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A new German loan is announced for £5,500,000 sterling, to be applied to perfecting and increasing the Artillery branch of the Mill- | tary Service.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
A MUMEXE of complaints have lately reached us" regarding indecent behaviour on the part of soldiers of the Garrison on the Bowen Road and other places of public resort almost every after noon. These complaints should have been sent to the Captain Superintendent of Police. It is not the business of a newspaper to do work of this sort, for which public servants Kre adequately pald. Det all the same, Colonel Chafer might take ́s friendly hint and profit by | ||
An interesting match at football, under Assocs. tira rules, wit be played on the Race-course to-morrow commencing at 4:30 pm sharp between the Hongkong Football Club and a team from the Argyle and Sutherland High- landers. The Football Club will be represented by-A. Sharp and W. H. Wallace (full-backs) H. W. Slade, E. Ezekiel and F. Maitland (half backs), and G. Young, A. W. Maltland, J. THE Belgic amived this morning at seven o'clock, Armstrong, W. Newton, and J. Wilkie (for having made the passage from Yokohama in anwards). This is a strong combination, bat hour short of six days.
they will, bave a poor show at the great Scottish XMAS, and New Year's parcels for the United gate against the hits of the Highlanders Kingdom posted before 3pm on Wednesday, and just here we would like to sak by the Hov. Secretary of the Football Club has ant the 11th fast, are due in London on Dec, 23rd,
sent us the names of the Regiment team? WX are informed by the Agent of the Messageries Because some or most of them are private Maritimes Co. that the Company's steamer soldiers or what? There should be no class Salasie, with the next French mall, left Saigon distinctions in the universal repable of sport, and surely the members of the Press, who devate yesterday at 2 pm, for this port.
valuable time and space to recording: there interesting lests of skill and strength, are entitled te some consideration! How can a newspaper representative accurately report a football match if he is not even acquainted with the names or positions of one of the team? attempt it, however much we may regret the circumstance,・・ When · footballers and other devotees of British pastime recogales their obligations to the newspaper press, we shall gladly reciprocate; until then, so far as the Hongkong Telegraph is concerned the only on its staff who knows even then the alpha of port of any kind whatsoever they can grace fully silde Into oblivion. It may perhaps be necessary to state that these observations have no reference to the Hongkong Cricket Club. That noble institution and its mud-headed Secre and firmly dealt with as soon as the Editor of tury, Arthur K. Travers, Esq., will be separately this journal is able to "aling ink In his old
THE well-known local yacht Arial, recently bought at auction for $600 for the Commissioner of Customs at Pakhol, will sail for her destins tion under command of Mr. Woods, late master of the Kashgar, on or about the 15th inst.
OUR sapatarians will assemble In solemn conclave to-morrow, at 4.15 pm for the purpose of calmly and conscientiously consider [ng the committee's report on byo-laws for licensingand regulating common lodging-houses.
We won't
"MEMBER of the A.D.C." will have to wait' until tomorrow for a rely to bls letter. At pre- sent we know absolutely nothing of what he refers to. Perhaps Mr. E. W. Mitchell or Mr. C. J. Holliday would tell him what he wants to know, and save us the trouble of washing dirty linen. Our correspondent's remarks are perfectly true all the same, and they are quite refreshing In this hive of tasap-spirited toadies and unscra pulous loafers.
The first round of the competition at football, for medals presented by the Hongkong St. Andrews's Society, was played on the Race- course yesterday between companies "A" and "B" of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, which "An company won by one goal to ? after a close and exciting struggle throughout. We regret we are unable to give a detailed report of this interesting match, for the simple reason that nobody thought it worth while to send us the names of the competitors. In all manly pastimes, the Hongkong. Telegraph has just as much respect for and will give exactly the same alderation to the fall Private as to the fall Colonel-and that has always been our policy. Now, Colonel Chater, after this democratic enunciation, won't you oblige us by stopping the Telegraph innil your messes, and this add another twenty-five copies to your favorite Journal? Do, Colonel, please!
