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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1818.

Intimations.

NOTICE:

remain of Mrs. Ogston's and Mr. Dominguez's personal effects and other property, Very little inconvenience has been caused to persons staying in the Hotel, as regards the internal irrangements ¿ the reading room has been fitted up as a dining hall, and with the ante- A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.om will afford ample accommodation for the present. The smashing up of the billiard saloon will leave available only the one table in the small room adjoining, but no doubt very little time will be lost in completing the repairs necessary to place this department of the Hotel at the service of the public

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TIELEGRAMS.

THE EMPEROR AND BISMARCK.

LONDON, April 9th.

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It is understood that the Emperor Frederick declines to accept the resignation of Prince Bismarck; but that the betrothal of Princess Victoria will be postponed until the Bulgarian is question is settled.

The jongkong Eelegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1888.

ACCIDENT AT THE hongkong HOTEL-

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An accident of a very serious character, and which narrowly escaped being attended with.

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Northern Chinear Forts, including Wladivostock, loss of life, occurred at the Hongkong Hotel Format the Treaty Ports af China and Japan. At the time named, without previously exhibiting few minutes before two o'clock this morning. Cochin-China, the Philippine Islands, Corea, British North Borneo, the British Colony of any signs of weakness, a considerable portion of she building, extending northwards from about Hongkong, and the Portuguese Colony of Macao. It also contain the Principal Treaties between

the centre of the dining saloon to the retaining European countries and the United States and

wall of the new wing now in course of construc- the countries Baki of the Straits, including thrtion, suddenly collapsed, spreading destruction on" New Treaties between FRANCE and CHINA, every side. By what can only be considered as CHINA and GREAT BRITAIN, FRÅNGF

a wonderful piece of good fortune, not a single life was lost, nor was any person injured. and AMNAM, RUMIA and CHINA, BRAZIL and CHINA, and the KOREAN TREATY ;

The two bedrooms on the upper floor were

} RUSSIA...

It is stated that Russia is agreeable to any person being a Prince who is not a Roman

tholic.

{This may possibly refer to Bulguis, although that is only mere speculation. Peuter is altogether too liberal to his Hongkong subscribers with items of this son.Ed, Telegraph]

LOCAL AND GENERAL

R. Sangster's Organ recital fixed for this THE Hanoi rate of exchange between do jars and evening has been unavoidably postponed..

francs has been fixed at thrie fiancs, twenty-five centime¿, from the 1st instant. The German gunboat Wolf, Commander Jaeschke, and the British gunboat Espair, Lieut.- Commander-R. Yorke Smith, arrived yesterday from Shanghai.

SAYS the Sydney Bulletin:-German labour is chopping the thisbane bricklayers down to four

together with can litions of Trade, and the Port.occupied-one by Mrs. J. Ogston, wife of Captain shillings a day. Must the European Chinese Custovas. Consular, and Harbour Regulations for Ogston of the steamship Crusader, and the other go too? Either that or stop them coming, the Port: of Ching and fanan; also description by Señor Enrique Dominguez, a Manila gentle-We are inforine. by the agents(Messra. Adamson, man. Their escape from a sudden and terrible Helt & Co.) that the Canadian-Pacific Line steam death was almost miraculous. Mis. Ogston ship Parthia arrived at Vancouver on the 9th inst., having accomplished the voyage in thirteen days from Yokohama, she having left that port

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`states that shortly before two o'clock she was awakened by a noise at the window of her room.

on the 27th ulto,

After waiting a few seconds, and again bearing

he window shaken-violently, she-got-out-of-bed- and rang, the electric bell, with which all the Two enterprising Celestials who went down rooms are fitted, for assistance. The noise from here to Melourne in the China Navigation increasing Mrs. Ogston got alarmed and ran tothe Co.'s steamer Changsha, attempted to run some door and out into the passage, where she found opium through the Customs without Allending one of the Chinese servants and requested him to to any of the little preliminaries considered at once call Mr. Roberts, the manager of the Hotel. necessary by a grasping Government. They She then returned to her room, but finding it were caught in the att, hauled up before the shaking violently, she caught upa.drossing-gown-Melbourne-beak, and fined £100 each. a hnig and perfectly reliable book of referene and quilt, being in her night dress, and rushed out This morning at the Police Court, Mr. Sercombe into the passage, just as Mr. Roberts and another gentleman (Mr. H. L. Dalrymple) were charged with detaining against their will, cpminitled fr trial-two Chinese, who arrived on the scene. It was not a moment on the 7th is, three men for purposes of too soon, as Mrs. Ogston had scarcely crossed the threshold when the walls of the building of emigration. Apinter, charged with burglari collapsed and the roof went crashing through ously breaking into a house in Shong Hing Lane and stealing goods and chattels valued at $25, was also relegated to the tender mercies of the Supreme Court,

