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IS HONGKONG BOOMING I To the Editor of the "Chisa Man'
Hongkong, Sth April
TFE CHINA MAIL
STORIES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.
The Rev. T. Bryson delivered a lecture scently to the Tientsin Library and Debat ing Society on contemporary Chinese life, which he mainly illustrated by stories from
the year, month, day and hour of her and written about the flourishing condition/*tual increase in the port of fowign in the milors by the missionários, espaced the Shi Pao. Here are a few of them storined at the bearera for bringing a chair for Lhasa, aure.
Bion.
who went through the same ceremony with a wood with #bile bis first was alive, I go-hatween headed the parriage proces I got presents from both sides. Lam Akau was not a go-bitreen, he acted 69 a chunur. I a not a professional go-between, but engage in that ovaional- ly. I don't know, if there are professional go-betweens.
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FILIAL RIETY AND DEVOTION.
w of the name
MEDOLING WITH 190LS
The other day:
1 WIFE'S DEVUTION AND SACRIFICE
THE SAUREDNESS OF LIFE. The Buddhist idea of the sacro Iness of
them die. This is
Inside the West
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I think that I
Ir is good for a man to love his enemies,
frivada. N. O. Pisaquna.
he can do so without, injuring his
Trx, with all its colority, moves slowly on to those whose whole employment is Lo watch its flight,
THERE is probably no city in this
United States which, in proportion to population, contains an many wealthy ai ligential Scotchman as can be found in Chicago.
A THANK YOU' society is about to be organized in a Chicago suburb. The object
mutual comunel, and by fines the practise of saying Thsuks."
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Quotations...... “Hossgono. April 1, PIUM-Now Patna, chah, 825
1 cash,
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New Heuscos, cash, 105
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casil,
No. 8910-MAY 1, 1889.]
the marriage ceremonies. When the day very friendly terms with a Mongol gegen port of epium through the Foreign Customs dates may not be quite correot) but my facts (meaning the plaintiff) who was a fairly
of the Kwangtung province, the result of are incontrovertible.
arrived, as it happened to be a particularly who goes in this osavan goodlooking girl. Lam Aksu asked me to
Early in the 1870's we were mech more
fortunate one for marriages, it was found will perhaps be able to join them in the legislation at Hongkong and Macao, repro- go and got the pedigree, so that he might
sonted an increase of about Tls. 5,000,0 0 favored by gunboats than we have basit in
that bridal chain were in grost demand, faidam. I have not, so far, bool troubled fake it with him to show to his master. I
in the foreign imports into China-an im. later years, their period of stay being setiam
and the one sent to the old lady's hon by officials. Here I am perfectly quiet as If I get into the Tenidam wont to the hour and got the pedigree
provoment due, be minitsins, not to an under a year and great infot was taken
was not in very good condition. The hero pre rope. old lady few into a violent pasion and without attracting attention I så booked written on a piece of paper, which I gave
SI,A great deal has recently been said
Woaring Tibetan dross, to Lam Akou. What I mean by pass, voi
opiam, the demand for which has rather by Me Macgowan :
temperance aucieties were started on board;
no disreputable to her house to carry away here and speaking Tibetan has been of her daughter. She ordered them to change infinite use. Liu San is now drouing him- birth. It is called in Bang and it is taken of Hongkong. Evidences of our prosperity, slackened then increased, but to the im-
the Oustoms officials, the various gunboats which häppened to be to the temple for the cons to doside the optimists may, are everywhere to be proved supervision
In the city mar the Framination Hal. the hair immediately and refused to listen self in liko fashion, Tientsin dothes being whether the dates agree with those of the fund. New companies are being formed The conclusion I draw from these figures is stationed here and the sailors used to midst
Fion Chi to their pleadings that they could obtain quite as much of a curiosity here foreign proposed husband, Lau. Aksu anid his every other day; the value of land has risen that in 1887 there was a considerable but alternately at Mr Maogowan's and Dr there lives
I have engaged Potanin's headman, a master was satisfied with the Nin Saug and enormously and is still ring; the poppin not extrordinary incrowse in our trade. Talmage's: I believe I was the first who fang, who was recently taken seriously ill no other, sites all we giged. Deter ones. in about a couple of months would make tien is madly increasing: Hongkong is but that in 1888 there was a slight falling started the idea of a Seamen's Club, at any with dysentery. His third son, who her mined to have her own way the old lady some presents I told plaintiff's mother, fast becoming a seat of manufactures 3 It is off; and this conclusius is borne out by rate I was the first who drew up a tiroular always been noted for his filist conduct, was locked the bride in a back-room, rofusing Mongal tama who tavelled with him, for who said Li Ming Shun must send her a centre of trade for the whole of Eastern comparing the foreign tonnage of the port to be sent round the community aking for much troubled it his father's sickness, and to give her up, and meanwhile, doring the two years, and of whom he spoke most soma omull presents including a gold hairpin Asia-nch are a few of the statements one for last year with that of the preceding use. subsoriptions, this after soms berations leagad to do something for his relief. He continuance of the wrangling, the flag har highly. He is engaging two other Mongols was accordingly procured some sticks of incense, are and musiciens dispatzed. News of this as camel drivers, and I will get an Amdo and 820 betrothal nihoy. These things were hears marta on all sides, and they are made The toamage in 1887 amounted to 4,607,914, by Mr Craig and Mr-Margiran
circulated and with the procecta a place and shutting himself in his mou succeeded state of things having reached the bride. man who speaks Tibetan. Thus organized sent. There was an excusage of presets with the amaranice that Hongkong will ontas against only 4,600,000 in 1888.
