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Entimations,

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

CHEMISTS.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED.

WATERS.

WE devete special attention to this part of

our business, and our process ensures a perfect filtration and purification of the water,

and thorough saturation with Gas.

Our plant comprises some of the largest and finest machines ever shipped from England, and embraces a combination of all the most modern improvements for filling corked bottles or syphons. Our machinery is filled with tin-lined tubing, and the fact that our Waters are free

from metallic or any other contamination is certified by Messrs, Hassall and Clayton, Analysts to the City of London."

The following nie manufactured daily :- AERATED WATER, GINGER ALE, SODA WATER, SELTZER, LEMONADE,

LITHIA, TONIC,

SARSAPARILLA,

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Our Aerated Sarsaparilla is prepared from a Buid extract of Red Jamaica Sarsaparilla' made in our own laboratory, and is not merely a flavoured water as so many brands of this popular beverage are,

Nos. 22 & 14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong, 14th April, 1890.

BY APPOINTMENT.

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A. S. WATSON & CO., LD.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED.

WATERS.

OUR AFRATED WATER MANUFACTORY is replete with the hest Machinery, embodying

all the latest improvements in the trade.

The greatest allentin has been paid to appli- ances for ensuring purity in the Water-supply, to secure which we have added a Condenser cap- able of supplying us with 3,000 gallons of distilled water n day, and are now in a position to compete. in quality with the best English Makers. Our Swee Walers cannot be surpassed anywhere.

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness are exercised in the quanufacturq throughout,

LARGE BOMBAY

"SODAS"

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1890.

when such cases as the one under dis- cussion show that any day those youths can get over to a nest of wily professional gamblers in half-an-hour; and lose a sum equal to a couple of years' salary without being either questioned or reported. Gray is not the first man who has found that five-mile trip the most costly one he ever made, nor, unless the Chinese authorities can be induced to co- operate with the Hongkong Government, and suppress the po-ise dens, wil he be the last. We would remind our young friends who have both a "system" and access to an employer's cash box that when a man is on the downward path he finds all greased for the occasion," and It is just as slippery when he tries to climb *back again.

TELEGRAMS.✰

'GERMANY IN AFRICA.

LONDON, April 16th.

Sir James Fergusson stated that Germany has assured England that Emin's expedition will in no way be allowed to interfere with British interests in Nyassaland, that the question of the Government safeguarding British interest is still unsettled,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C., will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8 for 8.30 o'clock precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited, WE are informed by the agents (Messrs. Butter- field & Swire) that the China Navigation Co.'s steamer Yunnan, from Glasgow, left Singapore for this port at 4 p.m. to-day, and is due on the 1st prox.

A'nopy of American sailors lately went to the

THE Oxford University Press has just brought out a prayer book, which weighs only to. This "kind of literature somehow seems to, have less weight every time a fresh edition comes out. A REGULAR meeting of Zetland Lodge, No. 5a5. will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, on Thursday, the 1st proxime, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. AGENT"Here is a book, sir, every gentleman ought to have Hints on Architecture. Mr. Smallpurse-"I have no use for it. "But, sir, it teaches you how to build a beautiful villa, a regular little palace, far only $5,000. "I haven't $5,000. I haven't over $5 to my name." "Well, the book is only $1."

At the Police Court this morning there was an Government for opening the port of Chungkiang' enquiry held by Mr. Wadehouse into the cir- on the Upper Yangtee to forciga commerce. camstances connected with the drowning of a

A latter from Sir Samuel Baker to the Times sampan man in the harbour on Tuesday night. censures the policy of Great Britain in abandon- The evidence shewed that the steam launching the Soudan, and says that we cannot now Palienes collided with the nampan of which grudge Germany's advancing along the White deceased was an occupant. The boat was at Nile, Sir Sauruel recommends England to con- anchor, and no light was visible. All the occupants centrate her attention on Egypt proper as a were thrown into the water, but only deceased, means of properly securing her route who could not swim, was drowned. The body was

News has been received of a severe hurricana recovered the next morning near Pedder'a whaif. in the New Hebrides during which a labour There being no suspicious circumstances con.

vessel was wrecked at Millicalo, and five whites nected with the matter his Worship declared it and thirty natives were drowned. Twenty who a case of accidental death. Mr. Rodyk, solicitor, reached the shore were massacred by savages, watched the cast on behalf of the Steatri Launch

Dom Pedro, the ex-Emperor of Brazil, is in o Company, Limited.

comatose state, and has received the last sacra-

ments.

