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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1890.

THE COLONIAL DEFENCES. Lieutenant-General Sir E. Hamley's motion will not be considered n Cabinet question, as the Secretary of State for War has announced that the Singapore guns have been despatched, and

AREGULAR Convocation of St. Andrew's Chapter, No. 118, S.C., will be held in Freemasonal Hall, Zetland Street, on Friday, the 21st instant, at d for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting companions are cordially invited.

THERE will be a meeting of St. John's Lodge, No. 618, S.C., in the Freemasons' Hall, Zetland street, on Saturday, the 22nd instant, at 5 for 5.30 pm. precisely. Visiting brethren are cardially invited,

TOLD TO THE MARINES.

(BY A SECOND MATE.)

This was the tale that was told to me,

To me and my messmate, Silay Green, When I was a guileless young marine. Twas the good ship Guyas Cutas All in the China Seas

that they have commenced supplying Hongkong | THE following subscriptions to the funds of the THE Administrator (the Hon.-F. Fleming) has Ry that honest and battered son of the sea;

LOCAL AND GENERAL. TIRRE will be a game of Polo on the Race. course to-morrow, the zoth inst., at 4.45 p.m. THE death of the Rev. Joseph Leicester Lyne, more widely known as Father Ignatius, is re- ported. He was a Londoner, and was born in November, 1837.

MESSRS, Butterfield & Swire inform us that the Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Anchises, from Liverpool, left Singapore for this port yesterday morning, and is due an the 25th inst. AN Emergency Convocation of Cathay Chapter, No. 165, will be held in the Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock

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With the wind alee and the capstan free To catch the weather breeze; Twas Captain Porgy on the deck To his mate in the mitzen hatch While the bes'n bold in the for'rud hald

watch............

Alice Memorial Hospital are acknowledged by veloed the idea of introducing Masonic rites at Mr. E. D Maitland, the, hon, treasurer:-W. C. the ceremony oflaying the Reclamation memorial one, as he is a Roman Catholic. #An Barlow, Esq. M.A., $5; Bishop Burdon, $50; G. Bateson Wright, Esq., $20; Miss Field. $5: Ind gnant Freemason's "letter on the subject Messrs. F. Blackhead & Co., $25; D. Curreem, arrived too late for publication in this issue.

OLD Mann's Fund-The following additional Esq., $10; Messrs. W. G. Humphreys & Co., $25. AT the close of the present season at the Dudley subscriptions have been sent to the inspector at Gallery, the end of March, (states an exchange) the Central Station: Inspector Swansion and our billiard champion, J. Roberts jun, for the Three Constables at No. 2 Station. $4; R.A. benefit of his health, recreation, and doubtless--Sergeants-Mess, second-contribution)-9Was-winding-his-larhbard with an idea to enrich himself, proposes to make Anonymous, $5; Sailors' Home, $35, subscribed an extended tour to many parts of the globe by Rev. A. G. Goldsmith, Messrs. Mayne, Starting early in April, he will, as far as the Mois, G. Williams, S. J. Williams, McDonald, programme is yet arranged, find his way to Cape B. F. Taylor, Ikim, I. Moosdeen, A. P. Gutierres, F. Carozzi, A. Crawford, Kwok Ching Chuen, H. Town, where he will give exhibitions of his mar- velious skill on the board of green cloth. After Gillies, Chapman, Chaston, C. Cales, Captains and Johannesburg. From thence he will either and 3 Friends. proceed to Port Elizabeth or Natal. From thence he will either proceed to the Mauritius or direct to Melbourne, where he is well known, and his remarkable prowess fully appreciated, whilst in the Colonies he will give exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, and other parts, afterwards proceeding to Singapore, Shanghai, Yokohama; and from thence he will return home via Barmab, Calcutta, and Bombay.

"Oh how does our good ship head to-night ? How heads our gallant craft?" Oh she heads to the East North West by South And the binnacle lies abaft." "And what-does the quadrant indicate.

