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A SHIPWRECKED CREW.
SINGAPORE, March 16th. The crew of the American sailing ship St. John, which was burnt off the island of Bali, Lombok Straits, on February 25th, arrived by the Ban Fu Soon this morning, from Sourabaya. The crew numbers 24, without Captain Fales, who has gone on ta langkong.
The Chief Officer, Mr. Wallace, gave the following account of the disaster to one of our reporters this morning. The vessel was 119 days out from New York, bound in Yokohama, when, on February 25th at about 8 p.m., in the
Lombok Straits, the man on the look-out raised the alarm of fire forward.. In response to his
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1900.
WAR NOTES.
The Volunteers.
It will be said that we have the Volunteers. But in what state ato the Volunteers?
Yeoman," writing to the Daily Telegraph of
February 1st, says
The rest of the auxiliary forces of the coun-- try have been deliberately disorganised and depleted. There is no squadron of Yeomanry nor company of Volunteers that has not been reduced to a lamentable state of collapse. The best shots and the smartest soldiers, with an altogether undue proportion of non-commis sioned officers, have gone, or are on the point of going, to the seat of war in the Imperial Yeomanry, the C.I.V., and the Volenteer detachments. The regiments and battalions from which these men have been drawn have been reduced to a condition'of chaos, but even in regard to the actual numbers the War Office refuses all help, and the enlisting of recruits to fill the gaps in the ranks bas, perforce, come to an end,
All the Army we have Left. At present we were without any organised Anuy in the United Kingdom. As soon as the troops under orders had gone, there would be left six battalions of infantry of the line, and three battalions of Guards-all under strength, and, as far as the Line was concerned largely composed of men unfit for active service-and nine cavalry regiments, some without horses, and all under strength. These troops were without trains, guns, equipment, and proper reserves of ammunition and stores; and there fore, they could not be regarded as an organised Army. As to the Militia, a large number of the most efficient battalions had been sent out of the country. One battalion now doing duty in the United Kingdom was 550 strong, and 120 of the best men were drafted away to do duty as Militia reserve with the Line balta- lion. Two companies of the Line battalion had been added; but these men were unfit for ser vice.
As for artillery, we have absolutely denuded ourselves of guns in order to send out battalions 10 Africa.
A CAPTAIN'S CLAIM.
THE SALE OF BRITISH STEAMER.
SINGAPORE, March 16th,
north-east of Paardeberg, where the British lost | 4.15 palu-Football for the H. K. Ft Challenge heavily.
Shield, G. Co. V. H. Co. of the Royal Welsh Eusiliers,
Commandant Ferreim, one of the Orange Free State commanders, who had previously been at Kimberley, was killed in the engage
At the Supreme Court this morning, Captainment at Koodoosrand." Bernard Morier claimed $435, for wrongful
dismissal, from Mr. A. O. Meyer, for whom Messrs. Behn, Meyer & Co, are the Singapore agents.
Mr. Farrer-Baynes appeared for plaintiff, and Mr. Ellis defended.
The plaintif stated that he resided at 15 Bunna Road and was à master mariner.
Formerly he was master of the Gargon, and she belonged to the East Indian Steamship Co. That steamer, together with other steamers, was sold by the owners last year to the defendant,
The Brave Canadians.
In the Canadian House of Commons at Ot tawa last night, the Premier, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, announced that in the engagement at Koodoos- rand between the British force and Boers un- der General Cronje, twenty men of the Cana dan contingent were killed and sixty-nine wounded. Sir Wilfrid Laurier said Canada was both cheered and saddened by the event. "Our troops," he said, "acquitted themselves the Gorgon being renamed the Tringgan antions we have formed of them, and our resoire as men of courage, fully equalling the expecta- transferred the German dag. The transfer to do our full duty in the present emergency took place in May, and witness remained in.
has only been strengthened. Those who have command of her after the transfer. His pay
been bereaved by this event many feel assured. was as set out in the claim. He remaine! in command of the Gorges until the end that their loss is also our country's loss."
