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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1893.
THE INDIAN LOAN BILL. The Indian Loan Bill, to extend the borrow ing powers of the Secretary of State, has passed |the third reading to the House of Commona.
By an advertisement appearing elsewhere it will be noted that the General Managers of the High- advertisement schemos, aaw only space at the level Tramways Company have modified their #ations_wili - be available and tenders for the game will be received at the Company's office, Queen's Road, up to the goth inst,
PROFESSIONAL shorthand-wilting would seem to be at very low-water in Sydney. The rates hand-writers are simost brought down to the ard stated to have been cat so much that shest level of typewriters.
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storm.
The railroads are blocked with snow... In one
The storm is also causing great havoc island deserved the fate that befell them. But how gang of too men with snow ploughs have been the foreign representative who has been sent to place a trio is in a twenty-foot snow bank, ard | Vicorby succeeds in throwing dust in the eyes of much greater will their jablations be if their
at work all day trying to relexus it.
demand satisfaction and companion ? To Eight Babing beats belonging to Heating, then it will be a desble tri mph, and Oxylne five to eight mon euch, are smitast P. will establish a precedent for future galdance There is little hops that they have survived the and form a valuable loophole when the Dext massacres occur. In not being provided
shire farmer, was found frozen to the mawdrifts, and show'd be secure even a modified indemnity
Off Cleethorpes eight vessels are anhos. The Much wreckage was washed ashoes at Yarmout he wall have mere than he in generally with a capable man to assist him to carrying negotiations, Mr. Bock is greatly bendicapped
Many more dital ·g boats are missing. Another
The gale raged with terrißo forco-all night. | credited with being capabin of. washed away to-day. The plere at Dieppe and so severely damaged that vessel cannat enter the harbour. Channal trafiă to all points is stopped
THE POSITION OF THE GOVERNMENT. The prolonged session is exhausting both members and offers of the House. The Times, business, discusses the rumour that Mr. Glad atone's Government is riding for a fall, bet doubts the probability of a dissolution, the Government being fully aware that the result of an appeal to the country would be adverse to ❘ set forth upon a placard which the countess as a valutary warning to the gambling fraternity, large portion of the pler at Cuisis .was į inřelligencu has been received to the effect that
I commenting on the deadlock in Parilamentsxy Monte Citoris, where the Italian Legislatore | gamblers, who were armed with swor?s and ‡ body of Edward Meare, a well-known Stafford. through what must seco sasily be delicate
them.
Tas Countess Leniss Clanciana, It's stated, now sells matches on the steps of the palace of mats, a body ever which her husband presided Speaker tome years ago. The Copy was also one of Garibaldi's most distinguished asso dates, Mayor of Roma, ste,, all of which is duly wears hung around her neck while, hawking maiches for sale,
[Slace the foregoing was written telegraphia Connal Beck has succeeded in attaining an tademalty of $40,000-Ed, Hongkong Tiltgraph,
Tag Shangkat Mercury vaparts that in a raid ordered by the Provincial Todgo, sevara fightino against gamblers in Soochow the other night, took place, a considerable number of the knives, and a milare officer and two soldiers being killed." Mest of the fox-fanmirs escaped the heads of those wàn difa't get clear away Ero now ornamenting parts at the gates of Sochow,
BETTING is extending it sees. The other work Primitive Methodist minister, meeting a It accordance with the provisions of a special Wesleyan parson at the door of Exeter Hall, arreemant entered into between, the Nippold, I see Price Hughes hun die aanget Yusen Kaisha and Mr. J. "Tutsi -» larga mill | mudgy # St. James'; he will have his only seven arrived. They xto sil in a baitered fair to become, one of the most "striking leading Indian cotton merchants, two steamers to the next number. Oh, no, replied is stranded at Withenases. The body of a man have been chartered in London to load for Bombay and then augment the recently inaugurated M. Deloncle has given notics of an interpella- which is running is opposition to the P. & 0. Bombay-Japan ling of the Nippon Yusen Kalaba, Hon on the Slamese question.
Co's, vessels. Freights from Bombay to Horg *Sie E. Grey has informed the House of Com-kong and Japan bave dropped so per cent. In mans that the Protocol regarding the "buffer the last few weeks, and are still falling, state" has been signed:
DAHOMEY.
PARIS, December 8th,
General Dodds is in full persult of King Behangin, whese capture is imminent,
SIAM.
THE ANARCHIST OUTRAGE.
