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Entimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1889."

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The Hongkong Felegraph

HONGKOND, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1889,

THAT the colony of Hongkong continues to exercise an influence, and a generally beneficial influence, on our great and venerable neighbour we have abundant evidence almost daily, showing that our colonial legislation is being carefully watched and in some instances faithfully imitated. It must, however, be a matter of regret that this influence is principally confined to questions affecting the fiscal concerns of the neighboring province of Kwanglung. Vital questions such as the slave traffic from the Coast ports of China to Java and the Dutch possessions In the Straits, to which we directed attention last week, do not apparently create much concern. In matters abroad, such as the position of the Chinese labourers in the United States of Ameriça, Australla, Cbihll, Peru and Cuba, the Chinese Government were up in arms, and the Viceroy of Kwang-tung pretended

fluence in promoting this coolie traffic. It is difficult for us to understand why His

body at Peking, should desert his colleagues and take up his abode at an extreme part of the Empire and use his endeavours to promote a mercenary traffic. which, construe it as you may, is but little removed from the very worst form of slave dealing, We take it that the -Netherlands-Minister's-mission-at-Peking- primarily is to nct in conjunction with his colleagues in advancing the general interests of commerce and civilisation. this matter the Dutch Surely In Minister is not acting in concert with his colleagues? Nor can we allow that general foreign interests or the particular interests of Holland should be made subservient to those of the Dutch. planters of Java and Sumatra, more especially in connection with a questionable traffic which has far-reaching, injurious effects on civilisation generally

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A STRONG shock of earthquake was reported on the 30th ulto, from Albay, in the Philippines, which lasted about ten seconds, but produced no'damage.

Wx are informed by the agents (Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons & Co that the steamer Japan, from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port to-day, and may be expected on or about the 17th inst. MADAME KORFF who has lately started musical classes in the colony with noteworthy success, will give an afternoon concert at her rooms, No. Weat Terrace, on Thursday next the 16th inst. The entertainment will be under the patronage of Lady des Vœux, and as Madame Korff and Mdile. Maillard have already demonstrated their claims to public favor, we hope and expect to see a largò attendance,

ship go down by the head, and then they shaped a course for an island about sixty miles off,

109 deg. 45 secs. E. It took them till next evening to get there, and everybody suffered being sick when they got ashore. At length the sun, a European and a Manilaman they reached Caygo Point, pretty well worn out with the constant baling the leaky boats needed, and after a short rest got on to Cape St. James, where, they telegraphed to Salgan, and by direction of the German Cousal a steamer called for them and brought them on. The H Printzenberg was built at Rostock in 1876, and was a wooden bark of 553 tons register, classed for fifteen years from 1876.

CORRESPONDENCE.

(We do not necmartly endorse the oplukova expensed by

Corpulents in this couran.]

THE DEATH OF A SAPPER AT KOWLOON.

To the Editor of the." Hongkong Talaokazi,”

DOCTOR-I will tell you candidly every glass of liquor you drink is a nail in your coffin. Beachcomber-Weil, doctor, you can't expect a fellow's coffin to hang together without nails, AFTLR a dispassionate and careful review of the doings of that varied aggregation of local talent composing the Sanitary Board, we venture to suggest to His Excellency the Governor, although with much reluctance, the advisability, of dis- solving that institution and making another appeal to the community..

also some fools. We dont care to say which. clever enough men on the present Board-and are the clever men and which the fools, but all the same we know. It the Sanitary Board has done any good to the colony since it started under fresh auspices, we shall be glad to know in what direction to look for it. If it has done no good-and that, we say it with much regret, SAYS the Straits Times-At there seems to be is our opinion--the sooner the sham is exploded the better for all concerned. There has from Jelebu is taken up, it may be proper to say that some vague belief that most of the tin-land in

SIR,-Will you kindly allow me to correct a the first been loo much official nonsense for any the whole amount disposed of is 5,000 acres.

statement magƐ by one of your. correspondents institution of the kind to cope with the special The area of the State is goo square miles, and respecting the late Sapper Hammersley and also evils for which it was formed. A "strike!!

