No. 9495.-BLY 15, 1898.)
Cuis afternoon a memorial service, was held in St. John's Cathedral for the late Mr J. B. Lorik The comin containing the remains
the dopesand was pisced it the chancel Upon the soft were numerous immortelles. Mr. D. Laprak, not of the docessed, m Laprank, and Mr and Mrs Jolien occupied seats in the chanoch: There was a large at- tendance of mouthors, ladies and gentlemen. Among those present ware-Chief Justice Wielding Clarko, Mossie J, H, Lawn, R. M. Gray, J. B. Scott, J. H. Cor, H. Roppins, G. de Champeaux, U. V Omar Hawking Bes 7. H. Whijohead, Mr. H. May (Captain Superintendent of Police), Captain Anderson, Metry F, Alford, J. Melisavy Brown, T. Jackson, Hor. E. J. Ackroyd, Puisne Judge, Hor. Or P. Chater, Mr W. Buy Oaft Tillet, Messrs A. G
FRAGRAFT WATERS' MURMUR That probably the farmer at Home are taking more solloe of St. Swilhon's Day than we are here in Hongkong, altheugli it was ushered in early this morning with a tropical downpour of rain. That a correspondent calls my attention to a greet improvement which might and abould be made by the Director of Pablio Works in the bank at the foot of the mullah bear the lower Terminus of the Tramway.
there
That a few coolies could remove the nusight.
ly rabbish now covering the grass. in a day or two. That everybody has been watching the ex- change quotations and trying to talk coinage all through the week.
bir holiday tour.
THE CHINA MAIL.
That whether he gets the Humans Society's acknowledgement of this kind of holiday: making or not, his friends here will know that he deserves it. That we may hear something at Monday's meeting of the Legislative Council about the Retrenchment Commissing and its constitution.
of sympathy, it delights in coenatal
HONGKONG HOTEL.
naumon
adventure, and over all its bounding love Me M. Anthopy
-
TRANSMEOW. E. Todd
WINDSOR, HOTEL
| That the arrangements in connection with | HONGKONG SUBSIDILEY COINAGE. annum on the Preferred Block, and at the
Me N Lazarus Conent HW. Mansfield, in his report, rate of 7 bir cent per
of fun, unde the two Prison Inseparable, Mr C. J, Black the proposed great · Aggrogation Show
dated March 18, on the unde of Foochow, the Deferred Stock, approved.
und, so it wore, both synchronised acid Capt Bourke N. Mr. F. E. Shean (as the circus posters would describe it) as the following note on the subject of
emphasised the good usture of each. 8111, Mr XI. S. Cooke. Pare-swing definite shape, and the pro-subsidiary coin-In last year's report my
O-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION it was seen that in Sprat there exited Mr E'E. Derrick prodecessor mentioned that 1890 the INDO-CHINA
the instinctire making of the sailor. The Gonu moters are daily gathering confidence, authorises here declared the all cash
The while the Guarantee Fund is in a healthy notes hitherto in sirculation illegal tender.
disonforst
report for the year 1892, broiler wore high collars and was not Me Haley understood, N
Mr H. E. Hobson Hongkong 20 o., 10. and 5 a. piston had status as follows growing slate,
already obtained a footing to certain They greatly regret that the results of This, to doubt, is rozcvinveted by Pelzoo al
of That I was glad to see the sturdy Travers, extent, and there is Hilo doubt that had the year ste de unsatisfactory to preclude, George as the moat in Leresting part
hs of the hearty laugh and good hourt, ad adequate supply been forthcoming during the payment of my dividend. The dimlan career. The wild oats period is a Mr J. S. Boulton Dr. T. G. MoFarlan "had boon going in to save life during the past few years they would, kove bad tion in the garsinge has beon sariona, leave any of plessis, Rind the life of mindy+ | Mr &; Delpon Dé, & Mrs McGlamry :
fren circulation, Her Majesty's Governmout fag only a pet amount of £8,012 4s, 103, to even when muscled with special sharian Met Mm Goo, ErkleyMe A Mournal o beneuting to the extent of some 12 per the credit of working sccount, while the the lot of the young Frine, Vice-Consal P.Gavathir W. On Nash cent., I am informed, on the cast of pro- heary tall in the rate of exchange with considerable measure of youthful gaiety millest Mr & Mri O. A. Fope anotion Mr Rickett, the goal of the China hii rendered it nevestary to plate no in its train. The son of the Queen Hongkong and Shinghat Banking Corpor less than £137042 66-3nd to the dabit of have all been hard workers, and slickr G. Hatly Capt. Reynell