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Mr. Dominguez's experiences differed but little from Mrs. Ogston's, he was awakened by a THE Sydney Morning Herald says that the distinct vibration of his room, and thinking it was Legislative Assembly of New South Wales has a shock of earthquake-a very natural conclu ion degenerated into a rabble, and that disorder has for a resident of Manila to arrive at~, at once now developed into outrage when members made for the door. With the place shaking under scise one another by the throat while addressing him Mr. Dominguez attempted to get out of the the Chair, and that, at the present rate of room; for some seconds the door resisted b11development, they may expect very shortly to 'A LADIES DIRECTORY FOR HONGKONG | efforta to open it, but at last he succeeded in witness the free use of the knife and revolver in

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As to the direct cause of the accident there THE Courrier d'Haiphong says that Monsieur can be very little doubt, and we cannot but Constans has been superseded in the Governor think, although happily the loss of human Generalship of French Indo-China by Monsieur life has been avoided, that in the interests Richaud, who has beeh nonimated Acting of the public safety responsibility should Governor-General M. Consians' retirement is be placed somewhere. For some time past active alleged to be owing to M. de Lanessan's constant operations have been going on adjoining the attacks upon him in the French Chambers. portion that has been wrecked, in connection M. Richaud is expected in Saigon by the next with the Hotel extension, and a new wall has mail, and M. Constans will leave on the 21st been erected contiguous to the one which Such, remarks our contemporary, are the formerly marked the limits of the building, and vicissitudes of French Colonial administration which has now come to grief. It was, we WE (inys the Ern) may congratulate ourselves understand, intended to connect the present that at none of our Lo don music-halls would a: Hotel with the annexe' by three archways performance be tolerated like that which is to through the old wall, and two of these arches be seen nightly at the Palais de Crystal, had already been completed, without, it appears, Marseilles, a place as large and as handsome anything having been done to make up for the as the Alhambra, London, where a quadrille strength thus taken from the structure, Without incoherent is danced by two men and two women, adequate supports, apparently anything but a first the latter being attired in extremely thin class piece of workmanship from the first, and tights, the suggestiveness of which is increased probably enough weakened to some extent from by the super-addition of drawers made of" opth the effects of the almost incessant rains of the work." The effect of the disgusting spectacle past few weeks, the collapse of the wall is hardly when the acrobatic exercises of the can-can-are

AHAIDUONG telegram of the 30th ultimo, published in the Courrier d'Ilaiphong, states that twenty pirates were killed at the post of Gia. Lac on the 29th, no loss being sustained by the French troops,

MR. SALAMONS, the well-known expert and centist, after continued experiments with chicken cholera on rabbits and sheep, is convinced that Pasteur's scheme will eradicate the rabbits from Australia in a year or two. THE remains of Constable Ernzer of the Hong kong Police force were this morning buried in Happy Valley. Deceased was attacked by small- pox about ten days ago, and died on the oth inst. at the Government Civil Hospital, FROM Australian papers received by the Guthrie, we note that the evacuation of the New Hebrides by France has really taken place. The French war vessel Diver arrived at Netura 'nent the end of last month, having on board the troops from Havannah harbour.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Afinilans, from Liverpool, left, Singapore for this port yesterday, afternoon, and is due here on the 16th inst

་་་་ Ar the Sydney Police Court on March 30th, apt. Williams, of the China Navigation Co.'s teamer Changsha, was fined in sums amounting altogether to £430 for allowing seven Chinese to escape from his vessel and land in Sydney

without paying the poll-tax.

