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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1891.

BIRTH.

On the 14th July, at Hythe, Kent, the wife of Captain JASPER GRAHAM MAYNE, of a daughter

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, | (Cecily Mary),

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The Hanghong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, Friday, August 14, 1891

MEHR LICHT.

1r has been decided to construct a lighthouse on Waglan island and when it is finished the light house at Cape D'Agullar will not be required and we would suggest that it be removed and placed on Pedro. Blanco, an islet which lies distant some 45 or 50 miles from Hongkong In the direction of Swatow and some 18 miles off the coast. Pedro Blanco is a solitary Islet 130 feet in height and is a capital milestone, so to speak, for coasting steamers. If a lighthouse were constructed upon it a splendid off-shore leading mark would be established, about half way between Breaker Foint light and Waglan. Further this rocky islet could not possibly prove a bone of contention between the British and Chinese authorities, for a sparrow would ind some difficulty in subsisting upon its surface;

BarnANE, Thursday, 6th August, 4.8 p.m. The price of Raub Shares is :--

Sellers..................................

Buyers........................................................** Sales.......................................................

1/3 nona.

SCENI-Editorial Sanctum.

Old Buffer (entering with a solemn smile)

Anything I can do for you? Weary Editor (who has heard the conundrum

500 times before) Yes, get out

The above is the official price declared on the Brisbane Stock Exchange.

The Secretary of the Brisbane Stock Extn Sumatra and who had just come from Penang An invalid, planter named Riechter belonging change in a letter received by us a little while with the intention of proceeding home in the ago says "I placed your letter before my 1st German mail, died on board the steamship Committee by whors I am directed to advise Purnes at Singapore on the 8th Inst. The you that the cypher sent gives accurately the deceased who was travelling with his family, quotations of the day," On one day (only) there was suffering from beri-beri: was a mistake in hurriedly reading the cypher. The mistake was not of great importance.]

Friday, 7th August, 4 p.m. The price of Ranb Shares is:-

Sellers.........

SCINE in the Police Coust to-day. Mongolian blood" under cross-examination admits having paid $1oo for the person of a young and lovely Celestial maiden, but swears, that subsequent knowledge of her anly cost him $7. Lawyer (excidedly) Now 1 Now I knew, better than The above is the official price declared on the that. Sensation, and general anigger throughout Brisbane Stock Exchange.

note. 1/6 DoDC.

THE KAISER'S REPORTED ILLNESS

CONTRADICTED..

LONDON, August rith,

It is officially denied that the Emperor is ill.

ENGLAND'S POLICY IN EGYPT. "TheStandard" in a leading article announces that it is Impossible for England to at present evacuate Egypt, and warns the Sultan against listening to those who advise such a polley,

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

the court,

THE_Canton_authorities have made another attempt to effect a gigantic squeeze on foreign trade. They have insisted on the Chinese tes- reerchants shloping their ten by native vessels and have so arranged matters that foreign tea is placed at a diandvantage of about a half-penny per lb. Upwards of 15.000 packages enme down by native craft two days ago. How about Treaty obligations I

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A CORRESPONDENT writes to say that the rumoured closing of the gambling hells at Kow loon is a myth, and that with the exception of the three houses facing the Bay at the head of the pler, gambling is carried on with as much avidity as ever. He adds that a Chinese fr'end of bis won some $2000 there on Wednesday Isst. No Europeans, however, have visited the

will be found to greatly enhance the curative and its political bearing is mil. The lilet THE F. & 0..5. N. Co's steamer Ancona left † Place for some days past.

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fifties taking it for such in the mystification either of twilight or of something more exciting-hailing the rock in its solitariness and threatening to run it down if it did not move out of the way. Needless to say Pedro Blanco remained where it is to day, but H.M.S. Foretter fortunately, at the last moment, did move out of the way. The lead is the seaman's faithful guide on the China or any other coast, but if Pedro Blanco were utilized in the manner

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TRUE economy, says a philosopher, is the child of wisdom and the mother of Independence--who the father is unknown.

Tax Ocean Steamship Co's steamer Tilan left Singapore for Hongkong this morning, and may be expected on or about the 20th inst.

AN American syndicate has been formed for raising the sum of $50,000,000 for the purpose of establishing a Monte Carlo in Mexico.

