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DAKIN'S

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ARE UNSURPASSED.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1889.

A BANGKOK contemporary announces that on the 7th inst, the Rev. S. J. Smith baptised two natives in the river at Bangkolem Point, and the same afternoon both were welcomed into the membership of the Siamese Baptist Church at Bangkolem.

SHIPPING business on the coast would appear to be unusually dull just at present. We understand that the rice freight from Saigon to this port is something like six cents per picul. That rate would just about defray the cost of the casis 'PECIAL TERMS TO LARGE BUYERS. consumed during the passage.

SPECIAL

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No Extra Charge for Packing.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA,

LIMITED,

CHEMISTS, HONGKONG.

Telephone No. 60.) Hongkong, 23rd July, 1889.

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IT may interest the subscribers to the Chinese Amusement 5ndicate to knew that the switch back railway at Rangoon carried 32,029 passenger* in about four months, the distance tun being over thirty thousand miles. The bailway and plant was sold by auction the other day for 13,000 rupees. Here is a grand chance for the Syndicate, Tire Band of the Argyll and Sutherland High. landers will play the following programme at the Sanitarium to-morrow, commencing at 5 pm. Overture....... Hungarian "Keler Bala Valve

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sustained by reason of injury to their offices through the operations of the Company whilst erecting an annexe. There also a counter- claim for four months' rent for the same premises, at the corner of Pedder's Stree and the Praya, in all $3,500-Mr. Francis, QC, (instructed by Mr. Stokes) appeared for the plaintiffs, and the Acting Attorney General, Mr. A. J. Leach, (instructed by Mr. Deacon) appeared for the Hotel Company. The following gentlemen composed the jary:-Messrs. E. J. Coxon, H. Wicking, G. Raynal, C. D. Harman, EA. Solomon, C. C. Cohen, and A. Wright..

At the outset it was stated that all the issues should arise in the first suft.

Mr. Francis, in opening the case, which he did with much detail, said that the subject matter of the action was the building at the corner of the Praya and Peddar's Street known as Melchers' buildings. At the beginning of 1887 it became the property of the Hotel Company, who, on the 17th April, let it on a three years' lease, with the option of extension at the end of that period to Mr. C. P. Chater, He did not occupy the premises, but let it in floors and apartments to various people-Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co., Arnold, Harberg & Co., Mr. Delilies, and others. On the 6th June, 1888. the building being fully occupied, the Chairman of the Hotel Company, Mr. McCulloch, sent a notice to Mr. Chater that the building had been pronounced unsafe

that he and his tenants remained in it at their own risk. that the tenants at once cleared out, and The immediate result was

were compelled to take other premises-some at very lung leases. Messrs. Holliday, Wise & Co., occupied one of the mess-rooms until the end of August, and the Bunjom Company, who occupied a small corner, let it the Sicam Launch Company, who still accupied it. But these small

badly, and asking that an architect might be sent to examine the place. The cracks continued to increase a little until June, 1888, when those in the dining-room widened considerably. Mr. Cooper, of the Surveyor General's Depart ment, inspected the place, as did also Mr. Hayllar. After it was repaited unsafe the place was vacated, but the mess continued until the end of August.

Honduras, and to subscribe to the Marques de Ray's New Britain scheme, they will bite at Sedang bonds. But the rentier, ignorant as he may be, like most Republicans, of a fine title, does not display any avidity to invest in these mythical securities. King Marie, however, nithough an Asiatic King is, first of all, s

Frenchman, and he knows his

KAR country. Order and a Government office to every man

that the walls were cracked when we took posses a famous Frenchman gave to any ruler anxious.

