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FOG SIGNALS FROM gap rock.
The following letter, which speaks for itself and will doubtless interest our pan.ical tenders, I as been courteously forwarded to us by the Secretary of the Chamber of Commercs for publication:- (Copy)
Harbour Department, Hong kong, 30th April, 1895. Sir-In Turiberince of my intention expressed to you when foredleg the Finding of the Marine Court on the stranding of the Polyphemus on Jubilee Island. I veaterdøy visited the Gap Rock and terwards proceeded in the Fame to a position South of the Rack approximate to that used to the Polyphemur on the mornlug of the casualty. From this position, I stearned slowly low rđa Jubilee Island on a course neily, approaching that which
shore took the Polyphemus fog algal on the Rock. was by my orders kept going every 5 minutes, and observations were made by me as to the distance from the Rock at which there were heard the result being as follow 3 2.
2304 yards distant Inaudible.
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Inaudible. The weather at the time was fire and clear with 11 5.E. wind,
The candleston I came to is, that on the wind ward side of the Rock, one sea mile is the extreme distance at which the log signal should he expected to be heard, and even then it should he looked for with extreme caution; I would deprecate its being considered as #nything more than a warning of approach toward the Rocks Itself, and would recommend Its not being used for the purpose of navigating past the Rock on elther side. Further, after due enquiry, I sea no reason for doubting that the fog wienal was being properly worked on the morning of the 8th instant, or that the intervals were properly timed, The Chiel Lightkeener was attending to this duty Aimself, the remaining stock of een cotton charges and detonators is correct, and with s clock within a yard of him when firing the charge, I see no good reason to rely on the time taken on board the Polyphemus preference to that taken in the Light Room.
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The honourable the Director of Public Works accompanied me on this occasion and kindly gave. mebis assistance in making the observations
I have. &c.,
(Signed) R. M. RUMSEY,
Harbour Master,&c. The Honourable J, H. Stewart Lock' art, Colonial
Secretary,
THE VOLUNTEERS PROMENADE
CONCERT.
The promenade concert given at the Volunteer Parade Grond last night; an the auspicious occasion of the opening of an ́fortitute là
connection with the Hongkong Volunteer Corps.
was a great success. The weither was favant- able for an entertainment of this kind. The file of Hongkong mustered in full force and appeared to appreciate the efforts of those who took as active-very active part in the proceedings, The following programme was gons through with commendable promptliede and without's single hitch, the whole affair proving a great
credit to the H. K. V:—
Oviste............" Felipe "...................... Williams,
Ride Brigade Barul
af Peace"
.........Plasati.
Song.... 3. F. Lamert
·Song......"You can't think of Everything......
Mr. G. Brady.
Il Trovatore "....
Selection.Rifa Prinade Tand.
Pelected..
Song********** Mr. W. M. Wood..
Song
Selection
"Bunche ab ́va”.
Mr. E. W. Maltiand
4 Marathy"
Ride Brigade Rand.
Verál
„Bucalossi
Iat me like a Soldier fall"......Maritana.
Mr. Ger. P. Lammers.
Selected.
Mr. 6.6. Indy
Sear
Song
Selectlan
Garf fave the Quem,
"A Chitty Cr".
Rita Dirigorie Rand.
PLAGUE NOTES.
...Jones.
Again we have the pleasure to state that no fresh cases of plague have been reported to the authorities during the past 24 hours.
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In re the report of three deaths from plague on board the White Cloud, which the Acting Secretary of the Steamboat Company has denied, we can add only that our Information surorted positively that he'saw two corpses remov. d from the steamer and heard of a third Bud "pegged. but "en voyage. Recould not swear that thesa persons died of plague for the simple reason that there was, as far sa he is aware, no medical Inspection of the bndles.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE: Tacoma (Tacoma) to-morrow. English (Rohilla) 6'b fast. Indian (Wingrang), yth fast. American (Peru) 8th Inst. German (Korbruke) 8th inst. Canadian (Empress of Japan) 14th fast, Tacoma (Sikh) soth [nal, American (Coptic) 21st lust,
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THE Imperizi German Mail steamer Karkiraha, carrying the German malls under date Berlin 8th alto,, left Singapore for this port at 8 p.m. yesterday, and may be expected here on or about the 8th Inst.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1895.
