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THE

CHRONICLE AND D

FOB

IRECTORY

CHINA, JAPAN, STRAITE, 20, 30,

FOR

1896

With which in incorporated THE CHINA DIRECTORY:

This is the

THIETY-FOURTH ÁNNUÁL JARUS,

and will be found, as arusi, to show an advance

on preceding years both in fulness and accuracy

INTIMATIONS

ESTABLISHED AD. 1).

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2017, 1880.

The steamer Donnington was sold, privately

or three days z

ago,

→ His Ertellessay, tas Goreador has given his patronage to the Main Concert Company and hss Intimated that he will be present at tha connert this evening

OCCUPY TILL I COME.

The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the WINES AND SPERE meeting on Thursday the Sanitary Board property, much of which was safely removed, further presumption that when, at that only One of the many difficulties encountered: m:] while the thros principals were given a month's

od information.

perts and cities of the Far East, from Ponsng to Vladivostock, in which Europeans reside

nstioral rerovory sa'it la in individual recovery, crazy aé once appropzisted a good share, and precautiona are taken against the spread of

And when, se in individual death, dianlution bought the silence of the rest of the crew with The whole the disease, would not be a matter of much

The den meaning of the lugusgu which the sets in, it is no use trying to keep the lifeless donations from the same save more serione, consequence than a few cozen

West is holdBug po the Eat is simply this: parts together by propping them up in the proceedings, however, came to light, and several Occupy till I come,Modern writer obape of a body corporate the materials mast of the crew at onceededampel, one man, the of mealer or smallpox. Under the circum

Ethnologists, after many years of indefailera-enter the great forunce suit be moulded late boatswain, having with him thirty-four sover- another and wore appropriate and abiding signs The police were normaniented with, and able rouosrch and of travail in that fegitimate whaye The nation which falls in the through the energotle efforts of the, we must A.S. WATSON & CO., LIMITRI) stance, however, very energetic mensures to stamp out the disease and to provent the

say, most cloient defestive staff, both foreign introduction e rany cases from the adjoining It is stated that the total loss to the Insurance contegrersy which alons begate tenth, are now must begle again at the beginning

Study of Bouial structures and functions is and native, the missing men were altepprehendod, mainland are called for. Mensures have Companies by the recent big fire at Kobe will not generally agreed as to the primeital culty of

fall far short of $75,000. The Lendon and Land the human race. This granted, we may thus soon to be an all-important pre-requisite to and rty-seven sovereigns recovered. The man the drawing of legitimate ioferences respecting with the thirty-four was arrested in a village at been taken all along for the sugingation of shire and New Zealand Tire so incat involved prooie that the original family ex tribe the courses which it is youmble or impossible Yangtzepoo, while another was discovered in a the inhabitant a of houses where case of from $35 000 to $50,000 being the expected separated, without raising the vered question of for social aggregates to follow. Without this age in Portung. The result of the appear plagus have occured, the lime washing of liability The Commercial Union's less in the original point of separation. And we may suity, made comparatively say by the laborious anes of the nineteen mes, at the: Mixed Court,

expected to be $10,000. The Alliaxes Fire houses has been made compulsory, and st.its Insurance Ca had 35,000 on Captain Kreidner's also, without fear of contradiction, make the work of many scholars, it is dangerous to make this aftancos that sixteen of them were statements rpsefing the future of any society. sentenced to six months' imprisonment each, ordered a house to house inspection of the The Guardian or South British lose $2,000, the time, those shoestors of ours, whose children in sociological investigations in attempting to sangue, The Court added, however, that if it

Hongkong Fire shout 22,000 the Norwich Central and Western districte. The by-law Union or London Assurance Company about their millions now people the earth, sat out on reack dadinite conclusions concerning the things should be found that any pl. the prisoners, had little concerned with the possibility, or the our minds into the distant furtare in anything could be brought up agan and, have their under which the resolution we parsed is $4,000. The Liverpool, London, and Globe is their respective journeys their minds were sa which shall be, is the imposability of projecting sted in the recovery of the mossy, they

more than an imperfect manner. The reason sentences modified-Morory. results, of a fatura mesting as with

for this is that between this time and that so 13 of Ordinance 15 of 1894, and it provides The N. C. Daily News haring published a modern party polition or the lady huryabat many things must occur to modify and siter TRADE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM No) 22 of the by-laws made under scational interested, though only to a slight extent. that "In an neighbourhood affected by paragraph stating that a Uensor had recently Thoy did not tains that a time would come the courts of events that, however sarewa such discuss and within such liinita memorialised the Throne to the effeck that the when the faint ripples then extending in over might be respecting the validity of one con

collapse of Chins was mainly due to the ex "as shall from time to time ho de-Viceroy Li Hang-chang's nonding positions of widening circles from the spot where man had clusions as to the near future, we cannot bus regard conclusions respecting the distant fature fined by the Sanitary Board, the officers trust and national importance to unworthy appeared on the surface of the surta weld roll as kely to be more than more approximations Trade and Navigation of the United King protégés and Haring the present, Viceroy Wang lack in mighty waves and dish aga,nat each to the truth. Only of general principles can dem" it appears that the Estal value of the im of the said Band duly authorised in Wen-sao for still retaining andar him in other in the strous and skin of vital confitat: we allege mufficient virility for them to be of use ports from foreign countries and British Bost "writing may make a house to house Tiantain fire officials mentioned by us, a

