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No. 8286-JUNE 1, 1889.j

The public auction sale of Canton silks, crepon, lacquerware, Jewellery, o. at. Mr G. R. Lammart's sale-cooms, takes place on Wednesday next, notion Baturday, an invide vertently stated yesterday.

The Amoy Guistle bagnus of ht British merchant veselain bnebour on the 24th, only tw1, and those comnianded, by

"So much for the loyalty of Irishmen,

wont to

word

Tue faalionable Four Hundred of New Tork are amusing themcalves by being tattooed. The fad has proved us satching a tha mesales, and alls Fifth Avenue belle now needs is a tomhawk and a war whoops The fashionable indelible skin-painter lives it an unaristocratio quarter, and has been to soutine his art to the sentimental and superstition allor For year olds females, banner in hand, or curly-haired sons of the Esaerald Isle, were decorates weeping up hosts.

&tomb on the upon pricked only forer spread to Wall Street, and ill the otorks have their bust fan toughes: enake story of the seasontwined with their

girl's names own

about their comes from Gainesville, Tex. It gives the ftor that the epidemic was beyand control, details of the unearthing of the bones of and the big tattooer noir maltos a oumfort. hage saurian of the paleolitais age. In the able income, and probably lives in a stomach was the ikeleton a gigantic mous and rear by a stone hat.het If the ind isus lat, Son's bring their own desi

be of great service to others consult the professor's back. It hurts, genuine it ought

to but it does not matter. The story goes that sathropologists as it will demonstrate the character of the skulls and other bouts of early man on this continent, but a scientific estimate will be acconsary to show how much of this account is due to the Texas reporter's fancy, which in spring. lightly turns to

to

one

RTME,

day the professor received a summons from Fifth Avenue, and, upon presenting hiimself, was shown up into a boudoir, and, while oue sister stood on guard, hol tattoood nesthetic garter alant the place whore the top of the other sister's stocking ought to be, The buckle consisted of the initials of the lady's cavalier. Some of the girls go so far as to demand a vecklase in ink. professor, who hus a conscience, generally succeeds in dissuading them.. Ho in st enthusiast in big art, and always tolls his Chinese thousands of years ́ngú,“ patrons that it was Use Among the

in

to the ingenious anke story BOULANGER can hardly feel flattered at his reception in London Prominent pablis men are writing to the papers now donying that they called upon him. Randolph Churchill, who delights in doing things to make staid members of the Tory party feal uncomfortable, took the General to his house to dinner last night, but the guests Tas Chepa Shimbun gives some interesting invited there to meet hi

were not of account as public men. Boulanger saya tious in the Japanese share market. The apartionlara, regarding remarkable flacton- that many notable people call on him, but

butor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange wera refuses to giva persistently He

Ram placed market during gary al the time aanvoring lob fire, fors, in the pos, daca of $100. By keeps tors, and the Franch colony hore covers bur,

his table with freak dowers. Some wag hua June next year the quotation bad advanced put his name up for election in the Pelican to more than twice that amount, 8267, but

within a

a month bumped down to $150, to Club, and degoribes him thus: Occupa advance again shortly afterwards to 8273, tion, Emperor; address, Hotel Bristol-and

June 1881, the price descended to $120, Tuileries, Paris-American Telegram,

And in March next year was worth 3301

1880, when' the shares were at $154, followed, but passed over to the great majority. Both wards a sudden advance came and during were seafaring men, one being Mr Thomas the next ten months the shares renched Forrest, who came out to China in 1855 point more than three times their The other was Captain Charlos Brown, 9450. At this juncture the bourse question who arrived at Shanghai about 1857 is the arose with the result that the a shares fall

Captain Brown wad ang god during the next Daring

the next vight

months to -during-t

to 8219, thes the time the Taipings held Ningpo- there was a return to $350 or $360, followed

alotcha schedtorty a decline,

by ad

And now the asiling between.

The point for twenty-one years he was master of

highest as compared with the

reached lorcha sailing on the Yangtze. At

in 1887 is

is lower by $120 and higher than funeral six of those who carried the coffin

the lowest qantation, watch have had been from twenty to $200. The $100

1887. to the grave

the Yokohama thirty-three years, the average being Specie Dank were first offered by t the Stock

in March, 1861. at

at 8121. At

At the ter who conducted the service, the Ven. Archdeacon Moule, came out to China irat in 1861-N-C. Daily News.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Service could not have been mom clearly

shows, had the Colonial Office specially

afranged all the details beforehand, than

beauty essential to happiness, but its combined prosence is a triumph of art

std Nature.

have been wired to HE La Bug Clang by the Tea Guild, who protest against the action of the mandaria.

