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BANKS AND, LAND CO.
INSURANCES
F THE, HONGKONG LAND INVEST. [ATLAS ASSURANCE
MENT AND AGENCY COMPANY,
LIMITED.
Cargian to Russian vample, and granted to Bue the French delegate to the Labore Conference, can bapitalists the refusal of all railway sonoes-with the Prussian order of the Bed Engis. donat d
THE PRINCE OF WALES AT BERLIN. THE THBRIELS CYCLONE IN AMEBIOL.
BERLIN, ad March. DW NEW YORK, 28th March The Emperor gave a banquet le honour of the "A" fearful oyclone has taken place along the Prince of Wales, at night. Goñaral Caprivi, Ohio, valley devating the country from Gin-Count Herbert Bismarck, Count on Moltke SUBSCRIZED CAPITAL dizuet to Cairo, and resulting in an appalling were among those present. In proposing the PAID UP CAPITAL disaster at Louisville, where three hundred houses bealth of his visitor, the Emperor exlogised the RESERVE FUND rère demekshed by the force of the wind and the Army and Navy of England, which is hoped railway stations blown bodily Into the raging would always be enabled with Germany in tas watere of the Dbls. "AS I
Internet of peace. The Pelnee of Wales in reply The City Hall at Lonbrille, in which's nuing thanked the Emperor for the sentiments merously attended meeting was balug held at expressed, and said he hoped bo might often the time of the disaster, was overthrown and at vini Berlin again leagt two hundred persons killed.
KILLED BY A TIGER.
POONA, 23rd March. Dr. Thompson of the 10th Bombay Infantry
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ST. O. MICHAELSEN, E92,
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Many ballding caught Are after falling sud the inmates were burnt to death.
The lyhen Greenville, Mississippi, are was killed by a tiger on a shooting zours. SASHOON, ESQ. strained to the utmost and a disaster there is near Bhosawal. The tiger mas sabesquently much feared.
shot by Dr. Thompson's orderly.
Reports come from other towns of flood and serious waimnities from the oyslane.
LATER.
Detalled accounts of the cyclone state that sight hundred lives were lost at Louisville, of walok number three hundred were thons of people dancing in the Town Hall whom the cyalons demolished the ballding.
The town of Motropolis in the. State of Ill tole has been partially destrerad by the cyclene and serors! hundred of the inhabitants killed.
· The destruction caused in the area traversed by the ayclone has been appalling and portently woporalisled. The town of Bowling Green in Kentucky is reported to be far rains and every prominent building in the town of Metropolis has been demolished.
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has upon persons, and property within the marche, is not to bo naked unexpected questions gladly accepted it. We desired the fares United Kligdom
I had had the bonsor of a conversation with ligation to begin from a place where the And now. in conclusion, a few general observa: His Majesty, but of courts on topics started by defined frontier terminates, hi the jasation of tions occur to me in candelion with this sub, himself. There is, however, an individual Ju | the Baiwean and Tung yang rivers. It was de... jent. I am jastracted that the directors have Riara who is conspicuous, both by blown Imited to this point in 1887 and wo thought been well aware il pughout of the ordinary me ability and by the favour of bis sovereign sa bi bost fo roommmends where the othern left off. thods of reconst den of Companies, and have Hung ohang is in China, and where name onli The Indian Government would dot kerros to dsaided upon the course they have adopted after be as fouliar in Europe as the great Chinese tbls, and wished the Siamess Commission to go fully considering thers. The ordinary care Soaretary's if Siam were as well-known as to Rangoon, to which we did not see our way of reconstrration involves winding up. liquida Chins. This is H. R. H. Prin Dayswong, to agros. Therenpon the Indian Government, tion, fresh, registration, and not only a great Varopratiar, half-brother to the King and Mi-declared they would not independently, and we bol of work and inconvenience, but a very pister for Foreign Affairs. Siam depends upon are doing the same. Be it will be a survoy, heavy expouse, whereas the passing of an Ordia His Majesty as the solar system depends upon the more than anything else. We regret that the anoe requires very little work, no inconvenience, un, but Prince Davaong is it Bisin where it aftur han failed to be ao arranged an to result and a very nominal, expense and is therefore impinges upon the outside world. Hoesjays in a joint commison. We did our part in co- in prery way a great advantage to the general the perfect confidence and Intimsey of his operation with the India Government against body of shaxobolders. The only diference is brother and tovereign, and be known the admi- the Kereami to their matlafsotion, on the nader- that it does not provide the legal procedure for nistrative afairs of Siam na they are known to standing that we should have full control of the paying off dissentient shareholders which is no one eles. He was clearly therefore the person territories errosoned upon by the Keraun) on provided by the ordinary method of reosastrup. to answer my questions!
