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A. S. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,

GENERAL CHEMISTS,

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Manufacturers of the following : AERATED WATERS, viz: SODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND POTASE, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE,

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Deliveries in Town and Harbour from

7 A.M. to 7 P.M.

SHIPS MEDICIENE CUESTS REFITTED, PASSENGER SHIPS SUPPLIED.

Prompt Attention given to Coast Orders.

CANTON DISPENSARY,

THE DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG. SHLANGITAL PHARMACY,

SHANGHAI,

CANTON..

Foocnow.

THE

Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 27TH OCTOBER, 1881.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1881.

His Excelloney the Governor has consented to lay the foundation stone of St. Joseph's College, and the core. mony will take place on Thursday, the 3rd proximo.

Amongst the officers that have boon: successful at the recent examination

for the Staff College, to be admitted in February uoxt, we notice the name of. Captain Ernost Award Swaino, 2nd bat Royal Innis'cilling, Fusiliers, lato 108th Madras Infantry.

tages of tramways were known for a which is incessant from early morn long period, their introduction into ing to lato at night; and most of towns is only a matter of recent date, it being in an east or westerly di- and even now to a comparatively in-rection." This is an unique com- significant extent compared with the bination of "nonsense, supposition, immense growth of railways. and inaccuracy-we use the latter. To revert to Mr. Danby's brochure, term with reserve, as Mr. Danby is the opening page is rather far-fetched, apparently laboring under an optical and the figures quoted rather weaken illusion. The crowded and busy his ground, if anything than other thoroughfare, referred to, Queen's wise; for, taking into consideration Road, is fed by the immense lateral the large number of towns in the traffic--down-hill and from the Praya United Kingdom with populations which has only a limited longitu- exceeding and approaching that of dinal circulation; and we are at a loss Lino, whoso arrival we noted yester Wo are informed that Major Moora. Victoria, their higher civilisation to conceive whence the data could be day, is brother to Captain Moore Lane, and general advancement, 368 miles drawn for basing expectations on late of the "Slashers." The Major of streot tramways, is by no means the proposed tramway project. Mr.balons to the R A. and comes ont to a conclusive figure of their appro-Danby desires to make traffic. He relievo Lieutenant-Colonel Rooko, who ciation of this mode of conveyance, cooly proposes to supersede the jin- prosesde to Malta by the next English or evidence of its being "a great rickshas, consign them them to mail. success," an "actual_necessity" (!) Limbo; and ignores water and other

We regret to have to record the In London, alone, there is far more competition. The steam-launches to douth of Captain Kamenn, of the Gor than that length of street roads; Kowloon ply for five cents the trip, man brig Tartar, who died. Inst night and when we take the fact that and we doubt whether tramways from an attack of rheumatic fevdr. in 1879 there wore 418 more li- could cover the same distance on land Captain Komona, who has been in very censed vehicles plying for hire in with equal profit. It is further very indifferent health for some consider the streets of London than in the doubtful whether a large proportionable time past, will be much regrettod previous year, Mr. Darby's assertion of the inhabitants of Victoria "would by all who had the pleasure of his ac. that tramways are now the accept-gladly pay for a ride in a comfortable quaintance. ed means of cheap and regular trans-tram car," which involves waiting, The Foochow Herald hoars ou good port in all large towns," appears ra- routine, and walking-for we pre-authority that Commodoro Sohnfeldt, ther dubious, and gives grounds sume passengers will not be taken of the American navy, is already on- for receiving his statements cum up and dropped- - volonté; whereas gaged by the Viceroy Li as Naval grano salis. This is further instanced a jinricksha or chair is always Advisor, and probably also as Admiral in India, which, being un Asiatic available, travels sufficiently fast, of the Chinose floot. The French Cap- country under British rule, will gives no trouble, and perfectly safe tains, who were such white ele better serve our purposes of compn for ten cents the half-hour! We may phants" on the hands of the Viceroy, rison. In the city of Madras, which hore mention that the fares charged are to go South, was acquired in 1639, and which is on the Italian tramways already We learn from Tientsin that tho built on a plain, covering an area named are 21 and 1 cents, respec-clause prohibiting opium dealing has of 30 square miles, with a population tively, for first and second class per been insortol in the now Brazilina of 700,000 souls, tramways are as yet mile; but distance or the great length Trouty just made. Another clause is unknown, and more than a score of of lines is the chief paying factor to the effect that a Chinese offivor of other large towns might be enume-there as elsewhere.

