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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY JUNE 17TH, 1895.

“O THE LANDON COMTENTION, demo to Givistona's torn to be a fagmaster, one caluminated," she exclaimed, slidding to all

Timidly I touched on the question of the Hmong his servitors was George Mellish Max manner of thinge which are mid to Eare bay. ter and fag lost sight of each other after both remed in Cuba, and especially to the destruction treaties, the London Conversion Jolt das scien), but years afterweeds it became of the Meine 1 refrain from paying alt that IT was oarious to knog Mr Cadstone's day of Prime Minister, to know upon this wetter. As the Queen was confers on us, and

ifer Lord Chief Justiceship to Goorgs Metals to dismiss nu, she wuddenly recollected, interprets Wait a minuta. You shall ess the shut him) anxt said, childrsay they will be bore directly?"""

Dirantly afterwards the door opened and the young King, in a val dress with onterol, amiting, followed by hiss

lish. Says Me Gladstone

I write to him as Dear Sir, having no idea that i was middressing, an old fag of aồng; but a few days later, as we wore going down to Windsor, woot as the platform at Fadding

while dressed. The King gtxtEE, gews and as being unch, strane thinly looked much better

mai exprèssive eye. Odluka nat elogaat gross of his suit it person

den, and be misled we of the relation inters, almait. grown-up which he had formerly stood toward me."

Ja Candstone's the lure, was a barlarons practice curri ant on Ash Wednesday As ile drovers worn on their way to the market. A umber of boys would first hists the men, and iwa out the tails of the pigs indone Have peat offence by remarking that the boys who were foremost in this kind of butchery were the Urst to quake at the consegneness of doinction, and ln dared them if they were proud of their work to sport thu trophies in their hats. On the following Aah Wellnesday he found luce newly ampatated pigs inila tied in a banch on his door with a paper bearing the Filewing ript jensen.

"Tell your friends," said the Quee my lease, how sincerely I am touch grateful for the sympathic shown to us by France to your nation that of our people sfi baseador and think, that IT France, and; coval pou f”

Shortly af paluce. I was

Elianboth of Itogont

Quinquis savol jeans, porría et semulščua illis : Conde vitezen jdou ter repetita til.. Gladstone wrote anderneath a chailongo to tus despoilers of the pigs to corso forth and takes a receipt for their offerings, which hoi meull me da, “ iz pool round numbers on your fret e invitation met with uo. response. 7 Willant serving his cava abilities, Glad. stone, then in his trans, parceived that not many lads of his own age were his inted Bertinlaals and, though he was, at school during but Me Brugl termed the dark ages of Parliamentary History, it must be hospit noted that he always had a rangaine belief in rega the oner birt in open la talent in England i terable

the freest of nil lante But Last be himself!

would hire to make her still fræer, richer, aud

greater, was, of course, of pespect within |

The vision, often Gladstone. The

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upper right hand panel of the door which stands Te

the f the Hoad Master's desk in the

upper schan This earring wis not done by

himself. but by Dr Kents's servant-in-requitai

of the usital baring fee. The naaa (Hadstone | Aad Ed

tươ. W. By in cut in burge lottery on the long Themdik

walk, what used to las Sharay's. Whether

ar not this is by the fale atatesman is hard tr say, but any orn tutor asured me it wos. ur I ball to mùn his words as I stood. Innking at that ramen fow daya before I left: "My boy. reaten wir, that is be greatest boy Elen over land 11. will untarily be a matter of much speculation, as to where his body will be laid to rest, and I vantare again to say, that all to

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The war for

With abused

niass will agree with ma when I suggest thThy fleet wae hồg

the most Efting and proper place for him, is

warlow the air in the dear old skapet at Elod,

and thus after many years of glorious week to

roture to kis toe Alufer-" A FOURS

EXONIAN in Times of Vegion.

