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LONDON, July 30th. The Emperor William is returning to-day."

STRIKE IN PARIS. Eight thousand navvies, nut on "strike, are pamding the streets of Paris.

. COERCION IN IRELAND. The jury find that the death of Mr. Mandeville in Tullamore was due to harsh treatment.

MESSRS, Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Stenter, from Liverpool, left` Singa; ore for this port on the afternoon of the 31st ulto,, and may be expected on the 6th inst.

-OUR-old-friend- Professor Blackie has been giving his opinion of teetotallers and teetotaliam. He has the highest respect for temperance and for total abstinence; but if he went to the 'house of a gentleman who was a teetotaller, and go only water, he (Professor Blackie) would think him neither a gentleman nor a Christian. The host was bound to respect bis guest's capacity, as.he respected his guest's weakness.

JATSON'S PRICKLY HEAT LOTION is the safest and best cure for Prickly Heat, it affords instant relief, and will be found useful in allaying all irritation of the skin whether arising from acidity or caused by the bites and stings of have been shot at and killed; the nasassin SPRAKING of the, soiled doves of Sydney on

insects. It is also a useful Toilet Article for the

complexion.

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Hongkong, 11th July, 1888.

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A laborer at Kanturk and a former at Tralee

escaped.

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong,)

MONSIEUR CARNOT..

PARIS, July 1st.. The President of the Republic has been received with great ovations at Chambéry Grenoble, Romans and Valence. He subse quently unvelled the monument of Vieille amidst great demonstrations of joy.

OBITUARY.

July 25th.

M. Duclerc, and M. Michaux, Senator for Martinique,

GENERAL BOULANGER. General Boulanger has offered himself as

by the name and alkeis of the writers, not necessarily for candidate in the Somme Department.

blication; but as evidence of good faith,

Whilst the columes of the Zengkang Teiremjk will always

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TO SUNSCRIBERS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

evening paper playfully observes: "The factid waters of hell may have engulfed them, and, transmogrified their nature from that of a pre sentable specimen of humanity to that of a demoniacal sensualist of the most repulsive character." What a rare old thumbing the office "Walker's Unabridged" must have received before the facile scribe evolved that sentence from the tissues of his seething brain!

THERE is a graduated scale in the expressions adopted by many ladies in, sending out invita- tions to their dinners and little parties which recalls the story of a certain Scotch Indy fond of a game of whist who was accustomed to send out her servant every morning to invite the ladies to make up the game in these terms: "Nelly, ye'll gang to Lady Carnegy's and nak my compliments and ask the honor of her lady ship's company to tea this evening; and if she canna come gang to the Miss Mudies and ask

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FUN on the Bristol," with Mr. Sheridan as Widow O'Brien, should be a draw to-night jet the City Hall Theatre. The merits of the pièce | are not unknown to Hongkong audiences, and the general approval the Company have earned by their ability in "comedy ensures their success 'to-night.

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We note the arrival, from Saigon of the "fast and powerful" steamship Carisbrooke, Capt. R. Cass, which left the capital of French Cochis China on the 28th ulto, Capt. Cass kindly informs us that Boulanger had not arrived at Saigon previous to his departure. Thanks!

DAME-You ate entirely mistaken as to the 'THE "old Library, which was attached to the object of the anti-kissing society. It is no | Lusitano Club, in Shelley Sweet, has been closed intended to discourage courtship-no, indeed We presume a modern Caliph Omar has alighted The object. is to break up the practice of allowing of the institution and repeated his Alexandrian'|' ministers to kiss brides. Male Caller-Oh. experience with equal"success. That most of that's it. Are the members of the society the books of the Bibliotheca Lusitana, parti-engaged young ladies who expect shortly to be cularly the theological, collection,deserve that married? Dame-Well, ng; the members are fate, can hardly-be denied.

-mostly-minister'a-wiven---|

JUDGE, KKRFÆRÐ, of Melbourne (he was con- nected with a brewery at Beechworth a few years ago) showed what stern stuff lie was made of the other day by sentencing a white-haired man 60 years old to to years' hard labour and two floggings! The foggings will, no doub, teach that old man to know better during the next 60 years of his life.

MRS. Maria E. Beasley of Philadelphia has 'made a fortune from the most remarkable inven- tion which the mind of a woman ever conceived. In 1884 Mrs. Beasley took out a patent for a machine for the construction of barrels. Up to that time barrels had been made almost alto gether by hand. The machine is worked by three men, and turns out more then six hundred.

completed barrels a day,

THE proper number for a dinner is being dis-

cussed. Sir Henry Thomson thinks that eight is the perfect number. Ten has its advantages, since it provides for accidents. Twelve is thought to put the success of the dinner in danger; but after twelve is passed there is no limit. An old and classical authority says. "not less than the Graces nor more than the muses," that is, from three to nine.

