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Intimations.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1891.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

DAKIN BROS. OF CHINA, SUBSCRIBERS TO

LIMITED;

DISPENSING CHEMISTS, &c.

LONDON, HONGKONG AND AMOY. NATURAL APERIENT WATERS.

ON THE CHOICE OF A WATER.

EXTRACT, from the London Medical Ro Mar 20th, 1890, by Gro. HERSCHELL, M.D. (Lond.)

'In order to attain the highest success in the treatment of a case by a Natural Water, it is far better to study thoroughly one kind, and master Its peculiarities, than to experiment with different soris, each having a different dous and specia! attributes of its own.

'The advantages of one mineral water over another may be put under the following beads:—'

1-Smallness of dase,

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Than HONGTRONG

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REMINDED THAT ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS

MUST BE PAID IN A YAMUE.

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Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1891

TELEGRAMS

CANADIAN MINISTRY.

LONDON, August 14th, Honourable Sir Hector L. Langevin, Canadian *Sulphates of Soda and Magneria in nearly | Minister of Public Works, has resigned. equal proportions.

2.--Absence of unpleasant effect;

4-Absence of unpleasant tale.

'On examining the chief waters on the Eng- Hiab market with a view of making a selection, one is struck with the fact that a newly-Imported waler, the Franz Josef, contains 190 and 17% grains to the pound of Sulphates of Magnesia

and Soda respectively. This is much in excess of the quanties contained by either Hunyadi Tanos, Friedrichshall, or Aesculap. It is evi. dently the strongest water by far, whilst at the same time it fortunately happens to de almert tasteless,

Price, cents 50 per bottle; par dagen 85.50.

We are sole agents In China for the sale of FRANZ JOSEF WATER.

Noy, 22 & 24. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL..

BY APPOINTMENT.

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ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

MANUFACTURERS OF AERATED WATERS.

Our New Factory has been reuntly refitted. with automatic Steam Machinery of the latest and most approved Und, and we are well able to compete in quality with the last.

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The purest ingredients only' are used, and the stmost care and cleanliness are exercised In the manufacture throughout. LARGE BOMBAY

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We continue to supply luge bottles as beretofore, as of Extra Charge, to those of our Customers who prefer to have them to the ordinary size.

COAST PORT ORDERS, whenever practicable, are despatched by first steamer leaving after receipt of order,

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

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SODA WATER

LEMONADE

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•January 19th, 1895.

THE NEW JERUSALEM. Baron Hirsch has bought land to the extent of £2,000,000 Stg. In Argentine as a settlement for the Jewish emigrants.

This is the ninth in the long list of charitable

bentfactions which have made: Baron Hirsch famous. In fact his munificence is so tremen- dous as to eclipse everything recorded in the history of philanthropy. He came into promiocace twenty five years as a very successful financler and railway contractor In Russia, Austria and Turkey. Even at that time he was known as a very generous man and was looked up to by the Russian rabbis as the best representative of their race in that part of Europe. He startled the reading public twelve years ago by giving $1,000,000, to the poor Jews in Palestine. This was followed by the benefaction of a fund of $1,000,000 to nssit Hebrews in colonizing the Holy Land. Then came a git of $5,000,000 to alleviate the condition of his race in Russia; of $1,000,000 for the education-of promising poor young Israelites; of $1,000,000 to poor Jews in Austro-Hungary; of $1,000,000 to aid Hebrews, to emigrate from Russia; of $1,000,000 to a New York Society for

the benefit of Hebrew, Immigrants to the United States; of $2,000,000 to purchase lands. In Tennessee and other American States for the Immigrants. These with $12,000,000 now given make a total of 226,000,000 bestowed in charity in twelve years. Alongside of these enormous figures the benefactions of George Peabody, George W. Chlids, Lennox, Astor, Cooper, Girard, Smithson, Richardson, Drew, Tilden, Cornell, Pratt, Colgate, Rockafeller and Sloane seem Insignificant although they ranged from $500,000 to $500,000 each. The last act of munificence reveli a fact known to buffaw redders, viz. that in the Russian communes are vast number of Jewish farmers and fatm- hands. In Western Europe the race runs almost exclusively to trade and bankding, but in the Muscovité domains for at least five

centuries they have been quite successful tillers of the soil. It is for the benefit of this class, that the Baron has purchased the immense tracts of land in North and South America. At the ruling rates in those countries, they cannot measure less than 20000,000 acres, -much more than any one of the fifty great fendal duchles of Europe.-Ed.)]

