CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR SAMARANG AND SOURABAYA,
THE Coaty's Steamship
THE
""GASHING,"
Capta Rukirs, will be expatched as above BT (URSDAY, the seid lr-tant at 4 PM.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE. Agents.
Hagkong, ut November 1848.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
1:38:
FOR FOR MING O AND SHANGHAI
THE Company's Steamship
"TAIWAN,"
Captain Harder, I be despatched above
on FRIDAY,, the qn thatan 14 P.M.)
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Apents
Hongkong, til November. 1898.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR TIEST IN.
HE Company's Steama p
"MANCHANG
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1898.
kalima tok.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
remain where he was and has now pre- sumably left no less than six French off- cers at Fashoda. It was stated that the force consisted of eight Frenchmen, and a force of Senegalese and as only two of the Frenchmen, Major MARCHAND and Captain BARATIER, have left, there must naturally still be six left in possession at Fashoda.
have been amaibed by anldiers belonging to General Tong Fu-halang's Kanga corps, and when the Metropolita" Telograph. Offer sent women to repair the damage and restore the los they were savagely attacked by the soldiers and prevented from doing the work. In answer therefore to the peitsins of the Telegraph autho ritfer the Ministers of the Trangit Yarên have Instructed General Tung Fa-hslang to arrest the leader of the riotous soldiers and punish them with the utmost severity,
In all probability the Major will be or dered by his Government to await the despatches which Captain BARATIER IS bringing to him and the fact that his Government disclaims the responsibility of his leaving his post points to those desat BRANDIES. Patches being of a nature to ensure his remaining at Fashoda as long as possible, That is to say until such time as the British take the bull by the horns and turn him and his force out neck and crop.
IMPORTERS OF HIGH CLASS.
4. Bennessy's Old Pale, Hed Capsule.
$18.00
24.00
f126
/ Superior Very Old Cognac, Red Capsule 21.00
Very Old L. qour Cognac V. O.
D) Tennessy's Fin- est Very Old Liqueur, flogne, 1872 - Vintage, Rod, Capsule - uʼapomonee on Very V. V. O. Finest
011 Liqueur (ognac,
Capin lagen, will be despatched on SATURDAY, the th Inst
at Noun,
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkone, si Nvember, 1998.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SINGAPORE, & NANG AND
· CALCUTI (.
HE Company's Steam p
THE
"SUISAN Q
1849 Vintage
30.00
In the meantime we are preparing for all eventualities even here in Hongkong. though we do not fancy that there was any occasion for the semi panic which occurred
on Sunday last, as the taking inofstores and coal by the fleet at present here is merely a Had matters been preliminary measure. so grave as some folks would have had us belleve we do not think that the Powerful would have been allowed to re- main in dock until this afternoon, but would have been hurried out yesterday morning and coaled immediately.
Still the situation is grave enough as it stands, and it appears as through we were ncarer to a great war than we have been for years past. It is just touch and go and the least thing may cause the explosion, Consols are, however, sill at £109. 2.6. and until they experience a decided drop we do not think that the situation can have changed much for the worse.
48.00 All ur Brandy is guaranteed to by puro Cognne the difference in prion bóing moroly a question of age TELEGRAM S.
and vintage.
Smaller quantities and sample
Capain G. Payne, will be spatched as above bottles will be supplied at propor-
on SATURDAY, the "grk in 15, at 2 P.M.
For Freight or Passage, Amaly to
JAR INK, MAT ES N.& Co...
[1295
Ganers Managers,
Hongkong, 18 November, 1998,
T
OCEANISTEAMSHU-COMPANY.
FOR LONDON, VIA SUEZ. CANAL.
12 Company' Scamelde
"SARPEDON,
Captain Gr, will be despatched as above on TUESDAY, the 15th-instant, at 4 PM.
For Freight, apply in
(1196
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents, Hongkong, nt Novembre ting.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, - FROM MIDDLESBOROHIGH, ANTWERP, SOUTHAMPTON AND SINGAPORE. THE Company Montip
T
"BANUKI MARU,"
having a red from Abies Ports, Consignee's ol Cargo Perrin inkimined that their Goods are being landed and placed at thely tik In the Hongkong at. Salad Everetta consigament will de doted out mark by mark and it very ten te obrned as soon as the goods tre ludd.
