FROM HOME PAPERS:
Batoum
In consequence of disastmus floods the traffic between Baku and Batouni has been jnterrupt ed the milway having been swept away. This will interfere sunat with oil shipments
The Spanish Cabinet. From various sides the belief is entertained that there will be a Ministerial crisis before the opening of the Cortes, The Liberal regards a remodelling of the present Cabinet as very probable, and states that the tension between Señor Silvela, the Premier, and General Polviju, Minister of a lens cenas The Budget of the latter's department hus not yet been agreed to by the Council of Ministers.
Bruin and Peace.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 23
The Jews in Russia, AS IS OUR TRADE WITH CHINA
There are several indications that the perse cution of the Jews In Russia is entering an a fresh end of "uctivity. The precise motives which are leading the Russian Government lo resort to more stringent menstres are probably, says bn Odessa correspondent, somewhat con- plex, but there is mason to believe that the, Zi onist movement on the Continent is attracting the unfavourable notice of the authorities. In of the Russian Government into the quiries ang made at the instance
aius and character of the atovement. The point of the investigation seems to be to determine whether or not this quasi-political campaign, which was originally started by Dr. Herz, of Vienna, and which has been supported by the leading Rabbis of Russia at the annual Congresses in Basle, is a cloak for Socialistic or Revolutionary designs.. The suspiciou exists not the sole object which its promoters have in that the ostensible purpose of the Zionists is
Mr. Liniey Sarahnurne's cartoon in Punch this week is Imperial-Bruin at the Conferview. ence Table at The Hagne drinking to Peace, coupled with the Health of the Queen, the Empress of India, hut holding out of sight be hind his back a bundle of papers läbelled "Further demands on China.".
The Samoan Trouble. A telegram from Apin states that the Samoan International Commission has arrived, and held its first sitting An impression prevails that the Commissioners will uphold the action of Admiral Kaute, but hopes are entertained that they will find a satisfactory solution of existing troubles. The rebels remain outside the lines indicated by Admiral Kautz, They have fortified their new position, and the Roya lists, who are being drilled, have fortified Mulinnu. Mataafa, declared that it was the head chief's who began the war, and said he' Tindlupheld the Treaty
Exit the Seven-days Paper. THE following announcement appeared, in the Daily Telegraph of sith uho :-"The issue of the Sunday Daily, Tilegraph will be dis continued. Under these circumstances, it has Aeen determined to include, on and after Sa turday next, the most attractive features of the Sunday paper in the Daily Telegraph of each Saturday. The discontinuance of the Sunday Daily Mail has already been announced. The judicious decision of the management of the Daily Telegraph therefore brings to an end the atempt to establish seven-day newpapers in Lundan.
The Peace Conference.
A special correspondent at The Hague learns that the proposals submitted to the Peace Conference for the humanising of war are likely to be adopted unanimously The cause of arbitiation is making her way among the delegates, It is now certain that no obstruction will come from Germany, Count von Münsters attituule having entirely changed since his arrival at The Hague. So far, however, the adoption of projusals for the non-increase of armaments is regarded as impossible.
Italy and China... The Italian Parliament resembled on zith uito, when the House was crowded. General Pelloux, making a statement regarding the Chinese Question, said the Ministry reserved to itself the right of resuming the negotiations suspended by the resignation of the preceding Cabinet, and of arriving at a satisfactory solution which should entail neither financial nor military responsibility on the country, the objects in view being of an exclusively com riccial nature. (Munnure.) He declared that if the Ministry were jealous of the prerogatives of the Executive Power it was at the same time respectful of the rights of the Chamber. He gave assurances that when it pleased the Chamber to examine this question it would not find that the independence of its vote had lieen in any way compromised either by accomplished facts or by binding engagements. (Hear, hear) He begged the House, therefore, not to raise any question on this subject at the present juncture.
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The German Emperor.
24th ulto, as the Emperor was taking his usual morning walk, accompanied by two Aides de Camp, in the Thiergarten, his retention was suddenly drawn to The perilous position of a cyclist, who was trying to thread his way through a number of vehicles. A cab horse shied at the machine, and the cab-driver was thrown from his box. The Emperor hurried. up quickly, signalled to the crowd to secure the horse, had himself extricated the fallen cabman.
