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selves as satisfied with their conference with Ms. O'Brien, and hope for a speedy settlement.

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VIENNA, January 25th. The Austrian Reichsrath has been dissolved, CAIRO, January syth. A mixed legal Commission under the pre- sidency of the Minister of Justice has been appointed to study Mr. Justice Scott's scheme,

LONDON, January 26th, Serious floods have taken place in France and Belgium owing to the sudden and completa thaw that set in,

RANOOON, January 26th. · The proposal to form this Province into a Lieutenant Governorship, which we mentioned In our issue of Bih December, is ripening. We bear, from a reliable source, that "it" has been decided to advance Burma to the same stator a that enjoyed by Hengal, the North-West and the Punjab, and that our first Lleutenant Governor will be Sir Alexander Mackenzle.

'A TRIP TO YUN SHU TUNG IN THE WESTern Hills, PEKING.

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which, by-the-bye, is only reached by some very real climbing, the general plan of the Shang "fangshan hills is clearly displayed. In the

middle there are two or three wooded valleys, of the same kind as that which we had ascended." These are surrounded on all 'sides by a ring of mountains called the Liwo, or Inner Circle. This Liwo is for the most part wooded excepto the south. I'll a big peak Tili-chi-ling (at which Chal-halsg-i'o le spur) and Huang-kun-ling stand pre-eminent. They are both a good deal bigher than Chei-bsing-1'o. This Inner Circle, however, is in its twin wurrounded by a Wai wa, another circle, of still bigger mountains., The mort conspicuous of these is

a large aquare summit to the north-east, It musily visible from Peking, and I had been In the habit of associating it with Fang-sha halen and calling it Fang-shan, though I do not know whether there is any good authority for the name. I should conjecture that is over four thousand feet high.. But it is only one of a majestic ring of wild barren mountains, broken only on the south-east by the valley of Ku-abeng Į k'ou. There mountains appear far wilder than anything in the neighbourhood of Cb'ing-shui.

woods, orchards, nor ploughed land on their slopes ; while they yield neither conl nor lime. In fact they are, as far as I could tell, an uninha- bited wilderness.

About half-a-day's journey to the south-west | chien or of Miao-léng-chas, and to have Deither of Fang-shan Halen there is a narrow-opening fo the hills, called Ku Shën k'ow, A village, rather superior to the ordinary hamlets of the plain, with white washed houses, and roofs of alate or hatch, standa at the mouth of the valley, and on the opposite side of the stream are rocky cliffa rising in the distance to a very great height. This valley lends north-west, right into the recesses of the hilis, and in it stands the temple of Chich-taban.

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It seemed as if I was to spend the rest of my days on Chal-being-ta. There is only one place where the sides of this needle of rock are acces. sible, and my guide's memory failed him as to is exact position. We tried two or three places, letting outwelver glogarly down through the underwood until we came to precipices where there was no foothold at all; then we climbed wp again; keeping at a safe distance apart and going a few inches at a time. At last we came to a place where there was a piece of plate remembered noticing as we clambered up, and frora this we found our way down. This rock, which one can only ascend by finding crevices in the face of the cliff, was formerly surmounted by a small but of which the ruins remain. How the labour of building, and of carrying food was conducted in such a spot I leave it to others to determine.

It may have been because the slates and, whitewash had an English rather than a Chinese air, the roofs being straight and smooth like those of a Cheshire farm, that Chleb-tal-an appeared to me, when I visited it last October, something altogether better than any other temple on the Western Hills. Perhaps, too, the contrast between it and the other places at which I had lately lodged, helped to strengthen the good impression. The night before 1 intended to put up at Shih-t'irh, where the Ta-shih-bo inues from the mountains and takes its great southward bend

After this experience, it appeared to me that across the plain, but I had found Yileh-po-25, the temple at that otherwise charming spot, in a