By the Attorney-General: I did not observent the age of twenty-one" was the receipt which lon. Some of the floors were sunken. There to secure universal popularity on the other side had been cracks, but they were filled up. Kar of the Channel. And so his Majesty is appointing berg's people moved out about the same time Ministers and Perfects and Controllers and Mr. Chater had written to us. It was he who Generals in abundance, each entitled to wear mediated in respect to the removal of the a gay uniform, to sport one of the new titles of verandah..

nobility which are also being conferred with coloured ribbon in his button-hole. Whether equal liberality, and, no doubt, to wear a bli ol

authorised to bestow them, or whether, after the fountain head of all these honours is being. bestowed, they are worth the paper they are written upon, is not a question which will trouble many of the recipients. They are, at least, as good as some which are in daily use, and not much more sordidly acquired than those Count-- ships which one of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany conferred on every one who subscribed sixty pounds to the construction of the new road from Florence to Fiesole. And so in time they may take their place among the more of less Pope, to the defunct Italian Princes, to Monaco, or to the Republic of San Marino.

practicing here. My qualifications are that I Mr. Hayllar, C. E. said :-1 am an architect, studied at Leipsic three years, and as long at the Crystal Palace Engineering School. After working on a railway in in Lancashire I was for four years Inspector of Buildings in this Colony, I am acquanted with Melchers Buildings. About the 5th June 1889 I made an examination of them. I had been in that portion occupied by Halliday Wise & Co. previously, as a visitor, I sent in a report on the place, in which I expressed the opinion that the cracks were caused by the crushing of the bricks in the lower courses and imperfect bonding, and suggested a method of a basement of granite pillars, over which brick on the south side, had been strengthened, and arches had been turned. These arches, except the result was that that wall leaned outwards, cracking the west wall. There was no appear ance of subsidence, I was of opinion that the wall would ultimately fall outwards, and the floors fall in. Afterwards the walls were shored up by props against the new wing. They did not

A. S. WATSON & CO.. LD. severely from fiver, hur, by latest accounts, had by the Government Building Inspector, and strengthening. The building is constructed on apocryphal patents which are credited to the

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EXCEEDINGLY bot weather has prevailed recently in Bangkok, and sickness has in consequence. heen wide-spread. The King of Siam has suffered neatly got over the attack. His Majesty intended to pay a three week visit to the West Coasty where it was hoped the cool sea breezes would coupletely restore him to health. FRENCH courts re just and nei sentimental. A rich Frenchman died in Paris and willed his fortune to the poor of London," de laring that he hated France, where have always been

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Unfortunately, however, bad news has arrived for his Majesty. His subjects, all unconscious of their blessings, or inspired by the tidings of what happened in Paris a hundred years ago, have been indulging in an old-fashioned Revolu tion. Part of them have gone over to Siam, and the rest have confederated under a new Chief,

imagine that by any possibility he has come across such an atrocity as the China Mail, the one journal in the Far East that, in the Christian-like spirit for which it is renowned, wentramping mudto kick aman because he was supposed to be in trouble. There is no doubt that Mi de Mayrena was elected King ofthe Sedangs, and it is as certain as anything can be that his election and rule were most popular. It is false that either the kingdom of Annam, or the French Resident at Hué, had any authority whatever over this border nation. It is equally. false that M. de Mayrena tied in this colony to float a loan for the development of his territories. It is another scandalous fnisehond, for which either the Resident at Hud or the French press is responsible, that there has been a revolution in Sedang, as reported since M. de Mayrena' departure. "Had anythingofthis kind happened, either ourselves or our Hanoi and Haiphong contemporaries would have been the firet to hear it--and we have heard nothing. We' have very little inc 'mman with kings, queens, and other such obsolete puppet-shows, but M. de Mayrena has proved himself to be a gallant soldier and an accomplished, gentle. man, and we therefore protest against his being gros ly maligned by an ignorant penny- a-liner in the London Standard and a first- class nonentity lie the oracle of the China Mail-Ed., Hongkong Telegraph.]

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tions, we beg to state that we continue to import Dings, Chemicals, and Goods of every kind of the best description, only. No other quality is kept in Stock. Our long experience the best sources of supply enable us to purchase oppressed' and never my own master. People complications did not affect the issues. The make the place safe and habitable, but made it commissioned by the Government of Anam, associated with that of credulity, already briefly and intimate, acquaintance with the Trade and brect from the Producers on the very best terms. horrible Nation of cowards and blockheads immediate result was that the Hotel Company, less able to fall. It was then, and is still, acting under the advice of the French Resident andinadequately treated. The profound suspicion

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Itis relatives disputed the will, but the court- affirm it and the poor of London will get his

fortuna.

