Ca-day's Avertisements.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE.
"HE Steamship
THE
"FOOCHOW," Captale Blackburne, will be despatched TO- MORROW, the 2 th fastast, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Pequage, èpoly to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents, Hongkong. 19th May, 1806,"
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.
(816
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND TAMSUI
THE Company's Steamabip
"HAIMUN,"
Captain Barberat, will be despatched for the above Port on THURSDAY, the art fontani, at Noon.
For Freight or Passago, apply to
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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 19h May, 1896.
FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG AND CALCUTTA.
THE Steamship
"CATHERINE APCAR," Captain J. G. Ollent, will be despatched for the above Ports on THURSDAY, the 1st lastant, P.M., Instead of as previously advertised. For Freight or Passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON, SONS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 19th May, 1906,
FOR SHANGHAI
THE Steamship
"LYEEMOON,"
ΤΗΣ
(817
Captala G. Hedermann, will be despatched for the above Port on THURSDAY, the 21st instant; Et 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
SIEMSSEN & Co.
Hongkong, 19th May, 1896
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THE CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA. TION COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, MOJI,
KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"PAKLING,"
H. Allen, Commander, will be despatched as above an MONDAY, the 27th instant, at`s P.M.
For Freight, &c., apply to
HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co., Agenix.
Hongkong. 19th May, 1896.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY,
*HE Steamship.
THE
"SUNGKIANG,"
· 1841
Captain C. B. N. Dodd, will be despatched on THURSDAY, the 11: instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, roth May, 186,
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Fatimations.
CLARET,~~O¤ Clarets, including the lowest priced, are guaranteed to be the genuine product of life juice of the grape and are not artificially made horn raisins and currents as is generally the case with Cheap Wiser, BRANDY.-All our Brandy le guaranteed to be pure Cogate, the difference, in peles being merely a question of age and vintage. WHISKY-All our Whisky Is of excellent quality and of greater age than most brands In the market. The SCOTCH WHILEY | tarked "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 gennine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the
Coast Ports.
Ir has been settled by the Japanese authorities | A FIRE la reparted to have broken out in Soo-, to hire the proposed railways in Formosa chew on the roth Instant, resulting in the total constructed as private ventures and, not as | destruction of about sixty axilve houses, Government property.
It is reported an apparently good authority that the entire Rusalan flitet han orders to assemble at Chefoo to be ready to take over Post Arthur * 2000 21 Li Husg-chang baseigned certain ['documents in Kaisla.—China Ganettai
Tas directors of the Austrian Lloyd recommend' that the dividend for the past year shall be the same as for the previous year, vis, 4 por cost or 20 florins per share. The net profits for the year 1893 amounted to $30,434 flortos, or 10,000 florins less than in 1894-
A CHINESE merchant from Kores reports that It was rumoured at the time of his departure that should the King of Kores returs to le palace, the Tal-won-kun would take up is quarters in the palace vacated by his nephew,
Bert to the Russian legation.
THE tea inson has opened in Kinklang, the prica of Reeman per 100 cattles being Tis. 19, and large shipments will be made to Hankow la
a couple of days. The lea crop la Hanes is reported to be very had this season, owing to the Inceerant raing, which did much damage to the Te tree..
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Wongkong, 10th January, 180ő.
BIRTH.
At the Windsor Hostel, on the folk instant, the wife of Capt. W. H. WATTON (Phra Nang), MARRIAGE.
of a EOD.
Tax Shanghai Municipal Connell have lessed plot of land near Koka-za village, about half a mile from the point in Pootung, whereon to erect a buliding for the accommodation of plague patients; the isolation het in the Footing At St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, by the Rev. L. Llard, JAMES ALFARD LOWSON, M.B, Cemetery, which was only a temporary arrange to ISABEL JENNIE, younger daughter of Philippment, will therefore be abolished. Relabold Eugene Lammert, Esq.
