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MAY 31, 1889.

MESSES. Russell & Co, inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Guthrie left Port Darwin for this port on the 29th inst., and may be expected to arrive on the 8th proximo. FOR very many years there has been intense business rivalry between the Coats family of Paisley, the great cotton-manufacturing firm and the Clarks, who are equally well known in the same line in America. A compromise how ever, has been arranged, and a young Mr. Coats is to marry a Miss Clark, A big rise in the price of tread may confidently be expected. THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at the Murray Barracks this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock. The following will be the pro-

side of the island is for less precipitous than the northern; its water channels are more defined; its, gullies more indented, Its chasms and ravines are all cut into the mountain side, and they act as so many natural escapes of overflowing water. Á townlet bullt at Pakfulum with outlying bungalows and villas stretching all along the south-western coast is the desideratum for Hongkong. Until we learn to accommodate ourselves to the peculiarities of our topography and adapt our sanitary resources; our public works, our dwelling circumstances, local, climatic and social houses and even our modus viven to the

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IRELAND.

LONDON, May 22nd.

At a meeting of sixty Irish Peers and Members of Parliament it was resolved to memorialise Lord Salisbury in favor of the abolition of the office of Viceroy and the creation of a Secretary of State for Ireland, and the establishincat of a Royal Residence in Dublin.

ITALY AND GERMANY."

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March.........* Gladiatese" Quadrille......

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Nightingale" Lancers......" The Old Guard”” Galog" Queen Victoria"

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shed fell, killing one coolic outright and breaking another's back

are being continued, to remedy the disasters in

damage.

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With respect to the steps that were taken, and

the centre of the town, there is not much to re- poll. Up to yesterday at noon, everyone must admit, no great amount of work could be done by the Public Works Department; all that was possible' was to divert the urbid streams into channels where they would do leant In some slight" "degred this was

| done, and when the rain subsided, and the flow lessened, it would have been thought that efforts would have been made to remedy the damage. Before proceeding with oui Department worked hard, but their efforts crlicisms, we must say right here that the whole were misdirected. Practically nothing was done during the afternoon, except to run a slim bridge over the stream at the foot of Wyndham Street, At the other end-at the top-there is not even a single plank yet. Then their various inspectors all wet through and tired as they were by their almost useless peregrinations--were told off at night to watch dangerous places, such as the tanks at the bottom of Glenéaly, the HERE is one of the oddest of the painful appeals Service Reservoir, &c., though what earthly for belp we sometimes read in newspapers we good they alone could have done Mr. Brown have ever seen :-"A clergyman, earnest worker to act. This morning a partial move in the only knows. Luckily they were not called upon in the Lord's vineyard, at present in great diffi- right direction was made. About two hundred culties, anxiously solicits belp from generous coolies were set to work to clear Queen's Road Christians. Eight wives (three of them ill) forty of the deep-deposit of sand, which extended from the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank to six children (thirteen stepsons, not his own) of Pottinger Street. The work was very slow, and whom the majority are down with measles, and was impeded by the resumption of traffic, but the rest teething. Clothes, food, anything thank-where the mistake was made, was in the selec

tion of a spot for the reception of the debris. "It fully received.

was carried; in baskets up Zettand Street and dumped into the chasm, although the gradient is so steep that the old, solid, concrete-covered road had already been swept away, and it was' patent to anyone with commonsense that n renewal of the rain for an hour or, two' would simply sweep the newly-deposited material back into Queen's Road. The, mili- tary authorities, who had to clear a tremendous and North Barracks, dealt with it quite amount of mud-yards deep-from the Murray as expeditiously, aad far more wisely. A substantial temporary bridge for the Nullah is in course of construction to replace that which was washed away. The Female Hospital is standing all right, owing probably to the precautions taken in shoring it up.

SAVS the M..C. Daily News :-The Mayune, is again the first Hankow Tea steamer to get The meeting of King Humbert and the way. She takes a 'full cargo of 4,100 tons at 4. On the voyage up, she left Shanghai at Emperor at Berlin was most cordial.

