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Yu Total received at Shanghai can discover anything in his au

on the 5th nouncements it is that when things aroinst a telegram from Ld Hang-chang, informing finished they will be finished, and no one that peace negotiations in Poking were need be disturbed. Like Mr. McKINLEY, inform the Foreign Consuls in Shanghai of the just about to commence, and instructing him to

the British Government has had a renewal of its lease, and. while it is putting its house in order, has instructed the door-porter to reply to all visitors in the orthodox fashion “Not at home.” In another respect the two governments are in a perfectly similar posi- tion, and this has had à marked influence on the attitude taken up in China. Both

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The total cholera cases reported from Singa- porn up to the 4th inst, including the previous day's figures were 129 casos and 116 deaths.

The two big fands at the Mansion House stood thus on the night of the 10th i South African War Fand, £1,024,000; Indian Famino Fund, £386,100.

It is now arranged, states the N... Daily News, that the railway from Shanhaikwan west.. ward is to be given up to the Germans by the Russians on the 15th instant.

Mexican dollars are plentiful in Singapore, anya tho Straits Times, but the amall Asiatic

they have become used to the British dollar.

TELEGRAMS.

"DAILY PRESS” SERVICE.

THE CRISIS IN CHINA.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDÈNT.]

SHANGHAI, 10th December, 7.43 p.m.

A PROMISING APPOINTMENT. Sun Chia-nai, the Emperor's friend, has

been appointed to the post of President of

United States understand that the stato of Bangkok, arrived in Singapore last wook with shopkeepers look askance at them now that the Board of Rites and to the Huolin Col-

Mrs. Stringor. They are going home on a year's furlough. Mr. T. Ff. Carlisle will not as consul and judge at Bangkok during Mr. Stringor'a nhance

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The October crashing of the Jelebu Mining and Trading Co., Ltd., was 461 tons, yielding 100 piculs of tin ore. The new battery, we are informed, will, barring accidents, be in full working order by the middle of January next.

guerilla war which has been exhausting the Filipines must, in the interest of the Islands as well as for the honour of the States themselves, be ended. And the British Empire at large is equally aware that the The Chinese caretaker of the building which time has come to finish for good, in the took fire iu Beaconsfield Avenue on Sunday even interests of the Boers themselves equallying, who disappeared after the occurrence, has with those of the Empire at large, the the cutbreak beyond the fact that he left a lamp turned up again, bat can give no explanation of desultory and meaningless but destructive burning in the first floor office. The damage to SHERRY Process of individual marauding being ear the building itsolf in estimated at $800; the total similar attempt on the Prince of Wales. Sal-

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loss will probably be something between four son, the young anarchist who on the 2nd and five thousand dollars.

August fire at the Shah, was last month son. tenced to imprisonmont for life. whereas Sipido so far is unpunished.

We received pastorday morning from Mr. Ronnvolle Wildman, U. 8. Consul-General.

the following typhoon warning, issued at Manila Observatory at 10.30 am: The small depras 11th and 13th parallels.”

We received last

received an order from the Japanese Govern

·Messrs. John I. Thornycroft and Co. have

rent for two torpedo-boat destroyors of 31 night the following farther warning, issued speed. The mix vessels of this class ro- from the Observatory at 5 p.m. The depresently completed for the Japanese Government ion seems to be filling up north of Bisayas by this firm havo all arrived at their destination Islands.**

without mishap. They went from Adon to Colombo, 2,003 milos, without recoaling.

ried on by a few scattered bands of malcon- tenti. However much the individual Englishman or American may admire the pluck and obstinacy with which men like De Wet or Aguinaldo have hitherto upheld lost cause, there is a time when the con- including Wines frbus the most cele-tinuance of such an attitude becomes asion sows to be now W.E. of Iloilo between

public erime, and the result of the recont brated Chateaux.

elections in both countries has been to in diente that in the opinion of both natious that time has fully arrives. By this it is SCOTCH WHISKY. by no means implied that any desire for Our Whiskies are so well known anda vulgar vengeance is in the air, or that any personal animosity against the Boers as appreciated that comment is

a people or as individuals exists; or 091 the other hand that

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We are informed by the Mitai Bussan Kaisha, agents at Hongkong for the Oraks Shosen Kaisha, that the new steamer Taijin Maru, Capt. T. Ogata, will in future take the places of the steamer Maidzuru Maru on the Hongkong-Tamsui run. The now boat is due bere on the 19th inst.. and will leave on hor maidon trip next Sunday. This change is caused by the requirements of vossels of larger tonnage to meet the increasing Japanese trade of Formosa.