Opilgnal goods will we landed here auless Instructions are given to the contrary before Noo· TO-DAY...
Goods not cleared by the 7th Instant will be
Kabct to real,
•
No Fire Ingura ama's been effected. All ship-daug da cha mast be left fo the Gegends Shear of the damage phied vom - Golteon-Company and seat to di Ofis When days after the vessel's arrival here, alice which he claims will be recogated.
NETON YUSEN KAISHA.
timate wholesale "rates,
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in this Colony or from our authorised Agats at the Coast Ports.
ALUTER'S MESSAGES.
THE FAS ODA INCIDENT.
LONDON, October 30th. Maja Marched har unexpectedly arrived at Sheraum and li proceding to Cairo, It is ofEcially soul to Parts that he quited Fashoda
in bis én blive. Captain sister ha bren sente Egypt winstrogions for M. Marchand,
ILAGUE ON A SAILING SHIP FROM HONGKONG.
The French birque (Puchess Anne, from A SWATSON & CO... LD. Hongkong ived a San Francisco with plague on board. The Ceptato and a walker died on the TOYPRO.
Hoping, and October, 1937
BIRTHS.
[7
On the 14 November, Hongkong, the wife of [1298 JAMES AWSON, of das bier.
On the 1st November, st No. 1 Menntain View Peak, Hongkong, the wie ni HanaT 1. Groer, of a son.
+ Trang
At Wachang, China, on the sin rf October, 1998, the wf of the Rey FastST 'T. GEDVE, MA rod.
At Wall, on the 23d of Octuber, the wife of J. N. Cask, M D., of a ton
A Waosung Road, Shanghel, on the 25th of October, 1398, the wife of W. G FILDIS.
.cf a son
Data
At Range Vliss, Shanghai, on the 28th of
Roo the wife at 10-
MARRIAGES. AT bedral, Shang, on the 27th october, by the Rev. H. C. Hedges, M.A;; the Rev. Jos HRDLEY, English Methodist Misalon, Leling. Shantung, to ANNIE SMITH, dupiter of William WHITHIAD, Esq., ol
lyib, Noribomberian, Engla d.
On the ay of Oclober, 188, at the Holy Terty Cathedral, Stanghal, by the Rev. H. C Hoges, M.A., GroPgz EDWARD BURGOYNE of Sbghal, to ELIZA FRANCES HAWEKS of Telg math, Devonshire, England. DEATH.
At the Ch. mered Bank, Shangard, on the 27th of Oct her, WALTER TURNER ROGIRS con at George #29, of Stamford ›H!!!, London;
Bougkong, til Nav mbe, 1898. 13-1 1297ged a seurs,
DAKIN. CROICESHANK & COMPANY,
VICTORIA DISPENSARY,
HONGKONG.
AERATED WATERS.
SIMPLE AERATED WATER.
QUIS WATER.
*INGER ALL.
G
The Thongkong Velagrops
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMPER 1, 1898.
THE SITUATION.
|
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report, says-On. the 1st st.40 p.m.: The baremeter has vizen in the extreme North and sematas almost steady else where Prexture is high over N. Cbian, low in the N. E. part of the China Sex, Gradients conlaue alher sleep on the coast and in the N. part of the Chia S. PORTCAST :-Fresh N. and N. E. winds; elendy, some rain.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
H.M.S Powerful came out of dock to-day. INSPECTOR ALLEN, of the Sanitary Department, prosecuted thirteen' householders'in wasters lanes in the city for neglecting to keep their premises in a clean and wholesome condition. Floed $5
arch. I
We leurs that His Majesty the Emperor William has been pleased to confer upon Dr. Franke, Interpreter to the German Consulate-General at Shanghai, the Order of the Red Eagle, fourth
claar.
WHEN excitement wat at his height over the cewp d'etat at Paking, the Novas Vrijma, a St. Petersburg Jamal advised that Russia, France, and Germany should watch the British Beet at Taka.
NOTES FROM THE NORTH.
who hien hitherto unrembled far worship any* where they couk,"
1
I hope to send you a fre more llocs later this week.
GREAT EASTERN AND CALE- DONIAN GOLD MINING CO.,
LIMITED.