Our New Factory has been recently refitted suggested above, it would indeed in the most How the Hibernian loves the emerald-Green

with automatic Steam Machinery of the

latest and most approved Mind, and obscure weatherprove a blessing to seamen Parrot (to Italian)-Where did you get your hat?

we are well able to compete in

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TELEGRAMS.

(From the Straits Times.) THE POWERS AND THE CHINESE RIOTS.

THE French chartered transport Comorin arrived at Singapore on the cth inst, from Toules and left for Tonquin on the following morning with

some 1,600 soldiers on board.-

AN Emergency meeting of St. John Lodge, No. 618, S.C.. will be held in Freemasons Hall, Zetland Street, to-morrow, at 8 for 8.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting brethren are cordially invited. Twx P. & O. steamer Mirzapors with the English mall got the start of the man at the Peak" this morning, and steamed alongside the Kowloon wharves at about 8.45 mm, without being perceived,

ROBERT SIMLEY of the Sailor's Home after of one Simpson, repaid him by stealing his coat carousing, and drinking fire-water at the expense and a just for a joke, Mr. Wise could not see the polat and gave him 14 days hard.

LONDON; August gib, In consequence of the inadequacy of the redress offered by the Chinese Government in the matter of the recent foreign riots in China, the various Governments concerned are concert ing measures by a blue book for a common intervention. The Chinese Minister in London, ban informed the Marquia” of Salisbury that the risings were due to the action of Chinese secret Wr note Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. are societies agitating against the Government rather loading the steamship Kwongsang with kerosene than to the presence of foreigners; farther execu-oll for coast ports. The kerosene anchorage was tions he said would only tend to increase the quite lively yesterday what with wongsang,

Hankow, Pasig and Klungshowć

present state of excitement.

THE EX-SULTAN OF PERAK. Lord Knutsford, the Secretary of State for the Colonies; has consented to allow the ex-Sulas of Perak together with his comrades to reside in Singapore. The party will leave the Seychelles immediately.

MR. Rodyk, charged his 'ricksha coolls with stealing a resor valued at $2 during his absence in Canton, the prisoner told the magistrate that he had only taken a temporary loan of it as his own was a bit off color, $5 or 14 days.

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Ast artist gave his latest painting to a poster to carry to the Academy. He careful, be careful said he, "the picture is scarcely dry. Ob, never mind," exclaimed the porter, "It's of no consequence at all-my clothes are old."

I will be learned here with regret that Mr. Macdonald Cameron, the genial M.P. for Wick bas been seriously ill. Mr. Cameron travelled tracted a bad attack of malarial fever while in Siam, and this together with an attack of in fluenza which he caught upon returning home proved almost too much, even for his robust con stitution. The hon. gentleman has, however,

recovered.

watchman, was brought up on remand charged THIS morning before Mr. Wise, Lo Atze, a with dealing an anchor and chain valged at $40, the property of Mr. R. Fraser-Smith, It appears the prisoner engaged a coolle on the 22nd ulto, to take an anchor away on a raft and drop it in the harbour. This he denied. Inspector Hanson said that they had traced the chain to Macao where it was sold. Mr Wise sentenced him to six weeks' Imprisonment.

AN edifying spectacle was witnessed at Pedder's Wharf last evening when a local legal luminary was engaged in combat with a chair coolle. The protection of an Alpine-stock and for a few man of law advanced to the charge ander the moments the fun was fast and furious, until the unfortunate Mongolian, rightly judging discretion to be the better part of valor, haslly retreated and let the field in the possession of this very creditable representative of the devil's brigade,

THOSE of our readers who are in the habit of swimming in the deep water of the bay should bear in mind that according to the Chinese fishermen, this week (the second week in August) 18 the one in which the ground-sharks enter the harbor and remain until November. What truth there is to the theory. we have no means of knowing, but the celestials are always keen observers of the habits and movements of the piscic world.

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LOTTERIES Are particularly rife just now: especially We! Sing, the examination upon which the "fake" is based taking place next month. P.C. Macauly caught a man carrying half a pleul of these tickets, and promptly ran on shore from the Hankow a parcel containing him in. The prisoner brought forth the old and worn-out excuse, of "carrying them for master," but without the desired effect for he was sent aloft for six weeks' cakum teasing.