I had had enough of mountain climbing for that rainous condition, owing to recent foods, and I day and with that guide, though I hoped for bad been driven from pillar to post in half-a-more on the merrow. On the whole I had dozen small villages, until late at night, I was better see first what everybody saw-for the fain to lie down on a L'ang, with eight Chinamen, place is a great resort of Chinese sight-seert-and in a mud hut at Yang-tou-kang. Nor had the to in for originality when I had more leisure and night before that been spent in excessive luxury. knew the topography better.. So I decided to do My journey had been stopped on the top of the famous limestone cavern that afternoon. It Lo-kou-ling, quite early in the day, by a lei lo the next valley to Chi-shib-dib-mao-ar, squall of rain and driving mist. I had from which it is distant a short three miles. A lodged in a small roadside temple, dedicated the base of Chal-hsing-torb we were nearly half to Kuan-yin, and slept in an inner room, the denway. there. Yün.shuilung, the cave of of an opium-smoking priest, where the windows had not been opened for months or years, and which was admirably situated for catching all the fumes of the cooking, stove, and all the exhalations of a dozen fellow travellers. Still had had a good time my donkeys had gone weli ; I had had no aggravated disputes about money matters; I had made the ascent of the big hill behind Chich-tai-ssül, where I had visited the cave of Chi-llac'th-tung; I had passed along the glorious ravine of the Fo-men-kos between cliffs of dazzlingly white limestone ; I find found the before mentioned oplum-smoking priest & pleasant, chatty individual; and had learnt the names, ages, addresses, and occupations of a large assortment of miscellaneous natives,

Still, whatever the reason might be, it remalus a fact that I was greatly surprised with Chieh talan. I was abown into a guest chamber that would not have disgraced--due allowance belog made for difference of style-some old-fashioned coaching inn at home. One or two priests came in to futerview me, and soon after a "nice Ittle boy" tang'ch-appeared with a big copper basin of nice warm water, "which being deposited, he stood respectfully by the door with his bands by his sides and bis eyes on the floor awaiting my orders. He was prettily dressed in grean ́and yellow, and had's gentle, Intelligent face. The room na very tastefully furnished with a thick, coloured carpet on the k'ong, and valuable curios in the niches of the elaborate wooden sideboard and cupboards. A screen of carved panels separated it from an Inner apartment, Outside were persimmon trees loaded with fruft, and a few pints, with a great collection of flowering plants in pots, all beautifully cared for. To places baskets were hung up for the reception of written paper, which the passer-by was request ed to "reverently cherish. In the front court of the temple were stands of lances and arrows There was no dilapidation and, as far as I could ace, no dirt anywhere about the place.

The surroundings are as charming and romantic as anything in this part of Ching. The hills rise in crags of while limestone, on two

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stalactite-water," is clearly a sacred place of the Buddhists. It is, I was told, the greatest place" of the north. As I remember them, the caverns of the Peak country in Derbyshire nre not only considerably bigger, but are very much more interesting and beautiful; still I found Yün- shui-tang worth the visit. The valley is less wild than that I had just left, but even more thickly covered with woodland."

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THE MILITARY MUMMERS." "ARTAXMINOUS YE GREAT," A Dreadful Tragic Operetta.

'"NAN.". ›"THE GOOD. FOR NOTHING *

"CARROTTINATM"

SKOUI, January 21st. President of the Home Office, clc., etc., is out of

Judge O. N. Denay, Adviser to the King. Vice-гHEATRE Korea at last, and the people of this country may be congratulated on his departure, for beyond getting up a "tiff with Yuan Se Kai, the Chinese Resident writing a so-called pamphlet

# entitled "China and Koica," in which he styled China's indefatigable representative" a smuggler. liar and political outlaw"; taking a leading part in the despatch of an abortive embassy to the United States of American, over which the Koreans, irrespective of squandering a lot of money, gained nothing towards the acquisition of autonomy which it was sought to accomplish by the mission; attempting to float a loan for Kuren which ended is a lamentable fasco, and causing the nation a lot of needless expertiture -it is difficult to discover what has been accom- plished for the Land of Morning Calm by the state American who for the past three years has to a certain extent swayed the destinies of this little, though important peninsula. Denny has gone and Koses is just as much a bone of contention as before, just as poverty-stricken, just as ridiculous in the eyes of the world, just as corrupt, the people just as much down-trodden called gentry-and last but not least, Korea is as by despotic and unprincipled officials, the so. great a danger to those Powers who have important political and commercial interests at stake in the Far East as ever before, perhaps even more

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In the course of a few days I will forward letters in you written in Mr. Denny's own band- writing is which the learned Judge sys

"When I left Seoul (to China) it was under- steed I was to stay long enough to permit a change of Chinn's Representative. So this I must do or any until convinced that good faith is not what is aimed at when i shall promptly return and fight it out on the old lines, if it takes the years to do it." That he found it was not "good faith" and therefore returned to Korea are well known facts. It is also now beyond dispute that he will not fight it out on the old lines, if it takes years to do it and probably never intended to either. In another of his billets doux (addressed to General Dye, the military instructor) the Judge makes the follow ing interesting statement which throws some light on America'a plicy generally. He says:— "Our Government, supported by Russia, Japan and France, will surely support Kores in this effort (to oust China) just as she supports Samiga in her effort for independent government; for the guarantee by the United States is just as strong in the one treaty as in the other, while the one country is about as near to the United States as the other Samios de trentina de tren that while Samoa is inhabited by a few thou- sands of brick-closeted inhabitants, barbarous and uncivilized, the Koreans nuniber ten or twelve millions of educated and civilized people which should, and will, stand for a good den! before Christian nations. So tell the General 4. Han Kiu Sal, a Korean) to keep up his good cheer, for as his country is right she is bound to succeed in the ead." I have not attempted to

