1884-03-06 — Page 3

No 6483.-March 6, 1884.]

TELEORATEED DOWs, saya the Comercio of the 1st instant, has roached Manila from London, stating that the firm of Martin Dyse & Co. of London has suspended pay- ment. The firm has considerable commer sini intorests at Manila.

A SALUTARY caution to those engaged in blasting operations comes from the Police Court this morning, One Leung Shui, a stone-cutter, was fined 25 for blasting stone, on the 1st instant, in Casilen Lane, to this danger of persons passing at the

even to use any signals or precautions. The Lynch family of bellringers have decid. ed to perform here before proceeding to Yokohaum, they having yesterday received a telegram standing that Mr. Farron, the comedian, was coming on from Penang in the next English mall. The company will probably opon here about the 17th instant, aftor Professer Baldwin has concluded his performances.

THE CHINA MAIL.

rights of other granels actually using the more susceptible to mask than others, the this clocks, which are £xed to brlet plers were encountered; and between soven and lishso fruit tree (Nephelium litchi) is parti-tently covered with tenk wood. The piers, eight o'clock on the evening of the 2nd wharves and piers.

cularly obnoxious to it. If brought to which rest on coment congrate, are carried January, the vessel struck heavily on a near the nose it causes inflamgiation, follow

ed by the appearance of white worms in the

Tun grostest activity prevailed in the French dockyards at the time of the demostrils. parture of the last English maila. A cor respondent, telegraphing from Maneilles to the Daily News on the 24th Jan., says

Notwithstanding the negotiations with China, Franco continues her armaments. Work goon on at night by electric light in the port of Toulon, where eight transports, one song am being wriod for Tonquit, and despatch beat, two.cruisers, and thro Madagascar. Another transport, the Zadre, Toulon after having embarked for Tonquin agunboat on the now system for the Red wife from the salad port the Aridge will take troops.'

down feat below the ground in holos lined L with brick. Behind this is a small room in which the galvanic batterics are placed.

The min-time clock, which is to dis- time-tall automatically, is charge the

SUPREME COURT. IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before the Hom, Sir C. Phillippe, Chief Fnatice.)

Thursday, March Gil.

TO LAI SHUNG . Tao LAI FONG,

caricaturist, and many a strange beast be video. Then succeeded the third stage of the influence of tho hichish. Nambuese scomed to staal over mo, I inisginod that my legs turned to lead, and the idea grow until I became wholly metallic living machine, an engine through whose valves

sunken coral reef off Catherine Taland, one of the Marshall Group in the North Pacific, It is recorded that a peculiar species,

and situato in lat, 9°14′ N., and long. 1,66"

the steam hissed and whistled, threaton. caught by a fisherman, was kept in the im. peris! garden. Its pouch on being pricked

56' E. Land was sighted about & o'clock the The Attorney General appoate for the the tutal disruption of the whole exitted such a strong kind of mask that a

same orening, and the ship's course was di plaintiff Mr J. J. Francis, represented While in this stato I could not move; and

defendant:

yet when my friend aroused me I could. single drop in over a and gallon a inff of water rendered that fluid so odcriferous that gar furnished with a magnetic apparatus for rected so as to avoid it.

Mr. Whalan, Plaintif is one of the sons of the Into Tao till give broken and wandering replies to ments sprinkled with it ba ani ineffaccable setting it to correct time without touching the chief officer, to whose kindness we n70 Wing Yune or Cho Chak Tai, and the da- his questions. Even this qualified mon fendnut is his executrix. By the will aure of consciousness deserted mo in titre, perfume,

This valuable substanco no sooner leares' any part of the clock. The time-ball wil indebted for these particulara, says the is of the doceased Tao Wing Yuno, he however; and I went to sleep. An hour the hunter's hand than skilful manipulators he dropped at Taim-sh'at-eni point, oppo- landwhere the Rainier was wrecked, is incor- urdered a suficient sta to be invested to lator, or about four and a quarter hours time. Defendant -apparently noglosted has been oxlared to leave: Lariant for who adulterato it for the trade, when it is | Observatory. It is & feet in diamotor. Op- one of them using no less than 50 miles and each of four concubines during of gold water immediately bright me to adulterate the article for wholesale dealers, aito the harbour, about a mile from the seatly marked on all the cleste he has seen, realise an annuity of 900 to his wife after having swallowed tie hochish, I ing awoke, tazed and drammy; but a draught. their lives; the remainder of his estate found to possess about 10 per cent of:

