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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 19, ič. 8.

The Superintendent of the P. & O, S. N. Co. courteously informs us that the steamship Miranpore, with the next English mall, left,

A MEETING of the Sanitary Board was held this afternoon. A report will appear in to-morrow's issuc.

The Channel squadron, comprising the ships Northumberland, Thunderer, Iron Duke, dgin- court, Curleto, and Minotaur, have arilved. in.

Baird. They are expected to remain for some time for torpedo practice.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD. | Singapore for this port at 6 p.m. on the 17th inst, and a half have elapsed since his death; yet still MR. Edward A. Bond has resigned the offics of Bantry Bay, under the command of Admiral demanded silence. He canfed qut the delusion.

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Established AD, 1841.----

WATSON'S PRICKLY HEAT LOTION

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is the safest and best cure for Prickly Heat, it

KANSAS has a genuine philanthropist. Stephen Richardson of Harvey county has lately planted tret miles of peach trees in the public highway for the benefit of travellers. Are you listening, Mr. E R. Belilios? Hos,gkong stands badly in

is your chance of immortalising yourself and

af expression.

"It would not be easy," said Macaulay, "to name a writer whose celebrity can be considered as equal to that of Petrarch. Four centuries the inhabitants of every nation throughout the western world are as familiar with his character and his adventures as with the most illustrious names, and the most recent anecdotes of their own literary history," Of the many good and

he has held since August, 1878. principal librarian at the British Museum, which

THE Shanghai Courier bears on good authority that fe von Süllendorff has been reinstated in

Foreign Office at Seoul, and that Mr. O. N. Denny, who lately held this place, has been

following is from Reynolds:The death of Marshal Lebauf has naturally evoked, a number of reminiscences, among which the.

night is deserved for the,nimirable one of his.. voice in swelling, the chorus on several occasions, even at times when the requirements of the part -hy bis excellent areng, and was copied to some ent by other peiformers. It is only to be kapecret "that with such an artiste as M- Sheridan to show the way the other members

It have not had the experience in Tire business of acting which he praxesses," will Improve considerably in this

of the Company who ess god voices.

neil of a public sanitarium at the Peak. Here! clever things which that brilliant essayist bas his four position as Vice-President of the legend of the "gaiter-button" will assingly example. Mr. Flher do last night trade some

affords instant relief, and will be found useful innting suffering mankind beyond all power Petrurch and Cervantes, when Macaulay wrote, appointed Vice-President of the Home Office,

allying all irritation of the skin whether arising from acidity or caused by the bites and stings of insects. It is also a useful Toilet Article for the

complexion."

PA. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd.

THE BONGKONG: DISPENSARY,

Fordkune 11th July, 1888.

The

he Bayakong

in Durch steamer Srinwear, which went shore-nif Pulau Undan on the 10th, arrived Safely at Singapore on the 29th June. The Fres Press hears that she came off in a very ingenious d rather novel manner, namely, by the engineer filling up the hole in her hottom, made by the rocks when she grounded, with ganny bags filed with rice. This was done at low water, and the bags were then stamped down, When the water rose the rice swelled, and she became quite water tight

said, this is one of the few which may be con- sidered, at this day, totally unsupported by facts.

were better known by that generation than by this in which we now live. The monthly magazines, the weekly periodicals, and above all, he daily penny and evening newspapers have not only forced l'etrarch out of British honics, but are doing their best to make even Shakespere and Macaulay as little known to the masses na are the habits of the Great Auk.

As an example of British governmental gratitude to those heroic sons of the Empire, who readily and cheerfully render up their lives for the exalta- tion of the nation's honour, we reproduce the

The Circus will be closed to-night. Te-moniaw night, let us hope, it will be crawled, and # substantial benefit given to Miss Gladys Frater, who has so unfortunately been prevented from performing since the re-opening night owing to the accident which then happened to her. The lady will reappear in additional acts, fucluding tight-rope dancing, and the most popular items in the Company's, repertoire will be presented, The last performance will be given an Saturday night, after which the Circus will pay a short visit to Macao.

