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·No. 8684.-NOVEMBER 16, 1890,1

Maasha Adamson, Ball' &, G., inform us The Governor of Formoss's troubles ADD that the steamer Badnorshire luft Singapura yesterday afternoon, the 14th instant, and is de hore about the 20th instant.

Sr. Peter's Stamén's Chunen. —The Mis- sion Bream Jaunch Dayspring will call alongside vessała luisting Code Ponant bolwcon: 0 aud. 10.30. a.m, on Sunday, to

convey men gehoro ta the 1 o'clock ser vica Roturning about 12.30,

not yet over. We hear that he has been or dered to Peking for audience Poor Láu is carininly not to be envied of the honour. - Shanghar er

ni fercury

Actress Shoal at noon on Saturday last. At that hour she had a line ont over the bow to keep her from getting farther on the shoal, and an anchor was put sstoru to bear hor off with when the tide rose, Lator on in the day she came off and proceeded up rivor.-N..U. Daily News

THE CHINA MAIL

FRAGRANT WATERS 'MURMUR. That our Coremor and Lady Des Voeux will be here in time to eat their Christmas dinner in the Colony."

every sense, it must be admitted that one can never toll what particular view

be may hold it.

ten

bis orius. Ar hp ha

under the

pecially in houses, whore there are large made which he had to superviss. He had the bath, the washing out of the kitchen by the fact that he had never had black familiar

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monstrictions with regard to the disposal and servants quarters, the cleansing of the wall levied on him by the soldiers, in of the soil removed in nonnection with the premises generally, incloed overy, depart-sentenced That the Water Authority seems to have a excavationt. Elis duties did not ax cudmont of a dwelling house, with its smaller have his head uxposed, at the Boutio of decapitation and in addition folal dier gard for publie conveniences beyond the cxcavations He was at the spot girdon, and fären, havo all, per força beichle by drowning himsuli in the river.

about

hour bufers the wall fail. Holoft alone, with results as falou s-septotics will be carried o half at

already committod Tus Glengarry was still on shore on the That while wishing His Excellency well in That I was afraid from the first that he had previously observed early filed up to

Smudlu cone up vid the kitchen sink from

by would como to grief on the rock of within seven feet of the top of the wall the Government newer (by the way I think inglis ecrpes to bu

bu disembered, and the supercilious indifference to the public. He judged then were forty tons of earth Me Cooper is the drainsman as well as the hend

stuck

up on a pond and he may take of any subject, or how longwant, and he seems to to bumping now ground sloped down towards the wall it should help each other but don't soar to second of the above provisions to be stren

rusting ngalist the watt.

The hospital waterman of the Glony, two lation which

Four others are: rathor bayily.

292 | question." "The pile of earth

tractor was tait

tainted than it would therwi-o be the usual sum of respite, on aconitat of the That there in little fault to find with his That, master what Mr Chadwick says about feet in height. The rative contractor was so so) thus making the chop or stede foro gled, and that immediately, instead of after his abilities, he is a round peg ia a square The Grst the witness. saw the contractor plehy this, want water? „Answer) lawless furecity of their crim. Two of

wore the work wat •being supervised Now

Mr Cooper. Is it filter bada? Is it their number hate howover already died bole and won't fit by any moans, and, on the works was on the day after the negligence? Is it loskage of the aqueduct prison, Four others are liable as acous what is more, never will fit, unless Sir accident. He told the contractor's forus it too mucli drainuga on the brain i Is itaorios to 100 blows and purpotual banish William Des Voeux puts him through man to be careful about the way in which anything that can be remedied 1 Or in it most to a distance of 3000 which dressing mill,

hd put the earth near the wall. Ho told that the Guvernment Obief Couper does not punishment is for the many reason increased bin to keep it as far away front the wall as know his hit incis ? Coopers to supposed to the atmost extent allowed by the law.

i sufficient to the strongest ndusini: possible. About eight daya after the oom to bow all about casks how to make them by imposing of them a sentence of 10 stration

cho

· weakness—and of the way in which wire That no one can gainsay the good attempted moncmont of the oxer.valions witness first to hold water, and also how to make a long blows and perpetual basistinent to

instructed the contract to keep the p

cat. It does not look trono frontists L hole to let the way the Colony's work in] (i Tau tgmus 119 | Laccomplished by the Sanitary Board, of earth 38 near, to is read as possible.id at present does Euow his business, the smuggwar4 -

w distance of sif the one who i

fully 4,100 how

though fully aware of That we all hope the Sanitary Board, dos. He did so because he saw that the mon

carried. by the villagers. pite official hindraders will go on and were piling it up against the wall. The I weep--and regret the waste of Watory and of the nets of extortion practised by tho prespor, and that it will soon energe from excavations were commenced on the 20th but hope my plaints.and teas will move preventive ofcors, yet failed to make any its present

chrysalis form into the fall it. It TYX9 witness's duty to visit

thinganing. Elydraulic pressure is power report thereof to the authorities, is liable life of a m

a

works at

In Acheen, the enemy keep on a heavy fire on the detached forta from vantage points in the neighbouring villages, and invariably return thither as mischievous as ever after having been driven out by sholl fire. They pro-approach the foris through trenches, and display marvellous activity in these harsan ing trelice.