DEATHS,
At Woosung, on the 30th April, JoszPH SEESSAR, late master aleamer Onzo, aged 41 yULIS.
At Nanking, on the rath May, of diphtheris,
FERGUSON, #ged five years.
A FRESH record has been estabilihed in Amul can travel. One Saturday passengers who had lefi New York the previous Saturday, Jon-
neying via Liverpool, Harwick, and the Book of Holland, reached Amsterdam is time be
THE entrance to the port of Alexandria having been officially stated to be 305 ft. wida and 30 ft. deep, a small (onnageṭaz will be levied on vessels using the harbour, dating from the 30th April, in placa of the pilotage den hithesto charged. "
THE report of the Hamburg-Pacific Steamable Company for the past year shows a balance of $33.371 marks. Of this amount 573,888 matka was written off for depreciation, the balance being canied forward, no dividend being recom- mended.
IT is stated that the English directors of the Suez Canal were unable at their last meeting to decide on the appointment of a director to fill the place of the late Sir Henry Calorafe It in balleved in some quarters that they desire to select one of the Manchester merchants engaged in the Indian trade.
THE SITUATION AT CHEFOO.
མ་ད་ གས་ཡ
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The Chlua Gazette in Its Issuar' of the 13th
ACTING under lustructions from Whang Teotal; the Shanghai Magistrate with some of the mill- Iary authoilies of the port paid a visit last week to that part of the Shanghai where buts and ❘ and 14th gives the following additional details of
he Russian Aggressions at Chefoo >--- enforce their removal in order to allow for the wretched boat are fald on the foreshore to construction of the maloo. A survey was also made of the river frontage, which is to be banded In, and along which some jattles are to be made. THIS afternoon the cathedral, most beautifully decorated, was filed with friends and acquaint- inces to witness the marriage of Dr. J. A. Lowson, the energetic and popular assistant surgeon of the Government Civili Hoaplis, to Mias Lammert. The ceremony was per- formed by Rev. L. Lloyd, with full chore service. The recepilon was held 'afterwards at the residence of the bride's parents. We wish the young couple ali happinesss and prosperity On the rgth April a new masonic lodge, called the County Council Lodge, No. 2,603, was consecrated at Freemasons' Hall, London. The member. ship will be confined to those who are or har been members of the London County Council
MINISTER, to little girl: "Thank you, my dear, and to the heads of department. Sir J. B. Monckton took part in the ceremony, and for bringing me this nica briket pf strawberries.
the Earl of Onslow was installed the rat Of course you gathered them this morning Worshipful Master of the lodge. Brothers Major Mooday morning. I hope you did not pail thems yesterday, which was the Sawbath, you know." Prahy, R. M. Benchcroft, Earl Carring "Oh no, sir, I gathered them this morning, bo, Str J. B. Maple, M.P., the Earl of Donraven,
and Sir J. Dimsdals are among the officers. they wa's growin' all yesterday."
MR. A. F. GATLIFF, R.MLI, writes to The Times calling attention to the absence of any efficient reserve for the Royal Marines, and proposing that every mariae who dees not re-engage at the end of his twelva yram' term should be called on to Join a Mailne Reserve, He should get a better retaining fee than the pittance given to his brother in the line. Mir,
| MANCHR'TER SHIP CANAL-The traffic uslug the Cans! during March was 126,012 tons, sed the receipts £11,516, agulast 81,188 tons and Last in March last yaar. For the three montba the traffic was 194.492 tons, and the receipts £16.984, or an increase of 113.736 tons and 69,768 over the corresponding period last
year.
H. Lawrence Swinbume writes to point out that "there is another method of forming not only a Marlee Reserve, but of making the whole Army, in a senso, a naval reserve, and this is by
infantry man and garrison artilleryman.
