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alimations.

NOTICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 108

THE P. MS. 5. Co.'s steamer City of New York, with 'mails, &c., from San Francisco, has arrived at Yokohama, and left for Hongkong {"ins morbuggy

A TELEGRAM dated the 261 ulto, reports that the French steamer Susz had foundered off

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. tishon, only twelve people being saved. The

HAVE JUST RECEIVED THEIR ANNUAL SUPPLY

of

CRASS.

and

LAW

SWEET CORN,

..

Newcastle in 1887, and belonging to Messrs. D'Orbigny et Sanstia Fil.

THAT one man's ruin may be another's gain, seniafkes un Tientsin contemporary, is exemplified -by the fact that the Shantung agriculturists, SEED since the break of the Yellow River bank near Kaifeng-lu, have had their grounds cleared of water, and on some farms that had been under

for immediate sowing..

THE HONGKONG DISPENSAR)

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1888,

For Houstong Gelegraph

Hongkong, Wednesday, MarcH 7, 1888.

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter)

THE SITUATION IN EUROPE

: LONDON, March 5th. It is expected that the Russia, proposals will and without result, and in the, meanwhile Warsaw is being largely victualled.

MORE FIGHTING IN SUAKIN, More fighting has taken place at Syaki■ and the chetgy has again retired.

(From Straits Times.) THE BULGARIAN QUESTION.

Constantinople, February 27th. The Russian Ambassador (M. de Nélidoff) has formally invited the Porte to declare Prince Ferdinand's tufe illegal.

The invitation is endorsed by Herr Von "Radowitz and the Comte de Montebello.

THE SUEZ CANAL,

LONDON, February 27th. England and France-are-exchanging views regarding the amendments to the Suez Canal convention proposed-by the Ports, -

water and unfit for any sort of cultivation for four or five years past the farmers actually sowed seed in the late autumn, and expect good crops in the spring.

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MONSIEUR CONSTANS lek Hanoi on the art ultimo for an excursion up the Black River. His first station was Phuon-ham, after which he pro "Pledded to Cho-no.” On the return trip Be. called" at Vict-try and Sontay, where he inspected the fortifications.

A NUMBER of deaths of Europeans fronı'sınall.

others, Marshall, the well-known jackey, suc cumbed to the terrible disease: He took it on the afternoon of Friday, the 24th alta, and died. the following morning.

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION. (Before Mr. A. J. Leach, Acting Puisne

Fudge

TO KAI MOK L'AI CHI, $102. The following judgment in this suit was delivered by his Honour Mr. Justice Leach this

THE HONGKONG HOTEL COM.

PANY, LIMITED, --------Anu

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- The ordinary half yearly meeting of the above Company, for the purpose of adopting the report and accounts for the six months-caded 31st December, 1887, was held this afternoon at the Hotel. There were present:-Mr. D, McCulloch

dios and F. Dodwell (Director), Mr. R. Lyall (Secretary), and the following shareholders-J. Campos da Roma, C. A. Ozorio, A. E. Vaucher, R.Howie, J. H. Cox and E. Jones Hughes.

& Government Gazette Extraordinary, issued IT is announced that the First Battalion of the this afternoon, notifies that the Hon. Frederick Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (9rst-93rd) Stewart, Colonial Secretary, will administer the will proceed from Ceylan to Hongkong to relieve -Government-during-tho-tomperary-absence of fire son Regimen ANULANÉ PERUN-YOUT -His-Excellency the Governor,

