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Tuz French flagship Turenne and the gunboat Parseval left Nagasaki for Kobe and Yokohama on the 28th inst...

THE Feiho Tug and Lighter Company bave purchased the sailing coasters Haklee and Solidor, and will dismantle and convert them into lighters.

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OUR Shanghai contemporaries state that Capt. Andrew, of the Kwang-les, will shortly proceed to England to bring out a new steamer for the China Merchants Company.

Ax Emergency meeting of Victoria Lodge, Ná, 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 13th instant, at 3 for 5.30 SEED p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY.

Hongkong, 2nd March, 1868.

NOTICES TO-CORRESPONDENTS.

invited.

SAYS our Tientsin contemporary: The city and settlement are rather sickly just now, and there is much small-pox amongst the natives; at Taku also. Some reigners have taken the infection, but we are glad to say, so far, all cases progress

well,

THE Shin-pas reports that a slight shock of earthquake was felt at Kiuklang, about 7 am on the 29th ultimo, but no damage was done. MR. J. J. Jonson, a very old resident of Nagasaki, died at that port on March 29th, after a lengthy illness, and was buried the following.

day.

disaster on the Japanese coast, reported in our The total loss of life in the Hyakkan Maru columns a few days since, has been ascertained to be 14 persons,

A SHOOTING match between the Garrison Shooting Club and a team from the 58th Regiment will be brought off at the. Kowloon range on Thursday afternoon, commencing at z o'clock.

REUTER has actually taken the trouble, to specially telegraph to the Straits Timer that the Rt. Hon. William Thackeray Marriott Judge Advocate-General, has received the honor (7) of knighthood," The 'honor of knighthood"

THE Nagasaki Express of the 4th inst, says is good, very good, and almost matches. Mr. [s General W. M. E. Nye, Colonel E. H. Cummins,ussell Robertson's public reference in Yoko

and Major John G. Lee, of the United States

bama the other day to a wretched C.M.G-ship rmy, who have been engaged by the Coreanas a "distinction." Embassy, at present in America, to re-organize Advertisements, de, be addressed to the blankger, fonghen the Corean Army, arrived here in the Hiege SAVR pur Nagasaki contemporary of the 28th ult.

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-The steamship Benlarig, which vessel is now

A TELEGRAM dated Berlin, April and, states that the Emperor of Germany has amnestied, al Prussian political offenders.

The Geiman gunboat Wolf left Nagasaki for Shanghai on the ath ult., and the corvette Bismarck left for Kobe the following day. The "Carola procceded to Kobe on the 4th inst. Tuz.Japan Gasitte reports a and accident that

which eight seamen belonging to the Japanes nccurred the other, evening at Yokosuka, by

man-of-war Fuso-kan lost their lives. A number of liberty men from that vessel were going ashore in a sampon which appears to have been over loaded; the sampan was upset in the choppy

water and eight of its occupants were drowned. OUR morning contemporary's Macao correspon dent suggests, no doubt in thorough good faith,

colonies which are not self-supporting." As the the advisability of Portugal selling those Holy City is notoriously in that sad plight, wide the official budget which shows a deficit of $100,000, It would be interesting to know when the colony will be put up for sale. It may be said that the Treaty with China precludes all possibility of transfer, but the Daily Press correspondent solemnly places himself as far above treaties as the weak drivel be indulges in so freely is beneath

criticism.

The Russian war veiacis Dimitry Donskoi, Nayesdnik, and Bobre left Nagasakifor Jenchup, Chefeo, and Shanghai on the azt mit They nie expected to return in about a menti's jūfic.

THE LAST OF THE LI.

