CAK NA HCK HANK &
LIMITED.
OP
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
A CONSIGNM ̈NT OF
ILFORD DRY
PLATES,
10/8, 1/10,
and are off sing the same at popular prices,
SENSITIZED ALBUMENIZED
PAPER,
pl. ting,
CHRAP AND RELIABLE.-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTÓBER 20, 1894.
Inan be accomplished the object she had in viw when she entered upon this stragale. It nue arrest destre that our loyal subjects shill, in perfect anian and harmony, devote them to the promotion of the interests of eur Emalte, and, by securing a complete and final rumph në nur arma, open the way for the gorede restoration of the peace of the Far East, and thus Kurtrate the glory of our nation,"
How does this warlike manifesto. At in with Revere's nonsensical belief that "the proposed basis for negotiations will be
W'x would direct attention to the very interesting that at a very reasonable cost, wix. $x250,000) latter from Wr. Wm. Danby, the well-known provided the necessary works were put in hand local expert, to the Hongkong Government, on at once. Unfortunately, however, no fastractions the Water Supply and Mr. Osbert Chadwick's were given to that effect. recently published report.
זתי
There was nothing in my letter to induce Mr. Chadwick make the statements he has, and Wahear that the Ordenace Store Department has in order to prevent wrong impressions being been exceedingly busy lately, and a very large formed, either by the Government or others, number of workmen engaged in polishing up beg to inform you that Messrs. Butterfield and more me-less obsolete implements of war which | Swire have no intention of have been peacefully vasting for many year to the Government
selling water, elther Anyone else, past.
suggestion of obtalaing a temporary supply from their new reservoir, in case an The carpenters strike la still in full swing. A was one of my own, and, had reference to compromise will probably be stranged to the approaching dry sexies Teason
only morrow, and work be resumed as usual an
as I distinctly stated in my letter, was subject to and. Monday. Bricks, bombs, melloite and other my clients' sanction being blained. modern implements of war are consequently at
I be glad therefore, If you would kindly sbould a discount.
bring the matter to the notice of H.E. the The first consignment of Subscription Griffes Governor, in order that the Report r-ferred to for our next race meeting, 15 in number, will pristen venter of the plasten to my *n absolute mobably anlve to-morrow, Rumour Bay that "private" lester omitted,
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
WM. DANNY,
agreeable to both China and Japan?" The Hongkong Telegraph has to be and is perfectly certain that unless Great Britain and Russia, or either
of those Powers, has plainly Intimated to the belligerents that the game is up' and a return to the status quo ante bellum
one
necessity, neither China nor Japan will listen to any overtures of peace on any proposed basis. Were Chins, in face of the feeling existing throughout the length and breadth of the Empire, to acknowledge herself beaten and make concessions to a nation she has always despised, the present Manchu dynasty would not exist for a month, and there DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co., L., would be a Reign of Terror from the borders of Yunnan to the wilds of Manchuria, from Fohkten to the Desert of Gabl, 3 unparalleled in modern history; and as for Japan, it is well known that she is imitating the example of NAPOLEON III in 1871, undertaking a popular war abroad
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HOGKONG.
Hongkong, 13th fictober, 1894.
THE
HONGKONG DISPENSARY.
OUR LATEST NOVELTY.
to avoid a certain revolution at home,
|
here are two regular flyers among them, bui then rumour is not always so reliable as George Washington bad the credit of being. We shali ser}
A LONDON telegram, dated October 4b, in an Australian contemporary, reads as follows:-The spinere Bret, on Friday tant, was cruising off the Chinese count within two hundred miles of Peking. An attack on that city is feared, and the Cblecie Emperor is removing his court to the city of Nanking.
FURTHER news of the steamer Briangan, wrecked recently on the Maldive Isinads is, says the Slogapore Free Press, to the effect that the ship bis not yet broken up and continues in the same state as previously reported. The E412 coureyed all the passengers home, and only left behind the Captain and two of the crew. Almost all the cargo has been saved.
M. Int. C.E. The Hos. J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Acting
Colonial Secretary.
