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Te profit of Paris Fipare for 1888 amounted Wx learn that Mr. W. H. Percival, the popular in Haiphong he had gathered from the corres besider making the Colony less attractive to the 10 £80,865.

local agent of the North China Insurance Compondence that they included the expe ses of the people from the neighboring provinces. There pany, will leave here next week to take charge-voyage. He found the position of the parties to be is however, this to be said also—it is very of the head office in Shanghal. Mr. Gray, from this-there was a condition which the plaintiffs doubtful if the mentore"against Sunday labor Singapore, will succeed Mr. Percival in this undertook to fulfil, namely that the French Com- would have by any means the effect expected, colony..

missioners should be satisfied with the speed of even on behalf of the people by whom it is desired, UNDER the heading "Polygamy at Washington" speed should be attained, but that the authorities are very much pressed for tinte, as is very often the vessels-it was not a contract that a certain It has been pointed out to me that where vessels we find the following in an American contem should be satisfied with it. In agreeing to that he the case here. In these days, a considerable porary: The wives of Ye Sane Jay, second thought the defendants became in some degree number of them would enter Chinese waters, Secretary, and Keng Sin He, attaché of the responsible for any delay that might arise, their bave cargo taken over to them, and practically the Corean Legation at Washington, have arrived, position being that they might either keep the work on Sunday would be the same as before. and are the objects of much well-brid curiosity vessels or return them, and they did return them. But even supposing that was not the case, tha in social circles of the National Capital. They provisionally. In their letters they said they number benefited, I think, would be very small- are the first Corean ladies to visit this country. were dissatisfied with the work. He therefore, indeed, at the outside a thousand, and if the other day, and the appearance of the petites, claim, this view being strengthened by the certainly affect a large number. This is my The first reception at the legation was given the found that $1.485 must be set off against the results I have spoken of did occur it would comely and amiable oricatal dames is thus fact that in one letter the plaintiffs referred principal reason for being unable to propose described; The two ladies, who were in height to that amount as a liability they had incurred. measure of this kindat preicht. But" perhaps four feet six and four feet seven There only remained then the question of $183, there are others, scarcely lean cogent. It would respectively, were very short, high-necked bodies and as that was a voluntary payment by the be impossible to enforce such a law without fine the other of flame-colored satin. The first had fulfil his contract it must be a charge on him that the great majority of those convicted would with long, full sleeves, the one of light-blue satin, plaintiff in order to put himself into a position to and imprisonment, and experience goes to show a dark-blue silken skirt, the other a skirt of and not on the defendants. sewed into Broad white silk bands which

for no other reason than that they had done what have to go to Gaol. We should thus have in Grol mahogany-colored brocade. Both skirts were

a large number of persons who would be there formed the full dress bells of their costume.

all their education and traditions taught them Their skirts reached nearly to the floor, and

the innocent and praisewortby act of working. tiny, slippered feet peeped out from beneath

They would be put in much the same category as them. They were guiltless of bustles. Each

those who had really committed crime, and I wore on her bosom a modest corsage bouquet,

need hardly say how great an evil that would be. and their satiny pale brown faces were frained in shining bands of jet black hair, dressed in low

would go a long way towards making criminals of those who, as far as we know, were perfectly knots upon their necks and pierced with thick gold pins The one is twenty-four years of age,

honest, and only endeavored to gain a live-

than sixteen, but there is a sweet, appealing held this afternoon. There were present: right and wrong.

Ilhood. It would abolish the distinction-- the other nineteen. Neither one looks more A meeting of the Legislative Council was or at any rate make it very hary-between expression-in-their-shy-womanly-faces-that--His-Excellency-the-Governor (Sir-William-des- been convicted of working on Sunday

The Тед who had makes a motherly woman want to call them Voeux); the Colonial Secretary, (Dr. F. Stewart); day for which they have no respect, never my dears" and take them to her heart at once. Mr. A. Leach, Acting Attorney-General; Mr.having been taught to have any--would, if sent Under the tuition of their faithful companion H. E. Wodehouse, Colonial Treasurer; Mr. N. to Gaol, say to themselves that they could not and teacher, Miss Ball, the ladies have already G. Mitchell-loves, Acting Registrar-General; and their oft-repeated very happy to see you Wong Shing, B. Layton, and Mr. Seth, Clerk of acquired some twenty conversational phrases Messrs: J. J. Keswick, C. P. Chater, P. Ryrie, to-day" was a colloquial success. Each of there, Councils. especially the younger, whose given name "Son," has suffered more or less ill-health in becoming acclimated, and the strain upon their strength at the reception in these new and bewil- dering circumstances most bave been, great, but it was not apparent.

