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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1890..

special pleading, and we are not disposed to contend that a good deal of reason might not have been, made out of Mr. BRAND's argument; but we gravely doubt whether there was sufficient to justify the Stewards of the Shanghai Race Club, In even taking, the sense of the meeting on a course which might in future become very dangerous precedent. Were the

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Stewards not fully aware about the Hankow tea season when they' originally fixed the dates of the Spring Race Meeting? Did anything transpire in the meantime to bring the tea season a week earlier than customary and thus upset the arrangements of owners, and riders who had interests at stake? We assume that the Stewards did not fix the 5th, 6th and 7th of May without giving the matter full. consideration, and nothing was adduced at the special meeting to show that any owner orjockey had been prejudiced. On the other that, in consequence of the bad weather hand it was clearly enough established lately experienced and the late arrivals of griffins from the North, the candidates for the "griffins and other leading events could not possibly be trained in time to race at the end of April. Unless the griffins could be trained it was scarcely likely they would be entered, so that, as a matter of fact, the proposed change meant smaller entries than usual and a reduction of the Club's revenue. But in our opinion the most cogent argument A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. against Mr. BRAND and his supporters was the establishment of a precedent that, so ESTABLISHED AD. 1841.

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we have already indicated, might in unscrupulous hands become a very dangerous element. Some reference was made to the interference with bets, and matter of which although that is a the Stewards could not officially take cognisance, it still had some bearing on the question at issue and was worthy of the consideration of the members present. Mr. BRAND'S contention-we quote from the report in the N. C. Daily News "that bets had no locus riand until the entries were made" is simple nonsense, and in more ways than one, The meaning of locus standi in a legal sense is a right to appear before a court, and everybody connected with racing are not knows quite well that bets recoverable at law. And supposing that what Mr. BRAND intended to convey was that in the racing world bois made before the publication of entries were not recognised, he would still be wide of the mark. In races like the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire, run at Newmarket in the Autumn, a very considerable amount of betting invariably takes place long before the entries close, and it is as valid and as generally recognised as if the transaction were made while the competitors were at the post. A "long shot" for either of these two popular handicaps before the Doncaster meeting bas passed into a proverb on the English turf; and surely Mr. BRAND has heard or read of sweepstakes and bets on what are known as Produce Stakes-races arranged before even the horses are foaled! However, our only interest in the decision arrived at by the members of the Shanghai Race Club is to prevent this "pegging back" system from becoming a recognised precedent for other racing institutions in the Far East, and we can only regret that the Stewards did not see their way to exercise the powers they undoubtedly possess, and decline stultify themselves by permitting their arrangements to be set aside in such a summary and irregular fashion,

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A GYMKHANA meeting will be held at Foochow

on the 18th inst,

THERE will be a game of Polo on the Race- course to-morrow, the 10th inst, at 5 pm.:

'5 Wr are informed by the agents (Messrs. Butter- field & Swire) that the China Navigation Company's steamer Kweijang, from Glasgow left Singapore for this port on the 6th inst, and is due on the 13th.

A SLEEPER is one who sleeps. A sleeper is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which the sleeper which carries the sleeper while he sleeps runa. Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper. THERE was a great kite-flying festival at a place to Japan named Ogida-mura, the other day, when a kite, It ft. wide and 15 ft. high, and bearing upon it the character of Kokwal (Parliament) was sent up to the heavens. The rope which was attached to it was of the thick- wess of the index finger-Parliament isnt going that way just yet, though. INSPECTOR PERRY made a lucky haul yesterday lately the favorite coolie of Mr. Fielding Clarke, when he bagged a landshark named Ching H, Acting Chief Justice. The "good and faithful was to-day formally arraigned before Mr. E. Robinson and charged with stealing on the and instant jewellery to the value of $300, the pro- The case was perty of his late employer. remanded until the 14th.

