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Saturday, JulT 21, 1894.

Tax M. M. Salasie, with the next French mail, left Saigon at 2 p.m. to-day, for this port.

Asommato Government notification there will be artillery praction from Stoascattere Island in a westerly direction and from | Belber's Battery in northerly and north- Tan Tonkin pirates have kidnapped an-westerly directions between 8 am, and other Frenchman, M. Carrère,

noit noon on Thursday and Friday next, 28th Langton.

and 7th inst. All vemela are warned to keep clear of the ranges. The inhabitants of houma near Balcheza are warned to keep

MAJOR-GENERAL Digby Barker is, wo believe, going to Paking probably not month, on short lavo. His term of office their glass windows open during practice, in Hongkong expirne next spring.

A OKINAWAN who had been a cock on board H. M. B. Pallas was fined 810 by the Magistrate to-day for being possessed of a quantity of Nasal property-poem and similar articles.

For selling liquor without a licence in a Wallington Street Coffee-shop, Rosa Mislis was fined $25 at the Magietenoy yorterday, on the prosecution of Detective Sergeant

Holt.

STORM WARNING.

THE CHINA MAIL.

That the object now gaised by De Cantle could have been accomplished by the pen- ning of one letter of say ten lines to the Board,

That the statisties should have bean im- proved long ago, but the Government did not know the. Plague was coming round hore so soon. That the Asting Director of Public Works has burst Bike the aurora borealis upon the horizon of the Sanitary Board. That he has set himself the pleasing daly of farntebing the persinge in the debates of that body, and be appears to be sus-, ceeding so well that ha bile fair to ha- Dome the Joker-Otoral of the Board.

The following notice is issued from the That, owing to kin nationality and the hap Observatory;~~~

py bent of his disposition, this duty sila lightly upon the worthy Mr Tooker; and I am told bis ademt hans vastly relieved the monotony of the Board's work. That the one idea which occupies the mind of the noting head of the. P. W.D. ls, that everybody is bent upon attacking ble department, and that he is there to defend it.

On the 21st at 11.6 #:-Tho depression appears to be moving slowly towards W.N.W. Strong B. to S.E. winds with rainsqualle probable here.

THE PLAGUE IN HONGKONG. The following are the statistics of the Hongkong Hospitals for the twenty-four hours to noon to-day >—

An export cattie-lifter' who had got a bullook over the harder from Chinese to British Kowloon yesterday was pursued by the animal's lawful owner, and was sent to the gaol for two months by the Magistrate lo- day on a charge of unlawful possession.'

The small Colosso steamer Wing Fat, swued by the Kwong Yuk Loeng frm of Haiphong, left that port recently for Hongkong, to undergo repaira. On fear- ing Hoihow she met heavy weather and was driven ashore a total wreck.

Tasse was a great entery at the wxodus of Chinese from this sciony when the plague was on the increase; but whether ibat particularly injured or benefited Hongkong may be judged from the Police Oeart records then and now. Petty offences are now twice an ILUSTRATOVIA.

Adminions... Underinst-

ZAMİ ....

10 13 14 42

105

The following are the statistics of the Lal. chi-kok Elospital for the 18th and 19th înt. published in the Chinese Mail (Wah Toz Ta: Po:-

Admissions Death Discharged

16th 19th

8

4

2

3

5

D

Saat to Cauton by Gun-

bost Kwangler Under Treatment.

Q

17

69

48

'FRAGRANT WATERS' MURMUR

That the fansiest features of the Sanitary

That Afr Tookar has not yet made any valu- able contribution to the subject matter of any debate in which be hai an yet takes part.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL MEETING.

The following report has not been forward. ed for publication by the Aoting Colonial

Becratury --

NOTES OF EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL,

Public Works.

The Hos. W. M. Goodman, Attorney General

WILD BE \STS AFRAID OF MICE.

As a matter of fact, Porta- by you who are present here to-day, by remonstrance. yen who are favoured me, as gùu have, guese law provides only for free emigration,

Some women may be plaskier than other al uur germission to address you here, migration under which each smigrant some are, in fact. Dus member of the fair today, by virtue of which permission and pays his own pasango-an impossibility sex personally known to the writer was on the strength of which favour I am, as 1en the passage is as costly is to recently brave enough to roul a party of way, prosent bere before you to-day- Brazil. But waiting this point, and ad- burglars who, one evening during har The Asting Colonial Secretary-It will miting that emigration to Brazil ander suit boabanda absence, entered the house o be to-morrow very soon.

able conditions raight be desirable, Chins business Intent. This lady, however, who Mr Francis protested against the Hipaald, under the circumstantes detailed had thus given proof of her nerve and

above, and assing that the emigrants were presence of mind at a trying moment, wa

not residents of Masso, but subjects of the Torient cawand in ather circumstakker, Ohian, have failed in one of the primary and should a mouse happen to run across duties of self-especting Government to the room, would at once jump on a chair its subjects had she remained silent. Her and scream likewe, like a woman nually protect was ignored; but no second steamer does at anak times...