BROWN WINDSOR, WHITE WINDSOR, HONEY, precisely. Visiting companions are cordially this he will probably journey on to Kimberley Bradley, Humphreys, Brown, Parson, Lathrop, And how does the sextant stand ?".

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We are informed by the agents (Messrs. D. Sassoon, Sons &Co that the steamer Japan, with mails from Calcutta, left Singapore for this port to-day, and is expected on or about the 25th

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AT the Magistracy this morning Mr. H. E Worchouse and Mr. R. K. Leigh, J. P., heard an application made by Mr. Rodyk on behalf of James Edwards, for a licence to sell spirituous liquors at 71 Praya West, known as the "Marine Hotel." The application was not opposed, and was therefore, granted.

THE Austrian corvelte Aurora arrived at Colombo recently. She is commanded by Cap tain Count Rudolph Montecuccoli, Chamberlain to HL.bf, the Emperor of Austria, said by the Observer to be a widely-travelled, most intelli. gent, and most courteous as well as unaffected nobleman. The Aurera will probably visit the Stralls and China..

Tu increase of the Attorney-General's salary is explained by the fact that the Colonial Office has deciled on a new policy in regard to its law officers abroad; In all the important Colonies, the right to private practice is to be withdrawn, and the salaries increased, while in the smaller ones the salaries were to be diminished and pawer gives to accept private practice.

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FROM the Acting Postmaster-General's report for 1889, laid before the Legislative Council to-day, we learn that there was a deficit of over $16,000 on the working of 1888. The balance sheet for 1889 is not yet ready. The "approxi- mate statistics show that during last year 640,000 letters were despatched to other places, and 506,900 received, the total number handled, including local correspondence, being 1,283,700, an increase of 136,700 on 1588. Over half a million newspapers and periodicals passed through, the office, and nearly 2,500,000 articles-letters, papers, post-cards, parcels, price-lists, etc., were dealt with. Mr. Lister, in his preface, urges that the Supreme Court and Land Offices should be turned into a Post Office, the present accommodation being very inadequate. Mr. Travers, the Acting Postmaster General, states that the sorting of the French malls route is only delayed by the fact that the Agents des Postes say they have no authority to hand over the mails before arrival, and the French authorities are considering the matter. Mr. Travers spells Cambodia Camboge." Those are the principal points of interest.

A LARGE and expansive audience were enter- tained by the Hudson Surprise Party again, last night, when z programme similar to that of the previous evening was gone through. The only drawback was the monotony with which encores Tur. Sydney Bulletin winds up a crushing were insisted on. There will be an entire editorial on the Federation fizzle as follows:

H. E. the The whole of Parkes Federation scheme is the Per dozen

change of programme to-night. Casa. Per Bot.

Administrator has promised to-attend-to-morrow..baseless vision of a political adventurer whe Trades off the dreams of his second childhood $1.00 evening.

upon the ill-guided enthusiasm of the youth of a new movement, and who grabs at voles through the medium of a spurious romance. Let it pass Australia is, perhaps, not yet ripe for Federation. Of this, at least, be sure: the con- tinuation of the present state of semi-indepen- dence enjoyed by the Australian, is infinitely better than anything founded on an Imperial model, than anything copied from a Canadian Dominion scheme of cut-and-dried application. The Re- public will not spoil for a season, and Liberty will not sour by keeping. We are now at least free. To-morrow Parkes shackles may, with the best Australia's possible intentions, be riveted limbs; it is better to wait than to be sorry. When the Republic comes it will bring with it Patriots-with their advent Australia will be safe from the spirit of the New South Wales Corps and the self-elected banqueters whom Parkes styled the "Makers of Nations,"

