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WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1902.

THE WATER SUPPLY.

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Ton. W. Chadlom, Water Authority, wanda un the following analysis of the water supply

THE CHINA MAIL.

JOHN CHINAMAN :

THE WEST INDIAN DISASTER,

By E. H. Parlier. This is n volumo of rendniscences. Rominiscences are generally interesting 11 Lovol and Storage of Water in Ieservoirs all who are familiar with the cirenmatances on the 1st May, 1902-

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NAVAL CONTRACT 1902-03.

SEALED TENDERS in Duplicate will

NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

STEAMSHIP TACOMA.

ire Received by the VicTUALLING FROM TACOMA, VICTORIA, YOKO.

HAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND SHANGHAL.

1fith June, 1902, for the SUPPLY of TEA, for the use of H. M. Navy, for one your anding 31st August, 1903.

Forms of Tenders and further Particulars

Overent's Ürmer.

THE above Steamer Laving arrived, Cor- signeos of Cargo are hereby requested

signature and to take immediate delivery of their Gouds from alongside,

discharges of the loudest cannon. It was accompanied by no shock; and, what is The St Vincent Cataolyem. very remarkable, was as loud on the coast The following description of the fast us at eighty leagues' distance Splend; sed volcanic disantor in the Island of St. Vin-st Caraceas, as well as at Calabaza, pre- cent is taken from the late Rev. Charles Parations were made, to pat the place in old resident will give his reminiscences of Kingsday's book At Last: A Christmans inofence against as unemy whit seined to Tyla, 67 it in, 11 in, beleé zvering re-gono days will generally attract & for the West Indies, and as the details wil be advancing with heavy artillery.' They STORE OPrice, until Neon on MONDAY, large and more interested congregation probably be found to correspond with the might as well hare enied the St. Vincent of the most recent eruption in Martinique heal-buy, and thrown their stones, too, at then the nunouncement of the delizory of a

and St. Vincent they will be found interes-the Tians; for this poise was, there can be inuture, let the subject be aver so important ting by one readers

ino doubt, nothing else than the final ex- can be obtained at the VICTUALLING STORE to send in their Bills of Lading for counter-

plosion in St. Vincent faraway. The same Let ous readers take up Hunter's book,

The next link in the chain, as the steaner explosion was heard in venezuela, the same Bils of Old China, which is full of the author's recollections of the old factoryrans southward, is St. Vincent; single at Murtinio and Guadaloupe: but there, Consumption of Water in the City of Vic days of Canton, and the will be intensely volan pank, like St. Kitts, or the Basse too, there were no earthquake shocks. The Terra of Ginotulenpe. Very grail are the ones of the two French islands lay vast shoots, probably of lava covered with quier, and left their English brother to do the work. On the same day a stream of ank, which pour down from bazween wo

Fara rushed down from the mountain, rounded mountains just above the town. Rich with groom 'nnes, they contrast ranched the sea in four hours, and then all strongly with the brown ragged clills right was over. The earthquakes which hed and left of them, and still were with the shaken for two years a sheet of the earth's awful depths beyond and shove, where, surface lager than half rope were stilled' underneath a canopy of bright white clouds, by the eruption of this single vent,

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~Water Authority.

CORRESPONDENCE.

ANOTHER PUZZLE, To the Eding the Crusa. Mass."

rato, in points which the author could noż verify by personal knowledge, it may be quint or overdrawn in come of its parts, but the fact remains flut in the book in n

$553

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delightfulpieruru of what is early residents did, how they enjoyed thornsulves, what dillion ties they encountered, and so on.

Mr Parker has done the wine thing for us here. He needs recamnendationstar la a purjde darkness of cliffs and glems, from ure

Hin researches in the bye-ways among which lies, unseen, the Soufriere.

