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formation received from that depart- ment which is responsible for our water supply. The, statement above Dr. STEWART's signature, which we say is not merely delusive, but is positively unwar- ranted by existing circumstances is that referring to what is termed the present diminished supply."

We have recently seen statements in our local contemporaries with regard to what CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS the writers wished. the community to be-

IN GREAT VARIETY.

lieve an existing scarcity of water. in our 'SWEETS AND CONFECTIONERY..

Colony. The Daily Press actually had the audacity to state that at the recent fatal FANCY SATIN COVERED BOXES fire in Queen's Road West, a serious

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CHRISTMAS CARD ALBUMS,

IVORY BACK HAIR BRUSHES.

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amount of time was lost by the want of water, and it was not until the flames had seized the whole of the interior of

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LONDON, January 5th.. FRANCE AND THE EGYPTIAN ......... CONTROL..

Aisuan, an Arablan unemployed seaman, with | We are informed by the Agents (Messra. Adam- a previous conviction against for assaulting the son, Bell & Co,) that the steamship Bothwell police, was again before Mr. Wodehouse this Castle left London for China on the 30th ulto. morning on a charge of being drunk and dis. orderly, and assaulting Sheik Abdool. Defendant stated that when he went home last night, The negotiations which were opened to bring sheik Abdool gave him some "slack jaw" so he about an understanding with France relative to assaulted him, but only with his fists. The the control have been closed, having falled to pugilistic Arabian was fined $10, and as he did come to an agreement.

not stump up the coin he was sent to gaol for a couple of weeks hard labour.

'BRITAIN'S' POLICY IN EGYPT. The British Government has sent a circular to its representatives abroad, announcing its in- tentions for the organization of Egypt, and in viting the powers to give a definitive acceptance to the free navigation of the Suez Canal.

LONDON, January 6th. GREAT BRITAIN'S ULTIMATUM.

The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs as the building that any effective supply notified the French Government that he has no

fresh proposal to submit.

was obtained. The delay in getting water was due to the fact that, owing to the pro- longed drought, the water at the reservoir ATKINSON'S, HENDRIE'S, AND LUBIN'S being therefore very low it was turned off at the time." We really do not care to inquire why the Daily Prest should publish what was a most atrocious, perversion of truth, for which there was not the slightest CHEMISTS, DRUGGISTS shadow of foundation; but the fact re-

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mains that the lie was published, and a writer in the China Mail, on the strength | of this lie, coolly holds Governor HENNESSY morally responsible for the deaths of the four unfortunate persons who lost their lives in the conflagration. This is merely a sample of the dishonest journalism which has disgraced Hongkong during the "whole_term of Governor Hennessy's ad-

A A FOREIGN medical joumal mentions the case of a lady suffering from cramps in the stomach, and to whom something less than a drop of 1 per cent alcoholic solution of nitro-glycerine was given. In two minutes the pulse fell from 145 to go, a clammy sweat covered the patient's fea tures, and she became senseless. Stimulants to the nose, and brandy, were quickly administered, and in about three minutes more she began to cover the pain was completely gone and did not return all that night or the following day. While M. Duclerc's reply to Lord Granville was under the effect of the singular substance in question, the patient felt, as she subsequently cordial

stated, like two persons, and so strong was this impression that, though entirely rational in her, M; Gambetta's funeral was most imposing; it conversation and composed as usual in her man- is estimated that 250,000 persons were present.her, she could not dispossess herself of the illu-

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FRENCH POLICY.

GAMBETTA'S FUNERAL.

Amoy Annual Race Meeting commenced to-day, The results of to-day's races had not reached us when we went to press.

THE German steamer Bellona docked at Kow leon to-day. The Arratoon Aptar will undock at Kowloon to-morrow, and the British barque Antoinette will dock there.

A REGULAR Lodge of United Service, No. 1346, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, the 8th instant, at 6.30 for 7 o'clock precisely.