The Emperor has bestowed the Order of the Crown of the Fourth Class on Surgeon-Major van Petroff, of his St. Petersburg Guards, on the occasion of his Jubilee, and has sent the following telegram to General Foulon, com- munding the regiment, in reply to his telegram of thanks: I am very much obliged for your telegram, my dear General, and am exceedingly pleased that have given pleasure to old Petroff, the regiment, and to. yourself. You know that I like always to give pleasure to my comrades of the Russian Army.
AFFECTED BY THE CLOSING OF
WON THE MINTS, AL
commercial men with gloom. The Director. Ceneral of Statistes drew attention to the fact that he had frequently, to point but in his Reviews of Trade, that the trade with China has heen stationary or declining for the last quarter of a century. If the closing of the Mints bad hastened this decline, there should Inve been a restriction on exports from India, and an expansion of exports from China to India. The reverse has been the case. The intparts from India in the five years from 1893 when the Mints were closed showed a steady Recline from Rs. 354,550 to Rs. 1,601,012. The exports from India in the same period in- creased from Rs 11,129,322 10 Rs. 12,226,990. Our exports in three of the intervening years were much higher than in the last. China always imports a great deal more from India than we do from her. The difference is made up by gold bars and leaf gold, amounting in value to over three crores, and silver to the amount of three lakhs and a-half. Clearly our trade with China has not been adversely affect ed by the closure of the Mints..
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Afternoon shrijving. ANNIVERSARIES. 1571 City Council of-Manila constitutal..
Sollering. 1874-The Chinese morchants. of Hongkong petitioned H.M. the Queen the Customs Blockade, ...
* 1880-The Po Leung Kak Society formed. 1894--Assassination of M. Camos, President of lied gratis with the latest available information every day. 1803-Serious disturbance, in the Shameen.
the French Republic..
PROJECTED'SAILINGS.
- Admital Camam's squadron arrives at Port Said-Capt. Sverdrup's Arctic Expedition sails from Christiania an the Fram
AGENDA:
TO-MORKOW.. Noon-Mail leaves for Europe,
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILE DUE.
American (Gaelic) to-morrow, Taconu (Victoria) 25th inst.. German (Bayern) 27th inst. Indian (Catherine Apour) 280+inst." American (Hongkong Maru) 30th inst., American (China) 7ih prox. Canadian Empress of Juban) 10th prix. American (Doric) 15th prox.
The F. & O, S, N, Co.'s steainer Sonoféu left Singapore for this port on the zand inst, at 6 p.m.
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We would iliyext the tention of shipping firms to the style in which “Semanzara Expected", and "Projected Sallings are low jusḥalishal in these columns, and in so doing respecti fully urge the'nanagams of shipping tips to give anders to their clarks w furnish this office, on the forms already ung-
“Ship.
Destination. Date:
Havre, &c.
Ambria".
July 5t America Maru... San Francisco, &c. Aug. 29th.. Athenian
Pacific Coast, &c... June roth
Ballarat
Shanghai...June 24th
Bayern
Straits, &c.
July 19th
Belgian KingSan Diego, &c.
July 1st
Bengloc
Japan.
June 7th
Aug. 20th
Aug. 1st.
