dleported. It was on January 8th that the deter- mination to commission the aquadroni waS announced, to that it has been'in existence about four months It is interesting to know that at the Admiralty the way in which the squadron was moblitsen la not regarded with the "enthusiasm that (( originally in. rpired among civiilan observers. Although the sunouncement of the latention to commis- slon was made on January 8th, it was not until the rịth that the admiral hoisted his fing, and not until the 20th that the squadron put to sea. It is the fashion to say that the squadron was fitted out in twenty-four hours, and the Admiralty authorities regard this as much pester the time which should have been occupied than the twelve days which actually were occupied.
Messen Yarrow & Co, on 16th Instant launched from their worka at Miliwati 'an armour-plated torpedo-boat destroyer for the Argentine Goyer ment. The verrel is 190 ft. long, 19 ft. 6 la, la beam, and will be propelled by two sets of triple- expansion engines intended to indicate about 4,000-burse wer. The special feature of this destroyer is st she is partially armoured, and thos protected against the smallee, class of pro- Jectiles, throughout the entire length of "mas chloery space, so as to reduce the tlak of damage in action to those parts of the vessel on which her speed and aillity depend. The valas of such protection was proved during the recent war in the Far East.
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Mr. Curzon replied that the Italian despatches were only glosten placed upon the language of Lord Salisbury by the Italian Ambassador, The Government, he said, took certala niepe for the securlly of Egypt, which had the advantage el assisting Italy. Mr. Ballour defended the non-pabilcation of correspon. dence with Lord Cromer, and concluded by declaring that confidential negotiations would be impossible unless greater discretion was shown than had been shown by Italy la connec- | tion with the crat Green Book. The motion was eventually rejected without a-division.
In the House of Commons the Hon. G. Curzon announced that the Government were seriously considering the question of our treaties with Madagascar.
PARIS, June 5th.
A Committed of the Chamber of Deputies bas adopted the Bill declaring Madagascar a French colony, thus enabling France to cancel previous treatles batween Madagascar and Foreign Powers, M. Handtaux announced that Americs had renounced her treaty with Madagascar in view of its being declared a French colony.
LONDON, June 6th. Colonel Kitchener has estabilshed his head- quarters at Omich, which is slightly north of Aksaheb.
Mr. C. Rhodes has made a great speech at Bulawayo, in which he sketched a prosperous faturn for Matabeleland as an autocomous state connected with the Cape by joint defence and trade relations, which would eventually lead to federation.
The Australians have beaten Gloucester by an fanings and ninety-one runs.
ROME, June 6tẫu
If the question of submarine parigation has engaged the attention of the Biftish, Naval authorities, the fact has not come prominently into notice. in France, however, it hai oven- tuated very seriously. The French Navy possesses two submarine boats, the Gymnoti and the Gustave Zélè, and a third, the Mors#, is in process of contraction at Cherbourg. Ikis now announced that the Gustave Zells to have permanent and supplementary crown to order to cable her the better to carry out the experlof ments on which she engaged.
THI FAR EAST,
(House of Commons, May 15th ) Fining Mall Stromar's Officers at Hong.
Italy is sending to Abyssinia Engineer Ilg (ric), who is a friend of Meneilk, to propose s treaty of peace based on resuming the treaty of Ucclalli, and making the river Marsb the frontier
Erythrea.
In a debate in the Chamber Depotles on the subject of Friday's debate in the House of Commons, the Daks, of Sermoneta admitted that some documents contained in the Green
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AN AWFUL CONFESSIÓN.