The British steamship Chrysen left Chinklang on the 29th ultimo, and had fine wasther throughout.
The British steamship Rery left Shanghai an the toth ultimo, and had fine weather and slight fog between Chapel Island and Lemmocks,
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The German alarmıhla Te-vétel Tientsin'on the 15th nitline. Experienced very heavy sonth- caat gale after leaving Tientsin; afterwards foggy weather to port,
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
in Kowloon Dock,
Irant
Chistiao (cruiser)
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Verona **** Make*u* swwww་་་་་་་་་ Reina Cristina (croiser) » Nurnberg
Honam¶¶ Bogsiad! .....................
Cosmopolitan
Aberdeen
Owing to the death of Capt. Revsbeck. Capt. Hygom of the Danish steamer Activ has been appointed to the command of the steamer
know?
Ask and ye shall receive," dontcher
The British ship Lyndhurst bound East from New York, ran lato a terrific hurricane fast month in the North Atlantic, and not only had her decks swept clean but was obliged to jettison upwards of 2,000 cases of petroleum,
The London and China Express steten that on the 25th March last the Johannisbarger ran into the WiDalm, bound for the Eart during a gale, la Hamburg harbour and sark her almost immediately. The cargo of the Wilhelm was fully Insured. No lives were fost
Telegrams are reported by Straits papers to have reached Macassar, sanomarine the Town of the German barque Ernst Ludwig Holls Captale Schall. She arrived there in July 1804 from Amsterdam laden with plece goods. In November last, the wessel left Macassar for Marseilles with a cargo of cours. All on board
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Captalo W. Farrand of the Propontit is going home on nine months' Irave and it is quite on the carduthat he may bring out to the Essi anew ship for the B-urishing Hong Sing Seamship Com. pane. "Mr. Jis. Winnick chief officer of the | Zafiro tonk'nver charge of the Propontis to-day from Captain Farrand -hese name is an closely and favourable Identified with the advent and career of the Propoutis in Tastern seas.
Manchester has taken up the direct Indian abandoned it long since. The is, however, no ten trade. Liverpool tried the experiment but reason why Manchester should not succeed in nartially wronting the monopoly from London. Mestre, Raebar and Verse are the pioneers of the new trade and their first ship, the steamer Zaliheow, arrived at Manchester from Calcotia on the 26th March with a full cirgo of Indian
"Leaf.
At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Ship Owners Association the Chairman pointed out that whereas (dead weight and measurement) there had been during 1894 five million tons of freight in excess of previnas veam, yet rates of freight still continued ahnemally low. Mr. John Williamzon beljswad, however, that we were on the eve of a larga Increase in the carrying tra^a- of the world and freights were certain to go up in an unmistakable manner.
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The New York Maritime Registèr maintains that Untied States shipbuilders are second to name in the matter of running no vachts and warships, and as it is clear shipping means Dower and wealth. It therefore urges capitalists
tipsi their money into shipɔing "for it is certain" evantu•lly, when taken into confu-clure with thely "remarkable gentas for shipbuilding " to "cause the Staten ta he recognised aua first-class Marilme Power," More power to ye, cousin Jansthan 1
In shipping circles there supears to be a growing feeling against the Japanese. Ship masters complain of disomaifery, From the conlle to the highest officials with whom they come in contact it is alleged that the overbearing manvers of the natives of fair Nippon is most offensive and well nigh intolerable. This is attributed to not altogether unnatural exhilors, tion over brilliant ctories, but nevertheless it Is to be deprecated suit lato direct opposition to the spirit of the Imperial Rescript and is bound to militate against this Industrious people-If not checked in dus reason. "Please stoo" woold sound better than "Heave to, or I'll sink you,"
SPORTING NEWS.
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REVIEW.
"NEW LONDON: HER PAKLIAMENT AND ITS WORK."
strangly pat by the Chronicle. Tesleading feature Is the unification of all the interests of the metro- polls. A coherent and homogeneous system of government was devised. There was to be no Breakingway from history or traditions, no tavolutionary proposal,
The anomalous dire New London: Her Parliament and its work. Ry the special commissioners of the Daily
tinction between cly and county was abolished Chronicle Ilustraie 1 with cartonns by Sir E.
and the present system of dual administration is ended. The County Council and the Burne-Jones, &c. 4te, pp. 44. London, 1995,
Some few years ago the Daily Chronicle disappear to make way for a new Corpore- present abortion of a municipality in the old entered upon a new era, and by devatino can-
tion which combines the duties of both. It will alderable space to literature and science, won, and has maintained, for itself an unique moitian carry on the great work which the County amone the leading dailles. In the intradiction it wil viialise the wasted privileges and powers Council as a central organisation has begun : to the work under notice they say, with truth of the old Corndration." The desire is to make "In the world of Literature the Chronicle a Londen one large town-one and fadtylusble. for several years been admi'tedly at the head of all the London daily newspapers.
