THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1895.
A brave men, well disciplined, well commended, country which is no cssentially out of sympathy at the hands of.iha Government that it has a ? "It was in the cop was #ppearing la Ray
and well organised, will certainly not disgrace themselves (plause), and will probably show "that their officers and generate area folly capable in commanding them in the field and of menting regularly organised milltary opposition as the Individual soldiers have shown themselves plucky, endoring and obedient, Ludies and nilemen, on behalf of the P ess and on beha!! of the journalistic profession, of which Mr, Cowen
Is an honoured member, I beg to return to him our hearty thanks (applause). It is a very 'great honour to the profession in Hongkong and the members of f: that from out the ranks of the journalistle profession in this, small Colony a 'man' was chosen to be the representative of the greatest Journal In the world ; and I think I may take this opportunity of returning to Mr. Cowen your hearty that is for the lecture he has given un and for undertaking 'he labour of giving an details of his experiences In the North (applause), Mr. Cowen, in reply, said-I am extremely
obliged to fon for the excellent reception you have given me. I would just like to make one remark in reference to what Mr. Francis said about the Japanese. I entirely endorse, very heartily endorse, all he isi tabout the pluck and bravery personal attributes of the Japa- nese troops; but I do hope that there will not be any general impression th 1 the Japanese aro what I think Mr. Franels vald-áble to hold their own with a well-disciplined Europran | army. It is not a matter of mere persons! arihates in that case;
matter of
ability, and what I tried to make clear is that the Japanese had no opportunity to show xbility, They did not have an enemy where there was any need for shiilty, and in ore or two patable cises they showed a remarkable absence of ability, I do not think the Japanese have any strategical ability'st all. ́I ́do not think they will have any for a very long time to come
(avolau'e).
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the Governor, proposed by General Black, carried amidst loud and long continued applause.
HEADS I WIN, TAELS YOU LOSE,
POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE RUSSO-CHINESE
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The fulcrum of the Chino-Japanese question shifted long ago from the camp to the Foreign Offer: now it is shifted foriber from the Foreign Office to the Busst. The Cole Européene signalized yesterday the first definite develop 'ment of the new situation Chios wants more morey in by Japan for the evacuation of the mainland Russia backs her bill, Russia lends Chfox filteen millions sterling 15. But Rasta, not being quite so flush as she 18. generous, barrews these same millors from complaisant Pails. The loan is to be issued by the Borque de Paris et des Pays Bas and the Credit Lyonnais, and It is under the absolute guarinire of Russia, France thus falls into ber true position as the docile mallch cow of Peters burg; fidicus Albion, it need hardly be said, is to be allowed to have nothing to do with it. It is true that there is no Protection in vast financia! operations such as this, nor are the Parislan banks so overlanded with ready cash that they can affail to repulse any English investor who wishes to take up the stack. Even if they were, the English, as financle s, need not despair. It Is stated that one of the conditions of the Rus. stan puarantee is that no other loss is to be lsxged for six months, That may be, but that before long there must be a farther and a much he vier lan is quite obvious. The fifteen millions cover only the extra expense involved fo compensating Japan for the loss of Port Arthur. The mala Indemnity-thirty or forty millions-remalas, not to mention China's own expenses in the war; this must.a" be paid, and China cannot pay it without borrowing. More over, Russle cannot guarantee it, and France cannot supply it. So that the teen of England (or Germany) is certain to come before long, I not easy to boyent Lothbard Street when millions are the counters of the game, Financially, therefore, England has no call to be perturbed. But what of the political side ? Raula has yet to make her reputation an International philanthropist, and she is not likely to throw away fifteen millions out of pore charity. Then what is her security? It is understood that in the first place she gets one per cent. commission, lending at five per cent, to Chins, and borrowing from the Fails banks at four. But this is not security, nor is she likely to undergo the risk of a heavy loss for this profit. In a word, her security will be political rather than financial The Powers that is to be is fluential at Paling In the future are the Powers to whom China is to nwe money. The first, of coarse, is Japan, and Russia by this ingenions streke is to establish anrquivalent position. France, as the banker and attendant of Russia, will get what Russia allows her. But even this advantage can hardly be all that Russia letends. Her ambition In Eastern Sheria has long been notorious, The present Emperor is an amateur. of the Slberlan Hallway, and the Siberfan Railway canot be satisfactorily run to its forminus without a benevolente from China. To reach Wladivostock within the present frontier the line must take an enormous sweep northward. If it were run straight through northern Manchuria Petersburg would be brought days nearer to the It is well known that Pacific Moreover, Wladivostock is only the temporary terminus, The real line in to end at an open port south. wardr-Port Arthor for choice-when Russia bas got it. This is not to impate motives, but only to repeat what the princips! Russian papers are allowed to say openly every day. So that we need look no further than this for the explanation of Rassian philanthropy, But see what it means fa after all rather ghonly sattulaction. The fact remalas that Rola is made
