No. 7214. SEPTEMBER 16, 1886.]
As incident took place yesterday, afternoon
THE COLONISTS ABROAD.
of
A number of colonial visitors proceeded London to Dublin on Saturday. from Thuy were warmly greeted on their arrival, dense crowds nasombling to welcome the party. sont in Dublin were the guests of the Lord Mayor yesterday. They were shown over
of a
opare.
THE CHINA MAIL.
London, Aug. 20-Gold in the value of $300,000 has been withdrawn from the banks for North America..
A STEAMER BURNT,
Aug
St. Petersburg,
21-Intelligence re- coived from Sarstoff states that a large passenger steamer trading on the river Vol- ga was burned and 200 persons parished.
NELSON AND LARGAN WATCHED.
to a
THE HONGKONG COURT AT THE COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.
ARMAND KOREA,
August 16.-The colonial visitors at' pre. come off on the Thali for £50 a side, to part 1 foei auro tlunt in confiding Court of last year like a monster doll kong masons can turn out good work. Bority of his own Government to the effect ·
London, Aug. 21-A sculling match has been arranged between Naison, of Now South Wales, and Largan
September 27. THE LETTH ELECTION. London, Aug, 21-Me Ferguson, & sup
doing anything for a dead man! On hear all the places of interest in the city, end porter of Mr Gadstone, has been elected was reorguised in 1857, I am entrusting passession, of the spaco this year, and while specimens ex table, to judge from the ion of the Court; an
ing this the Coronor evidently lost bis tem per, and injudiciously showed it by saying In a somewhat oxolted manner: I do not
THE SALADUEY MINISTRY.
sioner,
has rightly retained not a few of
has introduced much that is illustrativo of
know whether you mean to be impertinent British Bags were charge party of colo-Ridley has been appointed President of the seating us with new colours. These colours / midat of Chinese surroundinga. The courthouse for our feet. The bakeries in Hong./ and perform tho decision to be givồn by the.
were afterwards entertained at lunch, by a majority for Taith, for which place The visitors from the colonies now staying Mir Gladstone was returned unopposed at in Dublin ware entertained at the Mansion the Inte elections. Mr Ferguson was op- House last night by the Lord Mayor. The posud by two Unionist Liberala.
decoratal, but the rooms were
wore brilliantly.
conspicuously absent.
Lundin, Aug. 21.-Sir Matthow White London, Aug. 20. or not. Witness protested that he had not
nists visited Daver -dey aud wore banquet Board of Trade rios Sir Frederick Stanley, the slightest intention of boing intpertinent,ed by the Mayor, In the afternoon the who has been raised to the poerage,
THE HOME BULE QUESTION, and there was certainly nothing disrespect risitors witnessed a series of naval opera
London, Aug 21-During the debate on ful or importinent in his manner. And tions which had boon arranged in their he again explained that there was no time
monis last night, Mr 'Commor, the repre to do anything for the man, Mr Mitchell
Go.
to uphold the dignity of his Court. It is not by putting absurd questions to intell- igent men, and then when their absurdity is exposed by losing his temper, ut ho He has also learn can hope to do so. that witnesses have sonsibilities as well as Coroners, and that where a witness gives
it is not only importinont but discourteous to badger him.
M. Juzes Blancsube, the Deputy of Cockin China to the French Parlament, was a passenger from Marseilles to Saigon by the M. M. Co.'s mail steamer Anadyr.
THE correspondent of a Berlin journal writes that no fewer than fifty-six war cor- rospondents are at Athens waiting for the Grook war, and aro out of work...
d
FROM Achern within olaven days from the
invalids were despatched by steamer to healthier loonlitios.
At thic rate the army
to hold its own.-Straits Timge Translation.
honor.
THE RIOTS IN IRELAND.
hara was dono.
IRISH AUFAIRS,
No
Lordon, Aug, 14-A number of mom- born of the Cabinet have been formed into
Irish affaire.
THE TIMER ADVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT,
deal with the House of Lords and the land and local government questions.
8001ALIAM IN BRUSSELS.
August 16.Twenty thousand Socialists paraded the streets of Bramale yesterday, demanding universal guffrage.
A PROPOSED TEDSBAT COUNCIL
in
OCCUPATION
occupation of Lazareff is unfounded.
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Allowance, Taels...... 30
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$32.