AN American Journal' makes the, following true remarks about the uselessness of foreign missions: "The church is dreaming of the conversion of the people of a single town, city, or nation. the world by means which never yet converted How long will she persist in this dream and refuse to be consoled by the hope of speedy rest and redemption ?" But Tom Dick, and 'Arry who have a good time of it at the expense of imbeciles and innocents at home, don't look upon it all as a dream. Not much!

AT the Magistracy to-day one William Ivory, a cross-grained individual who looked and talked like an Irish-American, tried, with an eloquence and wit worthier a better cause, to show that it was not his blow which had felld P.C. 318, but that it was the "copper's" ungainly effort to avoid the said back-hander that had been the cause of all the trouble. His Worship disbelieved the story, and so as to leave no doubt in William's mind sent him to durance vile for seven days.

ALTHOUGH it is permissible for a cat to look at a king, one must not, if in Ireland, wink at a pig, otherwise three months' imprisonment will result. A pig with which this liberty was taken was the property of a boycotted farmer, and, by a remarkable coincidence, a Home-Rule butcher' was about to purchase it when another Home-Ruler, who happened to come by, winked at it. The prospective purchaser thereupon turned his back upon the pig, and the porker remained unsold. So much for the boycott systein. THE American ship Glendon, Captain Glendon, consigned to Messrs. Smith, Baker & Co., Yokohama, from New York, with 66,700 cases of kerosene on board, grounded on a shoal off Shimomi-yata, province of Sagami, at 4 a.m. on the 24th inst., being blown in shore by a strong easterly wind while bound for Yokohama. The U.S. S. Omaha went down to her assistance, but she became a total wreck. She had made ve vessels who had left America from one to a remarkably good, passage, having beaten fully two months ahead of her.

THE Ocean Steamship Co.'s steamer Patroclus, from Liverpool, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and is due on the 16th inst.

THE Superintendent of the P. & O. S. N. Ca.. courteously informs us that the steamship Thames, with the next English mall, left Sioga pore for this port at 8 a.m. to-day. Wx regret that want of space prevents us from publishing the complete list of the prize-winners at the Easter meeting of the Rifs Association, Mr. E. V. kindly forwarded by the hon. see, Ladds. It will appear in to-morrow's issue.

A JAPAN contemporary hears that the U. S. S Alliance is to be ordered out to take the place of the Marine. She is a wooden sloop of 1.375 tons.-Noah's Ark, with a mosquito fect of dug- outs, is getting ready for a commission, In Uncle Sam's dock-yards.

In honour of the Duke of Connaught's visit to Singapore and to the Forts, his name is here- after to be permanently associated with a portion of the defences. Henceforth Fort Blakan Mat! East, a defensive point of great importance, is to be called Fort Connaught. Tax Hon. J. J. Keswick and Mr. Taylor, of Jardine Matheson & Co., who visited the Hon

of the workings, according to the Courrier Bay mines the other day to inspect the coal- Haiphong, and expressed full confidence in their future.

mines there, were enchanted with the appearance

NATIVE spies report that Luu-ky-the chief of the band which held three: French prisoners at Ben-chau, Tonquin, last month, until $50,000 ransom was paid did not shoot Wing-fat- cheong, the captives' compradore, as he alleged. They say that, on the contrary, he allowed him to cross the frontier into China, to be out of danger.

DEAR KATE. By this mail I advance To you the remnants of my pants, There's just the waist-band and one leg Which you'll accept with love I beg. It may be when you find the rest They'll make your brother Tim a vest. The shreds 1 bend are very slight, Your pa's dog got the rest last night. At the Harbour Office yesterday twenty-seven Chinese coolies appeared before Commander Rumsey, R.N., to answer to a charge, preferred against them by. Captain Drake, of the steam- ship Catterthus, of obtaining passage from Port Darwin to Hongkong by surreptitious means, The Magistrate succeeded in getting four out of the crowd to stump five dollars per capita, bui | the rest of the long-tailed gentry preferred to "do" seven days in Her M-jesty's hotel. ACCORDING to the librarian of the Royal Geographical Society, England, possesses tër. ritory to the extent of not less than ten million

·quare miles—very newly one-fifth of the whole nd area of the glole! Three times the size of Europe; one ard a half times larger than the whole of the Russian Empire in Europe and Asia; ten times the size of the German Empire at home and abroad; eight million square miles more than the whole of the French dominions.