great stroke, and that Russia's exin la to a certain extent England s loss. We cannot help blaming Lord Rosebery for this. He knew that China wanted money, and that Russla wanted paris of China. We are already on excellent terms with Japan; if we furnished her debtor with the means of paying her debis, the excellence of our terms would be mal iplled many.fold, Ose infuence at the Court of China would be multiplied ia propo.tien, Why, then, could not Lord Rosebery and bave gained the
have shown in the cobratliade that awaits
the speedy giver? Up to now Chinese customs
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wat her policy and ideas. A despotic Monarchy with a democratic Republic perhaps may agres is the same way as a barband and wife at different temperaments, an arrangement which, we are told, is necessary for irae connabial happiness. Still, it more than ilkely that France will soon begin.to ask what "quid pro quo" she is to receive for her help. Indeed, the Preas of that country la already beginning to parcel out new French territory in the Far East,
If there could be no doubt whatever in the malter. What the result will be when they find out that Russia is not disposed to give anything In return except ab interest ct four per cent of the loan, we are unable to say. No one yet knows what sctant reward Russle is looking for, In return for her friendship to Chinn. Perhaps her statesmen do not even yet know themselves, except that it is to be used as a lever for сопр pelitng Chios to co-operate with Russian designs. Russia, in fact, may be content to wait
■ dozen years or more before resping any bene fit from this latest move, but it is exceedingly questionable wheiber France will be no palleat, She is essentially & Power which lives for to-day, while her ally lives for the morrow. Raisin is steadily working for a goal in the far future, hat it will not be surprising if France long before that time will have found constancy a dalt game, and broken the bond of friendship asunder.-London Globe.
THE INKPOT INCIDENT.
"PUT NOT YOUR TAUST IN PRINCES."
Thus the Rangoon Timer of the gih July :--- Many of us have, perhaps, read the "Rejected Addresses"; most of us probably have same acquaintance with, or knowledge of, rejected lovers, or experience of their woes; but there are few, we think, who have yet hand of the Rejected Inkstand, the story of which is an Interesting and fastructive that it may be as well to relate it briefly in these columns for the special benefit of all aggrieved persons.
right to expect; and washall not be so near the day, as we seem to be, when it will be a mark of the most honourable distinction not to be a C. L. E., C. S. I, or a C. M. G.
THE FOREIGN REPRESENTA-
TIVES IN JAPAN. Among the many utterances pat late Count Okuma, most by interviewers and published in the calamos of the vernacular press, ons raiber curious statement appeared in the Chus Shimbun of the 27th and 28th ultimo. The semi-ocial Faßin Mall translates the inter view, which is distinely interesting, verbatim
thanly:-
"The British Minister, Sir Harry Parkes, was not a man of learning in the foreiga sense of the term, hat his abilles were such as to quality tim even for a seat in the English Cabinet. He was orginaly a student-intepreter. A man of high courage and digntly, his deeds in Chins won for him the applause of bis nationals. Ameng all the British Representatives that have been in Japan, not one could compare with him. Mr. Trench, for example, who recently went home, was nothing more than a good man, When, pushed hard la
a controversy, be would seem almost ready to weep, and would it with his eye fixed sorrowfully on the table, so that his vfs-d-vis felt reluctant to press the discussion. Mr. Fraser, his predecessor, though learned, was not a diplomat. His abill des were literary and artistic only. Mr. Satow, who it soon in ir ive, can not, of course, he classed with Sir Harry Parkes, but is probably one of the ablest of the British Ministers we
of 1861-2,” remarked the famous singer, Blas at Covent Garden Theatre, Harrison and I wore playing in the last arene, :It was ranged by Flechter. At the end of the duci Ray Basabu Dan Salinat and throws him through a window. Harrison-vity incautiously, 1 tblok—would uso a real dagger In this scene, and one night he really stabbed me in the side,
Luckily I had sufficient presence of mind to pat
and behind me and withdraw the darker I fell, or I should undoub'edly have been killed. As it was it was bad enough, for my doctor said dagger would bave pen-trated my lungs." that had I not been well covered with flesh the
A cynical monarch once declared that every favour be bestowed made ten men furious and one man ungrateful. The knightboods bestowed widening the area in which such honours may on Mr. Henry Irving and Mr. Waket Besant, by be looked for in fature, will add considerably to the perplextiles of the Misisters. The Time has suggested that the name of Mr. W. G. Grace might well have been included to the list of Birthday Honours, and Funch enthusiastically endorses the sentiment
LATE TELEGRAMS. · ́
LONDON, June 281b.. The Cabinet of Lord Salisbury's third Ministry is now complete. It comprises the following members-Lord Salisbury, Premier and Secre tary of State for Foreign affairs; Lord Halsbaty Lord High Chancellor; The Doke of Devon shtre, Fard President of the Chunel!: Viscount
Cres, Lord Pilvy Sal; Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sie Matthew Whire Ridley, Secretary of State for the Home Department; Mr. Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Lord Landsdowne, Secretary of State for War; Lord George Hamllinn, Secretary of State for India; Lord Balloor of Burleigh, Chlef Secretary for Scotland; Mr. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Balfour, First of Commons; Eat! Cadogan, Lord Lieutenant Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Ireland; Lord Ashbourne, Lord Chancellor of Ireland; Mr. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Roard of Trade; Sir Henry James, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster: Heory Chaplin, President of the Local Government Boned The Honourable George Carzon has been *poslated Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affair and Mr. Hanbury, Financial Secretary of the Treasury.