Dec. 11th.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Chamber, and exploded, wounding a dozen of A bomb was thrown from the gallery of the
the Deputies and some thirty other persons, mestly spectators. A man named Vaillant was arrested as the culprit, and is said not to have any accomplices. He also was wounded.
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SEVERAL Columns of interesting matter, including "Sporting Gossip, * are unavoidably 'crowded out of this issue.
How true it is that some men are as covetous US
Ar the meeting of the Sanitary Board to-morrow (Thursday, December atat), at 15 pas, the following will be the Agenda Colonial Secretary's letter regarding fishing drains with
sea water.
3. Mortality returns for weeks ended the gib and 16th December, 1893.
3. Correspondence respecting 4 cases af small- Hygeia on the 6 b December, 1893. pox removed from the steamship Glava to the
4. Correspondence respecting the disinfection of the steamship Gingarry where a case of small-pex occurred.
5. List of prosecutions instituted by the acting Sanitary Superintendent for the month of November.
6. Petition from shark-fin dealers.
ORDAN ALMONDS, NOUGAT, BUTTER they were to live for ever, and others as profuse out for sea, and it is, to my the least,
SCOTCH, ASSORTED TOFFEES,
DRAGEES, PRALINES,
and a large selection
of
as if they were in die to-morrow.
HONOLONG has been thoroughly invaded by the Hoppo of Canton's mandarine-in fact, the city ls crowded with Chinese C M. G'L
PURE CONFECTIONERY THE U.S., Baltimore, the new flagship for this station, arrived at Singapore on the roth inst. from the leading Manufacturers,
and was urder orders tò leave for Hongkong on the 13th.
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Hongkong, 3rd November, 1893.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
OUR felicitations to Mr. Belilios on his latest glorious achievement in the cause of human progress and enlightenment (ahem 1) will be conveyed to our honorable fland, through the columes of the Telegraph to-morrow.
His Excellency Té, the Hackwan Taofal (Hoppe) of Canton, anired here this morning from Shanghai, by the China Merchants' steamer Halayu, and has made the Victoria Hotel kis beadquarters during his stay in the colony.
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MEBBRO A. S. Watson & Co. have issued a small pocket calendar for 1894, containing scales of sampan and ricksba fares, tramway time table, postal and other useful Information, prettily bound and delicately perfumed ; also an Artistic wall calendar. ・・・ .
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the Wesleyan, "Mr. Hughes Is man. He never advertises himself." "Well, salt the Primitive, "I'll bet you two gulness that Hughes' name occurs at least 30 times
Nonsense replied the other, who sccepted the bet. When the Methodist Times was ex- amined it was discovered that Mr. Hughes's name (In conjunction with that of bis wife hare money has been sent for the rallef of the coillers and there) occurred no less than 4 times. The wires.
B. M. M. D. A.
The annual general meeting of the Hongkong British Mercantile Marine Officers' Association
Captain A. Tillett. There were also present was held last right, under the presidency of Capt. B. C. A. Harris, Lieut. F. G. Montserrat, R. N. R. Meas Mollison, Spooner, Spence, Shearer (secretary) and six others.
The Secretary read a mass of minutes (inclad. Ing committee meetings), noting that the absence of the Press had been greatly regretted; but he did not mention the reason that representatives of the Pres had always gone to the trouble of attending the meetfags and publishing fall the door was suddenly shut in their faces. reports, la response to courteous request, until
THE St. Petersburg correspondent of Tis Timez; la wililog on the Russian Navy, states that the Rurik is now being fitted remarkable circumstance that the English Navy has not a sfegle ship aflost capable of over treasurership, as he could not now spare the time Capt. Harris begeed to resign the honorary taking and capturing this Raredan veel. It to do the duty proresly. He presented a state have been designed for that purpose, but so far (about $1.000) had been liquidated and the is supposed that the Powerful and Teriblement of scents, showing that all abilities only one of them has been laid down, sad that quite recently. The Erst-class armour-clad
Avrociation now had a perfecilý clean sheet and The Thres Saisir, engtoed by Kesere. Hami
x small credit balance,
Nikolalovsk next week, and Rusala will then hays phreys and Tennant, is to be launched at no less than six first-class battle-ships in the Black Sea, besides gun-boats, torpedo-catchers and torpedo-boats. At least one more vessel of large size is to be laid down shost'y in the waters, and in estimating the balance of power in the Mediterranean it is impossible to leave altogether out of consideration this very power its force felt when the great struggle for supre. ful feet, which, directly or indirectly, may make
macy comes.
