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to enter into a definite agreement with Russia,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1891.

exhaustive character of their work. The priest

undertake an enterprise against India in retalia-the ceremony at an end. "The chairmen were "Uion for British hostility In Europe, The journal rewarded with wine and brandy, of which they urgen Britain to selzs the present favorable time poured down a quart, a good comment upon the

kindly showed on the book he had made from "Joss'" dictation. The communications were simple and wise. For the sprained ankle. It recommended a warm poultice and some al ment for the billots fever, a strong cathartic and a low diet; for any future devlis, who might desire to visit the place, a treatment of white Wash and scrubbing which, considering the condition of some of the room, was advice worthy of Salomon.

BYRLIN, September 21st, Reports received here state that fully half, tha German forces in East Africa bave been des troyed by the natives. The restoration of Major Wissmann to the supreme control of German affairs in East Africa is being urgently demanded.

LONDON, September sand. The India Office has made a grant of £1,000 annually for five years to the funds of the Imperial Institute.

SPIRITUALISM "IN CHINA, --

For centuries the average Celestial has been calling spirits from the vasty deep like Owen Glendower and with about the same success, At in the United States, the practice has grown into a business, and a very large and lucrative

The priest waya's bad fellow and in reply to our questions said that “bringing. Joss to cure the sick" was as popular as ever, and that where the priest had a good knowledge of medicine Simself, the treatment was more successful than "that"of any "pegular physician, but that the exorcism of devils was no longer in great demand. Either the devils were getting fewer than they used to be or else people didn't mind their presence as co-tenants. He sighed as he spoke and unconsciously chinked the silver in his the action and the thought?

weary walk and talk, aymeilmes laving hours The site is finally picked ont. Often "two or three alies are selected, so that in case the use

another one will be ready. Th client arranges with the owner of the land and the authorities,

of

curious that our land telegraph lines should break down during every 'typhoon? Is it the same is Chlua ? Or is John Chinaman bellding bis

Mercury,

Entimations.

one is prevented by unforeseen circumstances, tele-taph lines more substantially ?--Shanghai NEW DESIGNS NOW

and I then prepared to die fa peace.

The practice is universal and as old as Chinese civilisation. Its influence upon the people is something tremendous and may be inferred from the use of the term Jung-tucy, just mentioned, It means literally wind-water, and originally meant that a grave was wind and water-tight It was next applied to the owner and prospective occupant of the tomb. He had a good fung-sucy, 1.e. he was a happy and fortune-favored person. its use was extended to familles, dynasties, houses, temples, so that it came to include the ideas of wealth, prosperity, power, duration, beauty; plcturesqueness, and magnificence in the largest word in the Chinese language and is a shibboleth at timer more terrible than any phrase in the history of the race.

FALLS-BIDLOE.

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NANKING.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

September 18th.

Nanking University (American M. E. Mission) The "Sleeper Memorial Chapel" of the was dedicated yesterday with appropriate cere monies. The building is the gift of a generous lady, Mrs, Davis of Bostor, who visited this city about a year ago. Its hame perpetuates the memory of her father, Mr. Sleeper, who was aleo- a devoted member of the Methodist Church. Ms. Davis is reported to have died quite recently in Germany, before she had completed

the leisurely tour she was making of the world. The chapel is a very pretty Gothle structure, capable of seating five hundred persons or more. The exercises were conducted jointly by the Rev. Leslie Stevens, Superintendent of the Central Chinn District, the Rev. Ino C. Ferguson,

one. It takes all sorts of odd forms, from money-pouch Was there a connection between NOTES FROM CHINESE PAPERS. | President of the University, and the Rev. D. W

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A telegram has been received from Hankow stáiing that a firm occurred in the Chinese portion of that city on the 26th September, destroying over a thousand houses. The fire was caused by the carelessness of a cook with his fire. No disturbance or robbery took place

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(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)

September 16th, Nothing new or startling has transpired within this city for the past few days. Everything on the surface appears quiet, but it is well for us to head the advice of an old heathen teacher, which he gave a day or two ago, in talking to one of our community, when the brother sald "no danges now; everything quiet." The old teacher us to constantly bear in mind. "Watch and pray." especially, "watch," said he, “you can't tell what is coming,"

