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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1889.

The Civic Guard has been called out and cavalry summoned from the Hague,

Other trades continue to join the strikers.

"TUMMY" VISITS EGYPT.

October 4th. The Prince of Wales will visit Egypt after the marriage of the Duke of Sparta (Prince Royal of Greece.).

THE GERMAN NAVY.

THE returns of the number of visitors to the City | THE Portuguese gunboat Tejo arrived at Singa- Hall Museum for the week ending 'ct, 6th, are: | pore on the morning of the 3oth ulto,, and was -Europeans 134, Chinese 1,425 ; total, 1,559. under orders to leave for Sourabaya and Timor

on the and inst.

THE paragraph in Saturday's' Telegraph teler.

A REIKL chief, the doc Van, has Invaded the rlag to the price of tobacco land in British North Borneo should read $6 (instead of 6) district between Hanoi and Lang-son, and is now,surrounded by French troops.” In a skirmish per acre.

which occurred on the aind September his wife, ANOTHER death under most distressing circum-dressed like a man, and mounted on horseback,

went out and fought with a revolver.

stances that of a Chinese child-occurred at The German Estimates provide for a sum of Singapore on the morning of the goth ulto, from

bydrophobia. 32,000,000 marks for war-ships.

THE STRIKES IN HOLLAND, The stilke in Rotterdam is ended, the men having obtained their terms.

THE French War Department are experiment. ing with the Royal bamboo grown in Tonquin, as lance-shafts for the cavalry. 8,000 have been

MR. GEORGE M. HART died at the Shanghai General Hospital on September 28th, 1889. He was originally a merchant at Ningpo and for some time followed the business of a broker ja Shanghai, eventually joining the staff of the Municipal Council of the Model Settlement about

THE trial of Capt. Carorti, for murder took place at Yokohama on the 24th alto, before Acting Judge G. Jamieson and a jury, resulting in a verdict of "not guilty." DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR Quincey and Sergeant Haddon dropped in on a counterfeit coiner in Third Street to-day, and found that six dollars, representing 30 per cent. of his capital, were on a copper basis. Mr. Robinson, for some reason known only to himself, foed the man $5 for cach" queer" one. Smashing should be popular at that low rate,

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excluded) known in your district ? Please give namer in fall, thus (Hsiang-p'ing Hua-pao Yin), together with the colloquial name,

3. What in the actual weight in grains (4374 Tael of each p'ing? gralna equal, to one ounce avoirdupois) of the

NOTE. It is suggested that weighing a' Fifty. tael or Fifty-pound weight will give more accurate results than weighing a one-fael or one-pound weight."

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3. What is the touch or fineness of each of the several kinds of Silver (pure silver being taken 45 1,000 fine)?

4. In each Tael of currency weighing (so many) grains, how many grains are there of pure silver (1,000 fine)?

5. How many Taels of each of the currencies equivalent locally of too Ku-ping Taels of pure silver (K'u-ping Tau Wen Yin)? the Tael commonly used locally ? (100 Tacls= }

ordered, and will be tested by the various reg1 twelve years ago. Mr. Hart was an enthusiastic question is asked "May they be safely used?" mentioned by, you are considered to be the

ments.

THERE will be a regular meeting of St. John, No. 618, S.C., In Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Saturday, the rath Instant, at 8. jo for 9p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

member of the Masonic brotherhood and was at one time Master of the Shanghai Royal Susicx Lodge.

6. What relation do Mexican Dollars bear to

to the effect that he has decided to entirely parts of nitric acid and five parts of sulphuric acid. | Dollars).inds of Copper Cash are used in

(From the Courrier d'Haïphaug.) BOULANGER ET CIE.

PARIS, September 26th. The Government bas adopted a contradictory An excellent preservative of the teeth and with policy with regard to the elections of General Boulanger and Count Dillon. Both have been deprived of their civil rights by the recent decision of the High Court, and yet, whilst in the Depart-A SOURABAYA paper calls attention to the fact ment of the Seine the votes for General Boulanger that a brewery and sausage factory have already found a local babitation and name in German Morbihan Dillon has been officially announced upon as effective means of German colonisation, A 'JAVA paper states that cholera prevails in Acheen, not only among the army of occupation, but also among the Achinese outside the lines. The latter, no matter how largely their ranks have been thinned by the disease, carry on pertinaciously their harassing tactics. They bave become so daring in their attacks as to be with difficulty kept off from the forts by musketry

perties of the Areca Nut combined with aromatics, I have been annulled, and the next candidate, M. 'New Guinea, and remarks that they are looked maintain the large force of armed police in the fully applied. After the removal of all un

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Hongkong, 7th October, 1889.

