Coday's Advertisements.
NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
STEAMSHIP "VICTORIA," FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKOHAMA KOBE AND MOJI.
HE above Steamer having arrived, Con
signcor of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersigna- tore, and to take remediate delivery of their Goods from longuide.
Cargo Impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk, and expense:
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
Avents.
Hongkong, arst April, 1896,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAIWANFOO.
"HE Company's Steamship.
"THALES,"
Captain Robin, will be despatched for the above Ports TO-MORROW, the 22nd lastant, at Noon,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
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.DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. "Hongkong, 2011 April, 1806.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW. THE THE Company's Steamship
"NAMOA,"
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports on THURSDAY, the 23rd Instant, "at Daylight, and not as previously notified.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK" & "Co.,
General Managers.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
Hongkong, 21st April, 1806,
LIMITED,
FOR TAMSUI,
THE Steamship
THE
"FOOCHOW,"
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Captain Blackburne, will be despatched on THURSDAY, the 23rd lostant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agent
Hongkong, 1st April, 1805.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR AMOY AND TAMSUI.
THE Company's Steamship
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"HAIMUN," Captain Bathurst, will be despatched for the Above Porta on THURSDAY, the 23rd instant,
it 10A.M.
For Freight ar Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers, Hongkong, 31st April, 1895.
CHINA NAVICATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR TIENTSIN.
THE-Steamship
"NANCHANG,"
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Canlalo Finlayson, will be despatched on THURSDAY, the 30th lestant.
"For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents,
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Hongkong, 213 Avell, 1896.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
FOR. LONDON, vĩa SUEZ CANAL
HE Company's Steamship
THE
"PALAMED,"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1896.
Intimations.
PRICE LISTS,
with Fall Details, to be, ked sa Application, PORT after removal #ban'd be vested a moath before use. When required for drinking at once it should be ordered to be decanted at the Dispensary before being sent out. SHERRY.-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner Wines of very superior Vintages. All are true-Xeres Wines
CLARET.-Que Clarets, including the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be, the genuine product of the juice of the grape and are not artificially made from raislas and corrents as is generally the case with Cheap Wines. BRANDY.-All our Brandy la guaranteed to be pure Cognac, the difference la price being merely a question of age and vintage: WHISKY.-All our Whisky th of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands
In the market, The SCOTCH WHISKY
marked "E" is universally popular, and is pronounced by the best local connoisseurs to be superior to any other brand in the Hongkong market..
We only guarantee our WINES and SPIRITS to be genuine when bought direct from is lo the Colony of from our authorised Agents at the
Coast Ports.
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MR. ScHxvrch, formerly Russian Militer Tokio, has been appolated Russien Ambar- sador la Madrid.
THE KOREAN AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA.
Nadasaki, Apell 15th. The Special Envoy appolated to represent (o King of Kors at the Coronation of the TM POLIANOVSKY, «iddent Interpreter of the arrived here to-day on board a Ruslan miRussian Legation in Tokio, has been transferred of war, and proceeds to Europe" vid Cant to Seoul, whither be proceeded on the oth lase / with sword-cuts and gun-shots, and cleared the | in the. Shanghai papers, the Branch will be
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LOCAL AND GENERALA SOUTHERN contemporary reports that for the ceremony of the Tear's coronation 813 battalions THE USS Dairoil saxived Ti Haskow on te of Infantry, 36 squadrons al cavalry, seven 13th Instant.
soindos of Cosṛacks, and fourteen batteries of artillery will be concentrated in Moscow.
On the toth inst, Herr von Brandt strived t Tientsin, from Peking, su rowis to Shanghai,
M. MICALEEF, butcher, Bangkok, was fined Tts. ELEVEN cases of plague ware reported durin, 120 and costs, on the yib inst, for slaughtering the 24 hours ending noon to-day. Of these, fr bullock without Brst having it inspected by the cases occurred in Victoris, three in the harben: Government velerinary surgeon. For similarly ore in Yaumat, one'ia Wong-sel-chong, skiing two animals on the 3rd inst, he was
fized Tes. 130 and costs, one is reported to have "come from Canton," A MARINE COURT will be held to-morror THE Japhosse residents of Shangbal are reported morlag, at the Harbour Office, to favestigat to have brought out a paper which they call the the circumstances connected with the strandia: Shanghal Fiji. The paper, which is printed in
of the Brillah steamer Exs on Samonn islani | Japanese characters, will be devoted in the main on the 9th instant, as reported in these column to commercial matters, not to "geegees,* of which there are so many in tralulng 'In tha
at the time.
