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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1806/

Then the Amateur turned to the crickster

next.

And ho nid with a very deep sigh, *When you've made

auslour guma

you can at blus

SPORTING NOTES. It is now definitely arranged that the Interport Riße Match will take place in the last week of October or the first weak in

May we hope you'll came back by and by November This arrangement will suit Shoughai, Hongkong, and Singapore. TheYou are angry, Ince, Mr Betanan replied, conditions are similar to theme of former gere, substantially-Ten men a-side; ranges, 200, 600 nid 600 yards; seven -shots, with two sighting lte, at each distanco finition, any; ville Lee-Metford or Martini-Metford; sarunition, black powder or conlite.

This is so far satisfactory, but I should like to see our beading markomen getting into form.. Sune members turned up st the range on Saturday expecting to receive their rifles for practice and to get some instructions as to tire arrangemasts" for practies: but no rifles were forthcoming This is not quite as it should be. Shigepare has been practisingsssiduously with the Loo Matford for mphtha; I understand the Les Metford is now in usa with the majority of the member of the Shanghai Rifle Associa- tion; whore in Hongkong, within four weeks of the nutch, some of the probable members of the team have not tired with the now weapon. If Hongkong wins I shall be surprised. I quito agree with an old marksman that the Hongkong pro Iables' ought to have been picked wecke ago, and that they ought to live heau in practice together over the ranges long this. Whose business is it? What is the Committee of the Rifle Association doing

Local vyclists have received a strong augmentation. The now. Commodore has brought out no less than five bioycles; he, Mrs Holland and their three children all cycle. We seem to be lucky in securing sporting Commodores in Hongkong,

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or to honour that amateur cricketer mest But in England it's usual, you know,.

Who is paid wither more than the pro,?

THE HONGKONG GENERAL

THE CHINA MAIL.

CHAMBER OF COMMERC At a monthly meeting of the Commitles held at the Chamber Rooms, on the 24th Sopt.--Present: Meuens A. McConachia (Chairman), J. J. Bell Irving, N. J. Ede, iebs, T. H. Whitehead, and R. C. Wilaix T. Jackson, St. O. Michaelsen, N." A.

(Secretary)

If it's mainly for cricket it's also for cash. The minutes of the previous meeting That we're out on this excellent spree..... And as soon as we've worked it for all that, ware read and confirmed.

it's worth

We'll return to Australie-and thee.'

THE, COMMITTEE,

Read letter from MrG. B. Dodwell,

A FRENCHMAN'S VIEW OF HONGKONG.

WEATHER NOTICE. The following noties is issued from the Observatory :---

On the ich at 11.15 h.

quested this branch in forward the folow. ing telegram to London ---

Referring previous telegramny notify Foreign Ofide Chamber

f Camiaerce

M: de Cuers do Cegolin, editor of Le] entirely concura views Shanghai Hongkong Curriard Haiphong, passed through Bong,

A depression Comunicos Cotton Mil's claim terais kong for weeks sin on his way from has appeared over N. Chain with a rapid Japanese Treaty.provided raw cotton total-

and consiliable decrews of presine as frue all exactions with native mills santo Haiphong to Japan in search of health. Shaughni. On the S. coast and in Lavon He has written a very interesting lotter to the router remains steady. Forecast: This message us been forwarded to-day.his paper descriptive of Hengitong, with light variable winds; changeable, shovory,

basis.

It was understood at the meeting of the two Committees that Copies of the minutes

which he was agrooahly surprised. The

of the preceedings would be forwarded to letter is tou long to give in full, so we the Hongkong Chamber of Calusiagos and Wirefore nako this following extracts only - I presume they will be sent by this tail.

Inny as the Shanghai Ommittee believe +] vili, not annoy my restore by giving dateditation by conferving with the Hengits marvellous abonn, for of the island of flrat you will waterially strengthen the them a full description of Hongkong" with

inting the General

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. ·

[Suerard To THE CHINA MAIL']

Lesnos, Sept. 23, 18. THE SOCDAN EXPEDITION: --

LATE TELEGRAMIS. THE JÉW STEAMSILLP,

Come back, Me--Baisan,' the Amateur 21st Supt., anancing his departure from kong Chamber and with the result by Victoria which the British found a Larren OCCUPATION OF DONGOLA BY THE | fore ant to be forced through the wabor,

said;

*Or we'll call you a pro, by an by," But the Batsman just winked and repliet,

'Not for Joe! Do you seu any groon in my aye?"