visitation for the purpose of inspecting the respondent writing from Foking saysThese thoughts were for another people, and to us in the question under consideration we sessions for the twelve months ending Sist "Now a matter of fset sed in justion to two mother time, and with those nosistomed to look may with confidence make ane assertion: Be December 1895, was ££1888,003, me against tween the white and the yellow races between £408,345,000 for the same period of 1894, anitary condition of any premisca 60 of the gentleman shore named Hang Chien- before and affor the conviction le sver grow the West and the Raat-thore nan never be par or an increase of 28,343,000. This increase visited and of all and every part thereof, yan and Wa Ting-fang (Ng Choy) were not ing stronger that the hour in how at hand when fost amalgamation. The iron and the clay the is soon principally in manufactured ar

ntioned in that Cannor's memorial and con- "persons in or uport the said premises at disaissod

occupy our attention to the explosion of all other tacked, or affected by the said discases or

questions. We do not with to be deceived, ing to the view we half) wa fuil multitales of huruan beings aggregated in more or less dese loped sucichies of various kinds and sizes. What

Not only is the Directory as full and omplete. in each case as it can be made, but each Colony,

ALL theme are selected by our London, Port, or Sottlesantis prefaced by a DESCRIP Will Nora nepoate. QUIRES FOR THE Food and bottled by ogreves, this saving all TION, carefully rorised each year, most of which House, bought direct at Arst hand, imported in TOUBIST, giving every detail in connection with intermediate profits, and onabling us to supply the places, their History, Topography, Koo.the best growth at MODERANE PRIVES.

The Information afforded in these Descrip tions, consisting of over Ninety highly in- tarasting articles, picked with facts condsoly. set out, and containing statistios of the TRADE of eneh Country and Port, would alone suffice to fill an ordinary volums.

The work contains Directories and Descrip tions of

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Taku

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Shanghai

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CHINA Korkiang

Waobong

Ichang

Swatow Canton Whampoa Kowloon

Cungking Iappe

Ninggo

Hothor

Wenchow Pakhot

Foochow Langalow, Amoy BASTERN SIBERIA

Nicolejowsk

Waku

Vladivostook

Tokyo

JAPAN Danko

Nagasaki

I ge

Hakodate

Koba:

Niigata

Cook

Senal

Yokohams

Chumulpo

Mangtan

Tammi Keeling Tainanfu Takow

Wonsen Fusan HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENTIES

.. MACAO FRENCH INDO-CHINA-

Tonkin Hanoi Haiphong

Hoe

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Provinces of Tonkin Cambodge

PHILIPPINES"

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*Cebu

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BANGKOK

STRAIN SETTLEMENTS

Manila

Sarawak

Singapore

Perang

Jokora

Pabany

Sangal Ljong

Jeletu

British

French

Malacca

Prov, Wellesley.

MALAT STATES

Negri Sembilan

Selangor

Perak

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German Basian

Japanese United States

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PORT after removal should be tested & month before use. Who required for decanted at the Dispensary before being seat Dat.

FOR

1895,

From the Monthly Acounts relating to

drinking at asos it should be ordered to bois and of ascertaining whether there are any equently he did not say they should have been the question of our fitness for the fight should rigid and the plantio, can never coalesce. Boma Holes, of which the value of the Imports in

test there must be. The plastic way, absorb. 1895 was £6,701,000 in orgess of that for the the rigid in a cortain way, Int there can in no babe period of 1894, the principal articles son- asas be the kind of blended life we might export tributing to this invente being leather, trou

slows is one of those things which must esse of food and drink show an forense of £1,467,000, stance. That this cortest, which Sociology ribbons, and woollen cloth and stuffs Artioles and will come will not be a military confest raw sterial for industries and for textile and might be inferred from present data, but the other manufactures an increase of £1,170,000, of and

Work on the new carriage road at Nanking, SHERRY-Excellent Dinner and Altor "who have died thereof If the premises which, was, suspended during the China New Thrown down Dr Sprung up on this earth (accord were both formed of the same or similar sab. manufacturs, liben yarn ilk broad stuffs, silk

Dinner Wines of very superior Vintage, visited or any part thereof shall be found year holidays, was resorted on the 12th of the “lu a dirty or insanitary condition in the present mooz. A great many houses have had All are true Xeres Wines,

opinion of the officer making such visitate ho pelied down, for which the owners are to be compensated at the rate of 40,000 cash for sach CLARET Our Clarets, including the Jorest weion, he may forthwith take stops to have fret class hóts: 24,000 cash for honsus of the for the end and object of their aristance may terval may yet produce factors, at present invi- and oils an increase of £00$,000 AN

priced, are guaranteed to be to gonting

produet of the juice of the grape and ars sat artificially mode from raisine and carrenta, as is generally the caca with Cheop Wines.