A WELL-KNOWN young gentleman in Hongkong had until lately the playful habit of thrashing his wife with great regularity and a bamboo. He has it no more as the Law has interfered:) The last sportiveness produced two black eyes on the part of the wile, who is a very pretty blonde. A friend who tried to apologize for the brutality said, "Her eyes were so bright, that he mistook them for the dawn. Finding his mistake he did the next best thing and put them in mourning"!

[Abdallah, the ex-Sultan of Perak, agreed by treaty in 1874 10 Accept British Protection exercised under the advice of a Resident. The first Resident appointed, Mr. J. W. W. Birch,

·was murdered at the Sultan's instigation in Nov. 1875. A war broke out in consequence, and Ar the Harbour Office this morning, before A STRIKING illustration of the gratitude of human [Stroops had to be brought from India and China Commander Hastings, R.N., Inspector Butlin nature le afforded in the following advertise-

to relaforce the Straits garrison. in overpowering charged seven fishermen with sochoring un. resistance and punishing the Resident's llcensed boats at Sywan Bay in the waters of ment, which appeared in the London Standard murderers. The Seltan and three chiefs ware this colony; they were each fined $5 or 14 days.unicas. Indeed, there be more in it than proved to be the prime movers in the crime, and

meets the eye-"If the gentleman who were hence banished to the Seychelles, the neart

lent black mackintosh to year, The ex-Sultan has since repeatedly applied Ir is the custom of the Bank of England not to Henley, who got wet, on Tuesday last, will apply a lady at

to the Home Government to be allowed to return | pay fractions of a penny in the case di dividends | to the Housekeeper at 15, Walbrook, E.C., he to this part of the world. He and his comrades on Government stock. These fractions have, can have it by paying the cost of this adveritse have been now about fifteen years in calle.) in the course of years amonated to the large summent."-Truth says that the gentleman in of £146,000, which amount has had to be paid qucalon can hardly be accused of want of over to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,

gallantry If he lets the other sex get wet through In future.

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'FRANCE AND RUSSIA

August 6th,

The report that an alliance has been entæred into between France and Russia is not officially denied.

BRITISH WAR VESSELS AT

ALEXANDRIA..

Six vessels belonging to the Mediterranean squadron have suddenly arrived at Alexandria. It is suggested that this movement has some connection with the reports that the Sultan of Turkey intends intervening in Egyptian adoles

PARLIAMENT.

August 7th. Parliament has been morogued, and it is generally believed there will be another Session before dissolving!

"How seldom he who takes's drink Perceives the devil's crafty plan 1 The first drink takes a second drink

And then the two drinks take the man."

Tx body of Mrs. Egan, the wife of a Colour Sergt. in the Military establishment here who to-day by the steamship Hungthan for later died in Macas yesterday was brought over here ment, the body was received at the wharf by numerous friends who followed it to the Roman Catholic cemetery in Happy Valley,

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THERE are more quarrels smothered by Just shutting your mouth and holding it shot than by all the wisdom in the world.

THE Conspiracy case is still dragging its-woll Bot weary, but rather spicy, way along at the Magistracy. Mr. Wise again sat for a couple of hours this afternoon, but nothing of great Interest | Wednesday next. was elicited. The case comes on again on

AT the present time of the year when the con- script fathers of the place tear up all the streets, to as to expose the decaying matter beneath as well as to fill the ambient atmosphere with malodorous and miasmatic gasses, it is well to repeat the advice of Dr. Charles H. H. Hall, the Yokohama physiologist, to plant sunflowers and tucalypti wherever possible. These two growths have a wonderful power of destroying unhealthful vapour, malata and disease-germs and as might be expected, thrive in Hongkong thanks to the conscript Fathers to an unparalled degree.

We learn with regret from the Bangkok Times of the demise of Mr. Duncan Normby, which took place on the 30th ult. Mr. Norby was 35 years of are, and had served the portion of that time in the British Navy. He had neen rome service, and had the Egyptian war-medal and the Turkish Order, of the Fourth Class of the Medjidie Mr. Normby was well known in this Colony, having served as an engiacer for rome time in the Scottish Oriental §. S. Co., which he left about 12 months ago to take the of the Siamess Postal Department. The remains pont of Superintendent Engineer of the launches were interred in the Protestant Cemetry at Bangkok.