The Queen sent a cable message, expressing, of October, during which time she was running her appreciation of the loyalty shown by the between Singapore' and Bangkok. At the beginning of October witness was told by Mt. Canadians, and wishing Godspeed to the other Becker, head of the local shipping department man who were leaving. of Messrs. Behn, Meyer, that when the ship returned from that voyage to Bangkok she would be sent to Bornec. After returning to Singapore, the Tringgaan was put into dock where she remained about to days. After that Mr. Becker told witness to square up his Accounts and leave the ship by the end of October. Witness rendered his accounts, and on the 1st November received his salary for the last month. Witness was offered salary for 5 days more but refused it as he considered he was entitled to November's pay. Witness received a letter from Messrs. Mansfield at the time of the transfer that his services would be required by Messrs. Behin, Meyer for at least 6 months. That period would have expircit on the 5th November. Witness was in command of his steamer on a monthly salary, and received no
-notice whatever to leave. Some of the ether
masters services were retained after the six months referred to. After being dismissed by defendants, witness could obtain no employ ment until January, when he was employed by Messrs. Guthrie and Co., to take the McAlister. with the Spinta way in tów, do Manila.
Our Lack of Powder and Shot. In the manner of arniaments matters are
By Mr. Ellis. Witness had a dispute with -even worse. Woolwich is practically emply. the latter firm as regarded wages, but did not Our munitions of war have been exhausted, make any claims. Witness spoke to the British We read about a shell famine in England, and Consul at Manila on the matter. Wisness signed although the phrase may be an exaggeration, on under German articles in july after the trans- fer of the Gorgon, and when he signed then he we have not sufficient Lyddite sheils in stock
was told that he was signing on for six months. allow the men going out with the howitzers explosives before they are sent to face the special permission from the German Govern opportunity of learning how to handle the new He was not aware that he could not, without Hoers. Our rifles have been found faulty in ment, command a German vessel. He was not their sighting, so that the shot goes four feet told that, that permission from the German For- wide of the mark at a range of 500 yards. We sign office would expire on the 8th November, have trained horses for artillery. Nor have
we any reserve of quick-firing guns. We have skinned the Navy for guns te strengthen our batteries in Natal and Cape Colony, and we have not sufficient to mount on the forts which guard the mouth of the Thames or the app:oaches to our most important naval inexplicable and the most appalling evidence strongholds. Worst of all, because the most of our lack of preparation for eventualities; we To keep the troops in Africa supplied, we have have not cartridges for our army of defence. had to loot every Volunteer armoury in the And this under a Government which came in Country of all its reserve store of ammunition. on a Vote of Censure passed upon its pre- decessor for being short in "cordite" and which last year was voted £21,000,000 to provide for the defence of the Empire.
call for help, the crew was mustered and found the fire raging furiously in the fore-hatch on the starboard side. The ship was carrying a cargo of petroleum in cases, which were stacked in the forehold. When the fire was discovered, the cases were blazing fiercely, and gaining headway every moment. Steps were faken to put every man on to the water buckets, but it was soon seen that all efforts to combat, the fire would be useless, the flames spreading rapidly in a most alarming manner. The efforts of the crew were then directed to lowering the boats, all of which were launched and provision- ed, and an opportunity was’given the men to save what few of their personal effects they
The Military Problem. could. Within an hour the vessel was a sheet "DEATEN HOLLOW IN GENERALSHIP." of flames from stem to stern, the fames quickly "Milos," writing in the Contemporary Review spreading up the rigging and the intense heat upon "Lessons of the War," ridicules the idea rendering any close proximity impossible. The thal, because the Boers have made good use boats stood by her till midnight, when all hope of their ponies, we should therefore endeavour af saving anything further was gone. It to fight them by converting all our army into was a magnificent but terrible spectacle, mounted infantry. What is wanted, he says, is which lasted for several days afterwards, not more horses but more brains. "Nothing," The boats then made för Bali, landing at he says, "could have been more lamentable Patang Cove, not very far distant, early the than the complete neglect of all the lessons of next morning. At the native village, they the past which has been shown by our officers were received kindly, but the ship-wiecked inen What has been most startling our side fared rather badly as they were unable to speak has been that the most commonplace experi the language, and the resources of the village | ence of war, the mere A C of the were not great.."
trade, has been constantly and systematically After staying there for a day or so, they ignated by many of our own war leaders secured passage in a Chinese junk to Ban-in a manner that has been, in case after joewangi, where they stayed seven days, being case, the real cause of danger. Horrible well treated by the Captain of the port slaughter under totally unnecessary conditions there. The Dutch Government sent them in a has been inflicted upon our soldiers, and we tender to Sourabaya, where they were in charge
of the American agent, whence they came ou to Singapore.-S. F. Press.
