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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1889.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE tariff of charges in the Paris Hotels have, owing to the 'Exhibition, risen 30 per cent. THE Rev. G. H. Randfield, minister of the Unian Church, will conduct the service at the Peak Church to-morrow afternoon, commencing at

4.30.

THE New York Mail and Express says the fact that the American sugar beet is a great deal sweeter than any other heet in the world in not a particularly sweet fact for the Sugar Trest.

THE Glenshiel, which left Amoy laden with tea for New York on the 23rd ulio, passed Singapore of the 28th. That is to say she is making better time against the monsoon than the mails make

with it.

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The Hongkung Gelegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1889,

TELEGRAMS.

(From the Singapore Free Prass) FRANCE AND EGYPT.

LONDON, June 27th. Lord Salisbury declining to treat regarding British Evacuation and the conversion of the Egyptian Preference Loan together," the latter scheme has been dropped,

ROYAL BETROTHAL

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June 28th!

Her Majesty has given her consent to the betrothal of the Princess Louise of Wales with the Earl of Flie.

THE FRONTIER.

Cairo, June 28th, The insurgent leader Waled Njumi neating Wady Halla, two battalions of infantry with artillery, and a squadron of cavalry have been ordered to proceed there.

FIGHTING IN EGYPT.

LONDON, July 4th. The Dervishes have been defeated with an estimated loss of one thousand killed, wounded and prisoners; the Egyptian loss, is reported as seventy.

THE CHETWYND-DURHAM CASE. The Arbitrators have awarded Sir George Chetwynd one farthing damages, cach party paying his own costs, li

THE SHAH.

The Shah has arrived in London.

RIOT AT HANKOW, »THE "MERLIN” SENT UP.

A telegram was received this morning from Shanghai, stating that a riot had broken out at Haakow, and H.M.S. Marlin ordered up.

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until I am done"

A SPECIMEN of " English as she is spoke in in a complete incrimination of the master of the the House of Commons:-"Don't interrupt me shop. Up to the last adjournment he had con- ducted himself in a way calculated to throw YESTERDAY a sailor named George Johnson,m st people off suspicion he fanned himselt living at the Sailors' Home, got worsted in placidly, and looked around the Court, when answering some very nasty questions, as blandly fight. Afterwards he met another sailor, named and innocently as the most child-like Ah Sin. Arthur Tighe, and, after upbraiding him.for not

On Thursday P.C. Moffat said that he had taking his part, stabbed him in the check. Tighe been unable to find traces of the timber, was removed to Hospital and Johnson arrested. and silk, and shoes, which the master alleged He was remanded, to-day, bail being fixed at

stocked the shop, and Mr. Wodehouse then $400.

gave the latter chance to down and MARIA was a very sweet singer, and he loved her. point out to the police anything which They were alone. Come and sing for me," he be thought were the residuum of the goods. He said. She allowed him to lead her tenderly to did find something of the sort-about as much the piano. She turned over a pile of music with as could be put in one's pocket, and it was care her other hand. It was awkward to do it with fully taken up and produced in Court this one hand, but she was too absent-minded to morning. He was then recalled, and further think of the simple fact that the might take examined as to his dealings. He repeated that away the hand he held. "What do you want?" he received timber to the value of $1,053 from she asked. Home, Sweet Home," he said Bangkok, by the steamer Kong Beng, on the "Well, you'd better ask maṁma." He has his acth June, as shown by his books. He gave home, sweet home now, in a terrace house. par iculars as to the kind of wood, the cost of Rent, $75 a month.

freight, and so on, Then a foki from the Yuen Fat Hong, which owns the Kong Beng, was called. He said that no such consigament was recorded on their books, and no such freight received. No timber had been brought for him since March, Thereupon his Worship ordered the master of the shop to be arrested and charged with arson, leaving the police to also charge the two fobis not, as they pleased.

society. But as suddenly as he arrived, he disappeared. And then a bowl arose.