Fortunato, indood, aroposito the mean-time clock is the sidereal cut. At the time the ship wont ashore was to be divided among his gons. In one myself, and in ten minutes more the in- genuine musk.

most there was a pretty heavy son out, but by clause of tho will ho nxute it a condition that flucuce of the deng had entirely evaporated. those who obtain the drug basing tha: do- standard clock, which is of the grao of potency. A genuine mosk-bag may ho knows from the hair internally. False fled construction. It communicates by abans of the surf line all wuro safely and the division of the estate was not to take What is more, I had a furious appetite and place until his youngest son was ten years of at midnight I ate a great suppor. I had bugs are made of the abdominal skin ofthee with a sympathetic dini placed in the ad ana dry ice of the reof a short way of age. By an enquiry made by the Registra, no hurdacho, no lassituda, and no ner muek-doer, and atuffed with the genitals of transit-roon. the civet cat and matters that are undistinblick and the hands and the úguros ara

The face of the latter is about ten o'clock at night. All the bonto it as boon found that, the youngest son vonannas; and who, in the small hours,

with the exception of one were also saved. will not be ton years of ago until next turned into bed, I slept soundly, dram- October, but the plaintiff neverthelesslessly, and naturally, and rose next Dr Mcgowan adds that besides the use white, which. 1 found vory carvenient at That night all slept in their wet clothes claius, to have the estate administered, morning none the worse for any experi

The mont.Iaia, Sir, your obedient orvant. Attorney General argued in favour of of mak as a medicino in China, it is also Markron Observatory, but unfortunately under seine cocoatint trees, and next morn. and also payout of his shave. largely consumed in perfumery. For the Messes Dent & Co., who made all the horo-ing the ship was boarded again by the chief his client's claim, and Mr Frune's replicti

to the arguments. ten years ending 1882, the Customs Returns logical apparatus, havo omitted a second officer, who and to swim through the

Hia Lordship reserved judgmënt, in order to look over the will. show that the exports of this article aacount- avery minute. For marking a chronograph surf to reach it. By maons of the surf od in value to Tis. 2,520,364. Hanicow is such an arrangement is reast desirable, but line ho was the chief mari, that post boing nearest to Ichang, whenes the supply is drawn. It is used by snake-hunters as an antidots for the bites of the anakos.

Those who desire to secure good seats for Professor and Mrs Baldwin's opening on tertainment on Saturday night should books them as early as possible at Mossrs Kolly & Walsh's. The Professor is an American, and, judging by the notices in exchanges, is a humorist of the Mark Twain order, sa well as a thought reader and spirit exposer, and he is said to keep his audiences in a simmer af laughter the entire evening.

A Government Gazette extraordinary, issued this afternoon, states:-

Whereas in consequence of certain ro-guishabla presentations mado to mo by His Ex- collency the Viceroy of the Two Kwang, 1, Sir George Bergason Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Disting ished Order of Saint Michael and Saint Genge, Governar and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Depondencies, and Vico- Admiral of the same, do, by and with the advice of the Excentive Council, by this Proclamation prohibit, for a period of six months, from the ith day of Biarch, 1884, unless this Proclamation shall be in the meantirao revoked, either to be exported from the Colony of Hongkong, or to carried conatwise within the and Colony, Arms, Ammunition, Guapawdor, and Naval and Military Stores. The report of the police magistrate at Thurs

A' MINUI was recently passed round the various branches of the War Oflies to the

galer, "-Truth.

But

sidereal chronometers.

able to send ashore two

Quotations. HONGKONG, Marck 0. OPTUM-Now Patna, cash,...8695/10-

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cast.... Now Benares, cash; 565/978

New Malwa, erouit,... 0:

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Bank, Wire,

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30 days' sight,

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demand,

2193 220

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30 days' sight, privato 731

... $into

... $5.39

Queen's Road) Uosuress, March 6,

it is rather awkward in observing with eyebarrels of tour, three of bread, five of and out. The cluck-room contains this re-awat, some to and cufles, and a few clothes AN EXPERIMENT WITH HACHISH. lays and also two moan-time and one and six breedonding and five muzzle- loading guns. The crew afterwards gut The transit instrument by Throughton into the beats and pulled to the larger Alexandre Dumas the elder, Théophile and Simms is placed in a wing couto, 14 foot island of Uyal, about ifteen miles of, Gautier, Bayard Taylor, and others, of the where a tent was sucled with some canvas extraordinary narcotic properties of hackish, Saronni 14 feetligh, uext the cloak-room. effect that on attaining the age of sixty, all The meridian opening is one foot wide.saved off the ship. Two days and a half and the marvellous effects which under its various forms it produces upon Orientals, led day Island, upon the pearlshell and beche-clerks, provided they had forty years' ser- The transit instrument has abo a delicato after the shiny went on shorn, she broke upand me not long ago to prepare a small quantity Tax Hon. F. R. Plunkett and Mra de mor fishuries in Torres Straits, recently rise, would be expected to retiro. This eful for observing zenith distances ac-becas a total wreck. Abundance of water of the drug and to expriment with it upon Cradits,

