines of Calvinism,
THE "Chinese Merchants' Lasy and. Order League" will be the inscription on the badges of the eight Chinese recently selected by the Six Companies to do detective duty among the lawless high-binders of San Francisco. Each badge will be numbered and also bear a private police mark. These right were carefully selected and the majority of them speak English. It is said that each will receive a salary of $30 a month out of a special fund raised by the Chinese merchanis.
Ar cenalderable efforts, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, we have secured an The abstract admirably illustrates the posel May 1, 1893. $100,000-To deport Chinese.
May 20. 1893. Balance of fond Chigess still with $16.000.
Memorandum: "Everything goes" (but the Chinese).
abstract from the Government's expense book,
"THE suspension of free cringe in India,” aya ex-Governor N. D. Murphy, of Arizona," was part of a deep-laid plan of England to force gold to a premium, which would help that country. to self-protection, and retallation I think this country uught to clap a bigh tariff on all gonds made in England, especially those which come into competition with American labour. This We can would be one form of retaliation, matinering we need. The general sent ment in Arizona seems to be in favour of the coinage of silver. This opinion is held by Mark Smith, our delegate in CongreST. THE following appears in the Pinang Gesstie on Wednesday night, a European named on Bohlen von Holbach, lodging in the Easiera and Orlen al Hotel, attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself with a revolver, heartog the shot, some of the other mates the
And then her farm did beam ; "I think," said sho qulia sweetly,
*You might treat on ice cream."
working on a Commission to Investigate the
of any public insitution is always an arduous task, and when undertaken by an Independent person in a public split it is most laudable; but the case is very different when he is a servant of a pubile Company which pays for and ought to get every minute of his time. This young man draws a large salary from the Wharf and Godown, Company, and any superfluous given scope to in attending more closely to energy he may have stored up might be very
It would be very interesting to know how much his own particular fine of business. of the Wharf and Godown Company's time has you refer! been thrown away lately in going into the " business to which
If the Directors of that concern do not cate to look into this matter, the shareholders must take notice of it'themselves, as they cannot suffer in silence when they age their employee on good- ness knows how many committees, and in such cases experience has taught us that something. or some one must be neglected.
Your obedient servant, ̧”
A WHARF AND GODOWN SHAREHOLDER. Hongkong, 13th August, 1893.
[We intend dealing at length with the Special Committee referred to by our correspondent, and analysing their farcical report-in Monday's Telegraph.-Ed.]
THE PHONOGRAPH.
In the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night the
There was a miserably, small attendance at of the entertalament to be given to-night in aid Professor Sers' phonograph exbibition in St. of the Victoria disaster relief fund. Every Item Andrew's Hall last night, most of the Hongkong on the programme went beautifully, giving being either la the Theatre, enjoying a fres show at the dress' rehearsal, or at home, trying to recover from the effects of the ill-timed Fellyjos cake-walir, which wrecked the promise of a splendid success when the show is very fine choruses, and no end of good songs, presented before the public. There are several while the Christy minstrel business cannot fall Ratepayers' mesting and even in 'erfered with the to score brilliantly under the leadership of Mr. work of the Courts. Sach a feeble response to South, ably seconded by Mr. Vowles. The the invitation of M. Sers indicu.es clearly that radar, however, form the greatest attraction, Hongkong, In summer at any rate, takes and il everything goes as well to-night as it did little or no interest in scientiae and intellectual last night, Hongkong's record of successful pursuits, in spite of the efforts of the "Odd amateur performances will be knocked sky-high. Volumes society, which by Vie way had here a splendid opportunity to exert itself, but There is no need for further recommendation, AG the merits or demerits of a show usually become lamentably failed to rise to the occasion. Ferhaps fairly well known in advance, and in this case the fact that the performance as notified only seats are already being booked in large numbers very short time in advance may have also at Lane, Crawford & Co.'s.
P
"I LOVE YOU."
I love you not because your face is fal
A thousand faces fairer far may be, love: 1 love you not for wealth of waving hair-
And pure and tender lips that smile on me,
love I care not for your beauty, O, my sweet,
Nor for your grace, nor if the world approve
you I' But, soul and body, I am at your feet-
I love you
at
I love you not because your eyes are bright As summer dows that on the roses glisten When lovers' vows are murmured in the night
And from their heights the pale stars loin and
listen;
1
love you not for voice of silv'ry tone,
Nor all that men may deem divinest of you ; Bat, fesh and spirit, I am yours alone,
I love you !
I cannot change or a
or alter.
If you were you and were no longer life,
The charm would hold, my faith could never
fatter i Love has unwritten, undiscovered laws ;
And in my heart none else can rank above
you. I love you, O my darling, just becaus
I love you.
