THE CHINA BORNEO Company,
LIMITED.
An extraordinary general meeting of the above Company was held on the rath Insp.al their offices, 6 Ice House Lane. There were present Messrs. B. Layton (Chairman), H. L. Dalrymple and E.. Whealer (Directors), H. Wicking, J. B. Gomes, A. G. Word, W. Perlane, 1. S. Parry, En Selamon, G. S. Coxon and A. P. Stokes, to con- sider the following resolution :-" That the Company be wound up voluntarily under the pro- visions of the Companies Ordinances 1865-1890 and that the Directors of the Company be hereby empowered, at such time as they” may think fit, to appoint liquidators and to do all necessary acts to carry this resolution' into effect.
The Chalaman said-Gentlemen, before putting the question to the meeting I wish to inform you that we have lately approached Metem, Jardino, Matheson and Co. on the subject of taking over the management; and I have to inform you that they have expressed themselves agreeable to de so under certain conditions.
After a little discussion Mr. Wicking said that he thought this would be the best thing that could be done in the interest of the shareholders and he therefore proposed that the meeting, be adjourned for the purpose of giving the Directors time to deal' effectually with the matter; this was seconded by Mr. Solomon and was carried unanimously,
LITERARY GOSSIP.
Gladstone has received a standing offer of £1,000 for literary or political articles. from the North American Review, This is the highest price recorded in the history of magstines, ga
Rudyard Kipling threatens to emigrate and make New York his permanent home.” This is probably to get even with the critics in that city who persistently style him Kudyard Ripling, į‚
William Morris is still taraleg out large quantities of verse, but confines his muse to socialistic and labor union topics. Although he can command from £5 to £20 poem, he gives his slanges away to the workingmen's newspapers of London and other leading cities
Eamest Delancey Pierson, Whoso, novels "The Black Ball.” “A Slave of Circumstance, "A Vagabond's Honer" made such a hit is in Spain gathering material for two new stories.
John Eraest McCann, well-known as piet and feuilletonist has entered the dramatic field and has already said short dramas to Henry Irving, Augustin' Daly and Robert Mantell.
Mrs. James Brown Potter, the "seciety actress" is contributing sketches af travel to the New York Herald and other leading newspapers: Archibald C. Gunter, the clerer Anglo- American novelist and playwricht has already cleared $700,000 from "Mr. Barnes of New York" and "Mr. Potter of Texa Fifteen years ago he was a zio London clerk.
Bishop Williams of China, where works on Celestial subjects have brought him fame and considerable cash is living to retirement in
Connecticut, where he draws a handsome
royalty from the sale of his books,
Minna Irving's last volume of venes has run through five editions and is stili selling rapidly, The poetess is young, pretty and very popular.
The queerest paper in the world inthe Stage News," of Augustus P. Dunlop. It is a weekly printed on one side of the sheet and is sent to the dramatic editor of nearly every Engilah newspaper on the face of the globe. It is a model of news, terse, witty and interesting.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1891.
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CHINKIANG.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
August 8th. Everything is quiet, and hot. It has been a The warships arrived with everything ready for very bad and unhealthy summer, the thermometer action and popular fear vanished fato thin air. for the past six weeks ranging between go and Finding no trouble on hand of any kind, the 105 in the shade. There has been much sick. officers exchanged their weapons for tennis-ness among the European community and racquets and have been having a good especially among the officers and crew of the time ever since. The British commander forelga war-ships which are patrolling the Yang was so disgusted however that he tele. tse. The French and English have suffered the graphed the true inwardness of affairs to his most, their sick list running frequently as high superior and was immediately ordered to proceed as so per cent of their master roll. After the without delay to Amoy, He leaves to-morrow, first week, the rules were relaxed and officers The Villars and Patos will probably stay a few and men allowed to dress as lightly, and live as weeks in order to reduce their sick-lists which quietly as shipboard will permit. Thanks to this, are alarmingly large. On the former 40 of 130 as well as to strict medical surveillance, there ato hors du combat and in the latter 15 of 50 are has been little or no mortality among the naval in very bad health.
forces stationed on the river.
