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Fayvedir, Decamách 31, 1808.

Tmeng will be a Emoking Condort at the

WatzonsOtticers' Olub, Blue Buildings, on Monday night, the 2nd of January. It in Bucicipated that way of the commissioned offers of the feet will be present, and Ird: Charles Raresford, who recognises at the Warrant Officers are the backbuno of the Service, notwithstanding his numer que engagements, ha kindly promised to attend during the evening.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. (SUPPLIED TO THE CRINA MAIL.']

Lovnox, December 29, THE DREYFUS CASE. The Cour de Cessation has oxamined M. Custmer Porier.

ITALY

King Humbert hus granted an amrosty to 2,700 persons who were, condamned for Tioting in Milan in the summer.

HONGKONG.

The Hon. J. II. Stowart Lockhart is sailed for Hongkong.

WEATHER REBIRT The following notice is issued from the Observatory —

-Em- the 31st of 1,60a ·Barametric changes are slight. Preasure remnias high over H, China and alghtly low in the N. part of the China Sea. Gradients molerate to rather steep with strong mansion on the curet, and in the N. part of the China

to N. winds; e.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

THE CHINA MAIL.

FRAGENT WATERS' MURMUR THE LOSS OF THE 'GLENAVON.' That one loomes more and more disposed

to lock k into the past and try to peer Into the fure, as each year coinna to an end.

That, as frigonca on inexorably measuring Itself by pum, days, and years, men who reflectipon the various side of life are ennntraied to ponder over the past,

BAFETY OF THE THIRD OFFICER,

HIS STORY OF THE DISASTER

Hongkong, December 31.

ATTEMPTED LARCENY OF

JEWELLERY.

ARRENT OF TWO ÚHINESS BIOPLIFTENE.

Yesterday, two Chiness shoplifters were arrested by the Police on a charge of at- tampting to ateal from the store of Mesars Ullmann and Co., Quesa's Road a large quontity of jewellery, amounting in value

MADAME PREYFUS.

THE MODERN DOY. hope was almost dead, she wrote, I am Whatarer be the final outcome of the convinced of my husband's absolute no This is true story on lee boy who affaire Deus, there cen be no doubt of cenes, and mean to prove it. Jetinval, asked for an increase in hislary, and got one thing the two persons to whom, God, or Providence will ere long crush his. He is employed in one of Tipton's shops above all others, is dun the presunt extra. eremus, a village near Peries, within night a Wouls, and he thought ho faight to have and rektore him to me! And in in Glasgow. Es was getting eight shalling. ordinary change in publia fooling ary M. |« Zola and Mdme. Dryfus. Of Zola, there of Mont Valérien, whore the

grim

moto. So he need the superintendent, and is no need to speak hero. He has played Colonel Hents, came to his dishonoured the superintendent refurred him to the the part of a hora, and there is no English ope, Luala Eugenie Dreyfus and her child canager, and the manager leaned back as man who would not feel honoured to wel-ren have quietly lived on in strict retire his ohair, and said, You must saa bir him to the haren he would and in ment, the mills of week of disappointments, himaolf. Hu regulates all rises in ry, it he needed

Buch a By his festinasj

& refuge, 60 There--now but a portion of lary.

in radiant hops-the boy eaccended in gaining admittance to thinat J'assuse the little wifo still wait three years My Lipton's clica. With shaky voice ho

*dm*

and to tsko eart of grace for the future in the Colony of the safety of Mr William And twelve o'clock in the morning the two | Aurore, of that trials liberty and his the truth will be known,' cried Dreyfax to askud for a rise in ssly.. How long

Things were anxiously awaited last night / to $580. It appears that between eleven this counlication in the newspapor, te truth.

That the goot old greeting, A Happy

Now Year, an often a much greater

Dickson, Chief Officer, Mr. Ainslie, Third

Zola tiskad not

depth of meaing than the cursory with Offloar, and Mr F. Wilson, Second Steward. Mandarin Chinese to Bir Pechour, an as popularity, but his whole fortune aleo ; and his judges, whọn, his terrible sontonce was have you worked hore" asked Mr Lipo

for a Merry "man"

That as the kl ear is vanishing into the

past, I hearty wish all my readera A Ghod and Happy New Year, and many of them? That the year he been a remarkable one for China and longkeng, but more by way of preparatia for changes than for anything definiter accomplished. That the-visit-of-In-Chsiles-Beresford- to the Far East sil, I feel convinced, exercise a vast infience upon, the course of affairs in Chines That it shoukl alwaysbo remembered the fimt ching netewary or any satisfactory progress in China is a-weil-şalaried body of bonest oficina, That to secura this he taxes and dues must

Customs, and

erate house-tax wooki furnish ti moan of upholding a clean-handed body of flo

would follow healthy administrat security of property.