The Rev. Tudor Craig, sanior chap-October, 1877, the Battalion again em himself feeling the pulse of a patient. The are required in its peculiar conditions. If London, August 21.-It in assorted and The weather was fine, and a capital wickot nor.* at the inquest on the body of the man who believed on good authority that it is the in. was pitched. The Englishmon, who yea-lain to the Forces, and the Rev. Sir Vyel harked, and this time for the Straits book wall being removed, we can too the those qualities have free play, and the Gov. 1882, when it was removed to Hong Kong basement to opium-smoking room at the owe occasional blunders, Hongkong will was killud ht Hunghow, which, canntention of France to retain possession of terday had scored 55 rune without the loss Vrvyan, of Trolovasion, Opinwall, then Settlemont, where it romained till March,whole internal enonomy of the house from emment is not above being taught by its
the New Hekrides pending the settlement said to reflect much credit on the Auting of uther, matters between England and were resumed their innings, and roud the prayer of nuestration, and there it was guerlorod for upwards of four top of the house, Dr Ho Kai is a wonder- ocntinue to prosper in the future na it has
not disposed of until they had scored aervice concluded with the Benediction,
years. The condust of the mea throughout ful man; he is not only a regularly qualified done in the past-Times. 187
the principal sorors boing Nowhsia, pronunced by the Senior Chaplain. Colo Coronor (Me Mitchell Irines). From what Fe
Bir Graham Berry has not joined the caught, 39; Humphries, not out, Gl. The nel Hobson then took the Queen's comra, the period was unexceptionalle, which was physician, but a barrister who has passed we learn it appears that the Acting Core colonial visitors in their recent trips to Australians then wont ia, and made a good sud Major Howarth, the regimental testified, by Sir Georgo Bowen, the Gover the Engisa Bar, and who in actual practice FOREIGN JURISDICTION IN JAPAN :
Palmer made 26, caught; Scott, colours, which handed to tho Prince, nor of Hong Kong, in hia farawell letter, combines both Inw and medicine. On nor, after badgering one of the witndases, the provinces because he was fully en stand.
Battalion oft
Au Order in Council is pablished in in October, Bong-Kong
be seen a collection of Chinese medicines, the Gazette relating to the exorcise of Hor who lid given his evidence in a strait gaged pressing a mettlement of the New Ho not out, 00; and Tramble, not out, 30, who handed then back to Lout. Jarrote on their departure from that island. The shelves and in cases bohind this model will
bridea question.
winning the match with seven wickets to and Livut. Dauglish.
Prince Albert Victor then said Colonel 1880, under orders for home, which were also contributed by Dr He Kai, including forward and intelligent manner, naked tho -.
GOLD FOR NONTIE AMERICA,
Graves, officum, non-commissioned officers, aa banquently changed and the Regiment such horoic remedies as centipedes, soor Majesty's power and jurisdiction in China, Jagan, and Korea, in cases in which foreig question, what was done for the man. The August 13A party of colonists arrived yesterday at Chester, and were entertained
and inen of the Buffe--I am much refoload directed to disembark at Stick It even pions, Hons liver, and tigers' twoth. the Acting yesterday at Chester, und wie toti. The
to have had an opportunity of coming here tendly wasnent up the file, and foras gan, to show the cabibits, cousist, manly, of in Her Majesty's Courts. The Order repeals
formed part witness had alromly told
As Honghong has no products of its own nens desire to submit to the jurisdiction of to-day to
to presuni theso new coleura, and i of "Coroner that the man had been removed Daks of Westminster, the Bishop of Chess
has added greatly to my pleasure to think where it remained till the 24th March List, dustries carried on in the island, in some the second sub-section of the 47th section froin the spot where the nestdout took ter, and the dite of the district were pro.
that sent, The colonists afterwards drove to
that in performing this ceremony for the when, on the reduction of the British cases jointly with Canton, in others ertico. of the China, and Japan Order in Connel, place to the top of the bank as quickly Eaton Hall, where they were the guests of
first time Thare the privilege of doing so troops in Egypt, it was ordered to return ly in Hongkong. Thus wo have some speci 1891, and substitutes for is the following:
so dialinguishod na the Buffeto England.
