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Ireland. The relief provided under the poor laws will be sufficient to meet the distress conse- quent on the failure of the potato crops.

The item in the Estimates for the construction of light lines of railway in the poor and congested districts of Ireland has provoiced much dissension, and led to an all-night sitting of the House of Commons, the item being persistently obstracted, The struggle has been marked by split in the Lish party, one'section being led by Mr. Sexton, and the other, by Mr. Healy,

The Light Railways (Ireland) Act, 1889 (51 and 33 Vic., ch. 66), empowers the construction of light railways in certain parts of Ireland. The Treasury is to finance the scheme, the Act granting a free gift of £600,000 for the construc- tion of the lines chosen.

Mr. D. D. Rosewarne, warden of gold-fields and inspector of mices in South Australia, who is in charge of that colony's display in the Min ing and Metallurgical Exhibition at Sydenham, has been invited to report upon the announced discovery of gold in British Borneo.

August 17th, The anniversary of the termination, of the London dock labourers' strike of last year way eclebrated by a great demonstration of the unionist dockers in Hyde Park to-day. A rast, crowd of people was present. Six platforms bad been erected, from which addresses were made to the concourie.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1890.

significance, will tend greatly to strengthen the good relations subaleting between Rursin and Germany.'

The St. James's Gasxette, in an article denling with the reports of the maritime strikes in Aus- tralia, says that such movements must tend to discourage the emigration of workmen to the colonies.

The Times, in an article devoted to the peri- tion of Urugu, one of the South American Republics, decies that the affairs, political and financial, of Monte Video, the capital, are strained. The state of matters is such that at any moment a storm may be looked for similar la character to that which has just overtaken the Argentine Republic. A system of advances to constituents of the National Bank has been resorted to, which is a virtual robbery, and the result is that the resources of the bank are almost sacked.

The English hop vines have been attacked by mould, and the crop is expected to be seriously. affected:

A cyclone has passed over the province of Oude, in British India, resulting in great damage to the vines and crops of the country.. The loss is estimated at one miltion sterling.

A great strike is imminent in the Tilbury Docks on the part of the dock labourers, who demand the expulsion of three non-unionist workmen.

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Mr. Burns stated that the strike had increased The strike of dock labourers at Cardiff is now the dockers' wages in London by £300,000 and in virtually settled. It is proposed to establish a the country by £700,000. He claimed that Standing Committee of Copcillation to prevent 7,000 000 of labourers had gained 30 millions of strikes. money per year.. Out of 180 strikes they badThe funeral of the late Cardinal Newman took lost two. They trade unionists of London had place at Birmingham today. Enormous crowds been increased by 300,000. The police and were present along the route taken by the cortege postmen's strike, he said, "alled owing to and at the oratory, Edgbaston. The Pope was reachery. He applauded the Grenadiers for the represented, and Prince Doria attended on be- action they had taken, and he announced that half of the Italian laity of the Church of Rome. the unionists had not yet commenced the social Theras, were also present the Dukes of Norfolk revolution, and would not de so until people had and Newcastle, Lords Coleridge, Emly, and more leisure, and were better educated, and Talbot, and many of the Anglican clergy. better disciplined.

August 18th.

The coal porters and carters in Portsmouth who recently struck are now resumint work. The masters aro yielding to their demandı.

The Emperor William of Germany who recently left Berlin for St. Petersburg en a villt to the Czar, has arrived at Reval, a seaport town'

in Rus-ia. The, Emperor was most cordially greeted by the Czar.

The Administration in the Argentine Republic has cancelled the issue ar 10000,000 gotes. The National Bank's overdue bills amount to the sum of £1,000,000 sterling.

The Australian cricketers are playing a match against Nottingham. The home team, who went La first, have lost two wickets for 63 runs.

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On behalf of Guatemala and Hunduran a joint demand has been made for the surrender of the

position held by General Ezeta, commanding the forces of the Republic of San Salvador, who has recently been successfully operating against Guatemala.

Consul Johnston, the British representative at Mozambique, bas been made Companion of the

Bath.

