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Captain J. Chellow," of the seava, from Yokohami, reports-Lef Shanghai (Woosung). 2:18 p.m. on the 27th May and experienced molerate N.E. wind with overcast sky to Help slun, when wind freshened to strong with con- „fused easterly sea, which continued to Foochow Left Fdochow-1.35 p.mson May Joth and ex perienced moderate souiberly wind with heavy rain to Brothers, when wind, hauled to 5.5.W. with overcast sky, and continued to arrival at
Captain Groves, of the Chow it, from Bangkok, reportas Experienced light southerly winds and fine weather throughout.
WHERE THE SIAMESE ARE LACKING.
FRONTIER DISPUTE WITH GREAT BRITAIN,
'BANGKOK, March 16th,
The balance of English traile bas of recent years been in favour of excess of imports over exports the saune, rasounting last year to the large supp of £337,000,000. The fiffs explain Jime ist - nation this astounding condition: is that England stands as a creditor nation toward the entire tinancial world, which fact, she is not only able to import foreign products it cheaper rates, but fumishes and controls the money market of the world with an enormous surplus fund. The steady increase of importą "is the sigu-of-her growing financial power. This prosperous condition of the British trade self the conjecturing upon the future of Japan's finances. Thus far, it argues, our financial relation with other nations has been confined to export and import transactions. True, we are at present Cuniler obligations to foreign capitalists for the tamounts of the old and new loans and interests, thereon, but in future, thinks the fiji, our fadebtedness toward foreign capitalists will grow much greair; by our borrowing Itoo them inevitably-Chix according to the /// will but by a sequence to a retter proximity, of relatignis between thus and foreign markets. Foreigners will invest in our stocks, and participate in the fiabilities accruing there- from; But at the same time, the fijf paints out, they will be empowered, as a matter of course, to sell shares in the Japanese market, and get back their capital at any time Or, if foreigners should start up their own enter priso in this country, they will reap not only the interest on the capital they may invest, but also the profits of the business. For the list two years our imports have been in excess of exports owing to the fact, ko argues the Jiji, that we have not yet come to redeem the War Bonds that were sold abroad two years ago, and also to the fact fint the Chinese Indemnity fund was brought home, which made Japan for I the time being a creditor nation. On the expiration of the term of the Bonds, however, the introduction of foreign capital will become more urgently demanded. The situation will
quicken the exportation of our products, undertaken by foreign exporters to whom we shall have to pay. n large fee for the transaction. All these facts then, the journal concludes indicate, that this country will before long become a debtor nation, a fate exactly opposite that of England. The Jijis opinion fas to how we may best cope with such a situation is to employ the introduced capital with so much tact as to make it con- tribute to the gradual recovery of the position of a creditor nation by increasing the amount of -production far în excess of exports, and thereby.
increasing the money supply at home,
HANKOW GOLF CLUB.
("."The Links of the Hankow-Golf-Cluli, were formally thrown open to the members on Satur day, 6th May. To conimemorate the occasion, Mr. M. Harris presented very handsome Silver Cup to be competcil for. There were 44: entries for the competition, which shows there is no falling off in interest at Hankow of the ancient and honourable game.,
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Mr George Greville, C.M.G, İL.B.M. atinister resident in largkok, is now engaged in negotiations with the Siamese Government, which inay, chit in Great Britain occupying Rahiman, a imali, ill-governed territory to the north of Perak, a province in the Malay Peninsula Siam has protested against the just demands of the British representative by drawing closer to France, and I have already. informed you that a Siamese Embassy left for Saigon, a few days ago in order to confer with the Governor of Indo-China on this matter... Public attention has seemed to concentrate itself on the Mekong, but it must not be forgotten that the Anglo-French Convention recognizes an English as well as a French sphere of influence in Siain. In spite of the very optimistic dispatch from Bangkok that has recently appeared in a London paper, the English sphere in the Malay Peninsula is. very badly governed. A very short study of Mr. Warrington Smythe's Five Years in Slam" will convince one of this, though the nuthor is now, or was till recently, employed in the Siamese Legation in London. Tie seiner Siam gets rid of her Malay dependen- cies the better, she has practically no hold on then if they choose to declare themselves in dependent, and the abuses of which they are the theatre will, if continued, bring more than mere protests from England.
