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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE rice crop in Haiphong, which is almost ready, is reported to be most abundant.

We note that the agent of the D. & 0. steamer Gadiz have arranged for her to call at Amoy.

In the Supreme Court at Rockhampton-Con- stable Walsh:"Oj allended the port-mortem examanition of the deceascil, yes Honor. The body was dead.”

A REGULAR meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618. S.C., will be held, in Freemasons' Hall, tid i fisiting brethren are codially invited precisely. THE Daily Press has evidently chartered some aspiring school-boy to write editorials regarding Mr. Francis, Q C., and the Sanitary Board. We man, who claims to be a journalist An infallible stand-by, no House should be can publish such babyish nonsense. withdut it.

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We see from the Haiphong papers that silk is now being regularly exported to Paris. The last consignment brought in $300 a picul

MESSES. Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Ulysses, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday afternoon, and is due on the 17th inst." THERE will be a regular meeting of Perseverance Lodge, No. 1165, in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 17th instant, ni 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

THE marine-store dealers who have been so

often before Mr. Wodehouse Intely on a charge of knowingly purchasing. hinges that had been stolen from the Victoria College, were to-day discharged."

THE IMPORT TRADE OF HONGKONG.

The following circular on the above,subjeci, signed by the Hon. P. Fyrie, Chairman of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce, has been issued

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The attention of the Committee of this Chamber has been called to the present unsatisfactory position of the Import trade of Hongkong as regards contracts, with the view of inducing them to undertake some initiatory measures towards bringing about a remedy,

The Committee assume that the evil com-

of the monsoon suspended operations during the winter, as a tremendous sea rolls into thi bay, which is quite exposed to 'the fuli sweep of the ocean; but another start was made' ihi summer, and with such success was the work carried on that the very day the Carisbrooke šehi Hongkong (May 23) a telegram was received t the effect that the Ardgay was afloat in the coffer dam, had been moved a distance of eighty feet nearer the sea, and that practically the arduou task of getting her once more into her nativ element was an fail accompli It was under this belief that the merry party on board the Carisbrooke left Hongkong, and the disappoint ment was keen when all these hopes were, alter

penitadament, el cont cequest tax, or entire non-fulfilment, of contracts by many Chinese dealers-is generally admitted, and the question seems to them to be one of sufficient interesting and importance to justify its being brought so is Tuz following telegrams, dated Kohe, June and, the notice of importers, with the object of ascer appears in the Fupan Mail :—Fire broke out intaining whether some attempt at joint action the Onohama Dockyard at one o'clock this would or would not meet with their approval. morning and raged with considerable violence

The difficulties that stand in the way of those for three hours. The conflagration started in the who are endeavouring to bring about joint action. west end of the yard, in a store containing are apparent enough to the Committee, but these engines, gear, &c, belonging to the torpedo boats may possibly prove to be not insurmountabl now under construction, and spread with great even where so many interests, and some of rapidity to stacks of timber adjoining. Fortu- them perhaps of a diverging nature, are involved, nately the wind was easterly, otherwise the whole and the Commitee will feel obliged if those establishment must have been destroyed, but interested will be good enough to signify their through the strenuous exertions of the Concession Fire Brigade of Kobe and other brigades the approval or disapproval of some steps being fire was extinguished at four o'clock, and the torpedo-beats, machine shops, storehouses, and offices were saved. The destruction of property is estimated at twenty thousand dollars.

