oday's Advertisements.
HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.
COMPETITION.
"HE SHORT RANGE CUP and SPOONS TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), the 25th Instant, over the 200 and 500 yards distances, under usual conditions. Firing to commenclug it 3.45 P.M.
HANDICAPS :-Until farther notice, points as follows will be allowed to the Mustial-Henry Rifs by the L.-M. and M.M. Rida and Carbines.
At 200 Yards (7 Shols)... polat.
...3 points.
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Handicaps have agala been thoroughly revised, and a list will be sent to Members so BOON possible.
F. SMYTH, Hoborary Secretary.
Hau kong, 24th April, 1896.
STOLEN!
Nigeed has been
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CANTON LOAN BOND COUPONS,
TOTICE is hereby given that the Under- Informed by the Treasurer of the Province CHANG JEN-CHUN that the COUPONS of the First period of CANTON LOAN BONDS Nos. 3.2313.243 Inclusive; No. 3,382 (- 1,388 Inclusive; Nos. 10,761 jah 10,774 Inclunve and No. 10,776 have bren STOLEN. The Pablle are therefore warned against advancing Money or Purchasing COUPONS having these Numbers.
JAMES W. CARRALL,
Commissioner of Customs.
Custom House, Canton, 22nd April, 1896.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896.
Intimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY, .--.
HONGKONG.
AERATED WaterS.
SIMPLE AERATED WATER.
SODA WATER.
LEMONADE.
GINGER ALE
SARSAPARILLA,
LOCAL AND GENERAL,
Sixrxam pases of plague to-day, H.M.S. Pigmy left port today bound Yokohama.
THE TIDE of Colonel Holdich and the Survey Officers who accompanied him on ́the recent Famir Boundary Commission have bem specially for acknowledged by Her Majesty's Government, the Secretary of Stato kaying recently directed that their thanks be conveyed to the said officers. Major-General Gerard received a letter direct from the Marquis of Salisbury, acknowledging his excellent work.
H.M.S. Rattler, which was stationed at New chwang daring the past winter for the protection of the residents of that post, arrived at Chemaipo on the 22nd instant and proceeded to Shanghai. Art. What? Another Vanisher? Yes, even so. H.M.S. Alacrity is at Chemelpe; the cruiser A Farsee who pulled off a big prise in the Edgar and the gundent Raffler are at Shanghali || Manila. Lottery the other day (with a ticket the Peacock la at Bangkok, the Pigmy at Swatow Bought outside the Umits of the Colony 1) and aid the crußer Rainbow at Nagraki.
who "planged" la camphor and goodness THE annual prise distribution of the Victoria knows what else, is reported to have skipped English School will take place in the City Hall between two days, leaving "writs, weeping to-morrow at 11.30 am. His Excellency the widows, and all sorts of anxious inquirers-behind Governor has kindly consented to distribute the him. priats.
RASPBERRYADE, &c.where in Ceylon, the only people rather alow to
Special terma to HOTELS, CLUBS, Mes
Any complaints should be addressed to får Manager.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED..
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A COLOMBO paper says :—The bicycia is every
taks to it being the ladies. But their acquiescence In what is now not only a pastime bat the "fashion," wll, of course, only be an affair of time.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS AS made under the constant supervision of a duly qualified Engilah Chemist and will bear compa- THE Victoris Recreation Club will give a |-rison with the best English Manufactures.
smoking concert in the Club Gymnaamin at and 9 po. to-morrow, 'during which Ms. E. D. other Large Consumers.