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OTHER ZROMOTIONS—A MIXED SELECTION.

HONGKONG LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

Yesterday afternoon a mesting of the Hoaj kong Legistative Council was held in the Can cil Chamber at the Goverment Offices, the being prosent

His EXCELLENOX the Govtson (Sir HENE BLAKE, G.C.M.G.)

His EXCELLENCY Major-General Gascoin C.M.G. (Commanding the Troops).

Hon. J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, C.M. (Colonial Secretary).

Hon. W. MEIGH GOODMAN, Q.C. (Attorney General),

Hon. A. M. THOMSON (Colonial Treasurer Hon. R. D. ORDY (Director of Fubli Works).

Hon. F. II. MAT, C.M.G. (Captain Superi tendent of Polico).

Hon. Bast

Master)

TAYLOR (Acting Harbou

Hon. C. P. CHATER, C.M.G.

Hon. J. J. KEDWICK.

Hon. Dr. HO KAI.

Hon. J. THUKBVEN. Hon. WEI A YUK.

Mr. C. CLEMENTI (Acting Clerk of Councils

PAPERS,

Wang Wen-shao bas been promoted to the Grand Secretariat. Ta Chuan-lin has also.

been promoted with two other reactionaries Hongkong in the year 1900.

WEDDING OF MAJOR WATSON.

A. wedding in which considorable intorest was inken in military and naval circles took place when the Bov. K. F. Cobbold, M., joined at St. John's Cathedral yesterday afternoon, together Major J. J. Watson, A.M.C. (only son of the late Captain Watson, A.M.C.),

was chorn. Mr. A. G. Ward was at the organ, John Lyons, of Sydney, NSW. The service and Miss M. S. Lyons, eldest daughter of Mr.

et. The church was well filled with navul nud of the varied uniforms and the gay dressos of the fair and enrions sex was most pleasing Both sides of the aisle were lined by moni of the B. A. M. Corps, who asked to be allowed to he pussent to show their good fooling to their officer, and as the happy couple and party filed down the church they made an archway of their (histor of the bridegroom and Miss Powell, Major Brown, R.A.M., bring best man.

and Mr. Aloe. Marsh and Mr. E. D. Hill assist

military friends in full uniform, and the effect

A Calonfta telegram of the 26th ult. says: The betting on the Viceroy's Cap) has underside-arms. The bridesmaids were Miss Watson gone some change, the price of Cherry, the favourite, having gone down a point; he wins quoted at fires, Dewey was at sixos, at which figuro Stand-of, Plautus, Merloolas, and Tor- foth stand. Cherry and Dewey have only been backed, practically for small sums. The bet ting is still dull. Merloolas is improving.

A football match under Rugby rules was played at Vincennes last month between a team representing the Racing Club de-France and a London fifteen presenting the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank and the Westminister Bank. Fully 6,000 spectators were present. The Englishmen were seven- points to the good at half-time, but they failed to stay, and were beaten by twenty-five points against eighteen.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the tubl a report on the epidemic of bubonic plagne i

FINANCIAL

The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the tabl Financial Minutes Nos. 59 to 69 and propeso that they be reforred to the Finance Committes The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the motion was carried.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the tabl the report of the Finance Committeo (No. 18. and moved its adoption:

motion was carried.

The COLONIAL TREASURER seconded, and the

AN AMENDING AVE-LAW, the amanding Bro-law made by the Sanitary The COLONIAL SECRETARY proposed that

Ordinance No, 24 of 1887 bo appeared, the Board ander sub-section 1 of eation 13 of amendment boing as follows:

The word "new before the words "drain," ever it occurs in numbers 1. 4. 10, 19, 24, 33 "drains," and "drainage" respectively where 43, 44 azil 45 of the said by-laws, and in the marginal note to No. 43, is boroby struck out. and the marginal note to No. 14 is also hereby struck out and the following substituted thoro for, viz." Opening drains for inspection, ote." motion was carried.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL seconder and the

After the service the party adjourned to H.M.S. Tumor, where Commodore and Mrs. Pewall welcomed their guests. The Commodore

THE REGULATION OF THE FOLICE FORCE. proposed the health of the hide sa bride- Frooma. The former, he mid, was a very

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed the first great friend of his, and to expatiate on roading of a Bill untitled An Ordinance to con for good points would take too long. Though solidated amend the Law for the establish. he had personally known little of the bridement and regulation of the Pelics Force of the affection with which he was regarded by groom he had heard a great deal regarding the cology.

