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A FOOTBALL match, The Club v. Mr. Dundas' Webear that Mr. A. Chut managerofthe Formora Eleven, will be played under Association Rules | Trading Corporation, lessee of the Keelung coal on the Race-course on Monday, the and proximo. | mines and agent for the steamers Smith and 2 Play will commence at 5 p.m. sharp.
Cois salla för Tamsui by the Smith (Capt. Leffler) to-morrow morning where he will, it is said, inspect the mines prior to retursing to this Celony.
WITHOUT Strong Competition-Misr Beacon bill: "I wonder what the philosophical reason is that men who mind their own business generally succeed." Jack Matthews: "Perhaps because there is so little competiţion in that llao.” ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Mission steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside vessels hoisting code pennant C between 9 and 10.30 am, on Sunday to convey men ashore to thu iz o'clock service, returning about 12.30.
"No, I never carry my watch when I go out, she said, artlessly. "I am so careless that it wouldn't be unfo. Why, person could steal anything right from under my pose and I wouldn't miss it." Then the young man stole a kiss right from under her nose, and she didn't seem to miss it.
AT the Police Court this morning Lieat. Donohue, R.A., charged bis cook, a Chinaman, for ember cook received various sums of money during the xling about $30 during the present month. The month to buy "chow," but he pocketted the money and got his master's provisions "on strap." Of course the compmdare presented his bill and cookee was booked. Mr. Wodehouse remanded the case, allowing the cook his liberty in two sureties of $100 each.
Wa made mention in last night's issue of a cow. policeman a few nights ago on the Kennedy Road, andly assault that had been committed upon a Sikh
by a soldier, and this morning Private Abraham Wilson was charged in connection with the affair. The constable picked him out from denied the charge. Mr. de Bavis, who witnessed the assault, could not swear the defendant was tho “wanted." and said he thought the latter.
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy wrote his first composition amongst 201 of bis comrades, but he atouty
on water: "Water is good to drink, to bathe in, and skate on When I was a baby, the nures-used to hathe me every morning la water. have been told that the Injons don't wash themselves once in ten years, I wish I was ad Tajan!"
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which has been fathered and fostered by Messrs. Holmes and Rodyk, solicitors of this colony, has just been registered under the style of The Southern Times Printing and Publishing Com
subscribed, with the object of starting a new. native paper in Canton. The capital la mainly foreign and was readily found. The wang Pae which is the only paper at present published in the vernacular in the City of Rams is absolutely under the thumb of the Mandarins, and official palate. The new paper which is to bear the title of Line Nam Yat Foo, will we under
the "rag" or lea business at a leading hong or store, a nomadic broker or wild- cat company promoter-in fact no matter what you are professionally or otherwise you are at prefect liberty to imagine H.M.S. Archer, transferred from the Cape, then its policy is of course shaped to suit the
yourself a grandee of the first chop, and wear Court dress-by kind permission
of the Snail man.
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There is something more; our fashion- able colleague has made another startling discovery. Those of the dite who may lack the courage requisite to face the music and possible ridicule of unfeeling scoffers in a Court suit, have been care- The oracle again fully provided for. the stiff-necked but supple-backed and speaks:-"Another modification for men accommodating Sir PIRTINAX
MAC not gentlemen this journey, kindly observe SYCOPHANT; the well washed and carefully will likewise be acceptable by many starched self-sufficiency of that most searchers after dress, viz; the Marl- of arch-humbugs, borough House dress and facings. This admirable' type Mr. PECESNIFF;
and the extreme consists of a dress coat with facings and veracity and vivid colouring of the cuffs, white or flowered waistcoat, knee- cloth as the imaginative Baron MUNCHAUSEN; -spurns
black coal), bald-headed intention of hiding
silk stockings, shoes the his light under a bushel, and strives and buckles." There now, gallants of
Hongkong! What think ye of all might and main, albeit in a rather halting and superficial way, to construct a new that finery? It is neat and becoming, the world of proselytes by liberally diffusing Society Editor says, and specially suitable pearls of wisdom and chunks of worldly to the present conditions of the colony. information amongst a limited collection And you can wear it all at one time, no of the benighted inhabitants of this out-of-matter whether youhave been "presented"" the-way but comfortable and remunerative at Marlborough House or not.. Probably $1.00 refuge for officials too dazzlingly brillant you have not been honored so far by 1.10 to be retained at home, and haven of rest gracious Royalty, but it will answer for the lowly and lamb-like beach- exactly the same purpose If you can only 1.35. comber.