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED,
The thirteenth ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the Canton Insurance Office, Ltd., was held at the fices of Messr Jardine, Mathe on and Co., the General Agents, at noon to-day, Mr. J. J. Keswick presided, and there were also present Messrs. D. Gilles, T, R.
C. .P. Chater, G. S. Bird (Consoling Commiter), C. H Thompson, J. Therburn, A. G. Wond. R. M. Mehta, D. Jones, Ho Tang, B. Ryramie, A. Ross, J. F. Henderson. A G. Morris, R. C. WI'cox (Secretary), Captain G. C. Anderson and others. K. McKenneth Ross, Ha Fook, G. T. Veitch The Secretary having read the notice of meeting,
THE TRUTH ABOUT SIBERIAN
HORRORS.
MR. HARRY DE WINDT INTERVIEWED.
The views of the Marqute of Sallubory and
of the hour
nevare. On
20
Infleted on obstrep'raue convicts is dis'inctly I refer to the barrow penalty, inflicted prisonera who
attempt to k!!! actually despatch, warders with a view to effecting their escape. For this offence exiles are heavily manicled and chained to a times, if I remember right, loe te wheel-barrow for a term ofgress and some Day and night they are attached bul, as you сеп
• the barrow, the photo. (phtograph produced) they gen te oe dit down. day Lidscompelled to wheel the barrow a
load of earth and stone as direpl charge of public works.
But are the
the alleard horrors of the Rusten exile system now-a-days ? aptarters beves
#
forged it. “bella.
"Yes," replied Mr. Da Winde not with the knout. The ASEA objectionable instrument, is now used when bathing but flogging will bring refractory criminal ander subjection. The put draws blood undoubtedly, and no does the rattan, if I experts, the am informed correctly, used in the geol in, this British colony. What I said about the necessity for the maintenance of strict discipline fa Sagballen applies to the treatment of exiles in all parts of Siberia,
"But arpposing a prisoner kliis a warder or a fellow prisoner, is he not either hanged or decapitated 2"
No; caplial punishment is not allowed. For crimes of that description, which are, however, not of very frequent eccurrence, the punishment chalning to a barrow for life. I was moch interested in reading in your issue of Friday last the following under the bead-line "Hell on Earth
CAE-
Mr. Gladstone on the Home Rule question, of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr. Mitchell-lunes on finance, and of the Hongkong almost all the burning The Telegraph and the Hongkong Daily Press on
Questions that arise from time to tire fo this tale of Streams, are not respectively more George Kennan and Mr. Harry Da Windt on divergent than the pronouncements of Mr
now in full swing in Siberia, and in the island of Saghallen (Russian Sakhalin) in particular And
jadglog by the tone of the interesting controversy that has been carded on in the
"extminster
Gazette, the Pall Mall Gazette and other leading Landon past between these two male for months day seems yet a great way off when the wide gull now fixed between these datinguished travellers will disappear in the dim and distant pist. Whatever the end may be, certain it is that Mr.
De Windt has a great dest In his favour, for he has seen mere of Russian prison life than his exceedingly anti-Russian opponent, having recently visited the famous dargeons of Onor, in the island of Saghallen, and is, is fact, the only Englishman who has ever been there, whereas his opponent's knowledge of the exile system is confined to what he was privileged to see of and hear from convicts on the mainland of Asiatic and Western Russia,
Mr. De Windt has recently returned from "A St. Petersborg letter to the Philadelphia the frigid regions
Prais therefor
of Siberia, and
It has been decreed by the Cir in authority upon the state of the exile system as it
position to speak with greater Government thee Siberia is too gand forennvicts, In view of what has come to our
and as
the new Trans-Sib sin rallway | knowledge within the past few days there
Is to-day, of Russian military affairs in the north, has penetrated its gloomy depths it be would appear to be very little doubt that THE steamship Glasgyle, which arrived yester
and the progress made in the construction of the turned into a paradise for agricultural sertlers Trans-Siberian Railw explosives Great Britain, for easily understood day, had on board forty-three tons of
than any other English and mining sharps, while
while Nallius man who has ever visited this colony, and is refractory members of
and for the port. Thlow up and demolish the
other reasons the strained relations with
of Rastian raclety will, in 6lthy slams of Tal-ning-ben, we hope-ale, i
therefore Adladinctly
of France over the Madagascar question need be, the Chair'in philanthropists of the G. and accounts bave been in your hands since the that is what a member of the staff of the the eastern terminus of the 'sar's possessions,
The Chairman sald.--Gentlemen, the report the inquisitive laterviewer to lagune" for the future, be accommodated on the Island
to diagnose. to
And Saghallen, off the coast. Rosian Manchuris and the serious injury caused to her Sharp fervasion who, in the interests of 9th instant, and as usual, I propose to take them Telegraph attempted on: unday morning when, north of Japan. So revolting and burrible to commerce in the Far East by this absurd. propatty" old seek to preserve that plagues read. The figures furnished in the accounts war has been most actively engaged | taloted disgeree to the colony. Amen!