Me Fred. R. Johnson children 10 days fo ation, has kindly farmlabed me with the Profit and Loss Account. The favourable letto duty. It doubtful jy Mr Mrs Geo. Holmeskin Rodwell and a Me F. Schneider vest- following maniorandum on the subjost position of the Underwriting Account has gentleman goes through such a fatiguing Rev. C. Jproo
Mr JR Joyco
Mr-M/H. Taenione In 1800 the bank importot $15,000 andled the directors to transfer £31,675 24. Sally round of suvial labour as dose thro
BER.CL. Weigle worth of Hongkong subsidiary coinage for 11d. to the credit of Profit and Loss and Prince of Wales The Duke of Edinburgh Me Kollack the Chinese authorities, and in 1893 the latter about je finally closed with a master of his duty as a sailor. Ho har Me O; Labrad $150,000 worth on the same accent, the balanceat oralt of £1,086 24 varied put in his full res time, and his * steps" have boon petals, rather than unduly inst shipment being in August of that year, forward to the present petriniszte
Prince George of Wales pehen an order was lasted that the Canton
The onuses of this unsatisfactory position rapid. Bo with of their lower touch, were to be taken et par the uppressedented lana in Exchange footsteps of hig sundle. Prince Alfred, from with the Hongkong colum. From that time Agcoret the year 1912 brenght no cadet to midshipman, from midshipman to H. W. BIS
in sub-lieutenant, thenes through the sacsos- M2 C. 1. Bat Tainous depression we have had no further orders for the latter.
relief to
the be now holde He has been well trained, Ladeed The requirements of small silver for this trade from which the shipping interest sive grades of that rank on to the position Mee J. O. Brennan ities imported $350,000 werkli of Canton want of employment, for shipping all any public reception at Government amall oglas, and this being incuietost, the world has been rather intensified. In of the world, though more closet, per- Mr A. Cumming House, cynical residenta faney that the new wiat in being established s Pagoda China the local trade has been decidedly bad, haps, in the Mediterranoan and on the Me . B. Dagon Quesa's Bepresentativo must have sean Anchorage. I have no doubt but that and not only Eave low rates of freight had orth American and West Indian stations. Me and Mrs R. Dixon Me K. Monggoy large amount of the Hongkong coinage to be accepted through the competition pre-Be han som it blow high and low low; could have been placed in circulation had vailing, but the amount of cargo offering has end so far as imufficient technical know Me F. East the Hongkong Government boca able to been insufficient to employ fully the large ledge should be the appointmanus,. there Mr W. E. Van Epo
it I wrote and telegraphed re- quantile of tonnage new running of the is no reson why Prince George might Mr B. Forsyth supply to our Hongrond offer and the Coast and the river Youglaze. Teoreaved not be summissioned to a battle ship Mr E. J. Olist reply was nearly always the same, viz., the difficulty in collecting freights whed due and beat to thrand time zeela of Mr Greene
During the naval - the Spania coast, I do
bae alia besa experienced, Government could not supply.f think there is the least chance of the Since the commencement of the current maneres on the Irish coast three year Hongkong small orin coming to the front year it cannot be enid that cargo bas henome ago His Royal Highness, then holding
anb-lisatenial's rank, was given command Mr W. G. Allen much more abundant, and the earnings a aguio.
still appointing
The company is again fortunate in having
i
Po Fullarton Henderson, J. B. Dough. That it is a good thing to know that H. E. That if it be true Chief Justice Clarke has | Mint coins, till then unpopular on account of affalia aro suficiently apparent. Besides He followed closely in the professional Mr R. Murray Adam-Mr E. J. Hagens
tries Captain Burniej Commander Hastings,
Most V. H. Deacon, E. C. Ray, &c. The prayers for the dead were road by the Right Bar. Bishop Bardon and Rer. R. F. Gobbold, and the following music was played by Mr C. F. A. Bangster, organist of the Cathedral Franz Schubert's Grand Fancral March in Flat, and Mendelsson Funeral March in C.