hava barn done at $1.85 per share. Gas Shares fare quieter and a few are on offer. Ropes have found purchasers at $156 and continue in demand Geo Fenwick and Company's RTG steady at $15. Ico share bave changed hands at $81 and $84, at which latter rate farther shares can be placed; an interim dividend of 8 per cent, for the half-year ended 30th June, 1895, is payable on the 27th instant, transfer books being closed now until that date. Other stocks
unchanged.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAIS DUE: Indian (Zightning) aand lost. French (Ozur) 24th Inst.
American (Coptic) 28th inst, Canadian (Empress of China) 5th prox. American (City of Rio de Janitro) toth proz,
steamer
THE Agents (Messrs. Gibb, Livingston & Co.) Inform us that the "Ben" line Bengis, from Antwerp and London, left Singa. pore posterday for this port.
SHIPPING RETURNS.
From 5 pm. yesterday to 6 p.m. to-day.
ARRIVALS.
Framnes China... Tacoma...............
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Mr. Aker Douglas takes office as First Commissioner of Works, and Mr. Lang u President of the Board of Agriculture. These Mogul.................steamer from Singapore. two ministers will have seats in the Cabinet. The following posts in the New Ministry hara also been filled as under Mr. Gerald Balfour, Norfolk, Fost-Master General'; Sir John Gorst, Chief Secretary for Ireland; The Duke of
Vice-President of the Committee of the Consell; Mr. William Macartney, Secretary to the Admiralty; Mr. Gulen Chamberlain, Civil Lord of the Admiralty; Mr. Jesse College Under Secretary for the Home Department; and Lord Selborne, Under Secretary for the Colantes. The Naral Works Bill prated the third read.
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Bangkok. Saigon. Tacoma. Aggregating 6 086 tons register, DEPARTURES. Tasmania coom....teamer for San Francisco,
Newchwang. Nanking Santa Clara. Halloons ..................
Tamsul.
Picciola Fushun
Belgita
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New York.
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Saigon.
11
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Shanghal
San Francisco,
Aggregating 11:778 tons register.
The German steamshi¬ China left Salgon on
True, "Thundeler, true! He stands the test. Unmatched, unchallengeable Best At our best game i Regsite bimi For thirty years to bold first place, And still, dapassed, keep up the pace, Pleases a stout, sport-loving race, By Jove, "Sir William Gilbert Grace * Sounds splendid. Punch says "Knight him!" Patash soft-soip for engineer's fabricating purposes may be made as follows:-Take 20 pounds of absolutely pere, fine, strong canatic potash, dissolve it in an iron or earthenware vessel, with 1 gallons of soft water. Add this have hither had. He, too, was a student strong live to galions of oil, heated to about interpreter originally and acted in the capacitat 1400 F pouring it in a small stream and interpreter for Sir Harry Parkes, Au old resident stirring continually until the two are combined of Japan. killed In the Japanese language, and smooth in appearance-about ten minutes and in Japanese lore, transfator of the Kejikits necessary. The mixing may be done in a well versed in Chinese literature, his knowledge
In the heat that is generated by the mixture in these respects is something very different from den barrel. Wrap it up in. blankets to keeping in the House of Commons last night. the rourh scquaintance that men like myself self slowly combining and torning into soap. have of Wer ein langarges and literature. In
Put it in a warm room and leave it for three We must tam to Hongkong for the original pre-Restoration days, he with Sir Harn Parkes days. The result will be 120 pounds of the scene of the story. That Colony, ifit-in-remark mixed freely with the Palmyo, and Hatamoto,
finest concentrated potash soft-soap, pure, and able for nothing else, is remarkable for the rigour and acquired the pure, high-class dialect of the
from adulteration. A vegetable or animal oll Yedokko. The United States Representative, will do. Pals seal oil for wire drawing and and independence of Its Press—a Press that watches with Argus oyes every movement and Mr. Dun, has lived for 20 years in Japan and lai tubricating is the best, For, ordinary washing, | Warwickshire and Yorkshire 'has resulted in . Bangkok on the 13th Instant, and had fine
Of the foreign when made with cotton-seed ell, the top la both every utterance of the powers that be. Blant almost like a Japanese, natspokenness, sometimes even to brutality, has Representatives now in Japan, the Russian Mint-cheap and good, and, being aseial for machinery purposes, produces a very superior soap for heen a distinguishing characterestic of that ster, Mr. Brown, is the ablest. He gave many proofs of his talents in the Balkan Peninsula, Press,or's certain section of it at all events.