mena of sugar and rum manufactured in (b) Provided that the foreigner (i first reginient
his consent to the furis dead the Duke. Wesiminster. as possible, and that he жда
Their aurrices in all parts of the world are
the colony from capie obtained from the files in the Court. too well known to all for me to enumerato when he rondbed the bank. On the Curo-
mainland, and which are exported mainly dietion of the Court; and (ii) aler, if re- to Australia. There are good granite quae sertificate in writing from a competent nu quired by the Court, obtains and les a ner putting his question, therefore, the wit
them, and we have only to look at the co- its of tho maby
ries in the island, and the emblomstia stune ncas, who sound surprised that such a ma-
lours themselves to remind us baities in which this gallant regiment hus
We all remember the interesting Chinese carving near the entrance shows that Hong that not objection is made by that Govern nifestly absurd question should have been
taker' these colours to the care of Colonel Graves, house, with the dell's inside in all sorts of
and maskinery unde on the island ment to the foreigner submitting in the
particular canse or matter to the jurisdic put to him, askel in return in a quiet and
who has served in this regiment since it
bolpless attitudes. Hongkong lus taken appear highly
The woods aro in
and (iii) also, if required rospectful innaner: Was thers say good in
them to one who will, should the oppor
way of tree planting on the barren slopes tion of the Court, to such reasonable binity occur, be proud to lead the regiment Mr Wodehouse, the onergetic Commis dicative of what has been dame in the by the Court, gives security to the satisfac to further success (oleum); aid I thank the characteristically Chinese features, be of the hills. The specimens of bisonits amount as the Court directs, by deposit of
Colonel Graves, if reply,
and other four manufactures remind us money or otherwiso, to pay fees, costs, you on behalf of the regiment for the gront the results of Western energy acting in the of the importance of Hongkong as a store- dansages, and expensos, and to abide by honour you have done as this day in pre-
wils
kong are capable of turning out 15,000 Court or on appol." Abounds
atleactions, and is always lbs. of ship i
1bq. of ahip biscuit and 10,000 lbs. of bread will have additional value to as, knowing well filled. One feature deserves the that they have been received from the hards
eat commendation;
Bas Mr Wodehouse per day, a fact of much significance to of a representative of the Crown of England offixed to every exhibit a large label con-
a great naval Power like England. The exhibitors of these commodities It will be our Auty to guard them at all taining full information na to its nature and principal, Orawford and Co. and Dorabjes, The crockery trade the Irish question in tho House of Com. times with our lives to the last extremity origin. This plan should have been adopt- Navrojen olay looks, excoolingly
Co. I trust and fooi confident that
lent that every officered in every court. As a a ralo, people do non-commissioned officer, and private soldier not care to be
from cousutting tho cunstantly
Hongkong Lunton, Aug. 13.-Botties containing seatatire of the Nationalet party in, Eng of the rogimont will always to his duty, to atsloguo, especially is in many orses it in woll. The exhibita of needlework and m Inges has evidently to learn the true way gunpowder, with lighted fases attached, land, donounced, the proposals of the the credit of his Queen and country.
were thrown amongst a procession of tort
perument with regard to Irish affairs and
The Colonel then called for three cheers exceedingly difficult to find what one wants, broidery, nicely arranged with a bosutifully carved acreon by themselves, are very varied, Orangamon while passing through the denied that the verdict of the
country at the recent gunemi election was irrovceable, for the Queen, which were heavily respond and the information given is as a rale ex
from the streets of Londonderry yesterday.
He declared that it was impossible for the ed to, his Royal Highness joining in the tremely meagre Labels like those used and lack exceedingly beautiful. They aro
Three cheers woro" "atzo shearing
supported by the sale of given for the Hongkong Court people cannot which, talian and French convents, Trish people to pay the judicial rents fixed Prince Albert Victor. Lisatonant General choose but read, and the educativa effect of sich work. There is also some very fine
a plan is very great. 1881, Sir W. Vormou Barcourt condemned the Feilding then addressed the troops, remind forty years since vo acquired posession of embroidery exhibited by Lady Bowen. The suite of binck-wood furniture sont by a committee for the special consideration of resolution of the Government to deal with ing them that it was not sufficient for the the harron little island, murty miss Mr W. R. Luxloy
they must show them in pren, at the mouth of the Canton
universally admired, social disorder without first rodrening leg to be brava men
selves also to Do itimate grievances, and ridiculed the pro- se
they might receive the
in Chinese style by the Tak: three sure milan being added to August 15.-The Timer, advises the Goposal to proceed with the question of local scldiers so that good citizens and wordy six hours' sail from Canton city, a patéh of as are also the matting and handsome show. | his evidence in a straightforward Way quroisent to remodel the Church, and to self-governmost on the same basis in Eng attach to the nano of every British soldier.colony, on the opposite mainland (the of Hong Kong and Canton. The rattan On London--
which should
ld always laud, Scotland and Ireland. The House His Royal Highncos, Lieut. General Foil- later. Mainly as a commercial centre, unfortunately it seems to have been all sold
Kowloon Pouinaula), aber
about twenty years ware-chairs, leanges, baskets, and other
article--is neat, pretty, and cheap, adjourned till Monday.
ing, C.B., the Mayor of Dover, and a Large
as a strategical position, it unf
even before the Exhibition opened; it is Londen, Aug. 92. The reported Russian, beraber of guests were subsydantly enter famught this title faland Posti bo of was
Chee Bee of the Buffs, in a marquee on the ground. mense advantage to this country. There sent by Tal Lung. Near it are specimens
be no
no doubt that the result has fully of agricultural implements by Che Later in the afternoon the Prince left by the justified expectations. That result, how which will interest the ethnologist and the Wong London aud Chatham Railway for London.