Tuz Shanghai Mercury of 10th inst. says:--- The damage to the steamier Toonan in her recent collision with the Weichnis proceed on her voyage to Bwatow and bably has left Nanchong by this.

The Batavin Nienblad says that the Netherlands Iudia Stems Navigation Com- pany intends to run its ton remaining stenmure in competition with those of the Packet Navigation Co. on the Java Coast. At presant, large quantities of produce have long to await shipment there so Eu rope from lack of forwarding facilition. This state of things invites competition which the moreantils public there will heartily welcome.

An English mining engineer named J. W. James has undertale coal prespecting at Tanisario in Java, and has suck shafts and ran galleries for the purposo. So far the coal found has proved to be of first class quality-the coal being a clear dry coal- and from the tilted position of the seams in the parent satidatene they (the senis) have been subject to a very high pressure.

Dx Fisbig, a Government Medioal Offer in Java, has brought out a work on beri teri based on extensive research; in which he comes to the conclusion that the disonse passing by that name. is very common. among the native populations of the Indian Archipelago, and is not limited to soldiers, autors, and prisoners who are said to he predisposed to it from loading compulsorily.

confined kind of life.

It would be a very good thing for the sleaners navigating the Yangtzo if the naval authoritica world read a gunboat up to make a survey at Dore Point, about 50 miles below Kiukiang. There are only four fathoms of water in the channel now, and the river has to fall 26 fent. It is pro-a hable that there is a deeper channel, and a

locum tenens, who has striven hard to do he best and has shown himself very anxious to satisfy the wishes of the public

a

That his weakest point has been his inexhat an obstructionist like Mr Cooper in

perience of the Colony-an unavoidable

palling goes on bera

That the Acting Colonial Secretary has

therefore had a good deal to say, That Mr Doano is ais official of the old

dama

19

school who has done us good service in That, the Unicipality.blishment of After Joast once a day, which he did; ut, ut a dry stream is not worth 4 ander the law relating to impropriety of

his time, but he lacks suavity and is too anxiouuly bent on flooring his antagon-

That this sort of combativeness was all vety well in the Sanitary Board, but something else is required in the Logis lative Council.

That there has boon enough of talk now

about the Estimates and the manner of considering there, and it is time to settlo down to work.

gunboat would probably find it, while there Vray popular, in the prohibition towns That I am confident the unofficial mombers

is plenty of aport there for the oficere in the intervals of surveying.-N.-C. Daily Neus.

Ar a meeting of creditiors of the cntato of 8. Kripe, held at the Austro-Hungarian Consulate-Ucneral on Monday last, it was stated that the debtor's books had arrived in

Shanghai from Japan, but they were kept in such an irregular manner as to be unia- | telligiblo except in the light of explanations by the debtor himself, whia is at prasent in the hospital. A committee was appointed by the rooting, and the appointment of Mr H. Kniffer as liquidator was -confirmed,

of America, is the article known as the Ko ank camera, which holds a quart. When man, armed with one of these instruments, asks a friend if he would like to be taken, he avor receives (30 we road) a negative, He airply presses a button, and the friend. does the rest. An ingenious people, the Americans..

THE JUBILEE OF THE COLONY.

PUBLIC MEETING.

A public meeting, convened by Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Police Magistrate, on the requisition of Bon. C. P. Chatar sud Mr Thomas Jackson, was held at the City A TELEGRAM WAS FOCHived in Shanghai on Hail to-day for the purpose of appointing a Tuesday by the China Merchants S. N. Ooy, from Obeloa, stating that Capt. committee to consider what steps should be Clifford of the s.a. Kungpai had been killed taken to celebrato the Jabiloo of the by some accident, the particulaes of which Colony. Those was a large and repro-

not given, and that he was batted in Chefoo cometery yesterday, after an in-outative gathering." quiry bad been hold the Consul, The

by deceased, who was a Norwegian, had been in commod of the Kungpai for the past two years or so, and was very much re- spacted by his employers. He was unmar- ried and about 40 years of age.

AFU

On the motion of Mr J., J. Francis, Q., Sir James Russell, Chief Justice, took the chair.

