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N°. 2772

MAIL SUPPLEMENT.

The Hongkong Telegraph.

The Houghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1891.

THE PEAK HOTEL AND TRADING

COMPANY, LIMITED.

The second ordinary yearly meeting of share- holders in the bore named Company was held

at the Hongkong Hotel on the 14th Inst. for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors, with a statement of accounts to December 31st, 1899. There were present Meas. P. Ryrie (Chairman); N.J.Ede, C. Ewens, J. B. Coughtrie, W. Judd,). A F. de Sonnaville (Directors); H. Wicking, R. M. Mehta, H. L. Dennys, A. E. Skeels, W. W. Clifford, Chong Mai, and J. Wheeley (Secretary).

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Mr. Wicking-A kind of club at the Peak? Mr. Mehta Yes, just so, I wish it to be understood that I have every confidence in the Board and hope my remarks will be taken at avincing anything but antagonism to those who constitute it."

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1891.

The Chalman in reply said that it was difficult to answer' eich proposal, separately. The Directors were doing their best, and it should not be forgotten that when the Company was started everything was "booming" here, and they could not forces the unexpected depression which had set in since that time. The lack of out in the trading line; that, however, would funds prevented the Company from launching denbtless come in time. The Hotel had been running in hand to mouth" style from the beginning, and they opened the new wing just He joined with the last speaker in the hope with a view to keeping the business on. that Mr. Anderson would rejoin the Board, snow affects to despise. he was a very desirable man to assist in the diction of the Co.'s affairs. He was afraid that the interest on the mener now due him. As to Mr. Findlay Smith would not be likely to reduce the charges, he was of opinion that they might be reduced with advantage.

The Secretary-It should not be forgotten that the business of the Company is carried on In two bauser. He then read a detailed state meat of the "charges.”

macy of the Chinese. He refused to receive ceremonial visits from English officials, but they entered his Yamen notwithstanding, found him hiding like a rat, and carried him away into captivity. It is not agreeable to us to recall such experience is forgotten by the parties concerned, painful circumstances, but if the teaching of hard it is necessary to refresh their memorica. What was done in Canton may be done elsewhere, and there are princes and statesmen still living who have seen that the capital itself is not secure from the incursions of the Western barbarians. in point of fact there is nothing to binder any expense, from enacting in Peking the performance foreign power willing to facur the necesSBTY of Admiral Seymour in Canton. Certainly it is ant the clever management of the Tsung-li Yamen that will prevent a repelldon of the last real quarrel with any of the Powers whom she years of Hien-feng, if China ever provokes a

Under these circumstances there is something grotesque in the attitude of Chinese statesmen. Their dream of supremacy is like the delusions issues bis futile adicts, provoking the mailment of a lunatic who fancies himself a king and of children and the pity of those of maturer age." Whether his Majesty the Emperor Is allowed by his Ministers foreign representatives or not is a matter to meet the of no importance whatever to foreign nations; but it is of vital concern to self whether she enters foto the international China her fellowship or ant. The period of probation allowed to the Government to prepare for the society of civilized states has been more than ample; it has now expired; and there is no other event or epoch to look forward to as great Powers as an equal. Every consideration more convenient season for China to join the has been shown her, and all her difficulties have been allowed full weight. Yet after thirty years of foreign education, it would appear that the Chinese statesmen have learned bothing; they are just where they were ante bellum.

As by her own act therefore China cuts herself her right to any courteous consideration. She off from the comity of nations, she relinquishes

come when her self-chosen isolation will be fatal The time will insane proceeding. Not, may be, in the present generation, but just as soon as circumstances to quarrel with her, will the fool's paradise in which the Court is now dreaming crumble and disappear Chinese Times. [This article is that account alone, we have reproduced it. We interesting reading, and on that account, and on owe the Chinese Government absolutely nothing, but we are not idiotic enough not to see and recognise China's opportunities.-Ed., Hongkong Telegraph.]

