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KIN HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY MAY 3RD

During the boner thandermerm on Saturday, night a boatman on e estro bat near the Bar- bour Office was strook by lightning and in- atantaneanalyilled, Five alter pitaons on board csoaped uníujarad and the host itself was not damaged,

ASSASSINATION AT BAIGON.

A MAGISTRATS FATALEZ eHot and THREE

·CTREES WOUNTED.

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has been the ouse, besine formly there. | be gandide, it will be scircały pissible to over." 27 were obsirgstions all over the rund, but now - sathaute itɗ importano and ite bearing anim

You can get through eally."

the oil tertio in-the Far East-Singapore Fris The Tramway keeps the line opon "Press.

Mr. Buperintendant Gommon also says in (enewer to the quietion, t

shie, regulate the trafic; wheres a single line in a strees of asy from 20 to 22 feet wide is very fusonveniant. We have in case of a double line where the atrast in only some 21 or 2 foot wide, and we find it pos daly no ipcontaimugs but a matter of great couveutene that there are two lines, that in the seat of earringes or valtisks standing before any dvor, the cars have simaly to ones on to the other line, and then they get on their own line again further on.” It must also be remembered that tramdan when running offer no pertinent abstraction ordinary oarriage. to other atrast traffic, ia înot not as much as on-

of the mince:

INDIAN COAL.

SOME OPIUM FÀOTS.

Mr. Rustomjon Pestonjos Jehongkhir,, of the Bombay Opinx Department; who went to Bug-

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by lagt Batarday's mail, says tho Times of | India of 29th April, carried with him a printed voliams, of some eighty pages of his own com pilation. which the anti-opiam party fa England

What thị men said was taken down by an expert dert-hand weiter in the presence of reputable witness. The opium users were in almost geory ones strong, healthy, shortal men, do- ing ip 'most instanessa hard day's work rear. malarial ailments so common in the eqnalid ly every day of their lives, and treo feoin the and Githior pacts of the native town. Several of them averred that opine had saved them from falling a victim to far worse thing--

THE INDIAN ÚOTTON TRÅDE."

It is no secret at the present time that none THE HANKOW TEA MARKET.

of one local mills are working at a prodt 1 some cases the loss being realised is as much as a gaarter angs per pound on the ads of the HANKOW. 11th May.

yaru produced, but the average does uut pro Musters of almost all descriptions have now babig scand unsighth Suf an ana or, a happily to prevalent in the land of the anti- boon placed on the market, and as a whole quality abant & per cent. The prion of cotton and the of many of those who are their testimony that | opinmíta-alëshel. It was within the experienƏ dimppointing es nativos all uides predicted applied uskotrare, of course, responsible opium aetet. us a prophylactic in dysentery. an extraordinarily fine orop.

for tast to a great artenf, bat it earms to scholars, rheumatism, enlarged spises, and other that in large numbor of was the work of the distroming complaints. Mr. Jehangir, who bas mills oould be carried on in a much less costly been for your employed in the Opian Depart manner than at pressat

of China, like the Queen of England, reigas

gique; honos It lays in stocky of sekilers and at does not rate, and it is duitely more

extra policemen Bat none better than the do monstrationists: themacires know they cannot dealt to set ha motion the machinery of

socomplish any of their atopise by marching administration in the Central Kingdom than

up the kill, and marching down again. They it is in the most bureaucratically govoraed

are all moro as lour visionary oplats having individually axes to gelud; they sputter and country of the West. Nevertheless it is The following appears in the Daily Graphic quest to make a noise, but the real onlookers Do you consider, tramways are more dan satisfactory to hear that the young I--Maca has been said and written about the are well aware it is Britorns the Weaver, gerous to toot passengers than other vehi

· Daling with the question of Ladian sail w of photography as nu aid to the detection of the whole time. It is all the same, very sad. perial recluse at Paking is in favour of the lawbreakers, and a song on the subject, sung by that mehmen cannot be entrusted with the

olen "On the contrary, I consider they the adves. Ma marks with entisfaction that will do well to meditate apon. The book are not nearly so dangerous ne other for the annals of Indian cost mining fesecondsts in the main of the personal testimony A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED, intruduction of such & progressive institn. Mr. Dan Leno, lately had a vogus at the music: Iberty of a mass mosling; they must congre vadictos."

from those great catastrophes which from time of nagely one-half out of the total pamber of tion as the railway. His advocacy may not carmees la furnished by oned our eva redont when all the city tass to the stroote during

balls. A qurious instance of the use of the gate within four walls and under sovor. Ter "Yaz think thoy ald rather to the conri- ta thus cooar in Bagland and do the Cox regular opigm amplers in Bombay. According be so powerful as that of, say, the Viceroy of illustrations. We lataly published a photograph oarsival or the 14th July Lolidsy, no one thinks

ense of the truffe using the road?" Itinent, in which thousands of lives have been to the theory of the anti-epinm party, sivaly think they are a great pablio convonistcoat pressut no statistis are available. there are graded and worthles; thoie natural appetite sacrificed but of minor accidente, though nine per cent. of those should bare ben Chilli, but if the officials become awarn that of a Chinese execution. It appears that one of at organising a revelation, and corolutions at

sad very much patronised." -the iron road is viewart with special favour the sperators who taiated at the performance datos ramble Breast maioides at fixed In reference to this same e sostion, together Tespaétor of Mines and the prasing of a Bill their pirmulation impeded. the quality of nadoubtedly many, and the appointment of a testroyed, their digestive organs deranged, was a corporal in a regiment then stationed at konce.