mechanician, The silvor ware by has not been achieved without trouble. Bir Daniel Cooper has written a letter to
Hing is artistic and attractive, white the The Buffs, or the old Holland Regiment. A wrong start aocms to have been made; glass
Hongkong manufactured in the Times urging the formation of a Federal THE NEW BRITISH SECRETARY OF
STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Brat us if the colony ward is the distinguished representative of that it looked at first us Council of the British Empica, consisting
Baya the Standard-Onco it became renowned body of British troops who fought | doomed to
bos failure, mistakes were made Mesers Russell and Co indicates noe direc of 30 members, Australasia and Canada to
by the unwillingness of Lord Hark in the cause of civil and religious liberty in in the treatment of ofear,
miniation in which industry might by profitably be entitled to four representatives occli.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION,
ington and the Unionist Liberale to the Netherlands during the reigas of Queen frative bluuiars the Chinese, admin-developed. Then we have a collection
frequent enough, ders were London, 10th to the 21st August; no less than 315 addressed a gathering of 20,000 Irish | Party, that I was impossibie for Lori Elizabeth, James I., and Charles 1., and thoro were troubles about ianitation Co., of the Hongkong
Aug. 16.--Mr Michael Davitt oporate officially with the Conservative
daring a
straggle of more than troubles about water, it
it was fearod the
hattered collection Americnas in Chiongo
ality Donnye, a somewhat United Provides to wrent their country Chinese criminals, gambling and brutalityf moths and
d butterflies National
by Mr V. olared that too long yesterday. He de-Salisbury himself to resumo his laboure at which,
could possibly have been made than that in Achoen will soon be too much enfeebled abandoned their policy of party had the Foreign Ofice, us better antment eventy years, enabled the inhabitants of the island might become an Alsatia forection of Hongkong coins by Mr H. L. On Calcutta-
specimens of carred which entrusted the management of its from the Spanish domination. The origin ran riot for a period. These and other
Deacon, some fas TEVO Conness to Lord Iridealaigh. Soma. 17.-The Washington, Aag
people of the regimout in soutosha intorerting troubles caused Hongkong to be a source
30 days' sight, review held in Postion meets to-morrow. It is reported busine
1572, In
life or industry even yot istration; ever
there are difhoul jeate illustrative of the life
Gohl Leaf, 100 fine ..... Tax Java Bode is assured by's correspond that lineord exists among the delegates, the appear to have thought that a
of many was not
had Morgan, who ent that the most effective way to keep the parzisana of the dynamise party being dis. } who, in the estimation of a publiɔ man, Park by Juson Elizabetli, ons Thomas great anxiety to our colónfal·adrainy, brasswork, and many other ob
survud under Queen Maryties of various kinds to be overcome, and of the Colony. Most interesting of all to Sovereigns,
Temperature. ground floors of dwellinga and storaliouses satisfied with the policy of Mr Parnell and pugnacions enough to lead an Opposition in France, and was now employed to dis-probably from its peculiar situation with many will to the educational exhibit, show- in the House of Commons, would not be cipline the Armed Bands raised by the City reference to China there always will bo, ing tle Chinese scholastic method, axamil
with the answere, schoo (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Co.'s Premises, dry is, when building, to spread over the his followers. spot a layer of fine coal dust stamped com- Washington, Aug. 19.The chairman of sufficiently ready to maintain the dignity of London, mised a company of three But the progress in the past has been so nal
rules, for ChinosG WHIDA: APR thickness petly. A layer of sand of equali is then laid over it, and upon that the floor. Chicago Irish Convention ha dispatch. } and assort the interests of England in hundred man for the Burrice of the people immense that wo need have no anxiety for her details. Nothing is more creditable BanoMEYER--
of Flushing, and the company became the the future. The commercial success of When so constructed, the floor will it ta
him that thee to Me Parooll informing the face of: Foreign Powers.
proceedings at the Convon people who were disposed to take this clous of the 3rd Regiment of Foot. after- Hongkong has no doubt been largely due to the Government of the colony than its
Earlcleus the
wards The Buffs. The regiment was not to the fact that it is a free port. Over zeal for education. The Government con to the appport of the school said always remaiu dry from the cal dest
Iddesleigh to porform the work of Se-placed on the English Establishment until 5,000,000 tons of shipping enter its port wacter, and that the assemblage cordial-
which are numerous and of absorbing the moisture of the soil. This wero of a united and harmonious view of the fitues of
fused
two things that have no roni similar recognised by the territorial title of the finest in the world. The trade of England Class School; where Chinese and English from dampness and continue dry. To keep the suttlement of the Irish dificulty. away white ants, the Inging of a layer of Lendom, Aug. 22-The Chicago Irish its. For our part we have never doubted Holand Regiment; and subsequently, from alone with the colony amounts to over coal dust under ground floors, hus proved Convention is favorable to Mr Pareli's that, if Lord lidesleigh was in any respect highly serviceable owing to the inability of propale that moral fores should be relied deficient in the qualities of an Opposition the date of its arrival in England, at the 4,000,0000 sterling annually, while that of are sonenrrently taught, down to the ele these destructive insects to wake their way on to effect the settlement of the Irish quee Leador in the Lower House, Conalusion of the Dutch war, obtained rank Chias is over 12,000,000. The native mentary schools. The Chinese sagerly avail and in the sad no doubt they will greatly more by reason of the deterioration of fourth in the British to. 10 109, vessels alone which belong to Hong Kong themselves of the advantages this offered, through it.
