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This vessel brings on Cargo:-
Froni Madras, ex S.S. Loobuiana, Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contmry before 4.P.M. TO-DAY.
Goods not cleared by the 21st instant, at 4 F.M. will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever.
All damaged, Pickages must be left in the Godowns and a certificate of the damage ob tained from the Godown Company within ten days after the Vessel's arrival here, after which no Claims will be recognised.
H. A. RITCHIE,
Superintendent. Hongkong, 15th December, 1898..
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"ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, whence' and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godovas, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th instant will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be pre sented to the Undersigned on or here the 19th instant,, or they will not he recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 19th instant, at 1 PM,
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DEATH...
At the General Hospital, Singapore, on the 5th inst., J. E. NASir, son of W. E. Nash, Supt of Mains and Services, Singapore Municipality, Aged 21,
The Hongkong Telegraph
IN a recent schoolboy essay wo read :-Mr. | Tur Queversal Gazelle-says that the British Gladstone was the author of a great number of professor of the Military School in Wuching works, principally theological and scientific; has resigned his post to leave for England, and he devoted his leisure to political intrigues, it is reported that a Japanese instructor will be
engaged in his stead.
COAL production in India continues to advance. Seventeen years ago, the output of Inding coal was under a million tons; in 1897 it was over four million tons, and was worth over 124 lakhs. THE Sarawak Committee of Administration met on the 2nd November, and considered a despatch from Mr. Chamberlain notifying the adoption of a postage rate of ld. per oz within the British Empire, and also the adop istion of a reduced parcel postage. The me
bers were of opinion that these mates should be
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. ·
During the winter season Hongkong
moderately well off in the matter of its meat
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supply. We have fairly good beef and mut-adopted in Sarawak. ton, and, by way of a change, we are able to obtain game from Shanghai'once the weather has become sufficiently cold to allow of its importation. But in the summer months matters are very different. The heat pre cludes the possibility of meat being kept for any length of time, and it has to be eaten within a few hours of being killed with the result that it is tough and unpalatable. The heat too affects the beasts themselves and the meat deteriorates in quality. We hare now fre- quent communication with Australia and yet it is seldom indeed that Australian meat is imported. One of the principal drawbacks against the importion of Australian meats is, we believe, the want of a cold storage establishment here, and this we imagine could easily be overcome. With, a suitable storage house there can be little doubt that Australian meat would prove a success in the Colony. There is practically no limit to the period for which frozen meat will remain good and sweet, and with the immense amount of shipping frequenting the port, the presence of the fleet now and again, and the demand for eatable and tender meat that would be certain to arise locally we do not imagine that any enterprising individual who went in for the Aus tralian meat business need fear failure. Immense quantities of frozen mutton are annually exported from Australia to England and the frozen Australian meat which Admiral Dewey obtained from the Colonies for his feet during the blockade of Manila proved to be an unqualified success. If it can thus be taken safely to the Philippines surely-there-is-no-reason-against its being: brought to Hongkong: All that is required we believe is a certain amount of enterprise and we recommend the suggestion to those of our readers interested in the subject.
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IT appears says the Universal Gazette, that several Chinese merchants, headed by Chang Yu, have formed a company for the distillation of wine, and petitioned the Viceroy in Tientsin to exempt, all their necessary materials hud. stuff from daty for a term of three years. This request has been granted and notice has been given to the Customs nuthorities in Cantón;" THE German mail steamer Prinz Heinrich bringing Princess Henry of Prussia is due to arrive here to morrow. We understand that she will be met at the wharf by Prince Henry, the German Consular officials' and the mem-
bers of the German community and that the Prince and Princess will at once proceed to the house which has been prepared for their reception.
STRAIT SETTLEMENTS NEWS.
(From Strail: Papers), An inquiry will be held by a Marine Court at Teluk Anson info the causes of the recent fatal collision between the steamer Canton and a police launch in Perak river. D Mr A B Skinner, the late Resident Councillor of Penang, has been approached to persuade him to compile a history of the Straits Settlements
According to the Malay Mall Captain Talbot has recently been engaged upon three separate departmental inquities concerning European officers in the police force, two. appertaining to Selangor and one to Pahang
A fine mural tablet in brass has recently been placed on the south wall of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, the gift of several friends in the Civil Service to the memory of their two | late companions-H. A. O'Brien and H. T. Haughton, N
Thirty Singapore hadjis complain that they paid $30 each to a broker for tickets to Mecca, and that he gave them tickets for Calcutta which cost only $12. They were advised to take the case to Court.
