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THE STRANDING OF THE "TANTALUS!
THE SALVING PARTY SHIPWRECKUDA *** The Dock Company's steam tug Plier Fak
have is blocked. Nothing was known of these people being in the house at the time. After the fire was over, and the Brigade had gone, Sergeant Just committed an offence against the low. The Constable Barran were left behind in charges fthe crime with which the man has been charged is muldering ruins: Witchell beard faint cries, as conveyed in the title *ppearing in the German hethought comley fromthe basement floor, where oilaw Bookt as "Hautervew-rbeh¬triebszusdeh, pon he immediately went down, and assisted | Capt. Stapani. which went ouå to VW stranded - HuDgiabgabevefährdungTM" If the filme is at allia Gouslvy and Barron he procured a pickɔx«Blue Fannel" stexmer Tantalus yeriyiday, al proportion to the nastiness of its name, the separated the burnt hapse from its neighbour stated in last night's Telegraph, retardi »Boat and crowbar, broke through the party wall which Swablan must indeed have been a bad man.
(that being the only means cf obtaining access 6 p.m.. and reparted that the Tantalus is on to the bouse that had been on fi e) and hy means the rocks at Table Taland, near the Nine Pins : Ar the Ladies' Recreation Club:-"Have you of a ladder he managed, at great personal risk she is well up on ahme, the forehold foll of water, soon any of Mrs. Smart's literary work sluce sha / and after many mishaps, to succeed in reaching | and the cargo (chiefly rice) is being thrown over- the batement sor, where he found three Chinese Do you think she has improve very much? themselves alive by covering their beads coolies and gear for shifting cargo, and then at jast on the point of suffocation. They had kept boyd. Capt. Stopant came back for eighty with a cloth and turning on it a tap which happened to be there, and to keeping them selves cool and keeping off the fumes; but they were by this time in the last extremities. Witchell himself found the basement floor ordinary credulity recurring at Ban Has Kra-bai, so full of smoke and fumes that it was only people, and telling them that they were invulner alive and well, and able to spread among been amassing considerable wealth by tattoolog rescuing them, and they are now going about, near Sapatome, where a Buddhist pilest his
with the greatest difficulty that he could get to the Chinese, but he at last succeeded One of his dupes, named Dang, invited all their countrymen the account of the brave
"SAT, sister, Mr. Lighthead is coming to-night?" "How do you know ?" "Oh you've put all Mr. Shamisco's photos away, and set the clock back.".
INFANTS FED, on this Food put on flash rapidly.
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The China Navigation Co1⁄4 s'o›mer Scachor came in shortly after the Pilot Fish, bringing the 1,100 Chinese and two European passengers from the Tantalus.
of a night to go out in, and it appears that on be well understood, the thickest and nastiest sort rounding Tam-too island (instead of trying to
The Dack Campany's tug-boat had, as may
A BANGKOK paper states that M. Pavle bas/number of friends the other day' to witness & | help and kind assista: ce afforded them by the nick the.wty through Fa-'ch-moon) just outside.
decided to proceed by way of Salgon and Torqale, in order to take up bis mission to the Laos States.
Tar edict prohibiting the export of vice from Kores was to bave been withdrawn yesterday The Japanese authorities have been gifting for this for some time past,
A RATHER severe shock of earthquake was experienced at Yokohama on the 17th alto: the The vibrations lasted about two minutes and were also felt in Tokyo.
placed a gun to bis mouth and pulled the trigger test of the charm, and in their presence he with his toe. His mother cooks for one less,
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Lire-moon Pass and about 8 miles short of the spot where the Tantalus is stranded, she strack a reef and became a lixtors. The eighty coolles were brought, brek to Shankwan by fishing. Jaska bis morning. Mr. D. Gilles, manage the stranded tug in a launch, and Messrs, Batter of the Dock Co. has gone out to the scene of Held Swhe have obtained the P. and O. tug Dragon to go to the assistance of Tantalus.
