Co-day's
Advertisements.
ERVICES AND MEETINGS IN CON-
AM-NECTION WITH THE
SERVICE
· CENTENARY
OF TRE
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
TO-NIGHT (TUESDAY)
the 13th June.
Kowloon (Seanien's Institute)......
8.60 1M.
Speakers, THE BISHOP OF VICTORIA (in the Chair), Rev. LI. Llovn fork, in Fub-kien)
TO-MORROW (WEDNESDAY},
City Hall the Tath June.
15:45 139 Hon. W. M. Goodman in the chain. Speakers, Rev. L. LLove (Work in Ful-kien), Rev. C. BENNETT (Work in Canton), The Bishop of Victoria, Hongkong, 13th June, 1899.
THE
PUBLIC AUCTION.
(7938
HE Undersigned has received instructions
to Sell by
PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON ..
- THURSDAY, the 15th June, 1899, - at NOON,
at Messrs. E. D. Sassoos & Co's. Godowa. 3 Chests PERSIAN OPIUM
EN 9.5. Coromandel,
and
(More or less damaged by Seawater).. Chest PERSIAN OPIUM ers, Chusan.
·FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED. TERMS OF SALE-Cash before delivery in Mexican Dollars weighed at 7.1.7. All Lois, with all-Faults and Etfors of Description, to be at l'urchaser's risk on the fall of the hammer.
H. N. MODY,
Auctioneer.
Hongkong, 13th June, 1899.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED.
FOR SHANGĦAL
11E Company's Steamship
THE
"TAIWAN"
(7912
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1899.
The Hongkong Telegrapli
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1899
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE
TRANSVAAL..
* LONDON, June 11th The and Company of Royal Engineers have
sailed for Natal
Latest despatches from Johannesburg state' that much excitement prevails but that there is also much anxiety to preserve pence..
the 14th inst
Five of the Chinese staff, we August laat; two for removing
hard labour and two others to-six months": soned for and 6 months) for detaining latters, one senter imprisonment each with hard labourer
THE DRAINAGE AND
OF HONGKON
The Hon. R««D. Ormsby,
THE Govemment of India has sent home for test, and report some specimens of pig iron supplied by the Bengal Iron and Steel Co. A MEETING was held at the Hongkong INSPECTOR Reillie, who for some time past has Volunteer Head-Quarters Just night for the been in charge of the cleansing of the plague purpose of electing a new commitee for tricken istri, last Saturday complained of Institute. Member of the different units were headache and feeling bad generally, and so asked to nominate candidates to serve, men
reported himself sick. He was sent up to the WE.hear that the number of military attachés Governmeat Civil Tespital and put under in the Japanese Legations in European observation, us it was feared he might be suffer countries will be considerably increased in the ing from the plague, which fear, we are sorry course of the current year, the sum of 67,121 to say, has since proved too true. On making yen being appropriated for the purpose." caquires this morning we were told that he was MR. MITCHELL, of the Hongkong and Wham-progressing favourably, and it was not expected.
that the attack would have fatal results. In poa Dock Co., has been intrusted with the formation of the new Engineer unit of the spector Reidle has been in the colony for some time. His recovery is partly due to his Hongkong Volunteers. Gentlemen wishing to The Australians have beater Cambridge dou the "royal scarte:" should make an early abstentious habits, as he is a total abstainer and university by, to wickets,
application.
THE 9.0. Aasal-maru, för Yokohama, via ports, | We (Straits Timer) understand that the Com. will leave at 4 p.m. to-morrow, SAL
mittee of the Diamond Jubiles Memorial Hall THE departure of 5.5" Sanuki-Maru, for onchitects, at Singapore, to prepare a plan have instructed Blessrs. Swan and Maclaren, don, etc, is postponed until Noon to-morrow shewing the largest available hall accommoda
tion that can be built on the Fort Canning site. At present the Chinese coxswain of the Postin his report for 180 for the money available. The Committee desirs Office launch a man on $10 a inonth, who canir William Robinson, G. CALGI to begin to build a the Fort Canning site as neither write nor speak English, receives and unde slinrtly befom he left the colony, describ
takes off the nails. Complaints are frequent as ed Victoria as the best drained City east of Suez, soon as is possible.