440 am. on the 5th instant, arriving at Mankow at 7 a.m. on the 7th, thus doing the distance in The Shap has been received in Moscow with so hours zomin. On the way down, she left Hankow at fo.10 p.m. on the 24th, and reached. great honors.

the Woosang Spil Buoy at 8.30 a.m. on the 26th, or in 34 hours zomin. This is the quickest passage on record: Mr. Mobsby was her pilot. The French man-of-war Villars arrived at She left for London at 9.15 a.m. Shanghai on the 26th inst.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

view to several reporters Boulanger passed fast evening very quietly at the Hotel Bristol, dining with his suite, To-day he received visitors in the large audience chamber, which has been placed at his disposal. The newspapera jaka. bat scant notice of his arrival.". The Standard says that if he wishes to carry on active coo- spiracy for the destruction of the French republic he must find a center for it outside of British dominions. Our hospitality," says the „Standard," must not be made the occasion' for embarrassing our relations with a foreign power,” It is stated that Senator Merlin, president of the Senate commission, has signed 100 search war rants and 140 arrest warrants in connection with the triptof Boulanger. The vigor with which the

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Senate is now pushing the prosecution of Boulan-

original action is still felt to have been a grave

mistake. General Boulanger says only one circumstance is likely to embarrass his sojourn in this country, that is the absence of telephonic communication with Paris. Ho intends to take a house in South Kensington.

It is reported that the French Government- will arrest any one found leaving the country with letters for General Boulanger, on the ground that it is a breach of the postal monopoly.

dented the report. that he would immediately In an interview to-day General Boulanger

issue a manifesto explaining his intentions, and said that an yet he had no thought of doing so. He is being lionized socially.

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SAN FRANCIsco, April 26th. Among the first crowd of passengers to hurry down the gangplank from the steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, when she made her moorings yesterday morning, was R. E. Wilbers, United years. Me. Withers was appointed by President States Consul at Hongkong for the past four) Cleveland in the early days of his adminstration, and a short time since forwarded his resignation to Secretary Blain, leaving his son, who is also. his deputy, to perform the duties of Consul, Mr. Withers told a Chronicle reporter, who saw him at his hotel last night, that he was inspired to resign by purely personal reasons, and not on politics. His wife's health and his own were not account of the change in the Government's. benefited by the climate of Hongkong, and he determined last year to resign this spring. He will go cast in a day or two.

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Wx are informed that the Sherwin Opera Com- pany left Shanghai for Yokohama on the 27th. inst, and expect to be back in Hongkong four

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1889.

A Mass of interesting information on various THERE is very little to learn from the disaster which befell the Malta and Gibraltar of the Far East yesterday and the day before, Rain and other storms will occur in the best appointed cities; inundations, and the Irresistible levelling power of water will produce their effects whenever natural or artificial barriers are loosened or old channels broken.

A SPECIAL FEATURE. IN THIS PUBLICATION WILL BE A CHAPTER ON SPORT,

(amended and corrected to date)... ·

dealing with almost every branch of the subject including RACING, CRICKET, ATHLETICS, AQUATICS, &c. &c. &c.

A CONNECTICUT newspaper, speaking of Ameri- can ladies who have married British noblemen, refers to the Duchess of Marlborough, nứ Widow Hammersley,"

THE N. C. Daily News is glad to know that the deputies at Ichang are moderating their objections, and that there is a chance now of the Kuling's being allowed to go up to Chungking

this year.

WHEN the Taku left Newchwang on the 23rd instant, says a Shanghai contemporary, there was not a single vessel in part. Such a state of affairs in the month of May had not been known for many years.

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WE are informed by the Agents (Messre. Arnhold Kärberg & Co.) that the China Shippers' Mutual S. N. Co.'s steamer Chingwe, from Glasgow and Liverpool, left Singapore on the 20th inat, for

this port, and may be expected on or about the 4th proximo..

THE Shanghai Courier reports that Hsüe Fu- Chong, formerly Secretary to the Viceroy of Chili, then Tuotai at Ningpo, a very progressive | man, a high Eterary, graduate (Han-lin), and about fifty years old, has been appointed Minis- ter to England.

RUSSIAN statesmen, from Count Toistel down, are alding in the organization of societies for the prevention and suppression of inebriety. Tatal abstinence, except from light cider and kvass, a acid drink with little alcohol, is the rule they neck to establish for too hard drinkers.

The gas supply was resumed in the Western district last night, but notice was given to-day, that it would have to be again cut off to-night, to enable the numerous repairs to the pipes to be effected. The cause of the stoppage was the breaking of the main at has never occurred since the great typhoon of 1874

In many patis of the city the water supply has but this is being remedied as quickly the mains, but this is being as quickly as possible. The breakdown of the arches of the Tytam aqueduct at Wong-nei-chong, graphically and

reported, is by no means certain. The landslip minutely described by our contempary last night, and mentioned by ourselves as being

covers the aqueduct for come distance, but whether the effect has been to break down the arches or not has not yet been ascertained. Mr. Cooper, the Assistant Surveyor-General, has gone over there to-day.