transmitting colonial public opinion to the authorities; but this task can be very much more effectively performed through THE greatest known depth of the ocean is the Legislative Council and the public midway between the island of Tristan d'Acunha and the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. The newspapers. Whilst the Association might bottom wat and three-fourths miles of 40,335 be made the vehicle of the feelings and

feet, or eight interests of particular sections of the A DRUNKEN German ailes named Brandenburg community, and would consequently lose wat areated by Detective Sergeant Mant: last night just as he was going into the Grand Hotel In partiality and subservience to private with an open knife in his hand, for the purpose Interests what it may gain in preponderance of attacking some one with whom he had as an alleged representative body, the quarrelled. He was fined $to this morning. free and independent Press discharges its A POPULAR local paper in Madrid is published without a chief editor, in fact without any editing. functions regardless of all clique and class

Its staff is composed of twelve sinart reporters, privileges. It is certainly safer to steer who during the day collect news to every part of by these independent organs of public the city, and throw their manuscripts into a box, opinion, published on the spot, than to finds enough copy to fill a sheet. The articles which the boss compostior empties whenever he follow any body of men on the other side are proof-read by him, and the sheet is printed of the world, chosen to represent a part-according to supply of matter. It is news And published ance, twice or thrice a day, cular section of the community, A Hong-paper" in the strictest sense of the word there kong Associationtampering with the official is no editorial comment of any kind; all depends relations that exist between the Governor upon the cleverness of the reporters, and the Colonial Office will be as short- THE model woman, according to a wit, who bas lived as the notion of its formation is short- evidently made a study of the female form divine, should be gifted with the following thirty sighted. No Governor could ever submit good points: "She should have three things to such an abnormal deliberative body as white, the skin, teeth and bands; three black, suggested by our contemporary. Localips, the checks and the fingernails; three long

eyes, eyelashes and eyebrows; three rosy, the matters are best managed and settled the waist, hair and hands three short tect locally. If our Legislative Council is

cars and tongue; three broad, forehead, shoulders and intelligence; three small, waist, mouth and saddled with an official majority, if that instep three finely formed, the nose, head and official majority is really and seriously feet; three artistically shaped, fingers, upper lip, and chin; three beautifully developed, the arms, prejudicial to the colony and we think the limbs and the dowry 1" Nothing is said there can be no doubt on that point-we about temper, although that is essentially a

necessary point in a perfect woman. are at liberty to call mass meetings to protest against official intolerance, and even to defend our interests with Her Majesty's Government, without the intervention of any body or association. We have already fairly efficient and active Chamber of Commerce, capable and willing to look after the commercial interests of the port, To improve upon that institution, by endeavouring to obtain for the rate-payers the privileges of a Municipal Chamber, where their local affairs could be managed and-directed, should be the aim of all advocates of practical reform. With the Is Chamber of Commerce to look after the trade of the colony, a Council to direct its municipal business, and an increased Adver haements, die, be addressed to the last en unofficial representation in the Legislative Council, elected by popular vote, to watch over our Imperial and general interests, we should have no need for such new

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SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION.

(Before Mir, Justice Clarke.) FENWICK & Co. v. Marty and D'ABBADÍR..

Mr. Francis, instructed by Mr. Wilson, for the plaintiffs; the Acting Attorney-General, instructed. by Mr. Stokes for the defendants.

less the deductions of $829, $1,486, and $6,200, He therefore gave judgment for the plaintiffs which, deducted from the $14,700 claimed, left $6,050, for which judgment would be given with costs. With regard to the defendants' claim it would be dismissed with costs.

MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIVE

COUNCIL.

NEW MEMBER

Mr. J. J. Keswick was sworn a member of the Council, and took his seat.

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The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed,

VOTES.