ง

and

wrecked

of the ill-fated steamer Glen shout twenty or thirty miles from Hone

Thong The two beaches which went to search for any survivors returned last night without haring found any of the missing mon. About six o'clock, however, Mr Ainslie, the Taird Officer. arrived from a most unexpected quarter in the Macan steamer Roset Láng, ant was heartily welcomed at Mersts" Jardine. Matheson and Co's office. Fears are en

prisoners entered the shop, and speaking sistant in the shop, through the medium of the shroff, asid they were yamen officials frem Honam, and they had come down

to what end

the spored

Whit

sra,' 'And-how much are you JESTA. Merely to compel an act of pronounced in 1898. His words bid fair to Four simple justice, and in abstract defence of be realised in fact.—-31. A. P.

getting fight shillings a week. How his country' honour. Whatayer opinion

old are you? Fifteen years old Why, we may hold of Zols's other claims of fame, WOMEN WRITERS WITH TITLES turned Mr Lapton, when I was your nga

of that splendid act can

I was working for four and sixpenco a glory

The ranks of the authoresses are fre-week, and I thought I was well pair. nevor pale.

Bus Zola's devotion to the cause of a man quently recruited from the well call of the do you think of that Perhaps you The Duchess of Abercorn has waren't as valuable a boy as I am," was the whom he did not even know was but the peerage. keystone to an arch that another had long written work on the history of the not sold in the store, but eager to effect.) beta building. If Dreyfus is over relonzo Hamilton family. The Duchess of Lerdə / apectful reply... The Loy.got bls rise. a sale showed the men an pasortment he will owe his freedom to his wife, and wrore a novel entitled 'A Lover of the

to Hongkong to buy some watches of a certain kind to the order of the Mandarin. The salesman said that kind of watch was

Beautiful.' The Duchess of Somerset, of matches of another patters. The menitis of her 1 wish to write. When her as Maur, proditoad a book of said, they wished to consult a friend before husband was degraded before the army of won

in the largest

intravels, called. Impressions of a Tender public square in purchasing and went away. Mr.Pecheur Paris, on the morning of January 5th, 1895, foot. The Duchess of Sutherland chooni- und the world, in How counted the watches after the ten had left Madame Dreyfus raised her hands to led her journey round the we

heaten and vowed that she would never I Spent My Twentieth

and magazines. tertained for the safety of the Chief Ofeer and found he was one shurt. About half-an- rest until she had proved his innocence.ataut contributor to and a can- who have whatsnenses, physical

hour afterwards the men came back, bur Mr When Colonal Hoary confessed the other Bometimes she writes in her own name, and often under the pseudonym of Ereking Pecheur did not at first recognise the

Mdme. Dreyfus full upon her knees in n when costasy of thanksgiving. It is coming

and Second Steward, although all hope is not given up that they may be rescued. It

THE MARRIAGE OF THE UNFIT. - Under this title Dr Harry Campbell con tributes to the London Lances a paper that desta carefully and exhaustively with the prablems relating to the merringe of these that ought not to be transmitted to

but ty. All such he advises not to marry; b he proposes no plan by which they can be made to take this advice. Dr. Campbell's in the following editorial discussion of his article in The Media Record (New York). Say the editor:

day that he had forged the latter which was often

Gower,' The Duchess of Rutland, bath is thought quite probable that they have the same men. This time they bar. the chief evidence against Captain Dreytus, she was Lady Jahn Mannew conclusions.are very well stated, in brief,

a

she

had

him

cried

And

He [Le Campbell] first shows to how

largo an

an extent the process of natural selec-

of

is interfered with among civilized LA

which under

that

both lauded on one of the many islandegained for twenty-four alarum flocks, and

since her husband's succession to the duke in the vicinity. The Chiel Olvér: an offer was closed at $3 each, the clocks to 116 will be frael f. God, I thank thoedom, has written a great dent, principally The Duchess Her face was that of a glorified for newspaper and reviews William Dickson, is about thirty years of ha taken delivery of to-morrow. One of the Nemesis-and Nemesis she is proving to of Buckingham awared in print on the he collected by the puff of tiss Foreign co-s-native-of-Londen, and had been men strolled away to the other end of the her husband's enemies. To Colonel Henry, subject of her colonial experience, and was about two years on the Glenavon. Mr.shop, and the man left with Mr Pecheur chistost of her husband's foes, her and face credited with ooining the expression, very

knowa bat that this spell may have driven Wilson; the Chief Steward, states before stated ha had received instructione from ways a Gorgon horror shout it. Who dache Marchioness of Dufferin and Avon the one hand, by.