A THIEF went abord a'junk at Yaumati on a preditmy expeditin on Sunday night. The junk people caught him, and gave him such a vere thrashing that he died in Hospital the following morning. A little elegy :-

He crep' abated with improper intentions, Which the crew did with vigor reprove; Sex by two are his coffin's dimensions, And he's cuddling Confucias shove, Tu Siam Electric Light Co., recently started in ingkok has apparently struck the popular fancy, and business in the shares has already been done at 7 per cent. premium. Investors in Bangk k seen to be sensible people, who regard

the prospects of an industrial enterprise on the basis of an investment, and not as a gamble As the King of Siam is a big shareholder in this concern, it is likely to prove a great success, his 'Majesty's all-powerlui influence removing any- diff vines th might, otherwise exist. The Anglo-American Bush Company will supply ten thousand lamps as a commencement, and other arrangements will then be entered into, Paddy huske will be used as fuel, as they are very much cheaper than coal.

on the ore hand, demanded the continuous pay ment of the monthly rent, and commenced proceedings for its recovery.. Mr. Chater, on the other hand, being advised that the premises had been brought into its unsafe and uninhabitable condition by the building opera- tions carried on in connection with the erection of a new wing to the Hotel premises, immediately adjoining Melchers' Buildings, commenced pro- ceedi gs against the Hotel Company for the recovery of damages. In order to narrow the issues the questions of fact had been separated from the question of law, so that the jury wire relieved from considering the rights of the The only questio's they had before them were parties, whichever way their verdict was given, questions of fact, as decided on by his lordship

in Chambers. Those questions were:

1. Was the brick and stone verandah running along the south side of the premises pulled down and removed, and were the foundations of the April, 1987 same pulled up and removed prior to the 15th

3. When did the building, let to Mr. C. P. Chater on the 10th April, become unsafe and uninhabitable?

3. Was this the result of inherent defects and

wear and tear?

4. Or was it the result of either or both of the following causes; (a) The opening, by the Tux China fail, even after its sanctified Hongkong Hotel Company, of a trench in pro- reference to "interested croakeis," has found it ximity to the south wall of said premies; (6) convenient to cat dirt over its extraordinary the pilling down and removal of the verandab assertion that Bink shares were quoted below mentioned in the first issue, or the pulling up their intrinsic value. The writer of this trans and removal of the foundations thereof, if such parent lie-he muss either have been an un-removal was effected subsequent to the 15th scrupulous far or a first-class nincompoop, as April, 18877 this was no clerical or printer's error-now says that the contrary to what he said is actually the case. Rather! He said that Bank shares were quoted below their intrinsic valve, and he now finds, we take his figures, that the intrinsic value is Szor and the quotation in the market $350. And he feebly tries to get out of his false position by quoting King David and claiming that he knew more than the rest of the colony combined all the time. Hostile criticism would be thrown away on such a thing as this.

of it, was done ?-

down. I made another report on the 26th July, necessary, that the south wall should be taken after 1 had left the Government service. I found still further evidence of dilapidation; the south wall had still further sunk; it was more cracked. The top part was overhanging, which was due the place this week, and found all the original to the sinking of the foundations. I inspected defects increased. Several cracks in the side- walls had been recently filled up with cement, but the distortion is so great that the doors and windows will not shut. As Inspector of Buldings used to inspect the place in 1887 several times a week. In June 1888, I saw a trench about feet from the foundations of the plaintiffs' building. eight feet deep, and the same width, about six At high tide this trench was filled with water. In July a sewer under the Hotel burst, during a heavy rainstorm, during which one of the treaches fell in. The building has not been in a habitable condition since July Inst. The south wall is only standing because of the way it is shored up. Its weakness is due to the opening of the trencher, the shaking of the wall by pile-drivers, and the denudation of the founda tions by the water. The weight of a five storied building would not affect the stability of an adjacent building. It does not necessarily follow that the tffects of the disturbance of foundations would be at once visible. I cannot see any other reasons for the subsidence in this case except those I have stated,

