No. 8044.-OCTOBER 13, 1838,]
The shroff of a Chinese Club in Gough Tas Chinese Recorder saya The London Street is missing and very much wants rá.
Missionary Society has just opened its first inland station in North China. Roy, W. Thoro is also miming a sum of about. Rees, and Dr Sewell MacFarlane have 30,000, the funds of the club, which is said moved with their families to
to a village in the to have disappeared at the same time as from Tientsin. They have been well Chi Chow, located 900 l by canal
the shroff,
received, and the prospect is cheering, The Dactar roports 1,300 enses during his Grst month. If the ces are cams of illness, we scarcely think the prospect can' be described as cheering, at least as far as the district itací is concured.
We have received the September number of the China Medical Missionary Journal. Considerable spaco is taken up with along artiolo on the 'Betoi-contennial of the Medical Missionary Socioty-an article ropriated from the thinn Mail, Dr Boous writes commending the schome for starting a Chinese Medical Journal. Ho angs it should be founded as a Christian Medica Journal. It should have articles on medi cal subjects, scrupulonely sound and correct in their statements of facts, pot, at the same timo, doar and distinct, so as to be onsily comprehended by educated Chinese in ge- notal as well as by the medical students. It should be a means of interesting the Chi nica and of spreading a desire amongst them to obtain this benefits of foreiga me thods of medical and surgical treatment He proposes that the subject should be thoroughly considered at the Cloneral Con- ference in Shanghai in 1890, when they should proceed to elect two eai- tors, one aerican and ኣኴተስፋ English. Two papers follow, giving what we have
dietriot of
Is the Straits Times' translations of Deli | news we find the following:-Cattle disease has made its entry into Deli, and hss as- sumed a threatening appearance. Measure have been taken by both planters and the authorities to check its surend. Inst vices from Amoy state that the Chinese there have beco
have become more inclined than bei fore to proceed to
to Doli direct
coolies, where instead of going by way of Singapore, toy fall into the hands of brokers, who squeez them much to their own profit. The Chinese authorities of Anoy offer every facility for the despatch of cooles to Deli." Ar a recent meeting of the Berlin Physio legical Society, Profesor Kosnel monneed to which he has given the names of the the dismvery of a new constituent in tea, philin The physiological action of this is still under investigation, and if it provea be a stimulant, us supposed, and does not exist in coffee, the oasis of people who can drink strong raffe with little nervous dis tureance, but are excited by tea, are ex. plained. They have becouse tolerant of the heino which exists in both ros and coffee (8 opium-eaters become tolerant of mor
to
THE
FRAGRANT - WATERS' MURMUR That the gratiteade of the whole mercantile community, Chintas as well as Foreign, is due to the Attorney Conoral of this Colony for his masterly defence of Cap- tain Goggin at Canton, and his expNEKTE of the unjustifiabla interpretatiou. sought to he plead on the Treaty by the Im- porial Maritime Customs,
That a criminal conviction in a Couilar:
Court was a very boli slako to play for, and to the Attorney General and to the Consul (Me Alabaster) belongs the ocedit of spoiling the game
That, in view of the past career of Sir Ro
bert Hart, it is hard to credit him with the inception of these proceedings, and as he has absolute pover in his ven del partament, it is wol easy to understaud why he did not stay them. That although the Maritime Customs are pratically an imperium in imperio, they have usually acted as a useful channel for amoothing over difficultiva and other. wising improving the relations between Chinese and Europeats.
That this, apparent deviation from this policy is to be regretted icom every point of view..
That the Chefoo Convention might with advantage have had a more satisfactory
outcoma.
no doubt is valuable information with re- 3 in moderato quantities, arsenic-eaters | That a wilful desire to cheat the revenue.
of arsenic, smakers of nicotine, &a), but not of the theophyllin, winch operates upon them with a fresh energy, comparable to the nicotine of the school-boy's first cigar.
