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entry into this province is entirely free from

Lekin. In both provinces this exemption will hold good for three months. These steps have had an appreciable effect on the rice market, prices having already gone down considerably.

THE usual fortnightly Entertainment will be given at the Temporaneo Ball on Mon day evening next, commending at past 8; admission being free as hitherto, The pro-

gramme is as follows:-

1,-Planoforte Solo, Selections from

Ernani.

2-Song, Hark, I hear an angel sing. 3.-Songwith Gultar accompaniment,

The old Log Cabin 4Reading, A Strange Yarn. 6.Song, Hearts of Oak.

-Planoforte Solo, The Harmonious

Blacksmith.

7Song

INVULNERABLE TO BRIBERY.

Ching Achew, a chair-coolle, was arrested by P. 6. No. 268, for being out without pass. On the way to the Station he offered the apprabending Constable $1 to release him. Fined $3 or ben days' hard labour The dollar offered as bribe was fortetted to the Poor Box.

THE CHINA MAIL.

tearing away the deck railings from the and indicate to them the proper funeral gangway to the side houses. Hounding of ceremonies. A the Ugates; she next bumped heavily against They humbly beseech you to dojgn to the stern of the dew, bulging in one of the come, and are unequal to the expression of

heart-felt entreaties.Foosho plates, and starting several others. She their was then made fast to the Ava, where she Herald. remained until the tide turned, when two tug-boats took her in tow below the ship-- ping The Glenartasy herself sustained comparatively little damage, and it is Wong Atsol, a farmer unemployed, was thought that the accident will not delay charged with stealing a fowl He was her departuro. pallati a ledy identified as having been several times in Gaol, and had been branded and deported. Committed for trial at the Supreme Court

الحلم

A-PETTY THEFT:-

LARCENY.

Our Wenckow correspondent writes that cholora bas gone, and game come in; and the officials have found it convenient to intimate that 40 per cent will be deducted from the total quantity of goods, in estimat Fire Chinamen were again brought up to ing the amount of lekin to be paid, which answer the charge of stealing a bag of sugar brings. the tax nearly down to its old stand from the store of the Hop Hing Hong-Ng art so that altogether things are looking Akap, a godown pole employed to look brighter again at the port.-Nows after this godown, stated that on the night

THE SUPPLY OF SEAMEN....

ly composed of men with sub noses and mon with pug noses. The Imperial Guard

Indies, ...

Blard, Leon, Louisianne, Etats Unis

d'Amerique

Bishop, Mrs. Goorgo, No. 1 Court,

Glover Street, Idverpool Bourke, Maria, 37, Brougham Street,

Wooloomooloo, N.8.W.,

Burns, W., 764, Dearborn Street,

Chicago, 111, U.S. Ago Card, Mrs., 3, Rochester Road, Cam- Dillon & Tuttlo, New Yorki den Road, London, online 1 Duncan, Cu, care of Post Uffco, Hous

kongy. 1 ton, Liverpool... ↑ Earley Madeline, Myrtle Cottage, Evor, Elle, Mr., 41, Douglas Street, Com Ferrail, Dr. Ai, Hingo Fitzpatrick, C., Garibaldi Street, Livers

pool Foller, Mr. E. H., Killarney, Co

mercial Road, London,....

Dead Letters. » kwise of Alexander I., which, under the Andrews, Mrs., St. John's, Antigua, West command of the Banlay de Tallys and the Asker, R. M. L. J., M.S. Victor Em- Osten-Sackens, twice occupied Paris in

antel, Hongkong, *....................................... 1814-15, was numerous and valiant; sud Beard, RB, Captain, Ship Borealis, when subsequently quartered in the pro Anjer,..... vinoes gave the peasantry no greater cause The extension of the system of educating Insatiable appetite for lamp-oil, and, failing

