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THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hoteluri 31st August 1888.

The Haus Telegraph

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1883.

IT was currently reported this morning that an" nction for either libel or slander had been set

going by a well known prominent resident of the colony against the senior partner of a leading firm of share-brokers. No reliable particulars as to the cause of action have yet been disclosed. THE 23rd August (says the Shin Pad) was the day fixed for the opening of railway passenger traffic, between Tientsin and Taku; it was al first intended to open a fortnight earlier, but owing to damage to the track caused by heavy rain, only the coal waggons were running at the

late of our last advices.

A RATHER interesting case was brought up the other day at Singapore before Mr. Anthonisz police magistrate, in which Mr. A. Lamont, enginicer of the steainship Normandy, charged Mr. A. Mitchell, broker, with cheating him out of $4,000. After hearing some evidence the magistrate remanded the further hearing until the 4th inst.

A CORRESPONDENT writes from Chinking to the

· [3 | N. C. Daily News under date August 15th — The quarters of the Life Boat Society here, in early days the residence of the British Consul at this port, caught fire at about one o'clock this afternoon. The fire was not put but till 3 p.m., number of Chinese engines assisting vigorously in the work of extinguishing the flames. The wind was fortunately east; had it been otherwise the temple of Kuan Yin on the opposite side of the road, and the British Consular gaol close by, would both have been in danger. The Tootai and the Commissioner of Customs sent their engines, and some members of the outdoor staff kindly assisted in the work of stopping the conflagration.

Hope you WeDNE DAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1898

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter.)

CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES, LONDON, September 2nd. The Times states that China has refused to catife the treaty with America excluding Chinese

einigrants.

FRANCE AND ITALY,

PARIS, September 3rd.

The French Minister of Marine and the Colonies has stated that the manicures of the fleet were ngt of a waili'e nature, but completely proved that the Navy was ready at any moment.

Wa-learn-that-very-satisfactory-nowa-regarding the prospects of the Tonquin Coal Mining Co. has been received from M. Bavier-Chaffour, the managing director of that enterprise, who left here for the mines two or three weeks ago. The experienced engineer of the Company has passed a most favorable opinion on the prospects, and confidently predicts excellent results. The coal

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TOMORROW and Friday, the 6th and 7th lost. aro the anniversaries of the Jewish New Year

Jewish community,

The usual celebrations will be held by the

A MAN in New Jersey, who was in very destine circumstances, applied to the town for help. He asked for some money and a" pair of patent leather slippers.

A MISSISSIPPI woman fell into a mill-dam, and when she was rescued a wo-pound catfish was entangled in her wire bustle. Her husband wanted to set her again, but she would not

-conuent.--

Love's Young Dream" Birdie," whispered a happy young Chicago lover in the "pig" line, "now that we are engaged you mustn't call me Mr. Forcine any more." "Ah, no, darling." responded the girl with a sigh and a niggle, "you must always call me "Birdie" and I will always call you "Butch."

He was always at his post when needed. Chance Acquaintance to Government Official

Don't you ever work?" Government Official "Certainly; I am always at my office when my duties require my presence." "And when is that?" "From 1.15 to 2.15 every other Wednesday."

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AN equestrian and acrobatic, troupe, under the leadership of Mr. Abell, are giving performances to crowded houses in Manila.

A MACAO correspondent writesi—" Qur Governor

is making a first class ass of himself and either cannot or will not see it. It was openly said at the Band the other night that in many cases the cholera patients were buried before life was really extinct. They are, said to have been bound with ropes and buried without coffins while still kicking. Can this be true ? A lawyer here swears he absolutely saw it done at one of the fanareltoes." We feel bound to say that this very strong confirmation before we should feel yarn about the cholera patients would require disposed to even seriously consider it. Still the fact that a rumour of this description is current says very little for the confidence, reposed in the Portuguese authorities by the inhabitants of Macao. If the lawyer referred to by our corres pondent actually witnessed what he asserts, his duty is clear enough.

