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A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY, Hongkong, 29th October, 1888,

The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG; Saturday, DecembER 1, 1898.

TELEGRAMS.

*STEPHEN THOMPSON.".

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 188

A WISCONSIN man has just married his mother In-law,

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MINISTER (Consoling Mormon elder over the death of his wife) —I sympathize with you deeply, We are informed by the agent of the Austro-Mr. Brigham, in your sad affliction. Mormon Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Com- Elder-Ab, yes, it's hard, it's hard Minister pany's steamer Berenice, from Trieste, left-Still, Mr. Brigham, it isn't as bad as if you Singapore yesterday for this port

er-only had one, you know. TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant to convey men ashore to 11.00, service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return ing about 12.30.

An exchange states that at present six paper' mills (three of which are at Tokio, one at Kioto, one at Käbe, and one at Osaka) are in operation in Japan. Beside these, six others are under promotion. The quantity of paper consumed in Japan in a year is between 18000,000 lbs. and | 20,000,000 lbs.

Tax Singapore Straits Times learns that the resignation by Mr. J. C. Mitchell of the Deputy Registrar-ship of the Supreme Court here has been accepted by Government, and that the appointment will most probably be given to one of the solicitors in practice in Singapore. "HAS a mistress no right to go into her own kitchen ?" asked the judge at Woolwich County Court, the other day; and he is described as putting the query in a surprised" tone. His Honour can know little about cooks if he does not know that, as a body, they regard "their" kitchen as territory into which their master or I to do the work, or will you? If I am cook, „mistrells has no claim whatever to intrede. "Am please go out." Thas spoke the Woolwich cook, and it was a typical observation.

A Maclean, E. W. Maitland, F. Maitland, Dr. Hon. P. Kyrie, G. D. Scott, A. Findlay: Smith, Manson, John Moffat, A. Rodger, William Ross, A G. Stephen, Archibald, Stewart, John Thorburn, A. B. Westland, T. H. Whitehead,

THE Yewis Chronicle contains the biography MESSRS, Russell & Co. inform us that the EA MacClymont, D. McCulloch, E. Mackintosh, of Adolph Beer, commander of the 3d Austrian and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Guthrie leh For Artillery Corps, who died at Laibach this month. Darwin for this port to-day, and may be ex- In 1856 Beer gained one of the few Austrian pected to arrive on the roth inst. successes of that campaign by saving the fortress JUDGR (to prospective grand juryman)-What is

of Olmüle from falling into the hands of the Prussians. He was the first Austrian Jew to

your occupation ? P.G.J.-Collector for the gas company. Judge You - are excured. It would

attain the rank of colonel. He had been probe impassible for you to bring in a true bill, fessor at the military academies of Weissen- kirchen and Cracow, and died at the age of 55.

THE report of the British Vice-Centul at Bremen, on the trade of that part for the past year, states that the total imports amounted to 40,438,25Rcwt., valued at £27,650,046, while the exports were 76,375,81ocwt., valued at £25.989,492, the figures in each case showing a considerable increase on the corresponding ones for the previous vear. Owing to deficient harvests elsewhere, an unusually good business was done in

while the quantity exported was also large. tobacco, the imports amounting to £3,382,153, Similarly the imports of rice, cotton, and petroleum showed marked improvement. The increase in cotton over the previous year was 874,65 cw), valued at £1,162,064, and is mainly attributable to the improved condition of the Ger- man planing industry. The value of the importa. tion into Bremen from China, Japan, and Australia

and the exports to those countries in the same period rose from £49,019 to £750,000. On this the Consul General at Hamburg remarks :-"If these facts and figures are absolutely correct-1 say absolutely correct because I think there is a disposition to make the most of things-then they are worthy of the attention of British merchants! These results are said to be the

A NEW vessel, the festie, now building in Belfast, has a stern of novel construction, there being twin screws which overlap at the tips, the starboard screw being carried some feet further aft than the other to get clearance

this were not written by a woman it would, no doubt, be regarded as a gross libel:-

A worrying wona yoti naver can please, She's always goh"ppy and never ni mase? And with nothing in vox her, she'll worry, no doubt, Because she has nothing to worry about

shortly on leave. Mr. Mansfield, at present at H. B. M. Consul at Chinking, is going home THE Shanghai Courier hears that Mr. Oxenham,

Wubu, will take his place. Mr. Coulthard, now assistant at Hankow, goes to Wuhu as Acting

Consul.

and A. Wright.

