HONGKONG SPIDERS. Hangkong pansenson two excellent examples of mimicry in as many species of spiders. The first spider is a pure white colour, with a few finely pencilled brown markings on the thorax and abdomen, Looking at the intact in collection it appears to be meat conspicuous from its daxiling whiteners, and it is difficult to imagine what are this peculing colour can be to It. Indeed, one might well think that it would be the cause of the spider falling a prey to the first enemy that happened to stroll along, so striking is its appearance. When viewed amidst Its natural surroundings, however, matters are Immediately changed, and it is at once evident that the while colsas, laitasd of being a source of danger, is not only a great protection but a decided aid in the possessor la lås capture of its prey. This spider affects the commpe roadside shrub, Zanzaun – smira, and carefully selects for its Raidence boss that bear while flowers, leaving the pink and orange flowered varieties severely alone. onning up to the head of flower, or a ball gued bad, the insect throws itself on its back, and, attaching itself with a plece of ske, tecks up its legs and becomes a perfect imitation, one of the flowers. Here It remains motionless until some luckless fly or batterfly, bevering around to search of food, chances fo stle upon the fictitious flower and ts. Laurindlarely selxed and eaten. Sa long as the spider remilor on the white flower it taras no notice of the approach of enemies, ́resling secara in the impenetrability of iti dia
gule. Should it be warp tied while taking a strell amidst the green fellage of the plant, however, it scuttles off at once and evinces the grustest" anzicky attain some said and Secure hiding place, or to return to the white surface of the lower, where all fear vanishes and it will allow the blossom to be plucked without shifting las posidan.
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THE COTTON TRADE OF INDIA LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
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SUPREME COURT.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS.
October-zzad.
THE KOWLOON STABBING CASE. -
charged with stealing with violence $40.20 from To Sam, Tong Tang and Law Fong Chỉ were
Mek Hing, a farmer, and stabbing him, on the a3rd ultimo.
Prisoner pleaded not guilty." MI. W. M. Goodman (Attorney General) sented and accused were undelended.
TRE EAST INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA MAILS.
A copy of Contracts (3), dated 25th May, 1897, which have been entered into with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigallop Company, respectively, for (1) the Eastern and Company and the Orient Steam_Navigation
part of the Australian Mall Service, (1) the ether part of the Australian Mail Service, together WHA Copy
of the Treasury Minute thereon, dated 19th Mar, 1897, has been prosented to Parile- ment, The Treasury Minute which explains the contracts li as follows —
General and the Peninsular and Osientsi Steam My Lords have before them a contract dated the 25th May, 1897, between the Postmaster Navigation Company, for the conversace of the Esst India, Austrialis and China Mails, and a contract dated the 25th May, 1897, between the pre-gallon Company, for the conveyance of the
Postmaster General and the Orient Steam Nar Australien Malls.
The following "ry was sworn: ~Wenes, H. A. do Rezarlo, E. E. H!!, A. Howard, F. Lieb, A. J. V, Ribeiro, H. J. M Figuerido and A. H. Skelton.
There being no other cases on the calendar the rest of the jury was dismissed.
A valuable official statement of the produc- don of yarn and woven goods to the cotton mille of British India has just been issued. By the Cotton Duties Act of 189; It was provided that each owner or agent of a cotton mill should | (Before his' Lordship Sir F. W. Carrington, make a monthly return of the production of yarn in his mill. The provision was continued
KI, C.M.G., CAU} Justler,) by the Act of 1896, when the former Act wai repealed. Provision was also then made for a reisin of woven goofs, bat as the latter claure has only recently come lato operation, no oppor- tuulty wis sfforded for comparison, in the pre- sent sistemens, of last year's production of woven goods with that of former years. The total pro doction of yarn in India during 1896-97 WAS- No. 20 and lower counts, 361017.500 lbs. ; counts above No. 20, $4,161,335 lbs. total, 417,398 935 lbs., 11 compared with the previous year's total of 435.116.545 lbs. The decrease in production was mainly apparent in Bombay, which has the lion's share of the Indian cotton Industry. In the Bombay Presidency the tota! production of yarn last your WAN 198,153,930
be, as against 323.190 456 the. In 1891-95 the Central Provinces and Ajmere there was a decrease la production, hat in all other provinces there was an incrrage, though the general result prisoners were charged with stealing $40.20 The Attorney General asid that the three for afl Indle-excluding Native States and from the complainant near the boundary af French patienloss was a reduction in the out. Kowloon, on the British side, and it was alleged turn of 'about 4 per cent. The rails in the in the Information that they were armed with a Presidency of Bombay produced about 71 per kalfo and Immediately after they committed the cant. of the quanilty produced in India, robbery they used Bengel about to per cent, Midris 7 per cent.
