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intent, admits of no denial. The Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce is a serpi. private institution which represents the interests of its members individually. and collectively; it is not and never has been in touch with the community at large, nor does it pretend to be. The Justices of the Peace are nominees of the Government wholn publicmatters represent themselves and nobody else. And it must be remembered that as the unofficial members nominated directly by the Governor always had been members of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Bench of Justices, these influential bodies actually stood in need of no additional representation. The advantages therefore that Governor Bowes claimed to have conferred on the colony were absolutely m; and the recent election by popular vote of two members to the Sanitary Board has clearly proved that the impracticability of elections, of which we heard so much, was the outcome of fear or ignorance--probably, of both. Sir

The Hongkong Celegraph WILLIAM DES Væus, without indulging in

HONGKONG, WEDNESday, June 13, 1888,

Baron de Soubeyran's b. c. Saint Gall, by

Salteador The Garry....

'TYPHOON "EXPECTED. A cologram has been received from the Obser- vatory to the effect that a typhoon is expected in the China Sea..

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LOCAL AND GENERAL

THE Russian corvette Ryuda arrived at Nagasaki from Sydney on the gist ulio.*. Tite French gunboat Parizval arrived at Yoko hama from Kobe on the 4th inst THE Italian Opera Company have been per forming with fair success at Cavite since the commencement of this month. THE Concert by local amateurs in aid of the sufferers by the bursing of the Oporto Theatre, will take place at the Club Lusitano on the 21st inst.

The Ocean Co.'s steamer Antenor and the "Ben" liner Benvenue, tea inden for London, passed Chinking on the afternoons of the 5th and 6th inst. respectively.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Palinurus, from London, left-Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 19th inst, a THE Shanghai Mercury "heara kom Hongkong that a well known chemist establishment at that port and another 'in. Shanghai will be combined shortly, and will form Limited Liability Company...

WE are informed by the agents (Messia, Russell & Ca) that the "Union" Line'steamer Baltaries Brook, from Hamburg, left Singapore for this port to-day, and may be expected to ardive an

the 19th inst

The V,S.S. Marion, Capt. Dyer, arrived at choleraic disease, and will continue to be until we change the conditions nader which we and Yokohama from Honolulu on the 1st-instr-

the native inhabitants live MESSRs, Adamson, Bill & Co. Inform us thai the "Shire" Line seamship Merionethshire lete Singapore on the 1211f inst; for this port.. THE Japan Official Gazette states that the

Emperor has been pleased to confer the grand decoration of the Rising Sun on Prince Bernard of Saxe-Weimar,

A BRIGADIER of the Spanish corps. of millary engineers has proceeded to Corregidor Islands Ir the Philippines to superintend, the construction

there. of the fortifications which are being carried out OWING to unusual pressure of other business. we have so far been unable to deal with the remarks of the London Field on the Douglas Challenge Cup dispute. Probably we shall have

our say on the maller to-morrow.

MR. ALFRED LISTER, Postmaster General Colonial Treasuter, etc., etc, left for home yesterday by the Canadian Pacific steamer Parthia on twelve months' leave of absence Alfred's obituary notie will appear in our nex issue.

EXHAUSTED

ONÍDITION OF THE CHINESE IMPERIAL”,

TREASURY པ----,གཱམཛིཏྭཱཏ Our Tientsin. contemporary translates the following, which is said to have excited mach attention in Peking, from the Shik Pao.of May 24th

We understand that the Ministers of the Boud of Revenue are much troubled in mind aléut

any of the laboured, long-winded, and generally meaningless orations which were his predecessor's leading characteristic The election by the rate-payers on Monday and weakness, has apparently decided lost of two members of the Santary Board that the rate-payers of Hongkong are isadistinct innovation in the political within their rights, and are neither incap- history of this colony, and may be safely able nur unwilling to take an active garded as the thin end of the wedge part the same as free British subjects that will within a very short period make in all other sections of the limpire, in the popular representation in Hongkong management of their own affairs; and something inore, than the feeble sham for therefore we have every reason to hope which that prince, of drivellers, Sir GEORGE and believe that, as soon as the requisite DURING the month of May the Manila Police of suspicion by a few nervous people and when under distreauing circumstances, of Mr T. G. 1-Tis. 5,000,000 which had to be laid aside for the