Not present- The Hon. F. A. Cooper, Director of Patcy of the Acting Colonial Secretary.

The Acting Colonial SeorstaryIt is not flippancy, it is a solemn and serious fact. The President of the Sanitary Board I Mr Franois going to dunolade with a motion?

The Protestor of Chinese--I believe Mr | ia likely to be despatched. Francis does fatend to say gomething, His Hon. Sir Fielding Clarke, Chel refer it to a sub-ormities of three, to in- The Registrar fimersi mora that wa

Justice.

vestigate and report what it is he wants to get at

The Hon. Lord Knows Who, Colonial Secretary.

Mr A. K. Travors, Postmaster General, Mr C. Ford, Director of Botanical and Afforestation Department.

Mr Franols-As I was remarking, gentle men, I am present here to-day to

The Acting Directer of Public Works-! amendment, that Mr Francia bu no longer present,"

Agreed Bikhe do their duty, amid loud sheer.

Dr W. Daberok, Gauoral Officer Com-teg sanding Typhoon Artillery.

Mr A. Buth, Clerk of Councile.

MINUTES.

distinguished for masterly inactivity could properly be called 'Acting,' he question was referred to a sub-committee to find a convenient shelf.

move

WEIGHTY SUBJECTS.

The Acting Postmaster General mered

CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP. The store in the competition for the obese championship promoted by the Hongkong

Chess Club now standa na bolow;

Howell

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, after some dis-that, as some of the local newspapers are

much heavy roading nowadays, they be ex-Blood That the two letters addressed by the Tercussion as to whether tempotary officialcluded from the right of trauemisiune

wanant Committee to the Government,

through the post. He said that with all France. containing recommendations for dealing with the cares in the infested area and

dull matter they were getting heavy enough emphreya the relominona reports and other fearfully here.. ontside of that area, are most erkaus

to sink, D ordinary mail steamer, and old Hant. tive, and refient greas oredit on the mem-

only be conveyed in specially bailt whale- More bors of that Committee.

back cargo beste.

Agroad. That to my mind the infeated district cannot with safety to the Colony be treat cd otherwise than as the Committer sug- gost.

XSPORIS, ETC.

The following wore laid on the table: Roport from Government Analyst with samples of Hongkong smalls, bottled and labelled Poison to be well stakes before taken.

That it is passing strange and is indicative of the progress made by Japan, to have a competent authority on bacteriology from Report from Special Engineer, enclosing Japan addressing the Hongkong comma-ground plan, longitudinal auction and front nity and the world at large upon the right elevation of Bonham Strand drain, with thing to do to avert the Plague.

life-size model of Plague Bacillus caught in That Professor Kitasate, I believe, fully the act, getting in its fine work.

endorses the action and the recommenda tions of the Permanent Committee, but belio Works, explaining sketch pen of patent trop and draft sebeine to suppress Francis, Q., at an estimated cost of three lacks lack of dignity, lack of sense, and lack of wauther man so good.

farther ne te the catarated and pol. inted soil of Taipingahas. That he advocates the entire removal of the poisoned earth on the ground-floors of the

after the house Board still remain with the officials, and

infected houses, even have been destroyed by fire, so as to secure the comical ways in which they try to

future Immunity from the disease. adapt themarives to the semi-munisipal That the question may now be fairly seked, Whos is Hongkong to be declared a fres Port P

character of the body are very amusing.

Report from the Acting Director of Pub-

GANITATION.

❘

The President of the Sanitary Board moved that the Sanitary Board Oflens be provided with a powerful hydraulic crane.

Flis Excellenes-What is that for? To deal with the ponderous docaments that are overwhelming it 1

The President-No; to lift the Board out of the rand.

Agreed.

ADIGUREMENT,

The Council than adjourned for a wock.

SOUTH CHINA TRADE IN 1893.

Jupp....

