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A. 8. WATSON & Co. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS,

GENERAL CHEMISTS,

AND

Manufacturors of the following AGRATED WATERS, viz: BODA, TONIC, SARSAPARILLA, AND POTASH, LEMONADE, GINGERADE, RASPBERRYADE, AND PHOSPHORIC CHAMPAGNE,

Deliverios in Town and Harbour from

7 A.M. to 7 P.M.

SureS' MEDICIONS CHESTS REFITTED, PASSENGER Sares SUPPLIED.

· Prompt Attention given to Const

Ordors.

CANTON DISPENSARY,

THE DISPENSARY,

HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

HONGKONG. SHANGHAI PHARMACY,

SHANGILAL

CANTON.

Foocnow.

THE

Songkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, 19TH JANUARY, 1882.

celestial is essentially conservative- averse to novelties; but once en- vinced, he is not slow in adopting- more especially under the incentive of remunerative return looming in the distance. We might mention numer- ous other valuable plants which could be introduced beneficially as food-products among the millions of China, with whom rice, and not corn, is the staff of life. Rice is an altogether un-reliable food-factor, as

the famines of India and China un- fortunately prove; and in these coun- tries it is therefore alsolutely neces- sary to have alternative or supple- mentary foodresources. Warmth and moisture are requisite for rico- production. In those localities. where the former may be wanting or the latter provo a failure, small re- turns or poor yields are consequences to be expected. The average degree of productiveness of the rice fields of China may be taken at 20 bushels or 1,300 lbs. of clean rice per note, which is very much below that of Burma, India, and other rice pro- ducing countries of the East, the yield in Bengal and Burma being

a mean

The delivery of the French Mail be.. gan at 9.15 this morning.

Company's steamor Tonnchus, from Wo learn that the Ocean Steamship Liverpool for this port and Shanghai, luft. Singapró on the 17th instant,

Sir

Tsong, the Chinese Minister at this Court. Lady Keyloo died at Paris on the let iust, and was temporarily in- terred nt Père la Chaise on the 6th

inst. The deceased lady will be. ranoh missed by a number of friends in this country and in Paris, whore she was accustomed to grade the salons on the occasion of receptions.

ARMED ATTACK AT YAUMATEE Aboat oleven o'clock last night, a gang of men made as attack on the Mong-kok-tani village, Kowloon, in which fire-arms were freely used. The object of the attack was, of course, plun- der, and it appears to have besu enro- fally planned and carried out with

One of the villagers President of the United States to Con- In the course of the Message of the groab succes8. had a very narrow escaps from boing gress he urges "the enforcement of killed, as the bullet struck him at the the stipulations of the new Chinese back of his head, and lodged in his Trontics," and states thut "those re queue. We are informed that during garding the opium trade will u the affray, for it appears the villagers doubtedly receive the approval of Cou- ahowed fight, two houses wore plun-terest the American poople and Govern- gress, thus attesting the sincere in- monaly elected corresponding momborder, the booty secured by the burment fool in the efforts of the Chinese

We notice the arrival of H. Harry Parkes, H.B.M. Minister Ploni- potentiary for the Court of Japan. by the M. M stoor Petka which arrived, in port early, this morning.

Wo learn that, at a meeting of the Société Academique Indo-Chinoise de France, rocontly held in Paris, on tho torin, Mr. J. J. do Sza was unani- notion of the Count da Praya da Vio.

at Hongkong,

The usual mouthly Criminal Sossions were commonead yesterday morning. There were no cases of general interest, the calender being made up of the psaní larconios, an evidently, trumped up charge of passing counterfeit coin, and a case of piracy.

The three Chinamen concerned in the raid on a private house in Stanley, in which it will be remembered an

Indian constable lost his life, were tried at the Supreme Court this morn- ing, and found guilty of burglary. Sentence was reserved.

A telegram received yesterday after- noon states that the Turkish Am- bassa lor hus presented a note to Lord Granville and the French Government

proposing a prolongation of the Treaty

of Commerce with England for one month.

