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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1883.

with the requirements of the public ser- vice you have displayed in the appoint ments made since your arrival; you are. to be congratulated on the cool.

ness and utter indifference "you have exhibited towards vested interests and the long service claims of the officials of your Government; and you are likewise to be condoled with for that fatal facility you have so quickly displayed in alienating from yourself the good wishes of the com- munity, and the respect of all who believe thai the first duty of a British Governor is to maintain the rights of the people, and

. If length of service, meritorious conduct, practical experience of the duties in their every detail, and the unqualified confidence of the whole of the people of Hongkong, were not sufficient to ensure the Appoint ment of Captain Superintendent of Police

TELEGRA M ́S.

~LONDON, June 19th. TRIUMPH OF THE BISHOPS." The House of Lords threw out the Bill for the legalisation of Marriage with a deceased wife's sister on the third reading by 145 votes to 140.

THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT.

Damietta in 24 hours.

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son, was subject to a series of trials on on May 14 and 15. The speed-attained

DOCTOR, asked of a willy physician, why| LIEUTENANT-David-Francis Lewis-of-The-THE-magnificent Anchor line steamer City of "do you and your brethren never go to funerals?" Buffs" has been temporarily appointed aide-de-Romi, having been thoroughly overhauled, and Because we should have the air of taking our camp to His Excellency the Governor, vice altered in some respects by the Messia, ter work home

Lieut. Vyvyal, on leave. ——— WE learn that large French reinforcements have arrived at Haiphong. The French man-of-war Kersaint, Commander Beaumont, by the desire of M. Tricou, the new French Minister to China, is under orders to proceed to Stanghal early to- morrow morning.

AN orthodox divine having said, "Never engage in anything you would not open with prayer," some frivolous perion present asked what he

would do with a dozen oysters,

12 deaths from cholera-have taken place in We regret to notice by the latest issue of our Macao contemporary O Macaense, that Governor da Rosa received-by-last-mail-from-Lisbon intelligence of the death of his mother. We beg to offer His Excellency our respectful sympathies.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

RECENT advices from Cebu state that cholera has entirely disappeared from the district.

reported "all well."

"THE CANTON DISPENSARY CANTONtary of State we should-really-like-to-under the provisions of Ordinance 7 of 1883.

We read in Saturday's Garelle that His Excel- lency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Captain Thomas Carroll Dempster, of the Army Pay Department, Acting Captain Superintendent of Police, to be a member of the Sanitary Doard,

We regret to learn that Signor Chiarini lost one of his fine trick horses, "Troubadour" by name, on Saturday last. The animal, which had been with the Signor's show for a numbers of years, succumbed to an attack of colic, contracted through inadvertent exposure to the wet weather of Friday night. TENDERS are required by the Government for

if

run on the Clyde, if not the greatest on rec eighteen and a half knots, being the most The City of Rome left Liverpool on May 23, New York, and, will be regularly employed

'that route.

Lieutenant

He hurried through Austria, Baden, Bavaria, Prussia, and Belgium, thus gaining over two

to Mr. GEORGE HORSFOOL who, it will be remembered, filled the office on several previous occasions with credit to the colony and to the complete satisfaction of the Governor, the community, and the Secre know the special qualifications in Captain DEPSTER, which so conspicuously com-. mended that officer to such a special and valuable mark of His Excellency's favor. It is a matter of public notoriety that Lord DERBY wrote to the Government of Hongkong in eulogistic_terms of Mr. Letters of Editorial matters to be sent to "The HORSFOOL's abilities, and actually sug- Editor and not to individual members of the rested that one hundred pounds per the construction of a timber pier at "Tsim-shareferred-to-by-a-correspondent-who-subscribes the projection of the Tonqula adventure, as with his own grateful-country tardily recognised.hir_|__

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days on the ordinary express by Marcilles. A few days afterwards he wrote a letter to the papers, expressing his confidence that the mails. would yet take but three weeks from the capital of Western India to the British metropolis. But his grand scheme was that which subsequently raised M. de Lesseps to a pinnacle of deserved fame the connection of the Mediterranean and the Red Seas by a canal through the desert: who was believed by an incredulous world to be Waghorn died in 1850, a heart-brokes pauper,

the victim of an amiable craze. since, been erected by the French at Suez, and services by granting the lady who has just breathed her last in a workhouse the magnificent pension of ten shillings a week.