The Chairman said-Gentlemen, feet highly honored in being asked to preside at this meatior, which has been convened, an you are aware, for the pur- pose of taking into consideration whether

The settlement of too many Chiness in the interior of Java does not find favoar with the Government, which lays restriction on their inflow. The Surabaya Courant, in dealing there should be any celebration of the with this subject, saya that Chinese intro

Colony's Jubilee. Notices have appeared duce the consumption of opium wherever

s foothold inland, to the im

the imia the papere convening the meeting, and I they gain s poverishment of the poorer classes. Chiunderstand that the first thing to be done- none money-loading also works untold mis-

is to nominate a committes who will take chief am

among the poor,

have to pay who such high intercet in consequence that ruin into consideration what form the calebra and misery befall almost all of them when once they take to borrowing. The result is growing insecurity and orite among this class of people.

pact

will prepare a very valuable report, on - which there will doubtless be an inter- enting public discussion when the Coun cil goes into comrolites. That the leader-writer in your moraing contemporary, whoever he is, has fairly lost his head, and the unofficial members must have laughed at his cavings this marning:

That there is every change of there being a more thorough discussion of the astí- mates this year than thero has evor yot

beou.

героги on tho

786 AVE

dha

the instrations

proviously given tho contractor no

no further order Yours, I the thus of the falling of the wall he Wha abiding Had he thought

DHU WAS

his dating earth in a dat |

stop

public laundrica aro practical documents. 86

we should proceed cau- That it ia wall that we

and tentatively, as tionaly

as there are many mall difficulties in the way. That the fact of the difficultier being of an

apparently trivial obaracter by no means gerous position he could bayo lessons the work of the Board, na small pod him. The works were inspected sbetrtations are often groster hindrances from time to time by Mr Chatham. Re than big ones.

called at the worka ab ut twice a wook. That before

ofore expcading & luge sum on after witness had specially ordered the

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ROBINSON ROAD.

ONE-MAN POWER ÖVER THE

WATER-WORKS.

To the litur of the Cura MAIL

Hongkong, 15th Nov., 1993. Sne,The high-handed way in which the

conduct, to 8 blows, which poliment he vacapes howevor in virtue of the count act of umaesty.Rescript Let the Hoard of " Punishments report hercon immu diulety.

THE NEW AIR SHIP." Chicago, 4th Octobor- syndicate

and Apericnus has been in Englishmen

filed a

its land for overal days: aud to-day cortiliente of incory ration of an 8:30,000,000

Ite feasibility has been fully demonstrat ed aud immenso works will he at; once erupted, and the building of airships and

it might be well to see what contractor's foreman to be careful to keople of this Bity are treated by some of ent eat bo effected by the the ear arrey froine SER, MI Chut the Government officials is simply disgrace { aerial ship company, with a crpital of. gradual but arm enforcement of sanitary ham called there and instrueled "hin In so other town or city in the world by-laws, in which direction nothing has (sitres) to cos that the earth was not piled would auch treatment be tolerated, and it Fet boon.

boen June.

againat "the wall. That was about a week before the collapse of the wall. Witness Town Oslony gurur of be governed by

Celený government Five days ago the district surrounding the Robinson Hond and Terraces had their water supply cut off in nato-the-dovit kind of

That compulsion in some form or other will

be necessary. That if sucecasful the Board will earn the praue of all goud men now bankering after the hand-waid of godliness. That public wash-houses were spokon of first by Govomor Hennezay, although then the water supply was far enough

distant..

That the task is so much simpler. That the Chinese lick creation in producing an approximation of cleanliness from sur- roundings of gamitigated filth." That Cricket is the ascendant.

That the triangular duel at Singapore ought

to produce some good

play That the brilliant suore of 208 on our own

ground was really vell Dunn.

Tery That Mr Ackroyd has gunu been swelling

forth on dinga's

a'ganitary.

By the 1

A.

the

cars begun.

The Bret will be ready inside of sixty as it will be perfectly controlable, and with it the trip around the world as be

Mr Chatham's order not to a partly get would E the Administrator safety, speed and comfyrt, and is so, porfact many times two make four, and their That I do not like his pompous style, bat it not more than ten foot in height. There wim Efts valet were to tell cray of two nion. I as

of carts against the wall aben: half an hour before the wall full and he thought it was perfectly safe. There was no inspection of the wall before the earth

I way, no notice helup giron or ay made in five days, was piled up against it. After the accidens infurization as to where a water supply us wituces saw that the wall was so badly to be had. For the last three days I have

WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE, constructed that it would have fallen wil been getting whist water we on from the description of the proposed airship

push.

proper inspection of

Nallah running through Glenundy, where bes beis obtained in as definito terus na wali would have revealed that before id accident. Superficially. It looked all right are so suppor

the designers are willing at presens to pur- TheGovernment are

in the habit of issuing it. Alanenim is to be the chief material By Mr Hastings (through the la

Ala stupid notices about the Miltary firm need in the construction. This metal is gistrate) Of my own knowledgo I cannot their big guns. Those are abilely of no roinarkably strong ud light and by a new Public Works Department visited the place great importance to the Rats-payors of the it cau be made surp

ay that any superior officer from the

use to any one. Yet notices that would be of

process, and to be owned by thu compu within a week before the

surprisingly cheap. accident

knowing. Wonder what H.

