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26th November. Berone MR. N. G. MITCHELL-INNEA

THE NAMIAU NENDIMON CARE.

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Í FROM A CORRESPONDENT,

28th November.

sifed by their relatives. The remainder were buried in Hozan by tha Oi Yak Tong Come : mition.

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The subscription start by the henevolent institutios just mentioned in aid of the sufferers by the overflow of the Yellow River gate on but slowly. A contribution has been sent north, but

Ching Choong alias Wong Chan was brought farther assistans it needed.. Trado, however, A guard junk anchoral near the East Gato before his Worship, this being the date fiel for is not brisk, and money is not too plentiful here. the decision in this ca

His Worship, in delivering bis judgment, said) mught fire the utter day, and was burned to the this was a case in which the Chinese Gorotu: water's edge in a short time. No fatality o ment, by its officer Mr. Kat Tang Song, applied

CHINA'S PRODIGAL SON.

Admiral Lang, of the Chiness Squadron, vi- course, carries 180 lbs. pressure, and whân tween the numerous compartments are all pro and weat we have rout enter where grave the press, but through a committes of the

sited the Fictor Emanuel and the Rynda yaster- quired the furmaas can be driven by faroed vided with watertight iron dotis. It is getting digging is constantly going on, where a Chacabar, embracing numerous personal day, and salutes were rod from those rests on draught, the fan which compressor the air in somewhat late and we have now eson most of the the stoke hole running at as many as 1,900 ro ship, en we bid good-bye to one friend the Lieuten. graveisfrequently reopened, that the remains anemies and representing party hatrede, ezek acession.

volations & minute. The engines aro massive ant and thank him for his kindness in showing

There is little stirring just now in the City of A statement giving an approximation of the and compact. Thoy are on the triple expansion us what was to to bo son shoutthe Ching Yuen of an alien may be removed to his nativevillage. The committee, he said, was usurping the

There is just time for a brief poop si the Ram. A proportion quly of the bodies of than URONICLE AND DIRECTORY For want of level ground the steep hill. fupations of judge and jury. Besing the number of Chinese arrivals and departures at principle and can do 480 revolutions a minute.

side bag to be cut in terracas nos more than spirit in which it bad been formed, he had Sao Franoleco from 1852 to June 30th of the The patent thrust bearing supplied by the me low wicked-looking Yarrow which scoompanies victims of the Wah Yeung disaster were iden

According to this statement, which is the thrust being arranged on each side only. six feet wide, and during heavy rains small decided to resign, While he thought be en present your, has been prepared by Survoor kersa of novel construction, the tangos taking Admiral Lang's Squadron. land, elips, disturbing the interiors of oldjoyed the confidence of Parliament nothing to be sent East for referencs to Congress, the The after part of the torpedo-boat is occupied 196,263, leaving 139,001 Chine in the State and the chief engineer. The araw would rather &ograves, are of ocasional courreges. These could make him take such a step, but he was total arrivals worn 335,264, and the departares by the Captain's cabin and berths for himself scoidents occur too at the bottest period of unable to remain in the Elysee with a broken and country whe sams through that oily. This have stonmud out than boon towed out, est de the year, with meat injurious effects. up family, diminished dignity, and his non-is ovnsidered short by at least 60,000. Prior to weight of the tow rupe kept her nose well fo

She has a quick roll and in and the departures 193681. Between that date wont through it. The extensive remetery which Las recently in-law on trial before an irregular tribunal, November 17, 1880, the arrivals were 258,025, and so instead of Fising to the sen she rather een apseed nous Waterfall Bay at Pokfobich had no power except to blacken bie and August 6, 1382, when the Restriction Act this way was rather lively for the coufort of lvos lise directly in the line for Vistoria of character and torment bim. M. FLOQUET went into effect, the arrivals were 45,665 and the those on board of her. She carries a captain, the south-west monsoon. The recurve of Boured the President that the Chamber of departures were 13,414. During the balf year thras engineers and thres stokers (these Masers from Jersary 1st to June 9th this year, 11.147 Yarrow's me) four British blas-jacksta(pea-

siquera,) and a cook and steward. the wind round the bill at West Point also Deputies held him is uodiminished respect, arrived, and 8,762 weat away.

The same paper gives the following account of a visit to the Ching Yuen- carries the air from the Mount Davia come.arged him to overlook its hats, unconsider

An elegant reminder of the approach of an Lories to that portion of the town, bringed action, and reconsider his decision to other year reached as yesterday in the shape of We were courteously annived by an English for the rendition of Ching Choong alias Wongcurred in concoction with the blaze, the origin of ing also with it the evil odours from resign. It was finally arranged that Pre- Mears. Lane, Crawford and Co.'s selendar fer lieutenant, who kindly showed ne about the ship. Chau, who was charged, that being a subject of which is unknown, probably smoking, the canso A notice has been posted cutside the Gover that vicious storehouse of dead bodies which side at Gravy should await the report of the 1888. It is quite a work of art, in excellent First of all, after a brief inspection of the of China he did on the 23rd August Inat, within of most Bros. ties bidden in a gully abore the cattle abode committes. Subsequently it would scem that taste, and of entirely norol design. The calendar finers' accommodation, we dive down into the the territory and jurisdiction of His Imperial is printed in chocolate on ivory white, and shows after-torpedo room, the zuin object of interest Majesty the Emperor of China burglariously At Kennedy Town. The quasi benevolent the Chamber changed their opinion, whether up very distinetly, while the panel on which it here being the agram be for the Schwartzkopf break fato and enter the promises of the Cheungnor's Tamen by order of His Excellency Wa practice of the Tang Wah Hospital Cum through some new-discoveries or influenced is centred is unusually reat while effective. We torpedo, which is the pattern supplied to these Fat pawnshop and did steal and take away there. Ta-ching for the information of liesubordinates also received from the spente (fears. W. R. vessels. The centre of this tube appears to be from certain property and goods belonging to to the affect that he will not acur any presents Loxley and Co.) s card saludar for next year, some Star foot above the water line. and it the proprietors of the said pawnshop, zuuely or allow them to be made to his mother on her mittes in providing funde for, mining opera by popular clamour, we have yet to learn,