r
CHINESE GRATITUDE TO THE BRITISH FLAG
:
Mr. Lawrence Jackson, the genial "J. K." of the States, who is shortly going boine on leave has been entertained at a farewell dinner by the Selangor Captain China. Many pleas sant speeches were inade, and the host, himself a donor of $10,250 to the War Relief Fund, thus neatly responded to the toast of his health-
have been beaten because the men whole the Boers acted on principles which ought to have been tlioroughly understood, acknow. ledged and known by every officer entrusted with the higher command of troops in the British Army." The Boers have beaten us hollow in generalship. They have almost known precisely what we were going to do, and have met our attacks in full preparaton for them exactly as they took place. Their system of intelligence the capacity for keeping their own counsel, their skill in obtaining information as 10 what their enemy was meditating, have been such as characterise wise commanders in other wars, and these qualities have been conspicuously absent from
Our Intelligence Department. is entrusted to six sub-divisions, each of which The business of the Intelligence Department deals with a particular subject. The subjects comprise :-
He had been Captain China hero for eleven | our own men, years. During that time he had settled cases. involving thousands of lakses of dollars, and so might clain to a certain position in the com- munity. But when he first came to Selangor he had exactly $17, and all he now possessed in this world had been made under the protec tion of the British Flag. When the Queen was attacked, surely that was the time to show some appreciation of the benefits derived from the flag. He had given but a small portion of the money he had made here, and, if necessary, would give again (Cheers)-5 F Press.
MAT SALLEH.
We have been told, writes a Labuan corres- pondent to the Singapore Free Press, Mat Salleh is killed and his following dispersed, and we ought to believe it because, a paternal government tells us so, but there are little birds who will fly through the air and bring tidings of good joy (or evil); hence there are rumours that all is not right along the coast
between Kimanis.and Ambong and the corres- ponding hinterland, where discontent with the Chartered Company's rule is notorious and where the squeezing for the purpose of divi- dend-making only brings the rule into con tempt.
A HINT TO GYMKHANISTS.
An amusing wind-up (at the recent gymkhana meeting at Tenom, B. N. Borneo) was a buffalo race between Messrs. Pyke and Altman, the latter needing some exercise after the arduous duty of sitting at his case in the shade and quietly paying out the prize money. Mr. Fyke, however, gave up the race, as he found that trying to sit on half a-dozen different parts of the animal at one time, without anything to hold on by, did not conduce towards a secure or comfortable sent—B. N. Bornto Herald.:
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(1) The collection and collation of all infor- mation with regard to the military defence, in the strategical and scientific aspect.
obtained as to the military, strength and re- (2) The accumulation of all lacts that cap be
zources of foreign Powers. This covers ac curate information on the military geography of the several countries concerned, the physical features and the artificial treatment of their frontiers, and generally the value of their de fensive lines. It embraces the fullest details that can be obtained of the armed strength of the three arms, not merely numbers of personnel and quantity of material, but their organisation and the system of moblisa tion, or in other words of raising the peace establishment to a war footing. The same sort of information is collected and re- corded from all British colonies and posses sions. It is the especial duty of the depart ment under this head to provide at short notice the comprehensive reports already mentioned, upon any of tliese points.
(3) Map-making in a military sense; the cor recting, of all existing maps by the light of latest knowledge, noting the changes made by the rectification of frontiers, the pressure, of
July Giernian captain and engineer arrived from Europe and remained on his ship as pas: sengers for three months; that was to defray hotel expenses. Witness was paid $30 a month for these persons' food, and they were kept as passengers. Witness was not told by Mr. Becker that the German captain was put on the 5th November. Witness knew the captain. board, and that he was to take command on
was to take command of one of the ships but hut never told him that witness did not know not the Gorgon. Witness knew Mr. Kitching, what he would do after the expiration of Messrs. Mansfield's notice. He had never specified had very little to do with him. any date to Mr. Kitching, in fact he had thing went smoothly witness was entitled to $125 bonus every dimonths, and he accepted this amount up to the 5th November. He accepted this because bonuses were very shaky things, and they got them once every six months. Witness was not asked by Mr. Kit Ching, when the bonus chit was presented, if everything was all right with the owners. the exception of himself and another captain he did not know that the other captains accepted the position and left on the 5th November; in fact some of the other captains were kept on -Captain Ballantyne and Captain Bell.
