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succeed in foreing a passage through their protectors. This is very much what has been taking place in China. The people and their ruler's see with their physical eyes the danger, yet individually and collec- tively they are so dazed by panic that, like

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH, 1901.

Hanoi is suffering from a plague of beggera, both professional and actually indigent.

Yuan Shikai's mother, who died at Chinanfu on the 18th inst., was 70 years old.

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There are to two battalions of German troops kept in garrison at Shanghai, with cavalry and artillery.

The coffin containing the remains of Baron. von Ketteler was to be shipped in the German transport Palatia, which was expected to leave

A. S. WATSON & CO., unfortunate sheep, their impulse is to rush says that the Ministers at Peking ors agreed Taku on the 21st inst.

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On the 15th June, 1911, at Dalbeattie, Kirksud brightshire, Scotland, the wife of Capt. Pruz, of a daughter.

On the 16th June, 1901, at 18, Boone Road, Shanghai, the wife of J. B. BARCLAY, of Laughter.

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HONGKONG, 25th June, 1901

We have arrived at the usual time when unrest begins to raise its head in China,

A Havas telegram, dated Paris, 17th June,

apon the sources from which the indemnity money is to be raising and as to the manner of realisation.

L'Echo de Chine, discussing the proposed remedios for missionary troubles in China, repudiates the idea that France can ever give up her role of protectress of Roman Catholic missions. As for the suggested "mixed courts" to settle disputes, our contemporary says: “Wo hope never to seo a (Roman) Catholic missionary sitting in any mixed court whatever.”

A Peking letter states that Prince Chau, charged with his mission to Germany, will sail 'for his destination in the German Mail steamer

Bayern from Shanghai on the 20th July. -

The water polo match at Kowloon last night between the V. R. C. and H. M. S. Janus resulted in a win for the latter by thres goals to twe. The play on both sides was indifferent.

TELEGRAMS.

"DAILY PRÈSS" SERVICE.

[FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.]

GENERAL NEWS:

The

THE PLAGUE,

Daring the 48 hoursending at noon yesterday there were reported 33 fresh cases of plagas (32 Chinese, onn European) and 35 deaths (34 Chinese, one other Asintio). Last week's figures were:-155 cases and 152 (loaths; 117 of the eases war in the City of Victoriu, 40 outside. The gares for the year are now:- 1450 cases (1386 Chinese, 46, other Asinties, 24 Europeans), and 1389 doutlis (1348 Chinesa, 32 other Asiatics, 0 Europeans).

The fresh European nationtis Mr. Jobaunes Wacker, an assistant in the firm of Messrs. Carlowitz and Co.

Mr. D'Agostini, of H.M. Naval Yard, who was taken from Beaconsfield Arcade at an surlier stage of the opilenio suffering from

MANILA, 24th June, 11.30 am,

SURRENDER OF GENERAL/

CAILLES. General Cailles surrendered to-day, with four hundred rifles, at Santa Cruz. oath of allegiance to the United States

plan and the rules of the Hanoi Exhibition of were then released..

L'Eche de Ching of the 17th inst. pablishes a Government was administered to all, who piague. Albert Chanyut, engineer on tho 8.x.

1902. The date of the opening of the Exhibi- tion has been postponed, to the 3rd of November, 1902, when it will coincide with the completion of the bridge over the Red River at Hanoi, and the innaguration of the first Bacs of railway. The Exhibition is to consist of three sections:-1. Francs and her Colonies, French Indo-Chins. 3. The Countries of

the Far East.

statesmen who can obtain a hearing are Considerable friction has occurred in Shang- those whose advice is the most suicidal. hai between the Recreation Ground, Committes The eunuch L LENYING, the incapable and the Polo Club, nearly culminating on the and discredited Las CHUAN LIN, the purblind 15th inst, in a fight, according to the local papers. The trouble arose over the action of LI HUNG-CHANG, who can only see Moscow;

the Polo Club in erooting a matshed and rail ---these are the men whose example leads the

which they reserved for honority and playing nation on to destruction: while others like members, which the Recreation Ground Com- LIU KUNG-YI, even the aged WAN WANG-mittee held to be an infringement of the

Dr. Arthur H. Smith, who has been residing MHAO, find themselves in the wild struggle public rights.