We thus see that when we scrutinise the was mated shortly afterwater an op-in cutting place of flesh from his own groom's ears, he stormined to take the wo will leave hers in the third mouth for
mixed with his father's matter into his own hands, to gathered tho Tasidan, there to wait may chance. The plaintif people sent some cakes to rivat tho must progressive cities of America
bis f friends, and The weather hors is most delightful; în the proposed husband. It is necessary to in the rats of io devolopment. There can ragular trade of the port upon which our portutity offered by which we could thigh, which have marriage deeds and there were deed,bu no doubt that since the cessation of tho existence really depends, we find little raise the necessary amount we could medicine and administered to hiin, with together a score or more the bride with fact sineo leaving Peking I have not had
own awing the the result that shortly after he completely proceeded to the home of in this c The ceremony was the hostilities between France and China theCo ground for the speculative boom that is own place of onr
was rapidly cat recovered.
the intention of carrying her off by force. over three bad days. Kumbum, considering customary one on the marriage of a felony has made good progress. The depres- manifest just now, or for the fairy tales that item of
funds in hand then Not long agon house situated in Walnut The party was met at the door by the ita altitude (over 9,00) fest), is wonderful- No man could marry two number sion which prevailed during those troubles are being told about the enormous increase ing up the wile.
strong feelingGardone, outside one of the gates of Pok- was succuled by a perind of commercial of our prosperity. And in the town itself, a
the community 65 to whether ing, inhabited by a family of the name of aged damo, who brandished a knifely warm as long as it is not olonds one wires. A man can only have one
bofore them throatoning to stab her intend- legitimate wife: I never heard of any man acuity, which, although relaxed, is not, despite what is said to the contrary, thers in
let us hope, yet finished. But, although are no signs of an extraordinary prosperity. the Club should bo on a strictly temporauca, was blown down and the aged mother od son-in-law if he dared to enter. Hay- we have been prosperous, there has been The space occupied by the City of Victoria basis or whether beer should be supplied, was buried in the ruins. Everyone thought ing discovered that his bride was safe in
that it was quite imposible for her t-the was overcrowded four or five years ago, and us it was the people who were in favor
go-between engaged the infuriated nothing extraordinary in our progress and certainly nothing to warrant the extravagant There has been very litde extension to the of temperance who were prepared to go cape with her life. fler son however, feil the back pretion, while his friends and parley, the bridegroom burnt The Cliueso deepest into their pockets, the lat inviting upon his knes, and kaucking his head amazon views julluded to. That largo sums of East or Weat since then. money are being sent out of the Colony for having an inherent indisposition to spread subscriptions was sent round sating ex-rehemently upon the ground implored on a side door, and discovering the investmont in the Streita, North Borneo out from a centre, the relt has been that licitly that the Club was to be sonducted Heaven to bate pity and save the life of young lady carried her off on his back, on strictly toe-total principles and that no his mother. Neighbours immediately branning with her until he found a riohsha, and Torquin does not prore per so that or the great bulk of our building extension wealth is rapidly augmenting. Unless there has heon sky-wards. It has gone on in the subscriptions were wanted except on this gan clearing away the rubbish, and before in which he plated her and saw her con veyod to his home in safety. Without loss Dr E. J. Eitel, H. Inspector of is going or at the same time a correspond-contre of the city and thus has been more understanding when the list was returned, long the old lady was found sitting cross- Schools, aid was enrolled about thresing development in our trade, the flow of manifest than if it had been at the cut this present Seamen's Club was fought and leggod as if nothing bad happened, with of time the marriage coremonies were por meeting of the subscribers was held at the clear space all round her and quito - formed before the enraged mother in law money from the Colny way indicato a de- skirta Let any one who believes in the years ago as awon interproter to the
erease in the outlets for investments in the extraordinary development of Hongkong office of Meara Thit & Co., and the harmed. Everyone exclaimed that it was could arrive to put any obstacles in the Supreme Court. I hare tese 26 years in Banghong had neighbourhood. I have Colony itall, and may seriusely retard our compare our building extensions with the building was handed over the Missionary the filial piety of the sun which had saved way. The old ladly has since appealed to
trade in the future. Baa thea our tæde
ing away hr daughter. From a sub- boon studying Ohiness and Chinese_ran 'pora and customs during that time. I have boun iwerasing in correspondence with thin/building work that goes on in the outskirts Societies in Ainoy in trust to be opened an his mother's Ife. This is a true story! the yamén against her sons-in-law for carry is to discourage by sokmo obigason, by
a Club for sailors and to be conducted on the writer naitely adds. of Liverpool, Glasgow or Nowostle, and ha
sequat bu ator of the paper it a ers that will moderate his fiews considerably. stricty tee-total principles, a treating was outflow of money I scarcely think so.