The tallest tree on earth, so far as knowo, isa gum tree (Busalyptus regnans) in the Cape Otway Range, Australia. It is $15. fest high. Gam trees grow very rapidly; one in Florida abot up 10-foot in font years with atom one foot ja diameter, and an- other in Guatemals grew 120 foot in twelva years, with a stom foot thick. This is at the rate of 10 feet a year, or nestly a foot per month.
Cats panengeek wrriving at New York (touriste excepted) are getting sunoyed by being compelled to answer, in writing, nineteen questions, such as are propounded to the storage passengers. Thoy era «TD- quired to state whether they are panpere, paid their onavicis, or polygamists, and who passage money. A strict comphance with the new law also requires the gathering of the passengers in groups of thirty, for the convenience of the Customs officers. Even the authoritien admit that the regulations are irritáling and impracticable.
..
PRINCE" Henri d'Orléans, in a forthcoming book on Tonquin, passes movere strictures on the indecision and mismanagement which ho has observed there during his two visits.
the Governor takes a deep interest in these subjects, and asked for at expression of eptulon by the Chamber of Commerce on
the matter.
That the meeting of the Chamber was fairly
satisfactory, and the report of it shows the members who took part in it knew
what they were discussing. That the Chairman (Mr J. J. Keewick) put the matter of making the Japanese yen's legal tender very fairly when he said 'it will' be deemed but half a trebaura of nafety." That the real remedy (if a remedy is possible). is a British dollar, coined by Britishers ių our own miste
Thai Me Sharp's idea of getting the JQ-
panem to coin a British dollar and make it: legal tender in Japan, while we in return made the Japanese yen legal tender in Honglong and the Straits, was more in- genious than practicable.
That the Japanese are not likely to do any
thing of the sort, seeing that Hongkong and the Straits are making free use of the yen already.
That I do not thinks the notion of paving the way to Treaty revision by the Queen'e Head in at all practicable, and there Faes Bomething lacking in the pro porision.
over the signature Bevenue' hit off the small-coinage trouble very comprehen- sibly.
While endorsing the mooniums of M.That the sensible letter by a orrespondent Hermánd and M. Uhailly Bart on the Eng lich system in Asia, he remarks that France, without imitating England, might simply revert to the admirable method formerly pursued in Cochin Chins, sud by justifies his criticings as being inspired by what has ever been and will ever be my
country," nele object, the greatness of my
That the local Government, or the Crown Agents, or the Secretary of State-ar whoever is responsible for the miserly iamo of the Hongkong subsidiary seinage
can say what they oboore by way of excuse, bat their inaction shows that they have failed in their duty to this Colony and to British interests in the Far East. That, an My Keswick said, the supply of subsidiary coin has not been kept up, and as a 'reault • the Colony, is now flooded with coins from the Canton Mint of the value of which there is no guarantee whatever.'
declined the Chairmanship, that will add to the Governor's difficultion." That as the Queen's Birthday and the
child
PEAK HOTEL V
Me Thomas Howard? Mr V. Kofod Mr W. II. E. Lozley &lle Maol,con
and family Mr B. A. Monsop Me Medhurst
Royal Wedding-day have passed without district are large. In 1892 the local author has béanolong suffering and has seen British naval life to all parts | Capt. Brotherton Sĩ Men FAX. Main ·
quito mough of the average Hongkong resident.
That the now Commissioner of Imperial Maritime Customs for Kowinon (Mr B. E. Hobson) has arrived, and will take over the dutica from Mr Moleary Brown in a day or two
That Mr McLessy Browa, who has mãe himelt exceedingly popular during híc
not
Mr Rickett citos several instaboes in proof of the above assertion that he was unable
obtain an
to
and family
Mr W. Ramay Mr O. F. A. Sanguler Mr. A.E. Breela Mr E. Tomis
Capt. James Young
· VICTORIA HOTELS NE
Mr Hermet
stay here, gosa to Seoul, where I fancy blame lies equato supply. Where the insurred no loss of importansə for which the constitutional complaint with many sailors, Mr and Mrs Bräuner, Mr à. Lorlino
kind.
all 48 emme diplomacy is needed as administrative ability of a purely fiscal That it may not be generally known Mr Holwen is one of the most experienced of the Custome Commissioners, having gone through most of the campaigns with General Gordon, an laterpreter to the Ever-Victorious Army.
That there are rumours to the effect tho Chinese are getting scared and talk of again blocking-tip the barrier in the Canton River.
