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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1890.

SALMON FISHING AT YESSO! The visit to Decima, where. Dutch were jailed Oh yes continued Citizen Train, saw Japon

three centuries for privilege of Truls (Laughtdi), on coast and Inland from Vesso to Nagasaki,American Consul's Jinriksha Brigade of sight-like n twig by the great strain, and remained whole length of Nippon eleven hundred miles seeing Curios? The Kodaking Photos. of his in four days! (Laughter and applause!) Salmon toried and seeint sight. All this kaleidoscoping fishing in North reminded me of Dales of story of 60 days Round World Trip seemed Columbia where I opened that river to fortune almost an exagerated picture of Aladdin. (Ar- plause). This is the fourth time this intellectun! 1860! (cheers1)

human meteor hes flashed through Oriental space, astonishing Europeans well as aborigines. "I am," he said, "authorized by the municipality! Chamber of Commerce! Radebaugh Publishing Company! Four consolidated Pacise Railroads and Merchants! Syndicate of Fifty Tacoma, Boston, Chicago, New Yale and Philadelphi Millionaires which can be easily authenticated in one hour to Tacoma (continued applause). CITIZEN TRAIN'S KODAK—AMANUENSIS

Through open doors of store after store at Yokohama, Hakodate, and 'other ports you see fiattened fish stacked from floor to ceiling, or lying in gigantic heaps of scaliness, shininess, and salt. They look battered, degraded, their blackened, wall-withered forms bearing small resemblance to big silvery fish that leap among waves off coast of Yezo or crowd in glittering shoals un Hokkaido rivers: (Applause.) No difficulty taking them when they enter streams, for they come in such numbers as to cúi -off own retreat, Nets stretched, into them fish force one another, until hundreds and thousands are drawn out at every haul." (Applause.) It is busy time! All available hands employed! Even in district of Incredibly low wages, man receives twenty-five yeas for labour of hands while take is in progress, and rewards of ten to hundred ye given for special success (saya Isanc Walton Bohemia of Japan)! In former years fishery left to fare for itself. Foul fish, fry, ovn, everything taken at will. Now spawning beds and young fish receive official protection, Dimensions of and close season, enforced. industry, formed when last year 170,000 keku fish were salted, cach 100 koku weighing, average, 33,000 lbs. containing 6,000 fish! (Applause). Salmon are two to three feet long. weigh from ten to eighteen lbs., but when salted. average 5 lbs. Hundred seventy thousand konu means sot million fish, and weight of 56 million lbs. (Applause.) Sale in Tokyo, close of year, enormous (applause.) Between 15th. and zard December, Til Skimpo daily sales averaged five thousand kokul (Three hundred thousand fish, and money value 75,000 yen.) Strange idea of bringing fish alive to Tokyo dnes not find favour. Means not wanting. Ships with wells, like those that carry live fish to London market, long used in Inland Sea, might easily be employed to transport live salmon from Yezo. But Japanese gourmets do not like fresh salmon. (Laughter.).. Too rich and oily for their fancy. So huge traffic in sulted fish goes, on year after year, growing greater every season: Probably not far distant when we shall see business taken in hand by powerful, well organised company, and developed to be immensely more profitable than now. (cheers.)

REVISING JAPANESE LAW. Yes, it will take time (turning to legal adviser Morse) to stop law's will be delay. "Rule 181 Code Criminal Procedure" (Japanese), states :-

Following heard as witnesses :~~

Prosecutor,

Relations by blood or marriage of prosecutor

or accused..

Their guardians, or those of whom they are

guardians.

Their servants, whether receiving wages or not Evidence of these persons taken as simple

information!

In case a burglar enter my house, and success- fully captured by myself my son, and my servant only persons present, and banded over to Japanese police, where am I to look for "witnesses ?”

Point evidently overlooked by compliers Japanese Code Criminal Procedure," contain- ing much interest to foreign residents.