the amende honorible has since been made, given attention to Chinese marriage customs
to be held once a year to which the public
TWENTY-Seven Yeurs ago an acorn lodged As we have fortunately no Custom Elease The enormous rise in the value of land in
As a warning to children against care, and on the sixth day after the marriage, and the Chiness law of inheritance from Chinese books on the subject, not as m in Hongkong, we have ever gone to the not mainly due to the increased prosperity were to be invited and accounts were to bo
atonen of an Ohio Court House spire, took how macrilage bride visited her mother to comfort her for lawyer but as a scholar. I have had an expanse of obtaining statistics of our trade. of the Colony, bat chicky to the fact that shewn and if necessary subscriptions were leasly modding with the idels in holy according to the oustom of Tientsin, the somehow in the mortar or between the
Into the question whether we ought to ob- the natives will not spread from the centre to be invited to raske good ay deficit. places the following story
re her luk. On this occasion the Intsbaudot and sent out an oak shoot, To-day a
miniature oak opportunity of inspecting the documents
tain such statistics, I do not propose to of the town, will rather pack like sardines For Ithink 2 years after this the Club was was punished in Peking was given in
ola Peking temple, brought his young wife in a grand bridal produced far sa they go they seem to be
rest from the ground, the spire, eighty the usual form of documents relating to
You strongly opposed the change, in a box zo as to be past thoir hauaus. The self-supporting, and then owing to gunboats cent Shih Pool In
Da Bwell-Yu must take a trip abroad. marriage. One of the documents marked and perhaps you were right; for, now that density of the packing enables a large rent being so fanger stationed here the Club formerly popular but now unfrequented chair, and the procession was accompanied
and remain away a year. Patient-Than 'D' is a document in which Lai Ming the Chinese Customs take account of the to be collected from a Chinese house, and gradually fell into arrears, and more than and without any resident priasts, the idea with muate.
deration, man! I can't do that. It will Shun presents his complimente to Li Chim Hongkong junk trade, there ought to be thua, instead of the Chinese houses spread once the community made gand the debit have become dilapidated, some of their
coat too much. Doctor-Very well, you Saw and gates that he groas to the pro-little difficulty in fatureof obtaining a prottying East and West, they are supplanting balance: at last it was brought home to us lirabs being detached, ponad marriage with Li Chun Sau's daugh- nocurate idea of our trade from the statis-Europasu houses in the centre of the town, that gunboats would nover again be stations child of nine years of age entered the
The document 432 is the actual tics of the countries with which wa deal. The truth that the overcrowding is vol pri ed ai Amoy, and several of the regular place and ventured to remove and cum-life and tho sinfuluess of putting any crea can stay at home and I'll visit you every ter
(reflectively)-Don't mention it, Duator. Inmedi extract from the Shih Pan. Mencius has a marriage covenant Those
are the do. Perhaps an afficial might be deputed to marily due to the instease of population subscribers roccgnizing the laurdity of mence playing with one of the broken tute to death was shown by the following day and try to pull you through, Patient
draw up
yearly report from such cata. my baseen on looking at the Eastern and keeping the place open on the chance of a laga, knocking it to pieces. cuments that would have to be roturnod
abroad-Washington Critic. As the great bulk of our trade is with Wextura districts, where large butus se gunboat coming in once or twice a year furately he was sized with a violent pain in saying to the following effet, that the I hade't thought of that. I guess I'll go the case of a divorce. The usual custom
or 2 days, discontinued their subscriptions his own legs and fell down crying loudly, superior man's feelings towards auizuals ure
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SZOKETS of Greatness-Ambitious Youth when a marriage is propond is to exchange China the returns of the Emporial Mari-coatly built are still tenantiers. small presents, as an sarvest of boa time Customs may, for my present object, Government applied the law against over and agitated for it to bo what up.. Since and piteously for help.
-Father, I am awilling to go through life be considered se giving a fair indication of crowding and it there were better means my return to Amey in 1887 I have used my attracted the attention of the auighbour, cannot bear to sen fides.
Then there is an exchange of
long a nobody. I wish to leave a name. In comparing of communication, there ought not to be best endeavours to get the trustees to divert who upon aning to his assistance feand certainly a feeling natural to all beuavolent
to breathe the west atmosphere of fase. horoscopes. The carrying of the bride the growth of our trade. through the streets in the kind of chair these statistics two things must be bores in much greater pressure here for house ac- the trust and hand over the funds to the child's limbs covered with blod. hearts, and such persons are always unwill.
