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FOR PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1896.
The Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1896,
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above Porta, preceeding direct to PINANG and calling at SINGAPORE on return to HONOKONO,
on SATURDAY, the 30th Instant, at 4,30 P.M.
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REUTER'S MESSAGES,
CORONATION OF THE TSAR,
LONDON, May 16th. The coronation of the Tsar bagheen completed. The Tsar by a manifesto remits areare of taxa tlon, reduces the land tax by one half for ten yeats, grants amnesties for minor offences, and reduces other sentences,,
MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS IN CRETE: The Turkish soldiery at Capen have massacred and pillaged the Christian inhabitants. A British Ironclad has been ordered to Crete, and all the Consuls have telegraphed for man-of-war,
(From Tenklų Paderi.) RUSSIA AND FRANCE.
PARIS, May 16th.
Prompily at 5.15 p.m. bis Excellency the Governor, accompanied by ble staff and the high military and naval authorities, appeared
THERE were thirteen cases of plague to-day-alz Is the City, five-In Kowloon, ens in Bettlab Kowloon, and one in the harbour. THX Provincial Governments throughout the view, whereupon the troops were brought Celesilal Empire-Viceroys, Governors, and to attention and shouldered aims. His Excel- Tartar Generals of the different provinces have | fancy and staff then proceeded to their places fa bees nollfied from Peking of the scheme of Ch the centre of the Stand, where, beneath the nese Imperial Postal Service now being canted Royal Arms, his Excellency faced about, the cut by Sir Robert Hart.
troops prósented arms, and to the strains of the was national anthem the Royal Standard fluttered in the south-west breeze.
Hoa. C. F. Chater, the Chairman of the Jablice Statue Committee, then stepped forward
Tax Hon, Treasurer of the Alice Memorial and Netbersole Hospitals bege to acknowledge with think the following donations to the funds of the Hospitalu :— ~
Benjamin, Kelly and Folts......$15 The Eastern Manufacturing Co...... to Po On Heine leanrance Co., hơn 10, W. Hutton Palts .............
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UNVEILING THE QUEEN'S STATUE.
AN IMPOSING CEREMONY, M. Felix Faure, accompanied by Generals
To-day, May 18th, the day officially appointed Boled fire and Tournier, left on the roth inst for Trouard to meet the Emrer-Dowager of for the celebration of the seventy-seventh Russia and accompany ber as far as Pagay-sur-Anniversary of the birth of Her Mont Griciggs Majesty Queen Victoria, whose reign over the Vast Empire of Great Britain—
Moselle..
PARIS, May 17th.
The Interview between the Empress and M. Felix Faure WIE very cordial. -Her Highners sald she was delighted with her vil ta France and the benzücial effect of the climate on the health of her children.
PARIS. May 18th.
Their Majesties of Rasala have left for Morcow, The French mission which is to assist at the coronation ceremonials »nd fêtes kas left Pariz.
MORE CHOLERA 1 There are twenty deaths per day from cholera Alexandria and ten per day at Cairo,
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS are made under the constant supervision of a duly qualified English Chemist and will bear compa-at rison with the best English Manufactures.
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESIES and other Large Consumers,
THE WAR IN ABYSSINIA.
PARIS, May 19th. The troops under General Baldissers bars Any complaints should be addressed to the | left Adigrat, retarzing to Séante.
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FRANCE AND RUSSIA.
PARIS. May 20th.
Most of the Forelan Missions have anived in Moscow, where sn enormous multitude of sight seers hur assembled. The French Mission, Is expected to-day. It was warmly welcomed
Varsovic.
PARIS, May 21st. Prince Vladimir, in the name of the Tear, received the French Mission at Morcow. The reception was most cordial. The official entry into Moscow of the Tear took place to-day. It was a gorgeous pageant.
LOCAL AND GENERAL. MR. PENNIAL, chlet Instructor of the Naval College at Nanking, bas been granted six months leave of absence to attend to special business in Tientsin at the urgent order of Viceroy Wang of Chibli, He left Nasking on the rath inst.
