„No. 0226.-August 27, 1891.1
Ter thousand cases of Comet brand ke- ronous oil were put up for sale at auction
THE CHINA MAIL.
Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East That I shall have a word to say on this
idea of modification by and by. Indian Colonies, will hold an exhibition in
to-day by Messrs Hughes and Hough and attalion Northamptonshire Regiment, 1691, The show is to comprise all producte That Mr Bolilies, who has maintained
fetched an average of 81.37) per case:
Atation number of chair and rickeha coolies and boatpeople were dealt with by Mr Wodehoum to-day, for plying for hire with dat beboeta. Smill finca pare impored,
MEESH Dodwell, Carlill & Co. inform us that the steamship Carmarthenshire left Singapore to-day, the 27th inatent, and may be exported here on or about the 2nd proximo, proboost e
THE Perak Government Gazette notifies the appointment of Lient. H. O. Mistosits, 2nd temporarily no Acting Amiatant Comhuis sioner, lat Perak Sikhs, with affect from the 29th llimo.
of the Dutch estonies, as well as articles of foreign oright which are, or may be, used
in the Dutch Indies.
A LADY of no artistic teste, wrikos Mr THE Caloutts Cricket Club propages to get Ashby Starry in the Graphic, bas discover up a representative Indian team to play ad that at church parade her Prayer. Rock, Lord Hawke's eleven, wisir is expected to, by its incongruous colour, antirety rained visit ladis next old sea. The present the effect of a carefully conceived costume. idea is that the leading players of avery It struck a discord in an otherwiso per- Fresidency and Provines is the country tently hardiosions dress. This has besa should contribute to the Indian team, even
me of the Parsee orisketera of Bombay remedied by having a over to her Prayer Book which shall be perfectly in accord being asked to contribute players to make with the leading tone of her garcute The Frayer Boak cover will benceforth up an eleven.
repeivo as attentive consideration as the We are asked by the secretary of the bonnet, the gloves, and the sumabade, and Bankers'a Instituto, says the Stock no jarring note of colour will be intro- Lar Wing, bostmiz, was sent to prison for change, to mention the fact that the cean-duced by means of a volume bound in bine Honceforth, three months by Mr Wodehouse to-day,cil of the institute are engaged to taking a reiret or in scarlet moraces. for stealing a piece of copper pipe, valued consus of the stock of silver coin held by in turning out a thoroughly fashionable possible that Miss Kate the bank a throughout the kingdom, and anatume, it at over 830, from the German Mail steamer havo asked them to return, on forms which Reilly will find an able coadjutor in Mr Numberg. A de
have been sent out for the purpose, the Zahnsdorf. If this role be applied `ta amount of such coin held at the close of everyday garments and to any volume We are not that a kdy may fool inclined to read, the business on Wednesday last.
rod that object the institute han in business in fency book-covers cannot fail making the consu Can it be that it is to be extensive. For it is easy enough throwing in its lot with the white-motal to imagine that the most artistic arrango- ment of colour may be at once ruined by Hats? We trow not
its wearer happening to take in hand some garishly boisoned novel of to-day.
Ar the Magistracy to-day Mr Wodehouse tined. F. Donovan, Chief Officer, 85 for pfucking flowers in the Camstory at Happy Valley yesterday. Donovan was Bĺa> or dered to contribute 50 cents to the Ceme tery Fund,
A 'COUPLE of gambling dens were raided yes terday, one at 3 Rutter Lane by Acting Serget Green and one at of Nullah Lane
in all being arrested. The keeper of the den in Naliah Lane was fined $75. All the
others were fined small suma,
A Sangir the valespie outburst has been followed by rains so heavy as to bring on widespread fonds which have shocked re-
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Ir I can rise [xays Me Mkim, of gun. very from that calamity. The inhabi-xem] from the coast of France, tants have yet so far regained courage that through the air across the Chancel, and they hare get about cultivating food pra-deep half a ton of nitroglycerine upoo n ducts and building houses. The Govern-English city, I can revolutionize the world.