Nearly everyone with whom he had come in contact, the gentler sex not excepted, mourned his sudden departure. Ho had borrowed from the gentlemen with whom he became acquainted; and coaxed and 'wheedled jewelty and even money from several of the fair back, under one secured, in all, a thousand or two during his stay pretext or another. The rascal must have

of a few weeks. He had lived magafficently while here and had lorded it aver everyone. But fate was too much for even a Viscount. He turned up in Smith's Falls, a small town only jo miles away, where, having stayed too long, he was recognized, and parties here having been noti fied, he was arrested, brought back to the city and put into fail. His story came out, and has proved a most interesting and romantic one.

Everyone used to nak very deferentially: "May I give the little dog this ? There is no meal on it." But there was sometimes, and there was poor Wang begging all the while unnoticed. Bur then Wang was very particular what he ate. We mever found out what little Hsing-erh did not like to eat whilst he was well. But now we noticed he no longer cared to play. He liked to take a run outside for a little while, he dearly loved to forage under the dinner table, and pick up stray crumbs, otherwise he wanted to be nursed, making little cooing sounds of satisfac- tion, as he curled himself up on one's inp, his little feathery head and long ears shewing off to great advantage as he did so. He was learning to sit up like Wang and beg too, and even did so sometimes without anything to lean his feeble puppy back against, and he had almost learnt to give a paw, when asked. We used to talk of all we were going to teach him, believing

Though 40 years of nge the man's hair is still firmly that nothing was beyond our puppy's light and curly, fresh as a boy of 16. He wears capacity. We used to think how pleasan!

a moustache, which, with his well kait figure, it would be when our new house was built gives him a very military appearance. He looks and the garden laid out, and the little one could what he is, a blise man of the world and a run freely about in it without anxiety as to his thorough rake and libertine. He served as an being stolen. But from the day we arrived up officer in the British service, under General Lord country it became increasingly evident that Wolseley, through the Egyptian campaign, in something was amiss with the little one. He

the Sixteenth Royal Irish Lancers. But, as he could not ent biscuit soaked in milk, his regular tells his story, he was an incorrigible gambler, food till he left Shanghai. He refused rice and, losing more money than he could possibly unless fish were mixed with it. He shewed get hold of, be was obliged to leave the service bimself ravenous for fish. Perhaps it would in disgrace. Collecting what little money he have been wisest to have been guided by the could from his relatives, he went on the con- meat were always very attractive to him, and Sometimes luck would be with him, and with they can hardly have been use best food. He several thousands at his disposal he would cut a did not want to run after the first few days, fine dash; at other times his fate would follow, sitting down upon his baunches looking very and he would be sunk in the depths of loathsome serious, when set down. How the country people poverty, struggling at all manner of blackleg admired him, if we carried blast itt eliminings is secure enough money to chance in the him "Little sleeve dog,"" Cat deg,""" Little He was only six months old, when we first and asking leave to stroke him, or stroking his gaming saloons of the Riviera.

without leave. He comes from Peking" they would say, and they looked at him with pride and pleasure.

IN Denmark the police are trying an experiment nothing but misery, want and starvation. Eng. ing the fire which occurred in Queen's Road little creature's preferences. But bones and tinent and frequented Monaco and Monte Carlo.

of some originality to suppress drunkenness. A man found drunk is carried to his own residence, nod' the keeper of the saloon where he bought his last glass is obliged to pay the expenses of the ride, which come high. MESSKS. Russell & Co inform us that the E. and A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Tannadice left Sydney for this port on the 25th ulto,, and may. be expected to arrive on the 14th inst. The scamship Catterthun left Port Darwin on the 30th ulto, for this part, and may be expected on The 10th inst.

Mr. Wodehouse also held an inquiry respect-

West on Thursday morning. He found that its origin was accidental, and ordered the premises to be released from police supervision.

A LITTLE PEKING PUG.

