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MARRIAGE

On Saturday, the 24th October," at H.B.M. Consulate, Amoy, by Mr. R. J. Forrest, Britlah Consul, and afterwards at the Kulangan Chapel, Amor, by the Rev. R. M. Ross, WILLIAM JOHN HEWITT, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, to MARIE ELIZA MADDEN,

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Hongkong Telegraph.

HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1891.

TELEGRAMS,

SMITH TRIUMPHANT.

LONDON, October 28th. Mr. Smith, son of the late First Lord of the Treasury, bus succeeded his father as member for the Strand division, defeating Mr. Gutteridge Radical, by a majority of three thousand (?)

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Berlin Beet-Mein golt, I'm sick to-day, H. K. Kadd-With the boys last evening ?, B. B.-Nein, I vent to bed ganz sober.

H. K. K. Poor devil, you couldn't find a friend!

No trouble apprehended-Lawyer-I don't think you'll have any trouble smashing up the will? Disinterested Relative What makes you to confident ? Lawyer-Well, he had ten of the smartest lawyers in the city to draw it up for him.

Jiggles-I don't like Mlas Budd. Wiggles-Why so?

and we are now executing all orders for the same. Complete Catalogues with concise directions for sowing can be obtained on appli- Jiggles-I bought a Waterbury from a Dotch catlon, or will be posted to any address. In these jeweller and the same night she asked me how

I liked the watch on the Rhine I Catalogues the Seeds are Marginally Numbered

"It was Mr. Beaux-Yeux, wasn't it, who said in English and Chinese, and when ordering it is that weman was created after man, and so she quite sufficient to state the numbers of the kinds was only an after-thought, anyway?" asked Phyllis "Yes; and Marjorie quietly smalled at required.

him and said that it was a universally admitted N.B.--All Seeds are tested on arrival before | fact that second thoughts were the best." being sent out.

MAC of the clan belonging to the Seven Dials

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Badleigh-Whiskey again ? Hadleigh-Naw, dear chapple. Had a row over my bar bill and the steward, dam'im, only allows me gin !**

THE following epitaph is in Lanesboro S. C.: "Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble catter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory and a specimen of his work. Monuments of this same style ŝajo."

THREADS OF THOUGHT. Life is double-faced and double-edged. To know one's scif is to distrust'ona's sail

Each life may have a petestiality of greatness To be misunderstood by those we love in bitterest of ali.

Find a disinterested friend and you have found

'Jewel

The greatest study of all is that of the changes of the mind. ****

Success has sometimes to be paid for after baving been fairly earned,

One is led to think that there is but little that

is constant nowadays save mutability, does his health-enjoys it when it is good, The philosopher takes his fortune mach as he endures It when bad, and seeks extreme remedies only at the most urgent need-Detroit Fria Press.

AN Amoy correspondent writes :---Saturday the 24th October witnessed another very interesting ceremony at this port, namely, the marriage of the popular Mr. W. J. Hewett of the 1. M. Customs to Miss Marie Eliza Madden The service at the church was conducted by the Rev. R. M. Ross, and the bridal pair were well supported by the bridesmaids, Mesdames Lille Mathews and Eva Lewis. The bride looked charming in a dress of mousselin de sole trimmed with orange blossoms, myrtle, lace and satin, tulle veil and orange blossom wreath. The two bridesmaid's costumes were of white Chlua silk and maslin, straw hats trimmed with lace and flowers, and each young lady carried a pretilly arranged bouquet. After the reception held by Mr. and Mrs."Lewis in the afternoon, when a large number of guests admired the splendid array of wedding gifts, the proceedings ended with a most enjoyable dinner, and dance at the residence of the best man, Mr. A. J. Hadley Altogether, this has been the most successful social function Amoy has seen for

long time.

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Jones-Johnson's in a deuce of a trouble on which freight was paid, and could not possibly mean coal or anything shipped as agala.

abip's stores,, simply for the use of the ship and not for transhipment.

Brown-How so? J.-His wife's baby and his amah's baby are mixed and they can't tell which is which,

B-Oh! that's only a family difference.