THE 'Ricksba farm will be liberally dealt with in our next issue. Our chief' has for some
day's past been sadly off colour, but is gradually coming round to bis ordinary cheerfulness, Half-a-dozen Chinese deputations have visited the Telegraph office to protest against this Idiotic lad" of the biggest aan the Hongkong Government Service has ever known, and we are with them in whatever constitutional setion they decide to take against this unconstitutional Why don't the resident unofficial
abortion.
Dr. Marques stated that death resulted from asphyxia. The girl appeared to have been abolutely buried under loose rubbish, and no sign of fracture was found on her,
A coolle who was working on the first for verandah said that he heard the noise of the house falling, and rushed away to the next house by the verandah, escaping unhurt, 19
the Chinese Government, in which the Pekin, authorities promise to protect the lives and pro pesty of foreigners in China. In this note England and, Germany state that only tha evidence of accomplished facts will satisfy the powers,
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BERLIN, September 29th. |
A sensation has been caused by an article in The father of the girl sald be was away at the the Wunsburg Frankischer Volksblatt, a Catholic time, and found the house in ruins when hemgan, proposing the disintegration of the Gene returned. There were seven la his family man empire and the re-establishing of the Pin- father, mother, three sons and one daughter.sidency of the Emperor of Austria, On being told that this only made att, he
HaMauro, September 19th, perslated "à is Longfellow "We air sevin." The troubles between the officer and crew of Then suddenly be remembered "Oh yes, I have the Chilean skip Pinto which is at present moor another daughter, quite forgot to mention hered-in-the-river Elbe have broken ont, afresh. All right.
The crew is mutinous and the captaly, unable to Inspector Gauld detailed the circumstances of enforce discipline, appealed to the authorities. the police work, which, he superinter.ded from The latter decided that it was not within their beginning to end.
province to board a war ship of a foreign nation to assist her officers.
29th,
The Carllat faction at Punta de la Reins, in Navarre, bas, rised against the old Carilats of Giran Quiminou. Two putics headed by wo men and armed with fowling pieces and old muskets marched into the open to-day and ex- changed fire, several persons being wounded. The combatants were finally, dispersed by gend armes. Isolated fighting, however, is continued, mounta
LONDON, September goth. The Piccadilly, a society paper, anys Sie William Vernon Harcourt's eyesight is falling
"The British bark Avalanche, which sailed from Gerald, In West Australia, September Bil, for Freemantle, in the same colony, has not been heard from, and it is feared she is lost
Clement Palmer aald he was an architect. He further stated that the houses were the proud de Madrid, September: petty of Messrs. Douglas Lapraik & Co., and Palmer and Turner were their architects and were supervising the work on these building Part of 59, the kitchens at the back separate from the main building, fell down last Avent, and in superintending the re-erection of them he had noticed that the back wall of the house itself was unsafe, and ordered it to be taken down, and rebuilt. He visited the place on Friday Jast, and noticed nothing wrong. The contractor working for them wat Ni Jok The houses were ballt eleven or twelve years ago, after the great fire of 6675, and probably some of the old bricks had been used. Undoubtedly the building was very defective-half bricks and rubbish, It was all the fault of the bricks that this fall happened, The party wall was not touched in the recent
BOMBAY, September 30. repairs, only the kitchens and back wall
--- In spite of repeated denials, a sumor is perala- it would only take 1,200 bricks to build a back tently circulated to the effect that the Rusalans wall like this, as it was full of windows and have killed Captain Younghusband in Pamir. doors so that even if all the bricks required bad
*~ NEW YORK, September sath. been put on the roof, the party wall ought to The Herald's Valparaiso, cablegram says It
officials änd not sanctioned by the majority of Egan complained were instigated by irresponsibi
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Belare taking-"Oh, dear me, George, donyowapaper in the colony that has single member members of the Legislative Council put a stop | have been strong enough to hold them up. The is now belleved the actions of which Minister
I think you are just awful
After taking The meas, horsid thing! Did any body ever see such a stupid ?"