justice can search or enter a Brazilian rated with populations twice and The objection which Mr. Danby hose or ship in pursuit of a criminal. thrice that of Victoria where like raises to the line of route proposed This is an attempt to insert the thin conditious obtain. In Calcutta they by what was once a rival Company

Lead of the walge.-Fonchow Hirali. wore tried and abandoned, but have might with greater justice be made been recently again introduced-to to apply to that which it is his esporinaugural criokot match played on the connect a railway terminus with the cial province to advocate; and in his new ground at. Foodhow, which shipping, and a densely populated over anxiety for fault finding, he com- pears in the Harald of the 20th instant, suburb with the business centre of mits himself to certain inconsisten- that our Hongkong" crack," Mr. the town. It is only in those places cies which show that the "configura Monro, especially distinguished him- where tramways are made to subserve tion "of the city is not altogetherself, scoring no less than 67 out of a these and similar objects-all else quite so favourable for tramways as grand total of 132. From this it would being favourable that they have he would have people believe. How-appear as if the best batsman in the given satisfaction and proved success over, we may allay his apprehensions Far East still retains his grand old It must, in primis, be clearly un- ful. Merely running through a busy and those of others as regards steep form. derstood that we are not averse to thoroughfare will not accomplish gradients and sharp curves; the Dar- Tramways; we only contend that these ends. The success of the Ame-jeeling tramway has just been com- their introduction into the City ofrican tramways generally may be pleted in India, on a two feet guage, Victoria, running through an irre- summed up in a few words: the sites which ascends 7,400 feet in 50 miles, gularly aligned, narrow, and crowded of the towns have been selected and and mounts gradients of 1 in 21, round thoroughfare, is undesirable-a mea- the streets laid out by the most intel-curves of 70 feet radius. (This line, sure fraught with danger and failure, ligent, go-a-head community in the with all difficulties, only cost £3,000 not likely to benefit the community world, always with "an eye to busi- per mile). But, in such works, the or remunerate the promoters. ness," and they have profited largely engineers are untramelled, and they in doing so by the experience of are not restricted to the narrow limits older countries. It is only necessary which prevail within the confines of to notice some of the trainways in a town or city. This is apparent, operation in a few of the leading even here, where Mr. Danby asks to towns of the continent of Europe reduce the 9ft 6in. Board of Trade before closing our paragraph on this margin from kerb to rail, the object sub-head. In Milan, there are 200 of which is "safety."to protect miles of tram rail branching out from high buildings from the vibration the city on every side along fifteen of which would be induced by the mo- the principal roads, and running in tion of a 10 or 12 ton locomotive, and some cases as far as thirty miles into possible contingencies from derail the country, and in Turin "the tram ment and other sources of accident. ways run through and around the Considering the great variety of per- city to a country resort seven miles manent way in use throughout the from it." We know, as a fact, that world, all laying claim to advantages, ono of the most scientific military and some of them connected with the powers in the world, Prussia, has pro- greatest professional names of the hibited the construction of any rail-day, is rather amusing to find one way with such curves as mast be un- avoidably used in Victoria. These instances will suffice to show that statements re continental and other tramways should be received with caution, and are capable of bearing a very different signification from our locally proposed schemes.

