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MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

The Longkong Telegraph.

N. 2607. The Hongkong Telegraph

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1890.

THE STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

criticism.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1890,

strongly recommended that expert must on a paving stone; the King can force have incurred some amount of responsi- her way through a foot and a half of mud, bility! And who was the business genius where the Hengshan would get helplessly who paid this man WALKER two hundred and hopelessly stuck. The Secretary and fifty guineas of the shareholders' was perfectly correct in attributing the money before the work was completed, excessive draught of the Heungshan or any proof tendered that it had been to her heavy top hamper, and there can supervised satisfactorily or otherwise? And be no doubt that such a vessel would who authorised the payment in full to the turn over in a sen-way unless she builders of the Heungshan, before that had a grip on the water; but he did steamer had been properly tested? Are not tell us for what purpose such the Directors not responsible to the a heavy and unsightly structure was shareholders for such stupid business considered necessary on a boat running lapsus as these? If they are not, then who between here and Macao. It appears to is? WALKER, of course! A scapegoat us to be utterly useless. All the same, we must be found somewhere.

consider the Feungshan, ghastly failure as she has proved for the purpose for which she was specially designed (?) and constructed. well adapted in most respects, either for the Pearl river or the Yangtze, and no advisable to place her on the Canton day service, sending the Honam to Macao.

Several other matters transpired at the we shall take an early opportunity of meeting which fairly invite comment, and dealing critically with them?

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TELEGRAMS

(Special to Hongkong Telegraph.) KOREA.

MR. BLAINE DEFIANT.

SEOUL, July 25th

A great commotion has been created here by the appointment of the anti-English Dr. H. N. Allen-by expres desire of Mr. J. G. Blaine a Chief Secretary of the United Sales Legation in this city. This appointment is considered in

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THE bull, machinery and cargo of the steamship RAILWAY enterprise is very much alive in Yangisse were sold to a Chinese bidder ate quin, 2,400 tons of material were to arrive the Shanghai last week for Tls, 1,720.

her day, for installation at Seven Pagodas.

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Directors of the Shanghai and Hongkow Wharf Company have declared an interim dividend of six taels per share, payable on the 6th August.

Ar the Singapore Police Court on the 25 ult. Syed Mahomed Alsagoff was again committed for trial bail being fixed at $20,000, TONQUIN journals report great damage to the crops by the recent floods. At the same time they complain that there is no water to drink! H.M.S.. Firebrand arrived at Shanghai on the 27th ult. from Tientsin, where she has been. detained for so long, from the shoaling of the comparatively amali. river.

THE Kote Shimbun says that 4,805 cases of new tea were shipped for San Francisco, via Yokohama, per the O. & O. Co.'s, steamer Belge on July 13th.

ARMA MR. EDMUND WOODHOUSE, at one time taiton of the Times of Ceylon, has taken rip the s and present proprietor (Hon.J.V. Kennedy) being unable to devote sufficient time, to the.

intime to the proper supervision of the paper.

off with the baker. A Japanese woman of THIS not only takes the cake, but also walks Kumamoto kiss recently gave birth to three children who are so much alike that their mother; has been compelled to make marks on their heads in order to distinguish t'other from which

JAPANESE native paper says that owing to the Cholcia: epidemic in Nagasaki, the number of visitors to Japan this year from Hongkong, Shanghai, Saigon, and other Oriental ports, is

THE steamship Siam, which arrived in Singapore on the 23rd July from home, is another new local steamer. She was brought out by Mr. Tulloch and will run between Singapore and China ports. She has been built in Sunderland to the order of Mr. Tan Kim Ching, and is much inrger than

the steamship Singapore of the same line.

field at Penang, the representatives of the 58th severe defeat at the Regiment suffered a ! hands of the Perak local eleven. Perak in one

the second 66, Perak thus winning by an innings innings complied a total of 127 runs, while the 58th in their first attempt only made 36 and in and 25 ms.

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THE Peking correspondent of the Shanghai Mercury writes under date the 7th ulto.:-The

SIX DOLLARS PER QUARTER

THE Aborigines in North Formosa are agalu on he war-path, and a large Chinese force, under the command of General Li, is operating against

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THE foreign engineers recently commissioned provinces, to examine the iron mines in the y Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy of the Hu-kuang fa-yao district, have sent his Excellency, a most favorable repart.