We are informed by the Agents (Mesara. Arnhold,

S. N. Co.'s steamer Onnfa, from Glasgow and Liverpool, left Singapore for this port last night, and may be expected on or about the 11th inst. THE brilliant inducements offered by the emi. grants' aid societies in England to people who, TO-MORROW morning between 9 and 10-30 wish to expatriate themselves have been referred o'clock the steani-launch carrying the Bethel to heretofore. The Pall Mall Gazette states that flag will call alongside any vessel hoisting code ↑ many have been induced to go to Buenos Ayres pennant C, to convey men ashore to ti a.m.

from both England and Ireland, upon the repres service at St. Peter's Seamen's Church, returning sentation that they would receive land and about 12.30.

houses free. Instead, however, they have met

lish officials and residents in that country are overwhelmed with applications for assistance from the deluded and suffering emigrants. An ex-cook was stopped in the street last night by an excise officer, and a small tin of opium found on him. When it was hauled out he snatched it back and tried to swallow the contents, about two taels. The exciseman seized knew him, with long silky ears, and a little head him by the throat, and half-choked him, so that covered with delicate yellow down, undeveloped he did not swallow much, but to make sure he puppy body, but grand white chest, and black was sent to the Hospital and had a merry half-muzzle with fine long moustachioes and long hour with a stomach pump. He was brought black eyelashes, from between which looked out up this morning on a charge of attempting to engaging lustrous eyes, of singularly intelligent THE sixteen men charged with participating in commit sucide, and, being discharged on that expression. He weighed just about three pounds the by fight on the Praya last Sunday night were the Opium. Ordinance, and fined five dollars

count, was put up again for an offence against at his utmost. and when be stretched himself to before the Court again today. For some

his greatest length he was only a hand and a half long. But his part and attitudes were those mysterious reason the complainants did not

THE defendant was a sensible map and settled of a lion, or when engaged in worrying a piece of press the charge, and as Inspector Perry seemed

the business satisfactorily, and exactly as our cord dangled invitingly before him he would inclined to let it go at that the Magistrate had.

own feelings would hive dictated [P.S.-No look for all the world just like a Chinese monster, no alternativé but to dismiss the case.

allusion to Wotton and Deacon v. Pitman.] only in miniature. In some ways he was like a "Let's ser," said the Editor as meeting his kitten rather than a puppy, so graceful and INTEMPERANCE is stated to have spread to such

friend at the Post Office the other day, "dida' gentle in his movements, with long claws too the Vienna School Board is again moving to an extent among boys and girls in Austria that

you have a lawsuit last week? "I did Who at the tips of his little feathery feet, and a way won "The other man." "And are you going of parring when he was pleased. He made many have a law enacted prohibiting the sale ol

to carry it up?" "Oh, no; I settled it." "How?" little plaintive sounds, as if he were talking to intoxicants to children under fifteen years of age."After the court adjourned I gave the defendant, himself, and sometimes it almost seemed as The appearance of a boy at school in a state of

who had made thousands of dollars out of me, if he were talking to other people too, so articulate drunkenness is said to he by no means aʼrare

the biggest licking a man ever got, and I don' sight to Vienna,

were they. His tail was his weak point; it was want to be mean and appeal the case besides." too long. But some people said as he grew older FRENCH engineers have lately beer testing boiler know if this would have been so, or whether his it would curl up, and look shorter. We do not tubes with ribs or flanges on the inside, the body might have developed into being too long invention of M. Jean Serve. A larger surface for

or too thin, or something. As it was, he was absorbing the fire's heat is presented, and a only

puppy, and his head and chest were saving of fuel ranging from one-third to one lovely. It was very difficult to avoid treading seventh has been indicated. In experiments on

upon him, he was so small and noiseless in viš a Rhone steamboat it was found that with ordinary movements. So he wore three little rat les coppertubes the.c mbustion of one pound of coal

round his throat, for he was too small to wear evaporated seven pounds of water, and the smoke issued from the boiler at a temperature of 680° Fahrenheit; but when the tubes were taken out and the flanged unes inserted, the evaporation immediately rose to nine and one-third pounds of water per pound of coal, and the heat of the cscaping gases fell to 400

The Macao Independente states that about midnight on Sunday last a soldier in the police gitard, on patrol near the Barrier, was shot twice with a revolver by the sentinel whilst approach ing the guud-house to get a-drink of water, and ched immediately. The murder is supposed to be due to a quarrel between the two. The r senssin was removed to gaol.