In vain, both going and coming, by aun of Chinese matters uru proverbial, and Iris sintimate knowledge of the intricacies of light, and again by munlight, when the The Government Anniyat reports that puzzling Chinese dialects, is probably a cane-folds gleamed white below and the great or oven greater than any-living-hillé were pitch black above, did we try to Sinologue. Itis antrilutions on these catch a sight of this crater-peak. Une fact subjects. to the daily and periodica? | alone wo 2-certained, that like all, as far as Pros of the Far East

I have sesti, of the West India volcanoes, know, and thighs at times they san it does not terminate in an ash-con, but dey-boerne her dealing with mum- wies and not living people, at en spin tagged cliffs of blasted role precinto his tremendous knowledge of the ploaien of April 27, 1812, must have be subject on which ho in treating. Here,

tou violent, and 200 short, to allow of my however, he is dealing with living; vien, and therefore he is neither dry or abserve, Indeed, this book is nothing more than ż kinematographic series of living pictures, seen by binsself, while traveling in Chinnan interior prossime upon the crust of the and living with the Chinese. Wager, in enth, which had gitated sen and lan

The seizes ou

from the Azores to the West Indian islands, fact, glimpses of everybaly tim coolie on the street,

the comate of Venezuela, the Corditers of Now Grenada, and the valleys of the Mis shsippi and Ohio. For Bearly two years the carthyūnkes bal vontinued, when they calminated in one great tengaily, which should be read at length in the pages of Humboldt. On March 20, 1912, when the people of Curicena were asunbled to the Churches, beneath a still and bluzlog sky, one minute of carthquako satticed to bury wuld the rains of churches and houses, The same earthquake nearly 10,000 scale,

Hongkong, 21st May.

Sin-Could anyone tell me why when: the water supply was only one hour per lay the resident of West End Terrace tuul European Jews in High Strees were getting an average supply of water, and now that the supply is three hours per ring they get none-Yo

RESIDENT.

THE CORONATION CELEBRATION

FUND.

To the Editor of the Chhuna MAIL." SIR, I have noticed an advertisement in the columns of your valuable paper, which states that the Cornsation Committee of Hongkong, into either to give a medal or a dinner to the Tropa iu Garrison on the 20th June, 1902, to eclamemorate the Goronation of His Majesty King Edward VIL

on the river, the cook from the kitchen anrl the writer from his study, the leggar in his val and the viceroy in his yarch, nd hade hon ap and point out their ecountricities. We've either to command

or tu uchun. We often wust laugh. Moreover, he moves with startling sapidity

from North to South, from Koren to Annam, and, in following his swift move. ments, at times the reader in nimost be wiltered.

And

Accumulation round the crater, wonder; for that single explosion related

The

Samplos to accompany Tenders. right to reject the lowest er any Tender is reserved, Hongkong Victualling Yard,

20th May, 1902.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF .HONGKONG.

PROBATE JURISDICTION.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vennel will be landed and stored at Con- signees' risk and expeano.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by 105 us in any case whatever.

the god of OSCAR WEGENER,

late of Princus Buildings, Victorin

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SIGHT.

N. LAZARUS

DODWELL & Co., L., OCULISTS' OPTICIAN

Agends.

Hongkong, May 21, 1992,

TO LET

1091

LONDON, CALCUTTA,

AND

FURNISHED SITTING ROOM 16 Queen's Road Central

BED ROOM, with Kyrchus, PANTRY

in the Colony of Hongkong, Mor-and BABOON: 300 per Mouth, Including chant, Peccased.

GAS. PLEASANT VIEW and REALTRY.

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Care of 'CHTRA MAIL' Ulice. Hongking, May 41, 1902.

the Chief stico has, in virtuc

Notice is also gisau that all such: Chitas aro us be sent in, in writing, to the Under- signed prior to the said 17th day of August, 1902. or no tico will be taken of them.

All persons indebted to the above ostato are rouested to make immediate I'agment to the Undersigned,

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Daked this 17th day of May, 1900. JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER

12, Queen's Road Central, Heugkong. diciturn for the mid cerfor

No wonder il, with such facts on my memory shes my childhood, I looked up NOTICE is hereby given that His Honour at that Souffriere with swe, as at a giant, of Section 58 of Uedinance Nu. 3 of 1837, obedient though clumsy, beneficout though made an order limiting to the 17th day of terrible, raposing aleft among the clouds August, 1002, as the time for Creditors her his appointed-werk was amend in their Claims against the Estate of OMLAR WEGENEX, Tate of Princes Puildings, The strangest facts about this eruption Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong was that the mountain did not make us Morchant, who died on the 24th day of April, 1902, at Victoria aforesaid and fits old crater. The original vent must Probate of whose Will was granted by the have been so jammed and consolidated, Supreme Court of Hongkong in its Probate in the fuw yants-berween 1785 and 1812 Jurisdiction on the 30th day of April, 1902, to Johann Theador Lauts, of Vichais that it could not be reopened, evou by forewid, Merchant, one of the Executor