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in fatare coples must always be circulated before printed and circulated; and it was resolved that The scorants were paased and ordered to be the pasting (this having been the first helance sheet since the Association started, in 1890). A cordial sore of thanks to Capt. Harris was also passed, and it was stated that a subscription had been opened for a testimonial to him. Castin T. Hall of the Formera was elected hon. fressures for the ensuing year.
The President then revil wed the past year, from a mercantile marine point of view, at great Commission to technical lectures and papers Tength. He referred to the proposed exclusfon of allens from British ships; to the Observatory provided by kindred associations in London and Liverpool and to the cuentas of education among ships sollers, Finally he lurited dia easton on his remarks,
This invitation, several times repeated, a not accepted,
Some discussion as in relations with the Sungal Association led to nothing.
The Committee was abolished by a manimous vote, and its work left to monthly general meetings of members.
I concluding a powerfully written article can. dematory of the Matabele Massacres in South Afdes the Sydney Belkin waya: The woly abject feature of the proceeding is the Bri ish snofile which accompanied the machine-gun and the massacre: the drivel about the necessity of protecting the helpless Mashona of whom no in the Matabele country made it worth whila to body lack any account until the gold discoveries take an interest in their grievances and the tears that were shed over Lobengala's ferocity and the general badness of his character. This is the
really British aspect of the cass. Other
nations
*s apacious and a hungry after blood and plunder, but Britain is the only one which always sends the missionary in front, and which bangs the brains out of the heathen with the big Scripture rather than the sword, and which always steals and kills and rarishes in the name of the Lord Britain, in fact, has e bill of sale NEWS BY THe american MAIL. over the Lord, and a lies upon the Almighty, and its fiat-footed, black-coated, black-hatted preacher has left a gory trall all over the cant and proved himself an anathem and a fat precursor of death and destruction wherever he
a)
weat,"
tion according to rank we not supported.
A proposal for differential rates of subscrip.
Of twenty steamers due at Hall on Sunday
The gale continues at Yarmouth, and the berring boats which have arrived are greatly at least $100,000. Mapy Askermen have been damaged, the value of their gear smashed being
As all the world knows, Chang Chih-tong is Maa of remarkable ability, and bida
the Gear future. He is a dissiple of that. supposed that the whole crew has perfabed, known at the Demon Valley philosophen) has already been washed ashors, and famous unclent Intriguer Kuel Ka Jr (commonly The Glasgow steamer Rouse Garry has been who has been the guiding-star of Chinese wrecked at Dunbar, and her crew, conslaing of five office and about sixteen seamen, have Intelligent natives with whom I have recently
politicians for the perished.
prat twenty centuries.
before him his ambition is boundless and his conversed agree that Chang has great fature confidence in himself and belief that the Fates so; in short, his enemies affim that as 100n as have great favours in store for him are equally
• his preparations are completed he intends to Wreckage and timber from a vessel stranded proclaim himself Emperor of Cho And at Hartlepool have been washed'athare. Nothing with view
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of having a has been roes of the crew. A steamer went all to himself his first intentieti is to rid himself select kingdom ashore naar Calen. Scotland, and twelve of her of all foreigners-especially foreign missionarice, crew were drowned. The ship Cambrian has, who are in his eyes abominations to be swept bren wrecked at Naim, Scotland, and three of the face of the earth. The foregoing is bodies have been washed ashore from the wreck. native gossip, but before any change takes place supposed that all of the crew have been in the present dynasty of China, rotten though borough, and the crew drowned. The Swedish will not permit.
!!,8»j##l the Government ta, there are many factors to be The gleamer Alcott was wrecked at Ald. taken into consideration, which the present time brig Emble is also askere at Aldborough and the captain and four of the crew have been drowned. The beach at Aldborough is strewn with wreck age. The vessal Olive Branch was wrecked at Salt Fleet and several of the crew drowned, Many versals are returning to port, and s tell of terrific weather and lows af men. The Norwegian bark Gratia was wrecked at Barfleur, France, and three men perished.
lost.