this aide of the Salween. This was negotiated Hon under the Companies Acts It is commonly The "From Liang," an bis Siamess title runs, through the British representative here and I the osse that, there are no, dissentients, but it is in a short masa with a bright round face, of Baru- cannot understand how the Indian Gorra always possible that there may be some,
palously police manners, who conceals a mam meat could afterwarde countenance the Kerang The only real question of principle involved of information and a very sharp mind under an claims against Siam.. I may add here, however, As whether the fact that, if the alteration in car exterior of simple good-humour and apparent that naval prolonged misunderstandings have rind cut by means of an Ordinance, dissentient frankness which take you off your guard at first. already been adjusted with ease betweb Cap shareholders cannot compel the Company to buy His friends and enemies and like every athor, tain Jones, the new Betish Minister, and myself, them out as they would be able to do if the alternecesful diplomat he has many of the latter and upon his great courtory and experience, and tion was made by means of resonaination under conent in describing him as an extremely devor evident good-will towards us. I bass the highest the Companion Lote is of auch Unportance sa to man. He spakki and writen English with ease, hope of the pleasset and friendly craster of ronder it undesirable to proceed to carry out although he has only spent six maths in Eu- our future relations with England. Fam glad the altoration by me of an Ordlason, not rupe, of which three weeks were passed in of this opportunity of publicly expressing to withstanding the many great advantages of this London. Ile is an indefatigable worker and bin my skanks and recipromal good-wil!.".
"What about the boundary between Siam and frequently sponds the whole night at the Foreign Office, riding off at daylight on France Pr his bicycle and levying & oup of very early "The frontier of Cambodia is defined as far coffee from a ferang frioad on the outskirts as the basin of the lake concerned. As regards of the city before riding back home to bed. the frontier of Annam and Tongking, the com- His other passion is ohess, which he plays maanders of the Fretch and Siamese troops on the on ovory possible ocassion. Nobody in Fang-apot have agreed to maintain the status que, kak oan touch him at this and I believe be buotil the completion of the work of the commis. Į
It is now hoped that the number of deaths at really first-rate player. I suspect that more sin, M. de Kergaradec, the French Chargé Ghan one paisbeat applicant for an interrier affairs in Siam, prépased the watershed of the Louisville has been overstated and that they has fought the flies of the Foreign Office, im Mekong as the boundary, but I would not enter will ant exceed thres hundrade gang Lagising the Minister to be deep in some politicsttain it. We are aware, by the way, that the Heavy foods have taken place in the Missin FROM A COBBESPONDENT.)
confabulation, while in fact the Minister's pro- Freach ambassador proposed to Lord Salisbury sippi and the lowlands there are doomed. Bonta HANOL, 3th April.
blems at the moment wers only those of the that an imaginary line should be drawn down the aro actively engaged in rescuing the inhabitants black and white squares. He is ready in repartre middle of Bism and that the country to the west Tolograms are being jucessantly received a Splendid weather bas prevailed here ever since why on earth do you Sistasse not remove the of that should be considered the sphere of British nonaning tornades and torrential rains in var Saturday Jest; cool in the mornings and even bar at the patrance to the river here ? some interests, and that to the haut, the phare of one towns in the Western Alleghany more. ings; bright, clear and het in the middle of the body asked him. "Perhaps for the same reason French interests. As for other relations with tains, where great usage has been done and day. The Société des Courses de Hanni were thai you English do not make your Channel France, you are probably aware that during many fatalities have taken place. exceptionally favoured in this respect, Jupiter angel, w the nest reply. I do not think M. de Freycinet's Governmont a realy, was perde NEW YORK, 31st March."