The following high appointments in the Chinese COMPARING the relative cost and strength of the Government have been published:-Shib-iseng French and Italian Navics, a Paris Journalist, to he Senior Vice-President of the Board of Sez was a steamer of 1,387 tons het, built at M. Lérins, states that the latter Power is botti War; Mein-i, Junior Vice-President of the pax. are reported from Singapore. Among (Chairman), Messrs. W. Parfitt, A. das Krie Board of War; and Ch'ing-fu, Junior Vice: numerically superior and of heavier armament to the floating force of his own country. This President of the Mongolia office. state of inferiority the writer declares to be The Militar Wochenblatt devotes a ton, ticle equally perilous and shameful, and he personally to the military question in Eastern Europe, and adjures the French Minister of Marine, by name, states that on the confines of the thric Powers to give immediate orders for the reinforcement the peace strength of the Russians reaches of the Toulon Squadron to the same number as 315,500 men, with 689 guns, and that of the possessed by Italy, within the next three months: Austrians 38,000 men and 333 guns. On the JOHN O'KEEFE, John Thomson, and Richard Russo-German frontier the German forces are Russi, three seamen all described on the Police 84,714 men, 14.510 horses, and 138 guns; while by Mr. Moir, suparintendent of the Sailor's and 274 guns. sheets as Irishmen, were this morning charged the Russians have 123,275 men, 74,199 horses,

Home, with being constantly drunk and disor THE musical reporter of the China Mail has derly. They had been two months in the Homenade a new discovery. Referring to Monday and were, said the complainant, "never sober." night's concert at the City Hall, he mays:-"As Last night they made a great noise and disturb to the programme itself it ought not, strictly ance. in one of the rooms of the institution for speaking, to be criticised at all, in accordance which the present charge was preferred. The with the conventional mode of dealing with accused had no defence, apology, nor questions charity concerts, hut ou this occasion there is some of any kind, and were sentenced by Mr. Wise, excuse for alluding to-it, inasmuch as it deserves the first to ten days in gaol, and the other two to

good deal of praise on its own merits." We don't four days, with hard labour,

happen to know who the critical individual may but we do know that he would have been be who wrote this stuff for the Fish Wrapper

much better-employed in the fish frying line of business than in exposing his childish ignorance and crass stupidity in the columns of what is intended to represent a public newspaper. Whe told this know all that the conventional mode of dealing with Charity Concerts is to exempt them from criticism? What has been the conven. sonal custom of the China Mail in such matters ? Nine out of every les concerts. and they have invariably been criticised given in this colony have been charity concerts,

The Independente reports a murder committed in Macao on Saturday last under the following circumstances. A Chinese policeman named Fou-seng, after engaging in a dispute with a group of Celestials in a brothel, went out and was entering a native shop, when a revolver shot was fired at hior by some one. The whole group then followed him to the shop. The bullet took deally effect on the constable.. A Chinese was subsequently arrested, and a revolver with two exploded chambers was found in his possession, Tie musi uproarious political meeting ever held in Dundee is stated to have taken place on the 3191 January when General Daly, the Unionist and Conservative candidate, appeared to open his campaign. „Upwards of an hour before the opening of the meeting a large crowd forced its way into the hall, and when the General and his friends appeared on the platform the building was packed by upwards of of 3,00 people, num- bers of whom indulged in all kinds of uptor and no se. The upfoar continuing, General Daly abruptly concluded wishing his audience "Good-bye." Many seats in the hall were -5abet,

THE Foochow Echo of the February 25th says; -The report given by native papers that the fosses of the Forchow toẨmen during last season amounted to $400,000, cannot be true, for it such were the ca e, we fear there will be no native

reimen left for the cming season. When a Chinamaa way that he has lost the above nier

oned, or any other amount, we must understand iharke meins he could not squeeze that amount from us. We'dcube'ont that some of our native Agassen did suffer severe loss, but to such an alarming amount is next to impossible. The actul loss, we are given to understand, dus nal exceed 50 007, and this amount is shared It is not expected that the Porte will complyyn fw teamce, while many as usual made -wide-Xrde Nelicif's invitation, but thatitwill temporizo, The other Ambassadors remain alue!

