North Borneo, Herald, wherein the telegram I quoted is published in extenso. It reads thus:- (Telegram.)
From K. T. Radjų, Operator, S. Guston."
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To Supt. of Telegraphe, Sandakan. · 8th Antil: Two Malay coolles came down from Kabilee. They are going down to town to get medicine. The following information I got
from them -
We slept at Tapelske last night with a other. Dawn cooliea. 21 la abant » miles from here. At midnight thora cama d elephant nashing on towards rur sherl. One of them was a young man. We all had to run away foərli'e, two af us climbed up on the trees and the rent hi shemale under the trune of a big trog, but we could watchtḥam vật was moon light. No wonder did they cama rhien hy, than they took the bundle of provisions cies in a, towel, dashed 22 mm the ground, and tore even the towel; the rhguish elephsate remained them till daybreak and walked away enroladly. The provision belongs to me. It was brought from Ka fleo supp mei si te the next msukino ní mine. 1 fear a good rest, and theref je 1 shall be greatly obliged to you if you will bully send me a good rida and ammunition as Kanak na pamalota before I reach tha upat, alexsomo pe virions and medicine, X want medicine for fever, headache, stomach- ache, &c."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPÉ SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1895.
existed between the civil community and the Regiment during the pingus work, and alto u spavents of three pleasant years passed by the Shropshire Light Infantry in Hongkong, during which time wo, all' made many frlanda that we hope we shall meet agafi slibér at home or in the cast.
On behalf of the Regiment. I also thank the community for the Challenge Foot-bail Cups, for which the competition is going on and the different games are being keenly contested by the different Comprales all of whom are anxious to win It. The whole Regiment farning out to watch euch mitch.
I will write sesin when the Sergeant's Shieki anives and the Medals from England.
Belleve me,
Yours sincerely,
F. W. ROBINSON,
Lieut..Colonel, Commanding Shropshire L. I.
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tonnage removed, there remains a not factesso amounting to 351,741 tens over 1893,
The value of bulkheads as safeguards against: A ship foundering la dependent entirely upon their doors being erally, quickly, and efficiently closable at a moment's notice, and at all times of the day and night. It is stated, however, that the time required to close those on the Sachsen, similar ship to the Elbe, now lying at the bottom of the sea was, at a recent trial, found | to be no less than one hour and a hall. If such a state of affales år urnal on other ships, it la high time that the ulter wor ́ ́ fenntar of balk beads as factors of safety w、 recognised.
By stent reports I gather that fresh troubles To T. Sercombe Smith, Esq., Secretary Plaguerent, slice the constant giving out of boiler
Recoguliton Fund,
have broken out in Sala between Sultan Rajsh. and Dato Joksline. The latter is said to bare nlae hundred fighting men, eight bundred of -whom are armed with rifles, and he would tram
to have had the best of it so far. In one fight forty combatints were sisin-gilte a serious battle. for this part of the world. The Spaniards are credited with alternately erging on each side, and meanwhile remain closely guarded in their fortified' cl'y of Tiangal
A WILD BEAST TAMER IN HONGKONG.
In response to volley of questions Mr. Arstingstall loformed the reporter that he has Bandled
a great many wild animals, bat his specialty In elephants. elephant, he said, is the most intelligent and
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We note that Captain Perry her returned from his perllons trio, in the Kerstar, » launch 6 ft. by yz ft, in which he left Hongkong en the 'h Antil reaching Branda (Straits) on the th Instant. The voyage was not dewald of
rabes and the air nump valves recessitated progress ander 'l, frequent stoppages, and the putting in to hath Saigon and Singapore for repairs. Hid the weather been unpropitious It is doubtful whether the adventurous little "craft and her plucky skipper would ever have reached their destination.