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Events have fully borne out the accuracy of our advices of the situation at Chefoo, where the Russians, as we stated on Saturday night they would do, havo canted things with a very high hand, and fealsted upon putting their American agent, Mr. Smith, into possession of the disputed plece of foreshore. This action was backed by the presents of an overwhelming display of force, no less than six Russian warships, lncluding the monster. Furth, the frendada Dimitri Donski and Emperor Nikolat, the Gremlatchy, Bedrs, and another gunboat. It cutions coincidence that the instalment of Mr. Smith in possession of the property to which the Biltish claimed title by right of pro emption should synchronlie with the arrival of the American squadron, consisting of the the Detroit, Yorktown, and Agship Olympia,
fachfar, but the agreement in point of time may be merely accidental. The whole ques tion of the disputed plece of foreshore in Chefoo has been submitted to the British Minister in
Chlox Association with Peking by, the view of protecting British Interests, not only in Chefso, but la other parts of Chios, where similar claims, as our in-
new British formation polots gut, are likely to also at war early data, and herein the Minister has sa admirable opportunity, ef proving his metal and justifying the glowing eulogies which have been showered in-winance upon him by the various British commandiles la
minimise the Importance of the Russian attack the Far East. It is no use attempting to upon British rights involved in the present care, for it is nothing short of a direct challenge by Russia to Great Britain to atsit her position and to maintain her old prestige in Chian. Will the Sallabary government take up the glove? Wa fest not. To "take water is easier and pleasanter just now. Any day we may havOK Russian claim for the right to bulki on or villas the foreshores la Shanghal and all the other treaty poris, and if the Cheloo case is allowed to see something of this kind happen in our time:
We learn by letter from oux Cheloo correspon- end without energetic action we shall assuredly
dent, who is pariicularly well-informed, that up Inst. the to the morning of the rath Russians had not entered into possession of port. We telegraphed on the
ALICE MARY, daughter of Rev, sad Mrs. J. C. breakfast. New Amsterdam," as the original Tax Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Rev. P.K. Fyson, Principal of the Theological Dutch settlers named New York, is thus brought College of Osaka, to be Bishop of Hokkaido, In 1 giving a marino training to every enlisted the disputed si plece of foreshore at that
The Hongkong
elegraph
HONGKONG, Tursday, May 19, 1896.
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
FRANCE AND JAPAN.
LONDON, May 17th. France is segotiating with Japan for the con- clusion of a Commercial Treaty,
THE MATABELE RISING.
within a week's journey of the parent city. »
Japan, Mr. Fyton's name, with that of one other, having been submitted to his Grace by the Church Misalanary Society, The Bishop- Desigante look his degren at Cambridge la 1870 and went to Japan in 1871.
THE funeral of Captalo Stássse took place on Wednesday last in Shanghal, in the presence of a large number of his personal friends and | acquaintances. The service was conducted by the Rev. J. Stevens, who was visibly affected, and who paid a glowing tribute to the good ind On the roth April the steel twin-screw cable Christian quallides of the decossed, which had | steamer Okinawa Maru completed her official obtained for him this regard and esteem of all trials on the Clyde. Salsa spar-decked vessel,
who knew him.
come fom th
A RUMOUR,,supposed to have Tientsin, was adat in Chefoo on the instant to the effect that the Russians and The inhabitants of Bulawayo are returning to taken possession of Klanchan with the elect of establishing there a military depôt and Ost- their ordinary avocations.
log station. As far as we know Russia has at
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THE RAND REFORMERS.
arranged and fitted for laying and repairing ocean telegraph cables, built and engined br Lobelis & Co., Ltd.. Renfrew, to the fastructions of Mr. A. R. Brown, Glasgow, for the Japanese Government. Her dimensions are 290 ft, by 40 ft. by 24 ft. & in, and the trials in sil respects gava sutisfactorily results. The venel has been
Lònd Kelvin's sounding machine.
THE RIOT AT KIANG PIN.
