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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1894.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamet Canton left Bombay for this por on the morning of the 31st
ulto.
RICH gold has been found in the Wattans ruines in Slam and excitement was running bigb in Bangkok in consequence when the last mall l-ft
that port,
|
We are luformed by the agents (Messrs. Dodwell. | AccORDING to the Bangkok Tours of the 23rd actually coming into contact with them. The who are not: it simply not for worst streets. the 32nd May, by H. E. the General Offe
Carli & Co.) that the "Shire" Line steamer Cardianshire, bringing the outward cargo of the steamship Glamorganshire, left Slogapore
for this port to-day, and is due on or about the 8tE-ins!
Dock Yard was sent up country to be securing fresh adherents dal' y.'
ownere or responsible
agents in
sult, lag
ש"י
written in a friendly spirit towards the man THE Kobe Chronicle learns that a telegram has farmay such property pass muster, and been received by the Japanese Government therinthet hager in nadee leniency: engaged to sanitary work, I may state that the from Seon) stating that the milltary force lately Of course, it be imagined that the list work done by the officers, non-commissioned dispatched to suppress the Togaku-to found the of landlord e pablished fast Wednesday officers and men of the Shropshire Light Infantry Insurgents so powerful that It retreated before gives precisely be are to blame and uue is purels voluntary in the true sense of the the principal word. When I was first informed on Tuesday, vito, dacolt outrages are still being reported Korean Government is therefore about to dia- from the interior of Slam; a particularly brutal patcia a prer force to the Zemra-do with the Some may be praiseworthy excepitens, while on Commanding that our services right be case having just comes to hand. It appants, object of suppressing the rebellion. Matters are the other hand many of the culprits are omitted. says our contempwary, that at sst eight or slut said to be serious, however, and the Togaku-to It would be an infiutiely laborious task to tad my men on parade that we
out aprelty exactly every man who is at fault, add alght be called upon to slut in stamp- days ago, 5 Du sas
Stamese employed in the
out the plague; the following morning at how far so; and it would be useless. It
Tox.m. I received a letter
for 4 off
officers, I to non-commissioned officers and men at 1 pm, Phong, and left at home wife who had MAU FAN aliar Mau Pon-ial, a godown-man unnecessary to enquire who is the owner of a only recently been confined. Whilst mother in the employ of Mesar. Butterfield and Swire, house that is unfit to exist; the health of the and for 150 the following morning at 7am.
There was no parade to call for volunteers, and child lay in the hours a gang of dacolts was seated yesterday by detective Sergeant colony is being destroyes, every resident in in must be removed,
call for sked by the The Money. entered and demanded
Company the men were Holt by virtue of a warrant charging bim with danger, and the danger protested that her bashond had taken all having stolen 40 tons of cast from his employers, wastes who owns it; we cannot thread the color-tre
colour-sergeants if they wished to go; some few, who did not feel well, did not volunteer, but the the money away with him, or which the mis intended for their steamer Hupak, between the taxes of crown-leases, ab-lessee, executor, creants said, "Oh you have been here some 20th and 30th days of April, 1894. The mortgagee-in-possession, and goodness know
surrendered ber of China, Lid, were pat into circalation in this cours diebus have money, Money, or you defendant, who is at large on bail to one surety what our wives and children and out swa liver
Police Court yesterday, when formal evidence of attacked to any better preventive against Plague and colony yesterday. The notes, which have their † silver bangles and the ankiets from her child $5,000, was brought before Mr. Hastings in the are threatened. Europeans have not yet been host interfering with men employed in special respective values given ́in English and Chinese | but dissatisfied with these the dacalis struck -hla strest was given, Tha case comez on for they never willest extent, but who can say garrison or regimental duties. Those who
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THE new notes inned by the National Bank of
on the borders, are very one specimens of the engraver's and designer's art,
must
woman
off her head with a sword. They left the child watermed, however. Some arrests have been made to connection with the aff·ir.