Piency

Shepard

Putting it in another form the result of the first round is as follows :—

i Bizohoff

(Gatterrez

11

WOD lost

ย

8 3

Humphreys

Cowen

3 Francis

7

*

Jupp

Cook

$

$

5 Shepherd....

+ 7

6 Hunt

9 3 8

2,

7 Howall

*

D

0

From the trade reports for 1883 publish ad by order of the Enspector General of the Iraperial Chinese Customs (just reagired)

8 Mones*

Besigned. Both players had Inst eight games in succession, Haring completed half the round, a win was scored to the

Masers Dodwell, Carlill and Co., agente That it is quite refreaking to watch the-pro- That the death-rata for the week ending on Excelleney's information fy for your it appears that the Castows sevenue for the players they failed to mest, Mr Moses!

for the Northern Pacific Railroad Co., havO asut a couple of pamphlets dealing with the particular advantages of travelling by the N.PE. The Natural Game Proservde of North America contains information likely to be of interent to sporting wen.

A FRENCH military force of 20 regalare and 60 native soldiers, on a reconnoilring ex- pedition near Loo-kay, was attacked by a band of pirates said to number 300, last month, sad only just managed to escape

rest President, who is now trying to hold the scale of Festica at the Board, while is it at the same time hand in glove with the Governor in seeking a retreat wherein to escape from the flagellation of the Colonial Office.

That it is contemptible to see the Governor's chief adviser, sitting as Chairman of the Sanitary Board, and writing to ask the Lockhart Colorial Secretary what the dickens he means by writing to the (Lockhart) Board in such vagus terms.

with several wounded and all its baggage That later ou we shall have Col. Secretary Lookhart replying, in equally warm tærme, rating Sanitary Lockhart for being so wooden-headed as not to know what he

gobe.

TERE bas boso considerabla' scrapping among the lowest section of the Hebrew community in the last few days, and this morning the police court was crowded with a very unsavoury sodicuce from Ezra Las and ruilar places; the attraction was on

asauli case in which a number of familles were mixed up, and which was adjourned till Monday.

YESTERDAY being the twanty-fifth annivar- sary of the Eastern Extension, Australasia sod China Telegraph Company, Me Law- rence Webster, the Acting Manager in Chian, prosided at a sumptuous banquet, provided by the Company at the Four- kong Hotel to all the European staff by the express win of Sir John Fender, the Chairman of the Company and of the Board of Directora in London.

B

CHINESE ingenuity in framing excuses is a wonderful thing. A member of the nobility, found with a quantity of opium in bía cabin on the Kloungins yesterday, explained to

an opium-smoker, and have no implemants;

boing a "man of letters" I would never be

bimself bad addressed to him. Thas rerily the Bacillas of municipal gov. arament dos not flourish freely on official wit; it gets killed by a surfeit of red

kanė

That: the discussion of the Governor's min- ets to the Sanitary Beard should have been directed by another Chairmen than Secretary-Advisor-Sanitary Lockhart. That there is ruch a thing as an official atcmpting too touch, and it would be better taste were Mr Lockhart, 'admirable Crichton though be may turn out to be, t absent bimself at present from the

Board meeting.

the 14th July last, was, I observe, leon lbwn that for the week ending on the same date faat year, and surely that should count for something in the removal of the infection proclamation from our port,

BROWNIE.

s

Is On Short Love to Japan, speaking generally of the Japagse. Army, Captain Younghusband says:-I think it will be allowed that we bare here a very important factor in the politics of the Far East. We have, in fact, some 50,000 excellent troops, who might in more ways than one

of gresk service to a strong and rich ally like Great This young army, so speedily and admirably raised, like all young institutione. its mettle. Any war, against anybody, and in longing for the day on which it may show on any pretext, would be immensely popular with all classes. Aud if that war chapood to be against China, with the Japanese army, allied with the British, the national enthusiasm would be unbounded. Pesu- niary disability as much anything pre-

little nation

vents this plucky and impetuous) from plunging into war with its huge weigh bour. Remove that disability in other words, supply the sinews of war--and we may count on auxiliaries who are well worthy to fight side by side with British tmops.

The following correspondezse with the Permanent Committee was rend (-

Hongkong, 0/0/00. I have the honour to

that Hongkong in avory smelly place, and there must be something to caile the smells, which may reasonably be supposed to call for remedial nation.

I would respectfully suggest the acquisi-

tion of a hammer and chisel.

I have the bonour to remain,

etc., 650, etc.

The following minutes were appended :----

His Excellency What would the hammer and chisel be for? To let the muells out orin?