The following were the various Committees Decoration Committee-Messrs. J. McCallum (convener), G.. C, anderson, E. B. Westland, M. D. Graham, and Boyd. Supper Committee. Messrs. W. Legge (convener), D. Gillies. A: G Aitken, and W. Ross. Dancing and Music Committee-Mestre. A. G. Stephen (convener), Committee Messrs. A. G. Stephen (convener), G C. Anderson, and John Moffat. Invitation A. McClymont, J. H. Stewart-Lockhart, and R. Lyall. Card and Ladies' Rooms Committee-- Measrs, R. Lyall and F. Anderson.

CORRESPONDENCE.

[We do not necessarily endorse the eplisions expressed by Correspondeata in this volumes.)

THE REGATTA DEADLOCK. TO THE EDITOR of the Honagons TELKORAPIL" ». beat intentions of "An Old Sportsman" that SIR,I have no doubt of the good-the very

HUSBAND (who has advertised for a typewriter expert)-Did many call to-day, my dear, in answer to the advertisement? Wife-Yes, quite a number; but there was only one applicant whom I told to call again. He seems very bright, | Tax Straits Times informs us that what very and I'm sure you will like him. Husband-gearly proved a serious accident to, Lieut. Pra- What was the trouble with the rest? Wife theoroo happened on the evening of the 3d They were all young women.

ulla As the Lieut. was riding along Orchard Road towards town, "a hack gharry, came in the the Regimental Band will play in the Public opposite direction atæ furious rate, and in trying rose from $3.922 in 1885 to £794,117 in 1887, soap. He uses no soap or lye, nor chlorine, but club succeeded in making matters a trifle worsO

to pass another gharry, ran into Mr. Protheroe's Gardens, to-morrow (Sunday), from 3.30 till 5 p.m. horse, giving him no possible time or room to The following will be the programme:

March............." Merry Monarch “..

escape the collision. Mr. Protheroe and pony Ovenue............* La Lácties Fêta”.

were both thrown violently to the ground, the Valte .............." Ver Laisant "

rider very fortunately escaping with only an u ly

By kind permission of Colonel D. G. Anderson,

"Rama. of Offenbach"......Conradi.

Silver Moonlight"

Scholes, Auber. Watton

." Mikado "

Valse ......

** Maid of the M{{*

Smith. Sullivan Liddel

John Moran, Handmaster.

Selecion....*, Vale...... Relection..

cut on the head.

Onz of the richest magnates in Christendom

ACCORDING to L'Industrie Parisienne a laun- dryman in the vicinity of Paris has discovered a very ingenious method of denning linen without

replaces those substances by boiled potatoes, with which he rubs the linen, This curiou process, it appears, is much superior to those hitherto employed, and the worst soiled cotton, linen or silk, cleansed by this method, are made whiter than they could be by the use of an alkali. The first public pleasure-boat to be driven by electrical power on the Thames was Inunched on

he is anxious to throw oil on the troubled waters with regard to the hitch in, the V. R. C but must at the same time remark that his oil must he of an exceedingly ignisible quality, an he has, unfortunately, by his somewhat strange references to the foreigners connected with the than they were at the outset

However, to come to the point at issue: why. is there a Regatta. Deadlock ?". very ably, and I am only sorry that he should have lost sight of the fact that it is not only the Irish (stroke) German and Danish crews who blossoms), but that mowing Englishmen also havs do not wish to row against the new boat (Afay

a strong repugnance against her, and that one gentleman who rowed in the English crew last