In the course of a lecture at the United Service Institution in 1896, Mr. Swettenhän whose knowledge of the Malay - Peninsula is almost unrivalled, very bluntly told his heaters that there was a very inconvenient patch of territory in the Malay Peninsula under Siamese control," "where dutgigh still, all the abuses and cruelties that have Beets swept away from these under our control. They are bad neighbours; they harbour murderers and bad characters of all sorts, and they live caused the other States a great deal of trouble and expense.”.
Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith and almost all the high officials in the Straits have always been of the same way of thinking while Mr. Hugh Clifford, one time Resident in Pabang, and muthor of several well-known works on the Peninsula, is an uncompromising advocate of | a "forward" policy in that, remble" quatter of our. Empire and ofthe stoppage of the "quit rent of 10,000 dols, per annum which foolishly pay for Pulo Penang and the adjacent province.
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If Slam knew her true missien she would, part with the Malay States, which she cannot gorem, let alone exploit and confine herself to the Menam delta and river. The railway to Korat, tliough incomplete, is already paying well, and will when finished take all the trade to and from the Laos, besides opening immense tracts for rice cultivation; The railway to Chienganai, which has been commenced, will transform Siam, and will treble the importance of Bangkok. The export of rice will be increased indefinitely when these and other
The new Links consist of nine holes, case: fully laid out by the indefatigable secretary, Mr. N. J. Mason, -assisted greatly by Mr. H. Bass. The play now will be more of a sporting character than on the old linke, the shortest hole being 191 yards and the longest 300 yards, The great want of rain for the last few months made the greens very difficult to manage the; -grass being very bristly and stiff.
The following are a few of the returns of the railways are complete, and when the canals Competition:
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8 Winner. J.T. Child48-4290 Scratch go
N. P. Johnstonejo 47 07 N. Paxton
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THE "STELLA" DISASTER.
The following letter is taken from The Mall (London), and records a purpose for a worthy object
-Sir,--The" "Stella Stewardess Memorial Fund" now amounts to £115 75. I hope to get £400 at the very least.." It will take £200 tó provide for Mrs. Roger's father, aged 74, her daughter, aged 20, and her son, nged 18. The daughter is entirely occupied by the care of the . old man. The sun, who is apprenticed to a shipbuilder, is the only bread-winner now. He cams 6s, per week and hopes for a rise to 8s. next year. Three years of his apprenticeship have yet to run. It will take at any rate 200 to raise à montinent worthy of perpetuating Mary Roger's self-sacrificing deed of heroism.
Only those who knew the Strlin'e Jadies' sa-
toon well can fully appreciate how many lives: of women and children were probably saved by the calm counge of the stewardess. The ladies saloon was a long one with a very narrow door round an nwkward corner. Had there been any panic, the door - would, bave become blocked and many might never have even got to the boats. If is to rescue this, humble
woman's deed of self-sacrificing heroism from oblivion that we desire to raise a worthy monu ment a nonument that may remind us, and our children after us, that if we pursue our lives faithfully, however humble-A
the
We can snake our lives subline,- And, departing, teave behind us
Footermes dd she sands of time ; Footprinis that perhaps another,
·Salling o'er life's soleren ignis). A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,;
·Saging, shúij, záke beurt'ngain."; Het L'amp; Sir, '&c.,
Woollet-hall, Nortis Cray "Kent, April 5th,
SIAMESE PRINCES
"bride was Elizabeth Jane (Jones, whose father, “David Jones,čis also a tailor, The witnesses.
