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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1897.
To-day's Advertisements.
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION,
The Hongkong Telegraph
THE PROTEST AND REMONSTRANCE NOTICE is hereby given that the THE CHINESE POSTAL SERVICE
of the
SHIPPING INTEREST
Agalast: the Imposition of s
LIGHT DUES FOR THE SAKE OF REVENUE;
2nd lost.
יו
- AMONG THE WARSHIPS.
A VIIT TO TWO GREAT FLAGSHIPS.
Morr uananal has been the depth of water over the Warung Bar during the part few days, something over as feet, says the öfercury of
Seldom has Hongkong's pretty harbour been Tax Hongkong Volunteer Corps dance, which seen to so much advantago as at present, being was originally fixed for the 5th instant, has heen falily fitted with warships. The display is a very postponed until Wednesday, the 10th instant, representativa one, indeed, and embraces (in Buller on board H.,M.S, Centurion. We are The cry is a far que from the old Victor on account of a dance to be given by Admiral | naval architectme, at launɛ) neverni generations. requested to ask these guests who have already Emanuel to the little business-like torpedo received invitations for the 5th to note this alter destroyers, and in between are specimens of what ation.
(the Powers hava hom time to time adopted sa
ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEET. ING of the SHAREHOLDERS In, this CORPORATION will be held at the CITY HALL, Hongkong, a SATURDAY, the 13th day of February next, at NOON, for the purpose of together with the whole of the correspondence relying the Rest of the Com: of Director that has recently passed between the GOVERNOR together with a Statement of Arcount to 31 the Imperial Chinese Post Office. We note and their opinions taken on the subject. Gor up in admirable style and printed in all the highest types of warships. Our own Big-
and the SINIOR UNOFFICIAL__ MINDEX OF COUNCIL and the Hon, T. H. WHITEHEAD and
the GOVERNOR on the subject of
SPECIAL LIGHT DUES;
and the correspondence between the Liverpool Steamship Owners Association and the Board of Tizde on the question of Light Dues, the Departmental Cominiitre's report on the
MERCANTILE MARINE FUND, and Sir GEORGE BADEN-POwkLe's letter to the Timer on the Mercantile Marine Fund, Fair- play's comments thereon, and a report on excesire Light Dues levied in the Bosphorus,
Printed to bandy ferm for transmission by the Mail or for ready reference,
FOR SALE
AT THE
" HONGKONG TELEGRAPH" OFFICE. PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY,
Orders can now be booked by the
MANAGER,
Dicember, 1894.
By Order of the Court al Directors,
T. JACKSON,
Chief Masiger, Hongkong, 27th January, 1907. fod HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION.
OTICE is aczeby givca that the NREGISTERS SHARES of the CORPORATION will be CLOSED from SATUR. DAY, the 30th Janusy currant, to SATURDAY, the 13th day of February next (both days taclusfre), docleg which persed ng Tranitár oF SHARES can be Registered.
By Order of the Court of Direclers,
'T, JACKSON,
Chief Maniger, Hongkong, syth Tanuary, 1897.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW.
Hongkong Tekeraph Office, THE Company's Steamship
6, Pedder's Hil.
Hongkong, 27th January, 1897. OPENING MONDAY, 1st February, 1897.
WILLISON'S
WORLD CIRCUS
AND
TRAINED ANIMAL EXHIBITION OF THE
WORLD'S DOMESTIC PITS DIRECT FROM SOUTH AFRICA. COMING BY SPECIAL STEAMER.
Introducing for the First time in Hongkong Comopolitan Congress of Celebrities Called from the Front Ranks of the Gymnurile,
Acrobatic and Equestriın Professions.
A MAGNIFICENT STUD
OF
EQUIRATIONAL EQUINES, CLEVER CUNNING CANINES. MERRY MONKEYS, EDUCATED GOATS
AND
PERFORMING PIGEONS.
