THE FRENCH FAILURE IN INDO-ORINA,
lieve that for two years past nothing. bas surprised the French War Office like the
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FU
the Generals have every interunt in ples sing the War Office, the apluation must be their conviction that without visible
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December 1st, 1883. Dear Sir,It affords me great plostro There are few puzzles, either in history on to do their best. The Generals, again effects of Mother Seigel's Curative Syrup. or politics, ao entirely perplexing as the hate the country to which they are de Foro period of eight years I aufered from failure of the French people to found great spatched, a feeling thared by many civil dependencies in Asia. Wo have founded officials. Nothing oan be more curious severe cough and indigestion, with fre thora, the Russians have founded them, the than the niter despondency of much of the months I was onder modioal troatment, attacks of rheumatism; and for eleven quent a Dutch have founded then, even the Fortu- evidouce before the Tenquinose. Commit withcut deriving the slightest benefit. The guess have founded them, though their em- tes, the entire want of the English fooling last four dostors I was under pasurod mo piro was transitory and is now forgotton; that an Asiatic Doha must be a great that mine was a hopeless can, and gave me bat the French, with all their splendid sources, have always failed. The popular cant and acceptable work.
estats, and that
is highly plon. govorning it is
The Army incurable. About that time I heard explanation, repented overy day, not only in
Army of Soigel's Syrup, which I was induced to would, in fact, be glad to be at
be at home; and the English but the Parisian Press,
simple in that feeling, spread through all ranks try, and through ita nao, am thankful to nonsense. It is said the French count and influencing every movement, except am now able to follow my anal occupation. say, 'I quickly got rustored to health, and colonize in Asia, as if any other Power could. We have never even tried to colonise success disappears. An Englishman doos symptore of my old complaints I at once.
porhaps, the actual Lighting Rli hope
I may say that whenever I in Southem Asia, ner has any other Euro not lose force from being out of spirits, and take a few doses of the Syrup, which quickly feel the least pean State. ficials, who take their pay and return home and men are half crazy with disappoint hope that other sufferers may be induced to Apart from the soldiers and an English brigade will go on when officers geta ne all right. I sand you this in the when their term of service has expired, ment and annoyance; but a French army to give the Syrup a trial. Your truly, England has probably not thirty thousand do its best, must be a cheerful males in the whole of Asia, India included, soldiers of all ranks, who would do any army. Tho
(Signed) Wm. Rondall.' and of them probably not two thousand work in Europe, regard the scene of au have the slightest
ides of remaining thero Asistic campaign as a hateful scene, and for more than fraction of their active lives, long enly to us out of it at any sacrifice, The total number of plantora, nut buing the or with any loss of a prestige to be a real
Whittle-le-Woods, near Chorley, which aoither who al return they nor their countrymen paid servants of
'December 26th, 1889. excordingle mall and of
of cultira
Dear Sir, Mother Seigel's vicdicine tors there is, so far as we know, not a single and they give up almost from the begin speak highly in its favour.
It is not what they are seeking, sells excooling well with us, all that try it The French in this
We had a cas respect are onlyning. It is simply ridiculous, with our of a young lady that had been troubled on a par with their rivals, and the problem haudred years of expuranee in tndia and many years with pains after eating. She is not that, but this,Why cannot the Indo-Chinn, to suppose that a good French tells us that the pains wors entirely taken porn races can. They have tried four stoneral, with forty thousand men, could away after a few doses of your medicine.- French conquer in Asia, when othor it we rockon Nappleon's invasion of Earptaut quer the rotten Kingdom of Again, Yours étuly,
and reduce it to habitablo order; and the as one, and I twice under special advantages i failure batrays a want of will exactly akin but their only success, the conquest of tot the want of will shown within the Coam- Cochin China, has been singularly infrac-ber. The Deputies do not want Asiatic tuous, They ought, by every rule of logic, Colonies, and neither do the officers
Southern India when to have cont; but their empire do not get them. they made the
or the conscripts, and consequently they there, thought splendidly planned and actual- the weakness in any injury to France, for We do not know that ly founded, withered away in a night. They
They concentration ought to have conquered Ansin and Tonquin, a people rarely misunderet policy, and and to this moment the most exporichsou terest completely; but the
misunderstands its own in
weakness Anglo-Indian observers, familiar with sach
exists, and has repeatedly modified the history of operations for
declare years,
thomalves un-
Franco. She could colonise if she liked, able to understand why they failed. It is
for her singla temporalo clearly not a general incapacity to keep con-
numbom the conscripts cannot be relied to add my testimony to the wonderful 4 CHINESE DICTIONARY
20130,
one.
