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No. 9202.--JULY 30, 1892.).

A LARGE conflagration coonrrod in the dla triok of Dalambi, (Philippines) on the 22nd July, when between 200 and 200 houses were burned down, No Heos wore lost, but the value of the property destroyed is con- 'alderablo.

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THE CHINA MAIL

That the Commission appointed to inquire info this matter Ed ample examples of cuitable combinations. That even now a few mombore of the large staff could in their bush moments ring the chuages better-egy dram and core, cone and drag, two-dones as a diamond,

THE TYPHOON AT HAIPHONG. Captain Wendt, of the German steamet Chasan, has supplied us with partientars of the typhoon which passed Hu over Haiphong on the 28th July.. intended esiling that morning, but about A Yonksuze paper did a very smart por-

10 a.. rain began to fall heavily, acoom- formanco with its evening adition on the 24th at Mr Balfour finished his speech panied by a strong galo from the N.N.W., at the Leeds Coliveam of ten minutes to and as the barometer began to fall be nine. Half-an-hour afterwards, while Medeemed it prudent to remain in the Jackson was speaking, a copy of the paper

The glass continued to fall'steadily was handed to Me Balfour containing a

minimuma frani 29.50 to 28.90, the verbatim report of his spavali.

being reached about 3 p.m. tha gulu developed Tas Shanghai Mercury says that steamers time coming from the North report that the navigation of the Paiho has almost been typhoon, wearing from F.N. W. to 5.5.E. That our safety is about insured when there is something dangling at the yard-nemə rendered impossible by the volume and it was not till 5 p.m. that the wind

of the signalling stations any other art of the fresh thay your in slackened down ficiently to allow the

casualties have already enbarquerice, the chief one being the cap. Chuan to weigh sachor and ateams downtime, look out

tiser.

That I would recommend the Doutor to look at the Hooghly River signale for storms, and take the leaf out and work on it-- *kappy man, if you can."-

At this That is dungerous to be safe is, the icto д typhoon Benson.

THE PENJOM GOLD COMPANY, LIMITED.

340

1010 of stoping done

Gold wea

941 ounces 4 dwt- Number of Tons of Quartz extreated 1195

This return is at the very eatiefmotory rate of 16 det. 18 gra. of free gild per tou of quartz.

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pressure brought to bear on the home Mr Wodehouse said-I shall not call upon they are more likely to obtain the and in The view is quits wrong. In what I hure ald the prizezer to make his defense, markets by the Société des Mutauo.

complainant who brings the original chargé I have no desire to make any reflection on

Mesara Heater, Louis and Co. send the That it as impossible for any length of bas rated his statement so much from time your institution. Lammerely dealing with

It may perhaps rare of public interest to The whole from the prisoner's point of view. lol net time to artikully bolster up the value of to time that it is impossible for me to attach this particular cas, and I am dealing with it following letter to the Singapore papore ony metal, so that we soon so the ener. credibility to what he asye.

case bears the appearance of the com- defended and is therefore entitled to all that know how much work a been done by the mous gold heards are thrown into circula-plainant having voluntarily come down can be said in his favour and to the dis-sboro Company at their Jalis Mine during tion, which will probably be in the early Hongkong on the premise that encrepancies in the complainnet's story. The the past half year. The results from Janis autumn, we may expect to see a big rise ployment would be found for him there result has been that, wherese. I think wary 1st to nas 30th are as follow:

by the prisoner, and of his having changed that if the matter had been brought for Number of foot of lovele driveni in the value of the dollar and rupee, his roind upon the arrival of the steamer ward in the ordinary, and simple way in That should ilver become so depreciated as and finding it was possible that he was which is ought to have been and the going to be kidnapped and sent abroad. complainant left to tell his story as it to be utterly unreliable as a sírenieting Had he made that statement in the actually occurred, a conviction gould car medium, ked there not being suloient box in all probability the prisoner would tainly have been obtained; as it is thick But I am bound the prisoner has not been proved guilty have been convicted." gold to most the world's requirements, u

to teks his evidence on he givos it, and and he is discharged. If he chooses to give me somo other storf, substitute would have to be found. able Japanese alloys known as Shakude segare the conviction of the defendant, but That it has been suggested that the valu- which he thinks is better salonlated to and Shibuichi could be usefully employed which is at free, the defendant must get the benefit of it. This is an ordinary cass for this purposer -------

of a man being brought into the colony That there are objections to the use of these whether for an improper purpose or not is alloys for coinage purposes, mink not in question now-and its alles interest That Jatn Shermon seams determined to ties in the part that has been taken in it by the Po Loneg Kuk. In what I am going to 'settis the silver hash' and at the same time that of bis own confiding party, but sus pos I have not the least intention of I shall be greatly mistaken if he does not saying anything against the motives by which that sovibly is notuated, nor against find on gaining the silver platform a for-the organisation of the scists. I confine midable opponent in Senator Stewart.