for some time in Tientsiz, has met with the hopelessly overpowered, or buried in the

misfortune of the dislocation of his right arm Renders will perhaps have noticed in rostory a jinzicksha accident, but says the M.-C. mass of ineptitude and folly. Nor can we exempt from blaine the self-appointed day's "New Advertisementa a appeal to any Daily News, with 1is characteristic ro- shepherds of the flock, who when the panic friends and acquaintancos of a Mr. Homer C. sonrafnines-es be uses a typewriter-he re- was new, and the flock looked for some Streeter, an American citizen, recently engaged marks that need not affect the most of my | indication of safety, hesitated fill it had in mining business in the Philippines, who hand-writing. We trust it will not, as he is at

bent

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came to Hongkong in serious ill-health and

died at the Government Civil Hospital on the 18th inst. Bnch friends and aquainfaces are requested to cummunicate with the U.S. Conenl

passed beyond control-who were rather on punishment and reveago than on example, and who lost the precious time when reorganisation was possible in squabb.at this port. ling amongst themselves about questions of petty procedence; and who disclaiming all desire for personni aggrandisement were nevertheless all the while surreptitiously working out schemes of partition--each in its own interest, while as carefully trying to spoil, under pretence of helping the waimon cunse, his neighbour's "little game." "When history caines to review the events of the twelve-month in China, the verdiet will be one of the utter ineptitude displayed by one and all; and may be summarised in the old

nursery rhyme-

The King of France with twenty

thousand uen Marelied up the hill-and then marched

down again.

The opportunity has been given and lost, and to all appearance the last state of China is worse than the first. Meanwhile the one country that has scored any even partial success is the most unscrupulous of all; and we may feel well satisfied if the one fruit of all our fail be not to hgaten on the supreme conflict between barbarism and culture, that we had even a year ago fondly hoped had been relegated to the time of our grandchildren, if not postponed, like a too Bussia, it knotty point in court, sine die. is true is at home in evil case, but, as in the days of the Empress CATHERINE, it is under such cases that Russie is most dangerous to her neighbours. In this instinct has taught her a similar lesson to what it has Franco,

France however, learnt the lesson too well, und in the case of NAPOLEON III well nigh brought his country to destruction; we can only hope that a like result will follow the pursuitof similar tactics by the unscrupulous Court, surrounding the well-meaning, but

insufficiently strong NICHOLAS II.

On Sunday night the British, transports Lulpgora and Nurani left for Taku.

H. M. S. Hermione, which arrived yesterday, was flying the homeward bound pennant,

The meeting of the Legislative Council summoned for to-day at 3 pra, has been post- poned sine die.

yet we scem to núss the usual June erop of ritmours. Are we to believe that China has had enough of it, and she is imitating the policy of the coon, who cornered in the tree politely asked the buntsman not to shoot- he would come down? Last June the malions of Europe, aghast at the outbreak of barbarism in the North, when they bad come to the conclusion to send troops to Peking, one and all looked upon the settle- mcut of the Chinese affair 21 a thing easy of accomplishment. They had only to send some twenty or thirty thousand troops, the Chinese would not show fight, and in a month or two the whole would be settled, the instigators of the outrages punished, and the country started on a course of reform. After twelve months of success the Powers are just as anxious now to get out of Peking as they were then to get in, and communicable disease reported in the colony of the hopeful programine then held up for were only two, both of enteric fever-one our admiration not one item has been ae: European and one Chinese. No deaths waxe complished. The vis inertia of three hun-reported.

Nurse E. S. Gray, the first of the nurses engaged to work in connection with the Hong- kong Narsing Institution, arrived in the colony by the last English mail.

Owing to a hitch in the operations, the attempt to raise the sunken dredger Canton River has had to be postponed, and it is not expected that it will be made before Thursday,

Apart from plague last week, the cases of

Major Cesar Narazzini, Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy and Officer of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, who arrived at Shanghui by the Kiuchon his taken charge of the Italian Consulato-General. Major Nerusini who was formerly a doctor in the Italian Navy, is not a stranger to Shanghai, having visited the port on the star of the Duke of Ganos when the Daks came thers in command of the Vetter Pisunt some twenty years ago, The King of Italy has conferred on Signor E. Glisi, the predecesson of Major Nerazsini, the rank of Honorary Conant General, and has appointed him Commander of the Crown of Italy, in recognition of his services to his country in Shanghai.

