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(WEDNESDAY), JUNE 19TH, VON SUPPE'S COMIC OPERA "BOCCACCIO."
TO-MORROW
(THURSDAY), JUNE 20TH "LITTLE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS." Operat, &c; to follow: Paul Jones" (Friday), Don Juan" (Saturday), "Ray Blax," "Go Bang," "The Chinamen," "Mountebanks,"
The Lady Slavey," "His Excellency." PRICE OF ADMISSION...........83. $2, AND $1. Soldiers and Sailors là Uniform Half-price to and and Back Sonta
PLAN at Mesir0, KELLY & WAlin's, Ld. Doors Open at 8.30 Commencing at o Hongkong, 19th June, 1895.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE
Intimations. Our Registered. Telegraphin Address is And all "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG." aigned messages addressed 'thus will receive prompt attention,
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to the withdrawal of our fleet from the scene of action, and of our representatives from the conferences at Peking and Shimonoseki, and for the final settlement of the commercial tresty we may find that JOHN Buzz has not been so sound asleep as most Far Eastern journalists seem to balleve.
British action in respect to the recent crisis has, we take it, not been a question of Impatency or Indolence, the Mercury's comments would appear to suggest, but rather one of expediency. We have, vast commercial and political SELTZER WATER
Interests at stake in the Far East and are, LITHIA WATER
therefore, bound to assume, until we know SARSAPARILLA WATER it to be otherwise, that Lord Rosebery and
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Sir Nicuotas O'Coнor will make a deter mind move the right direction and at the proper time. Let us hope so, at all events. If, however, it should turn out to be other. wise, and Russia has been given, uncon- ditionally, a free hand to settle the pending questions between China and Japan after her own fashion and in her own solo Interests there will be, we bellave, a very A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. serious day of reckoning for the Liberal
No Credit given for Bottles that look dirty or greasy, or that appear to have been med for any other purpose than that of contal ing Aerated Waters, as suck Bottles are never used again by us.
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hengkang, Ist Juba, 1805.
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Fox being so careless as to waste a quantity of fresh water in x Tal-ping-shan thoroughfare yesterday, a coolle was to-day floed 95 at the Megintracy.
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FOR brutally torturing several hogs while land- lng them from bis junk, the gallant Skipper of the Kis Zi wanto-day "stuck" for ten dollara at the Police Court, where he made the acquaio- tance of Mr. H. E. Wodehouse,,
LIEUTENANT ELLIOTT, of the 5th Lancers, wha is supposed to have been bitten by a mad dog, AT the Police Court, this moralag. Inspector was sent by ido Government to Paris from Barnett charged You-Ah Long, pt. No. 15 D Simla three weeks ago, for the Pasteur treatment. | Wöllfagton Street, with ning the basement of For house for human habliaiion. Mr. Wode- MARQUIS SATONjt, Minister of State for Educa-house Sned the old hag ten Mexicans. tlon, bas been gazetted Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, perd'ng the recovery of Viscount Moo, whore recent Illness necessitates a period of complete rest,
Tire Chantaboon correspondent of the Bangkok Observer capasts that cholera is very prevalent ́at Palin, and that some Laotlan traders golug from the latter place to Chantaboon were attacked by this epiden ic and soon died. Tax Asano Cement Company have contracted with the Yokohama Harbour works to supply 2,500 tons of Portland Cement for the purpose of repatilog the breakwater. The contract price party and its Minister for Foreign Affairs. | is a fraction over $30.40 = tan, And in the cutery that will then be raised Te Russian transpot Kostroma arrived the united voice of the Australian colonies
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THE SHANGHAI CHAMBER OF
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IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE.
ACTION TAKEN IN REFERENCE TO THE WOOSUNG BAR, THE IMPORTATION OF MACHINERY AND LEKIN
AND TRANSIT PAJSKS......
A meeting of the Committee of the Shanghai Chamber of commerce was held on the roth Jang, at a p.m.