with the advantages of a double. line, over at the Court in Peking the fact may serve Hongkong, who had asked and beet refased por- Another unpalatable event for the French is singla ene la narrow streets. Mr. Paterson, the for the regulation of the industry is desi. their blood vitiated, tusir respiration ob to dissipate some prejudice if it does not mission to attend the deremony. The same the same of Prints Ferdinand of Balgarismanager of the Edinburgh Tramways, when be able in the faterests of the workcars. Labour is strasted, their spirits dspessa, their orvoUS overcome the opposition loopt up for moreau perafaelonel. By the aid of a magnifying at a drop of motern Ortes blood in her veins, 1879, says

photograph came under the ratios of this cor is marriage with real Boarioa prinoses, with fore the Tramways Parliamentary Committas in a fruitful souros of trouble and annoyance at system weakened and exhausted, and their body most wins. The infustry is of too capenteistad to a more framestork of bones. With nry reasons. In the last named cause is the glass, so a correspondent informs as, the colonel is a great political victory for Stambouloff. “I may etate that wo have had a good deal of data for a regular caste of miners to have the body kiked and the will power woskened, the voert of the delay in the construction of the ongnised the features of the disobedient to Surely Russia must see by this that Bal experience is reforemen to the offant of a grow up and many of these emplored in situations, thoughts, and desires of there ninety,

com." and was consequently onabled to indiante garlans are recolred to remain Baigarione,]

wine corabite their wark in thein with agrising out of every bandred are, on this authority, long projected line from Kowloon to Canton, the cause of disciplins.

singla: sud double line, and the result sad, not Russians, and that religion, as that a double Has of Tramways as a rule is cultural paranite. Daring the callivation corrupted, and the rain of the whole man wadeem the Erst southern section of the great trunk

One of the results of the importation of kerde baticaal lover, is only soonndary in their perferable to a single line especially when season from Jnly to November the mines are plats. There are other not lose confident obarges Our NEW FACTORY has been recently refitted line to Poking. The Imperial sanction to is in bulk at Calagita, says the Times of India, Syes Europe takes ante that the Cear with all there is a large amount of trafle, inaanachury look, and at other times the men amade by this atengely reckless party, into which with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest this section was given more than two years is that ten American gallons of good lamp oila legions and all ble diplomatic threats. dars de the two fons, ipatand of being chjastionuot idolined to work very raruriy, so that in wù baed not tow antor; mass they have been a and most approved kind, and we are well able hngo, nad a company was projected to aader may now be bought for Rs. 2-8, the purchaser tier, nor a se-ship to land invaders at Varan not send a Coassuk ta omes the Bulgarian fron.

proportion to the output the workings have to be bonded times disproved; but as for the opium compete in quality with the boel English makers. take its inmediate construction, but there reputed to hold ten American gallons. If that monarch all wast in the and bow.

Binding his owa packego. Two tins ut kercaina Pablle opinion sows His Majesty, for befors

och mars extensively opanel and a greater snazer hiredf, Mr. Johanghir has collected amber of working fas a provided than would-be volume of testing say iingle case from greed of some officials blocked the way, and tank trage has the man results in Bombay,

ocasory in Europe. Coal cutting machinery, which is worth a waggon-land of the renkiem The reports of the terrible drought are very The parost ingrediente only are used, and the the scheme was perforce temporarily aban-samption of petroleum, not only for lighting, grain are all destroyed and the autumaal cereala we may look forward to greatly increased con painful. Farmer g the spring sowings of

which is now extensively entered in English and unseruplans st se Cut to whick sati- atmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the denel. It is rumoured that there is more bat for cooking and for molite power. Tho oil sommence to "yellow", no rest corpe of grasse,

ines, doon not appant to have been tried in opimuites are not ashamed to put hair namiss. India, ner is it likely that it wonbandosed as manufacture throughout.

disposition now on the part of the mandarins engine, in which eit spray la exploded in the se, can be sown; the stil is either as dry as

and there la no immediats prospect of the demand the opiam Shops taken at randen, without the labour didoulties am grailually deciez book farnishes a record of statements of th30 opian.sers. statements taken in to help forward the enterprise, but it is pos-progress, even in Eagisad, where coal is vers doing wall. The be k of the potato arop for Octo eylinder to propel the piston, is making steady ashes or as hard a fag. The vineyards are

for coal greatly excoading the prawn cumityy pramelitats ides of selecting evidence. sible that the enthusiana of the expitalists cheap. We may, therefore, expect that for arall bat has not yat bean planted. Sickness is very concerned has cooled in the meantime. industries such as rinting, exl-water making,

The Chinese Imperial Government are wood working, and for small electric light in oral, and ovary form of lang affaction is teas. stallations, the oil engine will fad many gaitables Senator Jules Bien lays down, tho-aged cherons for thosa over 70 yoari of age. But certainly more inclined than they were kinds of employment. We bars within the pet bare no plase nor apparently in the world. to tolerate and even to patronise the year or two had one basis for estimating the cost The worst allment, because in a sense now, is railway, having now seen somewhat of set drop in the price of koreaies would not only painful form of ereptive fever and the cou- of lighting disturbed eareral times. An import the outbreak of "gal fever; it is a most its advantages in the North, but there reduce the cost of loop light, but obespeu sequence of evercrowding the prisons. It is to is nothing to show that they are any

etootrio light in small installations,

beboped it will opt recall the daye of Judge For COAST PORTS, Waters are proked and core prepare in allow the employment

JaTries. placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and of foreign capital in such undertakings. Of

The papers annonces that, the police dopartis the full amount allowed for Packages and Emp.course this is much to 50 regrested, because

ment occupied is look after resident foreigners In France baa roovived additional olerks that tios when received in good condition.

Of Kiusinng teas. Ningehows sro curtainly Counterfoil Order Books supplied fice on ap

it serves to materially delay the progress of

the papers of foreigners are being re-examined the best gold. being for the most part very fair the development of the resources and capa-

and an extra suporviaino azareised over these in aap and thongh in many cases the dry leaf plication.

bilities, and trade of the country; but it publishes the following telegram from Saigon:-

The Courrier d'Haiphong of the 18th lust. to the mener barn. What it all means no or in creedingly bad, a netiesable feature is the

known.