REUTER'S SERVICE.

LONDON, 22nd Jums.

THE AMERICAN ATTACHE ON BRITISH BRAVERY IN

SOUTH AFRICA.

The report of the American Attache on the Boer war declares the British troops to be brava to a fault. If they were less brave, there would have been lower faults and more victories.

SUPREME COURT.

Molay, 24th June,

IN CRIMINAL JURISDICTION.

(CHIEF JUSTICE).

the present time preparing a work that is much | Beroes SIE JOHN CARRINGTON, KT., C.M.G. looked forward to, his book on the subject of the Chinese disturbance, of which he has been

very real observer and withal one whosa! whole bife has been in peril in connection with it, having been one of the besieged in Peking.

On Sunday night. Mr. C. B. Bayars, Super- intendent of the Peak Tramway, who has but lately returned to Hongkong from a holiday, met with a serious accident. It occurred as he was about to board a trans in motion near the Peak Station. Missing his footing, or misindg. ing the speed at which the car was approaching, he was forcibly thrown off the car and against the fence, The impotus carried him over the fence, and he fell a distance of about 15 feet. Da being picked up he was conveyed to the Peak Hospital and found to be suffering from a severe injury to the head, a fracturod collar bone and a damaged rib. Mr. Buyers is, kowever, progressing favourably, in spite of his numerons injurios.

The Japanese aubjects who were ordered by

A Shanghai Mercary correspondent wrote on the German authoritiers to Isare the Carolines last February have made a statement of their the 23rd May:-"If tho fahabitants of Chung- they were very harshly treated, not being als of things, they must conclude that it does not case, the Japan Mail says, They claim that kingare stail Impressed by the present condition lowed to offer any explanations to the authorities pay to drive out the foreign devils, for thera nor giron sufficient time to wind up their affairs, are now more foreigners in this city than at It is alloged, on the one hand, that they were

any period of its past history. There is a sense engaged in a commerce interdicted by Germany in which it may be said that Chungking is on the other, that no ronson existed for their crowded with foreigners, and more are coming." expulsion except the hostility of German local We are glad to learn from the same source, that raschoots who found their competition the Acting Consul has refused to grant pass. inconvenient. They plead that had the former ports to single ladies desiring to pass on into causation heen the cause of the trouble some the interior, having, it is said, received orders kind of investigation must have been held, from Peking to that effect. Lately he has wheresy they were driran away without any one further and practically forbidden wives to inquiry.

accompany their husbands. On the other hand, he does not object to male missionaries going forward even to the most distant and inacces. sible parts.

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THE NEW TRAMWAY SCHEME.

The Sin Wen Pao says that the famous Coal Hill" at Peking, north of the Palace, ir now daily drowded with sightseers. The varions kiosques have been somewhat damaged, and a bronze image of Buddha has been tumbled

It would appear as though the days of the In our advertising down off its wooden frame. There are scattered rickshes are numbered. shot the grounds numerous tablets, and columns yesterday appeared a notice to the photographers are seizing the opportunity of effect that it was the intention of the promotors photographing these, a rare opportunity which of a company, "to be hereafter incorporated will probably never recur. There is also a ander the name of the Hongkong Tramway still rarer object upon the walls of the Forbidden Electric Company, Limited, or some other City, which is also being recorded on the lensis similar name," to apply to the Legislative of the photographers. This is proclamation in the name of Prince Chuang, of a tramway within the colony. It was not to Boxer Council for a bill to authorise the construction

Kang Yi and others. It says: "All the foreign be expected that a British possession so cotu. devils' halls have now been burnt, and the devils mercially prosperous as is Hongkong should have now no plues to hide themselves. If any be content for always to leave its vehicular one side them to hide away, he will be killed trafic on the lower levels in the hands of without zaorey. If any one sourches out a man, coolies. Other settlements in the Far East may be willing to suffer the existence of such primitive methods of street transportation though Shanghai is apparently not one of these), but there is no reason why Hongkong should be one of these, and it will daubtless give general satisfaction that the initiatory step in the introduction here of western methods of street passenger traffic has been taken. The promoters of the proposed tramway are the Yangtze Valley Company, Limited, of London, and their agents in Hongkong are Meaara Shewan, Tome & Co., 1 Des Your Road Central. The line will

and hands him over he will receivs 50 tools, a woman, forty taels, or a devil child, thirty tools They must be real foreigners, and upon inspection made the rewards will be paid ut auce. If any one desires to help the military fonds let them forward their money to Prince Chuang, and after peace is restored they will all ba duly rewarded.”