Wat Stanton, Iosprone of Weights and Measures, charged Kwok San Chin at the Pollte Court to-day with having a pair of fraudulent Present—Mestra, A. P. MacEwen (Chairman), scales in his houve In No. 41, Heung Lane, AJ. Chapral, C. J. Didgeon, J. Graham, A. Korff, fine of §'o was imposed, and paid in a twinkling. W. D. Little J. H. McMichael, 1). M, Mosel, A.
Wasserfall, and Drammand Hay, Secretary. THE Lombok herasa are to be decorated with medals cast from the captured guns. The medals will be cruciform li abapo, with a star! edge to the arms. In the centre will be's medallion with a best of the Queen of Holland an the obverte, and on the four arms the words 14 London, Mataram, Tjakra Negara, 1894.”- On the reverse will be the Holland coat of arms
arma'the words Hulde aan; leger, en bloot. surrounded by a taorel wreath, and on the four
THE "HEAVEN-SENT DARRIER," The Chairman said he considered it advisablo that the Chamber abould take some steps to carry out the preliminary survey of the Woo sung Bar for which purpose fund had been subscribed by the principal firms of Shanghai, the two Muncipal Councils, and the Total. As been engaged by the Chamber, could not now the services of Sir Charles Hartley, which had he secured, he thought that the services of soma other eminent engineer should ha engaged for the purpwe without delay and be therefore pro-
will make itself loudly heard, for while the .Singapore on the roth..from Odasss with '816 | Liberator "vanisher" Jaber Balfour, was the posed-"That for:ber stops be at once taken
On the 11th instant, at Malacca, Straits Settle. Interests of the Empire generally will have been sacrificed, their future will have been In a special manner jeopardized and endangered to an alarming extent. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
On June 4ib, at Wind Mill Road, Bangkok, MARY CATHERINE, the dearly beloved wife of Cautain Pardy, will be despatched as above TO. Henry Clement Aloysius Johnston.
"TELAMON."
MORROW, the 20th instant, at 4 2.3.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWINE,
Agents.
FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE.
Hongkang, 19th June, 1895.
THE
HE Steamship
"HELENE" RICKMERS,"
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The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1895.
INDOLENCE OR IMPOTENCE),
will be despatched on SATURDAY, the sand Qua Shanghai contemporary, the Mentury
Instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 19th June, 1805,
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND
CALCUTTA.
HE Steamship
THE
1748
"CATHERINE APCAR," Captain J. G. Ollent, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 25th lostant, at 3 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, 19th June, 1895,
fare
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES:
FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
"CATHERINE APCAR" having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that her firank Temaring on board after the 21st instant, will be landed at Consignees' risk and expense into the Godowns of the Wanchal Warehouse and Storage Com pany, Limited, Wanchal
TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN REFORMS.
LONDON, June 18th. The report that Turkey had sent a fresh reply. to the jolat Note of the Powers was premature:
THE FRENCH IN MADAGASCAR, General Duchesne telegraphs that the Hovas are retreating cu Andribo leaving most of the road to Tajanga and Antananarivo unguarded, waxes wrath about the anti-foreign out>
OPENING OF THE KIEL CANAL. break in Szechuen, the alleged Anglo-
The Foreign Squadrons hava arrived at Kisl. Russian entente and the way in which all-The French and Russian squadrons mévived in Important Britishinterests have, apparently, company. been trified with during the recent crisis In the north, and'in its issue of Thursday last castigates our Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the following "chaste and elegant" language:—
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RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
Baron Mohrenhelm has invested President Fase with the Order of St. Andrew, with great ceremony. Speeches were exchanged testifying to the continuous friendship of the two countries.
(Special to the Msian.)
THE EPSOM-GRAND PRIZED:
LONDON, May 30th, 1895. The EPSOM GRAND PRIZE of 2,000 sovs. by
subscription of 25 sovs. each, roft, or 3 SOYA only if declared by the Arst Tuesday in January 1894; for three-year-olds; colts 8st, xa'bs,, and fillles 81t. 7lbs., the winner of a race (not being a handicap or sel ing race) valve 1,000 1075. to copy sib, of the Two Thousand Gulness Stakes or the Derby 10lb. extra; maidens allowed yib, the nominator of the winner to receive 300 sors, and the owner
and a quarter. 153 subt, 43 of whom pay 3 sava, nách. (Closed July 18, 1893)
Mr. Russell's br © WHITTIER, by Insrento...