that he is troubled with more faith "then signed by M. de Kergaredeo, giving to the A great tract of the Mississippi Valley is Flavius having for the time exhausted his re-other diplomatists in people's motires, and at Fresch the same privilegos at Lasig Prabang submerged by the borsting of a number sasrags. The course being fairly dry, and the hosts doseri le his motto in treating with the that the English have at Chiangmai, hint the of dykes, and it is foured that the floods will Grand Stand will filled with the ladies and gen representatives of Europe. In his office he stix Chamber would not ratify it. Therefors M. not subside in time for planting the next put New Malwa 1520 of 1 to 24 astties. tlemer of Hanoi, with a fair number of visitors surrounded with a rampart of books on inter Pavie is not rooognized here as French Consul, to crop.
national law and modern diplomattoktatory, but only ar "Comair at the head of the from Haiphong and elsewhere, the meeting held and the grating of European punctilio and French Boundary Commission." on the 6th inst. proved a most successful and traditional provision upon Oriantal flair and I next reminded the Prince that I had fesë enjoyable and. The Band of the Marine In- patianee, maka combination diffoult to beatquently heard him speak of the difficulties which fantry were on the ground and played selections The Siamese fölster for Foreign Affairs has artes territoriality imposed upon Bizn between the races, The Racecourse was lined in hard row to hou, but so far the Krot Luang may easily claim to have held his own, singles many parts with troope sud natives, and pra-handed, against many more powerful and mora sented quits an animated spectacle. The road experienced comSTE. thither was lined with inge
The Select Committee of the present Parlia mant has apparently anawared this rory question by expressing in their report the opinion that the alteration of memoranda of assuciation by private sets should be enretioned.
W. V. DRUMMOND.
·Họngkeng, 14th April, 1890.
HANOI
My appointment wasforalaren o'clock at night, that I was as fond as himself of working at night, as I had previously told Prince Davawongne sad s Foreign Office official oams to fetch me from xy hot a house, two hundred yards away. The night was daliainly not and quiet and we sottled down pery comfortably for a long talk over tes ned digers, under the great paukah and surrounded by the books and maps and portfolios and portraits of the Minister's insations and (mm
"Yes," he said, "it as 'a source of endless sa- moyences and trouble which might perfectly well bo arsided. These are not caused by the iman- nityof Europeans from Siamese laws; They give us no trouble whatever. Bat it is the Amduties The first evant, the Prix de Paquce, was wou
are bozunds of thoss, many of whom were even who claim to be odor foreign protection. There by M. Leblane's pony Monegataire, This was
born in Bangkok, whe escape all Siamoso regula- nomially a trothing race, but is a matter of
tions on the plea that they are British or French fact most of the ponies frequently broke into a
or Entch or Portagunen subjects. That is gallop, a breach of conditions shared in by the
they are Siamese or foreign, just as best suita them at the manent. One of your Buropenio winner. The vertrade whate for Appamito
philosophore aid of the European system of Jockeya, and it was well contested, several show
marriage, that under its man halves his ing considerable skill in riding. The Frix du
rights and doubles his duties. With this I began by reminding the Frince of the strik-people of optional nationality, it is just the con- ar Pas brought out a field of ton pomes, and was productive of much interest, the total sator being internal changes I spoke of at the beginning trary they halve their duties and double their
of this letter. What does it mean? I asked him, {'rights.” In what direction is Biam going?
*
What remedy do you propose ?"
Bank Bilia, on demand Credits, at 4 months' sight GEMANY.—
Many hundreds have been killed by falling trees er barat to death in the Oren have. On demand taken place!
THE TITHES FILI
LONDON, 29th March
In the House of Commons the Tithes Bill has passed its seosud reading by a majority of ons hundred and twenty-five votes
THE LABOUR CONFERENCEL
PIN BERLIN, 29th March. “ The Protocol of the Labour Conference will be signed to-day
ASS LATER. parts of arbitration be appointed to decide all Tho Labour Conference recommends that labour disputes, and that periodical Interng- tional Congresses be held for the interchange of views and experiences, thereby creating a basis for an international labour law."