LITTLĘ Johnny came limping into the house in a very dilapidated condition. "Maw," he robbed, "Skimpy Lawhead an' Joshie Slude laid for me around ti e corner, tore my clothes, anꞌlook every single thing I had in my pockets" "What do you mean by such outrageous conduct ?" demanded his mother, when she had charged around the corner and faced the culprits. "Nuth'n'. We was jest playin' the new game." "What gaine?" "We call it "Hongkong gutter

broker.i

"Now, Jedge, what am I going to do 'bout my alimory asked a Dakota woman who was suing her husband for divorce. "What property has your husband" asked the judge. Pro- p'ty, Jedge? Why, he's the best off man in the ecunly. He's got fourteen splendid dawgs, three fiddles, two game roosters, six shotguns, four breastpins all washed in gold,, two rifles, a pet 'coon, a tame fox and six good brass rings. If I couldn't get alimony off'n a man that rich, there ain't no jestice in this country !'"

The twentieth annual report of the Diocesan Home and Orphanage has been issued. It says that it is the Commitice's intention shortly to open a Building Fund, out of which the present school-rooms and dormitories may be extended by degrees as needed; and special donations will be invited for that object. The school con- tinued to be successful, the four boys entered for the last Cambridge local Examination having all passed, one with honours, with special distinction in English. The funds are not so satisfactory, there being a debit account of $9. A NOVEL defence in a case of bigamy was recently successfully urged in a Berlin court. A laborer was prosecuted for having married two wives, but he set up in excuse that he did not know any better. His first wife was a termagant and made things so unpleasant that he thought he had a right to better his condition if possible. So be married the second time, but the first wife caused his arrest. The, plea of ignorance stood the bigamist in good stead, however, and he got off with a light penalty. The judge evidently con sidered that the years spent in the society of the scolding woman were an offset to the offence that had been committed. And he was a very good judge, too.

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THE shirt, the London Daily News says, is

real Peking bells. And it was extraordinary the power the little creature had of crying out before he was hurt, and as if he had been half killed too. But no one ever any little Hsing-erh-Little Apricot, as he was called from his colour-put out, or angry about being hurt. He was always pleased, always full of life, ready to fail off fast asleep, cr spring up wide awake, without a moment's notice, and never afraid of any person or thing.

now indispensable to the feminine wardrobe, being worn in silk, crepe-de-chine, and various other materials, with afternoon and visiting costumes. Pluited from the neck to the waist, it has taken the place of the vest or wa stcoat, this being now relegated to tailor-made dresses. A favorite way of lightening a mourning dress is to introduce, the full white shirt, but it must be remembered that there is no longer any bag or fullness below the waist. The present season is one of smart compactness, and one of the salient characteristics of its fashions is a dainty

ness. And after this requiem in memory. trimness, of the dear, departed "little shimmy" we will drown our sorrows in-the usual way.. ADELBERT HAMILTON, a well-known legal writer in New York, makes a review in the Form for Jane of the methods of the great insurance com- panies. He denies that there is really any com petition between them at all, and says that certainly there is no competition which gives the insured the benefit of low rates. He enumerates fifty-six associations of agents (one of them a national association) which are

maintained for

the purpose of regulating ratea" "They are,” says Mr. Hamilton, "almost without exception wrought into one gigantic insurance structure, managed every year with more complete control and greater stringency," After an enumeration of them, he declares that some of them are clearly illegal and that all are of doubtful legality, because they are combinations to stifle competition and to keep the cost of a useful service to the people at high price. would seem that Mr. Hamilton's opinion on this point ↑ is about on all-fours with that of our local expert, Mr. Jno. J. Francis, Q.C., who broadly contende that all commercial combinations are illegal, being in the nature of conspiracies. We beg to differ.