BRANDY—All our Brandy is guaranteed to be pure Cognac, the differanse in price being merely a question of age and vintage.

fected by the staff of the said Board or by contracters or others specially appointed for that purpose," ctc. The bouse to house visitation is an unpopular measure and can hardly fail to be attended with more or less annoyance and possibly in some cases with substantial hardship. It is, however, necessary measure under the circumstances, and we must trust to the discretion of the officers engaged in the work to make the WHISKY marked "E" is untraceally megance na suali e possible. If the pepulser, and is pronounced by the bestowers possessed by the Sanitary Board auf its officers are energetically employed we lagal connoisseurs to be superior to any other be sud ju the Hongkong market.

many reasonably hopa in very short time that the colony will once more be able to fame absolutely clean bills of health.

WHISKY-All our Whisky is of excellent -quality and of greater age than most bts in the market. The cook

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuins when bought direct from nain the Colony or from our authorised Agents at the Coast Ports..

The Bock is printed from Now Type specially A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.

reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in every armingemont new greatly facilitates reference

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS contains the names of

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14,000 FOREIGNERS, carefully arranged, with the Initiala a well as the Barrames in strictly Alphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly.

THE MAPS AND PLANS have been ongravel by one of the most eminent Firms in Great Britain and are corrected and brought up to date. They cost this year of A COLOURED PLATE OF THE HOUSE FLAGS OF

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Tho P. O. steamer Hydaspen luft Bombay for this port on the 25th inst.

The P.&O. leuner Brindisi left Bingapore for this port on the 28th inst., at 5 pm.

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·Townon, 26th February, GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE, Negotiations regarding Egypt are proceed ing between Great Britain and France. The French Press is eagerly discussing the question and urges an English-Franco entrate, which sonld effoot settlement based on the graountion of the country by the British.

-QUARANTINE "AT SINGAPORE,

-PHOTOGRAPHING THE INVISIDLE.

houses. There are now carriages and 1,600 self-preservation each socks first to maintain railitary Kfo-now gradually giving way be Irish produse and manufacturon, the figures fore the Industrial life, and by and by to be show still more satisfactory results, the value tickets randing on the section of the read al-tiel, to reolung its own life. Indeed, this absorbed by it-an wavoidable nosessity for the year 1805 having been £226,169,000, as ready fixiabed; but though the business nesas state of things shadows forth a truism, for Whether such a rotu would, in view of the against £215,824,000 in 1994 an increase of likely in time to be a good ons, the owners of pushed to ita logical conchision, argument in change of nature wo shall by that time have £10,345.000. Exports of pares and textile the vehicles are at present a good deal kampared favour of any hypothesis based on a law of undergone, be prasibio in a manner through fabrics have increased in ralus 25,399,000 during by disputes with the petty rudarins, who ace alt detraction is suicidal, in the case enough to be of any use to us is another ques the year; machinery and millwork, £1,010,000; at the all game of subjecting the new enter of a society well in the case of an indition, which, ware'll here considered, would pro metals and articles manufactured therefrom, Prise to all manner of obstruction and extortion.vidual. There is, ander the conditions, pobably be answered in the negative. But in view £928,000 and other manufactured or partly

manufactured goods, £3955,000,-. *~*~* alternatives and so strongly do we endome the of the fact that amongst the white case, as law by conformity to which our lives are routaey continue to advance from prodatory With regard to the arports of foreign and dered possible that we put to death the traitor savagery Lo posceful civilization (a state colonial murchandise, the vinefor 1895 amounted who, in war time or in peace time, endeavour foreshadowed in the prosent military industrial to £59.971,000, being £3,009,000 in excess of that to betray his country, without waiting to sas constitution of society), the fighting spirit must for the previous game. whether his not will really have the projudicial dlo out, eat that of the other races the yellow regalt wo erjiest it to have. That we shall at least have not the time military instinct and ultimately act on a more complete law-shall show no sign of aoquiring it in view of this live up to s system of ethics as superior to any fact, it is more reasonable to premme that the now prevalat sa these seo to those of the wife contest will be not a military us, but so

ZONS STBIKING EXPERIMENTS. eating Foggian-those who have stadied the his- Industrial one of the averest kind. In the

The Berlin correspondent of the Daily News tory of Bilies cannot but bellers but sincs millennian's contest of this nature will not conformity to perfeer éthing is possibla only zedesaarily be one of the savage surambles now had the opportunity of attending some experi in a perfect state from which we are as yet a common in competitions both intan national ments in the Röntgen system of photography. long way of it is our bounden duty to con- and international, but one of civilized rivalry and desarbes the results in an interesting form as nearly as we can, whilst ever imeping in which a more perfect ethics than ang at despatch The experiments, he says, took place the ideal in view, to the system most adapted to present in rogue will render the object to be in the Urania," an institution which has for our present sondition, the alternative boing achieved the securing of dae justine by each its object to wake the people squinted eubjugation by those who do

