Siper Crispi's sp.cch has created a sensation
in It.ly,
Baron Hirch's ret eine for the settlement of the expatrated Russian Jewa la confined to the United States, Bravi, and, the Argentina Republic
iireported that a plot against the Sultan of Turkey has been discovered at Stamboul.
A general fire army has been arrested for being implic id in the plot..
The Suez Canal Compiny, has decided to constuct a s'em tramway from Port Said to Ismailly, on the Suez Canal, for the conveyance of passengers and mills.
A tenible colliery explosion has taken place at Nitka, in Russian Poland. One hundred and "eighty miners were killed.
An explosion of firedamp took place in a mina at St. Etienne, in the Department of the Loire, France. Seventy-two miners were killed.
Seven Socialists have been found guilty Chelten, of unlawful assembly and of obstructing the police. Sentence was postponed.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1892.
Licut. Mansfield, who recently made a para- chute descent of 11.000ft at Rombay, repeated the experiment to-day. The balloon burst and fell 400ft. Mansfield was killed.
Lord Hamilton, speaking at Ealing, wald, the British Government had decided to place the "navy in a condition to cope with any two com-
bined Powers.
December 11th,
The second batch of the directors of Lloyd's underwriters have resigned in consequence of heavy lover.
Influenss is spreading throughout the United
Katimaions.
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TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED.
DRAPERS OUTFITTERS TAILORS SILKMEN FURNISHERS.
Co-day's Advertisements.
DOUGLAS STEAM-SHIP COMPANY, LIMITED
FOR SWATOW, AMOY & TAIWANFOO.
THE Company's Steamship
"THALES,”.
Intimations,
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION,
No. 537.
Waffe gut of the 9th December, 1891,
WITH reference to Government Notifica
notice is hereby given that the time for recair Captain, Hunter, will be despatched for the ing SEALED TENDERS for the purchase of
Calfornia in one month thy have occurred in FOR THREE DAYS ONLY above Ports, on TUESDAY, the 5th fustant, 19th January, 1893, the tenders already received.
California in one month, a
The Triple Alliance, which is now ratifying a commercial treaty, is endeavoring to include Great Britain,
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December 12th.
atlaborers to-day, Mr. Gladstone in the course of At a conference of farmers, and agricultural
4. speech, urged the amelioration of the farm laborers' lot, and said that it was necessary to increase the number of rural candidates for about a fairer division of rates; and give locat Parliament and pay electoral expenses to bring authorities the power to acquire land for allot- ment. He also upheld the right of laborers to combine for increase of wages,
The news_of_the_death_of Dom Pedro,cxx. Emperor of Hratil, which took place in Paris at midnight on Friday, was received in the Euro pean capitals with universal regret.
The influenza epidemic is extending on the Continent. Thirteen thousand persons were attacked by the disease at .Hamburg last week. It is rapier at Coprobagen,
The Standard suggests that the Government Bhould pay the Bank of England its old debt of of £1,000,000 in gold, thereby making genuine reserve available for emergency.
The Farmers' Clubs in the United Kingdom are taking steps towards federation as a means of protection against firm labourers.
A Spanish loan of 250,000,000 pactas has been concluded.
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The Powers have ratified the commercial treaties entered into by the countries forming the Triple Alliance.
Belgium has concluded a commercial treaty
with the Triple Alliance,
The justices of Aberdeen have declined to atfend the Industrial Exhibition opened there by Sir Charles W. D-ike, Bart.
The Court of Appeal has granted to the executors of Mr. Maybrick, the Liverpool merchant who was poisoned by his wife, £2,500, claimed by them on account of his life insurance. Sir Arthur Blyth's remains will be interred at ́ Eastbourne to-morrow. The Agents-General of the Australian colonies will not be present. Prince Herry of Pless has married Miss Daisy
Cornwills West, in London.