Bows, claimed so much credit. In some other respects this election was both importam and significant, but its chief interest undoubtedly centres in the impetus which it Itas given to a very badly treated community to persevere in contesting the miserable form of official slavery under

WE are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardinė, Matheson & Ca) that the "Glen" liner Clen priney, from London, lefs Singapore this morning the present exhausted condition of the Imperial for this port.

exchequer. The two principal causes that have ANOTHER death occurred in Victoria Gaol "at

A) brought about this state of things have been the. eleven o'clock last night from apofadic cholera:

enormous, outlays on the river works in Hanun, the deceased was one of seven

or eight

of His Imperial Majesty. The Ministers of the and the preparations for the approaching marri ge prisoners suffering from the disorder. The Coroner

Board of Revenus have accordingly submiud

of death and the jury retumed a verdict held an. inquest this afternoon on the cause

à memorial proposing certain measures to lide as above. Drs. Cantfic and Ayres informed the

the different provinces amount annually to aut over the present dificulties. From this memorial it would appear that tife general receipt: fram Coroner that they thought it possible the water in the Glenealy tank, from which the gaol is

Ts. 8,000,000, while from tribute rice the income supplied, might be contaminated in some way;

of Tls. 2,000,000 for the maintenance of frontier. is over Tis. 1,000,000. Then there is in incuna as nearly all the people in the colony who had. been suffering from diarrhoea and typhoid fever

defence, another Tis. 2,000jors for the pay of the had been using water from the Glenealy tank.

interior garrisons, and still another Tis. 2,000,00 for the pay of the army. In addition to these, By the explosion of the ammonia boiler in Messrs.

there is the forty per cent. of the customs revenue receipts, all of which are received by the Board VERS. Adamson, Bell & Co., the local Agents, Markwald & Co.'s ice factory at Bangkok on

of Revenue and disbursed by them for public form us that the Canadian Pacific chartered May. 18th, two men, a Chinese fireman and a

purposes, as may be approved by the Throne. steamer Zambesi arrived at Vancouver on the Malay oiler, lost, their lives. The Bangkok.

Formerly the receipts from the provinces being 6th and the Batavia on the 10th inst.

Times saysThe only reason that can be

full and regular, the funds in the Treasury were assigned for the fatality, is that the hailer in

quite sufficient to meet the required dis- THE railway earnings in, Britain during the last question was somewhat.nld and patched, and

.bursements; but in recent years, on account half of 1887 were $2,500,000 more than during which is equal to 180lbs to the square inch. No telegram from the owners of the German steamer provinces to prepare for coast defence, 10. contained a pressure of twelve atmospheres: MESSRA. SCHELLHASS- & Co, have received a of the urgent demands made on the different the corresponding period of 1886. The increased doubt the accident could have been prevented by Fro to sell the wreck ofthat steamer by auction purchase ships of war, to pay back interest.. British ship tonnage was 2,190,0x0 tons,

experienced and careful supervision, and it is and it will possibly be offered to the highest and principal on foreign laans, etc., they in- A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. evident that carelessness. exists somewhere-bidder to-morrow. The cargo, salved and other tances and forward only sixty or seventy per cent.

deplorable to think that carelessness-and

variably withhold a part of the regular rent- 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons Hall, should have resulted in the violent death of two wise, was to have bech sold this afternoon.

of their proper contributions. While the pro Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock fellow creatures."

vincial remittances have decreased, the Board" disbursements have increased. Exclusive of the precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. THE Peak Tramway appears to be still an object We regret to bear from Yokohama of the death

have had to disburse Tis. 6,000,000 for the for infringement of Munici al regulations, 13 quickly, circulate. In regard to the delay caused bered by many residents of this colony- A for the same in Shantung Tis. 950,000 for cash. have effected 1025 arrests, 537, of which were anything goes wrong, however little, rumours as Richmond, assistant at Messrs. Lane, Crawford expenses of His Majesty's marriage, he load to danger of breaking ropes and other troubles & Co.'s, a gentleman who will be well remen-Yellow River works in Henan, Tls. 2,290,003, for assault and scandal, 13 for gambling, and to the cars last evening we find, after making Coroner's inquest was held on June 1st when coinage, and several hundred thousands of taels 109 for want of night pääses.