Sandurr, who is leaving the Colony, will be presented with a souvent from the members. Tickets may be had from the Steward, ABUT 3 o'clock this morning fire broke out to A cockleft on the ground floor of No. 15, Cochrane Street, occupied by a joss-paper dealer. The Fire Brigade was quickly an'the'serne und rec- ceeded in confining the flames to the one floor. The remaining portion of the house was naaccu- pied. The premises were insured in the Northern IDITADCO Co. (Mestra Bradley & Co., agents) for $1,500. The nilgin of the fire is unknown. THE DOW Valerinary Inspector for Penang arrived at Singapore from Calcutta a few days #go on his way to Penang. He la a Sikh and graduate of the Lahore Veterinary College. Surely, this "vet" has gone to the wrong post, for goodness knows we have much more need of his services than have our friends in Penang. By the way, it is very strange that whils Mr. McCallum, the Secretary to the Sanitary Board, was at home on tears in 1894 carted off thousands of antives, and recently, the Black Plague broke hero out and
while our only "vet" is at home on leave, the
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ALL these are selected by our London House, 6-ROOMED bought direct at first hand, limported in wood
MOS DESIRABLE HOUSE, No. 19, CAINE ROAD. For Particulars, apply to
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Every Variety in Colour, Stripes and Figures..
ORDERS
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THE MITSUI PUSSAN KAISHA, No. 9, Queen's Road Central.
Hongkong, 20h April 1806
FOR SHANGHAI,
THE Steamship
THE
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"PEIYANG." Caplan Th. Lehmann, will be despatched for the above Port on TUESDAY, the 28th instant,
14 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, noply to
SIEMSSEN & Co. Hongkong, 74th April, 1996.
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"MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS.
FOR NAGASAKI AND KOBE. HE Steamship
THES
" SIKH," Captain Rowley, will be despatched for the above Forts on WEDNESDAY, the 29th instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, annfy to
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DODWELL, CARLILL & Co.,
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bong. 24th Apri! Reb
#MOGUL LINE OF STEAMERS.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
SS. "SIKH,"
FROM SINGAPORE.
HE abore Steamer having arrived Con. THE
signees of Cargo are hereby requested to. send in these Bill of Lading for countersignas
tute, and take immediate delivery of their Goods
from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel
will be landed and stored at Consigases' „rink and expense,
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co., -
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Hongkong, 24th April, 1896.
"GLEN" LINE OF STEAM PACKETS.
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON AND
STRAITS,
THE Steamship
*'" GLENGARRY," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, at Kowlooo, whence delivery may be obtained,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before Nogs To
DAY.
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Cargo remaining undelivered after the st May will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance has been affected.. Consignees are requested to present all Cialmıs fot damages and/or shortages not later than the 8th May, otherwise, they will not be recognised:
All kroken, chased and damaged Goods are to be left la the Godawas; where they will be examined on the goth fhstast, at 11 AM...... Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
Agents, Hongkong, n4th April, 1997.
and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all Inter. mediate profits, and enabling us to supply the best growths at MODERATE PRICES.
PRICE LISTS,.
with Full Detsfis, to be had on Application, PORT alter removal should be reated a month before us. 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 Wixes of very superior Vintages. All are trua Xeres Wines.
CLARET.-Our Clarets, including the
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| Catile Plague swept off the Dalty Farm Col's valuable herd 1 MORAL: never let the "val" or the "sec" go on leave,
PRISIDENT Cleveland has, according to the Fthco Chronicle, not succeeded in increasing the foreign trade of the country since his retura to the White House. As a matter of fact the total of the Imports and experts was $150,473,200 lest in 1895 than for 1892. But if he has failed in this particular he has succeeded in another. He has managed to increase the interest-bearing | debt by the sum of $262,000,000 slace the 4th of March 1893, and will probably make the amount of the Incrente $353,000,000 before ha retires into disgraceful oblivion in 1897. These facts, rays the American paper, hardly bear out the ante election prediction of the Democrats in 1892 that "fear years more of Grover would put us all in clover," but they are worth dwelling upon if for
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New idea for annihilating criminals evolved, says the Sydney Bullists, out of the inner conciousness of a sugar-boller Gently place the patient in a vacuum pan, six strokes of the pung, and whe-e-ew | Chemically examine the exhaust for traces of the immortal soul. Chinaman was committed for trial to the Ar the Singapore Police Court recently," a Antises on a charge of stealing a tia of tobacco, Twenty-five previous convictions were proved agalast him. He has been sent to prison aleven tlines for gambling, eleven for theft, twien for falling to find sureties, and once under the provisions of the Crimes Ordinance. He has been nineteen years out of twenty-four in geol The electric bicycle lamp is expected to prove popular addition to the cyclist's equipment, It is of two candle-power, and an ingenious reflector throws a remarkably powerful beam to a considerable distance ahead. An alternating current is supplied by a tiny magneto-electric machine, which is delven by a friction-wheel TELEORAMS (o the Deli Courant, giving'Acheen | in contact with one of the bicycle tires. The news to the trih Instant, report another engag-slightest rotation of the bicycle wheel causes ment with the enemy at Blish. Thọ posts there the lamp to glow. - and at Lamkunyit war relieved on the 8th instant, with the loss of aloe killed and thirty wounded. The relieving force, on returning from Bilul, came agala under the enemy's fire The loss of the troeps amounted to one killed and ten wounded. Remour says that a trader of supplying Dutch military uniforms to the at Kosta Rajah has been deported on suspicion Achinese. Attention had been drawn to this traffic by the fact that, the other day, four Achinere, disgalted as Dotch soldiers, murdered Dutch officer. They were killed on the spot by the armed police. Report has it that affairs have so gone from bad to worse in Acheen that it will require almost superhuman strength and energy to set matters right there.