N.B.-The only thing that poor George took was his departure.
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to this second-class fooling by resigning in a to bear the brunt of a policy that apparently body, and leaving Mr. "Turn-coat" Keswick has for its main objects the turning of a free port into a hot-bed of old-world protection, and the manufacture of hopeless nincompoops-of the Mitchell-Innes brand-into high-class poli ficlans. Give the author of the new Ricksha farmi a picture book to amuse himself withi
BOARD OF LICENSING JUSTICES,
structure was not strong, said Mr.. Palmer, "the Junta. have been sufficient indication that the whole previous fall of parts of the buildings ought to
think that as other
portions of the buildings have been falling down there is no reason why this should not have done so too
assistant engineer of the Public Works Depart
John Thomas Hornby Sample said he was ment. He saw the houses that had fallen down, The party wall had collapsed...The houses were wretchedly built. The contractor told him that 500 gr 600 bricks were piled upon on the second floor while the back wall was being taken down A meeting of the licensing justices was held and rebullt. That was not an Excessive weight this morning for the purpose of receiving applica-if the house had been properly built, but the tions for yearly licences. ML. A. G. Wise, Police previous collapses showed sufficiently that it was Magistrate, presided, and there were also present net, safe, and If witness had seen it be would Mr. H. G. Horspool (Acting Captain Superin have had the store of bricks, removed. The tendent of Police), Mr. Granville Sharp, Mr. A. pulling down of the back wall would somewhat Shelton Hooper Mr. J. D. Humphreys, Mr. injure the stability of the party wall. The whole Murray Bain, Dr. He Kal, Mr. W. G. Lyall and block of houses in which there stood was of Mr. Besonice.
similar construction. Nothing was being done to them, and he would not be surprised to see them collapse likewise.
The Chairman commented on the fact that the
new applications had not been advertised and nobody knew anything about them until they were laid before this meeting. It would be well that all new applications should be advertised, in order that persons interested might have an opportunity to consider them and take what steps they wished,
Mr. Sharp said he had letters from tem- Perance bodies regretting that they had absolutely no information as to any of the new licences sought, and were unable to present petitions against them,
The clerk said that it never had been usual to said that certainly it ought to The Chalkested be done.
The Hongkong, Victoria, and Austin Arms hotel licences were not opposed by the police," and were granted. No application was made on behalf of the Peak Hotel.
HERE is a splendid chance, a most favourable opportunity for Mr. Mitchell-Innes to climb down, and withdraw, 'and apologise, and pull in his horns, and kick himself, and so on. In spite An enthusiastic coulie who evidently “ don't see of his deliberate barefaced assertions that the no reason why Gunpowder Treason should ever excise officers search passengers for oplam with be forget" was caught making night hideous by all dreemur, and then only on reasonable suspi- firing off crackers last night contrary to regulacion, here is a case this morning which ought tions, and had the pleasure of dropping one to choke him. Ngan Ching, Chinese water shekel of liver into the Magisterial collection constable, was of Tok Kee wharf, in plain box this morning. The police might next ran clothes, when a halking Indian excise officer in as a notsauce the five o'clock gun.