The fine royal walled enclosure or citadel of

Hanol, once the seat of the Li dynasty of Tongking, which ceased to reign in 1785, is now almost cleared of native houses; and is given up almost entirely to huge barras. magazines, and other buildings appertaining to the French army of occupation. Since the Ngyuen dynasty of Hué has been recognised

by China na rulers over the whole of the Tang- king-Annamite kingdom, Hanoi has been nothing more than the seat of a Tong-dus or Governor-General,-now, for administrative The old place of the Li kings occupier the centre purposes, changed to a Kinh-luoc or Viceroy. of the citadel, and is a walled rectangle of about a quarter of a mile in circuit. The royal gates are bricked up, and the once regal, halls are now the vulgar godowns in which powder, bombs, and other dangerous explosives are stored. Consequently the public is not admitted. Not far from the palace is a clump of bamboos, amid which stands one of the noblest specimens of the banyan (Ficus religiótus)

Letter Pitorial matters to be sent is "The Lika” nad | ifaru on Sunday last, and proceeded to Jerchus discharging the balance, of her cargo here, will We are in receipt of the first number of trees in existence, The creepers which it has

nos to individual members of the mind.

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FROM Mesars, Wheelock & Co.'s Freight Market Report, dated Shanghai, 30th March, 1888, we take the following quotations:-Newchwang to Swatow, 28 Mex. cents per picul, steam, demand; Cheloo to Swalow, 20 Mex. cents per picul, demand; Nagasaki toʻShangbai, $150 per 100 of cual, nett, for steamers, demand; $1.30 ex ship, for sailing vessels, demand. THE Band of the Northamptonshire Regimen: will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. The following will be the programme→→

Mac.........

** Egypt”...............Bledamann. Ove ture.Sop and Stranger"...Mendelsohn, Vale

"That".

stiers. Mark Clematis

Kapper, Iolanthe Sullivan. Sultan of Mocha ".........Celiera.

JOHN MORAN, Bandesaster.

Selection Selection

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At No. 36, Broadway, Hongkew, on the 29th Wa (Chinese-Times) hear that the able, accom

thrown_down_have taken ropt in. the usual

-be-docked-to-repair-damage-to-her-bottom-Courrierde Saigon,æħl-weekly newspaper which caused by getting ashore whilst in a disabled has just seen the light of day. In the programine way, and have moreover bee so guided, and condition on the passage out. The exact extent it lays before the public we are assured that "no encouraged that they form the most bizarre, quaint, of damage sustained cannot be ascertained, we believe, until the whole of the cargo has been discussion but those of the most absolute truth square feet in every direction. Perhaps there other limits shall be placed to its freedom of and serpentine of shapes, and cover over fifty discharged, when she will have to be docked and impartiality." In combating the measures are a hundred different roots, all intertwining and and surveyed,"

recently adopted which have brought about theofnatural arbour is formed, over which the spread- -interlacing each other in such a manner that a sort

unification of French Indo-China,it says: "What given to that which saw the consummation of the In-to-Chinese unity so unfortunately conceived by M. Etienne?"

WE hear that the territory lately ceded by the other name but that of a critical perind can being branches afford sufficient shade and shelter

French Government-to-Monsieur-Schaedelin at Dong-tricu, in Tonquin, passesses many advant ages which would facilitate the working of the large quantities of coal it contains. The coil district is surrounded by 22 villages, from which inbour can be easily obtained at the rate of five sons per day: a river runs along the whole tract, which affords easy means of conveyance to a shipping port, and the quality of the coal ready ale. Monsieur Schaedelin intends shortly recently tested is said to be such as to command

THE Brisbane Courier Lady Fashionist says: Nobody looks well in washed stays and a time yellowed flannel petticoat and yet these garments are often too good to throw away. Now could we not 'do up' both with soft sateen and a little each corsetière? We move an adjour ment inexpensive lace after the mode invented by the

is a small thatched hit or group of huts of the for a regiment of troops. Beneath the bonyan

ordinary Arnamite type, and in the dark recesses Lore the remains of what was once a tolerably fine temple: During the recent war the greater part of this group of buildings, together with all they contained, was destroyed or damaged by the French troops, and the gods and other sacred things were thrown about amongst the

was formerly a nunnery the nuns,-of-course- jungle and surrounding swamps. The place

violence or outrage, they suffered, if any, is not on record.

