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Tronohar, Ngyakuen 36, 1997.

HONGKONG MALLET BIDES.

Derracted to Maki

*30, 1807,

Az¥308) Clash, per

Chinese Namoa,

Poralesk,” Back

Butcher Meat.

肉食

Book Find,

Bacon, English,

H

#

Ama, Bugar suzed pi

Foodkow,

Japan, oured

• **

Best sizinin & prime cut, call)

Bhate,

Corned,

catty

#

Skrinijs

Ronat,

牦牛肉

Snapper,

Boop,

Bolsa

Bteak,

Tandly,

Balboaic's Brains, .

Turbot

Tongue iron, wh

Turtles, atuali, final

HT

БОО

Whising White

الله بالم

Hurup, Salt, calty

140

F1

bình.

60.

Apples, (Ctfornia),

catty

Ki

50

J

1F

Tail,****

100

(Japan),

Lava.

catty

70

13

Tripe (undressed) osity, 60

Ontron Head and Avvi, soi-

Hamne, AmoriCRM,

350

Grinose,

**

English; New,

18 1

Okesinula, Chu#Oy4:

Parimmen,

List-upplem

(Tientsin),

Plum, Rød;

辣沙故

左口魚

心麵

鮮魚仔

菓子

Japan caredy

Shanghai,

Mutton Chop,

"Obina,

Lak

Land,

Shoulder,

豬枝

Piga' Chitling",

70.

Lam

檸檬

Fucki

110

Mikago, (Saigon)}

Fry,

宋衣 您

Head,

n

Hearty

新會回報

#

Kidungs,

70

*

Liver,

旧

160

Pork, Chop,

tasty

180

Οίνοι

14

Corded,

27

Log

190

"

Fat or Lard,

160

•

་་

Shoops' Head ani Fook, met

360

Flear

cach

40

Kidneys,

70

21

Livor,

ib.

160 140

Sucking Pigs,

tack $1.75 $1,25

鰲仔

Raisins, Muscatel,

Bust, Beef,

·lb 110

生牛油

Fudding,

32

Mutton,

100

生羊油

Yaal,

• Gutty 130

牛仔肉

Water Chespyw, COM. Mandarin,

60

Foultry.

40

Walnuts,

純林熊疏 合龋

Vegetables,

Ühicken,

casty 200

類仔

菜蔬

250

Artichokes, Shanghai, catty

60

Capons

100

Drunks,

180

Doves,

Eggs, Rea

dox,

120

暴盛

100

Duck

110

"

Fowla,

catty

180

Goess,

Haroo

sch 700

Mark Dear,

Partridge

Pigeons,

Bios Birds,

Quali

Halpe

Turkeys, Char,

Wild Ducka,.

Barbel,

Bream,

Bambay Ducks,

Vios Frah Water

Catfiult,

Godfah,

Grabe,

Cuttle Fish,

Dab

Dace

Dog Fish,

Eels, Conger

Froak

Bela, Yellow,

--File-Fish,

Frog

Fresh Fish

Garoupa, Gadgaon,

Gurzard,

Bacring

海鮮

outty

Beane, (French),

#1

Long,.

Beet Root,

Brinjals, Green,

Bingly

Bad,

Bamboo Shoots,

Cabbage, ChinaE DOM.

l

Kubilima Basind,

Curry Stol, English,

Quequmbers,

Bitter Squash,

Gallo

Ginger, youugi

Horse Radish, S'hat

Indian Dors)

Latinon, (English),

Onton Beau

100

THE CHINA MAIL.

BUESTIONS.

The roooid made by the Kaiser Flade, The following in the son of the letsorder Grosse in the fatest ever travelled be published cantly by the Time from fees the Continent of Eurai's and America It has only bean beaten by some | Shanghai correspondent:—

pendent

steamara from Quinstown, the distapou

Under the Trashy of hentain Lord Elgin being from two hundred to three hundred made with the Chune Goretament a de- miles shorter. The following are the record-broskura in twenty-eight years. Tho finito arrangement bộ bómmute the whole of the inland charges than levied, or the route in all cases was that between New after to be loviad; Mr the name of tran

British trade, for

for York and Queenstown, east or wo one fixed

payment

Date Steamer nader

DHL M sit, duty.” The payment in question was

1666 Boutia

8:་བ"4" 1873 Baltie

7 20 1870 Lity

uf Berlio 1876 Germanió „1877 Britunuto

1880 Arizona 1882

xingad to bo

to be one-half of the existing

maritime Customs rates, and in considera tion of this commiúlation tax the Chinaċe Government solemnly bound itself to levy. no additional

ny ·kind whatso imposta of ovor apon. British orchandise in the in- terior. How this agreement has been kept from that

at day to the present, is suficiently well known.