survive. At the Corps Législatif on Murch 23, 1870, preceding the greal war, Marshal Lehauí,

always prepared. .' then a general, said, "Afy only policy is to be

If war comes I must it" This declaration was received with en he ready. This is my duty, and I shall fulfil

respect by his of the audience y surprise, for his after unce WAS distinct and clear, and were it not that he relies a little too much on the libretto in his singing for effect, and sa lases ja volume, he would still da better. His voles is a really good one, and his rendering of one giat least was so heartily appreciated and so thoroughly enjoyable that tebeuf was promoted to the exalted rank of a thusiastic applause, and on the morrow General na encore was insisted upon. Miss Marrison

did even better than be, though is the first. "marshal of France." He repeatedly proclaimed lack of enthusiasm. As an a'tu hier voice is not act she was scarcely as good as she can be, for that they had more than 600,000 fighting`inen, ns strong as is 'dosirable, in fact, the only weak but on August 1, 1870, there were just 23,371 part in the chorus is the nito one, while the soldiers under arms. Nothing was ready. basse

bassos have an excellent 'head man in Mr. There were no ambulances; no provisions; volume and tone is concerned, for lie has suffi- iamsoo who is indeed a host in himself as far as no munitions of war; no arma-at the witset cient of both to fill the whole basso parts. He of hostilities only 5,000,000 of cartridges is far from being alone though, for he has per were in store. The cry of "No caruidges "haps as many aile if not more than he requires This warning Mr. Wodehouse sentenced to thres following communication from the correspondent Titus, Neynold's Newspaper of the 19th ulto.:- | elegraph had labour a Chinese fireman of the fabion of those representatives of the "The action for libel brought by Ward, a thea. Vinoy as he retreated; by Razaine as he fell is very well supported. Wo expect to be able was to be heard on all sides. It was uttered by give him an occasional rest. The sopranos do their past admirably, for Miss Maúde. Have British steamer Katsang for stabbing a Chinese passenger in the wrist on 24th June last, while British Army who are at present in this colony.trical agent," in consequence of a letter written back on Metz; by Ladmirault and Camobert;

to speak further of this lady after hearing her in- the steamer was lying at anchor off Swatow. We do not mean by this that our object is, to by Mrs. Langworthy exposing his practices, not a single one of the French fortresses was some other character where, her well trained The prisoner had been playing dominoes and discourage the spirit of the rank and file of the ought to have a most salaiy effect upon the properly armed, and confusion reigned supreme. we expect will make herself heard as well as voice will have scape. Miss Grace Whiteford crowds of young muniacs in England of either sex who, because they dishike honest. Jabour, summed up the whole situation I have greater scope than Paris. We venture to think they are qualified to interpret on the stage arrived here. Have not found my brigade; thi

think though, that very little improvement, if the passions and frivolities of Inmanity. It is have not discovered general of division; what can be made on her rentierings of the part. almost useless to warn credulous nincompoops am i to do? Don't know where my regunents

she has in Dorothy," Her voice is a very sweet and clear one, and she knows how to upon this subject. The daily reports in there! Then came the sitting of August 9th, use it. Misses Patey, Aline and Leamington newspapers seem to convey no instruction,

have only sufficient sanpu in'" Dorothy to make These foolish persons, perhaps, do not read

one desirous that they had something better to newspapers. If they do not, they must suffer for

da, and long for opportunities, to judge of their their folly.

powers. Of the other performers we need not

fernisti cause for praise or blame. Mr. Robertson speak further, as possibly they will come to the front on other occasions in such a manner as to

*NG TOPURSDAY, 1mx 19, 1858.

Tuys "Mottishman take their pleasures, co that we go teuer than when applied to shanan de tha Far East generally, and in Monely be in narticular, : „Hero is'a Ettle Cristanu of them: nestling on an island so pay di theut the wantler is all the ships and dja work monete Nalf the world between tempt and Bone and Civilisation. The by Mille by conora) rocraniion can he mprint 1 an den forniest of one hand; wo homa's Parland's fine view, fram li, but, Legals tall and may wedo not find that Salignya serge of onjoyment. The out melk of the climate prevent the

pompoed maal hunts from, incluiging 'in

ས སསྶ བྷསྶ ཨུ ཨ ་

Aarney to the Centre of the. Earth will be

rideration those

complainant for asking him to clear off his score. officers against the risks of creating a feeling of His Worship also scntenced a coolie aged 18 to disgust and indifference amongst their men, write one days hard labour for stabbing a which may possibly lead-before their own couplvinar in the chest on the 43th ins., This career is finished-to the most disastrous con- as occurred through a debt of fifty cash sequences, for the empire, for the army, and for which the prisoner demanded from the comthemselves in any case, it is a page in our niajnant who could not pay,

military annals which will well bear repetition.