The National Assembly was to meet yes-issued by the Netherlands Fire In-rranca Com. discharges its torpeds in a lino right ostern. Chan Kau Max, and others, and farther that tions in the heart of Taipingahan, digging deep down, as last year, close to the Churchterday, and we shall shortly know the result, pany. Thin in striking is its unadorned simpli. The Schwartzkopf is not very dissimilar to the at the time and place aforesaid he (the gri-birthday, which foll yesterday, Gorarnas We' city. The calendar ismed by the London and Whitehand, bat is made of phosphor-bronte in-soner) did kill and murder In Ngok Shui, is earning some'popularity among the people by Mission School in search for human remains The resignation of M. Gaar will of course Laresshire Fire Office was forwarded to as fat stead of steel, and the steering arrangement is Mun Kai Lam, Chan Ping Kwan, and two his straightforwardness and refusal to necapt others whom niekgames were Cheung Ab Ping bribas. His inclined to be imparious, and will The torpedo is ejected from the ogress-tabo and Kan Mui. After exful consideration of is, we consider, open to very grave objecticus. be accepted, and a new President will have evening by the agents Messrs. Battordeld & constrasted differently.

to be elected. There will probably be more is the useful information on the buck.

Swire Itias showy card, but its chief merit

by compressed air, the reservoir being sitnated the depositions in this case, he (His Worship) not brook opgosition, as witness bis determined The building sites of this island are very

above the tabs. There is an overhoad rail with was of opinion that a prima facie case had bead aotion in the caso of the site for the new Custo limited; the population continues steadily than one sapirant for the honour. M. FEELY

a sort of shant near the door of the room by proved against the prisoner to the artont that examination shod. But he has aired roseol, which the torpedo is sung along to its p'aca in he was concerned in the attack upon the Cheung increasing by the inflar of Chivers settlers as a large following, and a generally cre

FIRES IN EEN'S ROAD BEAST. from year to your.

The borders of the dited with a readiness to become a candidate

the tabs. Lying on the right are a couple of Fat pawnshop, in which property to the amount and is better liked than the Visaray, An alarm War yesterday morning at Hotelkisses, and in front a few Gatlinge, all of over $20,000 was stolen. He farther found cometorica simultaneously enlarged, for the chair. M. og Fasvoiser, another

dismounted and well-greased, the labout of keep that prisoner did Hill and murder Man Kai Lam, 22 whilst the town goes on moving nearer and ex-Premier, has likewise been apoken of as about a quarter to seven o'nlock indicating a fire ing so many guns as there are on board, some and as he was one of the party who attacked the

A Shantang correspondent contributes the nearer to their very boundaries, and all this possible successor to M. Gavr, acceptable in the eastern district. The fire originated in twenty-nine of sorts in the necessary state of guard-house when the other four men were killed, time wo are burying on this limited and cir. to the more moderate Republicans. General the top four of No. 163, Queen's-road East. oo high polish, being too much for the number of he was responsible for the murder of those

dook we pase up a stairway through a oironlar apon the guard-house and the burglary at the Thera ita saying current in China, that the strangers who do not belong to the colony at of the Presidener, though he may not deser below was a jirikan fotory. The stool tower which forms the support of the big pawnshop was so close that he was compelled to Imperial Canst is a Jurgl-box, and that the cumscribed area every year thousands of BOULANGED also bas bis eye on the reversion cupied as a Chinese family is. The shop the crew to attend to. On our way to the peop persoas also. The connection between the attack following to the N. C. Daily News:

rapidly, and ia lous than a quarter of an hour the gun mounted ahora. In a rack running all believe that the prisoner was plao conserved in Tollow River is & Prodigal Son. It is said to the moment to be ripe. The Monarchists whole house was in dimes. Some time after round the inside of this tower are two or thras the burglary. The finding of quantity of the hore been from thy will of the Emperor Chit

Boore of bright-binded birding-pikes.

stolen property in prisoner's possession sonarmed Oking, that the familiar sobriquet of this Surely the sooner the whole somotory and Imperialists are, too, doabtless on the the outbreaks monoal arrived and began to

Immediately front this starray is a maga that belief. He should send the depositions to stream took its rias. by which it has come to be. Editor, not for publication, but as sidance of good question le taken up and considered with a alert, ready to take advantage of any oppor- throw jets of water on the burning mass.

kaɔwn na“ Cbius'a sorrow." The world is doubt zina batch of steel artending down without say gather with his report to His Erodency the view to the sanitary futuro of the Colony tunity that the wheel of fortune may bring The Volunteer Brigada's engine and Govern- lateral opening whatever to the after-magazine. Governor, and pending his orders the prisoner less by this time mads acquainted with the foot the better. We would deliberately advocate them. The decision is one that must be reat engine No. & proceeded with all possible The big Krapp on the prop is now inspected would be removed to and be detained in the gaol of the terrible disaster, which has some about through the rupture at the close of the 5th Chi. 29th November.

