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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDA

OSCAR Wilde has hfd his dining-room and all the furniture in it painted white, for the season that "dead white is the oply back-ground against which a man looks picturesque in evening dress

As in extent stomachle, and preventative of Earthly and is recomended by the Faculty

During the en Season, avoid all doubtful

present Food, in pure water, over-fatigue, and impure air, A bottle of ASIATIQ SORDIAL, and a bottle of the finest old LIQUEUR BRANDY, nic useful! things to have in house.

ATFON & CO., LTD. STRINGENT LEMONADESCONTIST wants people to remember "when

they drop if tear they let fall a mixture composed water, sait, soda, phosphate of lime, phosphate of suly, and inveus. They can go on crying all the same.

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The following TASINFECTANTS are reduced in price:

PËRMANGANATE - FLUID (similar to Cundy's) sor.per butle or $3 per 2 gallon jar. ČAKBOLIC ACID) 75e. per quart bottle.

EYES FLUID, CHLORIDE OF LIME and ciher. Disinfectants it usual prices,

· Special quotations for wholesale, quantities. A. S. WATSON & Co., Lià THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Established AD. 1841. Homerang, 16th June, 1888.

EXTENUATING circumstances-She- You ought to by ashamed of yourself, for shooting such a dear little bird He-I thought you would like il for your hat. Sha-Oh, What-a-good-idea-+4 That Was very thoughtful of you, John.

-ས་བཞ-བ ད ས བས

The late Duke of Rutland "had-nt Belvoir, a {,"confession" book" in which the Princess of Wales, recorded that her favorite artist, was Rubens, her favorite author Dickens, and her favorite ambition non-interference in other Ecople's business.

Tax works in ouanection with the new light- house on Cape Melville in Balabac, Philippine. islands, are progressing towards completion Is The Spanish Government have also ordered the building of lighthouses at Cagayan in Sonloo

add on the south coast of Mindanao..

ENGs newspapers speak of a scheine.for an insurance company which shall write policies cly on buildings, or their contents where the electric, light is exclusively used. Rates below

The Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 18RB:--

CHOEIRA

Asorna sad death from cholera occurred last night, the latest European victim being a nurse to May, W. G. BRODIE, who "subcumbed after a few hours illness. Alter two or three official heads of departments

the current terms for lite insurance will be the inducement offered to change from gas to electricity."

A STORY is being toll about a well-known press- man, who is a devou. Catholic. On a recent fast-cy, he went into a hotel; and called for soind boiled cod. "We have no cad to-day, air;

only steak, roast beef, and some game," said the

waiter. Well," said

if you may bring

We hear from Macao that two masines of the Portéguées gunbent Tejo were seized yesterday with choleraic attacks, and that one of them has succumbed to the fell disease,

Tits artesian well which has been in course of of construction at the Fince Hebert, Paris; for the past twenty-two years, has just been com pleted. The water bed lies at a depth of 784 yards from the surface of the soil. Paris: now possesses three artesian wells, viz, of Grenelle," Passy and the Place Lébert. The well of Fassy yields 5,500,000 gallons of water per day.

As Peter sat at heaven's fate,'

• 4 A maiden sought permission;: And begged of him it not too late,

To give her free admission.

What claim, hast thou to enter here.?” “ He cried with earnest mien, -. Please, sir," said she, "twixt hope and Tear "I'm only just sixteeni”

Enough," the hoary guardian said, And the gate wide open threw; That is the age when every mald Is girl and angel too."

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JUNE 26, 158.

On the afternoon of the 25th inst. F.C., Chang Alew, while perambulating the Eastern Praya and possibly thinking in serious moo!"how hom happy a policeman's life is where steat fonted and whitecapped cooks and house malds uc non-existent nd, where cold lain cannot be got even for the asking, suddenly, came across a coolie boy, aged 15, instr ously bugging a basket of coal On seeing the minion of the law approaching, the boa at once dropped his lond like a bet pátáty, and! struck a bee line for redher place. - Thirat away was, of course, in the mind of Cheung -evidence of guilt, and, the result, was, that the youthful Celestial had to explain to an impatiens "beak" all about it, and this was his ingenuous story:-I was not carrying coal was far off from another boy who was carrying

The night before last 1 slept in a house that was being pulled down. 1, have no parents. 1 be coal does not beßing in me. 21have beer in gaul two or three times before, and was sent to a reformatory in 18 7 for two year's I run Away two months ago. Mr. Sercombe Smith seni this hopeful specimen to the reformatory for the term of three years.

