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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1890.

her maids to fetch her. The Prefect saw her

district, and various rumours are afloat as to In the spring at sowing time the witch goes: what was said at the interview. It is reported round the country everywhere in sea ch of a that the former cited the proverbial philosophy bride. If there be any one that looks at all of his country in the phrase, "When water well then she says she should become the wife: comes, stop it with earth; when rebels come, stop of the Earl, Those unwilling have to buy them with troops" to which the other replied their freedom by much money and get her with the equally conclusive aphorism, "Let water to go elsewhere. But the poor have no help take its course," (jen shui tau liu). Each of but to give up their daughters. The witch set these principles is at different times acted upon up a great Palace on the banks of the river. by the Chinese authorities, so that each may spreads it with carpets and hangs it with claim to have law and precedent on its side. curtains. The Bride is bathed and dressed in The result in the chaos of conflicting interests bridal array and lives in the Palace. Then a lucky which we now witness whenever a flood threatens-day is chosen. A boat of reeds is made, and ou, The great fat is subdivided by lesser banks, that day she enters this boat, and after floating which in past times have been throws up in for some few miles sinks. The people deplore different directions to prevent a partial inunda this expense, and are in dread of their daughters tion from becoming a general one. Whenever being chosen for the Earl of the River, therefore the use of such division banks becomes apparent, they send them'secretly away, and that is why- the same phenomena exhibited at the main bank this city is so empty and de olate." The Pre- are exhibited also at the lesser ones. Those fect asked: "Did you ever have floods here?" who live on the side which is higher are deter-As we sacrifice a bride annually we have, mined to raise the bank, those on the opposte not offended the Earl of the River. Besides tho side are resolved to cut it, and the invariable city is both high and far from the river. We issue is a series of fights, in which the bank is often have d'oughts." The Prefect sai: "As ultimately cut, as it is always easier to destroy the god is protecting you, when you give the than to preserve. If due measures had been taken bride I want to come and send her too and pray by the district magistrates in advance, proclama- for you." When the time came the Elders tions posted, and a small body of say fifty soldiers informed the Prefect. He put a bi- best robes camped at the bank, by the Enhalen official, it and went in person to the river side. All the is thought that all this irregular and wasteful city officers, the Superintendent of Police, and the skirmishing might have been wholly prevented, district chiefs and village leaders were all present. and the ill will also, which is certain to result in as well the people from all quarters far and similar fights and disasters in generations to wide. There were altogether many thousands of come. But each official thinks that he has spectators. The Superinter dent of Police and the enough to do to attend to the countless de facto lenders led the Chief Witch before the Frefect. ills which are forced upon his attention, without Her manners were extremely arrogant. She was going out of his way to prevent others which attended by over twenty young witches richly may not come until he has been transferred to dressed with silks and ornaments all perfumed... some better post. Thus in all departments of the The Prefect said: "May I trouble you, the governmrat, laissez faire" is the real ruler of Chief Witch, to let me see the Bride of the Earl China. To increase the miseries of the poor of the River The old Witch ordered one of people, victims of circumstances, and of such an absence of system, there have been again many new clothes and stockings, but observed that she was not beautiful, but quite ordinary. Then he unusually heavy rains, which, added to all that went before, have made this part of the province sail to the Chief Witch and to the Superinten a wilderness of water. The village in which dent of Police: "The Earl of the River is a these lines are written is at this moment sur noble God. If the bride is not beautiful she rounded with an unbroken sheet of water, flowing wan't do for him. This Bride is common; we with a strong current, and for the past two days will select a better one for bim: May I trouble steadily rising, a part of the time at the rate of the Chief Witch to go and report this from me an inch an hour. Thick carthen ramparts and to the Earl of the River " With this he ordered heavy gates are melted down by its destructive his soldiers to throw the Chief Witch into the course, and the foreign hospital is in danger of river. At this all changed their countenances being put in soak. "Yet all this might at any and were very much alarmed. The Prefect sat time be stopped at once, by letting the unwonted silent for a long time and then said: "The floods down into the under-the-bank" region, Old Witch in incapable of managing his busi- which is already flooded, as above described. But