In England a mill of 30.000 spindles would on Bombay same up the rasnits of his stnost entire absence of tarry favoured to cost little if anything or to work that a periour and information Climate, food, and would be quite sufficient to satisfy theOn Sunday, cullis occasion of the Raiss, thero worse, and me to be improving. The intrigus and are generally flat, showing groat want of wage of thn work-people is on the average from Indian people ; & moższaka orneemption is not Ju Toukin matters though difficult are not Keemna teas ara parhaps worse than last sasson of the same size haust, although the indiving of life make the way of opium bezsficiat friends of civilisation and advancement if was a large number of Europesas at Travink from to nempei M. Laness to retira has failed; the point and invariably have dark infusion. China would take up the work con amore Mytho and the neighbouring arrondissements. protectorate can only boost by his long re

at mi karmalni, but the contrary. Oplan in not.' two to three times in re than it is in Indicatoriating, and any statements made to that Hanker kinds seen in oup simest sbors arer Where, then, dass the extra expenditure some infot show the ingories of the making them after the fashion of Japan, which cónatry About five o'clock Mesura. Bocquet, Administra. videns.

sgo, though of bud dry fanf). Oaufay and. You- Cotton, at the present time, is farbanatoly he inmudiate infuses of bading opium is tor of Vinh-long, Jabvaju, Garalar, sud Donjoy,

At Dahomey, matters are in the etats que yaoua sent the ororo desirable до розосевов я very excellent system Magistrates, wore standing in a group together condition The French monthly line of stenmars

falling in prica, although with the class of the Business in all kinds has been slow, he opera Lancashire strike an upward movement was ofthier. The majority of the opiumista kaawa of railways, uniting most of the great Sudlanly there appeared within a few paces of to the West Coast of Afrion has been disenators are working on a rapidly Calling markat. The following inn List of Waters always kept centres of industry and production through them an Annamito, formerly an interpreter, what worked by sa Anglo-Germano-Belgian Com-as intended second steamers for London; 8.5. is no chance of any inaufisienoy in copply. The cassity onusus sterility.

to the writer were murced and bid children, profed. What quotations will bin few nanais S.S. Glengarry, and 8. Priam, advertizal from now it is hard to say, but ortsiale, thereby disprovlag the theory that opine of M. Jabouin had convicted. Ha had a sporting gun l the chief island of the group. At the in his hand and Brod both barrols, which were any A. Bordox merchant plains a Moyan got pat cironlatad

present erop is not Ukaly ka aterad" 6 950 000 Taraing to grinta statistics during the prevent rate of progres Cher will talos loaded with slegs, at M. Jobsain and his combe was asked so tremendous a prins hy

Donam. Oopao. Kiukiongeales, but with Isst season anrpins stopic, thaght years there has ben ne dass of Bote decades to accomplish as much, and panions, who were all four wounded, M, Jabenin French firms to build a 2,000 ton starase that

chesta chests. -ahosts ought to be "plenty and to spars" for every opium, and, adds the write, this could not be sald briminal ofă ca originating from the abuse of there is the probability that the lenst densterely. The marierer was immediately disarm cheaper to plass the ardar in the hands of a Settlemente

mortally and Messrs. Dooquet and Garnier rather ren with the beauty acorded he found it much Arrivals

........................92-81 105.497 1 3203

In the laterosts of cotton spinning, it is to be hunt those who take alshol. The medical 2:132 17.925 hoped that the next Amerisan erop will equipmen who want the renade of the esop sirable ani leset useful sections will be land placed under arrest, and the wounded gen- Clyde shipbuilder. That and the new tariff will Stock

....68.635 82,365 853 that of last year, and as far ng aras mader cuttiin eompany with air. Johanghir, who exstained constructed first. This fact is calculated to on were soureyed to the hospital at Saigon, not bring grint to the mill, nor hele much to Daily News.

vation gos, this is sure to be the one. Calor the habits of these anch-based plac, gire tell against the progress of the work, namnt. In the evening, M. Jabouin, who had and so far, of 150 willion franOY.

where the news of the orimo quased great exsite. over the dudger's big deficit-this year alone,

taustely, a bad olimatis season is prouied by bestimony as to the condition of the much as lines such as that to Shaz-bai- bean shot in the stomach, died. The condition

the official weather forecasts in the United more and aver that in msuy vases the use of RAILWAYS IN NORTHEEN OHINA. States, and if this is realised, the anther poor rug was positively banafois!. The opisa kwan are not likely to yield good dividends of Moon Becquet and Garnier is serioas but

Mr. N. R. O'Conor, Her Majesty's Minister crop, and still liglior prices, may be land for of two such experienced police officers as Simparia does not onaga anxiety, M. Denjoy is only on the capital, at least until the country slightly woooded and will be better in a furt

THE TRAMWAY SCHEME. as Peling, in a despatch to the Forsica Looking, however, at existing foots, there is Locantonts Bovin sat Al-cdermott is worth tr- through which they pass has become duve-night. The funeral of M. Jabouis took place

Office, dated Doomber 5 uzoloses copy of a nosity for alarm at present, and a outrolig In Mr. Browin's prises of twenty- Tho tramway soheme being an unde con reportly Mr. Branon the progress and develop prophets are gonatally more or less wrong ate two years he cannot out to mind asingly cash in loped by the opening of mince or the cul-on the 17th and was very largely attended.