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Ar the end of last year the centenarians living in the prefecturn of Tokushima (Japan) wen as follows:-1, man and 4 women 100; 4 wome 101 years old; 1 woman 162 years old ; i ima: 103 years old; 1, woman 104, another rog, an: yet another 106.
THE Mitaul Bustan Kalaha is reported to AVI obtained from the Japanese Government tht contract to control the monopoly of oplem 11 | Formass, and a responsible man is to be sent
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Model Settlement just now.
Tax exportation of rice, says the Courrier de Saigon, continues to go on rapidly from Saigon. | Despite the pessimistic views held by many on this year's export the trade continues satisfactory. In fact the export is expected in exceed the
figures of 1895, though whether brisk basine will contlaus to the end of the season would be difficult to rny,
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. to the island shortly to make the necessary pre- MR. Li Shen-yo, grandson of the Tai Wan
parations for opentog búaloess.
Kas, who it will be remembered was imprisoned THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hangkang, foth January, 1806.,
ACCORDING to private advices from Canton it last summer for plotting to overthrow the King appears that the plagas is raging-in that city, of Korea, has been "doing" the Government the deaths sumbering toy toy a day. Sc Offices and factories in Japan recently, through had is it, in fact, that the professional guides, whethe good offices of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, near a living by 'showing tourists the sights and at latest accounts was on his way to Yoko. the fair "City of Rams,* now besitate to take suka to inspect the shipbuilding yard there. visitors to certain localities.
BIRTH,
At Shanghal on the 17th instant, the wife of R. H. ELIAS, of a son,
MARRIAGE.
At Shanghai, on the 15th Instent, at H.B.M. Consalate by Sir Nicholas J. Henne", Consul- General, and afterwards by the Rev. C. Hodges M.A, at Trially Ca'bedral, JINDY ELEANOR, eldest daughter of George Jamieson, H.B.M.'s Consul, Shanghai, to W. BRUCE ROBERTSON, of Shangba!.
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GANO robberies seem to be of common occur- LATEST News 'from-SHANGHAI, rence in Slam. At Aynıkla ̃on the 4th lust, a
Sbangbal, April 16.b party of eight men, armed with zill-v, carried off
Mestri
AP Werth and D. Pakotilow left 400 ilonis and other property, besides severely Shanghal on the 15th instant to open the weanding two persons. They were not caught. Hankow Branch of the Rumo-Chinese Bank. On the gth, ta Bangkok, a gang raided a gold The effices will basituated in Mosers Molchanoff, smith's shop, severely wounded sine persons Pechaidoff And Co.'s premises, and, as advertised place oat. No ancats! Hongkong can't come ready to do business on the 27th Inst. within cooey of this.
Mess Buchholster & Co. bare concluded a H. ISAACSON W. Carlson and F. Bartolette, continct with Lla Kan-yi, Viceroy of the Liang- three hunters from the saling schooner Altonang, for the erection of a mint at Nacking, arrived in Yokohama on the 13th, says the falde the city, for silver and copper coinage, Japan Herald. They report that while cut capable of turning out a hundred thousand silver sailing they lost sight of the ship in a dense coins and one million copper cash a day, The feg some 30 miles to the N.E. of Kinkasan, and silver coins will be dollars exacly equivalent after being out six days, all of that time without to Mexicans, and fractional currency, and the watch and for three days without food, they dollars will not have on them the statemani that? managed to make land to the vicinity of they represent 717 ef's twe) ; and the fact points to the dollar gradually superseding the last Sagabama. The Japanese authorities showed them many courtesles and were the means of as the unit of the Chinese currency. At the preseal price in silver of copper and spelter, one their reaching Yokohama..
ikonsand sark of the ordinary ilas cost consider- ably more than one doller, and the size of the new cash will accordingly be reduced. It is stlpointed that, foreign syer to ba permanently employed so that there may be no doubt of the purity of the silver colzage. The machinery is to cuma from the most eminent makers of mlating machinery to the world, Mests Heaton of Birmingham, for whom
agents. Men Buchheister & Co.
