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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1883.

UNITED Chapter, No-1341, will hold a convoca tion of emergency, on Monday, the 25th instant at 5 for 5.30.p.m. precisely.

huge pile of masonry, to answer the THE extraordinary number of acquittals of per- CHIARINI's Royal Italian Circus arrived from purposes of a breakwater, and thus to form sons committed for trial in Portugal is stated by Manila by the steamer Yorge Juan, and will A typhoon refuge, was determined on by the complier of the official statistics to "threaten give their opening performance at Bowring:on the able and energetic official who has the whole social system with grave dangers,” to-morrow night. Full particulars will appear Ju-ÁCHAI, a cóglie, faced Captain Thomsett this

The number has slightly diminished, but it still | in ottenext issue.

amounts to nearly 35 per cent, as against 20 per A FRENCH investigator finds that, in proportion cent, 24 cent., and 26 per cent in the neiga to its size, a bee can pull thirty times as much bouring countries of France, Italy, and Spain respectively. Among the principal reasons of weight as a horse. The unfortunate individua! the difference are said to be the excessive severity, who accidentally upset a beehive is firmly con. with which the law punished certain crimes-and- vinced that the French investigator is eminently the leniency of juries.

--foorrect in his assertions.

morning on a charge of larceny of an iron chain valued at $5, the property of the P. & D. company, yesterday. James Sutherland, boiler maker

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-PEARL- SHELLING.~~-~~-~-

TO THE EDITOR OF vun “Komakaka Tucsokáru," |-

SIR-A little knowledge is said to be a dan gerous thing, and so it would appear to be in the on board the British steamer case of the evening paper or, rather, those who direct it Three nights ago there appeared in

done so much for Hongkong (Ye Gods!) and eventually carried out; only a very trifling error was made in placing this heaven-sent barrier in a place where It is utterly useless, an eyesore, and a complete nuisance, instead of some three hundred yards further out in the sea, where it would have practically answered the pur-We are sorry to learn that a quarter-master of Tite following advertisement which appeared poses for which it was specially de- the British steamer Forge Juan fell into the in a newspaper at Rivina, New South Wales, water while the vessel was in Manila, and dis shows the progress of higher civilization there: signed and, constructed. In its pre-

appeared entirely. The man, it appears, wasWanted, a cultured gentleman capable of milk sent position it breaks the water so effectually that what is known as Cause seated on the bulwarks talking to a carabineroing goats. A university man preferred; Applicat& o'clock in the moning he saw the chain of the paragraph or the borrower of the sanic way Bay is simply a lake of mad when he suddenly, tumbled overboard and was tions, with testimonials as to proficiency, to be

seen no-more. The steamer was then alongside addressed," etc. with a few patches of water here and there the stone landing, inside the river, where sharks MR. H. E. WODEHOUSE is Coroner of Hongkong over its surface. The Surveyor-General's have not been known to enter so that the man's as well-as Police Magistrate and Superintendent expensive "white elephant" whatever other death is accounted for by his becoming suddenly of the Government Fire Brigade. Now suppos- merits it may not possess, can certainly faint and being quickly carried away by the ing a fireman was unlucky enough to lose with which we are certain to be visited easy matter it will be to reclaim the entire at the time, before help could be tendered him.

between now and next China New Year, through

A

Nepaul, stated that he placed the iron

on deck and went to attend to the China Mail an extract from the Foochow Chain "some, business. When he returned-ho-was. Herpla which was given as an item of legitimate

chain concealed in his basket. The prisoner came Australia, &c.," doubtless having omitted mention just in time to see Mr. Ju walking away with the news, the author of "Notes on Mauritius, on board with a basket load of coals and was of where the paragraph came from in the hope going away with the iron chain hid in his basket. that he himself might get the credit of having Anbara Doss, a fireman, stated that yesterday written it. In my letter to you of the 10th instant. I made it pretty plain that neither the writer court inside the defendant's basket, when he

knew aught of the subject they were trying to stopped the thief. The defendant stated that handle. The two latest editions of the China- the charge was a false one, but he was, never- Afall very clearly show that the lower Wyndham theless, sent in for a six weeks' turn it shot drill Street print, which I understand is widely known here and elsewhere as the "Fish Rag knew and oakum picking.

little about pearl-shelling business, or the country RETURNING home from a party in St. Petersburg

where that Industry is mostly carried on. My.

