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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1828.

Intimations:

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present, though they are well enough known in all engineering circles. With regard to H.M.S. Wasp, and the same thing applies to ships either of Her Majesty's Navy or of the mercantile marine, where the commanders and officers understand A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. their duties, they do not,, in the case of an

approaching typhoon, attempt to get near the shore unless they can ensure a weather une, and if notable to secure the shelter which NAVE, JUST RECEIVED THEIR ANNUAL SUPPLY this would place at their disposal, they keep thesca, and trust to their sails, not so their engines. It would serve no useful end to discuss the professional abilities of Commaniler SEED ADAMSON or any other officer on board the Wasp the Admiralty and their officers are entitled to sufficient credit in being com-

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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Haiphong, and March 1898.

NOTICES 'TO CORRESPONDENTS.

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, By the recent census the population of Madrid No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Halls aliown to be 475,300, which is an increase of Zetland Street, to-morrow evening, at 8.30 for'9 67,500 inhabitants in ten years.

'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited:

VIENNA is the proud possessor of an anatomical curiosity, whose backbone runs from his chin downward, and his chest is situated where: ordinary folk generally locate their backs, This his queer body for a considerable sun to a gentleman çurio knows hip.value, and has sold London anatomical Sucicty, who at his death will pay the amount to his heirs,

AT the Supreme Court this morning, before Mr. 1. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, the Attorney General moved for the admission of Mr. Henry Edward Pollock to practise in the Bar of the

much pleasure in introducing Mr. Pollock, he had examined all his papers, and as he believed they were in order, he hoped his lordship would welcome the new barrister as a member of the Hongkong Har. His lordship remarked that, having found the candilute's affidavits and other documents in perfect order, he was glad to grant the permission requested, and he hoped Mr. Pollock, who is a grandson of Baron Pollock, would prosper in the career he has chosen for

THE agents (Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co.) Pembrokeshire left Singapore for Hongkong this inform us that the "Shire" line steamship

morning.

Tit Intest sensational advertisement is that of. a New York hosier. He has placed in his window a-young and pretty lady who displays upon her neatly-tuned ankles the newest thing

Lin stockings.

extract of a visit made in 1845 :-"About severi o'clock we reached the point of our destination, having first with difficulty effected a passage cross the broad stream which sens towards the ank. It is a prodigious work, nearly seven miles, in length, about 3ca fret broad at the base, upwards of 60 feet high, and faced along his whole xlent by layers of squired stone. The whole spect of the place, its tangnitude, its gigantic strength, even in its decay reminded me forcibly of ruins of a similar kind in Mexico. The fatal reach through which the waters had forced a passage is an ugly chasm in the bank, about 200 feet broad and a hundred deep, with the river unning slowly below. The breach offers a

perfect section of the crabankment froin summit to bane. As we stood' on the brink we looked lown on the tops of the highest trees. We The lately established Berlin school for the

walked about two miles along the embankment try of Oriental Inguages has 115 students, 40

to see one of the sluices which remains so far of whom are preparing for the diplomatic and entire as to permit its original construction colonial service. There are about as many gheto be clearly understood, with the exception that the principal courses of stone have sunk lower petent to look after such matters-, but we Hongkong Courts of Justice. He said he had expect to be teachers and naturalists or explorers, towards the centre, and from its relative position the remainder being merchants clerks. The. I am of opinion that the present breach was Arabian and Chinese classes are the most originally the ether sluice, or somewhere near it. numerously attended, the Japanese and Turkist The existing sluice is a very remarkable work, coming next.

not merely from its dimensions but from its Ingenuity of design and most excellent work- manship. It is built of stones, many of thein ra feet long, which still exhibit sharp edges and every mark of the chisel. They rise in a which regulate the escape of water; and each ponderous wall immediately above the vents layer of the work is kept in its place by the insertion endways of long plinths, whose extre nities-project from the surface with a flange, so is to prevent the courses being forced outward. carved with elephants heads and other devices. The ends of these retaining stories are beautifully About the centre of this grand embankment of seven miles in length, avaninge has been taken of a rock about 200 feet high, which Standing on the summit of this, rock we see has been built in to give strength to the work.

