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Laung Lung and Wong WaiKai, limber iner- chants, Queen's Road West, were charged before Me Wadehouse, if the Pollca Court this morning, with causing a nuisance by obstructing the entrance to the Governinent Civil Hospital. Mr I. J. Clerihow, Inspec tor of Nuisancos, sold the defondante carried on business at 122 in 125 Queen's Rond West near the entrance to the Government Civil Hospital. On the afternoon of the 12th inst, defondants had a large number of pieces of timber on trucks in frant of the
THE CHINA MAIL
That I see you are inclined to consure the community for not entering more heartily than it does into the municipal duties of citizonship.
That while it man be admitted that a lengthened enjoyment of whatyou term Crown-Colony Government* has taken nearly all the spirit out of the Cadunits, it is possible that the cliques and the follow my leader' feeling have a great, dual to do with the inartoons of the com- munity as a body."
That if employers are compelled to import a better class of coolies, there may then be some ward work for the Police, and possibly the Military, That therefore prevention will be the bettor
curd.
BROWNIE.
with
& London,
with
a sort of
to him in
abolished, and soldier hip is not a chance to give it up. This was a end calamity. buta ortainty, as the heaviest of their He was appalled to think how he should be hurdens, part with their auns will able to live. But God raised up frienda increasing reluctance, and diapine who helped to keep the wolf from the door. quito now consitiveness as to the proba. He then went to the seaside at Walton-on- beth. They are Bald
to hear of orders physicians who treated him there, did any bility of injury indicted on the couscripts ho-No, but neither the chango, nor the for Afrion
groans, and they? protest against tropical expedition in way oud All being without avail he visited hope that oted within the Chantal some
mirst fuat, for their children-the-
the high the ghe22 proportions which invaliding This October,
they attains, more even than fear battlos How wonderful, indeed, are the ways of for the dead, have at least glory, while the Providence, which dashes down our highest
bo weak for labour dysenteric may be
fpect it.
While in London he stated his condition Boulanger ta
a friend, who strongly advised him to reading, Native essayists generally take did
conditions.
French trno, 4 'handa the Bjt,' and the reckless pro-
Syrup saying bar it may have had ita effect in gouuine and honest, and often cured when coodings proverbial of the sheep quickly the Uhinote seriptures that the calamity this instance; aud it must not be forgotten everything else had failed. He
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bought a should be deals with on certain general that the conscripts now go out of avery fx-bottle of a chemist in Pimilco, and began
nation
which observers on the spot accept, did this without faith or hope, and the
CHINESE NOTES. The subject of the Hwangbo hundations has had a great dont of attention in the
Any improvement in the condition hopes and then helps us when we least ex«
denied that
"Hospital Lodge, gatoj thua obstructing the DUBINO the Chur's visit to Cuponhagen/hundred Bongal students. attomptod That the general body of residents alware Shihgao. The litoralitro of this subject survica is therofure strongly folt, and it in }
look to the position of the man who might fill volumes, but it would be drearyrora, those general peromnya medicine which he salied Mother
Roigel's Carative
it was
Fox a long time past the graves of British A TELEGRAM in the Rangoon Gazette, dated. and other sonman in the lower portion of Calcutts 23rd March, sayThe public the Yukohams General Cemetery have meeting last night at the Town Hall to vote been in a very neglected condition, but addreasca to their Excellencios Lord and recently Captain Dunlop, of H.M.S. Lear Lady Dufferin was largely attended; onft der, has considerately taken in hand the representatives of every class and crood to the addresses which agreed work of cleaning up the neglected corner unanimously of(rod's acro. A landing party of monnee to bo presented to their Excellencios at from the Leander has from day to day been a conversazione in the Town Hall at 9-30 sent to the Cemetery to enrry at the much p.m. to-night. The Presidency Volunteers marble status of resolved that Was required work and the effect of air laboury formed a Guard of Honni outside the hall, is now apparent in the improved appearance It of the graves, nor of their British comrades Lord. Dufferin should be subscribed far, placed in the Town Hall, which will be the alone, but these of season of all national and an oil painting of Lady Duprin to bo Lies-Japan Gazello.
