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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15TH, 1904.

well-timbered slopes on our left. Bood and butterflies were in the hedges and birds were in the air.

was born in Canterbury-and polled up before Prior Goldstone's time-scarr s, though still beautiful, gateway lending into the precincts of The sweet serenity of the Sabbath prevailed the Cathedral. And now that sonfptured pile on all sites, imparting a feeling of restfulness of history in stone loomed grey and mighty

MEN-OF-WAR ON THE CHINA AND JAPAN STATION.

AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN,

Tsessravitch, battleship, 18,110 toos, 68 guns, 16,300 lp., Capt. N. Dabitch, Port Arthur Zabiyaka, oruiser, 1230 tons, 15 gans, 1194 hp,

Commander Abramo, Port Arthur

UNITED STATES,

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BY CHARLES J. H. HALCOMNE, AUTHOR OF which enhanced the beauty of the rarul land- | before us, grimly grund with the stirring Aspern, cruiser, 2137 kons, 20 gune, 7300 b.p.. Albany, oruiser, 976 tons, 25 guns, 7500 h P... | COLORED PLATE OF FLAGSOF FOREIGN HONGS

HISTORIO HOMELAND

HAUNTS.

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If profit and good health you seek,

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A year of life for ev'ry week

You squander in Hornn Bay.

A sound investnut!" quoth the Rook:

***Record it!"" erowed the Fowl.

Saint

Capt. Friedrich Grinzenberger, Hongkong Keiterin Elisabeth, cruiser, 4000 tons, 29 gu 3,

9000 h.p., Captain Mirti, Japan

FRENCH

1700 h.p., Lieut. Ferrat, Saigon Achoron, armoured guuboat, 1796 tona, 10 guns,

Lieut. A. Varuoy, Saigon Alouette, gunboat, 300 tons, 7 guns, 400 hp.,

scape and lushed the mind into contemplative memories of a thousand years.

Hera stood the little church of mood. In my opinion, there is nothing more dolightful than to wander at leisure on a peace-Augustine and the little palace of King ful anmmer's day through the homely scenes so Ethelbert, and from the subdued light of characteristic of our island home, particularly Christianity horo kindled a flood of inextinguish through the thought-inspiring haunts which able glory has spread from sea to sea and land the martyr Ridley has hallowed with his to land until the whole world reflects its "Who'll find the quili? Who'll find #1 o book?" presence; for did he not preach his last sermon radianes from a myriad heaven-blessed spires Argus, gunboat, 123 tons, gans, 500 h.p..

in yonder ancient church of St. Martin, whose Here, when all around them was strife, rapine square tower now comes into view above the and bloodshed, the peace-loving inonks passed tros-teps of Strode Park Yes, and when under their uneventful days in meditating upon the sentence of death ho fondly mentioned Herno Holy Scriptures and the works of Aristotle, in valediction to the places with which he had pages of stone and in fostering with fatherly as that worshipful and wealthy parish." in his inscribing their lives upon these imperishable been associated, and also that godly woman. Lady Fiennes," who now posts in yonder churchyard.

"The Heros, quath the Owl.

.C.J.KL.I.

A. Guard rang the big bell, and shortly after wards the 11 am train from London came steamed into the stution of Horne Bay, and, bissing along, and with a rumbling rash pausing there, discharged its passengers for this popular seaside resort.

Then I saw the familiar form of my old Hongkong friend, The Plodder," approaching along the platform. He had come to spend a wook-end holiday with me, and I was to meet him. Being an exceedingly busy man, lin could only spare a couple of days down here, so I was parts as was possible in a short a time. How far I was successfai. I will leave the reader to judge after she or he has read this sketel, which I have penned for the edication of those who

Sueli scones as these often preach to the world hardened heurt a far more impressive sermon than one would he likely to hear preached from any pulpit.

eare all that was then known of the arts and

Lieut. Jeannel, Canton

Aspin, gunboat, 475 tona, 3 guns, 450 b.p.,

Haiphong

Tent. Miri, Saigon

Baionuotic, gunboat, Lieut. Lefevre, Saigon Avalanche, gunboat, 140 tons, & gans, 150 h.p.,

Lieut. M. a Vignaux, Tourane sciences; und here, in the Middle Ages, came boat, 580 tong, 6 grius, 400 b.p. the pilgrims to Becket's Shrine, which was then

Caronnde, gunboat, Liet Hus, Saigon Casse-tete, gunboat, 140 tons, 5 guns, 150 h.p., the Meces of the western world and the treasure- house of Christian England.

