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linations. NOTICE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MAY

THE EMPEROR.

BERLIN, April 24th. The Emperor continues to improve.

CANDIA. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 24th, Desperate fighting has taken place beiucen he Turks and Greeks at Candia; so far the A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. latter have the best of it, having killed and

mutilated five hundred Turks.

HAVE JUST RECEIVED THEIR ANNUAL SUPPLY

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE French corvette Primangurl (17), Captain SEED Veion, arrived at Yokohama on April 24th."

HMS, Rattler arrived at Nagasaki on the oth ulte, from Hongkong, and left again- bound to Kobc.

for immediat sowing.

TUR CHONDRONG" DISPENSARY,

Medina and March. 1948,

The Hongkong Telegraph

Posteroon, Tuesday, May 1, 1888,

The following important discovery in

|.11.] R.M.'s cruiser Nayesdník, Jest Nagasaki for Kobe on the 19th ulto. The Viliaz arrived at Nagasaki from Shanghai on the 23rd.'

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The Indo-Chinois reports that cholera has broken out at Saigon. The havoc wrought has nraved sufficient to alarm the Chinese inhabitants of that city.

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Lau Ki-I was quarter master of the the wheel the time she went ashore. I went Ashington, and was stationed on the port side of there at twelve o'clock, and when the captain said starboard we starboarded the heim.

FINDING,

practice of medicine in Zululand, however, does if one of Dr. Nembula's patients should die the not offer many attractions, for it is expected that doctor would promptly be smelt out.”.

Licut-Colonel George Bluvion, late and Queen's Royals, retired A.P.D., died on the 19th inst, at Southsea, at the of 66.

nge

He served in the Eastern Campaign of 1854-55, including siege and fall of Sebastopol, and received the the battles of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman.

medal with four clasps, and Turkish medal. He also served in the Chinx Comprign of 1860, receiving the medal and clasp for Peking

w. A. May, was to have left Portsmouth on the The Impérituse, 10 armoured cruiser, Captain 29th March for the China Station, and she was accordingly inspected on the 28th by the Come in the afternoon anders were received directing gun fittings had been found to be not in accordance the ship to return into harbour, as some of her with the regulation pattern; and her departure has, therefore, been delayed for several days.

Hongkong at the entrance to the Sulphur heard the captain call out "starboard" and Channel

"hard-a-starboad" when I put the wheel over The Court was composed of Commander R. M. to starboard. Then the and mate camenta Rumsey R.N., Harbour Master, (President) the wheel house and put the helm more to Staff Com. J. A. G. Buckner R. N. H.M.S.starboard; I put the helm about five turns over. Victor Emanuel, Capt. C. F. Preston, steamship This witness to his pidgin English explanation. Lombardy, and Exptain W. H. Jackson cam was understood to say that he was standing in ship Taftang

the wheel house with his hands go-the wheel. Captain Walter Reynell, steamship Asking and his back to the ship's bow and on ton, at whose request the court was held, on being duly sworn said I was master of the frem right to left, thinking (of course errously) getting the order to starbead be but the wheel British steamer Ashington and hold a master's that such was the starboard movement. certificate dated 24th January 1884, issued at ny ship I was bound from Saigon to Hongkong Hongkong. On the morning of the accident to with a full cargo of rice, and I left Saigon on ship was, forward 16.4 aft 18.3. I made the the 16th of April. The draft of water of my Gap Rock about 8.30 pm. on the 20th, sighted Green Island light between 11 p.m.official number 63010, of which Walter Reynellmander-in-Chief, Admiral Sir G... Willes. But

"We find that the British steamship Ashington, and half past; it was then about six or seven

is master, whose certificate of competency is miles distant. Everything went well till we got No. 19 issued at Hongkong, and which vessel to the middle of the Sulphur channel. The on entering Hongkong barbour on the night of tide was about three quarters ebb, setting strong the 20th April, grounded on the west point of to the southward. The chief officer was on watch Hongkong Island in the channel nared on the We were carrying about 45 lbs. of steam and chart, Sulphur Channel. making, I should say, from 84 to 9 knots per hour. I was on the upper bridge over the wheelhouse that the casualty was brought about through From the evidence before us we are of opinion