SUPREME COURT.

IN BANKRUPTCY.

(Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief

Justice).

RA. ATENES, BANKRUPT. The adjourned examination of the bankrupt. was resumed, Mr. Webber appearing on his behalf, and: Mr. Wilson for three creditors.

The Acting Registrar stated that since the last examination the bankrupt had put in vouchers.. showing the state of his account at the Savings Bank from May to December 1885, when there was over $500 deposited.

The Bankrupt was then re-examined by the Chlef Justice, às follows p

-You told me, on the last occasion when you were under examination that you had $500 or $600 at the Bank when you entered into your . first transactions in shares. "Is that correct?

No, I would like to explain-

Never mind explaining what was your balance then--what amount lind you in hand on the 15th December, when you entered into, these speculations in Punjoms? You said you had $500 or $600 is that correct?

No, it is not correct. How much had you? Twenty dollars,

You had $20 to your credit? Had you any other debts at the time?

Last time I said I had none; but I made- How much I want definite, figures, we are dealing with figures now?

I had some small debts from Shanghai-

about Soo or $100.

A MEETING of the Sanitary Board was held this the pleasure of their company; and if they canna will doubtless have a paralysing effect on the have been playing husband and wife." "How when the loss was just as possible as the gain,

aflemous. The report will appear to-merrow,

MR. JUSTICE LEACH returned a day or two ago

fem his two months' trip to Japan. The learned gentleman seems much benefited by his trip and will resume his duties to-morrow.

come you may gang to Miss Hunter and ask the favor of her company and if she canna come gang to Lucy Sparks and just bid her come."

We learn from the Courrier d'Haiphong that Monsieur Richaud, the Governor-General of French Indo-China, with M. Chesne, Captain Dol, Lieutenant Seal and several orderlies, after vishing Bac-nink and Daap-cau arrived al Nam-dinh on the morning of the 26th ulte, and were received with all due honours. An official reception took place afterwards, and the whole party were to return to. Haiphong the next day, HERE is a choice little para. from a late issue of the "organ of the Social Purity movement," which sens of Belial to whom it is intended to apply:- The Sentinel, and everyone connected with it, is determined to know no political party but the one of which Jesus Christ, is the Prime Minister, and intends by His grace to hit hard and hit straight at any statesman, great or small, Liberal or Conservative, that sets IIis laws at defiance. If the agitators in any righteous cause place their trust in political parties they will carry on their agitation indefinitely, tossed like

to another. The secret of success is to be in dead earnest, look straight up to God, and then hurl yourself right against the foe."

MAMMA, dear," anid ilutie Alice, "Charlie and did you go about it, dear?" "Well, first I laid the table, and then we sat down. Charley tasted a dish. and threw his napkin down, saying.

This dinner is only it for a dog to cat.' Then I told him he was a fool, and then he said 'damn." and then I got up and called him a brute, and he swore again, and I left the room,"

Subscriber to The Honghong Tairgraph are respoqfully | Peshawar, with the next English mall, let points of interest in the historic pile-were illus. a shuttlecock from one battledore of party feeling says:-We shall be hearing of a snowstorm at

reminded that all Subscriptions are payable in advaner,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1888.

NEVER is the neighbourhood of Victoria Peak more thoroughly appreciated and enjoyed than when an, implacable summer drives the residents of the lower levels to every coign of vantage where a breath of fresh air is to be obtained, or where such a fraction of the southern breeze may be felt as our granitic walls, rising skywards behind us, will occasionally allow. At an elevation of a thousand feet above the sea level our climatic conditions are entirely changed; the thermometer registers five, and 'sometimes ten degrees less of heat;

THE weekly entertainments and lectures at the Garrison Theatre ate evidently highly appre- ciated by our military friends. Last night a The Superintendent of the P. & O. 5. Nlarge audience listened to a paper on "The

Tower of London" by the Rev. Bryan Wonna Co. counteously informs us that the steamship cott, who has organized the series. The various

Singapore for this part at 6 pm, on the 31st ulto.

