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The Volunteer Fire Brigade had their annual plente yesterday. They went to Junk Bay in the Pilot Fish, and playet at tug of war till they raised appetites that fairly hummed. Then they had tiffin. Several speeches were made by the Chairman, Mr. John Macgregor, the Hon. P. Ryrie, Mr. Tomlin, Mr. Saimpson, Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Mr. Jackson, &c., then they all posed in a classic group and were photographed about twenty-one times, and towards dark they returned, singing songs and enjoying themselves in a very shocking way generally.

RY 7, 1889.

JOURNALISM in Japan has, says, an exchange, entertainments, except. attending them in a received an addition to the form of the Christian Pelunciory manner (laughter), but I am quite sure that the dancing ladies and the dancing Advocate, of which the Japanese title is Shinri gentlemen appreciated you in every way (hear, no Kagami. It is a semi-monthly publication.hen). The community has very much pleasure The editor-in-chief is the Rev. C. S. Eby, in offering you a small piece of plate; and also.. DD., and the publisher, the Rev. G. F. Draper, a sum of money will be placed at the services of your band president for distribution in his No. 222," Bluff, Yokohama. The periodical, as

discretion. I have much pl asure in handing its title shows, is devoted chiefly to the cause

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you this piece of plate, Mr. Moran. hear and.applause.)

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Colonel Anderson replied-On behalf of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Second Battalion Northamptonshire Regi ment, I have to thank you, Mr. Ryrie, for your complimentary remarks and your kindly expres. sions, and also the community of Hongkong for the address which they have been so kind as to present to the Regiment, It is a bigh bonour, And it is greater honour reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 31st December, 1888, as certified by the Man-on account of there being so many nationali- agers of the respective Banks, are published in tice represented in this community. A# soldiers we have only done our duty and that duty has been made all the lighter by the warm, Amouat. Is Reserve. hearty, and cordial masner you received us, being perfect strangers. You opened your Club to us and promoted our national sports. We shall long remember the friendly tussles we have had both by land and water, The kind way you apenk of the 58th as the old Rutland shire Regiment recalls the old days under the old black standard.. A new name and a new designation may be given to us, but the old familiar name of the Steelbacks will be ever. retained and cherished. I have the honour to accept the address and the piece of plate the community of Hongkong have been pleased to present to this Regiment. It will be handed down from one generation to another as a stand-

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ere this have gone to Hades." The rate of mortality in Chinese towns is then compared with that of European towns, and the former found to be inferior to JORDAN ALMONDS. the latter. Well and good. But is the value of medicine to be judged only by immunity from death? Is it not a fact that a Chinese cure is slow and Imperfect in most instances, and FLOKAL & ROSE WATER, CRACKERS, entirely useless in surgical cases? Is not China infested with cripples? Whenever & contagious disease spreads in a nativesary operation in life. 1, despite the wish of city or district, does it not kill a far greater Government decide to retain office, the repre- the people as expressed in Parliament, the present (3 number of people than it does in Europeanentatives of the nation will be compelled to take Regiment has contributed in the past, by adding ing memorial of our hippy sojourn in Hongkong,

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cities and districts? It were tedious to

bring in statistics in support of these contentions; we will refer Portuguese Resident" to the rate of mortality per 1,000 among the European and the Chinese populations of this Colony during the small. pox and cholera visitations last winter and summer respectively. If immunity from death is taken to be the criterion of the value of a system of medicine, what value must be attached to the Chinese system of curing small-pox and cholera ?

TELEGRAMS.

(Reuter)

EGYPT.

LONDON, January 4th. General Grenfell'returns to Cairo.

THE DEFENCE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

steps for the transference of power to the proper

tion of office.

THE Madras correspondent of the Allahabad Post telegraphs on the 10th December to that journal :—

GOOD-BYE TO THE 58th.

The address was enclosed in an artistic

PUBLIC PRESENTATION,

Hongkong showed its appreciation of the pleasure and profit to which the Northamptonshire

a handsome present to the regimental plate, quarter; this movement can hardly be accom-

together with an address. The presentation was Three cheers were then given for the officers plished without more or less friction, and an

made on Saturday afternoon, on the Parade and one cheer more for the gallant Colonel; and awkward and inconvenient precedent will thus ground, in the presence of the citizens, the the men marched past and dismissed.

