2.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1897.
The Shanghai Autumn Regatta will be hold on the 25th and 26th October.
Seven hundrað gaolf Credag,seven deatlis were registered in Singapore, last month, Including one from cholers. The ratio per thousand stood at $1.47.
Phoressor Bosakuvakis magical porfor mance will be given in the City Hall to night. The Band of the West Yorkshirs Regiment will play selections.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
[SUPPLIED TO TES · Chora Mail']
LONDON, Soptember 19.
THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.
CORRESPONDENCE.
THE PIANO NUISANCE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
To the Editor of the *CHINA Mail.' Hongkong, Sept. 18, SIR-Tour contributor Murious, in Col. Jeffrey's brigade attacked the Moh-hi roars on the above subject, comme himself neither one way nor the other. mands on Thursday, and after severe He is tantalisingly, not to say stupidly fighting wore forced to retire to camp, neatral, where frem his position, ex cathe
tru, bat s
he should have land a decided opinion losing & officers and 129 men killed and
pro or 3011. wounded.
THE JAMESON.HOOLEY CHINA LOAN.
wall
Why one person should be mulcted at law for playing an angry tattoo, under maddening provoution, on a dividing for which he pays rent, although to the undoubted and intentional sunuyance of The Jameson Hooley Iona contract has
his neighbour and The Chefoo Dorby was won by Mr Sistas's been signed. The issue price is 01. should, without let or stay, and with no why another person ercam Kaiser Anton, the St Leger by Mr
legitimate reason, be allowed to thump aril bang Clark's Baltic, the Ladies Purse by Mryndicate sivances two million pounds for
ceaselessly on a plug that is hired, the Shanghai Nankin line, and engages to to the moro long-continued annoyance not
."
The
NOTES FROM SHANTUNG.
(From Dur Own Correspondent.) Among the northern provinces of the empire, Shantungundoubtedly ranks first in half of the province in more or less moun the density of its population. Perhaps
tainous, but on the broad plains there must be anywhere from five hundred to two thousand or so persons to the square mile. Thee estimates are not simply wild guesses, but are arrived at by taking small definite areas of fairly wall known population, and
CORRESPONDENCE,
| have never heard of Bombay or of Japan, but dim allusions to Shanghai may have
PIANO TORTURE, been crossed their intellectual penumbra To the Editor of the CHINA Mai" and they have distinctly heard it rumoured
Hongkong, 21st Sept., 1897. DEAR Bra,-It is a sud state of fairs in that something in the cotton business is doing and to be done in Tientsin.
this up to date Colony when one is forced to believe that your efforts to exiucate the The same state of things holds in the public are of so little avail; or is it that cloth market as in that for thread, for they there are somo people who have oyen and are corelated. Complaints are heard in sue not, or who are so perverso-minded as to continue annoying their neighbours aut the great, cotton districts that merchants of sheer cussedness, for surely Nerves no longer core to purchase in such numbers and Insomnia have said enough to ven- as they used to do. Why, nobody stops to tilate their grievance re pianos.
However, Mir Editor, let us be patient, employing then as a unit of multiplication, inquire. In good years the mall merchants and give them the benefit of the doubt, as
Every village has some families who own
who buy cotton and how it, that is anapone should not judge tou rashly, for it may no lard at all. In the cass of those who it on a taut string to loosen i up, can make be that there are some misguided people who would rather learn the piana then have a regular business,” even if it be a enough in three months to support their learn to read.
Trusting this will catch the eye of the want of chivalry.-Yours faithfully,
BRITISH GUNBOATS ON, THE YANGTIZE.
The Chungking corraspodent of the N.. G. Daily Netes writes:
A question at prosent occupying the minds of a few people kore is :-For what purpose is the British Government build- the Thames, and what is to be their des in the spucial light draught Beamers un tination? Sone of us will be disappointed if next season a man-of-war does not put in mau appearance at Ulangking. Not tant wa anticipate tronists in the alightest: but the groat Trade Bosporium of the West a treasure of atten- surely now desarrOS tion from Her Majesty's the sight of the British guntot, even if naval officiala, and only a torped boat, would distinctly tend to revive the drosping spirite of certain of Her Majesty's loyal subjects. We have not has boon opened to steain navigation before yet got over the fact that the West River
to believe that it would have been a wise policy to sond steamers to on both
ply streams at the auto time. What can our British merchants be thinking about i Merchant steamers were to have come here
y how many years. u afraid t to say
ig no
Twin's Rouge, and the Champion Stakes advance three millions at a futuro date formy in fight and left-land neighbours all one, and is no more necessary than families the rest of the year. Bat of late
but of a whole nergabour:wood, constitutes fur pouple of the same class in other coun-years they complain that it is no longer ring lady's friends and apologising for my the upper Yangtze, and there is a tendency
Mr Sictas's Penturgun, who had run a dead heat with Roup for the Visitors' Cup on the opening day of the Chefoo Race Meet- ing.
an extension through Horum.
