Rifles, and Lieutenant Scudamore, Sco Pliers; Mann Seaforth, Highlanders Judge Beagal | Staff Corps, and Maconochy, Madras St Lorps. Upper Hurm Volunteers, Marks appointed Captain.
The rumours that the Cabul Mission will fall through are again to the fore; also that the Ameer is dead, but this is generally discredited.
September 23rd.
The latest official news received by the government of India from Cabul is dated the 19th September, and it states that on that and the previous day the Ameer wrote the news of the Turkestan disturbances. His Highness's forces, it is said, are advancing both beyond Khamrad and Khiajan; Ghulam Hyder Arakeal reached Rui on the 12th..
BOMBAY, September 24th. Latest Cabul news received by Government on the 19th instant states that the Ameer's troops are advancing beyond both Khand and Khlujan. General Golam Hyder reached Rui on the rath instant. News received from Captain. Durand, who arrived at Chitral on the 14th instant, Blates that a report was current in Chitral to the effect that Isbak Khan had moved into Badakshan and was practically mister of that Provinco. This is considered not altogether improbable, as Ishak may have marched east- wards from Khanabad; but if such be actually the case, he must have practically abandoned Afghan Turkistan,
The Governor of Bombay has visited Ahmed- huggar where the agricultural prospects are more or less gloomy; ladder is selling at famine prices, and the water supply is running short,
POONA, September 24th..
The Court found "Humontran guilty of the charge of accepting illegal gratification for the purpose of inducing Mr. Crawford to benefit Dabir, niso, for procuring, by illegal gratification, the cancellation of Sindekar's order of transfer he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment and a fine of two thousand rupees, in default, six months' further imprisonment,
SIMLA, September 25th.. The departure of the Cabul Mission has been postponed to the sixth October.
The farewell ball given by the members of the United Service Club to Lord and Lady Dufferin will be held to-night.
.
BOMBAY, September 15th. Colonel Graham attacked the Tibetans yes: terday morning, and carried the advanced positions of Nimla and Tukola without loss, The Tibetans fled on the approach of the troops. The Tibetans' loss is not reported.
RANGOON, September 26th. In Shwebo, Myadaung, Yeu and Myingyan, there were serious dacaities. In Mandalay town there was one by a gang of five dacoits, of which three men were arrested. In Sagang a village headman was murdered. Io Sagang also two dacoit as were killed. In Taungdwingyl a gang was pursued by Military Police and one darnit was killed. In Minbu two important followers of Ottama were captured. In the Enstern division there was no strous dacoity but a police sepoy was shot by dacoits, who exchanged shots with police pursuing them, by
night.
PLAIN WRITING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1888.
"MALARIA" IN THE ORIENT.
A SUBTLE DISEASE THAT IS PREVALENT IN CHINA AND JAPAN,
China and Japan are bad places for the youngsters in the navy," said a naval officer last night.
*Malaria 7" ventured a reporter, 10, whom the remark was addressed.
"You might call it that, though you'd have to stretch the meaning of the word.""
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fatio volumes of the manuscript fellers and Respatches of Cardinal Richelieu, most of them unpublished, but of which Dr. Arnold took a rapid survey in 1838. The great French Minister would. vield, however, in fecundity of production to Mr. Gladstone, who writes with extraordinary ra pidity and facility, and has been busy with his pen since he was an Eton bay down to the present day. The labours which await his biographer, or biographers-let us hope at some distant day will be of no ordinary kind. Among Viceroys of ludia and Colonial Governors name have
"What are the peculiar dangers of the East " surpassed in caligraphy the late Lord Canning and the still living Sir Hercules Robinson. li Cards, women, wine-what you will Six THE HALL & HOLTZ C. CO., LIMITED, is generally admitted to be a fault in the masters, years ago, when I was out there, half a dozen of the great English public schools that they do
young middies were ordered home by mail steamer in due course of service, after they had not attend sufficiently to the penmanship of their alumni. In this respect Eton, Harrow, Winches. tasted all the dissipation from Tokio to Hakodadi. The paymaster provided them with transporta ter, Rugby, and Westminster are far inferior to the high schools and colleges of Scotland. It tion, but they hadn't Sio apiece in ready money. was lately remarked by an eminent English Their joint capital was small to cross the Pacific, statesman, to whom a. leiter written by Matthew for it takes a month, and there are drinks and Dawson, the famous trainer of racehorses at tips to be looked after. The ship was to sail on Monday, and on Saturday afternoon the Newmarket, was submitted, that he heartily wished that, like Matthew Dawson, he had him. boys hold a council. One of them had been self been taught penmanship in Scotland. Of distinguished as the most successful poker. the value of this elegant and useful accomplish-player in any port at which we had touched. ment it is not necessary that we should say. another ward in commendation.
