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No. 8290-Arcust 3, 1889.j

The P. & 0. Co.'s m. a. Ganges, with the English and French Mail of Jupe 20th and July 5th, lofs Singapore on Wed- nesday, the Sial July, at 11 a 20., and may be exported here on of about Monday, the tith Aug. This Packs bringe replies to lettore dusjerched from Hongkong on May 18th and Bisy 23rd

Norddentesher Lloyd S S. Jay's stasmship Preussen, with the nort out, ward Geridan Mätt, dated Berlin, 3th July, left Singapore on Saturday, the ård instant, as moon, and may be exported here on or about Wednesday, the 7th instead The Canadian Pacific Co.'s as Port Fairy, from Vancouver, left Yokohams for Nagasaki and Hoogkung on Friday, the 2nd inst.

The

The Canadian Pacifio 9. 00 'ss.s. Abyssinia

left Vancouver for Yokohama, Naga saki, Shanghai and Hongkong on 28th Joly E

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THE CHINA MAIL.

an officiat drain.

Rervans issued in May show the Japanoag | ion we should continue as we have done i prosched gradually, and what he would- and a good water supply which will main. That it is now nearly twenty years since the lower and meanor employments. It is a cobility to consist of 1f Princes, 28 Mar hitherto, that is to takes a risk of 10 per cent, suggest was that instead of cuing away with":"tain the reputation of the Park levels slow groggeries were empleed of the deln cause for congratulation tins the ordinary quises, 80 Counte, 358 Viscounts, 102 on the value of our stomers and the rest the insurance entirely the amejint for which -in bealth resort, and not imparil the health teriove and maddening decoolions. For isajatanco that has been given to suffering Barona, 8 families without the title of with either London or Local offers such as the company'a akvaulers are at pesent of residents thees,

the possession of which they are so fa eilingos and destitate communities almost nobility, and 3 families represented by your Board may decide upon. To be eu anderwritten ar local and home polícies by That a drain which cannot he flushed save mous

Pages Amunally for a number of years by Alim females. The sons of gulise mambered 795, tirely our own insurers I think is not good degrees be reduced at, say, 79, 10, 13 and by rain-showers is not and never can be That there appears to have been a decreasg foreign community, has not been called for.

business, I have no doubt there is one of 174 per cent, extending over a period of

in the amount of serious criminal offençói there a beon vory littlo if any occasioni Tar Jagan Mail in informed by the Agont my friends here who is going to bring fur-eight years until the company become gra

of late, due (as soree says to the Extradi- for it during the past winter and spring. of the P.M. and. 0. &U Co.s that the ward resolutions in favour of our being cur dnally the underwritors of their entire floot.

tion Ordinance, while others aftribute it -N.-O. Daily News, Garlic left San Francisco for Yokohamd on own insurers, but I am just as strongly Mr. Poenooker seconded this proposal,

to a totally different cause. the 20th altimi, justead of the 17th, the sgainst it as he is in favour at it. Although which the Chairman said he thought was a

That whatever may have brought about regular schedalo dnia: The City of New it may be put to you that in the number of very wise con

this immunity. From crime, residents have York; scheduled to leave San Francisco on goats, the company bas boon to oxin for had been siner the formation of the Com

oxiatorce

Mr F. Dodwell asked what losses chore

eaning in congratulation. the Both ultimo, has been withdrawn from the line for the purpose of being reboilered and rofitied, and the next departure from San Francisco will be the Belgie, leaving thers August 3rd

we have paid a very large mam premia of insurance, still this company is not standing by itself in that respect. Private merchants can say the same. They can say we bave bean paying insurance. both sea and tre, for so many years and it is so far fortunate for the company and also for the insurance that there have not been vory beary claims. That is the past ex: perience of a great many fems in China, otherwise the insurance companies in Chine which they are.

I will now leave this sub- jest and am merely now to propose that the report and accounts as presented to the meeting by the Board be adopted grap

Mr Yu Bui Wau seconded and the motion was unanimously carried.

pay,

and

In answer to this and other questions tho Soorotary handed to Mr Dodwell a meme.

Mr Dodwell Baki that according to the Secretary's figures hoy had paid $63,000, away - is premia their total claime amounted 887,00', leaving a balance of $630,000. That seemed to him roughly to represent pretty nearly the or the af, the value of

to bim another point that might be dweit. upon They had a sum of $235,001 set down for depreciation and insurance. What was that for?

