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HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB:
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
will be held on THURSDAY, the sgth
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1638.
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Instant, at 5 P.A, la the CRICKET PAVILONA VICTORIA CHAPTER will be held at
immediately after which AD EXTRAOR. DINARY GENERAL MEETING will be held for the purpose of altering Kala 3.
Pressot reading of Rula 3. Five of Com. mittee shall forms quorum.
Proposed Alteration Role 3. Commiten hall forms a querum.'
Three of the
F. BROWN,
Hon. Sec.
N EMERGENCY CONVOCATION of
the FREEMASONS' HALL, OG MONDAY, the 26th fustani, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visit Ing Companiens are cordilly invited to attend,
"Hongkong, 21st September, 1898.
Intimations.
Hongkong, and September, 1898. [3: $10000.
BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
MESSES HUGHES & HOUGH
received instructions to Sell by PUBLIC AUCTION,
08
WEDNESDAY, the 4th October, 1893,
at 3 o'clock PM,
on the Premier
THE FOLLOWING VREY VALUABLE RECLAMATION PROPERTY, rå tom
bave
All the benefit, Interest, and advantage of and a the Reclamation Agreement of
MARINE LOT No. 189.
The Property is slate oppaille Nos. 209 to 118 Praya West, and tis dimensions are :—
Area, 26 507 square feet.
Frontage. 165 feet 8 inches.
Depih. rán feet,
The above Property is bounded by Roads on all sides and is subject to an Annual Crown Rent of $188 and to the payment of the sum of $2,354 40 being the balance remaining doe ander the Reclamation Agreement:
For further Particulars and Conditions of Sale, apply 10
Mesis. HUGHES & HOUGH, -
The Auctioneers;
or in
Mesus. DEACON & HASTINGS, 35, Queen's Road,
Solicitors for the Vendors.
Hongkong, 2nd September, 1698.
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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
STEAM TO
YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND NAGASAKI,
(Passing through the INLAND SEA.)
"HE Company's Steamship
THE
"HOHENZOLLERN,"
Captain E. Woltersdoril, will leave for the above Ports TOMORROW, the 23rd instant, at 6 a 5E,
For further Particulars apply to
MELCHERS & Co.,
'Agents.
Hongkong, 22nd September, 1898.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.
NOTICE.
STEAM TO SHANGHAI,
THE Company's Steamship
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"DARMSTADT," Captain A. Konnemann, will irave for the above place TO-MORROW, the 23rd fastant, at 5 A.M.
For further Particulars apply to
MELCHERS & Co., Agents,
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Hongkong, 22nd September, 1898,
FOR YOKOHAMA AND KOBE
VIA ANPING,
HE Steamship
THE
"FUKIU MARU,"
will be despatched for the above, ports TO. MORROW, the 23rd Instant, at Daylight, Euslead of as previously advertised.
For Freight, apply to
DODWELL, CARLILL & Co., Agents. Hongkong, 22nd September, 1898, [113
HOGUL-WARKACK-MILBURN LINE, FOR NEW YORK, VIA SUEZ CANAL.
THE Steamship
"MACDUFF,"
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will be despatched as above on the 8th October. S.S." GHAZEE”..... about 30th Oct., 1898. S.S. "BRAEMAR "...... 25th Nov, 189 S.S. ENERGIA "...... 20th Dec, 1898.
For Freight of Passage, apply to
DODWELL CARLILL & Co.,
Agents. Hongkong, and September, 1893. (447
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
S.S. "DARMSTADT,"
THE above dated steamer having arrived
Consignres of cargo are hereby informed that their goods, with the exception of Optum, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and
stored at their risk to the Godowns of the Hongkong And Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limlied, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional cargo will go on to Shanghai unless notice to the contracy be giren TO-DAY it
NOON,
No claims will be admitted after the Goods 'hare left the Godowns and all Goods remaining undelivered after the agth Instant will be sub- Ject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on THURSDAY, the 29th lost,
and THURSDAY, the 6th October, at 9:30 AM.