of complaint that arose from the Moscovs boys on board vessels has been strongly that lubricating beverage, for the more advocated on the ground that, in process solid fare of tallow candles. There were of time, the Mercantile Marine will be almost exclusively manned by British subjects. In the Guardsmen whone veterans in 1830 England, Ireland, and Bentland the training aided Parklevich to trample ont the last romains of Polish independence but it was ships have been largely augmented within a fow years, the reformatory schools vessels In the interval between 1885 and 1854 that monopolising the greatest share of attention the Indefatigable Nicholas I grew to be the Imperial Guard, under, the auspices of and credit is taken, in the yearly reports, the showlest and apparently the most fer- for the number of lads drafted into the Merchant Service. This educating of boys midablo armed force in Europe. In a for the sea, if they were properly selected based on the system purened in the found military sense Ita organisation was clearly for the purpose, should be of advantage to of the 11th inst, about 10 o'clock, he retir-CHINESE MOURNING. Shipowners, but its effects are not traceable ation of the Garde Imperiale of Napoleon

About ad to bed, everything being secure.

There are five degrees of mourning in in the annual Parliamentary Returns. The I-a body which again as clearly owed 3 a.m. on the 12th, he was roused up by a China; respectively, the Out Sackcloth statistics, compiled down to the end of 1876, many of its features to those characteristics of the old Maison du Roi, the elements of polkeman, when he found a bag of sugar, the Year's Clothes; the "Greater Doty" show that Apprentices are not on the increase which the former cadet of Brienne and the which had been stored noat a window which the Lesser Duty" and the "Hompon or foreign Besmen on the decretise, in British Ecole Militaire had at his fingots ouds. La was barred with irous but not closed, had Cloth representing periods of Three Merchant ships. In 1846 the number of the Folish Lancers the Mamelukes, the De beeicut open and the contents abstracted.Years, One Year, Nine Months, Five Approntioci enrolled was 16,704, and in

the Guard, the Guides, the Chasseurs Lew Apo P.0. No, 250, stated that he was Mouths, and Three Months; and these five 1876 they were only 4,740. The cancella- 12-Song-Baujo accompaniment, Jeg on duty at the Praya near the Sallor's go by the generlo name of the Five tone, deaths, and expirations in 1876 were

Along, do.

Home on the night of the 11th. About Olothes." The three years mourning is 4,238. As regards Apprentices, therefore, 9.30 p.m. he saw the 4th and 5th defon-

mothers. We may mention that there requirements of the augmenting tonnage. THE A.D,C. of the 28th Regiment repeated danis come out of the lane which led to the ly worn for husbande, and for fathers and the entries were too few in number for the their performance at the Garrison Theatre go down in question. Shortly afterwards can be no legitimate child by a concubine From the official records it appears that on he aw the 2nd prisoner returning with a unless the man has first been married, such the 31st of December, 1870, there word last evening to a crowded house. We bemat in his hand, followed by the other child being a "wild child" or bastard; the 18,808 indentures in existence, and at the them, and step-mother, beitig concubine of the man same date in 1876 but 16,611. This means lieve this is their first attempt at any sen prisoners. He had suspicion

watched them. He went up to the entrance whore son's concubine mother is dead, and that the indentures registered in the books sational piece, and, if so, they are to be of the lane, when he heard an alarm raised who has directed another combine to acot had not lapsed on account of time. It does congratulated on its success. The acting in the shape of a cough from some one towards the child as own mother; and not follow, however, that the Apprentices of Mr Powell as Jacob Thorne was really of He therefore went round by the Queen's adoptive mothers, being the wives of are to be found on board ships and serving the system of "triage"--that is to say, the King, Mrs., 15, Williams Street, Oakland,

Rosd aide and watched there. He saw adoptive fathers as above described. We in that capacity. It is possible the figures five men, the prisoners, come out of may also observe that it is possible, though we have given may be susceptible of ex- the lane, each having a bag or something unusual; for a man to have two legitimate planation, but from the following extracts He followed them and wives, fox, if his first wife be harron, or we cannot understand how many certificates in his hand. saw them enter No. 14 Leong Wab Tai invalid, or willing, he may have a second, could survivo at the end of 1876) Late. He then went to the West Point or even a third. A case of two wives, the Station and reported to the Sergeant. A first of whom is sick, has come to the party of polloe went to the house and ar- writer's knowledge, Tested the prisoners, and there found 120 lbs of sugar, similar to what the prosecutor had in his godown. The prisoners were committed for trial.

