No. 6468 —APRIL 17, 1884.ja
THE CHINA MAIL.
that the want of the lights has had the effect Wir reference to the projected exploring sold in a granuler state like very centse free press is a fuo thing to talk about. It! If the Tabenster would only commence there is Simens theatre; in another f "of drawing the attention of burglars and expedition of Mr. Colquhoun and party, salt: it is reported on rather doubtful basa RED Found and a respectable lesk by dealing with Canten and the Treaty direction shadors plays, or ju in another Provo his sareoping charges and then draw the subject an encouraging one. If it is For the entertainment the people make all thieves to the plazo, and mentions that a the Rangoon Times of the 23rd March authority to be obtained froui trees like / but will 'Rufus' kindly define, specify and Foria in China I think he would soon find i There are also firoworisa in great variety. sharply a line of demarcation between the not possible to deal with Chinoso Porte kind of presents. On the dra of the spon- use and abuse of the liberty of the press. our colonies deserve some attention; Singa" | ing of the ceremonies, the avenues leading resin.
the concluding paragraph of his letter pore and Pennig are ready for the plan.
to the cremation buildings recha ilke the Rufus suggests that a strict enquiry be
Yours truly,
thoroughfares in a great city, Multitudes made respecting the influence of Canton
crowd the scone to be entertained during the entire ceremonios. official and literary sireles over the vertueu- lar ar press in Hongkong. An admiráble enggestion-but let Raina state be what
fow nya ngo, one robbery was committed just after night-fall; since then two rob beries after dark have been frustrated. Ra do not know who has ordered the lamps not to bo lighted, whether landlord 'or au- thorities, but he is very anxious to see them lighted as before
A BEUR-JACKET belonging to H.M.S. Chun pion was brought before Mr Wise at the Futics Court this morning on a summuus charging him with asalting a horse-hor -employed by Colonel Crawford, H. A.
It appeared that Jack and a shipmate
ways: Mr. Bryco and his companion havo reached Zimmany safely. Mr. Holt Hallett and Dr. Cushing have not been so for tumuste. The business tact, and knowledge
the B, and the
it was the Abbé Hur who, having fever, was surprised to find that the Chinese cur of the people, possessed by the former, ed him. There can be no doubt that the enabled him to secure sally the required sumber of pack elephants for his journoy. In this Mr. Halt Ballett scone to havo failed for wine reason or other, and so tho merchants have got shead of him. Tatty left Bangoon togather in February, Mr. Hallett boing Mr. A. R. Colquhoun's second-in-command in his projected survey and exploring expediton with a view to railway to connect Rangoon or Mochain with You.'
so well known to the Cantonese, Tho are very valuable anti-febrilo medecinos. More than one foreigner has suddenly died in China of what the foreign docters have
a
he proposes to instituts a Government enquiry into strictly private business con- corna-or by what means he would compel the Oficials and Literati of Chatan to give evidenca before such a commission.
PROGRESS.
Marine Magistrates Court. (Before H. G. Thomwell, R.N., Harbour Master)
Thursday, April 17.
ALLEGED HARBOURING OF A DRYERTER. Intherio Villannovo, master of a son-
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SHAKES SWALLOWING THEIR YOUNG.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE QUEENSLANDER,
Sir,-In your last isavo is given a statos? nient from **Native" at Warwick regard- ing makes and their young.
With your permission I will state an experience I had as a boy some fifteen years ago, which will note entirely agrees with "Nativo's"
observations.
And this, is called paying respect to the I was driving in the early morning to dend, and making merit to serve thom in a ↑ Sandgato, and was passing a lagnen midway future stalo. According to the Buddhist botwoon there and the Bald Hills when my religion pantshment follows sin as unorting companien and self noticed a farge black ly as the track follows the cart wheel; but suaku right alivid sorc twenty yards, but thore is a debt and credit hat; morit will about the centre of the track. It showed cancel demerit, Money spent in cremation no desire to move, aud was, on the com- But the proposition of a consorship of
is so much merit for the dead. It is the trury, very excited and angry in ita actions, the Vernacular Prosa 80 oftest arged and man's boarding house, was charged by the old story over again, working out antention and its hissing we distinctly heard. I have
sacrifice.
always had strong desire to despatch Government is believed to have under cou- | Juanon Gonzales, witli harbouring a deser women.sideration, is a matter of much wider ter from that slip, named Fatricis Galvare, mation, the friends are appointed their the trap and hunting for a weapon in
importance than appears at first glance. It from the 6th to the 16th instant.
places for viewing the preparation of the less time than it takes to say it, but means a fundamental alteration of the law
The deserter stated that when the ship prie and the urn. The gemmed urn is ro- unfortunately for me nothing better than
a. dried stick wh to be found with
a disease thoroughly understood by the which, I soo frem your article, the local master of the Spanish steator Mindanao; without an atrially coine for the ero snakes of any description, atul I-wes out of
called typhoid fever. but which is in reality
Cantonese, and especially by the It is known to the Hakkas as
When the day an
were on an excursion yesterday to Happy M. P. H. Scott, the bead of the meteorolo and to the Cantonese a ff. It is in of the British Empire. The liberty of the arrived on the 4th March Inst, he saw the phuced by a cirved one of fragrant wood.