All claims must reach us before the 9th October, or they will not be recognised, No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the undersigned.
MELCHERS & Co., Agents. Hangkor azad September, 1898. [1-w 1104
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00050.
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Consider the distinction between these two sums. $10,000 and $50.
Ten thousand dollars is two hundred tinios larger than fifty dollars.
Yet if you save $50 onch month you can buy an EN- DOWMENT POLICY.,
That policy will pay $10,000 to your family TO. MORROW-if you die.
It will pay to you $10.000, with substantial profits in addition, in 1918, -if you live,
THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES. HONGKONG BRANCH OFFICE, Hongkong, 20th September, 1893,
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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1898
REUTER'S MESSAGES.
THE UNITED 'STATES AND THE PHILIPPINES.
LONDON, September 30th. Five more regiments have been ordered to Mantia from the United Statca,
THE FASHODA QUESTION. The Times in discussing the Fashoda alina. tion says that General Sir H. H. Klichener could easily redaca Capt. Marchand's occupe- tion to sa absurdity by cutting off his suppiles, but unless Capt. Marchand proves ta ba singa- larly carcasonable, he is not likely to react to
this mesatie.
German and Italian Military atachéi have accompanied General Str H. H. Kitchener to Fachodu.
WEATHER REPORT.
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A HUGE crocodlie was captured in one of the waterways in Marang (Perak) the other day. It measured twenty-three feet in length, the head being two and a quarter fast long and over one foot broad. Some of the teath ware five to six faches in length,
THE PURSUIT.
The enemy braved repeatedly a witheilog cross fire without flinching.
Fox stealleg a man's leather doxxcoolio to-day | A MARRIED woman was to-day awarded threa
Lleat Claak, Cameron Highlanders; Lieut, was sent in fop forty-two days' bard labour. months, hard labour' for assaulting another Pirte, arst Lancers; Lleut. Rougemont, Royal Another peculaites coolla got twenty-eight days | woman in a little najghbourly squabble,
Artillery Captain Smythe, Queen's Bays; Lieus Micklem, Royal Englacer ; and Licut, for stealing an umbrella,
"50μ¤ of these summer young men, ' remarked | Vandeleur, Scots Guards, slightly Mlas Cayenne, pensively, "remind me of Dres- The Dervish losses are estimated at fillean
thousand den Chlum," "Because they are beautiful ? » "You; and they get broka sa enšily," LORD and Lady Dufferin were always marrying
The cavalry abandoned parsnit of the Khalila of members of their family at the Biftlab Em-thirty miles south of Omdurman, but the Arab bassy la Pails. Sir Edmund and Lady Monson | cavalry is continuing to parselt. The horses CYCLESE-HS~"Dearest, the tyre of my heart have, alace they came there, been constantly in were exhausted, having been ridden for forty. has been punctured by the tacks at your charms, deep mewralog. Lord Oxenbridge, the Ambas eight hour dartog fileen of which the parsalag Be mine, and let us ride tandem through life.ador's eldest brother, himself died at the Em- Khalifa fa accompanied by 30 followers, and is party were angaged in fighting the enemy. The She="How sweet and strange! You have bassy soon after losing his wiła.
flylag to Kordolan. | scorched your way to my affectious, and I con- EARL de la Wart, whose name has been brought not back-pedal egaleat your attractions. I sax Into 'prominence by Mr. Hesley, awas his title render the bandle bar of my life to your hands, to an accident, He was younger son, but his and was sure you will steer ons united lives elder brother was drowned when yaching off the wisely,"
coast of Ireland between soyes and eight years ago. It was la consequence of this fatality that, on the death of his father in 1896, the present Feer succeeded to the Earldoms.