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Hongkong, and September, 1889.

BIRTH.

Joffrin, declared elected, in the Department of

As the successful candidate.

THE HANOI REBELS.

HAND, September 26th. Yesterday the rebel Chiefs Doc Tich and Doc Lan, with 71 followers, arrived here. The chiefs were taken to the military prison, and the men put into an old pagoda, under a strong guard, to prevent their renewing offensive operations,

(From the Comercio.) NETHERLANDS INDIA.

LONDON, September 16th. The loans to the Netherlands Indies are estimated at 140,500 and the deficit at 14,400..

The sales of coffee by the Dutch Government .up to now amount to 460,000 piculs.

A subsidy has been voted for the laying of a cable between Macassar and Banjermassim, for strategic purposes.

EDUCATIO IN THE PHILIPPINES.

MADRID, September 17th, To-morrow the Cabinet will consider the scheme for reforming the system of instruction in vogue in the Philippines.

A College of Music is to be established at Manila by the Government,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

CHIPF JUSTICK SIR RICHARD RENNIE left Shanghai for Japan on the 28th ulto.

We are requested to state that there will be no concert at the Sailors' Home to-morrow night. We believe that Mr. Oliver H. Simons, the new consul in Hongkong for the United States, will arrive here by the Oceanic..

We would direct special attention to the letter On "The Currency and Measures of China," published in another column.

THE Hon. A. Lister was congratulated this morning on being provisionally appointed Colonial Secretary." The King is dead-long live the next man.

THE wreck of the ship Baron Blantyre, as she lies in the Straits of Khio. was sold by auction at Singapore on the goth ulto, for the sum of $475. Mr. Spanjaard was the buyer. AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S... will be held in Freemasons Hall Zetland Street, on Wednesday, the 9th instant, at 's for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

and shell fire.

their Celestial abodes."

We have it on undoubted authority that Mr. E. R. Bilios has signified, his intention of presenting to the Trustees of the College of Medicine for Chinese in this colony the sum of $25,000 for the purpose of erecting the necessary buildings for that institution. Viceroy Li Hung, chang has sent an autograph letter to the Secre, tary giving his assent to be enrolled as one of the patrons of the College,

BANG CHIH-TUNG has issued a proclamation abolish in Kuangtung the Emergency or Police tax, commencing from the 24th inst. This tax received the sanction of the Throne in 1886. in order to enable the provincial authorities to province to suppress the numerous bands of marauders-with, what effect is only too well- known that had been organized after the close of the war with France. The tax consisted of a levy of three per cent. in addition to the ordinary lakin tax on all kinds of merchandise Imported into the province.

Unbrella and cane handles, collars, cuffs and scores of other articles of convenience, utility and even elegance, manufactured from cellaleld, are in daily use by large numbers of the people. The Celluloid, says a writer in the American Analyst, is made from gun cotton, a powerful and violent explosive compound. Gun, cotton is made by saturating absorbent paper with a mixture of two The cellulose of the paper, derived from theċellular tissue of the cotton in common ure, is changed

To make celluloid, the excess of acid is washed by the combination and becomes gun cotton. out by a free use of water, and by pressure care combined acid, it is reduced to a homogeneous pulpy mass, strained until it becomes neatly dry, and is then mixed with about one-third of its weight of gum camphor. These materials are mixed as uniformly as possible by careful manipulation with wooden instruments, and then by grinding. The pulp which is turned out by grinding is spread out, reduced to slabs of various thicknesses and rolled between steam-heated rollers, and then be comes moderately elastic in strips of medium thickness. In this form it is worked up into the various articles which are offered for sale and tured, its manufacture for experiment or for general use is not recommended; and, although celluloid articles may be safely used with ordinary care, a bonfire of such articles for amusement is not recommended. No injuries from such have been reported. A word to the wise, however, suffices.

CORRESPONDENCE..

[We do not necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents in this columns)

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7. What your district? What is a Tiao, and what its value ?