Irated by dissolving views kindly lent and PROFESSOR (to class in athletics)-Now, who manipulated by Captain Anderson, and the can tell me who made the highest standing description and anecdotes were attentively jump on record? Youth (with the eagerness day evening acxt, as Surgeon Yarr will not be that accompanies red hair) -The cow that

present to give his lecture, Dr. Cantlie has been jumped over the moon,

induced to give some of his experiences as Sur geon at the late Egyptian war.

A MAN in New York has been sent to jail for six months for selling pure Croton in bottles as a remedy for small-pox. His prosecution wasS doubtless Instigated by physicians who were opposed to the water-cure,

is a curious fact that, while Queen Victoria speaks German in her home circle, the present German Empress disregards it in hers, and usce English as much as possible, English is the fire-side tongue of the Greek, Danish, and Russian royal families,

Tre mortal remains of the late Tartar General of Foochow were despatched from Pagoda Anchorage on the 25th July, with his family," by the steamship Fushun. We trust the "remains" reached Peking all right; the family don't count. Why should they?

the barometer also is, lower, indicating a more rarefied, or a purer air in those alittudes; the south-western monsoon blows steadily and freely, occasionally increasing to a gale; a twenty-mile sea

THE New York Star says that the smartest horizon spreads majestically to the cast something in black underwear in the black and south, while on the Chinese continent night-dress-the effect is ghoulish. Put a small to the north, mountains on mountains woman in a black silk night-dress in the center lower heavenward's as far as the eye of a white bed, and the impression given ii can reach. The sanitary conditions of certainly "spookish."

the Peak are almost unimpeachable, Is the recent Pastoral letter issued by Cardinal

listened to. We are informed that, on Wednes-

THUS the London Lance-"It is not work which kilis men, so much as worry. It is not the revolutions which destroy the machinery, but rather the friction. Work is not only harmless, but beneficial, because it stimulates the organism: to recuperate. Worry exhausts not only the power which nature sels apart for action but the replenishing of this power; and so by living at high pressure, which means a worried and anxious life, we both spend interest and cat up capital, with the result that nothing less than beggary stares us in the face, and all because we wish to be rich, or famous, of great, or in some way prosperous. If we would rim nt long life we must endeavour to take things easy, and remember that most of the good things come to those only who can afford

to wait."

Then as a matter of fact you were $80 or $90 in debt? You understand my object in asking these questions-they are easy enough to Answer. You told me before that you had justified you in entering into these operations $500 or $6ca to your credit, and I ask what.

You told me just now that you were actually in debt at the time. What was the state of your balance? Is there anything you want to explain? Yes. When I replied last time that I had $500 when I come from Foochow I had not my bank-book with me, and I didn't remember that had spent the balance by the end of December that is the reason I replied that I had so much,

How long were you in receipt of $45 a month 2 From the 1st January to the middle of July':

How did you come to get your salary cut došu from $400 to $200 a month? Where did you get

I had $50 from Hughes and Ezra, and $150 from Mr. Kerfoot Hughes,

What was that for-book-keeping?

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it ?

Of the weather at home In mid-June the Globe 1887

the Equator before long. It was not altogether surprising to be told ten days ago that the Scotch mountains were white ns in the middle of winter, even though June had, set in ; but to learn, as we do to-lay, that Cornwall has heen similarly visited, almost within a week of Midsummer, fairly takes one's breath away. The weather this year is evidently capable of any vagaty.

Yes,

You were employed by the Wharf and Godown Company 7

Yes; I got $200 a month; and $150 from Mr. Kerfoot Hughes for his Wanchai godowns and private business, in addition to $50 from Hughes and Ezra.

Mr. Wilson said that he did not object to the Bankrupt passing his final examination, but that he should oppose his discharge unless some. offer was made by him to

pay something to his creditors out of his salary

The Bankrupt then passed his examination, and the matter was adjourned till the 16th inst.

FORMOSA.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

· TAMBUY, 24th July, 1888. On the 20th inst, the telegraph steamer Fiches artived here from Shanghai, but, by order of the Governor, – left immediately for Kelung, to tow round the hulk loaded with railway material from the steamer Stanmore This hulk was. formerly the Dutch brig Elming, which some months ago arrived at Kelung in'distrois) and was condemned and sold by public auction. She was bought by our enterprising storekeeper and launch-owner, Mr. Tan Ah-soon, for... $1,300.

levig Amoy felt very had indeed, Dr. Rennie was called on board at once when the steamer arrived here, but he could not save him, as the disease had got too strong & hold on him. Mr. Smith died at to p.m. from choler and was buried at to o'clock the next that when the steamer was in Hongkong-a morning I was informed by good authority sailor was taken ill suddenly and 'died in a few hours, apparently of cholera The Formats leaves to-day for Amay, but has to leave her chief officer, Mr. Eldridge here he was also taken suddenly ill.

