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蝣我選沙石狗公查雄

馬友魚

左口魚

THE CHINA MAIL.

Tuesday, June 15, 189).

HONGKONG MARKET PRICES.

Corrected to Baturday, June 12, 1897.

At 1020 Cash per Dollar MeziÇOS.

Pike.

eatly

Platoo

Fomfret, Wilts

500

-Highest, Esmatet,

Cath

Chines Nam 68.

Pomfret, Black

Prawne,

290

Butcher Heat.

肉食

Buy

Rock Flab,

8 8 8 8

130-

Bacon, English,--

來路烟豬肉 Roush

•

Ame. Bugar cured;

340

Salmon, (Canten),

200

Foochow,

220

麻州粉猪肉 Buarke

כן

Japan, cured

240

Beef sizlan & prime cui, cstly 140

AILY

But Flair,

100

Skate.

£0

Corned,

cutty

140

鹹牛肉

shrimps,

140

Roast,

130

焼牛肉

Suapper,

180

Soup,

100

肉

Boles,

160

Steak,

L20

牛肉耙

Teuch,

撻沙魚鮮魚

Bullock's Brains,

per cot

牛龇

Turbot,

120

Tongue irch, cach

250

牛脷

Turtles, smal, frcel water,

100

corned

310

撇牛灣

Whiting,

catty

長版

Head,

White Bait

銥魚仔

Heart,

160

1lump, Balt catty

140

牛麻

Fruits

菓子

Want

Apples, (Californis),

catly

Kickoye,

牛媵

(Tientsin),

Tail,

100

牛屬

*... (Japan),

230

Liver.

• rally.

—

牛肝

Tripe (andreasod) catly 60.

牛肚

Bananas, fragrant,

(brides),

金山平天津平果日本平業省香蕉

山香蕉

Calves Head and Fuet, sel

600

Hans, American,

1b.

340

牛仔頭脚碘死

Chestouts, Chinens,.

150

風樂

Carambols,

.100

***

Chinesu,

210

金華火腿

Cocoannte,

English, New,.

440

米路火龍

Japan cured,

280

Ground Nuts, Graper,.

• catty

270

Shanghai,

3.0

上海火腿

Lemmons, China,

260

Matun Chop,

160

车牌背

Pool,

נו

Log,

部

100

Lichess, Dried,

200

Shoulder,.

Pigs' Chitlings,

120

Frost,

100

calty

Limos,

檸檬

Feet,

110

Mango, (Saigon),

each

发南芒某

160

(Manila),

宋書

Fir,

Head,

each

BOU 460

Mangosteen,

dozen 150

山竹子

00 40

Oraugen, Sweet,

• catty 180

新會業豋

او

Heart,

Gruen,

160

Kidneys,

. pair

Red,

Liver,

. ib.

100

紅桔

Park, Chop,

catly

180

猪牌骨

Oliver,

白機

Corned,

Leg

100

Fat or Lard,

350

Sheeps' Head and Fest, bel.

360

Heart,

cach

11.113

鹹豬肉

Pino-apples,

each 100

Paars,

• catty 100

(Tientaln),

140

羊頭麻

Plam, Red,

・紅争

Pomelo,

150 each

(Siam),

Kidneys,

Liver,

ib.

150 140

羊肝

Sucking Pig,

. each $1.75 81.25

猪仔

Padding,

Sust, Book,.

lb. 110

生牛油

Mutton,

Veal,

160

生羊油

Water Chesnate, com

calty 180

牛仔踘

Walnuts,

Poultry,

生日

Chicken,

catty

240

Capons,

Ducks,

160

BJTOS,

Egge, Hon

each

150

das.

Deck.

110

Bowls,

catty

Goese,

Harer,

sack

Muik Deer,

+11

Partridges,

200

Pigeons,

Phocant,

Rice Birds,

Quall

Balpe, Turkeys, Cook,

brace

dow

Baah

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230

Off

120

仔燒猳選

160

Aff

Branica, Bamboo Shoots,

Cabbage, Shanghai,

白襪

上海山

紫花巷

Cauliflower,

Carrota,

English,

Peach, (Sweet),

Ruisins, Muscatel,

. casty 110

ZA BEKL 沙梨

天津盂藥

100

麻雞類

味覺

馬灣

Mandarin,

桂林馬蹄

130

合機

Vegetables, &c.

Artichokes, Shanghai, catty

Beaus, (French),

Longs.

