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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

WE HAVE NOW IN STOCK THE FOLLOWING CIGAR S:

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Damas. Seltoritas, NUEVO HABANO in 500 and 100 Boxer.

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NUEVO CORTADOS in 50 and 100 Boxes.

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Flor de la Isabela. Princesas, Entractos, Orientales and Isabelas..

-Imperiales, Cazndaren, Imperiales. Exceptionales, Drenovios. Principias,, Cortaditos, Señoritas, Marquesitos, Flor de Prensados, Paquitos, estali: Britanica, Regalia Inglesa, Chiquites, Brevitos,

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BOUQUETS DE WATSON.

"SWEET CAPORAL and OLD JUDGE CIGARETTES.

A, S. WATSON & Co., Ltd, „THE-HONGKONG DISPENSARY, . Hanekonii. 29th October, 1988,

The Hongkong Telegraph

· Hongkong, Tufsday, NovembeR 6, 1888.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1888.

important operations. Each steamer carries hut two office's, whose duties are of far too multifarions and onerous a character to permit them to devote"much time and attention to the cargo. With a watchman at each port and a reliable third officer generally supervise, there would be very few cases, of smuggling unless the Customs bribed the Steamboat Company's employés wholesale, first to allow.contra- band oplum and sulphur to be brought on board and then to play the parts of informers. The expense of a few extra watchmen would be so comparatively trifling that we are certain it would pay the Company to give our suggestion a fair trial; and if it were found that the Customs still continued the disgraceful system of bribery which is so frankly admitted to have been their favorite policy for a long time past, then proper representations should be made through the Hongkong Government to Her Majesty's Minister at at Peking.

We have always strongly advocated the policy of being on the most friendly terms with the Canton Customs, but we really cannot commend the action of the Board of the Steamboat Com- pany in so ignominiously showing the white feather in the face of their defiant challenge of a month ago. After going so far, the right of the Customs authorities to It is authoritatively stated that the Hong-stop the Patuan from trading on the Canton kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Com- pany's steamer Privan was only permitted to resume running between here and Canton after the Directors had expressed their willingness to submit to a penalty of taels 500 for the contraband sulphur found on

· board on October 19th. We sincerely hope

river under Article 48 of the Tientsin Treaty should have been challenged and fought out to the bitter end. Arrangements could easily have been made for the steamer to continue running pending the action, "the requisite bonds being given to the Customs, if demanded.

This

The SHANGHAI ST. LEGER, a Sweepstakes of to receive 75 per cent. Second Pony to Tla 15 cach, with Tis. 100 added, First Popy receive 15 per cent. Third Pony to receive so per cent for China Ponies that have never been raced previous to the 1st January, 1888, weight, rost. 7lbs. Ponies over 14 hands to Carry 3lbs. extra for every inch over, winners. of one Race, sibs, extra; two or more Race, Iolbs, extra. One Mile and Three Quarters, Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. Eureka on 1 The CHINA CUP, value, Tis, oc, for China Ponies, being bond fide Griffins at date of entry, that have never been in Shanghai prior to 18 August last, weight for inches as per scale, winners, 5lbs extra, entrance Tls, 5 One Mile.

THE Band will play at the Officers' Mess, 8 o'clock. The following will be the programme:- Murray Barracks, this evening, commencing at

March...Umbria

Overture Zasqua? Volse "May Queen"....... "Saulis!

Snclair. Anter. Family Philöps. Amafon.

Les Près St Gervala"...... Lecocq, Selection. Barbe lleue....Quesbach.

Jouk Moran, Dandmwater.

THE Taku correspondent of the Shanghai Mer• Cury writes on the 36th ulto.: No news of any importance to tell you, except that it is a fact that the Peibo Tug and Lighter fleet. is laid up for this year. The two lighters are moored with two anchors each and the two tow boats made fast alongside of them, Ail hands are discharged, and the manager, Mr. Watts, left for Japan to-day. It is rumoured here that an amalgamation is to take place, and that both companies will work ..... together next year at high rates. The low tides on the Bar are a good thing for the old Lighter Company; they have almost more than they can do and are working both night and day. Another month will see the end of it for this year. I expect the river will close early this year and the Lighter Ship and Buoys will be taken in on November 30th, if not before.