gard to native drugs. Dr. H. T. Whitney gives a history of medical work in Shaow, the extreme N.W. Fu-city of the Fah-kien province. He sums up his rensacks as fol- Wir rogard to the Australian proposal, lows: The history of nearly every station that the Legislature of the Straits Settle bas much in it that is checkered, but I think should be asked to restrict Chinese Singapore and other parts emigration from Shaowu on the whole will bear a favorable of the Colony to Australia, it may be re comparison. It is a very promising tok marked that only a vary small number go both medically and for religious work. We to Australia by the indirect route of Singa pure. A West Australian paper says:→→ get much better returns for our labor there With reference to a letter which appeared weeks back, cupied than we do in the Foushow field. Large from the dney Baletis, and which con
a en empty some opportunities await the right kind of a phy-tained a statement to the affect that a stea sician, and much fruit is sure to follow. mer trading between Singapore and Wes- faly a small beginning has yet been made,ters Australia landad nonthly hordes of
but we arü hoping some one will be found won to conure the medical work in Shaowu." A description is given by Dr. Alex. Lyall of the ease of a woman from whom a large, soft libroma, 23 lbs. in weight was cut, The paliert, he says, was found to be suffering from a large pedunculated tumour, growing from the posterior aspect of the right shoulder just below the epine of the scapain, the
inn
Chinamen on our shores, we find, on en- quiry, that the Australind brings very few Chinese passengers to our shoes, this trip the number being two only. Singapore Fre
Fress
The Manila correspondent of the Singapure Free Press naya-Yoesturday great excito-
ment was caused by its being notified to senders of telegrams in oipher that they would not be nilowed to forward such
depoesting
copies of their without telegraphic boden in the General Post huge mass reaching nearly to the hipice as the centre of communication with and being about icat in circumference the outer world. Immediately cos jostures
as to the origin or reason for at its widest part. Dr Lyall anys the tu. were rife as t
a regulation bring saadenly put into feroo mour was easily excised and that afterwards Lively imaginations immediately flew to the the patient proved very refractory. A few conclusion that something of great im
portance had taken place in Spain, which days after the operation she could not be would shortly be known here, to be kept in bed. Nevertheless the wound, to manitted with lightning despatch to great extent, hoaled by first intention, and other parts of the globe. Notaling an ex- citing, however, had accurred, the truth
many years but never been rigidly enforc wayed by the authorities for reasons best known to themselves. The now Director of Pets and Telegraphs, however, brought the regulation to Gorector, who immediately gave orders that it should be carried into effect henceforth and for ever.
the notice of the
the patient was well enough to run being that the regalation bus oxiated for from the hospital in about a fortnight, out-
the tunning or husband on The number contains an editorial article as the sanitary condition of Canton, which in vory much on the lines of a letter by Mr Theo. Sampson, which appeared in the China Meil some months ago. The writer, Dr. Kerr, says →→
Jay Gould, whose fortune is next in amount to that of the Vanderbilts, has wholly re- The City of Canton, located on the tired from business. He is troubled grent- border of the worrid zone, with more ly with sleeplessness, and his health appeara than a million of inhabitants, dwelling to be in a very precations condition. in a space of four and one-half aquare ulea, is
the waters at is drinking
Stati absolutely destitute of all the sanitary years ago the fact of his bug og
Buriously ill appliances which modern science pro- would have had
hid a great effect upon essential for the public health of the Stock Market; but now his death
is
KOUROUS
Но
vi
population.
"ny at, but it contains a would make but a mail ripple of exrites
citics. Not
any
alt
wate
of mient
times a na danse na that
Wall Street Ou of the это ибе- Western city(London luss 1,000,000
000 ments of the retired financier is
is the study to 11 square miles) with impure for of
of plaus for a mausoleum for himself and purposes of food and driak, with ditches wifo. Ho propose to courpite all the all over the city, shoked with decomposing details of his lust resting plaes if possible matter, and offensive smells abounding so during his life. It will be very elaborate, as to become the by word of all travellers, richly ornamented, and guarded by ingeni! (Cantan is asid by travellers to be one of ous mechanicnt contrivances against bur- the cleanest
in the Empire. Not glare. This tomb will be 100 feet in cleanest cities with landing all this, the opinion which I height, and will over half an acre of have formed, aftor &
ra residence of more than ground. It will be adorned with handsome
30
7 years, is that Canton is not more pieces of sculpture, and the walls will be of or more subject to epidemics than granita 3 fost in thickness. The doors Western
cities generally. The entire want will
will be
gard
healthy
of
ап
by ingenious mechanical which will ensure
knowing the
was altogether absent from the caso against the Bothas and the Captain, and that Consul Alabaster had no other al- ternative than to dismiss the charge.
That, as the Conani atates in his able jalg-
ment, so long as the Gueloma pay the underlings of the Steamer Company so liberally to wink at such things, so long will snuggling continue.
That the Provantive Department of the Customs cannot be accused of possessing a consuming desire to see this smuggling stopped, because it is uot natural to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.. That it is, at the same time, rather hard on the Steamer Company to pay watchmen for pravouting smuggled goods from being put on board, to have these watcbmon paid by the Customs searchers to disobey their orders, and then to be prosecuted
by the Customs because the Customs off- cers had successfully corrupted the Com pany's own servanta.