The meu concerned in the armed attack and murder at Wanchal weis akalo Guagni petere Captain Hastings this morning. The shopkeeper
has returned, but he professes to be unable to identify any of the robbers. The case was again remanded until next Tuesday.
ALL there are selected by our London House, bought direct at first hand. Imported fo wood and hottled by ourselves, thus saving all fater-A HAIPHONG contemporary states, under date mediate profits, and enabling as to supply the
best growths at MODERATE PRICES.
23rd instant, that the plague having developed in Hongkong, the health department is about to declare seven days' qasranilne upon all vessels arriving at Haiphong from Hongkong. All passengers will be put under observation.
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And compassed by the laviolate sen has now extended siment to three scare years, will long be remembered in this most loyal of
per annum.
The poor lived in cellars, and had none of the modern means of access to the country. The few parks were clasel to them. No wonder that, in 1837, committals in England and Wales numbered 13,600 : in 1893 there were 12,305,
The convict population in 1833 was 50,000; by 1891 it had fallen to 4.345 prisoners and perhaps 2,000 ticket-al-lezve men. In 187 there was no effective police force anywhere In Great Britain save in Londes,
Then the lower orders were seething with dis- content, bresking out into zlots and Chartlem. Bat now "niversal content has succeeded universal agitation Wages are higher. The necessitles and luxuries of the poor are cheaper. Legislation has regulated conditions of labour and has compelled sanitaifon; and the free
and in the following spacch asked his Excellen her importance as a great emporium of trade library is coming to be almost universul
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city. The harbour which filiy-alue years ago was nearly empty of shipping is now filled by steamers and saling vessels which represet toss Tals wonderful growth has Egregate capacity of some 15,000,000 of togs taken place during the reign of
Majesty Quem Victoria. Most Gracious And in the place of a few hundred people, Hongkong his now a population of orET 150, fouls. Of these about 240,003 are Chinese. They live here under no compulsion, They are freemen, and are attracted by our Uneral Institutious sad by the equitable treat- ment and justice of Her Majesty's rule. Mt. Chairman, and gentlemen, of the fature prosperity and growth of Hongkong I have not the slightest doubt. Her geographical position, and a strong Military and Naval station in that girdle of British calonies which encircles the world is fully recognized by Her Majesty's Government, The opening River, and ef additional free poris in China, will give a further Impetus to trade between Great Britain and that enormous and ande. veloped Empire. Sach measures which can ba regarded as certain cf fulfilment in the near future will be of inestimable value to millions of the subjects of the Emperor of China as well as to the able and energetic community of Hongkong. In conclusion, Mr. Cheitman and gentlemen, I congratulate you on the
of this selection
fine Bits for Her Majesty's Statue, and I also congratulate you heartily on the excellent rangements cleas and unprecedented event an importance which you have made for giving to this suspi- and significance which it alone could 'deserve. With the words on my lips of God Skra the Queen I now unveil this Statue,
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The first annual grant made by the State for education dates from 1819. Then the giant was
3000; now it is £9,000,000.
In 1850 one child out of every 89 people was at school, bat one person aut of every 20 was a pauper, and one out of every 7.0 was a criminal, In 1890 one child out of over eight was at school; but only one person out of every 35 WAE pauper, and only one person out of every 2,400 wis committed for trial,
Social difficulites are grave, but decreasing. When the Queen came to the throne, economic opinion recogofied bat one god-self-interest- and Adam Smith as his prophet. Now the prevailing tendency has registered itself in the werd #altralam."
