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Intimations.

NOTICE

A COMPANY has lately been formed in Peru for the purpose of searching for and working the old Inca gold mines, and also to open up old cemeteries, where it is belleved millions of ,dollars are buried.

Ar the Supreme Court, in Original Jurisdiction to-day, before Mr. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice,

We hear that owing to the Chinese celebrations in connection with ancestral worship, a great number of passengers have been running.to and from Canton by both the morning and the night

-boats.***

TBE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending March 31st, are:-Europeana 147, Chinese 1,013; total, 1,184

TO-DAY at the Police Court, Mr. Wodehouse imprisonment with hard labour. A coolic aged sentenced the following prisoners to six months

A. S..WATSON & CO., LTD. and Mr. A. J. Leach, Acting Puisne Judge, Mr...warfare. The invention is an anesthetic bullet 17 for stealing 1,000 cash from a boutman; twi

HAVE JUST RECEIVED THEIR ANNUAL SUPPLY,

AWN GRASS

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SWEET CORN,

for immediate sowing.

J.J. Francis Q. C., instructed by Mr. W. Wotton, appeared on behalf of the defendant in the suit Yung Chenk in and others v. Ku Hung Tek, and moved for leave to appeal against the judgment delivered by Mr. Leach in favor of laintiffs, on the 28th March, M, Francis having submitted to the Court that a legal SEED point was involved in the receiving and Accepting of the coal supplied by plaintiffs to defendant, and that the latter was in a position to prove that he had not accepted the article supplied to him, their Lordships granted leave to appeal.

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A GERMAN chemist has perfected an invention with which he hopes to revolutionize modern. made of brittle substance, which breaks as soon as it comes in contact with the object aimed at The hollow bullet is filled with a powerful ungsthetic, capable of, pring complete, insensibility for a period of twelve hours. At the end of that time the soldier hit by one of these missiles revives, practically unharmed Meanwhile, however, according to the new theory of warfare, he has been packed into an ambulance and carried offa prisoner. It would seems that, should this method prove effective in practice, great battles might be opened by the explosion of a single large bomb of the anesthetic, between tire ranks, and really

married woman of her gold bangles; and ʼn unemployed servants convicted of robbing a coolie, aged 121, for stealing the silver carrings from another married woman..

Junaz," said the juror with the high forehead upon whom the hopes of the prosecution for a righteous verdict had chicßy depended, "the lawyers bez qult talkin' now, an before we take a vote on this thing amongst ourselves I would this dura fuss is about, anyhow." be much obiceged if you would tell me what all

the Colonies of Her Majesty's receipt of an address sent her by the Chinese community of Hongkong, on the ccasion of her Jubilee.

__The_Clurk-of-Conmesis read the mallowing recommendations by E. the Governor to the CouncilTo vote the sum of $170 as an allowance for 9 months' quarters to the head

gardener; to revote the sum of $25,000, to be paid to the Jubilee Committee as the. Govern-. ment contribution towards the festivities; th

Government school. vote $770 for some alterations in the Haibour Office, and $300 towards the enlargement of a

On the motion of the. Colonial Secretary, were referred to the Finance Committee. seconded by the Colonial Treasurer, these items

THE N. C. Daily News has been averaging up fought out by the ambulance trains. The chief boarding a steamer while she was underway that this Colony's prosperity was in direct

the time which the Canadian Pacific steamers Occupy in crossing the ocean between Vancouver advantage of the system is that one who fought and Yokohama and vice versa. From a list of and swooned away, would be fit to fight another voyages, says the News, made by the Canadian- day.