We notice that the steamship Bellerophon one

of the well known blue-funnel liners has the misfortune of being fa quarantine again. This time it is cholers, newly Imported, from Amoy. She has 278 Chinese pasicogers on board. They are now at Stonecutters' Island. Pleasant for them Where are you Jock?

THE Sydney Kulisțin saks-How on earth can a Judge be expected to do justice in court when his very household goods are being sold off by creditors; and attorneys who appear before him to argue cases have Indgments against him In their pockets? The scandal, rays our con- temporary, in in everyone's mouth and is becoming insupportable. ALGERNON SWINBURNE, probably England's greatest living poet, is described as a small, red- headed man and a bachelor. His forebend is very and his chin weak. His eyes are large and prominent, but bis month is small and fentinine brilliant. Ho is frank and courteous in manner, but he avoids general society because of his

deafness.

AT THE ROTISSERIE.

feet in Hongkong.

Snippen-Mr. Burgstarter has the prettiest Bungatarter-How in the devil do you know Sulppem-I beg your pardon; I have charge of the shoe department of the Bong Tong Trading Co.

A SHORTMAN, who is rather touchy at any refer ence to his size, relates how he was once utterly crushed in an argument. He had the best of it, and was walking the room the more strongly to lay down and emphasise his points, when the other fellow calmly remarked-Sit down, James; you look taller sitting down." It made him so wild he could not say another word.

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MUCH interest, says an American contempe rary, is taken in England as to the future of Prince George of Wales, whose popularity is in striking contrast to the batred shown toward his brother, Albert Victor. Place George has just passed his twenty-sixth birthday, and is a tall, handsome young fellow, with blonde beard, superb complexion, and great, honest, blue eyes Francisco Chronicle:-The His witty speeches and democratic ways charm doctor who is obtalaing some reputation as a the sturdy Bettisis, who hope some day to be the curer of drunkarda takes the radical view that subjects of this popular_sprig of soyalty." The Inebriety is a disease and not a vice. If the | Inst ́sentence is pure bosh," doctor means by this that man is not in most cases responsible for taking the complaint ha-

SAYS the San

will not find many Intelligent persons to share

his opinion. His illustration that it resembles malaria is not a happy one, Nobody over resorted to malaria as a source of pleasure, a people do to drink. Malaria even in lis mildest forms is not harmless, while drink in moderation is not only harmless, but actually beneficial to the system. It is useless to conceal the fact that most drunkards are so from inclination, for only in exceptional cases is the temptation to drink Irresistible. The attempt to set down úrunkenness as a disease in an harmatul sa it is to inculcate the idea that bad temper is an fofirmity for which the person displaying it is not responsible. The exercise of moderate amount of self control will save any person from the effects of both evils, therefore sell control should be preached and the heinousness of the offences not minimized by regarding them as diseases.

SAYB the Sydney Bulletin-The Australian

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It is with great regret that we have to announce the death of Mr. T. W. Hall, third master at the Diocesan Home. Mr. Hall had not yet been quite a year in the colony, and had gained the admiration and respect, of all who knew him. Professionally he was a man, of high work and personally be had All the qualities which win sicem among friends, Fossessing a fine physique, he enjoyed very good health welll four days ago, when he was taken ill with fever of a particularly severe degree, at one time reaching a temperature of 11. In spite of every effort, he died at the Civil Hospital this morning. The füneral took place at 4 p.m. to-day.

The Court upheld this view and dlamlased the

'CASO.