MY INTERVIEW WITH QUEEN CRO-TINA,

TY PIERITE LOTI

I find Madrid more mimated than I had eter as it. The crowds eagerly looking out for less and exited by the breath of war in

the

No grander align

VIRGINIA VA

May 4, 1808-

MR. BOLIN-JET

FRENCH IN SE

A passenger by the i

to Le Mekong-

M. Rolin Jacqustyng

Boigias Parliament, en

the Orhan Cabinet, la c

figure. His influence with H log of Siam, of which bo with small fest, le policy franki

checks given to our polley at BEF these have made for him, in diploma parliamentary circles in Europe, the rep of a profond and artial politician The Minister of Siam is now on his way home fo six months' leave of absence-some say disgracel and he is travelling by Japan and Americs. At Now Yoult he will embark on a translatio liner for Harre, and after a short stay in Bel- gin and France will come out again by one of

be air evrei through the etroots. For the met parl they consisted of the common people -the familiar Swish type; the men with eleau-shoved frees surmounted by hugo so the rals that is attributed to hima breros; the women ia shawls and mantillas, aired with a kant of ribbon of the national colors which ins become the fashion since the Americau oggressivat broume aente. It was arb the same when the bour for the fashionable promenade curse. The long lug avenes, broken up by lawns and sharly clumps of trees, which form the Champs Elyers of Madril, were thronged with vehicles and foot pesengers. The fue trece brilliant with beam, ti se skies and warm, almost the new bunts of the congeries Maritimos summer, love, gare the town a delicios nepect that are boen vanutel to him as so comfort. Ne one could be more oberming. He of brightless and gaiety. Gaily vapariauzudable. noles drawing hired carriages, luxurious lan wid as longer hear speak of the English lines, dan taxing with henkiry, sncceeded enchabe is not even going to London other at a sharp trot in idless succession.

the meantime the King has entrusted the

Ast their forely ovenpants the enchanting sites to 31. Heliu-Jaequoryna woo-in-law-

s reclining in their open carriages, wasit dons not ye out of the family-and there will ing us they proved, charming renguitions to be a change in the policy following in repeat oferts titig breath the trees! It is im prensibile eta ad are this apparoutly careless unity when we feel that so many of these people are at this sake mament offering their fortius a fejy jy so far their country.

to us (fronebmen); anleás His Majesty, who was greatly impressed by bin rovent stay a St. Petersburg, should have course to ussian Mr. Kolin-Jacquem spr=geeme FREY Adviser, fatigued. Is it tho affect of to Hir oro rather glassy and tis eyelids are hos His Iovis brighton up, geweser, when be speaks of the Xing a very remarkable unn, and very good" and be forms a ourens contrast with

I wish wore postbl for me to say all that I thank at fork beat the Quren-Repeal. Would the evil coovy to my readers seo tirar nepsea of a swithment which can only sending religions veneration. It is rely sponse, who is very intelligent and an arrested on the thekeld of the effort: hy the impadulity of writing the words lich Potom ko le prat al my pen They would, I fear, he willer as respectful nor a discreet as

I should wish them in de Let me then, pues

very intriguing, and, wicked tongues say, Les also a voice in the utter of the Royal coucsais.

FRENCH. COLONIMATION.

Pat in good humour by the excellent table of the Dean, and by the conversation of the pas

me

on to the tire which her Majesty, the sengers--theso 'Frenchmen, tot

ning after my arrísal, had graciously beglobe-3nequsmyne put it-the Belgian Prime It was growargalsk when I reached the patre, Minister of Biam has been good enengh to and ally the strange and pensive surlancholy conade in as some of his ideas on Siamese of twilight was tracking over the splendid and policy. While he was cutting the leaves of Origtoron aksinensis, silen" and flercried save for Zolaa latest book ho spoke to me of the "It is very the mewating pacing of the balberdiers of the vulotial expansion of France: Carrived a little before my time, and ourious to note the place that your country awalled the bour of audience in a bugs apart- takes in the movement which is dragging the mat of ancient splendours, where the old nations of Europe beyond their frontiers. fading light died away on the lufty painted tha Franali of this und of the century-wilt ceili It is yours since I was first pres they over come back to the healthy ideas bented to her Mristy, but I had never before which prevailed at one period of your his