THE London and China Express on our opiarn monopoly There is another aspect to be looked st, however, as regards our Far Eastern Colonies. The lesson to be lexint from the persistent and growing activity and success of
affitated
its auccess
The phonograph itself wan'successful, hawLYET -in fact, no praise could be too high for it. The Instrument shown by M. Se is mach smaller and far more perfect than the original crude form which probably most people have sren and heard. There are many palate of difference to be noted by the non-technical, observer ; bat the principal distinguishing feature la a vast Improvement in the loudness and clearness of the sound, which is wonderfully distinct even as far as the end of the City Hral corridor outside St. Andrew's Hall, with the door closed.
lation,
M. Sers had a very extensive repertoire of songs, speeches, orchestral music, etc, which were excellently reprodue id and called forth hearty applause. He also explained many points about the machine and finally invited the audience to step up and hear a few items through the ear-tabes, In order to compare the softer sound with that from the fanoel through which the instrument speaks ■ large audi- ence. While about a dozen gentlemen were grouped about the lecturer, in response to his a tremendous Iang was beard as the stage collapsed] Stage is the term applied by routers to the rate and snap bax which in the Hongkong St. Andrew's Hall has to do duty naa platform for speakers or singers, who are deluded into paying for the use of the ball under the impression that it fa docently fitted. It la fortunate both for those who were present and for those who are, iresponsible--that no injury was caused to the naschine or to those around it. The Committee will have to buy a new soap-box now, and it is to be hope: { they will spend ten cents extra and get a goof I one.
Numerous requests for pigate exhibitions have been sent in to M. Sera to-day-so many in fact, that ho has found ( it well worth his whlie the anti-Oplum Society is one which our to defer his departure for Japan, and he will adminstrators in that quarter of the globe will ❘ therefore be open for private engagements, at do well to take to heart. It is this: that the very moderate charger," for a week or perhaps time is at hand when the British authorities more, according to circumstances. We under will be compelled, lightly or wrongly, by stand that some member of the "Odd Volumes public oplaton at heme to disassociate their intend to propose a moling of thele body for the revenues from any apparent desire to gain by purpose of hearing siad dlreussing the phono- So much for the facts.. We could draw
the practice of the opium habit, Hitherto, to graph ; and no doubt aber nocleites and clubs,
ones elther, but as we prefer sense to
Straits Settlements, the attitude of those Govern | of this rare, opportunity. ments has been one rather of sensations we leave the facts unvarnished.
The farms for the consumption of opfum are let encouragement It has been alleged that oplum-smokers
sat to the highest bidders. They are Stafe who take to morphine injections, hoping to
monopolies, and the administrations of the The Hongkong Dispensary, Hongkong break off from the one vice, become worse
farms are protected and supported by the Follce victims of the other. There may be cases 9,000 pounds. This is 25,000 pounds in exess to his room and found the door locked. They of that sort, but we have not seen them. of the strength of any shait ever made by Eogish burst it open and found the man lying trostrate forces, by Ordinances, and by judicial penalties. Breaches of the Ordinances are eagerly watched Jnly 9th, at his hemie, 32, Florence Street, What we have seen is a healthy, robust, or German manufacturers. One of the crank on the flour, bleeding from a wound in the left and ferreted for by an army of lalormers, whose "J. D. H." bought a firee of ground, and the
shoulder, and making efforts to reach the Plaistow, England, WILLIAM IRA RIBBY, late bright and intelligent Chinaman, covered pins alone weighs 1.000 pounds.
revolver, which was not far from him. The very identity is protected by law, and whose remuneration in the shape of half the fines levied mester of the Centon river steamship Fatrkan,
all over with old-note, "old"-Injection A PHILADEPHIA' PRper saya: “The America! | police were at once sent far and the man was la specially provided for, permissibly, by law, -in his 49th-yeat.
scars, but completely cured both of opium | iron-ship Clarence S. Biment has been chartere conveyed to the General Hospital. One of the Pollucally and financially the practice is a bad But later on our we ithy John thought a bar
Waters, as such Bottles are never used again by horrible pictures, if we wished, or lovely a little, an' then he upped and pegged hip in of the 4th Inst.: Between nine and ten o'clock speak mora particularly of Hongkong and the and many private residents, will avail themsälven
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A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED,
DEATH.