Lese moon, of the banks at the Yellow River Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not the closing of all cematorios on the island, awaited with the keenest interest on the haste to the spot, but by tao time they arrived and its swathings of painted canvas partially re-

breeak-lunder and

ad is of 35 onlibres, that is to say BETOR MR. H. E. WOVIнOUK7. west of N'ai Feng-fa, or as it is more requally and the recoval of car dead in the future Continent, as if politician of the stamp of the honse was completely gutted. The Valun-red for that purpose. It is a 21-centimétre

callel Pien-si and Cheng. Of the acts of to the greatest practicable distance. There General BOULANGER be elected the preser toers, however, ran out the hose and played upon its length of bars is equal to thirty-five times it's

Wong Acban was charged with the unlawful sn aldo, we are unable to speak, but the Shan- is a wide extant of suitable ground on the vation of peace would be seriously endan- the smouldering ralna miil all danger was at diameter making it alese upor 24 fest, which LOOTING AT THE WELLINGTON STREET FIRE, this great calamity from ir Hosan and Kiang frontier line of Kowloon peninsula, far gered. That gallant officer is undoubtedly an end. The Government Brigade moiur that looks enormousty long in proportion to a dis-

a two-handed key applied to a pin in the breech-value of $100.

The Yellow River, as we all know, has habitations, consisting popular and at any plebiscite ale would be a the Volunteers were able to cope with the first fit our sight Buches. By means of possession of a box containing slothing to the tang side may have spain points of interest. Chan Ngan, distrist watohtaan, said ho saw been in the habit of swinging back ar of a chain of hills running from the name to conjure with. But the party of laat get up slast. The houses adjoining piece this large block of metal is worked with ease

the one in which the firs ocsarcad, Nus. 161 and and out of the slot in the breech in which it is defendant on the night of the fire sarrying off forth, from the south of the Shaniang pro pisood. The breach piece is locked home by the the box. His suspicions were roused and he monters to the north since the Han dynas back of Taumati, all along to the neighreanche is not, we think, strong enough to 165, were very slightly damaged.

ty. northers routes have bean various and application of the keg to a second pin. A arrestad him.

of 2-inch steel will be- capacious shield

Ho Man Ming, cosiding in Wollington street, complied, and a far as we are aware atu On the 25th November, at Sentow, the wife of W. bourhood of Kowloon city. Here & large bring about the nomination of General Boc- FLEMING INGLUB, of a daughter.

gares might be laid out and allotted to LARGER to the vacant chair, and M. o

valled top and sidos protects the gunners from identified the clothing as his property. Defen- got asustainable with procision. A good ma the enemy's fire. It porers the gun naarly half dant had no business with it.

of Shantung or of Chibli is marked at sundry the Chinese; road cutting and tree planting FREYCIENT bha probably as good a chance as

Defondent was sentenced to six weeks' impri-points along the saw heard with dotted lizus, on its length and is placed in front of the central- would speedilyabange the aspect of the place any public man of being made Chief Magis-

closing the phrase "old month of the Yellow pivot Vavnsour patent mounting upon which scament with bard labour. tha woupon is carried. The training goor is Cheung Aching was charged with tas larosuy River," whore, there have been many months and make it attractive. There is so much, trate of the French Republic.

actuated by a handwheel on the right and the of a drawer containing articles to the value of there have been many courses. That this is the space availahla Jn the locality that spots

elevating and depressing action arranged in a $1.50, the property of Ohu Alai, hawlior case is ovinosd by the wide or dort belts of shilar way upon the left. In obedience to theso P.O. 699 said he was on duty at the Ers. He sonde which wind their barran my fringed with smoothness. The graduated inctal are on deck complainant's stall, tabs out the drawer, and run rising grass, with a tough root which is dug ap in marked at points indicating where the Ars off with it. He parsed and arrested him. for foal. There are many such tracks in Chil from the gen osa be concentrated along with Defondant was sentenced to six weeks' impri- and northern Shantaug. Ons of these runs s few miles west of the Chual. in the sub-prefer- object 400 yards distant. Iron plating is a that from the bean and forward guns apart an soumont with hard labour.

Five men were charged with the larceny of one ture of Te Chon, and it is deputed to have been upon the deal to protect it from the burning bor containing goods to the value of 260. the main course of the Yellow River in the days powder dropping from the mazzle. A very re-

o Yang Li, the second Emperor of the Sai markable application of electricity is supplied

Dynasty (A.D. 805-617), ss is witnessed by an to the sights of the Krupp guas for night

insignificant village usar Pe Chen called Hing ring. Instead of the ususi motal points

Ho Yoi, ar bank of the Telew Live. teo ting incandescent lamps are used whree the fire defendant in the house and arrested all light can be reduced to the faintest spark of them.

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The fire is supposed to have originated through carslessness in the burning of joas paper. No 19, we understand, was not inapred.

About Bive o'clock yesterday afternoon No. 161, Quma's-road East, was disiovered to be on fire, bat the dames were extinguished by the manual from M Dorables's bikers, which was quickly The Agents Mears. Butterfield & Bwira)os tba spot. The fro had apparantly been con- wager Antenor, from Liverpool, laft Singapore

At half-past sever the house on the other side, yesterday morsing for this port.