NEW AND NOVEL PROGRAMMES, OPENING MONDAY NEXT
In our Mammoth Marquee, Briliantly. Lighted, superbly seated and located on the RECLAMA- TION GROUND, back of the Cryr HALL.
WATCH FOR
SATURDAY ADVERTISEMENTS.
Hongkong, 27th January, 1897.
OCHAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL. "HE Company's Steamship
THE
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"MYRMIDON," Captain Gardner, will be despatched as abova on WEDNESDAY, the 3rd Februsy, For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agenta.
Hongkong, 17th January, 1907,
Exss
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY, FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ CANAL 12 THE Company's Steamship
"TANTALUS,"
Captala Hannah, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 13th February.
For Freight or Partige, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong, 27th January, 1897. [200
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
JAPAN-AUSTRALIA LINE.
MONTHLY SERVICE.
น
(Under Mall Contraci.)
FOR THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
THE Company's Steamship
"OMI MARU," Captain C. Young, will be despatched for the above Ports on TUESDAY, the 16th February, Mt 4 F.3.
This Steamer is fited with Superior Passenger Accommodation and is lighted by Electricity throughout. A daly qualified Doctor is carried.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 37th January, 1897, [194
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
JAPAN-BOMBAY LINE,
MONTHLY. SERVICE - (Under Mall Contract)
FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY, (Calling at TUTICORIN on the homeward Voyage.)
THE Company's Steamship
by OPOMIIKE MARU,” A Capisin P. H. Going, will be despatched as abors on WEDNESDAY, the 17th February, at Noch.
For Fright or Panago, applyckov
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
· Hongkong, myth January, 1897, 1
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greatly increased staff and expenditure that must accompany and follow any change in the present methods of dealing with Chiness correspondence. The Cham- HOMORONG, WEDNEIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1597ber of Commerce has not been consulted; no orders, regulations, or Instructions of any kind have been issued. Nothing in fact We note in the Shanghal papers, and done to prepare for so great a change! extract therefrom paragraphs published In Perhaps we are wrong. Perhaps the this issue, a list of postal charges to be official-Uneficial Members of Council levied on the transmission of mail matter by have been got together in secret conclave
also that this Imperial Chinese Post Office Perhaps, too, the Commissioners of the is to commence operations in China at the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs at beginning of the next Chinese year, that is Kowloon and Lappa are in this matter next Tuesday. We note further, with the confidential advisers of the Govern- regret, that there is as yet no official ment. Anyhow, it is full time the public notification by our Government, either in were favoured with definite Information. English or Chinese, as to the arrangements to be made for dealing In the Colony with Chinese correspondence coming loto or to go out of this colony, although it must be tolerably évident that the establishment of
■ Government Post Office on the opposite
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
AT LAST!
LONDON, January 25th. Owing to the prevalence of the plague, the
been stopped.
manner thắt leaves nothing to be desired is the ship, the Conturion, ents a commanding figure least that can be said about the Race Book (for the throng, hit great white hull and the 1897 meeting) just published by Messrs towering superstructure making her a splendid Noronha & Co., of Zelland Street. The book is exemplification of Britain's through on the out is good time, and as a great deal of interest, and her smaller consorts, the Grafton, Is belog teken In the forthcoming Heating it | Redpole, and Swift, and the perky defiant-look- should find a ready sale.
[ing Hart and Hawdy and other vessels uzaist fo make admirable surroundings for the ship with Ar a meeting of the Sanitary Board to be held the fag." Then our frienda the Germans also.. at 4.15 p.m. (c-morrow returns showing the pro- make a goodly show with their trim white gress of the plaque si Bombay and of the smallraisers, but thelt ligably, whatever her fighting par epidemic at Kobs will be among the papers power, in certainly no beauty, giving too much tabled. We are afraid the retums of the proof an idea of "datapiness." France in repre- gress of the plague at Bombay will not be way wanted by a big lump of a ship,” us sailors say, the piague at Kanischen to be submitted to full of deadly intent. Her masts era as thick na the meeting?
most steambost funnels and fn the lower
[107 mainland and at Canton must make a grimage from Bombay and Kurraches has edifying. Why are no returns of the progress of painted black, her nidan bristiing with long guna
"HAILOONG.” Captain Davis, will be despatched for the above Porton FRIDAY, the 29th Instant, at Daylight.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co,
Geners! Managers.
