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the combatants, yelling like demons and builing back and forth the most opprobrious epithets, which could often be most distinctly heard to | these we soon got accustomed, as we did also to the more substantial projectiles in the way of cannon shot, that often found in their way into the settlement. I remember well one day when I went to see our silk inspector at the corner of Hanna and Frochow roads, and found him coolly examining some purchases while he pointed to a bale of silk by his side in which was embedded a cannon ball that had just come. in through a wall, On another occasion several of us, were talking to a lady friend who was seated on her pany, when a puff of amoke from one of the bastious of the city wail httracted our attention and we anW D Cannon ball coming "directly towards us, which the next instant struck at the teet of the pony, throwing up a shower of dirt over the party. Such incidents were of frequent occur. rence, but though many residents met with hair- breadth escapes not only when pursuing their usual avocations but when mingling, as they often did, with the soldiers in the thick of fights that were going on, strange to say none were injured, except at the time of the Muddy Flat episode,

Then com

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1890.

does break out into original motion movei with the uncontrollable precipitation of an avalanche Hobi, deed has been the Christmas pie their Excellenties have been enting at the German Legation. But it is after all wholesome food, for them, if they have the capacity to assimilate it, which is doub ful, Finally it is satisfactory t learn that the foreign Ministers are still a forc in Peking politics, and when they make out a strong case on a clear issue and press it without mincing of words or whispering humbleness they are able to carry their point. The lesson has been an instructive one all round.

TWO CHINESE ANACREONTICS.

-ON DRINKING ALONE BY MOONLIGHT, This is an attempt to render the best known ode of China's favourite bard, Li-po, A.D 720.]

Here are flowers and here is wine,' But where's a friend with me to join Hand to hand and heart to heart In one full cup before we part t Rather than to drink alone, I'll make bold to ask the Moon To condescer d'to lend her face To grace the hour and the place. Lo i she answers, and she brings Mý shadow on her silver wings, That makes three, and we shall be Iween, a merry company, The mod st moon declines the cup, But shadow promptly tak s it up! And when I dance my shadow fleet. Krepi measure with my flying feet. Yet though the moon declines to tipple, She dances in yon shining ripple, And when 1 sing, my festive song · The echoes of the moon prolong. Say, when shall we next meet together i Surely not in cloudy weather:

For you my boon companions dear,. Come only when the sky is clear.

W, A. P. M..

Peul Grotto, 24th August, 189. I-ADIEU TO THE YEAR.-A DRINKING SONG OF THE OLD WORLD. From the Book of Ostes, B.C. 500. This was printert same years ago in another paper, and it is now reprinted as a companion to the foregoing. It is specially suitable to these last days of the Chinese year.} The voice of the cricket is heard in the hal', The leaves of the forest are withered and sere: My spirits they drop at those chirrupping notes So thoughtlessly sounding the knell of the year. Yet why shou'd we sigh at the change of a date, When life's flowing on in a full/steady tide; Cume, let us be merry with those that we love, For pleasure in measure there's no one to chide.

W. A. P. M.

NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS.

Entínvations.

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ment bar, the dressing rooms. It must serve, in fact, for everything. There are, however, thre. or four booths where meats' and drinks are dis- pensed, and there is a galvanized iron hut about 8ft. by. 1oft, which serves as a stewards' room. Red flags mark the course, and a bit of very rough post and railing "the straight." It is the old bush course, just as it may be found 400 miles west, from Brisbane, or 1,000 miles north from Melbourne.

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made no resistance, but after the thieves had departed he got a number of soldiers and went in pursuit of the robbers, and managed to cap tute Wong, the leader, who has been handed over to the civil uu.horítics for punishment,

The horses in training are tied up beneath shady trees; the buggies are ranged beside the straight, or scattered through the bush, and shortly after noon at least fifty picnic parties are busy, hungry and happy, and rapidly satisfying Femselves, heat and dust and ants notwith- standing.

