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to drop his latter character, and go "nap" on Royalty and dear pork, He said, in the course of conversation, that the leading Chinese had been asked to assist in preparing for the reception, and placards posted, inviting all classes to co-operate. But he had always tried to impress the fact that there must be no squeezing or enforced contribution. He did not consider the tax on pork really a squeeze-in the first place it was only about tencents a pig, not twenty; and in the second pork was going up, anyhow. Besides, pork- was a good deal of a luxury—not everybody Could afford it, so it would not affect all the Chinese. He could not say that the Fish Guild was not going to follow sult, but he argued that the Increase was only temporary. If rates did not come down to the normal level in a week or two he should take steps to make them, for instance he would deal with the pork puzzle by opening fresh stalls, and so breaking Contains SC Dur cent. Carbolic Acid, the monopoly up, or he would send for the heads of the guild, and talk to them in unmistakeable tèrms.

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DY APPOINTMENT.

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The orthography of our great-grandmothers was uncertain. The old Duchess of Gordon used to way to her cronies: "You know, my dear,} when I don't know how to spell a word I always draw a line under it; and if it is spelled wrong. it passes for a very good joke, and if it is spelled right it don't matter.

A NEw use has been found for the carrier pigeon in Russla-carrying negatives taken in a balloon to the photographer's. The Novo Vramya gives an account of some experiments to this end recently made, in which the Czar's winter palace was photographed in the air, the plates being scaled in paper bags impenetrable to light, tied to a pigeon's foot, and sent to the developer. THAT the death of Mr. Arthur. Wagner, Govern- ment Marine Surveyor, yesterday afternoon, is sincerely regretted by all who knew him, was evidenced by the many floral offerings which rounded the coffin at the funeral this morning, and the large attendance at the Cemetery. The Hon. H. E. Wodehouse, Capt. the various lincs, and many official and un- Rumsey, R.N., the superintendent engineers of official friends, testified by their presence to the esteem which Mr. Wagner's courtesy and ability had gained for him. He was only 34 years of

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Save the Afinnesota Sentinel We apologize for mistakes made in all farmer issues, and say they were inexcusable, as all an editor has to do Is to hunt news, and clean the rollers, and set type, and sweep the floor, and pen short items. and fold papers, and write wrappers, and make the paste, and mali the paper and talk to visitors, and distribute type, and carry water, and saw wood, and read the proofs, and correct the mistakes, and hunt the shears to write editorials, and dodge the bill whole force and tell our subscribers that the

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But this apologetic explanation looks very lame in the face of facts which Mr. MITCHELL-INNES incidentally furnished, There are a quarter of a million pigs slaughtered here annually, or about seven A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. hundred a day. Ten cents each one are mistakes while attending to these litle that number, paid week after week by the poorest Chinese, mounts to a very considerable sum, and there is really no guarantee that the import will be taken off when the object for which it was put on is accomplished. That end is about as noble as the means-taxing pigs, in order that a royal duke may be paralysed with joss-pidgin, is "good business,”

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to make these little matters and getting our living on hopper-tail- soup, flavored with imagination, and wearing old shoes and no collar and a patch on our pants, and obliged to turn a smiling countenance to the man who tells us our paper isn't worth $1 any- how, and that he could make a better one with his eyes shut.

ACCIDENT TO H.M.S. “ALACRITY"

We learn just before going to press that H.M.S. Alacrity struck a rock this morning, smashing her s'em so seriously that she will have to go into dock to-morrow. We also hear that one of the torpedo-boats of the Leander has been seriously injured by collision. Torpedo-boats, No. 37 and $ are also injured. We understand that the latter accidents occurred during the naval evolutions now going on in firstTytam Bay.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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WIFE (to husband at the end of a few breezy words) The fools aint't all dead yet. Husband ---They ain't, eh? Wife-No, or I would have the amount of your insurance policy before this. THE use of compressed air as a motive power for tramways in France is extending. The system adopted is that invented by M. Mekarski, director of the Nantes tramways, which has been open since 1879 The inventor asserts that this