8. What relation do Copper Cash bear to the Mexican Dollar and for the local Tael? manity) used locally? If used at all, please give some account of them.

9. To what extent are Cash Notes (paper

1o Are Bank Notes (or Bankers' cheques) for Silver used in your district otherwise than an cheques ?

Weights-11. What weights of Catty (ching) are known in your district? Please give the equivalent in ounces avoirdupois or in grammes. Which is the one generally used?

12. What weights of Picul (shih`or tan) are known in your district ? Please give the equiva- lent in pounds avoirdupois or in kilos. Which

the one generally used

table.

16 Tuels (liang)1 Catty (chin). 100 Cattles (chin)—1 Picul (shib}..

14. Does the Tael (lianp) of currency hear any exact relation to Catty (chin) of commerce? Capacity 15 What it is the weight in lbs. of kilos of dry rica contained in the Peck (tou) known in your district? What in its capacity in English cubic inches or in cubic centimètres.

Length 16. What lengths of Foot (ch'ib) are known in your district?” Please give equiva- lent in English standard inches (and decimals) or in decimale of a mèiré, What are their names or use?

THE Wenchow correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes under date the 25th Sept. The mail steamship Hatchang arrive? from Shanghai on the morning of the 23rd in lant, with Mr. THE Rev. W. Jennings at the Cathedral, and the P. H. S. Montgomery as passenger. He takes Rev. G. H. Bandfield at Union Church, referred charge of the Imperial Maritime Customs here, in their scrmous yesterday morning to the late and Mr. J. Numann leaves to-morrow for use. Although gun cotton is easily manufac-3 What variations are known from Dr. Stewart, and the Kuangpao, in its obituary Kiung-chow to take charge at that place. We notice of that gentleman, particularly refers to all very much regret his departure, as he has the material loss the Chinese in Hongkong proved himself to be a very able and kind chief, have sustained through, his death. The para- We all wish him a pleasant journey, and trust he graph is headed "The gods have returned to will like his new port, though, from experiences, we know that Kiung-chow is not for the better as regards the place and surroundings, but we hope that promotion will soon follow to make up for the deficiency in this respect. We have had a few days cold weather, with light rain.

WE read that Java the sugar planters are at their wits and how to cope with the disease which now works havoc among growing cane crops by cankering their roots, Plant cane.from abroad which suggested itself assubstitute for the home grown article now come under suspicion. Borneo at first came into favour as a supplier meeting the requirements. To satisfy the demand, nurseries were laid out there, and looked promis- ing enough at the outset. They have now fallen into discredit, owing to the dreaded disease ap. pearing there among the young cane. Celebes will now he tried, and commissioners have been sent there by Java sugar planters to see what can be done in that line. In Java the cane has suffered much from excessive rain, followed by a severe drought, Maases of dead canc, fit only for fuel, cumber the fields The planters, for all that, cout upon an abundant crop larger than that of last year.

THE total export of this year's teakwood from Siam (says the Bangkok Times) will undoubtedly be the largest ever known. The abundant up country rains have facilitated the removal of hundreds of logs of long standing, as the foresters were, in consequence, enabled to easily float them down to the river side. Let us hope, for wood traders, that remunerative rates may rule the Home market for many months to come.

AT the Police Court, to-morrow another case of cruelty to seamen will be magisterially investi- gated. Several men are seeking redress against the captain and officers of a sailing-ship which arrived last week, and if their story is true a been committed on them. We hope that every series of almost incredibly brutal assaults have opportunity will be given them of telling this story, instead of, as usual, checking every little Stregularity in their evidence, and stifling their case on account of their ignorance.

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THE Regimental, News says:-"Lieut. Colonel V. Chater, our present Commanding Officer, joined the Army July 12th, 1864, as Elgn in the 76th Foot. He was transferred to the gist, July 19th, 1864. He has thus commenced the 26th year of his service with the Regiment. He was for some years A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding in Scotland, and also to the Go- vernor General of Canada. He served with the 91st during the Zulu War of 1875, was mentioned in despatches, and was awarded a medal with

clasp."