named Sunder Singh came up and wanted to GIOFGE A. ROCKETT, the English A.B. on the search him. The constable protested that he Empress of China who was found in the was a policeman, and not a passenger, and that Admiralty dock early yesterday morning dead, anyhow the search must be made in the Police Station if at all. Thereupon Mr. Sunder Singh so far as can be ascertained bad slept od the forecastle and must have fallen overboard, proceeded to hit him in the eye, bang his head, though bow, it is impossible to say, as the fore break his ribs, putch his stomach, and generally castle is well protected by rails which were all to sweep the wharf with him. Poor Ching In piace. No cry or sound was heard by the managed to get at his whistle and blow it for assistance. Then another poilie and temperate officer on duty or the watch. The captain excise officer (v. "Mitchell Tants en Gentleness
tates that Rockett was one of his best men, and, very sober. The funeral took place yesterday came along, and together they got the plain clothes constable to the station. He was searched, and found to be without oplum. Then by advertise as taken to the hospital, and the doctor cerilles that he had a fractured rib and was bleeding at the mouth and showed bruises all over his body, The excise officers on getting him to the police station said nothing about any resistance or Assault on his part. They were charged with 24ault this morning at the Magistracy, and innocently remarked that they did not know he was a constable (or they would have hit some body else, eh ?) and that he assaulted them. Myes. Three weeks for Sunder Singh and fourteen days for Mahomed Boe, his chum. The other side of the case (it is of course our practice to fully state both sides) is that no reliance can be put a Chinaman's bare state- ment that he is a policeman, as this is a very common dodge - [that the "water" police are si enmity with the opium farm people AN American exploring expedition is about to in consequence of recent convictions; that start for Labrado: (says the St. James Gamifis) | the constable purposely resisted search and to discover and report on the Grand Falls, said provoked the constable, knocking his turban to be the most wonderfel cataract in the world. off, and that the injury to the Chlazman They are believed to be situated 160 miles from was unintentionally caused, and was really the Hamilton Inlet, on the north-east coast of through his own struggles, he falling to Labrador; but no traveller has yet reached the the grennd and dragging the Sikh en exact spot, and the natives belleve the place to be top of him. An application for rehearing baurted. The expedition seems to be thoroughly is to be made to-morrow, and in the mean- well equipped in every way. Among other things, time the whole body of Indian excisa officers the explorers will take a phonograph with them, have threatened to throw up their posts if such in order to secure an accurate record of the an unjust convictions they consider it--can- dialects of the Esquimaur language which they not be reversed. meet with. For scientific purposes this will be even more useful than photographic apparatus. It is too late to wish that English travellers had been the first to describe this extraordinary Is cataract. An Englishman tried to get as far a year or two age, but failed, owing to the want of proper boats. The glory of discovery must now be left to the Americans.
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On the application for the Criterion Hotel licence, Mr. Horspool said he believed there had been complaints from the neighbours.
The Clerk said that some of them had come to bim asking what course to take, and he referred them to the Chairman, but they had not takon any step,
The Chairman said he had 'received no intimation. The police report was favourable.
There being no complaint, the licence was granted.
Mr. Palmer, said it was intended to take down the whole of that black
The enquiry was then adjourned until to- morrow at ten o'clock, in order to securn the evidence of the contractor, who had failed to come, although noufied.
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The O. & O. Co.'s steamship Brigli, Capt Wm. H, Walker, with the: American maila bi, We catract the following telegrams from our October 8th, arrived in harbour this morning
San Franelico exchanges ¡—
LONDON, September 28th. The official English report on the Sigri Incident | states that the mancovers were carried on by permission of Turkish officers and the usual: mining operations were executed. Twelve electro-contact mines,were placed across the harbor's mouth and connected up the function with both stations, and to protect the works the British landed eight guns.
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PARIS. September 30th, The Chinese Charge d'Affaires in this city has Informed the Minister of Foreign Affairs that the outrages on foreigners were perpetrated has been Governor of the province where the recent dismissed, in compliance with the demands of the power.
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Motta to-day says the revolutionary agliation in several provinces of Brasil is causing the Government great uneasiness. In many places the troops have mutinied and the Govern ment mart adopt strong measures if it hopes to
maintain order,
ROME, September goth, A terrible accident is reported from Ovads, next Genoa, Italy. An unfelshed tunne collapsed and twenty-one workmen were burled Seventeen were extricated alive, and it is feast d the others are dead.
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Signor, Corte, the Italian Consul at New Orleans at the time of the lynching of the Italians, there, has been transferred to Havre, France.
BERLIN, September 30th, "Private_telegrams say the recent strain Eas seriously Increased the Pope's feebleness and his condition causes alaria.