His Lordship asked if they ever expected to see him again (laughter)

Mr. Caldwell expressed his belief that they would-sometime,

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His Lordship was not so confident, and inquiries, ordered the case to go on. In answer to his

br. Ho Kai stated that the house was a family house, and as no one individual was responsible for the rent the whole of them were summoned. Mr. A. G. Wise, Acting Registrar, proved the sale, and evidence was given as the service of the notices.

His Lordship adjourned the case for the attendance of the absent witness, remarking that the plaintiffs seemed in doubt as to who, the

defendants wero.

CORRESPONDENCE.

¿We do na necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondenta In this column.)

declares the hoisting of the. Italian flag at Zula -is a provocation to France, and that the prospect of the maintenance of peace with Italy is diminish log every day. It takes the opportunity of reminding Frenchimen that General 'Boulanger was Minister of War at the time "of the, Schnaebele incident with Germany, and regrets that he is not now at the War Office, to give that patriotic impulse to France which may be at any moment necessary. The France, another staunch supporter of General Boulanger, writes in very much the same tone. It' says: "Europe will see our conduct is inspired by nothing but the sentiment of our right and the respect of Treaties. It wil compare the calm assertions of those who are conscious of being in the right with the ibrtuous explanations and lil-disguised irritation of the Italian Minister"

The Government organs fortunately do not take the same view. The Temps contains a communique from the Quai B'Orsay, running as follows:-

ROYAL NAVAL NAVIGATORS.

"The news of the occupation of Zula by the Italian troops having drawn attention to the TO THE EDITOR OF TEK HONGKONG TELEGRAFIL”

situation in the Red Sea, it is requisite to remark SIR,--On my arrival here from the North the

that this question is connected with that of other day I was surprised bear that H.M.S

Massowah, and that the negotiations pending THERE has been a good deal of grewling lately going to be sent for some show purpose to

Orion, the harbour delence for Singapore, was, relative to the latter consequently, bear upon the Zula question. Concerning the reply of Austria by residents and boarders at the Hongkong Hotel

Brunei (Borneo), where there are several reeft about the nuisance caused by the Queen's Road

to the notification of the taking possession of about, Not very long ago the 'Orion went

Massowah, by Italy, it seems a confusion has entrance being constantly crowded by the ancient and according to report discovered another

only a very

short distance from Singapore, arisen. The Austrian Ministry recognises the Italian authority (to levy' municipal taxes, and order of sharebrokers. Ladies who go out shop.eef, somewhere in the Strait of Rhio, by orders Austro-Hungarian subjects, if there ba ping have conscientious scruples about being striking it heavily and breaking her false any at Massowah, to pay them, but ifit thes keel-The-officers-say-they-were-only-about--abandons the advantages of the Capitulations it DISTINGUISHED Burglar-What do yer think of sinred out of countenance by the mashers of the six cable's length from shore, and as the Orion does so only for the future, that is to say, from this mean plan of workin' gentlemen off by Stock Exchange, and object to walking through is known to steer very badly, it is possible the date on which Italy made the notification "lectricity? Hangin' 's good nuff fer me at any a menagerie when going in or out of the Hotel enough that she was even nearer the shore than which it had bitkerto neglected to make, as in time. Tout (unlucky jockey)-Well, I dunno. But all this is easily remedied; the Queen's Road their estimate. However, the reef on which the duty bound."

vessel struck was previously unknown and The thing has its good points. If there's any entrance is really the public roadway to the nobody has been able to find it since, which is, thing exasperates a man after his race is rus, refreshment bar; the private entrance to the to say the least, highly suggestive that "some the thought that he lost it by a neck.