new imagine that you have bent the knee, This organiser of a crusade, even with all his talent and and nobody will be hurt or any the wiser. foresight, has possibly just falled to quite And when the curtain drops on the realize the situation; his Titanic Intellect, glittering scene and the Jubilee revelries, missing the most pressing needs of the gilded halls. the fair women and community in dire distress, and over- especially the brave men in Court dresses 0.75 burdened with the hidden difficulties of and Malborough, House suits, have given 1.00 problem which, he has told us, has greatly place to the everyday shoddy, we exercised many powerful minds in the all know so well, some permanent brilliant and select circles of rank and memorial should be publicly erected to the fashion for which the colony of Hongkong benefactor of his species who deserves so has ever stood pre-eminent in Britain's well of the jeunesse dorés he has so nobly Colonial Empire, may even have ventured rescued from oblivion. A mud statue of beyond its natural capacity in daring "Brownle" in a court suit with the motto "Parva leves capiunt animat,"!, would be an emulation of Julius Cæsar (or some other CAM, For Cam defunct prodigy whose great ambition was appropriate ornament to Tal-ping-shan to be able to say "Alone I did it"); however and at the same time fittingly perpetuate in missing the substance he had better luck an exhibition of drivelling idiocy that is with the shadow and has at least achieved remarkable even in this home of abject $4.50
flunkeylam, something. As a Jubilee poet play-actor
If after all some happy 7.50 who lived unhonored and unsung, but who possessor of the Marlborough House dress was spared the indignity of being made a and facings has been quietly playing on the Companion of St. Micar and Grozoz of weakness of our editorial colleague for an express purpose-well to him we give the that ilk, tritely remarks
free suggestion that after he has donned his tasty costume and aired` himself sudi- ciently, ho turns right-about to study for a time that expressive and Instructive story of the masquerading jackass who played the goat in the lion's skin.
THE Wanderer left Singapore for Colombe on the 2nd last, ou ber voyage home in pay off She is to be succeeded, on the China Station by intter to be succeeded there by the Mohawk which goes to take the place of the unfortunate cruiser, Serpent, lost on the Spanish coast. The three
last mentioned vessels are all sister-ships.
FOUR of the fastest sprinters in the United States recently took part in a foot race, best two in three beats, at Twickenham Park for a purse offered by J. S. Barnes, manager of the Spokene baseball team. The contestants were E. D. Skinner, C. F. Weinbrenner (aline C. F. Gibson), John Flyon, and Jack Gibson, better known as "English" Gibson. E.D. Skinner and C. F. Gibson, ran the first heat. Skinner wan in gi seconds. John Flynn and Jack Gibson ran the second, Gibson winning in 91 seconds. The winners of the two heats postponed the decisive heat on account of the lateness of the hour until the following Sunday. Particulars of the final heat are not yet to hand.
Ar the Regular Convocation of United Chapter No 1,141, EC., held on the 30th instant, the following Companions were elected as office bearers for the ensuing year:~~
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stand, be qulia Independent and for this reason should have a highly prosperous career before proxime and we heartily wish our celestial con it. The first issue is to appear, on the and temporary fair weather and every success.
