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ROYAL
MESSES DALLAS & MUSGRAVE'S
DRAMATIC, COMPANY.
Positively the Last Night of the Season. GRAND FAREWELL PERFORMANCE. Grand Complimentary Benefit, tendered to Messis. HENRY DALLAS & KENYON MUSGRAVE,
TONIGHT TONIGHT!
GRAND DOUBLE BILL
MONSTER PROGRAMME |
PROGRAMME-
PART L
MY FRIEND JARLET?
A Dramatic Episode of the Franco-Prussian),
War in one Act.
CHARACTERS:
Emile Jariet (an Old Frenchman)
Mr. Henry Dallas.
Paul Latour (His Friend);
Mr. Kenyon Musgrave.
Prussian Officer.........Mr. R. H. Stephenson. Marie Leroux
Miss Barbara Fenn.
SCENE.
"AN INN NEAR FONTAINEBLEAU."
INTERVAL - OF 10 MINUTES. (
PART II.
MUSICAL MELANGE. Ballad........... The Pilgrim of Love"
Mr. Edwin Phillips.
2. The Twin Duet...(From "The French Maid")
Miss Rosie Blair, Mr. Henry Dallas and Mr. Kenyon Musgrave.
3 Comic Song
Ballad
Song.
www..." Hooligan."
Mr. D. Munro,"
Miss Bertha Hunter.
E
...... Only once more."
Trinity Church."
Mr. W. H. Brown,
6. Song and Dance..... ......Liza-loves you"
Mr. L. Montague.
7. Character Song At my Time of Life."
8. Recitation
Miss Rosie Blair.
"When the Angry Passions Gathering."
9. Ballnd
Mr. L. Hall
For Old Tiine's Sake. Miss Angy Potter
10. Musical Sketch...... Mr. Brown at Home." Mr. J. B. Ferrell
1. Serio-Comic Song ........." Do, dear, do." Miss Fanny Stanley.
12. Song
Mr. 1.41. Gale,
“Unless."
13. Comic Song..." The Scientific fan." 14. Duct. All the way from Clay Paree."
Mr. Duncan Muniro.
(From the "Gay Parisienne.") Miss Rosie Blair and Mr. R. H. Stephenson.
"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,”- NOTE-A Special Tram will run a quarter of an hour after fall of curtain Each Evening.
PRICES:--$3, $2 & $1.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform Half Price lo Back Seats only.
PLAN, now OPEN- - ROBINSON PIANO, WAREHOUSE.
Doors OPEN at 8.15.. Overture at 9.P.M.
W. H. BROWN,-
Business Manager Hongkong, 6th July, 1899... *(88za PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY
NOTICE
CONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship.
ACHINA"
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1899;
To-day's Advertisements.
he Hongkong Telegraph
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1899.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
THE ROYAL NIGER COMPANY.
SALONDON, July
SANITARY BOARD.
*. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Sanitary *Board - was held this afternoon. There WDTE Sprosent →→→→The President (Dr. Atkinson, Pria: cipal Civil Medical Officer) occupied the chair, the Hon. R. D.- Ormsby (Director of Public Works), Mr. Eenborne, and Dr. Clark (Medical Officer of Health, Mr. A. W. Brewin Acting Registrar General, and Mr. Duggan (Secretary).
IMPORTANT POST OFFICE NOTICE,
'N TIL further notice NO PARCELS
addressedTO MALTA, can be ac cepted by This Office, or any of its Agencies, as the Sanitary Regulations of Malta prohibit The House of Connions has adopted the the delivery there of all parcels coming from revocation of the Royal Niger Co.'s Charter in or through an infected port.
West Africa. The territory will from henceforth. A. BARRON
Superintendent. be under the Colonial Office and administered Hongkong, 6th July, 1899, 230
188rain three divisions. There will be free trade
everywhere except in Spirits, DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, LIMITED,
FOR SWATOW. THE Company's Steamship
"HAILOONG", Captain Robson, will be despatched for the above Forts, TO-MORROW, the 715 instant,
at 10 A.M.