Hotel, and a very handsome one too, is in Fedder's one has blundered." Are the Naval authorities We hear from Macao to-day that the Chinese in the Queen's Road vestibule by the manage and a smaller and cheaper vessel would have and he has thus implicitly recognised the

Street. We assume that tlie chairs were placed very like it. There are plenty of reefs round Brunei, the taking possession of Massowal by Italy...

desirous of getting rid of the Orion? It looks 'Signor Crispi has just notified to the Powers Pa-on, exchange and deposit bank, has unexpecment for the purpose of being sat upon, and as--answered the purpose of proclaiming the British legitimacy of the views of the French Govern tedy closed its doors, the proprietors and the brokers are excellent customers-at-the-bar--protectorate-over-that-province-equally-asement, which refused to admit the taxes-could- and managers absconding with all they could lay they have surely a good right to avail themselves If the Orion's accidental discovery of an believed on foreigners Massawah so long as their hands on. Many depositors, both native and European, have lost their money, the late Mr. Cunha's family losing $7,000 by the sudden collapse of the bank,

He already had enough of a good thing. She had promised to be a sister to him. He thanked sisters. Why, Mr. Sampson," said the girl

of the opportunity of resting their weary frames within the cool, marble walls, forgetting in sweet repose the foils and worries of a broker's life The private entrance to the Hotel from Pedder's Street is kept strictly select, and affords every possible convenience to visitors,

unknown reef in the Rhio Strait-a reef which fallen to the lat of a merchant steamer instead has since vanished somewhere or other had of a man-of-war, the poor skipper would have had the "accident" made the subject of a Board lost his certificate for same time, besides being of Trade. inquiry and most likely would have discharged from his ship. But the Orion being

long as she was not absolutely lost. Naval navi the public, could be messed about with impunity so

gators are both omnipotent and omniscient. The

the same, when the Orion is safely back in Singa captain of a British man-of-war, like His Holiness the Pope, can do no wrong. I shall be glad, all pare harbour. The reefs there are all well known.

Yours faithfully,

The whole Parisian Press-prints with evident satisfaction the remarks on the Massowah Ques tion contained in the Nord. This Russian organ says:

tlie Capitulations were not formally abolished, fication of the taking possession of the place by which could not be done before the official not- ftaly. It is the king possession of the ice by. notes to heap reproaches on France; it is none. he had till now neglected to full King Hum- the less clear that in accomplishing the formality bert's Prime Minister acknowledges the correct

Paris."

has been tried on board the Company's steam her coldly, but said that be already had five BROKERS-well, some brokers, follow the example: a man-of-war, paid for, let it not be forgotten, by ness of the attitude assumed by the Cabinet of

launch Fanny and is reported to have burned LOCAL AND GENERAL. splendidly, and it is anticipated that within six months Hongkong will, be receiving a regular MAVILA pipers up to the 18th,ulto. report the supply of capital sleam coal from Tonquin. The sanitary condition of the capital of the Philippines working of the mines promises, to be of an as excellent; but we are informed that since exceedingly easy character, and when once fairly Then an epidemie, the nature of which is still under way the output is estimated to reach und fined, has manifested itself in that city, something like soo tons daily. Taken altogether cansing something like sixteen deaths per day.

the affairs of the Company appear most promising, and the concession is probably even more valu- THE French Commission which was charged able than was originally anticipated. with the task of reporting on the project of making Paris a seaport, has arrived at a TODAY at the Police Court, before Mr. Wode satisfactory conclusion and recommended the house, Long Ayeung, aged 19, an office coolie, was charged by Mr. E. D. Shepherd, of the opening of a canal 180 Kilometres in length, 6.20 metres in depth, and twice as broad the ports and Exports Office, with breaking open Suez Canal, connecting the capital with Havre. lock-fast deak on the 4th inst. in the above office, and stealing therefrom $15 in bank notes, AWIRE from Gibraltar, dated the 21st ulto, says the same being the property of complainant that a desperate assalt has been made near that port on two English tourists by Spanish Witness said on the 5th inst. at to am. he went to the Imports Office and opened his beggars, who attacked them with knives, wound-desk, in which he had left the night before jug ane. The Englishmen, who defended

amongst other things an old cigar box full themselves with sticks, wers escorteil to San of letters and also Srg in bank notes. The Raque, where they were released in their own

paper was,in $5 notes. He found the box open, accurity to reappear in a week.

