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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1892,
BIRTH. On December goth, 1891, the wife of Tuomas HENRY ENGLAND, of the Imperial Maritime Customs, of a son.
DEATH,
January 2nd, at 3.45 pm, at Glenealy, Rev. Father G. BURGUIGNOLI, after a long sickness Mass to-morrow (Sunday, January 3rd)ať 9 a.m. Feneral 3.30 pm, Requiem service Monday,
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HONGKONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1892.
·LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE P. & O. S. N. Co's steamer Vrana left Nagasaki on the grat ulto, at 5 p.m., for this port Waregret to hear that Capt. C. I. Balfost, of H.M.S. Mercury is sorlously B), and le now in hospital In Yokohama.
We note with regret the death of Father G. Barghignol this afternoon. The banly father was one of Garibaldi's heroes, and had a long and eventful career. Requiescat in pace.
THE mlosing Talkoo steamer Hangchow turned up to-day from Java. She met exceedingly tempestuous weather, and her coal was all used up in fightlog the monsoon. She put into | Manila to refill her bonkers, hence the delay.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LD. THR Nagasaki Rising Se says that "the
EARTHQUAKES are still of frequent occurrence steiner San Pedro, a sister slip to the in Japan, Happily no further loss of life a San Pallo once well known in Hongkong, has destruction of property has been reported, been lost near Victoria, B; Ë. "CAN you use this?" timidly inquired the RA As he laid a bundle on the desk. I think can," said the Editer, affably, "I was just about to tell the boy to light the affice fire.""
THE agents' (Mestis. Dodwell, Carlit & Co. inform us that the R.M.S. Empress of China from Vancouver, arrived at Yokohama to-day and will leave for this port, via Kabe ant Shanghai, to-morrow,
THX Seoul correspondent of the Choya Shimbun states that the Corean Government has orderet an armed revenue cruiser to be built in England the cost of which is to be raised by mortgaging the Hajo coal mine.
centured.
THR ating ship Falls of Ears, the Penang Gazeti regrets to learn, is likely to become a hopeless wreck, and the energetic antunge con. tractor, Mr. F. M. McLarty, to experience' a in the attempt to raise her, and it is anticipated severe loss. The decks have split right across, that the salvage operations will have, to be abandeurd.
CORRESPONDENCE.
{We do not necessarlly endorse the opintors arpesssed by Correspondenta lá this column.]
AN UNREASONABLE MAN. T THE EDITOR or the "Honakena TozrazĄPH," Sta, I havent been long in this Colony, so it ma be 1 misjulge it. All the time I have lived here fewniks have been going off, live near the Police Station, and all the people about seem to spend all their time and all their money on crackers and bon bs and dynamite explosions. I have lived here now two weeks, and it is time had an hour or two sleep, so I am going away to Canton to find rest. Then I will be fit again, and will come back with a stock of the best Canton bas, so I will be in the swim too,
Yours truly,
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Sir Anthur K Sze inor-Cowell, Bart, Clade stoglan Liberil menihet (of the House of Cammons for Cermarthen district, has seceded to the Liberal Unionist party.
The opinion of financial circles to the city, upon the failures of certain institutions in Melbourne, is that if the Inger concerns are not aff cted thereby, the result will be, in reality, benefit to business.
The stoppige of the Standard Bank of Autrylla in Melbourne Is cursed || Intense surprise in London, who there are 500 shareholders, and rely 30,000 in deposits. will include any petsianes in his scheme for Sir Jamra Ferguson, the Postinaster-General, the ar painiment of rural noemen,
Mr. Goschen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
proposes that when the Bank of England issue reaches £57,000 000 the additional lasug shall be based upon gold only. ||
The hearing of evidence in the sult for judicial
finished Sie Charts Russl, QC, addressed. separation, bright by the Counters Russell against her husband, Earl Russell, having beca
the Court for the respondent, "Lord Russell."
child. Sir Charles sold that the Countess was a spoilt
JONATHAN. (Fancy anybody complaining, just because
Hongkong, and January, 1992. ":
night 1 We Jonathan it an expedition against the have noticed this before, and will gladly join
pest. It will end in $5 fine at the Police Court for the pair un; but we wil have $100 worth of fan, We will blow up the sleepy headed police first, and then perhaps they will know about it. It takes a lot to get an idea Into--some people. It will be an Interest Ing question if you want to convince a The Judge then rummed up. The mala policeman that something ought to be done, | charges he pronounced uncorroborated, and can you drive it into his head by drilling a bolesne of them, he said, we falte as well as and inserting a charge of gunco'ton? We shall see.-Ed, Hongkong Telegraph.]