Tha: the superior officers of the Customs art doubtless innocent of such ways
that are dark and tricks that are vain,' but that they are responsible for them, and ought never to have made. them the basis of a criminal prosecution. That the Storm Damon has been ruging around the China Sea, but the formid- able array of science and of astronomical and muteorological instruments at the Kowloon Observatory has kept him away from Hongkong, where he might have ben seized and imprisoned by the star- gozing Doctor, and forced to disgorge the secrets of his wind-bag. That the prospective fortunes of the Pun- jum mines, or the chances held by the shareholders of making fortunes, have been the subject of much lively discus- sion.
1
That the possibility of Singaporeana getting a pull over the holders of stuck in thia part of the world, by getting the first filterings of good neva, is also exercising the minds of those who have quietly stuck to their shares here through good ant evil reports.
That an uneasy fooling oxite as to the mode
of disseminating news which reaches the ;
the haphazard manner in which share- holders are still left to pick up news as best they may is keenly felt.
only, but having been all therey rush haridual not destruction to That the more chcering the cows received,
Upisica will admit of my sing
charge of
ઘ
the way
a large hospital, to open them. The cotius for the great
and having medical assistants and pupils financier and bis site are already being living and practising in different parts manufactured by a Boston firm They are of the city, I have had opportunity to be cf solid nahogany 7 inches in thick of forming an opinion approximating eas, elaborately cared and ornamented the truth. Epidemies prevail at times, from designs by Elite Velder. They will but in muze violent forms than | sest 1,600 guiness cachu. Mr Gould shaply
in Western cities. Cholera now exists and follows the example of Mr Vanderbilt, has for some wooks, but not go acressly as who planned and bailt the comb in which ker genue
same time in Hongkong. Dar his body now lies. ing the last two years fever has prevailed to such an extent in Hongkong us to zoquire the appointment of a Special Committee to investigate its origin. Feter has existed in this city sud in ether places, but not to an naoanal extent.
THE ISLAND REVENUE-ALCOHOL IN TEM- PERANGE DRINKS. The report of the Coutakicners of Inland Revenue states that the total income from this branch of the revenue for the year ending March 31, Dr Kerr attributes the comparative healthi-1889, was £56,016,074, being a decrease of neas of Canton to the tide washing out the £:06,786 on the preceding yent. For the canals and the river bank twice in the 24rst time since 183-81 there has been an
increase in the quantity of spirits charged hours, to the shops and bounce being open with duty. The quantity of spirits con- sumed as a beverage during the year was to the winds of heaven, to the people 23,117,245 gallons, in increase of 366,116 having a fair supply of food, as a role well gallons over the preceding year. England cooked, to their drinking no water without razk 15,150,099
Scotland 0,028,718
on
boiling, and to the fact that the people are lonk We exported 3.121,619 | required to be in-doors by 10 p.m. and no
att increase of nearly 400,000 theatricals are held at night. No doubt theas the
preceding year. The
gross receipta conditions materially improve the healthirou boer duty for the past year amounted ness of Cantou, but we do not suppose that to 28,874,510, and the repayments on beer
the exported to £153,977, leaving net
channels.
in culfue,
CHINA MAIL
heard that the Chinese Gobling holls, euphemistically called Clubs, now ember i about four hundrød. That I would also like to call his attention a statement which I buva head on fairly good authority, that about a couple
South.
!.
CRICKET.
HONGKONG ORIORET CLUB, V. LADIES' AECREATION OLUD.
This match took place at the Cricket round today, play commencing of clovon 'clock. The result was a lad boating to
Lineally buzzing around the resorts of was instituted. Perhaps no people was brokers and they cannot be expected to go ever more auccessful in making a business. every day to the offico in search of news. -f their roligion than the Cincas. meeting notices have appeared in the paporu On one or two ecensions since tho Bay
that nows had arrived. On this cucasian
Ir I can put some touches of a rosy sun- Betise whatever was given. Perhaps the in the life of any man or woman, then information was contained, as the Chairman feel that I have walked with God,eorge said happened o
is just result to cumplain of without virtue It is the greatest of all
formier ocassion, in a Macdonald. letter. If that is the case to sharo- WHAT is liberty without wisdom and their manager sending important news in uile; for it is folly, vice and madness,
• form. Alt particulars, especially without tuition
or restraint. Burke. Tas hospitality of some people has no rant to
to it. Ton people will give you a din. nor for one who will offer
bed and a breakfast George Macdonati.