Tlolence.
Mak. Hlog lived in villago the North-Western Provinces 5 per cent, and of Kowican and was to the babit of coming to
on the
other side the Central Provinces about 4 per cent. Hongkong to make purchases from time to time. "Elsewhere," says the repart, the produc- On the sand ultimo, he left his native village fon te as yet very Umited," A striking Kitle with the intention of going to Kowloon City where 'tahular statement shows the effect the plague he would proceed to Yan-ma-ti and thence to had upon the production of yarn in the Bombay Hongkong to one of the lorry launches. He mills. In the first quarter of the year, which spent the night in Kowloon City, and 21 7 o'clock ended in March last, the production of yarn WAS
the next morning be passed the boundary fence 888 million ibr.; in the second quarter, 878 and was near the village of Ma Tow Wal when million lbs; third quarter, 81.1 milion 1bs, ¡ three men stopped him. One of them acted fourth quarter, 404 mililon the.
It wit be at an excise officer and asked him if he had seen that produciten declined appreciably in
any oplum. He answered that he had not the third quarter, while la the fourth quarter and he was searched. He had $40.20 to, bis the yarn span was less than half the produc-purse and the men took it and would not return tlon in any of the previous three casters. it, and complainant struggled for I recovery. Bat, notwithstanding the exodus of mill-bande. Then one of the men said that if he did not let the result at the end of the your was that the go his hold he would be stabbed. He was total ouitars was not gaile 8 per cent, short of stabbed, three times on his eit abdomen. that of 1895-96, and this although, in addition report was made to the Pallon, wha on making to the effects of plague, the prevalence of famine er gairies were laformed that the wounded man interfered with the sale of yarn in India. It is was taken to Chinese territory and there he wan worth noting, 100, that so far as the total found by Police officer and taken to the Hos production of fadia is concerned, yarn of commis pital. A few yards from the scene of the occur. higher than No, so is about 13 per cent of the rence a few cashes and a kalle was found. whole, being a much larger quantity than in the The Police got some information and arrested preceding year. In Bengal, the North-Western Provinces, and the Punjab the mills spin bardly neveral others for identification. The second The three prisoners and they were mixed with
any, yarn above No. io, bat in Bombay the prisoner was picked out at once and after a litle spinning of the higher counts | 1 per cent. of hesitation the fint was alan plcked. The third the whole, In the Central Provinces 16 per cent., was not recognised but war subsequnatly ident!- and in Berar nearly 19 per cent. Tarning to fed at the Police fourt woven goods, it is sixted that the total produc tion of these goods for a'l Indis was last year, 83,321,511 tbs, Ol this quantity 68,023,751 lbs. was produced in Bombay. Wearing is, of course, concentrated in the Bombay miils to ren
To greater degree thas spinning. Bombay prodscer Over 81 per cent al the whole quantity woven (DY A "TIMES" CORRESPONDENT.)