THE Vatican has decided to condemn ter George's books. The safely-valve of progree to be weighted down with a Papal anathema

the Fields we toneladed as follows:- Not- withstanding the conclusions and opinions of the three referees, printed above, we deliber amily state that on the 'priated, evidence hlone-v4de- Tus Agents of the China Shippers Mutual Stean

·Mr," Forbes's" letter „duled - the 9th"Jan-the- Naomi should have been at once disqualifi ol Wavigation Company, Lenited, inform us tha they have repived telegraphic news of the for a breath of the laws of yachtstacing, and urtival of the tea sicuner Moyne in Londour opinion will be confirmed, if the question t yesterday morning,

referred to the New York Yacht Club, the Thaines, the Clyde, or any other leading yacht- ing association. And the contrary opinion of the yachting edits of the Field notwithstanding, our views are still the same, and we think thạt” with very little difficulty "we can substantially prose their accuracy,

AN immense miscellaneous store will shortly br opened at Manila, where all the commodilice sold at the various shops of the city' will br offered to the public, thus saving purchasers thu trouble of going about town to supply them selves with their necessaries. This store o hazaar, will be opened to all, and its goods wil be sold for ready-money and at reduced prices

-SUPREME COURT,

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.

(Before the Hon. F, Russell, Acting Chref Justice.)

THE "ALLIR ROWE"

His Lordship spegented at the outset that the proper course would be for him tó have con.

The Field entirely agrees with the decision of the referees in the Naomi, jase, alleging that as "no rule exists which governs such a matter- they do not see how the arbitrants equld have ́improvised a rule, and made it retroppičlive for the purpose of disqus lying → yacht," This appears to us a very Yame conclusion to arrive nt in, face of the precedent quoted by our con temporary, and of the published and almost universally recognised rules of yachling. „The Field does not see what objecilon can be mado to outboard pllating, even if the assistance comes "from persons" on board a steain. Hunch, ha in

defence of this opinion does not hesitate

shed decision, and to ignore the commonsense over-ride a well-known and thoroughly establ

laws of fair play which govern sport of every description. The practice, says this authority, Is not likely to become comma, for the reason that a hundred, be better than one in a gleam launch. pilot on board will in ninety-ninogases out of a

After slipshod reasoning like this, we should not have been greatly suprised to live found the Field seeing no objection" to a steam launch assisting a racing yacht with a-friendly "tow -out of a belt of calm weather. And in point of fact there would seem to be very litle difference `indeed whether a steam launch actually towa

yacht that had for the time lost her way round a certain turning poitit in mrace, or increly

case, and either mode of assistance is contrary signals. The result is exactly the same in each

to all recognized sporting ethics.........

recognise the fact, patent to everybody me a steak, but St. Peter kuows 1 asked for quantity of, gravel, making the road almost spot. The great stolesmey of the earth pass had not been enough money paid into Court steamed on in front pilating her by pre-arranged

fah,”

firmatory proof of each case and then refer to th Registrar for a report, as he understand ther cover both claims. Matters might otherwis arise which would make it a question of priority Me Francis preferred not to go to the expense inf-claim.............

trouble of a hearing before the Registrar, and in that

teacher of music, azblue-jacket or two, or bit.of it," replied the doctor, promptly; "God being buried by a'fall of earth a short time ago, hat to collect the wherewithal to place a bust urged that the plaintiff Company had priority of of the Hongkong referees, actually quotes a-case-

peron, sud-the patient, "4-believe there's something wrong with my stomach." "Not a

made your stomach, and he knows how to trinke then. There's something wrong with the stuff you put into it; may be, and something wong the way you stuff it in and tramp it down, but our stomach is all right.”