TURKEY AND GREECE PEACE SIGNED.
tries. Thure is in every region a little possible to do this. Foreign cloth has in- vaded and is invading the markets, - A great army of graftatoon, such as masons, carpen-
economic revolution is about to begin, ters, blacksmiths, tinkers and the like.
which will disturb the social lubits of mil-
know what has struck them.
A trosty of peaco has been signod at Porg/pt. From a commun senne point of view, The latter are almost all from the Chastions of proplo, must of whom will never
----A HAWKES who was detected stealing two | by Turkey and Greece.
'
deep-saa loads from the O. and 0. steather Belgic on the 20th inst., was seat to prison by Mr Wodehouse to-day for a period of six months, with hard labour. hawker found under gutepicious circum-
aonmout.
A marine
To-mar, at the Magistracy, Mr II. E. Wodehouse oponed an enquiry in the dauth of the earth coolie buried in a land- slip at Kowloon on the 17th inst. The name of the ducassed was Lo Kig-is, and ho lived at Yaumauti. He war 29 years of age." There was nobody in charge of the works, according to the evidens of another cuilia. The onquiry was adjourned till Friday next.
(1s Courrier d'Haiphong.) THE KING OF SIAM IN FRANCE.
PARIS, Sept. 12.
Pants, Sept. 14.
M. Fauro entertained the King of Siam to dinner in the Elysée. Cordial toaste were exchanged. M. Faure and the King will be present to lay at the review at St Quentin which conolades the maneuvros of the north.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
From Madras it is reported that abou: forty workmen were killed in an explosion at the mines on the Champion Reet
|
one of those nice legal quilities which your lore-lacentangle.
love, but which I am not inclined t
The case of MeVillie
Arnold was not
Arnold was in the right, although the law did not uphold his method of asserting himself. But, apart from many other dis similarities, as I am not the immediate nuighliour of the piano-pest complained of, knocking on either of her walls would be impossible in my case. Nor was the in stance of Madamo Carrono ac apposite.
ail
rudiments of
And
Dow,
late
Chiu district, and have rules of their own. Trade-unions exist in the germ, and even in thase kinds of work whow a bright pupil
could learn in a few months all that a mas- ter could teach bias in a life-time, it is still
It is observable that of late years those who have the opportunity to do so like to send Shantung cloth a thousand li-by water-to Tung Chou and Peking to bavo
In these modern days the obscurent rural
Chinese is engaged in an invisible competi- tion with thousands of human beings in lands of which he never heart. The result to the Chinese comes in the form of diluted starvation. To the foreign merchant it takes the form of progress.
PUNJOM MINING CO., LTD.
anú
ANOTHER VICTIM.
THE MERCANTILE MARINE AT
SINGAPORE.
KASTERS AND MATES.-INCREASES OF
BALARY.
bavon't come yet! And the
why they should not come
They consol
I to the "gard to "place which is
Ped
districta
unwieldy
that
Some cons of
Store
the
Community have not yet that were ordered from Shanghai in th
Fe got the month of February last. This is truly
learning how to get on witlion certain cour and place for cultivating patience and fox veniences. Fortunately man wants but little here below,' and it is wonderful how much of the little can be got on the apot.
save the inglorious want of enterprise which Singapore, Sept. 31. has of lata boon conspicu
|eznspicuous in
in the attitude In conversation, this morning, with the of
of shipowners captain of one of the Straits Steamship the key to Company's stands, a representative of of these western regions. M. Moline has paid a visit to the King My middlonged neighbour is not a pro- necessary to take the full three years' ait dyed. When we inquire why they do not Straits Company bava just granted sub-
the Straits Times informed that tite junk can be hauled
up the
rapils suc nted sub-cessfully, it
IN difficult to believe stances in Eastley, Upper Richmond Road, of Sinn, who has given him the assurance fetarend of thoan; she is quite at the prenticeship, with little chce of being have this done near homo, sincs every large stantial increases of mulary to the mostam occupied by Mr George Kirkpatrick, share of friendly feeling towards France. The other end of the gamut. She is unacquaint able to set up for onesalist one end of that į narkot-town has dyc-shops, they will tell Masters, hitherto drawing a eslary of $150 greater safety. And so
modern steamboat could not be made to ed with the most elementary
teenaged on their steamers. stean: up and down with as much and could, Delayed broker, was sentenced to six weeks' impri- King visits the Fort of Vincennes to-day. péatio-playing; she is in the she is last free, and gets into work, the boas has time. When the young apprentice is at earliest
you that the dyestuffs now are not good, per month, wil receive, in the ferin junks are arriving slowly and native mer He is an object of public curiosity where stages; to speak in
in metaphor,
and the cloth fades. The dyers peu 'for- in her mugiul long clothes, and as she is a porcontage on it for an indefinite period.eign caloring matter (aniline dyes) because to a monthly increase of 250 Matos falling, and the everdeo boats should be. ever bu appears.