THE ACCIDENT TO THE "RIVERSDALE " The Riversdals arrived at this port a day or two ago from Tapan and we have since gathered the accident in the Inland Sea and of which the following interesting particulars relative to brief particulars were published in our Yokohama exchanges,
The "Odd Volumen" are certainly growing steadily in interest"and importance. Within the❘ last few months several pápers have’been rend which deserved a mora permanent record than the notices a newspaper can afford, inasmuch as they bave been seal contributions to the stock of knowledge by travellers who have enjoyed unique privillges in hitherto unknown regions Mr. GEORGE ASSTINGSTALL, a 'clilian of the The latest of these valcable memoirs was by U: Red States, who has just signed a ten years' Mr. A, W. E. O. Dyer, who last night read a The Riversdals felt Mojl on the azad, of contract with the Mesurs. Ringley Brothers, of paper on a "Journey up the Chindwin River in April, wie Kit Channel, with a Hcensed Japanese The Worlds Greatest Shows, to scour the siter-Upper Barmah, in 1883 and in spite of the hext Pilot in charge. All went well until the morning of the 25th April at 3.30 4.m.--when tha most parts of the earth in search of zoologies; kept his audience enthralled for over an hour,
Commander (Captain Peck) called the attention novelties for the menageries of the Ringley Mr. Dyer explained that the river Chindwin of the Plot to an faland on the port bow. The Brothers Greatest Worlds Shows, is la Hong Miestesippi, and that it, and its tributaries, of Okisima and that there was plenty of water. ls to the Irrawaddl what the Missouri is to the plot Informed him that it was the faland kong at present accompanied by Mr. J. B. breaks through the parallel chaina of hills The chart was examined and verified the Gaylord, also of the Ringley Brothers. Mr. almost at right angles. The autochthenes statement of the pilot. Shortly afterward the Arstingstall is probably the best posted man in | Are
the Chion, A race widely different ship struck a rock and it was then found that the Chinese. They ] It was the island of Kabulasima" and not the world on elephants and their pecallastlies, and from the Indians or It was, wa take it, a piece of good fortune for one their
am a warlike set of savages, preying upon Okisima that had been sighted. The pilot, it settled seighbours, 2nd era appears, thought the tide was with the ship, of ear reporters to have had an opportunity of deliberate bead-bouten. Unlike the Drake, while it was, de faris against her. After 'pamplog' the veteran trafner. In Thomas' Grill they.. value headı soldly na proofs of striking the engines were stopped and sounding Room a day or two ago.
personal prowers, and do not confine their revealed the fact that the vessel was practically grisly collections to human paras, but treasure high and dry forward and that she was lying also the skuils of tigers, buffalo sad other in 12 fathoms of water from the fare rigging victims of the chase. They do not care for the aft. It was nearly low water at the time of heads of women or children, and in this they striking, and hopes were entertaised of being jeem to represent an earlier stage of the head. able to float off at noon, the tide did not serrä hunting custom than the Draks of Borneo to be curpose. Lighters were then hired and the whom a head in a trophy, be it only that of an snchors and cables discharged and at midnight Infact
snother attempt was made to get off, but without success. On the morning of the 26'h ultima some cables were taken inbbard on the after deck, to put her down by the stern and at noon another unsuccessful attempt was made to get off the rock. The after hold was then filled with water and the remainder of the cable was laid on deck. At midnight a third attempt was made to get off and it was, happily, successful. During the time the ship was on the rocks, which were dry at low water, it was found that the damage consisted of six, plates on the starboard bow bent or broken and one on port bow seriously damaged. While on the rocks the cracks and boles were plugged on the outside with wedges and with cement on the inside. When off the rocks It was found that the fore peak leaked slightly, so the vessel was headed for Kobs, where the arrived at 9.30 am, on the 30th April. Nothing could be done there excect the laying down of 1 false deck in the fore peak and cementing it over and making it fast, for docking was out of the question, there being no docks available in Japan at that time. At a am. on the ard May the Riversdale" left Kobe for Moji where she arrived at 11 a.m. on the 4th Inst and loaded. 1,000 tons of coal and left Moji on the 7th inst, arriving at Hongkong at 6 xm, on the 13th inst., having made no water during the passage. The cargo of coal