I l'acific steamers, we find that the average of tenir has long been a standing joke amongst voyages from Yokohama to Vancouver has been. American shipowners and their skippers that on 14 2-gths days, the longest passage being 17 the latter taking the vessel away from her port of days, and the shortest 13. Taking ten voyages registry he might possibly forget to bring her from Vancouver to. Yokohama, the average back, or in other words, might actually sell her age has been 18 3-loths days, and the to the highest foreign bidder, or else change her. shortest 16, and the longest 22 days. In all name, and go on trading with her on his own these cases the steamers called at Victoria, B.C. account in some southern or castern sea. That which is 8 hours nearer to Japan, but whether such a case of audacious robbery was ever the time was reckoned from the latter place or perpetrated in those days before the mail from Vancouver is not known. We believe in steamer and the electric telegraph had bound some cases it has been, and in others it has not the earth with a girdle of daily communication TWENTY-TWO of the sp rting heathen

is possible enough, however doubtful some of were run into the stronghold of Wyndham

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were this morning sentenced by Mr. Wodehouse to the following fines or terms of imprisonment, as they may please to elect.. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd prisoners to pay $100, or in default three months; the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th to hand over to the treasury accounts $2:, or three weeks; and the remainder of the unhappy gentlemen the more modest sum of $10 with the alternative of fourteen days employed in picking cakum or | in some other equally wholesome labour. The implements of sport to be confiscated to the elegraph Crown. The martyrs, one and all, elected far

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BONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888.

FLEGRAMS..

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· FRENCH POLITICS.

LONDON, April and. MM. Freycinet and Goblet will co-operate with M. Floquet in forming a new Cabinet.

The Royalists, Radicals, and Bonapartists have coalesced against M. Tirard-

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Dardanus, from Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this afternoon, and is due on the roth Inst.

The Canadian Pacific Railway Company: Is huilding branch lines across the territory of Maine, having red a franchise from the State under another name. The New York Sun calls upon the American Government to

territory.

would appear to be woll founded. It is not often, says a Yokohama contemporary, that we have to report a case of piracy in these waters, on the part of foreigners, but, it appears certain that such has recently occurred on board of the American schooner Nereid, which sailed from Yokotania on a voyage to Gaum about the 13 January under the command of Mr. Charles Johnson. She was kept several days in the Bay, owing to troubles about ber crew and in regard to a leak, but ultimately got away. ell right and arrived at her destination about the latter end of January, A Garm the Nereid replenished but supply of water and stores, bat

prison, in preference to handing out dollars,"" THE reports which have been circulating in town regarding the loss of the steamer Sikh, outward bound to China, are confirmed by a telegram, from the owners in London that the ship is lost, but nothing further as to the cause or The place of wreck is known. The message left London on 31st ulto. We are informed the Sikh left Glasgow on February 20th, and Liverpool on 29th, and that she passed Suez Canal on March 16th. As the telegram did not leave London till 15 days after this, it is probable the steamer had got as far as the islands at the south end of the Red Sea when she came to grief, for in that vicinity the dangers to navigation are somewhat exceptional, and the lighting of the islands and coast is bad. The 5th was registered at 1510 tons, and had on board a valuable cargo for Singapore, Hong-endowed with more than ordinary cunning. kong, Shanghai and Japan.

when all ready to sail for Yap, the captain being ashore to clear the vessel, the mate, Forbes, ran away with her. crew who had offered some opposition, or Two of the whom he was afraid to trust, were driven over. board. It is said the captain, now a pooser if a wiser man, is on his way back to Yokohama, to which place he had sent a communication of the robbery to the United States Consul. The circumstances having been reported to Captain Glass of the U.S.5. Monocacy, that officer has taken measures to secure the capture of the Nereid, and her present piratical skipper, in some of the ports or islands of the Pacific, where this bold bucaneer may. probably be found, if not

His Excellency remarked that the considera- ion of the Bill for the registration of Imports owing to strong representations he had received and Exports would be abandoned for the present from the Chinese community and to the ex- pression of public opinion on the matter evinced. at the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held on the gth ulto. As regarded the representation MR. WODEHOUSE this morning fined' Fur

made by the Chinese, he was struck by some peculiar theories on political economy advanced boarding-house runners $15 each for unlawfully by the opposers of the bill; it was stated and approaching the Kowloon jetties, and with proportion to its exports, and in an inverse ratio. the additional offence, of resisting lawful appre-exploded. He deplored the opposition raised to its imports, a paradoxical doctrine long ago hension, on the 3rd inst. Police Sergeant James against the Billby the meeting held at the Harkin said such men were a great nuisance, Chamber of Commerce, hat he thought it his and made such a great noise amongst the coolle duty to give way to the general wishes of the passengers in fighting and quarreling about Council's consideration,

community and to withdraw the Bill from the customers and who should have who, that the officers could not hear orders from the bridge The sleer-Iphigenia--had-run-into-and damaged a cargo boat on that account.