Af last a day came when we despaired of his life. A Chinaman said, "Let me take him, and nurse him. I think I can cure him. You see he is a Chinese dog, and you do not understand how to treat him; I can be with him 100 all the while." So from our great love for him we let him go in his little quilted basket with his quilted coverlet of gay patchwork, and little red pillow made expressly for himself, because he was so fond of making a pillow of an arm or hand.

But in an hour or two he was brought back. He had thrown in his lot with Europeans, and the little Chinese dog would not ent from the hands of strange Chinam-n, or do anything they wished. His eyes were already glazed, and he secuted dead already when he was brought hack. So because all seemed over, and it did not matter what we did now, we held him quite close to the stove and poured port become limpid once more, and he looked wine down his throat. The little glazed eyes up, content to be with us. Then I sat with him on my lap thinking still of him as dead, and only waiting for the end. But the little dog rallied so, that at night when taken upstairs be struggled out of his basket on to the bed, where he had always loved best to sleep. He liked to lie there with bis little black and tan head looking so droll on the white pillow. Put down on the floor for fear he should fall off, for alas! his little legs gave way under him, and he tottered once no he tried to cross the bed, he actually ran about the Toom, till he found the water jug, stood up on his hind legs, and deliberately dipped his pretty head into it, and drank.

Perhaps that drought injured him, for the Chinese declared cold water must be faŝal to bim.

Any way after that his raflying power seemed to abandon him.

He used to look up and listen with great. intensity when he heard his master's step upon the stair, recognising that to the last, But though he lingered on all the next day and night, and on into the next morning, he was always swallow the spoonfuls we gave him every two growing weaker, till at last he could not even hours, Once or twice he had fits of barking, but as he lay quite still and barked, we hoped. he was happy, thinking he was fighting and vanquishing some other dog, rather than suffer ing pain. Yet after such a long drawn out dying it was at last a relief on the twelfth day up country to see the little thing he quite still and stiff, though as we looked at the graceful little hend curled round with its two silky ears; our eyes filled with tears, and we felt almost as if we had lost a child.

During one of his fits of fortune, living la grand style in Paris, he met an innocent and you g American girl, whose mathe to rivers as Miss Lindsay of Cincinnati, O., who had been 6-ishing her education at a school in Paris. Ha was introduced to her as a wealthy young English nobleman by the French people with whom she was boarding. They often met, and Miss Minnie soon became infoated with the handsome face of the roue, and he, in turn, was dazzled by the thought of her fortune, which was represented to him as being at least half a million of dollars. But here fortune was once more against him, and the parents of the young! girl appeared, and finding out his true character shortly after their meeting, took their child off and were known to gay Paris no more. Before leaving, Mr. Lindsay paid him a large sumn nearly $50,000-for his silence in respect to the daughter, and with this amount the soi-disant Viscount made Monaco futter for awhile.

The little dog had been of no use and required much looking after, yet he had endeared himself to all who knew him. His dainty ways, his. bright good humour, and intense pleasure in the society of his friends perhaps accounted for this, And yet our hearts smote us, as after the little one was thus taken from us, and we stooped, to caress poor faithful Wang with a warmth to which of late he had been unaccustomed, the honest creature sprang on to the seat beside me with extra- ordinary effusiveness, and began leaping about and catching at our hands with the exuberance of long repressed affection. Next night, though pro- vided with a beautiful kennel full of straw down side our door, as he had been used to do in old I stairs, Wang slept out in the cold and rain put. days. We try to pet him, and make up for our loss by being additionally kind to all the other dogs we see. But as I see the pencil 1 once gave him to gnaw, with all the marks of his little teeth, or his little rattles, the aching comes again to my heart thinking of what might have breu, and how if we had known beiter, we mighi perhaps have saved the life of the pretty puppy, who so implicitly trusted and relied upon us.