THE Battalion (Rif: Balgade) Regatta will be take place at Bay View on Saturday, the and proximo, commencing at 3 p.m. :—
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The following is the programme :-
(1) Race for six-gated Gigs and Cutters, Dís- tance, xl miles; open to one crew per Com. panyol Royal Artlitery, Royal Engineersand Rils Edgade, and one crew from each of H.M. ships in harbour; borrowed boats not allowed, Prizes-$21, $14 $7, Race for boats belonging to H.M. Ships in Harbour, Distance, få milles. Prizes-$10, $10, $5. Battalion Shield Race. Open to one crew per Company Rifle Brigade only. Distance, mile. Prizes-Battalion, Shield and $ar 814, 37.
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(4)
(5)
or 3.
Race for Scratch Crews, Battalion only. Distance, x mile. Prizes-815, $10, $151 No man to compete who rowed in avants Race for diagheys belonging to N.C.O.'s and men of the Battalion. Distance à mile. Prize$10, $5, $3. The Conditions are- Four Boats to start in each ayent or no second price.
Six Boals to start la exch event or no third prize.
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Boats for Grat event to be at the starting point, walch will be marked with a Red Flag, at 3 p.m. Bosts for the other events to be at starting point on conclusion of previons event.
Prizes will be distributed on the Committee
launch, on conclusion of event 5.
Torpedo Depôt will count as one ship. THE Honourable Don José dos Remedios, a
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Messrs Thoerner and Stüpp, Jr., arrived heru yesterday em roufs for San Franciico, and last night very kindly gavo a representativo of this journal ao account of their experiences whilst walking from Lisbon in Chittagong. The first named of thers two gentleman is accredited by the San Francisco Examinar to, "do" the whole world on foot and report his experiences from time to time to that well-known news. paper. Mr. Siupp le a young German who became so enamoured of the Idea of circling this sphere on foot that he joined Mr. Thoerner at Cologne, and their pecsent fatențione are to go hence to Nagasaki and walk through Japan- to Yokohama and thence proceed by steamer to San Francisco.
Mr. Thoerner commenced his long pedestrian tour at Lisbon and walked through Portugal to Madrid and ad over the Pyrenees to Bordeaux, A DISPATCH has been received at Calcutta from thence to Lyons, and after having visited the Secretary of State notifying that Her Majesty the Mediterranean littoral branched off has approved of the proposal that a new medal should be struck to commemorate the military into Switzerland and Belgium, and thenics operations which may take place from time to on to the Rhine, where his comrade Mr. time in Indis, or on the frontier, for which hitherto Släpp joined him. They walked through the India Medal of 1854, has been granted, being granted, with two clasps to be in terms of their hospitable reception in the Viennese Her Majesty has also approved of a new medal. Germany and Austris, and speak in glowing scribed "Defence of Chitral, 1895" and "Relief capital. After a brief sojourn to Vienoa, they of Chitral, 1895"; the former to be Issued to did the right bank of the "Beautiful Blue those who formed the garrison of Chitral and Danube," visiting Pressborg, Gran, and Boda. the latter to those engaged in any of the opers. tions except the actual defence of the place. The Fest, and their recollections of the guy. medal will be-styled the “India Medal, 1805," | Hungarian capital appear to tally with those of An Army Order notifying the grant of the medal everybody else who has had the pleasure of- ", will shortly be listed and steps will be taken in staying in that delightful clty. Thliher they this country for the preparation of dies, but the medals to be Irsued to tabops will be struck to proceeded to Temesvar and Szegedin and on to India in accordance with the practices which has Belgrade and Bocharest and alter quitting the been in force in recent years in regard to› the. | #Romany Capital” continued their walk on medal of 1834.
