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Correspondence followed between Larman and Kamp and the other parties concerned and last year the application for registration in Hongkong was granted. In November of last year complainanta became ЗНАКО that their trade mark was being intringed and that defendants were selling woont in a bottle similarly made up and labelled

...as, their own.

His Worship naked if he was hearing that case summarily by consent.

Sir Henry replied in the affirmative and said that he ought to protect his Worship from a pitfall. Ho ought to ask him (Sir Henry that be had a right to be tried by a jury.

This was done, and Mr. Blade prosseded to

SHANGHAI-NANKING RAILWAY,

OPENING OF TER CHINKIANG TUNNEL

1,

On February 29, 1903, the Chiakiang tannel was opened for the passage of trains,

This tunnel, which is just over a quarter of mile long, was began on September 1, 1905, when the foundation stone was laid by H.E. Quok Tacchi, Total of Chinking. It has. therefore, taken two years and five months to baild. It is built partly through the Loess formation, but through sandstone for the greater portion. The focus of the tunnel are built of concrete, while the interior is all lined with brickwork laid in cement.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MARCH 7wm, 1908.

LATEST FROM LISBON,

not known as a revolutionary. The second was called · Alfredo Luis-da. Costa, 80- The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Liboutionary publication, and well known for his years old. He was the editor of revolu- wrote on February 4th it!

Endical ideas. The third man has not yet been identified.

Last night I was the guest of Count de San Luis, Spanish Minister in Idabon, and I am therefore able to send you some really interest. ing Information, giving the last conversation of King Carics and the first words of King Mannel II. The former took place between Dom Carlos and the Count de San Luis, and the latter between Dom Manuel and the Coua toss San Luis. The story told me by the Count de San Luis, formerly Prefect of Madrid and a persenege who occupies a remarkable position in Lisbon and was quite a favourite at Court

is as follows

"Carmen and I"-the Counters's name is Carmen-"went to meet the Royal family an

The three men detained are a Spaniard, a musician of the San Carlos orobastre, believed to be Spaniard or an Italian, and a Porto- nesa called Miguel Martins, a typist employed on the Lifebon newspaper O Secule. The Spaniard was imprisoned as a suspect, because be ran way, but so far his participation in the crime has not been proved.

remarkable innident as the Royal train rao off

Before the amassination there occurred

the rails at Casa Bennos. Station. It was be- lived that the mishap was really an atremt on the lives of the monarchs, but after an in- quiry it was assured that the accident was due

4.15. was late, and arrived at 5.20 p.m. instead of

way that the bottles of scent sold by the defend. This immanity from fatal sosident speake wall the quay, and as there was an absence of ladier, to a defect, in the rails. For this reason the train

ante were calculated to doceito purchasers.

Sir Henry afterwards raised the further point that complainant was not the proprietor of a registrated trade mark.

DO

His Worship took a-noto-of-it. Evidence was called, and tus case ramanded

THE AMENDED COMPANY LAW,

It is satisfactory to pata that, during the whole progress of the work, there has not been a single workman killed inside the tunnel.

of the care taken of the Chines worse, who were extirely new to this class of work and to what was required of them.

Beyond Chinking to Nankius, s distances of forty-four miles, the earthworks and bridges are already fluished. Baile are Isid to within four miles of Nanking and it is hoped that the lino will be open to traits early in April. The journey from Shanghai to Nauking should then seangy only seven hours and a half.

A

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE" PUN.

Prince Affones. Duke of Oporto, arrived at the landing stage to await the King and Queen. and obtain news of the train accident. He was genompanied by Benkor Franco, and to this circumstance is ascribed the fact that the

The King, outrage took place,

the Quesu, the Princes, and their suites took the boat Dou Luis to cross the Tagus, reaching the dockyard quay at 520 in the afternoOD,

Senhor Franco remained at the station, and the Royal avalonde started. Just as the Royal carriage arrived in the second areate the Under. Minister of the Interior and Fublic Works lisand a shot, which produced grunt

rife, fred on the Crown Prinos. As the assassin aimed to shoot a third time he was killed by the police. Then other men placed round the asrriago Arod seroral shots.

