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Futimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

OUR NEW SKASON'S

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS

Flower

Vegetable

ARE NOW READY.

of 20. of 45 Single Packets at list prices. SPECIAL FLORIST'S SEEDS, In Packets of six or more named varieties, viz :- CLOVE PINKS-PANSIES-PHLOX-

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1888.

mines, 81,543 tons of bricks, three million Triz former Chinese Minister Extraordinary and catties of lime, and 15.566 packages of Plenipotentiary at Berlin, Hsu Ching Cheng, has been invested with the First Class of the Onter general goods. These figures are proof the Red Engle, one of the highest distinctions mising indeed, and now that the line has been extended from Yungchang to Tientsin,

of the German Crown.

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the latter the most important commercial We hope the European signatories of the Hong city in Northern Chinn, the traffic must be kong Jubilee address to the Queen will be Parcels of so Packets, price, $10.00 | immensely increased. In fact, it seems / gratified to learn that Her Most Gracious' has placed into quarantine outside the harbour of making a kind of tea to be taken by himsel

5.3 almost certain that the success which has commanded Lord Deliver us to convey to them

her sincere thanks for their loyal congratula, met the introduction of railways into Japan |tions. willrepeat itselfin China, and as now that Li HUNG-CHANG has practically demonstrated with this small Tientsin Company the may advantages and the substantial profits to be realised from the "iron road," there is reason to hope and believe that the Chinese Government will abandon its policy of obstruction and decide to move along with the times. -

HOLLYHOCKS-PORTULACA, VERBENA and PETUNIA.

MIGNONETTE MACHEL (The New Variety).

Priced Catalogue on application,

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

hongkong, 31st August, 1858.

DEATHS..

Is

On the 2nd instant, at the Government Civil

-Hospital, Mr. R.-W. LOWNDES, aged 76.

1867 At Tientsin, on Tuesday morning, the 14th August, SAMUEL FEWARD WILLIAMS, of Chefoo (uative of New York, aged 43.

At Kaiping Mines, on the 23rd August, Joun NAYLOR, aged 35, Senior Overman in the C. E. & M. Co.'s Service.

TELEGRAMS,

(Reuter.)

~HURRICANE IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, August 31st.

terrific hurricane has swept over the southern counties of Great Britain, doing much damage to the crops.

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ITALY AND FRANCE.

It is semi-officially stated that the maneuvres of the Italian flest are not hostile to France, which country M. Crispi would not willingly provoke also that the interviews between the A felegraph asian, Minister, I'rince Bismarck, and Cour Kalnoky have not changed the policy of the European powers,

(From Straits-Times;)- ITALY, GERMANY, AND AUSTRIA.

BERLIN, August 25th. Signor Crispi has left Friedrichsruh. At the intersicw between himself and Prince Bismarck, cases were defined in which either Italy, Germany, or Austria, might consider herself attacked even though her territory was not

THE FISHERIES QUESTION.

LONDON, August 25th.

HONGKONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1888,

The traffic receipts of the Japan Railway. Company for the month of June were ju 99.262.86, of which jen 45,030,833 were from the first section, ren 24,929,715 from the second section,' and J 19,302:31 from the third section. Such satisfactory returns, as a purely commercial specula- | invaded, and claim help from the others. tion and apart altogether from public convenience and political necessities, should strongly appeal to the commonsense and self-interest of the high authorities of the Peking Government. These worthies, however, appear to be in no hurry to move with the times, and contentedly allow China to lag behind in the race for Far Eastern supremacy, allaying their consciences-assuming they possess such altogether unnecessary articles and vindicating their patriotism by only fectly opposing the resolute attempts

It is believed that Canada and America will allow the modus vivendi to continue.

WASHINGTON, August 25th. President Cleveland's message to Congress regrets the rejection of the Fisheries Treaty but at the same time compels him to ask the Powers to retaliate, and suggests means whereby the greatest injury will be inflicted on Canada with the least harm to the interests of the United States,

LONDON, August 27th. The Canadian Press has received President

states that Canada will never submit to coercion and will upheld her rights at any cost,

According to a return furnished by Mr. W. Taylor, the spirits, distilled by the China Sugar Refining Co., L., for the quarter ended August 27th amquited to 38,603,76 proof gallons. The rum business would appear to be looking up at East Point.