to Constantinoplo. They appear to have met
IN an editorial note Thi Sanitarian, spanking | with unarual courtery and attention on the
of the sanitary condition of the city of Brooklyn, banks of the the Bosphorous and, to have condemas what it characterises as the abomin able practice of feeding the dust of disease had a very pleasant rest at Therapia. From garms of every kind to the people, which there they took steamer to Trebiasade, where obtains throughout the city in default of well- they arrived the day after ope of the most appelated markets. The sidewalks of the streets appalling massacres of Armenian Christians are the places of display, for marketable food ever recorded. These gentlemen tell us there of all kinds. Meats, vegetables and feudis of were everywhere in the streets and houses all klods are a part of the stock in trade of al- the most ghantly evidences" of the Inhuman, most every grocer in the city szd many other |-butchery of the day before, eight hundred corpses storekeepers. From the time of the opening of lying about in every direction telling their owA their stores to the time of closing them, their story. The Austrian Consul kindly extended his food supplies are displayed on the sidewalks, and protection, to the two travellers and Insite the dusted throughout the day with horse-manore portals of his hospitable Consalate they found two and every other kind, of diseare-dust silent in hundred and fifty helpièss women and children closing time these supplies are plied into the End taken upon bimmelf to protect from the the air, from cables to tubercle bacillur. At whom the representaites of the Austilan Emperor
| stores without regard to cleanliness or order as nameless horrors of a izustical Ottoman mob, they are to be tumbled out again the first thing From the scene of these crualles they want in the morning; and, needless to add, the atất | to Batoum, thence to Tials and Baka, within the stores is quite sufficient for the like and across the Tarkoman deset by the dusting of everything served over the counter.") Trans-Caucasian railroad to Askabad, The dark recesses, closets, staw-holes, and everywhere being most hospitably entertained cellars of such stores are thus loaded with dis by the Russian Authorities. Then Meshed case-bearing dust, more or less puix-acible, was visited, where the Resident Director according to the conditions of darkness, maistore (Mr. Steward Ferguson) of the Imperial Bank and temperature, tainting everything that is of Persia received them as his guests and sarved therefrom.
through this gentlemen's Iz fiuence the Persian Ecthorlifes provided them with an armed escort, and in all truth it was no
barely was necessary, as they were outside the city walls before they were "ret upon by the fohabitants, and 'stased, However barely escaplog with their lives. their experiences wille presing, through Beloochistan were pleasant enough exceptiog for the difficulties of commissariat, dates, raisins, and bread constituting their daily menu for six weeks. Korrachee was at length reached and from that port to Bombay they travelled by steamar and so were able to recuperate. After
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priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine no other purpose than to get the truth of history fines within the last six months for the aforerald Mutsu, Minister of State for Foreign Ausi sojearning in Bombay, where they were received
product of the jalce of the grape and are not artfficially made from raisins and currents as is generally the case with Cheap Wines
BRANDY.—All our Brandy is guaranteed to be pure Cognac, the difference in price being merely a question of age and vintage.
WHISKY.-All our Walsky is of excellent
quality and of greater age than most brands Ho the market. The SCOTCH WHISKY marked "E" is uolversally 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 Spinris to be genalué when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorized Agents at the Coast Ports.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 10th January, 1866.