The Austro-Hungariar Lloyd's Si N, Co.'s) of next wook. Mr Brown has neaday would not be the prosporous institutions the feet at the present day. There esemed (

THE Singapore Free Press of last Saturday saye :--Mr T. W. Brown, the representative of the syndicate which has purchased Raub, is now arranging to return to Australia vid Hongkongs

and for that purpose he will loare by the Ganyes probably on

been much steamship. Orion, from Trieste, &c, liked during his stay here, and alike for bis left Bingapore for this port on July 29, interests and there of the Poningin, we and may be expected hote on or about are glad to believe tint Raub is likely to the 4th inst

become a „considerable gold-yielding The Cleo Line steatoship Gleneagles, from trick. The results achieved from the speci. Londos, loft Bingapore on the 30th monte of quartz brought down have been, July, and aiay be expected here as we all know, very remarkable, and before or about the 5th icek, kereta any: considerable operationsĵuend, bo com- The E. & A. Co.'s steamer denmuir leftmenced, the way to Raub will be opened Port Darwin on 27th July, and may be by a good cart road from Kuala Lumpur, expected here on ut about the 5th while before the operations can assume Inst

any msguitude the Selangor railway will The Ben Lice steamer Benlarig, from Lan- I be advanced about twenty miles further,

don, left Singapore on the 31st July, may be expected hero on or about the 6th lost The O.: 8. 8. Ca's, sin. Diomed, from Liverpool, loft Bingapore ou let inst and may be expected here on or about the 7th inst.* The Japan, from Oalentta, left. Sin. gapore on the 3rd inst, and guy be

or about the 9th expected hore inst,

and

The P. &.0. Co.'s, extra steamer Nizans left Bombay for Singapore sud this port on the 26th July,

THE steamer Ela, which according to the London and China Depress, is intended to run on the Upper Yangice, is really coming out, we hear, to run between Shanghai and Haukow in connection with the Whaun, The mosquito Deat is increasing so fast that the big companies will wake up again soon and make things lively all round. The Ella is, we believe, a steamer of 443 tone net register, 107.5 by 25.3 by 11.5, of 75 thing in 1870, and formerly running he- nominal brae-power, built at Inverkei-

tween London Bud Rotterdam. Messrs S. C. Farnham & Co. recently launched a mild steal, twin scrow.stuxmer, 220 ft. long by 30 ft. beam, for the Yangtze trade and she

belongs to the same owners as the Pachua and is called the Pasthing. Still another steamer for the flanka-Shanghai trade is being built.-N.-C. Daily Neris..

Mr Ya Sui Wan then asked the Chair- nun if the insurance covered any of the traffic?·

For Chairman-For additions to the

Mr. Dadwall-What about the new capital) that has been raised inre we going to utilice that for new steamers or leave it in the safe i

The Chairman-t way any thant & vory.

The Chairman said no, only the bulls Mr. Ya Sui Wan asked what the insur ance had to do with the traffle in that case considerable portion of it has boots in

The Chairman replied that the owners vested at good rates of interest and ar. of the traffic effected insuratico for thom-rangements are golug on favourbly where- selves, but what he referred to was the loss by we hope to have the greater portion of trades

invested befors long.

Me F. Dadwell proposed that the election of Mours L. Poosnacker, Poon Pong and Lea Sing as directors be confirmed.

Mr Ya Sui Wan seconded and the mo- tion was carried.

Mr Dodwell thought that on the face of these figures they might very fairly insure their own doet. The experience of the past twenty-five years showed them that it would be the proper conrea Ho knew that some of them were interested in insurance companies he was no himself but ho

Mr F. Henderson proposed that Hon. P. Ryrie and Mr F. A. domes be re-elected directors.

Mr G. E. Lefavour seconded and the round ought all that should be put aside, tion was carried,

On the motion of the Chairman, ascended

That the peculiar smell which characterises go much of the drinking water at the Peak is an odour in the wrong place, whatever may be advanced by apologists to explain it away.

That z ocrtain amount of pollution meat find its way into the water and the air. wherever building operations are carried on, under existing conditions, That the untive workmen, carrying coolics, and even the contenoters themselves have not yos begun to comprehend the simplest notions of eldanlinesa.. while thế merɛnt rudintents of the solouce of health-preser- vation havo never even found a place in their dreams.

That the covenants in a lease of land in Hougkong are the wonder of all beholders, and the bligations of the lessor (the Crown), which are or should be relatively berry, ought to be carried out, That I have been anxiously looking for the advent of our old friend the Spoonbill. which was expected in the noighbourhood- of Paider's Wharf and the Hongkong Bank, but no far the Dredger is, like the proverbial Policeman, nowhere. That coolies are still a

engaged acraping, ahovelling and paddling around the shore and of Pedder's Wharf, That the promised Stock Exobango, liko tha Dumping Experiments, seems to hang

fire,

That the Brokers are calmly awaiting for ther acpositions of the law on share com tracts, and the Dampers are slow to

dump during the typhoon season, That the possible effects of a tidal wave upon the matter proposed to be dumped

near Yan-mah-ti have never besa fally considered,

That the British flag still continues to hold they had to deal with thero was its own in the carrying trade in thes the Steamboat Co. alone.