A

principal metala was much larger than suficiently good, and sufficiently cheap, in 1889. The export of silk and tea was there is no reason why money should not considerably less. In Ningpo opium did be made out of them, but a dogged datere

...it' has boon during the last Ave or six That tho mari who is iwice biowed by the topondent writer we are glad its best to make up for the heavy decline mination not to pay more than our prosent

Jays

Teat as few of the leading officers of this Department possess aty experience of the wants of the Colony. some special meane must be found to obtain the informa

the

the

possession of both wright rain envy in breast of an angel That it would be fotoresting to know

exact differenes of time batween Hai. phong (Hongey) and Hongsong.

tion necessary to effect thorough repairs hat the Carrisbrooke ple-pio parts are reassion, the Board of Foreign Intercoury,cals paid duty in..

to and the reconstruction of storm-water draina

That the affects of the storm may throw some light upon the proposed Separate System of Drainage, for the benefit of those who were previously in the dark on that subject.

That sufficient promptitude was not dis played by the P. W.. Department co Wednesday, in aloiting a channel for the overflow down Wyndham Street, sa na to prevent or mitigate the serious Band damage in Queen's Road and vicinity caused by a renewal of the duwarush nort day.

That the loss to the Colony, public and private, cannot as yet be calculated, but while it will have to be paid for in some form or other, it must be met only after the most satisfactory siauraneca are given that every possible sad kad precas- tions will be taken to prevent a rectar- rence of similar troubles.

That I am grieved to hear several transfers of land have been made without being

recorded in the Land Office.

Qzi the 22nd ult, two old China bands A gradual decline till October fter- That it might baan interesting point of law -

ܕvglus

in command of the Ruby, Ningpo, and ined at about $324. Totalion is main-

and

shares

was in

quotation

thirty years-from home, while Bar of 1884 they commenced in ad-

MR. Marling's steam-yacht Monsoon (late Glowworm) has left Southampton for Brindisi, where she will embark her owner for a cruise to India and China. Lady Colin Campbell and Miss Fortescue are passengers in the Monsoon to Brindisi

vance and in April, 1887, they rouched their highest price $364. During the next month ensued a decline whic continued

f the

the year when entil the end of

quote tions were at $230. As the prosunt date they are about $270. The $100 shares of tho-Tokyo Tramway Co. after their issue in in 1886 did not fuctuate very ranet, frero $300 until the amount of share was reduced to 350 and then the quotations stovi, at $110. The latter is about their price at pressit.

if A.B., baving bought a piece of land us the bill. fur- several thousand dollars.

found it had slid into the Service Re servoir, and become misplaced mud, .... That the fortunate soap from atterrain

factory quer in which the brakes of the Beamway cars imhaved, are features. of the disaator for which all residunta must be thankful.

ported to have been filled with delight, "pleasure,' and 'amatomönt."

That the gailand Captain caters much too well and is altogether too hospitable to allow his guests to languish on any sac ephemeral fars. That had 'pâté de fois gras or a jack-pot" been mentioned, credence might be given

to the report.

cheat musters, etc.

om, Sir.

Yours faithfully,

"MINOIS.

Claro žal, the

kinds

learn that the Chinone Authori in the oxport duty. The import businose current prices must be firmly adhereil ties have taken string monstros to was fully up to the average, but the s The very beat of tom should not bo suppress all doalings in what is rather pors of the staples, raw catton, roh laid down over 1/4 to 1/1 per lb, and other forbly termed ston. A proclamation hata, sud green tea, declined enormously, kinds in proportion down to 4d. per lb, for was issued on the 22nd inst. in which The deleit in Foochow is to be attributed superior common. it was decreed that; whoever shall almost entirely to the falling-off in tho appichoad such dishonest dealers and export of tea, of which only 13,010 seize all auch toos in

their

1880 ralust 98,000 picule in 1888. There was shall rowurd him with Tia 100; and the enormous flecrease in the export of person wi shall give. uch

information as timber

Commenting on the letter, the Foo Ia planks Takow there ahsil lens to the apprehension of the a large decrease in the export duty The letter we print to day from London

was chow Echo of the 25th May says offenders shall receive Ts. 50. This looks roovived, nearly balanced by the im- correspondent is certainly dismal, resting rather business-like, and it only remains for Crovement in the opium duty and likin. The position of the trade is however no us to what effect it will have on a dis- The general import and export business fully realized here already, that it an honest practice which has beau going on was good, but the oxport of brown Augus for a number of years.”

fell off from 202,000 picus in 1888 to rely add to the existing depression:

Lane!

the And we think the B of F. I might go 198,000

*Mincing in 1889.

lays still farther and say what shall be done to and the opinam duty and likin föll off in who bare best conducting it in a great The export duty downfall of the trade at the door of those the teamon who send out fic mustora, Amoy, Oolong tea and brown sugar-both massure at any rate, but as a matter of showing a decline. The import business fact all the circumspection in the world The Ettle birds have whispered in on Pot ears that some sort of arrangement is on