Valley. When near, the gate of the Connie-gical oflice-the veritable clerk of the
Konse of the word, but it is much more thas and get another. At 4 a. on the 6th also removed and all mudo anfo for the cro- I novor like to low sight of one for a
two sailors went up to the pony, wondering paper before the Royal Society, It deals being anddenly child in one's Bleeg), dar a privilege in the ordinary use of that word, inatunt, ho rud three othore laft, the ship, anation of the remains still on the pyrd. monteral, as you generally find them min tery they came across a pony tied up. The weather," in fact has just read a valuablo / all probability the same as, that is, press may be a privilege in the higher defendant, whó (ok,hạm to leave his shipTno part of the pyro exposed to the fire is in seving distance of the snake, and to whom it belonged, and proposed a ride, i with a remarkable “gic-wave,” which was ing hot weather, inmediately after inter for it in, uccording to the present Priner lying on the ship at Kowloon, and Then the creation commo While they were talking over the matter experienced at the end of last Angust, and course. The diherlty with foreigners is Minister of England; "a fundamental branch walked to Yau-na-fi, where they got exalted personage, the King lights the fuse Leasayed to do the job with the stick, brit the complainant came up and the defendant which he believes was engendered by the that, when suddenly takou with this forer of thelaw witli respect to the liberties aaja launch arid came to Innghong. They to kindle the cremation pyre-and tho asked him if the pony were his. Com-avan volcanic eruption. General Straeloy (which manifeels itself by a very hot skin, ship of the Trees is a question of fived there on the conditions ouse, nudfriends in order of relationship or dignity effecting my purpose, and the snake CANO
round
for their board and lodgingą out of their
complainant, an old woman who lived in at the antipodes, from which again it was treat all so-called typhoid favery as though the practical ntivantages derivol from told him if he joined another ship he won'd ; anuntry are soon parsed with, which are at of the distanco at a pace that was
plinan: stated that the defenddut then assaulted him by hitting him on the head and kicking him, but this statement was not borns out by the only witases callei by the same house as complainant, and who contradicted herself in her evidence. At all orente complainant ran away, and Jack
is of the scano opinion. The atmospheric paina in the loins and joints, headache, ware has been proved to have spread from &c.), it is difficult to ask them the question,
13 contre, in a circntir form, all Java
ven if the forugh docter understood the the globa; at first expanding until it had got huf mannd the earth, and then again disease. The safest way, therefore, is to contracting till it was again concentrated
backwards and they were brought on in this way, for the back, and so towards til it was obliterated. Tables have medecings are equally god in say case been published which fully bear out this
fover. The treatment consists simply in conuiusion. So that, altogether, scientific importance, whatever the Dutch
the dis
of
portance of
took the pony along the road until he met turbances at Krakatoa luve been of great obtaining profuse swants, frequently chang two Indies, one of whom informed him that may think of them. The commission aning the clothes, taking sealding bot batas, of tizn P the enbiers, li a censorship dino, sail the last witness and six others to be reverenced by the posterity of the ing the coup de græce-living nover before
the pony belonged to Colonel Crawford. He then took the animal to that gentle- man's stables and shortly after was arrested by a constable from No. 2 Station, whose services the coupkivant had called in
Complainant stated that he was loading the pony when the defendant and his ena panion came along, but failed to prove lis statement or the assault. The sutuons
ap-
The
painted by the Dutch Government, to report and avoiding all food but potatoes, or at all Da the volcanic disturbances of August events all oïs, meats, and wiues A cure last, have not yet returned a verdict The manner in which Eaglish scientists have follows in two or three days, and the earlier turned the terrible incident to so quick an the remedies the quicker the cura, account has a national significance." disease, according to the Cantonese, was naver understood by any foreign doctor, except the lata Dr Wong: hence (they car) the number of unnecessary deaths in many. of the parts. As personal, servants of cur
CHINESE NOTES.
Owing to the non-appear.mco of defend- ant the case was remanded unti! to-morrow at half past eleven.
