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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA

LIMIT E D,

CHEMISTS.

XMAS SEASON.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1890.

The Hongkong Lelegraph

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1890,

TELEGRAMS.

OUR NEW ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

LONDON, January 8th. Mr. Goodman, from Honduras, has been appointed Attorney-General at Hongkong,

"Is marriage a failure'?" asked De Trampy of a former flame who had been a party to a May and December marriage. "No," she replied, with a glance towards her husband in the next room. "Not a failure. Only a temporary em barrassment."

Soux time ago a London club advertised for a secretary, Six hundred candidates applied The list included graduates of Oxford and Cam. bridge, barristers, doctors, schoolmasters, solici. tors and a whole regiment made up from all arms of her Majesty's military and naval forces

THERE will be a game of Polo on the Race- course, to-morrow, at 3.45 p.m.

It would be interesting to know what the The following is our new Attorney General's official record William Meigh Goodman was educated at University College, and gra.mails of the 26th ulto, from San Francisco, broker persuasion who are usually fixtures there bracelet. When Saul perished by his own sword,

WE heg to invite attention to our stock. of Portuguese Government is driving at in

Candeias suitable for

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR GIFTS. setting at open defiance the one Power in

Toilet Fittings in Crystal and Silver,

Europe that has saved "old Lusitania” Liqueur Stands.

Seekers Cabinets, &c. from becoming one of the things that are not, Portugal has nothing to gain and

CONFECTIONERY.

1. English, American and French Hon Bons and everything to lose by supporting the

Crackers.

WI ES AND SPIRITS.

All well matured and of English.quality.

MANILA CIGARS AND CHEROOTS. Manufactured expressly for us by

La Constancia Factory.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

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(Telephone No. 6.) Hongkong, 16th December, 1889.

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W E invite attention to the following old ianded Brands, all of which are of ex- cellent quality and good value for the money.

The same being specially selected by our London House, and bought direct from the most noted Shippers, are imported in wood and bottled by ourselves, thus enabling us to supply the

best growth at moderate pricer.

#6 in ordering it is only necessary to state the name and quantity of Wire or Spirit wanted, and initial letter for quality desired,"

buccanneering expedition of Major SERPA PINTO on the Shire river. It is notorious that all the world over-in Mozambique, Goa. Macao, Timor, and

wherever

the flag of the Braganza waves, the colonial possessions of the once greatest maritime nation in the world have for generations been going to decay, dying a natural death from inanition, If Portugal. is incapable of utilising the extensive possessions she already holds, in Africa, where is the utility of exposing herself to public humiliation In advancing absurd claims to territory which, even if right were on her side, she could not possibly make profitable use of?

duated. B.A., with honours at the University of London in 1867. He was called, to the bar, Middle Temple, in November, 1870, and afterwards went the South Eastern Circuit and Surrey Sessions. Mr. Goodman was appointed Attorney General and Advocate in Admiralty, British Honduras, in 1873, and in 1886 was promoted to the Chief Justiceship of that colony.-Ed.)

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PORTUGAL AND GREAT BRITAIŃ, It is now stated that Lord Salisbury's note was not threatening, but he asks that peremptory orders be given to Portuguese officials against a renewal of Major Pinto's acts. Nine British war vessels have assembled at Zanzibar.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

THERE are about three thousand solicitors in

Long may they flourish!

Tire P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer Ching, with the. arrived at Yokohama vesterday, and will leave for this port at noon to-morrow, This steamer made the run from San Francisco, to Yokohama in thirteen days and ten hours, the quickest previous voyage being that of the sleamship Gaelic in fourteen days and nineteen hours.

THE Bond of the Argyll and Sutherland High- Innders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, to-morrow evening, com mencing at 7 o'clock pul

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"You are not going to staw down town. Inte to. night, are you, John ?” * Not very late, Maria. I have to help pát a man through the third degree at the lodge. Il come straight home as soon as it is over." (Kindly, but firmly)-"If anplings, distinctly when you return home from the lodge. John, the outside guardian will admit you, and if you can't you needn't ring any alarm. at the outside all night, my dear," John came home early,

The corridor of the Hongkong Hotel was quite desolate this torennon; the gentlemen of the

were conspicuous by their absence, and even the worthy old law-breaker who makes a precarious living by retailing Manila lottery tickets was non est. There must be something radically

wrong at this wholesale detection of this popular

THE history of the bracelet is a chapter of the history of coquetry. It is one of the most any clent of jewels. Among the Israelites, the gold bracelet was used alike by the two sexes;. when Inda encounters Thamar, the latter asks in ex- change of favors, his staff, his ring, and his

a warrior despoils him of the bracelets with which his arms were covered. "For the con struction of the tabernacle," It is said in the Exodus, "both men and women offered their jewelry, among which were quantities of rich

resort, and Hotel shares are likely to suffer, So bracelets." male it be !