Is liable to be taken at her word

lese 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 wandeling hither and thither curiosity that vary the monotony of the long and looking at the various objects of interest or

These are alnases of ainlag nhe which have dark passages. Perhaps the most curions were the pagodas, some standing and some fallen. collected on the floor so as to form towers of almost even thickness, cylindrical in shape, and reaching almost to the roof. One or two of these have been broken off near their roots at other curiosities, are now in prostrate. The eye of the imagination. But a fertile fancy curiosities, are chicily visible to the will discover in the stalactite and stalagmite part of Buddha's anatomy, together with heaps that encrust the roof, walls, and floor, every

books say, which it would be as wearisome to of pancakes, and other eatables and "persons, places, animals, and things" as the grammar enumerate an difficult to remember. The entire cave cannot at present be visited. It was flooded during the rains of the past summer, and remalus even now in a very damp and dirty condition, iome of the lower parts being inaccessible..

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SIX DOLLARS PEP QUARTER

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nid boats filled with stones, brickbats, or mud are sunk to form a "catch" at the bottoms Another method of overcoming these last difficulties of heard, is to string large square bricks having current forcé and depth of which the writer. has

ferns a "catch" for the reeds and the silt with hoteaia their centres, on strong ropes, which being fastened securely and dropped into the stream which the water is liden. The success of the Chinese in stopping these breaches is the wonder of those who have observed their methods. What

skilled engineers have pronounced "impossible". bisbeen accomplished, liis sometimes necessary inside the broken, dyke, which lessens the to make a new and circuitous embankment difficulty measurably, but they never fail of a reeds and talks are very perishable, and they final closure with their simple methods. As the

water falls, it often happens that successive are seldom reinforced at the back with a quantity of earth, or on the front when the breaks occur at the same place with intervals of only three or four years. Their method is eminently successful; the results equally unsatis factory, because, first; the work is not reinforced, and second, not watched and strengthened in the emergency, fadeed, the opportunity which every break furnishes to those charged with its repair, and with the distribution of "famine relief" to "feather their own nests" at government expense is so great and always so well improved that only one inference seems possible, viz., "the breach is, not deplored, even though it cruEGS inexpressible suffering.

But the main trouble-the cause of all the

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calamily and suffering-lies hack of all this, and is chargeable directly to the Government and its corps of harpies, the Infter being ever copper bottoms their own boars." It is a matter ready to "silver line their own cups? of common knowledge that "good and bones!" officials approptiste three to four-tenths," while the "bad" ones do not stop short of "seven or eight-tenths."

by the way the calls upon shareholders have Adaption of the report and accounts, which Mr. to the political system which admits of such an heing-L'a... It is 7,800 feet above Chich-tai-a catch a very annoying cold which exposure on relief, and thenceforward of a mere naminial oun

owing from the final call was reduced by $9.000 by Mr. Skeels, Menara. J. A. F. de Sonnaville, |-render it convenient for any of her neighbours Freal climbing, the general plan of the Shanto Peking. I pushed on all that day in'rain and servancy plans have been urged unɔn those in

Hotel will be extremaly beneficial, but all depends

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loyalty to the Throne, and therefore in

THE FLOODS in North CHINA

or so a place is resched where there must be magnificent waterfall during the summer rain, Here the path becomes a fight of 260 steps, which lead to a ten-house or travellers' rest at the top of the barrier of rocks causing the waterfall. pain. Still higher up the valley are a large This point is about nine hundred feet above the

number of temples and shrines, the abode of some sixty priests, besides a great crowd of other persans attached to the temples. This is one, of the high places of Buddhism. It is known Ch'i-shih-erh-mo-an and also as Tau-shuatesso. The first name indicates that there are seventy- on that some Buddhist, saint (I forget the

shrines all told; the other refers to name), let & bucket dimp in a place where ho was Overcome hỳ thirst whereupon a spring of pereania freshness instantly part of the valley la less overbung by the great appeared. It is a lovely place. This upper cliff like hills than the portion lower down, and The Chairman Gentlemen, the report having

the ronis of the temples may be seen dotted here bren in your hands for some days I will,

and there in a dense mass of foliage, or percher with your permission, take it as read. Your

en apparently inaccentibic rocks. I did not see Directors regret to show at the close of the

mobbed the keenest competition arase na to many of the shrines. For one thing I was year a balance on the wrong side of the accounts, but it is freely admitted that rƐgo was

who was to be my guide, the proceedings appeared

The afternoon was still early when we every disastrous year for many, and unfortunate

ta be going on like a sale by auction. One priest emerged into the light of day, and I spent the for most people in the Colony, and as the pre-

eight. dollars, whereupon said he would take me all over the place for remaining hours of daylight in returning to sperity of our enterprise the Peak Hotel

another insisted

Chi-shih-erh-mao-an and seeing the remaining closely identified and dependent upon that of the