attacked by wait and do
asking
bat
farnish the party required frem 5 Compantes great majority did, and I have been able te
scason will be celebrated there with due solem. } is going the rounds, and si nem é viro e ban | flood fell for forty days and farty gigots, and proposal in Bot generally favoured, and sa prob- the samje spirit an they have began, though it
TO-MORROW bould be a gaia day at Bay View for the genial host of that favourite hostelry notifies that the fasuguration of the summer nity. A foli band has been chartered and if Jupiter Plovlar will but do the great Tylam set de, dry up, all promises to be well. AM inventor has patented a device for illaminat ing keyholes which promises to be a boon to brethren out late at the lodge. A recess to the door frame holds a tiny incandescent lamp,
be? The Colony is not, so far, cholers, but are we ta heating at 11 o'clock on Monday forenoon.
Some of the Chinese have suggested a big It is somewhat singular how frequently the number 'forty' occurs to regard to important precession as a means of driving the plague A SLIGHTLY different version of our tran story incidents, alleged to be factu, reported in the away. We can hardly say we prefer the disease about the Landlord and the Whitewash Brigade Bible. For instance, the rain that produced the to the remedy, but we don't want both. The after it ceased it was forty days before Noah ably the Government will be spared the pale of
ed the
slon. lacidentally, the great Moses was forty days on the refusing
1 and illuminated water proces fasting, and the eples spent forty days Man Mo their report. Elijah fasted forty days in the held in this Colony, it must have been that wilderness, and Jonah gave the people of which caused this plagan Nineven forty days in which to repent. The reasonable as the stupid non-sequitur
fung-shui, etc.
travalo :—
The soldier had been rummaging about ang matters in Canaan before making | sion last March was the first of its kind ever
infected house, turaing out rubbish by the ton, and retting himself smothered in dirt, and suffocated la Tal-plag-shan ozona; at fast he got downstairs and bounced out into the street, full tilt against Granay Sharp.
Dear
This is at any rate
volunteered were inspected by the medical officers, and only thosa in good health - were allowed to go. Since the commencement of the off sick, and | wo
work, several men have had to go off their places have been filled up by volunteers from "ther companies; and I am quite sure both the officers and men will carry on the work in
rather heart-breaking to all of us, that up to the present there has not been the slightest attempt OB the part
of owners or tenants to assist the With reference to the statement in to-days' authorities in cleansing their houses. Daily Presseaving that I refused to allow my men to have any refreshment, it is not correct, as the oecially mentioned in writing to H. E. the General Officer Commending (who asked me for suggestions) that if my men were employed I stipulated that they should have a supper supplied every evening as part of any remuneration they might gat, as I considered the nature of the work would require the men to be
which is ligbied by » nush button. The light me," said the benign old gentleman, forty days' fast of Jesus is known to all readers deductions as to the high-level tramway, drains, | following facts will show -Oo the 22nd May I sufficient not only to illuminate the keyhole, but assist in erious work you are doleg. Can I at the New Testament,
in any way?" *No, thanks,” replied the emergency man, meditatively, "I don't know that you can, just Bow, Bat it is serious, as you say, alr-it's awful. You know, it's the blanky landlords that are to blame, for letting their places get into
of the junk
THUS the Siam Observer of the aand alt.The sudden decease of Phya Chadock Racha Sethi, which occurred on Saturday afternoon after brief attack of cholerale diarrhoea, remares from the scene a well-known official, fall of years,
humble way, but was appoloted
ooted compradore by King Phra Chom Kleo, in 1854, and ba the return of the mission the following year was put in charge of the royal steamer Bangkok, and made a Luang. Later on he was elevated to the rank of Phre, and finally, when appointed chief book-keeper in the Finance Department, was given a seat in the Sesabodi, and created a the sacrifice of his gueur, and bestowlog the usual Insignia of rank on him. He was also head of all the Chinese residents. Latterly be looked after the Waterworks with considerable
It
suffocating
We regret to have omitted from our Ust of culpably neglectful landlords the Princely Home" of Jardine, Matheson & Co, whose title to the distinction comes from being general managers for an insurance company that holds property in Station Street on mortgage,. Whether
but the street is one of the worst. the coffee and cake now provided for the
Whitewash Brigade" during their and beastly work, Governor Robinson bas gener ously presented two thousand cigars for the free use of the men to combat the stenches among which they have to work so hard; and Measts. Kruse & Co., about the best Mariis clear fiets scent gift, with offers of more when required.
