· No. 7780.—JULY 7, 1888.]
AccoRDING to the Journal des Débals of the 6th Juno alarming reports are current e spacting the bill of health of tho mai stea- mor Canton, from Tong-King, which kas bean delained in quarantine at Algiers for the past áve days.
Tue Ceylon Times has the following para- graph with reference to the cause of tha In accident that occurred on board Live Clan Macintosh, where divo man died from aufcation AB was at first thought, the decaying cause appears to be the result of
matter. ·Ballard, Mr
of the
the Apo Tegetable
caries' Co., 5, 6x it, called in to investigate the pause of the accumulation of the fout air which proved to fatal to the an fortunate man who entered the store-room Els discovered the store-room-which ja
amall vory being about 10 feet equare- charged with a mixture of carbonic acid gas and sulphurated hydrogen, the latter in confi considerable velame, This mixture, ne is well known, is of a meat deadly nature. Thero un donbt that the fodder for tho harso un board,
Aong which dball in a damp condition, acted on by the terrific heat experienced in the Red Son, generation of at least was the cause of tlic
of the gases and that this was still fur-
by the
application of the disinfectant, and further that the fact of thu store being no continued in area and on. tirely closed up after the disinfecting fluid had been thrown down conserving the fatal fumes, made the more entry into the room fatal to human life.
ODO ther
Was some
Tuz following items of late home news are from Anetration papers :—-
That the Hon. C. P. Chatur's position as Intermediary rather puzzles mo, as I davo always thought it a physical impor sibility to interpono- oneself' hetween onesali and any other object. That I have read your plea on behalf of the public with some degree of interest, and I think the advocacy of the scheme by your morning contemporary is of a natury calculated to open the eyes of any one whoss financial interests are not directly involved.
That Y is the fourth of July.
THE CHINA MAIL.
have taken - cossiderable liberties with both the shadow and the substance.. That Mr John Peel in rot of shanghai now, but of Hongkong, and it would bother his best friends to recognise him at the hoard of his string of winners in the Graphic. That his name will always live in the Annals of the Hongkong tarf es a true aportetuan who raced purely for the love of the Sport of Kings, and now ' made a bot,
Thut the Peak Tramway prospers apun, but I wish the management would at That perhaps that is why several gentle. men wore discovered, on the morning of
rango for acdan obairs topside, as I aume- the afli, in the not of taking early break-
times desire to visit my friends up above paat in a liquid form outof tumblers, and
but an fuo old to ascend that awin afterwarde adjusting their hate with the
slope up to Mount Kellet on my pius.
a mustard-plaster ald of lion-horns, preparatory to beginn-That the pillory and ing the day's work,
would prove a good method of reforming some of our youthfi effundere rate
That the boundaries of the United Staton, as recently defined' by Congress, tro-Op
the North, the Aurora Borealis ; South,
than let them got hardened in the cells of the Hongkong Gaol.
sation claimed for his sentimental grio- next paragraph in the report, which had vance will get much consideration from any referen e to the mail coatrects, he was gra. arbitrators. The case at Panang stood on tiñed to be able to ate that the new ser totally different grounds from the one here rice which they had inaugurated in the Of course, there will be so poople who present contract, by which the mails were have built special prentises on the paunt earried in the large London ateamers from Praya who will require to
to be compensated, Brindini through the Suez Canol, in stond of if they cannot acentinodate themselves on by the overland route, had proved ruinent. the now Praya; but these lot holders would ly aatiefactory, not only un rogarded the ac have to be compensated by Mr Chater and coloration of the mail service but also as Lo much as by the dcvarument regarded the comfort and conveniency of The Government, indeed, should, I think, the passengers travelling by thuso vesicis. be better able in came to terms with them Coming to the financial aspect of affair, fo and give them an equivalent than the body said he was ander the disadvantage of of marine lot-holders
boing unable to speak with adequate
Ebo
abandoning the ninth clause of the Local Government Bill, provided Government facilitate the distuesit of Mr Biorenson's Sunday Closing Bill.
PRINCE MISMARCK ON THE SITUATION.
rekod 31. Constans to saérillos, for the pre seat, his own personal opinions; at "the anon time. M. Floqust pledged himself to give satisfaction in a certain measure to the representations of the Governor-General, Berlin, June 22. Prince Bismarck, Costane has applied for leave until Peaking in the Federal Council, emphauptet, and will probably not leave and said that Germany will coinue to sized the pacific character of the situation, till after that date.
On May aintain her domestic last loci a polios Spindrift, 320 fest lang, 40 fest beam, 20 under the reigning Emperor Willine 11.
THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE EMPEZOA FREDKILUK,
inter.
