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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURS

KINO MILAN, who is about the biggest black- guard in Europe, including all the other so-called royaltics," lost $130,000 at a gambling-house in Vienna hot long ago. He paid dear for the -OUR NEW SEASON'S

knowledge, but he has undoubtedly learned that VER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS even two little deuces can beat one king.

ARE NOW READY.

FLOWER

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The Chinese Times hears no further accounts Flower Parcels of so Packets, price, $10.00 from the Chung Chou breach of the Huang-ho. The water runs through unchecked, and the Chinese authorities were waiting for the arrival of Wu-ta-cheng. The, aftumn freshet will make matters wome when it comes down.

Vegetable

of 20. of 45

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5.00 7.53

Single Packets at list prices.

SPECIAL FLORIST'S. SEEDS."

In Packets of six or more named varietles,"

viz :-

CLOVE PINKS-PANSIES-PHLOX-

HOLLYHOCKS-PORTULACA, VERBENA and PETUNIA.

MIGNONETTE MACHEL (The New Variety).

Priced Catalogue on application. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,'

Hongkong, 31st August, 1888.

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Hongkong Gelegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1888,

TELEGRAMS.

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SOUTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

LONDON, October 9th. The Rt. Hon. W. H. Smith speaking at Gloucester said that the Cape Government was:

mistaken in supposing that England intended to hand over Bechuanaland to the Cape.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE estimates of the probable revenue of the "Hanoi Municipality in 1889, amounting to $83.000, have been submitted to the approbation of the Chamber; the items of expenditure were to be discussed at a subsequent meeting...

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We are informed that a meeting of members of the Victoria Recreation Clubs interested in rowing and sailing will be held on Saturday next, the 13th instant, at 5 p.m., to consider the arrange ments proposed by the Committee for the forth- coming Regatta.

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We learn from Shanghai exchanges that at the adjourned extraordinary meeting of the Shanghai Electric Company held on the afternoon of the gth inst, the resolution authorising the directors to sell the plant and property of the Company was carried unanimously,

POPE Leo XIII has instituted, since his accession

nineteen Archbishoprics, fifty-acven Bishoprics,

good.

„TUR Avenir- du Tonkin' reports that according to a sentence passed by the Tong-doc of Hai duong, and approved by the Kinh-luoc and the Resident-General, on the 15th ulto, Nguyen duy-ninh, Bat-pham, a mandarin of the 8th degree, was condemned to death for the crime, of high treason.

A FRENCH paper, referring to the spread of uddhism in France, says that Buddhism and Christianity have many points of resemblance. M. Bournout, an Orientalist, is of opinion that the founder of Christianity was a Buddhist dis- figured by Semitism. The only difference he finds in the two religions is that Christianity has caused rivers of blood to flow.

Says the N. C. Daily News:-Taotal Kung has sent a sensible reply to the native cotton merchants of this port, and if the answer of the Viceroy to the same cotton merchants is some- what less direct it is satisfactory. It is evident that the opposition of the cotton merchants to the mr hufacturing and ginning companies is the ignorant prejudice of people who think that any change in treating the article in which they deal

must be to their disadvantage.

Prisons Commissioners of Scotland, the total ACCORDING to the tenth annual report of the

during the year ending March 31, 1888, was number of prisoners in confinement in Scotland

50.265-namely, 31 672males and 18,593 females. At the late mentioned the number was 2,082. the daily average during the year being 2,286; whilst in 1886-37 the daily average was 2.446. The number of committals in 1887 was 46,168, and the population at present is 4034-856.

THE Chinese Times reports that the traffic on the railway between Tientsin and Kaiping factory proportions: The travelling is very increases, and has already attained very satis steady, and the time kept is punctual. Our contemporary expects soon to see some good effects on the local markets, as the fine sea fish of Taku Bar "should now come in time for the midday refection or dinner. No place on the Northern coast, not even Chefoo, has a better fish supply than Taku, although scarcely any of it is there seen in good condition.

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THE Jews of Hungary form less than $ per cent of the population, but they furnish 10 per cent of the students for the university. Two-thirds of the Jewish students study jurisprudence. THREE sailing vessels, says the N. C. Daily News, have been sold at Shanghai recently namely the Tifan for Tis. 5,000, the Maria for Tis. 2,000 and the Chateaubriand for Tis 5.725.