His

Excellency the Governor, General Bevan Edwards, and the Surveyor-General went out this morning to view the effects of the

Sydney Bulletin bumourist tells us that John Meller, a small boy of Dunedin (N.Z.), fired by the example of the ampler ass, "Professor" Baldwin, essayed a flutter earthwards from the roof of his ancestral halls by aid of an umbrella, The ground struck him abruptly. His only re-storm. mark was, "I forgot to put a hole in my para- chute." The funeral, furnished by the Mayor of Dunedin, who is an undertaker, was neat but unostentatious. Softly--the lyre -

Johnsta's Eritani

He tried to ly with an umbraild The imitative lids ffler -

In pi cc of a real paraclasic," The ground flew up he did not bellar, But the last words of Johnnie Mieller

Were I must be a de' galoos No hole was in my, parachulo 1 la Aleth dow in an angel's suit.

1HE DELUGE.

MORE DAMAGE AND LOSS OF LIFE.

A TYPHOON EXPECTED.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION STOPPED. After just about thirty-six hours continuous heavy downpour the weather at length began to clear up yesterday afternoon, although there were occasional showers during the night. But, let us hope, the worst is now well over. The storm has left Hongkong, from end to end, dismantled and washed-out, and it will be long before its effects cease to be visible. Reports of minor mishaps keep coming in to the authorities, For instance, the telegraph wires in every direction are all useless, owing to breakage by landfalls. The wire to Shanghi is among is only in communication with one district, and those interrupted. The Central Folice Station

Kowloon is also interrupted, awing to the light- the connection which exists between here and ning burning the signal-bells,

Robinson and Bowen Roads are fearfully

An interesting calculation has been forwarded to us by Mr. W. St. John H. Hancock, C.E. He estimates the gathering ground above the colony at at least 3 square miles, and figures it out that as 24 inches of rain fell between 7 a.m, on Wednes day and ya.m. yesterday (or more than double the average for the whole month during the past- twenty years)-the total weight of water which came down and through the Colony-the city itself was five and a half million tons,-1,224, 98,200. gallous, or three times the contents of Tylam reservoir!

"A telegram was received to-day from Maulia reporting the existence of a typhoon there, travelling in the direction of Hangkang.

The extent of the damage sustained by the inhabitants of the colony will never be more then approximately known. The Daily Press does not know whether it will $150,000 or $200,000 t To show how ridiculous this esti- mate is we have only to look at the compara- tively slight shower of the 29th April, which cost the colony nearly $4,000 for damage to the suburban roads alone. Every street in the colony needs repair to-day-some will have to be entirely re-made, and many thousands of dollars will be needed simply for sharing up dangerous landslips. Then the tradesmen in Queen's Road banks and preventing further

which will fall on themselves, us the storm

immense lon, all of comes under the category of force majeurs, and is not provided against in insuring,

have suffered

an

On the southern side of the island, where there has not affected the banks to anything like the is comparatively nothing to damage, the storm

The houses at the Peak, also, have suffered very degree it did those in and around Hongkong.

little.

"The Chinese," said he, when the subject was broached, "and particularly those in the district of Canton, were fixturally excited for a time over the Scott act, but this indignation is rapidly giving way to a belief that the law will be modi fied or repealed. The Chinese who returned to their native heath are the loudest, of course, in their denunciation of the United States for pre-. venting them from coming back, but they are, inteiligence of a modification of the law.

"The Chinese Government, which is very conservative, has taken no steps to retaliate, and the best of feeling exists between the representa- tives of this country and the governmen...fa- cials. There was considerable talk at first of adopting retaliatory measures, but this

ample opportunity to rectify what the Chinese has quieted and the belief is general that nothing will be done until this Government has had an

consider its mistakes.

ready to be guided by popular valce in all questions affecting its social and commercial

"The Chinese Government, while it is ever

faterests, has not considered this one, for the reason that the protests have come almost entirely from one district-that of Cantonand does not voice the sentiments of the majority,"

Of Hongkong, proper Mr. Withers said that its affairs were very quiet, and the English who control it were not interested in the controversy and took no part in it. Trade between that port and the interior is good and the present year promises to be a prosperous one throughout The Orient.

