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The Hongkong Telegraph

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1888.

The articles on Indo-Chinese affairs published by M. Lafine have produced a certain sensation.

THE three new war-vessels ordered by the Japanese Government from England will be ready by 1891.

THE agents (Messrs, Jardine, Matheson & Co.) ortalarious that the steamer Claudial from

London, Left Singapore for this post yesterday.

DUTCHMAN'S epitaph on his twing:-

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.)

HAIDUONG, April 15th. complete pacification of the province Haiduong, excepting the district of Késat, has been effected. Military operations against Késat are contemplated..

TOTAL LOSS OF THE **SAN PABLO,”"

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Here lie tuo habet, deuf antwo rīta, Who shook to death with nguey fits. They was too good to Jiya mit mon," Bo God Is trok 'em to live mit He,

THE returns of the number of visitors to the City ifall Museum for the week ending April and, are:-Europeans 168, Chinese 1,745; total, 1,913., THE area of dry land in Holland is a million ante quester.com shaw in the sixteenth century, thanks to the energetic works of reclam- ation which have long been proceeding. We are informed by the General Managers (Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.) that the Indo- China Steam Navigation Co.'s steamer Taisang from Calcutta, left Singapore yesterday for this por,

A VICTORIAN judge with solemn waiver enquired the other day what a "long beer" meant, had the decency to ask his Honour to go out was a fearfully hot day, and yet nobody in court and "refresh."

into our hearts the love of impassibilities. We have all heard of the poverty of literary men; we may take it for granted that it was not their literature that made them poor, but their literary education They were taught, or they imagined that theirs A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. was a far nobler profession than that of artisans, mechanics, navigators or mer- chants. They disdained economics, loved the tavern, the gambling and other hells, and they grudged a hard-working and

SAYS the Nagasaki Express-A fine yacht, for practical world for not buying their books

the King of Corea, which came out in sections, The manager of the Occidental & Orientalis now being put together at the Dockyard as often as they set them a-going. That the Company shortly after noon 10-day received a Engine Works. general tendency ofa purely literary educa-telegram from Shanghai informing him of the THERE is some talk of forming a society of tion is to pervert the mind of the learner had been supplied by the steamer Names which, midwives in Melbourn A Sydney contempor-

total wreck of the San Pablo. The information ↑ and bías him against the utilitarian walks presumably while on ber voyage into Foochow of life, history and our daily experience had passed close to the Tan Rocks where the ary sarcastically asks mey will advocate eight can vouch for. By the introduction of Californian mail boat lay stranded. No informa hours' labour?

tion beyond the above facts has reached the THE Government Gazeite publishes the Copyweek ending 7th inst.; the Government Gazelle No death from small-pox occurred during the professional schools, that insidious enemy Hongkong agents, and we are still not in a right Convention between Great Britain, the reports two deaths on the 1st, and 26th of of sound tuition-pure literature, or pure position to say anything about her carro, German Empire, Belgium, Spain, France, March respectively. Up to the 14th inst, one

however, the greater part will mathematics, like the pure moonstruck

possibly be California flour and other produce of the fields Haiti, Italy, Switzerland, and the Bey of Tunis.

death occurred in the Foreign community. philosophies of the middle ages,--has been and of the Pacific "slope," that part of it will be grappled with and well-nigh vanquished. irretrievably ruined. Whether the ship has broken Tik tide of Chinese immigration to the Straits THERE will be marching and carbine drills for up and gone to the bottom, or whether she is Settlements continues unbrokeĤ, as, says a

Volunteer Recruits on Tuesday, Wednesday, What keeps Hongkong so much in the irrevocably "fixed between two rocks" like that Singapore paper, no fewer than 168,000 Chinese Thursday and Friday, at Head Quarters, at 5.30 rear of the technical and utilitarian school ther shipwreck of St. Paul's, is matter also newcomers atrived at Singapore last year, ol which has yet to be learnt. That what

p.m. Members who have not yet sent in their movement which is going on at home?