LONDON, October 1st. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Standard confirms the reports of distress In Russia. He says 25,000,000 people are unable to pay their taxes, and this will cause a budget deficit of £15,000,000. The Minimer of
of the distressed people. Finance, the correspondent adds," "Eas" "Just granted another 1,000,000 raubles for the relief
The Chronicida Berlin correspondent says the the Issue of all rye bread has been resumed in German army.
MONTREAL, October rat. TERE R.. N. O'Brien, a. newspaper correspondent who has been on trial the last five daya on a charge of #beling Prince George of Wales by means of afike" dispatch, representing that the prince had gone out on a debauch, while in Montreal, was found guilty by the Jury to-night, with recommendation of messy. The counsel for the prosecution then, announced that, as public justice had been indicated, the Crown would agree" to a suspension of aentence, and the court suspended the sentence. Monarkana ST. PETERSBURG, October zet.
The Novos Vremya, a semi-official news. The News correspondent at Paris paper, declares that unless Great Britain wants war she should avoid Interfering with the the expedient of a rice blockade to bring Chinh. Rosalen morements on the Pamit, where she will to book, and says that if all Europe joined-in only meet with a check U ́hor claims are not such a measure, it might fasure the safety of supported by arms. Christians to Chita.
Signor Crispi' recent speech at Palermo has caused a sensation throughout Europe, as it actually proclaims the Anglo-Italian alliance as a fact accompli The Ministerial organs in Rome ask what impression the speech will make in England, the Government of which country Libas repeatedly denied the existence of no Anglo-
Italian alliance.
The other old ficences were all renewed. The first new application was from J, C. Rauch, for Commercial Hotel to be established in Queen's Road, in the block of buildings where Lock Hing's shop is. The guarantora were
Messrs. Lammert and Ho Wyson.
Mr. Horspool objected that the position was middle class hotel soldiers and sailors' place. unsuitable. It was not proper place for a Mr. Wolton appeared on behalf of the applicant, who was, he said, an old police officer of the highest respectability and good character, well known in the Colony, and previously a licence holder. It was proposed to float the Commercial Hotel as a public company, on the site now occupied by Windsor House. It was to be a first class hotel, not of the kind described by Mr. Horspool-it was to be a commercial hotel, where visitors could put up and reside in comfort, at reasonable charges.
Mr. Hackpool said it was only a hundred yards from the Hongkong Hotel,
Mr. Wotton :--Five hundred.
Mr. Wise -Oh no, it is not a quarter of mile, I am sure.
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Mr. Humphreys said that there were a num- ber of boarding houses already just there.
Mr. Wotton urged that the only test of the necessity of a house was its success. If the place was not, needed it would close, and if found unsatisfactory in any way the flcenos seed not be renewed.
On the suggestion of the Chairman it was decided that the application be adjourned for week, as there had been no previous informa tion on the subject before the justices, and is the meantime the matter should be properly advertised.
Mr. Willdnson appeared on behalf of Mr. Danenberg to ask for a licence for the Globe Hotel. The present licenses intended to retire. The new man had good references from Shang hat and Yokohams, where he had held licences.
Application granted
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At a meeting in Glasgow-to-day Mr., Brodie, president of the Trades. Council, presiding, Scottish league was formed to agitate for a legal working day of eight hours.
The oficial Journal says that the new Inan will be advised on Saturday and issued in England, France, Holland and Desmark,
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wa waktu CARDIFF, October ist. An accident occurred to-day at the Abergwyf colliery, Dear Bridgend, Glamorganshire." Eight miners were killed by the falling of a car.”
PARI, October 1st, Fourteen, houses were destroyed, by Gre at Puylaurens, in the Department of Tara, to-day. A family of six persons perished. LONDON,"
October and attack on the Emperor is not regarded as a A Vienna Correspondent of the Times says the
serious effort to take his life.
