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Intimations.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED,

DISPENSING CHEMISTS. SELECT MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS. STRINGENTS, DIARRHOEA & CHOLERA

DAK

REMEDIES, &C.

AKIN'S CHOLERA ELIXIR-A pro- longed experience of this epidemic in India, its home and birth-place, has proved beyond all doubt the efficacy of this remedy, which combines in a concentrated form the. medicinal agents which have proved most useful In arresting the rapid progress of that fatal malady, and in combating it when developed.

Full directions accompany each bottle. Per boule. $1.50 and $3. formula, and are most useful in the early stage

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1890.

will never be seduced from British allegiance by the American tariff, but will find markets for their produce elsewhere. Sir John also stated

that Canada will never consent to annexation.

ITALY'S POLICY.

October 9th. Signor Crispl states that the Government is firmly resolved to maintain the alliances,

WX are informed by the agents (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.) that the Glen Hiner Giantart, from London, left Singapore for Hongkong this morning.

ST. PETER'S SEAMENT CHURCH.-Tha Mission atcam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting codo pennant C between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday to convey men ashore to the 11 o'clock service, returning|about 12.30. -

We are informed by the agents (Messis, Russell& Co) that the "Union" Line steamer Yorkshire, from Hamburg, left Singapore for this port yesterday, and may be expected to arrive on the 16th last,

A HOUSEHOLD monthly “zag" says: "To cure snoring a piece of soap should be dropped. Juta the mouth of the anorer. The all in the soap. will lubricate the pharynx." A better way is to.

andrer. That will settle the business much more effectually.

The corn porters employed in the Victoria Docks. (London) have struck work for higher wages. The employers are offering the men go per cent, of the increase demanded,

The dockers employed in unloading a New Zealand meat ship have secured an increase of ad an hour

The Belgian gendarmes stopped a duci between M. Rochefort, the Boulangist Deputy, and M. Thiebaud, arising out of a revelation to the

the extent of several million francs.

The local leaders have advised the men to surrender on the basis of the terms conceded fortnight" ago, and without lasliting on the recognition of the union.

The men on strike are incensed at the advice of the leaders, and declare that they are paid agitators.

Several hundred labourers engaged in unload- ing the P. and O. Company's steamers, in the Albert Docks have struck work, owing to their

to resume work on Monday, if the ganger leaves work, as he has promised to do.

| THE many friends in this colony of Mr. John drop a 500-pound weight on the head of the effect that the Royalists assisted Boulangism to objection to a ganger. The men bave promised

Francis Webber, will be glad to leam that LOCAL AND GENERAL.advices have been received from him to-day by the E. and A. Co's steamship Airlit, to the effect that he will leave Sydney by the next steamer and may be expected here by the end of the present month.

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Later. The duel between M. Rochefort and M. Thiebaud was fought on the Dutch frontier. M. Thiebaud was wounded.

September 7th.

The imports of the United Kingdom for August show a decrease of £1,600,000.com- pared with the corres onding month of 1889 The exports for the same period show an increase

Cholera Pills are made from an old, well-tried i Priory, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland age question in connection with Hindu marriages, that the total defalcations amounted to twelve of £1.400,000,"

of an attack. Per bottle, 50 cents.

Dakin's Chlorodyne is Sedative, Anodyne, and Anti-spasmodic. This reliable remedy has long been used throughout the East as a stand-by In Cholera and Diarrhea. In battles, 35, 75 cents,

$1.50 and $1.75.

We are informed by the agents of the Austro- Hungarian Lloyd's S. N. Co. that the Company's steamer Elektra, from Trieste, left Singapore yesterday afternoon, for this port A MEETING of Victoria Preceptory and Victoris Street, this evening, at 8.30 for go'cinck. Visiting Brethren are cordially invited to attend. MR. ROSEWARNA, the Executive Commissioner of the South Australian Court. at the Londes Dining Exhibition, has been asked do not Bernen on his way back to Australia and report Dr. Rubini's Essence of Camphor-Valuable upon the gold prospects there. for simple Diarrhea, and in the earlier stages of Six months with hard labour was the sentence Dysentery and Cholera. Per bottle, to cents.

passed by Mr. Wodehouse, at the Police Court Fluid Extract of Indian Dael (prepared from this morning, upon a travelling thief who stole the unripe fruit of the Ægie Marmelat).