I am resolved to become great Will you advise me? Wise Father With pleasure. described is looked upon is angbuncing to mind-fint, the opening of the Custoint commodation than there is in su ordinarily arither deserving local charity, viz. the They carried him home, bat so severe were ing to take away life. It is perhaps not Animal life altogether, but when we und all the world that the marriage is that of Houses et Kowloon and Lappa in april prosperous tows at Home. There is a Children's Home, and as I, as one of the his injuries that he died the same aftar possible to abolish the taking away of
The foundation of greatness is a good edu 1887 (bháinnas was not fully begun till July good dea! land not far from the centre of founders, consider that the want that called noon.
persons actually taking pleasers in putting cation. A. T.-Im laying it. W. F.--- a legitimate first wife, and the custom 1887), whereby it was passible for the first hit ton which might be made available for the trust into existence no longer exists, I
creatures to death, such individuals must Next, you need industry and good habits. is so strong that aver time to obtain reliable information with re-building (what about the Kennedy Kuad do not intend to osase my efforts till I gain A family for many generations distin- sorely have a stomach different from Y.-Ter. What else? W.F.-Always 20 whan (would dare to use such a
To Jo so gard to the junk trads of Hongkong ee sites we heard so much about?) if the Gov.my point chair for scoond wife.
Aud how, Mr Editor, jast one word to the guished for it literary attainments, durag that of ordinary men is illegal in Ubina. The red draped chair condly, the passing of the Opiam Ordin-ernment liked to patitia the market, but
auce of 1187, whereby such an improvement the Government almost seems to be in gentemen who attended the meeting of the cent years had become reduced in Gate of Tientsin there are sororal men obe polite to newspaper me.-N.Y. Weekly
circumstances Its present representatizo, the name of K'aag, who make a liv and the music are necekviry part of tha marriage of the first wife or Kit Fat. was made in the import of opinn throgh league with the landlords to keep up the 20th instant: from the name given in your Teau, had but one son, whose name was ing by taking away the lives of dogs. marriage of the rate is shat the the Foreign Customs of the Kwanggng routs. I believe that it is quite poss valuable paper see that y mas nunceous Ya Chiu, whe was betrothed as a child to Every spring and summer they send out
may collapse infusetal and are certainly more numerous secondary wives are her servants and could provines that Mr McKeon, the Statistical sibis the landboun
Melbourne, than those who founded the Seamen's Club girl of the smily name of K. During fired men to all the districte inaitle and Jegally be sold in China. The Kit Fat conld Socretary, catimates this as accounting fir horo, as it collapa in
number of dege and bousehold pais, lava carried off by death, and she was at once not be sold. The Kit Fet, if the husband is two-fifths of the incross of China's trade It must never be forgatten tiraž our trade Why, if they feel so keenly on the point, do an epidemic, the parents of the girl werentside the city to steal cats and dogs. The is very sensitive to the political movements, they not de se we did, pus their hands in taken into the family of her betrothed. She slaves, that have thus Leva teorificed is
their pockets and build a place of their own the head of the family, takes that position in 1885. Bearing this in mind, let en soe
Of the cruelties on the decease of the husband and would what our progress has been during the We have no manufactores to speak of, and
wna su modest in disposition and discreet in beyond all calculation. bare the administration of his estate. If an present decade. In 1880 the value of our the consequence is that if any of the coun- to which they can give any constitution ther her demonnour that her intended parents in practised upon these poor animals mention
trade with China was Tia 46,801,805; in tries which supplies us with goods gets in-like, instead of trying to filch sura?
law became much aišached to her, Mean. ia made of three: lat. Cutting up their alder member of the family of the bridegroom
Yours truly,
while the son of the family, though only flesh, then boiling it and exposing it on were alive at the time of the marriage bis 1880, befire any fiscal change was male involved in internal or external troubles, we presence at the ceremony would also be China, the value was Th. 67,442,947, that immediately feel the effect here. The out-
I have quite forgotten to say that it was 14 years of age, had been led away by the streets for sale. 2nd. Poisoning them When thay come expected at the representative of tho is an ice of 10 raillion tacle in 6 look in Earope is not so bright se to wake
His father constantly rebuked sorosa m having a fine thick for they kill family, Chinese living here still hold years. This progress, although not equal thin improbable. Unless therefore some pointed out at the meeting held in Mesars bad companions and become a confirmed with drugged oakes. 3ed themselves subject to Chinese customs to that made by Shauglas during the same syndiata manages to corner land and Tait & Co.'s that the balance raid over by gambler. socially. A Kit Fat leares her own family period is very satisfactory-is an indica induos the Government to put little in the the Old Club, which was under 8900 and reasoned with the fad but to no purit by thrusting a red hot poker through its for good on her marriage and henceforth tion of a growing Colony. In 1887 a bound market-a rather improbable thing and I remember correctly, came from the pose, till one day, having lost several tons budy in order that the fur may stand up on belongs to her husband's family. On the was made from 57 mition to 89 million. anlestar trade devolops far more rapidly Commanity, giren without any conditions, of taels and inding biraself with nothing end, and be sold at a little larger profit. that it is doing, I expect as the Praya sites so is case any of the subscribers objected to pay his debts, and fearing the wrath of Formerly the gentry and scholars of his parents, he absconded. When the Ticatsia petitioned the Fu sad Hsien to death of her husband she would bare a The figures for 1886 were :-
become available, or con before that, there to their subscriptions being used as directed news was brought to the lad's father issue stringsat regulations against theea claim on the head of the family for main-
Tis. 34,889,071
a considerable fall in the value of by the meeting, it was agreed that she was greatly agitated, and in his distrces cruelties; but alas! the Kang family aro in tenance even if she had to children.
