thoroughly loyal, yet lived in an environment of lukewarm Dutch, which rendered cothusiasm somewhat difficult. The sight of the splendid corps from the sister Colonies has inspired a feeling which can never be forgotten, and which could bu read in the visible emotion and frenzied enthusiasm mixed with gratituale. Never, perhaps, in the history of the Empire has so fupasing a sign of close union as the presence of the Colonists, who are here from all quarters to lielp a sister Colony in trouble, been wimessed. This is the view taken by the Cape Colonists. And not only have the m perial troops been accorded a great reception but the heart of the Colony has been ally touched by the outward and visible sign of the Empire's magnificent resourers aforded by the arrival of the Colonial contingents,—Router.
Experiences of wounded Officers.
LONDON, December 6th.
The 1. and O, steamer Sumatra, with Goy ernment invalids from the Cape for Landon, was berthed in the Royal Albigri Docks yester day alteragón. The veskel, one of the chartered transports, carried 250 wounded from Durban to Cape town, and her complement on the voy, age home consisted mainly of men who had been discharged from Wynberg ospital to afford accommodation to those brought down from the front. The Sumaire reached the Tia imes with 131, including 45 women and 68 children, and 2 officers-Lieutenant Manley, of the 1st Battery Field Artillery, and Captain Forbes, of the Imperial Light House. Ther two officers were the only wounded on boarel. Lieutenant Manley (says the Press Association) conneously consented to be interviewed in the saloon. He had a shield over the right eye, and bore evidence of the severity of his sufferings in a star-shaped yound over the right temple, scarcely yet heated, and certain to fares a per manent disfigurement. The gallant: fficer said -I was wounded by the barsting of the Beer shell at the beginning of the action at Elands laagte. My fist sensation was that I had been strick on the head by a blow from a stick. The splinter went through the khaki helmet I am now wearing. This occurred belure our gun had fired pnt. The action began at three in the afternoon, and I was knockcil over half an hour afterwards Other Foer shells had fallen within a very short distance, Im they had not struck oil. I was for the moment sumued, but picked myself up and then found two of my men on the ground.. I went on till the close of the engagement, The shelf by which I was strack was fired at four thousand two hundred yards, and it was one of the Boer guns we silenced later on,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1900.
MURDER.
NETHERLANDS INDIA.
PETROLEUM,
Another murder, the third this year in the district, has been committed in the Semantan The petroleum trade in Langkat is said to says the Pelaang correspondent of the Straits be going ahead. Three ventures-the Royal, Times. Awang Akil, hitherto a harmless the Sumatra Petroleum, and the Langkat maniac, suddenly armed himself with spear and Agricultural and Mining Companies have kris and constituted himself a terror. alike to refineries at work in that quarter. The Sumatra his household and to the entire kampong of Petroleum Company has its works on the Dangan. At first he seemed to be unreasonably Gelang River. At the end of November, this jealous of his wife, whom he wanted to seclude Company shipped its first consigment of bulk as much as possible, and he led the poor woman oil, which went in steamer alaban from The Langkat a life of ceaseless terror before he killed her Gebang to Bangkok direct. three days later. Police were sent to effect his Company has its refinery at Rantau Panjang. arrest, but no overt attempt at force was made It has bought a steamer, the Siak, and ships by them for fear of the madhuan barming his its oil by her in tins to Singapore. It has also wife. At length, Awang Akil made up his chartered another steamer, the Ho Leong, AS mind to go downstream to Kuala Semantan ply between Langkat and Singapore. The to see the District Officer. He got into a boatRoyal Company has not fured very well latterly with his wife, but, while just opposite the Police It had bored for oil tu new concessions with It then turned to its old con- Station at Temerloh, he apparently changed slight success. his mind, and, in broad daylight and in full cession and struck a new reservoir of dil near view of people on both banks of the river. Telaga Said at a depth of eleven hundred feet. stabbed his wife to death in the boat. The This oil-field ties below the oil-field which, after years of productiveness, began to fail Police, who had been sent in Bangau to arrest him, were following in another boat, which was after June 1898. It is eported, that the new overturned in the resulting excitement of the well yields one then and barrels a day. The moment. Awang Akil took the chance and Company's shares at Amsterdam rose rapidly made good his escape to the opposite bank of the moment the good news became known This company is also prospecting further up the river. All subsequent efforts to arrest himn
the coast, at Perlak and Edi. It is said that, have proved fruitless. He is still lurking in the
these districts abound in rich oil-fields. The jungie, fully armed.