-more primitivo he Jeft the ship he put his brother, the Mandarin, to buy about twenty dia-him to make the confession which drove has written several books-among others would terminate; and on the other, by the

Our Vice-regal life in India, and My Buicide?

restrictions

governing the marriage laws. After his terrible degradation, Dreyfus Canadian pariences. She cornetimes

of Mies Impulsin Dr. Campbell appears to think that the

aholition of San. Forecast-moderate or fresh N That an efltient at my and nay, could then Wilson, the Second Steward, into the mod rings. He was shown & large cass

polygamy was, from the stand- be raise, and the inerente al trade No. 3 lifeboat, but he must have gone back containing about 130 rings, and selecting was banished to the lle du Diable, of the adopts the permane, Countesses are enn point of physical hygiene, a mistake: but

America. Gushington. Soveral twenty-six ladies' rings and fourteen gen coast of French Guiana, in South

tributors to the literature of the day. The It was formerly a leper island. It is so un-

as he admits that the reintroduction of thermen's--ho said he would go and bring houlthy that Rosat of lain guards have died fountess of Warwick bus pili, Arshi, the polygay, is in anusitis, bus antem friend to see them. Mr Fechoir intimated and so lonely that one bezme in faced The life of Joseph the to pursue is to attempt to

of Aberdeen ja Countess

written he would like to count the contents of the sane. Dreyfus siceps in chains, and is Con

Through Canada with a Kodak; the instil into the minds of the community at large the pernicious offects resulting and aski mae bafore he left, and on anting the set in a kind of walied-in bear pit, bence Countess of Jareey ha~~written --many from ill-judged-morringes,

the sky alone is visible. He ได้ constantly watched by armed guards, and the name review articles and some hooka for child answers the question as less borrors of the place have made him dren, of which Maurice, or the Red grey, and almost imbecile in three short Tar, is perhaps the best; and the Cous shall and who shall not marry.

tess of Galloway his sont several articles the majority of the cases cited by Despite all this, Madame Dreyfus toss years,

post bon

boon was denied her. Mean- in the Colonies to the Nineteenth-Centation, organic heart disones, epilepsy, in laration can be taken; hat it will be generally places Di exile:

the Countess of Ork has contributed aus der at least, he is certainly inclined to be too mystery Then Madame Dreyfus set to work. ing articles on society, peat and present, to sunphatic in his opinion. We refer to func

He

Mr Bear, here's a happy new year to you, And the pace of the Great White Char'a

wish; And when you baro raked all the cheat.

nute ont

Bo'll come and partake of the dish.

morning to you, And a prosperous time all the white,

plati

Of shifting us out of the Nilo.

Cousin Jonathan, too, our best wishes to

you,

You've come to Manila to stay ;- Planse obviate friction, remove the restrio-

tion

That of course this reform mustaf necesity he gradual and not erratic, and, te then, Ja little likelihood of any Chinose statos man deing such work, the duty will most probably fall upon Great Britain.

restard, be guaranteed.

to the ship, because he was soon with the Captain and others s'terwards, and jumped into the man when the vessel was going down. He is twenty-one years of age and is a native of Retreat, West Cliff-on-Sea. only Joined the ship this trip in Lo.don.

M. Ainalia, the Third Ofleer, gave hin

ringe he found there were only 122 loft Mr Pecheur went to bok up his coks and soo if he had not sold any

ed inside the counter and dropped two of

and four others on the counter, latting and

This

is the sort

The Countess of Munster

has

responsible

the

him

to who

To

for some novels, and for a weird werk says: The highly sensitive are not suited

drop on the floor, Mr Bernheim noticed the 110ans were not wanting. Dreyfus his the Lady's Realm and Pall Mall Magazine.al dianders of the nervous system. yet astonish and swaken the people at nan she was swany out, about thirty What is this?' The prisoners were thon (Deen married for five years prior to his con- entitled Ghostly Stories Countrew to this art world. Its rostout

ALA

strenuous

condi

Madame- France, here's the top of the That in this way alone can the security story the oeburtenes is our representa -rings-in-the interval síuco hojást counted pleaded-to-be allowed to share his exile. descriptive of travel on the Continent and as lenfit, such as pulmonary consump capital, sought for by Lur Charles Re-riyo na fotown I had been having din-the ringe. The Chinaman meanwhile walk' while, her husband wrote her from his Remien Dozerande. Countess de la Wanity, chronic Bright's divesse, no excep Forget, uti ea, that you failed in your That Lord Charles has been perhaps thener, and when I came up on deck I heard

the chees containing rings into the show case, ↑ the horribly upon you to solve has written story books for children, and thought that, as regards one class of disor lasiest man in the Further East for the the ship strike. I ran up to my boat, the last few months, and he must by this starboard autte cut away the falls and tima have accumulated an amount of valu-then rashed down to get my life belt. I able information about Chin which may came up again and got ray host out.