THR sudden and severe thunderstorm, which broke over Hongkong last night and continued till this afternoon has caused considerable damage, THE Sydney Bullets winds up an edituriat The large new tent erected at Bowringtòn, in Satitising Mr. Abigail, New South Wales Minis-

The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Co. sues which the members of -Wondyear's Circus were ter for Miney, (who is also "boss" Director of a the owners of the brig Allie Robe 29.50 to open to-night, was blown down, though no large "alent-per-shent "money sending establish for necessaries supplied and repairs done, “and so much injured as to prevent its re-ercement) as follows Man was sent into the wall Capt. Phillips claimed from the same defendant. on as soon the weather improves. to lend money on good security that his days $1,700 for disbursements &c. The cases, wenn Queen's Road Central is blocked from the fight be lung in the constitional purchase which consolidated. The ship is Hawaian owned and Clock Tower to Ice-house lant, owing to he foreclosed on under mortgage, and the man was docked and repaired last year by the first the discovery of large cracks in the verandahs who labours is flying, in the face of Providence, plaintiffs. The owners repudiated the charges. of Marine House, now occupied by the Tele The central point round which the universe and the vessel was afterwards sold for $1.500 graphi Companies and a furniture dealer. The revolves is the pawnshop, and the pawn-ticket which was paid into Court. Mr. Francis front has been shored-up, and no vehicles is mightier than the sword. It is for the money-instructed by Mr. Wilson, of Messrs. Wattor

At the bottom of Peel, fender that the earth reserves its crowns of geld. And Deacon's, appeared for the plaintiffs. are allowed to pass. Street, near the Stag Hotel, large sewer and they are the only crowns wouh fighting for burst, causing a large hole in the centre of the laurel wrath of which the poet sings is à Queen's-road. At Ship-street near the Seamus valueless circlet of mere leaves, and both the Club, the rush, of water brought down a great singer and the wearer are generally up the passable. Past of the Tang Hing theatre fell away and leave nothing but three insolvency It is reported that two landslips have broken a schedules behind them; the great warriors Plantation-road, just at the place where and when at last they drop into the grave a bridge on Magazine-road, which is blockce. drag out their all ass in dull_obscurity corporal of the 58th Regiment narrowly escaped thankless nation sends round a slow, exhausted other fall occurred, the dorit covering. The above their remains, as the symbol that they soad. Above the Tramway line, not far from the top, there has also been a landslip; but the passion has followed them to the grave; the

were “bust" during life, and that the ruling, line is not at all: ffected. The lighting does great actor and the great singer live till their not seem to have done much damage at the Pank, voi es fail them, and then they are mute, like the although it was very vivid there. The telegraph.man who broke a blood-vess:1 while crying fish constable at the police station, when at the danseuse gets paralysed in both feet; the grass him down. The side was everywhere interest worketh night and day, and the pawn intersected with silver threads, where the broker goeth on for ever: All through life he harbour was muddy halfway across, from the and then sells them up, and when he dies he delta of surcharged drains. This morning the lenses a good business to his heirs, executors, Chinese were to be seen all over the native administrators, and assigns, and goes to make quarter discharging-long strings of crackers to advances on good "shecurity among the stats. propitiate the rainijoss, the streets being litered He is the symbol of eternity, for no one ever crate vid of him and hi vanticar, the drant of with fragments of firewiresing to read the opinions of public and prominent men on the speaks to the young and says, "Go and bea even in his sleep. Therefore, The Bullein abilities and peculiarities of their compatriots, pawnbroker," and the world has lately been favoured with a publication of the letters of Sir Henry Taylor who, as an octogenarian, a poet, and a writer of no mean order, went to the land of the leal not half a dozen years ago. He was one of those men of the time" who, though meddling neither in polities norwin any of the great

or inflential fus, have been carried off, we may expect the Government to else that Asiatic cholera of a virulent" typp is sweeping through the colony with deadly effect--but not till then. An obcure

a' humble nurse girl, apparently count for little with the official powers that be What are the unofficial members of the Sanitary Board about that they do not arise intheir indignation and protest against this sham being kept up any longer? When Chinese grass-cutters were sent to gaol for threatened with a deadly danger the safest

14 days-with-hard-labour, by Mr. Sercombe. wires on the Pokfolum side. were cut, and around the backyards of the suburbs; the witching able repairs to that vessel in June and Angust-frin the Naomi's case it was a steam launch- policy is to recognise its existence and inth this morning, for trespassing on ground combat its evil influence with all the means belonging to the War Department at Belcher's telephone, received a shock,which almost threw withereth, the flower fadeth. But the compound what the cost of putting the vessel in the slip back inside her, and.this one proved the winner.".