Tla 22,582,076
MELY land and the houses on it.
advertisement be put in the Amey Gazette determined to start off immediately in league with the Tamen rumers and cons- Total.Th. 57,442,447***
ready trespassed too much on full particular and Stating that guest of the prodiga fastily patung tables They all blow through the same I have
subscriber objecting would be repaid. ha In 1887 the figures, were:-
you talpable space, but I mast allude to yet one more contention of the optimist share of the balance if it were applied for together a fer necessary articles le luft hienoss, and it is difficult to uproot the evil. As no one applied home, and from that day to this mother Nothing but a public investigation aided by Imports.......
father nor un have ever been heard of. Bscretiuqairies on the part of some virtuo a boulers. It is said that Hongkong is Exports....
The old mother and the child whom she official, who will speak out in a voice of fset becoming the seat of manufactures. it was not necessary to make sty return, Where are those manufactures? The only
had hoped would become ber daughter-in-thunder and panish with the utmost sera- Total..... Tis. 80,154,328
real manufacture that has sprung up within
law were now left without protectors. Their rity aume one offender fur the good of all, home soon became nothing bat four bare will ever sava these precious lives and re- This would seem to show splendid work the last year or two is that of brick and and to justify the pretensions of the cement. On the other hand Glass has The author of Chinese Characteristice' walls, and they were dependent for existence store the harmony of Heaven
A short amount of the Benevolent Socie- boomen that we have entered an era of disapponrod, and, if I am not mistaken, in the N.-C. Daily News writes: If the in- upon the ten fingers of the child, who
If the profits derived terposition of an intermediary is essential to worked at her sewing by day and by night. ties of Tientsin, and allusion to a number unexampled prosperity; but the inereuse Ginger also. is more apparent than real. Firat let it be from commerce were flowing into new the completion of a transfer of property, it& neighbour, observing the good looks of of ther topics which had to be panzad over for lack of time, closed a somewhat desul- remarked that the bulk of the ingrose is in commercial ventures or were utilised in the in aut lega ao in one of the mat important the little girl and remembering that the imports. There can be little doubt that a founding of new ma ufactures, there might acts of life, that tomely of arranging mar- marriage which had been arranged had torg but not uninteresting exhibition of considerable portion of it is
be some reason for believing that the age of riages. We are twice informed in the Book never taket place, whit there was no the light and shadows of Chinese daily life, the fact that from lat Juso 1887 for gold was approaching in Hongkong: but of Odes, that as the axe is necessary in likelihood of the lost son's return, gas seen through the medium of the pages SHANGHAI SPRING RACE MERTING. the first time all opium which colored instead of doing that it is going out of the order to cut wood, so a re-between itgested to the old lady that she should of the Shih Pas.
This make a marnago for the gid, and in this way Chins passed under the cognizance of the Colong to food ventures in neighbouring requisite in order to secure a wifo Foreign Customs. To give an illustration lands. This may be as remunerative to statement is of epocial interest as showing procure a home and the necessaries and com- THE HAFT LACE Cvr, for China ponies. of what a diference was caused by this fiscal the shareholders and may be for a short the antiquity of the custom of arranging forts of life for them both. At the Brst
Nowe arrived here thin wook, says the time as productive to Hongkong; but, theas matters through a third party. The convenient epportunity the old lady man- change, I may mention that in 1886 only HalfB Mile.
1098 piula of opium weru ruportasd as baring supposing these ventures to be all succes ressons which made it a pressity then aged delicately to hint at this proposal to China has of 20th April, trona Mr W. Mr Deal's dan Juno
satered Chun, whereas in 1887 the figures fal, it is very doubiful if thap will lang ate it a noceanty now, for there seems the daughter, who received the news with W. Locirhill, late Socrotury of the Ame THE CRITERION STAKES, for China posica. wore 7769 picula. This represente nearly centre in Hongkong. The largest share- little reason to think that in all these agar indignation and grief. Knucking her young roan Legation in Peking, sho roturand to (fakes at Mears Falconer & Co.'s Premises,
One Mile.
au incomes of three million taals. From holders are men who leave the Colony after the Chinese have materially altered. It is head on the ground, she sobbed violently, Chine last satum and started from this Mr Saisoon's gr. Eunka
the total has also, of course, to be deducted a dozen or so years, and they take their quits practicable to have the go-betwean a and accused the meddleme neighbour of lau THE QUIETLY PLATE, for China ponies that 86,274,01 which reprunts the junk trade abares with them. A Colmy, a large part friend ne relative of no of the parties, and boing
kave never run at any meeting. Three passing the Kowloon Statin, a nate of whe capital is invested in outalde on- which ran first taken in April 1887 and cerut, is in a very qustable, if not critical qquters of a Mila
which therefore do not appear in the condition. The founding of new companies work concessions bure, in Hongkong to 1886 figures.