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THE two men Oka Juuji and Hiroyama Telsoke, father and son, who are sccused of having com mitted the horrible murders in the Buddhist temple at Negishi, Yokohama, (particulars of which we bave already pobilshed) were under going "private examination" when the lastmall icB,,
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men of the Fire Brig-de. I took the opportuni to forward arepost of thiscare to the Government, in order that the Givernor himself might be made aware of what had taken place; and to day I have called van here to this parade for the tion bis Excellency has shown for the conduct of perpose of informing you of the high apprecia these firemes. In recognition of this he has Gifty dollars, and on the other two ten dollars each; author: ed me to bestow on Witchell a gratulty of and I have very much pleasure in presenting these three firemen with the reward that has been
they will be the first to appreciate that it is not them on the services they rendered, I know that only their particular merit that is so much in question this time, as the fact that they have had an opportant y to show their gallantry under circumstances in, which any other men in the Balgade would have been proud to do the same. I have sometimes been asked-What section of the British people make the best firemen English, Irish, or Scotch? I myself am an Englishman, and I m able therefore to speak with Impartiality, and I claim for the Enlish that they possess all the sterling quali je of the Scotch and the vivacious elasticity of the Irish, certain solid stolidity of their awa thrown in, which is unapproachable by the rest. Scotsmen, however, tell me Iim mi-
with
Before. Sir Fielding Clarks, Chief Justice.) taken; that they, and not the English, are the
March 8th,
ROBERT LANG & CO. *
Robert Lang, tallor, trading as Lang & Co, who filed his petition last summer, spplied for his discharge. Mr. G. C. C. Master appeared for the debtor.
The Official Assignee, Mr. Bruce Shepherd, offer. presented his report, and had no objection to Mr. Maiter said he had seen the report, which was quite satisfactory,
have
Was
As we go to press, our own representative, who went out this afternoon, returns with the report that the Pilot Fish is high and dry forward, and to all appearances a hopeless case; but a large salvage party from the Dock is hard at work about her.
The Tantalus is also apparently in a bad way, but owing to the thick weather and the sporaach of night a complete investigation was ett possible.
and there is not much swell.
The wind has not hitherto been troublesome,
·THE LONDON LYRICS AT THE
·THEATRE ROYAL.
Another fairly large but highly appreciative audience put in an appearance at the City Hall Carton's original comedy "Liberty Hall "by the last night, to witness the production of R, C. above company. The piece enjoyed a long run la London
best men, and that they are the "Scots whe hae wi' Wallace bled," and who "Do not turn ex flee." but follow and do or des. Then the Irish they and not the English or Scotch are the most. step to and say that this is all nonsense, and that meritorious, and they "follow wherever glory leads ibem. Fortunately I am not called upon to decide which of the three sections of the British
and In the chief cities of race is the beat; but I can point out that the America, and most deservedly, for from best way of showing your relative superiority the rise of the curtain to the fall there is is to emulate each other in doing your best and a ripple of irresistible fan and clean healthy maldog the Soest firemen, I may also men humour running through it, and the dialogue, tlou that on this occasion & wager was offered to debt that the insolvency of the debtor srove Irish, and not one English. The condition ordinary talent for its development, and that the His Ludskip :-Well, in this case I do note that of the three men who have distinguished cleverly strung, lends itself admirably to the from misfortune, but it is evident that the
them.elves to-day, two would be Scotch, one Introduction of by-play that requires only debtor was wrong in continuing to trade for considerable period after he was insolvent,
that I was not to frqalte what members of the London Lyric Company posICER particular section and when he knew, or, ought to
ef, the British known bich is (in law) the same thing--that that is often heard bent this place that you force of its own merits will earn a more than
any
that necessary Ingredient, their contiguous of them belanged to I declined successes amply establish. "Liberty Hall" is to make the bet, as I bors in mind the saying a comedy new to the East, but it is one that by he was in that condition. It is no doubt
trong temptation to a man who is reduced to are only to go on board any aleamship to the paying popularity. It does not contain any this condition by bad trade and also by the bad
harbour and call cut "Mac 1 and anggest m '"wee dray,” and every engineer on the vessel state of exchange, to hope that if he struggled on will rash up on deck and claim to establish his half-a-deren words. An English baronet. Sir intricate plot, and the incidents upon which things having been so bad must get belter, and identity as "Mac"not because he wants the Geoffrey Chilworth, though various foolishly the current turns may be summarised in. that he would be able to pull through bis "drap" bat because there are so many here good-natured actions, when called on to join the difficulties; but this is precsely what a man should not do In effect, be threw the risk of therefore declined to accept the wager; but I liabilities and a couple of pretty daughters.. who are qualified to be addressed as "Mac". I Great Majority leaves behind him no" end of had times continuing upon his creditors without offered an alternative bet of five to one that The inevitable family solicitor consulting them; and this fact prevents meunder under the same circumstances every man in the and the pleasant intelligence is imparted to the the Ordinance from granting an unconditional Brigade, ba he English, Scotch, or frisb, would gleis that they are penniless, and must galt the turas op order of discharge. I am also precluded by the behave in the same way as these three gallant ancestral balls (also inevitable) and face-a fact that the dividend which the unsecured creditors will get will only be something you, was not accepted and if it had been it would girl, is woman of spirit, and rejects the mea bave done. That wager, I need hardly tell callous and frowning world. Blanche, the elder between ten ard twenty per cent. Under these circumstances the Ordinance leaves three