The Colonial Treasurer-Probably to penetrate the dense odours.

7

The Acting Director of Public Works The matter should be referred to the D.P.W. Nobody slae ought to interfore. He is the only man capable of dealing with anything

Registrar General-This is essential the acting Colanial Secretary-No, it

departmental matter. isn't.

"The Protector of Chinese-Whether do- partiental or otherwise, it should be so Hed at once.

The President of Sanitary Board-Thore is no need to discuss the question just now; it should be adjourned.

year was only 2.034.008 Haikwan taals, dooreass of 807,598 k, taale, as compared with 1893. The epium revenue declined by 392,038 Hk. tasis, almost 28 per cent, and the loa exports in foreign vesele fell off greatly; there is no record showing to what extent the export in junks increased. Imports of Indian yarn also fell from 157,000 to 121,000 piculo, with no cor- responding increase in junk imports.

For the Komloon district the total trade

Fra mast not, however, be hard on the gantle sex. Women are not slona in pos- horror of mis sað stoli likë, as Tessing witness the peculiar remilia of some recen experiments on big animals in a menagerie. introduced into an elephant's enkiseura, In the first of these mouse whe whereupon the ponderons sainiai stoed first of all motionless, staring at the intruder, apparently helpless from fright. Then elevating his trunk, be trompeted landly and fled to the farthest corner, hiding hla bend ar un ostrich is by the wg. erroneously supposed to do to escape danger. His excitement and fright e05- tinued until the pony cues of it; ma removed, and it was name honte sfterwirke bofore be quieted down.

J

A similar experiment was made with Ligere. A fise specimen of a Bengal tigece waeroposing gracefully will extended pawa when a mouse was slipped into the cag This affoot was astonistilog: Fixing Els eyea on the monie, the hage snimal alawiy drew back his paws and raised himent to sitting posture, trembling ribly and uttaring radarniol howls the whole time. Then

with one spring he

he jumped to the and farthest of the

age, where he blinking, overy now and again giting vant | to his feelings in a miserable crypto

The question was woulă a lion, the king of beasts, behave in a a similar mannet: All doubts on that point were soon sokkiedi, for a couple of rate were introduced Inte the cage which contained two lieu rodents were aggressive, and immediately started attacking the wild kensläp and although by one stroke of the paw the flows might have put an end to the life of tas invaders, they preferred to run away. Round and round the nga they radad, Lious ruuming sa though for dear life, and the them. This continued until one of the zats parsning and making matches nå als was accidentally trodden upon and driven out of the onge, killed by the beasta z

the other was

Apparently only the larger wild animals resigning first, Mr Howell scoured a point hare this decided horror of radonte, Ear wben a trial was made with a puma and a It is to be regretted that Meses Pollock, the latter was no sosner put into the and Reid were unavoidably compelled cage than the pans, with the same unerring to retire from the tournament. Both leap that makes for a motion, EREADE stood a chanos of winning. The tournand want the lifeless body spisning

the Tho ment was commenced for the purpose of

of the lion, psonliar aversion classifying the members of the Club. The and elephant to wire std rats has

attributed to variótu causes. certainly result of the play, however, is not conclu- looks like fear, yet there is another and sirs, for Mr Moses is undoubtedly a perhaps more feasible solution. It has been proved that large boasts of prey have stronger player than many who have

great dislike to the odour of rodents, and even if introduced into the cage in explained that the pecuilar odour affects covered box, will "zemble visibly. It is certain very sensitive nerve, and tasulis in

was the largest on record, the Sgures show baston him, whilst Hz Bischof is not so ing an increase of over 11 per cent, as demo-strong as his unbeaten record would seem pared with 1892. The principal increase to indicato.

was due to keneane being more and more The following drawn have been made for en moule feeling of repainton. It in kina

carried in junka instead of steamers. A reference to the shipping tables shows that next work:- 14,146 steam Isunchen "in ballast "ensored

and cleared at Rumioon in 1893 (in reality they were chiefly engaged in transporting passengers interested in the gambling osta. blishments at Kuylon City and Nam-ui- po) against 7,720 in 1892

OFOF

до

million passengers being carried from Huangkong to these two plnens. Just as the year ended, these establishments closed- The letter, baring been referred back to their doors under orders from Paking, so

that the Permanent Committee, were under one subterfuge or another a consider- gaucosod inregaininga footing auless they. with the following note: The hammer svå chisel ere intended for the use of any high abla dinastion in this steam-launch trathc official who requires a surgical operation to may be lucked for. As to the question to convince him of the true state of affairs, what extent the demand for native opium We have tried everything short of that, may have incresced and improved, con- and

in the districts hitherto supplied from Hongkong, the report saya:-

That I have said it was a blunder for Hte the famous rog, and descendant of stiil there are some who plead ignor-Bequent on the falling-of in Indiau sapplies

anoa.