Waters,

nently fifty per cent of the rea Bin Tak Fans motion being put to the

On Mr Benderson's sondront and Mrsale coming here being under the cla ebsign, as against nineteen per rent, un- meeting, the motion was carried by a large der foreign flags, the hybrid junk trado majority.

accounting for the balance. That your somewhat depressing alusian

Aldrich & Woodward; To Deum, will be ready is about a month. She say that oven now at this late period I tho company was held thereafter, when to the lack of expansiveness in the ton

ORDER OF CHORAL SERVICE AT ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL--TrH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY, Mation Venito, Cool Fazima, Moak,

Loarsin F; Jubilato, Elvey; Anthom, Rejoice in the Lord'; Kyrie, Sang ster Hymn Offertory, 309 (Parts I & II) Evonaong Poalms, Goss &o, & Hopkins; Magnificat, Battishill; Nanc Dimittis, Monk; Hymas, 285, 32.

Du Doberok writes to day :-The typhoon has moved North-westward on, the main land and aqually weather may be expected in the Yellow Box.

MESSES David Samoon, Sons & Co.'s s. s. Japan, with mails from Calcutta, left Sin- gapore to-day, and may be expected here on or about the 10th instant

Messta Melchors & Co. inform us that the

The Anglo-Saxon city of Dresden; in which the English and American tongues are almost as woll understood as the German, is enjte just now. The loyal Saxons have very right to hold an histórival fête; for they have a long and cruditable, though not alwaye glorious, history to look bark upon.

by Me Ht. Ismail, Mt A: O'D Gardin and Dir F. Henderson were re-elected auditor, The Chairman-Gentlenea, the business of the meeting is gone through and gone. through very,

satisfactorily. Imould. only An extraordinary general menting of shall be happy to hear anything that is to the following special resolutions were be said by any of the shareholders regard-passed ing the prospects or the management of the Company. I think here is little fault to be found with the report. Going back that every shareholder should feel satis again to it I may say I think it is report fied with. I have only now to intimatu that the dividend warrants will be issued on Tuesday, Monday being a bank. lioliday. Mr Siu Tak Fan-What would be the sum of money spent by the Company in insurance

1.--That the Curapany may from time to

time reduco its Capital. 2-That the words four thousand shares

bo eliminated from Article No. 20 of the present Articles of Association, and that, } in lieu thereof there be inserted the words eight thousand share," The Chairman intim sted, that there wou'd be s

meeting

fortnight to cou firm these resolutions, and thanked the chorohoidors for their attendanes, ~

TOE BRITISH BOLDIER AND HIS "BOOZE.

It is carioca to reflect how near Susuny has The Chairman-I should say that is a

voral times ban to obtaining that app-very dificult question to answer. roniaoy over Germany which eventually Mr Sin Tak Tan-How much have wa fell to her rival Brandenburg. If there spent annually had been Hohenzollerus at Dresden instead

Wong Hang, who keeps the dan Yuen The Chairman-Something like that, but of the amiable, but not very vigorous, cace what might wo not have lost? We all comprador's store in Queen's Bond Fat, which has ruled thers for night centuries,know that it is the business of every busilice Court to-day charged with selling in- was brought before Mr Pollock in the Po Saxony might have been what Prussia, has

neas ran to lesson his risk as much as taxisting liquor off besome. However, the Saxons, if

premis. Dalen-

evídance was board :-

they

page returns for last year may be calco- Iated to mislead. That although booms in local stocks barely deserve to cover Hongkong with a reputation for prosperous business, it must be borne in mind, that, trado gou- erally was dull during last year. That the Barbour-master's idea of a Ge- verument Emigration Wharf is a sensi. ble suggestion, although it is sure to be

the opposed on

score of expense and and then where Can the wharf be conveniently? That the abuses of which 'Bounty Jumpers

are guilty may well be left and thieves but of consideration, more attention be turned in the direction of the middle- men, who lead the emigrant into expensse

Bud

ADDITIONAL AMERICAN TELE- GRAMS:

That it is to be regretted, at the sama tíma, if daring pirate chiefs find a safu shelter in Hongkong from the result of their crimes, as your Canton acrrespondent (o-day. Bays they do.

That the Hongkong dotootivos are said to know where this reden Kozings is to be found, but that the great Viceroy of the Two Kwang does not move for his reuditing.

That so lang na the constituted authorities of China, in many out-of-the-way places, are found to wink so hard ut lawlesscas. so long will lawlessness orfes and lawless men go fro

That the great wall of bribery and corrup. tia which encircles the odicial life of Chins must be removed are any lasting raform can be acomplished in the Middle Kingdom

That the fatuous, patching, policy of Chi. neseofficialdan, in spite of warnings to the contrary, will contine to be followed at the Yellow River banks, and the poor people will go on sufforing until the off- dials become honest.

That with honesty will come onfighton. mont, and then security, peace and pouty may follow in their train. That the story of the Tablets presentail, in honour of the aid given by Foreignori ve the suffering population, by the Viceroy of the Two Klang, reads strangely in the light of

the new catastrophu. That the manifount charity of the West will be thrown away if no bottor results are shown than those.

That the loan to the Chinese of a capable Western engineer would be of Laura por

manent benefit than the donations from London's Lund Mayor.