CHE German stealher Hesperia, which arrived rom Kobe on the rst inst, reports that after leaving on the seth ult., whilst in Van Dieman. Straits, she experienced the tail-end of a typhoon. She reports no damage, 1

TRIAL shipment of West Australian, bullocks has been received in Singapore with a view to improving the local beef supply. The animals had a good rest after the voyage and got into fine slaughtering condition.

NEWS reached Singapore the other week by private fetter from Sandakan that Mr. W. Flint, con

rumours, is actually dead. It turns out, however, that he was not murdered, but died of fever up-

that a case of Asiatic cholera occurred on board country after visiting the Dutch frontier.

THE N. C. Daily News of the 30th ulto, reports

the W. Cores de Vries on her way up to Hankow. July, and before she reached Kiukiang the second The vessel left Shanghal on Saturday, the 26th engineer, Mr. G. Holmes, was attacked by the

It appears that there are three Municipal Jehol Silver Mines, which are under the super- disease and died on the Monday night. ~

candidates for the office of speaker in the Japanese House of Commons-Mears. Mutaw Manemitsu, Kusumoto Masataka and Nakajima Nobuyuki A Kobe native paper naively remarks that the last named gentleman is supported by the Koshin Club, and he is very confident of success, and so also are the others.

intendence of Mr. Church, at present in Japan, have been transferred from Tantal Chiu to Mr. Tong King Sing, which amounts to turning over the concern to the Kaiping Mining Company The latter will repay the Viceroy Li Hudg.chang the Tis. 150,000 which he advanced in connec tion with the Jehel mines. A late manager of the China Merchants' S. N. Co., it is said, will and take charge of the mine.

It has been painfully apparent for some time past that the Hon. PHINKAS RYBIE has lost that firm grip of business management for which he was so justly noted a few short years ago. On Friday last, in his capacity of Chairman of the Steamboat Company, his remarks to the shareholders, although in some respects sensible and to the point, evidenced the most superficial knowledge of the important matters he was endeavoring to explain, and suggested that the information it was the duty of the Directors to afford, America is undoubtedly hand-lb-glove with considered its policy menacing to the peace of day. were attacked by cholera on the night of of the Southern Fleet. This dock was commenced

A JAPANESE native paper, the Osaka Mainicht broke out in Nagasaki; carbonic acid rose in Shimbun, says that when the cholera epidemic price to $75 per 100 pounds. It has now resumed its oldinary price, adds our contem porary, because Mr. Nakabama, who has just returned from abroad, states that common lime,

14. which is very cheap, is as efficient a disinfectant as carbonic acid.

THE Chinese Government would appear to have

Foochow for the accommodation of the vessels

years ago, but the work came to a standstill for lack of funds not uncommon occurrence in Chinese official enterprises. However, the

The half-yearly meetings of shareholders in the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company, Limited, have rarely failed to providesome kind of entertainment. for the outside public, and the periodical gathering of the clans on Friday last proved no exception to the general rule.

When Mr. RYRIR asserted that the A wild descent from high tragedy to humorous farce has long been recognised Heungshan was "to look at and go over, as quite an easy accomplishment for the splendid vessel," and in other respects, ante-diluvian Directors of this popular according to experts, most suitable for the local enterprise especially while to about what he evidently knew, nothing, local enterprise-especially as the share- | Hongkong-Macao trade, he was talking | doubt the .Directors Will soon find it editorship of the Penang Gasette, the late editor UNOTWITHSTANDING their prowess in the cricket cerning whom there have been such contradictory attend these meetings are mainly the In outward appearance the Heungshan abject followers of a certain all-powerful resembles a huge, floating tank, and she member of the Board and are ready and all over that ever came into Hongkong is about the most roughly finished vessel willing at all times to obey his every waters. As tolher alleged suitability for behest-and usually excites grim laughter the Macao line, Mr. Raig's "experts" amongst business men; but the proceedings at the latest exhibition were in some notwithstanding, she is simply a mon- respects of so singular a character as strosity that will give no end of trouble, to specially invite public comment and, causing dally annoyance and inconvenience to passengers and shippers by her fearful rolling in the slightest swell and her inability to enter Macao harbour at low tides. The designer of the Heungshan must have taken Noah's Ark for his model ofthis latest thing in modern riversteamers, One prominent feature of the proceedings under review was, what we are bound to regard as the gratuitous and altogether unjustified interference of Mr. Tuos. ARNOLD, the Company's paid Secretary. Any information required by the meeting on which his statements were based had as they and they alone are responsible been supplied with but little regard for to the shareholders. It will be remembered substantial accurac, The falling off in that in the cause cllèbre, Fraser-Smith & the Company's earnings, in face of an The Steamboat Co., the defence raised by opposition that for months past has dally the Company was that the Secretary was been increasing in strength and popularity, "a mere scribe" who had no authority was only what might reasonably have been whatever, and the then Chairman, Mr. expected; but it is pertinent to remark here E. R. BELILIOS, actually went into the that the Directors' report gives no definite witness-box and swore to the same effect. information whatever as to the extent or And yet Mr. BELILIOS and his co-directors character of the decrease in the returns, sat quietly last Friday and allowed