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RELEASE OF MR. WILTSHIRE,

A VERY BLACK CASE,

At eight o'clock this morning, Mr. Wilshire, the victim of one of Butterfield and Swira's many recent outrages, was; released from a week's imprisonment. Without any presalag he came entirely of his own accord to the Telegraph office and put his case before us We reproduce it la his own words, which need no embellishment, Mr. Wiltshire says ;—

I hold a master's certificate, London, grd December, 1868, endorsed "passed in steam 7th Joly, 1871." I have a family in London, grown up now and in good positions Iwas paid off in London when my ship was sold; and in want of anything better took a berth on the Selens, Gaverament

As a matter of form I was called first officer, and steamer, to be brought out to Singapore to lay torpedoes when the Russian war sexro was on.. have now a certificate from the war-office man who commanded the vessel, to the effect that I navigated this ship and delivered ber properly in Singapore. My work was then done, and I had to take anything I could get. Alter various ventures in Australia, Borneo, and Singapore, at one time very prosperous and at another the reverse, I got a berth on the Flintshire under captain Habekost, who gave me a most complimentary testimonial when we were both paid off. I came to Hongkong in the Cheang Hock Kian, and had to go into hospital with malaria. Messrs. Bug Hia & Co. apoke very highly of me. The ship was paid off here, and the captain himself left. sum of money with the agents for me in case I should need it. Dr. Atkinson managed to pull me through, and thanks to him I was S Dew man. Then I could get nothing else to do, so I took a job at saiving the Sin Naring, as I had a good deal of diving experience. After that was at the Sallon Home without work, and the Superintendent asked me if I would take this berth as second on the Suntiang. He told me the pay was $50 and the gratulty, for good and efficient service. 1 agreed, and signed on without any more talk. I had no writen promise of the gratuity, and do not remember any explicit understanding more than what the Superintendent of the Sallors Home told me.

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So I went on board, and did my work as usuni. Then we come to the Taku incident. The arms were found, some made up su cargo, some the in the engine room, and some quartermasters' cabin. The fast was the only matter that affects me. The cabin has a looking glass, fixed against the side of the ship, not movable, but a part of the ship's fittings, securely screwed on all round. This had been taken down by somebody, and a hole cut in the ship's side, where the arina were hidden between the lion plates of the ship and the wood sheathing. The place had been inspected regularly by me and the captain, and we had noticed nothing wrong about it. It is not an ordinary thing to pull the glass down and examine the wooden wall behind it. It would never be expected to be done. It is out of all reason to make a practice of doing so. A YOUNG minister, possessed in a more than

Then the ship was fined $500, and we went on ordinary degree of the fallings of the cloth,

There the Imperial Customs officer recently married an elderly malden, whose lack to Swatow. of personal attractions was made up by the possession of

guld tacher." One day the (European) came on board, and I belleva told the Capt. they wanted to arrested the whole of the Chi- klichen keitle was discovered to be leaking, and It was sent off forthwith to be soldered, Next board. This, as I understand, way sanc- tioned by the British conml, but could not day a boy returned with the mended kettle, and

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Orders from one person, over $ia allowed an spend, which he has made through the bog grave for deposits—a burlal-place for the share he sought to place that sum In the hands of the warning, and we had no idea that anything was .

extra 5% discount.*

Narcissus Bulbs (The Chinese Spring Flower). A supply just received from the North. Early' application is requested ;

says that when he goes home he will watch Mercantile, Loan, and Guaranten Company, on the door being opened by the minister's fat be done without the signing off of the Orders from one person, of from $5 to rogolog la the unfortunate Bellaroökon; ke wishes which came to hopeless grief the other day in a demand was made for 3d for repairing the trouble to ask the Chinese to siga off!

to fetch there clear of small pox and cholera dodges of the agents, as he has a lot of coin to Sydney, seems to have been a good little "back" kettle. The lady examined the kettle minutely in its way as banke go. It was a bottomless and then returned-"You must be mistaken, boy; 2d, I am sure, is plenty for the job," and bonus which is so lavishly promised but seldom

holders' money—a region where unlimited legal paid good old bones! Mac and the bogle man

tender was swallowed and put out of sight. It boy. "I winns hae't," returned the boy, hotly are just equal.