previous letter was written for a two-fold pur

THE 'SHANGHAI PHARMACY, claim to have, effectually shown what an particularly strong current which was running his life in one of the many conflagrations once, Prince Gortschakoff missed from the pocket pose, viz. to let the general public have

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of his overcoat his pocketbook containing some idea of what the new company's chances

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utively in the China Mail. The first one is about...

bay, stretching from the China Sugar Re- | LO AYUN, belonging to that very elastic occupa- an error of judgment on the part of the Superin- 30,000 roubles. He at, once informed the Chief of success were, and also to ventilate the finery on the one side to Whitfeild Station tios known as "coolic," was charged before Capiendent, would it not be rather irregular for of Police, who assured him that the thief would subject of pearl-shelling in this colony, being on the other. This may be satisfactory tain Thomsett this morning with carrying deadly Mr. Wodehouse to preside at a Coroner's enough, but as the costly structure was weapons and with having no light or pass lasteven. Inquiry in which he might perhaps appear designed as a breakwater, to form a safe ing. Paul-Singh, P.C.No.-607,cated that he saw as-a-defendant? There is really nothing "THE DISPENSARY, FOOCHOW[-]-harbour for Chinese-craft-and-not-as a Mr Lo in Queen's Road yesterday at 8 pm-unreasonable in this anticipation, and-we-are confessed having thrown away to avold indenti- as idiotic: a production as ever disfigured

continuation of the Praya wall, we are with two iron bars hid up his sleeves. When rather surprised, that it did not strike His defendant was told to stop, he took to his hecis, Excellency before Mr. Wodehouse's appointment not so certain that any credit belongs to

so the valiant Punjaubee had to go off at "two was confirmed. It certainly seems to us at à- it is requested that all communications rela-the-genius who is responsible for the forty in pursuit, when he ran the mighty warrior-matter of pure justice that it is not in the interests ting to Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c, be ad- "typhoon-refuge," for what is a pure to mother earth. Mr. Lo merely said he was of the colony the same officer should hold the dressed to the Manager, Hongkong Telegraph" accident.

taking the weapons home for a friend, and was appointments of Police Magistrate, Corener, and and not to the Editor.

It may, wethink, be reasonably assumed, shopped" for a couple of weeks' hard labor.

Superintendent of the Fire Brigade. after the public utterances of Governor

DONALD MACDONALD, PC. No. 84, was again Bowen on the subject, that an attempt will shortly be made for the reclamation of this

before Mr. Wodehouse this morning to answer dismal swamp. In such case the break-

a charge of being drunk and of assaulting Mary Rubenstein, a "soiled dove" in No. 4, Cochrane Street, last Monday, and further with damaging property to the extent of $20. It appears Donald and a friend had repaired to the abode in question and after staying in the "cat" sometime, had a row with Mary-over-money matters, resulting in a general fray in which the lady "boss," some sister-doves, and a go-between

Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor" and not to individual members of the stall-

Communications intended for publication must be accompanied by the name and address of the writers, not necessarily for publication; but as evidence of good faith. „

ilst the claims of the Hongkong Tele-water will be extended on both sides graph will always be open for the lair discussion sufficiently-to-keep-out-the-water, and by correspondents of all questions affecting public interests, it must be distinctly understood that -the-Editor-does-not in any way hold himself res

ponsible for opinions thus expressed.

TO SUBSCRIBERS

Arrangements have been made to publish The Hongkong Tegraph daily at 4 P.M. Sub scribers in the central districts who do not receive their copies before FIVE O'CLOCK will oblige hy at once communicating with the Manager.

then the necessary filling-in' - can be at once proceeded with, and without difficulty. What uses will be made of-the-reclaimed-ground is not quite apparent just now, but doubtless it can be

of junks and sampans that swarm in our

EDWARD DOWLING, hailing from England, an unemployed seamar, faced Captain Thomsett this moming on a charge of being a rogue and vagabond.. William Currie, P.C. No. 49, stated that at about midnight last evening he found the defendant asleep on the steps of the Goverment Wharf. He.took him to the charge room where he confessed that he had no means of keeping body and soul together. He also gave different accounts of himself as to what he was and what he had been doing. In answer to the Magistrate