Virginia
........F. Finlay Mz J. Bear's b ¢ POWICE, by Starband
Elegance............W. Bradford + (Winner trained by J. Waugh, Newmarket.)
Betting: to te ron Walder.
"To lock the table door after the steed is stolen is a proverbial description of incapacity. Our clever Britlab Government has been trying.to. cover its defects by this too late repentance. R has given up every paint in the long category bat stood aloof white the ground slipped away beneath its feet, and now would step forward and seek to regala public confidence by a feeble flatter after everything has been lost. No, Lord Kimberley, the best thing you can do is to go home and put a ballet through your addled pate, You have been entrusted with the affairs of s great nation you have acted as low-bred cur, And have backed and run away. You would now try and retrieve your character by falmloating messages over the distresses of the missionaries returned to your old wallowing. You haya earned nothing but disgrace. I
ware simply yourself that was concerned you were welcome to it, but you made a laughing: stock of your country. You are helpless and hopeless. You could not be a good Minister if you tried, and you bave not tried. You have been befooled by Japan, by 'China, by France, by Germany, and, last and worst, by Russia. You messed the Colonial Office when you were placed in it; you muddled India when a confid ing Prime Minister gave you the portfolio of Secretary of State, You have finished your reputation by m'king Great Britals contemp Hble in Asia. All we desire is to hear zo more of you. We despise your activity, Your Indolence is bad enough; your new-fo and energy. is fatal. We care pot for your politics. Thate la come bing more important to be done then disestablishing the Welsh bishoprics or intro- | &ducing local option. It is not on such miery- able subterfuges that empira is founded. The British Empire cares not for them, and you as Foreign Secretary have nothing to say to them. Be a churchwarden, or a parish councillor if you like, bat cease to burlesque the part of a Minister | night. of State."
Consignees of Cargo from SINGAPORE and PENANG are requested to take IMMEDIATE delivery of their Goode from alongside, much Cargo impeding the discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and
expense.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bilis of Lading will be countersigned by
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, #9th June, 1895.
Intimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
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Now, whether the whole of this firade is Justifiable in the premises we are not in a position to julge for neither the Mercury, nor any other journal published East of the Suez Canal has yet been able to ascertain what quid pro quo, if any, Russia, France and Germany are to receive from China for the favour of their good officer In respect to the modification of the original draft of the Shimonosek! Treaty,: and what were the terms of the agreement RASPBERRYADE, &c. between England and Russia which gave Rusala a free hand and resulted. In the withdrawal of a considerable portion of the British fleet from these
SARSAPARILLA,
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly qualled English Chemist and will bear compr.
rison with the best English Manufactures,
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESING and
other Large Consumers. Any complaints should be addrasud to the Manager.
Hongkong, 3rd May, 1891.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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CHEMISTS BY AIPOINTMENT.
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"cralis 54 first-class passengers, and officers of the first-class on board. She left the sister colony" for Vladivostock on the 12th last, Ar the Magistracy, this morning, before Mr, Wodehouse, the drawers of rickshas Nos. 86, 150, 168 341, 34, 62; and 166 were charged with "Yashing" their vehicles on a certain footway. I Fines sggregating $14 were paid by the coolles'
· affluent "bosses."
SANCTION has been given to the offer of a bounty to a number of British troops, to induce them to extend their service in India for two years. The bounty is Rx. 140, which is held to be the equivalent of 'o. The offer will be made to men of six to seven years' service on the 1st October lust.
RECENT arrivals of re-inforcements at Wladivo stock include some 20,000 Cossacks who marched overland through Siberia, This Is, says the Nagasaki Rising Sun, bellevedio be the first time such an attempt has been made by the Russians, at least in such numbers, and their hand is very much strengthened by the successful laide of this experiment.