" mere scribe" We search the summary of accounts in the

to assume the vain for any entry of the grass earnings of authority and carry out the functions the Company's steamers during the half-of the Chairman of the Board. year, although these are the only figures that could enlighten the shareholders as to how much the actual earnings had fallen off and the running "expenses increased, the only figures on which anything like a rellable estimate of the work done, the efficiency of the management, and the prospects of the Company could be fairly calculated. It would seem to the Directors and the Auditors that it is quite enough for the shareholders if the Profit and Loss account merely shows the net earnings and the Interest on investments, leaving all detalls as to the actual working of the Company as much out of sight as If no accounts were published at all. No doubt, as Mr. RyaIz stated, trade even on the Canton river has been compara- tively dull; although we have not heard that the passenger traffic has materially

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diplomatic circles to be an act of defiance on the part of the United States Government, as protest against Chinese Claims to suzerain rights over this peninsula and as an indication that Russia in her anti-Anglo-Chinese policy. [Dr. H. N. Allen was Secretary of the Korean Legation in Washington from 1887 10 1859. prior to which he was chief of the American Methodist Missionary Society in Korea. From time to time he has shown himself a strong partisan of Russia in the Korean political arena.-ED., II. K. Telegraph.)

HERE is another instance of that greatly vaunted Japane e freedom of which we hear so much. The publication of a Tokio paper, the Ckoya Shimbun, has been suspended by the Hofae Minister on the ground that the authorities the country, The stability of the enlightened government of Japan can be accurately estimated from this exhibition of feeble tyranny, Tax Financier describes Mr. H. M. Becher, the Punjem Company's gas-bag manager, as the great mining authority of the Malay Peninsula. This Is rating friend Becher very high. If the mining prospects of the Malay Peninsula rested on no better a security than the authoritative statements of Mr. Becher, we should regard the prospects of the Panjom Company and other H.MS. Rattler arrived at Yokohama on the similar enterprises as next door to hopeless. Becher, it le quite evident, is better known and 25th ulto.

more highly appreciated in China than in London. A

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

THE Austrian corvette Zriny, Captain Khittel, 4 guns, 130 men, arrived at Shanghai on the 28th ult from Singapore.

NEws has been received at the U. S. Consulate, Yokohama, of the loss of the American ship kong. She was wrecked in Apil, last upon a Tewkesbury L. Sweet, from Australia to Hong small island about thirty-eight miles Poulousouk, one of the Caroline Islands, and her crew were at last accounts, still there.

1 may interest students of natural history say the Shanghai Mercury, to know that a small bird, with a taste for legal matters, has built a test on a bush just outside H.B.M.'s Supreme Court, from a number of scraps of paper, includ- ing bite of summons, write and such like documents picked up from the sweepings of the Court.

HMS. Mercury came out of Hunghar Dock yesterday, where she has undergone a slight overhaul preparatory to going north to in the evolutionary squadron in the neighbourhood of Hakidate. The reserve ships-Esk and Tweed are now in dock for the purpose of genera annual overhaul. When they come out a few days bence the Wivern will go round to Hungham

for the same purpose.

THE Kobe Yushin Nippo says: -Cholera has broken out on board the Turkish man-of-wa! Eriqugrout which is now anchored at Yokohama. Two: sailors, who had been on shore the whole at last decided to complete. the new dock at

the 18th ulto, and died about eleven o'clock the same night. This having been reported to the police and the Kanagawa Kencho a consultation was held with the captain with regard to the desirability of cremating the corpses, but as the Turks never burn their dead, it was decided to bury them in the sea, which was done at the Sagami Nada, two miles, from the port. For five days the vessel has been in quarantine, and with the exception of the Captain and four officers no one has been allowed to land.