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T is hereby notified that the Hongkong 1 Volunteer Artillery Corps are to carry out GUN PRACTICE from a position on the Shau ki-wan Road below the North Point Battery, Da SATURDAY, the 14th instant, between the hours of 3.30 p.m. ned 6 p.m.

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At the mouth of the cove itself a teniple bas been built, small and rather poor, the priest whereof keeps a big yellow cat and supplies intending visitors with what they need. A brick erection consisting of a row of arches like a rude form of pat-lon stands in front of the cavern.

I was accompanied by the guide I had had before and by the priest of the temple near the cave, who is the acknowledged guide. We carried with us six torches, mere bundles of reeds with stick in the middle calculated to give a maximum of smoke to a minimum of light; of these, two were set alight to start with, the others being reserved till they might be required. At first all is plain sailing enough, straight and fairly high corridor with a damp hut level floor; but after a while the roof lowers, and one has to bow one's head to avoid bitting awkward "cloud" of stalactite. But it does not stop at bowing; first one has to stoop, then to kneel, and at last to crawl along as best one can in a passage that may be three feet high and two and a half wide. At times it is less than that, so that one has almost to lie on the floor. Even so the visitor's shoulders touch the opposite walls of the passage, and if he attempt. ed to put his arms out sideways he would be liable to remain a fixture. There are said to be eighteen paces of this first narrow passage, sloping slightly down and leadinginto a large arched half At the further and of this is another similar passage leading downwards more steeply, and there are several other very nanow places in the care. Although it is a place where one must lose neither one's way nor one's head, nor least of all one's light, we spent about an hour and a half in the cave wandering hither and thither curiosity that vary the monotony of the long dark passages. Pe haps the most curious were the pagodas, some standing and some fallen. These are masses of stalagmite which have collected on the floor so as to form towers of almost even thickness, cylindrical in shape, and reaching almost to the roof. One of two of these have been broken off near their roots at some time or other, and now lie prostrate: The other curiosities Are chief visible to the sye of the imagination. But, a ferille fancy will discover in the stalactite and stalagmite that encrust the roof, walls, and floor, every part of Buddha's anatomy, together with heaps of pancakes, and other eatables and "perions,

Random to the Grand Stand places, animals, and things" as the grammar Customs, astounded the good folks of this city by Jockey Club, Frea; for Non-Members, & for the

Mr. J. F: Schounicke, Chief Commissioner of books say, which it would be as wearisome 10 giving a big spread to a number of Germans on Meeting For Admission to Grand Stand, 83 enumerate as difficult to remember. The entire the 17th ins, the occasion being the birthday of for the Meeting, cave cannot at present be visited. It was flooded His Majesty the Emperor of Germany. Seeing during the rains of the past summer, and remains that the young Emperor did not make his deur Stand and Enclosure to be had on application to RULE 16-Tickets of Admission to the Grand even now in a very damp and dirty condition, in this world of woes until the 27th of January, E. W. RUTTER, Esq, Honorary Treasurer. some of the lower parts being inaccessible.

the "well informed are naturally a little tickled: No one admitted without a Tickst, to be shewn The afternoon was still carly when we emerged into the light of day, and I spent the by this doubling of the eventful day when to the Gata keeper. remaining hours of daylight in returning to earth. Talking of Mr. Schoenicke reminds me Kaiser Wilhelm II, made his appearance on

E. H. GORE-BOOTH, Chi-shih-erh-mao-an and seeing the remaining that a foreigner here is prosecuting him for libel,

Clerk of the Course. curiosities of that zeighbourhood. Those of your while another gentleman is going for him in

Hongkong, 12 February, 1891. 1269 readers who have seen the "twenty-four wonders the court of civil procedure. Later on Ill send of Ainm Bay" will have a fair idea of the kind

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CALCUTTA, wall with a natural "umbrella of stalactite long experience of the law of libel, well able both sub judice I refrain from furnisblog you with any shading it; there is a dry pit where a dragon to appreciate and criticise. The case being