That

DAVITE ON THE STAND. Landon, July 2Mobil Davitt was examined bofora the Farnell Commission Davitt stated that while in America he attended meetings of the inn-as Gual, at which he explained the objects of the Land League, and tried to win the Clan-i-l ita support. The Clus-na-Gael, he said, included some of the best Irishmen in America. It was no more a tuurier club There was no alliance between tho Clas-na- than was the Carlton Club of London. Gael and the league in Ireland The teagoo

movement in America won the support of all the Irish in America to Par

all. The witness said he himself wan ppused to the use of dynamite, because it on immoral and unmanly style of war- fare. He was not opposed to physical force, if in rorting therite there was a reasonable chance of success"Ster

su

In referenco to the Phenix Park mur ders, Divict said Parnell came to me on the Sunday following the day of the mardors, utterly broken down at the newa, He auid, Davitt, I shall send my resigna tion to Cork-to-night. I refuse to stay in s movement when irresponsible men of whions we know nothing coque eind vur backs ant

perpstrate such deeda.? **It took all my ienes, said the witness, to dis suade him from resigning. We immediate- y had circulated throughout Ireland & manifesto condemning the murdera. There was absolutely no ground for the muggon- tion that 1

or any of iuy colleagues wera in any way privy to the oriïnes. Sullivan since 1876, and had the highest Davitt said he had known Alexander

apinions of his ability as a lawyer, his cha racter as a citizen and his honour as a man, tie did not believe his capable of any die-

sourable act

t

your morning contemporary dealt vory fairly with the ill-natured attack made on Bir F. Storrs Tusuer by the Shanghai morning journal.

Ho beloved that the outrages were due to That Mr Turner,

the was Secretary for e agitation of local agrarian budies, com- the Lord Mayor's Fund, and gave some posed principally of sons pistonant farmors. three or one months gratuitous hard The witness was glad there was a prospect work to the cause, is especially we fitted of the agitation cousing. He disliked agita-.

daw up a report on the Fami, and. tion and would will

willingly abandon it to ought to have been commoded rather marrow if he saw some justice dose to Ire than censured for his courteous and con.and fle could not abandon it otherwise. cise request for information from those

Davits continued Beyond stating pub- in' China

fely in New York in July, 1893, bat That some men write articles in haste of a severed my connection with the re-

which they repent at leisure.

volutionary body, I expressed no dissent of BROWNIE,

the Fanisng. I did not attend any testing of the Clan-na-Gel after 1880. I bolieva that the murders were committed by ment bors of the Clan-na-Gael, but. the perpetra-

AMOY.

July 23rd.

It is currently reported that a well. and hold him under obligation for years.koown member of this .comsousity is That the persistent extortions of the gang og tiating with Governor Liauf Fuzes

on

I

the certainly did not have the sanction of o governing body nor the approval of ite leaders.

The witness continuing, said that

in a letter which he wrote he dead the word

Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Preisen, have not risen to be a great people. Bible, otherwise there would be no Laur- dant denied the charge, and the following Mist Government cony rest assured that the mines have not paid exponges, so the Go-roster?

have ance.

Countable O'Brien said—About 9.20 p.m.

for

Dasitt-I cannot my without possibly injuring a man who greatly wronged to.

Presiding Justice Hannet said that the Court respected the motive for the winges ruticence, but child not recognize it as an excuse for not answering

Davitt thereupon said that the man to

and wished to murder him. The witziga whom the letter was written had conceived a batred of anther member of the league wrote. to him appearing to sanction the act he ineditated, but really to gain tims until estimated that 59 he could write to twa superior officers and

10. service at 91 Peter's Seaman's Church, | HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO agree with it, and he ventured to say that Court." I knew that this place was placed That, referring to the storage of explosives, tona a day could be got out under good ask them to dissuade the weza from carrying..

returning about 12.30.

STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

of mat-ten on board form another real obtain a concession for twenty years to pen,' seating revolver. He declt od to

emigrants, and those harpies work the Kelang coal mines. Under the say to whom the letter was addressed. ought to be ruthlessly suppressed. bad management of Chang Total the

Attorney-General-Was it Arthur For-

vernor is only too wiling to get rid of this active co-operation of British agents aud Shipmasters will be forthcoming whon white elephant but it is not in his power any well-considered scheme to control to graus a conession to foreign capitalists emigration is proposed.

without reference to Peking where the That at the same time it would be beyond conservative authorities may foolishly put all reason to expect overworked Masters spoke into this wheel of pregrosa. The and Officers to take any native part in situation of the mines is good, and under That the success or failure of any scheme said to have brez sunk in plant." Only prosecutions while their vessel is being able rangement, they might be made to despatched.

yield good dividend. About $170,000° is

will depend upon the amount of inter- two shafts are in working order, and put ference with legitimato trade which it out about 10 tuns' a day. Another shaft

is being bored; and may involve. I have heard it stated that Chinese coruannguraent, A party of promoters has out his purpose. The expression used in signees find it cheaper and more conve- just returned frota visiting Kalung.

the letter was: Whoever is employed do niunt to store their explosives in Maras We bour that Ohang Tautai has been not let him use the pen we have been asing.

