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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1896x

fAUFELIED THROUGH! REUTER.)

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Tys Ceremony of Installation was per- 4 LOCAL AND GENERAL.

formed at the United Service Lodge, by the STEAMERS PASSED SUEZ-CANAL.

Rt. Wor. D.G.M., C. P. Chater, sbsisted OFTWARD BOUND:Glenturret, 10th; Ben-by the D.D.G.M., EC: Ray and Members Lomond, Night, 13th; Pornza, Ping-of the D.-G. Lusly. The Wix. Master, rey 17th; Balmorat, h, Ohing. Bro. I. E. A. Haile appointed his officers

2nd: Myrmidon, Olang, Senta, 31t; Formausa, meu, Oscar, 27th telers follows:

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Bro. J. R. Craik

8. A. Symen

HI Horley

Colitr Rue

G. W. Watling

Bro. Dan Hall

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; Menelaus, Natal, Hamney, Oranien, Treasurer, Seorotary, Bengine. HOMEWARD BOUND-Benvenue, Copack S.D.,

Tosa Murs, Nov. 3rd; Prinz Heinrich, 6th, Natal, Nestor, 10th; Irene, 13th June, Aoun, Dardanus, 17th; Cale- donien, Bruto, Kaison, 20th; Maria Valerie, Elizabeth Hickmers, 24th; Argyle, 27th,

J.W.,

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W. H. E. Smith

J. Bremner

Wor. Bro. H. J. Watson

J.D.,

DC, Steward, L.G., Tyler,

J. Grimbta

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Ahracks

The Banquet at which over 128 brethren and guests participated was most efficiently managed under the personal superintend

THE CHINA MAIL.

the

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before His Honour T. Bercombe Smith,

Acting Puisne Judge.) Weducäsy, December 9.

Mr Wilkinson represented the

the strictly European enterprises have for the recovery notos

BREEZE, 19:08

of

Buddha sita in helpless contemplation in his temple nicho with not enough fores left in the whole system to aven protest against this wholesală cruelty.

Hello, Fuhan,

NOTES BY THE WAY.

uropean acltlements at Shanghai ba Sitings. It is one thing to have a correct 1 The Japanese ares supersensitive people. Ib. weight; it is a totally different thing to cause of the freedom they enjoy from the tyramy of the mandarins. During the war the rich merchants in China-were If you criticise thom, they at once set you servo out lightweight supplies. The con

From Ohao-tong to the capital of Yun- darina, and it is not to be wondered at that

nan is again thirteen stages, over breezy down as an enemy of their country. They pradores of Hongkong I speak of the scared to an abnormal extent by the man- thoy should have sought safety from these.

-TKH-MONETARY THANSACTIONS BETWEENuplauds where the skylark mahon the wel imagine that you have no desire on earth shopkeeping class-would be nono

AN INDIAN AND A CHINESE.

tin ring ami the-evoked calls from the higher than to blackon the national charao-worse for a low prosecutions, the Police tyrannons and avaricious exactions in a

D. M. Madar sued Ho Chonk Kai for the grove. People are few, business small, and ter. I notice that M: Mortimer Meapes carrying out the check in the houses of port so adminally suited for the develop

tent of their enterprises se Shanghai. rosevery of $1000 on a promissory note, and matters generally stagnant. The outside Rickmers, Matisse, Prometheus, Ceylon, I.P.M., Wor. Bro. W. C. II. Hastings has been tolling your reporter that the the consumers. The sale of cual by weight The attraction of so much wealth to Shang-a cross wait was entered by the defendant world to an ordinary Yunnan man is sharply divided into two sections-French and Sydney, Dec. 1st; Frigga, Glenshi, S.W.,

Japanese fine art dealers hayo been at the hocso of the consumer ought to be hai has had the effect of enhancing-tho in the first suit for a similar sunkintiff English; and the latter are further dis. saluo of properties, but the writer wishes Hertha, Preussen, 4th, lenfarg, Ker

spoiled by the foreign merchant. That is insisted upon.

his readers to understand that notwithin the first action, and Mr F.B. L. Bowley tinguished as Teams. It was a distinct shock to beur ouçolf designated by that the old story. Wherever you meet an

standing the groat predominance of Chiappeared for the defondant While on the subject of commercial im-Rasa capitalists it must not be assumed that Mr Wilkinson said his client claimed hallowed name. We were plodding along extortionste Jap you are told he is tho

of $1000, on two under the wing of our official escort (off- product of European contact-that is the morality lot no include an instanco from

been altogether down into the shade. promissory

$500 each. cially dalivored criminals” in official do Calcutts, where the offenders were der On the contrary, there is not activity, The faste of the case wore that his client curents when he met an acquaintance, effect your Western olvilisation has upon him. With the highestros poot for MrMenposes. The Collector of Customs confiscated most of the businesses are vary had been well acquainted with the defun- who hailed him with,