of a six-monthly bonus, an addition of chants are complaining of the shortness of $300, or, ต other words, what amounts ready money. The rivers are steadily nearing hor second childhood, can mover |
(continuing e metaphor) to be short- All these things make it hard to get they are cheaper. But they do not wear coated. It takes her some fire or less living in Shantung. There is also the class, like native indige; yet who knows but the crease of 16--and also a six-monthly bonus
are to receive $100 per month-an ingin to arrive in great numbers. minutes to stumble through an easy ar rangement of Twinkle, twinkly little aver small, of those who besides having no latter, too, saay be displaced
OF $90
a further increase of $15 por month. star,
Second nates will get a rise of 810, bring or Three blind
mice," while lawl, have no regular recupation. These whole weeks of sickening
repetition are
their salarias to 875 per month, and ing before hor
'sell strength,' and just maddło along necossery
awkward
also a bonus of $6 per month. Theng can play any simple melody at all (hun) as they can. The kek of means to
of the officers of the Straits Company to creases, it is stated, will bring up the sahries satisfactorily. Her
musical
education was support a family is in Chins no barrier to
those received by officers employed on the soraly noglosted years ago on in life, she has formed the homic rogol matrimony, curtainly not in Shantung,
Blue Funnel steamers sailing out of this tion of making up for lost time. Hence the where Mencius lived. It was he who utter
port. This has hoon, it is said, is com harrowing, excruciating torture to which I
templation for some little tane, During the last few days, a
a number of am pitilessly subjecter. She has doubtless memorable dictum, There are thras beard of a certain
the masters and mates sailing out of the ckman who did not unfilial courses, but of these net to leave. Frenchman tackle the dimouli study of Chinese till well posterity is the ching. This view and the
port have approached various shipowners with a view to obtaining increases. Messra past soventy; and of another great pundits uniform procedure based upon it have been
Tah Kim Tian and Co. state, this morning, with Hebrow. Wher
that they will be prepared to pay to their Where they succeed, why
mates the same wages as are given by the shouldn't she? True! why not? But they
Straits Stearnship Company, so that the didn't advertise their daily studies through
mates employed. On the other hand, this Company may look open windows L
Es ha dues hors. And there the comparison begins and ends.
lady for the first time, two days
Mouars ago. Towards dusk, she came out on the
Mining August Shaft.The sinking of poset
incrosse t< crease the salaries of their cap vorandah during one of her rare intercale
this shaft was continued full time up to the tains, which they consider are already suf- 27th instant, when the required depth Acient. There range expanded in her specially active fita, expected to see someone with shoulders of well if he gute for a year's work his food necessary timbering completed, the cross which Sandow might be proud. I was and ten strings of full sh, each string cut to go up to the reef at the 300 it. level The following notics is issued from the egregiously mistaken. She had o rather worth less than a Mexican dollar. Hew. The ground sunk during the month in Observatory ---
slima, paim figure, the exsot prototype can a funity exist on such a pistance 121 ft. 6 in., which I presume to think is of many a Pacific Coast school-marm. It who hor face and its weary expression that The wife may know how to feare cotton fairly good progress for 27 days' work in
such hurd
hurd ground. The crosscat is now in deeply lined and furrowed, it had a far-off, cisary old things invented agus ngn and ble speed. most forcibly struck me small, blanched, cloth, but this implies a loon-one of those
4 ft., Ma
and will be
with all possi pushed on
Of course the cutting of the plat will Counters
through the wards presing of a lunatic asylum. Hers was evidently a is hard and exhausting werk, and as the case of will power groutly in excess of loom must often be used in conjunction physical strength. I was shocked. I have ben haunted with that tiny, wan, care-
with another family, one wes it by day drawn face and its misled resolution ever and another by night. There are weaving sitico. I took a good look at her, for I collars in acacing every village, more might never have such a splendid oppor tuulty again. She loaned carelessly against pite, with paper windows slapting on the
(Bangkok Times.) BISMARCK'S OPINION ON THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN
ALLIANCE.
