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SEASON 1888.9.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUG

MESSRS, Russell & Co. inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Airlie left Port Darwin for this port yesterday, and may be expected to

arrive on the 28th inst.

M. LEREDE, a Surveyor of the Correspondances Fluviales, has left Haiphong in company with M. Pavle, to institute soundings in the Black River and survey the rapids,

We read that a contract has been placed with a

THE following SEEDS, required for Greenock, shipbuilding firm for the construction- of four twin-screw steamers of 1,000 tons each, for trading between China and Australia. A New York physician says that the guillotine is the most comfortable death. Every doctor should have one of these instruments in his

much suffering,

Our First Shipment of Assorted VEGETABLE:AND FLOWER SEEDS.

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DURING M. Frandin's (French Consul) absence from Foochow, M. Leduc, Interpreter to the French Legation at Peking, will be in charge of the Portuguese Consulate at Foochow. MADAME DROUAS, a cantinière of the 59th Regiment of the line, has been decorated with the Legion of Honour by the French Govern- ment, on the occasion of the national fête of the 14th of July..

ACCORDING to Manila papers a project has been set on foot fer establishing a line of railway from Manila to Batangas,a distance of 115 kilometres. The Porvenir de Bisayas estimates the cost at $39,000 per kilometre. We are informed by the Agents (Messrs. Arahold,

THE Hongkong Rifle Association's third monthly competition for the Handicap Challenge Cup will sake place at the Milllary tange, Kowloon, an Saturday next at 5 p.m. Entries close to the Hon. Secretary (Mr. A. Shelton Hooper) nat

later than Friday the 24th inst. -

1868.

A MONUBIENT has been raised in Paris to Set geant Babillot of the Tonquin Army of Occups tion, who was mortally wounded while heroically defending Tuyen-quan dating the wor How his sufferings might have been eased. Miss Quaverly (to dentist friend)-I have been reading a book about those brave martyrs How shocking to hurn that poor Latimer at the stake His sufferings must have been exciu cinting. Dentist (absently)-Yes, but he might have taken laughing gas.

THE marriage between Major Fred. J. W. Davies Royal Munster Fusiliers, late. Assistant Military Secretary to General Cameron, commander-in chief of the forces in China and the Straite Sci

tale Mr. William Burnley Hume, of Winterton, Great Yarmouth, took place at Winterton on the 14th July:

heavy baskets. The constables stopped them, and no one ran away, the other three were in a cock-loft. The evidence of the watchman arrested The runnway was afterwards found

pointed to collusion with the prisoncis, one of prisoners protested their entire innocence. His whom occasionally worked at this godown. The Lardship commented on the cunning of the men in carrying the plunder away just at daybreak, when they were not likely to be asked for the plunder on boned a sanpan and take it quickly passes, and when it would be easy to put their away.--The foreman, without consulting the jury, at once founil then guilty of receiving the stolen property.

QUR modern carcharodon, commonly called the shark. runs to as much as forty feet in length in moderately high north and south latitudes, which is a very respectable size for a desizes of the deep sea; his serrated and triangular teeth, of which, be invariably possesses seven rows, close into each other from top and lower jaws much in the same way as a pair of shears, and measure two inches long by one. and a hall broad. But the naturalists of the Challenger

of the Pacific, similar teeth, five inches long by four wide, so that the sharks to which they originally belonged must, by parity of reasoning, have measured nearly a hundred feet in length. about ten years ago in Callao bay, two kinds of Such monsters are now probably extinct, but

monster fish made their appearance, which had never been seen there before. One kind looked like a turbat and was said to be 30 feet broad, thorax, and two front legs. Behind all the ospital, found that, flowers of datura were

has arrived, and will be ready for delivery in consulting room and thereby save his patientss. N. Co.'s steamer 'Moyune, from Glasgow and expedition dredged up in numbers, from the ooze tlements, and Minnie, adopted daughter of the Secuted, and Mr Francis, Q.C. defended, On.

a day or two.

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A. 'S. WATSON &Co., Ltd. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 17th August, 1888.

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THE Nordenfeldt Guns and Ammunition Co. lately resolved to amalgamate with the Maxim Gun Company. An hour after the prospectus hath been issped, the capitai required was sub [sscribed for several times over.