The following are the official returns up to noon to-day
From noon yesterday until noon to-day :-
New Death Disch, Rem-under
cuted treatment
ordinary breakisst of tea or coffee, bread and beel-steak before tarting, abilz get their dinner.
to permit the late-comer to select readily the proper key from bla bench. NEVIR agalo shall it be said that the Smart lacks enterprise and is not well abreast of the times. It has discovered the existence of the i such a state;’and I'm told there's one darned and reputedly not badly off. He started life in the particular houses are bad or not we cannot fed, and my reason for asking for the supper plague, and announces the startling intelligence old snufflebuster they call Grannysharp, as is in the following Carlyllan line, "The Plague the worst of the lotte ought to get the plague of the
thable, big "p" has now been with us for himself, and 1 know where he'd go to when he i Chik which carried the Embassy went say, be learnt with pleasure that, besides was that the men golog out early get their pearly a month," and then abruptly shuts down died!" to gasp for breath, or a whisky or something. Vids last night's issue of that winding sheet. THE three Koreans, Kea To jy, Ken Zal ju and Klo Tai Gen, who were recently acquitted of the friend of Kim-ak-kun, having been ordered to leave the country, arrived to Kobe from Tokyo on the zoth ulto, in charge of the police. The were to have been conducted a far Nagasaki, and there placed on board the steamer Genkai-mart, leaving for Fassn on the 1st Inst.
Was
while the second
On the 30th May, Mr. Francis 'anked me filt a trae that
may men got unlimited liquor supplied while at work, as a representative of the China Mail had been to ask him. I Tobjected to their being given unlimited beer or spirits while at work. I may further add that since this work began
I bave not bad a single man commit himself in any way,
this Acid when well mixed with one quart of charge of attempting to murder Boku Yei Ks, the cok, and till then zo one had even begua Phya, the late Klog personally superintending in the Colony, have sent dowo a’similarly múint Informed him that it was not the case, and that
water forms a superior disinfecting and deodor Ring Hold.
Half a pint of the Solution thus formed, when added to any vessel used in the Sick-room, will prevent any unpleasant effluvia, and preserve the contents for Medical inspec ion. It also purites rales, Water-closets, &c.
We regret to learn of the death of Mr. W. T Bevan, formerly of the Royal Engineers and more recently ofthe Public Works Department A tea-spoon of Carbolic Acid exposed on ■ { ho
a clever man, and with all his faults thoroughly plate or other vessels in a Sick-raon will purlly good-hearted, straightforward in every dealing the air and prevent contaglor.
and popular with all who knew him. Mr. Bevan had a fail while goleg home late last night, and was picked up to the street insensible. He was taken to the hospital, but never recovered. con sciousness, and died from concussion of the brain. He leaves a widow and family, not yet all grown up.
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At the present time dislofectants ought to be used freely by all.
All disinfectants used on the higher levels of the city will, in addition to purifying the house drains in which they are used, beneficially affect the condition of the drates on the lower levels,
and should be used freely.
Further Information can be obtatued by personal application to
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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 16th May 1804
fs
TAUS Sydney Bulletin: The Melbourne Cup stakes for 1894, Instead of bring £10,033 and a hophy, will be only 5,0co and no trophy. This fearsome writing on the wall appeated inst ear to realise the true awfulcess of Melbourne's fall, And airce then words have failed to express the situation, and the British language has led a feeble and anguished schedule to despair. Ichabod Melbourne the great in fallen-uccess,
alles! The
grass wit
whereth; the flower fadeth; and the Cup har gase bang. Only the
do prophet of desolation, could Jeremlab, the
The few Bulletin presents its readers with s justice to the situation, and therefore extracts from that weeplay preguosticator of old its humble tributs in a day of great calamity, And on second thoughts, it doesn't present the sforasald extracts, because there is nothing even in jeremiah that is quite desolate enough to meet the case. So The Bulletin heaps ashes on his bead-or at least it would do so only the engine is run by gas and there aren't any ashes en the premises and cries Incoherently with a loud voice saying nothing in particol:r, but thinking several things.