We must confess our inability to quite grasp the meaning of this message, or how it can, in any possible manner, have the slightest interest for residents in the Far East. Perhaps it is a new kind of conundrum.

glora amounting in value to several hundred dollars. The raiders ultimately succeeded in getting oloar away, but four have since been arrested on sus- picion of boing concerned in the affair. These men were brought before Mr. Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning and obargo, but on the ap plication of Inspector Cameron, who has charge of the case, his Worship remanded the prisoners, and the case stands for houring on the 24th instant,

THE FRENCH MAIL.

The Messageries Maritimes inail steamor Peike, Captain Clampenois, from Marseilles December 11th, Naples 13th, Port Said 18th, Suez 21st, tit, and Singapore 10th, arrived here Aden 26th, Colombo 3rd January, Galle

this morning from Saigon. Tho sub- joined itoms are taken from the London and China Express of the 9th ulto:-

The Government have permitted the representatives of the British North Borneo Company to purchase certain material froin the Government stores The War Office have permitt

to stop that demoraising and destruc. tivo traffio.",

We hear that instractions have besa sent from the Foreign Office to the Admiral on the coast of Peru, as well as to Her Majesty's Minister at Lima, to check, as much as possible, the kidnapping, and shipment of Chinese authorities have promised to co-operate ooolies to the coast ports. The Chilian with the British representatives in this

matter.

We are pleased to have to notice the fact that the services of Mr. A. M Ferguson, the Commissionor for Ceylon to the Melbourne Exhibition, have beca so handsomely rewarded by his fellow colonists. We trust that Ceylon will reap the reward of the zeal and intelli- geuce shown by its Commissioner.

This morning (9th inst.) a salvage case of Burnett v. Burnett was called in the Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, but was postpoued until the 12th inst. The caso aross: from a salvage effected by the Kum- skerteku, whilet on her voyago honce to Wladivostock.

The Rev. James Lamont, formerly Union Church, Hongkong, and latterly Church, Kentish Town, has gone to minister of Trinity Presbyterian

often as much as 50 and even 60 bushels per acre, equivalent to a return of 150 fold. "But the same variations, of climate do not there obtain as in China, which ronder this list country all the better adapted for diversity of cultivation. It would be an interesting statistical calculation to ascertain the area under rice in China at consumption a pound per head of population per diem; but the resulting figure would require to be enhanced from the fact that several kinds of rice wine are made by the Chinese, who also convert the wedding hold in the United States was We learn that the first Mongolian grain into starch, and export no in colebrated, on November 3rd, by Bishoped the Company to take about twenty considerable quantities of it to Au- Kip, at San Francisco! The con-

12-pounders (brass) complete, and a stralia and the West Coast of Ame-tracting parties were the Rev. Walter quantity of powder and other warlike rica. An economic botanist suggests Ching Young and Miss Atim, of Hong-

stores. The Admiralty have given that wheat barley might profitably kong. Dr. Young, whose Chinese

their consent to the flag proposed by supersede rice in Central and North narno was Aching, is an Episcopalian the Company. The Government houses China. This grain which derives its

minister, having been received into

and vessels will fly the British blue on- name from its resemblance to wheat that church three or four years ago, sigu, which has a badge on it, consist- in color and form, is said to be very lege in the Eastern States, and after a

after years of study in a religious col. ing of a gold oval with a red lion in to give notice of his motion on the firab common in Thibet, where it is pro- thorough examination by the Presby- duced at a trifling cost of labour, and tory. The brido, Miss Atin, has re- enters largely into the dietary of the contly arrived from Hongkong, and inhabitants of that country. Its from childhood upward has been trained nutritive value is superior to that of in the Episcopalian faith." rice, while the whiskey that is dis. tilled from it, would elevate celestial taste above, and entirely supersede,

the Presbyterian Church in New South

Australia. He is to be connected with

Wales.