The German steamer Johann, which arrived. from Shanghai on the 18th, left for Kelung and Shanghai on the aist

THE system of bestowing public praises on Government servants and citizens in general is in great vague in the neighbouring Portuguese colony. It is equivalent to an official recogni- tion of services rendered, involving' a probable promotion in the ranks, an advancement in the OUR Police Court reporter sends us the subjined Civil List, or that baon which is most prized by report of a case heard this morning, before Mr. Lusitanians and their castern descendants-a Sercombe-Smith. It is really of no general interest decoration. The Macao Government Gazette in itself but as the action of the police authori- teems with official documents conveying to the ties-which we are compelled to regard as shipid

in the highest degree and entirely uncalled for public, the degree of acceptation or of favour which various residents enjoy with their Gaver may, and probably will raise questione afficing nor. Needless to say, the impression these public intereste, we think it desirable to give the facts of the prosecution full publicity :--- eulogistic notifications produce in the right.. minded classes is highly ludicrous. We read This morning at the Police. Court further for instance, in the last number of the Macao evidence was produced, in the Wanchai drug- official paper, that Governor Costa, having been ging case, by which on the 17th July five present at the examinations of a primary journeymen carpenters were drugged and became school, had found the results highly satis immediately insensible after eating some fish factory, and deemed it his duly to publicly stew, which it was alleged had been tampered praise Professor Luz, who is at the head of that with by a visitor who sat down to "cat with establishment. Professor Luz-professors abound them, but who purposely spilt the contents in the neighbouring colony, in fact are as thick of his own basin. Mr. Wotton defended as autumn leaves in Vallombrosa,-is not a Gov- the prisoner. Dr. Marques' said :-On the THE largest British garrison at any foreign or ernment servant, the school over which this 17th inst. I was at the Government Civil colonial station at the beginning of the year, representative of the trio descendants of Vasco Hospital, acting on behalf of Dr. Atkinson, On Friday evening, the 20th, at 6. p.m., the was that which holds Malia, At that very small da Gama’presides, being a Municipal institution,

when I was called at 7 pm, to attend to five steamier Formosa arrived from Hongkong and

Amoy, having been docked in the former place... island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sen,s spurious mixture of the former Commercial young Chinese who were all more or less The chief engineer, Mr. G. Smith, who was not the British flag waves over 5,890 officers and School with a primary educational establishment unconscious, and could not answer any questions.quite well when leaving Hongkong, was taken men, whilst at Gibraltar the total number was belonging to the Senado. What value may be The pupils of their eyes were dilated, their much worse on his way up the coast, and when 5.150, or about one hundred more than the total attached to a Government eulogy thrown broad. pulses were beating quickly and their temperature in the Cape Colony and Natal we had 3,265 duty is an enigma to us. Governor Costa must acted in due course, three of them were violently number of British troops in Egypt at that time. cast over a private citizen for simply doing his averaged 999. I gave them, emetics which officers and men, 1,700 at Hongkong, 1,350 in surely have very litle to do when he is able to

attacked. I have seen similar cases of drugging, the Straits Settlements, and 1,450 at Halifax, devote time and trouble to draft and issue offi-

due to poisonous plants, which grow on this Nova Scotia. As a rule British Colonies did not cial notifications which are sheer nonsense.

island. In cross-examination by Mr. Wotton, pay anything towards the cost of troops provided

