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No. 8913.-May 4, 1889.¡

MESERS Roll and Go, inform us that thi Union Line steainer Cambodia, from dat werp, loft Bingapura for this port on th lat May,

FRAGRANT WATERS-MURMUR That I was very pleased to see that you reminded the sathorities of their duty towards the indefatigable workers in the Volunteer Fire Brigade.

A STONE-OUTTER TEfling in Ụ Lak, Labo That the comarks which fell from the Goo- deposited the body of a deceased nephew, on the street this morning to save the expenso of a funeral, and thea reported to the police that he had just discoveral a dead man lying near his door. The polica discovered the fraud by interrog sting tho neighbours and had the economical ucele brought before Mr Wodehouse to-day. His oxense was that the mistress of the house had ordered hits to put the body out on the street, and his Worship, apparently accepting this, dismissed him with a caation.

By last mail we received a copy of Messra Street's, Indian & Colonial Mercantila Directory. Of such a large work we can caly speak with certitude about the part which deals with this quarter of the world, and we say unhesitatingly that, as far as we can judgo, Messrs Street's work is by far the best of the kind we have heat. Containing information, as it does, gathered from all the ends of the anth, it necessarily happans that each part cannot be brought up to the last moment. The Far East section is correct up to the j middle of 1888. Gerally such works, coropiled by people who do not know the countries, are full of printers' blunders. We have looked over the China section and can find very few mistakes, and the two or three that a antro serating brings to light aro not very egregious,

Saul work munt

he no invaluable requisite te ovary house having an international trade. It includes not only a directory, but a descriptive com- mercial notice, with customa tariffa de, for all the provinces and chief towns of India, Cylon, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Java, Phūippine Islands, Maurition, the Colonies of Australia, South and West Africa, Gunda, South America, West In- dius &c., also a directory of the Chief Not towns in Great Britain and Ireland. only are details given with regard to the English Colonies, but also with regard to French, Spanish and German colonier and the independent republics of South Ame- rica. There are about a score of good maps in the book.

We wrote a few weeks ago urging the Pu-

ernor at the Council Meeting in reference to this subject war appropriate so far na they went, hat he probably was not aware that many who were the 'fower of the youth of Hongkong' fifteen years ago, and are now the old stages" of the Colony, lent their ervices to the Brigade in their youthful primo and stopped aaide when that prime was lost. That this action, the members of the Old Brigade, or the old members of the Brigade, has not received the recognition which might have done had His Ex- callenoy known moro of the history of the institution on which he passed so appreciative a

speech.

telbuse in his recent

That thow who was present at the me- marable fire of Xmas 1878 know well what the older member of the Brigade did, und that to their determined, unceasing, and desperate efforts this finest portion of this city was saved from destruction. That the Governor's oration over

extinct Brigade wight perhaps be taken as applicable to both old and new mom- bera, but it would have been more com- plate and comprehensive I had asid

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the

That the Volunteer Fire Brigade oved ita existened to the misorable condition of theGovernment Brigadeand its appliances in the old days, and His Excellency thinks that the present Governawat Fire Brigade, regarded as a human and fallible institution, is not at all a body to be

anored at.

That residoula esmostly trust that the Brigade that romains will justify all the expectations of His Excellency. That the community have long been wo

customed to look upon prompt effectiva action, arduous labour by no means free from danger, coupled with prahoworthy enduranna to bath heat and cold, as natural attributes of the Volunteer Fire-

Juch.

That, though the frequency with which these aty qualities were displayed many possibly have tooded to make the community at times slightly sub- Barvant, the services of the 'fira boya have always boon fuity appreciated.

tinction into something appresching re- speolability.

TILE CHINA MALL.

(he dollar, might well be affiliated with the grend Bimetallic Longue at Home. That the subject of investigation is one which may well fill the nosial mea- hors with anxiety, especially when the temperature of the atmosphere is borge in raind.

That it is possible the object of the Com- mittee has been so expressed by tha Secretary of State as a concession to the dolients feelings of public officers. That the relative value of the dollar in re- spect of the various necessaries of life' is a much noster made of expression than would be to consider whather the salaries paid to pabbia officers are suffi-

cient."