by means of a speaking tube. The second officer starboard, as had been ordered by the master. was standing by the telegraph which com municates with the engine room. I ordered the officers the crew of the ship consisted of Chinese That with the exception of the master and helm a starboard because I thought we were too and the quarter-masters at the helm, at the time near the land, but by a mistake, the quartermaster of the accident, were Chinese; the casualty ut the helm to port -the order was misunder-occurred soon after midnight, and just after the lood. The quartermaster was a Chinaman. The change of watches had been made. order to "starboard" was repeated but I saw by "starboard" from the wheel house, and the further to part. The order was answered second officer, by my orders, ran down to correct the mistake. By that time the ship's head was across the channel. The second order that I' given about a minute after the first order. When

I ́gave to 'starboard "

was the second officer got into the wheel-house he found the helm nearly amidships, but by that time it was too late and the ship touched the rocks with her forefoot. Immediately on grounding I had casts of the lead taken, when we found 10 feet at the bows-[the rest ofthe sentence was inaudible]

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NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL.. The O & O. S. S. Co.'s steamer Oceanic,

For the subjoined telegrams we are inlabiekty Capt. Jno. Metcalfe, with the American mails of the 7th ulto, arrived in port this alternoon. out San Francisco exchanges -

LONDON, March 31st. London society is intensely agitated over the repeated tumor that an American girl, Mis Endicott, is about to honor England in genmi, and Birminghans in particular, by confiding her hand and heart to Joe Chamberlain, Wlien brought face to face with the soft impeachment

being able to see the young lady who one day, Chamberlain denies it in such a blushing way that fuel is added to the fire of conjecture. Not If Joseph plays the cards well, may be a preresa." studio of Ethel Morlock, who has just painted society last week, went in detachments to the

daughter, and took an envious look at it. Kunity. a charming portrait of the Secretary of War's Fair, which can be relied on to be misinformed on American matters, heats from a special chin- missioner on the spot, that "Miss Rudicott is a beautiful, specimen of the rice of American of Furope," losses who have achieved the American conquest

Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the and communicated with the man at the wheel the helm being put to port instead of to Service as an assistant surgeon in May, 1848, York, He lauglis nt newspaper paragraphers | Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- ship Batavia will leave Shanghai to-morrow at 2 p.m. for this port,

The Shurpao reports that certain districts in- Wei-chow-fu and Kwong-chow-fu. Kwang-tung Province, have been recently flooded by the

re and to the bacillus rif Asiatic Cholera. overflow of the rivers, and more than 1,000 the "tell-tale" that the helm was being put still the master or officers, though we consider that

people have been drowned.

SAYS the Shanghai Courier-Wool lately arrived in the North from Mangolia is, as a rule, mixed with dirt to the extent of 15 to 20 per cent, and shows progress towards honest dealing. of the weight. This is a great improvement, DR. G. O. ROGERS of Dorchester, Mass. has gone to Mexico in the interest of the archeolog ical department of Harvard College, and will remain in that country several months while in the prosecution of his antiquarian researches. H.M.S. Audacious with Admiral Salmon on

Hon. Brigade-Surgeon Richard John William Orton died on the 20th inst. at Newcastle. Staffordshire at the age of 56. He entered the

Sept. 12, 1855, and received the medal with Crimea with the Medical Staff from Feb 23 in and retired in June, 1881. He served in the

clasp for Sebastopol, and Turkish medal, He also served with the 44th Regiment during the campaign in the North of hina in 1865, receiving the medal with clasp for Taku.

We are of opinion that no blame attaches to

baving in view the fact that he had only Chinese Siam for the purpose of obtaining a concession General Sir Andrew Clarke, speaking at a it would have been more prudent had the master, public banquet, declared that his mission fo quarter-masters at the wheel, stationed an officer for a railway from Bangkok to Zimme had been there to see that, his orders were carried out. compiciely successful. The line would offer the Also, that it would have been better not to have been made just as the ship was catering a narrow industrious people, and it could, he stated, be shortest route to the great Southem Provinces of allowed the change of men at the wheel to have China, the towns in which were inhabited by channel.

easily and cheaply constructed, and worked at a The master's certificate is therefore-returned--trifling cost. The milway would, moreover pass to him."

through fertile and populous districts in Siam.