The following votes, were refered to the Finance Committee:$600, addition to the salary of the Director of the Observatory; $150 for a verandah to the quarters of the first clerk at the Magistracy.

RIPORT.

The Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Superintendent of the "Gaol for 1888..

THE SUNDAY LABOUR QUESTION, His Excellency :-Before proceeding with the next business I desire to refer to a subject of some importance. During the last year I have had a number of petitions from various quarters praying for some measure by which there could be brought about A cessation of Sunday labour in the Harbour, Having a great deal of sympathy with those who desire relief in this matter, and being anxious to afford that relief to the extent of my ability, I have given the subject very full con- sideration. I have made numerous inquiries in

determination that it is out of my power to devise a measure which would at the same time afford the relief desired and be free from very serious injury to the community, I think it only right that I should make public to some extent the considerations which have so far guided my judgment.

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1889,

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A HIGH STREET oplum divan keeper was fined $100 this moming by Mr. Wodehouse for dispensing smuggled opium. Another was fined $25 for a similar offence.

THERE is a cradle in New York that has rocked

over 19,000 babies. It began to rock nineteen years ago when the Sisters of Charity started a little_foundling, hospital on Twelfth street, with $5-in the treasury.

get any more for stealing. But I believe I cannot conceive what would be done by the crime would be increased also in another way.

hundred thousand people who would be thrown. into-enforced idleness; they would have to do something, and in all probablilty they would occupy their leisure- the way most Chinese do, by gambling, and the direct results of gambling and idleness I believe would, be a very considerable. 'increase of crime,'. If you can conceive a hundred thousand man in enforced idleness on one day in seven it is not so casy to calculate the consequences, I believe a very large amount of evil would be done-an' incalculably larger amount of evil than good. But it is possibid that some of my opinions are not correct-some of my arguments open to | reply). I do not see how all can be, but I do not say it is impossible, and therefore I shall not keep my mind closed to the views of those who have opinions to the con trary.. I am still quite willing to listen to all that can be sald, but so far, white very much sympathising with those who require relief, 1. do not see any way to give it except by a-violent change in the social condition of the Colony which could not be contemplated for a moment These are my reasons why, at all events for the present, I do not see my way to any measure on the subject, and I wish it to be an answer to the considerable number of petitions from various quarters which reach me,

OTHER BUSINESS,

The Bill for the Protection of Women and Girls then passed its first reading, and the Prays Reclamation Ordinance was discussed. A report of the latter proceeding is held over.

THE KURILE ISLANDS. AND

·OTTER-HUNTERS.

If we look at the chart of the North Pacific Ocean we find a chain of islands extending from Yesso to Kamchatka, in a N.E. direction ; there are the Kurile Islands. They are described in the "China and Japan Coast Pilot" as "dangerous and unknown, surrounded with sunken rocks. and shoals, strong and strange currents and whirlpools, enveloped in dense fngs, and subject to sudden and violent gales of wind," where it behaves

The water to bear's wary aye.

THE Straits Times bears "of two private deals in Jelebus at $15. The purchasers were Asiatics, and the sale in one case was all that is alloted and in the other 100 shares." The same journal says that a loan of $80,000 "is likely to be made by the Straits Government to the State of Jelebu for the purpose of building roads and the like. All this is indeed very funny-10 funny that it would be interesting to know who supplied our Singapore contemporary with such extraordinary information. If the shares of the Jelebus Company are in such request at Singa- pore, at the sensational rate of $15, why is it that hundreds of shares have been sent from that port to be sold in this colony at $7? And again, what is intended by reporting that the details are conveniently omitted to build roads Straits Government is likely to lend $80,000