Carlisle City San Diego, &c. Carmarthenshire San Diego, &c. China
City of Peking Cily of Ria Columbia Captic
Doric
great rice and opium constituting the bulk of the exports from the Straits to India," had in Creased
as the result of the closing of the Mints The year in qucation was 1897, when famine. prevailed over a large part of India. The One of the points urged with most persistence bulk of the Indian trade with the Straits is and energy by the witnesses before the Currency rice. The famine having doubled the price of Committee was that the closure of the Mints that grain in India, the exports fell off, and has handicapped India in competition with India imported a considerable quantity, from China and other countries supposed to have a Singapore, which became the depot for rice pro- allegation in a memorandum to be laid before following the closure of the Mints the experts silver currency Mr. Fred. Atkinson, set this duced in the Further East In the two years the Committee, which showed inter alia that of rice from India increased by over a million China has no silver currency in the usual hundredweight. It was followed in the ensuing 1859-The Austrians deleated by the French at Hakata Maru acceptation of the term, and that since the year by a further increase of closure of the Mints, in tea and other products year following the famine, the expons ม่ million. The in which China competes with India, the latter were the highest on record. In has more than held her own. The only metal to opium there was a falling off in 1893-96, regard minted in China is copper, and this is used when exchange was low and in the famine only for the payinent of daily labourers and year. But with the retum to normal condi- the large commerce, it is usuni to stipulate opium to the Straits was larger than ever the smallest transactions of every-day life. Intions, last year, and this year the export of whether payment is to be made in gold or known before. So with regard to the supposed silver bullion, which are marketable commi-injury to the Indian trade with China, the pro- ties like any other. As a matter of course, thespect of which has filled the minds of so many witnesses who had made up their minds that the trade of India was pretty well ruined by the closing of the Mints, paid no attention to Mr. Atkinson's appeal to facts. Amongst others, Min Walter Duncan, who went out to Calcutta forty years ago to establish a business which still bears his name, though for the last thirty years he had lived in Glasgow, informed the Committee that the closing of the Sints, and the consequent rise in the value of the rupee has been a burden on the exports. india and on the great bulk of the population. When asked to explain how that worked out, he was unable to say whether prices igid rise or fallen.
"There are many things, the prices of which one can scarcely say have risen, there are other things the prices of which have clearly risen but on the whole there, has been very little change in prices in India." Prices have been very steady and have apparently been unaffected by ex change, the rise in which has been very steady for the last two years. Mr. Duncan was of opinion that prices would have been much the same as they are now if the 'mints had remained open and the rupee had fallen to eleven-pence, Prices would eventually have risen which would have been a distinct advantage to the consumer, and the labourer, in the opinion of this witness, would infallibly have got lus share. It is quite certain that the difference between cleven pence and one and four-pence in the value of the rupee is a burden which India has to carry, and from which China, her competitor, is altogether free. The competition of China is, he says, the great danger. Out- side that, there is very little. He gives us an vernment in the sale of opium. In 186 they illustration the experience of the Indian Go- sold 39,000 chests for a little over 511 lakhs, and the next year they sold the same quantity. for 409 inkhs, the difference being due to ex change. This witness was convinced that the competition of China in tolton goods will be effective there is a real hope that it will be." He was informed that a steam-shipping company has been carrying machinery in large quantities to China, and that the building lots for mills on the Shanghai River had gone up in price. When Sir Henry Fowler asked if he knew anything that he did not Not was he aware that it was of the internal taxation of China, he admitted very different from that in India. The fact that there is no coinage in China, as the term is but he was satisfied that the copper cash, used understood in Europe, was unknown to him, in China, cost more than silver at the present The increased import duties which would be necessary to make up the difference between an eleven-penny and a one and four-penny by the people of India. To minimise the loss, rupec, would be paid by the consumer, that is
Mr. Duncan would keep the Mints closed to the public, but the Government should coin so as to bring the rupee to one and three-half pence. He acknowledged that the opening of the Mints would cause widespread disaster to merchants and traders and grave difficulty to the Government. Nevertheless, October last, he seconded a resolution in the Glasgow of India will best be attained fry a return, as Chamber of Commerce "that the true interests
The Queen's Birthday. The Queen's birthday was celebrated on 24th alto. by her subjects with a spontaneous. and unparalled outburst of affectionate loyalty and enthusiasm. In all British Colonies, as. well as in the United States and in various Continental cities, celebrations of the Queen's birthday took place. Many of the American and Continental newspapers publish articles in which they offer their respectful congratulations the conditions laid down by the Imperial price, so that there is a tax there to some extent, To Her Majesty and to the British people. To-night the Queen leaves Windsor for Bahnoral. Her Majesty (says Mr. Labouchere in, Truth) has lately developed an alarming weakness of the eyesight, and an operation is said to be absolutely inevitable..