team-face the vastness of which may be named in the Will of the sad OAB

WEGENEIL. sud at from the vastness of the area which it had taken for two years. So when the eruption was over, it was found that the old crater-lake, incredible as it may seem, remained undisturbed, as far as has been ascertained. But close to it, and separated anly by a knife-edge of rock some 700 feet in height, and su naitw that, as I was assured by one who had seen it, it is dangerous to crawl along it, a second | 1058 crater, nearly as large as the first, had bern blasted out, the bottom of which, in like manner, is new filled with water. I regretted much that I could not visit it. Three paints I forged to ascertain care fully-the relative Feigals of the water ig the two cratem; the height and nature vi the spot where the lava steam issued; and Instly, if possible the actual causes of the locally famous Rahara, Dry Riser, one of the largest streams in the island, which. we swallowed inducing the eruption, at s short distance from its source, leaving its bed an arid zully to this day. But it could not bo, and I owe wint little know of the saamit of the Souffriers principally to a most intelligent and gentleman-like young Wesleyan minister, whose name has escapol ne. He described vividly as we stood to- eann, the awful beauty of the twin inkes, and of the clouds which, for months toge- her, whirl in and out of the cups in fan tastic shapes Lotore the eddies of the trade- wind.

The plan outlined in his profaco-- My main object is not to describe my own? doings; it is to illustrate Chinese character by theans of concrete examples, docketed nd dated so that they can be verified, Subscription lists are going rend, and either by reference to the parseas mention wrought terrible destruction along the have been sent to the various corps in theed, or to the archives of the country named. whole line of the northern Cordillera, and Garrison, asking whether any of the the beat of my powers, i relate nothing was felt even at Sinuta Fe de Bogota, und N.C.O. and men are desirous of subscrib- bat what is true, what I have seen with my ing to the Ful, so I presume the Courown eyes, heard with my own car or Honda, 180 longues from Caracas. But matter wish the Troops to purchase their starched out with my own basis the end was not yet. While the wretched own medal or dinner, besides giving their strictly followed, and the result is wint services to the public at the Happy Valley might have been expected iron: such a man survivors of Caracas wero dying of fever for about two hours on the 26th proxime, with such a plan. -

and starvation, and wandering inland to (No doubt this will ben grand spectuolo to Mr Parser style is almost colloquial insene from: ever-renewed darthquake the lookers on, but I cannot say the Tropspinacs and his stories are always rafredi shocks, among villages and furak, which,gether the deck, lanking up at the vel- will enjoy it so much);

ing. We pass over M Fontle, the tre-

If the Comittee have any monowy, to spare (which appears doubtful, sening that they come ging from Tony). I think it would be a great hoon to give the oney, which will be expended in such trumpery rabbish as metals or dinner, to a charitable institution in the Colony which stands in need of support, and I think that they will do the average Tommy Atkins

kindness.Your.

S. MR. E

One for the Archbishop.

Archbishop Ryan's friendstelltbiestory

of his Grace: The Archbishop was about

to take a train for Baltimore at the Broad Street Suation when a young man accosted him, saying: Your face is familiar.

Whore in hell have I seen you?"

This morning, a couple of coolies were caught by the Ilian constable en the best enjoying a nice cool tath at one of the water tanks on the Pray. One of them was inside the tank and was busy throwing the water over his friend. When cuts tioned by the policeman, they said they

ed.

merous commotion his Boy caused at rained like their own city, could give then a dinner party in Burma, are many others, no shelter, the almost forgotton volcano of bat must intialuce the following There was a row at Weuchow After the worst St. Vincent was inuttering in suppressed was ever and more danger was appre-wrath. It had thrown out no lava xineu hended, he says All was now perfectly1718: if at least, the eruption spoken of hy silent, toth on the idland and in the city: so I went to had; and the soldiers eottled Morem de Jones took place in

The day after the explosion, Black Sunday,' gave a proef of, though

the sure of the enermous fores which hal

heen exerted. Eighty miles to windward

-

down to sleep in the temple court. Just Soutirière. According to him, with a terri-lies Barbadoes. All Saurday a heavy can, before lying down or the bed dressed, I mechanically looked for my keys (then fie carthquake, oleuds of ashes were driven nonading had book heard to the eastward. alungs attached to my watch): hoth they inte thu air with violen: detonations from The English and French fleets were surely engaged. The soldiers were called out; the 2nd the small clock had disappeared.

a mountain situated at the eastern end of batteries manoed; but the cannonde died Kay!

the island. When the eruption had ceased, away, and all went to bed in wonder. On it was found that the whole mountain had the last of May the clocks struck x: but the sun did not, as meal in the tropies, disappened. Now there in no cistern auswer to the call. The darkness was

still intense as the muring wore on.