where are you going? Oh, responded as an artist, I disagree entirely with his da consignment of 150 cases of German prosperous at the present time. Shanghai, dust for sorno years past. Fluintiff is a

par and defondant is a tailor, carrying on busi. Jest to Yang-in, and explanations did wholesale ecoursation against the foreign spirit which had been imported as 'Scotch despite its thoroughly European appears clerk in the Orunanca Store Department, the man in authority, I'm just escorting

a cosmopolitan town Ho says European,' be- nes at Beaconstiell Arcade. Defendant not seen to improve matters at all, for,' murchants in Japan. Ile may be first- Whisky. Groat Scott what enormities excellence,

All the cause the Asiatic foreign element from bed frequently made use of plaintiff in said he, you are not Catholica, then you are parparrived in thy name

all corners, from Indin to Persis, is not en matters of business-to write English

The epitel of Yunnan strikes i Spicula- therefore, has nat such a curious aspect sa tion. About the beginning of September favorably in many ways. The city is not or end of August, the defendant spoke to large, hat has a few fair streets, shopt longkong for this very reason; there aro loss Paracos with their top lists, & fact his client, and said he intended to purchase smail but meal, and the people fairly which was in his opinion not to be regret from the Government a portion of land at friendly, though there is a deep under the corner of Arsenal Street, if the Go- current resting against the foreigner, vernment ted.

would eoli it, and

ho There is an arsenal with a steam whistle and desired tho plaintiff.to ascertain a compleof foreign stores open, stocked with whether the Government were preparel French goods from Tonquin, in the hands to sell this land. Plaintiff did so, and ascor of Chinese, probally an Ontholes. tained that the Government was willing to From this point to Mung-tze, ten days, the soll the land. Defendant suggested to the character of the country is little changed; plaintiff to join with him in the apeculation, traces of the biohammedan rebellion are and plaintif said he would consider the to be met with in many places, and a latert matter. After matertaining that the Go- foar exists that the French are coming up ernment was willing to sell the land, from Tonquin. Mongtze has leaped Into importance since the introduction of a plaintiff decided that he would take no share in in himself, and informed the do- Franch Corsul and Customs staff. Trade fendant. Later on, the 2nd or 3rd Octa-

endeavouring to raise money, ber, dofondare told the plaintif he had been

Saghalie of 6th. November, loft Sai-ence of Bro. Farmer, and the usual masonic chop as an artist, ozul I am sure you spirit dealers of repate renounced respon-numerous as in Hongkong, Shanghai, tore and so on and in mattor of must be the other.'

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The Tamise, with the FENCE MAIL ex gon on Saturday, the 8th December, 5 pm, for this port, and la This Facket brings રામ replies to letters despatched from Hongkong on 30th-Supt. The I. & O. Co.'s s. 6. Cheges, with the ENGLIEN MAIL, of 13th Nov., eft Sin gapern

Monday, the 7th Dec, at 10.m., and may be expected heru on or about Saturday, the 12th Dog. This Packet brings replies to letters despatched from Hongkong on Oct. 3. Tho P. 8. B. Oits of Rio de Janeiro, with the AMERICAN MA, of 12th Nov., loft Yokohama on Saturday, the ath Dec., at daylight, and may be expected hero on or about Sunday, the 13th DGO.

trasts, which were interspersed by musical efforts, ware duly laurel. The electric light display consisting of the blazing star, square, level and plamb rule, together with the pleasing decorative Lighta on the tables, was most efféstive.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

[[SOFFLIED TO THE CHINA MAIL']-

lion.

THE VENEZUELA QUESTION.

readers will be delighted to read his com-

eibility. It was ultimately discovered that Parsee firm of vine and spirit dealers purchased the spurious whisky from a local agent, who pleaded in turn that he had been iraposed upon. The Parsons ronder- od arery assistance to the Custom authori- ico-a face to their cradit. A further con signment of the spurious whisky made in Germany,

in said to be on itz

THE STRATHNEVIS SALVAGE CASE

THE JULMENT

Atranger

slowly increasing, but prospecta not in

vigerating.

also is the home of the buboulo

parison of the relative artistic merita of the Japaneso n the European stage, but a8.an observor of national inclined to join chaisetoriatiss I am is with him. In my opinion, the boot is on the other leg. The demoralising effect of commercial intercourse with the Japanese is beyond computation. The term mora