Granny's sumpan-man having bied to regions where piagues are not not printing presses known. The Dally Pest without the plague or the the "shlaplog " is now left to the tender mercies plague without the Daily Part, would in of the office smak. And a pretty mess she fall conscience be e sulcient of cion at
Interment.
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On the 31st May I received the accompanying letter from Mr. Francis offering coffee for the men at work, which was gladly accepted, as I con- sidered coffee better than beer or spirits for the especially in the early morning; and raen, 113
yesterday established coffee deppts at the Tung
No. Wah Hospital and Police Station, and
men were suppiled with hot coffee through out the day. Mr. Francis had also-arranged for the supply of coffee to the men, and he is now carrying out the arrangements. I also suggested os of cheere a man to add to their breakfast,
to their as several men sald they would prefer it to
this also has been regular steak sometimes; given. The caffeo was thoroughly appreciated yesterday, as also the cigars and tobacco- part of which was the gift of a gentleman and previous evening.
The men are now recolving a lot of rum to-- had been distributed in barracks to the men lhe
day, which they cany, to their water bottles this was a gift from Mr. Abdallah, the Compra It will be succended by a gift from Menors. Cald becir, Mecgregor & Co, of je dozen of whisky, as I consider I am justified in using it as I think best for the men.
CANTON, May 31st.
THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG. A serious "hitch" has occurred in connection with the burial of the numerous victims of the
Total............ 48 "76 plague, which reflects the greatest discredit upon
Deaths from the outbreak (5th May) up to the Committee of the Tung Wah Hospital, the members of which are, we understand, mainly responsible for the dispasst of all bodies brought June 1st, 2008, 587; grand total, 653.
-headquarters at The
THE PLAGUE IN CANTON. to the dead-house la thelr foot of Tai-ping-sban and those scenmulating
wave six hourly in their branch hospital at Kennedy-town. At 6 o'clock this morning there were corpses
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) in the city mortuary which had been lying there 14 hours, and in the Gises Works dead-house
The plague is still very bad here--it appears no less than seventy bodies ay due reliable record giving definite daily statistics or This state of affairs was partly due to the fact of set to be getting worse, though there is no it belag impossible to tow the coffins round to anything of that sort; but corpues seem to be
more frequent in the streets. Sandy Bay yeilerday owing to the prevalling
but the main cause of
of the
It appears that the Viceroy refused to comply then the regrettable dels party the coffas from the Glass to stop the placards. The magistrates have put requira comething more en
of Infota. (ozlinde. Tils morning la
by the exencia
police to Works to the Improvised wharf at Lap-gap-wa, up some notices of the usual mild deprecatory windy screed which started off with the
Uke scared rata as soon as they saw the kind bat no attempt is sunde to discover and Sanitary Bo rd and saded up with nothing in
**** fcoffins which they had been hired to carry, punish the culprits. pticular, po. dec.apit old Granny whimpers Pile of coff
and the Captain
Police and leaving the whole of the labour to fourlego nged Soyrintendent of said that be tried to engage threy hundred men who have been engaged as coffin-bearers colles on Thursday and fallel. What prospect during the past three weeks. A remedy for the
difficulty will
will doubtless be found shortly would a private landlord have al engaging
authorliles. military purpose by the other residents of the infected districts for wasting water, it might do some good were the authorities
making of the business too❘ It was only the this season of the year, but together # bigh westerly was due to the coolics engaged | with the British Consul's request to take steps dare to the Garrison, and when that to finished
doses t
the
the