THE Temperance Union says that in view of THE death in the infirmary at Strood of the the unsettled state of affairs at present, the Ita sister of the man who originated-the-idea of an lian residents at Shanghai held a meeting last overland route to India is, says a home comm week and sent a letter to the Italian Minister at temporary,, painfully suggestive. Tokio, and also to the Italian Consul at Singa, Waghorn was an officer in the East India Com to hold the name of Her Majesty's repreTHE visitors to the City Hall Museum for the

IT was the arduous greatness of things done" pore asking them to send a man-of-war to this pany's service, and devoted a great portion of his life to the project of bringing India nearer to Eng- that Senator Roscoc Conkling wanted to see in port. sentative far above suspicion.

land by a shorter joumey than thatround the Cape. week ended sat july, were:-European 190, Chi- the original process, at the soft-glove fight be THERE is no necessity for us either to invite cor-On Oct. 31st, 1845, he arrived in London with the tween Sullivan and Mitchell; and, says the Cin-respondence or to deal independently with the Bombay mail of the rst of that month, an exploit nese 1,771; total 1,961." SAYS the Shanghai Mercury of the 23rd ultimo: cinnati Gazette, he beheld for once a "halcyon sparkling suggestion, published in one of our unprecedented at the period. His despatches- contemporaries, that the ball room in the City reached Suezon the 19th, and Alexandria on the The steamer Peking reports speaking the" and vociferous performance." Triumph seven miles outside Tungsha light- A NEW YORK man who sued a railroad for kili- Hall should beutilised as a skating rink during zoth, whence he proceeded by steam-boat to a ship, at 5 p.m., yesterday, and she desired to being his cow, has lost his case. The railroad the summer months. The proposal savers far place twelve miles nearer London than Trieste. company proved by seventeen witnesses that the too strongly of the idiotic to be seriously con- schedule of the road was pasted on a fence right sidered. where the cow could see it, and, besides, that the THE French, after inflicting a severe defeat on engineer winked four times at it, but the reckless' the Hovas, have handed in Madagascar, so that animal would not take the hint

they will soon, it may confidently be assumed, An Arkansas boy, writing from college in reply is masters of the island. This, says the Oues -to-his-father's letter, said So you think that I laud Mail, is practically a challenge to us, who, hm wasting my time in writing little stories for having made much of the Malagasayambassadors the local papers, and cite Johnson's saying that and temporised, as is our wont, in the matter of the man who writes except for money is a fool.alliance and profection, are supposed to be their I shall act upon Dr. Johnson's suggestion and friends and backers. But, as the challengers write for money. Send me fifty dollars." know, Lord Beaconsfield is dead, and their gage of battle will be carefully avoided by the men We are not in a position to speak definitely on are Lord Beaconsfield's successors. This the point, but should imagine that the laudatory obituary notice in this morning's Daily Press, knowledge has, no doubt, something to do with the raid on Madagascar. The worst is that as India, Egypt, Ireland, the Transvaal, will show

it is not confined to the French: OWING to the heavy min, which continued up to THE Mercury states that the Russian tea within half an hour of the steamer leaving Hong steamer Russia, Capt. Kazy, 1,380 tons register, kong, the excursionists for Macao by the Honam yesterday were not neatly to numerous as on the and carrying 3,348 tons of tea, arrived at Singa- port on June 11th at 7 am. This vessel left previous occasion. We should think that not Hankow one hour after the Loudoun Castle on more than one hundred persons took advam the 31st May. She commenced coaling at tage of the trip. After a pleasant run across Macao was reached shortly after 11 o'clock. The am, and took in 800 tons of coal by noon, and Portuguese element set out to see their friends in was expected to leave about 8 o'clock, after some various parts of the city; the greater portion of slight necessary repairs to the machinery had the foreigners went straight as the crow files to flirt been effected.

with fan-tan, a few patronized Mr. Hing Kee's admirably appointed establishment, and some two dozen of the elect" remained on board the Honam and did simple justice to the splendid luncheon provided by Captain T. Benning.

annum should be added to his salary as some slight recognition of his valuable services, How Governor Bowen could overlook this, and place in such an im- portant and responsible position, over Mr. HexSPOOL's head, a mere novice, who has no interest in, and has actually nothing to do with the Colony, and who, moreover, is totally inexperienced in the duties, is a matter we are quite incapable of compre- hending. His Excellency will not con- descend to make any explanations to the Hongkong public; but he will find it necessary to say something to the Secre-

Armngements have been made to publish The Hongkong Telegraph daily at 4 PM. Sub-tary of State, scribers in the central districts who do not-receive- their copies before Five O'CLOCK will oblige by at once communicating with the Manager.