Indian mills, while Madras and the Central Has the Bank of England been altogether Frostaces each produce about 6 per cent. well advised to falling in with the suggestion of the whole Hardly any weaving is done la the Bengal mills. Plague and famine both in. recently pushed forward by certain Americana,terfered with weaving in Bombay towards the that it should hold one-fifth of its reserve in end of the year, and, the last quarter showed a ollwer? Perhaps that assent was givas in very decline of about 31 per cent. It may be add:d°
that the goods woven are maidly the grey guarded terms, Perhaps li was done to oblige in bleached variety, which represents about po per high quarters. Perhaps it was considered to be cent, of the whole production to Bombay and to an act of international courtesy. Thers may have | India generally. Only in the Central Provinces been this reason, and there may have been that, are finer goods woven to any material extent, to excuse and extenuste. But the broad and plain and there they form 21 per cent, of the whole
production. truth is that, in existing circumstances, the Bunk should have emphatically set its face against any such notion. It has not doze so, and it ought to have done so,
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The ascund spider rejsices in a cost of delicate pale green, with a few light chocolate calented maiklas, and lives on the jesamine. The bull of the jetesamine mie surrounded with a series of small pale green filaments or tendrils, and the spider, taking up a-position on top of the_bud, spreads I's logs around among the tendrils and becomes to all appearance a part of the plant. Like bis white cousin, he depends apon his disguise for a livelihood and also as a ready means of evading his ecemies. When studying either of the above species one is frequently led to wish for the spider's faculties adapted to human requirements the gift of being able to put on a generally wooden expres alon, and, by taking the appearance of a door port or some equally stolid mettele, escape the observation of bores and creditors; or percbance some lovesick swain might lỏng to assume the farm of an arm chair when in the presence of the object of blis hopeless affections. We once know a lover who, but, noll car veracity was auce called in quesilon when relating this it Incident, and so we will refrain from demanding too great an amount of credibility from our readers.
THE BANK OF ENGLAND—A' REMONSTRANCE.
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CIVILISATION IN CHINA.
how the bird mas came to be charred if he did
His Lordship-What I do not understand is 1.
not identify him. Why was he put before the Magistrate if the prosecutor (alled to Identify him?
The Attorney General answered that the Police had Isformation in which the third prisoner was mentioned by name as well as the other two and it was rather discouraging to see that he was not identified at that time and they did not know what farther evidence was forth. coming.
Mak Hing gave evidence and was allowed to ult owing to kle leable cerditiom. He marted with his danastılona as far as he was taken to the Hospital. When asked regarding some men taken there for Identifcuilon he said he wis unconscious at the time, Forther questioned about the identication of the prisoners at the Poles Station he answered that he was dazy and only had a casual lonk Tee Attorpay General then asked him if he could recognise any of the prisoners and he said that he could mot identify thìm but those who stabbed him and stols the money were much older.
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Bath contrac's came into operation on the sit Februar, 1898, and continue motil the 31st Jendary, 1905.
The contracts made with the above-mentioned Companies on the 19th January, 1888, and the 23rd January, 1898, respectively, for the convey. ance of the Australian Malis termlasted on the
January, 1893, by agreements dated the 37th 31st January, 1895, but were renewed (with some unimportant mociñcations) until the 31st
Jancary, 1891.
The object of this extension was to secure the of the Australian Malls at the sime date sa that terminuilon of the contracts for the conveyan to with the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga- Hon Company for the conveyance of the Eart India and China Malls, which ran from the 1st
Febrer, 1888, to the 31st January, 1898.
The tender forms for the conirects now in question were issued on the 7th April, 1896, and were returnable on the 7th July, 1896.
Tenders were invited for all or any of the
following services :—*
1. A weekly service to and from Australis, or
fortnightly service to alternate with another fortnightly service.
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1. A weekly service to and from Bombay. 3. A weekly service in each direction between
between Adea and Bombay.
4. A weekly service in each direction between
Aden and Karachi.
5. A fortnightly service in each direction between Colombo and Shanghai, calling at Penang, Singapore, and Hongkong,
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The tenders recolved were as follows :--
(1.) Two complete laclastve tenders from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga tlon Company for a weekly service to and from Bombay, and fortnightly services, a Colombo, to and from Shanghat and Australia, one tender naming Marielles and the other Erindial as the Euro-ean port of departure and arrival, the sabildy asked being £310,000 a year for the service via Marselile, and £130,000 a year for the service of Brindial."
(2.) A tender from the Orfeot Steam Naviga
ilon Company for a fo talghtly service lo and from Australis, vta Colombo, in alterns- tion with a fernightly service of some other Contractor. Sabildy £85,000 a year, (3.) A series of tenders feem the Ocean Steamship Company of Liverpool, following the llaes of the Postmaster General's advertisement, and offering a number of alternative services between Brindial and Bombay, Aden and Bombay, Aden and Karachi, and Colombo and Shanghai, together with extensions of these servicët to other ports,
(4) A tender from the China Navigation Company torx service between Calcutta
• (DI.mond Harbour) and Shanghai.