THX Post Card.--Landlady (readı)':-,

"Masbora Hair. Dear Joe-Look into tex and shrimps on your way home tonleht. We're all alone, and the Prince and the young onesl be delighted.

Yours over,

Albert Edward. "Well, if ever I did i— no idea --An' 1 was just goin' to give the poor dear young fellow a bit o' my mind about his. rent (N. B.The stratagem was successful.)

OUR Hangi contemporary hears from Bangkok that an Italian engineer is preparing a railway project to connect Outaradit on the Meinam, with Luang Prabang. The line is to start from Paknam-Po, follow the valleys of the Meinam and Mékong and reach Luang Prabang. The Siamese Survey Department is getting a chart made by two Englishmen. Messrs. McCarthy and Collins. At the same time English works are proceeding to unite Rangoon in Burmah with Xieng-Mai in Siam, passing through Moulmein and Tavoi.

ACCORDING to the Railway Press few people

can have any idea of the enormous cost of

getting a railway Bill through Parliament. The Brighton line for two sessions fought a desperate battle against several other companies, and when its Bill came before the Committee the expenses of counsel and witnesses amounted to over £1,000 a day, and the discussion of the measure lasted fifty days! The solicitors' bill of the South-Eastern Railway contained ter thousand folios, occupying twelve months in taxation, and amounted to £140,000!

MEN AND DEEDS. Wanted, men-

Not systems fit and wise, Not faiths with rigid eyes, Not wealth in mountains piled, Not power, with gracious smile, Not e'en the potent, pen

Wanted, men t Wanted, deeds

Not words of winning note, Not thoughts from life remote, Not fond religious aire, Not sweetly languid prayers, Not softly scented creeds-

Wanted, deeds

Men and deeds !.. They that can dure and do, Not longing of the new, Not prating of the old ; Good life and actions bold, These the occasion needs-

'Men and deeds!

-Canon Farrap A NOTICE on the subject of Vaccinatidla was issued by the Registrar-General Mr. JH. Stewart-Lockhart, on the 6th inst., providimor the times and places for free vaccination, in the following order :--Places for free vaccination:

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17th, 23rd, and 29th of each. Chinese moon, The Alice Memorial Hospital, daily, (Saturdays and Sundays excepted) from 2 to 4 p.m. Village of Yaumati, on the 6th of each Chinese moon. Village of Sáukiwán, on the 12th of each Chinese moon. Village of Aberdeen, on the 18th of each Chinese moon.

OCTOBER 11, 1888.

MESSRS. Adamson, Bell, & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam abip Albany, from Vancouver, &c, left Shanghai for this post at 3 p.m. to-day.

MR. Henpeck--De-Poore, you're a lucky dog. My wife says that when your wife loses he temper she never says a word, but goes to the piano and plays a hymn tune until she cools down. I wish my wife would do that. De Poore-You'd change your mind after you had paid out as much money as I have to Mr. Hahn for getting the old piano repaired.

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GANG ROBBERY AND MURDER

NEAR ÅBERDEÉN.

was made by a gang of about twenty Chinese About 17.30 last night an organised_attack

on two houses in what is known as the New Village, or Little Hongkong, near Aberdeen. the superior class, but were unable to force the They first attempted to break into a house of door. They then went to an adjoining house in which two elderly Chinamen and a coolie lived. They burst the deer open, and probably meeting the house, taking clothes, jewelry, and about him dead with a revolver. They then looted $30. A Chinese ex-policeman who heard the shot hastened to Aberdeen, and 'Informed Inspector Gauld, who at once went with a file of тел the spot. No one was then to be found, of course, and although telegrams were dispatched to other parts of the island, and a patrol launch sent out, the thieves escaped under cover of the darkness. A magisterial'inquiry into the matter will be held to-morrow.

with resistance from the coolie, one of then shot

THE LATE TYPHOON.

ARRIVAL OF MORE VESSELS.

this morning with the Fattenburg in tow. The The steamship Caristrooke artived in Harbour formor left Saigon with a cargo of rice on the 27th September, and, meeting a strong gale put into Phuyen on the 29th. On the 30th she put out again, but the head wind prevented her from'making much way, and she was hove to for two days shipping heavy seas, Next day she ran back to Touren harbour for shelter, arriving on the 3rd. She found the Falkenburg and Ghases there, both having suffered considerably, expecially the latter, which had the stoke-hole flooded, swept away, and her cargo of sugar meking. A pomp was sent on board, and on the 7th the Carisbrooke left again, with the Frudenbalg in tow. Fair weather was experienced, but the hawser parted twice.