The claim is made at the ship combines 3 might lave Callou without my Duluny are neglected.

on walking into his bath room to be under the absolute too near the wall was given about thres he i

control C no water and his veeka before the accident. The heap was

is shaped much like 'no'gos waler

the hull of a ordinary qua vasol. It has It mast well as net in the memory of many as un sither side and extending the entire sinyself the argument that took place long large winga arranged, so as to at a meeting of th

the Sanitary Board as to into a parachute in case of accident, and st who should on the water authority. Now, the coraces

of theso we are fouling the intolerabic naizance of lee whests, unabling the s

wings there uro propel

ship to be raised One-man Power.

of lowered at will, A large propuller whool at the bow gives the ship power vitaus to go backward or forward, for steering horizontally. Just in the rear Abrve the buoyancy chamber is a rudder

of this is a smaller who to stear either to the right or left. The cabin or car" is suspended immediately boost this frame- work, and beneath this are the storage batteries, which ainst og tillba

That the unofficial members know how

desire for a special committee is based on rpason, not on a love of aperecy,

That a special committee need not be a

hole-and-corner, secret, private sitting, with the doors closed and the venetians fastened.

That I hope by next year this so-called special committee will be the regular

Finance Committee, about the publicity of whose proceedings there need. be no

doubt.

That the discussion, if it has not had any other good effect, brought out an smphatic declaration on the part of the Acting Governor in favour of publicity mob as we have not been accustomed to hear from the official side, and it will be well to tak note of it.

tion-if you agree that there should be some celebration ought to take. I un- derstand that Mr Wodehouse has underThat it might not be a bad thing if the un- takon io act, at all events in the prolimin officials courted defeat oftener than they do, in ceder to emphasize the small modicum of popular representation wo ровнева

Tmn Straits Time of 5th inst, saysWithary stages, as Hon. Secretary. (Applause.) reference to the challenge thrown out to I would suggest that any gentlemen whe Hongkong to a four-cared race, to take placo during the visit of the intercolonial have any communications or any sugges. cricket and tennis teams towards the latter tions as to the form which the celebration

of December, a letter was received yesterday from the Hon. Secretary of the should take should communicatoTM their Hongkong Recreation Club, which stated idea to the Hon. Seeretary. A date is that Hongkong could not at present get mentioned up to which communications together the crew they wished to send dows, and although the matter was practi.should be lodged-all communications cally unsettled,

That, nevertheless, ons may sympathies.

with them if they have an objection to freqtent pulverisztión,

That Mater Tammas, the new member, is

well.

should be lodged with the Secretary That the search for knowledge me never of sending down a four in Dazember. Nothing was mentioned about the sculling head of this month, so that as soon as

поре

boen so activo.

must be admitted there is a good don! of sogad truth in what he said. That this qualification, however, mast bo unde--that the non-enforcement of the provisions with regard to overcrowding was not due to the safeguards in the clazzo, as he tried to make out, but to the Government, which, after the usual fashion, considered everything had been done” when an urdinanca had been pass That they now propose to throw their work

ed.

on the Sanitary Board. That perhaps the safeguard rasy now be dispensed with, as the people have some confidence that the Board will not go to work raably

That my cook has made a hash of Mr

Ball's book already. That I ordered kisses and did not gat

them.

That the whole theory and practice of Chi-

was from a foot to eighteen inches of earth sgainst the wall I did not inspect it particularly I know to the top of the wall. It is feant use up observa- tion since the accident that I

I speak

I did not report to my superior officers that there was eighteen inches of worth against the wall. I did not know before the accident whether there was eighteen inches or six inchos or a foot. I did not consider there 1:19 any danger. At the time Mr Cintas gave the instructions referred to was touching

I have no doubt the barth was the foot of the wall. When the earth went in its natural slope to the foot of the wall I did not think there was the slightest danger, or would there have been with a properly contructed wall. The lower heap of earth which caused the wall to fall was there three weeks before the as- eident but it was added to about a week before before the accident.

It may be alsolutely necessary to cut off the water for certain repas. the man in power should have politeross But surely enough to treat the rato-payors with come sort of consideration.