dosision has been received with anything

The active principle of haghish is, as India, Wine, yo Plunkett, with daughters, loft for Yoko-laid on the table of the Queensland Legis but favour by the principal and senior cording to Talcott's mathod. The pivots and cucca nuis was found on the island, my huma in the Kashgar to-day. The party lative Assembly, is as follows:-1 have clerks. It is not pleasant to ba compelled are raade of chilled bell-utal, a material the only inhabitants of which were pamest pople are doubtless aware, contained

to give up £900 a-year for performing ware driven from Governmoat Hcuse, the Fanour to furnish the following report or threa hours' actual work per diem. which I believe was introduced to astronorantly some Sity harmless and friendly in the rosia of the count hump-plant. Shanghai, demand,. where they had been staying, in the Go on the pearl shoil and boche-de-mer fisha- in objecting to what they call this arbitrary mical instrument inakors by Brinkley, natives, whose solo ornament or dress can. The hump grown in temperate climates

hittle in almost entirely devoid of narcotic Sovereigas, vernor's carriage, to Government Wharf. rios in Tornis Straits for the year 1669 (decision, theso clerks are singularly incon-whose instruments remain serviceable up to sisted of n band of leaves, Lied round their applics, however, but little resin; and this Gold Louf 994 fino

There were 206 vessels licensed during the

took some where aguard of honour from the Buils, under year, employing about 1,600 men, an against sistent. When compelling officera to rotira this day, while the pivots of transit justice-loin. The shipwrecked people made them proparties. Knowing this, I

at forty and fifty-five, to make way for th

heup

Temperature. from which I prepared my hachish came Captain Howarth, saluted the Minister as 167 in 1862; and thirty-three licenses were juniors, and for the good of the service, mants of much later date uro, corroded, selvos na confortuldu as possible; but it ing to sasure mystlf that the dried

grated to ooouny fishing stations. To these gentlemen forget that "what is sauce being made of steel,-amitorial that should was coon seen that something must be dous from India and was of recent growth. Taken at Mosers Futomer & Co.'s Premiser, he arrived. A salute was also fired from yield of panel shell was 621 tona, being 207 for the military goose is sauce for the civil nok be used except where unataidahly to relive themselves, as there was little Having procured my car material, Teara the shore buttory. The party wust off to tona less than last year. Quutity

fully picked out the flowering tops of a becho-de-mer exported was 118 tous, being

Hessary. An adjustable meridian mark hope of any vessel calling in thero. Osanmber of fina plants, and inserrated thom Bost the Kashgar in the Govörper's launch, and

An increase of 31 tuns over the previous

is placed on a pier 66 feat North of the the 10th Jantary, therefore, the chief mate in spitit; pressing out, distilling, and wero accompanied by Liouts, Vyvyan and year. The total rovenus for the year froth

all sources is given in detail in an appendix. THE HONGKONG OBSER-

transit instrument. It is observed through with four season luft in the long bout to evaporating the rests to the cousistency of tes and reach the shud of Namorik bird-lime. thus obtained a visa darle Portor, Aile-de-Camps.

Fifty soven now boats have been added to

VATORY.

alous of that focal length, which is fixed in They had on board a supply of biscuits, green mass, of a peculiar edeur and bittor the fleet dering the year. The decrease in

preserved mest in tins and about 150 faste. This resinous extract is the found. the yield of shell is principally owing to Dr. W. Doberck, the Government Astro- the meridiau opening of the transit-room.

cacos nuts, while two cases of goal oil ware ation of bang, and is known in different the increased depth of water in which the nomer, has kindly given us the following

To the left of the entrance hall is the

put in the boat as ballast. Rough weather parts of Asia as canop, churrus, chuteso, divers are working, and to bad weather; ducription of the Obsratory, which has general office and computing room, next to was experienced, nad the little bout fell of guajal, gandshi, Jurish, sajna, malach, but the drinking habits of the men have caused acrioas loss to their employers. A now commenced operations at Kaulung which is the room where the barometers, to leaward and was thus prevented from sjarank, and subjsh, and in South Africa

gaining the desired haven. After eleverne dacha, statement of revemos collected at the island It was found to be impossible to select as well as the sole-recording thermograph daya' incessant tossing about in the open I nood not give any account of some pro- during 1883 accompanion the report, fruitably site for the new Observatory peer and baregraph, are placed.