The Falkenburg has evidently had a rough time, as her report in another column shows. Captain Dreyer was lying seriously ill with dropsy or some kindred complaint when the typhoon struck them, but he nevertheless stayed in the chart-room until she was comparatively safe, although being frequently breast-high in water as he sat. He died on the following evening. Three of the four boats were either swept away or rendered useless, And the steering-gear aft broke to pieces. In making temporary repairs the mate and three of the crew received fearful injuries. An iron ladder was twisted up, the steam-pipes bent, and some of the deck-houses broken.

THE SALVATION ARMY IN HONGKONG.

That is a heading which will surprise a good many residents here, who may have been con the operations of General Booth's followers. gratulating themselves on their rembleness from

and fire

occurs is that Canton, an inland city, with ten times more inhabitants than Hongkong, has no water-supply and no drains, no official surgeon, no inspector of nuisances, and 'no municipal government to look after the health of the people or the cleaning of the streets.

We propose to take a glance at the condition of Canton as to soitary requirements, and contrasting it with Hongkong, ask the question, To what extent does Canton suffer for the want Do sanitary measures limit disease in populous of modern sanitary measures? or, in other words, cities? Doubtless a lesson is to be learned from the condition of this and hundreds of other cities and. towns in China where generation after generation has passed without the benefit of Sanitary measures which are considered so essential in Western cities. In the onc, millions of dollars are spent under the direction of the ablest scientific men, with a view to promote the health and comfort of the people, and to ward off disease. In the other, no atles- tion whatever is paid to the subject. The question, presents itself. Wherein do the results

as to health differ?

portion of disease in these as compared with It is impossible to arrive at the relative pro-

Western cities, by reason of the entire absence given, me an approximate knowledge of the of statistics, but a long residence in Canton has

the great delta formed by the corergence of prevalence of disease.

Canton is situated on the N.-E. border of

the three rivers of the Province, which come from the cast, north and west, and commingle their waters through numerous branches, before they enter the ocean, making is delia one of the finest and best-watered plains in the world. Its extent is nearly ico miles s 'hward from Canton and about 70 miles to the westward

The S.-W. Monsoon blows over this delta from the China Sea during the summer months, modifying the heat, which ranges from 85 to go, occasionally going up to 95 or 96 When typhoons prevail in the China Sea, the mercury falls to 80°. In the cold season the temperature at the lowest is down to the freezing- 60. point, but generally ranges from 40° to 50°

From October to February or March there is usually little rain, and the atmosphere is dry. From March to June is the rainy season, and ni times the atmosphere is saturated with moisture. Thunder-showers are common during the sum mer months.

The tide at Canton rises and falls about five feet, but the water in the river is fresh, except when a strong easterly wind prevails,

The city is situated on the N. bank of the Pearl river, 95 miles from Hongkong and Lat 237 N., Long. 113 15 E. The ground is for the most part level, and few places have fali enough for good drainage.

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There are three canals running into the city from the south side, following the course of the walls, and forming moats. Besides these, canals enter the western suburbs (the most densely populated pan) from the west side, the whole making an aggregate of over eight miles in length. The canals are receptacles for offal and rubbish from the houses and shops on their banks, and at low tide their bottoms present miles of black, reeking filth, the decomposing animal and vegetable matter which the slow curren cannot wash away,

The part enclosed by walls is built on nelight ridge gently sloping towards the south and north. but the streets running cast and west are level. The suburbs on the south, and west are level or nearly so.

The city of Canton is an irregular parallelogram, the long axis of which runs from Wong Sha to a point on the eastern wall opposite the bane for old women, measuring three miles. The transverse diameter averages one and one-half mile, giving a space (excluding the suburb on the S. side of the river) of four and one-half square miles. Estimating the population a 1,500,000, we

poured out into the same ditches and sinks to go on, another round for the use of the same population. It requires no chemical examination to show that it is charged with, imparitics which unfit it for use. During the rainy season the streets and ditches are flooded, and much of the Impurities is washed away, and the well-water is then less charged, but for some months no heavy rains fall

Water is brought in boat's and sold as spring="" water, but it is for the most part river water.

