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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1897.
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FOR WEST RIVER PORTS,
ment, of a son,
BIRTHS
baan confirmed.
Six
ONE FOR BALDIR -"Here y'are, ladies and
A COLLISION occurred in the Canton River on REPORTS that merious revolts have taken place The Royal Atlatle Society has determland, as a means of commemorating Her Majesty's long On the 4th May, at 10, York-terrace, New Tuesday between the steamer Parig and the song the troops of the Congo Free State,
Orlantai scholarship. Brampton, the wife of Cantain P, da S, BASE, taunch Les Paž, the raanit being that the latter including a portion of Baron Dhania's expedi. I telgu, to found a gold medal for distinguished Royal Irish Regiment and Army Pay Depacs | vassol was sunk near Whampos. It was the Zee Honary force, have
On the 5th May, at Glengarry, Kirtiston. Par that ran down a police launch in Hongkong Kuropean officers have been murdered. Baron (KONGMOOM; KAMCHUCK, SAMSHUT, SHUTHIKO. | AVERNs, Weymouth, the wife of Lent. G. W. Harbaur some months ago, whan a jukong wai | Dhinis has collected the troops who remained Rent, splendid view of the planet Marя. Ona Con, R.N., H.M.S. Boscawen, ola daughter. drowned. No lives were lost in Tuesday's loyal, and has gone to Nyangive to suppress the
MARRIAGE. On the 6th May, at St. George's, Hanover,
WE much regret to learn, says the Singapore Artillere, son of Colonel Farben Macbere, late aand Highlanders, Forgeant-at-Arms to the Queen, to MARGARET MACDONALD, daughter of the late Thomas Humphreys, Esq, and Mr. Humphreys, of Clare House, East Malling, 1915 Kent, and Waterloo-crescent, Dover."
TAKINO and WUCHOW.}
*WINGTONG "
OFFICES wil to: CLOSED at the THE Steamabip
Transaction of Public Business on TUESDAY
accident.
disturbancer there,
panny, mum," Old Lady: "Oh lor! Ala it round and smooth?" Telescope Man: "WIE the bald-headed gont please też stop away from ther front of the fusterment 7" THE following appointments, with effect from
and WEDNESDAY, the 32nd and aged toptant, | wil be despatched as above TO-MORROW, the / #quare, London, Capiala W. A MACBRAN, ROYAL | wx read in a Homa piper that little doubt in Friz Frets, that a grently respected family the 1st January las', have been garotied in the,
the day appointed «ia this Colney for the Celebration of the SIXTIETH ANNIVER- SARY of the Rutam or Hin MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN :-
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
General Agents,
CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LD,
General Managers,
HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE CO., LD.
W. J. SAUNDERS,
Astlag Secretary,
UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY or
CANTON, L.D.
W, H. PERCIVAL,
Agent,
NORTE-CHINA INSURANCE CO., LD.
WH RAY,
Secretary,
CHINA TRADERS' Insurance Co., LD, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,
Agents,
YANOTSZE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION,LD.
J. B. COUGHTRIE,
Secretary,
CHINA FIRE Insurance Co., LD.
W. H. T. DAVIS,
Acting Manager,
THE STRAITS Insurance Co., LD.
Hongkong, 11th Jana, 1807.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P
HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Steamship
* RAVENNA,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.
1931
Consignees of Cargo by the above-named vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted eat mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
This vessel brings on Cargo :—
From London, &c., ex S.S. Australa. From Gibraltar, ex S.S. ShanxON.
From Persian Gulf, ex S.S. Astyrtos, Kapur- thala and King Arthur.
Optional goods will be landed here unless Instructions are given to the contrary before 4 P.M. TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 17th instant, at 4 P., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever,
All damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns and certificata of the damage obtained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessels arīíval here, after which no Claims will be recognized.
H. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent.
Hongkong, 11th June, 107.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
FOR SHANGHAL
THE Company's Steamship
"ORESTES,"
||
rath Instal, at Daylight,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, with June, 1897.
Intimations.
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HONGKONG
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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1897%,
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.