That the news from Bangkok may have led to the revival of such a rumeur, although the Mosam, is a long way from the Pearl Riverton,
That. Hongkong has lost a good man and au honest merchant, a thorough well-wisher of the Colony, and a friend of nearly every one in it, by the death of John Steward Lapraik.
That his burly form and smiling face will be sadly missed by suaoy a resident here, and bis maxy good qualities and his belp- Ful deode wilt Inng be remembered in this Colony.
BROWNIE.
I am not prepared to say, but it Underwriting Account is Hable, and this im- seems a matter of regret that Hongkongmunity from serious disaster has continued up coinage which had a fair opening before to
quently been presible to make the transfer in this district should have lost its chains to the present this in 1693. It has conso awing to its being unobtainable in sufficient aboro referred to for the credit of Profit and quantities. I aus informed that the mint Loss. The test has been maintained in its for
credit is due to the captains a
deandofficers for the est op at Pagoda Auto above is already usual sficient order and repair, and every Viceroy's decision as to whether operations care with which the vessels have been navi are to comrarnos at once is exported in a gated, especially in the rivers, which during The past year has been rather mere diloult few days.
than usual. On many occasions the steam or failed to reach Tientsin for want of water, and a considerable additional expense in lighterage of their car was thus canard in
The steamers Lok Sang and Tak Sang, which were referred to in the inat Report a having been purchased, have now been added to the list of the company's Best, No other changes have been made in the list. These vessels are perfortaing their work in a very entisfactory manner, and when business becomes more brisk will be found a way useful addition to the flat,
PENINSULAR AND OREIENTAL 3.N. 00.
The one hundred and fifth balf-yearly general meeting was held the 13th Jane at the Offese, Leadenhall-street: Bir Thomas Sutbarland, M.P., presiding. The Chairman, ia moving the adoption of the report and accounts, isted
character,
; |
Mr T Moshizaki
Mr A. MoritiΠMe Reuse our
Mr C. Boblat
of torpedo hone He has, we believe, Me D. Baillie Nr B. Hyerde over been quite happy in bad weather, Lot. Wm. L. Barr Me Kahne.
M-A. Mackintosh who begin every voyage with a stack of Mr P. Barton mal de mer. The present writer found Me Stephen Jarunughöfe H. Muzeedal worge once, and two hours after leaving Mr Mayorterc himself at the commencement of a long Mrs Farmer port re incidentally eyed, the bridge, and Mr A. Honnan asked a quarter master what had become of Mr G. Harman of his old boats on, replied the man. the captain. Oh, the skipper's got one Mr G. J. M. Harman Mr Boblat
What's that? we saked. Heasinkueen, was the graf reply with a squint ores the weather side at some gray mate's tails in the storm chasod sky. Bat Prince George The went manfully, through his duty as comm- mander of torpedo-boat No. 51. weather was decidedly bad, and sa EDQU after a night and a day in the Black Talos of the Atlantic, the Princess world, bara had some difficulty in nising as her son the young gentlethan who wanted his superior officer, trousers sthead in yellow. Lite booke, patch of white paint over om knee,
other legi
↑ leg, his xorfer buttoned to the
the
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kis apzvieu
tops
throat, fish farmland grain, a rough grey-weep round his neck, and his fate face bagrimed in an amalgam of grease, malt spray, and oral dust.
BRH
Quotations, Honákona, July 16, 1893 OPIUM-Now Patob, caal 575
dash Ol
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New Banaros, cash, 570 Old call, 510 Now Malwa credit, 580 Allowance, Catties Old Malwa, traditje - Allowance, Unition, : -*** Perelan, yy satinkayo minta- At Allowanowy Cattles, Persian, Paper tied Alloyance, Carties, zais
CHINA COAFT METEOROLOGICAL,
*talice.
BEGISTER July 14-Az M.