The COLONIAL SECRETARY Reconded and the brother officers and his large circle of friends motion was carried. He had also heard much of the hard and good north, many British and foreign wounded work which Major Watson had done in the owing their lives to him.

Major Watson matlo en swellent and ama ing speech in roply. Ele mid the good lady

realing of a Bill submittal to the Government THE BANKRUPTCY ORDINANCE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL proposed the first

by the Chamber of Commerce entitled Air Dr dinance to further amend the Bankruptcy Or- dinance; · 1891. · He said should like to

The N-U.Daily News draws attention to the fact that it is hatred, not fear, that the southern Chinese fool for the Manchus, and says:-This may be seon from the fact that for the first time since the "pacification" of the Taiping rebellion (1982), Manchus who have recently come to Shanghai, down to Canton, or up the Yangtzo, have assiduously refrained from call ing themselves representatives of the ruling tace, and have either called themselves natives of Anhui, Kiangsa, or Chèkiang. This is dne to the fear of assassination at the hands of the reports the sequel to the notorious Gregory tashedor, with bacholer habita und little din Government Gazette after it has been rund u

Yangtze and as far south as Chinese inhabiting the regions south of the Yunnan.

Kwangsi and

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supremacy in South Afric the British Empire at large prepared to recognise those qualities, which rightly directed go far towards the making of good citizens; and it is one of the finest traits in Lord ROBERTS's character that, skilled sol- dier as he is, it is as an administrator that he desires to be handed down to posterity. In the same way the British Government has been slower than the British people to recognise that what was needed in China was not revenge, but such adequate punish ment for the individuals concerned in the recent outrages as would prevent a reeur- With the Chinese people themselves A. S. WATSON & CO. we have no ground of hostility. But public opinion in China is not so far organised that the punishment of her mischief-makers can A concort is announced for to-night in St. safely I left to unassisted public opinion, George Hall, the proceeds of which will be and so the representatives of ber dangerous devoted to the most exceliont object of clearing political agitators, having arisen amongst a off the debt on the Royal Naval Canteen, which section of the ruling classes accidentally in amounts to $70,000. As will be seen from the power at the moment, have been able to. announcement which appears in another cofinn, At Kowloon, on the Uth December, 1000, the bring disgrace on their country. Had the clude Mrs, Mudio, Mr. Algo Marsh, Messrs. C. the artists who will entertain the audience in- At 74, Middie Rond, Singapore, on the 2nd De-public opinion of China as a nation been in Lammort, J. Mossop, F. J. Waleyn, R.W.F.; cember, 1900, the wifs of Mr. C. Sex, of a favour of the atrocities committed by the GP Laminert, B. E. Hill, and L. Ade Graça intrusive Bapress, Dowager, that truculent (violin). Tho accompanists are Mr. A. G. Ward individual would not have had to flea a and Professor Galuzzi, while the excellent band fugitive from Peking, nor would she have of HMS. Undaunted will play a selection at failed in her distress to have rallied the the emmoucement of each half of the pro ation to her side. As a matter of fact, gramme.

With so strong a combination of China and the Chinese have declared against talent there should be no doubt about the public [122 her, and did they but feel that in the pro-supporting the concert. At Tanjong Rhi, on Sunday, the 2nd Decem-fessed desire of the foreign Powers to punish her, Mr. J. C. duoc, late Apothecary of Port the guilty there was concealed no unworthy Dickson, aged 6 years,

hankering after increly personal aggrandise ment, the Dowager and her crew would, from the beginning, have been handed over to the Powers; or have experienced from their offended fellow countrymen the punishment, which for their offence against the Empire, no less than their crimes against the world, they have deserved.

BIRTHS.

wife of Mr. W. WILsos, of a daughter. [3121

daughter.

MARRIAGE.

Af St. John's Cathedral, Hongkong, on the 10th December, by the Rev. R. F. Cobbold, M.A., Jons JAKES CURL WATSON, M.A., M.D., B.Ch., Trin. Coll, Dublin, Major Royal Arany Medical Corps, only son of the late Capt. Warson, Military Train (Army Service Corps), to MARGARET SARA LYON, eidest daughter of John Lyons, Branksen, Bydney, New South Wales.

DEATH.

The Daily Press.

HONGKONG OFFICE: 14, DES VOTE ROAD C. LONDON OFFICE: 131, FLEET STREET, EC.