ADDUCTION CASE,
The Perak Malay, who was charged with abducting bis niece and detaining her in house in the jungle, will be tried at the next sitting of the Penang chief magistrate's court, The charge of rape has been added to that of abduction,
FLOODS IN PERAK,
·A CHINAMAN'S LOSS. $70 from his safe. He thinks a coolic, who is A Chinaman living in Singapore, has lost
now missing, took the key from his jacket while he was asleep, appropriated the money, and replaced the key to avert suspicion.
-Kunia Pahang, whilst there is an abundance of
"bakau."""The idea is to connect two small”. streams, the one a tributary of the Pahang, the other of the Meang, by a small channel Such canal existed formerly, but in 1896 the sea broke in and the channel was speedily blocked with sand
THE GERMAN EMPEROR AND THE
FUTURE OF THE EAST.
The gradual development of the scope and aims of the Imperial Pilgrim's Progress," which has furnished such a spectacular drama
It
to the world, shows that its political importance has been in no degree exaggemted by previous anticipation. No contemporary event, in truth, will be written larger across the front page of history than this. 19th century Crusade with Mr. Cook as its organizer, and the war-lord of Germany, as its hero. His entry into Jerusalem. with the palmer's mantle partinily shrouding his military uniform was in itself symbolical of Tux Sarawak Gazette denies the statement
the whole import and significance of a journey, made in the Straits Settlements Legisiative
in whose motives secular ambitions were no less inextricably blended with genuine devo Council by Mr. Allinson that the Sarawak Government offered discount"in its anxiety to
tional impluses than they were in the breast of the warrior champions of Christendom, who so hardly won their footing within those sacred, get rid of its copper coinage. That journal says "At no time since the Sarawak Govern SINCE Noveniber 1st, export duties in Pahang
walls in the dawn of modern history. The ment took to supplying the country with cop have been re-arranged, as follows-Gold, 5%
Kaiser's tour may therefore be regarded under two different aspects, politico-commerical, and per coins have such coins been issued by the
on the value; tin, 10% on the value, with certain
politico-religious. In both it has come upon Treasury at a discount, and no further profits exceptions where the incidence will be 8%. On
Europe somewhat as a surprise, by suddenly have been made on these coins than has been other minerals 10% on the value, unless other:
calling attention to new factors in the situation The Perak river began to rise on the 1st in the East, which have been slowly develop made by the Straits Goverment upon their wise arranged for. Jungle produce, 10% on the
.inst, and on the 2nd was flowing five feet abovoing for years. The growth of German influence own copaer coinage. The Samwak Gover-value. Agricultural produce, z4% on the value the town of Kuala Kangsar. Sampans, sagors, at Constantinople has been watched for some ment has never had on hand any large surplus Ten per cent, on the value will be levied upon and house-boats proved valuable property dur time, but that of German supremacy-in the of copper coin to get rid of"
horns, hides, bones, tallow, mother of pentling the flood. All the padi growing on the economic regeneration of Turkey in Europe
lowlying landa has been destroyed.
and Asin is only now beginning to obtrude shells, and sea slug.
itself on the notice of the world.