The chief interest, of course, is 'in the group. about the stewardat hut and the judge's post on the fence; the jetfga, has,no box. Nearly a tbousand people must be assembled there at times, and nine" red of them hushmen. Fine, strapping wart fellows they are as well bronzed between sun and sea as any Queensland backblockers. Good horsemen all. goed watermen, too; good shots, for all are hunters, and kangaroo and wallaby still afford fair sport on the peninsula,

What a magnificent little army or frontier guard they would make. Fremember a couple of years ago Mr. Robert Anderson, of Cape Schanck, telling me of the fine stamp of inen raised here, but I had not seen them mustered then. This is the muster; here they are, five hundred strong,

Couldn't Colonel · Tom Price make something out of them? Did he ever beat up for recruits on this foreshore of Victoria ? Might not a company be formed here which would play the very devil with any invader, trick him in the gullies ashore and lose him in the shallows at sea, pick him off from innumera. ble conning towers, and do more to impede his march to Melbourne than three times the num- ber of regular soldiers? I think if one good man of substance and patriotism would go into the matter with a little enthusiasm, a peninsular well at need, and might, ind:e, merit as w corps might be raised which would serve us

a tribute as the last laureate paid to the frontier men of England, the valiant Men of K nt." For. In reality, this almost sea-enclosed block of tile, and fit to raise our colony is broad and [26:

as tall and brave a race a ever stood in the forefront of England's battle.

occurred, though money is also very tight here. The Chinese, however think that the annual

settling time will pass over without any great

failures.

Russian broadcloth is booming here. In June and July last it was selling here at Tis, 24 for the piece of 19 yards. To-day I leam it is Wanted at Tis, 40-Mercury,

This however, is pót racing, and these men came here to race. The horses are all locally- owned, and have proved their mettle against each other in many a spin along the roails. There are a few outsiders of course, who have come to help them in their racing. One book- maker, who owns the authority of the V.R.C., and who does most of the business; two of who

Co-day's Advertisements.

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP, COMPANY, LIMITED.

FOR TAKOW. HE Company's Steamship THE

"HAIPHONG," Captain Harris, will be despatched for the above Port, TO-MORROW, the 11th instant; at Noon.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co., .

General Managers. Hongkong, 10th February, 1890, [268

FOR SHANGHAI.

HE Steamship TH

+ FM.

"PEKING,"

Captain F. Schulz, will be despatched for the above Fort, TO-MORROW, the ith instaat, at

For Freight or Passage, apply to

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"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS..

FOR NAGASAKI. KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

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THE

"FLINTSHIRE," Capinin Davies, will be despatched for the above Poits, on the 17th inst.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

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NOTICE.

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the Company will be held at the Hong- "HE SECOND ORDINARY MEETING of, Long Hotel, an TUESDAY, the 25th February,

1800, at 4 P.M.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to the 25th inst., both days inclusive.

By Order,

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[271 Hongkong, roth February, 1850.

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

PPLICATIONS` for ADMISSION will be

February, at 8 30 A.M.

Carton i to be lighted with the electric light Hang Ping-chang, a merchant of San Fran cser, has flated a c mpiny and has brought all the necessary plant to that great southern city, Consul-General Liang recommended, Mr. Huang English, the other for the French language, mister with a wheel of fortune, a half- A received on THURSDAY, the 13th

and his scheme to the Chinese Envoy to the United States, who telegraphed to Chang Chi- tung, late Viceroy of Canton, so favourably, that a return telegram directed that Hung should come at once to Canion, where he should receive: every encouragement and protection. The present Viceroy, Li Han-chang, bas The Surgkiang Magistrate had his vest olen

issued a Proclamation in which he demands lately. The thief was caught and sentenced to

from all, high and low, under bis adminis- receive 1,6 o blows. with the bimban. Never steal anything belonging to a Mandarin.tration, that no impediment be placed in

Moral-

At the end of last Chinese year there were

many failures amon? the native firms of Foo- chow. It is said that at the annual settling of accounts the town shops as a general rule only obtained payment of about six-tenths of what was due to them from their customers, and the country people only about seven-tenths. This unsatisfactory state of things is attributable to the decay in the tea trade, the consequences of which are felt in other branches of business.

the way of the company's, constructions, which will be carried out in such a manner as not to interfere with private rights or public convenience. The new Viceroy also observes that besides the excellence of the light given, there is another great advantage attached to the electric light, immunity from accidental fires.