That the purchasing power of the 'dullar is not the main point in many cases, but whether say $149) will go as for now as $2000 went ton or fifteen years ago. That whon an oliver now recaivos nourly

third less dollars than he did fifteen years nge, the purchasing power of the dollar becomes of secondary importance. That this bogey, of the dallar being a

dollar all over, ought to be annihilated. That an article which costa a dollar in gold in California would cost a dollar and a kalf here, and an article which you can buy in London for 9s, will cost about four dollars here now, while you would have been charged perhaps $2.50 for it when the dollar was 4, instead of tho prosent rate (axy 2/11.) That if an oficial loses heavily on the number of dars paid to him as salary as compared to former year, and is to pay twice as many dollars for a house as he world have paid in the past, the state

of that man is not a happy one.

That if the Government would give their officers geol houses or adequate lionao allowance, much of the severast preasure would be removed, and salaries (to that extent, at least would rise or fall with the price of honee-rout.

That there was quite a happy reunion of Foreigners and Chinese at the Kiangnan Arsonal the other day.

That a 14 ton gun proved imelf to be a

moet efficient projectile.

That it is difficult to imagine, even from a Chinese point of view, how this promising i fent can be looked upon as su exponent of Peace on earth and good will towards

men.'

blic School and the Government Contra!That to the local Insurance Companies That a Society paper writes a brilliant Sebol to deváte more time and attention to the teaching of commercial subjects, so as to enable the scholars to adapt them. selves more readily to commercial pozzaits, in which a large number of them will doubt- les finds outlet for their energies. The importance of commercial education is be coming more and more recognised at home, and there has consequently grown up a demand for text books on the subject AR

That the popularity of our Registrar Gen- eral zoom to have extended to San Francisce, and the Chinese guild blueto gave that officer a lift on the way Home, although they had to sater the buck-dour of the Hotel to do so.

powe ompany to auch gatherings.

BROWNIE

ROYAL ARTILLERY ATHLETIC SPORTS.

The Royal Artillery athlete sporta, un

SKID AND HAJDEPIKE RACE

Gunnor Smith Oorporal Grant Gunner Barret .

TH-LEGGED RACE Smith and Barrott Woolner and Popplewell Hundle Face (120 yards.).

Sorgt. Ball

Gunner Cockburn Gunner Hoy

ONE MILE RATE R. A.--

Gunner Durios

Slater

> Hal

2

There were seven entrants.

Dacier, & strong runner, who looked like the winner from the start, got well away from the others and was ensily, finishing in a walk. Time -5.25.

TILTING AT A BECKET.-

Torrington and Hills Guancit and Inglis

I

2

100 YARDS RAUE-(Havíldar. Majors and

Havildare)

Síngat Singh.

Ahmed Due.

Besar Singh.

Tima 124 secs.

CHINESE UITARACTERISTICS.

FILIAL PIETY,

they prove all-powerful. We must not filial piety, is indicated in a saying of Men- the power which they have for evil. Fron forget the process by which wo in west cius, that there are three things which are the Confucian point of view, it was a ern lands have come to entertain an enlighandilial, and to have no posterity is the ngacious mazim of the Master, that to Loop aloof tepad public opinion, nor must we expect groatcst of the. The oceanity for posespect spiritual bangs, but the Ubines to compliat band a stage of tarify arises from the necessity for contium feom there, may ho called wisdom. If the dowlopment to which we have been con- ing the sacrifices for nuestors which ganrifien aro naglected, the spirits will be ducted by countless cause operating this made the important daty in life. Ingry. If the spirits are angry, they will I better to worship the through many enturies. Menutiune wo is for this ruou that avery son maat ke take revenge. must do what we can to instruct their married at as early an age a possible. It is spirits, by way of insurance. This appeara ignorance, and by no monns ontit to con- by no maana uncommon to find a Chinese to be a condensed statement of the Chinnan vince them, if we can, that western supe- a grandfather, by the time he is thirty-six. theory of all forms of worship of the dead. riority to China is not merely physical, but The failure to have male aldron is nea. As between the living, the process of ran also moral. Thus only shall we contribute tioner first warg the r cause for the soning is equally simple. Every son has to the formation in the contral empire of a divorce of a wife. The necessity for mnie porfurnid his filial duties to his father well-founded, matured, and enlightened children he led to the spatom of conca and demands the are from his own OD. public opinion.From an article in the binage, with all its attendant misories. It That is what children are for. Upon this ← Treem N. C. Daily News.