MR. Wodehouse held a magisterial inquiry this morning into the death of the coolie who was shot at Chat-tsze-mel on Sunday, Dr. Marques said the bullet went right through the man. His Worship recorded an open verdict. SOME. thousands of shares and millions of dollars are reported to have been manipulated on the Share Market to-day. We are not quite sure who is the bass Ananias of Rogues' Alicy —there are so many candidates for the honour, {

A new invention to prevent collisions at sea consisting of a small plate fixed at the side of the vessel, has been very successfully tried on the The Times, in a leading article on the debate in Thames. Electricity is the active agent. The the House of Commons on Mr. S. Smith's Opium, approach of another vessel within two miles resolution, says :-The thousand chests over causes a bell to sound, and an indicating arrow which Mr. Samuel Smith raises his hands in shows the direction whence it comes.

holy horror would go a very little way towards THE Ulster Echo, a renegade rag published in satisfying the Chinese demand. The poor Chi nese who ruin their families by opium smoking Heliast, accused Labouchere of having aided have probably never enjoyed one whiff of the Pigott, of Times notariely, to escape. Labby Indian-grown drug. The only opium which promptly initiated an action for libel and then they can afford is produced nearer home. To the Zeka, like the Times, took it all back, paid cut off the Indian supply, would not touch them the legal costs, and handed over £roo, to be

in any way, Mr. Samuel Smith had some added to the fund for Pigott's children.

Formidable opponents, better acquainted with facts about the past history of the opium traffic than he himself could claim to be, and more qualified to estimate the results whish his scheme would have if it were carried out er his wishes. His tenderness of conscience w admire; but, as Sir Richard Temple shinwed, he could find full scope for its exercise without going far from home. If it is wrong for India to draw revenue from opium it must be at least equally wrong for England to draw revenu: from drink. Nothing could be urged against the use of opium which could not be urged with much greater force against the use of intoxicating fluids:

SIR HEFCULES ROBINSON, a once popular Governor of Hongkong, says that-Imperialism-is- doomed, and that the chief factor in future colonisation will be Republicanism. He con demns the system of irresposible bodies in England meddling with the wishes and interests of the colonies. The Colonial and Imperial Institute to wit.

Twill probably interest the Rev. Mr. Bondfield, the China fail, and the ware grid of the Scotch Church, to know that last year 3400 missionaries were maintained in India, at a cost of £760,000 They succeeded in "conv sting "one Hindeo in" every mullion, the cost of each conversion thus being (£80 53. 3d it was the collection-plate thier pence that did it.

MAGNESIAH and Holz Co., are decidedly improved in

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THAT very useful institution the Hongkong Hotel Ro isserie, which has been closed for alterations, was re-opened yesterday. The rooms, which have been newly painted and decorated under the superintendence of Mr. W. S. Marten, of the appearance, and everything possible has been done to meet the requirements of the public.

A PAPER that resists the action of both fire and water, has, it is said, recently been invented in Gaman by Berr Ladowigg. The manufacture is accomplished by mixing 25 parts of asbestos fibre with from 25 to 30 parts of aluminum sulphate, and the mixture is moistened by chlo ride of zine and thoroughly washed in water. It is then treated with a solution of i part of resin stap in from 8 to 10 parts of a solution of pure aluminum sulphate, after which it is manufactured into paper like ordinary pulp.

THE DROWNING äccident AT

ABERDEEN.

An inquiry was held by Mr. Wodehouse this morning, at the Magistracy, into the circum- stances attending the death of Arthur 1. Biggs, first-class petty offi er of HMS. Severn, who was drowned whilst bathing off Aberdeen Dack on Saturday.

taken.

It is proposed, if importers generally are found desircus of some Fction being taken, to hold a meeting for the public discussion of the question, and meanwhile the Committee will, gladly receive proposals or suggestions in any way calculated to further the ends aimed at.