Amoy was generally In Swatow wou

gord. In there was a decline under ull heads, from its fate. The Chinese have not would not have saved this business the tapis for the chartering of abamera by except export and post trude duties boon able to apply, the the native teamed to take their tens to There was u

u guberal fall

particular. falling off in the of tea that happen, just now, to suit London and australia, should foreign import of opinion and cotten and wool- the buyers not acquiosco in being dictated to lan

popular, tastey this is the real ∙AIL improvement in and gomu to turnis at

len piece-gonds; and tho

reason of the collapse. We look at our proper time: the export of most certainly congratulate plucky The only improvement in Cantor was uns prediction as to the probable duration of

f sugar, molasses, and samshu. Joha Chinaman for his sublime ides. There der coat trade duty there was a goal these last days of the trade; if the figures comparative export tables to chook the

is not the least doubt that the foreign falling-off in importer and in the export of are to decrease

to grint merchants will be only too glad

matting, prosorres, silk,

the rate of 10 millions & Will prove the tentoon every facility in order to satry Kimigehow the export duty improved, but year, of course our sorrespondent out their undertaking, as it will eitoply opiten duty and tikiu declined; the topbat pretty correct. We will love the future

impoat to take care.

to take care of itRolf and for the moment

Mincing plays of uvasion, slufling, and suppresjamp from the frying pan into the firs. pige sugar recovered a little, but that is doleful in his efons of information which base lately realise the truth of the maxim that the The export duty and the

that he do not SDCA powera

tonf egge was considerably below the average encouraging in his remarks shoat what

•ópiumi duty off been so glaringly present, the Board cau

cause must be removed before the feer at Pakhi bur the import of cotton goods, by done in the interval before Foodbow Len

is unticely driven out of the ruyor prove to be the blessing it was rong eeuss, far in their herwise on mead und antal shred a fair idvance. Experts are With

London sufficiently goud

and |able crusade against the pernicious habit of intended to become.

ganerally were “larger. with

the

With tea Cacoption opium emoking, they seem to think that of indigo and tin. Iu Kowloon the deficit yet be made on the small exp

sufficiently cheap, he tells us, money may That so long as a Government official they will aucceed in diminishing the nur was almost entirety in opium duty and likin; e. We should like to add

export allotted to adheres to the traditions of the Eervice, bur af opium sunkers by forcibly closing while in Lappa (Macao) the clinnges were

to Mineing and keeps everything as dark as raay be all the opium divans. Dering the weoz a animaportant. In the quarterly returns the Lane's words and sant along slowly: in lis zeal for the other service (that is, for number of these dens have been compelled Commissionere of Customs give us only fig- which now seem to be limited to

I quantity to meet the diminished deliveries. the good of the public who pay him) goes to pot up their shutters at a moment's ures without comment, and all we have done than two millions a month...

little more nothing.

notice, while others have only succeeded in it te sulamariss these gurus.N.-C. Daily That a glamor around the Golong for the fingering that existence by the poradasivo Naza

glance

may have shown to so se oloquence of the almighty mexican

That the arousing shit touching the pro- codings of a Board deliberating over Ratifu water and other matters would lead one to suppose that the Sanitary Board has passed into the hopeless stogo, and is fit only to be blown from the guns

emid the ridicule of the community. That if the official members, following the well-corked footsteps of their chief (the

We

I

Governor), persist in making public dissable them to help ons celestini friands to business was fairly good, and the export of, Idead with the tono, he certa

for

It is

last few dan uficiel gaina little or said that the rongers are reaping a plentif

the dead.

That the temporary atoppage of the Tram- way cars, and the short period of dark- ness caused by the breaches in the gas. mains, will teach many to value more highly the facilities of travel and the

,! blessing of light

and

s

and of

fell

Tane

may

"To THE DEAF-A Person cured of Deal- ness and noises in the head of 23 years' standing by a simple remedy will send a description of it free to any Person who applies to Nicholson, 21, Bedford Square," London, W.O., England.

THE TEA TRADE BETWE«N -FOOCHOW-AND-LONDON-

London, April 10th, 1889. We take the following interesting letter from the Feashore Echo:

RESPONIBILITE-A boy in a public school Sir,-When I promised to write yohon being asked to define the word responsi something about Poochow tea towards the bility said: 'Well, my trousers have got end of the prosent season, I did not con-two buttons on; if one should some off the template that the time to carry out my other would be responsible for the trousers, promise would arrive ut fint me taking the-Roseleaf. utterly despondent view I now do of the situation, or