No. 165, caught firm, and was completely dos souls were brought to play on it and pre treyed. Oto Government angine ad two

vented the flames spreading further.

equalling the Happy Valley in quiet beauty inform us that the Oeman Steamship Company's municated from the house burnt in the morning the gan morna, with the greatest facility and saw defendant in the confegion stumble against l'aand daabsand filled with a variety of car

and

the Governor the mesting of the Lagislative Owing to the indisposition of Uis Excellency Connoil which was to have been held yesterday afternoon was postponed until to-day.

The Agents (Mesers Adanson, Bell & Coff inform as that the Canadian Facie steamer A

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ARRIVAL OF THE NEW CHINESE MEN-OF WAR.

Angas Mann, F.8.89, sait that from informs- tion received he went to No. 16. Pattingar-street. on the night of the fre, where in a room on the top floor be found the box in court. He found

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In the year 1857, the Yallow. Bicer, which for

HONAHONG, Norgayber 30th, 1887. of monary and adaptability for landscape gardening might be selected, and the Army THE exceptional sickness which has pre-and Navy and the foreign popolation gen- vailed during the last summer and also orally might bury their dead in the same during that of 1886 not only justifies, but neighbourhood. Ose great advantage onjoins, all the efforts which are now being which this location would possess would made to discover the cause. It may suut te be ite position to looward during the easy to do this immediately, but every son southwest monsoon. It is the summer tribution of fact or opinion is very valuable, heat which appeara

long time bad been Howing south of the pre- and tends to the ultimate elucidation of a tensify the injuriousness of graveyard ex for this port vić Japan on the 26th inst.

The four Chines men-of-war recently built in When these two sparks aru in a line with the! Lo Len, an informof, gave evidence as to seeing motory, barst its banks, and no northward in matter which is at present shrouded in my balations, and also the heavy rainstorms of The return of the Curator of the City Hall Barcpots in England and two in Gormany-object aimed at the gue is 'aid tran: the arch age of the defendants carrying the box and the aughty torrent, ozenpying the bel of what was tery: Many suppose that the deficient rain-the bot months which by their impetuous Museum for the wook ending the 27th Novem arrived hord gesterday morning, sia the Palawan light of course on a used to illuminate the obathor two following them sad their going to then tormed the Ta Fing Ho, which at once became and remained a great turbid fod, The fall of the laat two years bes not a little to streams cut into the recently stearated and ber shows that 153 Europeas and 2.853 Chiness passage from Singapers, and changed the jet at which it is sought to direct the fire of the No. 18, Fgitinger-strest,

Danal salutes. Fine weather was experienced gun. The quick-iring Hotobriss gansare well Chan Aui, widow, identified the property ashers. devastation must have her standar to what has de with the prevalenes of fever cases; the precipitous billsides. Burials may have visited that institution during the period. for the first part of the voyage, but after leav-worth looking at. The shoulder pions in pro- One of the defendants was sentenced to three lately takan pluss in Honan. Es legs the same consurrence having been observed been rande far up the slope, and no informa- Alexandra Terrace, conslating of six three-ing Luzon strong N. E. monman and heavy sos. viled with a cushion of strong tabular indis- months' imprisonment, two to six weeks' and the surviving inhabitanta became accustomed to the inreder, and by mighty dikes struggled to rese twenty years ago, when there was no rain tion may be given of disinterments which storeyed European houses, is to be palled down The squadron is under command of Admiral rabbor to enes the resal; the firing is dans by remaining two discharged.

Lang and consists of the Ching Yuen, Captain trigger attached to a metal pistol handle and the Ng Achan, convicted of the clawful possession train it. How ineffectual these efforts have duous Max and Juus. Mush haa matunile went pour code a

to usks nyom for Chinese or soi-Chinese Yithe, Admiral's fagyhip, the What Year, branch piece and extractor are sinils to any of one quilt. valus $10. The extenced to six been, may be ascertained by a casual griauea at the of the tranlation of the Pering emanating from the sewer openinga. Were lation may be dienstrous. The proposed

the Trai Yuen, Captain Kaw; and the Farroz, doated to 2,000 yards and the sights are alter- Teang Afak was ontvoel to six weeks in Gazettes especially for the past six pears, Gover Tesforday evening a fire breaks out in the eet- torped boat commanded by Captain Lewis. There nately a point and notch; the foresight is of the prisonment for the unlawful passion of a nors have cam, siva, wall conquered. Mit these perfectly innocuous, which pao hardly Bowen Park and the Race Course would gain vants quarters at No. +, Staunton-street, a were also ou board the Ching Fun Capt. Calder, ordinary can pattern. for a moment be supposed, the annoyance in popularity as a health resort and the kerosine lamp in the amah's room having been Dr. Brown Mr. Kingsworth, C., Lieut. The next thing we look at are the Gin. Arm-sawing machine, the property of a tailor residing lions of tabla hare been as much wanted us it

Wellington Street.

buried in a polar ocean. Square miles of arth A similar sentence was passed upon Ho Akai hore been heaped up, and casted out arsin nach which they cause would call loudly for their Causeway Bay reclamation be rendered more past, which set fire to the bedding. The fre Kearns, R.N. Ljent. Boord, and Messrs. Ap-strongs mounted on sponsens for broadside fire.

was axtingaished by the oogapants of the house deky, Darby, and Warren, engineers.