On August 19th, at No. 10, Belilios Terrace, -the wife of JAMES S. HAGEN, of a son. 1810

On July 13th, at Melita Cottage, Deany, Scot Band, the wife of JAMES KIRKWOOD, Inspector of Machinery, Imperial Chinese Navy, of daughter.

DEATHS.

At St. Francis Street, Wanchai, on the 17th instant, GUY MATTHEW SHELBY, A native of Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A., aged sixteen and a half years.

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At Upper Wilkie Road, Singapore, on Sunday, the 12th instant, NowROJE, the eldest son of Mr. Hormusjee Pestonjec Hengkongwalla, of Singa pore, aged 26 years.

The Hongkong Celegraph

Hostokosa, MoNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1828.

TELEGRAM'S.

(Reuter)

EMIN PASA.

LONDON, August 17th.

Emin Pasha has been shot.

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Karberg & Co.) that the China Shippers' Mutnal

Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this | morning, and may be expected on or about the

15th inst. '

THE Cunard steamer' Etruria, which left New York at six p.m. on the 7th July, arrived at Queenstown at 3.50 a.m. on the 14th, Greenwich time, having performed the passage in six days, four hours fifty minutes. This is the fastest home run that has yet been made.

Tut Correio Macaense reports that a few hours before the transport India left Macao barbour on Sunday the 12th inst. for Timor and Lisbon, two African soldiers died on board and their | THE Hongkong Rifle Association's sixth "Spoon" remains were brought on shore and buried. Competition took place at Kowloon over the 500 yards range on Saturday afternoon, and News from the neighbourhand of the Mayon resulted in the success of Sergt. Fricker, North volcano in the Philippines continues to be very amptonshire Regiment, who totalled 30, defeat discouraging. The damages done by the lateing 27 opponents, Mr. E. L. Woodin, Sergt. eruption extended far and wide throughout the Mann (Hongkong Police) and, Mr. E. Robinson district, the crops were destroyed, cattle were tied for second honors with 26. The weather killed by hundreds, and general paverty prevail. was favorable and the shooting all round stowed everywhere.

a decided improvement.

CAPTAIN ANGOVE, the marine superintendent of the '. and O. Steamship Company, who was. for several years commander of the Poonah, has received a commission of Honorary Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. Captain Angove has for some time past taken great interest in that branch of the Naval service, and has in alher ways rendered valuable assistance to the Government, especially in connection with the late Egyptian expeditions,

THE French Minister of War is about to make a sweeping reform of a matrimonial nature among the officers of the army. Hitherto no officer has been allowed to marry without bis Colonel's con- sent and a certificate that his intended bride has a fortune of at least 20,000 francs. M. 'de Frey A circular has been issued by the l'orte declar ciret proposes to sweep away all these impedi. ments and give the officers perfect freedom of choice. It is needless to say that the French

THE PORTE AND ITALY.

ing the Palian occupation of Massowah viola. tion of the treaty.

(From Straits Times) THE PARNELL ENQUIRY BILL.

LONDON, August Sth.

A protracted chate took place on the repert of the Committee on the Parnell Enquiry Bill.

Numerous amendments by the Irish members were all rejected.

August 10th,

The Parnell Inquiry Bill has passed the House of Commons, the Irish Members abstaining

from voting.

THE agricultural condition of Fortugal is repre sented in a British consular report as most deplorable. The cultivation of wheat has been abandoned over large areas of the country, and the land has either been allowed to lie idle, or attempts, generally unsuccessful, have been made to substitute other crops. Acommission appointed to examine into the matter say that, under existing conditions, it is impossible to raise wheat at a profit. The remedy proposed is an increase of the duties on foreign bread-stuffs, and a bill has been introduced in the Cortes for the purpose.

while another species, af which one was harpooned and lanced by the boat's crew of a whaler lying in the bay, was towed ashore and carefully measured. He was fifty-four feet long, although his tail took up ten out of that number, and he measured eight feet across the mouth. The fish was like the ordinary white shark, or rhinoden, except that its head and mouth resembled the cod's; it had seven rows of teeth which were small and rather like minute fleshy

excrescences than bone.