If every
With
By Mr. Farrer-Baynes: The Gennan cap- tain, who was on witness's ship, took command taken over. Other German captains were put of the Singora, one of the boats that had been
on some other boats.
For the defence, Mr. Ellis contended that the plaintiff was fully cognisant of the fact that his engagement was only up to the 5th November. Messrs. Behn, Meyer only had permission from the German Foreign Office to retain these English officers after the vessels had been transferred to the German flag--until the 5th keeping a man on board for three months, in November. The mere fact that they were
addition to Capt. Morier, could be assumed to be sufficient notice. Mr. Becker also informed plaintiff, on the date of the German captain's arrival, that his plaintiff's) services would cease on the 5th November.
Mr. Becker and Mr Kitching gave evidence for the defence.
The Chief Justice gave judgment for the defendant.-Strait Times.
WAR NEWS BY WIRE.
At. Koodoosrand.
LONDON, February 21st. General Cronje left Magersfontein with 5,000 Boers, taking with him all his heavy guns, and at Küp Drift. His rear guard at once came trakked across the front of the British position into action, and the fight was kept up till the
Boer force bad advanced 20 miles to the east.
After evacuating. Magersfontein, General Cronje, evading the British scouts, crossed to the, south of the Modder River before the ar rival of the British force that had been sent to intercept his passage at Klipkraal.
Pretoria.
Reports have been received from. Pretoria that preparations are being made for defence in the event of an attack, and mines have been laid under all the outskirts of the town.
The Royal Reserve.
An appeal has been published from a large
number of former officers and privates of the British army, who ask to be allowed to join a new force, to be called the Royal Reserve Battalions, for home defence, and thus replace the officers and men of the active army "who, with the troops from the various colonies, are now at the front..
Bugler Dunn,
Queen is her presence, and her Majesty pre- sented him with a bugle in recognition of his
Relief of Kimberley.
The residents of Kimberley, in describing the siege, give accounts of harming privations that were suffered. Most of the women and children lived the greater part of the time in the levels of the mines, in order to avoid the onemy's shells, and never saw the sun for weeks at a time. They are described as having been. delirious with joy when the relief came, which was quite unexpected until within an hour of its accomplishment.
In Natal.
•
STEAMERS EXPECTED,
Names.
From:
Duc.
Ixion Yarra Sado Maru......... Singapore
Singapore ..To-morrow Saigon...Mar. 25th
Mar. 25th
Singapore
[Mar, 26th
Singapore
Mar, 26th.
Singapore
Mar. 26th
Mar. 27th
9 p.in.—Mr. Henry Dallas' Company “A Rụn-
away" at the City Hall. Noon-L. & N. Co.'s Reamer Loongsang
leaves for the Manila,
MONDAY, 26th. O. S. Co's scaner Orester leaves for London
via Suez Canal 4.30 p.m.-Football, Scotland against the World, 5-15 p.m.-Lecture on The Grip on Colonial Coptic ....
Empire," by Mr. J. W. Jones, in the Malacca Chamber of Commerce Room, City Palban.....
8.30 for
Cargo
Hall
9 p.m.-Regular Meeting of the Victoria
ex afaria Valerie subject to rent.
Preceptory and Priory at the Fred- masons' Hall,
9 pim-Mr. Henry Dallis Company "His Excellency The Governor" at the City Hall.
4
TUESDAY, 27th.
Glenfary..... Korea Machaon
Shanghai..
Singapore .... Mar. 27th Singapore... Mar. 17th
We would direct the sitemafou of shipping firms to the
style in which Steamers Expected and Projected Saillig
are now published in these columus, and in so doing respect fully urge the managers of shipping firus to give order to this clarks to finisk this office, on the found already sup plied gratis with the latest available information every day.
PROJECTED SAILINGS.
Ship.
Destination.
Dale.
ASILITIA .....
America Mart...San Francisco, &c.April 14th New York .......Mar. 29th Strakts, &c.
July 12th
May 26th
Noon-Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co. Ltd. Noon-Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting of Share Bayern
holders of the Hongkong Hotel Co. Belgian King ...San Diego, &c. Ltd.