Of great service in Diarrhea and Chronicfifty dollars worth of property from fellow passenger on board the Glaucus, which arriver Dysentery. Per bottle, $1,

here this morning from Singapore. ABOUT half-past three on the morning of the rat inst. a Singapore constable caught a Chinaman in the act of rabbing the house of Mr. H. Day, watchmaker. The man bad made a small hole in the window, and was "fishing" with a bam boo pole and small net. He had already landed

watch and two watch cases.

Dietetic Bael-A highly agreeable and nutri- tive diet, particularly recommended in, derange: ment of the digestive organs, looseness, and irritation of the bowels,

This preparation has been in use in India for thirty years, and is there regarded as a specific In Diarrhea and Dysentery. Per tin, $1.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, LIMITED, · (Telephone No. 60.) Nos. 21 & 24, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL

Hongkong, 1st September, 1840.

'BY APPOINTMENT.

THE Band of the A. & S. Highlanders will play the following programme at the Barrack Square, this evening, commencing at 7.30 o'clock:-

March

the Soldiers.Fahrback.

..Coote,

Lancer!........ Vale...

Puika

Quadrile Galop

Gris au Hagnater"............Laritzsky. "Laughing "emerge Spanish Beauty"...... 'Polliechalck

...Conradi."

Rells. Kuha.

The Calcutta Englishman understands that the Government of India ars now considering the and that, as the principal native papers and many of the leading native gentlemen are in favour of legislation on the point, the authorities are not unlikely to legislate accordingly, within a reason, able period..

Ar the Calcutta Sessions on the 20th ulto, before Mr. Justice Prinsep and special' jury, the case, the Empress v. Shama Churn Sen, cashier of the Chartered Bank, came to a close, having lasted thirteen days. The specific charge against the prisoner was that of having embezzled three lakhs of rupees, although the prosecution alleged lakhs. The jury, after a lengthy disagreement, acquitted him, to the general surprise. Com- menting on the case, the Englishman says:-- Whatever may be thought of the manner in which the Chartered Hank case has been conducted, the acquittal will be generally regarded as a miscarriage of justice. Putting entirely on one side for the moment the legal questions upon which the case turns, it will strike the public as an extraordinary result of the protracted trial that a man who had ac- tually given a written confraxion of his offence, should have been sequitted on boɩn charges of embezzlement and cheating. Nothing so start- THE latest addition to the "Rooskia Dobrovolnoeling bas occured since the sensation of the Dum- Flot," the steamer Kostroma, left her moorings Dum murder case, and the out-come to the trial at West Point-where she has been discharging cannot but be regarded in business circles as about 1,000 tons of general cargo during the eminently unsatisfactory. past 48 hours at 8 o'clock this morning and continued her journey towards the enchanting land of exiles-Russian Siberia. In her lower hold she carries a large quantity of munitions of war and commissariat stores for the Far Eastern legions of the Tsar of all the Russia. Pity they couldn't put Popow on board.

THE St. James Gazette makes the statement that there is a schism in the English Church as to what one's ghost is, one side holding that it has sa existence of its own, and can walk abroad as it likes, the other party thinking that it is begotten by the relation between the minds of living persons-that it is, in fact, a co-operative hallucination,"

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Two men-of-war havejustreturned to Java from the coast of Netherlands New Guinea, to punish the natives for the murder of some hunters from the Moluccas who had ventured into their country after paying them for the privilege. The murderers took refuge in the mountains, and a detachment sent from the men-of-war to bring

A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. mander-in-chief of the Russian Black Sea feet them under could not reach their fastness, owing

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.'. MANUFACTURERS. OF AERATED WATERS.

Our New Factory has been recently refitted with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved kind, and we are well able to compete in quality with the best English Makers.

The purest ingredients only are used, and the utmost care and cleanliness, are exercised: in the manufacture throughout. LARGE BOMBAY,

"SODAS"

We continue to supply large bottles as heretofore, free of Extra Charge, to those of eur Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDERS.