Mr. J. D. Humphrey's bay Veager....................... 1 The AUTUMN CUP, value, Tis. 100, for China Ponies, weight for inches as per scale, entrance, Tis. 5. Three Quarters of a Mile. Mr. John's dan Susewind.............. The PAGODA CUP, value, Tis. 150; Second Pony, Tis. 50, for China Ponies, being bond fide Griffins at date of entry, weight for inches as per scale, winner of the St. Leger, lbs. extra, entrance, Tls. 5. One Mile and a Half. Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. Satsuma ...... The LLAMA MIAU STAKES, value, Tis. 100, for China Ponies, weight for inches as per scale, winners of one Race, 7lbs. extra; of two or more Races, 12lbs. extra; Griffins at date of entry allowed sibs, entrance, Tis. 3. On Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. Vendetta...........” I The SHANGHAI STAKES, a forced entry of Tle 5 for all Ponies entered at this Meeting except those in the Hack Stakes, first Pony to receive 25 per cent; Second Pony, 15 per cent,; third Pony, so per cent, weight for inches as per scale. One Mile and a Half Mr. John Peel's dun Orlando ..

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A CORRISPONDENT, who has been a hapless victim to a law that has long been out date, writes Of all the laws that are now in existence

the Colony of Hongkong that of the debtors is the mostly absurd and preposterous. Take for instance the following :-A man comes to the colony notably to seek employment, and after a time his money runs short, and then he does what many others have done before him, gets into debt. He cannot help it, he must live, and he goes as quietly on as he can, when suddenly be receives a summons for some paltry sum, say about ten dollars. He appears, the Magistrate TAKES value, Tin, too, for Chinn asks him whether he owes the money, and is Ponies (without the restriction to height speci- answered in the affirmative, the debtor stating fied in Bye-law No.'rith) not otherwise entered at the same time his inability, to pay just at this Meeting, and that have never won a

at present owing to his being out of employ Race, weight, 10st. albs., entrance, Tls. 5.ment, bat will pay if time is allowed. The Mr. Ring's gr. Holborn....

Magistrale thereupon tells him

come to some arrangement with his creditor. He leaves the Court and the same day or the next calls upon his creditor who tells him he is willing to wait one month, but, much to his astonishment, some eight or nine days only

in the street by a bailiff who arrests him on a where he is locked up, he having been sentenced warrant, and at once conveys him to the Gaol

to three months inprisonment (in his absence the debt is paid, One of the most disgraceful acts and without any notification) or until such time as

that was ever passed is that which allows anyone who, bavings little private i I will against a person, can throw him into prison without an oppor-

Dace Round,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

this statement is not true. If it is correct would have definitely settled a vexed/ THE Russian corvette Rynda, Capt. Avellan, having elapsed he is suddenly brought to a stop

left to-day for Singapore.

H.M.5. Wanderer, Commander G. A. Gifford, arrived this forenoon from Taku and Formosa. THE degradation of the British peerage continues. Lord Tollemache has become a brewer and owns 69"pubs."

MR. Reeves, chief examiner of the Imperial Maritime Customs at Cheloo, died suddenly of

beart disease on the 29th ulto.

MESSRS. Butterfield & Swite inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Palinurus, from Liverpool, left, Singa ore for this port yesterday

we can only express our sorrow for the question that is certain to give a great fechle-minded and inconsistent Directors, deal more trouble. Had the Directors and our sympathies with the deluded agreed to Mr. Commissioner WHITE's shareholders of this most extraordinarily demand in the first instance matters might, managed Company.