SAYS the London and China Expresi:-Som

Pitman, bought a curious monstrosity-a son time ago an English resident at Canton, Mr

with six legs. The front part of the body is simple, that is, the animal has one head, one

organs are double. M. Béinure, the French Consul at Canton, persuaded. Mr. Pitman toler him have this strange creature for the Paris Museum of Natural History, where it may now be seen. It is white, with great black spots, aud appears to be in perfect health. The separation of the two trunks seems to begin after the dorsal vertebra; but the animal is so fat that this can- not be precisely determined. ·

THE Correio Macaense publishes the following items of Portuguese legislation concerning the To get some comparison, says the New York electoral rights of free citizens, and calls the Afail and Express, between the ideal of a wo

Crown Attorney's attention to Guvernor da man's figure.as the Greek sculptors chiselled Costa's recent attempt at overruling and inter- it and the modern dressmaker and cloakmaker fering with the votes of the inhabitants of regard it, one cannot do better than compare Macao at the coming Municipal elections the proportions of the Medicean Venus with Art 145 of the Constitutional Charter of Portugal those of the professional models who exhibit says that The inviolability of the civil and fine goods for the seller's at the wholesale and political rights of all Portuguese citizens, based retail stores. The Venus is 5 feet 5 inches in

on their individual liberty, security and property, height, measures nearly 25 inches about the is guaranteed by the Constitution of the waist, 34 inches about the bust and 41 inches Kingdom, No citizen can be compelled to about the hips. The upper arm measures 13 do or to abstain from doing anything unless inches and the wrist 6. From the base of the by virtue of the laws. Art. 5 of the Additional skull to the waist is between 14 and 1 inches. Act to the Constitution provides that Every The approved dimensions for a cloak or dress Portuguese citizen who should be in the passes model, as employed in most, of the large city

sion of his civil and political rights, is an elector. houses, do not differ from the Venus greatly Chamber exclusively elected by the people shall Art. 1-In every communal district, a Municipal as regards height. Shert women and tallad minister the municipal finances in conformity women are needed in the retail stores, but a

will require a woman of about 5 feet 5 inches to display its choicest goods to advantage. Her. other measurements will be about as follows: Waist, 23 inches, or sometimes 24: bust, 36 inches, or occasionally 37; hip measure from 45 to 47 inches upper-arm measure, 1 inches; distance from base of skull to waist, 104, and from shoulder to shoulder, 17 inches. The much more closely than it would have done modern measure approximates the Greek measure twenty years ago. Sixty years ago there would have been very litle comparison possible between the two. Where the dress-making models differ from the statuesque model the divergence can be traced accurately to the corset shape, which makes the waist rather smaller, the bust and hip consi-

with the laws. Ari 200 of the Penal Code jules

THE ALLEGED POISONING CASE Leurg Fun was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously administering a noxious drug to live ciblies,, on the 17th July. Mr. Pollack pro the afternoon of the day in question the prisoner called at a abep on the Praya at Wanchai, and representing that he was a fiend of the master's, was invited to cat. They gave him some stew, which he upset before he had eaten any. After that he only took some rice with them. After- wards the five men were taken ill, four be coming unconscious. The prisoner was accused the removal of the sick mento the Hospital he was. of having poisoned the men, but-denied it. After arrested; and the remainder of the food sent for

Mr. Crow, analyst at the Government

present in the food. This was an alkaloid poison allied to atrophine, and was obtained from the wild thorn, which grows on the island, and which contains the same principle as belladonna. The evidence of the folis who object was to drug them, that he might obtain. were poisoned suggested that the prisoner's the money $41-which was kept in the shop.

Dr. Marques described the state of the men when brought to the Civil Hospital as being similar to that of persons who had been poisoned by stramonium..

morning,

The case was adjourned until to-morrow

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RUDDIGORE" AT THE CITY.

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wanes, as well as the officers, are jubilant over says, been productive of the fact that men would wholesale house exhibiting samples to a buyer that if any citizen be prevented by a tumuli, that was kicking ap such a demmed row outside

the proposed change.