And to think tory, when France was a modarchy and one visited her in this ancient palace of the solson and penal circumstarves in the most powerin of the colonising natious? which now guter it for the first time! But at that time your pioneers wore traders, Waste I waited in the dim hals, I could not now they are only afficials. And what bat mast up the Queen's past and happier will the immense territories yon bave just con- have beonquered avail you, if you have not the men and stomers at Ban Shots, where

the unpital to develop tham !" in the habit of doing try year in July oc Sep-br The stupia white roonis (all oỀ "That is a question of time, M. le Ministre, Howe, all'iad by large windows sweeping and I have no doubt that French capital will the manificent Lay, with that lovely Bistuy ehy.come to our colonies."

engaged in commeros. The colonising element is represented by MM. Jourdan, Chaliant Amiot, Franson and a fog others; that is not cuongh.

Plainly it is very small; but is that not das to the embarrassmorts and the difficulties which

Fish themselves in Bangkok ? In a word does not the Sans administration favour the Eng lish, the Germans and the Boigions while it is opposed to very enterprise attempted by uns compatriots F

forked ofteprints by annugter storms; rose up I wish it may be au for your sake, Thus, in vry. mds, laut over truly rogal, the look at Bangkok: apart from tho porcounel of Gare widened then many a visitor. Speak the Legation, there are very for Frenchmen ing French sondirably that no feree of the language aged her, well-informed apou our literature, se ata, and our enterprizes, the Queen-Regend discussed with no-the most varied subject. Sometimes eron, with a charming sine, si carreeted, my answers in her questions having me delighted and Frenchmen masset with when they sook to estab tanisled at Bu sariety u neonrary at her in. formation. The, from the Sovereign, the Queen wall bure wife and mother, and would talk ahad her son with exquisite sim plinity and sweetness. Sometimes the young King would enter the room; for it was in the palace ut San Sebastian tint I first saw him, a mere child, playing with his toys, and it is the to see Franckmen take part in the economis Ginta watuled him, growing taller and Toole tuonghtful from year to year. When I last saw the Quan Regent there last October hor Bajesty had karlly got out of her carriage. have how she told me, to witness the departure of some of ur soldiers for Cuba. Alus many of them are so young" And I road in her eyes the agony of uncertainty as to the fi's of one boys eighteen who wore Majesty through me. Why, some years ago a arting off to uphold the honour of Spain on Frenchman proposed to show ir menigorte ite other sides of the world.

in the interior of the Palage! Let your cum-

That is an error! and I protest strongly. On the contrary the Kine would be delighted

development of his antry. But of course

Fronoe

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we upon my departure from France-thair It is said that the work of the police is ver entire sympathy with Spain, their dignat a badly done in Bartok, that acts of violongs

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happy to link i£"A KWEN

Despite the sadness of her face I could not Europe's pretties, and the applies all the lat Rdnirs ber acrenity, and her confidence in saine wen to an empty pisse of ground. Evil- the heist of her people doors are well aware of this, and they hide iz From time to time a flash of indignation some of the mill compotide where the Biards would bize in bez oves We have been a police have no right to arrest them.

SOLE AGENTS IN

HONGKONG, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS,

FOK THE

UNITED ASBESTOS COMPANY, LD., LONDON, CONTRACTORS TO H. M. GOVERNMENT.

A MANUFACTURERS OF 785

Best Qualities of ASBESTOS GOODS and PACKINGS HYDRAULIC and SELF LUBRICATING PUMP PACKINGS of all Kinds "VICTOR" METALLIC BOILER JOINTS ASBESTOS SALAMANDER HOILFE COVERING COMPOSITION of the Best Qasaities. ESTIMATES GIVEN FOR EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WORK.

Superintendent: ...

Tuos. SKINNER.

TRADE MARK

504]

FOR SALE.

HEID 81ECK'S

· CHAMPAGNE, 1889 Warza ŠKAL- $36.25 ......per osso of 1 dozen quarte $18.50

5.00 P., Post Office closes..

2011 ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ Humidity.

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Weather.