......
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LÁPŘAIK & Co General Managers. Hongkong, 6th July, 1899.
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DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANŸ, LIMITED.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW.
"HE Company's Steamship TH
*THALES,"
Captain Hall, will be despatched for the above Ports, on- SATURDAY, the 8th instant, at to ALMA
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DOUGLAS LAPRAIK '&. Co., General Managers. Hongkong, 6th July, 18997
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OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPÁNY.
FOR LONDON VIA SUEZ CANAL. "HE_Company's Steamship
ΤΗ
"TANTALUS," Captain Thompson, will be despatched as above on SATURDAY, the 9th instant,
For Freight, apply to
THE TRANSVAAL. The Volksraad has met, President Kruger urged the Members to hold fircily to indepen. dence. He stated that it was his intention to -submit proposals for the increase of representa- tion from the Gold Fields, but nothing was said about the alteration of the Franchise with out which his proposals were of no valido
Fenchpironolada
iranç
TOULONG
Are was
in thes ctators,
successfully launched at hoon Presence of a large number of cluding Major Marchands. Senegalese triße inen, who were loudly cheered –Reute
The President moved that the niinutes of the previous meeting as circulated should be con Kaiser's Strike Bill firmed.
SANITARY SURVEYOR. The appointment of Mr. Drury as Sanitary Surveyor, as recommended by the Director of Public Works to the Governor, was laid on the
table.
had
never," he said; saw such a haragin my lifa as Holocauste, and 1 never expect to. He was the greatest thoroughbred that ever stood on irons." I mnadaged to get # good start and lead the race, round the back turn keeping closely to the rails at Tattenham Comer, Ho locauste was going splendidly withiqut urging, and i was ponvinced that he had all the steam necessary to win the race easily, when suddenly | I felt him give down." That surprised me. :1
urged him a bit more when he began to tuinble forward and knew that he had broker, a leg.
T He ran fifty yards further before he went down.” He did not throw me I got both legs on one side of the saddle when I found my foot caught in the stirrup, and knew that if he fell. I should- go down under him, Holding on to his neck
were held last night in various parts
Nineteen meetings of Social most of which were so crowded that the doors, with botir arms till I had pulled up enough to
to be closed by the poli
dismount I found that the leg had been broken They protested against
German clean off, and that the horse was jamming the APPLICATION FOR KEEPING SWINE Strike Bill, and passed resolutions, condemning stump in the ground at each jump. I never Messrs, 1p Yauand Wong Cheung Kec's appli: it as the grosseste product of close legislation | saw, such a sight, and yet the horse was so cations for renewal of licence to keep swine and as an attempt against the right of free game I think Be would have kept on il physl- were considered and granted.
combination.
cally possible.
CONCRETING.
The first-tea-saloon in opened to-day in Allen previously unknown The the organisers, and Lockhart
New Yorke Ton SaloonŁ
NEW YORK New York was shaps were Amiy are prices will be
English made Locomotives. The Londer if North-Westen Railway Company yesterday tested the latest addition to their compound locomotives with a run from, Eusion to Urewe. The train, consisting of ch gine, tender, and 14 coaches of a total length of 716ft and the total weight with passengers consisting of r20 civil engineers hud railway managers, of 425 tons scwl. The length of the journey was 159 miles, and the maximum speed
for the journey was 71 miles an hour,
The application for exemption from covering yard surfaces and servants quarters with 6 scy, as the yard at The Bluffs" Plantation concrete was made by The Hon RM. Rum- Road was already covered with one inch con THE LONDON TEA TRADE, cred. Mr. Bryan, who had inspected the yard for Medical Officer of Health, reported the yard as At a meeting of Tea Growers, held in Lon- satisfactory, and in the minutes Dr. Clark said don, endoing the report of the Joint Com that as long as the surface remained unbroken mittee ofthe India and Ceylon Tea Associations, Board lad power to sanction application. G it was resolved that "the one pound drit The President said the floor seemed to be
impervious to moisture the moyed the applica allowance should not be made after the 17th tion be granted. Mr. Ormsby seconded, and and the game is expected to happen in Newhat the London and North-Western Raliway
the motion was carried
instant. The Tea dealers at a subsequent meeting resolved not to attend sales, nor to buy Tea privately, and to, convene a mass meeting of the trade to consider further action.