HONGKONG, December 11th, 1900

The R. I. M. S. Dalhousie has sailed with the Indian Contingent for the Australian Com- monwealth celebrations. The party consisted of five European, Officers, 34 Native Officers, one Hospital Assistant, 73 rank and file, six men of the Army Hospital Corps, and 70 public and privata followers. The following were the officers of the party-Liont-Colonel L. S Peyton, 14th Beigal Lancers, Major J. Scott, I.M.S., Captain H. W. Campbell, 18th Bengal Lancers, Captain J. Hauogan, 10th Burma Rifles, Lieut. P. F. Pocock, 19th Bombay in

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A MATSHED ON FIRE.

Tawasure

who had taken compassion on blu and he were make a fow remarks, although in ordinary desply grateful for the kind way in which their case healths had been received. Both of them had submitted to the Council is usually reserved

the full explanation of a

travelled a good deal, and in to place had either for the second reading. This Dill was only sout experienced such hospitality, such kindness, and to me a few days ago. 1-hars not, at present, sach geniality as in Fongkong. At one time had time to give it the fall consideration which A Lundou telegram to the Indian papers

ho thought he had attled down to bo a it deserves. It is usual to publish a Bill in th scandal which occurred early last year. Mrs. small hours, and he was ter more surprised first reading and consequent pastion of this ners, followed by a rubber and home in the first time, and I was anxious not to delay the Gregory hud deserted her husband--who was a in his life than who he was adopted by proposed Ordinance, especially saving teguzi railway engineer, or in some similar ciril employ the good lady who had condescended to take to the jufluential source from whence it in India-in favour of Captain Iremonger. Mr.

his name.

He looked upon that day's work as originated. It appears to me that the publica! the best he had over doua. He added that he tion of the Bill will emble both the Ingal Gregory subsequently proceeded to the house.

must especially think their genial host and profession and the mercantile community to in a suburb of Bombay, where they were living.hostess for their kindness. He must also than consider is with care and to give expression to the bridesmaids, and, last but not least, his brother their viowa upon the subject before the Bill and shot Mrs. Gregory. The sequel is that Mrs Iremonger has obtained a decreo nist, and costs; oflear who had seted as he man. The Major, is roar a second tints in this Conseil de T who began his speech by saying he could not understand the law, although a receiving spook at all, went on and used his hearers order may be made in England against a fim, against her husband. Captai Iremonger.

immensely by giving advice to those still out the subaquent adjudication of bankruptcy ban join the happy throng of married men. and not against the firm. fu the feta am side the pale, urging his bachelor friends to to bo let the partners individually,

the Commodorn's launch, disappointing the cations have been made against the firm, aut 1 Major and Mrs. Watson subsequently liftia have bact informed that in this colony wijnt- rice-bokle, rhu were waiting on the stern observe that section 78 of the Bankruptcy Crdin- walk, by heading straight sway from the ship- 2100, No. 20 of 1891, enacts that when proceed. ings are taken against a firm in the firo's name all nominal and dormant partners shall to included in the adjudication, and all their joint estate EXCITING SCIDENT.

and the separate vatate of waos of them, shall About five o'clock yesterday afternoon a larice vest in the Trustee. Now, where all the partners matshed in connection with the building now

are domiciled in the colony, or within your being erected at Happy Valley by the Land before the date of the presentation of the vestment Company, through sous Tusas not petition have ordinarily resided, or had a well- viewed Mr. John Loan Tuck, a Penang China-fantry.

A home newspaper representative has intor

the door, which, la the ry state of the timbers, dilleulty need arise. set kuown eaught fire. It originsted nearing, home, or place of business in the colony, no Whorn, however, sone man, now at St. Mary's Hospital, London, to

almost immediately ablase. Sorgout of the parlaters are not British subjects at all. Ritchie, Central Police Station, who had been nor domisilod in the colony, but are foreigners whom there has been offered by a former opfam The Russian journal Kronstadiski Viestnik Club end the Royal Weish Filtera, hurried may arise as to the paproty of legislation watching the game between the Hongkong who have never been in this colony, questions farmer $19,000 to complete his education, pro-etates that at the machinery trials of the Rus to the spot, and hearing ories coming from inside which will bays the effect of enabling th vided that he studies leprosy as a special branchian battleship Imperator Nikolai I. on October the burning matshed, which was new almost Supreme Court of this cology, by declaring prior to coming out. Mr. Tack farnished his 30 the engines developed only 5,000 h.p. instead entirely enveloped in flames, made a way, thant bankrupt, to alter the stain of foreigners interviewer with some particulars of his career of the 8,000 h.p. contracted for. This is attri erection. At the cost of some rather nasty cats ferring to this point in the case of fure A. B. spite of the intake heal, to the rear of the who are not subject to our jurisdiction. Re "I am a Penang native," he said, "and wasbuted to the fact that the beating surface of the on the hands, he tore down the plauking, and and Co., in the English Court of Appeal, last. twenty-one years of age last October. In Pen 16 Bellovili boilors is too limited, and that, as that there were about a dozen coolies insida February, Lord Justice Lindley in delive ang I attended for ten years the public school, instead of allowing at least 25 sq. ft. of heating others haddled together in a corner, while one had conferred this power is expand to chereise