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CITIZEN TRAIN IN CANTON BEFORE ITS FALL 1 Yes 1 Read my "Young America Abroad,"

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what 1855, and see came to pass? (applause) China seemed (says an able Chinese statesman) again brought to death's door when Taku forts were silenced and allied forces knocked at gates of Peking. (Applause). Many doubtless believed. final coup de grace given when flags of France and England floated over Anting Men, Yuan- ming-yüan in flames, Emperor fled and died, and advisers of young successor admitted represen- tatives Western Powers to reside at very doo's of Imperial Palace. (Applause). Belief seemed justified, when Trealy Tientsin threw open new ports to trade and sanctioned travel throughou Empire, under certain restrictions regarding ted private individuals but theoretically unrestricted when traveller was diplomatic or consular.

official. We began to hear about "multiplica.. sing-points of contact" whereby Western and Eastern were to acquire mutual familiarity and became hrothers (Laughter) we were even laugh to look forward to day when foreigner, like Irish lady with jewellery, might roam from and to end of enuntry unprotected needing no protection. (Laughter) England's dream lasted fifteen years and wake with start to hear British consular officer murdered in Yunnan in spite of Yaman passport, carried in violation of pledges for safely given by Peking officials and provincial authorities and in defiince of stipulations and international law (sensation). Sentiment scotched at Taku and Peking was alive again.

MARCHING THOUGH CHINA! Yes, Murder of Marg ry taken advanta e of to sim another blow at exclusion, England raised open puts to twenty, established moreover right of calling at retain points on Vangiz, located consular residert in interior Szechuar, claimed privilege app inting another at Tall Yunnan, obtained consent of China to sending mission to Tibet if we chose. These desirable objects attained without moving soldier or gunboat, and congratulated selves on success of moral suasion, Says a clever foreign writer, China, quick to perceive political maxim underlying present and fikrly to underlie future action "Porce no remedy, and more bane is on us, could offer potentialities of alliance not despised, Scarcely surprising under these circumstances, national sentiment revived with increasing vigour. Abustive eprisala 1884-5 only served to confirm impression days of serious coercion over. and convinced China by proper manipulation of cards she might practically secure herself against Grganised interference from without, and by skilfully playing off one great Power against another, be in position to peacefully resume her own peculiar policy. (Applause)

AND PRIVATE SECRETARY. Captain-Eichel at this juncture asked Citizen Train for one of his cards, and in response the Citizen handed him an envelope upon which was printed the following

Geo Francis Trains

60 Days Round World,

Tacoma to Tacoma.

S. W. Wall, Private Secretary and Kodak- Amanuensis (Representing 900 Syndicated American newspapers, 20,000 news-stands though America's consolidated news companys, 1000 leading journals in Asin, Africa, Australia, Europe and South America, also Radebaugh Publishing Company (Hand-book of world published in 30 days)-ex's please copy) via Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Hongkong, Singa- pore, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Brindisi, London, Queenstown, New York and special 3 days train (3.300 miles) across American con- tinent to Tacoma, Paget Sound, Hand-book of world published in 30 days, ex's please copy.

The above type on Citizen Train's 6 day Round the World Envelope shows publicity, through Secretary Wall's newspaper syndicate, greater than ever before.

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SPECIAL TRAIN THROUGH JAPAN.

·A THOUSAND MILES ALONG JAPAN. YES OLD NAGASAKI SHORES "KODAKED" WHERE OLD

OCFAN ROLLS T

FOUR AGES.

LOCKED JAPAN'S PROGRAMME YOKOHAMA TO KOBE.

SPECIAL PASS-PORT (FROM EMPEROR) IN SPECIAL TRAIN. GRANDEST VIEW OF "JAPANESE LIFE AND CHARACTER !"

WALL KODAKED EVERYTHING HE SAW. NEW FIELDS OF PEACE! OLD' RUINS OF WAR.

TWO HUNDRED. NATIVE VILLAGES WAITING FOR EMPEROR.

