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in the Portuguese Army, and we do not doubt that he is both an experienced and | brave soldier; but in the more subtle paths of political life he has proved himself entirely lacking of those administrative qualities and of that worldly experience of men and things, without which a diplomatist is as much lost as a sailor in mid ocean without compass or rudder. And unfortunately for the ex-Governor, he.inhis need had to turn for advice and assistance to the Colonial Secretary, Senhor J. DA COSTA DUARTE, who is credited with having been the sole keeper of the Governor's con- science and the absolute and unquestioned director of his public policy. The people HOLLYHOCKS-FORTULACA, VERBENA of Macao attribute Governor DA COSTA'S downfall almost entirely to the pernicious influence exercised over him by the Secretary, and from the evidence at our disposal we see no reason to question the accuracy of that conclusion. The func- tionary whose duty it was to guide his Excellency in the proper performance of his public duties, shamefully neglected his important trust, and the only consolation the people of Macho have is that in bringing about the recall of the Goy- ernor, Senhor DUARTE secured his own degradation and peremptory dismissal from the service of his country. Some sympathy may perhaps, under all circum stances, be claimed for the ex-Governor, but the name of DA COSTA DUARTE will only be remembered in the Holy City with loathing and contempt.

MIGNONETTE MACHEL (The New Variety).

Priced Catalogue on application. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 31st August, '1888.

The Hongkong Celegraph

THE Ocean Company's steamer Laertes, from Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this afternoon, and is due here on the 23rd Instant, As will be seen by a notice in another column, the annual general meeting of the Hongkong Jockey Club will be held at the Hongkong Hotel, to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.

the October drawing of the Manila lottery dame

We are informed that the first three prizes in to Hongkong. The big one was divided among about a score of “boys” in a shipping-office on the Praya.

SAYS the Japan Oficial Gazette —The first snow fell on Fujiyama on the ist inst. During the four Preceding years, the first fall took place as follows:-1884, October 6th; 1885, September 27th; 1886, October 7th; and 1887, October 2nd. YESTERDAY afternoon the police visited a house at West Point, and found nearly all the goods stolen by the gang of robbers at Little Hongkong which had not previously been recovered, only having presumably escaped in time. The women two old women were in the house, the thieves were arrested, and were today remanded at the Police Court.

Tur Band will play at the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at Bo'clock. The following will be the programme:-

March......"Uriter Kameraden"........................... Dventura..." Rosamunda "

Faust,

Schubert

Valse Tany Jubilanten ............Fahrbach. Danse......" do Czecha" ARTNER.Kothaud, Fantasia..." Reminiscences ef Beethoven"...Godfrey. Fantasia..." Reminiscences of Mesare”....Godfrey,

Joan Moran, Bandmaster. `

The Foochow Ecke of the 13th inst. says We note the arrival of H.E. the Viceroy Pien Paou-ti by one of the Arsenal steamers on the rath instant, and he has taken over the seals of office to-day. We are informed that previous to his arrival he communicated with his predecessor for all sorts of crimes, and that His Excellency to disband the Hunan soldiers, who are reported

will make a new selection of soldiers for his own .body guard (ching-ping).

TO-DAY being Queen Maria Pin's (of Portugal) ship, and at, noori H.M.S. Victor Emanuel birthday, the men-of-war in harbour dressed.

Gred a salute of 21 guns,

IN he Peshawar cemetery, is the following amusing epitaph:-"Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Missionary, aged murdered by his attendant. *Well done, thou good and faithful servant.""

A DOUBLE suicide was reported to the police last night. An opium-dealer in Jervoise-street went out yesterday afternoon, leaving his house one of his wives and a female servant dead in hold all right, On returning at night he found ted, with an opium-pot beside then. They had poisoned themselves with the drug, but the reason is not known.

H.M.S. Swift and Linnet did not arrive. in Yokohama until the sth inst., having been rock or teef recently discovered by Caps Lee of detached from the squadron to search for the the Canadian Pacific liner Abyssinia. The two vessels spent a couple of days searching for the danger reported, but were unable to find any trace of it. We wonder if Capt, Lee came across the sea serpent and mistook our old friend for a Bunken reef !

Out Shanghai morning contemporary learns from Peking that, the Tsung-li, Yamon has agreed to gran! Sir John Walsham the necessary permit for the Kuling to proceed to Chungking, its actual issue only waiting for the settlement of certain details as to possible accidents of navigation, which it is hoped will be soon arranged. The Kuling is now running tem- porarily between Hankow and Ichang, pending the issue of the permit.