SHANGHAI, Apill 18th, The real sathor of the new Chinese Postal Scheme is Mr. F. Corsten, civil engineer, of Nanking and Shanghai. He suggested the scheme to Chang Chibwage: la August last, and was instructed by the Viceroy to desw apregulations for service for the thres pravinces,
The schem under Chang' jarlsdiction. has since been extended to the whole Empire, and Sir Robert Hart, Bart,, has been put at the head of it by the Emperor.
THE Hon. Treasurer of the 'Alice Memorial and Nethersola Hospitals begs to acknowledge with thanks the undermentioned donations to the fands of the. Hospitals :—
Per Fang Wa-chin;—
Shlag Wom Fang Wa-chu Yen Wo
Tió Six-tran LI Yashing... Fong Pong..
Wei Yik-380p...
Chow Shal-po..
Yeang Yuk-linssiur Woo Sheong-chow.....................uinene:
Wong Tatlong momcoviarie Tang Kit-sang
Lum Tsin-shing
Pan Shung-115g.....
$100 100 50
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Intelligence of a seriousanirage upon foreigners at Talchau, about twenty miles north of Chin
decision in the Madras "Kissing Care" has lang, has just reached us, which may possibly says Truik, now been pronounced by Lord George Hamilton. It may be within the recol explain the alarming, and otherwise inexplicable, lection of many leaders that the case was fully reports which have be a corrent in cative circles as to an attack upon a foreign vessel and tha desit with in the columns of Truik in 1894. murder of two persons Mt. Fergusson, of the Sargean-Major Clarence Smlih was guilty of the Billah and Foreign Bible Society, and Mr. indiscretion of asking a married lady for a kiss, Walker, of the Nattens Bible Society of Scot and, left Chinking a few days ago in which she refused. He apologised to her hus- band, and the husband accepted the apology: their missionary house-boat, the Shaftesbury, but nevertheless reported the matter to the
for the Tatchan district. The place has a bad Madras Goverment. Without anything in the
trial or enquiry, and, in fact, reputation amongst foreigners, so the precaution shape of
was taken of notifying the local officials, brough without even informing the accused of the com
the British Corsal, of the intended visit. When plaint that had been made, the Government called upon D
Dr. Smith to resign, under pain of the boat arrived at Talchau, however, it waE Attacked by an immensa mob, and the crew "¿limisnál~ThisTM monstrous sentence was ap-
Ferguson and Walker led to paclly the people, Secretary of State refuses to reverse his pre-us without avall, and in the midst of the proved by Sir Henry Fowler; and the presentseeing the state of affics deserted. Messa decessor's decision by reinstating Dr. Smith in
ever, Lord George directs that Dr. Smith shall be retired with a pension of £297 per annum, and for the benefit of his family under the Indian Service Family Pension Regulations, Exquisite
On the rib fast. Mr. L. C. Hopklas, H. B. A MEMORIAL, signed by 28 Aricciations in India, has, according to an Indian contemporary, been Consal at Shanghai, held an inquest on the presented to the Viceroy praying that the Govern- the Service. "Solely as a set of grace," how riot the former gentleman 'was shot through body of a European found the previous day ment may pass a short Act in which the Lord's
Japanese consulate. The Corner arrived at the
public holiday, on which none can be com- Captain Gro. F. PARSON, late of the ship W. Ravensberg, inte second officer of the Indo- | scept in such particular cases as the Act may | ACCORDING to the Bangkok Timer of the 11th The disturbines was a local one, but for some
At Vancouver, on the 20 of February, 1896, conclusion that the body found was that of Mr. Fpelled to work or to attend to official duties
Earnock, aged 58.