Messrs. Lalgens, Elatminn & Co., General Agents of the Great Eastern and Caledonfan Gold Mining Co., Limited, forward as the follow-
rolnes
October 31#, 1898.
(From Our Own Carrapendent.)
TIENTSIN, October agtb, Lord Charles Beresford has spent a week in Peking, and returned here yesterday, I bare not lernt whether bis visit way a very intere tive one qy not yet, but I bellevel was mitended with very into demonstration ether Chinese of foreign, in fact his mission 'generally appoi11 to be characte ized by à qolet ipvestigativeness which is far more satisfactory than a lot of fir works, verbal or actual. Trademonstationa we hope going to take place after his stat.g repɔri zeceived from the manager at the He did not have any toterviews with Chinese officials ant!! Thursday last be goth, or not
Great Eastern Ming-1 hore called tenders reaching Tientsin yesterday afternoon be attend- for a rise of 50 feet on the reef, un that we shall until four days after reaching Peklog. Da ed a Chamber of Commerce meeting called for be ready for step'ng, when the ord frầm this the occasion, at which a very plain statement of reine will be aequhed. We can contano driv- what British Merchants in With Chlox.exsecting later on, and this and the simping out of the and desire was made by leading mercantile reel can go on the same time, without that lights, Lard Charles rotating cat that his object be men are ta dich other's way. was to get as clear and concise a representation Zola Mine. We have delven on the real The a possible of commercial oplaton on this side south feet and and north 14 feet. to lay before the mercantile world at home. I reef Is a litle irregular, and will sobibly pinch a told that Lord Charles his expressed both and balge out is its course At present it ly pleasure and surprise at the rerolate and enter about four feet wide, and the stone is of the prising split be has encountered among bul- ramg, rich quilty. We are raising stone now Let me up north, and I can tell you Tientsin East from this claim. stands six feet something in its socks alter his flattering assurances of "distinguished cont deration. At the same time it cannot be ad that Lord Charles bas pintalarly flatterd Tiestle dovecoles. It requires a pretty from quent contemplation of these glorious achlere ment of his up the Nile, and the per formances of the Cowrior to make the gania) old "Salt's proximity Impressive, Stung near him at a dramatic supper last evening I was legitably reminded of Tool more than Alexandre. However, he has not come to be espressive here, and our interests are well served by the fact that he is "Fighting Charlie "the popular idot of all ranks in the home land and that when he goes home and tells the good folks what he has seen and what he has heard they will beleve bim. He will tell them a grese deal that has been told them before unwestledly by the Intelligent press; and he will re erste a great deat that Consuls have diligently engraved in blu: books and reports, But of what use has
The public ear will be open to Lord Charles, and so perhaps will the public mouth, with astonish ment, is it were really and truly a newly dis- covered and wandertal trath he were aniolding 1 Mies; we grow pullent to the verge of loends,
THE following men.nl.war were at Taku Ber on the 23ed olto, U. S. S Boston Petral and tender Nero; Japanese, “Suma-Kan) French Jeamen ibe telling if it has fallen on deaf ears ? Bart; and four Chinese gunhas's. A party of thirty bine jackets sticlel from the Jean Bart for Peking the same day,
THE Rcho de Chine hears that the Europeans
employed on the Wong Rollway are shortly
and we shal ba grete alls meone or some- thi: g arouses the public realistian of the Bridsh Interests really at stake in Cilox before It is too halt.
and polosophical to the verge of indifference,
to be replaced by Chinese. I considers it m jmprafent as I human to confid the lives of
number of passengers to the profound Ignorance") of Celestial engineers. "We are quite rundr," it says, "to make a tour to another world, but we are egotistical enough to wish to be conducted here by anybody bata Chinaman." NEWs has been received from Nanchang the capital of Kiangsi province to the effect that all be schools and colleges of Western learning, recently loaugurated under authority of the Em. peror's reform decrees, have been closed, while their finders have without exception thought is prudent to go abroad for a while for chaoge of
HIS JESTY. THE EMPEROR ir. News like this has been coming in of late
The report reached me from excellent sources with a tiresome monotony from all parts of thebat I rashed round a bit to test it before com- empleo.
mitting it to the tender merties of the telegeph alice. But it was quite correct. It is con- sidered a grest score, by Frenchmen on the part of the French, by Bullsbers on the part bidir Clande. I am assured by those who were
THE DREYFUS CASE. The Cour de Castion has decided upon a supplementary erquity Ivolving the examina
ion of the entire Drylos Case.
