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THERE was another earthquake fi Yokohama on the arst ulto.

THE Rothschilds house has issued a prospectus of the Burma Ruby Mines Company, with a capital of three hundred thousand -pounds, in

On the and instant the China Inland Mission, one pound shares, already quoted at premium.

received another remittance from London of HEALTH journals insist upon people reposing on Laca for the Famine Fund, also a local contri the right side only, and claim that it is injuriousbution of $120.00. The following telegram was to lie on both sides, but we don't know where also received from Dr. Nevius they will find a healthier looking set of mesi than our local lawyers,

DURING the present year there will be a cele- bration of the fiftieth anniversary of Verdi's debut as a composer. His first opera, Oberto di San Buonafacio, was produced at Milan on November 17, 1839.

MORAL Citizen-You ale dreadfully intoxicated, my good man. Beware, you will eventually fill drunkard's grave, Intoxicated Man-Yesh, Save filled many a drunkard's grave-bic-'m sexton down at the—bic-shemetery. TO-MORROW morning between 5 and 10.30 o'clock the steam-launch carrying the Bethel flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code pennant C, to convey men ashore to 17 a.m. service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return ing about 13.30.

In a recent suit in the New South Wales Supreme Court, Judge Innes innocently drew attention to the fact that the costs in an action

| “My friend,” said a temperance worker to a bibulous individual the other morning outside the Sailors' Home, "now is the time to turn over a new leaf. When the year is new why not resolve to reform? You should not look upon the wine when it is red." "I don't," replied the soaker; "I only drink whisky,"

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THE Sydney Bulletin on our ancient friend "Trompetblower"-That delicate flower, Herr Bandmann, has returned to New York, after playing "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in London until the treasury became a hollow sepulchre, at dead cats. He is now employed in explaining and the British public began to hint ominously

to the American public how it all came about. According to his story, Henry Irving and a number of other English stars who interested in a rival production of the same piece, paraded the front of his theatre with clubs and pistols and drove away the admiring crowds who wanted to pay their last cent rather than not sën Bandmana. This all looks so hideously pro- bable that it is a wonder we did not think of it before,- //

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A tonic and direct stimulant to the growth of the then before him amounted to more than the THX China Mail" maintained and still thinks" value of the disputed freehold. If Judge Innes-yo gods-that the colony has been too bene. were in Hongkong a few weeks he would get | volent to the marine lot-holders in re the Praya used to that sort of thing.

Reclamation scheme. And almost in the same breath the windy oracle of lower Wyndham Street "expects that the reclamation will in process of time so improve the Colony that few will suffer in consequence." These cheerful, if not altogether consistent splutterings will doubt. less be joyfully received by the "one render." But, by the way, has not the colony, or rather s certain philanthropic section of the community, for many years past been too benevolent to the China Mail! If not, how has such a wretched apology for a newspaper managed to keep itself above water for so long? We pause for a reply to this very pertinent query, MR. NORMAN, the Pall Mall Gasette special, is leaving here shortly for good. He has been over to Haiphong, and has formed a high opinion of Tonquin generally-thinks it the most promising of all the French Colonies if the THE man who set fire to a fir-tree at Wong-nel-authorities would only takes the iron heel of chong was up again this morning. The prohibitive taxation. from off the neck of private additional evidence showed that he caused the enterprise. He was fortunate enough to be in fire by throwing away a match after lighting a a steam-launch at Tongkay, the frontier river, cigarette, but he denied having been near the one night, where the betting is ten to one of the place. He was committed for trial on a charge pirates getting you, but he escaped. He is going of aggravated arson in the forty-seven the to Borneo for about a month-he gives about degree.

six weeks to a continent and then knows it as well as if he had been born there and then will proceed to Saigon, Siam, India, the Afghan frontier, and home-if he survives. He has not written up Hongkong yet. He says he is only just begining to realise what a big, rich, import ant place it is. You bet. We've fatter brokers, bigger concerns, and more of em than any other corner stone of Great Britain. Let us flap our wings and crow.

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TELEGRAMS.

(From Straits Timer) THE PARNELL COMMISSION. ·

LONDON, February 27th, The witness Pigott is missing and a warrant has been issued for his arrest, and in the mean- time the Commission has adjourned.

A confession was extracted from Pigott that he forged two of the letters, but he maintained that the rest were genuine.