chief asset seems to have been £50,000 paid, or "Come on wl' the 3d, or gie's back the kettle, sald to be paid, for the goodwill of a business ye suld cheat." The minister hearing the which consisted chiefly of an office and an unwrangle at the door came to see what was the certificated bankrupt. A large number of in matter. "What's wrong, my man? be ex shares were sold to itself; its original manager claimed, looking at the little fellow on the door- was a kind of well-appointed individual who step. Oh, it's fist aboot that kettle," returned existed principally to own a salary and a big the lad. "We wis southerln't, an' I was telt to overdraft. The recurities can't be found, the get 3d for't, and that auld fossil there, yer shareholders are either non-existent or have mither, is tryin' to pit me aff wi' ad, but it winna bolted, or are dead broke the two most enter dae. Come on w the 3d, or gie's back the prising directors have skipped with a large kettle." The minister was left to settle the amount of the cash the scrip on which advances account. bave been made is partly absent and partly waste-paper; the books and the balance sheet are chaos; and the shortage, so far, is £129,000, Comequently the few genuine shareholders bid fair to be cleaned out to the last cest to pay the costs of liquidation, and the prospects for the depositors are as nearly vid an anything earthly can be. And of such is the kingdom of Heaven.

CLAY'S FERTILIZER.

A DIFFERENT, Point of View-Slogleton-I'm sorry to hear that you hays trouble with your wife, What's the matter i Benedict-11's her way of talking. She says the most cutting, Ironical things to ma on every occasion j' never misses a chance to spring something horribly sarcastic. It's dreadiel, I tell you. Singleton A high class fertilizer for pot planta and for-Well, you knew her long enough before you use in the garden generally: it supplies natural Oh, I did, but I took it for wit then.

were married to learn of the trait. Benedict

nourishment to the soll, and assists' the process of assimilation, thereby aiding the plants. to MASKED balls are now all the fashion in England. It is related that at one recently a youth attain to their full size, vigour and beauty.

of ingenuous countenance and ingenuous modesty was dirting the best he knew how with Sold in Tins containing to each......$1.50. tall lady in a pink domino, when, to his great

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astonishment and the no small amusement of a few viveurs in the immediate vicinity of the pair, Directions for use are given on the label..

the voice from behind the mask say: "Why Bobby, where-ever did you learn such awful things?" The pink domine happened to be his

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TRUTH, in its endeavors to encourage native genius, has been holding political tournaments of late to which the happy loses receive a doll or sovereign in recognition of his genius. This was both generous and thoughtful on the part of

SUNDAY REST ABOLISHED,

The law is the embodiment

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Of everything that's excellent

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It has no kind of fault or flaw

And our Q.C. embodies the law,

I would not have

I suppose there might have been alone, 10 the Captain asked us all to transfer our names from the old articles to the. new ones. This request was made quite without wrong. At the captain said nothing about monny. we supposed that was all right. Ordinarily we would be paid up on signing off, but so as not to delay the ship we did not ask them for our money, trasting to B. & S. to pay us in full as urnal. Of course if they had then said anything was wrong we need not have sailed again, as after signing off we were free entirely. signed on again nor sailed if the Captain or agent had told me the bonus was withheld He did not say expremly that the bonus would be paid, but left it to be assumed as a matter of course, Then the Chinesa crew signed off, but did not sign on again. They did not object, and seemed not to really know what was going on. Each man was brought into the captain's room, before the Consul's con stabic, Mr. Sage, and was told " put your name bere. So be did, without question, and than he went out on deck. Than the Customs mea took each of them by the arm and sald "Come late this boat," and they got into a Chinese boat and were taken to a revenue launch or gunboat. After a few hours they were taken to the Chinese prison on above the same evening, I believe. We shipped a fresh crew and came

When we got to Hongkong we were not paid at once. We were to all again on Thursday (aand) and on Wednesday the captain asked the agents for our money but was refused. This he He gave the engineers a cheque. They got no bonus. We get a bonus, but he did not give us our pay. The ship was to sail at noon, but did not I got my pay from the captain at ten minutes past twelve, and that was the first I ever heard of the bonus bring- stopped. I said "I don't want to go on if there is na bonus," and he said all right, I could and how long would it take me to pack up. Then afterwards he said, still quite friendly and ashore with me to the Her agreeably, bour Master." I went, and we talked it over, and Captain Hastings seemed to think I had been let in but could not help myself, and he advised me to go on board again. I went on board, and stayed all night, quite prepared and expecting to all again without any more about it. Next thing I know was when I got the summons and had to go to the Police Station at once. You know the rest. Capt. Dodd stood by me manfully; but the others ——