We still want the result of the last matati to make up the record of the Australians for the fit. Of the 3 matches on the programme, the following results cre known; Won, 10; last, 6; drawn, 8. This is a wonderfully, fins tocol, and the A traliaus have tho alitional satisfac tion of knowing that, they have been heater only when opposed by reprezenta.

SPECTATOR.

the Colony and tendering his resignation.

It was resolvel to defor filling vacancy till next meeting.

NOMINATION OF METICS FOR BEAT AT

LEDIBLATIVE COUNCIL.

Correspondence in connection with tho re-nomination of Mr T. U. Whitched for appointment to the Legislativa Council Isid

on tablo.

NEW MESURAS,

Messrs Wieler & Co., Haftigan, Stedman and Bonnie M. 5. Sassoon. Co. Barvio & Co., The Yokolama Specie Buk, Teti.... Mr H. L. Donnys, and Mr W. Danby were elected news of the Chamber.

Cinnsaittue in London

telegraph-Is, Dear Sir.

(Signed) W. N: TALLOT,

Hmm. Secretary

THE OPENING OF THE WEST SVER

Peking, September 4, 1895.

EGYPTIANS.

On the appearance of the Egyptian Arong near Dungela, several of the Dervishes and their forces fler southwards, and the Man

The Egyptian egy has been hoisted at Dongol. The Egyptians have captured six gun, a quantity of munitions of war and

rock and which they have now planted over with initions of trees. All this is well known. But what one cannot help admiring is that comfortable feeling which pronidel Sir, I beg to adlinowledge receipt of over all British establishments in the.orga-surrendered. The gunboats and cavalry your letter of the 4th Augush requesting nisation of their solonial life. We must not are pursuing the enemy. further information with regard to negotia-admire everything in our neighbours (he Hons with the Chinese Gorerzquent.in. pos

would hot. De a Frenchinzon if he did ) in | ference to the rigning of the Wast River.

In reply tog to state that argotiations that gust.bgespirit which is now the vague are still in progress in London on this but it is vory, plement to have tho point.

All acersary inforandien, Charts, etc.,

vemmina-covered side-walks of (hover's respecting the River and the inland water- Hond where ano may walk al mid-day with-" ways of the two Kwang Poriness, is now

our the abominable mushoone hats we are in this Legatiou, and I expert detailed instructions frean boom very shortly to jobliged to curry nboul in our Tonkin towns commenco negotiations---1 km, No. Your if we do not wish to run the risk of su-

bedient Servant.

stroke. Queen's Road, with its fever of (Signed) ChatTOR M. MACDONALD. The Secretary. Hongkong Geared Chat-examercial hastle and life, is unique nat

ber of Cominere, flongkong,

THE COLLECTION OF TRAPE STATISTÍLS. 21st August, 1896.

Sir, I have to acknowledge receipt of

conlway,"

M. de Cugolin then refers to the Preya as that quay which "te haing pushed out-

over 50 moires 'so as to allow large

THE INCREASE IN TELEGRAPIC” RATES. tive English cricketers. It is unfortune Sagan Chamber, dated 1st Sept., acknow- Read letters from of Rilland, Prestent that trouble has arisen between the edging Chamber's letter of 7th August, team and the Representative Body in and promising to keep Chamber advist of Australia. Before dispersing the team willetter from Singure Chamber, dated 28th any development in ludo Chan Als: play matehes in Ameries, Tusimanin and August, acknowledging receipt of Cham- New Zealand. The degire is, of course, to ber's letter of 14th hem enclosing copy of haul in a few more shekels before resuming ber, datad 4th September, owing receijit

protest. Also letter from Shanghai Cham hard work in Australia, and as things me of Chamber's letter of 14th August, and going it is evident that the teens intend to copy of protest, and enclosing copies of your letter of the fath in on the sub-wards was the sea to the excens, of disregard the order of recal issued by the furr spec on the subject inject of the statistics of trule included in

Read letter from Acting Representative Body.

Tolegraph Companies, dated 16th Septera. the Harbour Master's Report. ber, regarding the acceptance of Cirineu telegrains at half rates. A formal know. fogant had been sent on the 17th Sep teraber. It WLS considorcet annecessary to further to the letter at present

reply Opinion was adverse to the explanation in the Telegraph Companies' letter, which was

as unsatisfactory.

roport of proceedings at the Sopteraber to protest against the increase in Telegraph rate was laid on the table.