G. T. H.

PREVENTIVE OFFICERS BURNT TU DEATH BY VILLAGERS IN KIANGSU

RESULTS OF TRIAL..

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ELECTRICITY USED."

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In front of the car is a place for the pilot, who is provided with levers for switch- ing the electric appliances, to rudder and propellers, De

being controlled by electrif city.

The Governor of Kingne roperly the result of the trial of a number of villsgera The inventers say the chief secret in the bat who, as earlier report in the pages minua. In addition to this, all the bel-nging to the Fong district est Shang-Berial navigation problem has beon alu- of the Gatelle, in March 889 attacked machinery of an entirely new design and

death a party of

of soldiers,

14 in of the lightest weight possible. It le niso to the salt administration sereaid that in order to cause the ship to fall or

and burnt

CH government is summed up in the said-I visited the scene of these Thanets of the case were as foller to be lost control of at all the rudders wh

.course."

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wings and tile bac

# choo, for

Challonge, and therefore it may be inferred possible after the lat of January next * \hat I have no doubt when the Council/ That in face of the refusal to permit a low-level of the Civü Hospɛal Ground close on of to levy, blackmail on the in the simplest and 10,085, practical matter in

fore which the committee's decision will be

that Rongkong will send down a sculley, if resting of subscribora may be called bo they can manage a four. With regard to Colombo, up to the present nothing fresh is known.

Tax crales of the steamer Glanggi to Colebes

laid for approval. Of course there must be some subscriptions

vele suhominious whatever form the

Ton

in search of gold has led to important political results. Sovaril Britons and an will be for the comioittes Arah voyaged in her for the purpose of so nominate to lay before a public mast curing mining tonecasions from certain chiefs in Tomini Bay, who owe allegiance ng what they think should be the to the Netherlands India

foria of the colebration. If any gentle Government, Afterwards, one of these Britons left for man is propaced to nominate a committes Australia with specimens of gold ore Celebes, with the intention of starting a

now, that will be the order of butines.

Mr T. Jackson-I think it is generally the gold deposits in the pany to

The Resident of Mense, then inter considerad desirable to oleh rata the Jubilee sad prevailed upon the foreigners to of the colony. It is a colony which has apply to the Governor General of Nather made a grost naise for itself all over the lands India for his sanction to the bosses world, and although we occasionally hit of them being in the name of the upon bad days I believe there are bright sions, one

with days yet in store for ne (Applause.) I would

tion of land on Tomini Bay between the stions or

von the stions or anything of

to

Arab, Sech Ali bin Achmad-culty/deprecate the spending of money on hum

the son of the Rajah of Sigi, for

goes in committee on the Estimates, Mr Chater will give the needful explanation about the lowering of Queen's Road.

That. I am now laying in a store of the That the story of the Teungli Yamen and from what I sa butore the accident what

patience you rocommand.

By the Magistrate-In unable to any the Peking races well illustrates the chatho height of earth against the wall was, racteristics of the Chinese

I did not consider i my duty to

Akcertain Jamps Campbelt Bucker, Major, RE.. all,

ent vice. following words, and so the co-aw yesterday. The wall is of blus briok, 14 Hungmiso and other places along the const wie wont on until at last the Stewards wrote inches thick and about 11 or 18 ft. high in the above-namos distret, being much anty chamber must all bresk it

the propoiler Wings, that there were 5,000 police in Peking, above the basement of the houses in front, frequented by smugglers, the villagers had any one of these would keep it and they only required five of them, It is about 8 de 83 fuot above the surfees of arranged a system of mutual protection, But even if they should do so, the suspended. intimating at the same time that the races the Civil Hospital Ground. The bricks apnder which on an alarm of the rea hoing automaatia

formed instantly by parachute, would proceed, police or no police, and pear to be of good quality; the mortar is ramo, goigs wero to Le bestes, and very the wings, would allow the ship tu descend then the Yamen graciously yielded and inferior, but on the whole 1-should call it one living in the neighbourhood was to gently to the ostth, and co special cars with caused its fire meu to be sent to the up of about 6) ft. in length, where the buing & salt-producing locality may of the this happen in miducesu, it would, dont on wall of the Colony. There is turn out, and cing to the rescue. This ha made for crossing the ocean, eran should undoubtedly boaring bis part bravely and That fondiga diplomatists, and particularly will has been carried away, carrying with villagers combing with their other ocupa touching the water

Sir John Walsham, would do well to is a portion of a pile of earth which had tous that of

drying at

aalt, and thore is con-

OBSTACLES OVERCOME study the lesson-therein containal. That there is talk of a Chinese bus syndition of the pile of earth I should say it is as amaging and which the soldiers the been heaped behind it. Frem an inspec-séquently a considerable amount of petty