Mr. Buchanan, Acting Consul in Nyassaland, bas heen made Companion of St. Michael and St. George

It is reported that Monsignor Stonor will will succeed Cardinal Newman as Cardinal Deacon.

The Philadelphia-correspondent-of-the-Times telegraphs that the Silver Party in America is urging the President to send an agent to Europe for the purpose of ascertaining if the Powers are willing to hold another Monetary Conference. ** The Times predicts an early revolution in Urugay, from causes similar to those that occasioned the rising in Argentina.

The interment of Cardinal Newman was conducted to-day with an Imposing service.

The praragation of Parliament took place to day, her Majesty the Queen attending in person. The Queen's Speech declared that bor Majesty gladly granted to Western Australia similar Institutions to those which had already worked with such marked success in other portions of Australia.

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It is reported that peace has been arranged -between representatives of the Central American Republica of San Salvador and Guatemala.

August, 20th.

The report that peace has been arranged between San Salvador and Guatemala is con- firmed,

It is reported that America refuses to agree to. arbitration as a means of settling the Hebring *Sea fisheries dispute with England.

The New York brickmakers are boycotting various works in progress in that city, in con- sequence at the employment of non-unionists,

The master brickmakers have arranged to stop supplying bricks to New York Brooklyn, and Jersey City,

The building trades are paralysed in conse. quence, and 80,000 bands are affected,

A case of Asiatic cholera has occurred in Landon, the patient being a sailor from Calcutta. The Government of the Argentice Republic have notified their latertion to issue 60,000,000 dollar notes, redeemable in five years.

The match between the Australian Eleven and Nottingham was resumed to-day. The Notts Eleven completed their second innings for a total of 138 runs. Gunn scored so.

In the bowling Chariton took three wickets for 34 runs, Tumer three for 41, and Ferris four for 35.

The Australians, having 115 to get to wis, went to the wickets for their second innings. They lost one wicket for 40 runs, but failed to make any lengthened stand against the Notting ham bowling, the innings closing for 115. The wicket was a bad one. Barrett scored 15. Turner 22, Blackham 11, Trumble 15, and Charlton to. The finish was an exciting one, the Notting- ham team only winning by 20 runs.

Flowers obtained the best bowling average, securing six wickets for 38 runs.

A terrible railway collision bas occurred at Boston. Fifteen persons were killed, and 50 others were injured.

A disastrous cyclone has passed over Pennsyl- vania. Two hundred houses were detrayed and and 20 persons were killed. The loss to property is estimated at a million dollars.

Destructive storms have occurred in various The Australian Eleven commenced a match parts of France. Five hundred houses were against Notts, at Nottingham, to-day. The homewrecked and 30 people lost their lives. Numbers team went in first on a good wicket, and made of people, whose houses, were blown down, are a total of 145, of which Shrewsbury scored 6, camping out. The damage is estimated at a Guna 47, Atiewell 30, Barnes 25, and Flowers million francs, 16.

Turner took four wickets for 66, and Ferris four for 61.

When the stumps were drawn the Austra lians in their first innings had scored 57 for the loss of two wickets, Murdoch and Trott being in. Lyons, Jones, and Walters are omitted from this match,

August 19th. The following team has been selected to represent All England in the third test match, with Australian Eleven at Manchester on the sgth Instant-W.G. Grace, W. W.Read, Macgregor, Stoddart, Shrewsbury, Gunn, Attewell, Maurice Read, Lohmann, Briggs, and Mold.

Speculation in silver is being carried on in New York on an enormnous scale. Two million ounces have already been sold Prices have zisen to 120 cents (5s 1-8d.) per ounce,

Out of a total of 1,800 cases of cholera in Spain, 1,000 deaths have taken place,

The Government has decided to shorten the Address next session, in the hope of being able to limit the debate thereon,

The strike on the New York Central Railway which was stated last week said to have been settled, has been reopened..

A very serious incident in connection with the strike is reported from Albany. At that sith, the police were summoned, and in diaper city, in consequence of the behaviour of the sing the mob met with such resistance that they ❘ fired upon the populace, wounding three persons, The crowd became highly exasperated and attacked the police, who narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of the infuriated

people,

The match between Notts and the Australian Eleven was continued to-day, the Australians resuming their place at the wickets. The home team in their first innings had scored 145. The Australians put together 148 before their last wickets felt.