for survey and repairs. bas since been discharged and the vessel docked
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receptive of all, animals, learns quicker than x horse or
* dog or any other animal, In educating or teaching an elephant to use a, handkerchief, hell or fan or to drink out of a bottle. it is done chiefly by rewarding the animals with a large helping of food which they most fancy when they succeed in doing what is required of them. Sometimes elephants strike after they have mastered a trick, and 3 then take a raw hide and give them sound thrashing after which they seldom try it on
gain. No two elephants are sifte in disposition. I teach wild elephants to lie down in one hour. It is done by a fall and then by quartering the If once aroused they are not satisfied with killing a man, hat seemingly delight in poupiling him into a jelly. Among the vicious elephants I have bad charge of are-Chtif, Dick Pilot and Albert. While taking Chief from New York to Delevan, Wisconsin, he got angry at something and struck me, I had nothing but a small sharp-polated poker at the time and was alone with the brate, Knowing, however, that there was a plichlerk at the other end of the car I dodged around between the camels and the side of the car, Chlef coming for me all the time and trying to res me against the side of the car. Finally, I got hold of the pitchfork and then soon got the upper hand of the ferocious monster. It was a TOTY narrow escape and I was greatly relieved when I delivered him safe at his destination. He afterwards killed ka keeper at Charlotte, N.C. From what I know of elephants, I should say that in their wild state they probably live about 150 years, and in captivity about yo years. Two elephants only have been bara la America, bot It will be very comm occurrence, I suppose, when the Ringley Brothers heards are together later on. It may surprise you to know that lions and leopards become really affectionate towards human beings, but a tiger will kill a man from sheer wantonness and without any Intention of making a meal of you.
Mr. Arstingstall leaves bere on Tuesday, the 21st inatent, for Singapore and he gear thence to Java and Smatra in search of wild animals, and expects to get back to New York about the middle of September. He says he can't find animals in Hongkong worth "bag- glog," he fears he will herqavily unsuccessful lä Singapore, but thinks Tara Somatra and Borneo likely to turn out just the sort of places for the discovery of "the missing lok" or some other starting monstrosity, Ban vayage, Mansleur Arstingstall, may your shadow never grow less. God be wi ye l
PLAGUE RECOGNITION FUND.
THE SHROPSHIRE "BOYS” HEARD FROM
Mr. T. Sercombe Smith, Hen, Sea, of the Sub-Committee Plague Recognition Fund, for- wards the following lellers, which speak for themselves, for publication:-
Fort William, Calcutts,
April 26th,
Dear Mr. Sercombe Smith,-I received your
The country is billy and 'difficult to explore, and the rivers swift and full of rapids. The forests abound to teak, and other valuable jangle produce, and are slowly but surely yielding their stores to British enterprise. The perallar crag-and-tall structure of the mountain chalas has hitherto proved an atormountable obstacle lè rallway engineers, and so the country als cut off from direct communication with
India,
and in this respect was only excelled by the Mr. Dyer's paper bris led with Information, lengthy reply he afterwards made to the mast of questions saleed upon him. Dr. Csatile occupied the chair and made a capital spacch, which evoked a good deal of discussion.
tomary votes of thanks.
The proceedings terminated with the CHE.
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necessɗlly endorse the opinions emprestad by Comespondents in tåte cofnons.)
A PUNKAH NUISANCE.
To The Era of "Honacoma Telegraph," SIR-Being by invitation a guest of his Honour the Judge at the Supreme Court-house this punkah over the witness box is hung 10 low morning. It was scticed by all that the
that it gives great advantages to men of low dead against the spirit of British fal play; and stalere över tall ones which is, of course,
As I bad recently to cling on beneath it antil I had almost all my hair brushed or blown off the top of my head T appeal to your popular culty and cost of seeking compensation for columns for redress: knowing full well the diff.
damage sustained.
Yours, etc.,
ARGUS.
Whatever else you may do keep your hair on.”
Hengkong, May 11th, 1895. -EL H.K.T]
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS DUE : Tacoma (Sikk) zoth inst. American (Coptic) atat lost. Australian (Caitirikun) 25th fast, American (City of Rio de Janeiro) 318t last, Canadian (Empress of China) 8th prox.