In the Falshan and probably would have been amicably. case the Directora peremptorily refused arranged; but after defiantly refusing to to accede to the Canton Commissioner's pay taels 100 and supplementing that proposal to settle the matter by submit refusal by successfully fighting the Customs ting to a fine of taels roo, but fought in the Consular Court, the payment of a the matter out in the Consular Court and gained a nominal victory at a considerable penalty of taels 500 on their own abject proposal is a bitter pill to swallow, not outlay for lawyers' fees and other expenses. merely to the Company's shareholders but For some unaccountable reason they then to the community at large. And this fine morning, and is due on the 12th lust. agreed to remove the case from a legal is not the last by a great many that will be tribunal and submit it to diplomatic levied, unless the Company adopt a very arrangement, the Inspector General of the different policy. It will hardly be denied Chinese Customs and the British Minister that the famous second-class Directors at Peking to be the arbitrators. It would have once more substantially admitted be interesting to know why, after winning their utter helplessness, and again pro- their case in a court of law, they threw minently displayed that glaring and away all the advantages they had gained, expensive incapacity to properly control day, and is expected on or about the 11th last,

and placed themselves in exactly the same, or rather, in a worse position than they occupied before the trial. It would also be interesting to know on what grounds they considered them- selves justified, after refusing to pay taels 100 in the one instance, in voluntarily offering taels 500, in the other. There is nothing in the Treaty between Great Britain and China to justify elther of these payments, or in fact any payment, on the grounds alleged by the Canton

·Customs Article 37 of the Treaty of Tientsin states that-

"The master will be responsible for the correctness of the manifest, which shall contain a full and true account of the particulars of the cargo on board."

It also provides that --

"For presenting a false manifest, the master will be liable to a fine of five hundred tnels; but he will be allowed to correct, within twenty-four hours after delivery of it to the Customs' officers, any mistake he may discover in his manifest, without incurring this penalty."

Now, the Customs authorities know perfectly well that Captain Hoyland of the Powar was just as innocent of presenting a false manifest as was Captain Googin of the Fatshan. They were also thoroughly aware that Captain HOYLAND knew as little about the contraband sulphur as Captain Goaam did of the smuggled opium. The only persons who knew, besides the owners of the stuff, were the paid spies of the Customs, the suborned servants of the Steamboat Company. Where then, under such circumstances, could the charge of presenting a false manifest have been fairly sustained? We have little hesitation in saying that no British Court, in Canton or elsewhere, would have convicted the master of any ship on such evidence.

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the business this important and popular notorious for many years past. public enterprise which has been so

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TELEGRAM.

(Reuter.)

NEWS OF THE STANLEY EXPEDITION.

LONDON, November 4th.

Arab traders report that Mr. Stanley was safe and sound in November last, west of the Albert Nyanza, but that his party had suffered heavily.

SHANGHAI RACES.

(By Teltgram).

THE agent of the Messageries Maritimes Co. courteously informs us that the Company's scamship Iravusaddy, with the next French mail, left Saigon at 3 am, to-day for this port. We are informed by the agents. (Messrs. D. from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port yester Sassoon, Sons & Co.) that the steamer Japan;"

A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 518, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the ath instant, at 8.30 for 9 pim. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

We hear that H. M. S. Marlin, while in charge of Pilot Speachly, grounded on the Whampoa Point and remained there a tide. The bottom is only soft mud, so the Aferlin cannot have sustained the slightest damage. ***

unity of justifying himself before a Magistrate. To gratify his personal enmity the plaintiff has

to pay a sum of twenty-five cents per diem for the keep of his debtor, so should the defendant owe him a sum of, say, $to, it will, should the defendant keep the debtor in gaol, cost him about $33 for expenses. Again, a man can be cast into gaol for the paltry sum of $1.00 in just the same way. The Act in connection with this is, without exception, one of the most disgraceful that has ever in modern times been passed, and the sooner imprisonment for debt is done away with the better. for the interests of the law

makers (as well as breakers) and debtors.

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SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION.. (Before Mr. A. F. Leach, Acting Puisne Judge).

A QUESTION OF LIABILITY. Un Fo, timber merchant, 209 Prays West, brought an action against Father Torres, of the Spanish Procuration, for the recovery of $462,30, balance due for goods sold. Mr. Webber appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Francis, QC, instructed by Mr. Stokes, represented the defen- dant. The evidence for the plaintiff was to the effect that the defendant entered into a contract with a Chinese builder to build semi-detached houses, and that after a while, as the work did not pro- gress satisfactorily, the contract was transferred the plaintiff an order for timber to the value of to another man. The defendant's clerk gave $462, and when the bill was sent payment was refused, on the ground that the contractor bad been paid for the wood, and must settle for it. between the parties were gone into at length.. This defence was continued, and the transactions