THE pilot of the steamer Kaisow, who, was landed at Dover on the 1st August stated that while running up the Channel they ran down a small boat, and that the occupants, a man and a boy, were both drowned before they could reach them. The Kaisaw 'proceeded to Glasgow. THE following Imperial decree is translated from the Peking Ganette of the 17th August We command Wu Ta-ch'eng to assume the acting appointment-of-Director-General of the Yellow River and proceed at once to his post without coming to Peking for instructions. Let Chang Chib-tung combine with his other duties that of acting Governor of Kuangtung..

Tuz F. & O. Company's steamer hits, from THIS morning Mr. Sercombe Smith imposed a Bombay, left Singapore this morning at 8 o'clock. fine of $15, with the "alternative of three weeks imprisonment with hard labour, on a birber who A CORRESPONDENT of the Shanghai Mercury had been found by an officer of the Exciss writes from Kobe under date the aged ulio. :engaged in the illegal pursuit of boiling opium Yesterday at daylight the steamships Glengarry dross at No. 46 Jardine's Bazaar, on the tst and Yokohama Alars arrived here together, inst. Defendant admited the charge, but from Shanghai, I believe. The former was explained that he was boiling it for the purpost limits, owing to a member of her crew having in gentle dozer; with the object of curing his, called ashore in Nagasaki, or Shimonoseki, to weakness for smoking it. This ingenious argu- see his family, but the place in question being ment, in the, opinion of the learned magistrate, declared infected, the steamer was placed in would have heid good in 'Utopia, but, was quarantine.

palpably a good deal" too thin" for Hongkong. AT the Police Court this morning, before Mr. Wodehouse, four cargo-boat women and two men were charged by Sergeant McDonald with being in-shere before gunfire with their boats. Complainant said the defaulters brought their boats in to the Canton wharf about half past four o'clock and there made them fast, whereas it was an understood thing amongst them that they should not approach the wharves or the Praya till the morning gun fired at five o'clock. Defendants admitted the charge and were fined $1 each. His Worship also fined two boatmen in similar cases for being found by the police riding at anchor in the navigable part of the harbour without lights.

OUR Tientsin native contemporary reports that it a place 30 // west of Peking, called Hsu Lu K'ou, the river rose suddenly during the night of the 13th August, and overflowing its banks submerged the adjacent Geids and houses drown- ing a number of people and cattle, and causing the crops. The local serious damage to authorities at once proved to the scene of the disaster, and seeing the corpses of the drowned people gave orders for the necessary number of coffins to be made, and had the bodies interred. The loss of liver was due to the suddenness of the disaster, the farmers being all taken by surprise.

Oua infallible morning contemporary,, in its "Olla Podrida" of this date, gives the world the highly important news that "owing to the girat

death-rate there during July was 98 per cent." We wonder how many living would have been. left in Cairo at the end of July, akter gå had been -removed out of every hundred! THE L. & C. lixpress anys that the distinc. tions of the Order of the Rising San, which the Emperor of Japan has been pleased to confer on Prof. J. M. Dixon and Prof. John Milne, of the Imperial Univers.ty, Tokio, have created considerable satisfaction in many quarters at home, where the high qualities and attain. ments of the recipients are well known, and appreciated.

heat and the unsanitary condition of Cairo, the, was the bone of contention which has

By kind permission of Colonel D. G. Anderson, the Regimental Band will play in the Murray Barracks, on the 4th Sept., (Tuesday), from 8 till 10 p.m." The following will be the programme:

March

Overture Yuise....... Garotte.. Salaction.. Selaction.

**Queen af my Heart"....... Callier, **GulBauma Tell". Rossini. Rhoda Dicalon ." Semplice "Loo.

· Pepita ” convenementen 100009. Rose of Camille ".................................. Balfej

Join Moman, Bandmaster.

THE Shanghai Courier reports that one of the sailors of the ship Emma T. Crowell was attacked by cholera on Monday afternoon

THE Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company (Limited) launched from their yard on the 31st ult., at Govan, a steel screw steamer named the Chow-Fa, of about 1,650 tons gross. for the Scottish Oriental Steamship Company (Limited), for their service on the China coast. The disichsions of the steamer, are as follow

by the plaintiff (in this case the appellant) that. the defendant was not in possession of the property in dispute when it was seized.