Rien Man-Ain't you showed not to be earning your bread by hard work, but to bo going around all day begging? Tramp Bumiph ! 'You don't oven beg.—Tezas Sift- ings.
of hundred houses exist in the Colony the Cricket Clubs team by an innings and which are used for keeping kidnapped 22 rune. Tho Cricket Club made a miser Labourers while the await shipmontable stand at their first innings, none of
them being able to face Jobristone's bowling auch a and their wickets went down ding-dong, anything concerning the Buding of gold, They only managed to put together a total enght to be addreerod to the directors and not sent privately by the manager to any of 38. The Ladies' Recreation Club team, ona.-En. Q. M. with fairly good thungh by no meuna brik- liant play, succeeded in gotting together 3 for their first inninga, and their oppo- bents on a second trial scored 33, Johp- stone's bowling was the feature of the
stol. In the drst innings he had wickets for 11 runs, and in the second the Enime number of wickets for 8 rans, altoge thee 12 wickets for 10 runs.
That wusther allegation I leave hoard made, night interest the Governor-namely, that a set of zascals who present them. Belves to the Harbour Master as intend ing cintyrants make a good living by doing en several tinies a month, while the kidnapped coolios are quietly shipped off in their places. Tint in our journoyings to and fro it falla to the lot of must of us to have to tarry on the way in Singapero. That for that runson wo mught to be glad to learn a now Hotel is on the tapis where wanderera will be taken in and done fur' with some degree of comfort. That tito Prospectus is not beyond the fact in staling that a good Hotel at Singapore is a want that has been greatly felt for tany years past,"
That it is scarcely an exaggeration to say Singapore has long hat the proud pie- emnitence' of possessing perhaps the very worat Hotel in Orient or Occident. That the Directorship is strong treat Scott, they can Currie favour with the paldic, Gardner their resources, Wale through difficulties, and, if need to, Hooper up and Stringer up when the und
comes.
That a good Hotel is an oasis in the 'in(n)a
and outs of life.
That the Prince of Growlers referred to
iny warmest welcome at an Ipn.' That as regards warmth they could casily
have satisfied hint in Singapure. That you may remor the enlightened
Governor of Formosa got out two stea- mere from Hons, and as he did not kuow what to do with them ho handed them over to the O. M. S. F. Co., who have been ordered to run them to Tientsin whether they like it or not.
That these vessels are said to draw over is feet with nothing but their coal on board, and there is a talk now of drouging the month of the Psiko su as to suit the ships.
That such a course is not the usual manoor of overcoming difficulties of draft, but all the en ne it is an ill wind that blows nobody good.'
wise policy to 'lot skeping dogs fio, when they come to can the
reports of the Union and Lito--Canton
CRICKET CLUB, Capt. Stauby, Coxone
Blair,
1 Sparrow, k,x,, c-Telinstone, S
Major Jobentose, c Coxon, h
C. P, Feller, h Frhestano,.....
Dr Rolbina, Jalustone,
G. AL. I'ott, Johnstone,
F. W. Firth, by Cat
T. A C. Hawkins, nut unt,
EO, Smith, b Cagen,».
Major Churchill, b dohastune, Dr Atkinmoa, b Johnstono. - ........................... Extn....
deal for all data
Total..
LADIES' RECREATION CLUB. ker Iumsos, C. E. Higginbothamn, à Churchik, E. H. Binit, Firth
F. Maitland, Atkinson, & Smith,
a. A. Lloyd, e Firth, Git,
D. J. Cann, Strow, b Smith,
T. Bacomo Smith, Stanley,
A. de C. Scanlan, e Hawkins, Stang,.. Major 3, 4. Chardill,
F. fi. Julstore, & Braking, b Churchill, 6. A. Tam, Tan out, A. G. Blakus, not out,
Total,
...
CRICKET CL203.
2 ca Mujar Juhratore, e Coxon, & Johnature,...... Major Chimbili, e Coroa, b Jahazione, Capt. Stanley, at Llosa, b Coxon,
Dr Sprew, .., Hawking, benitopo,. 6. Hts, P. Socombe Sanità, b Blair,... T. W. Dirt, Jalustone,
Q. P. Pedler, Johnstonë.....
V.A. G. Hawk Blair
E. 0. Smith, Johnstone
Dr Atkins, not ous,
Extrudera
Total,
CHINESE NOTES.
(Translated for the China Mail.)