the letters. strewn all over the desk and the money gone, He had locked the desk the previous evening at 4.15 p.m., before leaving the office Prisoner was an office coolle who had charge of the keys and slept outside the office; which was on the ground floor of the Harbour Office. The accused, in making his defence to the Court, said he told the head boat man that he had found the office door open on getting down in the morning, and also the punkah

see if they were all right, and as nothing was missing he was satisfied and said nothing to complainants Worship remanded the case until Monday next at 10 a.m., accepting bail in two sureties of $50 each.

A TELEGRAM dated London, August 21st states that the British naval maneuvres, about which we have heard so much lately, are finished and the fleets have been dispersed. Admiral Baird says in his report to the Admiralty that the main object was to defend the port of London, and that this was fulfilled. The report adds that the blockade of Bershaven was raised owing to the number of torpedo boats being insufficient,

of other good people and go to church occasion. "I thought you were an only child." "amally. And in this hot weather it is not he responded: "I mean that I have five sisters surprising if at times they gradually drop away such as you offer to be," and he lottered to the into the land of dreams while priest or parson

door.

A YOUNG man made up his mind to be a journalist, and the editor sent him to report a lecture. The journalist took the notes-took them out of the lecturer's hat when that gentle

MERCANTILE MARINE. Hongkong, 4th September, 1888, '

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ROME, August 5th. I am assured from the Ministry of the Interior

Signor Crispi's Note. M. Gerard's object in the that the Italian Government will not attack much importance to M. Goblet's answer to interview with Signor Crispi was to induce Italy to modify her relations with Tunis, Signor. Crispi answered that the Italian Government could not decide on that subject for the present.

Lord Salisbury's statement in the House of Lords has made a very good impression here. VIENNA, August 4th.

man wasn't looking. He had a full report of the overcome by the fatigue of the journey from his NOTES FROM CHINESE- PAPERS. M. Goblet's Note on the Masiowah question

lecture in the paper the next morning; but when the editor learned that, the lecture had not been delivered on account of the lecturer losing his MS., he told the youth that he displayed altogether too much enterprise at the start. The latter was not to be nipped in the bud, however, for he is now editing a newspaper stand.

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is holding forth about the better land. A well known operator went to the temple the other Sunday-temple is a term, we may explain, which can be construed to mean the place of worship of any and every religious sect-and

chateau gradually fell into a somewhat reslless slumber. His thoughts were not exclusively bent on things celestial. The preacher surpassed himself in eloquence but still the pride of the Rialto slumbered peacefully on at length, having brought his proposition into logical form, the expounder of Holy Writ vehemently asked "And what are we to have na our share of this slumbering broker started from his seat, and to transaction ?” Aroused by the familiar words the the intense horror of his friends and the con- gregation generally, emphatically ejaculated "Why, a thousand shares, fully paid up,

Tableau ! Curtain

August the thermometer still registered a heat At Wu-ch'ang Fu, capital of Hupeh, on the 17th north wind began to blow, the temperature went of 97 to 98 degrees, but the same evening a down to 81, and people say the wind has done much damage to the cotton. Many deaths have also occurred there from the variableness of the climate,

has appeared. As yet wingless, they cover the At Yangchow, in Klangau, where the officials have been praying for rain, a plague of locusts, dry fields in dense wriggling layers 2 or 3 inches deep. Although a little rain has fallen, the new rice is also in a critical state. The City gate has been closed towards the South, and a fast proclaimed, in hopes of moving Heaven to senti rain.