ADMIRAL Kremer has been appointed Com-

vice Rear Admiral Petchouroff recalled. This naval "move" is significant in view of Russia's recent interference in the affairs of Armenia, where Austria has more or less asserted herself in the interests of peace and responsible govern- ment. But it's not peace that Russia wants. I We understand that the joint Committees appointed by the East Borneo, Songel Koyak,

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to the treachery of the guides employed, who abandoned the force in thick jungle. The demonstration, for all that, so cowed the moun taineers that they have since sued for pardon, AFTER a period of comparative rést the public has again been somewhat disturbed owing to the rascally acts of earring snatchers and cut- purses, but few of whom are brought to justice

A MOST interesting pole match was played yesterday afternoon at Causeway Bay in the presence of a large number of spectators, including many ladies. The A. & S. Highlanders tackled the Polo Club, and the general, if not together unanimous opinion was that the "kilted warriors had taken on a very large contract. The teams were as follows :-

POLO CLUB. A. & S. HIGHLANDERS, Hon. T. H. Whitehead Major Hannay." Captain Gardiner Captain Glubb

Lieut. Stewart, R.N.

Lieut. Boyd, Lieut. Kirk,

Captain Robinson.

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At the first onset the Club had much the best of the game, and after about six minutes' exciting play Mr. Whitehead got a chance, and after splendid run secured the first goal amidst loud plaudits from the spectators. On resuming, the Club, although somewhat erratic in their play and lacking in their combination, appeared to hold the trump card throughout, and it was a great surprise when the Highlanders (Lieut. Kirk if we mistake no equalized mutters just

A fracas occurred in the lobby of Drury Lane Theatre last night. Mr. James Whistler, the well-known artist, thrashed Mr. G. Moore, editor of the Hawk, with a light cane.

The tribes inhabiting the Barotse territory in Africa have accepted British protection,

September 8th. The losses of property caused! by the digastrous floods in Austria xmount to £4,000,000

The men of the 2nd Battalion Grenadier, Guards who were ordered to Bermuda as punish. meat for their conduct in England are reported | to be still displaying symptoms of insubordina- tion. Many of them have had to be punished.

A quantity of dynamite, intended for use in New York prematurely exploded, causing a terrible accident. Eighteen persons were killed, and 27 others are missing,

The dock labourers employed in the Southamp ton Docks have struck work until their union is recognised by the dockmasters. The demand of the men is supported by the Coal Porters, Sailors', and Firemen's Unions,

A steward employed on board the steamship

Moravia, at Leith, refused to join the Seamen's Unlon, Thereupon the crew of the steamer, followed by the dockers of Leith, struck worki | The Shipowners' Federation has engaged non. union dock labour, which will be under police protection. This course the steamship owners have rezolved to follow in all similar cases, and they will proceeded in it without regard to cost or consequences.

and pickets of the labourers out on strike are Trade at the Southampton Docks is paralysed, stopping the trains between the stations and the docks. Sixty police were despatched from London to the docks to maintain order, but they were roughly handled. A riot is regarded as imminent.

An association is being formed by the em ployers and workmen of the Bristol Channel Docks to promote harmony and freedom of

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It is reported that a revolution has broken out at Ticino, canton of Switzerland, owing to ravision of the constitution.

Several persons have been killed Two thou sand troops have been despatched to Hasli, the scene of the outbreak.

It is expected that a loan of £1,500,000 wil shoilly be placed on the London market by the

South Australian Government.

The dockers out on strike at the Albert Docks, from the P. & O, boats, refuse to allow of the Lascar crew discharging cargo from barges in the Peninsular and Oriental steamers.

The directors of the Albert Docks insist upos the retention of the ganger who is objected to by the dockers....

Further particulars in reference to the revolu tionary outbreak in Switzerland state that the rebels at Hasli, in the canton of Ticino, have killed the Director of the Lalerior and captured the oiber Councillors of State.

The populace of the canton support the provi- sional Government because the State refuses to submit the question of the revision of the consti- tution to the popular vote.

September 13th. Weston has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for forgery in connection with the Dunlo diverce case,

The Shipowners' Federation is displaying great firmness. The ships' officers decline to become unionists, and are actively supplying non-unionist labour to overcome the strikes.