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Os the 10th ultimo a consignment of nine tons of fragments of embalmed cats from Egypt was offered for sale of auction in Liverpool. The 125 sale-room was crowded. Heads were separately offered, and the competition was keen, as much as is. Gd. being paid for a head. A complete 1.50 body without head brought 55 6d. Some bones fetched 3s.each, while the bulk fetched £5 173, 63, per ton. PREDENDARY Harry Jones, in a pastoral letter under the title of "Human Tide," says that be has had the number of omnibuses and other vehicles which pass Piccadilly-circus in a day, as also the foot-passengers, counted: The results are-omnibuses, 13.401; other vehicles. 60,820; 1.00 people on foot, 255.130. Making an allowance for the passengers in the vehicles, the Prebendary says, "We find that 571,603 a day, or 3.429,600 people a week, come within the boundaries of the circus alone."

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A CORRESPONDENT of the Straits Timės benda word that Mr. C. H. de R. Hensler, a pioneer 1.52 Liberian coffee planter in the Straits, is now on tour in the Malay Peninsula Jooking out for land likely to suit the cultivation of staple produce articles. He finds, it is said, several parts of Perak to rank as high as the famous coffee districts in Ceylon, and is negociating with the Government of that protected State for a conces- sion of ten thousand acres, to be worked by n company with a capital of one hundred thousand pounds sterling.

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Tu steamers of the Trans-atlantic fleet of the Norddeutscher Lloyd of Bremen have traversed $1.10 in the year 1889 the following distance: I. Da the line between Bremen and New York, 726.049 1.25 English, miles. 2 Between Bremen and Balti more, 301,345 English miles. 3. Between 1.50 Bremen and South America, $51,513 English miles. 4. Between Bremen and Eastern Asia, 301,600 English miles. 5. Between Bremen and 2.00 Australia, 341,600 English miles. 6. Between Hongkong and Japan, 44.207 English miles, 7 Between Sydney and Samna, 65.100 English 0.75 miles, & Between Brindisi and Port Said, 48,360 English miles. Being a total of 2,380,067 English miles, or 110 times the circumference of 0.75 the earth, -

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LIQUEURS.

with three cheers.

THERE are now, according to the Scientific American, six fast steamers building which will press the City of Paris, of the Inman line, very hard in keeping her position as the champion racer of the ocean. The Hamburg American line, whose twin propeller, the Columbia, made a new record of 6 days, 18 hours to minutes to Southampton on November 14, will have a magnificent new lwin screw ship running in May next. She is to be called the Normania, and is now building at the yard of Messrs. John Elder & Co., the constructors of the Etruria and Umbria. The Normania is a little smaller than the City of Paris, being 520 feet long, with so feet beam, and 38 feet depth of hold. She will have 16,000 indicated horse power. She is to be launched in March of this year. The keel of her sister is being laid by the Vulcan Shipbuilding Company, Stettin. This vessel will not be ready to run until the spring of 1892. She will be called the Venetia. The French line also has a big twin screw ship on the stocks which will probably be running next summer. She is called the Tourone, and is to be several thousand tons larger than any of the one single screw ships of the French line, which hold the record between New York and Havre, The White Star steamship Majestic, a sister, ship to the Teutonic, will be ready to do battle with the City of Paris next spring (1891),, The Cunard line will also put two twin screw

boats, in the field to win back the lost laurels of the Etruria. Their names have not been selected. They will be powerful ships, and will take the place of the Servia and the Aurania, which will do duty between Liverpool and

Boston.