to give the facts of the case. The unfortunate. amongst the unofficial members would not be tunities for knowing that there is much good tin of this day on which he died, nor for two day we are informed by one who has excellent oppor-man did not report himself sick on the morning out of place.

mining land still available. It is not the case previously. The first day on which be reported that the Government has agreed to grant any himself sick was on Wednesday the 24th, of be urged to lend a sum to provide for the metall- Thursday the 25th April he reported himself ing of the road which has been made on money sick three times; twice he was returned to duty, borrones of clebu hakemien 70 to the third time was detained in the Casual Ward $34,000, and they are rapidly increasing.

returned as fit for duty. Five times in these A REPORT was current in the Canton Yamên three days Hammersley reported himself sick. yesterday that serious trouble was imminent On Saturday he went to Kowloon with the Mus-, Hongkong was in danger from the latter Power between great Britain and Russia, and that ketry party, but he was taken so ill whilst there that he had to be escorted back to barracks by a in consequence. As not a single black cloud is comrade. He did not see the medical officer at present obscuring the summer brilliancy of on that day, and remarked to some of his friends the political horizon in Europe, we are inclined

in the corps that it was useless for him to "go to think that the Mandarins in Canton have got sick as he would only be returned to duty hold of a fals: alarm. Ifthe great Russian bear again. On Monday he went to Kowloon to ever should try the strength of his talons on this superintend a few coolies, employed in pumping far distant British outpost, our Chinese friends water, he was then very ill and during the after can safely rest assured—even although the long-

noon he fainted. The coolie foreman tried to on paper-that they will not find us unprepared. then in the pump house. The foreman went promised guns for our fortifications yet exist only bring him to his senses, but could not; he was.

As the great Macdermott, the lion comique par

and reported the affair to the R.E. Department at the Commisaatiat Buildings, when three non- excellence, pnetically and patriotically put it "We don't want to fight, but by Jingo if we do "

commissioned officers and two sappers were etc, etc.

despatched to Kowloon, where they found Ham- mersley lying outside the pump-house with his feet on the door step, so that he must have tried to leave the building after the foreman had left him.

The population in the Dutch settlements sweeping the streets and automatically elevating loan to Jelebu, but it is the case that they will April, when he was returned as fit for duty. On

in the Straits is probably increasing in a more rapid ratio than in any

itself in about fifteen years, and now numbers some twenty millions. Consider ing the commercial progress these islands, have made of late years. in keeping with the increase of the population, it is curious that the Dutch should still be dependent upon China for its principal supply of labour and should seek to obtain it by such doubtful means. If, the indigenous native labour is so inferior, notwithstanding this extraordinary increase of population, as this demand would seem to indicate, then the future of the Dutch settlements must cause ground for serious concern. And all this makes it incumbent upon us to preventil possible a further disturbing element in the social problem of these Dutch, colonies in the near future.

In our remarks last week we omitted the name of Mr. Consul FRATER, whose conscien- tious discharge of his duties as British Consul at Swatow in this respect has not been second to those of his colleagues

at Canton and Swatow. As

We then

"up" is local military matters, will hear with OUR readers, especially such of them as are regret and surprise that the Garrison shooting Club has, by a Garrison order published yesterday, been dissolved by order of the General com- marding on account of "irregularity," which if given its correct military designation, might be called insubordination. It appears that at a meeting of the Club held the other night a resolution was proposed to the effect that a testimonial be given out of the Club funds to an ex-member who had been tried,by Court martial for mis-appropriating government stores under his charge, and been reduced from his rank on carried, was not even entertained, another almost conviction; and though the resolution was not equally unfortunate was agreed to, and on the minutes of the meeting being brought to the brought the Garrison shooting Club to an notice of Major-General Edwards he promptly untimely end. We learn, however, that a Board of Officers has been appointed to consider whether the Club cannot he reconstituted on a sounder basis, and we hope it will successful, for, if we be correctly informed, the disaster which bas overtaken it has been brought about solely by clique of personal friends of the ex-member in question, who would seem to have didn't feel inclined to say for it, while the great hankered after a reputation for, generosity but majority of the meeting silently ruminated on the virtue of that eminently British sentiment which forbids kicking a man when he is down, and abstained accordingly from making them

Amore miserable end than this poor engineer's cannot well be imagined. Asking day after day for a little rest which was denied him, he had to struggle on and try to do his duty, until he fell in the gutter and there died, which he practically did as he never spoke after he was found.