Mr. Wicking thought that Mr. Findlay Smith

on, ten. It did not occur to these gentry curiosities of that neighbourhood. Those of your Colony, its misfortunes must be traced largely te should be held responsible for any deficiency in the

and would probably choose the most, reason. that I should have a voice in the matter readers who have seen the "twenty-four wonders the hard times we have been passing through.

of Alum Bay" will have a fair idea of the kind The carnings of the Bar and Restaurant at the reply, and that Mr. Thomas, the danger,

able instead of the most extravagant offer of curiosity that the guide showed me. There is should be aided by the Secretary, who should live

As it happened I got a guide who was Gap have not amounted to anything like what

well with a natural "umbrella" of stalactite was expected, whilst the fer boarders at the premises. He knew the present Secretary

qulte, competent for all my purposes for half-a-shading it; there is a dry pit where a dragon "Craigieburn were a source of loss instead of did not wish to do so, but he thought a secretary

dollar; but I shooke the dust of Ch'i-shih he lived; there is a well miraculously brought profit to the Company, However, an improve there. Mr. Anderson would be as invaluabla ald could be found who would be only to glad to live

mad-on from off my shoes.

into belag by a thirsty saint; there is an out- ment in the general state of affairs appears to to the Company if he were either Secretary or

might have been. I wanted to visit the high called the telescope; there are tempies and The guide was perhaps less efficient than he landing cliff with a square bole right through it have set is, and as we have now for the first Manager-in-chief, residing on, the premises. time a beautiful and convenient building, fitted

mountains between where I stood and the Ho- shrines perched on the sides The Chairman-1 agres, but he would be an

precipices, and up in the best and most complete manner, and

t'ao-kou; and I wanted to know their distance,

there are many other small objects of interest expensive addition. seady for business, with a manager wall-known

names, situations, etc. But of all these things which appear to fascinate the Chinese sight acer. both here and at most places in the East as

Mr. Wicking, continuing said the reduc-

the priests, one and all, appeared entirely ignor No one, however, seems to have any eves for the Hon of Tram fares should be brought about caterer without a rival, your Directors think that,

as soon as ponible. It'should be possible to

jjánt tʻso à told my guide just to walk about the cous wood-clad valleys and the precipitous granted certain conditions, there is no reason

hills with me all day long, show me the sights, limestone scaurs that bound them on every side. of laymen who have studied the conditions, that It is the opinion of foreign 'experts as well as why the Incoming tide of prosperity should not with the prevailing fares that was out of the

back to Chich-tai-an by evening. tiffim as cheaply at the Peaks in the city, but

tell me what he could, and conduct me safely That Fight I returned to Chich-tai-an with the conservancy of these rivers it entirely flow in our direction. The conditions I alluda

the full intention of making toy way across to are readily apparent after reading the report.

question.

practicable. That by a careful application of "The Chairman then formally moved the

pinnacle of rock called Chai-hsing-to or a day was hopelessly wet; I had managed to The first thing we did was to ascend a great the mountains to the Ho-tao-kow on the

the principles of engineering science; and at a Your Directors have been greatly disappointed

morrow, But it was not to be. The next Grat cost of only two or three times the annual expenditures of the government for repairs and been met: There were over $14,000 of calla Bain seconded, and it was carried wnaminously.

that is 2,300 above the plain. From its summit, unknown mountains might make serious. So I anneally, these calamities by Anad coull be Upon the motion of Mr. Caughtrie, seconded

which, by-the-bye, is only reached by some very determined, with many regrets, to return at once brought within control if not prevented. Con unpaid at the end of the year, and the amount owing to the shares which it was incumbent appointed as a Special Committee to wrist the E. S. Kelly, H. Wicking and C. Ewens were

fing-shan bills is clearly displayed. In the on the Board to declare forfeited. Owing to Board in the direction of the Company's affairs.