Whenever we leave China behind us there will be a tenderer felling in our hearts whilst thinking of the blue-gowned race, because of this little creature born and bred amongst Chinamen, and yet so engaging, so fastidious in all his ways, and so entirely without fear. And as the intensesi feelings ever become less intense if spoken: about, so that in all ages the greatest danger has been for teachers of religious faith, lest they should themselves cease to feel whilst infusing faith in others, so I have sought to take the edge off my grief by writing some account of Heing eth-aged nine months when he died-W. C. Daily News.

Returning to England he became engaged in one or two questionable transactions on the turf, which his knowledge and acquaintance in the off the race courses by the Jockey Club, Sydney upper circles facilitated. Being, however, warned drifted to Canada, intending ultimately to bung up in the United States. Ottawa, he said, as the capital, he made for at once, and further said it had been his intention to go to Cincinnati to find the lady of his love, to whom he averred he was intensely attached. Whether she is his wife or not has not been disclosed. It is currently believed here that the so-called Viscount will be allowed to go forth without further molest tion, as his prosecution for obtaining money under false pretenser, even if it were feasible, would be scandal. likely to rake up more than one uns :vory

THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

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HANLAN'S OPINION..

With reference to the forthcoming match on the Thames for the Sculling Championship of the World and 1000 nside, between Henry E. Searle, of the Clarence River, New South Wales, and William O'Connor, of Toronto, Canada, Edward Hanlan, the famous ex-champion sculler, has made public the following views:-

"Scarle is, one of the most wonderful athletes Australia has produced, and that is saying a good deal," remarked Hanlan to the interviewer, far outclasses' such men' as Beach and Kemp, and no one will deny that both are great osramen, Searle has the advantage of a most powerful constitution and is a phenomenal stayer. He is also a spurter of the most extraordinary kind. He starts away on a race at forty-five_sirokes a minute and will keep it up a couple of minutes, and then slow down to thirty-six and still keep flying. After a while he runs up the stroke again to forty-five, and keeps alternating that way right through the race. The man that beats him in certainly entitled to the Championship of the World. I know of no one who can be him except it is O'Connor. O'Connor has speed enough to keep even with Searle for a mile; I am certain of that ; but it remains to be seen whether he can go the distance"

"Don't you think it's to O'Connor's advantage to have the race take place in England, where the climate is milder ?" asked the reporter.

I'm not so sure of that. The Australian climate has not been good for me. When I stayed the worse I got, and finally I got so I went there first I rowed very fast, but the longer couldn't row at all I am satisfied that the climate in very trying if one stays there, but I should judge that for one race. O'Connor could get in good fix, and on the Paramatta river, he would have a course fully a mile shorter than on the Thames. If O'Connor can only stay, the distance he will beat Searle, for he has apod enough. If he has improved in the last year as I hear he has, he can win the Championship, and I hope he will. I am going to help him all I know how

When bought of a Chinaman in the streets of Peking he shewed no distrust, but nestled at. growled when strangers approached the door, once into European armis, went home, and

or sprang up delighted to welcome his master. He was carried about in a coat pocket, or sat in of manifests by the hour together, and trotted an office drawer, gravely watching the writing gaily through the streets, ever and anon stopping to sniff nut some (to him) delicious bit of nasti

Who so delighted as little Hsing-erh, when he found out he could actually run up the stairs to the dining room? And from that moment he was always fancying it lur cheon time or dinner time. For there was no doubt of one thing, the little pepy dog did enjoy being led. He enjoyed ca esses is. If he would not come when he was called, there was always | one way to accure his attention and that was to pet Wang, our other dog, a Shantung pug about five times Ising-erh's site. Then the little one would come at once. Poor Wang! he bad b en used to be called "Little Wang and treated accordingly, and at first he growled and heart-broken for a day or two, went home by even bit the new comer. After that he looked

himself when taken out walking, and resisted at the little one's efforts to draw him into a game of romps, till an idea struck him, and he began to jump on to sofas and arm chairs, for did he not see the little one lie on them and made such off Once he even jumped right up into my lap, and tried to neatle there. And he tried to bite bits different from the tender milk teeth of the little of cord, or our hands. But his teeth were very