When it is first presented to you," said the highest part about 20 and close to salt administration had frequently taken seems simply impossible, but it is really

the a circumstance which the soldiers of the one of the projectors, W. O. Thewey, i

level tramway I don't see how Govern the wall. The top of the heap is about Advantage ment can, with consistency, pornit busses fifteen feet from the line of the wait, but habitats, Early on the morning of the the world. The inventors and the members to Budanger the lives and limbs of the taking the existing slope I calculate that 12th March, 1889, a party of 14

of the provertice

coúpour have just every obstaclo lieges, but then Government is not there must have been at the highest puut elicers belonging to the Salt. Department suggested by the few to whom they hava always consistent.

about four or four and a half feet of earthward panaing by Hangmise when they spied revented their plans with the most conving That it is a matter which needs a good deal That the ubiquitous riekelin will probably against this wall. The length to which earth orkusp of gait lying at the door of and of log proofs, When it was dosided to go ta compete to advantage with anything de- was piled against the wall must death they funded and kaucked at the door, but ings, and that the first alip for travel bare the buses. Asanoring it to be contraband, work at once on the donstruction of build pendent on equine powers in this culony. been at least

thirty

foot.

depth That I ani glad to see road-waking at Kow-That it would have beon moro economical of the collapse of the wel was the attention of carrying of the salt, but uffered proper tion and development. But thesa That the revision of the ordine ces has been world vary, the maximum depth being the owner was out, and his wife replied should be completed and in Chicago willid

somewhat expensive job.

4 ft. or 4 ft. 6 in. In my opinion the canso that there was the one at home. The sixty days, there were those who anid

soldiers thereupon announced their in- such things could Json is progressing.

could only come if a full-paid Attorney General had of the earth behind it. I could form no arrived sooner.

opinion as to what

Suspecting young it was shown had already buen i spent. consider the place them to be thieves the woman went to tho Hundreds of part y nosofal attempts being slowly filled up, but no one seems unsuitable for the deposit of earth. It is berdour and gave the pre-arranged signal hive been wade in the same direction, and

think,

taking the silt out of the only an ordinary boundary wall and not a aby Bounding a gong. Whilst the

soldiers the reasons why until to-day it has never odusi for this

purpose.

retaining wall The slope of the ground were removing the salt to their boats, the been succesfully socomplished wore that- That the reel practices for the St Andrew's the wall rendered it all the more villagers began to come up, and a force slectricity had not reached a high

Ball have commenced and the first was

to the tendenor which fight conted. The soldiers were speedily perfection, and aluminum--the only possi well attended.

the earth would have to slip. I should say putnumbered, and were soon all stretched ble material for construction was but

senseless on the

in the ground, but in conficiantly cheap or well enough understood, fall is not designed to carry firm ruot that the time has gone by for Such

impossible" to Matters equally stupendous vers publio practices, for November has come weight of fourth behind it.

say whom the blows had Deon to be devoted to reel practising in almost By Mr Tookut, of the P. W. D., (through | Whilst this was the pos every

why had been St. Louis for Mount Carmel within twa gunpowder is apparently the pile of earth would weigh per cubic previously arrested

suldiers

Fa months and will then code to Chicago, foot; I am therefore unable to say what trumped-up charge of smugging, and left where the man and a few invited guests will by projected shot against the wall. In

IF WOCA

were constracting a

villagera ont for assistance. One of the vill the Pacifio Cudat.” wall of 11-iach brick

and n question I went on board to release him. 300-

ing the uniforms and flags lying in

in the inferior and the joints were open.

looking into before any decision is arrived at.

That Tsim-tea-teul and Banghom are at

The

last to be connected by a good road, the That the pond within the Race Course is given way ärsi, of the wall had to allow her to redeem it.

construction of which has just begun at the Dock end of the line.

That for this boon the Kowloonites as, I ballove, indebted in some measure to the

Pelmato oving

.

advuser of certain medical gentleman That the Scotch dances have taken auch about 30 tons of earth fell with the walls of the melos It was Tararnok, aberrod at a few years ago, yet are now in

9.

Pord and Tambarara zivers. The Bevident bear su sporld in 10th pre- That good roads are of the first eventThis is reported

from. Tai-was the exact weight of earth resting to up in one of the boats, began to shanty to se a day's passion for a stip, probably to

house in the Colong, the Magistrate)-F dov't know how much man named Buch upon of fairs, ordinary daily use The first car will leva

whop while on an errand of mercy, in the Peninsula, nearly sank in the mud. : of that kind (Boar adrised against the confirmation of this far that the

memorial should concession on the ground that the Nether- cake

more lasting and useful ladde India Gorgrament bas no direct form 1 bag to

propose the ap these pointment of the following committee Controlling powers in the territories of these

Kell

(chairman)

Boa. S

and hence that it would be iners Bir James M. Deane, Hon. Ba Kai, pedient to allow foreigners to settle there. Brown, Hon. The Government took the same view, and Hon, J. J. Keswick, Hon. N. G. Mitchell

refused to sanction the concession. The Inges,

H. E. Wodehouse, C.M.; Mossre

HDB. P.Ryrie, Hon.