Their mountings are similar to those of the who was convicted of picking the porket a summer. There is a brand bait of Shautang. The Ching Yuen and Chih Yuen are sister ships Krapps forward and aft. There are also in this There is, however, another matter to which dangerously near cemeteries of Weng-nei-being given.

aalubrious by the closing of the beautiful but and the neighbours without any general alarms }eilt by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Mitchell and part of the ship four 6-pounder Hotchkiss quick Chinese Oficer, who was looking on at the are, which, like the valley of the Nile, has contracted s of a silk handkerchief and $2.20 in money. chronic habit of getting drowned. For some years no allusion bas, as yet, bees made publicly. chong. The chief, if not the only objection

Co, Limited, Nowenetic-on-Tyne, and are fast firing guns. Away forward is the most formid.

OPIUM CASES.

the great highway from Poking to Chi Nan fo The saboriptions raised in Hongkong by the craisers. Thoir principal dimensions are 268 fost able portion of the ship's armament where two Chan Afong, for being in possession of sit has been interrupted such summer by a aute but which we believe deserves the most to the plan of removing our cometeries to the Tang Wah Hospital Committee for the relief long. 38 fest broad, and 21 fast deep, and they great Krupp guze osetly similar to that altuated mass of prepared opium without having a valid of water from ten to tronty miles vido. This serious attention of the Government, and of frontier line of British Kowloon would be Yellow Liver amounts so far to Tls. 12,000, no armont protection, but have sa under-water which is trained by bydraalia power. Thase, like was fined $50 or six weeks' imprisoumout with When the floods came with sudden violence, of the sailuress by the recent overdow of the have a displacement of 2,300 tons. They have aft are mounted cheek by jowl upon one platform cortitieate and assaulting a Chinese ozaileofloer, occupied a district farlile and full of villages. all those who are now showing such lively the very occasional difficulty of crossing the which sum has been forwarded to Shanghai steel deck, which covers all their vital parts, their sister weapon on the poop look, are covered hard labour. interest in the sanitation of the Oolony; we harbour in bad weather.

through a huge gap in the double banks, vil. through the Chartered Mercantile Bank in six They have also a number of water-tight ball- | for nourly half their longth by a stool shield auf- Chan Aar was convicted of boiling and rotail ages ware utterly washed away, and crops buried allude to cemeteries, and the burial of the however, so

There are no instalments, the fast of which was sent on the kasda, arranged both longitudinally and trans. ficiently large to protect the crews of both guns, ing opium, without a permit from the spins of sight. Late in the antern, the waters many steam-Perries rus- 25th inst.

versaly, and a double bottom. The steal dock is The massive platform on which the twin farmer. dead in Hongkong. For many years past ning regularly between the

A previous conviction having been ad-manlly subsided, and then some of the survivors towa and

turtle asked, and any that striking wil glide Infants” are cradled is trained right and left mitted by the defendant, bo was fined $50, with contrived to plant - a little wheat in the soft re- strong fealing has been growing up again several points of, the Kowloon peninsula attempted to commit suicide yesterday afterreon teline, whilst the centrs only rises just about ing the hydraulis machinery. Just to the rear

The prisoner in the Nau-tau rendition oase upwards. The sides of this deck are below the way with the most perfect sass by ons mas controll- the alternative of three months' imprisoneul.siduum of mind, and were slesmed fortunato if intramural interments, and as a consequence that, except in extraordinary stress of by taking poison. How há obtained possession it. Under this dock all the vitals of the ship are hydraules shot and powder hoists loading

it was reaped in time to escape the flood of the Leung Akai, for altempting to commit suicide next summer. In the fith moon of the current City burial grounds in England have been weather, communication is ready, constant, the poison we have not learned, but it was aro arranged, engines boilers, magazines, stear from the forward magazine below. A couple of by cutting his head with a choppor, was bound roar, the waters came ugais. Half way between closed, and retired rosting places for the and cheap. Specially constructed steam some of his friends. He promptly received me protection the huskers are arranged to protect the platform facilitate the consevaass of Las pon for six weeks.

probably smuggled into the gool for him bying apparatus, &o. As a slight additional wire rope derricks mounted on the rear edge of over in one surety of $10 to be of good behaviour schon and Chi Nan-fu, it was derwery lo dead have been provided in some instances launches would reduce this difficulty to adical treatment and his attempt to destroy him to vitals. Between 400 and 500 tons can be daraus sumunition to the breech of the Krapps.

take boats, which wars provided by the Magia. trate of the District of Ti Cur'eng, to ferry pas at x considerable distance from the cantres minimum, whilst in extreme casas temporary self was frustrated.

carried in them. Of hoarier guns the two vessels Immediately bebird these huge weapons stands

engers over about Liteen miles of water. A of population. It may be long ere the Brisaccommodation in a mortuary on the south Testerday afternoon the application of Past each carry thro 21-centimètre Krapp guna: what will be admitted to be the most wonderful

fixed tariff was charged for this service, and one firing two ahead and too astern in a fine with part of the whole ship. This is the conning- fish will bring themselves to take a lesson side of the Island might be availed of as a Bohm, the defendant in the suit of Lam Tak the keel, mounted on revolving Vavasseur car tower, built of massiva strel plates, and it is not we do not bold coralinaresponsible for the opinions involved. The agistrata male the bouten which was entirely inadequate to repay the tel from their Indian fellow subjects, but their last resort. Anyhow we must remove our Shinge. Faul Bohm, to be released from geol, ringea with steel abjaids, and worked by by too much to say that one officer stationed here in under the provisions of section 79 of Ordinance dreplica. Two 6-inch Armstrong B. L. guans enabled, by rear of the elaborate concentration

an allowance for food only. The result was idees are lear and well defined that the cemeteries to a greater distance if we would 15 of 1879, cama before Mr. Justice Leach in make up the heavier class, these being placed on of communications to direct and to fight the

that of the total number of boats appointed, soma could not be found when wanted, others farther the dead are removed from the living improve or oven maintain our prosent sani- Chambera. His Lordship mid the application Varasesti centro-piret mountings in "pimples," whole ship. It seems to be almost a regular the better. Hongkong bas already in its tary condition.

moved so slowly and a delayed the passengers - had only just been brought to his notice, and ap as the sponsons are known, which give a fire telephone exchange. Facing the entrance to the We seriously commond pointed that day two months as the date upon ahead on the beam, and sateru short history of four decades overtaken in these suggestions to the considoration which the application would be beard.