The latrines, or public water-closets, are an. important institution of Canton. These are numerous all over the city, and have rows of stalls on two sides, with a platform 18 inches high, and underneath a bed of sand to receive the feces, while the urine is received into 'n drain which ca es it into sunken vessels. The stalls are cleaned after each occupant, and the offal, both feces and urine, are carried away every day or two and utilized in the fields. These latrines are private property and afford an income ta the owner from the sale of the proceeds. They are not controlled or regulated by officials."

contents utilized as above.

In private houses covered wooden vessels are kept, which are emptied at stated times and the

The occupation of people has much to do with and traders, antisans, and literary men. In every health. The residents of Canton are merchants

people live and work in well-ventilated rooms. shop work of some kind is going on, and as the climate admits of open doors the majority of the

The females of the wealthier families are to a great extent secluded, but their houses are open, '- so that light and ventilation are secured, while the custom of binding the feet, and sedentary occupations, exert an unfavorable influence on

health.

The custom of burning incense at all the shop- doors and at the house and, strect altars mornfóg and evening is supposed to exert some counter. acting influence to noxious gases, but the smoke from incense differs in no important point from ordinary smoke, and its effects are only that of so much carbon in minute particles.

From the above sketch we see that the City of Canton, located on the border of the torrid zate, with more than a million of inhabitants, dwelling in a space of four and one-half square miles, is absolutely destitute of all the sanitary appliances which modern science pronounces essential for the public health of cities.

Not only so, but it contains a population three times as dense as that of any Western city- (London has 1,co0,000 to 11 square miles)-with impure water for all purposes of food and drink, with ditches all over the city, choked with decomposing matter, and offensive smells abounding so as to become the by word of all travellers.

Notwithstanding all this, the opinion which I have formed, after a residence of more than 30 years, is that Canton is not more unhealthy or more subject to epidemics than Western cities generally. The entire want of statistics will admit of my giving an opinion only, but having been all these years in charge of a large hospits, and having medical assistants and pupils living and practising in different parts of the city; I bave had opportunity of forming p opinion approximating the truth. Epidemics prevail at times, but not in more violent forms than in Western cities, Cholera now exists and has for some weeks, but not so severely as it has at the same time in Hongkong. During the last two years fever has prevailed to such an extent in Hongkong as to require the app sint- ment of a Special Committee to investigate its origin, Fever has existed in this city and in other places, but not to an unusual extent..

It is not my purpose to enter into a discussion of the points of sanitary science raised by the facts of this paper, but I will state what to be reasons why this city is as free from disease as it evidently is.

rest is thus secured. Notheatricals or assemblies of any kind are held at night...

The experience and observation of foreigners who have lived in Canton may be appealed to in city. In apawer to several questions, Mr. Theo. evidence of the general healthfulness of the Sampson, head master of the Government school, and for more than thirty years a resident here, after describing the cess-pools and ditches very much as is found in this paper, makes the following statement :-"I have lived very neatly five years in a Chinese bouse (inside the cit with no upper floor, but with only a tiled ground-door, situated in the Tartar quarter of there are uncovered ditches filled with rubbish enjoyed excellent health, and I am not conscious On the sides of many of the narrow streets the city, and during the whole time I have and filthy water, the surface of which is covered that my general constitution has been in the with bubbles, showing the chemical processes slightest degree affected by my sanitary of in operation beneath. These stand the year insanitary surroundings. G. K. in China round, and it is only during the time of heavy Medical Missionary Journal for September. or realizing unsavory odors, st rains that one can pass them without imagining

*** Canton la maid by travellers to be me of the cleanest cities in the Empire.

We are in receipt of the first number of the Progresso, a Portuguese weekly newspaper, just started in Shanghai under the auspices of Messrs. Guedes & Co. of that city. In its leading columns the Progresse declares itself as a to the Surpeme Pentificate, one Patriarchal See, champion of the interests of the Portuguese-The Government Civil Hospital, The Tung Yet a depot of the "Army" has been established have 333,333 persons to the square mile, or 831.

1st. The tide rises twice in the 24 hours, and washes out the canals and the river-bank.