15 IT A RTION OF MEDIOCRITY }
It may be objected that life is belag reduced to a dead level of mediocrity. In architecture we have produced the Houses of Parliament, the Thames Embankment, and most of the bridges over the Thames. In literature, Macaulay, Hallam, Grote, and Froade, redeem history, as Thackeray, Charlette Bront, George Ellet, and Dickens redeem fiction, and Wordsworth and
His Excellency then, with the troops at the 'present," pulled the card which lifted the standard velling the statue and amid the
age which bas done more to dominate deafening cheers of the thousands of all nation-Tyson poetry, from the charge of mediocrity. alities present and the strains of "God save the nature, and to explain nature, than all the Queen" by the bands, the image of Hee, Most preceding centuries, cannot rightly be charged with inferiority of intellect. The right of Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria was displayed inquiry has been vindlested. Yet the progress to view. Then thrice round the square ratlled of free thought "has not been followed by any out the feu de joiz from the troops, followed decline in religious fervour," "More money hus by Royal salutes from the milliary on the Prays been raised for church building, church extension, and from the Commodore's flagship, the Victor church endowment, and missionary effort, both at home and abroad, than at any previous period of our history."
Emanuel.
The troops were then drawn up and marched past the stand, salating the Royal Standard and the representative of Her Majesty as they paired, and left the field. Then the spectators dispersed, exch heart beating time to and sach volca ready to join la sloging.—
God sara our gracious Queer, Long may she live to regn God Bave cer Queen.
SIXTY FEARS OF PROGRESS.
A recent issue of the Edinburgh Review contains the following brilliant retrospect, fitted waken deep Imperial patriotism, of the reign of Queen Victoria :—
HOW, THE EMPIRE HAS GROWN. Population and area bave immensely extended. "There are seventy-five people living in these Islands now for every fifty who were alive when the Queen came to the throne. We have added 273,000 square miles territory larger than Austria—in India ; Bo,oco rquare miles―s space as wast as Great Britain in the rest of Asta 200,000 square miles-4 region as large as Ger many in South Africk; and in East Africa, 1,000,000 square miles or about balf the
in North America and in Australasis cover one- extent of European Rossla. Our possessions ninth of the earth's dry land. Canada has been politically reorganised, and translated from rebellion to disilogolshed loyalty, Constitu tional self-government has been given to Australasia, which may count on an expansion in the next century similar to that of the United Stater In this The British Empire now embraces an area of 8,500,000 square mies, or, if the subordinate Indixo States and the posses. slons of the African Companies be included, of 10,000,000 square miles. It contains a popula- tion of some 350,000,000 people. Nearly one person out of every four on the earth owes allegiance, directly or indirectly, to the Queen.
HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
UNITED FERVICES v. CIVILIANS.
This match, played yesterday, resulted in a victory for the Civilians by eight holes. The following, in the score
CIVILIANS,
Mr. G. Stewart
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On Thursday next, 4th Jane, the annual match Scotland. The World will be played.
Your Excellency As chaliman of the Jubilee Commitee, and on behalf of the community of the colony, I bave the great honour of asking you to meet us to-day for the purpose of unvelling the State of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. I need not enlarge upon the interest, the farveat. and loyal Interest, which the 'residents of this Island take la this ceremonial. I need not state that wa are met together to dlicharge a most unusual and exceptional function,, I need hardly remind you, sir, that the event which has given birth to these proceedings is one which, only a few years ago, stirred to the depths the hearts of the British race in every quarter of the world, for was not that event the Jubilee of our Most Gracious Sovereign? It may proof were seeded I would ask you to look at this concourse of Her of the feeling which dominates us at this moment, Majesty's subjects, gathered here to offer their loyal and respectful homage to the Throne.. I would ask you to look at the representatives of the other powers, who with thels fellow-country- men of theirs, who are resident here, have come to do honour to this suspicious event. Your Excellency, as we all know, Her coloules as the occasion upon which was Majesty's Jubilee occurred in the year 1887, and formally unveiled the statue of our most benefit will perhaps be not unfilling if I mention the centraler erected by the cliizens of Hongkong reason why this statue has not been erected It was tot because Hongkong was In commemoration of the completion of the belora.