Home. That the noble Lord appears to be popu lar alike with nature and Europear eficial and people, and ho has boon royally received, That Hongkong has not been bakind-hand ative of the Associated Chambers of '-

That this in as it ought to be That

it is difficult to know whether most to adaire the genial sprightlines or the

Lord Charles. I mucity of

You've placed on our commeros that way. Prince Henry, to you, mar greetinga ara

few,

Good luck and a happy new year When next year comes round, wo trust

you'll be found.

Io Hongkong, of al least. Bomer here

har.

To our Governor, new, he will learn what

idly

In the year that commences to-morrow,

So. Ilenty, my dear," "hore's a happy new

year,

May your advent occasion no sorrow.

Our new General le may a martinet be.

But we trust he will have a good timo, dad Mae eitt the day blind too musk

Us in Hongkong's salubrious clime, To our friends, one and all, rich and poor,

great or stall,

Hearty gracings and best of good cheer, May your balance increase to ten thousand

Apiece

In the forthcoming Happy New Year.

IONIC.

FOOTBALL.

LONG'S OWN REGIMENTAL INTER-COMPANY |

CHALLENGE RELIELIS

I asked

Chinsmen scrambled in ́s ber them if the plage was in the boat. The

answered. Yes, all righ, so we lowered

away the Fourth Engineer lowered

****

on

the

(маг

in its altentions to tho gallant represent end and I the other. I got into the boat found in his leggings., A polide ionstalle|ble reason why Drevius should have pro dwellings of their husbands'ancient families. has the best time of it horg-is the most

merce.

the son of the wealthiest cotton spiuner in Alsace, and his wife, to whom he had

was the daughter of a rich diamond of Mar has written on the vexed tions call for men of iron. nervs

thust as regarde happiness--which, at any at Ma

90h simpler Malmesbury, on that of Paris, and brought her has of the Mas perige, and Sueat, question heart. I fear that it must be söknowledged band an ample dowry. Blessed with riches, and itilliant prospects, there was no pussi Brailford and Potroke havo produced perhaps be fairly lariced upen us

and being's end and atm-lic line animal with interesting articles

the deade and little imagination and a good thick skin charming wife, two beautiful children, fart of bingeling. The Countess of rate from the puely physical point of v

country whom he traitor to his law, although a Frenchman at least, had Alsatian, and consequently a German by ing moment was given to plans for the ing momenta were tortured he dreams of vindication of her husband. All her sleep the father of her children dying in the fur- off Ile du Diable. And while she worked she prayed.

In short, the advice given to those af

which was almost swamped by the Chinese I ordered them to pull round to the end of the ship and wait. They then to the mon into custody until werd was sent expatriated himself to serve. Every walk for Women' to her husband's newspaper,flicted with parves' is, 'Remain stagio

case fall on the floor, and picking upsaid, secured, and the missing watch was found in the hand of the man who had been in onespecting the rings, and another ring was was sent for, and an Indian Police Sergeant No. 701) and two Indian watchmen took the Central Police Station. Detectiva Inspector Moffat went down to the shop, the prisoners were taken to the Pulice Station. A five-cent piece and four pawn tickets were found on the first prisoner avu a purse containing thirty canta md a capacious wallet was found on the second prisoner. At the Magistracy Yo-day the down with him from Canton, and bought

me the plug was not in, the bont this time being half-full of water,

politing of the closing year, it may ab

That:

be said that it has been fairly prosperes, so I took them to the les side of an island and there is perhaps no reason to give

it a friendly leave-taking than there and landed the Chinese-there. I then existed on the expiration of previous called for volunteers to go to the ship to

annuale."

sco if there was anyone left, hat only two of the Chinese come with, bia. Owing to

That I note the great event of the depar cute trum magland of the ffon f. 11. Stewart Lockhart.