In a letter written from Peking in March, but only published in the Times of the 22nd, Dr. Morrison, speaking of the thorough way in which the Allies looted in Peking, my

COUNTERFEIT COIN CASE.

Pang Lan was charged on four conuts-(1) selling counterfeit coius (2), ottering counterfeit coins, (3) having three or more counterfeit coits in his possession, und (4) aftering counterfeit coins.

Haichiny, and Francisco Bios, a Portuguese who was takon to the Plague Hospital from his residence in Bridge Street recently, have all been discharged as cured from Kennedy Town. All the other Europeans still under treatment are doing woll,

Mr. Isidoro Francio Leon, accrotary of Messrs. Campbell, Moire & Co., Ltd., died oa Sunday night, it is rumoured, of plague,. ut his residoncs, 37, Caine Road. His funeral took ples yesterday at 445 p.m., and was attended by his many friends.

We regret to learn that Mr. Primrose, wife of Capt. Primrose, who had been residing at Will Dell, has contracted the disease. Sho was taken to the Kennedy Town Hospital ut no early hour last night.

HOLHOW.

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.]

18th June. RE-HOISTING THE FLAG,

Hainan for 14 months, was re-hosted on May The British flag, which has not down is

28th at the British Consulate. Its absence dar- K. W. Monsey), who appeared for the defend-of friendly relations between the British mid Mr. J. J. Francis, K. C. (instructed by Mr. ing test time has not been due to any cesativa ant, intimated that his chent pleaded guilty to the third count-possession and that the Attorney-General was willing to accept that plen and not to proceed on the remaining counts of the judicîmest.

Mr. Francis said the defendant did not make it a hasiness to sell counterfelt money, and that it was only after considerable time and difficulty the prosecution could get together what little money had actually been sold. His Lordship, said Air. Francis, would have noticed that the money was not being sold as faiso money, but as

refuss or

seless money whira was apparently to be sent to Canion to ited dowIL. The defendant, before la hand it over to the purchaser, wanted to chup up. Under all the circnstances of the caso, flr. Francis desired his Lordship to avail himse i of the powers given him under section 35 of the Ordinance and fine the defendant, own further binding him over in his revognisaboes to keep the peaco.

His Lordship Is your client able to pay a considerable dne t

Mr. Francis-No, my Lord, he is a poor map. It would be a totally different thing if the master of the shop were before you.

His Lordship-The shop people ought to pay his fine.

Mr. Francis-I am afraid there is no legal means of compelling them to pay it. It was with great difficulty that the necessary expenses for the defence were obtained.

Chinese Governments, but to the fact that owing to the abandonment of the old and tho building of the now Consulate there was no place where it could be hoisted until the now

kings har been completed These being now finished,, and the fine flugstuff, 100 fost high and weighing over two tons, having boon-successfully erected, the flag was re- hoisted by the Consalamid the sound af many crackers and the congratula

tions of both Chinese and foreign residents. The new flagstaff forms a conspicuous landtaark in

oihow. In the evening the Consalate grounds were prettily illuminated with red, white, and blue lanterns: and in the course of a speech which he made during a liner given by him, Mr. Warner, the British Consul, said that h thought all pust agres that, on the whole, the British fag had been on the side of truth and justice, and of the oppressed against the op pressor. But flags were sign of division...oftən of hostilo division: they showed this sometimes in the symbolathey bore--lions, tigers, elephants, dagles, Berco dragons, etc. He looked forward to a time when all the nations of the world would be united under ons dag, and work together for the cause of peace and civilisation; and he thought that the best flag for that. purpose would be the flag of Jesus Christ.

NO PLAGUE.

The Acting Attorney-General had no objec. tion to the course proposed by Mr. Francis, and the defendant was fined 5500, to be paid forth. with, in default of which he would be imprisoned

Though the districts to the cast and west of for nine months with hard labour. He was further bound over in his own recognisances of Hollow have been seriously affected. Huilow $500 to keep the peace und be of good behaviour itself has this year escaped anything which for a period of six months.

could rightly be described as an epidemic of plague. The severity of the disease last sum- mer may account for the present immunity..