Bay hattery. Considering that these poor. wretches had done no actual harm, and more. to cut the grass, the sentence reads like a piece

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available. This simple truism must be admitted even by the official phalanx, And yet, alleygh cholera has been 'com. ever had permission from one of the watchmen small torrents rushed down the slopes The lends small sums to the widow and the fatherless oppering. On the 17th the vessel";

mitting “deadly”, „ravages amongst the ppulace for weeks past, the Government

*ven now refuses acknowledge its existence, or to initiate any measures for its prevention or eraification. How long,

FLEGRAM S.

(Renter)

THE "ROVALISTS IN FRANCE.

LONDON, June 24th. Monarchist banqueis have been held in Paris at which the King was toasted and Royalist banners were paraded. -

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The performance by Mr. Was Norton's famous World of Wanders, advertised for this evening,

has been postponed till to-morrow, the 27th inst

A COMPANY has been formed in fierlin to manus facture electrical watchos. Two small cells and n smpi electric motor take the place of the ordinary movement.

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A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1026, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.3 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting Firethren are 'cordially invited.

of wanton barbarity.

Wread in a Sydney contemporary that Bush, the half-caste athlete, has gone over to his ancestors, the native kings of Narrplul (NSW); where his boyish days were passed those who shouted loudly when be made his famous leap of 25ft 4in. at Botany cared little how he died." RETURNED travelers in Germany, speak of the jealousy with which the German authorities and the new magazine guns distributed among the soldiers of the army. Every gun is numbered and registered, the soldier must not take it from

It was found that repairs were'

Mr. U vill Gillies arcretary and general manager 7 fret some argument, Mr. Francis called of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Cod who said: I know Captain Phillips, of the brig Allie Rowe. The company executed consider. last. Early in June Captain Phillips naked me

and surveying, her would be. He was told would cost $200, and so cents a sheet fo: went info dock, and was surveyed two days later. There was no arrangement as to who should pay for the work needed, and tenders were asked by Mr. Cook on behalf of the captain: The Compány the rent seg's3.098;25! haid bin W{} the money to arrive in a week or a forinight. been paid. The captain told me he expected He never said that he would not be personally liable for the debt. 1

But the Field, while upholding the decision

in which a yacht was disqualified for obtaining outside assistance in pilating. This case, which occurred at Queenstown in 1877, is exactly now under review. The yachts in a match, like........ on all fours with the Douglas Cup disputé

the Naomi and Kathisen in the Macho race, were overtaken by darkness; a friendly pont-

assisted one of the craft by sounding along a She was protested against and disqualifted on the unwritten laws of fair-play, there being. no separate and distinct written ile governing the point. This precedent, it is important to note, is identical in every important detail with Mr. Beart's objection to the Naomi And

there is no distinct yachting, reguition that

specially provides for the contingenny obout-board.

pale. The rule quoted by the Field in referring that indirectly bring such a practice within the

distinctly states that no other means than to the Queenstown case, No. 26. of the R.YA...

the lead and line for sounding are allowed.- Oor contemporary urges that this rule was made to prevent poling or sweeping under the pretence of sounding with pole or oar, n. conclu- sion we cannot but consider as exceedingly far wasdebars all outside assistance and is therefore fetched; but in any case the wording of the rule

to-morrow, saying that he would then, grant an ---Hi Lordship then adjourned the case till appeal for a repart from the Registrar.

