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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 9, 10 8.

3 won without an effort by fifteen yards from Fin his refusal to pay the Senado the tax of Lanimert, who passed Newlands in the straight vents for each pig slaughtered, and the Senade, in its difficultles, have availed themselves of a run in Time ŝ min. 178 secs.—a very good performance for the winner considering the sum of money belonging to the farmer. The contractors for lighting the city have petitioned heavy track.

the Municipality for a reduction of rates. The inhabitants of Macao are now paying the Senado 17 per cent. on their taxes as a contribution to much the lighting of the city. And still darkness looms over us!

CONSOLATION RACE.-H. S. Woodcock,, first; H. de C. Hunisinan, second; A. Denison; thin E. B. Shepherd, o; F. Maitland, R. Mikwick, Woodcock, apparently little the worse for his exertions in the mile, dashed away in front as soon as the pistol was fired, and never being fairly approached, won cleverly by

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yards from. Huntsman, who was a similar distnace in front of Denison, Time 131 seconds. INTERNATIONAL TUG OF WAR.-8 men a side. Nationality to be decided by that of the father. To be pulled over 15 feet. Na spikes or nails allowed, Prize's presented by the Parsec Community-Two scratch teams were goi together after considerable trouble, and an adjournment was made to the Parade Ground, where England beat Ireland in two successive "igs, in min. 18 secs and 34 seconds respectively.

OUR MACAO LETTER.

MACAO, April 8th, 1538. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate-might| well be written af the entrance of this abandoned city, as it has a reputation of being the gate of bell, for the administrative malpractices, the wrong-doing and the social evils with which we are surrounded are strongly suggestive of the reign of Satan, ass.ming that that individual is rat a fiction.

You need not be surprised at the tetrical -language I generally make use of in describing the current events of this city. Things are glumaier here than words can express"them,” or-

Blogarth's brush paint them. even

AMION.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

AMOV, 6th April, 1888. A party consisting of Messrs. R. H. Bruce and F. Leyburn and, Capt. Collinson of the 58th Regiment, went up country last week on a tiger slaying expedition) and on Thursday the 20th March, Capt. Collinsan succeeder in shooting one, which measured about & feet in length.

The tiamilton Comedy Company, after playing at the Club Theatre for seven nights, feli yesterday in the Raitan for Fooclaw; where they are to give two or three performances before proceeding on to Shanghai.

Señor T. Dituño, Consul-General for Spain, leaves to-day with his family by the Thales fur Europe.

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A are broke out in the middle of the native city the day before yesterday, but fortunately was quickly got under before much damage was done.

The Ocean Co.'s steamer Patrocinis left here yesterday with overgea Chinese for the Straits Settlements.

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THE BANGKOK POST OFFICE.

nore powerfully with my instruments of torture than Timetheus could do tormeily with his lyre," Hippocrates aud Galen said the same.

Sicklied over with the pale cast of thought, is an expression Shakespeare used; and how well it applies to the dwellers and workers in towns, carrying their everlasting crosses of keen mental competition: Dyspepsia, despondency, melancholy, uliousness, mental depression, are without a doubt the lot of those who attain great- ness, as well as of only too many in society at large.

Here is a grim story; we get it from Smiles: -One day a poor broken-down dyspeptic consulted Abernethy.. The doctor looked at his tangue, felt his pulse, and inquired after his symptorns: "Well," said the frank, Abernethy, don't think there is much the matter with you, You want stirring up; you want cheerfulness. Go and see that clever fellow Grimaldi; you will get a good hearty laugh; that will do you more good than physic. "Alas!" said the patient;

1am Grimaldi.""

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reasures until the fall of Jerusalem and sacking of the temple by the Roman army under Titus when a soldier got possession of the ring, but not knowing its great value, after spending ell his booty, he offered it to his comrades. Not finding a customer, however, he went to a Jewish rabbi, THE HONGKONG SCHOOLS ATHLETIC

from

SPORTS. who, knowing that the soldier had taken among the treasures of the holy temple, and

N.consequente of the inclement weather and being familiar with the tradition of its virtues, const state of the ground, the above became the fortunate possessor, and it remained it bis family for a long period. When the Jews were Sports are POSTPONED U TO-MORROW, sorely persecuted in the early part of the Christian.