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WHEN Ste Willan MacCormac anlved in con. sultation on the Prince of Wales's recent accident, the Prince, with his usual optimlem, wald, "Well, after all, it is not so bad as it might have been. I might have broken my leg." "I wish you had," replied the famous Surgeon, whose technical knowledge made him, of course, The Observatory report to-day rays:-Ossware of the fact, which his Royal Highness bas the aand at 11.45 am. Barometric changes are now learnt, that a broken patella is a far more light. Pressure remains high in S. Chias and difficult thing to repair thorougòly than a broker relatively low over the Annam coast. Gradients leg
light for N. and N. E. wlads on the Chloa coast, FORECAST.-E. or varylog wlads, light; 'fair.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A CO.LIE to-day was sentenced to -alaty-days' hard labour for steallog clothes.
P.C. HAMMOND to-day had a junk master fined $30 or six weeks forleaving the harbour without permission,
In everybody took'ap as much room as he thinks he does, somebody would be crowded off the earth's surface.
A NUMBER of oplum cases came before Capt. Hastings to-day and fines ranging from $20 down were imposed.
A BROTHEL keeper whose premises were not lo
■ cleanly condition was to-day floed $50, in default two month.
IN an article on "Sea-Bathing," Dr. A. T. Schofield says that it should not take pisco immediately after a meal, on account of the reaction in its first stage congesting the digestive organs. He aggests that the best time to bathes about two hours after breakfast, or at any time after one o'clock in the day. The water from best Temperatare of the 60 deg. to 70 deg.
No one who is te or suffering from any skin disease should bathe, and it is not very safe for the very old or the very young. The latter soon get chilled, owing to the surface of the body being much greater in proportion to the bulk than in adults. No one with diseased organs should bathe without medical advice. A great many often so-called deaths from cramp are probably from heart failure.
IN the Franco-Prussian War, France lost as many a 136,000 men, of whom some 30,000 died of wounds received in battle, 35,000 by FOUR rickuha colles charged by P.C. Wattzickness, accident, salelda, etc., and 20,000 la with rushing pedestrians, were to-day fined $7 German petrons." A French statistician estimates exch, or twenty eight days.
that his countrymen who were wounded, but who survived, numbered 135,000, those lojured on the march or by accident 11,431, those who recovered from Ulnar 318,000, making a total of 477.421 direct sufferers. The German killed numbered
THE oclawfol possession of rå tue! of prepared oplum a coolle was fined $15, failing to pay which he goes to gaol for six weeks,
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SANITARY BOARD.
A meeting of the Sanitary Board was held ibis afternoon. Present: Mr. F. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), who presided, Hoo; R. D. Ormaby (Director of Pablle Works), Dr. F. Clark (Medical Officer of Health), Mr. Deer Ball (Acting Registrar General) and Mr. E. Osborne.
-MINUTES.
The minutes of the last meeting' were read and confirmed.
APPLICATION FOR INCREASE OF SALARY, The heads of the street sweeping gangs applied for an increase of salary. At present they 110 receiving $30 per month, most of them azn married and they receive no compensation besides their salary. Instead of paying $8 per month as house rent they bare now to pay $12 In a minute on the petition Mr, E. Osbare said he thought that if this increase wers the question of the wages of all the board's granted others would come in. He thought employées should be considered at the same
time.
The Capt. Supt. of Police in his minute sald that this class of people are having a bad time of it and should be compensated along with the Chinese employes of the Government.
A qasailty of correspondence was also laid before the board dealing with the pay of the Chinese scavengers at the markets, and a petition was produced from the men showing how the cost of living had increased.
It was decided that the Secretary should re- post on the individuals and thele duties,
LODGING HOUSE SIGNS,
A leller was read from Merers. Deacon and Hasting asking for a repeal of the Common Lodging house laws particularly as regards the exhibition of a sign board outside the premises, Messrs. Osborne and Browin minated the appeal to the effect that in certain cases the
The byelaw complained of was repealed.
DRAFT BIELAWS FOR CEMETERIES. The secretary submitted the draft of the new byelaws regarding cemeteries,
RASPBERRYADE, &C. A SEVERE outbreak of cholera is reported from 40,377; 17,25% died on the field and 21,033 in byelaw should be looperative.