WARWICK 2. Ho ̈AMRI.

the garrison under any circumstances, enve questions of the day yet are the leaders of public poison has been frequently discredited, although resumed this afternoon, Mr. Webber again clearly applicable to the Nooii. But there is

when on parade, and he must be able to produce is at a moment's notice. All this is to prevent therung from accuring one to use as a pattern.

ONE of the most dangerous snakes of South. Africa is the spung-star or spitting-snake (a variety of the Cobra Eapensis), which has the power of ejecting its poison as through a squirt.. Its length is about 6ft, and when angry it is extremely ferocious. This peculiarity of spitting opinion and of advanced thought by their manner of talking at their clubs and of writing on such been familiar to naturalisis. So writes a corre

the existence of poison-spitting snakes has long subjects as those which chiefly occupied the spondent ofthe Field, who continues:A colonist minds of men like Carlyle, Emerson, and whom I knew, á-man of keen, observation, told THE French are becoming alarmed at the friend or the associate of such men as Words connection with this peculiar power, he resolved others of equal prominence. Taylor was theme that, having heard many malvellous tales in influx of foreigners into their country. In 1866 worth, Gladstone, Land Grey, Aberdeen to avail himself at the first opportunity of proving the total population of France was 37 412028, of Jeffrey, Macaulay, and Carlyle, on the latter their correctness or otherwise. When riding whom 635.495, or 67 per cent, were foreigners, of whom some amusing opinions from his along the public road one day, he was challenged In 1886, or twenty years after, the number had letters have been published in the Times. by one of these reptiles, which raised its head declined to 37,103.589, and the foreigners had When Carlyle went to London to 1837 and was several inches in a defiant manner above the low increased to 1,115.214, or about 3 per cent. Ofrecommended to try lecturing for a living, Henry bush that it occupied. The narrator at once seized this number 481,000 were Belgians, 265,000 Taylor soon came to know him, and this is what the opportunity, and having companion with him Halians, 100,000. German, 80,000 Spaniards, he thought of the hermit of Craigenputtock is it was arranged that one should look the creature 75.000 Swiss, 36,000 British, 12,000 Austrians, written in letters to his friends. He is nerveis full, in the face, whilst the other initated it by and 73/000 of various other nationalities. The in, the extreme and requires all the arls and throwing stones into the bush wherein it lay,

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The adjourned hearing of this case appearing for the complainant and Mr. Ewen for the defendant.

Mr. Webber announced that since the adjourn His lordship said that that was a very satis menta settlement had been arrived at.

factory termination of such a case,

THE DOUGLAS CUP OBJECTION. The objection made in January last, after the finish of the race for the Douglas Challenge Cup by Mr. Montague Beart, owner of the yacht Kathleen, agamat the winner, Mr.W. H. Forbes's Naomi, under circumstances which will be well within the recollection of our readers, has been

another rule, No. 1o of the Sailing Rules which still more expressly forbids any yacht recognised by all the leading yacht clubs,

assistance. During a contest a yacht may foul any in the course of a race accepting outside

road, tiers, or vessel at anchor, and be allowed to shove or warg clear without running the risk of being disqualified if unassisted by any person plainly enough expressed that outside assistance out of the race. Here we have again the point

diqualification, and yet the Field upholds the decision of the Hongkong referees because to a yacht engaged in a race practically means

it considers there is no rule which governs." such matter.. We leave it, to all impartial

the Field's-assistance, we have not shown that

on the point in dispute. least two recognised rules which bear directly

Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Ajax, from orders of the Rhine, the Swiss in the east, London auditory. He has been hitherto it caught sight of my informant it let fly a charge London Field, an acknowledged authority on MESSRS. Butterfield & Swife inform us that the Germans of course, are most numerous on the f dexterities which might propitiate a fashionable This so exasperated the creature that the moment-made the subject of a leading article in the persons to decide for themselves whether, with Liverpool; left Singapore for this part on the the Belgians in ihé noth; and the Italians in the much abroad in his measurements "that two of poison, evidently aiming at the eye of its jachting matter, As we took somewhat there ir's very good precedent, in addition to at

morning of the 4th Inst, and may be expected on the 30th..