"An Old Sportsman" bas criticized the matter

Tite following estimate has been made of the the Prince Joseph Schwarzenberg, died recently outcome of the working of the Norddeutscher the 8th October. It is 641ft. long, roft, beam, and year in the International" race, upon inquiry average yearly produce of wine in the various in Austria leaving an estate of 250,000,000 francs Line of steamers. Bremen is making great efforts designed to carry eighty passengers, with a mean if he were to row in the English crew this year, wine-producing countries of Europe. The figures or $50,000,000. The Prince owned immense to improve its barbour, and large new works are draught of az inches, 12 tons diplacement, at

· THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAM LAUNCH represent hectolitres of 1 gallons each :-France, estates in Bohemia, Austria Proper, Styria Fran- in course of construction there. But the Weser six miles an hour, as regulated by the Cön- he at all events would, noi row in the new boat $5,000,000; Italy, 27,538,000; Spain, 35,000,000 of a penutious spirit it grieved the old nobleman the complete auccess of Bremen as a large port." and storage being placed below the deck fore conia and Germany, and as he was possessed will always be a difficulty and a hindrance to servancy bye-law. The electrical machinery Austria-Hungary, 14,000,000; Portugal, 4,000,000; Greece, 2,500,000; Germany, 2,130,003; Souto hear that his successor would have to pay hern Russia, 2,000,000; Switzerland, 1,280,000; 6,000,0.0 guilders as probate tax. Seemingly, as THE French Consul at Mogador, In a recent the boat for passengers. In the middle is a and aft, leaves a clear run the whole length: of dia-Servin, 700,000; European Turkey, 600,000 on this impost, he left to the poor of Weimar, caravans from Timbuctoo, explains how it hap table, &c. The best is owned and was built by a reflex of his feelings in resolving to get even report describing the arrival in Morocco of the handsomely fitted cabin with lavatories, dining Roumania, 336,335. Thus the total wine pro- duced in Europe fairly, may be estimated at city in which he was born and bred and lived pens that Great Britain: has, as he expresses it, Messrs. Immisch and Co, of Malden Crescent, entered for the various events he cannot see how

The following telegraphic message from Canton reached us this evening --

*Thompson referred Peking. Consul

senting."

(From the Straits Times.) PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, November 23rd. Mr. Balfour's Irish Land Purchase Bill was read a second time, by a majority of seventy Sive.

GERMAMY.

BERLIN, November 23rd:

125,084.335 hectolitres, equal to about 2,75% million gallons, which, at six botiles to a gallon, is 16,511 million bottles, or about four dozen bottles of wine to each inhabitant of Europe. Dr. Tanner, who became famous about eight years ago by fasting forty days in New York, bas suspended animation, or counterfeit death. He been pursuing investigations into the subject of is convinced that large numbers of people are annually buried alive all over the world, and that, so subtle is the principle of life, no one can undertake to say that it is extinct until decom-

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most of his life, the mere pittance of $500. This munificent (1) bequest was announced to the Municipal Council of the Austrian capital by the ion and universal legatee of the deceased in a jetter, in which he says that "prompted by the desire of expressing also his personal sentiments and his attachment to his native city, he has amount without any further delay." There is given orders to his treasurer to pay over the

feudal maxime, Noblesse Obligs." not always a full meed of truth in these old

THE British Consul-General at Hamburg-in his

London.