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wesliby boatman engaged a boss-medlem to detalls of the science, the professor of the black and execution of fourleen sen rovers in the spring quoted a passage of Scriplare that it is well for ship, and insurance brokers who congregated at

Piracy is again rifc along the coast near Amoy, after having subsided a linle upon the capture Three days before the mid-autuma festival, a merchant junk, heavily laden, while proceeding to Amoy was followed by a strange craft which imitated all the junk's movements The crew at first took no notice of the mancuYTOS of the stranger, which kept on edging nearer and nearer. When the vessels were close together the junkmen called out to the crew of the unknown boat to keep clear and avald a collision, but the reply was a fire-bomb, followed by several men with cutlasses and pistols. The junk's supercargo was killed on the spot and one sailor leaped overboard and was drowned. The rest of the crew and the lowdah were tied to the masts. While this was golog on, a patrol boat was tranquilly sailing about, locking out for pitates, never dreaming that the scourges of the sea were so close at land. After dividing the the booty the pirates anchored their prize and drove the crew on shore, themselves sailing away immediately over the trackless sea. The authorities despatched many boats in pur- su, but all returned without effecting their object.

NAGASAKI,

The Viceroy sent or word that he could guarantee the protection of the lives of the mis slonaries, but could not guarantee the protection of property.

Some of the guarde, sent to protect one of the compounds, said to the brother lying there. If a riot occurs, you come Into our camp and we will protect you, but can't protect your home." The above will give you some idea of the state of affairs in Nanking.

The Viceroy is talkingof employing a foreigner as his adviser on foreign affairs, and Madam Remour has it that one of the Naking mission aries is bidding for the position and a fair pro- pect of getting it. Your corespondent thinks it quite a falling away to leave the calling of the Lord to save souls, to accept the calling of a "From the great to the heathen Viceroy. small"-N. C. Daily News.

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la generation age. In 18of the School Board' his coffee house, Lloyd, in 1716, begin the censas gave less than a million as London's publication of a weekly shipping paper known as population. Perhaps, with the outlying districts, Lloyd's List, in which was contained information properly suburban, it then had twelve hundred so useful to all concerned that to time it led to thousand. Since then it has become the first an organization composed of all those who were city in the world. The real growth of London pecuniarily interested in the proper conduct of has all been within 120 years. What will it be marine affairs, and so the coffee house became ir tt goes on at the present rate for another siz the headquarters of the maritime business of | SCOTS TEATS London, and especially marine insurance.

One notable feature of London and all the In Lloyd's List, at first published, the great English cities is that the porulation is vessels were assigned to classes designated by thin at the centres, and rally thickest around the letters A, E. I. O, U, which referred to the the circumference. It is estimated that there vessels' halls, while the letters G. M. B. mean- are 400,000 "semi-Londoners," who do business. Ing "good." "middling" and "bad," related to in town, but sleep in the country, beyond the the vessels' equipment. Thus the class AG metropolitan orbit, who have not been included denoted a first-class ship, with a good outfit, in this new census-Boston Journal. while UB was the designation given to a ship of the lowest class with a bad outfits

To-day's. Advertisements.

In the register printed in the year 1776 It is observed that the numerals 1, 3, 3, 4 were. adopted for the first time in describing the con- dition of the vessel equipment, the Roman capitals A, E, I, O, U remaining unchanged as THE CHINA AND MANILA STEAMSHIP representative of the classification of the hull. This is the earliest record extant of the familiar term A r.

The universal of and

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registry, and the consequent rivaler and faull- THE Company's Steamship fading, were powerful factors in establishing

"ESMERALDA," kindred and opposition societies, and publications Captain G. Tayler, will be despatched for the other countries of the world. The most above Poris on SATUDAY the 10th October, at powerful of these latter-day corporations is the 5 P.M. alpning and Insurance committees are those of

For Freight or Passage, apply to the German Lloyds, the Austrian Lloyds, the

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Hongkong, 7th October, 1841. Association, which issues a record of survey and

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THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, for the purpose of receiving the Com- mittees Report for the last season and Electing the Committee and Officers of the Club for the ensuing reason, will be held in the Cricket Club Pavilion, on FRIDAY, the 23rd October, at 6 p.m.