WI have been favoured by the Inspectorate General of Customs with a copy of Statistics of the import and export, prices and other particu- lars of Crude and prepared Opium, as are detailed in the Customs Commissioners' re ports from the following stations :-Newchwang, Tientsin, Chefoo, Ichang, Haskow; Kiukiarg Wahu, Chinkiang, Shanghal, Ningpo, Wenchow, Foochow, Tamsui, Takow, Amoy, Swatow, Canton, Kiungchow, Pakhoi, Kowloon, and Lappa, concluding with Me. Ohlmer's Summaries of last Replies to circulars on Foreign Opium. Tue. Rev. A. A. Fulton, of the American Presbyterian Mission, Canton, has courteouslyo Ifavoured us with a copy of his recently published work." Progressive and Idiomatic Sentences in Cantonese Colloquial." We think this is a valuable addition to the Anglo Chinese practical grammars and colloquial methods which are in circulation among the cultivators of the Chinese language. The work is very well got up, the romanised pronunciation very clear, and the progressive system rigidly carried out. The book is on sale at Mentrs. Kelly & Walsh's,

FIRST DAY, MONDAY, 5TH NOVEMBER. The MALOO PLATE, value, Tis. 100, for China Ponics, weight for faches as per scale, entrance, Tis. 5. Halfa Mile.

Mr. Weed's gr. Fra Diavolo The CRITERION STAKES, a sweep-stakes of Tis. to each, with Tis. 100 added, for China Pooles, weight for inches as per scale, second pony to save his stakes. One Milė.

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At the Police Court to-day Mr. Pollock resumed

Mr. Rodney's b. Grantham ...... The MAID & STAKES, value, Ths. 200 and one-fourth of the entrance fees; second pony to receive ope-fourth of the entrance fees, for China Ponies that have never run at any meeting, weight for inches as per scale, entrance, Tl. 10. Three-Quarters of a Mile. Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. Eucks ............the hearing of the charge of public gambling The RACING STAKES, a Sweepstakes of Tl of the Tung On Club, 207 Hollywood road;---. brought against seven of the members of the each, for China Ponies, weight for inches as per scale, Griffins at date of entry allowed 71b, One Mile and a Quarter.

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Mr. D. E. Bassoon's cr. Bullion The Jockey CUP, value, Tis. 100, for Ching Ponies that have never won a Race, to be ridden by Jockeys who have never had a winning mount before this Meeting, weight for inches as per scale, entrance, Tia. 5. One Mile.

| Mr. Caldwell appeared for the defence. One of the promoters of the Club gave evidence to the effect that the Club rules were obtained from admitted that they were priated at a native the Registrar-General's office, and afterwards press. The Club had been registered--he could admitted that be registered it five days after the not say how long ago. When pressed, ho Falda week ago-Other evidence, showing that the books of the Club had been doctored, the bail of one of the defendants who bad not having been given, the case was again adjourned, attended being 'estreated, and a warrant issued for bis sirest.

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Mr. Tell's up. ro. Bernina.......... The CLUB CUP, value, Tis, 105, added to a Sweepstakes of Tis. 5 each, for China Fonies, weight for inches as per scale, Griffins at date of entry allowed pib, - Two Miles, Mr. John Peel's gr. Leap Year

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WILL our ediorial brethren of the China Mati and Daily Press kindly note and inwardly digest We are not arguing that the Directors The SYCEE STAKES, value, Tis. 100, added to of the Steamboat Company had no respon-

what follows! It will do them a world of good if Sweepstakes of Tls. 3 each, for China Fonies, sibility for the contraband sulphur being

weight for inches as per scale, Grifins at date they can understand and appreciate the applica. of entry allowed yib. One Mile and a Half

tion. At a journalistic dinger in America the on board the Powan-Infact, it seems pretty Mr. John. Feel's dun Orlando...perl

other day a well known editor was unexpectedly that they were to a considerable The ST. GOTHARD. CUP, value Tls. 100, pre- he vigorously refused, but his colleagues insisted called upon to respond for the Press. At first extent responsible both for that and forthesented, added to a Sweepstakes of Tis. 5 each, on his grating, and this is what he said to wat