Hongkong felegy
by
He told us most to carry $2,000.000 wasth of tea from Yokolam boys of the hotel was also rent along with bim, and of morphine.
to Tacoma, and is expected to make the ras la
suffering from a swollen mouth, caused by emphatically (unless our Interpreter lled) month. For every hate the captain can sarebis baving chewed soms klud of causis that he had been a very bad oplum cass,
this great run against time he will receira mistake," but by gradually diminishing doses of mor- premiums. Notwithstanding the great value of th phine he was completely cured, and now cargo, the Bement will receive only $10,000 for the House of Commons on the roth site. the never felt the slightest temptation either the trip." way; he was the proprietor of one divan WO visited, and if he was a victim all the time in spite of his story, he certainly did seem to be as happy as any man, Many others we story was the same. If we were deceived, It must have been a wonderfully clever
HONGKONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1893.
THE MATCH-MAKING INDUSTRY. For the half-year ended June 30th, | questioned closely, and in every case the and you ought to bayo faken reasonable priest Commission on Oplum, the allegation that oplum power. Already the coming change he been
4,913,913 gross of matches, of the value
of $1,239,079, were Imported into Hong-trick-superhuman, in fact. kong from Japan. If there is any.com- mercial enterprise still existing in our colony, why should not this apparently highly profitable industry be added to the exceedingly limited Hut of local manu- factures, on the same extensive scale as in Japan? The business would seem to offer tangible inducements to British or foreign capital and enterprise; but If not, Chinese
DELUDED SHAREHOLDER--Serves you sight You and your partners in misfortune must paw known that the man, who is notoriously unscrupulous adventurer, had an axe to grind tions. It is a and truth, and enfortunatly cannot be centroverted, that there are var few reliable men, on matters financial, to Hongong at the present time. Hell is not quite fullyet, and there are still, we understand, a few van cells in Victoria Gaol. Browalem
If, however, the statements of all the coolles whom we questioned, all alike, may be relied on, then to the Chinese coalie "A" chips of philosophy, dedicati to any rate morphine injections are not & dangerous fascination, whatever they may be to silly, blast Europeans or the giddy butterflies of Western Society. Of course, the new practice threatens to largely diminish the Opium Revenue, which has already had so many other nails driven into ita coffin.
For this
Tesson
the
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"WITH ONE EXCEPTION“ (Abject apologies to Dess. Chiderdos, Esq., vide Sporting Times, 1st July, '93-)
price was very low
was meant to enlarge the landing place of the
Peak Tram, don't you know?
would be all the go1--
With one, excep.los-The Peak Hittel
And a druggist shop, a refreshment room,, to by
ured by Lord knows who, "There's nothing more, as I knows orj, that's
•ại left for us to do *--
With one exception--Get the License.
ose. Monopolies are antiquated abases. They give rise, too, as is only 100 well known to the Easter authoriiles, to a rabble of corrupt Informers, and give opportunity for the gratifics. So he built a Bullet, with an elegant bhe, and
petty tion, through the power of the law, of
rooms for the ladies, too, Hon. Geo. Curzon, who has lately been #globe spleen and private malice. They create an trotting" in the Far East, asked the Underperium in imperio and Impose as tax Secretary for India the following idiotie questions: aber between the Sovereign power
The people private band of capitallats subject the Government will include smoog whose one aim to to make as much as they cate
Royal out of their monopoly during their short form subjects to be inquired finto by the
Chip
foreshadowed in a recent despatch of the late Secretary for the Colonies, who intimated to has been forced or is now being forced by the British Government upon sequent moral responsibility of the British the Straits Settlements that as the next letting Government; when the Commission will be
of the farms the system would have to be recon. appoisted whether it will be issued in the name sidered, though in what respect he did not say, of the Queen or of the Viceroy; and whether its Whether the hand of Exeter Hall is to be scen
liloge will be confined to fadia, or will lako
the
of
The Pest and Snail backed the old man up, did
Cox and Murray Bain, And 'Arry Wicking lent file ald the permit to
obtain ;
They reckoned up the "Gerat Unwas hed" whose
favour they could gain-
With one exception-Granny i Jharp.
place both in this country and in fedis Need-seats i strutor Jokes them Now's bero's * }
victory of Sir Pensé, in the late
less to say the answer received by Mr. Crison,
•
a job” xald Granoy 8, "will roik me to a T..