IT is notified in the Government Gazette, that Mr. Harry Robertson Best, appointed by Her | ONE of the most remarkable instances of equine Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the sagacity is reported from Whitby. A young Colonies to be Assistant Engineer in the Survey gentleman named Keene has been for some or General's Department; reported his arrival resident near Malton, and from Mr. Rutter, of in the Colony on the 30th December last. Hesale Farm, he bought a hunting mare which,"

on leaving? Malton, he took with him to Whitby, M. GOUNOD, the famous composer, related the On Wednesday the mare was missing from the other day at the French Institute, Paris, his first field, and a search was instituted to no purpose. impressions of the opera, when in 1832, at the On Thursday, the search was renewed, Mr. age of thirteen, he was inken to hear Mozart's Keene and his groom going about ten miles on beforehand that he should be taken there sent where they heard the mare had crossed the mail- Dos Fan at the Italiens. The simple promise the Guisborough Moors, and then to Sleights, such a thrill of happiness through him that he way the previous evening. At this point the could neither cat nor drink, "My mother re trail was easy. The mare had taken the high go to the opera if you don't cat. After such a tried to stop her, without avail. At Pickering marked it," he said, “and told ine: "You can't road homewards, and at Saltersgate six men threat I would have swallowed anything that she jumped a load of sticks and the railway might have been placed before me. But on gates, and then found herself in her old hunting hearing the sublime and terrible overture-how country, making across Ryedale for "home." can I describe it when even to day, after fifty In so doing she would have to cross two rivers years of an ever-increasing admiration, my heart and a railway. Mr. Keene found her at home thrills, to think of it, and my hand trembles in on Thursday night with one shoe thrown and writing about it! All that I can remember is lame, but otherwise no worse for the cross-coun that it seemed to me as if God was speaking to try gallop of nearly sixty ailles, done in one day, me. I fell into a sort of painfully delicious for her previous owner found her on the Wed- prostration, and was half-suffocated with emotion, nesday night standing at the gate of the field LI AHUN, a gardener, feeling acutely the cold, mamma, I cried, that is real music. I where she had grazed for the two previous

was literally overcome." weather, which has prevailed lately, and being but poorly provided with bed clothing, thought A FRESH illustration of canine intelligence is furn- THE writer of "Notes on News" in the Soos fo he would add to his small store by appropriating ished by the following incident, which occurred a man learns with a deep feeling of satisfaction ↑ ́ànything in the blanket or quilt line which came

in his way. In an evil moment his eye landed related: Near the Place St. Sulpice resides an safely at the Zoological Gardens. This curious short time ago in Paris, and is, worth being that the “Heloderma homidum" has arrived on two quilts, the property of Choo Fook, presi elderly couple, the owners of a dog that had been customer, it seems, satisfactorily upsets the old dent of a native chow-chow shop, and he accord: taught early in his life to run on errands, theory that it is imposible to find a poisonions ingly annexed the bed covers. This led to his duty he acquitted himself of conscientiously. The lizard. The new treasure at the Zoo", comes being lugged up before the Inspector at Yau-trustworthy animal was sent regularly every from Mexico, and upon his arrival in the gardens teeth a basket to bring back the meat, in which ther, chief of the Zoological: Department of the for it, and a piece of paper with the order in the new arrival's Jaws he found that the Hel was placed a purse containing the money to pay. British Museum. ». When that gemleman looked

written upon it. The other day, thus equipped, he oderma horridum was a perfect demon among set forth, and was noticedtrotting long by a gentle reptiles, for it had two jaws full of poisonous man looking out of the window of an hotello front fangs, each tooth being grooved with a little con- of which he passed. The gentleman was gazing, duit for the passage of the poison contained in after the dog with interest, when he saw a ragged small bags on the guns. Fortunately the crea dressed man stoop down, abstract the purse ture was in a half comatose condition from the

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to believe that underhand influences have been at work in this iniquitous policy of unscrupulous misrepresentation,