His Lordship delivered judgment in this case, in Jelebu?. We are afraid that only one conclu- Much of what he said was, inaudible, but the sion can be reasonably arrived at, and that is following is the substance of his decision:- too patent to require any further explanation. The plaintiffs' claim is $15750. The defendants entered into a contract to purchase two steamers A 'COLLISION APKON" is an invention of Mr. from the plaintiffs for $70,000, of which $48.000 James Holmes once a ship builder at Auckland, was paid. By a supplementary agreement after but now a resident of Victoria. The trial which wards entered into there was a deduction of has been made of the apron has drawn from the $7,300 from the price, making the amount secretary of the Victorian Marine Board a letter credited $55,300, and reducing the claim to impressed with the apparent efficiency of the | Rebbeck, plaintiffs' engineer, whilst at invention, as demonstrated by the experiment Haiphong, was originally added, but afterwards which they witnessed, and the opinion is withdrawn, leaving only a matter of $183, expressed that if equally satisfactory results are charged for a re-survey of the course of the obtained in actual emergency, the apparatus | trial trip. The defence set up was by way of a would form a valuable adjunct to the equipment set-off or counterclaim, but there was also a called, consists of a double sheet of canvas of paid into Court. The items of the set-off of every vessel. The "collision" apron" so; sum of $6,200 which had been admitted, and

In dealing with this matter one finds that a suitable size with transverse battens of wood consisted of penalties under the supplementary the people who desire relief especially are the from 6in. to gin, apart stitched in between the agreement, expenses incurred whilst the Europeans employed on the vessels in the Har- two webs of a canvas. This apron is supposed launch's were at Haiphong, &c, which reduced bour and on the land in connection with them, to be kept rolled in a convenient place on the the defendants' claim to $6,253, which sum they numbering, as far as I can make out, at the deck of a vessel, and in the event of reat being paid into Court. There were two contracts the most a thousand, and that of these a very nome. On Good Friday there will be Divine Service in

made in the side of the vessel below, water-mark first dated October 1886, by which the purchaserous proportion, being only in Hongkong for a it is brought to the side in the vicinity of the of the launches Carf and Licorne was agreed few Sundays in the year, would benefit only for St. Peter's Seamen's Church at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.leak, and while one end of the apron is attached upon, the plaintiffs undertaking to deliver them in those few Sundays. Then the question is

to the bulwarks, the rolled-up portion is lowered Hongkong by a certain date. They found them. However desirable it is to benefit them, how can THE Phuquoc has been patched up by the

into the water. The apron, of course, gradually selves unable to do so, and the second or supple we do so? With a view to finding out how such contractor who salved her, and wan docked at

unrolls itself, and when it reaches the hole in mentary agreement was therefore entered into benefit was derived by workers in other parts of Canton two days ago.

the vessel's side the inflow of water into the on the 5th August 1887. Before dealing with the world I have made inquiries in various vessel 'causes it to unroll with the greatest rapidity, until the whole of the rent is covered.