OBITUARY.

"DID you bring a field-glass with you?" "Never thought of that; but we can drink out of the fizik."

varication. Tell us all that passed between MAGISTRATE"Now, then, M'Carthy, no pre- you and the defendant." M'Carthy-"Brickbats, yer honour; brickbats."

Low prices at Kelle and Wish's-Miss Bluestocking I want "A young Englishman," please, Polite Clerk-Which style please, the 30 cent or the one dollar kind ?

THE magistrates, of Tanyang and Wuching districts have been deprived of their posts on Account of their inability to cope with the rioters In the recent dslug against milsstentes.

COUNCIL

SCADSBY-I think the Anti-Gambling Bil is = MEETING OF THE 'LEGISLATIVE fraud. Gadsby-Why hello, you were in favor of it yesterday morning! Scadsby--Ya-as, but I was over at Kowloon last right and fluttered them for a clean three hinted! See?

UNDERTAKER. SNIFFLES--Can you collect a claim of mine for burying Jobiols last month ? Solicitor Pickings-(who was a personal enemy of Joblots). You can't collect a bill in Hell, young man. Undertaker-I know I can' Sir; but I knew that you were the most likely man to do it.

THE Band of the A. & S, Highlander will play the following programme at the Office Mess to-morrow evening, commencing at 8 pan.:-

OvertureVanetta"

By Auber. ValsChelatmas Roses

Waldroufek, ·· Selection......The Yeontas of the Guard"..Sullivan, Reena edaria" Trowstoia".

Vedi Selection."Ruy Blaa" i

.....Moje Luty..

TOMMY-"Father, if I'talos a half-crown out of MR. Hotblood-It's singular I cannot have a Mr. FiggCertainly" "And if I bet a half- somebody's pocket, that's stealing, sla't. It po little peace in my own horne! Mrs Hotblood-crown and win his half-crown, that's gambling?" but go off in a second and worry me to death. When you do have it, you don't appreciate it, of course." "And if I've got something worth only half-a-crown, and sell it to him for five shillings, what is that "That? Ob, why, that's business, Tommy-simply business,”

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English University of Oxford conferred upon him the degree of D.C.L., the example being followed by Cambridge which made him an LL.D. in 1874. From 1857 to 1863 he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly, the leading Tax returns of the number of visiton to the City magaslue in Now England and from 1863 to Hall Museum for the week ending Aug. 16th, are: 1873 of the famous North American Revis-Europeana 147, Chinese 2,062'; istal 2,169. At various timas he was connected editorially or otherwise with The Pioneer, the And» Slavery. The Standard, Putnams, Monthly and other American and British periodicalá, At times he appeared upon the lecture-rostrum, where he was very popular and more especially under the auspices of the Lowell Institute, Boston and the Pond Bureau, New York Toward the close of 1874, the part of minister to Russia was offered to him by President Grant, but was refused on the score of bis literary duties being too onerous. In 1877 ke was appointed Minister to Spain by Prezident Hayes and in January, 1880 to the court of St. James. He remained embassador to Great Britain until April 1885, when he resigned and retired to private le In person, he was of medium height, well-built and muscular, He had a very handsome face with large gmy eyes, clear-cut features and d' wenith of hair and beard. To physical beauty, he added extreme neatness in dressing, a graceful carriage and Chesterfieldian manners, He was a finished speaker, a fascinating con- verantionalist, a genial companion and scholar of the "highest type. D'Israell sty'ed klm the American Admirable Crichton" and Gladstone in a next epigram called him, "master of pen and mea." His death takes away one of the last great literary stars of the preceeding generation. Of the fifty distinguished writers of 1850.75, all that are left are the three poets Whitman, Whittier and Holmes. Whitman is in the clutches of senile paralysis and both Whittler and Holmes have passed their S1st, year. Lowell's career was an important one. *It began when, there would have been much truth to the ineer of the, Saturday Review there is no American literature." It embraced a period which bears the same relation to the United States as does the Elizabethan era to Great Britain and which gave America a literature which already is world famous for beauty, power and splendor, It closed but not before the smiling eyes of the great pret saw new names and new faces in the fields of American literature and realized that the edifice he had aided in ballding. would be carried on to higher beauty long after he had passed away.-F.]