When we look back at the history of the transit-pass qucation to-day, it is diflealt | to understand by wint process the Foreign Office and Her Majesty's Legation were induced, after Lord Elgit's treaty, to allow the question to be complicated by the long drawn-out ungles of diplomatis perparles. into which it drifted, and whore, thanks to the lapse of yours and to Chiposa persis- tense, it remains unto this day. Asts only too well known, the question has been the source of neverccasing complainta on the part of British merchants and of diphonatic representations at Peking.

Alayka

1884 Ortigia 1884 Amories

1885 Extra

-1897 Umbris

1898 Etrura

1339 City of Paris 1811 Majustic 1801 Teutonic 1802 City of Paris 1892. City of Paris 1893-Campania

1894 Lacania

7: 18

7 11 37

7 10 53

7723

6 18

6

10 17 5 18

5 14 31 5 15 58

5 14 24

5 12

t: 7 23

THE FIRST STEAM ENGINE. Various countries claim the credit of It is interesting to compare the able and having made the earliest practical op. tomparate memorandum on te transit plication of steam-power: bat julging by system which was published by the Shangfacts gathered from the most authenti hai Chambas of Commerce in 1849

with

sources, it was in Spain that the move- firat

that which it has issued this your on thement of machinery by stoom was same subject. The

dor public notice. As Barcelona, the asins; the in the year 1643, a mechanic named Bas facta, arguments and appeals brought fordo Garay, after many persistent efforts, ward by the merchants

in

the impressing ants today are idont succeeder

Ba cal with those of thirty years ago; the chief with the value of his now invention

; the chief Charles V. of Austria. and I of feature of the prosent situation being that

ships by staan.

in beth, remains pion, as dealt with brought uni

terminal taxation on imports and gro-for driving ships

wets taxes on exports (both mlimited trial which took place in Co and undefined exactions) have appeared success by the public, but the

upon the scene; ara to all intents and Royal co

purposes recognised. The Clumber of keeper of the

Intimations.

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MODERATE PRICES,

RICE LISTS.

CATALOGUES.

PROGRAMMES,

COMPANY REPORTS.

- BUSINESS CIRCULARS

BILLS OF LADING.

MODERATE PRICES.

Sprin

The

the

the treasure for curtain sinistor to day points out how al 1870, the reasons-pounded the poror that the rapacitive provincial mandarins have discovery was of no practical valne, and s beca permitted to kill the tea traken, about the beginning of the soventeenth v, ruined the hopes of Blase de Gamy, Tater and, gon. on, i the silk oxport, and

to cripple the silk

to

contury, Clorannt

erally dustry Paralyse every conted a steam

fitable

by the pemicious' im-

10

Italian, in-

position of irregulos and multipled levies, the tinut of which wo hu muchinu isi

16 uxpresses this will

this willingness of 6 mar.

(cantilo cùmmunity to assent to any reason.

able increase in

the

or pictorial period,

ار کیا کر با نگاه

માં

any deseriptiva About this same clairant

sty tariff duties for the glo proced

which the Chinese Government may desire the enn engine, and

to impose in the event of tren

of having invented Marion Do- Letter to M. de

Ciny Mars, present dated Paris, 1641, gives an account of hi it being generally admitted that hesion-arms, in a scale has

with Tallat silver, lo a visit to the Bicétro with the Marquis bein

brought considerably lower than of Worcester:-We were crossing the the 5 por cont, averago; but it urges court of the roadhouse, and. I, store dead

the

in the strongest possible runner that than alive with fright, kept close to iny first condition of tariff revision, or oi ather

gotiations with China, mit ba

and

with which

-

his

shoulders

of

companion's side, when & frightful face appeared behind some intense tairs, und a hare voice exchimed, "1 am not mad! to one uzualnuerstanding

not mad I have made a dimovory ahall allow British goods to malate freely which woull enrich the country that supp throughout China. The

amount, or asked of our guilo. "Oh," a

ed it.What has bo discovered 7" I At which this one duty shall be fired in con

answer atively unimportant, the one vital point rugging

something tlust the present ariditrary system of trifling, enough; you would never gases taxation anat be made to caso, olice and it it is the use of the steam for all

all, if there is to be any satisfactory ex-luiling water." J I began to laugh. This tension of trade

of trade between Europe and

continued the keeper. the

is Salomun do Caus; ho camp from Normandy four Chinese Empire.