UNDER the heading "The Sailing Vessel in rough weather," the New York Maritime Register semarks:-That the safety of a vessel does not depend upon its size, everything being equal, is a fet so well known as hardly to warrant the repeating. What vessels receive more bafleting than the pilot boats along this coast? These daring little craft encounter all kinds of weather and often undergo many risks that larger vessels do not meet with. There are good reason for their seaworthiness. They are staunchly built, sit low in the water so that but little hull surface in presented, to the wind, and are so beautifully modelled that they ride, the waves with the easiest possible motion. They are undoubtedly the safest sea- boats in the word. But few and comparatively slight accidents happen to them. One reason for this probably is that they are properly manned." This is an importance element of safety and one too often neglected'in sailing vessels generally. A staunch sailing vessel properly manned is not inferior to the huge steamer with its great surface of hull and deck houses presented to the

violence of the wind. The disas ers to the ocean steamers during the present winter attest the rough usage they have received. Yet while almost all vessels crossing the Atlantic have undergone a terrible experienc, can it be shown that because of the greater size and strength, that the steamer has suffered less from these storing than has the sailing vessel? The safe artival at Liverpool of a small schooner, which crossed the Atlantic at a time recently when the steamers making the trip suffered very greatly, eems to give point to our remarks respecting the safety of the sailing vessei Properly manned and seaworthy the latter could withstand an amount of ill usage by wind and wave that most steamers would hardly be equal so.

MEETING OF THE LEGISLATIV

COUNCIL.

A meeting of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon. There were present- His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Mr. F. Fleming); the Acting Colonial Secretary. (Mr. W. M. Deane), Mr. S. Brown, Surveyor-General; Mr. A. Lister (Acting Colonial Treasurer); Mr. W. M. Goodman, Attorney-General Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Janes, Acting Registrar-General; Messrs. P. Ryrie, C. P. Chater, J. J. Keswick, A. P. MacEwen, Ho Kal, (unofficial members) and Mr. A. Seth, Clerk of Councils..

The minutes of the last meeting were read and } confirmed.

VOTES,

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The following votes, recommended by H.E. the Administrator, were referred to the Finance

Committee :-

$8,500, to complete the sum of $58,500 for an' epidemic hospital bulk, the remainder having been voted as extraordinary expenditure for 1890.

$34 coo for the purchase of Inland Lot 998, with the premises thereon, for a Police Station, in lieu of No. 8 Police Station at Taipingshan.

His Excellency explained that the Governor had approved of the purchase, before leaving, but had desired that the cast should be borne by next year's estimates. He (the speaker) preferred letting the Council know of it now, however.

$720, additional salary to the Assistant Harbor- Master, raising it from $1,920 to $2,640, in consideration of his not receiving any fees for examini-g candidates for masters or mates' certificates, or fees for collecting light dues.

His Excellency added that the increase was really only a few dollars, as at present the Assistant Harbor Master received $480 for collecting fight dues, and his fees for holding mercantile marine examinations during the last three years bad averaged $338. Those fees would now go into the Treasury.

THE POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. The Acting Colonial Secretary on the table the Acting Postmaster General's report for 1889, (referred to in another column.)

THE NEW attorney gENERAL. Mr. W. M. Goodman, the new Attorney. General, arrived at this stage, and was sworn in, His Excellency welcomed him, and expressed the indebtedness of the Council to Mr. A.J. Leach, the late acling Attorney-General, for the assistance he had rendered, particularly with respect to legal matters.

THE VACCINATION LAWS.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the first reading of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1890. He said that an Ordinance on the subject already existed, but the Sanitary Board bad reported that one or two provisions were unsatisfactory on account of the climate-hence the amended Bill

"Oh the quadrant is down to the freezing point. And the sextant has lost a hand."

"And if the sextant has lost'a babel,

And the quadrant stands so low, s Our bodies and hones to Davy Jones

Are sure this night to go." "Then fly aloft in the tarboard strake And reef the spanker boom: Bend a stapanil to the martingale," To give her weather room. doh heatswain bold, in the forward hold,

supposed to place provisions and water for ship- wrecked seamen, but neither food nor water was found by the crew of the Holt Hill. It was said that whalers visited the island, and, though not shipwrecked, made off with the provisions. Eight small boats were found on the island, though several were quite unseaworthy. On the eighth day a vessel was sighted, and a boat was put off from the island. A fire was burned and distress signals shown, but the ship disappeared. She was so near that the shipwrecked crew could see the man at the wheel. Just as their hopes were giving way to despair another sail was sighted. The dried grass was burned and the smoke as it a cended was seen by the stranger, which preved to the barque Coorang. The rescued men, thirty- two in number, were nineteen days on board the Coorang, and were most humanely treated,

A CURE FOR SLEEPLESSNESS.