Medal for Marchand The French Chamber of Deputies has un- animously adopted a proposal to bestow a Colonial nedal with a special gold clasp, bear- ing the words" From the Atlantic to the Nile," on the members of the Marchand Mission. The President's announcement of the adoption of the resolution was received with loud ap
one of the 140 Senegalese and other Aftican soldiers of the expedition was referred to the Budget Commitee has been decided to present Major Marchand with a monster address from the women of France.
The Pacific Cable Scheme. An Ottowa correspondent telegraphs that since the text of the Colonial Office letter of April 28 on the Pacific Cable Question was received the Canadian Press has been criticis ing it very severely, pointing out that, in all the circumstances, the despatch was unworthy of the British Government. It is urged that Government combine the minimum of advan. tages to the advantages to the colonies and the maximum of delay to the cable, and are there. fore, of the greatest benefit to the existing monopoly.
Sir George Turner, the Premier of Victoria, has sent a cablegrain to Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Clarke, the Agent-General for Victoria in London, expressing the disappoint ment of the colony at the refusal of the British Government to share in the cast of the con- striction of the projected Pacific cable.
The New South Wales Cabinet as con- sidered the Pacific Cable Question. It dissents from the view of the Imperial Government on cable should be jointly owned and not sub- sidised. The decision was telegraphed to the other colonies.
HOME NOTES.
The Queen of Italy possesses a bicycle of gold. She received the costly machine from the cycle club of Milan.
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The late Lord Wharncliffe had the disting | else in the Peerage their total being eight- mnamely, Edward Montagu Stüart Granville. Montagu Stuart Wortley Mackenzie,
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Among her wedding gifts which the Empress of Russia treasures, says a Cassell's Journal writer, is a marvellous shawl that was presented to her by the ladies of Orenburg, It was sent in a wooden chest with silver locks and hinges, the outside being emblematic, with designs of spears, turbans whips, &c., in a ground of blue The shawl is so exquisitely fine that it can be camel, the colour of the Cossack uniform. passed through a finger ring, and when folded up makes a parcel of a very few inches square.
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of the Earl of Rosebery, is perhaps the most remarkable old lady in the British Peerage. preaching eighty, have long left the arena uf At an age when most Indies like herself, ap
and enterprise of a young woman. active life, the Duchess exhibits all the energy recently undertaken a journey to India for the her almost unique collection; and she sale object of hunting for rare exotics to add thinks no more of a long overland journey from Bombay to Darjeeling than a drive in the
Park.
She has
The Steamer Merionethshire, from Mid- diesbro and London left Singapore yesterday. and is due here on or about the 29th inst.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA BOCK RETURNS. isla de Cuèa.................
Kowloon Isla de Luzo12 Kutsang
D. Juan Austria... Hupch
Cosmopolitan
PASSED THE CANAL
Dock.
Outward-26th May--Dardanus, Merioneth shire 30th May-Olive Branch, 633 June Mayila, Silesia, Olive Branch, 16th June Meuclaus, Oceanien, Wittenberg 20th June | Iudnini, Dopack, Argyll, Ataka, Bonibuy
Domenico
Homeward-20th June-Orestes.
Shipping.
Arrivals.. MAIDZUKU MARU, Japanese steamier, 667, S.
NumA, British steamer, 3,845, C. C: Henning, Nagata, 22nd June-Swaton 21st June, GeneralMitsal Bussan Kaisha.
R.S.R., 33rd June,-Shanghai 20th June, Mails and General--P. & O, S. N. Co. CHWNSHAN, British Steamer, 1,281, J. F. Messer, 23rd June,Bangkok via Koh-si- chang 16th June, Rice and · Wood,~~ Bradley & Cul
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HSI PING, Chinese steamer,1,204. J. Macgar land, 23rd June, Canton 22nd June,
· -General.-C. E. & M. Co; MEÉFoo, Chinese steamer, 1,339, Frigasi, 23rd June Canton 22nd June, General,--C. M. S. N. Co.