Second Pony to receive 30 per cent, and the oplum found on board the Fairhan, Of

There is no such thing on this Continent as an independent Third Pony, ta per cent, of the Stakes, forms, miese it is out in the country towns the prizura? course we are referring to the utterlyinade- China Pontes, being bond fids Griffins at date. You know it and I know There is not ena of you who dares brokers have morily got a bil-otesla over that. You are ad slaves, quate precautions taken at the wharf in of entry, weight for inches as per scale, expres in honest opinion. If you exposed you would winners of a Race 7lb extra. One Mile and we know betuland that it would have appelé In print. 1 kia pirid Hongkong to prevent contraband goods

Quarter

In Eurgu' uninsy for keeping honest opinions out of, the paper I am puspected wish; Oshtra of you are "puld similar salaries for dobu from being taken on board the steamers. Mr. D. E. Sassoon's gr. El Dorado

British

́one lamos of my paper, jika Odsallo, ney occupation propiță be gonni; In the recent trial at the

The SHAN Who Wonád be ne f sollala na to welze honest opiliona wikit Consulate in Canton It came out in

be det yn the street homing for, another Job. :: The bustermelot's. Jending Joumailet le so distort the truth, to lie outright, so pervert, 26 will be lawn at the Mes of Mammon and sail how sowatry aUG that the Falshan had six

his raca iar la dally bonne), or for what is those fear dlich ging cargo,

afghan pake pads know 15 km dada: Kolory sale Pindependent Prait pu Wó nén the mole and watchmen were

whole of these. MrÁTÓ

and that

SECOND DAY,TUESDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER. The NORTHERN CUP, value, The, too, for Chins Fonies, weight for fnches un per scale, inner of the

Plate tolbs, extre, entrance,

similar things. It shocked love honest uplalons to be plated in

ador. They, pull the strings and we dehidry Oney Kaza

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by

correspondents in this column]

MORES MUTANTES NAVICULORUM I

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKong Telograpie." DEAR SIR-Not long ago I read In your much valued paper, Some correspondence which has led

Me 'most to cut a caper. When thinking of the grand ideas Set forth by Steamboat officiers. "Mall Boat' spun out a long thin thread,

Two columes or more of verbose chatter Whose argument it may be said,

One way or other does not matter; But Mail Boal's'squashed like a crushed midge By 'Fifty dollars on the bridge,"

O Mores mutantes naviculorum!"

How things are changed these initer dates 1 Who dreamed there'd ever be a quorum, Banded together of steamboat mates; Gainst owners and captains, ashore of at sea? Why really 'tis right down rank mutiny. But then hang the odds go in and win,

The scheme is really glorious; With British skill and British tin We must come off victorious; (By tin I mean good sterling cash Not chits, or hills, or much like trash.) A leader is come in his might (I'm not at all satirical). : His scheme is down in black and white

And it can't be chimerical. For underneath the scheme there follows The pledge and sign of "Fifty dollars." Ye tyrant captains, owners too, Ye modern slavery kings 1. We'll make you one and all look blue When British mates strike for their right

When our great scheme begins The world will own their pluck and might," So touse ye tallers of the deep,

Who long have borne the galling chains, Throw off the yoke I increase your gainu Club up 1: combine in one fell sweepe The clouds of slavery are breaking fast The sun of freedom will'abine at last! Too long we've gravelled in the mirel

(Hold on's this strain should be heroic,

The metro raises the patriot firs

That bumi e'en in a British stoic

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That I think this great scheme a swin Or else I may the thought enkindle

Who long have bome the grievous yoke, (And really this is not a joke)

We have the power if we but rise All British trade to paralyze 11! And that encloses in its girth. Three-fourths the ocean trade of earth. "Then riset en masse”.

Pay out your cash!

And from your onward course All opposing forces dash. Ye, Britons, who in ages past Have dared the ocean's fiercest blast Now nail your colours to the mast

And show that ye are men!. Why should we who rule the waves Be ruled ourselves like abject slaves And counted be as coward knaves

(Metaphorically speaking.()

See the simple task before us And the fate that still hangs o'er us Will continue to o'er power us

If we do not rise!