There is a form of wakefulness, says a writer in the Laws of Life, which is a somewhat fre quent experience with persons engaged in active work, especially of the brain. A man who has been busily engaged during the day in his usual vocation, retires, let us any at about 10'or II o'clock, feeling quite sleepy. After a period of slumber, perhaps two or three hours, he finds himself wide awake at about 2 o'clock in the morning. There is nothing particularly bur- densome on his mind; no mental anxieties per- plex, no physical pains disturb him. His only annoyance is the consciousness that a hard day's work is before him and that his busy brain, ought to be at rest. Afler tossing about for an hour or more in vain a'tempts to coort sleep, he drops off toward morning into disturbed and broken slumber, and rises at the usual hour with n' sense of having been defrauded by Nature of one of his rights. So long us this is a rare or occasional experienceft need not attract attention. When, however, it becomes habitual, when sleep is regularly broken, by periods of wakefulness more or less prolonged, ned especialy when these periods come to be accompanied by anxieties and worrying, the symptom is more grave. It They stirred their stumps, they spiked the pumps may betoken sericus impairment of the nervous They spliced the mizzen brace; But strange to say, to their dismay The water gained space.

What water do you find 2"- "Four feet and a half by the royal gaff. And rather more behind."

Then sailors, collar your marlinspikes and each belaying pi

Come, stir your stumps and spike the pumps, Lest more be coming in.""

They bored a hole showe the keel. To let the water out;

Alack a day, to their dismay The water in did spout.

Then up spoke the enok of our gallant ship. And he was a lubber brave,

Saying "I've several wives in various po ts

And my life I'd orter save."

system if allowed to continue.

What may be done by the person himself, on awakening during the night, in orfer 'again to induce sleep? The expedients at our disposal, it must be admitted, are exceedingly variable in their efficacy, but most of them are worth trying, A sense of drowsiness is sometimes easily as induced by getting up and standing by the bedside until one feels almost chilly and the bed is cold. Another expedient is to wash the head, neck and upper part of the body in cold water a lower temperature of the skin in- ducing probably a more active circulation of the blood to the surface and away from the nervous, centers. I have found a bit of

Then spoke our captain of marines, And he dearly loved his ging, Saving It's awful to die but its worse to be dry, dry bread thoroughly masticated and eaten And I moves we pipe to grog."

Then un stepped our gallant second mate What filled us all with awe; The ereand male, whom bal men hate, And cruel skippers jaw.

He tank the anchor on his back And plunged into the main, Midst foam and spray, he held his way And sank and rose again.

Midst foam and spray, three leagues away He stout the anchor bore:

Till safe at last, the danger past He warped the ship ashore. Taint much of a job to talk about But a ticklish job to see, And suthin to do. if I say it too, For the Second Mate was me ! This was the tale that was told to me By that guileless and honest son of the sea; And I envy the life of a second mate; Whom skippers jaw and bid men hate, For he aint like some of the swabs we seen, Who would go and lie to a poor marine.

THE PLEASURES OF SHIPWRECK,

at this time to act almost like a charmin some cases by drawing blood from the brain to stomach and thus securing sleep. Anything which serves to detract attention from one's self and surroundings may occasionally avail-such as saying the alphabet, counting one's respirations, repeating the multipication table, and a multitude of similar expedients. An ancient monkish recipe for wakefulness was to "count your beads." It is good advice yet. There are no better aids to repose than a good con- science and a mind at peace.

THE TOLERATION OF ADVERSE

OPINION.