Two of our local celebrities have lately favoured the world with contributions to the literature of Railway Enter- prise, designed to meet a want among a certain section of the Hongkong community infected with the fever called the "Tramway mania" Mr. Alford's pamphlet has been already noticed to a greater extent than its puerility entitled it. This weak of fusion, however, bears, the impri- matur of an advertisement, and is, therefore, hardly open to comment. Mr. Danby's "Report" is a more pretentious undertaking, derived from the experience of others, principally in the United Kingdom, which in formation is wonderfully adapted, twisted and tortod, to suit a wholly different condition of place and things.

Before entering on any discussion of the subject it may, porhaps, be well to mention that tramways are, for all practical purposes, considered as railways; but whether they are called rail or tramways does not much matter. They have been in use in the mining districts of Eng- land, as far as can be ascertained, since the seventeenth century; but the utilisation of steam as a motor

who has never, perhaps, seen a rail laid, proclaiming the superiority of ono particular patent, and trenching upon the domain of rigid dynamics to support it.

We observe in an account of the

"Fusiliers" used to be soldiers armed

The Occidental and Oriental 8.8. Co.'s steamer Gaelic will be undooked at Abordeon, this afternoon. H.M.S. Tomus goes to the Cosmopolitan Dock

to-morrow.

The Board of Trade has published statistics of accidents which have oc curred on the British rail and tram- way systems during the year 1880.. Those showed 1,136 Lilled and 3,958 wounded.

We do not remember to have seen entirety, which appears in the N. O. the following Reater's telegram in its Daily News of the 19th instant, in any Hongkong paper:-"London, 17th Oct. Mr. Dillon has been re-arrested. Thore has been a serious disturbance at Li-

merick, but the rioters were dispersed by the military. The Ameer's troops. have arrived at Horat."

According to the Herald, official in formation has been received by the Tartar General at Foochow relative to the fight with pirates at Ningpo, where- in Captain Yip Ah Foo was killed. The report to the Tartar General states, that Captain Yip Ah Foo was not only beheaded, but that his body was also quartorod, and that the pirates had only returned one half of the body of the décensed.

We have received from Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. a specimen copy of Lett's Offico Diary and Almanac for 1882. It is a very complete, and well got up work, containing a mass of valuable information, as well as afford. ng ample space for written memoranda. In addition to a whole page closely ruled for every day in the year,

and the usual columus for current experises there are new features in a page for books, &c., lont, and a specially pre- pared tablet for memoranda to be writton either with slate or load pencil. Lett's Diarios, of which Messrs. Lane, Crawford & Co. have a very large and varied stock, have become quite a vado marcum for the household as well as for

the office,

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What will our aspirants to histrionis fame in this select home of soft-snyder so-called dramatic criticism, where overy lady is said to be equal to. Helen Terry, and far superior to Marie Wilton; and overy gentleman is indiscriminately Inuded to the skies as au actor to the manger born, think of the following with the now almost medieval weapon

critique, which appears in the Sydney known as a "fasil," which is still pre-

Bulletin of the 3rd ulto, ?" On Tues. served in our museums and other dop

last the Victoria Dramatic Club gave sitories of obsolete arms, and the name

an entertainment at the School of. has boon perpetuated in certain old ro

Arts. The performance consisted of giments after their occupation" was

the "Momentous Queston," the third gone." Within the last few years

not of “Othello," a musical olio, the "Dumb Maid of Genoa," all this the mystic title has, very sensibly, been dropped by tho Scots Guards; but dis- sandwiched by musical earthquakes tinctions are often fearfully and won.

perpetrated by the Victoria Bass Band, We saw the Momentons Question," timo, the good old corps, the 27th, or derfully male; and now, for the first

we saw "Othello," we heard the musical Inniskilling Regiment, has just baen olio, we boheld the "Dumb Maid of made the victim of the same enachro.Genoa," and the result of the whole in nism, and is henceforth to be known as the "Royal Taniskilling Fusiliers." But amongst "modern antiquos" there can surely be nothing more exquisitely grotesque than the Queen's Scottish Bodyguard, with their long bows, which, as their questionable history bat brand now articles of the present alows, are scarcely relics of the past,

tion has been zealously worked out. century, for which a popular oxplana.

