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Wednesday, January 5, .1898.
A TRAMWAY system is being laid down at
Colombo
CoLover, de Wugack, tho Russian military attaché at Péking, left Tientsin fər Port Arthur
on Christmas Day.
REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
(SorgueD TO THE. * China Mam"]
Egypt on their way home from India,
CHANGED SHANGHAL (From Our Own Correspondent.)
Shatghai, Dec. 28, 1897. In Shanghai, which has of but been reported booming, a very curious state of things seems prorailing,
Huge hight
THE CHINA MAIL.
REVIEWS.
THE POUP OF The LAVILETTES, By Gábort Parkcar; Muthuon's Colonial Library: 1897. Methion & Co., St, Essex St., Landen, W.. Hongkong: Kully and Walsh,
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readers to divulge and would, in addition, Spoil their interest in a work which, we pro fully zessured, when one it is taken up will not be laid down until the last leaf is turn ed.
The book bristles with epigram and apart writing. Liere are a few specimens: The dancorant & inusic hall are lesoribed 'mere summer flies wantoking on
NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAJL.
DRUSSIAN ARMY SUPPLIES FOR
VLADIVOSTOC
UNITED STATES 11
Thu rovano returns'of")
for the financial voar test closed) ficit of 18,000,00) dollars (£2,750,€GUN“ the year. Zouden. Dec.-5-Russia is buying orga array supplim at San Francisco for tranship- ment to Vladivostock.
THE NONALILAND BAD.
THE ADVANCE IN THE HOUDAN,
Losnos, January 3rd, 1898. REINFORCEMENTS FOR EGYPT," The first Lattalion of the Yorkshire Ro
EXTENSIVE ANDEZZLEMENT. This, the latest of Mr Parker's creations;
Luulon, Dec. 33. At the Liverpool giment proceeds to Gibraltar to replace the houses are being run up on all sides. No is his best. All the well-known characas
Assives to-day Willian Trapscott, a well- Ir is reported from Singapore that the gun- Forthamberland, Regiment, which goes to superstitions notions as to Fung Shui trou-teristics of the author-his unruffled flow epitaphs Of Pardest, he writes: He
knowti Liverpool shinowner, was consistud It is reported that the frouch are supply of en bazzling £80.000, and was sentenced hosts on the China Station will again Egypt. The second battalion of the Landle the builders. They run then up of limpid, undetiled, Chancurian Finglish, just gral to be datus, and ing the Somalis with rifles. It was recently to three years pencil surviten
just enough heart to suffer under danta announced that reports fran the east coast reinforced by the Redbreast and the Pigeoncashire Regiment and the fat battalion of irrespective of apoct or the width of the his str. ng grip of character, and, above all, fion. Some of the sayings attributed to of Africa were to the effect that the Abys
the Royal Trish Eusiliers will be landed in street they are to shadow. We have thore. [a thoroughly well-planned, carefully de. Diseuzli are worth quoting. Thus: Poor sinians, under the Shoan chief Tas Maker SO00 British troopa will take part in the from the East India Station.
London, Doe. 12.It is expected that men, who moceat in public life, are willed, nen, wore ravaging Somaliland. veloped, unorthodox plot, are all con. at best, adventurers." • Politicians now
advance of the Soudan expedition up the epicuous in the volume untion! potico,are of three kinds, the sugary, the soapy
THE RECENT STORM
Nilo in February nuat. A portion of the During the late heavy galos 5 merchant Dervish garrison at Meteranuh, where-the- The Pomp of the Lavilettes' is a chatu and the feathery.Politoness is no man's
arvessels were wrecked in the vicinity of Khalifa's followers are assembled in ang word; it everybody's lio,”—At eight=”| tig and tender idyll of simple, old-world, and twenty, I thought that compromiser
Naples,
face, has crowd the Nile and erected forts, Unlike the well were nearly always immoral, es" well as French-Canadian life. worked, not to may over-ratul Kail-yard' will knd that the best-ordered life is that dangers, but, unless I am inistaken, you field--if the somewhat contradictory or which shows the lugest record of camp prossion may be allowed---French Canada, | uses. " His hand teens male without back windows, it is all facade and nothing to the English nevel-render as least is elo. To
Foun lots of Crown land in Taipingshan
THE SITUATION IN EGYPT. wero, yesterday exposel for sale by pub lle auction, by Mr C. C. Malsch, Suporin-
Reter's Agency is informed that the Londent of Urown Lands. Nos. 1,420 adgut of British troops to the front is 1.421. in Sage Street, euch containing fensive, rather than offensive against the 6,220 square feet, aul rontals of $84, were Dorvising exposed at the upset prics of 830,880. The |
WEATHER REPORT. lots wore sold to Ho Fuck and Chau Yan
The following notio is issued from the Cring, one for $21,000 and the other for bservatory- 20,90). The lots are soll together with. On this file at 11:39. The barometer the building material asked there, has fallen on the E. gast of China, risen The other two luts, situated in Bridges in the trains North Pressure romaine Stroot, wore exposed for sale, but no pur-high ever. N.E. Chim, with moderate gradients on the coast. Forecast -N.E. cluwer was forthcoming.