Resolved to have further copies printed and to forward them to the local Gover inent, Foreign Office, British Muster at Peking, the Telegraph Co.'s, to all the Chambers in the East, to the principal British Clumbers, use of Canada, United States, Australia, Gernian and other Con- Consule, &e.

THE REGULATION OF OPIUM DIVANS.

PROPOSED HAKITARY BYE-LAWY.

The sequel to the withdrawal of the

Tepies of

grain.

THE ARMENIAN AGITATION. The Paris Fär publishes a stirring append to Mr Gladstone from the French people on behalf of the Armenians.

(Le Catrrier d'Paiphong.) THE FRENCH GENERAL FOR-

INDO-CHINA.

Paris, September 14.

General Bichot has left for Saigon,

THE CZAR'S VISIT TO PARIS.

In reply, I am directed by ray Commit.hips to come alongside for a distance

The programme of the fútes that will be tee to state that they would, were it possi- of four miles. Already buildings are blo tu obtain trustworthy and exact figures, commened on it. Alongside the police of given in honour of the Czar and Czarina in only to glad to accede to the request the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ere may now published. Their Imperial High mada ta afford information to the Harbour Master to enable him to render his re-

see the Now Club, a huge building moro tarts more accurate. They are, however, imposing than artistic and dominating the only in a potion to criticise from the know whole Eachar. Hongkong desired a Club

by certain members of ledge possesed certain imports; the exact figures are not

more than they are of the Harbour Master. Had they felt justified in offering such as Aistanes the Committee would have prefer red to tender it rather than to scaune the much less pleasing aDice of critic.I have the humour to be, Sir, your must obedient

second to nons in the Extreme Oriont.

New York, August 23.--The Sha's' Lou don cable says Groat interest, is being takan, both in oglind and France, in M. Basins roller steaintar, which was launch- al on the Ssine Wednesday. The peculiar cruft is, roughly speaking, a seamboat 61 wheels or rollers. The inventor's object has bo to increase the spoed by suppres sing the frictient of the water agaifist the vessel as it is forced forward. This, ho contends, has ban necomplished by sub stituting for the 'owdin ory-hull-of-a-vinget a sor of platform supported over the water.

solving deuticasar-shaped wheels. The wheels are wado lo curi in correla tion with the forward Kaupulsion givon to the vessel by thọ scrow. The boat is there-

bed to roll upon the surface. Theoretically, lost all the motive poor required to cavereitag the eoruCUR resistanos of the water should be ecommized, hut that advantage will be obtained. The now experience alone will downstate whether

vessel is a stoneship of 270 tons burden, measuring 1 foot long by 36 broad. The platform or deck ต supported by three mis of wheels, each having a diamoter of thirty two feet. Being hollow, they net as lys, and will, when beden with time spestructure, engines, coal, etc., be immersed about sleven frot. The nio- tive power in 200 house. Each pair of who will be driven by a separats onging, as is nax the sew. One boiler will risk the stuan for the bar engines. Au ordinary vessel of the mamo tonnage with the nine motive power would stoom at about ten knots an him, wherous the rolling boat is oxpected to attain between eighteen and wenty-two knots. About and horse paver will be employed to propel the screw, and the renmining 200 hond power for rotalion of the wheels. The bent will be finished in October, when it is expected to make a trial trip from Havre to London,

Feet

There has buen en much talk about the Burunonses against the keepers of opium Special General Meeting held on the 10th in the hosession of the Chamber, any This phantasy will cost over the million PRESIDENT FAURE ON THE UNION | William Waldorf Astor's desire to marry

payment of cricket professionals that I alanild apologise for re-opening the subject. Everybody seems to agree now that the English professionals should receive higher pay in representative matches, so there is

set

divana is that the Medical Officer of Health hue submitted to the Sanitary Reard of deaft bye-laws for the sanitary mainten- Ance of these houses.

It is proposed that the keeper of very

opium-snuking disan shall ske applica

servant,

R. CHATTEETOS Wilcox, Serretary.

francs. What is that to these dare-devila

WITH RUSSIA.

who handle dollars by the shovelful! Is M. Faues will take part in the army this quite acurate Above the business manceuvres which are to take place near

IDRATE OF A CAVABIAN VOLITTUJAN. "Queber, August 22. The stormship Le radur aired in port last night and landed the body of Sir David L. McPherson, who died suddenly on Sunday last while the tennur was in mid-oggan. The docensed, who was 7 yeux old, was once a pro- mess will arrive at Cherbourg on the winent, figure in Canadian politics. Ile October, and will remain three days in Paris.

www.oofhis way to Canada to take his seat in the Senate, of which he was a member.