popularise British rule and induce Parliamentary mannera than from auy the regiment changed ita tills for that of number 62,000. The revenue has grown
Prince George of Denmark's Regimerit, a frota £23,300 in 1850 to over £250,000 tend to
ex-respectable Chineas to settle in the colony. A REUTER'S telegram, dated St. Petersburg
Berlin, s. 10. It is aandtured that a other case. To be scrupulously fair distinction conferred upon il by William, in 1886, and axewithstanding heavy ex-The few photographs in the court help Blument has been coms to be and informly courteous and wall-hred Frises of Orange, in consequence of there punditure and few restures the colony to realize more vividly the cuivard condi- August 8, and published in the London
deal in
has dailies shows that Lord Rosebery has taken tweon the Powers interested in Samor, dues, we fear, stand a good up strong ground with regard to the Rus whereby it is agreed not to make any ala man's way in the rough-and-tumble being at that time several other corps which has no debt. The population
1797 the Buffs were permitted to display a most
of it
cated Victoria; he face
in
and around the carried on. stan occupation of Batsun. It reads as teration in the status of the islands unless polemics of the present House of Com were known as Holland Regiments. In from 7,000 in 1810 to 130,00 in 1830, tions under which all this activity is being The most striking object and great attrac- which city of
rises follows:--Lord Rosebery, in his Note to Bir all the Powers concerned concur therein mons. But it should be retsembered that a 17
gallant
picturesquely in torraces up
the tion of the Hongkong Court in no doubt,
the Robert Murier on the Batoum Question, A
island, and watch
magnificent piece of embroidered silk practically had no dispatch to mines with cordingly beau Boeretary of State has not to browbeat nago, and, as a reward for their that ensue states that, in a conversation with the Eus dispatched to Samus with the view of arriv Foreign diplomatista in the manner in conduct, the dragon being one of the sup steep
is nowadays sian Ambassador, he had dwelt noon the ing at a despite nettlement of affairs. The which su Opposition Leatier
ind has been expressly made for presentation validity of Troation, and printed out that United States and Germany advocate the expected to try and browboat the Treasury porters to the Royal Arms in the time of existence till England took pursession of suspended on the north wall, and which
reign of the.corps in
On are
ara being constantly introduced, manufacWales. The work is deftly done that tabrogate any single Article introduction of certain changes in the con- Beuch. He has
in her Majesty' and of
being established, he has to
old, the dragon is
isita magnificent signatories. Moreover, Russia adhered to to any change at present.
to gentlemon
lemon; yesterday, as on the old,
Leung Or, Mr Wei Yuk, and others Gibraltar. Of tho this principle at the Lon
George of Denmark, in 1708, Prince of
rest largely intorssted themselves in organising and A. de Felidoff renfer that adhesion at the Conference of Constantinople. Lord on the black Sea, is being heavily fortified do this better than Lord Iddosleigh, the regiment was no louger dadaguished mai ly Chinese, one-third of them British this presentation. The work was bagus
of 1885, and was not finished Prince's titlo, and from that the subjects by brith. Bome of the wealthiest the summer of 188 the
mbroidered Rosebery maintained that Article Ed of the by Russia, and the garrison is to be strong. His firmness Las not to be shown
by worda; nor is ho called
"The Bats,
of Hong Specially merchants and bankers in the place are until April of this year. It was The Berlin Treaty was binding upon Ruuvis, ly reinforced. otherwise it would not have been inserted
to demonstrate the strength of his. It has beca popularly known as Ther of Chase, though many of them nufor- 1 59 the Sun Shiny m
to a title which was derived from the colour patriatio determination by appealing to the clothing they then wore. Although Mr
hace thate permanent homes an subject of the embroidery was in the Treaty, The Portocol proved thist all the Powers re arded the Article as ob-
Party passions. All he has to do is to be Childers' Bill removed from their facings their native mainland. The Hong Kong selected with reference to the
the
representa a onlonies in London, and ligatory, and England could not, therefore,
delibemte, urbane, well-informed, and, at this distinctive colour, the regiment is still and Shanghai Bank along bay reserve + cognias
of Russia the action of
the critical moment, politely unwavering. There is no reason whatever to think that popularly know by this title, which is fund of about £1,000,000 sterling, nasets of famous historical THE centenary of the publication of the THE PRESIDENCY OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, for such functions the Earl of Iddesleigh is jealousy preserved by both officers and over £20,000,030. notes in circulation vered statesman of, which are Haiphong. 29.)
take obliterato. £13,000,000. There are faw not adequately equipped. He is a States it wil tao many years to anation which about 81.000,00," and "deposits of brated on Saturday, the 7th August, Julos Grávy, President of the French Ro- man who has always entertained a biga 1748 the regiment was stationed at Dover deed of whose progress we have an embroidery, it will be naivarsally admittedostock, 29.81 59
plove of England in Kilmarnock The demonstration was at public, will shortly retire, and that be will estimate of the
is beautifully Lampying swagger, tended by 30,000 persons, The centennial be sucrandad by M. de Freycinet
of nations; and though anything and other parts of Kont, un ita return from boast.