FOOCHOW

On account of the many disastrous fires lately the Authorities have again posted up a proclama-

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three, neophytes of that strange cult, January 25th, 1890. Two alumni of the Imperial Tung-wen College imagine themselves to be on a short cut ere made interpreters to the Tsung-li Yamên, one to affluence, and whe ought to be in gaol; 'a another holds the same office in the Yamên of dezen professional sweep-promoters, and a the Viceroy. These young men had both filled couple of novel and simple totalisators. Pre- places in legations and consulates abroad, but sumedly these last were in direct defiance of the their known experience could not save them statute.made and provided, but the troopers did from the inevitable examination, which was held not meddle with them and showed their sense in connection with the closing exercises of the if not their zeal thereby. For the totalisator betting was decidedly the straightest game on college year.

the course.

At the final examinations on the 7th and 8th inst, there were 110 students in attendance—the numerical limit being 120 The occasion was honoured by the presence of three of the Minis- ters of the Yamien, and on the 8th a sumptuous breakfast was given to the President and Pro- fessors.

In the spring fresh levies of students are ex- pected from the schools of Canton and Shanghai, from which the college has hitherto drawn much of its best material.

The first name on a list of indispensable official, whom the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung has asked permission to transfer to Hu-kuang, is that of a former student of the college, and

of Cansul-General in San Francisco-both natives of Canton.-Chinese Times.

Their machines." were very simple, a centre- board with two wings set on a rude easel. Names of the starters were chalked down on the big board, and the betting was in balf-crowns. Every bet laid chalked one against the horse, and, when a start was made the shutters were closed The race over, a rapid calculation was made, sixpence out out of each; half-crown deducted as percentage, and the dividend declared and paid. A very good game for the proprietors of the machines, who bagged a fifth of all the money which passed through their hands during the day, and were not taxed by the club for any moiety thereof

. From reliable sources it is stated that the tion prohibiting the people from using kerosine another student has recently obtained the post lads who mounted some colours, but not always,

Foochow Dock authorities were very successful in building the steel-plated gunboat Zoong Wa last year. At first this vessel was not considered so good as desired, but after some trifling alterations she has turned out to be a fast boat On this account the Viceroys of Peiyang and Nanyang have each given consent to appropriate the sum of Tis. 1,00,000 to build others like her, The gunboat referred to goes faster than any of the vessels of the Priyang squadron,

We understand that His Excellency the Trea surer Kuei, in order to assist the promotion of his intimate friend, the present Acting Provincial Judge, Chang, had given over his seal of office on the 20th instant to the latter, and he has since left for Shansi to fill the same post.

A BUSH RACE MEETING.

There is a good deal of genuine bush life to be We hear there has been a strong demand for found on the peninsula which lies between Port the melted lead from our type destroyed by the that the railway touched Mornington on the one Phillip and Westernport. It is only very recently late fire, and we are told. it is intended for the manufacture spurious cash, as it is harder side, and Crib Point, beyond Hastings, on the than zinc and far cheaper. If this is true we other. The touch, as is usual, brings the city and bush folk together, and any occasion makés shall have to kerp a watchful eye over our establishment in future to prevent this new

a mingling in which something picturesque or industry of the "Artful Chinese" making pro-curious, or at least having the interest of unfami-

liarity, comes to the surface.

The jockeys were, for the most part, Inent

and indeed not frequently, those which appeared on the card, who did not continue the rigour of the racing costume below the waist, and bore swags before them occasionally if their mount was addicted to bucking. One gentleman of the district rode his own horses in proper Flemington style, and generally managed to win. And one six and five stone nothing. strutted about in the bop-of-my-thumb of a jockey, about two-foot colours of his owner, and looked contempt on the rustics he proposed to educate. Poor little chap 1 He couldn't have been more than ten or eleven, and with a baby voice and face. I saw him at the sailways station about half-past so at night, the train being late. He bailed up a big bushman, who towered above him like the giant

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Hongkong, 10th February, 1890.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