The present consists of a massive silver cup, be established. The Tij concludes this very spokesman being the Hon P. Ryrie, chairman about thirty, inches high, and weighing about cu'spoken article with the hope that if presser of the Committee. Shortly before five the Regi-iga ounces. It is being made by Wang Hing. ment was drawn up in double xank, and salutedThe foot is an allegorical design, consisting of to retire from office the present Ministry will

a liger and dragon, typical,ns Wang Hing blandly informed us, of allo same mandarin, fightee," unhesitatingly comply, remembering that retire-H. E. Major General Cameron, who arrived a

few minutes later with his staff and the members on one side is an animated representation of a ent is a necessary preliminary to the resump-

of the Testimonial Committee.

skirmish, with bathing-vans in the distance, and Mr. Ryrie said-Colonel Anderson, officers, the sides are filled in with goggle-eyed fishes non-commissioned officers and men of the and and impossible birds. On the other side is the following inscription :-"Presented to Colonel Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment. The Anderson, the officers, and men of the 58th pleasing duty has been assigned to me of Regiment, hy the Hongkong community, 1889." presenting an address to the Colonel and officers it is not yet finished, but will be scut on to of the regiment. That duty is one which I Singapore. accepted with the greatest pleasure. I have had perhaps more experience of regiments in this Colony than any one present; I was here in the old days of the 59th, in 1850, and, regiment after regiment has come here since, and I am happy to say that with these regiments I have always been on the most friendly relations, with their colonels and officers for this regiment which is now leaving us that they can compare most favourably with any regiment I think that ever we had here (Hear hear.) They have assisted in our sports, they have done everything a regiment should make this place place where was endurable. The fact don't know what we should do without a regiment here (Hear hear.) And this regiment. leaves us with the greatest regrets on the part of every member of this community (Hear hear.) We appreciate them in every way, and we wish them success in whatever part of the globe they

The separation of Loid and Lady Connemara is the absorbing topic of conversation in Madras. As 1 telegraphed to you this morning, Her Ex- cellency left Government House on Wednesday last, and is now residing at one of the local hotels. It is reported that she proceeds to Eng land by an early steamer. It is significant that Captain Wyndham Quinn, Aide-de-Camp, has applied for leave, and that Brigade Surgeon Briggs, Surgeon to the Governor, has resigned At

silver-mounted case. The piece of plate presented to Mr. Moran is a handsomely chased silver cup.

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FAREWELL DINNER

Lord Salisbury has received an influential his appointment. Lady Connemara arrived and also with their men; and. I can say the Garrison Shooting Club, As no room

deputation urging upon him the defence of the commercial ports and he has promised that provision will be made in the ensuing estimates.

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Hongkong, Monday, January 7, 1889.

"PORTUGUESE Resident's" effusions in the China Mail the other day with regard to a remark made by Dr. CANTLIE at the Sanitary Board as to the preference Por tuguese families in Hongkong give to Chinese doctors, are, in our opinion, a dishful of thin gruel. Says the ingenuous | · writer-The worthy Doctor would have been a wiser 'mon on this subject it he had only taken the trouble to investigate into the cause of this alleged preference,

of the Principal Government Officials, the Lead-assuming, of course, that Dr. CANTLIB ing Merchants, the. Foreign Consuls, had no facts to base his assertion on, but

Professional Men, Justices of the Pence, &c.

A LADIES DIRECTORY FOR HONGKONG; The latest and only reliable

PLAN OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA,

(From Straits Times.) GENERAL BOULANGER,

PARIS, December 28th. General Boulanger is contesting the department of the Seins.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

:

THE German gunboat Wolf, Capt. Credner, arrived this afternoon from Cauton. THE returns of the number of visitors to the City Hall Museum for the week ending Jan. 6th, are: Europeans 162, Chinese 1,690; total, 1,850. MISSRS, Geo. R. Stevens & Co.' inform us that

On

Ooty,

at Madras Monday from Wednesday evening's Government Hause dance she was missed by the guests; and on inquiry it was found that there had been a domestic squabble, Lady Connemara left Government House that day, and, took rooms at the Albany Hotel. The dance' was kept up, Lord Connemara enjoying himself thoroughly. The reports why her ladyship left her husband's residence are too delicate