defence of the Delhi Arsenal. Mine Englishmen, "History records no more gallant affair than the deserted by all their native dependants, and with very limited means of defence, kept at bay a great militude of trained and disciplined rebels, and which at last defence was no longer possible, with two of their number wounded and the last round of amunition expended, they determined to fire the magazine to prevent it

fathers had don before them, they gave up their mature deliberation, and remembering what their

deed, which has given to those devoted men

SAYS a London exchange in bird by the last for a week, except a meagre paragraph in the mail:-Nothing has been heard of the Queen Cart Circular to the effect that she stift dines and drives. The notorious inhospitality of her

we must confess, made us forget the lick of an

Tur allowing interesting details of the French Exhibition of 1889 me culled frnin home papers off to viditors at the Paris Exhibition next as a contrast with the excursion into the apuri qumraldeste pepared by the Eiffel Tower, de shaft will be sunk into the ground in the Firm dere garden, where people will be lowered

niched a certain depth, they will be shown an noviap panorama of the different strata of the

th, of all kinds of mines--salt, iron, coal, &c. lives for their country. The effect of the heroic from time to time, seeing that there are still fools living in a "fol's paradise." Frenclimen are ven them."Maritana to-night will of course

and the cries and recriminations. One incuber, of the Corps Legislatif shouted, "Prussin was ready, and we were not Others cried, "The Ministry assured us that we were prepared; it

deceived the country, and M. Emmanuel Arago, bas deceived as it has betrayed France I M. Jules Ferry exclaimed, "The Ministers have

has deceived France" Then M. De Kénitry The Ministry told us that it was ready; it declared, "When the Minister of War came to

was not prepared, we should not have liked to the committee, he gave his word of honour that we were ready. If he had informed us that he have voted. At the outbreak of Eostilities not was Napoleon's army below its proper anything like an adeq sate supply of necessuies. France awoke to the fact that she had been ren

saying to-day that they will not iúsul a coipse p responsible with the late marshit dare tu bicak bat,ex ims one, ifthose who were tapadły

every quailer, and one loud cry will be rau caly- Thus does a country after seven years still *Wretches, what have vou dane' wif Perq?** |

execrate those to whŋur it owed its dis ister.

rhestra other than the piano, and it is very evident that his power and training are really

of the umbers who made such a show on remarkable. We were glad to see that the set of the piece was improved by the adifition

the stage. Hongkong has reason to be yateful 16 Mr Willard for his enterprise and pluck, large audiences during the stay of the Company who certainly merit all the support that can be

draw a crowded house,”

mpty fiest exprelse, and lawn-tennis.de as if descenifing a mine. When they have falling into the hands of the enemy. Thus, after Palace during his stay in this country. Hength, but there was neither organization nor and will no doubt slow its appreciation by

und répresentations of the Catacombs and the

Paris sewers. Another curiosity of the Exhibition will be the erection on the Quay of Orsay and of exhibitions faithfully reproducing those of all

..

Majesty induced the King of Sweden to decline the infrequent invitation to reside in Buckingham preferred the Grand Hotel. It is of little interest to us what these royalties do; only it is as well,

in this country who attach some special degree of respect to the name of the Queen, to show

and useless a wolfion as any other in the kingdom. WITH regard to the number of Jews in Great ritain Mt. F. D., Mecatta in a recent lecture on "The Jews in their Various Habitations," says: I nec tell you nothing about the Jews in this and of liberty, for we all know it, and are, I am sure, fully grateful for the adva 1ges we enjoy. It is strange, however, that there are only sonie goo Jews in Scotland; perhaps less strange that there are under 1000 Jews in Ireland; while of the hundred thousand in the whole United Kingdom, it is reckoned that there are not far from 70,000 in London, and some 20,000 to 25,000 divided between Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham. It might he wished that they were more disseminated throughout the country. The Jewish population of the numerous British Colonies, generally a very flourishing one, is estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.