And this is termed apoplexy, Your's truly,

SOLID FACTS.

Hongkong, 11th May, 1889. We are, of course, not in a position to give any decision on the painful, subject dealt with by this and other correspondents; but we do think that enough has been said to justify Major- General Edwards in ordering a thorough inquiry into the merits of the case.-Ed., H.K. Telegraph.]

CANTON.

claim the same privilege under the most favoured nation clause in existing treaties; in

viourly a deserted waste-covered from its summit (about 700 feet) to the water's edge with nations! To say nothing of the beautiful, bar- coal godowns, naval stores, and the flags of all

bour being continually filled with innumerable maen-of-war. What a lark!

What a grand revival of trade for the good folks in Fusan who, since the opening of Chemulpo in 1883, have had a hard struggle for

existence !

How joyful the Customs people will be in hopes of a great fillip to the trade-of the-port-1-

It is an ill wind that blows no one good."

!

By the way, Fusan is very close to Japan and Port Hamilton How will the Japanese, British, and Chinese like this advance of Russia right down the whole east coast of Corea?

Doubtless: Corea has connived at this stride over the peniasulp,—Chinese Times.

THE CHINA SHIPPERS' MUTUAL

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

The following is the report of the Directors to be submitted, at the seventh annual ordinary the Cannon Street Hotel, in the City of general meeting of shareholders, to be held at London, on Monday, the 15th day of April,

1889,

The Directors have the pleasure to subrait the General Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss Account for the year ending 31st December, 1888, duly audited.

The net profit, including the balance

brought forward from last year, and. after providing for the general ex- penses of the current year, Directors' Fees, Income Tax, Interest, &lig amounts to ipan

sid.

....33,210.11.4

This sum it is proposed to apply as

follows:

To" Depreciation Boiler and Reserve

Fond

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17,385.10.2

(thus raised to $2,000) In paying of a dividend at the rate of 218. per Share, free of Income Tax (being & per cent, on the called up Capital).

********.1X1,329.10.0 Balance to be carried to New Account-3,495.11.a

£32,210.114

With full cargoes, and some improvement in the homeward rates of freight during the latter be able to shew results, which they trust will be part of the past year, the Directors are glad to considered satisfactory by the shareholders.

done their work in a most efficient manner, and The vessels have been well handled; bave no accident of any moment has occurred.

The new steamer Oanfa sailed from the Clyda in December last; and is now on her homeward voyage with a satisfactory freight list. The Directors have every reason to believe she will prove a valuable addition to the fleet. ⠀

The requirements of the Company's business and the necessity for an improved service have induced the Directors to make contracts, which they have succeeded in doing on favourable terms, for other two steamers, after the type of the Ganfa These vessels are to be named the Ping Sury and the Pak Ling, and will be ready for sea early in 1890.

The Company's fleet now consists of:- The 5.8. Afoyun,Captain Hogg, Botone gross register

Danfa,...Captain. Tham on, 1,067 Kain...Captain Castle

THE Times reports that a new machine for the sweepings into a cart in front of it, while travelling, was exhibited in operation recently on Holborn Viaduct. It consists of a series of other part of the world, It has doubled horizontal brushes fixed on a pair of endless revenues of Jelebu have risen from $200 to until the following morning, when he was again

chains, revolving around spindles. These brushes sweep the mud up a short incline into a receiver, which is continued upward as a thin fron casing, Inside this casing is a series of scoops or buckets, fixed on endless chains, and these dip into the receiver and lift he mad to a delivery cart, to the rear of which the apparatus is connected in such a way that it is easily removed. When the cart is full the sweep g machine is detached from it and attached to an empty cart, the full one being sent on its way to discharge its contents and return The apparatus is mounted on travelling wheels, chanism by gearing. The machine does its work and the motion is imparted from them to the me.