SATURDAY'S SHOOTING MATCH.

"ATTEMPTED LARCENY-CASE WITHDRAWN.

Lam Shek Yeung was charged with attempted Lartery

at Tai Hom village on 14th May. He pleaded not guilty, and was defended by Mr. E. H. Sharp, burriaté-at-law (înstructed by Mr. K. W. Hounsey).

VOLUNTEERS P. NON-VOLEYTERES.

NON-VOLUNTEERS.

A rifle match came off at Tai Haug Range, Causeway Bay, on Saturday afteracon, between taams representing Volunteer and non- Volunteer members of the Hongkong Rifle Association.. As we were not favoured with the eficial report, we give the scores alone.

NON-VOLUNTEERS.

200,500, 600, TI.

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32 12 31 95

32 28 38 93

32 30 28 90

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The following jury was empanelled-Mesers. W. A. Sime, W. Hardwick, J. S. Ezekiel, 8. F.da Roza, A. M. R. Pereira, M. Meyer, and J. Benjamin. plainant in the case was a Chinaman-a farmer The Acting Attorney-General mid the com. living at the village of Tai Hom, near Kowloon City. On the evening of the 14th May, about mine o'clock, the complainant was in his house when he heard noise on the roof. He picked up his rifle, and looking up through a hola that had been knocked in the roof, and through The conditions to the match, as already stated. which poles were thenat, saw some four were similar to those of the Intarport match→→ or five men on the top of the house. The ten men seven aside, seven shots at each range complainant fired his rifle, and two of the men, (200, 500, sad 600 yards), with two sighting apparently sliding down the poles into the complainant's house, bolted through the front shots. The result was a win for the non- door and escaped. The complainent bad gone Volunteers by 50 points. Appended are the for the polica, and at twenty minutes past aide scores: forgeant Kent, in charge of a party, arrived. They searched the house, and on the roof the complainant found a chopper, which he handed Ar-Ser. Blair over to Chinese constable. The complainant, Ser.-Ing. Wake, R.N. Mr. Pollock explained, did not profess to be Las. D. McLennan

of the robbers, but evidene Mr. W. G. Stackwood... able to identify any would be brought forward by the prosecution Q.-M.-Ber. Wallace, R.E. to show that the defendant was connected with Q-M-Ser. West, R.E....... the chopper. One of the Crown witnesses was Bergt Bowery, E.E.,.... and he would tell the jury that he sold the Sergt. Mackie, .W.F a blacksmith carrying on Cosiness in Kowloon, Mr. J. Cramer, B.N. chopper to the defendant on 11th May- Capt. Carlyla the night of the attempted robbery at siz or In one of the small rooms (of the Imperial ho a thoroughly modern one, and will run seven o'clock, some two or three hours before Palace) occupied by the Emperor one curious through the town from east to west, the the affair took place. The defendant had denied relic has, however, been overlooked, which chief line of route being by way of the

that he actually bought the chopper, but ho sught to have had a peculiar interest for the Old Prays. It is toe early yet

appeared on his own showing to have been in Sergt. Marshall, B" Co.... 31 33 23 93 publish the shop when it was purchased.

The Gun. Baldwin, F.B.,

73 20 20. 41 Russians. It is a piece of silver plate, repre-fails, as the bill authorising the construcjury would also have to consider the fact Ser. Maj. Laumert, "A" Co. 29 29 31 seating Bassin the Liberator restoring freedom tion of the tramway has to be first passed that when he was arrested-two days after Ser. Stewart. F.B..

the attempted larceny the defendant was Priv. B. Clarke, D Co... 32 31 26 89 to the Bulgarian people. It was originally by the Lagistative Council and then sent home

to the Imperial Government for approval Im blood upon them. The stains were undoubtedly Priv. Watson, "D" Co.,

wearing a pair of trousers which had stain of Priv. U. Mackenzie, "D" Co., 29 34 25 87 made by order of the Tsar Alexander III for

those of blood, but the Government Analyst Lient. Mossop, F.B., presentation to the Sobranje at Sofia, but mediately that approval has been gained, the

was unable to say whether the blood was recent Priv, Horley, "D" Co., before its completion Prints Alexander of work connected with the laying down of

or whether, it was human. One point he had Gun. Lapsley, F. B., Battenberg had lost favour in the eyes of his the line will he proceeded with at osoa.