One of the most noteworthy and terrific inci- dents of the siege was the burning of the eastern suburbs, a dense mass of houses extending from the East gate to the Yang-king-pang. Soon after they got possession of the city the rebels established a water battery in front of the East gate which raked the river both up and down, and to defend it more securely, they bought and armed two foreign craft which were anchored in the rive just opposite. This battery was a great eyesore to the Imper alists, and many abortive attempts were made to capture it; time and again their fleet of war junks started boldly to attack it but were turned back by its fire. At last, one morning, another start was made, and junk after jurk left its anchorage and moved in single line up the river, hugging the Poolung shore as close as possible. On they went with a stiff breeze and under fus in fine style, until the leading junks had passed the batter es and it leaked to us-who were watching the operations from the upper floor of the deseried Custom House-as if another fiasco was to take place; when suddenly one of then stood out from the midst and; rapidly followed by the others, made straight for the foreign craft, which they ran alongside, of and deluged with stink pots, the suffocating fumes of which at once drove the sailors overboard, many of whom we could see struggling in the water; then they continued on for the batteries, which were speedily captured, and a short time after dense volumes of smoke arising from a dozen different points showed that the suburbs had been fired. mened a fearful conflagration, which lasted all the remainder of the day and the following night, in fact until every house, if my memory serves me, over that' vast space was burned to the ground; there being no one to stay its progress, as the inhabitants had long since fled. 30th December, 1876,-Chinese Times. In fact, the exodus from the city and suburbs commenced as soon as the place was taken, and all were suffered to go except the able-bodied men, many of whom were pressed into the rebel service and compelled to work and fight for them. Among the latter unfortunates was a brother of our then compradore, the latter long since dead, who was kept in durance for a long time and forced to fight, much against his will. At last he managed to escape and was secreted by the compradore without my knowledge on our premises, where he remained for some days in constant dread of being caught by the rebels an a deserter, and the Imperialists as a traitor, until one day on some specious pretext the compradore obtained my permission to visit his home at Ningpo, and left, as I supposed, alone. In the evening while I war at dinner, my boy came in and informed me that the com- pradore's boat had been seized while on the way, down the river, himself and brother dragged out and taken on board one of the square-rigged craft, and that unless I interfered promptly be would lose his head in the morning. I at once went to see the Consul, who gave me a letter to the commander of an American man-of-war in port, and the latter promptly placed a boat with an armed, crew and one of bis lieutenants in command at my service and we started down the Hiver. The night was very dark, and fearing a for in the approaching boat, the sentry on the vessel hailed us and threatened to fire if we advanced, but our officer ordered itig men to pull the faster and soon we drew up alongside. After some parlaying we were allowed to mount the ladder, and on reaching the deck, which was flush and covered in, I saw our compradore, his brother, and a dozen other poor prisoners sprawling on the floor and lashed lightly by their tails to a chain cable which ran the length of the deck, while most villainous looking guards with drawn swords paced up and down by their side. The compradore, as soon as he caught sight of me, made the most piteous appeals to save him, and the officer who accompanied me again and again demanded his release, but without avai!, "as the commander of the craft said the matter

Sunday next, the and inst,, is the lantern feast would have to be referred to headquarters, so, The dangerous state of the roads in Formosa day, and the usual burning of pile of wood at the we had to leave, the officer in charge of our

is evidenced by a recent adventure which befel house doors in connection with this festival boat threatening that his ship would come down four native merchants proceeding from Ilan to has already commenced. The natives, with and blow them all out of the water if our servant Tamaui with $300 to purchase goods. They their usual superstition, believe that by strictly was injured. On reporting the result to the were stopped by a band of about 30 armed observing this "custom"it will bring them a Consul he despatched a messenger to head-road agents on a desolate sand waste called prosperous New Year in their business transac

It grew bot, desperately hot, in the after- quarters, demanding the man's release, and the Santiaoling (Three-beaver Hill) close to Tamsui, tions as well as in their family affairs, and good

noon. The earth baked, the dust rose, the next morning I had the satisfaction of secing on 1th January, robbed of all their money, age luck will undoubtedly befall all who contribute. him come in while I was at breakfast, safe and receiving several grievous gun-shot wounds. towards this festivity. This festival is also con-

very timber was as if put out of a drier; the THE in Ordinary Annual MEETING women became weary, the men ibirsty, and

of SHAREHOLDERS will be held at ther sound but in a most sory plight. His brother, The Tamaui District Magistrate was endeavou-sidered very important amongst women, whom we