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THE Newchwang correspondent of the N. C. Daily News writes under date Sept. 26th:-We have been having rather too much rain, but natives say that it will not affect the crops, which are nearly cut, of not quite gathered. From all parts the accounts are most favourable, and shipments are expected to be on a large scale. There are signs of an early winter and the ther mometer already begins to register below so degs, Fahr. but this is not sooner than last year, The news from Feking of the burning of the "Allar of Heaven" may have a bad effect on the progress of China as to railway moking. So far we have not heard any more of the line between this, Port Arthur, and Shan Hai Kwan, and it will take a long time to survey, so that if there be a com mencement next year we shall be lucky. It would be a great boon to the province, and would certainly be the cheapest way of relieving the poor people, who are only temporarily saved from starvation, for it is not at all likely that last year's liberal, contributions will be repeated Unfortunately many haverelied on a continuation of the "Famine Relief and are worse off than

have made no effort to keep themselves, The Chinese poor are the most hapy-go-lucky people in the world. They live or die with the same philosophy or rather apathy,

Tug annual international cricket match at Shanghai, England 2. Scotland, had to be abandoned owing to heavy rains. After the Scotch had totalled 100 for their first innings A return matatch will probably be arranged, THE students of the College of Medicine for Chinese in this colony underwent their final examination in, the second professional course on Saturday last, the 5th inst. There were ten candidates, and we believe that only two more examinations are required to qualify the students to practice as full-fledged Bob Sawyers. THE Haiphong papers are

making

king a row about the Frenchman-of-war Sendra, at present in the Harbour here. They complain that she costs Tonquin 800,000 francs-nearly $100,000 per annsm, and is on national, service, instead of in Cochin Chinese waters. She is to be at Saigon by the 15th, the Governor-General coming here by the French mail and going back by her. Ar the Supreme Court this morning, the Acting Chief Justice, Mr. Fielding Clarke, sitting in Bankruptcy, bad before him an application for adjudication as bankrupt, made by Mr. Webber on behalf of Frank Grimble. There being no

for a week, intimating that unless the schedule was then prepared he should dismiss the petition. THANE Sportsmen left Hongkong on Saturday | evening, in a launch, to spend Sunday up the

Canton river. They were to have returned in THE team of Hongkong cricketers, who will the evening, but up to this afternoon nothing leave by the Indo-China Co's steamer Tairang has been heard of them. Whether they have to-morrow afternoon to play the Shanghai almply stuck on a bank or' are “hostages to | CC, will be selected from-Messrs, E. J. Coxon fortune" through the action of the natives, remains to be sccp. A search party has gone

מזם

HONGKONG SHARE BROKERS. AND

THEIR BROKERAGES.

To the Editor of the "Honaxonɑ Teŭzaza."

up the subject of brokerage on shares, in this Six-I am pleased to notice you have taken Colony.

What you say in your leader of Saturday last, namely: that the present rate of charges is a scandalous robbery of the public"-le not only too true, but a very mild statement to make with regard to what has lately been going on. The charge that some brokers make on certain shares runs from 2 per cent. to 13 per cent. for a turn-over, z. buying and selling. What legitimate business can stand such charges?

In some instances whena principal expostulates against the extortionate brokerage, he receives a torrent of abuse, and is accused of attempting to take the bread out of a hard-worked broker's mouth-or is informed "So and So charges the same, and why should not I?"

You refer to "the leading brokers," as if they might do something to improve the existing scandals in connection with their business; but I regret to say that some of the so-called leading brokers are the most extortionate, and "ate wonderful adepts at the well known game of #

grabmall"

The Government should take the matter up, and without delay.

It would astonish many If some of the deluded speculators were to publish the amount of brokerage they bave paid since, the 1st January, 1889

Task, why do the public submit to this well- known system of robbery -and whilst pausing for a reply.

I remain, Sir,

Yours faithfully,

Hongkong, 7th October, 1889.

WONDERING.

THE superiority of the right hand caused it early to be regarded as the fortunate, lucky and trusty hands the inferiority of the left hand caused it equally to be considered ne ill-omened, unlucky and, in ons expressive word, sinister. Hence 'come innumerable phrases and superstitions, It is the right hand of fellowship that we always grasp; it is with our right hand that we vindicate our honor against sinister suspicions. On the other hand, it is "over the left" that we believe a doubtful or incredible statement; a left-handed compli- ment or a left-handed marriage carry their own condemnation with them. On the right hand of the host is the seat of banor; it is to the left that the goats of ecclesiastical controversy are in