Saigon

Captain Dyer, Cavite

MAP OF THE Far East Annapolis, ganboat, 1000 tons, 12 guds, 1997

PLAN OF YOKOHANA b.p.. Captain Rohrer, Shanghai

PLAN OF KOBE AND HYOGO Bainbridge, t.-b.d., 420 tong, 7 gans, 8000 1.PPLAN OF FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS, TIENTSIN

PLAN OF THINGtau (KlaochÁD)·· NEW PLAN OF DALNY

Lieut, G. Williams, Hongkong Barry, t-b-d, 420 tons, 7 guze, 8000 hp.

Lieut, Irwin, Hongkong Callao, grabost, 208 tons, 10 guns, 000 h.p.

Lieut. Dismaker. Hongkong Chauncey, t.-b.d., 420 tons, 7 guns, 8000 h.p-

Lieut. E. P. Jessop, Hongkong Cincinnati, cruiser, 313 tons, 19 guus, 700

hp... Captain G. B: Harbor, Dale, t-b.d., 420 tons, 7. guns, 8000 h.p., Lisut.

Garness, Hongkong

PLAN OF FORDION CONCESSION, SHANGHAI PLAN OF HONGKEW (SHANGHAI) with Inset

Showing the EXTENDED SETTLEMENT LARGE. PLAN OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA PLAN OF PEAK DISTRICT, VICTORIA

PLAN OF KOWLOON NEW PLAN OF MANILA PLAN OF SINGAPORE

south-west porch into the lofty are, with Chateaurenault, ernisor (flugship), 8018 tons, IA/Helena, ganboat, 1892 tons, 8 guus, 1988 h.p., of the last half contury in the Far Eust together

guns, 17,000 h.p., Captain A. M. Poidioüe, Saigon

Lion. A. W. Kaox, Hongkong Decantur, 6.-b..d., 420 tons, 7 guus, 8000 h.p., PLAN OF PENANG Eleano, gunboat, 560 tons, 10 guns, 6000 L.p,

Lieut-Cemdr. J. Hood, Shanghai Commander F. E. Sanyer, Canton Monadnock, monitor, 3990 tons, 6 guns, 3000

h.p., Captain Mahan, Shanghai Cohmander J. B. Millon, Carite New Orleans, cruiser, 3437 tous, 20 gaus, 7500

1.p., Commander ---, Shanghai

determined that he shonlit sou es much of theso there is no place like England-no place to clustering columns, its ancient and modern Coméo, gunboa); 59 tens, & gaus, 48 h.p., Monterey, monitor, 4084 tons, 4 gans, 5244 h.p Chambers of Commerce, Scales of Commissions

Comdr. Lonel, Haiptung D'Ass, crnis ar, 4000 tons, 31 guns, 2500 h.p.,

Saigon

The CHRONICLE covers this notable avents

with the Toxts of all the most important Treaties conoladed with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Consular and Court Foos, Hongkong Stamp Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money Weights, and

including

nay purpose spending a day or two in a blenting sheep and lowing cattle tell with standards, that droop over the mural tablets of Deeidé, gunboat, 645 toas, 10 guns, 1,000 h.p, Oregon, cruiser, 10,288 tons, 45 guns, 11,111 Measures, and other Commercial. Information

similar manner.

Acting as cicerone, fled the way through the My friend and I both agreed that after all its magnificent gioined roof supported by compare with the familar scenes of one's stained-glass windows and its interesting moun- childhood. Nowhere in the wide world had woments to the illustrious dead. Passing along found the same quaint and rustic homesteads near the northern wall, which is hang in and the same peaceful pasture-lands, where places with the tattered remains of battle-borne sleepy contentment of the ponce, security and Britain's honoured herous, we ascended the choir stops, and pausing near the top lookol Presently, as we followell the road in a surp down over the stone balustrade in We soou arrived at my house, and after par- plenteousness of this favored little isle. taking of some refreshment went for a stroll to