sideration it may be interesting to quote the ment of railway enterprise in Northern Chirr, as out of six, the 1893-94 orap oau be left to whichspiam was the origin ofady original offanes tivation of waste lands. A Chincec ramour

ovidence given below in to the effect of trainwars which is the only district where such pocke havaitself for the present, on the general traffle of thoroughfares. The up to the present moment bean satuled the focal mills, with the object of overcoming the took to optana instead of intoxisting drinks, as A new departure has been made by some of itd. and Mr. Madsemat is that he rience refers to borse trans said if the Polles Writing of the projected railway to Manchuria dificulty of asar cotton, and so far as we have never had any trouble with an uainn cater. would rather der fongazies of liquor shops

PAETO 2nd April.

were in favour of tmas at that time they must. Brenna statos ba.still more so now that electrical trima bave Tiantan is so far the terminus of the railway. factory. Ws réfar to the importation of . often repeated statetzant that the artendants

yet been able to find out results hama baon satis- The reemption given by the Italians to the gut bayond the experimental stage It a self. sad there is not up to the present any ladiation stripa, and other cotton waste from the La- these places are 7930g women. In tes or be flat-romed gentleman alan santradicts the Waters, as sucb Bottles are notor, used again the opening up of Hanan, to allow the lay- Emperor of Germany is not mionlated to make unntatied seatrical our the conductor elanda that the line will be extended from this end.

ing down of railways from Shanghai in any the hearts of the French rejoice. It clearly in front sad the aurora be pulled from the Talm forta, going on eastward it ponding quality of foost cotton. The fore is offret by the smokor tumantes is over From Tientsia it runs to Tongku ( milshire mills. This wanto is sentent, in blem, the ens ha bersoon women serving, but they direction within the thirty mile radius, and shows that Italy attaches life and death in-ruction is a pablo trout and is a much underpasses within a mile of the Pohtang forts, en botter and stronger bat is necessarily more whalings to the go offsets of opium on their

sad, when landed bura, in'oharper than a sorres- length. Having no horses it offers ins ob-

were all ab we the age of Bity. The testimony if there be any truth in the report it is cer-portance to the tripla allisues, and is prepared control as a jinrishshs or even an ordinary chair, ioning it rans ole to the Tangatan enal tainly ind estive of a very marked abate-to make all encrifices rather than retire from the noon as polis may often be sen palingon minos, and on to the town of Lauciores the irregular in length, and contains a susidur iterating site the goal of them oppone la bare ment in the prejudice against the iron road. triplace. The Itations bave never diaguined the way and the other snother.

Lan River, which is the present to: ainus in mount if up. As however, Indian mills do

drug as a pain-kitke, sad all Supposing this to be the case, now is the commercial side of that federation, vis, that it through the Homs Of with the Commissicu-120 miles

In 1871, ike Buant of Trade rommunicated that direction. The whole distance completed in and strength, little fale will be found with the acon. The following is a specimen or two

not so much look to cleanness as to pronation unto the time for the promoters of the Kowloon was cheaper to be a triple ally than isolated. era of Pola with a view of assortaining whether bridge is a big is the oppres, yarn, vie. Amerisia wate and Latin cotton. Bushratt. afas bandsans all man, in splaatid A bridge is now being constructed over the Acest wits yarn, or with the sombustion picked at random from the crowd:-Basit AUF The Itolingu owe their emancipation t the traffs of the Metropolis had bot affected Editor, not for pabilostion, but seeridenes of good for the concession to build that railroad. land and to the material aid of the, Fransh, harto open for publie trafic, and is reply the The.axiersion of the line from the Leg River trade here is the importation of illing and Canton Railway to renor their appucanthe momi and persevering support of Eng-prajudicially or otherwiso by the Tramways his about a mile, and it will not be finished till 1894. ;

Another feature of the development of the tint, aid: "Is 75 years of age and was born st Lucknow. I hara smoked to Shen-Hi Kaan is being pushed on, and this calendaring machinery. During the last far maist da a logury for the last fifty years. I. section will be opened by the autama of 1893.

moithu esferal ests have ben fitted up and wet Between Linalow and Shan-Hal-Kam

to work, and at the present time we know of awoke two abaas worth daily. My sy sight is Vooroy. La Hang-haag, has not adopted the three more which are on order. So long as thed, and so is my general houlth. I have two survey prepared by the foreige engineers, he dead continues for cheap clothe so tong will hilan. I always advise my friends to take Sir, The Commissioners of Polios of the required the lins to be constreated farther in

manufacturers look about for charge methods of u for letakan in small quantities it doar une wy in Burmah which tuns paradial with sirsed, for the French army, sent to Rome in Metropolis have to acknowledge the resoipt of land. sal, therefore,.over much morn billy conn. Produsing it. Whether the process is alloa lot of good." Goolaldas Laloobhai, a smart,

rood-looking man, said: Enoros from Ahmada-. ther bouest or not is over considered, and a the Irrawaddy and which has yet in no way 1819 by the then Republican Government of letter dated the 1st instant from the Railway D-try in order that it might be beyond the reach dission of the point would be has; but blind 7 years of go. I have stake dicinisbat the profits of the Irrawaddy Fla. Franna to crush the Roman water repablin in partment, Hoard of Trade, which the forwarded of the guns of any hostile fiest in the Half.

Bool as a luxury for the puat fire yours. Whou I tilla Corapiny. Moreover, the Kowloon-four of the Pops, remained in possession of the to this Ofs without any covering letter, and to line between Stan-Bia Kaan and Monkton. The off a quarter of a pad of para and throw-

A nereying party is sow marking ont the act still exists that if or ministers on to sag untira cuatry I stop taking it. For Eternal City til 1879, when the necessities of acquaint yun, for the information at Mr. Seare- Cantem hao would tap districts away from the Gorman invasion farosd the French to retire. tory Bruce, that enquiry has boss made bei Tranty Port of Nerobeams will be cuoceted quarters of a ponad of Chins day and other the river, and the railway itself would only form the rat action of the line to Hankow, ple, remembering the events of 1849, remain a which tramways have bean Introduced, and it is village of Wang Lin Eo, about thirty miles this the backward in doing -The Indian Bince, the Italians, naturally a suspicious pec. parts of the Metropolitan Police District into with this main line by a branch line from thoseless materiale as a pound of cloth, they will little en garde respecting, the Third Republic; reported that the poblje trufle has been rather side of Moukden, and sixty miles north of New and thence northward to the capital It they also scoase the monarchists of France of facilitated than iapeded by them.