ACCORDING to the Polish press famine has al

A VEXED question in criminal law has recently been decided in England. A man who received ready broken out in Austria's great Polish pro- vince of Galicia. In eighteen districts of that a sovereign in mistake for a shilling and refused province the crops this year have been entirely larceny. There was much difficulty in arriving at forty-eight other districts. Only in twenty-three afterward to make restitution. was charged with

lost. The barvest was, moreover, very bad in a conclusion, but judgment was at last rendered districts did the peasantry get enough food for that if the recipient knew of the mistake at the time of receiving the sovereign, he was guilty of themselves and their live stock for the winter. It is announced that in many places the peasants theft. If, on the other hand, he pocketed the colp are killing their horses rather than see them without noticing the mistake, he was beld not

starve, Nearly 100,000 horses are said to have guilty.

already been thus destroyed and their carcasses sold as manure Some doubts are expressed as to the reality of the famine, since if they were suffering from starvation there is not much doubt that the horseflesh would be gladly welcomed for food, instead of being consigned to the compost heap.

LAST evening, out of the many swimmers who have commenced to patronise the Recreation Club for the season, four of the more venture some agreed to at least attempt to cross the Harbor. As the distance, owing to the irregular course they would have to take, is at least a mile, through strong currents, long odds were offered against them, but the feat was successfully accom- plished in something under three-quarters of an bour, from the Bath-house to Taim-tsa-tsol pier. The quartette finished strongly, in the following order:H. C. Manning, Perkins, Dickson, and Michael, A larger party will repeat the attempt on Monday evening, some intending to also try the return trip.

A CORRESPONDENT in Berlin writes that it is probable there will soon be an open question raised as to the sanity of the present Emperor. He has indu'ged in so many fantastic tricks and committed so many acts of petty meanness, that people are beginning to tire of his conduct. One of the latest events of this sort was the publici- tion by the Emperor himself of a statement that thenceforth the Kreuz-Zeitung, a stanchly Tory paper, would be rigidly excluded from all the German consulate at Samoa and demanded royal palaces. This, it was frankly stated in dinner. "This is not a hotel," said the consul. addition, was because the editor had unfortu. "Waal," replied the spokesman, if it ain't aately done something that had aroused the royal restaurant, what do you hang out that black fowl displeasure. for?" SR. HORTA È COSTA has been elected deputy for Macao, and will shortly proceed to Lisbon. He got 296 free and independent votes, Sr. Amaral raising a couple of adherents and St.

was the right, man. The pries's score once

heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of Marques recording his opinion that he himself sent thither with. the option of a five dollar Andromeda chained to the rock, and Venus

We continue to supply large bottles as

our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDERS.

whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order.

FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amzunt allowed for Packages and Empties

tion.

more.

THE Colonies and India says that Sir C. C. Smith, Governor of the Straits Settlements, is about to resign, on account of ill-health, his place being taken by Sir Frederick Napler Broome, late Governor of Western Australia. Our Singapore contemporaries do not confirm

the statement.

when received in good order.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-Tier Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme on the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock:- March.........Scoich songa" pre........Habicht. Lancem.Varsity"..........

D'Egville, Vibe ........."' að summer night in Munich "...Cellier,

Kelly Willfarma. ..Marion.

Our Registered Telegraphic Address in, "DISPENSARY, HONGKONG," And all signed messages addressed thus will receive prompt attention.

The following is n List of Waters always

kept ready in Stock --- PURE AERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

SELTZER WATER LITHIA WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

GINGERADE,

Polki..........