AS NIGHT HAVE BEEN EXPECTED.“ London, Augast 32.---Recent reports of

Princess Victoria of Wales aro declared by an intimate friend of Mr Astor to be en- tirely without foundation, Astor has been traveling upon the continent since Henley- week, and he does not return to England until the latter part of September, when bo is at one to procual to

to Cliveden. THOLLAND'S QUEEN TO MARRY. London.

o. August 20.-The betrothal Prince Bernard of Saxe-Weinar will be an- nounced in September. Queen Wilhelmina will be 16 years of age on August Bist, and. Prince Bornard was 18 years old on April 18th las The full me of. the feture: hushand Barglish je Bernard-Honry- Cmulus-Alexander-Herman-William - Fre derick-Frank. He is two panes older than Wilhelmina, having been burn at Weimar a April 18,-1873 Prince Bustard is the send son of Charles Alexander August Paris, Sept. 5.

John, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weinar-E- devoral Fenians have been arrested atach, and his mother is Sophia, who was a

quarters of the town are the comfortable Argoulême. En a toust, M. Faure attri homes. The hovers have gradually ascend.buted to the curd which existed through ed the slopes of the hill, until, nowadays, out France since the foundation of the Ro-

no use going over ground 1 covered when tien. for registration at the office of the tinontal countries, to all the Foreign To Hon, J. H. Stewart Lockhart, Culonials high suimit is covered with hotels and public and to the creation of a powerful Queen Willember of the Netherlands to ̈·

a distinction should be drawn between, the

INDGET TIRA IN URINA.

Copy of a letter addressed by the Shang- bai Brunch to the Hongkong Branch of the China Association, dated 41 September, in reference to the abore question had been kindly forraished by the Hun. Secretary, it being the expressed, intention to the Chalaber, These had me yet aniv- to send copies of cha minutes of proceeding

with the Shanghai Chamber and the China the readings of the Chamber to quopunite

Association in this matter.

-

*Secretary.

NORDAU AND NIETZSCHE." Kordian's † Paradores' and Nietzsche's

villas.

army, the visit of the Czar of Russia, a visit which would prove to the world the union of the two great Powers (Run and France) in the desire to maintain

more peace.

A double tramway, suspended by a long steel cable, meenda and descends every qorter of an hour.

The voyage

الأخيرة

this steep slope does not take than seven or eight minutes; the cost is

made at the roadways to the houses on the very small, and convenient stoppages" are

hull side.

THE THREATENED. FENIAN OUT-

RAGES IN ENGLAND,

Rotterdamu, Boulogne, London, and Glas sister of William ill of Holland, and 2 preparing a campaign throughout Engie's father. The little Queen will thus nary her first omain. Than Weimar branch of the house of Soca date back to William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, who was born the 11th of April 1599. The main branch gues back to 919. The young Prince is Lisatenaut on the staff of the Fifth Infantry

FRENCH ARMY MANŒUVRES.

Paris, Sept. 17.

The President of the Republic hold a

QIK

Regimon of Thuringia. His brother, the

years

Reuter first informed as of the cricket

Sanitary Board, and upon receipt of such strike. But it is instructive to take s

application the premisas will be inspected sy glines at Australian opinion on the ama

one or more sanitary ofcore, who shall teur and professional question sulatnit a report to this Board on the Bani land, the old fatuity provaita of regard-tary condition of the promises and their

Thus Spake Zarathustra a reviewed ing the Australian cricketers as amateurs, suitability for so as an opium-smoking

together in The Sunday Ferie, and it is rl the Field and other porting diran. Any house or part of a house to ho

difficult to tell which of the two anthors authorities' a dear to the hearts of the registered as an opium-smoking diven raust

Here is the opening passage of the critique excites the heartier contempt of the esitle, rex rank muateur persist in placing be substantially basil and in a good state ofed fat it was decided to write and express Is is rare that two such men as Nordau the distinctive budge of 'Mr' in front of repair; the ground surfaces must be

eating as their ramstances make this and Nietzsche have the Fres to be so later every Australian nie in the scoring re-covered with good line or corrent concrete