do to

life

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The warrant officers, Staff sergeants, and Sergeants of the 91st Highlanders, gave a fare well dinner to the Warrant Officers, Staff Ser geants and Sergis of the 58th on Saturday evening last, prior to their departure from Hongkong, a general invitation being sent to the members of was available at Kowloon for the occasion, an application from Colonel Ferbes-Robertson, com- manding the Highlanders, H. E, Lieut-General Cameron kindly placed the spacious lobby of the Commissariat Buildings at their disposal. At about 3 o'clock Sergt.-Major Williamson, with a committe of sergeants and a fatigue party, arrived is and commenced decorating the room, being issisted by some of the members of the Garrison Shooting Club. The decorations, hanging of lamps, &c., being completed about 7.30 p.m., the building assumed the appearance it generally. has on St. Patrick's Eve, when the Garrison Shooting Club take it in hand for their Annual and Sergeants sat down to dinner, which was Quadrilic. At Bo'clock over 100 Warrant Officers supplied from the Victoria Hotel, and gave great (Hear hear). Their record is a splendid 'one, | qatisfaction. Of the many entertainments given No regiment in the British army has a better amongst the military, never has the like been record than the regiment I have the honour of equalled in Hongkong, the different uniforms addressing just now, and I hope that wherever being mixed and showing up to perfection in the glittering lights. The cloth being re- they may go in future, the officers of this regiment hoved and the usual loyal toasis, &c., having may earn honour, renown, and promotion, which bren drunk, Sergeant-Major Williamson, of the I am sure that they well deserve. Is Hongkong which he bade farewell to the 58th, observing Highlanders, made an appropriate speech, in we have had a good many officers who have that both Regiments had met and relieved each distinguished themselves in after years. We her on several previous occasions, and con have had General Gordon, Lord Napier, General dading by calling on the Highlanders to drink officers who have risen to renown and fame, and with Highland honors. Sergt-Major Hill, of the 48th Rege, suitably responded, expressing a hope I hope this will be the career of the officers of that the next time the Battalions met it would this regiment—that they will all, from the Colonel be on the shores of old England. The health downwards, distinguish themselves as eminent of the Highlanders was then drunk by the 58th. members of the British army. (Hear hear.) With after an interval Sergt. Major Williamson pro Songs and recitations then commenced, and

to unveil at present; but it may be con- jectured that there is something very serious for the lady to have taken this step. Madras is simply disgusted at the nature of the reports, And accepting them as true, sympathises with her Indyship, though in some quarters it is considered that Lady Connemara acted indismay be sent to do their duty as soldiers creetly in leaving Government House and creat ing this scandal. The pressing solicitations of friends failed to induce her ladyship to rejoin her husband. Captain Quinn, A.D.C., who abtajned leave immédiately after this occurrence; left for Calcutta yesterday by the Rohilla, with

merely invented the allegation. And then the steamship Propontis left Singapore for this his wife Lady Eva Quinn, both of whom,

in the very same breath, "Portuguese Resident" proceeds to detail the causes. that lead his compatriots to give their

port on the morning of the 5th inst., and is due on Saturday, the rach.

showing the proposed Reclamations and all preference to Chinese medicos. These 618, S.C, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, nemara has has been staying for a few days at Wolesley, General Probyn, and a number of other the health of the 58th, which was heartily done

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IN THIS PUBLICATION WILL BE A CHAPTER ON SPORT, (amended and corrected to date) dealing with almost every branch of the subject including RACING, CRICKET, ATHLETICS, AQUATICS, &c, &c., &C.

A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. Zetland Street, on Monday, the 14th instant, at & for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

Whatever the facts concerning Lady, Conne it is said, will not return to Government House.

mara's private affairs are, one thing is certain that they have not been allowed to go beyond the persons immediately concerned. Lady Coh the Albany Hotel, about half a mile from Government House. She returned to-day. Of course reasons far these movements have been assigned by scandalmongers, but the various forms they take only prove The matter has that they are inventions.

causes are the poor pay the majority of Portuguese employés get in this colony, and the excessive rents charged on their houses. Thus, while admitting that there are motives for the preference the Portuguese give to A COOLIE was fined $100 this morning, at the Chinese doctors, the writer denies the Police Court, for selling dross oplum in an illicit undoubtedly been talked about the town, but regard to the men, 1, being a layman, can say posed the Health of the Garrison Shooting Club, .

plum divan. A native seaman of the Marie

truth of Dr. Cantlie's assertion. This is logic dla Portugaise,

As a matter of fact, we are in a position to assert that, whatever may be the value of Chinese therapeutics, if it possesses. any, it is undeniable that it finds favour with the Lusitanians who reside in this colony. Macao traditions have undoubtedly something to do in

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nothing about their soldierly qualities, although saying he was rather surprised to find such

was fined three times that amount for having THE good people of the capital of Japan, says. we have a good record of what their soldierly a large Staff in the Garrison of Hongkong.

12 tins of opiuni, containing ten tacls each, con- cealed in bis berth.