3519
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Lorraine, and practically conquered Nicornsaly French; access, and is still guests. Franco actually entered Alsace.ada, as been a fair Colony, Frencht
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she could conquer aho liked, for she bus conquered an piro in Northern Africa; but, as a rule, she does not like, only attempts the work andor over persuasion by false representations, and therefore ragularly fails.
and Savoy, and Corsica, and she has kept the latter three; nor will the loss Algeria Tunia, which she gained by direct
force. It It onrtainly is not want of genius, for Bussy, who so nearly made Southern India Fronch, was probably na ablo ng any British Agent over employed in India, Ulive
included; it want of Franco has used, on the whole, larger means than any European country. Except in 1857, when we had all Northern India to reconquer a whole Continent, in fct-20 English General has ever led to Asiaan arany pro charms of Goueral Erióro do in strength the one which was at the l'lato when he com
commenced his operations Government has never spont and the British in any Asiatic campaign a greater sum than hoa bean wasted first and last upon the Tonquinest invasion. Yet the failure is admitted by all hands. The Ruch parties, and upen all Francisco, carried the following treasure
continued,
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must be recomments-
From a paragraph in the Southern Sur of Paintka, we learn that quito a sensation has arisen in Georgis by sundry articles Bonth, who shot President Lincoln, is alive, in a newspaper proving that John Wilkes and some starting revelations of a political kind are promised by a man who is going to write a book of 300 pagos about the matter.
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The Chinese shipped the Gold coin are and ground they stand on and the Opportunista
$22,245 in Mexicans, and the remainder of the shipment only ruswer that evacuation would be hami-wus mile Ly the bank as follows
- $83,000
liating behold, with due care and precaution, by ten thousand men. Ten thousand mon! Why, we held India for half a contury with loss than thirty thousand white soldiers; and if we conquered Indo-China from end to end- Burton, Siam,, and Anam all included-- the War Olloo would think
corpe d'armate of ten thousand Europeans an amply auflicient garrison.
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AFTER MANY YEARS.
'E. Peel.'
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS.
'Stoke Ferry, January 9th, 1884. Gontiumen, I have used Suigol's Syrup for several years, and have found it a most general debility, and I always koop some efficacious remedy for Liver complainte and by me, and cannot speak too highly in its praise,-I romain, yours truly,
ส
"Harriett King,
APTER SIXTEEN YEARS,
'90, Newgato Street, Worksop, Notis,
December 26th, 1883. Gentleman,It is with the greatest of affiency of Mother Seigel's Syrup. My pleasure accord my testimong us to the wife, who has suffered from soute Despopais for over sixteen years, is now perfectly better through the sole help of your Syrup. I have spent pounds in medicines from doctore in fact, I began to think she was incurable, until your marvellous medicine was tried. I remain, yours thankfully,
'Alfred Fori,
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a chance of doing that work as we have story is going the round of the American Mi They did do it in Southern India with papers. But here it is-Onco Disraeling kok. success; and French and Italian uficers and his wife wore at a dinner where Bernal Ngan Ping.
Mong made the most formidable of all Asiatic Osborne sat beside Mrs Disraeli. After th armies, the Sikh force, which in 1840 ladies had- withalrawn, Osborne, who had Pal-shui Wa and 1848 so near overthrew the Indian the ma
what poses Sepoys of the Tonquinese, who ed you to marry that woman At this are personally brave; and the objection speech a dead silence of suspens and dis- raised by the best French officers, that may fell upon all the table. Diseli look- native Aramese army conld not be trusted up and said, quietly: Partly, Osborne, ed, would seem to Anglo-Indians to be for a reason which you are incapable of buaide the
or rather to be understanding-gratitude ?' question, or merely part of it, the means of ensuring fidelity for long periods of time being an essential detail of the
organization.