A CHINESE Correspondent writing from Korea CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, the witty author of the tells us that the late attempt to assassinate the "Fleurs du Mal," was invited out to dinner, and King and Royal family was frustrated by the sat at table opposite to the family lawyer, a grave wife of one of the principal conspirators who and pompous gentleman, Baudelaire began to held at the time the past of chief of the Royal talk of a lawyer whom he had known, and couriers, Happening to overheır & who, convicted of an abuse of confidence, sultation between her spouse and her son- sentenced to several years' hard labour. He in-law, fixing the day and hour for the then related the case of a second lawer found Assassination, and knowing that in case the guilty of the same crime, and condemned to plot failed it would be a case in which

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But apart altogether from the question of London and sixteen thousand in the provinces; you can repeat the password, 'Six slim slick and said: "Why, sir, to hear you talk, onethe King. This was done, with the results already

right-and in this particular case it would certainly seem from the details to hand that Major SERPA PINTO has been doing a spell of piratical acts on his own account, the still more Important question of might has to be considered. The British Government has very plainly intimated to the Lisbon Ministry that Portuguese claims to Nyassaland must be at once abandoned, that Major SERPA PINTO's arbitrary action must be publicly disowned, and that anything of the sort must not occur again. And we are told by REUTER that Portugal, notwithstanding this very plain indication of what disobe- $1.00dience will inevitably entail, still insists on its right to carry on a career of blood and rapine on the Shiré river. For the interests 1.25 of humanity and the world at large it is. fervently to be hoped that the Lisbon 150 Ministry will have the courage of their convictions, and continue to defy the "flag 0.60 that braves the battle and the breeze" etc.

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defences of "fair Lisbon," another monarchy will have ceased to exist, and the BRAGANZAS have been relegated to the $1.30

respectable obscurity so worthily filled by 1.25 the tinsel princes who claim descent from the Bourrons and the decayed house of ORLEANS Revolution is rife throughout Portugal; the Republican party has practically controlled politics for years past, and it only requires a spark to kindle the 0.75 conflagration that will end in sending His Most Faithful Majesty to keep company 0.75 with his worthy relative the ex-Emperor

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It may be, and probably is, the fact that this insane defiance of Great Britain by a nation that either for offence or defence is quite harmless, has been made with a special object in view A revolution has been threatened, and the influence of the 0.75 Republicans, both af Lisbon and throughout the provinces; has been fully recognised; to provoke trouble with Great Britain 1.10 might give the played-out monarchy a

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THE match between the Cricket Club and the United Services will be continued at 11.30a.m. to-morrow, Tiff on the ground.

CARDINAL Lavigerie estimates that, with 1,000 good soldiers and $4,000,000, he will be able to suppress the entire slave trade of Africa.

A Birmingham man has invenied a metal that can be distinguished from sold only by experts, though it can be turned out for 60 cents a pound.

Two crimps were arraigned before Mr. Wade. house to-day for agsaulting a coolie. They inveigled him down fram Canton recently, and put him on board a steamer to go to Borner, The coolie! nhj-ċied, and as he had not been passed by the emigration officer the crimps were paliged to take him ashore again. When they next met their vic im he was begging, and they, with some other men, assaulted him, The

police arrested the two, and in the middle of the WE read that one of the Prince of Wales' foot-case the complainant recognised another of his men has been fined 15%. for keeping a man assailants, and he also was "docked." The Big fleas," case was afterwards remanded. As this is a servant without having a license.

A REGULAR meeting of Ararat Lodge of Roval Ark Mariners, will be held in Freemasons' Hall Z-tland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for qʻa'cinck precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

We are informed that Brandt, the ubiquitous. was again in Court this morning, not as plaintiff or defendant, but as legal adviser to a Chinese personage, who got sadly "left" in consequence.

MR. J. HERBERT, late Editor of the Sentinel, and barrister-at-law, who comes out to take up the post of legal adviser to the Canton Govern- ment. arrived here this forenoon by the steam. ship Gleneagles.

THE "Glen" liner Gleneagles, which arrived this morning from Singapore, took eight days over the trip. This gives a very good idea of the heavy weather that has been prevalling out

side for some days past,

DURING the last two years the Italian army has been increased by 30,000 men, 200 field gan and 6,00 cavalry. Never was the army so numerous or powerfully organized as at present, under the attempt to keep up with Germany's military policy.