Dr. Marques said he did not know that the by the mother country, but during the last few THE modern European custom of seamen throw lamang fish, which was in the stew, years exceptions have been made, This ing oil on the water so as to assuage the violence was poisonous if not properly cleaned; and he possession of Hongkong subscribes a subsidy of of an angry sea is old enough to have been men had never known such symptoms from fish £22,000, Ceylon £17,500, and Malta £5,000 per tioned by Herodotus as practised during his last polsoning. The fruit of the thom apple, he annum. The Mauritius sets the most praise voyage to Africa. In England it has been in stated, was commonly used by European doctors, worthy exan ple in this respect, for, upwards of operation since Mr. Plimsoll made his memorable. It was first bolled and then distilled; it grows 15,000 a year is paid out of her comparatively attack on these shoddy members of the House of in clusters, and the seeds, as well as the small revenues towards the expense of a garri Commons who, as shipowners, had grown fat and pulp and the young leaves of the plant, rich, first by starving their sailors and then send contained the alkaloid. One drop of the essence ing them to the bottom as certainly as man. In his was enough to make a person unconscious. kitten in a mill race. Unsophisticated humanity prove that the prisoner was the man who ate pristine condition of youth ever drowned a The evidence of other witnesses only went to may possibly suppose that seamen regard this with them; he was a stranger to them all, and revived custom as a blessing to their profession, wangenerally suspected. Mr. Wotton informed the but the fact is, they look on it much as a parallel Court that he did not at present intend to make case to the sly device of that burglar who casts any defence; he supposed his client would become We confess to having for generations past his poisoned morsel of beef into the teeth of the mitted for trial at the Supreme Court, and that generation, we beg to state, is usually recognised retributive watch-dog. They have the best of the case would go before a jury. The prisoner as a very uncertain element,felt a kind of fellow feeling tho sort that makes us wondrous grounds for believing that in the near future, as was duly committed for, trial. Inspector Hen- kind towards our contemporary, the Foochow more unprincipled shipowners manage to worknessy then placed an officer of the Gael Echo Front the somewhat circumscribed themselves into the scarlet seats of legislative in the witness box to prove a previous conviction limits of that Joumal we have on many world items of information of more than a local about 32 years of age for illegally carrying application. But for the past few weeks the Echo arms, Mr. Wotton objected in strong terms to has been mysteriously feebla ; for what reason we such a proceeding, contending that his Worship are unable to guess, but it would seem that the had nothing to do with previous convictions editorial sanctum sanciorum, or that the Editor bors" type slinger has been elevated to the that such a course as wat now being pursued has been suddenly attacked by sub-stroke, or sle was quite illegal, and that if the case was douloureus, of that historical complaint, which sent back to that Court, the magistrate, would sent Sir George Bowen to Japan: [P.S.--Sie have, this question of a previous conviction too George's mash is quitan celebrity at Miyano- strongly impressed on bis mind. Mr. Sercombe shita, but that, of course, le a secret to everybody bat our excellent friend Dr. Stewart.]: (Weshould Smith, as in duty bound, committed the prisoner like to sling In an appropriate Greek or Latin for trial; but we want to know who instructed quotation here, but time will not permit.) To the police inspector to go into the witness box return to our mutton chops-which is a far more and make an ass of himself and bring public ebloned, and hackneyed phrase we are sadly sensible way of chipping in than by the old justice Into ridicule by, testifying to matters afraid the Foochow Echo Is auffering from which had no more to do with the question at cholera, or atomach ache, or something else, and Issue than they had to do with on or Had we been in the Magistrate's place, the supplement the following items with the fore probability is that the anxiety of the police to going (more or less-idictic), remarks

The prevailing drought is giving the farmers illegally) obtain a committal would have leduced much anxiety for their second crop of rice, us to discharge the prisoner and provide bim, and unless rain comes down soon the crop will out of our private excliequer, with sufficient turn out a very poor one, at in many felde funds to pay his passage to Canton. And with plants are now beginning to get dried up. Pace all humility we venture to belles more about English law Worship is likely to beco

On the aand the Ferchou arrived from Kelung, having the hulk Elming in tow, The Frechen leaves for Foochow and Amoy to-morrow, and will return here, suita

sufficient evidence of which is that during Moran, St. Peter's representative in Sydney it is the small-pox epidemies last winter, and commanded that no Catholic clergyman shall "the cholera visitation this summer, not attempt to perform service over the grave of a single case of either disease occurred anyone who after the date of this edict, becomes aliere. The facilities offered to the public a member of either the Oddfellows' Druids, by the tramway are being availed of to Foresters, Rechabites', Good Templars, or such their fullest extent; in a word, the like societies. The alleged reason for this is residents of Victoria are showing that these societies have now a distinct burial decided intention of taking the best service of their own, which jars with some of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church: The advantage they can of the lovely heights real reason probably is that many of these overhead which nature has provided societies are simply run for political purpose, them with, and which human art and and are, therefore, apt to interfere with the soild skill have rendered easily accessible Catholic vote. to all classes. Yet there is a drawback,