Tre statistics of the Alice Memorial Hospital for July, are as follows - In-Patients remaining in Hospital on Ást July

In-Patients admitted to Hospital during

July

75

133

THR Shanghat Mercury claims to be informed upon excellent authority that asyndicate of Continental faanciers have tendered to the Chinese Government a loan of Th. 20,000,000 twenty years, at a low rat of interest, with the for a long term, estimated, at from fifteen to condition of supplying railroad material, and also with the hope of having a band in the construc tion of the railways about to be built. A Tientsin correspondent. writing on a later date, says' "The big loan still bangs fire for some reason,In-Patients remaining in Hospital an though there are many anxious negotiators in 1st Augasta the field holding out the most templing baits to Out-Patients, new cases the Government"

Out-Patients, return visits

Total number of In-Patients treated..

Of these there were 1.0" Discharged cured ............. 40 Discharged relieved......

25 Discharged on other grounds....... 4. Died in Hospital

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Total Out-Patients visits

Operations.....................26 Dental cases................. Casualty case....

805 ..1008

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JOHN C. THOMSON, M.A., M.B.,

Superintendent.

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Admiralty Board has suddenly recognised the Viceroy of Fohkien and his provincial colleagues to raise the necessary funds and proceed with the work without delay. His Excellency, in a nemorial to the Throne on the subject, reports that Ths. 60,000 will be forthcoming in two months, so that the completion of the dock may be at last be regarded as within measurable. distance.

mportance of this dock and has instructed the

SIAM Is a funny place. Bangkok boasts of m Lord Mayor-a nobleman of a rich warm tint, about five feet high. And now we read that Capt. Bush, the King's chief marine adviser, in "Sir John," The Bangkok Times says that the barrow-knight, who was in command of 'the Vesairi at the time of her unfortunate accident, arrived in Bangkok from Singapore a few days ago. He entirely attributes the mishap to the native pilot who was on board at the time, The lead, it is said, was constantly kept going and even up till a few seconds before the vessel struck, a depth of 5 wah 2 soks was called, but a few minutes before that the pilot had altered the course and, as a result, the Verntri ran high and dry on the rock which ultimately broke ber to pieces.

.1813 | A MEETING of the members of the Jockey Club was held at noon to-day (2nd Inst.) In the Hongkong Hotel to decide on the number of griffins to be bought for next season. Mr. J. Grant presided, and there was a good attendance The Chairman stated that, as would be seen from the correspon- dence; the Shanghai Horse Bazaar asked the ›same terms as last year, with the same weights and times-viz. $150 each, 1 min, 40 secs, for three-quarters of a mile, ten stono ap. Some one at Tientsin had also tendered, but wanted

A CORRESPONDENT writes from Szechuan to our Shanghai morning contemporary :-The normal quiet of our life in this out-of-the-way corner of the "Far West" is just now a little disturbed by the news from Luipoting, a place some 525 still farther west. It appears that the "Mau-tz from the surrounding bill country have assembled at the city named and begun ravaging the villages and isolated places, owing to a scarcity of food in their own villages. The local authorities at Luipoting were unable to cope with roads to more distant points the difficulties of the situation and are in a state of siege, while are fa the bands of the aborigines. Some three hundred soldiers from the provincial capital have passed through Suifu en route to the "seat-of war," and as many more are to come up from Yllanan. The officials are very strict in regard

$175, which was dear. If the Bazaar's prices were too high, he suggested that Major Tripp and Mr. Hough be asked to try and get better terms. Mr. Sassoon bad offered to supply animals at $125, but they would be discarde from his or other stables-After some general conversation Me. Fraser-Smith proposed that order that the list might be circulated, and the the meeting be adjourned till next Friday, in subscribers decide what to do. At present very few had been asked to subscribe.-Mr. Coxon opposed it, but Mr. J. Andrew seconded, and the motion was agreed to.

certainly surprising that no shareholder thought fit to put Mr. ARNOLD In his proper place and insist on all explanations and other information being given by the Directors, And surely the extreme pitch of irregularity was reached when the Secretary, in reply to a question put to the Chairman as to the repairs to the Eleungshan, actually called upon Mr. GILLIES, Secretary of the Dock Company who was present in his capacity of shareholder, to give information which It was the duty of the Directors to have obtained beforehand. However, it is a. pity that Mr. ARNOLD, when he constituted

MINING in Yunnan province would seem to be himself the mouth-plece of the Chairman,

attaining considerable, importance, although very little reliable news from that locality is did not stick a trifle closer to the truth and

available to foreigners. In a recent issue of the be somewhat less Jesuitical In his replies to questions asked. A shareholder, Mr.