from

Behind this boat, the five heart-aight and bedy-sick and liminary experiments which, owing to the which it appears that the total receipts amounted to 310,412 11. 2d, Of this the City of Victoria, as the mountains shut is a small room that serves as a photographic wenry mariners were picked up at 5 p.m. on smaliness of the dose taken, were unsuccess

the 21a6 Jan., in lat, 6° 17′ N. and lơng, 109" ful. Suffice it to say that three, four, and amount over 20000 was on account of Ous-off from view a large section of the Southern Laboratory. Every part of these two rooms, 3 E., by the Captain of the British barque even five grains of the extract produced no toms collections; 206 boat liconsus yielded 8750 5; 134 divors' liceusez, £07; 3 sky, extending up to 25 of attitude. It is including coilings, floors and furniture, is Catina, bound from Newcastle, (N.S. W.) effects whatever upon us, in spits of the Crown lande licenses. £165; the balance for the game reason iniponsible to determins painted dar's rod, and there are only a fow for Saigon, with conla. When piekod up, fact that Dr O'Shaughnessy, who introduced the men weraiua very exit condition, the drug into England, doclares that in In- being divided between stamp duty, ship-

and their stock of food was woll night dis natives are often powerfully influenced the direction and valocity of the wind paues of glass in the windows, which are ping fees, and C.P.3. collection.

there haing only 20 biscuits left. The Cap by. I swallowed six gmin

by TF-grain close. Inte que afternoon, accurately nor the town. Besides, it is glazed with double red glass.

grains dissolved likely that the ferruginous rocks would de-

every kindness and attention; and for three in

of the Catalina treated his guests with hoocnful of run ly. My pulso at viate the plamb-line, not to mention the magnetic noodles.

THERE WAS 2 widespred rumour abroad in town to-day that the Honam and City aide of Canton were in flames, and that other There is not the truable was going on. slightest truth in the report. During the day telegraphic enquiry was made, if any fire had occurred there by the reprosonta- tives of the Telegraph Company here, and the reply 'No' was received. When the Kintiang left Canton this morning there was no sign of fire nor any word of a dis-

turbance.

Nomaso further has transpired regarding the threatened disturbance by the Triad Society. There is great excitement in Kowloon City, but no actual disturbance or attack has taken place. The Chinese gun- banta Chi-an and Fei Wan passed through here on their way to Hwai Chau this mor- sing. The Peng Chao-hai, Chinese gunboat, is also here, and, we believe Admiral Fong paid visit to His Excellency to-day, the Governor, with what object we do not know. The exportation of arms from the Colony has been stopped.

An inquest was hold at Victoria Gael this afternoon, before the Coroner, Mr H. E. Wodehouse, and the following gentlemen as a jury-Mosers M. A. Carvalho, J. P. da Costa and L. A. Xavier on the body of one of the male inmates who died yesterday, The medical evidence was to the effect that deceased had died from exhaustion produced by dropay. He was sixty-three years of age; and was undergoing a sen- tence of ten years for piracy. He was son- tensed in Jaus, 1882. The jury returned a verdict of death from natural causes.

THE cause of the stranding of the steam

last is thus explained: Not only was the

captain asleep, but the lock-out man seems

Tax Straits Times is much concerned over the circumstance that the supply of Singa- pore with fruzuti nent is likely to be very considerably delayed owing to the destruc- tion of the Company's works by a cyclone. Says our contemporary ;—------

tain

mainder of the Remier's crew are.

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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL

Station.

REGISTER.