The very notions of the variably relegated right hand and ethical right have got mixed up inextricably in every language: dreit and af the right in English. But to be gaucht is merely droits display it in French as much as right and to be awkward and clumsy, while to be right is something far higher and more important. Sp unlucky, indeed, does the left hand at last become that merely to mention it is an evil omen; and so the Greeks refuse to use the true old Greek word for left at all, and preferred euphemistically to describe it as euonymous, the

SIR-In January last the Council of the well-named or happy-omened. Our own left China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, with seems equally to mean the hand that is left after the view of eliciting information concerning the the right has been mentioned, or, in short, the currency and metrology of China, addressed a other one. Many things which are lucky if scen Circular, in the form of a questionnaire, to many ward, on the faten mens if seen to left residents, as well in the interior as at the open

On the other hand, if you spill the salt,

ports, requesting them to furnish short papers- you propitiate destiny by tossing a pinch of it over your left shoulder. A murderer's left band giving, particular regarding certain points set is said by good authority to be as excellent in the Circular. Now, at the end of thing to do magic with i but here we cannot September, the time has arrived when, according to the Circular, all replies should have been speak from personal experience. Nor do we received, and the Council ought to be in know why the wedding ring is worn on the position to digest or abstract the information left hand though it is significant, at any rate, thus supplied. Unhappily, but a small propor that the mark of sievery should be put by the

tion of the paper' expected have reached us, man with his own right upon the Inferior member and hence, in order thoroughly to accomplish of the weaker vessel. Strong-minded ladies may,

our object, we are compelled to

the 15th Decem. injustice of the centuries.

ber, wand to invite further contributions on those interesting subjects.

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17. What variations are known from the table

10 Inches (ts'uen)-1 Foot (ch'ih), 10 Feet (chih-1 Chang (chang). 18. What is the length of a Pace (pu) ? 19 What is the length of a Lí? N Note-It would seera that the

ought to be 360 Pu; the Pu, however, varies, and it is desirable to ascertain if the Li is anywhere the exact equivalent of 360 local Pu

Area-o. What is the area of a Mow known in in your district? Please give the equivalent in English square feet or in square mètres.

Note. It would seem that the Mow ought to be a strip of land 240 Pu long and 1 Pu wide. It is desirable to ascertain if the Mow is any- where the exact equivalent of 240 local square Pu; slio if the Mow in the same district varies according to the soil to be measured.

31. How is the area of land under one Mow designated? Please give a table.

General-az. Please give any other in- formation regarding these racasures not covered by the above questions.

Your reply should be addressed to

The Hon. Secretary,

China Branch of the Royal Asintic

Society, Shanghai.

It would be a convenience to editor and printer if communications.were written on one side only of the paper.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, September 13tb. The representatives of all the dock labourers, firemen, slokers, and seamen, have signed a compromise, under which the Increase is to commence in November, and work will be resumed to-morrow.

The lightamen, however, still stand out. The tailors have succeeded in getting their demands

THE CURRENCY AND MEASURES OF acceded to pappe

CHINA..

TO THE EDITOR OF Tun." Honago#2 TELEGRAPH."

Representatives of the employers and workmen of Lancashire are conferring with a view to' arranging a scheme which shail break down the Liverpool cotton ring.

September 14th.

The lightermen have now signed the agree- ment, and the strike has ended. All the men

start work to-day

Major John F. Wyley, of the Cheshire Regi ment, was thrown from his borse yesterday, and is now reported to be in a dying condition.

A Court Martial assembled yesterday at Woolwich to try the drivers of the South Field Battery, who mutinled on Thursday last. The superiors and of overwork. Three drivers named prisoners complained of the tyranny of their Mills, Stevens, and Wilkie, were convicted of insubordination and mutlay, but the sentences The Duke of Cambridge is causing enquirica to be made into the circumstances which led to the mutiny, nauda apaan n

The Government have

have wired to Suakin that the raids into the Soudan are to be discontinued, and the friendlies to be disarmed,

schedule filed, his lordship adjourned the matter if there had not been such a fund, for they get up an agitation if they like to alter this gross | for sending in replies-say, tilled the time have not yet transpiredio e

out,

THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play at the Officers' Mesa, Murray Barracks, to- morrow evening, commencing at 8.30 o'clock. The following will be the programme Over

Peter Schmol" Weber, „"The Clolståe" Prom

At Macao, on the 6th September, the wife of Captain W. E. CLARYK, steamer Kiukiang, of a Misunta from Symphony „.“La Militia” mean Hayda,

„Fantasis van Scott Songs Van Maanen.

san.