LONDON, Jane gib.
entertained that the eight shallow-drawght stern-" wheel steamers now being hurtled forward by Messa Yarrow and Thornycroft are meant, la the first instance, for the next campaign in the
resident in Singapore his suffered the loss of a Strait Settlement. Mr. J. T. Least, M.R.C.M., Lear relative in the recent deplorable disaster | to be Colonial Surgeon Resident, Singapore. at a charity bazzar la Paris. Madame Brasier Mr. G. D. Freer, M.R.C.S., to be Colonial Surgeon Resident, Penang. Mr. F. Croucher, Mr. L. B. Clayton acts temporarily as Assistant Protector of Chiasse, Singapore. Ir is (says the Times) understood that the Eastern Telegraph Company demur to cr:ducing the cablegrams respecting the Jameson, raid which passed between Mr. Rhodes and Dr. Rutherford Hands, and that, in assuming this attitude, they take thele stand upon the provisions of the International Telegraph Convention. The first business, therefore, for the British South Africa Committee will be to determine whether
| Sonďan, and that later on at least two will & de Thuy was one of the anfortunate victims M.B, C.M.. to be Colonial Surgeon, Malacon. of the fire. This lady was the aunt of M. Brasfer de Thuy, of Singapore, and was alster- la-law of M. de Bare, of the Compagnie des Messageries Martimes.
sint to China to protect British subjects when mecessary in those treaty. Doris on the Yang inaccessible to gundoals, and in the new poris to be opened on the West River. For the remaining vessels there is plenty of employment | LADIES and gentlemen ara reminded what the to be had both on the East and West Coast of | Grst combloed practice of 'the Hallelujah Chorus Alrica. They are to be ready in six months, and and other music to be sung at the Racecourse the total cost will not, it is sald, exceed at 5 p.m. on the sand last, will be held in the £100,000.
Theatre, City Hall, to-morrow afternoon at
A profcol modifying the Burma-Chinese Con- Tax Straits Times states in its issue of 5th vention of 1894 has been signed at Paklog. It June that the appeal of the sugar planters in cedes to Great Britain the state of Kokang, Java in the Government of the Netherlands Indias agrees to the paning of new trade routes, for rollef from the export duty there, now that allows British subjects and their prolfgis ta they are so bard purbed by beet growers, bai settle in Stumas (sfc) and Momein or Shun-only met with partial success. All that the ning-fe for the establishment of trade, and have got is the concession that the export duty grants Great Britain a perpetual lease of a large will be levied on the value of the article! instead tract south of Mamwan to be under the of on the quantity. The export duty on coffee administration and control of Great Britain. has also been changed in the same way. The duties at present are 15 gulider cents per too The negociations for peace between Turkeylogrammes on suger, and one guilder per the like weight on coffee. The glit bears a and Greece are making but slow progress and suspicious appearance. It looks as if the as likely to be protracted. In the meantime Government expect a revenue loss from sugar Grecce is presslog the Powers to accelerate them as keeping her army in the field is drain by the change, but seek to make it good by
raising the coffee tax. ❘ing the resources of the country.
TRE PEACE NEGOCIATIONS,
GREAT activity is now being displayed all over LOCAL AND GENERAL.
the city in preparing for the Jubilee illumina tians. The City Hall and the Hongkong and Tar boying rate for sovereigos in $9.91 per L-
Shanghai Bank a well-nigh ready for the H.M.S. Rafadow Is at Hakodate, and the placing in position of the lanterns. Similar Redpols in at Nagasaki.
preparations are being made at the new Victoria MR. W. H. WILLANY has been re-elected Hotel, the Queen's Road entrance to the Hong- Chairman of the London Chamber of Commerce. kang Hotel, the Clock Tower, Post Office, Supreme Court and Central Markets. A nom- H.M.S Spartan, istely on the Chios Station,der of arches are going up in various parts of paid off at Devosport on the rak alt. She is the Western and of the city and many business to take part in the Jubilee Review.
houses are baving gaslight designs fixed. The recently established Austro-Hungarian Conial.
all to be illuminated as well. In fact, the Gas Hight Co. is so busy that orders should be sent in at once to avoid disappointment.
it
that
5:30 pm, under the conductorship of Mr. W. G. Bentley, A.R.CM. Sopranos and tenors ara requested to occupy the seats on the floor of the Theatre, facing the sight of the stage, and the Contraltos and Basses on the left facing the 18.