ohn Robert Jones
and inne The minister wat die Røy@RE. Jones, Talybont, and the registrar the, Rev. William
¡CAVE-IN IN A VOLCANO RADI
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17th Passengers on the steamer City of Rio-de Jauerte from Honolulu state that on March 23rd the bottom of the great valcano fell out, follow
Clearances at the Thales, BritishĢIE)", Dauteror, German stop Tarter, British stra fo Aagnar Norvegian, Pak Aang, British str.; for Tatchedrig, German strs for Swatow
Any fool can (alk, but only wise men know ?” Light" from... Surgat, A phenomenon, theed by great clouds of dust and smoke. Some::Sibiria, German str., for Saigon
cause of which has not yet been satisfactorily alarm was felt by the guests of the Volcano Izumi Mari, Japanese str. for Kobe, explained, was described at a recent piecting house, occasioned by the noise and the frequent When a man loses faith in humanity he hits of the British Association. Discs of loaf sugar landslides which, fallowed, but some of the himself a solar plexis blow."··
were mounted on a lathe nad rapidly rotated guests becaine reassured and started to investi while a hammer played lightly against them gate the phenomenon. A hole 150 feet in An almost continuous radiation of light was attempts to locate the bottom of the crater diameter showed the extent of the cave-in... All this produced from the sugar.. It was shown that the fight did not arise from heating of the were unavailing, and some authorities place it sugar, and it is believed to be caused by some change taking place in the sugar crystals. The act of crystallisation is known to be sometimes accompanied by flashes of light. The practical bearing of these experiments is on the question of the possibility of obtaining artificial light by methods as yet untried.
All persons are born happy, but in order to continue so to the end they must die young,
No bird can fly backwards without turning, The dragon-dy, however, can accomplish this feat
Chemical analysis shows that butter made from cocoanut-inilk is an excellent article of diet.
There are about 5,000 bees in a pound. 'A' gallon of honey weighs froin tilbto 2b, according to its density.
The next V.R.Ç. Derby will be run on Saturday, November 4 and the Melbourne Cip on Tuesday, November 7.
The life of a bec in the busy season is very brief It is conceded, that during the honey how they do not live more than six or eight weeks..
The Russian State sceptre is of solid gold, three feet long, and contains among its ornaments 268 diamonds, 380 rubies, and 15. emeralds,
Among the birds the swan live to be the oldest, in extreme cases reaching three hundred years. The falcon has been known to live over 162 years.
The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull-fights every year exceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1,200 bulls are sacrificed.
It is a curious fact that the right hand is, as a rule, more sensitive to the touch than the left; but the former is less sensitive than the latter to the effects of heat or cold..
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2nd persecution, there are to this day nearly Notwithstanding centuries of maltreatment as many Hebrews in Russia as in all the rest of Europe put together.
Snails are a profitable commodity in Warten- berg. The other day an order was received from Paris for 1,000,000 of them. The price paid was about dight shillings a thousand.
• Beef is never seen at a Chinese table. Oxen capable of working the plough are considered to be too valuable to the farmer to be consigned
to the butcher(The writer of this knows
ittle of China-Ed)
At Schweinfurt, Bavaria, is one of the world's manufactories. for ball bearings. The two factories there, belonging to one firma, turn out annually 2,000,000 gross of these little steel balls and employ 600 men.
In the forests of Guiana'dwell some very huge and ferocious black ants, which throw up hills 6fteen and twenty feet in height. They headquarters are usually given a wide berth will not hesitate to attack a man, and their
Five sons, with their wives, and six daughters with their husbands, attended the funeral of a man named Murray, at Wichita, Kansas, le was in his 84th year, and had 14 children, 60, grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
The largest yield of maize in some Texas tests was produced by the application of 500lb fertilisers, an application of 1ool of katy per acre of acid- phosphate. Of the complete 400th of acid phosphate, anil golb of marité of potash, gave the best results.