The witress wcols to two and bring them over in sufall quantitica made director of the railway in course of as required.

saperior officers from Twatutis to Keluag about the matter. He could not toll their construction That the F. & 0. Company have ant a good Having been so auccessful with the maines, Hames. Ditband that the dear friend to

example î

a lactor in which the Company's prosperity due to their exec. best man to try his protica hand in mak-word pou tive, than whown thats is no Guer bodying the railways a facial and engineering and he appealed to bi to divulge his name.

AUCCOKS. Thu resalt will probably be the

NEWS FILOM GERMANY." at Goal Harbour complete

Bismarck's lettore July 6-Prince to the Gernian Minister at Berne, pub- July 26th.

lished in the Reichanzeiger of Thursday, have been the prende to generat Sutery neutrality of Switzerland. The letter says that Switzerland continties to permit mvoin- tioniata to threaten the internal pease and

carrying the Gorman mails with dates from The chief item of Monday's festivities was opinion, Mr. Chairman, as to the inadvis on the 1st inst. I went to the defondants played their part valiantly as a small one. Mr Pocanooker-I quite endura your Berlin to the 9th July, left Singapore to the equestrian féce representing the bility of our becoming entirely our use shop, 34 fasen's Road Bust. I ato f day at noon, and may be exported here on liberation of Vienna from, the Turks insurers If we had toa or fifteen vessels the road in front of the shop and beckoned Wednesday, the 7th inst

two centuries ago. It was carried out it would be good

followed at policy and with the usual artistic coupleteness home by many shipping firass, but with dressed in the 4. and S. Highlanders uni

at to one of the defendant's servante which the

I wai Germaans the DIVINE SARVION FOR SEAMEN.-On Sunday and the Italians throw into their historical steners it would be running a very hazard form. The servant caine ont and I asked: Belgians, only. four or

or ve very good and very costly morning, between 0 and 10.30 o'clock, the processions and celebrations, and which we ous risk. I am strongly against it as it which I gave him forty couts. He brought

him to bring me a battle

of whisky, stean launch carrying the Bethel flag will in this country have never succeded in don't consider it sound policy in our cass, call alongside any vessel hoisting code compusing-St. James's Budget.

Mr Sin Tak Fan said, however weighty Police Constable Fife, who was dressed in ma a bottle of liquor, and I took it away,

pensant U., to convey men ashore to I

and impressiva the opinion of the Chiran

1 brought might be, he must confous that he could not the same way, was along with me. 1

It is now in the liquor to the station. vory radical raform should be made their financial affairs.

out of bounde by Major Chater ou 17th He thought the June. He was under the belief that the Mesens Adamson, Bell and Co. inform us The forty-sixth half-yearly meeting of time was come when they should make defendant was still guiling liquor and this

this Company was held this afternoon, this change. The that the Tea ex Ozusdian Pacific atramer

docking of periodical Abyssinia was delivered in New York on There were present: Hon. P. Ryrie, Chair-their steamers for repair under the rag tires for the purpose of trying if he was

monta of a

a local ordinance placed the off the prom Fife gave corroborative evid. doing so. I charge biwi with selling liquer 31st ult. The same Company's stencathipan; Mesace E. E. Balilios, F. A. Gemas, steamers as a first class risk, and they ran

Constable Poon Pung, Les Sing (directors,) F. Hen very much less risk that the owners Fort Fairy, from Vancouver, arrived at Yokohama on the 1st, instant, and left yas daroon, A. Yockney, F. Dodwell, D. Me not subject to an overhaul of this naturosid On the 17th June an order was

guing vessele, because seagoing vessels were

Sergeant. Lawrie,

A&S Eighlandere, men sfiout. terday for Nagasaki and this port.

Oalloch, G. B, Lefavour, EJ. Moses, It was the custom with many shipping.com|lished by Major Chater that the Man That it would be a good thing for share. sain as N. J. Gomer, A. T. E. da Silva, A. Soares,panies to underwrite their own vessels, and shop in Queen's Road East was placed out **According to reports received in Shanghai H. Ismail, O. A. Ozorio, Ya Sui Wau, hand they were surely in a position to take shop that night and informed the poople with the large capital this company had in of bounds from that date. I went to the it would appear that the damage to the Wong Fuk, Chan Kwan, Tung Wye, Poon the risk of underwriting beir own steamers, that the shop was out of bounds. A great Haifong was aut so slight as was at frat Hou, Chow Hing Ki, Woo On, Chun Chai, bocause he was informed that for every doal of drink was sold to the men from this reported. The NL Daily News saya that Wong Ping La, and Sui Tak Fan.

vessel of the fleat underwritten

by the

them shop. they had money hand equal to the valuv her forohold up to tão bulkhead abafo the The Chairman said-Gentlemen, you of two of them. Had thisy done this all on the strest he ought to have been arrest The defendant said if anybody cold drink foremast was full of water, the mainhold

along there would certainly have been ad and char, ed, but he did not see what and rest of the ship being dry.

great saving to the company, and even if they adopted this plan they would are ed that he had been previously envicted that had to do with his shop, He admitt THE Governor of the Straits Settlement

about $30,009 par annum. He need I hard.

of selling drink to be consumed on the

to a custo

tomer.

have had the report before you now for some time; therefore it is not ne cessary for me to read it I have but

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www.ence.

