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(From the Foochow Herald). A Succession of severe shocks of earthquake was felt in Nagasaki, a short time ago. No damage is reported.
We are pleased to see that nearly all of the trees lately planted on the road sides in the settlement have taken root and are sprouting forth their verdure.
A now daily paper has been started in Hongkong and is called the Tele- graph. The journal is issued at one o'clock in the afternoon. We received copies of the two first issues of the same by the Kwang Tung which arrived here yesterday.
Again, Oh ye foreign bating Chi- nese, have ye destroyed, mutilated, and removed the resting place of the weary traveller to the "Ravine," name ly the stone seat; and Again, Oh ye foreign hating Chinese, have ye to replace the said seat in its former position, only substituting. a new seat iu lieu of the old one.
The first Annual General Meeting of Subscribers to the Recreation Ground is to be held on Tuesday evening next the 28th instant, at half past six o'clock,. at the Club. At the Meeting a Com
mittee will be elected for the carrent year, and it will be proposed that Residents at Pagoda Anchorage be admitted as subscribers on payment of half subscription.
A Fire consuming about three hand- red houses, just inside of the South Gato of the City near the Viceroy's Yamen, took place on Tuesday evening last at about half past five. We hear that the fire was the result of an incendiary but we are unable to find out at what particular place the fire, originated. The flames lasted through the entire night and were only extin guished at 4 o'clock on Wednesday morning. It is reported that two lives
were lost.
From the H. K. Daily Press we take the following:
The Editorship of the Foochow Herald has once more changed bands. A daily sheet styled Town Messenger is being issued by the enterprising proprietor of a new printing establish- ment, and the Herald keeping pace with the time, now circulates a daily sheet in connection with the weekly paper.
[True, Oh, Daily Press the Edi- torship of the Herald has "ebanged hands, yet we have failed up to this to see the Town Messenger and would be glad if our Hongkong contemporary would kindly send a copy.-ED: F. H]
'MAILS.
The following mails will close :-- To-day, 5th July,-
For Yokohama and Hiogo, per Merionethshire, at 3:30p.m. For Toochow, per Death, at 3.30 pm. For Bangkok, per Danube, at 5 pm. To-morrow, 6th July,--
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH-TUESDAY, JULY 5mm, 1881.
On Thursday, 14th July,→
For the United Kingdom and Europe, via Naples; to Saigon, Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, the Austral- asian Colonies, Pondichery Madras, Calcutta, Aden, Egypt, Malta and Gibraltar; printed matter at 10 am., and letters at 11 a.m.
The following mails may be ex* pected:-
On Thursday the 7th instant: The English mail of 3rd June.
On Tuesday the 12th instant;— The American mail of 5th June.
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.·
ARRIVALS.
Per Takasago Maru, str., from Yoko- Messrs. C. II. Haswell, and W. Cun- bang-Major Trylor, Captain Bayley, liffe.
&c.-24. Chinese.
Por Conquest-ste from Haiphon,
Per Metopodia, steamer from Singa- pore, &c.-81 Chinese.
Por Aria, str. from Saigon.-60 alleging that ill health incapacitated him Chinese.
from following the profession of tho Per Signal, from Fremantlo, West-law, his name was removed from the ern Australia.Mrs. Whitury.
books. It will be apparent from what we bara stated that the younger Disraeli's legal training was by no means inconsiderable. It is not a little curious that Lord Beaconsfield's great political rival-and-sucocasor in the Premiership should himself have | gous througli's very similar training,
with the exception of the portion in. the office of a solicitor. Fourteen months after Benjamin Disraeli bad ceased to be a Fellow of Lincoln's-inn, on the 25th of January, 1833, Willian Ewart Gladstone, having just completed his brilliant career at Oxford, at the *age of 23 years was admitted to tho same learned society. Mr. Gladstone, between after keeping 11 terms 1833 and 1837, and when he had been a member, for six years and three months," likewise petitioned to have his name removed, batson the ground of his " having given up his intention of being called to the Bar." It
SHIPPING REPORTS.
The British schooner Nelson reports calms, light winds and variable. Sunday experiencel a strong N. E.
swell.
The British steamer Bothwell Castle reports left Tangong Pagar wharf, Singapore at 3 p.m. on the 29th, had light to modorate S.E. and S.W. winds July, Nelson, British schooner, 894, the first three days, with a spurt of Thom, Saigon 29th June, Rice.fresh mouseon between the 1st and -Messrs Geo. Stevens & Co. 2nd inst, liad light N.B. winds and fine clear weather afterwards till ar- rival.