Barometer
Temperature
29.88
The report, although sufficiently brief, old 20 he thought, be volled one of brilliant character and although they could not claim that it was of a brilliant he was happy to state that the intorim dividend which they had paid had been well and sudiolently eumed. He need
KLIL THE DUKE OF YORK,
Prince George Frederick Braest Albert, Duke of York, Earl of In bardly call their attention at any length lo
Amiability is the cardinal article of verness, and Baron Killarney, K., Kaysi the state of the shipping trade in this cann try and elsewhere. He had had an Prince George's character. He is not at 4D.Ordo the Queen, Captain Lat Prussian analysis made of the amounts and the seall uppish, and, so far as his own pea
talion West Yorkshire Regiment, gea turse by steamship companies which were tensions of rack go, might pass through Dagoon Guards, Hon. Calone! 3rd "Bat- published in this country and is foreign half of his life orden The Raya! fact Middlesex Bile Volunteers," and "Saflok for last year, and he found in Princ fie never obtrudes the Tommy Cavalry Os born at Marl.
in borough Batre in 1960
Until bis lineas Wostock every instance that they had buttered from upon those with whom he is throwi
and, contapt. His manners are frank without two year or so ago, he, was bolípted to Tokio poor trade, inadequate revenus, therefore, insignificant profit. It followed being obtrusive. They might be described enjoy a cxcellent constitution. A Magmaki that their own report on this occasion was a boxhomis, with strain of shymost commander: he was extremely popular with Shanghai. 20,87 02 pitched somewhat in a minor key, bat, crossing his mailer's heartiness. Perhaps if his men; nad by his forethought an Foochors looking at the whole of the ironstarees, was that Nature bad a band in defining his apparently irreclaimable sUARIOUS WAS TO- Any 1929.74 30 bethought they had reason to be satisfied disposition, or that the fact of being intendently pat on the to petty officer't 29.78 be that they won able to do this silk prodused an openses of fant. The Prince simply put to the test Amping to doolare the usual interim dividend, and bearing, or it way turn all risen from kind word at the right moment. His Canton 20.7 also to show that their own stops were not association with a proverbially light Royal Highness bas taken gracefully to the Hongkong .70 at a discount, but, on the contrary, talsing hearted body of gentlemen. Be the case round of social and civic courtesica, and in Vick Posi That if the British officials responsible for
To the Editor of the CHINA MAIL." ab average of the preferred, they stood at what it may be it one or all of a fair speaker. It is probable that his
Gap Rook 29.71 salaothing like 60 per cent. preminu. As these possibilities, it is certain that Prince profession will see little more of the Dako Macao 29.71 90 this small-coin blunder had entered into a
Hongkong, July 15.
they had taken ad- Gargs has about him that scutir fame York, except in those homo commands Hoihow ... 13.70 NO Esp, I shall be gled if you will allow regarded shipbuild fois state of the market which his elder brother, with his inefface which offer pendent channel of usefulness everet arrangement with the Provincial
vantage of the
Haiphong. 39.64 88 Authorities of Kwanglang to suppress theme to suggest to the committee now quer both as regarded Inhour and materials to able consciousness of the great stato to to the cherished person of one who te Baliuag 29.80.86 Queen's Head, they could not have ing into the above matter, to go a step contract for two new vessels, the Caledonia which he had been born, with his soldierly destined for the Crown-27e Kobay Mr
further and bring to light the gross jus succended better than they have doua in ties with which the lighthouse-keepers who and the Japan. In order to maintain their training, and the effect of military Light came out a year ago to take charge of this feet at proper level it was uses insing, and his early social responsibilities faveur of the Dragon.
sary to contract on the average for lacked. Prines Eddie, sometime known That, contrary to the opinion of Mr Jackson, I understand that the Harbour Master something like 10,000 to 18,000, tons of sa Daica of Claromon, was to the outer world every year, and, of course, they su stiff and seemingly thisdainful, but paremaal I think any resolution about the Hongkong has kindly expressed his sympathy with deavoured to do so when the market was by, or in reality, he was exceedingly grass subsidiary coinage would have been in fall the mon; but he cannot do moto. For most favourable for that purpose. As re-ful and considerate. He, indeed, recalled the Government to treat thisen mon with garded cargo vessels, it was essential that with messured application to himself, Tea- harmony with the question of a British what in little less than ornal injustice is,
companies who went in for freight should be Dollar.
they foolish policy, for the Trinity House satho-able
We are glad to observo (Brys the British Medical Journal) that the Home Office has at last given effect to a suggestion mado by the Parliamentary Bile Committee with a view of bringing the provisions of the Oaths Act to the police of cangistrates, coroners, and other minor jodistal author ties, who in many cases professed ignorance of the law when medical witnesses propos to take advantage of the recont law by which aby person is entitled to be sworn without kissing the Book. We bote from time to time, under legal advice, pointed out that the right was absolute, and did not depend in any way apon sa claim as to religious belief or apon the statement of any reason, good or bad. The sanitary reasons for the change are therefore obvious cough, but it does not follow that becnos8 a book is clean the witness may be compelled to kiss it Asquith, to whom appeal was made as the constitutional officer in each matters, has now issued an official circuler explaining and enforcing the Act. The circular is addressed to the judicial officers in communication with the Home Office.