· WEATHER REPORT. The Observatory report says:-On the 6th 11.50a.m. The barometer is still falling on the China coast. The depression is of great extent, the typhoon centre being situated, apparently to the E. of N: Formosa near Meiaco Sima The disturbance seems to be still moving blowly towards N.W. FORECAST-Fresh W. to SW. winds; fair at first, possibly thunder showers later. Very strong SW, monsoon over the China Sea-
LOCAL AND GENERAL –
Ir is generally understood, says the MC BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Daily News, that the Viceroy at Nanking has
"Agents.
[802a consented to the Extension of the French
Settlement at Shanghai
Hongkong, 6th July, 1899.
CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY,
LIMITED:
FOR PORT DARWIN, QUEENSLAND PORTS, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE THE Company's Steamship.
"TSINAN”.
Captain Anderson, will be despatched as above. on MONDAY, 'the 24tli instant, at Noon.
The attention of Passengers is directed to the Superior
Accommodation offered by this Stenmer. The. First-class Saloons is situated forward of the Engines. A Refrigerating Chamber ensures the Supply of Fresh Provisions during the entire royage,
A duly qualified Surgeon is carried and the Vessel is atted throughout with Electric Light N.B.-Return Tickets issued by this Com pany to and from AUSTRALIA are available for return by the Steainers of the EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN:S.S. CO. and vice versa. For Freight or Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD, & SWIRE
Agents. Hongkong, 6th July, 1899
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Intimation.
AGAINST Mr. Sylvester's bond of Tls.. 15,000. the 'Canton. Viceroy holds Tis. 1,349, money due by the latter to the former for arms pur chased from him--N C. Daily News:
MR. Byron Brenan, Consul General at Shang hai, left for home on 1st July by the Empress of India on leave, and Mr. P. L. Warron takés charge of the British Consulate General during
is absence.
The Times in its article on the Birthday hon. ours saysMr. Thomas Jackson's knighthood is a recognition of the good work done for the Empire in the Far East by the Hongkong and Shanghat Bank, of which he is the energetic Hongkong manager
ON the evening of the 4th inst the members of the "Lion and Rose "Lodge, RAO,B,aret at their lodge-room. During tlie evening Primo W. E. Bew received the high degree of K.OM, which was a special grant from the Grand Lodge of England for meri torious services. Mr. Watling saw the core- mony successfully carried through, after which the newly made knight uttered a few well-cho- sen words. Mr. Bew, we believe, was the found- .er of the Order in the East.
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charged,
All the usual attractions of the public-house will be added.
Tea saloon experiments in Brooklyn have have diren numerous vintners bit of business
York.
گریه با دو چندانه
LIGHTING OF THE CENTRAL MARKETS
The Government is highly elated, at the cheerful outlook for a sefilement of the ques tion and will not I understand, approach the British again upon the subject of changing the Clayton Bulwer treaty in so far as it affects the Nicaragud canal,
REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMITTEE. ON THE S Alaskan Boundary,
WASHINGTON The sub-Committee appointed by the Board Secretary Bay will to-morrow cable to Mr. namely the PW. D. and the Acting Registrats Choate Lie decision of this Government respect General, rendered the following report
We visited the Central Market on the nighting the provisional Alaska boundary line. of June 20th, and found it to be well lighted, I bave an intimation from the State depart There were two men making up their accounts ment that the arrangement made between Mr. and though both had oil lamps, there appeared Choate and the Colonial Office in London is to be no necessity for them, as it was quite satisfactory to the United States easy to read ordinary print by the electric light. Almost every shop had lamps in it, and with the high partitions between the shops, oil lamps will probably, however well lighted the market is for ordinary purposes, be a convenience at night for making up the books and shroffing money. All the same, some of the lamps in the shops were vegetable oil lamps which gave a very dim light indeed. The following wills have recently been We do not think that additional expense for
-proved: lighting the market should be incurred, and we recommend that the tenent be allowed to make use of the ordinary oil lamps with draught
(Signed) RD, ORMSBY
DPW
A. W-BREWIN
Ag+R G.