Due whit behind other British Colonies in wish- Jubilée of her reign. Nine years aga the resting to prove its Cutifal regard for Her who deals of the most eastern of Her Majesty's reigns over us ; it was not because we did not Astatic dominions manifested their loyalty by desire to have in our midst celebratlug, in a" manner bitterte unsurpassed Ruler to whom we owe allegiance. No, siz, In the East, the completion of filty years of was because we recognised that such
placed in reign by the most gracious and best faved appropriate and complemous spot, a spot of rulers, under whose guidance this realm worthy, If that could be so, by its very. bas grown to dimensions nadreamed of in position to do honour to
and until this great work, this reclamation on past ages by any Government. At that time it was
which we are now standing, was practically thought but filting that some more permanent finished, we had no such place to offer. Under convenir should be erected that would hear your Government, this portion of the reclamation witness alike to the event and the love has now been happily accomplished, and here named alter our Queen, part of clly, felt by the residents here, long after the fo this commanding position, in the best
statue memory of the gorgeans pageants had grown dimwe feel that our
could find, in more ennobling alte. through time. This it was decided should all this island, no take the form of a status of Her Majesty, to be Sit, with the exception of Newfoundland, which was occupied about 1500, it was not unill erected in a promise i pobile place. Orders
the early put of the 17th century that Great were at once given and in due course executed. Britain frst began to colonisa in earnest. Thee, owing largely to the somewhat tardy Thenceforward, however, down to the present completion of the Prays Reclamation work-time, colony after colony was acquired. It having been decided to erect the state Gauged by the test existing to-day, her earlier on this, in front of the City Hall-for some years acqalitions were, in the nature of things, England' comparatively unimportant; nothing further was done. But now, that colonies have strengthened with England'
her commercial. portion of-jhe work has been completed, the strength, and grown with monument has been erected, and this day prosperity and power, until, one possession was selected as an eminently fitting occasion after another emerging from Its incipient double and difficulties, they have gained upon which to formally unveil 1).
their present sister, and culminated in forging the magnificent chalo, which, starting from the Mother Country, now girdles the earth with British zoll, Of this chain Hongkong farras one of the links, a strong and a lasting
here, and to you,” it, as their stambled be permitted to hope, and to those Governor, it cannot but he interesting to emam ber that, after Her Majesty's accession to the Throne, this was the first colony that Great Britain acquired. Your Excel- lency, it is not possible to predict from the shadows which the future Is casting before what Hongkong will yet develop lato, It is not possible to surmise with any accuracy the past which will ultimately be allotted to her to play in the laternational theatre of the world. These questions ile in the womb of the future, and the future alone can answer them ; hot that she is destined to be always an important factor in both Imperial and local canceros, I for one have no doubt whatever. Such is her natural position, lying, as she does. on the fringe of the adjacent Empire; such is her mercantile value, bolng, as she is, the Eastern gate through which must pass the commerce of the West, that it is hardly too much to believe that she must of necessity always. constitute in element to be carefully and fully weighed. Great and important movements have CLARET.—Our Clarets, including the lowest
lately taken place in the Far East, possibly priced, are guaranteed to be the genulae
greater and more important changes yet are even now in contemplation which will enforce the product of the juice of the grape and are no
attention of diplomacy, and Her artificially made from raistas and currents
gravest ag is generally the case with Cheap Wines.
Majesty's Government, la its decision upon those events, in its determination of the path to parsus, can hardly crait Hongkong from its serious con- BRANDY.--All our Brandy is guaranteed to be
sideration. In saying this, I do not forget, that pare Cognac, the difference la price being
her place in the colonies of the Crown, if won some part by her own vigour, is largely due to merely a question of age and vintage. Ar the pretty little Union Church, snugly
her standing in line with those other colonies ebsconsed to luxuriant foliage on the sires of
The ceremony this afternoon was indeed which forether constitate the brotherhood WHISKY.-All our Whisky is of excellent Albany nullah, meny a happy couple have in
quality and of greater age than most brands recent years been unlled in what the Church grand and imposing, and must have been known to-day as Greater Britain. In the market, The Scoren Wisky styles "holy matrimony". Many of the marriage Instructive to the Ethousands of natives of the evolution of time generation will rec marked "E" is urireisally popular, and le ceremonies performed la Union Church have the Celestial Empire, most of whom, though cord generation in Hongkong, new firms will pronounced by the best local connoisseurs gorgeous, but it is doubtful whether a more bappy
Dorset, rely as they were well timed and resident in and taking advantage of the freedom arise, new projects will be formed; new person.