THE Belilios Trustees have awarded the follow- ing prizes in respect of the examination held by them in December last.

For Boys.

1st prize: Silver medal and $30.-F. Horspook Hongkong Public School.

and prize: Bronse medal and $10.—E. Lammert, Hongkong Public School.

3rd prize: $20, F. Marques, St. Joseph's College.

4th prize: $15.-C. Marques, St. Joseph's College.

5th pris: $15.-W. Allen, Victoria College.

·For Girls Getting a European Education Noronha, Italian Convent School."

1st prize: Silver medal and $25-C. M. *** English School.

2nd prize: $15.-Isa Lammert, Victoria 3rd prize: $10-M. T. Alves, Italian Convent School.

Por. Girls Learning only Chintsa. 1st prize: Bronze medal and $5-Li Ts'in Chis, Basel Mission School.'

2nd prize: $15.-Wong Allo, Victoria Home and Orphanage.

3rd prize: $10.-Ng Awan, Victoria Home and Orphanage.

4th prize:-Chan Tro, Baxter Schrol.

VICTORIA GAOL.

The following Report of the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol for 1889, was laid on the table at the meeting of the Legislative Council held this

afternoon :-

GAOL SUPERINTEND·NT'S OFFICE," Hongkong, 15th Jan, 1890. COLONIAL SECRETARY.—I beg to forward here- with Annual Statistical Return of Victoria Giol for the year 1889,

12. During eight months of the year I was detached from duty, Major Demps'er "acting as Superintendent for the time and carrying out the discipline of the Gaol on the same lines as hitherto

There has been a small increase in the average number of prisoners during the year, and a large proportionate increase in the number of prison offences, but the latter incerase is due entirely to petty offences, of which talking and short oakum picking are the principal The number of violent and serious prison offences has continued to steadily decrease.

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SUBORDINATE OFFICERS

4. The conduct of the subordinate staff during the year has been very satisfactory. These officers have generally been sealous and pains- taking and judicious in their intercourse with prisoners. The frequent changes which hitherto occurred in the personnel of the staff have almainished since the late increase of pay.

LEASE FRIBON' BUILDINGS.

ACCORDING to our Tientsin contemporary, the Pelho threatens to be as troublesome this year as last, probably more so, as the difficulties marked attending navigation are not only more but are at least three months in advance of last season. The South Reach is the first serious. These remain without change, as formerly obstacle, but the worst obstruction is in the reported on. I can only repeat what I have Tientsin Reach. The water in this reach is frequently urged that in my opinion the intro- getting shallower every day, and if no scoar daction of the separate system is (especially in takes place steamers will be excluded In a few this colony) essential to proper prison discipline. weeks from reaching the Bund Competent The ordinary Chinese prisoner, better fed, housed, authorities venture the speculation that the and clothed, with far less hard labour to do than periodical silting up of the Peibo is due an ordinary crolie, finds nothing deterrent in our principally to the numerous creaks that of late prisons as long as he lives in association with years have been cat, which drain the river of a companions day and night, but I believe that considerable amount of iis-water, reduce the 'under the separate system the Chinese criminal force of the current, and thus allow the soil in classen would prefer even the hardships and suspension to settle in the bed of the river cruelties of a Chinese prison to the long isolation instead of being carried out to sca. There may of this system, and that its introduction would be be some measure of probability in this, as during speedily followed by a considerable diminution the past two years the creeks have been repaired in the number of prisoners. and many new ones made, and since the port has been open to foreign trade the river ans never behaved so badly as during the past year The trade of the port is undoubtedly affected by the delay and additional charges imposed upon both imports and exports. It is an ill wind that blows no one good, and the Taks Tug and Lighter Company will not by any means be losers should the port again become inaccessible to steamers.