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5 pm. yesterday to 5 pậm, to-day. Arrivals.
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Salean. 要 " Holbow.
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The Pilot of the Riversdale mado a sworn the effect that he had himself made the mistake stafèment before the British Consul at Koba te
which caused the accident, both la' respect to the Island sighted and in respect to the tide and his license was thereupon revoked pendlag question was, it should be added, the charierers the result of an official loquire. The pliar lä
employee.
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In closing this, report we' avall ourselves of this opportunity to express our sympathy with Captain Peck and congratulate him on the success which attended bis efforts to not only mara his ship but also to repair her sufficiently, under the adverse circumstances mentioned above, enable her to carry cargo of 1,000 tons of coal from Meji to Hongkong, a fest that few men would, we think, in view of ike temporary nature of the repairs and the typhoon | 101son baving.again come round, attempted to accomplish. But whether that is no or not matters Hitle, for the fact remains that once again Cap. tata Peck bas Justified the confidence placed in blm by his owners and the underwriters of the well known "Dala" line of cargo and passenger 'steamers,
REVIEW.
THE SILVER QUIETION.—An Injury to British Trade and Manufactures; being a prize paper by George Jamieson, Esquire, with two other papers on the same subject by Mr. Thomas Holyoake Box, of Yokohama, and Daniel O. Croil, of London.-Effingham Wilson Royal Exchange (London).
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letter and also the letter of thanks on the 220d | dsomer mominanatsteamer for Kobe. lostant, and the plate arrived yesterday. The Activ wuumanan letter of thanks to me was quite unexpected. Omda mangi but I can assure you I greatly appreciate it || Ravanno...urumisina and value it most highly. I now wilio to thank | Tatywa# dominion the Plague Recognition Committee, and through. Tacoma them the community of Hongkong, for their Centen expression of goodwill and kindly feeling, both
to the Regiment and myself. Both the letter of thanks and the silver bowl will always be highly valued both by myself and family, and will often rocal many pleasant days and a happy three years spent with my Regiment in Hongkong.
Trusting the future may belog prosperity to Colony,
Belleve me,
Yours sincerely,
F. W. ROBOM,
Lieut.-Colonel, Commanding Shropshire L. L
To Sercombe Smith, Esq., Secretary Plague
Recognition Committee.
Fort William,
Calcutts.
Dear Mr. Sercombe Smith, I write on behalf of the Officers of the Regiment to thank the Plague Recognition Committee, and through them the community of Hongkong, for the very handsome pieces of plate, presented to the Mess, which are, admired by everyone for their shape and buuty. The vans will always" be a record of the good foxing that
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An, authority estimates the silver production of 168 United Stater in 1894 at 60,000,000 ng ... ounces, while the production of the year previous amounted to 65 con,000 ounces,
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countries, fall colncident, until 1803, with the- kowalla German authors and journalists of bath | CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL fall in the gold price of silver-the fact that while sexes. prices were thus falling, wages, rents and taxes The Italian Government is going to send à remained, broadly, the same as have also retall. Commissioner to New York to encourage the prices as a rule, and the fact that in sliver asing importation of Italian wines into the United corratateu the wholesale prices of gods of naival Slater, production or Imported have remained about Mrs. Maddocks, a Sydney, wheel-woman, has ike same, retail prices and wages, rent, cięstwon - International fame by riding a bicycle all remaining also unaffected. Mr. Jamieson then the way from Sydney to Melbourne, a distance proceeds to investigate the causes of the lost to co miles. producers in gold usleg countries, who, walle The use of aluminium is rapidly increasing. T rent, wages, etc. remain the same get so much Some Russian bishops are baring their mitres Naga 1.29 17 less for their productions and so much less made of the metal. But old-timers look upon in almost the exact proportions in which the practice as ascrileglars