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THE SEIZURE OF THE "NIGRETIA."

BASEHO FRIZE COURT JUDGMENT.

The Jiji publishes particulars of the judgment delivered by the Saroho Prize Court in respect of the British steamer Nigretia which, with ber cargo of kerosene oil, has been derlared con- fiscated. The facts and reasons of the Court's judgment are by the Japan Chronicle translated

as follows:-

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The Nigretia is owned by Allan & Co., of Kewcastle-on-Tyne, Fagland, and is a merchant resesi principally engaged in to transport of goods under the British dog. On October end. 1801, Alexander Serolnenie, a sean m ject, sigued an agreement for the chacter of the steamer at Shangbai with Moeller Bros. of Shanghai, agents for Allu & Co. Serebronik then shipper 70,000 cases of kerosene oil by the Nigrotit. He also skipped his agent or super P. M. Eres. a Lieutenant in the Russian Navy, who was in command of the torpede-boat Kasteropny which caped from Post Arthur and took sholter ut Chefor, white she was blow up. Bran was shipped under the assumed naine of Frederich Pilenar. Geraan merchant, K. W. Sherrioif. a Sub-Lieutenant in the Russian Navy, was also shipped, under the assucied sure of J. Gornchalky. German 4 subject, and a Russian merchant, S. Polatika. Each of them mina received a letter untherising him to tonnage mercantile baxiress for Surebrenik. The featuer left Shanghai on December 16th fast and was seized by the Japanese warship Tsushime tbeing mepected of carrying contraband of way) in Trushims Channel, at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th of the same month, at a point. 35 deg. 18 min, north latitude and 129 deg. 5 mis, enst

longitude.

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The attorney of the petitioner maintained that the shuator party contained a anndition that the petitioner was authorised to ship one amper cargo and two passengers. In virtue of which Bron, Sheverio aud Poletiks were shipped. The petitioner entirely tested the charterer and understood Bron and Shaverioff to be tiermans. Theso Russian officers word private dress, represented themselves Germans and spoke Gorinan in conversation. thus carotully concealing their personal status and nationality. The petitionor, theroforo, did not know that they were Ru-sian oicers. There was no evidence to load him to behere them to be Russlane, so that Fe petitioner) was in no way guilty of any delinquency in shipping the two Russian offers. The attorney further maintained that the Borra in question were released by the Chines, authori: ties on taking afruation, and that they had therefore lost their personal status as Nary officers, and were no longer contratand wen Jeruji katartufa). For those reasons, the steamer was not Buble to contsertion uskoving engaged in the transmission of contraband en in time

KANDYAN MARRIAGE CUSTOM.

A good Marriage Law ought to embrace the maximum of simplicity and th maximum of certainty because it affects........ a social relation the most importout......btween human beings.... (and) the foundations of society itself,

his age,

MR. BOYD KINNEAR

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY-13rn 1905

SOME NOTED HONGKONG HELMSMEN.

The Hon. Mr. F. H. May, C.M.G., contributes the following to the Victoris Recreation Club Magazine for May, which includes plenty of other matter of interest to sportsmen ;~~~

Few people realise what an art boat and yacht sailing is. Yot in the sailing of yachts the por- sonal equation of the helman counts for as much as does the difference in skil of the jockeys of racehorses. In our time there is said to be ely one susteur yachtsman who can hold his own at the tiller in sailing a largo yacht in a race with professional helmsmen of the first clear. And in our time there has only been one gentleman rider who could compete with an Archer or a Fordham in flat racing.

SHANTUNG AND JAPAN'S

ADVANCE IN CHINA.

FE HAVE THIS DAY

NOTICE.

REMOVED TO No. 17, QUEEN'S ROAD,

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gAt a meeting of the Den1sobr-Asiatische i Gesellschaft beld in Berlin on March 10th, tho political and economic effects of the Ruses- Japanese War were discussed. The mosting was largely and influentially atiendeil. The paper road was a lecture entitled "Our Aims and Achievements in Shantung and the Premises formerly occupied by Mr. FR. BLUNCE, silk lace manufacturer, and Next Door】te Japanese Advance in China." delivered by, Herr ven Krabner, the director of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Bergbau und Industrie in Shantous.

var Former Addresi.