THE N. C. Daily News hears from Ichang that Shasze. The doctor at Ichang was telegraphed an epidemic is raging there, and is worse at for on the 2nd instant, to go to a missionary who was ill at the latter part, but who died before Dr. Macdonald could arrive. The Military Governor and another leading mandarin. at the British Consul at Ichang, have all lost sons Wuchang, and the teacher of Mr. Gregory, recently by the epidemic, the exact nature of

His Excellency the accompanied the parts of the city to day, the Laol, amongst other Prince and Princess Bourbon round Various

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MESSES. Lane, Crawford & Co, are first in the field with their annual display of Christmas Cards, and have sent us some specimens which are both tastefully got up and artistic in design,

Taku correspondent states that the Directors of HERE is a new departure with a vengeance. the Imperial Naval Yard have issued a notice isforming the public that on and after the 1st: receive orders for all kinds of outside work. day of the 9th moon (October 5th), they will including docking, at the lowest possible rates. Estimates will be given if required.

THE French troops in Tonquin had a hot encounter with the pirates of Haiduong on the 4th inst., resulting in the death of six native affray soon assumed the proportions of a battle, riflemen; several others being wounded. The no less than one thousand tiffes being mustered by the enemy. The Courrier d'Haiphong of the tits inst, states that the pirates were com pletely routed, and that one French officer lost his life in the mille.

THE "GĦAZEE'S", TYPHOON EXPERIENCES.

The steamship Għaste, Captain Scotland, with a cargo of sugar from Java, vid Singapore, arrived here this morning. We apprd he Captain's report: -

HONOKONO, Tuesday, October 16, 1888,

A JOURNALIST in discussing matters of general interest frequently gives personal offence. In exposing public scandals and in supporting the rights of the manly against the tyranny of the few he cannot

A few months ago Senhor DUARTE, avold appearing hostile to the assumed during Governor »A COSTA's tour to Slam privileges of individuals. He makes and Timor, was head of the Executive in opponents and enemies without knowing Macao, and whilst in that position took anything about them beyond their public upon himself, in consequence of certain acts. And this is, of course, of far more adverse comments published frequent occurrence in limited communities journal regarding his administration, to like Hongkong, Macan, and the Treaty indulge in some very bombastic threats ports of the Far East', than in populous against our editorial stail. We promptly and at the open ports of Annam, and that their defendant being still absent, his bail of $400 in

in this

THE Courrier d'Haiphong publishes a telegram dated Hud, the 3rd inst., to the effect that the stituting as a French concession the territories King bas sanctioned, two ordinances, one con- of the cities of Hanoi, Haiphong and Touran, large zone beyond them, and ceding to concessions; the other ordinance grants to the the French all the King's rights over those. French the right to own property in Tonquin

and

properties shall be protected by French law.

significant as illustrating the attitude of mind of

which has not been stated.

THE charge of alleged embezzlement against To Fund, was again brought up at the Police Court Atsun, collector for the District Watchmen's this morning before Mr. Pollock, when the

was estreated, We refrain for the present from commenting at length on this case, as Mr. Webber, who appeared for the defence, stated that he would. possibly appeal against the magistrate's ruling, but in due course we shall facts, which will throw some light on the extraordinary fashion in which law may be manipulated and justice burlesqued in this colony,

Left Batavia on Sept 20th at 2.30 pm. arrived at Singapore on the 22nd at 7 p.m.; and freshened from the worth-west accompanied by a left on the 23rd. At z p.m. on the 28th the wind

ship's position at noon on that day was lat heavy swell and a rapidly falling barometer. The 1731 N. and long. IIT 'E. At 8 p.m. it was blowing a furious gale from the W. N. W. with a very high sea. At to p.m, the fore and aft sails were all blown and sea were still increasing, and at 4 3.m, a away. On Saturday morning, the 29th, the wind typhoon was blowing with indescribable force and fury. A terrific mountainous sea was run- sweeping everything off the decks and throwing ning, and this broke on board in vast quantities,

tay two liever the bridge-deck, carry the ship on her dear ends. Heavy seas con- ing away two life-boats and gig and staving

the engine-room skylight. off the idley covers, and this permitted vast quantities of water to get below into the engine. thorosiselt ar skies, the water washing the coal out of the bankers, choking the pumps, smashing the poop skylight, flooding the saloon movable off the poop. At 1 a.m. one of the bunker lids was washed away, and the water went below in volumes. The lid was secured again with great risk to life, but not before a vast quantity of water had gone below and put out the starboard fires. At 1 p.m. the ship, which had

It tore

At Palmillas, near Matanzas, nearly every house recovered, as reported to the Government, from was demolished The total number of bodies the cities and towns beard from to date, is 147.