*********Abbotsford"

Quadrille....." Roundabout Galog John Feel"

THE Scottish Oriental S. S. Co. are augmenting their fleet. Capt. Morris, ofthe Taichow, is now at home supervising the building of another of the now well-known red-funnelled vessels, and Capt. Watton proceeds in Scotland to-morrow for a second. They are both expected out in about six months, when the fleet will consist of nine fast and handy steamers. The Fairfield Co. Glasgow, have secured the contracts.

REGGARS are becoming almost as numerous as mosquitoes here, and quite as great a nuisance. Nine of these vagrants-the scum of Canton- were put in 'quod yesterday and they were followed by seven more this morning, who were fine. For some weeks past their numbers have been rapidly increasing, owing to the ten cent steamer fares between here and the flourishing southern capital; and it is probable that creatures of this class infinitely prefer our jail, where they are clean, well fed, and comfortable, to wallowing in the mite of their native city However this may be, the police in clearing them off the streets are doing good work, and relieving

India,

with its mean accessories lit by a few haggard -gas jets, which shone too on ́one whựe face peering above the spiked rail of the dock, I have fl such a feeble reproduction of the fierce interest of the vast Roman circus which

"Splashed and writhed and shrinked

All round Faustine, as modern London can afford. Between the nude walls of the Divorce Court and in the dingy arcanum of Bow Street I have had that cynically humorous sense of superiority to my fellow men which most of us possess and which accounts for the universal love of farcial comedy. as delicately tickled as ever, it was in the stalls of the Criterion or the Palais Royal. In a word, I ani a confirmed haunter of our different Courts of Justice, and have consequently seen a good Boulanger starts from Jersey for France to-dral of the Barrister in the daily conduct of his 'business, and from that experience the Barrister night.

A letter from Mr. J. M. Maclean to The Times does not seem to me to be a prison whom, in complains that Government has not kept the his professional capacity, I am called on to promise made to the deputation to reduce the admire. He may be necessary. So by, universal that officials and influential' natives are answer- hours of work in Indian cotton mills, and hints consent is the scavenger; so, by general suffrage

is the hangman, as whose jackal my learned. friced" not infrequently acti able for this,

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BERLIN, April 5th. A meeting of the leaders of all parties has taken place here, at which it was resolved to ap- peal for funds for a national monument to be erected in Berlin in honour of Prince Bismarck, The leaders of the Freisingig pasty bave, how ever, declined to support the movement.

torpedo boats.

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Can a Barrister be a gentleman ? That is the question I desire to pose, and to answer by such lights as I possess. If "gentleman' means no more than that the person to whoin we apply the word is a polished product of our modern society, sensible, of his duties to the letter A, arrayed in irreproachable broad cloth LONDON, April 6th. and spotless linen, conventionally cultured and The ex-Emperor Dom Pedro has rallied. conventionally well bred, the question is an The report that Boulanger was starting for absurdity, for ninety-nine per cent, of barristers France was incorrect,

answer to that description. The Bar is to-day Commander of the Star of India.

The Queen has appointed Lord Reay, Knight in England almost what the Army is in Germany, the natural goal of the young man of Lisbon.

Major Pinto has sailed rom Mozambique for good family who has his own way to make in the world. But if any savour of its old Most of the masters are yielding to the and treen eating still dwells about the much- demands of the shoelasters and finishers, and abused name of gentleman, if to deserve it a man the boot strike is virtually over,

must stiff, like that perfect knight of old, "Speak PARIS, April 6th no scandal no, nor listen to it, hold no parley The French Government have ordered the with wrong and injustice, save to denounce and building of ten sea-going and twenty first class destroy them, and reverence truth and courtesy above all earthly things, then I say openly that immediate blockade of the Dahomeyan coat..only cannot be a gentleman, but that he is forced The French Government has ordered the a barrister, in the exercise of his profession, not by the nature of his avocation, to become the LONDON, April 6th.

