BY THE MAIL
(From Hems Papers.) The Queen and the Emperor Menelik.
Reuter's agency is informed that Captain JL. Harrington, British Resident at Adis
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1899.
of the inspector asked for three-quarters of a ↑ pound of eighteen-penny tea. He was given two packages apparently a half-pound and a guarter-pound in weight, but it was subsequently found that the actual weight of the tua in them was short of three-quarters of a pound by 4 drams 19 grains. Mr. Bodkin, who appeared for the defence, did not question the facts of the case. But he submitted that eighteen- at so much per pannd. It was simply a descrip tion of the quality. The magistrates, after a brief consultation, said that in their opinion the case was not made out, and they dismissed the
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sold in shunki plots, to meet the convenience of boating men and others desirous to erect bungalows or other riverside residences, or of providing themselves with private camping grounds.
Mosquitoes or Gnats?
There seems to be no abatement in the plague
THE BOUTH AFRICAN ORISIS.
Abeba, will today (18th ulto.) deliver to the penny " or " fouricen-penny" tea was not sold of mosquitoes which is visiting Hackney, parts are beginning to see that the rugged oki Pre-
Queen the phonographic messages sent to her Majesty, by the Emperor Menelik and Empress Taitou, in respouse to the phano- graphic message despatched to the Negus and his consort by Queen Victoria.
The Wreck of A Clyde Pleasure Steamer.
Details received at Glasgow on 17th ulto, of the loss of the steam' packet Red Gauntlet off the Pladda Light show that the vessel lies on the rocks and has been badly strained by the south-west gale that has been blowing all night, If the gale continues she must break up. The Red Gauntlet is a handsome paddle-steamer making excursions on the lyde. She was hugging the shore going round Arran ghan she was driven on the rocks by the song wind and tide. There was much alarni anong the passengers when the vessel stryck, but the coastguard quickly assisted the rescue in their boats, and the passsengers, were afterwards driven to Whiting Bay, where they were embarked on the Paverley,
-SUIMMONS.
wa5,
AN AMERICAN VIEW.
The impression, which was current for a time in London, that Oom Paul would throw up his hands when he saw British soldiers starting for know the Boers from previous harsh experience, the Cape has now vanished. Englishmen, who cuts in a vicinity of the Downs, Marshes,sident of the South African Republic trans and valley of the Lea. Stanford Hill, too, has put up a fight worthy of Majuba Hill and not.escaped. Policemen, postmen, vestry em Krugersdorp. His little play at concession playees, and the residents generally have ex- perienced the trying attentions of this vexatious
the Chronicle suggested at the time, and poisonous file insect. Men who biêve
a are device to put off the day of war until he could secure the military arans and stores ordler- Canadian Tobacco Selling well in served in marshy regions abroad, where the mosquito tourishes, and were before unmolested,
ed in Germany and Italy. These importations London.
have now to acknowledge that they five cen
are now in hand and the mask of conciliation has | bitten. /
been thrown off The unanimed burghers are being supplied with Mauser riles and the same weapon is being passed out to replace a poorer one in the hands of the active forces. Every mau, "able rise and shent," will be equipped and called out in time to meet a British in- vasing. It is believed at Cape Town that' the Buers have ammunition, provisions and font in excess of the supply kept on hand by many European nations. As they also have armoured forts, Krupp guns, strategic railways, an army of dead shots and the kind of invin cible resolution and courage which comes of the Cunwellian idea of God's supreme assist. ance in the hour of battle, they constitute the most formidable fee Great Britain has met since the days of the Crimea,
Canadian tobacco, since it was recommended to the English smokers a few months ago by Sir Henry Joly de Luthimere, the Minister of Inland Revenue, has found much favour, says the London correspondent of the Freds Mir. cury. The plant is cultivated chiefly by the French in the province of Ontario, but fately farmers in the Dominion aquaties of Essex and Kent have produced such splendid craps that after the last harvest there was a surplus of ten million pound waiting a market. Sam plus were sent to England, and resulted in large unters heing given. The tokeze is of fine textove, mild, and agreeable to the taste, But it is crudely curl, with the result that it emits a disagreeable aroma. It is said to blend well with Virginia leak, and it is this mixture Approaching Retirement of Lord which is selling well in London. Properly treated Fanadian tobacio, it is claimed, would Currie.
rival the best production of the States."
The London correspondent of the Birming ham Daily Post says he has excellent authority for stating that Lord Currie, who has just returned to Rome from his leave of absence in England, will retire from the diplomatic service in the course of next year. The precise date of his Excellency's retirement is at present dependent upon cvents, but it may be pointed out that, in retiring any time next year, Lord Currie will only be anticipating by a few months his compulsory. retirement under the uge limit.