Minister Phelps sails on Thursday for New

He says he knows nothing about it. who are elevating his to the Supreme Court.

public attention. The English, French and The Marocco question bids fair, in the next

Spanish papers are tilted with amusing coments few weeks, to eclipse the Eastern question in

concerning the policy which the State Deput ment, Commander McCalla and Consul Lewis ́are carrying out. The Globe prints a long article saying that the Mors retain firm, the American this evening on the subject, and concludes bys Government having negatived all that was to be expected from the appearance of an arined force by announcing, that under no circumstances would the commander be allowed to shoot, and there seems nothing left for the United States to Moots a complete diplomatic victory. do but retire from their position and give the

Telegraphing for Tangier this morning the The Porpoise, 6, cmiser, Commander. R. W.

special World correspondent says: The situation" White, which left Portsmouth on the zznd inst..s unchanged here, and the Moorish Government arrived at Plymouth on the 2ird March being is content to let it remain unchang d, for the incidents of the past few days have extinguished and with the torpedo boats put into Brixham, On the way up the harbour No. 36 torpeite host. States here. The ship Enterprise is the laugh- came into collision with a collier off Keybaming stock of the Mediterranean. A few days of Yard, with the result that she bent two of her stanchions and received other damage. She left repair of the damage sustained hy No. 36 was Plymouth on the 25th, on her voyage. The completed by the 24th.

is taken from the Scientific American, and is of especial intérest in a colony like this which is rapidly catching up New York in the magnitude of its shipping interests, If an extensive Bay. like that of New York, is found capable of preserving and perpetuating the germs of Asiatic, cholera, how much more so is the comparatively confused barbour, of Hongkong with its anything but fragrant" foreshores, (or heard, Sapphire Captain W. C. Karstake.on finding my vessel fixed on the ground I streams now-a-days, for that matter) likely Hernine Captain Charles I. Balfour, Mutine į signalled for assistance and subsequently several of the Harbour Master's Court, we respectfully delayed on the way down Channel by the fog, what fragment of prettige remained to the United to perdeuate this fell disease. This new

Commander J. H. Martin, and Swift Commander lighters came alongside for the purpose of A. C. B. Bromley, left this forenoon for the East lightening my ship by taking out cargo. We scientific discovery should act as on Coast,

discharged about 1000 bags of rice. additional incentive to those who support

I consider the accident was caused by the the Praya reclamation. Moreover, the

Shortly after we grounded a steamer passed us quarter-masters putting the helm the wrong way. Government will now see the importance

which I hailed, but got no answer. My total complement of crew was 25, consisting of five from a further sanitary point of view of

sailors, four quarter-masters and a boatswain. pushing on the scheme without delay.

The Europeans were three engineers, two officers One of the great-difficulties in the colony, Tax Straits Timer learns that on the 24th ofto.and myself had on previous occasions found `bas_hlways-been the lateral currents,

three more prisoners have succumbed to cholera the quarter-masters.making mistakes about the which run east or west through the harbour.risoner from some other cause is also reported. in the Prison Hospital. Another death of a

Captain Rumsey-If you had any doubts and would tuus, unless the discharge of To make matters worse, cholera has broken out

about the helmsmen, would it not have been sewage was efforted at some place on the mong the prisoners sent to St. John's Island, better to station an officer at the wheel.

and one.death there is reported. ⠀⠀

Captain Beynell The second officer was castern or western side of the island,

standing where he could see what was going on THE Fapau Daily Mail learns that pending the in the wheel-house although he was standing on arrival from Shanghai of Mr. George Jamieson the bridge. When I looked into the wheel to act as Judge of the British Court for Japan, house, immediately after the ship grounded, the H.M. Chargé d'Affaires has appointed, temp helm was still a little to part, and had never rarily, Mr. I. Carey Hall, heretofore Acting been put to starboard at all the officer was Consul for Yokohama, to

Acting Judge of starboarding when the steamer struck the racks. the Court. Mr. Jahn Harrington Gubbins wil] Captain Buckner-Whereabouts were you seplace Mr. Hall as Acting Consul

in the Sulphur Channel when the first order was given to starboard

have the effect of intensifying instead of improving its sanitary state:-

NEW YORK IN DANGER FROM CHOLERA, The flowing report of Assistant Surgeon J-J. Kinyoun of anddyres of the water of New York by is important, because it shows that the livrillos of Avistic cholera may live in salt water.

and heraus Haifan Taland is believed to be infected by rlolers periť:

A COLLISION took placé, according to our Northern enntemporary, at the mouth of the Pen between the ss. Wenchow and a rice junk. The junk sank near the South Bank: and the Wenchow, being damaged, returned to Taku for repairs.