THE CALEDONIAN BALL.

replied that he had not been asked to, but that

unfair to the other crews to use such a boat. purpose, because it to his mind appeared to be which had been constructed for a special

winning crew at last year's regatta. This gen Another case in point is the "stroke" of a

number of boats to accommodate all the crews tleman is an Englishman too, and he writes me that as long as the club owns a sufficient

the Mayblossom-quite a private piece of pro perty, and built by special design entirely outside the control of the club-can possibly be allowed to compete.

succeeded in.securing a monopoly of certain Soudan products, especially, gum, and thus in a sense levying a tribute on other nations. In the first place the British have not up to the present moment, at least in Mogador, had to meet any real competition. If such competition ever arises, it will, in order to succeed, have to

time of the arrival of the caravan make, without follow the British system. The English at the

hesitation, large advances of ready money to certain Jewish merchants who enjoy their con- fidence in order that they may buy up all the position has set in. The doctor is also pursuing last report refers to the position of the North Soudan products which find a market in Europe, taxed for days past to provide pretty and appro- crew this year? in case the Afayblossom was to another branch of semi-suspended animation, German Lloyd Line of steamers to the East and English houses receive cotton goods in consider. Besides ready money, the representatives of viz. hibernation, and he declares it is possible Australia. Mr. Dundas says that although the able quantities, which can easily be exchanged and across the long verandah was extended almost equally represented in the 'opinion' that We hear that the Blue Funnel steamer, Aga- | for human beings to hibernate. He says he company receives a State subsidy of £110,000 with articles from Timbuctoo. This business is memnek ran ashore somewhere in the Inland Sea, but got off with slight injury soon after

The Emperor opening the Reichstag said that his visite to the different Courts of Europe justify the hope that peace will be maintained. He added that no extra military credits are contemplation.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

wards,

in

We note that the P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamship

City of Peking will be despatched for San

Francison via Yokohama and Amoy on Saturday

studying with a view to making some experiments in this line, and that the time may come when he may permit himself to be scaled up in an air tight coffin and laid away until such time as he

shall designate for it to be opened..

THE "Arizona Kicker" thus cheerfully holds the 8th inst. at p.m.

forth in the Detroit Free Press We owe no Messrs. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the grudge to Colonel Hastings because he once Canadian Pacific Line, inform us that the steam-cuffed our ears in the corridor of the Town Hall. ship Abyssinia, from Vancouver, arrived at We bad proved film a llar, a swindler and an Yokohama yesterday, and will leave for Naga- absconder, and he had to cuff to save his saki and Hongkong to-morrow."

reputation. The Colonel is now seeking the nomination for Sheriff, and is promising, in case As the steamship Mayflower was approaching he is elected, to secure cur town a Government Singapore on the morning of the 34th ulto., says appropriation of $250,000 to build a public the Straits Times, between Caruman Island and building. We are actuated only by the kindest Pulo Sarlok, she struck on one of the Coral motives when we say that the Colonel is a Reefs in that vicinity. The cargo was imme-blooming deceiver. He can no more secure a diately trimmed aff, and at ro o'clock, on the dollar from Uncle Sam' than we can borrow one tide rising, she floated off, and proceeded on her of the hinges from the gates of heaven. All the way to part, arriving at noon. No damage of influence be has in this world of sin and sorrow any sort was done.

is confined to the Red Hot Saloon and its crowd of reprobates. Do not be deceived in the castor- { oil volce of the Colonel.

Ar the last meeting of the Iron and Steel Insti- stute the Firth of Forth Bridge was declared to be the latest wonder of the world. It has only been by the advances made of late in the manu- facture of fron and steel, said a speaker, that the construction of such a work has been rendered possible. The structure is to be 8,296 feet long -one and five-eighths miles. Two spans measure 1,710 feet each, and allow 150 feet of clear navi gation in 500 feet of the center. The remaining girders are two 680-feet spans, fifteen 168 feet, four 57 feet and three 25 feet wide. The founda- tion is 9 feet below the water-level, and the height from the bottom is 361 feet.

year, the result of its operations in the direction of Asia and Australia for the last year, the fast complete year of its existence, has not been a subsidy there was a very large deficit. In the success in regard to profits. In spite of the

course of the year the steamers carried to

not merely carried on in Mogador; the Jew mer- chants often travel into the interior to places where the caravan halts, such, for instance, as Tuzuni and Tendons. A fight often takes place between them for the goods, but whoever wins, English hands all the same, and the result for or loses in the struggle the produce, goes into other nations is unaltered-the whole caravan loads go to London. If the merchants of other