·RUSSIA ÅND. TURKEY,

Constantinople, February 28th,

SAYS the Chinese Times:-The authorities have apparently made fairly adequate arrangements for relieving the destitute poor in the townships and villages around Tientsin, as the influx of refugees has been reduced to manageable dimensions. The public kitchens give out very great quantities of wholesome and nourishing, if coarse, food daily, and on the thick gruel made; from millet the recipients can sustain not only life but strength also...There was some rumour. that public works were to be orderd on a large scale in the Spring for the repair of the Peihe and other river banks, and if these works are made, there will be employment during the Sum mer and Autumn fur some thousands of labourers The fluvial system of Chihli it in a bad condi tion, and-although-the-damage done is less than that of the Yellow River flood, it is yet very great. The injury done in the Viceroy Li's government by overflow must amount to many millions of taels in the last year alone, and since 1881 there have been an almost regular yearly

succession of inundations.

never has been.

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Mr, Jones Hughes seconded, and the motion There being no questions, the Chairman pro- posed-That the report and accounts be passed. was carried.

The Secretary having read the notice conven ing the meeting, the Chairman said:-Gentlemen, « The report having been in your hands for some days, with your permission we will take it as reall. Some of you may look" upon the net result of the past half year as a poor one, but that was entirely owing to the few transient guests that came here during the first four months, probably caused by travellers beingattracted to the London Jubilee celebrations. Since November last the Hotel has been doing an excellent business. The manager assures me that if the new wing had been ready by Christmas the whole of the Hotel up to date would The facts in this case are short and simple --- have been full, as he has had many more appli- By Section, a of the Public Gambling Amendment

cations for rooms than the number he has had at ' Ordinance, 1676, the word "gambling" includes" his disposal. The work of the new wing has been amongst others the lottery known as pak-kop-piu. practically at a standstill since October 3rd, owing dealing in such lotteries is to forfeit a sum not This has now been received and found to be By Section 3. any person who keeps an agency for to the non-arrival of ironwork from England. exceeding $200 on conviction. By Sections of the satisfactory. The contractor is now engaged same Ordinance, section 17 of Ordinance No. 7 of fixing the columns and girders for the 1886 is to apply to the "Public Gambljog first floor, and when completed he will be able Amendment Ordinance 1878 and in lieu of the words." No. 14 of 1844" in the said section 17 Passengers' luggage lifts (hydraulic) have been to proceed with the remainder of the brickwork,

"No. 9 of 1876" is to be substituted. Section 17 di ¦ ordered from the American Elevator Go,, at a cost Ordinance No. 7 of 1866 cancts that whenever a of about 900, through Messrs. Tulloch & Co. fine is imposed on any person resident in any and we have taken advantage of Mr. Palmer's' house and not being a householder within the presence-in-England to request him to inspect meaning of the ordinance for any violations of the working of these lifts, and be reports (amongst other ordinauces) No. 9 of 76, in default most favourably on them, as being far of recovery from the actual offender it may be better than any other patent he has seen. recovered as therein mentioned from the house- At the end of last year we had the roof holder. On the 6th September last one Ko Yau

of the original building exaufhied by our was convicted of keeping an agency for dealing in of the beams, the majority of which have Man, residing at No. 314. Queen's Road Central architects and they found white ants in some Pak-kap-piu lottery tickets in the colony, and h been renewed at a cost of $750. The balance levy the fine by distress and sale of Ke Yan the rooms are empty. With respect, to the bar- was fined $200. On the same day a warrant to will be renewed in the slack - season when

Our contemporary, hard op for local-matter; has

Man's goods and chattels was issued, and the maids, as our action, against Messrs. W. R.. even worked up critiques, or had them worked

execution thereof, as it transpires in evidence. Loxley & Co. is pending. I cannot add any- entrusted to the defendant in this suit, who is thing to what appears in the report. With up by outsiders, of semi-private and religious usher at the Police Court. The plaintiff in the regard to the accounts, I may mention that suit is tenant of the ground-liner of No. 314, of the sum of $14.4418o represented by sun- performances in the Cathedral. And yet we find this booby apeing a profound knowledge of proved to my satisfaction to have rented from date and that the manager has received instruc

