1873-03-21 — Page 4

Extracts.

TENNYSON'S NEW ODE TO THE

QUEEN.

The following is the full text of Tennyson's Ode to the Queen, which will ha published at

the end of the new edition of bis psema

TO THE QUEEN,

O loyal to the Royal in thyesli,

And loyal to thy land, as this to thes Betr witness, that rememberable day".

When, palo na yck, and fover-worn, the Princo,

Who scarce and pluck'd his fotoring life again From half way down the shadow

the grava

Past with then thro' thy people and their love. And Londan roll'd ona tide of joy thro' all' Fler trobled licus, and long leagues of inn And welxme Witness, too, the silent ry, The prayer of many a ragu and creed, and elime-- Thunderfoss lightnings striking under son From subaet and apprise of all thy roda, And that true North, whereof we lutely heard

A strain to shame as Keep you to yourselves, Sc loyal is too costly! Friends-your love Is but a burthen: loose the bend, and go. Is this the tone of Empira? Here the bith 'That made us rulers? This, indeed, her voice And meaning, whom the roar of Hangoumont Teft mightiest of all peoples under Hoagen? What sheek-libs-fold lwr since, that she should

speak.

So foubly! Weather-wealthier hour by hour! The voice of Britain, or a sinking land Some third rate iste, half-leet among her sensi There rung har voice when the full city pegled The and thy Prince! The loyal to their Crown

Are loyal to thæir vyn far sons, who love

Unt Occan Empity with her boundless homes, For aver-broadening England, and her throne

Tr var vast Orient, pad one iele, ona jele,

That knows not her own greatness. If tho knows Aad drone it wo are fail',--but then, my Queen,

No for it, but thro' thy living love

For one to whom I made it o'er his grave Snacod, nocopt this old imperfect tale. New-old, and the shadowing Seas at war with

Soni,

Mather than that gay King, whose name, a ghost, Straszne ke a cloud, man-shaped from mountain

peak

And aleares to Cairn and Cromlach, still or him Of Groffrey's book or him of Malleor's, one Tereb'd by the adulterous finger of a time That hoved between war and wantonnos", And crownings and dethrongmonia; take withal Thy poet's blessing, and his trdet that Heaven Will blow the tempest in the distance back

For Bonus are For thine and owa.

mart

Scared whe

Or wisely or unwisely, sign of storm," Waverings of overy vans with every wind," And wordy truchings to the transient hour, And fieres or cureless loeseners of the faith,

And softens breeding acorn of simpla tifo,

O cowardice, the child of last for gold,

Or labor, with a groan sud-not a voice,

Or it, with poisonous honey stol'n from France,

And that which knows, but careful for itself,

Aud that which knows not, rury that which,

Inons.

To its own harr, The goal of this great world Jigs beyond sight: yot--if our slowly-grown And crown'é republic's growning downon-sqpas, That saved her many times, not fail-their feara Arc morning shadows hugar than the shapes That cut them, not those gloomier which forego The darktis of that battle in the west, Where all of higin and holy dies away.

NEIGHBOURS' HENS.

WHISTLERS AND WHISTLING.

(From "All the Year Round,")

THE DALLY FRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 21st, 1878.

mouth of the cup was downwards, the Bot- lota: appeared surmounted by a windmill.

Insurances.

INSURANCE COMPANY. UE Undersigned having been appointed Agents in Hongkong for heabore Com pany, are prepared in great Marine, rinke at

prat rates.

AUGUSTINE HEARD &o,"

Insurances.

- FANY OF MANCHESTER AND

LONDON.