Admirably illustrated articien follow on the The Fire Brigids. on the Slums, on Industrial Chronicle was the first to devote the greater part Schools, on Asylums, on Workmen's Trains and on Theatres and Music Halls. Really wanderful, too, is the story of the cleansing of the Thames. This once-foul river can never morÒ be the bult for Punch's satirical lance, for the mud and the mud-lark have vanished and grey sand mod yellow gravel are taking the place of the fold silme we once knew too well,
of a page tareviews and Hierary news, and it
giver far more prompt, complete and readable
criticism of the daily cutput of Engilsh book than any journal in the United Kingdom "
When, therefore, the Chronicle nanounce" that it was about to enter the arena on behalf of the Progressive puty County Caunell elections, it was confidenti
the recent London anffeinated that something starting in the way of daily newspaper enterprise would be forth coming, and the result, as seen in the articles of which the work under review, is a reprint, shows that the expectation her born fulfilled to the letter. The Chronicle `ment \special com- missioners to enquire into the work done by the County Counell, and stiilised the pencils of the most distinguished British arists to Ulustrato the letter press; When we Kay Sir E. Burne- Jones leads off with a cartoon representing the idylle time When Adam delved and Eve span, when Alfred Faisons depicts the new parks and open spaces, when Linley Lambjums contributes * cartoon showing The Triumph of New Loader, and when many another distinguished artist embellishes the pages, we feel the Chronicle Duis the case modestly in saying "this is the first time that a great arilat has worked for a dally paper."
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The story of the London County Council elections is an old one; but the story of regenerated London as set forth in these pages will live for ever; and it has a personal interest to us in Hongkong at the moment when our santiary progress seems for a while to be desd. lecked, The scope of the work is stated in the following words-
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Florence Nightingale, "Who le now soranty. four years of age, is in very poor health. She lives in a quiet spot in the west of London, but even her neighbors do not know her,
Jules Verna is 78 yours old. His first novel was published when he was 35, and he has been producing them at the take of nearly two a year ever since. Verne is very fond of Engifsh 'Iterature, and he thloks Charles Dickens the. greatest of all British novelists.
parely I'cal affaire, some remedy. Ir the grie vances of the colony should not be found. The establishment of a Montcipal Cound with power to content certala. Jagst expenditure, the Introduction of an unofficial member to the Executive Cou cil, or other means of gratifylur the very laudable desire of the citizens of the of local affairs which concern them more nearly colony to be responsible for the administration
than any one else might, according to the Timus, be
withant agreed upon calling for the intervention of the House of
Rabbi Voorsanger ascribes the appearance of Commons. The vexed question of the amourt Possibly the distinguished lecturer mistakes the
the new woman to the weakness' of men
of military con'ribaltan' has: nnt improbably cause of the greater consideration given women much to do with the movement which has been of the present day compared with the Roman ant on foot, and the petition, if it means nothing || period. It may not be so much weskness as else, may be accepted as an emphatic expression q tekened sense of justice, of the colony's desire to be consulied in matters which are of vital importance to its welfare.
THE NICARAGUA AFFAIR.
THE NAITISH ULTIMATUM.
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The actress who prefers to have ber husbard merely as a friend, rather than mɛ a husband, has opened up a new held for diectasion. It involves the question whether, the art that exacta so much of a woman is healthful. In fact. It values a good many questions that the new women may talk over among themselves.
In view of the news wi ed out bere hy Reuter on the 29th ultimo, that (a.) "Thọ British have Altogether this publication is so timely as it occupied the town of Cortato; (5) the State of is fascinating. "Il_wait_son_Pariz * was the Nicaragus bas protested on the grounds that Frenchman's ideat of a cultured man, and the seiznie of territory for a sum of money not Fotos afs London may yet be the proud board acknowledged to be owed is against inter- en make less money than their wives need, of the Englabman.