The cities and towns discharging their “gejusor into the New York hay have an estimated prand cinn af deere millions of people. In view of this fact, r, chemical and hielocical examina.nid to be five feet of water now on the floor of

Wr. (Chinese Tinies) regret to learn from Port Arthur that a leakage has taken place through ar under the cofferdam of the steam basin st Port Arthur, which has proved too much for the pumping machinery to cope with and there are,

the basin. This accident will probably some- otherwise were reported to be progressing rapidly.

helm.

(Here follow the signatures of the President and the other members of the Court.) Before closing this record of the proceedings beg to call the attention of Commander Rumsey. to the difficulties of heating-froin the reporter's table-the questions put by the Court, and the answers of the witnesses. Our representative informs us that himself and the two gentlemen China Mail could hear nothing on the first who attended on behalf of the Daily Press and opening of the proceedings, and by no means could they hear, properly, during the whole period of the Court's sitting. Our representative then spoke to the President.Commander Rumscy. who was kind enough to say he was very should be drawn closer up to that at which the sorry, and suggested that the reporter's table Court was sitting; but even then the facilities for hearing were highly unsatisfactory, and for simple reason which we understand, might be very readily obviated. The President sits at one on his left hand, and thus naturally, neither end of the table with the witness' immediately. President nor witness find it necessary to "speak up." Finally, we think if these enquiries are going to be held in an open court some better method should be pursued of giving the repre- sentatives of the press-and through them the public of the Colony-those facilities for hearing The answers of witnesses, than such as at present

house and in mid channel.

Captain ReynellAbout abreast of the light-exist.

OUR MACAO LETTER.

firmness after the arrival of the Entrprise would have rattled the difficulty. Two days papers published a cablegram from Madrid afterward, however, the local French and Spanish covering a special from Washington stating that

business transacted has been in the lower grades, under no passible contingency was he to use his Secretary Bayard had been interviewed and had In the Tea market for China grown the small said that Commander McCalla had orders that commonest selling at prices that cannot pay the guns, Had this remark with which Secretary carcity, and prospects daily improve as the new would never have been the slightest danger of importer. For the finer kinds there it a marked Bayard is credited never been uttered, there of China is receiving serious consideration, and ever, some show of carnestness will have to be season looms in the near future. The position the necesity of armed interference. Now, how- the outcome, it is to be hoped, will-be-the-mens--mnde Ever at this tato day I think the Moors of resuscitating the trade to something of its will come to their senses. Ceylon Tea; the quality, so far, this season former condition. Indian Tea keeps firm. averages below that of the previous: still prices rule and to 3d per lb, higher than Indian,

venue vessels, a very felicitous method has been

In the naming of the three new Chinese adopted. Their names are Chuen-tino, Li-Kin, and Kot pan, which respectively are interpreted "Additional Article," "Inland Transit Dues," and "Enforced." Asit has been previously stated, the vessels are for the purposes of guarding the revenue arising out of the Salisbury-Tseng agreement of July, 1885, relating to opium. The vessels are named in commemoration of this additional article" of the Chefoe Conven

of determining its contents, and also to find..bow what delay the completion of the works, which side of the wheelis in the habit of smoking opium. those of our residents who place their implicit tion of 1876.

To Captain Preston :-The quarter-masters understand onough English to understand orders and there were two of them in the wheel-boute. To Captain Buckner :-The man on the port

turns to port when I first noticed the mistake.