Vanadis reports a

THE Swedish corvette remarkable incident off Cape Trafalgar. capsized vessel was sighted, and a man, presum shly a fisherman, found clinging to the bows,

which alone showed above water. He was in an exhausted condition, and half an hour more of exposure would have sofficed to kill him. He had been ten hours in this position, and had seen his two comrades sink from exhaustion. The poor fellow was landed and placed under the care of the Spanish Consul, who will see Alm safely returned to his home near Cadiz. The vessel was on her way from Tangiers to Cadiz. Although conscious when picked up, he lost his senses for some time after his recovery, and it is difficult to find out how and where the accident happened.

CHAN AXWONG, a gay and festive "boy" finding it rather cool yesterday put three extra jackets on; this led Detective Haddon who was strolling tougd to have suspicions as to the genuinces of the lad's bulk so be stopped Master Chan, and indulged in a short interview, which disclosed a bottle of whisky and a pair of trousers wrapped to a silk handkerchief with the Initials A.D.D Chan of course was invited to the Central Sta- lion, where It was found that bis worldy posses- sions were not confined to the above articles, for a bottle of beer and a ditto of stout were found at anchor under his waist-belt. He pleaded that a friend of his, a boy in the employ of the Hon. this was denied by the individual in question so P. Ryrie had given him the liquid solace, but. Chan was thereupon fined $10 with the alter- Nation. native of a month's graft for the good of the

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THE Rungshas presented quite a lively spectacle today, as "The Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co," gave the young Indy of a free trip to Meco and back. We greet students of the Italian Convent the opportunity with commendation, this considerateness on the female portion of the community who enjoy such part of the Company, to the budding youthful

few opportunities for healthful recreation,

tacis. The drug was found in the possession of INSPECTOR STAUNTON "captured" a large baal of raw plura lastnight, amounting to about 100

one Chan A Men, residing at No. Tein Qa Lane. Broke scales &c were produced shewing the defendant was doing a big business. He be elected to accept as also did another Celestial was fined $200 or 3 months which alternative

charge of having been found in possession of named Mak A Pak who faced Mr. Wise on a 170 taels of illicit opium. $300 not being forth. coming, he as staed, will be accommodated in the Thompsonion Home until the Summer months are over.

THERE is no more mournful spectacle than a firat-class English hunting-dog here in the effeta East. There are almost no bids for him to "pólnt" at, there are no leafy nooks and covers, there are any number of pests which bite and sting him and there in the hot climate which destroys his finest qualities. The German Consul at Swatow, Colonel Strelch has however, found a method to exercise the bunting dog and intelligent quadruped to scent out white ants i to utilize the canine vittues by training the

Three years ago the H.IG.M. Consulate wLI overrun with the redoubtable insects who made life scarce worth living within its wells. The Consul bad just received 3 fire hunting dogs from home and was worried not to have some regular work for them. So in despair of anything better he taught them to find white ant's meats about the building and the vast grounds where it is located. The dogs learned quickly and before a fortnight had passed were, digging up ants from the flower-pote and excavating nesis burled in the walks or under the verandaha. By degrees they because so proficient that they barking when the insects bad begun to bore would notify the Consul by scratching and furniture. On one occasion the best dog, a fine spaniel, insisted upon the coeller bringing a step ladder into the parlor and placing it against the door way. He climbed its steep ascent to the top and there showed his astonliked master that

to fall and crush any one beneath it. The accom- the ants were undermining the door-frame and had destroyed so much fibre that it was liable plished Consul takes no credit for originating so useful & practice, but says that the idea was suggested by the late Frank Buckland, England's greatest naturalist, The notion is really a bril lant one and opens a splendid field for the faith- ful hound. Instead of opening a... pack upon a. half starved fox, the sporting man will now turn; them loose in his chambers or will spend a day in the nooks and corners of someofficial's palaces. here's rare sport in the Governor-General' residence and several other aristocratic establish

ments we wot of

CORRESPONDENCE,

[We do not necesarfly endorse the opinions exprssaed by

Correspondents in this column)...