lo delay in the discharge of the nails from but the best drained city in the world night contract steamers Vessels leaving are con suffer from bad sinells and worse evils if the stantly missed and opportunities for the des-drains and sewers, were misused, and without patch of mails lost. Na log is nor can be kept adnitting that Hongkong, considering its dem of the movements of the launch Two launch scly packed population, suffers much in this not boys. Men of this description could be the the drains, and this isually the cause of officers are urgently needed, responsible men respect it is the fact that the Chinese do mis- obtained at an initial salary of $15 a month, ach complaints as front time to time are inade. lower wages would only attract incompetents, This refers to well grounded complaints, not to or men who would merely utilize the situation mose made bythoughtless and ignorantspeakers to look out for better appointments, in view of or irresponsible writers, who seems to think it the vast importance attaching to the safe clever, or a sign of superior knowledge, ta carriage of mails the pronipt creation of these decry the Hongkong system of seworage, and appointments is strongly urged drainage sea
Six more clerks are needed in the Gencil Office, two to attend to the Poste Restante work, which has increased and is largely in creasing, and four to attend to the drop boxes, keeping the keys in their pockets and being responsible for the clearing of them and the proper attendance to the Public at the windows;
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It is understood at Blocunfoutein that Presi: dent Kruger is willing to abolish the Dynamite Monopoly. The Orange Free Site is pressing Pretoria to grant retornis. Nevertheless the train's despatched to Johannesburg provide for
possible exodus.
CRICKET.
WEATHER REPORT.
The Observatory report says:On the 15th at 11.55 ani. Barometric changes are slight Pressure is lowest over China with slight gra dlents, for S.E. winds, on the coast. FORE: CAST-Moderate S. winds; squally, some thunder showers.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE Sanyo Railway Co. is the first in Japan-to attach dining cars to the trains.
does not smoke.
{
In Hongkong a perfect system of pipe sewers has been laid, of sufficient capacity to carry sul- lage water from the houses, and practically all houses are now connected with these sewers by properly trapped house connections of glazed earthenware pipes. The intention was, and the hope is, that all sewage from the houses would. sang rapidly find its way to these sewers, and by theur The wages paid to the Post Office clerks into the outfalls in the harbour, and by the bene
ficent action of the tides to the open sea. No. Joning, 50 a month, then in het strict stopping boneath the houses or streets to breed inen who intend to remain service. Nearly all the applicants are hoys from school foul and poisonbuts gases, is possible, the bulk The brightest and best of them just stay long the City, still in the form of liquid, should pass of the 3,000,000 gallons of water used daily in enough to begin to be useful and then, in the through these pipo sewers, and in addition sa
ગા hav anguage of their letters of resignation,
points to give a further Infpetus to the flow in they go ng prospects of better pay and promotion, Bushing tanks are in existence at convenient the pipes, and drive their contents completely Should the staff be increased as indicated and rapidly into the harbour the services of soldiers for sorting papers could be dispensed with. Missorting of papers 1514 chronic source of complaint. When it is on
sidered that four soldiers (pot the same ones
There are still, iu existence, below many of the streets and below, some of the houses, the old storm drains, varying in diniensions fron
with little or no, fall near the harbour. front,, into which in former times all sewage flowed; and which in many cases were little better than elongated cesspools,
demand for land and prices went up consider every mail) sort all the papers by the contract over six feet in height to one foot square, but, ably. The price of building lots between Kennedy Road and Bowen Read went up from
mail for every place North of Hongkong, mis sorting is explicable. Soldiers sort the papers by contract mails because the stall is adin tiedly
THE Construction of the dockyard and iron pearance in Hongkong a month or six weeks 610 13 cents a fool, and in one case even 35 too slender numerically to undertake it. These great masonry drains were, and are
factory in Uraga, Japan, is nearly finished.
of the fleet.
Tux Powerful sails for Wel-hai-wei to-morrow, Captain Harder, will be despatched as above where, it is said, she will meet 24 other ships on THURSDAY, the 15th instant.