Mr. Parnell will prosecute Pigott for forgery and perjury,

[Pigott is the person of whom the Timer soli- citor testified on the 14th February as having furnished the famous Parnell letters, which stood examination by an expert before they appeared in that newspaper. Pigott, who is a Nationalist, then declared that he alone knew the origin of these documents, and was prepared to disclose the facts in the witness box. The letters were produced in court the next day. Pigott, when put in the witness box, admitted telling Arch bishop Walsh, his belief in the forgery of the

letters.

February 28th,

Countel for the Times withdrew the letters, with expressions of regret that they had ever been published.

Mr. Farziell then swore that the signatures to the letters were all forgeries.

LORD SALISBURY ON THE REVIVAL OF TRADE. Speaking at a banquet Lord Sailsbury rejoiced at the emphatic symptoms of the Revival of Trade.

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for his lucre:

LAST July a coolie employed at Messrs. Lane, Crawford's & Co. was caught by the shroff stealing two tins of butter. He escaped before a constable came, and disappeared. In January a serious burglary occurred in the establishment, when property worth about $300 was taken Yesterday the vanished coolie was arrested, and charged with both the old theft and the later one, and was reraanded.

A MAN named Waite used to be employed a gender at the gunpowder depot on Stonecutters fsland, and was discharged last July. He turned up there again yesterday with a thick stick and a powerful aroma of six chambered whiskey, and offered to fight any man on the Island for, the Police Gazette belt. The officer in charge knocked him downstairs the first round, and nor Waite is on remand.

AN amatent performance was given in the German Club last night, in which Mr. Meier, of Kruse & Co., took part. He hung his coat and vest in the dressing room, and his boy took his gold watch out of the pocket and put in a box. It was there till 1 p.m. when a boy employed by Mr. Müller yielded to temptation and samsku, and took it. He was arrested, and gave it up, but he was committed for trial by Mr. Wode

house all the same.

On Monday a lawn tennis single handicap, the prize being a cup presented by CA. Tomes, Esq, will be commenced by the members of the HK Cricket Club. The Tournament will be conducted under A.E. and M.C.C. Rules and will be managed by the Lawn Tennis Sub-Committee (Messrs. S. Van Buren, W. H. Wallace and G. Stewart) Two Courts, marked A and B respectively, will be reserved for the purposes of the Tournament, The first Ties will begin on Monday, and must be concluded on or before Saturday, 23rd proximo.

REFERRING to the Navies of Europe the New York Sun says Great Britain has the largest navy, although Italy has the greatest ships. Great Britain has 14 obsolete fronclads, B non- obsolete coast-guard ironclad vessels and 50 sea- going. France has 13. obsolete, 14 coast-guard non-obsolete and 31 sen-going ironclads. Italy has obsolete and 12 sea-going Ironclads. Fifty British vessels can steam over 13 knots an hour and less than 20; 31 French can steam over 12 and less than 16 knots; 12 Italian over 13 and less than so knots. Of the whole number of sea- focht sind award of fron, Great Britin has inches and upward of fron, Great Britain has 38.84 per cent France 30.76 per cent, Italy 19.23 per cent; but of the whole number carrying 18 inchos and over in complete water-line" armour, Great Britain has 35.71 per cent, France 33.33 per cent and Italy 11.80 per cent.

THE Polo Club Races were held this afternoon and proved a great success, notwithstanding that five out of the six events on the cand fell to one stable. Proceedings opened with the half- mile Causeway Stakes, which proved an easy prey for Capt. des Vœux's lightly-weighted Grey Friar, ridden by Mr. Bethell, and the same pony, owner. pp, landed the two succeeding events, the Polo Ball Race and the Ladies Nomination Handicap. Fleet Foot won the Polo Club Stakes almost without an effort from Quadruped and Axerold, and then what was`described as a Mare Race, but which proved a stupid farce, fall to Mr. Armstrong on Beloochee, entirely owing Consaktion Stakes, proved little more than an exercise canter for the ridiculously-handicapped Frigate who was actually let in at yib. below. his weight for inches. A full report of the meeting will appear in our next issue.