55 years.

DEATHS.

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Of the contributions received, thanks are

A Berlin telegram Baya that Kaiser William's family will visit that of King Hambert at Monza. The Emperor himself will subsequently, proceed on a visit to

LAST night, at about 11.30 o'clock, the Ch'ue Hing Lang Club lo Graham Street was the scene of an uproar which made night hideous especially due to the Roman Catholic mission for about a quarter of an hour. While the arles, many of them working in distant pro occupants in that establishment were deep in vinces, for their ready response. There are the mysteries of fantan, the Tai Sui, still, however, many more of there, as also of or Club watchman, happened to perceive two

their Protestant fellow-workers, Consular and (capt.), T. Bercombe Smith, E. W. Maitland, F. policemen apparently listening intently to Customs officials, and others in a position

Car September 15th, Maitland, Capt. Butcher, O.S.D., Leat. Bram-what was going on in the first floor. As to furnish the desired information, from whom

All the men have now resumed: works! Atto well, 58th Regt, Lieats A. J. Campbell and H. L. the result abowed however, the "bobbies we should be glad to hear; and therefore A E. Watherson, RE, A. H. Lee, R.A., C. Platt, no Intention whatever, of making a rald received a copy of the Circular that the Manning and the Lord Mayor being present, Handerson, Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, were innocently talking to each other and had beg you to allow me, through the medium the conclusion of the negotiations the leaders of your columns, to remind those who have were regaled at the Mansion House, Cardinal and E. A. Rain. There can be no denying that a on the gents who were enjoying themselves very much stronger combination than this could in their own way. Nevertheless the alarm was sooner their replies are despatched the both of whom congratulated the strikers on the easily have been selected, had not difficulties given by the walchman, and confusion worse the Council is, on the one hand, to obtain the characterized their proceedings,

more welcome will they be. The aim of remarkable Immunity from violence which had about getting away from business cropped up than Pandemonium let loose reigned amongst most trustworthy information, and on the other, Mr. John Bures undertook to fomnish the Take all round the eleven is fairly good at all the votaries of St. Fantans sauve qui points of the game, although nothing to make a prut, and the devil take the hindmost, to make the collection thoroughly representative balance-sheet of the Strike Fund. S

Str Wilfrid Lawson is dangerously III with' song about, and their success is by no means a became the order of the hour, whilst the of all parts of this vast Empire. As, however, THE Singapore Free Prese of the 30th Sep-certainty. Coxon is good bat, if at times boldest amongst the losers, taking advantage of in spite of our best intentions, many of those constipation. Last night he was reported to be At the General Hospital, Shanghai, on the tember says:-"A telegram received in Singa bim li a dangeroui· left-handed slow the banker's cash-box to indemnify themselves have seen a copy of the Council's Circular, I- Another military "mutiny: occurred yesterday."

pore on Saturday speaks of Pahang Corporation

disappointingly uncertain,

ertain, and on a wicket that the confusion, smashed the lamps and grabbed from whom replies would be valuable may not sinking fast, wir geðten

venture still further to trespass on your kind-Twenty men of the Bridging Battalion of Royal shares having risen on the previous day to 75 bowler but as some of the Shanghai players for the frowns of fickle fortune. They failed to

ness by asking you to reprint below the series of Engineers at Aldershot refused to clean. their shillings, or ten shillings above what they wood are well acquainted with his "break-back sscute the plander, which eventually fell a prey at a receipt of previous advices. It is further they may fail to come off. Sercombe Smith is to the lookers-on in the street below, as the questions to which replies are sought. It is harness and led to the surrounding villages. stated that there are “strong boyer” at 25. an effective bowler and a slashing batsman. He banker, while trying to pass from the Club requested that those who may find themselves They were captured by a military picquet and 'erhaps this sudden tumo may be connected is rather in a hurry to score, but if once well verandah to the one next door, lost his footing, unable to answer all the questions will send lodged in the guard-room. The men compialn cession, similar to that of £80,000 mentioned a Maitland are steady bats, both can be relied on crowd surrounding the premises. The fighting demonstrating the great need for further informa with some offer to take ever part of the con- set, takes a rare lot of getting out. The brothers and the treasure was showered on the madding replies to as many as possible, gawang of overwork