He proposed that the boys give him all their cash and that he try his luck with the cards. They trusted him, for his reputation for square dealing was of the best, and he started for a well-known club with $50 in his pocket.
"The anchor was up and in five minutes the vessel would have been under way, but a figure that was recognized as the poker player rose in. the small boat and frantically signalled for delay. The captain good-naturedly waited, and when at last the long-looked for midy came alongside. he swung up a good-sired satchel and cried nut: We're all right, boys; I've done 'em up. for $2000.
“And sure enough, the satchel contained 2000 great shining silver dollars, won in thirty-six hours at poker.-N. V. Telegram.
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"I will have nothing to do with your son. His handwriting would drive me mat in a week," Thus wrote Lord Palmerston in 1848 in an old
"On Monday morning I went down to the friend who, having been with him at Harrow,
steamer to see them off, and they were in a implored the Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs to take his son as one of his private secre-
dreadful funk. The bass poker-player had been taries. It is well known that during his long gone all Saturday night, all day Sunday and al reign at the Foreign Office Lord Palmerston Sunday night, and no word had been heart from never relaxed in his efforts to make all the clerks hin. Every body feared he had bad luck and and officials of that great department of State
was ashamed to come aboard: Half an hour adopt the large round text which he himself before sailing he was given up, and the lads were facing the prospects of a month's voyage affected. It was not the handwriting of the Universities, or that of scholars which commended with empty pockets, when a small boat, manned itself particularly to Lord Palmerston's approbaby two japs, was seen pulling from the shore. tlon, but rather the "big fair text" which the great Dr. Busby required, his pupils, at West- minster to acquire, and which, according to Dick Steele, they seldom succeeded in learning. How much the character and perspicuity of a man's handwriting has to do with his success in life it would be rash to estimate, seeing that the manu script of some of the most successful statesmen, lawyers, writers, soldiers, sailors, pects, and.obilo- sophers that ever existed was absolutely illegi ble at first sight to those who had never seen it before. There is a widespread theory that the worst-written, the most slovenly, and the most carelessly punctuated "copy" that can be sent to the printer is generally better set up in type than that which he who runs may read" at a giance. It would be easy to disprove this erroneous impression by quoting many instances to the contrary, of which one will suffice for our present purpose. Among the literary men of the present century there was no more careless, and illegible writer than the late Dean Stanley.. Sometimes his own letters, which at first sight seemed to be mere amears or daubs, were returned to him by their bewildered recipients, with a request that he would dictate their contents to an amanuensis, and again send the amended version to its original destination. One story, however, which was frequently on Dean Stanley's lips, and which be told with great glee at his own expense, will speak for itself In one of his sermons, preached after his return from that visit to the Holy Places which he paid in company, with the Prince of Wales in the spring of 1862, the eloquent Dean of Westminster laid himself out, or, as our Transatlantic kinsmen would say, "spread himself, to describe in glowing language that view of Jerusalem which at a sudden turn of the road from Bethany bursts upon the sight of the traveller who approaches the city from Mount Olivet. It will readily be understood by those who have read his Sinai and Palestine" that the richly-stored mind of the Dean of Westminster found copious materials for the indulgence of what he himself called bis "historical imagination" in the wealth of objects which lay before him. Sentence after sentence ran from his pen, and page followed page, until at last he wound up his enthusiastic apostrophe to the "genius loci" with the final words, "Be. fore him the stranger will behold Jerusalem," The sermon was sent to the printers, and in due course the proof came back. Looking languidly over it- task for which he had a distaste similar to that entertained and often avowed by Mr. Gladstone-Dean Stanley was horrorstruck to find the word Jerusalem" had been trans- muted into "Jones,
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THE POWER OF THE POPE.
The Vatican is now, one of the, diplomatic centres in Europe, where the most important political business is, negotiated. The Pope interferes, either openly or by secret agencies, in the internal political movement of all civilized countries. The reason for this is evilent. The majorities of the inhabitants of nearly all the Roman Catholic. countries, and very powerful minorities in Protestant lands, such as Germany and England, or in schismatic nations, like Russia, obey the orders of their priests, who, in THE NEGLECT OF LIFE their turn, receive instructions from the bishops where, as in Belgium, the Roman Catholic faithTakes a thoughtful man with more force and, the Pope. It is certain that in countries.
has its ground, the Pope possesses incomparably more authority than the king. The electors who decide the majority in Parliament obey his orders, and the choice of the ministers is thus influenced. The most important recent victory of the papacy is the one over the greatest politician of our day, the iron Chancellor, Bismarck. He should not have forgotten that two sovereigns had already not only signally failed, but imperilled their crowns in a similar enterprise. Joseph II, Emperor of Austria, wished to enforce a regula- tion that aspirants to the priesthood in Belglars should follow the course of studies at the University of Louvain. The clergy resisted this measure, and the Revolution of 178 followed. The King of the Netherlands, William I, attempted to enforce a similar measure, and the Revolution of 1830 ensued. Bismarck, finding himself incapable of resisting the clergy in the Catholic provinces of Prussia, and perceiving his mistake, turned completely and suddenly round.