ON TRAIN,

of the Miraafore yards, and the main-top-mast which, with the lower one, is steel, was snapped hanging from the mast. Had it been timber it would have been smashed right off, and must have done considerably more damage to the rigging in its fall. One of the boats amidships was struck by "the port anchor of the Mirzagore, and completely shattered; an- other was smashed into two pieces and the bridge of the Tokio Maru damaged by having the bow end of the broken boat driven in upon it with great violence. Three of the massive cast iron sockets holding the davits on which the boats are hung were smashed by the blow; two of them being knocked off flush with the 'deck, and the third cracked through, while the davit in.it, an iron rod nearly 6 inches thick, was also broken across. The boatskids and their supporting frames, were shattered and the deck rail from the mainmast to the bridge, about zo feet in length, was torn and twisted as if it had been so much wire. A hole was also driven through the upper sheerstrake over a cargo port, which will take two new plates to make good. Messrs. Boyd & Co., took matters in hand im mediately and set about repairing the damage to the Tokio Maru so far as to enable her to proceed to sea, which she did at is a.m. yester- day, The Mirzagore was only damaged in a trifling degree, and her voyage was not delayed, A short length of her deck rail was carried away, and a port cathead knocked out of place. At the time of the collision about 40 boys were engaged in cleaning the ballast tanks of the Tokio, and had the "Miraapore struck her end on, hardly one of them could have been saved. No one was injured by the accident, but one man who was on the Tokio's rigging had a narrow escape. Yesterday a local steamer very anchor is time, and so averted another collision. carly ran into the Tokio, but got down her -Shangkai Mercury, April 7th.

SHANGHAI TRAINING NOTES.

Saturday the 5th being entry day the grass course was opened at 11 o'clock for the usual trials. The "leviatihän " stable sent out only one lot of griffins, the winner, as will be seen below, being Wisdom the first in the Trial Stakes, and 1oad some twenty lengths by the celebrated skewbald Hero, the "Griffias" would seen to be all over the shouting. It must be remembered, however, that this pony has a very peculiar run kindly in the races; but there is no doubt he is a grand mover and very speedy. The cru se was good but not.“ flying," and there was a strong wind which told very much against the panies from the to the mile posts, The following are some of the most interesting | gallops

as this pony is said to have been beaten on the

the shrubberies, in a walk almost as monotonous as that of pacing up and down the deck of a ship It is true we were at liberty to pass into the streets of the suburbs, but this was a privilege not often made use of, as they were narrow and crowded, and the smells one encountered were most offensive, to say nothing of the rudness of the people to which one was often subjected. It is also true that there was no regulation, that 1 can remember, against walking into the country, but this was fraught with so much danger, that it was rarely attempted, and those who did so had generally to regret their fool-hardiness. A few days before I arrived, for example, a party that had started on an excursion to the White Cloud Hills, a few miles from Canton; had been attacked by the natiyes aad compelled to return, one of them having had a band nearly cut off, and another having been badly wounded with a severe sword cut on the head. In fact, we were almost prisoners, the only place outside these narrow limits that was really open to us being the river. Boating was therefore the favourite exercise and relaxation, and of this the most was made.

partly that it might not be known until he had first reported it to his owners.

Reaching Shanghi in November, we found the a air cool and bracing, and the change from the. constant and depressing heat of the factories in Canton was most delightful. It was a fresh lease of life. In fact everything here was on a vastly more agreeable footing. Though the hong system was much the same as Canton, the relations between taipans and clerks were more cordial. Here we could roam at will over the country, and make excusions to the hills and other points of interest with as much freedom and immunity from danger as at the present day. ere more ladies and families here, to, There and life was very home-like after the artificial existence at Canton, which, probably owing to the humanising influences emanating from this more progressive place, changed very much for the better not long after I left there, and became more tolerable for all parties. The community here was a very small one, and in most respects resembled those of the out-ports at present, as the people all knew each other more or less in- Communication with the outer world was infrequent and irregular; the not oftener, than once a mails came month and were frequently brought on by the opium clippers; the mail bags were sent up from Woosung by express ponies, and the letters were often emptied on the floor at the English Consulate, each person being permitted to help himself. This was the great excitement of the month! The advent of visitors and strangers was so rare that when one did come, the news was spread throughout the community and who he was, what he had come for, and how long he was going to stay here, was known by every There were then na roads except the few streets

timately, There was a boat house at one corner of the garden, with a fine collection of small sailing and rowing crafts, and, every after neon the younger members of the community went out for their pull, while the elders enjoyed their cherdots in their stately hong boats.