30 the atool scrow steamer
Barwick, Suador
the Equinox; East, the Rising Sun; and That I think I recoguise the fair critic of tality they would make unlikely'even-counts of the freight business during keuziu, uid thauked him for his efforts ou China and Japan Shippora Association,
Weet, the Day of Judgment. That, seriously speaking, the celebration of
Shanghai manners and customs as the writer of powerful articles in the Queen, the ladies' newspaper par excellence.
abort
fost deep, and of over 3,500 tons gross re- gister, built by Mora Russell and Co., Grooncok, went down the Firth for trial of her machinery, which has been supplied Allahabad, June 17th-A Loudon tele- by Mosara Dansmure and Jackson, of It is true that the marine lot-holders, authority, because they had no figures grata to the Pioneer stabas that the dying dovan. The engines, which are of the tri- balked of this lucrative investment, might, before thens on which to base their Emperor during Thursday wrote freely ple expansion type, hava gylinders 24 inches. as hinted to them by the Daily Press, giva, observations; but he would put the facts of upon family and State affaire. By evon ismetor, with a stroke of 45 inches. the Government a good deal of trouble the case ar briefly, and clearly as possible, the scramont was administered at raid-inch is supplied by two double-gadod steal ho was fast becoming, weaker, and steam at a pressure of 150 lbs, per square with regard to compensation; but I trust In their outward trafic from England their night, the members of his family boing boilers, 19 fast 6 inches diameter, and 15
Government will not be intimi-rovenuo had met with a satisfackery nigh dated by such threats; and I have no improvement during the past six months, then arened him: Difficulty of breathing. feet 6 inches long, each being fitted with dombt it will Bud measures of rendering while, on the other band, on all their likes continued to grow mura alarming till at six of Porrco's patent Buca no manufactured such opposition which I do not think at with the exception of Australia-their elevou in the morning when, after coughing by Masara John Brown and Co., Shefield, all likely from honorable men like a hemanard traffic had been the cause of twice vehemently, he died, holding the The Spindrift, which was originally con marine lot-holders-next to imposible. serious disappointment. From Bombay, hand of the Empress. At the lat Aa a last resource the fovernment of caires Calcutta, and trean Chins they also had view with Prince Bismarck, the Emperor tracted for by Mr J. S.
land, has been purchasest sinen by Menar could give the present hat-holders the eams serious falling off in the receipts. He held placed the hand of the Empress in that of R. G. Gilchrist and Co., Liverpook and frontage cu the now Fraya and take over in his hands, letters from both tidos. of Peinetimas, silently commending a London. She will be employed in tho the property on the present Praya 1 am India, containing mont melancholy as reconciliation.
trade with China, and will form one of the that
The Emperor eulogized. Sir Morail Mac fleet of vessels plying the persuaded that, erðu
tho under
flag of
the and the long and past six months. The a good pra Thuru is a other abjection raised that of the matter, however, was this: there his butirely later in the day, when path London. During construction the hull and the Government is incompetent to uster would still have a balance of revenue
entirely failed him, he wrote that he take spec lative work of this kind, and in their favour on the six, motithe hand had tried to do bie duty to God and his chinery have been under the superinten
|dence of Mr David Pollock, Glasgow; and that the Home Government would not it not
beok for the fact that duronuntry.
alle will be commanded by Captain Williem *annction
The European press recognise that the Hare, Into of the upon of maturity that it is now based upon the That she might do worse then visit Hong, any mere thation with priblie Afauda ing the present year they fell
a court of law wild sanc
reduction in the mail unbsidy to the accassion of Prince William brings a trial cousiatuur Mauerit The the ossol con inrunuier
tip to Arran tion spucalation with trust finds. The extent of nearly £100,000. He bar by detor whether Panel and situation, and tinuously for five lieurs on
is not happy one by any Board of Trade retarne for
France Rumia will be and back in Greenock. During the whole means. If the fand und waters of the Colony are given no trust funds to the Go- vernment, then it ia Aurely far more irre gular on their
heir part to hand over a large part of their trust to a body of mun to ape culate on, than for them to increase the that work is a very risky one for the Go value of their trust by a desinl work. If
vernment, then it is
it is equally a risky one for the marine lot-holders, and the policy of ganntity of wheat and cotton exported to the Government handing over the fore combined with the surplus tonusgo seeking Great Britain. and it was to this cause, shore to them beermen a very dubious one, coaik An, however, the majority of the marine lot cargoes, that the low rates were attribut holders consider the risk infinitasmal and able. Tu regard to the China trade the ex-
uhost cortsin, they can profit
have post trade from China with respect to rates nothing to
Ray against tlan Government of freight was in a still more dreary con undertaking the reclamations work which dition, comparatively speaking, then that is eminently one for the Government to do from India At this time of the year they as lying dircotly within this phero were in what was called the height
uht of the owner on behalf of the Colony of the land tea season. From China, under normal
about the and cargo of a
and of a valable kind was 60s per
the Glorious Fourth has got to that stage
abstract principle thus briefly stated by
a truly independo aco' man nained Barns the rank is but the guinea stamp, a
man's a man for a' that."