&Reading, Elbow Room. 9-Song, Bello Mahone. 10.-Duet for Banjo and Flute. 11.-Song, The Skipper and his Boy.

CORRESPONDENCE

PRIZE VEGETABLE SEEDS. To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL." Oot. 13, 1877.

Year.

Apprentices Cancellations,

enrolled.

Deaths, and Expirations. 15,405

1870

1671

4111

F.842

1872

4,860

4,938

1878.

1874

4,445

4,0544,448

4,759

1875 1876

4,897

***4,205

4,740

Total ... 30,548

4,933

38,685

ancient regiments of "Royal Allemand and "Royal Cravate," the "Mousquetairen lived agafn, only with democratie instead Gris" and the "Mousquetaires Rouges of aristocratic officers Nicholas blended He turned the Maison du Roi into the Napoleonis with the Bourbon scheme. Maison de Empereur, and every officer

The

Wandsworth, Surrey,...........

kong

Gibbon, 8. F. 16, Britannia Place Heming, TIL, HLM.8. Modeste, Hong

Liverpool....... Hoeflich, Ernest, Hongkong Post Office,

Jarvis. Onptain, Barque Soteria, Fost Jackson, Mro. M, 8, Took Street,

Office, Anjer, ignit

Southampton.cat"

Nagasaki,odnondo

Jeffrogs, Mrs., Stewardess, B. S. Khedive,

Kinder, C. W care of H. B. M. Consul,

New Zealand,

1

part, Connectiouty.. I Porking, Captain, Ship Mount Washing

fon, Boston, USA. 1 Sampalo, Lieut. M. Ci, Member of the

Royal Asiatin Society, Macao, (B) 1 Seymour, Maria, 4, Ashford Terrace, Short, Mrai, Post Office, Vigo Street,

Everton, Liverpool,... 1

London 1

The above letters have been returned

in his ostensible army of one hundred and fifteen thousand men was oblig atorily of noble birth. The privates were selected from the ranks of the line by best-looking and strongest man out of every a high standard, and under better advan-

Lawrence, O. W., H. B. M. Embassy, tages than those afforded at the Garrison

three recruits was taken for the Im presented every corps in the servios. Le Fevre & Co Contractors for the perial Guard. They, writ large," re-

Romerizati Theatre, few Amateuré would probably be

Chevalier Guarda, cuirassiers, dragoon, Breakwater, Batavia, up-i.ide able to surpass him in that particular

fancers, hussare, chasseurs, riflemen, grMarr, Miss J., 128, Lancaster Road, character. He was equally at home in the

nadiers, artillerymen, and even Circasalans

Notting Hill, London,

1 of the Guard, armed with bows and arrows, McKenna, P., Mare Island, California, rôle of Tarazicum Twitters in My Tura

The three years is stated to represent the

were alad in magnificent uniforms, the Nison, G., 5, Charlemont Place, Dublin, Next Mr H. Dennard as Joshua Vero

period during which the child was suckled

patterns for which were furnished by the O'Donnell, Mrs., Union Street, Bridge Le country clergyman) was also exceedingly

at the breast. The "cut sackcloth is so

French Imperialist paluters, Horace Vernet called from Its being made without stitabes,

and Raffet. The dirt, the squalor, the good, but the part was perhaps & Hittle

or, at all events, without more than are

ugliness which so painfully distinguish the overested. Mine Stevenson meda an ex-

absolutely necessary to keep the clothes

ruck" of the Russian army were not to be ceedingly good Jessy Fere, although her

together. Andiently, this appears to have

found in the carefully picked, the expensive volge la naturally a little too masculine for

been simply a strip of sackcloth worn scropę.