IN

SUPREME COURT,

CRIMINAL SESSIONS.

a cherished place in history, can never be it herh ends of the Pont dijena of a series exactly computed. But, the grandeur of the that the reigning monarch is thou as unpleasant, silence. fists will be shaken in their fire; th

conception is not to be measured by its results. From one end of India to the other it GBed men's minds with enthusiastic admiration. The Government of India, to commemorate this deed of heroismi, placed a marble tablet with an inscription over the archway of the gate, which was.the entrance to the magazine. The archway is supported by two large substantial towers, each of which contains a room. The room on -the right serves the purpose of a kitchen for the telegraph master in charge of the office, and that on the left, being nearest to the telegraph -office, is used-it shocks one to write its a latrine by the soldier-signallers. Such a scale of things requires a remedy, and is a standing disgrace against the Colanel of the regiment, as well as the whole of his officers, for standing by to see the tombs of their heroic countrymen befouled and polluted,"

1.

fare following was the programme, of a very wheresting concert given to the troops last night at the Garrison Theatre.

Tom Bondag

Sieg Almir... Tel....

.........Mt. Ozelk.

...Captain G. mble. ,hir. Thomsett. force of the Light Hile..... Me (mu. Tet me like a achüler die........... Mr. Robinson. S. Yilin...-

Herr Yon Wile ...Meis, Grace & Thomsest, Frugt of Yarmouth Town...I.. Mercalle. The purra rendis.....

Mr. Maison). The Spmfiendi.

Mr. Grnes, Pitést Mr. F. Lammers." God save the Queen

CORRESPONDENCE."

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[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expirened by Correspondents in this uolumus.)

MUSICAL CRÍTICISM.

(Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief therefore I do not hesitate to ask you to help me

Justice).

The panel was composed of Messrs. A. Taylor, A. Denisor, A. W. Schellbass, C. H. Doude, G. Holmes, Chan Alai, and J. Walindo.

com:

To rúk Banton or via “Huyokong Trueskarḥ" DEAR SIR,-1 know your invariable 'goad nature and that you are quite willing to put your- self out a little to help any unfortunate individual out of a quandary when he gets into one, and.

out of a little one now. I. Bay a little one, because that is just what it really is, but you know that like a good many other lile things, which this one resembles, though they cannot do any serious damage, yet they are terribly irritable, and : one pelled perforce to try and get rid of them. The ALLIGED FORGERY OF TALLIES.

fact is this. I am very fond of music, and like Ng Ching Ho and U Atak were indicted for to hear it whenever,Lean do so, and when the forging and utering two tallies, and fraudatty chance fails me, to do the next best thing obtaining seven cases of kesine. The Aurmey possible and real about it. I read ahout the General prosecuted, and Mr. France, Coning of the Opera company, and the argument instructed by Mr. Wilkicson, defented. It was of Duty, hot failed to get to the initial alleged that the first prisoner purchased a tally: performance. Of course I eagerly read the forged a number of others from it with which must confess that the lept in the Press from a Chinese trader in the ordinary way, and patera to turn something of the matter, and the other prisoner obtained seven boxès of oil most emphatically put a damper on my enthusissm I was struck comical, and have

The Stonts-Zeitung, a German newspaper There was a crowded house, amongst the published in Chicago, says of the newly widowed. indience being Colonel and Mrs. Craster, R.A. Empress Victoria:"To judge from the prevail. The officers of the 58th were also present. The ing sentiment in Berlin, she is not only unloved most remarkable person. In the discussion the from the boat on which it was kept.-They not been able to gut just right since, on reading

but positively bated. How this has really come

sent Emperor, as a very young woman, she received in Berlin the most enthusiastic recep: tion. She was not then stigmatised as the Englishwoman." That she was descended

a

of fortifications than of guns. With the peculiar English of this one has nothing to do, but some day, when he asks the country for money for fortifications, he will reverse the reasoning, and

were acquitted.

THEATRE ROYAL

·SECOND PERFORMANCE OF DOROTHY.

that Cellier's music" "is both melodious and musicianly two qualities. that are rarely com lained."Now, my deu Sic, what does this mean? my grammatical, musical, linguistic, cal, and all other als of knowledge are at fault, and I am fairly puzzled. I must confess that this thing so annoyed me yesterday that I abandoned the thought of going to see and hear Dorothy" at all, and had it not been

lavarjur, ei line, &s, are coûfined to the anthushedia log The mast beguile. the logo datoruite of dulness by fast beneficial purogike "of plansuro or murmur.conti molly at the fac schich compels their exile from all obeysipo añdgafely. ' Sometimes. as has been the case during the last fu wote a min of amusements will from the miamia of the savage to the sddenly set in in the varied forms ofans of the Renaissance perind, and including mura, horsetanshin, or "variety shows."-ecimens of indian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and medieval domestic architecture. No chaght the public hasten to welcome