The rioting is over thoroughly and a reign of terror exists among the officials from the highest to the lowest. The concerted action of the Ministers at Peking and the remarkably quick acquiescence of the Tsung-li yamen in the demand for heavy damages has struck cönster- nation to the heart of the office-holder, who will be compelled to pay the indemnity assessed. They had hoped and expected that mongolian diplomacy would involve the questions in red tape and so give them two or three years in which to raise and pay the money required. This has been the case before and is the usual rale throughout North China. Now however it looks as if the indemnity would have to be paid before New Year's and the official mind is correspondingly perturbed,
The first looking at, however, had been enough to make Maggie feel uncomfortable. Her hand was hot, and molat when Gregory took hold off in the introduction, and, she retreated to a more secluded part of the room while he made his farewell. Mr. and Mrs. Brown, both accome panfed him to the gate, the little woman,aming gally at him round the severe busband's elbow As he passed the sitting-room window he saw the scowling face of M Wong. Then the gate banged behind him, and he set his face towards his solitary-bome.
One figure passed him on the city side of the river. It was a tall gaunt Englishman, wrapped in a great cloake, with a very ancient sun Hat, and long grey beard
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ending... Maggio had forgotten all about this mending in the absorbing interest of a book taken on the sly from Dr. Mackensie's library. For she was fond of books, in an altogether uneducated fashion, and whenever the doctor „Was-away; on one of his raids into the interior, Maggie would ateal into his library, and lay secret hands on whatever intellectual food sho could find there. In that room lay heaped up treatises on the burning questions of the day, pamphlets on Socialism, on Agnosticism, on Atheism, dde by side with French novels in an English translation, a most miscellaneous collec
lon, not always orthodox' or even1nioral, Dr. Mackenzie deemed it his duty to have, if not to read, both sides, though probably his bags of teeth extracted from the jaws of suffering natives filled him with greater pride than his well stocked and pussled her brain over them, and was con- library. But Maggle read: his books in secret vinced, by the one side in theology, till a stronger argument threw her on to the opposite//side. And all this she did without guidance, without talling any one. Surely she was a deceitful girl, household were neglected, and Mrs. Brown was And of course her person and her duties in the perfectly justified in finding fault with her. a
fault. We all know your poor mother was hope Her summing up was, perhaps, undeserved.
After all, Maggie, it mayn't be so much your
was regretted by no one when she died. lessly incapable, kept your father In misery, and What corld Maggle do but dart i look of the herself out of house? Amost utter contempt at Mrs. Brown; and flag
and so she had the satisfaction
Luckily she had her coat and hat already on, front door immediately a feat which has not banging the the same effect an interval of time has elapsed since the offence. the person to be crushed If Maggie walked to the ferry, crossed the river, and set out for a tramp along that desolate wind. swept plesof barren ground known in Chingcha as the Recreation Ground.
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French officials besieged the British Consul, Mr. not good rhetoric, but it expresses a very delight- superciliously, and then fixed his eyes with why, would she wear the hideous tartan, Phillips. He yielded to the pressure after con
And ful fact. Nearly all of our leading bongs have intense curiosity on the girl who had followed why did the wear these dreadful cotton gloves picture. It was only a chrome from a newspaper, And then she drew from her pocket a little alderable resistance and likewise cabled for a cleared handsome profits the past fortnight by him into the room.intes 12'] man-of-war. The British admiral promptly sent baying cash at 1003 per dollar and in rareferhaps it was not polite of him to atare se it at even in that state they were more pleasant and compulag the face therein portrayed with Such shapely bands, so chapped and freckled but she handled it carefully, fattening if out, the gunboat Pigmy to Pagoda Anchorage, but instances (from pediers) at998. Our sepresenta her, but he was a man of the world, and as such look at than Mrs. Brown's podgy sausage her own in the glass GRAVENH also forgot to notify his consul of what he had five bank with its customary shrewdeen secured did not waste his manners where they were bit fingers kann jaket martin done. The excitement increased and the next 39 worth last Thursday morning at 995 and equited. For in that half-hour's talk with Mrpeler Wong's opposition was, naturally, Brown evidently admired the picture, and by
The result was a satisfactory one. May
Maggie day a mob of bloodless and chattering looks down, naturally enough upon the Chinese Brown he had found out that "Maggie" beneath Mr. King's notice. Who can feel anydmiring the picture admired herself. For the individuals invaded 'the American Conruiste. hongs that paid 1012. The difference in exchange her step-daughters and the order of arrival in thing but amused at the hostility of, say, the catwo faces were wonderfully alike. Dr, Gracey was reluctant to do anything in the has increased hotel-rates and the prices of cigars. the room had shown him of how little conscn'a pouse? Fuither, Mr. Wong's dislike of My How had she come into possession of this matter, but finally telegraphed to his admiral for and drinks at the club, but we are reliably queace Maggio" was in the household King was distinctly disapproved of by Mr. and picture? a vessel. The latter immediately despatched the informed that there will be à quick return to the And, yes, she was a pretty girl, to an alie Mr. Brown, They felt just a trific embarrassed. It had chanced in this way; A few days Pales, then patrolling the Vang-tea and what was | old rates.