-Bengal
Shanghai Noon-P. M. S. Cos' steamer City of Rio de
Mar. 31st Bracnar
..Mar. 24th ...., Portland, &c, Juncira leaves for San Francisco &c. Carmarthenshire San Diego, &c. ...May 12th C. N. Co.'s steamer Shangtung leaves for Carlisle City...... San Diegu, &c. ...April 28th
Singapore, Samarang and Sourabaya, Chelydra Daylight-NYK. steamer Sade Maru leaves
Singapore, &c......Mar. 28th China ...San Francisco, &c. May th for Europe via the Straits. p.m.-Mr. Henry Dallas Company "The
Ningpo. Mar. 31st Sydney, &c.........April 10th sign of the Cross" at the City Hall, City of Peking... San Francisco, &c. April 31st
City of Rio WEDNESDAY, 28th.
Coptic Cargo ex Bentedi subject to rent.
Doric Non-I. C. & N. Cos' steamer Chelydra leaves Eastern
Emp China 9p.m.--Mr. Henry Dallas' Company "Charley's Emp. India.......
Aunt" at the City Hall
Enp. Japan......! Formosa
g.
News to hand regarding General Buller's movement in Natal stale that since the British advance was commenced there was a complete panic in the various Boer, laagers in the vicinity of the Tugela River, the enemy having left behind them quantities of stores, Rinmani tion, blankets, and Bibles, and also abandoned 3 their dead and wounded. Among the captured ammunition several varieties of expanding bullets were found.
In explanation of the retreat of the Boers
for the Straits.
THURSDAY, 19th. p.m.-zzud Ordinary Annual Meeting of Shareholders of the China Sugar Re- An Extraordinary General Meeting of fining Co. Ld.
Chinkiang Ching
San Francisco, &c.Mar. 27th San Francisco, &c. April 5th: Sun: Francisco, &c. May 23rd Sydney; &c.......... May 3rd Vancouver, &c...... April 4th
April 25th May 16th Amoy & Tamsui... Mar. 25th Futami Maru...Manila, &c. ........Mar. 30th Gaelic
San Francisco, &c. May 1st Glenogle Victoria, B.C. Glaucus
Hamburg
Hector 2.
¡London.
Straits, &c.
Liverpool
Heidelberg..... Havre, &c.
April 24th
April 3rd
30th
April 10th
April toth
Hiroshima Maru. Bombay, &c......... Mar. 30th
the members of the Hongkong Cláh. from the Tugela River, Dr. Leyds, the Trans 5 for 5.30 p.m.- Regular Meeting of the vaal representative in Europe, declares that
Eathen Mark Lodge, No. 261. Joubert, finding that his position was becoming untenable, ordered all the Boers operating in Natal to retire and concentrate in the Orange 4 pin.-N, Y. K. steamer Fulani Marn leaves Kagoshima Maru Yokohama, &e...... Mar. 27th
Free State, thus raising the siege of Ladysmith. It is estimated that the Boer troops who were withdrawn from Natal numbered not less than 20,000.
SHIPPING REPORTS.
Capt. J. E. Farrell, of the steamship Machew,
from Siam, reports: Fresh northerly breeze with high head sex.
Capt. W. E. Kent, of the steamship Taisang, from Shanghai and Swatow, reports-Strong N.E. to E.N.E. winds all the way, high sea, misty, and hazy weather.
Captain J. Douglas, of the steamstrip Formosa, moderate sea and fine cloudy weather, with from Swatow, reports:-Strong E.N.E. wind, Hazy on horizon. Vessels in Swatow on the and inst. aitan, Poochow, Newchwang, Kinkiang, Mongkut, Loksang, and Dagmar."
NOTANDA
CALENDAR.
MARCIL
Meteorological means based on ten years'
observations to 1893.
Barometer.....
Thermometer.......
Humidity Rainfall
WEATHER, REPORT.
.30.141
57-3
.79.0
1.76
YESTERDAY.
On date at O date at
1.
30.00
p.m.
29.96
OF 93'
0.01
TO-DAY.
Barometer....... Temperature .......... Humidity.......... Rainfall....
Friday, 23rd March, 1900. Chinese-3rd of and moon of 26th year of
Kwang si Sun-Rites
bhr. 3min. Set...
Ohr. min. Xugn-Max. Detc. S. går, a.m. High water-Morning thr. 45min.
Afternoon
....akr. 55min. Low water-Morning
Shr. zomin. Afternoon
8hr. 15min. ANNIVERSARIES.