The Tasmanian Crown Silver-mining Company has been registered, with a capital of £125,000. The Court of Queen's Bench has decided that statements made by the County Councillors at meetings of that body are not privileged communications, and has mulcted Mr. W. C. Parkinson, Liberal member of the County Council for Islington; in the sum of £250 for alleging that the marionettes exhibited at the Westminster Aqarium constituted an indecent show.
Messrs. Mills, Bawtree, Dawny, Curtons, and Co., bankers, of Colchester, England, have suspended payment, but it is expected that full payment will be made.
The secretaries of the county clubs have unanimusly resolved to invite a visit of Australian cricketers in 1894, belleving that a visit oftener than once every four years would be undesirable. *
Lord Hawke declared that the whole thing way a mney-making business.
The authorities of Newfoundland having refused to comply with the terms of the Canadian almatum regarding bait, Canada is levying **duty on fish imported from the island, and also
remits banded privileges.
ti
Lord Salsbury has denied that there is any prospect of a dissolution of Parliament shortly,
The French Government will accord to the Late Dam Pedio, exiEmperor of Brazil, the Bonours ofa reverelen at his funeral in Paris.
Alexandr Maricá», of British Colombin, han defested Harlan fan sculling match. The crowd declared that the race is a fraud,
Afis ig mock has been wrecked at Fécamp, on the French toast, Twenty-four fishermen were drowned.
The Ampirican Denizoals have elected Mr. Crian Speaker - Libe | ouse of Representatives. It is ex, ceted that the bank rate of discount will be elucid on Thur.dy.
The Rev. Mr. M'Ned, minister of the Regent Square Church, has resigned, with the object of Jaining Moody and Sankey's malon in
Scotland.
The Lordon Trades Council is appealing for fands on Lehalf of the printers on strike in Berlin A committee, representing the whole of the trades unions of Great Britain, is being formed for a similar purpose.
Palace Bismarck has declared that the system of protection in Germany Is virtually ended. The reductions in the Customs duties include whent, oils, and wing,
A severe gale has been raging in the South of England. Wiecks have taken place with loss of life. Anxiety is felt for the safety of the Dover and Calefa steamer Victoria.
The Dean of Llandaff has eulogised the late Bishop Perry's unselfish career in Victoria.
Mr. Dickson's offer in connection with the Antarctic Expedition lapses at the 2nd of Decem- beenaadly mismanaged, and that the colonies ber. Themes says that the moremont has occupy a ridiculous position in the matter,
The French Vice-Consul at San Sebastian has murdered the French Consul at that place, and committed suicide,
America allows the free import of German sugar in retorn for Germany reducing the duty on corn by mark
The Scouish deposits in the Standard Bank of Australia amount to £200,000, chiefly belong. ing to residents in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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Owing to the Hanzas menacing GI Gil in Cashmere, Northern India, Colonel Davidson. the Government Agent at Gil Gil, advanced and captured Fort Nil after desperate fighting In the course of which seven Sepoys were idiled | and 25 wounded. The Hanzas' losses are heavy displayed spiendid gallantry. They exploded Captains Aylmer, Boysragon. and Badcock the gate at the fort with gen cotton, and entered with a few Sepoys, in which action all three were severely wounded,
December 13th, The references to Chill in President Harrison's message to Congress have caused a very bad It is probable Earl Dufferin will succeed the late Loid Lytton as ambassador at Parls,
feeling in Valparaiso,
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The funeral of Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil, at Lisbon, was a great pigeant. The king and family and numerous foreign delegates were present.
There are terrible riots is consequence of the famine in Mexico.
December 14th,
The latest from Rio Janeiro is that order has been restored, The banks have re-opened and business generally has been resumed."
Various complications have arisen between the Orient Co. and the builders of their new steamer Ophir, and a heavy law-suit is now pending.
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politics. You can't build a country that way. What does it want with an 'Upper Tlouse' and 'Lower House'? Why doesn't it go ahead and do its work and make the country? Why, there of people than we have for the whole of the is more machinery for running their little handful 300,000 000 people of India. And they are proud of it; indecently proud of it!"