Murdoch scored 33, Trott 23, and Charlton 30 all showing steady play Burn, Blackham, and Gregory made 11 each, and Trimble 14 not out. In their second innings Notts bave made 117 for the loss of six wickets, Shreswbury scored 25, and Gunn 41 not out.

The wicket is now slow.

At the Antwerp wool sales, yesterday, the attendance of buyers was moderate, and the bidding fair. Hall the catalogue was sold at an advance of to centimes on the June rates.

Prince Bismarck is giving his support to a gigantic coal syndicate which is being formed in Germany to check any rise in the miners' wages, The French wheat crop is 6,000,000 hecto, litres below the yield of 1889.

The potato blight in freland contienes to spread.

A league le being formed, to encourage the growth of beetroot in Britala,

The anti-the agitation in Wales is occupying some attention, Soldiers are assisting the tithe collectors in Denbigh.

The threatened strike in the Tilbury Docks on the part of the dock labourers, who demanded the expulsion of three non-unionist workmen, has been averted. The non-unionists were dis- charged.

Application bas been made for an Injunction to restrain the. Pelican Club from exercising its rights as a sporting club, on the ground that a public nuisance is constituted by reason of the boxing matches and musical performances held on the premises, and on account of the mobs which congregate in the vicinity of the club.

August 21st,

The Government of the Republic of Uruguay, In South America, proposes to return to the metallic rigime as a means of settling the financial difficulty.

It is feared that another revolution will take place in the Argentine Republic, owing to the dismissal of a number of military officers who sided with the rebels in the late disturbances in Buenon Ayres,

The Sultan of Morocco, commanding, his army in person, attacked the rebels who recently surprised a detachment of the Sultan's troops and burned a number of the officers alive. The rebels were completely defeated, many being taken prisonize. Eighty prisoners were beheaded, A cyclone of great violence has been Switzerland and the Jura Mountains. Thousands experienced in the canton of Neufchated in of trees in the track of the storm were uprooted, many houses were destroyed, and several of the inhabitants lost their lives. The storm lasted three minutes only.

The Australian Eleven commenced a match at Cheltenham to-day against Gloucester.

The Australians went in first, and made a total of 184

Lyons scored 5, Turner played a dashing innings of 36, Chariton scored 26, and Burn 24. Ferris played a plucky game for 54, not out, although he gave some chances, The fourth wicket fell for 18,

The Gloucester team had made 16 without the loss of a wicket when the stumps were drawn for the day,

The weather was showery and the wicket good. A party of eight persons have been drowned by boat accident on the River Conway, in Wales,

The Pall Mall Gaweifs announces that a con- ference of shipowners is to be held to decide upon the establishment of a union of steamship proprietors with a capital of eighty millions' sterling, for the proposes of fighting the various labour unions connected with the shipping Interests,

Eight thousand coliers have struck work in the coal mines of Belgium in resistance to the masters' attempt at reducing wages.

The strike in connection with the New York Central Railway continues, and excites much anxiety,

...ST, PETERSBURG, August 5th. The St. Petersburg journals agree in asserting that the meeting of the Emperors cannot in any way tend to modify the situation of affairs between the two countries.

labour unions of the United States abáll support. the demands of the Knights of Labour or not.

In New York the situation is regarded as serious.

In spite of the recent settlement of their dis- pute with the dock masters of Tilbury relating to ron-union labour, the leaders of the dockers refuse to permit the men to resume work until the question of sub-lejiing in fiually dealt with.

August 22nd

The Tilbury Deck labourers have resumed work in obedience to the command of the union leaders,

The Knights of Labour threaten to bring about a strike on all the Vanderbilt railways in New York, Duffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis..

The Lisbon Press favours the agreement entered into between England and Portugal for the d limitation of territory in South-east Africa The details of the agreement are very similar to those of July 16

Portugal bas granted to England the right to veto the translerence to other European Powers of any Portuguses testitory south of the Zamberi It is reported that a French syndicate will provide the Republic of Uruguay with gold in order to enable the Government so withdraw the paper currency,

August 25th.