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Hongkong 21.0860.397 Amoy...30,00 58.081 SE Foodhow Manila..01.0281.4 ESE 3 b

Shanghai 20.02.48.003 SE. 2 E 1 Nagasaki 30.15 —— —— WPostock 30.97, {NNE (0)

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Over the upper storey of the building a barrel riscs & feet above the Eat roof. This days male a gallant but ineffectual attempt time was beating steadily at the rate of Manila 20,96 85.063 ESE 16

6 og holds the self-recording parts of the ane-to beat up towards the island on which the re-sixty-two strokes a minute, and I had eaten ongkong 20.94 58.0 98

He then nothing for five hours. Half an hour later Amoy 30.00 57.081 NE8 The Observatory was therefore built on someter, which is erected on top of it made for Saigon, where ho arrived on the I diend; and afterwards, foregoing my usual Fochow 30.211.072 NW2 It The cups are 45 feet above the ground. 27th ult. Application was made to the British cup of coffee, I settled myself into a con- Shanghai 29.0434.056 SE 3 the peninsula of Kaulang, opposite.. stands on the top of Mount Elgin, a small The roof forms a convenient platform for Consul at Saigon, Mr C. F. Tremlet, who fortable armchair by the fireside nud light-Nagasaki 30 13 Swi

despatched

tolegrus to Colonel Mosby, ed a viger. I was not droway, but felt lazy Wostok 29.86318- SH

and Our readers will be grieved to learn that hill, but up of decomposed granite, rising making servations. The Bunshine re-US Consul here, iufunning him of the disinclined to move; and this tendency Bangkong Observatury, March 6, 1884. there is no chaves now, at least for the.

waa speedily increased by an agreeable sex-

AT 10 À. IL. ---ĢTH MARCH, sation of warmth that parendel present, of Singapore being supplied with abruptly on all sides from the surrounding carder is placed in a groovs in the coping facts of the case, and whe also made

my whole stone on the parapet 34 fost above the arrangements for sealing the mon to Houg Australian Fresh Meat, as there was every level ground and culminating in two

statod,

this murting. One man died fromas, however, that may actual temperature arrived. Mesars Gillian, Wood & Co., other. The top of one of these is flat and on the two chimneys. They rise a fow fect the effects of his exposure, and those who was normal, and that my pulse was but very prosperet, zntil the news just received haraps, distant over 300 feet from cach ground. Lightning conductors are placed keng, where four of them arrived, as before badly. A friend who was with me informed the Agents of the Eastern and Australian

arrived this morning still suffer from the lightly accelerated. Prosently a curious torpor begin to take possession of my ex- Fresh Best Co. here, the presence of whose forms, roughly speaking, & circic of aboat higher than the memometer. representative, Mr Banken, here the other 200 feet in diameter; and 110 fest above

A óno-ateried blook of out buildings, con-

In his note to Consul Mosby this morn trenities. My feet and lands successively day we noticed, have received advices via

“went to sleep" for a few moments, and, Batavia that the Freezing Works of the mean sea level. Here the main building taining servants' quarters and swore-runs,ing, Consul Tremlett says:-1 have noti

fied the Government of this Colony, but when they awoke again, tingled me if they Company at Bowest, Queensland, hava hoon is situated; about 75 fast S. W. of which communicates with the main building by a fear there are an available ressels to stand had best frost-hittua and were rapidly e- destroyed by a hurricane, and their steamer, the stands for the meteorological instru- covered passage.

if they wore so disposeil, after such a gaining their worm condition. The fre quent recurroren of these sensations en the Niede, run ashore. This disaster, ful lowing closely on their works being dements, including the self-recording rain- The magnetic hut is 17 feet long, 13 feet lapse i tiro.

This forenoon. Captain McCormik, contrated my attention upon myself; and stroyed by fire, has decided the shora-gauge, are placed. It commande a un broad, and the roof rises 11 foot high. It the Commander of the American sloop-of little by little I fell into comptate silence, holders to wind up the concern, and staps obstructed view of the sky, the tope of the is made of wood, painted pure white outside war Eser, which was brought down here and lay back in my ehnic. Although I di have been already taken in Sydney to this

at the angustion of Consul Mosby to be not lose consciousness for more than throu and. We shall have, therefore, to wait a hills rising only about seven degrecs above and inside. Bamboo chips instead of mails ready to go the assistance of the fusier sur four seconds at a time, consecutive little lenger for the tender and succulent the horizon. The magnetic hot is erosted were used in its construction as well as in crew, telugphed to Aduizal Davis at thought now became irksome, if not impos- fresh beef from the Downs of Australia, of on the other prominence, the top of which that of the furniture. It has double doors, Shanghai the main facts of the caso, anileiblo; and I involuntarily surrutiared my which we had a pleasant prospent only the

added that those on the island were not self to the dreaminess that now cans over other dag.

was levelled, and forms a rectangle 30 fent.

likely to loase, but would wait resistance, 109. by 30 feet.

the threa bants carrying fivu each, and that It is fabled of Gontram the Good, of Barometer...