By the Acting Attorney-General-I was too young to become a member of the Institute of Civil Engineers when at home. It is only an honorary rank. I spent about three hours examining the building the day when I examined the building officially. I went into all the rooms I could get into. I plumbed the south wall three inches out of plumb The cracks in the from some scaffolding it the top; it was about wall varied from twelve feet long to a few inches, They averaged about a quarter of an inch wide. I did not leave the Government service because of unpleasantness arising out of my repari-my resignation had been sent in in May. I continued in the service until the end of July. because the Department was shint-handed. The weakness of the south, wall would not be likely to develop It would when any heavy jar was felt. The itself as soon as the verandah was pulled down, walls bad been braced wish iron tics on some former occasion, shewing they had been weak. I did not connect that fact with the other cracked walls. A heavy rainstorm or high wind would strain a wall. I do not think there had been any about July last. I believe that the trench was open the whole length of the wall. It was the Building Ordinance, not to see to the only my duty to report on any infraction of

reported on the fact that the south wall was being safety of adjoining houses. I could not have undermined, although it might have been plainly visible, I might have spoken privately about it to the architect. I had to see that the work was done according to the Ordinance. I had to look (Laughter). The west wall was bulging, but that to the letter of the Ordinance, not the spirit did not cause the cracks. The foundations Unless assisted by a trench, this would not hurt were always in wet earth, according to the tide.

in the trench-how the piles were driven. I the foundations. I did not watch what was done

examined the roof of the building, I found two dilapidated, and the brick-work is bad. Some rafters out of position. The roof is old and

and as the rival potentate, apart from the fact of in Hue. Thus there is no kingdom for Matic, his being under powerful protection, is most likely a personage so, forgetful of international courtesies and indifferent to the claims of priority as to send his spear through any one attempting Mayrena and his army of Boulevard Generals to oust him, the outlook is rather poor for M. de and newly-baked Dukes. It is only fair to say that "Le Roi," writing on paper bearing a Royal crown, and stainped, "Royaume Sedang, Maison du Roi!" denies the Revolution; but a the report comes officially, from the Annamese Government, to whom, in any case, the Sedangs more of King Marie now than of the French owe tribute, we shall most probably hear no adventurer who, some time age, posed ar monarch of a similar bit of no man's land on the border of Venezuela, and, like his regal brother of to-day, dubbed knights and created functionaries, and issued proclamations at a prodigious rate. All this is no doubt very amusing. It is entirely in keeping with niy flights of the Celta-Latin character, which, so are but little for the lack of anything more as it lives in a pleasant world of shadows, cares substantial. Yet these France-Annamile and Gularese Kings are merely poor apers of "Orelia Antoine 1, Roi d'Araucanie et de Patagonic," whose autobiography and whose bonds are still preserved as curiosities by collectors who find a pleasure in studying the vagaries of human nature. The quart King was in reality a Monsieur "de" Tonnein, a notary of Périgord, who, having a soul above pounce and parchment, wandered far afield until he found himself in the most austral part of South America, among the Araucanians and Patagonians, Here, with the amazing aptitude of the Frenchman for becoming at home among barbarians, he so ingratiated himself with those then semi-independent tribes of Indians, that he either got himself elected their King, or declared that he did which was, perhaps, the same thing-and henceforth assumed Royal state to such an extent as the absence of a Civil List would permit, Not content, however, with his savage monarchy, Orélie Antoine stirred up his thralls to war with Chili, and driven out of the country, cams in Europe to seek recognition and neither. Never again did he see his kingdom, raise money. Happily for himself, he obtained for, broken-hearted with the disappointment, be died in the Communal Hospital of the town in which he began life by attesting deeds and drafting peasants' wills.

become

It remains to speak of the special relations of this topic to foreigners, and these relations are many and varied. The subject is intimately,

accompanied by and perhaps largely due to bellel with which foreigners are regarded is often deep-rooted and ineradicable, that foreigners are able to do the most impossible things with the greatest case. If a foreigner walks out in a place where he has not been often seen it is inferred that surveys a river, he is determining the existence heis inspecting the Fing-shui ofthedistrict. If he

of precious metals, He is supposed to be able to. sec some distance into the earth, and to have his eyes on whatever is best worth taking away. If. much to suppose that the ultimate object must he engages in famine relief, it is not thought too be to carry off a large part of the population of It is by reason of these opinions on Feng-shul. the district, to be disposed of in foreign lands.

that the presence of foreigners on the walls of Chinese cities has so often led to disturbances, and that the hei, ht of foreign buildings in China must be as carefully regulated as the location of a frontier of the empire.” The belief in: the- uniformity of nature, as we have already men tioned elsewhere, appears to be totally lacking in China. without and coal within.