puppy, dog, who could not bite anyone, if he tried. 50 these advances of his had to be summarily repelled. And gradually, though somewhat sadly, Wang reconciled himself to the situation, sub- crumbs of delicacy, while be sat upon his bind mitted to everyone's offering the little one legs unnoticed, although chinchinning beautifully with his two front paws; submitted when the little one bit his cars, or flew at his eyes, or pulled his tail, in order to attract his attention, and even condescended to be played with occasionally, It was a great affaf taking little Hsing-erb out. He found the world so full of interest, and would look round with intelligent eyes, wagging his tail, as much us to say "All right! but look what a delightful place I find myself in." Impossible to be angry with him, though it made progress through the streets very slow at times. Then when one took him up and carried him, as a sort of punishment, for he did dearly love to run, he would look so grave and serious, one longed to see him frolicing once more. The only thing was to, walk very fast, then the The Engineering and Mining Yournal ways;

four little feet would go galloping along, the tlay An invention which promises to revolutionize the

poppy bent on shewing he could run as fast as present method of railroad construction was put

other people, He was never afraid of any dog, to a practical test recently on the Green River

but quite big dogs would run away from him, he 'Branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad In

was so llonlike "in his advances, and when he Washington Territory. George Roberts is the

went to pay a visit to any other dog, he always inventor, and the trial of the new machine was

first drove his host into a corner with his made in the presence of the Superintendent of

tall between his legs. Then only the little Construction, the Chief Engineer and about

one would make up to him, and gradually they three hundred railroad men. The machine

would have a game of romps together. But just worked beyond the expectations of the inventor

because we were so fond of him be was a great anxiety; for, any Chinaman could put him up and to his entire satisfaction, the men laying at the rate of two and a half miles of track

his sleeve and run away with him so easily per day, and twelve mea, doing the Her er invaluable, honors were tied for by Mr. Mills everyone like two sweet little children, who asked And everyone took a fancy to him, though not seventy-five by the old way. It hand ice and Mr. Greystock. Both were really first first, if they might carry him, next if they might and rails of the haviest kind-used in cop- structing mountain roads with the greatest case, class. This evening the Wanderers wiklas puppy-dog, and finally if they might exchange placing them rapidly and accurately in position, give the estertalament announced for Wednesday

a baby sister of the same age for him. The machine is so constructed that it can be night, when, it is to be hoped, there will be an

One day holding him up for a child to stroke used on any ordinary five car. All construction equally good house,

I noticed that the little one's breath, till then material is moved on rollers from the rear to the

always so sweet, smelt a little. It had been

and it was still colder going on, damp and raw, and we hardly knew how to keep ourselves warm, much less the little puppy dog. So it seemed hard to prevent him from lying close to the store, but possibly it was that which first made him ill Possibly, it may have been the little bones people gave him on the steamers, i and was by degrees securing a footing in select him on al hands. Mallarson looked round

FROM private information to hand, we (Straits Timas, June 19th) learn that a serious riot has broken out in Bangkok, amongst the Chinese populace, and that it has assumed such dimen- sions that all trade is su pended, and the ships are detained the harbour. The Siamese Consul has received na advices on the subject, but several of our leading Chinese firms have received telegrams which included the bare state ments that serious rioting prevailed. Whether the quarrel has originated with the Kongsees, or not, we cannot say, but it would appear that the whole town is saffering from the outbreak, and the transaction of ordinary business rendered. impossible.