searching enquiries, that it occurred at 6.30 and the jury found that the deceased Thomas G. for the public works in Chilli. 'All these heavy was caused by a bolt left sticking in one of the Richmhad died at the Grand Hotel, Yokohama,

disbursements have drained the Treasury of the The Hinge Neys reports two cases of choler pulleys by the man engaged olling them. The between the hours of 3.30 and 4 p.m. on the accumulated vings of years. Up to the 15th at Fukuoka and Kumamoto respectively, and holding down gear had in consequence become 31st May, 1888, from bemurthage resulting from of the third moon, the special funds remaining.

in the Treasury amount to Tly. 5,4 0,00 suggests to the authorities the advisability of displaced and was dragged along a short distance, wound in the threat, inflicted by his own hand.

which sum, T. 1,000,000 are to be paid but the car was stoppet by signal and in about in a moment of temporary insanity taking all possible precautions to prevent this-half-an-hour things were put right, when the THE members of Mr. WashTMNorton's company, for the expenses of the frontier garrisons in ag allowances to the army, Tis. 2,380,007 grim disease becoming a fixture in Kobe and cars ran as usual up to eight o'clock.

announced to perform, in the Theatre Royal, the three Eastern Manchurian provinces of neighbourhand.

SAYS the Nagasaki Express of the 6th inst.:- City Hall, on Saturday night, arrived here this, these two items there is left as the total residne the Amur, Kirin and Feng-tien. Deducting Gold in considerable quantity is said to have morning from Shanghai by the steamer Fans of the special fund in the treasury only Tis. been discovered among the hilis near. Yagami, From the opinions of the press, which are

1,230,000, while of the general funds the last some two or three re-from-this place. The story fully supported by independent private infermatael has-been-expended. It will be some time of the discovery is told as follows some twenty tion, we have every reason to believe that this before the annual remittances from the provinces years ago en astrologer of the town declared that from certain observations of the heavens he Company forms one of the most talented will arrive. In the meanwhile the Board have combinations that has visited the colony for a had made he was assured that gold existed at saki, and his earnestness so prevailed upon a some point close to, if not actually in Naga- long time past. Their performances are varied and attractive, introducing many novellies never certain Mr. Yoshimura Asaki and some others previously seen in this part of the world. Mr. that they have ever since been searching for the Wash Norton and his colleagues, are willing favoured spot. At last, we believe their faith to be judged on their bare merits, which after all is the only trustworthy standard: how. has been rewarded by a and of the precious ever, the Company's reputation is deserving of metal near Yagami, as above stated. Specimens public support, and we doubt not that their from, nre about to be despatched to Tokyo, audience. We hope to find room for a few lines of the ore, and also of the pure gold extracted opening show on Saturday will attract a large with an application for government permission describing the character of the entertainment in

will also have the privilege to nominate by arrangements can be made, the rate-payers popular election their own representatives to the local Legislature, What has been conceded in the selection of the Sanitary Board-which is the immediate fore- inner of a Hongkong Municipality-can- —which_ilte • Maita and Gibraltar of the Far benber logically_or_in_fairness be East" has gradually assumed its present denied in our parliamentary elections. position as one of the leading bulwarks of And if this important matter is not brought British supremacy in this quarter of the before the Governor by the unofficial From Hankow, under date the 4th inst., our globe, Weshall not be blamed for reminding members of the Legislative Council without Shanghai morning Contemporary hears that the thetongkong public that this most valuable delay, it will be the duty of the community first crop of flankow-and-Kiu-kiang teas shows concession, the pioneer, of an all round to organise and to act for themselves. a deficiency of certainly co,000 half chests; but it is still a question whether the London märket system, of government by the popular