Incubators not to Blamo, An inquest was held at Bethnal Green relative te the death of Philip Wolman, aged eleven weeks, The mother stated that the child was one af triplets. At the request of the Lion Incubator Company, two of them were taken the Earl's Court Exhibition and placed in n inculator. Three weeks later the children were taken from the Exhibition. Dr. Goodman said the child did not appear to have thrived in the incubator, which was more beneficial in cases of premature birth. He could not say the incubator treatment imul anything to do with death. The child was not over clean when he say it at home. The jury, after hearing further evidence, returned a verdict of "natural death," and stated that there was no blame attaching to anyone at the incubators.;
Return of the Wellmann Expedition.
The fishing vessel Capella has arived at Trust Franz Joseph Land, The vessel brought with her sr. Wellmann's expedition, which she fell in with at Cape Tegethoff, ft is reported that the explores reached the 8d parallel of north latitude. A member of the expedition named Bentzen, who wintered with one companion in a stone hat on the island of, Wilkien land, in intense coht, died. In fe Lruary M. Wellmann haal his foot crushed in An ice-sincere, and is still obliged to use crutches. The expalition killed 3 walruses. and eight fears. No trace of the Andrée ex- pedition was foum! The Caprila pickest up the expedition on faly 27, and sailed hoc ward on August FOL On August & the Stella Poltre, with the party of explorers beaded by the Italian Pronce, the Duke of the Abruzzi, em boat, was sighted in hoejeas Somad, 80 deg. 24 min. N. lat. All was well on board,
Beuter?
The Wonders of Wireless
Telegraphy..
Some interesting results werd obtained with wireless telegraphy ecently at Dover, One of Signor Marconi's installations was set op for experimental pinposes between Dover and the
Experiences on Board a West In South Foreland lighthouse and the EastGood-
dian Mail Steamer.
flackncy had a few mosquitoes last year. This summer they have increased by myriads What is the cause ? asks the Pyily Telegraph. Local opinim gives as an explanation that Mare street has recently been paved with Jarrah wood blocks, and that the eggs of the mosquito must have been imported with these. But it is quite possible that the Lackney mosquitous are merely gnats, whose venomous voracity has been exaggerated by the high temperature. Specimens that have been captured are des- cribed as having a truck? The goat has proboscis, which the female knows so well lew to use. She it is, too, who attracts her mute by the humming sound which accompanies the act of flying. Persons who have been hitten aser that this "booming "acquires a demoniacal note of triumph when the mosquito has gorge itself with hunan blood
The Charge Against An American Lady.
Is the Salisbury Cabinet prepared to take chemies on their own ground? These conse- the consequences of meeting such intrepid quences are partly military and partly political, but all of thein are serious., It is certain if war ensures that thousands of British soldiers will be killed or maimed; that the Rand will be centre, laid waste. The question arises whether Blown up and Johannesburg, the Litlander the British voters would support the Ministry the schemes of the stock gamblers, whose in inviting such a disaster simply to carry out
of the Ranil. That is a thing which Salisbury fortunes are tled up in the present and future and Chamberlain way and reason to consider gone. If not, so much the worse for them. now that all hope of Kruger's surrender bas After them the deluge.
At Bow-street on toth ulto. Letitia Ann Roberis ferut, alais Leity Pierce, thirty-two, of Albert Hall Mansions, was charged, on remand with abduction, child-stealing, and kidnapping within the puristliction of the Chuited States. The circumstances of the alleged action have already been fully reported. Mr. Vet sen. Brom whose rustody the child was taken, was presentat court, and also the Hon. Charles Maryland of the supreme Court of
Should the war come to pass it promises to When the case was called on Mr. Crane
absorb the attention of the work. People will who represented Mr. Peros; said he and Mr.learn by it whether the boasted prowess of the Lawrence, Q., who represented the prisoner, British army will stand a supreme test as well as were at the monterà conferring upon the case. and he asked that the hearing shoul be delay-
i did at Waterloo, or whether it has degenerated, for a few moments. Mr. Lawrence concur
as some suspect, into the qualities that only ring, the lasly left the dock.
shine when matched with those of savage tribes. The efficiency of the British supply service. also be revealed. The future of South Africa which came to nothing in the Crimea, will will be decided and its political geography changed, for if the Boots should win they would reach out for British territory in com pensation, while if the British should win they would take all the Roers have, both in the these contingencies are so profoundly, interest Transvaal and the Orange Free State. A ing that the war will be followed and studied mare closely the world over than any, excecting our brush with Spain, which has taken place in neer twenty years.-S. A Chronicle.