The march of events since the Treaty of years ago to present the king a state- Shimonoseki tends to show that the time-out of the wonderful ethicis that night honoured Chinoss policy of passive robe producail from his invention. The cat. sistance to all innovation is being gradually dinal sent the madman away without listen

to him. Salomon de Caus, for from The irresis

our boing tible weight of exterior

discouraged, followed the cardinsi withstood, has at last become too strong for whole › want with the most determined

min

abandoned under fffdence, wholere: h

Const Port Orders receive careful attention, ma

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once and comments of the Prese,

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all the forces of native conservatism. A perseverance, who, tired to death with his leaven of clowly acquired fate aduaily, where he has now been for three Case of

folly. ordered him to be shut up in the

To which is now added a Report of the affeeting the views of the Chinese thai-

years and a half." Lord Worcester was con- to Bay, the labouring years

of

PITMAN F. KESWICK

AND OTHERS. Price per Copy,

selves that is to

and trading classes and the trath is-per-dooted to his (De Cans's) cell; and cams LEYceptibly impressing itself upon the native back, sad and, thoughtful.le is indeed

mind that the near future contains ad now," said

said he

"Misfortune and cap no other alternativas for thine but refores or tivity have alienated his reason, but it is you disintegration.

It is obviously to Eng have to answer for his n

sualness. When incerest, both politically and con- you cast him into that cell you confined the muroially that the integrity of the Chinese greatest genius of the age." Twenty-two

in Empire should be maintained, and to this years after the above incident, 11088, in

work and it should

k his Dalled Century of Inven one of the first objects of British policy firmly and consistently to tous, the Marquis of Worenster described guide the Chinese Government in the path a steam apparatus of his own,

followed with his invention in 1081 of administrative and financis

refarin. Nothing stande to-day in the way of been tain Savory's engine for water sary reform in China but the native fuel made in 1998, and in 1712 Thomas Nov.

bo

engine

Papin

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class. The people, ass, whole, are ready and coming (waith worked succesfullyOne of the Best Sketches of Formons Life willing

to assist in the industrial developer a contury), and with is the Ae of ment of the Country hat the idlerbi, fuze

seeing

ja the introduction of western me. thods a serious menace to their and

Steam may be said to have been loangurs tod-Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. heir position influence, are, apparently, determined

to resist to the uttermost, and along the old lines, sny progressive tendencies. The old mandarin

darin spirit, the instinet of a clase thre

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on

коври whom they proy in a condition of iguor will

the Jast

anos and isolas; they call in the

against the reforms, or 12 encroachments of the European. If proof of this were required, it is

dent in the widely-spread sufficiently

CVI- of Chan

Ban and the Hunanese scholars in the

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Temperature,

panding right of city resicenco CASE: atostock, 30.0, 25 Hangchow, and in the recent taatios of the Teklo.....20 17 Kwangtung offcials to evade the terms of uphi

the West River Convention,

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of mandarins to a sense of

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practic hopeless. Its

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be part of England's future policy to aimswatom

first, at a gradual reduction in the number Guntou 30,-

of the officials who now, local-like boht sangsorg 2

the industry of the people

engoadly. Vict. Pet

to strengthen the hands of the central Go Gp to -50.5 vernment by insisting on

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of deliberate violation of the Male 29 treaties, The poncentration of rusion-23. Jug sibility at Peking and clearer und erland-

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vials are highly desirable. Wostok.

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the interest on her

And the ordinary expense of government

Ecol...

Chins must perfores submit to the develop- Nagasaki

ment of her resource Mines Kathi opened

and failways built so that the sharp Ek, th rast natural wealth of such provisted as Hushan and relieve the financial situation.

may be brought to

land's duty to preserve Chica thom, the bankruptcy and disintegration which

of Id Hong hangfand his so dalupe syetem of adherents. To substitute for that systein

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Hongkang Tides

The Tide Table giyen below has hear compiled by the Naudioul Amanso Office:

In London from the regalta of the analysis

of observations taken by means of an ad-

tomata tids recording micking in the WMT

ter Folloo Basin at Kha Taul during | ME

1887-8-9

the years

Me Chantrey Loebbeld

The sure of the table in Tow Water On Me FB, J1000 dinary Chutine 15dom, which boon found

to be & feet below mean sea level.

To ahtain the depta of water i

gauge so the Victoria Maral.

In and on the

Aberdeen add 13 for

In the table,

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