ly clad, the superbly-accoutred, the ex- the part. Mrs Rice aa Polly Perkins was

the breast. The three years' mourning is,

It will be seen from these figures that the quisitely drilled Imperial Guard. Well the very essence of a pretty self-willed ner-

in practice, completed the day after the vant mald. Messrs Sampson and Clark

SI-I am sorry to trouble, you again, expiration of the second anniversary of the cancellations, deaths, and expirations, during might the Czar Nicholas, when he visited made a pair of very good scoundrels, the but, this is my laat

death of the deceased, although, in theory, the seven years, exceeded the number of this country in 1841, and saw a few bat former's humour keeping the house in roars It Mr Romano will take the trouble, as it should be continued for another year boys indentured by 3,037, and yet 16,611 ta tons of our Household Brigade mancsavre of laughter. The second plece My Turn I have done, to refer to the file of the Mail As soon as over the death of one of the were left on the registry. The indentures In Hyde Park, turn to Lord Hill, and ask Smith, Mrs. Harriet, Post Offee, Hong- Next was well sustained throughout and I think he will find that another gentleman above described parents takes place or is in existence in 1870 would all have run off contemptuously, "Est-ce là tout Is that

South Kensington, London, created much amusement, the performers and not himself, took the first and great heard of, the mourner changes the blank by 1874, and how it happens that 16,611 all It was not all. Nicholas lived to Stevens, Mra. C. L, 90, Forbors Road, svidently enjoying the fan se ne nege est number of prizes for Vegetables," at our milken point or plait at the end of his queue cold, by any arithmetics calculation, be in die tovar fost at the A, nesatunkermann Stevenson, W. F., Rathgar, Dublin,.... 1 with two or three songs during the interval local shows here in 1874 and 1875, vis; five for a white one, and, similarly, the black existence is a puzzle. Perhaps there are we had more red coats, Unesmeu as well as wilaon, W., Shanghai Post Office, 1 body. Sergeant Bull favoured the audience

fint and two second prizes, against-r twisted silk knob on the crown of his that number whose certificates have not Guardamon, fully competent to manœuvre between the pieces, having twloe to respond Romano's two first and three others in 1874, every-day cap for a white knob. The "out been returned for cancellation, but some of in the face of a Russian army. to hearty and well-earned encore, The Corps has evidently devoted considerable and in 1875, five first and three second, sackcloth is only worn for one hundred these must be very old. A few boys may Imperial Guard was, nevertheless, a meat from various places at which the addresses trouble and expense to the improvement against Mr Romano's three first and four days, but the white button and tassel are be apprenticed for six or seven years, but superb and imposing force, as superb and cannot be found. If not claimed within worn during the whole three years, or, as the majority are indentured for three, four, imposing, indeed, as that Garde Imperiale ten days they will be opened and returned of the scenery. A rural retreat was

General Post Office, is generally the case, during the whole two or five years. There may be 4,000 Appren- of Napoleon III., which collapsed so com- to the writers. very well painted, and is we believe the

years and a day. But, in addition to this tices afloat, and that is about the maximum.pletely in 1870. Recent travellers In work of one of the Amateurs. As will be

period of three years deep mourning there The Merchant vessels carry lads as Mid-Russia have described the Imperial Guard seen by an advertisement in another column

are other periods of respectively one year, shipmen, and also, unindentured, boys as being outwardly as gaudy and as they have been specially requested to gire

one hundred days, sixty days, and forty before the mast: these, however, are not grandiose looking as ever; but experience

"BERKELEY, Sept. 1869.-Gentlemen, I a repetition on Friday next.