Becket wus foully done to death on December the end of the pior, which is nearly a mile long. bend to the loft, the time-honoured village of erime-haunted Martyrdom where Thomas A A fresh exhilarating breeze was blowing from Herno and its historio fane came into view; au the north-west, and the sea rolled shoreward, ideal English village, where generations and 29th, 1170. Then stealing away from this wave upon wave, shimmering with the bright generations of our forefathers lived humbly and tragic spot we stood and guzed through the ness of July sunshine, for it was a glorious day, happily and died serenely in the fulness of their closed gate of the choir upon a scene which holy memories and its magnificenca. The And away to the westward lay the picturesque years, and where each homely cottage beans the hushed and almost bewildered the mind with its remains of old Hampton pier, with its back-imprint of sublimely respectable old age.

beautiful hues of many an ancient window ground of grussy slopes surmounted by charming

filled the vastness of this shadowy shrine with bungalows and other desirable residences; and in the offing sercral Whitstable fishing snacks

soft ethereal light which gave greater grace were longuidly drifting by with their nets trawl-

and conformity to the various styles of architer- ing, and their ruddy sails outspread; while the

ture and intensified the becoming gloom of fair island of Sheppey loomed indistinctly to our

vaulted passage and pillarol aisle, thus bringing Jeft, guarding the suiry to the Thames and

into relief the rich tracery of arch and screen Medway upon whose outward-flowing tides the

and canopy. gleaming sails of many a brig, barge and schooner could be seen dancing and quivering upon the deeper waters as they swept seaward close to the wind.

I had not seen my friend for many years, se. while be miffed the ozono, and thoughtfully contemplated our surroundings. I plied him with dirers questions concerning old friends I had known in the Far East, and a thousand and one matters of interest to me, but of uo import to

1 patient rendor.

After tiffin we fared forth again, this time following the shore in the eastward, and pas- sing through the lower Gardens and along the Marine Parade to the Cliffs apon whose slopes a fine land-stand has recently been erected. On gaining these grassy heights we sauntered along, enjoying the soft air and cool breeze. Beneath us the russet-hued ramparts, in places

Right in the middle of this quiet haulet, and harmoniously blending with it--although apparently built for a larger and wealthier community--stands the grand old church, with its square fint-built tower, its age-worn porch with stonps for holy water on either side, and its shady graveyard and avenue of chestnut trees, all rich in glorious memories and hallowed monuments of past ages. It was here that the pious reformer Bishop Ridley was Vicar as for back as 1538, and here where the To Loum was sang by him in English for the first time. "Bonenth those rugged elins, that yow-trees' shade,

Where heaves the turf in any a monkduring heap,

Each in his narrow cell fer ever laid

The rule forefathers of the hamlet sleep." The service had already began, and we rover entially paused and listened while the organ rolled forth its seraphic music and the voice of the village choir joined in the impressive melody and as we looked aronad upon this dear old country place, sweet with the fragrance of antiquity and tinged with the religious light of rural reflections, perhaps we thought of our childhood and of loved ones passed away; for we used in solemn silence and my friend's face bore a wistful expression. Then we strolled onward with umbrageous trees on sither hand,

Soon afterwards we passed out through the the South Porch and made our way eastward to the lichen-covered arches of the Monks Infirmary majestic ruins of the old Monastery. Hall and Chapel are very interesting. and contain some fine piaces of chiselling on capital and moulding. But one's thoughts were carried back to the remote past with greater vividness 214 we traversed the path round the Corona,

whose har-guarded windows lave looked upon Becket' bejewelled shrine and Conrad's glorious eboir, and passing under the low archway perpetuated in the pages of the Ingoldsby Legends as the "Dark Entry," with its erum- time-blackened cloister, now and again pansing bling ivy-untled tower, sauntered through the to examine the rust-eaten ironwork of apertures out upon the shady Green Court at the further which were once heavily barred and which look

porch and staircase.

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Lieut-Comdr. L'Elost, Shanghai

tons, guns, b. Estoc, gunboat, Frando, tostroyer, 350 tona, 7 guns. 903 h.p.,

Lieut. Mère, Haiphong

Lieut. Jobenne, Hongkong

b.p, Captain Guudet, Saigon

guns,

Gueydon, cruiser, 9376 20:5. 30 guns, 20,200

h.p., Lieut. Blaise, Haiphong Fleuri Risiere, gunboat. tous, Jacquin, guabeat, Lieut. Coroner, Haiphong Liont-Comdr. Beaussant, Hongkong Javeliur, destroyer, 307 tons, 7 guns, 300 h.p.