Mr. Baber mentions a saying in Sre-chuan, of a certain hill, on which opium grows But this is not simply a notion of the ignorant, for- Pro- festor Pumpelly declares that one of the high officials in Peking told him the same thing, and used the statement as an argument against the tos rapid removal of coal deposits, the rate of the growth of which is unknown. It is related of the Tate statesman, Wen-hsiang, that having read Dr. Martin's Evidences of Christianity," on being asked what he thought of it, he replied that the scientific part of the work he was pre pared to accept, but the religious sections. In 5. Or was it the result of the negligent way in

which the affirmation is made that the earth which the work mentioned in the last issue, or

revolves around the sun, were more than he any was admitted that the premises were unsafe

could believe The whole subject of the entrance of foreigners Into China is beyond the and uninhabitable. The premises were built on

Chinese intellect, in a present state of de.. what, twenty years ago, was part of the harbor,

velopment. Seeing Baron von Richthofen roam by Messrs, D.nt & Co. When they failed Messrs.

over the country in what appeared to the Melchers & Co. and Russell & Co, purchased the

people of Szechuan a vague and purposeless place. It was admitted that probably the place was

manner, they imagined him to be a fugitive. net built as substantially as it might have been,

from some disastrous battle. Many a Chinesa and that ordinary decay, subsidence of walls,

who has afterwards come to understand the THE following details are given in the Madrassary from tincko time to chair reddered it

foreige barbarian all too well, has at first sight Jfail in connection with the sad accident which the structure. For instance the arches in the

been seized with secret terror. Many Chinese necessary time time to repair and brace up

of his form, especially if he chanced to be tall, terminated in the death of Captain Russell, R.A.,

basement had hatt to be strengthened by the aide-de-camp to his Ex ellency the Commander insertion of iron arches, or new brickwork. But

arlly enter a foreigner's dwelling, the fatal spell women are.persuaded that if they once volunt in-Chief Two events of the Horse Show had his clients did not admit, and they hoped to be

will work, and they will be bewitched; if they been concluded and the jumping competition for able to prove, that whatever defects there were ja internal construction, there bad never been

are at last prevailed upon to enter, they will not ponies was in progress when the accident

The world, we fear, has grown too prosaic for on any account stop on the threshhold, nor look. ordinary ones--a hurdle, stone wall, and water 1887 the Hotel Company, being the owners of ary weakness in the foundations. About January

these adventurers. It may be that savage king into a minor when it may be offered to their happened. There were three jumps-all very jump Before the competition began Captain the block. leased the top floor to Me srs.

doms under white kings may yet rise up in sight, forthus they would betray away their safety, Russell cleared all these jumps with the greatest Holliday! Wise and Co., and as the Company

hunger among the Great Powers are, nowadays, from an interior province, where foreigners Africa, though the telegraph and the earth. A few months ago a young Chinese scholar case on his pony Midnight. During the com- petition he also negotiated the jumps so well new wing on the north side of theirown building,

the part of a private individual, All, that the some difficulty to come to the premises of the were, then contemplating the construction of a

unfriendly to any sudden rise to regal rank on are practically unknown, was engaged with that Midnight and Captain Preston's Petrel they mide certain proposals to the firm to take

most enterprising can expect is AROMATIC QUININE WINE. were adjudged to have gained an equal number down the top verandah on the south side, in

Prime Minister to some Polynesian Chief, and language. He remained a few weeks, when he writer, to assist a new comer-in-acquiring the An agreeable preparation of the Sulphate of of points. "It was in jumping off this tie that consideration of which the Company paid

be paid in cocoanuts and dosky wives; though, recollected that his mother was very much in in combination with Aromatics. Captain Russell met his death. Midnight rushed Eminently useful as a Tonic in cases of Debility, the first-hu dle, striking the top, and, apparently in sums and agreed to provide bath-rooms,

what with preaching, fighting, and mending need of his filial care, and left, promising to &c. Inside the building, in return for those resulting from Fever, enervating effects of cliflurried by the contretemps, charged the 3ft. 8in. on the verandah. About the 26th March the

such posts generally wish themselves well back During all the time that he was on the foreigner's muskets, the runaway anilors who have essayed return at a fixed date, but was seen no more, stone wall unconnectedly, Capinin Russell arrangements were complete, and a fortnight Price $1 per Bottle.