For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
Hongkong, 13th June, 1899.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, CHEFOO & THE
HE Company's Steamship
"KWEIYANG,".
rents a foot was paid. In Kowloon there was also considerable demand, and as much as 80 cents a foot was a realized for lots in Yamati
Another fruitful source of complaints. is the loss of unregistered letters, principally, by con tract mails to Europe. On days of despatch of contract mails, for the last hour and more be fore the mail closes, the Post Office windows are besieged by a crowd of conlies with boxes, hags, and packets of letters which are being dumped in a continuous stream on table by the and books are thrust forward to be
As a matter of fact these letters are not post
all necessary to carry off rain water. Without them daring, heavy rainfalls the streets would be flooded and cut up into watercourses, but it r was intended that on the completion of the separate system, no foul or noxious matters. should.enter these drains, so ill suited to carry them to the scary
Now as to their misuse. Mr. Drury who has been in charge of the drainage and sewerage of the City during the past year, writes
A SCHEME for catablishing a Higher Commer | Tur sales of Grown land, says the Hon R. D. cial School in Osaka, Japan is reported to be Ormsly, in his annual report of the P. W. D., in contemplation by the Educational authori-were considerably short of the estimate for the ties, because the Higher Commercial School year, owing to the few applications for land in in Tokyo, is not able to admit all those who the Taipingslian resumed area. In November, desire and may be qualified to enter it. 1897, six lots sold in this locality at prices MR. Hoyne Fox's, design for the New K. C.. ranging from $5.18 to $4.14 per square foot, and Cathedral, Rangoon, has been modified by a there seemed reason to anticipate a mipid sale Dutch Architect, the modification virtually of the rest of the area. In 1898, only five lots doubling the cost of the building. It will be sold, the price paid varying from $4.13 to $2.on a foot. Elsewhere there was considerable 245 feet in length and 110 feet in breadth. The cost will be 4 lakhs of rupees. THE new steami-roller that made its first ap.
ago has been doing good work on the Praya, at the west-end of the town. Some discontented people say that they would bail its advent in the east with delight, as some of the roads are what "Arry" would call "orfat."
THERE is certainly no need to complain of THROUGH an ermy yesterday, we announced SELANGOR Races take place on June 22nd, want of business at the Magistracy, the number a big fire at Foochow. It should have read June 24th and June 26th. The third race on of cases being so large that the court had to "Foochow Road, Shanghai."
the first day is the Coronation Stakes, value be adjourned-for hearing to the afternoon. RETURNS showing the number of cases of com$800, a handicap for all horses, distance We Have picked out the following cases TIENTSIN,municable diseases which have been notified miles. The entries for this race closed yester amongst innumerable others. Seven cases of ed at all. They do not pass through the drop cannot report favourably on the condition during the week ended the 10th June, are day and the entries and handicaps are.-Locky boatmen carrying passengers without a licence boxes supplied for the reception of Fostal of the storm drains, in which It appears to me remanded for seven days, ten dollars bail Matter, nor are they presented at the registra-between 1 and of the city sewage still Bubonic plague, 97 cases, 91 deaths: small- to st.; The Count, 97; and Blazon, 92
tion counter. ROMA
A flows. These drains, already condemned for " accepfed from each. Pun Chung, for breaking
The chopping of the books is an attempt to this purpose, are entirely unfit for the convey "SPHERES for concessions" are, according to
intu No.1, Hi Loong Lane and stealing there, obtain a quasi? receipt for unregistered mat ance of any foul waters. the recent exchange of notes between Great front a wooden box containing clothes valued ser. Registereil letters are not lost. In the
He then goes on to speak of the escape of Britain and Russia,, governed by "econonie, was sentened to three months' hard labour, case of locked boxes there is some guarantee gases through storm gullles, causing the bad and geographical gravitation." We are thus Li Cheung, who was charged with stealing the Post Office (there is no proof as to what how he has found it necessary to carry up ven that the number of the letters sent have reached smells occasionally complained of, and describes introduced to two totally new expressions some furniture valued at $7 and had been was put in) in the case of bags, and sheaves llating shafts from these storm drains, whichi, which, like "protectorates and "spheres of convicted three times previously for theft and lar of letters fanded in there is nothing to show if not misused would require nothing of the the dictionary of diplomatic slang, influence," ate helping to increase the bulk of cency, was sentenced to two months' hard labour, that the identical letters sent have been