pine days, which are distinguished as fol- included under the head of Apprentices, only will show whether these stalwart and lows. During the yest succeeding the three As a rule steamers do not carry Apprentices, glittering warriors are fit to cope with the feel it a duty I owe to you to expro my deep years a yellow tip and a yellow knob and as sailing vessels diminish in number stern realities of warfare, and whether the gratitude for the great benefit I have do are worn, the white ones having been burnt and tonnage, fewer boys, we should suppose, introduction of arms of precision and the rived by taking Norton's Camomile Fills, at the altar of the mourned ancestor; dur. would be enrolled. Whether boys are inden evolutions in the system of drill and crea I applied to your agent Mr Bell, Borkeler, The British barque Meree, Capt. Robort [The prize Turnips, &c., having been Ing the one hundred days period, blus tips tured or not they do not appear to enter the of tactics which have taken place within for the above-named Filis, for wind in son, which left this in ballast on the 30th sausfactorily traced to Sutton's 's well as and knobs are similary substituted, and, Service in such numbers as to influence the the last few years will operate advantageous stomach, from which, I suffered excrucia ultimo bound for Newchwang, has become to Carter's seeds, the subject may now be during the two remaining periods, blas tips/employment of foreigners. In 1851 the fly or disastrously on the efficiency ei ating pain for a length of time, having tried and knobs are still worn. It might be number of foreign Seamen serving in British body of soldiers who, to look at, are nearly every remedy prescribed, but with- thought that as two years and a day is ehips was 6,793, and subjects of Her Massuredly not second to any in Europe. out deriving any benefit at all. After considered a fair constraction of "thres jesty 141,937. The percentage of foreigners Daily Telegraph. yoats," so, two days might be considered an was, therefore, 42. The aggregate.number equally reasonable view of one year, quare of foreigners went on increasing until they tots les ridicula est; but in accordance with numbered 21,817, or 125 per cent., in 1867. the English maxim that no legal interprets- The proportions for the past six years tion can ever be allowed to lead to an absurd result, the common a nae of the No. British No, Foreign Percentage of

iness nation dealines to establish an Year. Seamen

Foreign to employed employed. British Seamen

9-76 analogy between the two cases. Thus it

11-24- may be said that the first class of mourning 1871.181,073... 17,765 ext nds in practice over a period of about 1872. 188,129...20,591..

10-87 1146. dispensation is granted by the Emperor,

:11-55 officers must retire from their posts during

.11.76 three years, and in no case can they remain during the hundred succeeding the death,

LOSS OF THE BRITISH BARQUE HERE.

a total wreck. The Chief Officer, Mr William Smith, and seven banda, arrived here in one of the ship's boats about 2 o'clock this afternoon. From what

others.

In 1878, 1 think he will also find that he and the other gentlemen were equal, and that in 1877, Mr Romano with Carter's seeds was far behind.

In mentioning this I think it is only fair play to Sutton and other houses, whose seeds have done equally as well in this Colony as Carter's.......

I am, Your, o

"VERITAS.”

considered exbausted.-ED, C. M.]

HONGKONG RACE FUND. To the Editor of the "CHINA MAIL.”- Hongkong, Oct. 15, 1877. 8,--Permit me to inform "A Resident, &," that there is no Race Club in Hong kang, but that there is a nondescript Society

called "The Race Fund."

Seamen

we can gather it appears that the Merse had experienced moderate weather up to the time of the sccident, and on the night of Tuesday, the 9th instant, about 11 o'clock, she struck on the N. W. end of the Praias Shoal. The night was dark and would be held, but if my memory serves me three year and a half. Unless A special 1873, 182,399.10,840.

there was a moderate North-easterly wind blowing. Steps were at ones taken to lighten the ship, and the hands were em- ployed for two days discharging ballant,

With regard to the late Race Meeting, admit that I saw a notice posted in the Club stating that a Meeting of Subscribers &c.

Your obedient servant,

W. A. FORT.

I

1874.182,667.20,819. 1875.178,094. 20,673. 1876.177,727 20,911. The foreign element is sustained,

whereas

HIBERNATING INFANTS,

Hongkong, 14th October, 1877.

taking two bottles of your valuable Pills, I was quite restored to my usual state of health. Please give this publicity for the In this grave fashion does the Nero Fork benefit of those who may thus be afflloted. adopted by some Indian tribes for disposing-To the Proprietors of Noxon's, CAMO- Times describe a method alleged to be I am, Sir, yours truly, HSSAY ALLF 188. of their children during the winter:Early LE Pras."-1f8sep78 in November the Owasso father prepares se many water-proof birch bark bags as he has infants. In each of these he places a baby, and then, having sealed up the bags with native pitch, carries them to a lake lying some distance north-west of Lake Superior. This lake is in a wild and desolate region, into which few white men have penetrated, and in which no Owasso ever thinks of fish- ing. In its deep waters he sinks the bags

and their infantile contents, and then wends

and secured the certainty of a quiet winter. When May arrives and the ice has melted,