"If two religious ects each believe that the; truth resides in themieves, and the faith of the other is a lie, they will preach their doctrines in the hope of converting their brethren to the truth, and if false doctrines are taught to the inex perienced sons of the Church who tread in the ways of truth, she cannot but burn the books and banish the men who seduce her sons.... In the time of Alexis Michaelovitch, men were, burnt at the stake; in other words, the severest punishment of the time was applied, and in our days also, the severest punishment is applied...”

So says Lyof Tolstol in "My Confession," and so must say all intelligent men of this day.

The word "Intolerance" has a gross sound to our ears, yet it is quiet impossible to dis- associate it from a sincere and active faith. Toleration may and does obtain in practice, simply because men are, for the most part, more liberal, if not better. than their beliefs; but as suming that certain doctrines are true and that the belief and practice of such doctrines are necessary for the welfare of mankind, it is diffi cult to understand how the toleration of antago› nistic opinion can be logically permitted: "Out of evil, 'evil flourishes," and where there exists the power to repress the public profession of hostility to our belief or the communication of false doctrine, not to do so is to acquiesce in that hostility. Granted our belief is material to our welfare, we must, by reason of our obligation to that belief, be prepared to do batila on its be halt, and, as good soldiers, carry on the war into the territory of the enemy,

The captain of the ship Holt Hill, which was wrecked on the barren and desolate island of St. Paul, has sent the owners of the ship, MessTS, W. Price and Co., of Liverpont, particulats of the wreck and of the Robinson Crusoe-like adven tures of the crew on the island. The Holt Hill, which was going from Rio to Calcutta in ballast, got ashore at St. Paul's Island, Strangé to say she ran in a cave between the rocks, She had a crew of thirty-three hands, and the only way of escape was over the bows of the ship, where there was a drop of go feet to: 50 fest. A rope was put over the bows and one by one the crew dropped Into the surf. All escaped but the mate. It was nine o'clock at night when the vessel struck, and all night the poor fellows had to remain on the beach, nearly frozen The men escaped just as they were when the ship struck, and for the most part they had no shoer on, and were but partially clad. Rocks zoo feet high faced them, and as precipitous as the side of a house. The safety The memory of the torturers and inquisitors of of the men was not assured until they reached other days stinks in our nostrile, but, after all, the summit, but this was a perilous and difficult the objects they had in view, if not their methods task. Captain Sutherland, while climbing the showed their keen appreciation and just ad- rocks, fell some 20 feet, and when he reached herence to the logical position which their faith the top His hands were dreadfully skinned by the required them to take up. This strict adherence sharp and loose rocks. When all bad gained has made the persecutors of every-age, from Torquemada to the New England Puritans, and the summit they divided into parties, some

from these down to the reciary of to-day, who to catch penguins, some to fish, some to get

would shut out all who differ from him in opinion wood and water, and others to explore the

from political power and employment. Cer- island. The cook had one match, and on this the hopes of the thirty-two men rested, as tainly there is a difference between those the nights were so cold it meant death without who may be justly ranged under the list of s fire. The solitary match was watched by the persecutors, but only one of degree; indeed, entire company with the keenest possible interest, men like Torquemada bad the justification of and, to the joy of all, a fire was kindled. This knowing that their persecution would be success. being told off to watch and prevent was kept up day and night, special sentries ful, whereas the modern sectary has every reason going to think that bis intolerance will recoil on him. out. The whole island was explored. The self. But the fact of intolerance being the logical it only fresh water, besides some rain, that had outcome of religious belief proves little unless lodged between the rocks, was that contained can be shown to be morally justifiable. A well. in some bolling springs. After getting the water, known writer, W. H. Mallock, has argued at the men had to wait until it cooled before they length on the subject, and certainly what he has could drink it. The penguins were rank and advanced is worthy of due consideration. "No oily, but after being steeped in sal; water all mats," says this writer, what the creed be of though the surfelt which the poor fellows but convinced of the truth and Importance night, their black flesh did not taste so badly, the nation we are considering, let the cation f had ?f the food caused nausea, and, in several of it, and they will persecute for heresy cases, the vomiting of blood. Crayfish were as surely as they will persecute for theft. An caught, and some nettles were the only vegeta- officer is liable to punishment who wrecks, tian the men had. For tobacco, the men, from the ship he is entrusted with, A quack would two old clay pipes, smoked some rope-yar. be equally liable who forces on the ship of Their beds were formed of dried grass, and, in the soul a falsified nautical almanac. In the eye most cares, the men had simply their trousers, of a nation that believes that a man's spiritual NEXT WEEK'S BUSINESS.