Burgundy, that his son, while he slept, Temperatore.. 58.0 the nut was anxious to retur We have not learned what

reply Admiral

left his body and ponetrated into the Humidity...... Davis has sent to this telegram.

bowels of Mout Trésor, where it beheld Dition of wind Consul Tromlett has suggested that tho u magnificent vision of hidden wealth My Force! action of the Captain of the Catalma mind too avened to quit my body and Weather.... shonld be noticed in some way, and Conant travel into

fairy-land. I visited the Rain..

louvered and glazed, to the North and South, and two windows on either side, as woll as two windows in the roof, which is convenient for reading the verniers... Ou top of massive teak-wood Blocks sunk 3ķ foot in the ground and rising 1 foot above

ovan

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The Barometer has fallen alous the Coast but appears to he steady in Manila. The Temperature and Femicity hare risen. Gradients indicate moderate SE breezes between Amoy, Mauila and Hongkong.

Hongkong Observatory, March 6, 1884.

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.

Previous Da dute On date

day at at 4 p.m. 10 c.m.

4p.m.

30.03

Station

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20.98 20.83 60.3 62.0

92

W. DOBRUK, Government datronomer. Hongkong Observatory, March 6.

also to have been dozing, and the officers and Mr. Keswick India should join in subnationalities, and literally warming with been saticiently cleaned before packing, insured. She was owned by lesers Arther equal Budderness."it was carried upwards helt, sud to the level of the son in luches, teatlis

be via Singapura, Batavia, and Torres boats and sampans, make up a charming view

Straits

The hot is very comfortable and forms therefore, in my opinion, a contrast to other structures used for making magnetic obaer- | vations, in arranging which the importance of attending to the comfort of the observer in the hut is but too often lost eight of. The deviation is only 47 minutes Lasterly

Sewell & Co. of Bath, Maine, U.S.

CORRESPONDENCE.

1. BAROXETER, reduced to 32 degrees Fahren-

and bandrolls.

2. TEPINATUL, in the sunde in degrees, and tenths, Fahrenheit.

3. Rexipity, la peracutage of saturation, the

orow were perfectly careless where the ship was going. With the lighthouse right in

from the verandahsof the Observatory, which, front of them no one seems to have noticed

on the other hand, forms a prominent ob- the course the ship was taking. The telc- De Macgowan, in his report on the health graph was broken; no one was placed to of Wenchow in the last isane of the Medical ject as on from the town and harbour.

I was appointed to take charge of the convey messages between the engine room Reports of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Observatory on the 2nd March last year, and the bridge, or between the look-ust and Customs, gives an interesting account of the and when I arrived in the Colony, on the the man at the wheel. If a novelist ware to musk-deer in China, and the preparation of 28th July, the foundations for the building The Dip is 32 degrees (North end dip-Commerce, I should like to make one or into my ear I answered languidly; but even hail, lighting, overst, passing showers,

depict such a teena, wo should domur to it as beyond the licence of probability allowed in fiction

Me C. P. Chater's bill, read for the first time in the Legislative Council yesterday,

authorises him to constract and maintain

for his exclusive use wharves and piers

the mask which it produces for the market. had been already laid. It was then erected ping). He says :—

T

A broad road leads from under my superintendence, and I was wain-building to the magnetic but. This The musk-deer is found throughout the insuetains of Yunnan, Szechwan and allowed to arrange every detail to suit the road is broken in the middle by a depros Thibet. It is a timid little animal, and requirements. By the 1st January the sion across which a bridge will abortly belar uotes, often dies of fright. It feeds on juniper main building was so far fuished that I built. leaves and reptiles; enake bones are found

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Shipping Intelligence. VESSELS TO ARRIVE, AT HONGKONG Name.

From

There in hope, however, in the future. The question of direct trade between India and Australia has been occupying the

The situation of the Observatory is rather attention of both the Indian and Australian secluded. It is surrounded by villes and Governments. One of the Commissioners summer-residences, and the picturesque from Victoria to the Calcutta Exhibition delivered a lecture on the subject in Cal-town, rising opposite on the side of the ship Triumph near Auckland in November cuts on the 24 January lust, in the steep mountain at a distance of a couple the floor, are placed the dip-circle and the Moshy is to recommend the State Dupar-strand of a calm and moonlit sea, in whose course of which he advocated the ostabish of miles and the harbour, filled with the unillar magnetometer. All the instrument to make bit a evitable present in tera beautiful women bath, laughing. neut of direct stesura between the portsmanst bewildering mixture of nun-of-warments were brought out safely, except the

f his conduct

Taouce it was transported to the award of a Rainier was launched at Bath; forest-glade full of the music of birda that of Australia and India, and the chairman,

muggested that the Govern and inerchant chips belonging to nearly all dipping needles, which appear not to have Maine, in July lust. Her hull was not fitted "Either and thither:

Again, with ntents there sha aidising euch a line, which, of coume, would

through the crisp air of night to a taountain peak, whenes all around was visible in the starlight; nard E folt myself alone in a world of ice-fields and avalanches. But un vision Á SUGGESTION.

lasted for long. It charge with the rapidity humidity of air saturated with saoisture being To the Editor of the CUINA, MAIL."

of the pattern in the revolving kaleidoscope

4. Densoriox on Wind, to two points. and so entranced was I by what I seaded Hongkong, March 6th.

5. FORCE OF Wren, according to Bonafort Sus-After reading His Excellency's to behold, that my friend had to raise his

some 8al. foul and the Raport of the Chamber of a souse of reality. Whenever he shouted tarhed elonde, d drizzling zain, f Jog. 7 gloomy, speech at the opening of the Legislative voice ere he could temporarily arouse me to

the two suggestions.

I rapliod (thase details tuy companion aqually, cain, snow, thunder, visibility

attention furnishes)-y

wandered off dow (wat)--The latters are repeated to indi, The subjects I wish to deal with are the day half-finished sentenen ended in cate my increus over the average of thefer proposed Colonial loun and the demand for the issue of a larger supply of ons del irrelevant or incolierent nonsense. I had signication.

not the strength of will to tear myself away 7. Ha in inches, tanths and handredths, One dollar note are doubtedly a great convenience here, while

from my dreaming. And no wander, see- the silver dollars, chopped and otherwise, he as much at homs in water and air as on ing what dreams were mino't I scomed to stomach. In spring its glandulos could take up my residence there and start Beside this road, at a distance of about causa loss and tenuble, and are a nuisance,

am not aware of the form in which the toward a star, and noticing as I approached After Hying through space the earth. pouch is greatly awollen and inflamed. The three diurnal meteorological observations. 75 feet from the main-building, has been

Government proposes Hongkong secretion is discharged with the urine.

brightness, Musk-deers always resort to the same place also at onco began issuing a daily erected the site for the refractor of G inches this loan; but why they themselves it its increasing magnitude and for urination, covering their urine with carth weather report, containing slao inform apertura, the loan of which I was promised mount of the money they require the waves, found myself in a glorious cavern,

dollar curr

I fell saward; and, plunging beneath the June In each places deposits of a superior qua-ation concerning the direction and force by the Astronomer Royal. That will coin-Government would promise on tho note to through whose resy vault schoed the tota lity are found, amounting sometimes to 15 cafties.

of wind indicated by the gradients, based plete the outfit.

pay its amant on demand, and surely the of an organ. It must have been at this following account of the animal

A native traveller recently gave the ontolograms received from the Treaty

credit of the Government here would be time that I staggered to the piano which

Under Nov. 24, Esmeralda, It is in the habit of throwing itself down Forts, Manila and Nagasaki. I receive a THE WRECK OF THE AMERICAN equal to that of any local bank, and equal stond in the corner of the mom.

1.tu the amount of the proposed lean. Hordinary circumstances I am a poor player the Government wanted money to meet yet I love a good ear and improvise with tolerable facility. My friend, therefore, order to

imagine they would find two feet in width, and are to be so cons the itching felt round tho orifice of its tructed that the uppermost surface of the glandular pouch. This omits a very rank at 10 am, and at 4 p., on the previous wrooked crew of the American ship Rainier, he a cheap way for the Government to raise before from me-a trivial air, perhaps, and some vulgar variations upon it; and, rais ape to be level with the roadway, adour, and thereby attracts numerous ants, day.

were brought on to Hongkong from Saigon a lean, and they could pay it off by he was accordingly as orished when I be

19, Sirea (5.), which crawl in and feast upon the highly

the simple method of getting in the notes Me Chater is also to affix to his pier and flavoured seoration.

The main building of the Observatory is in the British, steumor Bevents this morn-

wild melody like some of the quaint

21, Ja The saimal shortly

and destroying them that is if they wished 540

areations of

Stint.Suns,

mand played it (ao wharves, and keep lighted from aun-nse to feals relieved by the scratching of the ants, a rectangular block, 83 foot long and 45 feet ing. They report that their vessel, a fine to persus that cores.