On the 2nd November, Judge C. H. lity has a new reading in Japan; 'com. mercial morality is, except in isolated way to Calcutta, where it is hoped it Hapford delivered judgment in the truth cases, an unknown quantity. I say this will fall into the hands of the Cus-vis salvage cree, which is roferred to by TONDON, 7th December, 1896. to you although I know-your pro-Japanese tous officials and lead to the punish-the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as the famous It has been a rant salvage case. The parties were-the Can -Venezuela has woapted the agreement prodivities. The wonder to me is that the tint of the offenders. male-petween the United States and Great result of commercial dooling between the ber of public purority in Calguns for many ads Australian S.S., Co. n. the Strathaetis

and had not boon ablo 1:0 raise plague, which namally carries off some Britain to submit the dispute to arbitra-foreign merchants and Japanese has not year that spurious deleterious whiskies and the Pacifis Improvement Co. v. the

been to completely eradicate the upright were being imported to the detriment of Strathness; and the judgs decreed that the sufficient pay to enable him to pay hundreds of the people

Frau Meng-tza to, Man-bag is two days' . spirit which is the outstanding trait of the the legitimate trade in Scotch spirits. The owners of the Afiouera and her crow should for this land which was about to be put up THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO

majority of the commercial classes of Wes- some thing has been mentioned to me in receive 226,200 and the owners and crew of for auction, and he was negotiating for a journey, the second day being one long

mortgage on his property

and plaintiff al-descent to the valley of the Red River, CONGRESS.

torn nations. Slowly but surely the Jap Hongkong. I would not breathe a word of the Minedu 220,500, making a tal flawed the defendant $2000, On the 2nd which has a bad reputation for favor of a President Cleveland, in his message to

reproach against the dealers of any nations- | $46,700 (pula):

October be paid over $1000 in two sums stal kind. From this place to Leo-kai, Congress, strongly urges the granting of anese are being found out. The gushers Lity in Hongkong, because I Am lcd to be-

"It will be remembered that the N.P.R. $200 and $300, and received promissory the frontier post in Tonquin, is a day and notes for the arme the the following day half-by-native hast Here-exnection genuine autonomy to Cals, which would on Japanese, the Sir Edwin Arnold type of leve they are afinabove reproach. Bai-And Tho 0, S. S. Co.'s steamer, Orestes, from end the presont ruinous war. He says that globatroitem, lave had their day, although that it is a very useful word-if, as is naid, chartered steamer Birathnevis left Tacoma he brought tho remaining $1000, for which can be made with a half steamer running whisky could be sold in Hongkong at 31 they have not ceased to be. Familiscity

he received promissory notes, and it was on $1000 loan was paid back in three instal- breeding contempt for the pretty,'

this loan he was now suing. The fist monts...$100 on 8th October, 8:00 on picturesque, polite, pugnacions, pany, P tristic little Tap, and unless he adopts new

21st ctober, and $400 on the 4th Nov. last date of payment, 4th November and rational methods in his dealing with

last, for payment of the remaining $1000. Defendant had put him off from time to time until he was compelled to take this action. There was a cross suit brought by the defendant which he understood was in respect of the same transaction, and he asked his Lordship to hear bath cases to gather.

This was agreed to.

The P. M. s. e. City of Peking, with mails des, left San Francison for this paro via Yokohama. Inland Sea, Kobe, Na gasaki and Shanghai, on the 1st Dec. The Imperial German Mail a, a Bayern carrying the German Mails with dates from Berlin of the 16th Nov., lety Colombe on the afternoon of the 4th. Dec., nad may be expected hers on or

bout Wednesday, the 18th Dec,

Steamers Expected."

Liverpool, left Singapore on the after- noen n the 3rd Dec., and may be ex- ported here on or about 9th Dec.

The P. & 0.8.3. Hydasps left Singapore

for this

is port en

en the let Doc, at a The as. Glenge, from New York and Straits, loft Singapore for this port en the morning of Dec. 3rd.

the United States have bean always ready to mediate, and hints that they might eventually have to intervene if Epain proves powerless to restore order in the island, He cannot believe that the present sombre

per dozen battles or $2 per case of two on Oct 20, 1896, with a cargo of 3000 tons dozen, then there is something wrong with of four and general merchandise of the the commercial murality of soutebody, wine of $56,000 (gold), and 129 passengers

Scotch Whisky is either Scotch whisky

or it isn't; and if thero be importers of rot-mostly Chinese) and a crew of 30 persons. gut foreign manufacture (as in the Calcutta She was bound for Yokohama aui Hong-Plaintif had Frequently applied since the case) then what are our officials doing?

toris, 1600 miles from Cape Flattery, The D. D. E, steamer Bellona, ivor Ham Prospect in Turkey can be lung permitted the foreigner, in political affairs as muchas Can they do nothing to safeguard the kong. On the seventh day out from Vie

bury. Luft Singapore for this port on

the 5th Dec, and may be expected

hore on or about the 12th Dec.