Capital English officers would make fout: "Good God, Ding-outang, called Pok-ta Lam
the opposition of
TREATED FOR THE WRONG "COMPLAINT.
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San Trin. Shai-taai Po. Shai-won.
Sham-shui Po. Shau-ki Wan. Shok- Shak To Shong
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Azores Is.
Amoy
+ Bormuda.
Canton.
It is usaloss to allot have been boston Obina, for Obinn
It is at all tina hard to lose one whom like any other Empire; while the Black we hold dear, but it is terribly so when we Flags of Tonquite are no more invincible have the consciousness that but for mistaken than Burmese dacoits,' and not one-tenth treatment the loved one might have been as powerful as either the Sikh Army or the with as still. In some cases the fact that revolted Sepoys, whose rred. It was
indeed, has the sufferer is treated for the wrong com- never been studied as
* Belgium. was plaint is known in sufficient time to admit as it ons of the strangest and least explicable of the patient being saved, and the follow-Canada. opiaodes that ever occurred in military hising is a case in point tory. The truth is, the French fail in Asia A little more than two years ago, a beau- without being overmatched, and the pro- tiful young lady in
* Cape Colony. blent is the cause of that result of great of. to die of consumption. Her fond parents+
was given up Ceylon.
(Constantinople). forts repeatedly made by one of the first took her to Paris as a last resort, hoping to and most successful of military peopics.
and some skilful find
physician there capabiù of
*Cyprus. * Danmark. arresting the
strides of the supposed rapid
Egypt. In this their hopon were Falkland Is. 19
To show. descrip- Gambia
in New
York
Our own belief is that the cause is re- dreadful disease. rested in the very occurrence of this delare blighted, but fortunately away in that dis- on Tonquin, and is neither more nor less tant foreign city thus met with a than this, that the French people of all
tion
a new
grades do pot at heart care to make Asiatiche method of treating Labeling * Germany..
emanated from the Mount
conquests, do not feel pleasure is govern-Shakers of the States of New York. The ing them, and will not, therefore, either in
care to
the aggregate
thought strack the parents of this helpless or in detail, make the new young girl that perhaps their daughter was cessary efforts. They do not cead, and therefore they do not succeed. afflicted with Indigestion or Dyspepsis, and ead. not consumption; and if so, there might
Somo of the Seiger
A few of their rolers, whether hereditary be a change for her
or elective, do care, and therefore at in- tervala use the magnificent machine at
Gold Coast
Hookow Hawaii, Huibow Holland. Hongkong.
* Honduras, (Br.).
enjoyment of good
fueland. Italy.
·India,
Japan.
Curative Syrop, made their disposal in Asiatic enterprise; but the especially for the cure of Dyspopsia, was obtained and administered to the patiout, daughter lives in the
hody of Frenchmen, the entity wo call and the result was marvellous. To-day their Franco, does not The people are swill-
ing not to hare Tonquin ne to have it, and health. The fact was, tho patient had been
would,
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8.S. OXUS, Commandant LEQUEARS, Billy Simpson 1 with MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE, BioLo Mood, an. 1 mgd. Naasbat, 1.0.1 and JARGO, will leave this Port for the Bracadale, .. above places.
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1
NalbeckĮ
New
Nooys
Oberon
3.7. Victor, 6.8.
2
Bonnia Lasaj London as well as for Marseiles, and ac- Cheshire
Cargo and Spasis will be registered for listago 7
Coylon cepted in transit through Marseilles for the Cheirare, pa. 3
pal places of Europe. Shipping
Noon.
Orders
will be granted until
on board
Colorado1
P, 0.0. Khao, as 1
Palo Cotterdin
Palmyra
Coptic Pallion, 25 Corinth Cargo will be received
until Cotherstone, s.8, 3. p.m., Specie and Parcels until 3 pm on Cousin Arabéo, p.9. the 8th March, 1886, (Parools are not Crites
Farthian, 8.8.
2 Perim, $1.6.
1
Fort Phillip, .#. 2 rogd.