A REMARKABLE elopement is reported from Nice. An English doctor staying there ran off with a pretty American blonde of seventeen, the daughter of an official in New York State. The girl was stopping at a pension in Nice with her mother, The doctor came there suffering from the effects of a fail from his horse. The three people mentioned became very intimate, and all went to stay at the same hotel in Mentene. On the afternoon of the 25th January, while the mother was out, the doctor and the girl went to the station, took the train to Ventimile, and thence through Turin to Paris. Here the romantic adventure of the young couple was brought to an abrupt termination. They were met on the platform by a police commissary, and both were arrested. The doctor is charged with the abduction of a minor and with compll- city in a robbery, the young lady having, before starting, taken $3,000 out of her father's cash They were taken to the police depot, and in the evening were sent back to Nice in the company of gendarmes.

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We hear from Macao that in January last the vine labourers of the Oporto district struck work. The tanneries in Gaya were closed, and shipping strikers showed no signs of an inclination to in the harbour of Oporto was suspended. The

resume work until Government redressed some grievances of the Oporto merchants. The Chinese mission that had visited Lisbon left that city on the 28th January, for Spain. The Board of Missions have decided to send this year two missionaries to Angola, two to Mozambique and two to Macao. The conversion of heathens at the latter place is apparently attracting the attention of the Portuguese Government. Dr. Gomes da Silva, the Macao Colonial Surgeon, has been awarded the order of a Tone Espada" for services rendered during the Cholera epidemic in Macac laat summer, and two of his assistants received minor decorations of the same Order. Mr. Eduardo Marques in raising the wind in Macao; soliciting contribu- tions from the public for the Relief Fund in ald of the sufferers in Northern China. It is said Mr. Marques has been appointed Secretary to the Governor of Macao when H. E. is to proceed to Feking a Minister Plenipotentiary. Mme Korff and Mdile. Maillard gave a suc cessful, concert at the Military Club on the 7th inst, assisted by several lady and gentlemen

amateurs,

CORRESPONDENCE.

We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this columa.)

When the thunder rattles from Ting to drag On the lofty mountain chain,

When the seething cataract downward pours To fertilise the plata.

When the canopied clouds, surcharged with wrath, O'shang me like a pall,

Or when I'm as drunkna abiroming pig.... Clinging against some wall

Oh | then I love then.

When on the deck of the gala-torn ship,' Or labouring in the sea.

When floating o'er the ocean's breast In some princely guy,

When atears is chained to the rushing keel Towing me o'er the deepi, Ġrwhen the fans are pegging away and will not let me alreji

Oh! then I love itre,

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When the sunbesous glint on the sarried hors And walls offering steel, When the swift winged fates from the cannon's mouth Long lines of Death reveal: When the charging squadrona" narthquake shock Neught human can oppose,

Or when I'm having a soapless wash at a bundle of dirty clothes,

When home away in the masy dance

Oh then I love thes

3k the gay and countly throng. When my saraptayed pulses thrill To the post's deathlesi sang, When music's wickerles blad my seni In their thrdling spell.

Orwhen I'm hadgered by hungry pores and wishing the lot in HI-,

Oh I then I love thee,

When Chrysanthemon lifka ka lovely band Balde the queenly rose,

When by the Sun's Imperial lower The purple larkspur bles

When the pasalon-dover its petalled maxa Expands beneath my view,

Or when I'm up to my mock in grease compounding au frish Stow,

'Oh! then

love than

When, Lausa smullen from her claudianus shrone The peerlies Queen of night, When Sirius from his sapphire dame Beges me with his fight,

When Your minor her radiant solf In the blue pellucid sea.

Orwhen you're sulking like fury, Love, and glancingdaggers at me,

Chi then I love thee.

NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

Whereas, as is commonly, known, Fokien, & maritime province, is the seat of turbulent elements; the morals of its people are sadly degenerated; gambling is crystallized into practice.

Hwa Hul being particularly rife in this province, special penalty is laid down in the laws: that the principals be banished to the garrisons, the partners or assistants transported 3.000 li, and those enticed, to enter the society Gangued and logged. The crime is twofold gress, compared with of ordinary gambling. The code of procedure is exceedingly stringent; its purport exceedingly profound.

Once when I was Governor here, I gave orders for the 'prohibitiod of the illegal operation. Com ing here now as Viceroy and Governor. I am intrusted with weightier affairs and assume higher responsibilities. It will be more difficult for me to requite my Government, and acquit myself of my duties.