for both self and others (a reaction from a state with all forms of progres, inventions and ner The history of mankind is the history of ex universal altraiam towards which, a discoveries in astural philosophy and the related aggression, of bounding and re-compound-revolt against the pre-Christin state of almost sciences. Dr. Spiess, the experimentalist of the Urania, has from the moment that We understand at the F. & O. Companying of societies by war. The most conspicuous angustified egoism, we seem at times to be have received a telegram from their Singapore result of this proos at the present day is the progressing), instead of as at prosent the very Professor Boatren's discovery became known, agency, in reply to an inquiry with reference great suprotnoy which one portion of the general endeavour to sacprs for others injustice, place his ability at its service, and ho has to the Ruocana, which left on Thursday to the human family has gained and is gaining over as long as this can be done with impunity; tamed eat better that even those of the die succeeded in producing phographs which have effect that ships may pass through Singapore the other pertions the extent to which the The straggle (to neethis word for want of without quarantine if there are no Chinese on white races hero spread and are spreading at a better) will be a rivalry of civilized friends, dovere, him. After a brief but very clear board, but if there are Chinee the regulations the expone of the yellow and black races, or, not a milée of savage enemies. But there leotaro about the basis of Professor Runtgen's Tho China Gazette says another large German will be enforced. At Colombo the regulations to be more that, the extent to which the white is no short-out to the millenqum discovery, sad the differences batween the steamer, the Cavite. 1,600 tone, has been birth the known cathalie rays produced Crookes's tabs. Dr. Spiess passed on to chartered by the Russiana.

allowel to land thore.

over the yellowish and blackish skinned, to her child, to give birth to the Truth The following is the quarantine notice issued coarse-haired mosogathons and progastions the nations met labour it travail in pain, the experiments. He showed that the "x" rave The 0: &.0. Leonor Guclic, with maile, &o..t Singapore in 1891 Informatipi having types. Of the 60,000,000 square miles of landThe pain to some in any marriage between pass through wood, aluminium, and other left San Francisco for this port via Yokobombeu-repoved that a contagious disse, amely, on this earth, about two thing as now owned the Bars and the West must be this costess we solide, Tenetrating are usily, however,

which bodies of light specific gravity than substanse and Nagasaki on the 15th instant.

bubonic plague, has broken out at Hongkong, it by the first-named type. Many countries for have indicated, the arming to pass

hereby declared by the Governor that the merly owned exclusively by what are known must be regarded of sasiological predictions of grentar density. They pass through wood, port of Hongkong is infected. Under the the lower races are now owned and partially this order as the one most certain to be fulfilled for instance, more early than through glasa. To and that which we week, then, we must look Dr. Spiess took a parse, put a key and some regulations made by the Governor in Cornell inhabited by the so-called civilized races, but

coins into it, wrapped op the whole in black Tider Tha Quersating and Prevention of there'ard un instances on record of any large at the different qualities possessed by the iwá Disease Ordinance, 1686, all vessels arriving tracts formerly owned by, white races being combatants that are most likely to stuk each paper, and laid it on a photographic plate. Tx. from Hongkong will be put in quarantine 224

now owned by the darker races. In the lapse in good meal in the coming conflict. Daring order to show the great ponstrating power of the rays, he laid on the top of the wrapped-up there detained for nine days from the date of of time the possessions of the first are grown at the different stages of life on this earth men departure from Hongkong, or from the date of the expenso of the other-havo by encroachment have held variona opinions respecting the Taip board two fingers in thickness. Ife the last case of the said disease on board, or or conquest; there by treaty or purebuss, but verse, but they have always taken care to put then exposed the whole to. the rays electrically antil released by the Health Officer."

the process has always been in one direction themselves in the contre of it. From out of produced in the Röntgen tubes. After about. We have no record of a blank or yellow race the dark past thare there have emerged dating fifteen nimmtes, which wore occupied with abduing med sling white en Girilization the parturies may now of mon whoss one.Tas very interesting demonstrations, De faces the other and use to Blow the coject hitherto bar hoon to exterminate a Spiess took out the plate, developed it and had best of her children to how the wood and draw other. Yet no nation in the past has held thrown by Umelight on a white curtain. [Exor TE “CHÚNG NGÔI BÁN ĐƠ the water of those to whom nature in her God's warrant, and one by one they have gone With the greatest clearer one now saw the Goceral Cheung Chun-Est, came from "Wei. wisdom has both assigned these tasks and given the way of, all flesh. Of the surviving races, hey and the coins, whil even the outlines of the purse wars waresly sequ. Among other a temperament tit to carry them out. Any two varieties at least semur destined to meet in show to Canton on the 25th February to pay his New Year's respects to the Viceroy and the temporary ascendency of the lower wo deadly confict in the distant future for the photographs shown was very interesting one Governor. His Excellency will return to Wei- the book of history is sure to be found oblite relative chance of success we must try to find, to the Institution. This mais, years ago, tim might be able by careful search to discover in iskaritanes of the earth. To estimate their representing the hand of a servant belonging chow in a few days.

On the 25th February the Viceroy the the ruled on the next unge: the natural order re first, what qualities will be of most value in into his hand a piece of glass, which could Grain Commissioner visited the Human Geild asserts itself. The question of questions for the struggle, and, second, in what degree each not be extrated, and always peneitated desper The following scratch Association football to hold a New Year's saremony: Their Ex na now is: Will this process continue as hereto is possessed of them as to resider it aid in The photograph of the skeleton of the band tenne will play the Centuring cup eleven to-day cellendios dived there and returned to their for, or in there a danger of its bemg rerersed? attaining the victory, Teile end it is produced by Professor Röntgen's method Have we reasons for calieving that, in the necessary to na onse more that oft-repeated showed this pices of glam quite distinctly.. We Another intozesting photograph was the Ap.n.Poad, goal, Cayley, James, backyarons in the evezing. Slade, Another, Locker, balf.backs; Campbolt, On the 26th February all the officers, evil and the refined gold and stand the best of the Bory tara to the latest edition of the last new sites of which were held together by screws,

