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has a husband living; third, that she has been intimate with one Wertheimer, the son of a curiosity dealer in Bond Street, since her alleged marrlage with Dunlo

BERLIN, January 6th.

It is confirmed that Russia has sent a circular. note to all powers that signed the treaty of Berlin in regard to the violation of the treaty by the present condition of things in Bulgaria, and particularly by the pretended sovereignty of Prince Ferdinand.

ROME, January 6

A most interesting discovery has been made In St. Peter's Cathedral, Some workmen were employed in repairing the floosing under Michael Angelo's great picture of "Moses Parting the Waters of the Red Sea," and in the course of their labors they discovered an extremely ancient and perfect mosaic pavement, many feet below the present floor. Arehwologists and literary men as well as artists are wildly excited over the finding of this remnant of the ancient temple of Jupiter, on the ruins of which the modern basilica of the Church of Rome was built.

CADIZ, Jantiary 6th. The English yacht Yaya has been wrecked on Aceiterns rocks. It is reported that fourteen of the crew were drowned and four saved. It is now reported that the entire crew, in two beats, are missing.

DUBLIN, January 6th. Charles Lever, son of the celebrated Irish novelist, and himself a scientific electrician of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1890.

Chinese money and materials, and that Chinese labour and Chinese iron and steel shall be em- ployed exclusively in the constructie, down to the last nail. To carry this out demands the erection of extensive works for the manufacture, of iron and steel, which must be preceded by the opening of coal and iron mines. It is to this end that the foreign engineers have been en gaged, and that foreign plant and machinery are being imported.

Iron ore is found scattered at several places. in the Yangtse valley, and we now bear that the Inspector-General of Mines, M. E. Braive, has been very successful in his researches, and has found some large and rich deposits of pure iron ore in Hupeh, close to the river. The conl fields so far found are not so promising, for they are either very small, or produce only a very inferior kind of fuel. 11. raive has returned to Hankow, and is about to ree commence his explorations at other points on the river, and will be assisted in them by some of the other engineers, as the mines have to be discovered before they can be opened, A good. deal has been said about the coal, and "iran mines in Shansi, but as was recently reported in our columns they are too inaccessible to be made availnction has been established between until a connection been them and the projected railway.

There is another proof that Chang Chib-tung is taking the railway project seriously in his having recently secured the services of a first-

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morning, Death was caused by heart disense.

LONDON, January 6th.

The formal betrothal of Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, to Princess Mary of Teck is arranged to take place after the Easter Holidays.

The trial of Arthur Newton, solicitor, Frederick Taylorson, clerk, and Adelphus de Galla, inter- preter, who were anested on a charge of con- spiring to defeat justice in connection with the West End scandal, began before Magistrate Vaughan in the Bow-Street Police Court to-day.

A lad named Algernon Allies testified that he resided in the Cleveland-street house and received money for immoral purposes.. He des troyed the letters that he had received from Lord Arthur Somerset. Allies admitted that he had stolen valuables from the club in which he had been employed as a waiter. He was not impris soped for the thefi. Lord Arthur Somerset went his surety. The witness stated that subsequent to the exposé of the scandal Taylorson tried to induce him to go to America.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, January 10th. Anarrangement has been made by the Spanish Government, with a view to preventing a political coup in the event of the death of the King.

The Empress Augusta bas bequeathed the palaces at Berlin and Babelsburg to the Emperor William, and four million marks to her daughter. Numerous legacies are left to charities and religious institutions."

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January 11th. Major-General Moore, Bombay Staff Corps, is

dead.

The Shah has conferred the highest Order of the Lion and the Sun on the Sultan, who approves the concession to England in the Per- sían commercial agreements..

It is stated that the doctors have discovered symptoms of poisoning on attending the Cear, who became indisposed after wearing the Ger- man uniform.

two years attached to German Legation at Peking. This gentleman has been en- trusted with the preliminary survey of the country which the railway will traverse. The length of the line is estimated at 2.5ca li; and a thorough survey of this will take, it is certain, several years. This time will be usefully employed in opening the mines and establishing the necessary works for manufacturing the plant; and it is to be boped that in four or five years the surveys will be so far advanced that the definitive tracing can be adopted, and that soon after the first Chinese-made. Fails will be laid on the track. We may then look forward to travelling from Hankow to Peking in a comfortable saloon carriage carly in the comingce.tury, ul.ss even then the opposition of the owners of wheelbarrows and springless carts prove too strong for the intentions of the government.-N. C. Daily

News.