Lord Wolseley and Mr. Howard Vincent, M.F., were present at a trial of the Mauser magazine rifle at Sheffield to-day. The Belgian Govern- ment has adopted this rifle for the use of its army. It is claimed to be superior to the English magazine rifle. Lord Wolseley was favourably impressed with the rifle,

The Earl of Jersey, the newly-appointed Governor of New South Wales, will be ban- 25th, and by the County Council of Oxford on queted by the Corporation of Oxford on October.

the 1st.

Lady Galloway, the sister of the Marquis of Salisbury, will accompany the Earland Countess of Jersey to Sydney.

to accept the following terms :-The Companies head-dress of women and children, from whom over the ground. It was decided, the game in the interests of all pan September 9th. as commercial travellers, captured the arsenal at and Lamag Planting Companies, are inclined attributable to the fact that they prey upon the at the call of time and as darkness was setting contract, and for securing general co-operation stitutional question to the popular vote.

will sell their estates as going concerns to a Company with a capital of £200,000, of which 00.000 is working capital, for £75,000, in fully paid up 3 deferred shares. It will be

they belt like "red-shanks" as soon as the theft is committed. One of these social parasites was up before Mr. Wodehouse this morning for snatching silver bangles from a child in Queen's Road East yesterday. His Worship sentenced him to three month's imprisonment with hard labour, and a whipping of 15 strokes with the

rattan.

being trick and tie, to play five minutes longer, and in the dusk some very lively business

The Comte de Paris is in possession of a letter from General Boulanger, in which the latter promises to restore monarchy in France, on condition that he should receive a dukedom as well as a marshal's baton, and an Income of £8,0,0,

The elections in Bulgaria have resulted in a crushing majority in favour of M. Stambouloff, the Prime Minister,

The chess tournament at Manchester has

Mr. Blackburn belog second,

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The rising in Switzerland has collapsed. The populace at Hasli welcomed the troops who were despatched to suppress the outbreak.

The Government has agreed to refer the con Twelve lenders of the Liberal party, disguised Ticino, and an armed mob scized the palace of the Gavemment.

The Liberals complain that the Ultramontane party govern through a minority. ·

The strikers in the Southampton Docks are resuming work on the original concessions offered by the dock companies, namely, an increase of 50 per day, ‘and 6d for night work.

Mr. John Burns, the chairman of the London Docicers' Union, who was sent on a mission to

strike, refused to formally recognise the union formed by the dockers.

observed that there has been some activity in the scrip of these Compantes, indicating the belief that better terms may yet be obtained. THE E. & A. Co's steamship Airlie, Captata Ellis, which arrived here this morning from Sydney and ports of call, reports that she was whenever practicable, are despatched by first delayed for three days at Newcastle,, owing to Tongshan, which left Bangkok over a fortnight | up his sleeve, and Capt. Glubb has rarely played resulted in Mr. Tarrasch winning the first prize. Southampton to investigate the matter of the

the general strike prevailing there. She met and exchanged gignals with the steamship Pathan, which reported having passed through a typhoon, in which a part of her bulwarks and boats were carried away. Among the Air's passengers are Sir Richard Rennie, Chief Justice at Shanghai, and Mr. H. S. Wilkinson, Crown

steamer leaving after receipt of order.

FOR COAST PORTS, Waters are packed and placed on board ship at Hongkong prices, and the full amount allowed for Packages and Empties when received in good order.

Counterfoil Order Books supplied on applica-

tiori.

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

The following is a List of Waters always

kept ready in Stock --

PURE AERATED WATERS

SODA WATER

LEMONADE

POTASH WATER

LITHIA WATER

SELTZER WATER

SARSAPARILLA WATER

TONIC WATER

GINGER ALE

'GINGERADE,

Advocate.

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Ar the meeting of the Singapore Legislative Council on the and inst. the Hon. I. Y. Kennedy, the Planters representative, gave notice of a motion to apply for a Commission to enquire Into the state of labour in the Straits Settlements and Protected Native State), with a view to devising a scheme for encouraging immigration, and thereby supplying the demand for labour. He said that the Indian Immigration was decreasing, and it was desired to encourago a better class of Chinese laborers.--It was signified that the Commission would be appointed. LO HIN, manager of a gambling den in Graham Street, had the exquisite cheek to appear at the Magistracy this morning to prosecute five men whom he alleged had entered his model establish rent, last night, and lifted several tens of dollera" from the pakkau tables. His Worship, after going through the preliminary canter of the case, told the fellow that his statements were not exactly consistent with the facts, so the case would be dismissed. It would be well if the 15 Amalgamated Association of Cut-purses and Burglars would devote its earnest attention to the rascally gambling and tin-si-kuk house which abound in this colony.