VILLAGE LIFE IN CHINA. VILLAGE MARKETS AND VILLAGE FAIKS.
Although the smallest Chinese village is really a city on a minute scale, there is ono particular in which the analogy fails; there are fow or no shops. Although there may be one or two places at which articles of a meet miscellaneous nature wing bo bad, this kind of trade, na compared with an Occi- dontal village of the same size, is very trit
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A Teatrule Raveno-Miss-De Pink- No, Mr Suitor, it can never ba. I shall never marry a widower. Thaidon! Catch Mr Boitor (departing)-I had no intention, ce walking in any other woman's shoon
Miss De Pink, ef offering you my late wife's phoos. You couldn't got them on-Phila delphia Record.
M Isaacatoin (to salvol tonaher)-Bow vas dot leedlo Jaenb getting on mit drith ling, and does not extend to the purchasametic? School teacher-Ho is doing nieo ly, Mr Isaacstain; he is in percentage now, and sale of the man staples, the products Mr Isaacstain--Vos dot so? Well, don'd of the soil. The Chinese prefer to do their you teach dot pay noddings less than von trading at a regularly established Market, bundert per ent. Be vos too young yet to
hord.-W. Y. Sun. study
and no matter how remote mai obscure the
NICELY POT-Goorge (to heiress with bad situation of a villago may be it is never out temper and large nasal development) of reach of such a market, which to a rural Have an ice, Miss Smith, do. Heiress-
No, thanks.
George-And you wont community answer the purpose of the waltz Heiress No. George-Nor pro- hoart to the bony, a distributing engine of menade ? Beirus No. George-Why, the vital force, iu never ceasing operation. you are all nocs tu-night: Heiress locks daggars and George aubsides for the oven- Two persons in the mane village, who ruaying-Harper's Bazaar,
have occasion to exchange products, will AN IMPORTANT DIACOVERY is announced not do eo, if they can avoid it, without the in the Paris Figaro,' of a valuable remedy intervention of the market, each one chefer vervous debility, physical exhaustion,
of
chested in giving
and premature decay. The discovery was
rishing a fear being more or receiving less than the market-made by a missionary in Old Mexico; it price. This market-price, on which so much saved him from a misarable existence and
T ently
grave. We learn that the Rev. dependa, is only ascertained by the cu sant friction of the buyer and the seller at Joseph Holides, Bloomatary Mansions, a market, and is the reaultant of an inter. Bloomsbury Square, Loudon, W... will send the proscription, free of charge, on minably process of haggling, without which however, no price would be reached, recuipt of a self addressed stamped enve
reaction. Topo The display of artides at a country market, is of the most misco laneous description. but is mainly confined to the staples of produc tion and to the commodities which every one must be able to get. Articles not to be had at the markets must be precured at shops in the larger towns, or in cities, the purchases must wait for the recurrence
of a larger
market called
Hui, of Fair, da 46 the population in rural districta is generally
of
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Quotations. Hoxexuse, October 13. OPIUM-Now Patna, coal, 540
cash, 5402 New Benares, cash, 628
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Allowance, Tauke... None to 8
Old Malwa, cash,... 620 Allownnes, Taels...
* None to 8 Persian, Oily,
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Allowane, Taois... 8,16 Persian, Paper tied 500/560 Allowance. Taeis... 8/16
Exchange.
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The Chung-ngoi-van-po has an article very dense, and vets evenly distributed, it highly commending Governor Des Vosux is necessary to have a circle of markets, for readily handing over criminals to the surrounding any particular spot, which is Chinese Government. If this policy is con-different but fixed days of the
accomplished by holding the market On The moon. tinned we may hope to ato a great diminumore common interval is five days, and the market is nared from the axed days on tion of Crime in the Colony.
which it is held. Thus, starting from
any visited the works at Cheng Chow on the market day in a
The same paper says a Europeao has particular village, wa
#o accortain that there is in a town to the east, on the Hwangho and out rated that the not ex-market occurs on each day of the monu in 'one-air days, that is, this particular
On London- peaditure for the work done would be which a one or a aixe
aix occurs, viz., the first, about Taels 1,100,000, and since the coet sixth, aleventh, sixteenth, twenty-first, and That our Local Marine Insurance Com-there remains a balance of $7,900,000, To the south is another village, holding a to the Government has boon Tasks 3,00,000, twenty-sixth, or aix markets each moon panies are satisfactorily demonstrating under these ficiels cat afford to suffer datoted by a two or a
which has
where. s gone, nobody know!