The foreign population was increased by one Deutscher Sold!" this morning. The Roman Catholic missionarios estimato number of deaths from plague in the Canton district at no less than 120,000o-probably even
Most extraordinary plecards and rumours are at out. Jae le to the effect, that every Chinese who is caught with scant-bag or bottle
more
Quartermaster (Lient. Wilson) has taken l of trouble to find out the men's wisher at regards the extras in the way and I think of food, tobacco, cigar etc., most people will agree that I am working and looking after the weliste of my men, and certainly do not object to any amounts of extres for them, if of the right sort and farted ins in a subable way. But the authorities wish
to ordain that during six consecutive hours of presumably for disinfecting purposes) in Hong to give stimulants, I am sure it would be best
to
other day that she with more entbubleem that discretion related how one of the "Douglas boats had been navigated through Torres' Stralis and the Inland Sea when making short but haz doua tua from Swatow to Hongkong. The old lady is certainly bit lasse on the subject of geography, though with care and atten. tion she may be coached through that,
But unfortunately she is also a bit cfl in time and dates, as witness to-day's Extra: "A mall labour, ther, especially if he compsition in the use of military wagons, kindly lent for close for Cantan, per Powan on Wednesday the be set up for the series of the labour.rs ?
What prospect of hiring lab sur? Why hire labour 6th at 11.30 am." Really Granny should not take her "Plague Preventive in such large at all? Why not start the landlords themselves
thees uf on
cleansing
missions? And what beautifully pathe ic AN lecreased revenue, increased accumulation of winces his C-M-Gship Beillios, dear old funds, a reduction in claims, and a best-on-record philanthropic G-sharp and the honourable the all residents in what is known as Chios-towo for the 68 years of its existence-sach is the member for Jardine Matheson and Co. yoked should turn on their water "full cock" and result of the Standard Life Assurance Com together with a backet and brush in each hand thereby flask the Rossedrals. The rains pany's working for the past year, as stated at doing this much-neede! sharitable work Then do not flush the house-drains to an appre the annual general meeting in Edinburgh would they earn the substance of the reputations clable extent in the localities indicated,
worth. be for policies during 1893 numbered 4,634, amount house rents they collect, ing to £2,173,000 and of these, 2010 policies were fasued, for amounts totalling 1,760,000 This brought the face value of existing sun sterling." The Hongkong agents, Mears. Dod
up to twenty-three million pounds well, Carilli, & Co., expect to have shortly supply of copies of the annual report for circals tion, and meantime they will be glad to afford any information the public may desire.
rte Emcolacle it would Do Matxt week (the day and hours being duly notified) | kong is fined $5. Another is that all the clana i mies the beer to the man on their return in the
on the a7b March last. The sew proposals they claim-and perhaps a psrcentage of the hence tkia suggestion which is given ler what it version of the constant border dacolty}; also of bare ficers and men as working wülingly
ances
A LIVELY French contemporary pebishes the following regulations to be shortly promulgated by the cycling commuoly
Whereas the number of cyclists is constantly increasing and that of pedestrians therefore Whereas the former will soon be la the majority, decreasing in proportion, and
way, on the principle of the greatest good for not to already, pod the tigerity trust, five
greatest number, | the
It le hereby enacted--
are thrown into one large pit fall of me afternoon, Every man has 14/pints of porter
thing, dally from anything.
the War Department Stores for one though, by the way, if it is how can anything more be thrown in. There penny at noon. are also rumours that the French and Chinese In all my arrangements for the welfare-of-the version of the constant ber der dabir a dialerted men, I have consulted the medical officers, who
11.