furnishes a gourd, ominently rational to point the popular mind is explicit the Chinese mind, for the greatest delight are mised for shades, children are reared for At the birth of sons, and a corresponding old age. Neither parents nor children are depression au accusion of the birth of under any illusion upon this subject. It daughters. It is this aspect of the Osiness you havo no children to fuul the bod, you doctrine which is responsible for & largs will have no one to burn paper at the grave." To discuss the characteristics of the Chi-proportion of the onions infanticide Each generation pays the debt which is, ese, without mentioning tilin piety, out which is known to exit in China. This exacted of it by the generation which pro- of the question. But the filial piety of the anime is much more common in the south caded it, and in turn requires from the go- Chines not easy subject to treat. of China than in the north, where it often neration which comas after full payment Those words, like many others which we cons to be wholly uninovs. But it minst to the uttermost farthing. This is filial an obliged to employ, have among the Chi-he remembered that it is the most difficult piety perpetuated from generation to gene- nem a souse very different from that which of all subjeca upon which to secure exact ration, sud from nga to age. we are accustomed to astach to them, and information, ju in proportion to the pub.

Scholars are not agreed upon the ques sense of which no English expression is lic sentimen gainat. it. The number of tion whether in the dim past, this Chinesa anaract trapalatiou. This is leo true of illegitimate children can never bo sull, unce recognised the true God. If they great variety of term used in Chinese, and and there is verywhere the strongest mo- ever did so, that knowledge has certainly of no one more than of the word ordinarily tive to destroy all suph, whatever the sex. been most affeqtually lost, like sa inscrip rendered carcinony (li), with which tial Even if direct testimony to the destruction tion on an ancient coin, now covered with piety is intimately connected. To illustrate of life of formale infanta in any ragion the accumulated mat of millenniums. It this, and at the same time to furnish were much bus than it it, it would be is a melancholy comment upon the exag- background for what we have to say of the moral certainty that a poopto among whom gersted Chioma dtotrine of filial piety, that characteristic unter discussies, we cannot the bria sive of a child of three in order not only embodies no refereum to a Su- ds botter than is cits a pusage from M. to facilitate the support of its gandmother preme Being, but that it does not in any Ollery (quoted in the Midd! Kingdom'): is held to be nu uit lil devotion, could way lead up to a recognition of His exis- Ceremony epitomises the entire Chinese not possibly be free from the guilt of dus tunde. Ancestral worship, which is the quad-mind; and in my opinion, the Book of troying the lives of unwelcome female in most complete and the ultimate expression

Rites in per as the most exaos and completo fans.

of this filial piety, is perfectly consistent nograph that China has been able to

The amount of filial conduct on the part with polytheiam; with pantheism, with giro of herself brother nativa, Its affec of Chinese children to their parents will agnosticism, and with atheism. It makes Sinus, if it has suy, are satisfied by our vary any two places, Doubtless both dead won into gods, and its only gods mony its duties are fulfilled by ceremony extremes are to be found everywhere, are deal men Its loro, its gratitude and its virules and vices are referred to core Patricides are not common, and such per its four, are for artisty parents only. It mony; the natural relatious of created besos are usually insane, ough that makes has no conception of Heavenly Father, is essentially link themaalves in core- no difference in the argol punishment which and feels no interest is such a being whan manial-in a word, to that people cure they auf. But among the common poo He is made known. Either Christianity manial is man as moral, political, and re-ple, groaning in deepat poverty, sunu will never be introduced into Chiun, or an- ligions being, in his multiplied relations with harsh treatment of parents is inevitabla cestral worship will be given up, for they family, society, and religiou. Every one On the other hand, volastary substitutions are contradictories. To the death struggle roust agree in Dr Williams eminent upon of a son for the father, in cases of capital between them, the fittest only will sur this passage. th it alon's how mengre punishment are known to ocour, and such wire. rendering is ceremony" for the Chinese nataucas speak forcibly for the sincerity idam ofli, for it includes not only the exterunt and power of the instinct of filial devotion conduct, but involves the right principles to a parent, though this parent may be a from which all true etiquette and polite- deeply-dyed etiainal.

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LOO YARDS RACE—(Non-Comm. Olicars.)

Corporal Guanett. Sergeant Bell

Bomb. Underwood

Time, 111cs, MENAGERIE Roer (Handicap).—

Corpl. Juuls

Gusiner Bay

3

A varied actment of bipods and rupeds entured for this erent The first and second animals were dogs. GUN RACE (Sths).

No. 3 Dotashinunt (Havildar Singa: Singh)

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The distative wae 100 yards, and the guns bad to be taken over two harı ales, one round being fired at the start and another at the Suish. Four detach ments gulered and the coplcat was a keen The bodies proved rather awkward obstacles, and impeded the race a good deal. -Time, 4. 58.

one.