Queen's-Road-Central-and-Ko-Yau-Man-i-dry-debtors, $10,183.57 has been collected-to- that entertainments given for charitable purposes floor, to use chiefly as a sleeping room at a rent matters critical, and calmly laying it down him a back-room on the west side on the same tions to strictly carry out the Company's rule with regard to the payment of local bills and ought not to be allicised at all. Were this of $2 a month. It is admitted by the defence, accounts, which will prevent any large amount kong critics and performers would alike have a meaning of section, 2 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1836. wishes to ask any questions, I shall be too, actually the rule among journalists, the Hong-plaintiff was not a "householder" within the the chance of bad debts. If any shareholder and indeed, it could hardly be contested, that the being overdue to the Company, and will minimizg

very d pressing time; but it is not the rule, and and therefore, in case of default in payment of glad to answer... WHAT can be the matter with the Editor of the Daily Preis? And where were the talented open to criticism, no matter for what objecting. portion of the ground floor of No. 314. All public performances the fine imposed on Ko Yau. Man, not within

section 7 of the same Ordinance. The remair and experienced st. ff?" The Press actually they may be given; so long as the public bave Queen's Road Central, was occupied thus: publishes this morning a telegram stating that to pay for admission. no other consideration has the west side of the front room by the plain. Mr, Firth, the Home Rule candidate, has bees defeated at the Dundet election for a member of admission is by invitation, such for instance as

the least weight. Private entertainments, where tiff, who carries on the business of a shar

maker, and the cast side of the front room Parliament to take Mr. Lataita's seat, by General the enjoyable smoking concerts of the Musical together with the rest of the east side, of the Daly, a Unionist Tory, by a majority of 3,6ion Club and the musical evenings at the Club who is also a sub-tenant of the plaintiff's. On vater Does the Archimedean lever of Upper-Germania,are,-of-coarse-never-subjected-to-the-day-the-warrant was issued the defendat

ground floor by a tailor named Tang Yu Kaimously..

Wyndham Street know where bonnie Dundee is, public criticism, unless a desire to that effect is accompanied by Ko You Man and a native cop- PURSUA T, to the Circular issued to day by the scarcely have made such a glaring blunder Mail-man's-notice of the Charity Concert. He tells the shopmen--the tailors and shoemakers

and what it is 7 Evidently not, or be would specially expressed. We have read the China stable or watchman proceeds to No. 814, Queen's Road Central, and there (to take his own evidence) LUUAL-AND-GENERAL, -Council-was-bekd-to-day-at-4-pam,-when-the-|-

Dundee is one of the lending Radical strongholds ought to write one more of the same sort, and that Ko Yau Man had been fined $100 for keep Hun. F Stewart, Colonial Secretary took the is thoroughly in favor of Home Rule. Is this with an overdose of haggis.

in Scotland, and with its luge Irish population then speedily terminate his vacless existence ing lottery tickets, and if he could not pay, distress would be levied, and believing the good bath as Officer Administering the Government

the place, dues our contemporary Imagine, where

to be Ko Yau Man's he orders the shop to be shu in the absence of His Excellency the Governor.

a Tory like General Daly would have the slight-

TALKING about the "after-glow" in Egypt, says He makes no enquiries beyond going to Ko An agricultural Congress will be held at Manila There were present in the Couned Ro

In another part of

a contributor to Cilies of the World, there is Yau Man's room, and notwithstanding the General Cameron, Mr. J. Russell, Acting Chief est chance of election ?