Company's local manager will himself direct operations at Perlak.-S. F. Press.
.PRINCE HENRY,
Prince Henry of Prussia arrived at Bangkok on the 17th ulto. and was received with the honours befitting his high rank. Prince Henry is returning, on all of the Emperor of Germany, the visit which the King of Siam paid to Potsdam in 97. The King heartily welcomed the Prince at the Palace In the evening the Prince dired with the King and Queen. On the 19, after sight-seeing, the Prince was to open a bridge at Bangkok, the materials for which had been brought from Geramy. The found, of festivities in the Prince's honour was expected to last until the 24th alto.
JAPANESE TORPEDO-BOAT.
The Japanese tarpeilo-bont. Akebona, 510 tons, 6009 herse-power, and carrying $4 crew arrived at Singapore on 26th úkimo. The Akcbona was latilt in London, and left there on the 16th Sept.. but whilst coming drough the Suez Canal she lost her port propeller. She will go into durk at Singapore for repairs. Captain H. Kawase is in command, and the Akebonn was to continue her journey to Japan about Jan. 6th. The Akebona has the reputa tion of being the fastest torpedo-boat in the world. She did 34,159 knots at her speed trials. • .
Did you find the Boer shells burst well? They burst all right, but we found that the enciny did not understand the time fnac. As a consequence their shells generally burst on the ground, and so did the hell by which was struck. My gon was peting into position when I had the il-luck of being knocked over before firing a shot, hat I went on till dusk, quite three and a half hours. When it was all. over we marched down the hill to find water i for our horses, I felt little till thus days after, although hard sustained concussion of the GERMAN SYNDICATE BUYS FIFTEEN BRITISH
brain, and must have been ahtest off my head, when I was put into the train for Ladysmith, ! The garrison was quite safe va the ad Seyna ber, and had plenty of states.
ANOTHER DEAL IN SHIPPING.
STEAMERS.
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We learn that another big shipping transac tim has just been carried out. The Genuan Replying to a question as to his intentions, 1 syndicate who some months back bought Lieutenant Manley erid- with to get hichonan lines of the "Blue-funnel "steamers of best bet. I hear that a sixth division is going gut, and I intend to volunteer as sont as I get the chance. It was very hard tick to be in- valided at the start, but i had to obey anders,
Talking with a l'entral News representative for a few minutes, Captain Fothes said- The Elandslagte fight was the heaviest continous fre British trougs have been under for same time. Had the enemy directed his aim more accurately our hisses must have been much heavier. The Boers otherwise took every advantage of their position. Captain Forbes was wounded by oneraf Colonel Schiel's corps, which, evidently believing that the Boer fire had accomplished the greater part of the defeat of the British, were hurrying up to complete the work. With two exceptions--Colonel Schiet being one-all that corps were killed. As near as a hundred yards they stood up and took deliberate aim at the British, Captain Forbes had to remain on the battlefield fill eleven at night, but he says the work of taking away the wounded was as expeditiously carried out as pos- sible. He believes that the field dressing spTHE STATIONMASTER'S WISDOM.
Manshield & Co. have purchased the entire fleet of the Scottish Oriental Steamship Com- pay, comprising thirteen steamers and two now building. The Feattish Oriental ships run between Hongkong und Bangkok, and are as follows:-Mongku, tonnage 859; Kong Beng, 862; Tai Chow, 862; Phra Cham Kiao, Lot 2; Phra Chula Chow Klan, 1,012; Phra Yang, 1921 Devawongse, 1,057 ; Chow Fa, 1955; Look Soky 1,020; Machew, 995; Kenng Wai, 1,415; Chow Tai, 1,115; Wong Koi, 115. This fleet represents a tonnage of 13,000, and over and above this there are two steamers building which have also been bought by the German Syndicate. It is definitely stated, on the strength of a telegram received from Germany, that though these steamers, under their new management, will fly the German flag, the captains, officers, and engineers will be at liberty to renain in their respective steamers so long as they desire to do so.--Straits Times.
AN INCIDENT OF ELANDSLAAGTE..
AN AMERICAN VIEW OF OUR DIFFERENCES.
This is how an fowa paper puts the case- The Boer says This is our country. We snatched it fret the savages. We made farm
land of the wilderness.
The Briton Says--We helped you to fight the Kaffis. We developed the mines and made you rich. We built the cities.
Boer:You want it because of the gold and diamonds.