London, September 6, Prince Bismarck in an interviews anys that he does not attach too much import Anca to the Franco-Russian alliance, but that now the French pot is moved nearer
who, at a a similar
ar age, successfully grappled
жи
for milleniums the curse of China.
Thus there are in every village a number of women and children why have litorally
MINING MANAGERS REPORT.
The Secretary of the Punjon Mining Company, Limited, advises us that he had received this following progres report on August
immediato
no visible means of support. While the i the work carried on during the month of for in Tan and Co. do not pro- ashore was very great, it would scarcely ba
husband and father is say trying to 'hun,' what are his family to live on mean-
SEVERE STORM AT YOKOHAMA,
A savere storm of typhoon character passed over Yokohama on the evening of the 8th and morning of the 8th inst. A considerable amount of damage was done in the Settlement and native town, and: several natives were killed. After detailing the damage on shore, the Japan Mai ̈· says:
While the hares caused by the_galo expected that the voxels and small craft in harbour could escape without accklent; and only low of life afont of which wo have only Messrs Wee Bit and Co agreed to been able to obtain information occurred
remed ratea
by the wreck of pay by
of one or two give the follow $175 and $150 for captains-bero class of Kanagawa sida, by
by which steamera-an advance of 223: Sliki for males, an increase of ten dollars; ond 975 for second rates, an increase of
He was to the fire it will the more easily boil over. of rest. I was astounded. From the energy time? If he sells strength' ke is doing (315 feet) having been reached and the according to the d from $200 to $150, the list of casualties there is not light. The
MANY of our readers will learn with regret of the death of Mr George Reinhold Lam- mert, which and event took place at the Peak Hotel this morning. Me Lammert, who was 67 years of age, was ons of the oldest residents of Hongkong, having arrived in the Colony as for back as about forty-four years ago, and resided bare almost without interruption all these years. known as an active man of business, a public-spirited citizen, a genial, kind-heart. od man, and an enthusiastic musician. Ho leaves a widow and a large family to mourn his loss. The flags at Siemseen's hong and the German Club ware half-masted as a mark of respect for the deceased gentle- Valley to-morrow morning, passing the
WEATHER NOTICE.
On the 21st at 11.30 a. The barameter has fallen in the extreme North, rinun on the E. coast of China. Pressure seems to bo low in Cores and in Annem, with the cast-moderate E. and N.E. winde; fina.
tal
of
when
en-
WAS comuneneed.
of
THE MARINE ENGINEELS' STRIKE,
The negotiations between the Marine Engineers Association and
Wee Bin and Co., regarding the increased rates
Messrs
to the
man. The feneral takes place at Happy highest pressure lying over China. Fure. unsatisfied, yearning look that one apparently never improved upon. Weaving take some little time, but after that is con of pay for the engineers on East Company's culty experienced in getting han
Monument about 8.45.
LOSS OF A SAILING SHIP.
CREW PICKED UP AT SEL.
(Special to Singapore Free Press. ')
Labuan, 12th September. The sailing ship Pharis, 1,498 tona, grounded on the Royal Charlotte Shpal on the sight of the 3rd Sept.
A SOMEWHAT extraordinary entrelemps occurred at what should have been a pro- perty mais st Hunghóm yesterday, barma Lot No 2, after negotiations between the Government and the Dock Company, was exposed for sale by public auction at an upset price of $60,226 and an annual rental
The crew was picked up in throu boats of 91,608, the parcel of ground compri- sing 200,250 square feet, with a watch on the murning of the 6th inst. by the s.8,
Lible and taken to Labuan.
The vormel has been abandoned to the underwriters.