A few Stat portrait
placed thore. Over counter demonstration, but were prevented thoroughfare. They were carting the tim-German conjuror was giving an exhibition by the police entering the halThey bor into their godowns. They had been bis skill before a royal party at Frendens- yelled and hooted for a few seconds and told before to leave the trucks nadernosti turg when the Cxar took up the pack of hon separated. The Maharajaht Durb with which the prestidigitator had hanga presided and all speeches were the wall in Quese's Road, from which place been operating and said: 'I will show you rigotonsly applauded. The majority pro- the tiniber.might be carried to their pre-r trick; but (doubt whether you will sent were nativer and non-officials, and tho That if no ono of sufficient position (nd principles established and corried out by ly. The desire for war is not an expla- using it, according to the dhotions, Ho mitos without blocking the access to the blend it to your reperir. His demonstration was a splendid success.
tore the pack of afty-two cards
EVIDENTLY the work which Hongkong has Rospital. The defendals, in answer to in two without apparently the sligh the chargo, said it had been the custom to effort: The: showinan: proficed soler dono in providing a decis capable of holding pack and tried to imitate his example, but the largo vessels in the British Navy in du what had been dond this instance in vain. Only thou possessing wrists of
stool car in this case follow sait, It is no not well known at Honsa, for we observe That I have heard loud whisperings of an The case was tundud.
trick, but the axercise of almost superhuman that Viscount Sidmouth in the course of i strength. A few minutes later he called debate on the proposed Boubay dock said: Thi far n siyer dollar, and bent it doublone of the Anck accommodation inon
tioned was not of " public charteter. between the thumb and forefinger of his Iron Duke, which was nut one of the largest right hand.
ressula, found the groutent difficulty in docking at. Hongkong, and other vessels had been obliged to go to Nagasaki and other docks belonging to foreign Powers. We could not always reckon on such accom.
The
THE RAGal installation of the Principals and Offers of Victoria Chapter, No. 625, took place on Thursday evening, the installing licers being Most Ex. Comps. WM-Arthurwand L. Mallegg following allure wore installed:" M.E%. 2. M. E. Comp. M. Falernor. Es. Comp. J. W. Oroker. H.
Ex. Comp. D. Gillies.
Scribe E. Scribe N.
P. S.
Jat Amst. S,
Coon, J. Dyer Ball.. Comp. J. Willmott.
Comp.
add
slightest
Wir reference to the position of the Dutch in Acheen, the correspondent of the Standard at the Hague telegraphe thas to his paper--After several yeate of occupa-modation being ava tion of a small part of Atcheen by the rasults, Dutch, without any satisfactory steps were taken to come to an arrange ment for restoring the Sultanate of Atcheon; but these ale have not lol to a favourable issue. I now hear from a good source that a now project is on foot, involving a renewed occupation of some ... Com J. Maxwell.
The places on the east coast of Alcheen. The raumbers and visitors thereafter ad-
idea is to cut off every communication journed to the Banqueting Hall, where they between Singapore and Penang on the oue parlook of a cold collation, after which hand and the interior of the Alchonese several toasts were proposed and honoured.aspire on the other, and so to fuish tho
2nd Asst. S.
Troasuror Steward Janitor
H. A. E. Herbst, Comp. G. Sachse. Comp. R. Cooke. Comp. A R. Madar. Comp. E. J., Maini
follow.
cording to the notions of Hongkong) can ho induced & lead, it would be down right biglacos' for any scoond-rato man to boat a public agitation.
indignation meeting which ought to be callud, to protest against the scores and inaction of the Sanitary Board, and the continued disgraceful condition of the drainage systems; but that most, if not all, of the big wigs' find it inconvenient to rule the feathers of some of the powers that be..
an orthelox view, and demonstrate from la vot. it
Asieri.
the Great Yo 4,000 years ago. The idea they denying that the poisastry are even public may, therefore, judgo of his surprise of geofngioni changa of level over seems willing for war; but the third solution has and pleasure when after taking a fow doses
such evidenov to anpport it i
it in French hia he folt great relief: lo could eat better to enter their minds, much less the idea, try. Modern Frenchmen--that is, Frencli- his food distressed him lees; the symptoms now familiar to us, that Sacred Books were cut in French history, by the events of 1702 which had floated befern his eyes like smute mon born on this aide of the grout charm we have paared abated; the dark spots never intended to teach sciones. Accord-H
have periodically shown a disposition to of Boot, gradually disappeared, and his Before this time his ing to the benighted confucianist, the be governed by representatives, And: strength reased.
whenever tho fancy came, have trusted knees would knack together whenever be Gures of all modern sciences is found in the thom entirely. The Assembly has always tried to walk. So encouraged was he now classica. Ita Europian after surveying been absolute as the old Kings. We can that to kept on using Mother Acigit's Out- cu grand suggests that the Hwangbo not remember in any time of revolution fire Syrup tatil it ended in completely sur might now be permitled to join the Yangtss even a proposal to limit its authority, ering him.