middle there are two or three wonded valleys, of wind across country made desolate by recent high authority with no percen ible effect thus for. this cause, and by reason of the diminished

the same kind as that which we had ascended: foods passed Jang-shan-hsien, over the Lia-fi-ho Apparently the government prefers to allow its carnings of the Hotel, we are left, at a critical Board, vice Mr. Ede, resigned, was confirmed,

minalains called the Li-wo, ar Inner Circie. hsien and its pagodz miles to the right, and anything to collect, and then permit ita vertners The appolatment of Mr. H. W. Dick to the

These, are surrounded on all sides by a ring of and the Wang-alu-ho, leaving Liang-hsiang emissaries to extort revenues as long as there la time, short of funds, and something must be done and the meeting adjourned for a fortnight. speedily to raise money, if the business is to be

This Liwo is for the most part woaded except to Teached Lu-koa-chizo before nightfall, Theta fatten out of its appropriations in truth, eat energelically pushed, as your Directors feel It

the south. Init a big peak Tzu-chi-ling (of which next day, at noon, I was in Peking.—"L. M. L" ought to be." A-financial proposal was made to

of the sufferings of the poor oppressed peas intry. THE AUDIENCE QUESTION.

Chal-hsing to is a spor) and Huang-hua-ling in Chinese Times,

The extent and seriousness of the present the Land Investment Company lately, but I

stand pre-eminent. They are both a good deal

clamity will in a measure have suggested itself regret to say within the last day ab unfavourable

The arrangements for giving effect to the Im-

higher than Chai-hsing to. This Inner Circle,

to the reader already. But for one who has not answer has been received, and now steps perial edict of December rath have not been pro. A TRIP TO PUN-SHUI TUNG IN, another circle, of still bigger mountains. however, is in its turn surrounded by a Wal

looked out on the sea of water-perhaps siled In other directions will have to be taken.grossing quite smoothly. The Ministers of the Another condition necessary to excesas is that | Trung-li Yamen who were ordered to report to THE WESTERN HILLS, PEKING.The most conspicuous of thess is a large all this country are: 1. The Wel River, rising were fields of growing grain,It is impossible The principal streams for the conservancy of over it as the writer has done where but recently the vacancies on the Board of Directors be Gilled, the Throne on the ceremonial to be observed

square summit to the north-east. It in the mountains of Honan, and having a wo to realize its full significance. The territory obtainable, which has by no been the so that a working quorum may be always on the occasion of the reception of the foreign

coally visible from Peking, and I had been About balf-a-day's Journey to the south-west in the habit of associating it with Fangshan bed of this stream forms the continuation of away in a day probably amounts well up to ing course of some goo miles to the sea. The and the winter's food and fuel supply swept over which the autumn crops were destroyed, caso during the difficult year we have gone | evinced so much seal as might have been in the kitis, called Ka Shèn-k'ow, A village, know whether there is any good authority: for the moantafng it passes through a very fertile | relieved by the cessation of the rain and the through. Many Important points are awaiting expected in executing the behests of their rather superior to the ordinary hamleta of the consideration and settlement, for instance, Sovereign; and from the reports that reach us plain, with white-washed houses, and roofs of the maine. I should conjecture that it is over plain for the rest of the course. negotiations have been opened with the Tram- from various quarters, we should be justified in slate or thatch, stands at the mouth of the valley,

four thousand feet high. But it is only one of s

2. Swing continual outflow in about six weeks time. from early morning until late at night, and if this | busines. "To minimize Imperial favours, or cliffs rising in the distance to a very great height 1. k'ou. There mountains appear far wilder thanPeiho a mile to the north of Tientsin under the further portion will be relieved during the winter. way Company fora continuous service of trams concluding that their hearts were not in the and on the opposite side of the stream are rocky majestic ring of wild barran mountains, broken ing around the circle to the westward the Fu. Much of this recovered land has been planted its only on the south-east by the valley of Ku-sheng- in the mountains of Honan, and entering the supply, and in wheat for next year's ure. A yang is next met, a smaller stream also rising c1bb ga poor and inadequate winter's food recesses of the hills, and in it stands the temple chien or of Miao-föng-shaw, and to have neither Continuing the circle, a number of smaller the inundated territory to an aggregate of some can be successfully arranged, the results to the obstruct their flow is, however, no mark of true This valley leads north-west, right into the anything in the neighbourhood of Ch'ing-shul-name of the Lower West River, Hala Hai-ho. by outflow, freezing, and evaporation, reducing upon the energy and spirit thrown into the raising difficulties about the etiquette of the of Chich-tai-an, management of the Hotel. Again, your Com propared audience, the Ministers of the It may have been because the slates and woods, orchards, nor ploughed land on their alopes; while they yield neither coal nor lima.