received. In the hurry of inail morning doubt sort Describing their misuse he says fourteen days of which he will have to spend less, frequently, the clerks do not accurately. Having reported on the state of the stor MESSRs. Apcar and Co's steamer Hyson, in solitary confinement. There were also two check the numbers with the chit-books present drains generally, I will trace the manner in tly speaking, part of their which senge enters them and suggest a remedy recently purchased from the Chinese Mutual other cases who received two months each, butet, nor is it, strictly Company, arrived the other inorning at Singa, were let off with only seven days solitary con- duty to search for dishonest practices on the for the same. The Chinese throw much of their duflage water into the street channels, pore from Hongkong with Sop Chinese nelier Sapient. Jis Worship, evidently thinking that part of messengers sent with letters lacbone this finivs to an intercepting gully, when it arrival at Caloutta the Kokinar will be replaced try the effects of sclitary confinement with its the book to be chopped go fate and the rence) if overflows into the storm gully and age to complete her 9 days voyage. On her the Chinese from a repetition of crime, will for instance, if letters are too late they expect blockage of this gully (a most common occu
de la grand-motherly looking after should go to the sewers, but in the cases of a
by her on the Calcutta-Hongkong line. salutary adjuncts. Charles Chedwidden, an
letters returned. The chopping of books is a tience into me stormi gram, which it foula check on the honesty of the messenger and a THE Indian Railway camnings for the first half brot goud se tam and four, was direct attempt, as previously stated, to get of April are seventeen Inkhs behind those of brought up on remand for creating a distur receipt without paying a fee the corresponding period last year. Almost all bance in the East Praya Hotel and fined $5. lines contribute to the decrease, the Great The usual number of chums appeared on his Indian Peninsular being behind by five lakhs, hehalf, but, we suppose, His Worship had heard the North-Western by three lakhs, the East the same yarns before. Indian and the Bombay-Baroda by one lakh each, and tlie Madras Railway by eighty thou
Captain Outerbridge, will be despatched as pox, 1 case. above on FRIDAY, the tóth instant, For. Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents,
Hongkong, 13th June, 1899
AN APPEAL..
Tu: negotiations for opening the parcel post service between Japan and Korea, have heen successfully concluded between representative [7:53 in Seoul and Sir. Brown, Commissioner of the
HE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, begs most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Post Ports, for their kind nars and sunnar and desires to state that Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffs and Collars renewed on old ones.
Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Chil. dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.
The Superioress will also be most grateful for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools, who are taught by the Sisters.
Hongkong, 22nd April, 1892.
1493
Intimation.
Korean Customs.
CAPTAIN EDWARDSgs, of the Norwegian steamer 7, informs us that the German
ship "Q. F. B. M." reported all well when in latitude 29 N., longitude 123 E.; Heishan Island W. S., 70 miles off Wind, NE COLCHESTER has been selectes y de
Office as the most suitable spot for what will be the largest camp in Great Britain. New barracks, will accommodate three more regi. ments. A new rifle range, the finest in the kingdom is ready for use.
Gazelle.
4
allow
ance of all devers, storm drains, and gullies One suggested remedy is that the mainten- should be under one control, instead of as a This is recognised and provided for in Sing present divided between the Public Works De- apore, as the following extract from the Straits partment and the Sanitary Board. It is nowsto ficates of Pesting. In order to afford the sewage and rubbish to get intoabe storm drains. Settlements Postal Guide indicates Cert the Scavenging Contractor's interest to nilow public an assurance that letters, postcards, and sewers, when the work and expense of newspapers and packets, entrusted to servant removing it falls on the Public Works Depart messengers for posting, have actually been ment. Mr Drury thinks that if this depart THE POST OFFICE REPORT.- posted, the Post Office, grants certificates of ment was reponsible for the effective working
posting at a charge of one cent for each article of the whole of the separate system with a suit The following extracts are from the report of entered on a certificate. Any person who wishes able staff of overseers for supervision better
tion of the local rate from to cents to 4 cents written in ink on a slip of paper, or in a book, garbage to block the intercepting gullies, and Commander Hastings, Postmaster General --
to obtain a certificate of posting must send, results would ensue, At present hó can with the article for which certificate is required,liope that by prosecuting the scave The establishment of penny postage; reduc an exact transcript of the address on the article, tractor for permitting his coalles per half ounce, with the United Kingdom, its with a one cent postage stamp fixed to the pass into the sewers andratorn arging, or sull dependencies and Canada, has been estimated transcript. The clerk to whom it is presented worse to dump rubbish direct into the stom by my predecessor to probably cause a loss of will compare the address with the transcript, dining, that in the end the contractor will find it $30,000 during the current year. It has derand, if there is no discrepancy will obliterate cheaper to have his work done properly. In tainly enhanced the volume of correspondence the postage stamp with the Post Office date one case, Intely tried in the Police Court a fine very largely accentuating the want of space stamp. The paper, or book, will then be re of 50 jas imposed on the Contractor in the building, and heavily increasing the turned as a certificate that the article has been is clear, however, that duties of an already insufficient staff
On the 1st July last, Branch Post Offices
posted. No additional reponsibility, attaches were opened at Kowloon and West Point, which have proved a convenience to the Public: the Kowloon Branch more especially to Euro peans and the Western Branch Office to the Chinese...