from the last decade, though German dates, indeed, in the strictest sense, only
firms had before that begun to supply military material and equipment, torpedoes, small-arms, and artillery, to the Seraklerate at Constantinople. The establishment of the Deutsche Bank in 1888, in competition with the Ottoman Bank, representative of Anglo- French capital, laid the foundation of further enterprises, of which railway construction in Anatolia was the most important. The main line from Ismid to Angora, begun in 1889 and completed in 1892, is already supplemented by a second line from Eskisheher to Konia, opened in 1896, and the system will be completed by subsidiary branches, for which concessions have already been obtained, and for which the capital is entirely founil in Germany. Further rallway undertakings as a result of the Em- peror's visit to. Constantinople are indicated by the presence in his train of Dr. Siemens, director of the German Bank. But the effects Mr. Rooke, the Clerk of Works, Lower of this outlet for the expenditure of capital on Peral, since faking over charge of the P. Wa large scale are secondary to those produced Department at Telok Anson, has made a clean by the stimulus the facilities they provide have sweep of some of his office and field staff, says given to private ventures. Another factor in the Perak Pioneer. The chief clerk and an the industrial, problem is the flood of German overseer have gone to gaol, both for criminal immigration into Asia Minor which proceeds breach of trust another clerk, an overseer, and at the rate of 50s a day. The opening up of the orderly have been dismissed the service. rich and productive regions by these enterpris
ing settlers, should eventually be a bedeat to all civilized hamanity. A railway via Baghdad. to the Persian Gulf, said to be one of the schemes recently assented to in Constantinople would give further development to this great movement of trade and population,
Tux Reader's Handbook (Chatto and Winclus) is a book which, like Dr. Brewer's other works of reference, should find a welcome.space on every reader's bookshelves. If one wants to have a brief account of such names as are used in allusions and references, the plot of popular danas, the story epics and the outline of well- known tales; if one wants to know the authors, the characters, and the sources of popular plays, he has only to inquire within. An Eng lish and Anterican bibliography is also supplied, and great pains have been taken to ensure accuracy. This is an enlarged and revised edition of a thoroughly useful work. The author was engaged upon the proofs when overtaken by death, and the work has been finished by his daughter. It forms an excellent complement to the Dictionary of Phrase and
Fable by the same author.
THE projected removal of the famous Ponte Vecchio, or Old Bridge of Florence, the only one now, left of any importance with its mediaeval houses lining either side of it, is creating, says. The Daily Chronicle, a great stir in the artistic world, both in Italy and the rest of Eorope. A committee has been formed THE DREYFUS - AFFAIR.
for the: "Protection of Old Florence," which LONDON, December, 13th.
includes amongst its members the most illes Strong rumours are current that Capt. Drey-trious Florentine names, and a "circularins been fus will shortly be brought in Paris.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
An uproarious sitting of the Chamber has taken place. The socialist Gousset accusing
the General staff of indiscretion, several of the Dreyfusites and anti-Dreyfusites resorted to fisticuffs.
THE TROOPING SEASON.
sent out to all parts of Europe soliciting signatures against this act of vandalism, which is the greater inasmuch as it is contemplated
to substitute for this historical monument a modera suspension bridge. The original Pont Vecchio was constructed of wood in 1080, but was swept away a fhad in capp, and rebuilt af, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers have left Crete stone. Again it was carried away by the great for Hongkong
inundation of 1333, when Taddeo Gaddi, the painter and architect, rebuilt it, as it stands at the present day.
GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY. Herr von Bulow speaking in the Reichstag on Foreign Affairs, said, that on all sorts of questions there are many points on which Germany can go with Great Britain and that she does gladly go with her while completely maintaining other valuable connections.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:-On the 15th at 11.30 nm. The barometer has risen on.the
China coast. The anticyclone central over China is spreading Eastward, and the depression has probably passed to the E. of Japan. Gradients moderate on 'the coast, steep with heavy monsoon in the N. part of the China Sen, FORECAST --Moderate N. to N. E. winds; fine.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha hare sent us a most artistically designed calendar for 1899 THE importation of Japanese dollars, or yen, into British North Borneo is now prohibited. FROM Messrs. Guedes & Co. we have received a very useful office date block for 1899, giving both English and Chinese dates.
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THE King of Sidm has issued a proclamation, stating that henceforward cases of debt slavery will not be entertained by the Siamese courts.
WE hear that D'Arc's Marionettes are doing grand business in Bangkok and in consequence will not visit Hongkong until after the New Year,
As will be seen by reference to our advertising columns, Mr. N. Latarns, the well-known oculist-optician, he arrived and may be con-
sulted daily,
THE Army of the Soudan is to get a gratuity. The scale starts at £3 a man, for those who have taken part in both battles, the Atbara and Omdurman, and 1 tos. for those who have not. Thus the humblest private, of one battle, or no battle, takes thiny shillings; his comrade of two battles £3. A warrant officer who saw buth fights may claim four shares or 12; a Staff Colonel, forty sites, or 120; a Major.is General, seventy-six shares, or £228,
Criter Inspector Sheriff of Bangkok has had information of an alleged abduction case. A girl the daughter of a Malay British subject, is reported to have gone a trip in the launch "Orienta!" belonging to the Oriental Hotel. All the other passengers arrived at their destin- ation, but the Malay girl was not seen again. Her father has appplied to Mr. Sheriff for assistance and the Chief Inspector intends to arrest three of the men in the launch,
A NOVEL way of discovering a gold-field was recounted by the Hon. E.. H. Wittendom, Agent-General for Western Australia, in his lecture as a meeting of the Royal Colonia! Institute, held at the Whitehall Rooms recently, under the presidency of the Earl of Onslow. in 1888 the Mailina gold-field was discovered by a lad in this wise.. The boy, in picking up a stone to throw at a crow, observed a speck of gold in it, and reported it to the nearest magis.