Hongkong, June 22nd, 1899,
PLAGUE AT TAINAN Mr. EA Griffiths sent returns of the plague. for Tainan, the total number from January 7th to June 12th being 2,106 cases, 1,600 deaths and 427 recoveries... He also reported that the pedemic at that port appeared to be rapidly subsiding
****** PLAGUE AT PENANG,"
Returns of the daily number of plague cades at Penang were submitted. The worst weeks being those ending June 10th and June 17th when there were 10 cases and to deaths; and 11-cases and 8 deaths respectively
APPLICATION FOR WATER CLOSETS, The application for four water closals for the Diocesan school was then read The President application would hold good for the genetal said that the arguments raised in favour of the
rum of applications. The School Swas neither a hospital nor an hotel, and the great number of boys sick rather shows that the place is not kept very clean as there ought to be no diff culty with the night commodes. He would point ent that the distance for the boys to go to the urinals at night was rather great and the water closets would therefore be a great convenience Capt. May proposed that the application be refused. The motion was seconded by Dr. Clark and carried.
LIMEWASHING
Recent Wills:-
Aunker,
Keren
ENETI ZEHRQNALY
Mr. Webb, chief mechanical engineer, saidh
Company's works were keeping abreast with their engine building, and avere also turning a thousand pounds worth of work out every day for other departments. He was surprised that the neighbouring companies should want to go abroad for their stocks.
He had at present in the stock shad 31 ch gines and 22 more in the paint shop
New York Heat Wave.. PARALYSING BUSINESS AND LEADING TO
·MADNESS AND MISKORTUNENSSA.
NEW YORK Today, the third day of the bent wave, there vas a slight improvement in the temperature; and Hudnut's thermometer registered to as
with toy yesterdaysay ch The physical sufering under the heat, how- ever is unabated, and the total number of deaths is 22, mostly, children. Horses are dying by dozens. The sky is, liko a pall of lead. Even in the Wallst district „business men move about as if dated and in a
exciting
hall.Sheffield 133,433 Estate:01 1320ident occurred on the sele
Thrift Eccles- Harry Allen Myles Birket Fos-7-Braeside, Wey-
ter
bridge Admiral Thomas South Audley-st
Miller A
North Musk-), Richard Foster
haiu, Notts... John Barrell Mar.) Glenholme,
shall
Middlesbrogh
Rey
The Hon Mrs.
Blanche Feilda
Norfolk
0.392.| Vated rathyay when Engineer Wicke developed sudden insanity, through the heat. He had 14546 dashed through Bleecker st, when the stoker. Agcaw thất he had lost his mental control and 3795 grappled with him, stopping the train and
Byggbarely averting a catastrophe, mentr 3/308A pathetic occurrence happened in the case
of Mira. Marry Bower, a Society woman, yes.... terdayz While in a state of stupor she wandered. 31,008
22d up froin heç home, and only returned to her hus...”
band this morning, still a state of stupor
wrongly attribute ipping by Ilda Orme!
Olga's Nelljersole's St. Paula Miss: Ormë. ine fondon two years
BAND
Stranded Lar DRIVEN INLAND BY HEA SONIBALVAGE WORK The position of the changed yesterday... Dui the wind veered found to the a very heavy swell, and t blasting operations (osbift. vessel about twenty yards further in southward the shore, the bow now pointing further
It is feared that this will seno with the salvage oper
Early yesterday morning the that all work had to be stopped. vessels Berthilde and E. 1. forced to leave the liner and iance off
Nothing definite has trang an attempt will be made to vessel from her predicament preparations be sufficiently advance a trial will be made..