CONSTANTINOPLE, September 28th, A Turkish decree for the suppression, of brigandage make all local officials personally sponsible for the existence of brigandage in
NEW YORK; September 28th. their districts.
A'cable dispatch from London states that the advertised for bids from ship builds in Europe North German Lloyd Steamship Company has and America for the construction of several whaleback passenger steamships. This ingre ment is said to be the result of the success of the miscreants had not time to carry out their that model demonstrated by the Walmers, | diabolical which is on its way to San Francisco
The Standard's Vienna correspondent thinks
diabolical plot. NEW YORK, October and,
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MAREBILLES, September 28th, The Guatemalan Consul General here to-day police today by making an unexpected atack Barillas, dated Guatemala, October 1st 1 Abso
A violent prisoner escaped, the hands of the received the following cablegram from President. upon his captors with carving kalle. Before late peace reigns in all Guatemala Deny all being recaptured he had been chased through the town, had killed me policeman, dangerously more of a revolution, which are false and injured three others and cut himself so porerely vines BOSTON, October and
A City of Mexico dispatch says :. The revolu«: with a sword that he died, pe
tlonists in Guatemala, finally incoeeded on Wednesday in drawing Barillas' amy luto a fight, and the Goverment troops were badly used up, retreating to Guatemala city, forty miles away from the scene of the fight.
A WIRE Bas been received, giving the results of the races at the Kobe Regatta in which the representatives of the Victoria Recreation Club took part. Hongkong has not been pheno- menally successful, bas, under all circumstances, we think it will be almost universally acknow ledged that our men have rendered a fairly good account of themselves. It was well-known READY. ONE of the urgent requirements of the demo- before they left here for Japan that they were cracy, says the Sydney Bulletin, is the periodical anything but a representativa crew the four election of magistrates and fadges by the people. beaten by scratch crews in almost every trial they At stated intervals-say once in every three took part fo-and in view of the capital show they years at the utmost-the nation would then have appear to have made with the redoubtable Kabe an opportunity of getting rid of the fools and ine. four, suffering defeat by only half a length curable bigots, the aggressive, hide-bound loyalists and finishing in front of the Yokohama
acer to foreign country, the "harging Judges representatives, It looks almost THE HONGKONG, DIRECTORY AND the eccentric idiots who pass ten-year sentences fortainty that foot magnificent harbour,
petty larceny, and the brutal builles in horse-hair Hongkong could comfortably knock spots who browbest jurles into returning verdicts on out of any rowing team-pairs, fours," or insuficient evidence, all of whom are now almost eightsin the Far East, in fact, repeat izremovable, for they can only be shifted by the performances in which a by no means
Bering, September 28th, deal,
by the amputation of both legs. Also to be despised Singapore crew were literally there would then be a chance to get rid, by distanced in every race in which they took part
The greatest activity is being displayed at the some other process save that of old age and In sculling Hongkong has no doubt been weak
Admiralty office. On March 3, 1893, the German senility, of the country Justice who knows no for many years since the days when A. P.
navy.is to be strengthened by the addition of no and the lopsided, pig-headed city bask MacEwen, and Minister Schulize were glans at
fewer than twenty-six new vessels in who sends up the homeless citizen for 12 months the game. Tom Glass was doubtless a good
different categories, for which the Reichstag There was great apcret selvicing in the cliy because he has no visible means of support, and sculler, and so wern Frank Grimble and Bramwell
voted 316,800,000 marks in 1889, when the news reached there of the defeat of the Enes the person who has trodden as his wife in of the "Grand Old Buffa," but neither of this
A DUBLIN, September 1811 Government troops even die fepati
President Kesta of Salvador declares that the sum of tou, with the alternative of seven days. trio ever really went in thoroughly for sculling
James Stephens, the ex-Fenian leader, has And further, it would provide a means of shunting practics and the result was that they never even Bit. Wotton applied on behalf of Mr. K. Janzived. It is reported that he has Government Guatemala is ripe for the plan of consolidating
Central America Into one republic, and bat DIRECTORY" may be sent to the following the judicial humourist with his imbecile gelo, and got near to a good second class standard. E.B. Shellim for a spirit licence for his house he permission to remain here for the rest of his life will not lose the opportunity to bring about this
Mr. Wise said that the In an interview to-day Stephens salds Fam's the judicial byna with his howl and his blood Shepherd showed good style, and be certainly Wellington Street. shot eye, and the judicisi drunk with his incoher ought to have beaten Tregarthen, the Singapore place was almost opposite the two houses that supporter of Parnell and have not changed my ent notes, and his general inability to tall which champion, in their sensational encounter of two collapsed recently. The police objected. Mr.