world's great malting pot, we shall prove to be quastion What is civilization P

following. Dr. Spiem book a box, the Firth, Cay, Greontiold, Shelford, forwards. military, assemble in the. Kwong Ali Collogo

to hold a Now Year's ceremony. They had a farmase, or ar we, too, destined to tie absorbed dictionary and we find the following arplana Since yesterday wook there Eave been thirty-marry dinner there and many fireworks sad and lost in the greater mass of wething tons Cirillation The sotion or precess only the heads then, of course, being visible

hmmnity P

of civilizing or of being civilised (more arus) to the human age, the other part being inside the vix cases of plagio in the colony. On the 21st areakers were fired. there were two cases, cr the ad three, on the.

All the fortifications of the Tiger Fras are digression may here ftly be made to recall to advanced state of humu zoalety." And then then exposed the whole to the "x" rays. The Before attempting to answer this questions) civilized condition or state developed or wood. In this her he laid a watch-chain, and 23rd zinc, on the 24th six, on the 25th four, on the 26th two, on the 27th, three, and on the 28th Bubonic plague broke out in Thachow ast mind the objects and motbeds of sociological to make our conception more complete we look photograph preduced showed the chain, the saten.

month. The most infosted places were Ching entry. A fact generally overlooked it that up the word "civilize, and see that to a whole length of all the sews, but not trace Nam Street, and Ching Nas Galo. Over two this scenes in beth an inductive and a deductive to make civil; to bring out of shot off the wood. Another photograph of a band one, and another foot also left noticed by barbaris instract in the arts of life and showed eloorly a broken bons in one of the fugees Vary interesting also was the rspro- hundred persons died of the disease. It is now

most in that since its foundation vast acumala thas elevate in the scale of humanity dustion of a photograph mole by Professor reported that the plague is gradually dying tions of data have boon/mads and classifed, and lightan, refine, su palih; to polish wet is ongen of a large, mial plate. It appeared

Way

The Magistrate of Namhoi has trued a principles deduced therefrom, so that there rade or maceth, to domestionis, tame; to son:

places, then wekad Loguthor, and so emoothed Coagul directing that the Shomom canal he Sociology, which cannot be ignored in any decently. As seen in its historical develop over that one saw nothing of the joins. The noficant the request of the Eagleh and French have already been discovered pertain laws of form to the requirements of civil life; to behso that the plate had been broken in different discussion of antological problems without riskanent these are the various meanings of the leaned and despanol. All the wood hute on To-morrow morning, between 9 and 10: the banks are to be removed within ten days of worious error. We do not refer to the word; and summing them up, we may briefly Röntgen rais brought the frseture to light. dience against prematuro optimiam as regards the intellectual traits of une race with the intellectust, and moral advance, and the further the practicat employment of Professor Röngton's 'clock, the steam launch Dayspring, carrying and the hosts and junks, lying thors sro also peso-grants of those writers who compare define pivilisation as a triple straad of guyentel, quite distinctly. Dr. Spiess warred lús an- the Bethel dag, will call alongside any vowel required to clear away, so that the work may

moral traite, of another and found on this the advance the higher the degree of civiliza-

discovery. hoisting the answering pannant, to convey man

be prooseded with,

The directors of the S-hankak hate comparison couelsons as to the relative merits tion To be wanting in any one of these ashera to 11 am, service at St. Peter's (Seamen's)ed a notics, in reply to du petitions sent in

of the two, since unscientifle ahethods of three component elements is to in of Charoh, returning about 12.30.

by some people who wished to farm out the this kind are bonesta zarious attention. W univilized without the triple proficiency the At the Palies Conet yesterday the master of pigem lottery, to the effent that gambling in refer rather to thess who are iguant of or can be no.ocmplate oivilization: Let us see in osetig, whose experiments on two patients on Subjects in China and Japan, 1865, 1877. un 10th May, and the shipping returns the vessel's whistle for an unnecessary length and that it should no longer bo allowed to exist characteristics of national, types, and who share conserned have progressed towards the attended with complete success. The photo-

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of the last halfconsury in the Far East together with the Textsofail the mest important Treation, vonolizled with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Ragulatious, Consular, and Court Fees, Hongkong Stemp Duties, Postal Guide, Chinese Festivals and Obsorvances, Talios of Money, Waghta, aud Muasures, and other Commercial Information, amongst which are:

TREATIES WITH CHINA

Groot Britain-Nanking, 1348, Tientsin, 1859. Convention 1860. Chefoo, with Ad- ditional Article, Opian Convention, 1880 Chungking Convention, 1980.! ̄ ̄ Frano --Tionsin, 1856, Convention: 1860, Tientsin, 1885, Conventions, 1883 and 1887. United States-Tientsin, 1858. Additional, 1868; Peling, 1880, Immigration, 1894 Germany:Tientsin, 1861, Peking, 1880. Japan-Shinenoseki, 1895, Liaotang Con-

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HONGKONG, FIDKVÁRY 29TH, 1896. TEE colony has once more bean declaret affected with bubonic plague. Quarantinė, which has for some time past been in force at Manila, has now been established also at Singapore, and other places with which we have tradat connections will no doubt follow the lead set by the latter. The action of the Straits, Government is nitogether un- reasonable and lacking in common sense, for their caperience in 1891 amply demon strated that quarantine was unnecessary and that medical inspection afforded an ample guamate of safety. The step now taken will inflict serious loss on this colony and on the various lines of steamships connect ing with it. Some idea of the extent of the injury may be gathered from the following passage in the Harbour Muster's report for 1894-"The port was pro claimed infected with bubonic plague

The P. M. steamer City of Peking, with mails, &o.. left San Francisco for this portvin Honolul, Yokohams, and Nagasaki, on the 25th instant.