brings his brains and accomplishments to an very antithesis of that noble character. He open market of knaves and, honest men, and awaits the result of the bidding with a cynicism so profound that only its constant display could blind

to its monstrosity. He cares nothing, and less than nothing, for right- or wrong, justice or injustice. The more flagrant the wickedness of the cause he is paid to defend the more keenly his powers are bent to its defence, the rare specious bis logic, the ST. PETERSBURG, 7th April more impassioned his oratory, the more shame The Governor of the new Trans-Caspian Pro-ful his aspersions and insinuations against the vince has been instructed to establish direct international relations with the independent he can to twist and pervert to the shameful ends witnesses whose truliful testimony he does all Asiatic States including Afghanistan; this indi- of his employer. The more gross and evident Asiatic policy from Tashkend to Samarcand. cates a tendency to shift the centre of Russian the injury his victory inflicts upon justice, and. therefore, on society, the greater his triumph, the higher his professional value from that moment. Again to adapt Tennyson to the occasion-

which he says that Ensin Pasha is the best judge Sir Francis do Winton has written a letter in

of his own affairs in having taken sevice under German Government, and that the Emin Relief Committee are quite content in having rescued him, and had invited him to visit England as the English people.

April 8th, General Komaroff, in the command of the General Kuropatkin is appointed to succeed Russian troops in the trans-Caspian district,

ZANZIBAR, April gih.

Peters; dated Lake Barrings, January 16th, when A letter has been received here from Doctor he was all well,

UNDER the beading "Pores Plastiques" the Sydney Bulletin

comments:-Since Lord Euston's didn't-know-it-was-loaded explanation of his little trouble was cabled to Aus- tralia French dictionaries have been constantly and vainly invoked to solve the mystery involved in the words poses plastiques. dictionaries don't explain the phrase to any But the

considerable extent, Language is of short range compared with human ingenuity applied to artistic iniquity, and it would take very much space to explain all that p ps. mean in the classic regions of London and Paris where this branch of art has attained its greatest vogue. In their ordinary style pores plastique are represented by the maximum amat of the human Form-not divine, but very human-and the minimum of silk tights, generally flesh-coloured. A pedestal to each figure gives the necessary, but very thin, suggestion of Art, the actors being elevated to that height which modesty demands-generally

The War Office have issued the revised rules about two feet, but in very refined circles three-feet-six. But the plain pose plastique-whereby officers in Colonial Military forces can the pp. as naturel—is merely the most simple species of its inclusive genus. The idea

obtain a Commission in the Army. The rule comes in force on October first.“ diffuses itself largely and may be extended to an infinite degree. Historic scenes and figures may be accurately exhibited by means of suitable performers. The Greek Slave, Adam and Eve, rising from the sea, are rôles for unscientific apprentices at the business. Practised performers are capab eof much more interesting exibitions than these solo delineations.. Such larger tableaux as well, say, for instance--John rigning Magna Charta at Runnymede, or the landing of the Pil- grim Fathers, and other scenes that may suggest themselves, arecapablent admirable reproduction by means of evidently living models. The moral effect of this branch of art may be questioned band it may well be urged in terms of an ́by sore intensely good people, but on the other, antediluvian chestnut, that "to the pure all things are pure"-even the performers in in poses plastiques. This plea does not avail much with the police, and consequently this branch of art has especially of late years-been studied mainly in very exclusive have been, perhaps unworthily, discredited in and high-toned West End clubs, P. p. popular ca imation by reason of the fact that Britain's aristocracy have been the chief pro- moters of such exhibitions! vulgar people are

1. Perfect rest and quiet and complete re- wont to become prejudiced against any amuse-moval from and change of ordinary occupation ment reserved to the nobility, but enquiry would and way of life; a very thorough change of scene, and perfect and enforced rest from both mental probably prove that a base and despicable envy

and the great amount of sunshine to be enjoyed. the subject from an Antipodean range, we are able, in an unprejudiced style, to declare that It is quite possible, under favorable circum Bristocrats who are accustomed to view them, and whenever it is possible the traveller by sea is certain to endeavor to escape from the close and You can't degrade some people anyhow, any

sometimes unpleasant atmosphere of a small more than you can spoil election eggs.