The Hongkong Telegraph

Tsui, Kaulung." Particulars may be obtained on application at the office of the honourable the Surveyor General" By the way, where is "Tsim-sha Tsui, Kaulung?" It looks as if some pedantic meckles were playing sad havoc

himself "Anti-Humbug," was duly paid for as an advertisement. If our correspondent desires further information on the subject, he had better apply to our contemporary.

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with the Government Gazette. A HORRIBLE tragedy is reported from the Philip pines. While the Spanish steamer Strantes was passing through the Nueva Caceres river an altercation took place between the cook and one of the engineers. From hot words they got to blows, and eventually the cook snatched up a kitchen knife and inflicted a mortal wound on his adversary, leaving the knife buried to the hilt in his chest. The engineer withdrew theA CANTON correspondent, above the signature knife with a superhuman effort, and plunged it "Shamien," writes on the 30th ulo. as follows: into-the-cook's heart, killing him on the spots-the-paragraph in-your-face of 28th inst. is The engineer died a few hours afterward.

likely to lead to a misunderstanding as to who We read in the Gazette that—"The Governor has been pleased to grant two months' vacation leave and ten months' leave of absence on half salary from this date (June 26th), to Walter Meredith Deane, Esquire, Captain Superintend ent of Police. Consequent on Mr. Deane's de- parture on leave, His Excellency has been pleased, with the consent of the Major Geneal protesting Commanding, to appoint, provisionally Captain

of Police."

C.

His bust has

MR. JAMES MCLEAN writes to the Times from Mineral Point, San Juan County, Colorado, under dale April 29th, to give warning of a plot to blow up London. He says "I feel it my duty to impart to your information concerning a plot to

have no doubt but, what it will be, and in the blow up London, which, if.carried out and I near future will far surpass anything in point of destruction of both life and property that bas ever been recorded on the pages of history. Thousands, perhaps millions of your innocent citizens before another April comes round will be no more. It is a sad reflection. But we have been goaded to desperations and while I must admit being an active member of the most formidable organization-in-point~~~- of money, and numbers that England has ever had to do with, I shudder from the idea of

is to be credited for the work of carrying out the At 4 p.m. all were on board, and after some Canton-Kowloon Wa Hop Telegraph line, I may digging the Honam managed to get out of mention that the first portion of the work from the mud, and was icon bowling merrily murdering woman and children; formen I feel this end was done solely by Mr. I. Meinke Holst along at some sixteen knots an hour. Ilittle sympathy and no remorse. Our govern of the Great Northern Telegraph Co. who had to was a bit rough outside and most of the fairment or the government of our organisa sumount great difficulties from native local op sex quickly showed the usual symptoms of mastion have plenty of inen and material in your position, and that Mr. F. Velschow only com de mar; however, the ship behaved hand, city, who have volunteered to do whatever work plated the work offer these obstacles had been somely, and we were safely back in Hongkongis deemed necessary by our body. There are a few minutes past seven o'clock, Taken al branch organisations all over the globe, and the overcome by Mr. Holst,"

public, bave not been able even-to learn-our- THROUGH the courtesy of Captain Locks of the you choose, give warning to those unsuspecting American ship Chocoruh which arrived here in victims, who are equally oppressed with our distress on Saturday last from Hlogo. route selves, and that after receiving warning, should to Iloilo, we are enabled to place before our rea- they still remain in London, and be mixed ders.extracts from the log of the vessel, showing with the debris, as lime is with sand in how she struck upon a coral reef in the Mindoro making mortar, I can acquit my conscience of Straits June 18th, at 3.30 a.m.; vessel struck any gull Your recent explosion has not been on a coml reef in the Mindoro Strait, The even an experiment compared with what will night was extremely dark, and nothing could surely take place. You will undoubtedly think be seen wind slight and baffling from it very strange of me volunteering this informs the NW, and the vessel going through tion, but I am prompted in doing it from filial the water at the rate of about two knots. At affection more than anything else. My parents daylight all hands were comployed timing are living in London, but I am ignorant of their ballast from forward to aft; carried an anchor out address, otherwise I should never address these