Lover fairs, f the nny evidence,
MP In speaking of his wonderful recovery at its mouth, the Chinese scholar, without ann and Swiss nutions on the subject. The Richold apa it made him think of poor leaving his desk, can at ones demonstrito French have hated the veto, even in the Robinson Orison, and his deliverance from form of the veto suspensif, have never captivity on his island in the seni and that the proposition is untenable, because rested the Second Chamber as a complete added, But for Mother Sogel's Curative That is a casó like this a properly-con- the record is plain thas the Great Tuloy serious body, and would regard a limited Syrup the grass would now be growing over
stituted and well-managed Ratepayer le disembogue at Tientsin. Such Assembly with dolined powers as something my grave.
illogical, as,
i fuct,
Our readers can rest assured of the strict Association would have been in a posirivelling in the presence of a terrible cala-denial of the dogma of universal surage truth of all the statements in this most re
recugailiou and a mity which threatens to become worse and The very notion that a Chamber could bemarkable ense, as Mr Richeld few residing worse through dolay and incompetanco is restricted like a King is, we think, foreign st Swiss Cortage, Walton-on-the-Naze) bo their minds. On the other hand, they longa to one of the oldest and most respect unuttorably aad. The only relieving Cos- have always, after a time, wearied of their ed families in the beautiful village of Long
persona ture of the case is the litorality of the Chamber, or Assembly, or Convention, Melford, Suffolk, and his Į
generation grow up is attested by so high an authority as foreigners, especially the self-denying self-government through the simpler and bosiles other excellent names. We havo
effect.
tion to mako itself beard with good
That I am very sorry we are about to lose
the services of the Hon. A. P. MacEwen,
a now
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character
As he has done good servico for the Chinese Government and of natives and have sought to exercise their right of Rev. C. J. Martyn. rostor of that parish,
Colony during his term in the Council.
On dit that General Sir Henry Hamler, long war by isolating one of the hollig, | quired the Admiralty will du all it can to That although he has made mistakes, host, Jorts of missionaries, to help the anfforers, swifter method of a dictatornisip, Wu Kro deemed the case of such importanca to the
51.P., is to be sent to organise the defeness of Australia.
BARON Richtolen, Frofessor of Geology, in Berlin University, and famous anons of the scientific explorers of China, died on March 6 at his estate at Silesia, at the early age of fifty-threo, "after a long and painful
The new premises for the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Yokohama, having been completed, were opened for business ou the 3rd instant. To Water Street, the Bank has a frontage of 108 feet, with a depth of 74 feet, and a wide verandah with
crents.
eing available. It was prepos. terous that with our enormous commerce in the Indian sons we shouli nat have dock accommodation for m ir nold. Mention had been made of two foreign Powera which find squadrons in these waters, but there third which was rapidly inerossing its was a naval strength in the Chiua seas. Bu
Be hoped pagal site that the Government would lose no constructing a proper dock at Bombay, and in giving their serious attention to the in sufficiency of the dock accommodation at Hongkong. We trust that Hongkong having provided the accommodation. re- support the enterprise of our merchants.
Ir is stated that the Gorman Minister of THE Statesman of In lia says :--The Sikkim Public Instruction his ordered that the expedition suums to be over, the Langtu fatrona apeech which Prince Bismarcks des fort baing abandonmd by the Tibetans who livered in the Reichstag last February shail are sccupying it, the moment the advanced henceforward have a place in the reading guard appeared. Our real dificulties, how- books used in the higher elnames in the ever, will now only begin, in attempting to Government primary schools. President convince the Sikkim Raja that if he makes Cleveland was taxoft by pinus Americans of engagements with his
powerful neighbour,
conid
have protectionist sympathies with omitting the he must falfil then. Nothing customary reference to the Supreme Being been more advantageons for the Raja him. in his last Message to Congress; but the self, than the gouercus terms by which all Chancellor'e discourse is not open to any our agreements with him have been marked. such
Some of the sentences in. We want nothing from hiih, and ask no. reproach it might have been delivered from the thing but the commouest duties of good
that the neighborship-
Bot for British friendship. impossible
and it is not blement of
•
|
lenst succeeded at the frat in awakening
the flagging interest in public affairs, and in remainding this community that it was nut altogether given over to the whiter mercies of Downing Street. That the fate of the Public Health Bill is a subject upon which not a syllabio has
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acenstomed to
suppose that the First public s to justify us in giving this short Tho Ut-p gives a bit of a spooch of the
Napoleon was Marquis of Salisbury in which he compares supported him, and the people were on his
tyrant; but the plebiscito account of it in our columns."