remains of ber will be saved, anyhow, whom to1,000 remained in the Settlement.

carbines, &c. are requested to do so at unde. We are living in a very realistic colony, from the hands of the looting fisherman A HORRIBLE conflagration reduced to ashes, on

who swarm in hundreds about that pitched right into the centre of the pushing

quarter

THE Shanghai Mercury informs us that the Ture report an educational matters pre-trade and industry, which are flourishing have been told off to guard her remains. The San Pampanga, in the Philippines. 50,000 bags of from Chinese ports to Italy via France to provide

is very probable, seeing that two frigates the 17th inst., 1,200 houses in S: Fernando de la

Italian Consul has advised shippers of goods sented by the inspector of Schools to the

in the Far East, particularly in China.

Pablo was well known in Ilongkong, in Japan, sugar were consumed, besides other valuable their shipthents with certificates of origin, to egislative Council-the-other-day-is

Such is our devotion to trading pursuits fastest vessels which bridge the Pacific Ocean,

-and-all-over-the-Pacific Coast as one-of-the-property. No loss of life has been reported, suggestive of many a measure of improve that although living in the Land of the Sun but it is a mistake to suppose that she was ever

avoid paying the high duties now in force ment and reform to that important we are deprived of all those recreations and

THE Shanghai Courier hears that His Excellency between Italy and France. an English ship, or ever wore any colours at her department of the public service. While it

civilised countries. Money-making seems

in 1884, for the Pacific Improvement Com- to be our daily and nightly avocation. New pany, and was intended for the coal trade from their own mines for the supply of their fleets in industries are springing into existence all San Francisco. On the ship getting regularly over China; its thorough opening to Euro. to work she developed such a high rate of steaming that the Company had an offer of her pean enterprise being only a question of a charter by the well-known American Railroad few years. Telegraphy and steam locomo-bosses" the Occidental and Oriental Co., which tion will soon spread their iron nets over vast they nccepted, and thus the ship fell into her Cathay; its rich mines are already being between San Francisco and China. Last year, 'place as one of the regular line of packets explored; its army and navy Europeanised, as many people in Hongkong who like a good its navigation perfected, and its teeming champagne lunch, will remember, the owners "built on her," and convened the original bare millions gradually civilised. Hongkong upper deck which had been wind swept and ought to enter heart and soul into the wave swept by the storms of the Pacific, into gigantic movement which is going on in and handsome and commodious saloon, capable of around this Colony. Technical men will of globe-trotters-alterations which, though soon he wanted all over the Far East; what turning her into a first-class passenger ship, were supposed to have spoilt her outward keeps us from undertaking the important appearance in the cyss of the profession. Her task of training them?

gross tonnage was 3,119 and her registered measurement two thousand one hundred and

Hexeng, MONDAY, APRIL, 23, 1888.

peak but those of the United States. She was

Two Firemen of the steamer Changsha were with fighting and creating, a disturbance in that

The North China Daily News informs us that two old steamers of the Nippon Yusos Kaisha, once well known in Shanghai, the Bauri Mtaru,, formerly the Dumbarton, and the Genkai afuru, formerly the Costa Rica, have been sold in

Yokohama to be broken up. “A third vessel, the Veskitsune Maris, is to share their fate, "

on the Parade Ground. The following lugs-of- THE Police Sports were concluded this afternoon. war were pulled; 1st, Chinese Water Police against the Commissariat, the former winning easily. 2nd, Land Police against a scratch

Police verans Gun Lascars, the former winning team; the Land Police winning 3rd, Indian

after a hard tussie. 4th, European Police v. the

Navy; navy beating, Military'; the police winning. 5th, Army v

THE enormous sum of money which James

left for the construction of an observatory in Sạn Lick, the American speculator and hotel owner, Francisco, where he had made the whole or greater part of his fortune, appears to be running

a great risk of being spent to no great effective-

purpose. The first radical defect in the building

of the observatory, says a corespondent, was

the selection of the men who designed and superintended the building. The president of the "Lick trust" nominated and appointed him. self and a friend, neither of whom had had any experience in such works. Neither of them first unfortunate result was a long delay knew hardly anything of astronomy, and the

in commencing work Junkeling trips_wdte made to Europe to inspect astronómical con. trivances there, although the two men were quite

incompetent to judge of the instruments they saw.