Carmen withdrew, leaving me alone. On the arrival of the Royal family I saluted the Queen aud the Priscos, as the King was with other and only at the moment when his Majesty stepped into the carriage did I eslute him. King Carlos spoke to me for eight or ten minutes about Spuiu, especially about King Alfonso, asking me where he was at that moment, and when he was going to enter Seville; how wore the Queen and the Prince? and whether his recent abcoting expeditions had been successful. King Carlos told me of his great sympathy for the King of Spain, and "Registered under the Hongkong Onlin..

as the cortège was late in starting I took leao is a sufficiently familiar title in local)

of his Majesty, sainting him for the last time. business to justify detailed reference to the

A London writer has been studying "Science The Queen and the Princes were already in Amendments regaliy brought into fores in and Health, with Koy to Scriptores," in various | the carriage. Hongkong to the Companies Ordinance, 1865, editions. Here is a charming oxtract from his I went on foot to rejoin my wife, and I had which has bithort formed the basis of company account of his reading, published by an im- not walked a hundred yarda when I heard registration in the Far East, In the absence portant London paper! of any machinary for the registration of com In order to overcome the dificulties involved everal shots, and found myself crasbod by a

crowd. With me wore Colonel Aparici, milionfusion. panies with limited liability the prantica adopted in the count of the creation of matter and sin, fary attaché at the Spanish Legation, and Then a man jumped on the stop of the in the early days of Bhanghai was for undertak lrs. Eddy alaborated the 16th article of the Señor de Gasily Borbon, the-First Secretary. carriage and fired two shots at the King. The ings of this nature to carry on business under the Christian sciones oreod. "That the ward These gentleman shanted to the policaman, angin turned his weapon on himself and provisions of Denda of Settlement, Gradually.

Adam signifies original sin, error, and not Let the Minister of Spain pass. The police committed suicide, trouver, advantage war takin of the Ordinean Adam is from the Latin demere, men men dationed in the Fundo Arsenal did botAfter this other men, aryond with a Golt passed by the Hongkong Government in 1865 ing nindue, to andato spoil "nad obey the crder, and I found myself in the enali -7 companies to be registered as Limited thereon she created an edifice eatiefactory to Arsenal, whither were convored the bodies of Liabiy xompanies in that Colony, and within herself. Now Adam is not derived from the the King and the Crown Priness the last fifteen years the transforone from Latin, which is chronologically demonstrable, amenability to Borda of S-tilement in the

and demets" does not mean undoing, er jurisdiction of Hongkong has been rendered

spoiling. complete. Accordingly, companies carrying on their business entirely uniside Hongkong and hasing, no property of any kind in the Colony, as well as companies whose whole business is carried out within the Colory, are liable to the 1865 Or dinance and Amending idinances, which have bilberte made an distinction between the tire, olasses. Under the provisions of thess Ordinances each company must bare its registered office within the Colony and must keep at that often its register of shareholders. The latter classe has been more honoured in the breach thian in the observance; but the appointment of a new Registrar at Hong ang brought with it an attempt not only to desist upon the strict letter of the law, but also to add to the 'olony's revenuo by levying duties on all transfers and

I pase by the uneorapulous and wretched by claiming probate duty on shares even when

pus to ask how "dast.” and “nothingness" can the whole extate of the deceased shareholder suggest ludity; how nothingness can suggest. was entirely unconnected with Hongkong. an obstruction, what there is in any of them It will be remembered that on February to suggest mortal mind in selatios or darkness. 7 of last year an influential meeting of But over and above that, what are we to ssy representatives of British Compuoi sit for the ignorance of language and the convent Bhaghai was held to consider the propis ofent dislipesty of interpretation ahawa in this the Hongkong Government, and it is legitimate passage ?- to conclude that the representations that were the outcome of the action then taken led to the final settlement of the whole question, as - -bodied-in-the-new. I aw known as the Companion (Lawal Registers) Ordinance, 1907, the full text of which appears on another page.

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So in the 142nd edition another theory is formulated. Article 1 becoming Article 29. The word Adam is from the Hebrew Ada-math, signifying this red colour of the ground, dust, nothingness. Nothing here about sin, error, maduess, undoing, or spoiling, though where nothing unus from is hard to see, for scholars translate the word as "firm." But let us go cr with the article

Divide the words Adam" into two syllables, and we have "Adam," or " obstruction. This suggests the thought of something fut, of mortal mind in solation, of the darkness which and to appear when darkus was apon the face of the deep, and matter stard as opposed to spirit, as that which is accursed.