The evening I passad at the Peak, in cords. I am told that in sine scoring at least 6 inches thick, and finished off

pair." They are betia engitially evannon- THE OPENING OF THE WEST RIVER. place arsus, or reber they purin the the Mount Austin Hotel (alere, owing Revd latter from Sir Claude MacDonald coumonptrce. sbeeze theMr' in dropped and Emooth, mid any upper floors must i Aated 4th September, acknowledging re- with the familiar fenkness of his gwae grailout with an interior room), has dong land. Many bombs have been seized,

Korterit him to the demand for accommodation, 1 had to afized to each unine, but of such exobbish-hoarded with tanks close-jointed, or ceipt of Chambur's letter of the Bud August riigi is unimaginative, farmative, hms I hire, pemsonal knowledge. Why paved with tiles, pointed in content the inquiring if any wogres had been made in Dcerbearing, profoundly convinced of fore towards curing me than the cumtive |

sua houses of the voyage from Haiphong. house drans must he in good order and the negotiations with the Chinese Govern extraordiary reasonableness-a typo English professional and the Australing constructed in accordance with law; there i ment re the opening of the West River, of man you may find fisting the table in the These two thousand metres of altitude.

in which His Excellency states that woui-bar parlor of ary English counter public of ports ons into a new country. Com professional I for one fail to under-most be an adequate supply of water and stions are still in progress in London.

winter's evening; while Nistacle is a non- stand. Several of the meorbers of the adequate ablution, privy, urinal and, ash|

Tintonic type, a flighty caired creaturing out of the het oven of Queen's Road brilliant review of the troops near An-heir spurant to the Grand Duchy, is tro Australian Eleven

The following correspondence has ass itten by the Great Teacher mania, until at one is struck with the delicious sensation of goulême. are paid by AUN-

bin accommodation à notice similar to been forwarded to us for publication

fast he has actually attained the martyrum tralian Clubs to play for them through that displayed in a common lodging-house

of the undhouse. He is om brother indeed coolness which envelopes of coon as out the season, and mang of them are shall be affixed in a conspicuous position in

tah Hansson and to many another the sun is below the horizon. The night street corner preacur. Fow things is cold, so much so that, after dinner and drawn from a clase mi respectable every daly-registered divan, stating the The Eastern Exton. The Great Northern in seriously intended literature could be than the English professionals. Yet when autober, in English and Chinoso,

zio Australasia & of

Telegraph Commere the only adjective is thick head the last cigar, one requires a hank- China Telegraplı pany of Copen- | ed thm Nordan's ** pritsq the Socretary for the Colonies or any other

of Hop het for the night. A lonket Пt persons who-pass the night therein,

Corapany, La

hagd

setti's Blessed Damoral," and faw insoner the end of August whilst you are melting well' dines with the teams, the Conrad the divan shall not be used for

Hongkong Station, dran Zarathustra's

muddy mittoes are careful to keep the English the accommodations of a greater number R. Chatterton Wilcox, Esq.,

16th September, 1896, Spake Zanathustra' the kid of thing is Haiphong or even eight minutes below amateurs and the Australians together than that specified between 11 fin, at

Secretary, it is tirab comes floating over the in Hongkong ľ Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce.Banstead walls to the casual podostrian on whilst the English professionals have to eat night at 6 am, the following morning,

Altogether, M. de Cogolin, whatever Sir,--As there seems to be some mist the Downs. On the one hand, we have an humble pie in an adjoining pavilion The windows and ventilating openings of Chinoso telegrame at half-ates, it may be an utter want of inents1 discipline, and the tish and their polities, is inclined to take

demanding regarding the acceptance of exceptional mental dinitesa; en the other, prajudices he may hold regarding the Bri- Truly we are a demoustic people, wo Ent these premises are to be kupt open to their convenient to pince it reed, for the cuticus thing linking them is that their rose-coloured view of Hongkong. He A petition has been drafted by the com. lish And truly cricket is the great defull extent at all tincs unless prevented by information of the Chamber, that it is conspiration is the same,

In Darwinis mocratic game of our donely loved Home-

mittes of the ant-Mongolian movement in ANOTHER of Preskio Kruger's syings in the illness of any poison in the premises, filed to local selegrams only, that is, be they live and move and have their regrets there is no similar place to the Peak Vancouver, copies of which are to be for just to hand. Ooni Fatl, it is reported, at land