the
The newspapers
to the heat tile.
of Marcus May
manager aboard the created some sens
Arsenal Exp. THE OFFICIALS ATTRIN
EXTI
"An official inquiry was held yesterday in ther Roya
*Weglwich; as to the cause of t which occurred, the previous after 15/ TOON the Danger Building, Edist Laboratory scual, by which four workman hamed George Bridges Stephen Driver, John Blackburn, and another man named Howe, received serious injuries
vas so bad Woolwich he salvag
It was stated that Driver was at work solder. whethering on the lids of a cylinder containing loaded release the detonators, in the composition of which there should the is fulminate of tercluya highl nsitive no doubt explosive. A terrific explosion occured, and
the four injured men were removed on stret chers to the Arsenal infirmary, where hope were entertained yesterday of their ultimate Precovery,
GERMA
The above Steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bits of date ne ive you throuds A. S. WATSON & Co., with thanks the following donations to the in the wester division, the most unsanitarying from the eastward, but that decreased in
and to take immediate delivery of
from alongside. A
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel
will be landed and stored at Consignees risk and expense
LIMITED.
J. S. VAN BUREN,.
Agent.
ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.
E
IMPORTERS OF HIGH CLASS
Hongkong, 6th July, 1899.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
GLEN LINE OF STEAMERS. FROM MIDDLESBORO, LONDON AND
THE
STRAITS.
Steamship
“GLENTURRET," having arrived from the above Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her, are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld, at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.lan
Goods not cleared by the 12th instant will
be subject to rent. ››
No Fire Insurance has been effected,
All ship damaged packages must be left in the Godowns, and a certificate of the damage,
BRANDIES.
A.-Hennessy's Old Pale, Red
Capsule B-Superior Very Old Cognac
Red Capsule C-Very Old Liqueur Cognac V.O.-D.-Hennessy's Finest
Very Old Liquors Cognac, 1872 Vintage, Red Cap- sules
V.V.0.-E.-Finest Very Old Liqueur Cognac,- 1802 Vintage =
Per DuL
$18,00
THE Hon. Treastirer of the Alice Memorial and Nethersole Hospitals begs to acknowledge
funds of the Hospitals
Douglas Jones.
Die Rieloff
1. M. Beck
J. Edwarda R
R. Houghton
Hon. A. M. Thom
A. C. MoreTM
A DISPATCH to the Frisco Call dated 31st May, states:-Governor Otero of New Mexico, who called on the President this moming, has no doubt that he will issue another call for troops. No more regulars will be sent to the Philip pines, General Otis was informed that it would take until the end of the rainy season in the Philippines to call for, enlist, equip and trans 4.00 port the additional troops, and he was asked to give a prompt and direct reply to the e query whether he needed them. He replied
21.00
48,00
obtained from the Godown Co, within ten days All our Brandy is guaranteed to be of steamer's arrival, after which no claims will
recognised
PURE COGNAC, the difference in price MCGREGOR BROS. & GOW, Hongkong, 6th July, 1899.
[879a being merely a question of age
and vintage.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES...
Smaller quantities and bottles will be supplied at propor tionate wholesale rates
FROM BOMBAY COLOMBO-AND
STRAITSASAGNA THE P & O S N. Co.'s Steamship
COROMANDEL Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Vessel are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the to Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where each
will be sorted put marje by mark our
ined as 1006, as the
We guarantee our Winesand Spirits be genuine only when bought from us in the Colony or from authorised Agents at the Coast
WATSONE
Limited,
C
Mr. Osborne said that out of 1583 tenements
one, only one third had beers legally cleansed, that is by the owners. He wished to propose that proceedings be taken against the others. for not complying with the. Iaw in this import-- ant matter, as reasonable warning: had been given them, s
This was all the business and
BY THE ENGLISH MAIL The following are from papers dating from June 4th to the gh --
The wind was yesterday evening still blow
strength
English Tourist Abroad. WHO CALLED HIMSELF"A LORDUTO DISHA PATTRACT: RESPECT
VIENNA
“A somewhat mysterious affair, in which tw English subjects are concerned, is occupying the attention of the authorities.