in a cleanly and practical manner, and dispenses with the necessity for unsightly heaps at the read-side, and the splashing of the public, when thoseaccumulations are being shovelled into carts by band. Thick mud was spread for the machine thoroughly, but in the second run not quite se to gather, and in its first run it did its work well. It is, however, but right to state that the mud was thicker than the ordinarily found on roads, for it had been swept up, carted and re-deposited, and had, consequently parted with some of its moisture. We have. however, sen the apparatus at work on a macadamized.road on a very dirty day with perfect success. The trials were carried out by permission of the (ommissioners of Sewers of the city of London,

horses and ir men, and with their

ses and carts, THE man who posseases sufficient squey to intro making into this colony will deserve to have his duce a thoroughly efficient system of road.

memory perpetuated by a statue in marble or bronze. He will likewise make a handsome fortune; but that is neither here nor there, as handsome fortunes have been realised by men in this line of business who made roads that after a few days' traffic became rivers of mud and decomposed granite. Is there nobody in the Public Works Department, nobody amongst the serried array of independent civil engineers, surveyors and architects prac rising in the colony, capable of relieving a long suffering and grossly over-laxed community from which for so many years past has occupied such this heavy burden for repairs to roads, etc, a conspicuous position in the Annual Estimates? We are quite certain that nobody can tell us the amount in dollars that Mr. J. M. Price expended on the streets and roads of the colony during the fifteen years he was good enough to lighten our darkness with his splendid intel. lect, and we are equally certain that if the sum

a expended by this double first in advanced IR we are generally the first to complain of Jesuitism could be stated in plain figures, the neglect on the part of public officials, we are Hongkong community including the eminent always ready to give credit where it is due. signatories to the bogus farewell address-would Therefore we have sent simple taken of our hold up their hands in horror and anathematise esteem in the shape of a laurel wreath to His the late honorable (!!) Surveyor-General in Excellency the Harbour Master, on the occasion these trifling mistakes, errors of judgment, costly individuals at large in the colony as unemployed However, leaving all of his awakening to the fact that there are such choice Billingsgate. experiments, etc., etc., for future discussion, British officers of the mercantile marine. A who knows how to make a road that will days ago, the British barque Omega, which what we want just at present is a man correspondent sends us the following A few not become a dismal swamp after a ten minutes trades between here and Singapore, was in rainfall. There are no decent roads in Hongkong Hongkong harbour, when some kind friend to just now and there hasn't been anything the British mercantile navy-himself not an approaching an efficient road for the past fifteen officer-wrote to the Harbour Master pointing years. Perhaps there never have been any since. oat that she carried a mate with a German away back in the "fortics"-but on that point, certificato although there were English mates the Hon. Phineas Ryrie is a better authority walking about idle in the Queen's Road. Mr. than we can pretend to be. However, this Rumsey at once had an intimation conveyed ridiculous annual waste of public, money on lo Capt. Brown that the German must go, and

If roads, bridges, etc., must be put a stop to. go he accordingly did, a Britisher being shipped ently did not find favor with Capt. Brown for the Governor finds that nobody attached to the

in his place. But the new arrangement appar- some reason or other which we don't stop to investigate, but, at any rate, by some curious coincidence, the new mate found it necessary to apes for the deeply injured Teuton. The kind at once go to Hospital, leaving the berth again A Glen steamer recently brought in addition to the armament of the Bogue forts in the shape lend who had moved in the matter originally of a 35 ton. breech-loading Armstrong: this is heard of this, and informed the Harbour Master to be mounted on the fort on the crest of the who sent to the Hospital, found that the British highest hill at Chuenpee about 200 feet above 19,790 Shares mate was not sick, and ordered him to be dissea level. The Chinese apparently, in placing a gun of such calibre at such an 'élevation, are charged and sent aboard his ship at once. This was done, the German mate was a second time under the impression that the nearer they Omega cleared for the Straits.

their gun. Q. E. D.