A MURDERER TELLS THE STORIES OF
TWENTY-SEVEN CRIKES,
On May 7th the execution of a man whose list of murders have not their equal was to have takes place. The man is H. H. Holmes, and he was confined in Philadelphia County Gaol, swatting the call of the executioner, and the time when be will explate bis many mordere by being "banged by the neck und! he is dead." Holmes, who was a drogglet, built house in Chicago, which was called Holmes's Castle, and there he had a number of most ingenious appliances for committing murder
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planting of saplings' and re-afforestation of deanded tracts. It would have the sympathy das to civilising and economical Influence, But the methods, really adopted appear to savour of the bearing which has made of Japan detested in Korea. | Compelling respectable townsmen to deff hat to a scatry-and. kuocking is off if they are not quick enough—is not a method that commands either sympathy or respect. Arresting, fialog, and ill-treating foreign compradores wholesale to an infraction of treaty' as well as uncivit bekavidar, Nor was it necessary to close all the camphor-stills and drive away the workmen, and exact title-deeds for jungle tracts, as a prelimi pary to regulating the campbor manufactore and trade." "Now," writes a gentleman who on scientific palaciplen. Among other things has been for years concerned in the trade, "they ha had a Vault, where hauled people calmly loform is that those already engaged by shutting them in and filling their cell in the business can continua by paying with gas. A crematorium assisted him`in | the tax, but they make no mention getting rid of the bodies, and to facilitate this he the Jos they have caused. We shall had a number of acid baths and pits of quick have to gather together our workmen and lime in various parts of the building. A track rebuild our stills (which in most cases have. wanused.on the same principle as the vault, the 'been wrecked by the savages), and all this will victims being shut in, and the gus then being cost us nearly as much as it will cost newcomers turned on them. How many murders Holmes to begin. The camphor trade, being somewhat is responsible for will probably never be known. of a monopoly, will probably recover from the He was arrested in 1894, and for over twelve El-treatment and support the projected taxation, months Detective Frank P. Geyer, of the Bureau though whether foreigners will be able to retslä of Police, Philadelphie, and other officers, werk their interest in it may t】 open doubt. Bat working up the case against him, and daring there seems a consensus of opiäion that, in that time they succeeded iz unearthing, raising the tax on white sugar from c.30 to 35, and on brown from c.18 10 6.30, the Japanese will kill the Formosan trade, as Formoss will zot be able, under those conditions, to compete with Chins, the Philippines, and the Spice Islands,
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and proved that they were committed by Holmes. He murdered his Janitor because the servant, who had been many years in Els service, tried to extort money from him, and killed a docter during a controversy about rent due to him. He has, or says he has, forgotten the names of several of his victims, one being a woman whom he mordered to oblige a man he wanted to get into his power. Ha found a man who had insured his life to favOKE of one of his victims, and in order to get the laurasca money Holmes murdered him. In is confession the fiendish murderer alludes
THE BORMIDABLENESS OF ENGLAND.
of
how their Empire must appear in the eyes of its We wonder Englishmen ever fully realise European rivals. We think they do not, for they did they would be less surprised at the
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made to the case of the Via Sang, seized by a At the last munaal meeting reference was Japanese cruisex in Apall, 1895, for having contraband of war amang bercargo. Proceedings don was agreed to, the result of which was that were taken against the shippers, and an arbitra- full compensation for costs and loss of services was paid to the Company.
because her largest marime company buys a occarred on the 30th April, 1895, the Company's foreshore at Cacion, and is allowed by the river steamer On W's having been run into by Government of Peking to put up quays, which, the steamer Newckwang, belonging to another it is alleged, interfere with the claims of soma. Company, and immediately sunk, with a loss of English proprietors to free access to the water. five Europeans and nearly 300 Chloess. Tele- The same disputa in bound in English Law graphic advices state that a Court of Engaley Courts every year. "Ok, li li said, this company held at Shanghal has pronounced the New- is financed by the voluntary association which camang alone to be in fault, An adjustment of holds its steamers at the disposal of the Russian | the loas sustained will be effected in due conres, Goverment. Very good ; and at whose disposal do the great English mall-carrying companies hold that glant steamers? We really are ashamed of our countrymen in the fit. It Is the querilousness of children, not the caution of grown men, which they display and they succeed to producing ebronic trritation, from which soma day we shall reap most evil effects. We go out own WAY, so far #1 WO can see, with very llitis regard
The Directors very much regret having to for anybody's susceptibilliies, sad we must suffer report that their cisim for the destruction of the other Powers to go thefes, totesfering only when Compendence is going on between the Foreign steamer Kow Shi«g stil!_rumalus unsettled, the injury becomes serious enoughtorequire some Office and the Chinese Government, but no final thing more dignified than shrill remonstrance. The other Powers suspect us at least as holly as decision has yet been arrived at. The Directors we suspect them, and with this extra, justlitical look for suitable compensation being made. tion, that, as they seo galia clearly, our power to urge increased expedition on the authorltics and they have used every effort in their power reaches everywhere, our broad road is always open, and though we protest that, except as bare charge of the case. regards ships, we are a feeble folk, yet whenever need arises in Europe, Asia, or Africa, there are the troops ready to march forward, and as a mie' executing their orders with the klad of precision that generals admire.--Spectator.