the Ports of China and Japan; also descriptionsuliin, the wife of Mr. JAMES FERRISH, of a son.olished, and genial priest-artist-architect, the topublish a prospectus detailing all the particulars to remark that we could and will, and for the were scattered, but what precise amount of

the various Ports, with the latest Trade Statistics

Customs and other reliable sources. *

MARRIAGES,

On the 20th March, 1888, at Christ Church, en from the Reports of the Imperial Maritime Shaching, by the Rev. J. D. Valentine, of the C.M.S., JAMES AMOR HEAL to MATILDA various Governments and Municipal CorCARPENTER, both of the China Inland Mission At the Cathedral, Shanghai, on the and April, HENRY HOPE JOSEPH TO HELEN CHRISTINA PARTER, Second daughter of the Rev. George

Gordians, and all Public. Bodies and Companies, Bankers, Merchants, Consuls. Professional and ther Residents, have supplied the necessary

santter, upon forms specially sent for that pur ↑ var so as to ensure accuracy. The Naval and

1 test published official lists and revised at

Poiler.

DEATHS.

At Yokohama, on March 26th, the result of an

Gitzeffe, aged 18 years,

Abbé Favier, has now at least 300 workmen

cployed on the new Pei-tang, or basilica, a fine edifice, large, massive and of majestic proportions, and that there are good reasons for expecting that the structure will be raised and covered with its roof by the winter. Great care is taken with the brick work, and the bricks

used for the outside are very large.

A THUNDERSTORM of unusual violence, accoin-

of his concession.

The' Hu. Pro says:-We hear that the two Minting Offices under the control of the Ticatsin Arsenal and the Tastai there respectively, last year received orders to coin each 50,000 strings of cash for use at Puking. Enst year, before the her closed, each sent up 10,poo strings, and this month each office has sent a special officer to Escort 10,000 strings to the capital, which are

future shall insist on the whole staff following our example. The appearance of the office-boy petticoat has long interfered with our digestion in washed stays and a time-yellowed flannel after tiffin.

Says the Rising Sun :-The seventeen Japanese women who arrived as passengers at Nagasaki per Kumamoto Maru are, we learn, prostitutes, who were surreptitiously taken to Hongkong in

ago.

Military portions "have been taken from the arvident, W. Tasker Wat, editor of the Japa" | panied by torrents of rain, broke over the city expected to arrive and be handed over very the German steamer Tartartes some ten days trouble to the shekered, remains of her former |cadipearters ; "in fact, no pains have been AgNanking Road, on the 29th and 31st ared to make THE HONGKONG DIREC March, BERTRAM BOYD and CYRIL GRANT, ORY AND HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST"ged 5 weeks), the twin sons of John Wilson, body and perfectly reliable book of reference for all classes.

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during the small hours of this-morning-and-hortly. Each will in all probability send up considerably reduced the high temperature 20,000 more sirings during the third month of prevalent last night. The Cricket Ground, this year (Chinese), New machinery for minting which has been soaking this last fortnight, was has arrived in the steamship-El Dorado, and partially under water this forenoon, and the when this is set to work we shall see a much Central School athletic sports had to be inde finer quality of cash turned out. graph finitely postponed. We hear that a small landslip

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1888.

TELEGRAM Š. ́

(From Straits Timer.) THE EMPEROR.

BERLI, March 30th. The Emperoris undergoing a course of massage to counteract the effects of want of exercise.

The Emperor to-day drove out.

GENERAL BOULANGER.

PARIS, March 30th, General Doulanger has withdrawn bis candidacy for Aisne, and will contest Nord on

the 15th.

In his electoral address Boulanger maintains the accessity of preparing for war, and the impotence of a Parlament alienated from the country, as ́at present.

He demands the dissolution of the Chamber and the revision of the Constitution.

BULGARIA.

VIENNA, 31st March: A ceidon of Turkish troops has been posted along the Bulgarian frontier. The Bulgarian Government has demanded explanations.