WE (Singapore Free Press) hear that a libel case is shortly coming on against the Pinang Captain Sewall claims $10,000 damages for an alleged libet appearing on May 26th, a copy from a Rangoon paper. Mr. Adams is to represent the plaintiff Messrs. Presgravesand rupees. and Bromhead Mathews the newspaper.
DOMBAY Reconstruction Scheme. The Im A. S. WATSON & CO., of the sailing ship Selkirk which was wrecked dealing first with the Nagpada district, the most ATTEMPTE are being made to salve the cargo provement Trustees have issued their plans for on the west coast of Mindoro, in the Philip insanitary quarter in the whole of Bombay, pines. The Compania Maritima gleamer The Trustees propose to acquire the whole dis Castelland has already succeeded in salving | trict at an outlay of nearly twenty lakhs of 1,261 bales of hemp out of the cargo of rupecs. The area will then he practically 10,000 bales. The cabins, &c, were looted by reconstructed, and a series of broad straight roads cut where narrow gullies and lanes now exist. It is estimated at least seventeen hun dred people will be dispossessed; these will be. provided for by erecting working men's dwel lings on the Agupada Estate.
LIMITED.
IMPORTERS OF HIGH-CLASS
SHERRIES.natives
Per Dos. Case-
$10.80
12.00
B-SUPERIOR PALE DRY, dinner wing, Green Seal Capsule -
C-MANZANILLO,' PALE
NATURAL SHERRY, White Capsule
CC-SUPERIOR OLD DRY,
PALE NATURAL SHERRY, Red
Seal Capsule
D-VERY SUPERIOR OLD PALE DRY, choice old wine,
White Scal Capsule
14.40
E-EXTRA SUPERIOR OLD PALE DRY, very finest quality, Black Seal Capsule 7. Old Bottled)
12.00
20.140
B, C, and CC are excellent dinner Wines and suitable for invalids and delicate stomachie. and are after-dinner. Wines of a very superior vintage: All are true eres Wines.
Sample hottles and smaller quanti. ties will be supplied at proportionate
holes:
ites.
We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or front our authorised Agents at the Const
orts
A. B. WATSON & Co., Limited,
QUEE
A SPECIAL demonstration of wireless telegraphy was given by Signor Marconi at the South Foreland in April in the presence of Cheng Yien Tuo, the naval attaché to the Chinese Legation in London, who is to report to the Chinese Government, on the working of the
COAL MINING IN THE DECCAN.--Mr. L. C. Croslegh the Agent in India of the Hyderabad
to the Post Office in respect of articles for which such certificates are granted. Special receipts are given for registered and insured articles, and for all parcels."