CHINA NEW YEAR IN LONDON..

PICTURESOUR CELEBBATIONS.

The shop entered was so small that it was quite filed. In a dornor was a jogs. Two andles and a small rushlight barned in frout

Here were the Quees and Prince Manuel, and in a room the bodies of the King and the Crown Prince. In a room of the Arsal were present only the Viscount d'Asses, Grand Chamberlain, the Leant de Figueire, and the oustses, who were on duty with the King and Queen. The Viscount, and myself, with two or thres others whom I do not know, wers the only persene with the dead bodies, and the Coast and Countess da Figueira were with the Queen and Prinde Manuel, the former trying to prevent the halter from seeing the dead bodies. The King was already deathly coll, but the Prince was to warm that I believed he was only asleep, and the wounds did not seem to be fatal

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through his arm.

The Royal family followed at a little over thirty yarde from the escort ahead, and were almost surrounded by the crowd. The assassins could fire at close quarters, and the one who hit the King could follow the carriage and mount on the steps, and whilst he was firing the Queen could strike him several times with this hongst she was carrying. The attempt was foreseen. Boreral persons bad been im- prisoned, and others found with hidden fire arms, and it was therefore a great impruder to expose the Royal family in an open carriage and without being surrounded by an escort It was only by mirade that the Queen and Prines Manuel were not killed, because the criminals had ample time.

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Hongkong, 3rd March, 1908.

THE SHIPBUILDERS STRIKE,

One of the last Home papers received nays:- The industrial outlook on the north-east costs more than gloomy! Although every. The Royal family took body is hoping that something may happen to carriage drawn by six horses, and the Queensvert dianator, there is no present prospect of any amelioration in the situation. On Saturday carried a large bouquet,

morning notiors were posted at the shipyards on the Tyne, Wear, Tres and at the Hartla pools to the effect that the yards would be cloned in a fortnight unions & setilament of the dispute with the shipwrights should be effec'ed In the meantime; the engineers are to take a ballot to decide whether or not they will accept the proposed reduction in wages; and on Saturday 1,0 house painters on the Tyne and Wear ware looked out because of a demand for an advance. The following is a copy of the notice that was posted in the shipyarda- Owing to the impossibility of carrying on work in consiquenos of the stoppage by ship. wrights, joints, cabinetmakers, woodworking machinists. So, it is bereby notified that the services of all workmen in this shipbuilding yard will be dispensed with at shopping time on Saturday, the 15th February, 1908. By order."

The federited yards on the north-east coast; } exclusive of the Wear, which, as is well known, is not affected by the strike, as a follows:-- Tyne-Messra, Armstrong Whitworth, and Co., Elswick and Walker, Messrs--W. Hobson and C., Walker: Messrs. Swan. Hunters and Wighum Richard Limited), Wallsend ned Walker, Tyne Iran Stipbuilding Copy Willingson Casy Northamberland Shipbuild- ing Company, Howdon; the Palmer Shipbuild- ing Company, Jarrow; Messrs. Howliora, Leslie, und Co., Hebburn, Mesra, R. Stephan King Carlos had received two wounds in the son and Co, Hebburn: Messrs, Wood, Skinner, throat, while the Crown Prince was bit in the and Ca., Bill Quay: Moras, J. T. Eltringham brain and the lungs was not brought about by and Sou, Sonth Shields and Smith's Dock and Co, Santh hieds; Messrs. J. Rearthand

any Republican organication, neither does the Company (Limited), North Shields, Blyth. - regicide imply that Portugal is in the throes The Blyth Shipbuilding Company. Hartlepool, of a revolution, Responsibility for the crime-Mesers, Farners. Withy, and Co.; Mesars rests with an isolated group, which has rebelledW. Gray and Co. and the Irvine Shipbuilding against all political discipline. The members Compary Tees-Mesara, Roper and at-tle group were Anarchists rather than Stockton, Mesars, ichardson, Duck, and Co., Republicans. The Republican oliefa qon-Stockton, Messrs. Craig, Taylor, and Co. demzed all manner of sution, and even in the Stockton; ir Raylton Dixon and Co., Middles Masonic todges any attempt on the lives of the broug's; and Mosers. R. Craggs and Son. Royal family was strongly opposed. The iso-_Middlesbrough. lated assassins bad no-mart, sf-agreement with the disciplined groups, bat anted on their own initiative, being excited by the last ensure taken by Joso France and, approved by th King, wo plaoad full confidence in the Promine Tas manner in which the crime was carried out the number and quality of the assassine, and everything surrounding the criminal act. entirely removes all supposition of a widespread for the posting of the look-out notices, and they The shipwrights-and-joiners-vers-prepared political plot,