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THERE was at the Paris Exposition a conl-digger which is worked by an electro motor, By its aid a man and a helper can undercut 110 tons of coal in ten hours in a seam six feet thick, and the power required for this at the pit-head is a little over a horse-power.

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A PUBLIC meeting is to be held at four o'clock on Thursday afternoon next, in the City Hall, to decide what steps shall be taken to perpetuate the memory of the late Dr. Stewart, LL D. Colonial Secretary.. 'Mr. A. K. Travers will receive any subscription's.

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case apparently identical with those in which the nassengers on board the German steamers China and Kiel were shipped to Deli and Medan in the Dutch possessions, of which we had occasion 1o write upon the other day, we hope that the men, whilst having a fair hearing, will if found guilty be dealt with to the utmost rigor of the law as a lesson to such worthies.

THE hottest region on the earth is said to be on the south-western coast of Persin, where Prisin borders the gulf of the same name. For forty consecutive days in the months of July and August the thermometer has been known not to fall lower than 100 night or day, and to often run uo as high as 1180 in the afternoon. At Rahrin, in the center of the torrld part of this torrid belt, as though it were nature's intention to make the region as unbearable as possible, no water can be obtained from digging wells tro. 200 or even 500 feet deep, yet a comparatively numeraus papulation contrive to live there, thanks to copious springs which break forth from the bottom of the gulf,

more than a mile from shore, The water from

three springs is obtained by divers, who dive to the bottom, and fill goat-skin bags with the source of these submarine fountains is thought cooling liquid and sell it for a living. The

to be in the green hill of Osman, some 500 or 600 miles away.

stipulated an unconditional pardon from the King to her guilty hushand and son-in-law before she would divulge her secret to the authorities; she succeeded, and the two conspirators are the only ones out of the whole number who are at present at large.

a similar punishment. Äfter that he com

every man, woman and child related in menced the story of a third, who turned our a

any way to their family would be massacred villain and came to grief. Our scrivener looked

without remorse, the woman resolved to frustrate daggers at the narrator, and bgan to grow fidgety the conspiracy by divulging the plot to those in his chair. At last be could stand it no longer, Corean ministers who remained loyal to might suppose that every lawyer ended his days chronicled by as the other day. The resolute at the galleys." Then Baudelaire, smilingwoman, however, to her praise be it said, placidly, replied: "Oh! I won't go so far as to say that; sometimes they are guillotined."

Tire seventh and last regular performance of the Pantomime Ali Biba and the Forty Thieves took place last night in the Theatre Royal, City Halt. It was attended by a large and thoroughly appreciative audience. There were avera! changes in the libretto, and a lot of fresh fun wai introduced, and, barring a few little contretemps, performance rivalling M-iday night's was witnessed. The new duet, "So it is," by the two 's, was a great success-indeed there was littlethat was not. At the close the audience called for Capt. Clayton, the entrepreneur, so to speak, of the Company, and successively cheered him and the principal actors and actresses most hear lly. Taken all-round, in an artistic and a pecondary sense, we believe that the A, D. C. may con- gratulate themselves on having completed a short but very successful season. They will appear only once more, we regret to say, and then for the special gratification of our viptors from the Straits Settlements. Another "show"

or two would have been much appreci ted

DID you ever make a calculation of the number of prople that have inhabited this globe since 'the beginning of time? No doubt you will bay that such calculations involve a loss of time and

ste, after all, harren of results; but as we are en- enged in giving curious readings and odd cal. culations, let us take a few minutes' time and ap proximate, with a certain degree of accuracy,'

least, the number of souls that have been ushered into and out of this sinful world since

the time when it was not good for Adam to be alone. At the present time it is believed that there are 1400,pno,noo human beings on nur globe; but let us runnors that there has been

An, this

hut an wêrage of 920,003,000 living at one time since the creation. To give roam for only nossible doubt as to the average, fength of life, we will put it down at ftv yanır. (It may A WOMAN who wanted to undertake "baby have been longer than that during Bible timeng farming the other day, paid $3-40 to a mother it has been much shorter. However, since) With for her month-old female infant and forthwith the average length of life, reckonsi as above, took charge of the baby. The mother, having we have had two generations of ga1,000,00 wasted the $3 40 in riotous living, thought sheach, every century for the past 6,007 years. had "truck, lle and, shortly afterwards called Taking this for granted, we have had about upon the "farmer, demanding more maney 56,627,843 237.075.26 Inhabitants as the price of the human commodity she globe since the beginning of time. Admiting had sold. Falling to extort the money, and that there is a great deal of guess work aheat her visits becoming importunate and trouble this calculation, and that it has been hastily and some to the "baby-farmer," the precious pair perhams inaccurately done, it will be perceived, of females marched to the Central Police nevertheless, that our earth is a vast cemetery, Station to