Anment's careful survey, dashed to the ground.

now to reaume my yarn. Although the sen was like a sheet ofglass, land- was not a particularly easy task. The Ardgay piled up' in a little sandy cove, on a lei shore open at all times to the full force of the sta, We landed at low tide, and, as just stated, there was not a ripple on the water, but it nevertheless was all that Captain Cass could do to get us ashore without flooding the gig. In anything approaching rough weather landing would be an utter impossibility, and this is an element that must not be lost sight of when reckoning up the prospect of floating the rdgay. The position of the steamer originally, it appears, was broadside on to the sea; but by recent operations her stem as been turned almost at a right angle. She is now lying inside a coffer dam within half a dozen yards of the sea, her stem pointing to the southward almost in a direct line, and at a cursory glance it would seen that getting the ship all sat was a mere question of a few hours. However, the task is net so easy as it looks. Mr. Andrew Johnston, who koked a bit worn with the incessant worrý and anxiety inseparable from his position, was A VISIT TO THE "ARDGAP"

kind enough not only to take me round the steamer but also to fully explain what had (BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) been done in the past and what it was It was a clear starry night above, although intended to do in the future. The Ardgay a slight haze rested over the tranquil sea, as, at

lics in a dock of sand, protected from the 10 p.m. on May 25th, the good ship Carissen by a fairly strong wall of sand-bags, which

Captain having on beard

has already withstood several heavy gales. the 44. P. Chater and a dozen other Pumps are, of course, kept actively at work and about "rso Annamese coolics-wretched well-known Hongkong residents as his guests and bound on, a special visit to the stranded looking specimens of humanity--were engaged. steamer virdgay, ploughed her way steadily

under the superintendence of Captain Thom, onwards towards the coast of Cochin-China. The once well known as commander of the steamer island of Collca Ray was a conspicuous land. Naples, excavating and carrying away the sand mark on our starboard bow, and far away in bank extending from the stern of the steamer in a the night, could be dimly seen, towering like semi-circle to about amidships. The first aim is to obtain plenty of room for the ship, when again Abat in the coffer-dam, berately swung gigantic ghosts, the highest summits of the of moving lights were visible right ahead, in round with her stem to the sea, and it is then dicating that the fishermen were at work and anticipated that, aided by another dam being run out at right angles for a considerable dis- that land was close at hand. By the ad of, night glasses we soon afterwards made

tance and propelled by her own engines, she out a High promontory away on our port quarter, will have no trouble in being floated the and following, the line of the lind could just first high tide after all these preparations manage to trace the beach until it receded from have been completed. This plan seems feasible sight in the darkness.

enough, but yet there are difficulties in the way. In the first place fine weather is a sine gud non for the preliminary working operations to be brought to an issue; and secondly it is very much easier talking about the annexe to the cofferdam than it will be in constructing and making it effec. tive. There is no real foundation for any structure, as the beach is nothing but a quicksand. Further more, for a distance of from a hundred and fifty to two bundred yards from the shore the ses amount of tise and fall in the tides, but is almost a uniform depth of about from four to five feet. I omitteds to ascertain the

under ordinary circumstances the steamer will have to be taken out a very considerable distance before deep water is reached. It struck me that the appliances on the spot were painfully insufficient for a work of such magnitude, and taking all things into consideration, Mr. Tohnston, in my opinion, had done wonders under creat disa vantages. The coolie labour supply is plentiful, but its quality is bad, the phy's que af The Annamese being strikingly inferior to the prdinary Chinese labourer, and I must confess it struck me that there was very little system observed in their operations.

mountains of Annam. Half an hour later a row

"What is that headland ?" was my query to the Captain, who was looking steadily at some object on the starboard side.

"Cape Batangan," was the brief response, "and that," he continued, painting out a stationary red light about a mile distant, "is the Ardguy, and she is not afloat."