The Pealasular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company did not tender separately for the Australian and Indian services, and it was there- fore e ident that the requirements of the Past Office for the the whole of the services offered for tender could only be fully satisfied by sccept- ing one of that Company's tenders, logether with the tender of the Orlent Steam Navigation Company
NOTANDĄ.
CALENDAR
OCTOBER.
Meteorological means based on tax years' observations to 1895. Barometer ...............................19.901. Thermometer 76-3 Humidity Ralafall....
TO-DAY.
WEATHER REPORT.
20170
4.78
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Barometer 30 D Thermometer vanast Hamidity.KRIS Ratafall.............pů
TO-DAY.
19.91
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Friday, 22nd October, 1897.
AJLITKOON · 0%, 50min. ANNIVERSARIS,
1876-Cosmopolitan Deck opened. 1852 -King Olha of Greece deposed. 1860-Prisce Alfred arrived at Shanghai 1877-Mr. O. B. Bradford, U.S. Vice Consul General at Shanghai, sentenced to fino and Imprisonment f's breach of trust, 1837-Death of M. Fililplat, Governor of Cochia.
Chlas, at Saigon. 1896-Suspicious death of Mr. W. R. H. Carew
CHINESE TRADE.
A Foreign Office report from Pekin, Issued on September 4th, states that the raisa al the foreign trade of Chlas for the past year more from nearly 315,000,000 Halkwan taals ta 1895 to 338,600,000 Halkwas taels, which is the largest to'al expressed in sliver valuta, that has yet been recorded in the returns of the Imperial Maritime Custome. In |consequence of the rise in exchange which bas taken place durlog the last two years, the | average gold value of the taol having risen from 31. 181. la 1894 to 35. gid, in 1895 and 3% 48. In 1895, the increase in the sterling value of the trade during the two latter yours is aven more marked, the figures having risen from £4,500,000 in 1894, to $1,500,000 la 1895, and £$5,607,070 la 1896. The marked ins
Chinese- Prix of 9th moon of Bård year of crease of trade in the-last two years in atl
Kwong-til.
the more satisfactory, as it affords evidence Jewish-26th Tt3rt, 6688. Mohammedan-95th Jomada I, 1315,
of recovers from the effects of the war with
Sun-Riser
Japan, to which may be attributed the great sunan Ohr. Insin
decrease la trad: which occaned in 1894. Stil spammi Eke. 20ml, High water-Morning Ehr. min. the difference in the value of the trade be
Afternoon ........... Căr. 68m). tween that, and the preceding your amounting Low water-Morning none.
to over £6,000,000 sterling. The increase of ayer 18,000,000 Halkwan taals in the value of the trade of 1896 as compared with that of the preceding yese in entirely dus to the excep tional gain under Imparts, the Sgures for the year showing an locrence of over 30,000,000 taels compared with those of 1895. This in- crease in Imports was, however, accompanied by 1 decretsa la exports amounting lo by the loss of the trade of the Island of 12,000,000 (aels, which is partly accounted for Formass, ceded to Japan, as the retur for 1895 included six months of that traffic. The share of the British Empire in the. foreign trade of China, which bas Increased by 9 1-3 per cent during the year under review, now the whole. There has not been a similar expre- amounts to within a fraction of yo por cent. of sion in the trade of other laraign countries, which has fallen in the aggregata by about 1000,000 taels. The most noticeable decrease is in the trade with Japan, which has fallen by over 3,000,000 fal The trade with the Continent af Europe; excapting Russia, has decreased by aver 1,000 200 taels. On the other hand, there Is a very decided improvement in the trade with the United States, which has increased by wards of 3,500,000 tasis, and the trade with the Portuguesa colony of Macao also shows an
at YokohamÉ.
TO-MORROW.
Saturday, 23rd October, 1897. Chinese-481k of 91k moon of Brå year
Kwong-tü (Feu of Hwa Kwang, the God of Fire, and Ms, a' deified Physician.}
Jewish-$71k Tiwi, 5858. Mohammedan-261k Forada 1., 1915.
Sun-Rizer ..................................... Okr. 1 min. St 5kr. 13min.. Moon- Equator 11kr. a.m. High water-Morning ......... 6hr, 18mln.