.1

Quotations, p

Hoxexons, October 13, 1877. OPIUM-New Patna, carb....$610

credit

»

Old Banares, cash, Nose

credit

Old Patus, osah,

590

New Benares, cash, 590

**

credit,

credit,

A New Malwa, cash,

"

13

prodit, 645 Allowance Tsels, 8 a 92 Old Malwa, cash,

credit, 8457 Allowance Toals, 8 a 92

63

Exchange.

right the object of the meeting was not slated.

I asked Philip Augustus, who is generally well posted, what the meeting was for, and his reply was. "Oh! to elect a new CC"

You may judge what my astonishment the news received of the death, of a the British is falling off. There was a while soundings were taken in a boat-all, when a few days later, I was informed parent. Numerous officials now in bigh diminution in 1876, as compared with 187, his way homeward with the happy air of a that the Annual Meeting for election of office may be adduced as exazapłon of 5,402 British Seamen, The term "Sea- man who has proved himself a kind father During the whole of the five sub-periods of man," in these returns, embraces every one round the ship to endeavour to find a passtewards and pasdag general business had the first class mourning, no red can be en beard a ship with the exception of the

age out of the shoal water. The efforts to been held.

I really think that hook float her were so far successful that she was given to our Annual Race Meeting than Families with money invariably possess a natives of the United Kingdom and British and seeks again the lake at the bottom of private temple or ancestral shrine," subjects elsewhere. Lascar Crewe, Kroomen, which rests his hermetically-sealed children. moved a few yards from her first position, simply posting an insigned notice in the whither they resort on proper occasions to and others are British subjects. Those who It usually takes him but little time to fish but she again stuck fast worse than before, dab."

sacrifice or burn incense to their ancestors are agitating for the further extension of memory. These occasions are six or seven the Training-ship system should hear in up his family, as he knows exactly where QUICKSILVER, The upper yards were taken down and pro-

during the year, ie, on the 15th of the let mind that a steady decline is taking place father is guilty of poaching among other the bags lie. Sometimes an unprincipled insand water landed on the island, to meet

moon; on the ard of the Brd moon at the in the employment of Seamen, and foreign men's babies, and occasionally the wrong China. pressing emergency which might arise.

Dragon Festival in the 5th moon; at the Sailors can be had to make up ships' com baby is caught by mistake. Poaching, Bank, on demand, ....... festival of the 7th moon; at that of mid-plements without the aid of school vessels..

30 days' night, schors were got out to keep her from

6 months' sight, ..., ... 8/11- ever, so severely punished that offences and drifting farther on to the reef, but it soon market steady; the Glenroy had arrived.

Late telegrams quote the New York Tea autumn; and at the end of the year. In This is made quite clear in the tables issued whether intentional or accidental, is, how-

addition to there they visit the shrine on by the Board of Trade, giving the progress mistakes of the kind are exceedingly rare. Credita became evident that all efforts to save London telegrams quote Silk stronger, the anniversaries of the birth (sheng chi) of British Merchant Shipping. The doline When the bags are opened the babies are Documentary, 6months' sight. 3/11 the unfortunate vessel were hopeless, so, common No. 6, 168.; the Manchester market and death: (is chi) of the ancestor, if the of men to tonnage will be made manifest by found to be sleeping so poundly that they Bombay, demand Rupees, 219

have to be shaken with considerable energy Calcutta, on the third day, after consulting with the strong.Console 954, French Rentes family has never been wealthy enough contrasting two years only

have built a segregated shrine, a private

Bailing Ships. Steam Fessels before they awake. As soon, however, as Shanghal, demand,..... Trade in Proportion of Proportion of they regain consciousness, they olamour for