windy; dull, wet.
Tax Shanghai newspapers continue to dis cover the British fleet is the available | ports of North China and Cores. An there are four English dailies, there are thrời or
30th Dde. Meanwhile the British Heat has
Lar
- HONGKONG'S DEFENCES, CHINA TO CEDE TERRITORY FOR THEIR
. STRENGTHENINO,
· London, brd Ducember.
Early in October the Kowloon Cout-
in Peking discussing the matter with Siz nude Macdonald, the British Minister And 1 Bit Robert Hart, Inspector-General of Unitose Custosas, and it is wideratrod that singe then the negotations have followed |
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white population. Chinese in soft silkes and satins spring in aut out of carriages with wonderfully liveried coaciment and
quote further would only detract this remarkable book is bound to feel in front the interest which very reader of
FIRE 1 KIUTIANIA.
A large fire occurred in Christiania, the capital of Norway, yesterday. A pub- danage being estimated at 400,000 kronor Halter's premises were destroyed. the
(about £22,000).
THE QUEEN BERNT OF PAIN,
Lunetan, Dec. 9.-It has transpired that and the Paris police officials that a the London polico authorities recently woman bad cross the Channel with tho intention of assassinating Maria Christina, the Queen Regent of Spain, in revenge for the exocation of Gelli, the Neapolitan del Castillo, the isto Promfer of Spain. anarchist who murlored Senor Cameras, The French dotectives arrested the roman at Biarritz, in the south of Francopho was tried, and was ordered to yent to a ponal colony.
AMERICAN CURRENCY REFORSI London, Dec. 7-The Times, in com- posals, as canbodied in President D'ISin- menting on the American currency pro
coment of this short rugiew, The inasmuch as the United Staten Treasury in School for Saints, if not actually go heresponsible for £240,000,000, with a month- very nearly being the book of the ly deficit of 9,000,000 del, the date of currency refermi is uncertain, even if Con-
Dee. 10-Tho London detectives have greas accepts the proposals. The Water warned the authorities in Madrid that a advises the Cuited States Government to make an addition to the national debt in anarchist named Parmisine has left Lon order to avert a financial disturbinso
don for Spain with criminal intent. An derifies President M'Kinley's affucted beeal with the anarchist in question, has been Baglishman, who in believed to be identi arrested on the northern frontier of Spain. THE CARLIST MOVEMENT IN SPAIN.
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Lochsan. By S. t. Crockett London, Methron and Company. Hongkong Kelly and Walsh, Every reader of the Men of the Moss-lief in the possibility of bincrallism.
dom
DRITIKTI TRADE.
11
The exporis. of unachisery from Great
shows that many of the fire engines word
THE LATE FIRE IN LONDON. Britain during the month of the circunctattoos of the late disastrous
Dec. 8. An. inquity is huing hold in showed a decreases in value of £207,953 as the tie tusscapes of the late disastrous compared with the enrresponding b year decrease of $231,608 a compared months of the present year the exports of with last year. During the nine machinery from Germany were greater in value to the extent of £170.00 as ovepared with the corresponding period of 1896.
coal to im fewer than 21 engi-188. conclusion the signing of a convention seen resigning themselves to rickshas. before us in life lil: truth and vigour. The
BRITISH ENGINEERING TRADE.—ORDERS
SENT TO AMERICA.
The City Corporation of Coventry, Warwickshire, has given orders in the
machinery and 2000 tons of rails.
