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INFIMATIONS.

GOLD MEDALS

By Appointment,

KUHNE 0.0.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRA THURSDAY NOVEMBBE 20гa 1301.

B. Ashton, Eng

fuiraitened state of the public finances to The Agents. (Mosure. Batterfield Swire) Colonies without; dalay →→I have the honour to | as I tell you, we bays great hopes that it will

do so would be little less than criminal. Trinform us that the 0.8. B. Co's steamer Jason be, air, your obedient servant,

torn out to be considerably tighter than we lait ding spora yesterday morning and may bala

Bahonberg K. XaDƏRSELL. had looked forward to." the Boerstary of State still insists on the expected bore on or about the Bud pros.

Mr. Robda's nocount was of course matjafnotory SILVER MEDALS Colony's incurring this unnecessary esplu- The Times of India says that in opsegtfor

under the olenumstanose, and the more mes bon General.Post Offos, London, cause nors had been published the satis, mora diture the unofficist members of Council with the dikkim Tibet negotiation, the Chi

2th Saptambor, 1891ng as tht upon which our conversation passed would be fully justland in entering on a pose representatives at Darjeeling are weld to ba

rotting despatos from Peking regarding the of last month on half of the British Mercan dealers no dividend and wait draw upon its ye

Bir-In reply to your letter of the 19th that tho Bank of South Australia bad had to course of constitutional obstruction and optee of the Bal arran rement which has been tile Marine Oosts Association. I am direted servos to the tune of £200.000. Of course these posing every money vote placed before matured during the last few months by the Postinestar General to neqsaint gon matters are disquieting to these who don't know |them. In the mannțime it might be well to

At the Pollen Court: yesterday, before Mr. that the importance of avoiding Sunday labour anything of banking, but those who do em to try the effect of a publiq meating or a peti. A. G. Wi, the captain of the steamer Han connection with foreign colonial mail is by consider that periodical loss of this character alaost inevitable owing to the competition) tion: The Colony ought not to allow an pria was fond 320 for haring on board over 200 en overlooked by this Department,

The of gappowder. Another optain, master of The gadation of Sander arrivals and de- now established among banks working in the unnecessary expenditure of half-a-million to the steamer Glengarry, was ford 438 for having attares of nail steamere da frequently the sub- - East be imported upon it without a struggle entered and left the port wilboat communlsating tables of packet services hat in some casus it is SALVATIONISTS AT FASTBOURNE

Jest of onretol spraidaration in setting time my dau with the harbour Master.

AND MISSIONARIES IN CHINA. The following correspondanos appqaza, in the

HONGKONG:

(Batablished, 1980),

TOTOHAMA.

FINE ART CHRISTMAS SNOW.

BROWN, JONES CO

1889

ITALIAN AND AMERICAN MARBLE MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS

IN STOCK...

METALLIC AND PORCELAIN

WREATHS AND CROSSES/

In 1970 the average daily number of pri-

not passiblealtogetherto avoid Sundaysalis with-i soners in the gao, was 482. Last year it. What a faron a bambooing often is in the out dislocating the merics and incurring delays was 566, or su increase of 84 in twenty Chiass Courts is well set forth in the following which it would be improper to facur and impos-

ante, travalated from the bhen pasi—” & Wên: | sibía to defend. -I ara, your obedient servant, years. In 1890 the number was 674, char runner for culpabia u-gligen got 1.000

"E H. REL

TO THE EDITOR. A that during the last ten years there has bows. The profshment did not seem to have The President, British Mercantile Marine

Bi-Daily, or acarly, in The Times there is actually been a decrease. The suppression fiation of 500 mora bloks; hut the connar, after

Imuch effat, and the magistrate ordered the in Officers Association. Hongkong.".

mantion of Eastbourne and the Salvation Army, and of China and missionarias. Is thare not of the salt duuggling that formerly went on the extra bisting was finished. walked out asim

Lord's Day Observance Soginty,

20 Bedford Street, London. W.C. similarity in the two cases? I do not, of course, from Yaumati to China brought shout a The magistrate most have been a green A SKILLED EUROPEAN STONEMASÖN

"Dear Sir,--Copies reqsired of your letters put the Corsbanta on a par with the mission. hand, for when a conger is beaten by his count the Banda Cargd Working Ordinance, aries, but they the Salvation is think they „ŠUPERINTENDS: AEL WORKKUS

sensible abatement of crime and the suppres-raies it is the magistrato who gets tired fist." PLOMIT ATTENTION TO ORDERS FROMsion of the gambling houses is calculated to pati

1891, addressed to the late Postmaster General, doing right; probably some of the people at

· Coastal, PoRTS.