To Capt Jackson-The helm was about to To Capt. Rumsey: When I stopped the immediately after,

started yesterday from here to consult the Sultan Negotiations, in the meantime, are instrusted to Faki El Abi, a more sympathetic man. Tonas

gross discourtesy. He is Spanish by descent, Re-Lewis, and who has treated him throughout with is said to be a violent parsonage, who dislikes

and all his influences have been thrown in the scale agains: Lewis, hoping to secure his recall, and return the late Consul here, called Mathews, whose real name was Mathen, a Spaniard by birth. It is to be hoped that Bayard and Cleveland will not love him the less for the enemics he has made. His present position is untenable, and unless more earnestness is shown by the State Department he will be compelled to leave here immediately. malady has once again taken one of those

BERLIN, March 31st.. The cruel course of the Emperor's incurable

better which fill the hearts of his family and the vast majority of his subjects with hopes that are without foundation. He made a splendid Appearance yesterday as he drove down Unter faithful wife, bearing the jyful loyal cries, "Lebe den Linden in an open court equipage with his der Kaiser and Lebe Unser Fritz! When returning toward Charlottenberg "through the

Said Mohammed Tongs, the Foreign Minister,''

In the Budget statement for India the following

1.

places, luring collected in sterilized flasks. The THE Band of the Northamptonshire Regiment engines, 1 gave the order "full speed astern" was received here yesterday to the effect that liable to be adversely affected-and at the unaccountable and only temporary turns for the

of the law wner was undertaken, for the purpose,

it would supper life of the different micro oresnisms of de estrcially that of Asiatic cholera. Accordingly, speriumis were obtained at different

fear was nhrived at the Narrows, the second alongside the steainekin Britannia (lving in quarantine), the third at He ffiman Island, and the fourth ge Svinburne Teland. These different strcimens were collected in thirty minutes, and just stineaming tale,

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Dessin was slightly alkaline.

will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at 8 o'clock. The following will be the programme:

Mach.....tugal's Millar.

Over

“Pandora**

.......Mendelssohn.

"Summer Nights”........................Stone..

fers Handel Selection......Nell Gwynne"......,.Manquette. Selection......"Marina "...

Wallace. Join Moran, Bandmaster.

John Cannan was second mate of the

Choleraic diseases are said to be rife at our suburb of Patane,

NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.

accurs: We have Rx. 8,500,000 of revenue, present moment it is adversely affected by China's increasing competition with other nations. a share in, the policy of armaments, which, willingly or unwillingly, the great European and more directly affecting us, is the incertainty nations have been driven to adopt. Finally of silver. The fall in its value seems temporarily arrested; but no one can say how long we shall have a respite from the progressive increase of our burdens which this fall has hitherto imposed "upon us."

MACAO, May 1st, 1888. Glad tidings from Peking have now reached faith in the all-curing powers of the Fortuguese- Chinese Treaty. Sursum corda! A telegram the long pending Treaty has been finally ratified at Peking

The difficulties lately experienced by the steamer Ashington, and hold a master's certificate Municipality with the pork farmer have been We are obliged by our military position to take of competency. The night of the ship stranding was on the bridge standing by the engine room satisfactorily overcome, Pork now-costs five telegraph. The steamer was approaching the cents a calty, the tax of three cents per head Sulphur Channel, and when the order was given slaughtered, being paid over to the Senade by by the captain to starboard, I noticed the ship some enterprising patriot. Still, we are paying was swinging the wrong way. I do not know a higher price for our eatables than you do at MR. C. J. BATRHAN, the local Secretary of the which way the heim was, but the ship was furn Hongkong, and are supplied with an inferior Cambridge Local Examinations informs us that

quality. of the 20 junior candidates who were examined ing as if she was under the influence of port at this centre in December last, the following helm. I heard the order given to "starboard" succeeded in satisfying the examiners and hard-a-starboard" but the ship stiil Hossein, Wong-Fan, F. Southey, R. F. Lam- continued to come to starboard. I ran into the wheel house and gave the helm about six turns mert and T. Singh. The following satisfied in Preliminary Religious knowledge ad English to starboard, hearing at the same time the subjects only: F. Lammert, F. Horspool, A. captain ordering the anchor to be let go. The Wallace. Of the candidates over age who took engines were also put full speed astern. I do the junior papers. He Man-Vin and Wan-Tsung- not know given to starboard. When when inte the junior papers. None of the senior candid order was given to starboard When I got into the wheel-house I found the helm about amid- ates passed.

ships, and gave it about six turns to starboard It takes about 14 turns from hard-a-starboard to hard-a-port and the ship did not strike till I had shifted the helm. It is usual in the Ashington for the helm's-men to repeat all orders given to them. When I got into the wheel house the two quarter-masters were standing there, one on each side the wheel; I told them to hard-a-starboard, and helped to put the wheel "over myself...“.