xpect they knew enough of the old method of seamanship in "heaving a vessel to" under sail alone, wherein are the surest conditions of safety, or even in that new method of navigation practised with such [ success in the winter hurricanes of the Atlantic, by stopping the engines, keeping all canvas fast, and allowing the ship to take up her natural position of laying-to.himself in this colony. and of drifting-which, by the way, in an Atlantic deep heeled greyhound is quarter to the sea,

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TO-DAY Chinese policeman charged a fellow countryman, aged 22, who described himself as an unemployed carpenter, with highway robbery on the night of the 4th inst. Prosecutor said that at 11.30pm, he was passing along Queen's Road, in the vicinity of the late fire, when he saw a European lying in the road apparently drunk, and the accused plundering hint, and with his hand in the European's pocket. He arrested the prisoner. John Ivers, the European, haid he was a stoker on board H.M.S. - Audacious and on the night of the 4th, while walking along Queen's Road, two, Chinamon came up from behind and knocked him down, afterwards kicking him in the mouth. One of them then put his hand in witness's packet and took out about dollars: - he thought about that sum because he had just come out of a public house where he had expended $1.50. Witness was stunned, and on getting up and shaking himself together, he found the robbers had escaped. The the breach, stands a tall scalptured column On the top of the embankment, and near prisoner in his defence said he was on his way which is said to record their history, but in a to visit a relative; the defendant was drunk, was tongue which nobody can read. What nust chasing people, and on seeing prisoner also gave have been the advancement of engineering, chase, but prisoner ran away and evaded the

science-probably a thousand years before our -a-when these immense structures were under.. presumed attack Mr. Sercombe Smith sennken and which bear such a striking contrast-

in their magnitude to the puny public works of to-day "

what na enormous area the ancient reservoir covered, but which is now taken up by meadows, jungle, and lagoons, in which numerous alligators ind elephants disport themselves. Human in- habitants there arenone-they have disappeared with the unknown constructors of these mighty nonuments, it is said that some of the sacred books of Ceylon record their names, though they have perished from the living memory of

man.

The Journal of Education has collected a few answers from public school'examination papers, to show how crooked young ideas frequently shoot. Here are a few samples: "Mosquito, a child of white and black parents. Herodotus was a descendant of Herod the Great, and he was King of the Jews. The Aryans spoke the French language. Virgil was a great American autlior. Diogenes was a great philosopher and successor to Alexandria the Great. Longfellow wrote 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained flawthorne wrote "Moses' from Old Manse, Plato was the Father of Language, and his language was so perfect that it is said that if Jupiter were to speak he would speak Plato,"

Tuis morning Samuel Madge, a Royal Marine of H.M.S. Audacious, was charged at the Police MR. SANGSTER's next organ recital is fixed for pots and pans in a house in Lascar Row. Thelenced the accused to a fortnight in gaol with Court with being drunk and Smashing certain vahong (elegraph Thursday next, the 12th insl., at g p.m.

accountant engaged in the house where Mr. Madge | hard labour. OUR report of the Fire Brigade Inspection, held took a fancy to exhibit his combative powers, this afternoon, had not come to hand when we said that at 7.30 on the evening of the 4th inst. HONGKONG AMATEUR ATHLETIC though it was in laly, amongst the Romans, that -went-to-press-It-will-appcar-to-morrow:-- he was sitting in his counting house going over- THE Foochow tea duties, we read in the his ledgers, when there was suddenly a knock Peking Gazette, were required to supply at the door. A cautious assistant went to the door Tls. 50.000 last year as a contribution towards and before opening it interrogated the visitor, but there was no response to the question of "who the expenses of the Imperial Household. The

was there.". Without any warning prisoner then Viceroy reparts the despatch in the last month of the year of the final instalment of the above broke in the door, and on springing into the room my which has been drawn from the kingan fighting with the assistant, and then made a receipts on foreign opium.

furious attack on some pats and bowls containing rd. When the battle was over, according to complainant's account, it was difficult to

*HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1888.

SPORTS.