On each rood of it 1.283 human beings have charge room. The "baby-farmer, who thought found a burial place. A rood being scarcely she had a sure thing against the other sufficient for ten graves, each grave must contain woman on the charge of attempted extortion, the remains of 129 persons. The whole surface was a bit surprised to find that the herculean of the globe, If all peoples bury beneath the Inspector on duty viewed the matter in a earth as we do. has been dug over 120 times in totally different light. He had both women locked order to get room for burial places. up on the charge of buying and selling human flesh contrary to the laws of the colony. As this is a matter, which is of almost daily occur rence amongst the Chinese population of Hongkong, an example should be... made. of these "traffickers of human flesh" which

ar se the matter out in the

would open the eyes of even the most enlightened members of the Chinese community in this colony. It is sad, but yet true that there is not a single Chinese family of any account here who does not possess at least one mory-drat, or slave-giri, purchased with the current coin of the realm. And Hongkong represents Christian

THE heart of English manhood' is being eaten cut (so Dr. Welldon, of Harrow, said at the Church Congress) by the opportunities of luxury and the habits of self-indulgence. We ought to bring up our boys and our young men to sell- denial and self-discipline if we wish them to become good men pad good citizens. We feel sure that Dr. Welldon would have pointed his moral with the following story if he had hap-England! pened to know it. But we fear that he does not and time to read the American newspapers - The Bulletin, published by the Ministry of This is the story. An extravagant young Public Works in France, contains an estimate of man had called upon Judge Mains, of the the total amount of coal extracted in the principal Supreme Court, and after a few remarket bad countries of Europe and in the United States paused between them, the Judge looked up and during the year 1887. Great Britain and Ireland, asked, "Brother Lightweight; why don't you of course, come first, with an output of nearly Ket married?" "Because I can't afford it. How 165,000 000 tons, the cost price of which, at the much do you suppose it costs me to live, now ? | pit's mouth, is put at a fraction of over 49 per The Judge declared that he could not guess. ton. The United States come next, with an

1.00 temporary lease of life, and certainly would the end of 1888 as 4.748.257, against 4.717.309 | “Well, it costs me all of six thousand dollars a output of 118,000,000 tons, calculated at a cost"

Tax last returns of the Central Statistical Bureau at Stockholm give the population of Sweden at

at the end of 1886. The rural population amounted to 3,888.049, and the urban to 860,208, but the latter is increasing steadily

CRICKET.

H. K. CC. United ServiceS.

A two-days match between these elevens was

commenced this afternoon. As the appended score shews, the Club men miade a strong stand at the outset, the score after an hour and a

ball's play reaching 140, with only two wickets down. Sercombe-Smith's contribution of 66 Dr. Lowson's finely-batted 73, and C. J. Coxon's 37 were the chief factors in this result, and, apart from that, the results were miserable. The scores ran-One wirket, '62; two, 1131 three, 1441 four, 1981 live, 116'; gjx, 231, and-ten, 218, The last three men were all caught and bowled, four wickets falling inside of tea mlautes, The full score was

H.K.C. CLUB,*

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* THE SANITARY BOARD,

year just for my own living." "Dear i dear!" said price of 61. 6d. per ton. Then follows Ger the judge, in a tone of astonishment. "Why, many with so output of 76,000,000 tons. Lightweight, I wouldn't pay it. It isn't worth estimated at a cost price of rather over 51,

5 it,"