ProFESSOR Edward Daven, of North Caro. lina, Mr B. C. Winthrop, of Beston (100 of ex-Speaker

of that name), and Soma discussion ensued as to the pro- Escellaney the Governor se have made several leading members of the Historical posal to constrant or obtain the hammer the speech he did in Council, asserting Society of Bealos, are proposing to corand chisel. that he knew nothing about any issaal-memorate the first footprints of the English tury houses.

race on the American Couttuent. Just seven years ago they missed the chance of selebrating the fourth centenary of the beth of the first English baby, Though born nourly a century after Colambas, the baby did what the cavigator never didit trud the soil of the Cortinant. But if the

That it was a still greater blunder to try and got the Sanitary Board mixed up with this confession of outpable ignorance, by directly irataunting the fault was theirs.

That was, I fansy, even still greater

blunder -- un offence

nerous,

idea? Looking anxiously round the Cour- His Excelloney-Has any gentleman an oil-tube; also under it.)

The subject then dropped.

QUESTIONS.

Hop. T. H. Waliohead asked, pursuant to notice :-

Will the Goremment lay on the table a

Double

SECOND ROUND.

JLIST DILW.

Shephard v. Cooks. Cowen & Humphraya. Piercy. Binahof,

Hunt. Francia. Jupp *. Gutterraz.

Hunt . Gatterrez. Shepherd. Humphrays. Jupp®. Francis, Chaka. Pieray. Cowen v. Bischoff,

THE ORIGIN OF

PUNCH.'

of

diegnet, not fear, that makes the animal tramble.

As a proof that this theory is probably | correct, it is mentioned as a fact that a dead monat will bring shout, the same remarkable result as a live one.-Cassell's Saturday Journal.

RELIGIOUS SEEVIOLAS,

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL-Pass Service at

11 o'clock service on the 1st, 3rd, and 6th San daya in the month. Evensong at 6,450 145 4,

UNION CHURCH, Kennedy Road,——Minister.

capable of doing such a thing as smuggling! That the Acting Colonial Secretary, Re- and the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, tated in this one wonderfni man; (8) How attained much saccess, bat it indicates office as an artioled his dreaming of Massot 8 a.M. 7.80A.M. and 9.80 A. Bedic

illicit opium into the Calony. Besides, the

gatrar General, and Chairman of the Nacitery Board, was fully cognizant of

bave obscured the memory of the earlier

and

Beroru Me Clifford set out to join the fotos despatched against the rebale in Pahang the Sultan gave him a charm'in the form of • bracelet, called in Malay Buntar Gelega, which His Highness asked Mr Clifford to wear continually, as it would prove a meses of saving him should his life be in any danger. The charm is si brasoles of unusually large dimensions added with atomes that look like corsellans, stated 20 Hr Athol Mayhew, the son of Henry have been obtained from the bodies of wild Native Opium is, professedly, unboard Mayhow, the first editor of the London animals. His Highness told Mr Clifford

Charivari, is writing for the Sybarite that this charm was worn by

when he of in the Kowloon district, and yet it is a the Canton and Swator Opium firme resort as a boy rather a stubborn opponent had it on ever since, not even allowing any foot that agents representing the largest of history of the most famous English comic was fighting for the napeematy of Paliang journal. Henry Marheer seems to have many years ago, and that he has always anaually to the producing regions of Ewei- of the will of a stern father. As a young of his sons to me it. The Malaga say that chow, Yonnan and Szeukwan, and forward, of

ster, be we under heavy escort, large parcels to marts

was seat to Westminster School, this is the highest honour that the Sultan conveniently situated for supplying the from whence, conceiving himself to have can pay to any one, and that it is a mark of cone line. What becomes of the supplies? bren unjustly treated, ander circumstances his entire confidence in MrClifford.--Strate

themore expensive Foreign-Opium. terio foundation he abruptly absented him narrated in Forshall's history. that his Laste for the Governor's benchman to they cannot have again within the next Mr Cooper is; (3) Where Mi Cooper'e salater on, when Iudist exchange difficulties

against good & marican envants wissed a chance whicbetart drawn to scale showing (1) Where with tho they are boiled down and admired which will be found most dramatically Times. preside at the meeting where the mens eighty years, they may without any further riaus duties are; (3) Who replaces. Mir hare boon ovozume, it will be found that self, with bis chua, a certain Master Gil- bere bed to defend themselves against

bert Abbott A'Beckett, and tramped with 8.53 1. (Roly Communion 2nd and 4th St delay, associate the first Anglo-American