The new Emperor, who has taken the title of William the Second, in address-That ing the army, said that he and the army were born for each other.
of note.
His proclamation to the people of the Empite is completely coloution and in- dicates nothing wor
worthy Austria strongly resents any interference in the Bulgarian question.
Couat Kalnoky, the Austrian Prime Minister, considers that the European "aituation in greatly improved, and agrees with the British policy respecting the Bul- garian bons of contention.
The Imperial Government is carefully
the Chinese Bill. considering
party of three hundred member of Parliament, on the invitation of Lord Charles Boresford, inspected the fortiüica- Several ships tions and naval arsonals. were found to be entirely without nema- mants, while many of the arms of all sizez were found to be of obsolete patterns.
The Chinese residents are protesting against the bill drafted by the Conference, and have decided to appeal to the Emperor of Ching.
to lock-jnw, which supervened on in- flammation, caused largely by food entar;
ng the windpipe.
certain enthusiasts I believe advance the astounding theory that the Declara tion of Independence, which is so fre- quently referred to at the festive gather- ings held on that day, was drafted by Robert Baras when quite a young man; and that this theory is largely supported by the fact that the other works of Burne ars more largely read and bolter appre- eisted in Aracrica than they are anywhere *else.
That we have at last got something definite from the Sanitary Board with regard to
ness, the Reservoir might have been still as open to pallation as osor.
known for years, most people will think
kong, and noathe with her criticism the hideous bustles of the present day. That I have no fault to find with the rib
bons, the shoon, or the harmony of colours shown by the Hongkong fair having once been a victim while for two mortal hours a ribbon was being matched, I consider myself an authority on that description of harmonies in colour.
BROWNIE
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PRAYA KECLAMATION
SCHEME.
To the Editor of the Opuna. Mat.'
Hongkong, 7th July, 1898,
of
tion
&
and waters of which it consists. A
must
TER ASCOT KAUBI.
first four months of this your up to allowed to od atinge menacing the peace with time of steaming the onglues and other ma- the end of April-that the ammutits of our armatonta while choosing their own time chinery worked with the greatest smooth- exports end imports had increased to for fighting,
11023 and regularity, and ou the return the the extent of between £9,000,000, and
attained a speed of 12) knots with £10.000,000 sterling, but he was sorry to
the pagines making 84 revolutions per say that very little of that trade, or at least
minute. India. tudi cisting falling off in the of the import portion of it came from there was in the Indian trade a
Lea
hut it, certainly That was owing to circumstances to which
At Ascot nine horses contested the Princeļike of Wales's Stakes, Arrasdale and Merry second, while Nether Avon, half a length off, Andrew boing favourites, but Ossory won in a canter by three lengths. Galore was
wee third,
Cotillion being cocond, and sric third.
The gold vase was won by Femoor,
The Ascot Derby was won by Sheen, and the Hunt Cup by Shillelagh. Attila. wan second. The gold cup was a very hellow affair, Timothy going to the front half mile from home, and winning as he pleased by rasny lougths.
The Hardwick Stakes fall to Minting who
MR. DALGLEISI'S MURDERER. Allahabad, Jaue 18th --Nown has been
the Panjabi fukeer.
been expected, ond the lists of arrivals and
Hamburg, 6th June--The trade on the river has not been so lively as might have.
departures have beon comparatively small. Our communication with the Far East was affected by tho
general
dalness. We only have to ropert arrival of the Electra, .., from her usual voyage, and the depar- tare of the Polyhymia, s. a, for China and Japan, both Kingsin Linere. In vesels on the berth no material change.
There being no disturbing political news, ¦ and the reports about the Emperor'a bonith
and quotations are firra all round.