The election of Mr. JNO. J. FRANCIS, ..,will respond to the prices that have in const yote, has been steadfastly and consistently Mr.J&o.D. HUMPHREYS to seats on the quence been paid, advocated by this journal and by the newly constituted Sacitary Board should The Bangkok Times says that "the near futuse Hongkong Telegraph alone for years past; convey a significant lesson both to the may witness the establishment of direct steam that when our easily "squared contem-Government and those unofficial members communication between Labuan Deli and puraries were grovelling in the mud of Council who owe their seats to that Bangkok bina soipment of rice director before the official mountebanks who have rotten system of patronage which has for Bangkok is expected in Deli a few weeks hence, wrought so much mischief here by their ab long ruled supreme in Hongkong and she will also take a cargo of other Siamese it will be consigned by a chartered steamer, upscrupuloutress and incapacity, we have Neither one of these two new members is products, likely to find customers in that post persistently, printed', out that without either a hong taipan or a social autocrat's not much of an, arithmeilker, and I'm a popular representation in the councils of

in the brilliant circles of local shoddy; the poor writer, but I'm a good grammarist," said an the colony, political freedom was an utter fearned Q.C. Is one of the most heartily applicant for the post of school-teacher, out impossibility. The Public Health Bill, a abused men in the colony, and he glories West. The Chinese-artist' is different, he is measure particularly offensive to a very in a "class" unpopularity which has generally a good letterint, but he wenkens on spelling. At present he who runs may read larrity of the tax-payers, has been on acquired by sturdy Independence inside the new premises of the Land Office, the force the community by official cour- andthe plainest of plain'speaking in defence inscription ANO OFFICE," painted up on cland as a sop to. CERBERUS, a sort of of public interests; Mr. Huys is the wall. The march of civilisation; the progress

of education, Hi-yah | opri qua, the tax-payers have been scarcely known in the circumscribed self- conceded the privilege of electing two out constituted leading circles of Hongkong life, of ten members of the Sanitary Board, to but his well proven abilities, his zeal as a which hody has been apportioned the some practical public reformer, and his thorough what delicate, and responsible duties of honesty of character have been recognised engineering this objectionable measure and appreciated by the general community.Dixon, and Professor Julius Scriba, of the Imperial. through what promises to prove a stormy The state of the poll on Monday night career may yet be found that the was a sufficient indication of popular community have much the best of the opinion to convince the most sceptical of bargain; the Public Health Bill, notwith: languid officials that a new era has com standing Lord 'DELIVER-Us, the permanent menced in the political life of this colony. quill-drivers of the Colonial Office, and then future the community will insist on being Steamboat Company's steamer Honami will run MernisToPatues of the local Government, represented by the men of their ownas extra trip to Macao and back on Sunday, may collapse, be crushed out of existence, choice, and not by the fossilised nominees the 17th inst. The San Antonio festivities are ordy a natural death; but the principle of of an absurd Government anomaly that has popular representation, which will ever be identified with the régime of Governor Das Vars, now that it has once been introduced and found quite practicable, can never be abulished. Patt fot naufragia portum,

putlived its time. Men like Mr. FRANCIS and Mr. HUMPHREYS, who without fear or favor will freely, speak their minds and resolutely stand up for public rights, are

composed chiefly of subsidised: Govern

THE Japan Oficial Gazelle states that the Mikado has been pleased to confer the third- class decoration of the Rising Sun on Mr. H. W. Denison of the Foreign Office; the fourth-class decoration of the Rising Sun on Professor John Milne, Professor James Main University; and the fifth-class decoration of the Rising Sun on Mesars, William D. Cox, Frederick the First Higher Middle School. William Strange, and Jean Baptiste Arrivet, of

We note, from an advertisement in another columa, that the Hongkong, Canton and Macao

alleged to be the chief attraction in the Holy that the, Portuguese youths and damsels of this City on that day, and it is a foregone conclusion colony, whose devotion to the miraculous Saint known hours towards the coal disbursement of the Honam. With anything like favorable contribute largely towards the coal disbursentent

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to work the mine.

the package contained tea. The boy told the

our next issue.