Lohwang. This branch line will be nammanged in will isevitably be constructed some day,alling with the Pops holding out to him As abstract of the riporta is enslaved, I the anting from the Nawabwang sad, and

the restoration of that phantom the Temperalam, &o...

eventually it will be prolonged to tha aral and whenever made mest prove of enormous Power. ft must be admitted that the French commercial benefit to South Chian, in which

station of Port Arthur. this colony will largely participate.

ready in Stook-

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Faith.

is said to be current in Shanghai to the effect that the Peking Government are pre. pared, rather than concede the demand for

OUR PAZIS LETTER. ́

tinued: the Congo and all thst region will be i

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HONGKONG, MAY 23RD, 1908.

remunerative because it cannot cadete with the carriage by water, but it is only nenashev to point to the success of the rail

the erning of the 20th just. for this part.

The N. Gr. Isteamer Bienyno loft Singapore on

"The need for railways in the Chine, Empire as adjunote to the splendid natural waterways with which the country is provided is again being brought home to the govern ing anthorities by the famine. in Shansi. Pomote from the coast, and not aceeasible by a river like the Yaugtsze Shanzi is in times of dearth cut off from the centres whence its necessities might otherwise be supplied. Long before food or grain could,

Mr. F. H. May baa baas confroad in the sp bo coureyed, by the usual slow process on pointment of Captain Superintendent of Palion, tho backs of coolies, the persons requiring in which be has been acting sines tho dopastare

of the late Geners! Gordan.

Singaporn on Saturday aftercon and may be Thi 0. S. 8. Col'a etsamer Prosasthoeur left expected bore on ar about the 26th inst

it might cease to do so by reason of their having ceased to exist, the terrible struggle It will be noticed that the Banpress of Japan, for life ending meantime in their slow sac-Amey in adition to the usual porta totshed at sailing banos 1-marrow at noon, is to eat vation: As we have pointed oat on rumer- by the Company's stomers. ous pecasion; the obvious duty of the

Chinese Government, when undertaking the et hones April 27th for San Francis vi The P. M. City of Rio de Janeiro, which suit work of railway construction, is to first make Nagasaki, Kobe. Inland Has, and Yokohama, linas to districts which are isolated from the arrived at her destination on the 20th instant. cosat or ure unprovided with navigable

terestedases by taking Savoy and Nise; aud they disappointed the Italian unionists, by not frosing the Adriatic as Napolrom the Alps to the III bombastically pro-

press of late game has not rated towarda, Italy the Latin "mother" enther than sister with that tact regaisite to coment friendships and toop gratitude green. The Fesoch journals) Italy of late; patronised bar rather than treated have employed more vinegar than honey towarda

her as an equal. Thon arrived, the war of tarife, herself, and in the future will enffer more 3,38 in which Francs has suffered as much as Ifly

she is isolated, while Italy has negatiated cam. mercial trantian

gably two aims to command the highways inta History abows that France pursued indefst Germany by Strasburg and into Italy by Grosieva or the Alps. These routes are now closi hnentafere dianaited, but united and confel to her, and to prasan them she must conquer, not

when be overran Germany and Italy, bad not to antad Gorman and Italia Napoleon I

coaut with them modern chengos, when combin ing his strategatio plans. In the coming war mencement with Franos. This explains why Italy will have to be the brant of its cem. the Italian navy is maintained on a war footing and ready for astlin when the command is given. The French sat, it is knowo, would make a

PARIRIS.

following letter froy the Commissioners of

Metropolitan Police Office.

4, Whitehall Plan 3.W.,

14th Marsh, 1871.

W. LABAI CONDIERE,

Assistant Commissioner.

To Hou, A. F. O'Lidalo, &o, &o, &

Abstract of Reperie by deparintendent of Police as to the seat of Tramways on the traffic of thoroughfares where they ars in -operasion : - Hor Whitechapel. Have not impeded the traffic, and no complate hare been made. Superintendent considers them a great public covanience.”

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33,94

Journal.

SIAM THIRTY YEARS 100.

xsvert that it had the offset for which it was

buo art two or this days I miss it, but after

Hyderabad, and sm 70 years of age. In it that the desira leaves me." Mahomed Ismail woll-preserved for his years, asid: "I was born in

epe seller and work sight hours a day. I have taken opian. for táo lust forty yours. Formely I smoked mzdai, bat now I tako orude Topiwu, as it is "cheaper. I take opinm at th faxury I have two buildex and so quite It is not exported that the line will be com Ja view of the retirement of Admiral John happy Mr. Jehande grans quite sloquent plated to Moakdos before 1895. Considerable Bash, on a well-deserved pension, from the in his book as to the sap.rprity of opium us a diffeally will be encountered in ore sing the duties of Harbour Master and Master Aibandnet arimalant over alcohol, Be that as it may, he Laso River, as it overdows the country for some of Bangkok, a representative of the Bangkok has decidedly made out a very strong cas distance during the super fresbels. From Mork Times waited upon him recently, in the hope of against the wholesale denunciators of the drog dau it is intended eventually to extend the line to citing a few facts relevant to his early in