such as Gregory King Imagined himself to by the indecent assurance with which Peter before, Magde had had a stormy interview, with better, had the good sense to wire back that the [These are the breeziest notes we have had from
be That fed-brown hair and eyes, that dropped into the most comfortable, armcbalt, a hout was on her way to Foochow. Thin allayed
her stepmother over some neglected domestic the North for a long while, and we desire to pale waxy complexion she might, almost fifie vexed that he he did not realise it was his some of the excitement. While the flotilla wAS extend to the Echo the renewal of our most have stepped out of a Grosvenor Gallery franeity to waft on the ladies at tea-lime, open door approaching, the Portuguese community held a
distinguished consideration:-Ed.]
But to a Chinaman, to an ordinary unaesthetic for them, and avoid certain topics of conversation council of war and formed a regiment for defence.
Englishman, to a Philistine in short, Maggle Heir presence. Up to the time of Gregory It consisted of nine officers and one private with
Brown must have seemed plain. Nothing King's arrival the Brown family had looked a total armament of one rifis, one shot-gun, three
striking in the way of features, nothing that did upon Mr. Wong as a genuinely good intelligent swords, two duelling-pistols, one Colt, one stilleto
not require fitting dress and background. And young fellow "quite good enough for poor and a flag. The force reported for duty to the
for dress, she had not even the benefit of tid Maggle"-quite good enough to take to French consol and then left for some place down
ness, while for background and setting there was England with them as a show-specimen on the river where the climate is more healthful.
the, homely, hideous missionary room. Who their next holiday. How interesting the old but Gregory King would have seen she was ladies would find him! How subscriptions to worth looking at twice?
Fine Minion would flow in," and how much more room there would be in the house for the two tie step-sisters now at school. Mrs. Brown herself could make nothing of Maggie. Perhaps she was not exactly suited to be Peter Wong's wife, but are not most marriages made between unsuitable people? And do they generally tom out so badly after all?
Mrs. Brown firmly believed that marriages are
band made in heaven. That this might account for so many turning out badly on earth had never suggested itself to her, Had she not herself bech. married by photograph, without ever having seen her husband, much less known him? And was she not a living proof of the success of such marriages? By the aid of such feminine logic she arrived at the conclusion that she was rightly. For be, Dr. Mackenile, was a man of deceitful girl, lo sanctioning her engagement "The doctor I thought Grogory, King, and doing her duty by Maggie, an anthanidul and
had graced more than one local journal. Ho as to whether this distinct descent in the social whom even Shanghat knew, and whose portrait Nevertheless she had secret misgivings of Late was a missionary doctor, fall of zeal and (somescale for her step-daughter did not implicate sald) madness, who had been the hero of some and lower the whole Brown family also. great riots a couple of years ago. Chingcha. But Gregory Klog's greatest opponent, the one could not hold more than one such light, and no who most resented his introduction into the one bat a great light, or a great maning, would family life, was not Peter Wong, nor Maggie go about in such galse in November.