Best Boot,

each

Brinjals, Green,

catty

Rod,

--130

諄

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Cabbage, Chinese com..

..anch

catty

Celery, Chinese,

Ubikes Dried, •

Red,

Carry Stuff, English,.

Cucumbers,

Bitter Squash,

Ginger, young,

catty

FeD,

$50

Teal, Wild Duckk,.

sach

- pair

上牌水喝

Fish.

海鮮

Garlic,

Home Radish, S'hel,

129

Barbel,

110 .batch

Indian Corn,.

pices. 80

Brem

雜雜

Lettuce, (English),

ench

Bombay Ducks,ì

O'ton Fresh Water Fiab, catty

100 plecen 250

Mushrooms, Fresh,

catty

Onions, Bombay, ▪

100

A QUARANTINE OUTRAGE AT NEW YORK.

The following letter by the master of the steanor Radnorshire appears in the Kobe Chronicle:-

TALES OF THE NAVAL RESERVES

TOLD BY FUED T. JANE IN THE

*NAUTICAL 'MAUAZINE.'

Intimations.

G. FALCONER & Co.,

WATCH-MAKERS AND JEWELLERS, NEW SELECTIONS OF

There was once a Royal Naval Reserve offcor-the ship that he was in does not Sir-A copy of your valuable paper of matter, for if I name it I shall is giving two 5th inst. is before me, and going through people away--who had a moustache that

Emy Notos I come across your remarka

As the pride of the whole P. and O. sar- concerning the ridiculous and excessive quarantine regulations carried out in Vic, and he came upon manors with DIAMOND JEWELLERY AND ENGLISH SILVER WARE,

this moustache in full trim, thus patting toria, Canada, on board and in connection both the marine officers' ngses out of joint. HIGH-CLASS GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES. with Canadian Pacific tees Empress of Now, & horal officer with a moustacho

LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SPECTACLES... Chine, which veseal arrived them with in- and no board had never before been seen

PINCE-NEZ AND EYE PRESERVES. fectious disenso on board.

upon one of Her Majesty's quarter decks, and there chanced to be a German G. BALCONER & Co., ARE AGENTS FOR ROSS'S FAMOUS TELESCOPES AND

BINOCULARS, LORD KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, crnir lying in the harbour at which he

'ADMIRALTY CHARTS and BOUKS. joined every one concluded that ho belonged to hor, and tho com- mander with a German dictionery_show. at him round the ship. The R.N.R. was 818 shy, and this was his first experience; ho concluded that momo joke was on, and that it would be polite for him to seem to tum- blo to it, so round the ship lo went. They had done about half the vessel when the ermmander heard that luggage had come board with the moustache, and then, still with the German dictionary, he tried to explain that a mistake had been made, and that our friend must go in the other ship.

the same time it occurred to the R.N.R. that he really had come to the wrong versel, and apologising in his best Gennan (which, as he had no dictionary handy, was quite intelligible) he prepareil to depart again ;

agree with you that this may diminish the number of Fast-bound passengers who take the British route, so I would like with your indulgence to give your readers my experience last February in the United States portion of that Continent, not with six Infected vessel, but with one arriving there having clean bills of health from every port touched at, and without a single case of sickness of any kind having occurred during the voyage. If ridiculous and ex- camire can be applied to the treatment netod out to the passengers and crew of the Einpress of Chance, I am sure you will admit that much stronger language can be applied to the treatment we of the steamship Radnorshire were subjected to in New York, constituting Lat does nothing short of an outrage on humanity.

On arriving at the quarantine: ground, New York harbour, at p.a. on February 26th last, after a passage of 60 days from Japan, via Shulghat, Hongkong, not Singapore, I was informed by the boarding

I was shipmates once with a sub, "who officer that as we had come from the explained to me that the whole art nud Eastera World' (rather a large order) the mystery of station-keeping lay in a nutshell. ship and people would have to be put When I go on watch,' said he, "I go slow through a process of fumigation on acosant

I of babonic plague being rife in that part of till the fleet is nearly out of sight, or

till the admiral makes a signal; then crack on and catch up till our next ahead As you may easily believe, this astonished gets nervous; then slow again, and so on. me not a little, socing that I had boun no It's the easiest thing in the

the world'

It wae; nearer to the infected district (Bombay) but our skipper had more conventional than aight or nine hundred mile by 60 views; no had the captain of our next but I had cance to be further astonished ahead; and the brilliant station-keeping of later un. This is what occurred, and if for

Sub-Lieut.