THE miscellaneous entertainment given by the Garrison Amateurs in the Garrison Theatre last night was an unqualified success. It was very well patronised, most of the officers and many outsiders being present, and the place was not very hot, after all all, owing the vigor with which the punkahs were plied. The first part of the programme was devoted to songs, Scc, by Mesars, Mills, Wallace, Crawley, Bell, Crouch, Brake, Dredge, and Laing, most of which were excellent, and several encored. An amateur band, composed of members of the Staff, also performed a couple of selections, but too nervously to be more than moderately success- ful. A series of paper manipulations by Mr. Sebright were both very clever and very pleasing, and a mandolin solo by Mr. Hankins,” assisted by Mr. Dredge on the banjo, went extremely well, also: The event of the evening, though wai the good old farce "B.B." The cast was as follows *-- Squb Orsenfield (An admirer oftsinnt)..... Mr. Hunt Bob Rattles (The hike ding

Mr. Mija suponent of the Prima Jon Factotum at the "Penny Arms"....

Mr. Tilley, Benjama Bobbie, Esq., (An Un Com

Mr. Greystock Airs. Puncheon (Landlady at the "Percy

mercial Traveller

Mrs. Austin Pown, Asme) ah...... (0f the Wanderer's Co.) Dorothy (Housemaid at the "Percy

Ama"), Joe's afficer. Lauder, All played so heartily that criticism is almost invidious, but, after the performance of Mrs. Austin Power, whose kind assistance was

INQUIRY,

front, where the machine takes up the rails and THE QUEEN'S ROAD WEST FIRE very cold coming up siver in the winter weather, ties, laying them very rapidly. Where the test was made the grade was steep and difficult. The great success attending the trial has caused the Northern Pacific to secure the refusal of the first As the Magistracy this morning Mr. Wode. machine, and the inventor is now arranging for house concluded the inquiry into the circum: building two more machines, to cost $1,300, and stances of the fire at 327 Queen's Road West, the Inventor te receive a poyalty of $50 per miler) last week. As might have been expected, it ended

"There never has been a boat race on which more money will be bet," added the ex-champion. "The Australians think that no man that ever lived can beat Searle, and they are the people of all others to back their men. They are the greatest sporting people in the world. Why, when Beach beat me they came down and gave him about $10,000. He is well fixed now and worth about $50,000. Searle has only been before the public year and he has already made quite a stake. I would have left, Australis four months sooner, but for Teemer. I matched him to towSearle for $2,500 a side and put up from Teemer, although he wrote to me that ha would go to Australia if he had to swim. Had be come out he would have got a fine reception and come home many thousand dollars in pocket even if he lost, for he could have got big gats Writing from Ottawa on june 4th a correspon- money.PARISON and on May roth, Co on May jothe Seurie left Sydney for

*

ANOTHER NOBLEMÁN (?). GONE fo feit of $500, which I fost, as I never heard

WRONG.

AN ADVENTURER'S CAREER.

dent gives the following sketch of the career of a chevalier d'industrie who described himself as He was accompanied by his trainer, Neil Maty Viscount Sydney and which in some particulars terson, and Mr. Crane, who represents the forcibly reminds us of a once well-known Hong. Messrs Spencer, Searle's backers. A very kong celebrity, to wit, Mr. Sydney B. Lewis, representative party of Australian sportsmen alias Sydney, alias the Hon. Lascelles, etc.: attended Searle and his friends to the train, and scandal which cropped up on the arrival of a the champion as they shook the last friendly The capital was startled to-day by a peculiar several of them left souvenirs in the hands of scion of the British aristocracy in the city. shake Twelve months ago last Januais bie Viscount Sydney, as he calls himself, is the name first came before the public through bin individual referred to. He arrived here, a few having, in a handicap race in which he had a weeks ago, haying plenty of money, and put up good start allowed, defeated Neilsen and Hearnp. at the Rassell House, the leading hotel of the of New Zealand over a two-mile course at city. He claimed to be the eldest son of the the Grafton regatta. The beaten men then Earl of Sydney, with the title of Viscount Sydney. sald he was a very likely lad, bat it remained His father was possessed of large estates at for Nell Matterson to find out what he really Sevenoaks, in Kent, England.png ad wa. A fead had long existed between Mat

The man looked and spoke like a thoroughly terson and Kemp, and it want young to the educated man, and an aristocrat. He soon got fontier to see Kemp champion of the world acquainted with some of the beat men in town, and having honors and gold, showered on