A truly tropical morning, with a blistering sun

blazing fiercely in a cloudless sky The Caris daylight red moved as cinse inshure as the depth brooke had weighe anchor at the first gleam of

f water would allow and was now lying-

Aetitle as palted ship,

身

Upon a printed ocean. Away to the left Cape Batangan reared its lofty head and on the opposite side of the semi- circular bay in which we lay, almost directly opposite, and only a few miles distant, Cape Bantam was plainly visible. In the background were piled range upon range of lofty mountains, then came a pleasin: landscape of wonded

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to the year 1767 the export of oplum from India to China seldom exceeded 2005 chesta, a year,` whereas it now amounted to the horrible figure of 100,000, chests a year. The Chinese had made stringent regulations against the use, manufacture, and sale of opiuin, and at last their Government went so far, as to adjudge capital punishment.to those who either smoked upium or sold it to the people. During all the time that the opium trade was prohibited by China it was carried on by smugglers, the profits being divided between thems and the old East India Company, which was not ashamed to make a profit out of the degradation of China. The first Chinese war which arose out of this traffic was, the language of this insiculated to cover this member for Mid-Lothian, country with permanent disgrace. From 1840 the traffic went on till 1848,, and, although it was prohibited by the Chinese Government, it still kept increasing. Opium was smuggled into China in increasing quantities until the date of the second Chinese war, The lorcha Arrow, a smuggling ship, was seized by the Chinese Under Lord Palmerston's Government a war took place, the Chinese were again defeated, Peking was taken, the palace was burnt down, and the Chinese were compelled, at the point of the bayonet, to recognise the trade in opium by the Treaty of Tientsic, signed in 1868. After the negotiation of that Trenty the Chinese were so unfriendly to the British residents and Consuls that Sir Thomas Wade, our Ambassador to the Chinese Government, stated in a decratch sent to Her Majesty's Government in 1868 that the footing we had in China had been obtained by force alone, and that it was in reality to fear alone that we were indebted for the safety which we enjoyed in certain parts to which our forces and access. Concessions bad from time to time been extorted for our tinde; but, in the opinion of educated men, this very extension of our commercial relation must appear to involve political and even moral wrong? In 186g our Minister referre to the great injury which was clieved to be inflicted upon the whole Chinese Einpire, and said that the Chinese looked upon the smoking of opium as tending to the ruin of the family. After the Treaty of Tientsin complaints were made by ourtreders that, in addition to the im port duties, local duties were imposed in the in- terior. This led to the Chefoo Convention of 1875, which provided a fixed duty in addition to the import duty. This duty was now 110 taels a chest, This was not considered sufficiently favourable to Brkish trade, and the Convention was only ratified for nine years in 1885 The Convention was liable to be cancelled after the year 1800 on twelve months' notice, and as that time was approaching we might give notice of the termination of the Convention. This last four years attempts had been made to persunde people that opium was as harmless as beer or tobacco. Sir George Birdwood might be taken as the official advocate of this view. Bat having taken an interest in this question for twenty. years, he had not found single disinterested witness who took that view. I had been said that opium was no worst than whisky. The difference was that, whereas men had been found over and over again to abandon the drinking of whisky, it was not so with opium, as the disuse of the drug, when once the habit was confirmed, involved excruciating suffering. Two of our Ambassadors, Sir Rutherford Alcock and Sir

smoking, Missionaries took the same view, and Thomas Wade, had expressed themselves very strongly on the pernicious consequences of opium

they had especial means of forming a sound opinion. An authority said that hollow eyes, sunken checks, high shoulder bones, discoloured teeth, emaciated frames, and sour complexions announced opium smokers everywhere. The confirmed smoker must devote three hours a day to smoking; he must have opium even if he went without rice; and he could not, work above two hours consecutively. If he were deprived of it too long, water flowed from his eyes and his throat burned; and, if he were deprived of it altogether he would die in agony. An account from an opium hospital On board powerful pumps were at work and stated the giving up of oplum was something The steamer's machinery had been taken to thing, even a drop of water, and he suffered the signs of activity were visible on every side, dreadful The patient's stomach refused every-