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Kangkong, 17th January, 1897.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE,
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"CHINGTU," Captain Innes, will be despatched on SATUR DAY, the 13th February, at 3 P.Ma
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior Accommodation offered by this Steamer.
huge difference. Hitherto Chinese firms and agencies have collected, letters from their clients and customers in the Colony and undertook to convey and distribute them to their addresses in China. Each firm collected correspondence destined for some particular city, or district, or group of villages, and for no others. Letters coming from those places were sent here for distribution by the same firm here. Each establishment was independent of every other and there was no common responsibility in any one. With the establishment of the Imperial Chinese Post Office one of the most important fanctions
continue to collect and distribute, but they of these agencles must cease. They may cease to convey. Let us consider for a
FRANCE AND RUSSIA. The Tear his ordered that M, Marawieff shall
vult Paris in order to be presented to President Faure, and to see the French Minister before returning to St. Petersburg to assume the foreign pertfallo, M. Muravieff will also go to Berlin.
THE PROPOSED BIMETALLIC
CONFERENCE.
Mr. Balfour states that there is no probabfifty of the Beltish Government inftating a bimetallic emlemenes.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S
BIRTHDAY.
The 38th anniversary of the birth of i is was celebrated to-day with all the pomp and Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Germany circumstance attaching to soyalty. At an early
spect, the large fleet of British and foreign war- ships all belog fally "dreased in bunting in
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IN reference to the Carew case Sport and Gossip saysOf all the moving incidents in the pain. ful drama now being enacted in Yokohama none more curious will, I think, be found than that connected with the formal and dry precedure of drawing those to be summoned on the jury, In the book are the names with a number against then, in a bag are the numbers, and the first counter diawn was that allotted to the dead man,
The First-class Saloon Is situated forward of the moment, with a view to illustrate what we hear the harbour presented a bright and pretty | Walter Raymond Hallowell Carew.
Engines. A Refilgerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provisione during the entire
A daly qualified Surgeon is carried and the All existing agencies in Canton are, we honour of the occasion, the German, analga in Ting Fang, the Chloste Minister to the United Inspection." The Olympia is a fine roomy
Voyage.
Intimations.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & COMPANY, LIMITED, VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG
AERATED WATERS.
IMPLE AERATED WATER,
SIMPLE
SODA GINGER ALE
WATER.
LEMONADE.
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During the forenoon. divine service waskeld on board the German Bigship Kater and a large number of residents went off to the hip to takes part in it. All the warship's duty beats flew their ensigns and they, too, helped to enliven thescene as they darted to and fro,
From 72.30 til 1.15 the German Consel (Dr. w. Knappe) held a Birthday Levée" and large number of officials and private residants attended to do honour to His Majesty through his representative.
The salateswere fired at 12 noon promptly, and for some time before this housetops and other
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DAKIN. CRUICKSHANK, & Co.'s WATERS 16 made under the constant supervision of a day qualified English Chemist and will beat com for the present at least, here, as in Canton, close attendance with the Victor Bmanust." In | Advance Agent, Mr. F. L Y. Mariyne;,was deck and officers and men on dick also refumed
rion with the best English, Manufactures.
JOHN FRANKLIN, & quatermaster on the P.&O.military" tops are copholes for the French three months with hard labour for having assaulthan they did at Trafalgar, where a "man in a steamer Condon, was yesterday sent to prison for harpshooters to fire from with much more salaty ted the fourth officer of the vessel. His conduct glased hat" shot from the old-fashioned top was severely commented upon by Capt, Hastings | with only too tras an aim at he who broke who raid it was this class of man who disgraced | Napoléon's · spall of power and wal the Merchant Service and caused foreigners to be and ever will be, England's darling. Just a | employed by preference on British vessels. | little distance away is the fagship of Uncha
And Captain Hastings was quite right.