Comdr. Le Gulleur, Shanghai Kersaint, gunboat. 1950 tons, & guns, 2200 h.p.,

9700 tons, 12 guus, 10,600 t.p., Capt. Cros, Montem, cruiser (Vice Admiral's flagship),

Hongkong

Mousquet, destroyer, Lieut. Prst, Hongkong

tons, gaas,h.p., Lious. Olay, ga bost,

Audemard, Yangtse

b.p.. Captain Burwell. Shanghai Pampanga, gunboat, 201 tons, 3 gaus, 250 hp.

Ensiga J. E. Bass, Cavite Paragna, gunboat, 201 tous, 3 guns, 259 h.p.,

Captain Bennett, Cavite Captain J. B. Collins, Manila Ralubow, cruiser, 4000 toux, 14 guns, --- h.p. Raleigh, cruiser, 3213 toes, 18 guas, 7560 b.p.,

Commander Marshall, Chemulpo Sau Francisco, cruiser, 4093 toas, 27 gans, 9913

h.p., Captain Very, Manila Vicksburg, cruiser, 100 tons, 13 guns, 1118 b.p, Commander Marshall, Shanghai Villalobos, gabboat, 347 tons, 3 guns, 500 h.p.,

Liout A. Wiley, Shanghai Wilmington, gasboat, 1397 tous, & gaus, 1894

b.p. Commander A. W. Dodd, Manil Wisconsin, Hagsbig, 12,000 tons, 50 guns, 12,609

1.p., Captain Clover, Shanghai

Pascal, cruiser, 4015 tms, 2 guns, 8500 h.PD MERCHANT NAVY

Comdr, Chevalier, Haiphong

Paiho, gunboat, Lieut. Lavissit, Tongku

Hongkong Pistolet, destroyer, Licut. de Reinach-Werth, Redoutable, cruiser, D137 tons, 8 guns, 6071 b.p., Commodore C. P. M. Fridloün, Saigon

Comdr. T de Haliceert, Saigon Styx, cruiser, 1796 toas, 10 guns, 170.) h.p., 3488)

Captain Guibertean, Hollow Suly, erniser, 10.014 tous, 38 guts, 20,000 k.p.,

Livul. Rogue, Shanghai Surprise, rasbout, 6.9 tons, 2 gans, 900 L... Takiang, gun at tour,

Lieut. Yungteze

guns,h.p.,

Vauban, cruiser, (reservej 6150 tons, 23 guns,

4560 hp., Limit Raty, Saigon Tukou, destroyer, Lieut, Gaillard, Saigou

Lieu', Carol, Cantou

Tugged, crevassed and precipitons, overshadowed and beneath them, in the dewy grass, restful end of which stands the celebrated Norman Vigilante, geabost, 123 tons, 7 guus, 500 hp..

sheep and sportive laroles,

When we had gone for enough, I proposed that we should returzi. My friend stood for a moment or two and looked along the dusty, hedge-lined road as though he would fain have followed it further.

a strip of pebbly beach and swept boldly round in a crescent toward the aisfor towers of fur- famed Recuirers-the Regulbium of ancient times, where the Britons are mid to have borne the brunt of the first Roman Invasion--which now came into view, standing upon an ombank ment at the very edge of the shore. Those

"If we were to go straight ahead," he enquir. sulitury ruins are all that remain of a churched," to where would this road lead na ?** erected bera daring the saventh century by flaese, who received a grant of Beunlver from Egbert.

According to tradition, two pions sisters, while on their way from France to England, were shipwrecked off this part of the coast. Cue was downed, and the survivor, Frances St. Clare--who subsequently becane Abboss of the Benedictine Auns of Faversham caused those twin towers to be erected on the western side of the old church as a landmark to asribers and as a monument in memory of her deceased sister.

Here and there the cliff has been scooped out by landslips, and in these wild and bush-grown hollows nary a keg of brandy has, in the days of our grandsires, "boen stowed away until the crust was clear of exese officers and these and contraband goods could be safely run uted to the old village of Herne; for this was once à favourite rendezvous among the smug- gling fraternity.