that contract his Lordship intimated that countries, and I find that there is practically only To the maritime world in general and even to he found, fact, that the steamers one means--that is by closing the Custom-houses, their legitimate owners, the Japanese, these The pressure of water against the vessel keeps were delivered in Hongkong in the first instance Besides that, beyond a few obsolete statutes, I iilands are comparatively unknown, but to a the apron.in position, but as an extra precaution in good order and condition, in accordance with can find no light on the subject anywhere certain class of men, the sea-otter-hunters, they it can be secured until the rent is repaired," the provisions of the agreement; that they were Sunday labour apparently ceases because the are as well known and as little feared, as is Yedo in such good order in the first place here, and Castom-houses are closed, and for no other Bay to Shinagawa fishermen. Every small out- THE opening performance at the City Hall last also, in the second place on their arrival in reason. Now as we are, fortunately, without lying rock from the Kurile Strait to Shikotan is night by the Tamkichi troupe of Japanese Haiphong. There was a dispute about a small a Custom house here, it is evident that that known to them every little sheltered cove equilibrists, &c., was very well attended indeed, amount besides this, but that did not affect means is not open to us, and there is no other where a small vessel may ride out a gale is and was highly successful. Owing to the nature bis finding. The supplementary contract pro- alternative i know of but a law enforcing a ces-known; in sailing from island to island"they" of many of the tricks, such as the bamboo vided for the launches attaining a certain sation of Sunday labour by fine or imprisonment. know how to take advantage of the strange and balancing, a temporary stage had to be erected speed to the satisfaction of the French authorities, That being the case, the next question is what erratic currents flowing between the islands in the orchestra, so that everything was plainly and at Hongkong and after their arrival at must be the scope of such a law? I am in- and the resources on sbore are also pretty wall whose instruments consisted of seventeen drums, presence of the French Commissioners, on tirely to European vessels, as that would of volcanic origin and formation; volcanoes arcin visible. A small band of native musicians, Haiphong trials were made, the latter in the formed that it could not be confined en- known to some if not to all. The islands are all a pair of bagpipes, and a cat with a powerful voice, different days, and with unsatisfactory results. at once give very great advantage "fo | fullactive eruption on severalofthem, and ancient played behind the scenes, reminding one strongly This, he was of opinion, was owing to a mistake Chinese vessels and junks, on the part of craters exist on all of the islands. Beyond Urup tricks-nine in number-were in most cases of an expensive Chinese funeral procession. The made in the measurement of the base, which which the rivalry is already keen enough. We they are almost devoid of vegetation, and exhibit. mistake was not rectified until October. In the must therefore make a law applicable to all only gloomy grey mountains whose summits are novel, and in all cleverly performed. Three rope- meantime both launches had been injured by the vessels in the Harbour, without exception. nearly the whole year round covered with snow, walkersopened the proceedings with an exhibition bad weather, prevalent at the season, and But can we stop there? I doubt it. It would No doubt rich mineral deposits will be discovered up in the dome, and it made one rather nervous they were not accepted by the defendants until be scarcely possible to conceive a number of on them some day but at present only sulphur to note that a specially rocky place had been the 12th and 22nd October respectively. The men being sent to Gaol for working in the Hat- is extracted a piece of rock was once carried prepared underneath in case they fell. But there principal matter with which, he had to deal was bour on Sunday when they see thousands of to San Francisco from one of the lilands and and toes. The balancing of tubs, bamboos, piles or two months, at $ico a day and although it on Iand without molestation. I venture to say cinnabar gold, it is said, has been discovered, was little danger of that; they seemed all nerve, that of demurrage-86,200, being sixty-two days, their fellow countrymen pursuing their vocation there essayed, and was found to be rich in of boys, &c., on the feet, formed the basis of the was not precisely shown from what date to what that not only would it be a great evil in itself, too, by some of the otter-hunters from California. next few tricks, and the first part of the programme date the defendants reckoned the demurrage it but it would destroy in the Chinese the con Among the fauna are black and silver gray foxes, closed with a daring series of feats on two cross-ropes fastened to a lofty and frail-looking the day the last steamer was ready, to the for the prosperity of Hongkong. But we

was clear that they took it from the 19th August fidence in British. law and justice.. So much and these abound on some of the islands and were formerly regularly hunted by the Russians, scaffolding, in which the principal artiste bung 12th October, when the first of them was could not stop there. We must inevitably but since Russia abandoned the islands the foxes out into space. Every item was loudly applauded. for which they claimed demurrage. He then whatever out of doors. But can we even yearly increasing in numbers. Their skins downwards and caught a little boy as he leapt accepted, as the dates including the period mako law against all Sunday labour have not been molested, and consequently are The audience seemed very well pleased at being read the section of the supplementary agreement, stop there? It is necessary to pursue the being scarce are very valuable. But first privileged to smoke, but the absence of a buffet by which the plaintiffs bound themselves to subject further, I think it is doubtful if we could, and foremost the Kurilen are the favourite was less appreciated. To-night an entirely new hand over ons steamer at once (5th August), siop work outdoors, but supposing we could home and feeding ground of the sea-otter programme will be offered, with the exception of and the next. on the 12th, under a penalty of there is no doubt there would be a great violent the finest skins which have been brought hence the Flying Leap, which will be repeated. The 850 each per day for non fulfilment. That Change in the social condition of Hongkong. bave fetched almost, fabulous" prices in success of the Company may possibly induce | farnished the precise date and also helped to Of course the arguments of those who wish in the European (ur markets. The Russland: the troupe to prolong their stay,