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SIR GEORGE BOWEN AND HIS COLONIAL CAREER.

A BOOK OF (SELF) PRAISE

As we announced same time ago, our late Governor has been devoting the hours when his unrivalled experience was not required in the Councils of his country," in compiling, with the assistance of Mr. Stanley Lone-Puol, a book two volumes entitled Thirty Ye rs of in Colonial Government; a selection from the Despatches and Letters of the Right Hon. Shi G. F. Bowen, G. C, M. G." This invaluable (?) contribution to the political literature, of the later half of the nineteenth century has recently been published by Longmans, Green & Co. We have not yet received the elegantly bound special autograph copies of the new book, which we feel certain dear "Sir Gush" will forward to the Hongkong Telegraph by first opportunity, hot a colleague on the Melbourne Argur has been more fortunate, and his review shows such a thorough knowledge of the character of the sham philanthropist and shallow mountebank we in Hongkong know so well, and is moreover of such read in this colony with much interest.

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book puff about the locality alterwards. The writer poses as a popular Governor in each instance. Had he said popularity-bunting

•Governor no one with knowledge in the four quarters of the globe would have uttered a word of dissent.

(To be continued.)

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the evident admiration of Sir George Bowen of his own powers. And if he piides himself about one thing, more than another it is the effect of his oratory. Thus in New Zealand, in the Tick wasu campaign, when things were at their darkest, when the friendly tribes were Waterink. Sir George Bowen." The friendlies decided to ba ten to the front. The were called together, and were addressed in thrilling language for an hour:-

"In response to my appeal, the brave chief Te Kepa sprang forward and said that he was ready to obey the Governor's commands, and lead a new faua, or war party, to be called the Governor's fana, and to be enrolled for permanent service. Several other chiefs declared that they would follow Te Kepa.

"This may be called the main turning point of the Maori war. Reinforced by the loyal clans, Colone! Whitmore, the commander of the colonial forces, was enabled to take the field again, and after several sharp skirmishes, to drive Titokowaru back into the forests of the West Coast,"

This shows how important it is that Sir George Bowen should have taken the pen (or rather have prompted an editor), because in the many histones of the Maori difficulty the importance

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"Well, we think there is a real cause of joy for Hongkong to-day, in that it has pleased the. British Government to send such a man as His Excellency Sir George Bowen to rule over it. We are ready to dance and sing in the exuberance of our rejoicing that the Imperial

right mment has at last put the right man in the right place.

"On reading the recent proclamation the humane and beneficent sentiments of His Ex- cellency are seen to be beyond the power of any words to express. It cannot fail to have a mighty influence for good on the minds and manners of all who peruse it. In our view, the colony is most fortunate in getting a Governor of such exceptional worth and wisdom, whose rule we hope to hear praised in many happy homes, and under whose benign shadow a grateful people may securely rest.""

In his letters and in his footnotes, Sir George Bowen introduces anecdotes now and then to

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We extract a few. If they are of the chestnut be said of them that they are the freshest in variety the fault is not the reviewer's. It can

the volume, and we are anxious to put the

author's best pages before the community

Hounslow Hospital is overflowed with influenza patients, and sheds are being utilised to accom- a generally interesting character, that it will be of this address has hitherto certainly escape bishop, an excellent man, but a muscular

modate the surplus sufferers."

BERLIN, January 11th.

The funeral of the Empress Augusta to-day was an imposing and solemn ceremony. The cortege was witnessed by thousands, and the expressions of sorrow were marked.

BRUSSELS, January 11th. The strikers at Charleroi aremenacing the men working in the mines. Several attempts to destroy factorics by dynamite are reported,

LONDON, January 12th. Lord Hartington, while the guest of Baron Hirsch at Merton Hall, Norfolk, caught a severe cold, which, being neglected, developed conges tion of the lungs.

The London experts attending him declared the case serious. The Queen has telegraphed her sympathy,

Lord Hartington passed a good night, heat. being maintained.

MADRID, January 12th,

A band of armed Republicans having cut the rails midway between Madrid and Andalusia, troops were hurried to the spot by special train.

LONDON, January 13th. The London edition of the New York Harald states that it is absolutely certain that the British Government will dissolve Parliament directly after the consideration of the Budget or, If serious opposition, arise, during the debate

thereon,

Lord Salisbury's ultimatum demanded the withdrawal of all Portuguese soldiers and civilians from the disputed territory in Nyassa- land. Portugal dallying as to the reply, Mr. Petre, the British Minister at Lisbon, threatened to leave.