The same unvarying round day after day, however, soon becomes monotonous, and life at Canton was inexpressibly so. The chief thing that buoyed up our sinking spirits was the prospect of a trip to Macao sooner or later, and that place was the Canton resident's cartbly paradise. Most of the firms, had commodious and well furnished houses there, always in readiness for the reception of guests, as well as for taipansone in a fow hours. and clerks, and a trip there, for the latter

household, and liberty to invite one's friends to enjoyable in life; the temporary control of a especialy, meant everything, almost, that was

share its hospitality, relief from the dull routine of office work, and ample space for exercise, after being confined to the limited area of the factory enclosure through months of the most stiflingly hot weather, to say nothing of exemp tion from the presence and constant supervision of the much dreaded taipans. In the last respect the social position of the young men at Canton was as a rule most unenviable. There was a broad and clearly defined line drawn and main tained between taipans and clerks, which was A constant grievance and cause of great discontent to the latter. I presume however it was one of the necessities of the situation, as the hong

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in the seillement, and, as they were unmetalled, and of course there were no carriages, chairs they became quite impassable in rainy weather,

being the only conveyance in use. The country paths afforded the only opportunity for horseback excrcise, except the race course, which was then situated on the western side of the Honan road between the bowling alley and the Soechow Creek, its site, being now densely covered with native houses; the present bring the third race course since the founding of the settlement.

Excursions far into the country were not at all common; in these days; indeed, they wore generally limited to the “hills ” near by, as no foreigner had hous-boats then, and the native craft were anything but comfortable, particularly in cold or rainy weather; indeed, so far as ment for long excursions, as the most game was to be found in the immediate vicinity. In fact pleasants were so abundant here that one could hardly take an afteroon walk without putting up

Co-day's Advertisements.

THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP,

COMPÁNY, LIMITED, ·

FOR MANILA, VIA AMOY. HE Company's Steamship

"ZAFIRO,"

Captain Cobban, will be despatched for the above Purts, on MONDAY, the 14th April, at 4 P.M.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

RUSSELL & Co.,

General Managers. Hongkong, 12th Apríl, 1890,

DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED.

7.

I'594

FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW.

HE Company's Steamship

"HAITAN,"

THE

Captain S. Ashtan, will be despatched for the above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 15 h inst., at

DAYLIGHT.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co, General Managers. Hongkong, 12th April 100

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HONGKONG ATHLETIC SPORTS.

HE Stewards and Committee of the recent: Tathetic parts, the Subscribers thereto and Donors of Prizes and all gentlemen who take an interest in Athletics, Bicycling, Tennis and other Pastimes are invited to attend a MEETING nt, the Hongking Hotel at 5 P.M., on WEDNESDAY next, the 16th inst. The object of this Meeting is to form the "Hong kong Athletic Club," and to elect on Hoo. Secretary and Committee, &c

W. H. YOUNG, Hon. Sec. Hongkong A. A. Sports. [597 Hongkong, 12th April. 1890

THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

temper and it remains to be seen whether he will system in all its purity existed then and there, shooting was concerned, there was no induces THE SHAREHOLDERS in the above.

Three quarters of a mile,--For Horse Bazaar ponies 4.39; won by a white in good style, who was bought afterwards by Mr. Ashley and christened Obstructionist.

Three kept over griffins, 1.34 4-5th. The winner, a dark grey, simply romped in, last quarter 32 2-5 h, and was immediately snapped WHO E'ER WILL SEE ITS LIKE AGAIN. Envoy and has been in Shanghai since last up for Mr. Huxey. This pony has been named Autumn. He was intended for the Hongkong Derby, but at the last moment was not con- sidered good enough to send down.

Mr. Barnes Dallas sent out three griffins, but

THIS GALA SIGHT OF JAPANESE),

MIKADO ON WAY TO REVIEW.

THE TROOPS 'ALL OUT WAITING

TO CHEER.