And I am That the Hongkong Government have myself entirely to this caso,

from the issue of subsidiary coinage pour hind is a very disagreeable gne. Toonsider corsions, and that as opposition may be been written of the mineral wealth of evidently sacrificed the revenue derived sorry to say that the impression left on my foreigu inde, and catablish aeroral con-ily opportune at the present tims, S

that the notion of the soiety has been alexpuetod on the part of the natives the Pahang, and

sizing of the Taka Tug and Lighter Com the river. The glass thon rose slowly, but That when the halford of the South or the objections could be overcome.

pany's tug Gem, and the loss of throu lives.

North sone gets jammed, it should not take three days to out them adrift and Iand the black 'un.'

That as long as our present Director of

Storms ignores the warnings from Manila, ho will assuredly tend to mislead the shipping community of this port.

encoureyer les autres.

The prisoner thereupon left the dock.

In addition there have been shipped 2 Lone & owt of soncentrated pyrites for treatment in England, the last parcel of which realised in Lenton at the rate of £40 atg. per too.

HUNAN AND THE FOREIGNERS. The Kinking correspondent of the V- Datty Atus writesWe have the pert The above resulte.cannot but be looked a French and a United States gunonas; upon as proving the intrinsic value of this theme have come to topico the Petre wh uh mine, having regned to the enormous diffi has gone on in Hankow, where we hear she culties under which work has haute be will spend the summer. The continous carried on prescoco of gaabcale of variona mati no!

The Free Press anys: The letter of fitios cause the nitives to talk, and to wonder what all mouns. There is Mesra Becher, Louis & Co., malling ate current conversation that the foreigners tention to the results of the last six months. intend to open the provide of Busan towering at the Panjom Mines is particular-

comparatively so little

That the vagaries of the local Observatory That the poor, hard-up, impecunious broker together irregular, and I may say that in gunboats are here for the protection of bean dogo with it, that there is a strong.

become more puzzling than need be, when we are intermed, 'The Typhoon his done me and so, and the particular storm is not specified.

gale was blowing from the S... till midnight. Throughout the day rain fell so Me MeMillan, vaforred to in a recont issue heavily that it was at times impossible to of the Timss of 4 cylon as going to enter the Buddhist priesthood, is taking a preliminare thirty yards away from the steamer. ary course of instructions under Suman- The Chnson was the only trading steamer gala, the chief priest of the Buddhists, pre-in the Harbour at the time. There were paratory to his entering the order. His ordination ceremony is likely to take duce two gueboats and a transport, however, and He will after steam was kept up on board these vessels to in about a couple of months,

In the whole of some few years' study in Ceylon proceed to the West to preach Buddhism under the meet uy emergency.

Caplain Wond's experience in the Chica Ses auspices of the Theosophical Society.

he has not heard of a typhoon travelling in BISKOT Edward Bickerstoth, of Japan, has the same direction-from N. N. W. to addressed a pastoral letter to his clergy, in s. S. E.-as that of the 26th. He doesThat which he says that the spiritual wants of

Japan and of not know the extent of the damage done at English people who reside the continually increasing number of travel- Haiphong, but before coming down the lers who spend a longer or shorter time river be notized the roofs of two houses there seem row as adequately provided for as circumstances will adnit. The returns being carried away. Coming up to Hong show a steady increase in the whole number Long there was a heavy sea from 8. 8. E.

The staff of of Japanese church members. crgy has slightly increased, the total being new fifty, of whom thirteen are Japanese. The English ley workers number thirty- seven, of whom thirty-twe are ladies.

DURING the cruise last year of the Aleut, a schooner attached to the Russian Siberian flotilla, the officers of that vessoi landed on Bohrlog's Island in sea sh of the grave of the discoverer of those Straits. The bones of Bebring and his compasions in misfortune were found buried beneath a simple cairn of rough stonos carelessly piled. The offi- cers resolved to replace the cairn by a mora worthy mamurisl, and on their return to Vladivostock a collection was ast on foot Among the officer of the Siberian squadron, with the result that a handsome and durable granlle tombstone, surmounted by an iron cross, kas now been completed. The memo. rial will be transported from Vladivostook and placed over the lonely grave on Behring's Jaland next month.