2nd.The shops and houses are so open that one Apostolic Delegation, thirty-four Vicariates community in the Model Settlement, as well as Wa Hospital, The Alice Memorial Hospital. In the colony for six months, and apparently square feet to each person. The space taken up by good ventilation is secured, and the majority of and eleven Apostolic Prefectures, a total of 123

A staunch friend of freedom. We congratulate the Villager of Hongkong and Kowloon --The emulating our bleating brother the China, Mail, quarter, the city wall, elc,, reduces the actual give them exercise.

has obtained a good fooling here. Without Yamuna, temple-grounds, ruins in the Tartar the male inhabitants have occupations, which our contemporary on its liberal policy. As the hierarchical titles. And this old gentleman Progruaro has commenced its career by treating tien :-The Government Civil Hospital, daily, or otherwise of having such an aggressive 556 square feet to each person,

Government Schools. Times for free vaccina- or expressing any opinion as to the desirability space occupied by, say, one-third, which gives professes to be the Vice-regent on earth of lowly, the Macao question with an unsparing hand, (Saturdays and Sundays excepted) from 2 to organisation amongst us, we may briefly but with those of Westem cities. They vary in food, consisting chiefly of rice and vegetables 3rd.--Notwithstanding the opinion to the con trary usually entertained, the great mass of the simple-minded Jesus of Nazareth..

The streets take up but little space compared people have a fair supply of good, nutritious we may augur well for its future success as an. The Tung-Wa Hospital, on the 5th, 11th, its origin here. Early this year a member of width from five to eight feet, a few being twelve with a moderate or small proportion of animal SAYS our Tientsin contemporary The accounts independent Portuguese newspaper,-a vara

the Army Hospital Corps named Elvin, who from all parts of the province of Chibli, as regard vir in these latitudes.

had formerly been a "cadet" in the Salvation or fifteen, the sides of which are often occupied food. Water is never used as drink without Army at home, set to work to form a branch by stalls of traders. the autumn harvest, are most satisfactory, for SAYS a writer in the Philadelphia Press :-A

here. He had no assistance from the "General" drains in Canton. There are ditches in that milk, butter and cheese are not used.

boiling (to make tea), and the food, as s It is stated, above that there are no rule, is thoroughly cooked. (It is to be noted although considerable districts have been flooded, red-headed girl, I believe, never turns brown.

and certainly, as far as we can learn, had none and the growing crops destroyed, yet in the That, I understand from a learned physician, is

from any clerical gentlemen here. At first it

most of the streets, one or two feet wide 4th.The shutting of street-gates requires all more fortunate localities the yield is very heavy because she has too much iron in her blood. It

but it seems to have gradually strengthened covered with the, granite slabs of the pave- was necessarily a wavering sort of organisation, and deep, walled up with loose brick and to be in doors at or before to p.m., and regular. and large, also of fine quality. It promises to ie the iron that gives the fine Titian hue to her

until today it has blossomed out into renting a ment, but it would be an abuse of language to be one of the best harvests known for many hair. If she had less iron In her blood her hair

room not far from the Seamen's Club, and call them drains. The streets being level, there years. The yield of fruit is also both large and would probably be brown or chestnut, or perhaps IT is quite too soon, says the Spectator, to hanging out a lamp notifying, its existence. We is no fall to carry off water. It is seldom that blonde. The varying degrees of redness that alga Matthew Arnhold, his place in English dozen men from the regiment, a Bible-reader, with matter washed into them from the street went down to a meeting the other night. A they are cleaned out, and are usually choked Two mere items of old Macad news from you see in different red-headed girls are due literature, but doubtless it will fall somewhere and a nigger, formed the congregation, or bate and deposited from the refuse-water of the shops Granny, of this date, extracted from the semi- to the different proportions of Iron in their between Gray and Wordsworth, showing affinities talion, or what you will. The usual beatified and kitchens. Animal and vegetable matter official weekly rag, the Independents of the blood. A girl with glossy brownish hair with each. He will certainly stand far higher smiles were visible on most countenances; and deposited in them give raise to the formation of 9th-The transport India left for Timor and

that shows red in a strong light has only than Gray, bis workmanship being as perfect and the service partook a good deal of the "blood gases which escape through the crevices of the stones. The only purpose, they can serve is as nature, hymns innumerable being Lisbon on the 7th; a boure fell in the Mata a fair share of iron in her blood, but a