THE_visit 'of Admiral Sir R. V. Hamilton and Inspector General of Fortifications Sir Nicholson to the Firth of Forth and Clyde, for the purpose of conferring with the local authori ties in regud to the organisation of measures for coast defence, has, the L. & C. Express

undoubtedly be forthcoming in sufficicat numbers if the Government provided the matériel of war, SARAH BERNHARDT has an antique girdle of but we could never see good grounds for believ. medallions, on which are signs of the zodiacing that the inhabitants of mercantile ports would in superb chasing. The zone was a gift

contribute sufficient money to relieve the country from Napoleon III, who received it from.

at large of the duty of paying for the national Abdallah Bey, of Egypt. She is never without defences. Not the least in importance among --sometimes it is worn about her dress, and the many reasons why the Government should sometimes around her neck. It holds the gathers undertake the duty of defending our coasts and of house and stage dresses, and always encircles large estuaries is to be found in the circumstance her night-robes. Aside from the worship of the that the views of influential personx, who are xirdie she loves a knife, because it cuts, and expected to lead the way in obtaining local is true-cruelly true.?. In all great undertakings subscriptions and organising local schemes, are she keeps a blade in her hand or before her eyes in many cases not in accordance with those of as a reminder that failure may be mended, but

the highest military authorities in regard to how never made perfect.

the necessary defences may' best be secured.

derably larger than they ought to be. It is the corset also which makes the waist look long Lack of a sufficient amount of muscular exercise is responsible probably for the missing two inches in arm girth and the missing inch and a

by an act of violence, or by threats, from exercising his political rights, the criminal or criminals shall be punished with a term of ard with deprivation of his or their political imprisonment from three months to two years, rights for five years? Art. 135 of the Elector. law of 1852 provides that Those who by acts of violence or by threatening an elector with. lose to his person, family or properly, should abstain from voting, shall be punished with induce or attempt to induce hún to vote or to from three months to three years imprisonment, and with a fine ol from gocco to 1,020,000 Government employé of whatever rank or cate milreis.' AIL 149-To proceed against a

Government is not necessary. Finally, Art. 34 gory, for the above crimes, permission from the of the law of 23rd November, 1859 is to the following effect:

'Any authority, whatever may be his rank or category, who on the

(BY OUR KAPTIOUS KRITICK). The production'pf "Ruddigare," Gilbert and Sullivan's latest novelty in the opera lioiffe line of business by the American Musical tremendous draw on Saturday night, the Comedy and Opera Company, proved a Theatre Royal, Chy Hall, being crammed with about the best natured and most enthusi- astic audience seen within those classic (if somewhat awkwardly constructed) walls since the ever memorable performance of "Romeo " by my excellent friend the versatile and accomplished, if somewhat adipose, Daniel Edward Trompethlower. There was, however, Hebraic thunder and lightning tragedian, looking siderable difference, When the Germano

difference between the two audiences-a con-

like a second Daniel Lambert, commenced to tell his Juliet-the young and lovely Beaudet- that it was the lar-ruk" and not the nightingale old Capulet's garden, critical Hongkong ruse to Kamehameha's gilded knight-but it was with the fell desire of hooting and execrating the

on the contrary, howled themselves honise. In charming love pastoral. Saturday's congregation, vile mutilator of Mr. Shakespeare-Bacon's

their enthusiastic applause of Mesdames Hare, Morrison, and Leamington and their supporters, several bald-headed old mashers" in the stalls expression of their delight. Perhaps the fact and circles being especially demonstrative in the

present) of the American Musical Comedy and tributed both to the largeness of the house and that it was the farewell performance (for the

the general enthusiasm! However, Mr. Willard Opera Company may have to some extent con-

was doubtless thoroughly satisfied. find: his efforts to provide high class amusement for the their appreciation of what, all things considered, Hongkong public so substantially supported, and on the other hand the public unmistakably showed was an unusually enjoyable entertainment.

Having been specially brought out from the jovial existence, to criticise, the American M. C. and O. Company and "Ruddigore," I mean to earn my handsome retainer and at the same time vindicate my claim to my nom de plums. And to be "kaptious" from the start, I would like to know for what reason, earthly of heavenly, the combination of artistes who have been in our midst for some weeks past are

Willard is English-and Mr. Sheridan in ardent and Opera Company! To the best of my knowledge and belief not a single member of the traupe can claim America as his or her birthplace. Mr. Home Ruler from the wilds of Tipperary: Mr. I. A. Robertson, the able conductor, hails from the land where Wallace bied and Burns sang, and Measre. Fisher, Sutch, and Cripps, as well as the balf-dozen ladies, are English. I wonder if the American flag has been holsted under the impression that artistas announced as citizens of the tarnal nation that can lick creation' are comedy to anything the old country can produce! believed to be a superior article in opera and That would be sailing under false colours and claiming a prestige to which they have no right;

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THE PRIME MINISTER ON THE

· POLITICAL SITUATION.