Dee. 10-The inquiry into the use of the great fire in the city on November 20- was continued to-day. Commander Wells, the chief officer of the Metropolitan are Brigade, was examined, and in the course of his uvidence ho admitted that the, conl supply for his engines was insuDcinut,
SHIPPING ALIDENTS. Dec. 6.-The M. M. strainor, Aridružien,
|fore cutting draughts down dark alleyways, and vault lite entrances. Every third Aud one person just now has Influenza.
It has heen aicwhat cannot wonder. unmurilly cold for so early in the year. And the people un lengur, live in luxury, eseloning north rooms. With their Belgian glass between them and the blast, straight from the Mandarian mountains, people sit and shirør, thankful to have a root to virgin grouwl. We can-liken-Mir Parker cover them, for the house-hunger still to no other English writer: be towers load continues, whilst rents have gone up out and shouldere above the ruck of his contits perusal. As we hinted at the com- loy's messze to Congress, says that
Coals hava temporarius. Like Mr Rudyard Kipling, of all proportion to zalaries. jumped up too, so that it is the can-ho stands alone and aloof from the vast est rubbish people are burning, while the crowd of story-tellers. No dou, in time, fashionable subject at present for ladies' | bar will havo swarms of imitatum. In his tes parties is the price of Lutter. With sa descriptions of out-door scenes, lus is often lario, stendily diminishing and prices rising strongly reminiscent of André Thearist, it is clear that Europeans will not long be the French novelist, in bid very best 100- Negotiations are in progres, says the able to resist the cinto, unless chungstents. This tale is enchattingly cold bags, and they must be numbered by the four daily discoveries, and the Shanglantes: News, between England China comes some way. and whilst to look at sud, personally, wo folt keen pangs of un- public has no reason to grumble at having for their object the ces fun if certain the Factories all round belching out smoke, mistakeable regret when we had reached the these pages bis acquaintance with my old Trade, the imports into the United King- Cortes are promoting popular demonstra hardred thousand, will. eagerly riner in According to the retums of the Board of The Carlist deputies in the Spanish variety of its naval intelligence. It is Chineses teygitories regarded as necessary to -stated that one of the Foreign Consulates place Hongkong in a proper condition of and the inercat building, one would ad end of its all-too-brief course.
during the month of November show tions against President M'Kinley, whose The friends. Wat Gordon of Enchingar, het- a decrase in value of £1,300),193, and thereforenees to the Unban question in bia defence.
think the place was unking atrides towards book is a little gém, a green canis amid the healed but warm of heart and true to steel, exports an increase in value of £1,209,717,Message to the United States Congress Bente special messenger to the Chusana to discover if it were currect that. Admiral mission.craf Customs and this Connnamler prosperity, never before has the struggle stretching waste of ordinary norola: it is as the head of the heck, and Kate McGhies compared with the corresponding period hare giren atisfaction to the Spanish. Chief of the Brilish forces in Chipa were for oxistence been wỬ SCVOTU Nưongst the veritable thing of genuine Beauty. The makeɛ as attractivo a heroine as Maiste DECREASE IN BRITISH MACHINERY EXFORTH.
of last year.
Government. Buller was there, and intelligonco was
bills of the old French clony, in their Lennox dit in the former roomaco. Horo taken back to Shanghai that not only was
unseridliness and quint alimpurity, arose again we neat Muisie as a young matron, the British out not in fish, had to
delightful and distinctive a race ns is to be and William Garden, Jack Scarlet, Leter British warship had visited the island for Eone considerable time. That was on the auch a satisfactory co:1780 an to justify the foutarch, whilst well-known Europeans, met with; and in Mr Parkers books, and McCloskio and a number of old friends, and last year, and the 11 oaths of the present without coal, end that a resident supplied
hope they will very shortly be brought to a who used to drive good houses, may be not Isat in this particular one, they stand cato a glimpse of Claserhouse scotched moro sympathetically because auder more turned up at Chemalps, Port Hamiltonapon the bases desired by her Majesty's Again and again one sees £ne home in hanguage hera is terao, well-knit and won favourable circumstances than before. The and Port Arthur. Henceforth, the critics Government. will be umble to complain of the mobility this country arc agreed that the matter is ment has been invnded and is over-tun
All the raval and military authorities of bited by Chinmmer, and the Model Settle-dericliy forcible the characters are sketch author is mere at home in a stirring story ed in with that cant counogy of men like this than even in a charming an idyll of the British Buct. Wekar from Shang one of urgency. Hongkong, an important by the yellow awarnis, its land regalaties with Animey Beardsley.