STEPS have been taken to have the present waterworks reservoir at Nagasaki enlarged, plans from recent surveys have been 'mide and it is estimated that with, the expenditure of 30.050 ymn the Inhabitants of Nagasaki will have some further 10000,000 gallens at their dispost!. There seems every likelihood of the scheme belog carried out at once, says the Nagimki Rising Sun,
MR. John O'Conner, who is to defend the "Long John "who sat för Tloperare in the lust Parliament, but was rejected by Kilkenny City fo 180. His six feet four inches made him
·F, C. Gauld once cvrtooned him in sections. lò notable object in the House of Common Mr. the Westminster Gosette. His head and body appeared one day, with the Intimation #To be contioned in our next,', and sure enough on the following day there appeared an evidently unattached pair of fnterminable legs.
of the This
seconded by Mr. Dudgeon, and carried unanim-
manly.
Mr. Dudgeon sald that the survey of the Bar would be greet and spinose undertaklar, so that it would be advisable to be careful to engage for the purpose a well known and
competent engineer whose name would carry weight with the Chinets' antborklas, su if they were prevailed upon to carry out the improvO- iments recommended after the preliminary survey, it would be a very extensive and costly under. taking, and for that sasson they ought to obtain the services of the best professional man procurable." He was advised on rond suthority that If the Chamber applied officially to the Conset of the Institute of Civil Engineers, they would no doubt recommend to the Chamber a thoroughly good engineer who was competent to undertake the work.
Tax Netherlands Vice-Admiral Jonkheer van Carembroot, whose death in just reported, was knows in Holland at the Hero of Shimonošekl," In 1863 he was in command of the Netherlande corretta Medusa, which was stationed in Eastern Asiatic waters. She was to take the Netherlands Courol-General from Nagasal to Yokohama, On July 11th, 1863, on her return from Nagasaki, the Medusa bad to pass through the narrow Stralis of Shimonoseki, where, to the surorise of the Dutch commander, Japanese shore batteries, supported by two men-of-war, opened fles unanį blashin. Van Casembroot himself was wannded and ble vessel caught five la two places, vet he persisted in his efforts to pass through the Strats, running the gauntlet of seven shore batteries The feat succeeded, and on his return to the Netherlands van Casembront was rewarded by having gemat distinctions conferred upon him.
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After some discnulon it was proposed by the Chairman, seconded by Mr. Dudgeon, and carried unanimously:-
"That a letter ba drawn up requesting the President aết ha
of the Engiavers recommend an Rar, and that the me be sent to Mr. Willa Kaswick with the request that he will kindly present it, and give all the Informas
engineer to undertake the prefentasry sure to reco
Hon posible about the tar to the anginaer whom the Cous cil of the lasticuts may recommend."
THE IMPORTATION OF MACHINERY AND THE LEKIN AND THANSIT PASS QUESTION, The following correspondence was ordered to
SHANGHAI, Tat May, 1895.
Just as Rusila, takes up the torpedoes in Madivostock-barbour-the-crisis in Korea-uppORTE- about to culminato, says the Japan Gorette, und | bs published :— .. adds, "the anti-Japanese party is once again! in power, and Count Inouye, his counsels no longer respected, returns home. Of course
Sir, I have the honour to hand you here Koren, belog fndependent, can listen to any with a copy of the report of the Chamber of advice she chooses, but it la questionable if the Commerce for 1894, which will show you ika exchange of Japanese for Raslav advisers will in important cases that came before the Chamber the long ran be to her advantage. Russia may not: during the course of the year, and the minutes deanyibing in the way of annexation for a year of
of the annual general meeting held on the 19:5 two, but the time is not far distant when Korea instant which preface the report fully elucidate must be absorbed, bat by whom? Elther Rositions affecting Shangbal and its foreign trade.
the opinions of the Chamber on the various ques.