Briton: We seek mily to protect bur subjects. in the levitimate pursuits.
Liner --You deinand equal franchise. This would mean political estiljotion for us..
Briton-We pay nine-tenths of the taxes, Don't we deserve a vote? The majority ought
INDIA AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
The carving for the Indian tea-house at the Paris Exhibition has now been despatched from Calcutta via Bombay. The departure of the remainder of the consignments for the Indian Court is only delayed for want of the French custom house labels which were to be supplied through the Home Committee in London. The work has been carried through with remarkable celerity by the Indian Forest Department, which, deserves much credit in the matter...
FRENCH CABLE IN THE FAR DAST.
The
Bonds
AGENDA,
TO-DAY.
of the Imperial Kwangtung Loan of
1894 ready for issue.
TO-MORROW,
Noon-Imperial Cerman Mail Line steamer Preussen leaves, with mails, for Bremen and Hamborg. Noon-Auction sale of condemned stores by Hughes and Rough, Saval yard. Cargo éx Tientsin subject to rent. 9p-Repeat concert at City Hall, in aid of
the S. African Fund.
B.K.V.C. ORDERS.
5.30 p.m.- Company and Cabine Drill for the
Recruits of all units. 5.30p.m.-" D→Infantry Company, Company.
and Arm Drill. 6 p.m.-"E" Engineer Company Drill at
Heal-quarters. 6 pm-Band Practice for whenrolled Drum-
After the Germans, the French, instructed by the experience of the war in South Africa, are anxious to have cables of their own. council superior of the French settlements of Indo-China has just decided to lay a cable from Saigon to Port Arthur, to connect with the Siberian overland wire, the cost of the cable being burne entirely by the colony. This || 6 10 7 pm--Banal, extension, it is considered, must lead to com- petitive routes between Europe and India, Burma, Penang, and Manila, and so to a reduction of the present high charges.
MEN-OR SHEEP?
As an example of his training in observation, Colonel Baden-Powell tells of how, he won a bet when riding with the staff at the Berkshire manturres. It was a misty day, and an a neighbouring hill were seen four panties, which, one officer said, were squadrons of cavalry, and another offered to bet were guns. For himself, he saw an individual ctoss over from one party to the next, which made him willing to het that they were sheep. An orderly was seat to see, and sheep they proved to be. Baden-Powell, of course, had trained himself to identify distant objects as well as in the art of deduction.
MELINITE AND LYDDITE.
Melinite and lyddite, althoughi not absolutely identical, says the British Medical Journal, are so for all practical purposes; and the former is largely used in continental armies. The shells now being used by the Beers in their field guns are loaded with melimite. If accur Boer-By the conventions of 1884 you proately fred these shells would, if they exploded, mised never to interfere in our internal govern inflict very severe losses upon our men, but by ment. Now yun ignum those conventions. a fortunate coincidence these shells although Briton: Conditions have changed. Your not infrequently directed with accuracy by the German artillerists now serving with the lloers, rule has become tyrannical Yon rab us on
do not as a rule burst. every hund.
to rule.
Boer-We want no English amongst our citizens. You are immoral and vicious. You would not make good burghers,
BritonNe nation has the right to isolate itself in a land full of gold and diamonds. You are only half civilised. You are religions bigots
Boer:--If our laws please you not, you are free to go away!
Briton-We are here to stay.
THE SITUATION AS VIEWED-
AT HOME,
The Pioneer correspondent from London in a telegram, dated the gth, says -
The Stock Exchange opened steadily yester. day, but large sales in important securities hroughi Consols lower than they have been for the last six years, at present the figure being
Buer:-- 14 God wills it, we will fight to the below 99. death.
Briton So will we. Rher-Remeraber Majuba Hill. Briton-We do.
THE KING'S OWN RESERVISTS.
Several hundred Reservists of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regt. left Lancaster by special train on the afternoon of the 23rd Nov, Col. Fitzherbert, addressing the men at Bower- ham Barracks, announced that one of their old officers had sent a cheque for £100 for the Reservists' families. He assured them that their families would be well looked after in Brigade was going to the front, and, headed by their absence. He was glad the Lancashire the King's Own, he believed it would show what Lancashire could do, if it came to a bayonet charge, the King's Own would show the way as well as the Highlanders and Loyal North Lancashire Regi. had done. The match or the Reservists was marked by unbounded enthusiasm on the part of the townspeople.
THE INDISPENSABLE "FOUR."