prid to steady him, but the pony took off too or so afterwards the work was commenced.

in the galley of the vessel from which they premises, this astute Confucianist never once far, and sinking the obstacle with his knee, Shortly after then, Mr. Chater leased the build.

Norman knight, or the captain of a company regularly by the servants, nor ate a meal on the levanted. The time is past when the son of a fook a sip of tea; which was brought to him hurled Captain Russell over his head. For a [s moment the spectators looked on more or less had stated, all that the jury had to do with

out a knight-dom with his own good sword. The a foreign envelope was handed to him by another iny as a whole, and, as the lasues he had read

of condottiere, could go to the wars and carve place, lest he should imbibe berotment? When unconcernedly, expecting Captain 'Russell to get occurred after that. What was done before did up and remount.

Midnight stood quietly by not matter-the Hotel Company" were not

amazing spectacle of a Lieutenant of Artillery teacher, that he might enclose the letter which his fallen master. Then, as the prosirate man responsible for anything done previously, because

like Murat wearing the crown of Naples, and of that thus far he was safe, and when it was rising to be the Dictator of Europe, of a café waiter he had written to bis mother assuring her braan to dawn on the spectators, and anxious plaintiffs' case was that the taking down of the Brat typhoon will knock it down. I think the

an attorney's clerk like Bernadotte ascending, shown him how this same envelope was enquiries ensued. Five doctors speedily sure verandah, or a portion of it, after that date, con moving-out of the tenants was caused by my

the throne of Gustavus Adolphus, turned the self-sealing, a little moisture being applied rounded the fallen horseman, and as he still lay siderably weakened the building, depriving it of reports,

heads of many less fortunate men. That the by the tongue, bis presence of mind did in that terrible motionless manner, a breath the stability to which it was entitled, and con

era when soldiers like Iturbide were accorded not for an instant forsake him, and he blandly less hush fell over the assemblage. But still no tabuted very largely to bring it to its

By the Court-I plumbed the other wall, the sceptre of Montezuma, when negroes like requested the other teacher to do the sealing, as. one would admit the awful truth that be was unsafe and uninhabitable state. It would be that there was any injury

present when I tested the south walls. I cannot say Dessalines, Christophe, and Soulouque played he wasnot an expert at it. It is this frame of mind dead. Full f life and vigour but two mioules shewn that the principal portion of the verandab before the trench was dug, but there were no

the foundations at Emperors and Kings in Hayti, and when it which leads to the persistent notions in regard before, gaily jesting as he rode to his death, it was pulled down, and that the end walls and

was possible for an Irish boat-boy like Ambrose to Chinese books printed by foreigners. There was baid to believe that he hid been launched battresses were still standing then. It was in dug, although it was wet.

gns. The soil was firm before the trench was O'Higgins, who began his career at a small is a wide-spread conviction that they are drugged, into eternity in this awful manner. No,' said consequence of the removel of these supporis, was not very far away, and protected them, It to end it as Viceroy of Peru, an office then more identified as that of the bewildering drug" The old Praya wall shopkeeper under the walls of Lima Cathedral, and the smell of printer's ink is frequently the men in reply to the hysterical enquiries of however carefully it was done, that the walls would have affected the foundations if a trench coveted than the Thrones of most European which is embodied in their composition. Some the ladies, he's only stunned, he'll be up in a weakened, and if that was proved the plaintiffs had been dag fifty feet away, but not to the monarchies. Fired by such splendid daring, times one hears that it is only necessary to minute. But the minutes swiftly passed and would be entitled to damages. The Hotel Co, same extent. still that prostrate form gave no sign, and a not only pulled down the verandab but also dug