probably no view in the universe to equal that different trades being followed in the front shop evidence of his own eyes that there were two Justice Mr. E. t. O'Malley, Attorney General this issue will be found a short paragraph from the citadel of Caire; it is splendid by day- and that one of the shopmen asked if he migh managers to the shareholders, at the sixteenth THE Governor of Macdo and suite returned to Mr. A. Lister, Colonial Tr asurer, Capt." H. G. giving an account of General Daly's reception light, but is surpassed by the incredible beauty be permitted to remove his own goods, proceeds ordinary general meeting of the Company, to be Singapore from Bangkok on the 26th ulto, His Thomsett, R.N., Harbour Master, Mr. J. 1, by the Dundee electors; perhaps that will of sunset and the after-glow-when the crimson to tako possession, having told the tailors and held on Friday, the gth March, 1888, at 3 o'clock

convince the Daily "PressTM The real truth is, haze-of-the short-Egyptian-twilight-bathes the shoemakers collectively that if the fine was paid Superintendent of Police, Messrs. C. P. Chat our contemporary. ought to have known, whole panorama in colours which would be evidence of the plaintiff (who, however, the WE are informed by the General Managers / A. P. McEwen, and Wong Shing (unofficial that Mr, Firth, the Radical, has been elected by deemed extravagantly improbable if attempted defendant positively states, was not present) that submit to the Shareholders the usini Statement

vast majority of 3,600 Again, the Daily in a painting-colours which neither Hildebrand if the one was not paid on the next day the

announces that Mr. Biddall, a Conserva

nor Holman Hunt have been able to depict goods would be sold on the day following. Thir from Calcutta, left Singapore for Hongkong this Secretary to administer the Government in the tive, has been elected for West Southwark, beating effectively and naturally. Often as the after/Plaintiff thereupon, urged by the tailor, and in. this year is $1,638,53, and the balance at Profit

his Home Rule opponent, Mr. R. K. Causton, by glow has been described, there is probably procures the necessary amount to cover the fine order to get his and the tailor's shop te-opened,

The General Managers recommend that a 100 vutes. This is an equally lamentable dis-

no better short, graphic description than this:- and expenses of execution, and the same after-dividend of $5.00 per share be declared, absorb- play of editorial ignorance. Southwark is about "With the drawing out of the evening shadows, noon pays it into the Magistracy to the defen SAYS the Comercio; -"The Italian Opera Com-the most Radical borough in all England, and

ing $3,000.00, and that the balance of $135.03 innt's hands, and he now seeks to recover the present in fechle health. It is rumoured that pany who are at present performing at the the Home Rule sympathies of its electors are the setting sun; purple shadows are cast by the by illegal distress. The defence set up is that a glory of colour comes into the light of money that was wrongfully extracted from him

be carried to a New Acccurit. Tondo Theatre in Manila, are complaining of well known. Of course Mr. Causion was elected, mountains; the reds and grays of sandstone, the payment was volunta, and some suggestion.death of Mr. T. T. Benning. The other mem the great number of persons who invade the the other man being nowhere. Will, our con- sancta behind the curtain. The visitors to the temporary farther enlighten us as to what posthe taway yellow of the desert, the rich green of that the business he carried on was a lottery granite and limestone cliffs blend exquisitely with was made that the plaintiff was implicated with Ko Yau Man, or must have known stage and its approaches are said to be so sible connection there can be between the the banks, and the bluish-green of old Nile agency, but the only foundation, for such as WITH an admirably drilled army of 100,000 mee numerous as to seriously interfere with the elevation to the Peerage of Sir Henry Holland The cold grey twilight follows immediately upon suggestion I can look at is the fact that for on a peace footing, a navy to which constant scene shifting and other stage arrangements." and the re-election of Mr. Buchanan, for additions are being made, mostly from British It appears that all foreign companies are more Edinburgh West? We are sadly afraid that vellous change, as if aature had fallen under the Queen's Road Central, and no action was taken sunset-but in a few minutes there is a mar. nearly a year Ko Yau. Man slept at. No, 314,' ship-yards, and her forty-nine fertile provinces now or less subject to these stage intrusion in there is something miss with the experienced spell of the magician's wand. Earth and sky are Far the defence, the Crown Soliciter who ap or prosecution commenced against the plaintift linked by railways, Spain-in the Elizabethan Manila, a practice which is ridiculously carried and talented staff] age England's greatest rival-seems to be reaumut throughout the Continental theatres in

known to Egyptian travellers of cultats as the Manley 1. C. B., p. 594, and drew attention to suddenly suffused with a delicate tinge of pink,peared in his official capacity) cited Valpy v. ing her position as a great Continental Power.