1839-Captain Elliot forced lus way to Canton 1897-Collapse of a building in East Street,
Hongkong. I man killed, injured. 1898-Sharp skirmish between "Eritish, and
Dermishes near Athari. 1898-Destructive fires at Foochow and Toko.
TO-MORROW.
Saturday, 24th March, 1900,
FRIDAY, 30th.
for Manila.
SHIPPING AND MAIL NEWS.
MAILS DUE.
French (Parra) 25th inst American (Coptic)27th inst. American America Maru) 4th prox. Tacoma (Sik4) 5th prox.
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HONGKONG, AND WHAMPOA DOCK RETURNS. Isla de Cuba
Kowloon
H.M.S. Centurion... Jacob Diederichsen...
Shantung H.M.S. Waterwitch.. Chelydra Esmeralda
U.S.S. Jonadnock. D. Juan d'Austria Peiyang... Enima Luyken..... John Currier
"}
+
Hongkong Maro San Francisco, &c. May 8th Java....
London............... April 5th
Kawachi Maru...Marseilles, &c....April 13th Kinshiv Mara...Victoria, B.C.......April 19th
König Albert
Straits, &c.
Lady Joicey
San Diego, &c.
April 4th Mar. 31st
Loongsang
Manila...
(Mar. 24th
Lovstakken
April 5th
Malacca
Massilia.
......New York,
Shanghai, &c. Mar 26th Marseilles, &c...... April 14th
Mikawa Maru Shanghai ....
Mar. 27th.
Monmouthshire Portland, &c. ......May 19th Nanchang.........Tiemsin April 4th Nippon Maru San Francisco, &c. May 31st Oldenburg Straits, &c.
Olympia.. Victoria, B.C.......Mar. 31st
Docli
1+
Orestes
Parramatta Pathan
14
1
,, Cosmopolitan
ן
Hondon....
Preussen ......... Straits, &c. Prinz Heinrich Straits, &c.
Queen Adelaide.Victoria, B.C...
Japan
June 28th
Mar 26th
Marseilles, &c......Mar. 31st New York
April 7th
May 16th
May 2nd
May 5th
Rosetia
Mar. 31st
Sachsen
Straits, &c.
June 14th
Sado Maru
Marseilles, &c......Mar. 27th
Aberdeen
Saxonia
„Havre, &c.
April 3rd
Serbia Shantung Sibiria
Havre, &c.
April 30th
Singapore, &c.
Mar. 27th:
¡Havre, &c,
April 20th
Sikh ......
July 26th
Tansui Maru
Swatow, &c.
Mar, asth
Swatow, &c.
Mar. 25th
San Diego, &c.
... June 9th
Arrivals at Home--16th March-Carmar- Tientsin...
Weimar thenshire, Sachsen,
Kobic.
Mar. 24th
Mawiata Maru
Strails, &c. Japan
April 18th
PASSED THE CANAL.
Ontward-13th March-Japan, Hamberg Glenshiel, Konigsberg, Pingsuey, Lesbury, 16th | Strathgyie... Mar. Ernest Simoni, Hakata Maru, Idomenus, | Stirigat Alcinsun, Verona, ·
Homeward 13th March—Hilochi Maru. { Thales. 16th March-Oldenburg.
Thyra.
Shipping.
Arrivals.
Victoria, B.C....... April 14th San Diego, &c. .... April 14th
Straits, &c.
Mar 24th
EXPLAINED IN FIVE MINUTES.
to
You harm heard it said that the boy is father to the WEIMAR, German steamer, 3,176, H. Mayer, Yo. Very gund. Now re what a prodigl
23rd Mar-Hamburg 7th Feb, and Singas del may be deimp la that idea. pare 18th March, Mails and Central-- Youth is the sowing time of life, and maturity the Melchers & Co.
reaping time. You agree to that. Very good MACHEW, British steamer, 995, J. F. Farrell, egait. In youth nature pu's forth
overy effort 23rd Mar,Bangkok 5th Mar., General. built up your ly. She do is everything cha can ----Butterfield & Swire.
iny lnud on for that purse. The whole body FORMOSA, British steamer, 674, J. T. Douglas, throbs with life as at no les time.. Nature se
23rd Mar,--Swatow 22nd Mar., General.gether beitling material (I mean foxxd) from every
direction Ton k
kenw what eaters healthy children Douglas, Lapraik & Co..
are, Nature TIENTSIN, British steamer, 2,555, F. J. Fox, thinking only of NOW. She is greatly to js ant thinking of the future. She in make you a big, and perfectly careless of whai ba- comes of you after that.