Sam, the famous Olympia with "Old Glory" Bring from her alter Jackstad, sad big guns projecting from her sides and torrent in all directions, Near by is the big Russian flig ship, the Rurië, = grim-looking fighter, set off by her three andling masts and a bargan-rig. A consort of hers, the Roresloy, is moored oppe. site and is a handsome vessel, barquentine- rigged, with an imposing brandede battery." Olympia yesterday and, despite the fact that the A Telegrapă îpresentative was on board the
mean, how correspondence from and to
had only arrived a few hours belowo, she was su Canton (the city) must be dealt with.
On Monday at 10.30a.m. His Excellency Wart and clean as a warship when ready ko
uli cason flying at the malò. Tän voznela vere
Sintes, Spals, and Peru, accompanied by his craft and the upper deck, which is clear of guns, | Vessel fa fifted throughout with Electric Light, understand, to be recognised as local post all dressed in rainbow fashion, the lines of Secretarier, paid an official visit to His Excellency gives the crew space that is often denied them
For Freight or Passage, apply to
offices by the Chinese Government. They digs beleg canied up from the sterns, over the
the Governor at Government House, where in war vessels. The turrets are in sliker end of BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
will therefore collect letters and receive trucks, and down to the bows. The Buri Sir Willam, with his Private Secretary and Mathis deck and from each pretinde two long and Agents, Hongkong, 17th Janaavy, 1807) | for the fees thereon as heretofore, but (Russian flagship) having.square-tigged meats
Stewart Lockhart, received His Excellency. The highly polished guns. These are the 8-in wis> instead of transmliding their bags to was able to vary the display, her bunting being Gavemer, accompanied by his Private Secretary pons and the broadsides consist of so g-in quiche an agent of their own
here they brought down from the mastheads to the end and the Colonial Secretary, returned the call frers, 14 dih guns, and then for all macells. of her ys:ds on eliber side. The two yesterday at 10.45am. at "Idlewild," where the neous work there are 6 lb guns and 4 must now send the bags lo some central office in Canton under the contro
"destroyers," Hart and Handy, Joined in the Chinese Minister is at present staying.
machine guns. These arms are all kept in celebration and though their siampy little mastr AT a regular meeting of Eetben Mark Lodge, (beautiful order and bespeak pride and care for of the Imperial Maritime Customs, paying afforded poor scope for decorative work, they No. 164, last pight Wor. Bro. P. R. Simmonds them on the part of officers and men. The cons. over or accounting for a proportion of the each bad strings of flags carried over the spars was installed as W.M. for a second period of ditions of service for blusjackets in the United charges, and all the bags so gathered in ore and at.
