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THE rank of Commander has been conferred on MH. C. Kingsford, first lleutenant of H.M.S. Impérieuse.
of this very much mixed community, the meeting convened by order of Governor Rosicion through the medium of that popular and, never-read abortlonyoleptir la stated that the only diamond fields in the Government Gandife will probably be | Russia are owned by Count P. P. S Schonvaloff, attended by a notorious gin drinker, two whose estates comprise 300,000 Aistares. whisky fends, Mr. SHELTON Hoorke,
We are informed by the Agent of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Ca. that the Company's steamer Gala left Shimonoseki for this port at 5 p.m. yesterday,
mine is at Mount McDon over two hundred, mil Sydney.
TE have lost received our New Stock" ~ and Mr. GEANVILLE SHARP-that is, of /ACCORDING to an American paper, the Louisians of fine steamers formerly owned by the U. S. & which completely spoiled my attempts to enjoy
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We are informed by the Agents (Messri. Gibb, Livingston & Co.) that the E. & A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Catterihun left Port Darwin for this port on the 29th ulte.
No 1165, EG, will be held in the Freemasons AN Emergency meeting of Perseveranca Lodge, Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8 30 for 9. clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.
The Hongkong Telegraph would infinitely prefer to have been left out In discussing following appeared in a recent Transatlantic this matter. Mr. Charin is far and away will be entitled to a first-class obituary notice in publication: Subscribers paying in advance the best man in the colony to represent case of death," Good I the special Interests (presuming they are TOM SMITH'S CRACKERS, not a myth) over which the rag-tag and
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of the people in fighting an "official phalaox." Mr. CHATER, during his term of service in the Legislative Council, has done a lot of good work for his fellow- citizens, but in our opinion he might have done a great deal more, especially in supporting his colleague of the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. T. H. WHITEHEAD, în
·his crusade against official abuses which have made the Hongkong Government a bye-word throughout the civilized world. 'The honorable member for the "Great Unwashed" has been too fond of temporis- Ing, of playing with difficulties Instead of tackling them; but, malgré tout, his record even as a legislator is unsurpassed and as already indicated, he will receive the unanimous suffrages of the dipsomaniacs before mentioned and the other philan- thropists whose peculiarities are 10 well known.
However, our chief object in referring to this forthcoming election was to direct attention to the extraordinary policy adopted by our local contemporaries, and even In doing so for that reason, we feel that the game is hardly worth the candle. Who cares for the opinions of the utterly discredited nonenties of the decrepit
H.M.S. Impärtus leaves Hongkong about the middle of next month for a cruise in Java walers, returning before the end of March. Early le April the Centurion is expected to arrive here, to replace her as flagship.
In the Supreme Court today, before Mr. E. J. Ackroyd, Palane Judge, with Comir. Hastings as Krim Haiphong salvage case were concluded, Beutical agressor, the legal arguments in the and judgment was reserved.
THz Sanitary Board met this afternoon, and as had no power to do. The discussion of the 670. usual discovered a number of things which it gallon water supply was adjourned until next meeting on account of the small attendance to day,
WHAT with the Rifin row in Africa and revo- latiens in Caba, Brazil, Mexico, Honduras, and one or two other South American states, the contemporary, would seem to be literally boiling over Just at present.
"hot blood of old Spalo," remarks an American
D'AFC Marionettes are again on show this evening at West Point. There was another big sttendance last night sud everybody went away delighted. A detalled notice of this talented Company estertalament is unavoidably held
over until to-morrow.