If 'what are known to be mis-statements appear in the official organ of the govern. ment, it is scarcely to be marvelled at it the community become rather sceptical as to the purity of the boasted patriotism

three months by Captain Thomaett.

clothes belonging to a carpenter, was this mom-Wodehouse sent the quilt lifter to languish for the ment in the Government retreat for the space of nary. By the time the gardener casts his chry- ing provided with board, lodging and employ space of three months in Hayward's select semi-

salis, Le. the Victoria Gast suit-and emerges Foncè again into the world as the gay and gilded grower and vendor of the luscious cabbages and inguns" there will be little need for any quilt beyond the clear canopy of heaven, and that fact may keep the gardener in the paths of honesty. We hope it may.

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which made a profound impression on Voltaire, THE funeral of Isaac Newton was a specta and he ever afterward delighted to recall how he had once been the denizen of a country in which the first officers of the State contended for the honor of supporting the pall of a man whose sole distinction had fain in intellectual eminenc How differently, he thought, would the author "Principia" have fared in Paris. He subte quently made the acquaintance of the philoso and surgeon, who attended him in his last mo pher's niece, Mrs. Condult, and of the physician

ments; from them he learned many Interesting particulars. It is, perhaps, worth mentioning, that we owe to Voltaire the famous story, of the falling of the apple, and the preservation of the reply, which Newton is said to have given to the person who asked him how he had discovered the laws of the entert. In the course of this year ho met Day, whatkowed him, the Beggar's Opera before it appeared in the stage, and it was probably in the course of this paid his memorable kar to Congreve, His miration of the greatest of our comfo sufficiently indicated in the Lettres phique" and that admiration he lost no time in

But Congre

whose personally expres temper was probably not Improved by gout and

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CHUN APO, charged before Captain Thomsett with annexing a chopper of the value of to cents, was sent to one month's hard labor for his little caper. Defendant very innocently said he was taking the chopper to a man to get it sharpened of certain of our official would-be bene-when the constable ran him in by mistake..

from the basket, and make off with it. He left effects of its long journey, or it might, by shutting factors. As the water supply of Hong-

the botel quickly to obtain restitution of the pro- its mouth suddenly, have terminated the earthly kong has been made one of the burn- THE British Medical Yournal says Hemo- WONG AYUK, Wong Cheung Wa, and Shiu Aperty, which had been so dexterously stolen that career of the chief of the zoological department in questions of the hour, and as one philia is a very learned looking word; and, as it Sun were charged before Captain Thomsett the dog had not perceived what was going on; of the British Museum Determined, however, of the most gigantic schemes yet associated should do, it bespeaks a disease of which we this morning with gambling No. 1, Tung Sing but the thief was already some way off. There to find out the exact nature of the lizard it was with the history of the Colony is now in know very little. The malady, which from time Lane on the 6th inst. Inspector Bremner had had, however, been another witness of the made to bite first a frog, and then a guinea pig. to time so unhappily incapacitates H. R. H. suspected the house in question for some time larceny, a foor-footed one, who dashed off in pur- As a result the frog died in one minute, and the progress in connection with it, it is surely Prince Leopold, is one which most unprofessional back and obtained a breaking-in warrant against suit of the robber. The bulldog came up with guinea pig in three. It is needless to say that not asking too much in fairness to the people think to be due to some abnormal condi-it. On going to the house the usual gambling the culprit, held him firmly by his coat, and re- when Mr. Horridum is placed in his new quarters absent Governor, and to, the rate-payers tion of the skin. A person who bleeds casily is paraphernalia was found wanting, but before fused to let go, in spite of the man's blows. In measures will be taken to prevent the British HONGKONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1883,

whose money is being expended on the said to have only one skin, in place of the proper getting into the second floor-room, where pri. the meantime the other dog, perceiving that public stroking his beautifully striped baék- Wo Tytam Tuk Water Works, when we de- number which it must puzzle many to tell. Itlasoners were arrested, the. Inspector heard a