Whistlers are not generally regarded with The drinker having emptied the one or LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARINE MANCHESTOR FIRE ASSURANCE.COM. your in polito society, nor admired for the goblet, blew into a little pipa at the sido, sweet music the produco. When a tan is gave shrill whistle, and at the same time about to show himself saucy, bo whistles with act in motion the rares of the windmill; the n. petaliar intonation; and when ho wishes to number of times that the mill turned round hide something wong, he whistles to show was indiested on a small-dial and thens the the unconcernedness of innocent simplicity was ill vigorous enough to blow Inetily drinker could show visible testimony that he Just as a woman (according to the testimony of one of her sox) linmas a tune with similar. But there is something far more stirring

thao this in

Burbs One of his ballads, fil word intent. The dictionary meanings of the

“go, begins whistle

offer wide facilities for attaching of life and "go,”

For instance, queer Botions to it.

whistle

is a small, tubular instrument, to be blown in a certain way; the whistle, in the lingo of many a beer drinker, is the month; whistlo

I sing of a whistle, a whistle of worth, Eving if a whistle, the pride of the North, Wu brought to the court of our good

Scottish king,

Set the whistle all Scotland

471 Hongkong, 6th March, 1898.

OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE: COMPANT LONDON, INCORPORATED 1859. CAPITAL, 21,000,000. THE Undersigned having been appointed Agents for the above Conanny, are pro-

pavesito accept Marind Risks and issue Policies af curvat rasoa

AUGUSTINE HEARD & The story goes that, in the train of Anina of

*195) Hongkong. 7th June, 1867. Deunark, when she came to Scotland with James the Sixth (afterwards James the First of Great Britain), there camo also a Danish PHOENIX FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY gentleman of gigantic alature, and great Undoraigned basing been appointed prowess, and not less great as a worshipper Agoute to the above Company at this ebony whistle. When a banquet and drink Fire to the extent of 340,000, on Buildings, or

omon with this important or- of Bacchus. He has in his pcasession a little Port, are prepared to grans Policies againat

is & pixticular tore or sound; to whistle isabell ring

whistle, or

whistling to produce that sounds a

aud is blowing of wind amongst trees through crevices; and amid these various mennings, it would be hurd if

not We could hit upon some or other to fit all sorts likes and dislikes, proberbs and old sayings, Labits and cústóma. guarcod, ception, that women soldon whistle.

Let it not be supposed that whistling is absolutely without a scientific basis, era theless, certain it is that we do not usually think much about science when we whistle The man who, according to Dryden,

Tradg'd almg, watnosing what be sought, And whist's as he wons for waist of thought, implied by that form of expression that he was not thinking about auch, and least of all about recondite philosophical exposition.. The

Flazen beaded cow-bay

Who whistled o'er the lea, whistled because he liked it, and that's enough. And so did Milton's husbandman,

The plonghnan near at hand, Whistled o'er the furrowed land. Floughmen, indeed, are favourite whistlers with the poete. There is Gay's

The Ploughoan leaves the tees of day, And tradging homeward, whistles on the way, The aid of whistling in passing away weary time is made use of in King Lear:

I've watok'd and trayel'd hard; Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle. In " You Like It" we have the whistling tone of a wheezy min:

His big manly voice, Changing again towards childiab treble, Pipea and whistles in ita sound. Cowper makes another class of man whistle but it is rather unkind to call him a wretch, sosing that he is the postman:

Lo goes, Light-tearted wretch, He whistles Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief, Perhaps to thonsinde, and of joy to same?" To bi indifferent whether grief or joy. In another line Cowper describes his hero as

Whistling as if unconcern' and gar Nor must we forget the lover who, in obe- dience to a hint from his mistress, attended to the injunction.;.

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co. 8.717 Hongkong, 9th November, 1859.

NOTICE

do.

ing bout commenced, he laid this whistle unen Goods stored therein. the fable; and whichever guest was last ablo to blow it, all the others being disabled by the potency of the wine, was to carry off the whistle as atrophy of victory. The Dane ROI and after this data the following rates will be charged for SHORT PERIOD produced credentials of his victories, without

Not exceeding Ten days of the anual rates a single defint, at Copenhagen, Stockholm, insurances, viz Moscow, Warsaw, and several of the smaller

do. do.. courts of Germany. He

•Not exceeding 1 month challenged the

Above I month, and notá

do. do. Boots to try the issue with him. Nothing zerrding three months, loth, they encountered his but he saw Above months, and not thom en after another under the table, power-exceeding six months..... less to blow a whistle of any kind. At Above as months the full annual sate.