OPIUM-Now Patha, caah,, 4724 to 477)
الا الله
up.
of
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The Government of
for the Simla, June 18th. The following oficial
India has tolegraphed
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cash,-
cash,
Old
17
New Benares, vash, 486/07)
Old Now Malwa, onsit, 550 Allowance, Inela... 68/84 Old Malwa, cash,... 570/80 Allowanoe, Tacis... 24/64. Ferulan, Oly, cash 500 Allowance, Taols... 30 Porsian, Paper tied 500/520 Allowance, Faela... 19
the Glenealy Reservoir; and, spite of Sin,--The more that this cohome is oorisid.deal has been heard at Homes good cirevenstancos, the rate of freight on defeated Los in Idleness without any effort. being favourable, businers has improved, the Chairman's banter at the expense of ornment would commit a very grievous increment which the development of a freight Erona China was exactly 26. porto. Mahomed, Mr Dalgleist's murderer, ored the clearer does it become that the Gov. right of propriators of land to the unearned ton. At the present moment the rate of received at Ladakh of the whoreabouts of Dr Candlie, the public feel that but for mistake in handing over the foreshore, the courtry adds to its value onerative of he had been obliged to allude at several of jud it is believed that if he is captured in
would astonish tho the energetic Scotch Doctor's outspokon proports of the Colony, to s zumber of landlords to find that a body man bad tiroir meetings untasly, the sormous Yarimand territory, the Usinese authorities
marine lot-holders to reclaim it for their the audacity to expect to own personal advantage, I am got on farge increinent on the at the vory competition there was for the carrying of
value of land that fine cargo, and the tendency of rates for India has those who fasoar the Government under-
has enaned here from the extension of tine cargo to
fall to the level of rates on him, and i libraries, taking railways, providing public The Emperor Frederick III suceumbad That seeing the state of the wells has ber and generally caring for the Colony in a not belong to the hut to the general com.the port of shipowners engaged in carrying totes has been issued:The Government
trade, out of property which actually did comtoon goods. Without combination on of way, but there is one grandmotherly sort of that the Governor's nuggestion might thing that they are in duly hound to do and munity, and to which they had only con- the finer description of cargoes it was the murderers of the late Mr Dalgleish 50
that is bo be acied on at once, and hydrants pro- the Colony, which belongs to the Colony
tin to manage and husband the land of tribated the cost of filling in the earth. Fusible, as he had before atated, to pro- Pekin, Teheran, and Russia and has also vided without any further waste of fool- and which is intrusted to then as stewards.. Supposing, therefore, that the advantages acap stationery.
to be obtained thun Colony from
ained by the Marino lot-holdere unde
taking this scheme were ten times greater than
they are and the risks attending the Government the work were ten times greater, I doing should say it ought still to be a very serious mattor for consideration, whether the Gov. ernment were justified in harding over the foreshore of the
e of the Jotony
to of men speculative purposes. As the matter
Sin J. P. Hennomy's Action against 'The Times.In the High Court of Justice on the lat inst., before, Mr Justice Man
Stephen, this matter isty and Mr Justice which had been previously before tho Court-caine on upon au interlocutary ap- plication. The plaintiff was Sir John Pope Hennessy, Governor of the Matri-
and the defendant was the printer and pablisher of The Times. The action was to recover damages for alleged libels, which
that the
That after the successful arrangement of tho Opium Farm, no excuse can be advanced as to want of funds.
That this weak a requien has been sung over a Local Marine Insurafice Company, another viction to the rensoless war of
rates.'
for
port on the working of the Junk Trade an interested lot-holder could wish the
of Hongkong is an exhaustive and in stractive document, and, treading, is ise somiotianes does opon rather delicato
Yours,
BATEPAYER,
THE P. AND O. STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY,
The ninety-fifth half-yearly mooting of tho proprietors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation espany was held at the company's offices, 122, Lamden- ball-atrest, London, on the bit ult. Me Thomas Sutherland, M. P, olinirren of tas Board of Directors, presided.
vent the rates upon such goods falling to a written to Yarkand and Kashgar on the deplorable love They were at the pro-
Bopt
ent moment being snsd for heavy damages subject. Rowards of R5,000 for the cap. forcohepiting with others he believed ture of Dad Mahomed, and R3,000 for his that was the word-to maintain the rates principal segons plios, the Punjabi fakir upun cargoes of tea at something like their Buksh, have been offered.
normal level. As the chick a
ward
Case Was
+
(L. d: 0. Beprem, 8th June.)
in moving the adoption of the passenger trame.tely thas Mr William J. Galway, MI.C.E, who
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Government to surrender its foreshore and the five million estimated profit which it is ca'culated will acerta from the reclamation, ples that of the present seems as item in the report has rofezen do to the fleet silver. Unless homeword freights improved Me presented by Mr Chater ate reduced to sore ground, he has managed to do so with straits to And any reasons other than those Mongolia, and the Tanjore, had been saithey would have to work very hard to occupied a high and ds of twenty years considerable dexterity, stooring fairly wall of their own self-interest to justify thoir / With regard to the Zanhess, loss was ever, the company had-and this was maths most important and diffult works con On Calestia
force WLE rofused or was referred
plear alike of Scylla and Charybdia. That the compiled figures are on the whole
satisfactory;
theen throw considerable
light on the volume of trade, anarable no doubi delight the hearts of local
statista.