magical and fairy-like afterglow, and pecu. 602, The question there was whether a payment the judgment of Chief Justice Tindal at page

world, where those exquisitely beautiful species of duress; and Chief Justice Tindal says changes of tint and colour return to the at p. 60s, it seems to me that made the payment fading lights of day after a short interval of show that when the assignees made the payment Diccan, Capt. P. W. Case, with the English malt aaben-grey, and like the coming back of rosy life they had just and reasonable ground for apple of the 3rd ulto, arrived in harbour yesterday bending that the sheriff would proceed to a sale to the pale cheeks of a dying beauty. It would that might have operated injuriously to their evening. We take the subjoined items from appear sometimes as if the rich tints of pink and interests unless the money were, paid. The the London and China Express :--- gold which flood the landscape could be touched, payment therefore was not voluntary, but was. The following is from the Indian Budget state- evil. In this case the shop was actually tion in the opium revenue, as a result of the made for the purpose of averting a threatened | ment —We have to face a permanent deteriora- closed-a present and pressing evil-and the recent convention regarding the collection of the money paid to avert the threatened evil of a duty in China. The loss in the current year paid voluntarily Nor is there any guidance and.rx 300,00p sale of the goods. How can it be said it was will amount to something between rx 250,000,

HMS. Linnef left Shanghai. for the South or the 3rd inst..

in April next.

their festes.

"Clerk of Councils," a meeting-of-the-Executive"

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Excellency was to proceed-to-Timor-by-the-first--Price,Surveyor-General-Capt.-W-M.Deynir opportunity.

(Messrs. Jardin, Mathieson & Co.) that the Indo-members), The Clerk of Councils read the China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Kufsang, Royal Commission empowering the Colonial

afternoon.

THE Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghai Mertury, learns that Li Hung-chang is at

the great Viceroy's indisposition is owing to worries in connection with the Yellow River. *kiundayjons. •

absence of the Governor, after which be was duly'sworn, and the meeting then dispersed,

the

Mr. J. Campos da Roza proposed, and Mr. J. H. Cox seconded-That Messrs. A. dos Reme- dios and Jones Hughes, the retising Directors be re-elected. The motion was carried unani-

J.-H. Cox and A E Vaucher be re-plected Mr. A. dos Remedios moved that-Messre,

Auditors of the Company for the ensuing half-

business of the meeting. The dividend warrants year, Carried.

The Chairman then said that this concluded the

would be posted to the shareholders on Monday next.

HONGKONG AND CHINA BAKERY

the shop would be release, and according to the PM

THE most important Macao news of the day Europe, to the great annoyance of actors and being the existing conflict between the Gogem GOVERNOR, DES VŒUX left for Singapore lo day crease. We remember the troubles an Englishment and the Municipality, as reported in our Marly Egyptian over all other sunsets of the made by the plaintiffs was voluntary or under a

company had some time since in Manila, which columns yesterday, the silence kept by the arose out of the persistence of one of the local Macao correspondent of our morning contem authoristes in visiting a certain actress. The same sort of annoyance is evidently being given the cry over this subject is especially significant and points a moral. The newspapers published in the Holy City are controlled by superior authority, their freedom being only a sham; whenever any important affair is being discussed

by the Messageries Maitimes steamer Saghaien on a short leave of absence. His Excellency Murray Pier, where a number of leading officials

enibarked on the Government steam launch at

had assembled to bid him good bye, shortly after 11.30, and proceeded on board the mail steamer, the Wellington battery firing a salute ns the launch left the wharf. Lady des Vieux is a passenger for Hongkong by the P. and O. Co.'s steamer Kaisar-i-kind, and His Excellency will return to Hongkong by that varsel:

Italian Opera singers,

TRIS morning a couffe aged, 28 was charged with kidnapping a boy of'sé years of age who said he was living in Hongkong with his mother, and that on the sth inst. while he was playing on the Chinese recreation ground the prisons accosted him and put seven cents into his

purpose of buying some fool for himself. I

THE Chinese Times says that the stocks of hand, observing that the money was for the and be consequently keeps his own counsel over of rich colouring. Let the reader stand on from which I can' gather that the plaintiff, in

not last as long as ten hundred weight doer in

England.