(Finm ibe A, C, Dally News.) KANG YU-WEI ARRIVES IN JAPAN. Konx, October 15th. Kang Yo-vei serived here last night by the Kawacht Maru HA WAY me outside the harbour by Japanese officials.
THE PAXINE_STATYSTOKOr : Y.
PERING, October 25th, Eximations for entrance Into the new Peking University so set down for the middle of November. Anyone appiyleg alter the above date will not be received,
A CHINESE clerk named Hu Wab in the employ of the Botanical Department "faced the male" at the Ponto Court sunday, charged win amster. silag $40, the property of the Crown. Defendant's "'duty was to receive and account to Mr. Ford, public mooles in connection with the department. Between 1st April and 22nd June he had re- ceived sam #ggregating to $40 which he had LI, PING-HEN,
not paid in. When)'defendant was accused of There is a report current in the Siz Boards embezzling the money he ran away alter baring that the Empics: Dowager, is anzlaus to recall confessed to Mrs, Foid- whilst' Ms. Ford was Li Ping Governor of Shantung: getting out a warrant, The surety had since active service again.
[Note:-Tely official though a very honest paid the amount. Mr. Ford, who prosecuted, one at the same time. one of the most con sald that defendant bore a good character and servative of mandaring and a genuine bater of he did not press for a bourgpensity. Commander
all things foreiz He was degraded in 1897 when jast promoted to be Viceroy of Szechman, owing to the morder of the two German mission Aries in Shantung reroliing also in the seizure. of Klio-chou Bay by Germany-ED, MG Dally News.)
THE KUM.GS REBELLION.
KUKILIN, October ngik, H.E Haing Haxl-sen, Governor of Kings, ar ived on the 23rd invan: at Kuelhalen with
large forced suppress the rebels in the vicinity [Note. Kuellsten fs = distle of Hrunches prefecture on the borders of Wuchonin. Kselhalen is said to be the headqasters of the chief rebel leader Lihting who never was captured by the troops.-ED. N.-C. Datly News.]
THE SZECHUAN REBELLION.
CHUNGKING, October 25th Although as stendy reported ibe rebels under Ya Man-to have destroyed over 150 miles of telegraph poles, etc, the authorities dare not terd any one to repair the damages for fear of the rebele. The excose is that there are sat safficient telegraph materials to restore the ine. Communication is still closed between Chong
We are still without news as to the Formation of a. fresh French Cabinet, and until a Cabinet has been formed we do not believe that the Fashoda question can be settled one way or another. The arrival of Major MARCHAND at Khartoum, as reported by Reuter, has given rise in the Colony to the belief that Fashoda has been evacuated, but as a matter of fact this is not the case. The telegram Ing and Chengte. question says it is definitely
that stated in Paris that lie quitted Fashada on his own lalitative, and that ASPBERRYADE, &C. Captain BARATIER is on, the way to Egypt with instructions for him We do not know what those lustructions may be, but
LEMONADE.
SARSAPARILLA
R
ATTACK ON FOREIGNERS AT PEKING. A large number of braves belonging to General Tong Fa-biting's Kannu regiments altacked a party of Foreigo empisyces belonging
TIENTISA, c'ober 26th,
Rising Shine Shaft-This is down to 123 feet, and we are now busy alaking a well hold prior to opening not on the reef The latter is ially feet wide la the north end and about 3 feet wide in the south, with every indication of getting larger with greater depth. The stone
carries a lot of mineral, beildes about one cancu per tan af'free gold, as far as the dish prospect enables us to judge.
Bank of England Mine,-I have lets contract to delve north on this linea led. The reef la the northern end is at prevent 9 feet wide, whilst it is only about one kcat in the southern end, where the floor has pinched it almost out. I havá three men driving with to see whore it ́is going, and I have no doubt, that the lade wil! als, be hero ve y largo avain once we get away fram the floor.. I'am pushing on the development work here with all possible, spon!, ts we shall be able to draw very luge quantities of ore from this mine for our battery.
Caledonian Mice-Ï hive stopped the work here for the time being wit8, the excap:I±n of half a shift.