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wou'd be improper and irregular to make any further obscrvations on it. Agninni
With reference to our commente on tho the serious decline ir homeward freights, the suduction in the amount of the mail sub proposed milways in Siam, we understand sidy, and the incensed consumption of coal, that the staff of engineora engaged on the thore wom one or two balanci ng factors. In important lines of railway now under survey There was the place there!
Lowther first
bad
an increased out by Memra. Panchard, MeTaggart, and in the second place and Co., contractors to the Government, Mr A.
place they and M. Bethune, the secretary, read had an inercar-trail, yot satisfactory-in has been increased by the appointment of the notice convening the meuttag.
The Chairman,
with, and had another difficulty to
sails from Liverpool on board the as the report, said, that as usual the forest that was the continued depreciation of Gentes, of the Lolt Line, to-day (Friday),
Me Galwoy
for Threo of the older vessels, the Zambesi, the
I responsible position on On Bombay- maintain their position. In the past, how. Government railwaye in Iadis, during he carried out a number of period he claims. They eularge apon the broad rout entailed, but this was compensated for byter for considerable satisfaction-fortified structed in that country, including way, the depp water frontage &c. &c. which the prouts on the eales of the other two the position of the connpany, and looked to would be
Thelem and Sulaj Bridges. be given to the Colony, from whist toy phould supply, the Zarubinst with the reserves thoroughly well.
expori- ut couran Uś
derive the primary advant
dvant. they
varied, and and however
included exploration and surveys of new ages theraeclves and which would actrus modern machinery and new bollets in stand thereftas, in a macro or less independent enve appears to have been most
disagreeable, the wallsition, to the Colony whoever did the works; but of selling her, but they adhered
incontrics,
tho locating and constructing of they fail to prove that the Colony should known policy of the Company, by which over unfortunate a serious finetustion in
lincs, and, Sinally their maintenance and allow them to make a profit of 250 por new vessels are substituted for the old ones their revendo miglai be and must be that
management. We understand that Mr cent, out of the Colony's own property for instead of their being re-constructed. This are, affect in the slightest degree the Galway goes out na engineer-in-chief on the the sake of the advantages.
In dofault of gond sound argument, perience of laid down after one stability of the company. (Applause.).
policy was firmly
now lines, and as assistants he takes with
jcritical 1 casuiatry
Lord Sudeley scronded the adoption of him Air Henry Gittens, C.E., who for four Taken of Messra Falconer de l'o.'s Premises, the word, but has the enormous to pound, and didacting the report, which was unanimotely agrood saunadian Paola
of various sections Of
Shuren's Boud.} observe, been resorted to on their behalf by past ten years he fou
after to.
OBARONETER 9A.M... the Canadian Paoias Railway, and subso- your morning contemporary. In fact the the three vessels sold
had at the pre they
On the motion of the Chairman, second quently on the North West of Canada and conduct of your contemporary with refer sent time only forty-four vessels actively ed by Mr Jno Franke, sa interim dividend her branch lines; Mr E. W. Wilkinson,
which was the same as in 1978. ence to this
but employed, When the and straightforward.
and also in India Mr home railways, scheme was first monted they threw
-the tennage of the prosort flest exceeded
Do. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought Frederick H. Bailoo, C., who has been water on it; and two days afterwards they that of 1878 by 80,000 tons. (Bear, hour) the proceding to close.
aztensively engaged on radways in Boot- That the existence of the poetry of motion appeared with a flaming article praising up That was the convincing proof that it was
Land, and
and on the contractors' ataff in Lon Vessels of a different has never more forcibly been brought the scheme to the sky. I base no grounds necessary to have vessels
don, and also Mr S. H. Angior, a Civil and from what
had ten years they home to me than in the following words for saying and do not believe they were type from
of the soundness of
Mechanical Engineer, who has already had the bought over but apparently they must
polisy which they
considerable e experience in the East. We of your morning contemporary - The have been talked over. Since then of bad porsued, and
which they
hoped to
are further informed that these gentlemen charin of her action lay principally in the course beds and soul to the enterprise, or latest
they
y have considered themselves.com- further.