MR. HEAN, who bas for some time past bren chief engineer of the Propontis, bas resigned, and the vacancy thereby created on board the *first triple expan·lon job ever bufit" has been filed by Mr. Mardonald, late second engineer of the steamship Esmeralda,
for fees as a minimam estimate
Under favorable cum lince and fo the summer season the journey anjeball would no doubt he enjoyable, as the country conta los The Brazilian Government (says the No. Y many striking views and places of special interest; Maritime Register) could, not make a better bar was my fate to have to face a persiste t stroke of policy to maintain contral of the country and most depressing seiles ofrain storms which and sid the people than by purchasing the fleethad been general for the previous fortnight an d Braill Mail Steamshia Co. There steamers
the lovely scenery of the Emu plains and Blus would be the nucleas of a fine merchant marine
Mountains. The railways in New South Wales for that country, which with its vast ses const
are not exactly paradises; if I might, without could support a home line most profitably, Immediate personal danger, be permitted to express my honest views on the subject, THERE lo a till pending In Congress providing hesitate to say that there is no railroad in the and as regards this particular line, I do not for the istoing of postal fractional currency, in denominations of 4. 16. at and to cents. This, habitable globe with so many extraordinary according to the Philadelphia Ledger, in
curves, the effects of which, especially to delesta or sleepless travellers, are many and various. Intended to furalsh the public with a conveulent
It was 8 pm. when the Great Western express form of money for transmission through the malls. It is to displace the postal notes, which
(what's in a name, etc. 7) left Sydney, and the passengers certainly had "a night of it." You are expected to be withdrawn from vale on January 1st, 1894. Thisfactional postal covrency
can get "chow (ala son) on the Australian would be lernished at its face value and without rallways, but it is invariably of the refreshment There are branches of business involving small and steak as tough as the hide of an old water the formality cow necessary to get a postal note.
room pattern-bolling s up of the weakest type transactions which would be sensibly alded by siceping cars. Ob. yes i I enjoyed a special buffalo, at a cost of 21.. 68.-And there are also auch a currency for inclosure in letters,
sleeping car, and for that exclusiva privlicge I bad to pay through the nose-a rather serious matter for a poverty-stilcken journalist who couldn't send in his little bill to the Hongkong and Sharghat Bank or the China Borneo Com- pany, Limited, with a certainly of its being ilquidated on account of alleged services rendered
W. L. DAVENPORT in the Methodist Recorder gives the following definitions
Gentleman-A young man of leisure who lives on his father's money and his grandfather's reputation.
Pallileian-A man who will sell all that he bath and go and buy an office therewith.
Statesman-A pollician who is on the winning sida. somebody else does,
Fad-Something everybody does because
Charity Supporting the church. Paying $1 for a $ta sermon. Gi ing to the poor what you can't pogelbly use yourself.
Pessimism Crying because everything don't
go our way.
THE supply of fresh water to the ships frequenting the waters of this colony is a matter the im- portance of which few perple pause to consider. For years past delay and annoyance bave only to the Infestar quality al "fresh" water frequently been caused to shipmssters owing pot supplied by the heterogeneous fleet of clumsy water-boats In use here since the year I, but on.
account also of the length of time it usually
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or otherwise. There a■ j-ke to this latter emark which nobody but the late "Dan'cl" McCulloch, the present Tom Jackson, the ex- director Dalrymple, and the writer of this pil. grimage thoroughly understands. But to retura to our steak and onṭans-x favorite dish at the Balmoral mize, as Mr. Orange, C.E., and other teallly. After dinner the salon-excuse my local scientists who bave been there, will readily French, Mr. Editor, but I once took a cheap trip from London Bildge to Dieppe and the Hngua Franca has stock to me ever since—was quickly transformed into a series of sleeping chambers, and I am not ashamed to cwn that I found oblivion in the aims of Morpheus-which is Italian for 'Murphy-with a sest worthy of a better cause. Masksa Long before darlight- say at about 445-the Mount McDonald pas sengers chan, ed carriages at a God-foranken place called Blayney, and then the fun really commenced. I am accastomed to terrific jotting I have ridden Austrailia buck-jampers, meered takes for one of the "tortoise feet" to ret along- an Egyptian donkey through the and deserts side and discharge after the signal for fresh waters rounding Grand Calro and Sues, and occe, has been holsted. Mr. J. W. Kew, late of Carmi- when ronds were not, scaled Vicola Peak on board a Mongolian race-pony, but the shaking- chael & Co., was not long in perceiving that a change for the better could be effected by up we were subjected to on this line of railway supplanting the walling water-boats with steam which, though of quite recent construction, water boats, and be accordingly ventured on the has all the discarded rolling plant of other lines enterp ie in fane last with a first-class water- in New South Wales, utilised doubtless to wear bost propelled and pumped out by steam. That out their last legs, put all previ-uvrxzeriences this plucky and far-sighted up colator based bis quite in the shade. The recollection of my calculations on good data there can be no bruised body haunts me still A+ 7 a m., unless manner of doubt, for he has now seen his way to the tin is late, and the oldest inhabitant can't adding a new steam water-boat "No, a to the remember when it wasn't late, Woodstock is formidable diet of useful and highly profitable The rain falls in torrents as I word my way aucleus of what promises to become quite a reached, and our journey by rall is accomplished. towards the only "pub" that, strange to ssy, this country town if corrugated iron shartles contains. A meagre fare for breakfast and an exorbitant charge have to be mildly put up wbb, and then arrangements have to be made for the journey by coach to the Mount, a distance of
14 miles,
vessels in the near future.