Dj

Where is my watch?"

The boy took my kuys, the watch and the clock from hos sloove with the remark

It is well known that the Chinese, like

the feas of old, do not ase a character that for any special reason they deem sacred. Thunsul was one day reading the book of Odee, with his teacher Old Ow and came

The tencber wers the character Ke,"

end

t

l last day was ome. The white ink caught (and little blame to them) the punis and emane boga to pray who had not prayed for years. The plous and the educated (at there were plenty of both in Burladoes) were not proof agaiast the infection. Qu lottors describe the scene in the churches that morning as bideoas-prayers, sobe, and cries, in Stygian darkness, fr trembling crowds, and still the darkness continual, and the dust fell.

PUBLIC AUCTION, UE Undersigned has received instrue THE Enders

the

beszIG AUCTION,

(1)

MONDAY,

26th Max. 11:09, at 2.3) .., at his

SALES ROOM, Daddell Street,

A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD,

FURNITURE:

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VICTORIA CHAPTER, No. 525, E.C.

CONVOCATION EMERGENCY

A

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I though that I might as well take care to St. Vincent, nor ang mountain on thew and silent rain of impalpable dust was of these if the place was farnt down.” i

Mr Parker thus settled this unfortunate / Wat voast; and the Soeffries is a the falling over the whole island. The Negroes at 11 am I really badness, in his own way, without the northern end. It is impossible, meanwhile, rushed shrieking into the streets. Surely don't know,' enid the Archbishop, blaudly, intervention of the lughor powers. Thus that the wreek of sich stain should What part of hell do you come forty-seven thousand dollars wore actually not have left trues visible and notorious said in ill (November 9th) and all were happy. Only one criminal" was artest to this day. May not the truth be, that the Having a Bath..

ed line as his other showed signs of Suffriere had onco a lefty cone, which was howling outside my floor for the rest of her

blasted away in 1718, leaving the present antural life, I did not press for his severe ponishment."

crater-ring of stiffs and peaks; and that thus way he explained the discrepancies in the necounts of its height, which Mr

I have a letter, written by cne long since Scrape gives us 1949 foot, and Humboldt dead, who had at least powers of description and Dr. Davy a 3000, a measurement which of no common order, telling how, when hơ said che ebucheter was tube. Why it was seems to me tu be more probably correct tried to go out of his house upon the easi

coast, he could not find the trees on his

Steamship Tied having thought they were doing ro hurin, as titereingirut, in it spreially sacred † And if so. The mountain is said to have been slightly on lawn, save by feeling for their stems. Irived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being was no water in the bease. They were for what season

The teacher replied. When foreigners active in 1786. In 1812 its old crater had He stood amazed not only in atter dark- 1 Irought before the Magistrate and puriseret came, they were olyscrupa te utter a been for some years (and is now) & deçntress, but in atter silencs. For the trade-landed at their risk into the Godowns of wind had fallen dead, the everlasting roar the HosakONG AND KOWEDON WHARY AND terrible imprecation when they were cu

blue lake, with walls of rock around, 800 of the surf was gone and the muly Gowy Co., Latre, whence delivery may raged.

No one knows exactly what it A Suggestion.

mesas, but I an informed that hot Tuis toet in height, reminding co travelier of noise was the washing of branches, be obtained.

This Veval brings Cargo p Toure have been many complaints about the age of an English Deity, whose wrath the Lake of Albane. But for twelve monthsed by the weight of the clarsany dust. He went in again, and waited. Almut one No. 5 Police Station, which is as the is called down up in the heads of luckless it had given warning, by frequent earth-o'clock the vil began to lift; a lurid sun.at Tricke

Optional Care will be dischargit here, -Central Fire Station. Not only is it only, therefore, is the word Kat carefully quake shocks, that it had its part to play in light statted in from the horizon: but al

• totally inuiraquate for the purposes of such a roided, but the mysterious combination the great subterranean ittle between was black overhead. Gradually the dust unless Tilice to the contrary be given ins-

cloud drifted away; the island ww the sun mediately, once route; and saw itself Inches deep in No Claims will be admitted after the fire establishment is requires to bemintain. Į Kat Tan or Kot Tan Ya Hui is specially rock and stensi; and on the 27th of Apri

black, and in this case fertilising, dust.Goods have left the Godowas, and all od in Honitong but it is a very great obBritish Corsalate, so no dubt we know 1812 the battle began.