THE ANNUAL ATHLETIC SPORTS erá at Rome this ring was sent by the rabbi, in whose possession it then was, as a propitiatory offering to the Pope to intercede for his people, and it remained as an heirloom at the Vatican until the reign of Clement VII, when that Pontiff. sent it, from his own anered finger, to Cardinal, Wolsey, to be worn as a charm in the King of England's presence, with a promise that if the Cardinal could succeed with fenry VIII, in restoring England to the Catholic faith, he, the Pape, would redeem the ring, and name Wolsey What is dyspepsia? To feel you have a as his successor in Rome. Wolsey falied in his tomach-that is dyspepsia. He who has never mission; the ring had evidently lost its virtue (its felt the pressure of this organ is blessed beyond genius probably being an Abyssinian Jew, or spirit incasure. The fact that the great men of of the Agow caves, and dead against the Pope) A modern' times have suffered so generally from the death of the Cardinal, it remained with the gastric debility is a poor compliment to the care monks of Leicester Abbey until the monasteries they took of themselves. Goethe protested suppressed. By some means not stated it against the idea of philosophers being dried up passed into the hands of one of the ancestors of healthless creatures. The dwellers of the towns the said Devonshire knight, and has been handed down as a heirloom in fils family ever since thai in ancient Greece enjoyed, we believe, fairly good health, but physiculture was not, as it is period. with es, delegated to a second place, There' te no public games, wrestling matches, etc. We have much yet to team. Health.

RÈMARKÁBLE LEGEND,

PROBABLE ORIGIN OF "SHE,"

Rider Haggard's romance "She," both in the form of story and dramatic adaptation, continues in great favor with the public, more, perhaps, from is mystic and weird scenes than from any

"She," who the characters are not uncommon.

us called "Ayesha," bears the same name as the favorite wife of Mahomet, while "Kallicrates

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The infant beiiess of the late knight is a ward in chancery, and this celebrated ring having got into that snug harbor of litigation, we will leave it there with its wonderful history until it can be ascertained how it came into possession of Sir Warwick Tonkin's ancestors."

CHINA COAST MeteorologicaÏ.

Takio

The late-squabble in Bangkok regarding delivery of canlie letters from Hongkong, free of The ratification, of the long pending, Chinese postage, has given rise to general opinion that the Siamese officials were to blanic in the matter, Portuguese Treaty is thought by some of our super. ficial numskulls to be a universal panacea for all but this, as we shall endeavour to point out, is cur complaints. They pass overthe important fact undoubtedly not the case. The authorities have that by signing this treaty, Portugal has prac in no way given in," but simply come to an

enlly-rade Maexora vassal state-of-China, since--agreement with the Chinese head menpiteen-die-pronounced-merity The names of some of the colony has been bound over to co-operate in quence of which the Post office will in future the collection of the opium revenue as a condition, he saved a lot of trouble. It being dificult, in a sine qua non of its remaining a Portuguese fict impassible for the stal authorities to

is mentioned by Herodotus as a young Spartan Wʻladivominck posse stun. How the celebration of this deliver coolie letters, the addresses of such leters patched up international compact is to bringing invariably incomplete, the Local Govern- oficer. Pobdering over this romance, a cone- on a revival of trarle and commerce, when no ment made an arrangement with the headmenspeilent, who is fond of rummaging over old banks and papers, bethought him, of a curious of the Chinese, according to which the letters in tuguese merchant ever leaves Lisbon to settle heie, when no ships cither national or foreign question are in future to be handed to the head: pamphl. 1 be bad read, and which was publishedin He has taken the trouble to ever shows their colours in this remote and men for delivery, in return for which these men Lendon in 1830. forgotten corner of Far Cathay, is a riddle take all responsibility as regards their reaching I taunot solve; I will leave it to the few their destination. In return for such responsi- enthusiasts, who both here and in Hongkong bility of the Imadmen and their undertaking to dissolving themselves in admiration of things deliver the letters, the Post Office agreed to Lusitanian, to decide

levy a reduced postage of a atts only for each such-letter-In-no-way therefore, has the Postal Department consented to-let Chinese coolie letters be delivered free of charge, nor will tuch be the case in future.

fact.

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to ward some extracts from its pages. The volume was written by Captain George Peacock, F.R.G.S., and is entitled "The Guinea or Gold Coast of Anca, formerly a colony of the Azumites or acient Abyssinians in the reign of King Solo- mou, and the veritable Ophir of Scripture Lete and in it occurs an Abyssinian account of the relations of King Solomon with the Queen of Cheb, and also a legend of a talismanic ring i from which Haggard may have taken that portion of She" which mentions the scarabeus, afterwards set in a ring.