and shirts for agvering. Some huts were found, wellare is, at any rate, of equal importance with His Excellency intimated that at the next bu only one had a roof. When the exploring his natural welfare,, and that the condition of meeting he should refer to one or two subjects. paty fund the rain water they brought back' both are equally certain, persecution is not a He intended asking the Council to vote the supply in the legs of a pair of oil-skin pants, the thing apart. It stands on the same basis as increased military contribution referted to in the lege having been tied to keep in the water. ordinary State regulations or with the awarding Secretary of State's despatch, laid on the table There were a few rabbits and goats on the island, of ordinary criminal punishments. As regards at the last meeting. It might be that another but ey were tro nimble for the shipwrecked nations there can be no doubt that Mr. Mallock's Some old fith-hocks were found on words were strictly true-and whether the logic meeting, after next Wednesday's, could not be held this month, and it was desirable that the the island, and others were made out of wire, which proves the necessity of intolerance be matter should be settled this quarter, unless any Several fish were caught, and formed an ac really sound or not, it has practically guided mankind wherever the conditions, which seemed member thought it premature. He also intended ceptable dish. The water in the springs was to call their attention to the present Standing shot that the men could half boil the fish in to warrant intolerance, have existed-indeed, fre- There was not a tree on the island,quently without the existence of such conditions Orders. They were passed in 1884, in conser them. quence, presumably, of certain Royal instructions which was covered with thick rank grass and at all,

Toleration, as we know it, is no new principle, repealing those, had been received to 1886 and to travel over the prickly substance-in-their-It was one of the broad marks which indicated 1888, and they therefore practically had no force, bare feet. A small lagoon was found on the the natural fitness of the ancient Romans for He would therefore, at the next meeting, move north-east end of the island, but it proved to Imperial sway, that almost every description of that a Select Committee be appolated to revise be salt water. There were cliffs round this belief found a shelter under their liberal polity. lagoon to a height of 2,000 ft to 3,000 feet. St. In their case tolerance could not be imputed as The Council then adjourned.

Paul's is an island on which the Government le...... a virtue or traced to any moral fecling, but rather, and modify them.

The first reading was passed.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH ORDINANCE,

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved the third reading of a Bill amending the above meeting to see if it affected the jurisdiction of Ordinance. It had been postponed from last the Sanitary Board over cemeteries, and he found it did not.

Dr. Ho Kai, who had been under the impres- sion that it would, agreed, but ralsed. another (cchnical point, which necessitated the matter being further adjourned, pending the examination of the draft by the Attorney General,

I will be in the recollection of our readers, says the Amoy Gazette of the rath inst., that last November we reported the arrival here of the shipwrecked crew of a junk, consisting of 16 men, who had been rescued at sea during a heavy gale, by Captain Hogg of the steamer Fooksang, and brought safely here. THE following paragraph from Engineering may This event was brought to the notice throw some light on the vote in connection with of the Chinese Officials by Mr. Hughes, the Col. Beaumont and the removal of the Bokhara 0.75 Commissioner of Customs, and this morning at rock, now under consideration by the Finance

the Custom House, in the presence of the Con.