s'em is far more economical than horse traction the cost of coal per day of a machine, equal to eight or ten Horse power being only 45. much cheaper than electricity, or steam power, and that the machinery is simple and does not require a skilled mechanic to control it. THE capture of a notorious robber chief named Taeng Yoo-zee is reported by the native papers. his brigand, who is also known by several aliases, has been wanted by the authorities for a long time. He was caught once in Hongkong, but through the subtle defence made by his legal advocate he managed to escape a convic. of the law through the cunning of his wife, tion. Another time be evaded the clutches who made herself so agreeable to his jailors that she persuaded them to drink her health in a cup of drugged wine, and when they were fairly asleep knorked the manacles off her spouse, of his foes. But this time we fear he is in a bad and brought him forth in triumph from the midst plight. He has been taken red-handed in the Shan San district of the Canton Province where his depredations have been particularly notorious. The inhabitants of the district are most jubilant over his capture, and it will take more than legal chicanery or the blandishments of his wife to set him free again.

know the cause of the delay, except that the late Acting Attorney-General had told him it

was unavoidable, The question of postage rates | had occupied the Chamber's attention, and, really it was absurd that the charges for postage! by the English mail should be double that by the French and German steamers. They had every hope of eventually getting the matter equalized. After referring to the prospective usefulness of the new China Association, and briefly referred to the Gap Rock, he said that the proposition to license brokers, seemed to be generally accepted as desirable. The only question was whether the Government should frame rules and regulations or whether the 'brokers themselves "should do it: Since the was informed, the brokers had been active publication of the report of the Chamber, he In the matter, and proposed to wait on the Government to decide on the best course. It would probably be more advisable that they should themselves frame laws, being better qualified to deal with questions of nationality, etc. As regarded the alleged contemplated con Chinese Government, notwithstandingrumours he vention between the Telegraph Companies andthe believed that it had not been ratified, and it was to be hoped that before it was the present high tariff would be reduced. He then proposed the adoption of the report.

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Mr. Pocanecker seconded, and it was agreed

Observatory Commission, that they had now Mr. MacEwen said, with regard to the completed their labors, and would shortly issue their report. Without anticipating the recommendations therein contained he might say that he believed in the fature they would see a very vast improvement in the working of that valuable department (“Hear hear.")

Hon. P. Ryrie, E. Mackintosh, Esq. W. H. The following Committee were then appointed: Forbes, Esq., R. M. Gray, Esq., H. Hoppius, Esq.; Hon. J. J. Keswick; S. C. Michaelsen, Esq.; G. E. Nable, Esq; Hon. A. P. MacEwen

The election of a Chairman and vice-chairman was made by ballet, at Mr. MacEwen's sugges- tion. Mr. Mackintosh was elected to the chair: and Mr. MacEwen to the vice-chair.

Mr. Mackintosh, in returning thanks, said that he hoped to merit their confidence..

Mr. MacEwen proposed a vote of thanks to: Mr. Ryrie for the interest he had shewn in the Chamber during the many years he had been connected with it. Probably he would be glad to have a little rest

FROM the Natal Witness: The Drill-shed concert, under the patronage of Governor and Lady Mitchell (formerly of Fiji) commenced at eight o'clock, and at a quarter past eight, the vice-regal party walked in and took their seats in silence, but they had scarcely sat down when they again took their departure, much to the apparent discomfiture of the chaplain of the Drill-shed Church, who hurried after the party to enquire the reason ,so sudden an "exit. In re ly he was informed, we believe, that the cause of thispleasure was the fact that the Queen's Anthem had not been played on the arrival of His Excellency's party, Weunderstand that Sir Charles is determined to enforce, on such occasions, the playing or singing of God save the Queen." In this instance the omission, think might have been passed over without any we are informed, was purely inadvertent, and we,

Mr. Ryrie, in reply, said that he felt some derogation of Imperial or gubernatorial dignity, younger man should fill the post-he had had but the display of offended majesty over what to his day-he had worked for many years as most people appeared a trifle, will not, tend to more marked secognition in the future. glad of a little rest. He congratulated them on think, Chairman and Vice-Chairman, and, he would be Insistance on outward cognition will not help their choice of a successor. to bolster Imperialism up if its condition is in a stage of senility, especially considering the cle- ments at work in South Eastern Africa at the present moment.