Until, however, the additional clerks that have been shown to be necessary are provided
60 fault, and thu storm drains. to complaint is the
Looking cheyond-mi) general results of thes
system leads
er usespf the old
details and to the. works carried out
by Mr. Cooper ander, Mr Chadwick's Advice
system with a view to its adoption in the Chi- } (Deccati) Company is leaving nothing undone brought prominently forward as expansion is trouble is almost daily given by requests that proof of which is the low death rate from
nese navy,
THE homeward French transport Colombo, which left Singapore on the 23rd May for Marseilles, broke her machinery when about 800 miles off Penang and the Austrian steamer Silesia from Trieste to Singapore, falling in with her took her in tow to Penang. The Colombo when she left. Singapore had 644 civil and military passengers from French Indo China going homet
in his efforts to develop the Singareni Collieries Every ton of coal that can be raised is practis cally sold before it comes to the pithead. The supply falls short of the demand, but the short- coming is being rapidly made good. The total output of coal during the year 1898 from the Singareni Collicries was 394,621 tons whereas the average annual output in the three years. previous was 307,048 tong." The "daily average number of people employed in the mines was 4,859 men, 1,391 momen, and 538 boys, making
total of 6,788,
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IN his report for last year the Hon. R. D. Ormsby, Director of Public Works, says --It was hoped that the close of 1898 would have | A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent while going shewn good progress" made with the Victoria through some old papers, came across the Jubilee Road. Plans and estimates were ready following bill, which is about Bo years old, and in June, and by December fully lx miles shows from some of the items that workmen's should have been well in hand, but delays, compensation was not unknown, and also that such as are apparently inseparable from all the powers of addition and drawing up accounts works projected in Hongkong, have blocked were considered very proportionally to the the way in this case, and the "first sod" is as other items) valuable yet unturned The Public Works Department, having no end in view, but, the public good, feel much disappointed and disheartened at this apparently unnecessary delay. MR Gas, engineer in charge of the water, worka at Kowloon, referring to the quantity of water used in the Kowloon Peninsula, says in his report that, the demand for water in Kow. loon' Peninsula now exceeds the quantity avail able at the end of the dry season. This is owing to the rapid development of the district, which, when the present works were projected in 1897, contained a population, of 13,000, now. estimated at 26,000, With a view to meet the urgent present need for water, authority bas been granted to construct a puddle wall at the.. back of; and to raise yo Dams feet. This however, can only be regarded as a temporary measure and immediate steps should be taken to obta grayitation supply from the fer ritory sout to be ceiled: the British Govárná
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The question of accommodation is not again to take definite shape in the near future,
The following table of revenue for the past To years shows almost exactly the increase in postal business that has taken place,
1889......$142,309.11 $20,818.15 - Deficit. 1890 $48,459.98 5,458.16 - Surplus. 1891 142,770.03. 2,605.03 1892 157,699.03, 3,450-73: 1893. 167.59677 14,309.81 1894192,172438,820.27 1895 244,449.71 50,209,44 $896 245,280.33 56,999.19 1897 268,616.49: 61,536.20. 1898 337,179,99 95,618.47 The deficit $20,000 of 1889 has become in 1898 a surplus of $95,000,000
The working expenses, of 1889 $41.164.80 rose în 1898 to $58,831.05.20
1898
diseases and the almost total absence of diptheria the disease of all others clearly,
ceable to a bad system of sewerage
the same cannot be done at this Office. MuchVictoria is undoubtedly a well-drained city, the letters may be searched for to be registered, the coolic having omitted to do so.
The Chinese coolie is not more unintelligent or dishonest than the average negro or Hindoo In other places, however, either more trust worthy messengers are sent, or the public are not so prone to promptly accuse Post Ofce employes en masse of dishonesty.
THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLE CLUB.
In other places, also the bulk of Europeans understand to some extent the language of
PROFESSION PAIRS TOURNAMENT their messengers, here numberless mistakes are made from utter inability of thasters and Eighteen Couples entered for
month competitors? servants to understand one another, and the petition, and during men are sent off trusting to the Post Office inve been busily engaged. The ners. tied official seeing that the right thing is done with their opponents. the final match after a
The reception of letters at windows gives closely conteste {"much additional"labour and is not a proper week later rather
posting through the boxes supplied for the losers being
rst five purpose.
Of most of the seniors to the staffi
beaten by
me great pleasure to speak highly- lack sense of responsibility,
istick to the
factory,delis
In ten years, since the building of a new Post Office was first urged, this Department has paid into general revenue $278,189.11 doubtful if any of them interla Revenue for the first 4 months of
service. NOVA $107,475.514 To insure prompt and
› the postmen's districts should be much 15,382.89 scribed, which will necessitate
crease of numbers as detailed 1,907,38 the men should be quartere mises when built-
Revenue for the first 4 months of
Sale of stamps for the first 4 mor
of 1898.
Sale of stamps for the first
of 1999)
During 1898, elghte 6.70 died and nine resigne
and one who joined 270:23 in 1898 stayin
amongst thic 7,143-551: The staff was
the Branch offices,
The reduction in postage, does not therefore Department, one in liet
appear to have prejudicially affected the total master General (absent).
of the sale of stamps,The increase $7.000
of doubtless, however, represents largely enhanced 31st,
transit charges to be paid in the futur
The internal fittings of the prese
could be materially imp
light cost by the
presses #presedi
bul" en replaying it as
them, the Alosing the Sinally
play