by Acting Tospector Baker, nineteen menment relieves the distress by supplies of I believe I can do it if I live long enough. rice. The damage done by the outburst to oconut cultivators is estimated at forty transand pirals of nuts, and it will take a year before the surviving trees will yield A erup. Trade in produce has come to a standstill as all the copra on hand had been The body of the man who was found our-bought up before the outburst, and fresh dered, ander such brutal circumstances, in Queen's Boad West on Thursday morning, han bisa identified by no lam then seven porose It transpires that he was soolie Darned Chang Ho. He was 36 years of age. His family realde in First Street
If I do, Bulete will come after me who will be auccessful if I fail. Well may Captain Fullerton, R.E., an authority on this subject, say that if they realise the machines will enormously affect the posi expcoation of their inventors aerial tion of the United Kingdom. a total change (as he observes) will have to bo supplies aco too scanty to admit of my made in our defensive system; the valos have hence been closed, and large numbered the silver streak, of which we hear so dealers remaining. Many stores and shops
of our navy will be very much roduced, of Chinese have left the islandi
constantly, will, for all practical purposes, disappear. An aerial mary of the very first class will then bean absoluta naorusity. Tar question of the rate of increase Fortunately for us there are still some preo. of the colored races in the United tien! difficulties and unsolved probleme. States, which has given ries to so much Mr George Phillips, D.E., observes that Tax trial of four gardeners for causing the ingonious speculation, is brought to the successful ariel macbias heavier than air
definite test of fgures,
says an gül require to be able to take its own death of a coolie at Yaumati, which was to
szelange, in
Седела Bulletin weight from reat, and to come down vetti- hava barn continued before Mr Hastings just published at Washington. t ap cally and gently. Mr Stringfellow-a oame to-day, was adjourned till Monday in con- pears that the colored element-in which which may have a prophetic significance for term, by the way, is included Obinues, Mr Maxim if he should be caught with bis sequence of Mr H. J. Holmes boing Japanese, and civilized Indians-represents nitroglycerins balloon anywhere in thesa gaged in a civil-suit in the Supreme Court. Mr Holmes, who appeared for only one of the prisoners at the last hearing, has been entrusted with the defence of all the pri-
Boneta.
isles-adds that if any partof the mechanism went wrong, or the motive power ware to stop, all control would be lost, and it must come down crash as a bird will if it is
12 per cent. of the population, as against a title less than 10% in 1850. The total number of colored persons at the time of can last census is shown to have been 7,688.360, and of white persons 54,983,890. || winged.—Daily News. Writers whose imaginations have run riot over the prospect of the finure complete swamping of the whites in America ought THE Macaena bys that by order of the to tind comfort in the fact that tho increase Viceroy of Canton, the mandarin Bio-peng-in the white population in the last decade!
nan, sub-prefect of Ossa Branan, has beau best distaiased from his post. It is believed that the dismissal was the outcome of in-. formation supplied by the Governor of the district of Houngshan to the Viceroy, to the affect that Sio had been maintaining class relations with the principal authorities at Macao, which is considered prejudicial to the interests of China. Ad employé of the Canton Custom Huase will, it is currently reported, succeed him.
tions it
still to be Noems
was rather more that double that of the colored.
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In some of
the Bombay papers the difference between a shorthand writer and short-haud, reporter is being disoutsed, writes the Kathiawar Times, which hi upon the precise difference betwe-n the to. It is generally understood that the difference is that a short-hand reporter is s far superior being to a shart-hand writer, in intelligenco, general knowledge, and practical training.
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Waile the short-land
writer make a speaker talk nonengo-Lot infrequently what the speaker oorbally gives utterance to the short-hand reporter The Californiah for August is at least true makes him talk conto, and saves biza from A dis. laughing-alo to its name, fur it is nearly all about the heing made Golden State, Ju the matter of illustratinguished Lord once observed that there were not, twenty speakers in all England who could bour to be reported as they spoke, and that all their fame as good sprakra they owed to reporters. Often the speakers and the audience think that what was talked was all songo, but when the reporter's notes are transcribed he finds that much of it was nonsense, and, unless touched up, not fit for publication to the paper. This is a fact which good wratura and expert reportera kuow only too well.'