COMPANY, LIMITED.

The following is the report of the general

The General Managers have the pleasure to

of Accounts for the year ending December last. The Net Profit on the Working Account, for

and Loss Account is $3,139.03.

CONSULTING COMMITTEE. Since the last report we have to regret the

retire in accordance with the Articles of bers of the Committee-Messrs. E. L. Woodin,

Association, and are eligible for re-election. H. Crawford, J. D. Hutchison, and D. McCulloch

AUDITOR.

Vaucher, in Mr. E. S. Whealler's absence.

The Accounts have been audited by Mr. A. Es'

PAKETA LANE, CRAWFORD & Co., Hongkong, 5th March, 1888.

General Managers.

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL,

The P. &, O. S. N. Company's steamship

The following appointments have bean made st the Admiralty --Assistant-Engineer Francis West to the Firtbrand; George H. Cooke, date Jan. 1oth j Harry H. Meadus, engineer, to chief engineer, to the Lignel, on promotion, to

the uprise. Robert B. Garde, nastatant

At the engineer, to the Imperituse. **

the usual monthly meeting of the Liverpool

in administrative circles, the organs of the press or is Napoleon said when be stood on the entirely lose their faculty of speech. The Daily ramparts of the citadel viewing this lovely Press correspondent is evidently a myrmidon of scene, you wave a white towel in the air, the Macao Government, or a Municipal parasite, and it comes down a veritable Joseph's cost Kaiping coal in Tientsin have run short, and went away, said complainant, and the prisoner probable dissolution of the Municipal chamber, a matter of such a serious character as the fears are expressed that if the river opens late followed me, subsequently taking me to a house, or what the Macaanses style their Load Senado. the community will be put to serious straits to, and on getting me inside he said he was going We have heard enough of the absurdities and wants of fuel, The railway, when completer to selline. He said after I was sold I should be in anomalies which are inherent to that fossil insti- will no doubt cheapen t'e cost, as well as given position to make money and could then give tution to load up to think that its early and final regulir and unfailing supply. The charge for him some of it. The following day, after keep disolution would greatly tend to enforce and coal in household accounts is a very seriousing me all night in-the-hou-e, he gave me some strengthen public order in the Holy City. The itein of expense, particularly as owing to the depredations of servants one-ton in Tientsit doce cash and told me to go out and take a walk, he Senado is supposed to represent the' people of j of old Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, through say the least, if not ablolute recklessness in the idéring, correspondence from the Fooehow