My sole view is to regulate the system of administration and live in peace with the people. By enquiry, I am informed that Hwa Hul is more prevalent than it ever was. From the country to the city hers, there and everywhere, notices are being freely posted to the allurement of many. Men and women flock together either grubbing money or praying for dreams and pro- gnostications. The whole community appears lo ruh mad. Glowing with the last of "gain, let me ask, how many among you have, by guess. work and cast of the dice, grown rich. Losing every day a few thousand cash which, when accumulated, will amount to a large sum, you will have to mortgage and sell all your property." You may win a little at intervals, which makes you all the more unwilling to give up. But what is,won is not tantamount to, what is lost. Thus continuing on until you have to suffer bunger and cold and have recourse to machination and farceny,

Should any of you persist in having your own

way, the laws shall be rigorously executed.

If the crime be perpetrated by women the husbands shall be held answerable, and no indulgence will be shown.

Let all obey with trembling. A Special Proclamation.

NOTIFICATION.

Tang, Sub-prefect of Foochow acting in obedience to instructions received, issues (his Notification for the information of the people in general.

Nothing is more injudous to the Community In the Siang-shan Hier in the Prefecture of than this. Upon investigation, one would ascribe Ningpo, Cheklang Province, in a little mountain its alluring merits to your being able, in bainlet called Chu-k'i, containing 'some roo cotesse of success, to win to cash by staking only tages About China New Year the snow fell, one, over-looking the fact that there are no less until on the 8th February it was two feet deep than 37 numbers; which of those may be the That evening a child named Chang, just nine winning ones is very hard to guess. Besides, years old, playing with its companions, was

those who form such a society are generally carried off by a tiger, the other children falling wretchedly poor. On some occasions when down with fright. The tiger running up the hill issues results in their disadvantage and they with the boy in its jaws, met the child's uncle, they would either match off or give back the..

are therefore unable to pay the winners their due, a grasscutter, returning with his bundle on his back. The man shouted, and received a blow money staked only. This ought to bring the from the tiger in return, which will render him dupes fald their senses. Now, Hui being. a cripple for life. The people all say the tiger

intended for self and for the injuries others, it incurs penalty and the censures was driven to prowling near the village by the deep snow and the. impossibility of fading any.

of the world below. I, the

Viceroy, game to eat out on the mountain.

cannot but endeavor to remove it Besides instructing the local authorities, civil and military, to institute inquiries to arrest and The Taot'ai Si Cheng-tsu, ex-Minister at punish, it is fitting that I issue this Proclamation Tokio for the Chinese Empire, has been of Prohibition. Let all reflect that Hwa Hul formally impeached for corrupt practices during furnishes no small evils, Let those who are his terr of affice in connection with the purchase already guilty of it reform, and those who are in Japan of metal for cash for the Chinese Go-not, take heed and not to tread upon the evil vernment. He had already been lying quietly at course, and let all at the same time instruct his native place, Luh-hah, near Nanking, for their family (in the course of rectitude.) All nearly a year, when an order from the Emperor should attend to their business and not engage arrived at Nanking, in accordince within a forlorn hope. which the Viceroy Tseng sent a deputy to Lub-boh to place his property under seat and official em argo. On 30th January the ex-Envoy accompanied the deputy to Nan king, where he was consigned to the surveillance of Assistant District Magistrate Tatang. Os 21st February his trial commenced in the Provincial Treasurer's Yamen, where were seated at two tables Hu Provincial Treasurer, and Ta'ai, Salt Intendant, to hear the charge, the Prefect, District Magistrate, Colonel Kao, and Mr. Tsiang, the official above mentioned, being seated to the right and left of the judges as Assessors. Thenrraigned ex-Minister, Whereas I have on the 8th day of the fath having been conducted into the room, still in moon of the present year (9th January, 1889), official dress, knelt and, knocked head three received a despatch from H. E. Pien, the Gov- times before the tribunal, and then gave ernor-General of Fuhkien and Chekiang pro his evidence standing, handing in a written

vinces and acting Governor of Fuhkien, saying statement or petition containing his defence, that from the day, of His Excellency taking the The judges narrowly scrutinised this docu seals of office he, on enquiry, heard that some ment, comparing it with his accounts, and asking many searching questions. When the within and without the city are not people of out of the many people, who run Banking shops proceedings were over, the sccused, returned in affluence, and by means of their fictitious his sedan-chair to the house assigned him. When capital issue paper, notes and circulate them his property in his house was put under seal on

among the people, in-fact some Banka issue 30 January, it was found to consist simply of paper notes: much more than their capital; 18 boxes of clothes, with nothing of great value; wherefore some of them, who do not but he was also proprietor of two pawn-shops,wait for the people to make a run upon which were found to contain $13,000, and these their Banks, closed their doors and bolted. account of the first stage of the trial,–, which is have also been sealed. The above is a brief away without taking up the paper notes so Issued. Moreover, as His Excellency says, not concluded..........