BANKS AND MERCHANTS.
A-FICULIAR CASE,
Yangtexs.
Long. Mr. Moon asked the Secretary for the Book were published contrary to urage, but their only to the 17 murders which were traced to jealousy and mistrust with which Poweri liko ho carry où business in Manchester, sold and to replace the On Wo. When this vessel in Colonies whether the officers of the German I pubiicasion was necessary to enlighten the ❘ hļm, and asks the public not to think that he Germany and France and Russla, and some-
mall steamer who were recently sentenced for entering forts st Hongkong with photographic apparator had, prior to their airesi, takon any photographs of or in connection with any of the forts; and, If so, whether such photographs were impounded.
Mr. Chamberlain : The Governor bus reported by telegram that no photographs of the forty were taken by the German officers in question, whose original sentence of imprisonment with hard labour was commuted after a re-bestlog to a find of $100 (Hear, bras)
with Great Britals, which afforded fresh proof Chamber. Explanations had been exchanged of the cordiality of the relations between the two countries.
RESTORATION OF NELSON'S SHIP.
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Admiral Nelson's old-line-of-balile ship, the this deep-dyed criminst has been swang from the Continent should betray`itch a chronic faver respect of and referred to a particular con-
Chinese Shipping in Formeza.Mr. Moon asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether the Japanese Government bad accorded to the Chinese grester entering fellites incondition as possible and then exhibit her fa all Formosa for their ships than heretofore; and whether such additional facilities would be also Available for English ships
Mr. Corzan: We have no information of any such facilitler having been granted to China, British shipning would undoubtedly participate In any benefits secured to the shipping of Chios.
LATE TELEGRAMS.
Foudrayant, which has lain for several years in a German shipyard, has just been purchased by several Englistmen, imbued with a truly patriotic spirit, and it is their parpere to reitore the grand old vessel as nesly is her eilgloal
the parts of the world. Nelson, it is sald, regarded the Foudroyant as his favourite ship and loved it as only a sailor can love such a struLiore. Four years ago the English news. papers and periodicals teemed with articles about Nelson and his ship, because at that time the British Admiralty had sold the bull of the Foudrayant to a German firm, at the Baltic port of Swinerenade to be broken up for the timber In It. The ship was built of wood throughout..
The announcement of the Admiralty' purpose CALCUTTA, May 30th.
created a great sensation in all parts of England, The Calcutta Tort Clab Derby Sweep this and pabite spirit was so aroused in favour of year is the largest on record. Upwards of fifty-preserving the ship as an historical relic that, a five thousand flekels have been sold, so that the fund was started for its repurchase, the sum first prize will be considerable over two and half necessary for that purpose, it was estimated, being about $30,000 Money was freely con LONDON, May golb.
was announced by the London agents of the German irm that they had disposed of the ship by private said to a few Englishmen, and that it would soon be sent back to England. There - great rejoicing therefore when the Fendroyant was towed into the Thames and anchored.
lakhs.
It is understood that all the powers are in accord as regards Crete. Itis reported that France suggests that Jalni representation be made to the Sultan to display leniency and conciliate the
Cretani.