́ Ship dim discovered, dropping from the clouds —

pieces, under the superintendence of the chief most abject misery. It was absurd to compare engineer who has stayed by the ship since opium smoking with tobacco smoking, or even was the good ship. Ardgay, of Aberdeen, she went ashore carefully 'cleaned, and put with the immoderate use of alcohol. The Chinese. The circumstances connected with thestranding in thorough working order, so that if once people had always regarded oplum smoking as of this vessel are of sufficient interest to warrant aflat outside the sand-banks the Ardgay one of the worst vices. The Chinese Govern me in giving a brief summary, The Ardgay,will be perfectly capable of holding her own. In ment had struggled with all their might against 1077 tons, built of steel and only about a year all other departments on deck the vessel is in the introduction of opium ; they had punished eld, left Hongkong for Bangkok with 150 tons capital condition, and quite fit for active service." with death those who grew by after the first of cargo and 250 tons water ballast” under So far as can be seen she has received no injury Chinese war they realised their incapacity zo the command of Captain Alexander Cook

whatever; her steel plates have stood the wear | keep out the poison; and after the second at 8 o'clock in the morning of the 13th and tear of rough weather splendidly and defied Chinese war they may have felt the task almost December, 1787. The Gap Rock was cleared corrosion-her hull from stern to stern is almost hopeless. In the last few years there had. been about four hours later, and no other land without a mark, This is certainly one of the a great increase in the growth and consumption was sighted until 4.15 am on the 15th, advantages of steel; had the Ardgay been con- of opium in Western China. It was computed when the ship, going at full speed (over structed of iron it is doubtful whether, after all that there were something like 25 000.000 of. 1 knots) and with all sail set, ran right on these months of exposure, she would have been habitual ppium smokers in the country; and a sandy beach a short distance to the northward | worth flating.

that in a year 65,000 persons committed suicide. of Cape Batangan, on the coast of Cochin-China. Will Mr. Johnston and his colleagues succeed Were we now to abstain from doing what was SOME day, remarks "Titus Salt" in one of

In the passage down the China Sea rather rough in getting the vess I into deep water during the right in itself because the Chinese hal abandoned those facetious "brickbats" he is constantly

weather was experienced, but how the steamer present summer? Mr. Jobrsion, a practical all restrictions, and were gradually sinking. slinging at the heathen Chinese, when en

in a forty-two hours run managed to get man and a clever engineer, is very sanguine that, deeper and deeper? Were we to go on having experienced mathematician is in search of

out of ber proper course to the extent of over a if favored with good weather, the Ardgay will our share in the creation of all this misery, hundred miles is one of thous mysteries of be in Hongkong harbour during this month. drawing our, share of the wicked gain, simply sort out to same extent the awful tangle and

navigation which is far beyond lucid explanation. He hoped to have her afloat within a fortnight because it was impossible to undo what had complication of Chinese arithmetic, and put

And the mystery thickens when it is remem- from the date of our visit, but I fancy he was been done ? If we were to set a good example the multiplication-table on a firm basis in the

bered that less than a couple of hours before unduly sanguine. The task, as I have already for consciencesake, perhaps the Chinese Govern country, where the Brother of the Sun contorts

running aground the vessel must have steamed indicated, is not so easy as it looks, although, ment might be encouraged to make a supreme himself upon his throne. For all the earthly

through a narrow channel about two miles wide, of course, there are no insuperable difficulties effort to stamp put this vice. Unless it Word things that are tied up in a hard knot all Joseph Woobridge, A. B., sald:-I and another without the prominent land on either side being in the way. It is a mere question of time and done China would sooner or late commit national added together and multiplied by the square of man got hold of deceased to help him to sighted. It was quickly seen that the task of

labour and money. The steamer is perfectly suicide. The mote in our own eye was that we their own unspeakable confusions would hardly swim to some steps, a distance of about floating the vessel would be no easy one, and

safe where she now lies, and were adequate derived six millions of India sterling from the ard unfixableness of the smallest and most swim, and had difficulty in keeping him received telegraphic orders to abandon her,

He could hardly after standing by for four months the Captain appliances within easy reach the problem export of oplum from Indisto China; and the pro- begin to compare with the aggregate shiftiness fourteen or fifteen yards.