on the way of improvement; although one might have thought, judging by the preced ing number, that improvement was well nigh impossible. As regards both quanti. ty and quality the illustrations. this month may almost be amid to make the wagazine unique among its kind. Tho number contains a couple of short stories, neither of which, however, in of much in-Tac chess editor of the Birminghan Weekdy terest, and a very laboured and ineffective Mercury acys that tho British ebess mastors de not know what to do with Lasker. At poem in dialect is hardly good enough for all points of the game ha is armed as with the pages of a magazine. Among the more exiple steel. They have tried olase games, interesting of the articles may be mention-open games, waiting games, ancient style, modern style, irregular openings, hackneyed ed Mr R H. McDonald's account of apeninge--but all in vain. They buvo tired the city of San Francisco (which is to on-ouvre him with Doodalian ccm- profusly astrated from A Bories of beautifully aloir photographic views which reproduced with remark. -abla success); •In: the Yellowstons Pack
by Jamen Carson Fennell: The Crown of the San Gabriel Valley, by Char-
have
been
on, ta best him in the opening, the plinations, middle game, and the end. And whatever sigle of chess he is sotually playing one is apt to think his strongest point. He is asl ingenious as Bird, sa imaginative sa Black- huroe, as subtle as Gunsberg, as original a Steinitz, as brilliant as Techigorn, as solid and tenacious as Mason, a tale as Tarrasch, Tea Frederick Holde, optists to rolled into one in future he beat as scieutilio as half a dozen ordinary California, by the Rev. Frank Dixon, and A Californian Loan Exhibition, by Augusto Wey.
be classed with Steinitz, Blouk burne, Tschi- gerin, Gunsberg, and Weiss. The last named is not often spoken of, but as a match- player his place is in the first three. The only question as to Lasker's staying power relates to physique. Chens matoles nod tourneys are a severe test of vitality, and being of slight and delicate appearance be
A Day or two ago (says the Daily Chronicle) lady, walking in Alpha Road, St. John's Wood, suddenly saw before her on the pavement a singular object, which peared may out laste to be a cool suska, wearing sound its neck |
a ring studded with gems, to which was Bis E. W. Watkis, M. P. for Hythe, writes attached a slender gold chain ending in to the Times in support of a scheme for soother jewelled ring, Startled at rst, tunnel to consor Ireland and Soutland the lady, however, managed to capture tho He says:Le great thing they (the Gov. little animal in the folds of her umbrella, ernment) could settle-a question more im and immediately recogaised that she had purtant to Ireland, as it eroins to me, than possessed herself of the sep of Cleopatru a dozen Hours Rute Bills-a question which Not knowing the exact address of Madame can be discussed quite apart from Home Sarah Bernhardt, she was about to ask s Ente controversicaI mean the restoration policeman, when the gates of a villa some of prosperity and progress by great, but yards off were flung open, disclosing the simple, puolis works the leading workı great tragedieuze and her attendanta frau being (1) a ship cauel of expacious dimen Goally searching for the escaped stake. sions between the wart and east of Ireland, and (2) a tunnel from the aorth of Ireland The former Tez list already a long ocs of the to the south of Scotland. things that Lord Coleridge is not supposed would place Ireland on the shortest sca to know has received two notable additions rond to all the great West, and to the East the at the Derbyshire Assizes. & witness in the Canadian Pacific Railway, and cross-examination stated that he had ex. latter would make Ireland and Scotland
country. Survaga and diso pressed the opinion that a certain bill for stores was a
sions to which I and other bare for warm one Excuse my Ignorance, interrupted the Lord Chief years been parties have demonstrated tha Justine, but what does warm" mean?iberal estimate for both does not exceed feulbility of both projects, and the most The answer was warm for them who are so
which at per cent, plusty foolish an to think they pau bay at the orina 20,000, termicable security would | and have a dividend." It you exid (ub.
nine year served the still unenlightened Judge) that amount to a burden, cf 600,000%, a year for it would be werm for the stores. I could un- ninety-nine years, or about a fifth of the derstand. Did you mean that but the cast of keeping s hostile fores in Ireland. only reply obtained" was Igennot on
ay I have gone with others into the financial Shortly afterwards the same witness a part of these questions, sud I beliere esch mitted that he might base sald If it catch of these works would pay, and this atted es on it will increase our taking. This Kingdom would gain and not lose by the again grovoked the learned Judge to put investment. I shall go happy to show to the questing What do you mean by catch anyone the plans and sections of a canal es on? Opens the eyes of the public, across Ireland prepared for me under the my lord, was the reply. Ostabes on to charge of the late Mr. T. A. Walker, who Constructed the Severn Taspal and most
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the public so as to open their eyes sag of the Manchester Ship Canal; and a gested the Lord Chief Justics, ingainiogly,
Shows what prices they have to pay my respects the Lengel, I refer your readers to lord, replied the witness; but here the the discussion at the Sogiety of Arts is Fe Lord Chief Justice seems to have given the bruary 1801, the Duke of Abercorn in the
chair. athing up in despair.
FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR That the question which absorbs attention this week is the working, or rather the Tuerits of the Keswick Share Bill.