THE great value of Scott's Emulsion of ahould have begged to be ax Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites cuted addressing Fo слава

abject so de-in Wasting Diseases is shown, the wooom-

by prossing. lu spite of the disheartening

00

The

roviderates Rething by overzeal: ho may be thought harvest and that their innings promises to a food for doing too much, bus-he-less--ba a long ano. It is a well-known fact that

bittly as Rething by doing as as possible since the Cheion catres of the Serriao Reservoir; and-the satis-That the Police have bien doing good a spur was convention came into ferrs į to the planting of the service throughout the disqui

disquirous storm.

in given to

and in this proviges speci That whoavor blew that awful siren about all pop plantations, baktor under the

half-past Gve this morning ought to be sunshine of official

hare increas acial prosection, prosecuted, and brought before the ed quite apace with the demand for the Sanitary Board for producing a villain-drug. It is therefore a great anomaly for ously insanitary sound, enough to waken the authorities to strike at the

opium den keepers, while the producers are let off scot That touching the Governor's fit of Coles free Surely the former is only a compla. it is not unesual for Colonial ment of the latter in the long chain of aucial Governors to take a trip Home to recruit coonumy.

undor cur staid, 'run-in-the-old- groove' Colonial Secretary we would at least be free from spasmodic Site of THE FIRST QUARTER'S TRADE AT turn this business has taken of late, I paying statement from D. G. Freeman,

THE TREATY PORTS. ` sensational legislation, the period of co-

seemed to see the possibility of a revival of meer Al-Having been a great pose thus provided would be highlyThe returns of trade for the first quar.demand, but the vision hus vanished. Iurer from pulmonary attacks and

gradually wasting away for the

the past two appreciated after the recent disasters. ter of 1889.sher an unpleasantly marked a see nu silver lining to the cloud.

business has gopo

tono from bad to worse.

years, it affords me grea Tus that the above medicine has given me great Tea- Fleasure to testify That among those whom Her Majesty do- reaction from the prosperity that

trade, in my opinion, in on its last logs. relief, and cheerfully recommend it to all to honour on her birthday word havo been recording in our notices lighted

of the names of Wade, Hart, and Russel.

This Las been bought about, in a great suffering in a similar way to myself. In the last annual gazette. At this time lasi That our water supply is inferior and in-That the youngest of the triumvirate our year, when examining the returns for the mare at any rate, by the apathy of those addition.I would say that it is

very pleasant adequate, and that the present state of

James, though hailing from the North Best quarter of 18838, we had the satisfaction engaged in Chinese and foreigners to take, Any Chemist can supply at

have shown, their inaction of Ireland, is a pawly chiol, and will of saying that of the nineton Chinese have

as regards Watson & Co (Limited), agents in Hong things does not redound to the glory of debtle wear his honours with beam

one, and by their

as regards the kolig and China. the P. W. Department, goes without

other, the while fourteen gavera larger revenas than charges which have been taking plio bere in the ty. Baving.

then is a broth of a hoy," in 1887; this year the conditions are rever- That eac

each of

While Indian and Ceylon planters have, for and it is to be hoped the triple elevation Bed; five ports, Tientsin, Ichang, Hankow, will not be looked upon as another injus. Wenchow, sud Tamsui did a little better years pant, been busy in their sadeavour to

. tice to Irolacid.

this year than in 1888 the other fourteen possible price, China has

lay the boat possible tea at the lowest BROWNIE. shew considerable deficits, the following

being the comparative figures; and it will itself at all in the matter. Take the pra us seen that the depression extends to one aos of

sent season for instancs. So far from any of the two southern stations, which are circumstances of an apprecedented low scale of endeavour to meet the altered ports, but not treaty ports. The total de about 12 per cent.

That the failure of the partial Tytam water supply at a time when it was being un- duly relied upon, produces a double ca- lamity.

off the

A New omnibus company has been started in Tokyo, under the name, of the Compa- | anie Générale des Omnibus de Tokyo. At present its oporation seem confined to the I am glad to be able to say, cu excellent Kanda district, one of the main stations authority, writes a well-informed corres-

treaty ports: only five showed a falling. The pendent to the Manchester Guardian, that at the foot of Kodan

hill. The faltig vehiolog, which ment of the Sikkim facefutati

all hope of a prompt and the

has by no means trafie of the streets. In- Jender top

Tauished The Chinees Government, sa I to the pedestrian as they deod they appear to

have already stated, were given to andor- approach solcewhat like the vans of a

stand that the British operations could not travelling.cirens. Perched high up on thos

be suspended until the new Chinese roof sits the driver, in a red coat and stone- pipe bat; while the conductor to the rear Resident arrived at the frontier some time sporin a

agay kapi, and, has quite a military next summer or sutten, bat would be air. The busses bear the name of a resumed as soon as the snow on the passes was in such aetate as to render marching London maker, although the name of the company on the panels is in French, It possible, when Colonel Orahum, would in to be hoped that cleanliness may be one advance into the Choom bi valley, and aither festore of these new busses-it is strik remain there or advance into Thibet proper, ingly absent in other pablic conveyancos. Japan Mail.