frontage of 550 feet. The terms and con- [The Royal Charlotte Shoal is one of the ditions under which the land was to be dangers lying in the fairway of vessels pro
a
pleted
tho
or six senda sto bid to have been droward. During the height of the gals the German Irene drugged her
and drifted on anchors the spit to the of the Spit Rod
north; Booy, where she still
still lies aground fore and ft. As he went on at
at high tide it is anticipated that there will be some diffi
afloat
N Shaft at the 200ft. level the reef has on their larger vessels, denar to paying the qualis, carried away the P. & D. mooring I hope to see really good progress atuuners, have reacted a deadlock, Messrs again. The Blue-funnul steamer Fro- made. In the stopes to the West of the Wer Bin & Co., while granting the increases ethers, ought in one of the fierca continued very strong, but I regret to say New
amall coasting steaners. The firm store that to which she was anchored, and drifted the quality of the ore mined has bosan vary these small steamers only carry an engineer, alongside the German flagship Kaiser, from low indeed. The roof is exceptionally hard, with a second engineer's certificate, and which she had not been cleared at the tipo and hence the Cauce miners are not able a driver, and they accordingly closține ta to get out the quantity of ore one would grant more than a ten per cent advance,
our going to press. W his received we have not you bean and he damage, sho expect from such a big reuf. I am still of from $150 to $165. The engineers, on the ascertain. The sailing ships Carmarthenshire the opinion that rock drills should be got other hand, hold out for the full terms, and Selkirkshire also dragged their moorings ground warrant the outlay. We have not and aro stated to be determined to continue boats of the yacht squadron suffered succeeded in Guding any pockets of rich 20 lay up, four of the steamers in question, severely. The fag-host of the Mosquitos,
Wa They are the Hong
the the Pakan ore during the month.
broke adrift and was Aborigine Intermediate Level-The drive here to Bengkalis, and the Kian Anz, These carried away by the wind and tide to go up to the North Shaft has been extend. steamers. Mesars. Woe Bin and Co. the other aide of the harbour. The last ad 9.8", making its total length 85 ft. from aria, are run with a very narrow 1aargin that was seen of her way when near the crosscut
We cut west of this drive to prove it the ors demand the saune rate of wages for engin through safely, struck the Breakwater are now running a cross of profit, and they feel that it is unfair to the harbour entranse, but whather she got
Several of the other yachts met with
Some broke their mishaps.
moorings hus were recovered, while three of the small
the
the granite coping for a while, in deep south side, like crude hot-houses for cogitation, and 3 varly began to con plants. These plans are entd in winter the moment our prospects in the deeper and, in consequence, the firm hare laid up, and drifted up against one another. Tha gratulate myself on holiday. Sancta sitzplicitus Suddenly standing spots
and hot in summer and dmap all the year sha swept rapidly and repeatedly over
the parch-
fingers round. They sometimes held a great many ment of her wrinkled brew, and with loors,-a primitive cloth factory. When look of grimmest, do-or-die determina- over there is a bad year the foom has to be
turned an
sold to buy food, for when the fire has momentarily neglected instru ment. I knew too well what this mant.
got to your sye-brows one must attend only A typhoon was tising, and the owering sky bore all the
coglies,
tich
back to her r her hoot and dashed
held from the Crown had been read by tha/ceeding to the Palawan prango on their User I signalled, the wind was fast to what is immediately befo one. When we are working in.thu stopes at the 200 ft.eurs of such small vessels as fer, those of and want to pieces, is not yet known,
way to China. It was examined by Capt Superintendent of Crown Lands, Mr C. Bats, H.31.8. Royalist, in 1850-04. It lies in lat. 6.50 N., long, 11335 E. 130 miles
tokens
of an imminent torrential
donti
the loom is once gone, the night of despair level, is continuous in height and a the large oceangoing steamers.--Timsa.
C. Malech, the reading of this ponderous N.W. of Labuan. It is of quadrangular hour; but, heedless of all this, hastily settles down. If you canont catch up in separate chute from that already worked i
and to the wide-eyed astonishment crushing a a dip on my hand, withunt
storm and gloom, to get a blessed
Dut, and
one step, you can't catch up in an hundred coming to see this proved during the Some of the engineers who have come to craft, 12 or 17-mater, capsized at their
and the bidding was just going to begin some rocks above water, and some breakers servants, I hurried off in the "pa,' and this is the condensed biography
of millions of Chinese. They were born of Twu bours later, drenched and dispirited, the Meucian doctrine, and they starve on I came back, A-Fun,
of gunaine anxiety do-
document decupying some ten minutes, form, not more than 11 mile long, and ba when the Hon. W. Chatham, Acting Di-on it.
The Phasis, Capt. J. Fleming, was on reebor of Public Works, appeared on the iron sailing ship of 1,4900 come, registered
At the at Greenock. She was built in 1880 by Daccustomed look ay ay,' wish ao the same, and are duly buried and laid to
Maura Barclay and Co., of Glasgow, and is same time, Mr Godge (of Messrs Jobner, owned by Maurs à. and J. H. Carmishell picted on his usually stolid countenance, the only rest they evar kust, to be followed Stokes and Master's office) attempted to and Co. Her diruasions are-length,
was patiently awaiting me at the door. by posterity which will ropast the same
Have got now, massa, have got now I'
! serve an injunction upon Mr D. Gillias, 245 feet, breadth 28 foot, depth 23 feet,
What thing hace got?' I said, utterly dreary round.
scene and forbade the sale.
the Chief Manager of the Dock Company, SF.P.
to restrain the Company from building upon the foreshore. Mr Gillios refused to accept service. The injunction was taken out on behalf of the propriators of the pro- porty at present fronting the ma at Hung- hom. These proprietors maintin that
at his unwonted and
and chexpected
Drivage for
e for the raonth...167£t. Gia, Ore mined.