We must oust the alien borde Which the owners send aboard To master! without fire or sword

British ships and sailors i We must break the galling chains Change the law which now contains Clauses that make small our gains

By our own endeavour | The end we seek to gain is right And unaided we must fight Influence, law, and unjust might

And all the powers that be Then arouse, ye seamen bold, Emulate your deeds of old Make the alien lose his hold,

On British quarter-decks ! And when we have attained this end All minor ills ourselves shall mend, No foremast Jack shall leave his class The cook shall stick to making hash The carpenter hold to his plane Old Sails stick cringles in again No purser's clerk shall be a mate No aupercargo, and the fate

Which placed them in the lower ranks. Must for this thing have all the thanks; (Or blame, if they can call it such." But which, it does not matter much), No Board of Trade examination Shall give to men of every nation, The chance our wages rate to lower We'll fix this thing when we've the power, O mores mutantes Naviculorum i In thought we may imbibe a forum Of punch, in joy anticipating The change in customs we are making. To tell which, needs sublimer strains Than this third mate, in all the pains Of poetical composition

Can command, in his condition. Lacking a rhyming dictionary To help him on his rhymes to marry. Away traditions of the past 1 Ye captains from 'before the mast : Ye sailors of old by-gone times Who sought out unknown seas and climes 1 Who knew no more of navigation That many now know of cremation ! Ye needs must sink into oblivion 1:1 Ye were all wrong, is the opinion Of our new oracle that's spoken now And to whose dictum all must bow ! "True courage, skill, presence of mind The attributes of every kind

That go to make up such a man As is demanded by our platÁN MÁRRÓN And worthy deemed to join the rank Of British mates, and tread the planks.

Of British steamers on the seas

And control their destinies;

Hat whose name we are doomed to hear Only when men do curie and swear I While we work cargo allthe day Without a cent of extra pay, And keep the thing up all the night And go to sea in such a plight, That drowsily we roll about Both brain and body all wom out!

-It were too much, I think, to hope That this thing was within the scope Of changes to be brought about

By our great Club; when we come out t

Butthen, in truth, am afraid That all the efforts to be made To change the customs of this 'port, In this respect, will all fall short,

The Commerce Chamber has resolved" That tao many interests nie involved." The school bred mates may able be To rule the winds, the sky, the sea They may in all things else he clever But, stop Sunday work in Hongkong-never! The shore-folks and the owners 100 Must all combine this thing to do, And wipe away the foulest blot That stains the annals of the spot. Which oft is named on land and sta The Sundayless Crown Colony," I think that I must stop right here

And not be criticizing,

My betters for twill cost me dear

And set me moralizing, Though I will not take one word back, Although for it to get the sack.

Because, you know, there soon will be Our Club-when we've begun it, The mates who do not go to sea,

Will wanted be, to run it; So'stead of cargo measurer I'll be the Club's high treasurer. Hold! let me think, alas! "poor me

I cannot be admitted.

At ten years old I went to sea And therefore am unftied!, Besides I've been" one of the crew? And cook, and male and capting too.

I find I'm in an awful mess

And know not what to do! Dear Sir, my trouble will be less

When It's referred to you!

I know that you've cracked harder huis

And helped men out of deeper ruts.

With many thanks for your good grace.

In anticipation

For granting me so large a space

For this my cantation!. Believe me I shall ever be Most truly Yours

UBIQUE.

P.S-I will add in simple prose, that if I have misrepresented the ideas of "Fifty dollars in my rhyme, it must be attributed to the lack of opportunity for more carefully mastering the argantent in his letters. I had only given them. a cursory glance when, the papers disappeared, and I could not replace them, at sea. Thad to frust to my memory, therefore, for the argument and the premises I have carried to their logical conclusion, as I had to do for the rhymes I made upen them. These were concocted "on the bridge at sea, during my watch, and committed to paper only when I got below "off watch." If "Fifty dollars cares to review my rhyme, as I have his letters, he is welcome to do so as far as I am concerned, but I nak the privilege of continuing the subject if it can be granted, for I have not said all I could say on the subject for lack, of time. As the subject was such a serious one, I thought It ought to be seriously treated and lacking power to say what i thought of It, I went on the principle of the advice given by the mate to the sailor who was jammed aloft and couldn't speak sos to be hea'd, If you can't

With pluck, and strength, and health, and might say it, sing it!" As perhaps. "Fifty dollars

Endurance, hardness, clear-eyesight True seamanship and navigation. Are all acquired by education.”