range of hills called Sze Pling Pai, where are About 30 west of Peking is a charming eight Buddhist temples. Foreign ladies and gentlemen make this a summer retreat from staying at the temple of San, Shan An'rh was Peking. A certain foreign Minister who was completely robbed of his money and effects one night last month, and though the authorities were informed, we have not heard that the

THE Courrier d'Haiphong has the following coolic; he then tried every desk in the place to orders to have the rubbish taken away and it | Wullie's' venture has been subscribed to, 'throw thieves have been caught yet..

is considered here to show that the French up. As to the pretext urged by M. Goblet in sup Government maintain the position first taken

to be both trifling and offensive, and contends that to ask Italy to maintain the Capitulations port of that position, the Pesther Eloyd declares

is to place her in the rank an uncivilised Power. Unless the 'French Government are prepared to go. to extremes, which, of course, nobody believes, their diplomatic campaign

Italy. The views of the Austrian Govern cannot but prove a failure, seeing that the majority of the Powers are on the side of ment, of which Italy has already been apprised, are clearly explained in a communiqué, to yesterday's Fremdenblatt. In this it is pointed out that since her occupation of Massowah, Italy has instituted there a regular adminis. tration and jurisdiction, which have been recognised by all foreign Presidents. After referring to the refusal of certain foreign residents to pay a tax levied by the Italian military authority at Massowah for the making and lighting of streets, the Fremdenblatt shows that the Capitulations could not be pleaded as an excuse for such refusal, since they had been instituted to protect the interests of the Christian Powers against the natives, and were therefore not available against the institutions of a civilised Christian Government The Vienna Foreign Office organ then reminds France that Austria,

jurisdiction had been introduced there, and adds in common with all the Powers, abolished Con- sular jurisdiction in Tunis immediately French that the Austrian Government had, without going Into particulars as to the occupation of

that they must submit to the prescriptions of not be applicable to Austrian subjects there, but Massowab, decided that the Capitulations should

Italian laws

LING ATOT, a building contractor, residing at No. 19, Wyndham Street, appeared at the Police Court this morning before Mr. Sercambe Smith on a remanded summons taken out by the Police charging him with trespassing on Crown lands on the 30th ult. Tai Leung, in his evidence said :-I am the defendant's foreman and have WIT, according to the recognised authorities, is been engaged under his orders in clearing synonymous with such words as mind, intellect, a site for a building near the Magazine Gip. understanding, sense; and it means the felicitous We started at the work many months ago and association of objects not usually connected, so finished in July last. The mat sheds (upon as to produce a pleasant surprise. Here is a which the complaint hinges) have not been bright specimen of the wit, intellect, understand occupied during the last two months; they haveing, and sense of "Brownie", as exhibited in been pulled down although the debris still the China Mail of Saturday last:-"That to remain on the ground. My employer has left judge from the alacrity with which Wee

will be done in two or three days; he gave physic to the dogs don't apply in Hongkong." concerning the importation of coffee plants into Tonquin: "We have requested that the impor.

orders about this a month ago, but has now gone This wonderful flash of intellectual brilliancy to Canton-Inspector Corcoran informed the refers to the recent formation into, a imited Iation of coffee plants should be forbidden in

Court that complaints about the matabeds had liability company of the business of the Tonquin the Resident-General, by a decree

been made by some residents at the Peak on or Victoria Dispensary, carried on for A dated August 6th, has now adopted this wise measure; it will meet with general approbationThus the N. C. Daily News of August 29th: inspected the ground and reported to the Mr. Cruickshank, whose avoirdupois reaches about August 3rd last, and on the 25th be. number of years by Mr. W. Cruickshanke. as it is the only means to preserve the colony Tientsin was full of facts and rumours, the latter Surveyor General on 25th. To-day a telegram something over 200 lbs., is the gentleman from the scourge which is devastating all the

being more or less true, at the end of last week. had been received to say the objectionable refuse described with such elegant facetiousness as coffee plantations in the world."