the

tho Tsung- stiff anounce

the circumstances, and os ecially the conduct of the Thibetans, uenied to doraand. Un

Tamen, or Freig muntr SANITARY IMPROVEMRET. IN DELHI A

Bourdat

at Fekiu, set to work vigorously and Proposed Nightsol Tramway.-The Muni telegraphed via Calcutta to ita Resident cipal Committee hore hava sanctioned au

urgent and

and puremptory aa instructions of an expenditure of rupees fly thousand for character, which had to be carried from the endstruction of a light tramway to carry and of the wire in the British camp over away nightsoil and townswcopings to a die- the passes by quite a force of native tance from the city sin, to the opion country messengers, who had orders to force their near the Rosbanara Gardens to the south-way through the snow at all hazards. west of the Ridge, where there will withdrew quite away from Chebi to the thurt time afterwards the Thibetan troops be a good demand for manure. The line withda will be on a two feet gauges and will start extromno northern and of the valley. Me from the Fatah Khans gate of the city, Bart, who was at Durjeeling, aign received from whence it will traverse the city ditch instructions to cross the pass and join the ruaning with the wall as far as the Kabul Resident as soon as the weather gate. From thence it will cross the road, and I am told ho is now at or

од

the

Mi

and taking the right how it as far as the the Okinuses are taking, exceedingly zotive

Thibotan side of

of the pass. Is fact Canal, will follow

steps to resume negotiations befʊre iku arat Rajputana-Malwa Railway bridge cros

Gros- steps sing the canal.. It will then strike off a military can got to work sguin, and with an ross country, passing the flour mills and experienced Englishman in the Chiness malting house on the right, and terminste service aiding the Chinese Antao, the at the open fields to the south-west of the prospect is considered taore promising aw Roshanera Gardens. A referenco, bewaves, than it has beep for some time past, to the Government of Indis in the Military Department will be necessary.

Ur to date, we have known that there are not only green plantains, but there are red and black plantains and several other species of ancommon, plantains. However, we dreams that "nover'{knów · even· In Four

there is a species of plantains called white plantain Now there is a wonderful white. plantain of this species with a busal in the Flower Garden at Telok Ayer which balongs to MR. Ry. M. Sinnappe Pillay Anorgal. Everyone comes to see and wonder what betokens this Moreover, Pillay А легна consulted astrologers with regard to the day and the position of the star sad planets under which it brought forth the bunch" in order to ascertain what benefits may aderue from it. Tas stars pronounced the white plantain to be of good oman. Bo that those who eat the fruit of it will not only become enterprising and industrious bet will be liberal, honest, well-conducted and wise, and those that have lost all hope of getting any issue will be blessed with an otkl number of children more than one. We aro all anxionely waiting when it will ripen. Straits Times Translation.

AN. extraordinary occurrence has taken. place in one of the principal churches of Madrid, in the parish of Santa Cruz. priest had Dearly finished his mass, and we

in the act of pronouncing the sacrament

when a young ma

of

'FBAURANT. WATERS MURMUR That the disaster, or series of disasters, of

the last few days almost rules out place this harmless wookly chatter on things in general.

That the fragrant waters have not been demeaning themselves with their usual playfulness, and the ugly and sometimes) deadly tough of the monster has lately showed itself.

That, barring the great loss of life caused by the great Typhoon of 1874, this dia. aster of too much and too little water:

dwarfs everything the Colony her yet experienced.

That doubtless the enlumity Which has visited our fair city will serve to develop

the courage, perseverance and resources

ANOTHER EMIGRATION CASE. - In the Police Court to-day, before Mr boarding-house runners, were brought up

At

down

20

rapid

Exchange.

not bestiered / Loudon--

HONGKONG, June 1.

Bank, Wirs,

22

On demand,

30 days' aight,

That at a time when 'deads not words ' are wanted, H. E. the Governor indulges in a hair-splitting wrangle entirely un- dignified and not particularly edifying. That his arguniant (if Vice-Royalty can be

said to argue) is somewhat akin to Bung | Wodehoune, Li Sing, Chiu Chiu and Ip On, ficit is no lesa a som iban Tir. 577,777, orces in this market, Foochow opened Shui, which literally rendered represente the two great slements, wind and water. That when the tide of battle turns against him, he more or less gracefully bege the question at issue, and, like the cattle-fab, makes good his retreat in a sea of ink.

BRCOAT OF BUES AND DUTIES JANUARY-

MARCH QUARTER, 1839; CHINE

in connection with an emigration alair The first defendant was charged with net and the suvend and third with procuring ing as a passenger brókor without a license. and assisting the first defendant to obtain Newchwang...Tls. passengers. Mr B, Denys appeared Tientsin... for the three defendants.