The Arratoon 4pear from Calcutts,

S

Jeft Singapore for this port on the afternoon of. Dec. 7.

The N. P. K.

a Idumi Maru loft 8in.

gapore for the port on the morning of Dee. 8, and may be expected to arrive. here on the 14th Deg

Tho N. P. Co.'s. s. Olympia sailed from

(From Tonkin Exchanges). THE REBELLION LY THE

PHILIPPINES.

Panis, Dec. 2,

from

abstainers!

Whisky

00

nm

a

One thing leads to another! The in- pestuous weather, making slow progress moderate use of whisky in a bad thing: it toward the coast from which she had last cannot be tanseverely condemned, but what departed, for Sfty-nine days, whpn, about I am afraid, is fast loading thousands

to a point on the lower river and so on to

In this region and about Meng-tze the Hano and Hongkong.

Roman Catholics are making an effort to establish themselves, in which of course they have the efficient aid of the French

authorities.

Extensive tin mines are worked at a little distance from Meng-tre-tin kad opium forming the staple articles of expert through Man-han

Consular sery

Berrice

to

to offend the sight of Christendom. Within business affairs, he will be brought upony 1 Or would this be trespassing during a galo, her propeller shaft broke be.

the freedom of the port?

post and

tween the stern-post and the boss. The

From the capital westward to Ta-li regard to the tariff, ho merely defends the with a sharp turn which will open his eyes free

to a theory of existence he little dreamit of told one now existing,

they gang thegithor!") is There are leading traits in the Japanese good thing, but when freedom dogenotates propelier dropped off and the vessel was

thirteen stages, and thenes to Bhams in

west of Th-li is ground new to mission work into license (no reference to spirit loft helpless. Her spread of canvas

Burma twenty days further. The country chamater that must command respect even license) the law ought to stop in and pro- did not exceed 1000 yards. In her dis

of an evangelical kind, and oven the Catho- sovere critic, but they are catwoigh-toot us. For wo need to be preserved

lies are not much represented there, though ed by less inrcable characteristics disfigur. from bad whisky-wo are not all total abled condition, and with her inadequate

to the north-anst of Ta-li they are strong in | facilities for sailing, she battled with tom-from taking part in business outside. Henriber of places. A good deal of in- ing the individuals and ro-acting on the

terest attaches to the contemplated exten- The insurgents in the Philippines, al-nation. As an instance of their unreliabi·.

Western Yunnan and as a consequence the con for Yokohama on Friday, the though defeated in several onectara with lity in business let me quote a paragraph

sion of the British strengthening of their influence there. The C. M. Co.'s str. Chingico, from Glas: the Spanish troops, are every day extend from one of their own newspapers. For about bicycles Here again immoderation, 500 miles from Cape Flatte, she was met at Mucso

A feature of interest is the presence of the Tokio City waterworks, the Nippon Iron Co. of Tokio manuf ctured 2,000 iron coule down the wide and pleasant high by the British steamer Miover bound for

the hill tribes throughout the larger part the province, especially north and west. pipes. Of these 1600 were found to be be way to everlasting destruction. From the Honolulu and Sydney. On the 18th De-

On the Burma barter the Chinese are mach boneshaker to the airy velocipede was one

trade The following notice is issued from low the stipulated standard. The inspec stop now people are quarrelling as to comber, the Miouera took the Stratimevis

interior in numbers, and though the is largely in their hands the country is oo tion was conducted by order of the Tekio whether they should use the words bicy in fow and attempted to make for Victoria,

cupied by Shans and Hachina, who shera clo or bike's 'wheal-saddle' or veloci. the Observatory:-

B.C. The line was parted about midnight, | tu speculations en his own account. He disposition to migrate into British torri On the 9th at 11.25. The barometer District Court, as tão result of a civil se pedo'; 'wheel' or 'machine. For many and it was not till the 20th Dec., so much had been ton yaars in the Government tory.. Around T-li the Ming-jia uro vary

tion raised by the Company against the years they have been quarrelling, over the

He very largely are they conformed to the customs City Couns. Lire outrastors are sinulative merits of rival machines and tires was tho sea, that a tow-line was passed, at survice, and during that time he had been numeroas, and are practically Chinese, so

saving up money to lead out and pedals, and saddles, and-goodness.

On the Sz-chuan border and scattered

27th Nov.

gow and Liverpool, passed the Canaling the sphere of their operations. on the 2nd Nov., and may be coni dered das at Singapore on or about the 10th Dec.

Laicst Advicen." The CF. R. a. a. Empress of China laft. Vancouver for Hongkong on the 8th Deo.