Any lawyer can drive a coach and four through an Act of Parliament, but Mr. Francis, QC. can pilot a rooo ton steamship through a Hong- IN Belgiam there are twenty people's banks,

kong Ordinance. But then it is only a thing having on deposit fram 7,000,000 to 8,000,000 of

composed by Goodman and Des Voeux, so pro

on to Hongkong, francs; in Italy, 641 with 500,000,000 of deposits;

bably an ordinary or even unusually thick in Hungary 530, deposits 50,000,000 1 in Austria the distinguished editor of our London contem-headed-ricksha coolle could tear through it nearly 1,400, deposits 600,000,000; in Russie, Porary The humble bard should be recognized with bis handcart. Of course the statute in poet rewarded. But when it comes question (the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance) 859, deposits not known in Germany, more and the rustic than 3,000, as follows: 2,160 on the Schulise to holding up as models the word-juggling of was rushed, was flashed on the Council and then Delitzsch plas, with more than 1,200,000,000 of Austin Dobson and other rhymesters of the flashed off again, just as if it was "short dot" francs, and from 1,000 to 2,000 on the Raiffeisen by-pamby school, it is about time to protest. in a hellograph signal. The result is that the plan, amount deposit unknown; in France Labby's latest competition calls for triolets first case under the new law which made so there are barely teri.

and as the ideal of that abominable class, pre-much stir, and about which everybody bragged sents the following -

so much and thought an much, and which every. MINISTER (severely, to beadle)" Now, John,

body thought was one of the finest pieces of how is it that you cannot get the church stovs

beneficial legislation ever effected the very first to work properly? When our ruling elder pre-

caso collapsed miserably, and the prosecution sented it to the congregation, after buying it

looked so unconscionably ridiculous that it was enough to drive them to drink, Terrible thing, drinki

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Pedder's Hill, Hongkong, January 19th, 1891

that it had been constructed to burn anthraelle, and I believe you've been firing with common coal after all." Bendie-"Weel, meenlster, I dinna see whit else ye con expec' whan folks are sae far left to themsel's that they'il e'ep weat to get warmed wi' antichrist coal p

A KISS.

(By A. Dobson.) Rose kissed me to-day; Will she kiss me to-morrow? Let it be as it may,

Rose kissed me to-day But the pleasure gives way. To a savor of sorrow--

Rose kissed me to-day-- Will she kiss me to-morrow?

This is second-rate Jingle. To call it poetry is an insult to Lennyson, Longfellow, Poe and To Bustrate how this kind of metrical stuff can be turned out wholesale, we append the productions of our Office Gost -

THE TIPPLER.

...I am royally drunk;

Ir is calmed for the Prince of that notorious gambling principality, Monaco, that he has a Swinburne. longer pedigree than any other potentate, great or-pretty, in Europe. For more than eight centuries the title passed down a direct line of males. It was not until 1731 that a daughter of the house had to take up the running, and the present Prince is ker great grandson. "A revolu- tion in the little Principality would cause thirty deceased sovereiges, all of the same blood, or politely supposed to have been, to turn in their coffins. There never was such another family for nursing the same old billet from generation to generation. No idea of work has coursed through their delicate hius veins for a thousand {¡years.

Now that the cost of aluminum bas been re- duced to 50 cents per pound, it is likely to come Into practical use for many purposes. . At the Washington Convention of the Science Associa tion, Professor Springer read a paper relative of his discovery of the qualities of aluminum as a conveyor of sound. In the construction of sounding-boards for musical instrument it will be invaluable, as is free from all the objec tions against wood and other materials. It is peculiarly resonant and plastic and is not in- "Auenced by hent, cold or toolature. Applied to the telephone it may result. In some diminution of the everlasting Hello, I don't quite get you Ship-builders are looking up its propertise for use on file-boats and bulls of vessels.