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co, longth came forward Sir Richert Lawrie, of Laxwelltown, who, after a hard confest of Agents, Alliance Fire Assurance Company three days and three nights' duration, saw the Dane prostrated, blew a shrill wristle, And carried off the price with as much liquor as his inner man could possibly con tain. Sir Robert'e son afterwards loat the whistle to Walter Kiddel, of Glenriddol. On the 16th of October, 1790, the whistle was, after all these years, contested for by Sir Robert Lavrie

(a lineal descendant of the formor owner), Riddel of Glenriddal, and Ferguson of Craigdarroch. This was the encounter celebrated in Burn's ballad, one Dang Wee stanza of which tells us that

Six bottles apiece had well wore out the night, When gallant Sir Robert, to finish the fight, Tarn'd o'er in one bumper a bottle of red, And Bore 'twas the way that their aporators

dia!

The orgies nood, not invits us, into detail;

sufice it to say that the Lawrie and the Riddel succumbed to the Ferguson, who triumphantly carried off the whistle..

CHRISTMAS HEATHENISM, Christmas in England, is scarcely the shadow of its former merry, brilliant self, when all classes of society, united around a common banquet table, indulged in the most The merriment. unrestrained joviality and Whistle, and Fu come to thee, my iad. wassall bowl, that one played so conspicons The readers of the Spectator will not forge part at the Christmas banquet, has become the manner in which Addison associates obalete, while the old-time toast of "Drine whistling with fun and frolic. It is the story heil." or Wee hail," from which the bowl

--

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Eleanor Dixon

of three countrymen who competed for a derives its bar, has given place to the Alden Beane

Atbeling Matilda prize in a whistling matcli; a guinea for hit modern "Come, Fore's to you," or I'll pledge Amou

mas America who could whistle clearest, and go through you." Then, too, the singing of Christmas. his tune without hagbing. It was one of the carols, which was once so popular even at Anna Dorothen- conditions that a marrynndrew was to stand court, has greatly fallen into disuse, and is Augnere before them, and try to provoke their risible now principally confined to the lower classes. Boy Bendixen fabulties by ludicrous contortions and gri. Bran the traditional mistletos, around which Capilla Cavour

th

much pasay

and

romance, and Canndkune maces. Two of the three broke down under gathers so

en maidens this ordeal the third remained a stojo, and under which

coquettishly Candelaria off the prize it bore

There is an old courted the kiss of their present, or prospec There is another subject which is forced superstition, which it is not easy to get to tive lovers, now excluded from the churches upon na noties. I like neighbours, and I the bottom of, concerning a certain ery or as a relic of paganisma has been banished by Codan

post like chickous; but I do not think they ought sound heard in the night, supposed to be slow degrees from its high is be united near a garden. Neighboure prod 1 by the Seven Whistlers. What or while the Yule-block, or

produced hens in your garden are an annoyance. Even who these whistlers ura is an unsolved pro- its warm welcome, extending even to the Don Enrique

ther

not soratch up the corn, and pook blezo. In some rural districts they are popu poor and the stranger as they gathered Dragon the strawberries, and ant the tomatoes, it is larly believed to be witches; in others ghosts, around the hospitable board, is being Edward Jame not pleasant to see them stradding about in in others devils, while in the Midland Coun- gradually supplanted by the Christmas tree, Frog Balmigh

anties they are supposed to be birds, either whose introduction into England is compara Formos sit Jerky, speculativo man- ties

here and there. It lovers ar martins-soros any swifts. In tively of recent date. But if the Lord of Forward zor, picking

civilisa Fray Bentos is of no ase to tell the neighbour at his Leicestershire it is deemed a bad omen to Misrule has been the user, Christian o bots eat your tourtona; it makes no impres-hear the Seven Whistlers, and our old tion has been the gainer, in more rational Garitati sion on him, for the tomatoes are not his writers supply many passages illustrative of observance of the Christmas festivities in Georges The Lost way is to casually rearark to him the popular credulity. Sponsor, in bis Fasrie England. The Christmas-treo sheds its mel. Green Jackob that he has a fine lot of chickens, peetty well Quesa, speaks of

low radiance over a moro quiet but not any

Hohenzolleru less enjoyable scene. Churches and home grown, and that you like spring chickens'

Kien-yuen-tye Eroiled. He will take them away int auec.—

sanctuaries robe themselves in evergreen Lola holly, ive, and laurel, Generous rations of Ingar beaf and brend are distributed to the parish Macho poor on Christmas-ews by jewelled hands, Maggio while the Christrans bells still ring out their Mango Capac silvery chimes on the crisp morning air joy-Margor

Marquia of Argyle Miona fully and cheerfully. Nor is there wanting a spicy flavour of the old time feasting and morning Stat frolic, when there

their

From "Pusley; or, My Summer in a Carden."