ALLEGED ASSAULTH,
E. Mattson, an A.H., was charged with assaulting Mamert Brae, second mate; and Henry Rappert, also an A.B., nectised if nasulting Albert Waikaucen,
Way
CHINESE AT PLAY.
was thareforo displurged, and Jack got bin in Bermah. In order to propitiate the own have both died and recovered from their present healthy responsers frat tante; all of the Guremn steamer Dye know Flynu, mobbe ye dut Bo does Needless to say those were despateltud, and
ride for nothing.
Har Emil Hofnghoff has invented an appliance by means of which the tune of the harp may be truthfully imitated on the
piano.
THE Governor Ith Chuan-lin (recently prefect of Canton) says there are in all 27 of cavalry and infantry in H Nau, corting over Ta. 1,000,000 a year.
The following telegram has not yet boen published here London, 25th March. According to intelligonos required from Central Asia, Gonemal Komarof'intended to occupy Morv on February the 7th, and to ustablish Russian adrainistration there.
Fuex an examination of the census returns, it appears (with reckoning the mechanical piano artists) that during the last ten years the increase of musicians is 38 per cent., and actore and actresses 30 per cout Formerly actora gutuumbered actresses, now it is very much the reverse.
Mr Colquhoun describes ceremony similar to that noticed by Captain Forbes
Neptune of the Rapids, the Chinese pilot cut a cock's throat over six cups of wine and some joan-jupers placed in the how of the boat: a few fanthers were then taken out and placet on either side of the bow, and the wine was scattered over the boat,
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44.
came and
there are several square miles of moan what typhoid is, it might be worth while than ever it eould be in those lanla pert atriking him in the face twice, Witcher and grueor boyz and a delegation
tring
ebs did not strike back.
This case was also remanded until half past ten to-morrow morning, the scend mate and complainants' witresses ut being
of park loungers and bummers.
I am, it, .,
15th Fabrikry.
Jo. D. CAMPBELL.
Qnotations Hosokosu, April 17. OPIUM-Ney Pains, cash,...$627}
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an aing if you are careless of this. Howevor,
it broke at the critical moment, without general condition of a country. The conscx- went to defendant'a
that they paid follow with a variety of cumbuâlibles auch for ine in a way that left no husita- Experience has corisidamble magnitude,
candles. shown that although certain inconveniences advance when they got a noiy ship. When and from fragrant wood or scented tien in my mind as to what I should
I alk. attend the abuse of the liberty of the press, he left the ship ho intended to return; but
took to my heels and ran as There is a little fear of disagreeable unit a hundred yards as over I have oven as abuses of one kind or another are he would not have done so if the mate bed adors for the body is kept many, many been enlied upon to do, and you will attendant on every form of liberty, that yet not found him in the house. Defendant tenths often, and the juices in this hot hardly credit the that the snake followed
a perfectly free presa do eventually bin $10 a month, and $40 advance. No carefully preserved and with coremony much too smart for my pleasure. I next very greatly outweigh those slight tempun induced him to love the ship; but if borne away, thrown into the river to in-gut the long-handled whip of the trap my te uvligistent or if way dopres de sant not made him zu legendant
inconveniences. Every one whose defendant had another offer gle with the groat deep.
(which I had not thought of proviously), and After the burning, the ashes are cave-fter a careful amount of stalking managed pervaded with the spirit of free institu- knew he belonged to the Minkous. fully collected and urned, and removed to place the reptile hors de cusabot. Hav tions must feel how great is the in- Blast Avnutos, first mate of the Mia with great sure to sous conscerated place,ing thus had sono dificulty in administor
Press is ones establishel it must ex-deserted from the slip on the 6th instant cremated.
know a sunke to bo so very aggressive- I naturally wondered what the renson a great
cent injustice deserters in defendant's boarding house;
could be. cac papers, as otherwise as
Noticing the Laly was much ercise control over both Eurqem and Chi. He found inst, witness trid tant would be done, and the great error would the others rati away.