Major-General Hutton, The Commandant of the forces in Canada, in recently addressing the citizen soldiers at the Vancouver Opera House, which is utilized as a drill hall, paid them a high compliment for their soldierly bearing. According to General Hunton, a well-rimmed moustache, chese-cropped hair, a high sease of honour, and a deep rooted devotion to duty ought to be the chief characteristics of of the British citizen soldier.
plied to each min must have saved hundreds of lives. Hoer farmhouses and cottages were utilised for temporary hospitals. Captain Forbes and Colonel Schiel net in one of these. The main Boer body were evidently posted Calone! Schiel seemed very surprised that heat the Elandslagte railway station, should have been heatch. Speaking of the death of Colonel Chisholio, d'aptain Forbes said when he was first hit the Colonel was assisting a wounded corporal to sit down. Although | naturally, alarmed the Boers, for they camelarly careful to attend to the firm, if possible]. asked to take cover, the Colonel refused, and pouring out like bees, leaving the prisoners
The Natal Field Artillery let drive at the station buildings, and put one shell right into the goods shed. This seems to have, very
[The fresh-joined subalter will be particu-
The Paris operators also on the Kafür mar- let discontinued their purchases with the result there was a slump in Africans and general uneasiness prevails.
The appointments of Lords Roberts and Kitchener have met with universal approval in the press both at home and abroad. Everyone testifies to Lord Roberts's popularity in the army and Lord Kitchener's great powers of organisation.
The American papers agree that Eugland is prepared for every eventuality. They say:
She stood by us last year. We will stand by her now!
The German papers are amazed at the great valour displayed by our officers and men.
They prophesy, that the Boer combination of the strategical offensive with the tactical defen- sive must universally revolutionise military instructions.
The Paris papers recognize that the Wolseley sclinal has been completely superseded.
The military critics in London applaud the astuteness, of governinent in covering the appointment of Lord Kitchener by that of Lord Roberts, thus leaving powerful interests unruffled. The authorities have long recog nized the necessity of appointing an assistant to General Buller, but the latter, after weighing the claims of Lord Kitchener and Sir Francis Grenfell, shelved the matter, whereupon the I believe Ford Kitchener, authorities moved. whose influence, at Hatfield is enormous, urgently sought a command in the present campaign,
General Buller wires to-day in a reassuring: strain, though the heat is excessive and the scarcity of water compells him to remain on the bank of the river.
"The Eastern Telegraph Company reports a
Delagna cable.
mers.
THURSDAY, 17th.
Cargo ex Masabu Maru subject to rent. 1 p.m.-Auction Sale Crown Leasehold pro-
perty, on the premises (vide advt),
ILK.V.C. ORDERS
4.30 p.m.--Range Finding Class, 5.30 pm- Trumpeter's Class. 1.30 pm.-B. Company Drill at, Kowloon
Docks,
3-39 pun.--“A” » 13" and "C" Machine Gun Company Drill at East Point.
FRIDAY, 1205.
N. P. R. steamer Safit frene for Victoria B.C.
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and Tacoma, Ocean Steamship. Ch's steamer Dardanus
"Meaves for Liverpool (lirect). p.m.—Australian Lloyds steurier trisela leaves
tor Fiamme and Frieste.
HRY.C. ORDERS.
5.30 p.m.-Sigilling at Head-quarters -
SATURDAY, 1342
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(About) 1. & O. steamer Mazagoa leave's for
London.
Cargo ex Glengarry subject to rent, Cargo ex Putelkt subject to rent. Noon--The Third Ordinary Meeting of Share. holders in the China Provident Loan and Mortgage Co. at No. 9 Praya Central.
N. Y. K. steamer Inaba Aaru leaves for
Europe.
MONDAY, 15th.
Non-China Navigation steamer Tatyttun leaves for Sydney Melbourne,
1 pm.-M. & M. steane Ernest Simons, with
mails, leaves for Europe. p.m.--Ninth Ordinary Meeting of the Wan- chai Warehouse and Storage Co. Ltd. at No. 5 Queen's Road, Central
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Fooctow, British steamer, 1,253, H. Smale, 9th Jan-Chinkiang 5th Jan, Rico, Nuts and Oil-Butterfield Swire.
Clearanose at the Harbour Office. Irene, Chinese sir, for Swatow, Saikong, British str., for Samsui. Swatow, German str., for Touron,
tuping, Chinese str., for Shanghai.