his mind far more affluent in poetical expression. started and lustily joined in by the "brethren, cess-pools through which main-water and refuse Tigre Street, Macao, on the 6th Particulars bricktop, if I may be permitted the expression, He will fall below Wordsworth only because he who, to do them justice, seemed a very decent, water from the shops and house percolate into of these facts were published in our issues of the bricktop is full of iron. The doctors know

the porous cartb. wielded no power so massive and so full of inspira sincere set of men. Almost the only things to 6th and 9th. Formerly the morning oracle of no way of neutralizing the effect of the tion, in spite of having a far clearer consciousness service were the copies of the War Cry scattered indiente that it was not a hearty mission room used to draw its news from Macao letters written fron. Perhaps they wouldn't resort to it, even than Wordsworth had of his own sims and of about, and a written programme of the week's a week after the occurrences had taken place; they knew it. For it is the iron in the blood the means by which he could attain them. For meeting, announcing that a "holiness meeting it now takes to a weekly paper as a source of that makes red-headed girls so strong and hardy felicity of phrase, Matthew Arnhold has few was due on Tuesday; ora grand rally for the dis Its daily news. Advance, Gargantua í

and good-natured, It also is the cause of rivals. He showed this in his criticisms on life, fn comfiture of the devil on Friday. No badges, freckles, which are good for the health. And it is handing of English Philistinism, in his happy thing of that sort were visible, for the reason crimson flags, poke bonnets, big drums, or any A FLAGRANT example of the criminal idiocy of is noted as a singular. thing-probably also criticism of continental and English education, that the members, being all in the Service, are There is no public. provision for cleaning Chinese contractors was met with at the Police having some relation to the iron in the blood in his singularly skilful titles for caaays, and in. forbidden to go out and hold street-corner either streets or ditches, and when it is done it Court this morning. On Saturday morning Mr. that mosquitoes never bite red-headed girls. So English press." But he showed it far more per quarters, since, he and, bis commdes were soon when sections of the ditches are cleaned, no bis bumorous antires on the young "lions of the meetings. Mr. Elvin courteously informed us is by the owners of shops, who of course attend that he Bad been advised by the Salvation bead-only to the parts in front of their door; and Exra, who lives at Belmont, Castle Road, was you see, according to the dictum of this leamed sitting in his dining-room, his children playing physician, a red-headed girl has many advantfectly in the distinctive phrases of his exquisitely going away, that two or three cadets would attention is paid to opening an outlet to the river outside, when a noise of blasting was heard, and ages over her dark-haired sister.

or canal. transparent water-color studies, of Nature, and thortly come out to take up the "work," and Man. Hla "wet, bird haunted English lawn; then, when civilians were brought to the penitent in the rear of all, there are cesspools walled up immediately afterwards a shower of stones, one

In the open courts of the larger houses, and weighing three catties, fell on the marble

his "unplumed, salt, estrangling ses; his picture form, the war would be carried into the midst of

the people. The dark gentleman referred to with loose brick and covered. with stone, which verandah. The blast had actually been fired

of the cottage-gardens, with their roses that earlier prevented us from learning whether theserve the purpose of carrying off the rain and within fifty yards of the place. Tin Ng was

down the alleys, shino afari* his description of cadets in question would be nice enthusiastic refuse water. They too become filled with charged, as the responsible individual, with

the Scholar Gipsy on the Thames, near Oxford, girls or luminaries of the "Reformed Rat-inioluble matter washed into them from day to

A premature, cold snap passed over us on negligent blasting, to the danger of life and

"illug in the cool stream his fingers wet s" his wonder type as he insisted on letting us day, and are rarely cleaned out, being fa the Saturday and Sunday last, introduced by a analyse the different alcoholic aromas which same condition and serving the same purposes thunderstorm, with hail. Wild geese bave been property, and the case was remanded. He is

account of M. de Senancour's reflections

constiinted his breath, whilst he held forth as the street-ditches.

observed heading South. The swallows have lucky that he is not charged with manslaughter.

the elevating influence of the Army upon news-

disappeared. There are still some families at paper people. We hope nobody will take us for

the temples in the Western Hills. The weather We are requested to state that subject to the

Our evening contemporary when we state that in

few globe-trotters taking advantage of it to visit is now. perfect for excursions, and there aro-s. our opinion the local branch of the Salvation approval of rowing numbers, the Committee of