Water. with all its faults there can be no doubt that and he shares with Mr. Wieber, Russian Minlannels, and greasy or stained woolens to cald the colony is greatly indebted to the Press for ster in Seoul, the reputation of being a first-rate many of its most valued privileges, sad, living diplomatist. Mr. Wacher has not yet been much as the Government do, under the very eyes of poken of, but he and his wife make an excep- such a vigilant and unepasing critic, it is impor- tional couple, of whom much will one day be alble that any act, of even the slightest import Seoul, there is no occasion to send a man of such heard. As for the Japanese Representative in Locs! Gaverements in ance, can escape observation and comment.
Ind's, when they high reputation as Count Inouye to a ceed the feel inclined to complain of the criticism later. A fairly clever man that has risen from or the attitude of the Press, could not do student rank will suffice. Diplomacy is not an better than fate a six months' change tok Sir Harry Parkes, even if he never read a ff of learning : it is a special talent. A man Hongkong, and they will return to India with mere Überal and enlightened Ideas volume on International law, bad a special talent of the privileges and the rights of the Press. It that made him the first diplomat in the East," fs to blu Previ, then, that we are indebted for
the story we are about to narrate.
One of the leading and shining lights of Hongkong M. J. J. Francis. Q., the leader of the local Bar. Mr. Francis is a man of fadefatigable energy and much public spirit. These qualities were exhibited in a marked and conspicuous degree during the time of the Great Bebonic Plague that decimated the population of Hongkong at about this season last year. When most of the Europeans, official and unofficial, bad fed from Hongkong, when fell death was resping such a rich barvest as was never reaped before, this noble man courageously and ozflinchingly remained at the post of duty; and wherever duty called or danger had to be faced, he was never wanting there. The Committee which had been appolated to fight the Plagus made him its Chairman and under
acknowledge»
his skilful guidance and never wentying exertions, both officials and unofficials cheer fully worked together, and were soon able to make some Impression on their deadly visitor, When the Firgue abated, or w ́greatly stamped out, the Committee recorded his services in the most magnificent and generous terms; and, at a public meeting at his fellow citizens, resolution was carried bringing to the notice of His Excellency the Governor the services rendered by Mr. Francis, That resolution was in one respect a unperfluous one: for Sir Wm. Robinson was well aware of the_Invalo ble services rendered by Mr. Franels. Hong kang naturally expected that such services would meet with generous ment at the hande' of the Government. But Hongkong forgot the advice of the Sage, which tells "Pat not your trust In Princes," and was doomed to disappointmest. Blethday Hoccurs List did not contain the name of Mr. J. J. Francis, as was universally expected. To the amazement of everybody, an official Individual who played bats emperitvely minor part in the suppression of the pingue, Mr. F. H. May, the Captain Superintendent of Police, was made
■ C. M. G. 1–#bile the one man who above all others was by commen consent singled out among the rest for the ability and devotion with which he fought the Plague the leader of the Campaign, so to speak-was practically left out in the cold. Not quite so, however. Some time later, Governor Sir Wm. Robinson sent Mr.
Francie a handsome
command of the car mounted inkstand by
of State for the Colonies with a letter of thanks for public service couched is the most Battering language. Bet this was like adding insult to injury, and Mr. Francis promptly returned the Inkstand, with s letter fall of Indignation and score, publishing at the same time both the Governor's letter to im making the gift, and his letter la reply thereto rejecting it with contumely. The event bas caused much cechination is Hongkong at the Governor's expense, and people are asking
What will he do with it " Many arm the taggestions which have been made for the disposal of thai Inkstand ; we will venture to make one on our own behall. Governor Robinson should return it to the Coloniai Office at Downing Street and request.
that
may be preserved amongst the archives
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Mexico 11 regarded as the most productive country in the world. In most parts two crops are possible each year.