W. M. WALLACE,

Hongkong, 7th October,-180t,

classification of vessels with the approval of the Bars of Underwriters of New York, BostonH and San Francisco, under the title "Record of American and Foreign Shipping"

AMERICAN, CLIPPERS.

WONDERFUL VOYAGES MADE IN THE DAYS

CONE BY.

· Writers of maritime históry give to the United States the credit of establishing long lines of communication by ava with far distant countries. As early as 1789 the merchants of Boston dispatched their abips direct China and the Fast Indies, some time before England entered brought their cargoes to the home markets, but on this trade 'for the American versely not only also trans-shipped spices, sliks, teas, sugar, coffee and cotton to Furope. In those times skipper felt satisfied if he made the outward voyage of 15,000 miles, by way of the Cape of Good Hope; In 150 days, and came back via Cape Horn, some 17,000 miles, in the same time.

exorcising deslls and healing the sick to advising

Clairvoyants ́and fortune-tellers in China are young men whom to marry, and driving vermin out of homes. In fact, as a class, Chinese a thick as the famous leaves of Vallambrosa. "sperrits" are much more practical and sensible Even the seventh daughter of the seventh son, than their American cousins, who waste their is not unknown. Of the fraternity in question time in painting villalocos daubs or writing vile | nearly all are priests and monks, who add these verses. The best part of the trade is monopo- trades to their regular business in order to Ured by the church and is summed up ́in ike i increase their incomes. On account of the queer phrase, "bringing Joss to a house." education of the hierarchy and their living Not long ago we were fortunate enough to together in the joss-houses and convents, where. witness a performance on a large scale. A the more expert can teach the others all the art in China is much more skilfe than bls drive away a certain devil, which bad been worrying the family several months, and to cure colleague in the United States. Thus for his wife of a sprained ankle, and his brother example, they make frequent use of that of a bilious fever. The necessary financial curious principle in acoustics which causes. musical sound out of arrangements were made and the night an object to emit mentioned set apart for the soleman event. We sympathy with that given by another body arrived carly at seven o'clock in the evening, possessing the same natural note. In the The establishment consisted of a series of foss-rcom there will be a bandaorae bronze gong, houses built about a quadrangle, and standing in supported by three or four wooden pillars, When a large yard surrounded by a high wall. The a searcher after truth is interviewing the priest boatman and the No. 1 wife lived la one building, in another part of the room, the gong will give out Its melodious sound either fo answer to a wiver 2 and 3 and several concubines in the rest. The quadrangle had been swept and cleaned and question, or else to accent some exhortation or was brilliantly illamianted with colored Chinesa advice. The trick handeceived many unfamiliar lanterns and powerful kerosene lamps. During with science who never dreamed that the dry the day the priest had sent carpenters and wooden bar, extended it might be a hundred feet assistants to the place and bad converted the to another part of the temple, would carry the male room of the middle house into a church. sound wave from the latter place and so set the The doors were removed and long red bangings gong in motion. The same principle is applied Inscribed with religious quotations were hung to mesical, statues, ancient relics and what the from the top of the framework. In the sear of unregenerate European calla "potted ancestors." the room, against the wall and facing the door, The commonest kind of fortune-telling is found was a handsome alter and altar table covered in every Joss-home. Upon the altar-table is a with urna, vases, artificial flowers, tinsel and cylindrical vase about three inches in diameter bric-a-brac. In the centre of the altar was a and ten inches high, half-filled with long, flat great picture of loss bimself. In front of him, bamboo sticks a foot in length. The number suspended from the celling, was a large lamp, varies from 60 to 150. Each stick in inscribed symbolic of the light of Immortality. Between with a sentence and a number. The worshipper the altar and the door was a common kitchen- stands before the altar, bows, taken, the "luck-

The following appears in the Morning Post (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) table, covered with white sand and having vase bows or kneels three times and then

of Sept. 3rd-A telegram.from Singapore mounds of sand at each corner. We were puzzled shakes the box with a sliding motion until