Reuter Agency informed the Far Eastern

to

She journeyed to Berlin and throw her- self at the feet of the Gorman Emperor. A word from you, sire-only, a word Say to the Froosh Ministry that you never received information from my husband!'

arc

tributions on the subject of Employmen: and the Counters of Rosslyn has sent can- the best

tho + nonre. tica never married, in the course of time Sentish Life. Lady Howard of GlassGT and Tady Violet Greville is, of course, diseases of the nervous systems would great published a book on her travels in Americ, There can be its doubt that if

also be true that a world peopled with widely known as a contributor endlessly leasen and probably dis out; and it may journals.-M. A‚ P.

thick-skinned phlegmatic.

mediocritics would be

in a scoso. But the ques- happier, BEINSHEAD & Allison Pianos, the very best tien any hare be naked: Do we want to 10 without ear neurotics, or can we get value.-Robinson Piano Co.

along without the 7 If history be aneked, it will be found that most of the fornal by individuals of a highly eengifica, nervous temperament. The contention,

CUT-

the wind being against us and the water-rat defendant said he brought the watch The German Emperor spoke the word, CTNICAL bachelor saye that woman is a deeds of the world have been per

That undoubtedly the reason why the logged condition of the host, I could go world of dos fact, was, that he brings sail her to the ship.. I had alau got despatches dealing with the Kowloon left hand hurt while lowering the boat

Extension

a key in the shop next to Ullan's. He

was an accountant, and came down yester.

He directed that it be officially given out agreeable blunder of nature. Garman Embassy fron Captain Dreyfus. The man who wounds with a word is usual too, that the thick-skinned mediocrities aro

that no infaruation had ever como to the

That the delay'in the forraing of this sub-and-was-unable to takto an oar myserday morning in the Fatshan to buy a clock Press, in conversation, and oven in The name in too often hat a shadow larger | be gained, then they may be but at "the"

Governor, Sirene Legiskat ve Conncil. Bike. From ak-

That most

down to buy

in Western

the

ge

the happiest person is open to doubt, Prominent German officials followed the ly too cowardly to strike a blow.

If a more or less animal life is the end to statement of their sovereign in interviews for the

Kane time the fact should be borne wind Administrative department of our Govern Seeing I could make no headway with

With a five cent pieca ked the Ma-after-dimmer sprechen. This was a power than the man bohind it.

that, while they never descend into the ment hus, so I read it, prevented H.E. the two Chinese at the on, I decided to run

I had already pad cighty coats ful beginning in the gistrate.

e gigantic work of chang-

like the being with the misery, before the wind. I met the Second

to the man, caid the prisner. This seadama Droylus juuruuyed next to St.

French popular sentiment.

LADY Tehaser possesses a

magnificent depths of ill strung

nervois system, yet, on the other' ing his speech to the 1

most people think the Hon. J. H. Officer's bout, and cried for a bailer, but Stewart Lockbart will take a very eff he could not supply me with one. I asked and said he was a soldier. He came Petersburg, and appealed to the Czar. She necklace made entirely of black pearls, hand, they are incapable of experiencing many of the delightful emotions and of a clock, for which he offered so impressed His Majesty that she induced which was once the property of the Em-h

Baconding into the heavens of joy, a sro cient Resident fur the Kowloon Exten--if the passengers were safe, and he said $3, but the shopman wanted $10. Ho had to give a somi-official expression of his prose Eugenie.

Blake. Governor

the wish that the case might be

be re-opened, and slon, unter

neurotics. In this country That the Nory League meeting was a ho had them in the boat. I ran before

only thirty cents. Commander Hastings

justice shown to the prisoner for life on the THE Mallina gold-field, proof,! to my miril, of the progress of the wind to Ai Chau, and monored the boat Imperial Federation,

prisonment, with hard labour.

of the Pope. She petitiomed the friendly by a lad who noted a speck of gold in

a stone he picked up to throw at a crow. offices of King Humbert

Italy. decided by the best of three matches, the That, if anything pushes ahead the grand under lee of the island all night. We then sentenced eath prisoner to six pontha' im- Ikwil's Island. She fogged the intercession Australia, is said to have been discovered

pleading letter reached the Queen Regent

The Duke of York's favourite recreation of Spain. Each of these potenistes ex- pressed friendly concera and a desire to ees when on board ship is playing cards with the case probed to the bottom. Opinions his officers. He is a capital whist-player. from such sources produced a vast number The Duchess of York has also taken to the of reflected opinions of the same nature game lately. Tho pabbles dropped by Madame Dreyfus

Company and, the Band and Drums! are the two survivors from the semi-finals! in this composition. The final tie is to be

first watch of which is to he played-off un Monday, 2nd January, and the second on Friday, 6th January. Kickoff at 3:30 p.n. Through the faces of the Hong- kong F.. in placing their ground at the disposal of the Regiment, the match will he played on the Club ground and not on the military ground. Both teams are strong and an excellent match is expected.

CANTON NOTES

(From Our Oven Correspondent.)

ANOTHER GREAT FIRE.