In a previous article we expressed the opinion that Mr. HORSFOOL was the only man in this colony: capalile of at once assuming the duties and responsibilities of the office vacated by Mr. W. M. DEANE. That is our opinion still. We do not HONGKONG, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1883. presume to dictate a course of action to Mr. HoaSPOOL, but we are really unable Tur Hongkong Government Gateift of Satur-to see how he can maintain his dignity

self-respect without day last states that The Governor has and been pleased to grant two months' vaca- against the glaring injustice perpe-Thomas Carroll Dempster, of the Army PayA DECIDEDLY seedy Bohemian presented him. together the trip was a mat enjoyable one name write your this simply that you may, if tion leave and ten months leave of trated by the appointment of Captain Department to be Acting Captain Superintendent sell before a company of capitalists, and, unrel- ling an elaborate map, says: "Gentlemen, this absence on half salary, from this date, to DEMPSTER. The best practical form of WALTER MEREDITH DEANE, Esq,, Captain protest would be to resign his present LI AKWAI, described as a Canton widow, was is a plan of a diamond field in Africa which I Superintendent of Police." "Consequent position, and to leave His Excellency and brought before. Captain Thomsett this morn have discovered and wish to place in your hands on-Mr. Deane's departure on leave, His his military protégé to carry on the departing on a charge of mendicancy and also with The diamonds in sight. alone are estimated by assaulting the constable yesterday. Frederic experts to be worth a hundred and fifty millions," Excellency has been pleased, with the ment the best way they can,

Howell P.C. 38, stated that he saw the defen- "My dear sir," said the Chaiman, mildly, "1 consent of the Major-General Commanding, of this character can only be struck effec- dant in Jervois Street at 6 p.m. begging. believe that I only echo the sentiments of my to appoint, provisionally, Captain Taoxas tively at the roots, and the quicker the The widow took up her sick and laid it across associates when I say that we should not have CARROLL DEMPSTER, of the Army Pay De blow is struck the more effective is his back. She was then arrested and run in, censured you if before presenting as with your partment, to be Acting Captain Superin-it likely to prove. Mr. Hoxsrooz has when she tried to further assault him, aiming a munificent gift you had diverted to your personal tendent of Police." It had been known deserved well, both of the Govern blow at his brain box with her stool. Captain use enough of the jewels to equip yourself with for some time in the colony that Mr. DEANE, ment, and the community; Sir GEORGE Thomsett ordered the" savage dame to be im- a new suit of clothes, boots included !" intended to leave for home-most likely Bowes has shown in what manner he prisoned for a period of 7 days, the Colonial We regret to hear of the death of Mr. J. Ogilvy from the port quarter with 200 fathoms of hawser never to return--and ugly rumours were considers good conduct and meritorious Surgeon to be instructed to watch over her reporter and for some time sub-editor of the attached, and hove taut. By noon it was seen WAITING under the heading Incipient Panic"

China Mail, which occurred at Suez on his pathat further efforts to get the ship off were use also current referring to the appoint-services should be recognised; fet Mr. Vagaries, as it is considered probable that a ment of a favored outsider to the im- HORSFOOL pay His Excellency back in his crew must be loose somewhere in the old lady's" sige home to England by the P. & O. Co. Jess, as the tide was falling. The next day whit on May asth the City-editor of the Overland · steamer Deccan. Mr. Ogilvy came out to Hong heaving on the after anchor, the warp parted pression has not been uncommon in City portant position of Captain Superintendentown coin and the Hongkong public will

Grievances

upper storey.

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lines to your

Mall-says-For the last few days this exc

was far above anything savoring of politi, honest independence when arrayed against seaman, laced Captain Thomsett this morning he had had considerable experience as a reporter Carried out a large stream anchor with a twelve here. There are many "outward and visible”. of Police. Believing that Sir GAORON BOWEN quickly show how they can appreciate / WILLIAM CLARK, of England, an unemployed kong nearly three years ago from Dundee, where from having chafed excessively with the swell circles, and in "good, truth it covers the position. on the old charge of being drunk and incapa in connection with the Dundes Advertiser, one inch towing hawser attached to it, and hove it signs of a coming crisis, both on, the Stock