During the sixth and twelfth months of the tween stations in China or between China hoting All that is more than engo self-in Tonkin, where business men could go wanted immediately to the other cities in the thudo Jukannesburg was moroly For and Hongkong,' and does not apply to in-enncoit and obstinate self-esportonthefter the work of the day and enjoy the ofere it is circulated for signature. The over the Witwatersrand in ordinary burgher

the province approved and suggestions

ons refra's mixing camp, was one day riding As I said, if it instructive to see how the Chinese year the interval walls and ceilings ternational correspondence.

the professed Great common phenomena of i of things all cool breezes and the delicious shenge of petition embraces the Chinese question attire. He afsaddled near & waggon outs Australians grin as the finnicking disting. I have to be thoroughly cleansed and ins

languages and codes, in which case their that they have

It is open to Chinese to use foreignTeachers since the beginntal reaction temperatura. There is Doson, he says, only, it having been found necessary panned and cwsed by a Gorman. The tions that are made in Englant. Ons Washed, and the keeper shall keep his

telegrams are charges at fall raton, but as to that grant mass of

zaorle ge concerning Melbourne writer says

premises in a clean and wholesome condi- is well-known, the only way in which a the place of life in the acharne of things, but Dosen, although it has the advantage deal with the Japanese influx into British Tonton did not rouogaine the President, and held farth on the many things he would as though most of the and Concerning the I.CUSSES of Bifo, that od Australian Eleven placed in an awkward roughly swept at least once a day. By the unbrous but the only possible by all oduorted people have reacted to the effect of the Peak at Hongkeng. | labour alike, they have come to the con- Oom Paul, to the great astonishment of the I remember cortain members of a return.. tion, every part of the premises, to be, tho- telegrant can be transmitted in Chinese is during the last four decades being as tho Peaside, does not produce cominittee are opposed to all Mongolian do wero he ruler of the State. Suddenly

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HONORS POR

OR ARTISTS Berlin, August 29,-In honour of the two hundredth anniversary of the founda- tion of the Academy of Fine Arts, Emperor William has bostowed gold medals upon Is is rumoured that the Czarswitch is large number of artists there, including

several Arsericans. seriously ill.

THE HEALTH OF THE CZARE- WITCH.

THE EUROPEAN CONCERT.

The Powers demand that is croisers Bail be introduced into the Bosphorus.

THE ANTI-MONGOLIAN MOVE- MENT IN CANADA.

Columbia separately.

Legis

SPAIN'S NEW WAS SEIP. Madrid, August 22.The Cabinet has a provisional contrast for the approved purchase of the cruiser San Martino re Cendly built at Genoa for the Italian Go»

SONGE by all the famous writers at 4 for $1.-W. Robinson & Co.

tem of

of numbering the charactere,

alusion position. » The money question had beenth and offensive matter has to be removare linzited to ton thousand for the

that to consolidate the two senas Gorman, who was a very small man, took most of the half-educated; everybody Doson is frequented simply because might prove the ruin of the whole covo- off his cost, and, holding is but towards the raised in their case, and they wered from the premises daily. The kooper of the bulk of such telury means that in fact, except the totally illiterate, and there is nothing better.

of of telegraphy, which

ald Put this He suggests ment, and they have therefore appointed a stranger, said:

on, But, iu match at Yans Bend. Ond of :be patients, who had read of the prowess of an op-smoking, divan shall, without language-o sufficiently in plain those who scholastic and university that the Tonkin Gorcinment should ket sub-committee to draw up a special sati- replied the latter, it's too by: Fast

penalty. pedants have, with infinite laber, rendered

so, replied his Honour with a grim smile! Japanese requisition. trynie and was proud of them, dolay report at the office of the Sanitary For this reason the Chinese Telegraph perfectly ide proof. And here are no up a senatoriam either ab. Bavior at The nati Chiruese petition asks for the I'm Paul Krugor, and if you could fill my

word, ye are good cricketot, Board; every one of lines which shall tions in 1883, admitted and still wimits picking out the extreme notes in the tum Muson, near Langsen. A sanatorium at imposition of a per capita tax of $500, ou

Administration, when

hen it commenced opera leaders, but excellent types, resonators

jackes you iniğlip de greater things." The now, ain't ye Ye must be very nearly

Tarten sollapsed. professionals Ile really meant it as o occur upon his promises, and should such over all its lines local Chiness correspon recepted Darwinism arouses; Noxlay the wither of those two places, whilst neither does not deal with the sanitary or moral

sides of the question, for the Local: compliment, but the donu silence.