1.) With (Applause.) rogard to the The P. & 0. steamier Rhodips arrived lateneers from the contractors' staff in London. will be followed at intervala by otisur engi additiona to the flest
fleet, the four Jubilen nonchalant and reckless manner in which at least have acted as if they were under steamers Victoria, Britannia, Ocenna, and last night with the English mait of 8th Moonwhile, the aarsys are being pushed she stood on her head on the horse's that obligation.
they employed capital of
very June. We take the following telegrams forward by Messrs. F. H Landon, C.F of short back, and did a double shuffle of the Now what is the best that the writer in the
£800,000
འམ་ཡ་ and Richard Roberts, C.E., two anginoors those ships was forord upon from cur exchanges:
who have had a lengthened experience in back of her hook, landing in a graceful Daily Press has got to say for the scheme?
He is evidently hard up for genuine argu. but
but they
now felt
prodont EXPULSION FROM BERLIN OF FRENCH
India and the
Brasil and Contral in constructing thone NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS,
America, &c, aided by young and promis That some restriction certainly ought to be twisting and contortions he indulges in. large vessals. They had given every sents of the Parisian newspapers Gaglois and | have received English canotte, who j
ments, to judge from the amout of and judicious ey had done:
satis- Berlin, June 21. The special corresponding élismesa engineers and He CANbut Bay the scheme is a very risky faction buth
faction both as regards comfort and put on the importation and sale of so-one and that the five million proht may the Britannias having just completed a pas Matin have been expelled from here by the
speed,
There
that a very can be no doubt batt called Brandy, sold at prices varying vanish away. That would frighten the age outwards with the Austration mails in German authorities for slandering high por acute crisis in coming in the matter of the from something like 75 cents to $1.50 doubtful lot-holders and might upset the twenty-five and a-half days, or ono weeksonages.
plus trade. alus trade. We have
Dave several times of referred to the rewarks of several of por cogen, including cost of case, bottles, whole scheme. What he does is to try and under the contract time. (Applause.) He
prove that what in the hands of the marine did
however, spprove of these excep- Bruseda, June 21-Information has has a carence which they chronicle or prognosti British Opusula in China, and the de- would, on the most careful tional passages, for the policy of one Com-received from the Congo Free Stats that a almost to tremble in the balance, and apThat the price proclaims the villainous calculation, yield at least & pront of up-pany or another to oselipse its neighbour relief expedition is being organised as Locate. The following remarks from the of five million dollare night in the by extreme opted was a play which politaville for the relief of Stanley, who, it report of Mr It. E. Bredon on the Hankow nature of the contents of these bottles, handa of the Government result ira in the long run sipiply meant finanis reported, is surrounded by datives and as trade for 1887 place the
position in a ainsi- purporting to be Brandy, the maddening a logs to the community. As the Govcial disaster to the shipowner
larly
rable light:-- properties of which generally drive Jack
by the Maator to a judge. It conso- quantly came before Mr Justice Danmaa, who refused to make the order asked for, and this decision now come before their lordships upon appeal. Mr. Cagney (eith him My Lockwood, 9.0) was for the plaintiff, and Mr Lumley Smith, Q. C., and Mr Graham were for the defen dants. Mr Justice Manisty said that in his opinion
Mr. Justice Denman bad enma to a right conclusion. The action was founded upon three alleged libela, composed partly of statements of fact and partly of comments upon these facts. The substance of the defends was that the statements of fact were true, and that the comments were fair and reasonable comments upon the facts. In his judgment the interrogatorios had been suficiently answered, the ques tions in the cause being what they waco. It would be going too far to compel a 9- fendant to disclose to the plaintiff his whole case-Appeal diamined.
'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the 'scheme' for the extension of the Praya--the more than probable aggkan. disement of Marine Lot-holders-and the porbags extremely remota banofit of rate- payers in general, seems for the moment
pears as if any slight movement might induce the beam to kick either way. That the promoters have now less the courage of their opinions than when thes firat sought to tickle the nose of the pub-
the thick or thin end of the wedge, honest question has been arthing There was, however, this singular difference at the rate of 5 cont, per annum was agreed C. E., who has had large experience on
obstraction.
altitude on the animal's tail'
and, gorgeously flaunting labalą:
mitted
Lot-holders, wards
cold
of
The
проп
TEAM to
At
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH BLAIL
EXPEDITION TO BELIEVE STANIET
24-Nows has arrived
Chinese
13
29.91
Do.
1 RK
... 29.88
Do.
+P.M....
LA
THELMOMETRE
1.....
Do. 10. Do.
1 FaM...
- 80
(Wal bulb) $42.
28
Do.
1 PM 81
Do. Do.
Da. Do Manmum
Do. Minimum our gu
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
AT 4 P,M, TO-DAY, ATR Barometer
..29.80
Temperature.