Broad Arrow..

only dates from 1781, when Treve thick actually constructed a road carriage propelled by that agency. We learn from a review of the early history of the progress of steam loco- motion that, in 1801, the same en- gineer constructed a locomotive to

Proselytizing among the Chinese is run on a tramway which was used

time thrown away, as missionaries in at Pen Darran, South Wales. "In

their country are well aware. It is o 1808, he exhibited a locomotive

form of religion has cost half a million fact that every Chinese convert to our drawing a carriage on a circular rail

dollars, and it is doubtful if many road. Blenkinsop tried the plan of toothed wheels on the engine, and a

We are not disposed to follow Mr. change of heart. The success of a San of them have really experienced any rack cut on the rail, to enable the

Danby through his quotations; but, Francisco lady in converting hor serv- locomotive to go up steep gradients."

before concluding, we will give him ant, is a good illustration. She taught Stephenson's attention was directed Mr. Danby's procedure is simply and his patrons one in return, which A Loo some of the forms of faith, and to the subject in 1814, at which time this: two fixed points and a fixed we would recommend them to seri-brought him to that state of mind that several engines were in use on tram-route having been given him, he has ously digost. In a pamphlet anti-he avowed his love for the Saviour, ways in his neighbourhood, and he to meet objections to, and defend the tled "Steam Tramways for India," but at last. Ah Leo struck for higher constructed an engine of tho smooth selection, which, nolens volens, must by Mr. Claud St. Vincent, published wages, and when his demand was re- wheel type, which was tried on the be uphold. We are not, therefore, under official sanction," the general fusod, he indignantly exclaimed: "You Killingworth Railway with success. surprised on reading the following conclusion arrived it is, that it would no payso mo four dolla hat, me no go The immense development of the sentence in his Report:It has be difficult to make a short line a Sunday school. You tink me love British and other Railway systems, been evident for some yours past paying concorn, unless there was an Jesus allee same tlee della hap ovly and the great improvements effected that the City of Victoria is unusually exceptionally heavy traffic, and any Tho lady did savvy but it was us0-

wook you heap dlam fool you savvy ? in steam locomotives are too recent favourably adapted for the intro-town so situated that wished to pos less to attempt Ah Lies'a conversion and well known to require description duction of Tramways, not only scas the luxury of a tramway, would except on a pecuniary basis, and in They play a conspicuous part in the owing to its configuration and the probably have to pay for it, by con- tino the Brooklyn missionaries will history of the past half-century. We easy gradient of its principal street, tributing a fixed yearly sum to the reach the same conclusion, and turn have adduced this historical summary but also owing to the immense pas- Company's receipts." So much for their attention to the civilized heathen to show that, although the advan songer traffic along Queen's Road, India-then, a fortiori, China ! of the crowded cities,--Globe.

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our brain is confusion. The exbibi. tion would have been very funny, had it not been very painful. The perform. ance took place anidat a whirlwind of

shrieks, yolla, hisses, and cat-calls, the the whole constituting a vacarme that bas pover been heard since M'Eltone

last addressed the electors. In the first piece, Miss-well, we are too gall ant to give fair young creature's name-appeared in a red petticoat and a Garibaldi that looked as if it had been washed ashoro from the wreck of the Frio the Red. When we know that neither the Smiths nor the Romanys. are performing, we do not look for ethereal beauty in the exponents of

the various characters; but, certainly, when a lady appears as "the beauty of is apparently large thirty-sixos, we the village," the size of whose shoes think that we shall not be termed hypercritical if we state that it required a very large amount of forbearance on the part of the audience to prevent their indignation taking the form of orange- pool. As it was, at the close of each act, and of cach item in the programme, the performers word hilariously called before the curtain, and enthusiastic- ally hooted, the lady who had left her teeth at home coming in for a large share of prblio attention. To individu- generally, that if are had the option alisa would be cruel, but we may stato, betweon going to Quarantine and sit- ting out another performance of the Victoria Dramatic Club, we should most unhesitatingly go down the harbour."