Hon. T. H. Whitehood,

G. de Champeaux,

Fischief,

of civilisation and that in Hongkong we are far behind in this matter. That what the Surveyor General does with

explosive.

nativo by

a very

That sa

ping, killing a at a distance of thirty li. a distance considerably beyond the range

the large sum gearly voted for roads That thirty litis equal to about ten miles. Fhould see it was better built, The mort button of the bust, discovered for the first RELIGIOUS SERVIORS

passes my comprehension.

That outside Victoria there is scarcely a

road or which a vehicle can n

of

not-aza what por-centage of lime was in it.

he

Bajd

that

Jon's

The cementing material consisted Tast in three of the extraordinary China kives of abad tie tere very tired to a great time that, the supposed, pirates were really. JORK'S CAMPURAL-Parade Servic Governor of Oelebes has in consequbaceo.ali Davies, V. Deacon, P. That soins day there may arise a Governor That there are too many fis about this alte-l bricks are very porous and the cement serious proportions, and, if the wunion at the 11 o'clock service on the

is running America very hard...

boen charged to make treaties" with the. chiefs near Tomini Bay, and bring them. under the thumb of Government

Daalla, N. J. Ede, M. D.. Forbes, J. J Francle, QC, D. Gillies, L. Glénat, O. D. Hara,

Ho Anei, C In consequence of the scarcity of rice in Boon, Li Bhing. Lo rok Pi

H. Heppius, J. Humphreys, Bant Java, heavy importations of this grain | T. have taken place at Surabaya, and, by last Mackintosh, H. N. Mehta, 8.0. adrio, bona 800,000 pioals of the article son, N. Mody Foesmeoker were in store there with several shiploads more on the way,

on the way, 64ob Large quantities SABOR, G. hava arrived, that storage room cate only Wieler Wei bo esoared with great dificulty and at a

Pong, W. H.

who will understand that more may be done to facilitate the spread of the popo lation and provide recreation by structing a good road round the island than by the many fanciful schomes now, in favour

Michael Poon Capt. Ramsey

DR. J. Y, V Varuon, That there comes to the Punjom Company Wong Bon, Sec Hoa,

from all sides the advice to adopt a Mic- awber policy

ard of E. WoW M6 Tetary; ho

C. F. Charter,

Largs outlay of money, Store rent has in This is a vary: Larga pu

consequence risen in some cases from 175

· {Ap-

zittes

to 200 guildersmooth. The market in and some may think it aurorkable, but we That something did finally turn op for Mie-

Bald

to be

be glutted, yel several have refused fair offer and mean to their stocks in bopea of

together,

tes all know the dimezity thara is in syndicates

to keep people

that they

a of increasing dearth in will be a the interior. Many Chiness, speculators

rang

te in getting However, I think thia

this

the row had

had already 4th Sundays) Matine at 1. Holy Com ing material being mostly mid mixed with affair come to the fwledge of the military 1st, 3rd, and th Sunday in the mouth, amendment of

of the law to provide mater the bricks would absorb the water, if officials, they

would b

time of it. Evensong at 6,30. for the punishment of the adulteration of they were laid dry, and leave the

ave the cementing He accordingly suggested that the best

UNION CHURCH-Minitor Rev. G. H That to make the action of the law surer

food is 4 a step in the right direction. material very friable.

thing they could do valer the craumstances Bondfield Services at 11.00 4.1. and His Worship said be thought it was would be to burn the boats and the woldions P. Temporary meeting place, Theatre. withi regard

to milk it would be well la necessary to have the evidence of the io

in them, and no remove

move all: traces of the City Hall. dafine what the minimun quality of milk

General, and as he could not at ccenzrence. By so doing they could at the is, as there are

MEDY standards.

tend at that time the inquiry must be Baine time avenge themselves on

Sr. PUTKE'S BEAVER'U UBUROH, Sailors That the year of jubilee is at hand and it again adjourned. He was unable to day for the many acts of oxtortion-they had Home Service on Sunday, at 11 a M. má is to be hoped it will bring a return of when the inquiry would be resumed, but suffered at their hands. All present agreed 6F.M. Thursday, a 6-2. The Holy prosperity.

the date would be intimated to the jury.

to this, and leaving

their number twenty of

Communion is administered on the Second to keep watch, a party of, over thirty First and Third Sundays, at xocN; on the BROWNIE