try England and Ireland to China and Corm, side, till his defeats induced him to
the fatal
"experiment of anticipating the and argues that in both cases alike the annual conscriptions.
tions. That was the small country should be subordinate to the charge brought against him by the people large one. The large country is as the when they robbed his carriage after bia
abdication. Wearincas
of father and mother of the small one and it Chambor
government by a much to
with the nccep ties of the
had
to du
baen anid for moutha past, aluwugh the {bordination is unraascuable. ~ Salisbury the electio, as it had 1so to do
parts of the Bill which are of emergent loves Ireland and therefore has to chastise
of Napoleon III. The
importance and againal which no objecit.The montiment is much approved by people of Parliamentary conflict, of the
tion was taken might have become law long ago, but for the obstinmoy of the Eurveyor General and the Government,
the Chinese editor.
vaste of
five porticos rous the whole length of the pipi, spiritual edification which it he wonid long ainco havo become the That the notoriety: we aeem to be acquiring Consuls to protect the Chinoso in, Manila, they hardly know govern; Į
front.
The entries for the Spring Race meeting at Shanghai closed on the 7th inst. The total antotint of entrance fou was Tla. 0,150, agnings last year's entrance fees, Tls. 4,866, Tho N. O. Barty News says: We under- stand that this year's entries have only been exceeded once, and that the cheque
from the leviathan stable was for Tls. $1,590.
מוז
for haste in legislation applies more par- ticularly to laws the need of which is not of a pressing nataro, while the laws upon which the vary-life-of-the Colony dependa are bungled and delayed.
be
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550
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8/18
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On London-
Bank, Wire,
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On demand,
**
30 days' sight,
4 months aight,
their 1 decde, of the Inc of the want of groat
lack
anything that moves The Titan-wan-ya-pu has a leader on the fires the jungination. They do not care
about the petty politicians Vicorog of Canton's proposal to appointed by
BOOK
but blindly.
+ with
certain! for some alternatives That 18 the Straits, and other places. The op
and though we in prossed Chinose sorely need protection. England think that to make of General
the Boulanger matt is A
little Bat, is the shing practicablu under present Bo
mutat
that remaeinber circumstances 7
We fear not, Take Ma
since Gambetts's death, has been barren
have uila where tho need is most pressing. There of men who
them made the the body of the
ally solves fairly knows
way people, or have, touched their imaginations. The Freuch On Puri masses wearied of M. Grévy's strictly Carnot only is great name-to which, wo bourgeois excellencs they know of M notice, M. Gabriel Monod, a most shrewd observer, mainly attributee his election-
as a Radical orator who has done nothing,. and of the rust of the political eminences of France as so many figures. Who is M.. Rouvier to the French peasant? There is
even
to
put obstacles ir the way of à Dritish subject informs us that he has been favoured/enme years past. It has not been from That our learned & C, für readiness in de-shance of fair play ia. Spaulah Court, Vat they think of ML Ferry ass nan who
want of better selulers, and no hem given
bummed in. contains may havo counted for something of the States by which he.
Protocted by us from the Ghurkbas on in the Ministerial decision. At any rate,
one hand, and the Bhooteas ou the literary style of the scholars will not be the spoiled by thair reading. The Chancellor the other, and from all aggression on Thibet, he FYELS constantly said to be an awkward speaker; but his the part of
our Bongalee fellow-sub- apecebes are all couched in good, clear, kidnapping
jects down to 1881, when he was forced to trenchset Getman prois.