one running out like frightened sheep, judgment used this isnguage : If Parlia The only case of communicable disease in the sad gained a Queen's scholarship that enabled surface to such b.p., it allows practically only or two in the madness of their torroc,

express words then colony last week was one of smallpos (Eurosity, for four years. I went to Emanuel Col- following eases where the allowance of heating to plass themselves beyond the reach of the rightly, think, in principle; that unless Parlia me to pursue my studies at an English univer-1.65 sq. ft. The Kronstadt journal quotes the had seconded to the cockloft, hoping tans it. Bat the decidons go to this extent and pean), imported from Swator.

lege, Cambridge, where I was fortunate enough surface por hp. is much more than 25 sq. ft. fnues. Sergeant Bitchio dragged them out, ment has conferred upon the Clonit that power to win an exhibition and scholarship, as well na rat-class honours in natural science. Mr.

Fearless, 341; Bonaventure, 2-90; Valeau, 31; theagh several were so dazed with terror that not to assume that Pariamant intended to do one by one, through the hole he had made, ali language which is unmistakable, the Court in Cheah Choo Ewe, who is a close friend of my alla, 206; Sirius, 349; and Suns Pareil, the fire was almost upon thom ere they were that which might so sorivasly affect foreigner

torn from its reach.

who are not resident hers and might give offence The heat of the burning matshed, was in- to foreign » Governments. Unless Perlinuient The Secretary of State has approved the pro- fest. The wood, fan was as dry as a bone, intended as to do that, we ought not to do it

tense, and unbearable at a distance of thirty has ned meh plain ter as as shot that they really ang to see my family. Then I shall go to prostu of the Transport Service in teda, and mckled with a report similar is that that is the principle thet. uzdotos the dosi provement of the Service in India, of musketry. A despatel box from No. sions in Ex-parte Blain nud in In re Poarson." Hongkong for practice."

says a late Simila despatch. The main features 1 Station, in charge of Aur Chinese fire Wat I understand the Chamber ນ ້ Commerce men, arrived, Int-the iron of it--there was ne

to desire le that the local Legislature should Calcutta papers contain glowing accounts of of the scheme are the establishment of a regis water in the vicinity, and allting firemen could do confor in plain terus, the power of adjudicating The return of visitors to the City Hall Li- the success of the Dallas Company in San Titration staff of officers to work in the districts, was to stand impotently by and watch their para bankrupt firms tarrying on business in this cal announcement may mean, time only brary and Musouni lost weds shows that 430 (which Mr. Dallas "means to introduce into and to provide machinery for the collection of itself out. The cook house si ached to the mat colony even where sons or all of the partners cum show; as up to the present Mr. Mc.non-Chinese abd 130,Chinese visited the former China "y. To provide for the large cant the transport, the formation of twelve permanent shed also caught, and collapsed in five minutos are neither British subjects or omiciled in KINLEY'S policy has been a matter of jerks institution, 304 non-Uhinese and 1,815 Chinese Company has added to its numbers consider. cadres of male corps and ning cadres of camel as did the matshed itself. The trees a hor the colony. No doubt the circumstances of bage in the vicinity wore set ablaze, hot the fire. Hongkong arouxeptional. I suppose at least 19 and starts, ne the wave of popular opinion the latter.

ably, but we see the familiar names of fr. corps under the Silladar system, also cadres of did not make much headway in this direction, out of every 20 firms in the colony are Chinese, Dallas kimwolf, Mr. Bertram Hermann, Miss two pony-cart trains, so as to admit of ax- the regetation being too green.