cabin into the paire air, to be found on deck 3. The great purity of the air at sea and its entire freedom from organic dust and other impurities. In this respect it has an. he latter is apt to contain the pollen of grasics advantage over the air of the open country, for and other plants, which, in some persona ex- cites hay fever and asthina. The air of the cabins may, of course, be contaminated, but the air of the open sea is probably the pureet that can be found anywhere. 4. The presence in sea air of a large amount of ozone as well as

stormy weather from the sea spray, and these may exercise a beneficial effect in certain throat and pulmonary affections on the respiratory mucous, membrane. 5. The great equability of the tem perature at sea. This refers chiefly to the daily

"His honour noted fe dishonour stands,

And fail unfaithfid keeps I falsely true. Suppose the average barrister (I say averago, for there may be, and perhaps are, exceptions, which prove the rule), confronted with the choice of two cases.. In the one be is offered a merely PARIS, April 9th.

nominal fee for the work of freeing an honest The French Cabinet have decided to release man from some degrading charge-in the other the Duke of Orleans shortly.

a large reward to defend a palpable rogue, BERLIN, April 9th

whose continued impunity, may be as grave Crispi will meet in summer, probably, in the

General de Capriví, Count Kalnoky and Signora menace to the public weal as you may Austrian Territory,

choose to fancy. Which would he accept? For my own part I can conceive no meaner trade than that which dally presents so terrible a cboice-none more inimical to the generosity and love of right for its own sake which are the bases of the character of a gentleman. It is no argument against the ground I take that in the legal k owledge, all his eloquence and keenness main justice is served, that by bringing all his to the service of fraud, a barrister commits no wrong against society. That is by no fault, nor / moral condition of a man who can embrace a profession which must abolish, or gravely pervert,

·THE ADVANTAGES OF A SEA VOYAGE.

foreigners of an intolerable nuisance. Apropos of the way in which counsel identify themselves with their clients, an enthusiastic juryman once said of the late. Sir Alexander Cockburn, who was a great counsel and leader of the Common Law Bir in England 40 years age: In these days I have heard Sir Alexander in pretty nearly every part. I have heard him as an old man and a young woman; I have heard him when he has been a ship run down at sea, and he has been an oil-factory in a state of conflagration; once, when I was foreman of a jury, I saw him poison bis intimate friend, and another lima be did the part of a pious bank- director in a fashion which' would have skinned the eyelids of Exeter Hall; he ain't bad as a desolate widow with nine children, of which the eldest is under eight years of age, but if ever I is accountable for the popular blas. Scanning and physical labor. z. The life in the open air virtue, of his. My concern is purely with the have to listen to him again I should like to hear been seduced by an officer in the Guards. QUEEN VICTORIA and her numerous army of descendants are just now gnashing their royal tusks, and making use of much strong Teutonic language on behalf of dear Alfred, a careful middle-aged person commonly known as the Duke of Edinburgh. It seems that, at Bismarck's suggestion, the Emperor of Germany has decided to absorb the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha into bis dominions directly the reigning Grand-Duke bas shuffled off bis mortal spoil, notwithstanding that the aforesaid Alfred stands in the relation of the Lord's Anointed Apparent to the district above mentioned. In brief, it is considered that Alfred's Imperial nephew is about to chouts him

No Credit given for bottles that look dirty THE C-cert and assault at arms to be given in him as a young lady of good connection who has poses platigues are not capable of degrading the stances, to pass filteen hours daily in the open air, | the moral sense of these who practise it,

or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such battles are never used again by us.

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A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED, Ilongkong, China, and Manila.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1870.

the City Hall theatre to morrow evening, by the musical and athletic boys of the gist, should be success. In the first place it is under the Administrator's patronage; in the second the object is most laudable-being the provision of a small shantorium a the Peak for the women and children of the Regiment-and thirdly, the programme is well worth, the money..

track promptly, and as the widower had

out of the heritage which Providence, in its infi-

LATE TELEGRAMS.

ADEN, April 3rd. Prince Albert Victor has arrived here and has at ance proceeded in the Ocenen.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 3rd. The disturbance among the University students are calming down after the wholesale orrests that have ben made. Continual alter. cation are taking place. between the aludents and the carator, the professors supporting the

students. The movement is partly polition, but

principally directed against the reactionary and arbitrary statutes.

LONDON, April 3rd.