of the leading dailies in Scotland. He was tauti the tide was then falling, however, and qulet, unostentatious young man, of consider able ability, and possessed many other good nothing more could be done that day. On the Exchange and in Lombard Street, and what but the premonitory algas indicating its neater qualities which gained hits the respect of all 20th the winds were still light and baling with has been termed an "incipient panie " are— who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Mr.pleasant weather and a smooth sea, and the

with a very heavy list at seven am the tide of the evil frour, which, when it does come, Ogilvy was not in very good healths when he ship listed towards the shore on her port side, approach. Still, we may be a long way yet came to China; and being frequently subject to

will be aroumscribed and ephemeral, if sharp hemorrhagic attacks gradually went from bad toe, so commenced to have on the after and corective. In former articles we observed worse. As a last resource he was ordered home hawwer, when a SE, squall set in. All nail

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Since we wrote, it has widened out infolvency are" was gradually ex-

lately embracing the speculative outside and inside Capel Court. of heavy failuren bis prevenis:

decounting on the part of several

facts one injudicious loa.

tendin a few weeks ago, with the hope that the ata set aback, and the ship started astem. The that the urength, although those who knew him beat felt avoid swinging on to the bank ugalt we were: elemen

getting dear. The caplain concluded that as confident he would never live to reach Scotland. oblig to cut the hawsers, and so succeeded in The burning heat of the Red Sea proved too much the keel and rudder were damaged, and some of for a frame already exhausted by long months of the copper was stripped off, it would be. suffering, and poor Ogilvy went quietly to his rest proceed to Hongkong as the most supple port zbanks was HRVs evidently. lentämoney on bad

at Suez,

Lifes, and to persons who have used it for. urposes utterly illegitimate from a trade point of view the other, dangerous speculation with bor- rowed capital. As a consequence, prices on the Stock auge have dióóped very cons

several lostances swallowing up what

3banker's: margin,

cal jobbery we were reluctant to credit the injustice and high handed intolerance. ble" in the streets yesterday. Li Aun, P.C. 307, report as to Captain Dziester's appoint- But presuming, for the sake of argu testified to having seen Clark lying in the gutter ment. The claims of others to the position ment, that reasons existed why Mr. Hons. In that state which is described by experts as were so strong that we could not bring Foot should not have again been appointed "dead drunk." The pitiful "tart said he bad Ourselves to believe that His Excellency chief of the police, the question arises indulged in fire water with the hope of cheering would in such bare-faced fashion ruthlessly what has Mr. J. P. McEuxx done to have up his spirits, as be had no roof to sleep ander other than the star spangled canopy which nature sacrifice the best interests of the Colony | been so unceremoniously left out in the

had provided, which was not much chop during for the mere gratification of aersonal cold? Mr. McEUEN has seen good ser,

the present rainy season. His Worship ordered whim. And we candidly admit that our vice in the British Navy, and has a most

Clark to be taken to the Sailor's Home so that estimate of Sir Grozor Bowen's character honorable record in the Colonial Office he may getthe first chance of a vacancy, and thus voyage would enable him to rezsin his wasted/wind increased and the ship-cùme: off, and tờ| as an upright and independent representa-List Unless we are mistaken he has be enabled to clear the colony. We wish him tive of Her Majesty the Queen was an al- already had some experience at the luck and hope soon to see the last of the loafers, together erroneous one. We are sorry to Central Station, and in his position we read in the Gasfle that His Excellency the have to speak plainly; but it is useless as Assistant Harbour Master can fairly Governor has been pleased to issue the followdas attempting to gloss over what the loud claim to possess a full share of that Commission for the purpose of considering and

to run to for repairs. Last three anchors, wo voice of public-opinton has unanimously technical knowledge of Hongkong, its, reporting on the question of farming a local declared to be one of the most scandalous people, and their habiti, manners, and Naval Defence Force at Hongkong, with refer IT is not often, says an American contemporary, hawkers, and two warps Logit

jobs" ever associated with the govern customs, which we consider an essen ence in particular to the Secretary of State's that parties go to law for two cents, but the denoteter 12p9:04 E. latitude by bbservation ment of this island.