omitted to mention, said the Imperial kinsman, and the gift was never As at present contemplated, the line will

Attorney-General, was that when the complainant fired his rife one of the robbers fell from the roof in attempt- forwarded to its contemplated destination. But extend from the Rope Works at Beinher's Bay in 1897 an opportunity was at last found of and Shankiwan, the village lying on the ing to make his escape, and sustained in- action of the Chinese in the present crisis. Own Scottish Borderers, a staff offear of con- In such a case the first impulse of the flock aiderable experience. Major Hamilton, whose

was sent out with presents from the Tair to reults be satisfactory, it will be extended possible that the blood on the defendant'e

trousers might have been caused by his attempt The TK K. steamer America Maru. with is to rush into the midst of the fire, not-ast appointment was that of Acting Adjatant the Son of Heaven. The date and inscription further is both directions. The line in the ing to rescue the injured man, who, although mails, &c., left Shanghai for this post yestoday.

were altered, and, though many of the Bulgarian outskirts of the city, where traffic is not likely unable to move, was found some distance from at 3 p.m. withstanding all the efforts of the shepherds General in the Presidency District of India, accessories still betrayed its identity, it was to be congested, will be a single one, but it will the house.

The C. P. R. steamer Empress of China left

individual sheep seems possessed with Let July. The departure of Colonel The restoring to him the Liso-tong peninsula! If meeting all climatic exigencies, and will run them. There might be grave suspicion against Yokohams, and sailed for Hongkong on the 24th lical representation of Russia the Liberator The cars are to be constructed with a view to case was altogether, too weak to go before The N. P. steamer Olympia has arrived at demon of self-destruction, and will take O'Gorman and his wife will be regretted by the Emperor Kaang Hsu has any sense of every few minutes. As we bare said, the step the defendant, but that was not enough, and inst. advantage of the first opportunity to rush their many friends in Hongkong, whe anite in amour he must have appreciated the grimse is an important one, and will doubtless meet he would ask them to return a verdict of not into the furnace; and seeing one escape the wishing them bon voyage. They travel, it is of the joke when Russia the Liberator relieved with the unqualified support of all residents in

guilty. shepherd, the others will blindly follow its understood, by way of the Trans-Siberian him a few months later of all farther saziety the colony. As to its necessity, we have on oner not guilty, and he was discharged.

The jury were unanimous in finding the pri example, and probably by sheer weight Railway.

about the future destinies of Jing-tong,

many occasions previously insisted on this.

This brought the Sessions to a close,

VOLUNTERES.

308 306 281 890

200, 500, 600, T1.

31 31 47

dred millions has proved too much for the The Chief Justice will deliver judgment at united arms of Europe, and like a pan- the Supreme Court this morning at 10.30 in the stricken flock of sheep, it has proved more special case, the Attorney-General v. Sarah dangerous to itself than to the shepherds. Jacques, which was heard before his Lordship China has for the nonce won her immediate on the 14th inst. end, but she has done so by the utter absence of all those principles of self- Colonel The O'Gorman, Deputy Assistant restraint without which no nation can con- Adjutant General in Hongkong, is, with Ma dam O'Gorman, leaving the colony at an early tinue to cxist as a power. No one who has date for England. Colonel O'Gorman stort of seen the conduct of u flock of sheep, when service expires or the 30th inst., but the date of the buildings on the sheepcote have taken his sailing is not as yet definitely settled. He fire, can fail to note the analogy with the will be succeeded by Major Hamilton, King patting it to a new use, when Prince Ukhtomy other side of Quarry Bay, and should the jurise from which he ultimately died. It was LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

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to keep them out of harm's way. Each is due to take up the duties of the office left passed on to the Emperor of Chins as a symbo be duplicated in the vicinity of the City Hall ship, addressing the jury, said he thought the inst

After hearing the Attorney-General, his Lort- Yokohama for Tancouver at 4 p.m., on the 23rd

vacant by the refiral of Colonel O'Gorman on

The N. P.steamer Victoria arrived at Tacoma, from Japan and Hongkong on the 21st inst.

The Bon" Line steamer Bonsider, from London and Straits, left Singapore on the 22nd inst. for this port.