LONG. HING & CO..

Toughong, 4th May, 1905 Professor Lyon is steadily working upon the problem of how to outw.t the weevil, and is cow trying the practicability of one of the three methods being used in Texus to get rid variety of ant, which is a deadly enemy of the ball seevil, but unfortunatly the nuts failed to mal-iply as fast as the weevils and Au they ware for from satisfactory. The second method very early variety

would have been had Meredith's views been that the It is from lack of equal practice palgn. Japan had been engagent nietly mix of the p-st. There they started in with a

George Meredith, in the "white winter of las propounded a most revolutionary dogma with regard to marriage. He does not want it to be a life-long tie, for better for worse, but merely a tengeracy arrangem7-212, lasting for five or ten years contract renew. bl-or terminable at thend of that period. It wasn most heretical vow, aul Mr. Dooley, with his quaint Lumpur got the world to laugh the therio out of all consideration by picturing the decility, amiability, indispensabloncas, and the other womanly tactics the wife would employ as the period of her wifehood was drawing to a close! It is as well the dogan was laughed out, for it is lowildering to think what the results followed into practice! But whatever the merits and demerits of such a relaxed law, Meredith couhl never have dreated that as elastic provision is in existence-nd existent in this Innd" where every prospect pleasca"! If he had consulted Mr. Alunechaler's most invaluable Conans Report he would have learned that among the Kandyans marriage is assoluble by mutual consent, on the ground of, iuter ai inability to live happily together! Meredith's emendation of the law which made twaiu que feel" pales into insignificance before such u conveni-atly elastic custom!

Among the Kandyans there are two kinds of marrings-the dige" and the "bins" In the former the girl enters the hush nd's family in the latter the husband enters the wife family. But in both marringes the contract is terminable at will. Mr. Arunachalam gir s his approval to this system, fu a sort of far-off echo of Meredith in these words →

The Sinhalere doserve credit for ovalving a marriage systern well suited to the social needs of modern civilized life, and not un- worthy of adoption in the countries where utarriage has for all practical purposes censed to have any religious significance and beesou a civil contract."

The really drst-cla » holinsmon in England and America soslay may be counted on the Angers of one laud, just be the jockeys who are in the front tank in racing on the fat may be similarly enumerated,

Practice, of course, counts for a great deal in bot

ventlemus rider falls behind his pro fessional rival on the dat, and it is want of prostion that prevoute amateur yachtsmen from qualifying for sailing a Shamrock or a Reliance for the America Cup. But practice ennuo da everything, and there are certain qualities--and at a few of them that the first-class holms wan must poss- in a greater or lesser degree illur dues not combine them in their entirety.

According to the report in an English paper, after dealing with the subject of German rail- way and mining enterprises in Shantour. Here ved Krainer dealt with the main o' j-et në his discourse, which was to impress the world with He the imminauce of the Yellow Peril," said, in effent, that white the attention of Europe and Awarico had been abs ried in watching the progress of the Maashurian cam hai acceded in offee ing what amounted to nothing less than the Japaning of China. ince the beginning of the war Japan hail sus coded in establishing for predominate both politically and consically in the Middie Kingdom. She was now occupying herself with the complete reorganisation of the Chinese Army, and was also carrying on, by means of proclamations and Chinese newspapers, a grand He must have courage to sail his craft with anti-foreign vampsigu. She was foronting the determination. A tool head to quite her in ha red of the Chinese even against her Eritish danger or extricate her from the difficult pasially by informing them that the British were tions which arise through keen competition of enslaving and brutalising the coolies in South many rival competitors." Quick observation to Africa. In addition to this anti-foreigr cam detect changes in the condition of wind and sea, and the effect of the manoeuvres of his rivals. Patience to suffer the vagaries of a tokio breeze, and quick decision to take advantage of the raallest opportunity. Good tomper to endure the ballets of ill-luck, and withal, a light hand on the tiller to coax bis sejlu to slumber in the breeze and thus win the greatest spoed from the vessel of which he is in charge