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San Francisco, &c. July 18th San Francisco, &c. Sept. 7th San Francisco, &c. Aug 12th Portland, &c. July 8th San Francisco, &c. Ang. 22nd D: Baklinu. Straits, &c. Aug. 5th Beike Rickmers. New York, &cJuly 6th
San Francisco, &c.july 25th. Eastern Sydney Jay for Ellen Rickmers. Havre, &July 31st Emp, China... Vancouver, Sc... Aug. 9th Emp, India M... Emp. Japan
June 28th. July 19th Esmeralda ... Manila
June 27th Futami Maru Thursday Is., &c... June 30th Gaelic
San Francisco, &c. July 1st Glenlochy London, & July 7th Glenagle Victoria, B.C...Aug. 8th Haitomy
Swatow &c. June 24th Marseilles, &c...... June 29th Kobe & Yokohama July 6th Japan June 28th Hongkong MaruSan Francisco, &c. fuly 8th Indrapura... New York, &e......July 7th Londen..
June 17th Japan 27 London....... July 6th Lennox.Victoria, B.C...Aug 19th Macduf... New York June 26th Manila Japan, &c. June 30th. Maidzany MarnSwatow, &June 15th Monmouthshire Victoria, B.C...... July 22nd Nanchang Tientsin (Direct)... July 1st Nippon Mary Nordhaver
San Francisco, &c. Aug, 3rd Havre, &c.
June 24th Nubia Olympia
· Makate-Marn
Hakuai Mara
Hohenzollern
Ixioa
Treussen
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London, &c. June 24th Vietoria, B.C.......Sept and.
Car" Singapore, &c. Sept. 13th Prinz Heinrich, Straits, &c. ...Aug. 16th. R. Rubaitino Straits, &c. July 8th
Riojun Mura.....Seattle, & ... June 29th
Japan Silang
Rosetta
Sachsen Sania. Siam....... Silesia.
Singapore, Suentra Sungkinng Tacoma Tantalus Tusa Mart: Victoria
June 34th Havre, &c. July 9th Singapore,' &c.... Oct, Tith
Havfe, &c. ......June 29th Havre, &c. Aug. 6th Straits, &c. Sept, 2nd [Japan" would June 28th. Manila.June 29th Victoria, B.C.July 19th London, &c........July 4th Yokohama June 24th. Victoria, B.C.July 4th
Yamaguchi Mara Vladivostock; &July, 6th Yangisze New York, &exJuly 29th
A BIT OF THE TRUTH,
kmi is this? What is truth?" The art pertinent and startling question ever
A Roman lovernor propnded it ure, der eirennistages which greatly worried and perplexed
plause. The proposal to vote soo fr. to every- the subject, and agrees with Canada that the Circumstances will permit, to a reopening of distinguished in her Court robes of black,' } TELEMACHUS, British steamer, 1,350, Sawyers, his official mitid. And he was not the first mau og
Mr. Pritchard Morgan.
ulto, at Whiteshall-court. Ilis Excellency, why was accompanied by members of his suite, proposed the toast of Her Majesty the Queen in very cordial terms, and in the course of an interesting speech referred to John Stuart Mill's dictum, that for the development of a country, Land, Capital, and Labour were necessary, but that all these were useless with aut Justice. The company afterwards toasted the health of the Emperor of China.
Look-out in Copenhagen. A Copenhagen correspondent telegraphs that the Central Association of Employers in Den- mark on 24 inst. established a general lock out. Over 50,000 workers have up to the present been dismissed, and many thousands more will, within the next few days, be similarly situated. A long and bitter conflict is expected, as masters and men have for a long time fare seen, and prepared for, the struggle, which is the greatest Denmark has ever seen. I began with the joiners, and quickly involved the whole of the building trades throughout the country, and all the iron-workers, with the exception of the shipbuilding trade
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London, aud lectured there. In private life he The late M. Francisque Sarcey twice visited was a genial companion and staunch vegetarian. Of late he was called "Uncle Sarcey by the younger school of playwrights and artists whom he patronised and severly handied by tuins. Opinions vary as to the value of Sarcey's miniscences that the work he leaves behind criticisms, but he was so saturated with re will form the best volumes of reference con- history. As a lecturer Sarcey, says a Paris cerning two generations of French dramatic correspondent, was better than as a writer. The shrewdness glinted when he lectured. It was almost exalted to wit: Where he was best, perhaps, was at theatrical matinees explaining to young folks the play they were about to witness.