I may perhaps be allowed to mention, as short time ago, Whatever it is, it is not the change bowlers, and as fielders they are in screaming, and cursing was suddenly transferred tion, that of the nineteen provinces to say result of putting Kwantan tin upon the market, every way satisfactory.. Capt. Butcher's form is from the Club to “down alde”, as the crowd for it is scarcely probable that any quantity wil sa aknown quantity to Hongkong, but he is rushed to and fro in their endeavors to get at the nothing of the large cities of Ching, replies have

been received from only seven ; and, as Ullus said to be a good player; Bramwell is a fairly dollars, ten, cent pieces, and cents that came be sent down before the Kwala closes."

useful man that is likely enough to make russ, Jingling from above like the big hailstorm we trating the diveraity of measurement that exists, that even the well-recognised foot is in the A LONG-THREATENED light amongst the coolies and although Watherston is a poor bat, his reported the other day. One fortunate individual at Jaiding's Refinery took place this afternoon, bowling is straight and perhaps more deadly is reported to have actually "collared a roll of answers already furnished, variously sinted as The trouble arose through one section refusing than it looks to an outsider. Lee is a free hitter bank-notes as it struck the top of his head while equal to from 1 to 29 inches of English mea to contribute to some "joss-pidgin," and a fight who is almost certain to make runs, and Flatt, passing by at the time of the confusion, but as he has not been heard from since this may be was only averted some weeks ago through although rather unreliable, is also capable of Inspector Swanston marching a body of police good service if once well set, Henderson shapes taken zum grano. All this occupied but three down. The moral effect had evaporated by well and is a good fielder, whilst Campbell in or four minutes after the false alarm was givan, to-day, and after tiffin about a couple of hundred probably the best bat in the team. :: Rain's play and the policemen on the spot were actualy so men, armed with bamboos, pieces of crockery, we are unacquainted with. As it is believed dazed at the suddenness of the commotion that etc, began the affray, and in a short time three here that the Shanghal team has a “tally- and, they forgot to blow their whistles for aid until or four were stretched out with a dozen grounds. leaving out Stewart, Bruce Robertson," and the row was practically over. The ridiculouances. Swanston and his men succeeded in persanding Woodward, is not quite first chop, our repro of the whole thing was at last explained, kod the combatants to desist, by locking op a couple mentaires should make a fair show, and we everybody had a laugh except the unlucky of dezen. The injured men were then sent to wish them a pleasant trip and every success in banker, who mourns the loss of seventy-five Hospital

the tented field

dollars and some antall change":

28th September, 1889, GEORGE M. HART, aged On the 29th Senterber, at 2 p.m.; at the Shanghai General Hospital, M. 1. HECQUARE, employs of the French Municipainy, in his 55th At $5, Queen's Road East, on the morning of the 7th inst., Mrs. GEORGE STAINFIELD, aged

year,

48 years.

The Hongkong Iclegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1889.

TELEGRAMS.

THE STRIKE IN ROTTERDAM. ·

LONDON, September 28th. There are 5,000 dock labourers on strike and several conflicts have taken place with the police.

The latter had to charge with sabres to prevent the mob terrorizing English labourers loading

· British vesself

1

surement

closed for an indefinite period, owing to the Six of the largest milla in Blackburn have action of the Liverpool cotton ring p

An immense meeting of the clock labourers was held this afternoon In Hyde, Park: The speakers congratulated them on the success which had crowned their attempt to secure s legitimate increase in the pay for the arduous duties they were daily engaged in. The pro ceedings throughout were, characterized by the utmost enthasimand and were perfectly orderly,

MESA PER CAIRO, September 15th, ng The'sickneás amongst the British troops berp still continues. Yesterday's weekly returns show, that there are 245 men in hospital suffering from enteric fever. There have been several atat POINTS REGARDING WHICH INFORMATION 18 NEW YORK September 15th... ARENAME BOUGHT, GLADIO(part A monument to the late General Grant Currency: What are the kinds of Tsel anvelled yesterday at Leavenworth, Kansas, Hang of Silver (the Hailwan or Kushpilog Taal) funeral oration was deliveredi

Your obedient servant, AWM, BRIGHT.

Hon Secretary, China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society, Bhanghal, 30th September, 1889