Chefoo

A Chiness contable gave the following Tahang That the least observant, with any ex-evidence:-On the 31st inst. at 11 am. I Bankow..

perience of the East, know that mud-in water is a powerful irritant and great provocativo to diarrhea and its con-

genem.

was on board the s.s. Ways, which was Kiukiang... then about to depart for gapore. The medical officer and Emgration Officer were on board passing thet prssengers. 11.30, after these officials had left the ship,

Ningpo

I saw the second defondant standing uut Wenchow.

That when the matrix of the mud sido a cabin aft. I went to the cabin and Fuochow

granite, the irritation and provocation are much intensified.

That this shillalah is not an incisive

weapon, but it is a powerful leveller.

opened it and any about 30 men inside. Tanent.. The third defendant was inside in charge Takow. of them. He said the pain I won tulk Swatow..

-belonged Amey

to the Hop Hing thup. That, besides carrying with him the sympa-auster of the Hop Hing shot, who aid the Pakbo...

ing with the third defendant the second de- Clanton fendant wont away Bud came back with the Kiungehow. thies and conviction of every sensible ve

paaseugers belonged

need for

Isaid they had He

replied No Bident, Dr Hartigan bas aucceeded in not passed the doctor do 30. I left *eliciting a promise of something being the ship and went in foin-bow-toui

Tsin-tsa-tavi statin I done to remedy the mind-apply. I returned to the skip again at two o'clock That, so far as the P. W. Department was the third defendant and asked him where

with Sergeant Harkin, and on going aft concerned, 'Some one had blundered, the passengers wore. He said they were and as for the poor taxpayers,-- forward, and when I told him to fetch them

Their's not to reason why, Their's not to Qiske reply, Their's but to drink and die. That, whether H. E. does or does not make the amende honorable to the worthy

public-spirited Doctor, now matters very

an Bon A

נן

4 months sight,

Credit, &

Doommentary, months eigh

Ou Paris

On demand,

Oredite, 4 months sight,

On New York

adrauce on the previons du

Tike something 30 per cent. It was particularly unfortunate that this should have happerad at the present crisis. By it, the death blow has been given to the trade. In this way: 25,30 offers to merchants were refused here by On Bombay

TREATY TOUTS.

1880. 15,087...Tls.

1883.

71,464

50,4 50

57,523...

31,197

169,187

125,330.

128.375........

1,244,767.

193,629

8.978.

220,693.

09.720...

343,626,

494,133

52,628.

that

Subsequently, buyers

On demand,...

Credits, 60 days' sight,

Wire,

On derbian***

Wire

On deloand,...

old Leaf, 100 fine...

30 days' night, private,

34.10

depar

306

reason only of the hosty losses such offers 70,900 shewed on the cost, which throw, at once,. 20.990 Ceylon teas into channals previously score On Calcutta 189,529 to Foochow kinds. This ground will not 114,293 ga 127.4894gain be recovered.

demand, gaterally grow so sick of their reasonable Un Shanghai- 170 375 offers being refused taxt 1,507,810 offere

cant they ceased to at all, and the result was, of course.. 5.184 sort of panic. Since the turn of the year, 6,231 private sales have been altogether excep tional. Everything, so to speak, has been GB,615 sent to auction Without reserve. 120,242 | era dare not hold. But I need not dwell Import- 269,382 UDOR this. Fue course of the market is 955,447 known quite as well to your merchants 590,950 to myself: it has been shown by their

59,207 sales: it has been pointed gut by their BAROMETER 81,897 correspondents; and it has been recorded

Do by the brokers in their circulare. A sed story of high-coat toss selling at savore

76,88 Total...Tia, 3,793,897 Tls.4,349,668

ASP FOR KOWLOON AND LAPFA.

1880.

1888. Kowloon......Ta. 141.144...Tis. 155.602

apps.

104,155 101,803

03845.

To

Hamburg...

Température (Taken at Mesars Falconer de Coca Premises, Queen's Road)

A.M..... 39.78

-1.

Doi THERMOMETER-M

29.76

83

Do.

1 P, M

Do.

-EM

Do. (Wet bulb)

M. 82

Do.

Do, 1 F.M. 83

Do.

Do.

At

O the fire fortunate treaty porte, Tion. I progame, in forebs-apaned by bab

he brought seven and then six more tsin shews un advance all round, except in Sergeant Harkin asked if he had tickets opium likin and tonuage dues, but its ictal for sko nien. The third defendant BRIC

prices

little, so far as the community is concertreated the three defe. We then ar- was made in maintained, I Hankowe The market will noscener open,

T

Do Maximum

4.M.

86 Do. Minimum over night 74

CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL

ALALION

REGISTER.