8
1 Randes
Babers
2
1365, Rhodom, 8.5.
18.
to be sent on board; they must be left at Centennial the Agency's
Destpreuth Office) Conterte and value of Packages are re. Duke of Abercomelo quired.
E. Nicholson For further particulars, apply at the
Emblam Company's Office.
Dolina, .. F. P. Letallad 1 Faliz
G. OHLAMPEAUX, Agent Hongkong, February 20, 1886. Occidental & Oriental Steam- Ship Company,
Gardinal
H. E. Tapley
regd.Richard Parsons
8 Robert
1 Royal Sovering
1
Sharpshooter 1-
South American 1
Southern Chist
1 Spinaway,
1 St. David
Strathairly, the
Sin Kolga
387 Formosa, 8.2
1
Siton,
1
Glanung
$
Grafton, 5:8.
HíN, Bangl Herter, a
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1. T. D. Peters
Hartington, .
1
1 T. Newcomb
Hebo, R., Helen
2 Tangier, 8.5,
1
Highfeld, B..
1
Hirmp Emery
Idawa-2008
Invindblo
TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, THE UNITED STATES, MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE, VIA
THE OVERLAND RAILWAYS,
TEA AND ATLÁNTIO OTHER CONNECTING
STEAMERS.
J. B. Newcomb I
J. Carrier Kale GAELIC, will be Kitare,
Tdospatched for San Fran0200, via Lady Harewood 1
Tokokama, on SATURDAY, the 18th Lottle Fairfield 1 Proximo, at 3
p-m
Tarapack
Tahman, 6 Thy Song 1ngd. Tobago
Unioora Yazice, 3.5.
1 W. B. MaNeil
Wah Youn; 4.5% : Tallebe.
Wellfoot, s.s,
Zallro
Books, etc. without Covera
Connection being made at Toko A Monthly Letter to the Bayal Navy, do.
with Steamers from Shanghai and
Farcel Packages should be marked to address in full; and same will be received the Company's Office, until 6 p.m. the day previous to sailing.
Est
RETEEN PASSAGES-Passengers,
have
Fran
Aberdeen Fourne)."
Adam and Adamalto (Pk.)
Annaies d'Dentistage.
Amay firentars 1885.
Beilage der Züricher Post The Belfast Harling Co., Ld.
fall fare, re-embarking at Sun Blessed Hope. for China or Japan (or vice versa) Brisbane Courier.
Br. Mel Journal.
six months, will be allowed a discount Budapesti lap.
of 20% from Return Fare; if fo-embarking
within one year, an allowance of 10% Will Chin
be made from Retura Pre-Paid Re Christian Commonwealth.
Re Christmas Cards (from H. F. Siouf, torn Passage Orriors, available for one year,
and Distance off at the MALTA, MARSEILLES, GIBRALTAR, will be isaged at a Discount of 25 Colonial Trade Journs.
Mast Head, will be boisted.
vessel is made out,
er, the Vessel's
If, when the
ie not a Mail Steam- Compass
sabstituted for guishing Flag will be
the
BRINDISI, TRIESTE, VENICE, PLYMOUTH, AND LONDON:
Convention Telegraphique, Return Faro These allowances do not apply Daily Now
to through fares from China and Jap
and Japan to Dromaghelicho Teleg:spit
Europe
will be kopt fying until Pigna, and it -BOMBAY MADRAS, CALOUTTA, AND Consular Invoices to
anchors.
The Distance Signal will be kept up fifteen
Export. minutes after the Steamer is made cut.
down.
about their fate; not tempted at all by the obtain relief if they were properly treated Up to £ 2, or 810, or R 20,0.20 ponter is not in the Harbour when it if 10 am, on the day of sailing,
work it is proposed to them to do. They for Dyspepsia. want to be great in Europe, not in Asis
£5, or $25, or B 500.40
77
878
Graphis. Babostai
Hub News
11 Secolo
Journal de St. Petersburgt
Journal of Commerce.
La Rey au du Portugal et des san Colonies
Turabog angacmetri.