(American, paper,)
larger than ordinaty. I determined to What sort of a ganio nto they playing? unvey it to Sandgate, and there holl be committed of anting an invidious and painful distinction between the Vernacular
Just walk up thers at take a look at post-perfum, On »pening the anake I found are oval-shaped semi-transparent Papers and those published in the English tongua The establishment of angh any of.
em, Be dad, they're the buss Lickers. fice, however lily the power was exer-
They get around as spry as a cat, an' they embrane bugs, about 5in. in diameter would be an act replete with high- ciaod,
nie plaiuly so they each contained a young can kick a'os as high as a find of mine mlin, in thickness, and I could banded intention and despotis disposition
named Flypu, from Ballysioon, says he snake. On opening this covering each in cun, at he says he can kick mo hat off divaland younglor cane out as Brely and If such a censorate wero established the
head, though I have a devita about thats ninle to magta about as
their pront Government would by their activa interfer-
relieve the editors of once necessarily
writin' Ibelave for the papers. Come wid
I conchialed that the game fighting rocli . I'll show ye whore they are-ebbo vitios of the parent were due, in a mentiro this disease, according to their treatment, and the writings of which your nnmuroas Albert Waihauson, asora, said he was
so ru off we are disposed to adopt the Cantonese correspondents have so biterly complained chief officer of the Gurzan steaner Anye might writo sonsthin sixat em."
would still be aurreptitionsly pablished. | At noon on the 14th start, while he was
That dock on Powell-struot upon which yway, to her motherly desire to s is Calvary Church is paved, it may be afety. I think there can be dist
the view, the more so in that there are Cat would be more agerly read and wore readily in the cabia, Henry Hupport,
aggressor and pl.eu her progeny in formed, with aaphilton, and the whatever as to black kus being vivi- Witness refeed
is both smooth and hard and a favorite paros, and, with touese who consider their European em-believed by thepeople. Iamunnes that the asked leave a go ashore.
resort of the police and some of the militia to think other snakes are the saine. The Native," 1 am iclined ployers or masters to have been sacrificed consorship of the French Press in the days of to grant the lexvo, and told him to leave
tho Seond Empire, or that which exists in the cabin. Ho refused to go and sand 20 companies for the purpose of drill. Six to the want of experience of European doe Russia to-day, was, or has been, productive bad as much business in the cabin us tors, who ridicule the antire remedy. As of ang good, aut believe that the knowledge witness had. Witness thoro apon turned Chinese wers in the middle of the streets as I saw came from a jurt of the On the borders of Fu Kion and Chi Europan physicians, even ou their own bean provxative of harm and has made the tried to hit lita in the face; Matson was fringeil with un audience of urse
of the existence of the Corp has only him out. Ruppert tareed on him, sud sad two or three upon the sidewalk, which dy entirely different from the stomach.
girls and their accompanying atone of Kiang, at a place called or shewing, are somewhat in the ducks zato venon of falshood, diacontent and edition ales came up and assaulted him. Later va humanity, passing ladies on their way to or thousandfold more deadly in those coun. Rappert and others rented him, up from a shopping expedition, two or three where an untrammelled press flourishes Only once, in days not very remote, the Bri
Look at the haythen now. Wa'nt that fish Government restrained the Irish Press, int that was a temporary housure forced on
darlin' kick! What are we comin' to enny way, whin thim yeller divils can ap reluctant stateamon by the fact that the ↑ present.
and
propriate a whole block in therisidince part The disease always onde in the subject Irish Press openly avowedly advocated
f the city for the purposes ar a play- | murder. That the native papers contain turning black, ospecially, at the nails and much which ie False, foolish and frivolous
Å ground! "D'ye mind that now !?*
During this time the Chinamen had been tongue. It is not Infectious (say the Cau- no one doubts for a nicment, but that is no
resting, and they now reamied their sport tonese), nor is there any occasion to run. reason for their being gagged. That they
with increased vigor. There were six of make malicious and calumnious attacks
them, four being apparently from 20 to Womon may alan upon the Chinese and other Governments, away from the sick man.
years of age and
others
10 years suffer from this disease, but it is rarer with that tiny abuse Europeans, whether Mis
older. They were playing what may be thom, insanch as they are less listo topionaries or not, and attribute to 11:ca aployed, was before the Court, on a charge armed gato of Chaitiens batuladers and
immorality falashood, deceit, cruelty, that on or about the th March 1879, at shuttlecock, minus the battledore. Tho Credits, perspire at night, are less fatigued, and rapacity and greed; that they contain libet Singapore, the said Jota Henry Dara id
shuttlecock are less inclined to sleep without coverlet lous statements about Christianity, rabid without authority of one Emamsal Peethay being composed of round flat pieces of cark India, Wire, The
was of petuliae construction, Documentary & renthe sight, attacks on France, and circulate untra cut off certain parts of two documents signal rubber about an inch Sul whalf or clothes
domamid, versions of current erents or glowinged by the said Emu Pocelay and by so believe, an alan that they call Europonas cf of the same and thereby earailted forgafasorted in one end. They played singly Gold Loaf 99 in... accounts of chimerical victories I enamel doing altered them in certain testerial parte diameter, boil together in alturante lavors Shanghai, dont and....
giving it great clasticity, and with a fouther 30 days' sight, private 73% and to coples, appearing to alternate and Sovereigns, to Poking are oranges and silk all classes by unpleasant, or it may be of breach of Section sad of the Peral the
The case was 10manded until 23rd inst.change sides apouling as the play was probrious tancs, but aveu if they do al these things and more besides, these are, for evidence from Singapons.