paiga Japan, Herr von Krabner averred, was promoting an antidynastic movement, with the object of eventually placing Yuan shi-kui, Viceroy of Chih-li, on the Throus (!). That Viceroy was now completely in the power of the Japanese, and as he controlled all appointments in Quins it was obvious that as more fitting person could have been selected to play the role of a Japanese Li Bung-chang.” It was a moral certainty that unless the advance of Japan could be checked the time would come when Germany would be compelled to defend Kisarkan and Shantong against her hosts. He believed and was convinced that when that mouent arrived Germany would be able to count on the support of France and the Unitel States, whose interests in Tonkin and the Philippines would be menuced in a

scarcely less degree. But if the other Powers ware unwilling to bar the progress of Japan. then, said Heir von Krabner, Germany must take upon her own shoulders this "white man's burden." Sku mast de this for the sake of her off-pring whe would never forgive the present generation if it allowed Japan to annihilate German trade in the Far East and to obtain complete control aver Chinn. Above all things Germany must support the present dynasty against the muchications of

was that of planting a of cotton which matured before the weavile

became active. Still third method and, perhaps, the most satisfactory of all, was that of planting an exo-edingly lots variety which under ordinary circumstances world not ripen before the frost, and which when fuli of the Iuest is gathered up and burned. Unfortunately we have no frost here to check the pests, so that all that can be done is to plant - cotton at all times of the year, and then observe and try and ascertain some period during the I months when the wearil is not busy. This, of course, would be the time to mature the cotton.

One serious drawback to this method, however; is the rainy season. The cotton boil minst not he left to me are in the beating rain, "else they will be ruined. Proform Lyon is now busy trying to discover some time during the dry season when the weopil is not active. Under nor mal conditions it does the most damage in Jan., the most favourable time for riponing cotton.

But Professor Lyon is of the opiniou that there are many islands of the archipelago which have not been invaded by the weevil, and on which cotton might be grown in large quau. tities and at a great prost,

RUSSIAN WAR OFFICE MANAGEMENT.

A dispatch from St Ferorsburg, dated the 25th April, says that the Russian officials, stung by the sho'esale erition Istely heaped upon the War office for its unpreparedness and incapacity in providing the Manchurian army with men. guns, and munitions," have laid bare what has been done since the opening of hostilities. giving the exact figures. rom

No two helmsmen possess all these qualities in equal degree. Tins one man may lock in coolness and patience. Bach an quo is he who will sail a magnificent race when he is leading his

competitors, but may fail to extricate him. Bedi when placed in z a disadvantageous position by his rivals. Another may be slow to observe Taking the two kinds of marriages, the what is passing around him or may lack the “dige.” tha huabaud is the predominant partner, faculty of coming to swift decision. Back au The wife and the dowry passes into the family one will needless to say, miss many an op of the husband, and she loves all claim upoa berportauity and loss many races that might have ancestral property, except for maintenaure in toen wen. A third may be impatient of ten que she is deserted. In the "bina" the wife is per. It is said that it is never of any use to the predominant partner, and the husband is get angry with a woman. It is quite certain dependent on her and her parents, and is liable to that the way to perdition in a yacht race lies to turned out at shut notice. The wife can at through the loss of that equanimity which is any time take another husband more agreable essential if the beimsman would do himself and to horself or the rest of the family. This lattor his charge justice kind of wedding is the one contracted by As we look back over our experiences heiresses, and there is a saying among the in yacht racing in those waters recoiled. Kandyans that a “bina kusband should not tiona of many skilful heinusman risa Prosecutor maintained that two take to his wife's kaso any property save a before us and we can remember to have passengers of the staamor, Bruil Sherioff. torch and a welling stick, with" which he can detected in each one of them the posses were hussian officers, and that the steainer.depart at any moment!

sion, in a greater or lesser degree, of the which carried contraband won in time of war, The manner in which a marriage is stranged qualities we bare mentioned. One of the first was able to confiscation,

In considering the case, the Court finds that is interesting. As with certain other races in export helingmen wo had to cont-ad with was hearers that the Japanese were rapidly driving the transportation strained Sitarian railros-1

Mr. (now Major) Lindsay Lloyd, R.E. He the Island, the parents and relations have a great deal to do in the matter. When a hussailed the old Hiyah with great success in band is sought for a daughter, or a wife for a 1891 and won the championship of the Cink

Later be achieved equal success with the one will communicato to the representatives of the other of the desirability of a union. should the proposed union be approved of the relativas of one or the other come with a pingo to the of the young person to be married. The

of war.