THAT SHIPPING DEAL:
Thenewsofthe sale of the local Holt liners gave home papers an opportunity to make the usual number of blunders, says the Bangkok Times.. One organ of opinion quotes the announcement that a powerful German syndicate has acquired the whole of Messrs. Alfred Holt's fleet of atcamers which ran between Singapore and Sign and Singapore and British Bornen"; and then proceeds to have a series of violent fits on the supposition that this "astound-
statement is correct, Afterwards, how- eter, it was. greatly sootbed and reassur-
by news from another quarter, and of a later date, which stated that "Messrs Holt have only sold ten coasting steamers of small tonnage and their main feet will not be affected." This was regarded as much less. alarming, and under the circumstances perhaps it was as well that it was not suspected that the two statements were identical.
Even in Liverpool they had the haziest idea of where the steamers run. The Press Associa- tion correspondent there telegraphed, "Messrs Alfred Holt and Co. have sold to the North | German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American combination ten of their coasting steaners, which have been trading in Japan.”.
WHAT MESSRS. HOLT SAY. On the 18th ult. Messrs. Alfred Holt inform- cil the Liverpool correspondent of the Daily Hail that the arrangement with the German syndicate to take over the steamers of their line ship Company, Limited, had not yet been con- running now as the East Indian Ocean Steam cluded, and, indeed, would not be an accom- plished fact for some little time.. In the mean- ime the steamers will run with their present" officers will remain, for a short time after the masters and mates, and it is likely that these transfer is required, but not having German certificates they cannot, it is understood, con- tinue in the German service for any lengthened period.
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We learn to-day that the taking over of the
Holt liners has been finally and completely seuled, and that all English officers have been given six months' notice.-Ed, HK.T]
CURIOUS SMOKERS' CLUB,
The prosecution now going on of the presi- dents of a number of illegally-constituted leagues has brought to fight the curious fact that a Vestal club is in existence, which, how. ever, has neither a social nor a religious pro-
take a solemn engagement that a pipe sits name might seem to traply. The Vestal Club is an association of sinkers onte lit by one of them shall never again he allowed to go out,
selves, and its sacred fire burns eternally..
The members pass it round amongst them-
*Professor
OUR MARVELLOUS AGE.
Experiments were conducted at Washing con on April 18th with a new telegraphic.apparatus,.
Messages were sent between the. War Depart called the Synchronograph, invented by Crefore and Colonel Squier. in the Bangkok, and adjacent districts are repaired and looked after by a special board,
ment and Fort Meyer, a distance of three miles: The Siamese are quite competent to carry
Kipling's White Man's Burden" was constant- out these reforms with British assistance, but
Tea Caddies had their origin in a weight still repeated for an hour at the rate-of--2,000 they must once for all give up the idea in use in China. When the Chinese first sold words per minute. The machine operates like that Siam is a country which can play the tea to foreigners, they enclosed it in packages, 4 typewriter, and punches holes in a narrow political game Their recent advances to each of which weighed a "catty" (1 lb), and strip of paper resembling a stock ticker tape. France are simply farcical Siam is not one of these little lacquer cases in due time were call-This is fed into a sender, which transmits the the great Powers, and she cannot be mentioneded tea-catties and at last tea-caddies.
messages in Morse characters, which are easily in the same breath as Japan, nor can she ever
deciphered. The inventors will exhibit a aspire to a future like that of the Mikado's Sir Robert Ball, the eminent astronomer, machine in London during the summer. They empire. The reason lies in the fact that there has himself stated in public that anyone who believe it will ultimately come into general use 15 no middle-class in Siam, that foreigners have takes the trouble to lie on his back on the and have a great commercial valué. all the trade in their hands, and that the in-ground and gaze at a clear night sky will, as dolent, easy-going population are not a whit his eyes become accustomed to the heavens, more advanced than their brethren the Bur-
soon perceive numbers of shooting stars, mans and the Annamites, who have fallen so easily before European nations.... If the rulers of Sian regard themselves as managers of a big tice field bordered with teak, and net ac one of the most prosperous countries in Asia; cordingly, they may succeed in making Siam if they go in for la finut politique they will find themselves incapable of advancing as they should-Pall Sfull Gazette. §.