THE newly-erected pigeon left at Mount Wise, Devonport, is now being utilised, about sixty birds having been transferred there from the Royal Naval Barracks, Keyham. Some of the older birds have given considerable trouble by returning to their former quarters directly they are released for exercise. Pigeons on which reliance can be placed will be used on a large
· number of vessels in the mobilised feet on the
26th Juns.
The Revue du Cercla Militaire says that the Spaolab losses from the beginning of the till the end of losurrections in Caba February 1897, out of a total of 216:599 officers and men, were: general, superior officers, 55 officers, and 1,130 soldiers killed in action; 6 superior officers, officers, and 577 soldiers died of their wounds; general, 30 superior officers, 237 officers, and 10,475 saldiers died of yellow fever a generals, 24 pperior officers, 89 officers, and over 10,000 soldiers died of ordinary diseases or accidenta. AT Bombay the plague has decreased so greatly that it is no longer a prominent tople of con- versellon there. "A Bombay aplom farmer bas stated that the number of habitual consumers of the drag there may be estimated at heatly 10,0:0. From enquiries he has made, he believes that amongst these people. Several of them were there has only been a single death from plague
exception, the man being only a moderata cazu somer. One of the pailents who overcame the attack look no less than 135 grains of oplum daily.
steps shall be iskan to enforca thely demand, THE torpedo boat destroyer Star, bulit at Palmer's yard, had a successful trial on April and, reaching an average speed of 40,103 kaota per bour. The requirements were 6,000 horsepower, speed 3a kools and a coal consumption of a pounds per horsepower per hour. For every one tenth of a pound in excess of a pounds the bost was to carry a ton ton extra load and stil attain a speed of 30 kasts. The trial gave data within the requirements and the builders were not put in the fulfillment of default alternatives. THE delayed M.M. Yarra was to leave Sloga- pore on Friday, the 4th last, at 10 nm. She loft Shanghel Sve days late, and left Saigon on the 2nd at a p.m., and will leave Singapore only three days lata. The very fast steamer Poll.
weries will take the Parra's mall at Colombe and it le thought that the mall may be delivered in London libla twenty or, at the most, twenty- twenty-four days for the mail by the Prinz one days from Singapore. If so, and allowing Hiturich, the Yarra's wall may be only one day behind that sent by the Prins Heturich, THE reports published some week ago in the Franch Freis concerning the massacre of the Botlego African exploring expedition see now, unhappily, confirmed. It appears that all the members of the expedition, composed of five or ds Italians, loclading a naval Heutenant and a sergeant of the Italian army and some 200 Askaris, have fallen victims to native tribis, Details of the disaster are still lacking, but the authorities have evidently found it impossible On fanger to conceal the fact of the massacre. April 23rd a force of Italiane, with some Askaris of Massawah, marched Into the Wadan country for the purpose of chastising the Somalis who Zanzibar, and a number of officers. The aliens.... barned Lafoles and two other villages, killing ce Somails and wounding about ras. Both the Somalis who killed Signär Cecchi were found
mong the dead.
Advisements, de, be addressed to the Tiger, THE Foochow Roko 'saye :—It is expected
the supply of first.crop Congou and Souchong ate on Praya East and the other consulates ate tucked, but they all recovered with this slúgle | murdered Signer Cecchi, the Italian Consol et
Lecurs on Kiltoniai maždare to be wat to “The Editor” and not to individen) maniĎurn of the stan
Commementona intended for publication must be acenospantad by the nema mnd addrem of the writers, not neommały for publication r but as evidence of good fald
Whilst the commas of the Emerang Talagrude wil wways Adacting pahile interests, it must be distinctly undemood that the Editor does not in say way hold himailý ranganatble for
opladong tins expressed.
be open for the babe discussion by červsspandedts of nŭ qavaticia
TO ADVERTIBERS. Advertíones are requested to forward wil nodeas Intended for rts to that day's lenze not inter than Three o'Clock so as
NOU DA PICANÉ, DÍA warly pehltestion of the paper.
Advertisanoita and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a Land' partod will be continued natii counter.nodacă.
Captain Baker, will be despatched as above TO.
MORROW, the 11th Instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
Hongkong, 11th June, 1867.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGHAI,
"HE Company's Steamship
ΤΗΣ
"PAKHOI,"
[ga8
Captain Stott, will be despatched as above on. MONDAY, the 14th instant, at 4 P.M.