which, in drawing, wo usually associate hai that the Canadian Pacific Railway British coliny and the second largest
Mr Parker's Lair's Love." Incident and episode are Company has been notified that the ser-
seaport in the world, has been allowed. naver yet signed by the Minister at To phrases are always folicituus, often epigra poured out lavishly daols, defences, remain in a most defenceles preition on ing "hings were intendish to shut-out: Chinese alic. Wo frequently caught ouisolves vices of the Empress liners may be requir to indeguato fortifications and garrison, ed by the Admiralty, The-C. P. K. Without the protection-of-the-Briksir steators are subsidised merchant cruisers, Rect in Chinese waters, Hongkong re in not walk fast for substantial Chinche figures capable of holding out against attack, stolidly strolling One cannot drive fast and, as such, their service may be requi- which upon the sudden utbreak of war for the rickshas and the wheelbarrows sitioned by the Admiralty at any time, in night be insde upon it at any time, and in
that case would fall at once into the hands all progressing at their different mates any port, and on the shortest notice. No of the enemy, together with its immense low different from the Shanghai of three thing unusual having transpired the stores of anal, magnificent ducking facilition services of the Empress liners may be which include the finest dry docks in the years ago !..
world, large quantities of naval and military required by the Admiraly. but as yet stores, etc. they have not been requisitioned and there Ja ne prespect of their being called into activo service for save time. Hong kong has been as fertile of rumours regard-pray for the latter, and ing the C.P.K. ships as Shanghai, and it has been frequently mentioned, with the customary air of assurance and mystory, by people who might be oxfocted to know (if anybody, did) that the Empress in Jar- bout was getting a steam to priced on some mysterious mission, and that her of all the surrounding islands com- all on a sudden muz pet's wins with their amment was on board and had marely to anding the waters of the colony. When Chinese sisters, all trying to get asked to
the cussion has been completed the neces be hoisted from the hold to the upper deck sary additional fortifications will be con- these parties, vieing with one another in to fit for for action. Beyond the usual structed without avoidable delay, and the their attentions. Chinese ladies are wording
Christmas cards to their foreign friends, "precautionis no active stepahave been taken garrison of Hongkong will be materially in-
craised. for the urtuing of the Empreses. Their
The new frontier line will, in all proba The cause of the rapprochement is Anti- guna and fittings are in Hongkong ready to bility, ho drawn through the centre of Deep footbinding. The foreign ladies formed
Chinese ulics probably this most notable novel of the year Mr H. L. Dalrymple bo put on beard in case of emergency. These Bay, thereo follow the Sam Tsun river to
its source in the hs, and thence daca Society against. it."
should tuve made its apguarance towards Com Taylor, R.N...... stores are always kopt in a state east until it abuts on the upper end of desirous to eficiency, and if it should unfortunately Mirs Bay, leaving Starling Julet, and Tale tude for the proffered help invited all the close thereof. Publishers have a knack Mr C. A. Temes.....
Mr. Hastings Barbour in Jaitash territory. From that happen that the pressa were required
point the Ene will pass across the western the ladies of the Committed to the public of reserving their best wares, to place them to carry stores or munitions to the British-end of Mixx Buy and trend in a motherly dinner, whose raison d'etre in a projected as a sort of coping stone upon the edifica fest, to transfer troops from one point to direction till it onelases all the nutiping school, whers, although at first girls with they have so industriously built up during
rocky islets to the southward of Hongkong.
Dir W. A. Duff another, or to keep up the food supply of circling round as it encloses then till bound feet may be admitted, they are the season. The School for Saints' is a the British garrisons at any of the pro-meets the frontier line coming out of Deep mutually to exhort one another to unbind. returkable book in many respects. It is
THE SHIPBUILDING TRADE. minent fortresses on the Pacific basin, very Fay on the cast side.
The social charge is startling. Ladies daring in its originality, enthralling as to Mr. W. May...
London, Dec. 13. The shipbuilding dur December,
100 10 90 ing the year in the yards on the Bive: With reference to the news published who used to declare they could not ask plot and detail, puro as to motive and epi- Mr A. J. Mclane.......
Wear shows a decreass upon the previous yesterday respecting the strengthening of Chinese to their houses are now hand and gratomatically caress to throughout, while it mor
Com. Taylor, B. N.