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

Guthrie, Capt. N. Shannon, from Sydney, vi The Eastern and Australian Co.'s steamer

Ports of Call, arrived in harbour this morning. For the subjoined telegrams we are indebted to our Colonial exchanges":—

PORT Louis, (Mauritius) March 1st. The weather during February was most favour- island. The present sugar crop is anticipated able, heavy rains having fallen all over the

to yield 120,000 tons, of which 108,000 tons have already reached town, including the balance of THE roof of a house at No. 3, Ship Strect fell in last crop: 73.500 tons have been shipped, and carly this morning with a loud crash, but the balance is in store. Vessels continue scarce. luckily did no damage to the occupants, who The following are latest quotations in sugar :—' managed to take warning by certain admonitory White crystals, extra fine, 12,50 ripees; ditto, good to finest, 11.70 to 12.30; white counters, creakings of is timbers. Like the disaster at good to finest, 11.70 to 12 brewers' crystals, the Hongkong Hotel, the accident is put down by fine to finest, very scarce, 13.20 to 13.50; yellow the natives to the late heavy thunder storms. crystals, fine, 11:50, ditto, middling to fine 10.50 THE following novelty in matringe announce. ditto, low to good, 10.50 to 10.80; brown counters, to #1; yellow counters, Ene to finest, 11.40; ments-appeats intent issue of the Conktown-good-to-fine,-10-10-10:50-rations-low-to fine, -Independent:-"On_the_zolli_instant, by the Rev. Father Harticy, Charles John Baptiste Balsario, second son of W. Wakeford, Esq., Railway Contractor, Sydney, to Jane Phoebe

Tipp, Ireland. Bolh doing well." second daughter of John Keane, Town Clerk,

Tur following startling telegram, which may

in the Australiah papers, dated March 20th:- safely be put down as a stupid canard, appeats

"Great consternation has been caused in all circles throughout Europe, owing to a rumour that the doctors who are attending the Emperor Frederick III, are implicated in a plot to prevent him from assuming the crown, and to substitiste his son, Prince William. Their design is stated to have been the total removal of the larynx, instead of the equally effective, though milder, operation of tracheotomy; but their design was Mackenzie, the celebrated English specialist, exposed, and the plot frustrated by Sir Morell who has attended the Emperor all through his illness:"

The Figaro and Gaulois declare that the presence of the British Mediterranean squadron

8.50 to 9.

tomb of their revered monarch, wreaths of sorrow and sympathy. deeply affected both the speaker ut dicers. The reference to the Germans of Australia

Match-2200. dress, declares that the German pople disiram The Reichstag, replying in the Emperor's

to express their loyalty and thely "fells in the - fidelity of their new arch, wo, they me will follow faithfully in the fob steps his father for the preservation of humor and integrity in the

PARIS, Machi 19rk

Fatherland.

In the Chamber of Deputies toady a poist was entered by a large majority weainst Bulinger's pretensions to be consilend the dol of the army and the people.

March 22nd. The Chamber of Deputies has shown a very hostile spirit to 'Boulanger, who is suspected of entertaining revolutionary designs.

A Military Court of Inquiry has found Boulanger guilty of impure practices along with Madame Limousin in connection with decora- tions, &c, and he has been sentenced to ́six nent among the militaires and queriers. months' imprisonment. There is great excite-

LONDON, March 20th.

is 2 to 1 against Cambridge, taken readily.

The betting on the great University boat race

March 22nd.

The House of Commons has passed a motion

in favour of dealing with all arrears of rents due by Irish tenants on the same principle as that proposed by the Liberals. Parnell's Land Bill Amendment has been rejected.

The Reading Theatre was burried to the ground last night, and to lives were sacrificer in the crush and conflagration

SYDNEY," March 226d, W. R. Taylor, of Brisbane, claims the Govern -LONDON,-March-7th-ment-reward of £15,000-for-the4xterminujon.af. The House of Commons has refused to appoint rabbits, on the ground that he can effect, it by committees to deal with bills relating to Welsh, blood poisoning. foreign, and calonial affairs. ordered by the Russian Government to equip The Black Sea Shipping Company have been

their fleet immediately for the purposes of war

March 9th.

The French military journals are constantly- insulting the King of Italy and the Italian nation, Further details of the wreck of the barque Lauoma, 665 tons, which went ashore in the English Channel while on a voyage from brake up, show that Captain Whittingham and Launceston to London, and soon afterwards

11 of the crew were drowned. Little Balvage has been obtained from the wreck,

March 18th, assaulted Lord De Walden: The affair arose Major Barrows has been fined £400 for having

ut of a society scandal,

The profits-of-the-French-Cupper Syndicate been, deci ed to increase the capital of the fut theyear amount to 10,000.000 francs. It has

syndicate by 25,000,000 francs. The syndicate declares that the fears as to overproduction of copper are unfounded.