that through neglect of duty on the part of the local authorities in not having the person or persons, who have failed to honor the notes, so issued, brought to rigorous punishment, the "evil" has been on the increase, and that consequent upon buch neglect of duty many has taken to the way of evading payment of such notes, whereby, the people in general bave greatly suffered. Examining into the laws, we and that if Bankers, whose business is the changing of notes for hard filver, should close their shops and abscond with the money, shall he appreßended and put under surveillance, and compelled after a certain time given to take up the paper notes, falling which, if the debt due to We have it on good authority that the "Nippon the peoples, above, Tls, 120 they shall Yuzen Kai-Shin will shortly establish a regular be banished a to the frontier, and if the line of steamers between Nagasaki and Foochow debt exceeds 1,000, the person of touching at Tamasi and may, and probably persons failing to satisfy such debt Swatów will also be made a port of call. The stall be banjibed to Hel-lang Klang (Amoor principal articles of experts from Japan to China river). There are several precedents established consist of saltfish, beche-de-mer and other edibles in the cases of many Banks, at the other pro- These have hitherto been sent to Shanghen, why that if under the pretext of cashing notes, of which vinces as well as af Peking. Again the laws acts as a centre of distribution and thence th produce is carried in funks to the Outporta. "I is claimed that the proposed line of steamers will draw away all the coast-carrying trade from the junks, which is said to be sufficiently, large to warrant the running of a regular line of steamers.

FOOCHOW.

We hear on reliable, authority that the stock of packed tea in the country amounis to 10,000 chests.

A small specimen of the feline species, weighing about a picul, which was fortunate enough to elude the Argus eye of the Amoy crack shot, was the other day caught alive by the natives in one of the ravines lying in the proximity of Mr. J. A. Cóffin's bungalow at Kuliang.

LET Glasgow flourish i. The prospectus of a new to that gentleman's capital judgment, the matter of climate, should be nauseated with and contraband. Under this heading of cook that according to verbal reports

cemetery holds out to shareholders, as a bonus, graves for themselves i

A CORRESPONDENT of an English paper contends that every Church needs priestesses as well as priests. And perhaps he is right..

which he bas none in hand, any one should puli down the confs, and, take jaway the moveable taluga (of the Banks) shall be dealt with as in the case of robbery. Mischievous persons leading above 40 or 50 men, though no disturbance is created in the Yamen and no insult offered to A correspondence is now taking place between the official, the ringleader shall be treated as in (DUR LOCAL TENNYSONY INST the Culloms and some members of this com the case of a Scoundrel, whose crime is immediate TO THE EDITOR OF tij //Homokowa TeLEGRAPH."-- munliyi with regard forthe landing of two guns, decapliationis Creating a disturbance in the DEAR MR. EDITOR-I saw by the morning one of which, we believe, is a breechloading Yamen as well as crowding the same and insult paper the other morning that air local bard fowling piece and the other a sporting rifle. The ing, the Mandarin, the ringleader shall be "D") has broken out la mafregis place. It Customs refuse to permit the guns being landed, decapitated, and the followers shall after impris seems to me cruel that the inoffensive people of and their red-tapelim almost amounts to absur 190ment be strangled. The laws are very Hongkong, who have much to contend with in dity when they say they are munitions of war * tefere and do leniency li" to be shewn in such

'repeated doses of such unmitigated slush.