Esch will he occopied by dealers wearing the dio onfortaining strangers and avail them-

estame of the period. A special grant, of selves of the ripportunities for diversion. 26,000 has been made by the commissioners No-the eompany is not yet formed that for canying out this object. and please the much-expecting, seven- times.rgünel Englishmen of Hongkong, Is it Opera ...it is not so good as J en af Her Majesty's-Is it a Circus- → Olympip-avas, better," the prices are too highdoo low always some excuse for withholding, the "patronage which might the ogreéter] from the increasing importance which Iparkong arrogates to itself. They care nothing for the fact that our isolation „makes it impossible to profitably, transport

SAYS Vanity Fair:Our Chief Tax-gatherer and Furge and mostly companies here, or the

Gombeen man, Mr. Jochim G. Goschen, is disabilities of changing climate artistes

other day as to whether the cost of the new arma- singing was remarkably good, and the singers Labour under; they forget how they have

veices in good trist, Captain Gamble's comic about it is difficult to explain. When, thirtyments should be paid for by loin, he pointed out been complaining at being “stuck in this

vong brought down the hause, as did also his years ago, the: was led home. by the pre- that the cost ofthe guns partook more of the nature. full hole" andito not go.

short, but witty recitation. Lieut. Metcalfe's This Conservative, never-satisfied trait song "Peggy O' Yarmouth Town," called loudly ́is visilde amongst the English elsawhore. for an encore and his 'Pidgin English song, but nowhere sa undisguisedly as in Hong- caused roars of laughter. Mr. Crow's "Charge kong. They rush to attend where H. E. of the Light Brigade" called for an encore. Two from two'purely German steins, and had grown point out that the cost of the fortifications par- second rendering of the Comedy Opera, (or the forcible persuasion of a friend I should the Governor, with kindly sympathy, is of the gentlemen named on the programime were amid the liberal political institutions of takes more of the nature of guns than of fortifica unavailably absent, one through business, and England, was not at that time a reproach, but a

tions. Again, when he justified the application charity-concert in aid of some sufferers/ the other from indisposition. Messrs. Wallice/ desert. Her simplicity, her almost proletarian of the interest on the Suez Canal shares to the and Opera Company, but this may be accounterflike to know very much. where the musical

domesticity of habits, her frugality, her love of

payment of the interest on this proposed new from earthquake in South America, but and Evans supplied their places, however, and order, the unpretentiousness of her deportment, loan, he did so on the ground that the Canal the private entertainments and Woodyear's what line of argument or theory in music and did admirably well. At the close, the Chaptasp, rendered her for many long years one of shares had been paid for by the taxpayers, and Circus; yet there was certainly a large and most acoustics he bases his statements, I find that itie.platform and called for thanks from the men the most popular members of the royal the value of the shares was entitled to rank as might have bec expected, the second rendering well as laughter-producing, without offending a

family. What, then, in spite of all this, has made the young and highly beloved lady of The oblexense that "it isn't worth going heatly claps of the hands and loud hurrahs One thirty years ago now one of the most detested his brother Gombéen men in the City'who have to have been looked at in the light of a dress leading artiste of an opera company.is en alto ! I' to see" is so invariable' that it goes for verse of the national authern baving been sung persons of the Prussian royal house? nothing companies which are coldly the appreciative audience dispersed.

cannot banish the suspicion that the hero

this business-leading faculties when they condemned here are highly successful Zota regards the novel as the chief literary worship denounced by the late Mr. John Scherr

did such a wonderful feat in operatic manage- elsewhere, and, the only explanation we can find is that the public of Hongkong literary expression of the future. To-day the not fall down and worship. at the feet of

far as the limited scope which the opera grants expression of the age, and as perhaps the sole has something to do with It, Whoever does

ment as to accomplish this ↑ "Of course there were made more evident last. 'night "na

permitted, and allowance must be made for their is both unreasonably-expectant and miser-novel occupies all the ground; it has absorbed Bismarck, as one of the two greatest men of

them permitted. Though we saw no cause to ally mean.