Captain Andrew and Mr. Farrier, who left Shanghai for house by the Kavinna, have gone to bring out two new steamers for the China Merabants' S. N. Co..

At Swatow during the month of January thenata 4, on the Zutr, tin man.fm temamerature was 76, on the 10th, the month being 61.3 The rainfall mounted to 1.53 in.

Messrs. Dodwell, Carlili & Co. inform us that the N. 1. &. Co.'s steamer Harlow arrived at Yokohama from Treoms on the 25th inst., with damage to machinery, and will be delayed them for some weeks

A small fro broke out in the Lyceum Theatre at Shanghai on the 21st February, but it was speedily put out by the attendants of the theatre with us of the theatre hydraut. The damage, which was slight, was covered by insuration.

of time. On Sunday morning between eleven

for that quarter showed a decrease in and twelve o'clock several long blasts were arrivals of 51 European vessels and 251 blown in order to hurry up passengers. junk. It was not, however, until later "that the full effect on shipping was made apparent, and the September quarter

"

Auguste Martin, a seaman at the Bailora Home, was sent to geol for three months by Mr. 1. Sercombe South yesterday for stealing a shipping foderation book containing throe another seaman in the home named Cressman.

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the draw orroneous inferences serpeating the Ideal mate (UK potentialities of certata races, which study ad it not been tona so often before graphic pictures taken showed with the greatest of these tables would show do not exist would here to necessary, for symmetry's sake, clearness and precision the injuries caused by a Knowing that from small beginnings some to drait upon tas rigid state into which the revolver shot in the left hand of a rear, and rates have attained; to power and greatness, Becipes got high conform to one part of the the position of the mall projectile. In the they unhesitatingly conclude that it is por Law of evalution and not be the other Though her ass, that of a girl, the position and ble for all other races to do the like for integration of matter and dissipation of motion,ture of a malformation in the left foot were ascertained. The experiments are regarded as gotfal or ignorant of the fact that it is as during which, both matter and motion undergo affording a means of determining the exact great an impossibility for certain types of change from an indefinite incoherent heino-

the Consular Courts of United States showed an additional falling off of 975 charges and two, $5 notes belonging to THE LATE MEETING OF THE HONG-societies to change their antitres es for the stil gazalty to a definite, coherent buterogeneity spot where an operation may be necessary.

"European vessels and 1,824 junks. During this or both influences [the plague "und the war were at work, and, until the 12th September, our shipping trade re The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, emained under a ban. With the raising though printed in ewaller type than formerly and condensnd in every possible manner, con “of tho ́ ́quarantine blockade, however, lains every year mord pågər

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A Tokyo telegram to the China Casette says it is now believed that the projected visit of tlio Marquis Ita to Russia has been definitely shandaned (in consequence of recent erents pa Korea) and that Marshal Marquis Yamagata the Premier's stuad. will proosed to St. Petersburg and Mesoow in

SPORT AND ANECDOTE:

KONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK CO.imbed octogenarian to run a sacostal race constitute the process of evolution, yet failuro TO THE EDITOE OF THE "DAILY FEKSS," with the supplo athlete of twenty. The ohura to retain suflcient motion to render the matter. DEAR MR. EDITO," Proposed by Mr. ter of a nation in the character of compilabie and adaptable, during the course of Broke Stakes and seconded by Mr. Broker Mady ponent units. And okarseter, bead in the bone, development results in the arvest of evolution.

BY AN OLD FOGLY. that the director's fees be doubled. Carried is abovo all things moet dillioul to shenge Sovietice, may become, frozen inte rigid messen, vanimously." The great, Confucius, I think, We try and fail in individual entes yet in the water way that anns and planotes and THE LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP. defined na honest broker to be a square man tending faith-wo presume that to change sing or do when the Father this its

Whilst not desiring to euter at any length sting around hole, which showa, beyond doubt, the character of a nation compose of hundreds life heat. And when a society does this its upon a topic which very properly belongs to the how deeply the Sage had pondered the abject of millions of individuale is on suur mafter mass is one of all comparison to its writers upon current niente, the keen struggle Joking apart, I, for one, am thankful that these Whist to daily life we recognise in wo Ludie heterogeneity or want of heterogeneity, both now going on for supremacy amongst flows of diruators were content with only doubling their finct way that it often tale as long to get out structural and functions] Mason the mall our leading English Association clube prompts, in arrivals for the year to 306 European The Manager of the Hongkong Branch of salary; they might have quadrupled it, for it is of a given slate as it took to get into it, in | physial, intelisetual, and moral progress mada je to nĉer • fow remarks thereupon.. Ever vessels and 1,336 junks Wo now know the Stavite Jumrings Co., Limited, has received very probable that no one present at the meet national life wo prosus that disa me vast period of time by sneh soieties, as since the system of souring by points for the