A football match, the Class. E Company to Lord Harrowby and the Marquis of Salisbury. Easterns think so too, while the lamang Honghong, 7th Angust, 1891.

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hare the same effect. In view of these car-Blat Regiment, will be played at the Racecourse I hope to make effective use of them in secking majority of the inhabitants wish them and their cumstances, and of the improved police ground, unter Asociation rules, this afternoon, to antend protective legislation to Singapore performances away. Is ant this the Chines supervision and the improved lighting of the play to commence at a quarter past four. The and other ports." town, we would not be surprised to see &

faithfully yours. Following is the Clab tess- further decrease in the number of prisoners, notwithstanding the steady increase of the population. It is somewhat signi feant that the Secretary of State, while in-

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JORDAN ALMONDS, NOUGAT, BUT TER SCOTCH, ASSORTED TOFFEES, DRAGEEN, PRALINES, and a large seleo tion of PURE CONFECTIONERY from the

inding Manufacturers.

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PINE, APRICOT, CHERRY, LIME, GUAVA, and other FRUIT JELLIES great variety.

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enormous BUI [a new, geol, objects to our incurring a little additional or penditure on our own account for im

Sam Goal,

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Fall backs.

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E.G. Young

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J. McCordel Left wing.

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B. M. Lurlight

F. Maitland

J; Wille

Balieva mo, dear sir,

what they are doing; perhaps some Chinese ces? The missionarisa think it their dute to do

*JOUR GHITION, Secretary.”

are favourable to them: the immesse majority wish them away. Publle opinion hora is with "Colonial Secretary's Office, the source people, but publio „apinton is

November 21st. 1891. appealed to to wand vessels of war to the unhapp Sir, Lam directed by the Offloor Administer- Chinese to kili, baro, and destroy, la-thĩa” rea- ing the Government, to inform you that the comable P. Consider the case from the point of Socra'ery of Brate for the Colonies has request-view of a Cbloaman-of a man who would lør ad His Excellency to acasaint you that Lord preaching go on if others would but who desires". Koutsford has received your letter of the 19th | paes and as bombardments or slaughter. I of August referring to the onealment of the know there is this difference-the Salvationists Sandey Largo Working Ordinaues and asking at Eastbourne break the law; the missionarius that similar action might be taken in other have rights by treaty and do not go byond them. Colonies.

Bat consider the case pratically. To the goods Lord Knutsford, desires that aftantion dene equivalent to the harm Is the canal of should be drawn to Parliamentary paper (0.8495) Christianity promoted by ita bai geraad- bateful at the end of which will be found a to the people at large Your obodient servant. cironfar addressed to the Governors of certain

Major Darker.

3. Keddie. Indian Engineering says on the subject of the linking of telegraph lines between ludis and China Thle anbj-st kas, long engaged the attention of the Supreme Government, but through frivolous excuses put forward by the

B. Foreign Ofce at Peking, this question has been so long del yed. But owing to recent outrages Colonies anggesting the enactment of an Ordin-

TO THE EDITOR.. and mischief committed by the Celestials range similar to that pasasd in this salony on

Sir,-Does "B" suthoiently distinguish be British Minister in Paking his strongly urged this question.I have the honour to be, sir, your tween two diffrent thingstar preaching a religion diatasteful to the mass of people, and on the Central Government the red-asily for most obedient ervant, H a conpertion, and the indigo and Barmah Go

W. M. GOODMAN,

b) preaching by means in íkemselves outragenus. vernment are likewien pressing the demand

"Acting Colonial Secretary."apart from ay question of the religiou pronaked P the line is now luid to Momein, almost up to the

A well-known missionity of an earlier generation. preached an apopular roliglas Government are always ignorant of what trap- Barine Chinese frontier, and an the British

ney, an "unlawfal" religion—with con-ideendie. pires Feathers Chius the importance of this

HUGOM), 603, with manny of his followers, suffered connection ouot be over estimated.

death in the cause, but he was always soran

FOOCHOW.