23rd Mar,-Bombay 5th Mar, and Singa pore 16th, Geneml-1 & 0. S. N. Co TAISANG, British; steamer, 1,544, W. E Kent, 23rd Mar, Shanghai 17th March, and Swatow 22nd, General-Jardine, Matheson
& Co,
SABINE RICKMERS, British steamer, 690, J. R. Nasbet, R.N.R., 23rd Mar,-Tamsui 2151 Mar, General--Arnhold, Karberg & Co. OLYMPIA, American steamer, 1,730, J..True- bridge, 23rd Mar,Tacoma, U.S.A, 23rd Man, General.--Dodwell & Co., Ld. VICTORIA, British steamer,, 1,018, Dunham,
23rd Mar,Macao 23rd Mar, Ballast. E. A. Trading Co.
Chinese-24th of and meen if 20th year of WHEELING, American gunboat, 1,000, Burwell,
Kwang-sü.
23rd March, Patan Island (Philippine) 20th March.
Sun-Kists............
6hr, zmin. Sets
...Ohr. timin. Noon-First Quarter onr. 32min, þ.m. High water-Morning......
zhr. 30min. Afternoon Low water-Morning................... phr. tpmịn. Afternoon ghr. min. ANNIVERSARIES.
4hr, Tomin.
1603-Queen Elizabeth died. 1839-Captain Elliot demands passports for himself and British subjects imprisoned
at Canton. 1876-The steamer Pelican, pirated and scut tled, ten persons murdered. Pirates 1805-Attempted assassination of Li Hung
Chang at Shimonoseki, 187-400 Americans Massacred at Tokat.
afterwards arrested and executed.
ed.
4897--Jubilee Celebration Committee appoint- 1898-Chinese evacuate Port Arthur. P.&O. Co's steater China went ashore near Perim,
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AGENDA,
TO-DAY,
away Girl" at the City Hall,
H.X.V.C. ORDERS.
5-7 pm- Engineer Co. Examination of those D. Infantry Co., Company Drill at Head-Quar
The bugler boy Dunn, who was wounded Cargo ex frano subject to rent. war, the improvements in the methods of mov- at Colenso on the 15th December, and his
while advancing in the firing line in the battle 9 pm-Mr. Henry Dallas' Company "A Run- ing troops by the erection of new railway lines
been invalided home, was summoned by-the or other communication, i
The translation of foreign documents received by public departments, for which pur pose the staff of the office is always strength- ened by the employment of officers who are skilled linguists. There are generally some to be found in Queen Anne's Gate who are fami liar with one or more of the languages current — in the civilized world abroad.
TTIS EXCELLENCY THE COVER.
courage.
Cronje's Retreat.
February 22nd. Cronje, when commencing his retreat from Magersfontein, subdivided his force, which tra versed the Modder River in separate groups.
Ranks not yet examined.
ters.
TO-MORROW.
Clearancos at the Harbour Office. Taisung, British sir, for Canton. Hur, French str., for Hoihow, Esmeralda, British str., for Thranang. Hainan, German str., for Chefoo. Kongnam, British str., for Canton.
Departures. Mar: 23, Pronto, German str., for Chefoo. Mar. 23, Ormazan, British str., for Newcastle: Mar. 23, Leeyuen, Chinese str., for Canton, Mar. 23, Kwangping, Chinese st., for Canton. Mar. 13, Hong Leong, British str., for S'pore.. Mar. 23, Savate, Gerisan str., for Singapore. Mar. 23, Sibiría, Genuan str., for Yokohama, Mar. 23, Beniedi, British str., for Nagasaki.
Mar 23, Herre, Norregian str., for Hangay.
Mar. 23, Loongmoon, German str., for Shanghai, Mar. 23, Kongleng, British str., for Swatow.
Mar. 23, Bonaventure, British cruiser, for
cruise.