Afer an interval of over half an hour counsel returned into court, and Ms. Lawrence applied that the case might be further adjourned for a
week.
Mr. Lashington said that before he could agree to do this he must know whether the Andriran Asibassatior consented to this.. that he had received no instructions beyond Al Hadson said the Ambassador told him the original demand for extradition.
Mr. Crane said that he had had an interview with his Excellency, in which he stated that he should be very glad to have the matter remanded until such date as would be con- venient to all persons
Mr. Lushington said that in that case the prisoner would be further, remanded for a week on the same bail as before.
it is stated that the Givernar of Maryland will ask the State Department at Washington in with traw the extradition proceedings on an agreement that the child is given up to the
PHILIPPINE GOLD,"
Ma. k. P. Reid, off Aspey; fotorade, has just returned to Manila from a prospecting expedi- tion close by in the region of the Laguna de Bay. In several of the river beds in the region south of the Laguna Mr. Reid found fairly good alluvial gold, He is of opinion it will pay white men at placer mining, though it is not a Klondike nor anything to go wild about. magile found quartz, too, enough to make it worth mining, when the time comes. He found lots while to settle down and sink capital in quartz of "good colour" in the vicinity of Los Banos south of the Lake, here is plenty of volcanic rack with veins of free gold running through it, and nuggets can be found once in a while.
A.Gross Scandal.. Nwithstanding the efforts of the ganism, it appears still to be rampant. The strates and the police to discourage honti. latest ontbreak of this in de siècle enormity occurred, according to information in the possession of the police, in South Fulhain. There exists, it would seem, a fend between Pimlico and Fulham. The young gentlemen gangs of youths whose headquarters are in from Humlico, armed with slicks, knives, and
win lightship, The apparatus was set up at the town-Ball buildings, and the ordinary flagstaf 'The West Indian mail steamer Medreay
of the building was utilized. The town hall, which arrived at Plymouth early this mornin (18th ulto,) was due on Wednesday. She re
which is surrounded by uildings, is in the centre of the town. Intervening between the ports terrific seas and one of her starboard life- boats carried away. Fine weather subsequently
place where the instrument was fixed and the prevailed. On Tuesday night the machinery
South Foreland are the high elifs upon which Stands Dover fastle. Messages had therefore became deranged, but after thirteen hours dalaj the vessel resumed her voyage. During the
to pass through, or ever, cliffs from 300 ft. to 410 ft. above sea level for allout four miles. passage the chief steward, Mr. Kelly, of South- ampton, died of malarial fever, and a passenger
The same conditions applied to the East Good-grandfather, died of phthisis. The Queen of Cambria, from
win lightship, except that in this case the Iquique, was spoken last Friday by the e
message had to vel twelve miles across the sea. It was in order to make these tests that wy, when she signalled that she was in need. of provisions, as there was only one week's
the experiments took place. The results were supply left. Captain Davis, of the Medway,mited and received with the greatest case completely successful. Messages were trans- provided enough beef and four and bread toand-without a hitch our lightshipmen, who fast another month. All of the crew of the have qualified as first-class operators, assisted Queen of Cambria were in good health..
at the experiments. Death of the Earl of Mexborough. The Earl of Mexborough, who was eighty nine years of age, died at Brighton on 17th alto. He was a nobleman of great erudition, and in his young days travelled, extensively, When attambridge he was regarded as one of the first classical scholars of the time, and that too in a circle, that includert many brilliant men: When he became of age Viscount Poll ington, as he then was, became the Conserva tive member for the pocket borough of Gatton.flict was in progress. Four years later he was returned for Pontefract, and, with an interval of three or four years, continued its representative till 1847; he had for the greater init of that period Mr. Monck tan Milnes fafterwards Lori Houghton) as his colleague.
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The Verdict in the "Bullfinch " Affair.
At the end of the Bullfinch inquiry the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the brime diate cause of the disaster and deaths was the breaking of the high-pressure connecting-red of the starboard engine, followed by the break- ing of the head of the cylinder. They found that there was no precise evidence as to the cause of fracture, but they considered the rods not capable of standing the high rate of speed of twenty-nine or thirty knuts per hour, and that the material did not seem to be of uniforms qually. A rider was added giving expression to the sympathy of the jury, with the relatives of the victims and their appreciation of the con duct of Commander Dineley. Mr. Tyack was commended for his heroism in entering the engine-room while it was full of scalding steam, and finally, they recommended that in future a surgeon should be carried during trials.