Ping, Chinese steam-launch, for Wuchow. Glengarry, British str., for Shanghai. Priyang, German str., for Haiphong. Diomed, British sto, for Singapore. Thales, British str., for Swatow. Pab Kong, British str., for Canton. Sabine Rickmers, British str., for Swatow. Catherine Apear, British str., for Singapore. trinke Maru, Japanese str, for Nagasaki. Kai Lan, British steam-launch, for Macão
Departures.
Jan. 9, Hatching, British str., for Swatow. Jan. 9, City of Dublin, Brit, str., for Shanghai, Jan. 9, Birchtor, British str., for Shanghai. Jan. 9, Niangnan, Chinese sto, for Chinkiang. Jan. 9, Apenrade, Gennan sir, for Iaiphong. Jan. 9. Swatow, German str., for Quinhon. Jan. 9. taping, Chinese str., for Shanghai. Jan, 9; Diomed, British str., for Singapore. Jan. 9. Catherine Apcar, British steamer, for:
Calcutta.
Passengers-Arrived.
Per Preussen, for Hongkong from Yokohame --Miss E. Watkins, Messrs. Lamadrid, M. Casian and Notwaitch. From Kole-Mrs. and Miss Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, Messrs, W. G. Robinson, Capt. R. Sulzer, Mr. J. Miller, and Mrs. Robinson's valet and maid. From Nagasaki-Mrs. Measor and child, Mr. and Mrs. Hetson and a children. From Shanghai-Miss E. Kulle, Mrs, H. Marc, Dr. Eichheim, Mr. H. Tomkins, Dr. Sauger, Messrs, K. Hayakawa, K. Ohta, A. Roese, and Mrs. I.. Dawson and children. For Singa pore from Shanghai-Messrs. Kock and G. Spate. For Port Said from Nagasaki-Capt. T. Kossovich. For Genoa from Yokohama Mr. and Mrs. J. Scheckennofer, and Mr. A. Bianchi. From Kobu--Licut, P. Koziell and Servant. From Shanghai-Mr. and Mrs. Major von Falkenhayn and child, Miss Teruzzi, Captains Deimiling, J. Hernan and G. Heilmann. For Southampton, from Yokohama Mr. A. Boyle. For Bremen from Yokohama -Dr. P. Stichel. From Shanghai--Messrs. F. Lembke and E. Labes.
Per Taisung, from Shanghai-Alt. D. Más, latosh, and 54 Chinese.
STEAMERS EXPECTED.
Pue.
Numes.
Frain.
Gisela
| Coptic.
Stentor
Moji... Shanghai Singapore
To-morrow
Jan. 11th
an. 11th
Singapore Moji..
an. 12th
Jan. 12th
Singapore
Jan. 14th
Japan
Jan. 15th
Singapore
Jan. 15th
Singapore
Jan. 16th
JJepan
Jan. 17th
Sachsen' Inaba Maru
Trieste.
4 p.m.--N. Y. K. steamer A'inshia Maru'enves for Victoria B.C. and Seattle. N. . H. A. steamer Suria leaves for Havre
and Hambur Cargo ex Birchtor subject to rent. About C. & O. steaner Strathgyle for San Indus
Diego.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUR.
American (Coptic) 11th inst. Cerman (Sachsen) 12th inst. American (Onsang) 15th inst, French (Indus) tốth inst." American (America Mart) 17th inst. Tacoma (Tacoma) 18th inst. English (Chusan) igth inst. Canadian (Empress of India) 22nd insi.
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The P & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Chusan left Bombay for this port yesterday afternoon.
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The M. M. Go's steamer. fodus with the next French mail, will leave Singapore (o-day, at is o'clock, for this port de Saigon.
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The M. S. S. Cal's Chartered steamier Onsang with mails &c. left Yokohama via Kobe for this port yesterday morning the 8th instant.
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Onsang.. Mike Mara
America Maru
Facoma
Bisague Kasuga Maru
Tacoma Bombay
Jan. 13th Jan. 18th Thursday It...Jan. 18th Chusan...... ....Bombay..... Jan. 19th Empress of India.. Vancouver Jan. 22nd Teenkai.....London ..........Feb. 19t
We world direct the attention of shipping frms to the style in which Steamers Expectant Projected Sailings" are now published in these zabumus, nest in su đạing respect. fully urge the managers of shipping firms to give orders to their clerke to furnish this office, pa the forms already sup plied grath with the latest available Informilon every day.
Ship
Abergellie Afrili..
Antenor
PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Destination
Datt.