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little to say about the report, because ly mention that fires on board stuamera

Yogu

recognizing the share of the the Governor spqrs to think he is the whom s now in America®

Mr. C. Vincent Bwith of your port is

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Berlin,

holders in other shipping concerns if the failure. example thus aet were followed and some efforts

were made to show that the men of our Mercantile Marine are not regard-here on a visit, and he may have come bare by the soul-official press, menacing the ed as mere machines but that their effuris merely as a relief from your summer, for are recognized and appreciated

our climate here. is perfect; lovely sea breeze all day long, thermometer about 8 tionia That whether or not our training ships ste

now beinuing to prove their valus as fucus at night On the other houd, he

at midday, and a blanket by no means supersecurity of the German Empire. Tho paracries for skilled seamen, is not easy

powers will be asked to consider Sariak An exchange of communica to any but I am still convinced that the may be here m referonos to the Keling coal neutrality. officere of our Mercantile Marine sto blesse, Russell and O are to be the being adopted by the Austrian and Italian wines, of which it is now reported that clone has resulted in an identical policy even yet head and shoulder above ali

concessionnaires. It is also said that Cap Governments, to compel Switzerland to their competitors.

lain Farrow has resigned the commostid of comply with the demands of Bismarck for more, and the old road to the Peak is sgain given up to the streams of exrryinger of the anes; but this yux are to take the appointment of a new Procureur coolics.

merely as a rumour. The future lessors of General at Berne indicates a desire ou the the maston could not find a better man than part of the Bundearath to amend hillside whore the former alipogenized,

ese de

witnessed a rather interesting game off report is a good one the fewer words were of rare occurrence, so that they had premised, ba! said that was only a present at the Tramway is running merrily once the R.C. Ling Fing, and is to be tae inuria-te revision of the laws affecting rongeum.

cricket at Penang last week. The match between eleven ladies and eleven gentlemen, the latter left-handed and with broomsticks instead of bats. The gentle man won easily.

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His Worship found the charge prevod and imposed a line of 850 with the altera tive of three months' hard labour,

Mr Wilkinson after cods applied to hi. That I do not quite like the look of the Farrow for the post, and sailors are always in the direction of Prince Bigmaza das Worship on behalf of the defendant for rebearing of the case. He said the defend.

and many people think it would be good pining for shore berths, and when they get sites. exercise for the convicts if they were set the wishing they wereatses again.-N. O. to work to remove some of the surplus aily News debris masaed there and construct a clear permanent water-course. before further. slides become possible.

tremely feable or a very special Provi

listy.

that are used regarding it the botter. I am not much to apprehend from that direction quite sure that every shareholder in autis- lied with this report. It shows, gentlemen, that the company

ir Sin Tak Fany maintained that they of which you are proprie tors is a profitable one, and I certainly were of rare gogorrence. They might hope and trust that our prosperity will cau- bave occasionally typhoons raging on these tinne; I certainly believe so, that this is a sheros, but the observatory Kowloon was

aut had been under the impression that he Ir appears that the stabbing case reported wing oncurs and that trade will go on always on the alert, and timely notios.

staaddy increasing and that the earnings overtaken in a typhoon and there would be about what he was actually charged

woald prevent their steamere feing licence, and know absolutely

WAN charged with selling drink without yesterday, in which the victim- is a tailor of the bad thach you all require; that good enough line for their stealers to lake He had questioned his fokis about the mat. Tant either French gunpowder must be ex

nothing residing in Ui Un Lane, was of ever a more in the dividend and bonus, is the highest shelter in the most safe corter in the har- audacious character than it saamad at first that has ever been paid, I think. It is of bour. If they were to make this change some

harter and they had all stated their ignomues accidents might happen which no human his Worship to see the

in regard to it. deposena na sub- was attacked, but in the public through. at once time and a lesser dividend at an-

other vill be satisfactory

are should take the consequences with the share- fate. A doth was thrown over his face to holders. My own impression is that we fortitude and in the long run they should of a good deal of argument. It was a ques

Manly

to be absolutely correct. tho case admitted prevent him from seeing his assailants. It should strive to declare a dividend from considerably gain by the change. The tion fer argument whether selling liquor in

Hongkong, half year to half year that will be pretty

Canton and Macho waters were:

The dividend will

boell

allowed:

by

TIENTSIN.

dence indeed watches over French das, yellow and thick with mud os it can well that pothing will disturb the exist.