September 27th. BAYA:"The Home Government has disallowed by the contrast, but later on came to understand one of the sticks separates liself from the There is reassuring news from Vladivostock, the ordinance preventing Sunday work in Hone Its purpose. At about half past seves, the rest and comes forward and upward until it quite a number of the lately escaped convicts kong Harbour. This has pleased the ship booming of a heavy gong announced the arrival bangs over the box's edge. The stick is having been recaptured, some dead and others owners." At first sight this seems, to contradict Bureau Veritas of France, Other 'well known of the priest and his assistants. The former was then taken to a priest, who reads the alive the Russians are paying so roubles the assurance of Haron H. de Worms to the an elderly man of pleasant appearance, the latter number and either reads the fortune belonging premium for a live culminal, and 75 for a dead House of Commons, that "the Secretary of State proposes to communicate with the Lord that had gathered in the quadrangle and more common, gives a slip of paper on which is proclamation that at present only 16 criminals Governors of those Colonies in which Sunday young men of a very good class. They salated the to the number from a well-worn book or what is one, if brought in. The Governor issued a then marched into the altar room. A few lithographed short statement of good and evil were at large out of the whole crowd that escaped labour to the ports appears to be not mements afterward a second rail of the gung things that are to come to the applicant, some time ago, but it is generally supposed that sufficiently restricted, with view

3. proclaimed the advent of Joss. The priests set According to the extent to which his desires are there are a lot more adrift, and the authorities further restrictive mearmes being taken, up a chant, thyibmic and beautiful. It was sang gratified the latter rewards the priest: Some-wigh to keep it dark. The hound who killed the either by legislation on the lines of the not in the funny falsetto with which coolies woo times it a half cent and sometimes a dime. French officer has been brought in by two young ordinance recently passed in Hangkang or other. the divine muse, but in a manly baritone, deep The "lortunes" are written in the literary Russian bunters, boys of scarcely 17 years of wire." The 126,000, officers and seamen who from the chest. After twenty bars, the song Chinese language, and are much more poetic age; lots of things belonging to the murdered annually frequent the great harbour of Hong ceased, the enter and laner gates were thrown than clear and accurate. We have over twenty gentleman were found on his person. The Russian Kong under the British flag, besides those who wide open and "Joss", was brought in," He was that we have obtained in as many joss-houses, bandmaster, who was murdered, met his fate do so under foreign fiage, ask for the same not an imposing perionage in any way, being and all are alike in predicting go per cent of within 20 yards of the barracks. Consternationquietude of the day of rest when in Hongkong nothing more or less than a very-well-made and happiness and so per cent of sorrow. Following reigns.in Vladivostock on account of the daring which they obtain by legislation in the handsomely-dressed doll. Black hair, a silver is a sample fortune-card

burglaries that are taking place. This is rather United Kingdom and in those self-governing gilt.crown, ferocious mustache and whiskers and Sails on the occean bring wealth and joy, to strange in a place so powerfully garrisoned. A Colonies which have representative Institutions, several kilk robes of brilliant colors which would him who merits, but pain and l-idings to the watchman is told off for every four houses at and in which the working of cargoes have won the heart of any five-year old Americas unconscientious. A dark cloud makes the night. Detachments of soldiers are hunting on Sundays is prohibited, and even En girl. He was securely fastened to the seat fertile field seem barren, but the sunlight after after the miscreants. The other day three of the treaty ports of heathen China, where the of a strong sedan chair of ordinary size; that a time drives it away. The thought in thy them were surrounded in the low brush-wood Castoms officers refuse to work on Sundays. was carried by four stalwart porters. The mind shall blossom in silver and diamonds, near Vi-divostock; but two of them made good Even though the working of cargoes at Hong. chair-poles were much shorter and steater than unless during thy sleep it is stolen by thy for, their escape, and only the third one, who had kong, which claims to be next to London and charoeng four inches in diameter and ten feet Under the trees, thou shalt find repose been wounded, was secured: A number of Liverpool in the extent of lis shipping, be done Leng from lip to tip. Poles and chair were and rest, but the fruit must be teaded day Chinese and Koreans are said to have been also by landemen, all rest and worship is banished into fantastic shape and lavishly and night, Sickness is of a day and a murdered for the sake of their clothes; they even from the ship so long as the winch and holat decorated with scarlet paint and hear night and, rightfully regarded, should bring use the pigtails of the Chinamen for disguises, to are being worked, and much bitter feeling Is gilding. Behind the chair came a conége wisdom and right-living to the afficted." These pass themselves off for Asiatics during their engendered against the owners, who are sup: posed by sailors to be enjoying rest and of church followers, including the gong-bearer, | at a half-cent per page are certainly cheap plati-depredations. lantern-man, incense bolder and outrunner. tudes. They are popular, however, and aro You are aware already that the French flag.worship In England and Scotland. "For They looked surprised at the sight of Europeans bought by so many people and so often that they ship Triomphants grounded outside Vladivos- three years the Press of Hongkong and the local being present, but a word from the priest re- keep the priests and monks from starvation, teck, but fpated off again all right; two Russian government have been discussing the matter, The development of the resources of the East assured them. The chairmen advanced to within For formal religion in China is on its death-bed. meu-of-war went to her assistance, and took her and all but some agents of a few shipowners at by the East India Company, and the richness, of a foot of the doorway, the gates were closed and Not one church in a hundred can boast of guns, stores, etc on board to lighten her. home are now agreed that a general law, appli- the freights carried by the United States vessels an to and fro, placing Hghted joss-sticks and | than a ̈plg.pan. Ruined walls, broken roofs, tock of the Fussians pricing a dead criminal at restricting the working of cargoes in Hongkong the first cost of the ship-Induced England to Prayer-candies at the doors and windows, at the dirt and decay are everywhere. The real religion 75, and a live one at 50 foubles, a significant to the treaty ports of China, if not pro- edge of the inner gate, and at irregular points in of the Chinese, ancestor worship and a hybrid consideration.