points out the gradual steps that have pastlines, which are to be found in all built by Messrs. Cramp & Co. of Philadelphin inspection. The whole Peiyang squadron is to to-day charged by George Brown, chief engineer at last acquired some little amateur knowledge

been taken towards effecting a material enlargement of the educational establish -ments-in-the-Colony, the corresponding increase of scholars and the ascending scale of examination passes, the Report is sadly silent over an important portion of the programme of studies which is urgently regaired by the circumstances of the times and the place we live in. We may safely and proudly say that Hongkong education has behn-materially advancing of late years, but let us not confound the material with what may be designated the teleological element in Edugation.' After duly inspecting the Inspector's report, we were struck with a -certain want of finality in the educational system which prevails in this Colony, From the lowest primary school to the highest standard taught at either the Central, the Public, or the St. Joseph's School: the old routine of generalities is invariably adhered to; no special classes any kirel, no, technical branches of

Our schools ought to initiate the required

movement. The Government which has been lavish in granting them subsidies ought to be exigent in demanding from them a compliance with a detailed programme of practical tuition which may be enforced on them without prejudice to the routine of general pedagogics. English born, youths are to be found in good

derive immunes roin a commercial or industrial training of some sort or other,

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housing, in a very sumptuous manner no end

thirteen.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE new Governor-General of the Philippines is

to leave Barcelona for Manila on the 4th prox. FRANCE is certainly advancing. The working day in Paris has been reduced frora eleven hours to ten hours.

vessel on the 4th inst. on the "high seas" and

Li Hung Chang will shortly start on a tour of accompany His Excellency, who will embark at Taku on board one of the cruisers which recently arrived from Europe.

during her passage from Australia to this por: Tire only item of information to day regarding According to complainant's account the two men the cargo-boat strike is that the masters of the engaged in a formidable battle with tomahawks boats view the situation with uneasiness and and crowbars, but do not appear to have suffered feel like giving in, particulary since they see much from the e counter. Defendants admitted moded by their holding aloof. The business of 1st culprit $to, or 21 days imprisonment and that shippers have not been very much incom-the charge, on which Mr. Wodehouse fined the

the pawn-shops in Yau-ma-ti is said to be very the 2nd $5, or 14 days. brisk just now owing to there being no such funds-raising institution in San-sui-po.

T11 fine brick building which has for some time past been in course of erection for the Kobe Chamber of Commerce, was, says the logo News, inaugurated on the 16th, inst, by an enter tainuent attended by must ofthe leading oficiais. and private residents. The premises seem admirably adapted for the purposes required, and afford in addition excellent accommodation | for public gatherings.

After three years spent in this way, the two friends.

of what was wanted. Then they began their career of blunders, the first being in the erectio:? to rest, as they omitted to take advantage of the „_of_the_pier on which the_great_telescope_was. presence of solid rock at hand close by. The enormous telescope standing now on a hollow pics of artificial construction is shaken so much

by the least motion that a'star point beemmes a mass of blurred lights. Another mistake was the

movable floor of the observatory which can only

be done--by hydraulic pressure--in 55 minutes Instead of 5, as intended. This rising and falling A COMMUNICATION from the Government of floor was a feature on which the directors had -Queensland-to-tho-Adinfrakty-states-that-the-taker especial pride, but a Jale survey has