ROW IN THE TAIPING 'GAOL. · solvers, set off on the warpath in search of the enemy, and encountered him in the weigh
A very serious disturbance took place in the boturband of Stanley Bridge. A battie ensued.nl the other day, says the Perak Pioneer." A The number of casualties among the combat Malay,warder in charge of the kitchen of the ants is not recorded, but the ambulance corps establishment was set upon, as soon as be inade was called upon to render aid to an innocent his appearance in the mining, by a Chinese bystander, who had the misfortune to bevict employed in preparing the food of the bidding good-night to a friend while the can.
prisoners and was brutally assaulted tha kanth stick. The unfortunate warder has handler, as lives at 4, Whitaker-street,
The victim was a young labourer named john reteived serious injuries and is lying in the district hospital in a precarious state. It is said Pintire, He was mistaken for a tne by one the attack was so mad and furious, that it was of this rank and file of the contending armies.doubtful whether he would have escaped with Hello!" said the latter. "here's one of them." his life, but for spine other convicts, who went This mistaken recognition was followed by a to his assistance and amply revenged him. The blow, which filed to reach ite mark, for convict was brought up before the lower count Cuniller "dacked." The luckless wayfarer on Monday and has been remanded. was not destined to escape, however, for the youth who had struck at him, nothing daunted by the failure of his first effort, whipped out the pistol with which he had thoughtfully provided himself and fired two shots. The second found a lodgnient in Chandier's right Equally of course the warriors, decamped. leg. Then, of course, the police arrived. Chandler was removed to the hospital,
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Lord Mexborough was a great bundowner, especially in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His chief seal was at Methley, near Leeds. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of bis father in 1860, and he in turn is succeeded Storm off the Scotch Coast. by his son. Lord Pollington, who has born in A severe storm raged at Fraserburgh on the 1843, and whose mother was the oldest daugh night of 16th ulto. and three hundred craft offer of the third Earl of Orford. the fishing fleet were caught in a west-north: The Death on the Zinal-Bothhorn, west gale. Signals of distress were flared, and the lifeboat was launched. The life-saving Mr. Batimann, who met with his death on apparatus brigade went along the beach to the the Zinal-Rothhorn in the Alps the other day, assistance of the Diadem, of Fuilen. Those on was found with the guide, Autille, lying across board the Diadem, however, owe their lives to him, still tied bỷ the ropes Baumann's skull James Brown, a discharged Dargai hero, who was shattered. The other guide, Tobin, was plunged into the suff and swam out to the ten nr eleven yards behind them; the rope be fishing bout. He made a communication between him and his companion's bad broken. tween the vessel and the shore, and the crowd The accident happened while the three were which had assembled pulled the Diadem letting themselves slide down the mountain. through the surf, thus enabling the crew to be The snow was too soft, and they came landed in safety. The lifeboat and steam tug a bottom of hard ice, whereupon they, together pre both in the bay, trying to render assistance with the snow, sild with enormous rapidity to to a ship the name of which is not yet nown. the edge of the precipice. During those ter rible moments they must have been conscious Another Futile Attempt to Swim of their inevitable fate. They then fell about the back of his head--has entirely. dis 1,000 ft., and a moment later over another pre- dent of the Daily News, that all three were cipice. There is no doubt, writes a correspon dead when at fast they came to a stop of the glacier where they were found. Botli guides were family-men- Mr. Baumann, the fourist, was only, thirty-six years old.
the Channel,
Mr. Frank Holmes, of Birmingham, started at four o'clock, this morning (17th ulto.) from Dover to swim the English Channel. There was a strong northerly wind, and after being in the water a short time Mr. Holmes decided to postpone the attempt until to-morrow, if weather permits.
An exciting swimining contest took place at the popular txthing creek at Portskillion, Douglas, yesterday before fully six thousand spectators, mostly English visitors. The dis tance was 220 yards, and the competitors started from scratch. Y. Matchett, the Liver pool champion, won a splendid race by about a"yard; Hi Kelly, an insular champion, member of the Victoria Swimming Club, was second: J. Clark (Bootle) being third. Only a fow inches divided second and thin, The distance was covered in good time. Mr. JR Corleit was starter, and Messrs. Kelsall, Hartley Sami Saadbrook Jollyesmicals,
The Tea-wrapper Question A new aspect of the great rea-wrapper ques tion was developed at the Richmond police court when the Hoine and Colonial Stores Company scored a victory over the Survey County Laspectar of Weights, and Measures The summons was one taken out by the In epector under the Merchandise, Marks Act, alleging that the defendants had applied a fraudulent description to three quarters of a pound of tea sold by them at their Richmond branch,
The evidence showed that an officer
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Captain Rolfe, of the steamship Yuensang, from Manila, reports :--Fine with fight to mode. -rate-breeze and smooth sea,
Captain Muir, of the steamship Viksangs from Swatow, reports-Light winds and fine weather in Mendoza Island; thence to port had strong N.E. winds with cloudy weather and
rain.