ness. She has gone to the river this long time and has not returned with any reply. Let one such a disposition of the waters would not suit the villages on the edge of the bank, although of her young witches go after her and tell their land in certain in any event to be fatally her to return quickly and with this the swamped within forty-eight hours, and a little soldiers threw one of them also into the river. more water would make no difference. They But as she too was long returning be sent, one bave closed all the avenues of escape, acting not by one, three of them after the old witch, with on the maxim, "let water take its course," but the same result. Then, the Prefect said: upon the rival aphorism, "when water comes, "These are women and cannot speak properly. stop it with earth Their village is a large May I trouble the Superintendent of Police to one, and ours is small. There is a vivid recollecgo into the river and explain matters clearly to tion of a similar state of things thirty years ago, the Earl." When this officer was about to when our village cut the dyke, and was prose- make excuses the Prefect sternly said: "Go at cuted at law, lost its case, and bad to apologise once and come back to let us know what the by expensive theatricals. Warned by this expe Earl says." Immediately the soldiers on the rience, our village will neither try to let the water right and the left, without letting bim speak, out, nor to stop its arrival, which last could have threw him also into the river. been done by two hours' work of a few men plug- ging up a deep cut, miscalled a road, by which this water is distributed in all directions. To dam it up would be to incur the hostility of those villages which would thus be more deeply drowned, all of which are impressed with the correctness of the axiom, "let water take its course." Our village is connected with nearly all the families in the nearest of these half- drowned villages, by a tangle of marriage alliances, and the Hi-will and lawsuits ture to ensur ale more dreaded than the water, so nothing is done. Other villages, beyond ours, do not, however, take this view of the case and have stopped all the roads, aptly called road gutters, and being thus caught in a pocket are left to soak, until the water subsides, which will not be for at least a month, even if the water does not rise higher, and no more heavy rains follow (both very uncertain conditions, as we are only one-third through the sixth moon). In a perfectly flat country,. It is a matter of constant surprise, whence such torrents of water come. An old course of the Yellow River not far away, is the viaduct through which the floods are destributed, rising till they come to the #highway" from Tientsin to the south, which being lower than any other part of the country, acts as a perfect canal. The country abounds in the deep cuts, just mentioned, once level ronds, and as no one not immediately threatened ever stops these up, no matter what the extent of the flood, each one of them in turn, acts as a small canal to facilitate the distribution of the overflow. By this Judicious means, devastation and nin are brought within the teach of the poorest village, and the richest of them cannot expect to escape. A report is in circulation that a part of the fleads came from the Chao Wang. river, one of the larger escape pipes of the Grand Canal. As there are fish several inches

long in the lakes outside our large gate, this theory assumes a certain plausibility.

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All the onlookers put out their tongues in terror. The Prefect stood looking at the river most earnestly for about two hours without say ing a word. Then he turned round and said: "The Superintendent of Police is too old; we must get his sub-officer and the country chicls." These were so frightened their faces became black with fear, perspiration ran down their cheeks and shoulders. They all fell down on their knees, and knocked their heads against the ground so that the blood covered their faces, and would not get up from their kees. The Governor then said: "Wait a little." All the people trembled with tear. After a pause he said: "The water flows along and never returns, Where is the Earl, who destroys the people's daughters? Your sin is great, and you should give life for life." Then all the people fell on their knees, knocked their heads against the ground and said: "True O Prefect, but it was the Witch who deceived us, not these men." The Pre- fect said: "The Witch is dead. If here- after one says that the Earl wants a wife be shall be middle-man and shall be sent into the river to consult with the Earl" He commanded the officers and country chiefs to refund all the money falsely appropriated to the people, and told the Elders to look for old bachelors and give the wards of the old witch to them for wives. Thus anded witchcraft there. The people have. made the Prefect immortal by their songs of praise to him.-Chinese Timer.

To-day's Advertisements.

NOTICE.

TALEXANDER PALMER MACEWEN in our Firm in Hongkong and China ceased on the 30th June last by mutual consent.

HOLLIDAY, WISE & Co. Hongkong, 3rd September, 1890, [1255

and Responsibility of Mr.

NOTICE HEREBY beg to notify the Public that I have appointed Messrs. EDWARD BENNICHE

The effect of all this upon the average of the crops, can not yet be foreseen, but the special result in limited districts must be great misery. It is remembered with dismay that in the great flood of 1823, the region under The bank was flooded more or less for six years; and most of the population became refugees to more favoured districts. The foods are generally follower in the succeeding season by a plague of grasshoppers, which it is firmly believed, are & BROTHER, No. 35, Great Jones Street, New developed from the spawn of the fishi The York, Sole Agents for the sale of my goods, such Chinese are never logical, and are frequently

11 GINGER, CUMQUATS, LICHEES, Incurious and stolid, but when they do under- SWEETMEATS, cic, in the United States of take to give reasons for phenomena the causes of which are unknown, it will go hard but they will succeed in the attempt.-N. C. Daily Newi.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF THE RIVER.

The cause is the marriage of the Earl of the

the cast.

America..

CHY LOONG, Canton.

Canton, 1st September, 1890.

AN APPEAL.

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HE Superioress of the Italian Convent THE

appeals most respectfully to the charity of the kind public of Hongkong on behalf of the many poor children under her charge. Anything in the way of food, clothing, or medicines, etc., which they could spare, would be received with many thanks. Ladies', gentlemen's or children's

etc., would

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Intimations.