I WOULD mention a fact in conrection with aberry, writes the British Coneal at Cadiz, which may interest passurgera by mail steamers. Some time ago a friend and myself visited one of the most extensive bodegas, or sherry cellars, which must be nameless, and amongst other sampics of wine we were given to taste ware two which appeared to us to be the Tame wine. could decide It was with some difficulty

which we thought beat--which we profored. One of the partners then told us that one was a wine Bold st £) a buts; the other was a wine manufactured for uns of the largent mail steamship companies in the world at the rate of 438, per bottle, and retailed to their passengers at 4. a botle.

THE germ theory is in danger of being overworked, Nestly every disease has hno oredited to bacilli, and at last human hebits and feelings have been analysed in the same way. Now a Philadelphis scien. that has discovered, or sage he is just going to discover, that the liquor and tobacco habits are caused by microbes, like consumption, caturzh, and grippe. He also think there is a microbe of love, and that the reason why young mpa's

The weather was fine.

With regard to the curthquake t Haiphong, he states that no damage was A severe tremor was felt by doue by it. the inhabitants.

Captain Wendt has been at Hoihow twice since the date when a typhoon is teparted to have paead over Hainan, and he heard nothing of a typhoon there. There was voly the eustomary gquall off the land during the afternoon, followed by fine weather. The report of the typhoon at Hsions would therefore appear to be inaccurate.

FRAGRANT WATERS MURMUR That Saturday last must have been a red-

Jetter day for the College of Medicine for Chinese, and for the irrepressible Dean of Faculty of that ilk.

That even over the two Chinese medical fledglings, hatched and raised daring the last five years, the Deut, Senate, Court, etc. etc. bare abundant reason for cackling,

That this mythical day of diploma-giving! long looked forward to, was a day to be remembered when it did come a day to orate over, to congratulate each other apan. En enthuse over, to dine over, and to talk over.

Tent, under the energetic leadership of the

the latest addition to the laws or freaks of eiroular alarms is that the contre

of a typhoon can pass over a port and town without doing any damage. That we have this statement upon the

authority of Dr Doberok,

typhoon to the N.E. of Balinus without any apparent ait from Manile.

That the valorous Celestials who promptly.

various

and general public have to pay the piper.sir efforte to make out that they have foreignere. This rasy be but the talk of

good reports of mining experts have been have Thut in some quarters this por littlo Colony been proceeding in a legal way I think the last year revived, or at length only just tendency to believe that all the previous

seems to be looked upon us a machine for truth has not beon cdbered to. The simple gotting to the knowledge of the ordinary based on too exaggerated views,

facts of the oss appear to me to be that a people. It is a pity that the foreign go- bees made aftoply for company-mongering. grinding out official salaries.

detective of the society, in what he nevernments have not insisted on the open Now the amount of gold and tie wen from That I have been latoly favoured by your debt couldered to be the discharge of his ing this hostile province and thus Pabang is exceedingly insignificant.com-

This morning contemporary with opinions on Digantalism emanating from duty, found this man on board a steamer, bearded the lion in his dun Mr John Moffat of Shanghai. That as to this gentleman being especially wall qualified to throw in his views an the subject with snob meu ús Mearre Fielden Foxwell & Co., no one will have the least shadow of doubt.

ran away from their duly the other day That Lord Cross and Mr Goschen would notrar-General there is not a word ubont { prosents itself there will not be wanting tive operate the ground. Penon is

Bleaving a Government stoam-launch to

if

being brought into the colony by the prisoner, would have done almost more than Pared with what is produced in other parts

pointed out, it due in moet onses to pro and that be thereupon arrested the prisoner anything sise to convince them that all of the world. That, we have frequently and took both men to the. Po Leung Kak; their talk of resistance was mere idle vertible causes, the chief drawback bein that there the prisoner was looked up, and, boasting, and that, they were powerless want of capital to astry on operations on 3. the day being Sunday, was kept there until against the foreigners. It would bave sufletently large sosie to pay dividends. the following cay, when he was sat down taught the oficials, too, that they must bet is just as hopeless a task to attempt to of foreign lands. It does not seem that sampan as it is to carry on mining with there to the Police Station I am ex- That our worthy Storm-warner has raised! That he would be conferring a great to the Registrar-GeneraFe ofice, and tro have in a less barbarian Teanaer lo eitizens raoke a fortune from the ownership of a

boon on the community if he would give a resume of his remarks on Biver Legie- remedy doubtful as to the existence of there will be any repetition of the put only sufficient expital to provide a small the other two men. They have diasprigea of last year on any such sealo, but staff and an inadequate establishment. lation, interspersed with a few sug

Fobody has acen anything although there may be no outward de dranted that much capital has been wasted gestions as to the Bimetallic per, compiled peared.

them.