Since reaching Melbourne Mr. Klating has been seized with a sense of the Americanism of the place. "This country is American," he says, "but remember it is second-hand American there is a universal American tone on the top of things, but it is not real.”
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After a strong debate the French Chamber of
On the topic of the supposed sympathy be- Deputies rejected by a majority of 165 ® motion
tween Anglo-Indians and Australians, put for. by M. Hubbard for the Separation of Church ward by the Imperial Federationists, Mr. Kip and State, and voted confidence in the Governing speaks with scorn, as of something which ment.
fles in the face of facts. "When I say our I mean Anglo-Indian, and by colonial' British Islands. But there is a great differ- menn India and all the Empire outside the
ence between the Anglo-Indian and the Aus traitan, and the remark of the Australian voy agers that the Anglo-Indians do not fraternise the ocean liners, and each goes his or her way with them its off a big fact They meet on
Both Anglo-Indians and Australians talk with a pretty large contempt for the other. shop, but it is a different kind of shop. They perhaps, irrigation, there is no point on which. have no common point of interest. Excepting, they are at one. They each talk siang, or local other's slang What does an Anglo-Indiat vernacular, and they don't understand each
know about a 'free selector,' or the value of land carrying so many sheep to the acre? An Anglo- Indian will tell you an Australian squatter is not it to talk to, while an Australian squatter would'nt be found dead in the same, pa 'dock As one of those Anglo-Indian snobs. Therefore, it is not surprising that they don't mix. The Anglo-Irians and the Australians won't mix till oil and water mix."
The Bulgarian Sobranie has voted Prince Alexarder of Battenbuig a life pension of £2,000 per annum.
Mesars William O'Brien and Michael Davitt proceeded to-day on an electioneering vitit to had the gates leading into the town. The Waterford. The Parnellites bid previously anti-Parsellites thereupon stormed the town. After & fierce struggle in which sticks and stones were freely used, the police were compelled to charge several times. Mr. Davitt was badly cut on the head.
There are terrific gales along the British coast. Great damage to being done, and there are many wrecks, but no loss of life.
Dreember 17th. The Car has received a Nihilist proclamation demanding a Russian Parliament.
Serious riots have taken place both at Water ford and Ennis between the Patellites and Anti-Parnellites.
December 22nd.
There is renewed trouble at Rio Grand, a skirmish having taken place between the federal troops and the National Guard; the result is nat known as the telegraph wires have been cut.
The death is announced of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G.
December 23rd.
Sir Frederick Dickson, K.C.M.G., died 'o-day [Sir John Frederick Dickson, K.C.M.G., wás educated at Westminster Chrisi, Church, Oxford, (obiniaing a studentship in 1855). He was first clear in classic mods, in Easter of 1957; and became B.A. 1859 and (afterwards) M.A. In of Ceylon, Feb. 1959 attached to the Colonial 1873, Appolated Writer to the Government Secretary's Office, Sept. 18g9; Aring Secretary to the School Commission, 1860 continuing to do duty in Colonial Secretary's Office, acted early in 1862, a 2nd Assistant Colonial Secretary; police magistrate at Dam- balls, Oct. 1863, acting and Assistant Colonial Secretary, December, 1863; Secretory to the Commission, (June, 1865), to inquire into the Military expenditure and establishments of Cey ton; Police Magistrate of Galies continuing toxet as assistant Colonial Secretary, Oct., 1865, and confirmed in that appolotment, Des, 1867; service tenures Commissioner, Feb, 1870; Assistant Government Agent and District Judge, Mannhr, May, 18yo, continuing to act as service tenures Commissioner acting Government bis own duties, July to November 1872 Agent, Central Province, in conjunction with Aselatant Government egent and district Judge, Anuradhpura, July 1873 continuing to act as Government agens, North-Central Province in 1873. In 1885 Mr. Dickson, was appointed Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, a post he beld from then until his death, with intervals of administering the Government, and of leave. In 1888 he was made a K.G.M G.)