No two-seven market, occurring on each day their grit, and no doubt the London
degradation and punishment.
or a seven, and similarly magnates will concludo it to be a
three-cight, four-nine, and 'five-len, The Shapoo pretest of Chinese nerohanian of a markets, thus coming and to the date of
merchants
Against the the one six market again. These markets lato Americana treaty, in
in which it is and will be distributed over the country at such * Amurica does not acknowledge the oblign-pinces as are found by experience to be. tion to pay indemnity for injury dous to most scossible, and where the most people Chinese Hle and property in out-of-the-wayan to gathered. If the attendance falla or to pay onca for all $276,619.75 before stretch of territory has no convenient places, but agrees out of
Pity
for the antler off, a market may be given up, or if a wide Sont the 1st of March 1889. But, was it ever market on any particular day, a new one That the Governor of Singapore (the clover hinted that the leanity demanded and may be added. Thas the sirely of markets
and succesful Sir Cecil) has got off his paid for the murder of Margary in an out-
is kept 16 complete, all markers of this Financial Address some time before his they place was not obligatory? Or, circle are not equally convenient for all
that the indemnity paid for the burning of the
of the villages it
sit the neighborhood, and those rival. Sir George William, of Hongkong. Shamin honga was not obligatory Again, villages on the outer rims of the circle have
the Chinese Ambasador Chang That what ho says about those guns that morial sage
in his 198 also another and more distant circle of
•European lob
labourers are alan markets which they man attend if they never come is not pleasant rending, ba-excluded from America." Bat wo fud on choose, the warkets on the
edge to america is on the increase, and there is nocting the two circles. Thus all p
contrary that emigration from
com Europe circle forming a sort of not & shadow of ground for the statement. in reach of a
of a market nourly overs there is, why does not Chang go to the
the eme places have o sign Office
a choice of markets on Do, Foroigu
at Washington and got the same day. If the is
a large
Do. of the copy of Treaty with England, Germany ones in five days may not France, Austria, or Italy to that effect? sad the market may be held four times in not be often onuugh,
[HVEXOMETZ The whole affair is an insult to China which ten days, us out the one-six and
four- nine'daya, and the most cannot be allowed.
ignorant The Shih-pas has been vigorously.sound-never finds any difficulty in recollecting ing the alarm in regard to the proceedings the datos. This system and intentions of Russia against China. It dora the
of markets, run- period of five
Offens, which, in face of the war of rates, are simply monuments of long-headed
management.
cause it merely anticipates what Governor Des Voux can say-only that our Go- vernor may have to report a antider condition here than in Singapore. That there will be tempestuous weather if the Home Authorities desire to squeeze more money for Military purposes before these guns appear.
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Byen had the common courtesy to inform railwaye inearzwet, with a view to develop the systela 10 greatly finess, and
water.
the
Directors here concerning the mine, and That the authorities, I believe, have not is high time that Chian commented naking tural division of time to
this Culony of the reason of the delay, if ing and protecting ber northern territories. Innar months." In ordinary times the there indeed to a reason that will hold and more or less disaffected; and if Russia general habit of the Chinesa with all their Both Mongolia and Cores are threatened markets begin at an early hour-as is the gota hold of either, Manchuria must go work and last through the grouter part too.
of the day; and just before the New Yes
Year, when the day is all too short for the work to be crowded int it, the crowds will not disperse until long after dark. Rab or the other hand, in planting or in harvest time, a few brick hours are all that can be spared for the routine of the necessary tra
transactions The village markets
the stronger the reason why it should be speedily circulated amonist theo who have a right to know.
That, falling och an arrangement, unsatis-
Thot, as most right-minded men belieys in
The same paper is of opinion that Siam doing good to their fellow-crotures, well-is in danger of being swallowed up by
France or by Englund.
CORRESPONDENCE.
PUNJOMS AGAIN,
But
ordered and properly-directed missionary work canst be approved of by most intelli- factory and often unjust euspicions toat gent residents here. continually attach to share operators. That, in view of much that is a mistakenly Phat the captura of three of the mon sup- Barrow, zontally and ethically, in the To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL.
ara attended by wholesale dealers in the tend to have been engaged in the mar present system of mission work generally
Hongkong, 13th October, 1888.