LATE TELEGRAMS.
THE dinner and dance given at the Central Station last night was one of the most success ful "hops" of the season. It was, well attended| by the fair sex, including the two Miss Quinceys was kept up until the small hours of the who "dressed to kill"da Chinese, and dancing
morning. The ball room was tasteful'y ST. PETER'S SEAMEN'S CHURCH.-The Missing and inscriptions of various kinds and the music decorated with figs, flowers, evergreens steam-launch Day Spring will call alongside was as well played as the quadrilles were fault vessels hoisting code pennant C, between 9 antlessly danced-which is saying a good deal. And 10.30 a.m. on Sunday to convey men ashore t the 11 o'clock service, returning about 12.30. p. was simply crowded the whole evening. Taken as to the bar, over which Sergt. Christle presided,
A MARINE Court of Inquiry at Sloganore hai success and did infinite credit to Delective Ser altogether the police New Year was” a huge decided that the steamer Bin Whath Soon WAI safely to blame for colliding with the bargni eant Hadden and his affable and indefatigable Sostrane, which was at anchor in the Roade
committee-men. and that the master of the former boat bonfraring to Mohammedan worship, the Liver- pool mob exhibits its entspathy, after the manner THE American Derby of 1893 will probably bej cf mobs, by howling and yelling, and pelting made the richest three-year-old stake ever run with mud and stones. The Hule building lä for. The entrance fee will be $500 cach, $00 Brougham-terrace, in which the few Moslern forfeit, and the Association will add an amount worshippers thereabout gather together for sufficient to make the race worth $50,000 to the prayer and to listen to sermons in Arn, winner, $7,000 to the second horse, and $3,000 to bic and English, is hidden away in R the third.
garden, and it does not seem that its congrega flon has ever done anything to give offence; yet THE Penang Gazette of the zind ulto, says :-- for more than a month past they have been ex- A former manager of one of the local banks fo, posed to persecution of this sort, and the we learn, now occupying, the position of sub- ferment appears to be increasing. On Sun- accountant of the bank in one of its Indian day, the 15th Nov., according to a local report, branches, having been reduced on account of the appearance of the "Müezzin" in the brl Injudicious advances made to some of the cony to give the customary "Azan," or call Chlacac firms here while he was in Penang. to prayer, was the signal for a great
roar from a crowd of some four hundred In the Singapore Legislative Council on Decem. roughs indulging in the usual oaths and execra ber 3rd, Governor Sir Cecil Smith staled that times, it is stated, the Muezzin was struck, tions, and throwing of stones and fith Several he had received a telegram from the Secretary After he had retired, the disturbers burst into of State announcing the death of Sir Fthe mosque and threw stones, one of which fell Dickson, Colonial Secretary of the Straits Setalhin a few inches of where the little son of ments. Mr. Shelford, on behalf of the unofficial Ahmed Quilliam Bey was kneeling at prayer. JORDAN ALMONDS, NOUGAT, BUT-
members, paid a graceful tribute to the services These anubyances, it is added, continued during Miss ST. JOHN, late of Willard's. Opera Com-rendered by the deterred official, whom he TER SCOTCH, ASSORTED TOFFEES,pany, had a very successful benefit at Singapore described as "a devoted and able servant of the the service, and the congregation on leaving were Mr. G. J. Goschen, Chancellor of the Exche
on the night, of December 23rd,· Gilbert'ånd | public good."