alties will seek to advance the colony's fefluencere. to be superior to any other brand in the and Interesting wedding party ever repaired to
of Hongkong, may in their inner thoughts and promote her enterprise, long after names,
Hongkong market.
be inclined to think sightingly of their British familiar enough now, have vanished into the the Kirk in question than the one that passed through it Gothic snowwhite portale to-day, ralery. Surrounding the three sides of the part and been forgotton. Yat will this statue when Miss Kellock was led to the altar by state, which was well set off by masies main, to impress upon those who follow us the sights and privileges which, under British laws, Henderson, of the Rourishing Scottish Oriental Steamship Company. A goodly number of the of palms and ferns placed in banker about they will ever enjoy, the security which the friends ofthe charming beide and the accomplished the base, were nearly 2,000 troops, composed British constitution throws over those who live within the sphere of its protection, and above the Royal Navy bridegroom, Mr. N. G Majer, chief officer of of detachments the #9. O." liner Pra Chula Chom Rido, and Marine Light Infantry on the right flank, that mankind has ever known, which exists to all, sir, the freedom, the greatest benefit perhaps sembled to site bes the ceremony, including sottowed in recession by the Royal Artillery, cast, and silvana mauas crist, bensats the Royal Mr. Cousins, the able, nainstaking, and popular Superintendent of the Scottish Oriental and the Royal Engineers, Kids Bilgide, the Hongkong Standard of Great Britain. I now sak your
Excellency to unveil the statue. Northern Pacific Steamship Companies. The Regiment, and the Hongkong Volunteers, the ceremony in the Church over, the party repaired whole-being under the command: of Colonel ·His Excellency in reply said :-- A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. to the teridence of Captain Brook-Pigott Anstey, R. E. These marched into position shortly Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, have
(P. C. C. Klao), where justice was done to s recherche breakfast provided by Thomas' Gril alter 3 o'clock. Long previous to this the invited accepted with great pleasure the invitation of the Room. During the banquet several toasts guests were accommodated to the number Jubilee Committee, and of the lors! community of Hongkong, to unvoll this statue of Her were daly honoured, in file de rastidance, of 1,000 in a matated temporarily erected on the Majesty Queen Victoria. I feel bigbly honoured
the Bride and Bridegroom, falling to the
Windsor, to Edinburgh thirteen pence, water side of the square, and thousands of at Eaving to take so prominent a part in this lot of Mr. Chesney Dancar, who referred to Mr. Majer's memorable exhibition of true British Chidese were permitted to occupy two large interesting function, and am glad to think that pluck and fearless determination on the rquares inside the enclosure, while outside the my same will for all time be connected with occasion of the rescue of the British ship Barcars enclosure, which was bounded by the Banks This immense conconide of Her Majesty's most perilous position in the height and City Hall, the cricket Heid, and Ice House loyal subjects, and of the Representatives of
other Powers with their fallow countrymen, is a of typhoon on the 6th October, 1894, when Road, were many thousands of sightseers all sight which will never be forgotten by those whe the Commander of the vessel advised the whole
Eat are the people better off then they were crew to prepare to meet their Maker esger to witness the ceremonies. - Among those are witnessing it. Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen, and affirmed that there was no hope of in the stand were the subscribers to the this statuels to commemorate the fables of Her in 1837 7" In 1843 every penny of the Income
Majesty in 1887. Let me therefore for a moment Tax raised, exclsilve-of Ireland £700,000 and the result is that, as shove stated, he has become thief in the Scottish Oriental, Co and Naval officials, the Consular representatives Fifty-nine years ago Hongkong was a barren quarter mijlous sterling. Probate duty was Marcalle soman, in Kowloom service, was married to-day, and is now s Poufs of the various powers in Hongkong, the heads of rock inhabited by 200 or 300 persons. The vald on £50,000,000 in 18381 in 1894 on invergy to Macko to spend the honeymecs. Bravo, the many prosperous firma which have done so harbour was unfrequented by vessels, At the 6164,000,000 Walle the population has Braemar Majer That your married ilfs may be a long-) much to make Handkone what it is, and all the present moment the colony presents a remark increased by fifty, per cent., the wealth of the Taud (H.M.S.)