Brown,-Indeed, she could scarcely be reckoned When Gregory King turned to have another as an cacay--but the doctor, Nell Mackensie, look at the strange figure, he found the doctor And the doctor as he was universally styled, bad halted, and was looking after him also, though innocent of any degree, and unacknow But as though ashained of having been found ledged by any university, British or American, guilty of such curiosity, Dr. Mackenzie' did not was a great power in the mission and in Ching retum-Gregory's salutation, only fied towards cha He was an enthusiast in the most oul the grey house and deve [lit Frageous sense of the term, a man of iron will and "A queer lot," Gregory mused to kimelt physique, of boundless, infleusce among the ss to crossed in the ferry. But I don't Chinese. A quack he undoubtedly was, a maniac see where anything better is to come from, many of the more saberminded said, but no aza The mother is larky, and the girl worth denied he was honest, single-hearted, and devoted studying. If only she didn't dress sé vilely to his work. Whatever he undertook, from build
Near home he met the Commissioner, who loga chapel with his own hands to forcing having walked himself into a good temper a nomina! Christianity on a whole village that greeted him with what was meant to be a be accomplished. His feats of endurance or of winning smile. cust
Atrength, bordered on the miraculous. Naturally, however, this great "Apostle of Chingcha," as he was fondly styled by his mission in England, had great faults. as well as great virtues. He could not brook a rival, nor even an equal, And in consequence his fellow-workers were always insignificant, second-rate men, against loaves and fishes, but whom it must be con- whom he railed for idleness and fondness of the fessed, he would have kounded out of the mission had they dared to attempt to follow in his foot steps to a martyr's glory. With an almost childish conceit be combined an equally childish simplicity, which made him an easy tool la the hands of his more clever Chinese con verts. He distracted the Acting Consul and very nearly drove him to delirium tremens, by taking up the most ridiculous canwart squabbles. Thus, when Christian Chinamad having defrauded his heaten nalghbour, was about to suffer punishment at the hand of the authorities, Dr. Mackenale was the refuge of the distressed convert. And he per Treaty," invariably insisted on the wretched representative of Her Majesty bearding Taotais and District Magistrates in utterly unlawful epienvours to go against native justice The dextor was never to supremely happy as when the Consul was millenly refusing to take up, hip cases, the Tactal was swearing, and he was writing or telegraphing to the Mission Committer la England to lay such and such a matter before the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, betinge
We just found out to-day that much of the excitement was due to shrewd work on the part of some tea-speculators. The crop this season opened fairly well and large shipments were made to London. Here on account of compell. tion from Amoy, India and Ceylon, the market was very flat and every sale of Foochow entitled heavy loss, running from 20 to 55 per cent, and averaging 40 per cent, on the lot. This meant ruin to many hongs here and a worse financial condition than has ever prevailed in the history of the place. Some of the people who are heavily interested resorted to an old Wall Street ruse›ind cabled · home that an uprising had begut, rioting was imminent and all the tex. bongs were to be hurned to the ground. The Times, Telegraph, Standard and the miner dalies swallowed the bait and published the news as well as editorial paragraphs upon the expected trouble. As such a lot as described involved the destruction of the present crop and the cetration of shipments for the rest of the year, the London market revived and prices rose quite handsomely. Those who despatched the tele- grams have cleared a good profit and probably recouped their losses. "No harm has been done any body, but there will undoubtedly be sa elephantine roaring and growling when the editors at home discover how they have been imposed upan.
As a matter of fact, the Foochow natives are, and have always been docile and peaceable The only ugly elements are 1500 discharged Honau soldiers, who are penalices and ready to rob and pilfer at every opportunity. On the other hand there are over 8,000 troops hue well-disciplined and armed who could suppress, any dot in a half hour. The authorities at Peking are alarmed at the Indemnities already demanded from the Yanghe district and have advised the generals here by telegraph and preclamation to prevent the slightest disorder and to behead any one guilty of, seditious conduct or even inflammatory language. It is NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. | safe to lay go to 1 that there will be no serious
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This is a wicked world and the Heathen Chinee is very peculiar. A Mr. Holt publishes a small religious journal which circulates here and
Two of the bandits who murdered a farmer's wife in the suburbs of Nanking, have been sen- tenced to death by the higher authorities; one for murder and the other for planning the robin Shanghai, and in his leisure hours endeavorS bery; and their sentences will be carried out in a short time. The others are to be punished as abettors and accessories.
Outside the south gate of Nanking locusts are piled on top of each other to the depth of three or four inches. The Provincial Treasurer and, olher officials have attended temples to offer
· prayers and ask for the Intervention ofProvidence to succour the crops; at the same time, steps are being taken to exterminate the pests.
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The Viceroy at Wuchang has instructed the Director of the Government works and fron foundries that during the sixth moon, work is to begin at 4 o'clock in the morning and continue till ro, to recommence at a and to cease at 8 pm, and that go cash extra per day are to be given to each workman. H.E. has also subscribed 50,000 cash to provide the prisoners with cooling summer drinks in the prisons of the Kianghala and Hanyang magistrate's yaméns.
to spread the light among the pagans. - A few months ago, he took on trial a small English gas-englue to run his presses. At the end of the prescribed time, three months, he returned the mechanism to the owners without any comments. They were surprised and sent a clerk to learn what the trouble was. "Did the engine do all that was promised Oh, Yes, even more than claimed "Wasn't it safe, and simple and economical ? Extremely so," Why didn't you keep it then? Well, you see, it did the work of eight men at a quarter of what they cast. I saved the labor of the eight cooller, but I lost eight Christian converts !"
Business here is dull. In fact, dull is no word for it. The export of tex will be smaller than last year and will probably not exceed 1879-81, when it was 90,000 piculs or there abouts, The Wikis grows, larger, the tex-farms diminish in size and number, the river grows shallower and more dangerous every day and everything looks as blue and gloomy as can be.