The Conference also recommanda-limitation of fabour in the esso of women shå children and stoppage of work on Sunday, substantially. in becordance with the laws of Great Britain on the subject. Each State is to be left to execute the recommendations of the Conference in its
OWD WAY.
THE GRAND NATIONAL
LONDON, 28th March, In the race for the Grand National fles Was first, Fax second, add M. P. third:
MILDER MEASURES FOR BUBÍAN PERSONKLA -----| | |--ST-PETABSICRa, Slat Mərob.
*First allow me to tell you a little Siamese "An arrangement something like that in force. history," be replied. In the Gret dynasties of with the British Canal at Chienguasi-or Aynthin, the ancient capital of Siam,, before it perhaps like the Mixed Court of Shanghai all was destroyed by the Burmese king Bureng cases, to be tried by a Stamose judge with the Nong in 1562 the successor to the crown was foreign Consof concerned, to watch the case, the always the king's won. There was than no latter roserving the right to transfer the o The Car and Charian paid a visit to the mili; Wang Na or Second King The position was to his own Court if he is dissatisfied with the Fra obst, who died immediately after his return fairer, nothing aafar, and it would remove many created through the notion of the queen of King Tardist, Nothing mid he simpler, nothing from an expedition to Chiangmai, during which didoulties, delays and wienndertandings." ko bad left her as Regent. She installed her **With regard to the Department of Justice lover, a man of insignifosat position, as the king, which you just now said is to be reorganized and In consequence, & revolution took place, and when consolidated, may I ask upon what lines it will a priest and relative of the late king, named be constituted
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tary prison barn Their Majestien addressed them the cases of their arrest. They then i Toky some of the prisoners kindly and enquired of Wiglivostock..
·berated sixty and reduced the sentences of others. Naak
Madame Tohebrikova, who lately wrote a Shanghai threatening letter to the Char, har been released Amoy by express order of His Majesty.
THE DEVI
Carso, Stat Maroh. Colonel Wodehouse reached Fisket on Thum day, where he encountered a darvish patrol and captured some of their camela. He is now re- turning to Wady Halfa.
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THE EGYPTIAN CONVENTION..
LONDON, 31st March. The Times publiebos a telegram from Con- stantinople stafing that the Balten has ratified with fog or slight run. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff's Egyptian Con reation.
TROUBLE IN-CRETE,
CONSTANTINOPLE, Jlst Max.
As in China and the Malay Peninsula, so in- Rism, the question of railways is the most pro- minent commercial and economic question at this moment kurrey is being made by arm of contractors represented by Lieut. Gen. Sir Andrew Clarke for a main line to thiengus about 850 miles, the whole surv, to be act-place in Crete between the Turkish troops mad and various branch lines, a to distance of Several sanguinary akitmiskos bare laken pleted within 38 months from March 16th, 1888, the inanegants. The Turkish agents in Greece and the average cost per mile, which the Siamass are warned Chakir Pachs, the Governor. General of Crate, that an invasion of Crete by Government pays, not to expeed £100,
an armed expedition in impending,
TEE ÉLECTIONS IN "PORTUGÁL
LIBBON, 31st-March. The Portognese Government have carried the elections which have jest been finished. Majer Serpa Piste has been elected for Liabou
LONDON, 1st April.