A letter from Noumea asserts that the French

natives should he withdraw his troops from the Admiral dreads a massacre of whites by the

New Hebrides,

ADELAIDE, March 22nd. The Victorian Central Board of Health, in response to the request of the South Australian which declared Port Darwin as infected part. Government, has rescinded the proclamation

The hate tour of the Chinese Commissioners icance than was generally attached to it. The through Australla evidently had a deeper signi

first frults of that suission are now becoming apparent, for the Governints of the various Australian Colonies bave received circulars from that has been forwarded to Lord Salisbury by the Colonial Office, enclosing copies of a protest

the Chinese Ambassader in London, against the severity-of-Australian legistation for the restric- refers to the laws existing in each colony for tion of Chinese immigration. The protest first

the imposition of a pall-tax upon Chinese immigrants, and the intention of Tasmania to adopt the same policy, and then institutes March 4th invidious comparisons with the position of the "The Maharajah of Cashmere has made a

Chinese Columbia. The protest further states generous offer to the Indian Government of aid that the Chinese Government is convinced that, in the defence of the Empire.

where the Colonial Legislatures have enacted relations whichs, are inimical to the Chinese, and which are Incompatible with British inter- national engagemeius, that the omission of the Crown, to exercise its rights of vetoing colonial enactments does not necessarily show that the imperial Government approves of them. In tie Crown, Colonies it is not found necessary

March 13th. John C. Bratiane, te Premier of Roumania, who lately-fendered bis resignation to the King, has reconstructed the Cabinet, and will retain

office..

in the Gulf of Genna was due to the action of Signor Crispi, who wished by this means 10 make a demonstration against France. The Gaulets, in aleiter addressed to the English press correspondents at Paris, reproaches Lord Salie- bury with associating himself with a mancouvre wounding French susceptibilities in order to satisfy Signor Crispi's vanity, and hatred. The Jetter also points out the grounds on which ais advisable, and declares that England in no way on faithful alliance between France and England is

in 1870, and would gain still less by the total benefited by the disasters which befell France destruction of France, which, the journal declares, is what is aimed at by Prince Bismarck and Signor Crispl.

THE Peking Gazette of March 20th tells us that His Excellency Liu Chin-tang, Governor of Chinese Turkestan, has presented a fresh application to the Emperor for permission to retire from the public service. Liu describes himself as sick to the very bones, he is troubled by stomach disorders and dysentery, finds a difficulty in bis utterance, and is apprehensive of a stroke of paralysis on one side. But while dreading the consequences which will ensue if he continues at his present past, Liu hopes that with rest and medical treatment he may be cured of his ailments, and as his age is not great he would thus become available. for 'employment again. In reply to this application the Emperor speaks in the highest terms of the successful manner in which the Governor has administered the affairs and while declining to allow him to retire, grants of the important province entrusted to his care, him additional leave of absence for four months in order that he may undergo medical treatment. At the Harbour Office this morning before Cap Rumsey, R.N., A. Pietsch; fourth engineer of the steamer Glenfalloch, was charged by Robert Cormack, captain of that vessel, with refusing to obey his lawful orders on the morning of the 11th Inst. Capt. Cormack said he was passing the engine-room door at 8.30 am, when he He asked him if he were on watch, whereupon observed the accused standing there, looking out. defendant replied that the engines were in chr, who that was, and when defendant said charge of the cengineer, Capt. Cormack wanted to

his duties, which order defendant disobeyed by replying that he should not take any orders himmelf, he told him to go below and attend to

except through the chief engineer, remarking and was responsible himself for everything in that he (the defendant) was a certificated man the engine room. The chief engineer on being sent for and informed of his subordinate's contumacy, to his work, which the defendant did after some

Admiralty, has declared that the British navy

Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the

go per cent, stronger than that of France.

the Black Sea coast. Russian troops are being extensively massed

be war in May next.

The Russian Generals predict that there will

sent by the Australian colonies on the death of The expressions of sympathy with Germany the late Emperor William bave evoked warm pledges of friendship from Prince Bismarck.

BRISBANE, March 13th..