would be solved easily enough ; but for blem was how to piake up that six millions, ordinary subject in Chinese literature, where all self afloat without assistance. We had taken which was accordingly done, the chief engiacer,

a job of such comparative magnitude there which India could not afford to lose. (Hear, the Bo,coo characters in the Chow dialect are him to the steps and back, and he asked us to with an armed guard from the French port of is a great deal lacking, and the men fo Hear) The annexation of Upper Bummah was not sufficient to decide how far it is from here take him over a second time. I was going to Touren, being left in charge. On returning to charge have to do the best they can with what very repugnant to the native population of India, into the next street, A Chinese mile is made up take him over alone, so I told the other man to Hongkong the loss of the steamer, was made the they have got. Under all circumstances Lam who believed it was carried out for the benefit of partly of the distance you have to go, partly stand by if I needed assistance. I told deceased subject of the usual Marine Court inquiry, which disposed to think that only by the greatest good England, and that it was unjust to saddle the of the time it is likely to take you to get there, to be on bis back, and the got hold of him resulted in a verdict that the ship had been lost fortune will the Ardgay be floated during the cast upon India. But India had to bear an extre and mostly of the obstacles that you will under the arms and pulled him long. The through careless navigation, and the Captain's present monsoon. probably meet on the way; and it also takes other man swam alongside. We had nearly got certificate of competency was suspended for three

was carried out. He held that this country ought" into consideration whether anybody is likely to to the steps, when somebody shouted that a months. Shortly afterwards the Underwriters in

to, tako da ita shoulders that amount and the stop you route and how long it will man was drowning, and the other men all rushed London sent out an expert to visit the steamer

extra cost of the Government of Upper Burmah... take you to get away from him, the state of your past us towards the place, taking si both under and to report on the chances of floating her.

That would give, relief to the finances of India. physical health as judged by your informant, water and separating us. When I came up 1 This gentleman (Capt. Stuart), accompanied by

About two-thirds of the opium revenus" was your sobriety and general character, and the could not see deceased for a time, and then I Mr. Robert Cooke, of the Hongkong and

derived from the Government monopoly in nature of the weather; and as likely as not after saw him rising under the man who was assisting Whampoa Dock Co., went down to Cape THE OPIUM TRADE WITH CHINA. Bengal, and the remainder from what was sizing up all these considerations the estimate is the Grat drowaing man, two or three yards away, Batangan, and on his retum to the colony

called the Malwa opium, grown in native States, further based on sundry unreliable data as to I tried to reach him, but failed, and then I called applied to the Dock Company for a teader

and which was subjected to a heavy tax as it whether you don't really intend to go to some out to the others to give him room to come up. to float the Ardgay and bring her up to Hong-

passed through our territories. The only logical other place alt gether. A thousand rash make They did so, but he did not rise again. I kong. An estimate was duly made out, but the

policy that would attain the end at which they a dollar in China-sometimes, and at other think he was kicked by one of the swimmers. 6gure ($60,000) proved too high for acceptance,