While Mr. Johangkir has been at worlę among Kirin, but nothing dogulta has yet been decided, pressions of Siam, its people and their ways. Ta the opium ake themselves Sir George The portion of the railway betwsan. Tientsin reply to a query concerning the year of his Birdwood has been deiling with the silicui and the En Yel, ninety miles, is orand by the arrival at Hoogkok. Admiral Hush said that it sport of the question, sed iu bia introduc- China Railway Company. The accounts. Gre was early in 1857. fast previous to the opening tina to Tho First Letter Book of the Mast K. or Stepany "States that prasions to the kept distinct, and the profits, if any, are dis of the Ladian Mating, and when he bed tittle India Company" he deals with apiam at tramway being laid there were frequent com.tributed amongst the officials who supplied the idea of making Siam his permanent hom, a length He showe, though the print plaints of hay-arters, sermon, and country capital; but the management is under the direct although accompanied by his wife. The con barily neeled further insistance, that the waggoners atraging adress the whole width control of the Viceroy. From Ka Yeh na the ditions of rugaging were a good deal diffrent story that the British Government introdsead of the road while going to or returning from the Kawa as the Traperial Railway of North them, us if toul his ship 120 days to make the the pitm trade into India, is as untrue at all roarket, &o, thereby impeding or obstruct China. It is a State line, and the Government passage from London to Bangkot in 1350-17, the cost of the sati-opiva story. Le State ing the gaiek tralo; but since the introdue-davotes The 2,000,000 a year towards the com and then it was considered exceptionally good monopoly of opiam was organized throughout tion of tramwaye soch ecmplaints have atrection. As far as Shen-Hal-Kuan the work speed. The Admiral did not enter the service of Hindostan and Central India by the Megal seased, the cars having the affoot of koopingre neder the esatrol of the Viceroy Li Hung, the late Majesty nutil the following year, 1853 Emperors of Dalbi, and wo merely leheritat it them on the proper side of the road, and in shang bagund Shau-Hai-Kuan under the central After a passage to Singapors in 1-58, he had from them as one of the sources of revenge. consequence facilitating the braQu". of tho Governar General of the province of goue home to England three years later intend Warren Hastings was be more responsible for

Sheur King.

F. or Camberwall. "Na obstruction caused." B. or Grestwick. Consider that passenger Fradle has been fasilitated, and that no ob. struction has been caused to carriage trafo 4. Whitehall Place, 9.W

14th March, 1871.

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NEW PETROLEUM FIELDS. IN

SUMATRA.

ing to dispaso of his ship: "Hat it wass fort. It than he was for the Brahman supřorásog. It The Lead office of the railway is at Tiouisianate thing that he did not do so, she was not, in short, natl 1796 that the East Tadia There is a Beard of Chiness directors, of whom struck down by the English winter and ordered Company coramsused their first regular exports

prant Yang Hung Tian is oblaf nanging to sea again by his doctors.

of the dry, and oos of their first nety was to die- director Mr. Pethink is saistant managing rivers. Perhaps no part of the empire more about at their best and form a splendid display retard the mobilisation; but the Italian mays The glories in the Detanic Gardens are úverush to hambard the Italian shore railways, to

The Eastern Archipelago was scarcely au-safe continue the cultivation of the puppy in Bengal. director, and the trufla fi'nüder bis manage a place for meruhauton thirty yours ago it Saar as China is concerned the use of the needs this means of communication thum

well worth going to wow They are in one of the in the meantime would be able to ravage the ence in favour of Transeyt, was given bufore a Viceroy in various capacities, and he holds the such lika gantry; but the Aditiral's Paul argentury, A.D. Lula, i bun probably boun Then again the following among other evid. To has been for insoy yours in the recries of the is now, the seas were infested with pirates and power plant was knows as early as the eighth the province of the north-west, but it isler-touses (No.7) in the airsary, approached coat cities of Southern France, and that execut joint Committas of the House of Lorde and the sorry appointment of United States Vigo riad tons gan, a hundred Enropan san. so immorially known to them, for as far back noteworthy that they are entirely omitted from the Albany Road entrande.

ed prossed to aweep Algeris. The military House of Commens in 1872 The Superintend. Coneal.

that he was pretty safe from molsalation. More as the eleventh matary it was noted na being from the scheme for a system of trunk rail..

objective of Germany and Italy would be to join eut of District No. 4 of the Metropolitan Police An enquiry was bold by Mr. H. E. Wodehands, so as to push, wodge-like, into France. 67

than on thongh, he came within musarable found everywhers." Moresor, in 1523 the dislause of having to punish the rescale notably more careful manufacture of opium" wan wayo sanctioned by the Imperial Governinsul. house gustorday at the Magistrasy rugarding What Switzerland could or would do is near- That sbserving the working of tramwaye in

en ono nonasion, when a wicked looking sruft, the subject of official instructions, and it In that project the dominating idea was the finding of the body of a was, who was well tatu, and here Franan must feel the blander sha

his district, some of the streets of which are

in the vicinity of the Gulf, came so close to biswas not until 1800 that the importation of the known to the police. st. Stankiwn tow days committal in commercially aliouating the from the outset the provision of a system ago. A vendiot of "fonad drowned" was re- Swiss The Importance of Italy in the German

narrow and orawded, he nds they offer an A correspondent writes to announce new patres, ship that he Lnd to threaten to open fire on her, foreign drag la Obina mas altogether forbidden. abstraction of any kind in one narrow lens discuties in Bamatre-It seems thal. She sheared of theo, but he was right in bin Not this measure der any ether had any effect of strategle railways that could be used turned.

allianos is thes of ospital moment to the Frooch. street there is only ons Hus, which would Sumatra roostly will not only be known za provi salimate of her tena obaracter, as was proved upon the smoking of the drag nog opon its for repelling any foreign attack or for sap-

And then there is the still greater danger of the The Pasts all S. S. Co.'s extra stanser eukoowa role that Borland may play. That

he improved were it made into a dedule one, dacing the fiuet tabacon wird soften, but also as by bis bearing that she emptured a junk on the local cultivation, and at the present timə China as the cars have occasionally to wait at the the Persylvanie of the East, it is apparently following day

notually grow.'nourly four tiang more opinar pressing any interval outbreak. The require City of New York will sail from San Franoises réfo is as plain as the road to the parish church: end of the street......