THERE are in Spain Sox coal fitnes comprising a surface of 29,780 hectares, worked by engines totalling oo harse power and by 2,500 miners, who during 1886 have extracted 950,000 tons, of the value of pesetas 9,000,000, or about $180,000.

of the opening night. ́ ́.

poison is said to infuse itself, causing death. In human antagonist, with the liquid of which the this instance, however, the polson, happily, did, not enter the eye, owing, perhaps, to the distance (eight or ten. yards); it only lodged upon the bing immediately wiped off, no injurious results cheek-bone, about an inch below the eye, and followed, Next to the cobra, the poff adder (Vipira aristans), of a brown colour, chequered with dark brown and white, ranks as the most

Our contemporary says it is pretty certain that

foot of the Pyrenees the Spanish element reaches to the borders of his subject.". Afterwards,

did not hesitate to express an emphatic opinion south and south-east. In the departments at the lectures out of the six-bave hardly brought bin

prominent part in the original controversy, and to 75 per cent, of the population. In 1886 there meeting Carlyle at'Lady Ashburton's, Taylor say

that the decision arrived at by the three "experts". were 21,3,5-9 foreigners in Paris, and in London "Lessinstrugive talk I never listened to from any

to whom the question in dispute bad been if a rule were required to prevent gutboard 300,000 who had not become naturalized, man who had read and attempted to think. Hs

referred, was altogether erroneous, it is only piloting, it would long since have come into Sum Sz2 aged 25; a bricklayer, was today opinions that it is possible to utter; or rather the

that we should, give the same publicity to the would more frequently give rise to frivolous. opinions are the most groundless and senselee

fair to these gentlemen, and-also to M, Forbes, existence, and cannot Imagine any rule which charged before Mr. Sercombe-Smith by a are not opinions, for he will express the mee

Field's rullag that we gave to our own, the two protests than one that, kempted to restrict married woman named Ip-Akin with bur- opposite and contradictory and. Incompatible

being diametrically opposed to each other.. glariously breaking into her dwelling house and thoughts in the most dogmatic and violet