Le Boepherd Egyptien, Le Fetir Provençal. Liverpool Weekly Mercury, bynu Reporter, Madeira.
to Dumfries and Galoway Courier and Hamid. Cargo Elgin Courant à Courier. AUSTRALIA, destined to ports beyond San Francisco, Eledes sur la Literature, N.B.-Cargo can be taken on through Bills should be sent to the Company's Ofless, 6. If the Steamer is a regular Mail
of Lading for BATAVIA, PERSIAN addressed to the Collector of Customs, San Falls, Steamer a Gam will be fired, and a Ball over
GULF PORTS, MARSEILLES. Francisco.
Find Exeraise, 1864- If a plébiscite were taken, evacuats treated for the wrong complaint, and when forwarded through the London Post Office, Signal and Symbol will be hauled
the English, French, or American Ensign,
TRIESTE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK
For further information as to Freight Freemason.
Flear de Verta. it just as readily as they evacuated Mexico,
AND BOSTON. with the Distance off at that time, will be
or Passage, apply to the Agency of the Gaceta da Madild Their pride does not fasten on sway be trouble), all the alarming symptoms of con- and are paid less a small discount of about The Ball and Ensiga will be kept up until THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
she was treated for Dyspepsis (her real
shown at the Mast Head The
SPECIE ONLY LANDED. AT PLYMOUZE,
Company No. 50 Queen's Road Central Glasgow Weekly Bezahl yond seas. They do not so what Tonquin aumption vanished. This is not an isolated 2d. in the £1, for which the remiter should
C. D. HARMAN, Glasgow Weekly Mail: is to bring them, do not care for the kind case. The country is full of suffering thon- allow. All such orders must be expressed will be kopt flying and THAMES, Captain WA SEATON, with
Agent, of prestige its possession yields, do not feel sands that are being treated for Liver Com
the „vassal anchors. The Distance S
NAVIGATION COMPANY'S Steam-ship
Hongkong, February 25, 1886, Any humiliation at its loss. If it is gone, plaint, Malaria, Kidney Disease Lung Dis
in British currency. so much the worse for the dealers in ordeza, &c., &e, whom the fact is they are (according to the currency the Order is vessel is batwoon Gacon Taland and the and SUEZ CANAL, on TUESDAY, the
3.The onanission charged is as follows the Distance off at thone time,
WINTER TIME TABLE, changed at each successive half hour to show Hor Majesty's Mails, will be despatched Colonial produce. They are not interested afflicted with Indigestion in some of its drawn in). in governing subject-races; not concerned varied forms, and all of such sufferers would
When the from this for LONDON, BOMBAY
THE KOWLOON FERRY, North Point of Hongkong the Distance 2nd March, at 4 pm.
will be, hauled down. If the Mail Cargo will be:
board until received on
STEAM-AUNUM MORNING STAR £7, or 835, or R 70,0.60 too dark to distinguish flags, a red light will
Rana DAILY & FERRY BUAT between Parcals and Specie (Gold) at the Office £10, or $50, or R100,0.80. be exhibited as the West Yard Arm, or a until 10am on the day of sailing.
Feddar's Wharf and Tain-To-Tsui at the R150, $1,00 green light at the
the East Yard are until she Silk sad Valuables for Europa will be following hours This Time Table will Dear Sir, My daughter, Serah F. Wal-(unless drawn an India, when 150 is the
No Order must exceed £10 or 250 anchors.
transhipped at Colombo; Tes, sud Gen. take offent from the 2018 Coronez, 1885.
Minho Pittoresso. This feeling openly arowed throughout Ker, last January was confined to her bad, limit), nor will more than two such Orders or Canton will be made known by showing one week later than :
7. River Steamers will not be signalled. aral Cargo for London will be conveyed WGS DAYS, BONDAYR
Mission Fald, The approach of ather Steamers from Macao vid Bombay nthout transhipment, arriving 16 x 5.164. &15 AM 7.16.
L'on, Les AK. Imansa X'Ioan. Tavia H.Moonlike the debate, penetrates all classes, and and had been for twelve months, was under boised to the same person, in favour of the National, or House Flag and Symbol conte vid Colombo. makes all half-hearted. The officers do said she had Consumption and Heart Di- treatment of three eminent physicians, who
the ordinary direct by the same payse, by the same mail.