The Acting Chief Justice said that the legal- proverb "Possession is nine points of the law? applied directly to this case. The respondent had possession, under a legal process, and any sense point of view, to show a better title. He decided that it was for the appellant to open the

casc.

Mr. Justice Leach concurred. The case will probably be heard on Friday.

CHINA TRADERS INSURÂNCE

COMPANY, LIMITED.

The twenty-second half yearly meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held this afternoon, at the offices, Queen's Road. Mr. 1. Poesnecker presided, and there were also present Messrs. St. C Michaelsen, C. von Buse, J. Moses, J. Thorburn, Hon. P. Ryrie, T. Jackson, L Danby, Whitehead, P. Jordan, E. Burnie, V. A. Whittall, E. George, D. C. Sassoon, Rutter, C. Hawkins, H. Harmes, D. A. Gubbay, W. K. Loxley, W. Parlane, G..H. Potts, A. Woolley, E. D. Maitland, M. J. Silas, S. R.. Marcus, Mooney, and A. S. Garfitt, (Secretary)

The Chairman said:-Gentlemen. The report has now been in your hands for two weeks and we will with your permission take it as read. When last I had the honor of addressing you I mentioned that the competition-in-our-business- was exceptionally severe, and the difficulty of THE Correio Macaense of the gist ullo, in an Article headed. "A martyr of duty," has the

profitably working it much increased. As most of you are probably aware, this competition still continues and there is, as far as we can see, no following among other remarks on the lamented death of Major Vaquinhas "The deceased's

immediate prospect of a change for the better. expression of an opinion in favour of the dis-

We are managing, however, to hold our own solved. Municipal Chamber of Macao,-an

and it is very gratifying to us to be able to ngain place before you a report that must be considered opinion which he was full entitled to express

highly satisfactory,Turning to the report itself you will notice the cash in hand figures are brought about his death. It was for this 'Length, 270 feet; breadth, 36.9 feet; depth, 32.9 $103,460.27, a much bigger sum than is usual or we under ordinary circumstances hold. The reason that, against all the dictates of conscience, feet. It is built according to the three-deck' rule, he was ordered to take command of a body of to class with Veritas. The vessel will be fitted explanation is that we were negotiating to loan a large sum on mortgage, and were accumulating infected men, by whom he was in turn infected. by the Fairfield Company-with-a-set-of-their--funds for that purpose-The-item of property. This sad result must have been fully anticipated, triple expansion engines, with three inverted foreclosed has disappeared from amongst our and if its promoter is not criminally responsible, cylinders, direct acting with surface condenser assets, and in its place you will find a very viz. $23580-profit realised on the sale of it. probably for being placed above the laws, help.cylinder, 12 inch intermediate, 36 inch and satisfactory item at credit of working account ought at least to be under that moral respon- low, 57 inch by 3 feet 6 inch stroke. Steam will The Company had been farming the property sibility from which no one can escape and be supplied by two cylindrical tubular boilers, for some years, but although it gave a

it advisable to take advantage of the late rise in which conscience denounces. José dos Santos with three corrugated furnaces in each, and return on the original loan the Directors deemed land and realise it. All our Mongages are Vaquinhas died at his post while fulfilling the adapted for a working pressure of 150 lbs. orders of the superior authority; but who will CHEUNG FUK, a carpenter, aged 22, was to-day thoroughly sound and as most of them have been support to-morrow his mother and his son charged before Mr. Sercombe-Snaith with assault-running on for several years the value of our security has increased considerably since the The promoters of his death ? Certainly noting a private of the 58th Regiment with a loans were made. Our sterling investments are A martyr of duty, he prematurely hatchet. The complainant, George Gardener, calculated at 3/6 per dollar and it is the present succumbed at the Cacilhas lazarette. His death said he was a private of the 58th Regi- intention the Board to keep them thereat, I

think these remarks cover all the important may be classified as an unpremeditated murder, ment and was employed on the morning of if such a thing be possible), and we believe Saturday last at fatigue duty in scrubbing and this is what really took place."

cleaning the verandahs of the barracks. The accused was working near him, and had a bench upon which witoess sat down for a moment to rest himself. As soon as he sat down defendant shoved him off, upon which witness hit him with a "squeegee" he had in his hand, whereupon defendant seized his axe, and' struck him over the arm, inflicting a wound about one and a half inches long. Defendant then followed witness up and aimed another blow at him over the head. This story was corroborated by Lance- At present the Chinese assistant who was with him. While service of steam launches between Victoria making his defence in Court the accused was a and the places alluded to, although possibly good deal excited and spoke of complainant as" a effective to a certain extent, is essentially irreg-devil" and "a barbarian." He was sentence to imprisonment for two months, with-hard boat running frem Pedder's Wharf to Kowloon expressions in the presence of a magistrate. Point, is entirely monopolised by Chinese.