tan, followed by France, with an output of 11,000,000 tons, the cost price of which is no less than 8s, 6d. per ton. Austria had a total out but of 19,000,000 lans, the cost price of which was only hall that of French coal; while the total cut por of coal in Belgium was over 18,000,000 tons and the cost price 68. 61. perton. The total output The Board met the afternoon. There wers of coal in Russia was about 4,500,000 tons, but wesent-Han, S, Brown (Surveyor-General), no estimate could be formed as to the cost of Capt. Deane, Hon. J. Mitchell-Innes (Acting extraction, and Spain was the only other coun- Registrar-General) Dr. Ayres (Colonial Surgeon) try in Europe which produced as much as a Mesers, J. Humphrey, N. S. Ede, Hon. Wang million tons, the cast price per ton being Sting, and Dr. Ho Kal as nearly as possible 7, There were so The Secretary (Mr. H, McCallum) read, a large quantities of coal extracted in any other letter from the Acting Colonial Secretary, parts of the world, excepting. Europe and intimating that H. E. the Governor thought it North America, but Australia extracted over advisable to associate Mr. Chadwick in some 3,000,000 tons, at a cost price of gs, a ton; Indipeway with the Board. It seemed difficult to do 1,315,000 tons, at a cost price of res. 8 (05; so, in view of the singully inelastic constitution Japan, 1,251,000 tons, cast price not stated; and of the Board. He suggered that 'a short. New Zealand, $43.003 tons, at a cost price of 11 Ordinance should be panged to enable Mr. per ton. The Orange State and the Transvaal Chadwick so jala the Board; extracted 21,400 tons, but as it was at a cost Mr. Ede agreed that Mr. Chadwick possessed price of £3 15 a ton, the enterprise could so great qualifications in regard to sanitation, and have been a very profitable one. Out of 636 moved that the Board reply welcoming been granted by the State, and upon which a short enabling Ordinance he par

The Standing Orders were then suspender royalties had to be paid, only 292 were worked in 1887, and this represents a decrease from, the fand, Dr. Ayres baring seconded, it was agreed year previous,

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follow the customary rule and regard feet, and the thirty persons who were in it at the Governor Liu Ming chuan to Gearral Wu Jui- Curaçoa Herring's Cherry Cardla obligations as a cause for dislike. For time we all swverely injured. During the Fsheng, formerly Commandant of the Pescadores, Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura

and the army will be formed into three columns, Bilters, &c, getting that the salvation of their country's bibition full a dozen men lost their lives in th

independence during the Napoleonic era elevators, yet the authorities were enabled to under the command of General Su Chien-tsal, conceal the fact from the pubile at large, While Top Yu-tsuen and Li Pen-ching. The first was solely Britain's work, and ignoring the tower was under construction a large num column, under General Su will enter Savagedom It la poquested that a communications relaticy to Jubigipties, the well-known fact that Portugal in ber of workman were killed at various times, by way of Hsintau; the second jealumn, puder Advertisementa, &c., be addressed to the anger, face to-day bankrupt and mortgaged, as for and these casualties, too, were all kept secret.

General Tou, by way of Ve-lan, (Old Dog's Letters on Editorial matters to be sent to "The Editor" and as a nation can be mortgaged, to British

Hill, the scene of the first massacre) and Communications intended for publication must be accompanied capitalists, we find the people snarling at Tar question of Sunday observance is ont the third column, under General Li, by way by the name and address of the waiters, not cowardly for their benefactors, and the press abusive which disturbs the clergy of England more, of Ta-ko-chi. These places will be made the Whilst the columns of the lengkong Telegraph will always and defiant. Well, the bulldog can perhaps, than any other. In sore places the base of operations for each column, a body of Blecting pustic Interests, it must be diltinctly understood that afford to give ample license to the clergymen themselves have, in order to secure soldiers consisting of three-tenths of cach column the Ediar does not in any way hold himself responsible for feeble pug, and Britain will lose some sort of respect for the day, inaugurated being left behind to protect the places and act nothing by allowing Lisbon politicians to cricket clube, the only restriction being that as ne a sort of reserve in case the savages Advertisers are requested to forward a ratios Letended for indulge in harmless brag; but the fiat has soon as the church bells sing, the players shall make it too hot for the invaders The gone forth all the same, and Lord leave the game and attend to their religious troops, we hair, have received orders to be Advertisements and Subscriplans which are not ordered for a SALISBURY's friendly ultimatum must bring duties. An effort is also being made to encour prepared to advance into the savages' country on English sonstone posed in the Far East, and a tortor fix the Portuguese Government to their senses, the opening of museums and picture the 12th inst, and we expect to be able to give bost mediasm for Advertisers, Terms can be learnt on application or before many weeks are past the Unlon gallerica on Sunday,The position is taken our readers an exciting history by our special coal mines in France, for which concessions had addition to the Board. and recommendingải

that it is better to provide some innocent amuse-" war-correspondent" of the fighting that will soon Jack will be waving over the towers of meat than to allow the man to Idle about the take placa-for hard, fighting there will surely Lisbon--and the fantas shops will be streets and otherwise pase the Sabbath is be before the savages knock, under and my closed in Macao,

vicious illusom,

not to individua? mersbers of the staff,

publication but as evidence of good faith.

be open for the fair discussion by correspondents of all questions

opinions thus expressed.

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