-was doomed, to the great callous

it has ever been beaten ariel of the people in the engineroom, who Inhumanity by quarantine vilicials anywhere I should had easy times during his watch. I heard like to hear of it.

that the noxt ahead sent our skipper

the world.

By instructions, the vessel was anchored

place covered both by the eye of the quarantine officials mad the guns of Uncle Bam, and al communication whatever forbidden. The bedding, bed clothing, linen, and every particle of clothing was ia bundles (and when I say 'overy' tied up I am speaking literally) and chucked into a boiler and put under steam; after which a

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BILLS OF LADINU,

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trae; and anyway this station-keeper was The cheapest and most conveniently located First-Class Hotel

not an R... Now the R.N.E. is un- able to try experiments of this sort, despite the fact that he is accustomed, so at least many of them have told me, to steer & liner by fractions of a point. Said

wet suit was passed to each person and then to me In the Service they ultar course two points, and think it pretty nar-

THIS

in Yokohama,

[HIS alegint new Botol is close to the Landing Pier, and in the immediate víciaíty

of the Ocoaulates and of the Railway Station, Post and Telegraph. Odicas Fine

Bath and Toilette Rooms on each Fist,

dry suits had to be taken off and putros through the same process. This with the steer decimal two of a point. I thanked

row; now, en my own ship, we often view over the Harbour, thermometer standing at 22 deg. Fahrenhim, and made a noto of the information; 1012 heit! The native way out ong, and whereupon another wearer of the sur have a hot bath in a

then

and was

ager into wet clothing afterwards and stripe, who had come on board to see him, was kind enough to tell me that on his stand about the decks in the piercing cold, liner they often got the order. Alter as it was impossible to unter the cabins, coume point 001,' which proved-though I borthe, forecastle, or stokehold, which were have foolishly forgotten the chain of argu- being fumigated by hurning sulphur in them ment that station-keeping would have for some time, so that they were rendered been child's play to them. uniohabitable før 12 hours.

At 5 p.m. all bedding and clothing was

returned on board in a wet condition, and W. ROBINSOs & Co., Plano and Musical

lay about the decks in all directions.

Instrument specialists and experte. Work-

There were no means of drying them, as it shops and Factory, Duddell St.; Show was impossible to go below to light fires or Rooms, Queen's Road Central

get steam on the heaters, Not a soul en

Board had a dry stitch of clothing upon

him and all had to huddle together all night THE comie history of the polieman has yet

on the docks of the steamer, which were to be written, bus when it appears a page now covered with ice.. Indeed it was only should be reserved for an incident in the with difficulty that access was obtained to hurdy-gurdy war of Gera, the capital of the It is an the lamp room to get the anchor lights to Reuse principality in Germany. hoist at dusk.

industrious, serious town, where the cour After this treatment ne doubt you will petition of the Italian workman is not wel admit that the use of the word outing comod, and where the frivolous Southerner rous as regards the treatment accorded with his barrel-organ is held in abhorrence. by civilized America' is justified. The It happened that & German Mrs Jarley majority of my crew are Chinese, and this was pitching her tent in this tow, and that example of what is meant by Western Civi- one of her properties was an Italian boy lization must have caused

sickly with hia organ. It is also the case that many LAINT Next day half of these man wore German housco have a wash-house in com- #Dar down with colds and proumenia, and the mos to overal stages, which is

generally officera of tho ship were laid off duty for on the ground floor. In one of those wash- the tumble-down automaton g-rooms the ing; and his instrument had been unpacked,

蕖蔬

豆角

仔

Garg,

Catfish,

Greely Shanghai,

Codbali, Salt,

日本無事

100

Uraba,

Cattle Fish,

Dab

Dace, Dog Fish,

Bela, Congo,

Fresh waże

Eain, Yellow,

Fila Fisia, Frogs Fresh Fisk,

200

100

Okrese, Parsley, English, . Potatoes, Sweet,

Lundi 10

catty

Shanghai,

Japany

Claretips,

Gludgeon.

Gurnard,

Berduga,

Ballet,

Labrur,

Lobsters,

Mackerel,

Monk Mabi Malles

Pumpkin, Porslins,

Papawi Rudinky

糖仔茶

仔仔仔

本服

dosen

紅蓋白仔

14.00

上白

Hoe, bent quality, per plout,

Commen

Shalots

·Balonge, (Chinu

***

ofico.

days

in consequence of the treat. several ment experienced.