Les us turn now to exporta, the statistics thera aud everywhere, fa therefore, which are not complicated with such a not an omised good. There are some of change as the Opiam Convention caused in theas ventarse that may tend to increases the imports. There is an increase je 1887 over 1868 of (in round tab. Ti 8,800,000. But in the figures for 1887 is include the junk rude which passed through the Kowion station for Rong THE KIANGSU PLATE, for Chius pies. kong, little or none of which was recorded
One mile and three quarters. bafure, and this export trade mousted in ment be profitably irrested in the Colony. that two members of families directly in an quite willing to die, bat in life I will basa, the capital of Tibet. Ast precaution Mr Samoon's gr. El Dorado
ty the girl tit of one of her nose pata; but, even making this deduation, outflow of money is no indication of an tion, arrange the details between them have never run before 1st January mean that it is vory donhtful enummonsly increasing prosperity, as has appears to the Chinese as fatuous as that settled the question, and the subject was literally lives on the country, as he would 1868. One milo sed a quarter.
a person who has occasion to crouS whether China exported more gods to bess repeatedly maintained of late.
not again discussed. Mr Choufeur's gr. Elegant
Hongkong in 188. than she did in 1880.
This is a tempting subject on which one should insist upon swimming when there passed away, and a day came when the encumber himself and attract attention THE ROADSTERS PLATE, for China puies
might scribble for ever, but I have already is already a good bridge. That parents old lady was sick and about to pass with foreign provisions or clonsils.
Mr Rosshill writes from the famous Wostock, 99,83 40 not otherwise entered at this meeting,
aband your indulgence and must desist.
arrange the matches for their children away from this life. To the girl who
Lokio 30.12 and that have nerer won a reco. Once
Yours,
without reference whatever to the latter, watched by her side she exclaimed: My lasery of Kumbum the Koumbours'
where the Abhe Hoc resided for momo Nagasaki.. in a matter of course, and it is often child, I am about to die, and I do not months in 1846-ear the Chiness city of Shanghai. 29.78 64 X, Y. Z Mr Simoon's dun sort...
down when the children are very rude grieve for this, since my que desire is that Sining.
Amoy 29.5 and sometimes before they are born. If my spirit may in the other world request
The tree referred to is famous among the longkong 29.78 the parents are not living, it becomes the with all earnestness that you may there be
Haiphong, 29.60 Amoy.
duty of the next of kin to me that a match rewarded for your devotion and faithfulness lamas for having spots each of its leaves a
natural delipation of the figure of Buddha || Jolinao. 29,86 92 (From our Correspondent.)
of some sort is negotiated. This can be to me in this. And so the old weman Total,......
Amoy, 27th April, 1889.
done quite as well when the young man is breathed her last. The young girl fell red writing may also be seen-but only Manila... 29.79 97
by the eye of faith, as it apponra from Mr a thousand miles distant. If it should upon the face of the corpse weeping in a Rockhill's experience on the bark of this
WPontack. 39.84; 44 This time we will take exports fint. It I and you the Amoy Gazette, containing happen that during his absame from homa passion of uncontrollable grief. After a marvellous tree.
L'okio will be sees by comparing the figure with those gleen abuts for 1837 that there was tho minutes of a meeting of the community a match has been arranged for him where time the arse quietly and taule every pre
Nagasaki.. he is by some other parties and he has been paration for a respectable interment. She an increase of two million tuels in exports in re Seamen's Club' in continuation of my actually married, than the law allows this procured saitable barisi dothan, head drsan,
Shanghai. 29.07 67 But the junk trade passing through the last. (These miuules were inserted last soulewhat irregular marriage to stand, and and ornaments with the proceeds of bar Kowloon customs stalion (almost entirely
the girl who had been betrothed to him st needlework, and then going to the underletter that the first stage of my journey Hongkong for. Hingkong) was fre million were for night).
his home, is re-engaged some one elo. takers ahe erilered not one but two coffins. is al en end. Forvios was held at the Masonic Hall One of the first questions which Chino Her conduct excited essplotow, and she was 10th after a most uneventful and, tooling,... 29.9288 yesterday evening, the Misimy body was asks of foreign ladies with how questioned as to her intutione, but replied frequently, uninteresting Journey of some Maulla....
were detained at Lau thai sho was very weak and stroken 4,400 who quietly declined to hoid Church service at the they become well soquainted, it Takn Church, and nearly all the com- arranged thoir marriages for them and how with grief, was assured that she had not hon nine days by Chinese New Year,
fight live
and did not wish to become a bit the time was not wholly atas and gradients a slight for 8.E vinds. I had some perofazna to make and the Rus- ·londy, warm and damp wouher prevails. munity attended sa s silent protest. Mr D.
marchants there gave a much valn bearing that foreign dies arrange opium and diet at the age of
His Lordship at this stage said he would adjourn the case till to-morro
were two or three polis he should like to be informed upon. He should like to know whether there was any provision for the recognition Chinese customs in this colony.