keeping behind me.--This-morning-my-mother-Macao but although would-be representatives came to the house with the police, and found may be readily found, where are the people, the me, A Chinese constable said he went to a merchants, the ship-owners, and the tradesmen THE Courrier d'Haiphong informs us that certain house in the native quarter and found who require municipal representation ? In a the Governor-General of French Indo-China has the prisoner, the complainant, and, another boy colony where trade is an unknown quantity, where entered into an agreement with Mesars, Marty of about the same age. The mother went with capital is almost exclusively Chinese, where and d'Abbadie for the extension of their line of fine and on finding her son began to cry, implor learning is an infinitesimal fraction, and where river steamers and for the transport of troops | ing the, " high binder" to release her son. independence of moral character is an impossi: and commissariat stores.. There will be six trips Defendant said, "ail right, if he is your son take bility, municipal institutions are not only useless cach wack from Haiphong to Hanoi, and three hit away," Witness then arrested the defendant, but may become positively infurious. We are from Hanoi to Phu-lang-thuong; three from the Addressing the bench the accused said the reason far from being sympathizers with the kind of further still, phantom-like in the red background Seven Pagodas to Dap-cau; three from Hung he took the boy was because a cooliehad told him Government which exists in the neighbouring of that Libyan desert, are the still more hoary yen to Nam-dish; three from Hanoi to Bac-hat; the lad was destitule and asked him to feed him. colony, but we think this measure of dissolving, and ancient Pyramids of houser. The city one from Bac-hat to Cho-bo; one from Bac-hat For this ples of insulash humanity Mr. Wise the Corporation will greatly tend to strengthen and the tombs, the river and the desert, imaging to Tuyen-quan; one from Bac-hat to Tan-quan; committed the prisoner who admitted to four the administrative authority of the powers that forth life and death in perpetual contrast Jae from Nan-dinh to Vinh. A subsidy will previous convictions –to prison with hard labour be. A colony without air independent press is and over all the unchangeable blue of the sky, be granted to Mesars, Marty and d'Abbadie of for six months. Another Chinaman, a coolie, bor dhority of privileges, municipal or other-, diffured in and through the darling glory of 150,000 fics. per annum,

pix musik for a ainulaa, Uffsage,

that Egyptian sunset.”

Immediately under bis leef Cairo, with its the rule laid down by Chief Justice Tindal at that old historic citadel and take in the view, paying, intended to give up his rights within wonderful buildings, its minarets; its squares : 603, where he states the rule to be that no its sple dour, and his feathery paint-clumps; with full knowledge of all the circumstances, action will lie where the payment is voluntary intermingled with the tombs of the Mame the party intending to give up his right, lukes, rounded 'masoleums studding the plain. Stretching away till it is to the claim. I cannot leave the case without ex picturesquely unless he gives notice at the time of resistance lost in the base of distance is the famous valley be persisted in such a case. A gross mistake, to trade committee reported they had been con- Pressing my astonishment that any defence should Chamber of Commerce, the East India and China.

which winds the halatoric, and stately Nile, going execution of the process of law, had been com- Chamber relate to the decay of the Chine lea ever onward to the sea, its surface dotted with mitted, for which it was only as aggravation to trade, and the committee had resolved to recon white wings which flash and glitter in the beams say that the same course had been pursued in's mend the Council of the Chamber to address a of the setting sun; the great riverine high-way to refund unless action was taken on that suspi

former case. Suspicion was no ground for refusing letter to the Govemment requesting that, in from Central Africa to the ocean, shut in by the cion, The return to the warrant was wrong revising the treatles with China, attention may high irregular ranges of Libyan and Nubian The warrant directed the defendant's goods to

be given to the desirability of reducing or abolish- mountains. Eight or nine miles from our stand be, distrained--the return is that the goods of ing the export duty on tea... point we behold the great Pyramids of Ghirch; Road Central) were distrained, whereas in appointed to the command of the Audacions, the said house (meaning No. 314, Queen's Captain John B.. Warren, wito has bren farther along that still burning plateau of sand point of fact only the goods on the ground floor was midshipman of the flogue at the capture of are the still older Pyramids of Sakkara; and were distrained and these the goods of the Bomarsund; and was in the Badger (gunboni) plaintiff and the taller, the actual offender's at the bombardment of Sveaborg, receiving the hat by drawing attention to the facts greater: Wan, and received the Chinese medal-As cont

being practically fit. It is to be hoped Balde medal. He also saved during the China. care will in future be exercised boil in the mander of the Swallow he received the thanks persuns entrusted with warrants of disticas and of the Colonial Govemment at the Cape for and in the manner they are executed, and the assistance rendered in the Expedition for the defendant la lucky to escape with the refund relief of the Trek Boers, in 1879, 14 (1) only of the money wrongfully obtained under being made at Woodwich relative colour of legal process. The judgment is for the plaintiff, $103 and contă, c

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