THE CONSTITUTION OF HONGKONG.
The petition of the inhabitants of Hongkong praylog for an amendment of the constitution of that colony in the direction of representative govemment, which presented to the House of Commons on Thursday (aust Mar), will, my the London Tiwar, probably eceive the more attention la consequca of increasing importance to the centre of British the events which have of late tended to give interests in the Chios Seas. It is more than doubtful whether this increasing importanen will tand in the direction desired by the framers of the peltion. Hongkong, as the petitioners themselves point out, is a frontier fortress and fleet in the China Seas, and the natural base of a naval depo, the headquaster of Her Majesty's naval and military operations should they ever unfortunately become necessary in that porilon of the world. It may be very briefly described an
on a somewhat larger scale than Gibral tir, being 11 miles long by two to five miles wide. Like Gibraltar It is a fortified rock,
national law; (4) the feeling to Nicaragus | in Intema and the mob have paraded the streets with cries of down with, the English. tyrants' ('' and that an attempt was made to remove the facutcheon from the British ·Legation, the following from the San Francisco Bulletin of the ad ultimo cannot fall to be affaterest to our readers a
"The amount named in the demand the British Government has made upon Nicaragua is not large, but the principle upon which the demand is based threatens the existence of the Nicara us nationality. If a demand for $75.00 can be enforced, the sense of justice of the B Wish Government is all that stands between the people of Nicaragus and a demand that It would be impossible to comply with. In the elifruatum as submitted it was stipulated that a enmenission should be ciested to 111 other damages than those covered by the $75.000 demand. This commission was to be composed
of one
"We have chen our subject, and devoted to it all the care and the Gibraltar of the Eastern Pacific. It is should-il-on-a-commission-of-three, In
kanylerige at our command, in placenfans farther away, London, the fructis of English energy, the Mother-at once ancient and ever youthfil the English race, has never been treated fall
he her Prew. The work of her elder freal bodies has rena on
latelicetust movements, have been deemed to be of Ica acement
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representative of Nicaragua, one Bellish 'representative, and one jurist from any but as American astion. That means, of course, that tws European jurists view of the chance that the third commissioner would be selected from a nation that is playing in some other part of the world the part that England is pirying Nicaragua. the show of fitness in the schitation proposition does not bear close Inspection,
"It is understood that the $75.000 is wanted as satisfaction for the affrant offered to England in expelling Hatch from the Morqsito Reservation. Thle is made clear by the dispatch of Minister March 28th, to which the statement is made Bavard to Secretary Gresham nader date of that Lord Kimberly desires. It to be understood that "any action in the way of obtaining redress from Nicaragua which her Majesty's Government msy bereafter decide 1 necessary lathe premises, is wholly unconnected with any political conventional ovestion con cerning the Morquito Reservation, but is simply proceeding on the grounds of laternational law to obtain satisfaction for, an miTront," Mr. Hatch, who was not a British Consul, was engaged in a contriracy to overthrow the authority of the Nicaraguan Government
il bast unchecked by the summerrision which a public Jamal canal which the batteries pro'ect a free port. Its fame supply. Her kemity, her misery, her social meallens, her harbour is one of the most magnificent in the than the not me picians, and far less patent life of Paris, world, and its interests are wholly based upon its or Vienna, nt St. Petersburg" The articles and flagraden, s'rateg ̋e and commercial nosition. Its situation embrace the leading features of the administrative work of the Council, and, above all, we have pleaded for the safety of the
at the mouth of the Canton river gives it most precious heritage of London-Its Unily."