The position offers much room for deliberation on the part of Japan's statesmen. Owing to the war between. China and JavaN they dealt with would receive from the Chinese authoritles the attention they merited, but now that the war is concluded the Committee of this Chamber think they cannot do better than lay before the Consular Body, through yourself as Senior Conral, soms of the most Imporinat questions affecting the trade Interests of this port which require a settlement. It is probable that within a short period of time the discussion and settlement of various matters relating to foreign trade in China will be brought before the their hands would be strengthened by having Foreign Representatives at Peking, and that
of the second.rna yaxıntit, ni ibout" She mille | PLANS for the construction of a theatre at Salges We believe that the same reasons which held | the Chamber could not expect that the subjects to cost $700,000 have been sent in to the Mual-good in the case of Manchuria are applicable to cipality there. Several of the plans exceed that Kores. It is the essence of wisdom for Japan Ilmi Three prizes have been adjudged to the | to hold territory on the malalaad. She would designers of the best plans. The prizes amount extend her frontiers without acquiring pra respectively to $5,000, $3,000, and $2,000. The portionate means of defence. Safe in her island domain Tapan in a few years might easily bid srchitect who sent in the approved plan will be ber defiance, but placed between two hostile | charged with the direction of the works at a fee Powers--hostlie owing to the antagonism of their of 6 per cent; on the amount spent. The theatre aims-she would ever be called upon for a vast will contain 700 sextr.
expenditure. On the other hand the acquisition of Korea by Russia might make that Power too situation, and in it is to be found the key to strong in the North Pacific. It is a delicate further complications. The present perde, we fear, will be but the preliminary to farther war."
Won by three parts of a length.
(From "Japanese Papers) NEW RUSSO-JAPANESE TREATY.
Torro, June 14th, Today's Official Gaseite announces that commercial treaty between Japan and Russia was signed at St. Petersburg on the 8th Insť, the signatories baing the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Mr. Nishi, Japanese Minister | Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to Rouja. It is stated that the demands of Japan have mostly b`en granted.
MR. FOSTER HOMEWARD BOUND.
SHANGHAI, Jane soib.
PLAQUE NOTES
A CORRESPONDENT, Writing to Shanghal from Kluklang under date of the 6th fastant, makes the following reference to land troubles at that port :-" It, is getting hot here already. Feeling Is quiet at present, but I am afraid that the lund disputa, between foreigners and the Chinere will be serious. There is no prospect of a Yesterday afternoon a case of plarue developed settlement. I am told on reliable 'authority the | among the inmates of No. 10, Haung Lane and piece of land in dispute is not a few mow only, was placed under observation le one of the but about tes, square miles. The buyer has Island. The patient was at once transferred to natīvo mazine hotels at the back of Stonecutters' to the Kennedy-town depó: and is now under
Mr. Foster left here for home on Saturday already disposed of several strips to other people,
Including pieces to Frenchman and Russians."
MANY THANKS!
"The Ministers for Russia and France at Peking on the 7 h fast, and an audience with the Emperor, who expressed his cordial thanks for the exertions of the two, constries which, resulted in the retrocession of the Lias-tung pealenia.
We were assured at the time standing. It is, of course, reasonable to that there was a complete under assume that France is fully satisfied with the elimination of the clause bearing on the opening of the West River; that Rumia is content with the Influence (the full effects of which will only be known and felt a few years hence) involved in the Issue of an enormous loan to China under | made. her guarantee, and that Germany will rest antisfied with large orders for
FEFORMS IN TURKEY.
June 8th.
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A FEW days ago the members of St. Andrew's congregation in Tokio, and few other personal friend, who had nibscribed to a memorial brass tablet to perpetuate the memory of the late Mr. | Hugh Fraser, Her Britannic Majesty's Minister le Japan, took part in an impressive ceremony connected with placing it in the new church, a - Shiba, just over the Legation sents. The Best bear the following inscription, surmounted by the coat of arms and motto ---AN
TM MTHORY OF HUGH FRASER, BRITISH MINISTER IN JAPAN, WHO DIED AT THE LYGATION IN 'TOKYO, JUNE 4, 1894,
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AND IS BURIED AT ADYAMA.
A DEYOUT WORSHIPPER AND REGULAR COMMUNICANT IN ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH,
treatment there.
before them in a concise form the various matters of which the mercantile community have to com plain, and I beg the assistance of the Consolar Body In Impressing upon the Foreign Represen. tatives the necessity that exists for a prompt consideration of the same.