CITY OF MEXICO, September 12tb. Vera Cruz advices state that no trains were able to leave to-day. Medellin is completely under water and abandoned, the inbabitants having filed to the bills. The Alvarada Railway is fully one meter under water, and to some Janupal Medellin, Solidad and Baca del Rio are places even three meters. The inhabitants of without the necessaries of life. The crops near. # Cataxats and Janapa rivers and their tributaries are totally lost. On El Paso Solis de Solidad ranch over 20,000 animals were drowned.

The losses by the Inte cyclone were: At Vera Cruz, one French brig, four American schooners and thirty-one Hghters; at Campecho one schooner went down and three lives were fallen and the telegraph and railway communi- last; at Hacotalpan thirty-one houses have cation has been interrupted. The railway cand pany now proposes a line of stages on the road passengers, including the Sieniti Italian Opera between Vera Cruz and this city, as many Company, are at Vera Cruz, awaiting passage to this city.

ROKE, September 13th. Monsignor Schieffino has been notified by the Vatican that in the contingency of the Pope's departure from Rome he approves of Belgium as a place of residence, on account of its neu trality, but will demand a guarantee of security from the powers."..

MILAN, September 13th. The floods in the Tyrol are increasing Travel and trafic are stopped. Railway communica tion is wholly suspended, and bridges and embankments are swept away. The Valley of the Adige is vast lake. Hundreds of villages are submerged. Many exposed to powerful currents were carried away. The waters are

gathering around Innsbruck, which is seriously threatened. The inhabitants are working night and day to raise dikes.

VIENNA, September 13th. The foods in Austria are increasing. Three- quarters of Trieste tre submerged. "Ten lives bave been lost and there has been great damage night building an embankment. to property. The soldiers are at work day and

Near Zara, the capital of the Austrian Province

LONDON, September 13th.

Grecian and Roman sculpture and Byzantine period and other early times, rare specimens of of Dalmatia, thousands ofcoins of the Diocletian

Dalmatian shores. An amphitheatre, temples, architecture have been discovered along the catacomb and other evidences of a very highly civilized community' have also been unearthed.

HAVANA, September 131b. The disastrous effects of the recent cyclone' are still Seing reported. Leon Urbino clone mander of the gunboat Lealtad, which foundered at Batebane, was lost, with the pilot and seven' and others were damaged

object of individual unpopularity although | public journalists are to be cowed, but he affairs of public interest. At a call made carefully place before the public the entire and sweeping away the wheel-box and everything seamen Many vessels foundered at Matanzas

An anecdote related in Woman's World is the average German toward woman's part in by an English couple upon a German of eminence and his wife, talk arose upon the public question of the hour. The Englishman, perceiving that the German lady was being what left out of the discussion, asked: "And your opinion, madam?" Before

European and American centres. It may gave the valiant DUARTE several oppor- so happen, and no doubt does happen tunities to distinguish himself in whatever often, that a newspaper editor becomes an

method is most popular in Portugal when his actual share in the article or paragraph neglected to avail himself of the same. that has given offence may have been of

About the middle of September this the most nominal kind. The law makes no colossal fire eater was in Hongkong, and fine distinctions where an editor's responsi- again had frequent chances of carrying bility is involved, and following the example into effect the vows of vengeance he had she could reply her German lord made short of dated Shanghai, October 12th, has the follow been lying with her lee side completely under lighthouse-keeper and two other men were

of her one-eyed majesty, persons who feel

aggrieved by adverse newspaper comments

less toilers of the Hongkong Telegraph, but have rarely the sense of justice te consider still he held his hand. The courage of this whether their conclusions as to the perso-blustering Lusitanian bully only returned nality of their critics or the impartiality after a wide ocean. separated him from of the criticisms are well founded or the contrary. It must not for one moment be Hongkong, and his vengeance took the

is

can be of no interest to you."