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ROUMANIA.

The disturbances in Bucharest have subsided,

LOCAL AND GENERAL MESSRS. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam ship Batavia lelt Vancouver for this port on the 4th inst.

H.M.S. Orion arrived from Penang in Malacca Roads on the 1st instant. Owing to her heavy draught of water, she had to lie outside about

four miles,

THE matters submitted to us regarding certain prizes at the recent Hongkong Rifle Association competitions are under consideration by members of the Committee, and will be dealt with assoon as possible.

THE Shanghai Aferary hears from Tientsin of the death of the Rev. Dr. J. K. Mackenzie, on Easter Sunday, from an attack of pneumonia, It has an extensive circulation in all Ports which reached his heart with falal result, The between Singapore and Newchwang, in the funeral was to take place on Monday the and Australasian Colonics, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges and the Viceroy Et Hang-chang had has been fixchi at an exceptionally low rate expressed his intention of being present. Terus can be learned on application.

THE Tamchow and Tal-yu-shan Mining Co.'s sucking works at Tai-yu-shan, Lantao Island, Suggestions for the improvement of this work will formally commence operations on Sunday nrcicspectfully solicited.

next. To celebrate the occasion Mr. Ho Ame, the promoter and manager of the Company, has chartered the river steamer Honam and invited a number of leading residents to be present at the formal starting of an industry that ought to prove of very great importance both to Hon kong and South China, The Her the Steamboat Company'«

Orders for COPIES, and for ADVERTISE MENTS may be sent to the Ageniaatthevatious Ports, or to the Office of

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LEGRAPH.

PADDENGHILT Nopy:1ótá January 1888.

has occurred in the neighbourhood of the West Point Fort.

Age cannot wither, nor custom stale Fajr woman's regard for the festive male,

If widows of Afty will hang by their necka

Merely for love of the opposite sex,

ANTONIO ABRAHAMSON, describing himself as a priest, hailing from Smyrna, and Thomas Grezard, a native of Scotland, were to-day at the Magistracy on a change of vagrancy. Mr.

marshalled before Mr. Wodehouse

smuggled away, without conforming to the law Whether news of their having been with regard to obtaining the necessary pass-ports, was discovered and telegraphed down to Hong. kong, or not, we cannot say; but we are informed that the Japanese Consul had them

had even time to land. It will be remembered transferred to the Kumamoto Maru before they

the Tetarios left Nagasaki during the night, which would favour them being taken on board without being seen by the police.

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Miss Annie Hill, of Melbourne, inspired that Abrahamson, it is alleged, was originally aA CORRESPONDENT writes from Ningpo to the Mahomedan, but has intely a,ured the faith of N. C. Daily News on the and inst.:-The

restored around Hacoj, it was observed that an... When peace and tranquillity, were being

aged crone was daily seen groping her way of bread. It was also noticed that she carefully amongst the troops to beg an 'obolus or a crust

collected all the broken images and other things which had been taken from the temple, and drauged them back with infinite pains and

under the influence of liquor, threatened to kill convent... One day a bratat soldier, probably her, and the Colonel's attention was directel to the old woman. The people round about said she was a royal princess; and she, herself, on being - questioned, said it was a fact that she was the

representative fled to China in 1785. At first it last survivor of the Le or Li" dynasty, whose

was thought that the poor old crone was mad but the unknown Colonel, whose name deserves to be honoured in connection with the afftir, touched by the old lady's courage and persistence in holding on amid such rough surroundings to the relica of her alleged ancestors, gave orders without permission, and had inquiry instituted into the truth of her statements with a view to allotting her a small pension if her story could be proved. M. Dumontier, the Chief of the Educ archaeologist and a thorough Annamite scholar, ational Department in Tongking, an enthusiastic was charged with the duty of ascertaining the exact truth, as to her pretension, which rested. upon nothing but her own eager relterations and the half-contemptuous admissions of the- surrounding villagers. Up to this mament the utmost efforts have failed to elelt the slightest proof such as would justify un criai. The old princess depends upon the precarious charity of scrawl pasted, upon her gate: Defense d'entrer visitors, and rests for protection: upch'a pencil i sant Pautorisallon de la baja(-vielle femme).