THE island of Kebao, which was lately ceded by the French Government to Monsieur Dupuls in compensation for the losses he sustained in 1872 hectares, or 46,000 acres, covering abundan in Tonquin, is said to contain a surface of 13,000

layers, of coal. Kebao, says the Courrier Haiphong, is part of the carboniferous soil reaching from Paklung to Lang-son. Coal is found everywhere on the island; the waterfalls, in tearing up the ground, iny bare extensive veins. Cool appears in many places on the

The Attorney General moved an amendment to Section 7, to the effect that should a necessity surface of the ground, and being constantly arise for varying the district delimited by the washed by the waters, presents a most brilliant. Ordinance for the residence of Europeans, the appearance. The superficial layers are very

matter may be submitted to the Council in the said-to-be-very compact and equal to the best the case Colonial Secretary seconded, brittle, but at a certain depth the substance is forms of a resolution, to be approved or rejected s the may be, without having to resort to descriptions of coal. A special engineer is to

and the amendment, was carried out. will be formed to work the deposits. survey the whole ground, after which a Company

THE Fire Brigade Inspection will be made to-morrow on the Cricket Ground and will commence at 10.30a.m. continuing till about. 1 His Excellency the Governor will arrive on the p.m., when there will be an interval till 4 p.m. ground at the back of the City Hall about four will be drawn up to receive him, after which. o'clock, when the Govt. and Volunteer Brigades will take place the events already enumerated a previous issue of this paper, all of which will come off at the back of the City Hall. While the of the Northamptonshiro Regiment, by kind competition and the sports are proceeding the Dand

permis-ion of Lieut. Col. Anderson and the officers, will play a selection of airs. Chairs will be

placed for ladies in an advantageous position

reading of the Bill entitled "An Ordinance for

The Attorney General moved the, second the reservation of a topean district in the City of Victoria. Having already indicated the scope of this ordinance, he refrained from seconded, and the Bill was read a second time. alluding to it-again. The Colonial Secretary

On the motion of the Attorney General, seconded by the Colonial Secretary, the Council went into committee on this Bill.

of

His Excellency proposed that Section his Bill be left for consideration after all the other Sections had been read and discussed, as he anticipated some discussion on the subject.

The Surveyor General remarked that it would be desirable to exempt the troops from the action of Clause 5 of this Ordinance,

Mr. Ryrie proposed that the consideration of Clause should be postponed till the next meeting, and His Excellency having approved of this motion, the discussion on this Clause was. postponed till next week,

The Council was in Committee on the Rating Ordinance of 1888, when our report left.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.

( CHALONER-ALABASTER)

THE LUN-YU. CHAPTER XIII. Section 1.

T26-la asking what are the dulles of a Ruler," Confucius said Tolead his people and to labour. for their weal; m

Tekju saying what-niore, he said--To never "The true ruler lives but for his people, not weary, 1900C for himself."

Section II.

the Cricket Ground wall, but otherwise there at the back of the City Hall and near will be no arrangements specially made for the seating of spectators. The competitive events, are limited to members of the Government Fire Brigade, the Volunteers, from one cause and THE performance of the 58th Lily Minstrels at another not being able to take part in these night, was about the best all round entertainment putting out of fire. The working of the hoses, yet given by this talented combination. There coupling and detaching lengths, a band pump

"Promotion should only be for merit, was a large and enthusiastic audience in the race for Indians, and three others for Europeans, body of the Theatre, but no doubt Passion Week dressed in their uniform and carrying their pumps and other appurtenances, will come off before one

by the O'Keefe, he asked Confucius what he was When Chung-hung was appointed Governor to do. Confucius.replied:Look to your officers, pass over slight shortcomings, and push on the

Promote those you know to be so; the world to know who the good and able are he said- will look after the other

WE reported some time ago that at a reception the Theatre Royal, City Hall, on Saturday interesting and valuable demonstrations for the good and able. Chung-hung saying how am I

at the Vatican the Pope had stated that he had heard from Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney, that the New South Wales Government had offered land to the extent of three hundred acres to any missionaries who would undertake

Section III.