Is the sistemort contained it the monstration the spirit of willingoces ie not in Pahang from misdirected effort, had that in pamphlet form.

latter which was forwarded to the Regia absent, and, when a favourable opportunity capital been entirely ongaged in reminera-

it is not more than suffi denbt like to hear Mr Moffat's Silver Le- anybody except the prisoner and the com- the men. There seems to be more curving cient to Kislation theory, and I would vertare to plainant, and it sparus to me rather as of the foreigner in the country now than al only an instance in point; Rauh ie another; shoot along like a torpedo) may not have

suggest that pamphlets be forwarded to the detective Mok Chi, thinking to any previous time, and he does not seem to and Kuantan is a third. In each of these the opportunity of returning to duty. ther and to the Chambers of Commerce might have sxceeded his duty, has tried to be in the least respected Is this due anges the ory has been for more ospital-

in India.

resolve the watter into a squabble between the fact that all the rints of the last year each of these companies has now reached That the great Dock at Hurghom is, after

were allowed to go so easily The ordin the stage when its winnings cover expenses, all the talk about white elephants, found That I am glad to observe in my daily rom-

these metallic marmurs, and it succesd pression that they remained in the Long Waary Chinaman does not know of any If the enormous difficulties they have met bles that the publie have anght on to four parties, with the view of giving the im to be still isutoient for the require-

at their own pleasure and were in no way penishment on the part of the foreign with, extraresus altogether to mining work, in arousing general interest in this most ments of the greyhounds of the East.

It is most important that the governmzonte, and many have sold to as be considered, the wonder is rather that se

In saying. P Leung Kuk should understand that that the foreigners are only a very few musli has been done. important subject, I shall not have mur- That the Canadian Pacific are looking well

mured in vain. ahead and intend to secure the Anstra-That in spite of the enters of those who action of this kind that I am supposing to whilst they are so great in multitude, that is no intention of booming any us either of hure but an imperfeat kapwledge of the have taken place is wholly illegal. They if thousands are killed off there are many the companies. None of them show sign

have not the alightest right to detain any more to take their place. They esteem to becoming Mount Margaas, but they do Han trotters, and send them on to Chicago

I shall keep on the even tenor of my way body on ang charge. Their duty was to very small value the prowess and ability question, and fail to grasp its magtiladie, next year in this porte

and continue to murmur until my pre-hand the man over to the police of once of the man from over the ocean.

road to justice The more direct the BROWNIE. the mure probable it is that justice will be done; and if this kind of tortuous eireui.ous is pureed ant ⇓ road taken to bring a man to justice the dithioulties in Bluding out she truth of the I gravely matter are greatly increased. Coubt whether the detentive has any right whatever to wake thess arrests The fact

That the City of' ftome has been casually

mentioned as a probable feeder, but the docks here cannot accammodate her, That the last two C.P.I. steamers had to go dockless to žen, owing to the Leander being in sok bay and out of soria, That unless the Naval authorities desire to assert their position and insist in docking all their craft in the Admiralty Dock, it shoaki not be necessary to shut up 500-feet dock with: a 300-feet ship.

That shareholders will parhaps be glad to

see that the Admiralty is making some use of the dock, even to the ingonvenienes of shutting out other work,

diction has been verified.

THE PO LEUNG KUK AT WORK. MR WODEHOUSE OF THE NETRONS OF THE SOCIETY.

detained.

Course

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THE WORLD'S COINAGE FOR A YEAR. The value of the coins struck by the Mints of the world during 1891 was than it has been for several years past. The decline has been in the yellow metal, for the white has increased considerably,

1,967,258

1820,

LASS. 133,133,423 25,304,598 24.761.837

854,304

102504,707 £36,727,637 £3,868,421

this

there

show that with a fair obance they will be able to do more than pay their way, and when mines can do that they become in vestments and not mere speculatione. This needs to be impressed upon the English capitalist and the English shareholder. The aas is plain: if these minee sus pay their way with a paltry working capital and small plant, under grestdifioultion, is there not every prospect, with a judiciously obesen staff and increased machinery, with some of the difficulties of communication removed, of making a profitable return to the share- Baldere?