The Pall Mall Gascité says negotiations are
between Russian and American petroleums, with the view of ending the competition proceeding, backed by the Russia Government,
and forming great international trust. trust was discurred, ha been held at St. Peters A conference, at which the formation of this burg. It remains to be seen whether the
of fifty-four Irish members of Parliament. The of the trade, will agree with the views of Russia. American exporters, who have the largest, share
gathering endorsed McCarthy's appeal in behelf Justin McCarthy presided to lay at a meeting of the evicted tenants and approved of the admins: istration of the Parliamentary fand by McCarthy, Sexton and Dillon,
The Antecited Press has received an advance copy of the British naval programme, drafted by the Admiralty. It will be pabilaked In de Lord Charles Bereslord, formerly Junior Lord of morrow's papers.
That exceedingly cunning old gentlemen Sheng Hsilan Hual, Customs Total at Tientsia, is now on a visit to Shanghai. His mission fo in connection with the cotton cloth trade, and he is credited with the intention of absorbing the whole cotton business of this port and divesting the same into the bands of his own company.
Late letters from Peking state that his Excellency Kung Chao-yuan, the recently appolated Minister to the Court of St. James,
Secretaries for the Legations under his charge. take with him no less than fourteen attachés and bas memorialized the Throne for permission to
This Hst le all further to be supplemented by the foreigner named Mal Chia Li, is described, addition of four other members, one whom, and is to rank, as a Chief Secretary of Legation
to visit his ancestral home at Ha-fel Helen, ia diplomatie field of his Excellarcy. It is also in one or other of the four countries forming the
An-hal, and that he is to proceed these by the stated that the Minister has obtained permission
overland route, which will occupy him for fulir three weeks. For sometime it has been noticed that Kung has not displayed any great amount of
xiety to hastening preparations for his depar his appointment cancelled no greai surple tore and should he eventually succeed in having would be caused among those claiming to be in
the "koow."
BANKOW.
navy of Great Britain must be third stronger. Baresford.cominences by declaring that the than any combined frets of her two possibs/a
exples, France and Russia. He proper het expenditure of 511,000,000 for the consurselon of siz ironclads, of the "Royal"
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT) twelve battleships of the Bardour clash, ten quadron class, cruisers of the Blake class, Efty, venals, of the
Hankow, December sath, 1893- Monarch class, designed specially, to destroy the so far fairly prosperent, but still there has been Business this year here seems to have been enemy's torpedo stations, £100,000 to be ex: an unusuxi number of flures, mostly of small pended for a réserve ammunition supply mat, Kharks. I have only heard of one heavy fallure. to that maintained pr the French Government That was a fires of Swatow sugar merchants, at.Toulon, and 634.000 should be used for who are said to have falled for a large amount, strengthening the soles of Gibraltar
and are also said to be l-debted to the steamer PARIS November zab. Companies pretty hévvily. The manager la Flourens, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs 20 to prison. He was ordered to produce has written a long article, in which he censures his books, but this he declined to do alter the Government for declining the proposals of much talk and persuaside he did produce a the Russian Cabinet for a combined demonstra- part of them, but the accounts for this year tion of the feets of Resis and Francs of the the silli refused to bring forward. After trylog coast of Morocco as an offset to the presence of mid means without ffect, the magistrate the British squadron at Gibraltar, and urges theserted to more forcible arguments in the order that such a demonstration may be orgaand strokes had been administere with bat resumption of negotiations with St. Petersburg in shape of the bamboo, well laid on, until then- lasteised, saying that it is imperative that France litle result except the west and tear of the and Rassis should boldly assume supreme manager, which, from the way in which the guardianship of the Mohammedan religieusené blood flowed, was pretty considerable. The la Africa, the other ta Arle.
unlucky manager was returned to prison and giren lour days to think the matter OV T, ROME, November 20th; - with a promise of a like amount if the books The telegraph operators and messenger boys were not produced at the end of that time. capital is the
with a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
Shortly before midnight, the meeting closed
The following telegrams from our Sau Francisco exchanges were crowded out of night's issue ----
NEW YORK, November 19th. The Brazilian ship Nictherey, Inter the Cid. is now ready for sea, and it is possible that she
In the opinion of the Sydney Bulletin, signed THX steam-wading ing is an ingenious kind of Journalism, on the Continent, is one of the i craf now being adopted in the Canadian kopben, may get off to-night. If not, ate will sail to i struck here to-day owing to the Government's 1 have not heard the result.