MURDERERS AT THE MORGUE,
A PRACTICE OF DOUBTFUL LEGALITY.
Fair-haired people are said to be becoming less numerous than formerly. The ancient Hebrews were a fair-haired race; now they are, degree with the irish, among whom 150 years with few exceptions, dark. So it is in a lesser ago a dark-haired person was almost unknown,
The marks on playing cards are said to have their origin, in a symbolical representation of four different classes of society. Hearts re presented the clergy spades, the nobility, derived from the Italian word spada," inean-
citizens.-- ing sword; clubs, the serfs, and diamonds, the
Out of a total of abou: 7,000,000 adult men
Paris, April.-A law that has recently come into operation gives prisoners the right of Canmiunicating with counsel within twenty four hours after their arrest. One of the im
mediate consequences of this measure may be to put a stop to lose "confrontations at the Morgu
which are so draumatic a feature of French criminal procedure. With a view to bringing a murderer to confess he is taken to the Morgue, and there: brought face to face with the body of his victim strange clock was hade during the last Every artifice is used to make the con- century for an eccentric nobleman. The dial frontation, as impressive as possible, as it is. was horizontal and the figures, being hollow, hoped that the terrible sight he is compelled to were filled with different sweets and spices, gaze or will so trouble the murderer that he Thus the owner could tell the hour without a lose command over himself and make a light by simply runing his fingers along the clean breast of his crime in his agitation. When hand and then touching his tongue. be enters the foom he can see nothing, as the S
A GERMAN HIGH-DIVING ·
FATALITY.
A few years ago a man named Baume caused some sensation by his performances of the Monte Cristo diving feat at the Aqarium at Westminster. The Berlin correspondent of the Dally News reports his death whilst giving a similar exhibition in a circus at Chemnitz. It seems that the performer was advertised 10 make his famous. " death leap from the roof, nearly sixty feet high, into a ditch filled with water, ten or twelve feet deep He had olten
from a much greater height. ofler places performed the feat in London and
at 800 foet below the mouth of the crater.
NOTANDA
CALENDAR:-
JUNE.
Meteorological means based on ten years "observations to 1893;~
29.867
·Barometer...
Thermointter
Humidity Rainfall
-TQ-DAY." WEATHER REPORT.
On date as
to £101
10,80 84
Barometer, Thermometer Humidity.......... 78
Rainfall.
TO-DAY.
Thursday, 1st June, 1899.
76.2
Oo duls at 4 p.m.
20.72
Departures June Suchsen, German str, for Shanghai. June 1, Hohenzollern, German str. for Japan June 1, 2šales, British sir, för Swatow, a June 1, Sullberg, German sin, for Cheloo June 1, Glaucus, British stri, for Singapore. June 1, Afeefoe, Chinese str for Canton, June“, Diamante, British str., for Manila, June 1, Triumph, German, str. for Hollow. June 1, Sibiria, Gernian str., for Saigon June 1, Deuteros, German str., for Saigon June 1, Tartar, British str., for Vancouver. June 1, Tázumi Maru, Japanese str., for Kobe.. June 1, Bennington, American gunboat, for
Manila
Fassengers Arrived. Per Chqwfar, from Swatow-6 Chinese. Per Progress, from Touron-36 Chinese, „Per Faimun, from Coast Ports-16 Chi- nese
Per Java, for Hongkong from Kobe-Mr C. Vauglian From Fouchow-Mr James- Framilton R.N. From Shanghai for Singapore: Mr. Stack. Froin Yokohama for London) Miss Messer, and 3 Naval Invalich
Departed,
Per fichenzollern, for "Yokohama from Bremen-M M. Hassinreiter, From Antwerp
Chinese-13th of jih môon of 25th War of Mr. H. Debatty, Froin Genoa--Mrs. M
Avangst. Sun-Rises.
Sets
Chr. Omin
shr. 55min.
3hr gemine, High water-Morning.