No Credit given for bottles that look disty, or greasy, or that appear to have been used for any other purpose than that of Containing Aerated Water, as such bottles are never used again by us.

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

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TELEGRAPH ARE MOST, RESPECTFULLY REMINDED THAT ALL Subscriptione muat be paid in advance.

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DEATH.

At the Government Civil Hospital, this after- noon, GEORGE RENNIE STEWART, commission agent, aged 42 years.

The funeral cortege will leave the Govern: ment Civil Hospital, at 4 p.m., to-morrow, and will pass the Monument about 4 30.

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The Houghong Lelegraph.

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1890.

TELEGRAMS.

SIGNOR CRISPI.

LONDON, September 30th. On being Interviewed at Naples, Signor Crisp! denied that the triple alliance, lately renewed, would continue in operation until 1893, but peace, -he-said,—was-secured-unless-France-moves-1- as national questions are giving place to social questions, which would soon dominate the world,

October and.

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THE Straits Timmer is informed that a new steam ship company, which is to be called the India Merchants Steam Navigation Co., Ltd, has been starte 1 in Singapore by several local and Indian people for the purpose of opening up and furthering

ring the trade between the Straits Settle ments and the Coromandel coast. The company bas already purchased the well-known Australian liner Tannadice for, it is said, the sum of £10,000, and she should have been here at the end of last month; owing to the labour difficulties down south the vessel was unable to get away: However, the Tannad.ce will most probably run on her first trip from Singapore via Penang to the Coromandel coast about the end of this month,

A LESSON ON MEMORY.

(By the Hon. Mr. Mitchell-Jones)

I do not remember.

'I cannot remember.

I think you did.

I believe I did say so..

I cannot remember.

I am sorry I cannot remember.

I really cannot remember.

I may have done so,

I cannot remember,'

I do not remember,

I really cannot remember.

Hongkong Taxpayer. Then you ought to

remember,

CONSIDERABLE anxiety has been felt here during the past week respecting the safety of the "Shan" (Bradleys') line steamers Pakshan and go for Hongkong fully loaded with rice. The passage usually takes but seven or eight days, and it was only to-day that the local agents (the Hop Hing) received telegraphic advices. regarding the Patihan (Captain Jenkins) which, they say, is due here from Hoihow to-morrow It seems that both of them encountered the full force of a typhoon ten days ago, and that the Pakshan has succeeded in "making" Holbow, while her sister-ship Is as yet unheard of. WE are glad to learn that the despatch of the Mercantile Marine Officers addressed to the Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, in which the former asked that they should be granted an opportunity of discussing important questions relative to the mutual interests of employers and employed, has met with that consideration by the local Chamber which the gravity of the issues involved dictated as highly expedient; and that a Committee of the Hongkong Chamber of Commerce will be happy to meet a deputation of Mercantile Marine Officers on Friday the 17th Instant, at the City Hall, for the purpose of considering the much vexed question of Sunday Labour.

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IN Edi. a band of Achinese 30 strong, have been raising disturbances and harassing the garrison At Segli, of six Achinese sharpshooters falling Into an ambush, five have been killed. In Achten Proper, the Achinese continue to keep the outlying posts under fire. According to a Batavia contemporary, French mail steamer, the other day, on her way to Singapore, had Barrow escape from falling into the hands of Achinese off Pulo Buru near Olehleh. She stopped there owing to a leak in her engines, and might have fared badly had not one of the blockading squadron come to her rescue, Experiments with training watch-dogs in Acheen for military purposes have falled, from the difficulty of distinguishing between friendly and hostile Achinese.