We append the handicaps for the leading events at the Hongkong Amateur Athletic Sports on Saturday next. The Bicycle race, we are requested to state, is not a handicap,

220 YARDS FLAT. RACE.-(Handicap), prize presented by the Hon, A. F. MacEwen,

F. H. Johnston, scratch; A. Maclean, scratch A. Denison, a yds.; J. M. Atkinson,' 3 yds ; R. Markwick, 3 yds.; W. Steward, R.N., 3 yds.; H. F. Hayllar, 4 yds.: F. Maitland, 5 yds.; C.E.. yds.; R.-H. Burder, 8 yds, Gray, to yds. Major Ellis, iz yds.; J. J. Hazeland, 15 yds., . L. Woodin, 20 yds.

The various Governments and Municipal Cor. porations, and all Public Bodies and Companies, think that there are very few practical Benlees Merchants, Consula, Professional and staten in this part of the world who will other Residents, have supplied the necessary

coincide with the views of a writer in the matte, unon forms specially sent for that pur-Cied Service Gazette, who contends that the paje sú as to ensure accuracy, "The Naval and loss of the ill-fated 'gunboat Wap was Military portions have been taken from the owing to her defective engines. It is a latest published official lists and revised at well known fact, and one that has been Head-quarters; in fact, no pains have been patent to all observers of Her Majesty's spared to make "THE HONGKONG DIREC-Navy for the last thirty years, that the a handy and perfectly reliable book of reference engines of our ships of war are much bended" Finance," reports the following very distinguish which was lard and which was Royal Higginbotham, 8th Regt., 6 yds.; G. H. Potes,circuit of three miles, and then ran 38 miles

more liable to breakdowns than are thosettering state of affale in Macao: "The new of the merchant service; but that such hudget for this district shows a deficit of milreis 100,000,000, or about $1.500.000, a figure which defects should bring about the total loss is still far from the dreadful reality, because the of a presumedly well found and safe calculation of the revenue has been made on too vessel by foundering is quite another thing. sanguine principles, while that of the expenditure We have heard of old ladies, and have will certainly exceed all anticipations. We now

TURY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST"

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In addition to the information sumerated above AND THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY -HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1888

contains a carefully revised

INDEX TO THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG;

A SPECIAL. LIST OF FOREIGNERS

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THE Independente of the 3rd inst. in an editorial

Marine. This statement being corroborated by another witness, prisoner was asked by the magistrate what he meant by such ungentle- manly conduct, but Mr. Madge had nothing to of drink and knew nothing about any such say further than that he was under the influence

trouble. Mr. Sercombe Smith fined the prisoner

120 YARDS FLAT RACE-(Handicap); prize presented by E, Mackintosh, Esq.; and prize by final. Committee; first two in each heat to run in

4.

1st Heal:-A. Maclean, scratch; R. Thomson, a yds. A. Denison, z yds.; J. C. Johnston, 6

even travelled with some of tham, who on feel the effects of the Vy-sing collapse, which was $2 for being drunk and another $8 us composyds.; G. H. Potis, 4 yds.

hearing of an accident in the engine room an inevitable occurrence after the establishmentation to the lard boiler. employed in. Steamers making short voyages of a steniner, have at once concluded that cows are now upon us." Afer a long Jeremiad For the lottery-in-Caston---The-years-of the lean- the ship must go down; such opinions about the decadence of the Holy City, the are amusing and harmless enough when Independente starts the question of the loan confined to timid representatives of the which the Government is attempt ng to contract weaker sex, but when we find such in Hongkong.

THE PRIVATE RESIDENCES

of the Principal Government Officials, the Lead ing Merchants, the Foreign Censuls, Professional Men, Justices of the Peace, &c."

A LADIES DIRECTORY FOR HONGKONG

AND

A Mass of interesting information on various subjects, culled from the most trustworthy

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The WINNERS of all IMPORTANT RACES

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utter nonsense seriously advanced in a THE old adage, "No breakfast, no man," is Service newspaper, we are bound to perhaps as true in some form to-day as when fitst conclude that the writer's practical know-formulated, although of late years the ideas of ledge of his subject is confined within people concerning breakfast have undergone a very narrow limits.