The Japanese fleet arrived off Taku on the 22nd.

was still at large. The order for removal expired"Wee Wullic." We hope he likes the graceful THERE are at the present time employed in Admiral Ito and staff came up to Tientsin on

on 1st inst. The case was again remanded. compliment paid him by such a distinguished various parts of the world, one hundred and the 23id, and called on the Viceroy the next day, righty three full-powered ocean-going steamers

and the Japanese Consul was to give a garden THE death of Mr. Pitt-Taylor, for many years clodhopper as "Brownie." Where does the wit, of the British Navy, all with officers and crew party on Sunday last, at which the Viceroy and Judge of County Courts for Lambeth, Greenwich, or, satire.come in? Surely it is not transhearing that the steamer in which her husband to Said Pacha, contains the following passage –.

a person whose attached and drawing full pay. This number all the notables of Tientsin were to be present. and Woolwich, deserves, according to a writer cendently witty to refer to

Christian name is William as "Wee Wullie The Grand Dukt Alexander stayed with the in the Daily, Neius, something more than a corvettes, gun-boats and troop-ships. Of sailing

Mail's own special brand, and incomprehensible scaltered over the world as drill-ships and guard

how, who fought against the French in Annam, The body of the late Manchu General, Shan- has been escorted through Tungchow with the most imposing pomp possible to a Chinese under water. The coffin was bome by 37 men funeral. On its way to Peking the contége was delayed at Palikas by finding the road some feet and in front walked the two sons of the deceased, weeping so bitterly that the bystanders felt greatly moved.

A sorcerer was shown up in Hongkew in a curious way the other day. A poor sailor's wife, served had gone aground, anxiously asked this wise man what had become of her husband, and spirits, that be had "taken service with Neptune," inotherwords had gone to Davy Jones's locker. So

It is stated that Signor Crispi is endeavouring to procure an exact copy of the document by which the Sultan Abdul Med-jid, on the 7th Jace, 1856, surrendered possession of Masiowah to Egypt. This document, which was addressed "We give over to you and to your descendants possession of the island of Massowah, with all Empire perpetually, of which it forms no integral part." If Signor Crispl can obtain the copy the

includes the heaviest battle ships, frigates, Russian Consul, Mr. Startseff, while at Tientale, perfunctory notice. To say that he was the most this be wit it must be Scotch wit of the China was informed, after due consultation with the its territory, for ever, and separate it from our ships in commission we have forty-five, also and was sumptuously entertained, but the learned lawyer of his time might provoke, or atto everybody else in the colony, Scotchmen the next day she spread a feast, invited joss-men, is in search of the affair will assume another ships, in which, latter category the Victor a dinner party given by Mr. Startscff, and any of his contemporaries, either on the Bench included. And, moreover, " Brownic's" quotation and with gong and drum a solemn mass was aspectos BERLIN, TH

5th.

The Norddeutsche reproduces in a conspicuous of the recant leader in The Standard on the place and with evident satisfaction the canclusion

only special festivities in his honour were least suggest, a personal challenge. But scarcely

or at the Bar, excelled him in a combination of from "Macbeth" is anything but an apt one-it chanted for the soul of the dear departed. In Emanuel figures, but not the Meanes, which is another given by the..Viceroy. The Grand

If the the midst of the funeral festivities, who should

the above there are about two hundred Govern. Customs house-boat, towed by the Viceroy's His claim to the first of these forensic and had only physic to rely on for their dividends, i gave place to eager explanations on both sides, Massowah Question. I understand that Germany classed as a hospiini-ship. Independently of Duke left for Peking on the 22nd in the industry, acuteness, and knowledge of the world, indeed very wide of the mark.

shareholders in W. Cruickshank & Co., Limited, drowned husband himself! Consternation soon appear, most inappropriately, but the supposed stern-wheel launch, and there was much specu- judicial requisites was quaintly asserted by him- ment ships either out of commission or laid Uplation as to how far the latter would get before self in an early edition of his great work on the we think their patience would be severely but the wizard and all his crew, judiciously with agrees with Austria-Hungary in approving

na obsolete ; to which class belong the Ironclads Lord Wardeji and the Black Printe.