DEATHS:
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AMandalay Civil Hospitsi, on April and, of lles contracted on survey work connected with the Mandalay-Kunion Railway. Jouw DARWIN HARRIE, son of General Harris, C.B. At Rangoon, on 19th March, AR Woon, merchant, and head of the Chinese community; #ged 45 years.
The Hongkong Telegraph
stright,'
The following in the programme of the "smoker" to be given la the V.R.C. gymnasium to-morrow
evening +-
PART I.
Bates,"
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1.Over tra... „Bering Band, H.M.R." Centurion.” 1-500....H. B. Bridge. "Out on the Deep" 1-Song (Canis)....R. H. Bentley, "Gallery and
02. M. Dansamberg. 1--Dost (Galter und¶,
-2:-2›hineem sad. B. Joseph Mandeln 1-5ong Dr. Meadows, of Ques, of the Earth"
****Sang E, Mizow, "Windelad."
balls for " „String Band, H.M.8. "Centurion *
PART II.
1-Year (Comle.........C. T. Hoblem, "As more fancy
dection.MINAL
La-Tertuko...Kning Bend, H, MS. “Carmeli," song mom.C. Chlapla, 31-Duet (Mandalls, Robinson and E. Joseph
and Oultart. 11. 7. Lammert. "Oh Promise 14-Bong (Comic)...R. J. H. Bentley,, “Talna áll
lavender. Dr. Meadow, 11-Yong (Combo)...CT. Sabina. "Tablar zt.-Fi...........String Band, H.M‚§. " Centuriots,"
14-Zither Solo..........E. Mirow.
This programme should draw a very full house, Tickets for the concert, to cants each, can be oblined from the Steward,
Bangkok "Vanishing Act" artisie, who was clerk to Mr. Rovslag, of Bangkok, is reported to have been arrested in Rangoon, Remedios, alias J. de Silva, is "wanted" for forgery. WHAT enormous profits the Chinese must make in selling oplem to blacks and others! A Winton Queensland) Chinamın has paid over £70 in
offence, and still ha cónilases to flourish', An Australian weekly 'says that the financial rain of the Cabass in the last revolt threw nearly all the property in the island into the hands of native-bom Spaniards, and, as the latter have now to bear the whole burden of taxation, they sse beginning to hope for the success of the targets, doth the whirligig of Time bring bie ravenges.
MR. CONSUL Longford, who has been Lansferred, from Japan proper to Formoss, is thus referred to in the official Japan Mall of the 13th instant :—Mr. J.,H. Longford Jeli Taklo au Sunday, an route for Formoss, whither he proceeds to take up his duties as British Consul. Mr. Longford travels everland to Kobe, thers to embark in the P. & O. steamer Verona for be conveyed to Formous by a Brith man Hongkong. From the latter place be wil of-war. Their Excellencies Marquis Ito, finister President of State, and Count who visited Mr. Longford on the day preceding his departure from Tokle and con- versed with him at length an affairs in Formoss, audience at the Palace before setting out, but were desirous that he should be received in the Emperor being a sufferer from influensa, and the Empress's time being exceptionally occupied. In consequence, this project could not be achieved. Il caust be passant for Mr. Longland to have received these signs! PHILATELISTS will be interested to learn that marks of Japanens esteers and confidence, os yet another new line of stamps will shortly be the eve" of entering upon his new functions, avaliable. This time it is the Transvaal He will doubtless be required to deal with many | Government that is coming out with a fresh set | compilested questions in Formora, but that ho of postage stamps. The following are the will handle them ably, bir oficial career has | changes proposed :—14, grass; rd, like; 25,, already furnished ample proof. Capable officials raw sterna; zid, blue; 38.. cermina; 40., welcome rather than shrink from opportuahiles yellowish green ; 6ð., reddish vialet ; 18., drah ; | to distinguish themselves, and Mr. Longford has 28, 61, violet: 55, burnt sienna; ios, slats; | the further satisfaction of knowing that an' fs, dark gray.
extensive field now offers for the exercise of the investigating faculty that he has already mo con spicuously displayed.