It is estimated that grea'er quantlifes of gold and silver have been sunk in the sea than are now fo circulation on earth.
During last year no fewer than 6,336 persons met with accidents in the streets of London, about a tenth of whom owed their lojuries to cycles.
The costliest for is that of the sea otter. A single skin of this animal old last year in London, fetched more than £200. It was six feet long by two feet wide.
Wheat can he grown in the Alps, at an elevation of 3,600 feet; in Brazil, at 5,000; In
the Caucasus, at 5,000 in Abysstula, 10,000 in Peru and Bolles, at 11,000.
Professor Max Maller knows eighteen different languages to the extent of being able to speak or write in any one of them, and a considerable number in addition less perfectly.
General Lord Wolseley is greatly Interested In the temperance movement la the British Army, He says there never has been a time when there was so little drunkenness among „sold'ers as now.
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Among the recent patents is one for en boresboe having finely divided particles of hard meal embedded in the wearing face of the shot. This forms a very light shoe, [of considerable durability,
In Lancashire the death rate per 1,000 for children under 3 mont's old is 382, for children Fatween 3 and 6 months, 24”, nd for children between 6 months and a year, 180. Apparently as many as 8 out of every to children die before becoming year old.
It is estimated that the number of Jews lo London is between 100,000 and 120,000. There are 15.964 Jewish children attending the London Board. and Jewish Voluntary Schools of the lower graden, so that the total number is prob ably not far from 200,00%,
SOLITUDE -Here is an extinct from tba prospectus of a hotel, published in a newspaper at Bernes Weissbach, in the Bernese Ober land, is the favourite place of resort for these who are fond of selflade, Persoon in search of solitude are, in fact, constantly flocking there from the four quarters of the globs." Nota Bane: | Berne is not in Ireland,
M. Henal Rochefort, whose recent return to Parts after his long exile was the occasion of great popular rejoicing, bas expressed his determination to write book upon London, as soon as he has settled down comfortably It is to be expected that the anthor will treat his subject in a very sympathetic and, probably,
The new Navy rifle is the invention of J. P. Lee, of Connec icat and was recommended by the Small Arms Board after many experiments. Ry many the new gan is bellewed to be superior to to the U. S. army. The Navy rifle is lighter, the Kra-Jorgensen rife which is now supplied
rounds of ammunition than the soldier, and gives thus enabling the sailor to cary so mare
flatter trajectory. The rapidity of fire is very great, five aimed shots being fired in three seconds. The total weight of the gun with the straps is 84 pounds, which enables the sallor to Carry 200 rounds of ammunition. The barrel te 27 inches long, the trigger is at all times under control and there is no danger of accidental fire, while the magazine cilp is the lightest in use. The fire is very accurate at 2,000 yards, while at 5,000 yards the bullet would plerce two or three men in a row. It would penetrate the body of a man at a distance of 6.000 yards. "The barrel is made of nickel steel, which is now so largely used in armuor plates. The resuit of the test of the new Lee gun have been so satis factory that it is expected that the national guard may adopt it in some States.
A CAMPHOR FAMINE,
INTERESTING FACTS FOR FORMOSA MERCHANTS,
At cricket, Marylebone beat Cambridge by an Innings and 17 tons; some additional interest was taken in the match owing to Grace, Juulor, the 16th instant, and had fine weither throughout playing on behalf of Cambridge. Middlesex beat the passage.. Lancashire by 3 wickets and Essex defeated Hampshire by 107 Tons; the match between The Norwegian steamship Frames left draw.
weather with light southerly and south-westerly winds.
His Highness Prince Navulla Khan had the honour al dining with the Prince of Wales at
4th July. Sussex defeated Kent-by forty-five runs, Somerset defeated Hampshire by 183 runs; Varkable beat Essex by seven wickets; the
bridge won the odd event in the University games between Sarrey and Middlesex and Not tingham and Derbyable were drawn: Cam
Marlborough House lazi night.
sporis.
The m-tch between Marylebone Cricket Club and Oxford has resulted in a draw.
July th.
. Earl Latham has been apuafated Lord Cham- berlain; Earl Pembroke, Lord Steward; and Earl Onslow, Under Secretary of State for India. Sir Henry Fowler proceeded to Windsor Castle yesterday for the purpose of being invested with the insignia of a Knight Grand Commander of the Star of ludis. At the same time the Order of the Crown of India was conferted upon Lady Fowler.