indicated the efforts of the British authorities in placing the matter upon a proper basis has been thwarted in a measure by the wilful blindness of the Canton, authorities, and by the un- precedented action of the Senior member of the Foreign Diplomatic circle at Peking. Perhaps the best remedy will be for the Press in Europe to take the matter up, and we shall take care to further this end while carefully watching its further developments. In conclusion we feel justified in calling upon the Hongkong authorities not to again permit another breach of the regulations, as Was apparently done in the case of the steamer China, which, it would seem, arrived here from Swatow and entered and cleared at the Harbour Office, without strictly conforming to existing regulations. We know of no special reason why that vessel, or any other so engaged, should be exempted; on the contrary we maintain the regulations on vessels coming from the Coast ports engaged in such a doubtful traffic should be rigidly and impartially enforced.

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TELEGRAMS

THE NAVAL DEFENCES.

LONDON, May 8th. The House of Commons has read a second

to be in high dudgeon at their treat-time the Bill for the Naval defences which passed Surveyor General's office knows to make a

by a majority of 145° votes,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

WE would remind our readers that the French Opera Bouffe Company will perform at the Theatre Royal, City Hall, this evening, com- mencing at 9 o'clock.

selves disagreable, which, after all, seems to be the most that could be laid to their charge.

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a flert second to none in the carrying trade of China and the East; and considering the great advance in cost of ship-building, it represents a property in excess of the value at which the

ships stand in the Company's books.

The appointment of Captain Guiland, at Shanghai, as General Manager in the East has been attended by most satisfactory results.

The following Directors retire on this occasion, but, being eligible, offer themselves for re- electionMr. H. D. Stewart and Mr. W. M. Strachan.

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(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

Canton, 11th May, 1889. Some fol's will have it that our immobile friends never get excited, but those who entertain similar ideas would have found their theories consi erably upset had they witnessed the scenes in the streets of the city on Thursday and yesterday of the general public at the metropolitan examinations and as to anxious to obtain news of the successful candidate

whether they were winners on their Wysing lottery tickets. Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of this gambling undertaking when the fact is known, that over six million Tacle are invested in this single result, which on account of the Emperor's recent marringe is considered to be an especially auspicious event. It is really amusing to hear the Chinese justify The retiring Auditors, Messrs. Baker and this grand southern province gamble of theirs, Rudderforth, and Mr. Jamieson Elles also offer From their standpoint the gamble, being entirely it is proposed that the dividend shall be made which knocks Monaco into the shade completely.themicives for re-election. Chinese, concerns themselves solely, and, inas payable on the 26th April to all shareholders much as the money only changes hands from on the London Register, and that warrants be spread evil results other gambling concerns have. one Chinaman to another, has: not the wide- posted the same day to those on the Shanghal

and Hongkong Registers respectively,⠀⠀ The money remains in the country, so say they,

ALBERT DEACON. and is merely a turn-over and does not go into

Chairman. the pockets of the "foreign devil," in fact it is a pleasant way of encouraging the circulation or turn over of native capital with which the foreigner should have nothing to say. Is it worth the expenditure of ink to combat these theories ? What with an issue of six million of Taels on a' single gambling venture and the expose you have given of the nefarious slave traffic from Swatów, It will not be surprising, if this continues, that much of the latent wealth of this, the richest province of China, will become much impoverished before another cycle has passed.

ment, yet in a clear, case within his own Jurisdiction, in which his fellow country- men are treated as bond servants by the foreigner, Viceroy CHANG CHIH-TUNG would, seem to preserve an apathetic indifference altogether foreign to his reputation. This is one of those curious anomalies of Chinese character which A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. requires consideration, and which we shall 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, and the blue veins show up very distinctly. displaced, and under that arrangement the approach a vertical fire the more formidable

Zeland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. má. C. D. Harman, agent of the 0.

do our best to expound later on, when we have more fully threshed out this important subject.

S. S. Co. informs us that the steamer Oceanic, with malls, &c., from San Francisco to the 33rd lo has arrived at Yokohama, and will leave for this port at 6 p.m. to-morrow.