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natives of Stephen Island, on the eastern side of Great North-East Channel, Torres Strait, who were formerly very ferocious, and hostile, are now thoroughly quiet; they are 'supplied by the Government of Queensland with a boat, and a prepared to render assistance to any passing vessel requiring their services that will hoist flag at the mast-bead. Yams, sweet potatoes, and cocoanuts can be obtained from these natives. There is good anchorage with south. easterly winds off the north-western end of the reef surrounding Stephen's Islands. At Murray Islands a mission station is established, whex shipwrecked crews will be kindly treated, and taken to Thursday Island. At Darnley island

it above mentioned. But changes will then necessitate the lowering of the great dome, pier Such-changes which has had a great deal of money wasted on it in ornamental work. This dome was made. to revolve in a kind of water trough, and during water froze, and nothing could be dare till builing the last winter the cold was so intense that the water had been poured in Glycerine had been advised at first but steadily rejected. James Lick left originally $700,000 in gold for the Construction of the observatory, which it is alleged, will all be spent long before the apparatus is in working order. AT the Supreme Court in Criminal Sessions, this morning, Mr. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice passed sentence on the following prisoners who

confided to the care of our teachers. This umbers in this Colony who might THB Shanghai HEX«F Dave purchased the Miles long in a north-north-easterly and south complete confidence can now be placed in the were convicted during the April sessions. Mak

instruction, no professional education is imparted to the vast number of youths

we characterise as a want of finality in our educational system, a deficiency which cannot be justified by any manner of excuse or apology, and which a paternal

Tannery on the Pootung side, for Tls. 36,000.

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natives.

Alin and Li Abing, for escaping from the chain- imprisonment on previous convictions-to under- zeug while undergoing their respective terms of

THE Government of Batavia bas given notice to the Admiralty that the commander ofte Netherlands Majesty's ship Samarang reports the existence of a tow, wooded island, itherto uncharted, lying westward of Selaru, Timor Laut Islands. The island is reported to be about two

a mile broad. Position as given, centre of island The International Council of Women held in (approximate); lat 8 rs S., long. 130 39 E. Washington last month was the first gathering of DRAMATIC criticism in Chiengo may not be wholly its sort ever held. Of notable English women there conventional, but it has elements of sincerity. Offe percent) Helen Taylor, the step-daughter of John Stuart Mill, who has served on the Chicago News says: "As cach woman left the able contributions to the literature of social and was sentenced to nine months imprisonment,

wasdeferred.-Wong Alam,the gold nugget man, THE Bombay Gazette Weekly Budget of the 3rd Grand Opera House last evening she carried an

political economy; Mrs. Millicent Fawcett, the Wong Atak, for trading in the same line of trick, wasteful expenditure, since the coffers are found is no question about her genius for sorrow, but been commented upon as an instance of upon the actress was loud and fervent. There why drown one's self in a torrent of woe and call

if only their tutors, or the Government We note that the adjoined meeting of the which indirectly rules our educational Legislative Council will be held on Friday, the pruning on the vast mass of learning the 25th. matter which is enforced on them, and

a father term of nine months incarceration terms. Wong Afat, the third prisoner convicted of

with hard labour at the expiration of their allotted

Governmem ought to use its endeavours to establishments, would effect a judicious' 27th inst., at 4 p.m. instead of on Wednesdays an American sensatio al actress the critic of the London School Board and has made some valu. .ofa similar offence, was in hospital, and sentence

remedy and make good.

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We are all aware of the great strides

technical or professional education, has which is mostly useless and aimless, A Feb. says The purchase of two iron safes at a opera glass in one hand and a moistened pocket- widow of the blind Postmaster-General, to whose and for having a cloudy record against him in lately taken at home and in every part of complete system of commercial education cost of Rs. 20,000 for the public treasury of Goal handerchief in the other, and the praise bestowed influence was largely owing the extensive employ- the annals of the Supreme Court, was relegated

divilised world. It has been engrafted should be devised, by means of which our as an essential branch into every school or rising generation should adequately college where only general instruction was formerly iniparted; it has revolutionised Prepare Itself for the various walks of the ancient system of classic tuition and

generally empty.

whose volumes on political economy contain presumed the gold finder will have uniple ment of women in the English post offices, and to Victoria Gaol for two years, where it is to be commerce. It may be said that there is barely THIS morcing, William Thomson, chief enginee] it amusement? Why flock to see a performance much that is worth reading; Mrs. Dilke, the opportunity of instituting enquiries into the owner of the Despatch newspaper and a well-secrets of alchymy and the philosopher's stone.