July 4, Melusine, Gorman bark, 937,
Tb. Player, Cardiff 6th February, Coals. Messrs Melchers & Co. July 4, Bothwell Castle, British steamer, 1653, W. S. Thomson, Londong 21st May, Penang 26th Juno and Singapore 29th June, General-Adamson Bell & Co.
July 4, Siam, Siamese bark, 294, A.
Thomsen, Bangkok 20th. June, General-Chinese.
July 4, Himalaya, British steamer, 514, Boodle, Obinkiang 28th
June, Rice.-C. M. S. N. Co. July 4, Victorine, French bark, 1217, F. Chevalier, Shanghai 15th Juno, Ballast.--Master.
July 4, Malacca, British steamer, 1045,
H. Weighill, Yokohama and Na- gasaki, 9th July, General.-P. & O. Agent.
July 4, Yangtze, British steamer, 782, Schultze, Shanghai 30th June, General. Siemssen & Co.
July 4, Slar of China, British bark,
794, C. Smith, Falmouth, 11th March, General-Arnholti Kar- berg & Co.. July 4. Gustav & Marie, German bark, 355, F Buhrich. Singapore, 21st
June, Timber-Wieler & Co. July 5, Diamante, British ateamer, 14, R. F. Cullen, Manila, 2nd July, General-Russell & Co.
July 5, Ernst, German 3-mm schooner, 366, W. Zenahn, Bangkok 14th Juno, Rice.-Borneo Company, Limited,
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July 5, Nepaul, British steamer, 2065, J. S. Marray, Shanghai 2nd July, Genaral.-P. & 0; Co. ̄ ̄
DEPARTURES
July 4, Sarah S. Ridgway, American
bark, for New York. July 4. Bertha, German bark, for Turon. July 4, Hilda Maria, German bark,
for Tientsion.
July 4, Glaucus, British steamer, for
Singapore and London, July 5, Lee-Yuen, Chinese steamer,
Shaughai.
for
July 5, Octava, German str., for Saigon, July 5, Rockhurst, British ship, for
San Francisco. July 5, Tung-Ting, Chinese ssteamer,
for Hoihow.
July 5, Yangtze, British steamer, for
Canton.
PASSENGERS...
ARRIVED.
Pef Nelson, British schooner, from Saigon 12 Chinese.
Per Melusine, Gerinan bark, from Cardiff-Dr E. Schelling,
Per Malacca, British steamer, from Yokohama and Nagasaki, Mr Mel land, and 6-Chineso..
For the Straits Settlements and Por Bothell Castle, British steam
London, per Glenaton, at 11.30er, from London, Penang and Singa. a.m. For Shanghai, per Meta pore, Mr II. Buck, Messrs A. Clefton pedig, at 11.30a.m. For Amoy, and W. Artill, all for Shanghai, and
59 Chinese from Singapore, per Diamante, at 11.30 am. On Thursday 7th July,
For the United Kingdom and Europe, via Brindisi; the Straits Settlements, Batavia, Burmah, Ceylon, India, Aden, Egypt, Malta, Gibraltar, and the Mauruese. itius, per Nepaul printed mat- ter at 2 p.m., letters at 3 p.m. On Friday, 8th July,-
The British steamer Yangisse ro- ports left Shanghai 30th June, at:2 a.m., and arrived Hongkong 4th July, at 2 p.m. had light Southerly winds and fiue weather throughout.
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The French bark Victoring reports nave experienced a typhoon last Saturday night near S. mouth of the Formosa Strait, my ballast has shifted and I came into Hongkong to change the ballast, my dostiuation is Manila..
The British steamer Diamante ́re- ports' had light moderate winds and fine weather throughout,
The German schooner Ernst reports fine weather throughout.
Where Genius Failed. An oldish man, who was on his way west, took a Innch at the eating stand in the Detroit, Grand Haven, and Mil-
wankee depot, yesterday, and in pay ment tendered a 20dol. Confederate note. "We don't take this sort of money here," said the attendant as he scanned the bill. Don't, hey? Very well. Customs differ in localities. They tako it in places and refuse it in others. No particular harm done to offer it. How's this bill?" It was an old wildcat bill of 1840, aud it was handed back with the remark that it wouldn't pass, Won't, hey? Well, no great harm to offer it;
Are you willing to take my note of hand for sixty days for this sam?" "No, sir.” "Won't, eh ? There are places where -they-won't-This seems to be a place where they won't. No crime, though, to propose it. Do you think I would have any success in standing you off ?” "No, sir." "I presume not, but the inquiry seems pertinent. Does it ap- pear to you as if I would have to pay this bill in cash?" "It does." "Strikes me the same way too. times when it seems impossible to wriggle out of cash payments. I have
There are
a proposition which I have saved as a last resort. Are you willing to look upon me as an object of charity and donate me this thirty cents' worth of luncheon ?" "No, sir, I am not." "That's what I expected but I thought it no harm to make it. I see no other way except to pay cash. Please take your change out of this fifty cents." The right change having been handed
him he heaved a sigh of relief and sat down to pick his teeth with a splinter from the broom.-Detroit News.
may not bo uninteresting to state that Mr. Gladstone, as might be expected, was no mere diner in hall. He performed no less than six exer cises; all between the 19th of Aprit ́ and the 31st of May 1887.-Law Magazine and Review.