Emin has scattered, broadcast among the

of particles of saline matter, more particularly in

The license of open insult or of insolent in- tion amounts, in my mind, to a positive blot nuendo permitted to counsel in cross-examina-

aften indignantly wondered that judges, who, upon our system of jurisprudence; and I have having in their time practised every trick in the

know how futile they are to the fulfilment of learned and practised-and who must needs bag-very poor tricks they are, and very easily

rebuke the brutalities of barristers in the per- any interest of justice, do not more frequently formance of this very doubtful part of their very dubious duty. It is not an improving spectacle to see an honest but stupid witness-not infrequently a woman or a young girl, whose

position in the witness-box, under a crowd of curious eyes, is a sufficient trial to her timidity and inexperience-badgered and baited by a practised and shameless tormentor, whom her defencelessness moves, not to pity, but to an added sense of his impunity in insult. The intelligent or over, kindly, as a rule, and I have regular habitud of the law courts is not over, seen the successive guffaws of an idle crowd at the expense of some poor bewildered woman in the hands of a practised torturer stab the poor crea= are like so many blows with a knife. Not that the counsel always gets the best of l I have often seen the current of laughter change with ludicrous suddenness, An English crowd, from whatever rank in life its items may be drawn, Is right-minded in the main, though often brutal from sheer stupidity, and when the trodden worm doca contrive to turn with any effect; In

applause of the discomfited forensic gladiator.

A MYSTERIOUS affair is being investigated by Inspictor Mathieson, in his province of Yaumati, Yesterday a middle-aged rope maker reported that his wife was, dead, and got a burial order. He either thought that formality sufficicot, or else he lost the corpse, for he did not bury his decensed affinity. Mathieson got on his THE painful scene which was enacted in the Supreme Court yesterday, when a no explanation to give, or any remains nite mercy, did set aside for Albert the Good's young employé of the New Oriental Bank charged before Mr. Robinson, this morning, on Gotha are not especially grieved at the prospect to point the finger of innocence at, he was second son. The inhabitants of Saxe-Coburg- Corporation was sentenced to three years' enspicion, with murdering his wife. The case of having no more dukes, but the Victoria Regina hard labor for embezzlement, conveyed was remanded, that the palice might silk shafts crowd naturally object to Alfred's anticipated Arabs of Zanzibar a notice vehemently disavow-variations, which rarely exceed 4 deg, or s deg in likely places, in search of the vanished hand. kingdom being rudely chawed up by this other ing any connection with Stanley's suit against Fahrenbelt. It must be noted, as we shall see, --or ought to have conveyed-a sterṇ

Anglo-German. As for Alfred himseif his grief | Tippos Tib. It is reported that Major Wiesmann lesson to many other young men in this M. GOUDERT, the celebrated engineer, and inven. it too deep for words. He had formed a thrifty is negotiating with Tippoo. The English, press presently that in a long sex voyage very cons colony The case was one the details Minister of Marine to build half a dose boats

lor of submarine boats, proposed to the French scheme for lending out the Saxe-Coburg revenues attack Emin, Pasha for his ingratitude, and warn

derable variations of temperature are encountered and in a swift steamer the transitions are to Tummy, Teck, Battenberg and Co, at 69 per the British East African Company to be on the of which never really became public, but for the passenger traffic between Dover and sent, payable in advance and now his perfidious alert.

somewhat sudden. 6. The great humidity the counts of the amended indictment made Colais and to establish a regular service for the nephew will devote uncle's sugar to buying more

CAIRO, April 3rd..