nui to come under engage e restitutioni, make THE N Daily News says:-The steamer ment not to repeat the once two
to ourselves the enlargment of his territory Ruling which returned last week after her by the grant made to bim of a very con inclectual attempt to obtain leave to pass siderable tract of country, taken by us from. Tr is said that the Foreign Office is oner-beyond. Tohang is, we are informed, to be the Nepalese at the end of the Nepal war gotically pressing the Chineas Government laid up here (Shanghai) pending receipt from Uneducated and superstitions, he is at to make no further delay in granting Mr Peking of the promised Houchow, or the mercy of the people about him, and has Little a permit to ascand the Yang-trze permit, from the Tsung-li Yaman, autho-heen courting the Thibetans wo believe for River to Chung. King, and is insisting that rising her to proceed to Obungking, Mr the local authorities, shall not be allowed to Little
with a toleram from the Minister stating anequivocal proof wo believe in the last few oxercising a plain trenty right. Lord Sulis that the difficulties with the Szechuan au- years, of a desire to play off the Thibutaus bury has nared April na the date beyond thorities am serious and not yet overcome. against ourselves. We hope very sincerely which Me Little's atommor must not be de Sir John Walsham appears to be now for his own sake, that the events of the tained in the lower parts of the river. exerting his self to the utmost to induce the last for days will convince him that he Yamen to basten their arrangements for the has nothing to gain by acting badly towards THE St. Petersburg correspondent of the issus of a
issue of a proclamation there, similar to the his great neighbour, but much to lose. Nord remarks that no special importance frank untics
potico published in
in Hupel, of which Darjeeling has been nothing but a.source should be attached to the near arrival of wo gave n
a translation to a recent issue of wealth to himself and his subjects, which Corean Eusbansy at St. Petersburg, as the Meanwhile advantage is being taken of the latter appreciate keenly if their ruler Eatway will also visit several other Buro, the dolay, to make some improvements does nut pean countries.
But, he adds, it is to the machinery of the Kuting which, it is vertheless satisfactory to witness the believed, will enable her to steam fourteen maintenance of amicable relations between knots an hour continuously. he verzol is Russia and Open, as the progrcasive dein Messrs. Boyd & Co.'s hands, which is a volopment of the Russian provinces in the autriciont guarantee that as high & speed extreme East depends in great part on the will be
be obtained as the boat is capable of. existence of auch relations.
Mr Little hopes to receive the requisite to start not later than May, no authority A COMPANY, named the Japan Tea at make the pioneer voyage before the Exporting Company, is now being promoted setting in of the June freshets, when the by some wealthy tea doulera with the object navigation will be attended with greater of menopolizing the sale of all the risk. We sincerely trust that Sir John decad in the country. It is proposed to establish two oftices, one in Yokohama and ose in Kobe which will receive tea trans- ported from the producing districts in these
atad two ports. wil! act as middle-men bo. tween the tes producers and the foreignA Erma. The company will also receive ders for the foreign market directly Japan Gazette.
to te
Walsham may succeed in evercoming the fears of the Chinese authorities before that date. Bat the Chinese are a difficult peo- ple to hurry.
It is a
a
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR
That if the Clerk of the Weather would but vuuchsafe to 113 some better samples of wenther than these we have had of late, onic might growl less. and get off a mur mur or two with comfort.
1
That everal of the plagues of Egypt rolled ipto one must have boon directed upon ue for the last month-hail, rain, than- der, lightning, darkness that might be felt, and moisture and mould everywhere. That several of my friends have tried qui- olos as a palliative, while others have had recourse to whisky, Eut still the wen- ther will not dry up." That nearly everything has been postponed, excepting the weather and the Tai-yu shan trip, and the competitors for the various Sporta are playing a waiting
game.
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General who has won a battle, diplomun tiets in all countries are unknown, to the people, and France has no Mr Gladstone, or other kind of Parliamentary here. So, in sheer lack of a parsou to lead, she makes one, and convinces herself that she has & possible alternative ruler in General Bau- langer.From the Spectator
That our local Parliament would be none the Chinese are compelled to dress in the worse of an independent Froe-tance European clothes, and put their out of for a short period, ovon amming him to sight, otherwise they have to bear all surts a fighting Trishman with a sharp of inmelt and ignominy. They are even tongue, as at present the Council cannot made to change their names and follow the be described as a try lively body. religion of the Soquiarda. They have no
bate and accurate expression, would be are wantonly killed or despoiled. But what perhaps the clevercat member of Council coulda Chinese Consul do without something since the late Mr Bulleley Johason, and of the prestige or material support, which a measure may sometimes be lost or won every European Consul has who undertakes by this kind of ability to seize a point to deal with such cases! The honour of a and put it lucidly.