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ing in active sing. A good start wan effected, and's capital race resulted in the victory of the black pony Carabinier. The following was, however, the race of the day, the Prix de Cloture, for which fire pasiod came out. A fales start was made, owing to the fractionmose of M. Phong's Chasmar, and the ponies had to be re. silve after nuns of them had gone half way zoned the course. However, they got away fairly well together at the next bezný, and * fine rase ensued between Farfaded, Black, and Adiniral, resulting in an szofting finish. won by the first named by about two length, Phrs Tian, was made king. he rewarded the Well, the building is ready you have seen the others coming in in the order named, Faroldier who bad placed him on the throne, by the the new Courts of Justion, that fine building Kadetise Haiphong pong, and the winner of a nem-offies of Boond King. Thus the position of with the clock tower. So for the Codo, the old ber of races, and he showed good stuff on this Second Klog asoreated. His present Majesty one is very unsatisfactory it is made up half of pagasion, and still more in the closing event, the returned to the old custom of appointing hit the law of Manu and half of the Joisions of a son to the succeden, and dropping the title of mosssion of Kings. The procedure is still more Frix de Printemps, which, although Carrying Becond King, which by its origin, as you see, so al Ainister tries the cases which baking 5 kilos extrs, he saleofsacared, by a really the deserved no special honour, and has revived the to his partionlar department, and it is, a rale offort just before coming into the straight, ancient Sanscrit title of Yuvaraj in ite that all the parties to the casa must be present modern equivalent of "Crown Prince' Instead in person a rula masing endless delays It when be collared the leader, and ebooting into of balog revolutionary, therefore, His Majesty's is His Majesty's intestinn to have all cases tried the front, mon amidat Louts of applausa. A solion is a wire conservatism."
at the one Comet, ef Justice and to model the race for Arabs, the Prix do Douar, brought cat? Is it trus that His Majesty in meditating a Statavas ode upon your Indian codes"- aix flas looking horses, but these unimals are roheme of constitutional Government?"
"Yes, though of course one adapted to the now old and ratfier weak in the legs, fact conditions of Siamese society. Every day he proved by the manner in which they finished darotes some time to the details of the auhema" Though the distance was only once round, three **Can one make any forecast öfije antare 29. of thou dropped out before it was halt covered, "Well, it will not be anything liko Parlie and the pass had slackened when the winter, understood the relation of king and people in mentary Grocerament. You will hardly have Burmous, passed the post.
Siam. To the people the king is everything, bo Yesterday afternoon, baling Easter Monday, can do me wrong, his word is absolute law, he is and a holiday, several scratch matches were ran more than a man, they almost worship him. The on the Course, and produced same good sport, Caar of Rosin, I remember roading somewhers Fersign Minister, "have just handed in the nearest parallel in your knowledge must be the "Sir Andrew Clarke's engineers," said the the Anisher in two mass being very loss, that when ops of the Russian nobles tried the mrvey of the first motion, of 48 miles from Things are quiet neugh here now, and the experiment of asking his own tenants tonominate Bangkok to Ayuthis, the cost of which has been iqrorament are proceeding dowly but steadily a representative to % Council, out of a hundred 242 per mile. We have submitted this to our with the improvement of the faty flood reads something like 64 nominated the Czar. So it two Government engineers and they say that would be with us. & parliamentary government the survey will here to be gone over again. We boon made, and bred side walks eristin is not suited for a country where the mass of the have objected, too, to a good many items of ox ps but I doubt if much thought has been people is not yet educated up to it and does not peasa, such as the subscription to two copies of
The not increase in British Herenus for the bered. on the drainage; The native wheel desire it, and to inaugurate ancha syetem before | tha Bangbok Times mod the Siam Miraculife year ending yesterday is £390,000. The Froiss loaded,, driving rain; f. fogg gloomy, he hail fach parast or withdrawal., Depositors must Contribales of Business, whether they are bars, something like the Chinese vehicle, the time is ripe for it would simply be to court dosette. The Government has expressed us in. Deties show a decrease of a million and a belt.
ITINCE EISMAE-CE........... are now much it and removing soil, and ae all demagoguery and revolution. The gist of the tantion whatever of bailding this line, as it is "of them are incorant of grease the squeaking ieadrise His Majesty for a certain time"
new order of things will be a Council of State be not our desire to have the railways of Siam
BELLIN, 29th March. boilt with foreign capital, under the present Prince Bismarck's final departure from Ber really tremendons and ar piercing. Why this “How will thủ members of this Connell be conditions of extra-territoriality. We have lizi to-day was the gigami for x great puthurst is endured by residenta it is hard to my. 1 lit-chosen P
girou a Concession to a Siamass Company to of sympathy towards him. The route to the the orr grans would rectify the intolerablo
They will be nominated by the King": lay a line to Patrier, and the Government Uself railway station was thronged to the uttermosi buisance, and
"But that will not be so very different from will build one to Korat, with the view of pro by spermene multitudes of people, the ahisared should certainly be obrinted.