Temperature. successful of the reverse. No bat way tood. although minch to be lamented, are not suck
the shuttlecock was thrown into the air and The Alcars Falconer & Cul's Premžara,
Queen's lima, } as can be urged as justification for making an ALLEGED BREACH OF EMIGRATION ORDINANCE Up thers au long as possible. It might arbitrary pruss law or establishing u Conser
The cloven men who were remanded strike the grond, but if the player caught
HONGKONG, April 17. ship of
the nativa Pross Things yesterday, on a charge of being suspicious
BAROMETER DA..... as bad as these are written every day in characters, dangerous to the peace and it on the rebond hand sent it into the air, struck the ground a secmi timp. hy was some of the papers published in America good order of the Colony, ware again before a well, but if befines he mould do so it and England and yet nous commenta on diem.
Only the good they contain Inspector Grey conducted the case against, and another player caine it is remembered, tho false, frivolous and the defendants and called Qaung Ayan,lity and dexterity of the players was remarkable. The hands were "chic^p um- allowed to sink into well P. G. 320, whe gare evidence to the effect played, but the feet were frequently bought malicious is merited oblivion. I have neither heard of that he was out, by urder of the Captain into service, and the kieks given, both in or sean anything in the Vernacular Papers Superintendent of Fudice, to the Harbour worthy
of the grave attention of the Blaster's Olive, with a party of Folce to their reach, the twist of linh and Government, although there is much that watch the proceedings of the defendants, accurs, were surprising. It seemed al- raa! *
all be classed as rubbish, and if this on the 18th it. Four of the defondantest as though their legs were bundless, offends some over sensitive individuals I were standing outside the back door of the they were so limlar Once the shuttlecock joy.would advise them to real for a time some Office while two others of them went in and was sent whizzing over the breast-high park | of the large daily papers, the political werk-potuined passago tickets which they gave to barrier and, without a hit, placing one One of the Oclestials rushed at tho lies, the so-called surety juaraate, and the the others outedo. This was done several religious magasines, that they may gather times and a number of tickets were obtain like a shot and hack came the shuttle-cock hand upon a picket went over the fence from them some idea of the false newa, ed. Witness had known four of the defen-l in the twinkling of an eye. And so the malicious charges, frivolous gossip, personal dants for ten years as residents in the game went on for an hour or more, afford- scandal, bitter tucks and religious raneurolony. They were frequently as the with which they abound and by which they Elarbour Master's Office obtaining tickets get usement to the good-sized crowd
ask to tickle the palate of the public for for other men. Witness arrested all the
defendants. whom they cate..
Yours truly,
On referring to the ordinances Ifis Worship decided that there was at present no clause or section whereby he could slotain the defendants on the original charge and they were forthwith discharged:
lainous country brown, or the to purchase and test the herbs which go to alam mines, distant about 30 miles from inake the above named 'teas,' (the ward There are about 20ten' being used in the sense of our beef the city pi W. kilns, the effect of which upon the local tea, catoomilo-tea). streams is such that they are quits destitute of fish. In order to work their alum um disturbed by rival interests, the factors pay the land tax and the fishery imposta apon the whole tract, and employ many thousand hande in the industry, many of whom are Chinese desperadoes and zikabu, fitted by bodily strength, and compelled by bad reputo to take to this severe labour. port to which most of the alum is shipped is called ji, and here there j'a Ningpo guild, with 30 ur 40 hargs houses engaged in the tea, cotton, and alum trade. Soute Foseliow houses are also established
A Recent Peking freite ways that the Chiefs of the Ulanch'ap Mongols (Mayers No. 014) have positively declined to furnish camels any longer for official services be-- twoon Hamil and Uramtsi. A meeting of at this port, but most of the alum is ship Burnt chiefs (Mayers 592) has beau held ped thence in Ningpo junke. There aIS
*
Amongst the minor articles of tribute acat
from Wenchow.