FIRST-Tâs Woosung Bar.—The question of the Woosung Bar has long been before the Chamber as a matter of vital interent to the be taken to remove this abstraction to navigation. trade of Shanghai, and immediate steps should
The state of the Bar has been rendered "worse elby the recent wrecks of the Frima and Norm, which the Customs authorities have taken no steps to remove ; and within the last few days the Chamber has received a protest against the existing state of affaire signed by sit the shipping Arms of Skanghal, a copy of which I now forward for the information of the Consuler Bodycanda
Two deaths from plugue have occurred during the past 24 hours,
The following are the official"statistics from June 14th to noon this day::-
No of cases reported
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» cases under treatment 3 child from No, Holland Street, Kennedy-town, in which the cause of death had not been diagnosed when the case was first reported to the Sanitary Board, VA AEGON
RETURNS.
This statement now includes the case of the
From 18th April until 3 p.m. to-day-2
Hiew Dostka Diach. Ham under
SECOND-The Proktbliton of the importation of Industrial Machinery. --A letter received Peking early last year gave promisa of decided from the Doyen-of-the-Diplosistle Body st.
retion against the Infilagement of the Treaties by the Chinese authorities, which the Chamber would be glad to have officially confirmed.
THID-Lakin and Tranali Paises-The | Chamber has beần. In communication with H.B M. Consul General about the imposition of a lekin tax on foreign yarn, thus creating a differential duty in favour of native-made yarn, but no redress for this illegal exaction has yet been obtained. The great delay which occurs in the lesue of Trav-it Panes under the existing system renders them practically inoperative, and
· Dertha fiam the outbreak (18th Apell), up to some reform is urganily needed, May 19th, noon, xy; grand total, 12:4
C2884.
Hospital ship Hygeia... Kennedy-town (during
last 24 hours) -2. Private houset.mum. “₫
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--(Special to Siam Observar)... TE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES, TURKEY TJ DE CORREED,
LONDON, June 5th, The Turkish Government has replied to the Neto presented on May Fith by the Ambassadors of the three Powers-Englard, Russia and Franco-regarding the rif rms to be made in the administration of the Armenian provinces, The answer is not at all satisfactory, and the Tornabaye notifed the Eghiỏe Porte thai nhi modification will be allowed in any estential particular. The attitude of the Turkish Govern-Ax the Central Police Station this afternoon a meat is such that the situation is regarded as a large sumber of members of the Force assembled very grave one. The Powers are in perfect to bid farewell to Inspector Mann, and to show accord as to the line of action to be parsed in thelf appreciation of his many Berling quailties order to coerce the Porte late obedience, and Inspector Dance presided and in a lengthy the despatch of the British Squadron to Turkish waters is the first step in the arrangements speech, seld Mr. Mann that on the eve of his Japarture for home the members of the. Force 'bad'assembled--to-day to show their respect for him and of their appreciation of his kind treat- went darlag bis 16 years of continuous service in the Colony. He thes, presented Mr. Maan with a gold watch bearing the inscription Printed to Inspector Mann by the Members of 185 Hangkong Police as a token of aktiem and respect on the eve of his departure with the intention of leaving the Force after sixien years continuous service. "June 20th, 2806 Mrs. Muon was presented at the same time with halia-dozen, silver napkin, sings, - Mr. Mann suitably acknowledged the handsome souvenir and then Invited "the boys down to the Canteen where one and all had a real good time. To-night the Chinese members of the Force wil entertain My, Mann at dinner and present him with a silk scroll as a mask of their estean immensely as long as the. Company remaips | of Talegraphs was the permission to erect a ling Inspector Mann fa an exceptionally conscientious officer highly inteligent and a first-class die cipilaarias. Ha richly deserves the toket ol; respect herein; referred to, and wa
all whở khew hits when we with him i
Krupp guns, vast quantities of small The Forte has not wholly rejected the arms and ammunition, and contracts | posals made by England, Frange, and Rysgla for half-a-dozen ironclads and a dozen with regard to the reforms to be laaugurated in or two fast crulsore, while the United Armenia. The Porta asker for marely a genoen? States of America, as a consideration statement of the saforms thought needful, but declares that it will resist any scheme in which for her moral support at the most critical included European control of any part of moment of the paid bellum negotiations in Takey. MANUFACTURERS⋅ OF Peking, will be the recipient of large