THE French people are the most heavily taxed the privilege of extating. Every Frenchman pays in the world. To begin with they are taxed for

a poll-tax There is a tax on doors and windows, a tax on trades and professions, an indirect tax on such luxuries of life as a tallow candle, and the tax on poster advertisements is so rigorous that one cannot post a scrap of paper on his own doarpost saying that he wants a messenger

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HONGKONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1890.

Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steam- ship Abyssinia left Vancouver for this port, via Japan, on the 18th inst, also that the ilk ex this steamer was delivered in New York on the 16th inst.

THE public don't seem to be very intensely absorbed in the game of "shove ha'penny as played in Korea. Last night Mr. Cheaney Duncan was to have favored the Literary Society

at the City Hall with a discourse thereon, as he is peculiarly fitted to do, but only a few members turned up, and the lecture was postponed.

THAT old ruffian Ismail, the ex-Khedive of Egypt, has been getting into hot water. He brought a pretty Irish girl to his barem at Con- stantinople a year ago, and there was, of course, the devil to pay. All the other girls have now rebelled and the latest Lily of Killarney has fled, to the English Embassy.

CHI AVER, whose nimble fingers were taught their cunning during a lengthy career as a pro- fessional catcher and tamer of the wily gruse- hopper, was before Mr. Robinson, at the Police Court to-day. Chi foolishly tried his 'prentice hand at the robbing business, and at the expense of a compatriot, in respect to certain jewellery. He was remanded.

It is announced that Mr. R. Vaughan Williams, who was called to the Bar in the year 1864, bas for a long time had a large and varied practice, and his appointment was generally anticipated by the profession. He became a Queen's Counsel last year, and was appointed to go the Northern Circuit at the summer assizes as Royal Com missioner, in which capacity he is said to have given great satisfaction. "AN old pilot" and "A Sympathiser each senda $ more for old Mann, The poor old chap is now in a position, probably, to buy a retreat for his very few remaining year tries say, is very grateful to all you kind people who subscribed. We reserve our opinion of the host of tuft-hunters who will figure at the Ducal show, and who never sent a cash...

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HUDSON's Surprise Party wrecked about six hundred jaws last night. There was no doubt as to their success. The programme was entirely changed-in one or two respects for the better - and as every item was invariably followed by an encore at once responded to, the audience got good double value. The usual round of songs, dances, etc., by the various members of the Company, occupied the first quarter of the even- ing, followed by Miss Baber, with the charming song, magnificently rendered, "Dear Heart," with a Scottish ballad as a "cumakaw." A pleasing melange of national anthems paved the way to the interval, and on resuming Miss-Habgood again displayed her skill as a pianist in the fantasia "Alice, where art thou," Baber and Miss Harley delighted everyone. with their duet In the twilight," but the success of the evening was the last-named. lady's arch'rendering of “Oh what a wicked old man you are." The audience fairly rose to it. The drinking-song from Girofle Girofa, by Miss Baber, formed an extremely appropriate foil to it. A couple of highly amusing sketches, concluded the evening's pleasure.-H. ́E. the Administrator will patronise to-night's show.

Then there is the sciror tax, which is the main source of revenue in every town. About half the revenue of the City of Paris comes from the LATELY we have read a lot about Colonel North, the Nitrate King. ¡Nitrate of soda is the stuff,

octroi dues. The annual budget of Patis is otherwise named caliche, only found in such an about as large as the budget of Belgiam The annual receipts amounted to $74,000,000, and immensely remunerative way in the northern part of Chili, and there only in a circumscribed the expenditures keep well ahead. There is a municipal debt of $368,000,000, which, if no area, resembling a diled-up Dead Sea, a

more is contracted, will not be cleared off for Pampas seglon. The nitrate is a mineral, sixty years yet. The interest of this debt is a yet composed of mingled land, vegeta prominent item in the expenditure. The sources tion and seaweed, washed by sen-water in the era when this land was under sea. But

of revenue are multifarious, but after the ectros nitrate is never found under 2000ft, above sea.