MEETING Of the legisSLATIVE COUNCIL.

PRISONERS AND THEIR DISCIPLINE. 6. During the year there have been 6,195 prison offences to an average of 581, giving a little over tot offencer for, ach Prisoner g great proportion of prison offences are committed

short sentence prisoners. Prisoners entitied to earn remission are generally careful to avoid Prison offences.. On the last day of the year of agt prisoners sentenced to 6' months' imprison- ment or over, go have been clear of punishment. for more than three months and of these 35, bad been clear for upwards of a year.

7." I append, as" usual Returns showing the number of the most common offences committed by prisoners, similar Returns for the last three years being shown alongside for the sake of comparison

INDUSTRIAL LABOUR.

“A. GORDON, Superintendent.

A meeling of the Legislative Council was held this afternoon.

There were prosent His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government (Mr. F. Fleming); the Acting 8. There has been an increase in the indus Colonial Secretary, (Mr. W. M. Deane), Mr. S. trial carnings during the year and also an Brown, Surveyor-General; Mr. A. Lister (Acting increase in the number of prisoners taught trades, Colonial Precurer); Mr. W. M. Goodman, | bat industrial work is greatly bampered by Attorney-General: Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Innes, absolute want of space. The usual returns aro WHAT ought to prove a close and interesting | Acting Registrar-General | Messrs. C. P. Chater, appended. shooting match has been arranged to take placeA. P. MacEwen, Ho Kai, (unofficial members) at the Military Ranges, Kowloon to-morrow and Mr. F... Hazeland, Acting Clerk of afternoon, between the Army v. Navy. Tha Councils. teams will be eight on each, side, selected from the ships on the China Station and the Hong- kong Garrison respectively. We understand that the Garrison will be represented by four crack shots from the Argyll and Sutherland from the Garrion Club, so that an unusually Highlanders and four of the leading marksmen

strong team will take the field in defence of local interesis. Shooting will commence at 2 o'clock, the public generally-that it was with very great with the grief of parting from relatives. On the

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THE newly-started Yokohama Investment Com- pany proves to be nothing more than an attempt THE death-rate in great cities varies from the of one or more Yokohama residents to provide maximum of 41 per 1,000 at Cairo, 34 at an alternative lottery to the Manila and the Alexandria, 30 at St. Petersburg, to the minimum Louisiana Lottery. The cire lar invites invest of 16.82 at Philadelphia, and 16 63 at Washing- ments in $5 shares monthly, and promises in too. London has a good position in the mor return for one thousand shares to award ten tality, 22; Edinburgh, 201 Dublin, 28; Paris, prizes varying from one thousand to twenty-five.Vienna, New York and Naples are all about 22 dollars, one hundred ten dollar prizes and one per miffle. In India, Calcutta is given at 31.85 hundred and twenty five dollar prizes, less in and Bombay 25 16. Melbourne is only 18.83, each case 15 per cent. The 15 per cent. is to and Sydney, 1952. The figures in Hongkong cover working expenses and to remunerate the compare with the best of them, unhealthy as promoter or promoters. That is a lot ahead of our Colony is supposed to be. They stand at ibe system on which the Spanish "sweep" is 127 per 1,000 for the Europeans, and 20.5 for the Chinese, which speaks well for the way in managed,

which our teeming Chinese population is looked | afler.