His basket had been tampered with, and do not envy the Mexican people who occasion. The much talked-of notice on the water mand that the plain, unvarnished truth not, however, any such malformation, but what greatnoiseas of people making their exit, the house ecting one of his species struggling in the ally find this treacherous little saurian in their supply of Hongkong, signed by Dr. should be laid before the public. With its is much less certain. Such persons bleed being provided with an escape hole. A table, distance with a man, immediately started for the drawing-rooms,

scene of action, leaving the basket en route. STEWART, the Acting Colonial Secretary, all due respect to the Acting Colonial easily from not only the skin when wounded, mat, and some money were found in the room. sent out from the Colonial Secretary's Secretary we say that up to the present membranes. They also bruise easily, and in Inspector broke in. Chung Atung, who described the bystanders to lend their stance, which but from the gums and mouth and mucous The prisoners were doing nothing when the The robber, attacked by the two dogs, called on Office on December 16th, and published time there has been no "diminished in the following issue of the Government supply" of water in Hongkong. We the joints from which they suffer are to be ex more or less, than a gambling informer,

the same way it is probable that the troubles in himself as a coolic, but who is evidently nothing they readily did, believing it was a case of savage assault. Walking sticks and umbrellas were Gazette, still occupies a prominent place in have gone from house to house in various plained by supposing some, slight injury to the gave evidence to the effect that he went brought into requisition, when, happily, the that official organ. As it has been made parts of the city, and satisfied ourselves synovial membrane, and a subsequent escape of to the second floor of No. 1 Tung Sing Lane. gentleman who knew the truth arrived, accom- the subject of a good deal of desultory that the water supply has been ample fluid to the cavity of the joint. We do not know on the 3rd instant and played Fan-tan, losing panied by a policeman. He related what he had comment in various circles throughout the throughout the dry season, abundant for what is the malformation or disease which pre- one dollar during the short time he was engaged. seen, the ragged-looking individual was secured, and the pure found concealed under his bloute. Colony, to prevent any anxiety in the all domestic, culinary, and other ordinary disposes to such an easy escape of the blood in "bucking the tiger." He further stated that

This was at once restored to the dog, together minds of residents as to the probability purposes. It is but right, in the face of from its proper channels. The chemical consti- the man to whom he paid the money he lost was

tution of the blood has been thought by some of our water supply being cut off, and this stupendous waste of public money to be at fault, the smaller blood-vessels by was the "look-out" man, and the first man

not amongst the prisoners. The third prisoner but to accompany the constable, in the nearest with the basket, and the thief had no alternative also to throw some light on the ac- sanctioned by the Secretary of State for a others; but no chemical or microscopical in-was managing the game. The first prisoner,

police-station. tual state of affairs, we think it ad-water system that would meet the require-vestigations that have been conducted as yet the tenant of the house, said, in his de visable in the public interest to devote ments of cities like London or Paris, that have been anything but contradictory, and, fence. I do not play fan-tan at my house;"

A WRITER in the Gentleman's Magarhia has a portion of our space to this matter. The our present situation should be widely therefore, have been without result. One curiousThe second prisoner said he went there been puzzling his brains as to whether the Acting Colonial Secretary's notification known. The present season has been al fact, however, has been elicited from various to see his nephew, and the third one ad- notorious Robespierre committed suicide, or died reads as follows:-

most unprecedented for its long continued observations that have been made; and this is,mitted two previous convictions for gambling, by the hands of an assassin. Was the wound of

•The continued absence of rain and the drought. There has actually been no

that it is hereditary to a marked degree, and that adding that he had now given it up. The Robespierre, he asks, received on the famous consequent scarcity of water in the Pok-rain in the Colony for about four months,

it is transmitted along the male much oftener first prisoner was fined $25, or a month, Neuf Thermidor self-inflicted, or was it due to than along the female line."