ROUGH JUSTICE,

The whistlere abrill,

That who barra doth die."

Sepit, in the Lady of the Lake, names this bird with which his character associated the Lery:

And in the plover's shrilly stratu It is only as nations advance in years und The signal whistlers heard again. civilization, says a contemporary, that their When the colliers of Leicestershire are fluch fava beanie forbarous and slow in thoir of money, we are told, and indulge in a operation. There is something very refresh drinking bout, they sometimes bear the jug in the

gives by a San Francisco of the method in which law is raing voice of the Seven Whistlers; they get sobered and frightened, and will not ahoinistered in Yreka, California. The first descend the pit again till next day, Words

Alende in

account

te in Traks in 1871 was known na "Cut-worth speaks of a countryman who tre Foster." This gentleman, it is stated,

The seven birde linth seen that never part, left-Nodarket and sooù rau cway, and

Seen the Seven Whistlers in their nightly Goorga G. Vall reigned in his stead. No law zovinda, look was ever used in court; he decidet

And counted them.

"was brought in the lusty brawn By old blae-coated serving man ; Then the grim boar's houd frowned an high, Created with bays and rosemary, While roaud the merry warsail bowl, Garnished with ribbons, bližine did frow

Nuevo Providencia NileTM

| Pelham Pepita

Preets Prov Jencin Rapid Regina Maris To say nothing of the roast beef and plum. Rosalie

H.T. Robertson

devorated with

ach case on its own merita, writing out the A year or two ago, during a thunderstorm Pudding, Christmas pies, furnitty, and snap-Strings Otowa full history, and his docket is a curiosity." which passed over Leicestershire, and while dragons, the Yule-log and the mistletoe have Sophis In our ease brought before him a boy bad vivid lightning was darting through the sky, not finally abdicated, while the bear's head, Sophie

rosemary or prickly holly, Sumatın driven a team from Oregon, and worked all immense fooks of birds were seem flying intains its place at the English Christmas Sydenham winter for a toan who declined to pay. He about, attering doleful, affrighted cries as they dinner, and is still served up in great state Tale fold out in the spring, and was leaving sud-passed, and keeping up for a long ticie à con- denly, when, on complaint of the boy, Vall Sinual whistling like that made by some kinds Christmas Throughout Christendom," in

the Royal Christmas dinner. From Villagarcia and two constables stopped him on the road of sea bird. The number must have bean jo

at

It was proved that he had received 8,000 mense, for the local newspapers montioned Harper's New Monthly Magazina.

unable to pay t

, though not denying the boy's

same phenomenon

chon in different parts of the

dels, ou his sale, but he declared himself the sa counties of Northampton, Lej. BATAVIA SEA AND FIRE INSURANCE dim. Judge Vall decided in these words: sighbouring

cester, and Lincoln, gentleman, con-

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Brit k 678

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Peru. sh

MACAO:

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924 W. Fustad &00

279 Rusell & Co

458 W. Postani & Ob

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Olaño. 454 Russell & Co Brit, atr 140 A. Heard & Co, Agents

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Melbourne

Condor

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860 Dirats & Krugor

Пjorup

Dan.bk

341

John Burd & Co.

Tentoin

Gaviota

Ger. bk

400

W. Puston & Co·

Saigon

Hilda

Davey

.B. B. Alston'

Vorraith

Brit. bk

Sino. bk

385 474

Thos. Howard & Oo

Kik

Lorange

Brit, seb Brit. bk Nor be

150 Bradley & Co

Laid up

306

Frewis & Co

181

Brudley & Ha

Chineas

Peru. st 1300

Order

Lochbulg Mathilda

McPherson

Brit, bl

333

E. Vincent & Co

Chefoo

Dow

Ger. bk

296

Direks & Kruger.