To our right. green pasture lands and fields of waving corn and clover, and hedges garlanded with wild flowers, stretched away in bright-tintel undulations to the pretty old Saxon village of Birchington, which slumbers among sylvan scenes and exhales a sweet odour of respectable decay. And behind us, nestling at our feet upon the margin of the sea, was the homely-looking town of Herne Bay, and all about it the fair garden of Keut rolling away in broad-shouldered billows of luxuriant vegetation toward the distant hills which loomed purple in their remoteness, with here and there a glittering spire, or glassy pool, or placid stream moandering like a silver ribbon through messy banks and shady della

"To Canterbury," I replied: "It is about six miles from here."

I had no idea, you were so near to that fine old city," he observed with interest; and as we turned and made our way homeward we planned for the morrow a dying visit to Canterbury; and in response to my pressing invitations to prelong his stay until Tuesday, he agreed to delay his departure until Monday evening.

We were not to be disappointed in our pro. jects, for the next day proved to be a glorious one with a soft air out of the south.

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While meditatively lingering in theso dark

heard a passages and speenlating upon their bricked- up cells and doorways. to my ear, since I had spent many an hour reverberating rumble which was not unfamiliar in these old-world rains, and I know that it was the great organ of the Cathedral playing. and that Evensong" had commenced.

We had already exceeded the time at our disposal, but could not resist the temptation to listen for a few minutes to the service.This we did, taking up a position at the foot of the stops leading to the choir.

The grand old organ thundered forth un anthem, and the seraphic music swelled like a mighty torrent, seeming to shake the very foundations of this ge honoured fane, and then rippled away through nave and aisle and spented to lose itself, among the lofty intri cacies of medieval architecture in groined roof and creviced tower.

We stood silent and motionless, thrilled with that indescribable feeling of emotion which ap- pears to be associated with the higher senses sad to be born of the pride of ruce and the The reminding one another in awe-inspired knowledge of its power and achievement. whispers that it was time for as to be going we quietly erept away down the nava and out of the Cathedral.

On closer

Not having attained to the dignity of a private carriage and pair we hired a fly, and after an early tifhin made a start on our nine- mile drive. At first the old horse seemed very disinclined to leave the neighbourhood of its stable, but with much gontlo conzing on the part of the patient driver, with whom I sat, it gradually gathered sufficient will power to drag us out of the town. The poor beast had its good points, nevertheless, though they were hardly manifested till we reached the Canter

While ambling homeward through the coun- bury Road, when it jogged along at a comfort- able pres which soon brought us to the high try lanes, our old lurss suddenly gave a lond tirmly in the dust, refused to budge an inch lands of Herne Common, on the other side of neigh of surprise, and planting his fore feet the little village wo had visited on the previous further. Wondering what was the matter, I day. Though ignorant of his name or number,

with its head hidden beneath a black hood, dodg I may wontion pro bono publico that the driver looked out and beheld a three-legged bogey, was a most agreeable and communicative person, ing about the road in front of us. and I am indebted to him for a deal of informa-inspection, however. I found that this strange tion respecting the localities through which we

voiled object was none other than our enter. pussed.

Anon we shirted the margin of the Blean prising townsman, Mr. Pembarton, who was scenery in a truly sportsmanlike manner, and Woods, from whose leafy depths came the cooing taking cover with his camera and shooting the of wild pigeons and the sound of the wood with deadly aim. I had caught him poach. cutter, while on our left spacious fields of oats and corn rolled away in virescent splendour to ing in unfrequented preserves, and had dis- Having gained the highest point attainable, the top of Calcott Hill, down the steep side of covered the source of those heavy "lags" from his studio, and aro despatoled by ovary we seated ourselves upon a rustic bench, and, which our conveyance cautiously proceo ed of tasteful pictorial postcards which emanate while a lark sang in the stilly air abovo us, let with skid and brake in action. ne eyes wander upon the blue expanse of Down we went into a veritable Arcadis of mail to all parts of the Kingdom. I begged sail-dotted seu, across the horizon of which large hop vines, orchards, and woody declivities, and that he would give me a few specimens which ships could be seen gliding down to the wider the air was heary with the perfame of fruits, he had lately captured, and with his usual waters of the Atlantic bound to the uttermost flowers, and sun-dried hay. We all seemed a courtesy and good nature, he allowed me to purts of the world. And those passing vessels clined to linger in this charming ralley choose what I liked from his bag, thus placing beauty and abundant me under an obligation which I am sure the naturally draw our thoughts away with them to and revel in its

reader will appreciate. I left him by the covert remoter shores to the shores of the Middle fruitfulness; but

really only Kingdom.