soming thọ. Arst rank as a potrolsum pro- ments of trade, the movements of popula-Horgkong to San Francisco vis Nagasaki, in the Mediterranean, and cannot look platonical- Metropolitan Police, are also before the

Laked as to what kind of recaption be received than the imports. Tadian opium," saye Str no the 8th of Jaas for Hongkong, und will leaveJohn Bull will maintain bis position as extitse Mr. Wordle, another Distalot Superintendent dusing sonatry,

at Bism, Admiral Bush stated that he came with G. Birdwood, "is, at is always has bon, the tinu, or the relief of distress were matters Kabe, Inland Bos, Yokchus, nad Honelain only on the fleete of Italy aul Austria being ms Committee, in anewer to the question-

It is not so long ago that the Brat Sumatra a considerable quantity of cargo on board for luxury of the rich in Chius just as charipagne petroleum from Langkat appeared on the Singa-H. M. the then Second King, and while anchored is in Europe and Amerion, "the saly difference which gave no coxiety to the Poking July 12th,

"Do you consider they mass any obatraction para market. Since then. It spppears that an off Mosquito Point a Siamese man-of-war came between them being that while the daily uss et mandarina, and equally claimed no attention

to the road. P

oil field of for larger extout has just been die alingaida bringing a gentleman who announced shampagne or other wines and spirits, malt from the provincial officials who ought to

covered in Palembang by Mr. Schmits du Mouhimself as the Booond King. Iforemained some quere, &o, may prove deleterious, the smok- have been concerned. The first named Felt

time, sad when he returned to his ship the ing of the pure extract of Indian monopoly

an intrat in anything bat defenco agaiuat the presumelly aggressive foreigner: the latter were systematically hostile to the proposed innovation unless it promised to afford a very substantial squeeze.

In our advertisement colemma will be tound nation oalling attention to the facilities offered by the Canadian Pasific Tailway Co. for short

destroyed or captured-for the best way in war. fime to iustently angment a navy is to capture the erg's ironclade and oraliers.

The orisis in Belgin, sed the pradance of: range in regard to same, prors that the Frensh

zen trips to Japan during the "mimme months will not set hastily in any European complication.

in their famous Express The trip to Kebe For that attitude they cannot be too highly sud back is to nerary fonetsan days and this op-complimoted. All's well that ends well, but the granite should prove a great attraction to Lhasa Belgium, excoative and parliament displayed a who wish for a change, but who have o limited thorough absence of foresight. iu resisting time only at their disposal.

the popular leased for a exform of the franchise till it way wrong front If, however, the Peking correspondent was fixed at £98. This the London and China Belgium with its basy-bae population of six The minimum price of the Hongkong Foan them by the commonooment of a resolution. of our Shaughat morning contemporary is Express oursidered high, but the prios realised, flions had less than 120.000 pelviloged elostore. to be relied on. His Imperial Majesty the as e xere informed by telegram, was £100 11 Only a eitis paying about 4ife in yearly Emperor KWANO Su has been repressed made the following remarks is intended to swept that away, universal suffrage has beou In noticing the prospectus our contemporary tres had a vote. The demoratio ware has with the need for impro red means of cut-off boldes of existing securities of the Hong proclaimed which at once sugisente the number munication by the inculent of the Shansi kong Government an opportunity of conversion of voters to million and a quarter, while to famine. Upon being informed by the tlaatpressly pulalad at that the revenues of four categories of fancy vators had been im into Inscribed Stock identical with this issue.moderate or dilute the manbood qualification President of the Board of Revenue that the the soleng of Hongkong alone aru liable in aginad, who will bave plural voted, as they may cost of the transport of rice from Peking to respoot of the Stock, and the Consulidated Find in exmad, porus diplomas of educational capa- Kwei-hua-cheng was two tacle per pical, are not bable. The colony is, however, quite er in Savings Bank deposits. This now-fangtod of the United Kingdom and H.M's Treasury city or a fixed value of property in real estate although the distance is inconsiderable, Hia able to dead satisfactorily with aneb so aracant, quadruple Franchise will orcate three quarters Majesty is reported to have exclaimed (kong the wisdom of having a sterling of a million of votes, so that ranndly spanking. Oh what a pity it is wa hays no railways is ass have stated on a previous occasion, total of two million of votes-quite a change loan for a silver currency salony st ancha time the slectoral une will bare to collect grand "there. Not only would transport then somewhat open to donbt. The minicam prios from the disppeared sang and easy 117,000 #cost almost nothing, but we might avoid (99) likewise seems high whan we observe that destors. No ons expects the quadraphs, fean- the existing 4 per cent loan la quoted 10%-4.china will outlive the new parlament, having famines altogether." And whitt a If this is considered the market value at & per bat unflcinot for the day is the evil thereof; pity, we might add, it is that, the Emperor coat. interest a loan at 31 per boat at 69 Is high, the earlesity Las enabled fealised Belgian Les got the power with which he is credited but we shall be pleased to see that the colony Tories to "are fore," as the Chinese 21y. Tuoss as Son of Heaven, do that he might direct pestos in id Statistical Stemot relative be ankasen when the coming parliament makes

can get the money at this price. With the peowbo introduced that electoral sucumbrazde # work to Barrial out at ones so to the Publis Debt, Rammua, and Ecpatitaros bow. spon as its necessity was ante eppsrett and Trails of the only from 1983 to 180-tu-The May Day manifestants brusto ni važičky ki w mieties of fadh kuwever, the Emperor us to the rent patogening The Goferuett, more by hotly bar sonries