"BROWNIE" is quite wrong in imagining that and a very serious. "one,"tot

to this picture. There is no really adequate accommoda- hat joined the great majority. The old'un, bis arch-enemy, the ubiquitous "Old Sportsman," tion at the Peak for the numerous visitors. we are glad to state, is as fively as a two The existing Peak Hotel, although admir-year old, and will very shortly be paralysing able in its way as a restaurant, is without focal sports with his views on racing affairs any available hotel, acccommodation for in general. It is a gross misstatement to say guests, such as sleeping rooms, etc. To that "An Old Sportsman" has agreed-at a many of us who live and swelter in the lower thousand dollars per mensem-to drag the levels during the oppressive summer China Mall out of the Slough of Despond; the months no better boon could be offered than ever-green is still prowling round Pedder's Hill, the possibility of transplanting ourselves Governor-General. Meanwhile a silent prayer of Futa bears off the palm in these respects, if Westminster, a time will come when oll for such against the prisoner-who is a young man of occasions been able to send out to the

and there he will remain until Lister returns as

son of less than 600 men,

of etiquette appear to govern the matrimonial AMONG invage tribes some very strange rules relationship, Convention prevents a Yoruba wife from either speaking to, or even seeing her husband, if it can be avoided, and the rude Al utian islanders have the same regulation about speaking. In parts of the Fiji Islands & busband and wife, if they wish to meet, must meet in secret; a similar secrecy is or was obligatory among the Circassians, and even among the Hottentots. But the African Kingdom |

to the mountain top, and spending a couple whiskey and ginger is our tipple-will do no of months amidst the breezes from the harm.

an old traveller is to be credited, who assures us purposes will be supplied to all ships by act that wiven there were so 'bashful as never to let of parliament, and when perplexed and dumb China Sea. Yet this is denied to the vast ACCORDING to an Auckland telegram dated July their husbands see them without a velt for three founded skippers will be actually expected to majority of the community, Had theth, it is stated that leading Chinese Merchants years after their marriage. The same sort of feel" pass in oil" Even since Plimsoll made promoters of the high level Tramway in Dunedin have received a copy of an Impeilal ing is manifest in other curious customs. Among his splendid efforts to keep the flag from carried out their original plan of building proclamation and edict from high officers at the Exquimaux, even in cases where the course of foundexing in a seaway no bigger than a a large hotel in the neighbourhood of the Pekin, in which the action of the Colonies relative true love ran its smoothest and accorded fully with mill-race, overloading cases have grown rather Gap, by the time the tramway line was to the expulsion of Chinese is characterised as parental settlements, certain old women had to than diminished, and swamping, in some completed this building would have been illegal, and as a breach of the Treaty of be sent to drag the bride forcibly to her husband's measure, has been avoided by a more intelligent opened to the public, and a considerable Obligations, The proclamation goes on to say but, she being obliged under the penalty of an and careful attention to deck fittings, which proporilon of the Hongkong European that the Imperial army numbers 13,000,000, but ill name to make as if it went against the grain bave been generally strengthened. But since is not so well armed or drilled as troops of other and as if she were much ruffled at it." A Kams. the grasping class of shipowners have dis- population would now be taking advantage nations; while the navy, though larger than it was chatkan girl (and the people of Kamchatka are covered, by means of the ingenuity of sinking of a temporary residence #topilde." Is it

a few years ago, is not sufficiently, large to among the rudest of the earth), however well men, that oil is a remedy for all such too late to mend matters in this direction? warrant the Empire taking aggressive action, disposed she may be to her future spouse, makes complainte, It is confidently expected they will We do not think so. The promoters an asthe be pretend to s med de litrée, con finally the pover, to take an of the Tramway Company have ample vessels, and also to improve the army. This the form of force on his side and of resistance on ignorant advantage of its benefits, which, it is Inducements to construct a commodious work of re-arming and re-drilling the army, and hers has in any case to be regularly performed well known, are not general. As published in hotel with all possible speed in connection of building warships sufficiently powerful to And the wild tribe, the Has of India, regard it a para' in our yesterday's issue, we think it highly enable the Chinese Empire to cope with the as the correct thing for a wife to run away from improbable that the great North German with the refreshment rooms now existing soldiers and navy of Great Britain will take her husband and to tell her friends that she Linyd's Steamship Company should have As a paying concern, public, and as a greatly needed fresh three years. The Government of China com- neither loves him nor will ever see him again, purchased a patent of this description, which mand all Chinese subjects in the colonies to while he in his turn is expected to display great could only be made serviceable to overloaded movement of Hongkong enterprise, we wind up their respective businesses and affairs anxiety for his loss and when he has found his tramps, or to such craft as have neither the think an Institution of that kind should within the next three years, and return to Chios wife after diligent search to carry her home freeboard nor the power to weather an ordinary readily commend itself to public support. by the expiration of that period.

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