pecallar facilities for trade with Cbtas, and its The work is divided into sixteen sections, population is eltker milltary and naval, or It is claimed for the Progressive party that its populations in which self covering institutions the first of which deals with the labour question, commercial. These are not, as a rale, the Warks Committee was composed of experts have been found to flourish. In Hongkong "The truth is that London has had at command there is the farther difficulty that a very large the pick of her artisans and captains of majority of the populatlan is composed of Chios- Industry, men to anyone of whom the great men, who are totally unaccustomed to the London contractor would gladly entrust his responsiblittlew of self-government. the middleman, and executed their own work, the powers to business." The Committee avoided dealing with The petition does not very clearly define which claim is made They struck against starvation wages. They The most
however, Important appear, show that this has not resulted in loss to the to be the right of free
election of ratepayer, and their balance-sheet makes this representatives of British nationality in the evident, the estimated cost of work cauled out Legislaties Connell of the colony, a majority in being $66,061, and the actual cost £63,061, the Council of such elected representatives, per showing a saving of £1,000,
fect freedom hi debate, complete control in the The Progresive patty, says the, Chroniis have|| Council, over local expenditure, and the manage- done great service for the health, youth and ment of local affairs. Everything that is desired pleasure of the metropoils in providing parks and by the petitionern would practically result from open spaces. The old corporation had a ten- the free election of a majvity of representatives dency to work in the opposite direction, as fo the Courch and the complete control of local when they converted London's first public exoenditure. Baf the first quesifon which will park, Moorfields, into Flasbury Circus. The be asked on considering the terms of the petition Council has jealously guarded the fresh air will be the exact meaning of the phrase "free and public spaces devoted to sport and election: of representatives of Bridth nationality athletics. It has added 1006 acres of open in the Legislative Council of the calany: If i round to the pubile within the last six years, means election of persons of British nationality and glves on the average reven new play by a vote of Britlib nationality to the exclasios rounds *nnually in the children of the great city, of the Fortuguese, Germany, Americans, and It has even controlled and regulated the pitches Chinamen, who form the bulk of the popula- for cricket and other games, and prepared "a tion, it would mean the government of the series of new wonder-shows for 5.000 000 of majority by ` a very small minority of the people." Public parkı have been converted into | Inhabitants. If, on the other hand, it means beauteous scenes fit for a king's pleassunce, the election of representatives of British nation- and good music is provided at a cost of £1,500,ality by the entire population, it would lavolve though they would fain have spent £3,000. the damlastion of the Chinese vote,
Nor have the destitate been forgotten. In the Excluding the garrison, which would not, 800 lodging houses of London, the Chronicle presumably, be endowed with valing powers, the found there were 32,314 Indgers, and of these numbers of the civil population of Hongkong ara | 1,149 were single women, 618 married couples, | #1 follows :—British, 1,400; Portuguese, 2,000 3 79 bave, 5a giris, the remainder were singla Chirere, 211,000; and the remainder chiefr Ger- men. In the dossers' houses the direct poverty mans and Americans. The numbers of the adult and conditions al horrible foulness were to be males of the civil British and Chinese populations found. They are now rapidly becoming things compare as follows:-800 British, 12,000 of the past, and in the Council's Lodging Houses | Chinese, or a proportion of one Bestlik vote for the poor can obtala comfortable shelter, cleno - 1óa Chinese voles. That it should be proposed to | beds and that privacy without which decency, restrict the electoral franchise to the Soo British cannot exist.
at Bluefields. Since Lord Kimberly dis- claims any purpaun to test the case on any claim to exercise the right of protectorate over the Mosquito Reservation, it would seem that the Nicaraguan Government was justified in expol. ing Mr. Hatch. Some, Américan adventurers were expelled at the same time, but the Ameri- Can Government has not considered itsel! affronted ther-by.
"The logical conclusion to be drawn from the recent action of Great Britain t^wards N'caragua le, that it proposes to assall the sovereignity of that nation, through what it calls international law, to obtain mailsfiction for an affront, lostend of setting up a claim to a part of the territory of Nicaragus. If the expulsion of a conspirator against the Government of Nicaragua can be construed as an affront, the Brilih Govern. ment will never be at loss for a basis for an gitimatum."
BITS OF INFORMATION.
Leo XIII has $105,000 worth of pearls.. There are more Germans than "Trish in the United Stater.
In 1816 the crime of perjory `was a hanging matter in Miyaur!
The first American edition of the Bible was printed in Boston in 1752.
The wenre of taste is most acute in the base,
The division of the clock dial into sixty minutes originated in Babylon.
Mummy cases have often, on the external lid, representation of the occupant.
The growth of giris is greatest in their fifteenth yes, of boys in their seventeenth,
Most of the Asiatic countries have been ruined by the system of farming the laxes.
It is said that Paderewski, the planet, made Baco ooo while in the United States.
It is not unusual for the Duke of Westminister's charity bill to amount to $30,000 a year,
Buffalo is the only city in the United States that has given America two Presidents.