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"and
LOVE AND ASTRONOMY.-Young Mr. Latehours was sitting on the porch year-old girl trying to keep awake the other night watching a seventeen-
long enough to see the morning star rise. Thoy talked astronomy. "I wish I was a star," he said, smiling at his own poetic fancy. "I would ra- ther you were a comet," she said, dreamily. His heart beat tumultu- ously. "And why ?" he asked tender- ly, at the same time taking her un- resisting little band in his own; why?" he repeated imperiously. "Oh," she said, with a brooding earnestness that fell upon his soul like a bare foot on a cold oilcloth, "because then you would only come around once every fifteen hundred years"! He didn't say anything until he was half way to the frout gate, when he turned around and shook his fist at the house, and mutter- ed between his teeth that "it would be a thundering sight longer than. that before he came round again." But by that time the poor girl was in. bed and sound asleep..
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by Lonny of Croydon,
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Hongkong, 24th June, 1881,
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VALVOLINE CYLINDER OIL, MAIS Oil is a lubricant for the Valves aud Cylinders of Steam Engines, and is free from the objections which exist against the use of tallow or veget- able oils.
A
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Ho
FOR SALE.
FEW DOUBLE BARREL BREECH-LOAD- ING GUNS, 100 Loaded Cartridg
es and Bags with them, at $20 each,
J. F. SCHEFFER,
54, Praya Central. Hongkong, 15th June, 1881.
FOR SALE. PRIME GENEVER in Stone Jars
MARTEL BRANDY at $6.50 per Dozen; "WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS and Kum- MEL, Good NAXy Cocoa (retail, at 20 Cents per b). SALOON RIFLES and CARTRIDGES, Good REVOLVERS, RELOAD "ING CAPS, SHOT and CARTRIDGE CASES
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Lord Beaconsfield and Mr. Glad- stone as Law Students. Setting out with the idea of becoming an Attor- any of the Court of King's Bench and a Solicitor in the Court of Chancery," Benjamin D'Israeli, son ofIenae)'Israel Esq., of Bloomsbury-square, was indout- ured apprentice on the 10th of Novera- ber, 1821, for five years, to William Stevens, solicitor, of Frederick-place, Old Jawry (of Sawin, Stevens, and Co. Three years after this his aspira- tions would seem to have turned to- wards a different career, and on the 18th of November, 1824,“ Benjamin Disraeli, of Bloomsbury-square, in the County of Middlesex, eldest son of Per Nepaul, British steamer, from Isnas Disraeli, of the same place, Shanghai, Mr Evans and Mr John-Esq.," was admitted a studout of Inngolu's-ion, his urotios being his
A TABLD father und bis uncle, Nathaniel Basevi, Showing the mean time of Rising and Esq. The new nfember kept nine Botting of the Sun calculated for the terme, and, according to the practionatitude of Hongkong or any other of the day performed exercises. HeLatitude if required. remained a member for seven years, but in 1881, on his ow
own polilian,
Per Fangleze, Britisir steamer, from Shanghai. Mr Collins, and 15 Chi
ston.
For Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow, Por Diamante, steamer, from Manila. per. Namoa, at 11.30 a.m. ForMessrs. Johnstone and Antone, 1 Nagasaki and Yokohama, per European and 180 Chinoso, Malacca, at 5 pm. For Kobe and Yokohama, per Takasago Maru, at 5 p.m.
Per Merionethshire, str. from London &c. Mr. Brownhill, accond ongineer of str. Danube, and 21 Chineso..
Du SOUZA & Co. FOR SALE,
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BOWLING ALLEYS.
ITH BALLS, PINS, &c.,
W Complete.
The Alleys are 79 feet in length, and were laid down about a year ago at a cost of over $600. They havo seldom been played on, and are in splendid condition.
Will be sold a bargaiu.
Apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH,
Club Chambers. Hongkong, 24th Jane, 1881.
FOR SALE.
AUSTRALIAN
PORT AND SHERRY,
of the finest quality, from Coolalta Vineyard, Branston, Hunter River, N.S.W.
Apply to
R. FRASER-SMITH,
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