European Consul, is identified with the That if it be true that disease of a typhoid honour of the county which he represents. kind threatens this Colony, surely a de- When for instance, & newspaper in a certain mand should be unde by the unofficial state (Ma) insulted the German Consul he members of the Council for some explan immediately notified his Government and ation or assurance from the Government, hauled down is flag, and Germany on
AN IMPORTANT Discovery is announced or for information concerning the Waterbearing of this, with equal promptitude, doin the Paris Figaro, of a valuable re nody Works, the drainage, and the continued wanded explanations and despatched a war for vervous debility, physical exhaustion.
and
The discovery wa promsture decay. secret aittings of the Sanitary Board. vessel to that neighbourhood. So also, ba
made by a missionary in Old Mexico; it timurable existence and That there can be no doubt that enough cause of such a etonit matter as the seizure saved him from
We learn that the Rev. talk has been done to have founded an of an offendor by, the police in the precincts an early grave
Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, Empire, but that talk will not touch of the French Consulate in Turkey, aimilar Bloomsbury Square, Loudon, W.C., will typhoid fover, and that a very gravestope wero teken. Until China is prepared and the prescription, free of charge, on responsibility rests on the Government. to uphold the authority and prestige of her receipt of a self addressed stamped enve-
lopo. That the same, chattering process has been Consuls in the European way, she may just
gone through relative to the Gap Rock, as well unt send them.. but the Light-house still remains unbuilt and unlighted.
That the question of work or ao work in -the Harbour on the Sunday ought to be
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TRIAL. of the Maxim Automatle Gun took place at Shanghai on the 9th inst, on one of the ranges at the Arsenal. in pre- sence of a few foreigners and Mr Taug Ta fin and other officials. The gun was at A Brut is about to be passed by the US. Erst worked by Mr Haber, who was in Congress authorising the President to invits
charge of
afterwards by a Chinoso it, dniegatos to a conference, to meet on Oct. assistant who seemed to understand it 1, 1888, at Washington, in order to revisa thoroughly. very simple weapon, and the rule of the road at pas, to there is no doubt it is a very deadly one as snd
amend adopt a uniform system of signals, and it is capable of firing 600 shots per iniaute. Formulate and submit for ratification to all on the 25 yards rangs, over which it was the maritime nations proper international tried yesterday, no attempt to reach this regulations for preventing collisions, and quick firing was made, but when the gun other avoidable marine disasters. Such a
rapidly the
the reperle came much conference czuuot but serve a mast useful quicker and had somewhat the sonad of purpose, and its result prova of universal the large crackers of which the Chinese interest and value.
are so fond. Three hundred and fifty shots were fired, and at the end of the TEE Newchwang correspondent of the N trial the rzechanism was quite clean. That C. Daily News says:-About 12 steamers part of the target of one inch pino on which have already come and gone, and only as the fire a dircted was riddled,
the fire w sailing roseal has yet appeared, the British some of the bullets paxud through a Fon. barque Zara, which came in on 1st April. chow pole ave or aix feet behind it, cracked lom sail, but every year there ap: {t and buried themselves b.the earth. | quantity of pioco goods has arrived, but the bullets would have on the human body. That the auticipations as to the Pole That it is matter for the despust thankful-kable syraptom has ever been shown of ly to care for.
It is unfortunate for China that horde That some saggest the sans of Permits to mand for free admission of her subjects to this town aone time ago, and being picked Hongkong Observatory, April 14, 1888.
work ships on Sunday, in special cases, the Australian Colonica stimuld come at the ag, as he continued perfectly helpless, and
More are
pear
craft on the coast.
fired
And
A good There could be doubt of the effect which
That in this game thoro are at least no losers, for a game can never be lost until it is won, and thero are as yet no win-
norg.
That the School-bore and the Young Slashers may not be able to regard things thus philosophically, Long- fellow observe Youth is fiery, age is frosty, and the young 'uts are eager to earn their spuri.