To Capt. Buckner-When I left the wheel house the helm was hard-a-starboard, and the 'captain did not come while I was there'; ha had gone to the engine-room skylight.

To Capt. Preston came on deck at mid- night, and the wheel was relieved Just as the ship was entering the channel.

To Capt. Jackson :—I could not see which

The Hiogo News reports a considerable distur- bance on the evening of the 22nd ulto, in the neighbourhood of the hatoba between a number of Russian sailors and the Japanese palice, "Pate coltivations were made from each of Several of the latter were severely handled, and the different specimens, and at the end of five some of the sailors drew their knives. Our con- days-halsvelayed-colonies-of-bacteria-temporary then goes on to say: It is to be Ex uninations showing the number of micro hoped these proceedings are not a sample of what may be expected while this Russian many of-war remains here, for the vessel only arrived on Friday, and before last evening there was an unseemly disturbance. If the crew of this vessel desire, an example worthy of imitation they will find one in the crew of the U.S.S. Ester, who have been here for a long time and have behaved in a manner reflecting credit upon themselves, their officers and the service to which they belong.

$ 4,00 10 buhle banilmater. Bajtsunko's nechungelumu la,209

cubic centimeter.' Atom in all 9.609 in cubic centiment. Swinbuurtor Plynd............... 11,109 ia cubic centimeter, "The mi ro-organisms found in each were several varieties of micrococci and one of a large belles. These were transferred to cultivation inars for further observations. On November 12, est tubes parily filled with sea water were thoroughly sterilized and insiculated in the usual manner, with pure cultivations of the spirilia of

Ancona, Capt. W. J. Webber, with the English The P. & O. 5. N. Company's steamship mail of the aand March, arrived in harbour yester day afternoon. We take the subjoined items from the London and China Express

His Excellency Lew Shui-fun, the Chinese Minister and suite, arrived in London on the 26th March from Paris, The Minister had arranged to retum, earlier, but was detained in Paris by illness.

Count Herbert von Bismark has received from the Czar the decoration of the Russian Alexander Nevaki Order. The Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia passed through Berlin to-day on their way to Cannes, uid Paris.

The Intelligence Department is completing arrangements for the approaching fleet evolutions on an unprecedented scale. The Channel first

and torpedo boats, and the inflexible, Colling reserve coastguard training squadrons will all be combined with a strong flotilla of gun vessels wood, Mercury, and other ships specially com missioned, besides several armed merchant steamers or cruisers. They will be divided into attacking and def nding squadrons, the harbour ships having to provide crews up to war comple ment on short notice, in order to test the scheme of navat mobilisation. Naval pensioners first on the list will be called out, and every arrange

war

'dense enthusinatle crowds the Berliners did a generous thing. It seemed to be understood, whose triumph the Kaiser's splendid appearance was, and on all sides were heard cries, to the effect that MacKenzie, for whom two weeks ago the gallows was too good, should be allowed to live.

however, the Emperor first gave palpable from the arrival in Berlin. Les Wednesday. The improvement has been gradual and dates

und ubted proof of it. Shortly after midday the Empress and her daughters, who are the patient's constant care-takers, went out to walk in the garden to bisk in the spring warmth and breathe in some of the almost summer sunshine, which for the first time this year had invaded the gloomy park of Elms. Ar they were walking the Kaiser suddenly appeared before them, smiling, wearing a soft hat and swinging a jaunty light cane. For a moment the Empress and abe endeavored to make him return to almost fainted. Then ruslung toward her husb

the

of Dr, Mackenzie's orders, he had escaped to give omagery, whence she thought that, in spite

her a pleasurable surprises. But the doctor also then appeared, telling the Empress that like all

to

theirs

Dunlop, on the China Station, will expire at the

The term of service of the Leander, 10, Captainment made to practically test our readiness for end of May no orders to return home, or for a

*hg|| Mr. Gourley asked the First Lord of the Ad- new crew to be sent out, to recommission her at miralty on the 26th March whether it was correct that the gunboat Warp, designed and Hongkong, bave yet been issued..

built with very high hulwarks, was sent to sea with deck ports lasufficient for the escape (when baking on boardy of heavy seas from the decks good soldiers the Emperor was a gold patient boats of similar type; and by whose Instructions and had only obeyed orders, the left the imponist whether this defect had been rectified in gun- a vessel constructed primarily for inshore and family alone with the first happiness that has way the wheel was, from my place on the A telegram from Rome says that the Arche river service was sent to sea during the typhoon the nirearly heavily burdened fimily,

been

ince the cares of state were added.