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by His Excellency the Governor, Lord Sindhurst, they went on foot to Madras, visling Porns, Madras they took steamer to Calcutta and Hyderabad and Bangalore en route. From thence walked to Chittagong vid Darjeeling. kindly received throughout India by all clauses, These two tourists appear to have been most and they remark that, in spite of the almost Intolerable hest, their recollections of that country are of the pleasantest. . Owing to being pressed for time they were unable to carry out their original intention of walking from Rangoon through Slam to Saigon and China to Shanghai, but judging from the malthude of difficulties they have encountered and the hardships they havA cadergone they can scarcely regret having to alfer their plans.
must require a good deal of pluck and a like amount of determination and endurance to carry wish Messrs. Thoerner and Stipp pleasant out successfully. We need scarcely add that wa continuation of their wanderings, and God-speed, HESSRS CAMPBELL MOORE AND
In the spam available it would be impossible to-day to go into further detafis of their long and Ar the Kabin gold mines a new lode has been
perilous journeys, but ae wo understand they intend to give a lecture in Hongkong our readers discovered, fifty feat in depth, says the Sidne Free Press Messrs Clarke & Co. have taken THE South African Republic, better known asing from their own lips an account of a trip that will have probably an early opportunity of heat- over the mining rights of Messen Leonaidi, the Transvaal, was origtuzily formed by a | Magliola, and Grastl, in the gold mine situated |.section of the Boers, who left the Cape Colony at Nam Koh. The Watana Mine is being in 1833 for Natal, but quitted that colony on its Vivanta.worked, and operations are canted out on an annexation to the British Crown. In 1852 the extensive scale. Nearly two hundred coolies Independence of the Tvanivaal was recognised and a large staff of European miners are by the British Government, and the Constitution engaged at the mine, while half a dozen of the State is based on the "Thirty-three Europeans are prospecting the French Com- Articles passed May and 1849, and the pany's concession at Bakanan.
"Grondwet," or fundamental law of February 13th 1858. April 11th 1877 the Transvaal was sonered by the - British · Government, gainst which, in December 1880, the Bacts took op ́arms, and a treaty of peace was signed March 3181, 1981. According to the convention and by the Volkeraad Dctober 26th, 1881, self-government was restored to the Transvas! so far as regards interval affairs, the control and appointed, with functions analogous to those mangement of external affairs being reserved by England as superalo. A British resident was
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The annual_general meeting of the share. holders in this Company was held in the Hong- kong Hotel at 4 p.m. to-day, dr. A. Fockeara presided, and there were also present--Mer W. F. Moore, G.-H. Potti, A. Fonseca, A. O'D Gourdin and T. F. Leon, Secretary,
The notice calling the meeting barleg been read,
will, with
your There is
Our poor old Town Clock has been completely A GOOD fala is told in the Westminister Budget “ef colour" for several days. Age and long of a country labourer who once fell asleep in residenca in a trying climkia have evidently told church. In the course of his sermon on the fature We, the vicar said, "All who wish to go to heavily upon the poor old thing, but erraile as it heaven, stand up." The entire congregation, with has been, few, if any, of its most ardent admirers the exception of the asconicions siumaberer, imagined for a moment that it would go off to a stood up at once. Now then," said the preacher, fit of "high-strikes of something of that kind, "all those who wish to go to hell, stand up Yet, alas i even that has come to pas. At hymn-book, and the sleeper, aroused by the
and accounts have been in your hands Just then an old lady happened to drop a large
The Chaleman said :—Genilemer, the report quinter to 4 pm, today, the long, the hand of noise, jumped up from als seat, the congregation of Consul General Charge Affaires, for some time, and the T.C. was quen whizzing round just as though literlog the while. After gaslog around him Another convention with the Government of permission, be taken as read It wanted to throw itself on to the Clabacantly for a minute or two, he gave went to Great Britain was signed in London February nothing to add to the report except that the verandah or fall on the roof of the General welln' on, parson, but sayhow you and 1 stem Bib, by which he hate to be known been amicably soiled and we have lontand
the following remarks dunno what we're 27th, 1884, and ratified by the Volksrand August Tittle difficulty with Mr. Robles Breast Post Office, and, dropping, like a thunderbolt to be in the minority. What the parson replied the South African Republic, and the British premises back at a reduced rent, and it elegraph through the roof, rest on the head of the to this sally is not mentioned.