DAKIN, CRUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS ATC
made under the constant supervision of a duly qualined English Chemist and will bear compa rison with the bert Fugllah Manufactures,
Special teams to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESTIS and other Large Consumers.
sy complaints should be addressed to the
Manager. Mangkong. Ist March, 1997.
TAKE NOTE
IT IS UNIVERSALLY ADMITTED THAT
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the interior of Slim. The disease was so riru- lent that dead bodies were loand everywhere. Two steamers loaded meat-cargues, one at Sydney and the other.at Brisbane, to the value of £51,500, for Maulis, in the last ten days of August.
SANITARY Inspecior Allen to-day prosecuted a number of prople for having their houses in a ltby state; $25 or six weeks was the penalty in each case.
Tux mortality statistics for the colony ending
the ambulances, making 79.155 is all. The wounded who survived numbered 13,543 mod. From first to last the German Geld artillery fired 340,000 shots and the Infantry 20,000,000. The booty of war consisted of 5,516 ïcxtress guns, 1915 field guns and fapid-firing cannon, 107 eagles and flags, and 855,000 tifies, exclusive of what was captured at leisure on abandoned
fields.
THE Tectal and the two Sab-Directors of Woo- sung Affairs have instructed the Paoshan Magis trate that a redaction la area has been made op
O indicate the exact use of words, no September 10th showed a death rate of 20'01 the proposed site of the Wooseng Saitlement at
Tindale the exact date of in de w Editon of
WEBSTER'S 'DICTIONARY,
At the office of the Hongkong Telegraph you can see, and procate for Srx DOLLARS, & COPT of the Wabzir ni. Wabitara, the latest and most emphatic proof that. Enhor amuka viwelt.
والی
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
per 1,000 and for the following week the figures
wern 17'9 par 1,000. "CARMEN SYLVA," the gifted Queen of Rosmanis, who is passionately fond of music, often plays the harmonium in the Protestant Church of Adbızla ɔn Sundaya.
the suggestion of the engineer; at whose festang niso the following rules have been made to pre vent the people from selling land and erect buildings' on sites that may be required for a roadway: -All property owners will produce thels deeds to be stamped by the tipso with words to this effect: "This land being in the
THE PLAGUE WORK. The previous hyelaw was repealed and the revised one agreed to.
ing a number of Chinese officers and requesting Mr. H. M. Hillier forwarded a letter enumerat-'
that their services be brought nader the notice of the Chinese Government in connection with the recent plague outbreak.
PLAGUE AT BOMBAY,
The plague returas from Bombay from Aug. cases and go deaths in that period. 16th to Aug. 19th, showed there were 344 now
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DEATH OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT. Carlisle, and second war correspondent for The The Hon. Mr. Howard, son of the Eirl of Time in the Egyptian campaign, 'was killed in the action at Omdurman.
THE FUTURE OF THE SOUDAN, The Timer anticipates that a Military Go- that in the meanwelle the gasboats will explore vernment will be established in the Soudan, and
the Upper Nile and join hands with Maje Mac- donald's expedition from Uganda.
THE BRITISH ARMY AT KHARTOUM,
LONDON, September 6th, The Union Jack and the Egyptian Crescent were holsted over the palace at Khartoum e Sunday,
A soldman requlem dirge was alterwards held In the palace la memory of the late General Gordon, at which all the troops were present,
When the troops occupied Omdurmen on Friday Neufell and 150 prisoners of the Khalifa wete released.
DRILLIANT CHARGE OF THE 21ST LANCERS,
LONDON, September 6th,- The charge made by the art Lancers t Omdurman proves to havojbcen a most brilliant [cat of arms.
Whilst charging a detached band of fugitives after the battle, they founded confronting them had been hidden by a depression in the land, a dense mass of wordsmen, who previously The 21st Lancers charged home, hacking lanes right through the mass of the enemy ander A withering fire from the Dervisher,
The Regiment then coolly reformed in sections on the other alde, The losses were beavy, as every man falling from his saddle was instantly cat to places..