8.00 8.507.20
8.00 not care for the service, which seence to sauss. The doctors and all that saw her dom for suma net exceeding £o are granted high
6.Money Orders on the United King
8.50 2.00-9.00, Particulars ding
10.18 an unhappy exile worse than service said she was bound to die, But I norgusded by means of Postal Notes, as to which a similar Flag-will be shown above the PATHON COMPANY'S Ofice, Hongkong 16, 201—1.00 TE
regarding If a Flag showing that an Officer of FREIGHT and PASSAGE, apply to the 9.40 10.18*£1,00 while the conscripts think they her to tako your Seigel Curative Syrup, and separate-notice or the Hongkong Postal or the
ank is on board an incoming vessel, a PONTYOLAR & URDAIAL STEAM NAM | 10.45€ 12.30 FM, 12.30 P, 1.00 Photograph (Msy and Babyjs: i used in being sent away from after having used two and a half 60 ct. 1 Guide. dist, the hardships, end, die, whenever hotties she was restored to perfect health,
alone will be hoisted at the
1.50 2.00 2200 200 2.00 2.80 9.00 The Contents and False of Packages are. ard, dis, whenever and said she felt better than she had for five mitted between the Porta of Cains by ing they are ill, from more want of energy years. My daughter is now living and in means of Postage Stamps, subiecte Flags, at the Quarter of the Yard, or at the
6.Sums not exceeding 850 may be re
required to be
to be declared prior to shipment.
8.20 8.00 11300 1400 We very much doubt if they fight well.joying good health, but had it not been for charge of one per cent, for cashing them
The approach of Men-of-War and Shippers are particularly requested to
3.500035 £15 4.30 Vessels will be notified their proper
by
430 £50, 5.10 note the terms and conditions of the Com Occasionally a battle 000119
Symbols and National
6.25 1 Colours, or House jay's Black Bills of Inding. display their
Four medicine she would have been now usual valour and their
Passengers desirous of insuring their beats
6.15 6.40 dead. Your, &c. national lan; but if they were up to their
or Money Orders can be granted at Hong- (Rer.) M. Melton. Anyone doubsing this can write to Sarah kong or Shanghai on Ports where there are on Hole The Dink Peas, of sil be mode N.B.-This Steamer takes Cargo and Fas
Yard Arm. normal level they would not insist as Waker, Crofton, Ky.
1.00 Note. The Distances of veste can do so on application at the Com
vessels will be pany's Office. they do on tolerable equality in numbers,
Ang Agencies of the Hongkong Post Offer or compal their chiefs to demand romforce
pinsan by means of Postal Noirs. Res separats
by means of the bumerals which are attach ments at such a terrible rate.
Small remittances can be made to these ed to the letters in the table of Flags. notice of the Portal Guide,
it wore a mare resignation of a command
pardon Napoleon's flight from Egypt, as if
or men, for Tonquin,
and resent any demand, whether of money
as an oppression in
flated on them by self-sookers in Paris.
them
To
and
Whish
they
13
Crofton,
ANDTHER CASE IN POINT.
Christian Co, Ky, U.S. A., *January 5th, 1863
please do so; if not, give it to the waste N. B you thinks this worth printing, We bar basket.
at Yard Arm
Mast Rand
HG. THOMAS, FN,
Harbour Master, dro,
For further
sengers for PREILLES,
A. MOIVER, Superdatendent Hongkong, February 17, 1836,
336
4.50 5.10
6.15 6.25, 15.40
» 6.40
7.00
$5
and Friday, an account of sealing
There will be në launch ou
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Nationaltidende..
Natal Vitness.
Newcastle Weekly Chrenlée,
People Friend
Petit Roversy.
Painard Weekly News,
Rumian Magazine.
Samples of Wealten Moth
Samples of Rogalan
Samples of Oit Cloth. Scott's Code.
Sonday Herald, The Ithargics.
Timmer
Tiolelle Blaas,
day
The above Time Table will be strictly adhered to, except under unavoidable dis- cumstances. In case of stress of weather, due notice will be given of any stoppages.
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