Iratc.
This gentleman was so excited at the news that be telegraphed to the then Governor, and stated that a lad picked up a stone to throw at a crow, in his excitement omitting to say and saw gold in it." So the Governor wired back these words, "What happened to the crow?"
YESTERDAY, SAYS the N. CD. News of 6th
SMELTING AT, BENTONG,
Smelting has been going on night and day during November at Bentong. A very good supply of tin has been put out, a result which is very satisfactory to Loke Yews, whose coterprise
deserving of success.
COUNTERFEIT COINS.
Considemble indignation is said to have been felt by the jurors, who tried Tan Ang Chim, coin-counterfeiter of Jelutong, the other day, at Penang, at the roughness and imperfections of the work of the coiner and his companions and it was fully expected that the foreman would add a rider of caution to the prisoner, to the effect that he should display more skill and care in the future.
A NEW BROOM
CURIOUS CYCLE ACCIDENT. A domestic fowl, whose owner lives in Penang, committed suicide recently by running across the road while a cyclist was passing The hen became entangled in the front wheel of the machine, and both of her legs and her head were severed from the body. The cyclist was upset but without Injury to either himself or his bicycle..
ALLEGED PERJURY."".
Six Muhammadans are at present under. remand on charges of perjury in connection with a case of theft at Singapore, in which Ebramisah, a P. and O. Co's stevedore, was tried before Mr. Justice Hyndman Jones for receiving stolen property and acquitted, it be ing shown that the goods had been placed is the defendant's room by some person with the intent to ruin him. A small army of Counsel are engaged in the case
PUBLIC WORKS IK FEKAN, PAHANG.
THE KAISER IN SYRIA.
The Imperial journey to Beirut, and thence to Damascus, was attended by the same demonstrations and rejoicing as the rest of the tour, Damascus, whose streets have what--`
Europeans style the Orient colour more in had them illuminated and blasing with fre tensely marked than even those of Jerusalem, works on the night of November 7th, while the Crowd acclaimed their Majesties with a fervour rarely called forth by Frankish visitors. The devored bazaars whose treasures are mostly IN an interesting lecture at Toynbee Hall on inst., we had the pleasure of inspecting the Ellerton, district officer for. Pekan, thus invisible from the street, were visited and the Norman London" Sir Walter Besant showed new uniforms of the latest addition to the writes The plans for the Resthouse at Kuala Imperial party passed through the street which that London at that date, with a population of Shanghai Volunteer Corps, namely, "The Pabaug at last reached me towards the end of still as in the days of the Apostles, is called Straight The Mosque of the Ommiyad from 100,000 to 120,000, had 136 parish chur Shanghai Naval Volunteer Company." The the month, and I hope progress inay at once Khalifa, once a Christian church, is in process ches within its walls, all built by the Saxons, Company was formed in March last and is now be made with the building. The Custom of restoration, having been partially burned as their names proved. A specially prepared about forty strang, many of whom are long-House and Custom Jetty are also now in hand down in 1893, but that of Es Simanich is still the timber for the Etter having been received a typical specimen of Eastern architecture. A map assisted the audience to follow the shore men, as "Jack has it. The officers are during the month.