*
After conquering China, the founder of
at a trysting plaas called thres qualities of alum; the best is the Han dynasty visited his native village where the Chinese authorities acolded then
in vain, and the Mongols offered to give up, and is worth: 81.20 a poul; the so-in Kiang Su. (assembled his old their salaries. It is a significant thing to find the Mongols near the Russian frontier in almost upon revolt.
thist
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A Bul for the registration of medical pre titioners was recently introduced into the sonata at Annapolis, United States. The Baltimore Sun, of the 23rd February, any
cond quality is worth $2.75 x pocul; the worst is, or U, worth $2.45, but the prices vary very much with the cost and plentifulders of labour. The better kinds of alum are used in the glass and bangle factories, and have been as dear as the pecul when labour was
seatce.
Ch'a intendency is sent to collect an export
friends, and got royally drunk. Beating & dulcimer, he extemporized the following
Bong i
After the blast is over
The clouds nav swept away. And so the conquering monarch Visits his home this day: Where can I find a hero- To keep it aturdily?
He then began to dance and cry with
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE NATIVE PRESS,
VERAX.
evening's imque appeared a long letter from Province, a piece of delightful sagueneas, thing to its postal rovente. due in furtherance of const defence, cur- which is eminently characteristic of the toms dues, and kin. Ab Taib Kï there whole of his letter. As I read that effusion, gular postal service, the American officials I wondered whether 'Rufus' had ever read have had utices published in the Chincre are about ten enormous inus for the use of the great dally papers of America and Eu papers of this Colony. One of them, which
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Police Intelligence. (Baju A. G. Wire, Exy) Thursday, April 17.
CHARGE OF FORGERY. John Henry Dave, of North America, un-
the Court.
CREMATION OF THE LATE EX- REGENT OF SIAM. The remains of the late ex-Regent of Siam
burne in procession to these buildings.
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Tas Czar Alexander II.'s famous yacht, the Lisadia, turned up not long ago as a coal hulk in the harbour of Sebastopol, This is au ignominious ending for a craft which was expected to revolutionize marine architecture, and which was certainly one The first appearance of the alum is in of the most gorgeous veracle ever built. blocks of stone, which are cleared of mud No such vessel had been seen suco Noah and sand, and then carried to the kilns.
To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL' navigated tha castern waters; her hull was The blocks are pilad up in a loose wall on hidden in a projecting baseinout which each side, and burnt with faol during the
Victoria Hotel, April 17. supported a row of pillars; she had four
SIX, From time to time thero have up tiers of docks paved with black, white, and course of one night and one day; they are red marble; there was a magnificent marble then taken out and beaten into fragrants. peared in your columns letters from vari ous correspondents concerning the Varnocu. fountain; the haths were hewn from white The broken alum is then taken to the pits, lar Press of Blangkong, 1 have read th sa
of the bys if they iver got a show at 'em," Any 20.98 75.072 NE! marble blocka; rows of electric lights illu- minated the saloons and avenue-like corri-
vesas like corriand soaked repeatedly in water letters with some curiosity mingled with
remarked the expresses as he tornes Fuochow 90.04 65.0 81 WNW dors, and the many seta of
away. By 'thu b'ys' he undoubtedly meant Shanghai 190.07 62.077 NE 3 aired his
To the Editor of CutNA MAIL.' respondent after another bus- finished in rare woode and ments wore during two or three days, and stirred about a little impatience as one irresponsible vor stones, furnished with les It is then filtered through grievance and relieved his overwrought
our local athletes, for he was something of Nagasaki 20.98 sw 2 Hongkong, April 16th.
an enthusiast in athletic matturs.
Wi'astock 29.98318) ESE 21 with the most costly trappings and oma-bamboo sieves into huskets, and taken to spirit by giving le
be the world vague charges S-Owing to the lack of foreign con- mented with Oriental splendour. Altogether
Hongkong Observatory, April 17, 1834. the Livadia was more like a fairy palace the pans, where it is boiled until thick, against the Native papers, top often ex-venisices, the Chinese are obliged to catab
THE MILK IN TER COCO-NUT.
AT 10 AM-17TH APRIL than a modera yacht, and it is not strange and poured into rats, where the effect of pressed in strung language, his own wild list offices of their own, by which a large
Manila imagininge. I thought the maximum number of letters are transmitted to and
The coconut is • subject well deserving
. 30.03 81.6.68 WNW|2| the impression went abroad that are
Hongkong 30.08 70.474 B purpose of her creation was to dazzle the the air cools it into blocks of pure alum, point of silly sensitiveness had been from various parts of the work. A great
were to be cremated on Sunday, the 6th of the lavat sympathetic treatinctit at the Amoy..... 30 01 39.070 NE 1 reached by your correspondent sign-number of these letters are destined for
hands of grateful humanity, gentle
No Asiatic mind and incremes the age and which crystalise on the sides.