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Hongkong, 30th August, 1890.

MARINE

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HONGKONG.

1

HE Undersigned begs to notify the Public: of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, that T

THE MARINE HOTEL is NOW OPEN. THIS FIRST-CLASS HOTEL is situated on the Praya West, opposite the Old P. & Ö. Wharf, and is newly built after the designs of the Largest European Hotels-the BEDROOMS, BATH-ROOMS, &c, are commodious, well Ventilated and well Furnished, and are suitable for Single or Married Persons. The DINING ROOM is large and looks on the Harbour, The TABLE D'HOTE will be supplied with the best the market can provide. The BAR and BILLIARD ROOMS are on the Ground Floor, and are fitted up in superior style. ENGLISH and AMERICAN TABLES.

WINES and LIQUORS of the best qualities and Brands only will be supplied. The Undersigned therefore begs the patronage of the Fublic, hoping to give every satisfaction,

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THE Third Oulinary Half-yearly MEETING

castoff clothes, cuttings of staff, old shoes, etc.T SHAREHOLDERS will be held at

A few centuries before Christ, at Yeh, there Was a Prefect whose name was Pao Shi-men. When he arrived at his post he found the place desolate and almost deserted. He called the Elders and asked what was the cause of this.

Earl of the River, The Prefect said: "This is a strange thing indeed. How does the Earl

Knowing by experience that she never appealed get married? You may tell all freely to me." In vain to the charitable people of this Colony, They then said: "The River Chang comes from Ku Yen and passes Sha Cheng towards the Superioress feels sure that under the excep Where it passes our place it is called tonally straitened circumstances to the pic river Chang, The Earl of the River is the seat time she may rely on their assistance.

Hongkong, 3rd September, 1890, (1256 God of the river. The God is fond of beautiful women, and requires a new wife every year. 1

THE SHAMEEN HOTEL one is chosen for him then he will protect and grant them an abundant harvest and suitable

BRITISH CONCESSION, CANTON. rains. If not, the God becomes ungry, floods the land and drowns the people. The Prefect THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL, admirably tatlan and handers in this matter. few minutes walk of the The Elders replied: "The witch of this city, and being afraid of floods we dare not disobey. Every year the country chiefs and Super The Bed-rooms are cool, airy and comfortably Intendent of Police and the witch raise furnished, and the spacious Dining Room, Sitting fabulous sums of money. They spend bun Rooms, and accommodation generally will be dreds of thousands of taels on the marriage found equal to the best Hotels in the Far East. of the Earl of the River and the rest they The Table D'Hôte is supplied with every divide among themselve The Prefect-asked-oppry-in-season, and the onlaine-la-Inexperie

Do the people allow this to go on without enced hands. protest?" The Elders replied "The witch attends to prayers to the Earl The Superin tendent of Police and the sub-officers eg ab up to get money, and as it is for the public, good they do it gladly, There is another trouble)

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TAKING CARGO AND PASSENGERS TO JAPAN, CANADA, THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE,

VIA

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"BATAVIA,"

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To be followed by the 5.S. "ABYSSINIA " 23rd September and "PARTHIA " 7th October.

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Through Pausage Tickets granted to England, France, and Germany by all trans-Atlantic lines of Steamers.

First-class Fares granted as follows —–— To Vancouver and Victoria.....(Mex.)$210.00 Ta Montreal, New York, &c. To Liverpool... To London...............................

290.00

325,00 mistyyninaway 330.00 To other European Points at proportionats rates, Special reduced rates granted to Officers of the Army, Navy, Civil Servior, and the Imperial Chinese and Japanese Customs, to be obtained on application.

Consular Invoicer to accompany Cargo des tined to Folats in the United States should ba sent to the Company's Offices, addressed to Vancouver, B.C. Mr. D. E, BROWN, District Freight Agent,

Freight will be received on board until 4 Pikt, on the 3rd Sept.

All Farcels must be sent to our Office and should be marked to address in full; and the same will be received by us until 5 PM. the day preylous 'to sailing, :

For information as to Passage or Freight, apply te

ADAMSON, BELL' & 'Co.,

Agents,

Stan kone 30th August "go

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NOTICE.