Dean, assisted by H.E, the Governor and rhat Aberdeen Dock (the larger of the two) of the prisoner in the Tung Wa, Qu the as it is, a great deal of evidence has bad to With respect to gold coinage Russia showAter, in nine cases eat of ten the pansin

othere, all these functions were safely get through; with the result that the newa. pipers had a decidedly medical arome for two days. That, wriously speaking, this College has! dee a great work in a vary quiet man. ner all these years, and there is ample Tarun now to give praise where praise is

due.

That as die Decks on that side of the Island are not always required, the work of lengthening could be gone on with

economically.

with

fancy turns to thoughts of love in the spring That the matter of aid from the Govern. That the only thing in the way is permission committee of the Baler, one of the crime, if they ignore that body and exercise 21,000,000, although the total is much attraction to the service that few able to

is because the atmospheris influences of late spring and carly summer are favourable to the existence of the rafcrobe. The mou who habitually wants to borrow money ie, according to this scientist, also affected with a miorobė. In short, it would appear that not only all dienssen bat all habits, emotions, feelings, "&c., are taken into the system with the air we breathe. The only cafe way is not to breathe.

Tee celebration of the festivities.in connec tion with Coast Herbert Bismarck's wed.

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ding at

at Vienna ended in the actual marriage on June 21, but as far as the gacsts were oonerited, the chief entertainment was the day before at the Polterabend. At a Germ wedding it is the customs, not, as with

FOKAD

in England, to have a reception on the day of the marriage, when the bride and bridegroom have gone. but to include the bride and bridegrun in the chief party which takes place on the evening before the wedding. This Polterabend, which, being transluted, means whething liko

rowdy orening' le a regular Gorman institution. and by eustom contains some ourions features which are strange to English ideas, and to English people might be very embar rassing. The happy, or unfortunate, Brau'-

•paur ere on that evening made the centra, or even butt, humorous sallies and plea santries which remind one 46 musk of cer- tain old Heller festivals as of anything eles, The principal feature of the Folterabend

consists of cartaia drematio tableaue vivants, prepared beforehand by the bride's malden friends, in which, with the help of humorous verses, written by some friend of

ment becomes a question only because of tho poverty of the Public Exchequer and of the Colony,

That the nest speeches of Bis Excellency, under the trying tirammstances, must be put to the sredit of the Governor. That Sir William Robinson has taken,

large order in promising to extrisats the Colony from its present position of irup euniesity.

at

That it appears the fovernor is an

troud experienced

this arti cular branch of administration, and sume hes longkong people have got to believe thing he will sunered in carrying out his promise,

That, although the prospect is encouraging, I confess to a wish the trumpeting And been kept back until the fulfilment of the promise.

That your idea of palting off the payment of a lump sum for the sadown set of the

College until the finances are more equal to the demand, and to make an somal grant in the meantime, seems to be in th wise and expedient.

That the old form of banter about Seatch. men being every where and doing ever- thing was rather overdone on this occi-

sion

the family, incidents of the unmarried life That one or two allusions to the omnipressuce

of the bride and bridegroom are presented,

from the ludicrous point of view, Opportunity

is also taken in the course of the recitations

and omnipotence of the nation or race

which retains its representative astride

the North Pole, invariably come with re- lish from the English or Trish ride of the betise.

to make presents to the bride and bride- groom, who alone of all the spectators are provided with seats on this important bccasion. Moreover, on the conclusion of the dramatic portion, the maides friends of the That Scotchman themselves lought to be bride decorats her and the bridegroom with Bowers, and, baving crowsed them, amuse themselves at their expense as their ineli: rutice nay lead them. The whole busi- Bess is one which to the stiff Englishmen but appears very strange and undigoiled; it is full of characteristic national anti- mentality, euob sa grp tank and in pro- fusiou in the Fatherland. The conclusion of the Polterabend, which generally begins in the afternoon, és a banquet, followed by dancing the latter, however, not kept up so late as we are accustomed to in England.

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pre-madest, and take a lesson from the neatly-turned, half-sarenstis periods of the Rectorial Chief Justice, That a prominent ohemi, whose tongur ide been tied (so he aaya), for long time, gave the speech of the evening, and like, ed the exercise so much that it was near- ly becoming the speech of the morning. That an Ordinance will"

ill have to be passed for the purppes of suppressing officials whose tongues get 'on the looks.". That generally speaking the prominent elk- cial referred to is very succesefal in his etteracoes outside the Council, and

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behind the head of the large Duck.

to me, and only about half her real size) calle for a word,

difference in time of 7 hours.