WEATHER NOTICE.

has fallen on the China Coast and in the

1f. r. B. Co, a charitud steamer

Dec.

working arver pin Pres fresh N.E. winds; fine.

HONGKONG GOLF CLUB, CAPTAIN'S CUP.

..

The N G. Ital. steamer Lefiabro left

Bombay on the 8th Dec., and may ba

expected here on or about the 38th Dec.

The P. & Q. Co. a. a. Borneo luft Siuga-

tralin, loft Nagasaki on the morn- of 8th Dec. for this port, and ing is expected to arrive here on the 13th

Dec.

weathne was gloriously fine, the links in

But it must not be supposed that I set up good order, and the greens, if somos at the Chinaman as a paragon. Far from it. koch, could not be found fault with.

machines a

In cross-caamination, plaintiff eaid thore was no regulation in the service binding him was a civilian. He applied to Lieutenant absence to-day. Licus.-Colonel Clark was the Thutason, the officer in charge, for leave 5 superior oflicer, but he is at present away Defendant himself had pro- viously thought of speculating on a piece of land below the Olaervatory at Kowloon for which they were prepared to invest 810,000. The Fund, however, was found to be too dear. He had written previously to the Director of Fublic Works in regard

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Macluf arrived at Theoma on the 7th sure is still in excess generally. Forecastful enough, in all conscience; but not even knows what else. Now, attention is buinn great peril, between the vessels-On-the-jeldoor put monay in the bank; he did not of the dominant rada.

put it unless he could not invest it. Ho a Chinese contructor; - poor, heathenial, undirected to the enormous prices charged by 23rd Dec., the vessels were parted in a started banking secunt with the over the hills in the south are the Lolas, a civilised, unprofessing Chinese contractor, the manufacturers, just as it was to the fierce westerly gale sixty-three miles from Hongkong and Shanghai Banke about the most interesting people, whose character

Extraordinary prices for sexing would yo so far as to supply 1600 pipes out generation ago and typewriters and tele: Cape Flattery, luet sight of each other, and heginning of this year. He had not a safe and situation appeal strongly to the mis The December competition for the Cap-of 2,000 deficient in the contract requise phones within more recent years. The com the captain of the Mimura, believing the in his hoves, but he kept a cash box. He sionary's sympathy and demiro.

The present age of missionary develop. petition of America with England is gradually Strathneris had gone down, resamad his tho 1st October he had close upon

preferred his own house to the bank. On pore for this purt on the morning eftain's Cup took place from the 5th to Flaments. 9th Dec, at 6 8.m.

$100 while affording a basis for extended work in bringing down the price, and when bicycles The N. Y. K. e. s. Tolia Mary, for Aus- met, with the rosuit given below. The

from a friend of bis, an assistant clerk and the near faters. Protestant mission work are as cheap as perambulators goodness only voyago. During the townge, the Minecrawan his cash box. He borrowed the 81. 810 in ment contains in it much that is hopeful knews whore the curse of imoderation is seriously damaged. On the morning of the godown keeper as the Sugar Works: Ho is wholly in the hands of the Inland Mis- to land us!

24th Dec., the Mineola found the Strath-voceived the money a60 his friend's sion

and its associates. Pioneers hers

Nevertheless the general play was not up I have as little admiration for the Chinese

I road in an American trade journal only neris at anchor on the lee shore of Destrue house in Jardinca Baziir--8700 on in so many other places, the Inland The N. Y. K. s. 6. Yamashiro Mart, from have him nor returas in the neighbour-

to the usual standard, and, there should as I have for the Japanoso-less, probably, the other day, owing to the rapid and tion Island, flying a sigual of distress. She the evening of the first and $900 Mission has three stations in the provinca,

the next evening. Ho gave his friend pro- the two older ones heing at the capital enormous devoiapulent in the United States Melbourne and ports, left Thursday hood of 85, considering all the favourable for I admit there is a beauty in the sar-

was taken in tow and finally taken into missory notes for the two amounts, 'at the Yunnan Eu-and Ta-li, with a more recent Island for this port on the 30th Nov.concitinas

roundings of the Jap which is not so ire of the bicycle industry there has been an

Fort Townsend on the evening of the 20th rate of 2 per cent. per month. He agreed settlement at Chi-chang. The tabulated and expected to arrive hore on the

overproduction and many, good makes can 11th Dec.