myself an interested party in that enterprise. As quickly be hunted down. Surely enough, before shall shortly give you full particulars of the Prince the entire sum of money intact, but with will for the present only deal with the para- a week had passed the Chief restored to the pearl-shelling as carried on in the Torres Straits, out the pocketbook, which, he said, the thief graphs, three in number, which appeared consec fication. This was very well, but a day or two the columns of any newspaper which had later, Gortachakoff putting on the same over the slightest claim to foresight; and it is diffi cult to imagine that any man, not al coat, was surprised to find in a pockets together an idiot, could allow such a mislead looked before, the missing pocketbook containing report to appear, unless he did so for a pur ing untouched the 30,0 roubles, which be real pose which does not appear on the surface. ly had never lost at all. The idea of restoring Companies of the "bogus" description have the supposed stolen money to the Prince from often been floated by a side wind from a public print, and if the China Matt were giving the the public funds, in hope of thus winning favor newly formed company a shove along which for seal and efficiency, spesis worlds for the I don't consider at all probable, it would not its columns to such a filthy purpose for the sake police officer's ingenuity, but presents a curious be the first newspaper which has prostituted

of gain, bratst phase of Russian official ethics. The Times says The King of Annam, accord- ing to Challemel-Lacour, is the instigator of piracy, and the supporter of Chinese pretensions. Relying either on the indifference of France or on the possible support of China; and very like ly on both, he has failed to carry out the pro visions of the Treaty of 1874 The French

The second paragraph on pearl-shelling which appeared in the rail is almost as purziing as the first. What it contains in the shape of news is of the most antediluvian order and not alto gether.accurate.

The third paragraph is as follows__"We learn that the Australian Pearl-Oyster Shelling Company, to which we referred a second time up to Foochow every year from Australia. There takes over a business which has been success- fully worked by Captain Miller of the Cafferthun during the last twelve months. Half a dozen boats, of about six tons each, are being built in Hongkong for the Company. Of course the p Company does not reckon on getting any pearls; shells are the things sought

Now, Sir, we are told firstly, that some fine

TO ADVERTISERS Advertisers are requested to forward all notices intended for insertion in that day's issue not later than THREE O'Clock so as not to retard the advantageously utilised. But with Cause. Dowling said he had joined the Great Admiral, were the component parts. The constable allege: Government has now determined to show him--Jast night, was formed by: the tea-men who go way Bay abolished, where are the myriads which is to sail to-morrow. His Worship "dis j that he-never-laid-his-hands-on-Mary's delicate that it is not to be trifled with The projected are about-à dosen shareholder The Company early publication of the paper.

charged the tailer of the deep with a caution.· ́ form beyond pushing her away when she tried to expedition will occupy certain positions, and tear his coat, and that his sole intention was to give then await the day when the King shall see the harbour to find a safe refuge during the QUITE a large number of people visited the the go-between a hammering because he wanted wisdom of coming to an understanding. Accord typhoon season? There are one or two Gardens last night to listen to the excellent pro to interfere with what did not concern himing to the official view which prevails the inlets on the opposite store which afford-gramme which the fine-Band of "The Buffs, Mary, on her side, showed that she had sub French capital, the cost of the undertaking will some protection, but not nearly sufficient under the able leadership of bandmaster Htained some damage to her carcase, arms and be small French action will still be pacific, for the protection of the whole of the native Quinn, performed. The evening was beautifully-legs, and stated that the constable made free use we are told, if the King accepts the last chance craft; besides, it is not always suciran easy fine, a cool breeze making the-air-decidedly of his boots on her ribs while his clenched fists about to be offered him, and even if he reing pearls) bave been shown in Foochaw, and matter for small boats to get over to pleasant, and the "coolie" element was con- were playing a "tattoo on her upper quarter.jects it there will not be more than the sem that one of them was valued at about £50. The

spicuously scarce. There can be no doubt that these open air concerts are a great boon to the general public and the shipping community, who largely avail themselves of the treat. The best thanks of all are due to the officers of "The Grand Old Buffs for giving the use of theft band and also to the musicians who so ably interpret the works of the great masters, both ancient and modern.

Hongkong

Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1883.

His Worship further remanded the case till Monday, the 25th instant, refusing ball for the defendant.