Asiatic cholem, and also of Finkler and Prior. SAYs the} London and China Eugrass:-On the bridge; I am of opinion the helm must have|ogical Bureau has received news of the success - scuttlesofthe Ward were exceptionally numerous increased by what is everybody's secret, that he season. Lord G. Hamilton: No the freeing The sufferings of the Kalker have bren been put the wrong way, but I could not see of the search for the site of Sybaris...This is that it was so.

and of a large relative area. On the suggestion who should stand nearest to him, his son and considered the most important discovery of the at the naval officers at the ports where they were heir, has been and perhaps is still backed by the Ashington, and hold a chief mate's certificate

John Jenkins was chief mate of the present decade in classical archeology.

fitting out some additional freeing scules have seed in Hongkong dated 13th August 1886. Orders have been received at Chatham for been cut in vessels of similar type, but they were Conservative party and the Prussinn Junkers in

not considered necessary

for the safety of the endeavoring to undermine, his father's position and Institute a regency. Many years will pro was on the forecastle where I had been about to be named the Blake, in memory of the Admiral nine days, the characteristic growth of the spirit-186. She has engines by Maudsley, of 10,000 minutes. I had been on deck since 8 pm of that name. She is to be of 9,000 tons burden general requirements of the service at sea and plot can be known, but the facts which are lum of cholera Asiatics could be produced in HP, which propel ber at a speed of 168 knots. I heard the captain call out "hard starboard," and 20,000-horse power.

to encounter any weather to which she might known are these, indate undeniable: Putlekamer, have been exposed, and not, as the hon. member Minister of the Interior, and the representative bas a yet longer lease of life.

coal capacity of 1,130 tons, sufficient to propel

Information has been received at the Foreign. implies, for niver mervice. Jalker Parson: Sloecker, the apostle of auli Examinations made from time to time; both by her a distance of 7,000 knots, at a ten-knot speed. belm. I heard the order several times

clusively that these spitilla have not only been kept alive, but have also greatly increased in numbers,

Cultivation tubes were inoculated from the water

eve of the departure of H.M.S. Impiricus we from day to day for the purpose of determining through her career has been the subject of the may be permitted to refer again to a ship which the longevity of the growths. During the first five days the water seemed to exert a slight inhibitory most acrimonious language. Built of steel at influrane over their development. It was further Portsmouth, and copper-sheathed, she is of

"

observed that until January 20, a period of sixty.B.400 tons displacement, and was completed In When the shin struck in the Sulphur Channel I the immediato commencement of a new vessel, vessel The Wasp was constructed for the 'bably pasa before the whole truth regonting this.

answer her

Deptone gelatine. That of Finkler and Prior and her total cost was £430,000. She has and noticed that the ship did not repeated, Offce from Her Majesty's Consul-General at The Impérieuse, Captain May, made a threb | Semitism? were the leaders. The whale pleť" - the plate methed and direct straining, show con. It is this question of coal capacity that has. but did not hear what the quarter-masters" said. Hamburg that tènders, to be sent in by April 3, hours': 'commissioned trial of her engines in the came to grief owing to the sturdy resistance of

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TELEGRAMS.

produced all the criticism. With her full supply on board she is immersed far more than her designers intended, though from the experi

qualities.

fact,

in reply. I noticed the ship's bead coming to starboard, all the time; then I heard the telegraph ring, and afterwards got the order to let about 15 or 10 fathoms of chain paid out, when

I checked the cable and afterwards stopped it at

have been invited in the Hamburg Oficiai Gazette of the 20th March for a supply of rails Solent on the 24th March, under the superin the Minister of Justice, Friedbery, who refined to

tendence of the officer of the Steam Reserve. allow the German Constitution to be contracted": fag part of the new harbour of Hamburg,

having been increased from 400 tons to goo tone, cold, No one is able Colonel Stirling Rivett Carnac, late 11th

during the cruise and the one

Dat

pp.