No more the low-born boy may hope By learning how to splice a rope, By patience, thought, and labour too To raise himself above the crew; And stand upon the bridge a máte, No more, indeed i each boy must wait Till he is seventeen years of age, And then has mastered every page Of theory; by all the rules wat Of high-toned nautical boarding schools j Must go as prentice for four years Brass-boand kept clean by brush and shears, His bands unsolled by tar or grease To gain a knowledge of the seas. And know, in theory, what to do With a rebellious, drunken crew And through the telegraph, fore and aft Holst up a vacuum from the crank-shaft ** And join, by means of books and slates The new made aristocracy of mater And then ab, then i the world will see What mighty men our mates will be; The timid shore-folks may with ease And confidence; cross o'er the seas No more collisions need they fear I The school-trained mates know how to steer By Algebra in every case;

Before it happens, he can trace

And find out with the greatest case All till now unknown quantities.djs

No more we'll dread the howling blast.

The riven sall, the splintered mast 16

No more the vivid lightning glare

Shall light the circumambient air No more the pealing thunder crash

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Shall echo o'er the waves, which dash Now in great masses on the deck gay And turn into a helpless wreck The steamer that had braved their power, In conscious triumph till this hour tow No more the drowning scaman's cry ve sade Shall strive to pierce the lowering sky While onward sweeps the towering ware, Which burls him to bis ocean grave No more our eyes through mist and spray Shall eager long for breaking day week No more we'll dread the typhoon's power The fog and cold, the pelting shower, The sun's fierce heat, the burning thirst, The nights when things are at their worst When hope of safety's gone and pait Amid the bowling tempest's blast No more dread rocks upon the lea! No more dire accidents at seal

might desire to sing it" also, I adapted my rhymes to will known tunes, the music of which can be as easily obtained as some of the per formances spoken of in the rhymes. One part is to be song so the tune of " Nix come arouse mit der Deutschman's house." Another to the tune of Scots wha havent;" and the rest to the tune which the old cow died of," uith variations. I hope" Fifty Dollara" will take as much pleasure in singing the tunes, as I have taken trouble in concocting the songs.

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Hongkong, November 6th, 1888.

UBIQUE

YOUR MACAO LETTER.

2) MACAO, November şib, 1888. "In continuation of your remarks on the origia: and characteristics of our National Battalion, allow me to mention the following particulars, This body of irregulars' was formed in 1846 under the despotic Government of J. M. Ferreira do Amaral, who organised the force as a means to suppress the revolts of the Chinese who were clamouring against his acts of oppression, as well as to panish by forced enlistment those European citizens who had declared themselves against his high-handed policy. One of the first victims of Amaral's vindictiveness was citizen Francisco C Pereira da Silveira, who had come in the same ship with Governor. Amaral, in 1845, as Colonial Secretary. The ship having called at Cadiz, the Governor and the Secretary landed and quarrelled on shore, the result being that they never spoke again during the the whole the voyage to Macao. On arrival y the Governor not only refused at the Holy City,

recogulse. Mr. Silveira as Colonial Secretary but later on had him enrolled in the Provisional Battalion which had just been created, and con trived to have him peated as sentry at the gate of Government House, where Silveira was ordered! to salute the Gotemor in due form whenever the despot left of entered his mansion. Mr. Silveira, in order to evade the Governors vindictiveness, hut himself up in his father's residence - but was only on a cold and rainy night that the autocrat had bin besieged there, and it

the recluse managed to escape and place bim- self on board a Chinele junk which a wAS: leaving for, Hongkong. The Governor, on being Informed of the escape, incontinently ordered a party of soldiers to attack the junk from the shores of the inner harbour. The vessel, how ever managed to clear the bar, and Mr. Silveira. landed in Hongkong, where he offered his services to the British Government, and was shortly afterwards uployed at the Commissariat.

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