Afternoon chr, zemin, Low' water--Jforning.... plir. zomin. Afternoon ghr. 25min. ANNIVERSARIES 1794-Lord Howe's victory over the French; 1813-Chesapeake and Shannon action. 1843-Hospital of the Medical Missionary Soc.
of Canton and Macao'opened. " 1848-Cold discoveries in California. 1368-Attempt to blow up the Hongkong Hotel. 1879-Prince Imperial killed by the Zulus. 1887--New Oph Agreement between Hong
kong and China enforced. 1891-Anti-foreign riots at Tanyang near Chin- 1896-Anti-missionary outrage near Wenchuw. 1897-The purchase of the Mount Austin Hotel
by the Military announced.
kiang.
Ellon, Mr. and Mrs. Kayser, "Mrs. Buchannan. Dunlop, and Mr. G. Trabitius. From Naples
Mr. and irs. Thomas. From Hongkong. Mrs. C. J. Kubo,- and Mr. T. Schwalbe From Singapore for Nagasaki--Messrs. "Hayedi, Oh Sang, and Miss 5. Haja, pl
Per Sachsen, for Shanghai from Bremen- Messra A. Gmu, and C - Glenk, Mrs. Bampang.. From Southampton-Mr. R. G. Hamilton, Froin Genoa-Mrs. Detring and Vogelsang, Messrs. Ed. Meyer, C. Bracco, P. children, Mr. and Mrs. Doon Bagen, Dr. K.
Pollam, P. Koebler and A. Delsmuer and Miss.
Co
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Fog From Naples H Tippelskirch From IsmailiaMr. Armstrong. lombo-Mr. and Mrs. Robinson. From Singa pore-Mr. and Mrs. G. Longmore From Hongkong Mr. and Mrs. Collaco, Messrs. J. M. Collaco, H. C. Loing, J. Cullock, 5. Nakayama, and 5. Nigoshi, pada pe
Per Tartar, for San Francisco--Mr. Bresnam. For, London-Mr. T. H. W. Price
Bee Hysen, for Singapore-Mrs. Lum Tai, Mrs. Tai Luk Moy, and Mrs. Yuen Yu For Chinese-1 of 4th moon of 25th year of Messrs. So Che Lum, 50 Tsal, and To Kum
Friday, 2nd June, 1899,
Penang Mrs. So Koy, Mrs. Chan Teat
Kreang-sil. Sun-Riser
Sets
TO-MORROW,
High water-Morning .....
Afternoon Low water-fomning ....
Shik.
bkr. Guin
shr. 55min.
ghri zamin.
STEAMERS EXPECTED
ghr, sómin.
3hr. 5zmin.
Names.
Afternoon ... tehr. 16min. ANNIVERSARIES.
1871---Hongkong connected with London by
wire.
1876-The Pelican pirates executed at Saigon.. 1878-Attempted assassination of the German
Emperor. 1880-H.M.S. Wivern arrived in Hongkong. 1889-Tomado near Newchwang ; "great dam-
age and loss of life. 1895-Forinosa formally transferred to the
Japanese. 1897-Piratical attack on a junk in. Hongkong
harbour.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS,
MAILS-DUE..
American (America Muru)3rd inst. Indian (Lightning) ath just. Tacoma (Olympia) 5th inst. French (Sydney) 6th inst. American (City of Peking) 131li inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 18th Inst.: Anierican (Gaelic) arst inst.
. "Tacoma (Victoria) 25tlvinst,
THE steamer føğul from New York left Sill gapore yesterday evening and is due here about the sih June.")
THE O. &O, S S. Co's steamer American far left Shanghai for this port this morning at daylight,
THE steamer Yangtze from Newport, Glasgow and Liverpool left. Singapore for this part to- day a.nt, and may be expected liese on or about
the 6th instant.
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HONGKONG AND WILAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
Kowloon Dock
sta de Cuba... at sla de Luson......... H.M.S. Undaunted... Liberal
D. Jutan d'Austria.... Gerard C. Tabey..... Lenior
Fatshar
PASSED THE CANAL:
olitan
Homeward 12th May-Ching Wo, Prome
Shipping.