THEY TOOK ME FOR EMPEROR TOO, AND 1 RECEIVED OVATION HERE! IMMENSE CROWDS AT EVERY STATION,

VILLAGES ALL IN GALA DRESS, OUR KODAK TYPED ENTIRE NATION 1 TOEVOLUTE ROUND WORLD SUCCESS!

GREAT GOODNESS!

In reply to Judge Morse, the Gefinau Legal adviser of the Emperor's Minister to Japan (on his way to Berlin on his summer hol day-rame steamer with Ci''zin Train) asking if he intended to lecture in Hongkong Mr. Train replied "I do not know. I sent $25 dispatch to the Hong- kong Press from Nagasaki, saying it had lime Citizen George Francis Train, from Tacoma, Puget Sound, U. S. A, three weeks vis Yoko-

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and, as the entire staff of the establishment messed together at the same table, this exclusive ness on the part of the heads of the house was probably considered essential for maintaining proper discipline: but one can imagine what an unpleasant thing it must have been for the clerks to sit at table three times a day with taipans, generally stiff, silent, and reserved, and rely entering into conversation, while for the latter the situation was no less embarrasing and disagreeable.

As there were few ladies in the place, bache lors dinners were the chief entertainments; and, every one liking to keep under the punkah as long as possible, they were kept up until a notwithstanding the heat of the climate, the late hour of night, and as the wine flowed freely sounds that offenest broke the stillness of the "wee small hours" were "For he's a jolly good fellow" and "We won't go home till morning," an undertaking that was often kept, as daylight frequently found the revellers still at their pota- tions. After dinner was the most trying period of the twenty-four hours, as it was usually too hot for ading or other occupation, the only alternative being to stretch one's self on a long chair and enjoy, as far as anything was enjoyable, a quiet somke. The resources of the place for amuse- in 2.13, last quarter 34 secs. He bad full weightment in other ways, so far at least as the young

the winner could not do better than 1.16.

Muquasha beat Tornado in 1.361; last

mile 1.3

One Mile-Black Leaf by himself, did 2.13, last mile 346. This pony was also tried for Hongkong in the Autumn.

up.

Mr. Sassoon's Wisdom easily beat the others

"Veteran beat Venture and another in 1.10, last mile, 1.6. The winner is a discard of Mr. Humphreys in the Autumn and is not entered in the Races. He has been ridden across country'

all the winter.

A big white of Mr. Humphreys' made rings round a dun in 2:39. A good performance, weight up and shoes on.

Mr. Muller's tried pony, bought from Bazaar, did 2.15, last mile 1.6). they were worth in 2.141, last mile 1.91.

Four Horse Bazaar griffins were ridden for all Mr. Tripp's crack roan beat his grey in 2.18. Will make a very showy trap pony

One mile and a quarter-Noirmont going alone, light weight, dia 2.491.

Mr. Toby's grey took 2.51.for same distance. One mile and a ball-Mr. Sylva's chesinut did 3-27, last mile 1.11.

Earlstoun, owner up, 3.32, last

mile

THE EAST IN THE FIFTIES.

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men were concerned, were almost nil, being limited to cards or chess, or other indoor diver sions,

a number.

There were no club houses here then, but the bowling alley and fives court next to it were more or less frequented every day, while of amusements and diversions there were almost as many as at the present time, and life in other respects was not very different from what it is now, Shanghai having then been, and ever since continued to be, the most agreeable and healthy place of residence in the Fat W. S. Wet- more," in the N. C. Daily News.