The following is an extract from the pamplilet : They (the Abyssinians) also aver that the Song of Solomun, so called, in the Bible, was the Queen of Sheba's song to the ladies of Salonian's court, etc. They further state that Solomon took the Queen of Sheba to wife, 'for he loved many strange womer,"

[Here follows a note which says: "There is a very curious story told in the Koran, viz.: that Salamon by a stalagem discovered the Queen of Sheba's legs to be covered with hair, and that, before he married her, she had the hair removed. by a depilatory."]

The ostensible negotiator of the treaty Senhor Tanz da Souza Roza, is to proceed to Tientsin on the oth inst, with his admiring friend and political adviser, Mr. Silva, of the Macao Inter pretation department. It is surmised that should As our readers ate aware, both the Singapore farther difficulties arise between Li Hang- and Hongkong local Postal Jaws prohibit the chang and the eminent Portuguese statesman, snuggling of letters just as strictly as the The treaty will be ratified during the course of Siamese Act, all transmission of correspondence, this month. Minister da Roza is to be made a except through the Post Office, being illegal and Viscount in, recognition of his services, and subject to heavy penalties. The attention of the will be appointed Portuguese Minister at Wash Straits and Hongkong offices could not, of course, be drawn to any violation of these laws before Ington; Mr. Pindella, the Secretary, has, I believe, already been decorated, and it is now positive proof had been obtained that such was Mr. Nolasco's turn to obtain a Knight Com-the case, but as soon as the first seizure of letters mandership of the Order of Christ, or some was made here in Bangkok, the Siamese Postal' analogous badge of his country's gratitude for Administration at once duly informed the Postal the services he has rendered at Peking-As--authorities-in-Singapore-and-Hongkong of the by means of his interpretation, he has also rendered China substantial services, it is to be Bangkok steamship agents were notified of hoped that the Peking Board of decorations will this smuggling trade several months ago, and bestow on him a Mandarin's button and were repeatedly requested 40. inform their Mr. Sall, the traveller, saw a very old MS. feather, which I'would certainly value far more captains, officers, compradores, etc. etc. that papyrus of the Song of Solomon, written in the than all the Portuguese Knight-Commander-It was strictly forbidden for them to convey Geeze character, at an Abyssinia'n monastery., ships put together. As Mr. Basto, Jr., who acted letters to Bangkok unless in the ordinary way, "The Queen of Sheba was converted from as ornamental Secretary to the Embassy to and that if unstamped letters should be heathenism to the Jewish faith at Jerusalem," continues the account in the pamphlet quoted Inpan in 1882, was awarded the knight-com- found being conveyed by any such person, mandership of Portugal, and that of the Rising legal proceedings would be taken against the from, and had a son by Solomon, who was Sun, sur

surely Mr. Nolasco da Silva ought to be offenders according to law. In reply, we belleve nused Menelec. With this son she returned to that Mr. Anneske, secretary of the Postal her own country, and after some time sent him mode a Grand-Cross

department, received information that due notice back to Jerusalem to be instructed by his father. had been given to all concerned regarding the Menelec having been anointed and crowned illegality of conveying such letters through 'King of Ethiopia in the temple at jerusalem, and captains and others, and that notice had also having alse, at big inauguration, assumed or been sent to all steamship agents in Hongkong added the name of David to his original cogno- and Singapore. All must therefore edmit-that-men,-returned-to-Âzab, the Queen, with a colony the Fest Office officials appear to have done everything possible to make the matter publicly known, and no blame can attach to them for the late inconvenience caused to shipping.

With reference to the former gentleman, I hear he has promised to obtain from the Lisbon authorities important concessions for the Chinese in Macao; in fact, the number of projects which he is said to have carried to Lisbon is legion. It of course remains to be seen how he and his projects will fare with the wide-awake tetrarcha and mamelukes of the Lisbon Colonial Office. It would be curious to see what impression a traveller hailing from a colony with a deficit of above one hundred thousand dollars in Ita budget, will produce in Portuguese official circles.