of the atmosphere and the high barometric The French Government is sending a favour-pressure, which are considered to exercise. A it clear that the defalcations amounted to Minister declined on the ground of the danger of hoped from Tummy's special mission to Berlin able reply regarding the question of the conver use of people who dreaded seasickness. The gunpowder and spiked helmets. No good is

useful sedative influence on certain constitutions. quite $50,000 irrespective of the loss smothering the passengers, whereupon Goubert with a view to remonstrating against the Em- sion of Preference Stock. Tigrane Pasha and It is said that the temperature of the body, aver sustained through the late compradore's led to arrange with the finish Government; peror's land-grab, but the Archbishop of Canter. Mr. Palmer, the financial advisers to the Egyptian ages i deg. Fahrenheit less on account of this which, being apposed to tunnels, bridges, and bury has ordered his Church to pray for the Goverment, are proceeding to Paris to arrange effect of rapid motion through the air; for by the sedative effect. 7. The exhilarating and tonic peculations, But the suggestion was submarine boats, for fear of spoiling the isolation Royal Family rather harder than usual, under the details of the conversion,

continuous progress of the ship the sea thrown out by the prosecution that the of England, refused, but said there would be no which circumstances it is expected that the Lord The membership of the Khedivial Geogra breezes are constantly blowing over it, and the not slow to show the contempt which underlies

phical Society was to-day conferred on Stanley embezzlement was the consequence of a objection to a summer balloon service between will provide. the countries.

In the presence of the Minister, Sir Evelyn Bar-air without any exertion of their own. The in-One care. I remember in, especial. It was in a passengers are borse through the rapidly moving series of speculations on the stock market, CONSIDERING the smallness of the European.H.M.S. Swift and Garrison Club was brought ing, foreign Consula, and Generals Grenfell and fluence of these currents of air on the sur- provincial law court. Serjeant Burfor had under

A RIFLE shooting match between terins; from a suggestion most injurious to the broker population In Hongkong there are a very fair to an issue at Kowloon yesterday, resulting in fraternity, If true. But leading brokers number of criminals-real criminals, as distin an easy victory for H.M.S. Swiff by 44 points.. men who would certainly have known guished from mere sbatterers of the peace or the The arrangements were 10 men aside, seven peace-officers. Joseph da Cruz, who is serving shots each at 200, 400, and 500 yards, under the utterlydiscredit this allegation, asserting ten years for his complicity in the Beltran for usual conditions as to targets, scoring etc. Last that he could never have "dropped" any who also made a mistake about a cheques won by-11 points. Much rain fell during the gery in 1886; de Campos, another forger; Kosca, year under similar conditions the Garrison Club thing like the amount mentioned without Watson, once waid master at the Civil Hospital; afternoon, and the wind and light were both being avery marked manon the Rialto long Popoff, the yacht owner and #Nihilist and puzzling, Lieut Carlyle for the Garrison and F. ago. The probabilities are a great deal Hoare, of Shanghai, are among the company Moody, (and yeoman of signals) for the winners, Gray will meet. Six months shot drill, thenoakum headed the scores with 91 each. A very pleasant stronger that Gray was wrecked on a much picking, with a hope of being allowed to clean afternoon was spent, Mr. May, R.N., and Garrison more dangerous rock-that of actual gam-door-steps, or even elevated to the printing Sergi Major Meredith, caplains ofthe teams, being

heartily cheered. The scores werd bee bling; for he is known to have been a familiar figure at the "heils" in Kowloon A YANKEE colleague, moralizing on the fre City, and to have lost heavily on several quency of divorce in his State, has come to the conclusion that cold feet cause it. He says Man occasions, We have so frequently gets into bed in a brace of shakes, and having denounced share speculation as rank established a decently permanent reservoir of calerie between the sheets during the half hour gambling that our severer strictures on that Julia Maria consumes in accing to things" the open game of po-tse perhaps require round the bedroom, is horrified by the and- den irruption of a mass of frozen linen and explanation. Our meaning is this the icy contact of a pair of soles with the Hongkong is a Colony in which many most tender portion of his spins, accom- young men hold very responsible posi-panied by a shivering cry of "So cold, George I" that freezes all sleep out of a fellow for the next

office, has been their lot.