The potato blight is causing great distress in Ireland.

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The Australians beat the Gloucestershire team by 8 wickets.

The ship Assays, from London to New The British India Co. are building four Zealand, is reported to be missing. steamers, of 5.000 tons each with an average speed of t5 knots, for the Queensland trade.

30,000 people of Limerick adopted a vote of confidence in Dillion in reference to the dispute he had with Bishop Dwyer.

A company with a capital of £75,000 has been registered to work Queensland mines.

Cholera has appeared on the coast of Natal. The strike on the American railways continues. 13,000 men are out.

August 27th.

4000 cases of small-pex have broken out at Permanbuco,

Moussa has escaped,

The Illinois Central Railway strikels spreading to all the American railways. Chicago is deter

mined to fight,

The returned match between the Australians and All-England has been abandoned,

The children have been withdrawn from a large convent in Dublin, owing to the nuns having purchased cows from a non-unionist

THE AUSTRALIAN STRIKES.

COOKTOWN, August 26th. ja summonses served at Cooktown on the Arawatta seamen for leaving that vessel. The cases were adjourned.

A number of special constables have been swarn in. The Naval Brigade were called out, but only only 16, men responded.. The others. refused point blank. The men have been sup- plied with ball eartridges.

A free fight last night in which over 400 men were engaged, was quelled by police.

The seamen will rejoin the Arawatia and take her direct to Sydney,

Later.

The Arawatta sailed at 5 o'clock for southern ports. At the last moment it was thought there would be trouble, as the crew demanded the release of Clare, a fireman now undergoing a week's Imprisonment. The difficulty, it is believed, was overcome by the captain paying the man off. He thus ceased to be a member of the crew.

SYDNEY, August 25th.

In Sydney matters are particularly lively. Steamers are being loaded and discharged by non-union labourers. 800 warehousemen and assistants have volunteered their services if required,

The members of the Miners Association at Broken Hill bave determined to contribute £750 a fortnight while the airike lasts,

August 28th, Matters are quict in Sydney, but Newcastle is virtually handed over to mob rule. The police have been stoned and properly destroyed. Troops have been despatched from Sydney to quell the disturbance,

Later.

Matters in Newcastle are very quiet to-day, The only excitement is at the Court House, where some of yesterday's rioters are being pro- cceded against,

MELBOURNE, August 16th. Matters in Melbourne are about the same as in Sydney, though the non-unionists have been severely handled by the unionists, and have to be escorted by the police on leaving the ships. August 28th.

There is much rioting in Melbourne, and the strike is spreading

ADELAIDE, August 26th.

In Adelaide matters remain unchanged, though a number of employers contemplate triking the number of their hands owing to the

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LONDON, August afth. A company of steamship owners is establishing à union with a capital of £80,000,000, embracing the total shipping tonnage of the United Kingdom with the aim of abolishing the mens' unions.

A mass meeting was held at Tower Hill to express sympathy with the Australian strikers. Burns ridiculed the idea of the shipowners forming a union to combat the labor unions.

The prevalent feeling is satisfactory to Austra- lia suffering, in consequence of the great afforded by Australia stimulated the recent labor London dock strike, as it is recognised the help troubles in Britain.

August 27th,

The Glasgow shipowners have decided to support the proposed union against the men,

The Times severely castigates Burns, the fabour leader, as a charlatan who is trading on the folly and ignorance of others.

The dockers have levied one shilling per week from 36,000 men in aid of the Australia'strike.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, August aged. The cholera is spreading in Spain. ** The man Teigh, declared to be suffering from cholera in London, has now recovered.

August 24th. General Caprivi has been decorated with the Qider of St. Andrew.

The Czar will visit Berlin in October. General Schellendorf, while on duty at Peter-

hoff, was thrown from his horse and severely injured, "

Advices from Jeddah report twenty-seven additional deaths from cholera at El Tor.