extraneous ald in the way of piloting. But the We are requested to state that owing to the stealing therefrom 6 pieces of silk clothing valued language all in the course of half an hour. poisonous of South African snakes. It attains a issue of March 12th, and the Field accepts that fact that there are and always have been both We stated the case concisely and clearly in our yachting editor of the Fjeld agalo ignores the unpippitious state of the weather, the opening at$16. Complainant said she lived at No. 3 fact he talks more bright and forcible mensente length of aft. or 4ft 6in. Its circumference summary as fairly representing the points at written and unwritten rules forbidding a yacht performance of Mr. Woodyear's Circus at How Tuk On Lane, on the ground floor, and than man ever did before." Writing of Tenne equals that of a man's arm; it has a very bread fasue in all material, particulars. The sole to avail teclf of outside assistance during a race, rington, which was to take place this evening," it o'clock last night, on going to bed, she put son in 1858 he says: "Allied Tennyso head and the tall tapers suddenly. It is indolent question to be considered was simply--Did the and further that the reason why protests against ths been postponed. Dhe notice will be given at the head of her bed a bundle of clothing has come to live at Twickenham, which is in its habits, and may aften be heard to snore fact that the sailing master of the Naomt asked outboard piloting are rarely made, is because which she had been working at for a tailor's great gain to us: He is a very interestin Toully at noon-day. It is safer to pass by the for and obtained outside assistance to enable sailing masters, who are quite well aware that it shop. Just after 3 o'clock this morning the person, a singular compound of manliness a head than the tall of a puff adder, because it him to find the White Rocks, disqualify that is not allowed, never seek such assistance in a woke up to do some sewing and at once belplessness-manly in bis simplicity, and possesses the singular power of throwing itself veste according to yachting law and pre antling match. The case of the Cambria quoted lased the bundle. She called to her mother, should think in hir understanding also. Exceg backwards over on its tail when it wants to strike cedent? There were to facts at issue; the by the Field, in which at the start of a race who was sleepifig cluse by, to strike a light, Wordsworth, for some ten years of his life, and then searched about, when on getting to the should think he is the only feally popular poet 18in, in also a formidable reptile. It is short, and of certain persons in a steam, launch was hailed and asked how the Head of Kinsale The horned snake (Cerastes Tophophry's), about allegation that the Naomi had the assistance across the Atlantic Ocean, à fisherman wog cockioft she there saw the accused hugging the since Byron. His intellect at large, though good, very thick at the head, slow in its movements, and practically never denied, and therefore the bore," is only in a very limited sense a parallel bundle of clothes. On calling out "thief" he is not, I think, great in proportion to the because of its shortness, it can congeniently lie only difference was a mere technicality, a point case to that of the Naon at the White Rock- ran-down-stairs-and was arrested by the night-soil imaginative and postical elements of it and in a footpath, and creep into the hufe of the of racing law. It was not disputed that, on her that was not outboard piloting at all If the codile. The mother of the complainant corrob therefore I do not anticipate that he will take nalives. The familiar and diminutive nigbadder merits, the Naomi had won the race with con- fisherman had been in a steam launch and d orated. Defendant's story was a horse of quite any such place in poetry-as was filled by Cole (Cyrtophis scutatus), about gin, in length, is an summate case, and it was further well known that gone ahead of the Cambria, piloting by signnis, another colour.. He said that he went to Fuk sidge or Wordsworth; but I believe that his extremely dangerous reptile, owing to its insidious the owner of the Kotkler had not raised the it, would have put quite a different complexion On Lame by appointment with the complainant, poetry will be fell to be admirable of its kidd habit of crawling about at night, often biting objection in any captious or antagonistic spirit, on the matter, but in reality he rendered the and this morning the two of them were found and may well displace the poetry of sensibille travellers when sleeping in the open. Should but purely as a matter of principle and in order yacht no assistance whatever. However, no together, billing and coping in the loft by the and beauty which has gone before it in the anyone take possession of a bush for the purpose to chlain a decision on what he very rightly useful end would be served by further discussing lady's mother. Feeling ashamed at being present age. Writing of Southey be says of sleeping under its shelter, in which a night regarded as a rather jumportant consideration in what is after all a question of comparatively discovered by her maternal relative, ble amor. He is very tired of London, being in such addes is concealed, the latter commences to hiss local match sailing. The three local experts to Imited importance, it has already been our partner called out "thief," and he then great request and very grand, He dined with furiously thus provide tially warning one of whom by consent of both parties, the decision was thoroughly threshed out, and whatever technical, cleared out but did not steal any clothing. the Duchess of Kent on Wednesday and like his danger, when of course the bint is taken, referred, simply found that the objection could views may have been formed by our local Evide ce, having been given by two coolles her very much; after dinner the little Princes and the dangus locality vacated at once not be sustained and that the Cup was fairlyyachtamen e shinie we may saisly sqet-assuret regarding defendant's tscape from the house, his (Victoria) was brought in to tell him that sh Although the bit of this small angle does not won by the Vaomi, without giving the least that the necessity for a similar objection to thet Worship sentenced the hapless lover to six had read his life of Nelson he thought he destroy life as speed as that of the larger sort, explanation for their finding. In erlicising this lodged by the owner of the Kathleen will never months hard laboure

pretty and lively."

It is nevertheless fatal).

decision in the arilch

article of March rath quoted by, again arise during a yacht race in local waters.

→Tus is truly an age of iconoclasm. A cold blooded scientist now comes forward to say that the old oaken buckey celebrated, in song and story, is simply an fron-bound death dealer, a condensed raass of nitrogenous and phosphate fithiness, and the home of the microbe and bacteria.

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THE charges made by Capt. Watson of the British ship Childwall painst the crew of that yes were again under investigation at the Police Couft before Mr. Sercombe-Smith this ternoon, William Kellett, the apprentice, was cross-examined by Mr. Dennys, but his vidence remained unshaken. Thomas Elliott, the carpenter, was examined af great length by Mr. Wilson, his version of the affair substantially corroborating the statements made by the pre- vious witnesses, and cross-examination failed to alter his evidence, The further beating was adjourned until to-morrow,