Amenca Maru Glengylc
Lightning Hiroshana Marua. Sydney Olympia Bormida City of Peking Empress of India.
Gaelic
coma
norrbi
1-5th
June 6th
June 8th
Singapore San Francisco... June 13th Fundu8th Vancouver San Francisco.... June 2183
We would direct the attenden of shilpping", firmi xd the style in which Steamers ExpectedTM and Projected Sallinga" are now published in these columne, and in so doing respect- fally urge the managers alskipping: firms to give orders to their clerks to furnish this office, on this forms already sup- -plied gratis with the latest available Information every day..
PROJECTED SAILINGS.”“
Ship.
Ambria
Destination.
Havre, &c
America Maru”....... San Francisco,
Bamberg Bayern
Belgian King
Havre, &c
Straits, &c.
San Diego, c
(Date)
July 5th:
Bengal ... Shanghai wadi, Benfomond New York June Bingo Maru Av. Marseilles, &c. Bontida
Straits Carlisle City...San Diego, Carmarthenshire. San Diego, Ceylon London...... ChelydraSingapore, &c China ...San Francisco, Ching......
how t
Chusan bank. London, &c.
City of Peking...San Fmacisco, City of Rio San Francisco &c Columbia Portland, &c Coptic
Krd
San Francisco, uns 6th Deike Rickntera. New York, de......July foth Doric .......... San Francisco, &c july 25th, Emg. Chinn .......... Vancouver, &c... June 7th Emp. India Ant
Emp. Japan
Juno 28th
Fogchow in Manila (Direct) June 5th Futomi Mari Thursday, Is, &c=June, Gaelic
San-Francisco, &cj
Glenogle,Vict
Hanun. Hector
Victoria, B.Com. Aug. Biho Swatow, &c June 4th: London, Sc June:2th. Hiroshima Maru. Yokohama & Kabej lune Hongkong.Maru Yhama (Direct) June 3rd Idomenens London, &o..... Indrapura New York & Jav
London
June coth
June 20th
June and
June 13th
une 13th
June ard
Kamakum Märü. Kobe & Yokohama une 7 Kintuck
London, &c
Königsberg Havre,
Lennox
Mogul w
Nanchang
A plank laid across the beams of the Outward-25th April-Aumbria, Bogstad, ceiling served as a platform, and, at "| 27th April-Gozuric. 2818 April-Priam, East- the rehearsal in the morning, Baume e and MayBengle, Dorother Rickmers, in the United Kingdom from which trade un had taken the leap, and afterwards remained Agri, Nubia, John Adamson. 5th Maya ionists are recruited, only about 1,490,000 beover four minutes under water, taking his outer als 9th May Glengyle, Sarnia, Mogul, long to the unions, and of 1,000,000 voinen-clothes off before reappearing. In the evening Tamarind 12th May Sydney, King Edgar excluding domestic servants and all women not he was to be put into a sack fully dressed, take 16th May-Durustailt, Nestor employed in factories and workshops 19,775 off his clothes under water, and appear on the are trade unionists.
surface again in tightslut he was also this
"theus time to do something "quite special. When evening came Baume appeared in his nights," and put loose clothes on over these, while one of his colleagues was drawn up by a rope so as to be able to assist him to get into the sack. The rope was lowered again and the diver was hauled up. He stepped HAISIUN, British stewner, 636, A Milroy, Pakho into the sack and it was tied together about his 1st June-Trinsui 28th May, Amoy 29th,"|" Prefissen head. Then cautiously approaching the edge and Swatow 31st General Douglas, Lap- Prinz Heinrich.. of the plank, the living sack rolled off and fell saik & Co
Queen Margat as straight as an arrow into the water. "A nio- PROGRESS, Gennan steamer, 687, P. Brandt, Rohilla ment, and then the sack appeared, empty, andust Fune, Touron 29th May Sugar, Coals Sachsen
and General.Chinese
Sanuki Maru also the man's clothes, which were at once
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