THE latest progressive achievement in the waters of this colony is the formation of the Steam Launch, Company, Limited, which is destined to fill a long felt gap in our means of com- munication with the neighbouring peninsula of Kowloon and with the outlying stations

points connected with the Company's position. The sterling holdings amounted to £99.404.18.4 equivalent, at 3/6, to 845,680.28-09. If converted at 3/ there would he surpitis of $94,671.35.. If there is any polat in regard to which further information is desired by the share holders I shall be very happy to answer any questions, The Directors recommend a dividend of 20 per cent to shareholders, a bonus of 15-per cent to contributors of business, that $150,02p be carried to the reserve 'fuad which will now stand at $550,095 and $261,119.28 forward

liked to maintain the bonus at last year's rate of itself to the shareholders,, We should have

17 per cent. but after very careful consideration we have come to the conclusion that the interests of the Company nie better served by returning

that this will be approved of. It is now 6 years"," since any of the profits of our underwriting have

of L. Husa-CHANG to drag the Middle Cleveland's message calmly, but in reviewing it (August 27th) and died in the Hospital at 1a.m. of Stanley, Pokfulum and Aberdeen on the Corporal White, but denied by defendant and and I hope this arrangement will commend

Kingdom out of the slough of despond in which she has helplessly wallowed for. past generations. But what has failed to arouse their patriotism may wear quité a, different aspect when their self-interest becomes an important factor. And judging by the eminently satisfactory results achieved by the China Railway Company, Limited, during the first year of its active operations, there would appear to be good grounds for believing that the time is not far distant when even the retrograde fossils who run the wheels of govern- ment in Peking will recognise the benefits of the railway system.

ITALY AND AUSTRIA.

other side of the island.

Signor Crispi has had several interviews with volanteered their services instead. It appears Pula, and, with the exception of. the solitary labour, and in addition fined $a for using insulting only 15 per cent, this year and I have no doubt

Couni Kalnoky.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE retum of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending 2nd September, are:-European, 138, Chinese, 1,651; total 1,789. THE Chinese Tivres says it is impossible to hide the fact that an epidemic of cholera, or a passable imitation of it, now prevails in Tientsin, Taku, We are indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Tangku, Kaiping, and along the lines of inter- of paint, and a number of painters have been the European population, may be regarded 15 to say that she kept a drug store in a select and Sikh, outward bound to China, were

communication by land and water.

Woo Las Yuss, the special, agent in this colony of the China Railway Co,, Ld., for some interesting particulars regarding the working of this enterprise during the past twelve months. This line of railway which is actually the pioneer railway in the Middle Kingdom, as the defunct Woosung line was never anything but a useless toy was started under the auspices of His Excellency Li HUNG-CHANG, who is still the moving power, and has been carried. n under the general management of Mr. No Chov, barrister-at-law, and erstwhile unofficial member of the Legislative Council of this colony. The line runs

rates as

the following day. As the vessel was leaving port, the Captain could not get his men on shore to attend the funeral, which took place on the afternoon of the 29th, but a number of residents the man had been eating fruit, and was taken ill at noon on the Mondny, but did not complain till 4 pm. Medical aid was at once summoned, Doubtless it, will be some time before Europeans AVERY old and toothless woman, who might have been carried to reserve, and during these six years competition has much increased and but too late to be of any service..