twelve months by Wor. Bro. A. OD. Gourdia | States Navy are very different from those in the by the central organisation will be exam-
| and a. Board of Installed Masters. The | British Navy, the former shipping men as A.B.4, ined and stamped or weighed or taken
WM appointed and invested his officers ordinaries, boys, or landsmen, right away.. The as followsS.W Bro. S. J. Hanisch J.W4 men thus enlisted ara of all nationalities, and they account of In some way on the spot and
Bro. D, Macdonald M.D., F. W. Edwards; then transmitted in bulk to Hongkong by
5.0., Ji Lachend ; J.D. K. W. Monkey; Trea. upset the theory of a British authority who steamer, to be delivered here to our
surer, Wor. Bea. A. O'D. Gourdin; Secretary, claimed that it was a costly and elaborate G. Piercy, Jr.: SD., F. D. Goddard; J.D., A. work to fit a merchant sallar for the Navy. General Post Office and not, as before,
G. Aliken ; 1.G., C. W. Spelago | Tyler, J. Many of the Olympia's men have only seen each bag to its separate address. We
Grimble Wilson's Great World Circus will arrive here the end of their three years they'll go home. paval service since she commissioned and at presume, in the absence of Information SARSAPARILLA,
that our Post Office will for the present
from Halphong on Saturday, the joth instant, tally trained for further service. While the ASPBERRYADE, &c. merely distribute the bags and take no
and will open on the Prays Reclamation reporter WAI
board a Brilah gab. RAS
note of the individual letters, as it has points of wanisgo ashore ware filed with specta- | Ground at the back of the City Hall on Monday, boat passed. The bugla wounded “Slience," the
tors. The vends looked welfwith their guns ran neither room to sort them nor hands to ont ready for firing and the big Russian's double undertake the work of house to house dis-The Katser way the first to fire, followed by the row gave her quite a formidable appearance, tribution. The local agencies will become, Rurth and Centurion, the Olympis being in local post offices for collection and dis- second, amit was seen from all the ships, and the din was well-nigh deslealog. The ships tribution. To look at the other side of int salated numbered 15, and included 8 the picture, we presume that Chinese letters British, 3 Germans, a Roulins, French, and 1 American, and 'as most of them have In Hongkong may either be posted at our heavy guns they made many of the old buildinge Post Office or sent as hitherto to the prion shore satile again, and the prudent ones took the precaution of opening windows to prevent vate agencies and by them in bags to the concussion breaking them. Looking at the their several addresses to the post office scene from an unobstructed point of view the for transmission to Canton: If something impression was conveyed of a big naval engage of the kind we have Indicated is not to ment, the cabons' smoke soon obscuring the zay bunting aloit. People whose business took take place either here or at Canton, we them afloat at the time had rather, an uncomfor- cannot conceive how the proposed great lable five minutes, but they have at least the consolation of being able to say that they have change is to operate at all. But if we melt powder" even if they have not "felt have correctly foreshadowed the nature steel" of the intended alteration in the methods of dealing with letters here and in Canton, we would ask if any reasonably sufficient arrangements have been made here for] doing the work to be thrown in a few days on our Post Office? The number of letters, TEE Star Kastrela" of H.M.S; Immortalité,
rows of guns and tapering mastu; „mada. many containing money, exchanged be- in deck, will give an entertainment at the
Russien flagship. Har lofty hill, with its desist Docks ut. 8.30 to-night. A expital' programmne
her look quite a different style of warship tween here and Canton daily is to be has bean arranged.
In that - Warkly Share Liar Lemed this after- from what people are now nocnstemad reckoned in thousands. Who is to handle
neon Messrs. Benjamin, Keity and Patts write to woning, and her dingy grey colour gives them, either singly or in bags! If they T-MORROW afternoon Mr. Armstrong wit-Stuce our last circular a decided improvement main deck one gets a good det of the firgship'y
■ huavy ind - sinister arpent. On the PRICE LISTS, with Full Details, to be kad on come in baga each addressed to a known al auction lots 1 to 19 adjoining the raca-course has to be recorded in the market and ratan fet size, thé grést'open space with its throng of bla. for the erection thereon of booths during the nearly all stocks show a considerable advance Jackets being more roomy than some streets agency and not to be opened at the Post forthcoming races on the 17th, 18th, sed 19th on the previous week's quotations. Hong The Black runs are mounted on this deck and Office the work is comparatively easy, but | prax. still quite beyond the present staff, who The German warship. Fristusa Wikas made can't be trusted to deliver a local letter at a pretty display this evening, showing the Im If to individual addresses, the postal and made a grand display from yard-arms and East Point or Kowison under three days. serial crown and " W." underneath, - The AF- | establishment will have to be strengthened the Kafier also made a noble show, true Keres Wines.