For Freight or Pasinge, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
(929
Hongkong. 11th June, 1897,
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY; LIMITED, FOR TIENTSIN (DIRECT).
THE Company's Steamship
"TAKSANG,"
Captain Rolph, will be despatchod sa abors on SATURDAY, the 19th instant, at Noon.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Manager.
1917
Hongkong, 1xth June, 18gy.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
JAPAN-AUSTRALIA. LINE. MONTHLY SERVICE (Under Mall Contract.)
FOR THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MELBOURNE. THE Company's Steamship
THE
"TOKIO MARU," Captain E. 5. Barstow, will be despatched for the above Ports on THURSDAY, the 24th Inst., at Noon.
Tile Steamer is fitted with Superior Passenger Accommodation and a duly qualified Doctor is
carried.
For Freight or Famage, apply to
i
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Hongkong, 11th June, 1897. a
NOW READY!
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COMMERCIAL AND STATISTICAL
PAPERS.
No. 1-APRIL, 1897.
Being reports of meetings of Companies and
Corporation for periods ending 31st December,
1896.
The Hanghong Thingradh has the large circolatim of say English newspaper publibed in the Far Zies, and la therefore the band madhuan for Advigilaars, Tarma can be lament on application, The Honghong Thlagraškės gumber at the Telephons Distri) Kishange V N6 1. Talagépble address imm2 Telegraph, Haughing.
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CHEMISTS BY APPOINTMENT,
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OUR AERATED WATER Factory is fitted with the best English Machinery, embodying the Intest improvemente in the trade.
The Parest Ingredients only are used, and the atment Care and Cleanliness exercised in the Manolactate throughout,
will be fully 20 per cent, short qast season, Two hundred and thres deaths were reglatered in Slagapore during the week ending. Saturday May 1gib, with a ratio of 51.13 per thousand. MINUTES of the last meeting of the Chamber of Commerce together with interesting corres
THE Stratis Times pays a graceful compliment to Hongkong la Itu Isus of the 5th instant as follows-It is the castom, perhaps a very
.
we record to-day an item of news which will doubtless cause many of the British men of business la Bangkok to ponder. The French Representative there evidently regards it as one
pondence will be found fa & supplement of this natural custom, for one colony to sayon occasions, 1 of his dutler to actively assist French commer.†
" Ad, how much better this in done at Some cisl enterprise in Slam, and in recordance with where Elsel Hongkong made that ejaculation | this notor, which will be regarded as strange
lisue of the Telegraph.
די
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RAUBS.
SINGAPORE, June 4th.
The almost indecent interest that people are
Minister of Chinx to Great Britto, Kung Chao, His Excellency Kang Fa-jen, the retired when it was found, a good time ago, that Sloga by Beklub officials, he tavlled the leading taking in the health of Mr, W. Bibby, managers
his recretary, and sulte arifved here to-day by The English mal) steamer Ravenna, en vont for the North.
THREE shop-keepers were charged by Inspector Stanton, (Inspector of weights and measures) | Already, I nee, thay (have collected about on the past of the French Chargé d' Apolres: The explanation of that rise was an increase in the
nature of the present gamble in Raubs. It is a of the Raub mines, is a sign of the feverish gamble. During 1394, 1895, and 1896, there abares factusted for most of the time at prices of from four to five dollars each, but, at the end of 1806 they crept up to about aing dollars each.