LONDON, August gth..... Lord Salisbury at the Mansion House said that the Government will continue to rule Ireland firmly and to restore personal liberty; that the Tue L&C. Express states that the result of ABOUT four o'clock yesterday morning a fire, statesmen of Europe were beginning to favor the the election of the Rev. Griffith John, of Hankow,caused, it is believed, by an incendiary, policy of leaving Bulgaria alone, England only China, to the chairmanship of the Congregational occurred in a washerman's shop, No. 86, Holly- desiring its freedom and autonomy, Lord Salis- Union for next year was officially communicated wood Road, occupied by Kut Fang. It originated bary believes that Russia will be satisfied if 10 that gentleman through the post. He at once

en the first floor, and as the woodwork of these that the new German Emperor is fully alive to for him to accept the honour. It is presumed, upwards and laterally. By the time the engines Bulgaria prospers under existing circumstances; replied by telegraph that it would be impossible shops is always well dried, it soon spread both half is shoulder width. The professional models / election day, under any pretext, or, even by lunatic asylum, where I'drag out the value of peace, the prospects of which have therefore, that Mr. John's missionary work will

were up, the top-stories of one house on each been distinctly strengthened by his late inter-

not permit of his leaving China for the present side were, burning, but the inmates had pre view with the Czar, and the assimilating of the This will occasion not a little disappointment, as viously escaped by the back. Water was plen- policy of Russia and Germany.

a special departure was made by the assembly tiful, and although the shop, which contained a Lord Salisbury"concluded by eulogizing the at its recent sessión with a view to his election, quantity of European clothes that had been. The fire which occurred at No. 86 Hollywood function for six years. The Correio then makes Car, who has always favoured peace, and. he not being a member of any hoine Congrega. washed, could not be saved, the damage to No. Road at four o'clock on Sunday, morning last there very forcible remarks: "11 is a notorious described as the American Musical Comedy expressed his opinion that the look out is more tional Church. It is not at all improbable to 84 and 88 was confined to the top-storey of each.

peaceful than it has been for many years.

THE COMMUNISTS IN PARIS.

PARIS, August 1oth.

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A great demonstration took place at the funeral of a Communist. The procession was headed by M. Rochefort, and followed by masses of men an strike. Red flags were displayed and during conflicts with the Police revolvers were

fired,'

A general charge was made by the Police and several persons were injured.

THE ZULU RISING.

LONDON, August 11th. Diniulu' and 'Undabaku have entered the Transvaal.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Haiphong Dock Company will open its establishments on the 1st prox.

THE P. & O. Company's steamer Kashgar, from Bombay, left Singapore for this port on the 18th Inst., at 5. p.m. -

THE church is surely becoming scientific. During a recent sermon a clergyman said that Let's lady was transformed into a "monolith of chloride of sodium."

will be elected for next year, when the work of translating the Scriptures into the Chinese language will be complete..

The occupant of No. 86 was afterwards arrested, on the information of a neighbour, who alleged that just before the fire broke out he saw a light The Courrier d'Haiphong has the following in the house, and peeping through a crevice saw concerning the forces stationed in Cochin-China | the prisoner saturate a pile of wood with kerosine, and Tonquin "The Government aims at apply a light to it, and go out. The onlecker separating the military from the naval forces of thereupon gave the alarm to the coolics who Cochin-China and Tonquin, and to restore to were asleep in No. 88, and running out, seized the commanders of each of these forces the the incendiary and charged him with arson. independence which they possessed previous to Two assistants, however, made him let the man the creation of the Government-General of Indo. |`go. No. 86 was insured,

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women'seen in the city as to measuremente not

reason of public service, should cause an

are as a rule among the most symmetrical elector to absent himself from bis citcle and specified, and in these respects approximate the

to remain out of it, shall be punished with a Greek very nearly,

fern of imprisonment from six months to three years, and with disability to exercise any public