pelted and suck. reems strange that thequer, in the course of a speech delivered yester great city of Liverpool can afford no better protec-day on the question of curiency, said that the crewded house, and received a very hearty THE Tientsin correspondent of the Shanghal their mids, when Catholics, Protestants, Jews cient. He was in favour of the issue of £1 notes Sullivan's "Trial by Jury" was performed to■
tion then this to the unending sojourners in amount of gold',in reserve in England was defi- reception, Mr. H. M. Thouisett, once a well- Mercury writes on the 17th December:-The known Hongkong amateur, appeared as the influenza is very bad among the Chinese, and and every advocate of a recognized religion enjoy by the Bank of England with a view to increas Defendant, and Jules Fabris, another old Hong several foreigners are suffer from the same dominions of the Sultan, the Caliph of Islam.
the most absolute freedom of worship in theing the currency. kong and Shanghat favorite, made a great hit a complaint. The Viceroy Li
chang is also And now, who shall blame the Asistics for rein the Judge.
lald up. The riots at Jehol i tirely stamped out, I hear that the mission and nuns heating? These same Manchester people doubt
ugh t lers wax indignant at the "outrages in China"
steamers of the Orakk Shoshen Kaisha arO undergoing the very unpleasant experience al JE invite attention to our first, supplies Shimonoseki of being boycotted, from motives WE
of Jealousy, in consequence of the Company having opened a branch agency at Moji, on the opposite side of the Straits."
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MR. Edwin Mackintosh will be delighted to hear that Mr. Ja. Wiltshire, who was so hardly dealt with at the Police Court recently, is now lo command of the late Chinese gunboat Kevong Wo, 450 tons, which he brought down from Canton yesterday for some influential Straits Chinese who will convert her into a cargo and passenger stearner without delay, and have her classed and duly registered.
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were reported killed, bare plan appearance, and also many of the Chilvifans. The ice in the river has broken up, and the last steamer, the Kaiping is leaving here for Shanghai,
THE Pails Figaro's sensational report of an alliance between Great Britain and China, with the view of checking the advance of Russia in Asía, must be taken with a very large grain of salt, We believe the problem has never even been made the subject of serious negotiations between Britain and China. Should any occasion are for stopping Russia's "advance". into Asis, the stopping process can be eff ctually carried out without much difficulty. · Russis is the 'boger-, mah' of Far Eastern (and we might say European) |politics-nothing more.
TOTAL WRECK OF A GERMAN STEAMER.
TWO LIVES LCST.
News has been received here by wire of the total loss of the German steamer Afarie off the South West Promontory, not for from Swalow. It is believed that the second and third engineers, both Germans, were washed overboard and drowned,, **
ELECTRIC INSTALLATION AT QUARRY BAY.
"This
FROM Singapore papers it appears that an Englishman, named Robinson, born in Sing- apore, happened to be in Chill during the recent troubles and was consequently-On New Year's Eve, Messer-Butterfield and run la ag'a spy. From the prison he wrote a Swivel Sugar Refinery, Quarry Bay, was lighted letter, dated September 27, to his brother in law | for the first time with the cleric light, In Singapore. This letter was sent to the Government, and by them forwarded by mail to England. There it will make the round of the Circumlocution offices, and in a year or two the Chilis authorities may hear of something In the meantime, the prisoner will have been shot as soon as the victorious rebels have time to at end to bim. Still, it will be a great semafort to his
LONDON, December 1st. Tre cricket match between Lord Sheffield's English eleven and the Victorian team resulted in a victory for the Englishmen by one innings and 107 runs. The scores were-Victoria, first first lanings, 284. W. G. Grace made 159 not innings, 73; second innings, 101. Englishmen,
out."
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suspended payment yesterday.
The City of Melbourne Building Society
by 3 lengths, having led all the way, New Queensland won at Melbourne on Saturday' South Wales was second, and Victoris last
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December 2nd,
The average reserve in gold in the Bank of England, Mr. Goschent stated, was £22.000.000, while in France the banks, reserve was £95,000,000, in Go many £40,000,000 and in the United States £142,000,000,,
The apparent smallness of the Bank of Eng- land's reserve wás, Mr. Gosch anid, owing to the large currency which was distributed through the pockets of the people. He recommended an alicration in the charter of the bank in order to meet present needs.
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General Zenjimin F. Buer, a prominent politician in the United States, who has since the war been one of the leaders of the democratic party, is seriously ill.