CANTON.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) Our Aqualic Sports come if on Thursday. The weather was charming, and there was a very large and fashionable gathering of ladies and gentlemen on board the Flag ship, the U.S.S. Monocacy. The arrangements on board, thanks to the courtesy of the captain and officers and the Committee, were all that could be desired. The principal events were as follows :-Cistter Ance, 3 entries, won by Monocacys crew with great ease. Outriggers-double sculls--won by Read and Dowler, who bad good tussle for first place with Messrs. Potts and Bryant.-The Canoe race was carried off by Mr. Alister Duncan, barely getting his craft home two seconds before Mr. Wallace, who pressed him hard throughout. In the

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Monocacy's

swimming race, roo, yds., the people again showed to the front, Mr. Bryant very cleverly steered his crew to victory in the faui-oar outrigger race over a distance of one mile. Mr. Dierking brought his gig past the line a little ahead of Mr. Lol's boys,

On the rath inst. we shall have a big Ballis the Shamien Hotel, got up by Consul Budler and others, the occasion being the inauguration of the Shamien Hotel which the enterprising proprietors have erected for use and ornament in our midst,

Verily I say unto you, "it never rains but it poura,"

First Ordinary Yearly MEETING of Company will be held at the City Hall at Half- past Twelve o'clock, on SATURDAY, April 26th, 1993, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Direches with a Statement of Accounts to December 1st, 1889.

By Order of the Board of Directors,

J. WHEELEY, Secretary. Hongkong, 1ah April, 1890.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

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JAPANESE PORCELAINS,, IVORIES, SILK AND CURIOS.

THE Undersigned has received instructions

to Sell by Public Auction, on SATURDAY,

the 19th April, 1890, commencing at 2.30 p.m. sharp. at his Sale-Rooms, Duddell Street. A VERY FINE ASSORTMENT OF

· JAPANESE WARE AND WORKS OF ART, comprising: - Sattuma. Imari, Kaga and Tokio VASES, JARS, PLATES, TEA and BREAKFAST SETS, &c., &c.

Very fine CLOISONNE WARE.

A fine selection of RARE OLD JAPANESE PORCELAIN BRONZES, & IVORY CARV. INGS, SILK EMBROIDERIES, COURT DRESSES, DRESSING GOWNS. SILK EMBROIDERED SCREENS, BRONZE WARE, INLAID PANELS and a quantity of other Articles,

&

&c. Catalogues will be issued prior to Sale, and the above will be on view on Friday next. TERMS OF SALE :-Cash on delivery,

G. R. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

&c.,

Hongkong, 12th April, 1890.

No. 1025.

1600

LODGE,

N EMERGENCY MEETING of the above

A LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS

HALL, Zetland Street, on TUESDAY, the 15th instant, at E.30 for P.M. precisely.

Hongkong. 12th April, 1890

Intimations.

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CAPTAIN 'GEORGE TAYLOR, INLAND SEA and JAPAN COAST PILOT.

Telegraphic Address;

Hongkong, 8th April, 1890.

POWERS,

Nagasaki,

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NOTICE.

Once or twice daring my residence in Canton there was a dance, and once a ball, so called, to which the community generally were invited, and then dress coats of all fashions and cuts, which had not seen the light for many a day, were dragged out and subjected to the brushing and cleaning and patching of the "tailor-man" to make them presentable, and a heated and uncom fortable look the men had as they appeared in their unwonted garments. The dances were nearly all monopolised by the taipans, and the hama, Kabe and Nagas ki (leaving Hongkongin steamer Preussen via Singapore, Colombo, Aden,

neglected clerks thronged the doors and refresh doing the half-mile in good time. The piece ment rooms, looking generally miserable and de resistance was the Barber boat Skurry Suez, Port Said, Brindisi, London. Queenstown New York, and three days special train 3,300

forlom, but it was an unusual privilege for them of 50 yards. Messrs. Duncan, Bryant, and to be there, and most of them therefore availed Holworthy faced the starter. The latter from miles across American continent, back to

themselves of this opportunity for being made start to finish greatly amused the spectators Tacoma in sixty days, sowing Pacific route two

wretched, and nothing could better have express by his desperate struggles to keep aboard VICTORIA weeks shorter line to Japan, China, and India

1.128ed the situation than the remark i overheard flimsy craft, and keep her near the course. (for Oriental pratengets) Will lecture on rapid. C. Daily News.