HAMILTON

[(Ont.), April 28(h. A terrible railroad accident occurred on the Grand Trunk near here at 7 o'clock this morn- lag. The St. Louis express jumped the track and the engine ran into a water tank. Two cars telescoped and immediately took fire. All the dead, eighteen in number, have been taken aut. The only body identified is that of R. S Gurney of Chicago. He was instantly killed, but not burned. An Italian, name unknown, was also instantly killed. The other sixteen were burned beyond the possibility of identification, About twenty persons were injured, but only one or two seriously. Nons of the train hands were killed. The fireman was slightly burned and received a bad scalp wound,

BERLIN, April 28th. Lieutenant Buckingham, secretary of the American delegates to the Samoan conference, has arrived here. The National Gasetti, in an article on the Samoan question, favors Herr

Vonbar's proposal to restore tripartite control and to appoint a nominal King of Samba, with an outsider as umpire. It is expected that the British delegates to the conference will take only a mediator's part in the proceedings:

Teledrama LONDON, April 28th. ¡ The Daily News thinks the readiness with

which Mr. Bates explanation was accepted by Prince Blamarck is a favorable omen for the

at HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, FOOCHOW, ordinary as it was, was simply unavoidable. been appointed by the Secretary of State for the. dilapidated. Caine, Road is impassable at NEWS BY THE AMERICAN MAIL ably be made, and the English delegates will

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M. Walter Bosman, who obtained the Govern ment Scholarship in 1884, has successfully com- pleted his studies in Civil Engineering, and is The damage done by the late rain-storm meat there as a Junior Assistant in connection now on his way to Natal to take up an appoint in Hongkong, unprecedented and extra-with the Railway surveys, to which post he has

town built at the foot and on the lower slope of a precipitous mountain eighteen hundred feet high, Is, naturally enough, placed at the mercy of gullies, torrents and all the destroying power of running water, Of course, appropriate channels might have been made, strong barriers bulit, and other special contrivances resorted to In order to prevent the water from flooding the town; but these arrangements have in great part been in existence in the colony; and even if they were considerably improved upon, they could not, be relied on as Infallible means of preventing the effects of such a rainstorm as we had yesterday. To effect been published. The aim of the work is declared 2 Station. Indeed it is estimated that at least | The rioters tried to act fire to a gun factory at from the Battery and elsewhere; horsemen in

WHATEVER dissatisfaction may exist through the haver caused by the storm, we are sure that a huge wave of gratification will sweep across the colony when they learn the real cause. It was neither the depreciation of the dollar nor. the atmospheric agitation caused by the Sanitary Board conference.--Dr. Doberck, settles it by saying that it was "an abnormal amount of water vapour extending to a great height in the Exactly-a superabundance of H. 1O., flopped atmosphere, which caused the excessive rainfall."

violently down in a heap by the Meteorological Manager.

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success of the Samoan conference,Mange

The Standard, says that Bates' statement amply satisfies every demand that could reason. the top of Glenealy, owing to the subsidence

not raise dificulties. New Yorz, April 30th, of the main drain. Kennedy Road, at the blocked by a tremendous landslip, second de Janeiro, Capt. Wm. Ward, with the American perfect weather for the celebration could not end, near the Naval Hospital, is completely The Pacific Mail Co.'s steamship City of Rio The day broke bright, and beautiful) more

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only to that which swept away part of the Tram-mails of the zad inst., arrived in harbour this have been wished for. The air was a little way line. The whole bill on which the con morning. For the subjoined telegrams, we are sharp, but exhilarating, and just right for those valescents used to sit in the evening has alid

who were preparing to take part in the proces twenty feet high effectually stops all passage. A into the road, trees and all, and a soft mound indebted to our San Francisco exchanges ;---

sion. The earliest streaks of dawn found many VIENNA, April 23rd portion of the wall along the Filter-beds, near

people in the streets, and as the day wore on The strike of the car men is nearly at an end, the number increased till the lower end of Man- the Overflow Reservoir at Albany, has fallen, Rioting, however, continues. The mob to-day hattan Island was filled with a greater throng endangering the beds. On Queen's Road stoned the cavalry, and re-enforcements of than was ever there at one time before. A bri the stout rallings are broken down, and East, where the large stock of drain infantry were required. Many riolers were breeze set the myriad flags flapping in jubilation piper belonging to the Government is stored, wounded and a large number were arrested. on, the memorable anniversary and rustled The Government to-day offered to supply among the vast quantities of decoration which most of the big pipes, broken and washed into soldiers to drive the cars. The strikers there blazed in profusion from every house front, the Harbour. Seven houses have been destroyed upon offered to resume work unconditionally, making a bewildering/kaleidescope of national by a landslip from Hospital bill, but no one At 10 o'clock to-night a band-to-hand conflict colors.EMMA MAC trained den tider injured, as the inmates had taken refuge in No. took place between the soldiers and the mob, Martial strains wens bome upon, the breezes this desirable object, a dam, ten times to be to furnish an adequate account of the modated there by Inspector Swanston through. and wounded many persons. The excitement troops and other bodies moved to their appointed six hundred persons were temporarily accom- Hernals. The troops fired a volley Into the mob brilliant uniforms dashed here and there as the strong, and five times as high as Tytam's meaning, origin and history of English words out the storm. A house in Yeung Wo Lane fell continued up to midnight. The Commissioner positions to take part in the parade. Then the would have to be built all along the slope of new in general use, or known to have been in injuring coolle seriously. The extent of the of Police was nearly stoned to death by the mob chimes of old Trinity Church rang out the solemn Victoria Peak, protecting the city through-use at any time during the last 700 years. It damage in the district is not yet estimated, as and was rescued with much difficulty by a party strains of Old Hundred," followed by Hail out its whole length from the Influx of the endeavors (1) to show, with regard to each passable. Several boats have been capsized in