August asth

LONDON, August 26:h. The Daily News Odessa correspondent states that an Anti-Semitic Edict will be published in October, and take effect from then. A supple 'ment, he states, attempts to excuse the severity of its provisions.

known to one of the Soochew missionaries. Two women, mother and daughter, died after a day's illness. The natives say that the number of deaths from this diseases, this year, unusually email. This is confirmed by the fact that one doca not dre so many coffins ab is usual at this time of the year.

The rice crop is on all sides of the city unusu ally fine. The rains this year have been. singularly opportune and the peasants have no occasion to pump water into the fields of growing rice. They all like to compare this season with A seaside villa in England has been secured for the accommodation of Dhulip Singh, who, that of last year, when the excessive rain flooded so much low-lying land. It is interesting to it is stated, will receive a substantial allowance.

The Unionists on strike at Brisbane yester- note that the price of the grent staple, food of day attacked the passengers embarking on the the country is, notwithstanding last year's floods, steamers which were employing outsiders.not more than 30 or 40 per cent, greater than it is in highly fruitful seasons.-N. C. Daily News Several persons were injured in the conflict.

A meeting took place yesterday at Pretoria to protest against the influx of British Indians. Several Britishers spoke, and inveighed against the interference of the Imperial and Indian Governments in favour of Indians, The Dutch- men who spoke were more moderate in their

toné.

August 27th. Twelve deaths from cholera and choleraic diarrhea took place in London during the past

"week.

The steamer Menimore, on the voyage from Liverpool to Boston, has put into Plymouth, fre having broken out in her hold shortly after: leaving port. The vessel was laden with general cargo, all of which was destroyed, the vessel being burnt to the water's edge. No llyes werg lost.

Grand master Workman Powderly, the well known American labour advocate, and head of the Knights of Labour, has been endeavéhring = "Turkish territory to bring about a settlement of the dispute, but his efforts have not been successful. H

"Mr. F. Or Licks, of Magdeburg, the authority on the production of beet sugar, reports the turn-out of this article as showing an increase of $28,000 tons for the x months. Ths surplus

Under these circumstances a meeting of the during the present campaign is unchanged,

According to public opinion in St. Petersburg Workmen's Supreme Council has been con

Moussa Bey has been sentenced to exile from It is reported here in Natal telegrams that coolies arriving at Durban from Mecca have carried cholera there, as a dolla

MORA CONSTANTINOPLE, August 25th

It is believed that the visit of the Emperor vaned, to be held on Saturday next, when the The Sultan has banished Mousss Bay to Willam to the Caur, whầy of bai indie pudicion) i mucustos, to be discussed is whether the nasodinted | Mecca, C

The report of the Land Commission states that potato blight is almost universal through out Ireland.

Dhuleep Singh has arrived at Folkestone. The Portuguese Opposition press vehemently attacks the Anglo-Portuguese Treaty regarding Nyassaland.

Russian advices from Moosh, near Erzeroum, report that the Kurds are nightly committing raids and atrocities among the Armenians rest dog'there and in the neighbouring districts,

MELBOURNE, August 27th. Great excitement prevails at Newcastle, New South Wales, where the miners have struck work. Government have despatched a force of military there, to keep order. The police force in Sydney and Melbourne has been reinforced, and num- bers of special constables have been sworn in. All the gas stokers in Melboume struck work this evening.

WASHINGTON, August 28th, The Senate has adopted the duties on rice

rice to a quarter cent on broken. raging from two cents per pound on cleaned

OITOWA, August 28th," The Canadian Minister for Agriculture reports that the yield of grain crop is heavy, and the quality excellent,"

LONDON, August 28th.

The Daily Telegraph's St. Petersburg corres- pondent wires that the Crar has consented to treat with M. Stambouloff, with the view to effect an improvement of the condition of affairs in Bulgaria. He also states that Russia, on the initiative of Germany, will withdraw the troops from the German frontier,

A duel with swords was lought yesterday between two Franch officers at Belfort. Lieuten ant Millot received a severe cut from his antagonist, Lieutenant Baruth, which severed the blood-vessels in his arm. Lieutenant Millot is reported to be dying.

BRUSSELS, August 28th..