338 tons.
2. Donk.
131 ft. Leve.--The stopes here have be. coms exhausted, and the wen put on take out a
out a piece of reef near the surface. North Shaft-We have fized the Evans' pump in this shaft and are now sinking with it. it gave us great trouble to comumence with, but I think we have now overcome this to a great extent, at loset. In country districts, aside from refugees The sinkage here for the month is 7 ft.
bere, there are not many beggars. These surface.
addressed a
a letter stating that
bili
Singapore during the recent strike, undar
moorings, and up to 8
to a'alosk thin morning engagement with some of the local com were still
1 showing their keels. paules, are being sent back to Caleutia by independent of the sad tion. Pravisas to laving, that they had serious matter is the damage reported by
fatalities, the Palancatta by tile Engineere Associa of damages for Thursday morning's blow be big que. Perhaps the most the Yokuhanus Water Works, one of the mains of which has been broken at Tauzaki, to the members of the Engineers' Assosia with the result that Yokohama is to be tion for the generous way in which they limited for the present to two hours' supply had been treated during their short stay in per diem-from 5 to 6 pm. and from 6 to
7 a..
been brought from Caloutta ander false pretences and offering their sincers thanks
The crew consisted of 27 men af told.-Ed., mazs then, slowly, silently and salemin liable to appear at any time and in suy num- only, making its entire depth 140 ft. from Singapore.- Free Pr
THE TRADE RETURNS AT THE
1897. $36,232,449
STRAITS.
SINGAPORE. Imports.
1896. 834,212,629 £ 3,815,111
£ 3,777,843 Exports. $30,161,600
827,403,540 €3,173,252
£3,025,808 Large dollar increases and slight sterling increases occur under both heads.
lifted a skinny arm, and pointed
quivering, long-mailed singer threateningly
at my torturer's house. In a flash. I fully desperately poor do not beg, and no one.
Colised his whole attitude and meaning would give them anything if they did. Mushing 336 tons of ore from the been appointed Under Secretary of State Arm of Mesers Donaldson and Burkinshaw,
The iron had entered his soul too
K
to such familiarities
THE FIRST QUARTER'S FIGURES. The Trade Returns of the Colony for the first quarter of the present pear, on com parison with the corresponding quarter of their property would be depreciated if the last year, and groups under such Sottichead a gripped him warmly by t Dock Company is allowed to close up the ment, give the following results, exclusive street running down to the beach. The of treasure:- position of affairs is now in a delightful state of muddle. The sale having com- tenced it is a moot point whether it could be stopped baforo completion. The Dook Company has some sort of grievance, see- ing the property was withheld from it at a few minutes pas: the eleventha Lour; the Hunghom proprietors were too previous in soeking to restrain the Dock Company from building on ground which they had not yet obtained. Where the Government comes in and where the Govenment gets; out of it is an interesting question to which Mr Whitehead might apply his attention, with a view to a Government interpolation
later an.
HUNAN has got so far forward in her adoption of westem civilisation that her provincial capital, of Ch'susia can "now. boast of an Electric Light Company. In candescent ligata are insed aff over the offices of the Company and the residances of the Directors and
officers, while in addi-
st the
to a
lazme 22000 candle power light called by the natives a moon
1897. #811,663,946
-PENANG. Imports.
Exports.
1806. 811,807,941
£ 1,132,341
£ 1,281,710 £ 1,927,144
# 8,471,882
$10,255,171 £ 891,312 Impo-ta have a slight dollar increase and a small sterling decrease. Exports show heavy deoresses under both standards of
value.
1897. 8423,316
€ 44.830
MALACCA
Importe.
Exports..
1896. 8170,397 £51,032
$544,838 £ 43,925
£ 60,153 Malaces shows decreases ander both heads and both standards.