Captain Hall, of the steamship Thales, from Swatow, reports:-Swatow to Hongkong fresh clear. Vessels in Swatos on the 14th inst. EN.E. wind and sea, rough weather, fine and Chefeo, Mecfoo, Phra Chat Chom Klas, Kiang Puk, Pakshan, Dagmas, Hong Leong, and Triumph,
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STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Names.
Front
Due
Orestes...
Singapore
Sept 17th
Singapore
Sept 18th
Singapore
Sept 19th
Singapore
Sept. 20th
Singapore ... Sept 20th
1867-Eleven public gaming houses opened in
Hongkong 1875-Tonquin ports opened to foreign trade. 1880-Serious disturbance at Canton at the French Cathedral; several rioters shot. 1882-Arabi Pasha surrendered. 1884--Typhoon at Yokohama and Tokio. 1887--Chinese transport Haylez driven ashore Glaucus on Pescadores; upwards of 370 lives | Sachsen lost.
Kunsang.. 1898-'urte refused to withdraw troops from Candia. 1894--Pingyang captured by the Japanese.
Servia
Singapore ...... Sept. 2oth Crete. Philipino Congress opens at
Kanagawa Maru...Moj Sept. 20th Malolos, Luzon,
Yawala Maru... Thursday Id.... Sept. 21st China
JJapan
Sept. 21st Kagoshima Matu.. Bombay Sept. 25th
TO-MORROW,
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Saturday, 16th September, 1599. Chinese-12th of Sik moon. of 25th year of
"Kwang-sü. Sun-Riser....
·Sets
skr. 47min. 6kr. min. skr. irmin
7hr. 33min.
Bone
br. 5pwin
High water-forning
Afternoon Low water-Morning
Afternoon ANNIVERSARIES, 1701-James 11, of England died. 18S-New Convention between Germany and
China ratified at Peking. 1884-Public meeting at Shanghai on Franco-
Chinese difficulty,
uyle in which Steansers Expected" and "Projected Sailings" We would Jirect the attention of shipping firms to the are now published in these columns, and in so doing expect fally urge the managers of shipping Erms to give order to their clerks to furnish this office, on the forms already sup plied gratia with the test available Information every day,
*Ship
PROJECTED BAILINGS:
Airlie America Maru. Argyll 1893---M. II. Becher, mining expert, drowned Bayern
at Pahang.
Belgian King 18y6--600 Armenians killed at Kharput, Com-Bengal modore Halland hoisted his pennant Candia on H.M.S. Pictor Emanuel.
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1897- Attempted assassination of President
Din of Mexico. 18-Edict ordering Board of Revenue to
submit proper detailed accounts. SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
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MAILS DUE.
German (Sachsen) tyth inst. Indian (Kumsang) 20th inst. Américaa (China) 21st inst. American (Duric) joth inst. Canadian (Empress of China) 4th pros.
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The P.&O. S. S. Cu's steamer Landia left Singapore for this port on the rath inst. at
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left Kole vir Moji for this port on the 13th The steamer Karagazca MarniEurope Line) and is expected to arrive here on the 20th inst.
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pool passed the Canal 7th September, may be The steamer thanfa fròm Glasgow and Liver.
26th idem. be considered due at Singapore on or about the
The steamier Kaisar fiat Glasgow and Liverpool passed, the Canal on the 7th Sept, about the 26th idem. and may be considered due at Singapore on of
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS.
Kowlona Duck.
sie de Cuba.... Isla de Luzon Carlisle City............... H.M.S. Bonaventure. Feikon Legaspi
Taichion......
D. Juan d'Austria P. C. C. Kino Taiwan-
Destination.
Date.
Sydney, &c..........Oct. 2nd. San Francisco, &cjNov. 14th. New York, &c......Ok, desp. Straits, &c. Nov. 8th San Diego, &c...Oct. 31st. Europe, &c. Sept. 16th. London, &c........Oct; sist London.............Sept. 21st San Diegof&c. San Diego, &e.....Nov. 15th ...Sept. 3oth ......New York
Canton Carlisle City. Carmarthenshire Challenger China
Ok desp. San Francisco, &c.{Oct.3nl City of Peking San Francisco, &c. Nov. 2181" City of Riu
San Francisco, &c.] Coptic
San Francisco, A Coloniasdel
Shanghai Sept, (O Doric
San Francisco, &c.Oct. 10th Emp. China Vancouver, &c......Oct. 25th Emp. India
Nov. 22nd Emp. Japan.....