THE EXTORTIONS OF THE CHINESE COOK.
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deal about his patron's family and es got | the idea of personating his son.
Another rather interesting and in now
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.-
SE VARR'S CATHEDRAL-Parade Service An indignant Houasvifa and Mother,in progress in this oity. Tao magistrate 4th Sundays.) Matins at 11 Holy Com at 6.30 AM. (loly Communion. 2nd and consistent altituds on the Share Bll with whom her sisters in Hongkong will of hu-king-in-Anhui province is a man of munion at the 11 o'clock sorties or un throughout the discussion, repeated his ayapathion, lifts up her voice to the follow. great courage and ability, but he has the 1st, 3rd, and 6th Bunday in the month.
faalt in the epas of his superiors of being Evensong at 5.45. former prgumente, and I fancy sireng-- in; olfect in the Singapore Free Press, on a little too independent, and ench was ble
the ad subjet of the couk's extortions; spirit in this respect that he never sout a UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road.—Min- thened them on one or two points.
Sir, Will you allow mo space for a fem present to the provincial judge's yamén isler Rer. G. H. Boadfield, Services at ST. PETHE'S 'SRAmen's (luunch, Sailors, words in your paper to all attention to a whenever he had a cuse to refer to that 11.00 A. and 6 r.. burning question of the cayout here? Yeoficial This breach of etiquette internod Englishwomen have with us, to-day and the yaman writers, not a little and they Homo-Service on Sunday, at 11 A. and every day, a big trouble that in only partis determined to catch the La-kiang magis 6,30 v.. The Holy Communion admi- trate tripping if they could. They nistored on the 1st and 3rd Sundays in the shared by our husbands, and that in that waited a long time, for such was his month at 11 & M.; cn the 2nd and 6th at all our efforts to save for our children are vigilanco that it sooned as if he would 7.30 AM.; and on the 4th, at the Beeping thwarted by the rapacity and wickednost never give his sosmies the obenos they Service,
That the parallel giren of a merchant sell- ing goods to arrive has never been to clearly put as it was a Mr Belilios'. specob, though he may be a little out in the natter of naming the ship in which the good may arrive.
That geeds sold to arrive are practically
ear-marked, and that any, traumotion of
That Mr Granville Sharp is a good specker,
though not always effective
of our Chiam dodica We have studied
or may not berge, but we find that the
wanted, antis at last a certain scholar of
[ or other with the ruzmars in the magis-
Quotations. got hold of one of the panug mon about
HONGKONG, Augast 27, 1892, the jadge's yamen, and found on his person some damaging letters relating to extortion OPIUM-New Patus, cash, 580/681 and other dailuquencies practised by the
Old
outh...-612 yamda writore, his oemiss. His sacreed
Now Beared, eash, 500/601 ibe in a body and the provinsial judge endeavoured to
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New Malwa
cash, 5123 credit, 590
the markot price list you publish. It may bis district was accused of gambling and Servios 10.30. 11. in St. Andrew's Hall WESLEYAN METHODST CHURCH-Divine this kind nearly corresponds with the cook charges us double the amount for unfortunately he had some fight City Hall. giving of, numbers in the case of shares, somo articles of food. If we insist that irate's yaman, and is ho died shortly after. Fr. JOSEPH's Cucion, Garden Road
they can be got cheaper, we are met with seems to be beyond dispote; and if this the insolent mane buleh, and if we persinwards in onstody, though the death was 9 Moss and Sermen, 5.30 2. Even
from purely natural ouses, the scholar's ing Service, Benediation.*; he ao, one of the standing arguments the ink laves us. Not only have wo s
GREMAN BETHESDA CHAPEL-Service in gainst the Bill and ite so-called inter-great deal of trouble to get another. balon scored the runners of killing bin,
The one in the ordinary course of things the German language, by Rev. H. Gatt when hu dosa rue he is every bit as bad ference with the freedom de contrael falls as his predecessor. We are told, half in came before the provincial judge and the schalk every Sunday, at 11 AM., in tha writers get the opportunity they had waited Chapel of the Bertin Foundling, House, to the ground.
joke half in earnest, that it is Tint there to much brutt in what Mr fighting against the cook's charges-that it for, of paying off old spores against the West Point.