Their crews, 35 towar there is a small wheel for stearing the DELE SIX-I am desired by the late Opium that it was actually mora seonomical to hire ita gradual process of extension come four or of the Government and the Sanitary

in the large guns, ara pratented by shields, which ship by hydraulis ateering gear. Electrio bat Farmer to emphatically contradict the statementsther boate at ontaide prices. To use the It is not often that tigers are seen in routhern revolve with the guns. The lighter armaments teries are attached to the wall for the simultan-in your paper of yesterday's date to the effect advantages of this semioticial transit itminous, five cemeteries which at one time were 1st Board. We cannot prossibly.go on long Kvangtang, although it is known they are neist of sight six-powder quick-firing. Hotch sous discharge of the gune trained upon one of that the lato Opium Farmer, Chan Hang, had it need only be added that a whole day was con- sumed in making the fitoon miles, and (a always in such cases) each mar that touched a cart, out of town, nor which are now surrounded with our present system without serious sometimes fouod in the interier. We learn from kiss, and six Gatlings. This armament is sup.inct, as well as for the despatch of the torpedoes placed on board the junk & quantity of cases of with bouses. This is not a desirable (biug mischief in the future. The matter is, we

Chinese resources that ons of these ferocious ported by four torpedo grans, one firing shend, from their jeation-tabes. There are electric Opiam to be smuggled to San Francisno. It is beasts was killed by villagers at Heungshan a from a sanitary point of view, yet we are believe, even at this moment forcing itself few days ago.

army hands were always required to drag a one on either bear, plasad somewhat forward of bells connecting the conning-tower with the ter entirely untrue, and I shall be glad if you will bad to be reckoned with by himself; and an It appears the tiger was first cridships, and one astern. Each vessel has two pedo rooms, both forward and after, captain's give this lotter the same publicity as the para-art oither on a boat or hift. If the boat were now doing simply what our predecesors upon public attention in the most painful at Shun-tak, from whence he was driven triple expansion ragines, which were nonstruct

masts with fighting tops. There are two sets of sleeping cabin, ko,

graph referred to.

email, as was often, the case, it was nedegaary to Thore is on the right the ordinary Chadburn's south towards Hoangshan by the peasantry arm.

lift the cart entirely from the wheels. Donkeys, bare done during the last forty years. manner, and the anoner a radical change ised with guns, swords, de, until he was at length ed by Mesaru. Humphreys and Tennant. The telegraph and gong to and from the engine-

wblok are prejudiced against long wading were We continue to bury our dead in places which made the better for the health and the longer hunted down at Henngaban and killed. He did boilers can be used on either or both sst of engines, room, and there is besides an extensive system

placed on the boat, after repeated poundings. at the present day are out of town, but which for the lives of all.

Do socoumb until he had been wounded nearly the necessary change to affect which can ha ur- of apoaking tubes indexed by brass plates bear-

pushings, palling at the bit, aut general mani- ansen times, and it is stated that he killed peditiously made. Each veral has two powerfuling English and Chinese names. Among the

palation. In the confined space of vue of these about ten persons on his way from Shuu-tak to Restric projectors of 25,000 candle power, whilst parts of the ship in communication with the In pablishing the above to meet express our erazy and leaky pants, the unhappy passager Heungshan.

the wholeinterior is lighted by incandescent cleaning-tower by one group of these tubes are tric lights.

the fore military top, the electric engine rooga,

sincere regret that the mistako should have sat for stood all day sad longed. if he were quarters, or encroached upon by building TEL present crisis in France may have a po-

found its way into otr columns. It arose, wen Occidental, for rapid transit. The role A tologram in the San Francisco Call, dated

The two German built vessels were construct the after shell-room, the captain's saloon,_the operations within the neat less or twentytential effect on the attuación in Europe, and Washington, Oct 25th, says The complainted by the Vulcan Upmpany at Stettin. They after Sin. gen. Another group puts the offer

understand, from the name of the late Opium lay through "Imperial roads"now become canalu, Farmer being fraudulently stamped on the with here and thero a half drowned village whatever its outcome it cannot fail for the against the Canadian Customs officers by. Moy sro armoured cruisers or for cast defence. They in charge in connection with the Giu, gun station,

amuggled drug-ED: D.P.)

emerging from the floot weak and dripping. The whole of Mount Davis, almost adjoin-time haing to create a feeling of great un-country, has been returned by the State Depart icon belt of 8 inches, the turret for the gune, and S. A. magazines, the hydraulic steering gear, Wong, a Chinem naturalized-aftizen of this have a draft of 3 metres, and are protected with the forward training-engine, the after Hotchkiss

whare an exiguous supply of bread-cakes cond be procured. Ne submals except donkeys) sonis ing Kannedy Town, in ons vast cemetary to certainty in the minds of European statesment for verification by cath. At the dopart which is a revolving og having 9 inch stool the forward in. magazine, and the forward Sin

be takenfou the small passenger boats, and all the west. A great and daily expanding por men. M. GET , far se the Frenchment it is said that nothing can be done in the plating. The papel armament consiste fsball-room. Therese similar connections with the Chicamen two twenty-one em. Krepp gani, two guns forward Hotchkiss magazine, the forward torpedo tion of the Wang-nei-chong valley is another Republic is conserned, the embodiment of. The treatment received by

STR-Whatever may be said to the parsules and horses bad to be led by a man special- was not in violation of tresty obligations. Ca- 15om, several small revolving guns, and to room, the torpedo head magasine, aul the after other causas play in producing the starks whichngaged for the purpose.