Blbiting it, as in the United Kingdom, and in the the pavement of the quadrangle. The priests in spiritualism, is believed in by the mastes who From Fusan I hear that the typhoon on the popularly-governed Colonies. A Sunday Cargo the church room broke into a wild chant that have learned that they can conduct every 13th and 14th inst. has been "raising old working Ordinance forbidding the practice with was accentuated from time to time by the hollow excercise as satisfactorily as a professional. The Harry" there; two Japanesejunks were capsized cut a permit," to be paid for according to the voice of the gong and the whispered singing of higher classes are almost entirely agupatics. In the inner harbour, and quite a number of native tonnage of the ship, was read a first time by the the people. The chair porters stood like statues, Here and there are, found fortune-tellers and craft were wrecked; about 35 lives are reported Council of Hongkong, and published on the 30th looking at the glaring lights of the altar that clativoyants of great fame. They are usually as lost. The seawall is more or less washed to of April It was passed the second and third shone full in their faces. The music grew wiider, priests of great intellectual ability, who have pieces, and a number of trees have been blown reading at one sliting on the 5th of May, and and weirder, and we noticed that the four portare studied physiognomy, mind-rexding, muscle down; some other considerable damage has been was to have come into operation on the ist of were becoming mesmerized, hypnotized or what pending and hypnotism, and have evolved some done on shore. In Gensan the typhoon did not August. But the passing of the ordinance ever it may be called. They began to totter, Ingealogy system of their own. The best I have blow so hard, hat there was any amount of rain, through its second and third stages at one then stagger and then to rush to and fro, never encountered is the senior priest of the Temple of sad a tremendous sen or the Customs officers sitting appears to have bees irregular, and

i losing their greep upon the chair. It might have the White Stag. He is well advanced in years, could not manage to get at the pier-bead to light its opponents had presented a petition against seemed to a credulous observer as if the chair but as shrewd, active and perceptive as a young the harbour-light.