Mme. Bagelet of Paris stands for the prison sonment respectively. One of the chain-gang girl, and now on the London School Board; sentenced to five years, and three months impri- work, and Italy, Denmark, Sweden and Germany run-aways, on being asked what he had to say sent representatives. The Collegiate Aluminte, why sentence should not be passed on him, the Unitarian Women's Conference and other harangued the Court in a long drawn speech organizations of women also had delegates. The wherein be charged the Gaol authorities with Red Crois was represented by Clara Barton, the supplying him with insufficient food; he had bad

given' it the elements it has from tinge any room in the Colony for English aspirants ofthesteamer Pemptos, charged a coal-coolie wit inartistic in every detail merely for the sake of known lecturer; and Henrietta Mullen, a Girton-Li Aching and Lam Ang, for burglary, were

impicaiorial beep wanting in-solidity Portuguese invasion from Macao. We are to the clerkical profession, owing to the and utility; it has invaded our Universities, nevertheless confident that our employers, and taught our philosophers and our

who pride in their nationality, would give mathematical, wranglers that abstract the preference to British trained clerks science and even high literature are of no

rather than to the medley of quill

on board the steamer on the 21st inst. Prison admitted the charge and was sentenced by Mi stealing his watch and chain valued at $20 for

Sercombe-Smith to four months imprisonmen with hard labour. PATIESON JOLLY, a printer, was interred, on t 5th March, in Dublin. He was probably

WE are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. A. R. Marty, of Messrs. Marty and d'Abbadie of this weeping? Has not the world tears enough

colony and Haiphong, for copies of a new guide for travellers between Haiphong and Hanoi by the 'Service subventionné des Correspondances Fluviales of Tonquin, of which line they are

account when they are aimless; in a word, drivers who flourish among us, Thare oldest printer in the world, having served the owners. An extension has lately been given temperance movement by Miss Frances Willard, po pork for so many days; it was always congee, are also, the engineering, the mining,, the apprenticeship in the famous Edinburgh hou to the line of the river mails of Tonquin, and the Women's National Press Association by and salt fish; this state of things had preyed on firm root in all civilised and progressive architectural, the electrical, and the naviga- of Ballantyne, and he pulled the first sheet of t Messrs. Marty and d'Abbadie have made. Mrs. Marion McBride of the Boston Post. Mrs. his mind, and as he dreaded being afflicted with to have entered on its period of manfu tional departments of tuition to be taken Edinburgh Fournal more than seventy yes Arrangements to run a daily steamer between the Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Lucy Stone, Miss | byemia,or some other complaint originated from

professional education has taken such a

nations that the system may safely be

said

into account. If Government would give ago. He was vigorous in bis 103rd year,

vitality, and that it promises to realise duo encouragement to these branches of THE Government Gazsira notifies that under unheard of achievements on the field of professional education, what a mighty powers granted by section 8 of Ordinance

human progress.

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Auviales"

ports. The steamers of the "Correspondances Lillie Devereux, Blake, with other prominent poverty of blood, he came to the conclusion are underlined to run dally to and leaders of the woman suffrage movement, were that he had better show a pair of heels to his from the following places: Haiphong-Hanol; expected. Miss Grace H. Dodge of the Now watchful custodians on the first available opportu Haiphong-Phu-lang-thuong; Seven Pagodas-York School Board was expected to speak onnity. He hoped the Court would acknowledge the

That it deserves all the success it is improvement might be effected in the 1887, the Governor in Council has been plea Dap-cau;, Hong-yen-Nam-dink; Haiphong-manual training. The affair promised to be a

course of a few years in the learning to order that the provisions of the Parcel Post Mul-Ngoc; Handi-Bac-kat; Nam-dinh-Vinh. noteworthy gathering, representing the progress better organised, than the Queen's Hotel,

now, reaping, suffice it to

say that,

like all methods which act in unison with the laws of mother nature, profes-

portion of our community!