At Kinklang, on the 8th Instant, CECIZ ARTHUR LILLWALL, the beloved son of Clara and Edward ROBERTS, Chinese Cestomas Service, aged 20 months and to days,
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floatfog in the Whangresiver opposite the Day shall be declared both a legal dies mom and shali bo allowed to contlose his subscriptions #oldlers strived, but he was powerless, and the
China steamer Fooksang, who disappeared on the 9th February and was supposed to have fallen into the river. The Jury agreed with shis view and found a verdict #ccordingly.
At Hankow, on the 14th Instant, ANNIE EWE have to thank the Hon. Secretary to the GREEN, the beloved wife of J. T. Green, Imperial Amoy Horticultural Society for a complete report Marine Customs,
of the annual show of flowers and vegetables which was opened there on the 14th Instant and is described by the Amoy Ganzite as a complete success. Mesdames C, Hedley. Nicholls, Broadbent, Hempel, Bayd, Malles Brown and Kemper and Messe C. C. dos Remedios, Mr. Unwin and Mr. Qur were the most ful exhibitors, The exhibits of vari-coloured
Hangkang Telegraph
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1896.
TELEGRAMS.
REUTER'S MESSAGE.
MATABELELAND, ·
LONDON, Apill 19th. Twelve thousand Matabeles threaten Balu; WATO.
The town is defended by six hundred men who are confident of being able to hold the
Captain Williams, will be despatched as above poslties.
on SATURDAY, the 2nd May,
For Freight of Paysage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
A gents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1856.
Fatimations.
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HONGKONG.
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Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MELTts and other Large Consumers.
Any complaints should be addressed to the
Manager: Hongkong, 3rd May, 1805.
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(From Japanese Papers.) ITALY, JAPAN AND CHINA.
TOKIO, April 1ath.
The Italian Conral-General at Shanghai has Informed the Shanghal Tactal that under the mosi-favoured-uation clause of the Treaties Italy will demand the same rights as the Japancae at Soechow.
THE "I. G."
NAGASAKI, April 12th,
Sir Robert Hart has received Instructions to organise a postal service throughout the Chiness emplic.
EARL SPENCER.
Tox10, April 13th... Earl and Counters Spencer were to have had an audience of their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress at to o'clock ible mom- ing, but owing to the liness of the Emperor, Esil sau Countess were nccompanied by Sir E. Satow and Miss Lawther.
cinerarias was a particolarly attractive feature
of the show,"
DR. Reavers, Fleet-Surgeon of the German Asiatic squadron, died on board the Augship Kaiter in Yokohama barbour on the 11th Instant. It seems, says the Japan Mati, that in the early hours of the morning, having | occasion to, take some medicine, Dr. Reavers inadvertently poured out some corrosive sub- Hmate in solution and drank it off. He immedi- ately applied a stomach-pump, but it was of no avall, and death speedily supervened. The sad and sudden death caused deep regret on board the Kafsir, and throughout the feet. On the rath the remains were faterred la Yokohama The coffin Cemetery with full naval honours. was covered with lovely wreaths. A number of officers and men from H.M.S. Edgar followed In the funeral procession.
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HESSRS Watts and Woods, whose departure for Canton as youfe to Wachowila we recently hated, found considerable difficulty in promueing passports and Transit Passes, the Viceroy put- ting every possible obstacle in their way. How. ever, thanks to the energy of H.B.M., Consul as Canton, everything was ultimately daly stranged and they started up river in a house boat yesterday forenoon.
THE second round in the Fola tournament was played yesterday afternoon between teams captained by Captain Burney and Surg-Major Ede. After a very well contested game the match resulted in a victory for Captain Burney's team, with three gaols and four subsidiaries to three gaols and and subsidiary. The final match between the winners and Captalo Love band's team will be played on Friday.