Mr Robinson said he believed that was an early proclamation with reference to that point
His Lordship said if there was any such law, aby early ordinance of proclamation, the question of domicile might become perfectly immaterial.
The case was then journed till 10.30
to-morrow.
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FLEST DAY.
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Mr J. D. Humphrow gr. Visitani 1 THE CATEAY Cor, for thine ponics. Grit
fins allowed 7 lb Mr Sassoon's br. Zephyr THE JOCKEY Cor, for China Ponies that
have never won a race, with jockey who have not had a winning mount. Mr Sassoon's gr. Asteroid ......
Once rund..
1
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Importk.... Exports...
for
Tis. 57,761,039 Tis. 37,393,189
dne to
within a certain date.
W. S. OBR
MATRIMONIAL GO-BETWEENS IN
CHINA
long-tongued
TIBETAN EXPLORATION.
pussiping wretch place on an exploring expedition to the between Western China and Anterior in that case the party whose friend the go who was planning their ru She remade kewu regions of Kokonor, lying between is, feels a degree of maurity as to ed her mother-in-law that even if not for Tibet, and secupied by the Tangut and his own interests that would be otherwin mally married, she had been betrohad other tribes of mixed Moogel and Tibetan ous u
of the question. The reputation of with all proper acromonies, and called apo origin, professional matchmakers is generally bad, Heuvou, surth, and the spirits of the
Mr Rockhill, whi'e attached to the Lega- their sole object being to nomplish the deceased to witness to her fidelity. She unbu, irrespective of Stress or of the real doclared the the trouble which had befallen tion, studied the language and castoms of the trade of the Colony and will thus become wishes of the principals. Yet untwith them was bat her fate, and must be patient-the libetans with the help of native lamss; and he is now carrying out a long-cherisbod permanently beneficial to it, but thers are standing the constant frands which are ly endured. While I have been with you plan to purene ethnological studies amongst others from which at the most only a tean-perpetrated by these go-betweens, who not my mother, she exclaimed, you have had the tribes of Kokonor, mots especially the sitory benefit can be derived. Of course for a pecuniary reward only, they do a little enough to eat and poor has been your Tibetan Tribes, and afterwanis avail him I do not say that all the profit derived from surprisingly large percentage of the busi- clothing but if I were separated from yourself of a favourable opportunity to reach ues of match-making. The supposition it is possible you aight fare still wear. I commerce here could at the prasnt mo.
to assure success Me Rockbill wears the lama dross and travels under the protection
sincari-
1887 to Tla. 9,468,429. A small deduction A portion would paierally find its way out- terested in a possible union, should then never leave you. And tong of friendly priests with native caravans; he)
THE RACING STARTS, for China ponies that must be made for what went back to Chi- aide, but what I maistaja in that this great selves, unaided by any outsde intervene blood to stream down ber sleeve. Tutek but one servant, ♫ Tientsin man, and
round.
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BLEED are the missionaries of cheerful. ness.-Lydia Maria Child.
FINE manners are like personal beauty-a letter el credis everywhere.
Svar small injuria and they will be. come none at all — Bishop Jucksan.
WELLarranged tion in the sure mark of a well-arranged mind, Pitman
A BRAIN might well be a'uffed with sawdust as with anzsed knowledge.
"Tis best not to dispute where the eis un probability of convinding-Dickens,
MARIAGE must be relation either of sympathy or of conquest.George Bliet.
INTELLECT has been called the starlight of the brain, Religion the starlight of | the soul
be happieces of love is in action; ite best is what one is willing to do for another -Ben Hur
KNOWLEDGE like money-the mure it is ciresisted the more people get the benefit of it
Let us now turn to the statistics given for 1888, and here again we have to remark that it must be remembered that the changes which unly affected part of 1887 affected the whole of 1898. The figuren for 1888 were:-
Tis. 69,840,746
Importa... Experts.
83,551,618
103,392,264
the twelve months of 1888 than it was for the 9 months of 187, the figures being
1887 (9 months)...... Tla. 9,468,423 1838 (12 months) .......... 14,382,473. It in therefore
Lantorpore evident that a bongh China's have grown somewhat in 1888. Cuns did not export more goods to Hongkong p- posing the junk export trade to have re- mazard constant, we ought to have had an Inoreste of three millions for the thres
B. 6. Binger read the loagons, in the absence of a clergyman,,
•
Mr Leyburn returned this morning,
it is
& river
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Bome soven years
Bo writes as follows:
New Malwa, caab, 680 Alloware, Taels... 80 Old Maira, mah,.,, 600/620" Allowance, Taola... 16/48, Porsian, Only, caal 500/525 Allowance, Taels... 16/32 Persian, Paper tied 525/650 Allowance. Taeis... 8/32
Exchange. Honotone, May 1.