When at length this water was crossed, there rast cemetery, now close to the town and staid respectability and sober conservatism, made bas a law requiring a tax of 30 per capita tubes for the discharge of torpedoes. The vet torpedo room. To the port and starboard on- are disseminating fever throughout the colony still ruined six miles of solid land, before the still closer to the new building sites proposed It was fall that, however frequently Minis tax was regarded as prohibitory, or at least a pole mast, with Sghting tops, are propelled by sing-tower may be leaked upos as the brain of onsly questioned that the draine are chictly to volumes of water escaping through the gaps on all Chinamen entering the Dominion. The sale, which have no rigging, but only a singlagines there are also separate tubes. This con (net in the western distrist only), oan it be seri Yellow Liver was reached. Despite the enormous to be opened up at Causeway Bay in the ties might change, the reius at least were certain meant to keep oat of the country paper two sets at triple arpansion compound engines, the ship with a sensitive nervous system reach-blame! Especially during the north-east mea abure, forming the wida belt which we have Esat. It is a wall konwa mazim in sanitary held by a peacefully inclined and prudent Chinese. The laws of the United States over which drive twin-sortwe with about eighty revo- ing to the remutant part of the vessel. And soon do they aqantitats a danger, for at low described, all of which had a strong current in scionce that "the air orer cemeteries is con- President. When M. JOLES, GREVY Wasing this matter are much more severe than lations a minute.

that the whole can be put into full play by one water the wind from the north blown right up the middle. the Yellow River itself was fall to those of Canada.

The forpedo-boat, which was constructed by mind with the instant intelligence and obedience through the open exite discharging in the hat the top of its natured banks, and on wither eige staully contaminated," and hence whenerar first elected to the Presidential chuir in 1870

Mears. Yarrow, attained the extraordinary |that electric communication ensures proves that boar, and it in doubtful whether even the moat

ran a swift and powerful current like a will we step out to our verandaba to get a mouth- | he received the support of the whole of the Kuhlow, writing on the Berlin ambrella in speed of 283 miles on hour on her trials on the the warship of to-day has been elaborated into perfect traps are safe against the strong entrant race. In the midst where all is generally ful of fresh air, be the wird east or west, more moderate Regullicana, while the Roy-petition must not be underestimated. English torpedo gann for the discharge of Schwarzkopf entiane, that even this mechanical age has wit-Could not slaicas he fixed at the openings on the boiling, hissing rapid extremely dangerou

dustry, saya:-The English and Fransk om assured mile in the Thames. Bas carries three one of the monst marcellous mechanical combi-of air impregnated with sounge gas thus created.

a smooth even flow, appeared a tumultuous and especially the latter, we have the no-slists of all shudes regarded him as a safe umbrellas, especially of hatter kinds, hear an torpedoes, two being fixed forward and que massed.