AT ̈ibe meeting of the Finance Committes of the Alica Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals yesterday, the resignation by Mr. W. H. Wickham of the post of Treasurer, on account of his departure from the Colony, was announced, and a sub-committed to find a succesEDT WAS appointed. The sub-commities” have secured the services Mr. W. H. Whiting, R. N. Dockyard, who will all the post from to-day.
the brad, but fortunately the wound is not serious. Alter some delay an official with ten only thing to do was for the boat to gradually rest, which she did, being followed for miles by the natives, who damaged her considerably, time the missionaries were in great danger,
The matter
now fo the hands of the Brtiish
Consul at Chiakiang, who, it is to be hoped, will forcibly inslet apan Immediate redies.-N. C. Dalle News
SHANGHAI SPORTING GOSSIP. SHANGHAI, All syth.
By this mall forward to you a copy of the Rate Book containing envies for the moelleg which commences ba the 4th proximo. It hai been longer than usual in prepara lon owing to the entries for each event being far more numerous than usual.
inst, His Majesty the King of Slam has definitely decided on a trip to Jaya, but will not leave unill the begloning of sext month. In the meantime Commodore de Richelian has left by the Cerberus for Singapore and Java to make arrangements for the accommodation of His Majesty the King and salte on the forth- coming tour. The C'emmodore will be absent sume twenty days. His Majesty has been influenced in hửa dùchalon by the fact that the rainy season here has of late had an Injurious effect upon his health, and that change for the better supervenes with the advent of the cool weather. The Java trip har, therefore, been wisely decided on with a view to ascaping the Bangkok rainy season as much as possible, The King will travel la The Mahachakkri and be accompanied as far a Singapore by His Royal Highness Prince Bha- nurangst, who le proceeding to Europe. Two Tons of His Majesty and three of the princes will at the same time proceed to Europe,for their education, and be accompanied by their tutors, the second try invariably conämmed the first Messrs Lewis and Carter, as also by Phrag Nal
This year the entrance feen beai the record- Sold and Nai See Sarracks. En route F. Rnearly Tie. 2000. Indeed, so nameroos are the H. Prince Bhenbrengel will stop at Kandy, to visit the famous temple, of the tooth, and, an leaving Europe, will return either und India or the United States,
A yay handsome Masonic jewel was presented to the Hon. John Douglas recently, on bis ratike. ment from the position of District Grand Master of the Scottish Consthation of Queensland, saya the Brisbane Courier. The jewel, a Past District Grand Master's, is of 18-carat gold, constructed in two sections. The lower section. is oval-shaped, and is shout ain. In length by about riis, la the widest part, of gold heavily chased. Round the margin the
The measuring of the poules, although the makes were wonderfully docile, took three con secutive mornings, and some owners, fat more fractious than their pantes, insisted on their candidatca belag measured twice just to try and get an toch off, and thereby less weight to carry on race-days. I understand, however, that
measurement,
Birler that no numbers have been entered la. tho Race Book and the candidates will be numbered only when their names are inscribed. antha board as they weigh out for the respectre events. I have an idea that this may lead to some vexation in the Tore-room, on race days, and the old-time bets of "odds or evans " will hard
be specially worked out on the spar by thore Interested, rome of whom' may become too mixed up to do anything else.
Seventy-one ent:les for the Griffins ought to ensure a good sace, but nevertheless I think there will be a good deal of daylight_between the first and second ass. Black, and White, Falcon, Trump, Detrimental, Iron Mack, Iron- aide, Nigger. Bonnie Rei, Coverapier, Samazar, Chielo and Big D have all done their La goed time, and barring accidents should show wall to the front when they turn into the Straight. I hear there's a "dark'an" in this "swim."
He's not among these named for the all sufficient reason that I have not yet "spotted" bim. Ha Je, known to some of those who are in the know," and ifl can get on the faside track, as I probably shall in a day or two, I'll duly inform the renders of the Hongkong Telegraph. II cannot get the news down soon enough by letter I'll send the Information siang by the electric current.
they had audience only of the Empress. The it are carefully translated into the Korean maps or even Black Plague it is difficult of the lower section of the jewel is the follow stakes ought to enible most of the subscribers
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COUNT ITAGAKI AND THE CABINET.