aboard today. He is of the opinion that if the Watheros happens to encounter one of Melle's departments. It is expected that the striks will chief cause of these recent falluses. With formidable war ships, roch as the Aguldabas, extend throughout Italy. she will be suck. He thinks, however, that the Nictherey can avoid such a meeting, and is competent to go against Mello's weaker vessels. the force the Brazilian Government now has on
and and som
THE rehearsals of "Princess Toto at the City Hall Theatre are proceeding in a most satis-bottom and up the bow covered with staal bijleer thought Meilo will have no show against factory manner, and we learn on competent authority that a really enjoyable entertainment may be confidently anticipated. The dances are said to greatly excel anything yet seen on the amateur stage in Hongkong,
THE noted Ching Ling Foe troupe of acrobats and conjurere are to appear in St. Andrew's Hall, tonight, and those who have not yet wit nesurd the really clever performances of these artists should not miss the opportunity of dolag 10. Quite a new programme is to be submi ind to-night and a number of novel and mystifying iricks will be introduced.
of handsome and artistic desigur, suitable to all in Britain, would have won splendid positions.
as on water, and is useful in operations carried The principle, as such, is mischievous, interferon among mall lakes connected by streams tastes and at moderate prices.
ing with a free expression of public opinion, of uncertain savigation. This new kind of og la ballt la scow shape with steel-ahod russirs for moving overland: It is thirty- paren long, ten feet beam, decked all over the plate) am cogise of twenty-two, bore power furnishes steams for ten bedrs, work with tyres quarters of a cord of dry wood. In the Water it moves six miles an hour forward or backward, The yacht Navahoe, which sailed October ard as required, propelled by aldowania. Om land: from Cowes, Isle of Wight, arrivod yesterday. propelled by having a cable druns on which is
BERLIN, November 19th.. which te fustaned with pulleys' to a tree or other his address to the recruits yesterday, Miareng colled five-eighths of a mile' of steal wire cable, The Germania declaims that the Emperor, in suitable object in front, the fast moving the want Christian soldiers who up the Lord's wire is colled up. The boiler is hung ou as le prayer, Soldiers are not to have a wil of their in the centre, and a screw arranged on the frontown You must have bat one will, and that is enables the Bremen to lip forward or back, and mjuwill song law, and that is my law,” keep it leval going up or down "hLE HESTES mechanism and operation of the craft toch Varuna, November zgth, that, according to the representation, fa¤with A boller in the silk mili at Csurkowits exploded move la the most sailsfactory man, Over An | Testerday, killing thirteen and injuring twenty elevalan of one foot in three on land, and dijawe | persons. The mill was badly damaged, A about 28 inches in the water."
number wie hart in the pause which followed. Last Saturday morning a British vessel WAS DOIN
A MADRID, November 19th. The municipal elections hars resulted in the entering the harbour with the analin Invested, return of nineteen Monarchists and mine Rapubav. which is the usual signal, of # Muitay on board Beans. The Government has also been success- Immediately this was noticed, a couple of mes, fol in the provinces. The political campaign of-war's cutters put out, "full of blue-Iscicets, and this city was wuusilly active.
It was aristocracy, who had hitherto avinced indifference purely the spirit of duty that stimulated them, The Monarchists gained three seats. but anyhow a most exciting race sussed in a
· Soria, November,19'h,,
HOM AND AFTER THE IT OF JANUARY, FROM 1894, THE SUBSCRIPTION TO "THE HONG KONG TELEGRAPH WILL BE THIETY DOLLARS PER ANNUM, OR TWO DOLLARS
THE new law on shipping bounties in France AND A HALF PER MONTH
rules the extra bounty on alexurers built an ALL BURSORIPTIONS MUST BE FAID IN plans approved by the Minister of Marine, and thus made suitable for use in time of war, from 15 to 25 per cent, and a decree has now been inued explaining that only those vessels WIE secure the premium which shall have bon bei 15th December, 1893, EDMUND J. COATE, god on by oficere and engineers of the Navy.
ADVANCE.
DEATH.
This was
hur Hals: cash expital of their own' the
The north-east gule has driven the over, then engagement is fatal to them, as they deal so BERLIN, November soth." | Chinese speculate rashly, and the slight-
low-lying portions of the towing and are largely on credit. Their liabiffiles are always A dispatch from Flensburg, Prussia, Haatmishap that prevents their meeting
still daing. Great damage Res already bess greatly in excess of their set done The storm has done considerable damage at all the Baltic ports. A number of wrecks are reported."
BARCELONA, Novembar 20th.
zurden of private house. It is supposed they the loaded bombs have been found in the wwe Hidden thang by natrchists whose houses, were likely to be searched by the polios.