The Belgian strike sung the coal-miners is

becoming serious, and seventeen thousand men have joined the strikers. Besides the revision of rules they demand universal suffrage. The gendarmes yesterday dispersed a turbulent assemblage of three thousand, and made four arrests.

LONDON, August 29th. The ratifications of the 'Sikkim Treaty bare been exchanged.

ST. PETERSBURG, August 29th. A terrific gale swept over the Baltic and the Gulf of Fisland yesterday. St. Petersburg is partially inundated, the Neva having overflowed its banks, as a result of the storm.

NOTES FROM chinese paperS.

The narrow gauge railway under construction by Director Ch'ergi at Peking, a deputy sent by the Admiralty, is now finished. It is eight long, and is situated by the Kung Ming Lake, the Imperial family summer resort,

On the 5th of last moon a big fire destroyed over one hundred houses at the West Gate of Hui-chu k'eng-wei. Several lives were lost,

The Yuen-ming-yeun Board of Works director transported 'Tis 200,000 from the Board of Revenue by the rallway for the use of the Imperial Summer resort repairs. The Peking authorities are beginning ice, the muility of rallways.

The Imperial Kirin Commissioners, Ching and Huang, arrived in Tientsin on the 9th Inst. by boat from Peking, and are now stopping at Wd Chu Ka Su. They are entertained by the Viceroy, whom they have come to consult about

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The Shanghai City magistrate has issued a procid and brought effect that a gamblere arrested and brought before his tribunal will be severely dealt with,

The Tongshan Railway Company has been granted permission by the Emperor to extend their line to a place called Mi-Kie-yuen, near Shan-hai-kwan. Viceroy Ll Hung-chang bas received instructions from the Board of Admiralty, building of this extention at once. His Ex- and the Taung-li Yames to proceed with the

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cellency has accordingly despatched a deputy to measure the distance, so that the cost of con struction may be estimated. It is expected that operations will be begun early in the 9th moon, immediately after the crops are gathered in, so that the poorer classes of the busbandmen and farm labourers may be found employment, when their season's accupation in the fields is ended.

KOREAN NOTES.

August 28th, 1890. Several severe cases of illness are reported among the foreigners resident in Seoul,

Staff Captain d'Amade of the French Legation In China, returning Overland wif Yuengan from an excursion to Vladivostock, left Beoul yerster- day for Tientsin,

The beat and humidity this year have been Unusual

Preparations for the funeral ceremonies of the

late Queen Dowager are progressing actively. October 14th is the date fixod.

Mens, V. Collin de Planey, the French Com- missjoper'in Korea; will quit Seoul this mail on a"short visit to Tientsin-Chineze Timer,

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August 28th, 1890.

His Majesty the Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and other notable personages, having had occasion to visit Prince Chun hurriedly dur ing his recent lllness, were afforded an unusual opportunity of seeing what the streets of Pelang are really like in wet weather; and it is hoped that the occurrence may lead to some decisive measures being taken to improve the condition of the Metropolitan highways.

Viceroy Li Hung-chang, has issued a per- emptory proclamation that all brothels and opium dens in Tientsin be closed forthwith, and the magistrates are taking the necessary steps to carry out this order. Houses of this kind are being shut up, even adjoining the French Concession, and the female occupants sent home to their families. Of those arrested on the memorable night of the Police raid on the brothels and opium shops, made in consequence of a daring robbery in the Viceroy's Yamin, All the men have turned out to be natives of Ashwel, and therefore Li bas ordered them to be deported to their homes there.

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Liu Tsze-tien, the ex-Minister to the Court of St. James, having spent a month at his home in Anhui after his return from England, arrived by steamer Hsinyt on the 5th-instant. He will proceed to Peking for audience with the Emperor and to receive his appointment of Governor of | Canton,

The Hon. J. Helenus Ferguson, Netherlands Minister to China, and Mr. M. B. van Daalen Wetters, Secretary of the Netherlands Legution, left for Peking on Wednesday, 3d inst. The Netherlands Government have rented the house of the late Marquis Taeng, in which the Legation will be henceforth established at Peking. The Netherlands Minister has made a rather long stay at this port, on his way to the captial It is reported that he was occupied here with studying the conditions caused by the recent floods, and that, at the request of Li Hung-chang, Mr. Ferguson handed to him two notes bearing on the social and physical aspects of the inuo dations in North Chins, among them being a note with regard to the works required to es- tablish a proper water communication for sea. going vessels between the entrance of the Pelho and Tientsin.