Peking Gazette, Tang Chuing, the Director of the Yunnan Mising department, reports the Ho Turo, wanted to know the cost of the

receipt on account of" Mining Caplial of con- fallen off but if there has been a new steamer, laid down in Hongkong

tributions from the revenues of the following substantial decrease in business, it would harbour. The reply he got was that at a

provinces, viz-Cheklang. Tir 100.000; be interesting to learn why there should meeting held in 1889 It was stated the

Kuangtong. Tis. 50,000; Kiangsu, T18.30,000 also be an increase in the running expenses, vessel would cost £33.950, and that there

Fokien, Tis. 20,000 and Kiangal, Tis. 10,000 in and where it comes in! Mr. RYRIE would be certain expenses connected with

all the sum of Tis. 200,000, which should materially assist Tang Chuing in developing attributed it to the high price of coals, the voyage to Hongkong, about £1,000 Increased wages to the officers of the ships, And then the Secretary added that the SOME time ago, when it was anticipated that the important industry, entrusted to his direction and additional light dues; but when we original cost was £34,000, and there were there would be riots at Wachang owing to the

THE new Seamens' Mission steamer Day Spring consider that coals were much cheaper last the expenses of the voyage and the dock bill Viceroy Chang Chih-tung having ordered a few half-year than during the preceding one, when she arrived--and such cost would not bridges to be pulled down so that they might not was launched from the stocks at Hang ham at that the increase of officers wages amounts exceed what was originally stated. After obstruct the passage of boats with machinery, the half-past nine this morning (and inst; in the to a mere trifle, and that the light dues this statement, Mr. ARNOLD admitted that Viceroy hastily sent for his gunboat, then at presence of a good number of visitors, including Shanghai, and which came up with him from the Hin. JJ. Keswick and Mis, Keswick are an unknown quantity, the honourable 8240,497 had been paid on account of the Canton to proceed at once to Wachang to Bishop Bardon and, Mrs. Burdos, Rev. A. G. gentleman's reasons must be regarded as Heungshan, and that amount appears in the overawe the people. The trouble is now all over Goldsmith, clc, and a sprinkling of ladies: Insufficient and unsatisfactory. And it is summary of accounts; he further stated and the gunboat returned to Shanghai last week, missionaries, and the general public. After short: address by: Bishop: Burdon, in which be just as well to point out with regard to the that the money had been remitted at light dues, that the Chairman was very "what We thought at the time was a good ALEXANDER LESLIE, private in the Argyll and said that the launch, had only cost about $4,500

the other week, as follows:-My attention has wide of the mark when he stated that the rate, 3/2d." Now, when the Secretary Sutherland Highlanders, was brought before Moving to Nes Giles having liberally deducted to these "Mau-tz" districts and have prohibited «QUIs wrote from Saigon to the Straits Times,

Wodehouse at the Police Court this morning (and god deal from the original estimates, a foreigners from entering them, as far as they can Company's night steamers made no use was so communicative as to what we"

In all other respects we move freely and been lately very much attracted by the perusal religious service was gone through without do so whatever of any of the Hongkong lights; thought and what "we" did, why did he inst.), and charged with wilfully and maliciously a hitch from start to finish, at the close of which quietly with little to vary the monotony of our

causing the death of a punksh coolle, named Mrs. Keswick stepped forward and Grace isolated life. Mr. Fratt and his colleague passed of two entire columus of your valuable issue of es a matter of fact Green Island light is not give some explanation regarding the Wong A Cho. yesterday afternoon, by kicking fully broke a bottle of Adam's ale over the through Suifu a few days since on their, way to July the 9th under the heading "Protection of women and girls," as to the proposed Ordinance constantly made use of by the Powan, difference between the original cost of the him in the abdomen on the 31st ultimo. At the little/vessel's bow with a benediction. The Dry Tachlenlu, Having made a pleasant run from in Hongkong on Chinese marriages, · That is a Fatthan, and Krung-chow, and we quite fail Heungahan, including expenses of voyage request of Inspector, Swanston the case was

ft, lative body to solve.. I have carefully perused to see why, if other steamers have to pay out and her dock bill, say £35,000, which remanded until Monday Mr. Wadehouse took Spring, after some delay, slid down the ways into Ichang. A rival boat, in charge of a native, very difficult and dellcate question for any legis light dues, the vessels of the Steamboat sum he said would not be exceeded, and the the deceased's depositions yesterday afternoon the briny deep. She will soon be running around: followed soon after, also bound westward.

every word of the two aforesaid columos, and as the barbour carrying the glad tidlugs to those Company should be exempted...