ALLAHABAD, September 8th, A special telegrama to the Pioneer states that Lancers emerged from their maiden charge In the battle of Omdurman the Twenty-first bleeding and blown, but rallied quietly and ra. formed,
It was then discovered that Lieutenant Grea fell was missing, whereupon Lieutenant Mont morcacy, Captala Kenna and Corporal Swar back dashed back, and keeping the enemy at bay, almost secured Lieutenant Getafell's body but the horse shiệd and his burden was lost,
Seelog that fresh charge would, fa all probability be faille, Colonel Marin dismounted the men and ordered the Regiment to open fire with magazine carbines. The fire drove the enemy steadily back on to the Aogio Egyptain Infantry.
The object of the Twenty-first Lancers was thus accomplished, though ́at the cost of a tenible loss.
LONDON, September 7th. Five gunboats are ascending the. White Nile, and it is supposed they have been sent to meet Major Macdonald's expedition.
September 8th.
All accounts applaud the splendid behaviour
of the Egyptian troops during the battle. The campaign to the Soudan belag now over, several of the Britlah battalions which took part in it have been ordered home; others are being sent to Crete and to Hongkong. The Sirdar' despatches were carried frem Khartoum to Cairo in eigbly-seven houre. It la reported that Eve hundred Arabi, who were holly parafog the Khalifa to his fight to Kordofan, hav8 captured his wives and camels, abandoned by For the week ending Sept. 11 there was a the wayilde, The Brilish wounded are repeated death record of 48, from all causes, at Macko,to be progressing favourably, The officers For the previous week there were 42 deaths,
STRANGERS EJECTED, The President- move that strangers beligence Department, are greatly applauded.
MACAO MORTALITY RETURNE.
THE death of the Earl of Man15eld redaces the site of the proposed roadway will be purchased requested la withdraw.
surviving members at an unreformed House of Commens to two-the Duke of Northumber land, who sat for Beer Alaton, and the Earl of Mexborough, who sat for Gatton in the Parlia ment of 1831,
We have received from Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co, a neat title pamphlet containing their price lats for vegetabls and flower seeds and also for wines, cigars and tobaccos. The sticles enu- merated are xil of standard qualities and the catalogse will wall supây perusal.
by officials and must not be privately disposed of any breach of this will be reported to 'and dealt with by the authorities." -On the deeds of thote properties which have already been sold this nole will be inserted: "That in the event of soy portion of the lard may be required for the making of randy, the owners are bound to sell it to the officials at the price they have fized."-Mercury.
The D. P. W-I second that,
The motion was unanimously agreed to. The three "strangers" then left, fortissimo
CON AMORA.
JOURNALISM IN SIAM.
INTERESTING LEGAL POINT.
wil bortly be conveyed to Cairo and thence home. In milliary circles, the ser- vices of Col. Wingate, the Chfel of the Intel
It is conflently believed that the prisoners taken will be capable of being diselplined into Dervish companies. Exciting scenes occurred in Trafalgar Square, round Gordon's alextury on Sunday There is general eulogy in the Con tinental Press on the campaign; and it is remarkable that Le Matin declares that the French are Indifferent to the Egyptian question.
September 10th,
Later detalls of the bat∙lo show that General On the roth instant, an important point of law Macdonald's brigade of Sondanese, while isolat came before the Bruish Consular Court at Banged, were exposed to a dangerous onslaught by kok, on an application to commit one Frank two great bodies of ibe enemy; but the steadi- MacCullagh, a British subject, the alleged editor
ness of fire and discipline of the troops, forms of comments en pending criminal case in of the Stam Free Press, to prison for contempt added to the Brigadier's splendid handling of his of Court. The alleged contempt was in the men, saved a disaster, a Siamese Court. The delence was simply that the British Court had no jurisdiction to restralo
MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.