the present state of things, where the King longing it towards the North-oest, so so to top the ex-Chancellor ungousingly. The carriage meets all the officials and princes in audience and greatly develop the trade which is now diff. in which is rode was accompanied by a guard
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cult of ant. In hot our own English engi-of honour and troops lined the streets. noor. Mr. Gordon, goes to Korat this week to At the railway station, where momitaize of INTERVIEW WITH H. B. II. THE EXAMESE
begin the array
* bouquete hið been deposited by his admirare of MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Sa ended our interview, and the Prince called every alace, were asserabled members of the has already advanced from the old order of for an attendant and a lamp-bearer to escort me Cabinet and other state officials, besides ali (By Arrangement with the Author}" things by operating the Treasury from the home, just as the watchman was calling the members of the corps diplomatique. In Him; se elsewhere, the old things are Fareiga coe; by dividing the old office of third watch three sm. I believe un such pre passing away. But the change dass net consist, Kalalom its two, like your Horse Guards and sentation of authoritative Siamese statereals like the changes of most other Oriental countries, War Offer: by coupling Education and Eocis and ideas about Siam has ever beer pub- simply in the adoption one by one of European alasticol. Affairs and giving theur-a soperate lished I submit it, of course, entirely without mothols and ideas. Bian is developing à la portfolio; by creating a department of Posts criticism of my own, Siamoise-whatshe is to-day.and what she hopes and Telegraphs when Blam adhere to the Posts! to became to-morrow are to no small extent the Congentirmi and by consolidating a department esolution of what she was ages befors steamships of Pablio Werks from various other buresus. and tramways and telephones and missionaries A Ministry of Justice is also to bo reorganized were heard of. The European community in and consolidated." Bangkok are the last to perecive this, but as I All these Ministries,”. I sent asked the have explained elsewhere, their occupationa and Prince, which used to be sostered about are lish mail of the 14th March, arrived yesterday. The P. & O. steamer Thames, with the Eng interests do not often lead them into patha where now brought actually within the walls of the The following telegram are from Ceylon In this slange in conspicias Ofcourse European Palace. Why is that P. To foreign eyes: it; indueace is evident at every step of the evin anggastrming things":
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"No, and the way to forecast the future is simply to consider intelligently the nature of the change taking place today. His Majesty
tion, buteo is Siamese. Thereignothing Japanse, Nothing could to simpler. As you will for exemplo, in the now Japanese Constitution: already have gathered, His Majesty is strongly there le much that is Bismase in the groging gifted with what I believe you wall the historio political organisation of Sism. The great sense, and this is still another ezaraple. It is s audiance hall of Bangkok is architecturally half return to the old custom of the Bala Lah Khoon European and half Siamese,
or "Executive Mansion,' am, samembly hall in
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Berlin, 26th March, The Prince of Wales lanched with Prince Hismarek to day.
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Of ibis two-fold transformation the European the palaos to wilch the ministers esme every half meets you at overy turn. The King's stoom day to transact their business. In His Ma The Assecisled Chambers of Commerce have Jahta at anoler in the riter, the repeating jesty's father's time this practice grow ainok, resolved that patents and trademarks registered rifles of the soldiers: the sourlet lansare; the Miniators gradually withdrew their offolal work in any part of the Empire shall apply to the brass bands; the birthday ball; the Department into their own houses, and as a commoquenos got whole Empire. ! of Education there is no end to thees into the babit of doing pasity moob what they things. But the famese ball is no less real, liked The King has simply enforced a return though it be indritely less noticeable to foreign to the Sata Lu Khoon under the altered condi egoa The great offios of Second King, has tians of modern times." disappeared; bis palace is given over to the state And provincial government?" carriages, and his offetal landing-plassia deserted The Siamese provinces are divided into two
GERMANY, AND QÊKAT BELTÄIN..
Losban, 28th March.