and the members of this Council must be awaKE seemed in the eyes of the wire-pullers from

of the custom the Chiness have of currying ou day to day to dictate. Now, however, that The Annual General Meeting of the Hong. Hettie Feel, Miss Rose Blair, and others. Mrs. pansion. The incream to the peace strength the services of these uncommissioned minis kong Chess Club was held at the Club Room Dallas, as will have hoan seen in our issue of amounts to twenty-six officers, fifty-five war-

business under some style or firm-name selected by themselves, which, however, gives no indica- yesterday evening, when the Hon. Treasurer's yesterday, met with a riding soudent on the rant and non-commissioned officers, 275 native

tion as to who the partners really are. For years ters can be dispensed with for four years, nocounts were passed and the vacancies on the 14th alt, being thrown from her horse and officers and non-commissioned officers, 291 ve-

past the Bankruptcy Law has been supposed and as far as Mr. McKINLEY is concerned Committee Alled up. A small match wiss play fracturing her right aria. The popular Mr. terinary assistants, artificers, and clerke, 4,400

to afford some protection to the creditors for ever, we may expect some plainer deve|ed afterwards, City v. Suburbs, in which the J. B. Ferrell, we regret to learn, has had a drivers, 2,149 camels for cadres of corps, and

The N. Y. K. steamer Inaba Maru (Euro of such dras. But, if the more fact that one of the partners is a Chinese subject who has lopment of the intentions of the White former side was victorions.

month in hospital and has therefore been unable 500 ponies. The regimental transport will be pesa Line) left Kobe for this port on the Ha House thaurbefore. By a very curious cou

to participate in either of the triumphs of the furnished by the existing transport, the cadres and is expected to arrive here on the 13th never been in this colony can be alleged as

·Îxist.

sufficient reason to oust the Bankruptcy jurisdic Yesterday afternoon. Mr. GJ. W. King offer company, San Toy or the Belle of New York of the proposed corps, when expanded, furnish- The T. K. K. steamer Hongkong Mary, with tion of the Court as against such a firm, the sutenstion of affairs, Lord SALISBUET finds

mails, &c., left Shanghai for this port on Sun-exset will be most perjudicial to the business himself in an almost identical position; anded for competition at the offess of the Public All his friends here will hope to see him reing the divisional and general transport.

Works Department two lots of Crown land. stored to health and the stage in Hongkong

day, 9th inst., at 11 am

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The P. M. ateamer City of Bio de Janeiro, to me at all probable that the Chinese Govern- with maila, ie, which left hero on the 8th ult. ment would be offended because a Chinese Pang Wing Ho and Chan, Him for 83,750 (up- now dor Mr. Dallas's leadership to be the

for San Francisco via Shanghai, Nagasaki, subject who chose to become a partner, in sa set $2,250). The lot contains 7,500 square foot, strongest combination which has come so for The British transport Penarth arrived on the Kobe, Inland Sea, Yokobane and Honolu, Hongkong business which could not meet its linbilities was declared by a Hongkong Court The Imperial Gernian Mail steamer Konig to be bankrupt. Now do I apprehend that a The U.8. transport Argyll arrived yesterday | dibert leff Shanghai on Sunday, 9th lust, at Chinamas so. declared a bankrupt would be from Vigan.

1 p.m., and may be expected here to-day. greatly injured, or lightvenienced by such

Ir is apparently not likely that much will be done in China during the winter season.

It would probably be found possible to keep an army in the fold during the intense cald of a northern Chinese winter, but the pro-

The date for the Masonic ball has not yet cess would entail so much suffering on the been fixed, bat it will be decided upon troops, and so much expenditure for the ata med, at two probably loud tide pold most necessary equipment, that unless in on Thursday. the case of the most extreme danger the result would hardly justify the under- Tha Hongkong Hookey Club will play a taking. Witli returning .confidence, the match against the Royal Navy on the Club American President has announced that ground at Happy Valloy this afternoon, om the policy of the United States will remain mencing at 1.15. as before. What this very enigmati

he gave an equally enigmatic statement of the intentions of the British Government at the usual Lord Mayor's Dinner speech,

people in Penang, bas enshled me to cumplete my studies, and when I have learned as much na possible about legirmay, I shall return to Pan-

2:83 sq. ft.

LOCAL MOVEMENTS,

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS, The steamer Arratoon: ¿pear, from Calcutts, left Bingapore for this port on the 9th inst. at daylight.

following this up by a statement sing Kowloon Inland Lot No. 1,113 fetched $110 East, while Ban Try is "the beat representa. Uth inst, from New Zealand with a cargo of ont arrived at her destination on the 8th inst.

ularly devoid of information at the open- (upset 890), Chan Fuk being the purchaser. [tion of its kind ever seen on this side of the ing of Parliament last week. So far as The lot contains 1,800 square foot..

Suez Canal".

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