In the death of Sir Charles Forster, M.P., for

TO THE EDITOR OF THE. "Honczoła TeleŚRAPH.TM Walsall, England loses one of the leaders who for many years, He was the only son of Charles petition that is now in process of preparation made the Liberal Party is ruling organization Chinese signatures are being obtained for the SIR-As an ladication of the manner in which

Smith Forster of Lysways Hall, Rugely, wealthy gentlemen,and Elizabeth Emory Forster,ll you permit me to recount a little episode of daughter of Richard Emory of Barco-House which I was a witness yesterday? I was sitting against the Sunday Cargo-working Ordinance Salop. He was born at Rugely in 1815 and in one of the best known of Chinese hongs educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He was talking to the proprietor, when rather a richly admitted to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1843 dressed Celestial marched in and enquired for and in 1844 Joined the Oxford 'circuit. Though the manager and being directed to him rich in his own right, be worked very hard In his profession and soon achieved considerable out proved to be a petition addressed to the produced a large role, which on being opened distinction as a pleader. In 1849, he entered Secretary of State against the Sunday Labour the arena as a political speaker and took rank bill. The first two pages were in English forthwith as a powerful and convincing, though not an eloquent speaker. He made himself so representing how hard it would be to thousands popular in the next two years that in 1862 he of Chinese who would be thrown out of work was offered and accepted the liberal nomination by the operation of such an iniquitous act (as for. Walsall. He was elected by a handsome they wished it to appear although those exact majority and has continued to represent that whatever written or printed in Chinese to words were not used). There was nothing rent gentle ability analment, be displayed explain the nature of the petition and without great executive ability and was more than any fear of contradiction I can say that not a dozen other man the master of private business. In 1874 he was created a baronet. He married members or masters of honge le the whole of Eldon, by whom ho has had issue. Frances Catherine Surtees, alece of the first Earl street can read English. But the best of It was the gentleman with the petition after giving

DURING the day, the movement of travel and Chinese community to send home. However, I some sort of an explanation, Informed them that the Colonial Secretary wanted it signed by the traffic keep the air in circulation and prevent managed to explain to the manager that the the public from hoticing the foul vapors which framers of the peiltion cared as little, perhaps, arise from the excavation on Queen's Road and or not half as much, whether the Chinese the adjacent streets. But at night when the worked or not on a Sunday, as he did about going great thoroughfare is untensated, save by the without his morning cocktail; and that the whole talking. Sikh and the staggering sailor, the thing was a bit of spite. I alas succeeded in atmosphere becomes surcharged with mephitic proving that it was necessary on sanitary grounds horror and and stercoraceous stench. It enters that the coolfe class required at least one thing it touches. the offices and godowns, Impregnating every day in the week to wash, shave and cleanse summer complaints that

The alarming amount of themselves; with which he quite agreed. I am have occurred happy to say that no algnatures were obtained past fortnight is due to no other cause, at that bong. This will give you some sort of" way do not our sanitary authorities adopt the an idea how signatures are obtained amongst simple system employed in London, New York the Chinese by the men who go rushing from able and the sanitary Improvement enormous, able to read English and net caring a straw ene and Paris and disinfect every excavation? The hong to houg, ring that the Colonial Secretary cost would be laulgnificent, the comfort inspeak wanted the petition signed Chinese not being Or is it that the powers that be wish to like way or the other (except firms connected with the role of moral mentors and keep the idis and shipping, and of whose chops I noted several) mischievous at home by mildng the streets just put their names on the paperand then go on they waiting until they hear from London what unendurable and deadly after nightfall. Or are with their smokeMAAN PEMASY a disinfectant is, and whether it should be eaten,

Ve Yours faithfully,

treable, gentlemen, and why do you not show drunk or wors as a cholera 'belt? What is the

"OLD SALT Hongkong, 14th August, 1891, some evidence of your being alive t

THE experiments in irrigation by means of

LATE BORNEO NEWS,

THE Japanese have an aphorism that is worthy Sex Chinese were arrested a few nights ago in a place in our copy books.

Magarian Road Penang, for sitempted gang- robbery. It appears that they had broken into

■ Chinman's house there but before they had time to make away with any property, their presence was discovered by one of the female artesian wells new being conducted by the Inmates who shouted loudly for help. Her cries Valted States in Nebraska and the Dakotas are. We hear the tobacco crop on the Koyak geant Mun and others at once proceeded to the feet laa dry valley brought up a column of The Arcanive arrived at Sandaldn from were heard at the Magazine Station, and Ser.lready yielding interesting and in many estate on the Khabatangan river is looking instances remarkable results. A well sunk 400 house. The robbers bad by this time disappear water, six inches in diameter that spouted 35 Darrel Bay on the a3rd July having on board

very promising, with man

vacant house close by and so directed the police feel above the surface and has continued to Row 159 bales of tobacco grown on the Seganan ed, but the woman had observed them enter there, with the result that the men were all unabated force ever since. A series of Give Estate of which Mr. J. 5. Kennedy is Manager. caught, as it were, in a trap.