Humidity
Direction of Wind Force Weather
0
Hongkong Observatory, Joły, 7, 1888.
OHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL.
LALOM.
prometerred.
REGISTER.
JULY AT 4 P.,
Temperattire.
eznment are to do the work 1 ay case, the present there were two sessels build unable to affect a retreat. this must mean that the marine Jet holders, ing whielt were intended for the Indian from the Congo stating that Arab deseriere thinking, by any means the largest factor Tokin...... 30.00
esa taxation is not, to my Wostock, 29.83 55 service, and they proposed to name them who have reached the entrongbed camp at to be taken acount of in prognosticating the Nagasaki.. 29.99
Periumlar and the Oriental, which he
Lubang at the foot of
of Arawingi rapide future.or
of the Indian opiuso. trade. On ult trusted would be names of happy omen. lio with a philanthropic (3) work of great That the trade is carried on without any which they bast really not sustained. 7 These vessels were not so large as the port, the Stanley's force is entangled insides 1 am told that while opisma consump- Amoy. 23.88 87 Shanghai..29.86) 76
pecuniary promise, to themselves.
That the rice of the charmer, while it las
succeeded with most of the marine lot-
holders, bas had no effect upon the gone-
ral public, save to enable them to sea through the scheme.'
to distraction and not infrequently to
Gnot.
or from motives of pure greed, would claim some four or five million dollare for losses
shore any putable conduct on the part of any journal
in order to be rovenged on the Government
age.
+
tboy
Many say, is
is
JULY 7-
Direction 1
Wad,
Wostock. 29,78, 65, 98, se
That it is hardly necessary to indinate who seems, bowever, to be put forward by your and the low price at which they could wounded by withDay is soverely ther unknown to them or they not Tokia...... 29.08.
vernment,
selves to a trade to which it would be the
grossest flattery to apply sa mild a term
as nefarious.
own proft wo
cally what the reasoning amounts to.
That the Governowat is evidently making ready for a change of frons should fur- ther instructions from the Colonial Office indicate the atticability of a double. That are not thoir names inscribed in the
•somersault backwards
That the object is of sufficient importance
to receive some little attention even at
מלי
Vessels.
assert that also
an arrow engagements territory he passed,
one of Izia
Directory, and they healtats not to call stating the pistlar very fairly when he says safeguard but they were asking pre-mande the Stanley relief expedition.
themselves merchants.
that
eta
of
THE LIBERALS AND THE PUBIJJASS.
oplan to i
Westhor
Rain during
h
or
10.00
+
attempt at concealment, those engaged in
Bcarcely believe
of them would attempt Victoria class, being 1,000 tons smaller, but the mountain forest of the region beyond tion is increasing in Western China, the Hongkong 29.82 86
of Indian | use it being, apparently, alike free from such dishonesty; and I think it is diere they would have the sa spped. India he upper Aruwhimi singo the middle more confined to the rich and the old. The Bolinao 29.85)-79 | 87; BE drug becoming more and Haiphong. 29.84 80 71 RE feat. April a very desirable pace to resort to reduced by one-third qualuna of conscience or dread of espion- that makes 4 pretence of honesty, to suggest during the victor, and when the British continuous onslaughts of garlike tribes up on native drug, are accustomed to its
through Bickness and smokers of the young generation brought Manila..... 29.89) 84 | 76 NNE or hint at any such prepadure. It would public becams belter aware of this
fact They
fla rour The superiority of Indian is these are in our midst who lend them contemporary as a sort of threat to the Go-reach that country, he thought some
through whose bring Indián
price of native, Hemember if you don't give trade might be worked up for
these for our There was one more point in
farther stato not even if as the power will suit you with enormous with their shipbuilding programmu-they surrounded by hosilo natives said he is un- they it spreder oplars of better quality, Hongkong 23.8663
handicaps home-grown in connection that the place where Stuky I uncompeil is opium by imposing upon it heavier dutics Shanghai.. 29.82 76 claims for competisation. That is practi- lis f certain nombre, of sargu saule. Pasha or Major Barttolot, whom Stanley but its relatite superiority tends to grow Bolinao....29.83 82 Amoy...... 29.8083 had invited tenders for goustrups able to communicate either with Emin for years produce opium
Haiphong.29.76 82 am persuaded that His Excelleney is to adopting this course they were not only left in charged of the camp at Tambenga,
|
Jess esch yaar. The serious point looks to Manila... 23.82 78 922 the company's inferest in the
Lodon, Jano 22-Majos Barttelot comme to be that quality scous to be getting In any case the profit would be far carrying trade,
to count fur less and price for mure in the The barometer has fallen in the Sonth. then the compensation that would beparations to meet the developinout which