Law of Evidence, where the index coʻtains the taxed. Dispensing medicines is undoubtedly a following entry: "Industry-Proofs of Indefatig. remunerative business in this colony, but we able--passim." Hisindex is, indeed, better worth have a very strong Impression that the Victoria reading than many books, being full of such Dispensary owed no inconsiderable portion of drily humorous or silly mischievous items as its prosperous career to the dispensing to a “Irish witnesses-credibility of" "Taylor on numerous clientèle of various brands of whiskey, "Evidence" reached in the lifetime of its with aerated waters of local manufacture, author a degree of celebrity and authority for which it would be difficult to find a parallel unless it were the late Mr. Benjamin's book on. Sales, which was based on a previous essay by Lindley's famous treatise on Partnership, or Lord Blackburn, or the present. Lord Justice

Dart's "Vendors and Purchasers." Mr. Justice Stephen, in the preface to his "Digest of the Law

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION: (Before Mr. A. F. Leach, Acting Pulene Judge

running well astiore, and for how much of the distance the Grand Duke would have to be The Editor of a missionary newspaper who tracked like ordinary mortals. For the railway allows valgar indecencies like the following to from Tientsin to Tungchow is still in the clouds, appear in his columns, ought to be ducked in a An American firm is said to have offered to horsepond." Brownie" murmurs-"That the construct it, and provide it with bridges, stations, favorite song of the Duchess of Montrose (aged and ample rolling stock for the sum of Th. fg), recently married, is "If ever I cease to love,!" 1,60ejood, · A Chinese civil engineer, trained in "And perhaps it would be just as well the next Japan, has, however, proposed still lower terms, time the so-called religious journal takes in hand and is influentially backed; while his nationai to ridicule a lady for being old, to get somewhere claims give him a considerable advantage. It near the truth. The Dowager-Duchess of Mon- is expected meanwhile that the Imperial Wed frose the Duchess is quite a young woman-is ding will postpone for at least a year any wot-89 years of age, nor anything approaching it, farther consideration of railroad projects. There as anybody who wasnot a hopeless and confirmed are all sorts of stories of loans for the Yellow fool might have known. The Hon. Caroline River works, and the sum of Tis. 50,000,000 is Agnes Beresford, who married the fourth Duke of freely mentioned. While taking over the Smith Montrose in 1836 and Mr. W.S. Stirling Crawford and Cars, Sheng Tactal, Director of the C. M. in 1876, is the daughter of Lord Decies, and was S. N. Co., has been ordered to agree to all Linness as profound learning, and his remarks upon On the 11th Jure a block of ten houses on born in 1818, so that she is now in her seventieth Ming-chuan's conditions, including the payment year. There is a vast difference between 76 andig of a sum of Tis. 100,000, which had previously in the age of a woman who has just made a third stopped the way. Liu had threatened to mame matrimonial venture. The Dowager-Duchess of rialise the Throne, if the C. M. S; N. Co., would Montrose has been known to the racing world not give him as good terms as to agency as had ince Mr. Stirling Crawford's death as “Mr. Been offered him by a well-known foreign firm Manton," and is still acknowledged to be one of Several mobs of grifin had arrived in Tientsin the finest looking women in England. Her from the country, and long prices were asked for latest husband is Mr. Marcus Henry Milner, aged them, even after the pick had been taken out for 24, brother to Lady Gerard and the Countess of Shanghai. Time trials before purchase were

strictly discountenanced.