101 11 90 the defences of Hongkong and the cession glove with them, and for the moment stis mercilessly severe in threshing the folijes Mr H L. Dalrymple 100 8 32 year of 20. vessels, exgregating $7,000 OR
8 03 tons. by Chins of territory for that purpose there have been several contradictione cireast Chinose friendships and Anti-foot- and foibles of society as it existed some Mr C. A. Tomos
101 binding are the fashion. Meanwhile, na
The quarterly mesting for the MacEwen culated, none of them, however, official.
Cup, Bugey, and Pool competitions will be
ara all over the Settlement, now. One can fanalysing a situation, and wondering how battles, siegea, drinking and dicing, ship" United States for 400 tun-el-electrical From Sydney to Marrollice, has been towel
little delay will occur, and theso fine, powerty) and apocaly merchantmen would Boon be at the disposal of the British Government. As it happens, an outbreak of war is not anticipated, and the Empress
of Chian will mail for. Vancouver, on the
kong and China and Japan ports.
Thus, instead of proving a base from which the British fest in the waters var mesutile marite, it would become a might operate, and a harbour of refuge for base from which to onçur could set against our own foot.
On the other hand, if the British fleet
In other ways, Shanghai is revolutionis ed. The Taolai has given a ball, dines out, lives in the & roigu Settlement, re- have given a grasd public dinner, inviting ceives every Tunday. Chinese ladies
European ladies and sitting dowa alingether Return partige are given by the various European ladies
a hundred and ten.
so method be expressed with so for wrecks and disasters, witzcombats and love words. Here is an avans of Bonvenones in profusion all the four humired turo, the village horse of the Lavilettes pages of book that no roader can lay and the centre of the story: A long line down half-finished. The plotures of the of little bomos, lying along the banks of Dutch court and cap in 1889, equally with the river like penceful watel nen in a those of the Highland crags and glen, are pleasant land, with earn and wine sa cilo vivid as to raise a sigh that the age of at hand. Here anethor equally happy chivalry is gone, and the wonderful insight Gescription of harvest afternoon into men's character that marks all Mr Vaguely, not decisively, the hazy, imlulent Crockett's work evokes sympathy even with oir el sammer se broken by the lazy Jack Searlet's topsy-turvy notions of a droning of the locusta and
and grasshoppers. soldier's hoitour. Scarlett, indeed, is A driver was calling to his ozon down the creation to rank witla Dugald Dugetty as a
which he was tending, and the blades of dusty rol, the warning back of a dog came chameter that only one copaley could across the fields frean he gap in the f fence [ produce. the scythes made three quarter circles of light as thn mowers travelled down the wheat fields. Again ho speaks of 'ttoes. of fleecy clouds peculiarly appropriate
should romain to protect the colony, our slips of war would be useless for their probe per work of troping the seas clear of the At one last week, the wife of a Consulul picturesque expression, zhytucie and
enemy's ervisera,
principin the British proposal for the ces
General hal Chinese flags specially made to
Alliterative."
THE ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB.
CAPTAIN'S SAL? FOR JANUARY. Quite a goodly norber of competitors beures recally recorded
Deo. 8-Me G. Barnes, the secretary of into Alexandria in a disabled condition by
the anchor line steamer Asi. the Amalgamated Society of Enginedes, and Mr. Selicks, the chairman of the detyraced 23 members the TAB Dec. 18.-The Cunardiner Béruria has ae arranging for the holding of a national steamer field as thael was on the convention of ride-unionists. It is pro-point of sinking during a heavy galo in the posed to levy 3d each from unionists a work, which it is anticipated will yield £18,750 weekly.
Dec. 9.-The engineers employed in the shipyards and engineerity establishments on the Clyde favour Continuance of the strike.
Dee. 13.AR the ratult of the hallot among the enginents, 95 per cent. of the men have rejected the proposals of the employers.
Atlantic. The mon were in an exhausted condition. The Milfield is a steel screw steamer of 2000 tons, built in 1888 by Messrs Readhead and Co., and owned in Whitby. She was conatuided by Captaut
Willis.