steams are met, tributaries to the Fu-yang, or of the larger. 4. Hun-ho or Maddy River, a stream Judged by the similar calamity of r, with coff 4.000 square miles, perhaps, by next spring. agreement executed by himself and the Tramway able remark. Their proposal that the reception Chinese air, the roofs being straight and Company, whereby the latter covenants to supply should take place in the Tra Kung Ko, where the smooth like those of a Cheshire farm, that

bited wilderners. to the Hotel water to the extent of 5000 gallons Addience of $873 was given, in tantamount to Caleh-tal-an appeared to me, when I visited days on Chal-hsing-t'. There is only one place the ridge of mountains west of Peking, and enters

It seemed as if I was to spend the rest of my

the Yellow River. It originates in Mongolia, and 91, the plain will not be free from water. a day in exchange for certain land upon which cullllying the Imperial Edict, for the Yamta is it last October, something altogether batter where the sides of this needle of rock are acces-

passes by Kalgan or Chang Chia-k'ou, through in less than about two years. The only redeem- the engine-house of the Tramway Co. is partly very well aware in what light that oplucky than any other temple bulit. For some months past na water kas bean function is regarded by foreigners, and they Hills, Perhaps, too, the contrast between its exact position. We tried two or three places, Shang Hai-ho. Still following the circle towards

sible, and my guide's memory failed him as to

the Peiho about two miles north of Tientsin abound in fish, and all Chinamen saan rise to ing feature of this sad picture is that all waters received nory Co, arms that the agreement la weak-kneed of the representatives of the lodged, helped to strengthen the good impression: underwood until we came to precipices where The Pelho, whose head waters are in Mongolis.it has been immense. A village at 80 familles

has any redress been obtained, as must know that never again will the most

under the name of the Upper West River, the emergency of becoming fishermen. it and the other places at which I had lately lening ourselves gingerly down through the wold, Mr. Findlay Smith having acted wifra Western Powers be inveigled into the building The night before I intended to put up at

the east, the last streaca of the series is: 4 and property even with approximate accuracy.! There is no way of estimating the loss of life virsi. Tals is a matter of great importance specially appropriated to the reception of the Shih-tith, where the Ta-shih-ho issues from the up again, keeping at a safe distance apart and shows through the mountains east of Pekings swept away so quickly that only three or four

there was no foothold at all; then we climbed which will not bear trifling with. Therefore, tributaries of the Empire. This proposal, mountains and takes its great southward bend the necessity of a strong Board of Directors will therefore, taints with bad faith the whole-laten- | across the plain, but I had found Yuch-po-an, Koing a few inches at a time.. At last we came windings to Tientsin, whence the one channel sudden terribleness of the destruction that came

passes by Tung-chow and by many tortuous be seen, but in order to overcome the difficulty tion of the Chinese Ministers, which is evidently the temple at that otherwise charming spot, in a remembered noticing as we clambered up, and

were able to save their lives, well illustrates the of electing gentlemen on the spur of the moment, to thwart the enlightened policy of the Emperor, ruinous condition, owing to recent floods, and I from this we found our way down. This rock, to a place where there was a place of slate T

of the above, streams is known to the Chinesa as I propose merely to pass the report and even at the risk of bringing his august name into

the Halho or Sea River,

to maay. Thousands are known to have perished had been driven from pillar to post in half-a- accounts now, and when that is done to ask you discredit.