have been lost. Now that I have called you offer which has been made them through a courses open to me either to refuse discharge together today and addressed you with regard messenger from the man to whom their home altogether, or to, raddle it with conditions
to this meriterious conduct on the part of three has devolved, and scorns to accept from him We find the following amusing and locally if the bankrupt to pay money out of his fatore words with regard to the working of the Brigade to the good fairy school, the messenger of continuing the 11-bility on the part of fremen, I think it advisable also to say a few permission to remain in Chilworth Castle. teresting paragraph la Modern Society Mr earnings, or else, the most lenient course of the daring the past year. As you know there has is no other than the heir himself, who ted a Companion of St. Michael and SC. George, There are face where sable the to take the years ago the number was 8 per annum, the hides his identity and manages to fuifi the Emanuel Raphael Bellies, who has been set three, to grant discharge subject to suspension. been a very great increase of fires lately; three through a series of cleverly drawn scenes. is the richest and most shining fignie in the Hongkong world. His wealth is high don namely that there is no opposition to things la reviving again, as it used to be förterly, the Castle, kind-hearted but plebeian uncle. most lenient course, discharge under suspen- next year it one to 18 or 19, and this past year orthodox duties of a guardian angel most: at of admirers, which is also common with p
it reached 35. I am sorry that such a state of admirably. However, before the girls leave. ple, si humble origin, plentiful messe, end- I do not think there has been any attempt on
this course from the creditors; and also that this Bot too refined taste or princely manner. For the past of the bankrupt (as there often is, I am and it was so easy to see that most of them bury, appese upon the scene and extends so when nearly every" night, there was si "slavm, who is a second-hand book-seller in Blooms- many years the klad of grandeur which the now sorry to say) to inflate the sssels with a view of were not accidental. I am afraid. It is the cordial and genuine an invitation to the C. M. G. endeavoured to procure in the colony deceiving the creditors; and also that the Official same now, in many cases, where the origin of bereaved ones to coma to Liberty Hall that it is was marked by heavy rebuffs, but ibis is now a thing of the past, as all ranks and conditions how given every facility and assistance in the latention on someone's part that the fire megiloped guardian angel, is much in evidence, Trustee in his report states that the bankrupt the fire is plainly not accident, but deliberate accepted and there Mr. Owen, the above flock to his magnificent and splendidly furnished realleation of such assets as can be collected. should take place. As to the way in which add there also are. Introduced all the essential- mansion. In the master of entertaining, Bellflos The value of these asscis, of course, has been they have been put out, I think the Brigade may elements of the plays the comic, the serio-pathes Is one of the most generous man alive. O reduced I have no doubt, by the inevitable congratulate itself that there has been no serioustic and a dash of the usual stage villainy. The board bis fae steam yacht weekly and bi-weeklassesan forced salar ef stock at an inoppor- disaster, none of the fires have been allowed to bero eventually reveals himself; he marries the ly picnics are given, and his guests received tune" time. with more than ordinary welcome, and feasted (as to suspension) a dead letter, because the firemen now have, and their knowledge of play and "theizend is peace."
I cannot make this provision
go very fax, and from the amount of experience right girl and so does every other fellow in the in the mart lavish style." By the way, where li the fast and powerful yacht Kingfisker now P.----
it is meant to be applied to a man who has not
the appliances and the rules for their guidance, As Mr. Oun, Mr. Lyn Harding was more at falfilled the conditions which entitle him to they may in general look forward to no valy home, looking better and acting more naturally.. unconditional discharge these conditions being order to be sure of this, it is most essential that interpreted in Hongkong His conception was serious danger of a really big conflagration. In than in any other character he has yet that his insolvency is the result of misfortune and that he applies promptly for rellef. If he each of you should master the use of the appli- that of a manly, honest fellow at all times on the his not fulfilled these conditien's I must consider ances at your disposal, and learn the rules which out vice for the honour and concerns.
credit on the footing of his being a free man. the object of the section, which is to prevent a are laid down for the guidance of the Brigade of those damhom he was interested, and if be man immediately upon his discharge obtaining Not a single one of them but has is distinctive were not brilliantly successful he at least invested However, taking into account the favourable box, the supply cart, and spare gear of every carry the sympathy and approval of the audience use in some contingency of other the dispatch Mr. Owen with an interest officiently strong to dreamstances bich I have mentioned, I granting. All the men of the Brigade have worked throughout the varying scenes. Mr. Henry discharge audifeet to six months' suspension.