SUPREME COURT,

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, - (Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief Justice.)

DORABJET D. RUM JAHM,'-- This was an action brought by Duojagbloy Dorabjee, sharebroker, against A Ram Jahm, for $387.50, loss on a sale of shares, and $212. for brokerage, Mr. Wilkinson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Stokes for the defendant. The hearing was commenced yesterday afternoon, and concluded this morning.

no funds wherewith to make disbursements.. It is proposed, therefore, in order to tide over the present emergency, to transfer. the residue of the special funds to the general fand. In addition. to it, the apium likin receipts, as much of it as may be in the hands of the Board may be used. These receipts.amounted during last year from the 1st to the rith moon to Ti9. 1,000,000 after" deducting what the provinces retained for const adopting these unusual measures for necting defence and other public purposes. Aside from these emergencies, the memorialists recommend that the provincial authorities might be urged to hasten their remittances in order to restore the treasure to a more satisfactory footing.

""A DAY" IN "GOREA."

The enterprise of New Japan has made it possible for the traveller to get a passing glimpse of the once Hermit Kingdom,

AT the Police Court yesterday. Mr. Sercombe Smith had a Chinese boy, aged fourteen, before him on a charge of being unlawfully in possession of 100 taels of opium dress. An Excise, officer proved arresting the boy as he left the Canton steamer Powan, and finding the opium in a parcel he carried. The boy had told him.

usual plausible little fable about being asked

Twenty-six hours of sailing lands the traveller. to carry it ashore by a strange man, which so

upon the shore of the new harbour at Chemulpo. excited the Magistrate's sympathy that he at

The last six hours of the salt is very charming once discharged him. The precedent thus Let

through the sixty miles of islands of the Prince up will no doubt be valuable-to smugglers. In

Imperial Archipelago. The diplomatic interest future the only safeguard they need take is to

which now invests the lille Corean kingdom la tell the boy they hire that the contraband is tea,

visible as one approaches the outer anchorage. or curios, or light literature, to ensure his safety

Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and American tf caught. Curiously enough the same magis-

The plaintiff's case was that in March and vessels of war are to be seen, some of them trate fined the cabin-boy of the same vessel April he received two undated envelopes from permanent watchmen of Imperial interests. $300, or three months' imprisonment, for having defendant, containing instructions to buy 50 The narrow and elongated gulf with its islands Koo taels of uncertificated aplum in his posses Docks, 50 Punjoms, and so China Sugars, produces one of the highest of tides in the world, sion at the same time, although his explanation and he did so, the total value being $16,637.50. from twenty-four to thirty feet. Upon the making was just as blandly delivered, and as credible. He did not trouble to get the contracts tide we pass to the inner harbour, and anchor close Verily we have a Daniel-come-to-judgment in signed by defendant, having previously done in to the inner buoys but a short, row from the business for him: without going through that new Incomplete bund, and the quaint little port The Manila Diario deprecates the policy whereupon the defendant repudiated the tran have watched with interest during the long our midst.

formality. The shares receded soon afterwards, of Chemulpe, whose commanding heights we bitherto followed by the Government of the saction, and plaintiff bad to sell them for $15,900 ater and cleaner than the rough Chinese punts approach, Swarms of Corean sampans,, far Philippine Islands in affording unlimited pro- He had, early in the year, bought shares on tection to the indigenous mees in various depart behalf of defendant without a signed contract, of Chef Senul, its disance, and lay it can be

and defendant received the profits obtained. detriment of Spaniards. The Diario's main referred to previous transactions, and that no

For the defence it was asserted the envelopes reached. The island defending the inner harbour contention is that since the Spanish population purchases had been previously made by plaintiff which can be pointed out far to the north.

conceals the southern branch of the Han River, has considerably increased in the Archipelagoon defendant's behalf without the contract being Another channel passes far north of a still to those possessed by the natives, and that then the instructions on the envelopes had left the Seoul, or Han Chang-fu as the Chinese say, is they have acquired rights and privileges superior signed. It was further shown that a party named larger island, which forms the delta of the Han.