he heard that the Pall Mall's "special" was to civilized nations i before you speak for themselves, and it is mot
Sagballen) that the CI in trying to obtain the co-operation
be found in the Hongkong Hotel and would be sented to its adoption as an open air prison necessary that I should detain you with any off to Europe the following day. Arrived at the after the
only of the European Powers Interested
comments
Ion of President Carnet apan them, beyond expressing hotel there was no difficulty in finding Mr. De and the discovery of the recent plots against his and Consulting Committee that they are
There
is no means
of
escspe come Int
the voyageur's acquaint except in the winter, when, if ■ prliener can endiste. We have been able to pass to
of Reserve the
ance was quickly made and a most enjoyable manage to make his way 100 miles north from the important amount conversation indulged in for upwards of en the prison, it is sometimes possible to reach 8175,000-bringing the Fond up to $1.0
7.025.000 hour. In reply to a number of questions, the the mainland over the ice," "At the present and to give an Increased dividend to the share- Bolders. These recommendations of the Com-
author of " From Peking to Calala" (1887), “ A moment the most interesting colonist of Ride to India (1889),
and
"Siberis As It I=" Saghallen Sopble Bluthenstein, full- site, will, I trust, have your approval. The (1893), said: After the report of the atrocities binoded Russian, in spite of Ber German name. shows an the of in Saghalten, of which the following Shah of
year is encouraging; the alleged to have been perpetrated at the prison She first achieved criminal renown by pressing
the latter's fuit to St. Sophie had! are a fair sample ment is needed or they are suffering from SEA-¦ Great Britain." What is the reasonable | pondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, dle view love to date are somewhat below the average quotes without number are recorded nonwedly na intention of
inference to drawn from all this, argued on the Russian exile system sra as far removed hope that at our next meet'ng we may be able preceding years, so that may venture the
his Majesty to of merciless beatings and lopping off of her list of admirers, but sought his acquaintance to present you with another satisfactory state- fingers and ears by sabre cuts, while cannibalism
erely for the purpose of merely
relloving him, if ment, The General Agents and Consulting weder stress offamine was a common occurrence; possible, of some of his diamonds, She was Committee take pleasure la acknowledging the murder followed by cannibalism being also fre folled to her efforts, but succeeded in having hor continuous care of all the agents and order.quently coramitted with the sole subject of private car attached to the Shah's special train.
of the Office to the business confided to putting als end to the misery of existence For this piece of enterprise she was them and to which is greatly to be attributed the ORDY. ***Instances are related
A banished to Siberis for where satisfactory results attained in the past year.
Year Before moving the adoption of the report and the guilt of a murder in order that their lives the controlled on the Continent after their terms
and while there organized several convicts disputed before the authorities hand of cut-throats and robbers, whose services accounts, I will be glad to answer any might e pul end questions that shareholders may wish to ask.
to. During 1893 bad expired. She la To be the there
almost continuous string of criminal
sharpest Was The Chairman (alter
criminal living, and la sending her to Saghallen pause)-As there are convoys with corpses of convicts
pancing
from the Russian Government claims to have con- no questions I beg to move the adoption of the Oner te Rykovskaya, and the bodies were so ferred a lasting benefit upon the wealthy classes! report and accounts as presented.