The tailor was not inside his shop when he cursus quastion whether a high dividend skill could parent, but he thought thesmitted that oran admitting that evidence That those supposed-to-be sanguinary en from the Hun Ho, or Muddy River, whicking sympathic of Catholic Bishops at ·

counters in which they engage generally

in proportion to its size is quite as mucis of

shed,

is impossible that the assolt could have equal. We have, you 980, a fund for now so well known that he felt confident way which had been described was sell That Mossieurs Klobukowsky (Frenob Con-water of the Grand Catini, said to come. Cologne and other places.The Bishopa

and swapi away.

past ere

to

don't wish to be a great deal of the income hitherto expended

the words,

conso of

trifle

Пан

To-night advices from Berne show that the Government is alive to the possibilities of the situation. The Bundesrath has Con elude to negotiate a loan of 20,000,000 18th July.

marks, to provide rifles for the army. A syndicate of bankers, headed by the Na The river is pouring out with a rapid tional Bank of Switzerland, will font the current, a large volume of water about as loau. Apart from official circles, German feeling leads toward Switzerland, and is and flow readily. This comes principally

pass over without any unseemly blood- a pest as the Yellow River itself. A few Fulda, fixed for August 6th, precedes the

The conference days since there was a slight increase in the Contrist Electoral Congress at Munich, taken place in a busy street in broad day- that purpose, but circumstances inighs arise that if their Captains continued to do their ing it off the premises in the zeal

al, Yokohama) and Parreuu inat, fought, from the Yellow River. With it there were will reconsider the general poleg of the and parted without even farting each light without a number of people witnessing when that fund might have to be used daty Death; and faithfoils and carefully His Worship said Mr Wilkinson might

oller's

feslings,

quantities of large fish, of a peculiar variety party toward the Government on the eve of 2. But there was no attempt to interfere fearful of bad tinies coming, indeed I am ininsurance woåld be saved in futore. Tak. aaore he had not decided the case without with the gang. · Na doubt tho bystandorn | quite the other way, and I think that suching the whole matter into their consideration (iving it a great deal of consideration. That the financial position of Korea is a that the fishermen's neta had their strength ristsand the Government have been disturbed. and very large. So abundant were they elections. The relations between the Cent weak, bot tha

raport, that a comwell teatad in biting the numbers inclosed position of forty-five cents in the dollar out of the water, and boys and mee were Episcopal appointments. The leaders of

Prince by

Bismarck's interference with dividenda as we have been paying for years apd with the reasons he had given saw that there were two or three difficult realizing the power of the guild deemed it

points of law involved, and very important thought the shareholders. present would

has been offered, is incorrect. safest to take no notice of what was going most creditable to the company,res with him that they should give up the points, and he thought, if Mr Wilkinson

Aren catching them in their hands in the the Centre party are alive to the fact that That the wished these points to be argued the only

gentleman who drow attention to stream, so thick were they. This was near while the Catholica have a on, as they afterwards would consider it the working of the steamers aut the

in general

You will see that we insurance, and he proposed that they

the youthful smoker of cigarettes in a the junction of the canal with the Poito give it

course that was at all desirable was to

have a Dumerical best for their owa interests to pretend to bare ordered new steamer, and we bave up.

Ferambulator in

in Robinson Road did & They are thought to fiзys- come from they in a number of distriors: the mino The Chairman in reply said with re- Mr. Wilkinson said he was instructed to That many people give cirgarettes an un

appeal against the decision, hope that she will fulfil all the ex-

holde the well-meaning, kindly not the police that they knew nothing about pectatious of the builders and of ourmalves. gard to the condition of resele, he do that it a

representation. The strikes are waning, was refured. rohearing will the matter. In several recent cases of a ho

boo great acquisition

had bean chairman of an insurance com the Macio

Hi Worship said he thought that was

antidote against the excessive growth stresser was enough to send a large ing the strikers to yield. In similar kind not only did people, who had, and will take passengers to that pleas. Pany for many years and he had always the best course, then gave notice of appeal; That cigarettes are found to answer better River, which forms its extension as far as pointed to inquiry into niners strikes has From which young children autfer instream of water through the made canal maono resimed work on Wedsus The

(containing Jocks, and ordinarily but little painters have appointed Me Wilkinson.

water), across country and into the Wei meat the masters. than gin, and afford more amusement to Tientsin. the children..

The cereals give promise of a fine yield pred that the Government's terms are Skikarees, describing their this fall if the rains do not cause flooding Gazette aaye Bismarck approves of the for- 0.07

favorable to the men. The North Geralan exploits in the Field (no pun intended), of the low lauds and their consequent, nati nof gigantis coal depots, from which, dispisy an amount of modesty quite destruction. The average of the wheat in case of necessity, manufactu abacut frote Mr Henry Norman's tiger yield was alightly below halt a crep

manufacturera' could all the sufforing frora famine in differout be supplied.