30 days..... officers, Capt. Robertson decided to abandon There was again some movement in the one is put up in the posterior court of the

which Year. men to 100mên to 100°

food in a way that clearly demonstrates Bar Silver, 17, dwts. B., her. Two boats were accordingly provi-lik market, yesterday (7th); and settlements mansion, which goes by the name of kung were made at advanced rates. There was a p'o ting. The mourning for a husband is

their healthy and vigorous condition. There Syceo, ... nimour that fin. 440 had been refused for still more severe, for the wife should never Home Trade 1884...:4-97

are sceptics who will deny that a hermeti Mexicans, *** wear any gay colours at all, even when the

cally-sealed infant can remain under water Gold Leaf, Blue Elephants.

The rate of interest is still factuating full terms of mourning have expired. Partly Home enriously among the Chinese; it opened at Foochow Herald.

and partly

.8.94 sm. on Saturday morning, fell to 4 in the

Foreign.. 1884....401......

1878....8:68.1. .8-61 afternoon; opened at the latter rate on the

Foreign th, and closed at 3-1m. higher than it dosed on Thursday,

.7.89 13.58

101.

SHANGHAI,

TRANSLATION OF A CHINESE MOURNING CARD.

to

A correspondent has favored us with the following translation ----

employed.

Coke.

1876...6-17.

Trade1854.807.........

1876... 9.55..

Zone. .7.11

¡6:98:

The combined total results show that in 1864 the relative proportion of men to every 100 tons of sailing and steamships was 4:36

#1

"

*** 8/10/

03/10

... 3/11

... 219

72%

73+

102%

26.20

WEA

*15.08

**5.06

8. a 10

for six months without giving up its entire English Sovereigns, ghost. With such people it is entirely use-Australian Sovereigne, ... less to argue. The fact that the Owasso Discount, ... babies do pass their winters under water,

and that 98 per sent. of them are fished up

sloned and a portion of the drew's clothing placed into the boats-the Captain and 2nd maste and six others going in one boat, and the Chief officer, cook, five able seamen and an apprentice in the other, The Captain's

Pada Bhares. party have nos yet put in-an appearance, but as the weather is moderately fine, little

in e healthy state every spring, resta upon Hongkong Bank, 46% prem, fear need be entertained of their safety; Another serious accident occurred on the

the unimpeachable testimony of a California Union Ins. Society of Canton, $050 they will probably reach port to-morrow. iver yesterday (7th), arising from the great "The undutiful Sing us &e., have

editor, who derived his knowledge of the Ohine Traders' Ins. Co., $2,800. The Chief Officer says that when they left strength of the food tide, it appears that brought down great retribution for their

matter from a white man who had lived two Chinese Insurance Co. $247. the ship on Tuesday, they saw the crew the Glenortney, with nearly a full cargo of sins, and their late Father has been involved

years with the Owasso tribes If anyone Fangtare Ins. Association, Tim 778 of a junk making for the wreckten on board for New York, waa moored at in the calamity easning thereupon, in boats, so that she will doubtless be the P. and O. buoy opposite the Hongkew The Lord Pater familias, W, Show per conts and in 1876 only 8-21 per cent doubts his story, he is ready to point out North China Ins. Co., Th, 380

The Wharf, alongside of which were, the bluetang, Fen-ling, Yung-ch'ih, by letters-pat. The decrease has not yet been arrested, for on the map the precise location of the .K. Fire Ins. Co., 670 pretty wall stripped by this time. Moxes was a vessel of 699. tons register, ·| fannél steamer Ulysses and the French Madant of the Imperial O'hing Assistant Se. the ratio was 3-ði per bent in 1872 against lake where the infants spend their wine China Fire Ins. Co., 1170