verse. She was a silly little, romantic young the Prophet and taken to Roman Catholicism; remaina of the Rev. John. Butler and bis litte that the enclosure should no longer be entered

son, John Scovil Butler, who both died of cholera near Chinking on the 12th October, 1885, were rempved to Ningpo and interred in the foreign cemetery on the 31st ult. Services in English and Chinese were conducted at the grave by Rev. W. J. McKee and native -Pastor Zi, à goodly number of foreign residents and also of native Christians being present. The Chinese Christians connected with the American Presby- terian Mission at Ningpo, in token of their appreciation of Mr.. Butler's eighteen years of faithful service in their midst, have of their own accord subscribed twenty dollars and have asked the privilege of applying it toward the purchase of a monument.

We regret to learn from Yokohama of the death, under very sad circumstances, of Mr. W. Tasker Watt, a once popular Hongkong resident, who was for about five years on the staff of the China

After Inspecting the wonderful banyan,, we said, suppose we have the princess, out, Accordingly we knocked at the door of the inner enclosure which was opened by a cheerful little boy, the servant and only companion of her royal bighness. The princess followed)--a “little, bowed, shrivelled, toothless old woman of 91. Now watch bow she will turn herself into a drum. In reply to the question "How are you, baja In the old woman swung her tight arm actively round to her back and then round

on

which

thing of fifty-sweet Bity whose love was mailowed by experience with a deceased husband. he has been six or seven months in the colony, But Annie laid the whole wealth of her affection has no fixed place of abode, is destitute, and is at the feet of a widower, and when he married very anxious to return to Smyrna when an oppor- Mr. Grezard, whose religious somebody else Annie withered like a flower, attunity offers. the end of a rope attached to the kitchen roof convictions were not inquired into, said that he Wasn't it Theodore Hook who-for a wager

came here from Shanghai hoping to get an stopped the pidest-looking woman he had ever appointment in the Imperial Maritime Customs, seen, and asked her at what time of life ladies but failed owing to causes over which he had became insensible to manly beauty? The fossil no control. His Worship considered the accused hobbled off on her crutches, mumbling.. "You

two 'hard cases,' and sent them into retirement. must ask somebody older than me,"

THE wheel-barrow coolics of Shanghal. have THE Chiakiang correspondent of the Shanghat struck work. These industrious toilers number Mercury writes on the 4th inst.:-Mr. E. L

about four thousand and their present grievance Oxenham, British consul, returned last night is a notification, issued under the auspices of the from a trip up the Grand Canal, whither he had Consular body, of a proposed increased tar on been to glean some Information anent the over their industry. Some rioting took place on the flow of the Hwang Ho. I hear that, owing to French Concession, but nothing of a serious the strong freast, the boat was unable to reach character, and the strikers have so far behaved her intended destination, The natives at Yang-most creditably. A proclamation has been pub chow and the surrounding country are in dread lished by the Chehsien and Mixed Court magi-Mail and only left the colony last summer to of laundation, owing to the new course which strate, warning the coolies against creating any assume the editorship of the Japan Gosette. the overflow, from the Hwang Ho has taken, disturbances, and stating that the question of Mr. Watt lived at No. 62, Bluff, in company to her wizened chest administering hellow- Sipes my last I have obtained some good news. taxing the wheel-barrows is under the considers with Mr. A. W. Quinton, another Hongkong sounding blows of considerable force A very enterprising merchant of this port having tion of the Foreign and Chiness officials. Our newspaper man. Mr. R. Hay of the Japan Mail made her old carcase echo like a drum, My received from an old Chinking resident at own Mr. Lister would be a valuable acquisition spent the evening of March 26th with his brother bones still ache," she said, renewing the drum Chefoo, z number of partridges, has let them to these Shanghai wise-acies, who evidently journalists, and at one o'clock in the morning of ming both by way of massage and by way of illustrating the dismal nature of her rheumatism, loose in the vicinity of the Wu-chow-sban range regard it as a spirited public policy to tax the of the 27th left the house, Mr. Watt escorting "I am very old, and very poor; but they let me of hills, distant about six miles from this Settle-scanty earnings of a hard worked class, whose him to the top of an unprotected flight of steps alone now, since the man with the trois gatons ment. From the opinion of "Old Sportsmen wretched lives are a combination of slavery and leading into the road. After wishing his friend told them they must not kill me. We asked here, they will soon wax strong, and will afford semi-starvation. Hongkong can well afford to good night" Mr. Hay proceeded homeward, her if she had any books or relics left, and if weo, by the sleeve she conducted us in a silent and excellent sport during the next booting season part with the lavishly paid official who advocates but had only gone a few yards, when he heard might come lo Seizing us with her skinny arms to many of the frequent visitors whom we have the taxation of all public industries, and would an exclamation and a noise as of a heavy body mysterious way through strange passages to m be glad to cumshow the Honorable Alfred to falling. He at once ran back and found Mr. dark room where a savage dog was chained to the from your port,