December 3rd.
fined for appealing for funds towards the pay The proprietors of the Paris Figaro have been
ment of the fine inflicted upon the Arcanishop of Aix for resisting the constitutional authority of the Goverdment by a fetter in reply to M. de Fallieres' circular to the French, prelates on the subject of the pilgrimagen to Rame
It is hoped that the scheme propounded by Mr. Goaches will have the effect of raising the reserve of gold in the Bank of England
40,000,000.
The press In their comments on Mr. Goschen's spech are cautious, fearing that any prejudics shown by the pubic against the issue of 1 notes might prove fatil to the scheme.
The County of Bourke (Victoria) Permanent
Building and Investment Society, suspended payment to-day though the position of the The Lind Credit Bank of Australia (Mel- bourne) has closed its doors.
Replying for petitioner, fir Edward Clarke, Q.C., ábsolved the Eail from the imputation regarding Roberts." No charge had been made by their side, but Sir Charles Russell's cross examinatigo had wrung a confession from the Countess.
malignant,
The verdict was for-respqident, and when it was announced the audience received it with cheers.
The Standard, in endmenting upon the financial troubles in Melburne, says that tha news of the suspensions of jɩyment is not liked, unpleasantly. An open issue of 43 per cent, honds read's.
Five thousand persons hive died from stu va- tion and disease, the reult of a prolonged drought, at Chiapas In Guatemala, Central America.
The Cambridge University authorities have sentenced a girl of gand caracter to a forte ight's imprisonment for being the company of a University undergraduate,
.AUCKLAND, December 4th
Sir Frederick Whitaker,the well-known New Zealand statesman, was found unconscious to-day in his effice, hang had a puzalytic seizure. He was removd to bis teridence, where he died shortly afterwards.
LONION, December 5th. France intends to me the Ray of Diego Suarez, on the north cons of Madagascar, ira- pregnable.
The Right Hon. C. T. Eitchie, president of the Local Government Board is suffising from a severe attack of influenza
Cantala Kane, C.B., Ian commander of H.M.S. Callions has been appointed, g-captain to Admiral the Earl of Clarevilliam, at Portsmouth,
mouth, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle-on Tyne,
The influenzeplemić is very severe nt Ply.
and Sunderland. It is cirersing in. Cornwall
and Kent,
One hundred deaths from the disease have occurred in Paris.
Weles in favour of merciful treatment of the Jews Vielding to the pleadings of the Princess of in Raft, the Czar has refused to sign further deatres indicting cruel treatment on that race.
The French Minister it Pekin has made strong representations to the Chinese Government with for French contractor. The attain of the the view of securing raway convaes in Chins ·
Minister in his efforts th induce the Government to concede the contracts to his countryinen is of a menacing character..
The death is anngunced of M. Lemourier, President of the International League of Peace.. M. Ribol, the Frch Minister for Foreign Affairs, his intimatedto the Vatican that France, will withdraw her Imbassador if the French bishops exocurage aition teading to embarrast - the Government.
Cardinal Rampolli, Secretary of State to his Holines the Pope, is replied that the Vatican bas in no way influnced the French bishops,
Mr. Cheng, the Chinese opponent of the.. on un trade, in ditering an address al Exeter
Hall, has an de the statement that there were in. Australia 3.000 Eumscans, mostly in good social:
A. S. WATSON & CO.. LT Auditor General of Hongkong in 1879, and zub.wife and children to know that "the Govern- supplying 840 16-candle-power Incandescent society is stated to be of the soundest character. pagklana who were slaves to oplum.
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sequently administered the Government of the ment will give the matter every consideration," colony on alx occasions, returning in 1887. If that doesn't reconcile them to their loss, they Sir William Marsh said that on the morning must be hard to please, of the 15th ist. his wife said she would not go to church, but stay in bed and have breakfast. Witnem went down stairs and upon his return quarter of an hour later she said, "I have done it. I have taken poisen." He asked what poison, and she told him he would find it in a bottle in the drawer of the wash-hand stand. He discovered the poison, which, was white sulphate of mercury, and which he purchased in Dunedin, New Zealand. He administered mustard and obtained assistance. Sir William added that, on the 13th lost, they returned from London, when he faw that the deceased was depressed, and he put carbolic neld, a revolver, and a dagger away in safety, but forgot all about the sulphate of mercury, Mr. Scott gave evidence of her ladyship having suffered intensely from an internal malady, which caused occasional fits of depression. He said she had told him that she places a quastity THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND of poison to her band, swallowed it, and then drank some water. She died on the following Sunday morning. The jury returned a verdict that deceased took polson while temporarily
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The Melbourne Permanent Building Society of Melbourne closed its doors yesterday.