A few weeks since, George Galletly, aged eighteen, and seven other youths were indicted at the Central Criminal Court for the wilful murder of Joseph Rumbolt, in Regent's Park, Inst May. At the very outset of the proceedings Mr. Justice Hawkins, the presiding judge, observed that he had been duly supplied with the deposi- tions talcen at the Marylebone Police-court, but that he was unable to read them, as the willing was so bad. The trial which ended last week in Galletly's conviction and sentence to death was consequently postponed until the counsel for the Crown undertook to supply the learned Judge with a legible copy. The firm and prompt action of Sir Henry Hawkins in putting his foot down and arreating the course of a trial because the Marylebone Police-court officials were too careless to make a fair copy of the deposi- tions taken before the magistrate has not sufficed apparently to warn Dr. Roderick Macdonald, M.P., Deputy-Coroner for Finsbury, against the commission of a similar delinquency On Saturday Robert Hodges, a labourer, was charged before Mr. Justice Hawkins with causing The story generally attributed to Lord Chan the death of one, William Walker in a street cellor Thurlow bas often been told of other great fight. In the course of the trial the learned lawyers who, when asked to decipher their own judge had occasion to refer to the depositions handwriting, have replied that of what they taken n' the coroner's inquest, After scrutinising traced with their pens some portion was legible them for some time, and turning the sheets over to the writers themselves and to their clerks, mand the Irish priesthood to cease from support- to discover which was the top and which the other portions to the writers alone, while not a bottom of the page, Mr. Justice. Hawkins little was inscrutable to both writers and clerks. remarked that such slovenly, illegible writing Lawyers in large professional practice have often
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1. ALL-COMERS.-ist Stage, distance 200 varda and Stage, distance 300 yards. No, of shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, 30 cents at cach. Unlimited entries, but competitors not allowed to take more than one prize at each 20 prizes, presented by the Associa tion; aggregate value. $122.00.
2. ANY RIFLE.--Distance, Soo yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes. 3. ASSOCIATION.-FOR ANY RIFLE.-Dis- tance, 900 yards. No. of shots, ten. Entrance fes, $1.00. Two prizes.
4. CADET'S PRIZE-Presented-Open to pupils of Hongkong Public schools under 16 years of age. Rifle, Rook Rifle under 40 Cab Distance, about 150 yards. No. of Rounds, 7 and one sighting shoot. Four prizes.
·Competitions open to Members.
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5. PRESIDENT'S-Distance, 300 yards. No. of shots, seven. Entrance fet, $100. Thres prizes.
6. QUEEN'S (ST STAGE-Distance, 200, 500 and 600 yards. No. of shots, seven at each. Entrance fee, $r.oo. Three prizes.
5oo and
7. QUEEN'S 2ND STAGE-Distance, 500 yards. No. of shots, ten at 500 yards, fifteen at 600 yards. Two prizes.
8. QUEEN'S 3RD STAGE--Distance, Soo and goo yards. No, of shots, ten at each. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
9. LADIES.Open to Lady Members or their dominees. Distance, 300 yards. No. of shots, seven. Entrance fee, none. Five prizes.
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10. VOLUNTEER Äggregate-Restricted to efficient Volunteers whose respective scores in the All-comers' make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Three prizes.
1.5. CIVIL SERVICE AGGREGATE.—Restricted to members of the Civil Service whase respective scores in the All-comers make up the highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $100. Three prizes 2. POLICE AGGREGATE-Restricted to the 1539 members of the Police Force whose respective scores in the All-camers make up the highest aggregate... Entrance fee, $1.00. Four prices,
13 ALL-COMERS ACOREGATES-For "com. petitors whose respective scores in the Any Rifle and Association make up the highest 8gregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes,
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Another recent triumphs of the papacy has been achieved in England. In order to induce the Irish to cease their opposition to the English Government Lord Salisbury despatched the Duke of Norfolk as an cavoy to Rome, where he represented the interests of the Irish landlords. Even Queen Victoria almost prostrated herself at the feet of the Pope, if we may believe the official gazette of the Vatican, which reports that her gracious majesty expressed the wish "that the Catholic religion be permitted to prosper SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL more and more throughout the vast British Empire." If Leo XIII would consent to com ing Home Rule there is nothing that would
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16 NURSERY AGGREGATE,Restricted to com. petitors who have never won a First or Second prize at any previous prize meeting in Hongkong yards in the Queen's 1st Stage make up the and whose respective scores at 300 and 500 highest aggregates. Entrance fee, $1.00. – Two: prizes.