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the same operator, by using a number of tale- graph lines, can art up the same copy simul- faneously in a dexen different places. In this operaiton only or 'inary telegraphic corrents are used, such as are capable of being relayed, and Tur new five-masted bark Milionburn lately are subject to all conditions of ordinary tele- arrived at Philadelphia in ballast to load 200,000graphy. The work can be done at the same cases of refined petroleum for Calcutta. She is speed as an ordinary typewriter is operated, 297 feet long, 45 feet bearm and 25 feet depth of and dispenses with all clock-work mechanism. hold. She is a thoroughly modern sailing ship, synchronously moving type, wheels, and other now on her maiden voyage, and is owned by R. cumbrous devices. It le said to be capable of well-known "Burn" lite of sailing vessels. W. Shankland & Co. of Greenock, who own the manipulating some eighty different characters.
THE cost of a medical education in London, according to the Hospital, is from £80 to froo per year for five years, plas £140 to £200 le fees, making a total £520 to £709. In this | Daily Press and, moribund China Mail ; We | city, the New York Médical Record says, it sympathise with them in their unfortunate would be $600 a year for three years, and $300 condition, and would gladly sign any petition to provide for their permanent transfer to some reputable Home for Lost Billy-goats, Mr. Crater, according to the Wyndham Street mudheads, is not a bad sort of member of Council, but at his ❘ position "Kwick's Share Bill is doubtful, and further, as fie projected and mainly assisted to carry..out.. 10 of handsome, and artistic designs, suitable to all far as it has gone, the Praya
tasies and at moderate prices. "
Reclamation Scheme, confidence in his judgment has been shaken. Has it really? Yes, to some extent for the reasons stated by the Hongkong Telegraph; but not, excepting by interested schemers, on accountelther of Mr.CHazra's attitude on
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Thus the Chicago Tims "We shall probably have to lick the present provisional government of Hwall out of its boots to replace Queen
all on the things despite the fact the to the succes of this enterprise and now endes- this nation's authorized representatives fostered and made possible that same provisional govern woning to raise sufficient funds in Hongkong to ment. Such diplomacy is worthy of the code resume work at the mines under proper manage formerly in favor with the potentates of the Barment, and as very favorable halletins are said to bary count."
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ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS, MUST BE PAID Reclamation is not a day before its time, / She elited me with a look of sudden fear,
IN reference to our report of the Warrant Officers' DONALD MURRAY, a newspaper men of Sydney, Club concert to yesterday's Issue, it should be N. S. W., employed on the Sydney Morning stated that Mr. G. South, R.N., has been pre- Harald, has lavented and puented, in the sident of the Club practically ever since he came United States and other countries, a device short time before his arrival here, with Mr. J.newspapers all the world over. By this inven to Hongkong, but the institution was started a | which bids fair to revolutioniza the methods of
The landlord of the bostelry is anxious to be McDonald, of the Torpedo Depôt, as president. tion in operator in New York, with a kerboard obliging in a rough and ready way; he is inter- before him like that of an ordinary typewriter, exted in China and Japan, and as he is an old can not only produce typewritten "copy" in Newminer of varied experience, I am interested in Orleans, but, it is claimed, can operate a type any refable formation be may be able to setting machine and deliver bis matter thes in afford regarding the Balmoral enterprise. Fortune lead ready for the "forms" Not only that, but favors me decided y; the worthy Bo face is la no way inclined to be reticent; he knows all abut the Ba'moral mine and has no oj:ctions to ventilating bis views. He commences by telling me that a few years ago he took gold to the value of £10,000 eat of the Mount McDonald whilst working on tribale, He sbowed me district, principally from the Balmoral section, big of very rich specimens of quarts obtained from the Balmoral leases, some of which would 'pin asi' about two hundred ounces to the ton, and assured me that plenty of the same sort of stuff was available. If no one else believes In the substantial prospects of the Balmoral Mining Co., this practical miner certainly does, and it would appear that he has solld grounds for blsconfidence. "I am waiting, "he remarked, with a twinkle in his eye, "waiting wariį the Company stops work and then I'll try my luck pain." If all my worthy host told me is true, the Hongkong shareholders own a second Broken HB, but with the very gratifying difference that However, the fact remains that this man bas icatead of silver the Balmoral produces gold. made a considerable sum of money, the ore being have lately been received from those la charge, obtained as related above, and I satisfied myself the following report of a visit paid to Mount | that he is not the anis föstunste "tributor "for TSKESWICK's Folly" or of the incalculable WORTH, the Paris man-milliner, is quoted & McDonald in July, 1891, by the Editor of the the benefit of the antalilated it may be mentioned
boon he bestowed on Hongkong, in fashion to the fashionable waZILU.