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Treat the Chinese residents differently from the subjects of other powers, therefore it is difficult to understand why it should be otherwise in Colonies which have had the privilege of self-government conferred upon been alleged that the Chinese immigrants were. them: The Commissioners say that it has never unruly, but that, on the commry, in Australia, and elsewhere, testimony has been repeatedly bornd to their orderly conduct and their value A public meeting was held in the Town Hall in assisting in the development of colonin! There can, therefore, be no reason to night to consider the question of devising means resources for the immediate relief of the destitute Scottish why they should be debarred from the enjoyment crofters. including a number of prominent citizens.. Sir undertreaties, and by the Law of Nations. The Between 200 and 300 were present, of the immunities to which they have a right, Thomas M'llwraith occupied the chair. Resolu. Chinces Government regrets, the existence of sincere sympathy with the distressed crofters and British Government will institute an inquiry as tions were carried unanimously, expressing this exceptional legislation, and hopes that the costers, and that a subscription list, headed

to how far this legislation is compatible with th the Scottish Association with £50, be opened, frien ly relations which are now so happily

by and funds so gathered as to be immediately existing between England and China, with a view wired to the proprictors of the Glasgow Mail to the climination of any portion of the colonial for distribution. A sum £275 was subscribed legislation that is at variance with treaty obliga at the meeting.

Hons and International usages. The Premiera of the different Colonies propose sending Lord Salis The Czar of Russia states that the intention | bury a joint reply, upon which, presumably, he of the Grand Duke Nicholas to be present at will base his answer to the Chinese Ambassador. the funeral of the late Emperor indicates aThe Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney press, all desire on the part of Russia to maintain peaceful and that it is also a pledge of friendship and relations of a durable character with Germany mutual confidence.

LONDON, March 14th.

comment upon the immense importance of the of the Colonies to state the facts of the case question at issue, and they say that it is the duty to the British Government, and the urgeat Sir James Anderson, chairman of the Orient necessity that exists for stringent restrictive Mr. J. Henniker Heaton's scheme for a penny The Oxford and Cambridge boat race took. Company, and other experts, have declared that legislation. postage rate on letters between England and

LONDON, March 26th. Australia is impracticable. that place on Saturday last, and was won by elected, unopposed, for Chichester, in the HouseThere was a tremendous attendance, but the Lord Walter Lennox, Unionist, has been the lalter by five lengths, time 20 min. 53 secs. of Commons. Mr. N. Thomas, the Home Rule weatherunfortunately was foggy. The Cambridge candidate, has been returned for Merthyr Tydvil crew were the favoritos, and

March 15th: their favourite pucking was 3 to in

The bankruptcy of Lord Augustus Loftus hasThe Chancellor of the Exchequer's bill fo been annulled.

the conversion of three per cent, stocks to twa Despite the opposition of M. Tirard; the and a half has passed both Houses without oppogi, French Premier, the Chamber of Deputies, by a tion. The State now has the prospective saving large majority, voted the abolition of the duties of £1,400,000 annual interest, through the on wines, involving a lous of revenue to the extent measure, and double that after fourteen years of 160,000,000 francs. It is proposed to increase Colonial securities, which will be much more This measure will have a splendid effect on the tax on other alcoholic liquore.stefan

The severest snowstorm which "has been

sought after. A lingui

of

experienced in the United States for half n century took place during the last two days in

The late Emperor of Germany, left a fortuna. Philadelphia, Boston and New York. bequeathed for the purpose of increasing the

if £2,500,000, the larger portion of which he has

Business was almost entirely paralysed, and Prussian Crown treasure, and the balance to a matter for great surprise when the facts of the gone through can be more easily imagined than told him to go down below at once and attend the railways stopped running. Great auffering the Empress Dowager, and her two children, case are practically considered. It would be described. For both ladies turn somersault delay. In answer to the Magistrate, Pietsch said classes of the population, and some loss of life is | Louise Mary, Grand Duchess of Badenh

has been caused, principally amongst the poorer the Emperor Frederick 111, and the Princess interesting to receive some explanation from hold their legs in an absolutely perpendicular he never refused to obey the captain's orders reported. A thaw is now commencing. Mr. Gi Goschen, Chancellor of the Exche whoever is responsible for the weakening of this, There is not space in the compass of an wall by making two large arches near its found. / polition: above their heads, and finish up with Captain Rumsey fined defendant two days Further details of the disastrong knowaldrms' a surplus of 62,165,000, which is the largest for

dagaskar March 16th, quer, has delivered his budget speech, estimating Ordinary Advertisement to detail all the information without making any additional support for Censorship in London.