"An Old Sportsman" makes it appear as if of the season-that given by the St. Andrew's and Danish gentlemen" and the much-abused The earliest, and generally most popular, ball the deadlock is entirely due to these German Society--was the great event of Hongkang last Irish Stroke Kindly sum up, Four Britishers,

good deal when one recollects what past 30th rowing men in the International the majority night. Taken all round it was ahead of its five Germans and four Danes do not desire to predecessors in many ways, which is saying a row against the Mayblossom in any race. Taking of November have been here. The arrange is then in favour of not rowing against the May ments were admirable. The decomtions were blossom. Counting, beaides, the English gen the work of a busy party of soldiers and marines, tleman whom I referred to before as having. and as all the resources of the Colony had been expressed his unwillingness to row inthe English priate adornment the effect was really fine. be used, it will be seen that it is a far way from The Fountain in front of the entrance was being these Germans and Danes," but that the wreathed with tinted lights from summit to basin,English, Irish, German and Danish element is: the Gaelic welcome Cead Mille Fallthe" | the Moyblossom is not a desirable boat to com which different guests variously interpreted as pete with. If these Germans and Danes" had. caning "God save Ireland and the other not the aspoort, of these gentlemen they would ridors were seasonably bedecked with evergreens, their withdrawal, but would simply have broken name of St. Andrew. The staircases and cor- never have dared to openly confess the cause of and on the walls everywhere were trophies of leg, or something, so as not to offend what a arms, interspersed with patriotic mottoes. The gentleman at a recent meeting concerning the whole building-Theatre, Library, and all-had matter called British sense of justice. We been chartered, and not a detail was wanting to all knew that British Justice" was a very good add to everybody's pleasure from the prepara-thing, and as we learnt that we were supported tion of the floors to the concoction of the various in our opinion that it was unfair to ask us brands of neciar in the refreshment room. There to row against a boat which had been built would be at least eight hundred guests assembled for a special purpose, and which did not belong at suppertime-not so many ladies as last year, to the club, by Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotch. alas! but an unprecedentedly large cmd of men and Welshmen, we had no hesitation any naval men. It was amusing to watch the smal longer in mooting our audacious ideas" that band of middies-budding admirals-slicking according to our imperfect but modest opinions to the supper-room, where their seniors; it was not fair or just to expect of us that we wouldn't see them, and revelling away like should row against such a boat, We now know perhaps on account of their uniform being more ideas of the owners of the Bayblossom, and I heroes. The Army was falily represented, that all Britishers--in fact it appears merely to fetching. Among the distinguished visitors were am glad that I have met about twenty: Britishers but the naval men monopolised the "dancing be a certain faction of them did not share the

Colonel Craster, Mrs. and the Misses Cameron, in my limited circle of acquaintances who quite German, Spanish, and other Consuls. The It is really a mere question of what is co opening quadrille was danced by the Hon. Paldered fair and unfair port. In the opinion H.M. King Marie of Sedang,, and the French, agree with our view of the matter ge