The Siamese Postal department-to the tone of some $1,800 a month, has long been a sufferer from thousands and thousands of unstamped Chinese letters being conveyed on board steamers 'coming to Bangkok, and on arrival here smuggled on shore. The principal offender has been the Hongkong Post Office, over which presides that bright luminary, Mr. Alfred Lister, a postmaster who ought long ere this to have been pensioned off as a useless incumbrance. The way the Hongkong Postal department is conducted has long been a public scandal and the ludicrous pretentiousness with which Mr. Lister aspires to "direct" that office has never been more clearly exemplified than in the present scandalous case, by which thousands of letters are carried weekly on board Hongkong steamers and conveyed to a foreign port free of postage without that "great man" being a whit the wiser. By the very prompt measures now taken by the Siamese authorities, a step in the right direction has been made and this profitable little windie nipped at last, but the result has entirely been brought about on this side, with out the least sign of assistance from either Mc and Gibraltar of the East.-Bangkok Times.

of Jews, among whom were many learned doctors of the law, and particularly one of each tribe from whom the present Umbaras, or Supreme Judges, three of whom always attend the King, are thought to be descended. Azarias, the son of Zadoc, the priest, they say, was one of the number, and he brought with him a Hebrew copy of the law, which was committed to his custody as high priest, and which was burned with the Church of Azum."

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Shanghas..

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REGISTER.

8th April, 1888. --At 4 p.m.

th April, 1888,-At 10'2.m.

Stocking, Haiphong Brin

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the toth April, 1888, at 2 PM. No my WILL BE ALLOWED TO TAKE MORE THAN THREE PRIZES.

EVENTS.

1-Long Jump, boys 13 to 16. 2.Throwing Cricket fall, boys 13 to 16. 3-100 yauls Flat Race, boys 13 to 16. 4-100 yards Flat Rice, boys glo 13. 5--100 yards Flat Race, boys 6 to 9. 6-top, Step and Jump, boys 9 to 13. 7.-High Jump, boys 13 to 16.

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A most remarkable legend connected with a talismanic ring, left as an heirloom by a certain Devanshire köight (Sir Warwick Tonkin), who lately died at Teignmouth, has come to the Captain Geo. Anderson, will be despatched for knowledge of the author, and as it hears some-the above Ports, on THURSDAY, the 13th what upon the chronological history of Abyssinia, instant, at ro A.M. and is so curious in itself, after making every

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[391 solicitor at Teignmouth that the facts connected. with the possession of the ring itself and Its reputed history were undoubtedly true, he gives it to the public.

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To be Let.

There are several candidates on the field to succeed the late Senhor Scaraichia as deputy for wo-begone Macao. The most active on the list is Senhor Horta, bur Director of Public Works, who is canvassing for himself, and who being supported by the Government, will, in all probability, carry the day. The date of the elections has not yet been fixed. Mr. Basto's candidature has a poor chance of success in view of such an opponent. It is also rumoured that another Government officer has put in a claim towards being a representative of bis country. If you could spare your veteran King of Siam during our next elections, I pledge my word of honour that I will put him up as a candidate for -the rank of - deputado. You must be perfectly well aware that anybody who can resemble the chameleon, and change his political colours as circumstances alter cases, in a fit person to be a Portuguese member of parliament.

Our worthy Governor, Senhor Costa, is prob ably now in Timor enjoying for Vaquinhas has the scenes of that Cintra of Polynesia,"" styled the penal settlement. The letter of credit -Elater, or his model postal officials in the Malta once the property of the Queen of Sheba, and Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested ICE HOUSE BUILDINGS.

to the tune of $10,000 which he carried with him from Macao has probably been exhausted, for as soon as he arrived at Sourabaya he drew 10,000 florins on the Macao Treasury. I think qur excellent Govamor understands the art of travelling to perfection,

Active works are being carried out in the St. Autonia compound; some any with a view to place Camoës' statue in the centre, others, with

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"A gentleman who has seen this famous ring describes it to be an opal of two colors, with hieroglyphic or. Siv.itle characters engraved on it the part for the finger being white, the crown or bottom rose color, but both cut from one and the same-stone. The legend states that it was Captain Titack, having arrived from the above was given to Solomon as a sacred talisman with

to send in their Bills of Lading to the Under- other royal gifts bestowed on that favored signed for countersignature and to take imme- monarch, consequent upon this Abyssinian diate delivery of their Goods from alongside. Queen's celebrated journey from Axum to Jeru- The Steamer is bérthed at the KOWLOON enlem 'long time ago,