ing himself W. 1. (not the General) and Clear residents in the United States, and instant, at Bangkok. Special crematory other plant is useful to us in so many diverse Phonak mystery with which it regarded the Car.
but the American Post Office officials naturally But the Livadia was not a safe shiler,
The industry is entirely in unofficial hoped that there the matter would end, object to lettos hoing brought into the buildings had been erected for the core-
and remarkable manuets. The solid part of Sanghat 300863.080
Nagasaki. 30.01 N and she was practically discarded as
kande, except that a deputy from the Wén. in your lan unfus dated the Kwangtung | country which have no contributed any-mony, and on the 4th instant the remains at supplies food aluss alone to thou l'ostock 30.0532.9-.NE 14 a
ands of people daily, and the milk servos thom worthless.
To obriate, an put a stop to this irof the deceased, in a gorgeous urn' were for drink, thus acting as an ethnicnt filter to dicate gentlo N winds
the water absorbed by the roots in the most
The Temperature the flower stalk you get a sweet juice, which rea polluted or melarious regions. If you tap continues to rise and the Humidity to de- can be boiled down into the peculiar sugar
W, DONERCK, Govarument Astronomer the alum coolies, and for dealing it stom,gland and if so it what words of exaggerated I was reading the other day, called upon
the The building where the cremation takes called, (in the charming dialect of coat-
Han kung Observatory, April 17, 1884. of which a scale allowance is made to the indignation he would describe some of their the Chinese letter sanders to acts on place, has in its centra the imprising pyre, merce, jaggery; or it can be fermented int The bill of Mr Virtue, of Baltimore, in porters for rice en route.
articles and the way in which the editors, foreign custom of buying those tickets on papecially
on the Busamit of which is placed the ar, very tasty spirit known as palm-wine, in troublous times, insert bogus which are generally to be found, & For
METEOROLUGICAL REGISTER. troduced to-day, to regulate the practics of | The maritime quatoms duo on alum is news and telegrams. The only charge to eigners head, that is, post stamps. One containing the remains of the distinguisad teddy, or anek, ar it can be tixed with
Previous | On dritë · On date medicine in Maryland is recommended by two mace a pecul, and the coast defence spiteness is the one of calling Missionaries beat' on it, if put on a letter, entitles it tu vated to its pace, it is conducted from the compound "native beer." Evon an which 'Rufus gives any substance or deof those small tickets, with a Foreigns's person to be cremated. The day it is ele bitter herbs and roots to make that delect-
day et Dra. Johnston, Van Bibber, Thom,
paid to the beam
at p.m. 10 a.M. Stewart and other well-known physicians.
of cremation and elevated with moh cero- DT Ming indebted to it. We wash with The bill provides that graduates of reput of the junk. Zitin is paid at the rate and to some weak matures a very irritating wheress letters that have not this Fhreign decease, in a graud procession, to the place from morning to night never
practice, but it is human nature.
tickets on them, are not It is not man's hond
Windsor of about 100 cash, shipping and crauining in China along that people are called privileged and will not be allowed to pass mony to its position. The pyre is made it
our Temperature. able colleges must have their diplomas ex-
[fees included. The bead office
imposing with flowore and gems and costly glycerine soap the moment we leave our namos Why does not Rufus recognize or enter the Ports of the United States. amined and cortified by the State board of.
the fact that the Missionaries are in thins, Now this is at Ka Nguo T'on, but there are two pr health; that physicians who have practised
and, if properly word the pyre is the centre, is nu le as attractive the mats made from its fibre. We sweep Dition of wil
one room with its brushes, and wipe our Force continuously for ten years and tunes filed three branch etties, and the excise and unto the harvest, and whose many millions ed, might prove beneficial to the Chinese rare plants, rare pictures and imposing
As rope,
Weather....... an affidavit to that effect with the State fshery taxes
ru poluf inhabitants are not hungering and thirat reader of the newspapers, who may have draperice can make it. Here the relatives fest un it as we enter une dours.
for some form of Christianity, but friends abroad with whom they would like of the deceased have apartments; here it tios up our trunks and packages; in the Rain.. beat of herden, way continue to practiselected at P. There is a large expert ing whoso people do not wish for any reh to communicate in a safe, cheup, and very visitors of distinction have places amigued, hands of the housemaid it screhe uur Bours,
who have been persone larly graduated or have not practised ten also from Wenchow in (chiefly Ningpo but gion other than the superstitious mixture expeditious manner. But the st import when they go to pay their respects, and for or else, woven into onarse cloth, it acts as a
must pass
a satisfactory examination also Fonchow) juuks.
they at presunt possess. The fuct will ant step to take would be to Lave Chinese the masses there are appendages to the covering for balen and furniture mai by before the State board of health.