yield of gold par lon, an increase that began in the October crushing. By buying, probably, for Investment, the shares rose to eleven dollars in
dona. Frem that date, the time of stock.jab. March of this year-and, so far, no harm WAS
persons foresaw that the lime was fa vourable for a "boom." Money wascheap. The had forgotten its losses in the mining booms of community- rapidly changing community-
boom; and the biom was engineered, manipulators of the maskni balit up a vision of It has been aitately engineered, The
at the Magistracy to-day with having false weights. They admitted the charge, two of t ́em being fived Sro and the other $15. MR. J. P. Josquin, barristor-ni-law, has been appointed a Member of the Straits Legislative / care of themselves ubili the scheme taken `n dancing attendance on Slamera princesses, or,ting probably commenced. Keen and mainta
Straits Times anys he is a barrister of good standing and la good practice, and has taken for many years'a share lo's ublic affairs, notably in
Le Municipal Commission. We learn from the Naval and Military Record of May 13th that H.M.S. Aurora Is to be commissioned on the June 15th for the mobligation, and at the termination of the marceuvres she is ordered for service in the Far East to fill the place of H.M.S. Porpoise. The Aurora has bein extensively refiited and re- armed and she is to be supplied with the "Temperley" transporter to facilitate coaling sister ship of the opers tione. She lea | Undaunted,
sound,
of oulcers, conglating of Major Pemberton, Capt. Gordon, R.A. (iðjutini) und Lleuts. Machell, Maliland and Chapman and Macdonald. A third picture gives a view that was taken at the last camp at Staneenfter's and among the spectators one has A BOY employed by Mr. Richardson, Resistant no difficulty in "spotting" saveral well known engineer of Merurs. Gordon & Co., was charged people. Other views are of the main aardwo weeks ago byshe. Ex. Tel Co.'s 5.5. by his employer at the Magistracy this morning turned out" and the non-Coms of the Corps The Water used is proved by repeated with stealing (wo small meal clocks, Dezing Thens are very fae pictures and amongst the Analyses to be Absolutely Pura.
Mr. Richardson's absence on the gth lust, his boy prominent figures are Sergeant (new Lieut.) took away the clocks. Yesterday be went to a Wylie, and Sergeant Frits Lammert. The pawn-shop in Queen's Road Kasi and was asked | pieturas ara decidedly good and interesting and by the pawnbroker where be got them from. He they are accompanied by some well written became frightened and ran away. The pawn letter press regardtag the corps and the colony, broker purned him and he was arrested by and an adequate meed of praise is given "onr District Watchman No. 48. He iɗmlited the own" for their smurt appearance.
wealth beyond the dreams of avarice," People were told that they should invest for their grand-children" and, with that investing phrase in their minds, men rushed to buy in the real hope of a rapid profit to be realized in a few weeks. The gamble want on until, this week, the contributory abares were sold at $29.70 for cash and $33 for delivery in July. Then, Mr. Bibby had an attack of fever or indigestion, or both, and "the investors for their grand-children" turbed: to realise their profits,
pore was first in the acid with suggestions for Franch Bank at the French Legation, where Chinese mill owners in meet the local agent of the permanent memorial of the Queen's Reign. The matters which will presumably redound to beat is now on the other leg.. Though we were their mutual advantage were discussed; To put first in the matter of suggenico, Hoogkong i mora tersely, he is assisting the bank to get le a long way ahead of us in performance. business. Doubtless this action is very intra dig In the opinion of other representativer he should $40,000 for the worthy objectthey have in view, of course corfine himself to the more series while we have not made a start twarde collect- || duties of maintaining the exclusiveness on the ing the necessary sum. We are heggling over social clique formed by the diplomatic and con- detalls, while others are leaving details to take sular bodies, of attending garden parties and
at the very wartt, of lanking dignified on t Counell, vf Mr. Nepler, who, has acted as
practical shape. In matters of subscription bench of a Contalar Court, But to louch these deputy for Mr. Burkinshaw and who has res'gned there is nothing like striking while the iron is dirty commercial matters! Faugh! It aslls the on leaving the slater colony to proceed to the hot, as you, Sir, have more that anca demon-purity of the highly genteel diplomatic hand, suld contife. Rispecting the new Member the stiated. The big bat ought to at oncago Yat for our part we congratulate the French Re the past Things, in a word, were ripe for a
presentative upon the excellent example which he bas set, and sincerely hope that it may have Abelesome influence upon the other legs THE Army and Navy Illustrated for May 14th, tions.-Stam Fra Prist, to bend by to-day's mail, should prove of pedal THE Eastern Extension Company have, says interest to Hongke agites, devoting, as it does the Singapors Fres Press, recently contracted two pages lo photographs of the local Volunteer to lay two cables for the Government of Nether Corps. The first picture" Reading order to a lards India which will bring two important reglans into telegraphic communication with the relieving, sentry" shows two guoners and a