will only upset our livere. But why should noxioas magistrate, who at length lost. Balilios says as to the local giroumstances generations of English women's livers be a button. But the magistrate was not beaten yet. By same means or other ho of the Colony, the saliness and cons upset and their lives worried out of
and why should generations of English qcent sensitiveness of the market, and
children be robbed by these men sztorting the danger in which komost-investors may the money out of their parents pocket he placed from nasstupalogs manipulators which ought to las devoted to thoir educa. tion? Can nothing be done to extricate tax of atcoke,
frota the thraldom of these Chinese Cook+? Commenting on this bitter cry of the aqasezer's victima, bar contemporary says: The letter of House-wife and Mother That his picture of the wild balloozing once more brings to public attention wh
above and beyond the check of any Share is undoubtedly a grest evil in this Colony Bill was graphio and perhaps a little co-excessive charge on the part of the Chi
Whoever that han handled DEBO Cooks. mical, and his idea of the Shure Bili bazaar book or takon his month at ac- acting as the parachute which brought counter has not been irritated beyond messure at the constant repetition of eggs as down to well-regulated business was
12 cenia ghes or fat 24 conta nmasing..
measbors day, when by no possibilty could the of the household have got Ose carrospondent comments for the mus through tight eggs or a kati of cooking fat? part on the cheating in prices done by cookio. There is an equal or greater amount of reguety in the acanta ostanat bly purchased. The kati of ber-tough and bad beef, too--if wigkod will be found wanting. Who nate all the sugar brought inte well-organised household (weil organised as regards the surrente, we mean and where all the kerosina oil goes to ca be guessed but not proved. In price and quantity the housekeeper is swindled right and left.
That all the same Mr Sharp was more rhe
torical than correct, because the sedative and pulliative influence cause two years
too inte.
That it might be mid Nathan Rothschild nad his wet bandages bad little or nothing
to do with the question at lese, v, the working of the Keswick Share Bill That the same and substonge of Ur Sharp's
peesh-for there was substance in it wot
withstanding its embellishmente-was. that the Shore Bill won a neteniary checit
day
After
compromise matters by resoring his batton, but this the magistrate has refused to accept and seems determined to push the anse to the end. He is an accomplished lawyer and scholar and he may saccead. The provincial judge now charges bins with accusing his superior, but to this the magistrate replies that he is not accusing the judge bat his undor. linge The issue of the onse is watched with interest,
A SINGAPORE BËRMIT. Singapore, it appears, gas boast of having a bermit anong its curiosities, a man who has got tired of "the madding orowd's ignoble strife' and who has caught seclusion in what is described as a so-girt but
lowance, Cattins, 14.
Malwa, credit, 590/40 Allowanco, Catties, 1/2 Persian, Oily, cash, Allowance. Catties, Penian, Paper tied 230/50 Allowance, Cattien, 14h
Exchange. Boraxose, August 27.
On Loudch-
Bank; Wire,
On dewand, 30 dage sight, **: mouths' sight,
Oradita, 4
Documentary, 4 months' sight, Oo Paris-
On demand, Credits, 4 months aight On Berlin--Demand, ... Ou New York- On demand, Credits, 60 days' sight, Ou Bombay
Wire.
It would possibly puzzle the psychologist and perplex the student of raorals (ings the Free Press) to zasount for the motives which may turn a man to lead the bite of a hermit, and as it were bury himself alive, but these would be still further at a loss to assign any tangible razson why a Tempern, Consolation is usually derived from the east to bo wail educated, should exile him- self to a wiecrable atlap but a short distorte to unfair speculation, although the past fact that, on comparing notes, wn find Mr out in the sea from the beach at Fort Palta-On
A. or
or Br B. pays very much the same. Itar. Such wontd appear to be the case, and year had not furnished sufficient materials | much to the credit of cooks that they
hate hesa able to establish euch a uniform for judging correctly sa to its working.
ity in the extent of their squeeze. Any That we have yet to hear the other side of other nationality would sell itself by cum
the argument as to the benefits which patian, but there never seams to be poore have been derived front the Bill, and mousekeeper man to take bias or go withent, one cook at liberty at a time, and the partial men will wait until these arga- although it is perfectly plain that the ments are forthcoming.
servant about to be dismissed has sent soe of his on brothers in cheating, Bat it is that they cannot device a plun protection. It is not a little matter: For The women it means pueputnal worry and perhaps bickering with the husband ever
That the meeting of the Chamber of Com That, touching possible auditinations of the
merce to discuss thia_mattar-called, by the way by the supporters of the Bill- was adjourned, and the actual result is as yet unknowa.
That nearly all the talking was done by the
supporters of the Bill, and this may have given a slender ground for the adjourn.
rocot.