And this view radical change. For the laboring man and for the man of much physical exercise a heavy breakfast is necessary, but for the man or woman

THE following is a translation from the Peking Gazette of March 15th:-Some time ago the Viceroy of Canton reported the formation of a company for the purpose of mining copper by the use of foreign machinery in the Inland of Hainan. Copper and malachite are both found in large quantities in the hills within the Chang- island. The malachite forms the upper straturi, hua district in the south-western corner of the

and Heat -F. H. Johnston, 8th Regt,

scratch; J. M. Atkinson, 2 yds.;. W. Steward, B.N., 2 yds.; H. F. Hayllar, 3 yds.; C. E. Higgin botham, 58th Regt., 3 yds,

As to aqueducts or water courses, they are common in Persia, Syria, Mexico and Peru,

the construction of such was carried to true magni. ficence and perfection, and not only for the great cities of the Empire but also for many chief towns in the subject provinces. The aqueducts of ancient Rome extended thirty, forly, and even seventy miles from the city, in one continuous covered channel of stone, carried by, arcades over the deepest and widest valleys, and by tunnels, running in many places through miles of moun tain and solid rock. la New Anol the aqueduct series of arches, many of which were upwards extended six miles and a half on one continuous af too feet high. The great Agua Martia rose from a spring 33 miles from Rome, made a along arcades-seventy-feet high-comprising no fewer than seven thousand arches 1. Others were brought to Rome-three of them-by the ruins of this fabric which still exists, it appears same duct, but on different levels, and from the to have been a superb structure. The Agua Claudia-begun by Nero and finished, by Clau- dius-was 38 miles long, formed a subterranean stream 36 miles long, and was carried on arches a distance of seven miles. Is still continues to supply modern Rome with, water of the best quality, which long ago secured. it the name of

is a

reliable sources, make "THE HONGKONG ¦ something about the vessel "going to the meal, but it is not only more digestible but regular lines of communication and in the midst (open to all). Competitors must be 35 years old Latches 1724 feet long and 190 feet high. The

· sportsmen»-

are other

or upwards, and of to years residence in India, Hon. C. P. Chater; Second Prize presented by China or the tropics. First Prize presented by the Committee.

ANCIENT, AQUEDUCTS AND RESERVOIRS.

qua Felice. The Font du Gard, which crosses the deep valley of the Gardon in France, was executed in the reign of Augustus, and is 3 yds: 1Gray, 5 yds.; A. Newlands, 5 yds.; the other. The lower has six arches of 60 feet

3rd Heat:-R. Markwick, 2 yds; F. Maitland, composed of three ranges of archies, one above"

J. J. Hazeland, 10 yds.; Major Ellie, 58th Regt., span, the second row has twelve arches of the 10 yds.; E. L Woodin, 15 yds.

same span, and the third or upper row, thirty-six prizes presented by ladies of Hongkong.

HALF MILE RACE-(Handicap) 1st and 2nd smaller arches, on the top of which is the water channel. The structure is 160 feet above the scratch; H. F. Hayllar, 10 yds. A Macican, io non-existence ofthe Ronian Empire. In A.D. 741, A. de C. Scanlan, scratch; E. B. Shepherd, construction of aqueducts did not cease with the surface of the river, and is 300 yards long. The

and the copper the lower one. From to to 12 yds.; F. H. Shepherd, 10 yds. A. Denison, 15 Theodoric, King of the Goths, built, eng to is strengthened by the fact that the

percent. of copper can be extracted from superior yds. A. Newlands, 15 yds.; R. H. Burder, 15 yds.; communicate with the town of Spoleto, situated United Service Gazette's authority does not

quality, of malachite and what yields no copper G. E. Polts, 20 yds.), F. Maitland, 20 yds on the summit of a mountain;

The aqueduct of Caserta, built in. 1753-by at HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, give any reasons why he concludes the of sedentary habits a light breakfast is doubtless one is valuable as furnishing colouring material. Lammert, 36 yds for Gray, 25 yds. structure and remains intact to thirdsome

The Ta-yen hills, which are the seat of producer, 30 yds; Major Ellis, so yds.;. E. L. much better. In any case fruit should always be

zoo yds.