17. HANDICAP AGGREGATE -For competitori whose respective scores (with monthly challenge cup points added) at 200 and 500 yards in the Queen's First Stage make up the highest Aregates, Entrance fee, $1.00. Two prizes.
he had never seen, and added that there ought a habit of writing a hand which at first sight University, money for seminaries and even an prepared to accept RISKS at CURRENT RATES. & Shooting Parties with all requiremento. whose, respective scores in the Queen's three to be a competitive examination for handwriting | appears beat and pleasing to the eye, but upon. embassador at the Vatican. In many countries, office, No. 58, Queen's Road Central,
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among candidates for coronerships before they further examination is found to be very hard to were eligible for the office. It is really scan read This was the case with the late Lord West- dalous," continued the justly offended judge, bury, who wrote with extraordinary rapidity, that men holding public positions shonld send but sorely perplexed many an attorney who was to a court of justice manuscripts which are abso called upon to decipher Sir Richard Betheil's lutely illegible." We sincerely trust that Sir letters and opinions. Towards the elucidation Henry Hawkin's words will be read far and wide.of the work of his pen the great Chancery Inwyer Although the schoolmaster has long been abroad would himself contribute no assistance, as be in our raidat, there is still a vast number of men hated attorneys, and held that they were libe- and women in these felands whose handwriting rally paid to overcome difficulties of all kinds. is an insult to the correspondents whom they That it should militate against the advancement address. Occasionally a letter is received by
of a statesman whose hieroglyphics cannot be some over tasked public man, whose correspon- Interpreted without calling in the aid of a Cham dence already far exceeds his powers of grappling Yet illegibility and bad spelling could not arrest ling polllon, few words, ought to be needed to show. with it, to which a totally illegible signature is affixed. The writer, who is of course familiar the meteorz-like river of the great Napoleon, of whom Captain Bingham saya that at the com- with his own autograph, supposes that every stranger can decipher it automatically or intol mencement of his military career he often Wrote tively. Correspondents of this kind are rightly from twenty to five-and-twenty long letters daily, served when no, notice is taken of their letters, in addition to orders of the day and proclamations. and it would be well if all who treat with dis- The love-letters which the future Emperor of the respect the man or woman whom they address French addressed to his first wife, Joséphine, were made to understand that they are whom he left to assume commatid of the Army. guilty of an unpardonable offence against good of Italy Immediately after marrying her, are said manners. As regards public men, there can be to be unexampled for cacography, illegibility. no doubt that cacography and illegibility, ahould bad grammar, spelling, extravagant passion, and
if must be regarded and treated an à disqualification for useemly impropriety." Napoleon, high office of any kind. The late Sir Francis remembered, was an Italian by birth, and never, Doyle, as regards whom it would have been according to Madame de Remusat, could speak difficult, in his own phraseology,, to determine or write French accurately. His dazzling career whether he ought to have given weight to or lasted for only twenty years, during fourteen of received weight from Dean Stanley in the which he was responsible to no human authority "Cacographie Handicap, used to declare that his except his own Imperious will. For these DI have authorized Mr. ALEXANDER payable at any of its Agencies letters to the beads of public departments from reasons he wrote much less during the last than whom he wanted something were so tormenting daring the first half of his astonishing public LEVY to sign for GEO. R. STEVENS & Co,
GEO. R. STEVENS & Co. life. Yet he has left behind him an enormous to their recipients that in the end he was sur correspondence, most of it written in characters
Hongkong, tath October, 1888. [[1028 win the day by his importunity. Many a scholar, ship, fellowship, and place of trust has been which resemble "a guldkon struck by lightning,"
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF competed for and lost by men who would have and of which twenty-ninovolumes were published
HONGKONG.. wan it but for their laziness in never taking the before the downfall of bia nephew, Napoleon III., pains to perfect themselves in the most neocssary while much still remains unpublished: Anything of "the three R's, which Na at the basis of all more different in style and character than the In the Goods of FUNG CHUNG, ailas FUNG education,
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aptory andwers sent by Field Marshal the CREDITORS and others to send in their British Museum, Mr. Gladstone's written text,
Wellington, to his many correspondents CLAIMS to the Undersigned against the above, on the other hand, slightly resembles that of the
whom addressed him solely with a Estate to the rs1th April, 1889, on or before fate Lord: Westbury, in that both are small and
lla great man's, the graph all which date all Claims must be proved. nest to the eye, but not easily read by those un- famptement to many readers. The pen. All Persons indebted to the said Estate are||
with rather accustomed to them,
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... HEAD OFFICE, No. 4, QUEEN'S ROAD WEST. Hongkong, 1st February, 1882.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION, SE INFORMATION has been received from the
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By Command,
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