That it is not easy to imagine musk being said as to the working of the measure in dull times such as these, WEIB the champion of the Broters' Association on the scents.
That one or two features of this tooling
deserve notios.
That the representative of Jardins, Matheson & Co., who has hitherto been regarded as
follower of the rule that silence is gelden,' opened the battle will, an address which was pointed as well as dignited. That the unwarranted insinuations and statamente' made at a previous meeting by the Chairman of the Chamber (Mr E. Mackintosh) against the abwent Vice- Chairman (Hon. F. J. Keswick) were met
by Mir Bell-Irving with a munt euphatic
denial.
That the rumours which mixed up Me Kta- wick's name with the operations of dortnin share syndicates met with an equally amphatso denial, and as these sintemente and impressions had been used by the oppozarta of the Skare Bill as an arga- ment against its usefulness, it was most pertinent to the discussion that they should be denounced an absolate false. hoods.
That Mr Ball-Irving reiterated what bas been eaid tere time and time again, that the great mistake about the Share Bill was that it had not been brought into foroe two years earlier. That those who have throughout been most bitter against the Bill admit, by their astion, that it acts as a cheek, That the real issue seems to be, Doss it act)
as a check upon legitimasto share baaire92, or does it merely put the brake upon un- due speculation?
That if self-interest be taken as the real.
banjo of seguracnt, and the allegation be admitted that the so-called bulls are strong supporters of the Bill, then the 'beurs' and the alrardbrukers must be fighting for their own interest, as against that of the general public and of bons
de investors.
Bill, I have noticed that throughout the discussion that has taken place on buying and selling thaten for forward delivery,
these contracts.
That if the time is reduced; tho, credit is diminished, also the ask, and to a very large extent the interest: a time bar gain extending over a long period is bad prima facie.
than
infuitely to the diagtase of the Europeans
their own
for the last sixe mouths, Mr H. C. Wilmot has retained in the quist and uninterrupted possession of his sea girt but, which he bas somewhat quially noted the Bard's Home, The fates, however, are not always kindly, have found out. To reach the plank leading as this Singapore's hiermit would
would appear to
from the shore to his island den he had to pase through a Malay barying ground, a
the nominal sum of 20 cents a year, an amount wbish tor some time seems to have
right of way over shich he parohased for
On demanad,
Calautta
Wire,
+
On demand
n
Shanghai-
On demond,
4
30 days' night, private paper, Gold Leat, 100 Guy (por tnal) Sovereigns (Bank's buying rate))
2/10)
3,50
3.53
2.83
691
724
$36.TÚ
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
lation:
Wi'ortock. Tokio
REGISTER. August 20- 4 P.M..
and A2a Faðr.
Temperaturs
Bumidity.
90.92
been obeerfully paid and as cheerfully there were far too many collectors of this cepted, in the end, though, is proved that no one seems to have sufficiently con-household expanan. For the man it moun princely revenue, and the Hurrait fruly sidered the element of fitte as regards lesa morey put by for the day when the and decidedly set his face against all such climate will call upon him to retire or in positions. There could only be no own- best to go home on long leare. The ox
er to the grenad maintained and to one peaditure of a young man is in most cases aut to one baly would he and not even
Eren a
to that one until he had shown his era. up to and often over his no.....
all eu saved. would be a unelena For dentials.
Disputes son to have arisen, Nagasaki..| the children it means atter neglected and it was after one of these dispaten Shanghai.. 29.79 85 education or home going, or else greater that one day our islander found himself
Foochow.. deprivation on the part of the parent.
Amoy......
29.82 Bo oribbed, Dabized and cenfixed' in the monst Nor is it a little matter financially. A cook itatul acceptation of the terms. The Ma-
Anping who doesn't make $3 a month out of every baye, determined
SwnTow.... 29,84 82 on his own to keep mouth be feels is despised $3,010 a mouth grusud, had boarded up the plate way at kong
"Hongkong 29.81 Bu shore, and being unable to get eaters.... aves the obstruction ha bad to keep
house all day.
This state of Macao..... 20.82
tiaihow.. agd things could not cautious indefinitely,
Haiphong, 29.73 Bolitas... 29.81 Manila.....29.81 0.5. James
'That having lived hers many years I am thoroughly convinced that too much credit
The policy of driving consolation from the knowledge that our fellows are in the same evil plight as ourselves is a despicable
grie,
and too much commercial latitude haver Singapore, $70,000 a year been the rule in the past, and if this latitude and gredit had been restricted, pommersial matters would probably have regulated themselves, un elecwhere, with out any assistance from the Legislative Cournij,
But it is very bumin, and may per. haps help on to deving a common plan for From time to time we remedying the ovit. have preserved remarks of the servants and the cost of living question in the fast.