THE BRITISH ARMY London, Deo, 10.-The Marquis of Lans-- downo, Secretary of State for War, states that the Government intends to improve the condition of soldiers in the army by The cotton spinners hava agreed to lend paying them is per day, and incroning the the Amalgamated Society of Engineers amount with length of service, remitting £10,000, and to contribute a luvy of d. per the present deductions, and ending civil wek towards the engineers strike fuoda
(employinent for the men on retiring. It is Colonel Dyer, the chairman of the Em-a intended to ingreso tha artillery hy ployers Federatiom, declares that the
Jis caused the whole dispute. The Valinors and to maintain the Armor supplying fans to the Artillery Militia and
The Chinese Goverment has accepted in scorate the sales in honour of her Chinese proof of our, statemusata £ Paddy Entered for the musthly avent, and theirectors of the London und South- Government, Lard Lanadowne added, 15
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Western and the Midland Railway Com-opposed to conscription.
96 16 31 patios daro granted variona concessions to 100 16 84 their workmen, including special payment
97 11 86 for Sunday labour. 97 10 87
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Dec. 14. Mr C. T. Ritchie, President of 88 th Board of Trade, is hopeful as to the 100 16 00 result of the conference between the repro -99 9 90 aentatives of the Einployers Federation and 8 92 tho Amalgamated Society of Engineers, 104 11 93 since only a differenos as to phrases sepa. 101 899 rates the disputants. If, however, the out 108 12 06 furance should fail to come to a settlement of the difficulty 30 additional engineering firme will join in the lockout.
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The American Federation of Labour has 81 8 83
acolined to appeal to the organised labour De 12 84
unions in the United States in support of 100 12 the British engincos on. triko
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You will notice in life's voyage
While floating down the stream, That milk of human kindness Seldom raizes any cream.
The Central News on whoss authority tion after nation appropriates a tit bit of thirty years ago. any of the charactors look at their ath, depicted are historical personages, Disraeli we yesterday published the information smiling isees one would think the 19th instant, on no more warlike or extra referred to, returns to the subject and says had never heard of it. Possibly they being one of these, while nebody, we iua, held from the 7th to the 10th inst. i ordinary mission than the transport - that the negotiations with the Chinese Goretecting great improvements will be made gine, will have any difficulty in recognizing, merchandise and passengers fruja Dong-vernment for the auisition by England of by the foreigners, and in this once Model in Lord Looring, a certain able statesman,
cartair. territory regarded as
as nücessity for placing Hongkong in a proper state of Settlement, and then they will come in and while Victroy of India, who is den-1 dafence are making satisfactory progress at foreign man- It may be so. Or it may be ribed as being handsome in n curling way Peking and the extension of the mainland Lord Saliziury yet lina a plan to save Bri-his hair and his beard, his eyelashes, his frontier of the colony beyond the Kowloon uish commerce from a not absgether pain. nostrils and his meustache all curl. els is practically assured.
lasa extinction in the East, and though we This will remove, a long-felt anxiety, ce not know it, tha Chinose do, and are He has the knack of uttering literature
in their knowledge.
as though it were conversation. We are £8,400,000 to pay off the remainder of the frontier line and the consequent con- Japanese Iudeninity, the construction and struction of the now fortifications, which somewhat increasing devority upon the Chi-
nagement of all milyzys in China and will be takon iu. band es scon as the cas Imperial Customs Service, and wo contral figure of control of the Imperial Maritime Castones cossion is complete, it will not be possible may expect during this winter the question childhood's days, passed at a lonely spot to be the guaranteey.
for a hostile force to land in Starling Inlet will be pretty defnitely settled as to who or Tolo Harbour with a view to occupying is to control it, and that the nation that has Hongkong
Tre China Gazette, on the 50th Dec, published the following telegram from
ing-The Peking Government has ro
THL CAFE'S GIFT OF EATTLESHIP.
the
The Han. J. Rose-Innes, C.M.G., Under-Secretary for Native Affaire in Govermasot of Cape Colony, considers that would be better for the colony to pay the Admiralty £25,000 a year instead of presenting a battleship to the Imperial Navy, as was proposed some time age by the Cape Gov
Government.
erived an offer from Rusia to lend China | because with Mirs Bay within the British happy the screw has been turned with first introduced to Robert Orange, the auch ako the gentleman, with the par- affects of which ho died abortly afterwards.
and of leag siting, butie in a splendid piece aid prea painting and depicts the dis- tinguished visitor with obaracteristic posu and expression. It is about to be despatch od to China.---Z. muž 0. Šaprzs,
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stations,
kong wuters.