*E isvile attention to our firat supplies of proved lighting, which as every one knows WE

is one of the strongest possible preventives of crime. If the interest on the capital sum it is proposed to spend on a new gaol were applied to the introduction of the electric light or an improved service of gas lamps into the Taipingaban district the Colony would get much better value for its mouer and would have fewer criminals to provide prison accommodation for. Taking last year's figures, however, as a measure of the normal amount of crime in the Colony, we have to provide for a daily average of 566 prisoners.

We are assured by teamen, well known to us, jously careful to avoid giving offence. He might In 1886 the daily average was 674, or more contains the following natu Wa are glad to keep them motil next season. They probably with a somewhat different reputationu, had tre

The October isna of the Friend of China that they and all other halders of fine toas will possibly have attained a spordier marigedem than a hundred in excess of last year announce that arrangements have been madeggerate the real state of the case when they perambalated Campanian watering place to an figures, and even then there was no ab for a visit to this country by au slugnant Christall us that present prio would not do more accompaniment of Syrian shaw and Phrygna tien Chinaman. Chook Hong Cheong, parin thon aover the cost of labour, carriage, ohesta, tambourines, but bo preferred to set the sensible. CADBURY'S SPECIAL CHOCOLATE sormal amount of sickness. Last year, tendent of the Church Missions to Chinase at lekin, &o, bat there is no doubt their losses are example of dwelling in his own hired house. with a total of 3.444 prisnners committed Melbourne, Victoria, who has for some years sxtremely heavy. Sinne ar will so comparative reviving all that came to hits, preaching and to gaol the number of hospital case past been our esteemed correspondent, and the well off that they will live through those had teaching what be thought was from

Do Chinese missionaries act differently? Is ader, of the ante-optum. movement in that times, but others will be rained. Whether they was only 868, while in the Garrison, with a colony. He has obtained from the Committes will do better by carrying over these teas to the there any question of missionary music clashing total strength of 1,565, the admissions to of the Charab Miston Jears of absence for Line Tow season ramaior to be sea. From all we with Chiness?

The Eastbourne quarrel is of general interest. hospital were 1,915. There is no healthier months from the 1st fast, in order that he may can learn it is exuerding docbtful,

visit the leading towns of the United Engdom. It was st tad in our report from Tek Hus last not so much in view of any wide questims nữ th in site in the Colony than that of the present to stir up intrest in the opiam question, and week that the chief of the rioters bad esaapad. propagation and toleration of a religi a hateful, gaol, and if a new gsol, were erected atto uppes to British oitizena on ebalf of his We now hear that this man has again collected to the mass of a people, se becunse ao many of countryman in Chion. We learn from varions together a large body of men and defied the us live in towns, and tuink but our streats Causeway Bay there lu every reason to fear reliable sanrees that Mr. Cheuk is a forcible Imperial troops. An engagement took place in ought to be quiet as wall as clean. that there would be a large increase in the platforma spesker, po felly weil able to expressed, but they have again gathered together in the streets of Rome well swept, aligala ordered which the chief and his party were utterly ront-} When Vespasian was elile, and did not keep bimself tu oar leogange, which he speaks with. sickness and mortality amongst the prisoners out any loreign atent, and we know from his such anmbers that the Imperialists were puzzled the bosom of his official toga to be filled withi If we are driven to accept the conclusion that writings that he thoroughly well acquainted to know how to deal with them. The latest mud. He might have ordered some modern the present gaol is overcrowded-though with the history of the question. A pabile news is that the rioters have proposed terms of municipal authorities to brayed at for Tear- avercrowding can only be said toexist when reception is intended be held at. Exstar Hall, offering to return to their houses if they and-twenty hours by simultaneous secular and

early in December.

are allowed to do so unpunished; further, that saared brass bands. But the harassed ale of COLOURED OPALS minuted in Plush the conditions become prejudicial to health,

the General agrees to these terms on the cor- Eastbourne seems to be doing his best dition of the chief being harde over to him. representing favourite subjects.

of which there is no evidence in the case

The difficulty seems to be to catch this chief Victoria Gaol the Hon. O. P. CHATEE has

he is never to be found when wanted.--Echo planed before the Government and the pub. lio a scheme by which it could be diminished at a moderate cast. Mr. CHATER proposes an addition to the present gaol, which could be affected by a rearrangement of the police Barracks. The cost of this extension, the hon. gentleman places at $80,000 at the out side, and as it would no doubt provide celle for more than eighty prisoners we would be in as good a position as regards the ratio between the average number of prisoners and the accommodation for thein as we were 19 in 1870. While the capacities of the present site are still unexhansted it would be folly to enter on the construction of a new goal on another site and commit the Colony an expenditure of half-a-million dollars.