To-day at the Police Court before Mr. Sexcombe Smith three Chinese were charged with arson. young Chinaman made the following statement :-"My name is Leung Kan and I work with my father as a tailor, We live in Hollywood, Rand. On the roth inst. at 3.30 am. I was sleeping on x mat outside the house of the prisoner when a shower of rain coming on woke me up. On getting upon my legs I saw a chink in the shutters of No 86 and peeping in noticed the 3rd prisoner, who is a cook in the shop, moving some pieces of

would seem to have been the work of incendiaries,

Governor of Macao who issued the order, to the

fact that the penalties and provisions of the above mentioned laws are exactly applicable to the

Colonial Seceretary who transmitted it, and to the Administrador, or Sheriff, who equally 'com. municated it to his subordinates, to the effect that any elector who should vote at the coming elections, would be discharged from office! This simply shameful. In what country are we living? Can the Governor think of implanting in Macao the system adopted in Timor, whence he returned a short time ago? Does His Excellency imagine that to dissolve a Municipal

SUPREME COURT.

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China. General of Division Bégin and Rear we would strongly recommend our worthy confrewood, and the and prisoner, who is a coolie. Chamber does not entail heavy responsibilities?" but.such a motion is surely preposterous! And.. Admiral de la Jaille will cease to be Commander temporary the Singapore Straits Times not to pouring some fluid on the wood, which they then in-Chief of the troops of Indo-Chins, and Compass any more opinions on the Chinese question set fire to. The first prisoner was wrapping mander-in-Chief of the naval station respectively, in Australia-at all events until the writer of the something up on the counter, which he soon bath returning to France. The land forces will article of the 9th inst, has acquired some slight took and threw on the fire; he then seized be under the orders of General Chanu in Cochin knowledge of the subject. The man who asserts China and Cambodia, and of General Borgnis- that the Australian people's argument as to the two men hurried out of the shon by the front some books, and in company with the other Desbordes in Annam and Tonquin, The naval forces will be re-gonstituted under the designation probability of the country being swamped by door. When he came out I got hold of him

of Division of Tonquin, and of Cochin-China, and will be under the independent commands of Captains Le Bourgeois and Pougin."

In the House of Commons on July 19th, in reply

Chinese" is "void of both truth and common The Colonies bave already been "awamped" sense" does not know what he is writing about.

with Mongolian emigrants, as the European tradesmen and laborers know to their cost, and

in order to hand him over to the police,

all ran away. The house was on fire, so I ran but the other men made me let him go. They to tell the Police and in passing down the Gough Street steps 1 met the master of the shop. I said to Mr. A. A. Baumanp, member for Peckham-a few years of free emigration of the kind the your shop is on fire. I gave the information to who has lately made himself conspicuous in Straits Settlements boast of would practically place the police about the fire, and that evening on attacking Governor Hennessy, Sir J. Gort Australia in the hands of the Chinese. Both going into my father's house I saw the master of said-It is proposed that Sir John Fope the United States and United Australasia have No. 86. He said to me, it is no use you going THE "Mac" parn, related by one of the Daily Hennessy shall return to Mauritius in October decided that the Chinese are a drawback to their to the Court to give evidence against us; I will Press scribes the other day as a genuine and next. There is no rule or regulation refiting general proper usa interesa by excluding such let you have a few dollars to drink tea" original joke at the expense of Scotch engineers, the amount of leave of absence, whether with or protecting their own interests by excluding such I refused to take any money, because he is as old as "Granny " kerself, and almost as without salary, which may be allowed to a undesirable colonists. The Straits Settlements frightened my mother so much in causing fceble.

colonial governor...The Secretary of State for doubtless require the assistance of Chinese the fire. He kept asking, me not to give THE Siamese embassy to the Courts of France the Colonies is responsible for making such emigrants-who in most cases are as near slaves evidence. On the 20th at 7 in the morning on Spain and Portugal, arrived at Lisbon at the arrangements de may be at once fair to the as possible without having been bought and sold going to my father's house I met the master of beginning of July last and was received by King governor and not injurious to the public service.to keep this greatly be-lauded dependency of No. 86 coming down the stairs; be stopped me I may add that Sir John Pope Hennessy's official Britain out of bankruptcy; while the United, and wanted to know bow much money I wanted. Dom Luiz at Ajuda on the 8th. The embassy in work has been entirely within the tropiceviz, States and the Australasian Colonies are under I refused to take any money; I said I had seen composed of Minister Luang Val Chang and Secretaries C. M. Xavier and J, Whyke" CONSIDERABLE Excitement was caused on board an excursion steamer on the river Tay on the 14th July owing to the vessel baring struck some erica racks and commenced to sink Other steamers immédiately rendered assistance,, and the Boo or goo passengers were removed in Bafety, but the vessel eventually became almost entirely submerged.