not Abis object lesson to the newly arrived resident country, has trebled. Agriculture has prosperous, and happy one is the earnest desire prominent residents, together with their wives or traveller, whequalled, I believe, in any other advanced like other Industries but land is Ingraðan er is of all who have the pleasure of your acquaintance, danghters, the whole forming a most part of the world. He sees before him large Great Britain aressed under Schedule stood Talchow belliant assembly. Thanks to the per and, in some CLICE, Taificent banks, city of £46,000,000 a year in 1842, and in 1894 was Kultong fact arrangements of the Pallos and Committee halls, and housin of business stretching for not less, but slightly maré,
· Faspers in England and Wales numbarad, in several miles along the sea front, foland be was rising tier above ter hundreds of fine houses 1832, 1337,000, and in 1948, 1,439,000, bet new -Goolfs leaves for San Francisos, vid | there was no confusion, those amitied to [wrzál`ports'of kallz
sion finding pincas penjared for thenti
by kid for the tkáiving snarokanla of the j mlỹ Be0,000.
PRICE LISTS,
At the lanciion of the roads dividing this portion of the reclaimed ground into convenient plots, upon which, in the course of time will be erected the Government officer and the effices of the more prominent hongs, in one of the finest sites In the colony, stands the emblem of the loyalty of the residents. Upon a broad base of granite stands a structure of Portland stone, with exquisitely carved pillars supporting an ornately carved but withal chaste dome ruz. mounted by the royal sceptre' which stands aloft, pointing out to sit the dignity and grandeur of that THE scof-offical Jahan Mall says:-The "empira upon which the sun never sets," off amal, amalonlofthe two new steamship projects, with Full Detalls, to be had on Application. one by Merges Asano, Shihutawe, and so forth, which Hongkong forms an integral and not in- and the other by several capitalists of Yoko- considerable portion, In Importance though not PORT after removal sbonld be rested a month bama, la wald to be anw on the verge of con- in size, and over which the sovereign whose
before use. When required for drinking at summation. When the roalgamation is com» once it 'should he ordered to be decanted at an mount larger than the capital of the
pleted, the capital will be increased to ro million statue it surmounts has so long beneficently and gloriously wielded its original Covered the Dispensary belare being sent out.
Yuten Kaliba by more than a million, and the by the dome, the whole being most independent, services originally contemplated Etting adjunct, stands a bronze Image of Her by the two companies that is, to the eastern Most Gracious Majesty, erect, and holding the | coast of America and to Betoons, and to
Portland-Ill hotb be undertaken by the sceptre and globe that typify the powers unted Company. The service to Portland, she so ably wields. The entire structure formlag a junction with the Oregon Rallway, i slly represents the-facings of love and Et present monopoll:ed by Messrs Samuel Samuel and Co, but when the two Steamship loyalty felt by ber subjects in this colony, Companies are amalgamated. Mesara Samuel who by her wise and just rule have been Samuel and Co. are expected to retire from the enabled to erect upon this bare and field in consideration of a sum of half a million rocky island the monument of the ability yau annually for len years, they, on their side, and energy so typical of Britain's sone which is guaranteeing freight to the extent of fire malilios eown to the world as the city of Victoria, the yes annually,
largest traðal centralia the' East, and the third largest shipping part in the world.
SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner ~Winna"of very"supertor Vintages," "All are
true Xeres Wines,
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We only guaranice our WINES and SPIRITS
to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the
Coast Parts,
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY. Hoting. Toth January, 180ő,
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Its area is larges than that of Rustla,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE English (Kattar-f-Hind) 30th inst, American (City of Peking) 30th lust." Indian (Arvation- Apcar) 30th lust. Canadian (Empress of China) and prax.