$411,87
gates of the Govornue's games, the greater PATENT Music boxes, Violins (fine models), portion of the garsen ingelf is also lighted
Mandolines, and Strings of all kinds. W.
now
with incandescent lamps. The com- Robinson & Co. pany is also prepared to light up any house.
or shop in Changsha, and a notification to that affect has been published giving prison as follow
BD
gold.
tell
A new water wheat, to replace the old
12
+
33
New Unnares, cash, 7179/7224' Old
New Malwa, sredit, 87:/880
-
Allowance Tools,... 0/12
Milling. This was carried on during 20 Sin Ralph Eenry Knox, d., has Ma Carver, Singapore barrister of the yielding 84 ounces and 2201 tons of at the War Othec, in succession to Siris staying at the Oriental Hotel, having a very undemonstrative individual; but, They just muddle. They live at a poor old Headings yielding 145 ounces of melted
Arthur Halliburton, G.C.B., who retires come up to Bangkok a few days since to bad I boen given
Idying rate, or rather they barely exist.
shortly." Mr. H. de in Bere succeeds Sirult with H. R. H. Princo Naradhip should have
Caleining Works. These works treated
the late Minister for Finance, on the Cheek Bas there comes a time when there is a 35 tons of Concentrates for a yield of 23 Ralph Knox as Assountant-General. Sir Arbitration caco, Mr Carver has been en- Our glances crossed and that sulised. The wind by this the glean of hops for them. When it raise ounces of melted gold. This I need not and Lord Welby, for the Treasury, were gaged by the Siamese Government to repré-
Arthur Haliburton, for the War Office, pregnantly, was furiously howling and shrieking, and puddings hold up your dish. The wheat with former mouthe, and in the result of the Colonel Outes into conuiving at the Haanen is expected here in Deusinber to Sir Nicholas you is a great falling off as compared the two permanent officials who coerced sent them in this matter. my neighbour's winds were all securely and the autumn harvests are for the poor the very poor ore we have been willing. barred and shattered; but, in the brief
doubling of the Straits Military contribu hear the arguments.Bangkok Times. Cyanide Works-Taese works ran 28 Hou, and were the men responsible for a Tulls of the battling clements,
Chinese the times of pudding raining. All could
days, treating 848 tons of tailings for a long and bitter controvers-Singapore faintly yet unmistakably distinguish matches the year through the children have been yield of 305 ozs., 8 dwts of bullion, valued Free Press.
Quotations. of favourite oblidan's song: Old St. Nicholas; she was still at it. Truly her
sent out with rakes and with baskets to at 198. 01
Boxoxone, Sept. 21, 1897, indomitable perseverance is worthy of a fur gather fuel or manure. The habit of pick one for these works, has been made hers THE King of Siam is so impressed with
OPIUM-New Patos, cash,... 795 better object,
Old ing up a living is thus ingrained. There is and will be put into position in a few days, the music of the piper that he is thinking I know, bn, personal experience, that not fael enough grown in any can region. The dimentious of the now wheel is 12 ft. of taking a couple of Scotch pipers bask to
least
one lage property owner in Hongkong has clause in his leases,
for the ordinary uses of its people. Brick. in height, with a 3.10 breast; it is made Stam with him with a view to the edifica
throughout of the shsolutely forbidding tenants to keep kilns and repairs on river banks use, up procurable here very best Maribo timber tion of his own Court Prshably, outg has surprised him much since his serival pigeons. A clause restricting piano strum-
General. The usual attention has been in this-country as the sudden and un- ming, voukl be much more sensible, and mountains of sorghum etals which ought All work coming under this head Osborde. His Majesty was for some mo outburst of the, bagpipes at would not be objected to by the big to help to cook meals. Little by little and everything kept in good order. raajority of possible tenants. People over Kaiping seft coal seems to be creeping in the Europeans quartere have been newly monts lost in amazement as the spectade of
All thirty, and those in the sere and yellow
ghlandets marching round brawny Hi the luncheon table with distended checks, roofed and repaired generally so as to by
fairly plentiful.
Lour.The supply of this has been whilst the bagpipes were sorraming out The Campbells are Coming." When he Health. This has been fairly good.
had recovered from the shock his Majesty Rainfall. The total rainfall for the wanted to know what the strange pheno month is 9 inches.
menon portended, and was much interested at the explanation.-H. and C. Mož Te recrudescance of the Plague in Bom bay is the latest bad news from India, whence we have bad nothing but bad news of late. After but a brief interval, during Force which time the plague omad to have Weather u disappeared, it broke ont again suddenly Rain
it is causing slarm st so that the Cadratla
period, who want to begin and learn the to supplement this lack, and it is now used
given to kil
ready for the nott monsoon.
the
pieno, ar
take lessons in voice-culture, for kilns to some extent. But this doar not should band and settle together in a separ prect the root trouble of to many months ste part of the salony out."