passing the threshold of other fairer scenes, and side aiming at some cows which stood together The man who sat beside me had seen many this Te svou discovered, as our carriage gazing long and earnestly ut this black-hooded And thus ho roams the country side: ups and downs of life in China since the days laboriously mounted the opposite incline and intrader.

now in some leafy solitude, now in the silent when sailing vessels took four or five months to carried us past Swesch Gate Farm, with its deliver the English mail in Hongkong, and his picturesque old English architecture, and its aisle of some historie charch, and always on the mind was a veritable storehouse of interesting two gaarlod onks which stand like sentinels alert for now and picturesque scenes.

Then we drove on through the sunshine. anecdotes and historio reminiscences. He had before it, stolidly looking back through the After high tes, I saw my friend, "The Plodder." lost one fortune and had cheerfully set to work centuries they have seen and over the graves of to make another. This he had accomplished. those they have known, and mately bearings off at the station: he returning to the busy He had seen poor men grow rich, and the rich witness to all that has passed anrecorded in hunts of me, and I to the quietude of my become poor; he had watched the building up this quiet archaic place. of great mercantile houses and other institu tions, and his knowledge of men and matters was as deep as it was wide and had been draw from long and varied experience. I listened and marvelled at the retentiveness of his memory. Thau I recollected that he was away on our right the bright sunshine gleamed journalist--one of the fow surviving pioneers of upon the massive towers of the world-renowned is the oldest and still immeasurably the best Anglo-Chinesa journalism and that his mind cathedral, rearing themselves high above a had been trained to remember.

surrounding sea of vegetation which sweeps When the sun began to wane, we turned onward in bold nudulations as far as the eye homeword, and spent the evening in lounging can see. on the sea front: he with pencil and paper in Desconding the hill by a winding road, with hand jotting down notes, or calling news from a deep waterway and dense woodlands on our a budget of sening papers, and I indolently right cad verdant krolls and hop fields on our enjoying the halmy tranquillity of the long loft, we rumbled through the sleepy village of twilight hour, which was further enhanced by Starry, and onward along a dusty rast, passing the splendid music of a military band.

the river Stour and a large mill, passing

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On reaching the krow of the next hill, a magnificent panorama was unfolded to our gaze BH we looked down into the treo-shaded valley of the Stour, in which reposes the

Mother-city of the Anglo-Saxon race.

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The vext day dawned calm and sultry, 50 Vauxhall Tavern and the great cavalry barracks, or Colloquial Chinese. when ohurch-time came we left the ladies tend soon entering the error thoroughfares of attend to their devotions at our little "cathedral Canterbury, with their old-world habitations church of St. John the Evangelist-raised and historic hostelries, the most interesting of through the energy and perseverance of our which are the Pilgrim's Bottel," in which yROVINCE OF SHANTUNG, Vicar, the Rev. 1. B. Watkins, and justly be seen Queen Elizabeth's guest churubar and TRANE, POPULATION AND FUTURE famous for its unique Sunday afternoon sermons ita fine Renaissance veiling, sud the "Falstaff for children, delivervil by the Rer. C. E. Duke

Inn," built in .403, with its oak-panelled roums PROSPECTS. and started for a walk to Horne, which lies of the period of Richard III; and its boaten

iron brucket and faded signboard, about two miles to the south west of the Bay.

On quitting the town, the road lay through anaven country, with cultivated patches of land in all shades of green on our right, and grassy

Presently, our fly passed into the old Butter Market-in which stands a memorial to the famous Elizabethan dramatist Marlowe, who

BY M. O'S

Reprinted frethe "HONGKONG DAILY PRASA.". Price, 50 cents Cash, Messrs. Kelly & Walsh or Daily Press Office

Hongsong, 81st January, 1900,

GEEMAN.

Busurd, cruiser, 1857 tons, 15 gaúƒ, 2900 h.p.,

Comdr. Hass,——— Fatherland, cruiser, tons, → gaur, ~ h.p.,

Captain von Buelow, Shanghai Furst Bisourek, (flagship), 1.000 tons, 36 guns, 14,000 h.p., Captain, Prowe, Shanghai Geier, cruss, 177 tops, 15 guus, 2960 b.p.,

Comdr. von Sindnits, Shanghai Hans, cruiser, 6230 tons, 34 guas, 10,000 h.p..