saying: "Make your own style. Everything is
that'a "ributor" is a miner who works without "One Hongkong Teligraph may be worth reproduce wages and on his own account, returning to the present and future, by his magnificent woman should not wear a dress because another tion
owner of the ground a percentage according to reclamation scheme. The Daily Presswoman does. If a slashed Venetian sleeve goes Having a few days to spare whilst in Sydney | ble galus-who did well in the Mount McDonald editorial "Jo" says, that the Praya means, and call it "style in de sticla If you in the Balmoral gold mine by a considerable
well with an empire skirt, wear it by ali | In July last, and knowing the great interest uken | ranger
After breakfast the signal is given to coach," Reclamation scheme has turned out will. That does not matter, if it is becoming," number of Hongkong and Coast Port residents and now comes a most unpleasant part of the to be "some ten or twenty years
who bayo capital invented in that hitherto un- journey in a pair-boted—what shall I call it ? in advance of the Colony's requirements," She smiled behlad her fan;
productive, not to say unperfitable underis king, Those who have not visited the Colonies have My heart beat high with hope, and through made lequires sa to the fasibility of russing yet to experience the terrors of a buah road and but he doesn't attempt..to...prove that
up to Mount McDonald and personally seeing an up-country conch. The sensations from the my veins allegation by fict or argument. He could Love's fever T2U,
that was to be seen in what to the want, rozd remind you of a sen during a typhoon, and majorky of shareholders has been from the the coach is a square box on wheels that are not do so if he tried everso hard, The Prays
beginning very much a terra incognita. Meeting quite Ignorant of any relationship to springs. Mr. Kenneth Stevens, the Secretary of the Rain continued to come down in full force, Balmoral Gold Mining Co, Ld, who had been rendering the situation Just as uncomfortable as sent down by the Dlieciore in, Hongkong to can well be imagined, for the rool and sides of specially investigate and report on certain the abáky vehicle were as lenby na the pocke'is matter connected with the management at the of investorm in Punjoma, at 25. Woodste că misc and the position of affairs generally, at the being over 2000 feet above sez-level and the Tus erratic Missouri river is, it is said threaten Oxford Hotel, Bydney, where. I had pitched my season mid-winter, the cold was intense but 10g, and will most likely soon accomplish the camp, be courteously Informed me that no diff having been "frosa siff" (this expressiofa is complete destrales of the town of East culdes, excepting the bitterly cald and miserably copyright) coming over the Blue Mount Ins, Atchison, Mo., on the opposite bank from wet weather and the discomforts attendant on and not having thawed daws, I found it quite Atchison, Kap. The stream has been asting a
"songhing it" in an out-of-the-way, mining | Impossible to get any colder. But while de scrib- last summer has washed away over 300 acres of and that every facility would no doubt be afforded Irreling along up hill and down dale, through new channel for several months, and during the township, stood in the way of my projected trip, Ing these 'dellghis I am forgetting that the cach land. It is now within an eighth of a mile of me by the manages (Mr. Walton) to have a good a country productive of nothing more striking East Atchison, and the destruction of the tile lock round, and to form whatever of alone the than the everlasting gum-tree, the chief feature town with many thousands of dollars' worth of cireseglances warranted. Mr. Stevens, who | of all Australian bush scenery.' Hero ang 1 there valuable property, is regarded as inevitable and had only a short time previously paid anodicial Cockatoo"--a cockatoo in bush piiriance the people are moving away as rapidly as | wirit to the Balmoral with a well-known means a small farmer-bay a small hou jestend possible.