Under date of the 13th fastahe the Klangyin correspondent of the N. C. Dally News sends the following account of the attack upon the missionaries there, telegraphic news of which appeared in our columns in our last issue :--
THE ORIGIN,
alernoon of the 11th to our correspondent miking for particulars or later developments, but up to the present we have had no reply. It is not belleved that the British Government intends to take any serious steps teyond "exquilting," and we would not give much for Meurs Fergusson's claim ever being pushed to pecuniary recognition by any government. But the Chinx Association
on the war-path!
CORRESPONDENCE.
(We do not necerally asdarma tha optolona espesssed by Cowpodents. In this column]
THE ANTI-FOOTBINDING CRUSADE. A FAUX PAS.
The sentence of banishment paned on the present no intentions to settle at Klaucher and supplied with Lord Kelvin's patent compaan and trouble. This man had concocted a scheme by ↑ of your Shanghai moralng contemporary, writing Rand reformers has been confirmed by the suppose the rumour only originated in he fact of three Russian man-of-war having caled at that port on their way to Cheloo-Choo Expres.
Transvaal exescalive.
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TYPHOON WARNING, Senor José de Navarro, Spanish Consul at * copy of the following telegram, received from this part, has courteously favoured us with Manila
MANILA, May 19th.
On the 17th at 7.30 am, the typhoon was approaching Lussa from the north of Bolinao, between paraliste 16 and 17,
LOCAL AND GENERAL. Tax Shanghal Spring Regatta will be held on Saturday slemoon, the 30th May. THERE wer eight cases of plague to-day-four in the city, wo in Kowloop, and one each from the barbour and Canton.
FI broke out at 4 20 13, on the 24th fast, in [the yard `beblnd the Hongkong Irva Works in Broadway, Shanghai. The Fire Brigade were WHEN the Japanese occupied Takso, Anplug on the spot with great promptitude, but one and Tsienu, last year some goods belonging to stream only was fald on, the services of most of foreign merchants were lost, and the foreguts the firemen not being required. Very little demanded compensation from the Japanse damage was done, it being principally confined Government: The Japanese authorities, to the eldes and rafters of the machine shops, now learned from the Motl, have since made while a small quantity of cool, of which there careful investigation lato the circumstance of was a large heap, was burnt. It is believed that the affair, and have ascertained that the lessi'd the Bames originated from some cinders which not arise through any action of of the Japanee, had been thrown from the machine shop into and they have reported accordingly to the foreign the yard. merchants i
THE China Gazette anys :—We have received confirmation of our report published last wek concerning the upsetting of the pre-arranged British naval programma. As we stated at be ilme, ibat programme has been entirely capted TEE Shanghat Horse, Pony, and Flower Show by the progress of events in North China, andwe will be held in an inclosure Inside the Exce
now learn that a large number of the warshbe, course on Saturday, the aged fast.
which would in the normal condition of affies MR. CHINDA, the Japanese Consul-General, left be about departing for the pleasant land of the Shanghal in the Saiko Maru for Teklo on the Rising Sun, have been ordered to get ready to 15th in consequence of the dangerous illness of proceed to the Brighton of China, Chaloo, Insted. his father.