will have occasion to cross over to Yau-ma-ti been taken for Belzoni's historical mummy, anim rendered more than ever necessary ample IT will be remembered, says the Shik Pas, that or Kowloon Dock, or go round to Shau-ki-wan, ated for the occasion, was to-day dragged behr reierves. As an example of how rates have that period I may tell you one of the Empresses of the ex-Emperor Hsien. Aberdeen, or Stanley in sufficient numbers to Mr. Sercombe Smith and charged by Yan Aisoi, been reduced during fêng, known to foreigners as the "Empress of keep up a regular steam launch communication No. 2 Forest Guard, with destroying trees on the that in 1882 our fp. a. rate by Holt's and Glen's from London to Hongkong was almost the Eastern Palace," died some years ago, and with these places; but that the time will come hill-side near Kennedy Road and Wanchai, The exactly double what it is to-day. No doubt the when the south-eastern and south-western sea. old party, with many genuflexions of head and average of loss has also decreased, but her remains were temporarily entombed at one of the country places outside the Fu Cheng Gate. boards of this island, as well as a great portion arms, admitted the heartless impeachment, and unfortunately not at the same The Board of Revenue has furnished ten pails of the Kowloon peninsula will be inhabited by declared that the shrubs were taken with the the rates of premium, During our past finan object of making medicine-she being understood cial year two fine steamers, the Abyssinia directed by the Board of Works to have the certain. The general idea underlying the district of Wanchai," Her zealous custodian then totally lost, and then a third one, the Lennor coffin newly painted, and to draw upon it repreformation of the Steam Launch Company, produced the stealings, which consisted of nothing sunk in the Mersey and was subsequently raised, THE British gunboats Aferlin, Lieut. Comman sentations of the Dragon. Some time during the Limited is probably an anticipation of more than two baskets of leaves, for which Mr. 10you see that our present rates of premis cannot der W. H. Matuin, and Espoir, Lieut-Com-seventh moon the coffin will be removed, and events in this direction. The Company's main Sercombe Smith imposed the penalty of one be expected to leave any great margin of profit. dollar or one week's imprisonment. The fine. We are, however, as I have already said, more mander R. H. Smith, left this morning for a 500 men will be employed to cany it from object in its present initiatory stage is was not paid, and, of course, the aged defendant than holding our own, and you may rely that cruise, and the cruiser Satellite, Capt. T. P. its present resting place to the Imperial to facilitate communication with Kowloon, a fast went to gaul. While there is no doubt that our no effort will be spared to endeavour to contique Nesham, for target practice.

flourishing suburb of this land-locked Gibraltar magistrates' duties are to administer the laws rendering as satisfactory account as those which of the Far East. That Kowloon deserves the with evenhanded justice to all, it is impossible it is our pleasing duty to present to you to-day. attention which is paid to it, and that the of being guided sometimes by the monitors of be adopted,

to suppose that they are unaware of the necessity. He then moved that the report and balance sheet residents of Hongkong really require a better common sense and compassion, and why Mr. regulated and a more extended service of stear Sercombe Smith ceres fequerent impervious launch communication with the opposite penin should have sent this wretched old woman to gaol.

to all fine and generous feelings of sula, are truisme about which there can be but for seven days is really difficult to comprehend, one opinion. Up to the present time the solitary it would have been a heartless piece of cruelty pld Morning Star suspended her trips to and if she had been found in possession of two from Kowloon Pier just at a time when both saplings, but as the case stood it is doubtful If of woody fibre; in fact the contents were the residents of Kowloon and their Hongkong her buckets contained as much as two pounds visitors would most require a passage across, principally leaves.

Mausolea.

Tite "Faid House" at Kobe was burned to the THE Hongkong Rifle Association's first "Spoon' ground on Sunday the ruth ulo. Mr. George competition at 600 yards was brought to an Ford was so seriously injured during the con-issue at Kowloon, on Saturday afternoon when flagration that he died in hospital the following the veteran Mr. E. L. Woodin succeeded in

day.

THE wreck of the Siamese brig Doretta and her cargo of wood, as they now lie in the Chusan Archipelago, were sold by public 'auction at Shanghai by Messrs. Wheelock & Co. on the

29th ulto. The vessel was knocked down for

coming out well ahead of ten competitors with a total of 28. Two 'mimbers av the force, Constable Warnock and Sergeant Fowler, tied for second place with 25, and Mr. John Andrew did fairly well with 23, but the others made a sorry axbibition of themselves, two of them,

From Tongsan to Yungchong in the taels 35 and the cargo for taels 240, a Chinese Constable A. Watson and Mr. F. G. Collins at seven or half-past in the evening. If

from Chefoo. The Courier says that an imprës.

SUPREME COURT,

Mr. Jackson seconded, and it was agreed to Mr. Georg moved that Mr. Michaelsen be confirmed in his seat on the Board.