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ensued which was not polo-Major Hannay in spite of a couple of nasty falls, the fault of the pony and not of the rider, scoring a goal at the eleventh hour, and thus securing a victory for the Highlanders by two to one. For the Club, Whitehead was conspicuous for his dashing and correct play; he rarely missed a chance and his backing up was worthy of a Scotchman who once knew how to play shinty, Steward had, as usual, three or four spare necks

a better game. Capt. Gardiner was here, there and everywhere, and considering that the genial Pallander is not quite a feather-weight, his how yesterday was bang up to high-class form. For the winners Major Hannay played a most resolute game, and wherever the ball was, there was Capt. Robinson, who rides well enough to induce a trial for racing honours. Lieut. Kirk is a heavy weight, but he plays in admirable style, and was always at hand when wanted, whilst Lieut. Boyd, who rides, we should say, about gst, only wants a bit of practice to make him as formidable on the race-course as he already is on the polo ground.

NEWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL.

The E. & A. S. S. Co.'s steamer Airlis, Capt W. Ellis, from Sydney and ports of cull, arrived lo harbour early this morning, We are in debted for the subjoined items to our Colonial exchanges :-

LONDON, September 4th.

After a long and excited debate, the Trades' congress resolved by 19310 153 that the tinie had arrived when the eight-hour system in all trades would be best obtained by legal enactment. Mr. Tillett strongly supported statutory action, and ridicaled the idea that trades-unionism would thereby be injured.

September 5th,

Emin Pasha having asserted that the British authorities at Zanzibar are determined to seize Tippso Tib, the Arab slave dealer, if he comce to the coast, messengers have been sent to warn Tippoo.

The Standard regards the proposed expedi. tion to Central Australia, to search for traces of Leichhardt, as useless. It says that the fate of the explorer must ever remain a mystery..

It is proposed to raise a national memorial to the late Cardinal Newman.

The scare which set in at Natal in consequance of the outbreak of cholera there has ended, the disease not having become epidemic.

The Queen of Roumania was present at the annual Eleleddfod or Welsh national festival, and personally decorated the successful bard with the badge of victory.

Disastrous floods have occurred in Bohemla. The river Moldau rose to 16ft, aboro its normal height, and the surrounding country is sub-

ALL golfing records at the Happy Valley got bad smash-up by Dr. J. A. Lowson in a match The Major was in receipt of half a stroke, but against Major Arbuthnot yesterday afternoon. well as he played the Doctor completely ran away from him, and finished the first round

vety lew score of 35, composed of 5.4.4.4 4 4 4.3-3. the last four holes fa 14 being almost miraculous. In the second round Dr. Lowson scarcely maintained this bigbmerged. standard, and took 40 to finish, being & holes up en the match. The previous record was 38, which the Doctor has on several occasions done the round in Mr. Mitchell-Innes is also said to have finished in a similar number, but this gentleman's memory is so unreliable that his sporo has never been generally accepted as a record.

FROM reliable Chinese sources we gather that owing to the long-continued drought in the Kwangtung province, especially within a hundred and filly miles radius of Cantor, the autumnal A CORRISPONDENT from Holbow, writing under paddy crop prospects are poor in the extreme. date of 6th instant, informs us that matters are This fact has led to a considerable advance in still looking very bad, owing to the recently the price of the Chinesestaple of life, rice, which imposed shin. Jax. He states that the people of has gone up some twenty-five per cent at Canton Halaan already find it difficult to maintain during the past few days. A rise, too, has taken themselves, and that any extra tax would be place in freights from the south; fourteen cents per unbearable, On. the and, and 3rd inst. the picul from Saigon having become seventeen, while Total sent the Chin Tal with a large force of the Bangkok Hongkong quotation of 24 cents has soldiers to dispel the people and they fired into now reached thirty, with a strong upward tendency. the poor half starving defenceless mass of men, Bice merchants af Canton (in view of the scarcity women, and children, killing seven or eight which must, they say, prevail dering the winter outright and severely wounding 15 or 16 others, months) have sent large orders for supplies to The Tastal has offered the parents of the unforthe south and as a natural consequence there is tunate beings who were killed $55 per head for likely to be a brisk and highly profitable business theme After this be closed the doors of his during the ensuing three months for those Yamen and told them to go to the British consul, concerned in the carrying trade. Until the latter is bound to be more but that official would have nothing to do with part of December, tonnage them. The people of Pakhoi are managing the or less scarce in the month, the coasters plying affair with Attle more discretion than the between Bhanghai and Tientsin having as much Holhow people. A subscription of $700 has as they can do to meet the requirements of their already been raised for the purpose of defraying well-establlaked trade. All this looks well for dpkgs October gnd.