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A CORRESPONDENT in Tokio writes as follows: General Le Gendre and a' palace official have arrived here from Corea on a flying visit. It is rumoured they have come to consult with the Japanese Government respecting the gravity of the political situation, and the attitude to be assumed by Japan in the event of China carry- ing out her threat to at once adopt a vigorous policy towards Kores. Presumably the gravity

PEOPLE who send their servants to market should have the things weighed when the cook brings thèm home, as they will thus stand less risk of being systematically robbed. At the Shanghai Mixed Court the other morning the mess boy employed at the Hongkew Station was charged with defrauding his employers. It seems that it

of the political situation refers to the excite-was his duty to obtain meat from the butcher meat consequent upon General Le Gendre's with whom be made an agreement to charge in King to despatch a new Ambassador to Europe. reality a pound, to a pound and a half less daily appointment and the intention of the Korean many pounds of meat to the mess, while in The Progressive party appears to have got the was sent, the balance being put to the credit of upper hand of his Majesty at the present time, the boy, who thus at the end of the month received $4.70 from the butcher. The boy was Butcher was fined $4. sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment, and the

MINUTES.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

$12,000 THANKS. '

desired me to inform this Council and indeed His Excellency Before bidding farewell to this shore, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught

pleasure that he and H.R.H, the Duchess visited such an interesting portion of Her Majesty's dominions as this, and that they were both much gratified with the kind welcome accorded to them, and with everything done to make their stay agreeable by all classes of the community. To H. R. H. the Duke his reception was doubly gratifying, inasmuch as he considered it a further proof of that loyalty and that devotion which this colony has ever shewn to his royal mother, our gracious Queen, by all her subjects-ever-loving, and by them, ever- beloved

REPORTS.

The Acting Colonial Secretary laid on the table the report of the Superintendent of the Gaol for 1890. Also a statement showing the total receipts and payments during the year.

VOTES.

The Acting Colonial Secretary moved that the following votes be referred to the Finance Committee:

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THE EAST IN THE FIFTIES.

Allthrough the Mediterranean one's experiences

On the zoth of September, 1850, I left South-

apparently in harmony with the spirits of most of ampton in the P. & O. steamer Indus for China. The, day was dark and gloomy, and the passengers, who were more or less overcome first day out, one could do no more that gain a general idea of one's fellow travellers, who were largely composed of young men connected with the East Indian civil and military services, of ladies going to join their husbands, and of military officers. In those days, or at least on that steamer, meals were not announced by the commonplace bell or gong, but three musical stewards summoned the passengers by trumpet calls, and on the second morning out the well known strains of the "Bay of Biscay, "Informed us not only that breakfast was ready, but that we were entering the stormiest and most dreaded and increasing gale indicated too plainly that our waters of the Atlantic, and the gathering clouds

experience was to be no exception to the general rule. For the next two days nearly all were immured down below, under circumstances which made life hardly worth Eving, and nothing was heard but the straining of the steamer the tremendous shocks of the waves as they struck her, and then the rushing of the $991 for the repair of the telegraph cable waters as they came pouring in upon the decks, between North Point and Kowloon. The damage Two days of agony, and then, one by one, the was caused by some vessels anchored there sufferers crawled out into the sunshine and air, dragging several cables together, and entangling and, as the land came in view dotted with towns them.

and villas, there was a general tevival, and then: $1901 for expenses incurred by the Sanitary commenced the welding together of passengers, Brand in resect to the recent castle epidemic. takes place at sea with people who are for the bitherto strangers to one another, which always The amount was made up as follows-Com-ilme being sharers of the same pleasures and pensation for cattle and fodder destroyed, $1,820;

laughtering and disposing of carcases, 8513 perila, disinfecting, &ze, $30, 1 Gada