NOTANDA
CALENDAR
JUNDA
23rd June,-Penang 14th June, General
Butterfeld & Swire
TRIGONIA, British steamer, 2,097. E. Philil
23rd June,Shanghai, 20th June, Ballast. |—Arnhold, Karberg & Co. ELLEN RICKMERS, German steamer, 3-455, N. Jacobs, 23rd June-Singapore 10th June, General-Siemsscn&o.
the last by myriads. So far as I know there han
the tail eel of a miler braggart, and conceited cen been no satisfactory mower Sonic pople fruticals al came-cuters of various sorts) Inney that in thing 193 tury, they havi flushed a fait sized covey of intlis by Ar speculative shotguns into
every wayside h and
of
But Jave they done it. No, gentle reader, . They have put up crowd arrow, the saine crows TAISANG, British Steamer, 1,544, W. E. Sawer, that pisket the bones of the care wellen, mud the
BALLAAKAT, British steamer, 2,860, C. I. Wised lectures of trafo and recommended 23rd June-Shanghai 18th June, and sani sparrows that sold two for a farthing in the time, Swalow 22nd, General Jardino, Matheson fajkuly now. The eug doctors, Indeed.
There
plenty of fools of old, and & Co
proscribed some horrible stuffs as medicine t Faild, 23rd June.Bombay 7th June, and organste seeds for tootlinchey Singapore 18th, Mails and General-P. & resemble in fret. Very hallow Rii silly, to O S. N. Co.
He xare, illa sotunde tu us. That if you wanted to lind things that come near matching them in modern practice, I could show you where to look in my table I have a list of about 100 new remedies Introduced to Ruffering
world within the
the past twelve
twelvemonths. enes among them do you say?
CANTON, British steamer, 1,100, S, Wildy 23rd June-Swatow 22nd June, Ballast Jardinc, Matheson & Co.
Trigoniu, Brilish sir, for Koetal,
Clearances at the Harbour Office,
Tosa Maru, Japanese str., for Yokohama. Kongnam, British str., for Canton. Hiping, Chinese str., for Tientsin. Trang, British str., for Canton. Gleanrtney, British str. for Shanghai.
Sullberg, German sur, for Chefoo.
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ing Room, says a London writer, but she stayed
The Queen seened a little tired at the Daw-SULLBERG, German steamer, 783, Meyer, 23rd as long as usual, and looked very stately and
June. Canton 23rd June, General- Siemssen & C To reestablish the facts and clear up soine brightened by all the Royal Orders and masses of the misunderstandings of witnesses pro-and those who were in the first room. Her Ma of jewels; She received all the entree people fessing to speak from the standpoint of thejesty wore a dress of rich black Gros Imperial, Fire on the P. and 0. "Sumatra."
commercial and economical interest of India, trimmed with chenille tulle and ruche of Mr. J. E. O'Conor, Director-General of A few minutes after nine o'clock on the night Statistics, was recalled, and further examined
marabout and ostrich tips. The train was of of 25th alto. a serious fire, broke out on board. by Sir Henry Fowler in reference to Mr. bordered with a broad band of marabout and rich Gros Imperial veiled in chenille tulle and Mr. Prichard Morgan, M.P, entertained the the P. and O. liner Sumatra, one of the com Chinese Minister and a company of gentlenen pany's comparatively new large steamers. She can's appeal to the heavy loss incurred ostrich feathers and chiffon. She wore a veil interested in Chinese affairs ut dinner on 24th arrived in the Royal Albert Docks on zoth unto the opium sales of Government in the year of tulle sunmounted by a diadem of pearls and
from Calcutta, with jule and hemp, and has 197 Mr. O'Conor stated that the opium diamonds. since been berthed
trade is the most speculative in India, "so was discovered in her forehold, having origin- The Marvatis in 1897 were unable to gamble No. 5 bed. The fire much so, that it might even be called a gamble." ated from a cause at present unknown. When as freely as in 1896, owing to the stringency of the fire signal was given speedy endeavour was made to check the outbreak with the appliances ordinary years caused a fall in the price of the money-markel. The active competition of to hand, and assistance was summoned from opium, but there has been since a recovery of land and river. Six powerful steamers and three steam fire floats were speedily sent to the
len per cont. The recovery extends to the lines, and at once commenced. vigorous opera from a long depression. Now that the money Malwa opium from Bombay, which had suffered tions, but at eleven o'clock the fire had not market has resumed its ordinary conditions the diminished.