Brit, sh

09%

Gilman & Go

Amr, bk

50

Bazario & Co

Ger. bk Brit, h

381 423

Dirks & Kruger:

Cheloo

W. Hughes O'Keefe

Brit. bk Brit bk Ger..bk

493

Thos. Howard & Co

-277

Carlowitz & Co

Tientsin

Shum. b 393 Brit, ah

E. Vincent & Co Chinese

Bangkok

Now York

274

Melobera & Co

Sugou

Whata

740

Rezario & Co

Aug1 Falle Noyaa

L. de la Barrera Mellemon Pütterun

Paniara

Bushelery. Krogh W. Hansen

Husksgen

Inge

Tharen Lauretsen

Vidzywazege. Hogben Gardner Menendez

Brit, b Porub Amr bh Free, bk Brit.

Siam, eh, Ger. Uk Siam, k

-171-Order-

670 Rozario & Co

176. Degener Russell & Co

1055

682 ChinesG

230 Melchers & Üs 390 Chinese

Success Talbot

Brama

Carl Wilhelm Cledan

Stanfield

San Francisco

EV, Beaulieu

G. T. Roy

Barctio

Porn eb

904 Order

H. 0. Orstel

Grifitba

Brit. bl

493 Grun & Co

„Jaco

Vidaurrazaga Peru. Eb

700 Order

Juzo

Bisset

Brit, bg.

194 Chinese

Tientsin.

Lorelei

Zobothan Iversen Green

Luis Olagoibel Peru. af

909 Order

Miss Külmannegg

Volguardsen

Gor. b

202

Russell & Co

Tiontain

Oberon

McKeon

Brit, el

600

zario & Co

.Paulista

Ger. kk-

327

Win, Pastau & Co

Record

Biam. bk.

570

Obineso

Pern, cb

280 Raynal & Co

Brit. bt

204Tbos. Howard & Co

Titania Traviata

Brit, k

340

Kaszell & Co

Callao

Velos

Span. bk

268

Remedios & Co

4

Bd. Schelluss & Co

Saigon

Peru. at 600

Cano

Bam. Uk 1403

Chinese:

Anguste Bickmēra

Reimers

Ned. b 640

D. Lapik & O

Batavia

Ellen Castle

Peru, st Gor. bk Biam. eb Spreckelsen Sism. bl 304 Chinese L.Ohlsen. Ger. bg 210 Mullen'

Amz. st 1072 Bristow

British 1062. Thuison

Gerbk 835 J.T.-S. Barens) Span. bg 22 Landstein & Co Jobaneça Ger, 61 480 Bourjau& Co.

618 218 539

Guroid N. Garcia

Ordor

Saigon

Kley-Wei

Ramsey Fox Tracey

Chinese

Sally

Sbean

Bourju & Co-

Tientain

Russell & Co.

Aug.Heard &

W. Pustan & Co

Salgon

Baigon

Irgoos

Jovo Ysurieta Hunter Ouweband Jedino Herneholm J. With

Ned. bk

RECEIVING VESHELS & HULTS.

Webster

Pow. Mag 283 Harbor Master

Parobreo Stroud

Halk

Bolk

1000 $18

P. & 0. Cu Water Police

HMS. SHIPS IN THE CAIN& SQUADRON.

Nama

Rig,

Captain.

Jool, a gun vs.

4 120 Comr. Patterson 2100 Reserve-

"Constables, stand this man on his head, versing with a countryman on the following shake tin well, and see if you can't hear something drop

hing drop. No sooner said than done day, asked bin what kind of birds he sup- A vigorous shaking brought to light a wallet posed them to have been. The man answered, They are what we call the Seven Whist containing 2,000 dols. in gold dust; the boy lera and added that whenever they are received his claim of 800 dals, the judge heard it is considered a sign of some great and constables took an ounce spiece for calamity, and that the last time he had beard their trouble, and the defendant went his them was on the night before the deplorable way a lighter man. Jastico like this is cheap explosion of fire-damp at the Hartley Colliery.

HEAD OFFICE-HONGKONG. Boldiers, too; in time of fierce war, are

GENCIES all the Treaty Ports of caid to be not quite free from a superstitions China and Japan, and at Singapore, Adventare

Saigon and Penang.