Tho

it is generally acknowledget by the rules and tenges of modern international law that the a outral Power, which conveys remed of

military men of a belligerent country, is liable! son, the parents or the chief relations of the Retur He was never more at his ease thos

to confiscation as baving engaged in to trans port of contraband men is time of war, unless the master of the vessel has clearly shown that he was ignorant of the fact and was at the same

time not guilty of any delinquency in the matter konse of the other and ask for the horoscope he gave you the tire he was bard to catch:

if

Japan.

the

use it appears t. at up to Mare 12 the War Office had dispatched 1367 Oles, 761,467 men. 146 308 erses. 1,251, an, and 316,321 tous of munitions and supplies to front, declaring

Dr. Visberg-Rekow, prezident of the Booiety, was as much concerned as Horr von Krabner at the manner in which the Japanego were competing, not only against Germany, but also against Great Britain. he informed his British traders out of the Yang-too Valley. its utmost capacity. The emy organ admits They had monopolised the camphor trade, and

that the army in the Far East, when the war were gradually obtaining coutrel

Around, was hardly worth the labe (UG shipping interests in that region. British figures being given), hat it is known that the abipowars were no longer able to

Corps d d not -re ed 60,000 men, practically rival. He defending this on the ground that Emperor tend against their Japanese emphasised the statemen's made by Herr Nicholas desired to avoid war and therefore von Kabar with reference to

Keltained from sending reinforcements, which organisation of the Chinese Army, and

surely wonki have provoked it. added that to his knowledge the Japanes plan for the construction of a new Chinese Fleet. The Japanees had decided, he asid, that the hasdquarters of the future Chinose Navy were to be established at Tientsin, which would be converted under their angives into a rat of Japan, he observed in corelasion, bad reduced both the Chinese people and the Chinese Gav erument to à condition of uwe, auf bad rendered

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of ascertaining the character of lis passengers.

Thu stemmer Nigretin in this case attemptedt horoscopes of the two people are consulted: raised the fighting Bags of the little fleet of Admiralty kad mapped at a cotaprehensive adequately supply Port Arthur is met by the

to convey two Russian navy officers to Vladivo stock. Thus there is no question that the steamer was engaged in the transport of contra. baud men in war time. The petitioner maintained

that in shipping two Russion zavy oficers he

and, should there be nothing untoward, maringo is arranged, and the lucky bour for the nuptials determined.

When the day arrives the bridegroom, preceded by presents, starts with his relations and attoud-

bride a cloth,

helmeton in our turbour.

We used to mutter

naval arsenal. The prodigious military successe

when the wind piped load and laabed the water into white fooming crests. Always on the starting line at

slip. But when the gentlest of septyre, with faint and tickle breath, barely cars, he was perhaps more dangerons still For so quick his observation and nice his touch en tiller that the little Hiyah was rarely left behind in those patches of water scarcely ruffled buling beers that try the patience of auta to conduct the bride, and is met, soms way bad not any idea that they wore naval officers.

what fuck he has" as and that he in not knowles divu to bo naval oflcers. They welcomed in. As the lucky hour approaches he left us strugging to find an air of wind to

was not guilty of any delinquency from the bride's house, by her relations and is were shipped by the charterer, and he claims the bridegroom's mother or some other it carry us on, till the conviction was gradually

borne in upon us that his luck was only skili, that the steamer was not liable to confiscation. retetires present the bride's mother with a whita