the ordinance being confirmed by the Secretary were in the hands of a mightyllavisible being, man. He is a pleasant companion and abounds Nothing particular to report from tt's place. of State for the Coloniex: Several leading who played with it and the four glants, as if they with wit and anecdote. I commend his style of The Cape City is stil submerged in the barbour, shipowners have not signed this petition, such were but feathers in his hands. There was no play work to beginners in professional spiritualism, and I have not heard of any steps taken yet to as Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and Co., the about it, however. At one point, the chair drove He deca a dark robe, assumes a gloomy expres, raise her.. I believe an offer to do so has been Messageries Maritimes, the Peninsular and into an arch-way and buried a porter against sion and fairly glaresat bis patient. Each question made for $4,500, but has not been accepted yet. Oriental S.-N. Co., and those abipowners column with so mach force as to cut a piece of is put in bis most dignified volce, and so phrased In the Court of Enquiry held on this sad disaster who forbid their captslut working cargoes in flesh from his leg as half as large as a man's hand. to contain the auswers to a series of questions, the captain's certificate was suspended for six Hongkong harbour which they could not work At another a pale pinned a bystander to the wall. As he speaks, his eyes never leave the eyes of bis months. I note that none of the accounts of the inthe self-governing Colonies or in the United by his shoulder with such power as to make the questioner, and during the Interview his hand accident hitherto published are quite correct Kingdom, or in the treaty ports of China. This blood spurt out. In the meantime five priests, touches the latter's band or pulse. His mind. She actually went right over, bottom up, with hostile petition is a counter, one to that signed by with strips of burning paper covered with prayers, reading is as good i as that displayed by Brown the keel out of the water, When the top 600 captains; officers, and shipping people three darted here and there, throwing the flames into or poor Bishop, and to the poor coollen who flock gallant masts struck the ground, she recovered years ago, claiming a day of rest, and is signed every nook and corner. Suddenly the music to his shrine seems a miracle. He changes bls and gradually righted again, until she was on

by 240 persons, of whom only some 48 or so are Ceased, the chair stopped its mad antics, the style from one moment to another and so adds ber beam ends, and then the hatches directly connected with shipping, several of these gates were opened and the devil was exercised, the charm of good acting to his work. It is became level with the surface of the water, being foreigners, and of these only rg are heade He had been buried, beaten and burned away, needless to add that he is the richest priest in which was a sight never to be forgotten, of beuses, leaving 31 clerks who could hardly do and would never return daring his remaining Amor Some days he has more than s mean the fight of the air compressed in the bull | otherwise than sign when their chiefs did diabolic career, So at least the priest said, and hundred paying visitors. What a lovely example escaping from the batch-ways; and the waler several of the clerks belog amongst the 60 lands

for Dias Debar) we tell it for what it is worth. ***

rushing in; each batch almost looked like a men not heads of houses who signed the sailors' "There was a rest for ten minutes in which tex The queerest Industry in the ghostly Hae is ses-mine, or a torpedo exploding, or a few hun-retition in 1888 in favour of legislation. The and cigarettes were headed around liberally, and grave-telling. When the average Mongolino dred whales spouting close together simulta inlegram is inaccurate in saying that this has the programme was attacked again. The reaches manhood's estate, one of his first ambi-neously. You can imitate the effect on a small pleased the shipowners for the shipowners are chair porters, who by the way had never moved tions is to have a nice and comfortable grave, scale, by suddenly immersing an empty bottle not united on this question, many of them being during the recess, but had stond erect with eyes The moment he has the requisite cash, he helow water, with the open neck upwards. for fair dealing, and just consideration towards half-closed and glazed, walked slowly forward to consults one or more "grave-tellers. These are Diving operations for the missing lady and the their officers and crews with whom they preserve the church, crossed the threshold and halted old scholars, whose scholarship has not been second officer were undertaken at once, but were most friendly relations The probability is that before the sanded table. Again the priests broke apreciated by the public at large or who have of no avall, the vessel being in it fathoms Lord Knutsford has simply disapproved of the into a chant, but this time in a planissimo voice. fallen from grace by gambling, oplom-smoking of water. Even professional divers with their hasty proceedings in passing the ordinance, and and minor key that were very effective. The or other vices, and who earn a precarious living full apparatus were on the spot within a not of the ordinance itself, which does not pro- women and children in the quadrangle fell upon from astrology, geomancy, clairvoyance and remarkably that time, but nevenheless too hibit the working of cargoes on Sundaya sa do their knees - and the more devout howed imilar supernatural sciences. The philoso late. One of the first rescuers to hurry to the the laws of the United Kingdom or of the larger keeeling anilliheir foreheads touched the ground; pher, after receiving a fee whose amount is pro- scene of the disaster was Captain Trennt of the Colonies, but allow Sanday cargo work on pay, We had secured in the meanwhile a colga of portional to the wealth of bis client, consults his steamer Akashi, who had the satisfaction of ment lors #permit, as bas been done for nine vantage near the altar and watched the chats mysle books draws an Inconfrehensible dis-saving a Chinaman and a Manilaman from years with some good effect in the Presidency of posters. They seemed in the same date ar before. gram with points and straight lines and announces watery grave; one of them "came round again | Bombay. The chair now began to sway and tili, but this the day on which it will be Jung-way (good lock) soon, but the other took a long time to recover. time the motion was vertical and not horizontal: to visit certain gemeteries and burial-sites The When the vessel had sufficiently filled, abo ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOL VA 22. The movement became so strong that first one day arrived, the parties are on hand no matter sighted again, after which she went down like porter and then a second was forced down upon what tricks the weather may play. I have seen a shot." "The Captain was one of them who had In the annals of Lloyd's Register the following This knees. This brought the pole of the chai them in a rocky pass where the thermometer was gone down in her, but it seems he had grasped account is given of the origin and meaning of the fie the surface, upon which the moment it touched and in a mirth knee-deep in and when a plece of wood, which floated him to the surface symbol "A denoting uaperlative excellence: the table, it began to scrawl huge Chinese the rain was an ice cold deluge. They come again, The top-gallant masts broke off when