wall in the past year, and I have been very Kits, of course, was cast for William Zodman, mech pl-ased to see that, subsequent to this the bookseller, and fairly collpard himself Queen's Road West affair, when there was in fact he get away beyond his own indivi ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID And then be will be dropped like a hot clodet..
romour of people being faside bursing dually and endowed the part with a serio-comic. ADVANCE,
by the crowd of rogues who farm/the body-gurd-|-
bruse unable to escape, strenuous efforts were pathos that took the house by storm. If Mr.. of the pulse ring here and in America, Miche
made by the fremen, under Foreman Phelps, at Kitts ahould not again choose to act or to exert should reserve himself for old men Es future; he
great risky they did their best to enter the build- the sedeniable talents that he too often allowe Is more accustomed to that safer department fall parade of all available dṛemes was held to say that on that occasion also some lives were up applause that he usually succeeds in fog and give the Inmates if possible. I am sony to lie dormant (confident in the calchy, cap-, The Swn says: "The so called fight appears at the Central Station this afternoon, in presence lost-three little children who had been left by winning his performance last sight entitles him, to have been a failure. Every reasonable person of Mr. H. Wodehouse, Superintendent of the the others and were unable to get out by them to be socornland as a first-class actor. Mr. sympathized with the Governor of Florida, who Brigade, and Mr. G. Hotspool, Deputy Superin-selves. Tels caually very little that the Brigade Geo. Mallett essayed to become responsible was thwarted by the Jacksonville municipal tendent. The men mustered 31 Europeans, 98 can do to save life at any fire the ably mand for carrying out the nefarious schemes of the anthorities, who knew the riotous, dusken, per Chinese, and one Indian' the seat belug out on tavoid such terrible catastrophes as occur oc, Honble Gerald, Harringay with a modified [; their city. Yesterday's show ought to condemu
fane gang of scoundrels would spend money to price duty.
casionally in this colony lies in the structural amount of success. However, Mr. Mallett is a the so-called noble art forever
Fire Brigades this parade is held ander ways of exit, lastead of only one that explains the family solicitor was all that the part way Mr. Wadehouse sald:-Member of the Hong, conditions of the house- ja having two or more. careful and conscientious actor, Mr. J. V. Millar circumstances which make it a great pleasure simest all the loss of life there has been, I have worth, while Mr. J. H. Nean made a thoug for teng. be present. On Chinese New Year's nothing for her to say except that I am pleaked golog Brigleskawan ill-bred successful w Dayabout one o'clock in the afternoon, a fire to see such a good master of the Brigade. Seme of trade and would-be-if-i-had the soy rage rook place in Queen's Road West. That fire times atter are the Superintendent, and bla villain. Hr. D. C. Smith as Robert Bind 1, the Wilk speedily put out by the Brigade, but I am Deputy may be seen conferring together with the re-sick agaistant of Tedman, was in ffables sorry-16 may not without a most disastrous loss scault that there are supplied with real and this saluted young comedian or by take li of life, there being no fewer than fourteen Brements at the Government expense to this as no empty compliment that willy he is on Lots Trad happened that in the middle of the ciss I doubt whether the trusty guardiak of the beard a gesture of bit will be last on New Year refpiciege, while crackers were beleg the public para cold carry their liberality dreaming, I dances. Mr. The mit Verner 384, some of the crackers met fire to some paper far as that, but I hope that as soon as you, cista Hickson had only a small pa to play and in front of the house, and immediately there wiss each of you will proceed in the casteen 4 & smoke and a blaze, which frightened the and at the expense of your Superintendant drink. people inside the house; and instead of running bumper to the health of your three com out, as they could have done at the first they re rade in whose bonour this parada has been #hud as thru buche of the thép, and eventually re-held. First you will at the same time maken treated to the basement floor. Before the peopinon resolution to do your bail whenever occasion At AFL door were aware of what had takes place, arises, and to continge good and sober fremden hay, were cut off from all chance of retreat, and as long as you remain in the Brigadest All muted one of them ware lost, The house was After presenting Mesis. Wilchaf Gourlay
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London, January 1609245 picked the Mitchell bubble we shall probably The Star sys: "Now that Cobet has Fear less about that cowardly ruffian. Treenly satiefsesory feature of yesterday's degrading | exhibillen is that one blackgsand, wag weih *The term of the other will certainly com,
The St. James Ganationsys į“ It was muidu degrading bosidess, without the braisi maaliasm of the old Sayers-Hesnan days.*
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