Australian-mloing expert, was, of course, not which relieves the eye, and it goes with{ int say- disposed to be parilcully communicative as to lng that our ancient friend, the peri evering Ar the Police Court this morning Mr. H. P. | the requite of his misolos, at all events unill | Celestial—they are generally called “Chors PARIS, December 22nd. Tooker, C.E., of the Public Works Department, the same had been submitted to the Board in the Colonies—has a market garden adjolu- General Dodds reports that King Behance who summoned Chinere quarryman for of Directors, and probably be preferred that ing the road-side, ons plot of ground that a little previons. It transpired in evidence that lihout prejudice one way or the ether; but entire journey in so dreadfully slow and gathering together the remnants of Ele army interprog on Crown lande, as shown to be I should form my own independent views is neither field, meadow nor. Swimp, The the quarryman was ezgaged in sozia excavations from what he rather hinted then actually stated, uninteresting that my chief attention is and in so doing carded his cattings to the inferred that prospects of big dividends in the devoted to scientifically balancing myself from extreme limit of the land leased to him, which immediate future for the long-suffering share. 'aide to side of the coach so as to escape bodily converged on a pobile road, a portion of which holders were, if not together, hopeless, at least a harm “as lár as possible from the horrible fell in on the quarrymen's property; the latter, remete conflagency. However, having thus folring of that extraordinary article of convey. whose excavations were thereby flled in with arranged preliminaries and cleared the way, ance One thing in reference to the terrible Government stones and rubble, becoming the I lost no time in starting on my Journey for the roads strach me forcibly, and that was how the aggrieved purty," and not the P. W. D. Mr. El Dorado which a little more than a year ago | large and heavy plecus of machinery alleged to Tooker, however, did not see the matter in that bad infosed such high expectations in the be at the Balmoral mine could have been trans light, and 12 was not until Mr. Wodehouse, the bosoms of numerous Hoogkang investors, but sported through such a country, m presiding magistrate, pointed the true situation which, alas! so farkavu only fealised disappointed .... After - ascending a series of bills Mount out to him and dimissed the case that he | hopes...
MoDonald is reached at 11.30. Frankly, the Erst seemed to realles that he had heat a trife too A very few. Incal readers of the Hongkong slew of the place did est impreis me favormbly | hasty and that it was the hapless quarryman | Telegraph: as:arqualsted - wih; the exact and I don't know that an ex ended acquiintanca who should, lisny one, have recourse to the law, locality of “ the Balmoral #waá a matter of fact with its beauties and other virteen very materially wränta la "Chicago "ste Mir. Tosker, Coles, like the rest al mortale, doubts | most of the sherahaiders jmow nothing whatever "ülbered my first impressions. The picture pros
Jose Miras and Searne,
5. Moon Hymn with bự sự wail sơ này lànt this grip | rented was 'n fhubby stawet of vagy insignificant
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She smiled again, I seized her little hand : And then explained the reason why she
mailed-
it has become an absolute necessity if the health and well-being of the colony are to My necktie had slipped up behind my car. be protected; and in projectlag and so materially assisting to carry out that great work, Mr. CHATEE standa far ahead of any citizen Hongkong has ever produced. He will get credit for it after he la dand. That is the customary reward of men who, THE MEMBER FOR THE GREAT apart from the trivialities of every day
life, are truly great,
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December djrd. In as regards these amusing nondescripts. H. Deloscle spokes to the Chamber sgalast Suggestions for the improvement of this wok--in the Hongkong Legislative Counell, the buffer stats" proposal in Slam. are respectfully solicited,
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PRODER'S HILL, Homarowa," Menghong, 4b January, TEDA
whose term of service has expired. As | LOCAL AND GENERAL. Mr. CHAZER's re-election has never been very w
in doubt, so long as that gentleman was | Tum Engineers Institute's dance of the City Hall willing to give his services for the benefit al 9 a'clock.
of the fair-weather grovellers and liefs spittles who form such a large proportion
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