almed was one that looked towards the final sup times there are as few na 330 cars in the The water was very crowded. I called out to and eventually the steamer was sold, as she lay, Mr. S, Smith rose to call attention to the prezilon of the trade. Considering that the dollar, according to how the other man feels, somebody to dive, and to others to get ropes, and to the Hon, C. P, Chater for the sum of $30,500. op'um trade with China, and to move" That Bengal monopoly was in the bands of the Gove and when he is feeling half-way between the two told the officer in charge. The other man was Negotiations were again epened with the lock this House views with deep x-gret the history ernment, they bad it in their power entirely to then there are 700 cash in the dollar. If there saved. It is usual for learners to go to a aballow Company for Boating the Ardgay, bringing her of our eplum policy towards China, and regards stamp it out. Alrendy the Chinese Government, are two men involved in the transaction then place to bathe. Deceased could have gone therail back to this part, and re-classing her; but the traffic in that drug as repugnant to the true in their treaties with the United States, Russia, the value of the dollar is generally a compromise he had liked. Swimming-belts are not supplied. unfortunately the contracting parties could interests of that country a that it calls upon the and, he believed, other countries, prohibited the between the way they both feel on the subject. A Jobe Stafford, carpenter's mate, said: When not come to terms-although the difference Government of India to take steps looking to importation of oplum into China; and, of course, toel is a rough average between 52. 6d, and 71., | I was bathing I swam round to the non-swimmers between them was very slight-and Mr. Chater, the final extinction of the trade, and urges upon if we surrendered the revenue, it would be on and measures of weight are there or thereabouts | place and spoke to deceased, who then swam- with his accustomed energy, determined to Her Majesty's Government to intimate to the condition that China concluded or maintained more or less often. A Chinaman hardly ever out of his depth to me. I helped him, and he attempt to get the vessel off the beach at his own Chinese Government that, in the next revision with other Fowers treatles also cxcluding opium. known his own age, but if he says he is 29 and had confidence enough to go round again, risk and on his own responsibility," Mr. Andrew of the Treaty of Tientsin, full power will be When this country retired from the slave trade it The Prince and Princess of Wales and family someone else tells him he is 50, he replies that Woolbridge then got hold of him, and I was Johnston, englener surveyor for Lloyd's in this given to extinguish the trade in opium if I was very jealous of its being carried on by other

it is allee 11" His name alters according to near by, when I saw carpenter sinking, so I port, was entrusted with the task, and after | ibinks fit.”

nations, and it employed a squadron to put it the part of the country he is in and various other lent hím á hand. When I looked round again considerable delay in obtaining the requisite The hon, member said he must ask the House down. And so, if we obtained from China treaty circumstances, including his grandfather; and I missed Woolbridge and deceased, and so I appliances, set out on his mission full of confidence. once more to register a protest against what was stipulations absolutely excluding opium from all bis rank depends largely on what has happened reported it to the oficer,

Throughout all last summer operations were a national sin. He would attempt to prove these sources, no doubt we should become exceedingly The Duke of Edinburgh, is a guest of the to his brother; and be is liable to be beheaded or Lieut. Fyler, re-called, said that non-swim- actively carried on, and time after time high two propositions first, that we had forced the Jealous that no opium should be smuggled into bambooed any day on account of his uncle's mers were not allowed in the water until the hopes, were indulged in that success was well opium trade on China against the determined Chips. Japan had stipulated with avery Power that Emperor of Germany in Berlin,

unlawful proceedings or because of some lucident formation of the swimming-class, but deceased within reach, but still the great day was postponed. opposition of that country; and, secondly, that no opium should be imported into her ports, and connected with his grandson. Altogether the could swim a little. This was the first accident | Lats in the season, when everything was ready we had thereby done incalculable harm to China. she imposed very, haary, penalties on its sale Mangel is hopelessly angetatable in all his there had been. It was not customary to use and the steamer was all but afloat e typhoon. After glancing rapidly over our relations with and the consequence was thug Japan is ravidly stages, and if someone could sort him out of his swimming-belts, Deceased had a very good happened to come along, and after masking up China, the hon. member said there was no rising in the scale, while, Chink tall. present complication he would do a good turn to character,

the works ended by driving the vessal a evidenco to show that opiumi smoking was a If warenounced that oplam traffic, compensa a hazy and badly tangled idolator who is done

considerable distance farther up the beach common practice in that country till the end of would cost to us, fram unexpe jup in a barð knot,S

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A CORRESPONDENT writes:-The smoking of fea in the form of cigarettes has already been spoken about, but a new substitute for the fragrant weed is likely to affect the revenue stiff more seriously. It is a mixture of British herbs the particular plants are, of course, kept secret --and smokers who have tried the compound declare it be deliciously fragrant, slightly exhilarating, and, withal, soothing to the nerves. Combined with ordinary tobacco it is said to make a blend a satisfactory as that of chicory and coffee. At present it is prepared in Scotland, under the name of "herb tobacco,” and it has

North If the movement extend further it may command the notice of the Chancellor of the,

rapidly grown in favour with all classes in the

Fxchequer, who certainly will not to have his pipe put out by any untaxed composition likely to supersede "bird's-eye," "shag," "Virginia," "gold fake," or what the Chancellor probably

likes best returns."