Sem-
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FATAL BOXING COSTEST. London, Dec. Walter Croot, the English pugilist, while No, said the ganduman in the bald wig with James Barry, the American boxer, on.
engaged in a box ing unter at the National Sporting Club On Bomber... I ain't much of a bass singer, but you Monday night, received blows on the jaw On demand cut hear my brotherWas he and in the region of the heart from the On Calcutt
Wiro, green whiskers. Much? His voice was The police have arrestod Barry, his On demand *** so heavy that it made him bow-legged to seconds, and other ofHoials, as well as the On Singapore carry it.
manager of the club
On demand, Deo: 12.-A coroner's inquest has been
On Manila *1an Health and Vigour of an individual de hold touching the death of Walter Crout. On Comsad, rend open the quantity and quality of the Hood. The medical evidence showed that Croot's On Shanghai- Tur life sise portrait of Li Hungchang, painted by Mr Alfred Progn, to the com-
On demand, the Castoral Service becomes Russian, it taste for pestry and a passion for Homer, when in the boos, meste products, and if death was due to a fracture of the skull, The proposed inclusion of the rocky will not be quite the same Oustoms Service Amadio, of Gaul' and the mission of Mr L. Spitzel, is now completed.
Murte thees bo not eliminated bat (through say sense) which he received through a fall, and a 30 days' sight, (private paper) The work had to be executed without the islands to the southward within the frontiers
we have known hitherto, and it is possible
dsuited in the band they insuance intrition rexdict of accidental death was returned. Un Yokohama of the colony is dne not so much to strategic that its perfectly arbitrary, irresponsible d'Arthur, and is far from being appreciated and function and ftually, proance organis dis Barry and the other persons who were ar- On demand, considerations so to the desimbleness of character may be even more severely felt by those who have the charge of his up aseThe Humanitarion. In cases of Mero-rested in connection with the case havs preventing the establishment upon then than heretofore. The Customs and Post
Lisonses, Pimples and Shres of all kinds, the RUSSIA AND THE GOLD STANDARD: of gambling holls and of so-called Custome being in one hand it will only reinsin for bringing. The first gront change in his fels, Surry, Eezzan, Bad Legs, Skin and Blood accordingly been released from oustody.
formed for the purpose of levying them to unite the Telegraph system, and life comes with his introduction to a products of Clarke's Bined Mirlore are marvellous,
London,
Dec. &-An Imperial akase has blackmail upon native craft leaving Hong foreigners in China will at once feel fessional wunan camed Medios Dubos, Thousands of wonderful caros have Econ effected been issued in Russia declaring that the themselves under a contrul little better who has contracted a morgnatie marriage by it. Olarke's Blood Mixture is so wer arrangements for the gold standard having The Sam Tam river is navigable for than if so good as that of Chins, though with Archdaks Charles ofwell, no mat whero, at 26. Od. per battle. Beware of worth been completed, words shall be painted Tire fate of the Perak Nurse. Miss Cur small steam vessels and large junks for a it may take the Chinese fonger to discover ter where, the reader who buys the bikes initation and substinen
upon all notes to the effect that they will Beating is engaged to be married to Mr diatones of three miles, or as for
will find that out for himself." Of curso,
bo cashed in gold at the rate of 25 paper
Barometer Miss Consentine has only been out here little better than a hill torrent. Collinge Inspector of Schools, Perak Teun city; beyond that it soon becomes is Comores of England with China the lonely, impulsive boy falls in love with A CHARACTERteno story of General Shar-
roubles per imperial
Temparature Mix months. Of casssatice avery lady int
In connection with the improved defence does not amount to very inch about the the actress, but big disillusinuat comes man is going the rounde. It is reported ported in the same way is bound to get-Hobgkong, it is probable that a locale as that of England with Scandinavia. apeedily and he is left tu battle with the that ones when he had been under the card
physician for some time, he said
Deo 11-At the annual meeting of amidity shareholders at the Peninsular and Oriental Direction of Had not beun Eaglish policy always to world and his passion as best ho inny. Ha of
Str Wind matried. Men are prudout nowadays and rpedo-bost datillas will be established.-acquiesce in every humpaging restriction is steadily gaining ground in Poland ster Doce, & on your medisine,Well, Steam Navigation Company, yesterday
there is nothing like mating provision for
Daily Mail,
this Farmin by literary cizoles, when Bridgit, the daughter better, for all your pat in the way of Eagliats enterprise by of Madame Dubox by the Archduke, General, replied the doctor,
Thomas Sutherland, the chairman the future. Pinasantry apart, wo wish our
Chiness oficialdom it might have develop old friend Mr Collinge ali happiness Legal Composare, Pieces, by Orange, ed: Awit is, even when we have lost it, crosses his path. She has become the wife perhaps you had bostor take Shakespear board of directors, said it was satisfactory Weather Singapore Free Press.