Captain Weber, Hongkong Hertha, craiser, 651 0 Lous, 37 guns, 10, 00 hp,

Capt. Baron Sebimailmann, Tsingtan This, guulent, 100 tons, 10 gans, 1300 b...

Comdr. Baron von M. Hullesse. Canton

Commander Wilbrandt, Slangbai Jegear, guuboat, 100 toog, 19 guns, 1800 b.p..

Luchs, guabent. 850 tens, 10 guns, 1344 bp,

Commander Krouncke, Shanghai Mowe, gaulat, 1000 tons, 3 gaus, 875 hp.

Commander von Grutabkow, Manila Seeadler, cruiser, 1640 tons, 15 guns, 800 b.p.,

Commander Porgias, Tsingtau

Captain Voil, Bhanghai Thetis, cruiser, 2660 tons, 24 guze, 8000 h.p., Tiger. gunboat, 90 tcs, 10 guns, 1300 h.p

Commander Deimling, Away Titaniu, cruiser, Onptuia chauke, Hongkong, Tsingtan, gunboat, 170 ton, 5 guns, 1300 h.p.,

Commander Giebber, Canton Vorwarts, gunboat, tous, 3 guns, 500 b.p..

Licut. Schurf, Shanghai.

ITALIAN,

Bibs, crniser, 2300 to 8, H guns, 7471 h.p.

Captain Boreu Bicei, Haiphong “ Marco Polo, cruiser, 3009 tous, - guns, —- b.p.,

Captain Presbitero, Shanghai Puglia, craiser. 2493 tons, 20 runs, 7000 h.p.,

Captain Pescetto, Cheioulpo

PORTUGUESE,

b.p., Captain d'Antan Libeiro, Shanghai Adamaster, cruiser, 1360 tons, 14 guns, 4600 gunboat, 720 tons, 6 gros, 700 h.p., Capt.

Liu,

Coutinho, Macao

Vasco de Gazos, cruiser, 3020 tons, 20 guns, 6100 h.p., Capt. Manuel Vasco de Carvalho, Shanghai

الذات

KUSMAN.

Commander Gramatchickoff, Port Arikar Amour, craiser, 260 tons, 5 guns, 4700 hp.. Askold, cruiser, 6000 tons. 27 gans, 24,000 h.p.,

Captain Reitzenschlein, Shanghai TOBLOCK

Bayan, cruiser, 7800 tone, 10 gune, 16,500 b.p.

Captain ---- Port Arthur

Captain Bogatyr, craisor, 6640 tons, 12 gmns, 19,500 b.p., Bovariu, craiser, 3300 tons. 19 gums, 18,000b.p.. Commander Sarutheff, Port Arthur Diana, cruiser, 6731 tons, 6 guns, 8000 h.p.,

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Captain Nasaraweky, Port Arthur

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IRECTORY

THE

TREATIES WITH CHINA A Great Britain-Nanking, 1942 Tisalsin, 1858 Tariff Agreement and Rules, 1558 Convention, 1860, Rulos for Joint Investiga- tion of Customs Seizures, 1869; Chefoo, 1876, with Additional Article; Opium Con- vention, 1886; Chungking Convention, 1891; Tibet Sikkim Convention, 1890; Burmah Convention 1897; Kowloon Extension, 1898 Weihniwei 1893; Convention, Commercial, Shanghai, 1902, Franen-Tientsin, 1858; Convention, 1850, Tientsin, 1885; Conventions, 1886, 1887, and 1895 Frontier Trade Regulations. United States:Tientsin, 1858; Additional 1868 Poking, 1880, Immigration, 189; Commercial, 1903. Gormany-Tientsin, 1861; Peking, 1880; Kiaochau Convention, 1898; Railway and Mining Concession, 1898.

Japan ----Shinoseki, 1305; Liaotng Con- tention, 1895; Commercial, 1896; Hav Ports, 1896. Supplementary Commercial 1903. Russia-St. Petersburg, 1881; Russian Land Trade, 1881; Port Arthur and Talienwau Agreement, 1888. Portugal, 1888.