Shanghai-or anywhere else,

Waft lying senseless on the ground at the bottom most corner. The dog made desperate attempts of the steps. Mr. Quinton, was quickly aroused to get at us, but was finally conducted out struggling by the little boy A dogy, was now and, after carrying the lafured man inside the opened, and from the inside an earthy tomb-like house, Dr Wheeler was sent for, but medical blant greeted our nostrils, as we groped our way services were of no avail, death occurring few into a dark solemn chamber lit up by the faintest possible oil-saucer. Two sitting corpses seemed minutes after the doctor's arrival,

to be regarding each other on each side of the and compression of the brain

lamp. It appears that this room, being half anderground and concealed by brush wood was presided over by Mr JC

not entered by the soldiers, and the two apparent corpses were simply two jesics of the ordinary Consul, a verdict of accidentald Mr. Wait, who was only 18-

kind placed on each side of the altar. There were Journalist of much

several other figa es of interest, and of which, gracefully clad in a red robe, sat in an elegant, and intelligent

and refined attitude, bore an intelligent expres

L-appeared to wear. one was in perfect presery

The corners

A

MEBERE BANDINELL & CO. Bay in their report dated Newchwang, 29th March

WE reported yesterday that seven Chinese were charged at the Police Court before Mr. Wodehouse, with robbery, piracy and murder, and that the Magistrate discharged We beg to resume our advices with the opening them owing to a want of sufficient evidence, of navigation. The ice broke up from the 18th We now learn that shortly after leaving the to the aand instant. The first steamer is was Court six of the men were re-arrested on the the Hirer, on the 25th, followed in the next few same charge As they have beto in custody days by sixteen others. Nosailing vessel has yet since the 24th of March last, when they arrived. There is great enquiry for steam and were apprehended at the instance of the sail for Amoy and for Hongkong, Chinese Government, it looks as if we were Produce is in large -stock, but so many likely to have another sensational Chineto, arrivals have run up prices. We quote p rendition case. However, without in any way Beancakes per to piculs..Tis. 3.90. No sellers, wishing to interfere with the course of public Beans per 3 plculam, i Justice, we venture to submit to the proper Bean Oll per 95 catties..... authorities that it is against every principle Sugar of all descriptions is dull. of English law to detain men in custody are unwilling to present without something in the shape of evidence to SHIPPING IN FORT

he Police trato.7%) justify such detention,

Han afforded the prosecution implicating these men in the alle and as not a titila

•quite he acte

they should hawa been at onei

samé charges requiros:

vidence

Fecht, Toona

“short supplies:

No

9 graduated in the office and if we mistake not the Dundee press. ayers, kòng he was, Holders soul of geniality,

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were filled withi