CONSOLATION Babe (200 yards)-Open to

all competitors who have not prize. Lance Corp Fraggart Bom. Richardson Gunner Devine

wun 3

TUG OF WAR (OPEN TO ARMY, NAV", VOLUN-

TEKICH AND POLICE, **

This, the foal event, was contested by teaps of blue-jackets, marines, Highlanders, Sikts and Royal Artillery, and the Qual, which lay between the Royal Artillery and the Righlanders, was won by the fornier in two successivo pulls.

PUBLIC OPINION' IN CHINA. It has often occurred to us whether there

we have often said, the art of business can- That your correspondent X. Y. Z. give for the patronage of H. E. Major-Genery rincos only know of Kuangtang an “out-

not he learned from books, but a great deal of useful, indisponsable information may be acquired therefrom, which will make the progress of the young man who devotes himself to commercial affairs far more rapid than if he went raw to the bus! ORAS.

benefit by its existence.

Not long ago we refemed to a work enti-That as Hongkong produces nothing, and

Eled: A Guide to Commercial Knowledge,'

by Mr B. Bannister Tarmar, of the Bank of England. We hare now before us a somewhat more elementary book by the same author, entitled 'Commerce and Bauk- ing' (London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) a work designed to serve as a text-book for students and a band-book of raterones for young men commencing business. It is a book we have no hesitation in regom- mending to schools and to young men about to enter a business life. The principles of commerta are explained in simple, qʊn- cise terms such as any one with an ordinary education may follow. The young student or building clerk, after reading the work carefully, ought to have an intelligent idea of what is meant by the torma—msaifast, debenture, bill of sight, bettor of credit, bottomry bond, charter party, demurrage, 'bull,' 'bear' etc, or at any rate such an idea as would soon make these terms familiar to him after starting his commercial career. The book contains short chapters on *Insurance,' 'Coins and Coining,' 'Banks and Banking,' 'Customs, Excise and Ship-'

ping,' 'Machinery and Conveyance, which set forth very lucidly the principles under- Iping the various branches of commercial

life.

The question of binging the Duke of Edinburgh,' says a provincial correspon. dent, into the Admiralty as First Rea Lord in by me means setilad. The professional admirals say that the Duke has held three commands, and that he ought to be satisfied. The courtiers urge that such expertence is next to the best of his qualifications. ·· The candidate of the regular service is said to be Admiral Veney Hamilton. The salary of the office is £2,200, 'The opinion at the Admiralty seems to be that the Duke will as likely a not obsin admission to the Board now that he is retiring from com- mand of the Mediterranean Boet. It is said that there has been a good deal of extra neet oving to the eralted position of the admiral in this command, but the stunts of the Admiralty are involved that it is not possible to obtain any clear views upon the matter; and in reply it is argod by the Duke's friends that he has been obliged to perform political and international duties no belonging to his princely rank and in Dounsetion with the fleet. Of this latter fast there can be no question, and it will no Houbt be fairly "cunaldered.

ness spring.

them

But she was

Quotations HONGKONG, May 4.

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saab, New Bares, csali, 802

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cash, New Malwa, caeb... BO Allowance, Tael... 80/88 Old Malwa, cask,... .0510 Allowancs, Tausia... 32/48. Peroine, Oity, cash 500/525 Allowa, Taeta... 16/48 Pacino, Paper tied 6/350 Allowance. Taeis... 448

Exchange. Hostrove, May 4.

In London-

Bank, Wire,

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On demand,

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30 days' night,

11

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★ months' sight,

Uredita, 4

Documentary,

* Paris-

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3/0€

sontha' aight, 3/03

3.7B

Credits, 4 months' sight, 3.86

10 New York-

Qu domani,...

Credits, 60 days sight,

'n Bombay

Wire,

On demand,

In Calontia

Wire,

Ou demand,

In Shangha

On Joana, ...

10 days' âght, privatu, id beat, 100

221

221

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797

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34.50

... $6.59

Temperature...