Mr. Lloyd's principal rival in those days was But the captain fails to verify the fact that he did cloth, and the bride's father gives the bride Major Wynus Ryton, who made so great a not know them to be Russian officers. Taking groom a suit of clothes. The lucky hour baving

name for the Dart. He was a skipper it for granted that he did not know, he is guilty arrived, the bridegroom gives of defiugnener, as he carelessly trusted the throws a chain rensd her neck, and presenta perhaps less brilliant but more patient and her with a set of female apparel. Arrayed in persevering. Ne race was over lost with hirs words of the chartener and took them aboard as Germans. The petitioner further maintained theso clothes she ascends the special raised dais, till it was wou, and no helmsman that has sailed that the two Russian offlers were released by the the magal porown, which has seats for the bride tent justice. It was in this epoch, too, that Mr. Chinese anthorities on taking afirmation so

and bridegroom. A close relative here ties the J. R. Harding, of the Imporial Maritime that they had lost their personal status as little fingers of the couple together, and the naval officers and were no longer contraband couple turn three times towards the right and Customs, came amongst us. He had sailed bonta since he was a boy nad we sometimes think that men in time of war. The fact that they garu sit down together. Some balls of cakes, riec, afirmation to the Chinose Government has und milk, are then handed to the bride and bridle have asen in there waters. The manner in which he was perhaps the best helmeman that wa nothing to do with their

thir, they falsely The guests are then treated to refreshments of Mr. Lloyd's hands was an object lesson in all the laws of nature to expect that a nation so represented their poreunal status, and attempter of the same kind, and betel and sandalwood are

what a first-class helmsman can do with anything vixile as the Japanese should neglect to develop to secretly proceed to Vindivestock, Russian distributed amongst them. The wedding in

that is equipped with filler and sails. We its resources, nor did he know where the "The bridegroom after that naval base. Judging 1rom this foot, it is plain then completo.

A close male sailed against him ourselves, but never beat him, Chinese could obtain more capable instructora that they were actually engaged in military conducts the bride to his house. business, or intended to take to military service. relative of the latter goes with hiru, and approach- although we often succeeded in beating the for thuir navy and army than were to

in Japan, The General added that he was The steamer baring has engaged in the ing their destination, an elderly Sinsinaniyal when he was not at her helm.

Gruly convinced that if the Russiane dil pot trausport of contraband men in time of war is of the bridegrenam meets then and makes them

conclude peace very shortly they would be welcome, liable to courcation.

At the lucky hour the brids and

blotted out of the history book of the world In regard to the confiscation of the rargo-bridegroom enter the room prepared for them,

for an indefinite number of years. Kerosene oil-the Court explains that it is a The person who came with the bride from her general principle of modern international house is extertitled the coreyay of law that a vessel ngaged in the transport and on the seventh day the ceremony of pouring at once wary and bold; of infinite patience,

in theso waters ever did bie draft more consie-

them the sbeslute tools of Japanese ambitions.

Lieutenant-General von Gayi, who served under Count von Walders a in Chins, observad that he, too, for saw the possibility that Germany might one day have to fight the Japaneso on account of Kinochau, but it was, he hoped, a 1ossibility which would utter highest terms of admitation of the Jurano

reality. The General epoke in the and of the extraordinary performances of their army against so formidable and fearless a foe as Russia. It was impossible, he said, for any intrepidity of the Japanese troops. Fex his words to do justice to the devotion and

become a

The criticism of the War Ofice's failure to

s'atement that it was provisioned for a garris of twelve battalions, the decision to put thirty battalions there being taken so late that the original calenlations could not be remodelled. While affirming that the quick-firing quiser field guns of the Russians are superior to thom of the Japanese, the War Office explains that the misfortune in the insuficiary at mountai guns was due to the fact that when the war broke out Russia was just adopting a now pattern. It is denied that the War Offer was deceived in regard to the available strength of the Japanese army, or the organisa tion of the Japstiese reserves, bat the army organ frankly admits that the talents of th officers and the wonderful spirit of the saldi-ra were miscalculated.

The publication of this article has created a sensation among military men and the gener public. Many of the former are censuring the General Stuff for disclosing valuable military practical admission that the war has cost almost secrets, while the latter find from the figures a

sick, as the whole effective army in the Far East is now believed not to exceed 300,000 men.