LOSS OF THE GERMAN STEAMER AMIGO.
and Co., a copy of the following telegram received by them this evening from Saigote S
Gorman Steamer Amigo has been ran down and bună. Captain coming other Steamer.
CORRESPONDENCE. THE GAP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE INQUIRY.
station are treated.
was the reason why they built new pargo
men from their own staff, an that Hongkong into these largs contrasts they might fre- will have to get their future lighthouse- keepers somewhere else.
Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple laith than Norman blood." Yet as lads the two Princen wore throwa
門
PASSENGERS EXPECTED,
1189m2 118 1825
Manila..... 99.75 R6 0.8. James -
July 16. 10
WPostock.
Por P. and O steamer, Victoria from Toldo
Per F. and O. steamer Falella, from MacO29.798
Haiphong. 20.71 52 Bolmao.... 29.85 85 Manila..... 0.8.James 20.99
London, June 25-Lo Shanghat: Mr A Nagasala!... Curcio. To Hongkong; Mr and Mrs J Shanghai.. Humphrey and two children, Second Foosbow.. Lieutenant W. F. Robinson, Acting Amoy.... 29.89 will fiad, a penny wise and pound able to undertake large operations, and this son's no lines:-
Lieutenant A. E. Catobler, Captain J. Anping.... 29.84:
Swałow ... 20.53) We have received from Messrs Wieler/ That any appearance of hostility which rities will, I learn, refuse to send out more veseels, for unless they were able to enter
sculd possibly attack to snob a resolution
Per P and O. steamer Arcadia, from Canton
Hongkong 28.80 would have been a tacit soto of cenuare
quently find themselves unable to obtain for years together in the game ata os boned London, July. 7.To Shanghai: Mrs Ric- Vict. Fes upon the disgraceful insctivity and gross
The men, I am informed, were induced leved the limited amongt of freight which They were trained ar,nava) cadete ou board | körby and child, - To Manila : bit Fulober Gap Book 29,77 negligente of the British authorities, Im to leave positions in which they were eam they required in order to load their mail of the Britanic, at Dartmouth. To the men
ing from 20 to £6 10/- a month, wihateamers, Their freight bastasis amounted and subordinate officers they were know Loudon, July 21-To Shanghai: Mr and Hollow
By their brother cadela perial or local.
to between £1,000,000 and £1,250,00. the song Frinces
called Spist' and 'Herrleg Holmes. To Hongkong: Mia Thomp cottags and garden and the privilege of
inalways a
Wara a msanire of rough and enn- That Imperial China cares little or nothing having their wives to live will them. TheyThe new ship, the Caledonia, was to be the they were
largest and the swiftest steamer that this There
For P. and O. aleamer Parramatta, from for asinage, and had it not been for were told by the Crown Agents that they company had ever yet built. Sings the year ning humor in the group of London, August 18-To Bengkong: Mrs
wore personal and maring Viceroy Chang Chih-tung and ons or two would have all the same advantages as they 1831 they had spent within e fraction of of war, and there
of lices enjoyed in England, which they natural
ainees in this sobriquet. Their . B. 8. Tooque. of the more active mandaring no attempt inferred would inslado having their wivesto £2,000,00 on mail, steamers approaching loyal Highnesses joined in whatever fongs
Per P. and 0. stormer Brikimais, from the class of the Caledonia, That mm-in- would have bees made to sweep the small share the quarters allowed to them. Thuir studed the cost of the Caledonia, which was wars about They were boys Hest and London, September 1-To Shanghai: Mra
salary was to be the ruanificent sum of 675 not get paid for, but for which they had the princes sfterwards. They frequently led Hopwood, and two lady friends. *month. This was
massaid to be at
at 3 which resources in bed and reads, Should the the ravels, and always took thale full shate That, unlike mercantils competitors, the of course meant a substantis) rise of wages.