Mr. W. Donnavica has been selected as the Radical candidate for Bow-in-Furness at the forthcoming General Election.
COMMERCIAL NEWS,
HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.
Hongkong, July 20th." Mr. Erich Georg in his Weekly Share List irined at noon to-day states t
Busines has been very quiet,
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK, RETURNS, Kattan
in Kowloon Dock; Lungtsing Hongkong....(2 Sfshan
Cosmopolitan
Captain Kach, lelt Banglese on the gt's Instant The Stamexe barque Charean Wattana,
bound for Hoogkang, Stargbal, and Wladivo- stock.
THE "ST. PANCRAS." The remainder of the crew of the wrecked steamer St. Paneras, together with the master, Capt. Young, arrived at Singapore from Labuan by the Devonhurst on the rath fratant. The axle of the St Pancras and the remains of her cargo will take place on July 26th, at Singapore, Messa. McAlister & Co. being the auctioneers,
In their circular, dated Menila, roth July, Messrs. Warner Blodvett & Co, BRY-TG- British barque Highlands, 1,124 tone register, which railed from Ilolls on the 25th ultimo for Delaware Broskwater, with a fall cargo of sugur, took ground on Con Bank and returned to Hello, Surveyors considered the damage sustained to be triding and recommended that the vessel
Inst should probeed to see. Our
ndricon are to the effect that the crew objected to continue the voyage, and that it was possible the reisel might come on to this port for morn.. thorough survey and possible repalin."
The news that the price of camphor was pound every day, as the result of the recent was opened weak on Monday with sellers at 18a per advancing at the rate of a penny or two per BANK SHARE-Hongkong and Shanghais
The twin-screw launch Conadongo, owned by between China and Japan, and that England cent, prem.. the London quotation having and the Continent were threatened with some dropped to £43, and speculators being dissatis. Mr. Rodrigars, went out for her frat trial trip on thing like a camphor famine, esused consider-fied with the proposed dividend of 25 shillings, the 29th ultime and her owner was more than able alarm in London. That this should be so in their purchases being based on a rumoured pleased with her in every particular, but morg not surprising, seeing that camphor la an article dividend of 10 billings per share. The market especially the draft which was an important 1 éven facher under the of daily consumption, used as a medicine la became weaker day by day, and on Wednesday factor and was
guarantee. She stiained a ́upeed of 23 knots. diseases from the most fatal form of Astatic shares could have been procated at 178 per cholera to a mere cold in the hand. Its value cent. prem. A better feeling, however, has set The Covadonga was specially built by Messrs. 2 a disinfectant is thoroughly established. to now, and with the quotation in London Gee. Fenwick & Co, to run on the river Apr Beyond this, its use has helped to check the baving gone up again to "£433 10 £44." in the north of the Island of Luzon. Capiala spread of Asiatic cholers. It has been tried in steady demand has set in for shares, resulting Lawrence, a Brilsher, was delegated to take her Naples by the famous Dr. Rubint, whose testle in purchases at 179 and 180 per cent. prem. (and scross to Manila, but owing to the Spanish a small lot at 182 per cent. prem.) for cash, regulations the launch could not be dispatched mony to the merits of camphor as a cure of cholera has never been disputed. In the great market closing strong with buyers at 180 per without a certicated Spanish captain. A chelers epidemsle of 1854, he administered cant. prem, while holders demand higher rates. telegram was sent to Manila for an officer to
come and take her over and as soon as the guy. camphor, taken fotersally, to 400cbolers patients, A few Nationals have been sold at $17. every one of whom recovered. Procter, daring MARINE INSURANCES.-Chlon Traders have and festive typhoons have gone tato winter the abolera epidemic in Liverpool in 1865, treated been booked at $60, $70 and $69, closing quartern she will be d∙lven at break-neck speed
Acrom the briny occas to Manila.. 123 cholera patients with camphor, and there firm with a small inquiry at the latter rate. were but three gases of relapse. The drug Vangtures have been done at 895, but more are has indeed even more beneficent properties obtainable. Staite changed hands at $19, at
JAPANESE LIGHTHOUSES. than the general publié “are' aware of. A which rate they are wanted, sellers demandlog
The Lighthouse Department's spaval list of large denies in the drug says the present Sigt. Unleas, Cantons and North Chinar Lights, Buoys, &c. on the coasts of Japan shows
the following 1- unprecedented demand for it is due to the fact unchanged.
Ist Order Lights ......................me 13 that more camphor has been sold for fatura delivery than is at the moment obtainable, and that the stock on hand does not exceed four or are thousand hundred weight.