RIPLING.
The London board of directors has the utmost - INTERVIEW WITH Mr. RUDYARD confidence in the stability of the bank, and has received many assurances of support from both depositors and shareholders.
December 9th.
Too Much GOVERNMENT IN THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES,
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THE
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HE Annual Meeting for Shareholders. advertised to be held on the Afternoon of the 30th instant is unavoidably POSTPONED to the Afternoon, at 4 o'clock," of January 7th, 1893.
W. H. WALKER, Secretary. Hongkong, 28th December, 1891.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. TO AERATED WATER MANUFAC- TURERS AND OTHERS.
TOTICE is hereby given that all AERATED WATER BOTTLES and SYPHONS bearing the Company's Name and Trade Mark are its property solely, and that any Manufac. turer using the same or any Person or Persons other than the Customers of the Firm found in possession of the same will be proceeded against as the law.directs.
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Al Residents of whatever nationality, who are sterested in this important case, are earnestly invited to be present;"
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The internal affairs of thla country have not escaped Mr. Kipling's notice, and he particularly potes the pince which the labour question takra in Australian polls/er. He thinks we have too much politics for a young country with its cha- racter still to make, and that the claims of labour occupy too prominent a place in proportion.io other branches of politics, just as politics as a whole receive more than enough attention to pro portion to the real and solid development of the country. The outerien ofthe "nemployed "suike bim as a peculiarly bad accompaniment to the tune of a country that goes to the money marker of London for the means to carry on its public works, and the revolt of fabour presents ploneer work-the real hard work of unselfish as a bad beginning in a country where the lives-is not yet finished.: "s it not rather early in your history," he asks, "with a merc handful of population, to have ball that p puls-
"EDENDALE,” an idle wilderness, and men are wriking against shove on WEDNESDAY, the 6th instant, at tien crowded into the clics, while the Jands lie Captain Humphreys, will be despatched as overwork while Government are paying bir Daylight. wages on relief works for the unemployed? It is all very well now for labour, to make there demands, By-and-by you will be cut under sure. Other peoples will come in when they find room here, unless your population grows at an enormous rate. There are the learning from you. Don't think that every blow, Chinese close against you waiting their time, and every kick, every curse, and every wrong done sulted in Austraila is not told and remembered or every Chinaman murdered in Frisco or in-
They may not let out shout it here. What would over there in China when those fellows go home. be the use? But when they are sitting over the
the coast line right back to the mountains of evening pipe it goes round and round, and every Chinaman's grievance goes through the land from Tartary, and is nursed up against you for a long settling they have to make when the time comes. There is a big score to be wiped out, and if you Australians could see them, as I have, in their crevice till you might think the very stones in native towns, where you meet eyes in every the street are made of flesh and blood, then you might get an idea of the force you will have to reckon with. And besides their grand popula | tion, their coast and rivers give them a supply of born sailors who would carry, them just where they wanted to go. If whlie men won'
work other men will.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. INFORMATION has been received from the Military Authorities that ARTILLERY
tin the end of the month, between the hours of PRACTICE will take place from the Batteries at Stone-cutters' Island from the 7th January gam, and 5 p.m. dally, SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS excepted.
The line of fire will be in Westerly and South- | Westerly directions from the Batteries.
All Ships, Junks and other Vessels are cautioned to keep clear of the range,
By Command,
W. M. GOODMAN,
Colonia! Secretary's Office, „
Acting Colonial Secretary, Hongkong. 31st December, 1891,
NOTICE
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TY Son, HENRY HUMPHREYS, was admitted into Partnership with me on the 1st day of July last.
JNO. D. HUMPHREYS,' Hongkong, 12th December, 1891.
THE Business heretofore carried on under
the name of INO. D. HUMPHREYS will John D. Humphreys & San. hencefonh, be conducted under, the name of
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON. Hongkong. 12th December, 18gt."