Tze-lu selling him the Lord of Lu was writing

t of interesting information en varings umnarily suppress thisInvasion of United State the civilization of the natives in the interior of prevented many dress circle habitués from being o'clock. After four o'clock the other events will for his arrival to feform the State, and arking.. the colony, and that His Holiness had requested well sung by the Company, and then Mr. J./ be carried out, but there will be no "tug of war" what would be his first care, he said-To ́giva" the Propaganda to furnish missionaries at once, THE China Mail's Macao correspondent is of lest they should be anticipated by Protesters, opinion that if the outsides of the houses in the We now read that the Progapanda has bee Holy City were white-washed their Insides would | actively engaged in trying to enlist the services: present a far better appearance than they actually of those who occasionally come forward from

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present. The opening chorus, "The Obio," was Andrews Bang "Call me back again" with a considerable amount of feeling and was warmly THE Government inspectors of steamers in the names on which Confucias retorted-What a

as at first arranged.'

things their proper names, STEVE

Tz-lu replied-Is that the first thing? surely. applauded. "Saucy Betsy Gay" showed Mr., United States would appear to have no sthecute clown you are; the perfect man observes a you err; what presses to give things their proper

ami AndOY, with times, and other interesting do. This is a discovery the importance of which the ranks of the Irish Trappists, to proceed to well as a popular favorite. Mr. E. J. Mills According to a New York contemporary, an things are not called their proper.names C.A. Phillpott to be a capital comic vocalist as in the responsible positions they occupy, becoming reserve about at he does not know. le sources, make "THE HONGKONG requires serious consideration. We await with New South Wales. The Roman Propaganda is which Mr. F. C. Hutchby, in a very pleasing report when and where she was built, material, maintained; the laws apply no longer, and the rendered "Merry Hearts" In good style, after inspector of the hull of a steamboat is obliged to are not done; the Ritual and Services are not the Prince's charges do not hit the mark; things

tell you what the breezes say," One of the allowed, number of officers and crew, life man gives a hame to anything, he does so wres manner, sang a sentimental ballad entitled "I'll tons of burden, staterooms, berths, passengers people, know not what to do. When the perfect Greaves' original comic ditty (written and securely fastened to deck, wire tiller ropes and tainty as to the meaning of what the perfect events of the programme was Mr. W. H. preservers, hose, fire pumps, whether stoves are is for practical purposes. There is no uncer view to its being preached, and what he preaches, composed by himself), "You ought to see dat bell pulls, signal tubes, ohrs and life lines,In Confucius day, as now, the want was A FIRE of a rather important character broke out Dinah laugh." This is a full flavored, fine old fire buckets, water barrels and tanks, ares, west. It is only a few months since the whole of ably rendered by Mr. Greaves, it was applauded three watertight bulkheads and two copies of Fan-chi asking the sage to instruct him in last night. about 7.30 at No. 197, Queen's Road article of the genuine Mohawk stamp, and permanent stairways, watchmen, whether she has Section IV. these premises were burned down, and to the to the echo. Mr. C. Hough sang in sweet tones steamboat laws, name in six inch letters on side agriculture, Confucius replied--You had better eastward a range of new buildings are at about his "Old Southern home," and then Mr of pilot house, signal lights, location of stean ask an old farmer, and on his then asking him another of the many recent conflagrations to opposite sex, told us how, after some considera-saving appliances, pilots' rules, certificate had gone Confucius broke out-What a contemp present being constructed as the result of P. Baxter, alluding to a certain angel of the whistles, number and idud of auxillary life to give him lessons in horticulture, he said You had better ask a gardener. When Fan-ch'ih which this part of the town has been a