Ward, zo. Xmas 1507. Price, $1.00-
we may regret it. But it will be tos late of an utterly depraved and worthless advice, and throw physio to the dogs to note that Australia was not recovering { Hain ... Robinson Piano Company.
When Australia be then.
health,
scoundrel, Parfect by name, an attaché of I woukl, dooter, replied the sick man, as too rapidly from the effects of the coto when Shanghai suffers in
the Archduke-who, by the way, is well he turned his head on the pillow I would, mercial depression.
came federated, ha added, it would have as Hongkong has suffered, from to proper aware of Bridgit's paternity-and is, of but there are a tomber of valuable dogs in writes to the building and sanitary arrangements, nad
a far greater future than the most sanguins the importance of the mesont accident to A Ponyoss The report published Chiness overcrowding, it will not make the course, vaguely unhappy. Purfleet is this neighborhood **
could anticipate while the colonies were the inachinery of the MM atsamer Sag-.... NO Laily News
divided by rival policies and differentisi Audien between Kobe and Yokohama was in some Shanghai paper from an Amoy poopla slire and well again to give oharis caught cheating at oasts and diemissed
IMPURITIES IN THE Brook-We have sen tariffe, considerably exaggerated. The cover of correspondent regarding the great pre table contributions. We have a gus mono walle an attempt is made to detain Bridgit
EXTRAORDINARY SCENES AT A QYULIND her central cylinder was ameshed and the parations the Japanese are making to de paly hors, which supplies us with gas, that in the palace. She, howarez, aidud by boste of latters from people who have received
CONTEST. platon broken, and as the repairs would take lend the island (presumably against the barely makes darkness visible; we have Robert Omage, makes her agape and goes great benefit from the use of Clarke's Blood
London, Dec. 10-A six days' bicycling too long and cost too much to effect in French) and the large numbers of trana. absentes landlords, who are rich; we have in search of her worthless husband, to Sisters. Li canast be too highly estimated, for
wifely devotion is sourcely it alenses and aleses the blood from all Yokshamn, it has been detezzained to put parts carrying troops to Formoss is & pure Companies with rich shareholders, who ad ranged by the facts of uns 2347, Orange purities. This is a good testimonial frers the confeet has been completed in New York, her in a ovadition to return home using the canard There are no premtions sit of raininter things bure. Things are changing falls madly in love with the daughter Family Doctor, which goas on further so my Twenty-five started. Before the last day Ba
the ordinary in progress and no transports rapidly, but all these things remain as they
It is the finest Blood Purifies that soiance and some had gone crazy, there had dropped had previously done with her mother, he baing light reduction of her for the internal peace of the
three years
people we know are baing
närmast confidenos recommend is to our rabsurin Deo. 18-Millery of Chlongo was the | There is no ties at so fue and stronger. The report regarding the French reduced foto the position of mean white one, coming to take advantage of lary and this publio ganardly Bos Seratais, winner of the arcing pentist at York skip being condemned, and she will pro
unhappy wife's equina pol Sourey, Emond 200 Logs Skin and Blood Tnd distance covered by the winner was bably do many years good work on the and Formosa does not appear to have somewhere in the illds of Hongkow,
tion Slowly the plot intel ifolly Disarms, Pimples and Beres of all kinds, ile 2009 müqa Amongst your Fair Sowers, lapped by Mediterranean after tho has been with: afetarbed the Japanese in the least, Should drawn from the Chins line to give place to the French ever come to Formosa it will be our sole breezes, spare a thought of pity the political cass of Orange 18 as effects are warrelage Choteaude of wastertal aurad and the story moves sspidly forward - scena have been säratud by 12. Clarke's Blond farrut and foater wash should be measary that they come balfer aqua phd for what will not be shell. hand at han ta dia mast raunarkubls climax. titans is and warywhere, as 20. Bid, ger botste on a paleta de pe 900 MATKA e announced that the Germen murplus vided that no one was injured in the worth the last French expolition to the though it was Shangheli Guarda
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