a telegram from his handoflies Eingapore, that the way had no projitdicial offect on the stating that the not premium for 1815 sld have objected. Was there ever be cured forthwita morely by the adoption Chinoss compared with the great progress rada sonson's ohsaspionship was introduced a level manity ao rank The same half dozen omes of some yet scheme, or the passing of a law, in a muni aborter time by other peoples ling process has been slowly hot none the lass shipping trade of Hongkong, but on the $1,100,000, the balands of working account is gars on the boards of almost all the Important or performance at some plausible feat of Hence in the inability to make more or usaly manifesting itsals, until today we find s $500,000, balanos of proft and less account enterprises in the colony. It would be interest politie alchemy. There is no such criterion spid progress Nende alac one of the trio of clubs practically equal after playing a contrary, tended, if anything, rather is its 9100.00), dividend to be declared 10 per tant, ing to know how ranny hours ench math these work of many senstudies cannot be was most dificult problema Bociology has versies of a score or more of watches against the favour, The whole of the loss mentioned amount to be sided to reserve fund 320,000, industrions men give to the allairs of the Dock formed in a few reînnies or weeks or months had to, salye. But the encouraging, amount plakat tema of Fugiant and sach other" "With- Office of tus Hongkong Daily Pread.

Company, let alone those of the other numerous or veles. Convalescence is as indispensable in of stipation now being given to this question out stopping to emphasise the point of the au- and can be had from, and Advertismente sent by the Harbour Master must therefore be

******** rendere further innisforce upon it canoessary. premsey of the North over the Eonth in Associa through,

put down to the plaguë,

A Tokyo telegram of the 20th February to sodoens they are paid to manage? And let it

Gaselle reads:The King of Keroh be remembered that these persons are all the * Were the subject of this paper ethical Instead of Though his infozenges drawn by these whe Hon football, it will perhaps be taken for gråled LONDON Mr. F. Algar, 11. Clement's Lans The present year differs from 1894 inus the China & the nagg from the Fusion heads or managers of firms, whose business must exciological, it would be interesting to dwall on this have considered the matte have not always that Derby Conaty, Arton Villa, and Everton LONDON... A. Ruddick & Co., 12, Furnival much as while we then had a serious opide-Legation, where he has been slaying with the engage their first and chin bonsideration. It lighet for lif cut out life and for point care been corrent, the fact that the Chinese soclobe: represent all that is best at the present moment. * Kong $ St., Holboru, E.C.

Mesare, Street & Co. 30, Cornhill mic in the colony, which quite apart from other members of the Royal Family, to the le simply impossible, to nsderstand how they ages by which ona bo slown that as in that an aggregate of this drder is called in qua

Tindang Palaeo, close to the Lagation, and can and the necessary time, if their duties are petition for Lead going on mongst the various PARIS

To be continued.] ..Messrs. G.-B. Puel de Lobel & questions of quarantine, injured trade, this which is now being prepared for his reception, bona fide and are honestly discharged, unless parts of an individual organisin uztua egoura orten by none

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Mesem. Mablan & Waldschmidt,ear we have no epidemic, but only sporadic It is evident his stay there is not to be of short they had the miraculous power of prolonging undue alirals (to borrow ethical terms) may more to the day of 24 unus to sue of 48 or 72 hours, the top selisin on uneltis, omits are parts to de audidel by destroying the urganism itsch of which ...Frankfort M.

cases of pingue, and injury is to be feared deration

and although they have doubtless the power of the social orgasm, the sana Yesult may follow in NEW YORK Mr. Henry Bell; 21, Park Baw

only from the quarantine blockade." The

A. Chinees official at ebanghai, who has a adding to their salaris, yet even tho kind brokers morfot ethos in the individual, social anda. Thu SAN FRANCO, ME. IP. Fisher, 21, Merchants junk imde is not affected by that and will relative appointed as an alittle to the Tibbery cannol so lengthen their date. The fear of the diere would meant to be to scape fruns, she comelasian

Exchange Mor

going to uses to attend the coronation of the directors of the Hongkong sad Whimpes Dock that a code of conduct, which prescribes un malified CAPE Tows. Mere, Gordon & Gotch therefore show nadiminution from that cruise, at, has received a telegraphie despatch from Co vam alronly exceedingly liberal, vi. 3.500 sltruism (the best no dous in the bus of almos SYDNEY.Mesute. Gordon & Gotch

Peking Rating that the indications are that oach half year, and to increase this to $7,000 is equalled solam, in thick, it was promigated) Minetoun raon were charged to a body & the MELBOURNE..Mara, Gordon & Ciotol CALZOTTA Mosars. W. Nowman & Co.