the golday in He A180000; IRON; THEN SIMS Külöddi frápsword KAY NG DA

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There is no material obstraction. In fact, the tramway down to the Mile End Road. Lin. which came into operation in May, 1870. Most of the patroleum well he noutrole see: Avloziral caused a rojal scute to be fred in opium con, in itself, cover be injurions to has assisted the police a great dest in sing cbsa lo the shore, where the largest song his honour. The Send King, impressed him bralik, potueru when indulged in a far as the gulating the trails of the road. Before that ing vessel caulis alongside. Hence the feuill. very favorably indeed, as also did ¤.M. the time and wonsy wasted on it new conceres to time there was large number of waggons ties for shipping cannot be surpassed, as to cout King when he was presented to the latter i so-called axover" Fittson years' experi-ne of and market gardeners' suris coming to town | ly system of transport ar pipa lipes are wanted afterwards. Admiral Hush sailed on up to Pak- opinn, smokers in this onmetry mayingas Sir with the prodneo of the gardens, and going for bringing the petroleum to the ship's sido, sam, and went ashore the following morning, at | George, in short, that the healthiest populations back again next morning. Frevious to the The geological formation is belloval to be the Becond King's Invitation. "The Sooond of Western India are thoas distinguished far tramways being in existencer wo had wreat much the same as in the all-bearing districts of King spoke English perfectly, and was a man of their so-called essaire ass of opina. Ho ha diflealty in keeping the warrons upon the the States, undulating country, the patrolamonsiderable learning and refinement. Admiral nover ouse met with a single native suffering or pear side of the road; the drivers were formation being overlayed by a soft sandstone: Bash subsequently was received by H., the who had ever suffered from the habitual use of very sloppy, and could not keep awake, and Many are trying tow to Sad petroleum for her King, and both he and the Besund King paid bin epian: be has never known (apart from accidental we had to gammon them over and over again, finland, or to get concessions in the neighbour- the compliment of asking him to nezain se Hur- or wilful causes) a single instance of death or of and in some cases they were charged. Blues hood, awonger than sach well-known named my boar Master: His Majesty alendfil him the honour injury to haulihi frgan this cause, and has never ble tramways have been in existenos that those of Mr.-Herings, of Asashan, Nasri of creating him a Luang, and placed a dwelling- met with moyous who, in his own experismos, bad difficulty has used; they bar in a manner Soblimmer & Co., and others. Since the first hours at his dispossi, with the promise that he ever mat with such a one. It is his conviction, supplied the Barlatanso of the polies, and walls hive been found; there has been a real rash should occupy it as long as he remained in Siars. based upon personat experience and apou au- they hass kept upon the near side of the for causessions, a great many of which have been Bus in spite of all at first he had no inclination thority which cannot be gainwald. that in Taxis road. I consider them sa sɖvantage entber already applied for

to remain, although Sir Robert Schomberg, at sa in China the native population is nowhere *than otherwija," ka

What makes the discovery of Mr. Echmits du that timao British Consul there, was good enough so robust, industrious, and thriving as in thu ** You consider that upon the whole, the tram- Moulin efill more important is that he declares to add his request to that of the King. These principal opium-producing and spin-coagning Ways have been advantageons to the that he has found there also enormous deposita thirty-years, nathe Admiral reminded the Bang provinces of the Empire. Opium, in brief, he publis ?" "I do" a

of ozokerit, which is really a form of solidified | kok Times representative, have witnessed many describes na one of the greatest gifts of Pro- Have you observed the operation of the petroleum.

important innovations in Siam not the last of videage to the people eť tús tropion; and not tramway upon the Whitechapel market, ?" If there is truth in this werted discovery, it which are the increased number of European simpy as a nothing adjunct to the digestion "I have."

will prova a grant boon to nur Eastern gasramidenta, the railway, the slentria trambay, and of a regaturing diet, such as that used by “Have you observed any inconvenience arising. manntastories, especially as no really good gas the splendid repolarity of the steamer-service the Hindoos, soit a prophylactin againat malaria,

from that "No. When the Market doal has been yet found in the East.

between there and Hongkong and Singapore, thrangh its spaciño antion on the perspira has been held vahielem bave` been always It also rendore the profitable working of winy (. The Admiral has been noquainted, with many tion, the only seorotína ít stimulates; but above compelled to go thươngb there at a walking Eastern sonifiaidė prastienblo, as this sabatands prominent Siamese who have sings jolued, the fall, because its neo, làm that of ton, costos, pace, because the market cam bays taken op | yields a most valuable and inexpensive substitute | majority, in addition to His Majesty the lats Land tabasco, anticipates and silaya tos naturai searly the whole of the road; and that is the for pitch for the manufacture of " briquets." It King. His present Majesty was poly four years thirst of mankind for aloholic stimulanta, case pon, there being room for ans Kas of is hoped that masy coasting steamers will take old in 1857, Sicce the Admiral hos realded in | which pertainly oaunot be saf-ly indulged la vehicles to pass, boostso other things may advantage of it in ite tatural form, na - it Bangkok more then one Bleund King has passed by the emotional peopls of Bugtherú Axis aɛd be standing botes the tramway and the farof be sucellent fuel. But unokerit is sway, and be can recall, the deaths of no tener Afrios, skaap: with the greatest eiroaraspor carb, loading or unloading.”"

med valneble for: canny other trudo, purpozas, Liu Are Forviga Hjulstera. Asked whether than and carefeitos folding that the habtinai "One wittees said that he thought the trafić sinh as the manufactors el vassling, asphalt, there was any bewspapers in Bangkok thirty consumption of. the drug is condusive to the was batiaż zugenluted slave the las of tram war, grense for machiners, parāfid, "should", biz guare ro, admjml. Basi replied i tophatics. | health, wealth, and happiness of "the" perple May Kás uman thape. I ante no dount lanh 'bhís reported discovery prove an examfentlih so. Up? Nominee lewyses ilium# 1”,

of the trapite Ble George Birdwood weüld