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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THE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s steamer Peninsular left Shanghat at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday for this

port.

THREE runners attached to the Taotal's ramen in Shanghai died in two days from the effects of

■ sporadic form of cholera,

THE annual aquatic carnival. has been fired for the 11th and rith proximo. The programme is now in course of preparation.

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Livingston & Co.) that the E. & A. S. S. Co.'s. WE are informed by the agents (Messrs. Gibb,

steamer Menmuir left Port Darwin on Saturday for this port, and may be expected to arrive on the 14th inst.

LIFE ON THE PEAK.

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A meeting of the Legislative Council was held This afternoon. There were present ~~H. E. Major-General Dight Barker, Officer Admisi. lering the Government, Mr. W. M. Goodman (Acting Colonial Secretary); Mr. A. J. Leach. (Acting Attorney-General); Mr. S. Brown (Surveyor-General); Mr. J. H. Stewart-Lockhart (Registrar-General); Mr. N. G. Mitchell-Innes (Colonial Treasurer); Messrs. J. J. Keswick, F. Ryrie, T. H: Whitehead, and Ho Kale

MINUTES.

The minutes of the last meeting were rend and confirmed.

CENSUS RETURNS.

The Acting Colonial Secretary begged to lay the Census Returns which he had received from the Registrar General,

a

H.E. the Governor said that the return shewed

remarkable and steady Increase in the popula ton of the colony, and he wished to compliment the Registrar General and his Department for the way in which they had carried out their tak.

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ARHS CONSOLIDATION ACT, The Acting Attorney General moved the 3rd reading of the Arms Consolidation Ordinance,

AT Canton on the 4th last young and lovely charmer named Kan Chick feeling lonely, over the loss of her lard and master entrusted her person to the care of one Tong Wo of whom she begged protection as far as Hongkong. Wo dyre? Daughters-O. Yes!

Paterfamllian-Have you taken your chloro-liked her so well that he entreated her to accom-1891, which was seconded by the Colonial Pater Your pany him to Singapore to search for the missing Secretary. The Bill was then read a third time quinina ? Daughters-Certainly. Pater-Have one. Mrs. Chick, however, hung fire whereupons and passed you put camphor and carbol's weld in your the gallant Wo drew his dagger and slashed the cholera belt! Daughters-Yes. Slr. Pater- unfortunate woman right. across the breast. She Then let's go to chutch and thank God ! is now in the hospital and he is pining in the

"jug," but the sequel is to follow,

A PHOTOGRAPHER named Dixon balling from Toronto gave an unparalled exhibition of nerva at Suspension Bridge last month by walking on a wire cable stretched across the Nagara gorge over the rapidi. The cable was 700 feet long, and it took 'Uixen fifteen and a half minutes in cross, including four stops during which he formed a number of hazardous feats. The wire was not well guyed, and sagged fully twenty feet in the middle. The heat was intense, Dixon was prevented first by trickery and then catreaty from re-crossing. He did, however, go out about fifty.feet and perform's number of gymnastic feals at both ends of the cable, His wife and child were on the scene. The former was quite hysterical before her husband con- cluded the exhibition,

of

THE following fetter is in continuation of the correspondence between the Chambers Commerce in Hongkong and Amey and the local Government, which we published on June

Ist:-

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE

6th August, 1891: the 2nd of May. I am directed by the Officer SIR,With reference to my letter No. 743 of

Administering the Government to icquaint you, for the information of the Chamber of Commerce, that his Excellency is apprised by the Secretary of State for the Colonies that the Marquis of Salisbury is in communica. with her Majesty's Minister at Peking on the subject of the case of the "Esmeralda," I have the honour to be, Sli,

Your most obedient servant,

(Signed) F. H. MAY,

MESSRS. Dodwell, Carliil & Co., agents for the Canadian-Pacific Line, inform us that the steamer Empress of China, from Liverpool, is due, beretion on Saturday morning.