LATE TELEGRAMS..
In cent years there has been a general.com- plaint of the scarcity of allver, and the prevailing opinion is that the high oficials bave collected it and have büfléd it in vxtiltu „and so taken it
great expansion of trade, there being so many solution of the matter would be found in the E of direnlation", I think a more rationel
more sters now than in former years but doubt- leas the hoarding of the high oficiais has some ‹ effect. If reports he true, they have many millions Buried. Trade has expanded enormously and many aricies am now being collected and shipped to Europe that ware fatally dokrown few years ago. - Only a few days since, there were eleven merchant steamers la port, and steamers all left with good cargoes, but 15 they word not
oflaming emptys The Shanghaf Iching route nowhee too much tonnage for the trade to be prestable, and there is not much The death is Randesced of General A. Stantonierepepacs of the laide with. Szechuan Increasing -
Every materially. In the unar future; - It may in- Sort, December and. Chod fail on the cotton Yarn ille now proposed M. Ivano, a former officer in the Bulgarian Chungking wore a arrested here for plotting to murdar Prince
mamma pa je pakta pede
NOTES FROM THE NORTH
CABO, Decemberandane The Khedive opened the railway from Ise maills to Port Bald today with much ceremony
AM LONDON, December sad
At the General Hosnival, Shanghai, on the la France and passed the most rigorous Inspec» i dashed across the harbour towards where the' | especially the case. with Monarchists. The | Savios, desides a number of students, have been: Two Wayne Chene ANA MSAA
35 Years.
ኢhe Hongkong
Lelogynak.
newcomer hið ́nachored userlaps it was to political conteste, were early voters, to-day, Ferdinand.
Hits Regatta enthusiasm, or
Pat We would specially direct attention to the general meeting of the Hongkong Benevolent Society, to be held in the City Hall at noon on Friday fact, there was a Barro sape of a bad naaras Sebrate yesterday listened, standing, to are This Comitee of this useful insillation they reached the vessel. There, the offer Presaler mbuloffa eloquent enjeglum on are most anxious that the work done by the and some of the crew was at the fall, about Count Harenas, Prince Alexander Batten- Society should be as widely known na posribia, ing themselves höszve and beckoning to the two and it is hoped that the mosting will be largely beats to come on faster.. At last half-dead with, barn, whose death was recently notified.
There was an impressive silence throughout
HONGKONG, Wednesday, DECEMBER 20, 1893. attended. From private loquiries we find that their ecertiéns," yet angur log tal kehyswil tage delivery of the Framian's address, and at la
1
TELEGRAMS
THE FAMIR NEGOTIATIONS.
Hongkong Benevolent Society bay," "Best" i deal of good in a quiet and unobtrusion, and is thoroughly deserving of pabila support,
build
uvucinangag: the tezu tumbled in bokkie, and
ac y k moet hare Klown the bacity WITH › @kemly › complimentid✨ da° Wan
Hay have
mutiny **gasped the WITH. reference to the nefence of the charge, Matlay 7: There
Shan steamer, Stam in Singapore in this skipows London. December rich. |_ consequence_of_ $2,300_wash of contra The negotiations between Rusis and Chiks Opium having been found on board,
learn, that the Stratte
at St. Petersburg with segard to the Pams are ordered the temporary malassa
progressing slowly, China desires to retain the territory comprising the Murghah Valley and consent to the frontier line being rectidad, bar objećts to Ruanda' avistasly: humding
on sufficient security harlog boom gives by Company's seats The Goracune reserved its decision as to whether will or will not be confucited s
(FROLE CUR OWN CORE
the firmeral, and then adjoessed out of respect to any great meat rdose the members elected a deputation to attend Indicate that Cou Latest advices.
Filhos Ferdinand has issued eslogistic Suppe med cript to the by, ordering ten days', meuraing | Victoy, who ́in hoses of the dead Frizconden w
GPS Loanost, Névember noth, GiThe gule in the English channel was rese with fury to-day. All the bests running bew Calais and Dorné are at wm-bound. The va sniving at Devar sápoil the most fearf tokannat wad in the North Hes.,
by Disasters, and fatalities are snotted on sli Alstressed vasculo asi soon vil gray
there in commeation with that enterpris!!
· have ̈secen1ly arrived from
evidently something has bean" done in the way (==) of organisations "32 know that the last Treasurer
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