of the affording the same advantages as lature and the City Courcil already held it CEB prove to be of contagious nature, he dence at half-rates, provided the telegram deep bray, Nietzsche the shrill shriek- followed was signifionnt. The question

Hongkong Tides. was first raised "probably by Cain asking intust afford every facility for the removal cumpiled from the list of characters pal both men undoubtedly honest in their coll the Pook on account of their distances from within their power to enforce the provincial

lished of the Administration for the purtresting ways.'

and civie

The Tide table given below has been laws, if the Chinese continue to Abel whether he considered himself an of the sick person and must adopt all atch pole. The Cable Companies therefore,

the centres of foreign population and the amateur horticulturist or just a plain ga precautions as the Medical Officer of Health from carrying this trails, have been obliged SUGAR NOT INJURIOUS TO TEETH.

openly defy there. They should be compiled by the Neutical Almanac Offics in unless they desired to deliar themselves dener. All most likely retorted that it

difficaldes of reaching them, would con-marily dealt with but in that case reference London from the results of the analysis of depended greatly on whether Coin esot or other duly authorized officer of the Ss to adopt the same system on their cables A writer in The Contemporary Revici do tributo in a great measure to the welfare in the matter to the Dominion Government Deservations taken by means of an automa

tic tide recording maching in the Water- himself & squatter or merely a "endraton.

of the colonists, especialy to those who is totally uncalled for. Anyhow they quatrelled an the point, and try Board shall direct. The bye-laws for such loal native corresponderos.--I votes nest of an article on champagne to the

Dr Watt, the Secretary of the Provin. Police Basin at Taim Sha Tsui during the their descendants have been quarrelling

elling will come into force on nad efter fat Jana, Sir, your obedient Servant, popular ides that gout is produced by the front ponuniary or business reasons, could mal Board of Health, during his recent years 1887-8.9.

(Signed) J. M. BECK, sugar contained in that crink. The paper not very wall afford to take a tp to visit to Vancouver, inspected amongst other dinary Spring Tidea, which has been found

The zero of the table is Low Water-Or-- Acting Manager. suot a medical paper, hat the writer

localition the streets ind (dwollings in rings forward considerable evidenos to France. It would also save a great dual of Chinatown, Thear he found to be in n to be 2 fort below mean sea level G Hongkong 17th Sept., 1806.

how that

To obtain the depth of water on the lide Dear Sir, bey to acknowledge rosint with the mpagne has nothing to, to maney to the Colonial Government, which condition similar to that frequently describ-

production of gout, and in an

and on the gauge at Lament Book. of your letter of yesterday dato, and will aide spoke of that other pular nation is obliget, under present conditions, toed in these columns, filth and steuch gauge at the Victoria Naval Yard add a ft.

sugar destroys the teeth. He says:

send numberless officials to recuperato in urevalent everywhere; In corroboration of Eis fallacy of the Japan

predict that unless is proper ayatom of Aberdeen, add 19 ft. 9 in to the height sugar and gout idea it be mentioned

ninago is speedily put in, some terrible given in the table. that the still more reprelisosible dogma in i

epidemio will certainly acqurge the gast 26th Sept, to 2nd October. end of the town. Such abominable state of affairs would never have come about

over it over aingos Tide as he centuries uary, 1807.

roll by the question, “What is an amateur ?"

bocomics harder and hardor to ansvar,

Robinson & Co.

though some thousands of rules have been: CHEAP Copyright Music, 4 for $1.—W. framed to help. No rule was, however, Robi

ever framed that would cover both n general

lose no time in placing same before my

that

and a signal case, Hed the general rule Tu Russian War Minator claims for the Committes-I am, Doar Sir, Yours Faith- covered the cases of Dr. W. Gues we onscriptive system the erudit of being one shvald bere had one more country doctor of the chief sunets to rudimentary public fully,

Bud sig W.Gand acetors are so plenti instruction The cous ripe recruits canniot, J. M. Beck, s Acting Manager, Eastern

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Then he emplates Wegg, the immortal, and drops into poetry on amateur riding

as well as Landateur pricket --

It is strange. Mr Puller this Amateur said,

That you bucket professional pay, And Fay a BL BABUDU VIL égainst me. Can you tell me the reason, I pray. In the days of my youth, A. Pullers

Teamet how to rope on the sy than khur amateur face was the

guens

urgus, herome good scldiers without at

least soine kind of redimentary instruction, and in this respect the mit service be- comnes a powerful aid to national education. About 70 per cent. DE the Russian con scripts are illiterate. :. In other words, out of the 203,000 men drafted into the army

THE PROPOSED INCREASE OF CHINESE TARIFFS."