Much of the progress is strikingly illustrati foreign service, but it was ist till 1782 and what some Address was delivered by Mr Jas. H. Stod
braidered some call Jingoism, is utterly foreign to that it came to be connected territoriallyed in the Hongkong Court at the Exhibition, the scroll.inlimentary Fersen, und Manila...[2.77 78 973 people call
by two smaller Haiphong, 20.80 85 - ww datt, LLD. Editor of the Ganges Herald SEIZURE OF BRITISH VERINES BY AN AMERICAN
briefly
ambroidered also Londen, August 19.- Intelligence to hand his nature, he in the last rann in the world with this country. In that year, by the Tha court is grest in models. There is a y alluded to the importance and
critsyn scrolls,
Hongkong 29.70 86 42 29 the significance in the Bootch national life state that throu British sohacners, engaged to imagine that, when England is in the command of King George IIL, the Buffs very fine large model of the island itself the main toll is
f the them in
It is, indeed, a treasure of art in Foocheer.. of the first edition of Barna's Poems, Dr in the seal fisheries in the Bebring Bea, be- right, sao need for one moment dream of were strind the East Kout Regiment, the; (by Mr A. Denison, C. which woll black silk some complantary Amoy
he could not
procuring of recruits and to cultivate island and its relation to the mainland, as vers Stoddart proceeded to say that agree with the late Ms Buckie where tween Alaska and the Peninsula of Kama repeding from any position she has taken object of his Majesty being to facilitate the illustrates the mountainous w
da chatke, have been seized by an American up.
connection with this division of the county, well as the strikingly advantageous position its way, which doubtless the Prince of Shanghai.. Wales will estimate far above its money Nagasaki.. clared that
as shown in an order issued to the Colonel of its harbour. Opposite this is a model of value, high as that must be. The following Wostock. 29.82 50 100 next Spain
Bentland was man-of-war for alleged violation of the seal
PRESENTATION OF NEW COLOURS of the regiment by the then Commander in the magnificent ducks which have been the most superstitious and priost-ridden fishing regalations. country in Europe. The man who could
Chief Field Marshal Conway. Amongst bailt, which reader it of so mach import are samples TO THE BUFFS. The following account of the ceremony of the officers who have commanded the regiance, not only for our own feet, but for the the right acroll make such a statement knew nothing of the London, August 19.-Harvest operations Work which Robert Burns accomplished for in England have been hindered owing to presenting new colours to the Buffs, one ment was one John Oromwell, a rotative of shipping generally of the Chinese seRe. the people of Scotland. The effect of the bad weather.
of the most popular epiments which over Oliver Cromwell. During the Civil War in This model is exhibited by Mr D. Gulies, of Charles I. this officer appears to secretary of the Houghong and Whampoa publication Burns's frst volume of poems
visited Hongkong, and a brief history of the regin of
The same gentle- his country
London, August 19-Severe shocks of the regiment's doings, are taken from the have disapproved so much of the Protostor Docking Company. awoke from barn was that Scotland
long intellectal lethargy, earthquake have occurred with great fre- London Standard of the 7th instant — that he subsequetly obtained permission man exhibits an interesting collection
with the Barns spoke from a heart glowing
quency at Malls during the last few days, An interesting ceremony was performed
Fort, iams. Shortly after the Batus of Waterloo, the model the map showing the growth On the left scroll detestation of magnness, hypocrisy, and bitants of the island,
Albert Victor of Wales presented here the Buffs ware disbanded, but were again of the city of Victoria from 1881 (1844)) te new co- raised in the Autumn of 1857 in couse- 1888, by Mr J. M. Pries, is worthy of in-
The earth is glad, cant to a people prepared to thrill at evory word, at every homály but divine line of Sofia, Aug. 19.-The joint, Ottoman-Bul: leurs to the East Kent Regiment, the 21quence of the outbreak of the Indian spection. The Table of Shipping of all
And prospect has his varser. They had a strong ode
educative garian Commission recently appointed for Battalion of the Bas regiment, Matiny. Of the officers who wore then Nationalities from 1856 up to date, by- interesting in
Of gala daya And joyful peace. influence upon the mind of the peasantry the porpuse of revising the organic statute which has only recently returned from enrolled, Colonel Graves, who now com- Captain Ramsay, R. are
is the only one connection with these exhibits, and force at Asuan, is commanded by new Bor
with the by now serving long roll Spring of the following year, the battalion, in the colony, as are also the repas made in carried but with fine taste, dus largely wo Colonel S. Graves, and has a
to Malta, where it the colony of haaourable distinctions having taken 100 strong, presseded
from Manila hemp. We have
· London, Aug. 20;-Tha Colonist Office part in nearly every campaign in which the was stationed for upwards of four year. CAN A BEAUtitally executed model of believe to Mr E. H. Moffatt; and the whole bumidity of air setarated with molafare being
"A arrangement evidence of the very 100.