Sept 27th Futani Maru Thursday Is., &c... Sept. 29th Cinelic
San Francisco, &c. Sept, roth Glenogle Victoria, B.C.......Oct. 17th Hongkong Maru San Francisco, &c. Sept. 23rd Haimun.....
........ Swalow, & Sept. 17th Indrani New York, &c. Sept. 18th
Kosai Maru Kagoshima Maru Kobe & Yokohana Sept. 29th König Albert Straits, &c. ....... Dec. 13th Kanagawa Maru. Marseilles, &c......Sept. 22nd Vladivostock, &c...Sept. 28th i'lien sin Kweiyang Lennox.....
........... Sept. soth Victoria, B.C... Nov. 4th
Monmouthshire. Victoria, C... Oct. 7th Lighting..... Singapore, &c......Sept. 16th Maidzuru Maru...Swatow, &e....... Sept. 17th Nippon Mara San Francisco, &c. Oct. 17th Numberg
Havre, &c. Sept. 27th Ping Suey.. Pisa
New York, &c......Oct. st New York, &c...... Sept. 23rd Preussen Straits, &c.
Prinz Heinrich... Straits, &c. Pyrrhus
London...
¡Marseilles, &c...
Jan. toth
Dec. 27th
Sept. 20th
Riojun Maru....Marseilles, &c...
Sept. 21st
Rosetta
Japan
Sept. 16th
Sachsen
Singapore, &c..
Oct. 11th
Sado Maru
11
t+
Oct. 6th
19
Salvadors
14
Sarpedou
+
Savoia
TI
Serbia Sacria
Cosmopolitan
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PASSED THE CANAL Outward 11th August-Laos, Suvoin. 18th August Amchi Mary, St. Gottardo, 2nd August Abergeldie, Acara, Afghanistan. 5 August-Glaucus, Siam, força, Orestes, Vladimir. 29th August-Andalusia, St. Mary, digoa, Bingo Mara, Omba, Tankin. Sachsen, Odessa, 1st September Dentaric Homeward--1st Sept.-Kamakura Maru, Yangiste.
Shipping.
COROMANDEL, British steamer, 2,783, F. W. Arrivals.
Vihert, RN.R., 151: Sept-Bumbay 30th Aug, and Singapore 15th Sept., Mails and General.-P. & O. 5. S, Co. YUENSANO, British steamer, 1,128, P. II. Rolfe,
R.N.R., 15th Sept-Manila 12th Sept General Jardine, Matheson, & Co. VIRSANG, British steamer, 887, L. A. Muir,
15th Sept-Swatow 14th Sept, Ballast. Jardine. Matheson & Co. THALES, British steaner. 820, T. Hall, 15th
Sept., Swplow 14th Sept., General Douglas, Lapraík & Co.
Sungkiang
Tacomu Taiyuan... Thales Thyria Woosung Yuensang
Yavata Maru
¡Manila
London...
Havre, &c... Havre, &c. Havre, &c.
Manila......
Sept. 16th Oct 3rd
Oct. 7th
Oct. 30th
Oct. 19th
Sept. 220d
Victoria, B.C..... Oct. 1st Port Darwin, &c...Sept 27th ¡Swatow
............ Sept. 18th
San Diego, &c. ...Oct. 15th Hoilo, &c... Sept 16th Japan Sept. 23rd Manila (Direct)...Sept. 18th
NOT HEAVY TO HIM.
The mum on the elephant's back is nothing to the. elephant. The big beast timesn't mind him any more than one of these inmense dray homes you see in Laxlon minds the brass ortuments on his harness. Yet on my back or yours the man would be a fond and, if fastened to leaks wings, the little brages world hold him to the earth.
Thus, we are reninded, my thoughtful friend, that there are no solute fact. The burden diepend on the back. Albeit Samson walked off with the Gate of Gaza, an ordinary garden gate would, I am that weight or heaviness can, as the advertisements sure, prove all that we lead want to lug. It follows
supplied in a variety of styles." tions in alter that at a certain period he was When for exemple, Mr. Sides Challanger meti-
at a stone or two more than rual. 11 horse would "heavy," he does mean that be tipped the scales have felt that, in can be role one; but the truth is that at the fine referred to he was actually under his What is wants to understand is that he was unt an increase of weakness, having practically the of 1890 be began to feel and out of sorts. He sane result. His explanation is that in the early part
kauwing what the trouble was er hour to account for went about in a mazy way, feeling bally without
LOUNGMOON, German steamer, 45. F. proper weight by several pune.