· German (Prins Heinrich) and proz. American (Doric) gih prox. American (China) 13th prax. Tacoma (Tacoma) 13th prox.
It is very doubtful whether Calza, populous as THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Hydaspis the fe, supposta so many people as the British | Left Singapore for this port at 11 am, yesterday. Empire,
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Tér F. M. S. S. Ca's steamer City of Peking, with malls, eic, left Nagarald for this port at g p.m. yesterday.
THE REIGN OF STEAM AND ELECTRICITY, "When the Queen was born it was literally true that man could not travel faster than the, Pharaohs. The first of the great trunk Ines- that between London and Birmingham-#15 not opened till 1818. A third-class railway side Empress of China arrived at Nagasaki at THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co,'s steamer in 1844 from London to Exeter took sixteen bours and a half. In 1842 there were only to-day, and left again at 6 p.m. for Shanghai, where aha is due at 2 am, on the goth last. 18,000,000 passengers. There are 500,000,000, now, eight out of nine of whom are third-class. The mileage of rallways is now 10,000; and
SHIPPING RETURNE. their capital has sprung from £35,000,000 £1,000,000,000. At the Queen's accession From: 6-pim. yesterday to 8 pm. to-day. steam navigation of the Red Sea and of the Atlantic was proved to be impossible. In
Kwangusminmus.teamer, from Shangbal, Amaro ............... 1838 the Sirius and the Great Waiters crossed
m Saigon the Atlantic. The Sirius, of 700-100s and 320 Kathidats Str, lo
Maru horse-power, took eighteen days from Cork to | Viazang New York. The Compania, of 13,000 tons and 30,000 horsepower, does it now in a litde over
to
Our commercial navy totalled in 1840. 23,000 vessels, almost all of wood, and 2,800,000 tons, foclading 770 steam vessels, of 87,000 tonay bat in 1894 numbers 21,000 vessels, mostly all of fron and steel, and nearly 9,000,000 tons, of which 6,000,000 tons go by steam. Electrio
the
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telegraphy was not when the Queen came to the throne. The first year of her
of the electric Pecton first reign The telegram.
· Kwangles: Channel cable was only aid in 1851, the Atlantic cable in 1966. Since Taliongezang
Aggregating 19,877 tous register, 1870, when the telegraphs were taken over by the State, the number of inland mesɛagas has risen, from 10,000,000 to more thau The Japanese steamablo Rachidats Mary 70,000,000 a year. Then it was one wire, are left Kachinetsu on the 23rd instant, and had mesasgo, at sighty words minute. Now light breers and moderato ses six messages can travel by one wies at a speed of 600 words a minute. And the telephone has come in to relieve the telegraph. Postage in 1837 cost four penca & leiter feats London to
Exports and imports comblued Amented in 1837 to about £140,023,000; in 1894 to more than £630,000,000. Then 1,200 articles were subject to Customs duty; now less than ons
desed.
ARE THE PEOPLE EXITER OFF ?
The Chinese steamship Kwangles aft Stanghal on the 24th instant, and had variable
winds and fine weather throughout,
The British steamship Amara left Saigon on the agrdinstant. From Cape St. James to Cape south-west breeze with rough sex. From Cape Varella to port had moderats vadable breeze between south and south-east and fing clear weather with smooth sex,
Varella experienced moderate to fresh south to
What the columns of the Henghong Tolgrade wit always | saying the ship. Mr. Majer thought otherwise, and still in the colony, all the Civil, Military, compare the past of Hongkong with the presents now it brings in (inclusive of Ireland) two and n /Hongkong and WHAMPOA. DOCK RETURNS
be open for the fair discnaion by correctos ed all quartos s affecting public Interests, it must be distinctly understood th
the Editor down bot in any way hold himmill, responsible for opinions thus expressad,
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MEMORANDA.,
SATURDAY,- 30th May.
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