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year.

chances are that the Government would

RELIGIOUS SERVICES,

Mr Wodehouse board additional ovidence

that he is a detetive of a society organized and would hure shown even a greater 1. at the Magistracy to day in canotion lue certain charitable purposes does not pansion had the old level of price bees with the charge of decoying & man into

in the least give him the functions of a maintained. Thus, in turning the rupees policetaan.

Whatever he does to the issued from the Indian Mints into sterling the Colong," brought against a wao nared

detection of crime mos be in the direc-wa have calculated them on the basis of

AMONGST mány suggestions that liave been Had ago. The figures compare as follows:-

sflared to make voluntnering mura attrane. Wang Ling. The charge was brought tion of assisting the police and not as of 1 to the £44 compared with 13 a your through the agency of the Po Lang Kuk, independent act of his own.

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tive in India is the following, which Gold £25,258,781 £30,927,14 and the evidence to-day was almost exclu- the detective, on suspecting the defen

reaches us from an old Volunteer Officer dant of bringing the complainant into the sively confined to the proceedings taken by pulony for an improper purpose, immediately. 290,764

'Give the rank and do a small pension, Copper...

and offer the officers one. As to the lat the Society in the care and the detention handed him over to the police the case would fave been disposed of without any difficulty.

would never be claimed. Don's xa cost

One is not required. For twenty can easily be lengthezet to take the latter point Mr Wodehouse spoke at some be taken irrelevant to the main issue but at by far the largest reduction of any Stately coals. Jargest dosan stearder, at a very smal length in disposing of the cas

tis same time having an important bearing for, whereas in 1890 it secuated to early years actire service with a thoroughly good eut compared to attempting a similar

The complainant, recalled, said ha did on the osso, and I think it would be well £4,500,000, last year it was ander £50 1,030. record give-Sergeant major; Rs. 50; that the Io Leung Kuk should clearly u. Germany has also declined considerably, sorgusut, Rs. 40; corporal, Ta. 30); and operation at Kowloon.

not want to go on board the steamer do-atand that the performance of police £3,000,000 in 1891 comparing

Spain had to gold private, Rs. 20. For tooty-five years ap which brought him to Hongkong. The and semi-judicial fanctions of this kind £5,000,009 in 1890. defendant asked him to go on board to

gures. All members of the force would have a look at it, and an porn ho got is beyond their powers, and that, while coinage at all last year, and in 1990 it had proved service slightly increpes those. fi they might be of grent assistance in mil-over £1,000,000. Thà. London Mut it then be on an aqual fueling, all would be ou board to ship started. No fazer wasing the polios in the detection of special also responsible for a decline of about satisfied, and there would be a substantial used to get him on board.

L Yi Chi, cigar

irregular functions in the manner in above the average of the past ten years. Leung Kuk, said-

dicated in this case, their action is cal-The United States minted nearly £900,000 would cars to miss, Let the grant to divers the rund which is immediately I want to the Tung Wa Hospital on Bueniated to do more harm than any good more gold coins, and Turkey jumped up to fully piva sillect for past per- day, 24 h, and saw one of the clerke of that might to derived from their charit- the very respectabia total of over £750,000, vice, if fully approved and satisfactory in every respect. The question of the pon- the Po Leung Kuk, who told me that Mok That the arrival of the P. & 0. racht Ohi had arrested fear vagrants. Some able intentions. They must know per- Coming to silver, there has been a destessu sion of the officers is a secondary point al Peninsular (che always loɔks like a yacht other members of the committee who festly well for what objects the police in the Louder eolaage of £650,000, but an together. Rs. 100 a month for the samc were present said Send for them and let force exisis, and they must also know per- ingressa la that of the Indian Mints of ceriod of service would be ample. The festly well that the ordinary, coure about 64 per cent, the amount being 1314 as questions thom. Two of the vagrants, of things is that the may could million rupees against 35 million celom have to meet a claim for a beer's arrested be taken rupees in the preceding your. The silver pension. That, however, is not the point. those who were lot go, said they did not

265 Boon as be. is wish to stay in Hongkong. The complainant That her mait was brought on is 27 dere, and defondant were the other two. The straight to the police in order that le

Portugal increased ita slightly larger. 1 hour, as I make it, allowing for the complainant accused the defondent of kid. should be at pace charged. Not only dug of the United States a batffer the pansion. Its of India.