His Excellency I am glad to say that although then were very much the same as they are at you are asked to vote this money, the energetic the present day by that route i but the passage methods taken by the Sanitary Board in sup. of the Isthmus of Suez was very different from pressing the outbreak had the effect of at once what it is now At Alexandria we had to doing away with what might have proved a very disembark, and the luggage was conveyed to serious misfortune to this colony, of Sues by caravans of camels passengers not being allowed to take with them, for three or THE HONGKONG LAND INVESTMENT COMPANY four days use while en route to the same Mr. Keswick moved the second reading of the destination, anything more than could be carried #Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Com- inthe malest of hand bags. All were left to find pany, Limited, Ordinance, 1fgo, Herald that the their way as best they could to the hotel, and, object of the Bill was sufficiently expressed in no, sooner, had we landed than we were surs its clauses. At the time the Company was fa- tou-ded by crowds of donkey boys, who beset corporated its capital was $2,500,000, but within us" with, shouts, and many were forced "willy a few months that was increased to five million pilly" to mount their animals at once. I struggled dollars, of which increase only $1,225,000 were as long as I could against it, preferring to walk, Company was only permitted to invest its funds first in one shop, and then in another, much to called up, making the total $3,725,000. The as the distance was not great, and took refuge

within the area of this Colony, and as its capital | the astonishment of the stoleal looking Moslems UNDER the Judicious pressure of the Govern- | was now so very large its sphere of operations was who were sitting cross-legged at the entrance ; ment of the Straits Settlements secret societies found to be too limited, and It therefore. sought but all in vain, as cach time I made a freaks at- have now become a thing of the past. Governor to extend its power by s special Ordinance, tempt at independence I found an increased crawd Sir C. C. Smith (who, by the way, is ging on The Company might, of course, have been of tormentors waiting for me. First a donkey's leave shostly) stated at the last meeting of the wound up, and registered afresh, but that mani" "head would be thrust fa my face, then the op- Council that as regarded the societies in Singa festly cumbrous course had been selected of posite extremity would be backed against me, pore of which there were ten, six of them Triad undesirable. The acquicscence of the share, and next I found myself lo a confusion of heads: Societies-they all in February last delivered holders to the extension of operations would and tails, patil in self-defence I was compelled ever their seals and innig-is to the Protector of have to be obtained before the Governor's" con- to place, myazif astride between two extremities, Chinese, with their books and registers, which sent to the Bill would be given,

fortunately of the same individua, and then were, at the request of the headmen of the Mr. Chater seconded, and the Bili passed its before I was fairly, seated, whack 1 sounded a different societies, destroyed by the Acting Pro- second reading. It was then re-com nitted and | blow on the donkey's back, and away I went fector of Chinese and a further step was taken after a few verbal amendments passed its third through the streets of the unknown diy→→the at their request these articks were taken to the reading well-known temple in Rochor and there publicly burnt by the headmen. The original diplomas which these societies had from the parent Gi-Hin Society were also burnt, which was fantomount to the formal renunciation of any connection with the famous, or rather notorious, societies in China. As reguías the property of these it pised its first reading. pocletics, three of the kongsi-houses are already sold, and others are making arrangements to

but with what result we have yet to see. We regret to learn that the late Mr. T. R. McBean, balliff of the Supreme Court, whose sudden and unexpected death was noticed in our Ax interesting match was run off in Wanchai issue of yesterday, has left behind him a widow yesterday, when Mak Luk staked his liberty and seven children tot lly unprovided for, kad against a pair of well worn, een-rings, the pro quite unable to look after themselves. Now is petty of Leung Miny a widow. Mak took all the time for Mr. Jno, J. Francis, Q.C., and the start he could get, and chose his own course, Bishop Raimond to teach the Freemasons of but it proved a most unfortunate one for him. the colony a lesson in the noble cause of Charity Leung, if not fast, was as most widows are -in doing something substantial for the widow wily,

she''saw ahe and, when and the fatherless; but in the event of these playing a losing game, threw up the sponge worthy millionaire philanthropists not seeing in favor of some friends who had joined in. their way to do anything in the interests of our After a long stern chase Mak Luk was run to common humanity, we would remind the sinful earth, and Mr. E, Robinson' was called on and ex-communicated brethren of Southern to day to pay over the stakes, which he did to | The Tither Bill has been read a second time China, of Canton, United Service No. 1341, and the apparent satisfaction of all excepting Mak, St. John's, No. 618, S. C. that poor McBean was who for nine leng; months will have an oppor- in the House of Commous,

a lowly member of these lodges and that bis tunity of deciding which is the more pleasant, widow and children are badly in need of financial picking earrings or oakume vý

THE CYCLONE IN AMERICA."