Ryrie and Mrs. Cameron, Col. Creater and Mrs of the so-called opposition it is manifestly unfair Bell-Irving, Hon..J. Bell-Irving and Mrs. Cras that a Boat of which we know absolutely nothing ter and Col. Anderson and Mrs. Wodehouse whether she le better or worse than the club strathspey the St. George's Room presented an if she be better, it is then, in the event of her When the pipes began to skirt for the succeeding boats should be allowed to compete.:: Because, animated scene. Perhaps a acore of gentlemen gaining a victory, not entirely due to the skill partners whose gowns were looped with fartan, lesser measure to her superior construction wore the kilt, and most of these, with fair and strength of her crow, but in a greater or Some of them were more vigorous than graceful, advantage over the other crew. And if she be took part in the dance, and that with energy which would consequently amount to an unfair being scant of breath, but the kindly critics who inferior than the club, boats, and is left in the stood around expressed lively satisfaction at the rear in a race, it is certainly neither very much close. By the way, the pipers came out strong, sport, por pleasure; to be the victor la such their mind, and last night no less than three sets Old Sportsman" altempts to make her, why One was to have been away at Yokohama," the unequal contest. And again, if the boat really nicht, "but the St. Andrew's Society there changed is so very similar to the club's boats as "An of chanters were draning away the stirring music then in the name of reason should not the It is very hard, when writing accounts like this, crew In question take the same chances not to become tremendously patriotic and poetic all the other screws, and row in one of refrain. We will hazard a prophecy, though it's this course much friction and a lot of distasteful with somebody else's poetry but we will the six beats belonging to the clab? By adopting safe one. It is that our tub-thumping contem. harangueing might be avoided, and we don't woo porary will not be so considerate. But to return why the crew in question should not give way to the Ball. The programme was a thoroughly to such reasonable desire. We are all equit good one, the music, as will be teen from the efore God and I presume also in the V.R.C. Scottish. following programme, being as far as possible The questions

milies in a nutshell," as thossying gross we don't know anything about the points of the boat, whether lösfier oz worse or equals therefore, to avoid all unfsimess, row in a club boat and take your chance in the picking of them like the other crews dow

Eastern Asia and Australia 6,000 tons of goods from Bremen and Antwerp, of which 3,663 tons, of the value of £216,000, went through Bremen. The Consul-General estimates the carrying capacities of the steamers sent to these countries

nations wish to free themselves from the British to have been 13,000 register tons, while 6,000-yoke, says the Consul, they must make up their tons weight represent 4,000 tons register, and better still, to send a representative to the spot minds to remit advances in ready cash, or, therefore less than a third of the carrying who can purchase the goods as they come from resources were utilized. Hence it is not surprising the interior for money down.. that the year's operations should have shown a heavy loss. At the same time, the first year's MACAO newspapers are again busy with elec- operations cannot fairly be regarded as a test of tioneering topics. As there is to be a general the future, and that the directors do not so regard election in Portugal for the re-constitution it is evidenced by the fact of the order placed of the Cortes for the three succeeding years, with the Vulcan works for a new large fast old priest-ridden Macao, has decided upon steamer for the Australian Hine at a greatly having its share of the work early next year. increased cost in comparison with the cost of the

Senhor Amaral, the unsuccessful candidate at the present boats employed."