Sperts are likely to be fully realised, if one may take the bulky Progamus as's guido, and can believe we are to have any
more weather worth boasting about.
not nearly so rauch as last season.; one
A regiment or a large tody of men exposed steamer load however has been detained by to the rapid fire of a number of these guns accident, and may come at any moment. would be mowed down, and as the range Changes are taking place in the Customs,
is eighteen hundred yards and some old friends are leaving. Weather of the gun is
its or ashore must be efficiency sither afloat or
A description of the weapon what it is to be hoped the 'unfirm ground" boisterous and unpleasantly dusty, but gravery great. dually getting warniør, Anyhow, it sia says The Maxim Automatic
Gup with a delightful change to see the water of the
barrel, weighs but 42lbs, and requires referred to in the Programma, will regain Lagu Ho rather than the carta crossing the service of only one man, to bre it with
its former stability in due course. Cover the ice,
absolute safety over 600 times in nute. AUGUST Spies, the ringleader of the own particular time; each
the
in one mi
The gun fires each BIERS
the
in its That the Sports of the Amateur Athletes enters were fairly good and interesting and the Tent for the accommodation of the Ladies was good and in the right place, but that the bamboo barriers therein were de cidedly in the wrong place...
is struck and barrel, Chiongo Anarchists, is little the worse,
aulil after explosion has
bas takon apparently, for the hanging which he lately underwent. He favoured small party place. The explosion apens the breach, assembled at alance in that town extracts the empty shell and introduces a
spirit munication from the aphore in new cartridge. The birrel is fed by a hel with which he is at prosant sojourning and we of cartridges. With the Gatling, or standard
with your fair correspondent X, as the Sports are supported by the whole coci. munity, to foster the spirit of our rase and prevent our youths from becoming dullards.
learn ferm is that he has plenty of work to cartridge having a powder charge of 85 graine That you will see therefore I quite conour d where he is he gives no address and the amount of heat communicated to
doing it with
vill He is labouring the barrel at each discharge is one and very hard-though what precise form his half units, or sufficient to raise the tem Labours take he does not tell us for the perature of 1 lb. of water 1 dog. The aculs held in ignorance or want, who can heating of the barrel is prevented by its only be eat frea by giving than upportunitius being enclosed in a cylinder or water Tu sad them out from jacket in Bush a manner that the water has for improvement. under the taskmaster and into the broad not only to be heated but also to be eva-
His foulings
tiwarda preoccupation.
boll when 600 rounds have commences to boll follow men bese somerhat improved sin uben fired in rapid succession, and the
Bunlight
he
При
REGISTER,
APRIL 13-AT 1 Fist,
Humidity
trection
Weather.
Help during
cab tiken in
two gentlemen to the by at a cost of say $100 per vessel of over same time with the agreement to exclude flics of T. W. Fisher, Esq., the solicitar
the solicitar CHINA COAST METEOROLOGIOAL who 1000 tons, and 950 for those under that them from the United States. The Chinese
Os restoring employed him. figura, bus as it would pay many vessels Mail has an indignant protest against the consciousness it was certained that he was afflicted with what seemed to be au to take out such Permits, the only good latter,
incurable disease. When he was able to
his
is dinner done would be the enrichment of the
spask he said ho had been to and was on his way back to his work, when Treasury chest
THE REAPPEARANCE OF GEN-
his head was in a whirl and anddenly ERAL BOULANGER.
fell the street like a man who is knock- We do not wonder that French parties ed down. On coming to his senses in the and French journalists are disconcerted sulinter's office he thought what this might WI'stock: 30.23 and porplexed by the miniature plebiscite mean, and feared he was going to have & Tokio given in favour of General Boulanger (now Et of illness, which we all know is s Nagasaki, 30.08
with a f
a fami- Shanghai.. imply plain M. Boulanger). No more re dreadful thing for a poor man
Amuy With this in
sin bis mind he at once sought latent malaise in the body politic of Frau the best medical advice, telling the ductors
Hongkong If the vote had been given in Paris, now be had been attacked. They question Bolinao... 29.0
Haiphong. incident would baro bapt
import incide ance, as it would only have proved that the ad him, and found that his present me bazila,
lady was exhaustion of the nervous system new Lafogetto has not yet lost his popn-
That surely täs mercantile community can hit upon some plan under which the continuous monotony of work, work, work might be broken in upon during one day in zoven.
nese that no loss of life attended the col- Ispse of a portion of the Hongkong Hotel building on Wednesday morning. That no largo portion of this thankfulness can be extended to those whose business
it was to hare safeguarded the intereste
of the Company, the borders, and the public.