There are about 7.300,000 Hebrows in the world, as well as statisti lass can estimate.
During the French-Indian War of 1754 the French offered a bounty for Engilah scalp.
The nativan of Hawail, belong to the Malay Polynesian rice. Their skla in reddish brown, Some of the direst calamities that have be fallen the old world are traced to the destruction of forests,
Daring the last 2,000 years Britala has been invaded by foes from over tha sen no less than forty-eight times.
A WOMAN'S DICTIONARY. Antique-Last searon's hut, Business-A mysterious strangement whereby
Economising-Saving on the church to spend
on dress.
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Footbal'--The higher eduction of women, Good-Children on Xmas eve.. Home---A dormitory for family non. Incorrect-Large bills,
Jealousy-Entertaining painful apprehension rivalakip; a quality no woman herself has ever possessed. but which she has sometimes observed in the possession of others.
Kolfe-An instrument consisting of a thin, dull blade of steel, used in tearing or haggling solt ambstances asunder.
Life-An untruth that in found out, Movie-A rodent quadruped of elastic pro- portions, capable of assuming gigantic size and great ferocity.
Nime-Something in need of change, Opera-Full dress music. Pestscript-A letter preceded by a preface. Quirrel-An angry dispute that some one bas with na
Rabble-The guests at a function where we have not been inviteri.
Theatre-A public building in which to con«, verse while plays are 2bacted upon a raised stage, or dais.
Uproar-Many simultaneous sands, an several voices apesking at onetime. See Ladies' Sewing Circle: alen suffrage meeting,
Vivisection-Picking one's friends to plecer for the public good.
Wisdom-Unlearning things we never knew. X«leph@gnos-Feeding on wood or 2. young wife's first cookery
Year-A period of 365 days before the age of twenty-five.
fragrant atrame,
Hongkong-A sweet-smelling, lovely Isle of
Zanzibar-A place useful for depositing old clothes
missionarice.--San Francisco Bulletin.
with
NEWS BP THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.
The following telegrams from our Sydney and Port Darwin exchanges were 'crowded out* of last plekts istun :—
· STODDART'S XL-THE LAST "MATCH. A ADELAIDE, April 200. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—FIRST INNINGS. Lyons, c Peel, b Richardson i ́A. H. Jarvis, b Richardson............
Darling, b Richardson .....
G. Giffen, c M'Laren, b Bring............. Reedman, ran out....... Dver, b Briven ******.
--Blinman, Perl, b Richardson ................................
W. Giffen, b Lackwood ...................................... 81 F. Jarvis. b Richardson ..............................unoam 31 Jones, Richardson Extras
Total.
BYCOND INNINGS, Reedman, b Peel ........................................ Linhv, 6 Philipon, b Popl
397
G. Giffen, a Brown, b Richardson.................... 27 Darling, ↳ Brigg¥......................
Hill, Philipson. b Richardgræ -
56
W. Giffer, c Phillpson, & Richardson .... Blinman, c Philipson, & Richardson ... 17 F. Jarvis, b Briggs ........ Jones, b Lackwand na............innana 3 A. Jarv's (Injured)
Total One INGLAND.-FIRST IMMINGS. Brockwell, lbw b Giffen ............... 35 Brown, b Giffes ...............................................................101 M'Laren, and ↳ Giffer...............maan 18 Ford, run out.............................................TO6 Ward, lbw, b Giffen......2219 Peal, b Lyons „inomaistasuminen 57 Lockwood, ran out muumainus 23 Briggs, not out.........................................................sus 17 Gav, c Hill, b Lyons
Philipson, Reedman, b GlAp Ricksedon, a and b Lyons .........TYARCHIVERSAR_
Total....