But, Oh Lord | On the morrow, How my hat will be shrunk'i I am royally drunk,

All my dollars are sunk

And from none can I borrow, I am royally drunk,

But, Oh Lord, on the morrow I

THÉ UMBRELLA.

-It is raining outside,

And I've lost my umbrella. My whiskers are dyed,

It is raining outside

And the dye won't abide On the beard of a fellow ! It is raining outside And I've lost my umbrella,

OM TRIOLETS, Any ass can surpass Or at least Dobson follow In triolets crASE, Ány as can mirpass And his readers harass With sentiments hollow,

Any ass can eurpaas

Or at least Dobson follow,

The facts were briefly as follows. Butterfield & Swire wanted to coal their steamer Whampoa on Sunday, and notified the Harbour Master to that effect Apparently no notice was taken of their intimation, which of course was not made in the form prescribed for applications Working Ordinances, WAS sent to meet the

and no money under the Cargo cost of a permit. The ship was coaled all the game on October 25th, and the Harbour Master then summoned the captain of the vessel and some of the coal lighter men for breach of sec. 3 and sec. 8 of the Ordinance. The case came on fa the Police Court this morning before Mr. Wise. Mr. Stokes, Crown Solicitor, prosecuted, and Mr. Francis, QC. defended.

Evidence was not needed, as the coaling was admitted. The defence was that it was not carga. The prosecution admitted that the conl was for the ship's use only, but contended that even bunker coal wanTM “cargo.",

onder the Ordi-

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Karon or run "Hosanova Tuchorage," S1st,The publication of a document without the knowledge or consent of it's author is usually regarded as an act of the greatest discourtesy, and this is aggravated when the document is deliberately falsified by wilful interpolations,y

I read with astonishment net anmixed with amusement, in your fame of the roth fastant a series of proclamations said to have been tran- slated by the British Consul at this port

Mr, Stokes argued that the intention of the Ordinance was to restrict labour on vessels fo the harbour on Sundays. All labour was aimed at, and coaling fovolved just as much labour as Laiding in rice or tea. The engineers had to be

For your information and that of your readers, present, and could not get any Sunday for them- selves. The word "cargo in the Ordinance I may inform yon that upon enquiry I have leami was used subject to certain exceptions-ice, live that translations of proclamations of the local stock, malls, etc.--bat coal was not excepted. native authorities, very similar to these, were Webster

defince "cargo" an... whatever is read at a meeting of the Consular Body held conveyed in a ship. The Ordinance mentioned here some time ago. The translations were left certain exceptions, and would have mentioned in the supposed cale keeping of the Doyen of the coal if coal had been intended to be an exception. Consular Body, Being of a confidential nature,and

correspondent, by means which I am at a loss to understand, has obtained access to this copy, and I therefore will ask you to insert a statement In your paper that the translations have been wilfully tampered with by the following important addition, and alterations :---

In the first of the series, the words "wicked men and distributors of seditions placards"-have been substituted for the word " criminala."

In the third, the words "members of societies" have been expanded into "members of the Ko lan-hui and other societies."

The expression" anything sacret about them * · has been changed to "any secret placards about them.

And the words "and traitors and rebels! have been added.

It is solely upon these substitutions, and additions that your correspondent's theory is based. Without them the proclamations are what they were intended to be, simply warnings. to Innkeepers to be ware of barbouring criminais, ste. They contain only one passing allusion to secret societies, and have no political signifi cance whatever.

It is not true that these, or almilar transla

the British Consulate. tons, are on file for public inspection in every Consulate in this city, for they are not on file in

Her Majesty's Consul informs me that he knows nothing about, the placards of secret societies which your correspondent inserts at the end of his communication. He had a care= ful search made for such placards some time ago and failed to discover, any. The Consule and Missionaries who have secured them must have been curiously careful not to mention the circumstance to him.

3.

While apologising, for the length of this letter. will you permit me to remark that the first duty of a newspaper professing to dissenilsate truthful news, is to be sure of the correctness of what it publisher. A series of letters have lately been written from bere

to the state of conreylag a false impression affairs here. A stranger reading them would think we were sitting on a volcano, The truth is there never bas been the least alarm felt by the great majority of the residents. Certain firebrands, anxious to acquire notoriety, having failed in thele attempts here, are now trylog to gain their ends through your columns. Enclosing my card.