CAIRO, May 30th,
The Egyptian mixed tribunal will pronounce Its judgment on Monday, but it is known that it has decided that the Reserve Fund is
being illegally applied for the Nile expedition
and must therefore be refunded,
Colonel Egerton and staff, together with a
portlog of the Indian contingent, arrived at Saskli to-day,
LONDON, June 1st, Mr. Carzon, replying to Mr. Marley in the Hat'te of Commons, said there had been no. Gero'iation with Germany regarding recent events in the Soudan. Communications, be ald, had passed" detween the British Govern- 'ment and Italy, but they were solely of a mill- tary nature and therefore it was impossible In publish them.
ROME, June 1, The Chamber of Deputies bas authorlted the the trial of General Baratieri,
CAIRO, June 1st.
General Kitchener has left Wady Halla for Altaabeh, where the headquarter of the expedi- tion are now fixed.
LONDON, June 3rd. The Brat fort in the hills to the southward of Pretoria is being built rapidly by a German engineer.
Careful estimates that have been made show that two thousand seven hundred perished in the Moscow disaster,"which was due to complets absence of police measures. The people fall pell-mell in great hollows in the vicinity of the booths, wherein tables were spread with food and presents.
June 4th, Colonel Carrington, who is now at Bulawayo, latends sending three columns to attack the Matabala in the Matoppo hills.
ALLAHABAD, Jana 4th. Experiments with the new Lee-Metford ballet sent from England will in the first place be carried out at the Indian schools of musketry, where a trained staff is avaliable for fring purposes.
SIC VOS NON VOBIS.
Sang have been completed since January and In addition to those the Fau Sang and Chum despatched to China. The only steamer now ballding is another river boat for the Yangtare completed, the Company will have three first- on that river. Dikos steamers to maintain their communications
Mr. James Macandrew and Mr. William Keswick are the Directors who retire at this
for re-election.
The Auditors, Mosers Turquand Youngs & Co., will likewise be proposed for re-election,
By order of the Board,
J. MACANDREW,
Chairman,
The Board have found it necessary to make considerable additions to the fleet during the past year, so as to bring their vessels up to the most modern standard, in which they would be second to no other steamers in the trade, The time was a favourable one for making fresh contracts, and the abject of the Board has been patiufactorily carried out. The steamers Amara and Tigris (the latter now called the Hin Sime) were sequired by purchase, as also the smaller stern wheel steamer Chang Wo, which carries Last month, in London, before Mr. Justice on the river traffic between Hankow and Ichang, Mathew, the case was decided of Baerleln and The new vessels. bullt for the Company and Co. v. the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India,added to their itat previous to 31st December London, and Chios, which was an action last are the O Sang, Sut Sang, King Sing, brought to recover from the bank a large sum of | and Awi Wo, the latter a river boat for the
collect in Calcutta and realt to England the money for breach of daty in respect of certain transactions, in which the bank had agreed to proceeds of goods shipped by the plaintiffs. The case briefly stood thas-The plaintiffs, exported plece goods to a firm carrying a business in Calcutta, which went by the name of Arakie Brothers, but which, after Jan. 1, 1890, changed its name to Croft, Wells and Co., It was arranged that the draits in respect of there goods should be drawn on four firms
and Co; Hardy, Nathan and Co., and the defendant bank, Each bill was drawn in
the defendant bank, who have a branch in signment of goods. It was also arranged that Calcuts, should act as collectors there, and the were accordingly handed over to them. It was shipping documents in respect of all the bills also arranged that Arakie should be allowed to have what was called free delivery of goods up to £35,000, divided as followss–In respect of goods where the defondant bank were Frib, Sands and Co., and Hardy, Nathan and accepter, £15,000; in respect of goods where
Co respectively were acceptors, £10,000 each. Croft, Wells and Co, stopped payment, and it was money paid into their account to be remitted #gainst the acceptances was £35.000. The main contention on behalf of the plaintiffs was that it was the duty of the bank, when Arakla mide payments in respect of any goods, to Inquire in respect of which goods such payment was made, and to attribute such payment to the discharge of the bills copied in respect of these goods, whereas in fact the bank placed all the and remitted money from that account to Arakie's directions. The defendanta maintained meet the bills falling due in accordance with that it would bave been, from a commercial polat of view, impossible to iransect the basinets la the manner which the plafnilffs suggested, and,
bank transacted the business, and acquiesced x Nippon Yusen Kaisha's chartered pleaser farther, that the plataliffs were throughout therein. There were a large number of minor Osborne left Singapore this morning for this port, tet; among others the plaintiffs malotaloed whereby they released the defendant bank from that a letter of release, dated March 7th, 1892, Hability in respect of these transactions, ought favour of the defendsat bark on all the lasues and gave judgment for them accordingly, with
then discovered that the actual deficiency of
London, 19th May, 1896,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE: Australian (Orono} \a-marrow. American (België) gand kant, Canadian (Empress of India) azıd inst, Indian (Wingrang) 231d last. Australian (Changsňa) 27th lust. German (Peruzzan) goth, fast, Tacoma (Victoria) ist promiy,
The silk er steamship Empress of Japan was delivered in New York yesterday..