30. my friend Youre obediently sun-set, much lights as the Harbour Master aloses the opening by a sort of spinster, wide (uut induding the transit roow) the new ship of 1,976 tons, loft Philadelphis

anching

of my por may direct. He is further to take such up the so done This architecture of which does credit to the on her maiden voyage on the 8th August

formandu My adventure with the piano operation is repeated

after day!

rooms to have turned the current of my measures sa may be becsary to parent expense of the unwitting ants, dering the Surveyor General's Department. The appor last, under the command of Capt. Samuel

I was led back to

chair ny by tho silting, or the accumulation of mud, and, life of the back (for no musk is obtained floor is devoted entirely to my quarters. H. Morrison, of Esth, Maino. Sho and a

from tha doa), until a hard, india-rubber- or other matter around the wharves and like as is formed in the distendo petab The ground floor comprises four res, nach row of 27, all told, and one of the Captain's plers, and shall conforms to such regulations The article, however, which is most prized fest long, 16 fast wide and 14 feat high. daughters, nineteen years of age, as 2150 as the Governor in Council may deem it is that which falls from the musk-dicer on In the entrance hall is placed the talegra on board. Her cargo souristed of kerosine

moved, the coals in

in the grate were little Bellerophon. the ground, and is gathered in grains that

Wan Amis, ceal coolie, was charged with giggling imps. Yet I felt perfectly at ease, Gianely. expedient to make for the purpose of preare precious as pearls. The is so pungent phic apparatus; to the right is my private oil, insured for $80,005, and her destination venting obstruction to the traffic of the that if carried through a garden or wood it is, where the library is placed, contained was Hiogo, Japan. She was becalmed in steating a clock, value $3.75, the property of and watched the transformations without Claymore.

Jolm McDonald, an ginear. Prosecutor anyuanations of suprise, mustriess of terror. pravents fructification. The poisogous Praya Another provision in the billfect of fresh muck on vegetation is shown in glazed teak wood book-cases, to protect the vicinity to Norfolk Island, where she stated the clock was stolen from his house And ie addition to my real surroundings, Patrodus (3)

I took in nu additional supply, of pro- on the 27th ultia. He made a complaint all of which, assumed grotesque forms, Stentor (.)

to the Police, and subsantly identified numberless imaginary ercatures came be have priority of use of the wharves and which the musk-door selects for its curveni have already received extensive donations visions, including sir sheep and the clock in a pawnshop. The proprietar fore my eyes: men and women more Governor Tily. piers at the ordinary current rates for mar absence of plants, and farther off, leaves from seientific institutions in all parts of bullock. After learing this place, atrag of this shop afterwards gave the prisonar comically exaggerated in feature and man

ner than any of the inventions of mortal Glenfrain (1-) cantile rassele, without prejudice to the exhibit a yellow sings. Some plante are the world. The room next to this contains adverso winds and unexpected currenta into custody. Fourteen days' hard labour,

extending into the harbour from any part

directly opposite to the ground registered

in the Land Office as Korleon marine lots

Foa, 9, 31, -20 and 21. He is also nothin- "rised to construct tramways from these wharves and piers to his buildings on the

ia an exhausted state, in daily telegram from Wladivostock in

SHIP RAINIER.'

paper

their notes

said lots. The tramways are not to exceed on the grief and to seek relief from addition, The observations are made Tre chief officer and three of the splittle difficulty in borrowing it. It would expected to hear what he had often heard Deo. 1. Heinrich.

day

at the

poštol

states that all of Her Majesty's vernole shall also by the blighted appearance of places the books from insects in the summor.

enea. For some, distance there is an

COMMERCE.

Police Intelligence. (Befaro A. 0. Wise, Beg)

Thursday, March

STEADING A Chock;

New York

Penarth Cardiff

Left.

30, Zebins Condey,

Oct. 2, Anu,

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19, Frank Carvill,

25, Raphael,

Cardiff New York Caxhaven

90,

40. Medora,

24. Decisioua,`

Liverpool

Cardiff

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Cardiff

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Cardiff

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Glasgow

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Masedon, Liverpool eid Cardif

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4, Honauwar

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Antwerp

10, Yorkshire (ni)j.

London

21

21, Cardiganshire (4.),

Hamburg

LOADING TOR UHINA AND JAPAN FORTH.

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ideas.

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my

instead

cand hsing sobfiare, became ridiculous. I of everything around 20 was

The clock emile, the abair

At Lowion-Steamers via Sues Dunali

Banglue. Oxfordshire.

At Liverpool

At Cardiff.

Surpedon (8)

Schiller,

At Glasgour,