napping him They made a noise. The they detain him for more than twenty sue by £1,201,000, and Spain added That she could have dure it, as she of the summittee told them to be quiet and that four hours, but even then, when they con- nesrly £1,000,000. The figures for China

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL-Parade Service they would be sent down to the Registrarsider that a charge is made out against and Japan are not obtainable thir Oriental did before, within the twenty-General to be questioned, after which they his, they do not hand him over to the During the year a small go colage eaven days; but oven an hour and a half would be sent before the Magistrate who police bat sund him to the Registrar. was struck at the Berlin fint for theit B.80 .. (Holy Communion 2nd and The Rthe effigy of President Kruger and on the union at the 11 o'clock service on the would decide the case. Next day they Guneral. This further increases the irro-Transvas. They bear on their veras 4th Sundays) Muties at 11. Holy Gom- over 27 days is good going.

wero esat to the Registrar General. Mok gularity of the proceeding

He has glatcar Genera! had no more to do with reverze the arms of the South Africa 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays in the month. That many people are asking why the good-Chi in one of our detectives,

All silver and bronze Evensong at 5.45. acybody else in Repablio.

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Read.-Min natured Mr Belilies wade that highly orders to go on board ships as they arrive

and to arrest people what he suspects of the colony, and they might as well have comage was also struck at Berlin for the heidulous speech at the Steamboat meet-kidnapping. Be is not a constable.

sent the defendant to the Postmaster Geron East Africa Company. Tunis hes ister Rev. G. H Boudfield.-Services at

be furnished from Paris with coira 11.00 a 2 and 6 1.3. big.

Mok Chi-I was formerly a district Goural, the Surveyor General, van me

other oui ial here. It was not amatter equivalent to the French currency, watchnian. I am nut sworn in as a pertaining to the functions of the Re- from the Frenca Mint also the Republic of constablu.

gistrar Generals. The pulics are San Domingo has been supplied with silver Home-Service on Sunday, at 11 and Inspector Stauton-I went to the here- a properly constitated body for deal and bronze coinages.

The Lordon Mint Leung Kuk about 8 pm Jay, 26th, under the orders of thein with crime-and it is to them that they executed in addition to the Imperial coin nistered on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in the iges silver and bronze coins for Canada, month at 11 A.M.; on the 2nd and 5th at Capt. Saperintendent of Police. I was

Service. His Worship thes, addressing Li Yik British Qaigua, Cyprus, Jamaica, and the 7.30 AM and on the 4th, at the Erening

Straits Settlements, while the Birmingham That it is not customary to flout the shows the room where the prisoner was.

WEALEYAN METHODIST CHURCH.-Divina For Hongkong, public in the manner adopted on this so-detained. It was No 7 col: in the Lanatic Chi, through the interpreter, said: X! Mint struck a silver coins of the respec-Service as 10.30 4.3. in St. Andrew's Hall

Ward. The walls were padded below. have been saying that this action of the Pa Jusion, or to threaten to supply one's The room is about 9 feet by Sh and about Leung Kak in detaining this man and send- tive coinages:**

It has two Ball barred ing him to the Registrar-Cheneral is quite customers with an inferior article on the 14 feet high.

windows high up in the wall. The win irregular. Is is one of the Brat principles ground of inadequate support.

dore bad reperians which were closed of justice that a man

acensed of London-perikā......

Landon-Dolonial At the entrance were upright bars with crime shall be brought speedily to Hiring a bit.

told that trist. Not merely is this the practice Sydney... a strong door outside. I while the prisoner was in the room the bara

363,000 of English law but it in a principle affecting Melbour0,592 were lucked and the outer door double the liberty of the subject everywhere, Bombay bolted. I was shown the room in which and your detective, when he suspected the United States...

priecur of haring brought the complainant muse the complainant was confoed. It was an ordinary sick ward. Thero wore into the colony for an improper pur no patients in t Then in a kind) puso. should have at once handed Silvered........

the police aver to That, as I inve before pointed out, gold or of a gate to it to keep uybody from him

taken are to the Tung Wa Hospital, Holland....... ailser rise or fall together in sympathy, leaving it.