TO-MORROW morning betweco 9 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 11. service, at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, return-

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proper foadway, we respectfully recommend his Excellency to "sack" the entire department THE British House of Commons, says the Sydney Bulletin, is the most faded-looking affair in the whole world, and Charles Stewart Parnell, as he sits midway among the Opposition beaches, looks the very type and genius of the spot, He is long, lean man with dropping shoulders that once were broad and square, His face is death-white, his features pinched,

under the tightly drawn skin. But bis eyes burn. with the fire which you see in the eye of an eagle or in the depths of an opal. His brows are hard and polished, and the dome of his head is a perfect semi-circle. As a rule his face is rigid and expressionless, but scored with the lines of vigil and thought, the clothing of the man, although modish in shape and choice in material, is worn with a careless- sess which indicates contempt for appearances alle it fails to hide the natural elegance of the He rarely speaks now, but when he does, form. Finally, Parnell "looks a thoroughbred!"

THE LOSS OF THE BARK

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KOREA.

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London, 5th April, 1889,

BALANCE SHEET TO 3187 DECEMBER, 1888, Dr.

To Capital

654 Shares fully paid-

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up................................. 13,080,0,0

* 135 Shares, on which £5 per share has been paid... 10,011. Shares or which

M13 per share /

mkd-bag been called .⠀

To Bills payble

Fr

1,875.0.0

130,143.0.0

-145,098, 0, 0 75,099.-14. 3

3,825, 127

Depreciation Boiler and Reserve Insurance Funds Net receipts on account of, une

completed voyage... 1.120.8 Sundry Creditore in 9,194, 13, 5- Balance of Profit and Losa

Account

32,210, 11, 4-

£301,163, 9. 8

Amount of Purchase Account

of Steamers on

Bills receivable.....

Office Furniture ........................... Sundry Debio

S7

200

7.7728, 6 Cash at Bankers and in hand. 2,683.12. 9.

301,163 9. 8

PROFIT AND LOSE ACCOUNT TO SIET

TAGAWA DECEMBER, 1168,2

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

· Seoul, 18th April, 1889, Annexations, Coal Depôts, Steamer Agencies, Naval Demonstrations, Prolectorates 1 · Such le the has and cry here just now, caused by the proposal of a Russo-Corean steamship affair to build godowns, offices, &c, and store coals on Deer Island, which forms the southers boundary By of Fusan Harbour at the south-eastern exfremity, of Cores. The proposal appears to have been backed up by the Russian Government, and on the 11th inst. the invincible Russian ironclad Admiral Nakkimej, together with the cruiser selected an anchorage close to Round Island (ie, at the narrowest part of the entrance to the part), while the latter came up to the usual an- chorage (Roze Island) The following day the Russian Admiral went up to Seoul. He returned with the Russian Minister and his Secretary on the 13th insti, and left in his flag-ship the follow- ing morning for Nagasaki, it is understood.:f

A. Mr. Dolotkeyvitch lately passed through Yuensan-Port Lagtreff-Chemulpo, and Fusan here en route from Vladivostock (overland) víd

been sent by a Russian Steathship Company, tock via Corean ports to Shangbai, to select which proposed to run steamers from Vladivos sites for offices and godowns in Coren. He "Crys didn't say that he was Instructed to select alter By Balance for coal depots for the use of the Imperial Этого Russian Navy, or that he himself was either directly or indirectly in the pay of the Govern- ment of the Czar

Since we last wrote on the subject some correspondence has appeared in our

By the arrival of Captain Ahrens we are cuabled to give additional particulars respecting columns from a German firm in Swatow

the loan at sea of the German bark H. Prini- who are the agents of the Dutch planters

emberg, bound from Singapore to Hongkong with in Deli and who naturally defend the trade,

a cargo of timber and rattans. The H. Print and also from a correspondent (evidently an

bound to Hongkong with a cargo of timber and einberg left Rajang, Bornes, on the roth January, authority) who travesties the whole mattering about 12.30.