The British Legation at Lisbon was attacked by a mob on Sunday.

Consequeat upon Mr. Fetre's threat to leave Lisbon if the ultimatum was not definitely answered, Portugal submitted under protest.

The Duke of Cambridge's wife is dead. The New York Herald gives currency to a fabricated account of a blizzard which is reported to have occurred on the west coast of America, doing great damage to property, and killing four persons at St. Louis. The whole ctory is nicer. tained to be untra",

The epidemic is abating. Sir Richard Webster, Attorney-General, and Mr. Ritchie, President of the Local Government Board, are both suffering from influcoza. Lord Hartington is progressing favourably.

RAILWAYS IN CHINA,'»

These, says our Melbourne friend, are two disappointing volumes, Anticipatory paragraphs fed the public to expect that Sir George Bowen was about to write his views of the men with whom he has been associated during his long colonial career, and of the events which occurred during the period, and in particular it was said that he would review and justify his policy in Victorin, where he was involved in the stormy crisis of 1878-79. But nothing of the sort is attempted. The volumes are a selection of the "fine passages" of Sir George Bowen's various despatches to the various Secretaries of State writen from the colonies where he held, office, and they are connected by the slenderent possible thread of narrative. In connection with Victorian affairs this rule is strictly followed. We have simply copious quotations from the despatches, selected, of course, so as to put Sir George Bowen's action or inaction in the most favourable light. Other parts of the work are relieved by letters to private friends placing the writer on the most conspicuous of pedestals. For it, seems to have luckily happened that whenever Sir George Bowen wrote a letter which contained "a purple patch," or in which he posed with good effect, he kept a copy, for further use. This care now has its reward. But the

Victorian narrative is net so relieved. There is nothing new in the chapter. And time has pot softened the old complaint about the crisis despatches, that there is little that is true in them. Their republication recalls how Sir George Bowen showed himself to be a weak mani bow be, was used as a tool by stronger politicians, and how apt he was at repeating parrot-like the sentences they taught him. In a prefatory chapter we are told how Victoria, the most energetic, populous, and progressive of the Australian colonies, passed safely during his administration through a very severe political Crisis and Parliamentary deadlock, caused by a prolonged dispute between the two Houses of the Legislature." "Safely" is hardly a word that would have occurred to anyone but Sir George Bowen himself,

notice.

A marked effect was produced also by the oratory of Sir George Bawen (when Governor of the Mauritius) at Bourbon, He writes-

"Nothing could exceed the heartiness of my reception at Bourbes, At the official banquet given to me there I delivered a speech in French about the entente cordiale, the English and French flags waving together, the glories of Labourdonnals and other great French Governors and captains in the East, &c., which actually drew tears from the eyes of some of the French officers present-a rare result of Anglo-Saxon speeches in a foreign tongue 1"

On one occasion it is recorded of a Bible patriarch that after kissing his beloved he lifted up his voice and wept, and commentators are puzzled to know why he did weep. It is also a mystery why these French officers indulged in about the entente cordiale. Were the tears tears of joy because of the friendship, or tears of grief because there was to be no more fighting and promotion, or were the tears apocryphal? There will be cynics who will adopt the last of the suggestions.

Sir George informs the Under Secretary of State that he is an athlete, This comes from Queensland 1-

"On the East Coast of Africa is another

Christian,' whose episcopal tours read some- thing like shooting trips. For example:

"Rose early. Shot five couple snipe and a wild duck. Afterwards held a confirmation in the village. On our way to the next mission, shot three wild geese, one of them of a new kind. At the mission, held evening service, which was attended by thirteen converts, one of them of a mountain tribe whom I had not seen before.

"Caught some trout for supper. Slept well in my bammock slung to a tree, after this hard and Interesting day's work. A wild beast prowled, round at daybreak, but I fired my revolver at him; so we had morning prayers in

peace.

Afterwards fished and shot, and at 11 o'clock preached, my congregation consisting, I fear, only of a few inquiers" from the next village, who offered for a rupee to show me some good shooting ground, Gave them some tracts and gunpowder, &c.

"And so forth, day by day.