by dozens of carriers before a day's letters we are requested to state that notice has been CLARET. Our Clarets, incinding the lowest
Priced, are guaranteed to be the gesale can be sent out. How Is postage to be received from Oxford that Roman Catholic penduct of the juice of the grape and are not paid? What rates are to be levied candidates for the Local Examination desirous artificially made from rains and curate, here, and how are they to be col of having papers on religious subjects-sit by as is generally the case with Cheap Wines lected?. If by stamps, then the Post Office their co-religionists can intimats the fact by BRANDY-All'our Brandy i guaranteed to be must see and handle every letter. We tag cross la red tak fortead of writing the
pure COGNAC, the difference in prica belog are very much afraid that there is no one word "yes" against the subjects.. merely a question of age and vintage. at present in the Post Office with sufficient THE new troopship Thomas Andrea, built by WHISKEY--All our Whiskey is of excellent knowledge or experience of postal work Fenwick and Co., for the Portuguese Gorer- qually and of greater agethan most brands to be competent to deal with the increasement, for service between Hacas and Timer, marked "E" is universally popular, and is of work and the kind of work that muust was taken for a trial apfu today and, under ad pronounced by the best local connotasars be prepared for, or, is it true that the weather conditions, she did zoj knots, to be superior to any other brand la Government of the Colony are going to me. A full report, will appear to-morrow.
which is one knot owes the specified contract Hongkong market.
further. abdicate their functions" as pa Government and
Special terms HOTELS, CLUBS, MESES and other Large Consumeri, Any complainit should be addressed in the Manager. Renaleano, ári Maw vist
TO SUBSCRIBERS.
SUBSCRIBERS TO #ME
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH ARE MOST RESPECTFULLY REMINDED THAN ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE,
A. S. WATSON & CO.,
LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
WINES
SPIRIT S.
AND
ALL these are selected by our Landon Hous”, bought direct it first hand, imported in we: and bottled by ourselves, thus saving all inter mediate profits, and enabling us to supply the best growths at MODERATE PRICES,
Application.
PORT after removal should be rested a month before use. When resolid for drinking at once it should be ordered to be decanted at
the DISPENSARY before being sent out.
SHERRY.-Excellent Dinner and After Dinner Wines of vity superior Vintages. All are
in the market, The SCOTCH WHIKRY
We only guarantee our WRs and SPIRITS to be genuina whan bought direct from us is the Colony or from our authorised Agents hi the Coast Ports
Our Teutonic friends forwarded to-day through the Consul a telegram congratulating their august Sovereign.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
the Impe THE ordinary half-yearly meeting of shirt- holders to the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking rial, Maritime Castonis to have
Corporation will be held at the City Hall on their own Post Office hare and run Skurday, thesis prom, at noon, for the purpose a Chinese mall service in the Colony ? Opé: of receiving the report of the Count of Directors, thing is very strange. The Council have her with a statement of account to g. ra not been, asked to suration or stota tips | Desember, 1196.
A. SA WATSON & CO. LD. THE HONGKONG DISPRIGSARY 'Hanzhong, ich, Septembeń Tłodzi
the rat February. Most of our readers will be glad band and a geard of marines mustered on the convenient spot as the Reclamation Ground, a few bart of God save the Queen." The to hear that the circur tent will be pliched in auch quarterdeck and the Olympia's mmicians played and we understand that permission to the English ship's marines stated from the upper obtained from the Government through the good the slate of our cousins. *. Immediately offices of some of ourleeding residents, who kindly sher ail was hostle-again ; the boʻrmon” mater refrained from exising any objection to the piping in all parts and the ture hoisting and Circus tent being pitched in such close proximity moving gest, and slipping along handsomely, to their offices If the police take proper men-Below deck the faginip has comfortable, sures to regulate the traffe in the vicinity of the and spacious quarters for her 440 officers circus there should be no ground for complafats, and men, and her big guns, when fired, of throwing THE publishers of Letts's Diaries for 1807 anchors shout and bending plates. like those of appear to be somewhat bahind the times. In their the Indiana. The Olympia was built ma the information as to the exchangeable value of Union Ironworks, San Francisco, in 1893, and coins is the East, as the following extracts will came to this station in 1895, this being hur fiint show-
Ispaste süver you of 102801.mentalis 49, 1jë,
Calma River täaš. Marcen siver pass (dole)
HÉR TIL The following note le appended to the table from which the abova is taken z----
Note The above that gives the principal soice of each county with their values la fugih moday, but is many countries The values are algkdy mulable according to the rate of on changs between Chest Britain and otÁME SOMMES,* Quite true. Values do vary slightly according to the rates of exchangs, but it is as well to get the conect values fint. The difference between
p/t the present and 4/37 the reported value of the dollar, seams to sa to be more than a säght
variation...