FOOCHOW NOTES.
We are glad to be abls to state that be
We hear that Lord Li on the recipt of news of his mother's death telegraphed to the Tsung-(With due acknowledgment to the "Foochow yamen, requesting them to petition the Emperor for permission for him to leave his post as Minister to Japan, and return home to go into mourning. The Tsung-H yamen dd as they were requested and it is understood the Emperor bas granted Lord L. 100 days to come to China and perform the usual rites at his mother's funeral, He is then to return to bis post in Japan, of which Vong, Secretary of Legation is to take charge during Lond Li's absence. Vong le a native of Soochow he accompanied Lord Li on his European mission and generally regarded as a very able young man,"
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The magistrates are indignant at General Jones, the American Consul, for what they are pleased to term his officious interference. It seems that besides acting for his own con- siltuents, he has also taken in charge those of the other European nations, who have no consul at this point. By so doing he has largely increased the assessed damages and prevented the magistrates from compromising the claims of many sufferers,-a proceeding which would have afforded some one a handsome squeeze and would have drifted along for months, if not year. The foreigners ́especially the missionaries stick by Jones, and are load in his praises. As hehatslways been anti-missionary in his tendencies, this change of heart on the part of the clericals speaks louder than words. Though the barvests have been as Flance What do you meda?" asked rich as ever, times are very dull here in every Gregory. A flash of what the Commissioner direction: What with taxes, licin and battery assessments the people are ground down to their: the corlons bousehold he had just quited.
was going to say revealed to him to one instant last penny and are almost in despair, They Hot Monsieur Wang I think they called have hopes that the riots will bear fruit in the him. Did you not see him pa, da go removal of the officials of their district and the
"But, Commissioner, you don't mean to say appointment of new and less voracious succes-Damn the man" Gregory King added to sors. In case changes are made, it will probably himself, as the Commissioner walked briskly off be like the last one, when the new comers proved without even wishing him "Good evening. twice as heartless and grasping as those whom "Well, there is no accounting for tastes they replaced.
Gregory King said to himself as he sat down to his fanely dinner that evening. But it was not the taste in crockery of his predecessor that he
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PETER WONG'S REVENGE,
CHAPTER II. When God made man, He gave him powers
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Had any one, in bis Shanghai days, told Gregory King he could ever be as comfortable la Chingcha as he found himself half an hour. later, he would have laughed him to scom
But in that half-hour he had undergone some afilictions. First, he had been made to wait nearly ten minutes outside the gate, getting chilled through, and endangering that delicate teaor voice which was his joy and price. Then, shown into a damp and icy state-room, where when admitted inside the door, he had been. his teeth had chattered, and his artistic eye had smarted by reason of sundry crude and terrible tapestries, woolworks, and other atrocities with which this chamber of horrors was decorated. But into it had come a veritable angel of deliverance, though she was neither young nor beautiful For Mrs. Brows was a most cheery, cordial, buxom little lady, and when she came bustling in Gregory King felt his evil quarter of an-hour was over,
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She was not likely to meet a soul there now. The Commissioner, the only man known to frequent it, and that on account of its loneliness, must be still safe in his office. Just three o'clock!
Yes, there was the warning whistle of the steamer, the opposition one to Gregory King's firm, which ran an alternate days, and was now about to leave for Shanghal
Often before Maggie had walked herself calos on the Recreation Ground, and gone home to smile on Feter Wong as the being who would deliver her from the unpleasantnesses of her present life. But she was not going to have solitude now. A foreigner was coming round the bend, rear the broken wall that marked the ruin of what had once been Intended for the Public Flower Garden. It was Gregory King.
"Good afternoon, Miss Brown," he said, gallantly taking off his hat, and turning round to walle with her in the style of an old acquaintance. "Why are you walking here by yourself?"
And when shy Maggie made no reply, he looked curiously, but with obviously meant kindness, into her troubled face.