Local products, who bay. rix large iuanti- dorous attack and robbery ep the de- adopted by the innumerable denomina- I venture to suggest to the Board of Direc
Sxx-As a large holder of Punjomstie, a well to by blacksmiths, vendors of ali purts of eatables, barbers, and ather fasculess household in Little Hongkong | lions of Protestant Christians, it is re-tors the desirability of printing in concertans, who are sure to pick up a
freshing to come upon a rousing trampettive and cheap form the news now to hand business where there are such
from the mines. If this were done many people. blast like that of Dr Williamson, recantly a nervous holder would be epared some traders take their and, exact a trifling published upon this important subject, That of cures the Churches at Hop a
all Chi to blame, as they practically lay down the broad lines of the systom that has
is creditable to Inspector Mathieson, of the Yau-mah-ti Police station, That it will devolge open the Government to devise some means to present, if pos. sible, the recurrence of auch outrages against the safety of life and the socurity of propuls That it was a graceful and creditable thing on the part of the Lily Minstrels and their friends to give an entertainment
for the benefit of the Widow of Turnkey
Pereira, and it is pleasant to note that their efforts were wall supported by the public.
of the business of burying the dend was.
been and is still carried on, and mission- aries who bave the courage to speak out | are invariably frowned down with great severity,
That Home Churubes hunger for statistics of converte, because it a generally to lieved that such rotarus are the most powerful incentives to libere! subscrip-
tious,
BROWNIE.
METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
ATF.. TO-DAY. Barometer
29.01
Temperatura.
79
Direction of Wind Force
h
Humidity
Weather
Hongkong Observatory, Oct, 19, 1888.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
good
tion
bere of
The persons vs whose land the
REGISTER.
OCTOBER 12.-AT 1.8.
anxious momenty during the fluctuations ground-rent for
Arcach market, a tax, like Wostou... 29,79 $2 think in the performance of such a dety caused by speculative transactions, and I so payments, graded according to Tokio. 30.12
roumstances. Some markets have a
ཚག།པ འག*£]6} }
to sea level
Temperature,
Khumidity.
the Board would only be carrying out a cattle market attacked, at which all kinds Nagasaki. 70. implied, if not a tacit praise given as a of stock may be bought and sold, and in Shangha.. 29.98 late whsrebolder meeting.-Your's,
the spring and autume, these cattle ex- Eongkong 29.96|
Amoy PAHANG.
changes are the ssenes of most lively busiras. The Chinesa
name for market Boling.29.85 30
Haiphong, 30.02
We thoroughly endorse the remarks of
our sorrespondent, Mining concerne sre The title hati, however, which also densten
is chi, which simply means a
pertage more than any others subject to great and almost continual fluctuation, aud
an assemblage, is restricted to the larger
et
Manila...-29.86) 76 |
OCTOBER 13.~KT
ordinary markets will be spracd
praed Tokio.....30.16--
the element of pure speculation entor, it gatheringe, at which articles not to be had rostock. 28.86 48 77 them more largely than into crdinary tu before the rural purchaser to tempt him Nagasaki. 36.18 12 sinesa concerns. Hence the need for spee- to fact
with his cash. dr and full publicity of any news that may held either
annually, or
price of sna news is allowed to remain within a
These fairs are Shanghai..29.99 71
Bemi-annually,
of shares. H important and possibly oftener, and are attended by Han 2074 being generally known, there is an attractive stocks playing their most BODE.... 29.86 86 85 591
zo do
of
Force.
Weather.
to have approached Luzon. The weather
limited circle for 21 or 48 hours without merelants from all the great cities within Haiphong. 30.04 79 84
hundreds of aules, plu scope for a few initiated ones trafficking have s
Some of them Manila.....29.89 201 LITERAL Construction-Irate Father (to iu shares wholesale, in
be a purely commercial basis, but pro- well-timed, thought it was so delicately young Einks-See here, young man I don't scarcely fair to the general bly of shate to the enterpses of the priests or the matter is, out the typhoon appears
manner that
The barometer continues falling par that 15. the larger number owe their origin ticularly in Luzon and gradicats are mods- put that emo of my friends fauoied you Young Binks-Yes, bir; and I didn't. I Company had a bad quarter of an hour at regulations, furaish certain grounds for is cloudy and rather warm and dry.