silver has diminished in value, and he prove conclusively that this heavy loss is the nature and necessary result of the fall in the value of alley, for which their productions are mainly,į exchanged (a fall resulting directly from the All animals have a weather fastinct. The demonetisation of silver) and is net the result of approach of rain is indicated by the flight of any falling off in demand which every much crapes and swallow, by the cries of water fowls greater your after year. He pofate farther found by the actions of cows and pigs, giring an increased value 19 gold by increasing only 18 are graduates of West Point; of the 40 the effects of the demonetization of which fa "Of the zo colonels of the regular U.S. army the demand for fi, the whole work of the western llentenant-colonels, only 11 of the 70 majors, world having now to be done by gold, instead of only 14, and of the 430 captains only 188. as before 1873, by gold and silver combined, and to this fact of this appreciation of gold in reducing palès of all commodities turned out by gold star comotiles. A few pages are devoted to an examionllop of the other causes that may have tended to produce this fall and it is shown that although they have operated to some extent, they are not in themselves sufficient to account for the entire loss or to explain Its apparent connection with the fall in silver. Robinson Cruson" was offered la turn 'to effres on ilver using countries and on their in-At last one bookseller, known for his speculative Me Jamieson then proceeds to consider the every publisher in London, and refused by all. dustries fake enormous fall to the value of silver ventures, undertook its epblication, and made za compared with gold in gold-using countries over 1000 guldens. It has made the fortunes of and its permanence of value in the silver-using countries themselves, and points out in detail to the encouragement of such a state of things holds out to them to become; in their turn, producers and manufacturers, and he proves the truth of his deduclam by the fact that Indie, China and Ta-an have been and are golog in largely for the prodaction and madelectures each. of many articles of which England had once the monopoly. Ladian wheat, Bombay yarns, Japanese coal, are gradually superseding English and Australia, Manchester yarns and English grows wheat. In 1893, 21 Milla (eplaning) showed a profit of 18 per cent. on the average, Ninety-three spinning companies in Lancashire showed in 1893 a net loss of £72,000 added to a net loss in 1997 of £104.000 f
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BITS OF INFORMATION.
Starfish eat oysters,
Flying frogs exist in Borneo. Care-dwellers 1401) 10va in Spało. Boston demands a half-cent cain, West Virginia has 2,000 afl wells. New York has 1,000 Chinese laundries. The latest Paris fad is aluminum watches.. In Ceylon crows ave protected as scavengers. The whistling buoy can be heard about Afteen alles,
"Only centurial years, divisible by 400, are leap
The month of the starfish is exactly in the cente
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Liquid honey is largely adulterated with glucoses
Forty-four comets were observed in the third
captury.
Fox would never stand covered in the presence of ladies.
A single pound of meat may contain 350,000 trichind
The young fog has a special breathing organ in Ita9954
Gloves were worn by ancient Egyptians and Hebrews.
The ancients considered coral a valuable medicine.
Count de Lesseps was the type of the French gentleman.
nine years.
Bank clearing in 1893 were the smallest for
of the emplferie
Justinlas inculcated politeness on every official
Cocoa and chocolate are largely mixed with starch and sugar.
A single oyster in satson produces about,
1,000,000 young.
Frem bushet of corn a' dealer gets four gallons of whisky.
Times are hard in Berlin, money is scarce and business poor,
Aboul 6,000 deer were shot during the past season in Scotland.
his
Cornelite's manners were the admiration of
contemporaries, Bret Harte is said to ape the behavior of the English aristocracy.
Goldsmith was fil-bred and too much inclined to talk about himself,
Louisiana has found it neceserry to pass laws for the care of its lopers.
Sower air is free from Bacteria than the atmosphers from our houses.
The average man can do the most work at 3 p.m. and the least at
9.m, Byracuse, to Sicily, is just now the scene of a severe outbreak of typhoid fever.
Locomotive building is shown to have fallen off tremendously la the past year.