The Hongkong Telegraph exploncest, might be worth his while to

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 188g.

TELEGRAMS.

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BERLIN, May 27th. Forty members of the committee appointed by the miners on strike, in Westphalia have been arrested on suspicion of being connected with *the Socialist movement.

LONDON, May 28th.

In the House of Lords last night, debate took place on the Naval Defence. Bill, in the course of which Lord Salisbury made an important speech in reference to the political situation in Europe. His lordship dwelt upon the insecurity of present peace, and said that although he could not say war was actually imminent, never- theless a real danger existed against which England must. gund herself. The Bill was eventually read a second time...

THE PITTSBURG disaster,

June 4th. The floods are abating. A quantity of dibris from the Johnstown reservoir lodged and collected

under a bridge, and amongst the debris are two thousand bodies. The air is tainted for miles around, and it is feared pestilence may arise from the mass of corruption.

THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

June toth.

are visiting the International Exhibition.

THE ROYAL FIDDLER

BOULANGISM ÎN FRANCE,

The police in Faris have seized compromising do smens belonging to General Boulanger, and several important arrests have been made in consequence,

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"Lieut Fyler, of the Severn, said:~The de- ceased was a painter-a first-class peity efficer. He joined the ship on the 19th February last. He was thirty-three years old at the time of his death. On the Fth inst., at,5 30 p.m., 1 was in charge of the bathing party outside the Dock; there were over a hundred bathing. My duty was to attend in a boat, so as to render assistance if required, and to see that they did not go beyond the boat, which was about sixty yards our. The deceased was one of the party. He was a very poor swimmer. The water was about twenty feet deep. Two men were in charge of him, taking him to the side

or farty feet. My boat was on the other side were moored in the centre,, a distance of thirty of the launches. About twenty minutes after the min catered the water one of them came and told me a comiade was drowning, pointing to a spat about five yards from the side of the wall. I immediately called for men to dive and bring him up, and sent for two Chinese divers who attended on the deck, About half-a-dozen men dived for the man, and the Chinese, who came up about seven minutes | later, went down on one side of the entrance and came up on the other, but failed to find the body. The search was continued for twenty minutes or more, after which divers went down in diving dress, and searched the soft mad, until stopped by the darkness. The place was also swept with grappling-irons, and two nine-poun- ders were fired, to see if the body would rise, All next day divers were down searching, and again on Monday, About nine o'clock that morning a launch Tarted from a pier some seventy or eighty yards from the place, and caused the body to come to the surface just where deceased was last seen to go down." It was covered with mud. Deceased was married, and had one child. There are no printed instructions or rules as to bathing-partics, that I know of There is a swimming-clan for laarners. Everything possible was done to save the man, but it was some title time before notice was given.

of the entrance walls from some launches that

His Worship found that the deceased was Kocidentally drowned,

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slopes and green fields, gradually shelving down Inng stretch of white sand, running down to entire length yards of where we were moored, high and dry the water's edge and extending of the hay, and there, within three hundred on the beach, snug and safe as if in dry dock,

like a---

After a stay of about a couple of hours in one/arge of two millions ever since the annexation

of the hottest carnets it has ever been my lot to. visit, the Carisbrooke continued her voyage to Touron, of which more anon.

DEBATE IN THE MOUSE OF COMMONS,"

On the motion for going into Committee of Supply on May 3rd.