splendid military spectacle was organized for lecturer's description of the ancient town, Messrs. W. V. Carmichael, Lieut. Comman
WOMAN CARRIED OFF YA TIGER which stood originally in the centre of marshes, ding; J. Morton, Instructor and Gunser; H. According to Mr Ellerton, district officer for the Emperor's entertainent in the afternoon, pant of which extended over the present areas Cox, C.P.O., J. Dawson, C.P.O., and H. Paton, Pekan, Pahang, some excitement was caused when the garrison mustered. 7,000 strong on tire town. The march past was followed by a of Southwark and Battersea. A river wall in Hon. Sec. The Company also boasts of two in the mukim of Penyor during November Ly the Eer, a low-lying meadow on the west of
the appearance of a man-dating-tiger, which in the twelfth century through the middle of Ist-class Petty Officers and a Bugle Band of carried off a woman in broad daylight on the still more interesting display when a series of wonderful evolutions were executed by armed bank is six boys. Since the Ningpo Joss House riot th one limb only being on Thames-street, built on the edge of a ba which they have drilled regularly every Tuesday and recovered. On the jota a man, hunding for was reclaimed and covered with quays for the Friday evening. The secretariat is carried on titans, in the Termapai River, fell a victim to accommodation of commerce. The Cheapside at the Mercantile Marine Officers Association the beast, but in this instance the tiger wa
driven off and the body recovered. The police of a market like Covent Garden, with stalls on where is also a well-appointed armoury, pro-visited Penyor with a view to assisting the which goods were exposed for sale, while its vision being granted by the Municipal Council. Penghulu to capture and kill the beast, but neighbourhood was a network of nar. The uniforms are in close imitation of the Brit were not successfully row streets built without any regard for ish Royal Navy, and certainly have a smart aligninent, in which the riverside population warlike appearance. The Company's crest lived. All carrying was done by pack consists of an anchor, gun wheel, and two horses, and a vehicles passed through. The crossed cutlasses, the whole tastefully arranged, several wards were ruled by aldermen, the only Beneath is a ribbua on which is the well-known general representation of the Cuty being the motto of the Coldstream Guards," Second to Folkmote. London even then was a city of None, which judging by the esprit de corps freemen, for no slave was allowed to engage in shown by all, will be found to be well chosen. business, while residence of a year and a day within it conferred freedom on any slave who had escaped his master.
Bedouins mounted out houses and camels, who Emperor's station by Abdurrahman Pasha, the Mushavir Haj, or leader of Pilgrimage to Mecca Among the fente of these irregular ayairy was that of the Circassian troopers who stood erect on their horses with drawn swords
A CHINESE PROCESSION As they shor, by at full gallon. A visit to the The annual Chugay procession subscribed Vall of Damascus concluded the prograinme to by all the Chinese clans of Singapore except for the afternoon, and n ball given by the the Hokien, who hold a triennial procession; Municipality formed the entertainment of the
evening, owing doubt took place on the 6th inst, and less to rivalry, was an unusually mind affair. The procession, of great length, included a large number of banners, lanterns, &c, and a host of small children on horseback, many of them symbolically arrayed ae cupids hunters and what not. The procession started about 11 o'clock, and made a grand tour of China. torn, accompanied by the usual Chinese music and josses.....
PAHANG FISHERIES,
ALLEGED TURCO-GERMAN AGREEMENTS,
The Frankfurther Zeitung, November gili, spúblishes,though with all reserve, a cominuniça.. tion from a usually well inforated source, NEWS FROM IRELAND.-
according to which the Imperial visit to Con stantinople had resulted in the following agree Decline in Populated.As usual, says The
mont-Germanby supports the integrity of the * In his report for August, just published, Mr. Sultan's Asiatic possessions in return for com- ACCORDING to a Chungking dispatch, the Freeman's Journal, the quarterly return of the invitation of the Szechuan Petroleum and births, marriages, and deaths which took place Ellerton, district officer for Bekan, thus writes mercial and industrial privileges, an arrange: in Ireland during the past three months con- The headmen of the fishing population at ment considered tantamount to an armed Mining Exploitation Co. of that city to the tains some interessing, though, on the whole, Beber came to see me on the last day of July, alliance between the Sultan and the Emperor, coal and charcoal guilds to meet the former to painful features. Our population is unfosun and on 15th August I walked down to Beber One of the subsidiary clauses is the extension consult as to the future operations of the Com-ately. still declining, though there is some and there met the Assistant District Officer, of the Anatolian Railway, after the completion pany, as already noted in these columns, raised slight gratification in knowing the decrease when Che Leh, the headman, who is native of the harbour at Haidar Pasha, bia: Diarbekir during the period mentioned was comparatively of Kemaman, asked for some consideration for and Baghdad to the Persian Gulf, a line run quite a storm among the ranks of the guild small. There were 26,155births and 17a14 hisself and his followers in the matter of jungle ing close to