a bush moves rapidly over the House com-rations. On the 10th of February, as the ship pliment paid only to those whom that assembly was then found to be leaking considerably, and exposes its baneful Influences and

A MISSIONARY LADY, Mis, M. E. Talmage, writes | acknowledges as belog a distinct power in the she put back to Singapore, arriving here on the sham the whole thing actually is under to the Amoy Gazette on the subject of the land. His language is simple and austere, its the 24th of February. The ship was ordered existing regulations. We Imagine the Seamen's Club, of which so much has been said ginamentation being as commonplace as the to dock by Lloyd's surveyor, but the docks at

and printed lately. We are of opinion that Mrs. | adomments of a cottler's mantel-shelf, but it is the time were fall and after the ship's bottom|| Koreyets, arrived at Chemulpo. The former publle will require something more than : E, Talmage would have exercised a wise direct, clear, and absolutely suitable to his had been examined by divers it was thought that the mere ipse dixit of Messra, LAUTS discretion in minding her own business, and purpose. Pamel! never "puts on side;" he is she could be made perfectly seaworthy without and HARELOOP on behalf of the Dutch allowing the vexed question of the Seamen's never self-conscious, never constrained. When the trouble of putting her into dry dock. Diyers Club to be settled by those who had actual | he has finished what he stood up to say be from H. M. S. Orion were engaged in the work planters that the trade os carried on interests in the matter, Female missionaries | sits down again, heedless whether his last | and they caniked the buits and covered the side from Swatow is all that it should be, never know when to let well alons.

sentence had or had not the roundness. and of the stem and two feet of the bow planking finish which are usually considered indispen- with two-ply canvas and fastened over the whole and that the benign treatment of the LISBON paper report great electioneering activity sable for a conclusion. His voice is hard, a thick sheet of lead. She then continued her coolies on arrival in the Dutch settle- in the Portuguese capital and the provinces. Á and his pronunciation is that of Cambridge voyage, meeting with fine weather and a series ment is so apparent and so generally summer. So far two candidates have offered has no brogue, and his tone is level and mono- the monsoon began to blow, and on the night of

general election of Deputies will take place this University, where he spent some years. He of calms for about a month. On the 17th April | recognised. History has tended to show themselves to represent the neighbouring colony tonous. Nevertheless, Farnell conveys, as no the 19th a violent squall struck her. Next to Nagasak In Fusan be stated that he had that the Dutch are extremely harsh task- of Macas in the Lisbon Contes-Senhor Horta other man does, the impression of a reserve of morning she was found to have sprung a leak masters, and our own' experience down son of the late Governor Amaral who was assas behind his ley vell of self-repression. The thin, pumps. Notwithstanding all their efforts, how eCosta, the present member, and Senhor Amaral, enormous power, passion, and energy concealed in a new place, and the crew were set to the to the present time clearly supports the sloated by the Chinese at Macao in 1849. With- Ught-drawn lips only half-bidden by his beard, ever, the water gained, and by six o'clock cleven accuracy of the prevailing opinion on that out entering deeply into the intricacies of Macao the masculine firmness of his face, the uncom feet were sennded. The men left off then, and

politica a zrther repulsive insk considering the promising character of his words few though began to look out provisions to put into the boats point. We are aware that for some time elements of strife and vile discord which prevail they be the evident stern, unyielding purpose. At ten o'clock they were ready, but it was pitch paat Mr. Fxxouson, the Netherlands Minis-there-it may safely be said that the two candi. of the man, all combine to impress, almost to dark, a strong, wind, and a heavy ses, and in ter at Poking, has resided at the adjacent dalcs have each about an equal number of are: He is now one of the two or three men at hoisting out the two boats both nearly came supporters, and that the contest promises to be | whom the Tory squires will not howl-not even Coast ports, employing his powerful in- I close and exciting eng,

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to grief, each being considerably damaged. Of course, should the Russians carry our their. They kept near by til morning, and saw tho - design sospecting Deer Island, other nations may

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Balance

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Dividend

paid April,

18887,470 9.0

4,313. 2.2 43.343, 2.1 ($3,210.13.4

39.865.1537