Tux Nagasaki Express reports that news has been received in Tokio that Sir Francis Plunkett bas been transferred to Stockholm, and will be succeeded in Tokie by Mr. Hugh Fraser, Her Majesty's Minister Resident in Chile. The following is a record of Mr. Fraser's services as

of women along many lines.

A CORRESPONDENT (F.W.S.) writing to us on Saturday last draws attention to what he calls "n remarkable but not an honourable distinction" in the difference between the Lighthouses on the Chinese coast, organized and kept in working

extended to the Colonies of Victoria, and So. and West Australia; to the West Coast of Afri That we urgently require it, that our the Austrian and French Post Offices in Turk sional education cannot fail of attaining youths are simply wasting their precious the Azores Islands, Beyrout, Bulgaria,

Cameroons, Costa Rica, French Colonies, Made its goal. Nature is pre-eminently educa-time over branches of studies which are

Man's short-lived practically of no use to them, that the and Servia A Table of rates is Ronexed to age is a continuous aiming at something by the introduction of several branches of ¦ Kuhlow's laments a serious falling-off in Jany given by the Herald, presumably from the order and efficiency by the Chinese authorities, will simply be doing their duty to make the course through his terrestrial pligrim-Chinese community would largely benefit order.

sound professional education, are truisma last in the export of iron manufactures ioreign Office List:-Was appointed Attaché and those on the headlands and promontories of gaol birds as uncomfortable

tive and utilitarian.

tangible and useful. He is taught by

which require no further comment. We are hard-earned experience, by rudely jostling with the rough angularities of things and sanguine in the hope that some Inspector of men that crowd into his path, that life of Schools of the future will one day take

is not always moonshine, that it is rather pride in reporting progress on the intro-sible for the decline. These syndicates | September 21, 1861; was promoted to be a

Germany, and says that it is pretty well un established to control prices are largely re stood that the syndicates which have 1

formed to prevent manufactures compt if they have resulted in reducing the ex it would appear that German manufacti cannot compete with English, and mo profit.

OUR MACAO LETTER.

wisdom of his deed, and send him to some other restaurant to complete his term of imprisonment, His lordship gave the batanging one to understand they he was glad to hear the gaol treatment was found to be uncomfortable to the inmates; that he hoped the sojourners within its walls would derive more advantage from a deficiency than from a superabundance of food; and that so long from their custodians, the Gaol authorities as crime lingers on earth, and prisoners run away

possible while at the Hague, January 15, 1855; at Dresden, Hongkong worked under British domination they are explating their evil deeds. The chain- February 23, 1855; at Copenhagen, November and intelligence. As far as my knowledge and was marched out to his old nest.

gang speaker at fast assented with his lordship, 19, 1857 at Berlin, January 26, 1860; and Paid goes," remarks our correspondent, which is Attaché to the Legation in Central America, confirmed by the official list of lighthouses on the Chinese coast, issued by the statistical and Secretary, October 1, 1862; was transferred department of the Imperial Maritime Customs, d'Affaires at Guatemala from April 19, 1864, till a set of good fog signals except these under the August 8, 1865. Was transferred as and Secre care of the Hongkong Government. A gong, a tary to Berlin, June 26, 1866; did not proceed gun, or some other fog signal on Green Island thither, but retained his appointment at Stock-would have prevented the steamer Ashington holm. Was transferred to Pekin, January 14, from running on the rocks on the morning of 1867, where he was Acting Chargé d'Affaires axst inst. while passing through the Sulphur transferred to St. Petersburg, February 13, which have had narrow escapes in passing 1871, (but did not proceed), and to Florence, through the Ly-e-moon Barrows, for similar lack July 1, 1871. Was promoted to be Secretary of the common and highly necessary fog signals of Legation at Pekin, April 24, 1874 ; where he which are to be found in nearly all other parts of was Acting Chargé d'Affaires from June 7, 1876, the world. It is a shame and a disgrace to Hong ill February 28, 1879 Was-promoted to be kong that its Lightausser should at this date be Secretary of Einbassay at Vienna, November found without the means of making the usual Bth, 1879, where he was Acting Chargé d'Affaires fog signals to approaching vessels, and thus