Two Englishmen arrived at the Grand Hotel Hamilton and John Sanders? nor Friday, and entered their names as Lord spectively. They then introduced themselves to secretary of the British Embassy, whose suspicions were aroused
Austrian Militarism. THREE OFFICERS ATTACK AND FATALLY
WOUND A CIVILIAN - Y
BUDAPEST, June 6th.
M. Ludwig Engel, the proprietor of a local paper published at Szegedin, yesterday became involved in a dispute with three officers of 4 Hungarian regiment.
WE cannot help thinking that Messrs. Dallis "and Musgrave made a big mistake in staging “Turned Up" at the theatre last night. - The house was a shockingly poor one, which plainly showed that the comedy is not popular with Hongkong people. Why we cannot, inaging for the piece is full of interesting com plications, witty sayings, etc., and unless A Brussels Mun one is in an extreme state of stoicity, he mus laugh from the beginning to the end To-night Dion Boucicault's Irish Drama "Conn the Shaugraun is to be acted. Lovers of drama will appreciate this play very much. Fol Friday a very special programme is being arranged, as it is a benefit night, and the last on which, the company will perform during this visit
The officers drew their swords and together attacked the defenceless civilian, indicting several severe wounds... → blows of his cowardly assail
After-vamly, attempting to stick, M. Engel was disa the hospital in a dying.
he?
Tthe savage
conves
BRUSSELS. Brussels was startled by a horrible crime. The lodge-keeper at the house of Baron Cay was found murdered his head being quite shattered by repeated blows" from✨n, sword.
The murderer, an old soldier, whose motive
He notified the police, who to-day arrested the man calling himself Lord Hamilton, but Sanders had disappeared,
The so-called lord acknowledged that his real name was Charles Guene, that he was an ex-officer in the Indian army, and a man of independent means. He asserts (bat he called himself Lord Hamilton merely to make people think hint an important personage, but the au- thorities Believe that he had other" otives.
Torn Asunder. The little brown bear which Prince Hen Prussia presented to the crew of the war Olga has met with a dreadful end. The "animal had lately, been housed in a tower,
the West Park at Kiel together with another bear, a big black female The latter was fas tened to a chain, as it was feared that the two
well: animals would not feti Whit Sunday the "Olga bear, was tree, which had been put;up false step, and it fell on the female
is believed to have been a guilly passion forfatter rushed upon the Little bear the lodge-keepers i wife, has been arrested-ing
The
MK. J. H. Love who is taking Miss Jand Waldorf for a tour of the Orient unites to say Austrian Town Burnt
will soon be visiting Hongkong with the young American actress, supported by Norval and others. Miss Waldorf appears McGregor, Ada Dow Currier, Virginia Grannitolally is beautifully costumed scenes
pertoire of ssical pidy
Juliet:
Romer
consists
royed by fire yeste
of two woman. the ruins, and two.
Figh
fended itself pluckily, crushudit neck, to pieces with a vicious) unfortunate creature asunder the dead body into the swimming
ona
Elde
The inquiry led to the belief that the explo sion was caused by the extreme heat; and ord ders have been issued that all the men employed in the Danger Building are to knock of work: whenever the tempomlyte-rises to above 8ödéga
the time of the explosion the thermome. ter stood at 95deg, in the building and triodeg in the sun,
STARLAZE
Farringdon Road Fire, SIX-STOREY WAR Farringdon rd. was cene of a conflagra lion last night at the warehouse-premise. and 117, belonging to Messi, Hayman Christy, and Lily
AGA VIET
The warehouses were packed
Soon after the fire was crash of glass, failovet fame a
The handful of police way the thousands of spec every movement of the occasionally cheeng licor as ed some end.
Sevent
Corps under Supt adjoin
and
boks; and paper
there was
cất bust of
On-the
of St. Paul Lewis, Establis
Narcissus, bro
OWEN JONES,