Afternoon .............. Thr, limin. Low water-Morning .................... Okr. 06min. Afternoon 1hr, 9min. ANNIVERSARIES,
4.
1849-35 Piratical jooks Bestroyed by H.M Sacresse.
Fury and Columbine near Hongkong. 1856-The Arrow war commenced, 1868-Earl of Derby dled. 1896-New Morque of the Hongking Régiment
apered at Kowloon.
MEMORANDA.
TO-MORROW,13 October. Noor-Tealers for the Õpium Farm received
up to noen to-day.
3.30 0.ht.Auction by Mr. G. P. Lammart at
65 Wyndham St. 915 P.-V.R.C. Smoking Concert.
SHARE. MARKET.
LATEST QUOTATIONS. Chian Sugar, $152; Olivers (8), $7.70.
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SHIPPING AND MAID NETE,
MAILS DUR:
Tacoma (Tacoma) zzer inst. French (Melbourne) 26th inst.
: American (City of Pakdeg) 1st fast.
Canadian (Empress of India) 1st prox. English (Rosetin) Ist prox. American (Doric) gib prox German (Bayern) 13th prox.
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TE N. G. I. steamer Leiimbro, left Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected here on or about the 27th fest.
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NATURE SLOWLY MAKES READY.
You have probably never seen a volcano in eruption. It is a magniflolent spectacle.
Where do all thos torrenta of red-hot lava come from? Nobody can tell, except that they come from somewhere down that raptions of any one volcano are far apart deep in the earth. But one thing we know, namely, Between while Naters
the is preparing for the tremendous demonstration. getting ready for them Just to it is with all ker processes. In the cold of winter she is arranging the forces which are to make the host and the barrosts of the following mA. mer, and so on.
From May, 1590, to February, 1882, is a period of went one months. The two dates will long remain clear in the mind of Mr. Martha Bowles, of 185, Llangyfelach Road, Magister Maca
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of an experiance which was bad enough in itself, only the Intesduction to something really worse. It was like the time of getting ready for a grost troubla to come."
Her first sense of this was indefuite and vagus, Hits the low muttering of thunder below the horlam. while the skies are yet clear. She expresses là thus, in the very words most of us via on aiimilar coosalons, "I felt that something was wrong with ma-come- thing hanging over me.
Ah dear ma. How often we think mach feelings are caused entirely by the condition of our bodies. are a warning sent to the spirit, when in fact they she felt heary, languid and tired, and mentally de The India and China servien alave might have
pressed. buen provided for under the tenders of the Ocean
This was not only melancholy to her bus Steamship Company, either alone or to coajanc
now, as she had always been strong and healthy. THE Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s steamer mistake about. They are common mough to be sure Then came the discomforts which there could be no tion with that of the China Navigation Com- Empress of Japan from Hongkong on the necessary to make other arrangements for thenesday, at 11,30 a.m., the zoth inst. Australian service and there was good reason to doubt whether this would have barn practic
There is no are in saying that this plan is
Consul E. L. B. Allen, in his annual report to stemped with the permiaste of the Bank Charter Lord Salisbury on the trade of Pakhof, deals at Act and with the authority of Sir Robert Peel, somo length with the state of civilisation In the There is no use in remembering that at the Paris district. He says: Pakbal shows a lower level Monetary Conference of 1881 the Baat, on the of civilisation than I have seen anywhere else suggestion of Italy end of the Unded Te to this country. Piracy is in the blood of the plainant could rot identify the men, there pany. But in that.case it would have been gik uito,, arrived at Vancouver, B.C., on Wed. J. But isn't that all the more s reason why some sort of promiles that, should
bimetalliım be established, they might allow race. A glance through the year's diary shows 'the reappearance of silver bullion as RO RAZGİ a monofanaus record of petty cosat raids, hover- / In the leane department of the Bank of England."