traband goods they enumerate gunpowder, The enclosed lines, though in a somewhat how is it then, we can buy any quantity from made by the Prefect and the Magistrates, the different style, shew, i venture to think, quite as the ato a keepers? Also lead; how is it the owners of insolvent Banks in former cases have much genius as the drivel to which we are that every forelen hong in the port trades in this der apprehended, whawhen brought to the treated from time to time by your contemporary which, if melted down into bullets, would make people, and there at their own will made a article, and probably imports enough each year Yamen, were followed by many mischievous They were written by man who had fallen s victim to the evils of Bacchus, and having a supply sufficient to sweep all the Celestials off disturbance, and compelled the officials to make himself, he was in the end obliged to take the wandered out to Australia in hopes of bettering the face of their Flowery Land, Then again, forced demands, to that the notes should be paid how is it we see guns and pistols offered for sale by such defaultinBanksy consequently, the position of cook to a rabbiting expedition. It is in the foreign and natives stores? The tige officiali bi fené ober alternativo but to compel said he was formerly schoolmaster, His scare is now at its height in the neighbourhood such "Banks, after, the apprehension of the favourite pastime between #drunks was to

of Kullang," and if soems hard lines that, the | owners, to take up the Kotor, issued by them imagine himself a poet. Many others labour aspiring tiger beater should be deprived of the and in which cars, it hayleg been shown that under the same impression, our local pinchbeck use of his rifle, whereas if a permit to laid were tyinnathy dhad been taken in alleviating the Tennyson among the number.

granted," under a "bond from the importer that "diitress of the people, who ought to patiently Eat you find space for these verses in your the rifle was not merchandise them might be kewalt and see that whatever money due to sach valuable column?!

chance of killing some of the wild, belutkanich,| Banks bq got hidden, clyewhere, as well as to are a terror to the poor Chinele villagers

Also wait the realization of their property, that The following is a free translation, of Viceroy “might be made under "the","order" of the Pien's proclamation against gambling în general, officials, and with the proceeds "resulung out and the Hwn Hut in particular,

of such. realization to: pays off the... notes ...It would be idle not to admit that the product, so lasted at the appointed time, and it must be tion reflects great credit on its author, and we borne in mind that the matter of clearing such cannot but sincerely hope that it will have the | could not be immediately made, fór time must be desired effect, though it does not seem as yet "granted so that the ingles' might be paid of aRe apparent at least so far as the vicinity of the the appointed time. The disturbance created by foreign settlement is concerned sum of 34 posed the anischlergus people in compelling the officials Pleng the Viceroy of, Fokien and Cheklang, to make such forced demands is really a matter and the Governor of Fokies, in the matter of - pf regret, and that it arose from I-morance with Proclamation of Frohibition.

| oùit judging the distinction between good and bady

Yours truly

THE N. C. Daily News understands that the within the Palace walls at Pekding clearing LABOURENS under overseers are still burr Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation | away the dibris of the great building is about to establish an agency in Hamburg. destroyed by fire cearly month since As to the origin of the fire the Pekingese mind, MEMBERS of the Hongkong Jockey Club who which is very outspoken, says The accounts have not signed the testimonial list and addreas of sixteen years were to be audited; the audit to Major Trippy can do so by applying to Mr. M. would have inconveniened many people. The accumulations of silk and furs and other valuables Grote, Acting Clerk of the Course.

made in sixteen years were to be verified and ex- amined; now the things, or most of them, are non-existent. The examination would have been irksome. Voilà tout! It is said no investigation will be held to ascertain the causes of the firs and is concomitants --Enquiry might "dom promise a crowd of people, high and low, and, us

SO A VOICE FROM THE BUSH, · the fire has occurred, as the accounts are When the Storm-ing drives his flory zar "destroyed, and not one shred of fur er silk is to Ashwart the lurid heaven, be found, why then the least, said the soonest By gming calvar mended. //The buildings will be reconstructed at When dus angry volos of the foaming surge

cost of two millions of taels, but the assessed Betokane radne se

Dr then I'm doing a pos of base actual loss is some five millions-at-lesst.se | when bussendok of brend nad cheese - China Timas,

On than I love this.

A HENDOO passenger on the Bormiza was robbed of a box containing money and clothes to the value of $750. Luckily a Chinese detective caught the thieves, who were remanded to-day, ***PROMA KONGA

. Orders for: COFES, and for ADVERTISE. EDITOR-How's this? Here, in one paragraph, MENTS may be set to the Agents at the various you have "her ardent eyes," "her ardent gate," and "her ardent longing." Reporter--An over Par to the fe of

sight, Sir.-Editor--Yes; entirely too much of the ardent. You'd do well to let up a little on it the next time you report a fashionable wedding,

"THE HONGKONG telegraph

BOYS PADDERY HILL, HONGKONG, Hongkong, yih Jinuary, 1889,

A NAUSEATED CITIZEN. Hongkong, 9th March, 1889.

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