To the Oxidental, fresh from the sea In the popular apprehension, the real what too loses bonds of family life, which basis of the virtue of filial conduct is felt ut infraquently prevail in lands nominally to be gratitude. This is emphasised in the Christians, the theory of Chinese filial con Filial Pioty Classic, and in the chapter i duct presents some very attractive features. the Sacrad Esits on the abject, which The respect for age which it involves is kamoly follows the doctrine of Theng-tzu mest bunofcial, and might profitably be The justificution of the period of three cultivated by Anglo-Saxons generally. In yoara mourning is found, according to Con western countries, when a sou becomes of futius, in the adoubted sucial fact, that age, he goes where he likes, sad does wit for the first three years of its existens to chooses. He has no necessary conver the child is not a towel to leave the arms of tion with his parents not they with him. its parents, as if the oue term were in Bou To the Chinese such customs runst appear Ray on ulset for the other. The young like the behaviouro: a well-grown calf or lamb is proverbially a type of filial e colt to the cow and the mare. suitabl is any material in China, from which (it it haviour, for it has the grace to know when enough for animals, but by no meania co could be coiluted) a journal of public sucking its dam. Filial piety demands that; formable to li sa applied to human beings. That the funeral of the Dachose of Cam opimon cald be made. The Chinese seem we abould preserve the bodies which our An atlentite consideration of the master to be an exceptionally homogeneous people. parents gave us, otherwise nouem to slight from the Chinese stand point will show thei bridge took place at Kow,

They appear to think, to act, to feel, in Basir kindness. Filial piety requires that there is absudsat room in our own social blocks. What is Chinoso public opinion' we should serve car parts while they live, practice for improvement, and that most of veisuga the credit of having worked the gathering sombled to tako part in it." Pablic opinion presupposes not only cam- and worship there when dead. Filial piety us really live in glass hutses, and would de

munity of feeling, but compunity of requires that a son should follow in the appliances of Clavernment for fire-ex-That the above is a little on the lines of the Burledge. A very wide range of topics in steps of his fifthon If for the three well not to throw stones ticklesalle

the other hand, it is idle to discus old fashioned Scotch form of invitation regard to which the inhabitants of westeru years, he does tint alter from the way of filial piety of the Chinese, without making which always requested the 'pleasure ofunde ontertam most definite views, does his facher,' says 0 nfucius, he may be call! most emphalic its fatal defects in seven. taat come within the Chinese menkai vision et filial. But if the parents are manifestly partionlars. This doctrine seems to have at all. To narly all Chinese, fówign Lands in the wrong, filial piety does nove radical faults, two of the negative, and are as unknown and as uninteresting as forbid an attempt at their reformation. three of them positivo. It has volumes on If any of our readers vista in see the Con the day of children toward parenta, bur Jupiter or optune to us-sy, far wote so. The airos of Kuangtung aro highly fucian theory in a practical form, let them no word of the duty of parents ts children. excited and indignant when they hear of the ruoat this four and toury examples of China is poss amutry it which advies of outrages upon their fellow provincials in ilial piety, immortalised in the familiar this kind is suporfluous: Such advice is Wyoming, tot ainty-nine por rent of the httle book dolled by that named. In one of

everywhere most veded and always bas theas cuale, a boy who lived in the After bean so. It was an inspired wisdom which inhabitants of eventoon ot or Clinere pro-

Han Dynasty, at the age of six paid a visit led the Apostle Paul to combine in a few a friend, by whom ho va entertained brief sentonces addressed to his Colossian side province, perhaps as inhabited by expression to me truthful remarks About the apparent boom in Hengkong.Beran Etwards C. B., took place at the souther bearing, and all ailee us to with oranges. The precuous youth on church the four pillars of the deal home. That the question whether the 'bou be

Cricket Groned to-day. Earing beon de unacquainted with Wyoming, eten with this occasion excuted the cotamon Chiness Husbands love your wives, and be not California, with Ucanus. The better leat of stealing two oranges, and thrusting bitter against them.' Wives submit

making niward or inward, permanent or tran-ayed an long to place them under the part of the Chinese native presses to bo

up his sleeve

yourselves unto your own hnsbonde, 19 it is fit in the Lord. Children day (Cuken at Mossra Falconer de Co.'s Premises autory, is not likely to affect those who disadvantage of being held in the hot sen- doing a valuable work, in Bowing Bends of his parting bows, the fruit rolled oat, and

tjueen's Road, son, it was hardly to be exported that that information in regard to mustars both bit the lad in an embarrasing situation. your parcats in all things, for this u

foreign and Chinese, and these seeds must to which, however, he was equal. Kncoting well pleasing unto the Lord' Fathers HALOMETER— would be attended with their usual enccean, eventually yield a crop. But as yet, when down before his hust, he made the memor provoke not your children to anger,

lest but the programs, on the waele, was gom compared with the whole vast public of able observation which has rendered his

shey be discouraged." What is China, the numbers reached by these name illustriousfor pearly two millenniume there in all Confucian morality which for through in a vary satisfactory manner. The

agencies met

the most infinitesimal My mother lares oranges very much, and pratical wisdom can for a moment be pat