Charles III of Naples, was an immense work, and AMOY, with times, and other interesting l'asp came to such hopeless grief owing found at breakfast. Many prefer it after the tion, lie close to the Li country, far away from all VETERANS FLAT RACE,-120 Yards Handicap one of its arcades consisting of three tiers of particulars, carefully compiled from the most to defective engines; he says rather pertly

of a malarial district. Their mingrat wealth,

greatest modern work of the kind in the United assists the digestion more surely if used at the DIRECTORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR bottom, officially, on a lee shore," but he beginning of the meal. For a light breakfast though great, will be handicapped by heavy

the waters, of the River Croton 38 miles to the States is the Croton aqueduct, which conveya LAST," "a" vademecum for all classes of omits to explain in what manner, the the fruit should be followed by one of the cereals working expenses and the drawbacks attending

city of New York. It was finished in 1843, commander of the Warp could possibly in-some-form-with-cream, which is more

a new enterprise, and will not attract capitalists Major Ellis, 58th Regiment, semtch; Captair discharges 60,000.coo gallons a day and cost unless some defiolte prospect of gain is offered. Smythies, R.N., scratch; R. L. Symes, scratchs £3.000.000 sterling, Glasgow is supplied from THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND have allowed himself to be caught on a nourishing than milk, and by many as casily It is indispensable, therefore, that the cost of H. Dawson, R.N. 3 yds. Captain Rumsey, R.N., Loch Katrine, and other lochs in the district, HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" for 1898 lee shore during a typhoon in that part of digested. This, followed by delicate dry toast

7 yds.; J. Dade, & yds.; E. Bumle, g yds.; W. then by ducts and other tunnels, a distance of and is the best printed and most handsomely' 'Singapore. The executive officers at the Perhaps eggs in some form, makes a breakfast and to attain this end, it is proposed that for Danby, 9 yds.; H. L. Mather, foyda. R. 25 miles. Schemes are also on foot, or were is Printed on a superior quality of Paper, thet China Sea between Hongkong and or rolls, with coffee, tea or chocolate, and productionshould be reduced as much as possible, 5 yds. T. H. Whitehend, yds.; A. P. MacEwen, by a tunnel 6975 feet through a mountain, and so easily digested that many persons can do far period of three years.from the beginning of Fraser-Smith, 10 yds. Jno. Grant, 12 yds.; J. some few years ago, for supplying London with bound volume published East of the Suez Canal. Admiralty are doubtless caught napping more work on it than on heavier food.

the present year all copper and malachite mined Andrew, 12 yds.; E. L. Woodin, 15 yds; and water from the likes of Westmoreland and Woles, and Dublin from certain lakes in the in Chang-bus and exported from Hoihow shall G. W. Snelling, 20-yds.

Wicklow Mountains. The latest proposal in "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND occasionally, like most other men, but

A SPRINGFIELD paper, discussing the decline of be exempted from royalica, Customs duties, the surveyors and inspectors of the depart matrimony throughout the civilized world, says itin, and all other forms of taxation. This

aqueducts is one to convey a water supply to HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST," in

Paris from the lakes in Switzerland,," order that it may circulate extensively outsidement are quite as wide-awake to the that marriages increase as men and women exemption in Hikewise to apply to all the mineral this Colony, is published at a POPULAR interests of the Navy as

approach the lower grades of life where there is productions of the island. It is hoped that the individuals in corresponding positions the least pride, ambition, or energy other than step will have the effect of improving the material · The Tytam reservoir and aqueduct, which it