The trade-wind blaw suddenly once more Claims inust be sent in to the Office of the what it means," struction to trafic at busy and cor.

Bat enough of stories. Mr. Parker man negaui toy he is said to be still alive out of the clear cast, and the surf roared Undersigned before Noox, on the 28th

May, or they will not be recognized. rested part of Queen's Road. The recent big aged to live in harmony with all class of in St. Vinevat was herding cattle on the gain ntcug the share,

Meanwhile, a heavy cartliquan o•way → No Fire Insurance has been effected, and fire at the back of the Station gives an oppor-

en in Chis, though a bore his share of mountain-sidė. - A stone fell neat him; had struck at ne lezat of the shores of any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the difliculties that creard his path, onco tunity-such favourable opportunity as

and again, Froen cussionary and her and then another. His Faneied that other Barbadoes. The gentleman on the east the 28th of May, will be sabjees to rent.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by sidom: cecurs--of offee mug a great apave troubles. But he quotes a remark of a boys were pelting him from the cliffa shove, Coast going vat, found traces of the san

and beats and logs wasted up, tome 10 to 20

SANDER, WIELER & Co., Tha sigestion has been diplomatist evidently with appreciation and begau throwing stones in return. But fect above high-tide marks; a convulsion

Agents. that the Government. The more rows you are in the botter for the stimes tell thicke sind among them which seems to have gone unmarked dur-

Hongkong, ay 21, 1002. you, so long as you don't cause them your- sunto pression of the ground which self. Hance he never avoided lithiquities, one, and then another, too large to haveing the general disamy,

been hus:

luid a'ata tay fire and build 26 now Fire Brigade mation with a compund at the tach where hose could be dried and all the apparatus

ment here. drown bul

the

Chinwen on the slightest provocation. Not

dreaded. It has even been heard in the

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The Hotel is fitted throughout with Electric Lights, Electric Bells, and is 1002 throughout up to date in every respect.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH. - ANT- WERY, LONDON, PORT SAID. COLOMBO, & SINGAPORE.

Uno man at least, an old friend of John but demoded that the rights of the mission been thrown byʻbqmas `hund. And the Hunter. Sir Joseph Banks, and other-of- airy should be recognised as peremptorily as those of any other Britisher who may be little fallow woke up to the fact that their compoors, was above the dismay, and

the superstitious panic which areompaniv following his peaceful and inwful, enffing, not a boy, but the mountain, was locowinit. Finding it still dark when he rose to It may be supposed from the ecensionistemes at him; and that the column of black dress, be opened (go the story used to run). quips in which 1'indulge in these pipers, of the Brigade by properly housed and that (an admirer of issiquarios, nat cloud which was rising from the crater above his window: found it stick, and felt upon "The Yo- allowed in block part of the street as it to ag of Roman Catholics and fosaits; but was not harmless sapour, but dust, and the sill a cost of suit powder.

caou in St. Vingeut has broken out at does at present. The entire removal of the this is quite a mistake. for myself have building which dous duty just now would any tics among them, and kur even a 1, and secure. He turned, and ran for last, mid the wise man, and this is the So he quieted bus busehol consistent supputer of the Jesuit's work his life learing the cattle to their fate, dust of it." effect & necessary struct improvement which Ching. I make this reservation. Though the steam mitrailleuse of the Titus and his Negroes, lighted his aandies, and THE Company's Steamship Sora Maru

went to hain that delight, Toptrived about gamoine Christian myself, 1 decline to could not fail to be appreciated.

recognise anything super-hand in their to which all man's engines of destruction rainglost with an awe not the less deep be- Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed ard but pop-guns--roared on for three days can it is rational and self-possessed, with that their Goods are being landed and religious dug, which regard merely as a useful hun discipline just us the and nights, covering the greater part of the which he, like other man of science, looked pissed at their risk in the HoNaxos AND HOWLOON WHARF AND GODDEN COMPANE'S at the wonders of this wondrous world tectstallers of the Army, with

Then who will reelect that Barbadoes Gosows at Kowloon, where each consign- their une idea dress and their car city island in ashes, burying crops, breaking seem to ba on a much better lack than the branches off the trees, and spreading ruft to eighty milas to windward of St. Vincent, ment will be sorted out mark by mark and and that a strong brace fo E.N.E.delivery can be obtained as soon as the loafera, drinkers, and debauched wastrels from which scrotal estala never

reis usually Wawine from the former isdand Goods are landed.