receipts the largest amount is the town's share in the tax on house property, to which owners The war between Chili and Peru was over the nitrate beds. After shovelling off an alluvium and occuplers both contribute. The Town of sand in the desert, you come to a depth of Council prides itself on being an advanced and from 2ft. to 20ft, nitrogenous matter, which la Socialist body, and has invented a unique way useless, and has to be pickaxed through to of dealing with a portion of this tax. The get to the real treasure, The nitrate is Council advocates a graduated tax on houses, boiled, when the rubbish sinks to the bottom; and if it had full swing lo this matter and the valuable anicle run off into coolers. it would tax the rich property-owners, out Then it is left to dry. The annual nitrate export of the burdens of the poor on the rich. All of existence. As i Ir, it manages to throw some from South America is about half-a-million tons. It is white, like snow-crystals, quite dry, occupants who pay less than a yearly rental of and put in sacks like guano or bonedust. It $100 are exempt of taxation. The Council is vastly appreciated in Great Britain, the Contacf pays its taxes with money obtained by tinent of Europe and the United States for raising the rate on the occupiers of the other houses. The total number of houses in Paris manure, and it is also a kind of saltpetre, excel is 260,602, and the number that escapes taxa lent for making gunpowder, whence the Chili- Peruvian row. The first monster aitrate year tion by being under the yearly value of $100 is

24,485. was 1884, after which it fell off in 1885 and 1886,- so that people thought the nitrate demand would run down, but it picked up again in 1887. North may explode just like the Nabob in Daudet's novel..

Tuz Daily Press this morning contains the astonishing news that all this jubilation in some almshouse at home, and, as ho icebly especially London with its political field, rutker'

It appears, says an American paper, that there are only about one hundred nativeborn Anterican tars in the United States Navy. All the rest are Chinamen, negroes, Portuguese, greasers, Can- nucks, Grecki, Malays, and Patagonian. The one hundred are now lonely, and are about to petition the Secretary of the Navy to give them an occasional week asbore so that they shall not forget how to speak the English language. Ar the Sanitary Board meeting tomorrow the orders of the day will be ---

HONGKONG CHAMBER OF

COMMERCE.

The annual meeting of the Chamber was held this afternoon in the City Hall. The Hon. P. Ryrie presided, and the Hon. J. J. Keswick, Hon. A. P. MacEwen, B. Layton, L. Poes- necker, H. Hopplus, R. M. Gray, W. H. Forbes, J. J. Francis, E. Mackintosh, S. E. Noble, CJ. Hirst, S. C. Michaelsen, H. Dick, G. de Champeaux, T. Whitehead, and F. Hen- derson (secretary).

Mesir. Hewelt and Co. were elected to the Chamber, and Mr. W. Stewart and Mr. W. P. Brewer proposed.*

Mr. Forbes seconded, and the vote was ananimously accorded.

The proceedings then terminated.

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tions for the fands of the Alice Memorial Hospital SIR-I have received the following subscrip and I shall be obliged by your acknowledging Scottish Oriental 5. S. Co..... some in your columus, vizi—

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The Colonial Treasurer-If you cat provide a Harbour Master warranted never to get sick,

never to want to go away, then you might dó without an assistant, a

Mr. Rytle The Harbour Master has some times been away. Captain Cairns acted for him once, and there are Captain Burnie and Captain Anderson,

The Colonil Treasurer-May I tell you tha history of that, Captain Cairns was appointed Acting Harbour Master; he drew the pay and I did the works skin dapa

Mr. Ryrie-Without pay?

The Colonial Treasurer I had my pay as Assistant Harbour Master. Captain Cairne attended to his private practice all day long, and

if there were police cases to be brought before only came to the office for half-an-hour a day, him. The whole of the work was done by myself. He signed whatever was put before him. I was Assistant Harbour Master for four years. and I can say there is ample work:

Mr. Ryrie That is not the general opinion, The Colonial Treasures Oh that is the some oracle who never was near the Harbour opinion of people who know nothing about it- Master's office for more than half an hour in his life.

Mr. Ryrie-There is always a little

a little truth in

statements of that kind.

The Colonial Treasurer--If you keep on repeating it people begin to think there is some truth in it, but I assure you that I have seldom been harder worked than when I was Harbour Master. It is true I was also Sheriff and Coroner.

Mr. Ryrie-If you had four offices of course you must have been hard worked.

The Colonial Treasurer - The duties of the two latter offices were performed as outside work. this vote until we get the despatches on the sub- Mr. Ryrie-I think we had better postpane ject and see how he came to be appointed.

The Chairman-He was appointed by the Secretary of State.

Mr. Ryrie-But I suppose it was on 'repre- tentations from here.