"Why, what's the matter? Has anybody been scolding you What a horild shame
How could Mr. King see she was in trouble ? Maggie's astonishment at this prevented her making any reply win, dat ek in dues
"That stupid fool of a Wong doesn't know how to take care of you. None of them "do," went on Mr. King What was the trouble about?
say rate"-And there she stopped. She was "Nothing at all," put In Maggie at last da At not going to confide in Mr. King, that was very certain.
took place towards the end of last year, but was be of much service to the paddy fields and the whinshine. Of course it was his dsa, and fearbest men, and their work amply blessed, bet prejudice, he himself" was unconsciously hurriedly, though it is to be scared als was not
During those two months Gregory King had become, if not reconciled to Chingehaj at any rate quite accustomed to its society. Now this
heavens, Miss Brown,, why don't you make
"At any rate what?" asked Gregory, "Good involved some slight self-sacrifice on his part,
friend of me? Surely our two heads together and would have occasioned a little astonishment,
would be better than your pretty one alone. net, to say mirth to his old scquaintance in Shanghal. For, if not an infidel, Gregory King
"Pretty one!" retorted Maggie angrily. Why term Agnostic so often. shelter a hazy pottie Mackemia was very fond of Peter Wong. was at any rate one of those who behind the Now, for some Inexplicable reason,
do you take the trouble to talk nonsense to me, Dt. Mr King? I'am all right yaranan d unbelief which saves them the trouble of going The young man was certainly amiable suddenly changing his tone to one of earnestness, Look here, Miss Maggie," broke in Gregory, to church, or subscribing to charities in short, enough, but slow and lazy to an appalling to a tone Maggie had never heard from him making themselve generally, uncomfortable in degree, which last perhaps may have been the before, because it wasn't bis natural and look this world without the prospect of any defalta quality most appreciated by the active, nervous here, Miss Maggle, I'm not a man who pays retum in the next. But in Chingcha Agnosticism doctor trested him, mentally, and served as compliments: And IfI'say you are pretty it is. and Athalam were one and the same and so a kind of opiate to his brain, to have a talk with, because you are just like a picture I have got in Gregory King, with the good breeding of aor rather te, Mr. Wong. There was a great deal my pocket at this present moment. It's an thorough man of the world, kept his religiods of steam in Dr. Mackensie which must find its illustration out of a Christmas number, and it's opinions to himself
en escape through some safety valve. Peter Wong the very 'image of you, just as you look now 1" His family had always belonged to the Church was his valve. And on Eis alde, Mr. Wong was Yes, it was wretchedly cold, and the stupid of England, he told Mzar Brown, whose family more humin, more responsive, more European pockets came the little chromo.
And out of one of Gregory King's greatcost Mr. King-she scarcely liked to ask him come in business. But as the Church of England one else. It was to the doctor he had first con going to keep it for the same reason. Would coolie had forgotten to light the fire! Would having been artisans were always spoken of a so to speak with Dr. Mackenzie than with any I cut it out, because it was so like you. The into her worldsg-room? She had just dismissed missionaries In Chingcha had long ago given upfided his desire to many an English girl, you like to look at it ? Well, you can't see it now, a woman's class that was how he had been kept trying to convert their fellow countrymen, Mr. Miss Maggie", and It was the doctor who had the wind would tear it to pieces, But I'll lend reported killing of three missionaries up country waiting. There was nobody but herself to do King took to patronising the Presbyterian suddenly caught up the idea, not even formed it to you look at by yourself on the condition inst week was false. It was one of the many idle woman's mission work! Dear Maggio, was of service, where in an ugly little chapel very in the young man's mind, that marry Mag. you don't let anybody else see ft. Can do F tales always started in times of disquiet. How so little use, and dear Papaso full of his Chinese Sunday afternoon either Mr. Brown or Mr. Wang gie Brown he should. Vague dreams of, 1 aver unsettled matters have lately been at many studies, and thank you, Mr. King, yes, the discoursed to's very small remnant offer cans world-brotherhood cemented through
It was too tormening to see little flashes of of the Mission stations, all has now quieted second door, and you'll excuse the unikliness of sisting of only Mrs, and Miss Brown and Gregory, union of the Oriental with the Westerner had itself was kept steadily turned away from her.
the colour waving about in the wind, as the picture daw. Bless them, they never are killed. Pro- the room 1" widence is ever kind and a week before any slot
The last it is to be feared, did not listen with the floated before his mind for many years, and now "I promise,” she said, looking hastily around Certainly he would have, and much me than same attention to Mr. Wong as he vouchsafed with concrete instance ready to create, Dr. to make sure no one war was overhearing, her, breaks out, they gird their loss and make a beer he was asked to cxcuse, in view of that lovely to Mr. Brown But of course that was the Mackensie felt he could not hesistate. With a And the picture was immediately folded up and line for their consuls, their gunboats and the fire, and the two ancient and very soft armchairs preacher's faple, claw 1911 Taste that utterly took away Mr. Wong's breaths. put into her hand weder sweet, alry distance. By the time the blood-drawn up on either side. Mrs. Brown (nulated drinking rioter dances. In upon the scene, they on his taking one, carried off his hat and stick of the few occasions in which He found that planned and then precipitated this engagement want you to talk to me. Only for little be * For, as he plainűvely told Mr. Blown of one and which somewhat amazed himself, he had Don't look at it now." Mr. King said? *! and the alry distance are playing lawn-tennis a rang the bell and ordered tea : in short, succeeded excellent gentleman in dollary possession of the And now Peter Wong confided to him all his cause at that corner turn off home? Tak me hundred miles away.