world. (1) A cable to connect Acheen with corporal. One of the gunners, we believe, la a
Palo Way. (11). A cable to connect the lalands Below of Balt and Lombok. The district of Acbeen press confrére, Mr. G. T. Crook
was connected by cable with Medan, and Medan this is a grouss
with Penseg about five years ago. A land line leo traverses the south coast of Sumatra from Medan to the Straite of Sunda and thence by cable to Aujer Head and Batavia. The recently established coaling station at Palo Way required telegra hle communication for its development, and this has now been given by the cable laid Sherard Osborne. The line runs from Olehian to Sabin, and was opened for telegraphie com- munication on the ayd May. It is about 16 miles long. The other connection to Lombok has been in contemplation sides the outbreak of she islanders thara in 1893-94. --A law yaara Bap the Java Government had a cable laid from Landangan in Java to Boleling, Ball, and thence to Macassar They have now changed the nawe of Bolding to Singaradja and the second contract named above is to connect this town of Foleling or Sisgaradja in Balf with Ampinan In Lombok. The distance is about po nautical held a meeting yesterday alternoon at head- with Lombok will be opened in a week. affect that the cable connecting the island with Commlites. There was a good attendance, and missioners at Singapore correspondence in con the mainland of Japan was completed on the in the absence, through indie position, of Major section with the Diamond Jablice Memorial was read stating that the Governor would 31st ult. and is now in ure for Government | Sir J. W. Carrington, Captain Chapman presided, consider favourably the grant of a sufficient site CHINESE AND JAPANESE LOANS. tolegrams. I will not be opened to the public A strong commites having been formed, the for the erection of the proposed Town Hall as a unill the 13th los'. The rates will be the sama Chairman said he was requested by the Com- Government contribution up to $40,000, and to
A preliminary context for a lean of £16,000,000 devote the surrounding space on the sex-alde in as at present for messages between local polate mandant to take the feeling of the meeting frost of Rafles Icsitation in trust to the to the Chinese Corrsay on behalf in the Island, viz., five cents per word. At this regarding the draught of the guns to Happy Municipal Commissioness as a pubile park on telegram) signed in "Poking coday on behalf The following is a List of Waters always hopi Charge there would be a large saving all Chins Valley for the Jubiles Review.
condilon that they undertake to o keep up the sex of a British syndicate. The Times in its money telegrams destined for Japan were sent via For decided by majority of one that coolles should wall. His Excellency was also ready to receive article to-day says:The report that the be employed for the purporn louised of the ny proposal from the Commissioners with re- Chinese Government has arranged for a loan of ference to the acquisiton by them of the pre- £16,000,000 was good des] discussed. Now volunteers drawing the pieces. It was manis sent Town Hall as Municipal Officer at a firadining i known of the alleged contract le quar mously decided to agree with a wish expredsed cost of $130,000 with the proviso that the present as which are unfally the best informed on GERMANY will be represented at the great naval by Major-General Black that the corps should Town Hall shall not be converted to that are unili Chinese finance, but it is admitted that the review at Spithead on the 16th fastant by the line the central alse at the commemoration the completion of the new building. With a view report may possibly be true, though it is not to meet the wishes of the Chinese, the Governor easy to understand why loss of such a issge battleship Kenig Wilhelm, commanded by service in St. John's Cathedral. It was also further stipulates that a sum of at least $10,000 mount should be arranged now a Prince Henry of Frais, and the United States, unanimously steed to accept the services of a from the total fund shall be placed in trust for instalments of the war fedemnity are provided for by the cruiser Brooklyn, flying the flag of pipe band to march the Corps to the Happy he creation of an annual medal or medals up to the end of the year. Moreover though a Admiral With France, Italy, Austria and Valley or Jubilee Day. A meeting of the Recrea- commemorative of the 60th year of Her considerable part of the Customs revenue la still Spain have sise notified thelt intention to send tion Commates was held afterwards, when Majesty's reign, to be awarded to deserving sapledged, the sum available le not large after settled. It is to be understood that sii the Arrangements have been completed not have a war-jank on exhibition or see of the tennis, bowls, cricket, football, swimming, and foregoing is contingent on the raising of not less Japanese loan for $4,000,000 (40,000,000 YES.) Korean Government's second-hand steamers entertainments. Members of the Corps who wish than $40,000 by public subscription, and on The loan will be issued jointly by the Hongkong payment to the balding fand by the Municipal and Stanghal Banking Corporation, the Chara Commissioners of an equal sum to that subtered Bank of India, Australia, and Chine, and Rothed by the pubila, in addition to whatever the Capital and Counties Bank (tal.) Accord tam may be paid for the acquistilon of the | Ing to the Ter the price will probably be
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