Mok Fui (curataker at the Tong Wa)-1 whence he was afterwards post to the Spain but it is, cut so generally knowe that the showed the rooms to the last witness. The Registrar-General. He should not have Portad Talues of these precious metals are affect door of the room in which the defandant been brought before the Registrar General ed by the market price of cupper, and, fo was confined was not looked. I did not at all, but immediately handed over to the Ta (Bins Me

tell the Inspector that it had been locked, police. The delay which has beea Morasco Paris Mint) a certain extent, even that of irnu.

nor that the uprights had bean bolted. cocasioned, and the promadinge which Traarvan (Berlin Mint) That at the time of the famous copper He arked me about it. The pritater was have taken place without the bouwledge of German Africa a

Ha the public hare greatly increased the exempire atta xing, when the caput of that metal at liberty to go any tice he liked,

difficulty of getting justice done. How not g

gou was artificially reestricted, and the price Inspector Stanton, reedled--I have not can I decide whether the prisoner has had-Pall Mall Budget rose from £50 to £150 per ton, a proper made any mistake. The Inat witness did fair play? He may have had statements would fell bionate sharp rise in both gold and silver tall me about the rooms being looked. extracted from him, which

Jungs-You stole the pocket-book; but took plass, which was proved by the factspector Quissey was present and heard against him, which might not have bett legally obtained. With regard to the

how is it you did not appropriate the that the value of the Engilsh pouny re-

Lapsetor Quinney-The witness Mok evidents of the whole case I am afraid that watch lying by the side of it! Prisoner Fui told us that the door of the cell in a great deal of it is untrue. I think the You don't mean to say I was as daft is mained the same.

which the prisoner was conned had been real truth is contaized in the simple boked. He also showed us has the upstatement sent to the Regletrat Geural, that! I couldn't have noticed it. You

most excuse me, Judge.

HowLanus" MadamaR OIL preserves and right bars and the door were locked.

That of course & Chairman's speech is not necessary all bis own, as the Secretary and the other Directors may bare their band in the pie.

That bir Fenwick called attention to the -chief point of interest, to the shareholders, about which not a word had-been said. That ill-uotared specchios at Company meet

inge is quite a new departure for Hong- kong.

That as soon as the restriction on the out- pab of copper was removed and the metal reverted to its normal value, exchange for both gold and silver came down with

he

a rud.

war this time-only be was successful too long, as Paddy would pat it.

That the Hongkong Observatory ought to

be prevented with a few additional symbols |

for storm warnings, to allow of signala

bad weather evory thared hours."

did

conversation.

on Mon-

should have handed over this man,

The following are the totale

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and

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City Hall,

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4.894,000 7,584,000 280,989 2.990.416

638.581

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60,000

and not

Austria-Hungary Radu

339 2704

and that all the evidenoo no hara Li Yik Chi, recalled--The letter shows had since of what has gone on at the Fo is the one which was sent to the Registrar Leung Kok has been given more or less General about this case,

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GERMAN BETHESDA CHAPEL-Service in the German language, by Ray, R. Gott- schalk every Sunday, at 11 AM, in the 23,630 80,42 Chapel of the Berlin Foundling House,

800 Went Paint.

30,90). 10,800

85.811 43,605. 12687 75,652.063 $331,909

436.843-640

! 24.926 1,402,753

769.070

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Temperature.

(Taken at Mesors Falconer & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Head.)

BAROMETER F

Ban Domingo (Furla Mint)

23,275 60,900 480,000 1900 20,000

49.40 29,800 1.880 18,650

£1,400 1,000 61,600 4,547,000 $2,775

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HONGKONG REGISTER.

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Hongkong, July 33, 1899.

with an idos that there must have been Kau Sing, Police Court interpreter something irregular in the proceedings for overbody's nee, heing not too greasy -The lattar in question contains a state there, and taerefore they are not entitled too drying also sold in a golden colour for that during the great super ring ment by the complainant at us by the to full credit. I hope you will bear in mind fair haired ladies and children; holes Foros

smongst other metals which were at as prisons.

also that in a Colony like this, with a large G1, 7, 10s Bd. ROWLANDS' Evonia is Weather

Balu zhourmally high premium, antiminy La Yik Chi, recalled-I told the men be- Oinese population; it is very important pare und fragrant toilet powder, in three fure they made their statements, that they that they should know what is the constitutias-white, rose, and cream; 18. and Z. showed a strung appreciative tendency, must appak the truth and not tell any false- tional instbod of obtaining justice, and 64. baxes. Ask any dealer in perfumery and this metal was only kept within hoods.

that anything which causes them to think for Howlanda' articles, of 20, Hetion Gar that by irregular proceedings of thứ kind ¦ day, London, restuuable haits by a dombination of This concluded the evidenor.

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