-After closely studying the currents of the mental cruise she went last year this did not as go the anchor ; which was done imtâediately, and and railway material the Baskenquay, form- } Her immersion, in consequence of her coal stores into a regency with Unser Fritz left, out in the upper bay, I am led to believe that il dejecta Į all detract from her seagoing that succeeded the so fathoms. I think the anchor, checked the -Hussars, whose death was announced on the military masts. Her forward-draught was 25-fIn the last few days-I met ons who perhaps from cholera patients should be thrown into the val Review last July, the Impérisuse dehayeg, I ship's head a little ; I did not have any occasion 28th ult, had served the Queen 'since the age of 10 in, and after, draught 28) ft. olny which gave knows more about the inner family life of the was greater than when she had a couple of iron Estood on the question to ay how Bismarck lower bay, cholera could gain a foothold on the contiguous shores, where every condition favor herself extremely well, and was well spoken of to go to the wheel house afterwards and do not sixteen years, in all parts of the world who e able to its development and propagation some

both fore and aft. Captain May has now been know how the helm was. The doors of the house

·ber o

ra mean immersion of 27 ft. gain." But as it "present imperiál family than any one outside the Litics exlut."

ordered by the Admiralty to give his opinion

onal on family members, From him learned much of her recent craise. Even if she may not be all are at the sides, and it is closed in, in fiunt, with anything was stirring. He was in the China is intended to pat 200 tons of coal

Campaign 1860,- being present la rety action board, and at 37 tone of weight ar stimated the healthy life of the Kaiser. Empress Victoria. that was anticipated of her, she is yet a very fine watch, in couples ; there are always two of them the taking of Peking (medal

windows. The quarter-masters keep watch-and- all

and

to, sink ber an inch her mean draught, will it seemt, brought over from England with het two clasps) vensel, and will be a vast acquisition on the on Watch, N

eventually be close upon.

hich will the good old custom of family prayers, and overy. China Station in place of the present antiquated To Captain Buckner-I had the first watch i

There is nothing special to report as to alk.. bring the top of her side armour.

The morning and evening the whole household is, Audacious, which may be comfortable enough the second mate relieves me at in o'clock. He been rather more numerous, but there is still far

The transactions of the last few days have perhaps steam trial was remarka

Sho

red, together. A few short prayers are as home, but which cannot be relied on much did not relieve me on that occasion, as I left the from any currency of business. The deliveries fans being kept turning for b

was driven at her full Yalu for fighting qualities.

bridge and went forward about ten minults before show improved dgures, but the improvement is only. The mean steam and did not hear any orders given before I lat:

welve left the captain in charge of the bridge still confined to Tussah silk. Daliveries Marchan 579 lbs, the

3 to 28 :-- Chisa 856, Japan 155, Canton 408, the starboard and Be To Capt. Preston;—It is customary to have Tussah 776 total, 3,195 bales.

the revo ail hancis on deck on entering and leaving port,

+3,478.6, (atm and the quarter masters are on duty four hours. Wong Chur-Speaking in very bad English said in answer to Capt. Rumscy was quarter. manter of the Aikligion the time she went ashore). I was at the middle of the wheel and

(From Straits Timer) PARLIAMENT.

** LONDON, April 24thi Mr. Gladstone gave notice, that at the cordAVNING miltee stage he will oppose the duty on bottled wines a sou

The French Government threatens to with- draw the most favored naflon treatment, should this tax be passed, ALL

THE QUEENIESS

THE STRANDING OF THE STEAM "SHIP" ASHINGTON".

OFFICIAL ENQUIRY

An official enquity was held this morning, L. The › Harbour” fice, into the circumstances Her Majesty and the Emperor of Austris had | Erinnected with the stranding of the steamnabij most cordial interview at Innsbruck,

Ashington on the 21st April on the

hidr

The Zulus are going ahead. physician of their own in the perioa Nembole, win, bay just returned to his native land after a seven yan absence in the United

tha

tion:

the Scriptures nzé, read and” the service

the singing of some old

ophla playing

Minfonnant has given me

Javorlie hymn, which

to Berl