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of Evidence," criticised Mr. Pitt-Taylor's labours FUN WA CHEUNG TÁM CHOY AND OTHERS. is in reality a mere gathering of crumbs from two Chinese months occupancy of 35 Bonhara In a somewhat ungracious spirit.. But the Digest This was a claim for $160,, rent due for the table of the older and infinitely sounder jurist. Strand. Dr. Ho Kat appeared for the plaintiffs, Mr. Pitt-Taylor had as much practical shrewd and Mr. Wilkinson represented the defendants.

are amusing. He was especially fond of Lord and purchased by a syndicate. The ownership the art of cross-examination are as useful as they Bonham Strand was sold by order of the Court, Abinger's maxim that you should never, in order was transferred to them on the 15th June, and to drive la one nall, knock out two tacks, and afterwards the Registrar of the Court notified the more than blated in a recent edition that the tenants of the fact, Plaintiffs had previously rule had been compleuously violated by a certain arranged with them about the rent, and had told eminent person in dealing with Arthur Ortos, the defendants they would have to pay $to a in the course of a controversy with Chief Justice month. The plaintiffs asserted that they con- Cockburn, Mr. Pitt-Taylor plaintively described tinued to occupy the house, and failed to pay himself as "the "least of all the Judges, that The secretary of the Syndicate having corro

my not meet to be called Judge The borated this "barren privilege thur: specified, was afterwards)

granted to Mr. Pitt-Taylor and his colleagues by the ground that a material witness had been Mr Caldwell anked for an adjournment, on Order in Council:98,

arrested in ChiELS

drew from the scene before they could be got to explain the part they had taken in this little drama.

FRANCE AND ITALY,

Italy's sititude in this matter. The official | Reichsantziger confirms the recent announce. ment that, owing to the breakdown of the negotia tions for a Franco-Italian Treaty of Commerce, * the French Customs Department demands that the signature of a French Consul shall be barns by all, certificates of the origin of foreign: merchandise, Including, wines, silk, çattle, olive all, fruits, enamel, coloured glass, poultry, game fresh and salt meat, butter, straw hats, and -volatile oils and essences, imported into France,

The following telegrams, dealing with the recent dispute between the Governments of France and Italy are from the correspondents of the London Standard A NEGA

Hard PARIS

Ma Pakis, August sth. These certificates cost, according to their size,

The irritation of the French against Italy is half a franc, or two francs apiece, and cannot not decreasing, though in Government circles | fall to act as a great hindrance to business. They the situation is regarded calmly. “The Procia will be especially irksome to Alsace-Lorraine, mation of the Italian Protectorate over Zula as the certificates for that province will have to may, however, complicate the Massowak differ- be signed by the French Embassy in Berlin, he ences, and render their final settlement more CONSTANTINOPLE, August 4th. dificult. Several of the Boulangist Journals are The controversy which is proceeding between the Intransigeant, naturally sees the hand of having attracted the attention of the Forte, at very violent on the subject. M. Kochefort, in France and Italy on the Mastowah question Prince Bismarck directing M. Crispi, but Me the last Cabinet Council was decided to address Rochefort warns the Italian Minister that Italy a Note to the Powers protesting, against the is only being made a catapaw. The intention continued presence of Italian troops in that place, for she has taken possession of Zula, African further Italian aims on Tripoli and Barbary: of Italy to brave France is, he declares, evident, and giving expression to the Tarkish fears of territory belonging to France in virtue of a Treaty Turab Statesmen are convinced that Italy, is signed with Abyssinis. We are, however, con preparing to filch these rich African possessions vinced that whenever we seriously show out teeth from their present owners, notwithstanding that Signor Crispi will sheathe hir sword and abandon the Italian Journal's make out that France has his pretensions. It will suffice to remind him designs in that quarter. The Turials Minister that our artillery is perhaps at the present time alluding to the French taunts that Turkey looked the most powerfal in the world, and that we can on Kelplessly while changes to her detriment in a very short time pisce one million ivethen

all round, remarked that this dred thousand men on a war footing. He will

every Lima worth a new battle of Marengo then ses that the Massowal Incidentis

which is just an. Boulangist de M

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