Schulz, 15th Sept Canton 14th Sept.eory to himself; it was not an Increase of weight General Stemssen & Co. KWANG LEE, Chinese steamer, 1,505. R. I.. Lincalu, th Sept,-Canton 14th Septs General--C. M. S. Ñ. Co. TRIUMPH, German steamer, 675. A. Ricke, 13 Sept.-Swatow 14th Sept, General. --Jebsen & Co. WOOSUNG, British steater, 1,040, Dowson, 13th Sept, Canton 15th Sept., General --Butterfield & Swire,
Clearances at the Harbour Offee. Hoikong, Britisk lort steam-launch, for Macao. Karhidate Maru, Japanese str.. for Kutelinotzu, Sandakan, German str., for Kudat. ating, French str., for Haihow. Sunshi, British steam-launch, for Wachow Wang, British str., for Iloilo, Thales, British str., for Swatow.
A Consul on British Sailors. entirely changed during the last thirty years The character of the British sailor has from what it was in the days when steam had in ocean navigation, or even when it was as yet not yet commenced to figure as a serious facin only in its infancy as such, writes Mr. Longford, her Britannic Majesty's Consul at Nagasaki Japan, in a recent report to the Foreign Office. The sailor's old peculiar dress-the blue guernsey, wide trousers, and oilskin cap worn
tinguishable from those worn by a shore appeared and is replaced by, clothes little dis-.
simplicity of character, the jovial good humour mechanic, and with his dress have gone his old. and rollicking sportiveness that made him on his trips ashore at once-a pel-and a-wonder-to-Meteorological-means based on fifteen years", "Sejx, 15, Kachidate Mara, Japanese str., for
NOTAN'DA..
CALENDAR,
SEPTEMBER.
observations to 1808.
Barometer Thermometer Humidity Rainfall
20.834
80..!
..77
8,33
TO-DAY,
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer...... Temperature
'Rainfall
Or state at On date at
to Am. 20.94 79
Humidity....89
4 p.8.
29.88' 81.
Departures.
Sept. 15, Tuhr, British stry for Yokohama. Sept. 15, Chan, German str., for Haiphong. Sept. 15, Joyne, British str., for Shanghai. Sept. 15, Kawachi afar, lap. str. for Kabe, Sept. 15, Sabine Rickmers, Ger. str., for Swatow, Sept. 13, Hermes, Norwegian str., for Canton, Sept. 15, Hating, French str., for Haiphong
Kuchinotza.
Passengers-Arrived.
If
41 had," Mr. Challanger goes on to tell nasty taste in the mouth and no relish for my necals But eat we all must, or starvo; and eat he did. Not waneh, though. At best it was a forced business. Nothing tasted intural or good, and he took just. enough to keep hhu going until the next meal time should come round.
"An even for that I had to suffer," he says, a sense of fulness or distendton at the stomach and "After getting it down I had, alioat imediately, pain at the chest as if a bit of food had lodged there
which couldn't be.”-
Na, nothing loged anywhere. What there was of it went straight down into Mr. Challenger's stomach, where it at once began to ferment and produce a gas which caused the feeling of fulness, while the irritated nerves set up the pain. It was not too much food, but food not digested-food turned sour in the stomach with the whole body behind it failing of the needed stimulus and sourishment of food, wondering what the matter was. It was this state of matters that made him, to use his own words, “heavy,'' droway, and languid.
super, Zouka just an Mt. Challenger felt-heary, Any river in England, after a long_drought in drowy, and lengaid. Aud for an identical reason the lack of necessary supplies. Wait an atmes!, thaght Don't miss the polut."
thou
The main, when it comes, fills the river by a and little channels falling directly into it. Not so as to food and body. Between them in a process a
Per Thales, from Swatow-27 Chinese. Per Fuensang, from Manila-Major and Mrs. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Kaelin, Messrs.chanical, cheinical and vital operation-digestion,
the rest of the community. When on shore he now only too often appears as a loafer, sunk in Sale of Eel Pie Island.