PROBABLY in no country in the world is greater attention paid to agricul- tural pursuits than in Olina-arising, doubtless, from the unavoidable force of circumstances-viz., (1) vast po- pulation, and (2) restricted foreign intercourse. The Chinese Emigrant carries abroad the knowledge of considerable agriculture which he has acquired at home, and utilises it with practical advantage to himself and others in the new country which he selects for locating his domocile. As a thrifty tiller of the soil, he has no rival, and is invariably allowed even where class-prejudice is strong against him to monopolise the oc- cupation of "vegetable-gardening," as the markets of the cities and towns of Australasia generally; and the Pacific Coast line of America, testify. It is hardly necessary, how- ever, to proceed so far for illustrative instances, as Burma and the Straits afford nearer examples" where, under different conditions and closer competition, the Chinese culti vator has achieved' equal success in the same industrial occupation. But the most conspicuous exempli- fications of celestial industry and ingenuity in this respect may be published on Mon lay, the 23rd inst. Foreign Affairs, and His Excellency the the Emperor of Germany was grace India Docks. She is the first of the

adduced from the "Diggings," where they may be found exercised in cultivating the comparatively poor soil which generally overlies metalliferous ore, as resulting in slow but sure returns, while the European customer is expending time and labour in speculations under ground.

sam-shoo!

The first issue of the Hongkong Tele- graph in its onlargod form, will be

and the public for the dolay caused by We live to apologise tour subscribers

and to thank them heartily for their a slight defect in our now machinery, kind indulgence.

The Chinese steamer Kang Chi, which arrived here this morning from Haiphong and Hoihow, reports having passed at 2.30 a.. this day, a gunboat standing to the S.W. aniler canvas, which we beliove is .M.S. Daring which left here for Hoilow on the 16th

instant.

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gotiations. the forthcoming Treaty revision no.

Under the facts above stated, the paucity of foreign vegetable produce found in China, cannot but occasion surprise particularly if the number of Chinese who regularly pass to

Amongst the passengers by the and from America and Australia, French mail steamer Peilio, on his way and China, be considered. From

to Japan, is Baron von Siebold, late the first named country the tuberous Secretary to the Japanese Legation at Borlin, and recently recalled to net ne Cyperus, called Chuffa or earth almond, and the Arracacia Es-privato secretary to Mr. Inouyo, during culenta might have been long ere this introduced into China with advantage. The former vegetable is an excellent tuber, extensive ly grown for the sake of its fleshy roots for sheep, hogs, poultry, etc., and is claimed to be one of the most profitable crops grown. A distin- guished botanist, through whose ex- ertions the plant has been introduced into South Australia, adds, on this head, that it was extensively culti vated for the sake of its fleshy roots, which contain a high percentage of oil and sugar, by the ancient Egyp- tians, and at the present period it still forms a well sustained dish in modern Egypt. Dr. Royle, an au- thority on such subjects, atates that the plant may be formed into pala table emulsions which are good sub- stitutes for cocoa and coffee. The

There is evidently, says a home journal, something in spiritualism after all. flow, otherwise, can wo account for the following announcemont under the hond of "Deaths" in the Newbury News? "Curtis.October 25, at Tilo Barn, East Woodlay, Elizabeth Curtis, aged 57. Bogs to return thanks for kind inquiries." Where does this mysterious gratitude come from?

The following is the text of the agreement between the governments of Great Britain and Denmark relative to Merchant seamen desorters, signed at London on the 21st June, 1881, by Eart Granville, Secretary of State for Dan. Minister at the Court of St. James's: -The Governinent of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Govern ment of His Majesty the King of Den- mark, being desirous, for the benefit of the commerce of the two countries, to facilitate the discovery, apprehen- sion, and surrender of seamen who may desert from merchant vessels of and entire reciprocity, have agreed as either country, on the basis of a füll

follows:-It is mutually agreed that if any seamen or apprentices, not being slaves, should desert from any ship be. longing to a subject of either of the Contracting Parties, within any port in the territories or in the possessions or Colonies of the other Contracting Party, the authorities of such purt and territory, possession or Colony, shall be bound to give every assistance in their power for the apprehension apd sending on board of such desertors, on application to that effect being made to thoin by the Consul of the country to which the ship of the deserter my belong, or by the deputy or representa. tive of the Consul. It is understood that the preceding stipulations shall not apply to ubjects of the country where the desertion shall tako place, Each of the two High Contracting Parties reserves to itself the right of terminating this Agreement at any time, on giving to the other a year's

rampant passant. The trading vessels of the Company will fly the red onsign with the saine badge on it. The Juck is the same as the British Jack, with the badge in the centre, and forms a very pretty flug.