the expense of legal proceedings which they those directly laterested in the grain and ship The Fremier, Sir John Alexander Miscdonald, intend taking. This is a much more sensible ping trades of the Far East, but quite the

at Halifax, declared that the Canadiana | way of adjusting the difficulty/

Utha reverse for the poor sensuMATI

The Socialists at Berlin celebrated the expiration of the Socialists' law-by mestings and great rejoicings,

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THE GERMAN EMPEROR IN AUSTRIA.

LONDON, October and Ella Imperial Majesty had a remarkable reception and dumphal progress through the -streets of Viêntia.

CANADA

The city of Prague is almost completely fnun- dated. Many lives have been lost by the suddenness of the disaster,

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vouring to rescue persons whose dwellings had Twenty soldiers were drowned-while endea- been surrounded by water.

In the Trades Union Congress now sitting at Liverpool the matter of legislation upon the eight-hours question has been discussed. By a majority of eight votes the congress rejected an amendment leaving the responsibility of securing the eight-hours principle to be undertaken by the voluntary action of the members of the several trades unions,

In speaking on the subject, Mr. John Burne declared that the labouring classes must look forward to the enactment by legislation of eight hours as the standard diy's labour. Unless the object were secured by Parliamentary action, It would entall a general strike or civil war,

September 6th.

A sculling match has been arranged to take place at St. Louis, in fortnight, between Gandaur and Hanlan for 1050 dollars. The course will be three miles,

Captain Cook's log, extending over a period of three years, has been sold in London, for 450 ***Sinter Gertrude has appealed to the Pope to prevent the missionaries from bindering her in her work amongst the lepers at Molokal, ma

The non-unionists employed on the Central Railway in New York have been armed with revolvers for their own protection against the ill- usage of the unionists,

Cost freights from Calcutta to Melbourne are. - quoted at sïn per fom..

At the Trades Union Congress at Liverpool, the old and powerful unions complain that they have been awamped by the younger and unim portant societies. A feeling of great bitterness has been engendered between the various unions represented at the congress on the question of statutory legislation upon the eight-hours system, The delegates representing the Lancashire operatives will probably withdraw from the

congress.

A demonstration of 12,000 miners of North Wales has been held in favour of the legalising of the eight-hour system,

The strike in connection with the New York Central Railway still continues. The strikers have already twice, wrecked trains son on this

linc.

In consequence of the attitude of the dock labourers, now on strike at the Southampton Docks, towards the police, a detachment of the military forces has been despatched to South- ampton for the purpose of maintaining order.

The weather is now fine and favourable for harvesting operations.

The Doncaster September Meeting commenced to-day, when the racing for the principle even

resulted as under :--`

The CHAMPAGNE STAKES of 30 sovs, each, 20 forfeit, and g only if declared, with goo added: for two-year-olds; colts 8st. valb. fillie's am, glb.t, the owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs, out of the stakes, and the third to save 'his stake, 88 subs.

Baron de Rothschild's bf Haute Smone, by

Tristan-Hauteur .....................

Mt. J. H. Houldsworth's b c Orvieto, by Bend

Or Napoli................................................

Mr. Hamar Bass's b'c, by Galopia-Patch

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The GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP PLATE of 1,000 sova., with 400 sows, at least from the fand, by subscription of 20 sovs. each for three-year-olds and upwards; second horse to recalve 50 sovs, out of the stakes, and the third to save his stake. Old St, Leger course (1) mile 6 furlongs and 137 yards).

Mr. J. Charlton's bm Silver Spur, by Chip-

pendale-Silver Heel, 4 years.mz_ Lord Lascelles's bik or bre Curfew, by

Barcaldine-Carillon, 3 yeärkatarit 2. Sir S. M. Lockhart's hfRinovata, by Wenlock

-Traviata, 3 years stiprios 3°

September soth.

In the disturbances at the Southampton docks the military and police were stoned. The soldiers dispersed the rioters at the point of the bayonet. Many persons were wounded.