THE China Gostila has sem samples of a $1 not just issued by the North China Railwy
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In relates to the note in last week's Issue as to the appointment of Mr. J. S. Clark au technical adviser to a Shipbuilding Company in Japan it is now understood that the Company in question f the Mitru Bleht Company, of Nagasaki. This Company will build warships and merchant steamers, and Mr. Clark will leave England about the middle of May. The agreement is for three years. The above Company have now under construction a screw steamer of between 3,000 and 4,000 tons deadweight, to be cintred 100 Ar at Lloyd's. Her dimensions ure zoo ft. by 40 ft. by zz ft.—Pairplay,
In my telegram of yesterday I notified you of the rat at this place. Now as to some of the particulars. For the past few days there has been a great number of rowdies collecting here. Those men acted as assistants a quack doctor who has for some time pist been giving u
which he hoped to make a nice squeers out of an through the family who had rented property to us. The matter was settled in such a manner as cerned, but our enersy lost face in the settlersent was satisfactory to the parties immediately con- and he was determlsed to be revenged. Accord. ingly yesterday in that part of the city nearest the mission property a placard was posted stating that the missionaries had two children hid under their bouen. At two o'clock this quack doctor came into the chapel, followed by a great: crowd of Toughs evidently bent on mischief. They demanded to be allowed to refused, the missionaries stating that if the search the place for the children. This was
search were manda the magistrataʼmust do it An attempt was made to "rush” the chapel door leading to the dwelling house, when your correspondent
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TO TRI KOTTON OF THE “Homacoma TuɛronLFI.". SIR-Isca that the Chungking correspondent
under date the sand April, reports as follows s
"The local Anti-Footbinding Society bay now brought out a rendering into the colloquial of Pastor Kranz excellent Wanil pamphlet enttited Reasons against Footbinding.
The
colloquial version has six lillustrations in Chinesa "style, and will doubsienu be of use in many provinces bealdes Szechuan, with a view to which (stc) a large number of coples are being shipped to the Tien Tex Hal Secretales to Shangbai.”
This, tir, was set up fa cold type for the lasca of the North China Daily News published an the gik instant, and it contains, de facto, pro reached us from Chungking for a very long time bably the most important latimation that has
past. And I say "most important" advisedly for if the alleguilon that "large numbers of caples are belog shipped to the Tien Tea Hui Secretaries in Shangbai” be accurate-and thera is reason for believing that it fs-then it importance can hardly be over-enimated, seeing that it gives as accurate information respecting the locality in which may be found large sambers of pamphlets (Pastor Krans Reads against Footdining) which should not be allowed to get any farther then the port of Shanghal for some time to come. Hitherto the Tien The Hot have been working in a very sensibió manner and have no doubt done . great deal of good in a quiet way; and so long as they purses the even tenour of their ways li modus operandi would be objectionable in the an inoffensive manner Interference with its extreme and be fastly and very generally resented. "But in the publication of Pestor Kranz pamphlet and the dissemination at an ancient national custom either wise this juncture of his arguments *gainst Jostläuble? I submit not, and with me many men of the world cordially agres. The limma of this pamphlet with its "aim illustrations in Chinesa style" is, I submit, bound to cause great annoyance to millions of intelligent Chiarse not only in the province of Szechuan (wherein it has, presumably, already been scattered broadcast) but in every provlace of the Empire.
There has from Hime to time been s great, and thoroughly justläsble, outery raised in the Press of the Far East against the "Hauean Tracts," slanderous pamphlets, or pablished
Han
DXEW A FISTOL, stating that he would use it on the first man who sonched the door. This awed the crowd and a determination to carry out what was ald kept them in check. My colleague, the Rav. L. f. Little, with a native assistant went for the magle trate. In the meantime the crowd, now becoming large, was restrained with difficulty. After about an hour and a half the magistrate with about a dezen rasters came. We stated our case to him and instated on a search of the place. He did so, but found nothing. The man who was leading the tropble then came forward and sad the children wars hurled in the back yard. · He was ordered to and them if he know, He made a pretence of looking at various places, then looked up at the fence wall as if identifying the place, walked to the fence, and began digging under some shavings, and rubbish like" One possessed. In a few minutes, to our horror, ha of paper money, with a representation of the Steam Navigation Company Invite tenders for mating. Being ordered to open it he did so. threw out a package roughly done up in coarse Lanchow Bridge on one side sa light blue, and £300,000 zi per cent, debenture stock, part of revealing a child about eighteen months old that A NATIVI paper sizies that the Magistrate on the reverse in red a view of the law b00,000 authorised to be laswed. • The stock had been dead between fifteen and twenty days. Chow, of Taichow, has been dismissed the sarween Shan-bal-kwan and Tientsin, showing a lil tank fart passu with the £500,000 already The official turned to the missionaries and said
-"How long have you had that thing here? You vice owing to the several anil-Christian riota bit of the Great Wall. The notas are parable, calating, and will also be covered by a floatlog see, you all see, that it is's child. "What have to besser at any of the offices of the Company charge on the general undertaking. On 30th you to say for yourselves? We could esly 1427 that have taken place in that district.