Office of the Company, Pedder's Street, on see flocking in the Joss houses to offer to the

all the drink was tepid, and most of it strong. however, and the other unfortunates whom ring to capture the thieves when our cor-

Tutelary Godincense sticks andjoss paper (which,

Men, getting tired of their coats, pitched them SATURDAY, the 15th February, at noon, to saw, had been hurried off to the headquarter respondent's letter left Formora,

by the way, they have to buy at the Joss house

off, and used their hands in wipe away the receive a Statement of the Accounts of the Com. execution ground and speedily decapitated.- "W, S. Wetmore;” in the N. C. Dolly News. Some time ago it was announced in the Hy at a fancy price) in order to ensure them pro-

perspiration which trickled down their faces; pany to the 21st December, 1889. and the Re- 'geny. Besides the regular squeezes in the

a process which does not mar much a true bash port of the General Managers, and to discuss any (To be continued.)

Pao that Chang, Viceroy of the two Lake sale of Joss sticks, &c., there are several con

And how utterly different are the two sets of man's visage, but makes and have of a city matters that may be competently brought before Provinces (Hupeh and Hunan), had engaged tributions which the worshipper of the Joss must people. Look at the packed train steaming away larrikin, whose pasty features boar all the stains, the Meeting.

towards Crib Point. It is an hour late, and THE MANDL EPISODE,

five foreign experta for railway and mining

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company you and whose eyes, alight with liquor, look out as service. It is per tumoured that the Viceroy pay and although the amount, as far as large might well imagine a full hour had been required burnt holes fa a blanket," said an old will be CLOSED from the 5th to 15th February,

contributions are concerned, "left to the bas separately deputed these foreigners to

generosity of the worshipper, nothing less than to gather together its various parts from the lum singer of one particular cases and the description both days inclusive. The Chinese Times of the 18th ulto, says — proceed, accompanied by Chinese officials, to

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., Six weeks ago we reproduced from the Shih make an investigation into the mining capabilities a thousand cash will be accepted by the priests ber stores of the railway. There are one or two was fairly accurate.

General Managers, › in charge.

good carriages, there are three or four bullock No starting or saddling bells, no posting of any Pas the memorial of a Ceusor, Chi-jui, denoun- of places in the interior of Kiangsi, Hunan and

Hongkong, 31st January, 1890. The trade in the Joss-houses at this season trucks, there are second-class boxes which might results, not much Jockeyship, but a good deal of

[216 eing the dealings of two foreigners, on which Kueichow. The object is to ascertain if iron for is by no means small, and it can fairly be ranked have been imported in the days when luxurious butcher-boy riding and an occasional row. Eight instructions were issued by the Teung-1 Yamba | the intended railway can be procured in China, to the provincial authorities concerned. One of thus avoiding the necessity of spending large ignorance among women, and the superstition baskets and bags fill all the racks, faces crowd the heat. There must be a full day's sport,

next to the, tea trade of the port, The woeful accommodation was supposed to be improper races on the card and all run through. What THE HONGKONG

for middle-class folks. But every place is packed, | did it matter if a woman or two did laint with the firms attacked being German, the case was sume in purchasing it from foreign countijes." which Influences the whole people, induces the

held game of the shanty races, indeed, and promptly taken up by the German Minister, who demanded investigation into the alleged

worshippers to pay any fees demanded and bay every window and all so fushed beneath their. facia. The result has been an absolute collapse the relays, are are all elated at the news that steadfastly do they believe that the Tutelary sea. They will look worse when they return, think while watching the saddling up for the Corcerning the Foochow Arsenal we hear that, anything offered to them at the foss-houses, so white draperies. They are going down to the played right out. But how strange was it to of the Censor's case, the entire exoneration of

Hack Race, value 10, while looking at the many Messrs. Mandi & Co. from the charges made Viceroy seg. Superintentendent of Trade for God will grant them the wished-for male off though they will feel better on the morrow.