The United States Senate has read the Tariff: Bill the third time. Under the Bill the President is empowered to suspend the duiles on "sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, with the object of encouraging reciprocal trade with other countries. The law will come into operation on October 1. The sentence passed by the court marilal on Allen, one of the petty officers concerned in the Egeria mutiny, has been reduced to two years, with dismissal from the service. The scutpaces on the others are unaltered. HAKKIND

The United States Senate has passed the MKinley Tarif Bill by 40 10 31.

September 13th For the international: glavo fight between Stavin and M'Auline on September 12, the batting is 7 to 4 on. M'Auliffe, who least, heavier than the Australian

The vessels of the Australian Audilary Squad on are fitting rapidly, and it is expected that they will be ready for service early in next

YEAR:

Mr. John Barna, chairman of the Docken Union, has been despatched by that body to Southampton, with a view, to settle the dispute in the docks the September 13th.

A local organiser in connection, with the strike, named Sprow, has been arrested for fatimidation.

September 14th,

Affairs at Ticino are calming down. The prisoners who were arrested for initing part in the disturbances have been released. The

Provisional Government has been dissolved.

A hitch has occurred in the settlement of the deck strike at Southampton. The seamen and firemen were granted an increase. The donkey- men and trimmers demanded a similar increase, which the employers, refused. The companies threaten: that they will not allow the dockers to return to work unless the demands be withdrawn.

September 1sth..

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Mr. Mana states that the Dockers' Union intends punishing the leaders in the Southamp ton strike with a firm and unswerving hand.

A workmen's conference in Belgium has approved of a general strike of all trades in favour of universal suffrage.

The German Government has proclaimed the free sale and purchase of slaves in Bagamoyo. Export by sea alone is prohibited.

There is a stringency of money in New York. The reserve is three million dollars below, the legal minimum but the Treasury will endeavour to obtain relief by buying 20 million dollars at 4 per cent.

September 16th.

The Shipowners. Federation has received a deputation representing the federated association of shipmasters and officers who are desirous to jain the shipowners in order to secure greater strength to the federation for resistance to the

of the seamen's unions.

coercion

The deputation expressed the feelings of dir- gust entertained by the English shipmasters and officers at the action of the Australian officers in joining the unions, and stated that the English officers were willing to go to any lengths rather than submit to the oppression of such anions, Ifthe owners resolved to lay up their ships, the officers would submit to the pecuniary loss.

The chairman, in replying to the deputation, promised favourable consideration to the request of the deputation, Nine tenths of the work of the federation hitherto had been in supporting owners and officers against such coercion.

· By ■ colliery explosion at Saarbrücken, in Rhenish Prussia, near Luxembourg, 24 lives have been lost,

--The Brazilian elections for the new Chambers

have so far passed off in a peaceful manner, The respits ausur, the success of the Republican party, stude

CAIRO, Šeptember 17th, ' Intelligence has been received - that wan epidemic of Asiatic cholera has broken out at Podar and the Italian port of Massowah, where already several deaths have been reported. "In consequence of this outbreak trade with Suskim has been entirely suspended

LONDON, September ryth The funeral of Dr. Liddon, Casod of St. Paul's Cathedral, took place in the crypt of { } Paul's to-day. There was an immense assemblage of distinguished personages, amongst those wh followed the cortege being Dr. Barry, late Bishop of Sydney, and eight bishops, per

Further disturbances have taken place in (be canton of Tessin, in Switzerland, in connection with the revolution, on a constitutional polat, Some skirmishes have taken place between Federal troops and the populace, but without serious results. The Italians are St. Gothard Tunnel.

arding the

A public meeting has been held at Cork to express sympathy with and secure autistance for the sufferein by the failure of the potato crop fg. the speakers, dwell on the severe sufferings Ireland. Mr. O'Brien, M.P., who was among The London Dockers Union, fearing which had be a brought on many familles owing general struggle with the Shipping Federation to the reinous effects produced by the blight on at an early date, has condemned the action of the the potato crops over almost the whole of Southampton dockers in going out son, strike st | Ireland.. He declared that the landlords could the present juncture, and has refused to grant ; not, in common humanity, insist on the pay, ʼatika pay to the mani

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