horribly multilated, presented so
pitifal Mr. A. G. Wood--I have much pleasure in spectacle, that the report says the spectators intends to abandon the mainland of Siberis as a seconding the adoption of the report and ecconate, and I congratulate the Company on Inquisies were,
not look upon them without tears. No modern "Botany Bay settlement for Nibilists. the splendid results we have had prosented bodies were simply buried without further but not with a view to killing them off rapidly, bowever made, and the and dangerous crimioals in vour of Saghallen, (applause). Such magnificent results are, of ada. In 1993. say one of
band
E indicated by the St. Petersburg cor course, due to good management and good of
of convicts falled
work, respondent of the Philadelphia Press. They fortune. We know that the good management was at onto put vn half rations the next making, etch 'c and will live Just 28:
will be employed in the
mines, road will last, and we hope that the good fortune will followed by third only, and aire continue to follow the Company (applause) starvation, he could work no more, the Inspector long there as in any part of East Stberin. In
when, through
carried unanimously.
The motion was then put to the vote and finished him with a revolver ballet and entered his regard to Sophie Blutbenstein your paper is close- the re-election of the Consulting Committee,
death in the books an from ordinary diacate on the truth. She is the most interesting and I was invited by the Russian Government to the cleverest criminal I ever saw. A well namely, Messrs. H. L. Dalrymple, D. R. Sassoon, D. Gillies, C. P. Chater and G. S.
Carried unanimously.
A SAMPLE POCKÉT-FLASK.
SUITABLE
for
TRAVELLERS
or
for or SHOOTING PARTIES has just been received and may be
PICNIC LAUNCH
obtained filled with any of our WINES of SPIRITS at cost price.
PASSENGERS by STEAMERS will find INVALUABLE on the voyage when refresh
SICKNESS #fter the bar is closed.
The FLASK is well made and finished, and - when empiled will be worth keening for domestic use, I can he readily adapted fox ferdi
'bottle; would prove useful to carry milk or ether nourishment for Children; or Tea, Coffee, Soup or other Fluid nourishment to tiffin
baskets.
to bring pressure on both China and Army at Fu-run, inced Mr. Wodehouse at the the gratification felt by the General Agents WRTUME FORM, Rnd a knock veralitag in an Invi. own life.
Japan. And there would also seem to be very little doubt that, with the possible exception of Russia-which in reality is the only other nation who has anything material at stake in the Far East-, she has failed in her attempt, in spite af REUTER's statement that "the majority of the Powers are in accord with
CHAU HING WAL, lieutenant in the Chinese Magistracy this morning to answer a charge of carrying two carbines and too rounds of ammu sifon without the requisite license in Queen's Road resterday. P.C. Macaulay stated there were no suspicions attached to the case, and on that evidence the defendant was discharged. As will be seen by the report of a very interesting istersiew with Mr. Harry De Wiedt, the dials guitbed Siberian traveller and special corres-
E
from those of Mr, George Kennan as the east from the west. Mr. De Windt's oulatons on this sabject will be starting news for those who regard the system of Siberian incarceration as one of the greatest strocities on the face of the earth,
RUMOURS were current this morning about fresh outbreak of desense among the dairy cattle in various parts of the Colony. As far as could be ascertained up to the hour of going to press, it appears the rumoor was based on the fact that
from the basis of our latest news from We are the seat of war in Korea? authoritatively informed that the Japanese have abandoned Thornton Haven and gone to Ping-yang inlet. Why have they retreated from what was undoubtedly & coign of vantage in any future warlike operations they may have contemplated The Japanese have suffered no defeat and so far as we know were not can be obtained filled at the following prices even threatened by the Chinese fleet. of the Dairy Farm Co's cows were killed Then why this retrograde movement at a day or two ago owing to their being far gone the very time the Mikado was proclaiming with tuberculosis, and sito sa number of the
Chinese
Rad the East Point Dalry Farms Co. cattle had been suddenly darpatched to the mainland, while several cows and buffaloes have been imported to fill their stalls in local dairies. We shall have a good deal to say about local dalies at an early dete,
THESE SAMPLE FLASKS
H-fo Cros
each:
PORT
C-05 ents D-80 cents.
SHERRY. B-45 cents C-co cen
D-60 cents,
BRANDY, A. A-6 cents B-65 cens C-80 cents.