Daval officers. Not onlyonal atatus as groom, whin exchange them among themselves. he sailed the Hiyah after she had passed out part he could only say that it would be against| 100,000 mon ia killed, wounded, prisoners and

of contraband of war is liable to be confiscated water on the head takes place--the ceremony 18 a consequence of her action, and that when being performed by the elderly relative. The the owner of the carge of such a vessel is bride's parents and relatives come a few days interested in the transport of contraband, the after and present the dowry. The newly cargo equally liable to confiscation irrespective wedded couple after this visit their parents. of the nature of the goods, whether they are Those are the special provisions in diga contraband or not. The kerosene oil in this marriages, as laid down in a special Sinhalese case was shipped by the petitioner, Alexander work of authority. In the case of the bins, the Ferebrenik, who also shipped two Russian naval husband enters the wife's family, and beyond the officers, falsely representing them as his agents special fostivities, and the cormony proper, has and attempted to send them to no ceremonial spread over so many days-Times and super-cargo, Vladivostook, Thus cerebrenik planned the of Ceylon transport of contraband and carried the plan into practice. In conqueneo, the cargo bo- longing to hit is liable to confiscation, irrespec- tivo of the nature of the goods.

found

In the course of the eveting questions were addressed to Herr vou Krabner as to the pro hable fate of Wei-hai-wei after the war. Would not Wei-hai-wei be menaced with the same poril as Kiaschan: Herr vora Krabner replied that is all probability the British Government would hand Wei-bai-wei over to the Japaness

COTTON IN THE PHILIPPINES.

NEW FOOCHOW HOSPITAL.

The Foochow Echo says:It has always been en opinion that the best work done by foreigners inhina is done in hospitals. To fordiga into, e u s. foreign commerce, foreign innovations, forei u inventions, foreign manners and foreign missions, the Chinese may take xception en plassible and sometimes reason- able

pronods." Donbiless there is mnoh to be said for all these, but their benefits to the Chinese are not always clear and nut often

Later, some of the closest racing ever seen in Hongkong was witnessed between the Muid Marian in the hands of Mr. Juba Hastings, and the Erica with Mr. Denison at her tiller.

Of different types these two heimsmen, and each with his peculiar capacity. The former and with consummate judgment that rarely led him into error. The latter, original in conception, swift in decision and quick to peice the slenderest opportunity afforded by

direct. It is easy for them to contend that toien commerca has done vo pond except to the roles of racing or the condition of the elemente. In tha two seasons between 1896 and

the foreign merobant and not mana to him. 1998 the Maid Marian won the championship,

onsior still to show that foreign ventions tend Erica being second to her In the third season

to restrict the demand for chinese labour, and 1998 to 1899) Erica was champion with the

The zoon who will discover a way to success- susiest of all to demonstrate that foreign Maid Marian Becond. A antable struggle. fully sight the boll weevil in the Philippines manners are not even nearly as good as their In addition to being a brilliant helaasman will de perhaps the greatest thing that has yet own. To such of them as held the systems of when he likes to try his best-Mr. D-nison has been done for the industrial welfare of the ethics taught by their great teachers to be equal, wonderful knack of finding the trim of a yacht. islands. At present, says the Cablenews, there; and eten superior, to those obtaining in the This is an art that every helmsman should is imported into the archipelago in the neigh-West, foreign missione DISASTROUS MARINE COLLISION.onlticate. Let it not be supposed that a yacht bourbood of two and a half millions of do fora

also present 10 attraction. in a machine, like a gun, that one has only to worth of cotton goods every year. According To medical missions, on the other hand, no The Cobtenerca of 9th May reports-A handle with precision to attain the mark. Eron to Professur W. S. Lyon, of the bureau of such objections apply. Whatever their success a piano beds tuning and a 'eek regulating agriculture, who has been conducting careful or failure in the propagation of their creeds day night at 11 o'clock when the steamer But a yacht is more difficult to deal with and protracted experiments, cotton flourishes so long as they succeed in their medical aims The steamer Pharsalia, which had boon Aletante collided with the Antonio Morleod than them, for, although inanimate, she so throughout the Philippines in a way that would neither themselves nor any one else have reason successfully flouted by Captain Garry, is again ou route from Manila to Legaspi, off the southsea nearly approches to the animate that we make glad the heart of a planter in the south of to complain of their saleespnes. The benefits It is the United States, and its quality is of they confer are immediate and conspicnode. wrecked near the place where she went ground point of the island of Burias, with the result sometimes almost fancy her alive. on March 1, a victim of the typhoon which Post the former saniel went to the bottom. Her well than to deal with her as you would the very best. But alas! the ball waeril, Whatever may be contended as regard our

wept the straits of San Bernardino.