Captain Harris, the P. and O. Company's the price of opium when the Minis were open Marwaris will be as active as ever. Moreover, dock superintendent, was on board, and super was frequently lower than in 1897, or now. On intended the operations, and with the help of another point Mr. O'Conor gave amusing large number of officers from other ships was evidence. It was alleged that the closing of able to afford the firemen and the salvage corps the Mints had caused great dissatisfaction in considerable assistance. Fortunately there was little if any wind, and the resort of running the the alert for
India, but the Native Press, which, is ever on vessel out on to the mud, as it was at one time that the action of the Government aroused any grievance, gave no indication feared would be necessary to prevent herbeing opposition. Last December the National Con a danger to the other shipping, had not lo bogress in Madras passed a resolution deprecating adopted.
anyartificial device for meeting loss by exchange by changing the currency which would add to the pressure on India's monetary resource, and affirming that a relief from the pressure, princi paliy due to the steady growth of the demands of India for expenditure in England, alioud be obtained by England bearing an equitable The University Board in their report of June share of that expenditure. After the Mints 7, 1897.proposing the establishment of a Pro- were closed, the Congress, in December 1893, fessorship of Chinese, felt obliged, in the expressed regret at the closure as calculated to absence of any available funds, to recommend that the Professor should receive no stipend, disorganise important trades and industries. In increase the burden of indirect taxation and to and should be exempted from the general re-the five intervening years the Congress never gulations for the residence and duties of Pro referred to the subject. The wires were pulled fessors. The effect of this second condition in 1898 by Mr. Forbes Mitchell, who sent a was to prevent the Professor of Chinese from telegrams from the Royal Exchange Calcutta as holding Professorial Fellowship. If the follows: "Mr. Barclay, Chairman, 6f the Mane recommendation of the Board be approved, and chester Chamber of Commerce, will protesi if at any time after Michaelmas next the Pro against the gold standant." The hint was fessor of Chinese be elected to n Professorial taken and the required resolution was passed, Fellowship at a college, he will receive only the the mover and the seconder being the only emoluments of the Fellowship, while the col speakers on the subject Their speeches, Mr. lege, will deduct the statuable amount from its O'Conor slyly told the Coinmittee, may be cal University contributions. Since his appoint-led in effect mere political speeches. They did ment Professor Giles has been continuously not prove that there was general dissatisfaction engaged in teaching During the four terms, in India on the question of the closure of the from January 1898 to the end of the Lent term Mints. If there had bece, the Government 1890, he gave instruction for varying periods to would not have been left in ignorance of it for seven students in all, three of whom were Indian more than five years, and then hear it only Civil Service Probationers, and two are from a Resolution passed by the National advanced students, The Board think that a Congress at the suggestion of the Manchester strong claim has been made out for some Chamber of Commerce. The danger of gene substantial recognition of the importance of malising from one or two facts, the real scope of Professor Giles work
which is not understood, was illustrated by the singular error into which the acting Governar of the Straits Settlements fell in, an official Report placed before the Committee, stating made by the that the success of the experiment of c
able out of the Mints in India bad favoured exp ommencing country, while diminishing exports from
this to places with a sil
Mysterious Death
A mysterious case of poisoning occurred on 24th ulioin the express train from Rennes to Paris Some passengers who entered the train at Maas noticed that a young woman in the carriage appeared to be in great pain, She, however, refused all their offers of assistance. On arriving at the Gare de l'Ouest she drove to a small hotel in the Passage Tivoli, but lost consciousness immediately on her rival The doctor who was called in discovered that she was suffering from atropine poisoning The Police Commissary on examining her papers found out that she is a Mrs. Armstrong, wife of an officer in the merchant service, whose husband is at present in China Mrs Arm strong was taken to the Lariboislere Hospital,
Admiral Dewey.