8240,497 already paid on account of the at the Civil Hospital, shortly before the man who "gh down to the sex in ships" and who, as THE composite screw steamship Petrel, built by far as I have been able, I have also carefully the paulinist says, “ reel to and fro, and stagger: the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Company, weighed and compared the oplatons of different It was, of course, anticipated that purchase In round numbers £35,000 passed over to the great majority," something would be said about the at 3/2d. are equal to zar,053 And INs memorial to the Throne, published in the like a drunken man; and are at their wits end." Limited, for the British North Borneo Govern: persons, and I maut say that my general Heungahan, the specially designed new this amount deducted from 3240.497, Peking Gorette of June 24th, Ch'asig! Yo, the first timent, went on her trial trip last Saturday. She conclusion is that all those who appear to steamer for the Hongkong Canton route, leaves a balance of 819.444. about which late Hoppo of Canton, reports the amount of THE following extract from the letter of an eye is one of the prettiest models set turned out by be striving to settle this arduous affair and in view of the generally recognised not a single word of explanation was dules collected and banded over to his successor witneau (a missionary) appears In the Chines our local John Elders and will leave for Sands appear to me to be terribly at sixes fact that the vessel is a hideous failure so vouchsafeds It would be interesting to Koung Ying, embracing the revenues of the Times in reference to the recent ore at Kiring kan in the course of a few days, under com and sevens with the proper ways- and Foreign and Native, Custom-Houses at Canton, Ati Kirin we had some difficulties in getting hand of Captain Sturdee, harbour master of the means. Why do not these earnest people in the far as Macao is concerned and has already know who was Mr. ARNOLD's authority Swatow, Kiungchow and Pakhol during the an inn, as the innkeepers are afraid to put up port of Sandakan. The Petrel's dimensions are first place carefully study Sir George Staunton's in broken down owing to defective bollers, for, the ridiculous assertion that a deep, periods from 1st Oct to-17th Dec, and from 20th foreigners, one leading official and the raids feet between perpendiculars, 17 ft. beam and translations of the laws of marriage, divorce, and dr excuses were looked for. But nobody draught is a necessity, for steering a Oct to 17th Dec, respectively. From these it are hostiler we drove in and secured room; 9 ft. 6las. depth of hold... Her cabin, which is on adoption in Chins, and, that done and thoroughly could have expected such a deplorable | vessel! We were always under the appears that the Native Customs receipts during the innkeeper made great apologies afterwards the forward deck, is fitted upto the most luxurious digested, why do they not carefully read and admission of gross incapacity, or utter Impression, that it was the rudder and the period in question, 20th Oct. 16, 17th Dec, Beard that he had been scolded by wygma style for the accommodation of the Governor of study the French translations of the same laws varmeplatesy w runner for keeping us We went the Borneo and his suite: The Petrel is schooner with that of numberless notes: bearing on the carelessness on the part of the Board of not the draught of water that controlled were as follows:

..Tie £5.400.7.2.9.

streets and had nice time), with quiet rigged, and carries an unusual spread of canvas, matter, by M. P. Philatre, formerly Chief Com Directors. The defective bollers," said the steering, and that where any difficulty

ales and generally we found good feeling capable of driving her at the rate of seven lenots missioner for native affairs in Saigon make the Chairman, are not the fault of your in that respect existed. It was met

prevailing toward us. On the second morning per hour through the water without id of steam. bold to say that the inquirers would find within Directors, because they paid a gentle by Increasing the size of the rudder and