kay they warned the other trades who accepted 1 he originators of the idea of the assasini- tion belong to the game class as the men who the reductions that after the shipwrights and carried it eat so effectually and it la certain joiners had been out a fortnight, the services of that the subsequent inquiry will prove that this the rest of the es legis in the shipyards would odious plot was directed rather-against-doxo-be dispensed with The strike silowance to shipwrights, and joiners is from 12 to 15, par Franco for his usurpation of Royal prerogs. er week, and the funds of the societies are tiver, than for the purpose of installing a Republic. It is for this reason, I say, that in said to be in a healthy condition. The mor spite of the regioide and the situation in Por express themselves as determined to resist to tugul, a revolutionary more is not in the end the demaid for 14, 6f a week reduction,

The assassination

It is computed that 35,000 men will hi thrown out of work; and, apart from the men directly concerned, other trades connected with abipbuilding outside the yards must necessarily suffer, and the effects of the dispute will be foll far beyond the immediate confines of the. trouble.

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An ex-minister, who is also a medical man. Dr. Moreira, arrived, and between the three of us we took off the shoes and clothing of the King and the Crown Prince to ascertain the extent of the wounds and to dress them without lesiog a moment, as if there still was time, There was no doubt that the King no longer lived;

but I had doubts about the Prince, as he preserved his warmth and had a smile on his lips.

"I said to the doctor: He must be minutely examined, as I believe be still lives. The dentor replied, Opz Crowt Prince is already dead, as well as our King. Tears were flowing down the doctor's sheaks. I prayed him to ezamotae the Prison a second time, and he re pied Ho-in days...

then said, Well, I will take your word, and telegraph to my Government that the King The number of the companies registered under

and the Crown Prince bave been shot and are the Hongkong Ordinances but having their bead The Daily Graphic of February 4th says:

dead.

You may telegraph, the doctor ra offee away from Hongkong bas now altaimed Limahouse Causeway was strangely asir at formidable proportions, while their ospital must midnight on Saturday last. It was the China-plied. Unhappily for everyone, they are both

doad aggregate over. Tis. 30,000,000. It is bene man's New Year celebration, and a party of

** When we had knisbəd our sid task I went thing, therefore, that dus consideration should Londoners rallied forth to see how John China to see the Queer and Prince Mantel. The be shown to such interals, and we may welcome man celebrates the festival- away from home. Queen, des lated and sobbing, locked now to the appearance of a new Ordinence derated Limehouse Causeway is a narrow stroot i ozelusively to these companies. In general it dock land, in the neighbourhood of Rateliffe. the dead. now to her wounded son Manuel, follows the lines of the Companies (Colonial An incessant fusilade was the first intimation whom she pressed to her heart. Her Majesty

sai, You are wounded, you are suffering Registers) Act, 1863,

The Governor in the visitors had that they were in Chinatown. The Prince replied, with extraordinary courage, Council is empowered to relieve a company This was accompanied by the smell of gunpoweging. No, mother, no: I am not wounded from the necessity of keeping its register at dor. Down the Causeway a number of the registered cffice in Hongkong, which picturesque Chinamien we lotting off hundreds am not suffering from my arm, I only suffer in from my misfortune. And as the Prince has to be supplied only with a copy of every of orakers. The crackers were done up uttered the words he made efforts to suppress. entry in its register or rogistere ae soon strings of about five hundred; the fuse of the his faire, which were caused by a ballet going es conveniently may be after such, entry issue joined on to the next, and the mado." In return for the protection of British din of theen numberless explosions I What I have seen and heard on this minent unless a *HOT* Government should It is probable bat they would hose agreed to Law, however, an annual fee at the rate of four Idoatening. The sudden glow of each explosionsanguinary day will never be effaced from my designedly commit political suicide. It must le a week redastian; but the extræ 6. jg/han a bas just forwarded an interesting men senta for every hundred. dollars of its paid-up illuminated the thin, esger faces of the

memory, The spectacle of the King and the be foreseen that the new Minietry, by its com apparently the crne of the situation. It is ride in bumarli Few this report it appears capital will be levied from each company. All spectators, imparting a weird aspect to the stone. tronelers of shaves not executed within the A knocking-st-the-door of ous of the shops, arbitration would give a way out of

the difficulty. ing

the dead, cannot be truly described.