essential to
to such a life was traced to
Rhangisi: Mr Knight Gregson. coins In their agreement it they berdietan bastionis done try assed to of censure. A good deal of practical joking
#boold not their crawled away like frightened ours before on arrival here they were refused to co of France or Germany ar, perhapon lately shore as well as on board the ship and Me Lo Birk and two childrat: To -waves with them, then he bojieved it would fall into she bands incaption of either Sprat or Baghalun, from Marseilles, August 20.-To Per Kingain Line steamar. Frene, from beth, Queer pranks wer' played on America, or
Hamburg, June 10.-To Tokohama: De mon right. In addition to this hardship.
had from their slender means to find because the latter sountry
a considerable disposition to spend some por tain Marryat did not live for nothing, Hongkong, intimating that there had beenThat verily we are governed by men of home for their wives in Hongkong, of its nurplus tovenda in sübeidieing his horses die with bim. His humpar has | Hiegu: Me Bernh, Bolte, Mrs M. Land hundredths, PA
tion
No mention is made of the crew, and
we, therefore, presume they har all been saved According to telegrams
previously received by Chinese the steamer left Saigon for Hongkong on 12h inst.
THE FRENCH IN SIAM.
her might's telegram was received from
Queen's Beads out of the market.
doughly upholders of the Britiel
Saigon by M. Gugytaud, French Consul in
the head of the awful Dragon.
an engagement on the previous prening, at
the mouth of the Mensm, between French
and Siamese vessels The French were victorious
foresight, and overflow with the smones of true statesmanship.
free of cost.
That there are anours about, to the effect
that the Government has virtually decided
its entirety
theth
bat
com-
to
Four
of
Wind
On the 15th at 110 mm: 126.10. ill defined depression in China Fea fo moter unsteady Gradienta modazate, fet E. winds. Sex moderate, Weather show-
F. G. F100, First Autant Hongkong Observatory, July 10, 1893,
ery and squally.
ali, and to the level of the ran in inches, Lane,
· 1. Baxamreen, reduced to 12 degrees Fahred-
1. Tamrakaronny to the shade, të dogres Fabrentials:
B. Hummery, la percentage of astoralion, the ONE BOL OF CLARK's B4 PILLS inmidity of a aturated with majataan belig
4. DIRECTION OF soonil 6. Fonca or Wimpy wodording to Brambert
Tavan Dar-Harbert Clifton's new system
“Barve, in kathan destha and hundrečkka,
HONGKONG REGISTER
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they had high mettle, who are possessed of great beress in England a cottage is always oscar ships. On a former occasion he had bad posterity in fleet of gun zoos, and Rothe
found, with little garden whore posible alluded to the imposing premises which they the young gentlemen who had their home The men are off duty in turns for four were building for themselves in Leidenhall on the Britannia sometimes beltered le street, they baring acquired the ground instruction. Many to the stories told of ten days at a time, and they are allowed lease of an anner to their pensant pramines this naval schoolship. On one occasionanted to pure all discharges from the cy Wo, be two place The taingrens was, recaived about sight
only 810 to find room. When ou duly ofcc, having been despatched from
to proceed with the Frayn Reclamation is they have to live chiefly on Lianed meats upon very favourable terms, and they were couple of marlinspikes, with the enda inge Urinary Organs, in either fer (ecquired or and as these come from England the past spending apwards of £12,000 in selling niously porad, found their way into the constitutional), Gravel and Pains in the Salgou at four o'clock by Admiral Human.
but this decision, and is about double that of the same artioles of building that reminded, him of Venetian bed of the First Lieutenant, and, of course, Back, Guaranteed free from Mercury., STATE OF WHATKRE, 4 blue sky, a den The intelligence is somewhat vague, and
grounds upon which it may be based; food bought fresh in Hongkong. The man Palusa on, the grand-Canal. They would led to a great now," and a young gentle. Bold in Boxer, 4s, 641, cach; by all Chemista tasbad alouda, d delasiling anime, Flog; y gloomy,
Save £80 a year by the relinquishment of mean was suspected. But what the joke and Patent Mediane Venders throughout hell, lehiatus, o greciankaming her were told that living was cheapin Hongkongi exigin premives now coupled them, looped setions Prince George and up the Work Fropriators Tax LawsoLS AND Rally, Bain, a song etiander, a vinkka while a move towards notual hostilities by
have yet to be made known in official form so it is, but not living on tinned assals The loss of exchange in the half-yose nadar had food bi parlant like BAND COUNTEs. Ive Company, Liner wi sither party may be reckoned of im- That it is an epon meszet the Director of Gap Rook is earning for itself the repute portance during the existence of the
Pablie Works, rightly enough, exercises of being very unhealthy, as two of the at fr review bad been £7,000, or compared with This consisted of all leave stopped for cola, ngland:
know to their cost, they having been kep: £50,000 for the corresponding period of last wask, and confinement to the school deck.