The seizure DF Potora discretion, if not modesty, in delaying northern part of Shuttag brought us so Count Ferberi Biowarek

· attempt to provide efficient drairage for That that gentleman lowed considorable piris, and some of it as neur is as

steamer Near 124 been the subject of communications Do- It is remarkable publication until after his departure.

between the Emin Relief Committee and that the

winter and spring That doubles the entire statement is influx of famine atrickon people. A fox asked the Government to protest against

The

committee truth undefiled, butetill thoauthor might come during the winter, but not enough to porbags have wavered av'to details under i make any impression. There is a class of action of the English Admiral but Grogs-Baamination.

of Count Herbert de hed. The Cologne whose Guzele salusis the legality of aeisure onder Chiness in Frochow beam to have pie gio infest the so sweepangs of blockade, but denounces the rust motivé of ....

ant resort over them in a very fauch found that their heaviest lossen wara on

soon the assaults committed refuse to give shorter than than we have been in the first olas voazela. Then with respect to and his Worship asid that on the usual habit of doing, and we hope that she will the warnings of approaching gales-from the

will

evidence for the prosecution, but the terzo mkaa guod trade for horself. She Government astronother but perhane happiestion in writing being made ha would of the guild was sufficient to prevent even be finished in November. I now come to a was not aware that this was the subject off atate a case.

Ita correspondence between the Chamber of

the vietings themselves from saying a word very important paragraph in the reports Commerce and the Government the im

steamers. I may as well tell you at once,

FRAGRANT WATERS MURMUR

against that dreaded institution, which lives is with regard to the ins CELICO our state of

perfectness of the communication in regard on blackmail enforced by means of the gentlemen, that I am decidedly opposed to toe approach of gales shopper and the knife. These people the proposal that we should be our own savings, as he had said before the That ape of the commonest errors is to

would

Aa

·losses,

bhese bavings firmly believe that the guild may do what insurers, think it is bad business. In might be armed into heavy business of view it is

Thare

not be the thousands of

a town after the town is built or after it it likes, and that all the protestion the with the small feet to have to our Insurance companies in the world if it has grown to unwieldy dimensions. police can give them against it in useless. Te own insurers. Had we tranty or thirty were a matter of certainty. They did not That the drainage of the City of Victoria need hardly be said that they are quite right vessels, yes, I would be in levour of it, but worth to time the mount thay paid in knowwhat time they might be called on to our fleet is too small, and moreover, with the exception

in this. The position which guilds enjoy

of

one

e or two, the vessels of insurance and auder these circumstances

the company ecet a good deal of money, and ha still objected to doing away with the

insurance, of their flust,

motion.....

in this Colony enables them to laugh at the police. If blackmail is refused, when we were to loss one or two of them.Me Belitios conded Mr Sin Tak Pan's which is quite possible, the interests of the abaraholders wuzid he very seriously de maged. It is not only the loss in dollars

Mr. Henderson said he would venture we have to think about, because on losing to make a suggestion which he thought one of

steamers, biob are built for a might be desirable and which would lead special purpose, the loss of Leafs we would in time to their becoming the underwriters

cur in the meantins has got to be of their entire foot quite agreed hape has not struck some of yon gentle present it would be a very risky bualiosa thought of Tant is a point which per the Chairman and Mr Pusanneker that at man, I say distinctly that in my opin to undertake this, but it might to ap

demanded, one or other of the two favourite waapuuus is brouglit latu requisition. In the fur cues where the victims have dared to complain to the police the dulosity of get ting eridanos mala confiations almost hopeless, and the same difficulty is met in the passent lontanoS,

our

has been disgracefully neglected by the authorities; honoo the sacrmous outlay now talked of and the bitter discussions as

to the wisest manner of expanding the amply

money-m

That the residents on the Peak are

Justified in their protest against a repeti- tion of this blunder, by the effects already apparent on the heights of Mount Keilet and neighbourhood.

That it is the imperative duty of the Ge

vernment, in return for the price charged for land, to provide a uyatom of drainage

Chius

That the

yarn.

Yellow River. This would indicate that that

the band.

Exci

[away a peck or mure ola

With

The

ma-

fore

3000

3000

Committee to

The Commission ap-

carry

three

of the Auglo-African Lake Companies.

That

the taken the Piper o Dumbarton to their living mainly comes from the bosoms in the most friendly manner,

eargo of rice stored on the That doubtless they sined a mild foks at hind on reaiorel It is no common in one ocial interests, band leaves a coudsiderable leakage beizure, and adds that the expedition is the departing Banker when they referred

and is intended to interfere with the trade hing to see sae of these to bis Sterling worth That it should be impossible in Hongkong quarter of which le

quod rice, for Chinese or others to poison our sol when cleaned. When opportunity diers and sailors with forty-cent stuff they beg, adding not a little to their mess and noises in the head of 43 years' TO THE DEATA Person cured of Deaf- called brandy, escing that we have a swing in this way, but they are Publie Auslyat, and all the necessary beggars in the true sense, nor are they deser pun of it free to auy Person who Bot standing by a simple remedy, will send a machinery in the form of ordinances), really in need. They get more during the applies to Nicholson, 21, Bedford &quarey and a Police Force to set it in motion. reason than many who are engaged in London, W. O., England,

offere