Grew and passengers, 36 in vamber, wire saved with her living sisters-attend to her little thought by experts to be a variery peen religions, our ethics, and morals or our mannera, eward in rambarrived in word as well as her big wants; learn to under liar to the Philippines, is abrand in the lid tuers can be no sort of doubt of the enormous Captain Garry, who returned to Manila ou

stand her be gentle with hor; coar her when May 6, was to leave at once to raise the coast yesterday morning.

superiority of cor medical and surgical sesince. guard oztter Rover and afterwards the Masbats. The Adelante at the time of the collision was out of mood; take pride in her, and et "will and, as in Texas, wan has not been ahile

Such associations, therefore, sa bave for their The British steamer Cleverly, Captain Putt, heavily loaded and ten minutes after being over respond to your demands apoa her lip. So far Professor Lron bas discovered three principal object, or ever their principal means

In these later years it has been our good places in the archipelago which grow cotton and which arrived at vanile on 8th May-69 days struck rolled to starboard and went down bow

of attending other objects, the relief of hu fortune to sail constantly against an exceedingly which the weevil has not invaded. from Antwarp and Hamburg-brought 8,000 first

These are suffering by organizing the practice of that barrels of comment consigned to Bohn, Meyer! The Adelante was a wooden vessel of 100 tons

skilful heimemanas skilful ne any of those the lake region near Taal, San Juan de Boo-Boc, superior science in lands where it is not other- and Company, The vessel carries a big cargo owned by Angel Ortiz, She was valued at Robinson, R.N., who sailed the Vernon with edge of Tovabos, and the district of Ilocos Sur thropis mon,

mentioned. We allade to Rear Admiral C. G. on the south-east border of Baangas on the wise known, deaarre the support of all philan- for Tsingtan und will sail for that port 20-30 pesus, part of which amount is covered such consimons sucess. Long-trained to the and Ilocos Nort Whether the weevil does their

mon, whether in

rin agreement or not with shortly.

speculative tenets, The Antonio Macleod, one of the largest ses he rarely missed indications of wind or not bad these places congenial, or whether it Holding these views, It is with peculiar

weather, and is touch on the tiller was light and trus that it was a real treat to see hum sailing his craft to windward.

SHIPPING NOTES.

STEAMER MOVEMENTS,

The P.M. str. Manchurie, with mails, leaves Kobe on Sandoy, the 14th inst., at mid- night for this port via Nagasaki and Shanghai, and is dug here on the 20th iust.

The H.A.L. str. Brisgavia, from Hambarg and Bremen, left Bingapore for this port on the 11th inst., p.m., and may be expected here on the 17th inst.

The N.D.L. str. Bornes left Sandakan on Wednesday, p.m., and may be expected here en Monday, p.m.

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disastrous marino accidvat occurred on Satur-

by

by insurance.

wessels in the coastwise trade, is of 812 tons and owned by the Compania Maritima.

It is stated that the weather was clear at the time of the collision and just what caused the accident is not known. It is alleged, however, that the captains of both vassols were negligent in olserving the rules of the road.

A committee appointed by Collester Shuster, of which F. S. Cairns insular surveyor, is cinizmaie, will meet in the office of the latter official this morning to fix the responsibility for

the accident,

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has not yet discovered them, the professor is pleasure that we hear of Dr. Wilkinson's new undecided.....

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Sea the wards is yet will be in full able, so long as the weevil leares it alone. Island cotton Professur Lyon considera the meat swing, so far as out-patients are concerned, by promising of all for the Philippines, provided, of next week. We congratulate Dr. Wilkinson on course, the pest can be got rid of. He described the completion of this excellent enterprise, and this variety as being quite the equal if not the wish him all success in the future maungament

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