78quently mat with in the vicinity of the now be purchased at about one-helf the Dec. The Court found the total raluo of to cbnega the defendant the same rate of results of the work are small compared intorest. His repaid the principal and with the years of labor, the capital 84 Chiruman. I have known only one China-Price they commanded a year ago. At the the property saved to be $220,000 (golt) interest to his friend. He borrowed 280 especially being uncongenial soil. Yat the

satus time the highest grades command full 87 man who approached European nations in prices owing to their recognized quality, The award to the Mincole was divided as from his wife to make up the second lean of missionaries are well knowit and

$1000.

spokes of through the country. 59 faithfuince, thoughtfulness, kindlinous, which is acknowledged to be superior to follows:-Thu owner, $12,000; Capt. Pille-

Defendant was also examined,

Wemen of the mission have much more

www. thane of wwy other auntry American

At the conclusion of the evidence, the freedom than in the case in 8x-chuan, and are proving the worth of their work. The cano was adjourned till tomorrow.

mission of the Bible Christians at Ches tung and Tung-abuan, initiated about ten JOTTINGS IN YUNNAN. have heard of compradores, shroffe, shop.birdles ranges from £6 to £20 to 810 each-total, $20,500. Discussing

The Rey, W. M. Uperaft, American Fears ago, is just beginning to show the The above players also entered for the keepera, servants (especially domestica) italice I should like you to put in. The the case of the Mora, the judge said the Prol, together with

result of mach patient labor and sowing, and other Chineas in European čirplay above is a fair specimon of American ad- mester, officers and men endured hardships Baptist Missionary Union, Ta-chow, Saband of singularly devoted and able men ment. I am firmly of opinion that the de-vertising, and the American knows how to and braved extraordinary perils and expos. chuan, contributes the following notes to

And women, they are working in a vigorous arack up his wares. On the whole, the

the Chinese Recorder: sirable Chinsman is a rara avis. Certainly American bicycles 1 have seen in Hongkonged their vessel to extraordinary hazard;

Lying upon the circumference of the and telling manner around the two centres,

Tho people of

of Yunnan suffer much from the average. Chinaman is not a saint. are as good as the English, whilst they are they were contributors to the ultimate empire, remate frora the path of the ordin- opium-the supply of it, the cheapness of cheaper in price, but there are salvage of the Strathnet, and the Courtary travellor, and not statingly represented it, and the contagion of it. And yet it in Neither, perlups you will tell me, in tho

usdalo features which must

in the fold of evangelical mision work, persistently called yang-yen foreign alac were entitled average Huropean. Well, we won't split rent to the eye at every practised eyahat held they

to Yunnan does not figure largely in-current Yesterday evening a fire took place at bairs over it-But, speaking in a broad or wheelman' if you like the word better. Entstaatisi reward.

But I am getting on the thin ice of debate, order to ward off all attempts to draw me into a discussion, be it boroby known that I will have none of it. I am not discussing bicycles.

Mr C. W. May

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Mr V. A. O. Hawkins.... 04 3 A FOOTBALL match will take place tourMr G. Stewart... raw hotween the Club and 12th Co. RA. Mr G. W. F. Playfair.... 107 Mr P. de C. Morris....... 104 Kick-off at four o'clock,

Mr C. H. Grace........... 107 Wine the Pool

18 extrics.. 2001.

Mr A. S. Anten

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ANOTHER organ recital will be given in the Union Church by Mr George Grimble on Monday, the 14th inst. Solos will be sung by Mra Secbae. Mr Erust Mirow, and Mr G. P. Lammert.

Tar's morning the dead body of a Chinaman

was picked up in the harbour by the Police

of the Market Wharf. There were a num÷

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25 and uprightness--and he is dead. That bicycles, like American carriages, cere stronger, bury, $1600; the first mate, other officers may be my misfortune; but from what I lighter and more graceful than those maru and men received sums ranging from $600 factured eleicher The of American

price

The

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Mr C. H. Grace... 103 19

∙106 Mr C. A. Tomes......

16 entries.

FIRE IN NEW STREET. THREE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH. "

+

be

appa

The claims of the

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ber of bruises ou the body, and a mark as No. 18 New Street, causing extensive des- cathalie spirit, let tas say that I prefer to wast not discuse rival inairos., And in lineola had been admitted, and the Court Howledge then it were well for both Yun on home fields with a large you 105...

ifs rope had been tied round his neck.

truction, and resulting in the loss of three doal with a European, - lives. The fire was first discovered to have A CHINAALAN was arrested last night while broken out about half-past eight o'clock,

The dishonest shopkeeper and the carrying two revolvers and two hundred and information was at one sent to the peculating domestic servant are always

A corcase will be given by the Hongkong

DIOGENES.