Baron von Siebold, Secretary to the Japanese Legation at Berlin, has been recalled to Japan to act as Private Secretary to his Excellency Mr. Inouye, Minister for Foreign Affairs, daring the coming negotiations for the re vision of the Treaties. His Majesty

ously pleased to bestow on him, on his departure from Berlin, the decoration of Knight of the Royal Order of the Red Eagle, Third Class, and he had the honour of proceeding by special invitia- tion to Badun to tako leave of her Ma-.

jesty the Empress. Buron Siebold leaves by the next outward inail of the 11th December from Marseilles,

The last few inward mails from the Far East, via Naples, having been seriously delayed, representations have. boon muide to the Postranster-General

by the Committee of Lloyd's? The mails are landed at Naples by the French packets arriving there' in qua rantine, and the correspondence in then subjected to the lengthy process of cutting and fumigating. A letter in reply has been received from the Secre tary, General Post-Office, dated 5th inst., stating that the department bas now arranged for these mails to be enclosed in tarred racks at Suez, and it is hoped that their detention at Naples for the purpose of being furnigated will thus be avoided in future.

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On the 7th inst. Sir Harry S. Parken, K.G.B., Her Majesty's Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Japan, was introduced into the Queen's presence, Windsor Castle, by the Lord Steward, attended by the King-at-Arms of the Order carrying the insignia, when the Queen conferred upon him the honour of Kuighthood, and invested him with the riband, badgo, and star of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. H.B. leaves by the present outward wail to

The recent troubles in Dalmatia would appear to have been renewed on a much more extensive scale. We learn notice of its wish to that effect. In by wire from London that the insur witness whereof the Undersigned, doly rectionary movement has now started authorized for that purpose, have signed Extensive reinforcements, of Austrian thereto the seal of their arms. Donerosume liis post. afresh and extended to Herzegovina.the present Agreement, and have affixed

troops we presume, although the mes.. saga is rather vague ou the point, aro being sent forward to the scene of action with all speed.

at London in duplicate, the twenty-first We regret to announce the death of day of June, in the year of our Lord Lady. Keyleo Chen, the wife of the one thousand eight hundred and eighty-First Secretary of the Chinose Lega. tion, and the sister of the Marquis

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It is stated that Mr. J. W. Pouse will be requested to bring forward the sub- ject of the Opium Traffic in the next Session of Parliament, and, if possible,

day of the Session,

Li Fong-pao, the Chinese Minister to As announced some time ago, H.E. Berlin, has been credited to several other European Courts. In

pursuance of this H.E. is now on a visit to Rome,

Prince Prisdang has received at the hands of the Emperor of Germany the insiguis of the Second Claes of the Or der of the Red Eagle.

She

The steamer Meifoo arrived in the hai, and is now berthed in the West Thames on the 6th inst. from Shang-

regular line of steamers under the Chi. nese flag which it is contemplated to establish for the purpose of carrying on a direct export and import trade. between this country and China. Lua-shi-ting and Liang Sing Un, who has on board as passengers Messrs. are appointed managers of the new association, the head quarters of which are to bo established in London. There are also five clerks, servants, and the wife of Mr. Lau-shi-ting. The two. managers left the Meifco at Malta, and have reached England overland, via Naples. They have not yet become located in any offices. We understand that they are the bearers of a large

number of introductious to the London houses of firing engaged in the China trade.

Whilet the men employed in com. pleting the P. and O. Company's new steamer Shannon, in Messrs. Harland and Wolff's shipbuilding yard at Bol- fast, were leaving work for dinner, the woodeu gangway they had to cross gave way, and about a score of them were precipitated below, some into an iron tank and others into the dock, Several are seriously injured.

We learn from our Clyde correspon dont that Messrs, A. and J. Inglis are about to lay down a large "paddle steamer for the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company. She is intended for the Yangtze trade, and will be of the usual class manufactured by the firm, so many specimens of which are now running in China, waters.

The trial trip of the Chi Yuen, the now steaner for the China Merchanta Steam Navigation Company, took place on the 2nd inst., when there was a gale blowing, but smooth water. The vessel