The plain through which these streams flow more will perish from hunger cold at the first onsweep of the torrent. Thousands dozen small villages, until late at night I was which one can only ascend by fading crevices to elect a Committee of leading shareholders for The reactionary polley of the Mandarins is, fain to lie down on a l'ang, with eight Chinamen; in the face of the cliff, was formerly surmounted after leaving the mountains, for a distance vary before the winter is past, if ta astmed the purpose of choosing Directors and obesialeg however, manifested in a more emphatic, and in a mud hut at Yang-tou-kang. Nor had the by a small hut of which the rules remain. Howing from seasly 300 to 500 miles in alluvial, that about 4000,000 people are stated their consent to act, also to confar with the | for China,'s still more unfortunate manger, since night before that been spent in excessive luxury. | conducted in such a spot I leave it to others to Changing currents, This causes continual wiltfon / fitude and dependent on charity for, the

the labour of building, and of carrying food was much of it sandy and easily washed out by present Board. upon other matters, and then it has led to the abandonment of his intended My journey had been stopped on the top of adjourn this meeting to a convenient date. I visit to Peking by the Crarewitch. No Lo-kou-lfog, quite early in the day, by s

up of the beds, especially in the lower courses, making large appropriations both of grain and can't say the report is a cheery as it might be, arrangement being possible for his satisfactory quail of rain and driving raist.

After this experience, it appeared to me that which have to be conserved by heavy embank- but we have reason to believe that the business reception in the capital of Chins, the Russian lodged in a small roadside temple, dedicated had had enough of mountain climbing for that ments, for the ordinary surface of the water is money, enough probably to prevent off death

from starvation if it were honestly and during the coming summer season will be far Hele-Apparent has, it is said, determined to to Kuan-yin, and slept in an inner room, the den day and with that guide, though I hoped for frequently as high as much of the surrounding administered. The eluter it now Jupiciously, superior to anything before.

come D Bearer than Shanghai, where of an opium-smoking priest, where the windows

more on the monow. On the whole I and country. These banks are subject to continual Many will receive nothing from the Government M. Kleimenoff, Chargé d'afaires Russis, will proceed to meet him. A small which was admirably situated for catching all piece is a great resort of Chinese sight-seers and posed places where the current strikes with been appointed to carefully admlaister such

There are innumerable heavy beads and official from the Tientsin Mill ary School has the fumes of the cooking stove, and all the go in for originality when I had more leisure and peculiar force. The Chiness, authorities give funds as may be placed at their disposal in ald likewise been sent to greet his Imperial High exhalations of a dozen fellow travellers. Still I knew the topography better. So I decided to do ners in Mongkong, and is charged with corn had had a good time: my denkeys had gons les in the next valley to Chi-shib-erh-mac-In,

the famous limestone cavern that afternoon. At they see it coming up with sure and rapid their sole appeal for sympathy,

litle heed to the seething torrent, although of some of these sufferers, whose distress at this pilments and mosanges of welcome from-

season from both hunger and cold constitutes well; I had had no aggravated disputes about And so it happens that the fature ruler of the money matters; I had made the ascent of the

from which it is distant a short three miles. At to entire dependence on their superiors in tread. As to the poor peasantry, educated Report bore upon the face of it a fat denial-on her whole northern frontler, that in fact, the glorious ravine of the Fo-men-kos between stalactite-water," to clearly & sacred place of and extensive protection, but instead, with their An impecunious Georgia editor gives went to the

great country that overlaps Chins, that presses big hill behind Chich-taf-and, where I had visited

the base of Chai-hsing-torh we were nearly half all emergendes by their political system, way there. Yun-sbul-tung, the cave of and so with little ides of combination for matual was not jusiikable in the circumstances. It was Kalds the destiny of China in her band, very unfortunate that the Company had been [Bosh.-Ed. H.K. Tilgraph] is slighted by cliff of dazzlingly white limestone; I had found

the Buddhists. It is, I was told, the greatest village fends and jealousies of benefits that may following:- saddled with thoreat of "Craigieburn," which had the Government which beyond all others had the before mentioned opium-smoking priest a

place" of the north. As-1 remember them, the accrue to others and not to themselves, and ever proved a dead loss to the Company. He hoped the strongest motives for making a friend of him. pleasant, chatty individual, and bad learnt the caverns of the Peak country in Derbyshire are ready to prevent such benedts if within their the Directors would think overthe present position The Carewitch has made royal progress names, ages, addresses, and, occupations of sot only considerably bigger, but are very much power although not in the least to their own of the Company and cut down expenses consider through the countries which he bas large assortment of miscellaneous natives.