D.P.W. (4) Who replanes Me Native Opium baz gained a fooling in starge so gress, so unfair and so unge baby with the first English settlement on Cooper as

him to Edinburgh. Their presence being days.) Matias at 11. Holy Communion & the the Continent, and that is what they have Copar as Water Authority; (5) Who re-regions where it was not inquired for or

wholly superfluous to struggling bro- have places Mr Ouuver a Draine Fiend; (6) smoked previously."

ther of one of them, in practice sa a the Magistrate to day as follows---'I am not? That I have no besitation in saying that Mrheen preparing to do. The baby was bura WR replaces Cooper as Vice-Presi Faury yed the Upper Red River in 1893 and

MrCooper an Rada Engineers The Mougess report notes that the French veterinary surgeon in Lockhart know full well the reasons why on Roanoke Island, and on the island are

Beckle, the Auld the

Who replacea (7) the Sanitary Benrd wʊald not have done | remains of Sir Walter Balsigh's fort. Cap dent of Bakery But; (8) How many started a smal stoarner, the Hayang; to to their respwotive parents. Subsequently Ber. G. J. Williams-Servicës at 11:00 AM.

runaways were consigned homs more than it did.

tain John Smith's adventures in Virginis, other functions were formerly can run up to Lo-kay. So far, it has not young Mayhew went into bis

and Gr.. father a but found law Boman Captotic Catzerran-On Sundays, oslony with which the names of Raleigh, any people does it now take, giving at the possibilities of the future, for with an abomination:

logue of names and correct initiala indicat properly-constructed steamers alezature be carried away in his pookst tion at 6 r..

be certain Chancery documents which hie seseointed. Part of the project is to soquire different ways are they all pulling, ez ure

St. Joarea's Curzon, Garden Boadovi. 4. welcomed and the site and its ruined fort and to preserve any two or more in harmony?

and patronised by Mengira them for all time to come.'

merchants and would be a paying concern." The father The Acting Colonial Secretary-Good-A contract was also made by the Cravern- contempt of Court,

narrowly escaped committal for Benedictin

the through nese knows! Better ask a p'liceman.

Br. Paran's Beamar's. Chunout, Sailors": ment with Masare Marty and d'Abbadis too's forgetfulness. So young Henry ro Home.--Service on Sunday, as if and

dreaming

ADDRESS BY ME FRANCIS

begin running mail busts in September wired an allowance of £1 week, and 6.30 P.M. The Holy Communion is administer- Mr J. J. Francis, Q.6., said:- Your 1994; and money has been voted to im- was banished. He went to Paris, and ed on the lot and 3rd Sundays in this month, at Excellency and gentleman, baving been prove the river navigation. A railway is by the merest chance took lodgings la 11 on the 2ul mud bit at 7.00 a mont admitted to the favour of addressing pua, also mooted.

house where Barastt, Douglas Jerrold, and on the 4th, at the Evening Barvise. Test Mr Lockhart places himself in a min- of the older members of the change that has it is I may say, and I am bound to say, or The Lapps report alates --

Thackeray, all young men like himself WALAYAN METHODIST CHTSCH-Divine Ser- of one against the entire community come over the altitude the University at say rate I do say, with great pleasure Towards the close of 1892 the Com-were woul to meet and criticise, the world - vio at 10.54 x, is the Wesleyan Chiných,

with their youthful assurance. when he says the Governor. by his Mi- I towards privato theatricals zines the early that I now avail myself of the honour,vanbia Metropolitana da Rio Janeiro,' for Jerrold (the author, it is almeat wsadless

Douglas Wanobai Bate to the Bourd, deer not try to shirke | days of Cambridge thantrlosla. Mr.Bernand (which forde me considerable gratification, the promotion of Chinese emigration to to recall, of the Candle Lectursa") was, the German languags by Pastor R. E. B. Gott his responsibility. whare the ladies played in a tennis tourna Tust ignorance in no exause even in a Goocasful application for permission to performy permision (without which of course, I Breath, and an agency in Hongkong, only married man among them at this time, schalk every Sunday, at 111x., in tba Chapel

vernor, and if he did not know of the Box and Chr. with the awful consciousness need harily say it would have beds of little but the legislative enactments there being) Says Mr Athol Mayhew ganun tek of the Bestín Foundling Hours, West Fobik. efforts the Beard had made to obtain in his own mind that he was keeping bank use, or more probably of no use at all in fourable to such an enterprise, the