STEAM FOR SINGAPORE; COLOMBO, ADEN, SUEZ PORT SAID. BRINDISI, GENOA, ANTWERP, BREMEN & HAMBURG, PORTS IN THE LEVANTE, BLACK SEA AND BALTIC PORTS; ALSO, LONDON, NEW YORK, BOSTON, BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS, GALVESTON, AND SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS,

THE COMPANY'S STEAMERS WILL CALL

· SOUTHAMPTON TO LAND PASSENGERS AND LUGGACE. N.B.--Cargo can be taken on through Bills of Lading for the principal places in RUSSIA

N WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of

I WEDNESDAY: Company's Steamship with BAYERN," Captala J. Mergell, MAILS, PASSENGERS, SPECIE & CARGO, will leave this Port as above, Calling at GENOA, Shipping Orders will be granted till Noon, Cargo will be received on Board until 4 p.m. Specie and Parcels until 3 pm on 23rd September, (Parcels are not to be sent on Board; they must be left at the Agency's Office). Con tents and Value of Packages are required.

The Steamer has splendid · Accommodation and carries a Doctor and Stewardess. For further Particulars, apply to

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Consignees.

CANADIAN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP

COMPANY.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

STEAMSHIP "BATAVIA," FROM VANCOUVER, YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND NAGASAKI,

THE above Steamer having arrived, Con

signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for Counter signature, and take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

ADAMSON, BELL & Co.,

Agents,

Hongkong, 28th August, 1890,

Masonic,

ZETLAND

LODG L

No. $25,

NEMERGENCY MEETING of the abova

will be despatched for San Francisco, vidA LODGE will be held in FREEMASONS Yokohama, on TUESDAY, the 16th September,

At IP.M.

Connection will be made at Yokohams with Steamers from Shanghai and Japan Ports.

All PARCEL PACKAGES should be marked to address in full; and same will be received a the Company's Office until FIVE P.M. the day previous to calling,

First-class Fares granted as follows:- To San Francisco....................................................... 425,00 To San Francisco and return, available for 6 months................................ To Liverpool.

To London...

393-75 325.00

*** 330.00

To other European Points at proportionate rates. Special reduced rates granted to Officer Imperial Chineso Customs, to be obtained on of the Army Navy Civil Service, and the application,

(Dose for Adults 15 to 86 grains froy.) Is TS the most approved and most efficacious

"Passengers by this line have the option of A. G. GORDON & Co., Ltd.,

remedy in cases of HEADACHE, MIGRAINE, proceeding Overland by the Southern Pacific Managers,

and Connecting Lines, Central Pacific, Northern Hongkong, 1st September, 1890,

[1249 NEURALGIA, RHEUMATISM, PEVER, | Pacific or Canadian Pacific Rallways,

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THE CHINA FIRE INSURANCE. TYPHUS, ERYSIPELAS, HOOPING Passengers who have paid full fare, re-embark. ing at San Francisco for China or Japan (or COMPANY, LIMITED.

COUGH, and many other complaints. It is vice versa) within one year will be allowed s THE Offices of the above Company are this also the very best Antiseptic. Highly.com discount of 10 per cent. This allowance does not apply to through faret from China and day REMOVED to-No. 2, Queen's Road Central, (late ORIENTAL BANK Premises]-Firmended by the medical Faculty. To be had from Japan to Europe. Floor,

every reputed Chemist and Druggist. Ask for JAS. D. COUGHTRIE,'-

Secretary.

Dr. KNORR'S ANTIPYRINE | Esch in Hongkong, 30th August, 1890, [1238 bears the inventor's signature," Dr, KNORR

“G. FALCONER & CO.,

JATCH and CHRONOMETER MANU-

NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, |--CHARTS and BOOKS,"A No. 48. Queen's Road Central

Supplies constantly on hand at the Chins

Wines, Spirits, Malt Liquors, elc., of the bestFACTURERS and JEWELLERS E. port, Import, and Bank Co.--Sola Apentrs RNO. 30% Queen's Road Central

quality only.

C. BOND,

Hongkong, 14th July, 1890,

Manager.

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Hongkong 29th May, 1850,

For further Information ns to Fassage; or Freight, apply to the Agency of the Company,

C.D. HARMAN,

Agent Hongkong 25th August, 1890,

HALL, Zetland Street, on FRIDAY NEXT, the 5th September, at for 5.30 F., precisely. Visiting Erethren are cordially invited.

Hongkong, 30th August, 1890.

ST. ANDREW'S

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NADJOURNED CONVOCATION will be

A held in FREEMASONS HALL, Zetland Street, on FRIDAY, the 5th instant, at 8 for E.30 .. precisely. Visiting Companions äre

Hongkong, 1st September, 1890. [1244 cordially invited.

CHINA TRADERS' INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

HE Twenty-fourth Ordinary MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS in the above com pany will be held at the Head Office, Victoria, Hongkong, on THURSDAY, the 11th Sept., at 4 o'clock pm, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement Accounts to 30th April last, and of declaring Dividends.

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 29th instant to the 12th proximo, both days Inclusive, y

By Order of the Board of Directors,

~W/ H, RAY,

Hongkong, 19th August, 1890,

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