tion, "She thought she might as well." Another and officers' License framed under glass, and that fible creatura, he is. When the ruler deroles conspicuous victim. The tenement in which chorus ("Adicu") by the company, concluded timbers were bored at the time of examination. himself to Jaying down what ought to be done last night's blaze appears to have broken out, the first half of the programme. After the The boiler inspector reports the number of the people will carry out his views for hun. was a substantial looking house, as are most of customary spell for a "refresher, Me.engines, pressure, diameter of cylinder and stroke Junt principles, the people will cheerfully obey. When a ruler devotes himself to laying down the buildings in the vicinity, and it is scarcely Phillpott and Greaves appeared in a comic duet of piston number, length, diameter and material When he devotes himself to the promotion of necessary to add that the origin of the this which fairly brought down the house. Mr. of boilers, and when and by whom made si wrapped in mystery. The ground floors of these Walsh's exhibition of variety step dancing pressure allowed, number, and dimensions of his rule. The do this, ils subjects will flock to

• "team their interests, his subjects will be delighted with tenements are occupied as shops, and doubtless the showed that gentleman to be a most accomplished safety valves and adjustment of weight gauge families and their belonglage with them. What second Booms are extensively used for storing artiste in this particular line, and he was loudly cock, low water gauges, fusible plugs, locked up needs a ruler to know a farmer's trade 2

him from all quarters of the globe with their gonda, most of which are generally of a highly and deservedly applauded. Mr. Andrews' comic safety valves; thickness, tensile, and ductility of The rulere, business is, to see his subjects lodarumble character. Such, at all events, difty "All very fine and large" was scarcely so bailers / number, diameter and thickn would seem to have been the case last night, as meritorious as his former effort, and Mr. Mills and tubes

of flues baye liberty to carry on their work, not to do it: after the flames once got a fair hold it was quickly was only moderately successful in the nautical spark arrenters, hydrostatic pressure applied, Ifa man knows all the Falms by heart, his

dinal seams": I aboles for them upon pecahan adalah evident that nothing could save them. The Goyong Nancy. A flaitering reception was steam pipe connections, neraber of floats, testing wide ernment and Volunteer Brigades were quickly on accorded Mr. W. H. Greaves for a tasteful as the spot, and poured into the burning houses a rendering of " Harbour Lights," and then Messrs. distance between

pumps, means of dischargin goodly supply of water, but it required consider Andrews and Walsh as "The retired Gaffers" ably upwards of an hour's hard work before the were greeted with roars of laughter. There was

woodwork, and flames subsided to the usual mass of smouldering very little fault to find with Mr. M. Deegan's timbers and other debris. Towards the close of the proceedings a Hospital coolic, who had been engaged in directing a stream of water from the top of the surrounding houses, missed his footing and fell through a hole in the roof to the ground, striking his head during the descent against some projection and inflictioga wound so serious It doubtful that the unfortunate

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THE sum of $18, for the benefit of a depleted Treasury, was to-day paid over by no fewer than nine, citizens of the "model colony." of Victoria. Mr. Wodehouse, the presiding magistrate at the Police Court, found the defaulters guilty of hanging out from their windows, wet and dripping clothing stretched upon poles, to the inconvenience of their fellow citizens, VOLAPUR has reached Tonquin, The Courrier d'Haiphong in acknowledging receipt of a copy of Mr. Van Aalst's Grammar, says that the Volapuk charabla is trying to invade the Far East. We would recommend the universal tongue to the denizens of Macao. As there is practically no language in vogue in the Holy City, but merely a conglomeration of utterances which can be traced to no tongue, living or dead, Volapük would prove an excellent substitute. THAT whales are food of following in the wake of ships, particularly of screw steamers, was instanced the other day when the Soochow was running south of St. John's island, Captain Rowin states that he saw an immense Jonah swallower sporting at the stern of his vessel, with half of his side stove-in, probably from a blow of the propeller. The next day when the Sochew was in the Straits of Hainan, the same whale was observed again, and identified by the Indent in his side.."

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