It would be easy to multiply examples of how the European is done" in the matter of expenditure out here. Father let us soe if a tennedy cannot be discovered. We
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The
In the
· Espana had quenched his sleepy thanp Wimt broke through the boarding and asterupted to get to Singapore. burial ground he met with stout resistanco in the shape of a determined Malay, and WPostock.
having us offensive weapons with him he Takio... gendered diseration the better part of valour and took to fight. The Malay pur- Nagasaki..
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT IN 'RAIN HAKING.
99.82 85
Wind.
Augast 27.—at 10 am,
Ganton 29.84) 89 Macao... Heihor Haiphong. 20.78 Bolinao.... 29.87 87 Manila..... O.S.James!
Werther.
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That the leader in your morning contempo- rary on the proceedings of the meeting re the Share Bill is not aconrate lo begin can
Fonchow.. with, and for the Bage of the frets is un-(a) either sit down quietly undur these, and overtaking him just as he was Shanghai..
getting over a wall near Parsen Lodge, extortions, bevare Orientals, and acquicaceaeized him by the leg and presipitated him Amy29.88 89 usually immuderate in tone.
in their What is to be, will be' doctrine.izto the water. Eventually he did make Swatow 20.87 81
Anping That no important movements have taken This means that the struggle for esiste his way to the Pullen Biatlon at Tanjong ago 20.83
-place in exobango since my last remarks, in to be intensified, for no 'squeezer Pagar, where be related a waful tela, with Viot. Peaki·
content with what he gets but in looting the result that a warrant was taken out but rates sacra fairly steady, with amal for wider opportanities. It means that against the Malay, Auctuations from day to day, and the pre-portsblo by reason of the pressure for domestic life will be more and more insup nant position way fairly ba described as hold expenses. It means that brobelors 'firm with an upword tendency,"
will remain impecaniaus, and more anĚ That the Merchants and other in Shanghai core commern will become the performates seem to be fully aroused as to the zeof the Vanishing Trink, of which we but notable example the other day in a Char dessity of their views on Silver belog retered Accountant who balaread his personal presented at the Landon Chamber of Com ledger with a big dinner at an Hotel, and merce, and their example might be fol- carly-next-morning sea voyage to Aue tralia. Smart, but immoral to a degree. Jawed by this Community with advantage. Cr, That the remarks of fr 3. G. Bois at the
(b) we can make a combined effort to check-mate the foreigners from China, who property of the Catholic Church in this Hongkong Observatory, August 27, 1892. Shanghai meeting were much to the point, come to this Colony, systematically plunder country can be appreciated in a degree and tend to support the views that I have the European, and than go back to their who it is known to what absurd extremes 1. Bamomurma,zadnced to 32 degroon Fabraz- boit, and to the Laval of the sou in inches, tenth, all along advanced in these weakly lippy homes in China. For the effect to the ignorant Mexican officials will go on
bo snccessful, it must be undertaken by some occaions. Some days ago at Torsad hundredthe, every bourdholder in Singapore, that is to reen, on the Mexican Central Railway, a
sy it must meet with general approval, tan was brought to the station all cut and Fabronheit.
bron takon for We therefore invite corresponderos nag-backed to pieces. He eating plans of motion, and we shall take a conjurer and was being punished for an early opportunity of again discuring This, however, is not a harker to what was causing the severe drought here last year.
4. DIRECTION OF Wrap, to two pointer Sch them.
5. For OF WIND, according to Rennfors done at Castagna a few days ago. In the seale
MUTIQUES.
That I propose to allow my predictions and prognostications on the future of silver to lle fallow as it were for a time, that I may gather fresh material and a renewal of energy, and that I may be in a posi- tion, should the course of events prove favourable, to again bring my forces to play a still more active part in the de-
fence of the white metal. -.-- That I note with interast voine correspond- ence that appeared in your-column jes- terday, on the subject of silver, and I an glad to see that may viewa are shared-ta some extent by others, mure sapecially as this subject admite of wo auch theoretical argument.