Praya, allowing the sewage to escape, but pro to navigation. This was the point where pleasant consciousness of inhaling an admix-mas-not likely to suection-ang-extreme-men-excellent character, but are expensive On the revolving one shaft the favnel coming. For her Close to the Dar of this conningtowat and vending, the upward current of air! I have the waters came into sullision with the broken other hand the German brolla is durable, solid, en protection she possesses a large complement just in front of the chart-room is the signal staaeen this system in age at homer whether it is arches of what had once been a line bridge over ture of graveyard air. "There is another aures or to attempt any wild foreign policy and cheap, thereby rosessing the combined ad of quiet firing Hotchkiss and Gatling guns. Ation, also built of steel plating, and the offleer in general or not I cannot say, but it seems to be the Ta-ching river, but which was utterly de- maxim in modern sanitary science, which When in 1885 his term of office expired M. vantages of all others. This acccante for the powerfni movable electric projector is also charge can thus have the signalling under his in sovordanes with we find strongly stated in a late edition of Gazyx was re-elected unopposed, politician German traveller in umbrellas is to be mat with take the following description of her from head stands the forward military met with its anivareal export of the German article. The supplied. She ha baan, towed out. We immediate observation and control. Right ever- Parke's Manual of Practical Hygiene, viz., of all parties being glad to secure the reted in nearly every corner of the world, with the sole the Singapore Free Prear:Her must pro- armoured fighting top. Upon the bridge which that "the disturbance of an old graveyard bse|tion in office of a man who had no personal exception of those district where insurmountable minent features are a turtle-book which covers roofs in the conning tower and signal-station are given rise to disease, and it is a matter of no ambition to servo, 'and who would keep cat barriers in the form of dues render trade Im her forward, and her broad low Enenal. two powerful electric coarch lights, and a fuo An Important Discovery is announced in the and sad sand a considerable distance up the posible. Chiun has notoriously an exceptionally the other desk fittings, guns segut, patint compass by White After Sir William Paris Figure," of a valuable remedy for nervous river, when at a saddon bood to the wast, ador toriety that, the vicinity of graveyards ia un more self-seeking and probably dangerousLarge demand for umbrellas. A. Celestial without [&o, for which it is difficult, to imagine where Thomson's design. Again' we leave the deck and debility, physical cukrastion, and premature is made, a huge sail raised, tho clumsy ruddor of a is worked by a gang of upturning of the old Mabomedan Cemetery M. Barsson would not, however, both have is the case in Japan. These umbrellas, as far as removed for the voyage and are on board one quarters we go where the Chinees bine-jackets in Old Mexico; it saved him from a miserable, we, and the exiting passage is rapidly acco last your caused the extraordinary outbreak of insisted on the resignation of the President as obtained ad in the untry hand, and rounded off so us or Bet rid of the water is amouret anys, busy with Erte chopsticks the Bev. Joseph Holmes, Bloomsbury Mansions, deftly turned into a sores, aur sach rest if tho they not produced itself, roof her bigger casorts The Yarrow's deck is are squatting round in dozens of little, good axistance and an early grave. We learn that plished. If it is a success, the ferry-boat is malignant fover in the immediate vicinity, a condition before forming a Ministry, unless Japan very cheap umbrellas are mostly preferred, light rail protects bar trew from dropping over and their okow chow. We next descend into the Bloomsbury Square, London, W.O., will send opposite to the point of deperint. Bet if i bat that it had a share, together with other they believed that the President's position is and the dousand is so great that the Goonan dourd and a footing on the cursed surface is forward torpeds room and saamine the torpedo the proscription, free of charge, on receipt of a curront is struck at a wrong angle, the craft is 12386 want helplessly down strence for a mile or mara, fanterien are hardly able to supply it. The German secured by the use of 'sort of work fall or ling tabes, one of which is directed in a fixed line self addressed stamped envelope. causes unknown or imperfectly knows, in affected by the charges against his son-in-maanfacturers have cortafnepegialties, in the pro- Heum with which the central portion of the straight ahead and two others on the port and A french contemporary tells rather a goodit must with great labour be tagged up stream the trouble which arose in that neighbour law. That the case looks very black against dittion of which they are unrivalled. Bo-called dock is covered. The terpede fittings are exactly starboard bow respectively, the former of which story of the literary début of the late Emma-again to the cove of landing. Front Longer gloria" umbrellas, made of a half talk and half similar to thous in the larger vessels. The trains over an Am of 60 degress and the latter el Gonzales. He was introduced to Emile de debaration, to Chi Nau-fa, the road as longer hood, there is Ettle room for doubt. Theret M. DANIEL WILSON way he gathered from potton fabric, are sold erarywhere, and however Yarrair has two ejection tubes side by side under | over one of 85 degrees. Our guide. Ifting & Gerardin, whe on hearing his name immediately day over the old track, bat followed the outer of is another smalt memetery which appears to the fact that the Chamber of Deputies no-much foreign makers may have endeavoured to the turtle-back at the bow and only a little batoh in the four, requests us to notice the suggested that he should write

series of Bp the hago dikes which the Governor of Shan- have been encroached upon within late years terised bis prosecution by 527 to 8. A compata with Germany in this actiels, they, have above the water-line. These are orked in a ourred turtle-hasks armoured dock which protests with sketches for the Free. But mid Gon- tang has erected to bald in check the food fe not as yet succeeded. Zanolla umbrellas are also room occupying the fore part of the boat which the vessel from penatration nese the water line lés, "though I am of Spanish extraction I the proper cart route was under water from the by building operations in the neighbourhood mouth ago M. Gravy sent for M. FLOQUET in extensive request. The demand for whole-silk forms the quarters of the crew. There is plenty and thus guarda her most vital parts froza, in- know nothing of Spain and have never been prerflow of a tribulary of the Yellow Elvar COOL- of the French Convent and St. Franciu' and threatened to resign. He mid by día ant umbrellas is also increasing from year to year of head rooms, but a stove just calside the door jury. In the forward part of the ship we notios there." "No matker. · Astiales sighed Goning from the mountains to the south. Bush, for strect, and which may have some connection to tried re- are has been the with the whealthiness of that part of the golar way for any offence probable, but he Faratively small, being entirely dependent on chief points of attraction are of cour the boilery Kopf of Berlin, and not far from this stands the with proceeded to "gram" Spain, and son condition of the vicinity of the Yellow River in town. But these are trifles compared with muat object to the system of blackening sold by German manufacturera amreants yearly the astonishing speed which gives to this type of the builder of this vessel. Everywhere the local colour which brought his namest once be great break ouvarred in Hunen, vo fatal to that fashion. The value of the umbrellas and garls room and engine-roma where is developed hydraulle ongines of Sir William Armstrong, duoad a number of Spanish stories replete with the prefecture of Chi Naz-lu. The moment the province and to An Hui, all this was changed. the momentous fact that in the wear eat his son-in-law's character, not only through to about 6,003,000 mka.

I vessel all its importance. The boiler, steel of electric light is laid on, and the bulkheads be- fore the publica

we might easily foresee will be in the closest proximity to more or less densely populated

JOSTE.

I remain,

Yoam sincerely,

·PUNG WA CHUN. Yan Wo Co., lata. Opium Perm. Hongkong, 29th November, 1887.

STINKS AND THEIR CAUSES,

BALLY FEES."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE

COMMON SENSE.

Hongkong, 29th November, 1887.

stroyed thirty years ago. Foar large and ex- centively damy ferry boats do the work of transit, and as is usual in such streams are dragged by main force of men loundering in