About 60,000 acres bare been reclaimed In Ireland the past year from bog and marah landa. A bell still hanging in the belfry of the church at Newington, NH, was made by Paul Revere in 1804
The assessed value of cherch property in. New York City, exempt from taxation, la $55,000,000,
The colors of the chameleon do not chango instantaneously, but require a considerable length of time, mi
Sir Henry Mersey Thomson in the early part 1894
offered a Elmetsilic Palzes as in a silver plate or a cup and £25 in sovereigns : for the essay which should point out most clearly and most plainly :-(1.) The great loss and lajury is ficted on producers la England by the extra- A white panther, an animal never before seen ordinary rise in t
In the price of gold as compared with In a menagerie, recently arrived at the Jardin allver during the 20 years from 1'7; consequent | des Plantes, "Paris,""" on the demonetization of sliver
(2) The
At foundling saylam in Moscow 13,000 Immense Inducements held out to Capitalists infants are annually received. The boys are in allver-mning countries because of this trained for the dayy, appreciation of gold to become producers And The manufacturers for the purpose of
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At an amatuer gymnastic display given lately fa the rorth of London by a number of ladles, it appears that most of the competitors were able to clear the tapo at 5 feet. The Transvaal Government will construct a railroad from Krugersdrop to Potchefstroom and Klerksdorp, thus openlog un miolog districtu second only is importance to Witwatersrand and D. Kaap.
of publlabers since lis apperance. Boston manufacturing company recently celebrated half a century of existence by making
distribution of a fund of $33,000 among its employer on the basis of S for each year of service. Some of the emplores have been in the' wervice" so long that their shares reached The Importation of frozen mutton from Australia has risen from 400 carries is 1880, the year of its initiation, to 930,961 carcases in 1891. Beef shows a rather less marked Increases in 1881, the first year when a record was kept, 374 pieces were landed'; in 1894 there were 193,995 pieces. Altogether there have arrived in the fourteen years 3 318 dog carcases of sheep and 463.773 pieces of beef, included in 402 ship. meats New Zealand has contributed, since 1882, no less than 13,386,440 sheep and 276,100 places, of beef, which have come over in 564. shigments.
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LATE TELEGRAMS.
SIMKA, April zoth. Majar Sadier, Pollical Agent at Muscut, jolos the Foreign Office as assistant secretary.
Lieutenant White, Flest Assistant to the Resident in the Persian Golf, being posted to Marcat, Mr. Bosanquet is now on his way out from England to officiate as Under Secretary,
ALLAHABAD, April 22nd.
The Secretary of State' bas sanctioned the grant of the India Government's medal with the Chin Luskal Expedition of 1889-ga, with a clasp, Survey Department. to Mr. T. H. D. Latouche, of the Geological
in the Upper Bolan Pass on the 13th. There is The first train has passed over the new bridges
Sibi and Quetta vid Bolan, so that if that Mud now through railway communication" between Gorge misbehaver, as it did last year and in 1893. Quetta will not be left isolated, as before, over the permanent line below Mach. There between Mach and Quetta. A train now ruND
and the present track is only a temporary nature. are still some tunnels and bridges, unfinished, It is hoped the Mashkif-Bolan lind will be completely ready to be opened for traffic in
October next,
April 14th.
The hearing of the case in which Mr. Leahy, of the Civil Service, Collector of Surat in the Bombay Presidency, charges Nawabzada Nasrulla Khan, Barrister-at-Law with offering him a bilbe of Rs. 10,000 to use bis influence to restore to bis_former position his brother, the ex-Nawab of Sacchin, commenced here to-day. Mr. Lesby gave evidence un to the bribe being offered in the hearing of two of his Nailve aisistanu, who had been conceɛ'ed in his bed-room adjoining the sitting-room for the purpose. He added, however, that the accused was rather simple, and witness believed he had been led into this folly by dock much more than be did. The two Native Intriguing advisers, who deserved to be in the
hearing of the bribe offered and seeing the susistants were examined and deposed to the money produced by the accused. The case was adjourned until to-morrow.
April 26th,
The Chlef Presidency Magistrate to-day | convicted Nawabgoda Nasrallah Khan, Bare rifter-at-Law, of offering bilde of Rs. 10,000 to Mr. Lesby, Collector of Sarah. The Magistrate sentenced him to three monika' simple imprison. ment and ordered him to pay a flue of Rs. 1,000, with the option of undergoing a further term of two months? similar imprisonment.