more interesting and beautiful; still I found Yin- ably, Mr. Anderson, when on the Board proved traversed, the various Sovereigns (1) paying Still, whatever the reason might be, it remains shal-teng worth the visit. The valley is less wild advantage, they are practically belpless. Each We can sympathise with our colleagce—espe kimasif a most energetic Director (haar, heat), him all the respect which is customary fact that I was greatly surprised with Chich than that I had just left, but even more thickly before his own door or bit of land watching cially in that touching reference to ringing in

man may be seen shovel or hoe is hand, to get him to rejoin the Board. He might fadin, in which he has travelled extensively, the would not have disgraced-due allowance being been built, small and rather poor, the priest nears the boundary and reveals with its had only one falling. He was slow in faste-ing and ho hoped some afforts would be made among equals while in the great empire of tal-an, I was shown into a guest chamber that covered with woodland.

At the mouth of the cave itself a temple has the stream up and down, ready, as the tide the cash that is due to me," Jones of Arkansaw also suggest that Mr. Findlay Smith be Grand Dake has been welcomed with the utmost made for difference of style-some old-fashioned

was a good man, as everybody knows, and he approached in respect to the reduction of cardiality (). He will proceed to Japan, where coaching lan at home. One or two priests came intending visitors with what they seed. A brick and there, mingled with reeds to give it sliding subscribers to the Hongkong Telegraph, whereof keeps a bir yellow cat and supplies throw in a few sbove's full of earth here up. There is a goodly crowd of Joneses, back. unerring "level" the slight, depressions, to Intercat on his account against the Company, The perhaps the most enthusiastic reception of all in to interview me, and soon after a "nice little awkward, turn in the Company's affdies might swells him, for no statesmen in the world mow boy tang'th-appeared with a big copper erection consisting of a row of arches like a rude more he made the basis of the plea. The property better than the Japanese the immosso value of basin of atoe warm water, which being deposited, form of paf-fou stands in front of the cavers, more context and and bond and watch In the Bicycle wastnickaw that took place on was taken over at a very high valuniles and courtesy between mations. It is only poor old There could be but little daubt that he had made came that turns her back on the distinguished by his sides and his eyes on the floor water cave, who is the acknowledged guide, Wecarried water has come to stand, even though it off min, 25-2/5th sees. The second he stood respectfully by the door with his hands before and by the priest of the temple near the tinues. With what joy he bears or sees that the from C. Altken and Denison, in the capital with Knzious gata and hope deferred and the afternoon of the 14th inst, the redoubtable.. was accompanied, by the gulde. I had had decreasing as by tenths of inches the rise con- Collingwood won the first heat very cleverly good deal out of the business. In the traveller and asserts for herself a position apart my Ortow, and had a gentle, Isteiligent faces with us six torches, mere bundles of reads with trembles on the rim of the bank! Yet anxiety heat resulted in favor of that athletic pheno Company's prospectus, 166, the lavaston, wore trees all the world itself a given to understand that the concern would easily be The altitude which China stammies is that of yellow, and had a gentle, Intelligent fice.tick. In the middle calculated, to give and danger are not all gone, An old repairivers: and Jackson in i min, 26 secs. The

The room was very tastefully furnished with a Pay to way) Then the basement look. Why desires no intercourse with them at all, but curios in the niches of the elaborate wooded others belog reserved till they might be possibly from him. And before the laggard officer much for Collingwood, and won a grand race is

thick, coloured carpet on the bang, and Yale to these, two were set light to start Chin, the some swirling undercurrents and oddles, distant maximum of smoke to minimum of light of

menon Sample, who very cleverly disposed of these promises had not been fulfilled (hear, hear) since intercourse there adat. be, the only basis sideboard and cupboards. A screen of carved required. At first til. Is pisin ssiling enough, in charge is ready for operations, the winter's