TOKIO, April 13th. There is considerable disaggreement among the members of the Cabinet as to the proposed appointment of Cannt Itegik! to the Home Office. All but the Premier and Count Matan, it is stated, lusist that Count Itagaki's resigen- tion of his membership of the Jiyu to shall preceda his appointment as Home Minister,
LATER.
Count ligaki bai been appointed Minister fer Home AffairN,
QUARANTINE.
Toxio, Apall 13th. The Minister for the Army has issued fastrac- tions for the soldiers of the Second Division, who are returning from Formosa, to be quaran. tined at Ulloa.
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A JUDGE.
NUGATA, Aptli 13th.
words "Past Dhtrict Grand Mas LONDON is promised another Japanese play, tex, in raised letters of burnished gold. The We have to acknowledge receipt, with many but according to rumour Gilbert & Sullivan interior is inlaid with blue enamel, into which is Inserted the silver cross of St. Andrew, and the thanks, of copies of the first and second larges af need not be tarasy about the possibility of its figure of the patron Salat of Scotland is pricked The Independent, a til-weekly paper published uporeding "the Mikado'" in popularity. In out in gold. The second section is is the form in Seoul, the capital of what has been aptly this instance the songs and choruses are to be of circle, which is surrounded by Scotch thistler, the downs of which are represented by described as “the Land of 'Everlasting Revolu. entirely Japanese, und any one who has hill an
beautifal Queensland opals. Inside the circle is It Is, considering the difficulties that "pportunity of listening to the stralux of nailea Past Masters jewel Both sections 'are most necemailly be encountered in issuing a music fa Dal Nippon will probably agree that is united by a gold, pentagonal star, zandered newspaper in the benighted Peninsular existance in Londan will be bot short. Anything luminous by a large diamond in the centre, Kingdom, a very respectable little Anglo-Koreas more discordant, or mournful, or better calculated The whole is suspended from a green ribben, across which at latervals are bars of gold ornamented with Scotch thistles. On the back sheet, and as the English portions of to give anybody the "blues," toothache, the saman, or eative language, it is conceivable to imagine, that it may, under proper control, be the means of keeping the midic and lower classes fairly well informed of what is golog on la the countries bordering on their ill-governed fatherland, "und | in that way assist in no small measure to remove that antipathy to foreigners,western seisner,man on a pession. uersand eustoms and the deep-rooted suspicion which is born ol ignorance and fostered by that class of mischief-makers, scandal-mongers and adventurers,native and foreign, who thitra only in the dark parts of the world, by pandering to the tastes and superstillens of the powers that be and who make money, some of them honestly If possible, but make it anyhow.
MEMORANDA.
SERGEANT GORDON, who has been thirteen years in the Police Force, and who was seriously injured while at a fire in Queen's Road some months ago, has been invalided and reilver A number of his friends this morning met him in the hilliard room of the Central Police Station, where, after wishing him a pleasant pawige home and a long and happy life in some new post, presented him with a gold watch-chain and trinket, as a token of the esteem in which he
distinct loss to the Force,
Inscription Presented to the Hon. John Douglas, on his retirement from office, by the Lodges of the Scottish Constitution in Queens land, ass mark of personal esteem and apprecia tion of his valued nervices to the Craft from 1876 to 1894"
No less than 140 entries for the Shanghai to the swoops (by the way, don't you unfortunate people la Hongkong with you could go in for swee: la your famous "out-post of a mighty Empire on which the san nevet sata", und so forth, and so on, just as we do in our very own Hitle Republic) to draw a horse for their money, PRINCE HENKI D'ORIKANE, son of the Duc de cren if he "Ain't no use.". It's better to draw Chartres, was the centre of an Interesting "Isme duck" itan nothing at all. After a ceremony in Paris the other day. He bad fellow has put his last ten-dollar note into a recently returned from his overland journey by sweep he feels quite chilly when he hears the an entirely new route from Tonqalú to India, | drawer shout out at the top of his harsh, and had received a public welcome home again volca B-L-A-N-KI from the French Geographical Society in the Among the "subs" there are some "very new hall of the Sorbonne, and was also speedy quadrupeds, and I should not be surprised Awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honour by if another Sir Charles" is unearthed at this the Frealdent of the Republic in consideration, meeting. is held by his comrades. Gordon was of his services as an explores in Vannas, sed