THERE' ara no cases on the calendar of the Criminal Sexloas to-morrow and the clerk of court desires to inform Jurors 'summoned for to-morrow that they need not attend,

WHEN It is one minute after eight o'clock it is past eight. When it is 30 minutes after eight it is only half-past eight. Here is another discovery to make the world pause and feel sad.

Mrs. PLoway-Who is your favorite in local society? Dr. Bowie-Mrs. Tamer. Mr. Flower Why, how can you, doctor? She's a hopeless in valid as you know perfectly well. Dr. B- That's why I love herl

We are informed by the agent of the O. &0. S. S. Co., that the steamship Belgie, with malls, &c., from San Francisco to the 30th alto, has arrived at Yokohama, and is under orders to leave for this port to-morrow,

Their callow check upon their young man's

shoulder

And leave upon his clotüer, in white and rose, A tell-tale mark to tickle each beholder

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THE MERCHANT SHIPPING CONSOLIDATION ORDINANCE.

The Ordinance was read a second time. The Acting Attorney General explained that it was SHORTLY after 8 o'clock on Saturday evening a not proposed to go further than the second, party engaged a sampan at Yau-ma-l pler to reading of the Bill to-day, as his Excellency convey them on board a junk which was lying the Governor was desirous of adjourning the some distance out in the harbor and «bilst en routrone of the crew of the sampan was suddenly Council. Thereupon the Chamber adjourned missed. A search was made and as no trace of || sine die, the tan could be found the matter was reported to the police. Inspector Hauson at once com- menced dragging for the body which he succeeded in finding yesterday morning. Great excitement exists amongst the boating population at Yau- ma-ti for they are firmly convinced that the deceased was noiselessly removed by the agency of an evil spirit and they wonder whose turn it will be next,

short verse, written in compliment to Mrs. Blank, one of our beat amateur vocalists. As the paem la above the amateur average, we publish it with congratulations to the author:-

ONE of our occasional contributors sends us a

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Your eyes reflect the starry night In radiance bright

Yet ever gracious and serene:

Upon your forehead broad and white I see the light

Which fails from Heaven's walls. Iween: And listening spell-bound by your voice I bear rejoice

The seraphs far-above, unseen.

ANOTHER being sadly unfortunate and rashly Importunate solved the great secret on Saturday by putting a bullet through his brains. He was a man named Weston, aged 42, and a gunner belonging to the Chinese Customs service. He was in charge of the revenue launch Rong Sing F. Heademan, Esq., Secretary, Hongkongp.m. left the launch in a dingy apparently with which is stationed at Lal-che-kok and at about General Chamber of Commerce.

p. Acting Colonial Secretary,

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the deliberate fatention of committing suicide. His second officer, a Mr. Clarkson had already As an illustration of the extraordinary vitality of taken one 'revolver from him as he suspected the Chinese Dr. Pritchard in his recent report Weston meditated shooting Elmself. As the on the working of the Peking Minion Hospital deceased left the launch he remarked "I won't quotes the case of a man who had been so come back alive and I won't go out of the world beaten over the shins in a street fight that the single handed. Shortly after leaving bo drew bones of the leg had been badly factured, after his revolver and blew kis brains out upon which which suitable finish had been given the his crew immediately jumped overboud. The work by twisting the foot on the fractured leg. deceased leaves a wife and child in the colony. The doctor goes on to say--"When the patient He was burled at 6 o'clock this morning. absence of deanliness during the heat of THE stir that his Satanic majesty made when be aived at the hospital some days afterwards,・・.··

summer, and a lowered vitality” of the tissus in an already i-nourished man, rendered any

waltzed in among the tallors was not a circum- that which the “dead meat ” microscopic search for living organisms quite stance compared superfluous. After being under our care for when they removed to Queen's Road central the carrying syndicats of Brown, Jones & Co, made nearly a fortnight, the man, with whom had

other day and took premises right between the

THE STEAM-LAUNCH COMPANY, LIMITED.