OUR MACAO LETTER, in the merchant service. The greatest animal or sell-preserving, Marriages decrease well-being of the islanders by developing trade is hoped at no distant date will provide Hongkong in mistakes which have been made in the ascend to the grades where acquisitiveness, and giving employment to labour.-Imperial magnificent works of civil engineering, and My budget of news is considerable to-day- with its water supply, have been spoken of as MACAO, April 4th, 1888. building and equipment of our man-of-business enterprise, intellectual tastes, political Rescript: Let the Board be informed. [Natc. certainly in comparison with other works of a phenomenal occurrence in dead-and-alive war, the construction of guns and the or focial opportunities, or what not, induce This is not the first occasion on which these engineering enterprise in China, it would be Macposter ordering of Admiralty work, can readily the necessity of larger preparations and Gazetteer gives an account of an attempt made of the aqueduct and the expansiveness of the able rate of exchange between Mexican dollars farger activity in the individual, involving mines bare attracted attention. The Kingchow Impossible to deny that the Tytam undertaking. You have heard of the grievance complained is a work of great magnitude, although the length of by the civil functionaries as to the unfavoure be traced not to the incapacity or neglect resources outside of mere self-support. The over twenty years ago by a party of Europeans reservoir do not so materially surpass those and the mitreis at which their scanty salaries of the executive officers, but rather to the reason is found not only in the unwillingness of and a native named Lin to open up the mineral constructed during the lafancy of the colony are paid by a paternal Government. ignorance or prejudices. It does not matter the woman to begin, with her husband, in a wealth of this very region. Lin had obtained a As to the Tytam dam, however magnificent grievance has evidently attained, its climax, for which of those higher personages of the lower scale of living in the household and in mining concession from the Lieutenant-Governor of enthusiasts, we must confess that it would have forwarded a joint telegram to Lisbon requesting that effort of engineering may appear to the eyen yesterday our officials held a meeting and Service who come under the denomination society, but as well in the unwillingness of the at Canton, but the local opposition was too strong pleased us much better had the line of masonry the Colonial Office to pay them at the same rate of "my lords." That the executive officers man to change hip-style-of-living-to-suit-she--for him, and-in-the-end-the-permission was which stretches across the ravine and which will as the naval men are paid. The Colonial Office, should ever permit a "firm to throw a conditions of matrimony. He has a natural cancelled on the ground that he had procured bave a laboriously heavy duty to perform day which has been a real step-mother to our poorly and night for long generatione let us hope had paid officials for years past, may eventually turn It has an extensive circulation in all. Perts lot of old iron and brass into the onginė / disinclination to deny his wife any of the the co-operation of foreigners in bis enterprise, been at least, four or five times as broad as the adenf; eat to the petition so urgently made room and call the debris engines," advantages she enjoyed before marriage, or even and that the party had gone by a steamer, and Hon, the Surveyor. General has designed and now and the petitioners may, have to go on

to sacrifice himself certain aims and ambitions visited a non-Treaty port, for which no passport built it for it not only strikes the eyelastike certainly a-mart way of putting the matter, in the maintenance of a wife and a home. To had been issued The present-memorial is dangerously arrow to confine the mighty sheet, but still a very fame and improbable come to the point briefly from another direction, interesting from another point of view. What of water which before long will be at its back Our Treasury department is simply in extremit, conclusion to come to. The main reason. A survey of such conditions seems to indicate ever objections there may be to the fiscal policy initial weight and staying or holding power lu purpose of contracting a loan with some of the hut vastly short, we imagine, of the necessary A Government Council was held to-day for the why the engines of the ships of the Royal that the tendency of the times in education, of the Viceroy of Cunton, he follows at least one the flanking and bottom ground which all such Hongkong banks, it of course remains to be Navy do not compare favourably with society, habit, and life in general, is to unfit sound economical doctrine. He has always great works have to depend on mere or less for seen how far they will be successful in this novel Suggestions for the improvement of this work those in the steamers of large trading women from becoming wives, and men from been a consistent advocale of the removal of their existence. As evidence of the liability of undertaking. There are only $3,000 in hand at such structures to give way, under pressure long the Trentary, and no Immediate pmspect of are respectfully solicited.

companies is that they are constructed in becoming husbands. Domesticity is infringed restrictions and duties upon exports. Years ago before the decaying finger of time hat made any, any further revenus flowing in." The Cavernoe

drawn of Macaof Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE..nearly all instances to work below the by the multiplication of social, business and when Governor of Shani, he obtained sanctions serious impression on their constitution, we may of Timor ba

vot been honoured MENTS may be sent tothe Agents at the various water line, for purposes of security from Professional care and responsibilities, the induce for the free export of Shanel iron from. Tientsin, mention the enormous tank of Ceylon of Timo

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