Canton, December 30. -

It re-

"the"

ites of unity in the Empire, it is sailed round to a fishing village and were

Recensity and advisability of maintaining the British Navy to the poia:ery kindly treated. The villagera palled of efficiency and milk which will secure up the boat, and after giving us food piloted every one of the brunetics of our Grea: us to Cheang Chau Custome Station, where Imperial tree. That the appeal of the Chairman (Captain was received on board the Chinese, Cas- Hastings), made to all Britishers here in tam ailing orvisor Kivong Fei, and treated Hongkong, deserves the fullest considers with great kindness. I was supplied with a Dow suit of clothes, and my wounded handl

tion.

That. I hear the Council of the Odd Ve- lumes Society have decided to extend the

debating honours will now have a chanco

af

aucecas.

That the power of freely expressing ona's opinions before his fellow-wen to a most useful accomplishment, and one which ig not generally apparent in this Colony.

We soldom criticise the extravagance of others when we are invited to partake thereof."

A SCIENTIST looking for microbas saya there are absolately none on the Swiss mountains at an altitude of 2,000 feet, mys Machan's Monthly. Here is the pince for

take

of

pracluded from. marrying, will scarcely find with a neurutio taint should be meet with favor, as in that case probably tion of Dr. Campbail, that any irson

half the population would remain slagte.

A LITTLE masculine rororae often goes a long way with a woman.

IT sometimes worries a woman because some

wero sending out some far-reaching ripples. Ma CURZON, when quer-Recretary for the particular man isn't worrying about her.

The Sicle, the lost powerful of the pro-Colonies, was once making a long and Dreyfus papers, published all the corres

in the vicinity of the wreck yesterday down to our level and dwells cheerily band's innocence. She saw, too, the For and then said, 'I really don't know " The

went on to Iloilo, where she had been previously ordered owing to the disturbed state of the country.

THE MISSING.

bis cause.

KIPLING has said in his ballad on Lord Ro berta that if you would tnra him upside down a quart of lead would fall out, Kit- chener literally did spill semo lend one morning at Lreakfast a few years ago--and then swallowed it! During the campaign

to come in simply because they neglected measure urged regarding India, as certsia was dreased. I was then taken on bonthe purity party and scaremongers who are puudence between the exiled husband an elaborate speech in Parliament against a Lots of people wait in rain for their ships

Macao to to to launch them. year, and that the young spitunta for with every kindness by Captain Murphy, | wal fear of microbes. They would have to/Forts to the Dreyfus side in what has come i mang lacy of rupees. He repeated with:

to be called the Punamia Militaire. Mdms. emphasis Consider; not pounds Dor has been said that all signs fail in dry guineas, but lacs of rapees l' A quiet voice weather. With the exception of bear aigas the boat being taken in tow, I arrived in their supply with them, most of which Dreftus next saw General Billot, the Min.

observe are useful to man. It is pleasing to

on the Opposition benches asked, Exactly it may be trae, but the drier the weather Hongkong shortly before six o'clock.' that the microbe dues not give himself ister of War, and later, his auecesar. b.

Cavaignée.

Mr Curzon the better they seem to flourish. She laid before them what she

how much is a lac of rupees? H.M.S. Rutler after finishing hor search lofty airs, but, as a fellow creature, comos

considered indisputable proof of her hus

opened his mouth, stammered, grew rod, our midst.

sign Minister, M. Hanetaux, and brought House laughed, and in that laugh he lost sume evidence to his attention.

Ter incessant, leuthlike upturning of with pleasure, and remind all aspirants of

Sm Edmund Commerell, V.C., Admiral of the opportunity given. That, notwithstanding all the minimising

tho Fleet, will retire under the age clause pridonce secured the trial of Colonel Fetor- in January.

The appointment to the hazy, a fellow officer of Captain Dreyfus, Sin Herbert Kitchenor owes a great deal remarks recently made about Glenealy,

highest rank in the Navy is directly in upon the charge of treason through furnish- to Lord Cromer, the one grout Englishman nost people adhere to their forarer

ing information of the War Department to who holda Egypt in the hollow of his hand.

hit in the side of the face by a bullet opinion as to the deeesration of this beautiful spot

terday to the scene of the wreck to search will on occasion exercise this prerogative the That the dance given on board the Gerisan for the survivors, brought hack the Chiasse was shown in the salection of Sir Edmund against Futorhazy was not sufliciout to ecn- chener and has stood by him at every turn during a skimaish near Baxkim, and was Commerell himself, with Admiral Sir vict. Ho escaped with a Scotch verdict, and his confidence has been well justi- taken down the Wile, and thence to the hos