Fain last

24 hours

On the 19th at 12,50. The brownster ban cho in E Japse, fallen hel sly co tho Chise coast. Pressure ever de shallow bea the marsal and is inest Jupati flow produce siendo over 8 1:hian and Bartward warda the Lootboe kalude Graz shiebt for NE, wils th

the China Amat of China, moderate for BW, wine

beret Medkrate SVY. wind, uncties, Under

orma

RONGKONG RKORTER

Proplas 4. นร day pat

MAILS BY THE BRITISH PACKET.

The British Contract Packet Chaises wil be despatched on SATURDAY, the 25th instant, with Mails for the United Kingdom, Europa and countries beyond; via Brindisi to the Straits Settlements, Netherlands India, Burmalı, por case of 2 inzen, pints. KRESSMANN & CO. 8 Caylop, Aden, Egypt, Malta, and Gibraltar,

8.00 AM-Posting of Erices Current and Cir-Trpurte

Onlar CERBAB. 10.00-Registry ceasca.

RED AND WHITE

BORDEAUX WINES

C. G. HIEBERT & 0.5 BOTTLED ALE & STOUT

SIOMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, 4th September, 1897.

Marcoter man,

Humidityinen entend

inction of wind

10.30 AM-Posting of newspapers, books, and enter

Páp patterns ceases.

11.00 AM, Hall Closes

LATE LETTERS may be ppated (from 11:30 [510 cegie lata fea up to 11.3) .. after which hour they may be sent on board. with the same isto fée.

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DRETS.

Y

Naither CAPTAINS, the AGNETS, nor the Owill be RESPONSIBLE" for DEBT Contracted by the leers or tas Cra of the following Vessels during their way in Hongkong Harbour ADRIA Germen steamre, F. Reuter Order. DODWELL, CARLILL & CO., General Agent BUTUAN, Spans at Madringo Brandao

& Co. CHEAGONG, Brit. stearoor, Corfeld-Order."" CLAVEDHILL, Brit. str., WigleyBatterfeld

& Swire.

BEST

PORTLAND CEMENT

LICATION PRICES AND SAMPLES ON APPLICATION.

HAWTHORN BANK, Beit. bk, Crely-Standard

Oil Co

Isto20. PONE, Spaulsh etr, Rose-Order. LIGHTNING, British str, S. G. Spence D.

Sassoon, Bone & Co.

MAILS BY THE CANADIAN RACKET.

The Canadian Mail Packet Emprata of India i be despatoland on WEDNESDAY, the 29th inst with Mails for Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe Tokohama Victoris and Vancouver, BC, which will be closed as follows: 10.00 AM, Registry consus. 11:00 AM Post Dilee closes, but correspondenes. may be posted on board the Facket with Late Fee of 10-conte extra Postage usti

u time of departure.

ARBOLINEUM ATENARIUS WTH BOB OVER 20 YEARS.

Thuroughly reliable preservative for Wood

tone againet White Ants, Deday, Fuzena, and Dampness. Da de

Sole Agate for China,

MENMUIA, Brit steamer, McArthur Gibb,

Livingston, & Co. ́*

E.C. MOWATT, Amos bb, Mowatt-Abold,

Karbery & Co.

and

Rot,

RAGNHILD, Dan. sir Bounelnicka Arahola,

Karberg & Co.

31, WYNDHAM STREET

Ross, British b., Garrick Order.

U NERVEGNA & Co.,

LUTGENS, EINSTMANN & CO

Hongkong, 31st August, 1897:

[729

603

19.00

1.29

High open air temperature on the

F. G. PIGG, Acting Director.. are openly pirate on the it's

Hougtong Onervatory, 16th June, 1888, SPEIRS. FALCONER & S Radieren, 18th June. Barometer 929.88 fher, S.-Wetbulb; 79 Jarometer-I-P.2963 Ther.1 (Wetbalb) ?g Barometer ... 18.6 Therm. 4.x. Wei balb) 79 Tharram, & M... 85 Therm. Maximum 85 Thermo 1F83. Therm. Mini (oraz- Thermom. 4 P.M... 84,

jehtimaan 82.

HONOKUNG TIDE-TABLE- The to June.

WATER

LOW WATER

Hongkong Helcht Day Height

Fd. 17

m

BRIS CACAO

13 Guri Tiny.