mind as to the Irish claims for "nation,ood br ...Merers. Hettermann, Herbst & Co. | Individual is the prisoner and which is the yearn'zgój but he was merely a feather welgåtfar | Harapool said the house had been kept as the road to enforce those claims, but as European capitals continues with the view of
prosecuting counsel; likewise the Judge, who too light to have any chance with men weighing coffee tavern and was very close to the lowest majority of Irishmen are électing to Ly constitu Owes money to both the litigant Hebrews before between eleven and thirteen stone. At the present class of registered European brothels.
Mr. Wilkinson wated that Shellim was a Jew, donal agliation I have concurred, in that plati, him, and also to their attorneys, and to the time the V.R.C. does not possess even a third
sumers of the city unto seventy times seven rato scoller, and although Sköt endoubtedly did and kept a restaurant for Jewish customers. He MAID, September 28th.
mail and express train collided to day sear Lastly, and more important than all, it would his best in Kobe, it must hava been,arident was a man of excellent character and kad refer
Babla on the Liabon and Madrid Hinc and several enable the people to cast out the judicial that he hadn't the ghost of a chance of victory, ences from quite a large number of Sastoons.
After discussing in private, the justices at Monrads, near Valencia, three employes being persons were injured,, Another collision occurred! snufflebuster and to bounce the aggressive and as we hear he was suffering from a severe. Christian of the Bench Appointing a man as speals in one of his legs, his starting against unanimously rejected the apple on behalf of killed and five bajared,
application. A request by Judge for life is as great a farce as nominating finished scul'er was a simple absurdity, In the a man to the Legislative Council for life. No fours Hongkong did wells to be beaten only Ephraim Levy for a licence for a den further one can ever tell before a man is elevated to ball a length by Kobe, and actually defeat the down Wellington Street was rejected without the Bench what particular kind of monomanise Yokohama crew, was more than creditable. In further ceremony. Mr. Wise sald he had been he will prove to be he is simply shunted on to the pairs the same positions were filled at the down to see the houses," and that was enough, his judicial seat as an irreparable, Heiơng | Kulak
*This although outclassed, Denison and -experiment. And, therefore, the whole system Skott made a
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At the Magistracy this afternoon Mz Wise held an inquiry into the death of the girl Ngan Ling, who was killed by the fall of two housin in Wallingten 8t, on Sunday last.
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Abelsk "exchange of telegrams between
relaforcing the European squadrons in Chincas water and affording better protection to Europese
MADONNE VIENNA, October and The impressión la gaining ground that Russian to do with the attempt to assassinate the Eme enmity to Austria and Germany had something pero Francis Joseph. The Rusian, secret serylos THAMRAVILLE (Oct.), «September 28th. kas, as, it is well known, takes a leading part in A forest fire is ragtog on the ordinance lands just such conspiracies, as witness the Panitas near Point-a-Pins is spreading toward the plot, which, though detected in time, was Kima edi Ontario lumber reservation, being famed brat the life of Prince Faidland of Bulgaria west winds. Great dansga kas, ulnandy Boen was thought that the lesson given in the execu done.
tion-of-Ferdinand's would-be assassin would deter other from anch conspiracles, thereafter, but there is reason to assume that Russian fue tiene if also at the bottoms of the plan to destiny the run of the Austria Hongary empired
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