Baitery work to proceeding as fast as possible. The boxes sie in pavilon ard:** som 21 all tha foundation timer is fixed, the worst part of our I haps to be able to start ext work is over, werk with the better shed, for which the timber
is now striving. Thawisher kerpiwory dry.
THE UNDEVELOPED RESOURCES
OF CUBA.
An Inpresioa prevalis ibat something'must and with be done before next spring; bal-me-
While the sogar and tobacco have been the thinks I have heard that before. Rumont is afloat, that things are not really quite so peice Principal commercial predects of Cuba, their ful and villefactor in Pking as they are geser. Importance may soon be qualed by others ally believed to be, but when I try to probs the
less generally known. The "all and climate of Cuba are eminently adapted to all tropical frolt ramour for some substance I am bualked It
and vegetable aulters In Freh, their products is easy, however, la be bacited up here, which mikes the honour and glory of really capturing grow so laxuriantly and naturally there that the a "real live faci" all the more brilliant and. | natives ralte all they need for home conauma. gratifying. It was with Immense satisfaction Ition without any effort. Bananas grow wild lu was able to wire you the other, day that the 1 the most extravagsal manner, but the variety French Legation doctor had really seen and is poor and needs only a little scientific culture to make it equal to any imported fato the examined
Untied States, Wo loput some 15.000000 bunches of bananas into this county every YEAT and Cobs canid produce every one at a nominal cost, Probably the binana, next to the cocainnt, la the best poɔr casa's frult. It grows without
TOO.
much callvallan, and hence it is the lazy man's Come 10 oranges frult as well. But when we and pineapples, It is quite a different mittet, These two" frults #qake Cultivation and the - most careful handling from the time the planta arestarted until the bults reach market.
in Peking at the time that the Tsungit Yamen were, somewhit alarmed by the persistence with which the English papers! In Shanghai barped epan the Emperor's probable death, and Oranges grow as easily in Cabs as they des appealed to Sir Claude slop the asterilona, In Florida or Callfornia. There we thousaade Sir Claude is reported to have replied that the of-semi-wild grovei setitered throughout the island which prodacă fruit zo infedar that they There test and quickest way to stop them was to let a
ars of little value for market corporer. foreign doctor as the Emperor and presence upon his health, Sir Claude with the customary Irces, however, can be badded and grafted with al dealing pitit of all Bilish procedurs profice Florida oranges, and in two yeɛrs they can be made to yield large crops of exquifiely bably suggested the French Legallon doctor as 1.sallable person, and soy way he was the flavored fruits. There is an aspartantly for medico who was straightway Invited to feel making a fortune to securing these neglected as the earlygrowers found in the Imperial paise, with the result already wired tree sech
The fact of a forelge doctor having been Florida when they first realized the valus of the Hastings sent the dishonest cleak to gant for called to be created some sensation la Chinese wild Indian orange trees. four months.
chicles I belleve, but whether favourșie or sher. The placapples of Cuba can be raised to vise I do not quite comprehend. A siny is perfection. The fames Porto Rico "sugar Caba lost" pines can be duplicated in abroad that the Emperor led to escapt fram
enormous and bis sectasion the other day, but I do not think People never realised what there is any foundation for it, as even he would delicious plats" could be produced under hardly be likely to make such
good cultivation saill the Londag gardeners foolhardy
Two years ago attempt, especially at a moment when the British raised them in hothouses,
these magnificient plusspples from London Legation is not showing any disposition to father wl's laterests & Ittle there is now a disposi sold as high as $3 and $4 apiece. They werd Aby more refarces. Having furthered Kang Yoko houses were imported into this country, and on to shells the whole sery out of sight. Inperior to the ordiasty pineapples modera believe the subject la "painful one" in Florids orange is to the semi-lid product of the old Indian groves. It is believed that fully as Peking.
fiae plaespples can be raised in Caba as ever came out of an English hothouse. The soll, the climate, and all other conditions are favorable to the perfect development of the faulty, provided the owner is willing to give the necessary ́lsbor and Intelligence required for the production of all fancy faults. It is this knowledge and skilled labor that Americas can and will supply.
The following. Notice to Mariners, No. 330, was sent us from the Coast Inspector's office :-
CHINA SEA
Chef District: WEIHAIWEL LIGHTS.