a mighty struggle, bringing all his Innerduction of technical schools in Hongkong against each other even at an actual loss to Stockholm, June 25, 1864; was Chargé all the Chinese Light-houses are provided with

resources into play, commanding him to face difficulties, to surmount them, and to honourably acquit himself of his allotted task. Nature is an inflexible task-mistress.. If her injunctions are disobeyed, she brings

her code of alternatives to bear on.us,

TELEGRAMS."

(Reuter.)

FRANCE.

LONDON, 20th April.

MACAO, April 21st, 1888.- cropped up in this everlastingly dull place.

Since my last very few occurrences have A Government Council was held last Wednes- day to discuss several questions connected with with closed doors, I have not been able to obtain our finances, but as all such meetings are held any reliable information. We shall probably have to wait for the millenium before we enjoy local State councillors

and unflinchingly demands as well as General Boulanger has taken his seat amidering of the toth inst. in a godown at N. from November 2 till November 28, 1869. Was Channel, and I could mention other vessels the privilege of publicity in the meetings of our

teaches due compliance with her decrees, the

If Education means anything at all, it is the art of training men to perform their task during their earthly career. If on the contrary; it fills the brains with illusions, or perverts the heart with hopes of the unattainable, education is evidently cur

acclamation of crowds

A committee of the Chamber of Deputies has

appointed to rovine the constitution,

been

(Einm the Courrier de Saigon) FRENCH INDO CHINA.

PARIS, April 13th..

A decree is in course of preparation abolishing

SAYS the Japan Daily Mail Fire was covered shortly before six o'clock on the adjoining, and in fact forming part of the mises of the Hongkong & Shangbal Bank. tunately the firemen were able to amer flames before they had obtained serious hea the damage done being trifling. The co of the godowa, consisting of stores and of.various kinds, were removed the day and it is probable that the outbreak was

here on Wednesday last, and are now partly The Mahrattas contingent of Police arrived quartered at the Barra barracks, partly at St. Domingos

Governor of Timor, td Sourabaya, requesting The Government received a telegram from the one of the Australian line of steamers to call at Dilly on her inward trip, on or about the gth May, so as to convey to your port Senhor da have to defray the cost of the return trip of their necessary diplomatic and administrative tour

tempter and arch-enemy, It wore better for the posts of Secretary-General and Lieutenant- the carelessness of a coolle. Beginning w‡ | from August 3rd till December 14th, 1821. Was have to rank second to those of our Chinese Costa and family. Our Treasury will of course. us to roam through the forest in a state of Governor of Indo-China, and curtailing all the tobacco embers knocked from a pipe and transferred to Rome, February 231d 1882, where | neighbours." We append in another column one Excellencies from their highly important and

savagery, sharpening our flint-tipped arrows and playing shrill tunes on Pan's old": pipe, rather than stock our brains with ideal vagariesdevoid of all utility, orhavo instilled

bigh salaries.

through the boards of the flooring, the fire April 15th.kelihood smouldered all night, breaking

length in the morning. A portion of the had to be torn up to get at the seat of the but beyond this litila damage way CRUROC

It is reported that the Government will not nominate another Governor-General, till after

he return of Monsieur Constans.

he was Acting Chargé d'Affaires from September at to October 1882; and from July 16th 10 December 22nd, 1883. Was promoted to be Minister Resident and Consul-Geberal at Santiago, February 17th.1885.

of several letters we have received on this highly Important subject which, with many others, appear to have boon: tirely overlooked and forgotten by the late rulers and councillers of the model Colony,!!!!

good many lawsuits are being instituted here by the popular Board of Treasury ugainst persons whose taxes have been in arrents. We are thus, one and all, called upon, to fill in the gap produced by the deficit lately discoveredi

all