Russian territory to which the Porte people, who have offered a determined opposi; deaths registered curing the quarter, which in passes for articles actually used in the fishing attaches great value on strategical grounds. tion to the Company on the ground that it will any other country could mean under ordinary industry. He also asked to be recognized as From this main line branches will be carried to ruin the present organisations by putting coal circumstances an increase in population of beadman and to be given a kuasa, undertaking such tradecentres in Asia Minor as Smyrna, Sker 8,941; But unfortunately the surplus was more to collect his followers together and settle in the tari, Angora, and Kenieth, and in Palestine and on the market nt ridiculously low prices, than carried off by the tide of omigration, which Beber: His following numbers some hundreds | Syria to Acre, Beirut, Halfe, Jaffe and Kripolir, ON the night of the 15th a fire brolie on one Threats were freely made the other day to accounted for 3,744 men and 5.464 women, of persons; and, if he cries out his proposed Germany will support a new Turkish loan, and of the defence camps at Pishan district, which bring into Chungking a few thousand miners with the result that there was an actual de Intention, the population of this river should will probably take an active part in the finanpin greatly alarmed the people, many of whom fled and charcoal burners to intervlaw the Comcrease of 267. Nor do the statistics relating shortly be doubled or trebled in connection ofgantation of Turkey. The Sultan is said about in confusion, and some women even put pany's Board of Managers who, by the way for satisfaction, There was an increase of this yeaged in fishing mill Jaring" at Kuala Influence in Constantinople
to pauperisny afford any greater cause with the fishing industry, it is noticeable that to attach great importance to the Emperor
of Chinese religious-influence in Jerusalem and political an end to their own lives. It is reported that consist of wealthy Szechuan notables, 24281,517 of 37 per cent, in the average number are engaged in fishin-robab the rebels set fire to the camp,
Hanlin named Sung and two other of Tactal of workhouse inmates and an increase of Panang, but they will probably leave before thie THE Nieuwsblad denies that the Government rank, This rather alarmed the latter and a 7,182, or 135 per cent, in the average number north-east monsoon breaks, pazient
of persons on out-door relief. Conaldoring the
BERINTAHANG, is about to lay down a costly railway in proclamation was accordingly issued by them good weather which prevailed during the Mr. Ellorton, district oficer of Peken,
to the effect that their future work was only, quarter, this is certainly a lamentable condition repons-The timber cuicing industry it Ram Sumatra. Both the Indian Government and
The Locomotief, publishes soma prognant the Minister for the Colonies are of opinion to develop such mines as had already been of affairs The general health of the country, pin has not Increased, but the proposal of one that the construction of railways fa Sumatra abandoned in the provinco or such unopened however has been good, and there is reason for of the Chinese employers to work throughout the but miserable figures on the subject. The gratification in the fact that our death rate was north-east, monsoon is a new departure and a truth-scon from the inside and by those ought to be left over to private initiative while ones as had been discovered by thoir employes only 15 per thousand, as against 18.0 in very antisfactory one, and it is to be hoped who knows that in ond year's time 7,354 the state has so many railways in hand in Java and, that none that were being worked by England. This, however, is slightly in excess that he will carry out his programme. There coins, mostly rix dollars, have been sent from private individuals or companies would be of that for the corresponding unner last year is no doubt that there le still an abundance of Netherlands India to Europe, and of this THE Band of the K. O. Regiment will play touched or interfered with This, however, does (14.7), and the increase, we are told, is due to the valuable timber in the Itampin, the forests at number at least eighty per cent, turned out to the following programme at the Officers' Mess, not scent to have pacised the guild men whis heavy mortality from enteric fever in Belfast, a distance of a mile from the fiver Banks being be false. These surely just be cels sent Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing are alleged to have declared that as die Emarrheal death-rate much above the average quinto untouched. A pruty of Chinese fire honie under suspicion of being false, Bar sill for the September quarter in Dublin, and somepod-cutters have been working at Kuala nny one bandling silver coin in Java most be of the large provincial urban districts, and a Paliang since April fast, and they will probably struck with the enormous, proportion of bad or rather wide-spread prevalence of whooping establish themselves there if the hermen in fale pieces in circulation cough The death roll from enteric fever in Sungel. Medog carry out their proposal to Belfast was no fower than 226, which is 86 in car small canal between ulja river excess of even the previous quarter, and is and the Pahang of i
inako false coin of the Baie fineness and backs of the Pahang, in the neighbourhood of walglike the genuine?). panies of all kinds in Szechuan-V, G:D. Newi, registered in all the rest of Ireland;
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