at complately curing all föring of Deafnssa, Read, year. The los apen freight would have been On another occasion there was a jesi në pressnt atrained relations, there does not
very great influendo in such matters.
under medical treatment so that the third considerably granter had it not been that they known as Sawhones, though this onerad the world. Numerous unsolicited testimonials, to hand to justify the assumniion that the That, although that officer must be looked Į in deprived of his leave. The fierca raya bad lessened the barden by the lower cost the expe946 of the doctor, plessau Nedves, do, is being recommanded all over appear to be sufficient evidence.
uite later, when the two Prices we op- Thomas Richards, Esq. of Dawlish Birsel, upon both by the Government and the of the sun make the rock like a farcisco, fuel. a roviewing the situation he#SELU | Woyage together in a brigata? Tan, surgeon'), Serath Lambeth, S. W writes (after being » |
thải the men BIO Dublined: ta their reem surprised that their delicietoy as courpared community as possessing great ability and Nor does a blade of grass grow on the rock spccial knowledge, it need hardly be said The men barn naked in vain for an allow with last your was not couldotably greater was known for his hutalities and bis enumer for 18 years) have had my Barometer that his opinion should weigh against the aucs to keep their wives in Hong that the figures which he had referred afternoon tead. And while she ship and expeditions suply int8fad, as 3 are now able to Temperature
But why other lighthouse-keepers ladiated. The external trade of the country lying at a colonial port the officer of his kone quile well, be without the last effect, and Humidity in the employ of the Hongkong Gar- hadbeecina mast kaskward and unprosperout morning atolla turibed to see painted the feeble noises to hand here not appeared Direction of
urse, the rates for freight in big letters over the doctor doar the again. Pamphlet wider full advice post free, That whisperings are also going the roundsrument should be allowed to have their banderas for sums up the words, Ladies Onlin Suspicion West Clifts, 51, Upper Kennington Lane, Lag-
that Mr Cooper has decided against the families with them while these men are not, pancial situation, they had as through round, but in this case no one was naglod: Can, 5.5, TORO
is a question that requires to be looked into, Tramway on the lower levels, and it will expecially as no allowance for rent is made very indifferent year, that had left its out, and so no one thought it pemary sa the pleasantries The local apothecary wonid be curious if the Government has killed HE the Governor is insisting on economy evidences lying all around, and the position oun ap At Dartmob there were way
been disagreeably
accentuated by rigadly (excepting, of course, as regarde the bull Colacise. He to find mortar bed that enterprise on the one-man veto. * expenditore on Mountain Lodge), but this
went which I have referred to should be the would be the outcome of the preret fican- barter's pale acting as the badge of the lot of men who are faithfully doing their sial yaar, but, at the same time, he did not obemist. Prinen Geordie, as bee can- duty, although under a keen sense of bitter feal any discouragement, as to the result, head on the forecastle, came in fors all are cause, upon locking back, and seoing what both sif suspicion and blessing on those frisky injusticeYours,
B. D. had happened before, the retures of the occasions, but there was a theory
persent year, unsatisfactory as they are, originator of many
engagement, as it has been called, wa very
much of an encounter after all. The gun-
boste must have been endeavouring to pro- coed up the river, when they were attacked-
by six Siamese vaanis and slo fired upon by the Paknam Forts The French gun- boats were more than able to hold their own, "according to Admin! Humann's telegram, though sustaining some slight loss of men,
world.
and in spite of the fact that impediments That I hear the promises lavishly made by is no reason why asah iniquitions trent spoke with wonsiderable difidence na to what's the door of the local hair dreant, and the
had been placed at the mouth of the river and that their opponents used torpedons against them, proceeded up the river to Bangkok, whers, it may readily be anrumed, the incident has created considerable sensation The Inconstant is commended by Captain Bory and the Conds by Captain D'Arlige du Fournet
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