AERATED WATERS of our manu- facture are sold throughout the Far East and are invariably pre- THE Hakkas, whose advent late Sarawak was ferred on account of their excellence.announced by the Sarawak Gazetic some
ADACLOSE PORITY is guaranteed. of so. It is hoped that eventually 150 familles dest that suffocated the passengers. The splak. British subject from commeniing upon a case
montba back, haya now arrived, to the number
will-settle in Sarawak. One hundred and fifty acres have been apportioned to those who are already in the State.
The best materials only are used,
THE PRICES are only half those charged in England,
WATERO MANUFACTURED BY US are acknowledged by the leading English makers to be equal to those of their own production.
SIR EDWARD FRANKLAND, K.C.D., D.C.L., P.R.S., F.O.e., &c. the greatest living authority on Water, reports as follows on the water as prepared and used by us in our manufacturer. "It possesses an extremely high de-
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'gree of organic purity and is "of most excellent quality for "drinking."
THERE is a grim irony, says a Slugspore paper, in some of the results of the war. For instance in the fact that the Spanish Vice-Cossal here has had to go to the American Consul-General to get papers for the Spanisk steamer Ripaño (locognito bere for a time under French colours the Safgon) in order to clear from Singapore
to Manila,
In South Australia a "State Fire Insurance BIL" has been Introduced, maklug lusurance compulsory in districts to which statutory losur ance shall have been applied by proclamation. I
Dad of the classes la "any person knowing any.
thing about any fact or circumstance to way
affecting the risk of insurance shall supply all the information he possess to the State Fiza
Office."
THE following curious statement appears in a
Axxw use for petroleum has been discovered Rallway are sprinkled with it, and the sales in America. The tracks of the Pennsylvania
between Philadelphia and Atlantic City 210 Do longer accompanied by the Clands of sand and
King of water, as is well-known, greatly increases the destiness of a road as soon as it has dried: lop it separates the finer particles of sand and dust from the hard substratum of the roadway. Oll, on the other hand, had a permanent clogging effect. Though all is much more expensive than water its effects are much more lasting.
One man with an ollcart could lay the dust of a week, and could thus caver daring the week the area of seven men with seven watercarts' on their daily round. There would thus be a BT- log of the wages of six men, the purchase and keep of six horses, and the purchase and wear and lear of air caris, to place against the addi. Honal, cost of the use of petroleums instead of water.
ADMIRAL Humann, the French Commander-in-
Chiel in the Mediterranean, has had an un- Pesan experience: Landing the ether even. ing in Marselles, in sesponse to a telegraphic, summons to Paris, the gaflant officer had so. beadbag in the net overhead. There stiil being lected his sent in the train, and bad placed bf
a
Judice to a Slamene Court. The Consul Orders in Council, the matten to commit the de- fendant for contempt of Court could not be aphoid since it was not contempt of the defen. dani's own Court.
dismissed the application. According to the
LATE TELEGRAMS,
(Prom Ceylon Papers)
THE BRITISH VICTORY IN THE BOUDAN.
LONDON, September 4th. Colonel Rhodes was wounded in the battle of Omdurman,
The list of wounded has not yet been issued, The Dervishes charged repeatedly, regardless
of the withering fire and were mown down by
thousands. Tha Khalifa's own banner" was captured.
All accounts dwell upon the huge extent of Omdurman.
September sth. The remnant of the Khalia'sforce surrendered. to the Sirdar, who is now encumbered with a mars of prisoners.
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THE JEWS AVENGED OF SPAIN.
The Jews have something more than a lost their ship, to remember against Spalo, and
their prayern during the war have been with the Valied States. That this is true, (says ike
Literary Digest, New York) not only of the Jews in this country, but all over the world, is shown by the following prayer recently offered, In Hebrew, by the congregation of the "House of Iscob at a special service at the "Wall of Walling," to Jerusalem -
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Avenge the blood of Thy stewants that has been shed by a cruel nation, and crash Thins anemles forever, in order that it may be known among all the Inhabitants of the earth ibat Thou, our God, art a righteous Judge - between the nations, and that all the tyrants 'aball recogalze Thy power and the glory of Thy
the universe. And may a Redeemer coma unto Zion. Amen."
kingdom. For Thou, God, art the King of
THE FRENCH NAVY.