cause of the accepted compromise, will restora Colony of Hongkong are to be exempt from dlessly simttered and barred, gained the party,After this there arrived a few persons bo-

The joiners and shipwrights and woodwork of 1997 was 105 of which 115,000l., Btamp duty, while the share or other interest of with their Chinese guile, admittance, after the longing to the palace and the Government will becoms normal.

constitutional legality, and that the situationing machinsts on the Wear are reguistad by valued at £5,500, want to Frines, 38.00015.,

The country dislikes a a decrared member registered in a local (away withdrawing of numerous belts. The police

the Conciliation Board, to terminate which worth £2,000, to the United States of America, from Hongkong) register will not be liable to regulations admit only of a quarter of an hongs The Queen and Prince were separated from the Republic, and that form of government can

dead and conveys to the palace. On the reckon with only a few partisans at Lisbon, notice has been given; int notices were served and 26,000lb., worth £1,600 in Hongkong on the Wear to the boilermakers, Great Britain's share was only 8,578, worth prelate daty in the Colony. It will thus be demonstration in the streat, and after that the following day the Counters and myasif went to Oporto, and Coimbra. It must be added that on Saturday, attilors, and intrare, whose £170, or less than 1 per cent, of the tutel. 1s Bern that a satisfactory compromise has been fusilado was continued in the small square back

the palace to make an official inquiry, offer

will thus be seen that the bulk of the business, effected, companies not domiciled in Hongkong, gardene

the King had taken the oath. When he caught any Republicans were adherents of the party wages are governed by the Federation Board,

ght only en accoaut of their disaffection with Dom but enjoying in some measure the protection of

In the event of an engineering strike taking is done from Kobe to France and Ameries. The its law, make an annual contribution in the from

sight of my wife he went towards her. Car-Carlos, sud because they knew that a revolu

place, the number of men affected on the zerli hair is all black in colour and rather coarse, and men will tell you herself about the scene."

tion was improbable and even impossible. of a licence fre to the revenue of the Colonial

The Counters is a famous beanty, and she,

It is collected But events are the best proof that a Repab. est coast would probably amount to con- paints almost entirely of the combings of exotions which would press unduly upon lights were offerings of fruit, while at the hack Madrid as the three Graces Taking up the crime nothing abnormal is to be noticed. All

firms are in the players F.deration, and during spring and autumn all over the country, eorporations and individuale. The representa were mystic Chinese chemo.ors on a scarlet

in normal times the number of meu

including

of Miyak jums in feu, who are blessed with tires of British firms in Shanghai may be con- background. New Year's Eve in Chinatown is thread of the story, she said:

The new King, looking pale through lose struggles, and the diplomatists as well, believe inbourers. But this figure does not include the bair of extraordinary length, ant is then sold gratulated upon the ready way in which the a free

Bight. Nothing maat be aid of blood and through the violent emotions be that the situation is diffonlt, but that there fouries or the boilershops, both important to middlemen in eaka and Tokyo. These Hongkong authorities have met their wishes for, and hats must not be removed. had experienced, came towards me with his is no existing risk for the dynasty, at any rate departments in the engineering industry. either oleau and sort it themselves, or sell it in and at the same time it will not be forgotten

Luft outstretched, as he had bis right arm not for the present. The army and navy aro that 1bry are indebted to the Committee of

When first bought the the China Association for having prepared the

and bandaged. I bowed to him faithful, and the majority of people have ant Before a stoppage of work occurs, & balot of bulk to the hair merchants, who prepare it for the same time his left hand, and he any desire to engage in perilous adventures.

the men must take place, and a strike must have export market, ground, for the influential meeting of twelve

the sinction of a three-fourthsejority of the hair is in a dirty, tangled mass; it is passed months ago-N-C. Daily News,

It is very difficult exsetly to forecast the

sand so as to remove the gross which adherei and the wine glasses are filled to the brim so thing that has secarred during these last hours

I am very unhappy, and I think that every future, but I believe that in Portugal wilt members Everything therefore will depend through combe, ibon washed and listed with fo it after which it is again combed, sorted into that there is no possibility of adding water. sesuis but a terrible nightmare Yesterday by a Liberal and Progressive spirit, and that February 17th.

he seen a restoration of political life, inspired "pon the result of the vote to be returned on Each guest drinks to a chorus of Tam lah !.