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CHINKJANG.

An Indian ontemporary gives the following accouata a rain making experiment carried out by Mr. Wolfe-Murray, Collector of Cuddapah, on the 25th Uct ber... There being no wind fo dy kits, the dynamite was exploded by a fun on a feet above the aes and two bundred above the rook atan elevation of two thousand four hundred plot. Tou packages of dynamite, of to pounds yards, spart. Ons falet to light. The on that the standard of rabsilion was to be raised weight Pach, were placed on the rack about filty-

16th November. Reports have been circulating in our streets onions were felt hundreds of yards distant. about six bars after the explosings, wth the between the 13th and 18th ofta meon. But sun still abiding, rains a magnificent shower of whether at Chiakiang or somewhere else, no rain or companied by wind and no thunder till one seems to know. As reports of this and aí. the rain passed over. The shuter lasted about milar nature have been started so often during half a boar, when the channels ranging into the last few months. the people pay little ut day was rather cloudles than otherwias. The the water fauka received a small supply. The tention to them now.

Our Chifa and Chibaien are especially alert,

rain gauged about one inch over a portion of its and are said to frequently go about the streets area. It is estimated that thirty square miles at night is citizens nlothes, and are thus keep explosion, but a mile or more away. Outside of going on. of the beavi at rain ell not on the alte of the ing themselves informed as to what is really the dynamite rain ares there was only theatres hers, and they resort to numerous There is quite a rivalry between two large tordinary dr sein. The cost of the explosion tricks to draw the people. The latest was one

Was within R-200.

Ter amount subscribed in Hongkong in síð of the sufferers by the recent earthquake in Japan is at present nearly $4,000, and last week the Comitton remitted through the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank $2,000 to the British Minister at Tokyo, asking him to forward it to the proper quarter. At Shang bar a first list of subseriptions has been published amLanting to between nine and ten thousand dollars, and it is to be hoped the Hongkong list will approach somewhere near the enmu figure before it is finally closed. The calamity which has befallen the districts affected by the earthquake is one of the most On the 14th November. at the Cathedral, Shanghai, appalling recorded in modern times and FRANCIE JAMER, yourgeat ean of E. F. Roans, Esq.. of County Cork, Ireland to RATELREN CLAMA should appeal strongly to the sympa by of dest daughter of W. F. Brock, Esq., M.P.. the benevolent. The number of persons lelt On the 18th November, at Trinity Cathedral, totally destitute is said to be a bun Shangbai, by the Roy. H. C. Hodges, M.A.. zacy FRANCIS LAYERS, of Cheloo, to EDITH MARY HASdred and fifty thousand, and the suffer, Tox, aldeak daughter of PERDERICK HASLEY BELL.ing that must be experienced during the Exq, of Shanghai.

BIRTH

At Burstow, on the till November, 1892, the wife

of J, T. LAUTS, of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Adelaide, South Australis.

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BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION.

A special meeting of the Above Association was held last evening at College Chambers, Cap tain Samarl Ashton presiding over a large at

tendance of menibars..

of them nanounning some time ago that they had a dragon in their possession, and that all plays were to be produced la his houóni. As this dragon had the power of appearing new as a larga sake, and now as a small kizarð, no one could doubt his genuineness. The Bat of plays pnt in front of his cage, and whichever he indiosted by looking at was stonde goted.

Who

By this happy artifes, all the people have been drawn to this particular theatre, and

lengthy speech, anveral gaustions which have ing the play some half a dozen roughs rushed the other one has been compelled to close its The CHAIRMAN introduond. in a somewhat one for want of patronage. But yesterday dur recently excited considerabis fotonet among into the thestra, stampeded the people and Bonfaring me in Hongkong. Ha Brat denit smashed up the theatre faraiture, etc. with the matter of the treatment of ships officer these roughs ware, no one knows, but possibly and prepared a resolution to the fret that the other theatre could give some information the Association cookidered the present ship-on the subject if it was inclined. putes betw on officers and their superior thermometer standa at 46" in the wind to day ping" law as "very unjust in the case of dis:

A cold wave e rook no yesterday, and the he Association was of opinias, the rewolu Daily News correspondent to be tried before a Naval Court and not before ign went on to say, that anal cues ought Magistrate, who had no option but to infliot imprisonmart. After the resolution was put directed to make representations to the Gorera- wid uranimously carried, the Secretary was

ment on the subject, urging that aitil 20 thorities should not be permitted to exercise Juried iction in al dipples. The next wab

NANKING.