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It is extremely Ukely that many of those who corise the weighbouring coast ilge), and bark back to the days of the Bank Act do not study the speeches of Sir Robert Peel and the robberies of every depice of dignity, from the account which he gave of ble reasons for the sacking of the larger pawn-shops to the plunder permissive clanie-reasons which is pressat cle of returned emigrant from the Strails er cumstances are of no application. If is not lare Sumatra. One of the most regular anticler of Important to remember that the concession of export, though li finds no place among the cus 1881 was at Gece seized upon in the conference as toms figures, la human (l'sb. The slave trade an important declaration," Was represented as between Pakbol and Hongkong the latter in the British nation coming and placing itself on large measure, I believe, as s polot of tranship. our side," and has bean a handle of annoyancement for Canton-has long been such a to against at ever since. We do sat live in 1844 scandalise the Chinese prefectural satkorliler; and we ought to learn wisdom from the expert The numerous kidnappers whe mainly supply
of 1881. In these days it is as senseless for are generally well known, but no sort of measures the Bank of England to keep seven or eight are taken against them, which is not surprising millions in a sliver reserve as it would be for the in view of the fact that Bardly a single petly House of Commons to pasea law for the creation official takes a steamer passage at Pakhol for of rotten boroughs. The Bank of England ought Canton without including among his belongings to have anld this, and it has not said it.
« set of small girls, who seem to fetch much higher prices there than here. Of Chinese local suiboriilen at Pakhol itself the eare pencil- cally none, the highest native civilian within ao - miles beleg an officer of the rank of sub-district deputy magistrate, armed with an amount of authority that barely enables him to call in question the theft of a matchbox. Even the foreign business deputy who graced the place during my former acting charge of this Consulate a few years ago, has been abolished,
T-a Attorney General said that he had nothing for her to say after the cass, proved so unantic. in this case forpreter Kemp should be called to factory. He thought that in justice to the Palice give evidence of the ideailfestion. If the com- was an end to the case and he did not propose to give further evidence,
His Lordship said he did think it was necessary perfectly bond fida; he said he was not able. for Inspector Kemp to give evidence, as it was
to Idenilly them. His Lordship then briefly med up to the Jury. He raid the evidence of Identifications appeared in the depost- Hons was certainly weak. He bed по doubt that the man had inffered a grievous outrage. They had to be satisfied clearly that the cime was perpetrated by iba prizohem or any one of them before they could convict The Crown bal no further evidence and he miked them to return a verdict in levour of the accused.
The fury returned a verdict of" rot guilty " on all the prisoners and they were discharged,
THAT DELICATE PLANT, THE
JAPANESE WORKMAN.
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To the service offered by the Ocean Steam ship Company there were also objections arising out of the character of the vessels which it was proposed to employ.
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passengers or cargo, bat affording Hatman............. of ordinary accommodation for the Maily, Mull sorters, and a few Government passengers only. They Hermann would be of about 1,1go tone burden and of pe- Petyang collar and novși construction.
There are no ships afloat of precisely the type offred; but the Company proposed to build an experimental ship first.
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DEPARTURES
The subsidy aked by the Company for the complete service between Brindisi, Bombay, Colembe, and Shanghai amovated to £1970.....................
Bygd Bat if this offer had been accepted a farther difficulty would have risen in connection with the converance of the Parcel Malls.
■ year.
Under existing arrangement there are cazzied by the two contracting Compantes direct to and from the Thames, thus avoiding the expense of the land journey scross Europe.
According to the vernacular papers, says ibe Kobe Chronicla, the Imperial Railway Bareas has invited lenders for the supply of five million Packets were required to make the voyage to If the Ocean Steamship Company's ́Mall exities of Australian coal for the purposes of.
and from the Thames a further subaldy al| exprimenting. Should the result be found satis-9,000 a year would be necessary, raising the factory, the Bureau will fa fature une Australian | fotá) 10 £158.000.