ANOTHER Lusitanian autocrat would appear to the unhealthy regions of equatorial Africa. The be paving the way to a temporary residence in Portuguese Governor of Dia is charged in letter from that place, published by a newspape at Goa, with very high-handed proceedings citizens, and extortion. Amongst other things, the correspondent alleges that "the Governor is so much imbued with his pride and superiority that he disdains to shake hands with the natives, thinking that it is a great mistake of Portugal to

MESSRS, WHERLOCK & Co's. Freight Circular,

for

of our last circular of the 21st ultimo, busi- nees coastwise has been very dull and the two settlements noted below comprise all that has been done, and our rates quoted

nominal cents per picul, steam, small enquiry, Chefoo

coast voyages are quite Quotations-Newchwang to Swatow, 19 Mex. to Swatow, 13 Mex. cents per picul, small of coal nett, for steamers: $1.20 ex ship, for sailing vessele, na demond. Settlements during the interval-Tetuan, British bargue, 438 tons register, Newchwang to. Amoy, 36 Mex. cents per picul, zo lay days. Sea Swallow, British barque, 332 tons,egister, Newchwang to Amoy, gaged vessels in port.

the port fires. She was now completely at the mercy of the elements, the typhoon raging with indescribable fury, green seas breaking over the weather side and the lee bulwarks being under water. This continued until 4 p.m. when the wind moderated. While an attempt was being made to secure the boats, an able-bodied seaman was washed overboard; the ship was stopped but the sea was too high to admit of any boat being

imagined that these remarks are intended form of a scurrilous letter penned in the including wrongful confinement of unoffending demand; Nagasaki to Shanghai, $1.50 per ton lowered, and the body was never seen again

as our individual complaint of any injustice we may have suffered as the alleged author of hostile, comments for which our

The first thing to do was to get the water up from below and light the fires. The donkey engine, however, refused to pump, all the pipes, being choked with coals

In Caibarien the damage done to property by the recent cyclone is enormous. The total. number of Rees lost in the city suburbs was forty-six. The lighthouse situated on Cayo Frances was completely demolished, and the drowned. In Vuelta Abajo over 3,000 houses, shanties and other small building, were totally destroyed. Ten thousand people are left homeless, and there is great misery,

The greatest damage caused on the island by the storm was at Sagua and Isabella, where over 1,000 buildings were destroyed. The sea_rose ix feet and many of those who escaped death: from the flying timbers were drowned. The loss of life in Sagua alone was over 400. A passenger caught by the wind try miles an hour was they were hairpins, and the train was precipitated into a marsh, which completely covered it. Seventy-two lives were lost. In Ceibadel Aqua over 1,000 houses were destroyed,

estimated at over $10,000,000, and over Boo persons are homeless and perishing of hunger, A special from Chibarien, says seventy-thro bodles of victims of the late hurricane have been recovered. p

running thirty "

actual responsibility was on a par with the hardy navigators of the Middle Ages. extend the constitution, to her Indian posses 25 Mex. cents per picul, zo lay days. No disen- into three gangs, one in each stakehole, and one. The total damage caused by the hurricane is

that of a shipowner whose vessel has been wrecked by the misjudgment of an officer; for anything that appears in these columns we are at all times ready to take the entire blame-where blame is deserved, but nevertheless we have a right to expect that, without proof to the contrary, the public utterances of a journalist should not be set down wholesale asthe outcome of malice or as a mere lever to self-interest.,

quiet recesses of the Union Club at Yokohama. We, of course, do not regard a person of this class as a fair specimen of a Portuguese gentleman, of a descendant of

of the valiant soldiers who stood shoulder to shoulder with their British comrades in the van of battle during the Peninsular War; and we can only marvel that the Lisbon Government should have sent such a specimen of the modern Portuguese to far Macao. And now we have done with Senhor Costa DUARTE and a disagreeable topic. If ex-Governor DA COSTA, who leaves for Lisbon by to-morrow's French mail, For some considerable time past this possesses any patriotic instincts and has journal has taken a warm interest in the the interests of Portugal in the Far East affairs of the neighbouring colony of at heart, he will use all the influence he Macao, and we venture to believe that on

can bring to bear on the Colonial Office many occasions our exposures of the to induce them to send to Macao ax defects of government, and the numerous Governor an experienced administrator. gross abuses that have so disgraced and

a man of advanced and liberal ideas, hampered the fairest of all the European acquainted with both international and settlements in China have not been made in commercial questions, and who will devote vain. And la return for all this we have from his energies and abilities to restoring that time to time been blackguarded and vilified almost dead colony to its proper position In every shape and form that Portuguese as an important political factor and useful ingenuity could suggest. We have con-trading emporium, sistently opposed the policy of ex-Governor

DA COSTA, and may possibly with the ald of the Lisbon press have to some extent influenced his recall from Macao. Almost from the commencement of his reign in the Holy City, this gentleman has persistently set himself up as the advocate of a military autocracy to rule the colony on the drum-head court martial system,

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuters)

THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY IN

ROME.