Max 31, 4r.E.

that part are derived from use West juter on, ' must have some. i'ostock, 23,63, 51

in

Thes

Direction.

Weather.

is the past. There will be less demand

my mind the future inquite a gloomy steadily docrossing deliveries: sad esrtain ly a lower scale of prices than har besn Total... Tis. 245,279...Tis. 267,505 current this season. This is the London

as I read Foochow, the markot Australian buyers at

beyond the JAMU ruach of

-operators. Loader

But what has and the first defendant, webue was still juss-than in the standing by the the time, dan who was quattor of 1987. The trifting advanes in repeatedly usppened before will,

fest, latter at the sams

Johang was mainly due to an increase in take place and. The Laud mers will bay time produced passage tickets, one of which only had the theatres, but it is silisfactory that without demn it, tovause they will again ta the larry lanes made in 1883 or 1687 slaves to the dictates of the agente of the Emigration Officer's ed, praepting perhaps the Governor. Chru Fuk said I am a silversmith also the improvement was continuans. In the first steamer will be despatched a few the gain was in the export duty, and here than a circular will appear, intimating that on my way to Singapore. I came down Wenshow the improvement was acivertal, days later. All will then see their way to That he who rides in the whirlwind and from the country on the 28th inat.

direc's the storm on the Kowloon sido stopped at the

but

three-fourths of the revenue collected ship, whatever prices may he. Must have Hop Sing shop. The at th might occasionally divert his guza from third defendant took me on board the and likin. The amall

duty mething in the first 'stester you know. the heavenly bodies to things sublunaryders to Hongkong and took me to the other heads of revenue all shewing a fall at and afterwards, Better ship a little Nagasaki. 29.88

staather. A

man not in Court brought me entirely 7 dae -to opium That a timely, forecast of the maiera or others down at the same time and oder erary head of revenue except inapost erop is poor and sh

duty And likin, the thing in asconit steamer in case the first i shop. The same man brought. ing-. Ia Newchwang there was a decline mure because the Chinese dolugo which has lately visited taciz all of us to the Hop Hing shop. The duty, which is only a bagatelle at any time, Novar allowing prices to drop, and keeping Houghour 38,64 65 B would, to the balk of us have third defendunt took me and a lot of others

in days gone by. Amoy 29.78 81 83 proved more interesting than any hita- on board the steamet.. I have not paid my owing to the falling-off in the export of<xcess of requirements. This is the Foo Bolinao.... 28.6 95 6 Eguch duty being the principal culprit, tho Export up to a point considerably ia Haiphong. 20 84 97 88 lating theorising on the law of storma, passage. The master of the Bop Hing beans and beancake. A considerable

shop said he would pay my passage.

chow programo in forecast, as I

MADE...~ I am tity of these products, which was actually reading the future thruagh the past.

JUNE 1-AT 10 driven to men

was shutout of vessalz There positivaly no hope. Consider Wostock. 20.08 B1 95 closed in 1858, but having paid duty in the trade has been leaning. I have watch Nagarski..

to sen by the that year was included in the Decembered for symptoms of the long-talked-of Shanghai.. 29.6 gear or returns. The only improveme Chiefoo was in the import a provinent in reaction in fama uf Foochow teas: all Am

duty, which is not a enquiry,

all the fashion, all the aerious item, most of Chefoo's imports say gone the other way. Improved quality was Halphu

tasto, has Hongkong 22.75 ing duty in Shanghai, and the take of iwpraved quality to ensure froin, aut of

to bring it into fatur again, but where in Bolinao. 29.80926 B puris shows an almost universal

of Manila...... producte fell of very exhausted soil The abolition of the Ubins The baramaler hae risen in the south and: exceptions. In Kiukieng the dof matter of price, was talked of; of this, modoras for 8, W. winds. Ovakousk, Warm

the

several

in

rt;

Recond Shangha. 29.66 52 75

of the Auglo-Saxon character, dashed as That a rainfall of 24 inches in as not under a coutract of service to anybody Marchi lask, DOD LIO port the two or three possible events on which Tokio...

it is with the attributes of Mark Tapley, and that things will in time assume their wonted shape.

That no one perhaps can be held to blame for the unprecedented torrents of rain,

hours in yearly equal to the annual fall in England, and could hardly have some

upon ng without some premonitory warn ings

That 24 inches means something like 1700 or for the wholesale sliding descents of tons to the acre. ** the bills hullocks and embankments of

worda, ate, mi beautiful girl by our hily home.

ageiddan approached the alter Thot whakover in past or present

Trail

with three midde-aged men, and

the young osuple cried aloud, We wish to

be husband and wife. Here are

are our three witnesses. Now, it seems that gader, the canonical laws still regulating marriages in Roman Catholic cần thus claim to considered, married

are skilful enough to do so just after the pricef has altered, the Benediction, at the

this

whose Whoo

attach to the Sarveyor General's Department, the entire community must feel for the newly arrived head, who has dropped into such a "heritage of' was.) ·

That 1700 multiplied by the number of

I am to pay back 819 again to the master

gapore.

of the Hop Hing chop when I get to Sin-

The case at this stage was remanded.