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It seems, however, that a German who makes specialty in dealing in such relics subsequently bought what remained of the famous ald Bghter, and it was from him that the halk has just been purchased Toe buyers intend to spend a good deal of money in refitting the ship in the style prevailing in Nelson's time, and will even go to the extent of reproducing the furniture of the great Admiral's cabin,
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Empress of China 'left' Yokohama for Van- couver yesterday.
to them. He pays a tribute of praise to Detcomes even America, regard any signs of move guilty of any more, because he confines himself tive Geyer, who, he says, has with "marvellous mant within it. Our countrymen are vain of skill gone over his entire life. Hardly a day their wide dominion, but there are elements of or an act has escaped their close scrutiny, and formidableness as well as grandeur within it to judge that I am gulity of more than these which in their habitusi thoughts they do not realise at all. To them England seema peace cases, which they have traced out is 10 fal enough, and they are so penetrated with namely, Frith, Sands and Co.; Gonne, Craft meiing, and being eligible they offer themselves discredit upon their work,"
Later news by the American mall states the idea that she has only a small army never quite ready that they hardly understand why Time fato Eternity,
of suspicion. It must, they say, arise from pure malignity. We quite admit there is malignity in it, a malignity arising froes envy of an apparently endless prosperity, which is not so to speak earned by the swest of conscriptes but there is [London & China Express, May 22nd.) something else beside. The Continent is very commercially speaking, Englishmen discovered officer eyes it sees Great Biliain, or as it still It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that, military, and looking out on the world with staff Formosa. They started the tea trade, which rually calls it, England, seated in absolute bas altained such great dimensions, and security on two continents in the two places developed the sugar and camphor trade. It is whence striking at a for is most easy, with wast an open secret that Chins was willing to cede the forces which, so far from being unready, are for island to us, to save it from Japan, and that the her purposes mobile beyond all precedent. We inhabitants would have requiesced in the transfers think ourselves slow and unready, but, it seems but pollics were complicated at the time, and to rivals that at home the English produce a the Japanese solution seemed to offer the line of new Scot, the Flying Squadron, almost by a least resistance. It is scarcely an exaggeration, thought, and that in India they have an army again, is sy that Japan owes Formoss to
of two hundred thousand men, sections of which, England; for if England had said we will join anywhere in Asts or Africa, turn up at d in profecting Chinese Integrity in the north, on moment's notice fally equipped for batile. condition that you protect it in the south, one And, the Continent is right, too. The sa can hardly doubt that Formers would have power of Great Britals is at the moment readler remained Chinese. Our reward seems to be inr action than the sea-power of all the rest of A Japanese merchant frankly admitted lately, seated in the exact centre of Asia, provided with in conversation with a Hongkong contemperary, limitless means of transport to any polat that that should, in his optaton, be the object between Sues and San Francisco, and with an pursued. Competing agafont foreigners, he my which can only be described as per thought the "Japanese would bave no manently mobilised. I corks d'armis te chance.... If we let him (the foreigner) come wanted in Chinx, it can be there in thirty-six share of the trade. If we drive him out, we will teen. It is not a fortnight since the decision In and trade on equal terms, we will have no fair days; it in Egypt, it can be landed within six. control it Why should we not? Verily why was taken to garrison Suskin from India, and not? Who expects gratitude from nations? already the regimesis, foot, cavalry, arif lary, Tut if, it may be repeated, there had been a Intelligence Department, engines, and, we sistesman at our Foreign Office, the thing doubt not, all materials for telegraphs, if not for might have been rendered impossible by pre-short railway, are on their road to the of Formone, it must be on the understanding division could have