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tions. Any weak resolve on their part to three hours, and sends Cupid flying through the Laut Carly risk the hazard of the share-market window with the souffles. A fire in the bed- Sergt. Matoe

Barg could not fail to be detected before much room, and a judicious warm in front thereof, is Ser Mentor

the least lovely woman owes to her lord and Color Borge, 0, Laquy damage had been done to their employers' master in the winter. Then she may soothe himmler Kaight

Color Bergt. interestt. But the confidence of capitalists to sleep with the rustle of her curl-papers and Samar Serg! Major or corporations in the stability of their having duly completed her search for robbers Sergt. Omroyde under the bed, jala bim, in wifely confidence that Color Bergt, Wor junior servants receives a severe shock her proximity will not make an iceberg of him,

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LONDON, April 4th. The Marquis of Normanby.is dead. had signed an irade ratifying Sir H: D, Wolf's The statement of The Timer, that the Sultan Egyptian Convection, is not true. It arose from the Sultan's signing an frade empowering the Porte to renew neg-tiations in London for the conclusion of a convention based upon the with- drawal of the British forces from E.ypt.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 4th,

face of the body is no doubt important, cross-examination a pretty, modest little country acting as a stimulant and a tonic, increasing servant girl of sixteen or so, obviously truthful a-d honest, tremulously respectful of the vague these influences must be added, in the ease interest represented by the learned gentle evaporation from the skin and impacting majesty of the law, but not friendly to the tone to the superficial blood vessels. · To- of long sea voyages, the Invigorating effect of man. Her evidence, if unshaken, was-fatal the changes of climate experienced in passing to his cas, and he worried and insulted her on through the different regions of the ocean. It bekalf of his client as, venture to hope, no enonot, however, be doubled that, although this man claiming to be thought a gentleman Could may have a bracing effect on many, it is often worry or insult any woman or man eitherfor any mere personal advantage. The onlookers sensitive of Burney Yeo,

The Tear is greatly incensed at the dis. felt to act in furiously by the more serious and laughed and niggered in huge enjoyment, when

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students, and threatens to close all the higher educational institutes for a year. The students assembled on Tuesday at the Unversity and wards yards, yards Total rang the national anthom in order to testify that

the agitation was non-political,

I may as well'slate at starting that my belief The Tsar has had a relapse, and is again in the impossibility of any Individual combining suffering severely, from Influenza, though his the charactzifstics connoted by the title of this condition is not considered serious.. It is asserted article is not the result of any loss or suffering that His Majesty has announced his intention of | frgleted ofps me personally by any member of spending Easter at Gatchina owing to a number 110 forinti p plussion. My fines have fallen in of explosives having been found within the many curious places, but some strange and precincts of the palace. CARIO, April 4th.

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Stanley will leave here for Brussels on Mon. Total day next..

ZANZIBAR, April 4th, Colonel Euan-Smith fa extremely unwell from overwork, and has sailed for Mombasa for a change, enga

The boats of H.MS, Conguest have captured eighty slaves off Pemba, Su

LONDON, April sih, Mr. Walsham, the British Minister at Peking, has signed convention with the Chinese

endurance, turned to the judge, and, with a fanny rustic curtsey, asked, "Please, my lord, can't you tell me how to stop this gentleman's impudence The Homeric roar of laughter which followed this quaint appeal discomfitted the learned serjeant so completely that his lord. ship's recommendation to him to pursue milder tactics was hardly needed.net Photogr

All barristers are not so bad as Seifcunt. Buzfuz, and some are careful to show as much gentlemanly feeling as their so-called "duty to beneficent fatality has hitherto preserved me their clients will permit. But these are not the from any dealings with barristers ar barristers, most successful, I fear, for in such a profession I have never beencriminally or civilly prosecuted, the great prizes naturally fall to those who show I have never eat on a jury dramacked calf least pity for their victims, and are most resolved skin" as a witness. But let not my reader at all costs to courtesy and gentleness," to make conclude from this disclaimer that the philosophic the worse appear the better cause. Even when spirit in which I approach my subject is the out-, a barrister lends his best powers to the service of come of ignorance. Qui quid agent homines, Fruth and Justice, the sense that be is paid to do his is my device, and to a student of mankind the plain duty, and would not doit were he not paida kaleidoscopic battle of the law courts offers a day, would, for a sufficient fee, fight assbly and as perennial interest, whether the matter in dispute fiercely on the able of wrong, cannot but intinde: be a human life, or a five-pound note. In the Itself. We should look back with-more of awe cramped arend of the Central Criminal Court, and reverence to that gigantic figure of Henry