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But when I tell you my notions about these things it must not be assomed that I am now looking at these colonies. This is now merely a and leave for Sydney to-morrow. We know all halt between two voyages, for I got here to-day about your distinguished visitor and literary NOTICE hongarian Lloyd's "Steam is now offered for a dollars go cents each. ciltle over la India already. We get M.P.
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The leading French papers declare that the effect of the formation of the foreign economia league by the Powers comprising the Triple (Abridged from the Melbourne Aga of 19th Alliance will be to strangla French commerce.
A detachment of the Devonshire Regiment has
November.) been sent to the Kampong district in Burmah, halist and author, one of the most remarkable Mr. Redyard Kipling, the well-known four- In consequence of the bellicose attitude of the writers of the day, arrived in Melbourne yester go round and tell us how to boss the the said Company's business is and will in fatura Chinese, who recently crossed the Kampung River, and were ordered back by the English day by the steamer Talune, from Hobart, country. That is not seeing the country, be carried on in Hongkong and elsewhere ender GENTLEMENS J SERIES $4.75 EACH. on his way from New Zealand to Sydney, It and I don't intend to see it that way. When the name and style AUSTRIAN LLOYD'S was Mr. Kipling's intention to break his trip colonies, I will come and really see them. No,
I want to write books and articles about your STEAM: NAVIGATION COMPANY." The Times announces that the marriage of from San Francisco at New Zealand, and go the Duke of Clarence with Princess Victoria of up to Sames on a vult to the novellit, Mr.
I am not going straight away, after twenty-four Teck will be celebrated on the roth March at Robert Louis Stevenson, who is settled just our stoppage here, to write criticisms in Windsor Castle,
A sum of 350,000 roubles has been stolen now there but the steamers did not connect, English magazines. People would take me for
and he had to come on here after a run a fool if they thought I was going to do that. In | 45]); through the lalands. This evokes the observa. India, the fellows come round and use our
authorities in Burmah,
from the Russian Treasury at Vladivostock.
It is reported that a reciprocity treaty w tion that in New Zealand everything tries borce, and we lend them our castiges, and wo shortly be concluded between Germany and the to run against everything else; the steam.ack off our office work to give them a good United States.
President Harrison's message to the United railways to run galast the coach; but it is overpaid,"
boats, to run against the railways, and the time, and then they go home and say we are Sites Congress states that the result of the lovely land all the same. Everybody was as M'Kinley tariff is satisfactory. The conditions good as could be, and I could believe any.
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people or retards commercial development. The Garden of Eden was somewhere in the middle Pure Cod Liver Oll with Hypophosphiter of Lime tariff his been the means of creating several of it I could believe IL But what does the and Soda fa a must wonderful food for the great induryfes. *.
country want with so much politics and so much | Consumptire. It not only giver strength and December 10th.
of the labour, question ? A little country. with increases the flesh, but heals the irritation of the ¡There was a semi-paule on the Patis Bourse 500,000 people playing at representative Govern. throat and Innga. It is very palatable y chlidren to-day. It was rumored the Portuguese January ment and paying thele members, too, Paying take it like milk, and to all wasting diseases both Coupons were aupsid, and there was a financial their members, mind you! Why, they ought to for adults and children it is a marvellous food panient, Rio.
make every man turn out into the country and and medicine. Any Chemist can supply AL grub land for himself, whether he liked it or not. A. S.. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Duino, they must havetheir Faciltaosalemad their i Hongkong and China,--[/U
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No. 5, LYNDHURST TERRACE,
BANKASI HONGKONG. gking, 19th Debeiber,
The Boller is of the Horizontal Multitubulae. type, with thabe Furnaces and vertica! Dome on
-measurements ; Furnaces, aft, 79-día, z Doma, "44" dia by 4ft. high; Tubes, 148 in number by **ex día, it is in fairly good condlifon, having
would last in active service for over five years, recently undergone considerable repairs, and
For Further Particulars; Apply to. wedge of the 19KREM GORDON & Co
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