It is stated that the Emperor William assured the Prince of Wales that he wil foster the closest relations with Crest Britain,
DIEAFFECTION. IN BRAZIL,
THE BEVENUE.
A popular ovation is also bring organised for the Trinos at Frisdrioharuh.
THE RUSSIAN JUDGET.
Highest opeur dit temperature on the 106**** Lowest open air temperature on the lish 1BOXSTER redened to 32 degrees Fahr, at evol -Treaty ka dhe shade in degree Fahrvabalt. SIUMIDITY in parentage of satdratisa, the humihily of -nie nabirated with moletuty being 100.
DITION OF THE Word to two podata 50 OF THE WIR) sig to Beaufort Boale. "ÖLÉZAZN OF THE WEATHER), hề khoe sky, o, detached
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BAO DE JANEIRO, 27th March. been wond King in the old order of things is subdivided according to importanes into four
Much dissatisfaction exista among the garrison Minister of Finance under the new order. The classes, of which there are 3 arst eles, 12 second here. A number of troops who wore ordered to diguity of Crown Prince has boon crested; the plans, third eines, and 41 fourth clans. All these the uthern proviross refused to go, and the whon a surplus of three millions sterling. teremony of induction three years ago was the ars in Sind proper, and they are governed from Government Fielded to them and ultimately most gorgeous known to Siamese memory, The Bangkok in all details. In the dependencies w withdrew the order. There is mach discontent Minister of State pe Inngor Bercise their reserve all the rights of succession, of appeal, and in the city, MA powerful fanctions in the privacy of their own of relations, either political or commercial, with A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON THE THEAT. palaces the Chinese Mandarin at his own foreign countries. There are 1 provincon in
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87. PETeessund, 27th March, brought within the very walls of the paleo, and Lao Obien and 39 Lao Kao, and. 9 Cambodian, they themselves must meet His Majesty every To soon of these we are sent oumissioners to will be nominated to inquire into the atronicus day. The distant provinces have boon reined in, asist the local raker in foreign affairs as in treatment of Biberian exile
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SPECIAL CARS my be obtained on applica In the House of Commons this afternoon, sttion to the Baparatendent tention was drawn to the speech of the Duke of Single Tickets are sold in the Carn; Fire- Connaught at the Bombay Yacht Club Dianer Coat Coupese, sud Krovaný Trikets at the en Saturday week, summaries of which have Office boon published and commented on in the Prem hero Sir James Fergussen, in reply to a ques- tion, aid that the strictures of His Royal High- sem were perfselly Justified. The armament of the forts was motulent, and the turret ships and the torpedo bouts were without crews. He added; however, that His Royal Highnem's re- marks would have the desired sheet for he might inform the House, that the authorities were now providing new guns and crown for the Colonel Wodobouse with a mounted force bus forts and vessels engaged in the defence of
so to speak, one by one. Froes Burmah to An Chiangmai, Luang Phrabang, Pasank, do."-
nam, from China to the British Protected States
Talking of the provinose brought us naturally
of the Malay Pazinsula, the grasp of Bangkok to the mush-dispssed question of the Burnish
has tightened on them all. Once an Indepen- Sisin boundary and the joint Anglo-Biamese
It is reported that au Imperial Commission
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Chiangmai; now the King has his daughter to to settle it. It is regarded an important wife and the King's brother “asalsts" Eim in his † question by the Indian Government, mit inval- rale, Again, Mr. Palgrave, when British Cposal, vas amongst other things the routes betnova was hand in glove with the Binarane nabhortion: Uppet. Burmah and Chises, and a good deal of started to reconsoltre 10 miles to the south Mr. Gould, when I arrived, had not been able, cupiessant feeling has been aroused by the ward of Wady Halls. It has been decided to in spits of repeated efforts, to obtain an interview fallare to agrow upon a common starting-point rebuild the Way Halfa milway, an far an Eve with the Foreign Minister for two months and and joint plan of action. I asked the Prince miles from Sarra. two days. What does it all maan. Wanting about this sad found him willing with a little
to know, I determined to ask.
reluctance, to talk of it.
It is always bast in these cases to begin at the top. But the King of Siam, like other
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