me every sulstance. My * rebellion of Chinese and Ki-bu against the To-day's returas of now epidemic cases Manchu
And there
yet another wild story and cheerfully, as any one can testify who sees
them bat 1 say
most emphatically that unless fahabitants of plague-steleken konses are show some decress on yesterday's "record," that the Chiness are going to bara dows though the deaths have risen to 761 no Hongkong. They often do try, in a mail great importance can be attached to this fact. for the sake of the insurance money, and if they compulsorily cleared out, and put in matsbeda It is now agreed practically by all the medical would extend operailons and make a clean sweep for about 3 weeks, and kept apart from the others; experts that changes in the weather-zain, sun of the plagus-breeding rookeries it would not be and unless the buses are stred and purified st shine, wind, calm,
such time an ordered by the Colonial Surgeon, ali heat, or coolness-cannot be an unmixed evil.
allowed relied on an end to the
There reli
plague.
creklofts belog palled down and net
be put up again—the plague will go on all the cause has been removed, is the whole of the
Chinese war of 1884-5) gone to the trouble of par will be practically throws away, as well sz Chinese lower classes housed in sanitary buildings chasing the Hongkong Governorship with the much money lost to the coin houses at once,
It is impossible to do special object of and the peatliential piggerles of Tal-ping-shin
of introducing the plague and obliterated completely
castalaly when cleaning houses where case lever" may pass away of munity
bare occurred, every cockioft understand that as a rule of the accord,
d so as to prevent overcrowding should be reasovnak epidemics sometimes do, but the natives, do not think of disballaring. these there is reibing to show why or when that is to stories, however absurd they never stop to and the recurrence of the disease. At present be Icoked for, and it would be madness to sely consider the recalbility of the thing being untrue. the people go back to
to their houses an 8000 Su an say such vague hops.
It never occurs to them, for of course they are cleaned, so that cases of the plague occur fre-
to
pu!
The wildest rumour I have yet heard is that
expect that the disease will disappar before ite Sir Willage, Robinson is really > Frenchman.
(perhaps on account of the Franco-summer, and our work and that of many others
On the and instant, at the Government Civile first cast of the kind which has conis before Haw ste konzosch whenever he sees a cyclist in | Of course, the from the face of the eanb. | Zaliberately king out the whole Chinese com« |
DEATH.
The Honghong Lelegraph
the
and
Mother coolle 4 balled spn defendant
od morning, and after
its own
new godowas
the use of a large number of
and other
You must
the same hou. to the grotesque absurdities of deep tatoo is carried out in airy matshede
AT the Magistracy this morning, Mr. H. E. Wodehouse presiding, Leung Yu, a crolle, was committed for trial at the next Criminal Sessions with a whistle, hom, or other means of signal. That every pedashian shall supply himself on a charge of highway robbery with violence..
The his way number of mouths the Bench for a
From
That at right every pedestrians shall carry a Hospital, WILLIAM THOMAS BEVAN, aged 45 evidence adduced it appeared that the
well-to-do bright light prominently exhibited)
That any redesulan who cruses, an secidant (suddenly),
Chinawomen near Bay View Hotel at to o'clock to
christening the cyclist by gatting himself upset shall be elegraph pair of gold ear-rings. The defendant was be deported to a mountainous country 3
That all arrested by one of the complainant's coolies, who
An occasional correspondent writes ander date In conclusion I am very glad to see that the and boulier-paving shall be totally the poor wretches who are to be dislodged from the
plague-breedings spots. Of course this cannot be rst instant sieThere is now but litle talk here recommandation of H.E. the Mejor General bolished's
That the cl-calation of ardlusty untringes done all at once it is a matter of months, of the
sven or before
its effects are villl serious yet the upon for reducing the number of men to be... Shaklewin. Inspector, re fully soere shall be prohibited between 12.07, and 11 pm; perhaps or coupleted; but i har lo be done, calais may be regarded as over-for the present dally explayed, airing them a day off and That the tax on cycles shall be replaced by and a commenceme s will be made as soon at all ergots. The hapless victims of the deadly emplaying them in supervising fast as done by tax on pedastrivas ; and fully
That the Republic shell be a cycling republican ever circumstances permit. The Permassent dissase brought to this city in steamers from doing the work, leaving the latter to be done by
Commlites of the Sanitary Board will not desist Hongkong see the only plague-stricken people Chinese labour under hele supervision.