every form of literature. It is poetry, and it is the century, and under a renunciation of his

differ from the general opinion expressed in our

the short dress of one of the artistes may be Yet it would appear t

that there is no science. It is no longer a mere amusement, a own judgment, adora him as a god, feels TO-DAY Daniel Robinson, chief mate of the last report, yet there was considerable intelligence put down to his extreme modesty and native place where travelling companies ought recreation; it is everything that you can want bound to love everything which that god loves steamship Sarpedon, was charged before Mr. given by the performance last night in respect of making up bent as well as to knowledge to the capabilities, talents and idiosyncracies why he should call a strong powerful basso, with o fare better than Hongkong. The poem, a treatise on pathology, a treatise on and to hate everything which that god hates. Wodehouse with the larceny of $26 on the 16th (from an operatic standpoint) of several mem- dearth of amusements we labour under, anatomy, a political weapon, an ethical study. For many years it has been known that Bismarck inat on board the Sarpedon. The complainant, bers of the Company, which leads to the belief lung power enough to drawn all other defects,

"All the genius of the age" says the great cannotbear the "Englishwoman"-les, perhaps, Hon Ayau, said he was a miner who had just that the members of it; before they leave Hong fine baritone. The" balso is a good one, and I the total absence of seaside resorts and

French realistle writer, "erms to be con because of the wrong that she has done to returned froin Perak by the steamer in which kong, will do themselves even greater credit than have nothing to say against him, for I enjoyed his

singing recreation grounds-a boon which is

possibly they themselves anticipate. Certainly and tenor of the company I should pay the immensely, but if I were the soprano centrated in the novel, which of a surety him than that which he has done to her. It he was a passenger from Penang. On the day the change in the acting, as well as the singing, enjoyed by prople of all civilised countries, will remain the characteristle literature of slap known that the arbitrary manner, with in question while the ship was at ses he was of some of the performers last night was very Press cxitle a visit, taking in company a few even In extreme northern latitudes-the the Nineteenth century. So much for the which the Iron Chancellor tramples upon the most engaged settling accounts with a fellow pas marked, and the audience showed its apprecia- pliable bamboos for external application to the Chevy routine of business which presses present; with regard to the future M, Zola has equitable and reasonable objections has always senger. They were sitting on the deck and on

seat of his musical knowledge. I am sorry that tion of it by its enthusiastic applause, and demande for encore. There was perhaps not

I have run out of myself, Mr. Editor, in face of on everyone, not leaving to many even even higher hopes, "I do not want to suppress been revolting to the Empress sensibilities, complainant taking out $26, the chief officer, quite as much chic and abandon displayed in the injustice done by the Press critic, and beg their Sundays free, the oppressive contact poetry" he exclaims; "but at the same time I and that a genuis, not a mock, parliamentary who was passing, saw the money, laid hold some notable fastances as before, but there was you will credit me, as you have reason to think with the Chinese population into which cannot slut my eyep to the fact that it is in favour régime after the model of the English, of it, and kept. it. There were twenty-one more: finished artistic talent shown, and the most likely, that I am not personally interested other than to get enlightenment, for I never sot everyone is brought, nolens volens, during the naturalistic novel that the evolution of the would be more in harmony with her wishes than dollara in silver and five in notes which opera tan long more smoothly and evenly. eyes on a single member of the Company 'till I' limsiness hours, the scantiness of femulge is exidently working's" and here and there the rigorous Prussian soldier-statesman armed complainant.took, up and walked away. The power of the Company. It is difficult Indeed for saw them on the stage last night. Hoping you. supefy, the objectionable-class exclusive. mysterious hints are thrown out of a day when with the crutch of old Fritz; in short that she is following day at ya.m. the ship arrived in principals to render all the parts of an opera, to will do your best to solve the problems above.

"patronising"; they show up strong at a

the legitimate, professional claims on their support are ignored with a meanness which cannot be too indignantly condemned,

nees which, though.exceedingly comical in itself, is nevertheless keenly felt by those who are not disposed to storm the so-called social heights, these and various other facts ought to be more than sufficient induce uferts for the inhabitants of this land-locked Island to avail themselves of all chances of amusement, when the local theatre, or a circus, or any other attractive diversion is

offered to them..

LOCAL AND GENERAL. 11. P. & O. Company's extra steamer Thibet, Tim Bombay, left Singapore on the 17th last, ut 7 pm, for this port.