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FIRE INSURANCES.-Chians are quiet, and a few could be got at $83. Honkongs have found purchasers at Sura) to $115 and are steady at the higher figure.
The greater portion of our camphor comes SHIPPING A few further sales of Hongkong, from China and Japan. Before the way it was Canton and Macho Sieamboat shares have been cheap, but as soon as hostilities were began the reported at $318, at which rate the market price went up. With the close of the war the closes firm; the half-yearly meeting takes place manufacturers thought camphor had reached its on the 3rd
day of meeting. Indo-Chinse are top price and must recede, so they did not te-day it throat, transfer books closing from increase their stocks. But it turned out that held for higher rates, holders refosing offers of Chica and Manfias · havo. they were wrong, and those who delayed baying 347 and 8471. had to pay a higher figure for car phor, the improved further and $55 is obtainable. price of which, like that of everything else, in Douglases bave been fixed at $50 and 351, regulated by the relation of demand to supply. and there are not many shares to be had now. Camphor costs today from 7 to 8 per case China Mutuals unchanged.
辘 but of a hundredweight i
ARO the few years
· REFINERIES. ~~China Sugars contiope in de- and at a former period even mand at $104, and I also hear of a sale of he has several times expressed to his Parisian reached £20% friends his particular admiration of London should not advance beyond the vary moderate MINING STOCKS quiet. Small lots of Panjom and of Londoners.
figure it stands at now, which is not excessive Some extraordinary statements 10 to the compared with what it was in former years
and the attitude of the Board Camphor is dexter in China to-day” thần ravages of
16 case that c^ate 27.161 here being sold of the Leicestershire County In recent meeting Connell, England. The disse brakes ant on
Imudatory manner, as, since his recall to France / miles touched 19then 1820 rosson why'the urión" "Lukons at Set,
have changed hands at $5 per share, and the
market is quiet but steady, pending farther
露
and
3rd
4th
5th
6th
11
0.
Staff and Beacon Lightships.....
II
99 II
Light
VIVAL 9 war 40
There are in addition 44 buoys and boxCOME, and several new lighthouses are in course of construction,
Y
On the conuis of Great Korea the number of 1fghthouses, beacons, buoys, etc., total O
SLAM'S SHIPPING RETURNS.
The Customs returns of skipping for the Port of Bangkok during the year 1894 show the number of vessels entering that port to hare been-
SAILING VESSELS.
No. Tonnage. Cargo valued, 13 17,369 $ 38.991
950
aws from the mine, Charbonnages wanted British susretasen. In
1810. Now Balmorals have been sold at $5.00 to 35 per share. On the 18th instant the follow German
of Agriculture in seimiion thereto, were made at | LandoPet 1, therefore, that there is low I fog overland telegram- was received by the .
Stamerenellyok
28,198
3 1933
1
STEAMERA,
31 10.551 497
10,113
6,635
171,376
German
Total
***NEW
2,183
id
52 51710 . 1,049.491
9 8,742
3910
516 414,583
9 925
65 $12
816,191 58,892
17,088,450
It would appeß to-day than is necessary ta, Talyses from Port Darwin Have resumed Norway & Sweden of the Colonial Office and handed down to the farm of a Mr. Warren, at Arnenby, and not | camphor fo posterity as # Tee Rejected Inkstand," It will only the cattle, but human beings and all klods meet the requirements of the manufacture Balmoral Mill is running on ore from Queen'
mining operations, output steadily increasing:........
Junks o there serve the useful purpose of teaching succeed of animals were attacked. The farmer and and when the Continental buyers begtá to ing Colonial Secretaries that there fa a limit to sixteen men were all ill at one time, one man purchase. heavily,. It is more than likely that there is not sufficient water available to sus ali and Chinese finance have been England's the foolishness which they after exhibit, and dying at the Leicester Infirmary. A woman in camphor may fetch 12 or perhaps even 14 the machinery's at the lower level Grant's British 358 388,314 #14-787.742 peculiar care. If this loaz should affect the that, when that limit la reached, it is only human passing the plagae-stricken spot was siseg by a case. A good deal of camphor is held by a tunnel has cut reefs, ore is good and will pay
It is understood, Oliver's Freehold Battery, crushing for the French............... customs, then the Government's inaction will nature to iura round and kick.