Portland, &c. .....Jan. 27th New York (Qk, desp. San Francisco, &c. Feb. 10th Havre, &c. ........|Jan. 18th
¦ Algoa... Ambria America Maru...San Francisco, &c.Jan. 27th
London.
Jan. 23rd San Diege, &c. ... Feb. 1st Straits, &c. .........Mar 7th
Shanghai,....................... Jan. 20th Louhiny Jan, 25th ..Victoria, B.C.................jan, zoth Shanghai, & Jan. 15th
Beinn King Belgian Bengal Bombay Breconshire
The N. Y. Ki's steamer Miike Maru - Canton (Bombay Ling) left Singapore for this port to- | Carlisle City..........San ijiego, &c. ...Jan. 25th day (9th inst.) and is expected to arrive here on Carmarthenshire. the 15th inst.
China City of Rio Coptic
soon afterwards he was again hit, the wound, whom they had taken from the captured trang | THE PRISONERS AT PRETORIA. cyclone at Mozambique has impaired theilgon with mails &c. which left hence Now. Corrie
this time proving fatal.
A Vryburg Missionary's Letter. A letter luas been received by the Colonial Missionary Society from the Rev. Richard Olver, at Vryburg. He writes For three weeks we have been cut off froui the outside world. No news either by paper, letter, o37 telegraph has reached us. At the present nu ment a thousand Buers are in the town. We have, however, up to the present my reason 10 complain of the manner in which we have been -treated. What is in the future for us I know not. A large number of our people have left town. This you will see when I tell you that if one week our offerings dropped from 3 to 0. That there is a very hard and
very trying time Our food supply is before us 1 am quite sure, very limited. Already provisions have gone up two or three hundred per cent, and in a week they will be much higher. There is no possi. bility of getting supplies, as the line is broken. up both north and south." Mr. Olver appeals to the directors of the Society for help, but feels sure that in a few months the calamity will have passert.
FRANCE'S COMMERCIAL SUICIDE IN THE FAR EAST.
If official France were half as sensible as commercial France, Indo-China would long ere now have been in a lively ferment of prosperity, A French colonial journal looking with ex- cusable longing at the commercial statistics, of Hongkong has thisThe commerce of Hongkong is enormous: even in 1895 it had risen to G10,720,278 millions of francs, an amount representing 41 per cent of the total commercial movement of China. "difference with our ports of Indo-China 1 With- out doubt the1 fart must be taken into account that the English preceded us in the Far East by a score of years, and that the occupation of Tonquin is of recent date. But what a differ- ence in the methods of colonisation!
What a
to escape. The one man, however, they had evidently set their mark on was the station-
CALCUTTA, December 2151, master. They left a man in charge of this
A letter from an officer of the Gloucesters official with instructions to shoot him, but when
received here fron Pretoria ruus-We the Boer came to consider about carrying out the deadly instructions, he found that he had offered to get up a polo team here but they said no ammunition. He appealed to the station. they would not care for us to be mounted. master for a way out of the difficulty, and the. The colonel of the 18th Hussars and some stationcaster, with a reasonableness of suggest their officers are here, as well as representa tion born of the exacting position in which he lives of the Irish Fusiliers, King's Royal Rifles and the Dublin Fusiliers, so we make up a big had been placed, said. "The best,thing you
small iness, can do is to hide that rifle and come with me party of about fifty. We run and have some dinner." The rifle was accord- supplementing our rations with delicacies, such as jam and vegetables. Our letters are subject ingly hidden; and the stationmaster was free to
to the censorship of somebody, so I can give live on and be merry,
you no account yet of our show. Altogether it was full of startling and quaint incidents, 1 hope this will arrive and if you can write address your letter to Pretoria e Delagon Bay. Captain Duncan is very well. He was only slightly wounded. We have been well treated. Rangoon Times.
THE SIKHS WHO DIED AT ·
SARAGHERI.
It was recently decided to demolish the ruins of the fort at Saragheri on the Sammana Range, and to use the stones for the erection of a cairn on the site of the former post. In accordance with the wishes of the C. R. E. at Fort Lock- hart a party of Sikhs, belonging to No. 1 Kohat Mountain Battery, was sent out on the 5th ulte, to search the ruins for the remains of the little garrison furnished by the 36th Sikhs which perished there just two years ago. They recovered fifteen complete skeletons, which were brought back to the camp and cremated on the following day with due ceremony, in accordance with the rites of the Sikh religion. bracelets invariably worn by Sikhs were missing Na ather relics were found, and even the iron from which it is evident that the bodies must have been completely stripped before the walls were pulled down upon them by the enemy.
"THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR.”.
Says a mail paper: A note of chivalry is being imported into the South African ́ght Horse, the new corps which is being formed of colonials. The horsemen will, as did the knights of old, wear ladies favours in their hats.
THE GERMAN DREYFUS CASE.
A rather strange case has happened at the fortified city and military depot, Spandau, sixteen miles from Berlin. It appears that an
tillery subaltern oficer of the name of Eckmann, who was employed at the gun factory, has been arrested on suspicion of high treason. About a fortnight ago a strange package wrapped up in linen was discovered in circumstances which involved the prisoner. It was delivered to the authorities, when it was of shot, and after the discovery Eckmann was found that it contained a newly invented sort missing. He, however, was detected a few days later on and was arrested. It is said that
several labourers are involved in the matter.
FLOODS IN BENTONG. The north-east monsoons have opened the ball by flooding the country and nearly wiping Bentong out of existence, writes a correspon dent to the Afalay Mail. All Towkay Lok Yow's mines were flooded cut last werk; the vegetable gardens and squatters' houses, together with
With our neighbours across the Channel un- limited commercial liberty with us customs duties De fiscalité) à outrance, legions of custom house officers applying complicated regulations The corps and adopted as a distinguishing all the pigs on the banks of the Bentong river, of which they understand nothing. We exort – mark a headgear similar to that won by the i were steam swept, while the smilies of some of ourselves to drive shippiop away, we joultiply New South Wales Lancers-and-adorned with the mines had to take shelter on higher grounds,
• obstacles against the entry and export of er plages of black cock's feathers. The Cape as thier kongsi houses were immersed up to chandise, low is it possible to be astonished, town stores were unequal to supply the number the caves. No lives, however, were lost, nor was after all that, at the situation of our Indo of plumes required. The Indies came to the any damage done to the new town. The brid- Chlacso settlements, and at the little liking rescue, taking from their own hats the feathers,ges on the road to the mines were washed away, strangers display for frequenting them. Hong which are very fashionable here just now, and and communication is only kept up by boats kong attracts them in a very different way placing them in the hats of these modern which ferry passengers and goods accross the -S. F. Presse
knights.
rivers, at which there are several.
Twenty-one transports are due at Cape Town before the 18th January.
NOTANDA.
CALENDARL.
JANUARY, Meteorological means låsest on fifteen years' '
observations to 1893.
Barometer. Thermometer Humidity Rainfall
WEATHER REPORT.
Barometer.... Temperature Humidity Rainfall.
-30.159
597 .74
1.545
TO-DAY.
Co dale at
Cha date 1
10.1
4
30.23
30.10
48
53
30
49
TO-DAY
Tuseday, 9th January, 1900.
Kwang-sil. Chinese 9th of 12th moon of 25th year of
Sun-Rises ...... Sels
6hr, 43min. 541. 28min. 3hr. 3min. 3hr. 3Stain. "Shr. 33rain. Afternoon tohr. 5min. ANNIVERSARIES.
High water-Aforaing ...
Afternoon Low water-Morning.....
1860-Murder of Mr. Holworthy at the Peak. Marriage of the Mikado. 1873--Emperor Napoleon died at Chiselhurst, 1888-Admiralty Deck: at Kowloon first opened. 1898-River steamer Alangning sunk at
Shanghai,
TOMORROW. Wednesday, roth January, 1900. Chinese-roth of 12th moon of 25th year of
Kwang-si Sun-Kises
Sets
im 6hr, quin. shr. 30min. High water-Afternoon ghr. 45min.
Morning:
hr. 34min. Low Water-Afternoon ... ghr. zymin,
Morning Enou ANNIVERSARIES.
1839-The Centon-authorities forbid the cons veyance of opium between Lintin and Whanipoa. 1840-Penny Post instituted.
The P. M. S. S. Co.'s chartered steamer
23rd for San Francisco via Macao, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu, arrived at her desti. nation on the 7th inst.