16th Novembaz The ordinary daily routine of our work in this staid old capital was pleasantly interrupted on jest introduced by the Chairman was relative misioudries by the Shauryaen Hsien. Tho Saturday last by an entertainment given the

At the Government Cell Hospital, on the 16th coming winter is painful to think of. The to the load line of foreign veselse for a long on contained a long list of dishes. including instant, Joan FTIMAN, of Usutan, aged 51 yɛzzA. sooner subscriptions are sent in the more time a sore puint emong coast tradare Capl. some rare delicacies highly prized by the Chi- Ashton referred to the distines son anjzat veze, and the feast was served in semi-foreign At 3, Womag Road, Skarbai, on the 25th No useful are they likely to be, as they will en-advantage which was given to foren versele style. It was a splendid entertainment in every vembar, MATILDA, the beloved fe of Jour Lowes. able the people to tide over the first stress over English by this diffrace, and a relation way and highly appreciated by those in atten

A No. 3. Woosung Road, Shanghai, on the 167b Notamer, MATILDA, the beloved wife of Joan and resume their occupations. Fortunately antimala of the meeting to the Government feeling expressed in this overture toward mere was carried diregtig the Secretary to refer the dance, who rociprocate most heartily the kind HOWEB, aged 56 year."

in the case of Japan the instiuota of the The third point rated was the possible confriendly reistions between the offoiale and the charitable need not be restrained by the fol. tingency of further piracy, ostrages, and the wis inbartee.

safest means of pretention. It was it advisable,

Eir Daily Press.

HONGKONG, NOVEMBER 26гn, 1891.

The division taken in the Fionace Con- In the article in yesterday's issue on the mittee on Monday in reference to the pro second reading of the Building Ordinance posal for a new gaol ought to convince the it was stated that the Bill appeared in the charged by Chinese, but this they could Secretary of State of the disfavour with Gasells for the first time on Saturday, the which the expenditure of the Colony's funds 21st inst. This was a mistake. The Bill os that project is viewed. All the unofficial had appeared in the Gatetis of the 14th inst., members are opposed to the idea, and in this but had escaped our notice. respect they faithfully represent the views

ing, which prevails in connection with Chi-aid the Chairman, that say of them hould Petersburg ranched this city on Saturday night HE. Prines Constantin Wissm-ky of St. nese relief funds, that their donations will fall into forgetfulness on the sabject, ter after a twenty-nine Buys journay overland from be whittled down white pussing through the thongs more prestition was now taken and a Tientsin. It is his intention. after leaving bore,

better system of arming adopted there was al- to visit Hankow and to travel these to siam bands of the officials.

wags the possibility under the press condi Captain Maribou of the Palis is quite 111, and tion of a repetition of the Namoa affair. on the advice of his physicians a dispatch was It was abahutely necessary that a strong seat on Sunday night to Adairal Belknap for staff of European detectives sheald be employed permission to return to changhai-Daily News. time this important daty was misly de visiting departing vessele. At the present correspondent.

of the community. On the score of health

hardly regard as a very effective safeguard.

If the Government had not a anoiset number

of European detectives trey ought to have, and

results

THE NEW O, B. C.

the bairman proved that the Secretary respect The Ceylon Observar of the 26th October son. fully point this out to the Government, empha- taina a letter from its Loadon correspondent sising the importance of an efficient staff of describing the way be tried to ascertain bow far European defectives.

the losses incurred in the Straits Settlements Affer a en:fono ery discussion of several by the Mercantile Bank had been shared in by it would be impossible to improve on the afternoon..

The interpost ride match is to be shot off this points of interest arising out of the mais rasala- the New Oriental Bank. He thus esta forth the

tidus the meeting broke up. present gaol, the sickness and mortality in

Kuhl says that the Gerwen trade in wiretary Mr. Cheney Dubeen)

The following letters were read by the Secre which have always been on a remarkably China has come to a standstiil, ohiy on 0

I had a long chat with Mr. Rohde, and be I remarked :-- Öf course we hare ntade losses small scale. The official mombers had no count of t: oublemarising out of the root ricle:

Sandon Hall Stone. Slafordshire, Our last report told yon candidly that we an.