Some time about the year 1668 there stood a characters. It was Planchette on gigantic dressed is their best clothes, newly washed and they reached the bottoms the gallant and top coffee houseio Tower Street, London, kept by one icals. Ons priest transcribed the letters upon shaven. The grave-tellers are equipped with galiant yards were aloft at the time, In her Edward Lloyd, a man of Intelligence and energy, ibis writing pad and two others, geuitared, frash - books, diagrams paper and a forked rod, present position the topsail' yards are about under whose able management it became the sand inpon the table an fast, an each word was strangely resembling the divining rod with which swash at low water. Between typhoons and the fareilte resort for all persons connected with ships written. This continued two hodit, whin the our ancestors sought springs, and velns of ore. loss of two vessels in port, wo have had quite ne in every capacity.. For the better information of „chanting ceased and the high priest nasounded 1 77be search begins with prayer, and then comes i eventful time in our port lately. But is it not I the merchants, ship owners, underwalters und | sapo persons)". That way but a little more than

Hon, Scra

VICTORIA PRECEPTORY.

REGULAR MEETING of the VICTORIA,

APRECEPTORY will be held on TURIS DAY next, the rath October, at 5 for 5.30 p.m. precisely. Visiting Brethren are cordially Invited to attend.

Hongkong, 7th October, 18912

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HONGKONG RIFLE ASSOCIATION.

SCRATCH SPOON COMPETITION

ilocked and the ceremony began. Attendants accommodations for its ministers that are better People here a:e giving the news from Vlačivos- cable to all nationalities alike should be passed the proceeds of a single voyage often defraying A take place on SATURDAY, 10th inst.,

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enter into competition; thus starting that rivalry at KOWLOON, commencing at 3.45 p.th. Ranges between the sailing ships the two nations. 205, 500 and 600 yanda. Seven sonadı and-ona that was long the admiration of the world. In sighting shot at each distance. Positions and 1845 the American clippers, long, law, of good targets as at Elsley 1895.: Entrance fee 30. beam, very fine lines, and with yards so square cents. and spars so lofty as to set a greater spread of canvas in proportion to their tonnage than any ship bitherto sailed, entered the race and left all rivals far astern.

Then followed the days of which the "rad seadoga still love to tell, when every stitch of sail was carried until the fierce wind blew it from the bolt-ropes; when for weeks the les scuppers lay buried in the seething waters, and the fring jibboom planged deep Into the white-capped waves; when the good ship Soverign of the as came into port ninety days from Hongkong, sad the town gathered on the whart to welcome the daring navigators, while the cargo of teas and coffees was sold at fabulous prices. And these old waits still discuss the dinner given the bold captain that night, when the log of the voyage would be read and men would sit amazed at bearing that in twenty-two days the ship and salled over 5,391 miles, that for four days ber daily run bad been 341.8 miles, and that in one day she had done 375′ miles, at the rate of 15,6 knots--Scribner for September,

WONDERFUL GROWTH OF,

LONDON.

J. ANDERSON, Acting Hon. Secretary,

HE. R. A

Hongkong, 6th October, 18gr.

DENTISTRY.

FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP.

MODERATE FEES.

AND

MWONG TAI FONG,

Dentist, (Formerly-articled Apprentice, and latterly, assistant to Dr. ROGERS), HAS REMOVED

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