"It should, perhaps, be mentioned that there is current in the colonies a story of a bishop of great learning but of singular absence of mind. When once caught in a storm, he asked a sailor:

I hope, my friends, there is no danger?" The *The cavalcade of well-mounted horseinen sailor probably thought that, according to the that every where came out to meet the first re-well-known superstition of his class, the presence prerentative of thri- Queen eclipsed anything of of the bishop on board had, brought on the bad. the kind that could beerhibited in ancient Greece, weather, and answered gruffly: 'Dangerl my or indeed in any part of the world, except in lord, of course there is danger; we shall all be in England or in Australis. I was escorted into Heaven in half an hour. God forbid exclaimed your county town of Warwick by 400 horsemen, the bishop, unconsciously raising his clasped I rode one day, to the delight of the Centaurs-I hands. So a well-known Governor was wont to mean of the squatters-and without the slightest relate that he was, together with a high digaltory, once exposed to a violent gale on a lee shore. fatigue, 70 miles in eight hours--of course, with a change of horses. You should never send a The captain came down to the cabin and said, Governor here who cannot ride and shoot,"

Your Excellency and gentlemen, I think it right to tell you that we are in great danger; I have done. all that man can do for your safety, and you must now trust to Providence. Ok is it so bad er that ejaculated the dignitary. So, again, a captain of one of the F. and O. steamers stated, that on one occasion a missionary among the pessengeri asked, in only half a gale of wind, if the ship was not sinking. I took him, wald the captain, to the forecastle, and told him to listen to the talk of the sailors, who were using profane language. Do you suppose, sir,' I remarked, that the sailors would talk in the way if the Turning over the pages the reader has abun-ship were sinking under them? This seemed dant evidence of how much Sir George Bowen to encourage the missionary, who went back to cultivated the art of saying flattering things to his cabin, However, in the middle of the night people, and how proud he is of his phrases. The the wind increased, and I saw creeping towards. following illustration is in connection with a visit the forecastle a white object, which I soon dis. to Li Hung-chang

cover to be my friend in his nightgown. "He | ilstened for a minute to the sailors, and then crept back to his berth, muttering, * Thank God! they are swearing still

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Hongkong, 1st February, 1890.

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SATURDAY, THE BTH MARCH, 1890,

To take place on the Race Course, Wong.nel chong (by kind permission of the Stewards of the Jockey Club), commencing punctually at a p..

ciation, and open to Gentemen Amateurs who are Members or Visitors either of the Hongkong Club, Club Germania, Hongkong Cricket Club, or Victoria Recreation Club, and to Commissioned Officers of H.M. Anny and Navy,

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3-Exercises oa German Horse, Prize by

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by John D. Humphreys, Esq. S-Putting the Shot, Prize by Sports Com-

mittee.

6-Ladies Purse, Half Mile Flat Race, H'cap,

Prizes by the Ladies of Hongkong, 7-High Jump, Prize by R. K. Leigh, Esq. 8.Half Mile Elet Race Handicap. open to Soldiers, Saitors and Police. First prize. $201 2nd prize, $10; and prize, $5, presented by J. J. Francis, Esq., Q.C. 9-Douglas Challenge Cup, Quarter Mile,

prezcated by John S. Lapraik, Esq.

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11-100 yards Challenge Cup, presented by

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12.-Half Mile Steeplechase, (o Jumps) First

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Sir George is also a grand shot. This comes from his pen from the Mauritius:

"As the French pluters are generally good rife-shots, the bag often contains from 20 to 30 tags. Afterwards there is a grand déjeuner at the shooting-lodge, and the puria takes place afterwards. At my first chatse I was, of course, The picture presented to the reader is that of put in the best post, and was lucky enough to charming, amlable Governor paying compli-kill five stags to my own rifle, which delighted ments to everybody, and beloved by all About the French, who say that I am the first English the profuse paying of compliments there is no Governor who can shoot their deer and speak doubt whatever, and there is nothing in the their language." book to show that Sir George Bowen ever realised how soon the indiscriminate flattery palled and how speedily the insincerity was detected. He was always in the midst of scenery that had to be praised to the local residents. The flowing language, the classical The steamer that arrived yesterday (January reference, the lines of English verse with which The Viceroy, in the course of one of his con- 27th), from Hankow brought us authoritative colonists are so familiar, are all here. To give versations with Sir George Bowen, mentioned news from that important centre, whose Impor him his due, Sir George Bowen was a capital that he was 63 years of age, and that he no tance has been doubled by the appointment of guide-book writer, inasmuch as in guide- lenger felt the same vigour as when he put down Sir George Bowen does not tell the really good Chang Chih-tung to Wuchang. That appoint. book you do not look for the honest statements the Taiping rebellion with the help of his friend story sboat a colonial Governor whose "allow ment has made the triple town at the Junction of a sincere bellef, but rather you expect, Colonel Gordon. The maid Sir George, your ances, or perquisites, apart from his salary, of the Han and the Yangtse the centre of interest and you get, the puff direct, Morcove, in Excellency was born in the year 1831, in which were held by his Ministers to include gas, but In China, as far as railways are concerned. these volumes absurd repetitions can be guarded the great Napoleon died. As Confucius and not fuel. The Governor acquiesced cheerfully, It appears that Chang Chib-tung at any against. It was not so in real life, and the other philosophers say, "Nature abhors a vacuum' but next month when the Government-house rate has made up his mind that the decision result, as colonists know, was disastrous to the and has evidently created in you a new Napoleon accounts came in the clerk in the Public Works to make a ratiway from Hankow to Peking effect of the gushing orations. Particulars are of the East to replace the Napoleon of the West, department, whose duty it was to check these The above Steamer having arrived, Consignees shall be taken seriously, and that it shall not given in the volumes-though the incident The Viceroy appears to have been pleased by documents, observed an extraordinary increase of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their not be, if he can help it, a shelving of the is well remembered here-how the residents of this compliment for turning to the English in the gas bill. The Jump was so great that Bulls of Lading for Countersignature, and to take question. As soon as he was appointed to Wa Victorian village were charmed with the connet, who acted as interpreter, he said Tell even the vagaries of the meter would not account Immediate delivery of their Goods from along- chang, he regarded himself more as a Railway Governor's description of them and of their dis- the Governor that I place my steam yacht at his for it, and the clerk sent out a fitter to alde.