gives evid T a here that it received its first colours, pagoda and a Buddhist monastery, present thorough way in which the Commissioner, first work, the first hostage which a great sentative of the North Greenland Sen British forces have been engaged during the 13th October, 1868, which wore ed by the Carpenter' Guild of Hong Kong for the interests of the Hongkong 6. Sears, OF WEATHER, & blue sky, e đàn
OMG., Mr H. E Wodehouse,
has looked The weather On
by AI
A Uhes.
This model and a concourse of several tuon presented by Mrs Mande, the wife of and manufactured
beautiful silk banner Of course the prosperity sand persons assembled on the ground to Colonel, now General Sir Maude. In is accompanied by *
bae Dam witness
is due mainly to the fact that it is the tached clouds, & driveling, rain, flog, y gloomy, name of the Carpenters Guild ceremony. A space had been June, 1802, the Battalion embarked for with
and When we speak of its enormuns shipping cozally rain, s snow, i thunder, * visilaiky
·w.dew (wet);"
od a
onblo
But iho
nation
tributos
sand byer voi hente C ÄKTA Fedly endorses the policy adrogated by him for foretary of Sta for Foreign Affairs con- 1865, at which date it appears to have been sunually, and its harbour, is one of the in the from the Central Middle
Bus
tion.
BAMOS NOT TO BE ANNRIED,
Various
of a Treaty without the consent of the other sulur system, buż Great Britain is opposed and raise his not to strike the table Queen Elizabeth, and indicating the origin 1 the island. Traprovements of ovary kind by the Chinese merchants to the Prince of
Russia could not
Conference,
BATOUM BEING HEAVILY PORTIVLED.
kinds
have a & pericet in gibes the new colours prosented by the Prinee turos of vark furtincations will in time many people take it to be a painting. Mr
poico,
and
invectives. On the
it an Eastern
Kr
London, Aug. 17.-The Port of Batown, and we can think of no one who would conspicuously placed in the centre. On the audio 8s are whites, the
THE AFGHAN EDUNDARY COMMISSION. Londen, Aug 17-A difficulty has- arisen in connection with the Harso Afghan frontier question. The Afghans declare that they will not yield up Khemiab to the Russians
first edition of the poems of Burns was cole- Zondat, Aug. 14-It is reported that M.
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of Scotland: Thay aflayed fanaticism, and of Bulgaria, which has been holding its sit. Ervat, where it formed part of the frontier "mands the 2d Bathe regiment. In the the sails and bags which are manufactured The dooorations of the court, bava, beon
whatever harru some of those poems my tings here, has suspended operations, being have done, the influence was intellectually anable to agree upon a common basis,
and morally stimulative and essentially
QUEENSLAND MŽPARATION.
good. Whatever their critics may say, he
though he might assert this much, that the
her officially informed Dr. Abesrue, repre-
last three hundred years, the
death
The following telegrams are taken from
with the
House of Lords, dealing with the Queens- steamer Tiltean, which arrived here this land Constitution Aut
morning ---
the
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Direction
SEPTEMBER 16.—ar 10 4.3.
Weather.
The barometer has fallen about a tenth of an inch There is a typhoon in the China Sea, west of Bolinao. The tempera- ture is high, the humidity low and the weather one along the southern coast of China. The temperature is low, the harridi- high and the weather cvarcast and wet in -Lażon
W DOBEBUL, Government Astronomer. Hongkong Observatory, September 18:
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 32 degrees Fahrens bait, and to the level of the man in zanbas, tenths: and hundredths.
3. Takzzmisum, in the shade în degrest Fahrenheit,
3. Humidity, in percentage of saturation, the
5. Ponds or Won, socording to Bématéri
1. DIRECTION Or Wins, to two points..
Sozie,
SÜN AND WIDE TABLE FOR HONGKONG, FARM (From The longkong Almanack) SEPTEMBER.