Jorgen Jorgensen, the Copenhagen watchmaker's read one of these books, and forthwith he is great ang went through the crowd as they noted up the foundations, depriving the foundations of

The Court then adjourned until to-morraw.

son, seized on Iceland, and, until his career a slave to foreigners. A slightly different point the ominous

was brought to a close by the arrival of a of view was that taken by a lad whom we application of the galvanic batery doctors the the building of the natural support of the earth to the skull — that should have been left undisturbed. The

"THE KING OF THE SEDANGS" Royal style, though it is painful to add that his way into one of these tracts, threw it down in British man-of-war, played the King in right have lately heard, who having read a little which the

were then unaware was great question for the jury was-What are the fractured--and the attempt to reatore life by serious defects of this building, were they caused,

quasi-Majesty ended his life in Tasmania, not terror and ran home, telling his friends that artificial respiration, And thus an hour sped and was the admittedly unsafe condition of the Crowned Heads in this year of Revolutionary

Republican Paris, avoided by the European for stealing Iceland from the King of Denmark, if one should read that book, and tell a lie, be away, and a wall of grief went up from building caused, by the natural operations of memories, has, nevertheless, the honour of enter a vulgar case of burglary. George M'Gregor, porteurs have found it impossible to give away but by reason of the verdict of a Londen jury in would inevitably go to hell Sometimes col the crowd when the grim truth had to be ad-time, decay, &c., or by the operations of the taining one King.. "Marle, Roi des Sedangs," the mited-Captain Russell was dead. Strong men Hotel Company.

"Cacique of Payals," was a better specimen of these books, not, as might be supposed, because turned their heads away to conceal their tears

French

papers style him, and, for lack of better the modern kingdom-maker. A Highland gentle of any hostility to the contents, of which nothing and wept unrestrainedly. Loved for his geniality

He then called

matter, they are doing all in their power to man of an adventurous turn, be distinguished was known, and for which nothing was cared, and bonhomie, foremost in the promotion of Wise & Co., who said that his firm moved into the possessions. The Sedangs are an Indo-Chinese dence and after there was no more fighting to made the basis from which to levy a kind of Mr. F. E. Nicholl, clerk to Messrs. Holliday, advertise his presence, his potentiality, and his himself in the Venezuelan Wars of Indepen but because it was feared that the gift would be every amniement, Captain. Rusmel) is mourned INFORMATION was received here yesterday from with a heart-felt regret that has extinguished the top door of Melchers Buildings in December folk who inhabit a kind of debateable land on du, left with his piper for the Mosquito shore, black mai, In a manner with which the Chinese Manila that the British steamer Anacralg had gaiety of many a household, and funereal verandah on the south side, which was used as a

1386. At the time there was a brick and stone the ill-defined Annam-Siamese frontier, notable and there made himself King of Poyals"Hi are only too familiar. The same pre-supposition been totally lost off the coast of Paragua, while gloom bas succeeded the bright festivities of bath room and kitchen, A month or twa later malarious fevers which, in the tropics, are colony, after the fashion of the Darien enter attempts to take down the names of Chinese for nothing so much as its swamps,, and the Highness" even tried his best to get up a Scotch leads to a panic if a foreigner injudiciously on a voyage, sugar lades, from Ilcilo to America. Octcamund. All that medical skill could do was the Hotel Company wanted to pull down the associated with them. To this feature, indeed, prize. Fortunately for the intended settlers, children, a simple process which has been known Officers and crew are reported to bave been done for Captain Russell. Surgeon-General Sir verandah, in order to build the new wing, and this the country seems to one such independence as, Scotland did not respond, and the Cacique to be eminently successful in breaking upa James Harbury, Dr. Crooke, and two other was consented to on the understanding that fresh until recently, it enjoyed at the hands of the returned to Caracas to close his troubled life in prospectiva school. The system of Romansing WE read that Siamese and Laos travellera arriving doctors who were on the ground exhausted all accommodation should be provided. The bath Cochin Chinese on one side, and the Siamese on peace. Nevertheless, with the sudden rise to Chinese characters must in its initial stages in Bangkok report that the amount of ticals on the appliances of medical sciencs in the vain