West by
pre. ference where mutual disgust and bichor to the square inch. ing rivalry, coupled with inevitable and We have spoken of the great numbers of constant malaria, would soon either people who get their Living by weaving.
defec materially loosen their numbere by sion and sickness, or effectively wean them But there is a far larger number who earn from their distiu pretensions. Unfor&trife by epinning, which takes little tunately for the peace-loving section of the capital, and so brings in bet a little profit. community, these ridiculous aspirants after musical fame, with their infamous In certain states of the market they say discords, like beats of prey and other such that, after spinning a number of catties of borrors, gansrally go singly, or at most,
A at Eandal, Indis, whose wife at Peona, and cotton, into thread, it can only be sold at gave birth to triplets the otser day, went Bombay ;, so much pairs. The min on
in
the
Sails up his ver
SCOPA
HOLLAND has now & Consulate of her own into omparatively harmless Soercher,
on his wheel, quite recent origin, and
spinner.
SECRETARY'S. NOTE. The Plat referred to in the course of the Manager's Report for August is the toobingal form applied to the enlarged Chamber at the opening of a Cross-cut. It extends in for about 12 feet only.
blish quarantine pro-
Last Yes: New....... 900/900
credit,... 680
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Hongkong Register.
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F. G. Fina, Acting Director. dougkong Cheervakney, Sept. 31. 1867,
social
so, in like manner, the local markets for about the criginal to the Municipal Office in tases to give Chamber of Commerce are calling on their Lapuan open air temperature on the 20th con I posts should be prominently posted cost, leaving no margin for the food of the information of the fact, stating that he was Government to re-establish public print as objects of universal laughter and
at a loss to know how to feed thon on Ra. cautions on the railway lines from Bombay To what these singular ssults are duo,nounced with a smile, the glad tidings that 1897 it has
a month. A day or two later, he an. If ever there was a 'distressful country in Shanghai, Mr von Warlee, formerly Datch yet he has numerous checke and restraints the poor Chinese peasant has not the least all the thres children had died. Per lamp par night, Conin at Tokohama, having arrived thers upon his sxuberant energy. The planniden. He only knows the phenomena, and grade electric lamp-500 cash
to take charge. Hitherto Dutch interests plague, a very hoary and hardened offen not much of them. in this respect have been affiorently attendder, should also be hedged in and fenced ed to by Mr A. Kort
No.
3
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Non
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about with regulations, to prevent him or
Temperature.
'(Takes në Musara Falemar de Co'y Premisses, Queen's Road) Horozeza, Sept. §1, 1897,
120.04
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those folk who are unfostenste enough to nale, az to hear their contents, have be-Kirs Bipling was 4,340 the gentleman who rear afterwards wou hear that dy kan se.
been India-with faccines plague, war, sedition, and murders Europeans. The foretold by Dr. Y of the plague waR when he visited Wanticipate (says the Singapore Free the Western Capital, Press) that Mr Rudyard Kipling, who is we called, and wisely, to his forment, byl little albertion The faw who are sufidently in touch now a happy papa, will turn his new or which is now apparently to be verified: To her from being a curse and use of sin to with foreigners to read the Chinese four perience to account in the production of wax September 95th, 1999, that the dat
domestic version of Wes Willis Windie. be located in the vicinity.Truly yours,
break of the plague in Bombay Erat attracts | THER Balestier, come more or less aware that cotton yam bably the same family as the
of p
general Attention, and vary, namely from, somewhere in being introduced into was American Consul many year ago in appeared again thisis interior markets, of quality which Rost, and the basis end, if Bombay is to have empaatian of
The dates are unico and Balestier Alle mango il che ha svalve mogar, arguina, fyll him and sold at rates been alive the mechers of the paighbourheed me the dogmakes a un diye Fina with which they pana ampsia. Tary Vasen die Belentor and his pianisten.
INSOMNIA
Tan 29,-0. Daily News of the 11th ines. That is to say, there will be five descrip. | saya -Tro Chinese rete seen riding: • tlana of lampe, and the above charges are | sociable telejale in the Malco yesterday madie for lampe that are lighted from, par- trening, mai, wenkding na foreigners, being down to the wound write of to she drained in the pets and kalkerbocker W. Roammer & Co., Piano and Musion (about 10 o'clock) Lampy, med all night and wine Bethlen gaive butramant asociadaba and exporta, “Work are to be mammed danhia di asp of menet tas serialady for logs at Lotory, Daddal Shi show
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