debauchery and sodden with drink, an object of disgust, or at best of compassion, to all who see The freehold property, so well-known to him. He has no yarns to tell, no songs to sing: frequenters of the river as Eel Pic Island, his conversation and thoughts are mainly confin Twickenhaus, was offerent by auction at the ed to his grievances, the is more often than not a Mart the other day Mr. W. B. Mason, of sea lawyer, with a keen sense of what privileges Windsor. At the outset the auctioneer was subjected to a good dent of heckling as to what keen sense of how few and limited are those or rights the law gives itin, hat with an equally would be the liabilities of purchasers in regard rights and privileges, Nolonger the trustful child to and tax, road-making, and sanitary arrange that he was in former days, he feels that he is ments... It was eventually ascertained that the still treated as a child, bound by restrictions and vendors repudiated any liability to redeem the liabilites that would not be tolerated for a year land-tax if any such was assessable, and that in any other trade. life and liable for the the buyers of the land would have to be slightest breach of these restrictions to the responsible for making ruda-us-well as for trement and penalties of a exiguinal. Unce com attending to the sanitary and other requirements mitted to the sea life, other openings are practi-Chinese-11th of 8th woon of 25th year of Hassein and A. D. Billimonia. From Singa authorities. The island was first offered as a of the Thames Conservators and the local cally closed to him, and for better or worse he is bound to it as long as he lives. Its hardship, whole, comprising nearly four acres, at an upsel its rapid changes of climate with total absence price of £5,000, but there being nu bid, the of provisions for adapting himself to the property was then submitted in lots. The changes, render his life comparatively short, freehold fully-licensed house known as Eel Pie
but it is no longer a merry one. Now and then Island Hotel, and grounds, with a frontage of 248 feet to the river, and 82 feet in the back
a drunken spree, a short space of liberty, lawful or unlawful; if the latter, enjoyed only as a watery which was said to be doing a trade of hunted fugitive and purchased by the sacrifice roo a week in the summer months, was put of what it has taken months of hard and bidding was knocked down for 3,200. The spot, and the inevitable end is, if not an early 1843-Revolution in the Punjab. remainder of the island was then put up and death, too often the workhouse.
1859-Sir J.-K. Brunol died.--
in at £2,000 and after a short but spirited dangerous work to earn, is its sole right.
Mark you that, and act accordingly. Whether in the sky or on the ground water in water-the same thing. Bat food and body are not the same thing. The first must be traiminuted into the second by the. miracle called digestion for of all God's ways in nature none is more awful, mure amazing, more gw, And, when inpoled or overborne, nons which punishes the interference inore certainly and wwift,
H. D. Wilcos, U.S.N., W. Liebe, B. Braham, J. Strines, E. Edelman, A. Holzberg, Mrs. Cuppermann, P. Cowen, Barrett, Garfield, T. Guerra, Mrs. Stefania Amaller, child and servant, Vicenta Mane Catalino de Jesus, Messrs. Kaplin, M. Blum, 5, Sehanimsky, Funck, P. Donabne, J. A. Jahnke, Isakower, Sternberg, D. Gunberg, M. Hechier, A. Van- stein, V. Miligoff, S. Falkenflick, 7 Distressed -Soamen-and- 70 Chinese -
work Per Coromandel, for Hongkong from London Mr. Beacce. From Bumbay-Mr. A. G. lipore Messrs R. ( Snyder, A Chotit plenty
Tomed, Floos Van Amstel, Airs. d'Oliveira bhr. "qmin zhr. 48min.
Lopes andchild, Mrs. Carlyle, Messrs. McGhee, High water-Morning-
Afternoon..... 7hr. Zamin.
Chisolin and servant, Marshall and servant, Low water-Morning okr. Smin.
See Seng Chee, Bok Poky Capt. Carlyle, Mr. Afternoon ...zohr. zymin,
Gutierrez and Chinese Assistant... For Yoko- hama from Bombay-Mr. and Mrs. F. Pri- ANNIVERSARIES.
mann. From Colombo--Mr. F. L. Aphan.
Friday, 15th September, 1899.
Kwang-sil. Sun-Nix Sels
1841-British barque d'ife wrecked in Formosa: For Shanghai from London-Miss Holmes,
Channel
Mesars, S. H. Barr, A. Warren L. Giles, R, O Brury, Rohreke, and Col.. Dopward From -Brindisi Mr R=Remold,
got lie or a slespy" struer our friend and awoke in the morning tirel out, as after a hard day's work. Presently I could hardly walk, for vety. weakness, and from time to time had to give up.
altogether
ther. No medic helped me and After threa wretched years of this, Mr. Bird of Tallistorn, told my wife pfaut Mother Seigel's Sprop and through her, advised me to try it. She said afinent was indigestion and the Syrup would curs li. And it did. One bottle greatly relieved me, cat freely, and food agreet with me. I persevered with the remedy and got strong as ever. All the pala and honvincia left and and X-÷falt lightg mag energetic, althogk I havo; gained faweight (Signed), ByDREX GHALLANGER, Gladstone VIG
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