FOOCHOW NOTES. (From the Foochere Echo)

25th May, 1889. Casexchange is alightly depressed, one tather for one Mexican Quin. It is feared hatipo

ex-

apres contained in Hongkọng gif. & thousand coppere being the length of ito Bessy mottled braia doties, to cut out India sad. Ceylon in the has fallen in the North. Gradients Ken –

That the recent deluge has disclosed more than one instance of something very like

jerry building..

belug

dealing the of Customs ta bis my are to

is no hope

We learn that a number of lehermen in-vement in tabacco to Wike thers Unlows something nfcretsen That it may be inconvenient and perhaps That the charitably disposed any we are in- jos heing imported from insp. As they, but it was nearly wade up by the in will between Foochonnes

ungracious to remind officials of warnings giren as to the neglect of drafor and their diting which must have intensited the obstructions to the almost irresistible rush this occurred in the Church of Santa Crux of the overfoming water.

stratagem was as sin the

resorted toy by your people?

parent opposed their union.

re

of confusion ensred. The g tired to the sagristy and sent for the who conducted the offenders and withere Into the prapon of the municipal Judge He declared the marriage valid, mach to the delight of the young couple, and to the intense disgust of the parents of both siden, who had resisted the union.

deblød to the influx of architects for this state of things.

F

thres

and this country years,

• Government) astronomy..

15. Довкво

Hongkong Observatory, June 1, 1889.

be a thing off I. Baranzia, radcona to 1's degree Faired- belt, and to the level of the sea to indica, fenaka.

1, Taxesrazona, in the shade Fun: dagroke Fahrenheit

cash of water to the sex that almost was in axport duty and transit we haur by wire, there is no chancs: on pale to think of...

lowest sbb, and that before long we

we will dues. The import business way brisk, recommendation of the Inspector General and damp weather prevails in China. see the Mexican quoted at 300 or 9801 but there tand flosting a company with a view to

exports, paper and fea, against a

are. as they establishing an

an Ice Dergi at this part, th

the i was L heary decrease in oplura duty and tes

dten tada a good deal of ice" themselves for creams in the axport duty.

only a impact basiness of Waha was very good to see Fume better than I and hundredthey de

The general the pasti serving fiah daring the summer,

Nahing Would shaited mount of public support will be during the quarter, and the

there was Large

toes again taking up That in the good old days, when the Com required to start the quadern. It la said increase in the

kon, which to their old position in this userkut, but prasiorig order of staalfontiure prevalled, that they will retail, the commodity at two covered Cup 195903 piouls. In 1887 to I have said anaugh to show sau, that

Cobia per catty. our buildings, it wanting in beauty, were

loved Pradoes are dead against it, Io We hear that news had reached Rankow With in the

due to the ka production of Intis and Ceylon :100. Lot the not deficient in solidity,

13th

by the 8.3. Kiang import of opium

ganets!

etal basis, as,

cannot pot anaugh to meet our large require BORD falom Kiokleng to the effect that ness was well maintained in Shanghai supply our the countries it is difficult to say whether beauty pre station ääärin 18 Derge of the iki horo was a slight improvement 6pm the chance remunerative 6. SZATH OF WADZONE, 6, hina vipi den

In the expartments = at Boyang Lake, fifteen miles anty but the import of anum fell off to Ronchos shipper. The set romana to techal planda, extriarling, rain, ƒ fog. fglony,

Features on small- solidity is the more conspicuous by its tax on teas, and the teamten have irmly in cotton and woollen piece goods there was millions will this one he wanted from squally, rain, can w. itheader; inhitis,

from. Kiukiang, han raised the likin what, and general imports vary considerably. absence.

is estimated that 80 | & baű, ↓ lightning, vos szeddi, y pasal's showers, refused to pay the achteras, pesferring to let a very general declins, which exten to Ching of this

the 25 millions CRES: tion of this Department of the Poblig i That neither in a house nor lie mistrem ja ! Their town be stopped. The afbic i said to ↑ keromone "oll; whils import of the be taken from Fogohem I the test are ?

That the lessons given by the sad disaster

of this

are probably sharp enough That in some of the more recent elbrta" the

to regulate more efficiently the faturs

conduct of the P. W, Departments

That the anametally undermanned condi.

3. Emre, in percentage of sauration, the hmoidity of air sabarstad with me stare being,

5. Vosca de Wɔ, motoring saatlari

1 Kaiš, to jorner, Whiha and bagtry Whe

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