I wanted then for her.' As this las programme, which included 21 events, was fraction. Comnenood at 10.30. In the alternoon the But it is not in regard to forsin nations father was an oicer of high rank, it wouldte competition with these far-reaching The Chiu degerine has principles wem to an oxidental critic, that the boothing to any on behalf of its daughters, That lucky hita' in shares cannot be sot attendance of spectatom was large and the only that the masses of the Chinese are

We are too ready to sider the might have enjoyed other opportunities but everything on behalf of its sons. If the down in any sense as permisent pro-band of the fat Argyll and Sutherland maritime proriness, and the hoial circles for gratifying her desire for oranges, but Chinese ose had not for ages baen colour- The following of the Chitwas, as Chian, and base great the Chinese the lad is a clasic instance of blind on this subject, this gross attrage o spurity, as there soust necessarily be the Highlanders performed.

changes are seen in the vicinily of some Glial devotion, because at this early age, he human usturo could not have failed of de were the officials-Referee, Cal Craster, treaty ports, and in the minds of the Chi- TAB

so quick at inventing excuse. Another

is a family divinity. By the accident of ac Keynolds: Committee, Major Milos, Capt. Dese public sentiment is changing in import lad of the Chin dynasty, whose parents had

nut and significant ways. FRI

The me of a mosquito nae, at the age of eight, hit he is a dreaded burden, liable to be des certain portion of our an-called prosperi Bakoy sud Capt, Hawkins; Sub-Committes, the Chinese ignant ta s degree of upon the happy expedient of going to bad Chinese doosrine of filial piety put the

adequate

night, very early, lying perfectly quiet

on a inferior plane. Confucins his Ly and inflation usually means advances Bergeant Major Carrol, Sergi-Major Mur. which few foreigners have a probably not even brandishing a fan, in order that nothing totay of the duties of wiv. Chcir-

There are thousands, son, Cerpl. Ryder, Hav-Major Akbal Singh, hundreds of thousands, and possibly the family roosquitoes might gorgattianity requires a mau to loare his father Hav-Major Labh Singh.

millions of Chinese in the province in selves upon him alone, and allow his par and mother, and to exempel his wife to do which the Emperor lives, and in those ants to sleep in peace Another lad of the the same. If the relation between the adjacent to it. who do not yet know same dynasty lived with a step-mother who hasband and bis parque conflicts with that that he is married, it is nothing to disliked him, but as she was very fond of between the husband and his wife, the them that an uld lady has stepped carp, which were not to be obtained during latter as die lenser and inferior is the rda- down and out, and a young man has the winter, he adopted the injudicious plan to which must yield. The whole stru stepped up. They have heard the name of of taking off his clothea, and lying on the Kung Hsi for half a generation, and supe, which impressed a brace of

carp who posed he was the Emperor all this while, had observed the proceeling from the The post Longfellow copiad a house sa der side, that they made a hole in the ice Cambridge, which was used by General al leaped forth in order to be soaked for Washington as his headquarters in 1775. the benefit of the irascible step-mother! Visitors vften called upon the post, to be According to the Chinese tenching, one shown the historic house, Quasuch thank of the instans of ueflial conduct, is found ed his host for his kindness, and in leaving in selfish attachment to wife and children

l'ostock, 30.01 54 shook his band warily, sud said; Good In the chapter of the Sacred Edict already bye General. I am glad to are you looking quoted, this behaviour is mentioned in the so well at your age? To Ühineas enu