BRANDY.
D-1414. F-$1.70 cents.
WIII SKY. Ris cen's, D-fo cente. E-65 cents,
IRISH WHISKY.
Aio cent. C-70 cents.
ROURBO N.
60 cents.
JAMAICA RUM.
60 cents.
A-GIN.
35 cents,
A. S. WATSON '& CO., LD.
Ranglenus, 5th October, 180d
The Longhong Celeguaph
cease
of
to the
Mr. moved and Mr. Morria seconded
to the Diet at Hiroshina that this was a vendetta which must he fought out to the bitter end-hostilities must not be permitted to
until Japan has accomplished the object she had in view when she entered upon this struggle? It certainly seems curious, aristocratic Chinese of both sexes to bar an The Magistracy this morning was crowded with and yet a possible explanation is not adjourned case (in fact it has been adjourned far to seck. A fleet of eighteen Russian three times), in which yed Kwan rok and Lu '■' lady' war vessels left Vladivostock on the of West Street, charged 12th inst., destination unknown; the full Kong with damaging her jicket in
eatlog Strength of the British squadron in China bouse at the corner of Possession Street under Admiral Fremantle is cruising off dining of the price the complainant
was at the place named, and the evening the defendants peared water on her jacket, which WAX valued at $151 The witnesses for the defence submitted that complainant was under the Influence of camsh and was very abstreperons, using Indecent
The Chairman then brought the proceedings language at the me time. Mr. Haslogs (Mr. to a close by thanking the shareholders for their V. H. Deacon's office), who appeared for the attendance and informing them that the dividend defendants, indulged in a lengthy cross-examing-warrants would be ready on Monday, the 32nd tion, and eventually first defendant was die Instant. charged, and the second defendant bound over in two surellen of §'o to keep the peace for six weeks, and to pay $15 compensation.
the Korean coast, and powerful reinforce- ments are hurrying with all speed to Chinese waters; and the confidently predicted battles have so far failed to come off. The inference is plain, although it may he misleading and inaccurate. Elther Britain or Russia, or both combined, has intimated to the helligerents that they must stop where they are, or take the conse- quences. But the end is not yet.
|
Bld.
Mr. Byramjee proposed and Mr. Ho Tang seconded the re-election of the suditors-Messrs. Fullartos Henderson and A. Coxon,
Carried nom.com.
CRICKET.
tation 10
more
of
and
than
ikere,
possible dangyfarther, Mr. De Windt, let
R
true that the Russian Government
Rasata
inspect their prisons, and I left England in the educated woman, speaking several languages early part of this year bound for what was fluently and unprincipled and daring as she gorerally believed to be hell on earth. I once must have beer.
attractive in appearance, may say that I did not join in the popular belief for she was able at one time to live in the greatest the all-sufficient reason that I had prevlessly luxury in Paris, Vienna and Berlin solely upan Inspected the chief convict settlements and mines her wits, and for a long time prior to her arrest In Siberia and found that Mr. George Keasad in Russis rode a very high horse' in St. had, figuratively speaking, drawn pictures for Petersburg I interviewed her in a which I was wholly unable to and the originals, settlement (she is now what is termed free * convict even though I went over all, and a good deal convict, which means that she is allowed to live
he bad covered a ground comparatively short time before me, I thought, pretty much as she pleases), took her photo, in a settlement, away from the prisons, and do however, that there might to some differed to during adventuress. She told me a good deal had a long chat wlib the the treatment of the crainals confined fo Sagbalion, and that therefore a hip to Onor about
about her evil past, but I could not
find not in any case, well repay the trouble and much about ber relations or the truth respecting
́her nationality. I
the ju I beileve Before going any
ja un Austrian, or of Austrian extraction. She
She is evidently me ask you & direct
question-Do you consider stiti proud of her nickname "Golden Hand Mr. Kennan deliberately given for the coinleg of a new Brit thought Twelve v, 22 All Comers was played ibis after the atrocities of the exile system?