is the fift private installation in the Colony, the. contractors being Messrs. J. H. Holmes & Co. of Newestie-on-Tyne and London. The plan consists of two high pressure horisontal steam engineshy Marshall & Sons, Gainsbro, England, fired, with both Corliss and Practi's parent automatic expansion gear, and two "Castle" compound wound dynames, each capable of lamps when, running at a speed of 65orevolutions per minute. Both dynamos are driven direct from engines by repe gearing. The whole of the wing through the buildings is lead- covered and compounded, and all underground cables are protected with an outer sheathing of dent, nor Mr. Arms rong, the petitioner, in the galvanized steel wire. There is also In course Armstrong-Melba divorce suit, has a domicile of extcion a small suxiliary engine and dynamo, in England, which will probably prevent the which is to be used during the day time to supply trial of the case in London. The legal advisers 35.16 candle power lamps, thereby effecting a of the Duke of Orleans allege that. Mr. Arm- saving in the steam which otherwise would be used in case one of the large engines and dynamosong dan only procced in the Dublin courts for were run to supply the sasie few lights. The rim. con.. whole of the above work has been carried out to the satiafscilon of all parties concerned, under the superintendence of Mr. JHeppell, electrical engineer to the above-named firm,
A GALLANT RESCUE.
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Neither the Duke of Orleans, the corespon
The Salvationists presented for trialon account of the recent riots between the Salvation Army and some of the townspeople of Eastbourne have been tried at the Old Bailey, where the jury found them guilty of unlawful assembly in a public street, but not of conspiracy,`.
Eight underwriters, at Lloyd's notify their Immediate resignailon, owing to losses,
The Right Rev. Dr. Charles Perry ormerly Bishop of Melbourne, suffered from Alysis of the throat, which caused his death. He was buried at Farlow.
By a fire which took place at Aidio, a town in Asia Minor, near Smyrna, 200 houses and two
gogues were destroyed,
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Ms Williams, the servant, against whom Earl Russell made a certain charge, denies the truth of his statement, and threatens to bring an action for slander against him.
The Cair of Rusia is suffering from a slight attack of toluerza
The Ven, Archdeacon C. G, Allanby, of Ballarat East, has been married to Miss Alice Flecher.
Mias Florence St. John, the well known bule que act ess, has instituted proc.cedinge aglasi her husband, M. Marius, for divorce, pa the grounds of adultery and cruelty, 7 he latter admits the charge of adultery, but don'ies that of cruelty,
be appointed in St. Petersburg to co otrol affairs It is expected that a second commission will
in the famine districts.
tend to Russla 50 000 barrels of flour for dis. The citizens of Minneapolis (U.S.) propose to tribution amongst the starving peasants,
The Standard ways that the Melbourne failures are not likely to laint the credit of banking institutions,
December 6th.
Mr. Markus had brought a counter charge of adultery against his wife.
The Crappolated the Czar witch, and the Grand Duke Nicholas, as presidents of the Famine Relief Committee.
In reference to the stoppage of the Standard of the London branch states that nearly £300,000 Bank of Australia in Melbourne, the manager
are lying at deposit in the bank in London.