Sanday in the month at 7.30 on the villagers tried the sunaoless soldiers to

cawber and way also for the Punjomers, THE CIVIL HOSPITAL WALL CASE. Mr Wodehouse resumed the inquiry at quite close to the concession and may be the Magistracy to-day into the circum- found on it some fine day,

Committee and That gold is being found at several points}

*Jucation tho

there he had been carding grain bhat roughly and lay bete ocalon plans,

Forthy

媳

of occasion. (Applause.)

met with disappointment owing to the glut The calculations bied on short stocks of food in the interior have proved misleadings The Chairman I should think the com awing to • pleatiful crop of

of tapines making mities, although sta comprehenaivo up for

hd a very the

price of poor ons of

hays power to add to ite rice has fallen at Bombays but the rates, cumter, lest some names may have been left demanded remisin ane higie thst LOOKS

detriment of the wards. wished to add after-

one ought to

More

which

other

stances connected with the death of Bu Wong, tinsmith, aged 18, who was killed

couraging to the present shareholders,

CORRESPONDENCE, WATER

To the Editer of the CHINA MAIL," '

1. Hoogkong, 15th Nov. 1890, S15-As private appeals to the Water Authority (Mr Cooper to wit) appear to run off his back much in the same way

the

on the soldiers

the boats, which they dragged in the mouth. of the

and there set them.

on fre Having burnt the beate and oscrything

Case.

Fourth Sunday, at Evening Service.

West Point

EL JORETE'S CHURCH, Gardel Rad. 9AM.nd Sermon, 3.30 . Ever then, they threw the remains into the sesing Service, BenedictionT in order to destro

of destroy all

all vestiges of their GERMAN BETHESDA CHATEL-Bervice in crimpe

The facte having come

me to the knowledge German language, by Rev. F. Hartminu of the authorities, several arrests were every Sunday, at balf-past ten &.k, in the of Mr 6 H. Grace 8600nded the motion. That to wait and hope may not seen by the fall of a wall at the Civil Hospital the proverbial water sage of the back off made, and after the usual hearinge la the Chapel of the Berlin Foundling House,

lower parts the case came before memp and more particularly, so those who paid grounds on the 33th it. The jury were the proverbial duok, I pred to attamp:rialist for final revision. The following are

co be. Messrs I. E. Dalby, T. J. Remedios and so much of publicity beny of your

inds the lapios da way eitrect the Toties of H E.

provisions of the law applies gambling prices for their share buty, à Remedios, CA Administrator Oace bright to his attend to the presente there is nothing else for it.

atten murder of three persons, not

* For the meni bars of The following evidence was given -

sure my complaint alone family, the P is immediate BACMETTE DA M hotham s gests in store. At that port, the din of Uyiha Chairman, was, part, to si sevsing Tant there has been more strong language and usate of the new bo la

Ewill be The motion, with the addendum angest That Mr Cooper in again in evidence,

be looked Charles Miranda, foreman, P. W. D. Now the complainant deponathasonerive sin affray in the course of which an

decapitation.(2)

several pereGas Do and unanimously carried the to the article being aloted t The Chaumen-I think there is nothing used in the Western upper levels within retaining wall at the Goverument Civil that he called upon to pay the Govers.mdividual is killed, the person who in THEEMCHETTE—9 4.2 N near the apgine room.

Most of the milk farther to do than to nejspry this meeting co, and the ring die. It will facilitate matters very much presented a ball

appres is mportera intend to claim

aid con- if those people who have suggestions to Sequence from the insurance companies con- make would consider them pretty fully care Should it end in lawant, the before they make thom, and send lacus in Court will have s didkult question to desi on in early date to the Fion, Secretary with

The meeting then terminated.

tion,

with

difficulty to that

Alexander in a damaged condi-

too

Temperature Taken at Messrs Falconer de Co.'s

Premises, Queen's Beach)

30:11 30.04

4

hous holder on

on

licked the Lovereat ment taxes, not omitting water rates; that strangled after the natal period of confine

blow or wound the last few days than there has bean for Hospital, in course of construction. The although his house is connected with the most. Those not actually taking part in it many a long month That to have the water suddenly cat oft, the supervision of the P. W., D. Withzer quently, even in the ralny sexson, bo potual banishment to a distance of 3000 %.*** work was being done by a contractor under Pokfulam Water Supply, he has very fre shall be punished with 100 blows and per- wikkous nolios, in a very serious la- I was the supervisor. Before the retaining that for the last few days be has not been Under the first of these provisions, one

supplied at the most irregular intervals,

couveutamme, if not a grave danger, ex- wall was begun emtain excavations were supplied at all, and that in consequenon of the criminals, whose cine in aggravated

shall be

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