Mr. G. Junies, the president of the federation, diferent qualities according to length, and made the Chinese equivalent of "Good health," and I had my father and my brother and all my the new régime will be inaugurated by a com-

in an interview, at West Hartlepool, said that piuto bundlesIn the Tokyo district, instead the fruit is passad round. No payment must be happiness. today I have neither the one nor

This is said to render the bair offered, or Charlie would be offended-Charlie hate told me yesterday that I would become definitely identified as that of a Portuguese circumstances and give more time to the men

the other. Life is sometimes, bitter. Who could piele political amnesty

The hody of the third assassin has now been in the ordinary course seven days notice wonid of being heated with sand it is boiled in water

have been given, but the employers, to suit the with soda,

cleaner and consequemly lighter, so that the New York, 4th February. is a pleasant-faced Chinsman, the "head boss" Long dispatches have been received at the of the place. Dressed in Europeau clothes, King, losing my father and brother, both of which maker's apprentice named Joso da Costa, for consideration of their position, had arteuded Yokohama prices per lb. appear dearer than the Navy Department at Washington from Rear Charlie's nationality was only revealed by his I cannot believe it; I cannot accustom myself whom I cherished from the bottom et may heart ?

the time. It was hoped that the men would Kete prices. Admiral Evans, who, with his battleship feet, features.

realize that the depression at the present time is now at Parts Arenas. From thess it appears Possibly the greatest interest attached to yet to realise this tragio reality, and I am always

was very real, and that rather than see all the that the Admiral is magh satisfied with the what is now commonly known as the opium den. with those senguitary scenes under my eyes,

Mr. Shirley Brooks, in the "Fortnightly," branches of the yards idle they would recapt Success that has attended the cruise so far. The shop, in common with the other shops of if something was haunting. Believe me. There has been no trouble with officers and the Causeway, contained a typical example of Madame is Coustesse, I cannot forget what considers the voyage of the American loot in the terme offered, and so allow of the work men, and the ships have come up to the highest the real opium hanse as it is found in China Monsieur le Comte, your braband, has dude Eastern Sent. "It did not need," says the being carried on. There was ve alernative to expectations.

town, in the East End of London. The for my beloved father and brother. All my writer, "the Chinese boycott of Americas the stap taken by the employers, as all the An average speed of 104 knots was main- Chinaman often has a good and even a pointial life his name will be nuited to the ramam- goods, or the outbreak of the trouble with branches had accepted a reduction with a view over the immigration question, to to securing work. He did not see that there tained from Rio to Punta Arense, and only residence away from his businose; but that minst branos of that fatal day, and to the memory Japan resepe tam gratio that Amarion's was anything which could be dealt with by a few very minor mishaps occurred, these not be confused with his shop and his " dep." being mostly connected with steering gear. The opium-room lay behind the shop and imme. have learnt that your King will send his relations with the Power of the Far East arbitration in regard to the dispute, in view of The Admiral states that offers and men lava diately in front of the kiteber. Several clocks brother-in-law, Prince Ferdinand, to the world before long be more immediate, of the acceptance by of her branches of the reduc greatly benefited by the experience gained in were hung on the wall as though to remind the funeral of my father and brother, and I am greater moment, and possibly of greater tion, and the recommendation of the men's own Hazard, than the relations with the Powers of executive that they should accept the employers the long erniss, and that the fest will rasch opium smoker that although he would fein deeply toughed at this new proof of affection.

"The King, deathly pale, treambling with Europe."

mended offer. the Pacific rondezvous in a condition of pretty forget time in sleep yet time passes on in spite emotion and with physical and storal pain, the The whole dispute (shout Immigration) in my

perfect efficiency.

of him sod will not wait. The Washington correspondents state

state to-day

Having seen what there is to be seen in the signs of which were visible on his youthful face, judgment is only one, and by no means the that another battleship feet is to be formed, shop, the party left it with Chinese greetings again extended his left hand to me, bidding most weights, of the many circumstances that have prompted the voyage of the American and to be permanently maintained in the they had picked up. The nearest phonetic me adieu, and leaving the Royal chamber.