"My father had already made up his misé. powers to act, and of the steady official--a project connected with Vilikina and practical sense, kuping for anything of the locus perandi was removed to Macso, and opposition, then he ought to have inquired his Dinah, then rendered very popular by sort) present here to-day before you to the German steamer Tetortes chartered to to take to the pen as a profession. Thackery before he fired off an insinuation against Robson's famous impersonation of Jem speak to you-and of course if I were not pre-convey the emigrants to their destination, was engaged in a half-hearted way in shed- the only body that has done any organis- Bagge. The first step was to get over the sent it would have been dificult it not ab. The steamer wen arrested in Hongkong in ding ink for he was as yet labouring undas ed work to check the ravages of the Vice-Chancellor's astonishment that any salatsly impossible, and, indeed, ultra rires, July on a charge of infringing the Chinese the strange belief that he was destined to be an artist rather than an author; whilst Plague.

thing but Greek or Latin play shall be for me to speak to you, in the adinary Bigration Ordinance of 1889, but was BO intervals along the course. Three tabia Tast to the volunteers of the Sanitary Board in contemplation, though Shakespeare bad, meaning of the word speat, though it quitted by the jury and released. In Harnett was never so happy sa when uphold. Barometer

the unoficial members who have nobly it appeared, been couoaded. Dr Guest was might be used in all manner of meanings September she came to Macro, and left on ing his varione musical theories, with, as he Temperaturs devoted time and energy in fighting this the awfal functionary. He was, says the and with various reservations and min-She is reported to have reached her dustina. than arocchete and quavera. W

17th October for Bio wish 474 amigrants used to put it, pot-hooks and hangere rather Humidity dire disease, pot to speak of the officials who founder and hialorian of the A.D.U., ostions, a to whish, however, I do not in- bave worked like herans in the forefront very grays and serious over it. He did not tend nor will it be necessary I hope and tion, but the actual date of arrival is vari- of the fight it is but poor recompense to know either Box or Gor by name. They were trust and ferrartly bellare it will not be ously stated. The Chinese authorities pro formed frequent topic of debats at Bar Fores ask them to discuss whether or not the not members of the University, any wore necessary to trouble you more than is really tested against this emigration, and the objec nett's rooms. The argument used wank Weather

» into my father's mind. Why shoulda't↑ Ben...... negligence of the Government lies at their than Mr Maddison Marton was a Fellow of needed it affords me. I repeat, unmitigated tions to it were many and serious.

Trasty taliby cican, comio paper be possible in it is true, between Chin Trinity, and so he could not recognise them and undisguised plaissureterecognise the fast was negotiated,

and consideration wad Brazil in 1881, but no provision was England ? courtesy That much of the energy of the forsszor otially Boz and Cox might be, he set that by your

before without

made in it for emigration; and its innde Cottaswold, bis place near Cheltenham, day, wrote John Barnett to me from and his advisers had been spent in the fate out dair character, but he could tat it will be cupceded, whatever else may be quoy and the rispeáilty far a supplementary Codes Woe date of Mikros 21, Tese, core capa

yen to-day (for I I think and his advisers has been spent in the ed to think, very with the very people who have been sonntenance them as performing in this open to question, that there is no possible about desired, had been recognised by when we were sallying furth from the Re saddled with the daty of suppressing the university. He had misunderstood me (adde doubt, no probable, possible over that the despatch to Chins for this purpose of a d'Amboise to dine, your father bought

Mr Bursand), and thought that I had pre-doubt, no possils doubt whatever That the suppression of the Plague would posed a theatrical entertainment to be given am presses here before you today, or at special. Envoy, who was then ea route copy of the Chariners, and read some para

Mesire Box Add Cox (of the London all areas that I have the honour and

the frightful dend-sot that has been made | John Cabot, sad Sir Richard Grenville are ing, their acting titles (10) How tosey madenle mto of freight, the line would other had sent him to Westminster, to file. Mase and Sermon 8.30 7.4. Evening Servios,

opium was found only in the second tier of my box, whereas if I had had anything to do with it I would have hidden it right at the bottom. All the same, it was locked up in a small canket of which he had tho key, sud ho was fined $36 or three month.