During the Summer Months, all BRATED WATERS should be kept in a cool place, preferably in an TOE CHEST OF REFRIGERATOR, until Flautails Road-to be let, Fat required for use. The Bottles should pished for & moxibe from 17th. be stored with the neoks downward la republic. The rebels aro supposed to be he got back to his carzlege bli bag had disp twenty-threa British non-commissioned officers Empire, sud to.wage a naval war. Such is a
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THE LIST OF CASUALTIES,
DRAVERY OF THE DIRV1JHES,
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New York journal: A serious rebellion seems
It bas been found impossible to remain there.
The stench at Omdurman fy unbearable, and to be to progress in China, it te polated chiefly few moments to spate, and Marsailles helng was halled with delight. The city is a complete Sta H. Klichener has visited Khartoum and galant the reforms which the Emperor thinks
at all times, and in summer time especially, a ralu, bat the position is superior to that which dence. Carlously enough, these ultra-conservant sampling the refreshments at the station necessary if Skins' is to preserve her fadepen thirsty place, the Admiral took the opportunity Omdurman occupies tire rebels are said to have their headquarters buffet. Then something happened, and when
PRINCES Beatrice bas discarded her deep and a somewhat larger assortment of jewellery peared. It contaived the Admiral's loose cab, mournleg sizce the arrival of the Court at than naval offices usually travel with-of the Osborne and it is understand that next senton calfmated value, indeed, of 4,000. That, how. H. R. H. will take part is the various Slats | ever, was not the worst of it. In the bag also functions and entertainments at Buckingham was a confidential report of the late marceuvres, A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. Palice, It is very probable (Truth anys) that and another upon the capacity and value of Princess Beatrice will spend a month at St. -Blueris as a war port. The hand of the foreign Fetersburg during the winter, as the Emperor spy was at once so manifest that the native bag: and Empress of Russia have invited her to pay; sonicher siems to have got clear away without (7 | thum u vinÍL.
even being suspected.
so that the corke are covered by the water. This will prevent an escape of gas taking place and rendering the waters more or less flat."
THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,
ESTADLINGE: A.D, 1841. [15] - W»ngkong, 5th September, 1848.
The list of the lower at Omdurman show that
to the Twenty-first Lancers and aloety-nine and men were killed, of whois nineteen belonged
were wounded,
Twenty-one Exypilane were killed and 330 Twelve
British officers were wounded, name lys Lieutenant C. Nesham, 31st Lancers, Lieutenant the Hon. R. F. Molyneux, the Blues; Liontenant C. Briston, and Llie Gaards, Lieutenant Colonel Sloggeit, Army Medical Lieutenant Nicholson, Cameron Highlanders Corps Laut. Hopkinson, Sexlorth – High landers, all severely wounded,
Marine, has Hated that the lessons of the M. Edouard Locktoy, French Minister of Spanish-American War aught not to be lost on France. They point to the imperative necessity Invite the conclusion that the French coast-fae of perfect organisation and readiness; they
lasufficiently protected; and they show that for a navy to be able to "fight to advantage it must not be at a loss for strategic ports and cosling stations. What has to be done," akya M. Lackroy, is to put France to a position to defend its own comes, to defend lis Colestal
Minister of Maxine expects to be able to carry few words is my Ministerial programme." The oot his programme with the special vote of 260,000,000ft, accorded by the Chamber last Session. A thorough redisstibsilon of the Frasch naval force is to be proceeded with at once; and the appointment of Vice-Admiral Fournier, lo the command of the Mediterranean squadron, is highly significant of the revolutionary laten. age and the last promoted but one of the Vice Hiêng of M. Lockroy, for it gives the youngest in Admirals the most important command is the French navy