The following is the report of the Board of Directors to the fifth ordinary ́ ́half-yearly meeting of shareholders, to be held at the Com

August, 1691, at 4-39: ́pany's office, 2, Pedder's Street, on Monday, 31st

The Directors beg to submit to the Share- holders the Report and Statement of Accounts for the half-year, ending 30th June 1891.

ACCOUNTS.

After paying all running Expenses, Salaries, Repaire and all other current outgoings includ Ing the sum of $243.05 written off for bad and and doubtful debts, there remains a balance of 1789.16 at Credit of Profit and Lose Account and it is proposed to deal with this amount as flows:

To write off Extraordinary Expenditure:3-710.50 To pay a dividend of 3 per cent, which

will absorb............................................................ 1,800.00 And the Balance of $1,275,66 to be carried to cow Account

The Working Account for the six months, shows a Profit of $4116 30 which is a great Improvement on any previous Report.

AUDITORS.. Messrs. R. Lyall and L. Downes retire and offer themselves for re-election.

J. W. NOBLE, Chairman,

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT, 30TH JUNE, 1891.

Value of Steam-launches

es per last Statement.....$ 50,305.11 Extraordinary expenditare

710.50

$51,075.6% Less amount written off as

per last Report singu 1,000,00 Accounts in the hand of Solleitors... Sundry Debtors audiome 8,826.80

(ures (10) RŞİVİDieters

Mr. Russell Lowell Dames Russell Lowell, A.B., M.A, LL.D., D.LL, at the time of his death the greatest Hving American poet, was bom at Cambridge Massachusetts Feb. 22, 1819. He comes from an old New England family, whose for- bears were staunch Cheshire paritans and who crossed the ocean to the New World in 1610-1630. He graduated at the public school in 1830 and at Harvard In 1838. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar. Although he has always retained his legal relations, he practically abandoned the pro- fession for that of literature in 1841, when his first volume of poems, entitled "A Year's Life" made a success with critics and pubile alike. From that time on until 1881, his pen never flagged, poems and prose articles over kis signature appearing in the daily newspapers, Weeklies and magazines in both England and THESE are the weeks when lave-lorn maids repote i been quarrelling, and who had received a slight legal firms of Dennys & Mossop and Mr. Hongkong Hotel 6 per cent. Deben- America. His second volume of poems appeared

wound, suddenly died, and our patient then Alphabetical Rodyk. That birds of a feather In 1844, while 1845 saw the publication of his

belog considered guilty of manslaughter, was, "Conversations in some of the Old. Poets," x

removed to a Chinese prison. His conditionally flock together has been an acknow. Furniture.................................... delicious melange of articles in both verse and

Cash on Hand proze. Up to this point his reputation had

pound fracture of both legs, with considerable little boy but in this instance nature, seems not crossed the Atlantic Ocean, but in 1848,

areas of bare bone exposed, much of the soft to have been at fault for the family fell Coal on Hand when bis exquisite poem, "The Vision of Str Mr. Callow (newly-married) You do not seem, part having sloughed away. We thought that out from the start. The lawyers argued that Stationary on Hand Lauafal" appeared as the title piece of a third dear, to appreciate my caresses: Mrs. Yes, without care, in a wretched Cheese prison, it was all very well for an undertaker to set alerest and Suspense Account ...... volume of verse, bis name became international I do, dear. But your moustache tickles so, that I death would probably soon mercifully terminate UP shop next door to a doctor, bul to come property. So great was his success that many have more trouble in getting used to it, than Ibis sufferings. What was our surprise, long between the wind and the law's nobility was of his lines became household words and are ever had before.

afterwards, to see him walk, perhaps rather carrying a ghastly joke too far, so they sought now found in every dictionary of quotations.

limp, into our dispensary, and diplay his leg will succeed or not remains to be seen, but Whether they to eject the man" of bones, The same year saw the appearance of his

though disfigured, still with firmly united bones, clever and satirical," A Fable for Critica "for cutting down YBC.