Optional Goods will be carried on unless who gen der Europem towns."

to measure, the force of an explosion which instructions are given to the contrary be- must have blown this dust several miten lore Koon, To-DAY.

TIME AND MONEY.

CHICKNESS Cases a loss of both

and tastos, You Insa, the time and hayo the expense of medical teridance, entailing a double loss. This can be avoid ad by using saine reliable remedy at the fit stage of the sickness. The purchase In this book there are many wond pictures covered; and so the 20th of April dawned to the lattor, will be able to lingine, not of a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Chelens of famous Chinese Starosmun, living and in darkness which might be felt.

Applicants for Rooms will kindly apply to The Aston HOUSE HOTEL CO., LTD., Shanghai or QUEEN'S HOTEL, Wei-Hai Wei, 959 Hongkong, May 5, 1002.

NEW VICTORIA HOTEL.

p.m.

ROTISSERIE,

Meals Carte.

HOPS, STEAKE, etc... etc., at say time, between 7.30 and 11

Monthly Tifin at Mederate Bates.

Madar & Farmer,

Proprietors.

Hongkong, May 1, 1899.

Advice Free.

MEDICAL TESTIMONIALS:

Dr. O'Bates, M.D., Gvil Surgeon, Faizabad, says Mr N. Lazarus, optician, ermined my vision to day, and I hare much pleasure to testifying to the mauracy with which he determined the proper glasses for me to wear. His method of examization is" a very ingenious and ac burate cne, and by it he should be able to ascertain the proper glasses for the cut- rection of all the error of refraction met with in the øye."

Surgeon-Major U. C. Hata in charge of the Eye Hospital, Allahabad, saye:-1 have tested your Patent Refraction Test, and find it remarkably good and accurate, and I think it should prove very useful to all who are called upon to treat errors of refraction, specially Astigmatism, which is 30. COMMON and yet so frequently over

looked.

Dr BEAUMONT, F.R.CS. M.D., Re sidency Surgion, Hyderabad, says Lazarus has shuwa me his maled of testing the eyes of persons, whose vision, ia de- 177fective, and I consider that any ons vequir

ing Spectacles may depend o coing ca fully fitted by him.

and Diarrhoea Renicdy often proves dead. and they are nfl foll of interest Of Meanwhile, on that some day, to eliange into the air, shove the region of the tride- Goods not cleared by the 27th Inst., will HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN,

profitable Investiment, for, by its use at the Li Hong-chang he does not seem to bar.

first appearance of any unusual losiess base infatuated, and he as his selfishness the scous of the campaign two-hundred wind, whether into a totally calm atratum,be subject to rent,

of the bowels, a severe attack of linhos vory cluntly, Pat uf Lin Kun-yih and and teu lengues, distance, as Humboldt or dysentery may be averted, that might Fun Shi-kat, at others there are plesys, equally that between Vesuvius and otherwise compel week's cessation froying pictures left, and they acein to be true labor. Every household should have fodite from what we have learit of these Paris, the inhabitant, not only of Catan bottle at band. It never fails and is pics worthies during the recent troubles. We cas, but of Calsooze, situato in the midst ant to take. Get it to-day. It may sarea had intended tu quote from some of these

of the Llanos, over a space of four thousand life. For sale by All Dealers: WarKINS kebeles. But the reader must get the

square lesgues, were torrified by subter Ltd General Agent:

book any cajor them for timiselt."

or into that still higher one in which the All Ship-damaged Packages must be left

basted south west wind to hurrying con- in the Godowns and Notico fame Rent PLUNKER'S GAP THE PEAK, tiptially from the tecpits toward the poke to this Office before the 30th May: or

38 for the cessation of the trade-wind self Claims in connection therewith will not be near the TRAN TERHINUE TELEPHONE 56. fact to be explained by more leamed rep during the fall of the dust, I leave the recognized.

the authority whom I have quoted leaves

doubt in my mind as to the fact.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Hongkong, May 20, 1902,

For Terms,

1085

Apply to the MANAGER,

N. LAZARUS.

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