some large Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel petitioned for the assistance of some foreign would ever linger on the scene, and how com- Tientsin up the Pelho."

escape. There was no escape found, mining and metallurgical engineers Four of plately, and cruelly, they were inches to his fee, at any rate, Sir George Bowen did it was discovered that the Governor had put a and expense.

gas-cooking range in the kitchen and gas stoves gentlemen arrived at Shanghal recently when some fiend in human form republished the net angle in vain, from Canton, where they have been kept awaits same speech, in which, with the same flowery Evidently the ex-Governor was, during his in all the rooms that were used. Fuel" had ing orders. Two of them are English and two epithets, the same classical allusions, the same career, a believer in Lord Melbourne's alleged been abolished the day after the Minister båd Germans, and they were engaged at London and English verses, the same reference to a heart dictum that all men are vain, and that it is abolished the fuel allowance. If the author had Berlin through their respective Ministers. They breaking departure, Sir George Bowen had difficult to praise them too much especially if drawn from bis own experience for anecdotes he are now at Hankow awaiting the conclusion of eulogised community in Queensland Mr. you desire a favour from them. Certainly praise could have really enlivened these pages. the New Year festivities, when they ill be Stanley Lane-Poole is too Judiciors an editor to could not be laid on too thick for himself. The "The Ionian Islands Queensland, Nor. We have lidt day durell carry earth

as Solicitors and shail carry on business transferred to Wuchang, where a special build allow any contretemps of this character to occur Chinese paper in Hongkong is Sir George Zealand, Victoria, Mauritius, and Hongkong lag has been prepared for them.

In the volumes, but he must have had his work Bowen's idea of what a newspaper should be, and are very different places, but then, though the under the name of "HOLMES & RÓDVE," to do iLHA BARU

be quotes with modest pleasure the following and scene may change, the man does not. The same similar eloquent paragraphs from its sympathetic Sir George Bowen was in each place-talking about himself first, and indulging in the guide-

Office No. 5. Queen's Road, Victoria, on MON- DAY, the 24th February next, at 12 o'clock Noon, for the purpose of receiving a Statement of Accounts, and the report of the Directors for the year ending 31st December, 1889.

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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

THE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING

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By Order of the Board of Directors,

D. GILLIES,. Secretary Hongkong, 1st February, 1890,

THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TWENTY-FIRST ORDINARY ANNUAL MEETING of. SHARE-

THE

Commissioner than an ordinary Viceroy, and trict, and with his statement that in memory he disposal to tow. His Excellency's boat from ascertain whether there was not instead will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk HOLDERS in the above Company will be held

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CHAS. D. HARMAN,

Agent.

Hongkong, 1st February, 1890

NOTICE.

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at the Offices of the Company, Pedder's Street, on MONDAY, the 24th February instant, at Toree o'clock in the afternoon; to receive a fa Statement of Accounts to the gist December, 1889, the Report of the General Managers, and to elect a Consulting Committee and Auditors. :

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A JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,

General Managers, Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited. : Hongkong, 1st February, 1890,