K
*
Doric
San Diego, &c. ...Feb. isth San Francisco, & Mar. 3rd San Francisco, &c. Mar, 27th San Francisco, &c. jan. 20th Lomion.........................................Jan. 31st San Francisco, &c. Mar. toth Sydney, &c. Jani 27th, Vancouver, &c...... Jan. 17th
Eastero Emp. China 'Emp. India
Feb. 14th Mar. 14th The T. K. K. steamer America Maru with Emp Japan
Esmeralda Manila (Direct) ...Jan. 13th mails &c. from San Francisco to the 21st uit Gaelic
San Francisco,&c. Feb. 13th Honolulu, has arrived at Yokohama, and Gisela
Singapore, &c......Jan. 17th will leaves for this port to-morrow morning, Hamburg Straits, &c. ... May 16th 7 Inland Sea, Kobe, Nagasaki and Shanghai. Holsatia Havre, &c. ........ Feb. 8th
Hongkong MuruSan Francisco, &c. Feb, 22nd ́ Inala Mara.....Marseilles, &c......Jan. 14th Indrave
New York Jan. 18th Kamakura Marú. Marseilles, &c... Jan. 26th Samarang, &c.... Jan. 17th Straits, &c. Kinshin Maru ...Victoria, B.C.
וי
+1
Duck.
HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA BOCK RETURNS,
at Kowloon Isla de Cuba....... Isla de Luzeul ............... HIGMS.Hiertha... HLGMS, Gefion... HMLS. Algering........ Strathiyle.... Trafalgar.
Porgan
Kinshiu Maru......
D. Juan d'Austria
Ménmair
Daphne.
Cosmopolitan
PASSED THE CANAL. Ontward th December-Morten, Sten-
Kansu
Karlsruhe
Konig Albert ...Straits, &c. Loongsang
Massilia...........
Jan. 24th
Jan. 15th
¡April 4th
Manila....
Jan. Toth-
Europe, &c.
Jan. 20th
Jan. 13th
Menelaus.......London..
Feb. &th
Oldenburg Straits, &c.
Mazagon ..... London.
Nippon Maro San Francisco, &c. Mar. 20th
Preussen Struts, &c. Prinz Heinrich.. Straits, &c. Queen Eleanor... New York... Rohilla
............ Japan Sachsen..... Straits, &c.
Sarnia
Feb. 11st:
Jan, oth
May 30th
Feb. Ist
fan, zoth
Feb. 7th
Victoria, B.C. [Hayre, &c. Havre, &c. San Diego, &c.
Jan, 12th
Jan. 15th.
Feb. th.
Jan, 15th
Straits; &c.
Mar. 21st
Victoria, BC
Jan. 30th
Tamsui.Mara
Thales Trieste
Trocas
Tsinant
for 15th December-Kherson 19th Decem ber-Canton, Hyson, Langbank, · Aevius, Burdon, Cathay, 22nd December-Babelsberg, Kanagawa Marn. 30th December-Asturin, Saint Irene. Benvenue, St. Jerome, imbus, Dart, Zostakken, Lynrowan Olysape. 2nd January-Ceylon, Silesia Braemar, Emma Luykin, Oldenburg, Sanuk Stratigyle.
Stuttgart Moru, St. Andrews. 5th January-Latas, Тасота Nestor, Teenkai, Erzherzog, Ferdinnu, Taiyuan. Denbighshire, firmazon,
Homoward 2nd January-Malacca. 5th January--Konig Albért,
Shipping.
Arrivels. PREUSSEN, German steamer, 5,298, R. Heintze, 8th Jun-Yokohama golli Dec., Kobe ist Jan., Nagasaki 3rd, and Shanghai 6th, Mails and Generi.-Melchers & Co. TRITOS, Cermat steamer, 1,033, P. Lassen, 8th Jan-Saigon 3rd Jan., Rice and Gene-
ral-Siemssen & Co.
AYR, British steamer, 3,955, W. H. Gibson, puh Jan Kuchinoízu 4th Jan, Com Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. TATEGANI MARU, Japanese steamer, 1,668, M.
Tarnce, pth Jan., Moji 4th Jan, Coal, Jefferies,
1897 The yachi Active run down by a junk in TAISANO, British steamer, 1,544, W. E. Sawer,
the harbour.
9th Jan, Shanghai 6th Jan, General Jardine, Matheson & Co. 1898--Major Esterhazy acquitted
Sydney, &c.........Jan. 18th.
Swatow, &c......... Jnn. 14th
Swalow
Jan. 1oth
Shanghai, Jan. 14th Marseilles, &c...... Jan. 17th Port Darwin, &c... Feb. fgth": Weimar
Straits, &c. April 18th Wittenberg Havre, &c
...Jan. 27th. Yawata Mari...Thursday, Is, &c... Jan. 26th
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