Passengers-Arrived. · Per Formout, from Swala M. Aulbut and
Your appetite is ganged by the needs of growl- that, in no end of cases, young people eat too much. not by your ability to digest. So it comes to pas
of regularity They eat wrong things, they eat without any thought. Hence icient gastele jadire (digesting juice), stomach distention, and formenta. Hou. Bits (small tits, of entere) of undigested food get into the eirenlation, wad through the right alde of the cart into the lungs, where they obstruct the minute blood vessels at the top of the lungs.
What then? Way, they finally become organised tubercle or changed into the clalky or cheesy dupesits so often found there. The end, soner or infer, is an in. Over feeling, regular food and indigestion, is more than anything else, the cate
or under feeding, give rise to indigestion of consumption, s. of a lot of ailments which we aufer from bexiles.......
ing, or
For example, a woman says: "In the quing of 1891 I began to safer from weaknes. Phad a lot inste in the mouth, and no desire for food. After enting I had paint the chest and sides. Nothing. would stay on my stomach, and for many weaks never tastel old food, I had a bad rain at the back of my head: thy sight was dins, and specks floated before my tres got very nervous and lost a deal of sleep, feeling no better for going to boil. find- ally I got weaker and weaker, and and so thin I was nothing but skin pul tone. I got so weak I had to when I felt stronger I went about by the aid of a be lifted from the bed to a chair by the fire and
stick:
saw daxor after doctor and got melitins from the dispensary, but nothing helped me. After two. years suffering a lady who came to sea tuo aid bad been benefited by Mother Seigel's Syrtjs and she
myself improving my appetite being better, and feat gavo mea bottle. After taking it for a week I found agreeing with me. I had low sick, and felt bel ter altogether. Cuntioning with this medicieno tho pain and nervous feeling soon left rug, Since then have kept in good health, taking a tor or two hea Hegel's Syrup, did for one, and you can publish th needed. Ive told many hersons of what Mether
statement Douglas, Main Street, Portarlington, Queen's Ca., you wish. (Signed) (M) flannah Ireland, August tub, ixga”
son, Miss Fischer, and 91 Chinese.
Per Machew, from Bangkok-Messrs. Bals, Rickmers, Hofmann, Grüter, and zo Chinese.
Per Weimar, from Hamburg-Mr. and Mrs. Grose, Mr. R. Kruse, Miss Helene Wellney, lungs as commonly anderstood she had something Now, this woman did not have consumption of the Consul Kallan; Messrs. M. Stinves, Tyson, quite as bad-consumption of the whole body with Munro, W. Speck, Hauphmann, Tauera, attendant prosention of the nervems system. Distinct Goldammer, Schrader, W. Schiffmann, T. lung disse might or nigha not five followed Riedemann, II. Riedemann, Kerrow, A. Bereus, little later. The paint is this, and I want, you not Robertson, T. McDougall, James Madie, W. to nit. Consumpties arises from the introduc Schüchner, T. Spirig, and 352 Chinese from tim of foreign holes in the lungs, which come Singapore..
oftener from the Monagh than anywhere of the way I have described. Hence dyspejasin causes it
Noor-17th Ordinary General Meeting of Per Taisang, from Shanghai, &c.—Messrs.
Shareholders of the China and Malla H. P. Mason, P. Smith, W. Drummond, and, “S.“S." Co. Ltd., at the Co.'s Office, No. 68 Chinese. "9, Praya Central.
Portland, Oregon.
But dyspepia causas wasting (as in this lustanice) rheanation, bronchitis, gout, impure blood, thin blond, skin éruptions, and a hundred aches and com IS EXCELLENCY THE COVER-counting I any again life begins, life, nourished, plainia from top to toe. AI bare sald, times beyond
LENOR a delightful 'Confedy nowHEATRE, ROYAL-DON'T MISS See-A number of encounters have taken place bet-(About)N. P. steamer Braemar, leaves for NOR, the Latest, Loudon Success, and death begins n the cataniach Koopt straight
uaning at the Criterion Theatre, London,. ng the Dallas; Compány, in the great. ween the British troops and the retreating will be produced by Mr. Dallas at the Theatre modern Comedy "HIS EXCELLENCY Boors, but the severest was in an attack on a N. L steamer dine leaves for New York will be played on MONDAY, by the Dallas long as you can with Mother Belgos Syrup, Royal, on MONDAY Next
THE GOVERNOR," on MONDAY Next. Boer langer at Koodoosrand, some distance
Company,
via Suez Canal
That will do for now: Adet Y