London-
Bank, Wire,
On demant,
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Documtacy, mouths" egit,
In Paris
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73%
* Loaf, 100 fuo ve DYSPAIGUR,
34.00 86.58
Temperature,
Que a's Road/
BAROMSTERS Do,
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20.89
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CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station.
*Lusa (Kumbum), 18th Feb, 1889.. You will see by the heading of may | Amoy
vasi distances from tasi sotke a push long to live, and did not wish to beco siva
lout.
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REGISTER, APRIL 30.-AT Á IM.
Basometerred.
in a
MAYL-
I reached here on thefaiphong. 29.
able information. The New Year festivities
Humidity.
30
-Wild.
raphy in
The barometer has risen in the North
W. DOBILOR, Government Almu Hongkong (birectory, May 1, 1839.
· 1: Banomuzun, mände Vida Bálagrasi Fahrup-
it, and to the end of this cha
and hundredths was in Mahan, bes
1. TARIKKATUM, to the
How To GAIT FLESH AND STRENGTH.—morths in 1888, for which statfaths were bringing another tiger which he shot on the girls go of into shrieks the marriage bravery, with which she had endured her famous, tree-of which by the way there are Fahrenhuit.-
mainland.
M. Wright conducted the service, wad Droir own marrings, and, that they aftes The neighbours, revaranty performed the
resgive a letter from some man inquiring last dation for the noble dead, more than here have interested we greatly, specially whether the lady will or will not consent to 300 person attended the double funeral, se usarly all the spectators were Sifan or become in futurs the wife of aid man, we praising the fidelity of the girl to her be use fibetan stook. The Feast of here seen a roomful of Chings women and frothed and ber Sial piety to his misther, Lanterns and the accompanying barreliefs of irrepressible and expresing despent adiication for the made of batter word very curious. The Take sfter arab meal about a tablespoonful not taken in 1887-and there is only an
Lazhter. There is nothing in of Scott Kusion of Puri Cod Liver Oil increase of two millions over all
THE GELEEN'S OLUB.
customs of the most savage tribe on the sorrows. The writer with tee recorda, bør four--and welch is said by the laman to be Let as turn how to the importe, which
* white sandalwood, is in my eyes a hand. with Hypophuphites It is almost na
The following letter appeared in the planet, which strikes us assabeurd as our virtues as an example to others.
The old free is dead, by from its roota palatable as milk and easily digested. The show in increase of twelve million tele. рад
puatoma appear to the averag, Chinese, I
A TIENTSIN VIRAGO,
young ones have sprung up. Ovnsidering is not to be wondered at If the Chinese look rapidity with which delicate children and of thit,illions are accounted for by Amy Gazette of 21th April
The pudence was afterwards amused by |{ a bark, 1 stould take it to be some kind mickly people suffering from wanic and the latresse in the Junk inde from Hong-
Amoy, 27th April, 1889. with mato or less muspicion upon matcher wanting diassed improve and thrive upou kong to the Kowloon Station, mainly con-
Dear Sir,-An there are evidently very which are settled in such an amasing the stisy of Bantain viragu as folkows of spruos or birch-it wach trees exist in
|6, STATE, OR "FRATRIK 5 Dina akyy të, der thie diel is truly marvellout. As a remedy sisting of rice for which there was an ab. for Cosumption and Throat faction and mural demand in the Kwangtung province few members of the community left who fhion, for one of thete aphossms cheere An old woman residing in Tin sin laving Chits. The bark peels off in big pieces a
à bali, ¿ flýhkning, e araconis, a proming shower Broman is aaqualed by any other pee in 1888. At to the remaining 24 milions are conversant with the history of this in that witout the decree of one's parents, among herneighbours the chart car of being does the bark of spruce; birek, sto. I could shed cleane, & drieling, ening? (og, a gloday,
There is a large party learing here for vi dew (est), b
gagzaky, 7. rain, tasow, i theater, a viskhility betrothed to a man of ible city ; and an early paration in the world Any Chemat can I fear the whole of it is sccounted for by stitution, I consider it as well that it should and without the intervention of a go- a decaded vixen, had a daughter why we we no letter on the back. in Hongkong and China.
for 1858 that the improvement in the in. birth; as I am wrking from memory my world make on all thieves ?
1. Hunzores, la paroqntage el enturxilon, kir incidity of air murated with muralarm buing 100.
k. Disaction of Wan, to kwa prindita 5- 6. For of Turn, asovring se "Bankizil- Boals.
upply Vainon & Co. (Limited) sgents | the fict staled by Mr McKean in his report be pas un record by one who was at its i between, to arrange warringa for ourselves" Põita kad boot Fred for the perforza age of Ebuka in the fourth mouth, and 1 min 90-2 1. Bare, in bushit, tent-
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