SUNG
man gives to his country of the work which tions League, that the question whether the is in hire was as worthy of commemoration Crown pussesses the power to deal with the na the day of his birth or the day of matter of separation demanded by the roped off where a considerable number of Gibraltar, where it was sept to the West on it. It is prominent on the left-hand side great commercial entrepôt of the Far East, Whal, lightning, o overcast, p passing showers,. law officers repently appointed. They will ladies and gootlomm were present, many Indies. In 1665 the battalion roturaed to near the main entrance to the W be and the great, valge, of its imports and ex;
has been submitted to the new Crown gue bas
give a different opinion to
to that of them being accommodated with eszta the United Kinzlun, where it remained ofcola great credit on the guild 200 ports we simply refer to it as a storesonan T. Pin, fu frroben, texibe and hundmžiku,
On the 3rd Datoher the love other In suy immediately in front of the troops. The for ten years.
guilds were also to have NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN furnished by their predecessors: In of spectators, however, assembled on | hest-quarters of the Battalion, under tribated similar binners, bat unfortunately It has little to gire of is cwn, and for its
will take place in dealing mass
the same little. AG An amanding clause will shortly be intro- marched on to the ground about half-past for Natal, and took an active part the court would have had the band is on, ropes, sails, Casa, no do
Place the high ground at the rear. The regiment Colonel Pearson, embarked at Dublin did not carry out their intentions, otherwise own s
far and bucnits, ver- rich time its exhibits of
even cotton, sA under the command of Colonel 8. in the early military operations in the and brilliant a
bamboo sosifolding, by well as other rasnufacturos, indicato dires- Australian exchanges brought on by the duced into Parliament, probably in the waived vere farmed in line. In this Transvaal. On the voyage out the trans large-sized model Near the p
position remained until the arrival of
they rem
worked at Pater MY
Pater Mr G. Palmer, G.B., showing the immense tions in which its importance as arrival of pori St. Law The Prince, as a quarter past ons, and the noster Paint: the Battalion, a racund with ich it can be utilised. One of the Why should not Hongkong become a of the material and the simplicity mercial centrs might be gre enlianond.
greatly the old colours was landed without costly, was - I must instructive modole in the court in that i groas manufacturing centre as well as Benth.”M, |>B, M. THE AUSTELMAN ZINVES.
rescued with whic London Aug. 20.-The match Austra ceremony
The colours, of by her Majesty's Spartan. A con-
great mercantile storehouse? It has London, Aug. 15- The National lians Wyatte Team, was continged at then proceeded with.
for factories, sugar, The borne by Bubalterns Vickerman and Easel.
conduct of the troops on this
grass, fire, textiles, and other products, publican Taft, remarks that Australia had attendance, the weather being ane
aud ding in Chief, and was ordered to be read entire process of manufacture of this the raw material for which it has amplo better recoguise the fact that Frates Australians, having 10 runs and no wickets The Prince, who wore the uniform of the eceived from the Field Marshal Caminan and presented by the Varzailion Guilds. od 10w Hassars, arrived. by the London aud will not avacuate
210.54 | 5.37):6.51- the New Hebrides down, restrued play, and tada a good Chatham Brussels expross, and was received as the head of every regiment in the British important article of commute is shown, facilities for obtaining. Some progtem in Other Franch journals write in the same stand. Hackham played an excellent in Chat
Probably, how- ready paoted nings, and wat bowled for ft. Brace was wylder de man Being, hosted Artis, The Natal till Dotobor, 1818, dar fonds naked for sterol up baby article this direction has been mids is quite recent Aust 20Sir Graham Barry the next highest scorer, with 56; he was
accompanied stationed in London, Angust 20; ward Sten-1 bowled. The last wicket Fell for 255, bim onto the
A large nombanofing which cime it took 6 prominent part in ever, the most generally attrasira model Jeans Dentig the speriment desires High water a Whampoa h au interview with Me
af offers were present Canterbury, the Zula Champaign of 1878-79, being presis that of a medicine shop Hong Kong we Siste hope, Secretary of late for the Goonies, larving the Englisimet in a minuity in Shopratile, and Walne. Can trooge senza tho occupation of Etowe, whip Thine woud of the deadlines, as to be tried, and was on tot doubt that both He Kal, a physician educated to fadinburgh, Office would give ovary encouragement to who enjoys a great reputation in the colony serious enterprises. The colony so far has We see the shop itself ful of customers cartainly fufilled its purpose; much tact, in the consulting.coom behind is the ductor arrugase, and toleration for native prejudice ternoon
train
had. Au
THE NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION.
the Home Government the request that Franco should be asked to fix a date fór the withdrawal of her troops from the New Hebrides,
ninga wcored 55 for the loss of no wickets,
London, Aug. 31-The match at Porte month was resumed and concluded to-day, in the presence of a moderate attendance:
the admirable of a variation factory, by Mesum Metallum
dur-
having been formed into three sides of a held for borenty days. The total loss aus que, new solours were placed noross the taibed by the Battalion during the cat draus piles in the centre, and a choir then paign was three officers and twenty-eight sang the hyn, Brightly gleams pur han non commisioned officere and men In
rears.
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