| when he pictured. When on her delicate missions in Paris ska
levariably 7 put up at the "Grand," She lo that the minting of the coins will be entrusted noon. The ground was in fue condition and
No, I don't say that. I say I falled to discover 3 Inches in height, and has sharp blue to the establishment at Culentia, and the the weather perfect. This annuel carnival has
corroboration of his statements, and I don' She got away from berguarde once for three days, operation would be the means of weing
siways been very popular, and on the preset
believe they exist. They did not exist when I and when recaptured was found in possession of the
was in some of the worst districts of Eastern of a pat of rouge, handred roubles, key, and the surplas silver new hald occasion the concourse of spectators Included a up some
aid good by the Government of India. The
type of
number of indies and veteran sports. The
A letter
r indlesifog that she had almost completed. dlar would closely
that of the Approximate
Band of the S.L1., under Mr. Ma phy's
Continuing his statement, Mr. De Windt arrangements to get clear away to America. Mexican plastre.
went to Japan and from there proceeded Among other things, I in walght and baton, rendered a pie
exploited the Siberian
| respect the Billies dollar
la be a rather Would
The All comers complied the handsome total of to the island of Sagballon. (At this polut of bis | ln and about them. The convicia are not over- batter coin. No obalacle would be raised in E. Mast was in fine form with the ball,
narrative the traveller showed our representative worked, and what is more they are exceedingly officiat circles confering fall
several photographs, tender taking so wickets in 13
taken with hin kodak, of legal
well fed and well haused, Author-Well, Professor, how do you like my privileges on the math to the Straits Seille. P.. The Club an overs for 30 runs, At
missderers, bigbway robbers and other out- commenced. With the
But how about the poor wretches who voi in mants and Hongkong. There who have score at 5 R. F. Lammert was run out, and at law on board the Fareslat). I landed and was the quick liver mines ?" was asked, advocated the ifkao of a new British
first treated with the utmost courtesy by the officials question evoked soile, and a positive denial 30 J. A. Stick was caught at slip. The first The island of Saghallen is about the sise of of all the harrowing descriptions of the terrible cial coln are not oblivious of the fallure of similar thirty minutes' play yielded only fikteen runs
States at different times; but they fancy that
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TO-MARROW in Hospital Sunday. The R. C.'s
'stand out,' as mine).
The Rev. G, H. Boad field, fats of Union Church, Hongkong, has been appointed Agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society, with residence at Shanghal,
A CRICKET match is likely to take place at
It seems now to be regarded as certain, says tha Financial News, that authority will soon be British trada
the
CLUB XII XXIT ALL COMERS.
The opening match of the sesson—The Club
Siberia
Kid
T
fret.
eyeI
Colombo between Ceylon eleven and Mr. Anaess being meraly mough to each during the affer plesalog selection of music | in the convictship Parastan, Capiato Catolopoff, mices and conversed with the convicts employed
A. E. Stoddar's English team for Australla on the arrival of the steamship Opkir at that port.
*Hexaxove, Saturday, OCTOBER 20, 1894-
new play? THE CHINA-JAPAN EMBROGLIO.
Criile-Splendid Wooderfal So realistic! Kapecially the burglars in it. Even the dialogue UNDER date London, October 19th, Rzutar } is stolen, wires that
commer-
Steam hip Company and renamed the Lady | may enable us to surpeed in an endeavour, in Mitchell. She will he employed in the Straits which others less favoured have failed. trade.
was
159
its north-western extremby is
separated from
The
experiments made by France and the United all singletons! Play now became briiker, and Portugal. It is unapproachable in winter, and off
and sufferings of
of these doomed alare la galck "Tt it officially announced that the British THE North German Lloyd Co.'s steamer the predominance of British trade interests in or the next half hour, by the careful exertions † 975) to summer it is by no means easy of access i diver salmes for the rest of their lives." And Schwalbe has been purchased by the Straits the Far East, and the prestige we enjoy them. M. Firth and S. L. Dərb¥ 40]tuns were i Pwing to the lack of good harbour. Although i fittle wonder, for there is not such a thing as.
added. At 74 Darby was caught, , and at 93 Firth Siberia by narrow strait, only seves miles a quick liver mins in the whole of Siberia.
bowled. The hopes of the Club, however, across, steam communication with the main are the only Englishman who is visited the
think.