331 in 1876. The falling-off in the num ters. It is diflonit to imagine that dis B., & W. Doch da 10 % dia. built in Sunderland in 1889, and was owned steamer Avd. The food tide came up in a oretary to the Board of War, Governor of ber of men to the tongs of stems-regala passionate man would ask any further eri H.K. O. ML. 8.-boat Co., 18 % die. By Mesars J. Willis and Sons; of London. here and the Glenartney broke from the Shan Tung, do, do, to our great grief may be explained in the increase of screw demos. As for the scientião persons who The following are the names of the men busy and lurched about half her length abandoned this world at ten o'clock on the cargo ships engaged chiefly in the Foreign deny that a baby can live for months at the banghal Steam Navigation, Tis. 25. who arrived to-day |--

forward with the busy about midships, and sixth day of the ninth moon in the fourth Trade. Bailing vessels in the Costing bottom of the lake, let them experiment Hongkong Goa Co., 875 William Smith (chief officer), John Kizko altuated as to prevent her swinging to her year of Tung-chiha (cook), Charles Gradt, Henry Sands, and anchor, which was immediately lowered on We undutiful ones have been short. Trade are, it is evident better manned now with a few Owasso babies before arrogantly Hongkong Hotel Co., 160 Auguste Obarg (able neamun, Percy Cullen the breakage taking place. A signal from coming in our attendance upon him; read than they ever were before, Esonomy is deolding what that variety of infant is Ohinese Imperial Iman, £103 (apprentice), and the carpenter (Chinese). her for a tugboat quickly brought her that ing the Earth and calling to Heaven, on exevalued in steam-vessels where mechanos capable of doing. It must not be supposed assistance, and an attempt was then made to walls and cries have not been able to reach appliances are provided..-Mitchel's Marie that the example of the Owasso fathers in

fame Register,

hold up for imitation to the fathers of (Taken at Mesars Palionar d Us,'s Fremdass tow her stern free of the buoy. The tide, him.

inchoate American voters. If any man

Queen's Road,) wishes to see if white babies can hibernate

Rowerors, October 18, 1877 THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL GUARD.

The Russian Imperial Guard must be tinder water, he had better make his experi considered in a-double aspectoflrat as an ments with caution. He should begin with BABOMETER 9. ornamental, and next as a fighting foros. his less valuable children, or with a few smail

Police Intelligence. (Both Magistrates sitting.) 13th October, 1877,

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however, was so strong that she dragged her Having been the humble recipients of Busher and drifted towards the wharf. & liberal funeral gift which has been con Alongside the Ulysses were three Ningo descendingly presented to them by way of cargo bosts, two of which the drifting condolence at the generous hands of your steamer saak, and it is said four of their distinguished self, gratitude is felt both crew were drowned. The mest of one of by the deceased and the Iring, who have In its former character it must be inoked boys borrowed from his neighbours, and in Tag Atgal, a contractor, was summoned the boats fell on the Gienartney, and two of not yet had an opportunity of prostrating upon as virtually the creation of the Czar no case should he keep them six months TANEMOMETER-M..

Nicholas Peter the Great his 16 in true, under water. In the case of a small boy by Inspector MeKinney for depositing the ore attempted to save themselves by themselves in acknowledgment. quantity of rubbish and building materials climbing up it to get on board the steamers They propose on the seventh day of organised & Kind of Guard to superadle who has developed unusual lang-power by ou the foot-path in Arbuthnot Road and but just as they were nearing the top the mast the third moon, that date being the morn the dabanded Streifigo; and Elfabeth, constant practice on the tin horn, it might on the steps that lead up to Chancery Lane fell into the water, taking the man with its ing of the third hebdomadal mournings Catherine, and Paul bad had their Preobe be safe to leave him for three-weeks or even The defendant had been doing Mozes work and they were not seen again. The Glenartney day to prepare is sight soliations, and jizuki and thuis Fanoring regimenta, their a month, at the bottom of a good, but ass In the gaol, and be allowed Zie mpa so pass then "eumok the Viyassa, nearly amidships, venture so sagage yans llarstons self to grenadier with suguesest tak zom, grain, this every sunken infant should be fished up the rubblek there, Fined $1,

fracturing the gunwale iu śwo places sad | adorn their kuable roof with your propanet), and paiters, and latir' winless vacinalra. | 2000 & wish for examination,

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