ments of the public service, to the exclusion and

Chefoo, invite the traveller to go.achoro,

Five years ago, when Sir GEORGE BOWL urgently needed in a Legislature which is weather the trip thould prove 4 pleasant and Government would do well to afford an ampler Colony, some time before the purchases in twenty-seven miles away over the rough hills.

tried so hard to pose as a liberal reformer before the Hongkong public in re-construct- ingthe Legislative Council, he wasted a vast deal of time and trouble-to say, nothing

ment servants and colourless mediocrities; and it is quite evident that the time is not far distant when therights of the community will be recognised and admitted. The

of considerable expense which had to be policy to be followed now is incessant borne by the rate-payers--in endeavoring agitation; at every possible portunity

successful one.

scope for the exercise of those rights and privi-

article reads like an attempt.

It is joo #: by" river. "A-slow-going Corean leges than it at present the case. The Diario's question were effected

Mr. J. F. C. da Roza, broker, was called by ony can take one across in eight hours Governor-General's future line of action. It plaintiff in the belief that he was buying for the traveller may leave his steamer and direct the new the Court, and stated that, he sold the shares to time. Should one desire to visit the capital, concludes by saying: "The Government, the himself. He had seen contract, notes given by await the sailing of another of the Japan Mall various Municipalities, and the public ought to defendant to plaintiff unsigned SS. Co. That will give him five days in Corea think on these suggestions, and accommodate Flis Lordship commented strongly upon the and a beautiful sail down the Corean coast, their acts to other conditions of respect, con directly contradictory nature of the evidence, stopping at several Japanese ports to Nagasaki, alderation and observance of rights than those by which they have so far been guided, especially and nonsulted the plaintiff, without costs. The Thence he may go to Kobe, where he can not and the European Immigrants who bring with future action, them to these Islands modes of life and ideas congenital with their sphere of action and their finality, and entirely distinct from the conditions

to demonstrate that the people of this city. the community should agitate until we are the Viceroy of Nanking. This change in all questions affecting the educated population Court Impounded the documents la view of any finda daily steamer for Yokohama. One does not:

placed on the same basis as Mauritius in the constitution of our Legislative Council and as the Straits. Settlements in the management of our Municipal affairs,

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)*

AUSTRIA AND-RUSSIA.

LONDON, June 11th,

Delegations have waited upon the Emperor of Austila to damned further credits, in view of the increasing uncertainty of the situation, and growing warlike preparations on the frontier requiring Austria to correspond, !

of Victoria were not sufficiently advanced in civilisation to be enfranchised, or per- mitted to exercise any control, direct or Indirect, in the management of their own affairs. That political charlatan, the most consummate official impostor and humbug Hongkong has yet known-which is saying a great deal in a colony that has possessed so many shady and unscrupulous honorables !!!-sought to win favour from the upper classes and at the same time throw dust in the eyes of the masses by the superficial dodge of allowing the Chamber of Commerce to electone unofficial member of Council and the Justices of the Penge, to elect another, impudently proclaiming that this system would confer · RESULT OF THE GRAND PRIX

... The Grand Prize of Paris of sequon france on the colony: "most of the advantages without any of the drawbacks of popular (4,000 save.) given, half by the city of Paris and half by the five great Railway Companies, added election. In Governor Bowen's opinion to a sweepstakes of 1,000 francs (40 sova) each, there were obvious reasons why popular for three year old entire colts and fillies of every election in a heterogeneous community, description and country į weight, colts 56 kilos clrcumstanced as is that of Hongkong, (about Bat. Trib.), filles Sat kilos (about 8it. was impracticable, but, singularly Sib); 3,000 metres (about one mile and enough, His Excellency never fou

Stuart by: it convenie to explains

asons actually

deliberately, and with.

estrict

THE Cheloo correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes under date the 3rd inst.:-There is to be a change in the directorship of the CMS.N, Co., and I hear that Li Bung-chang has selected Tastaj Ghib of the Tientsin Arsenal as Director General, and Hail Cheng-ton, late Minister to the Court of Tokio, as Chief Manager at Shanghai. This, of course, has to be confirmed attributed to Sheng Taotni and Mr. Me Rie chong's transactions with the Philadelphia Syndicate, and the chief telegraph convention The latter gentleman and Mr. Thos. Weir are here. It is reported that the collision cana between the Chinese man-of-war and the Kwangchi has been settled by each paying hall Mr. Ma leaves here for Shanghal in the Hasting, and Mr. Weir in he Hasan

'of life which obtain here.”