Boet. It contributes its share, no doubt, to the There is no confirmation of this approach is Kong & vach roy." In whatever left, deeply moved at my interview."

The Count and Countess de Ban Lais, speak conditions and the problems that within the last at present, but there is practically no way it may be epelled its meaning is that ing to me about the state of the Queen, said decade have inexorably forced the politics of The N.Y.K. str. Iyo Mara (American Line) doubt that the Department has been greeting which is current all over the world, that she is deeply grieved and desolate, and the the Pacific apon the attention of American left Shanghai for this port on the 5th inst, and given to understand by the State Department happy New Year," They passed the jess, that it will be necessary, before very long, still burning, the burniched peacock feathers events of these three days seem to have left statesmen, and have rendered inevitable that is expected here to-morrow,

The Glen Line str. Glenturret from London considerably to strengthen the Neval power of surmounting it still glittering in the Lickering

indelible traces apen her visage, which twenty recasting of the lines of American policy of

which the cruise of the battleships is the left Singapore on Thursday evening, the 5th to-day is as follows this country in the Far East. When recently light of the altar candles. Chinatown, like years of trouble would not have caused.

The following are authentic details of the pregnant symbol. But its importance is

Hongkong & Neighbourhood The NYX. nir. Nikko Haru (Australian exceptionally vigorous "kick" the State De the great number of the dwellers in the

It is not true that the assasins were a French permanent, revolutionary, and long maturing Line) left Thursday Island for this port via partment cadentially communicated informa metropolis. No one is advised to undertake tion respecting the actual situation in the Far investigations in Chinatown unaccompained by man and a Spaniard. The dead are three, one developments, which, as I have tried to show, Manils on the 5th inst., and is expected here on Formosa Channel... Enst, which is said to have quite startled someone familiar with the ropes. The China black beard. Hie real nazio was Manuel dos already changed, the direction of Amerion's

calling himself Manuel Buois, tall, with a long are changing, and to a large degree have the 18th inst.

The E, & A. str. Empire loft Bydney for the Bouth coast of Chirin between Same as No. 1.

Hongkong and Lanócoka. honourable gentlemen, who had grown scene town in the parsonification of urbanity, but he Reis de Silva Boica. He was thirty-two years political interests and auristics, and which

port on the 4th inst. (via Queensland Poris and

South coast of China between Same as No. 1. tomed to regard the Japanese bogey as might not appreciate the indiscriminato alun-of age, and was born at Villas He was a must in consequence profoundly affect the Manila). creature purely of newspaper creation.

ming of the amatour investigator.

professor at the National School: He was disposition of her naval power,

well

UNITED STATES AND JAPAN.

THE NEED FOR MORE.SHIPS,

* Zopen? Pines. 2:

the counter were dried melon-pips, brown and hard; on another plate ware pieses of Cainese ginger and fruit, natural and preserved. Stroog wbishy was served out in wine glasses. Whisty

must be drunk beat on these occasione,

of the cherished beings whom I have

·

impartial persons who are outside political in their establishments is employed the beat quality being obtained from the women

AMERICA AND THE FAR-EAST.

LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

the Naval Committee of the House made an Lascar Lund and Jewry, is und‹eamed of by murdar of King Carlos and the Crown Prives; ephemeral and insignificant hy the side of those inst, for this port..

WEATHER REPORT,

The Hongkong Observatory yesterday issued the following report

On the 6th at 11a.m.-The barometer ba: risen in Japan, the depression having moved any over the Pacific.

The barometer has ri-en slightly over Tong- king, and in Hongkong, and fallen moderately over Formons and the E. coast of Chins.

35 araa of low pressure has developed to the South of Fomos. It will probably mova towards, N.E.. Presenre is highest over N.. tjiius

· Presb to strong N. and N.E. winde may be expected in the Forosa Channel and the N. part of the China Fes.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10a.m. to-day, 0.14 inches.

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at néon

(N, winds; fresh ;

Hongkong and' Hairan.

dull some rain. NtoN.E.winda, sirong.