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Sir Robert Peel set forth his views as to this question of the reserva la 1844 and also to 1848, but it was in the former year that he dealt with the question fully. He explained that the prin. cipal demand for allvarat that period was for the
Arco Bay Continent,
and that as it often become profitable
Yokohama liquidate .to
obligations in that metal it was
Vindivostock well for the Back to hold a certain volume of
Australia * silver. What did this mean? It meant, in plain
Aggregatin, 859 (ons register, terme that under the action of the French bime talia law allver was frequently over-rated in Order is supposed to be more or less main coal. The reason which has prompted the authe- If the proportion of the Peninsular and Osten. HoxOKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURES the ratio established Mint, and that he, tained among the Chinese by the local guild of ritles to take this step is that the advanced price the Australian service, be taken at £85,000, the
the
til Company's subsidy, which is applicable to Forte panna. like the practical slaternsan,
that
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Stakot sayısınıqzeko UE to be able to enjoy the apportcatty afforded guished field by annexing in the streets of thle of Ispanese coal has resulted in a corresponding cost of the India and China service would
Hallan un by bimetallic France of paying our debts in town camphor sent down from a neighbouring rise in the wages of miners in Japan,. This has amount le £145,000 for the Brindle! route, or
Ambrist of China............ the cheaper metal. But what has this to do district by respectable native dealer, and placed the workmen, asys our contemporary, in £115,000 for the Marsellias route. The popolared.com
present American suggestion? The holding it to ranson, I may menilon, such happy clacumstances that after worklag the involve a considerable tncrease of expen. very point of it is that our sexery li permanently in flaptration of Pakhol ways, that this wark they can afford to be idle for two or three digre,
le of the Ocena Steamship Company would West York, u...............
Siam ............24 ta consist in part of silver, so that thus we may plundered camphor dinler presented a format
Attrai essie niet in raising the price of that metal, That we position to this Consulate, setting forth his days, with the result that the output of should dispose of list proft to France or wrongs that I handed it on to the sub-district coat is diminished and the high price of America is the very thing that under the propored deputy magistrate, and that the latter repiled to Japanese coal is maintained. It the Australian schemeral International bimetalliam we could me is an sficial note acknowledging that the not do. The circumstances of the tWO_CRIOS are thus wholly different, and where Sir Robert Petion was true, but that he was pogreless to coal proves satisfactory, It will be largely help the wronged man. Native trade under such imported, and the Japanese coal industry wil may have been wire we should be exceedingly conditions can hardly be an exhilaratug porsalt. Inevitably be seriously affected. The result of fosilah. For, as the only dubious point is our it would be invidious to say thus much of the experiment with Amiralian cost will be Bonncial systems is the wary occasional, weakness the Pakbel, neighbourhood without adding watched with great interest by the people can of our gold reserve at the Bank, why should we that most of the adjacent ones are worec. daliberately choose to water that stock by The four lower perfectares, vis, those of Llen cerned in the coal business. prac fcally reducing fì by one-fifth Ph
chos, Kaochen, Leichen, and the Island of The other reason this moved Sle Robert Peel Hainas, a provestial in this province for their Was that a stack of silver might be conveniant lawlessness and Occasionally for shipment is the Far East, Here, with shallastica tarulence, 3 do not know applies to Hainan, but on agalo, the whole circumstances are diferent. Sir the matches of the Kochen and Lelchoa Pander had not arises la those days there perfectares small so-called rebellions would Was no cable. If silver is waited for the Eastsoem, to be endemic.
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Well, then, there was that bad, afsnelva taste În the month, that so many of us have had; the fallers of the appetite, and the pain in the obset and sides after eating. The worst pain was in the right side, where it was very heary. That pointed to the liver Toasted on that side and when anything ails the liver it ir xa though the big water-wheel of mlil had got fired so as not to turn round. For the liver doos half dozen kinda of work, and when is strikes work the rest of the organs take a sort of rainy holiday
Presently her skin and the white of her eyes turned
yellow as autumn leaves. That meant bila In the blood, the liver was off in its duty; that is a sure alga. The kidney secretion was the colour of blood instead of clear amber, which meant that the trouble had already reached thess important Organs. Then the stomach was prest and refused take kindly to foods though the miller
your grala back, doolialog to grind it. She vomited sour, bitter Bald, which was sold bile away out of