been made an army corps & agreement., "If we acquiesce in your occupaiton Red Sea, A fortnighi's longer nolics and the that existing trade conditions shall not be dis month's and a fully equipped army would have turbed. Can anyone doubt that Japan would been on board the fransports. They are among kave agreed? But then no one could expect the best troops in the world, too-English Batesmanship from Lord Kimberley. It has soldiers annealed by what is practically foreign. been said that nations have the Government service, and Sikhs who hays fought successfully they deserva ; and it has been said that the evil with. Englishmen, and who regard a summons Roughly speaking, the plaintiffs' contention men do lives after them. The late Government to a rollicking adventure, during which they can seems to have been that the defendent bank did | Kbout the 28th. held the initiativė time when the world's gratify their thirst for fighting and save the not sufficiently protect their (the plaintiffs") pollics were seething in locipient turmoil, and whole of their regular pay. When it is remem Interests by demanding and uncertaining the THE Agents (Messrs. Dodwell, Carlil & Co.) pretty legacy they have left
bered that the Continent does not
and amount of the proceeds of Inform us that the Northern Paciic Steamship accurately the limits of ear power of recrafting, specifle goods as delivered, and that the neglect Co's steamer Victoria arrived at Yokohama and does perceive that there are scarcely suy to do this and kindred acts rendered the bank yesterday, and inft for this port to-day, vis her limits to our power of spending it la' hardly | liable for at least part of the goods that were usual japan porta of call. wonderful that it should which the movements delivered without payment. If this contention of a State thus armed with a certain sleepless-had been upheld it would seam that it would be mess of suspicion." The English could do such utterly lapossible for any bank to do business, terrible things if they would, and they do grab for It could not preload to follow the fortunes of so much,
bales of goods for good or UL
Mr. Tartice Mathew, la delivering judgment, recog nised the bond fides of the bank, and that their duties as agents to collect were performed in the customary manner,
The Japanese have been called the French of the East. Resemblance may be found in their pogascity, in their vanity as well as in their quick-wittedness, and in a capacity for hyper-arganisation that would drive an Englishman mad. It has been calculated that about one adult male Frenchman in eighty is an official employé, and it has been mered with confidence that the evasion of
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The London & China Express comments as follows on this cate:~---
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The Mutual Line steamably Katzow, from Glasgow and Liverpool, will not leave Singapore for this port until the aged Inst.—having been quarantined--and may be expected here on or
THE Imperial German Mail steamer Preussen,
carrying the German malls with dates from Berlin to the yet inst., left Calombo for this port yesterday, and may be expected here on or about Tuesday, the goth lost,
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ARRIVALS.
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Aggregating 6,706 tons register. seated to the shareholders at the fifteenth ordia.
DEPARTURES, the wages and expenses which she would wry general meeting held at the offices of the Zeurviny.......teamer, for Canton. pay if the troops were at home. Her garrison to Company, Londen, on the 28th ultimo — Zafiro REA not the fashlar but the stringer for a spall of forsign work, which reveals and curts delects
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Deuteros 183718 together as sething site does, and which, shove
The earnings of the fleet, though not so farge i Progrtis namumu. and Mahrattas, an outlet for their inborn milliary spirit. There is no education for soldiers like a war between China and Japan was only brought Aggregating 3.759 tons register. well-managed expedition, more especially if they although it served to disorganise the trade of HONGKONG AND WHALIPOA DOCK RETURNS are men who enjoy it, and if they belong to the country to a considerable extent, its effects Taicho la Kowloon races which tend to despondency and fatty epon the coasting and river trade have proved Columbus Dover have anything to do. We think it quits
the shareholders their report and statement of accounts for the year 1895.