the second $10, or 15 days, and the third the gendarme Méda ? Thiers states distinctly fulam Reservolt, render it of urgent im- And in the face of this exceptional season

$50, or two months, each of the sentences to "Robespierre decided at length to put an end to portance that great economy should be what is the present state of our water sup SAYS Good Words In the present cager strug carry hard labour with them. The two gentle his career, and found in this pass to which he exercised regarding the present diminished ply? "Why, the Pokfulam Reservoir contains gle for existence, atili more in the ambitious racemen (?) who put the "peelers" on the trail of the was given courage to kill himself. He dis- supply.

to-day enough water to meet all the demands of the for pre-eminence, overwork is manifesting itself gamblers were ordered by His Worship to have charged a platol at his head, but the bullet, Householders are earnestly requested Hongkong community for the next six months, on all sides, and in all positions in life. Over 85ench, if the fines were paid, but, as the gamblers entering below the lips-plarged his check, and to adopt all possible precautions against a ever should not a single drop of rain fall in the study is telling upon our students in this crazy all went to gaol, the informers went empty hand-laicted a wound that was scarcely dangerous Javish use of water obtained through the meantime. This simple statement can be age of examinations, when every person has to ed, and we say "It served them, right." (Histoire de la Révolution Francaise, livro 3) Mains from the Reservoir, and they are easily verified, and we submit that, under the state of the physique when the educationa! “be a perambulating encyclopedia, no matter what

Carlyle draws a pleture of Robespierre #sining "blind on a chair with pistol-shot blown through net| ebullience of his desired to prohibit their servants from pro- these circumstances, the community is en course has terminated. The number of cases of IT would appear that there are worse characters his head, but his under jawy the suicidal hand literary disti curing water from that source for the irri-titled to some satisfactory explanation of the self-destruction from anxiety and nervousness hanging about in Hongkong than the greatly had falled and says concerning Méda a 1990s- gation of gardens."

extraordinary assertions made on authority among young men preparing for modern exami- maligned opium smugglers. From "information | tion that it was be who shot Robspierre in Few as We believe we are justified in assuming | during the past two or three years on the so- nations is appalling. Of old the young man who received" the police authorities have for some credited Méda in what was otherwise incredible with bis that this notice was published as the result called inadequacy of our present water sup- had "over-studied was a weak-minded youth, time past had their attention directed to a gang On the other hand, M. Léo Joubert "jn, the of information supplied to the Colonial ply. Sir JOHN PORK HENNESSY was of opl- whose brain broke down before an ordinary of men, the crew of three well armed junks, whose Nouvelle Biographie Générale," summin Secretary by the Surveyor General. The nion that Mr. J. M. PRICE's water schemes commonplace educational course, easily sur intentions were, to say the least, suspicious. It the conclusions of various historians, is not even water supply of the Colony is within the were too extravagant for Hongkong, and uncommon thing to know young men who com- the Far West recently with goodly sums of His words are t› Robespierre was sealed in a mounted by an average intellect. Now it is no seems that a number of Chinese returned from at the trouble to mention the report of suicide. province of the last named officer's duties, in that opinion those qualified to know plain that they no longer feel an interest in their money, and took up their temporary residence in fauteull, his left elbow resting on his knee and and no doubt the caution to the community best, including the, Hon. F. BULLELEY Work, and that they cannot remember what they this dolony, prior to returning to their native his head resting on his left hand 1 before him emanated either directly or indirectly from Junxion, coincided. Knowing what we read; that their sleep is broken, and that they place. The crews of the junky, on the look out was seven papara, among whichs wan, stained the fertile brain of Mr. J, M, Paica. No one know we have no hesitation whatever in no longer possess the power of self-control they forplunder, became acquainted with these people, with his blood, an appeal to Insurrection, which can doubt that it is of urgent importance to characterising this monstroys whita ele once enjoyed. When such loss of self-control is and there can be no doubt that they stayed bears only the first two letters of his name, husband our existing water supply as much phant as the most gigantic instance of offi, found along with periods of deep depression, in Hongkong for some time watching their In-Méda, upon seeing him, discharged a pistol. as possible, consequently the Surveyor cial salf glorification ever identified with then the temptation to suicide may become ine tended victims, having arranged to wait for their him and broke his lower jaw So carefu General, through the medium of the our colonial history. The Tytam Watersistible. Such break-downs after a cuore or less departure, waylay the passage boat as soon as it written are the articles in the "Nouvelle