from a rather rollicking taipan to one of the most Duncan pulled off this event in pretty good style transit and Occidental and Oriental commerce at

utterly forlorn-looking of the young men who The fis chaps get the pig off the Greasy Pole. City Hall. Citizen Train, spoke to a 4,300

had evidently determined to run the entire As a finale a tug-of-war came off betweek audience at Tacom March 15th, where 10 0:0

gauntlet, cost what it might, "Now, Ginger, scratch teams of the fills and Mene. people ovated him in public seception on his

arent you glad you came? I was not sorry cacy, The Germans won after a desperate departure to organize 4 ten day palace. steamers

after a

year of this trying, most uninteresting, struggle. This over, all repaired to the flagship to Japan and China and lay a 1-nd and sea wire

As the P. & O. steamers were the only ones

and monotonous life to be ordered to Shanghal where the prizes were presented, with neat little 5,000 miles on Pacific Prices reduced to $1.50 the proceeds sen in cable dispatches to

then running on this route, time was of no im- The only steamer then running on the coast speeches, by Mrs. von Basó; after which, amidst 4,000 sewspapers. Cilzen Train will be glad to portance to them compared with the consump was the old F. & O, boat the Lady Mary Wood, continuous cheering for the Committee, our see citizens of Hongkong at Hongkong Hotel, tion of coal, and, in the absence of all competi- but her trips were so very irregular that she hosts, the naval company, the ladies, the win- where hisprivate secretary indkodak amanuensis, tion, they crawled along at the postal contract could not be depended on, so I had to take pass-ners and the losers, darkness closed upon one representing. 9000 newspapers (England and rate of eight knots an hour. At Point de Galle age by an opium schooner, the Antelope, and of the brightest and joiliest afternoons which, the we left the Oriental and embarked on the left Hongkong in October 1851 with two fellow residents of Shamien have enjoyed for a very America) will fin'sh callers with statistics of

passengers. We encountered a heavy gale off long lime. the New York of the P-cific, where fortuner are Peking-a much smaller, but vastly more com

fortable steamer, and, without any further ex-

the south end of Formosa, but after that the made in a single hour. Mr Train will sit for any

weather was fine, with the monsoon against us, of the Hongkong photographers who call. Citizen pertences differing from those one mecis with at B-cretary Wall's round world book will contain the present time, we seached our destination on however, which compelled the vessel to beat up 1000 kod k-cuts of the fastest and most remark the 12th of November, fifty-two days from off the east coast, and as thela-shore tacks brought us quite near the land, we had frequent views of able Journey on record rund world. The Rade Southampton. Years of planting with trees and baugh pub'ishing house, Tacoma, will publish shrubs have since clothed the hill sides of Hong- the precipitous and well wooded slopes of the 500,000 copies, first edition, which makes this most kong with verdure, and converted what was then mountain range which fringes, that side of the extensive advertising medium on record. He is a congeries of arid and sun-scorched peaks beautiful island. As this portion was the home of aranging to syndicate all the newspapers of into one of the loveliest places in the East; the savages, who were the terror of all who had Furope Asi. Africa, and Australia, through hut as they rose barren, bold, and sharply defined to make the voyage, we never approached the Rowells and new opting in every in the clear and brilliantly dazzling sky on that shore without feeling that, if anything went lown on the western continent, Citizen Train autumn day, I must confess they reminded me wrong with the vessel, we might fall into the will feel obliged if any old resident will furaish more forcibly than agreeably of Aden, We did clutches of these people and meet the cruel fate him with ble first Round World book "YOUNG not waste more time than was necessary there, of the many, who, from time to time, had AMERICA ABROAD, and the American Merchant but left the same day for Canton, in a small unfortunately been wrecked upon it, but little in Europe, Asia, and Australis," published by

steamer, which from the plurality of her funnels did we then imagine that anything was going Sampson, Law & Co, London, 1856, upon his

went by the name of "Pipes," and arrived at wrong, and that our danger, was much more real return from baving helped open Japan with Com our journey's end in time for dinner. I found than we had any idea of at the time. We curicin modore Perry and Commissioner Townsend the members of the hong to which I was to be the pumps going constantly, but, as the captain attached already seated at table, all dressed in said nothing about it, presumed, as the vearch Harris in 1855.

white clothes, with short jackets, looking like was an old one, that it was nothing more than was to be expected. We had beautiful moonlight most, amusing appearance, but to this I soon got evenings, and, as the schooner went quietly on reconciled, as I did to the many peculiarities of her way, we spent them on deck amusing our- life there, and ere long settled down to the quiet selves with songs, to the accompaniment of a violin, which the captain played very well, par- and monotonous routine of daily existence.