Impis is shaad of Mongkong in many ways.

but particularly in the silliness imported

into the amusemcets of the British residents.

▲ Bajak recently gave an At. Homeo,*,

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ment. After the tennis tournament a very

amusing-race was run by ladies. Each

lady running singly to cover a course of 50

4

yards, to throw a tennis ball joto threa

baskete, hung at a beight of 8 feat at even

balls were given to each sompetitor before

*starting, and at each failure to get one into

its basket, the bad to pick it up herself and

try fresh until he either gavo up er mið- oseded in getting the three balls into their respective budizata. Next on the Affinity Dan Struggle in which a lady and gentle- mas Ead to run hand in hand for 50 yards, and then the lady had to chorus flowers from a baskettal ready-cut, make a but tonhole and pin it into the gentleman's cost, while he ate a large bun and drank a clezet- glumful of water with an eggspoon, they then had to back band in hand to the

only glad to reach. Sue couples near

os the Board and its officers by official dve ever since was established, That Me Kokhart, who is getting to be an oldish boy now, was here during the entire period of atruggle and snubs through which the Board has passed, and TR distinguished audience that gathered well that the question put in the at the performanse of the A.D.Q. at Governor's Minnte was nothing more Cambridge, saya the London Daily News of tean a shuffle of the cards.

June 11, must have forcibly reminded some

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door.

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to

has given a humoreas a300unt of his nsane- in accepting the raquant to be by your kind

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persons

I am

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The ures and abuses of fatirical journalism

Op

Flegue

be of far less consequence in a play; written by a Mr Mortán sure of having every appearance of China had no scaredited agent in Brazil to

Brazil had no representative in China, and graphs to me,

aimont- seem than the making out a uses in favoar

the Colonial Offios,

ht

the Government for the delectation of

as the terms

we have no paper of that f being watch the emigrams interests, the country sort in

I remarked, not a Fellow of Trinity. Forty years present in toto, and that there is was in the throes of revolt; and the fact That's good thought, 0 Barestt have elapsed since then, and now ir Leh- many who will care to dispute erable that the company refused to suit the Baerled your father. on has in s starting point which they all seemed room- That Dr Landlie, by writing a second letter dared musical exira- if they do care will have y TOLSTERbl

a. Don

upon the grounds on which to dispute my contention Voy, and the coins by him of the We might call it Johs Bulb,” said I. the Board, bar pantially withdraw stage, of typical gravity of aspect, and of rather us primaty Lepposltion la reflected to Die necessary, naturally tancat

46 : That remains to be taught «of," "mid" Big first letter to that body. started fur the ralura race at all, the That his first lester I of its posturally rained quam And then the rubjest came up again

based

the vital statistics: his Juav round the waist in 'wild dizze en marking, to resume the thread where fared the emigrants (vide authoritatívs | nud i second latter asserts these statistics to be bigh Olympus, or graciously accepting the broke of, as I have already stated and as 1 | offere worse than mieleer, and therefore his first Lady Frincipal of Maida Hall's leap-year said at the very outset, I submit without statement in Hongkong China Mcil of Ster March) equtarded a mostubjectionable clause

leciated Kather, proposal What is more significant adil, the slightest hesitation or difidence but on

| miattar. third is not the only pisca in which the Drama and answernon, believing sa Ida- that ghet

parties The Minoan authondes File Date us were past there and the Stage hats secured since 1864 what I bare to say will reach your ear, and, virtually inaintained that so long as the either of us in Farm, but the Charicari care with the Postor in asserting that ombe na sanitation of any description the author of The Two Yoides calls free moreover, will in point of fack be heard by emigration was conducted in conformity tainly unggened the idea of the ent unless faultloss records are forthcoming.

specs to orb about.

you and will be te some extent listened to to Fortugnoso law, Chine bad no ground of Latifor camiler

gestione exidently found the bus" and

to

Water too mush for them to get thrungh in hurry, and subsided meakly among the

latter was a mistake.

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Temperatures Horazom, July 23, 1894. (Taken at Bears Folanet & Co.'s Premises, Queen's Heads) BAROMETEL A SMA 29,

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spectators, ready in their tura to jeer at the). That mides al ne knew the statistics were de. Doba semble to copland. But Cambridge | the contrary with the utmost confidance transforing the piniorant and hit contract For Tha title Panah was rever thought of by

next unfortunate who filled to devour hin

The Affinity Bug Struggia! would simply *fetoli 'a Gymkhson orowd.

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