Committee:-The deepening and widening of sular body and a number of residents, Captain the Suez Canal was a problem in some respects Hogg was presented with an honorary flag to entirely novel.. The soft, sandy, or clayey parts Ito recognition of his bravery, by the Hai Fong of the bad were of course easily dealt with by Tien, representing the High Officials of the ordinary dredging, but the hard rock met with 1.00 province. Mr. Hughes, in a graceful speechear Chalouf was another matter, asdredging such

recalled the circumstances of Captain Hogg's

a material was out of the question, and blasting 6.40 heroism, and mentioned, as showing how highly could not be adopted as it would interrupt the the Chinese Authorities appreciated bis bumenity traffic of the canal. Under these conditions the 0.40 that the Hai Fong Tien had been instructed to

Suez Canal Company determined to try the 0.50 pay Captain Hogg the unique compliment of

method Invented by Mr. Henry Lobuftz, of Ren- personally presenting the flag. The flag was frew, in which the rock is broken up by a series then handed to. Captain Hogg, who replied of stamps, fitted with cutting edges at their lower thanking Mr. Hughes, the Hai Fong. Tien and the other officials for their kind recognition of his ends, and afterwards removed by dredging. In May 1888, the Darocheuse, a machine con- efforts. Captain Hegg's health was then drunk structed on these principles by Messrs. Lobuitz, was put to work on this rock, and the results THUS à Sydney contemporary under date the obtained have been set forth in a recent paper by 8th ultoIt was wired from Foochow last week Mr. Frederick Lobuitz, published in the Minutes that the last shipment of new season tea had of the Institution of Civil Engineers. The rock been sent to Australia and New Zealand, making was from 5 feet to 10 feet thick, and a total of 21,500,000lb. for this year. This is gtb. strip about zo yards wide and 200 yards long per head for a year, but-Victorin leads the way in bad to be removed. The cutter stamps, each of tea-drinking with an annual consumption of Trib, which weighed 4 tons, and was allowed to fall 6 per head, while Queenland, New South Wales, feet, rapidly broke up the rock into fragments and South Australia respectively put down glb, ranging up 13 ton in weight, Pieces of this 81b, and yib. In Great Britain, they only drink weight, however, could not be removed by the about zib, a head, but, of course, they would like dredger, and their removal by means of a crane and divers was found expensive, so it was deter. to drink a good deal more. Americans do not drink tea to anything like such an extent as mined to try if smaller fragments could not be Australians, or even English. Four millions of secured by setting the catters to work well from Australians drink as much as fifteen millions the face of the rock. This plan was successful, in the United States, or, in other words, the and the rock being broken up into fragments Australian demand is one-fourth of the American, easily dealt with by the dredger, 30 cubic yards The States with their 60 millions, only Imbibe of material were removed per hour. From the about 80 million lbs, of tea, somewhere near the experience bere gained Mr. Lobultz states that same quantity as the people of Great Britain the cost of removal by this system can be put then received. But other Royal instructions, rushes. It was most trying for the poor fellows LONDON, March 16th.

drink. This is strange and unaccountable, down at 51, per cubic yard. A curious fact is though unanswerably evinced by statistics. If that the cutters are self-sharpening, This the theine alkaloid he pernicious, Victoria must secured by the steel of which they are made The Ministry has resigned. M. Freycinet is go down hill, leading New South Wales on the being soft outside and harder within. Blocks of forming a Cabinet to defeat the Government down grade, for the Australians are far and away - 15 tons weight, have been broken off by the

machine, the champion tea drinkers of this planet, party.

Benedictine Maraschino Curaçoa Herring's Cherry Cordial Chartreuse Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, &c.

DEATH.

AT Belilios Tertace, at 5.30 this afternoon, from typhoid fever, ARTIIUR WAGNER, Marine Board of Trade Surveyor.

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The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1890.

TELEGRAMS,

THE STRIKES IN ENGLAND.

25,000 miners have struck work

FRANCE

men.

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