The following Nollie to the Fleet, issued by Sir. Edward Seymour, K.C.B., Commander-le- Chief of Her Britannic Majesty's Naval Forces in Chinese Waters, concerning the establlab meat of a Light on Flagstaff Polat and the circulated for general information! re-ilghting of Chao-pel-titl Light, is hereby
"Centurion, at Wel-bal-wel, ». 4th October 1693. "HYDROGRAPHICAL MEMORANDUM NO. 5
*WEI-HAY-WET. "L--LIGHT ON FLAGSTATT FOINT.. "A Light was exhibited from Flagstaff_Polat on the 10th September. It is a Group Occult Ing red and white Light, showing three eclipses every to seconds.
#The Light will show over the western entrance between the bearings S 44 deg. W. and S. 53 deg. W., and over ibé exstom entrance baween N, 84 deg. W. and N. 75 dég. W. and red in all other directions
"The Light le situated on the set off Fleg staff Point, which is about 1 mile to S.E. to the L-Han Railway Survey sta place on the Welhalwel city. It relevated 52 feel above the
1
There has been a
1
LITTLE TROUBLE ON THE LINE and one or two of the farelga employees of the allway have been stoned, alta Campbell of the Legation, who was down the line a litle from Peking. The story rare that some troops stalloned between this and the capital, began masing themselves ruining trucks on the ilne Bear one of the stations, and when told that this wir breach of the regulations and 'asito be allowed, they threw stones and behaved in a dis- onderly manner, with the sel: that one of two foreign heads were more less damaged. Sir Cizada has taken the maiter up, and will manage the conviction of same more or less mp:asible coolies as quietly as he'cau-nedoubt.
Tioptain has
Jiber fruits of great commercial valna dourish in Cubs ka the proverbial green bay tree. Lemon trees reach a superb: s'zi there and the fruits are equal to the famous-imported `La Francs lemon of the Mediterranean shores. But no effort has been made to rafse lemon groves systematically Cocoanuts are native products of the island, and they thrive without apparent effort in the rich toll. The grape fruit, shaddock, lime, and semi-tropical frufe, which baya with some theatricals, Sydney Grundy's well obtained a small foothold in Florids grow wild own "Arabian Nights" being given here by in Cuba. Many little known fruits, such our local A. D.. C. with brilliant success, Its the guavas, capotas, sapodilias, and
OPENED THE BEASON
it is evident from the fact of the French Lukouclio-Paoling Rullway line. It is a level of the sas, aid in clear weather the white would have béon Impossible to find main suit-'} kuwqasts, ara commonly found in vil parts of made under the constant rupervision of a duly Government disclaiming all responsibility! knows how many English englacera weza lajurth) | light should be vlilble to miles, and the red 5 bla exponents for the respective characters in the Island, Many of these have peculiar Barore.
DAKIN, CHUICKSHANK & Co.'s WATERS sið qualifed Engleh Chemist and will bear compa« Bron with the best Engilah Manufactures.
Special terms to HOTELS, CLUBS, MESSES and at er Large Consumers.
duy complaints should be addrand to the Managır.
Finngkang, zei March, 1397. ·
LEVY HERMANOS.
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for the Major's last move that they dis approve of his action. His leaving Fas- hoda would have given his Government
the excuse for settlig
matter
an
but a native recretary of the Railway Company | miles.. and two workmen were killed.,
POTS AND COUNTER-PLOTS.
Pixma, 16th October, vis
TIENTSIN, 17th fastant
off hand, but as they have failed A kíny laid jklı mainlog by bigb ̃Palace
and shows as formerly.
"The Light is exhibited from as iton column this fetching little farce had a much wider and It requires realdence in the island to "sphere of influence " than Tientsin rediolanis, make one megalis a taste for them · On 128 feet high, and the columo; and dwelling are
been canvassed for the purpose, and the upright, the other hand, there are many tropical fruit white,
"Chsc-pel-teul Light has been re-establi-hedly little pleca went gaily from beginning to end alsed in Cuba that only need to be tasted by and was thoroughly enjoyed by a bompartouse, Americans to be sppreciated. These can ba All the morso, as last year we did not coltivated with avery prospect of success. "(Signed) E. H. SEYMOUR,
get anything from the T. A. D. C. "Vice-Admiral"
The wasther here has been abnormally warm for the season, and consrquently ankoilby i enjarabic, but a change is approachlag, and as usual I suppose, the races next week will be attended in great coats and/or collars, Theontries time is anticipated, though times and not astoolsblog, and several pows" are being kept very dark. The races will wind up with a Race Ball, the first bap of the rexon.