tial for the office of Captain Superintendent Circular Despatch of the 18th April, 1883 caion recently announced by the Supreme Court 1306 N. During the whole tim

on shore and after she got off the reef she made Whereas it is desirable to inquire whether a local of the United States confirmatory of what are Who is Captain THOMAS CARROLL of Police. Itis, however, useless pursuing the Naval Defence Force can be formed at Hong-known as the Granger laws" was obtained no water, Captain Locke says this shoal, fa DEEPSTER? What is he What claims subject further. Both Mr. HoxsrooLand Mr. kong with reference in particular to the Circular from a suit started by a dispute of that kind. A coral reef, is incorrectly marked on the Admiralty has he to be placed over the heads of se-McEUEN have been scurvily treated, and Despatch of the Right Honourable the Secretary man wished to travel six miles on the Chicago, chart, which has been drawn up from Spanish veral deserving and experienced officers we are afraid we must hold Sir Grozor of State for the Colonies, bearing date the 18th day Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and offered naval surveys, being about four miles more to of the Crown who have spent the best part Bowen entirely responsible for the scandal of April, 1883 ;--and whereas this question can be the Conductor the legal fare of eighteen cents. the north than it is marked. It is also incorre of their lives in the service of this colony? which Captala DEMPSTER'S appointment most conveniently considered by a Commission: (or three cents a mile), which was refused, and marked as a bank and the depth of water alin- Well, Captain-DeurSTER is an honorary has given rise to. We desire to say Now, therefore, 1, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the price fixed by the road, which was twenty gether overstated. The only shallows mar "Captain and paymaster in the Army Pay nothing against Captain DEMPSTER per Kulght Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished cents, was demanded. This was refused by on the chart are Cajas del Bajo, two miles

Department. He has no claims whatever sonally; that gentleman cannot be blamed Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Goy the Conductor and the man was put off the N.W. of the bank, and the bearing of the islands to any of the fat livings in Hongkong at the for having been made a favorite of for nor and Commander-in-Chief-of the Colopy train. He brought action for damages, and the from the ship where she struck, are ja-Cajas del

of Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-difference of two cents finally mised the question | Bajo bore E-S.E., distance two miles, disposal of the Secretary of State, although tune, and yet we regret that he had Admiral of the same, do hereby appoint you of the constitutionality of the laws passed by the bore SW. W distant five miles, and Menor

tag. According to. iis on record that he once served as not the moral courage, the self abooga- Henry George Thomsit, Esquire, a retired pois Legislature to regulate the fares on the Island S. by W. W four

have been lone Pperators for Acting Superintendent of Vittoria Gaol tton to refuse a position for which his Commissioned Officer of the Royal Navy, Har roads. The question that has thus been the chart, the vessel cught during the absence of Mr. ToNNOCHY. past career makes him so eminently bour Master; Thomas Carroll Dempster, Esquire, decided on a difference of only two cents between | milles anant from this shallow Captain DEMPSTER knows as much about unfitted. ***Sir GEORGE BOWEN would Captain in the Army Pay Department, Acting conductor and a way passenger became one of single light about these straits, and antherd'are the duties of Captain Superintendent of the hardly feel flattered if he heard the Captain Superintendent of Polico; and vest importance, not only to the travelling public, many rocks in the fairway, the nat Hongkong Police as our office boy; he opinions expressed on all sides as Robert Thomas Wood, Esquire, a Com- but to the owners" of $5,000,000,000 worth of those regions during night time is most danger missioned officer: In the Royal Navy, to be a railroad property in the United States. It was ous, and many vessels have come to grief, there knows less of the criminal classes in this to this official job. Governor HINNISS Commission to consider and to take evidence and made a test case, and was argued first in the The remains of an Aman vessel tay close to Colony than our chair coolie. Truly, was treated to bard names occasionally, give your opinion thereon: and I hereby charge Supreme Court of Illinois and finally in the where the Chocorua man aground. We shall in Governor Bowan, you are to be compli- but never to the scornfully contemptuous all persons in the public service to assist you Supreme Court of the United States, resulting, the course of a day of two call attention to the mented on the nice discrimination, ex-epithets which are now so freely applied herein. Given under my hand and the public is the public are aware, in a final decision adverse numerous inaccuracies of the qulilte taste, and practical acquaintance to his successor..

seal of the Colony, the 28th day of June, 1883 to the railroads

waterke

of the

stocks and other

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unds. It arises from this, stock cannot be

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a few

with Hobion's

have now

tain indiscretions coming to light have partition double

ble-one is almost justified in pecta Contingencies the banks Thals'own'resourceRAND DEAN

the face.