the "split" Thank goodness, we have spay. tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly the stability taken away. Had a score of lives

in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia state the last fourteen years. Mr. Goschen proporei THE Daily Press, in referring in that milk-and- that scores of railways, containing thousands to reduce the income tax, but to impose fresh asserted that no such Directory has ever been been lost, as most certainly would have been JAMES B, QUIN, third engineer of the rive water style which we know so well, to some Numbers of people were frozen to death. Great Articles de luze, and also tax on racehorses

of passengers, were blocked by the snowdrifts, taxation on vehicles, costly wines and other published, either in Hongkong or any other part the case had the accident happened during the steamer Fafshan, was to-day summoned before comments made by the Shanghai morning paper wreckage of telegraph lines was caused. Bust to devote the revenue arising from the Suer of the East, at such a low price.

day instead of after midnight, a searching Mr. Sercombe-Smith at the Police Court for on the farcical proceedings in connection withness was almost entirely stopped.

Canal shares to the fortification ofcoaling stations, *THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND

inquiry would have been made, and that inquiry assault and battery on the head and face of the the Opium case recently decided on appeal Priace Oscar, of Sweden, has married Miss Including Albany and Thursday Island, and to

wet aside a portion of the surplus to subsidising HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers is equally necessary now as much on public mess-room steward of that ship. Complainant' by Acting Chief Justice Russell, admits that Munck, at Bournemouth.

The French Chamber of Deputies has refused county: Conseils, which are to be established Special Advantages as an Advertising Medium grounds as for the interests of the shareholders story was that he was standing on the Wharf the defendant was a victim of lajustice, and to increase the tax on alcoholic liquors, and 'has under the new Docal Government Bill.Z

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thus upset the whole scheme of the commilites The House has adopted the Bill embodying The immediate effects ofthe accidentare serious

The Government of Chine hat directed the the now wine duties, tacklemor and will doubtless prove costly. From the top

Thibetan troops to evacuate Sikkim here There have been great floods in Germany, floor to the basement this portion of the Hotel is completely wrecked. Two bedrooms, the half of the dining hall, and about two-thirds of the large billiard saloon, with all their contents, such as furniture, fixtures, visitors effects, three Suggestions for the improvement of this work billiard tables, etc., are smashed up in one huge

respectfully solicited.

mass of debris on the ground floor.

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the rivers. Forty villages have

Land, it is estimated that; len, speople, have beenyrufnedor Relief

ing organized in all directions

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at 1,30 p.m. on the 6th inst, when defendant's then expresses extreme surprise that a sober "boy" told him that his master wanted some journal like the N. C. Daily News should support thing hot for dinner. He answered that the cuch a silly nation as that there is in Hongkong comprador had not sent the "chow, and there foreigners." We are glad to know on such good The Emperor Frederick in his addrean to the water

one law for the Chinese and another for BERLIN, March Towin the sudden melting of the snow on the fore, if anything "fresh" was wanted, Mr. Quin authority that the Daily News is a saber Reichstag, proclaint al determination to hold been submerg would have to walk. Defendant informed the paper, but surely the Hongkong Granny is Alsace, and Lorraine, es being thereditary and Magistrate that the steward returned a vulgar the Shanghai Journal's perfectly accurate declares that he will follow in the footsteps of reither serious por saber in characterising, histerical portions of the German Empire. Ho. answer to his request) when complainant returned conclusion as a silly notion ! The silly notion his revered father so far as hi on board he was confronted with the "boy" as is that fostered by the Daily Prers with such admit and that he will respect

By:will! counsels to his message, when he denied having said any amusing petulance. From beginning to end of those by whom the great Gen thing offensive, although the boy stuck to his thin particular Opium case was a standel to was consolida nithe? first report

pubile justice. The Daily Press wrote a clumsy created altercation dire blows," the

lato editorial on the subject without knowingthetrith

by we shall follow sult to-morrow, but with this whom difference we have a thorough acquaintance! binds with the real state of affairs, and shall not allow rushing st

any feeling for official, sensibilities to prevent dur placing the whole affair in its proper

the disaster. The ruins were surayed this morning by Mr. Hayllar Gvernment sotno ↑ the officers of the ste Inspector of Bull nd" operations, were Thid that he saw the quickly started to clear away the diepte from the Qulu with an uplifted stick. wrecked billiard room, and to recover what may dismissed.

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