I tell you never to enter my gutə again?
hotdera,
The Dictors of the Punjou nagers of some temple, whe fix
fix certain were firing a broadside into the clergy of clum over the fence.-Judge That if sil be true that I have heard lately, of the or and it's sonis fasten-
the Colony.
the menting before last on Becount of the Fair, provide theatrical Sr. Foter (to applicant)Did you bring their apparent tendency to conceal, and we which any references Applicant--I've got a supy should have thought they would have taken to
tempustion to both the Ecclesiastical and the Sanitary dainy. St. Peter-Yes, I a'pose it is, but made on that cocasion to adopt a cea mounting to tens of the of the mo- ¡ neit, and to the level of the sea in inches, tenta
thousands of
of per 1. BAROMETEE, reduced to 82 degrees Fahren. great benefit and hundredthe.
speedi
Chines
Call
and thus a rast wateau,
Dr Kerr wishes to niks out that the health receipt at £8,711,593. This is the greatest That the Governmeet also proposes to be. of Castor would not be greatly improved, reached, and mat, the Coumissioners
amount to which the beer duly kas ever vory liberal in the same direction. like that of all other large cities, by proper he partly attributed to the jubiles rejoicing That your reference to the mismanagement
anitation. The laws of nature are not which took place during the
the previous June consumption beverages
of suspended in Chiva, although the Chinese and July. The per hood of the
the population, compared with may have constitutions somewhat w the proceding shows a decrease in susceptible to certain effects than Euro-British and supial spirits and ta praus and although their customs and cocoa. Every year there appears to and an increase in foreign wines, beer, tea, shield them from certain diseases. The arise increased difficulty in keeping the sale experience here in Hongkong is that the of Iquids containing alcohol in legitimate natives are much more liable to fall victims
Many operace buyereges
epitaphs are not recognize here, y est mode, consistent with economy, of gis sons, to the great. have been found anything but free fron to disease thra foreigners, and this must be alcohol, and of this class
friend.Life. elderberry
disadvantage ing to the shareholders whatever information JODKINS (with apparent suroleazness) came from the mines. Evidently seme to of the temple revenues. Some long-estab-
rals of the people, and to the p dua mainly to their unceasily habite, syrup, containing 8.7 per cent of proof That, although you canot compel a man By the way, Faebil, you're a lawyer; what formation of a very important character lished and famous Fairs of this sort Les Beaides, in the absence of anything like it, non-alcoholio ginger
to enter upon the busincas of an oder would you do if a fellow was to refuse to came yesterday, for the shares ran up per cent,
pay for a bill of goods? Bestil (dryly)-I 0 to
to 11
સર્વે
br persons for many hundred reliable statistics the statements as to the
yet, we understand, the Coutaming ร.ย per cent, and taker, you can certainly compel bila to would see a lawyer, give him & recallier and general body of shareholders have received miles around, and the display of articles je comparative healthiness of Canton muat ba
containing 28.9
carry out his contredia in a reasonable, stats my vasu-Detroit Free Pets.
no indication other than the effect on the often much for thau that seen in any city except the largest cities within the pro- shares
of anything having transpired. vines. Perhaps the greatest evil of these to be a good deal of soup used by the Sanitary Board can take very strong politiciens this fall. Old Me Bently Yes, tional concealment or of audeavouring to limitless waste of wealth in gambling, enerous congregations of people is the generally most misleading. There are licenses were found to contain so much action indeed,
they allors is. Did Mrs. Bearly-Wall, profs to the disadvantage of others, bat wo tbounds who die in Cançon of whom wine that prosecutions for the sale That I feel constrained to ask His Er.Lo glad on it. I don't know much about I must say the policy of allowing news to at which appears to be at timca the main ein- ; politics, but I do b'iieva in keepin' olean. out by rumour is a bad one. There are immediata connection with the worship of ployment of thousands, and is conducted in cellency the Governor whether he hea➡N. Y. Sun
nuraber of shareholders who are not con- the divinities for whose bereft the Fair
cony
Enter
10.8
be given as types. Samplesut Rrilish
taken with great reservation. Superficial'
port and British sherry sold in the generalisationS
such cubjects are north of England by holders of woots
no one ever heare.
口
of foreign wine without licence were
cupçceaiully sustained against the raudura.
authorities ought to be palled' gpon to investigate this mattor,
from
attended
business way; and in serve cases the D Mira, Bently-1 268; dusit, there's We are far from securing any one of inton,
W. DOBLACK, Government Astronomer, Hongkong Observatory, October 13.
Fahrenheit."
8. AVITY, in percentage of saturation, the 108.
2. TeamATORS, in the shade in degrees
midity of air saturated with moisture being 4. Dintaron or WIND, to two points.
5. Pouch or TD, socording to Besciork desin.
chedience, d drixaling, rain, fog, glooms, 6. RATE OF WEATHER 8 bine sky, o de Każi, lightning, a overent, passing showers,
✔ squally, rain, snow, thunder, visibility, ≫ dew (wet).
1. Bai, in inches, tezlḥg and hundredtby.
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