›uxid our représentative, you said you: still ran high, but the innings closed for The fielding of the All comers, smart at the
and ls, durlug the winter, cut off
off by prison of Ones, In the island of Sagbalien ? the ice. commencement, became wesk towards the end
the The climate of Saghallen is VOTY.
Yes, that is a fact and several chances were badly missed. The
pleasant for three months in the
Mr. Kennan is an American who professes to The Tear, when it bowling of F. J. Blizzard was a distant feature
is at times guita hot. After a slight detention row a great deal about the whole of the prisons of the match.
during
which I decided not to attempt the ever in the domiticas
of the Tur. Has he not bees and journey owing to the danger of falling
15 to Onor with escaped convicts who rosts about the No, he has not, and I don't
Government has informed China that it is pre- pared to negotiate in the quarrel, and has made overtures to the Powers to arrange joint repre- sentationă to Japau.
"Japan kas also been asked whether the tering proposed likely to be acceptable as a basis for pasleying. No defutte reply has been received from Japan, but it is belleved that the proposed bial for negotiations will be agreeable to both China and Japan.
"The majority of the Powers are in accord with Great Britain, and it is hoped the others
wili sagot."
TRE Mission steam-lasech Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday, to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30 p.m.
THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carl & Co.) inform us that the Northern Pacific Steamship Co's steamer Victoria unived at Yokohama
OUR WATER SUPPLY AND MR.
CHADWICK'S REPORT.
The following interesting latter from Mr. W. Danbr. M.L.C.Ê, in the Hongkong Government on the xbova vubject spanks volumes |----
Heugkong, Cetober 18th,
Sir,—in a special-printed Report (dated tha yib of August last) by Mr. Osbert Charwick,
Victoria, Hongkong,” (and which
M.G, The Water Supply of the City of
This cablegram is in no shape or form yesterday from Tacoms, and left for this part, news to residents in the Far East, who via Kobe, to-day. have been thoroughly aware for weeks past As will be seen by an advertisement in another had an opportunity of perusing) I was surprised that Great Britain was prepared to
column, meeting of the owers of the lands to dod that he refme to and quotes from negotiate between China and Japan on
'private' lotter I wrote him on iho so h` Juna mentioned in the first schedule of the Tas-ping- |*% the Korean dispute, and had been shan Resumption Ordinance (1894), will be held fast. Although the lotter was not marked
and confiden:int
Mr. Chadwick and, la endeavoring to obtain the co-operation of at the Supreme Court House on Friday, the "private and cos the Great Powers for that object. And a61b instant, at 3 p.m.
my oplolón, nú right to refer to it in the manner hể kás dose, welikout having first ricostaload if what REUTER 'hopes" and "balleves' means absolutely nothing. The Japanese MISS ELSIE ADAIR's entertainment at the I bad day objectens to his doing so.
Theatre Royal, City Hall, to-night promises to His remiks in reference to the Water Supply Consul in this colony received yesterday be even more successfol than that of Wednesday (which was one of many embļacts rulerend to in from Japan an official telegram to the last. The programms is a capital one, and will the letter) are miiletding, and likely to give a effect that an extraordinary session of the be thoroughly appreciated. We are glad to wrong lapination to those who may b Japanese Diet was opened on the 18th. learn that a crowded house may be safely raciɛlants of the "Report," Inst, at Hiroshima, the Mikado presiding. relied on,
My allusion
to the Water Supply bad In opening the Session his Majesty is THE cry all they come! The boats the var at having CHEMI reported to have said :--
Redbreast and Figion frure the Indian squadron. Gove-mor (at bly own sigten jol the 6th of Jane "We regret that Chios, having disregarded were hourly expected at Singapore on the toth | list, at which botanylag B her day and refused to co-operate with Japan-¦ inst. Although desirous of peace, Grüni Britulu--Exep laney, K&W ̈
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In preserving the pence of the Far East, kun jis taking the semiluje precaution of being KABLOG Widde precipitated the present conflict between Japan propated for war. And If war should unhappily praktis, DataC and Chios. The sword having once been drawn, | eventusta, it will be a caen el fi como ou kordiliin menet not be permitted to osado until | Mevius,” WI, TE.
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