Ar the Maristracy to-day a coolie was fined $5 and ask us for a little ointment to put on a spot we think the combination a very happy one if which be summarizes the literature and ordered that the delinquent should be made Had his Worship

or two where healing of the supeificial structures the parties concerned would only change signs, literati of the United States `at

was not quite complete. The man told us that The skull and cross-bones for the lawyers period. He enjoyed every facility for the personally acquinted with one of the supple rods

his keepers had anticipated his rly death in (symbolic of the old trade) and a sheet of parch- work, being a warm friend of the galaxy of the same, the case would have been appro-grison, and thought it better, on the whole, that ment for the other, of writers who were then schiering fame.

priately met.

he should die outside, and had axordingly pat Among his associates and acquaintances were

him out. The event proved their expectations the poets Longfellow, Emerson, Whittier,

to have been as mistaken us our own.” Whitman, Holmes, Wlilis, Foe, Bryant, Taylor, Secretary of Corporation "limited." President Arnold, Bronnell and the Cary alsters the-How do we stand Secretary--Liabilities bittorians Bancroft, Motley, Prescott, Draper 300,000 and stets $100 000, President-Give and Lathrop, the novelists Cooper, Hawthorne my wife $100,000 this moming, close at noon Walworth and the writers Irving, Higginson, and compromise at 30 on the dollar to-morrow. Parton. In this circle of brilliant talent, he naturally took rank' among the leaders,—i

was certainly most unpromising. Bad com- ledged fact ever since Solomon was a Preliminary Expenses Account ......

that

· IT WAS ALMOST A DIVORCE.

KODERN FINANCE.

position he held up to his death. The year Cook Missis, I should like to ask you for my 1848 proved Lowell's wonderful verastflity in character."' Lady-"Why, what can I put the shape of the Biglow Papers," a sexles of ❘ down, you Idie, good-for-nothing creature? You humorous and semi-political poeme written la surely don't expect me to say that you gave sati- the Yankee dialect. During the war of the faction." Cook-"You need do nothing of the Great Rebellion, he was an intense Unionist kind. Just say that I lasted out with you for and wrote in evey vein in favor of the North three months-that will be the best character and against secession. In 1863, he published you could give me.” Als" Fireside Travels" and in 1854 the second series of the Bigelow Papers, including his wu-poems. Five years later appeared "Under the Willows," his sixth volums of poetry and

Warzar the police were searching a house for oplam last evening an old offender In the lifet line, jumped from a window and not being pro

in December the same year, "The Cathedral," | wided with a Baldwin parachute he fell a bit

an epic poem which might have been written heavily damaging the street somewhat, but him- by Wordsworth in his palmiest days. The self considerably. He is in the Civil Hospital following spring he published volume of dock Just now, but later on he is to appear in elays, Among My Books," which contains that of the Police Court. any amount of delicate wit and humor with a perfound knowledge of all Hieratures. In 1871, appeared "My Study Windows" and in 1876, THEY were talking of the vanity of women, and bli eigth volume of verse "Three Memorial one of the few ladies present undertook a defence, Poems, Various editions of his works have "Of course," she continued, "I admit that all been published from time to time in both Eng women are vain. The men are not. But, by the_way," she suddenly broke off, “ the necktie land and America. In 1881, he published a new edition of his complate works, in sve large of the handsomest man in this room is up under volames which represented only one tenth of his ear." Shabad worked it. Every man present his writings that had appeared in public put his hand up to his neck. print. Since that time he has published a

valume of prose (1889)-entitled "Democracy A PROCUREss named Leung A Tal was brought -and other Addresses " and two koïall volumes | before Mr. A. 8. Wise this morning charged with of poems (1885 and 1888). A new edition of | having brought a young girl into the Colony for 2 Ala writinge la in preparation'and will pio- | purposes of prostitution. It appears the u

bably consist of fifteen volumes -- His public fortunate was brought from Macko and kept in s * record is of great honor. In 1865 be succeeded brothel at Sam-sul-po, Mr. Wise regarded it as bis friend the post Longfellow, as Professor of a very serious case and sentenced the woman to Modern Languages, and Belles lettens at | 13 month's imprisonment) for which he deserves Harvard Univerzity, Boston. In 1873, the the thanks of the community,

17 is seldom that Labouchere follows the example of Silas Wegg and drops into worse When he doen, it is always gond. His intest effusion is entitled "The British Soldier's Songs and was excited by the custom of the leading Eotel in Folkestone not to admit soldiers in uniform to their coffee room and reading-room :-

When I put the Queen's uniform on, I wore it with unconcealed pride,

For I said "It is one

In which deeds have been done That no one will 'dare to deride. "Twill be known and admired everywhere,

. And 'twill be a distinction to wear,

This tune of red "--- So I held up my head. With a proudly self-satisfied air.