A ROWLAND for an Oliver, Says last night's China Mall

THE CHOLERA SCARE,

over to reach the broader and well-beaten track of the will incomplete: Jetty. Every step is

wait, long to call in a sampan. The skipper is a boy or young man. He is dressed in white, with the baggy pants and jacket of the Chinese. He may have armlets of light

green cotton cloth His fresh bronzed face is full of the vigour.of an The self-interest which makes it desirable that, Qaraman. His hair is parted in the middio for hand, and the exaggeration which always attends over the temples, while all the rest of his coated "the port should not be “declared," on the oné & handsbreadth, and combed smooth down

many tongued Rumour on the other, make black locks are thrown back and gathered in ***We have heard one funny incident in connect difficult to arrive at reliable conclusions, one heavy braid, which reaches : half way tion with yesterday's election. A voter asked the respecting the existence or extent of any out down his back. It ends in a tie with a broad The fifteen seamen charged with attempting to presiding officer whether he should write his own break of cholers in the colony. As in Sliga- black ribbon. The sampan lands us at a rough scuttle the British steamer Childwall appeared name on the writing slip Mr. Wisd told him pore a few weeks ago, cases have occurred in rocky letly, with marks of sea shells and oysters on remand before Capt. Rumsey, R.N., Marine of the two candidates he wished to vote for. The another column. Among the native residents

be must not write his own name, only the names the: Geol, the latest being referred" to in süll upon the rocks. There must be clambered Magistrate, this morning at the Harbour Office, elector, notwithstanding, the advice he received there has been an tousual amount of mortality

atractive to the visitor, as he looks upon scened but the case was not gone into further than to went in a fit of abstraction, we suppose and this month, 36 deaths having been regis agnio remand the prasnersvillig turday juomnej wrote his own name and leftul altogether the | last week as being due to acute diar

angely-bewafter years of a Chinese Ing next. Mr. C. E. Bowles, of Mess, Wotton names of the candidates ha favoured. Wheth and 13 more since Saturday. How archie

The first sight is the Corean coolie, and Deacon's said that he appeared for Capt. We also heard of a funny incident in con diagnosis of native doctors is to be relied on

les of him in fact he carries his burden Watson, master of the Childwall, and that,

an open questions the deaths may be attributable on his back mistead of on his shoulder. A yoke his Worship intended to go on with the ckie le nection with the election, and here it is. A to say thing from spozadia chalera to Hongkong of wood, with wa uprights realing against, this should ask for a remand because the powers of talented sagentity who poses as a journalist and fever. In the same period a Europeans have shoulder blader and two horisontals upon which Marine Magistrate were much too limited for director of public opinion, haughtily asked the died from undoubted attacks of what has been the load may rest, is held over the boulders by the serious case, now spending card that he presiding officer on receiving his balloting described as cholerale dlardices four lant work | strapaz Ope... He cannor load his own burdeny

Thèse-

fact:bst:

hatever load be tan rise from his foot intended to ask that the case he tried at the paper what was the procedure. He was and two others tinc Police Court. There were four charges against courteously informed that he had merely as warnings. We we annually visited with this, that he can carry, though it be saveral

He carries a stick the defendants, the first being insubordination, to write the names of the two candidates he pestilence, and as regulat followed by: assault, mutiny, and attempting to intended to vote for and place the paper in the prevention and curgare - qued, forbidding scuttle the ship, and as a Marine Magistrate balloting bor. Chuckle-head, notwithstanding

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