Mr. Traves seconded; agreed, · Mr. Whitehead proposed the re-election of Messrs. Thurber and JR. Moses as directors.

Mr. Sassoon seconded; agreed." Mr. Loxley proposed the re-election of Mr. T Mr. Mooney seconded ; ́agreed." Arnold and Mr. H. U Jeffries as auditors,

Mr. Danby moved a vote of thanks to the Board for the excellent report they had presented." It was warmly accorded.

The Chairman in reply, said that it was largely due to the energetic staff that such a pleasing report could be presented.

That concluded the business.

CHINA'S SORROW.

DEGRADATION OF HIGH OFFICERS. The following Imperial decree is published in the Peking Ganelis

actually failing to And the target in their seven province of Chihli, a distance of 90 lis, of being the purchaser,

shots. Practice at medium and long ranges business pressure or any other motive should about 27 English miles, and no doubt THE wreck of the Indo-China 8. N. Co.'s steamer should be encouraged, and we are glad that the detain a Kowloon man in Hongkong beyond owed its original existence to the Kalping | Lezzang was sold at 'Shanghal by public auction Association has taken the matter in hand,

IN APPELLATE JURISDICTION. seven o'clock, his retum home would have to be coal mines, from which a considerable on Monday last, Messrs, Hopkins, Dunn & Co.

accomplished in a campant, weather permitting: |(Before the Hon. J. Russell, Acting Chief SAVE the Straits Times:-Foreigners continue and in the contrary case, he would be detained portion of its revenue has been derived. officiating as suctioneers. The vessel and catge to invest capital in British North Borneo in in Hongkong for the night. In the summer

Justia, and Mr. A. 7. Leach, Adling Puisna Fudge). For the past year, ending the third. Chinese realised tacle 2,250, and the wrecking gear on increasing numbers. In Holland and Java, months and in the dry autumn which succeeds noon, the gross receipts of the railway board taels 555, the purchaser being a Chinese shares in North Borneo tobacco companies find stormy August and equinoctial September,

CHOW KI SHUN v. THANO HOW. This was an appeal against an interim attach- totalled taels 53.043, showing a net profit osion prevailed that he represented the authorities ready sale. So great is the confidence in the many are the residents of Hongkong who ment obtained by the defendant in respect of taels 19,606. The Directors have declared

at Port Arthur, but whether this is so or not does Netherlands in the new land of promise, that a cross over, either for bathing purposes, or for ownership of a junk and other property at Shauki wan. It had been first called before Mr. Justice a dividend of 6 tnels per share-the capital not seem to be definitely known. The strongest former Minister for the Colonies has actually a quiet game of lawn tennis, or simply for a Leach, and was adjourned in order that the ques- We have received a memorial from Li Hung- of the Company is taels 1,000,000, but only rival bidder was also a Chinese from the North. been promoting one of the newly established change, for Kowloon is a shade cooler than the tlon as to which side should open the case tsao and his colleagues at the Yellow River, ventures. No doubt the liberality with which northern side of this leland, 'and a bit of a sea might be settled. Mr. J. J. Francis, QC, stating that the autumn freshets are at hand, and a fourth of that amount has yet been We are informed by our Macao correspondent land used to be granted away theretoany one who trip is always desirable in sultry, weather. This instructed by Mr., Webber, again appeared for asking permission to postpone the work until called up, and apportioned the balance in

underto-day's date that the funeral service in com could show the means to open up the country, Kowloon-wards movement augurs well for the Hon. E. L. O'Malley), instructed by Mr. Dennys, report has caused Usdeep annoyance and vexa the appellant, and the Attorney-General (the they had slightly subsided. The perusal of the various ways. Now, although a return of memoration of the late Major Vaquinhas was te has been a powerful factor in arousing adventur future of the peninsula. We are sadly in want was for the respondent. pastion. Since the occurrence of the disastertat six per cent. per annum would not, under take place to-day at 8 am at the Macan Cather ous spirits to try their luck in that quarter. Now of an outlying locality partaking more or less of Mr. Francis stated that judgment was, given Cheng Chou In the 8th moon of last year: We.. ordinary circumstances, appear a particu-dral. His Excellency the Governor having sight that the current flows so strongly, the raising of a sylvan character and bordering on the sea, for his client against the owner of a junk at have repeatedly issued Instructions to the Iarly handsome return for an investment of fed his intention of being present, it was expected the price of land will prove no check to the where we should be able to spend. pleasant the following day the respondent obtained an to lose no time in devising measuress for closing Shaukiwan, in satisfaction of a debt of $757. On Director-General of the River and his colleagues. this description, it must be admitted that on that the priest selected to preach on the occasion inflow of capital and enterprise. It is passing hours in the evening, under the genial light interim attachment, upon which the Court ballis the breach; and have, at various timer, furnished carefully analysing the true position of would have the courage to tell Senhor da Costa strange that British people fear to tread where of gaslamps, in the vicinity of a music stand, seized the junk. His client now appealed against them with funds to carry on the work, amounting