#gwe again had good sales at Boon fire Her englues are of the triple expansion, surface the scope of the two above mentioned works all occurred and drove us out of our lun, which was condensing type, which develope ago horse the Information they require but they must man, Mr. WALKER, who was strongly not by putting the ship down an extra foot recommended by a leading person in this in the water, And who told Mr. ARNOLD BANK Holiday on that popular resort the Hotel burnt quickly after we left. We got off all safely power under pressure of 130 lbs of steam. On bear in mind that it would taks one thoroughly colony.in shipping matters, a very hand- that only once a fortnight would there Marina was an Arctic frost. All day long the and made for an inn 20 // distant. At night, Kirin her trial the exceeded all expectations by flying conversant with the English and French sonte sum to supervise the fitting of the be any difficulty in the Heungshan getting launch was busy conveying thirata incarnate seemed like fornace and my kelpers wished along at a decimal over the rate of ta koots per languages and Chinese characters at least two aboard, and-barring the popularity of the place to know if it was anything like Sodom I burnt hoor Animportant feature about this handy years to master the whole of the sail engines and boilers, but we have into Macao? And who told him that with oleaginous Chinese they found where a patch of houses, about a mile by half a mile ittle steals her armament a long-range information. I venture to affirm that the per- discovered since that he did not supervise the Kuliang's draught of water was withal to quench themselves. Towards sun. We reinened next day and found the telegraph Nordenfeldt gan on the bow and steel haps astonishing precept no polygamy allowed was a most the supervising about inaine, the

to down's portion of the Band of the grat High engineer hetely deduced breadth of the Clear Empre was of a most perfunctory character, and nights running, the week prior to landers commenced an attractive programme, myself, completely burnt out The Governor and funnel give her a very smart and Imposing will be deduced from a careful search of the therefore we find that the vessel has to be her going to dock, the Heungshan could which the audience of soma hundreds of General's palace was also burnt Some of the appearance: It is probable that tipon arrival at above laws and edicts. The condile put into dock because the boilers are bad. not enter Macao harbour until from 6.30 persons highly appreciated. As the dinner-hour sights were awful Outside the city widelice Sandakan the Patrel's name will be changed, remalus always, during the life of the first and If the Directors are not in fault for the bad to 8.30 p.m., and it, will be the same pproached there was a general exodus on the several heads of robbers who had been beheaded to Alang, which is the Malasyncbym, Mr. principal wife, the subordinate helpmate of the boilers, would it not have been just as well throughout the summer months at low, part of the wlier majority, but somewhere about before the fire fit is said that during the last Mayne; late chief engineer of the Bitish steam first, because she must be accepted by the first a hundred remained to ample the special va year, two thousand heads have been chop-ship Soockow, his been appointed chief of the wife or the marriage is illegal. Some say abo to have stated who was the leading tides. Last Saturday the uklong, with a menu." It was indeed special, with a capital Sped off in Kirin. Though the law is stern, there Piirel and will sall with her for Borneo at the must he chosen by the first wife, others not, on person in this colony in shipping matters fair amount of cargo and about as many Provision had apparently been made for twenty-seem to be no other remely till the gospel end of the week. She is the 767th vessel built the ground that she might and would certainly who recommended Mr.WALKER, the passengers as she is ever likely to carry and the result was the slimmest sprend crer regenerates the heart. At the beginning of the by the Hongkong and Whampos Dock Com clioose a younger sister or first cousin which is gentleman who received the handsome on this lide, was unable to reach the Stenglass and tooth-picks galere, but do Bref seven heads were topped off from menny Ld, who have now other and much larger prohibited by another law. I believe that BOR cumthaw of two hundred and fifty wharf until seven o'clock, and her drauglitimo were left in the cold-h1-19 pretty is hid not much feety the plening her fath the Dock Company bare fuit completed a large legal, if the test of the consent of the first wife chowaot even any ice Naturally, the stelling from Slosses before they were ignited vessels on the stocks. In addition to the Pairal per cent of dothis marriages would be found. guineas for doing nothing, and doing was exactly night jun, The fat-bottomed that very badly If the Directors Hengths, drawing eight and hell fest, neatly struck in consequence And about eleven The Taal of foreigners referred to above stems adim launch, the Dari for Hence, to the were appiled to verify their validity, Thoneta "o'clock the hungriestů addest kinit of mob to be lead of the Russians specially for the orders of the local agents of the Darvel Bay yeuanother clause, that both wives most le babit are not responsible for Mr.WALKER'S has the same effect on the Macae mud let the Marina to seek something "Biom Alling treydiler was several times? takengto be a Rust Plating and Trading Company. The Darve the same house. After all I think that the lase scandalous breaches of trust then that the circular piece of welted leather than music and mponlight!!! But they had paid blad.The Horilog straw bespeaks durrent in will be despatched to her destination by the the Hongkong, leafsluturs meddies with th

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