construe the agreement, in which the varied use enforca Sunday rest is that the work of seven had formerly two considerable settlements, one of the word "deliver "had created some difficulty, days would be performed in six, would be on Urop and another on Simushiri,, with The first sub-section provided that they should | quite as well done, and quite as much, but hunting stations on other, Islands, from which be delivered at Hongkong. The next sub-section without going too much into details com- they farned in their skin canses to hunt the went on to provide that the speed guaranteed by fear that the views I have obtained from | atters; but their bunting was a tame affair in the plaintiffs should be attained to the autis- | practical men in the Colony, which so far bave comparison with the bayốc done by Winchester faction of the French Government! The bad the greatest weight with me, incline me to rider la later days's more otters, have been defendants suggested that under that sub-section think that under the conditions existing here it--killed-in-one-year-by-rifles than the Russians delivery could not be complete until that condition would be impossible to do as much work in die killed in ten. All their hunting was done at had been complied with, but if effect was to be. days as To seven-that there would be a real given in subsection 4 it was quite impossible that diminution in the amount of labor performed, such an interpretation could be accepted. If and therefore a proportionate diminution in the Section meant anything it meant that the results of thai labor, which+in- practically steamers were to be delivered on the 5th and 13th wealth. This is not all, however. Either one August respectively, and it was clear that the trial of two alternative results would also occur either of either could not have been made until some | the labourer would car less wages or such time afterwards. If it provided for something fabour as they did would be more expensive, and to be done some time after delivery it could not that would be a very great evil Hongkong has with the first-class rifes now in use, they would have been a condition to precede delivery. had a superior attractiveness to the neighboring have mide shormous hauls ; as it was, several They knew that the trials did not take place | provinces. of Chins because labour has been hundred skins during the summer wat the usual until sometime afterwards,, and be altogether better remunerated, and diminishing the wages, catchy About the right or wrong of foreign failed to see if the contract was fulfilled as would be a very great evil. · I do not think, vessels hunting off the Kurile Islands, I do not regarded their being ready on the 5th and however, that would be the result; my intend to speak; there is no doubt, If the 12th August, how anything that could hap. own opinion is that the laborers would get the Japanese had taken effectual measures at first, pen on the 13th and 18th could make the con- me wages for doing less work, and l'um not it would have been stopped in these early days, tract bad. – It was his duty to find an inter- sure that that would not be worse. There is but the Kaitakdahl máda but apasmodic efforts pretation that would apply to all the clauses, and generally supposed to be an indefinite fand, to prevent the trespass, and now most of the he did not see that the lnterpretation put forward | from which the wages of labor are paid, but the Bunting is done 12 or 15 miles off shore, outside by the defendants did so.. Delivery at Haiphong matter of fact is that usually in community the Japanese waters During the first

t few years he tools to merely mean a second delivery, fund for the supply of labor is the same, whatever people had curious ideas about olier broting. after the first transfer, and the condition as to the laws, and if the laws are such as to raise the Vessels were fitted out and sent to their attaining a spoed approved of by the French price of labor the natural gainit, is thats less home even without boats, pues, and “authorities was simply a warranty.” He there, work is done. Supposing the informados I have: flops, and otherwise ill-provided

fore found that in the first Instance the delivery is correct as to the impossibility of performing dangers of the More The Dublin E was under section 4-that disposed of the the seven days' labor in six there would be a very boat will a crew of four men on defendants' Claim for the penalties provided by serious diminution in the work, and, if not actually: | from 81ng Francisco, and after the contract, which therefore fell to the ground.) a diminution, a fessened (peresUS the wealth of | ́spent in cruising round Iterup With regard to the second part-the expenses ? the Colony, which would be a very serious evil, Land drowned aŭ Banda Syri

By kind permission of Major Vernon Chater and finders, the Band of the Regiment will play Officers of the 1st Argyle and Sutherland High during the forthcoming competitions of the Rifle Association at Kowloon on Saturday afternoon. THR Sessions were formally opened this morning. and immediately adjourned, the farce of calling on Oyez and the rest of the public to attend, and in the same breath telling them to come again on Tuesday, being very successfully gone through by Bailiff Howell,

Massas. Adamson, Bell & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steant- ship Parthia left Vancouver for Japan, &c., on the afternoon of the 16th inst, and the steam. ship Batavia left Shanghai for this port at 11 am. yesterday,

THAT the United States must still fight against the slave trade is evidenced in the reports of Consule in Madagascar that slave stealing is canied on by vessels flying the American flag. A San Francisco paper says that there are no more American vessels than are the Arab craft which hoist the French tricolor.