Army is doing good work at present, but let us the Victoria Recreation Club propose that the

add that the "Genes how make a stain is derived from three sources; 1st, Wells, pablle ances, cholera must be abating. It has been, the Great Wall and other interesting environs of The water for cooking and household purposes Peking. So far as can be judged from appear forthcoming Regatta be held on Thursday, and

he exports any of his howling adherents to insti- Friday, the 13th and 14th December and that

tute a "campaign," of noise, discord, and devil and private; and, the River and, 3rd, Springs, after all, scarcely up to the level of an epidemic. the programme of events be as follows :---

The latter are on the N.-E. side of the city and The examination for Master of Arts ended on dodging.

afford only a small quantity of water, which lathe 21st, and the numerous candidates began at used exclusively for making tea and balling once to scatter to their homes. A few remain la opłum.

Peking on various accounts, and all go away The river-water is used by a small part of the expecting to learn at the earliest moment the population living near to the banks. It is impure result of the scrutiny. The scrutiny ends, and from the wash of the canals which run into it about October 18th As soon as the names are from the refuse of the large boat population, and the Hat of successful candidates will be issued from the city, and from bodies

large red sheet of paper the gratifying intelligence. physicians and people, A Commission was By far the largest part of the water supply is This will be conveyed by a speedy, messenger to appointed to investigate the origin of the fever, derived from wells which are from four to len the home of the candidate, who will willingly and the papers discuss the wateranpply of the fifteen fact despand, of course contain beste Colony, its drains, latrines and rubbish heaps nothing but surface water. A great part of thir, hewan thos the origin of these diseases, which have claimed used by the million and half people, oce and various opinions have been expressed as to surface water is the refuse water which has been so many victims,

WWE four and one-half aquaro, zollesse Iti

through the fifth of the sham id sea-coast, with its water supply, and drains, Ite then through soll which hari its Euppean and native pollos, has set as in deposits. Colonial Surgeon and Inspector of Nalances for centuries with animaly Canton to thinking and the first thought that o

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THE Courrier d'Haiphong publishes the follow. ing conclusions drawn from the Saigon Com. mission which have lately been reporting upon the question of the Customs in Cochin-China- "A general tariff is not equitable; we are French- men, and such a tariff would be an unjust exaction; A special tariff is neither fiscal nor moderate, at least the author of the new law say so; it only confers protective rights which are useless, since products of a different nature are affected thereby. The charges levied by the Customs give us on compensation. The general tariff, with its difficulties of application, endangers our commercial and administrative reputation. The usefulness of a protective policy is more than doubtful in a national and industrial point of view; it would not be felt before many years to which gather up all the luminousness and all

his splendid image for Byron as bearing from Europe to the Etolian shore, the pageant of his bleeding heart:" his delineation of Sophocles, whose even-balanced soul-.

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THE SANITARY: CONDITION OF:

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come, when the country, exhausted by taxation the lucidity of that clear intellect, will be remem-in a violent form in Hongkong, the recent amall The prevalence, for two or three years, of fever will cease to be able to purchase from the pro-bered as long as English literature exists. His pox epidemic, and the present outbreak of cholera

It is to be noted that fecal matter and urine do not get into these sinks or streets portion of urine percolates Into the earth and ditches, but from the latrines a considerabis maizes with rurface-tater,

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PEKING NEWS.

The departure of 15,000 students from the examinations raised the cost of transport for a few days to “ famine prices.” For an ordinary. usually can be hired for five or six dollars, as passage boat from Tung-chow to Tientsin, which much as thirty have been demanded; and land conveyance has been appreciated in a similar ratio.

tected industrials. A worse opportunity "could } own assertion is eminently true of himself there, have agitated the minds of officials, animale thrown into it, dren and divulged, some ready writer will write out pas

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Bot have been chosen to establish the Customs régime in Cochin-China. It ought to have been His theology or anti-theology, is a mere series repudiated when it was brought án fox dia of superficial observations made on the nature cussion in 1887. Not only will it kill any of man. His socisi criticisms are rather tronic French Colony possessing a substantial or attacks ex parte than clear judgments. But his successful budget, but it will retard the poetical insight into the intellectual aspects of progress of any other incipient soitlement nature were those of a true, usturalist, ad This agitation in Hongkong, located on the naturalist who saw not only the external scene, but the interior panorama of man's wishes and

In consequence, we demand the complete abolition of the Customs regulations in Cochin China, from January, 1889,"

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