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seen across the valley in the other two directions. My journey, on the next day, led me into the Hmestone mountains; up a narrow gorge between high and almost perpendicular cliffs, where the sun scarcely penetrates at noon. The hfils are covered with wood, and from time to time magnificent mountala magpies fitted between the trees. A garrow footpath follows the stream up the valley after half a mile or so a place is reached where there must be a magnificent waterfall during the summer zains, Here the path becomes a fight of a60 steps, which lead to a tea-house or travellers' rest at the top of the barrier of rocks causing the waterfall, This point is about nine hundred feet above the plain. Still higher up the valley are a large number of temples and shrines, the abode of some sixty priests besides a great crowd of other persons attached to the temples. This is one of the high places of Buddhism. It is known as Chi-abih-erb-mao-an and also as Tou-shual-ssi, The first same Indicates that there are seventy two shrines, all told; the other refers to a tradi- don that some Buddhist saint (I forget the name) let a bucket drop in a place where He WAS overcome by thirst; whereupon spring of perennial freshness instantly appeared. It is a lovely place. This upper part of the valley is less overhung by the great cliff-like hills than the portion lower down, and the roofs of the temples may be seen dotted here and there in a dense mass of follage, or perched

General Le Gendre, Vice-President of the

Home Office, and Mr. C. R. Greathouse, late U.S. Consul-General at Yokohama, the new Foreign Adviser to the Korean Government, both Americans, are at the head of affairs here. It is passible that these gentlemen will "run" things very much absent Judge. It is now possible as well, if not better, than the lamented and

that the case of the Military Instructors, Colonels J. G. Lee and C. Cummins-who were so wrong- fully dismissed 18 months ago will meet with that consideration at the hands of the Koress authorities which is due to them as gentlemen and officers of th Army.

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algnificant puppet of their Imperial master. Certain it is that the Kores problem was not solved by the reception of the Chiages envoys, Far from it,

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on apparently inaccessible rocks. I did not set once lived; there is a well miraculously brought many of the shrines. For one thing I was into being by a thirsty saint; there is an out details at present, mobbed: the keenest competition arose as to standing cliff with a square hole right through It who was to be my guide,the proceedings appeared called the telescopes there are temples and

As to political news there is not much to be going on lika a sale by auction. One priest shrines perched on the sides of precipices, and to be sald just now possibly we are ex- said he would take me all over the place for there are many other small objects of interest periencing the calm which usually precedes a eight dollars, whereupon another insisted which appear to fascinate the Chinese sight-seer. tom. En passant I may mention that the on tea. It did not occur to these gentry No one, however, seems to have any eyes for the Liberalis deny that the King Low-lowed to the that I should have a volca la the matter gorgeous wood-clad valleys and the precipitous Imperial Commissioners, while the Conservatives and would probably choose the most reason. Ilmestone scaurs that bound them on every side, assert that he did perform the tow-tow and was able instead of the most extravagant offer.

treated throughout the proceedings au That night I returned to Chish-tai-an with As it happened I got a guide who was the full Intention of making my way across quite competent for all my purposes for hall-a- the mountains to the Ho-tao-kow on the dollar; but I shook the dust of Ch'i-shih-the marrow. But it was not to be. The next mao-on from off my shoes.

catch a very annoying cold which exposure on day, was hopelessly wet; I had managed to unknown mountains might make serious. So 1 determined, with many regrets, to retura at once

If the sufferers from Consumption, Scrofula and to Peking. I pushed on all that day in rain and General Debility will try Scott's Emulsion of wind across country made desolate by recent Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites, they floods, passed Jang-shan-bsien, over the Liu-lhe will find immediate relief and a permanent and the Wang-nin-ho, leaving Liang-balang. benefit. The Medical Profession in the various halen and its pagoda miles to the right, and countries of the world universally declare it a reached La-kos-chian before nightfall, The remedy of the greatest value, and as it is very, next day, at noon, I was in Peking-L. M. L. palatable it can be readily taken by the most in Chinasi Timai..

sensitive stomach, and will never fail to gira relief and comfort to the sufferer. Any Chemist can supply it.-A. S. Watson & Co. (L24.), agents in Hongkong and Chinapal Advie

The guide was perhaps less efficient than he might have been. I wanted to visit the high mountains between, where I stood and the Ho tao-kau; and I wanted to know their distance, names, situations, etc. But of all these things the priests, one and all, appeared satirely ignor

my guide just to walk about the hills with me all day long, show me the sights, tell me what he could, and conduct me safely back to Chich-tai-an by evening.