H.E. Li Hang-chang will not go te Husio, but simply an outrage of the shareholders, for it is he inferior one, in chich the date of self Mized Court this morning with having stolen that a Manch of high rack will go instead as very acident that they can give no adequate and others are rightly balanced, pengke from on board the steamer Whampoa of or line fashion. A good deal of thin succoss in me BOMBAY Times of India" Office

were renily raging in virulent epidemic form: Chief and Shao Yu-lion as Vive-Ambassador return for such prodigal temaeration I think: A good Elustration of the time and trouble about the 15th instant, mixty seron, sovereigns doubt due to thoir admirable leader, J. Goodall; COLOMBO, Mures, & M. & J. Fergnan

It is not the plague but the quarantino N. C. Delly News.

that the Shanghat Maroury Inthly put the mat which might have been vat hy, one sociological The effettuandes connoted with the thaft but, granting this, if we dared to aff beneath PENANG.Ms. Mayur & Co. SINGAPOREhre, Kolly & Walsh

der in a nutshell when I wrote The Hong preparation furded by the provent rude of 28 follows About six months ago the surface a little, we should probably fad BANGKOK. Mesara. A Bar & Co.

The Erapewar isaped on the 17th February a song shareholders are any lot, any never like European wonch in Chuns against the foot-binding during a voyago from Australia, the that the plantic ceprst u corpsed in the SAIGON Messrs. Klows & Comme

the circumstances justify the imposition proced last your agnart Kang Chao-ya, am, alt, komandant

special decree commnting the death penaltying the musto et directors meetings,stom Whilst we Lave nothing to say against the Whampoa had on board a bag containing feant has been mainly responsible for its as efect which are being made privately to induce the 500 oversigns. These were delivered over tonishing Booose. I say utonishing, too, with TONKIN..Hr. H. Doganfeld, Hanội

Women to lot their fest grow in the UUER) WAY, You to the second offo, who looked them good grunts, after a glass at the doings of MAVILA... Mr. Jose de Loyzaga y Agro-

of quargutino or not. We may therefore sz-Civil Commandant of Port Arthur, Hang

from the sociological standpoint we cannot but in the tears room. At the end of pratically the same teaia in last season's contest. MAVAO...Mr. A.A da Cras Dig

look for a sensible diminution in the longe of the same plsss, ox-General Yeh Chih-chao,

mgard us at the endeavor to persuade the In the Toyage the bag was found to be missing, Everton, too, bare sequitted themselves man AMOY A31. N. calle & Col

paroz to issɔe on clics probibiting the customs, in and theng a thorough sebrol was made they folly, and should be very near fullling the entering the harbour and a comeqnent of Yoshan notoriety, und Ching Hal-y), ox- FoocHow... Mr. H. W. Churchill"

CLARKE'S WORLD-FAMED BISOU METU havior bon felidden by the Emperor Kay He would 201 be found. Soon afterwards the hopes their supporters hava bailt up during the SHANGHAI Mesure. Kelly & Walsh falling off in the various branches of Continiantai Zingkow (Now chwang), to thot the most reblog Blod Cleanser that selene anti was reintroduced duly fuurd you afterwards, Chinou are are disubarged and now lot past few years True, the League champion- SHANGHAY...Mears. Hall & Holta; Limited

business in any way dependous upon of imprisonment for life in the prisons of this mediol all have height to light" Sufferers from popular prefidis proving 100 g ren for In of men tekin on. On the 18th at a ship has fallen to their share da one cocasion, TIENTRI W.. Messrs. H: Blow & Co..

Board of Punishments st Peking. The bart Sereala, Scurvy, Ecua, Bad Legn, Skin and Blood Eperial pemmed, delo suppose that greater wool the ship was lying at Bord & Co.'s jetty, the hat all the sauce the club has not yet fiting gished shipping

stop will satutaily is ni complete tourieve sooner Diesires, Pimples and Sores of any icind me callsfted fatlingesting the public talad of this Coliness of Wale PREING Mr. P Kierali, NAGABARI...Mr: A Norman,

If it were put for the consequences tó later, in consideration of large sum to give it a bind to be the value. Thomand of through the rakh of custom would attend the cement floor of the galley van betog takin telf in the manner a good many anticipated money subscribed by theo malefactor towards wonderful cure have been effected by its Solderery of an betit, kutised by a people they late and and a lot of sovereigns were found when the exchequer was in meh a fourishing trade the occurrence of sporadic ence of railways or the milliary exchoqter.V. G. whore at de bli per bottle aware of her gran berated poople lay a uniformesta; how many there wars, canset condition. Taken: week in, and work out, the be accertained: The men who made the dis team is undoubtedly a well-balanced ons, and as ony, so long as adequate Daily News,

Tonality and if the value of sociologdan enquiry, plague in the

KOBE-ORAKA “Hyogo News Company, Li YOKCHAH... Mesars, Kelly & W

Hongkong Daily Press Office, January, 1896.

but the effect on foreigu shipping will, it is to

he fented, prove as serious ea if the disease

that ships fear and to them it makes us little or no practical difference whether

Shih-lin, one of the ex-Military Commandante

SARHADAMANTHUS.

27th February 1860,

-in lions arich wubstituted. :

THE ROBBERY OF SOVEREIGNS ON THE "WHAMPOA”,

Shanghai, 24th February

of professional adil. The stier two of those just mentioned have for some years now been regarded as really high-class teams, but Derby County, although playing sturdily enough oven sjonally, and more cepacially on their own ground, have never quite filled the peblia sys 14 the mher pair chave done. However tho critics may differ as to the composition of the ever, the methods adopted, or the skill of the

players, there can be a gainsaying the fact that they have cons through the fray so far in