The Chairman-Yės,

Mt. Ryrie-And they took eighteen months to make the appointment.

The Chairman Yes. A great deal of time was taken up in offering it to Mr. Hamilton, Principal, Magistrate of Labuan, and after a great deal of correspondence he found himself

unable to accept the post. When Mr. Hamilton was unable to accept it and the correspondence with him went over a great number of months

then the appointment was offered to Captain' Hastings, who was in Jamaica, and be has been nearly two months travelling from Janacia here.

Mr. Ryries Captain Cairns alive still? story from him from the one we have received because I think we might have a very different

from the Colonial Treasurer..

The Colonial Treasurer-He quite admitted what I have stated. We were on perfectly good terms, at PRAC

Mr. Ryrie The he was drawing his pay under false pretences.

The Colonial Treasurer-I should like to add that Captain Cairns was administering the office when I was absent for eight or ten months. When' I went back I found not a single stroke

The Chairman-I think it is rather going of the pen had been done towards the registra- tion of shipping dest beyond the question to discuss what the Har bour Master did then..

The Colonial Treasurer-Not what the.

what Harbour Master did

The Chairman Or what he did not do.. The Colonial Treasurer-But the idea that there is no work for the Assistant Harbour Master is so false, so contrary to fact, that I may perhaps be excused for contradicting it with some warmth; and the risk of leaving the 25 office of Harbour Master to be filled during his 10 absence by some chance outsider would be so.

should be very sony to see it. 10 disastrous to the interests of the Colony that I

China Export & Import & Bank Compagnie to G. T. Hopkins Esq.

Yours faithfully,

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E. W. MAITLAND, Hon. Treasurer, Alice Memorial Hospital

Hongkong, March 20th, 1890,

FINANCE COMMITTEE,

The proceedings of the meeting of the Ficance Committee, held after the meeting of the Legis lative Council yesterday afternoon, the Acting Colonial Secretary presiding was omitted from our report in last night's issue. A

Mr. MacEwen Then I take it the appoint ment is made to provide a substitute should the Harbour Master fall sick

The Chairman-No; there are duties that fall essentially on the Assistant Harbour Mac.

ter,

Mr. MacEwen I asked you what his duties were and you said "to assist the Harbour. Más- ter.” Would you tell me what those duties really are ?

The Chairman-Well, I can only refer you to the Ordinance of 1879-it is an Ordinance extend- ing over 30 pages-in which you will see, there are regulations, for the clearing (of-boats and Issuing of anchorage passes į then there is also THE EPIDEMIC, HOSPITAL. ~ A

the collection of the light dues and general The Chairman said the first vote ho had to control of the barbour, propose as an increase of $8,500 to complete Mr. MacEwen-But he does not collect the the cast of the epidemic hospital bulk The light dues Pr Estimates for this year provided $50,000, but the The Chairman-Yes, as of his present as part of his patte contract sent in by the Hongkong and Whampoa salary. Dock Co., with the improvements found to be necessary, amounted to $58,500, being an excess of 88,500 beyond the amount already voted. He therefore had to ask the Committee to voté this surplus sum of $8,500.00 bagi

* The Colonial Treasurer-That has been added on His appointment was to assist in the registration of Junks, to give the Harbour Master a responsible officer to go to the out-stations and see the registration of junks was properly per- formed.

Mr. MacEwen asked if the contract was put up to tender, edad de la bat (MRDING Mr. MacEwan--Then we are to understand

The Chairman replied in the affirmative, his duties, are to look after junks. Mr. Chater asked when the hulk was expected-

The Chairman Yes to be finished,

Mr. MacEwen-Well, I am glad he has got The Chairman-In October, how Widder, wesome duties. MARK W The vote was passed, allicista mamy dodges.