wells, with depths, varying from 103 to 30 feet This tobacco was transhipped from the Arcaning deilver water whose composition is identical to the Banjarmasin which left on July 27th for with that of a series of lakes, nearly aco Singapore via ports. We au derstand the tobac AMER of the Britishs Officers Marine Asso-miles away. It is believed in this case co Is of an exceptionally good quality, and clation writes :-"Statistics show that there that the water (percolaten downward at the heartily congratulais Mr. Kennedy on the result, have been 171 fires on board cotton-laden ships likes through sandstone until it reaches an: Now Auxiously hope to see a good price per bound from the States to Europe; also that since impervious clay rock stratum, along whose pound quoted In the London sales, 1887 there have been no fires en cotton-laden surface: It flows for hundreds of miles. No We learn from Mr.Ja S. Kennedy, General ships from India, and only four previous to that explanation has as yet been offered for the Manager of the Beganam Estates Darvel Bay, year. The natural inference is that there must tremendous pressure which forces the fluid up that he has taken time by the freack this year be some special cause, or causes, for the in the artesian wolls. The former bellet that as to planting, and at the time of writing at the Atlantic fires; and there can be ano manner gneiss and granite were impenetrable to water end of July some 500,000 plants will have been mischlerens customs, and the notorious fire imbo of vanities. Under pressure the water remarkably well and the present bealth of the doubt that what between bad packing, certain must go with other exploded notions to the cut on the Estate Every thing, is looking bug," the frequency of "spontaneous com- percolates through both these igneous rocks, coolies to very good. Only one death was accounted for, Earl De La Warr and Lord Stan are inferior in this regard to sandstone or even no casualty ap to the 14th July, bustion" amongst United States cotton is amply They exercise light filtering power," but registered for the month of June and there was hope propose to attack, not the Yankee "fire bug," Imestone In some instances, where it is wap Wo have just heard almost at the time of going but the British shipowner who is fast becoming posed that the granite is not thoroughly to preen that the tobacco from Mr. Voorwyk'u the Aunt Sally of the period, I am glad to see that crystallized, the water attacks the felpas and Lahad Datu Estate has fetched a price of 133 Lord Balfour of Burleigh made reference to dissolves out enough-potash to be perceptibly guilder cents, or In English money 25. 36. per certain well-ascertained causes of fire in United alkaline. The engineers recommend the sinking pound. This considering the McKinley Tariff States cotton; but when he added that some of the shafts on the hillsides and the construction le a great * crow # for British Homb Boraco, an generated between the iron bands and the cotton, suaugh water for Irigation purposes over a dis cents per pound.

N burnings had occurred through electrictity being of reservoirs. Canals and slices will then carry Sumatra first-class leaf has been fetchingya ha simply ventilated a theory of his own-or mere probably one familøbed him by s Darmazie,

A YOUNG gentleman of the "shell-back" persu. on me. Joseph Haghes being in a playful mood last night, tried to induce Sith constable 745, to be of the same turn of mind, and it proving a fallure Josephies wrested his ride Away and poked the limb of the law in the ribs, This performance the Sikh naturally objected to by locking Joseph up. He pleaded drunkeness, this morning and was let off by stumping up three Mexicans.

LORD SALISBURY AND EGYPT, The Marquis of Salisbury has declined to and he has informed the Turkish Ambassador parley with reference to the evacuation of Egypt

in London that the present time was inopportune A WRITEx in a turf journal gives the following for any such movement.

rule to estimate the height to which a colf grows. Take a call at any time between six (The above may be read in connection with weeks old and one year, stand him on a level the following telegram published recently - mirison so that he will stand naturally, then Siz vessels belonging to the Mediterranean measure the distance from the hair of the hoof to squadron hava suddenly arrived at Alexandria. hle nee joint, and for every inch or fraction It is suggested that this movement has some matured. If he measures 13 Inckes he will grow thereof he mesaures he will be bande high when connection with the reports that the Sultan of to be kg hands high; if 150 Inchen, he will be Turkey Intands Intervening in Egyptian affaire? { 159 hands high, as je on.

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