That tent of the Chinese doctrine which Nagasaki,,30,13 72 same connection with gambling, and the Emperor is the same an another, except exhortations against each are of the ens makes filial conduct cursist in leaving ps- Shanghai.. 29.09 61 that there is a new act of characters eu sone kind The typical instanes of true filiaktority, is responsible for a long train of amoy......20.90 71 of the cash, but as hardly any one can read, davation, among the twenty-four just one. It compels the adoption of children, Hongkong 200 70 this phenomenon does not oltrade itself tioned, is a wet who lived in the whether there is or is not any adequate Haiphong. 29.85 98 upon the national vision in any impressive dynasty, and who being very poor, fuard progistou for their support. It leads to Bolinao.... 29,999 way. There is however une range of st that he had not suficient foud to nourish early marriages, and brings into existence Mauila... 23.8 14 41 jects upon which Chinese pullic opinion, both his mother and his child three years millions of human beings, who by resipi honorer indifferent to foreign or even to vi age. *We are so poor, le maid to his of the excessive pinch of poverty in barely domestic afairs, is prompt, nuaicious, and wife, that we pannot even support mother. keep soul and body together. It is the Wicatuck. 30.09 47. emphatic. No people have a greater faculty Moreover, the little one shares mother's efficient are of polygamy and concubinge, Tukio-

It is ex-Nagasaki..(30.058 compact organisation, and for unity of food. Why not bury the child? We may always and inevitably a darse. antion. Te urder to secure this sotion have another, but if mother should die, se press and epitomised in the worship of Shanghai. 25.9458

ita trado depends upon carrying and dis- tributing, or on únancing for production elauw bere, is in not easy to prove from statistics that we ate nos flourishing.

one who is not lucky as well as this oka who in. That inflation must be taken to express a

ment on paper nuly.

That ous of the chief factors in the present

boom is the attraction of vast amounts of Chinese capital to the Colony. That the manufsstare of pure gaa from waler at fourponte per thousani feet is a consummation devoutly to be hoped for, bat the suggestion seems to be just a wee bit too optimistic.

That shareholders in the Electric Company don't see it in that light, and the local dispensator of 1,000-candle-power gas looks crown at the merest reference to the presumptuvus proposal.

ignorant.

R. A.: Judges, Major Blaudy and Capt} nese officials, we are apt to think that Ohioughtful for his mother, o perhapa tection. By the accident of sex, the infant

The following are the results of the com

petitions :-

THROWING THE CRICKET BALL-

Gunner Huntley 94 yds. Farrell

100 YARIS RAR. A. and Sikhs.

Corpl. Qunnett

Garner Cogkburn

Darias

Won easily by Gunnett.

PUTTING THE SOT (18 lbs.) Bom. Norton (35 ft. 3 in.) Corpl. Guunett

That the departure of Mr J. W. Maclellan OSE MILE RATE (Sikhs).

avors from the Engish prese in Chioa

a very scholarly and genial gentivan,

That H. E the Governor's remarks, auent

Pto. Gancia Singh

Kurm Bingh Bom, Sak dou Singh

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There were tre entrants for this race. Sunday labour in the Harbour have been Gonda Singh, as a matter of course, hadit somewhat sharply criticised by the all his own way, Kura Singh was a good

cond, Northern papers only.

That His Excellency certainly succeeded, Lora JuP.-

as I have alienly stated, in surrjunding! the question with a formidable array of difficulties, bat shiefly imaginary and of his own creation.

That, in trying to follow the sourse of a rather wordy, somewhat illogical, and decidedly sortious argumort, it is hard.

Quanur Msia (16 fr. 24in.) Mutha Singh (26) Ft. m.) Sergt. Ball (1)

HAL-Muz Race,

Pte. Soamark, 58ch Kura Singh.

Pte. Connelly, 91st

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Eight entered and a good race ensued. to discern whether those dificulties wers Beatark, who was generally believed to substantiated or entirely demolishid. have the race, gut a good start and made the pace pretty box He kept the lid That any extreme solicitude for the owners Daily the whole way, and made a capital

finish Time 2m. 24jseo. of abips of other nations is unnecessary. That if these should feel aggrieved, the Hien Juxe.

remedy will be in their hands: they need not send their ships to Hongkong. That British ship-builders and British ship-

owners will very gially make up any TUG deficiency caved by their absence.

bat His Excelsuoy, by aguising after ultra-impartiality, has uveckovked tas jue: sights of his van contutrym

That the Comiles which the Secretary of State proposes shall ait, determins

the question of the purchasing power of

impression,

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wife

tare of Chiness society, which is modeled upon the patriarchal phi, has grave drily.

enzourages the suppression e

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the natural natinoto may be

be Cultivated i

an extrono degroo. It results iu thu al- most entire subordination of the younger during the whole life of those who are adgr. cramps the minds of thees who are sub- jected to s iron pressure, preventing de velopment and healthful charge.

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ATÁ EM. TO-DAY,

Barometer

Temperature.