Mr. Ryrie I think nothing stronger could be

... WELL DONE UNOFFICIAL MEMBERS. Pd advanced, against the appointment than what The Chairman The next vote is a sum of has been said by the hon. member opposite the

$70 as addition to the Assistant Harbour Master's the Colonial Treasurer). He says he did the salary. The sum of $19,000 is provided for his | düljes for four years and officiated in three other pay to the Estimates for this year, and there is capacities. I think nothing stronger could ha also a further sum of $480 an pay for the collector brought forward.

one ship belag now fitting-out, and a second one within a dollar or two, by the fees each year for seas a great injustice to make an officer:

THE first number of the Scottish Liberal contains an article by Lord Rosebery on the Reform of the House of Lands. He points out that “the overwhelming mejority of Liberals in Great Britain and Ireland are prepared to give precedence to Ireland; but the struggle for the second place is keen. Scotland and Wales demand priority for particular measures. England with its twenty-six millions, and more which the Chinese are going in for, over a

scratched than ploughed by recent legislation, person whom only one in every ten knows

possibly claim a not insignificant position," The Liberal victory at the general election, The Chairman, before proposing the adoption however, would only give us the command of the report, referred to various matters contained even exists, and who, to the multitude, is

of the country. The citadel that commands it. in it. The first was the foreigu mail steuners | of light dues, and a sum of $240 to 8150 a year The Colonial Treasurer. But the hon. gentle. the number three son" of a mythical

would remain impregnable and untouched. question: He explained that the Ordinanca has been received as feen for the examination of | man should be reasonable. I said I was Sheriff, Western sovereign, is really being

That citadel is the House of Lords: a House would not have been parsed unopposed had it not

masters and mates in the mercanille marine. The duties af, that e office occupied about two composed at this moment of some 560 members, been overlooked; and expressed, the opinion Under Instructions from the Right Hon. the hours a month, pald for out of "squeezes" in the

of whom a few, from twenty-five to thirty, would that only a modified concession of men of Secretary of State the Harbour Master will pery. Mr. Ryrie-And the salary price of provisions. On inquiry we find

be in harmony with the House of Commons war's privileges should have been granted form as part of his duty as Harbour Master the The Colonial Treasurer-There was no salary- should the next general election give, as we The action of that and other Chambers had collection of light dues and the examination of "The fees average $14 a month. I simply held that there is every foundation for the

believe it will, Tiberal majority, Sanguine shown the Government the mistake that had masters and mates; and therefore, though you the office, because no one else wanted its I report, and we feel none of the "delicacy"

men say that if all Liberal peer attended, been made, and the obnoxious Ordinance had vote the sum of $720 with one hand, yet on the did not pay and was not worth keeping. The of our contemporary that deters it from

the maimed, the halt, and the blind, und if all now been repealed. With regard to the survey of other hand the sum of $480 already voted to the Coroner's duties were done entirely out of office of every age could be collected, our army might the China coast, he was able to say that the collector of Light Dues will lapse, and in the hours, so that those duties did not interfere with expressing the opinion that such a state of

be raised to a total of three dozen, including home Government had decided to go co with it, same way the sum of 8140 will be recovered, the duties of the Airistent Harbour Master things is outrageous. According to the

disproportionate number of officers. I am

Ryrie-Did it not occur to the Governs. Press an extra charge of twenty cents is to Reports regarding certain recommendations speaking of lords temporal. Of lords spiritual would shorty follow. With respect to the the examination of masters and mates, which will

made by the Commission appointed to enquire. I dare predict nothing. But I would not advise vexed question of the payment of special jurors, now be paid to the Government work out of bourn lin be put on every pig sold here, so that the

into the cause of fever prevailing in the western Scottish Liberals to build extravagant hopes on the Governor had given it his fallest considera- Mr. MacEwen-What are the duties of the } The Colonial Treasurer-If it suited the public Pork Guild may have 8500 for a silver district of Victoria.

lords spiritual—if 1 thought they were likely to tion. A member of the Observatory Commission Assistant Harbour Master Property and if the officer-liked to do it, there was not Report, by Committes, concerning common do so. You may send up a Bill for Irish Home | was present, and would probably say something on

The Chairman To assist the Harbour much harm' doneNGAN MEREK dragon to haul about the streets, attended

lodging-house bye-laws.