some of the streets most injured are quite Im- of dragoons.

Mega Columbia "Yanken, Doodle, Centennial WASHINGTON, April 23rd." March, Colambin, the Gem of the Ocean, waters, and even then its efficaciousness individual word, when, how, in what shape, and the Harbour; one, this morning, was reported Consul General Waller at London, in his re

"America," "The Starry Flag, "Our Flag Is "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND would be problematical. To talk of rid-with what signification it became English the Prays, and seven men drowned. Several been a general revival of the trade and com; of Stars" Then the sound of bells calling to have upset near the Temporary Market, on port to the Department of State, says there has There," "Auld Lang Syne, "My Country's Flag HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST offers ding Hongkong of the effects of rain-storms has since received, which of its uses have, huts on various parts of the hills, and one or says, clearly show a decided improvement in churches awakened the people anew to the true

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persons have been found wet and destitute merce of the United Kingdom. The returds, he people to thanksgiving services in the various It has an extensive circulation in all Forts would be just as wise as suggesting in the course of time, become obsolete, and two have died. The Wanchal Gap Road both the volums and character of business done solemnity of the occasion. Services were held between Singapore and Newchwang, in the to the fohabitants of the neighbourhood of which still survive; what new uses have since which our veracious evening, contemporary desin 1888 over the previous year, and this in inall the churches of the city of every denomina Australasian Colonies, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and the scale of charges Herculaneum and Pompei the advisability arisen, by what processes, and when; (2) to cribed as being the only practicable road to the creased prosperity, which promises to continue, tion, votive masses being offered up in the has been fixed at an exceptionally low rate of building their townlets higher than illustrate these facts by a series of quotations whilst the Peak Read has escaped with one apparently due to legitimate trade and not to held

Peak is utterly impassable in twenty places, is not confined to any particular industry. It la Catholic churches, at which special players were: Terms can be learned on application.

Vesuvius.

ranging from the first known occurrence to the small landship, and is quite open. At Whit- speculation. The improvement in business is But if we cannot entirely avoid the latest, or down to the present day, the word felld part of Mr. Chater's bungalow has fallen, expecially noticeable in the building industry Suggestions for the improvement of this work consequences arising from the peculiar being thus made to exhibit its own history and and near by a boat was wrecked against the

W CATRO, April 23rd A battalion of Egyptian troops under the com- position in which this city is built, we can meanng land (3) to treat the etymology of each seawall down there last night, and a man

drowned. Several of the district sub-stations aro mand of the Governor of Suakin and two gun by some means or other, evade them. One word strictly on the basis of historical fact, and rendered uninhabitable. At Yaumati 8600 worth boats slated for Ports Halanby which of the best things to be done in this direc in accordance with the methods and results of of wood was washed away and found stranded recently captured by the Soudanese, The philological science. The first volume, which on Stonecutters Island." The Government floats advance is for the purpose of recapturing the tion, is, as we have times out number deals with the letters A and B only, Contains ing fire-engine has been damaged by junks fouling port. Barth advocated, the extension of the city west 31,254 words la 1140 pages. In Johnson's

her during the, storm, and has had to be sent,

NEW YORK, April 25th. wards and southwards. The southern Dictionary A and B'occupied lay pages,

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As a matter of course the principal services were at St. Paul's Church on Broadway, where Warbington attended on the Inauguration,

The exercises were conducted by Rev, Henry C. Potter, D.DLL the Bight New York as the services on the day of Washing ton's inauguration were conducted by the Bishop of New York, the Right Key, Samuel Provost

At 8 o'clock the Committee on States escorted

to this side for repairs. At Stanley three houses.The Mall and Express London special says the President from the Fith Avenue Hote have fallen. At the Peak, this morning, a mat-With the exception of granting a general inter-accompanied by the Chief Justion and