Yes, honour. I reckoned upon When I first put this uniform onl Chorus of other Insulted Stidlers. Nor will it appear strange to you, When the fact is reflected upon, That these thoughts occurred to us too,

When we put this uniform oni But alas as I've found to my cost This uniform, feared by our foes,

But a pretext is made.. To insult and degrade The soldier wherever he goes And my cheeks have been olen aflame, As I've found it a passport to sharO;

A badge of disgrace,

Deemed unfit for a place Midst people of wealth and good fame--

Things that I never counted upon When I first put this uniform on. Chorus of ciker Insulted Soldiers, And things, pray allow us to state,

Which should be corrected anon, If you still expact man of sspute " To put the Queen's unthrin on/

THE M. C. Daily News learns from « Chungking correspondent the following interesting details of the settlement of the likin trouble them, There

Liabilities.

Subscribed Capital:

$50,015,61

900.55.

5,000.00

35.00

924-40

32.54

1,048.80

40.00

360.00

$67,173.70

2,000 Skates at $50.................100,000 of which $30 on each Share has been paid up...ia.....................si₫ 60,000.00 UNDERTALEVISIOTORENCE 3,384-54 Sundry Creditors Balance of Prost and Loss Account... 3,789.16

$ 67,173.70

WORKING ACCOUNT, FROM 1ST JANUARY TO SOTH JUNE, 1891, INCLUSIVE,

existed at Chungking what were known as the old likes and the new this.” The old léis is that otherwise known as 'Lo if shuf, a tax on all goods sold in the city : the likin Profit and Lest Account ... called Ko Mang, and is a tax on all gooda passing Chungking by boat, either up of down, The export trade was stopped at |first, it appears, because It "was under-

stood that the Total intended to collect Not Earnings of Steam-launches to

date both king; but finally the Tantal notified through the Commissioner of "Customs," Mr. Hobson, that it was the old lên that he in- tended to enforce, and he proposed to charge. It at the rate of one per cent, on the valus declared

Cr.

***Dr.

mu$ 4,167.31 $4167.31

***$ 4,167.31-

4.167.31

Bad Debt....+41

at the foreign customs, and it was all the same PROFIT AND 1488 ACCOUNT, 30TH JUNE, 1891. to him whether it was palel by the pative or foreign merchant. Heretofore this likis kas" Amount written off as per last Report...$1,000,00 been paid monthly by the Chiness traders; they ⠀⠀⠀⠀ were supposed to pay one and two-tenths per Auditors Fee..................... cent, on the value of all the goods sold in Charges Accomm the city; but as they aında thefr own Interest Account. returns, and the old officiuin : had no check on | Balance forward;;

| them, the amount paid in to the Zhis office was very much less than it should have been. The officials have from time to time tried is ́ CONTECE this discrepancy, but the merchants karo always resisted them successfully. The acceptance of the proposition made through Mr. Hobson has lod to a small business being done, and suverai small jonks have cleared for fchang. The position is therefore that formerly geode sent away from | Chungking under trasalt pass paid the transit half- duty, but do Khin. As the thin, now exacted, including that from the Interior, is less than the transit half-duty, the merchants are perfectly sathañed ; and, as they have done before, they will probably restat again successfully, should the Tactal try to raise the #49. In the middle of July, when our correspondent wrote, all was perfectly quiet at Chungking, and a new Trotai was expected in the autumng Hii Krival at Shanghai is referred to in the Notes from Native Papers in another dolmun,

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"

Balance brought forw from Ima

Account means

Amount brought forward from working

account (net earnings) sominu

-243-05

100,00

313.00

340 3.759.16

4.107.31

85,447.51

St E, & O. Bi CJ. V. P. DE JESUS,"

We have compared the above with the Books and Vouchers of the Company and have found to same in accordance.

LACEY DOWNER, F.. Hongkong, sth August, 1841,

Auditors,