LONDON, March 31st,

The havoc in the area traversed by the cyclone is appalling, and unequalled in history,

· PARLIAMENT.

THE LABOUR CONFERENCE. The Labour Conference at Berlin is closed,

EMIN PASHA.

April 7th, The press in London attack Emin Pasha for ingratitude, and warn the British African Trading Coinpany to be on the alert.

FRANCE AND EGYPT. France has sent a satisfactory reply to the Egyptian conversion rescript,

HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. 1890,

Ar a special meeting of the Shanghai Race Cluti held on March 25th the members of that institution, by a majority, took the very unusual, if not altogether unprecedented, course of altering the published dates of the forthcoming Spring Meeting from the 5th, 6th, and 7th of May 10 the 28th, 29th and 30th Inst. The reasons given for this change were that, as the dates originally, fixed were close to the Hankow tea season, a number of members would be prevented from being present, and the proposer of the change (Mr. D. BLAND, a keen and enthusiastic "sport" of many years standing), consacred that for their annual subscription of ten taels, all members should have an opportunity of attending both Spring and Autumn Commission to consider the system of recruiting meetings. This was, of course, a bit of and organising troops in the French Colonies.

THE GERMAN ARMY, The Emperor of Germany has declared that the sons of honorable citizens are eligible for officers' commissions, and that the commissions are no longer to be restricted to sons of persons of noble birth.

From the Courrier d'Haiphong)...

FRANCE.

PARIS, March 27th,

mid, NELLY BLY is a young woman who caught several trains and two or three steamers nothing moro. But when she got back to New York, the World, of course, went into hysterics over this not very important erect and the day after printed thirty-two columns more or less, about the journey, commencing with an entire column of head-lines in this style :--

FATHER TIME-OUTDONE! EYEN IMAGINATION'S RECORD PALES BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE OF " THE WORLD'S ". GLOBE-CIRCLER, THOUSANDS CHEER THEMSELVES HOAREE AT

MELLIE BLY'S PARRIVALS "Blu THE WHOLE COUNTRY AGLOW WITH INTENSE

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penis sabe OUR CEMETERIES.

donkey boy holding on behind and belabouring my steed all the time-completely at the mercy The Attorney-General move the first reading of the pair, and whither I knew not. We soon of a Bill to ampad the Public Health Ordinance emerged into a public square, however, where of 1879 By an oversight in that Ordinance any aw other victims being bome along in the person burying in any cemetery was able to tame wild way as myself to wardra large building, a $100 fine, and the Bill was to rectify the error, which the groups of fellow travellers clustering frenang || in front, who had just run the gauntlet, showed to

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Aday spent very pleasantly at Alexandria, and the next femoon we had to leave brzine Mahmoudich Canal for the Nile, and Ceiro. Passengers were usually conveyed from the hotel to the canst boat in omnibusses, but I had fallen

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People look at their watches. It is only four o'clock Those cannot be the sunset guns, dispose of them. All the dangerous societiesThe Council then went into Committee on

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date closed, and inete "Every "lquenliön on the | the singlatentes, Zil.

The Under-Secretary of State, bas created at

Only an old era. And the booming, yonder the Battery and Fort Greene tolls its passing Away. The stage coach days are ended, and the new age of lightning travel begun. **[Or the age of bunkum-which?)

part of the manager to dispose of the remain. Mr. McEwen protested against every clause ing portion of their property at an early date. being read, there being about a hundred and Fraud may be satisfied that the suppression of The rest of the proceedings are held over Fractically, therefore, as regards Singapore, the twenty

until tomorrow?"

these societies has been carried into effect,

In with two or three old China people who had travelled by the same route several times before, and were experienced in all the best methdis