LONDON, October 12th.

sion."

A CORRESPONDENT writes from Swatow to the

the other day at the old foit, close to Swatow, Shanghai Mercury-An execution took place victim, whose crime was kidnapping coolies, near which ́same missionaries reside. The was fairly tortured before bis sufferings ended. His wrists were tied together, the cord cutting into the flesh. He was first bambooed, then of his neck, another gashed his throat, then bis one of the executioners made a gash at the back head was twisted and finally cut off. I do not lying where it fell when I pasted the next know if his body has been interred, but it was morning.

results, the Fapas Mail says, has been tele AN accident that might have entailed very serious graphically reported from Kyoto, under date the 7th inrtant. It appears that at midnight tunnel now in process of the 5th instant the eastern mouth of the of excavation for the Biwa, Canal, fell in, through a space of about 40 yards. There were sixty labourers have been there at midnight we cannot tell- working inside the tunnel-why they should

promptly taken to dig them out. The rescuing and they were all imprisoned. Steps were party was reassured by voices from the interior of the tunnel calling out that no accident had been caused to life or lims. At 8 o'clock or the morning of the 8th they were set free, having been confined in the tunnel for 56 hours. All were uninjured.

the Japan Mail that "the Imperial Shoji, Sano WB announced yesterday on the authority of

first child this lady had born to the Emperor." Yoshike, was safely delivered of a daughter, the This appears to have been nearly all wrong Shoji had nothing to do with the interesting ceremony, it was somebody else but, there, let us all about it. "We find," says the courtly Sir "Gush" Bowen's Boswellian blographer tell Editor of the Mail, "that the lady whose con last Saturday, is not a Shoji but a Gontenji, and finement of an Imperial Princess was announced that the ideographs representing her name are read. Sono Sachiko, pot Sono Yoshiko, We were mistaken, also, in saying that this is her first child: She is the mother of the late Princess Hisa and also of Prince ki." There is a moral in all this which will doubtless strongly appeal to the refined susceptibilities of the Macaulay of Far Eastern journalism. It is a bad plan posing as an authority on domestic matters of which you happen to know nothing.

SENHOR J. DA COSTA DUARTE, the gentleman ment to an ignominious dismissal from his post who was lately treated by the Lisbon Govern of Colonial Secretary at Macao, has favoured us with a billet doux from Yokohama, where he called on his way to Lisbon, vid San Francisco and New York. We have often had the pleasure of receiving letters of condolence from individuals whose public acts we have criticised; but for ungrammatical blunders, low language, and rank stupidity, Senhor Costa Duarte's missive puts all tho previous documents in the shade. Here is a specimen, which we reproduce principally for our Macao friends and

Massas. Bandiacl & Co (of Newchwang) circular of the 2nd inst, contains the fallowing

Since the 23rd June no charters have bee coon, there is the approach of the new season considerable Lisbon press for Amoy and Whampoa at the following rates! sailers 26 to 27 cents; large sailers 24 to 25 cents. To Whampoa, sailers 26 to 27 cents

so all bands on board started to baie out, formed in the engine room, and passing the water up in buckets. An attempt was made on Sunday

heavy roll that came put them out again. After morning to light the port fires by rigging a stage and lighting the upper furnaces, but the first

been considerably reduced, and on Tuesday. baling continuously for 36 hours the water had morning at 2 a.m. an attempt was again made to get steam up, but it was found that both boilers were empty. The stakehole plates in rolling about causing the bolleis to leak considerably. These had comic in contact with the man-bole doors, leaks were immediately secured and at 4 enough steam was obtained to turn the engines All this time the ship had been lying helpless in the trough of the sea, and drifting S.W. at the rate of about 60 knots per day. On Tuesday night the engines moved at intervals but could not ge enough way to steer. We were drifting S.W. the ship's head being S.E.