At the caputition. loved by arbitrators to the cristing own had taken place in the mandfonturing trade
Gradients are reoderate for SE winds. pressat tuoment, London, June 23-The Liberals are in-apposing al: the duty and lehin naw paid Clondy and warm weather prevails. It might perbas, actonish some conversion of curious nation about Morrisin Hill, as marine luts inta
opium to be rented and placed
W. Donech, of the Local Government Bill, by which
bears, loan opinn-nearly as alrendy
Homy Observatory, July 7. Me Chater and some of his friends has ra peatedly declared, think the property on the more specially ontton Tarn--for
public-houses with other administrative feast Tis, 40s picul under the price of the no reduction in in China present Praye would
auffer
functious of justices a and Japan. Owing, he presumed, fine
to the new representa
exclusively That indeed those of us wigo do not wish to That surely this is not a distant sumbling value. The houses world frost s broad to the appreciation of guld, and to the cheap- tive anthority created by the new Bil, scd banned Scich a thing as prepared opiat, nelt, and to the Isrol of the sea in further, teasin 388 the undertaking fall inte privata that this pretty hill is to be shovelled into be laid and which would currency, the Bombay manufacture the renewal of a licence existing bofore the herdly be who had withdraw hamidity of air saturated with pasture being
strast whercon a a tramway woubl
daynes of wares in India through its silver the inesses where the question is was of from all admixture of Behive zov susturialdeath.
raw waterial 3. TEMPERATURE, in the shade th Cegimen, be found on the market today. Fahrenheit. strost in Bougtong now able to come the print of the marie lot,nufacturer in that par
passing of the proposed Act the compensa undersell the ou of tion is to be paid in respect of injury caused Bat, says the holders, although the valge of the property goods more especially, and, 24
consent to resuming the Governor General. matter by loss of liganos.
01
ship of Franch Indo-China in consequence is not diminished, the owner may still make fact, the extension of the trade during the
of difference of opinion with M. de la Porte,
·SUPPORT THE GOVERNMENT.
tha Uuder-Secretary for the Marine and can for loss of ses frontage, alleging last two or three years had been singularly on WH THE UNIONETS WILL that the property as an inland lot is not great. It was a trade which tam neces- London, June 23-A mesting of Unionist Colonies, on the subject of the recent decree of so much value to his na formerly, sarily be carried on, as they found from members of the House of Common tool relating to the Budget disposition, has been Now, when it is reczembered that this experience, at low rates of freight, and, place yesterday under the presidenes of prevailed on by the Premier to consent to lot-holder will have the chance of put-consequently, these ressols waze
economical also present, The meeting resulvad t trome inconvenience of altering a decree ferred the photograph on the wood must prosent lot, I do not think the compen requirements of that trade. Passing to the support Lord Salisbury's Government in which had only just been promulgated, and
the lands of the Colonial Office, and that That the Chinese have got hold of some of frontage for the lote gentleme to hear that Bombay was at the sting on the retention of the ninth clause on native op in ddition to what it! they say, Inside that hillo have got ʊna further and him, I so not mistaken, Prose mapsing ma- | jt. 34 proposed to transfer the licensing of good as Patar could be bought here for aLİ
in spite of whatever pressure, muy be krought do bear, the scheme will. But he sanctioned entirely without some Zalibéi ration.
pieces davilo, zin sequre by-m-by be fall down.
the sea to form the new Praya. hands may console ourselves with the refaction that the traditions of the Co-That the Home publis must be well posted Tonial Office will not be departed Erom, about the doings of the Malls and Gibraltar of the East, sening that we bare au artist of the Graphis type in our midst, and we kuom that the camera
and that in this at all other cases the Colonial Office will prose itself cou sistently whstruotive-aren if, sa appears
tolerably curtain, the scheme is not opposed on its own merita, or demerita.
moment
particular
WHE
Cau
Government Astrowumer.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 83 Fehrens
3. HUxUTT, in percentage of saturation, the
100,
4. DIRECTION OF Wiss, in two points. 6. Foxcited, according to Beaufort Beaja.
bed clots, drigaling, sein, fun, gloomy 6. NISTS OF Warnes, & Hon shy, o da,
k hati, i lightning, o ovurčags, pyaaanr showers,
Law).
never lies, although the artist who trans chasing the marine 1st in front of his oially constructed to meat thing spe. Lord Hartington. Mr Chamberlein*was } return. M. Floqust pointed out the ex-¡ † aquxdly, ruín, 's avow, i thunder, visibility"
7. Hair, In igalen, kently agi kaadreitha,
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