A Mexican telegram in se American
Barometer falling, Gradients light for paper gives the following sccount of a 8. E. windo Weather rather cool and remarkable experiment in load com-wet. (Issued at 10.25 a.) polling
W. DOBEBOK, Director of the Observatory.
The action of the Mexican Government. its movement toward confiscating the
bad
3. TEMPERATURE, in the shade in igreja
B. HEMADETY, in persentage of saturation, the
100.
midty of air sainested with moisture baig
[We hope our Singapore friends will department of Cartones there had been no 6. STAKE OF WExtnEx. ð blua sky, co đầu make the combined effort suggested and run for nearly a year and people were tached clouds, d drizing, rain, ffog, gloomy, Ferhaps lethargio Hongkong will be actually dying of thirst, to say nering of equally, sin, snow, thunder, vidbilly shall wish them all success if they brought to such a pass that they were A hati, & lightning, orrcast, P Par encouraged by the example of the sister the total destruction of all.arpe and other dow (wot) colasy to go and do likewise, Ed. agricultural industries. Mi Pueblo Catolico M[]
of New San Salvator prints a number of resolutions
promulgated by the principal slcalde of the torn and department of
NANKING,
(Mercury Correspondent.)
datanar. They are as follows:
Considering that the Suprains Crestor August-10
has not behaved well in this province, as in Six men were beheaded to day for steal the whole of last year only cus showar Ing ilk Fourteen men were involved in an fell, that in this summer, notwith the
usactive, of whom eight only were standing at the processions, prayers and praises, it has not rained at all, and coase. captured. The two who still remain in eus- tody will be tortured to make them con- quently the crops of Castanas, on which de foss the whereabouts of the six still at large. send the prosperity of the whole depart It is reported that four more men will be ment, are entirely rgized, it is dowreed: That if this view of the situation is the cor-earning your bread by hard work instead on what charge.
Artiole 1-1 within the peremptory Rich Man-Ain't you ashamed not to be executed here to morrow, but I do not know",
period of eight days from the data of this rest one-and I think it is, and have begging Trump-Humph You don's Nanking, and passing himself off as the will go to make say prayers.inues eight Some time ago a certain barber came to deares rain doserhot fall abundantly no one thought on all along then, His Excellency
That the bears and the brokers must be feeling the chook imposed by thö law, and It must follow that, on the whole, the in- vesting public must be the gaivem,
BROWNIE,
期
even beg.
son of the Viceroy of Shenai and Kandah, Artiols 2-If the drought contigues eight the Governor anot de otherwise than thing you've drawn looks more like a co?
DEAWING-TEACHER (despondently)That sut on a great deal of styl: and even she days more the churches and chapels shall ba look at the subject iram the inventor's that it does like a
ceeded in getting this treasurer to call onkin burned, and missals, roseries and other ob stand-point,
horse Fair Pepil The young gentleman lived a grand life foi | jeste of devotion will be destroyed. (brightly)-Why, of course, professor. It a little time and awindled the tradesmen gal Article 3-If, finally, in a third period of That Mr Boli-Irving admitted some modi-
is & com.i
of some wis kundred tanks, but unluckily eight dags it shall not raio, all the priosta, fcation of the Bill might be found pe
MorKER (at a recaption) Why didn't for him ho was not sufficiently educated to friars, pans and saints, male arxi female, you accompany Mr Nicefeilo out to supper justify his pretensions for very long and as will be beheaded, and for the present peri cwsary, but not now; and in the fow Sweet Girl-I prefer to go with papa the Chinese say, he showed the fox's tail, mission is given for the commission of all guarded remarks made by Mr J. S. Mother Mr Nicsteln is devoted to you, that is, hetrayed himself by his ignorance sorts of siu, in order that the Supreme and seamed much dejected by your refusal He was arrested as goon es i vus dio Criator may understand with whom he bes Lapralk, that experienced Bongkong I thought you-gr-rather liked him. covered that he was an impostor, and to deal." warcheat, while pleating for commercial Sweet Girl (blushing)-1 do. Mothe-verst charges Leing easily proved against The most remarkable feature of this affair rest as to legislation for a year, nouocdel Then why didn't you go out to supper with him, the lackless youth now awaits bis is the fact that four days after these resolu
hi 1 Sweet Girl-Well, if you must execution. It appears that having baentions were passed the heaviest rainfall that the matter might be again discussed know, it's because I'm cavongualy hun-tot long age one of the barbers at the known for years was precipitated on the later pu
Sheasi Viceroy's yamon he learned a good couraguity.
Rux. in inches, teathe and tunelrodiha.
HONGKONG REGISTER.
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