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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
RUSSIA PROPOSES A CONFERENCE. orders for railway fron and a few trivial "com" of that kind, This is, of||
8+, PETERERƠNG, Jamu Sih. course, merely a rough guess at the The newspapers Bere ese proposing the con- probable consequences of the never-to-be-vening of an international conference to deal forgotten crisis through which China has with the Turkisk question. recently passed. It is not based on any rellable data and is supported only by s general knowledge of China's modes of
A MEETING of the Sanitary Board will be held "squaring" with nations and of the policy to-morrow at 415 p.m. of the Powers referred to. The negotiations, between China and Japan in reference Tax shalers epidemic appears to be gradually, to the evacuation of Liaatung peninsula extending in Dealer. Le many an is new cases treaty of amity and commerce have yet to
were reported in that city on the zodi inefast:
and the settlement of the terms of a new
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said to "have put " In Town" on the local
Trusting that you will agree with me as to the Mnecessity of an immediata, settlement of the above.questions and begging your kind assis. tance for the Chamber in bringing them to tha notice of the Higher Authorities.I have the "At the Theatre Royal, City Hall, last night, : honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, the. Willard Opera Company produced the
A. P," MACEWIN, great modern burlesque "In Town The burleigne consists of crisp, witty Dr. O. Sturbel, dialogde which keeps the audience in a constaDE state of merriment. Everything went off like
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Consut, Shanghali circk-work, applause and laughler, was almost incessant, and Mr. Willard may latihaORE OFFICIAL OBSTRUCTION, boards in a manner that was simply beyond 25.
SHANGHAI, June 5th 1895, praise, Nelikes time for ipses peamit a Sir, I baye the honour to inform you that detalled notice of this performance, but Miss M. I have recaívod a. letter signed by thirty-six Howarth, as Kilty Hetherion, deselves special Shanghai Arme, including all the principal ship! mention.". Her pole was a dificult pas, but she ning firms, begging the assistance of the exceeded the expectations of all, Her graceful Chamber is an endeavour to overcome the determined opposition of the Chinese officials to acting and love ballads brought forth many #sscores" and the way the audience received the establishment of a telephone line fram her shows that she is already a favorite with Shangaal to Woosung. For upwards of in the theatre-goers of Hongkong Harry Hall year the Telephone Company have been as Shrimp the Call Boys made
working hard to obisia official permission to res in the Green Room scens. He is a first-class line to Woosung, but the atmost concession comedian and will undoubtedly amuse the public they succeeded in obtaining from the Director here. The danes in the Green Room was li
for the sole use of the Commissioner of Customse, may be added, vary wall done. The falt with the expressed stipulation that no other dancers who took part in fikirled and kicked foreigner aktould be allowed to use it. Though in's marvellous, sibelt stilely corres, manner this permission was inaufficient, it was enough and were loudly and deservedly applauded, to show that there no objection to the las "Boccaccia" is billed for to-night, and despile Atual, but only to patilag any convenience in the
way of the mercantile community, long life and all the prosperity which the mosk | neglected oven" "hen the Wilárds are here, sanguías of his well-wishers could hope for, ikonid draw a "tall ? house,
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placed on board ship et. Hongkong prices, s} be arrived at, and it is possible that when | JAPANEƒE papers report that Li: Shun-yo, who | are, we feel sure, only echoing MY RECORT the heat and mail matter which 'gannot be
the full ausual slowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.
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the time arrives for the publication of the was mired in a plot to muider the King of correspondence between England and Koras, Mas been poisoned, the prison baying Russle and of the negotiations. That led up ↑ wwen given him with 'kle food.
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