An American journalist has unearthed a man who is contented with his lot. There are so many

blance of resistance, the whole cost of operations being defrayed by the right which the French authorities will acquire of collecting cus toms and other duties. An industrious native population, in fact, looks to France for relief from of us who are never satisfied-that-it-is-quite-re-the Annamite yoke, and so do many thousands freshing to learn that a perfectly contented man of persecuted Christians. Such is at present the has been found at fast. This person lives the life French official view of the matter. The whole of a bermit between Wyoming and Colorado, at' object of the expedition is to secure the adequate a little cabin where the stage horses change. fulfilment of the treaty concluded nine years ago, Nothing in the shape of vegetation will grow together with certain additions rendered neces anywhere near his cabin, and water cannot sary by subsequent events. There are, however, be obtained within a radius of some miles: not a few counter considerations, of which, per Yet the man is perfectly happy. The coachhaps, too liule account was taken by M. Challe stops at his cabin once a day, and the man is mel-Lacour, secure in the support of a large ma always seen to be cheerful, contented, and jority in the Assembly. They are considerations "wreathed in smiles. His cabin is decorated of a kind which a nation bent upon a forward with inscriptions, amongst others being the policy, as France seems to be at the present following: Hotel de la Starvation," "Fifteen moment, is very apt to overlook, though to the holder to one or other of a collection of pre-miles to water," Twenty-five milles to wood," outsiders like ourselves, who regard the

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THE law as to lotteries, remarks a home contem- porary, seems to be capable of some curious interpretations. The recent appeal of the Sheffeld "Cheap Jack," for instance, show that people may often tread on very dangerous ground without knowing it. The Cheap Jack queston had sold pound packets of tea from his tent on a piece of waste land near Darlington Each packet of tea contained a coupon entitling sents. The magistrates held that the Cheap Jack had established a lottery within the mean ing of the Act, and they fitted him one pound and costs. Against this he appealed, but with; out success. The "present" system tea shops will have to be careful after this."

and valuable specimens of these jewels (mean-

general tenor of the paragraph was that pearls were being sought for and that there was every condly we are treated to a lot of simple bosh prospect of the project proving lucrative. Se which only an ignorimus on pearl-shelling could have writent, and lastly, we are told that "Of come the Company does not reckon of getting what in the name of all that a wonderful can

pearls shells are the things sought-for. the Mail man mean by these three paragraphs? If he has been engaged as the Company's touter he knows mighty little about blowing the Horn to the right funt. If the paragraphs were meant public he is to be pitied. I will leave the as items, of news or with the idea of guiding the great authority on pearl-shelling, Mauritius, Australia, Ec, to revel in his ignorance for the present.

Yours truly,

ANA, AN OLD PEARL SHELLER.

these havens of shelter in heavy weather Bowrington Canal-has-been-allowed- by sheer neglect to become utterly use- Our evening contemporary, went into rhapless, although only a few years back sodies the other night over some wonder it was always crowded during the autumn ful improvements which, it said, had been with sampans and other small craft. The effected at Causeway Bay by the express sand has been allowed to accumulate and command of His Excellency the Governor. silt up to such an extent that this typhoon We were authoritatively informed by the refuge, originally constructed at a heavy rellable print that the whole of the junks outlay, is even in worse plight than what had been cleared out of the bay by the was once Causeway Bay, police, the junk people receiving at the As the typhoon season is close upon us, same time the staggering information that it is the duty of the Government to see that they were only allowed to anchor there every possible provision is made for the during typhoon weather. In consequence protection of our numerous boating popul- of this wondrous display of administrative ation. The disasters of 1874 might easily wisdom in the cause of practical reform be repeated, and for any great loss of life the China Mail remarked that a fine open a heavy responsibility would certainly expanse of water was to be seen in rest on the shoulders of those at whose place of the great crowd of dirty and instance these shelters were abolished. In stinking sampans. Our able contem: the meantime we really cannot see why perary, it appeared must-have-been--the native craft at East Point should not "nosing" round in very close proximity be allowed to avail themselves of the to the objectionable sampans to be so well sheltered position of Causeway Bay at all acquainted with the peculiarities which he times and seasons. Steps should of course delicately describes as "dirty and stink be. taken to prevent the boats from being Ing" However, as we happen to know hauled up on the roadsides and thereby from past experience that the saintly and becoming a nuisance, but it seems to usthat sweet smelling China Mail will lie like they have a perfect right to anchor inside truth on the slightest provocation, and as the breakwater if they choose. In any case wa further could not believe that Governor It is certainly not an Improvement on the BOWEN had shown so little judgment and old arrangements to have a crowd of of modern jockeys: though Aldcroft was hot a with the Admiralty, who have, in their eyes, denied that these preparations had reference to a distinction less captious. A quartel or accid

such slight consideration for the interests of a poor but industrious class of the native community as to send them away from what is a safe and convenient anchorage, to be exposed to the full sweep of the Ly-ee- moon current, ostsido the hideous and alto- ~gother useless structure, facetiously styled.