ruseralaty cumildersbly restricted. Instead of u to siart a Indian baledressing saloon there, which F.M.G. just to remind that official that there is THE telegraph line from Taungyl. In the resident, the British Government is represented I am certain will prove the wisdom of the step, a limit to everything--even in the endurance of Southern Shad States and north of Fort Sted. by a diplomalle agent, The countiinton his The shop is working as well as possible.. If „what too years ago would have been the most man, to the military post of Keng Tang in the been frequently amended down to September, any further information la wanind Mr. Moorn magnificent, most regulge, and powerfully Mekong Valley has been made a permanent 1894 ppreme Legistative authority in well give it." creatucted tows clock in the whole world, But midway completely fitted up,
with the necessary telegraps offices vested ta' parliament of two chambers, each of
answar to Mr. Gourdis, Mr. Moore stated The...ling | twenty-four members, chosen by the districts, that at ther kiready had the necessary fixingy. Joking apart, who is to blame for the fregularity from Taungyl to Mongnal (Mone) post has BNC passed by the second chamber do pot it would coat very little to fit up the place, and of the great T.C.} Il wo haves Town Clock therefore been pulled down, there belog na become law until accepted by the first, that, be felt certaïs, that it would reralt in a that is to be of any walus the general public further use for the latter... A telegram can Members of both chamberé must be so greatly increased business in the ladies' depart-, it must be regular, kept in thorough expats, he now be sest from Rangoon of Kendalay years of ass, possess fixed property, profera manté wall lighted at night, and the works must be direct to Kang Teng post thent any difficality, the Protesisat religion and new have beenMt. Geordin pointed out that many of the bad As" Keng Turg, In the Mekong Valley, in the convicted of any criminal offenses; Tha" dabis, written off could be collected, and cleaned and oiled at least once in every five pilscipal walltary outpost in the Easter frontier members of the first chambers are elected by the mentioned that several well-known paisant la years ! If nothing else can be done, surely of Berms, it will in fature be the head-gaar. first-class burghers, those of the second chamber | the Colony owed bille that had been standing suficient funds for the clessing and repairing Calengsen will remain the head-quarters of conjointly, each four years, Tiriciclas burghera dadded that no further credit should be allowed ters of the Chief Political Officer, Wille from and by the first and second-class burghers. for two or three years. At his suggestion it was THE VENEZUELA IMBROGLIO. of the TC, could be raised by triposing a $5 per te, French Political Agent on the western comprise all thale white residents in the Republic to these persons, and that steps should be taken The-Timer correspondent: at · Washington | aunum poll-tax on hapless bachelors.
of the Mekong, Monsieur M. Dapur before May 29th, 1875, or who look an detive to collect entranding accounts. statep that the Venesuelan Question remains in
is the present Agent and will hold the appoint part to the war of independence of 1882 and The Chairman then proposed the adoption of dangerous stage.
Ithe import and account, which was seconded limit. The French are, saya the Rangoon Tímár," burghers comprise the naturalized
by Mr. Parts an reported to be very active on their aide of the populations and their children from the wa Mekong Only with granted the curently Lined the domain widowed access to the valleys. Owing to the three official mambers Secretary of State,
by the French authorities at Chiengren are for £ve years, Kanisted by a council consimila mccallans navigation which the Mekong dires, the Commiradant Generaced the Hisu kaszán, French, river, steamers, anelly, modum up: „Besprennand two morbidniniai mamanborn clected - Värinen A
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1896.
REUTER'S MESSAGES,
THE CRISIS IN MATABELELAND. --
LONDON, April and. News from Buiswayo dated Tuesday afternoon tates that the situations la serious. Fourteen thousand Matibeles are with three miles of the town, and cloven hundred friendlies have
come le
The effects of the Brislah: Bista Book have bocu fax ipas favourable land was expected.
Negotiations beween Graat Britain and "Anserign 'ara af n stunämlik
LI HUNG-CHANG. * Li'Hang-chang käs arrived at Peft Said, 【žas I whence he embarks for Ideja direct,
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