The ulgur exploitation of Admiral Dewey's nane has disgusted many people, and Govern ment officials whose respect for the Naval officer is very great, will have nothing to do with any of the many scheines proposed in his lionour. The attempt to induce the Govern ment to take up the proposal to present the Admiral, with a house in Washington bas fail ed, and the scheme itself lags, as Admiral Dewy's family has intimated that it would not: be acceptable
Governor Roosevelt has ask State Legislature for a
pense, of Adiniral: Dew Committee (6
The Sumatra is a comparatively new steek built ship, Sooft, long, with a gross tonnage, or 4,007
Chinese Professorship at Cambridge;
The Board accordingly recommended That The Professor of Clunese be made subject to the general regulations for the residence and duties of Professors and Rea Senate that a stipend
and the Common University,
from Michaelmas 1809;
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synthesis or venerection; it by the olmorra- bone of carents and the experiments of anétiretly women"
Concerning a medicine discovered by ono such woman, thonds of stories have been told and letter. written, Hewison, exemplo,
For may rear I hate tutored from indigestion anderkies seemed to his no energy for anything: 1 buil's poor appetite, and want little food. I ate cause me violent pains at the chest and between the shoulders Frejnority 3 had attacks of gildinione, ml of blood to the head. The pain which was and when I scopod miffured from au unnatural called upon to bear was often very sorare | it affected all parts of my kidly, and at night 1 got litle proper nud refreshing on hep account of it
Per Telemachus, from Penang 27 Chinese." As went unt and the compliant, grow fixed Per Ellen Rickmers, from Singapore 175 Chinese
upon i came to be exceedingly weak and now tid again was obliged to take to my bed. I lost test and Lennie quite thin, living, a Laid, only wit milky beef fen, and other kinds of quil food. It will be Ileilood, of comme that I find medical card, Lorides attending the houth Lotion Dispensary, "Yet I
and been cured by a rudy called Mother Beigel received no tonelit from what was done for me, Pullen, le told ins he had suffered ft a simflar gnidn It happenest that in Wanitary, 1899, a friend, alt
Syrin Acting on fils suggestion got a bottle and London-Mr. Maczulay after having taken it 1, Jound great relief. Presently
Per Taiming from Shanghai, &c.— Messrs Mullye, Ewen, 5 Europeans, and so Chinese Per Nubia, from Shanghai for Hongkong Mrs. Holsworthy, a infants and nmah, Messrs.
Chinese 16th of 5th mean of 25th year of Messrs. Abbas Ali, Sheik Mahomed, and 6 S. Baker, R.N., WV. Vaughan, R.N. Mrs. Mic donald, and Mr. Empson. For Bombay - Kabaricard.
Indians For Calculia Indians For
STO-DAY,IN Friday, 23rd June, 1899
Sun Rises
-5hr, 19min? High water forming at 35min. Oh, domin Afternoon ghr. 58min. Low water---Atorni
Afternoon 3hr, zomín. ANNIVERSARIES 1846-Red Republican ring in Paris sup 1843 Ki-ying visited Hongkong.
1874-Shock of earthquake in Hongkong
pressed 10,000 lives lost, 1884-French troops defeated by Chinese near
Langson
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Per Canton, from Falgeave and G. P. Laylen
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F. my oppolito return and foul to winger
10mg Convinced that Mother Selges Syrups was Per Baflaarat, for Hongkong from Bombay adopted to by atment I continrial 100 gr of is until Messrs. J. Hepworth and Esmal Ebrahim was no longer neeled Aly, health and strengthe From Londou-Sub Lieut. Armitage, Missesmalcino had one what no vihen nd been able to, were-rd-tablished, hud Llave tipes boch well, zhin Farquhar, G. Morrison, Mr., Mrs and Miss My husband, who suffered from billong d Greel, Kingcombe and Jack. From Slogapore to publish this brief stalinique, I Stark and children.rom Marseilles Messrs with the same result on have my free consent Tan Chou Leon and servant For Shanghai Kringto
Capt. Entriean, Messrs. W. H. Nibrane, from Bombay Miss Sherman, and Mr. WG There
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