FINAL PROTOCOL made between China and

Eleven Powors, 1901

TREATIES WIth Jafan Great Britain, 1894; Datius Convention 1895

Russia, Agreemonts as to Cores; United Statos Extradition Treaty, 1886; Great Britain (Alliance) 1902

TREATIES WITH CORḥA“

DIRE AND CHRONICLE Japan, 1876 Japan Supplem-uty, 1375:

FOR

HINA JAPAN, COREA, IN DO-C HINA SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIPPINES,

BORNEO, &C., WITH WHICH ARE INDECORATED THE CHINA DIRECTORY

AND

THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST

FOR

1904.

THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL ISSUE

The DIRECTORY covers the whole of the poris and cities of the Far East, from Nether lauds India to Siberia, in which Europeans reside. Not only is the Directory as full and complete in each case as it can be made, but each Colony Port, or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP TJON, carefully revised each your, most of Tour giving every detail in connection with which will serve as accurate GUIDES POR THE the places, their History, Topography, &c., &c.

The Information ju these Descriptious, con isting of a hundred interesting articles, packed with facts concisely set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of oath Country and Post, would alons suffice to ill a large volume.

The Directories and Descriptions are of

CHINA

Swator Nanking

Canton Wubu Kewkiong

Whauspos Kowloon Lappu

Peking Tientsin Paitaiho Taku

Newchwang Dolny

Chefoo Weihniwei

Port Arthur

Kinochau

Linkangtau Shanghai

Hankow Yochow

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Shansi Johang

Chungling

Samshui

Wuchowfu

Kwangchauwa Pakhoi Hoihow

Lungshow Mêngize

Hangchow

Ningpo Wenchow

Foochow Chinkiang

Senta Foochow Amoy

JAPAN

Hokow

Szemão

Tokyo

Yokohama Hyogo Кобе Shimonoseki

Osaka Moji

Nagasaki

Keelung Tainanfu Takow

Tamezi EASTERN SIBERIA

Vladivostock

COLLEA

Beoal

Kun San Chemnipo

Wonsun

Fasan

Pingyang

Masampo.

Hakodate Anping

Mokpoo Chinnarapo Songekin Najewsicolk

HONGKONG AND ITS DEPENDENCIES MACAO

Annum

Hazei Haiphong

FRENCH INDO-CHINA

Hus

Commander Yourieff, Port Arthur.. Gaidamak, guaboat, 5.0 tons, 9 gans, 3500 h.p., Tonkin Provinces Quiahon

Gremiastcay, gunboat, 1490 tons, 6 guus, 2000 Manila

b.p, Commander Zagaransky,

Groneboi, cruiser. 12,364 tone. 44 guna, 14,509 Sarawak

hp., Captain Jessen, Vladivostock

Guiliak, guuboat, 1000 tons, 6 gane, 1000 h.p.,

Commander Shamoff,

Commander Crown, Shanghai Mandjour, gunboat, 1224 tour, 7 guns, 1400h.p.,

PHILIPPINES

Toile

BORNED

Tonrane Saigon Cambodge

Cebu

Labuan British N. Borneo

BANGKOK

BIBAITS SETTLEMENTS

Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Prov. Wellesley MALAY STATES

Johore

Buitenzorg

French

Sungei Ujong Selangor

Jelebu NETHERLANDS INDIA

Samarang

Soprabaie

United States, 1883; Great Britain, 1895; Trade Regulations

TREATIES WITH SIAM

Great Britain, 1850; Frauce, 1893; Japan, 1893;

Russia, 1899.

Great Britain and France, Siamese Frontier. Great Britain and Bussin, Railway Convention

1899,

Great Britain and Siam, 1899.

CUSTOMS TARIFFS TRADE REGULATIONS China, Japan, Siam, Corea,

LEGAL DOCUMENTS Orders in Council for Government of H.B.M.'s Subjects in China and Corea, 1865.1877, 1878: 1881, 1884, 1884, 1836, 188, Rules of H.M.B.'s Supreme aut other Courts in China, &c.; Tables of Court and Consular Fees; Charter of the Colony of Hong- kong, Malay States Foderation Agreement; Table of Hongkong Court Fees; Admir alty Bulos, Foreign Jurisdiction Act; Raga lations for the Consular Courts of Waitsi States; United States Consular and Courts Fees; Rules of Court of Cousuls of Shanghai Regulations for Foreign Companies in Japan Chinese Passengor Act; Hongkong Licences, Trade Marks, and Letters Patout Fees; Port Regulations for Chins; Now Harbour Rogu lutions for Japan, &c.

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