The training season so far has been marked conscientious, good all-round officer, and he is Barmah, Among the distinguished company by most uncharitable weather (jost like you had pretent was the Duc and Duchesse de Chartres In Hongkong last. February), but it has been Prlace Rolant Bonapaite, and a crowded and remarkably free from casualties. The cons enthusiastic audience.. Prince Hearl d'Orléans, quence is that there are more porles "fit" than Our Swalow correspondent writes that the who was received with cheers, began by describ- | riders to pilot them, and many a flyer will there--
fore have to stop in his stall instead of having U.S.S. Verktown amived at Swatow on the ing his journeys along the Mickong in order to 16th inst., and was duly saluted by the forts at ten of the Red River, the-Lake of Tall, and the
reach the Thibet frontiery Next came a descrip..., as many tries for honours as he might,
It appears to me that Messrs Ring, Sandown the entrance to the harbour, the American war Plate of Khampi, a place over which,, an' the and Middy will: bare the Derby to themselves. ship answering at once. Since her arrival the Prince said, the English Leopard had already Ironsides, bandsome black, will certainly late Swalow Recreation Ground has been at the extended its claws. According to an interpreter a lot of beating, predisposal of her crew and the "Jacks" have been all the fine countries. At the conclusion of the among the Stewards. Certainly on Friday accompanying the explorers, the English took I regret to say that a “strike" has recurred playing base-ball on it almost every day. On Prince's address, Professor Jannsen, the end. Saturday last the heat was intense the 18th inst., while attempting to board the President of the Geographical Society, who was phenomenal indeed for the time of year-bat steamer Victoria, the culler belonging to in the chai, announced that, the Society had still the members were not prepared to fod Capt. Irwin, the local pilot, was run down, conferred an him his large gold medal. Then themselves as sheep without shepherd on. M. Roume, on behalf of the Govemment, pre- Sunday moming! Sach, however, was the case, and he and his crew less struggling in sented the Prince with insignis of the Legion of the notice board in the Coffee Room belag the water. The Chief Officer of the steamer Honour, complimenting him and his companions, decorated with the resignations of the whole of men were all picked up, apparently none the their confuge and endurance." They Prince Some correspondence to which the the Stewards worte for their ducking. A Marine Count of Rapsbile for the honour conferred on him, and it is diffenis to balleve that their action was warmly thanked the Goverment of the had taken exception was likewise pasted up, bat
jeopardy'ikin-trip,
diapassi of B'rson
WEDNESDAY,➡22nd April 10 30m-Marlae Court of Inquiry ve standing
of the Ext.
THURSDAY --23rd April.
The judges who have conducted the prelim!- The Share Register of Olivera Freakold Mines,
Lidy closes from this date to the 7th Inclusive.
nary examination of Judge Hori, of the Alzawz District Court, who is charged with having forged an official document, and also with "having accepted a bribe, have found the accused guilty. The case has been remitted for public trial.
NICE CUMSHAWS,
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11 1,5,--English Mall closes, Nosa-Parkawur walls for London.
FRIDAY,--341 April; Naos-Annual general meeling of shareholders
in Campbell, Moore & Co, Lid,
TOKIO, April 13th. Eight Chinese who accompanied the Japanese
· ALL theso are selected by our London House, army to Japan at the time of the 'retrocession of 5.15 pm-Lecture by H.E; Sir William Robla- | promptly lowered a bast and the pilot and his | Mensiaura Roux and Briffauit, of the Navy, on |- the Stewards, including the Clock of the Course t
lactong and became naturalised Tapanese sub-
and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all interjects were rewarded yesterday for their services
bought direct at first hand, imported in wood
to the General Staff Office. One received 20,000
remaining three 3,000'YIN Excli.
son before the Odd Volumes.
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SATURDAY,——25th April.
bewal parts of call,
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