IN PRAISE OF SHANGHAT.

for them,

IDEXO

nor

لامة

of re-invigoration and the conviction that you osn't long escape the knife ! Sweet- ness and light for missionary homas! One life does not necessarily drag after all,

literature. If gyrapathy depends upon opium), though every ounce used is

An impression prevails throughout the was merely asked to fix the amount to bean and ourselves that we know more of export.

province-for ourselves, that a new

that the contact is closer and Wursted in Formoss, that their feet paid. In the case of the Minera, the avenue is thus opened to a fellow feeling province that the Japanese bave been claims were resisted on the plas that she more intelligent,

and army have been destroyed and the did not bring the Strathnevis to a place of - From Suifu, the last town on the navig. island restored to the Chinese. Indeed, book is being sold, through the clien rounds of ammunition from No. 356 Queen's Fire Brigade Station. The Brigade, turn. / with us, and now that Mr May is again at

safety and that the latter was abandoned in able Yang-tza in So-chuan, to Chao-tung describing the victory in which the leader the first important city of Yunnan, is thr Toad to a Chinese club near the Kowshing ed out sharply, un command of Acting the head of the Police Force and has a

a perilous situation. His Lordship, going teen diod of arduous travel it would be his counery

travel. And thirteen days of (second king), who is thas the saviour of of the Black Flaga is called Liu Er-wang Theatre. At the Magistracy to day, he Assistant Superintendent Coreasar, and enlace in the Legislative Council, I hope ho M. de Cuers de Cogolin, the founder and upon decisions in the United States and in was charged with carrying arung without reaching the scene of the outbreak it was will utilise the advantages of his position former proprietor of Le Currier d'Eni England where different sets of asyon had the valley of the great river in the shadow the Truth, we were shown, while at the

difficult to find. The first day lies alung

As an instance of wilful obstruction of haring a licence, and was fined $25.

discovered that the building, which consist to devise some scheme or schemes to out-

fragrant Grange ed of three storeys, occupied as dwelling wit- the wily Celestial Can nothing bog, contributes an article to that journal been apportioned salvage on the theory of the giraling alls and

in praise of Shanghai. He says that Shang that all who had contributed to the sslving groves. Thirty miles out the road turns capital, a copy of Dr John's Summary of ace the Gaspal which was returned to the houses, was enveloped in flares, Under the done to stop the lightweight system which hai is a pratty, a very pretty town, the of property were entitled to reward, award-wheaply taste of hills that besar, one sh the mission by being thrown in at the front

into jungle Philharmonic Society on the 17tis inst. direction of Captain Superintendent Maylies like a pall upon the whole of the com (Thursday week). The vocal soloists will and Assistant Superintendent Corcoran, pradore sturus. We are all familiar with finest town in the Far East without exaged the owners of the Miouera $18,000; way to Chao-rung. The road is a pathway gate. On the cover the original title of the stone slabs, the fare is not oxhilarating, torn stew name written, One Volume of Devil's Worde. All through the book be Mrs Valhage, Miss Coxon, Mr G. P. the Brigade managed to keep the fire from the light broad evil; is there a European garation. What struck him most was the Capt. Stott, $500 and the officers and bestrewn with slippery pebbles and line-book was ensed, and in large bold curio Lammert, and Mr E. E. Hill, Mr Bentley, the building which was completely gutted, housekeeper who got the proper weight predominance of the Chinese element in crew suns ranging from 8000 to 850 the inne smptuous, but as me there are topider marginal notes of £ vie

spreading, butit was found impossible to save

goos on day after rising steadily

the malarial levels of St-chan last page, beside which negribed the from

character, with an indecent picture on the bandmates of the West Yorkshire Regi- The fire was got under about half past nine when taking delivery of his coal supply the Settlement, not only in the streets, making a total of $26,200.

Yunnan g'olock. A large crowd had assembled to What about our gorged fowls, the tricko by whore they are legion, but in the commer

into the bracing quickening air ment, will play a charionet solo.

- PATENT MUNIO boxes, Violine (fine models)

Foreigners, bowstop witriess the conflagration and order was maintained by a body, of Police under which sunking dish are taste to appear assial and industrial autorprises which have Mandolines, and Strings of all kind the discomfoste are forgotten in the serce warning sentence, The Victoria Regatta commemes to-tor-Inspector Witchell. It won thought every frosh, and the constant supplier of light recently received such an impetus in the Robinson & Co.