I am, elc.,

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- AN AMOY RESIDENT. Amoy, 24th October, 1891. We concede space for this letter in order to show that we have no blas' or personal con- cern in the matters in dispute, and because we consider it a duly we owe to the public to gire everyone a fair show in these columns on any question of general interest. But "An Amoy Resident" goes too far-very much too far, especially when he professes to "disseminate truthful news" under the convenient guise of a'nom'de plumt. Our Amoy correspondent, on whose bona fides we thoroughly rely, and whose position is not, far as we can see, in the slightest degree shaken by the foregoing letter, is perfectly capable of defending himsell, and we leave that task to bim with perfect confidence, 'should he consider it worth his while. But we are bound to take some notice of what we can only regard as Impertinence dictated by gross ignorance, “An Amoy Resident" will perhaps be good enough to remember that we edit, the Hongkong Telegraph, and that, as far as this Journal f concerned, we are the best and sole judges of what is the first duty of a newspaper. If, as he says, it is the first duty of a newspaper fo be sure of the correctness of what it publishes, nothing can be more certain than that his letter, printed above, would have found a resting place in the waste-paper basket, "An Amoy Resident" sends us his name, but he will hardly contend that that in itself is absolate evidence of the accuracy of the state- ments he thinks fit to make, and which are not substantiated in any way excepting by one or two vague references to the British Consul which may mean anything. We have shown An Amoy Resident the exceptional courtesy of giving publicity to scathing assertions. entirely authenticated, that canost bat reflect infuriously on the gentlemen referred. to, and he shows his appreciation of this privilege by impudently insinuating that we don't know our own buriness and have yet to learn "the first daty of a newspaper.” Fürther comment would be mere waste of words—Ed., Hongkong Telegraph.]

NEWS OF THE WORLD:-

LONDON, September 30th. ́ ́The Russian authorities are 'unable to supply. the demands, for seed wheat, and the peasantry are enduring privations of a most terrible character. In many instances rerious conflicts have occurred between the soldiery sent to protect the property of the fortunate few and the starving peopic.

Latest accounts from Russia state that whole'

villages have been depopulated owing to deaths

from starvation.

A well-known corn broker of New York has falled for one million sterling,

Roamanis, fearing Russian aggression on her frontlers has appealed to the Powers forming the Triple Alliance for a promise of protection in that event. It has long been considered by thoses who have most studied the problem that. Russian invasion of Roumanis will be the match that will set Europe in a flame,

Hanian has been defeated by O'Connor, The race took place on the Frater River, in British Bolumbia, Bo

An unsuccessful attempt has been made by anarchists to wreck, aŭ express train... near Cracow, in Poland.

* A tomible fire bas occurred at Minneapolis, the largest city in the State of Minnesota, U.S. Twelve large buildings, were destroyed, the damage being estimated at £100,000. Numbers of people perished.

Twe trains crowded with working men have collided in Fennsylvania. Many of the pas sengers were killed, and numbers scalded by the steam and hot water, from the abattered engines. The scene presented immediately after the accident was a terrible one,

Calamitone foods have pocurred in France. The large town of Anbernes is completely sub merged, entalling disastrous loss of like and property, the Conservative member of the House of Commons who was recently charged with commluing an unnatural offence, has re- turned from the Continent, whither he had fled, and surrendered himself to the police, and The trial of Olirien In Canada for libelling Prince George was continued yesterday In Montreal Strenuous efforts were made by the counsel for the defence to secure evidence of the statement that the Prince was isrking in a low quarter of Montreal when he was astalled by roughs. The evidence on this point, however is conflicting.

Sir William Harcourt has been initiated as President of the United Order of Odd fellows

Certain members of the Russian nobility hava been shown to have embezzled thousands of roubles intended for the relief of the famine

ricken people

The PA&O. Co.'s steamer Rows which has been seriously damaged by dre at Greenock has

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