On Wednesday morning at daylight Cham Callao was sighted. The current was still running strong to the southward, and the ship could not stem it; so it was decided to make for Saigon.

obtained owing to the immense. quantity of All hands were now employed ballng and trying to get coals, but very little could be

enginer stopped again being short of fuel, and water in the bankers. On Wednesday night the we drifted South sil night. On Thursday morn ing got steam again, and the wind shifting to the southward and blowing fresh, turned ship round, made all possible sail and steered North, making very little progress. At 7 pmi dropped anchor in Qui-Quik Bay,

time ago sought a conference with William

DUBLIN, September 13th,

O'Brien, Member of Parliament, with the object The agent of the Marquis of Lansdowns some

of reaching a basis of settlement with the tenants on the Luggacurran estates... Before anything: was accomplished the agent suddenly broke off the negotiations. O'Brien declares that the affair was a ruse intended to keep the tenants quiet while Lansdowne was in Ireland. O'Brien says India with the character of their new Viceroy, he will take means to acquaint the people of

ROME, September 13th Monsignor Scheaffino has presented; to the Vatican a memorandum on the eventuality of the Pope leaving Rome. He approves glum as the papal residence, owing to its neutral Bel- and Catholic character, but he is not in favor of

of the penal code, de war with France, when the the selection of Belgium except under a guaranty from the Powers, He approves departure from Rome only in the event of a rigorous application Vatican would become an object of suspicion

Lawrence, when entering Fort Luz, Canary islands

MADRID, September 13th

at 6 o'clock this evening, tan into the Italian A telegram received here says that the steamer

steamer Sud America, from Masheirdo. The latter vessel, which was lying at anchor, sank lo a few minutes in ten fathoms of water. "The Sud America Carried 216.passengers, and bad a crew of aixty-seven men. Of these 180 passene gers, and sixty-three of the crew reached, the

bare safely., Nine bod

bodies have, thus far been recovered

National Zeitung combating the article, which Hon. Carl Schurz has written a letter to the BERLIN, September 13th. ⠀⠀

appeared recently in the Kreus Zeitung on the

and has succeeded in leaving himself Rome and met with a cordial reception. King steamers 21 to 22 cents. Produce quotations beber da merda, como fax a qualquer canalha, head was again turned round and a course set corruption incident to American elections; Schurs:

The Emperor of Germany has arrived in

without a friend or partisan and in bringing was enthusiastically cheered.

Humbert and a large crowd assembled and be

the place to the verge of utter and absolute

14th October. ruin. It would serve no useful end to A grand banquet has been held at Rome in re capitulate Senhor DA COSTA'S foibles bonour of the Emperor of Germany, at which and failures; his Excellency was simply the King teasted the Emperor of Germany with incompetent for the responsible position great warmth, the latter reciprocating.

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Beancakes per 10 pieces...... Tls. 3.70. Beans per 3 picata...... Tle. 3.15. Bean Oil per 95 catties Tis. 3.60. !. arrived and it is now estimated that the crop will New Beans A few hundred plculs have average 7/10, is the more distant districts have not been flooded. Arrivals to date are 63 steamers, and 30 sallers,, against 145 and 54 to same date last year.

The city is threatened with the severance of MASAMENTADA PARIS, September 13th, telegraphic communication with all parts of the world. Six Hundred operators and clerks, at meeting yesterday, resolved to open a subscrip

On Friday morning got under weigh, but the wind had shifted again to the N. E, so we steered South. All hands were employed in braising fuel. All the deck skida, spans, etc. were cut up, and some cargo burnt to procure steam. At 9 a.m. the steamer Ardgay, which lies 19 de Setembro, em que, mentindo, como ville.Informed that assistance could be found at "Hoje mostraram-me aquí o seu número de stranded in Happo Bay was signalled, and being Pars the agradecer tantas. bondades mando-o Touron Bay sixty miles North, the Ghasse's в фичка дие a qualidade principal do seu periodico. Beber de merda, amigo,]; da

for that place. The weather was fine and the attacks.especially the assertion that the Presid Costa Duarte.