in making herself charming. What man, even house, never uniti dow had any one taken any troubles, difficulties, fears and hopes, culminating something about yourself. To begin with, why the greatest and noblest, is above being petted paid to interest him, Gregory King, in misalónary in his dialike to Gregory King. And while do you dislike me? az host There have been some showers of rain this and waited upon Gregory King fairly basked work Doubtless the clergy of Shinghal were very Dr. Mackenzie blamed Peter for ungrounded week, but they have been altogether too lightito In
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Dislike you! I'm wird I don't n Maid Maggia he had always been accustomed to. But they were not of the stamp to fadience men. influenced thereby, Perhaps Gregory's manner quite considering the truth in so speaking. For outlook for the second crop is about as bad as it Was it not after all something to be wondered There were, to speak candlilly, oily fit for Ladies' can be. As a matter of fact there has been a at, in this Bootle? Why had he never before classes and Bible readings. Never till now Bad have been for Dr. Mackenzie w
to him bad not been quite as wise as it might up to the present she had disliked him very much. great deficiency in our water supply ever since cultivated missionary society? Was it possible Gregory felt that there might be something in being conciliated.
above Quite groundiessly too, as she now perceived in the members of the Foochow Club stopped beer that there were other Mrs. Browns in Chingcha, Hie worth living for beyond tier
a moment, Vito di Ar bauð mat bas „SIN HART nd
But as yet Gregory King haj and ale and went in for whiskey and water. Our who gave him comfortable armchairs, poured cents. To all of which Mr. rown listened with the opposition of the doctor and
"Ab, but you do," said Gregory plaintively, missionaries who in this cais never use water him out tea without saying any grace over it, what he would hive
Wong "You are so absorbed in Mr. Wong, How can missionary:|:13> <gratified his self-conceit unless distilled or else replace it with ginger and delicately insinuated how flattered she was report devout thinkininess.
he comffat Father they disliked him pop, have often) remonstrated against the awful, by his visit? Gregory, felt quite sony when a miinioned his wide was nothing Toth har ignored him it would be much more antusing speak to you like this: You must not resent it, waste of nature's precious luld but to no avail, banging of the outside door and a tread of heavy well, to be very kid and friend We wish our readers would realize that Foochow footsteps along the passage, was followed by the intelligent young man and rebated Mr. Wopgoodidn't count than if the whole housepold
this most to win over the first-of course Peter Wong though Tell me you forgive me sumadu Is not like Ireland-Paddy must have water or entrance of Mr. Brows himself more than once for reminding him that he had had with one accord fallen on his neck his hand with a beseeching 70
Hore was the fur, Gregory King Hold out Here was a typical missionary, Gregory thought preached twice but of his tuin ta with a mental speer. Tall, thin, with lank faded Euglah chapelola et la ammo eni and t
inland embraced him."And perhaps, who knew? What could Maggie do but take it?' 'And say A well known head of a gang of ruffians brown hair, long and untidy whiskers a mouth Ng Grogan King was imply doll dolchingcha Ho had plenty of good friends in Oh yes, she was thanking him for the platire.