Cadmus belief that such cries in the air denote an

Risks accepted, and Policies of Insurance Gurley j'approahing battle

any of these associates above-mentioned Portu.

No charge for Policy foes. job in the carpenter's department at the the Seven Whistlers, or, the shrill birds of

·JAS. B. COUGHTRIE, Navy Yard, an old gentleman named J. P.J. some indefinite number, with a very old myth: Davidson, of whom the Vallejo Chronicle of paet days. One evening some years ago

Hongkong. Jst November. 1871, gentleman was crossing a wide spreading gives the following account: "In 1819 and

NOTICE 1814 he was employed in Charleston in the moor in Jancashire in company with an building of the Independeese, the receiving elderly man belonging to the district. As along they were startled

at three ounces

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY,

There is at present, in Vallejo, wailing a stranger nilion great alanghter... Agranted at the rates of Premium vorzient at the Dore

ship row lying at Mare Island. He alac they were paverle of a flight of plov |

cousidered

acet. transport

Stea. Corvette

doub. 8o. gun il gan.bont

doub. so. gun Hospital

doub, so gun vi

gup-versel

Military Hospital

Naval Hospital

Harmon

Brosa

Chefoo

Shanghai

Shanghai

San Francisco Oscar Mooyer

San Francisco Salacia

Portland

Portland

Therese Bolu

Albyn's Islt, Britain's Pride Fairlie

Hermon Friedrich

Hongkong

Jean Sanda

Kirkland

Lady Belmore n

Wdler Jackook Thompson Sim mene Stearn

Schwalzen Butelsco Boysen Schneider Fraser Gottlieb

Finbiyuon Mryball Garosgu Simpson Cumings

LemmernaaN Breekerdat Lodberg

Gilchrist Abernethy Niejabr Jacobson Lefavour Colledge

Deveken Carlsen

Gotlier

23

Ger. Lk 457

Direks & Kruger

Dika & Kruger

TAMOT.

In port 19th March, 1873.; Gev. bb37€ | Pasedag & Co. Ger, b 249 Petersen & Ca Ger. hk 400 Boyd & Co Ger. b 282 Pasedag & Co`` Brit. bk 356 | Okinese Dan, str 336, Elles & Co

192 Petersen & Do 259 | Passing & Or

Bayd & Co Buyd & Co

Ger. bg

Ger. bi

Ger. bk Brit. b Ger. E Fren.

Brit. bk

Brit.

900

359 Passdag & Co 607 Boyd & 10 947 Boyd & Co 570 Boyd & Co 263 Petersco & Co 250 Pandag & Do Gor. bk1823 Pasadag & Co

Ger; bie Ger. bk

FOOCHOW.

In port on 7th March, 1973. Ger, ach 202 | John Silverlook & Go Brit. bk 990 Master Brit "bk

$45 Master Imp. bk 360 Arecual Brit. bk 250 Master

SHANGHAI.

In port on 12th March, 1873,

The names of the numerous steamers, bags, small craft, and receiving hulle employed

on the Yang-teze are not included in this table.

Brit. bk 880 Russell & Co Brit. bg 179 P. Teleane

Brit sob

Ger, bk

176 - Anz. Heard & Co 260 Wm. Eustia & Co 207

Gar. be Brit, bk 631

Brit. bk

Amr. bl Brit, k Brit. bk.

P. Maclean

Aug. Heard & Co

452 | Bourjnu & Co

254 Frazar & Co 161

Siemen & Co

400: CT. Won Á Co

365 Russell & Co ̈

465 Morris, Lewis & Co

785 Frazar & Co

431 Morris, Lovís & Co

411 Drysdale, Binger & Co

YOKOHAMA.

"In port on 8th March, 1873.