FATHER Guerlach, the French missionary, and a pretended authority on Sedang, returns to the charge in the Courrier d'Haiphong of the 3rd inst., and in order to defend missionary interests attacks M. de Mayrena in a most merciless way. We have never tristed in missionary charity; this last effusion of the Reverend Father is a fresh nail driven into the coffin of our belief,

or else this sympathy for Chinese medicine is unex- plainable. The allegation as to the INSPECTORS Stanton and Perry raided a fan-tan deficiency of pay and the excess of rent house on Saturday. They only wanted the which compel many Portuguese to resort keepers of the house, but the gamblers left in a to native doctors, would pass muster as hurry, just the same. Two lukongs, who had well founded did not the following factors been having a festive little gamble pending the force themselves upon one's calculation: inspectors' arrival, seized the three principals -The Indulgence In the fashions of and Dr. Ho Kai defended them this morning the day, and in the gambling vice, The case was remanded, bail being fixed at two things which the Portuguese love | $350 each.

to distraction, and which

rent.

THE Ice has been broken. To-day the first of the Highlanders had his pride humbled by having to stand in the dock along with a lot

He had been informed by the old friends of the qualities have been, but as citizens they have Garrison, of the 58tb, of the many pleasant days been eminently well-behaved and orderly during they had spent with the members of the Garrison their stay in this colony. I don't know that I Shooting Club, and also as to their abilities in can say anything more for them. I am sure, shooting. He regretted that his Battalion had. wherever they may go, that they will keep up the come from a station where practice was next to Impossible, but if the Club would only be merciful character of the regiment, and that the old Steel- and give them a chance to practice he would services are required in the fieldI don't for my many pleasant days with them as did their old backs may on every occasion when their venture to say the Highlanders would spend as own part wish for war in the face of the enemy, friends who were leaving them. The Garrison keep up that character, as I have no doubt they Sergeant-Major responded on behalf of the will I don't think I have anything more to

Garrison Shooting Club, and hoped that they say, except to read the address, which is as the Club) and Highlanders would pull together And make soldiering as pleasant as possible, remarking that through the kindness and hospitality of the highlanders combined Hongkong, ist January, 1885, with good not they had already laid the Site--On the eve of your departure from this Colony, in which foundation stone towards good (eeling and you have been sattuned for the umal full period of three year,

Mr.

follows.

To Colonel Anderson, the Offers Non-Commissioned Often and Men of die and Battalion, Northamptonables Regiment

the Daily Mail of the 27th uite, have been highly interested during the past few days in the appearance among them of an Indian lady, the Pundita Ramabai, who arrived by the Oceanic a few days ago. This learned lady, originally a Brahmin of high caste, has been in England and America for the past few years completing her education Her attainments in Sanscrit and her own literature have won for her the warm approbation of Professor. Max Müller-"the testised in an open letter. Brought up in a most learned lady of my acquaintance," he has

mountain resort of the Himalayas by her father, whore signed position and caste that he might educate both son and daughter according to his own views, Ramabai lived in seclusion until the age of sixteen. At that age she and her only

he last 7 years has been visited by many Regiments of distinta permission (as the Shooting Club were brother, having lost their father, travelled to

than in Her Majesty's Army, old reddente who have seen many only guest) to take the opportunity of Rattalions came and go are of opinion that no inter or better bidding farewell to their old friends of the '58th, t Calcutta on foot. Here the brother and sister

belinrod Cups has ever been stationed in our midst. hath obtained high University degrees. The In all forms of Sport your Rerlmost has always been to the which was granted and carried out. Songs and

Mr. Phil Rey lad, however, soon after died, and Ramabat kept is incoming Cricket and Football you have citations were carried on during the evening,

presiding at the plans, "At 11.39. busled herself at the University and in the city Tuzlandshire Regiment have wriond peaceful laurels that wil Mr. Williamson called order and expressed The community beg your acceptance of a place of plate, which regret at having to bring the meeting to a close, libraries, meeting with great hindrances and long remain grem in the memory of the rat ante. annoyances owing to her loss of caste. A they hope will occupy on hosed place on your meas tables and owing to the Highlanders being quartered at

will testify for many day to come the high storm in which the Kowloon. 'All Joined in singing "Auld lang. marriage with one of the University staff gavent seth were held casing darathy in Hosen

In my good bye with the Steefhacks every good fretchy Syno." Thus ended a pleasant, evening, the her two years of a happy, married life; but she

and we feel chefident that the progress of class will not dia but equal of which cannot be witnessed again for was then left a widow with one infant girl, her rather and, lustre to the fame already acquired by the Regiment years.Communicated. troubles of a lonely widowhood, whose conditions husband having fallen a victim to cholera. The

are peculiarly hard in India, enlisted her sympa- thies for the child widows of her native land, con-

demoed to what is virtually a life-long imprison- ment. Ramabai'finally sailed for Europe, where she was hospitably received by the Episcopal sisterhood at Wantage. Her object, the raising of

the residents desire to mark their appreciatim of the selleri Meredith the asked. Sergeant Major Willam

qualities of the Regiment, and the both icers and men are held in by the Community. Although Hongkong during

slims a b_althy competizion with excellent results.