THE Gazife hears that an expectant Magistrate The first issue is lifted to 20,000 and is madi September lost the Company possessed ships, answer, of course, that we knew nothing of fi. to take the place of cash and serve as a cd property, and funds invested to the value of up. The package was then sent out through the Hwang of Klang-su bas written la tothe Vicaray
crowd, that had grown to several hundreds, Liu Kanyl asking permission to construct anvenience in paying the hands, and probably alet,wards of A3,700,000 steilog, after deducting | When they saw "and comprehended what itong of the grounds for denouncing Chap
to prevent "squeezes,"
all expent Kabilities and scceptances. The meant-so confirmatory a proof of all their Hat and designnting kis effusions als electric-light works in Soachow, but it is not knows whether the scheme will be favourably | Ter 8h[pmaster's Society in February urgel o, /average distribution of dividend made to the reports and beliefs-suck a yell of rsgs went up foreign Eterature is to be found in
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THERE were no less than twenty-eight steamers
and two sailing vessels waiting to be discharged in the Pelle on the gis last. This looks sesions for the Paino.
entertaincl.
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Administration. It is a very pretty example
the Board of Trade the security of taking a Ir is bellived in Japan that the death of Colonal effective steps to diminish the avoidable North, the head of the English syndicate con caused by the bad storage of coal cargoes.. A trolling the camphor market, will have a móti | was given of twelve.vassals abandoned at so,
in latious effect upon the Japanese and Formosan sevar which put into part with cargoes shit Camphor irade. In London a sharp declios han and 45 (including seren steamers) is
the coal cargoes of the vessels lost ameually already tiken place in prices since his death,
The directors of the Peninsular and Oriental
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proprietors during the past ten years, after pro-, as a man heari only once in a ille Ume. Every viling for depreciation and fosurance loases, Batman was carrying poles, sticks, knives, hoes, or scaping hooks, and they were yelling "Kill the been £183,280 per annum, equal to zå per cent.
barbarian deviia.FR Ta on the present subscribed capital of £3,320.000, come MONKEYS AS Gold Minkas, Captain E. Mots, who has recently returned from the Transvaal,
THE OFFICIAL
that they could not possibly face such a crowd, had no control of the crowd whatever. Thinking with such a piece of condemnatory evidence,
the fonts. Driving
· determined to make for
by the notorious Chea
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the fact of his attack being directed eblefly paint the Christian religios and against missionaries in particular. Before · our well. Intentioned Tien Tsu Hui friends go to the
·length of scattering broadcast throughout the length and breadth of the Flowery Kingdom pamphlets which are bound to gira great offenes to the masses, and to the literati in particular, I do hopemand that is the
Tearned that the foreign settlement is to be missing ships numbering 1,000. The Bound in the mines: “I have twenty-four monkeys," | værd at the point of a pistol and saying the fm | you in this connection—you will give the Aut. FROM & Chinesa correspondent at Hankow't ́t to DFER 130,000 fans and the' crews, of is tells the story of the monkeys who work for him. the missionate the crowd back into the front | ronson, why fave takes the liberly to add
fended and that the Russians have recently bought a piece of ground adjacent to the Tungchi Gate. At the end of the Settlement a stone has been eredied, having the characters Russian Settlement."
MEMORANDA,
TO-MORROW,-20th May. Noon-Emittsof Japonleaves for Vancouver;
parts of call. THURSDAY,➡arnt May,
ufa versi
11-English Mall closca,
Noon-Ravenwa sails for London.
́and fast ruler,......