in Borneo, Sierra Leone, the West Coast of the impression that they can rub along quite the Inspector who told me to be at the Police Africa, the West Indian Islands, Hongkong, and comfortably without the assistance of their Mauritius; and a governor who has never served | yellow-skinned brothers, The Straits Times in a temperate climate is considered to be fadulges, in a chuckle of triumph that fifteen entitled to more indulgence in regard to leave of hundred more Chinese women were imparted absence in Eurge than governote when service into the Straits Settlements last your than he has been in healthy climates. During his 1886. Can our contemporary inform us how present leave he has been frequently consulted many of these were kidnapped from Canton and by the Secretary of State on the important Hongkong, and how many were not specially questions connected with his government. imported as prostitutes?

Court at a certain time to-day and I was going to be there. I am acquainted with the pri sobers; I used to make purchases at their shop, which is a chandler's." The prisoners were attested yesterday by the police up the charge of unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to their premises, and alter bearing the above evidence the magistrate remanded the case tuf to-morrow at 10a.m.

IN CRIMINAL SESSIONS. (Before the Hon. Russell, Acting Chief Justice, And Mr. A. J. Leach,

Acting Putne Fudge.St

being three cases for trial. The jurors summoned The Sessions were opened this morning, there were Messia Donald McRae, G. M. dos Remedios, E. B. Wolff, H. D. Hutchinson, C. D. Danenberg, Aaron S. Cohen, and C. F. Naudin,

yet there must be some cause. "Mr. Willárd will probably say that the Company is chartered by him and he is quite within his rights in giving it whatever title he thinks best. Just so and I am also within my rights as a critic In expressing the opinion that to advertise a troupe of British professionals as an American Company is a senseless policy that cannot possibly do any good while it may easily enough have a contrary effect,

Raddigore had not been performed in Hongkong until Saturday night, and consequently it was to songs extent new to the vast majority of the audience.The space at my disposal will not allow me to follow "Brownie's" example and GAROTTING.

cut out two and a b Salf columnsof weak description violence, in Queen's Road, on the oth July it will be expected, that I should say something Tsang Amau was indicted for robbery with from the London Standard just to fill up, but Mr. Pollock prosecuted On the date nared, about a comic opera that has been generally dis was walking along Queen's Road hear the My readers need not get alarmed, with me brevity Chan Chun, an accountant in a pawnshop, cussed throughout the English speaking world. Opium Frimmergooid of him beight, clock, it truly the soul of ofte especially when, as on when the prisoner got hold of him behind, clasping this tople, there is so litle to be said, his arms round the accountant's threat and half it was originally printed Ruddygore but garotter called out strike him," and a third distinction without a difference, In order to quiet choking him. Another man whos

bo was with the the author changed the "y" Into an "," a man picked his pocket of a dollar. They then the consciences of some good people who thought ran away, and Ching Chun followed them, red blood 2 a too suggestive tile as all ide keepingthe prisoner in sight out! he was arrested world knows, is the joint production ef Mr. W. S. in a side street, by a watchman. Prisoner made Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, and if I He said he was a sailor from he forget where at the Savoy Theatre, London. W, S. Gilbert, a voluble defence, and left it to the jury remember rightly it was first performed, Found guilty in one-fifth of a second.

B.A., banister-at-law etc., for many years leading light in the literary and dramatio worlds, is an Aberdonian who has solidly and land a joke and to appreciate humour without satisfactorily demonstrated his ability to under-3 undergoing the usual surgical operation alleged.

THE THEFT OF QUICKSILVER Wan, were arraigned for having stolen eight Ng Tuk, Chau Chan, Chau Ching, and Chu flasks of quicksilver, value $500, after breaking and entering the godown of leesms. "Arodid=" Karberg & Co., on the 13th July,--Me Follock the door of the godown was forced, and shortly prosecuted-During the night of the 13th ulto, afterwards the prisoners were seen, by some constables, near the Clock Tower, carrying two

author of the famous "Bab Ballada," ally appeared in Fus, and for quartet of a century—his first piece? was produced at the St. James

been a most prolife? and s