Amr. 1300 | Chinese

430 H. Granert. Hülk Amr be 464 Order

304 Obinese Ger. bl Ger. be

Store Pr. Bulk Brit, bl

Brit, k Brit. Bo Store a Perut, be

Brit. sh

230 Order 624. P. M. 8. 8. Oo

1010 Walal, Hall & Co

400 M. J. B. N. Heet. 370 E-0. Kirby & Co

320 Abogg, Bovel & Co

580 | Waleh, Hall & Qɔ-- 638 Order M

Chefno

752 Hatean, Malcolm & Go London

$70 Captain

460 Order

Brit. bk 882 Order

Briti tik 949. Order Hulk

1537-Wilkin & Robison Store sh 1650 1- P. & 0, 08

SHIPPING IN MANELA HARBOUR.

Free

Sbav

ROTO Skelton Cavan

Laughing Wave

Martaban

Hose M.

Seamew

Surprise

Where At.

Windward

Wm. Turner Zebrab

Statinard Vanderwood Fullerton

Haskow Hongkong

14 400 Capt. Wm. H. Whyte Shanghai S160 Acting Comdr. Digby Shangbai 360 To be Sold-

Shuughaf Foochow A moy

Brit. bg Krit. sch

Brit, b

Brit, bk

Brit.*.bk

Aar, h

1006 Smith; Archer & Co

Brit.

Dwarf Elk, 200 Flamer

dont, se, gaz vl.

4 20 Comdr. B. W. Ba 4120 Comr. J. B, Barnett

Hongkong

Soretary

(tf 38

Hornet

4.120

Singapore

Tron Duke

doub, so. Troiab. 14

800 Capt. W. Arthur

Whampoa

Adela Amoy Trader Burnside Canton Carl Ludwig

Johnson Kull

Leren

S

80 Litat: Whish

Chiakiang

Dilpaseand

Mennee

Hongkong

Elfen Hood

Dra Abbati

IMPERIAL FIRE OFFICE.

Melville

Dr. Inney

Hongkong

Emelie

Midge

doub, ao, gan el, gun-bost

4 120

Comdr. Grant

Manila

Ganobo

Kirby

.4

60 Lieut: Comdr. Boud

-on passage vuk

Moult

Canton

James Paton

Catter

Gör. bk Brit. bk

16

Coromodore Shortt

Hongkong

Lairel

7 200 Ocur. Parvus

Tukobama

Lyoumoon

Stevens

Manila

Maria Loz Mary Mildred

Hereirra Fino

Ningpo

Parmenio

Shalimar Tiptree

Stapleton Howell

will be charged SHORT PERIOD In-Ups ROM and after this date the following rates Mosquilo

Princess Charlotte Not exceeding Ten days of the annual rate Rinaldo races, viz Not exceeding 1 month of the annuale Ringdove: hove I month,

sisted in building other war vousels, and in by the whistling 1623 he went to Cosstantinople and assistedors. The old man said that in the days of in building the Turkish fleet. Mr. Davidson bis youth the Lancashire hill-folk is now in his 82nd year, and is bals and such an occurrence a bad omen, foretelling hearty, and is capable of doing a good, aver. ill-luck to the person who hears the whis age day's work. He is full of hops and tling Further questions brought out the spirit, and bus lately come to the conclusion fant that these birds are called the Wander- and not exoved-

his bandwriting is not quite gooding Jews-the bodies of the birds containing enough, and so he takes lesssons in penatan. the souls of the Jews who assisted at the Above 3 months ship. In 1612 and 1818 he served in the Crucifition, and who are doomed to float in and not pzoood-

Salmis

8

do. do.

Tonzer

Tu

B

do.

Thistle Zedra

self quite

American of handling & masket. In reminded by his companion of the omer.

and cary, and yet fools him- the sir for ever. The gentleman was again Above 6 months the full animal rate.

ing

1613 he helped to build the feet which when, on coming to a cross-road, be found served under Commodore Perry. Br. David that a particular stage-coach for which he zon be handed us u ganaulogy of Lis family, had been on the look out had just past; copied from bis family register, by which he whereby he had to finish the journey on foot traces back his ancestry of

Thorwaldsen, a

a-the Wandering Jews had robbed him bis Dane, who landed in Scotland with Canute ride. There must be

of legend, for the

this

down to the present century appear to have caïque-wen, or boothing very old and

beeu

and

In this

on the Bosphorous,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co.. Ayante, Imperial Fire Inrarance Company.