W. FERD. TYLER,
Acting Coall Inspector
to take advantage of this opportunity thereofficial li to the effect that on the right of the can be little doubt that they intend to 23rd fastant there was an attempt to place the strive to establish their right to, the terri-n af Peace Ching on the Throne, with the By Order of the torpector General of Costoms, tory which they claim to have occupied by connivarce, of course, of the Empress Dowage Immediate ex
of cotton owing to the strenuo of two Imperial Clansmen, member of the Tsurgii Yemen, who declared that so long as maller werd as they stood the Foreign Pawers could be persuaded
But 11 fruits are important products of the Caban soll, what must one say of the vegetables These grow and yield crops about every month in the year. Tomsors are as plentiful as rand on the seashore. Vines naver cesse to produce fine tomaiden "Is maldwinter it is possible to and artichokes cheaper then in our American cities in midiammer. The plants simply reval fa the warm, molet climato,
JAMOND MERCHANTS, JEWELLERS reason of the unexpected appearance of But the plot was not put into liten THE HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIA• | fer the meeting are uansailly large, and a good purchage in Cuba coro, celery, launce, tomatpas,
Sole Agents in the East for the amalgamated CLEMENT, HUMBER and GLADIATOR CO., L., DUNLOP TYAKS'S BICYCLES-PRICA...$185. A special reliable Watch made for this Climate.
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Harket gardening in Cuba would be the cxiftit sort of workibat a farmer could under- take. With considerably less collivation than we give to our gardens and farms in the United States, frosts and vegetables produce remarkabla Cropy, and without ferilsers the same land.com- tinues to take plenti and thele-fgulia with prodigal taxarimoce.
Major MARCHAND and his force at Fashoda, Just as Lord KITCHENER had won the battle of. Omdurman, which established British supremacy throughout the domi-
Nino Members took part in the Spoon Compe nions of the Khalifa.
not to interfere with the Empress Dowager's titlon on Saturday afternoon Following are the Had Fashoda been evacuated, as a "Regency," but that I would be most dangerous scores - certained portion of the inhabitants of if someone else were to be placed on the Tarons Hongkong appear to bellave, then a place of Kuang Hed, to whom the Foreign Mr. D. McLennan...32 certainly Reuter would have mentioned Ministers were all accredited. It is, however, Mr. A. Watson ..34 suspected that the two Imperial Classmen who Mr. G. H. Colas..33 the fact that Major MARCHAND, had brought interfered with this plot have some other project Bergt. Bowery his force with him to Khartoum. There against the Emperor in mind, which they ile Mr. Stackwood was nothing to prevent his doing so, for wish to put laio execution. The Empress Mr. A. Read... 30 we know that Lord KITCHENER offered Dowager, however, bad to give way to theto Mr. I. Marshall him a passage down the Nile for himself their superior knowledge of Foreign Affairs," Mr. F. Beck
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A Return ma'ch with the King's own Regimiosat object now in that mud expato. It most of the trade la tropical falls and winter FEXING, October 27th, Noon, meat has been arranged for next Saturday at was formally opened on Sunday fast and when vegetabler, which is now controlled largely with France, would never have arisen. All the insulators on the telegraph poles in 2.30 pm.The Team and Reserves will be the tords to it are made, it will be a great con by alton West Indian planters.-Sefeniffe
relation to the members of that Gongisgation · «merican. On the contrary he preferred to the vicinity of Lakow Bridge for a long distants i adverload later.
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In the olden daya khere was a milenary church house in the Taku Road. where's the misionary compounds nie. located, náð þéété la Catholic church, and a very small room with clerical windows and a crois at the top which is
Onions and potatoes rained in Cuba are equal designated by contriesy All Salots Church ander the auspices of the S. F. G. But the seacon to woy imported from Hermands, and they could formulate have put their pence togeibst and he shipped to the United Stater at less cost erected a small but modsjantial brick church than from the latter place. In a very few yearM