this attachment, and the question to be first In all to Tls, 9,000,000. We repeated Our Injunc affairs it must, be regarded as unusually a few bitter truths, which would do our ready-❘ foreigners so eagerly venture. Perhaps this or partaking of any other of the many op decided was as to which side the onus probanditions time after time both in explicit Decrees and made autocrat a great deal of good, both in body unaccountable diffidence will vanish on the air sources of amusement which are to be lay with. There were no precedents, that he telegraphic miciiages The Court, in its auxiety satisfactory. Here is a new concern, with its termini at two comparatively and mind. It is notorious that a very large catablishment of a British Protectorate. Mean- found in all seaside resorts at home and knew of, to guide the Court, interim attachments for the well-being of the people, spared no effort numberofChinese have been invited to attend the while experience in other lands when similar the civilised world all over. There is no being unknown in England, although recognised in raising funds to meet the emergency, but in small villages, and heavily handicapped, service. Doan A. da Silva, à septuagenarian, speculative enthusiasm prevailed at one time, more appropriate place for such a source of by the Indian Penal Code, from which

Director General, and his colleagues, remained opposition but by inexperienced and couple of nights ago a bind of robbers entered a later. In any case, prudence counsels walling The only desideratum so far has been a want of submitted that it was for the respondent to inactive and took no measures for starting the prove his claim, and for the appellant simply, work until the end of the year, Fortunately during expensive practical working, realising a Fan-tan gambling, house, and by throwing | first to see what the soil of Borneo will show to regular and late communication with the place, to disprove it, without himself proving any tile. the spring and early summer the water in the river. clean profit of nearly twenty thousand pepper in the eyes of the chief croupier and his reward the adventurous estate ploneers, before and as this has now been supplied by the Steam The object of the appeal was not to decide was lower than it an ever been known to be in taels on a capital of a quarter of a million attendants, managed to carry off $100 from the giving unqualified praise to the sinking of dollars. Launch Company, it is to be hoped the Public whether the appellant was owner of the property: the past. Some time ago the Throne was that is practically eight per cent. On table. The police did not put in an appearance in millions in plantation enterprise there. The Works Department will take effective measures or not, but for the Court to find that the informed that only alxstages ofthe work remained,

commonsense to burden of looking at the report we find that 1,166 in time to secure the plunderers who decamped many instances to our neighbourhood of money to meet the exigencies of the times by building respondent was not the owner was a measure to be completed and that the clonare of the

66 in the theme The Condiment Casette gives hopelessly suck in cultivating waste land augun esplanade, ifth all the modem improvements on common asking for briertes and pro first and 140,333 second class passengers the number, of deaths during August 959 gest caution in such matters. Too ready facilities and comforts adapted to our climate, along the ghe Attorney-General stated that under Ordin- travelled over

the line during the year, being 198.Chinese and 61 Europeans. No fresh in acquiting that article will lure many to ruin the eastern shore of Kowloon Point, from the ance XIII of 1873, section 27, the claimant

allowed to come into a suit between the plain the principal merchandise carried being cases of cholera have been reported from the Looking before leaping cannot be safely dis. Pier, past the Fort, as far as the Bay. When and the defendant, and an interim attach 170,588 tons of coal from the Kalping lazarettes,

regarded in auch matters,

(364) that le done, the rest will quickly follow,

enforood by him would stand until it was proves

not merely by race prejudices and is seriously ill from fever and diarrhoea. A teaches that a reaction is sure to set in sooner or recreation for Hongkongites than Kowloon Point, had been copied in the local ordinancespito of repeated and urgent reminders, the

effected at an early data. Wa atly hoped that the whole work would be soon fielehed and some raililons of Our subjects housesPandyhomes: the

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