last provisional election, has already advanced *MUCH ado about nothing! should be the motto bis claim to the parliamentary dignity, and THE winter session of the University of Edinburgh of the Sanitary Board. Meetings succeed each the Portuguess newspapers published in was opened on October 27th with an address by other, discussion is rife on sanitary topics, griev- the Far East in reproducing his · Letter Principal Sir William Muir in the Synod-hall. ances are sired, and remedies proposed; yet of solicitation augur well for his success. It There was a large attendance. The Principal nothing tangible has so far been carried out being a well known fact that a Portuguese deputy began by welcoming the students and con- to improve the sanitation of the Colony, or to for a colony which is placed in the desperate gratulating them on their selection of the Marquis remove the evils which threaten it in the near circumstances of the Holy City, can do nothing of Lothian as Lord Rector, In regard to the future. Smallpox, fever and cholera have whatever to better its condition or brighten its University itself, they had to notice a certain been amply discussed, but we do not remember future prospects, it is standing wonder to us diminution in their numbers, especially in the having yet heard of a single practical device why the colony takes to electing a representative earlier classes of the Faculty of Arts. The having been adopted for either prevention or cure. at all, or what other motive beyond personal decrease was not in itself of serious moment, The main efforts of the Board have consisted in vanity, can prompt any one to offer himself as a unless, indeed (which there was at present no studying the primary causes of endemic diseases candidate for such an empty bonoart: We have SAYS the Strait Timer:--Yesterday, the sand ground for apprehending), it should prove to ba in the Colony, and attempts are being made at often advocated the idea that the devil or the ulto., was a busy day for Lieut, General Cameron progressive, as they found the experience of the removing them by the intradaction of a better Fantan god would be a fit and proper person to `and the Officers of the post, for they were on the sixter Universities to be more or less the sAME, system of drainage and sewerage and by the represent modern Gomorrha in the Portuguese move continually from daylight till night On There was probably some general cause at work. reduction of over crowding. We fully concur in parliament; failing the canditature of either of the night of the 21st instant the enenty was sup- Various hypotheses had been advanced. It the opinion that evils should be removed by their these highly respectable personages, we do not posed to have taken Forts Serapong and Siloto. had been suggested, for instance, that the roots; yet we think that it is almost beyond the sea any necessity for the neighbouring colony At daybreak on the morning of the sand, the revival of trade was drawing young men more power of the Sanitary Board to effect a radical being represented at all in the Lisbon Certes, Commandant of Singapore despatched a pasty to into the paths connected with manufacture and sanitary reform of Hongkong. The task of The colony's self-representation in the Far East retake these places, the force consisting of two commerce than with the learned professions. improving our drainage system and of reducing as a veritable sink of priestly misrulo, administra machine guns and squads of Infantry. They None of the reasons yet named, however, could overcrowding will be just as low as that of tive corruption and general immorality i made an attack on Fort Serapong and succeeded be accepted as decisive, and they must patiently promoting the general healthiness of the colony sufficient in itself to characterise it as the very own in retaking it, and capturing therein, four watch the progress of ovents before coming to by a well developed system of arborisation. We mockery and contradiction of all respectable pino pounders. The enemy from Fort Silosa, any definite conclusion. He expressed his regret would have our Sanitary Board framed on the colonies. The Lisbon government is both represented by dummies and screens, posted that there had been no material, progress during principle embodied in the line "Act, act in the unwilling and, unable to raise that distant along the bluffs, were then observed to be ad- the year in the provision of hotels or University living present," devoting all their attention to dependency from its low, state of degradation. vancing on Fort Serapong when the R. A houses for the reception of students, with wor- direct means of prevention and cure of diseases. A babbling deputado, a fool withal, can be of no opened fire upon them with the g-pounders, at roundings suitable for quiet and undisturbed The Board ought to be something like a Diction earthly use in the Lisbon parliament. There is first with common shell and afterwards with study. He trusted that the subject would not ary of Medicine. Subjects on byglene should neither money, nor intelligence, nor patriotism ahrapnell, causing considerable damage to the lose its interest with them, and that in due timus be as freely discussed there as pure pathology enough throughout the whole length and breadth supposed enemy. The Infantry then took provision might be made for effectually meeting Residents ought to be given facilities to comm. of old Portugal to retrieve the last glory of up the fire, and after a sharp engage this important want. He then referred to the nicate with the Board and expose such of their antiquated Macao. It was said that the ment the enemy was driven back After recent University celebrations at Bologns and grievances as may be open to the public gaze. Treaty Lately concluded with China would this the Lt. General visited Fort Fassie Pan other cities on the Continent, and said that in The reading of an extensive correspondence on bring about trade and prosperity to that colony, fing and witnessed practice at moving and Edinburgh they had not the adventitious aids of sanitary matters would we think, greatly tend to Since the Treaty was ratified, several branches standi targets with the 7-loch guns. Towards military display, the splendour of courtly fans elucidate many obscure points, and in many of native trade have ceased to eat in Macao evening field firing at Telch and Blakan Mati tionaries, or the new born enthusiasm of Italy cases, it would be far more interesting to the the fishing junks have transferred their weat

Lt. General Cameron expressed the joy of a freedom freshly found yet the thinking public than the interminable series of operations to a neighbouring island,, and

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