not s
Kabit
visit to Hongkong, and she dies tan broad. Pamant of Rear-Admiral McNair, That the Olympia is a fast vousel is khown by the good time in which she came here from Nagamki (Ge hours from light to light), and not lang nga slas mande a spla, under 'maturi draught, when she did so knots. In addition to her complement of guns, this fine protected cruiser >kas ma less than alx torpado tubes, one being right in her of 340 ft., breadth 53 ft., displacement 5,800 kas baw and near the water line. She has a length and a maximun draught of 21 ft. 6 in.
A visit al inspection was also paid tema
kong and Shanghai Banks remalo vary with some 6-inch waspine, urs worked from quiet and only mill sales at 184 and 125 per barbettes and behind steel shields. At the London quotation is £43. Nationals are wanted, werden skips of the line used to here cent premium kare been affected. Latest main and fore tops are platforma lica the old
sing shipping stocks, and have ben maken of the on the lower de la even more remark but am not obtainable, at 8a5 in Qath, Respect and call the ropes, stays, shouts braces, this firm states Steamboats | tacks, etc, were la admirable order. The some market at $35 and $35t, closing steady, able, being as lofty and well lighted and Douglass have hufened, and toe wanted at ventilated that one could for while imagina 36:1 Docks have experienced a sharp riss himself anywhere but on a modern warship. have been done at 993 und 22%, and clow in on either, side and the way and aftre sales at 21 and 224 per cent, premiums. Here are ruas ef various kinds large and paki
which they are demand.“
kara · Lancredi to -the - Russian: hiwajackets. MR. GODEsmon, who lately retired from the rose et on in als stern walk from a large The Adulmis quartuen man right' mitj and he Bengal Civil Service, writes in a letter to the chamber filled with palms, ferat, and: olar Calcutta Staterman - I send you photographs beautiful plants, and which is a perfect on of two groups of lamatan of the Table and ward-room are all most constatata servatory, The Admiral'ın salam, Captain's Foorhouse, taken fort as they stood in love for and countmodious quarters, the wardernom reach. their daily fospention. They are not selected in close upon the fall breadth of the ship. specimens, and from them you will be able to There are about 675 officers and men, on board Judge for yourself to the condition of a con- the Red and for fill this largs number there siderable properties of the people of this is the most ample accommodation, Lesking (Jubbulporn), division." The Stalermo com- down along the lo war deck is lik mentson this communication as follows *-* The gazing down jame maastor arcade, fad pictures tall their own txin, and no comment fakere, as above, was an unbroken, stretch the mueried to heighten its meaning
"Keglect", "and" | guard's, quarter new The dilemad on condemnation they cry of The full langth of the ship, save where the sher apsiky of the Local Administration, that has board- fare ragutine wea poni, of small borty permifted a large action of the population of something after the British apps The Defors and pastate kind that has resulted in are very enthusiarde in their prodhonon and they the Central Provinent in dirita - laus fad helpless are for the most part, young tim, who weldanti 290,000 deaths any pre radionos jako kena penye amed, ther equipoint of shalt vyštndid-ship (Tina Kurth in