Bo be framed a protest with his us mal zest, did
And
that meddlesema J.P. ;
A fool carries biš name in his month, The wren bas a sweeter song the the peacock,
Every man la a hypocrite who prays onway There are two ways of telling a goono- it# and lives another. rabbla and its walk,
Find a man who bar no hobby and road one who is not happy,
Scrubbing a pig with soap will not tal the tours that clever artists, Mr. George Grossmiths | done for them by say outside agency...
who has been esmlog cheap notoriety in the House of Commens impelled Lord Knutsford to Londen press by speculative generalilles en Fartake time by the forelock, we know not; but Eastern affairs with which he has to practicalf such an intimation could come from a Conser acquaintance, was of a purely negative character. Walive Cabinet, it is pretty clear that a much. stronger ose may be expected from a Libera! Literary and political globe-trotters in this part one. For the contingency the Governments of of the globe ought to be carefully muried.
our Far Estern dependencies would do well ta to prepare themselves. It were better for them SINCE returning to London from his American put their own house in order than to have (No pilzs offered on this occasion for the missing
energy and perseverance ought not to fell the Hongkong Government is at present where the Japanese have succeeded so well! considering the question, as the Opfum Sultable sites for extensive manufactories Farmer has petitioned against the tolera- love of mud out of its beert, m are available on easy terms bath in tion of the morphine houses. In fact, we THUS the S, F. Chronicle The Eptian Hongkong island—especially at Kennedy-belleve the Attorney-General is now question is being kept alive by the Khedivwho town and the Causeway Bay reclamation engaged in drafting an Ordinance for that surging the Sultan to take anti-Eliab purpose, (Judging from precedent, measures and threatening him with abdation and at Yau-mua-ii, with the advantages morphine is safe enough If that is all it in esss of refusal. No doubt such a con, it
embarrassing of sea frontage and easy communication has to fearl) However, there was in followed by the Khedive, would proverery to the British. Indeed itight with shipping in the harbour as well as 1890 a test case in Singapore, wherein it
in Egypt might find exceedingly diffie to was held by the Supreme Court that cause a revolt which the meagre force staped the business districts of the colony. As
morphine, as a product of oplum, In the repress. The Egyptians for long periodave few algas of spirit or independencebut there are no customs duties, the cost of eve of the law must come within the Cubes to na taliing what they might do uzdiže ›
This would seem out-turn, as compared with Japan, ought Oplum Ordinances.
inspiration of a man as spirited as the pert to be considerably reduced, and under to obviate the need of any strenuous Khediva seems to be. It le quite cartalk a efficient supervision it can hardly be overwork on the Attorney-General's part. Khed
insist upon fair play, and they might go kep doubted that Chinese workmen would Perhaps it would Interest Exeter Hall rorolt took place that Russia and France jald and Mr. GRANVILLE SHARP-to know of fumber, for both nations have streng round for prove as capable and economical, as the this alleged cure for opium, and of the wishing to see. Engisk ladnance minimă in "Jape!! Cheap labour in both countries danger of its suppression.
has added certain novelties to his drawing-room entertainment. He gives an Imitation "at the plans of M. Paderewski, and among his new songs is one called "The American Girl," The latter wathizes the proceedings of Americans grie in starsze like the following t
In London ?--Yes➡ I mada
SUCCESS, Proposals came in with a whith
I refused five baronets at a guess,
A lord and penniless enrž}]
An old duka with a smile And a stately style
Proposed-I accepted for tan
I kept on the dear old duke for a while
Bat inst Tuesday:I manied his son 1 And now I am, I guess.
:
An American marchioness [
In spite of my democracy
- I've married the aristocracy, Like a true American girii.
CORRESPONDENCE.
[Wa de sot nacuseneily undorse the opinions turpemaad by Curvependente đó thìr column).
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all the Parkites signed the petition, and glorified a second edition, which was quito right, it seems to me--
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YE OF FIS GOTE. [The O, G. haascocived notice in qu' it within one -oulendar week. - Very littis saora of this blood- curdling blank verse would probably lead to n serious breach of the peace-E]
DEATH OF CAPTAIN RISBY.
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THE HONGKONG HOTEL COMMISSION, To men Koerasi ay rica ↑ Haslakowo TuzakiRAPR,” DEAR SIR-Extering to your comments en Oue of the best known and most popular men the Commission who reported on the working of on the China Coast baa passed awajar, and the the Hongkong Hotel Co., can you inform the Canton river will know no more the cheery who the Mr. Osborne mentioned is 2 If the face of Captain Ria1y, late of the ễn, ishan.. It rental propaleter of the Bay. View Hotal
will be remembered that in March la ́t he was the Commission, doubtless his experience in this compelled to go to Japan for a month's sick leave, Line of business would enable him to throw out which had little effect on his falling him tith, and some areful hints to the manager. It is reported, In May he was ordered to England. He only however, that it is Mr. Osborne of the Wharf | Just: managed, to rasch his homy, a nd illud and Godown Co, who has been serving, and if almost immediately after reaching his u ife and this is so, I for one quite fail to see how his family. He was only" forty-nine yous, ola pomenka and roommmendations could be of any home paper of the Tátis July says you
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