875 Hongkong, 18th August, 1869, CHINA TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED..

NOTICE.

gun-toat Receiving ship' screw sloop doub, so. gun vi pad, des, vessel Boubi, se, gun va, Steam Corvette doub. sc. guu v3. Berew sloup

3 60 Lizut, Cumor. Faiclis

9 160 Acting Comr, Dickens Canton

2

Hongkong 250 Hon. A. C. Littleton 4120 Com.flon.Fitzmaurice Yokohama 6400 Cupt. H.B. Woollcombe Hongkong.

Tientsin 4120 Üsine, H. K. Leet 7200-1 Com. Hon. A, Denison Singapore.

FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR IN HARBOUR.

Nomo

Nution: Tona

Captati

Bell queass.

"French corvelta 3000 30-

Libiendiere

ir 1011. The descendants from that time widely-spread in

conformity with the Special Resolutions distinguished for their valor in battle when they see flights of birds continually adopted and confirmed at the Extraor longevity.

genealogy we find passing ap and down the channel, believe dinary Meetings of Shareholders held on the tus sases of sixty of Mr. Davidson's anthem to be the souls of the damned, doomed 181, 182, and 139 of the Articles of Associaties, 1st and 15th instante, altering Lutses Nos. 190, cestors. Two of them attained the ripe old never to have rest in this world, and never ach changes to take effect from 1st Novem age of 168 verrs each before shuffling vil this to see another, always moving about, but br. 1871), the Net Profita of the Company will,

their.

AG mortal wil; four others lived to be over 150 haring no purpose is

coming from that date, be distributed as follows; viz. — years, seven more died besides those who going

Whistling, or

, or rather blowing through Two-thirds (2)Sris) to contributors, whe

ther sherebeldern or pot, in proportion to were 144, and nineteen hired more than a whistle, Las sometimes been adopted as a

determine whether

the net amount of premia contibuted by Lintin century One was untimely killed in his teat, whereby to

Frinse Albert each, 168th year, and another was stricken down still retains edherucas enough to blow a

One-third (1) to Sharebelders generally, 93 the Beld of battle at 149 years. Alta blast. A drinking-cap, fashioned by a silver-

sccording to the number of share held by Tekli gether the longevity of Mr. Davidson's smith at Nurenburg in the sixteenth

each. ancestors, as given by his family register, ia century, was so shaped that it could not be

AUCHESTINE HEARD & Co, An-14 une of the most wonderful things of the kind set down on a tablo will quite emptied, nor

General Agents, Ching-Sing

Chlakiang ever brought to our notice *

a toper.

filled unless Geld in the hand. When the S1 Hongkong, 16th February, 1875.

SHIPPING IN THE CHINA WATERS..

Flag

Consigates.

Cupluín

R. Kentwell

Fetérnén

Obdail

Big.

Tona.

WHAMPOA

STEAMERS

Brit str69, Acheong Brit, ale 180 Acheong **ME SAILING. VESSEL...

Ger bk 950 W, Puston &

CANTON

HLC.M.g-b..

H.I.C.M..

R. Choy

J. Hogg

Belt, str

Siamasan & Co

Destination

Laid wh

Obefoo

Vessels.

Captain.

Adolf

Angela

563 | FL. Cook:

Flag & Tuna.

Bog.

Consignace.

Banjong Candelaria

Candida

Bliss Faiza Alban

Flores de Marie.

Gravina I. y 6 HarianDJ Josefins a Maria Fidea M. Lautaro

Ger. bz 207 T Hermana & Co Span. bk 451 Andrews & flo Brit. Ra 760 F. Rishardson & Co Spau. bic 402 F. Reyes

335 U. in Vars & Co 118 F. Reyes" 568 Orderve

Span. bk

Branber

Brit. bl

Span, bi 248 F. Reyes Span: bgt 246 F. Moz Span. be 548 T. Raibas Cratro Span, bi 818 O. Gaivelundo & Do Spau.. b 491 | Kerr & Co Span. b 435 Aguirre & Co" Atur. ab 592 0. Heinen & Span. bk 402 M. Niete Brit. 1123 Kerr & Co Span, b941 Casulla & Co grasted & Published far the proprie toe, by W. HE BEat, Wyndhan Street, Hongkang..

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Southern Bell

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