Damp Bulb. Direction of Wind Force Weather Rain-fall

29.89 76

Hongkong Ubarvatory, May 4, 1889,

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER. MAY ST 4 F.M."

talion.

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W, Dock Government Aaronʊpher, Hongkong Obersatory, May 4, 1880.

1. Banomuzea, redasit to Badagrona Babran- beit, so i to the trel of the sea in inshes, bentha

ud hundred th

1. Femorastom, in the shade in degrees authente agree

1. Elgtenery, in peronusage of unsurukfazi, klia. hazardity of or saturated with moisture being

are invaded, which is sulkm dificult.not opposa hin, and accordingly a holo Chinese race. This system of ancestral Longkong 29.98 70 ship, when rightly understood in its phong. 29.94-83 Thereupon sasuas an interval of uproar,was dug more then two feet deep, when a similar to that in the temple of Ephesus vase of gold was found, with a suitable true significance, is one of the heaviest Bolinao 39.99 90 56 sz when the gade in Dianas wat imperilled, inscription, atating that Heaven bestowed yokes which ever a peopis w compelled Manil

If the gilden to bear. As pointed out by Dr. Yates in The barometer has fallen in the North Then cot violence, of all graden from this reward una filial mon unimportant and isolated acts, up to the vise had not asrged, the child would have the pay to which referencs has buan and he risen in the South and gradients wholesale massacre Tieten. The been buried alive, and mording to the already made, the Landreds of millions. are slight for E. winda. Cloudy, warto, impartial disicibution of these phenotiens dius of dial piety, as commonly un-living. Chess, are under the most gallug damp and thick wouther prevails. over more than a quarter of a century of destoud, rightly on. Selfish attachment subjection to the countless thousands of geauration of time, and in almost every province whurst wife and children must not or the millions of the deed. The

to the

the generations of past. Auvestral worstip is the best type foreigners live (Juansi perhaps excepted) muider of a child, bo prolong the life of its to-day is chained to shows that the causes are general and por- | grandparent. manent, not local and temporary.

The

The Obinere believe that there are cases and guarantee of that leaden conservatiera bearing of these facts upo the introdue of obstinate illness of parents, which can to which attention has already been directed; tion of revolutionary foreign innovations, only be cured by the offering of a portim until that conservatism shall have received specially milways, is obvious The Gov-of the Best of a son or a daughter, which some mortal wound, how is it possible for ernment of China may be absoluto must be cooked and eaten by the unem Chius to a just heraclf to the wholly now despotism, as the geographies affirm, but scions parent. While the favourable reste conditions under which she finds herself in thore is a great desi of democracy among are not certain, they are very probate. this last quarter of the century ↑ And while the generations of those who have the people. It is a well wor aphorison, The Peking Gazebie frequently ocutaias re- that when the magistrates the forenons to exes of this art Top writer passed from the stage continue to bare

oppress people rebel, and if the right of rebellion is personally aguainted with a young man garded as the true divinities by the Olibass

Quest Do not those

reserved to the pao-who cut at a slice of his leg to cure his people, how is it possible that Chins siguió

6. Svara dy Waatdan, a ban why, a de ple under the Chiness system, according mother, and who exhibited the war with take a single red step forward? The kus & Co. 1. B Do.—-A Company's team with the late Me Meadows exgalitions, it is the pardozuble pride of an old soldier root of the Chinese piction of filial piety wedule, dira, rain,/ Ing, salaamy; at least a very praosios fact. The Chinese While such as are doubtless not very wo believe to be a midtere of fear and self.hing, a crareast, p passing shower, QUARTER MILA RACE.--(5 satrien.).

government is afraid of the pople, for in common, they are probably not excessively love, two of the most powerful motives which can act on the human soul. The China, na claswhere, rasted interopts are raro, powerful. In is not abrange if for the time The most important speel of Chlume spirita gud be worshipped on soqqunt of

Popplewell (1,11}) Cookbuen (4.10) Vangi (4.9).

1.

OF WAR (BAEBLES Ráj-The teams compstwy represented 6/1 B. and 7/1 W. The former team won,

Tuo oF WA-(dikhs).---

Gunda Singh

Gunner Cockburn

Oorpl. Gumbets

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Le Gankorean or Wino, to ker poptt.

ATKO, KOGOPER to Beaufort

civa

prądu y, z, zato, a sucm, s'kuthier, o visibility,

"(was) 3. "sity, an indur, fondys sed ligula,