Salgon, Tauron.
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Father reports from Swakius stats that the The Foudroyant was a great, high, bulky Indian troops anived there in excellent heaks. ship, with guns on every deck, and a massive . The voyage was uneventful, as the first burst of ; carving at Jupiter for her figurehead, When she implements used. Complaints are made of all, gives the fighting races, Sikhs, and Pathan in 1894, have agala proved satlıfactory. The Blist minutes.bergas
was towed into the Thames a few years ago there was but Hinile left of her, and her grand. broken-nosed old figurehead had been sawed off and stood porting, as it were, la the midst of
the monsoon was escaped.
SIMKA, June 4th,
to a conclusian towards the end of April 1 bat
Dock.
We are set writing thus because we object in matrimony in France is due largely to the official any way to the despatch of Indian troops to the difficulty with which marriage le surrounded! Red Sea. It is perfectly fair, if we have a plan One of the things that struck first visitors lo to carry out on the Nile, that our magnificent || Japan was the prompt appearance on the deck ally, whom we help whenever she is ta difficulty, of the Furlows of duplicate official scribes who should help us in return. India pays for her set to work to make notes of all they saw and army, but the did not pay for our first, and it head. One of the characteristics of Japan, to is bar flest and not her army which maven har day, is the presence of deplicate policemen in the from the invasions which, if we lost the com- streat guard-houses and domiciliary visits are mand of the ses, would in three year destroy among the inflictions which English residents at once her commercial prosperity and her anticipate when the new treaty shall conse is immunity from internal disorder. She ought not force. This manis for regulation le venting itself, to pay extra money for a project which is ours, Just now, la Formosas and the latest outcome is but it is perfectly fale that she should pay a set of regulations, for the government of the sugar and camphor trades that the first de-expert | may perceive to be intolerable. Every move ment and well-nigh every purpose is subject to Icense, and tax, and record, and report, and Inspection even of the vary account bocks and irregular taxation in Chian ; but fiscal "regula« Love" la Formoss, as piled up in the twenty, The Government of India's despatch on the
three rules for dragooning the sugar trade and question of the ordinary expenses of the Suskim
twenty-th:co (beautiful similarity of precision contingent being dehayed by India left Simik on the ruins of the main dock. She was, in 1798, governing the camphor trade, threaten to be a Tuesday morning last. The memorial contains one of the squadron of Commodore Sir John several Storks to King Log, the exhaustiva oplaton of the members of Council | Berlast Warren, who frustrated Commodore That there is room for the introduction of fine li Canadian or Australian regiments valane much less serious than might have been looksi couscited, including strong expressions of opinion || Bonaparte's plan to land troeps in Lough Swilly, more efficient government than that of the teer to help us, and not to mention that every for. against the proposal, it is bellared, by the and took the French 74-gan Hocks and thres Chinese mandarins, in the outlying districts, few native soldier is a vainstæer, who enlists uncom The assets of the Company are still animed in | Anjar Htadmuma no principal military authorities and Sir James frigates, The Earl St. Vincent sent the who have acquainted themselves with the condi.pelled even by the stern conscription of the Balance Sheet at as. rd. per dollar, though Montana Westland.
Fondroyant in 1799 to reinforce Admiral fons of the camphor trade, at any rate, will hunger," among the Bichs and Pathans at all the course of exchange through the your would Kutsang cumamun LONDON, June 5th. Nelson's fleet at Palermo, and on June 8th deny. "The townspeople" (sa Mr. John Dodd #rests, a call for volunteers would be answered by have warranted a higher valuation. It is untis.
Hongkong............UNMIT Sixty Syrian students concerned in the inte Nelson holeted his flag to her mixenmasthead. wrote last year to the Scottish Geographical Love the excbement of campaigning, which to Account on this occasion show profit instead Entire regiments stepping to the front. They factory that Exchange Accoual and latetest
Wandaring Jew. Cosmopolitan alot at Cafto have been banished.