BECOND INNINGU. Ford, not out..................................................................de 18 Brockwell, not out ..................... 24 Extras ................................................... 3
water seems scarcely a possible propost-tip and edge of the tongus, Then the Council has come to the rescue of❘tion to put forward in the name al anil-govern- the young scholar. The rich City Guilds that meat, but that it should, on the other hand, can spend 100,000 a year in dialog, have done be proposed to place the affairs of a port little. "They have seen the decline of the old of such Imperial Importance as Hongkong system of apprenticeship; they have watched at the discretion of a foreign and Chinese vote of Cotton, the case of so many fires on board our boys passing from school to service in the overwhelming strengths is no less incredible, ship, was again the factor of what might have Post Office or a messengers in the merchant's Until this in initial difficulty has been explained, proved a serious confirmation on the French office, and drifting thence to the grest army of it satmas scarcely necessary to discuss the pro mail steamer Malbourne while loading that pro- the unskilled." The Council stepped in and poral in detall duct to Saigon. Not much damage was done, established a Technical Education Board, whose Regarded as a movement in the direction of since the hatches were promptly closed, steam benefits are reserved specially for those who self-government, the petition naturally suggests, turned on, and water pumped into the burning need them. #Mt. Webb and his colleagues however, an inquiry into the sources of the compartment. In pickaces were damaged have devised three connecting Rinks between revenue over which complete control by the however, and the heat of the smouldering miss the board school and the technical college or elected body of representatives is clalore The was sufficient, not only to bend the fron plates university. They take the twelve-year old boy reveane amounts to about $1,000,000 a year, and in the 'tween decks, but also to destroy to considerable extent the linoleum and paint on the him two years education in a secondary petition, holly from internal taxation, Or
she leaves the elementary school, and give is derived, according to the terms of the maindeck. The careless way in which cotton la packed in bales not only in Far Eastern but also school, and put towards his maintenance: this taxation the greater part la contributed by
Ther be le
boy of exceptional the Chinese population, Into whom hands In many parts of America, comparts very promise, he may win a second scholarship, trade has an fucressteg tendency to pass, The | unfavourably with the hydraulic pressed bales of which takes him up to eighteen or nineteen, rrfacipal contribution in which Europesus and Bombay which are practically die-proof,
providing him with free education and an Chinese share slike is w percentage levied upon allowance for maintenance during the whole the rateable value of property in Victoris, which period. Finally, a picked class, who are to be is practically the only centre of population in numbered by units rather than by scores, can, the colony. The total amount of this rats is on third examination, find free trafning and $470,000, and the share contributed by the malutenance at Oxford or Cambridge, or in one Chinese population le $205,500. There is a In time of war France puis 370 out of every of the great technical colleges and universities of stamp duty to which the European, papulaison 1,000 of her population in the held Germany, Great Britain."
must evidently contribute. The remainder of | 310; Rasis, 210, ... the tixation is said to be wholly paid or the Chinese Under the administration of a Crown colony, the principle of re-taxation without representation. La frankly abrogated. The esimes of colonial self-govemment in that the (principle should be respected. If there were no other obstacles in the way' of The "White House" in Washington covers rejected as unfit for stamping. The coal-deslere granting the privileges of self-government about one-third of an acre of ground. It is built were prime sinners, and it is estimated the to Hongkong, the ineffence of taxation of can stone and painted wblie. poor have been saved £2,000,000 they would would, in the circumstances, create one
Edward Balwer Lytton Dickess, the youngest have been robbed of during the past five years, which banciently serious. Taking the son of the late Charles Dickens, is a member of
Among the sins of the old eliy may be British pulation available for political purposes Parliament in New South Wales. enumerated the loss of a municipal water supply, in the colony at S500 persons, there seem to be. The area of the Billah Empire is 12.308,506 of the management of the Thames, of the regula no escape from the conclusion that the result of square miles Ulted Sites, 3,607,990; Russian Mr. Srivals ch, Red Star, rost gib ...........................tion of the streets, and it has been deprived of a grant of representative institutions to Hongkong | Empleo, 8.457.289 | Hawall 6,587, Me Crowd's ch. Procession, tost glb.......... 3 many other municipal duties by Acts of Parlis- most be one of two alterna Efther the Mis, Talmage of Brooklyn received the other Mr. John Peel's w. Cockemony, tost salb... 3 ment. Its slas of commission are a greater | small Bridaă minority must Kovaru tha Chinese | day a legacy of $13,000 from an old women to
Eight started. Time, 1 min, 24sect.
blot on its career. As a market authority it or the Chinese mait govern them. These alter: } whom she had once been courteous.
into the hands of middlemen and made | naiives may hays their affirmation for persona of Nindyah was fifisen miter by nine in are, the A telegram was received from Lord_Fingall The RIVER CUPI for bestan subscription grifins, played Ines. It claimed gratitude for lis public both nationalities, each hoping for the opposite walls were too feet high, and thick enough for dorty mine, bat owing to the absence of the on the rat instant with reference to the London. Waldivostock. Mr. Tong Chia's phd. Pierrot ............... spirit in erecting the Tower Bridge and securing concfasion. Neither of them can fairly represent three starlets to drive abreast on they, ....