brilliant scholastic career, are, unfortunately, got outside British waters, and rob and probably graphie Générals" that a statement like this i Colonial Secretary and the Government Works will be for all time a monument of now no uncommon event. Indeed, it may be murder all on board. As above mentioned the almost be accepted as conclusive,, «The gug Gastle, is perfectly fustifled in preaching Mr. J. M. Paica's indomitable energy, and laid down as a broad rule for the guidance of police got wind of this projected pifitical raid, whether Robespierre attempted to comm a reasonable economy. It is only a will only cost the Colony, a trifle over a youthful students that so soon as the interest in and also waited and watched. However, it was cide has been mooted of late in the necessary precaution to remind house-million dollars. Fortunes will no doubt their studies fings, or the memory is becoming found one morning that the three Junks had well as the French Press, and Za holders against permitting their servants be made and lost in this great work; we less retentive, they are distinctly overworking, yanished and left no trace. A few days ago it duces the deposition of Méda, in to waste the water either for household | shall obtain the most elaborate water la athletics the terms used are to "train "on," "was discovered they had gone to Chung-chow, to have fired the "shot purposes, or for the irrigation of gar system on the face of the globe; and to tmin off. To train on indicates and, we understand, the authorities here reported pistrs, It is known, thr

faces dens, So far, therefore, we agree with and years hence say ten thousand years, tion; in other words, "Improvement. To train place. Whether the Chinese Mandarin bad words are : "I knew the eldes

growing power and increasing fitness for exer- the matter to the Mandarin in charge of that window on the arrival of i what we are quite prepared to believe when Victoria has eclipsed the Modern off signifies waning power, or falling off" in requested the junks to leave Chung-chow, of the was sitting in an arm Is in official quarters believed to be a Babylon-our descendants will begin to capacity. So long, then, as study carries, will pirates got wind of danger, we are not in a post-ball of the Hôtel de Villo necessary precaution. We object, how enjoy the fruits of our hoarded treasures, waxing capacity, it is "work;" when, on the tion to say i however, it is certain they left that his knee and his head ever, to the delusive wording of the gov- and the results of our Surveyor General's other hand, the student feels "training off" then place on Saturday, and whilsten ronts to Hang- I made a rush at hiu ernment notification, and regret that the patriotism, and unselfish enterprise. For the boundary has been passed and the domain kong fell into the hands of our police launches.. to his heart said to him

the present, however, the community need of "overwork" entered. Still more urgent does The junks were captured without offering any raised his head and. cipled official as Draiksederick Stewart, be should be appended to statement which supply falling us. The reserve in Pok-fuwaning power, the sleep is broken and unre rested on the charge of being suspicious char words I took one of Is certainly not justified by facts. For lam Reservoir will adequately meet all freshing or the digestion is upset. The danger acters. As there seems to be nothing galast and, steppin this, we desire it to be plainly understood, demands for many months to come and gals have, indeed, been run through, in rail these men excepting suspicion, they will doubt Intended to

way phraseology, when these things are expe- les s

punishment, and for this we struck his

without better, grounds mu

name of such an honorable and high-print under no apprehension as to our water the case become when, along with a sense of resistance, and some twenty four men are are a traitor, and I will

has no doubt almply

nial whon-that-falls there is sufficient-tur

Hewater available in Wong-nel-chong Valley

for a city twice the size of VKC

work, manifested along with symptoms peculiar in arre

to each case,

as an autho taire, disg had the misfortuni