Rals from the House of Commons by a majority, the subject of storm warnings. An to the Chinese Master, sirenka by a thousand noisy Imps, to gratify Report, by Committee, regarding public of 200 if you please it will, so far as frail emigration question, the complaints of steamship Mr. MacEwen-But that is no answer to my the ears and eyes of

Because Mr. MacEwen -Well, it is satisfactory that we our. Royal laundries.

humanity can predict, be rejected by a majority of owners and agents had been numerous, and would question. Has he any specific duties some 500 in the House of Lords. This would be continue so until a radical change in the system for many years the colony has done very well, have got to know what the dudes of the officer visitors. Those twenty cents, of courses THE popular belief in the sanitary efficacy of the cases not merely with Home Rule, but in all of emigration here was made. The Chamber without an Assistant Harbour Mariera will come out of the pockets of the red underwear is a clinging superstition, nothing probability with every other Liberal measure, had recommended the establishment of an The Chairman The office of Assistant Harbour The question was then put and passed purchasers, without their consent. Our more. Red was in ancient times considered Yet we sit planning the precedence and weighing Emigration Department, distinct from the Hare Ma ler was first established in 1867 "hen the Mr. Ryde 1ots for it because I hope the a potent charm against the evil eye. At one the importance of our various reforms, like bour Office it was the only way in which the registration of junks was commebood. The hon. Government will and Captain Hastings a better representative called on Mr. MITCHELL-time in the sixteenth century when the children playing on Veruvian when the seisme work could be satisfactorily carried on. With member will semember that up to 1857 11 the post by and by a wore important post, in con- the harbour "nection with "the harbour--in connection with INNES, the Acting Registrar-General, this evil eye was deemed to be expecially tri- graph predicis an immediate eruption. This, out saying that the Harbour, Master's Depart- Jucks were allowed to come, morning, Mr. MITCHELL-INNES is in the umphant in England, there was a boom in rd then, is the position to which, so far as I know, meat was remiss, he thought they had not paid without any registration whatever. In 1867 they emigrat

tape which it has never since experienced hardly a Liberal thinks it worthwhile to pay sufficient nitention to detall, and seen that ships were brought under control, to the great improve Pooh-bah position of being at the same time Many people to this day, believe that a red any attention. “It will all come right," he sayÁ,

were not hampered. An official to look specially tent of the revenue and the diminution of piracy: hon, secretary to the Reception Committee, string, worn about the neck is sure prevent if pressed. Whereas it will all come wrong after emigration was much needed. The Sunday on the bigh seas. At the same time the Assistant,

ize of asthma, messics and mumps. The relles Turning to the question of methods of reform, Observance question, they would see, had been Harbour Master was appointed, and there has and therefore interested in securing of this old faith are to-day best preserved in the Lord Rosebery proceeds: Suppose we could taken op by the Secretary of State, but, powerful been one ever since except, for the hat eighteen as lavish an outlay on the Chinese decora- great confidence which obtains in the medical establish body independent of dissolutions as be was, he would have to adopt very drastic months

Mr. Byrie-And who has been dəli tions, etc,, as possible, whlist, as Protector virtues of red Bannel, and a not so widespread which would last for a fixed term of, say, seven measures to make it general here. With reference

bellef that the milk of a red cow is better than years, and which would be elected by say to the smuggling on the Canton steamers no for the last eighteen months of Chinese, It is his duty to see that the that of any other comAs to red flannel, It has municipalities and congly council chibald progress had been made in getting the "buses | The Chalman-- ber heads of the guilds do not try on any the single merit over other colors that the dreing bays an estate, not like the House of Lords, indis. remedied. "An Ordinance had been promised for by his clerk

•hanky-panky" tricks in respect to the material used destroys sill vestige of animal life criminatingly hereditary but #chamber months to meet the objections to the mode of carrys Mr. Ryzlef the Colony could do witho

in the wool, and that red flannel does not shrink dependent on the people chosen by responsible ing out the present Oglum Ordinance, in search. Assistant Harbour, Master for eighteen mon

bodies and of a certain, though limited duration. Ang wawels and respectable perso food supply At present he has elected as white flannel does,

I should think it could do without Alis He did not

Mr. Ryrie-Perhaps you might have wanted to play cricket, de kidd me

„The Chairman - The Harbour Master · Is Emigration Officerby virtue of his office ; that. fore the Assistant Harbour Mastor is Assistant Emigration Officer.

THE YOTE TO COLONEL BEAUMONT, The Chairman said the next vote was ons of go to Colonel Beaumont for his report on the Bokhara Rock kathis was adjourned, on the lant occasion to allow hön,, members, to see the now moved that the amount be

RITA SALLES thought the Council was fuse the wote, whether they liked it as