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not be for Bag-ship Hentschland, was a very pret from-off- the islands and the body of Nowell Salmon next on the list, however, but the doubt su the minds of the French fied. In the early days of his headalup of pital at Cain, whera, despite all the afforts

of the surgeons, oice people was growing. Esterluzy had not the Egyptian army whe

than unknowB. thers caa bo no actual dɔubt as to the cheen fully exonerated. Was he the cal- [alised, when the native soldiers WOTE "eated, the X rays

the medical staff corps, that will be made. Sir Nowell Salmon is a V. C. and G. C. B: he has been Cum-urit 1 If not, who had written the meno couth and ill dressed, and had no liart to Sergt. Bilton, late of

who is now in Londen, and who was then mander-in-Chief in China and at Porte- randam found in the waste basket at the engage in battle with the Dervishes or

officer, states that the wound was a healthy mouth, and is firs: and principal Naval German Embassy? Was it Dreyfus or anybody else, when ho Sirdar was fight Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. The post ean The Franch-both in the army and outside ing in his grim fashion for more funda specially detailed to look after the injared now be held only by an Admiral, so that it were thinking about the Drayfus case and a fairer opportunity, than the sub-

officers are to the conclusion that the Sir Nowell Salmon will have to vacate it in with more interest, if less fury, than at the alterns in the cafés of Quiro used by one, and very soon healed. The medical the event of his promotion, and it is pra time of the trial. Mdee. Dreyfus's loaven call him that dufur of an iceberg and hailut had worked his way out without be- that dafer of a martinst. But his subal-ing noticed, on the passage down the Nile, bable that the coveted distinctor will then was working be bestowed on Sir Michael Culme-Sep- She scoured the keen personal interest terns do not call him such names now, and Bilton one day tempted his patient's ap mour, the present Commander-in-Chief stof. M. Zols. Portoniouth.

Last night a fire broke out near the That we therefore il chis new departure wharf of the Hongkong steamurë, sulted in the destruction of some seventy buildings. At one time during the progress of the fire, it threatened to involve the steamer wharf, and it was only by heroic efforts that this was prevented. The S.8. Jonam, which was lying at the wharf when the fire began, was moved off into the river to be out of the reach of danger.

THE ALLEGED RETURN OF THE FLÄCUE, After all, +hare" was just a slight ground for the rumour thatched you in Hong. kong to the effect that tra. Babonfe Plague bad opes more appeared in Canton. For the last month there has been quite an epidemic of fever in the city, which sid to hare affected eight out of every ten per Bonk. I have not heard of any fatal cases This fever is in all probability anused by the abnormally dry season.

FIRE INSURANCE.

function.

That it was romarked how HR.. tho Prince and H.R.H. the 'tincess receiv ed every one who came on board, and also how they joined in the efforts to en- tertain their numerous guests, That I should not wonder but some of the tact of the Royal Grandmother ban dus cended to her grandson.

That I hear the rovised Tariff for Wharves is. genprally accepted, and there is a whisper of a small Amended Shipping Ordinance which is ruch nooded.

BROWNIE.

Vessels at the Docka At Knutson. --~|

The two launches which went out yee- the hands of Queen, and that Her Majesty German Government. The evidenca Lord Cromer believes thoroughly in Kit of 88, Major Kitchener as he then was

Quartermaster Smith. The body was re moved to the mortuary, where it now line

The list of missing now stands at two Europeans and two Chinese:--

WILLIAM DIUKSON, Chio: Officer.

F. WILSON, Second Steward. Two Chinese Firemen,

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to his door, as it were, by the beautiful, ought to be at work. They are Kitchener's petite with a tasty beefatenk, which the saddened wife of the oiled officer, the great kind of suhaiturin, and therefore, they like jor had no sooner attacked then he pat the teaberg, who gives everyone an equal his hand to his thraat, exclaiming, Bilton, there was no bone in the steak I've owel. eliance to win promotion by merit. It baslowed that builst; I felt it

go down THE outbreak of desperate and sanguinary novelist wrote some inflammatory pleas for plague riots in Seringapaiana calla attention justice for Captain Dreyfus. They were

tleman, but about as cold a gentleman DA

through the slimentary canal with. Still, Kitchener will ved to be the case. This bullet Yuensang. Isidoro Pons. H.LG.M.8. Kai-Tr is reported that the Government have once more to tha.question of the wisdom published in the Aurore, and by their boon said of Kitchener that he was Tizia...,

one ever meets. sex, Chaban, Asl, Bygdo, .1.G.M.S.medied, at lonat in part, the long-standing or otherwise of the policy that the Indian attacks upon the integrity of the officers of

is now pressrved as a curiosity, A Canoa Company is offering to insure Knistrin Augusta, Haiphong, Isla de Cuba, of their expenses. It has instructed the outhrerk in Bombay. It may be granted Dreyfus, they aroused the populare to a as Bobs. The latter is an everlasting

Mevo, H.1.0.M.S. Gefiun, H.I.G.M.S. grievance of jurymen in Penang in respect Government have been pursuing since the the court martial that had condemned never be as well liked by the British public but injury to the distinguished offiest, and houses and property indiscriminately at lets de Luzon, Amigo, Osli, Heilong.