track. On and on along this line, com tantly getting further and further from the happy of healthy this was the history of those twenty- one months-all bad enough, yat all preparatory for
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"Dae day in February, 1893,” she says in her letter of August 18th, 1899, i began to have dreadful pain and cramp. It began in the right side, and extended, scross the stomach. For hours together I was in the greatest agony. What I aufered le past despeription, When the pain eased a litle I was cold as death and shivered until the bed shook under me
1 had
hot from plates applied to my feet, and held hot ironse in my hands, but nothing gare me much rallar. My stomach was so freliable that I could keep no food on it. I was now confined to my bed, and the doctor attending me sald I was passing gall stones. Ho wanted me to go to Swanson Hospital and be ope rated upon, but I was afraid I might not live through
"I next had two other doctors at Morriston also three from Swanses, who all gave me medicines, and said nothing more euld be done fax ms. T six months I lay in bed undergoing the greatest Mony: never free from pale more than two or three hours at a time. During the whole of this time I was ft on mothing but milk and water I bad scarcely Any lifa or strength left in me.. All who saw me sald I never could by any chance get better in this world, "I lingered on like this will August, 1899, whim tar daughter brought me a book telling of Mother Baigel's Carstive Byrup. In this book he read of a esse like mine having been oured by this medietas. The tender of the former Company for a I
My husband got a bottle from Mr. Beran, the chemist service vid Marseilles would have involved
and after taking a few doses I fale's little relief Eept on with it and soon the palat lett mej my ap savlog of 20,000 a year but the time of transit of the Mats batween Indis and London would
petite returned, and my food agread with me, "Afte OUTWARD-18th September Ulysses, Cam, faktog the Syrup for three months was a new cre Joka
have been lecreased by about righteen hours, Trista, 1st October-Glingarry, Straikallan, ture and strong me ever. I can now at anything and in view of the large amount of correspon- Thekla. 5th October-Commoxie. 8th and nothing disagrees with ine. After I was well our tralasia can be told to ship to Indle from her of large numbers of the Triad Society which is copy of the analysis made made by the Depart service would have given sainction to the Port Adelaide, Bellona, Dorothea Richmers, will pudly answer Enquiries. (Gigued) Martha
East, it did not appear probable that such a fraña, in October-Canton, Myrmidon, to the JoYouza, publish, may case, and
see alive I said, Mother Beigel's stores, at Broken Hill, en San Francisco can probably true in the main; bus i bollers that the ment of Mines at Sydney, showing the propor public. draw upon the Rocky Mountains 1:and, besides, and society in this region is purely an associa
Przy 19th October--Kara. Ilon of fixed carbon in a sample of Hetton. coal Tas new contracts in each case are for saveD aliver is always Rowing through es, and London tion of decolts, living by blackmail enforced by to be 57.50, volatile hydro-carbon 35.89, ash years, and the gain in speed is about two ot
HOURWARD 94th September-Favá, Sola-
1st October-Ceylan.
Tale case-ose of sould indigestion and dymerala, In the central silver market of the world. During accaalona) ostrages (termed robelllens, when, as | 4.35, and moisture 2.26. It is claimed that the 1895 150,000,000 0s, were produced in the arid, usually happens the soldiers sent to suppress analysis proves the coal to be one of the best of dags between London and Sassgust. The cost rid Lennon sath October-Glenavon 15th
an hour throughout, making a reduction of fire Diemed, Taniales, Bth October-Prins Heine Vas district. The lady's husband is A
th October with liver and kidney complaints is well knowa and of this 85,750.00g on cede to war arms, then are remind or killed), and devold si any, the many high-class scams: worked in New mull be about £13,000 less per samum than| Detaber➡Agjald, Sagkalian, syth October
• gnder the aid contracts,
Prematkemis
As bearing on the above, we may say that we have received a communication from Messrs. Ford, Rathven & Co., of Sydney, wisting that bat they have forwarded per Yamashiro- maru a trial sample al Helton coal to the order of Mr. G. J. Penney, and should this
the presence will be mind. With the latter is closed a
pay that the Stralis Settlements and Chian proposal of the Chios Navigation Com. Mails should be sant of Calcutta, did not appear to promise any advantage over a service viš Colombo,
After fall consideration of the whole subject My Lords therefore decided to accept the tender ofthe Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation of the Orient Company for a futtoightly service Company for the service vút Brindist, and that
to Australia.
SWATOW. Arrivals. from
Agente, Oct. 30 Glenfalloch...Hongkong...L Y., & Co, 21 Lesyvin..Cloo & N'wang..C.M.S.N. Co. 31-Haimun Amoy......). M & Co. 21 Tamist... Hongkong...B. & S.
Departures, for
Agmis 21 Glenfallsch... Amoy L.V.3.&Co. 21 Hotmu. Hoogkong...!. M. & Co. 31 Tomiut Shangha........B. & S. PORT-Skandung, Lasyuan,
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VÁSSED THE CANAL.
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