Mo Lo YUNE the man reported yesterday as having poisoned himself when under arrest at Macso in connection with Namon piracy affair, is no less an individual than the 'speculator' whe planned both the Greyhound (so it is asid) and, at any rate, the Namen outrages. He bolted from Macao recently, where he was ostensibly carrying on the business of a merchant, and finding the Chinese were on his track he put back to his quarters in the Holy City with the result that the Portuguese arrested hima with the istention of „sending him on to the lairds of the Pottery-Yard, Canton to parley over the business with Rather the
do that this dangerous criminal allowed poison and thereby ended a no doubt eventful career by cheating the Viceroy's executioner; who by the way, was quietly making preparations for his reception when the news reached him that the modern All Baba's confidence man, inter alia an ex-detective, had quietly "departed thin life” sorne hours previously,
were found, &c." 181.f
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TELEGRAMS,
THE SILVER QUESTION, IN THE UNITED STATES,
LONDON, January 29th. Owing to political questions influencing the Republican Members of the House, it is believed that the propects for favourable legislation a
Now for the play! so hats of As a final contribution to the Jubilea rajoicings It is intended to hold a Fancy Dress Ball at Government House on Tuesday next, and of this fact we were accidently reminded this morning by having a visit paid us by a representative from the leading localTM 0.75 fashion emporium who kindly invited us to come and see the goodly show 1.00 of raiment of this and other ages,~| regards Silver are declining,
the dresses of kings and courtiers, etc, which had been specially manufactured for the occasion. Then it came upon us with 0.75 the force of a run-away avalanche and on
At a mass meeting held at Boston it was re- 1.00 looking up the Court Journal, allas the solved that the coinags Bill should not be
China Mall, we found the Editor thereof had accepted, and that an appeal be made to Pro already announced to the fashionable |sident Harrison to vete the Bill if it passes. 1.00 world, with due solemnity and becoming
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LONDON, January 21st.
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common,
SUNDRY bones and other remains were dis. covered lately on the Canterbury Plains (NZ), and a local editor spreads himself on the subject thus-The spot where the discovery was mide is lonely, desolate, and exceedingly dreary-just PERSON named Chapman has started to deliver the place which seems fitted to be the scene of a a course of lectures Throughout Australia on some hazy object of fact or animal which thread tragedy. The road winds round the edge of
patch of dark woodland, and on the other side tens to undermine what he calls the "Protestant is a stretch of swimpy ground, while in melther succession" to the British throne. The old direction is a single kabitation visible. Between Orange fanatic can never understand that the the fence and the swamp, hidden among world has moved an a little since the siege of the force and and scrub, the remolas
In connection Deny. There will be no British throne at all soon, and no succession," and as the only duty this the Bulletin lets off its gun thusly of a sovereign is to draw an enormous screw There is a certain amount of descriptive power and hunt un pensions for her sisters, and her in these lines, but still the place does not fill the cousins, and her uncles, it doesn't matter whe-hill, and a dead body possessed of reasonable cow-and-cat worshipper, or an individual who discrimination ought always to harmonise as attends the tabernacle. The matter isn's of the much as possible with its surroundings. Any ordinary corpse might be satisfied to be found on the edge of a swamp, but one that slightest importance, anyway,
has an eye to dramatic effect would be THE Austrian Government has been experiment discovered in Cave on a murky sight, ing with the new smokeless powder in some when the rain is falling with a sodden, aquathy military maneuvres in Hungary, and feels bad sound among the deal leaves, and the pro over the result. One army was hidden among ceedings should be accompanied, If possible, by some words on the side of a hill, while the other thunder. Arrangements should be made for was supposed to be attacking the position, and having a blasted tree close to the spot with the stationary fores pounded away for four hours raven in it. Also the voice of a ghost should without once giving the enemy a chance to dis be heard in the distance, and there should be cover its position. The pale-grey uniforms were a clanking of chains, and a loud, shriek, and s completely lost among the trees and scrab; the strange rushing sound in the air, accom flashes were so slight that they were invisible at pinaled by groans. Furthermore, the spectres ordinary range; and as for the reports they were of the deceased's ancestors should gibber mixed and multiplied by the echoes till they among the tree trunks, unless otherwise engaged, seemed to be everywhere, and nowhere in partier detained by unforeseen circurastances, Clar. The British soldier in his glaring, blood-or bindered by the weather, incapacitated red coat will have a cheerful and refreshing time through illness, or loability to catch the omalba; in the next campaign. He is the most conspicuous and a cold, shiver-If one can be procured fighting man in the world, and unless he takes off should pervade the atmosphere. And these his clothes and goes into battle with nothing on things having been duly provided, we would lay but his gun and his boots he is bound to be on dull, dickening thud of some kind
alf the thud la an ouixide circum- exterminated. But when two such armies as even the Austrians and Germans meet, the one stance with no possible bearing on the case, which bides lizelf most effectually will win, and it doesn't matter; and we would have a dismal if both side equally well then the one which morass in the background with a sliny sneezes first and thereby betrays, its situation reptile attached, and then the tragicscene would be about complete. The mangled victim who fa found under such conditions as these, and the must go under...