ant so I told

*** You la here used in the sense of a mass of cialactite attached

The first thing we did was to sacend a great pinnacle of rock called Chal-halag-t'o, or Teal- asing-t'o. It is 1,800 feet shore, Chinh-tal-un, that is 9,300 above the pisin, Trom 250 vummit; Vnd of crac

in the roof of je avtaĮ. Bude natace plan is ever something of the

E. H. GORE-BOOTH, Clerk of the Course. Hongkong, 12th February, 1891.

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NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

THE

HE ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS will be held in the Offices of the Company No. 14. Praya Central, on MONDAY, the 3rd February, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st December, 1890,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 9th to the 23rd inst, both days inclusive.

By Order of the Board of Directors.

D. GILLIES, Secretary. Horplane, 2nd Februar t

f3a4 THE HONGKONG ATHLETIC CLUB,

THE

HE FIRST MEETING of the HONG

KONG ATHLETIC CLUB will take place on the Race-course (by kind permission of the Stewards of the Jockey Club), of SATUR- DAY, the 28th February, commending, at 1 O'CLOCK p.m. precisely, when the following Events will be contested,

1.20 Yards Flat Race. (Handicap). 2-Putting the Shot,

3-Long fump.

4-220 Yards Flat Race. (Handicap). 5-Bicycle Race-Half-Mile. (Handicap). 6-Hall-Mile Flat Race. (Open to Soldiers

and Police).

7.-Hurdle Race-120 Yards-10 Flights. 8-Half-Milc Flat Race. (Handicap), Ladies'

Purse.

9.-High Jump.

10.-Bicycle Race-One Mile. (Handicap). 11-100 Yards Challenge Cup.

12-Highland Fling (Open to Soldiers and

Police).

13.-Throwing the Cricket Ball 14.-Mile Challenge Cup.

15-Veterans' Race, (Competiters must be over 35 years of age and of not less than

10 years Residence in the East). 16.-Tug-of-War. (Open to all Texis). 17.-Quarter-Mile Challenge Cup 18.-Steeple-chase-Hall-Mile.

19.-Consolation Race-120 Yardy,

Competitors in Events Nos. 2, 6, 13, 15, and ' 16 not being Members of the Club to pay an Entrance Fee of $1 for each Event..

The above Events, with the exception of Nos. 2, 6, 12, 15, and 16, are Open only to those Gentlemen Amateurs who are Members of the Hongkong Athletic Club.

Lane, Crawford & Co., Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Eatry Forms can be obtained from Messrs: Ltd., and the Undersigned.

ENTRIES CLOSE on the 20th instant,

W. H. YOUNG, Hon. Sec., H.KAC. Hongkong, 7th February, 1891.

f250 HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

COMPETITION for the SUBSCRIPTION

A HANDICAP CHALLENGE CUP (Long.

Range) and RANGE SPOONS will be held on SATURDAY next, the 14th instan', at 3.15 P.M. Distances 800 and 900 yards, ten shots at each. Position, any, Entrance fee 30 cents. i

A Launch will leave the P. & O Pter at 2.45 P.M. to convey competitors.

C, VIVIAN LADDS,

Hon. Secretary, Hongkong, Loth February, 1891.

NOTICE.

GRIFFITH'S PHOTOGRAPHIC ROOMS 1, Ice House Road are suitably Hghted to produce all styles of Portraiture in any weather,

CABINETS from 25 a dozen.

CARTES DE VISITE from $3 a dozen. LIFE SIZED BUSTS in Colour, or Black & White,

IVORY MINIATURES, &c, &c. NEW VIEWS OF HONGKONG and the Coast Forts are always ready.

Hongkong, 24th September. TROO

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NE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS the Urinary Organs, in either sex (acquired or is warranted to cure all discharges from Guaranteed free from Mercury. Sold in Back constitutional), Gravel and Pains in the Back, 4. 6d. cach, by all Chemists and Patent Medi- cine Vendors throughout the World. Proprietors. The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Com- pany, Lincoln, England.

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JOHN AMBROSE CLARKE, Teacher of Officers and Engineers, No. 75, WYNDHAM STREET, Oppostle Central Police Station. *ANDIDATES prepared for, the MARINE

BOARD EXAMINATIONS.

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Author of the "NEW NAVIGATION,"" And an "Arithmetic" for Engineers, $5 Hongkong, 7th February, 1891.

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W. S. MARTEN,

ARTISTIC DECORATOR,

2, DUNDELL STREET, HONGKONG

Hongkong, 6th Aml, 1890,

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