F.W.ROBINSON, netking at sli.
until the thing ladone properly, under the special now seen in the vicinity of the wharves or
created, il
the settlemeal, necessary Public Works
The weather is remarkably cool here for the
We understand that the Government selon They losa light of the fact that | The Ith pepper cased her of $yo and a liable to n'åne of 100 francs ; or in default shall i arranninu to obtalar buldings at West Polat, the plague atorină în lugnton, and they swallow | somewhere to the West of the town, I think the led him to a tree until a constable came along ; ; mauad 102 shall be made of aapkel: oz | Dear Tardian's Wharf for the accommodation of † any native yarn s5 a matter of.course.
HONGKONO, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1894
TELEGRAMS.
-GOVERNMENT BUSINESS TO TAKE PRECEDENCE IN THE HOUSE.
LONDON, May 31st.
his companion escaping in the direction of Sbau-i-wan. Bremner, a and borated, hence the committal.
A NATIVE merchant of Hanol named Lal-ThusD. www recently arrested as a suspected pirate, and ❘ or narrowly escaped "getiling his hair cut by the executioner. It appears that are of the French
{VÍVE LA FRANCHI
Printers Sales Department will erect matcheda
that
plague would gradually subside.
1/2h2w of the plague, which indicates | Commandfor the Troops has now been acted
Liest, Colonel Commanding 1st Shropshire LI.
Hongkong, June 1st, 1894.
(ENCLOSURE.)
A motion brought forward in the Houre of § mén`lately liberated by the kidnappere up- | THE lafest news from Sandakan is to the effectditional temporary nocommodation, and us | timò of year. We have had lots of rain daring the remainder of the, session, was adopted by a 1 1705essing to be a Hanoi merchant and old | Kudát, recanily set out frazu his headquarters in || "lready stated, the far dlords or other bölders of l ́ ́past few days, and last night' several squalia di My dear Colanti Roblara.
ted to a bellef that he was really a member of Narth Bornan, Wie was at the Llise trivasily too. They are directly summer freshnia Kavo, now set in, and morning to get along with 75 mon only la each
majority of seventeen.
PROGRAMME OF THE NEW FRENCH MINISTRY.
been carried off
samen
•
The
M. Dugay, the new Premier, referring to the | 1 was not the same man, Asfatles ara'oftes no | mg243. Affasipa's departure teneants Vacalista" boss fat living ia drawn from | Telegraph poblisked here and one or two of ther they smoke? There is no dificulty about fer
financial problem stated that fiscal reforms were
most urgent, and that the Foreign Policy would be lo vigorously defend the rights of France.
RUSSIA AND THE VATICAN.
Kil-Theen, Commons by Sir William Vernon. Harcourt to country had been approached during his captivity that Mr. R. 34. Littin, the British Resident, at
a man giving the ame of
have interest Capisin Z. A. Barnett, the officer in insanllary property will have to pay pretty typhoon force swept over the city.
We hope to be able to arrange by Saturday give priority to Government business during the
by the
the band, though his salons charge of the troops and constabulary in Britte's
1 for the heavy death-roll; but for this | some of the streets in the lower
parts of on a tour | they get Labuns
all scot-free.
This will give each man a day off. however, the French everland from Bandakas the As it happened,
Zang.
exceptionally strong just now, that I have not since the publicaties of a few promisentally are under water at high tide. The ebb tides rellet. man when brought face to face with the genuins of inspection As far as was knows in to the
that time of
e kom Sandaksts
Will you permit us to apply the men with offenders?