Model Settlement. In Toukin, he sare THE time-honored scheme of rolling up a row, the first race being timed to start at ona hau escaped from the building, and 1 p. The Committee have boun succuss it was not until after the flames had been reicht. as our houses). In English tovushie Franch Bottlers are face to face with piece of paper and using it for a lighter, has village oruity life, the appearance of the missionary fures and field without a

subdued and a such was made, that it was the peripatotic coal-dealar must carry & the poorer classes of Chinese: the reprobean utilized by an inventor in the man-† people or country, for attraction, would "ponding conviction as to the r ful in securing the German mail steamer discovered two romes and a child had por: weighing machine, and invariably has to sentatives of the Chinese firms there are ufacture of matches,' says The National only lead to certain and deen disappoint possibilities and ardent toil involved in the

trast. Thus, when one remembers the sup, on board of which music will be on the more fond a thing might be insisted upon; and it and their stocks being kept up by the revolutionize European match manufacture, the vigor and the business of Sy hostile forces, yet

Superintendent Corcoran found the

ing, and is particularly timely, because the chuan plaves, the rained villages, the stage and Divine work engages: them, liva man.......

tion that & Divine presence surrounds them played by the band of the Hongkong bodies of A Woma) od two would not be bad thing if the police In Shanghal, as in Hongkong, if is quite wood for this purpose is constantly growing Regimens, The Fame will convey visitors year old child. The woman's husband would lend their services to residente from differs in these pattes, but particularly sources and mese oudy. The new mstake ass towns and phlegmatic people in this and woman whose lives touch the servic to the flagship from Pruder's Wharf, leave out, and she meat have returned to the time to time in order to make surprise naman possessing fortunes acquired by gen matches and weigh much lows, a fact which arrow, means of formation sounty, and Naw Puso sad Organ Repairing aerial

in Shanghai, thereare numerous wealthy Chi 270

are considerably cheaper than wooden province are depressing

Essentially agriculture, their horison ing at 12.30 on Thursday and Friday, and house to recover some articles, and finding can

exportation. turning ten minutes after the bust race, her egress barred at the front had made asis of the domestic supplies as stations of merchants; which, with the inborn counts for mush Its

lier way to the back and been ororteme by they are handed over by the compratores instmeta for commercial aferprise they stake of these matches conset of paper rolled bucolic in disposition, the Yunnansse mast and Machinery just to band so the best utilize for the acquisition of greater wealth, together on the bias. The papar le mather

The village houses ars of mod Witchell found another reminding of tree compradores who persistently Singhai lives like a lard. He has a model a colution of WAR separity and similar to walls, straw 66 to root, anil ever le in the cookhouse at the back with bac

clasping box containing few-cheat their customers. I suppose I will be household and a princely seita of rovine in substances will easily stick together and need of repairs The productions of the Twee in a da old chosimut About the

bodies (old that this is outelde police duty. That where be receives and aller burn with a bright, smokeises and odorless field are rice in the valleys, with mise American showman. Beraue who save

sutablishment in the country, where he Hame. Strips otin half facile wherever the ground is of an angle that seem to be in migh

are when cut buckwheat, and ere removed to the mouth of other of a large qusticity of hemp is polies duty to put down criminal chart red, and his wives, go to the protianade spoken wof shows and then turned to 10 ports we et metals, opdiem and Näen-John Barley, Chittagong, which was lying under the maiitasa Jauling ingeit is, in fact, artinitsed that this is so playing their magnificent diamondé le machinery into lodg, thin tubes, plebeckons, trusported by rack aimiala gent

from the ground, flees to the first our for I understand thore

servent and well droseed, and by coming of the ordinary length of wood or warme banding is happosed

A oficial Inayes into aloes contact with Europeans, he has matokeo being out of automatically by the rally, whose while existence scurt, be An lequiry was held into the death of the tor of Weights und Measures here as a tem de Coroin soparently of forins the dipped into hack phosphorus to pack all their backs and the developed into a stylish gentleman, Machine. When the smoke aze out to me tortura Tun rosile maim thate fan, best makers, are women and child today.

Home when cute in le so maka periodis found and not without read that there alm by and wache and the dial ved burden anrem til up the cup.

To depend upon the impresaim of either cannot make a wider acquaintance with the

enterprise.

beyond

magnitude

the eye of the

Hohenzollera (Capt Harrassowitz) as leg bed, a back room close to the cook use it. Here, in Hongkong, the same man of straw, their capital being almost { Druggist. The invention promises toment. Our impressions ara mainly by con-world, betized by the contine

eboted he had brought his wife and child

hand brauches in Hongkong or Canton.

the

A

be

aurehunviings amid

The banks and insurazice offiom obsarvu. # the flacion,. On täzisecond fast-Inspector deliverers with a ying to the prosecution the silk merchant, or tes marchant of strung and porque, and when immersed in Pr bis own standard to be ap-if Muse, W. Robinson on Do

hall-koliday on these days.

Delendid show cost 95 cents to get

MELE AT Dogs At Kowloon ellery and maybe is not an uncommon excuse, But surely it enjoys himself. His carriage is well equip first drawn through the combustible sa iyowa qultivation frstals

Esilan, Portuguese ganboat Diu, Dante, #B30MM, Kaiser, Leziu, Powan.

Aberdeen Chowin

originated by the

by some