Supreme Court officials to pay over $1.50 that the compulsory sanitation and acgre. Frutiny. Zola and his publishers are a hero with the great B. P. Kitchener they Foozs at times rush in where wise men

would be atmid of the police. for fibal. They were trial, and received marely regard sa inan who is equal to Dosmopolitan.Pakshan..

pem to jurors living within three miles gation policy was successful in Honkgons sentences of imprisonment for one-year anything cold, calculating and ultra-pro- three-quartors per cent. This is a chance

“Aberilion.---Hailan, Chowtai.“

of Butterworth, andofa per diem to resi but the treatment of a miscellaneous that no onelaught to miss at this seasori of

dents beyond that distance, when attending population with no particular roligious or They colored themselves, like Dragius, the year. will be interesting to watch TRANSPORING and Cabin Pianos are invalu jury.

caste prejudices in- simple matter com- the martyrs of anti-Jewish conspiracy, and pared to that of a vast population of wisely placed themselves, boyund the reach

IT IS REMARKABLE. this now andrival move on the part of the ablo and very strong.-Robinson Piano Co.

Hindoos and Mohammedans with prejud of the turnkey. Zola's imprisonment would Chinese. The pro otern of this Company Me Villiars, in a lecture on Omdurman,

NEVER KNEW IT TO FAILA icas or convictions that have successfully have chased the affaire Drafas for over?

QAYS MB W. WILSON, THE PO- FULAR Chemist at RAWALPINDI ANG Max Nordau, another famous writer, cannot be altogether ignorant of the dill-fold of a trooper, whose horse was cruelly RR. JOHNSTON, RAWALPINDI resisted every attempt to destroy or mucity Max Nerds, Enoch

Says have personally tried them. Eten in England it is difficult to culties and dangers of Fire Insurance in hacked in the cbargo of the 21st Lancers.

The man was ordered to put the onimal Chamberlain's Colic, Cholors, and Diarrtice enfores strict regulations-witness the Gor dipped his pen in concentrated gall, and MULBER, How Chamberlain's Cough Hongkong

Mate. distriat, and though it has only been in- out of its miary by shooting it. He led Remedy, and have given it to travellam ernment breakdown. over the Vaccination wrote of tho wrongs of Dreyfus and the Remedy has attained 3. prominence in this Nordan's example was troduced a few months, it has taken the the shimal down to the Nile, aud let it who are passing through a hotel I managed, Act--and in the Rest it is impossible. We corruption of the French army. Tas Bangkok Tes of the 21st December have a list long drink as he presented his and I must say I never knew it to All are convinced that the only doline is bow to Drestua amiled. Jaysing the recent finds of opium revolver, his hand trombled, and he turned in a medicine can recommand, and one content with the best possible that is, infectious. The the light of Ester load. From remarke made by my customers isolate so far as possible this plague-stricken hezy, the art of Henry, the mysterious who have used this rernedy, I am convinced from the ss. Woukoi and s.8. Maches, the away. The charger followed, and rubbing that everyboy should koop. Opium Fermer as applied to the British his nose against the shoulder of bla mater, CHAMBERLAIN'S COLO, CHOINHA, AFD quarters, afford sucts medical relief as may suicidoor was it ssassination we know that it possesses exceptional qualities. I

are in need of a good cough mixters. Count to be allorod to keep his officers on noemed to plead for rolint. The run then, DIANA RUMRDY is the most successful be sccepted, and, for the rest, to let the The ball set rolling by, the wife has grown never hesitate to recommend it to all who CHAMBERLAIN Coven Raspor in for And Madaibe Droyfus? The plucky little hoard while British verols are in port. It with tears in his eyes, Mendion hitelf and woodieins in ues for Dysentery. Tharrhes disease run its course. Any other cours wondrous size will be remembered that Mr Aroher passed completed his merciful task, hastening from Catia, Cholera Morban Kid Cholera, and fe may, in case the plague spreads to other

General agenta somVYÄZKING de Cor everything looked gray and Agathike, and an onder une time ago against this prae- the spot after gazing for a brief moment at for sale everywhere. Fri, 50sts, and I provinces, lead to something like a revolu wife is radiant with Joy. A year ago, who ate everywhere. Prion, 50 obs., and 11.

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