It was in his room on the Bendreyand that | Maganina) * are kept in good order by fear of
laer soms le. It is nausense to talk of of a loss. Taking those items into account, the Fromnis om159 Advices from Madagascar stato that fifteen Lord Nelson unnalled the treaty made by the officials, but the Hekkas on the borders care hundred Insurgents have kernt a village where | Captain Toole with the French garrison, which very litle for mandarin rule, ... At the vary "mercenaries* In an Empire a hundred yests profits have admitted of liberal provision for Australian rosemaran a Norwegian Minion was gluated. A body had anmendmed with the condition that they limits of civilisation, where charcoal-burners, old. It is an much their interest while the depreciation to the extent of £34.317; but the | Harland of Franch troops relieved the missionaries, and should be sent to France. It was on board the timber-cutters, and camphor-distillers are at work, Empire lasts that it should succeed in war is it Board have judged it expedient to farther weite killed two hundred of 'Beir aggressors.
Foudrayant alss that Francisca Caracciole, many Chlease find an asylum who have escaped is purs, and provided there is no conscription, down the valce of the Best by £10,000 transferred | CHILDREM starving to denik on account of their The budget of the Cape Colony shows a who had commanded the Zaxcredi in the fleet | from the clutches of mandarindom. Outlaws dif we see ne more moral objection to calling on | from Underwriting Account.
fability to digest food will find a most marvellous surplus of one and a quarter million sterling, under Hotham, but who deserted to take service this description are totally different from the her Majesty' Indian thas on her Majesty's There remains a sum of £45,737.477 at the food and remedy, in Scott's Emcision of Pare which is unprecedented. The Premier mainly in the Fasthopian Republic, was convicted by ordinary Hakka, whose aim is to grab a consider. British or Irish subjects to fight on her behalf, credit of Profit and Loss Account, which admits Cod. Ziver Oll with Hypophosphites. Very attributed the prosperity of the Cape to its a court-quartal and sentenced to be hanged to sblo piece of land, cultivate it, marry.
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down. The man who go in for charcoal-burning rosas, Russia in Bokhara and. Eastern China, rate as last year. This distribution will absorbing testimonial paid I have proscribed "Scotyle Mr. Labouchere moved that the Hote 80 *The present owners of the Fendroyant and camphor-making are, on a rale, à miserable, not a Power, can stir a foot even on the most £39,671.4.0, laxving £6,066.13.7 to be capied Emulsion' in asses of câfideen suffering from adjourn, for the purpose of demanding farther bellare the work of reconstruction will be class, often descending below the level of the legitimate business of fin pwn without our getting forward to next year's account.
wasting and mal-mutrition and can report mart explanations regarding the Nile expedition, Sir finished before the close of the current year, and worst beggar savage of the borders." Soch man lato a five ni iritability. We actually question The loss of the stormer Tal Wo, referred to favourably of its good effect ; it has been in each WAL Harcourt (upported the motion, and quoted that next spring the vessel will be in condition are not, it may be conceived, scrappinus la their the right of Rumia to bald a railway to in the last report, has been charged in the case than most readily". PERETUR, from the Italian Green. Book to show that the to be exhibited. As it is intended that the old dealings with the savages, or careful in their Kanank within w own territory. We are Underwriting Account of 1891, which nevertheless, R.C.H., Medical Superintendent, Battalga expedition was undertaken to the interest of frigate shall be exhibited in all the principal operations on the camphor-iness. If Japanese already to fight because the threatens, as after writing off the foregoing 10,000, shows the Hospital. Any Chemist can supply, the Sobe Faly and that the iden of say danger to the parts of the world, it is not unlikely that the administration were directed to the control of wax laney, to advance in Northern: Parsing satisfactory balance at credit of G84,591.16%. Agate for Hongkong and din kampira Egyptian frontier was paraly an after thoughts, wil doing day be thourad in Hongkong harbour. | ruchy and to ansering pertainence of supply by i nadi wa puolively reveam with diacentiemny i Ames teresante Cinebar atormentaly Calan p-Watkina & Cay Hongling - Mười,
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