The foreign residences, or "factories" as they fectly unconscious of danger, and unaware that were called, were substantially built and fine he had any cause for anxiety. We reached looking edifices fronting the public garden and Woosung in eighteen days,-not a bad passage extending in a quadrangle back a few rods for the time of year-where we were welcomed WHIRLING THROUGH JAPAN AND

towards the city; houses, garden and all being by the captain of one of the opium vessels moored there, and entertained by him pending surrounded by a high brick wall, through which CHINA SEAS.

gates opened at several points into the native the turn of the tide, and then I had the opportu. This wail was for the double purpose of nity of experiencing for the first time what "Citizen-Train's 'zapid sketch of his lightning trip through Japan 5, Describing Pauline

protecting foreigners against the sudden incur frequently enjoyed afterwards the lavish Makaour's impromptu banquet at the Grand

s'ans of mobs, as also to keep the former hospitality with which the Woosung cap. Hotel, Yokohama, manager placing the carriage

more easily under control in case it might tains were in the habit of entertaining their be considered desirable on the part of the friends. Meeting the captain of our own and servants at his disposal as notable guest; the page Extra of Editor Anglia of The Gazette,

Chinese to do so. The garden-in the midst of schooner soon after arrival in Shanghat he said where thirty typos were at work on G. F. T. and

which stood the lule church was very prettily to me, "Little did you think when I brought-

out my fiddle every night for your entertainment, his "Kodiak Amanuensis" and Private Secretary

laid out with a great variety of choice ornamental S. W. Wall (who represents consolidated Syadi

and flowering trees and shrubs, and intersected and appeared so jolly and unconcerned, that cates of American newspapers). The sudden his engines full speed, and dropped his by broad paths of asphaltum, which offered the soon as you went to your berths I stole off with a lahtern into the hold to see how fast the water special train to Tokyo for passports through starboard anchor, but in spite of all the efforts or ly promenade available for the foreign reni. interior (o catch the German fast Mail at Kobe, made to rrevent a collision, she drifted broad-des: it fronted the riverboats of all descripwas gaining on us." The vessel, it seems, had held by special orders) in an hour (usually three side on to the Tokio Mars striking the latter's tions lining the shore in a compact mass and sprung a serious leak in thegale we encountered, days delay) The rapid jaunt through two hun after boat and crushing it to matchwood, and after office hours was the resort of all who and reached Woosung almost in a sinking con- dred japanese towns old as the Hills. Thelovely then grailog all along the Tokio Mars's star-wished for a little pedestrian exercise, and there dition, but the captain had kept it from us, partly excursion through the Inland Ses to Nagasaki, bours side, whose backstays were caught by one they want altcling sound, in and out, through to prevent the alarm it might cause up, and

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In meanwhile, she learnt several useful lesso | COLLISION BETWEEN THE MIR-over-grown school boys, which gave them a One, power of money to nullify undesirable con. cessions of which she found reason to repent. She thus sidded berself of Woosung railway, excellent in itself, objectionableas being in foreign hands. Another, barbarians can and must be fought with own weapons and China has in own borders all resources necessary for such warfara,

A collision. Decurred on the river on Friday morning attended with consequences so serious as to necessitate a delay of 24 hours in the de. parture of the Tokie Maru for Japan, with the Japanese and American maile. The vessel was lying alongside the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Wharf, getting ready for sea, when the P. & O. Company's steamer Mirsapors came down with the food tide, on her way to Wodeung, whence she was to procced on Saturday morning for England. Just when the latter vessel got into the chow chow water, one of the most diffi. calt spots in the run down to Woosung, some mishap befell ber steering tackle, and rendered her almost unmanageable in the strong current that was running at the time Captain Harvey immediately reversed

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