Failing
mines our digestion in carly life with coco- vasistymine Alum is use by paper, picture and book account for much discourtesy without scholars or linguists at the various post great centrul building where there are rail or steamboat. The confectioner under to pass they are entitled to re-examinations
seeking to fasten the blame on the offices, where there is a numerous Chinese amusements to entertain, and
Because Missionaries population, to ensure the letters being sort
te please taste, annually. Physicians rosiding in other makers, by silversmiths, tailors and also by Hongkong Freas.
visitors.
and Myers. Hunting and hundradila.
2. TEMPERATURE. In the shade in degrcte, States, and called to this State in
Palmer cordially invita te to con: late the and feathe, Fahrenheit. the cases, are exempted from their families for clearing water. As turned out and foreigners are called evil names, to their proper destination. A better plan the great multitude of the rate of Ht bandy; the cook tempts us later on with heir and to the feral of the ass itt inches, tenths
Oftentimes
imposing spectacle re- above provi
continuous days,
8. Hexorts, is percentage of saturation, Use and hundreds in will coconut biscuits We audiat our sions. Apothecaries and pharmacists are of the rata it is in lumps of 200 or 300 which, with a childish irritation they might be to have a single number for every
notion and district office which the letters might be sains many e are only too ready to included in the net. Itinerant physicians, catties, and a strong coolis will carry 200 resent, it does not seem reasonable that sent. It would thus be unnecessary to read of priests perform their merit-aking recapped lands with one of its preparations humidity of air saturated with moisture clu meaning persons who travel from placa to place advertising otres, are taxed 350 catties; or it is split ap and packed in they should, like birds of ill omen, for the Chinese address in order to sort the hearsals, and have their seasons of boity en-after washing; and grease the wheels of our tell, all kinds of catastrophes as likely to letters for the different mails, the Chinoze tertained with sumptuor feasts. There carriance with another to make them run inonthly, and failure to pay the tax is pun baskets of 300 catties carried by two men. result from that intense malignity which Fastman at each station would do the read are also many presents distributed to them; smoothly. Finally we use the oil to buriz lahable by fine of from $100 to $600. The journey to and fro is performed once finds vent in the perils pistils, y es wust, however, leave these matters to the given to the prominent visitors, and there together, an amateur census of a single tached crois, & drizallag ruin, / fog, a gloomy,
and deliver the letters, where due, woney is scattered among the masses, and it our reading lamps, and light ourselves at Bealo. Violations of any of the other provisions of
calling, which, according to Rufas, mayorea the act are paziskatte by a fine of nina day and the earnings are from 200 to 500 lead to an indiscriminate slanghter of Pro-Fostat- officials to arrange and confine my is the drawing of loin, for accuring small English coltage results in the bail, tightnlag, o overtest, P pa sing showere, *850 to $600 for imprisonment in jail from cushi, according to the waight carried. testants and Roman Catholica and proportion of the work to calling attention sents: Food is had easily, without money one to twelve months, or both. Persons,
Another material, called is used claim the potential bloodguiltiness of the to this important matter, Our Hongkong and without price, and tables are spread startling discovery
Goverment. The moral res Hongkong
stamps using diplomas not belonging to them or
Evenings, the place is twenty-povou distinct articles which one are already marked in Chinese chofer dignitaries. forged certificates das be sent to the penis by druggists, and dye houses: Dr W possiilty of the Government of Hongkong racters, so that their respective values can brilliantly Bghted everywhere. Here is a their origin in one way or another to the sate ay Suzouse over the average of their
Figuras calls this "acetate. of copper ;* it is | for the gross missase of the privisge of a readily be ascertained,
end entertained by a Chiuse theatrej 4000-nut palka. Corahill Megazine, tentiary
year
that
Peru-
old 38
brown
-Station.
Loave
Barometer.....
or
aland where the missiva fekis are not white į in the right ertiscent is a decided step ornuments and the grand biking, of which bade Wo walk noress our page on the Huraidity .............!
the
for
coco-aut
last to bed with stearine candian.Al-
that it contains
100.
at 4,
20.08 30.08
29.98
73.8
70.4
73.9
74
61
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W. DOBERCK, Government Astronomer.
Hongkong Observatory, April 17, 1884.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to a degrees Fahren
4. Daneċator or Win, to two points.
6. Boace of Yæ, saccrding to Beaufort.
de-
6. STATE OF WETU. blue sky,
guy, rain, snow, thunder, e visibility. daw (wol),The letters are reported to mál,
signitiontion.
7. Raw, in inches, tenths and handroftia,
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