That the other collapse in Graham Street should attract the attention of Govern mout to the rickety nature as well as to
voters were
of little
the
and artisans of a
190.12
20.8
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iarity with the lower Parisians; but these resulting from general debility, fuligestion, WLostock. 20.25, 35
a chronic nature. This in rurals, peasants scattered through large departments, their bis dess and grief at the loss of dear friends aga
turn been caused by confinement to vote was in the main spontaneous, and his
there is no proof that it was affected by by death. The coming on of this
as described by Mr Riehold, zqlist any sart of localism. It hardly could be, disease, as
fact,
Tokio
strange
Shanghai. 29.9)
Amoy Haiphong 29.80
on... 20.98
0.15
in fact, for under scrutin de hate a whole be of interest both to sick and well. He Hongkong 29,88 department vote
votes. The evidence, in
for several years previously, in. had noticed is that in the coming clection Genstal fact, that his eyes and face began to have
Meails..... yellow look; there Boulanger may be a formidable candidate a
atlosy and uns
The barometer has fallen along the coast throughout France, and may even tereturn pleasant slime on the gums and teeth in
raring departments the morulug the tougue coated; and the and gradients are slight for SE winds,
the evil reputation of many of the houses fad to the Chamber by disision of the bunes so bound and cusfire that it induced The weather is overcast, warm and damin,
in that neighbourhood.
W. Douerck, Gévotesnent Astronomer. Hongkong Observatory, April 13.
after ⠀⠀⠀ 9. TaxPRRATURE, in 'the shade in degroet,
Fahrenheit 45
These things had troubled Mr Richolde
3. Bowmery, in percentage of suturation, the
a returned 3L Thiers, a peasantry every where inserting his name in that most painful and troublesome ailment Thot if you are coerdetly informad as to the place of one of the urines on the card the piles. He says there was some psia the intentions of the Government to of names made necessary by scrutin de liste in the sides and back and a senes of ful- That would be a grave incident, and it is ness on the right side, as though the liver wards the Coolie Guilds, the community natural that politicians should study its were enlarging, which proved to be the tur-1. BAROMETER, Toduced to 84 degrees Fahren
the rible cald
The secretions from the kid teit, and to the level of the sea in incher, tenth will have dates for congratulation, but calise very deeply. It may mean that the
relatives of the conscripts are
* мауз
be scanty and
and high-coloured, and hundredths. of gritty not before the conduct of many of the gratitude for all the Gatumi did for the with a kind of or sandy deposit after
of standing Fronch coolice has become a meat crying ovil in privata soldier, or that a section of this Colony,
voters are eager for war, or that a propor tion of them are longing to substitute à
be clearly perceived that the fit of giddia 10 65 By
8. Fazos o Ward wooording so. Beaniest dianese was nothing more than a sign of the POTION OF Win, to awn points. method of government by dia bot fit to do any honest week with even ede that such high places should be re-
a steady and deadly advance of the complaint scale, The first solution is by no means na which began in indigestion and dyspepsia. Srars or WASHER biede partial efficiency, should be portraitted to ensu served for the Représ nistive of our
dictate terms to European residents, and improbable cue. There are many signs Bis story of how he went from one phyal-tached clouds, a dziesing, in, og gloomy Queen' but any barrier beyond that in
girshey do art clan to another in search of a pure that hints flightmu Tere, e para chu to insult sad laugh at their employera 3
that the French masses, in an impertinence which is calculated to
resist the conscription watch it with in-wife and little one might not come to want a quaily, pain, mox, u dander; a viability, produce bittarness and lose of revenue to return for kindness shown to them, is crassing jealousy and care. They regard is very pathetic and waching. Finally he
infolerable.
it, now that lucky mambers are practically beterno too ill to keep his situation and had the Ascomation;
That I have no violent desire to occupy the
of frendain is his chief aim and porated, and with the lexim gun the wafront auets in these tourney, and quite That the scum of the maiulend, who rep for the slower, and to them/ong time, sod after his fall in the street humidity of-six saturated with leoisture being
his
e quitted this world, it seems. His heart amount of water after that for as thousand
is softaning towards humanity, and he of cartridges fired is rather less than one and in time to be able to forgive the a half pants. The steam escapes automatical hopes Judges who sentenced him to death, and ly. The Automatic Gyn ena be almost sven to feel kindly towards the polioamea nstantly converted jato a Winchester re- whom he blow to pisoss with dynamite peating rifle, as was done in the trials yan bomba
terday,—N.-G. Daily New
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