room was completed, but before the kitchen was the other. Now, however, a speculative French-supreme power in. Servia of peasants like Kara meet this objection and suspicion. Why should the market in Rahang, and the districts contiguous effort to restore life to the hapless gentleman,"

provided the premises were vacated, He could man, one M. de Mayrene, affirms that the George, or of swincherds like Milosch Obteno a foreigner wish to teach his pupils to write in thereto, is much in excess of the rupees, with the

not fix the date when the verandah was tribesmen elected him their King, though it vitch, and be even more remarkable success of such a way that their friends at home cannot inevitable result that the latter will shortly be at

abandoned, but he thought it was about the does not appear that they had, until their new an Englishman like Rajah Brooke in Sarawak, read what they may ? All the explanations in a premium, as the tice) was (vit, at 8 per cent. piem.) a short time ago,

beginning of August, When the verandah was friend apprised them of the necessity, any know the possibility of reaching a similar position has the world will not suffice to make this clear to a being taken down, the south wall began to ledge of such a dignity. Nor is it at all certain never been lost sight of by hopeful adventurers, suspicious old Chinese, who knows that whist cack, or rather most of the cracks looked like that they are even yet quite aware of the It may be that history will repeat itself. But has been good enough for the generations that old ones opening. He could not say if any were greatness thrust upon them, or of the manner in we confess, allowing something for romance and new. He saw Messrs. Bird and Palmer almost which they have contributed to M. de Mayrena's a good deal for fiction, there is silla wide gap for them, and much better than the invention of have come before his children, is good enough dally, and pointed the cracks out to them. They grandeur. Be this as it may, as 'Roi des between the Rojhate of Sarawak and the King some foreigner of unknows antecedents. It may put iron lerods across. Ja September he Sedangs" he appeared in Hanoi and Hongkong, ship of Sedang London Standard,

almost be said that a general objection is noticed extensive cracks in an archway in the with the object of trying to float a loan for the (We have published the above simply because entertained to anything which foreigner south wall, and it was taken down and rebuilt, development of his territories. But the Colonial There were other cracks, but not very bad ones. capitalists know too much of Sedang to do more

it is interesting reading. So far as M. de proposes, and often for the apparent reason Mayrena and the Sedangs are concerned, the that he proposes it. The trait of flexible About this time little after, he believed--the than smile at bis proposals. Accordingly, King writer in the Standard evidently knows offexibility leads your Chinpes friend to firm wrate to Mr. Chater asking him to direct Marie is now in Paris, sanguine that, where nothing beyond what he has read in French assure you in the blandent but most unmis repairs to be done to the roof, which leaked I there were capitalists ready to lend money to papers, officially inspired. Wo cannot even takable terms, that your proposal very

male, &c.

A. S. WATSON & CO., 1 IMITED. THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

Hongkong, China and Manila.

The fiangsung dringplay without motion, the gravity of the situation Mr. Chater agreed to take it as it was. The of the bricks are being crushed. I fancy the

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1889.

TELEGRAMS.

BOULANGER'S POPULARITY.

LONDON; July zist.

In despite of the law General Boulanger stands at the head of the poll in eighty districts at the

election for the Council General

"COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE."

The Under Secretary of State for Foreign

Affairs, in reply to a question, said that England had entered into no engagement in case of war being declared between France and Italy.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

THE Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Telamon, from Liverpool, left Singapore this morning, and is dus here on the apth inst.

saved.

crowa

SUPREME COURT.

IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before Acting Chur Justler Fielding

In our paragraph in Jaat night's issue, referring

Clarke) to the remarks of the Daily Press regarding the e se of Pilman. v. Wotton and Deacon, "we

CHATER AND OTHERS 2. THE HONGKONG inadvertently stated that the only object of

HITEL COMPANY, SAM publication could have been an intention. jo In this case the Hon. C. P. Chater, with Injure the defendants, which, of course, should Messrs. J. F. Holliday, L. Pocanecker, CH have read the plaintiff.". Last night's China. Seimund, and J. P. Lembke, and the Hong- Blaff repeats the morning paper's paragraph, kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown More mud grovelling. But nothing else could Company, brought an action against the Honge reasonably be expected.

korg Hotel Company, Limited, for damagon

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