waard of mes in these columns, there
spy fatal accidents a
In consequence Lal-Thuan was able to swear clondly enough that
16ch gita,, all had gonil we CAN CU
Setter in the dove-cols of the bloated thereof; although did we have an edition of the unlimited hot coffee while at work, and cigars, it much like to the European aye that it might Barnauls pity, while Mr. Little's contingent easily bave turned out otherwise, and then all had fared bidly. It scamy that the latter oficer these deadly dans. Mexwa Liostend & Davies, paper long-eared and lynx-eyed reporters on should doubtless know RADES the protestsalons and able in the world would had despatched an advanced guard and of who are owners or agents of probably more the qui viv,
and a thousand
lenaments than unhealthy
other Europeans about auck other interesting matters every thirty fill not have saved him,
munition) in charge of Bikh in the have themselves day week. At we A Russian Legion Eas boca established at RUSSIA in Asia contains an area of 5,000.00 onda-ly and a pad afect and of the leprovements that those 24% of hotely dependent Wongine Telegraph for news, the local Chinese papus square miles of land suitable for agriculture or that whan shout shitty miles on their journey have been done years ago, - or pastoral parkulla. Its population numbers nearly the latter were attacked by some Desasan hil. serer hays been allowed to become necessary; being as muck ass to one is quiet of rainble 18,000,000. There to several die alte biber cholewamber an dies carried that the
sized the ring ammaz manis., Mr. Granville Sharp has been talking the average tareation Britisher, or a Cepy of the population exce:ding 10,000. The agricultural four of their products exported, which constitute only a vary | tion und provisions and bruksargene Suceman En bis tenanie, and
dému. Ale property #, “aking & (598! | Holy Bible to the Viceroy of a province in the: without Flowery Land.” small part of the whole, are valued at sa space to take in his heels is the diresión whose be fese getting
of $30,000,000 a year. The output of the had osme," "ân zoon as "news" of the Tax Mission steam-lannoh Day Spring will | mines exported in valuéd At Howard Ver】 vandhed Sandakas, Kr 12:Đakan kyk | Extra Ervang TADE West it will be a $10,000,000 annually, and the furs, Gab, skies capled with a heavy body-guard el sikhs and
the Vatican.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE P.&O.S. N. Co's steamer den from Chine, arrived at London yesterday morning.
1Bükki orderly
the
should
any power on warth can
call alongside rencie žaisling unda pastast C. 194 meber produsin that coms láka Kuropean Dynka to push through the country
and Committee will not allow dini ts |
between 9 and 10.30 a.m., on Sunday, to convey Russia from Giberia are worth $5,000,000 fewest speed possible with a view to farmlaking mes ashore to the ts o'clock service, returning 26,concoo. It was for the peoples about ra,30 p.m.
ing Past territoer and encouraging image altitude of
fensor of the sesak upon Tux biggest nugget ever known in the world's thon thither that the GermamENT DE LIE history of mining was unearthed in the Beer was undertaken a grand sonson hay ka word. Hope in wirerende pàg.
month. If weighed mo leis' than 5,300 penade lang, which will some
Black Sun and the past member
and being almost purn silver ka valued at 351,000), Balde with Vindivostock, un tas in ne furthe
but perhaps tala celebrated philan in calying on his favourlie "power of
It is to be fervently hey
· hoped that the
syes by the Landlords,
probably Laus under
{"total" | "prooms: """ontantatious afforia party. Lampslled by the fear of
And
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE "WHITEWASH: BRIGADE.
bly beloy the clamnus myriding for Jomalition of hosese | in the papers in preadol
warda for kontan abode.. ? bice
Yours very truly, ***
(Signed) INO. J. FRANCIS. THE OUTBREAK OF PLAGUE ON SHIPBOARD. To rex Horten or Yes "Howakowe Tucsonark.", KIK,--Kindly grani me space to correct one or outbreak of plague on the steamer Semnon
As one who was sy board when it was known that plagus had broken out among the Chiness passagers, I am in a position to that from the very first there never
prred to be any doubt in the mind of the Captain as to what the closes Wake for the swelling under the of the parlanta lafi no anss-pits sad in the
groins Tom for Goubt. As won as Captain Branch Fingaladed that öertain of the pristagare ver
Même, all the eiker Chinese pamungers *** Pauleek, and inher their quarioiu- ibmaggiornate daimsed and disinfened- pantalon preced and allowed to ge
to siste