TOKIO, April 26th, .... The protest delivered to Japan by the Ministers
terms. It maintains simply that a cession of of the three Powers in couched in most friendly
the Liaotung Penidials to Japan will be a source of constant menace to Poking and the autonomy of Korea.
(This was published in « Calcutta dally on the 27th ultimo. How is that Reater did not,. If this be true-and it is, we hellere, very near the mark-furnish to us with similar informa- tion -Ed. H.K Telegraph.]
LORDUM, April 27th. A meeting of the Knights and Dames and associates of the Primross. League took place at Covent Garden Theatre yesterday,” Mr. Balfour, addressing the meeting, said that the exi-tence of serious dissension in the constitutional Unionist party, reports of which were current throughout the country, was fiction. The polkiesl , and persoasi friendship of Mr. Chamberlain was
1st:90,800,000 barrels of oil from the hoped the permanent union of Conservativer Pennsylvania. Beides
and Liberal Unionists would eventually replace England has hitherto suppifad
A scientiat Inevitable result of the competition produced alloy of gold and desina woy war made of an the prasiat alliance.
aluminum counterfeiting would
BOMBAY, April 29th. by this divergence in the value gold and be almost impossible.
Arad occurrence took place on Saturday at eliver in transfering to alive»musing countries, A mudes! where labour is cheap, all our more protas beats avec liniment, the pyropkom, kes Belgaum, when the medical oficer of that station, Shick, extracts all the tones of Burgaon-Major, T. Laffan, shot himself through industries to the rula of many of them and with the sch" HAMI PATTURE
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the head with i revolver. The deceased war the result of throwing out of employment tens of A enlony of Cosexche 's being extablished | alone in his bungalow at the time. thousands of our Kagilah workmen
slong the line of the Great_Siberian Railway
the 'ryth instant, and Hoihow on the 17th, and themselves with all those things with wi” Piskuczlón, 1804 placed to its credit à total.] never, as said, greater than at présent. He
The Danish steamibly Freir left Pakhol en ad ane weather all the way,.
KONGLONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
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Mr. George Jamleton, of H.B.M. Consular Service, now Acting Chief Justice of the Supreme • Plitsburg bất twenty blast furnaces, sixty-four | THE great value of Scott's Emplsion of Part Court in Shangbal, was the winner of the prize Iran and steel mills, 500 glass factories, twenty Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphilas in Westing and kis csvay is now
pablished with two other natural-gas companies and sixty oil refineries... Diseases is shown by the accompanying state-
It is stated like the gun and ammunition trade ment from D. C. Freeman, Bydney, Aust. papers sent la by two of the other distinguished competitors-Mr. Box of Yokohama, and Mr. in Birmingham, England, is now more active "Having been a great sufferer from pulmonary Croad, of London. We unhesitatingly.commend than at any time during the past twenty years. sitkeks and gradually wasting away for the part all three papers to the perusal of our readers. The Fanch Government proposen to make two years, it affords me great pleasure to tevilly Mr. Jamieson's paper is, probably, the clearest addiidaestadio wavy during the coming year, thai lhe abors medicine has given me great and most effective statement that has yet been repreng an expenditure of nearly $3,500,000, relief, and cheerfully recommend it to all suffering The gross addition during 1894 to the mar published on the subject. It summarises the Econsasical ́ibeads of British Government ĝin a similar way to myself. · In addition I would cantilenary of the United Kingdom wast Steel undoubted facts that have marked the history departments are)jme now projecting a develop my that is in very pleasant to take." Any steamers, 774,971 tonss fron, 33,039 tonej woad, [of the movements that commenced in 1870 for the ment of cheap labour in the shape of boy clerks, Chamisi can supply it-Sale Agents for Hong- 1,007 lekaj stadi Balling ships, 86, 166 tone) fran, demonetisation of silver➡the fail in the wholew: MLA wealthy ragident in Daniale has given a kong and the Lupies of China þ--Watkim de- Simić sonaj word, 18,078 1988. "Deducting the | sale prices of all commodities is grid-weing | nie, worth gondo marks, fer a kopse for ald and | Gay Hongkong | Adet.
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