the Officers of Old

We have the honour to be, Sirs, jour «bedioni Serratis,

(Signed by the Consiliten, na follows (m) P. RYDE, 18 LC. (Chairman))

1. LAVTON, HEL

Wong Bilt, Mikuła

W. H. Tozz

M. Ghore.

7. HOLLIDAY, JACKSON

H.N. MODY.

A. O. ROMANO.

can hardly THE case of the Shaukiwan widow who got into be reconciled with small pay and high trouble with her relatives lately for loving more We hope "Portuguese Rest-wisely than well was up before Mr. Pollock dent" will not challenge us to investigate again to-day. She charged her aunt with as, There is not space in the compass of an the facts corroborative of this assertion; saulting her and trying to decoy her out of the Colony, but as the old lady said that when she tion introduced into the work, but it may be fairly for they are mountains high. Nobody dragged her along the beach she was only trying asserted that no such. Directory has ever been bears ill-will to the Lusitanian fraternity to make the giddy girl see the error of her ways

THE DEPARTURE: published, either in Hongkong or any other part but when a representative of theirs comes the Magistrate simply bound her over to keep

About six this morning, in dull, drizzly weather, of the East, at such a low price.

to the Press and airs their Inability to pay the peace.

the men were again formed up After being put Old through a short drill the Band struck..up "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND Doctor's fees, on account of a low scale of

Lang Syne," and marched in close order to the Naval Yard, being hearty cheered by their HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST" offers pay and high rents, he should be prepared

comrades in the Artillery as they paused, the as an Advertising Medium Special Advantages as anflation to all Forts to front contradiction and defend himself

Artillery Barracks. At the Naval Yard they between Singapore and Newchwang, in the The Portuguese are a very law-abiding, of cowering coolies, and hear a pagan with a

embarked, in launches and lighters and were Australasian Colonies, the United States, and laborious and temperate people, we mean quens testifying against him. According to the $15,000 for a Widows' Home and College, she said-I have much pleasure in presenting you quickly made themselves at home. A little before. transported on board the Himalaya, where they the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges has been edit an exceptionally low rate, the Hongkong Portuguese. Their Macao said testimony his name was Clark, and he was unable to effect in England; but some with a small testimonial of the appreciation of eleven o'clock a launch with the band of the "Terms can be learned on application.

brethren are certainly beneath them, had a turn for practical joking. On Saturday American ladies invited her across to Boston, and this community of the way you have contributed 91st on board steamed alongside the ship, and a socially, intellectually and morally. That evening he and a sailor facetiously upset there she had wonderful success. That powerful to its social entertainment during your stay here. variety of lively tunes were played there, the out- our Hongkong friends are also immaculate rickshaw or two at the bottom of Pottinger organization, the Women's Christian Temperance There is no regiment which has been here since ward bound musicians responding with still good way of which the Band has been sa darling," with lusty vocal accompaniments. A few and sinless, nobody will ever belleve, albeit Street, sou tried to distribute the Chinese police Union, took up her cause, and the result was the can remember and my memory goes back a Jollier such as True till death," and "Molly their church-going propensities and their man to the winds of hevving when he interfered, raising of more than the sum originally, aimed willing, so eager, to do what the community minutes before twelve the hawser was detached Defendant denied this, but P. C, Johnson's at. Ramabal is now returning to India, la com- wish hear, hear). I can say, Mr. Moran, that from the buoy, and exactly at mid-day the so-called spiritual shepherds. That the evidence bore down the scale, and about four pany with well-known lady physician of New you as head of them deserve thanks of this great hulk began her journey, the bands

community in every way (hear, bear). Any playing Auld Lang Syne," and crackers majority of them throw away their money minutes from the beginning of the case Private York, Dr. Ryder, who intends to start a medical small recognition which we can give to you of being fired and gongs beaton on Chinese In reckless gambling, and live and dress | Clark was diving into his sporran for two dollars school at Bombay or at Poonah, and has taken your services here is well deserved (bear, hear), Junks aster. As she passed the Turenne ska above their station in Ilfe and beyond wherewith to appease injured authority.

a year's holiday with that object in views I myself have nos of Iste had mucis to do with French sailors, who had manned- the yards,

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