It is not altogether an easy task to ascer- tain what the Daily Press understands by a Hongkong Association, which it suggests should be formed in London elther as a separate body or in connection with the China Association which it was proposed to establish at the Inaugural China Dinner" which took place at the Thatched House Club on the 4th ulto. In advocating this, new departure our contemporary attempts to show the advantages likely to accrue to this colony from such an Association, but when we come to analyse the proposed scope and field of action, we find inconsistencies and incongruities multiplying themselves at such a rate that it becomes difficult to find out the real alm: of such an institution, and what or whom it is calculated to represent. The first task imposed by the Daily Prest on the Hongkong Association would be to settle the "many questions of Colonial importance" which may occasionally crop up, such, for instance, as the Public Health Act, and the demand for more direct popular control over the administration of the municipal affairs of the Colony It, strikes us that if the Association bears no official character, and it may temporary. There are exercises and systems WHY should a girl remain ugly? asks a con- be safely taken for granted that it will for Glling out her cheeks, neck and bust, develo never bear one, Its Influence as an active ping her limbs and forming her nose. The factor in the solution and settlement of Colonial questions will not be of much avail. What consideration could the Foreign Office be reasonably expected to give to a hybrid agency claiming to be informally representative of the Colony's other day, writes a humorist, "I saw a biskop "As I stood talking outside the Athenæum the Interests, but directly representing theira bumble suffragan-drive up in a hansom, own individual affairs, we are quite unable and bid the (unpaid) cabman wait while he went to see, but are strongly Inclined to real bishop, who gullelessly got into the waiting into the club. A minute or two later out camo a

bellove that the colony will not bonefit hansom, and being mistaken by the caban for ajot by entrusting its most important Then issued the suffragan, whose Inquiries for his original faro · was straightway driven off affairs to a body of men who are his cas led to his being informed by a second placed thousands of miles away from their cabman that it had been taken by another gent ⠀⠀ supposed constituents. An Association of the episcopal garb, the auffragan: turned on his In leggin's" - Piqued at this ribald allusion to the kind suggested by our contemporary beel Bat, as he replaced his purse in his would not be invested with any other pocket, I marked the frown pass into a smile of.

resignation as he realised how the wind was power beyond that of expressing or tempered to the ahora lamb,

Ar the Harbour Office yesterday Commander Rumsey had before him four. Scotch and Irish firemen from the Afghan charged with refusing to perform their duty. Captain Golding stated they got drunk-and refered to do any work. They were committed for fourteen days. A filib dealt with. was brought up on a warrant to-day and similarly

teeth. What nature has not done for her hair, experts will straighten her eyes and fix her eyebrows and complexion can be supplied by art. The plain girl may not find it in her power to become a thing of beauty, but she can come very near it.

GIRLS

A lovely girl-Ella Gant A fighting girl-Hittle Magia. "A wayward gizi-Hettie Rodoxy.

A sweet girl--Carrie Mel.

A good girl to posicas-Sal Vation.

An off-mentioned girl-Helen Blazes.

A charming girl-Jennie Rosity.

A sick girl-Sallie Vate, {-

A smooth girl-Amelia Ratlon,

A seedy girl-Cors Ander,

A clear case of girl -E. Lucy Date.

A geometrical girl-Rhoda Dendron,

A musical girl-Sarah Nade

A profound girl-Meta Physics.

star, girl-Meta Oric

A clinging girl-Jessie Mino

A nervous girl-Heater Ical,

A muscular girl-Callie Sthenics,

A lively girl-Annie Mation.

An uncertain girl-Eva Nescent A sad girl-Ella G

A serene glil-Mollie Fy.

A'warike girl-Millis Terry,- A very large girl--Ella Fhant. A wealthy glil--El Dorado,

- A talkative girl—Ella Cution.

An historical girl--Jennie Ology.

A sailor girl-Mary Nez

An actress-Marie Onette.

A Bible girl Jennie Sis.

A high-minded girl-Ella Vate.

A botanical girl Mary Gold A beautiful girl--Ola Ander, eve

threatening girl-Minnie Tory.

Tolida Binde

Urup and the more north-easterly Islands, and as the otters were not disturbed at. Iterup, then, snow, lo possession of the Japanese, the animals naturally took refuge there. When Captain Kimberly arrived with the Cygnet from Cail- formla, and even during the next few years, the sea and the rocks were swarming" with otters, and if the hunters had then been supplied