PIERS and Cargo impeding her discharge will appears, that the Devonshire knight, to be at once landed and stored at Consigoces whom it belonged, on his death-bed stated that risk and expense and no Fire Insurance will be he had placed this precious ring (a family heir-effected. loom) in an interior drawer of an old Spanish

"It

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better reason, to' bulid' a' redoubt. In that common enemy. "Tristes philosophi et soverii" | cabinet, a great many years since, forgetting Shangbai unless notice to the contrary be given.HOUSE, with Three Bath Rooms. M

quarter of the town. Should the latter surmise prove correct, you may take it for granted that the adjoining territory of Mongha has been wrenched-from-the Portuguese by the Treaty, More power to it

The silk factory squabble referred to in my Jast has considerably subsided, as the Govern- thent has permitted the factory to continue opera "tions till the end of the year.

The exports of coffee from Timor to Macassar and neighbouring ports, which amounted to 75,000 piculs, has this year been reduced to 23,000 piculs. Perhaps Governor Costs will see

his way to raise some other kind of revenue for that derelict island, or else its Treasury, like our own, is bound to fall into disgraceful bank ruptcy,

Intense brain-workers are dyspeptic, and the exceptions to this rule are very rare.. As we review the biographies of great men, dyspepsia appears to have been their most said Vario. The greatest impediment. to the secret of opening the same, and his solicitor, advancing thought is the stomach. Dyspepsia.now residing at Teignmouth, upon naming the circumstance to a gentleman engaged by the in the philosopher's cross, which grows the he wier the higher be ascends. Those who Court of Chancery to take an Inventory of the concentrate all their energies on one thing only, effects of the deceased knight, after thinking and never leaving it, do so at great physical expense. worrying for some time, at length succeeded in When we eco a man, who has achieved great discovering the spring and exposing the hidden success in any department of life, burdened with depository, where he found the casket containing dyspepala, or consumption, or premature age, the ring, together with four manuscripts of its there comes the question with full force What history, one written in old Hebrew characters shall it profit à man if he gain the whole world on papyrus, one in Latin, one in French and and lose his life f". Who can think of Tycho- one in English. The Hebrew manuscript was

Brahe: confining himself for a score of years to found to be in a very defate. The

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as follows: When the Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon at Jerusalem, as recorded in Chapter X of the First Nook of Kings, among- other gifts she presented the King with this magic opal ring, said to be possessed of wonderful power as a talisman. The ring was placed in the King's house or treasury at Jerusalem, and at the time of the Babylonian captivity was carried to the Assyrian court at Habylon and deposited with the sacred vessels, taken from the temple, but after the feast of Belshazzar, and

his observatoły, scarcely ever leaving it, without | appearing very old and worm-eaten... The inner reficcting on the sacrifices of health he made to casket was of cork, elaborately carved and science

gilded. Men do not appear to be very different as

as we Two Chinese prisoners lately managed to look at thent, but as Mr. Galton has shown, one escape from the Harbour Master's detention | man- may possess several hundred times the room by culling A hote through the wall it is mental capacity of another. But the unfortunate reported that Lieut.Talone: Costa e Silva, is part of it in that the superior intellectual do not going to resign his post of Harbour Master, and possess stomachs several hundred times as that Capt. Avila will soon return from Lisbon to powerful as their less favoured brethren. Voltaire assume that oficerin de wrote to Lord Chesterfield My Lord Huntingdon The buildings where the former Custom house tells me that you have a good stomach, was located were sold to Chan-Alök for $60,000, | which is worth more than a good pair of ears. the terms being that the purchaser should ipts - I don't know which of these three evils is worst facto, be the oplum farmer, for the space of ten | --to be blind, or deaf, or not to able to digest.", years, by a payment of $40,000 annually,

am convinced digestion is the great secret the band writing on the wall, upon the decree of ARNAE The Chinese contractors for the supply of beef of life, raid Sydney Sinith and that character Cyrut, Ezra carried it back, together with the holy to this city” have run away in body, and left jalghts, virtues and qualities are powerfully vessels of the temple, to Jerusalem (see Book of HALL, one of their number la great difficulties. The affected by beef, mutton, pis-crust, and rich | Ezra, vilift-33), where it remained in charge of the filh Municipality is now to undertake to supply beef soaps.43% have, often thought. 1; could feed on the high priest, and was deposited in the marine, Vield, I

jalë bikabitants. The porke farmer still peralité & staryo mea lato'

19less; and affect them, of the new temple with older.

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