Rev. Bryant Wonnacolt, came forward on

for those who had assisted, which were given in

up

One

There was not quite as large an audience at the Theatre Royal last night to winces the

Musical Comedy, whatever it may be called, as

for

it is neither a Cómic Opera, or Opern-louffe, have lost a treat I would have regretted vide breito) by the American Musical Comedy losing for many s day to come. I would critic of the Daily Press was' educated, and on

for the counter-attractions elsewhere,

notably

enthusiastic, as well as appreciative audience. As a man, whom he declares has " novoice "has one

with

most biting and sharp propensities as of the Opera by the Company was a decided. improvement on the first one, which ought scally trained musical ear. Again he declares that the

Mirabile dictu? Where were Mr. Willard's, rehearsal 'before a strange audience, all the accessories and incidents of a long voya e

or Mr. Robertson's-whoever of them dogs just being taken into consideration at the same time. The talents and capabilities

an asset in their relief. He therefore proceeds to relieve them of this asset, for the benefit of

money to lend, so that the final result of the purchase of the Canal shares is that they were purchased for the good of the City Jews. Ireland, hers we are blessed with organised Gom- we are told, is cursed with Gombeen.men, but of the various members of the Company are a few things that newspaper critics ETO.

beeniem.

Luch credit ought to be given to the chorus

It

peculiarities and training, and the criticism of

1am

MUSICULUS.

Yours truly,

Hongkong, 19th July, 1888.

THE LATE EMPEROR OF GERMANY

poetry in its present form will no longer exist, and | "liberal"--not only on political, but also on Hongkong, and on defendant being asked for be their own chorus as well as the soloists, and. of a great change in these matters which is social and religious considerations; so that his the money he said he would give it up ie the tax upon their vocal powers is really some- already beginning to be realised. In Walt. administration of popular representative the evening, but finally he refused, saying thing extraordinary. Mr. Willard has succeeded whe Whitman we might perhaps suspect. Government as a systems of persecution of gambling was not allowed on board. Corrab admirably in selecting an all round company w representative of this change, a transition link religious creeds, was repellant, to her inrostorative evidence having been given, defend is not at all desirable to make favidious distinc

any instance, and it is not our purpose between the poetry of the past and the poetry of soul. But, it cannot be dissembled that the not told the Court that on leaving Singapore tions in the future, but M. Zola descends to no such present majority of the Reichstag furnishes be had instructions to stop all gambling. The to do so here, but there were some Instarices fast of expressing his opinion at all definitely on this time in Germany is not the prevailing one, and the money would be confiscated. On one occa- This is notable in the case of Mr. Sheridan, who concrete illustration. Indeed, he is rather chary conclusive proof that the liberal current at, this passengers were warned that if they gambled night that need special mention, which, however,

we can speak of without getting out of bounds, The following interesting particulars of the death of Emperor Frederick, are extracted from point, and beyond leaving a vague impression of this the strongest reason is to be found in the slon be found complainant gambling and took by the way, has the happy power of vindicating the San Francisco Chronicle on our minds to the effect that one day poetry antipathy existing towards the present dowager ten dollars from him, but after a time returned himself, even on the stage, against unjust criticism

BERLIN, June 1ġihi, will be swallowed up in some mysterious manner, Empress. However, she will now no longer the money and on the second occasion he took delights the audience if it does not please the emblems of mourning aro fluttering. It was on the part of newspapers, in a manner that Again the funeral bells are tolling, and the by the scientific novel, he gives no clue to the disturb, in any wise, the conservative circle of the $16 and gave it to the Captain, reporting at critic. The Press critid must have felt small shortly before 11:15ama that the words, The future. -- But, whatever the future of poetry may the rigid Prussian Government, no she possesses "the same time what he had done.. Captain H. Indeed last night, if he were in the audience, Kaiser is dead" began to be whispered, among be, no doubt is left as to the present of the novel no influence over the headlong military ambition Chrimes corroborated this statement saying be when after the enthu iastic demand by the the throng of oficers and court di nitaries The new dignity with which the novel has been of her son, and but little over any member of the had the strictest orders to stop all gambling exclaimed And yet the Pris says I cannot lepace or in the court yard; and being taken op audience for an encore from Mr. Sheridan, he stadding about the fuperial chamber, on the invested is nothing less than the dignity of Prissan Court, who are, one and all, ready to amongst the passengers. Mr. Wodehouse dissing" "It is teadlass ta say he brought down the were carried with Sightning speed throughout the

bow down and worship the iron Chancellor " charged the defendant.

house. The special credit which he merised last sorrowing household. Immediately Afterwards

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