Contrast them with another procession which groups beneath the trees, the unwatched streams past the railway station. It consists of buggies, ungroomed horses, unkempt harness, against them, and the revocation by the Tsung-the Southern Ports, is convinced, after a survey spring.--Ecke, Yameo of their instructions to the provincial by foreign experts, that the defects in the ma-

all the coaches, and carts and fish waggons of the men in their shirt sleeves, crowding right on chinery of the ironclad was-vessel recently

Hastings, in which are bestowed the entire the course and leaving scarce room enough population of that village All sea folk these, for the horses to come through, that the Hope- This incident reveals the Censorate at its launched from that establishment are slight, and weakest and enables us to see, with what an can be easily rectified and avoided for the future.

ruddy and brown, united with the brine like had toun Cup was being contested amid such very absence of wisdom and of information the mem. It is said that His Excelleney has telegraphed to

docks and tanned with the sun, some of them to different surroundings only an hour's journey -bers of that body are prepared to act and the Li Hung Chang, Superintendent of Trade for the

the colour of smoked barracouta, They are away. One might on the same day have shown As I stated in my last letter, Sheng Tactai has making in from the coast, while the city folks any visitor the two extremes of Australian racing, government to back thera. In the present case Northern Ports, recommending that they should the Censor, who presumed on his relationship to each grant a further subsidy of Tis. 1,0:0,000 bean selected by His Excellency Chang Chlbare making out.

the rigorous etiquette and perfect swangements to the Fuochow Arsen for the construction of tung to assist him in his great railway scheme, the Imperial harem, seems to bave been the

Joining with them, and driving out from the of the metropolis, the rude zest, the hard drinking, victim of an intrigue of compradoric origin, more iron-clads with as liute del-y as possible.

and the selection has been confirmed bere, Pau station, we come, in a very few minutes, to a and, doubtful pleasures of the bush, And going (Foreign firms should remember the law maximi,

King Teh is promoted to be Judge is Shansi good old dusty bush road, "made" chiefly† home a stranger might alsohave been introduced qui facit per alium facii her se) He was │- At Wohu is stationed a military officer named from his present. ffice of Tactal of Pas Ting-foo. by traffic, and indifferently stumped. An excell-to as fine a specimen of Australiandustar would be primed by ill-informed people and mixed the Kur, who with some soldiers are supposed to see His Excellency von Brandt has been fil, since ent road for a bad liver, but not very good for found in a thousand miles of travelling, and to true with the false, sandwich fashion, and when | that no robbers are lurking about the country, the 6th inst, but is now on the road to recovery. teuder eyes. A half-hundred vehicles may, be as hard-riding.drunkardi, also, as ever ran a brought to book he had absolutely nothing to Kur has the reputation of belog a very strict weather here is remarkably mild for this seen when, occasionally, the dust blows awry, muck in the world. Two of them, racing, rode a say. As an Imperial Edict had been issued on man. One day when he was out on an time of the year, and the river between Tientsin | and presently, away in a pretty clear paddock, a waggonette fairly down, broke wheels and axle, his memorial, it is permissible to suppose that experi fon capturing robbers, and his under and Tungebow is only partly frozen over. gleam of white canvas and a flash of bupting, and tent all the occupants dying abroad. Their the facile Censor has passed some mauvais lings and some soldiers, were in charge,, he

From Tientsin I learn that in consequence of That is the course found, to be something such horses will stand anything, we know, and horses, lege seemed to land it. Australian quarts d'heure over the business as

i found on his return they had not done their the tightness of money there, many native banks Approached, it is The Tsung-li Yamén, too, exhibits itself in duty, so Kur immediately dismissed the and firms have been compelled tostop operations, a waste as Caulfield was in the ants-Boad days, Australian heads also, for that day ended with colours not too brilliant. That inert body, which offenders. The sldiers that wenn dismissed | In fact the scarcity of money 11 nearly as keenly a scrubby heath of a hundred acres, with a strip out any record of heat apoplexy or whisky will never commell itself to any overt action, but joined a gang of thieves, and these paid Kur's felt as it was in the beginning of 1884, when the of poor, thin-foliaged; box farest clong its inner madness, or worse injuries than could be bealed confines the exercise of its wisdom to catechetir : pjace a visit and took sixteen t,unks of property, | Tow Kong Bank suspended payment, but so far edge.:: The heath is the course, the bush is the with a touch of the tarsilck or a strip of sticking. cal criticism of the doings of others, when, it valued at Tia, 5,000. Kur was over-powered, so here in Peking no such suspensions have "grand-stand, the paddock, the lawn, the refresh. plaster.-

authorities.