sea smooth. On Saturday morning at 8 amential election is from first to last merely an the anchor was dropped in Touros Bay. No coals affair of money, He declares that this dishonor- that it was penned by a Portuguese Colonial coolies who baled her out, and made temporary In the United States is in any wise so corrupt a murdered in these sentences, but let us remember and to Hongkong, and while waiting hired character is unjust, and denies that political life Grammar, punctuation; and logic are sadly were procurable here, so the Captain, had to ing suspicion cast upon the American national Secretary No wonder the Lisbon Colonial repairs in stokehole and engine-room. On pandemonium as the Arena Zettung represents, Office sacked" this brilliant individual by tele- Saturday, the 13th inst at 8. p.m., having The American nation, he says, is stanch, great gram. That a person capable of writing obtained 200 tons of coal, sailed for Hongkong; hearted and self-respecting Portuguese in that style should have occupied encountered strong N.E. monsoon with high sca one of the highest official positions in a first- and thick rainy weather, and arrived here this OUR morning contemporary finds it strange class colony is to us an entirely inexplicable morning at 11ain.. and inexplicable that Senhor Firmino da Costa, phenomenon. Yet this is the man who has been having ceased to be Governor of Macao, should for years Senhor da Costa's fidur Achates and cause his name and title of Minister Plenipo inseparable alter ego Shades of Vasco da

tion which would enable them to place them tentiary to China, Japan and Siam to be stamped Gama and Pombal " It would seem that Seahor on labels affixed to bis luggage. We will give da Costa's qualifications as a Governor may be

selves in communication with telegraphers in suitable explanation. Governors of Macao, fully and fairly guaged by the company he

The Pacific Mall Co.'s steamship, City of united action for the redress of grievances A all parts of France for the purpose of securing like all curio hunters, on returning to Lisbon kept! Further on in bli letter, which we Rio de Janeiro, Capt. Wa. Ward, with the committee was appointed to draw up and lay. carry tons of Chinese, Japanese and Siamese shall keep for the perusal of any one who American mails of the 19th ulto, arrived in before the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs The President of the Republic will leave to articles de luxeket vertu. As the Lisbon Cus delights in classic specimens of Portuguese harbour Iste last evening. We take the subjoined petition complaining of the unjust system of morrow for Lyons,

toms charge heavy duties on all articles of foreign literature, the ex-Secretary speaks of this papel telegrams from our San Francisco exchanges Promotion in the service, long hours, insufficient manufacture, the ex-Governors, not forgetting the its Editor and staff, in language which crooked devices to which they have been trained simply untranslatable in English, unless a Slang in the Holy City, defraud the Lisbon Custom Dictionary were requisitioned. We have taken House of its dues by having their former title of the trouble to send a copy of Senhor Duarte's Ministers stamped on their luggage and boxes, missive to the Lisbon papers, where it will appear since all Ministers and Embassadors' effects are about the time the writer arrives from the free of duty Governor Grica, of Japanese tex. Far East and learns of his inglorious dismissal house sotoriety, played the old game to perfection. For canelves, it we have ever felt any Inclina and before him, the Viscount de San Januario, tion to deal with the official, nonentities who Viscount Paço d'Arcos In's word, all the Lust rule the day in Macao, it was through a sense chance of plundering and misgoverning the seeing a colony that way once prosperous, being Holy City, have dous exactly the same.

shamalssaly reduced to fain and misery.

(From the Courrier d'Haiphong.) INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.

PARIS, October 4th. Inundations, caused by the rising of all the water-courses, are devastating the departments of Savoy. Several deaths are reported.,

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC

October 5th.

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to which he was appointed by the Portu- guess Government, and brought a most inglorious career as a colonial governor to sclimax when he placed himself in direct antagonism to the Municipal Council and to the whole of the Macao community. Had his Excellency possessed even ordinary acumen he could not have falled to foresee that his obstinate, purposeless, and illegal opposition to the Municipality could only terminate in one way in a disastrous wast downfall from bis high estate. But ignoring good advice he kept madly on In his career of childish folly, until the Labon Government had no alternative but to supersedé hlm. And yet after all we cannot throw the entire blame on Senhor A REGULAR meeting of Perseverance Lodge, Da Costa for his failure in x by no means No. 1165, will be held in: Freemasons. Hall: tanlan: effical maratiders, who have had the " of our duty:us Lėjournalist, and to our botror at the ruins of the house

Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock officer of engineers | precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially farted.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Tas from Liverpool, Left Singapore for this port

on the 14th inst, and is due on the 20th.

A HAVANA, September 12th During the great cyclone in the bay of the bark Nora Wiggins was blown ashore and will probably be a total wn Parker was sunk while lying number of schoonend ashore and sunk Theftels such a height that they flood od Offer thirty-two out

were foun catie were drowne. Joss la calculated

pay and extra labor without remuneration no attention in to the complain

fear a general strike will be