In an editorial on the recent disturbances in North China, the Sydney Morning Herald remarks:-That the Court of Pek a is tempori- sing to some extent with the authors of these outrages seems very likely, the dostre having been to avoid precipitating an émeute into ap-n revoli; and much as humanity may claim to have disorder and outrage quelled, it would be assum. inga grave responsibility if the action of England or the Western Powers should so embarrass the authority of the Government of Chloe, as to con- solidate the strength of its opponents, and add to the dimensions of a struggle that would make the rivers of China run with blood. For
Chibena civil war'ls not like any olber war. It regards seither age not sex nor numbers, and becatombs of millions on millions of people might be the sxcrifice demanded before order in - Captain Joseph Blackburne, of the steamship that vast and unwieldy Empire would be restored. Nanshan, now in port, bas received a bandsome In view of such a pending catastrophe even the acknowledgement of his rescue of eleven Chinese warmest friends of missions might say that mis sailors from a wrecked junk while on his last slans ought to be suspended fors time, the cause run down to Singapore. The lives of the of Irritation be withdrawn, and the outfages men were fortunately saved by the plucky action on innocent victims be left unavenged. But of the officers of the Nanshes after there is another danger that adds to the serious deal of trouble and at considerable person THE Straits Times reports from Pahang ness of the position. It will have been noticed risk. The master of the Nanshan received THIS Valuable Work, with many NEW disquieting rumours of a aising or ript, the that Russia, of all the Powers, has not joined in a complimentary despatch from the Chinese importance of which has not been clearly any demonstration for the suppression of outrage Coural-Genersi at Singapore, to whom he handed ascertained. The first news of the outbreak in China. The reason of this is not far to seek. . over the Chinamen rescued from a watery grave came from the head Malay boatman em- The interests and the sympathics of Russia are on the morning of the 8th ultimo, ployed by the Raub Australian Syndicato, disectly opposed to those of the other Powers of Captala Joseph Blackburne, the recipient who informed the manager at Raub that he Europe in as far as the Tastar dynasty in China of the subjoined letter, is, we understand, a PRICE THREE DOLLARS. had been captured by Malays at Lubok is concerned. Rassia bus ao quarrel with Old member of the British Mercantile Marine Tuah and had been detained there until he made Chinaj but with the Tartars it has an implacable Officers' Association, as also is his Chief officer, his escape. During the time of his captivity, the camily of over a century's duration, and which Mr. J. F. Messer. rebels, or rioters, had seized the Company's store has been kept alive at every point of contact at Lubok Tuah. It was said that they fateuded along the whole lice of Russia's advance across going on to Haub and that the rebellion Asia to the Pacific. It is on the Tartar provinces extended over a considerable district round of China that Russia has been infringing, and Lubok Tuah. He further reported that Mr. In vast and many districts province after pro- Desborough, a Magistrate; and Mr. Town vince of Tartars has been forced to transfer the Inspector of mines, bad been allegiance from the Emperor of China to the shot at by the Malays and were compelled to. White Czar. When occasion offered-as in the retreat in the direction of Raub. It is also case of the province of Kuidja Wreated back by known that Mr. Wise, acting magistrate of Ulu China from Rusila while Russia's hands were Pahang, arrived at Raubon the 22nd Dec. This tied by European war--the Tartar power at Pekin news is supposed to have been communicated at
has avenged itself on the restless invaders and once to the Governixent, who also had informa. nothing in relatios to Chins would give greater tion of their own, as the result of which Me, satisfaction at St. Petersburgh than the fall of Maxwell, the British Resident of Selan- the Manchu dynasty at Pekin. These outrages gor, at once sent Captain Syers with a contingent in the interior, the uprising of Old Chins, the of armed puilce to Raub, which of couns in the advance of the Moagolt, all are in the fatereat of only point of danger, for title Malay Oghting Russia as weakening, if not even resulting in the In a sparsely inhabited country, would not of downfall of, the Chinese-Tartar.power. Russia, itself do much harm;~And, Mr. Rodger, the therefore, is watching, doubtless with a keen eye,. I will have the matter brought to the notice of Resident of Pahang, also went to the scene of dis, the progress of the disturbance j'and it would be my Government, and have no doubt that such turbance, with the police. It further appears that but little step more for her to unite with the valuable services of yours, your officent and Mr. Bibby, the manager af Raub, reports that on enemies of the Court of Pekin-in-giving them-crew's-will-be-most-highly appreciated. 1 Wednesday 23rd he expected the arrival of the subatan:fa! assistance. When we consider all will let know as soon as I have received any. Selangor police and that he had no fear of any that this involves, when we think of whats Information from my Government^7 trouble at Raub, where work was proceeding as dlasstor to mankind It would be if this vast
I have the honor to be, Dear Sir, "THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH OFFICE. He, however, confirmed the fact that Empire went crumbling suddenly to places, wh
Your obedicat servant, ̧' Mr. Desborough," magistrate, accompanied by are confronted with a magnitude of horror that
| advantage, while it will tend to diminish the of Deputies, declared that it was imperative that Peddler's Hill,
Mc Townson, mining inspector, had arrived at | #holly overshadows the sad and painful story of
(Signed)
T. H. HUANG, effective power of the bank rate of interest to Italy thould be prepared for war, which, he said, Hongkong. Dec.mber ist, 1Ɛgi. Rasb-baring in fact Aed these,
Sķe outrages on the Yang-ise-Klangay
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Mr. N. Moalie. FORMOSA...J FOOCHOW: ...Mr. H. W. Churchill, SHANGHAI
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Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited,
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Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Limited. JAPAN ... Yokohama. BANGKOK ...Rev. S. J. Smith, SINGAPORE...Messrs. Sayle & Co., Limited. Messrs. Amédée Prince & Co.