Out her 6th, 1891. thing to urge in favour of the proposal

ticipated them and had made full provisi u The Agents (Masara. Dodwell, Carill & Co.) "Dear Sir.-I am much obliged to the mem-gainst them without any necessity for at- except that it bad been ordered by the Se-inform us that the steamer Monmouthshire later bers of the British Mercantile Marine Officers' fecting car disident. I cannot yet tell you cretary of State. The ground vo which the Singapore today and is dus bere un er about bars conveyed to me on the subjen of the part upon a maximum, but I have reason to say that Aaslation foëtäëir friendly thanks which you the essot wount of our losses. We find the 3rd prox. Secretary of State proceeds is, thas it is do-:

I took in and avouring to moure the Sun- we believe we shall be considerably below that sirable to introduce the separate system in large Hankow lighter, loaded with boilers 1sm traiy glad to know that our efforts have counts which we had deemed hopelers would The Shanghai Mercury of the 20th inst, says: day's reat for Bitish grain at Hongkong, gare, ach mail brings as advices that so place of the present system of associated and machinery for Chang Chib-tung iron bero so far so successful I have been ill a turn out batter than bad been expected. The cells. If we were commencing de novo it works, is mo reit below the shipping, ready to great part of this year owing to influensa mistaks made by the other banks was that they would no doubt be desirable to build a gnol

be towed up the Yangles:

I bould be roatared to health. I hope to be able kept the facts of their lo are back from their of the separate system, but having already 156 Chinese residents subscribed 31.71 towards fully yours,

Mr. Li, the Chinesa Consal in Yokohama and Calzales remain, with good wishes, faith-ertainly we bare no reason to regret that we to take some steps respecting the other Crown shareholders We candidly stated them, and an excellent gaol on the associated system the relief of the sufferers in Aichi and Gife. the question is whether the Celouy should kepe and forwarded it to the Kangana Kancho be called upon to spend half-a-millieu dol. A few days ago. The Michi Nichi in mentioning the above foot expresies ita ibanka very fiertily

lara merely for the sake of making the to the Chinese residents for their kind sym change. That the separate system is the pathy-Japan Gjasette.

"HAREOWBY.

did so. Our customers in the East appear to Seuraal-Ashton, Eeg, President.”

bare appreciated the course we followed, for there as been a material increase in the de poults since our report. was issued. In Culent- Foren-Oos, London, fa alone this lacrease amounts to something

8th September. 1991. like nine laos of rupees. The thot is, the rel best in the abstract we are not propared to į

Str-I am directed by Lord Salisbury softion of the Oricntel Bank with Its customers dispute, but we do most emphatically say Alice Memorial Hospital. begs tu neknowledge Cargo Working Ordinance at Hongkong, and we treat them as friends and candidly disclose Mr. E. W. Maitland. Hon. Treseuree of the 19th August with refrenos to the Bouday and the friends of olden times stick to us when acknowledge the rearipit of your letter of the has always had much of a personal character, that to this Colony it is not worth the with thanks the following dopati.us to the funds hog to inform you that the views which y a car position. Then of course, as a bank of li money it would cost to introduce. Even if of the Hospital

we had a largo cash balnaes we would still maintain that it was, wasteful extravagance to build a new gaol, and in the present

Young Fin, Teq..

Rev. J A. Torner.tange skauti

A. Cattaneo Eq

H. D......

Tang Kis Chang, Ea

bars expressed on behalf of the British Mer-mited, ability, and with no pote leans to bam. cantile Marine Ulcers' Association se to the per t, we have been able to make liberal pro desirability of extending the above mentioned vision for contingencies such as those which in- Ordinance in athTM Crown Cotoules will be volved the banks at Bingapare, so that we wra brought before the Becretary of State for the perfectly prepared to meet this loss although

B. J

TO THE EDITON. Fir, four correspondent B. Janks Does B.' suointly distinguish botwosh two different things->) proaching ar Jixion dia tasteful to the mzes of à panple, and (b) pre die ing by moans in themselves outrageous, apar!' from any question of the religion pranohed P" |

missionaries as the Eastbournis with the I appreciate the differense, but the Chiavas do not. They are as honestly angry with the Corybants. Assutus they the Chinese, are wrong, are they to be bombarded and slaughter rd F-Bomember; the Salvationists do not think air proceedings outrageous-aar obedient erant,

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