yet yield to the pressure, or be undermined It was for the Board to Bay The Company which China can consent to place it on is that panels separated it from an inner patient, straight and fably high corridor with a damp hut supply of growing grain for hundreds of vil time the Bicycle Club has a match on, if the Launched out in 100 extravagant a manses, and she is the userale, and all ether nations are the Outside were persimmon collection of flowering level Bour, but after a while the roof lower ages is submerged, and their mud buts either Secretary will give us due notice, we shall be the demand. It had exponded, every cent of its | which was so well exemplified in the recent plants in pots, all beautifully cared for Innd one has to bow one's head to avoid hitting melted away or surrounded by the insidious foc only too glad to send a special artist down to the supply for the public had been in excess of vassale. She only admits the one relationship, and a few pines, with a great collection of flowering capital of $265,000, and was now in debt. Commission in Cores. Chinese statesmen dare not of places baskets were hung up for the recepiiba of awkward cloidal of stalactite. But it plaats had been loud with reference to exorble course openly avow, doctrine which in their written paper, which the passer-by was request to kneel, and we last to crawl alous as best oneThere is one stereotyped and wonderfully take stock of the show. lant, charges, which he understood, had been secret hearts they cherish, and which is the true ed to "reverently cherish. In the front count can in a passage that may be three feet high legitning on their side where the water is by Mr. William Legge, broker, of Robinson

first one has to

that has swallowed up their supplies. not stop at bowing reduced of late. It was necessary that the scale of sping which moves and ages to rich All There was no dilapidation and, as far as I could and two and half wide. Atoms, if on a shallow, bundles of reeds are placed in the Road, against his house-boy Mak San, has been successful method of stopping these breaches, THE charge of stealing a dog's collar, brought charges should be moderate, for it must be borne of great middle Kingdom to which than that, so that one has almost tolle on the breach, but ends to the stream, and parallel with quashed, for reasons that have not been divulged, in mind that there was an opposition Botal in the other States are subject in perfectly intelligible, neighbourhood and the opposition of the hotels and as mere ides. It has something grand The surroundings are as charming and Copy. Even so the visitor's shoulders touch the

see, no dirt anywhere about the place. endeavour to persuada the Tramway Company such relationship, it is necessary that the hits rise in crage of white limestone on two paths arms out, sideways be to be wind, and to fill up all crevices. Through all drawing the last moment. The magistrates In the city itself. He hoped the Boted would about it, But to maintata in actual practice romantic as anything in this part of China. The opposite walls of the passage, and if he sitempt the inflowing euerent. On these earth is thrown it would be interesting to learn why the charge 10 press, and hold them down on the bottom was ever lodged, if the prosecutor intended with- to reduce its fares, which were suited only to the central state should be more powerful than sides, while gentler slopes, partly, cultivated, are liable to remains fixture. There are said to be piles are driven. Layer on layer is thus placed are no doubt well paid for performing the duties means of the aristocracy of Hongkong not to all the rest. Then, indeed, might perfect har seen across the valley in the other two directions. eighteen paces of this first narrow passage, sloping the macs. He thought a reduction of the pre-mony, prevall, as in the heavenly spheres, which My journey, on the next day, led me, into the slightly down and leading into a large arched tail and piled. As the water deepens, or at the of censors la such matters, but that is as reason to both companies. Another thing he thought Unfortunately however for Calus; she is not the bigh and almost perpendicular ciete, bene there are seven other very narrow places la the forced into place. As the work advances and of opinion from the Bosch WA Called for The gent extortiopate fares would result in advantage revely, round common all-controlling centre. Hmestone mountains; up a narrow gorge between At the further, end of this soother, similar outset if necessary, a boat is brought alongside why their time, which if the property of the en passage lending, downwards more steeply and held firmly sgainst the reeds as each bundle is kind, and we think that a very strong expression the front of the filing, anchored in position and public, should be wasted in tomfoolery, of this the Directors should not lose sight of and that strangest, but the weakest of the nations, When, the sun scarcely penetrates at noon. The Was the proper advertisement of the Hotel that over her pretensions to superiority have been hills are covered with wood, and from time to CAVE., Although it is A place where one must the current becomes more resistless with the hoose boy, who has bien badgered about from was a very important matter. He would suggest put to a practical test she has been humiliated time magnificent mountain magples flitted

www.Towing of the breach, grass hopes are used in pillar to post for nearly a week, has possibly

pany received from Mr. Findlay Smith a legal | Yamén are laying themselves open to unfavour-whitewash bad on English rather than In fact they are, as far as I could tell, an uniola, proportionately as vagrant and destructive as he ordinary,rainfall in the summers of '91

Mr. Mehta said he took a strong exception to the vast sum expended under the headings "charges" (which was quite Iscomprehensible him) salaries, coolla "hire and #wages He would like to know whether the Board considered the buslass of the Company justified such a large outlay in gential" "expenses. He "conildared that” the

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