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TELEGRAM S

LONDON, 20th June. MADAGASCAR,

"LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"UNCLE TOM'S CABIN has been kept over for

criticism of pretentious ignorance; but simply "In view of the legal proceedings in which we ar

now implicated.-Ed. Hongkong Telegraph.]

"MALAPROPISMS.

Hongkong, June and,ble to expun We have considered it advisable to expunge Wanted a neat and tidy girl to do general whole question dispassionately and from contemporary from our correspondent's letter several rather, stjong remarks on our evening - housework," "God bless our home!" Yet he distance, they seem to be not without moment.not that we consider them too strong is never unhappy. Why should he be? He China will not interfere, says M. Challemel never sees a daily newspaper; the knock of the Lecour, and he treats the suzerainty of China rate collector has no terrors for him, while he over Annam and Tong King as a shadowy and fears not the call of the landlord. He has no need unical clain, such as might be theoretically of fashion books, his dress being simple, quiet,' { asserted by England over certain portions of and inexpensive. No one ever asks him for a France. This is a view which does not seem

No malapropiams are commoner than the pass for a theatre, and he is not pestered with to have been admitted without protest by the often misused words circumstance" and "inch strips of paper inviting him to serve on Juries or Marquis Taeng in his recent negotiations with dent, both being written indifferently as boards of guardians. Altogether there is every the French Foreign Office. Indeed, it appears nifying mere matters of fact. Whether a "cir reason he should be happy, and none why he that communications have passed between the cumstance" is, in any case anallowable expression two Powers concerning certain military preparand any one thing that stands around, unless it may be doubted. Circumstances and around; should be unhappy.

tions undertaken by the Chinese Government, be a ring-fence or fog, is hardly conceivable as a and the Marquis Tseng-does not seem to have possibility, <But the gravity of the error lies in

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by circumstances A fire breaks out in a building ent in the street is not circumstance but it may be explained or excused or accounted for and hurts it to the ground. This is not an cident it is a fact. If anybody were to jump out of a widow while the fire was raging th would be property described as an incident-And

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Few finer horseman ever held a sein, says a con- temporary, than the jockey who has just died in poverty and obscurity at Newmarket; and as a judge of pace and a master of his hands Tom Aldcroft scarcely bad a rival. His name will scarcely be remembered by the generation of racing men whose memory does not carry them back beyond the dout of the most fashionable THE Blue Ribbon Army people are very angry

very old man at the time of his death, as is committed a grievous offence. It appears that a these boats ranged along the sands on the manifest from the fact that Goater and Fordham, warrant officer on board the Royal Adelaide hung Kingdom of Annam. It is very possible, however, the claim of China to the suterainty over the best part of the Shau-ki-wan Road who rode the winners of the Chester Cup the year out signs of distress.....we mean temperance-by

before and the year after Aldcroft himself sporting the cesulcan strip in his coat. For that the French Government may have satis secured it in 1853 for Palmer the poisoner, doing this his "leave". was stopped for fourteen fied itself that China has no serious thought are still among the leading jockeys of the days. The matter was brought under the notice of interfering. China, said M. Challemel day, Aldcroft had only just begun-to-ride-at of the Commander-in-Chief, who remitted the Lacour, is not a military empire, and her again, the supply of water werd to fill if the this period, and it was in the following ten years punishment as unnecessarily serve, though he demonstrations are not likely to be more tumooch were slow or quick in coming of the en than platone. It may be so China; (as | gines were early or late any of these things woul a breakwater by professional experts, we

The Malagasys having rejected an ultimatum, that he made such a name for himself During | did not gmot leave for the offending Insignia to

will have been seen from a letter from ong corbeelmises; for they would around the fact the French Admiral proceeded to capture Tama-that period he won the Derby of 1856 on Admiral to be worn in future. Mr. MacIver asked a

and modify its resulta: 15 Effluviure, with is yet more thought it addsable to see with our own tave, which was done without loss, as the Horas Harcourt's Ellington; and there was some little question in reference to the matter in the House respondent at Shanghal lain no very bushy plural, is a noun often misapplied, eyor what had actually been done. In the nea

scandal in connection with the success of The Fly of Commons. The reply of Mr. Campbell Baning financial position, and would be naturally shy frequently restricted to one of its many applica "fine expanse of open water" we counted

ing Dutchman's only Derby winner, which need nerman, on behalf of the Government, was of a quarrel which would shatter her commerts fiona By "efftaviksinvulgarly meant evil odor, last night"more than fifty junks" and sam-

not now be revived. The year before, Aldcroft sensible and to the point. He explained the cir- for time. But even though China should and of course, in elluvium may be an out