bandsbordinary newspaper victim who is discovered in
IN Abysslala, Mr. Mansfield Parkyns tells us on a bald, uninteresting way with no surroundings
the night before a wedding festivities take place worth speaking of are two entirely distinct both at the house of the bridegroom and at the victims, and even a peary paper should be able house of the bride, during which 'the "deball,"
or war dance, is from time to time performed. On the wedding-day the birdegroom and his friends
appreciate the difference.
males to the bride's house, all riding on [ 'CVATE TREE SHADEDRAKEN
SUPREME COURT. BA
IN ORIGINAL JURISDICTION. (Before Sir James Russell, Chief Fuxiiti.)
January 31st.
with guns, swords, and lanter and dressed in fine clothes clothes, arms, and males being often lent by some great men for the occasion, When arrived near the bride' house the nearest convenient plaio in selected, and the horsemen commence galloping about, the gunners fire off their matchlocks, and the lancers dash here and there; enacting altogether a sort of ahem fight This, I suppose [says Mt. Parkyns] it done to divert the bridegroom's
SAUNDERS : SHEPHERD, mind." On entering the house the bridegroom's friends and the bride's range themselves on
The hearing of this case was resumed to-day, opposite sides of it. The man expressenthis Mr. Robinson, Instructed by Mr. Wilkinson, willingness to marry the girls the arrangements appeared for the plafatiff; and Mr. Leach, with the father are concluded; and then "the instructed by Mr. Gedge (of Messrs, Johnson, bridegroom takes his bride, and ran dirimenit Stokes and Master's office) appeated for the turns her out, giving her into the charge of his defendant The jurors were: Messrs. J. Gal- friends outside the door." He returns to join in braith, R, Martes, J. P. Reece, F. M. da Luz and
or war-dance, in which both parties A. Moir. K tbedebail,"
This dance
Is performed by mea engage, armed with shields and lances, who with bounds, telats, and springs attack others armed with guns, so as to approach them, and at the same time avoid their fire, while the gunners' make similas demonstrations, and at last fire off their GUER, eith in the air or into earth, and then,
The plaintiff, Eva Saunders, seeks to recover. certain furniture in the house No. 44 Lyndhunt Terrace, taken possession of by the defendant an official Administrator of the estate of the late A. G. Apcar, and th
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"powerful minda" but that little ceremony is said that a deacon once addressed a new | drawing & it swords, dourish them about as ship briefly went through the evidence, and the Good Leeward Island...$.50 per Gallon, has not been provided for in the acting pastor thus The Lord keep you humble we anlar By-and-by the bride is canied off on LIQUEURS.
edition of this latest comedy and therefore will keep you poor,"
Benedictine Maraschino Caraços Chartreuse
may be worn on this State occasion." THE Portuguese gunboat Daw was expected at ago We would stop to shed a tear at this stage Singapore on the 22nd instant, from Lisbon
in sympathy with the propriators of the route to Macao.
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Mr. Robinson haring summed up, his Lords.
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It has necessarily to be omitted. And now
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