The Viceroy has appointed a Cantonese gentle- man named Liu to be the managing director of the Jeho silver mines. Mr. Liu left on the tat inst for

Jehn. Total Kung, the manager of the Western Arsenal, has been appolated by the Viceroy to. be the Director-in-Chief of Port Arthur,

The Northern Squadron has left for Korea for their usual autumn czuling. The Chihyung will have her damaged plate repaired in the Shanghai Arsenal next month,

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Agents. Hongkong, 15th September, 1990. 2. (1998

NOTICE

Thorailway embankment between Hanket and Lustal had been sufficiently repaired to admit of traffic being resumed on the 5th instant, after an interruption of over five weeks. Great credit is due to all concerned for the expedition with which this work has been done. The repairs an the Lutal section were effected by materials brought along the line from the bill-side at M. OSCAR VON DER HEYDE has been authorized to sign our Firm from this Tongshan, while the Hanku end of the breach da

was filled in from mud brought from Tongku, where a small patch of dry ground was at the disposal of the rallway. The latter portion of the embankment is, of cause, mugh the less solid of the two, and it will require time and probably a good deal of additional earth to make destruction. It is, a great” matter to have got the traffle reopened, in Tallway, communication that part of the line as good as it was before its

Is doubly important at a time when the ordinary roads are inuzzdated,

CHS. J. GAUPP & Co.

[1300 Hongkong, 15th September, 1890.

PUBLIC AUCTION

OF

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY, SITUATE AT VICTORIA, HONGKONG, to be sold

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By Order of the Mortgages,

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SATURDAY,

zoth day of September, 1890, at 3 σ'CLOCK

in the afternoon, on the Premises, By J, M. ARMSTRONG, Auctioneer. IRST-All those PREMISES registered in the Land Office, as Subsection No. 1 of Section A of Inland Let No. 48.

It would be useless to hide the fact that cholera has established itself in our hear neighbourhood. For some two weeks past it has been prevalent among the natives of Pal-tang-kao, where the Shanghat steamers discharge and load their cargoes, and about Tongku and Taku there have been many cases. These names afford a preity clear indication of the source the infection.

SECONDLY-All those PREMISES regis The steamer Hein-ga, while crossing the Bartered in the Land Office as Section A of Inland yesterday, started her atera post and she is now Lot No. 661. undergoing temporary repairs at Pilot Town- | Chinese Timis

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HONGKONG PUBLIC SCHOOL:

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT), -

September 5th, 1890. I have heard of everal cases of cholera in this-city-recently One-instance came under the personal notice of an experienced American lady physician, She pronounced it a clear case: of cholera. The patient, who was a work ago strong healthy, native woman about thirty Ave FUJERUMINAIRE C. J. BATEMAN,

fend blastery years old, died the second day witer the disease: be host attacked here There were two other cases | Hongkong ̈15th Septembar, 1890

HE CHRISTMAS TERM will commence. on THURSDAY, the 18th instant, at NIKE AM,

Together with the messuages erections and buildings on the first and secondly mentioned premises now known as Nos. 17 and 18 Circular Pathway

The first mentioned premises are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 75 years created by a Crown Lease dated the 9th Sep tember, 1844. Subject to the payment of 188, of da being the proportion of the annual Crown rent, and to the performance of the covenants in the sald Least reserved and contained.

The secondly mentioned premises are held from the Crown for the residue of a term of 999 years created by a Crown Lease dated the 13th March. 1860, subject to the payment of $ being the proportion of the annual Crown rest, and to the performance of the covenants in the said Lease reserved and contained.

the exist." All the premises are sold subject to eg tenkudies thereof.

For further particulars of the property, and cenditions of sale apply 10 fakult

EWENS & REECE, Solicitors for the Mortgages, 62, Queen's Road Central,

1. M. ARMSTRONG,

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