Since the French Annexation of Annam, Chinese officials proceeding to and from Kuangsi and Yunnan have avoided passing through that Customs would place impediments in their way. country through apprehensions that the French The French Consul at Hongkong has now announced that Chinese officials passing through Tongking to their pasts need no longer be appie. hensive of being interfered with or impeded in any way; and the President has given special orders on the subject to all French Customs Stations,

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It is reported that two tigers have taken up their abode on the Reynard Alpsand are getting fat on the goats and pigs of the neighbourhood We do not think this need cause any alarm to locality for picnics, as special arrangements those who are in the babit of going to this have been made with these feline monarchs that tea parties are not in be molested,

PEKING.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

January 13th, 1890

Boxing Day is the one great occasion of

real and Boxing bourn is kentinde peninsula as in Melbourne. pendently of Melbourne, however. The lads

cricket matches, or pantomimes, or concerts. and lasses of the peninsula care not a jot for Caulfield or Flemington, or intercolonial

But they have their own race meeting on their own course, and they propose to enjoy it in their aw way. The course is about four miles from Hastings, in a locality which bears the name of Balnarring. Three miles from the Westemport coast, and to, may be, from that of Port Phillip On this course the peninsula folks gather, while all around the shares of both bays the city folks

read.

The morning of Boxing Day witnesses both and into the Prince bridge ta tens of thous, ands Prince's-bridge railway station, and sending them right along the coasts from Mordialloc to Mornington, from Hastings to Flinders the country between these coasts pouring all its population into this racecourse

centre.

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THE SECOND. CALL of Ten Shillings per

Share is payable here on the 6th March, Shareholders will please pay, respective Amounts due from them to the undersigned,

WM. H. FORBES, For the Local Committee, Hongkong, 8th Febmary, 1890.

THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS,

OTICE is hereby given that the SECOND INSTALMENT of $5 (Five Dollars) per Share, on CALL of Ten Dollars per Share in the above Company will fall dut ́on February' 14th next, and is payable at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

qving for Melbourne mister, when is this train No

Taint came from Melbourne yet, sonny." "Jeeroosalem and when will it get back?” "Not afore 12, and perhaps 1" "Then I'll miss my train to Flemington," "And what'll you do th.n, sanny 7 "Think I'll hang out at Frankston to-night," "Hadn't you better stop here, and I'll get you a bed ?"

"Stop here, verossalem; I wouldn't be buried in such a place.#

And thus two foot six, and, six foot two, the city and the bush parted.

INTEREST at the rate of 12, per annum will be chargeable on all calls, unpaid on due date,

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. WHEELEY, Secretary. Hongkong, 14th January, 1890. F133 HONGKONG ICE COMPANY, LIMITED.

ROPE MANUFAC-

TURING COMPANY, LIMITED.

Ordinary General MEETING

THE Sixth REHOLDERS will be held.

at the Office of the Company, Praya Central, on FRIDAY, 21st February, at Three o'Clock in the afternoon, for the purpose of receiving, the Report of the General Managers, declaring a Dividend, and electing a Consulting Committee and Auditors.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from 8th to asst Inst, both days inclusive,

RUSSELL & Co,

General Managers. Hongkong, 6th February, go

MERCANTILE marine offICERS' ASSOCIATION.

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TNTIL the NEW PREMISES are ready the

Nove named Institution will be carried

on at Nos. 2, 4, and 6, High Street, above the Government Civil Hospital,

Good Accommodation for M. M. Officers.

Terms Moderate,

JAS. EDWARDS,

Proprietor.

"A CLARKE, Teacher of Officers and Engineers, Above Address. Hangkong, and September, 1889-