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CHINESE CONSULATE GENERALĄ
Straits Settlements. Singapore, 17th December, 1891. Captain J. BLACKDURNE,
·S.'S. Nanshan.
:
Dear Sir, I cannot let this opportunity pass without expressing my sincere thanks to you, your officers and crew for rescuing eleven men of the shipwrecked junk to the China scs, and for the kindness showed to them during voyage down to this port.
I beg to inform you that these men, whom your second officer handed over to me, took the steamer Fung..Kong yesterday, ten for Amoy and one for Swatow, I am sure they will deeply be indebted for your kind assistance in bringing them to life again.
The respondent in the suit for judicial separa- tion, Earl Russell, to-day gave evidence in rebuttal of the charges of the Countess Russell.
He denied all the charges. In regard to the peiliioner's allegations of misconduct, the respondent said he had merely smoked and chatted with Roberts until Inte hours, As an explanation of Lady Russell' charge of stripping, her naked, be admitted that he had removed her nightdress, which was soaked with water, and a violent attack of bysterics followed, the Counters, Vehreatening him with the poker, and saying she would" commit suicide unless feft alone. He admitted that be had been disagreeable, and probably cruel. It was true that he had limited the Countess to six cigarettes a day. “He also admitted that he had) been sent down" from Balliol College, Oxford, while he was an undergraduate there, but that, was owing to an untius charge of writing an Improper letter to a man. The behaviour of the Countess Russell was initating, and her language
snappish.
J.
Roberts also appeared in the witnessbox, and denied the charge made against him, Pobile Works Department, has been commited Mr. Arnoldi, a leading official of the Canadian for trial for breaches of tattet,
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December 4th. Mr. Bradley, Secretary to the Canadian Rali- way Department, has been dismissed, for defrauding the Govemment.
Mr. Brodie Hoare, chairman of Lloyd's Baulding Company, has, written, a letter to the effect that Mr. Goschen's scheme for the issue of one-pound-notes offers an infinitesimal
AUCKLAND, December 6th. News has been received of the death, at St. Leafs, United States, of Mr. G. W. Griffin, for merly American Consul at Auckland and Sydney,
LONDON, December 7ib. "Sir Arthur Blyth, K.C.M.G., Agent-General for South Australia (on leave), who has of late been suffering from lacus, died this afternoon, The Times eulogises the services of the late Bir Arthur Blyth in Adelaide and in London.
To order to raise funds for the relief of the starving peasantry, sanction has been given for the fostitution of an Imperial lottery of 6 millions of roubles.
It is reported that Sir Walter J. Sendail, K.C.M.G., lately Governor of Barbadoer, will succeed Sir William C. F. Robinson, G.C.M.G.,
Governor of Western Australia.
The commercial treaties entered into between. Germany, Austria, Italy, and Switzerland, under the arrangement of the Triple Alliance, will come. into operation in Fobrusy next, and it is at cent intended that they shall subsist for 12: YENIS,
A great blizzard has passed- over the State-of- Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota, in the, United States. Many trains ars snowed up,
The Daily Chronfils states that Signor Cilask the Italian ex-Premier, speaking in the Chamber
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