the might not after all be kept so many years in "/Thank you, Mr. King" for something or other. whose business seemed to be to pick drawn down at the corners, and restless little green insincere, The society of his fellow creatures Shanghai, and they would rely find him, But her temper was quite gode by the quard with any man in order to squeereyes set close to the nose-here was a Stieglus, it was debessary toisim Afid "thebearegory, necessary to their enjoyment before time she got home" again? And for on the 9th Inve/ much to the relief of his lips opening over very infților artificial teeth was olim Annoyed because yak kept hogay Sohen Mrs. Brown invited him to a birth atided with himself. He hid Losé L'friendly him, was arrested by order of the authoritles over there was one. That month in its this annoyed and fritstöd by an opposti on the long
King, as he walked briady, home he was quite looked, to Mr. King's eyes, as though it could by being so Infinidly inferior to himy Irritated day celebration in the middle of January, he set towards a pretty gil. If only she would tall Mons gemulé et mus nascitur: applies ver many victims. He appears to have represented during the past ten days. Some missionaries help of his gung fatimidated the poor gullible IODE, for Mr. Brown was in reality a great person in the place, quod de a
run to Shanghai, and did not know whether he bear Gregory King found himself wishing to found a few incendiary placards in the Chinese people who fell into his toils. This example that the visitor did not feel drawn to him, and Bet, though she might be interesting
must be admitted Wv0Pbodiae dthis person: war Temperance man. Still,
would be back in time, in contis, Coupe quarter, similar to those, employed if the Noch heud be of benefit to the people of Hongkong was, in fact, just about to take his leave the bad King, it was itain, Prton
**Why did you ask Mr. King, mother?" said the monotony of Chingchie fees (13
make the young man kngrý Anything to relieve on the Yang-tic. They rushed proditately to where the head-squeezer is invariably made
as Maggio, as soon as the gate had closed behladet And if the didn't tell him, it was better still. their respective consals with the asfol tale and president of some corporation, limited, which he unly sat by the fire for half-an-hour before to the obtalder, the Me
char gentleman
Why better Gregory: King did not decide entreated them for a gunboat, a regiment of queeres until it is dry and then takes a door once more opened and the young tablewife verbi dubovary
the Rev. Samuel Brown' appeared) when the sidered he had obstred
He estat my table," "Maggie, Ind not yours, many words. But he had always delighted in marince and a Maxim cannon, The French to old Albion a day on two before the warrant
dre answered Mrs. Brown bandly, Next year, mysteries and secreta, even on the most las gal- consul was the first to field to the entreaties and ils fessed for his arrest, & This contrast between couple he had seen walking outside came lang than that Bertepmot
Not in the order disually followed in polite plate for after all looks are greatly
"Hery when you are married, you will be able to ask |,ficant unbjects. This 4oan of a pictire palced cabled for man-of-war. The telegraphld the fongolian and Ezropean suggests Artemus
fed by one you like-and they will be at liberty to promizinger, at least, a mild dintation), with despatch was received by the stimiral and the Ward's comparison of the Italian organ grinder society. The young Chinaman lounged in first set off by dress, Jo And Maggi. Að W Vlöcke | sciness if they like cruiser Villars was ordered to the scess of action, and he monkey and shows the superior He looked shy and sulky on being confronted calculated to Irritatai the commonplace pep to next year. But Magela didn't. Her face the parring atention of text fours and comfor leaving the door half open for his companion/iorly mildy// dreamy, impractical, everything
Maggiecu Andorichs kuntient would sult Mr. Wong laughed. Halked these references his tastej for a time at any rate, Better than even The admimi neglected however in the Inteligence of the monk
in the stranger. Gregory's manner, too, was mother Suite what glorious tall would come turned a shade whiter with anger, and then she table manchalis of Vis Brownfishin poke telegram and the consul was left in ignorance of evidencias evra, aks enda
not calculated to put him at his case He outdather hits gif only it was fastened in got us went out of the room, upstairs into has op But, Maggie gbe not chance of returning the what has been donn: A day vaned writiscen Cast Exchange has been during the week nodded, 19, the young man, who was raiber securely; and the jeopardy, of the Maupin didown bedroom, and there walked up to the glare diromjoy, In Merst() for a 20G) MARY BRYTA
copper cal per Mexbian dollar. This is nervosely Introduced; as Mr. Wong, most I mot or wholly shaush Gregory's nitention) ASD ; SUN LOURED at herself.
In the suburbs of the Changye district in the interior of Fuller, two clans quarrelled over a watercourse, by which theis fields were irrigated, and agreed to settle the disputa by a fight,. This
brought to a conclusion in an unsatisfactory (1) manner. A passer-by was accidentally killed by a stray ballet, and the clans being threatened with legal proceedings, came to an understanding and paid the victim's family a large monetary compensation. After this Hil lately the water- course question was not mentioned for some time, but lately it came up again. Without any previous notice the field labourers of both the clans started a free fight and were joined in short time by the main bodies. Both parties suffered severely, and a lawsuit is inevitable.
FOOCHOW.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT))
Modern Bath August 8th.
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enjoyed
A would you throw yourself away upon Pardon me," that they he broke in again, I have no business to
well to the excitement we have kad in Foochow himself as of some officiel position, and with the relish a drop" in secret. But of course he was because it contred arodila 'the only Interesting accepted only proviàtondly. Ha was going fos› Peter Wong how angry tib Chingman would i
news, and the excited missionaries piss the
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