Trade have replied that their surveyers are said he, "employed about my mines. They do authority to interiers whom cases of impróm the work of seven able-bodied men, and it is no loading are brought to their notice, but the Berdiction upon the human labourers to say that ss they. In many instances they lend valuable are not prepared to bind shipowners to say hid they do a class of work a man cannot do as well aid where a man is useless. They gather up THE Tientzia correspondent of the Afering the small pieces of quants that would | writes as follows:-♬ naw gold field has ben ¦-be passed unnoticed by the working discovered near Chanchow. The washing byla | men, and pile them up in Utile heaps that native proces gives` from xa to 60 ounces of gd can maally be gathered up in a shovel and to a ton of wall. Therd syn hundreds of maths thrown in the mill. They are exceedingly of the field already“: Mesum, Kingsley id | adept at catchleg the little particles, and their Pringle have visited the South Chacha sharp eyes never escape the very things that the gold Hald, but they keep the knowledge tly human eye would pass over. How did you away with the idea that others have not be digging gold I had two monkeys that were ea- on the scene, for I can asset it is to be a hecoceedingly interesting pets. They were constantly El Dorado. The cay now with foreignare i following me about the mines, and one day I Chinese alika la similar to what it was years ad | noticed that they were hilly engaged in gather. gold. Que un excitement le speses up av piles, They seized to enjoy the labeer very Nhis slowly found gold fold.
man would be shot who came back, they made a dash for the back fence, and found a way out through a neighbour's house. They then made anile. Finally they reached the forts vary much exhausted, but not otherwise injured. For
long circuit but were seen and paced more
tunately there were no women or children in Klangria at the time. The property was com pletely looted, everything being canied off, and the building diamantind. Dams and windows were broken and the flooring prized by and carted off,
Footbinding Crusaders the nich, in time that sometimes savesnine, and even pinety and afon should be remembered that in taking action custom of Minding girls' feet wo are azrailing an ancient custom, and one which it will be ze spalast the gestural, not to say, barbarous,
difficult to eradicate (possibly even more so) than the oplum habit, Forthermore, beli noted, that success in a campaign of the kind indicated can only be looked for as the result of confident, is that you will be the last to deny patience, perseverance, and discretion. I fel
that discretion is oft times the better part of THE BOLDIERE "CALLED OUT.
vaique and that in attempting to stem the for This morning I learned from authoritative rent of iniquity and. vila barbary rampant sources that the trouble in the chy is powing throughout the Celestial Empire discreiten is serious. The Fibean soldiers have been called bound to play a leading part I outrages, imurder, being made to qalet the people. The mission avoided and the aries' sealstant and servants have been taken to of the Tien Tau Hai me to live in pesca the magistrate's paws and Imprisoned. The and have the satisfaction of learning in years to missionaries are leaving this rening for Chincome that they have been she means of dolog klang to put the case in the hands of the U.S. some good, however infinitesimal li. may seem, grateful thanks to Mr. John Jürgens, head forelen || flib, and revolting brulelky to be met with ma lastmotor 63 trimis, ses his kid pentection and annyiunde, 70° long hard pamphlet s | gaborone hospitality,
Noop.-City of Alo da fansiro leaves for Ban | gained these to themselves; but they must first come to employ them?" "When I went put and, so far as we can, the, every effort legame of various restanilonad, agents
Francisco, vis uznal ports of call.
4
Noon-Aunnel general meeting of Messrs A. S.
Wason & Co., Ltd., in the Beard Room
of
the Hongkong Dispensary.
FRIDAY,and May, po-Hosting of the Navy Anton Hall, Cky Hall
*klado** are
to
Wines of very superior Vintagon. All now / 5.11 p.a.-Mosting of the Navy Langus, Hans; in California, Goldt Gold!! Gold111 nothing bij | Ing op Hule bitá of quarts and pating them fa Conan They have," however, 10, record their as compared with the seething maes of iniquity
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