Now comes the farcical part of the busi-and left for the night. A lady tenant came

to do The plot was allowed to land at in the evening to her washing, Thon permission was given the found the maskan lying by his maching. captain (myself) to go to Now York to en-She hastily and complained

to her assailed the

sleeper down for steaming. On through the window with guttural worde

As the and they were and gutter missiles

sleeper slept addressed the

and ex- figure in the

ter the vessel, conditionally that the clothes numerous family,

to wear were passt

who

these terms I refused to that I was allowed on, a atroot inspector was summoned, who

thucoupon withdrs wa of the ressul

בד.

to go to town unfumigated. The portioned to him the law.of Gera; but there

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For females of all ages they are invatsable.

The 1/14d. boxes contain 56 Pills. Price, 60 Coats a Box.

Prepared only by the Proprietor, THOMAS BRedman, St. Hulen's, Bugland -Sole Agents for Hongkong and. China 2 War & Co., 68, Qusan'a Road,

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INDEX

TO 27:0

CHINA REVIEW fram VOLUMES I to XII,

1-LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS. 2.—ARTICLES.

3- Reviews of Books 4.- Last or Avisions REVIEWED.

TRIOS,

TO Ozky.

To be bar at the China Mail Office,

sul that were subjected to fumiga- tion were merely the sections portioned cut wad no answer, so he seut for the police. for our living quarters and for the firing of Four policemen and an indignant crowd the vessel, which of course only form a capleted the dramatis personas before the

of the whole ship. The door was broken down, and they found they desars. KELLY & WALn, Mowers, Lanky the halda, was left un bad had to deal with a dummy, a pneumatic | Chawrose & Co., Hongkong and Momaa and the cargo, about 6,000 tons, dummy, who only played erratically, and KELLY & WALAR, äbakgbal. was Allowed ta ba and dispersed that under pressure,

Ended throughout the city Wealth and risk of life,

without restriction. Beaides damage to t

Fumigated,

all on board suffered pecuniary loss. The till which I paid for myself amounted to repsire to damaged clothing belonging to

Hongkong Tides.

FOR SALE,

COMPLETE REPRINT, in Pamphlet The Tide Table given below has been, of the proceedings in the

and I don't think any Euro- compiled by the Nautical Almanse Office in 838 C.B. gold, and pean on board paid less than $10 to have Leadon from the results of the analysis of

his clothing made respectable, besides havo- observations taken by means of an automa ing to purchase linen in the shape of collatis tide recording machine in the Water and shirts. (not otherwise required) to Police Basin at Tsim Sha Tsui during the enable a respectable appearanes to be ruede year 1887-8-9. before the great U.S. public.

Further comment is unnecessary. The bill paid by the vasol to the doctor for this little exhibition of incapacity

the part

LIBEL, CASH Of

REGINA F. PITMAN, containing the whole of the Proceedings at the Police Court, full report of the trial in Criminal Sessions, with connected Corre- Or-pondence and comments of the Preen. *

To which is now sided a Report of the Case of

FITMAN F. KESWICK

The sore of the table is Low Water dinary Spring Tides, which has been found to bo 2 foot below mean sea level.

To obtain the depth of water on the tide of the Medical Board of Health (1) of New gauge at the Victoria Naval Yard add 5 ft. Tork State, and the blus funk which is 7 in, and on the gauge at Lamont Dock, evidently epidemic on that Continent, war Aberdeen, add 1 ft. 9 in, to the height 880 C.B. gold

given in the table. spin. We often see the inhabitants of that fra- mones continent called a 'grant penfila,' but

I should like to ask whether such ridiculous precassions do not form an in- sult to their intelligence and to the scien tific knowledge of the medfoal mon when

they put in positions of authority. Par haps Japan can give New York some in- struction, for she deals with these matters

in a much more scientific fanner, and, Ther. 17

like England, has confideres in the ability

of her medical man to wage euccessful way. 18 againat disease.

Bun 20

On consideration of the Empress of China, reported in your columns, I have been for ged to come to the conclusion that Canada is compelled to put it notion these ridiculous. Tem 13

and excessive regulations in order to pro test her intercourse and perhaps a portion

of her trade with ferueighbour, who not

only quarantine infooted vessels, but

deals outrageously with pon-infected Vessels

and collects 850 from each.

This is what you may expect on arrival

at & U.S. port-I am, sir, your obedient zervant,

FALDE. DAVIES, R.N. R. Kobe, June 7th, 1897.

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