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Verdt apparently found the fountain of directors from London it was not published until the people, but the fiert was what'ia któwa sa self-government in the British Mr. Don Jasn's F. Busy Ben wäicinaries 2 balit out of trust money ; the second out of dues i colónian, · zor, taking the pöeftien of Hostkon?" I youth in working as hard and us well at eighty; } the giù instant, The price of shares began to
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Cola steamship Empress of Indio arrived at Shanghai at 7 a.m -to-day, and left again at 6 p.m. for Vancouver,
We are informed by the Agents of the Austrian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Melpomene loft Kobs yesterday for this port.
TO-DAY'S SHIPPING RETURNS. Inward. Normandie............steamer from Bangkok,
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Deuteros
Tientsin.
Chinklang.
11
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Shanghal
Bangkok.
Chiyuan ..........
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Melbourne rupt
Saigon. Salgot.
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.. 11
Salzon.
Aggregating 11,774 tonë register, Outwards ..teamer for Shanghal
Abana.......
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Cinton.
13
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Nagasaki,
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Shanghai...
Fortensiektier
Cheangchawmus
Shanghel
Aggregating 14,901 tons register.
(Spécial to Honghong Telegraph.)
SHANGHAI SPRING MEETING.
An Interesting article is that bearing on the welebis and ressores. How the poor have been Stewards :-A, McLeod, Esq., G. D. Buing, robbed; how carefully unscrupulous tradesmen Esq. C. J. Dudgeon, Esq. J. Fearon, Esq., F. have to be looked aftar, would be unpleasant 1. Maliland, Hiq., I. A. Pond, Esq., E. A reading, but for the success, which has crowned Probst, Erg. Clark of the Course:-E. H. Goethe Council's efforts, Out of 881,445 weights and | Boo|b, Esq), Surétary :—Barnes Dallas, Erq, | measures examined, no lew than 343,211 were
"OFF DAY,"SATURDAY, 4TH MAY, 1895. The results of the "Off Day" racer, run this afternoon, are 21 follow :-
The StarLUE CUP ; for Chins ponies; wolght for luches as per scale. Three quarters of a mile.
One mile and a hall
Beren started. Time, 3min. 178 secs.. There was five more events, but owing to pressure of other basfaser ika Telegraph Com miny has not yet been able to forward the reenite
Forest
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Total, with no wicket down... 45 The English_cricksters were entertained st dinner to-night by Sir Edwin Smith. Mr. Phil Sheridan announced that before Mfr. Stoddart leaves to-morrow he will hava in his pocket sa Invitation from the Melbourne Czickat Clab kad the trustees of the Sydney Cricket Ground to being out another Engilsis team when the proper time comes. The announcement was received".
In 1146, durlug the prevalence of the Blick Death, 10,000 European towns and villages were totally depopulated.
Valtares have no sense of smell. Carcasses † with cheer. kept out of their sight are sever detected by them. They don't mind bad smelis,
finances fell into a muddle and its spare cank |·tion, to either of them likely, to and favour with, opera, was exhausted so that littls remained, to the | the Briflik House of Commons, il This how- reserve fund. And, finally, it was always in ever, la posa' reason why, if Haugkong deadly opposition to the principle of unifestion: | husika ikon te pomplaint of unnecessa
Ex-Serator Ingalls dropped this epigrans info the campaign it would be better for the šountry if women entered pelities, but not co jodd for the women,”
.: LONDON, April 4th, The case of Russell v. Russell was commenced is the Divorce Court to-day. The Countess Russell petitions for the restitution of conjugal rights. The respondent, Earl Rosnail, ask for a judicial separation.
The Countess wrote to her husband, stating that she was willing to live with him, provided that he gave her substantial personal protection, and on this condition she undertook to withdraw the serious charge she had formerly preferred *gainst him.
April 6th,
fall on hand instant
Colonel North offers to deposit in the hands of trustees cash for the vendors' shares equal to the amount of his net profits, the shareholders receiving facoma until the company has surned 10 per oui, on the expital for two yamse – He