We have not related the incident without died from anthrax. Cats, dogy, and birds, I syndicale, who, however, Wikączała, price, sufil-public, before we do repairs to machinery," | Dutch KOKTEINITARI
fly Red
also died neighbourhood Jurn out ruinous indeed but this we hardly
sell to manufacturers at a think possible. In any case we ought, set to a purpose. It has its lessons for us in India
camphor to carry on their business. But Jelebus have weakened, shares changing hands Norway & Sweden 34 24.305 Another phase of humorous official faliy Mincantes sede, is the delego of mar a Biel much too tigens to oto cam or they did not a 1930 to 33-15 per into beds Hallan work at once and secure a preponderance in and Barma. There is much of a sech farther financial arrangements & Chlon in all Governments, and lo that respect precise. A strange notice emanating from the have, and could not now obtain, will suffer, sold at $4.10 to 64-25, market closing galeter
with a few shares affering At $4.10 per share, will inevitably be driven to conclude.-Pall the Indian Office and the Colonial Office British War Department was lately published. Should warm summer bring dysentery or
DOCKS, WHARYS AND GODOWNS.-Hong- Mali Gazette.
may be regarded as interchangable terms. It had referenes to the Indian eviablishment, I cholerà la England, the demand for the do kong and Whampoa Docks arequlet with sellers SCOTT's Emalion of Para Cod Liver Olf with What has happened to
to Mr. Francis of and in it it to wald
will be play, great.. Camphor has been nearly OTHER VIEWS OF THE BIG LOAN.
frequently occurred to Lieutenant-General Frederick Denser all abished by the Chinese, who are greatly at 104 per cent prem. A fair number of Hang. Hypophosphites, is a combination of two most M. de Witte may be complimented on having equally deserving men la India: the un- Plowden, Madras Infantry, since deceased, is demoralised by the results of the war, or by the Yong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Com valuable remedies, in a palatable and easily taken a leaf out of Lord Deaconsfield's book by oficial. has shouted, the official bee reaped referred to the Unemployed Super Production by paning a lay, that the camphor-47, and but very few shares remain on offer at strengthening properties, most valabad the Japanese, whose Goverment have restricted the pany's share have been taken by culperts at digested form having great healing and List"
The fatuops, stickling for forms which sunt" | Erres shall not be cut down but only tapred. It that rate. Wanchais unchanged.
Consumption and wasting diseases. Read following I have found Scott's Emulsion of great beneill in the treatment of phibisical and scrofalous diseases. It is extremely palatable and does not upset the stomach-thue removing. the great difficulty experienced in the administra tos of the plain oil. D. P. KENYA, L.R.CS, Surgeon, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Any
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Lands have been done at $99 and 8591, closing steady at the latter rate. Kowloon Lands with ont ingsley, and area West Points are out of favour at present. Other stocks under this MISCELLANEOUS.Green' falanda wanted at
bis brilliant stroke of iscued polfiical finance, the reward, and even among the official com Since the latter stateszián startled the world of || munity_themselves, one labours and another Gance and pallites by buying up the shares of resps. Social prejudices, vested interests, power that notice forth is amusing to the avaraga | will take the Chẳngsa meren or eight months to LANDS, HOTELS & BUILDINGS-Hongkong the Surz Canal wholesale, no instance of the ful influences, are supreme at London, Simula man. It may be bracketed for absurdity with prepare the new crop of camphor for the market, successful welding of those two skies of modern and Calcuțin, and sterling mail-mesit that the work of a complier of lists of births, marriages, camphor-making from the gum being a very He has been marked with such cleverness and depends on its own exertions for a reward and deaths in Brittany. He saw it to curtly as tedious process. The gums has to be washed percipience as this raising of the Russo-Chinese seldom, too seldom, meets with recognition. If having departed this life, "Francine Le Tartu, did spread in the sun to dry, and undergo ether loan. Once mere has France been made good human vanity wese less great, and, if many bachelor, ao profession, aged four months," treatment. Camphor-making is not a regularly bending uncharged, use of by her devoted friend Russia, It is hard more men were equally prompt and decided in Mr. Charles Sanilay (who, by the way, married,|| organized isdastry, but a monopoly of certain to see what benefit the former country is to resenting an Insult in the way that Mr. Trarels granddaughter of the celebrated actor, Charlen tribam in China, some of whom are now.im $10. A. B. Watson and Company's have found Chemist can supply it-Sole Agents for Hong derive from the alliance, but, of course, she may has done, unofficial labour for the public good Kemble) relates that he once met with an rebellions,agning ins Geyeromseni,-81. Jamie's | buyers at 89 so ita, but more shares ary freely kong and the Empire of Calan Watkins
ain some pleasure from joining hands with n ) will probably covelyg (hat siaquait revognition | novidoni on thratugawkicle novely vinded SINITY"
went fun jawaguch | pffered or ing basayʻrate Honghang Bireting | Cey Honghong-helduk