(of foul aire But it may just as well be remain quiescent-a contingency had. won the Two Thousand Gulness on Lord" cumstances of the case as we have given them

Ipure water: Many writer pans, and the only change we noticed from -the-old-state-of-affairs-was-in-the-sampansTM

of the Isles, who proved a better bargain to Mr. above, and remarked that the House would see after all-le by no means follows that the Merry than his expensive brether Lord of the how much inconvenience would arise ifit allowed expedition to Tony King will be allo which used to be drawn up close to the Shau-ki-wan Road, adjacent to Whitfeild | THE letter on "Mr. Lisjer and Chinesa in Hong-year later he rode Sir Charles Monck's Gamester be, to be worn by men in uniform. Besides the inclined to represent it.

Hills did to Mr. Stirling Crawfurd; and three badges, however laudable their significance might simple an affair as the French Police Station. These, with a few excep- kong

cong" will appear to-morrow,

a genuine Malton surprise to victory at Don danger of their being mistaken for authorised Mr. Colquhoun's letter, the tions, had been removed-a few hundreds

caster." ~"A few months after the St. Leger triumph decorations such as the Victoria Cross, the Grand of Tong Klug are inhabited by A REGULAR Lodge of Victoria, No. 1036, will be of Gamester, Mailon and Aldeot scored another Star of Egypt, or the Royal Humane Society, different in temperament and yards past the station, where they were held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this victory in a great race; for Lord Derby's Sagitta | badges might come to be worn indicative of differthe peaceful Tong Kin drawn up. in a long line on the sea shore, evening, at 8,39 for 9 o'clock precisely. completely spoiling the appearance of the

won the Que Thousand at Newmarket; and three ent opinions on social, religious, and political the Kingdom of Annam. These only presentable driving road in the out- THERE is so truth in the statement of the Paris years later, the skill of Aldcroft was put to a still questions. It was, therefore, undesirable that little allegiance ether

higher test when hajustaqueezed Lord Falmouth's any alteration should be made in the regulations and are hercely attach skirts of the city. We also observed Temps that the British Government had up Queen Bertha past the post for the Epsomi Oaks applying to the uniform of her Majesty's service pendence Sqoner or

proved the abandonment of the provinces of

-It was in the following season that Aldezeit won The House apparently quite concurred in the will come into collision with thes Darfour and Kordofan or proposed to mediate the Two Thousand Guineas on General Feel, hon. gentleman's remarks. It would be ex- compelled for their own security We readily admit that Causeway Bay between the Egyptian Government and the and was second on him for the Derby to Blair tremely unfair to the holders of decorations which happened to ourselves in like In its present condition is little short of a

Athol; and if Lord Glasgow, the most Irritable of have been given for merit; while the possibility India, to engage in the task of subduing them. disgrace to the Colony, and for this, official RUMOURS of the dangerous illness of the Shah mortals, found fault with his trainer after the of other societies' badges coming into use is by The Tong King expedition professional incompetency is mainly to of Persia, have drawn from Nazare Aga, the Epsom race, he had not a word to say against no means remote. Armies blue or red, black or and simple matter for the prese blame. The place is a wretched swamp, Persian Minister, the following letter to the the jockey. Alderpt rode wiem of the Good-white, green or purple, seem to be the order of tend to strengthen. France in the lour sun and probably a hot-bed of malaria and Soir The health of the Shah is completely Cup the Queen's Vasest Ascot, the Northumber the day, and in course of time we might have should involve her, possibly at a critical other diseases. A few years ago it was a restored; and the order of succession being regaland Plate, the Cesarewitch, and most of the the pleasure of seeing our sallora decorated like ment, in a desultory, exhausting, and unprofitable lated, no complication is to be feared." "It must great two-year-old races, and his reputation will “merry Andrew.....Iq pelvato life_men can beautiful bay, affording a safe anchorage strike every reader that if the Shah is quite well, mobably survive that which attaches to the decorate themselves as they like, and even the shine. No true friend of in almost all kinds of weather for a large there was no pressing occasion in spcas of a names of one or two of the jockeys now most in themselves up with blue ribbon and red tape, fleet of native craft. The construction of a question of succession,

a larger number of craft than usual an- chored outside the so-called breakwater.

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