-Chins Association, Shanghai, 4th Sopt., 1896. every year 200,000 are unable to read or F. Henderson, Hsa. Hong. Secretary, weite, and art, moreover, gonorally in a Hongrong state of utter ignorare. On entering the arry they are taught to read and write

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sanitary point of view that sugar zuins CHEAP Copyright Music, & for $1.-IV, (Signed) B CHATTERTON WILCOX. Extension and Great Northern Tete-ildren's teeth is equity false. Indeed,

how the

the idea over camo into existence is a Robinson & Co. graph Cos.

mystory, seeing that the finest, whitest, and

The Japanese problem is ruore difficult teath-ars, icund strongess

mouths A Rovere Correspondant writea to The of solution than the Chinese une. That Bat. of negroes brought up sugar plantations, Province (Vancouver) As we ran along the lower classes of Niponese are mere who from their earliest years upward con- the edge of the Freser numbers of haats polizing the fishing industry is patens, and Sun. sume more sugar than any other dines of peo-ware on the river, the crews of which were at the late meeting held in the city hall pla whatever. Those at all skeptical of the busy hauling in the salmon, Here is an Mr D. M. Wilson went so far as to sista value of this fact have only to look round industry in which the Chinese Agure cons that the licenses issued in 1896 showed among their personal friends and ses vike- picuously and which is probably one of the tiroir that about cares thousand Japs 1561. 30 0,16 Dont Sir--You will no doubt have ther the sugar-eaters or she sigar shunners chief causes of a many Chinamen flocking are now employed on the Fraser River. That in, their respective companies and squad observed a telegram through Rautor's bave the finest teeth, and they will find to our shores, They have, in a great men These aliens, who live as cheaply se the rons, Bome of the more ospable soldiers Agency received here the 4th August to other things being equal-that the sugar- Lis bent inlohe vormpány solsonly, where the effeos that Lord Balisbury had resolved, entors, as 5 ralt, have the best teath. But, supplanted the Indians, but I za bold Chinese, and sleep in their boats (which ar

She that now Japeness are pidly pushing they run with three meu apiece), are men. Rosy Lara arichmeder For the purpose of bufore expressing any opinion in regard to only possible way for accounting for this them to one side, and that many of the acing our provincial prosperity and progres pas paring peaks to become non-crisis the proposed increase of the Customs tariff Iibel against sugar seems to be by suppaa canneries prefer Japs to John Chinaman, asriously as are the Chidsse-2 in the dibby by and mene, offers each agiment, had what a so vonus the principal cheraber of Coming that it originated in the brulu of one of I would lie to see the immigration of both retines (Vanesaven)

called an Educational Command.

porce in China. The boal Cuminittee here our economically disposed great-grand- Japanese and Chinese restricted, but there thought it advisable, under the airoum-mothers, at the time when suger was two is this much to be said for the former in bade to take the Committes of the shillings a pound, in order by provent har proforone to the latter they spend a Larga Medan, the balk in which my BarometerSİLƏL What Shangin' Chember into their confidence, and children gratifying their cravings for grants east of their earnings in British Columbia, mousy is deposited has failed. Sha-What Tomperature

at the expense of the contents of the qugar- dress and live more like white men, while sy you've got your obesisbook of Humidity to Mr Gindry's inquiries

the Chinese pond practically nothing in home, love!

Direction of Chistry, sending csale maray to China back,

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Hongkong Register.

tion taken hers and in

grem of 17th July shu of pravicus datos. Fibrooshly discussed, light conforted everything to Lord Oldboy

plied the oallow gown who had saked for thi Chamber of Com Bofore dhe miste rond AD BEVETOLE stanger fairing his hea's don pour plates for master's mampu

Thiel Arbelaizalom, à cide on his knạn) navell no son like that! (Fordon fog, but has an (yolappi Isto Hanor

imes on the 2nd stir f understand -Allen Fand laying nothing in common with us feed the draggini, – duavaly, KANISATOM